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Hello, hello everybody and welcome to a brand new episode of live with Dr. Andre
Hey, I'm glad you guys are tuning in happy new year to everyone
You know, you really don't hear a lot of people say
Happy new year after about the third of January. It's like all the excitement leaves after the third
So if you say happy new year to someone after like the third it's gonna be like, oh, yeah, happy new year, you know
New year say oh shit
But uh, I really do hope that you have had a great start to your 2025
Does anybody do anything special for new years anymore?
I always wanted to do something like really exciting for new years. Like when I was younger
I always fantasized about
Being in Times Square or new year's eve and you know watching the ball drop and watching the confetti fall and all of that and being out there with all the people but
As I grew up and you know got to experience New York a bunch of times. I was like
You know, this ain't all that
New York is kind of dirty is kind of nasty
Uh, the subway is gross
You'll get robbed
like the novelty of
You know being in new york and all of that it kind of definitely wore off for me after a while
um
And now that i'm older
I don't want to be anywhere near like Times Square on new year's eve
You know, but it seems like every year
Someone is trying to drag me up there
And i'm like no no it'd be just my luck that the one time I go
Is some type of terrorist attack or I don't know some crazy person driving a car through the crowd or something like that. So
No Times Square for me
but
I did get to do something a little different and exciting this year for new years
I went on a new year's cruise with a very special friend of mine
It was a seven day royal caribbean cruise. It was called they have a number of these but the one that I was on was called
wonder of the seas
and you know after my
Very first cruise
I swore I would never go on another cruise. This was about 15 years ago
um
First of all
It was on carnival cruise line
Which it is the largest cruise company
Uh has about 45 of the market share
But it's also what I commonly refer to as
a floating elementary school
I remember there being
So many kids on that damn ship. It's like they were everywhere screaming jumping yelling
And it was in september. I remember it being in september like will after labor day
So I was kind of taking a back at how many kids were on this cruise. I mean
It wasn't like we were in the middle of the summer. It was late fall
You know school goes back sometimes in august, you know, but definitely in september. So I'm like, where are all these kids
Coming from and why aren't they in school?
You know, so that was that was strike one for me. I was like, nope never again. The second thing
My first cruise was a family cruise
Okay
I know a lot of people in my family are listening, but it was a family cruise
And I'm just going to say this
Very few of us
Have the type of family
That you would want to go on a
Four day five day or you know goodness a seven day cruise with
The ship ain't that big
I'm getting so many ticks. I'm not even gonna look at them
The ship ain't that big you
You can't hide from anybody on these ships
You know the very people who you try to avoid on the ship. Maybe it's a
Weird couple or just a stupid looking person that you're like, oh, I'm so sick of seeing that hope or whatever
You're gonna run into that same person everywhere. They're gonna be in the restaurant at the bar
It just that's just how it is on the cruise. So you can't run from people and
From my experience on a family cruise. You're not
Going to be just you know able to chill
It's always going to be that one
Person that's going to be the ringleader or the family coordinator and they're going to be like, hey, you know
Let's meet here and let's go to eat together and let's do this tomorrow
Or no, how about not how about you leave me the hell alone and just you know y'all do whatever
You know, but some people like that type of stuff
You know, it just depends. I don't
When i'm on a cruise. I just I want to be left the hell alone. I don't want to see nobody
I don't want to eat at the same time. I don't none of that
so
between
That first cruise being like a family cruise and then with all the children
I really didn't have a good time. I couldn't wait to get off that boat and
You know anyone who even mentioned a cruise to me after that I cussed them out
You know, so when my family found out that I was on a cruise not too long ago. They were like, what?
