Was Met Gala 2021 A Fashion Fail? Best and Worst Dressed | Onyx Family Podcast Ep. 4

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Sinead: Hey guys, welcome back to the Shawties Podcast with your hosts Sinead and also my host 

Shasha: Shasha 

Shalom: Shalom 

Sinead: my sisters 

Shalom: now yeah yeah guys it’s been a while since we’ve been on here a little bit. It’s been about a month or so 

Sinead: oh has it? 

Shalom: Yes, I think so 

Sinead: No while things have been busy you know right now we just recently launched our family talk show onyx family dinner, which is on the Onyx family YouTube channel. So that was a big project that we were so excited to release

Shasha: and in the first episode just came out today with Emmy award-winning Emmanuel Acho he played for the Philadelphia Eagles back in NFL 

Sinead: and also he just won an Emmy as well. Yeah, 

Shasha: and now he’s making he’s really popular for a series of uncomfortable conversations with a black man about race or something 

Sinead: about a comfortable conversation with a black man about anything really

Shasha: Yeah,

Sinead: That’s what the topic is 

Shasha: so yeah, 

Shalom: yes. So, girls, we’re gonna have an uncomfortable conversation with each other right now. 

Sinead: Yeah,

Shalom: we’re gonna discuss a range of topics.

Shasha: Today we’re talking about makeup. 

Shalom: Are we talking about makeup? 

Sinead: We’re talking about 

Shasha: beauty, 

Shalom and Sinead: not just beauty. 

Shasha: what do you mean not just beauty, What else? 

Shalom: I mean that those are fun topics, but I’m just saying about being comfortable in your own skin. 

Sinead: Yes.

Shalom:  And you know, not needing the maybe like discussing the fact how makeup changes you. 

Shasha: Okay, so when was the first time I just want to ask you guys what was the first time you ever wore makeup? Do you remember?

Sinead: Do I remember? Okay, what counts as makeup? Like 

Shasha: anything? 

Sinead: Anything? Like lip gloss? 

Shasha: Yeah, I remember the first time I was turning eight, and we were going into a spa-like a spa thing. And we got lip gloss on we got medi pedis and it was just like the first time ever was did up and if you look at the photos I think we do have a photo not sure but we do you can see we were feeling ourselves looking extra now. 

Sinead: Oh, yeah. 

Shalom: Yeah, I’m not gonna lie 

Sinead: I don’t know why my first thought even though that this is the first time I remember getting wearing this lip balm. I was about 13/14 wearing this lip balm and it was slightly colored. I mean, when I say slightly covered colored. I mean it was very slightly pink and my mom immediately notice and said go wipe that off. 

Shasha: How old are you?

Sinead:  I was like 13/14 

Shasha: Are you sure?

Sinead: I am positive

Shalom: I remember 

Shasha: Well I just wanna let you guys know, context back then. We were pastor’s Kids 

Sinead: Yeah. 

Shasha: And even we couldn’t really dress heavy.

Shalom:  Well, here’s the thing. We just weren’t allowed in our households you know, we were very conservative. We were

Shasha: We’re pastor’s family. 

Sinead: Yeah, you have just had a certain appearance of how we were looking. 

Shalom: Okay, so my first experiment with makeup I was in grandma’s house right and so I went inside her bathroom and I saw this huge counter full of makeup and so I was like, oh, I’m gonna experiment making sure no one looked so I just grabbed I didn’t notice at the time mascara. I just didn’t even put on my eyelashes I put on my eyebrows because I thought it was gonna give me a little arch you know? 

Sinead: Yeah,

Shalom: some people use it for their arches right?

Sinead: no mascara is not built for the eyebrows it’s just not.

Shalom: You see guys. Like I’m so like I’ve never like I’m 22 right now and I don’t wear makeup like I don’t wear makeup every day well for a few reasons why just because the way I was raised and because of lack of interest and to lack of experiment not that I can get into it I could if I wanted to but I don’t know it’s just not something that I necessarily desire to wear makeup every single day 

Shasha: Yeah,

Shalom: it’s so crazy when I see kids out there they just like every time they go to school they’re like put a full flush of makeup on I’m like whoa, is this like

Sinead:  it’s definitely time-consuming, you have to wake up earlier to do it. You have to spend some time you got to watch tutorials.\

Shasha: I know some people take it as a hobby but it looks like a job to me. 

Sinead: But the thing is the people that see it as a hobby and they’re like genuinely fun to them. I’m like good for you. It’s like an art to them you know?

Shalom: exactly!

Sinead: Like, man that’s great.

Shalom: Oh yeah. Oh yeah, definitely. But do 

Shasha: I thought you like to wear makeup?

Sinead: the thing is, I don’t like to wear it daily but I do have fun and I do wear it so if I’m doing a music video I can have a little fun with them some glitter whatever on the eyelids and blending and stuff. I have a little fun with that when I’m doing it for that I just on the daily I’m not that kind of person to wear it on the daily

Shalom: now let me ask you a question. Do you think makeup really just changes you physically?

Sinead: like how you look? Well, I think that the more you wear it, it could probably clog up your pores and stuff like that and probably give you a little more skin issues if you’re not taking care of your skin because like some people they’re really good at taking care of their skin 

Shalom: right 

Sinead: masks and stuff to replenish their face and then be the makeup and all that

Shasha: I just buy wipes from Walmart just wipe them off. I don’t do any kind of skincare.

Sinead: If you will just do that you’re gonna have skin issues because you’re not fully cleaning it and fully rejuvenating your skin afterward. 

Shalom: Yeah, like buying products that will help Like skincare, like invest in yourself in skincare, 

Sinead: yeah if you’re gonna invest in makeup, you gotta invest in the skincare part, or else you might ruin your skin because makeup has a lot of chemicals and it’s just overall it’s like it’s putting a bunch of chemicals on your skin, which absorbs all of it, which goes into your body. So I always considered that whenever I wear makeup, you know?

Shasha: Oh my goodness. Yeah, I remember we were just having a photoshoot. I think last year.

Sinead: not last year. It’s like two years ago. 

Shasha: Yeah, two years ago when we had all lined up in front of. 

Sinead: oh  2 years ago, Now I know we’re talking about it, it was here, right? 

Shasha: Yeah, Well there’s another photoshoot, we all lined up on the table and she was showing us how to put on makeup for the photoshoot because none of us knew exactly how to put it on properly.

Shalom: I still don’t know. 

Shasha: So we all lined up on the table as following this tutorial. And it was just the funniest thing 

Sinead: it was, that was very interesting. Like we really generally don’t know how to apply. Well, I think that now I’ve learned because I had a little practice.

Shalom: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 

Sinead: And then oh, imagine if you guys had to do your makeup for Onyx family dinner. 

Shalom and Shasha: Oh my goodness. 

Shalom: I couldn’t I wouldn’t. I know that the lighting would just like catching my bad side. Just like sometimes I please. Like I literally forget my neck sometimes. And it’s like, 

Shasha: Oh my God. 

Sinead: It’ll be like the makeup kind of stops at the chin. Instead of going down to the neck.

Shalom: And I don’t even go up probably and sometimes I don’t even go all the way on my foreheads. Just like 

Sinead: yeah, so that’s an issue.

Shalom: Exactly. So I actually respect those who actually have they do a really great job with their makeup. So it’s like props to you. But I want to ask you guys how you like is too young for makeup. 

Sinead: How young is too young for makeup? I just feel like not necessary 

Shasha: because you already have good skin as a kid. 

Sinead: Oh no. Not everyone have good skin as a kid but I feel like that when you’re at those ages, it should be more emphasized to take care do skincare more than covering it up with makeup? 

Shasha: That’s a good point. 

Sinead: I think there should be more effort in instead of doing tutorials and learning how to do makeup, maybe tutorials and like okay, find your skin your best skin regimen. Okay, what helps dry skin one, 

Shalom: right.

Sinead: finding those kinds of fixes is better. Now some people don’t even wear makeup to cover up skin issues but they wear it because they think that they don’t look good enough. And then I would say to that emphasize self-love before jumping to make it.

Shalom: It’s interesting. You said skin issues right? Because a lot of people have what do you call it? like that sort of acne disease? like acute. What does it call?

Shasha: acne? I think.

Sinead: I think there’s another word for it.

Shalom: I know 

Sinead: not that acne but 

Shalom: no, no. Yeah, there’s something there’s another word to it. But yeah, they have that type of disease. And also they have like another sort of disease like I can’t remember. But yeah, the acne thing. Like do you think that in terms of acne? Do you think that it’s best when someone you know can cover up or do you think that it’s more like 

Sinead: man, the thing is that you can’t judge? You can’t really judge per se someone who does not feel comfortable because they have really really bad skin issues.

Shasha: Yeah, I’ve never been there before 

Shalom: or burns. Like that’s what I meant to say.

Sinead: oh burns

Shasha: okay, That’s a special situation we’re not talking about.

Sinead: yeah  I’m not gonna tell a burn victim. Oh, don’t wear makeup you need to self-love yourself. 

Shasha: Okay, we’re talking about people who just have skin issues. That’s it like nothing more horrific happened

Sinead: no but even though those people might not feel self-confident no one’s getting but I would say that you still got to learn to love yourself with and without the makeup. You still got to learn to love yourself because it’s going to spread to other things if you’re not loving yourself in certain areas.

Shasha: Oh, that was deep. 

Sinead: Yeah,

Shasha: that was deep. 

Shalom: Oh Cystic acne.

Shasha: Cystic acne. Yeah, I’ve seen that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely. 

Shalom: I mean, yeah, there’s definitely there are some special cases where you know, maybe a person would really want to use makeup for certain things, but if you’re like already Okay, right. And your skin is already clear.

Sinead: And people still wear makeup because they want to look older or they want to look more mature or

Shalom: but what makes you mature? Is it the lip gloss that makes you mature? Is it the arches of the eyebrow? Or is it the actual condition and like

Sinead: and that’s the thing because some people can’t be like all makeup is bad or all makeup makes you look more mature because some people will only do a lip gloss like I mostly I wear lip gloss. That’s basically all I do. 

Shasha: I don’t think that counts as makeup. 

Shalom and Sinead: What really?

Sinead: what do some people do?

Shasha: I think lipstick is I think lipstick counts as make up

Sinead: some people wear only eyeliner, they literally only wear eyeliner. And it’s not even a lot of eyeliner but only a little bit of mascara. They only wear mascara but that’s still makeup but it’s like they’re like oh I want to I think that makeup when it pops out a certain feature like you’re like oh I’m targeting certain features. I’m not necessarily changing myself, but I’m emphasizing that’s the thing. There are two things that makeup can do it can emphasize features you already have. So people that wear mascara might be like oh, I want to show off my eyes more and like put make it emphasize what color my eyes or whatever, then some people want to change how they look and they’re literally some people will change like skin tone on their face, 

Shalom: right 

Sinead: face structure because they feel like their nose is too big or their chin is too square or their forehead is too high. Like all that kind of stuff. And when it gets to that point, it’s like you need to practice self-love and more than change how you look

Shalom: right

Sinead: Appreciate it. 

Shasha: Have you guys ever heard of permanent makeup surgery?

Sinead: Permanent make up surgery

Shalom: what is that?

Shasha: basically it can make it look like you have permanent makeup on. So permanent makeup surgery. It’s like tattoos, a needle basically pigments to where you want it to go. It’s like 

Sinead: What?

Shasha: it was it’s actually heard of that before.

Sinead: okay, listen  What if you said hey, I want to permanently look like I have makeup on right now like okay, we’ll call you on your eyeshadow to be and you’re like oh blue, blue today what? It just does not match all your outfits now from then on you will always have blue eyeshadow. 