A crew you a cruise. I know you lie
And but yeah, it you know the second cruise. I have to say it. It was actually pretty good
Um, it was royal caribbean. So, you know royal caribbean has a bit more of a sophisticated vibe
You know, you had your families and kids and all of that but
Nowhere as many kids as like a carnival or disney
Uh royal caribbean cruises. They're catered more to I would say adults and couples
You know, there's a a big focus on adult entertainment
Um, they have comedy clubs. They have karaoke bars. They have night clubs
um, they have a lot of pubs
lounges, um
A few high-end restaurants and all types of stuff. So
Everything is very much set up for like a date night type vibe
It's that type of environment and they have casinos the casinos are very nice
Um, there were actually two on the ship that we were on
um
I'm not much of a gambler. So I didn't play
And uh, plus there was some confusion about whether or not
You know, when you got a payout, were they going to be in real money or
Were they going to be in points
that
You could only redeem on board
So
Between me not being a gambler and then the ambiguity about that. I just decided not to play
I didn't fool with it because if I had played and I won a jackpot
Not only to find out that it wasn't real money that I won I would have been pissed
I would have been too pissed and you know, but
Aside from all that it was a very nice experience
Um, so I will say that if you're someone who's interested in going on a cruise this year
Like with your girlfriend boyfriend spouse and if another or whatever
I definitely recommend
Royal Caribbean
Um
If you have kids
You know, it's going to be a family thing
Then take your ass on carnival or or Disney cruise. Don't ruin everybody else's trip
With your wild loud kids on royal caribbean. Just don't do it
You know, just trust me. There'll be much happier on disney or on carnival
Because there'll be a thousand other kids on the ship to play with
So if you got kids just just get on carnival carnival will be your best bet disney can get kind of pricey
Um, unless you know, your kids are just in love with disney. I would probably go
Uh carnival because there's more cost effective
You know, um
What else I wonder oh, this is something else I love about royal caribbean. Okay, so
They have this
Exclusive area on the ship that's only for adults
It's called the solarium
It's on the front end of the ship. Either the front end or the back end. I can't think it's the front end of the ship
but basically it's
like a high end
Cover pool deck, you know, they have like multiple hot h-hot tubs. The hot tubs are on the end. So
um
You it has like an incredible view of like the ocean. So it's kind of like you're in a hot tub
In the ocean or whatever it's it's kind of an illusion effect to it. It's very nice
um, they have multiple, um
Of the hot tubs they have waiting pools with the little lounge chairs where you can drink and socialize
Uh, of course, they have a bar
And it's just a great place to kind of get away from everybody and just chill
Um, read a book if you have one and just kind of
um, get away from all the noise and
The craziness on the ship. Okay. Look, uh, royal caribbean
This is like a commercial but you know somebody from royal caribbean better call me but um
The one last thing i'll say about the cruises. Um, if you're thinking about taking one this year, um
Don't buy the drink package
Don't fall for that. They're gonna try to sell you the drink package
I don't really care how much of a drinker you are very few people can out drink me. Don't get the drink package
You're gonna lose money. Um, if you drink a lot of sodas and stuff like that
Um, then yeah, you would want to get the non-alcoholic beverage package
You would want to get that. Um, that doesn't cost that much
Um, because when you get on board, they're gonna give you say you got the non-alcoholic beverage package
When you get on board, they're gonna give you this special
It's like a sippy cup type thing like something you will get from Six Flags or something
Um, it's gonna be coated in some kind of way. I don't know where they put a barcode or some type of something on it
But it works with all of the beverage machines on board
You know, um, like, um, what what are those drink machines when you go like to McDonald's or something like that and you can
Pick out a different little soda. It's like that
But you can't put a regular cup or a regular glass in there
It's only gonna work for special cups that have a little magnetic piece or a cold or something to it
So that's how they kind of regulate the the sodas and the drinking package. If you don't have a
alcoholic
It's not an alcoholic package. If you don't have the non-alcoholic
beverage package, then the only thing you're going to be able to drink
Um, or like
tea water
juices like apple juice orange juice
Um, different type of juices. Maybe some cranberry juice
Coffee things like that
Um, so if you if you if you know, you can't live without your sodas and stuff like that then definitely get the non-alcoholic juice
definitely get the non-alcoholic beverage package, but
whether you're a drinker or not a drinker do not get the alcoholic beverage package because
Every video I've watched and even after seeing it for myself, you're gonna lose money. You just can't drink
You're gonna try to drink
More than you normally would drink to try to even everything out and it's just it's just not a good thing just order
Your drinks like you normally would
Um, we found out about happy hour a little bit too late
um
More than likely they're gonna have like an half a happy hour from three to five where drinks that normally will cost like a glass of wine
normally cost
$11 maybe 13 depending on what you get but doing
You know happy hour you can get it half off and uh
Royal Caribbean with the wine we were getting we were getting like five dollar glasses of wine
so we didn't find that out until like day three and
Had we known those first couple of days that would have saved us a lot of money
um, but yeah the the the the alcoholic beverage packages just aren't
The best bang for your buck now what you can do
Buy you before you get on the the ship
Get you two bottles of whatever you drink if you drink wine get you two bottles of wine
If you drink liquor get you two bottles of liquor
Put it in your bag
And then shut up about it when you get to the cruise ship area
You're probably going to get there on like a shuttle van
You know some people drive there in park, but that's a whole another expense
You're probably going to take a shuttle from your hotel to the
um to the the the cruise line area when when they drop you off there you're going to see everybody
um getting off the shuttle and they're going to be giving their luggage to the luggage attendants like
90% of the people are going to be doing that they're going to be giving your their their
Luggages and their their bags to the the folks they're going to put them on these big carts and take them off somewhere
I don't know where they take them
um
That is not
obligatory
Do not give your bags to the attendance first of all
I don't know what they do with those bags and where they take them, you know, they end up, you know, right beside your door
So by the time you get up to your room, they'll be at your door, but in between that process
I don't know what happens and then of course you're gonna, you know, they're going to be looking for a tip as well
um
What I would do
You get there you follow the take your luggage don't give it to anybody
They're going to be calling you sir ma'am that don't pay them any attention. You don't have to do that
Follow the signs that direct you to the check-in area
And just go through those lines with your luggage
You are going to have to put your bags through the little x-ray machines
um or infrared or whatever, you know the same way you have to do it the airport, but
primarily what they're looking for is
Uh prohibited items stuff like weapons and knives and you know other types of contraband
They don't really care how many bottles of wine
Or liquor or in your bag now if you have a bag with like nothing but bottles and stuff like that then you
You're probably gonna, you know, get those confiscated because that's it looks like you're then
Selling and bartering and doing them, you know illegal type stuff
One two three bottles nobody's going to bother you
um
Now if you call the cruise line ahead of time and ask they'll tell you, you know, you can bring two bottles per passenger
passenger
But in my experience having just gone through this you probably
Could bring more
Because no one even cared to check when I brought I bought two bottles of wine because that's all I thought we could bring
And I didn't even have them in my
um
My little roller bag. I had them in a shopping bag
In my hand
So it was very apparent that I was bringing in bottles. They never asked me about them
They never asked what was in it and never asked me to open it
It just was kind of they didn't care
And so I was kind of a little pissed because I was like damn we could have brought more, you know
So that to me that's the most cost effective way to still enjoy beverages and alcohol on the cruise ship
Definitely take the bottles or whatever you drink and then maybe one of you
Get the non-alcoholic drink beverage because both of you don't need to get it
One person get the one with the sodas and everything
And then they can take their cup and give you coke or whatever you you know
And you can mix and make your own drinks. There's no need for two people to get them. It ain't that much sodas in the world
So you can save a little money with that but definitely do not buy that alcohol package
Sorry royal Caribbean, you know, if y'all want to slide slide me some money y'all know those drink packages ain't hitting on shit
And people lose money left and right
Okay, so anyway
um
So long story short. Yes. Yes. I had a pretty nice start to the year
Um
Because of that cruise so it was it was a nice. I always want to do something exciting like after new year
Uh rolled in
um, so being out on the Atlantic Ocean, you know, and you know when it
The new year came it was it was a nice experience because normally, um
At home or in a restaurant. It's never any place exciting
You know, so it was it was exciting to do something a little different to bring in the new year
um
Other than that i'm still getting acclimated to this Ohio weather
um
The winters here are a little different
Um, they kind of catch you off guard
When I got here in october it was nice
And it seemed like by the time
Thanksgiving came around we've been buried in snow ever since
Um, and I lived in boston for like two years
And it was cold and there was snow, but not like here
boston
boston has pretty snow
Like it'll be 30 degrees. Maybe during a snowstorm. It's like 20 degrees 19
Here it's like
seven degrees
negative two
high of
15 degrees
And the snow is hard. I have a car
um, that's
Buried and snow's been buried in snow for almost almost a month
and um
It won't even start
I was able to dig half of the car out and get in and try to start it. It didn't even make a sound
And I think that's because it's just been sitting very under snow for a few weeks
So I don't know how that's going to work out even my truck
My truck it normally just starts right up now. It has to it does this little
Slow crank like it's trying to make up this mind whether it's going to start. I know it's the weather
so
You know, something told me I should have got
A garage when I got here just paid a little extra money for a garage
But I didn't do it trying to be frugal. Mr. Frugal, but um
A garage definitely would have came in handy here because like I said, I got one car that I can't even
Um use right now, but you know, um
Aside from the crazy weather up here, um, I like Ohio okay
I I won't say it's the most glamorous place that I've lived
But I do enjoy the novelty of
Being someplace different and being immersed in a new environment
Um in terms of my job, I like it. I couldn't ask for a better boss. I've had I don't know what's been going on the past
one two
Past three bosses I've had have been assholes
This guy is really sweet
Like he's not on a power trip. He doesn't feel threatened by me
Um
He's just not doing fucked up shit on the job that because I'm the type of person I told you this in one of my other shows
Now I was ranting and talking about random topics
If you start coming for me for no reason it's one thing if I'm at work being a dick
But if you just come for me for no reason then I'm just going to take this approach like okay
bare minimum all you get
because
Don't fuck with me like I'm
A good guy. I do my very best. I go above and beyond actually at work
But all that above and beyond stuff stops once you start coming for me for no reason or just start acting stupid
This guy
Is just a different caliber
Um, I've always almost been taking a back at um how nice of a person he is now. He's got a pushover
I can tell he got his side too that you know, I'm nice, but don't
Don't push me but um, but he's fair if someone is fair and um, you know treats you with respect and
Just kind of lets you do your thing doesn't micro manage you or how you
Uh, supervise your team and all of that. I mean what else can you you ask for?