Shalom: wait, so does that make it look like? Do you have always have like an arch sort of eyebrows?

Shasha: yeah basically anything I think they make their lips pinker you can have 

Sinead: permanent blush. 

Shasha: Yes. Stuff like that. It’s kind of like tattoos. 

Sinead: That’s that’s kind of extreme to me. That’s that kind of No, it is extreme to me. Like I’m just I don’t know. 

Shasha: Okay, but I for me, I would actually nonetheless, I would actually wear makeup more if I did not have to do the work of putting it on if they can create a mask Elon Musk create a mask. I mean, he’s an inventor, if he invented something where you could put it on your face, and then just like, peel it off and make it was on you. 

Sinead: But that’s not permanent, that’s not permanent. So 

Shasha: no, no, no I just want to like if I just want one some, one day.

Sinead: Are you saying that the only thing stopping you from wearing makeup is the fact that you just don’t know how to do it.

Shasha: Yeah

Sinead: so you would wear makeup every day. If you could do it easily. 

Shasha: Yeah, why not? 

Sinead: Sorry. Wait, are you saying that you’re not satisfied with the way you look? Or just for the fun of it? 

Shasha: Just for the fun of it.

Sinead: Okay, okay, that’s what I’m wondering why.

Shalom: Wait Shasha, what if someone said the same thing about the exercise you love to exercise, right? You like the process of it you like 

Shasha: wait, what? No way, wait wait, But exercise is not

Sinead: No, Listen, someone’s like, Man, I can just slap some abs on, slaps some muscles on. 

Shasha: That’s body image issues. 

Sinead: No, actually, your face is body image, It is part of your body image.

Shasha: That’s like comparing drawing to I don’t know. Why are you comparing makeup to exercise? Why?

Shalom: Because some people just want that perfect body so what’s it like?

Shasha: I mean, I acted just for fun. It doesn’t sound fun anymore. 

Sinead: Oh yea, let’s discuss the topic of makeup for fun. 

Shasha: There’s nothing wrong with that. If the issue comes isn’t when you feel dissatisfied. You’re putting on makeup because you’re dissatisfied?

Sinead: Yeah, but the thing is should that be an issue too?

Shalom: What about being dissatisfied with yourself? Like if you want to up yourself 

Sinead: What I’m saying is if they are dissatisfied and they want to do something to better themselves, they feel like makeup is the way it should that be a bad thing? 

Shasha: Yes. 

Shalom: Well, okay. Maybe 

Sinead: Is that like, 

Shasha: Cause you’re encouraging best self-esteem? What’s your argument here? 

Sinead: No, I’m just asking should that be a bad thing? What is someone’s like, you don’t know me? You don’t know that. I feel great when I wear makeup and like or like maybe wigs say someone’s like, oh, I want to wear wigs because they don’t 

Shasha: Oh, yeah. Yeah, like, like, we use extensions. You know, that’s why I kind of like I had a phase where I wore a lot of wigs but I kind of like I kind of want to take a break. 

Sinead: But would you say that it was because you couldn’t take care of your hair or you really did not like your natural hair?

Shasha: I was lazy 

Sinead: or you, okay you were just lazy. 

Shasha: And see that’s why when it comes bad when you would rather wear fake hair than take care of your real hair. You know I’m saying 

Shalom: hmm, 

Sinead: people just want to experiment have fun I guess the best 

Shasha: I’m not gonna argue if you don’t like the hair because I know natural hair there’s a lot

Sinead: I thought that the real thing we’re just saying is you have to appreciate your natural self 

Shasha: right 

Sinead: as well as have fun with makeup or wigs or whatever.

Shalom: right Wow

Shasha: Yeah. I mean you guys got locks cuz I mean you want to I don’t know you just like that style. Not because you hated natural hair right? 

Shalom: No, no, I love my natural hair. I love the way how it grows and everything 

Shasha: kept you guys were frustrated. 

Sinead: No, I didn’t say I hate I was 

Shalom: no I love my natural hair 

Sinead: and I just said that

Shalom: I like my natural hair now I said 

Shasha: no I mean before,

Sinead: before I didn’t hate my hair,

Shalom: for me before I didn’t hate my hair. 

Sinead: I just couldn’t take care of it.

Shalom: Yeah.

Shasha: I don’t want to hear you’re not like did you have the best self-esteem like

Sinead: no no, I still love my hair. I did not like I didn’t hate my hair and I didn’t feel like I look bad with the hair. I had like a full Afro sometimes like 

Shasha: Sinead’s was very thick. 

Sinead: But I did not have the tools to take care of it or I didn’t know where to find the tools to take care of my hair even though the 

Shasha: right 

Sinead: but I didn’t really think about that at the moment. I didn’t have the right mindset to go that far. 

Shalom: Okay, guys, your nine-year-old comes in your bathroom. She’s crying and she’s like Mom, all the kids in my school are oh, we’re wearing makeup. I want to look pretty too 

Sinead: Oh, definitely I would encourage her and say 

Shasha: no. 

Sinead: I would say no foul be like you are first of all you are nine you don’t even look older. Because the thing is about makeup is it definitely makes you look older. that’s what makes 

Shasha: Yeah, basically not young 

Sinead: and when you’re nine that doesn’t need to be thinking about you need to be satisfied with the way you look.

Shasha: Yes, 

Sinead: it’s always gonna be the thing about wearing makeup when you’re young. It’s like you’re not done developing facial features right

Shasha: Yeah, so no stress go play with the barbie. 

Sinead: I looked drastically different than for me at 13 at 10 Even 16 I look different 

Shalom: oh yeah definitely 

Sinead: I don’t know but you always kind of look the same 

Shalom: everyone thinks that you’re younger than you are Shasha 

Shasha: everyone thinks you guys are younger than you are 

Shalom: no no no literally I heard someone gasp once when they heard your age, like 

Shasha: I heard people scream out and horror when they find out you’re like almost you’re 22 and you look like 11.

Sinead: The thing is, is that make a mix of older and we’ve always been mistaken for teenagers 

Shasha: Have that bothered you guys?

Sinead: for being mistaken as young? No, it doesn’t bother me.

Shalom: it doesn’t bother me

Sinead: not people that I literally know some of my own friends who thought I was younger than I am 

Shalom: yeah but it’s also the way how you carry yourself well actually no when you’re doing it yourself we actually carry ourselves older than you are younger 

Shasha: so since skyjack says look the same for years 

Sinead: she looks young 

Shalom: yeah

Shasha: she looks the same so 

Shalom: but she wears makeup though. I think it’s just more of her body because 

Shasha: you asked me like she’s tiny but also her face looks the same

Shalom: yeah her face does look the same

Shasha: in the real literally so I mean 

Shalom: what but like how could that never bothered us like us just being young looking young 

Sinead: Yes for some people it bothers them to look young but really think about it. 

Shasha: Yeah,

Sinead: at some point, you want to look younger like you know when you’re older than you’re like wait a minute, then people start getting Botox and they start getting like 

Shasha: yeah, fillers

Sinead: they start being fillers and stuff or taking like fat off or whatever right because they want to look younger but I would say I would argue to say that stay away from a lot of well, first of all, eat healthily 

Shalom: eat healthily yes 

Sinead: make healthy choices and don’t wear makeup as often as you think you want to 

Shalom: Alicia Keys she stopped wearing makeup for years now. 

Sinead: yeah she’s really good 

Shalom: Yeah, she does it really good 

Shasha: I remember on top of makeup lady gaga when she was filming was it called again in that film her film 

Sinead: Oh,

Shalom: star is born?

Shasha: start is born she was not allowed to wear makeup for the film and when she’s to try to sneak it in a little bit try to sneak in a few makeups but she had to wipe it off because she wasn’t for her role she wasn’t allowed to wear makeup they want her to be natural so I thought that was what is it Makeup

Shalom: but What is it? How come we’re not in this sort of natural phase? How come it’s just never here it’s always just different makeup trends but there’s just never a natural phase 

Shasha: hmm, because there’s no profit from being natural.

Sinead: Oh, I mean think about it. I mean there could be if people invested in skincare makeup companies will suffer but the thing is if they work together you know mess up your skin a little bit with makeup fix it with skincare

Shasha: what 

Sinead: think about it they both profit from that but if you only focus on natural then only the skincare profits come

Shasha: Oh so so so you can start our company Like a makeup company and then a skincare company number like we give them like these toxic makeup ingredients and then he can clean it up with 

Sinead: well you are creating a master plan. 

Shasha: an evil plan, But you’re right I feel like everyone needs to prioritize skincare first and foremost. 

Shalom: I mean and yeah, I mean like I agree wholeheartedly I mean like I feel like I need to invest myself even more of skincare I mean like I don’t use makeup so it’s like I need to you know substitute you know get those serums and those base sprays yeah 

Shasha: base face?

Sinead: rose water mist thing

Shasha: no, 

Sinead: You never use one?

Shalom: you never used one?  

Sinead: it’s relaxing you know

Shasha: What are you talking about?

Sinead: you never use a rosewater spray. 

Shasha: uh-uh. 

Sinead: You should try it

Shalom: it’s really nice 

Sinead: you spray it right on your face and it’s kind of hydrating

Shalom: I will literally buy you one Shasha Because honestly we need to invest me and you, me and you yes 

Shasha: Trust me we haven’t got enough water it’s from a tap. 

Shalom: Oh no, no, there needs to be more than just water. Three soap involved there needs to be 

Shasha: no I can use soap and stuff. I’m just saying this 

Sinead: Rosewater rose water is refreshing 

Shasha: so you can tell who prioritizes skincare more? 

Sinead: Okay, yeah, you know 

Shalom: Wait, wait, wait what tell us you’re like a little bit of it. You

don’t see the whole thing but like what you remember what are you know?

Sinead: Let me just let me reveal my secrets you know so this is what I do. Most days. I wash my face with some water. I don’t do soap every day because it dries out to this all my skin is even different from like say Shalom skin it’s slightly more oily

Shasha: I just soap every day because my skin is oily 

Sinead: so I don’t do soap every day but I will do water for sure. Then of course I do some serum I’d hyaluronic acid. I think that’s what it’s called. Yeah, that’s what it’s called. Right? Sometimes I do niacinamide. And then I put on some Neutrogena face cream after those. 

Shasha: For me. I wash with Cetaphil I love, I’ve been using the same Cetaphil I forgot what the I think it was specifically for phase out the Barwin I don’t know who would use it Barwin but I use that Cetaphil shojo Scrub. Then I put on what’s called again aloe vera oil and olive oil a little bit of mix of the two I don’t put too much because my face is more oily but just to hydrate it a little bit more. I use a mix of those it’s really hydrating

Sinead: Yeah

Shalom: Nice 

Shasha: try the rosewater though

Shalom: nice 

Sinead: alright okay now 

Shasha: slowly keep going 

Shalom: I have some I have a whole bunch of products but I kind of want to list them but I don’t feel like getting it so I will tell you guys another time 

Sinead: another time? Ok like, what do you do? Do you wash your face with soap every day? like

Shalom: oh yeah, every night at least I would wash it 

Sinead: well you should watch it in the morning too because like when

Shalom: and morning It just depends it’s either I vary either night or day by that I wash it. But I use a whole bunch of other products 

Shasha: Do you wash soap twice a day that wouldn’t dry your skin out with soap?

Sinead: not if you have oily skin

Shasha: oh yeah she does oily skin you got to know your type you 

Sinead: got to know you got to do what’s best for your skin. 

Shalom: Wait hold on I’m gonna get one or two of my products

Shasha: no wait Shalom is leaving the building right now. For now, let’s talk about something besides what is your is your we do have a haircare routine I know you have sister locks for like 

Sinead: the thing is about with Sister locks if you don’t really need a hair care routine, you can oil it every you know a couple of weeks but like and then wash it every couple weeks but like the you don’t really have to do much to maintain it like you don’t have to grind. You don’t need to like what you have to do with your hair and put protective styles in it. 

Shasha: And so it just shows me that you don’t need products your hair because look nice hair. Um, I don’t know if

Sinead: you do need to put products in your hair if it’s like that. But because of locks, the only way they will start locking is if you don’t put a bunch of stuff in. If you start putting stuff in, you’ll start slipping 

Shasha: No, but think about it the way to grow your hair because Sinead’s hair was shoulder length when she started but now it’s been mid-waist length. 

Sinead: But think about it like this dreads are almost like a protective style. They’re like braids, but dreads you know, I mean, the way like that it’s not going to like start breaking 

Shasha: Oh, 

Sinead: because it’s basically a constant protective style. 

Shasha: So the secret to growing your hair is protective style so it doesn’t break 

Sinead: Yes, that’s what I would say it is nicely dressed and not necessarily not putting products but keeping your hair and protective styles. 

Shasha: Wow, that’s interesting. I keep my hair and Afro 24/7

Sinead: I think it will it won’t be protected at the ends in stuff because it’s always out but if you have any protective styles.

Shasha: it’s gonna grow nice Sinead’s hair grew so fast. Oh, Shalom is back with her hair skincare products. 

Sinead: Okay, so what do you have Shalom?

Shalom: Okay, so I have hydro bio serum. 

Sinead: So what is it is moisturizing concentrate? 

Shalom: Yes. And I also use hydro bio gel cream as well. 

Sinead: Okay, more stuff. I don’t exactly know what it is. 

Shalom: The makeup artist in LA used it and then Mom ordered it. 

Sinead: Okay, 

Shalom: so yeah, I also use Insta natural 

Sinead: Oh yeah niacinamide serum. It has hyaluronic acid, vitamin E all that is really good for the skin. I highly recommend using niacinamide serum.

Shalom: I need to buy more of mine. This one’s almost out. I also use 

Sinead: Instanatural I love instanatural so I use it

Shalom: Yeah, instanatural Vitamin C cleanser 

Sinead: I use for my skin to wash my face. 

Shalom: And I also use 

Sinead: Mario Badescu as I say, 

Shalom: I think so. 

Sinead: That’s the rosewater 

Shalom: so yeah, Shasha try some on your face 

Sinead: Yes, try it

Shasha: no

Sinead: okay move the microphone

Shasha: wait I might be allergic to it

Sinead: You’re not allergic to it

Shalom: Shasha It’s natural 

Shasha: That smells good. Why do you spray it to my eyes? 

Sinead: What? you suppose to close your eyes

Shasha: You didn’t tell me to?

Sinead: You didn’t even close your eyes? 

Shasha: No.

Shalom: Shasha?

Shasha: I don’t even know when you’re gonna spray it.

Sinead: I’m sorry. I’m sorry.

Shalom: I have to make your face heal.

Shasha: That just smells really good.

Shalom: You want we want me to buy you one. 

Shasha: No, thank you. 

Sinead: It smells good no Thank you. 

Shasha: really good. Oh, yeah, like I’m running across my face. 

Sinead: And that’s that’s what Im saying. It’s, it’s refreshing. Basically what we’re saying is guys take care of who you are naturally because then you’ll learn to appreciate yourself more and you won’t necessarily feel pushed to wear makeup if you don’t really want to but like society pressures, you know? 

Shalom: Yeah, and it’s okay to have fun with makeup. Do you know? Just know just appreciate your natural self first, you know? 

Sinead: Yeah, cuz deep down you got to make sure you appreciate yourself and love yourself deep down. It’s not even really about like, we’re not even trying to criticize anybody for wearing makeup or anything like that.

Shalom: No, 

Sinead: we just want to make sure that everybody has the best mindset first as they’re going in. As you guys are getting into makeup or getting into wearing wigs or getting into wearing even different clothes and stuff like that. 

Shalom and Shasha: Right right.

Shasha: I think the next topic should definitely be hair. 

Sinead: Hair,

Shalom: yeah,

Shasha: I don’t know what do you guys think 

Sinead: that’s a good idea. 

Shalom: That is a good idea 

Sinead: Anyways, guys, we hope we were able to you know, have a nice conversation with you all that was thought-provoking. You know, thinking about what you’re going to change in your life. Maybe do a skin routine if you don’t have one stuff like that, you know, you know, but anyway, thank you guys for joining us in this podcast. We will see you in the next episode.

Everyone: Bye

Listen to this podcast episode here: https://spoti.fi/3zDkBkc

Sinead: what’s up guys welcome back to the Shawties podcast with your host Sinead AKA Shonyx and my sister’s Shasha

Shasha: Shasha!

Sinead: I should let you say your name 

Shasha: That’s okay!

Sinead: and

Shalom: Shalom 

Sinead: yeah

Shasha: today guys we’re talking about juicy boy stories 

Sinead: yes awkward just awkward 

Shasha: yeah very embarrassing 

Sinead: yeah exposing ourselves

Shalom: yeah basically so who’s the star first

Sinead: oh obviously the thing is shalom has the juiciest one we’re gonna be honest here okay it’s just the funniest one to me okay that’s why I want Shalom to start off

Shasha: okay, since I only have a little bit of stories I’m gonna start with me

Sinead: really?

Shasha: yeah! 

Sinead: okay 

Shasha: so one time yeah so one time I was at church and we were uh it was like I don’t know a kids event or something like that and I was watching Shiloh because I’m you know back then I was you know those little baby students in church okay so anyways you know I forgot it was kind of some kind of VBS or something and a boy came up and he was like hey uh hey my friend kind of likes you and not him he’s friends and his friend kind of likes me did he point out the friend no he nodded my way and he nodded like hit the direction but I didn’t really look at that direction because I don’t really care and you know I was colder then I should have been 

Sinead: wait, what do you mean? What did you do? 

Shasha: I just stared at him, I didn’t even say anything

Shalom: well here’s the thing that boy should have come up to you instead of the friend and so, it’s like of course

Sinead: yeah why would a good friend be like yo! my friend, he doesn’t even point out the Friday because was there a group of guys there’s one?

Shasha: no just one and he walked up to me you know that took a lot of courage to walk out to me and say that don’t be like

Shalom: the friend?

Shasha: the friend 

Shalom: well yeah because like his friends like you 

Shasha: but you know what plot twist what if he liked me

[Laughter]

Shalom: plot twist

Shasha: I didn’t think of it just now, anyway, I was cold and he just walked off

Sinead: dang

Shalom: I don’t think you are cold, I just think you expected like are you gonna walk up to me or anything?

Shasha: no, I didn’t look confused, I just go ahead and looked at him 

Sinead: she didn’t look confused she was like, wait give the face that you gave to him

Shasha: it was like this

Sinead: no show the face of the camera 

Shasha: oh I like the word plant like this well you guys can’t see me if you listen to audio but

Sinead: it’s very stoic it is so, that’s like an old business face it was like

Shasha: because I think at that point I was kind of annoyed because it was super loud downstairs and too much going on I like being by myself so I think that was the reason why baby 

Shalom: yeah

Sinead: that is hilarious that is a 

Shalom: well I have a story too and this is a little bit more dramatic than that one so a couple of years back I really liked this guy and I guess he really liked me too and we would exchange glances every now and then like across the room and then like a gone said then we kind of waved and he will kind of wave as well one time when I was in the elevator he as the elevator was going to close he would wave at me until the elevator closed and I was like a wave back and stuff like that it was just like little moments like that

Sinead: okay

Shalom: and like one time during this church event as you know he was like kind of like the praise leader 

Sinead: yeah he was singing up in the praise like he was leading out the praise and worship he was singing and everything like that you know

Shalom: I still remember the song even to this day. Does anyone know like Fred Hammond? What’s that song?

Sinead: we’re blessed in the spirit 

Shasha and Sinead: [Sings]

Shalom: yeah yeah so there’s this part of the song where it goes and around and around 

Sinead: yeah

Shalom: yeah so basically he basically grabbed me into like a little dance and like turned me around in front of everybody everybody

Sinead: I saw I saw everybody’s faces they see this like this family like I think they’re pretty well known in the church basically

Shasha and Shalom: Really?

Sinead: when he yes when he took Shalom and spun her around I saw the faces of all the girls around them were like wait what

Shalom: exactly exactly 

Sinead: and that was a little confused like huh 

Shalom: well yeah it definitely made my day so basically, I was in my head I was like head in the clouds and basically, I just thought about that all weekend 

Shasha: awesome you know it is sweet 

Shalom: and it’s sweet and so like at one point I think after the event we traveled I think to texas for a little bit because we had an event 

Sinead: okay yeah yeah yeah 

Shalom: Yeah and then like he would like some old pictures I was like oh yeah I can’t wait to see him maybe that you know maybe this is a chance for him to like you know to ask me out or like you know something more

Sinead: right of course that’s what you would expect after something like that 

Shalom: exactly and so after a couple of weeks after we got back from texas yeah basically when I got it wasn’t as if he wasn’t acknowledging me it’s like I tried 

Shasha: He’s ignoring you

Shalom: well yeah basically basically basically and then like after a couple of weeks since I was like this is this doesn’t feel right he’s not acknowledging me at all like basically ignore me and he’s like oh maybe it’s just the game maybe like I don’t know maybe like that

Sinead: maybe it’s just the game

Shalom: Yeah and then I saw him with this girl and I was like 

Shasha: oh 

Sinead: with another girl 

Shalom: well basically they were sitting like in the pews and I was like hmm that’s she’s new I’ve never seen her before and so basically I see them like sit together talk together and it’s like now is this a friend is this maybe a cousin

Shasha: oh no

Shalom: and so I was like

Sinead: you thought it was his cousin that’s really thinking that 

Shalom: well when I was down back I was like oh you know what maybe I’m gonna you know to walk by them a couple of times they went outside I was like maybe I should walk by him you know just to remind him you know I exist so I would do certain things like that 

Sinead: Oh my goodness 

Shalom: no I’m basically yeah and I would do certain crate kooky things like if he was on the balcony I would go on the balcony if he was in the ground like that’s how 

Sinead: girl, girl

Shalom: that’s how bad I was and basically one time we were at this outlet mall and then I was you know

Sinead: outlet mall like the ones that are outside

Shalom: yeah yeah those types of malls and so one day we were with the whole family right 

Sinead: yeah it was all of us yeah 

Shalom: and we were walking back to the car and then I see these two people walking next to us I didn’t think much of it until I got closer and for some reason, I saw how this guy was like covering his head with his hands 

Sinead: huh 

Shalom: and so he was walking by and the girl wasn’t even paying attention to me or the family because she was on her phone and so when I glanced up I was shocked to see that it was actually the guy that I liked 

Sinead: oh my goodness

Shasha: What’s this guy’s name?

Shalom: what I’m gonna yell that’s a little bit dramatic okay so basically as he was walking by I stared at him like as he was walking by I turned around I stared at him he stood at me and then basically I kind of lost it and so I kind of ran away I kind of get gasped I got gasped and ran away towards the car and then my parents 

Sinead: did you hide behind a mom didn’t you try to hide behind her?