Uh, so I'm really blessed in that regard
um
Normally after a year I start kind of looking around like okay, what's going on the next place?
but um
Still not saying I'm gonna
Do it, but I could see being here two years
Uninterrupted I could see that I would have to get used to the weather which which which I will
But uh, I could see doing two years
um now beyond that
Uh, it's it's just not if you look at my resume. It's just not in my nature to stay beyond two years
It has to be a unique situation
Um, but I really do like my job. I like my boss. I like my team. I got a few knuckleheads
But they're good people, you know, I can deal with the little
Slackerness here and there, you know, I get it
um
Some government folks are just gonna be that way. That's one of the perks of working for the government
You can kind of just coast, you know, you don't have to go all out if you want to you're relatively safe
And and stable
Um, so that's one of the perks about being a federal employee
You almost have to bring a bomb to work before you would ever get fired, you know, so it's very stable
and um
But yeah, I like it here
um
I'm on this hybrid work schedule
Uh, so I'm only required to go in to work twice a week. That's nice. Now. I normally go in
Almost every day, you know
Except fridays or something like that, but it's nice to have the option to if I want to I only have to go in two days out the week
Um, so really just kind of got it made here and just doing my best to learn my job and do the best I can
Uh each day
It's kind of weird working
Or supervising a team where the people on your team know more about the job than you do
Um, you know, I I never profess to know everything about logistics. I I'm still a student in logistics
I understand that I'm in leadership and all of that, but I am still learning and I would say
85 of my team know more than me
um, you know, so
Uh, I always like to have an open mind. I don't know at all. I'm open to hearing other approaches
other ways of doing things
And in there sometimes where I you know, um, I do have a better approach
And so I you know, I'll I'll make that known and you know, but
I think as long as you I never wanted to go in as being this tough
Mean supervisor or just uh
Uh micromanager it has to be this way type person
You know, I've worked for all different types of supervising. I know what works. I know what sucks. I know what you know
You know, I don't want to be that guy. I'm not that guy that
You know, just you know supervisor walks up on you and you're on your phone and they kind of give you that look
It's like, you know, I get it, you know
Yeah, I'm not gonna be like that
You know, as long as you do your work the only time you're gonna have an issue with me is
I'm having to do
Your job because you're not doing yours. So I have to do my job and
On top of that do your stuff too because you're being a slacker then okay
Then we're gonna start running to some problems and some corrective action will need to be
Made but aside from that, I just really try to leave people alone
let them do their thing and
And just provide guidance where I can and assist where I can
So that's that's my approach to leadership
Um
What else is you know, I don't know how much longer we're gonna be able to do this hybrid work schedule stuff
You know, we have a new president now. He's not new but he's
I don't know what to call him. Y'all know I don't even like saying his name
Let me tell you what I did. So I went
and
Through my phone like whether it was youtube my news feed all that if it had anything to do with politics
Or if they it had trump's name or jim I would just hit not interested not interested not interested not interested and
After a while after I would say about three or four days
My news feed just completely changed
Like occasionally something with trump or something with politics would come up
But for the most part I have erased all that stuff. I just kind of live in my own world
I don't want to hear anything about that man
I have one friend
In my life who every day I tell him I don't
Want to hear anything about that man and you know who I'm talking about and you're listening right now and you're probably laughing
He cannot help himself
He
Every day tells me something else about this bitch. I'm like, I don't want to know
Let me live in my world where he don't exist. I know he exists
I know I'm gonna have to probably walk past this picture every day at work
But I don't tell me anything about this man
He told me something that I did appreciate though this morning
Apparently at the end of his inauguration that I did not watch
um
There was an episcopal bishop a woman
um
I could tell she was probably
A lesbian in her private life
um
but
she
used her moment during the inaugural prayer
service
to
directly address president trump she
urged him to have mercy and compassion for
lgbtq
people
and undocumented migrant workers and
While she was talking she was looking directly at trump and
Of course they showed trump. He was pissed. You could just tell he was just
Seething, you know with contempt, but what I admired about this woman this bishop
First what I admired was her courage, you know having
Imagine having a fortitude to address the the president of the united states, you know
Let's be frank. He's a bully. He's a bully, but he's still despite all of his whatever
He's the president of the united states
And to just speak that directly to him and appeal to
His sense of decency any that he might have and you know
Ask him to show mercy and