Shalom: no I ran like past you guys and then

Shasha: I remember this 

Shalom: my parents were like wait what’s wrong out loud and I was like and I couldn’t answer them because I was just in my moment you know that was my Hollywood dramatic moment 

Sinead: so he just saw you run off like you made eye contact with him and you just gasped first of all because it would have been 

Shalom: no my mouth was wide open too

Sinead: so you were just like and then you just ran off 

Shalom: look I was in my moment okay I was in my moment oh and I forgot to mention prior to that we were actually at Beyonce’s concert and I was like checking his Instagram like okay where is this guy why isn’t he not liking my photos anymore like what’s going on and I saw 

Shasha: He used to like your photos too?

Shalom: my old photos too 

Shasha: okay yeah

Shalom: and so I saw and I saw on his Instagram how he was on taking this other girl on out on dates and everything now granted he didn’t like nor dating or anything and we weren’t doing like there was nothing like he didn’t owe me anything and so i 

Shasha: but he danced with you right?

Shalom: yeah that one time so you know it it was just more on me, that I expected more 

Shasha: Nah he was playing you 

Sinead: He was playing with your emotions that’s the thing because

Shasha: no way liking your old photos covering his face

Sinead: dancing with you, and he was covering his face like he did something wrong cause why? You know

Shasha: I know because he was guilty, guilty of a charge

Shalom: yeah

Shasha: wow

Sinead: yeah I mean 

Shasha: this is a sad story

Sinead: Nah it’s funny

Shalom: It’s pretty embarrassing I couldn’t keep it cool and just walk off like you know kind of done something like okay whatever 

Sinead: I just understand why you didn’t just keep it cool just look at him be like yeah you know I’m better off without you anyway like why would you gasp in his face 

Shalom: okay because 

Sinead: and run 

Shalom: Okay it’s not my character to act cool and uh I’m a little bit more dramatic what about you Sinead?

Shasha: oh man 

Sinead: awkward stories are me you see I don’t have anything as dramatic as that I have like little awkward moments like okay so you guys know there was a guy that I liked a long time ago early teenage years whatever right just I just remember you know how you said you’re not in your nature to be cool I think for me it’s more like I’ll try to be cool

Shasha: wait what do you mean to try to be cool?

Sinead: okay well like I think I’m cool and then I’m like yeah I did this right okay so for example and I didn’t realize this until years later okay but at this moment we were doing some kind of hiking thing activity we were in some like girl boy scout kind of thing pathfinders that’s what it was called but basically, we were doing some hiking thing and basically, I caught up to him right and he was like oh hey what’s up he holds out his hand right he holds up his hand and I slap it hard I just

Shasha: what?

Sinead: just hold on your hand that’s how I did you know I just went

Shasha: why?

Sinead: yeah so I was like oh it’s like a lower high five or something and now he looked at

my hands at his hands so confused he’s like okay

Shasha: he wants to hold your hand 

Sinead: no no no no no 

Shalom: no he wanted to dab her 

Sinead: what I think is that he wanted like you know how you dab up like that kind of thing we just go like oh hey what’s up like that kind of thing like this like his hand was like this so it was like like look put your hand like that like you know like this you know like what’s up 

Shalom: yeah 

Sinead: that’s what I think he was trying to do but I don’t think I was supposed to just smack it as hard as I can like 

Shasha: Sinead that is the funniest thing ever 

Sinead: I don’t know why

Shalom: It is

Sinead: I don’t know the thing is at the moment I was like yeah I did that

Shalom: that is funny 

Sinead: not until I’m not even kidding not until maybe last year I was like wait a minute was It supposed to do something else

Shasha: that is so funny

Sinead: oh my goodness 

Shalom: oh my goodness okay

Shasha: and it was funnier is because I really thought he just wouldn’t hold your hand because he just 

Shalom: It was like the sweetest moment ever

[Laughter]

Shasha: and she slaps it.

Sinead: I don’t even know I just slapped it so hard

Shalom: no but it was like the opposite sucks like you’re like a girl like wanting to hold a guy’s head 

Sinead: that would be obvious I don’t think girls could be like yo dab me up 

Shalom: no but what if imagine if the guy just slapped it 

Sinead: oh I know that would actually be like I’d probably cry if I held up in my hand and be like just slap it 

Shasha: I probably wanted to cry.

[Music]

Shalom: all right I feel like I’m gonna tell the time where I was kind of rejected by two guys at once

Sinead:  what

Shalom: yeah so basically was it this year yeah this year me and Sinead was on this online dating thing 

Sinead: oh yeah the speed dating

Shalom: so basically yeah it was speed dating and it was basically

Sinead: wait what you mean you guys at once I got rejected by like 30 anyways so like

Shalom: okay no

Sinead: people go off no

Shasha: no no no wait wait wait wait the speed dating what is this?

Sinead: okay so basically, there was an app that was created for speed dating one-minute speed dating where you just talk for 60 seconds and let me tell you 60 seconds is not enough to even but you could barely say your name it’s 

Shalom: barely it’s like basically fifteen seconds

Sinead: I know most of the conversation is wow that’s a pretty name or like how do you pronounce it because who’s gonna pronounce Sinead right 

Shalom: exactly exactly 

Sinead: for Shalom, oh Does that mean peace? at least yours like they knew it Shalom med they were like “Sineed”.

Shasha: there’s a celebrity named Sinead, Sinead O’Connor 

Sinead: they don’t know Sinead O’Connor 

Shalom: okay so basically and at one point if you two if both of you matched up 

Sinead: then you can chat later

Shalom: yeah that yeah you could chat later so basically at the end of the night, I was talking to everybody I was talking to was old like

Sinead: oh yeah the problem is that the age range wasn’t like

Shalom: it was ridiculous

Sinead: setting stone so you know we got a couple of you know like maybe 60-year-olds from Africa or something like that

Shalom: I remember this one guy he was like really like grumpy and he just like hello and I was like hi and it’s like how are you doing and he’s like good 

Shasha: you’re probably his oldest daughter

Sinead: I remember like you’re so pretty you know I just like that kind of thing I was like whoa and it was like the old man I was like the thing is there was no hang-up button

Shasha: there was no hang-up button?

Sinead: no hang-up button you just have gotta wait for the 60 seconds to be out but it is like I can’t wait to get to know you more and I was like oh my goodness

Shalom: I think I know what you’re talking about cause we used to talk to the same person

Sinead: yeah the same person

Shasha: wait a minute so tell me about this the story you got rejected twice, Shalom

Shalom: rejecting twice okay basically at the end of the night the next day I actually um a couple of hours later two guys matched me and they’re like the kind of message me saying like hey I kind of get want to get to know you and 

Sinead: wait, oh yeah we can take it there 

Shalom: yeah they kind of wanted to get to know me I was like yeah I definitely want to know you too and so I talked to one guy and basically, the conversation was like hours apart like I was trying to play the game you know he’s just saying like okay like I’m going to try to text hours away from you know initially text well I guess I waited too long because I tried I answered like eight hours later and basically he didn’t answer back and I was like oh well forget that one and that was the one that I really liked and then the other one I was like okay so I was kind of talking to him more you know I basically told him about myself and stuff like that and then I kind of got a little weird 

Sinead and Shasha: what do you mean?

Shalom: So you know it was like basic conversations one word and one like yeah I do this I do that and then it was weird I think he was talking about we’re talking about camp right and then I told the story when we went camping back in 2014. 

Sinead: yeah 

Shalom: and so I did this wrong rant and it was basically out of character between my other texts that I did 

Sinead: You did a long rant?

Shalom: of camp yes it was super long

Sinead: like a bad rap about how you hated it or like 

Shalom: Yeah and it almost sounded slightly kiddish by the way I was testing it and then I think he got so turned off he was like oh okay like it was basically like okay bye and it never answered back and I was like okay forget it this is not for me 

Shasha: What?

Sinead: oh my goodness do you think it was spammy?

Shalom: no no no no because like the other conversations 

Sinead: she really hates camp

Shalom: no because like the private conversation I was talking you know kind of normal one-worded text you know 

Sinead: yeah like short sentences like small talk then all of a sudden

Shalom: but that one I decided on 

Shasha: he was like I triggered her

[Laughter]

Sinead: oh my goodness well at least you got two guys to message you but I did I get no messages after meeting like how many people did I think of 30 or more

Shalom: right right

Shasha: yeah I thought that was most people that went there though I mean Sinead you think that all of them got messaged back?

Sinead: maybe maybe not I don’t know but all I know is that I got nobody to message me back 

Shasha: I’m just saying

Sinead: I mean I didn’t message anybody anyways but I’m saying like

Shalom: well it’s their loss it’s their loss they don’t know what they lost okay?

Shasha: I gotta be honest, you really want to date someone up completely like a stranger from online?

Sinead: I don’t know you know honestly because you know that we have a friend that actually met someone online they’re getting married and it turns out like they actually have the same background and everything they meant online 

Shasha: oh 

Sinead: yeah so like online relationships could work out depending on the person

Shasha: I feel like speed dating now 

Sinead: speed dating don’t know about speed dating because literally, I’m telling you most of those conversations will be like so what’s your name how do you pronounce your name sinead Schneed Schneider sneeze Schneider no like honestly like what 

Shalom: at least you were the topic 

Sinead: either that was like how was your day I’m good nice um you like marvel movies yeah but what I’m sorry like

Shasha: yeah you can’t get married over speed dating guys

Sinead: I don’t know maybe it was me failing with the conversation may be another side I don’t know all I’m saying is that I kept my energy up as much as I could but by the end of it I was like no no 

Shalom: yeah yeah this is why I don’t think i

could deal with like things like tinder

or anything like that 

Sinead: yeah that’s a whole other beast out there 

Shalom: Yeah I mean like I like when people like to say that you know they met through Twitter because I don’t know I feel like that’s even a little bit more accurate

Sinead: you can’t see yeah but sometimes people don’t post their faces on Twitter so I don’t

understand that yeah

Shalom: no but they post their family sometimes like and themselves I feel like it’s a little more personal than Instagram it’s like a whole persona that you’re just like 

Sinead: I guess but you know people on Twitter have a persona too though I don’t know maybe it is more honest I just never really heard of a Twitter relationship worked

Shalom: Are you kidding me? I hear so much 

Sinead: well you know what I see people meet through Twitter, I do see that 

Shalom: yeah so much, well I have another embarrassing story

Sinead: Why do you have a lot of embarrassing stories?

Shalom: I just think about it you guys just like to block it off 

Sinead: well I just have like smaller ones like awkward conversations like I remember this one conversation and I’ll tell you later I let you tell your story first

Shasha: wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait tell us 

Shalom: yeah I want to hear yours

Sinead: yeah I just remember one time this is the same guy I just I remember one time he was like he came to me he was like hey what’s up you know we had this regular small talk conversation it was going so well and then it got going and then it got quiet for a second I didn’t know what to do but you know as a young teenager I’m like okay when in doubt ask what your favorite thing is I was like what’s your favorite movie genre he looked at me like what are you doing?

Shasha: wait, so instead of being a normal person who gradually gets up to like the first thing we like doing your free time on movies or you know you just burst out?

Sinead: I just burst out with what’s your favorite, no and there was a long pause of silence before that so and then I was like what’s your favorite movie genre? and he was like uh he answered I can’t remember what his answer was but then after that, he was like I got someone i

gotta talk to so I’m like I gotta go and be like I was like bye

Shalom: but I can tell that that same guy really liked you because remember the time when we were like we were all in a prayer circle right you know at the end of our Sabbath school, yeah and then like I had to do something I was you know you know

Sinead: you were right like here you were beside me yes 

Shalom: yeah I was 

Sinead: behind me 

Shalom: yeah I was beside you and you and he were holding hands about and we’re about to bow our heads and I had to move something I don’t know what I had to move but then I went between you and him as they as you guys were holding hands. 

Sinead: What?

Shalom: yes I went in between you guys and then he was like what is this and then he just moved aside and went to hold your hand on the other side because no one’s holding your hand on that side

Sinead: wait I didn’t you know see I remember that day because like I was like oh wow we’re holding hands whatever that kind of thing I was like but I remember I only remembered the part

where he held my hands on this side I didn’t even know that you had come between us on the other side like yeah

Shalom: yeah because I didn’t want to hold those strangers hands

Shasha: can you guys simplify the story I’m like what is going on 

Sinead: okay we were gonna do a whole prayer circle kind of thing Shalom was standing right next to me on my left she left to do something and he took the opportunity to hold my hand on my left.

Shasha: oh

Sinead: but then shalom came back stepped right in between us and then held my hand instead and he was like what in his head I guess and then he went around and just held my hand on the other side but I didn’t really realize that at the moment I just thought that 

Shalom: and by the way you guys for those who don’t know we had like these prayer circles where everyone would just hold their hands and just like bow your heads.

Sinead: yeah the whole youth group

Shasha: You know what Shalom that’s so funny how you just discharged them

Shalom: no I was oblivious I was totally, no I’m very oblivious and it was like remember that time we were at this other church in Florida right, and this guy and his girlfriend were sitting together right yeah and I didn’t know it at the time but like and then I as we entered into another sabbath school I went to go sit like in between them 

Sinead: why did you? how in the world?

Shalom: I’m very oblivious I don’t know why

Sinead: Shalom you’re telling me you saw two people sitting together and you’re like I’m gonna sit right in between them 

Shalom: and then it wasn’t until later I was like oh they’re dating when I saw them like talking about it

Sinead: Oh my goodness why are you

Shasha: You’re so funny 

Sinead: Why do you do this to yourself?

Shalom: I don’t know I honestly don’t know it’s like a

Shasha: what if they’re brother and sister though?

Shalom: no they’re really dating 

Shasha: no but they just sit next to each other they could be brother and sister you know

Sinead: but even brother and sister wouldn’t be weird if someone came up to us and just sat right in between us like

Shalom: I know because as sisters

Shasha: there’s like a free seat there’s a free seat 

Sinead: was there a free seat? or did you just like it?

Shalom: it was crowded and I was like oh like empty space

Shasha: yeah yeah I don’t see it as bad

Sinead: oh my goodness 

Shasha: it’s that empty space

Shalom: no but they both stared at me like what the

Shasha: well they should have been they shouldn’t have been um staying apart

Shalom: valid but still

Sinead: you feel awkward no but I don’t even think it was it was an empty seat or was it 

Shalom: it was sort of empty but I kind of was squeezing between them

Sinead: Shalom!

Shasha: Okay, I keep on trying to defend you but

Sinead: she’s really trying her best to defend you here man

Shasha: That is so much!

[Laughter]

Shasha: ah my stomach hurts, the more you talk about it the more it gets worse

Shalom: that’s such a little story

Sinead: I know that’s okay 

Shalom: you must just forget it but still

Sinead: the little things 

Shasha: no I’ve never heard this one 

Sinead: but me either I’ve never heard this

Shalom: I think you know them 

Shasha: no 

Shalom: I think one of them went to the college with you 

Sinead: no are you no was it really them?

Shalom: it was a girl, not the guy 

Shasha: you’re speaking in code

Shalom: no but you know what she looks like 

Sinead: okay okay oh yeah

Shasha: it’s on you say if they see you again

Shalom: no she’s graduated she’s long graduated

Shasha: trying to ruin a romantic moment

Shalom: have you guys ever done like accidentally

Sinead: accidentally like what get in the way of someone else’s relationship

Shalom: I don’t know I don’t even want to say that but like awkwardly

Sinead: okay 

Shasha: Shalom go running through while holding hands

Sinead: you’re going in between a couple no Shalom you seem like the opposite of the matchmaker here.

Shalom: I didn’t do it on purpose, you guys!

Sinead: Oh my goodness

Shasha: just kidding that was funny 

Shalom: oh yeah I remember when I was younger we’re at grandma’s house and this pastor came and he was a pretty young man and I was very curious about him I don’t know why as he was about to leave I asked him are you married and do you have children I asked and then my mom our mom and dad they were like whoa whoa

Shasha and Sinead: how old are you?

Shalom: I was very young but I wasn’t even doing that and out of interest in hey I was like I was very curious about this I was like hey like do you have children my age like I was just asking that 

Sinead: oh did you say that or did you say do you have children?

Shalom: no I think I asked are you married or do you have children it was one of those questions but it was just it was very very weird as a young person 

Sinead: that is a very interesting question to ask I just been hearing all these stories I never heard of

Shasha: that’s funny I thought you wait did you actually, say do you have any playmates 

Sinead: no no no she said do you have children are you married do you have children 

Shalom: no I think I asked are you married it was one of those because I was curious to see if you had kids my age because you know how you just like when adults come over there you know you’re always thinking like hey yeah maybe they brought home their children so we can you know hang out 

Sinead: okay but like that’s just I don’t think that you worded it right

Shalom: no I didn’t I did it I was very young I would say a lot of out of pocket stuff like 

Sinead: Why do you have somebody’s stories?

Shalom: one time we were at grandma and grandpa’s house and we just finished watching this Christmas movie and during the Christmas movie the children were crafted in this cabin and they had that Christmas in the cabin 

Sinead: okay 

Shalom: and I was very distraught and as we were about to leave I asked grandma and grandpa mom and dad they’re all in there and then they’re about to leave like mom what if we could crash our car then we get stuck in the cabin and then all the dust look at each other and they laughed and I was embarrassed and I just walked away 

Sinead: oh no

Shalom: that’s sad and funny

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Shasha: this didn’t happen to me but something embarrassing that happened in my school someone peed on someone

Sinead: I didn’t know they didn’t expect you to bring that up

Shasha: it’s a large I think of an embarrassing story 

Shalom: it’s more than here’s the thing I reach into the subconscious of my mind and I embrace that memory

Sinead: Oh I know I remember 

Shasha: Wait, can I tell a story?

Sinead: yeah tell your story 

Shasha: yeah so I was just sitting in class and then the guy came in and he had it was wet all over his shirt guys it was so sad he was like and then the guy okay first of all now that I’m old I’m like how’d the guy pee on him?

Shalom: no because you know-how in those boys bathrooms there’s like this open sink

Shasha: he was soaked how did it happen

Shalom: Shasha you know how boys like to play they like to like fool around especially at that age he probably was like

Shasha: That was so mean! Like a hose?

Sinead: Oh my goodness

Shasha: anyways he looked really guilty and I don’t know what happened to him I was

like oh shoot that was sad 

Shalom: okay so you’ve reached into your subconscious and you reached a memory of someone else’s embarrassment

Sinead: someone else’s embarrassment, oh wow Shasha do you not get embarrassed?

Shasha: I don’t remember getting embarrassed, oh one time I wasn’t in someone it was a church we used to go at I walked in on someone going to the bathroom but that wasn’t embarrassing for me I was more like oh man I shouldn’t have done that but I that was more embarrassing for that person 

Sinead: man I feel like that you have like a wheel of steel like emotions of steel where you don’t get embarrassed easily because I feel like that I get embarrassed but I just push it out of my mind I’ll never remember it again

Shalom: you see it you’re getting pretty high jokes at the thanksgiving Christmas or Christmas table you just pushed away all the funny memories

Sinead: i literally 

Shasha: first you guys do it to yourself you did not have to say what’s been moving you didn’t have to run away 

Sinead: you did not have to run away man that was 

Shalom: oh that’s on you though let’s focus on you 

Sinead: look look look can you guys bring up anything that I’ve said exactly so I don’t really have any I can’t think of any more embarrassing stories that I remember because I just don’t 

Shasha: not just boys in general like in general 

Sinead: not in general, I’m trying to think of times I’ve gotten embarrassed I literally push it out of my mind 

Shasha: oh remember when we were on the first day of our church um we were throwing up all-day

Shalom: I would say that that’s more sad more than that it’s embarrassing

Sinead: are you kidding my first time going to a new place with a bunch of new people a bunch of the people our age and they’re like wow the new pastor’s kids are here and we’re just throwing up we’re laying on the old woman next to us and she’s like she’s patting our heads like it’s okay man 

Shasha: but you know 

Sinead: we’re throwing up in the bathroom a couple every five minutes you don’t think it’s embarrassing 

Shasha: but that’s not really embarrassing we didn’t care we were just still sick 

Shalom: yeah I was too sick to care

Sinead: I mean that’s facts, but I’m just saying

Shasha: That’s not embarrassing 

Shalom: and by the way guys this all happened because we ate old supermarket food 

Sinead: yeah

Shasha: yeah I know another time I got really sick and threw up all day I ate chicken pot pie I used to not be I guess vegetarian so I ate that and I never ate chicken pot pie again okay 

Sinead: she gets triggered every time we said chicken pot pie

Shasha: I’m like, please please don’t, just call by the initials don’t even say the word literally 

Shalom: but why is it that the younger you are the more you throw up and then the older you are like you just never throw up

Shasha: that’s so true why is that well I don’t understand how Shalom doesn’t throw up every day because of the food sometimes she cooks it’s ridiculous

Sinead: She’s eating wild food.

Shasha: like dates and

Sinead: dates and avocado what is that?

Shalom: dates avocado with potato chips dip try it it’s good okay?

Shasha: Do you really have to put on oatmeal?

Sinead: no no

Shalom: yes! it’s good 

Sinead: no cause oatmeal’s already stiff enough

Shalom: no because it’s because it gets creamy

Sinead: no no it just gets even stiffer 

Shalom: you guys don’t listen to them I am a great chef 

Shasha: she’s a great chef but

Shalom: they don’t have an acquired taste 

Sinead: yeah you have to have a Shalom taste buds palette or something

Shalom: it’s good okay compared to me who is creative but compared to you who’s bland as

Shasha: yeah yeah 

Sinead: okay okay you don’t have to use that word you don’t say I’m bland 

Shalom: yes you are bland I literally see you take a piece of bread and just eat it like no butter no jam no nothing

Sinead: look sometimes you gotta do to just keep eating at least Shasha, she eats little pockets of things that are good throughout the day and you know she has a good choice of what she eats she even spices it up a little bit but you 

Sinead: look just because I can eat a salad without salad dressing does not mean you have to eat 

Shasha: ew that’s disgusting

Shalom: That’s disgusting 

Sinead: no because you know why because I just want to get it over with when I eat a salad I don’t want to like I don’t care to like spice it up or everything I’ll just be like okay I’m just shoveling this into my mouth and then pause and then I’ll just eat it quickly and that’s it because like I want to get to the other good food that’s why that’s what I do when I’m eating blandly 

Shasha: that’s like drinking water without seasoning at first

Sinead: what 

Shasha: you know okay okay so have you guys

been on tick-tock where the woman says

you know um this is how you season water

you put whipped cream

jelly beans and a whole bunch of other

stuff display with the water 

Sinead: I’ve never seen that in my life you’re capping 

Shasha: no I’m not I’m not capping you guys you guys see that her children don’t want to drink water it’s like what’s it called an s-a-t-i-r-e where it says

Shalom: satire 

Sinead: Saturn

Shalom: no you know how when it’s a comedy you know you don’t want to 

Sinead: oh satire 

Shasha: yes a satire comedy and she’s like my children don’t like to drink water so I put whip cream jelly beans and a whole bunch of stuff you guys comment down below you know what I’m talking about

Sinead: I’ve never heard of that

Shasha: it’s like a way of flavoring your water

Shalom: that’s so disgusting I probably didn’t like water when I was growing up but now I love the water I love water 

Sinead: water is the adult drink you know you’re an adult when you like water 

Shalom: I don’t even like juice anymore 

Shasha: me i like juice but every now and then it’s not a dude 

Sinead: it doesn’t hit as much as water ice-cold water

Shalom: Ice-cold water

Sinead: I know y’all don’t do you all

rock with room temperature water?