Compassion to marginalized groups of people and she did it in such a peaceful
non-aggressive manner
You have to look up the video it's on youtube. She's been all over the news
Um, and like I said, don't really know why I even know about this is because of my friend who he can't help it
He's going to tell me something about trump every day
Whether it's in executive order or just something he said that he's going to tell me something every day
So I'm not even going to just I'm not going to fight it
But I'm glad he showed me this because I always like to see
How or when someone stands up to a bully, you know, I shared many many many episodes ago that I was bullied as a child and
For the most part I did not stand up for myself. So when I see someone else standing up to a bully
I really love to see that and when you watch the video, you'll see she did it with
Mildness and meekness. She was gentle
And you know, those are godly qualities
That's what I loved about it
And I really believe that her words are going to have more
Of an impact than we realize once history is written. Her name is Reverend Marianne Edgar
Buddy
B U D D E
Reverend Marianne Edgar Buddy. Look her up. Look her up tonight. The entire video is probably like less than two minutes long
If that
But um, but anyway, let's let's let's pivot. I don't want to give too much of my time my airtime talking about
Our president, he's going to be dominating the news cycle for the next four years or longer
So, you know, just have at it. I hope he does
Every single thing that he said he was going to do and more
Because he was very forthcoming this time about
Where he stood and he was very proud of his work
This time about
Where he stood what he was about
who he was for
what he wanted to accomplish and
Now that he's been duly elected
Hey, have fun
And you know, everybody enjoyed the next four years. We we have taken for granted
the freedoms that we have in this country and the liveries that we enjoy
and
The prosperity that we've all been free to pursue
And not to mention the the the peace and security that
Just the peace of mind that we are relatively safe, you know in our homes and our communities and
in this country and
Since the majority of us have embraced this
politics and this culture of
division hatred
chaos confusion
We're all just about to experience a wild ride, I think
And I don't want to hear any crying or complaining
I don't want to hear any fake outrage that you can't believe that he would do this
Or I can't believe he would do that or I don't want to hear it
deal with it
Work around it as best you can make the best of it
But don't dare complain
Because we had an alternative
Anyway on that note folks, let's take a quick break and when we return we're going to talk about some lighter topics
I'll tell you guys about LaSance 25
Um, we're going to talk about what's going on with Wendy Williams. I normally don't talk about stuff like this
But I want to talk about it and I want to tell you guys about my new guilty pleasure
So sit tight. We'll be right back
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You're back live with Dr. Andre Giri.
Hey everybody, welcome back to Live with Dr. Andre.
And thanks for staying tuned in after the break.
If you're just joining us, we've been talking about random topics, you know, New Year's, Cruises, Ohio Weather.
We talked about my new job.
And we talked about this amazing woman named Reverend Marianne Ecker Buddy.
Be sure to look her up tonight on YouTube and watch her speech.
So anyway, listen, before the break, I promise that we touch on some lighter topics.
Let's start with LaSance 2025.
Okay, so if you haven't heard what LaSance is, and you have to bear with me because I'm not Puerto Rican,
so there may be some nuances and some details about this that I'm feeling to mention.
But LaSance is short for Las Fiestas de Acálle San Sebastián.
Or it's also called San Sebastián Street Festival.
And what it is, is one of Puerto Rico's biggest and most vibrant celebratory annual parties and celebrations.
It takes place in Old San Juan, which is kind of like downtown San Juan, but it's Old San Juan is very old,
but its architecture is very, very beautiful and just nuanced.
You know, all this stuff was built by the slaves hundreds of years ago.
But anyway, LaSance is usually in mid-January and it marks the end of the holiday season.
And you know, there's music, there's parades, there's like traditional foods and all types of setups with artisan markets and things like that.
And the whole energy of it is just electric.
And so it's bringing together the local people, many visitors, many people who are from the island and you know,
they get to the states and they come back for LaSance. It's very unique, it's very cultural.
If you're someone that's into cultural experiences, you'll love LaSance.
There's a lot of Puerto Rican pride, so you'll see a lot of the flags.
You'll see just, you know, dancing, laughter, the history.
And there's just community spirit.
It's perfect if you are planning to visit Puerto Rico for the first time and haven't visited.
It's a great time of year to go. The weather is not going to be too hot.
And you'll get to see true Puerto Rico, true Puerto Ricans and just how warm they are.
And I'm sure you've heard this before. When you go to Puerto Rico, the people are very warm and friendly.
You got assholes there too like everybody else, but for the most part, you know, they are very welcoming.
I remember when I moved to Puerto Rico in late 2018, one of the first things I experienced, there was a parade in the street.