Shalom: I do 

Shasha: no

Shalom: I do no that’s when you’re an adult when you just don’t care about cold water anymore

Shasha: what do you mean? making stuff up now 

Shalom: no literally like you really want to wait a couple of hours for it to be cold-cold?

Shasha: yes 

Shalom: you guys 

Shasha: I’m more thirsty if I drink warm water

Sinead: that’s facts I don’t I will it doesn’t quench my thirst

Shalom: I don’t know I just think that’s healthy to drink temperature water

Shasha: you’re making stuff up now

Shalom: oh man 

Sinead: oh my goodness I have a question, what do you think is the best tip to say not embarrassed by anything?

Shasha: oh man

Shalom: you don’t I always think in your head people don’t care about you they care about themselves and with how they’re embarrassed 

Sinead: that is facts that are actually facts people are not really thinking about how the man they must be really embarrassed right now um unless they’re like a bully or something like haha I care about how much how embarrassed they are but like a regular person doesn’t think like a man they must be so embarrassed right now and they think about it for the rest of their lives no they actually don’t they’re not excited am I embarrassed

Shalom: wait actually I actually remember this one time

Shasha: another story?

Shalom: no-no but it’s like a very very lesser story I was entering this building on this college campus and this girl called out to me and she was like hey and she waved and I kind of wave back I was like hi and she’s like hi and I was like hello and then she’s like hi and I was like hi and I just like run away because I thought it was a little weird 

Shasha: wait wait 

Shalom: so maybe I do remember some people here I know she was embarrassed but I was embarrassed for her 

Shasha: why would she say hi?

Sinead: why were you embarrassed for her?  

Shalom: I think she was I think she mistakes me for someone else

Sinead: oh

Shasha: what?

Shalom: so you know how I just said that you know people don’t remember your embarrassing thing I remember her embarrassing

Shasha: that is so funny 

Sinead: Okay, in general people don’t remember other people’s embarrassing moments like the kid in Shasha’s grade who was soaked by you know and someone waving hi to someone who thought of someone else in general besides that people don’t remember your embarrassing

moments and I guess I’m trying to help people out make them feel like people are always watching 

Shasha: wait, what if she was just trying to say hi 

Shalom: no but it was why was she 

Sinead: yeah it sounds like she was saying hi like she knew her what if the embarrassing thing is that you actually didn’t know her and you just didn’t remember her 

Shalom: no because I saw this person in my life 

Shasha: well

how much enough you forgot

Shalom: I’m homeschooled I don’t remember most people I mean people I don’t meet a lot of people 

Shasha: that’s true 

Shalom: well any other tips on yeah just move on don’t dwell on it tomorrow is another day 

Shasha: right focus on in the present 

Sinead: but also when you embrace those embarrassing moments and be like ah that was a funny thing that happened to me and then that’s it like see it as literally just a funny thing that happened to you like

Shalom: exactly 

Sinead: you know see it as like a Reddit story that you just laugh at right it doesn’t have to be a huge deal because usually, it doesn’t necessarily completely change your life it’s just one you know small embarrassing moments happening at all of us even if I don’t remember it I feel like I blocked them all out but that’s okay in fact do what I do block it all out just forget it

Shasha: exactly 

Shalom: or embrace it and become a comedian or embrace it and become a comedian that’s a fact people love funny people guys if you’re funny I will love you I love funny I’m gonna marry a funny person because literally, I need that

Sinead: I feel like you’re already a funny person

Shalom: thank you that’s such a huge compliment you guys honestly when you embrace certain things that make me see that you are a confident person 

Sinead: that’s true because being a comedian you have to embrace every part of your life and be able to make it into a story a joke but there’s a sad moment the funny moments embarrassing moments the happy moments the awkward moments you got to embrace like all of those things you know and make it into comedy and that just shows that you’re confident in whatever you went through no matter what it is 

Shalom: yeah you see Shasha I see I love you know the confidence that you show even though you don’t get embarrassed I love the fact because 

Shasha: no but you’re more confident because you know why only if you’re tested a lot see if you’ve tested a lot with embarrassment and you’re confident like you sharing your stories that’s confidence 

Sinead: yeah if you were embarrassed you wouldn’t if you were still embarrassed about it you wouldn’t share those stories anymore like you’d be like 

Shalom: but I feel like that’s one element of you know confidence I feel like your confidence is that you don’t dwell on anything and even if you can’t really 

Sinead: you don’t overthink, you definitely don’t overthink

Shasha: It never happened to me though, you can’t overthink something if never happened to you 

Sinead: are you

sure it never happened or it’s happened

and you just don’t overthink it?

Shasha: no never happened I don’t, never happen

Shalom: but you know being embarrassed it’s a choice I honestly

feel like that’s a choice 

Sinead: really?

Shalom: yeah

Shasha: oh that’s controversial 

Sinead: no I think it is I don’t think you don’t have to be embarrassed if someone falls you can choose to be embarrassed or you cannot choose or choose not to 

Shasha: wait what was the emotions in Riley’s head 

Shalom: Riley’s

head? 

Sinead: in inside out?

Shasha: yeah 

Shalom: there’s fear sadness 

Sinead: disgust 

Shalom: disgust, anger, and joy 

Sinead: yeah

Shasha: so there’s no embarrassment 

Shalom: embarrassment is like, it can fall into one of the categories

Sinead: embarrassing like a mix of fear because embarrassment is like fearing what people are thinking of you basically, that’s what embarrassment really is 

Shasha: oh that’s true

Shalom: and that’s what I think and that’s what I find from you you don’t feel like other people think 

Sinead: you do not care what other people think and I think that’s why you don’t have an embarrassment 

Shasha: why do you think they did disgust then 

Shalom: because I think disgust is like a 

Shasha: no disgust isn’t even an emotion 

Sinead: it is 

Shalom: it is I saw this documentary actually where Pete doctor I think he directed inside out and he was talking about how he was studying emotions and how why he chose those five emotions actually 

Shasha: but disgust is such a minor oh by the way I don’t even touch what you guys said thank you guys know thank you so much for complimenting me on that I’m just still wondering though disgusting it isn’t even a big emotion like 

Sinead: oh wait now I remember another embarrassing story 

Shalom: really 

Sinead: sorry continue

Shasha: oh you know Marley’s staying where it was like a new memory like the vault

Sinead: oh yeah the new memory vault 

Shasha: You’re remembering it

Shalom: I love that oh wait before we move on okay so we talked about me and we talked even though you block out memories I’m glad that you don’t dwell on it and that’s the other thing that’s confident like you just don’t dwell in the past

Sinead: yeah because I don’t think I blocked it out because I was that embarrassed I just genuinely don’t remember

Shasha: oh yeah

Sinead: Things that don’t feel important to me I genuinely just don’t know terrible memory honestly 

Shalom: no no you don’t

Shasha: tell quickly then before you forget 

Sinead: oh no yeah yeah i

Shasha: if you want to say it 

Sinead: yeah no this is more of an awkward moment like basically the same guy

Shalom: the same guy wow this guy’s been through it

Sinead: the same guy so there was like a whole event down like you know we had those you know social events or whatever and he was there and I said hi to him we talked a little bit and this other girl comes right and she says hi to him because we haven’t seen him in a while she says hi to him she gives him a hug or whatever then he turns to me and of course it’s loud in this social okay i can’t really hear him well so he says something right and I’m okay this is a complicated story because i’m preoccupied I’m opening a candy cane and i know this sounds really good it sounds really random but I’m opening a candy cane for my little brother at the moment who was like open this for me you know with this little kid voice open this for me while he’s hugging this other girl right then he turns back to me and he says something I’m like you want a candy cane and I’m like he’s like what and he’s like no I was like where’s my hug I was like awkward side hugs and finished opening the candy cane gave it to my little brother

Shasha: you’re very helpful you’re very helpful

Sinead: no but like it’s the fact that I was like you want a candy cane

Shasha: wait why did Shiloh have his candy cane 

Sinead: no no no I was just like I was probably gonna tell them where the candy canes were like you know

Shalom: that’s my first time hearing that

Sinead: oh my goodness that was one that just kind of came to me right now

Shalom: that is so funny 

Sinead: oh my goodness 

Shasha: you’re very confident

Sinead: what do you mean

Shasha: I mean

Shalom: I think he liked it I think he liked your personality

Sinead: what my awkwardness?

Shalom: yeah I think it was cute

Sinead: I’m just you know what you said just said you’re oblivious I’m just oblivious because I was like

Shasha: no Shalom, you’re not oblivious if you were oblivious you wouldn’t have noticed that he was trying to hide his face 

Sinead: yeah that’s true

Shasha: you were very aware

Sinead: yeah the fact that you were aware of that you caught the details of that 

Shalom: it wasn’t two years later until I was like oh he was hiding from me okay

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Shalom: so guys the topics here embarrassment how to deal with the embarrassment 

Sinead: and some other random topics that were kind of thrown in like how some of us eat very bland and some of us eat very weirdly 

Shalom: and like throw up for some reason 

Sinead: yeah okay yeah this was quite an all-over place kind of 

Shalom: no but I feel like the main thing was embarrassment embarrassing awkward moments

Shasha: I have a question for you guys comment on your embarrassing balls

Shalom: yeah 

Sinead: yeah cause you know what I kinda want to read it I want to read your embarrassing like any embarrassing or awkward moments that anybody wants to share 

Shalom: and then we can react to it

Sinead: I would react to it 

Shasha: and whoever has the best embarrassing moment gets pinned in the comments 

Sinead: yeah

Shalom: I think so all right

Sinead: so uh thank you guys for joining us in this podcast we will see you in the next episode 

Everyone: bye

Listen to this podcast episode here: https://spoti.fi/3y80wBM

Rita: we are half an hour away and our air conditioner stops working on the RV 

Sinead: well first yeah yeah 

Mirthell: no half an hour after leaving California to come back 

Sinead: no no not in California.

Rita: no not even that on the way there

Sinead: on the way remember?

Mirthell: Oh you’re right 

Sinead: on the way to California it’s 30 minutes later 

Mirthell: it’s true 

Sinead: air conditioning doesn’t work and keep in mind it’s the middle of summer

Mirthell: right and this is new this is a new RV so it’s like whoo and I’m just like I think I’m gonna stop and then I stop and all of a sudden bang!