And we lived on the street where there was a hospital, a children's hospital called San Jorge Children's Hospital.
They treated children, you know, for a range of different ailments and sicknesses.
And to cheer the kids up, they would throw this annual parade in the streets right in front of the hospital.
And so all the children who were sick and confined to the hospital, they were able to look out the window and maybe come out and see, you know, it just would lift their spirits.
And that's just how Puerto Ricans are. Any excuse to party, celebrate life, that's what they're all about.
And so, and that's why I love it there. But that party is a great introduction to Puerto Rico if you've never gone.
So it's, again, every mid-January. And but, you know, trying to find a hotel around that time is very difficult.
So if you know you want to go next year, really you need to start playing for where you're going to stay now.
Because like right now, if you try to book a hotel close to Old San Juan or something like that, they're probably going to tell you they're already booked up for the next year.
You know, so I've run into that a couple of times now. And it's just a huge party.
And we were talking about cruises earlier. The port is also at Old San Juan.
So normally around that time, there are like several cruise ships that dock during that week.
And so they're also able to, you know, have participation in the celebration and it's even more crowded.
This year, I think they had some type of issue with the port. I don't know if it's being repaired or if all that is done.
But I know they mentioned on the news that they will be closing some or all the port down. So there wasn't as many or any cruise ships that year.
But it was still very packed. I wish I could show you guys the pictures I took.
But it was just packed. It was great. A great vibe.
But definitely something to experience if you're into that type of thing.
So definitely try to go online and you can go on YouTube and just put LaSance 2025.
You'll see all types of videos and you can get a sense of how it is.
So that's what I did last week. Usually whenever I'm not here, I'm someplace warm.
And usually every chance I get, I go back to Puerto Rico just to absorb some of the sun and the culture and, you know, try to work on my Spanish.
And just enjoy friends and family.
So that's what I did this past week.
So I wanted to tell you guys about that.
And I also want to tell you about, before we get into the Wendy Williams stuff, or should I end on my other thing I wanted to talk about, my new guilty pleasure.
You have about 20 minutes or so.
Okay, let's go ahead and talk about Wendy Williams first.
I don't want to end on that because it's kind of sad what's happening to her.
So I don't know if you guys have been watching.
She's been kind of on a, I don't want to call it a press tour, but she's like, it's a press tour because she's been on the Breakfast Club.
And I think first she did something with, what's his name, Don Lemon.
So if you don't know what's been going on with her, she is supposedly ill and has some form of dementia or whatever.
Always thought that was like some BS, you know, but basically Wendy Williams is in a, she's currently in a conservatorship.
And if you don't know what that is, it's kind of what Britney Spears was in for like over a decade. It's a legal arrangement.
And it's basically where like a court appoints a person or some type of entity, usually as a person, but it can be an entity as well to manage like your personal stuff and your medical stuff, your financial affairs.
And it's for someone who is deemed unable to do themselves, do for themselves due to some type of mental incapacitation or sometimes that physically incapacitated or a whole host of different things, a severe alcoholic or something like that.
And like I said, Britney was under a conservatorship for over a decade and they controlled her money, career decisions, who she could hang around with, who she could date.
And so Wendy Williams is caught up in the same thing.
She mentioned the person, I forget what her name is, but it's a person who's her conservator. They're controlling her money, who she has access to all types of stuff.
And so these conservatorships, they can be really controversial because they're meant to protect someone that's like in a vulnerable state.
But in the case of Britney, in the case of the girl named Wendy, they're restricting their freedoms and their autonomy.
And it's leading to a lot of debates about, you know, is this fair? Do we need to take another look at the legality of conservatorships?
And, you know, it's a form of abuse of power if it's in the wrong hands.
And so this is why I wanted to bring up this topic, not just for the salaciousness of it, but I didn't always appreciate Wendy.
I even had to kind of put her on my own little hiatus when she had her show out because it was just, for me, it was a little bit too negative.
And I didn't want to ingest negativity and stuff like that. So I kind of gave her a break.
And then after a while, I don't know what happened like a few years, I started watching her again.
I could just enjoy it for its entertainment value.
And now that she's gone, not like dead gone, but you know what I mean? She's gone from that show.
I miss her. I'm one of those people that miss Wendy. And I think Sherry is doing a great job in all of the talk show girls, you know,
having, you know, hosted a radio show for a number of years now, it's not easy.
And you guys can't see me. I can imagine having a camera in your face and learning how to carry a show for an hour,
make people laugh and interview people and that stuff is not easy.
So definitely not coming for Sherry and some of the other girls or whatever.
But they have not, for me, feel that void that Wendy has left.
You know, no one's really tackling the hot topics the way she used to.