Rita: Welcome to the onyx family podcast and today we are talking about the Onyx family dinner guys this summer we went to um LA and we were out there for about a couple of months

Sinead: yeah 

Rita: and we filmed our first talk show uh season of onyx family dinner 

Sinead: yeah

Rita: it premieres November 4th, 2021 on the onyx family channel 

Sinead: when this comes out it would have premiered yesterday

Rita: right right yeah that’s right

Mirthell: and it’s a youtube original youtube originals

Rita: It’s a youtube originals produced by Pocketwatch youtube and shine global 

Sinead: yeah 

Rita: in partnership with our company we are just ecstatic to finally have it just so for everyone to see we worked so hard on it but I want to kind of go back and talk about the experience 

Sinead: oh yeah like how it all began 

Shasha: well it was about to be filmed at our house 

Mirthell: well that was because of

the whole video and everything like this

was in 2020 or 2020 

Rita: right so we actually pushed back the filming because of the pandemic we’re like well we don’t feel comfortable going in the studio neither did they feel comfortable with us coming in some studio

Sinead: yeah 

Rita: we all had to be very cautious so there was a lot of pushing back and finally summer of 2021 we were able to do it in a very safe environment that controls everything from the testing everything went beautifully um we had no positive cases on the set everything just was great 

Sinead: that’s so blessing

Rita: that was a huge blessing but you know the road there so we like to take road trips, okay maybe I shouldn’t use the word like now it’s just a necessity for us at this point in time 

Mirthell: right

Sinead: yeah 

Rita: so we take road trips so we took a road trip over there so we were tired but we thought in our idealistic you know manner hey why don’t we take the RV and we’ll take the RV with our dog, yeah and yeah we’re gonna be like all those other people you see on the road you know like when you’re traveling and you seem like a whole bunch of RVs and their cars yeah I don’t know why but it’s just I don’t know what experience they’re having but I’m not having that experience 

Sinead: no none of us are having that

Rita: okay

Mirthell: I mean we just always have drama every single time every single first time the first time for those that don’t know we found that the car that we were towing behind us was traveling now alongside us

Sinead: it was supposed to be towed it was supposed to be connected to the back of the RV right?

Mirthell: but somehow it disconnected the metal ripped

Sinead:  yeah the metal fully

ripped 

Mirthell: the car detached and now we see our car traveling down on the side of the road I’m looking like hey there’s somebody that looks just like our car the one like we’re towing

Sinead: I don’t see anybody in this nobody’s driving driver’s seat

Rita: oh my goodness

Sinead: luckily it was an empty road so it was like like deserted you know when you’re traveling 

Mirthell: this is a very fine piece of metal that was still attached

Rita: very fine 

Mirthell: and so when we pulled off it dragged the car over slightly back behind our vehicle and then it went like this way and then it went that way and then we stopped on the overpass like we stopped at the side and then we were able to rectify the situation

Rita: and then what did we do we unhooked it and then we ended up driving

Mirthell: we ended up driving it all the way back home 

Rita: Yeah it was crazy the second time now I had this big bright idea I said okay I said hun this is why that happened because the hitch maybe was too low to the ground and so I thought maybe blowing all these bumps on you know the interstate roads maybe jerked it a lot so I said let’s flip the hitch upside down so that it’s high and let’s do that so I was like we’ve got this okay problem solved

Mirthell: so we’re traveling

Rita: On the next trip

Mirthell: this is the second trip that we did with it and I would say probably maybe about five hours or six hours in 

Rita: yep yep 

Mirthell: maybe seven 

Sinead: no no no it wasn’t even that long because we did not trust me it was not five or six hours it was like three 

Mirthell: well it was true it was two states over 

Sinead: yeah It wasn’t that far

Mirthell: that state that we came oh and it wasn’t the next state was the following statement

Sinead: yeah yeah

Mirthell: maybe three maybe four hours 

Rita: yeah maybe four hours yeah

Mirthell: but anyhow we stopped and um oh no we’re driving and I see a red light ahead but it’s one of those highways that you can drive a little bit faster yeah so I’m driving it into red light and I try to stop as fast as I can to not hit the red light because I know I’m not going to be able to go through it I’m like whoo and I’m just like I think I’m going to stop and then I stop and all of a sudden bang 

Rita: no let’s see this is what happened we were at the red light and I’m looking on the monitor because we have a camera for the back, yeah and I see that the car that we’re towing did not stop it just kept on going and the thing is because we have such a large RV we didn’t even feel it no we didn’t look at the monitor I would have not known so then we go I said hun uh that the thing just crashed our car just crashed into behind us so we come out of the RV and we see sure enough there’s hood damage bumper damage everything so now we try to unhook the RV from the car we can’t do it so I go

Mirthell: in literally a hole in the hood because it just went

Rita: right  so I go in the car and my job was to remember to press on the brake or something while you drove the RV a bit forward right so I get in there like I’m a bad woman yeah look at me I’m gonna do this or 

Mirthell: How were you supposed to reverse

Rita: well I don’t know all I know is that I watched too much fast and furious and or something because I thought I could do something that I could not do when I was in the car and Mirthell like put the RV forward and I’m going backward I don’t know why I panicked because I felt the car was almost being dragged along so what I do is I as well

Mirthell: Open the door while it’s moving.

Sinead: while it’s moving

Rita: I open the door and I’m 

Mirthell: That women Rita rolls out you know Im gonna jump out of the car and do a flip.

Rita: I didn’t do all that but I did jump out and I felt like I hurt my shoulder or something a bit I was just like

Shasha: what you rolled in the ground?

Rita: no I didn’t roll 

Mirthell: no that was my exaggeration

Rita: and I screamed

Sinead: she jumped out of the car while it was moving

Shiloh: like just walkout 

Rita: no because there was I don’t know 

Sinead: no because the car was moving

Rita: it was moving it was a lot of moving pieces

Shiloh: Then just step out

Sinead: no not when it’s moving

Shiloh: no was it going slowly?

Rita: yes it was going slowly but not enough for me 

Mirthell: look at our age let me tell you something at our age

Rita: everything 

Mirthell: what you have in your mind

Rita: yeah yeah

Mirthell: it doesn’t actually play out you think you’re a stunt woman or a stunt man 

Rita: right

Shiloh: At least like hop out like

Rita: I did I hopped out I threw the door open and i 

Mirthell: I think it was more like a hobble out it was more hobble

Rita: all I know is that I screamed and I was scared but it worked you know it did detach and then so then we were like 

Mirthell: oh that was the second time

Rita: so we were like forget it you know we’re not doing the hitch anymore I don’t know how all these other people do it I see them all the time on these streets I don’t know how they do it but for some reason, hitches don’t work for us so now on this trip

Mirthell: this trip now we decide we’re going to drive our Cadillac right behind it

Rita: right behind it 

Mirthell: right behind it so you know or in front like we’re going to drive 

Rita: yeah with it right

Mirthell: we’re not going to hitch it up 

Sinead: yeah 

Mirthell: so the whole trip now

Rita: no before you even go to the first we are half an hour away and our air

conditioner stops working on the RV 

Sinead: well first yeah yeah 

Mirthell: no half an hour after leaving California to come back 

Rita: no no no not even that on the way there 

Sinead: on the way there remember?

Mirthell: you’re right 

Sinead: on the way to California it’s 30 minutes later

Mirthell: it’s true 

Sinead: air conditioning doesn’t work and keep in mind it’s the middle of summer 

Mirthell: right and this is new this is a new RV so it’s like what’s going on here so we bring it back we bring it to uh RV place and they, we really gotta go because we’re in a time crunch because now we have to start filming everything is set up gotta get out there 

Sinead: and it takes four days to get to California

Mirthell: right so we’re just like okay so what we’re gonna do we’re gonna bring it back to an RV place have them fix it and then we’ll get back on the road the very next morning so we drive back they start working and they’re just like oh man we need this part and we need that part we need this and that so what they’re going to do is they’re going to macgyver it and they’re going to like

Rita: because they don’t have time to order them 

Mirthell: and all the parts are not even available because of it yeah so it’s just like they’re going to guide for it and they’re going to like connect this wire to that and

Sinead: they’re going to do this generator or something like that 

Mirthell: yeah and then disconnect this I don’t even know okay because I don’t know 

Rita: yeah anyway it worked 

Mirthell: it worked  so we took off 

Rita: but we have to have the generator on

Mirthell: right 

Rita: So that’s kind of loud at night you know 

Sinead: so that is going to tie into more later in the story 

Rita: right 

Mirthell: so we actually, everything was going fine pretty much on our way there

Rita: right

Mirthell: I don’t think we had any problems on our way there good once we start to get there

Rita: Shalom and Sinead drove a lot 

Sinead: did we well I can’t remember if we didn’t figure out did we figure out how to plug in we didn’t we couldn’t figure out how to plugin 

Rita: oh the plugs 

Mirthell: no what happened is one of the places that we went it was full and the place that we went to actually had a burnt-out plug

Rita: oh yeah yeah the unit

Mirthell: so we couldn’t plug it on that one but 

Rita: that’s we that was our we didn’t know

Mirthell: yeah we just didn’t know but anyhow so everything pretty much was pretty good yeah oh no no no the stairs

Rita: Oh my goodness the stairs

Mirthell: so once we get there everything is fine until we have to go into our Airbnb because we stayed at a really beautiful spot off in malibu 

Rita: no but the stairs started coming out 

Mirthell: no it didn’t come out we were fine going in malibu going uh whatever

Rita: no we were not because oh after we left Malibu

Mirthell: after we left malibu 

Rita: oh yeah

Mirthell: now we went to and we went to our Airbnb right something happened with our stairs where whatever they did whatever they macgyvered or whatever happened it started to like

Rita: I don’t think it was them though

Mirthell: it might not be 

Rita: but before we get to that though we stayed for a while in malibu we were at a beautiful RV park

Sinead: yes 

Rita: and so we thought like I said kind of how I started this thing with our idealistic selves guys look at this we could stay in this RV for a while we’re right here by the ocean, it’s beautiful I think within what a few days we were like we need it we need an Airbnb 

Sinead: yeah this six people in that small of a space 

Shasha: oh my goodness and a dog 

Rita: with a dog

Sinead: and a dog is actually a key part to that because it just takes up even more space 

Rita: Yeah it was nice though it was beautiful it’s nice 

Mirthell: it’s a nice RV it’s spacious but it’s just not spacious for six people 

Rita: we go from malibu now from the RV park now to our Airbnb for where we’re gonna be for like you know several weeks while we’re filming and that’s when we discover as we’re driving the stairs that you know to come out that extend when you open the door to the RV keep on going in and out in and out as you’re driving as you’re driving 

Mirthell: so we’re like this is not safe like the stairs are coming out it could hit a car beside us so we’re just like okay we gotta get this thing was fixed but we decided that we were just gonna park it on the street 

Rita: by our Airbnb, this is in West Hollywood now

Sinead: yeah this RV in the middle of the West Hollywood

Mirthell: right

Rita: to be fair there’s a lot of RVs in l.a I mean a lot.

Sinead: this is a giant RV 

Mirthell: right so we call uh you know a mechanic to come and fix our stairs mechanics don’t want to come nobody wants to come up

Rita: no what happened is there are so many RVs in LA that the people who fix RVs are on backorder or on the waitlist for months for people for us to sign up and actually, have them come to fix our RVs

Mirthell: so the company that we that has us out there they get us a spot they get us um a place where we can bring the RV where we can store it and where they can fix it so, me and Rita 

Rita: no-no not to fix it it was just a place where we can store it we can store it 

Mirthell: that’s true so, me and Rita head out there and stairs are coming out [Music] yeah every second people are honking me, yeah honking me and then we have to wind down the window or not wind down the window but open the window and they’re like 

Rita: yeah yeah and then we’re always like we know we know

Mirthell: we know so it’s just like over and over you know what the irony of it is is is that someone from the set was on the highway a random highway like California is like a big place by millions and millions of people and there is some guy that was worked on the side that had worked on the set was driving down the highway and just like 

Rita: saw us in the RV and then it was like you’re stairs are out.

Mirthell: your stairs and he realizes it’s the Onyx Family he’s like hey hey that’s the Onyx family see you in the morning!