The view does it, but the ladies on the view get on my nerves.
They just kind of wore me out, especially this last, you know, politics cycle, this election cycle.
I just, I can't, I went from really liking whoopee to just wishing she would just go somewhere and sit down.
I don't want to hear nothing from her. But yeah, they have Wendy has left the void and I miss her.
And I have a theory about how she got in this conservatorship.
And if I was to talk with her, I think she would be like, you know what, that's very close to what happened.
If she would just cut the shit and just tell us, this is what I think happened with Whitney.
You know, all the stuff about her husband cheating and, you know, had a mistress and a baby and stuff on her and all of that.
I think Whitney, not Whitney, it's a girl named Wendy.
I think Wendy knew a long time about her husband's infidelity.
And Wendy is like, in my opinion, this is just my opinion.
She's like a lot of women who will overlook a lot of shit.
Some women will overlook a lot of shit, but they just don't want you to play in their face.
And they don't want to be embarrassed in front of their family and in front of their friends.
So they'll know about your little girlfriend and your little mistress or whatever you got, your little side chicks.
But don't embarrass me. Just don't embarrass me.
And I'm going, we're going to save face and we're going to be a couple and everything's fine.
You know, but don't embarrass me.
I think he just went too far when that story with the girl and the baby came out.
I think that was just like, you know what?
I was overlooking a lot, but I'm not going to overlook this.
And I think she devised. I know I'm right.
And if I could talk to her privately, I know she would admit it to me.
I think she devised a scheme to get him back and to make it to where he cannot take her money and live the good life with this side hole with the baby.
Not to disparage her, but you know that hello, that's what's happening.
And so I think she devises whole scheme had a team of lawyers go through her contracts with the show options for divorce.
And I think she devised a way to play crazy or play incapacitated to where she would be released from the show.
I think that whole feigning, I think from the feigning that time when she fainted or whatever, I always feel like that was fake.
All the feigning and that da, da, da, da.
And you know, we had a round of different folks filling in for her or whatever, and she was supposed to come back, but she didn't.
I think all that was part of the plan.
All the way down to the conservatorship because she made it to where, okay, she's no longer on the show.
She gets a divorce.
I think her contract was written and I saw another.
It's a YouTube video or something where they were saying basically.
She would only have to pay her husband continue paying her husband if she was gainfully employed.
And I think she devised a scheme to no longer be gainfully employed and to be released from that show.
She said all this stuff over the conservator.
I think something happened with the conservator that she had appointed.
I think once they receive that power that conservatorship, I don't know.
Maybe someone else got in that person's ear and kind of manipulate the situation or maybe the conservator just went rogue on her own.
But I believe that Wendy devised a scheme to where she would not have to pay alimony or child support or just anything in that divorce.
And I just think it went awry.
And now she can't get out of the conservatorship because she has no power.
She's so-called incapacitated.
But if you look at those interviews that she did with the Breakfast Club and the interviews that she did with, and we're talking about the recent ones, that she did with, what's his name, Don Lemon.
Wendy sounds like the same Wendy that was doing the show.
She's not incapacitated.
She's not from my observation.
So I think her scheme worked, but it went awry because the conservatorship is one of those roles where once that person is placed in that, you're kind of at their mercy unless you set up some type of controls that can...
What's the way I'm looking for?
Basically, some type of checks and balances for the conservator.
Like, okay, if this conservator starts acting crazy, then this person steps in.
You got to have another extra layer of protection.
I think in her plans, she did not think that far or think that that person would turn on her or be susceptible to other people being in her ear.
And I think there were larger entities that got involved, like whatever network her show was on and stuff like that.
And I think other people had a vested interest in Wendy not returning to that show and just a whole bunch of other stuff we don't know about.
So all the... she has to mention, she's crazy and she's incapacitated.
I don't buy that.
I think she always had good sense.
This was a plan.
She wanted to get back her husband.
You're not going to take my money and live good with this other whole.
And I just think it was just as simple as that.
And so now she's been on this press junket.
She can't have a phone.
She really can't have a computer.
She's in this basically kind of like an old folks home type thing, but it's very high end.
But she can't have the business she wants to have.
So she's having to use her niece's phone to do these little sneak interviews with the breakfast club and other media outlets trying to give awareness to what's going on with her with this conservatorship.
So long story short, I hope she's able to navigate this and get out of it.
I can't imagine being under that type of system.
My heart kind of goes out to her because she's trapped.
She basically has an allowance.
She can't just spend her money the way she wants it.
Someone else has to give her an allowance of her own.
It's just really fucked up.
So, you know, some people say it's karma and all this type of stuff, but I don't know.
I just, I feel bad for Wendy.