Shalom: I don’t remember that 

Sinead: yeah yeah that happened

Mirthell: so we get there okay so we get to the place where we’re gonna store the RV and it’s just like ah the headache of the RV is gonna be off we’re gonna go back in our Airbnb we’re gonna enjoy the rest of our time and guess what I forgot our insurance card and our registration and the people will not give us and it was Friday so

Rita: it was Friday 

Mirthell: we couldn’t get it forwarded over from where we lived

Rita: what was stunning though was how did we go across a country without this insurance, III no I mean honestly it’s on our phone so that’s one thing 

Sinead: yeah

Rita: but it was something else that we needed was the registration

Mirthell: was the registration or the title one of them 

Rita: registration it was the title or one of them it was one of those and so we had to wait to go and get it um faxed back to us so we had to drive that though all the way back to the West Hollywood 

Sinead: yeah I drove there then get drive back 

Rita: and this is the thing this RV park was all the way in the valley and we were staying in West Hollywood and it was just like Nah this was no good fam 

Mirthell: okay so there’s a mystery I don’t know maybe you guys can help us solve this mystery

Okay so we drive our RV back and when we drive our RV back we park it back on the street now we had gotten a note for some reason 

Sinead: Can I just say for some reason, the door also started malfunctioning when we went to the Airbnb 

Shiloh: it would unlock it

Mirthell: which door?

Sinead: the door just started for no reason

Mirthell: the front door?

Sinead: yeah this door no-no the door of the RV just started malfunctioning because as soon as I opened it start blaring alarm

Mirthell: oh right right

Rita: It has never done that before

Shiloh: Oh yeah, I remember

Mirthell: right so we ended up parking on the street okay it’s a neighborhood really nice neighborhood okay I got a note on the RV that week saying I would like to buy your RV would you like to sell the RV we love you know I really like your RV whatever okay 

Rita: oh I didn’t know we got someone who wants to buy our RV 

Mirthell: yeah somebody wanted to buy our RV

Shasha: remembered I showed you guys the note 

Rita: oh

Mirthell: yeah so someone wanted to buy the RV I didn’t call them back and basically, I’m just like I’m not going to sell our RV, okay that is we’ll call that subject number one okay 

Sinead: okay 

Rita: okay suspect number one

Mirthell: suspect number two was we got into a little spat not a big one but a little spat with the

owners of the actual Airbnb right because they were like something like they wanted to overcharge for cleaning and we’re just like no we clean our own stuff so 

Rita: we wanted to clean like twice a week or something and we’re like

Mirthell: and we’re just like no we will we’ll clean our own whatever thing I think they want to make some money so that’s suspect number two suspect number three there is a Karen that was on the street

Rita: oh yeah 

Mirthell: that lived across and I was parking on that side I didn’t know it was care in there I just parked where there was an opening but I later found out that like one day when I came back to park there she was like no you can’t park here because my serviceman is gonna be here and so you can’t park here so I was just like oh okay fine thank you and I moved on over there and I parked over by a construction worker 

Rita: worksite, like a house being renovated

Mirthell: suspect number four the owner of that worksite or yeah whatever yeah anyhow that day we got a ticket on our vehicle saying that they are going to tow our vehicle if we don’t move it right away 

Rita: right 

Mirthell: we, they are towing our vehicle and we got like a ticket from the city now granted

the whole time we were there we had gotten no ticket until one of these suspects was engaged and it happened around the same time right right where it was the owner of our Airbnb the Karen across the street you know the person that wanted to buy our RV and that other person so we’re wondering like who wants us off the street

Shasha: I think it was a Karen I feel like the person with the RV won by the RV wouldn’t report it 

Mirthell: yeah maybe

Shiloh: I think the moral of the story is to book plane tickets wear some masks and just go on a plane

Mirthell: yeah 

Shiloh: because that’s less time get over your fears just do it

Sinead: what are you trying to say, Shiloh?

Mirthell: Well I don’t know what but somebody wanted us off that street anyhow we kept the RV there over the weekend and then on Monday we were able to bring it in we had all our paperwork but oh what a headache so

Shalom: let me tell you there are more RV stories than it is film production stories 

Mirthell: I know but that was the first part 

Rita: that’s a huge part

Sinead: it was such a huge part 

Shiloh: I remember you said you know RV owners always have these amazing stories and everything and that was when we first got the RV and now I see what they mean

Mirthell: I think the last so we managed to survive for the rest of the time because our view was away and then afterward on our way back home after filming that’s when that the final 

Sinead: the final clincher oh my goodness

Mirthell: it was my it was the worst 

Sinead: it was again guys it’s the middle of summer okay 

Shiloh: oh

Sinead: finally for some reason the air conditioner now decides to give out

Mirthell: we’re driving through the desert 

Sinead: we’re driving through the dessert 

Rita: we’re in Arizona 

Sinead: we’re in Arizona 

Rita: in New Mexico, texas

Sinead: where it gets to 100 degrees guys 

Mirthell: yes 

Shiloh: we were thinking of going to a hotel we stuck it out and slept in that RV

Sinead: no barely slept we were having fever dreams guys

Shiloh: sweat was pouring

Rita: there was one night I don’t think any of us slept because we were just too hot

Sinead: It was just one night because we were trying to get through those states as fast as possible we did not stay long at all 

Shiloh: wait did we mention the earthquake or the earthquake in Cali?

Mirthell: there was an Earthquake?

Sinead: there was a

Rita: I didn’t know if there was an Earthquake.

Sinead: there wasn’t there was a slight one but you guys didn’t feel I felt it it was in malibu and we were In Malibu 

Mirthell: oh okay 

Rita: oh but all I know guys are that I put my face by a window trying to get cool air but there was no breeze nothing

Sinead: yeah that’s the thing

Rita: it was the hottest I think I’ve ever been 

Mirthell: and this is when I discovered I would rather freeze didn’t have that

kind of heat

Rita: it was horrible 

Mirthell: I would rather bundle up in a blanket and just super cold and cuddle and whatever

Sinead: yeah

Mirthell: but heat 

Sinead: you feel like you can do nothing 

Mirthell: you can’t escape you 

Sinead: you can’t escape the heat 

Rita: you can’t well I mean honestly I don’t know when we’ll take another RV

trip 

Mirthell: no you know what the problem was that I couldn’t breathe the air was so thick I could breathe no RV RV is just not the thing

Rita: it’s not for us maybe it’s for others maybe other families but not for us

Shiloh: always in planes even boats

Rita: I don’t mind boats if 

Sinead: you want to take a boat to LA?

Shiloh: why not like 

Mirthell: we would have to we should have to find from where we are we would have to find a port

Rita: to go through the Panama canal 

Mirthell: right

Rita: all right but you know back to but when we were in la now we’re filming and I tell you guys this is probably our first time well we’ve actually been on sets as guest stars for things like Ryan’s mystery player playdate um and then you guys had done actually a nickelodeon commercial so 

Sinead: yeah 

Rita: but this was the first set that we’ve been in where we were actually the talent and it was like oh my goodness this is so cool you know we’re there we got a dressing room and you just see the whole thing like this really showed us like you know 

Sinead: definitely

Rita: you know you see like I always hear about craft tables, Is it craft paper 

Sinead: yeah crafts crafting

Rita: craft services I always hear about that now I’m like oh this is what it is and it was fun okay so guys I really only drink like Fiji water you know maybe some avion I mostly drink Fiji water so I happen to mention it because I don’t know something was weird one year when I drink some other waters I won’t get into it but I’ll say is that I just don’t drink other I don’t do well-bottled water and he doesn’t do well with avian water right I didn’t have an upset stomach with the other water but it was just a weird thing so basically I only drink Fiji but I only drink fiji water so anyway I happen to mention it to the people at craft services and next thing I know all over said it’s like don’t drink the Fiji water it’s only for Rita and I felt like such a diva that’s not like what I meant to happen but it was like because they had the regular I don’t know arrowhead or whatever it was and then he was like oh you want fiji water let me bring it for you and I was like oh 

Mirthell: They’d be chilling Fiji water just for Rita like Diva Rita

Rita: I feel like Im a diva I know but it was really good

Sinead: yeah and one thing that we did not expect to have I didn’t really think about it when we got up like our own pa our personal assistant I was like oh wow just someone that would be able to get away from

Mirthell: that would do everything for us literally

Rita: right right it was he was just like Dang anything you needed he was always like you guys need anything, you guys need anything yeah I was like

Sinead: it was really nice it was 

Mirthell: it was fun we had a wardrobe would go and buy us outfits if we needed it

Shalom: Did you say wardrobe?

Mirthell: a wardrobe that’s what they call them

Shiloh: I’m literally wearing the clothes he bought me like right now 

Rita: oh Wow

Mirthell: that’s true he did he bought that the top for him

Shasha: yeah I’m wearing a blue dress and I think I wore this too I’m not sure but it was like it was very cool working with the designer

Shalom: I’m wearing the rings that he gave me 

Sinead: oh for real

Rita: well see I guess his impact is still on us, you know 

Mirthell: was it aj?

Rita: AJ

Mirthell: AJ yeah AJ was cool I really like AJ 

Rita: right shout out to Bradley

Mirthell: yeah yeah our first PA

Rita: yeah so there’s AJ, Bradley and oh well we had our own you know makeup and hair, Jordana?

Sinead: Yes! Jordana was great

Rita: yeah she was so so good she made our face look so good like guys I don’t usually wear makeup I have no clue what I’m doing when I do the 

Shalom: same

Rita: um but just to go on there and just roll up and not have to even think about it

Sinead: yeah that just felt nice

Rita: it was nice yeah and then oh man Shy she was the like production coordinator

Mirthell: Oh yeah, she was very cool though

Rita: oh she was so cool she was just like 

Shalom: every day I would see her purple jeep and I’ll be like she’s here yeah 

Rita: yeah she’s lots of energy but it was so good and that’s the point you, I mean there are so many other people on set 

Sinead: yeah we appreciate it, everybody

Rita: like our director Sandy

Mirthell: um I was close with Elion 

Rita: Elion the assistant director like see there’s a lot of terms that I’ve always heard about or read about and all of a sudden now you see it like all in front of you 

Sinead: um you see how it all works together 

Rita: right the grip best boy like there are so many people

Sinead: yeah 

Rita: so many names but I could tell you guys like right off the bat and I’m not exaggerating this like I was saying 99.9 of everyone was so nice 

Sinead: yeah definitely

Rita: was so friendly was so professional

Mirthell: Definitely

Sinead: it was like it was a great set 

Shalom: a great experience 

Mirthell: and they were just like I mean if anything even happened they were hiding all the drama from us, that’s like they literally protect the stars like it’s always just like you know we’d probably never hear anything that is you know happening around us 

Sinead: yeah even if there was we wouldn’t know 

Shasha: and I love the food too I think that I like the vegan food 

Sinead: yeah because every one of the dishes on the set was vegan so that was really nice yeah 

Rita: Yeah it was really it took us out of our comfort zone because these were foods that maybe we wouldn’t normally

Sinead: Yeah

Mirthell: right so that’s true so what about like our first guest like let’s talk about the guests

Shasha: Our first guest emmanuel acho?

Mirthell: Emmanuel Acho that was amazing like yeah this guy he has he’s so intelligent 

Shasha: first of all he came in the room with so much energy

Rita: yeah 

Sinead: definitely

Rita: Confident

Mirthell: I felt like I knew this guy for like the longest time 

Shalom: well you didn’t you? because you’ve been watching him online 

Mirthell: well I’ve been watching him But

Rita: yeah but not personal

Mirthell: he didn’t know me as it wasn’t personal 

Rita: One thing I recognized while I was like sitting there and listening to him talk I’m like I whispered to him like you sound like a preacher and he started laughing like preaching is in my blood wasn’t his like I think his father’s

Mirthell: His father, his father was a preacher

Rita: yeah that was a preacher and I mean like you could totally tell he just had that minister swag