She's a person too.
And if you just take the stuff that she did and say it as entertainment value, I think that's all.
I don't think she really has a dog and Wendy has a dog and fight or the people she was talking about.
She had a job to do.
She was a radio host.
She was a gossip person and later had a TV show with that same stick.
So it's just, it's like business.
Like she don't really care if this person's gay or if this person has a mistress, mistress, but she has a job to do.
So anyway, enough about that.
I hope she's able to get out of her conservatorship.
If you haven't seen it, go and look up the breakfast club, Wendy Williams, Don Lemon, Wendy Williams, and you can kind of see what I see and just see that, you know, it's the same Wendy.
She's just in a situation in which she needs some help.
So Brittany was able to get out of hers as more people in the public sphere knew the gist of what she was in.
So maybe hopefully it'll be the same for Wendy.
She's in her 60s.
So, you know, let that woman enjoy her money and everything that she built and, you know, pick up the pieces from, you know, you know, being single out here and just, you know, let her move on to her second acting piece is what I'm saying.
All right, so what we got five minutes.
I want to tell you guys a little bit about this new.
I'm going to take a drink of water.
Sorry, my throat.
I want to tell you guys a little bit about this new guilty pleasure that I have.
So I don't watch a lot of TV.
Most of what I watch is on YouTube.
And I've sanitized my YouTube so that I don't really even see a lot of junk.
But I've been watching these NDE stories on YouTube.
And of course, NDE stands for near death experiences.
And there's this whole channel that I've been watching that has a lot of great stories.
I have it written down somewhere.
The YouTube channel is called T and H afterlife.
And this young lady, she looks to be about 26, 27 years old, but she does interviews with people who have had near death experiences.
And all the stories are the same, but they're unique.
The person has some type of accident or, you know, brush with death.
They die for a short interim period.
They have this experience in another room.
And then for some reason they're able to come back and, you know, they come back and they share their stories.
There's a whole community, an NDE community that it's like a support group for because there are not a lot of people who have had these experiences.
So they develop communities and because no one else understands really what they've gone through.
I've never had a near death experience.
So, you know, when they're talking about things that they experienced during this time, many people can't relate.
So they build these communities and connect with other people that have had these experiences and it's a safe space for them.
And so this young lady on this YouTube channel, T and H afterlife, if you're interested in this, go to the YouTube and type in T and H afterlife.
And you'll see that this is a channel that's hosted by a young woman who interviews a bunch of NDE people.
And like I said, every story is different and it's nuanced.
They all experienced this near death thing.
They've been pulled out of their bodies.
They're looking down at themselves.
You know, they travel to this realm of light.
They see these beings that have no shape or form or face.
Just an outline.
But they say that this being feels very familiar.
Like if someone you know, although they can't see who it is, it just feels like they know them.
And all of them references feeling of being in this room.
It kind of feels, they say it's undescribable to, you know, to humans, what we would be able to feel.
But they said the closest feeling that humans could relate to or understand what it feels like to be in that room is this feeling of unconditional love for everyone and everything.
And when they explain that when you're in this room, time doesn't exist.
So these brief moments that they're out of their bodies in our time, it's like maybe two minutes or something like that.
But when they're there, they say it feels like days and time just has a different connotation.
So it's like when they're in that, that, that, that realm, they understand everything.
They have this sort of life review.
I'm just touching on a few things that they all have similar stories about.
They have this life review where they can see their entire life and go in and out of different moments.
And then they all have the decision to either come back or stay.
And for some reason, all of them seem to come back.
I think they presented as a decision, but it really is a, you don't really have a choice.
It's hard.
You have to see it for yourself, but there's a purpose that these people are sent back to fulfill.
And so they come back as changed people.
And it's just really interesting to these episodes are like maybe 3540 minutes and you'll see people from all races,
an older black guy, an Indian guy, older white lady.
And I'm telling you, these stories are really something else to hear.
And so you might want to check one of them out.
Like I say, it's my new guilty pleasure whenever I have a, you know, some time just to kind of chill and relax.
This is what I like to watch.
So I just wanted to share this with you guys.
But that's pretty much about it.
You know, this, this has been an enjoyable episode for me.
I love just being able to talk about random stuff that's on my mind.
So thanks for hanging in there with me.
Well, we're going to wrap the show for tonight, but for our next episode, it's going to air Wednesday, February 26 at 8pm Eastern.
And our topic is going to be under consumption.
So under consumption is, is one of the latest lifestyle trends that a lot of people have been gravitating to.
It's going to have a lot of great information in that show.
So be sure to tune in.
I want to thank you again for spending your evening with me.
And until next time, take care, be blessed and have a good night, everybody.
Thank you.