Dis Us Episode Transcript

Part 1

00:08 - Nachi (Host)

Welcome to another episode of I'm Not Yellen, I'm Dominican podcast hosted by Nachi and Damaris. Hey everybody and welcome back. This is your girl, achi, and I'm here with.

00:20 - Damaris (Host)

Damaris, your favorite delicate flower.

00:25 - Nachi (Host)

And on this episode we're going to keep it light and fun and we're going to share our top five favorites in movies, TV shows, music and much more. So let's get started.

00:38 - Damaris (Host)

I'm so excited for this episode. This is our last one for the season and I thought that this would be a great opportunity for our listeners to get to know us better. I know we dropped little tidbits of our personality and the various episodes we've had, but there's a lot more context that goes into why we think the way we do and why we like the things that we like, and I feel like this one is going to be fun, like you mentioned, and just something to get to know us a little bit better and be our primos and primas out there and extend the love.

01:19 - Nachi (Host)

Definitely, definitely. So this one, this is a little bit hard for me to go through this assignment only because it was just like so many different songs and shows and we were just like, oh, but I like this one or I like that one. So I kind of had to bring it down to a certain I had to define it in a way where it's just like, okay, I'm confined to these songs or movies or whatever because of a certain reason, and they have oh my God, I felt the same way.

01:58

Yeah, it had some level of you know, like there was some story behind it and so it would be cool to share.

02:06 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, I also as going through the categories, I struggled as well with just whittling down and I figured out like, is this really my top five favorite? Yeah, but I'm like it's my top five favorite for writing now Right right that just changed. So, guys, this isn't static, so don't at me, don't be like, oh my God, why are you like-. Yes, don't at me, I don't care. This is what I like right now, and maybe I'll like it for the next 20 years.

02:36 - Nachi (Host)

I don't know. There's a reason why I like it and I'm going to continue liking it. So that's that. Thank you, yes.

02:45 - Damaris (Host)

It's funny. When we get into the music I feel like, well, why don't we just get into it? Which category do you want to start with?

02:53 - Nachi (Host)

We can do songs.

02:55 - Damaris (Host)

Okay, I'll start and I'm going to say, you know, this is for me, is not in any particular order, but again, like, the songs that I selected are just. These songs make me feel away and I like how it makes me feel. So I'll start with one of my favorite songs. One of my top five songs is Careless Whisper by Wham. Now, this song is a song that I use, that is my go-to for karaoke.

03:29

I'm never going to dance again he said guilty feet, I've got no rhythm, Okay. And then at the end it's like, if you listen closely, they're like you know like it is the real. I love it. It's a vibe If you don't get it. If you know, you know, and if you don't know, then you don't know.

03:50 - Nachi (Host)

It's definitely a feel good song. Once you hear it, it's like you get happy, like oh shit, this wham.

03:59 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, it's the saxophone playing in the beginning. Yeah, all of that. I mean, I think, it's a sax, I don't know.

04:07 - Nachi (Host)

But you know, that's one of my top five. One of my top five is and I have a little story behind it. So growing up, I always felt and you know this, I always felt like a caged bird, right. This is what I like to say yes.

04:27 - Damaris (Host)

My parents didn't let me be on videos and dance.

04:31 - Nachi (Host)

I can't do anything. I can't go here, I can't go there. I always wanted to be part of some some shit, and so when Janet Jackson came out with her control album, you felt.

04:44 - Damaris (Host)

You felt that was talking to you, like yes, I'm being controlled by these Dominican parents. Yes, yes, I was like control you felt seen.

04:52 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, yes, control was my song. I could, I would sing it and dance in the room. Remember, we had a little stereo. Yes, yes. In my room and every time I would play I had to. Our brother brought the, brought the album for me.

05:09 - Damaris (Host)

And, guys, that was, that was your first album and I love, I love Frani. Shout out to Frani.

05:13 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, yes, and he brought that album for me and I will play it over and over again and every time control came on, I was just singing, I was oh, and I would act, and I would act like I was singing it to your mother.

05:28 - Damaris (Host)

Wow, you're wild.

05:32 - Nachi (Host)

Oh my God, if she only knew Only if she knows, oh girl. And then she would say I never controlled.

05:39 - Damaris (Host)

Oh yeah, no, no, no. Now she's like she has no memory of what she, how she was strict or restricted our freedom in any kind of capacity.

05:49 - Nachi (Host)

And this was before memory issues.

05:51 - Damaris (Host)

Oh, my goodness.

05:54 - Nachi (Host)

So that was my friend instilled in is still my favorite song and that album is my favorite. And I know when we were talking about and coming up with topics we had said I think one of the categories we came up with was album at first and I was like, oh, I don't think I have enough albums to say. But as I was working I was like, oh, I do have quite a few favorite albums, we'll do some honorary mentions at the end.

06:23

Yeah, yeah. So control is definitely one of them, and that hasn't been my favorite and still is my favorite to this day.

06:31 - Damaris (Host)

Oh nice, I'm not sure if she's in it. Yes, Janet is a beast. She did it Like pleasure principle. Actually, I'm gonna have to throw pleasure principle in this.

06:40 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, no, that's how it's six for me.

06:42 - Damaris (Host)

Pleasure principle, that video where she's like she's first of all, she's by herself, she's dressed in black, her hair was looking fly.

06:51 - Nachi (Host)

She's in a black to be shirt, flowing hair, and she was dancing and killed everything she did in that video. Like if I gotta go back and see it again.

07:02 - Damaris (Host)

This is before your time and you're listening. You need to go look that video up on YouTube. You're going to be like, oh okay, she was a vibe, it was an energy and she actually, you know she was. She's a dancer, she's a natural dancer. She's like her brother, Michael. And so and you could see it right. And there wouldn't be a Beyonce without a.

07:24 - Nachi (Host)

Janet having done what she did, period, and Beyonce is a great performer but.

07:29 - Damaris (Host)

I'm just saying Janet was Janet first.

07:32 - Nachi (Host)

That's it. She is everything, she is definitely everything.

07:37 - Damaris (Host)

My next one I'm going to have to say is In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins. Yes, I am very much 80s. I know y'all like damn, she's stuck in a jacket. Yes, I am. My heart is so. I'm like seven. Listening to this song, I can feel it, it's a vibe, like you listen to that drop, that beat drop.

08:07 - Nachi (Host)

He kills it. Yeah, it's done. It's done.

08:11 - Damaris (Host)

You need to read the lyrics to that song, because the lyrics has me down. I think he's like I can see you dying and I wouldn't care, or something like that. It's crazy. I love it.

08:21 - Nachi (Host)

I'm like I feel you, phil, I feel you, I see you. Yeah, it's funny because as I was going through the songs to us, I kept saying to myself damn, they're going to think like we're old. The songs that we grew up with and the songs that we loved in the 90s, early 2000s, has now become old school.

08:45 - Damaris (Host)

I know when people say old school and they're like oh, 2001. I'm like oh, y'all are wild, You're wild. That is not old school, you are wild.

08:54 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, yes, yes, you are Right, right, because we in 2023. I love them. They're like ma'am.

09:02 - Damaris (Host)

Ma'am, they're calling me ma'am now. Ma'am, please sit down somewhere, oh my goodness.

09:17 - Nachi (Host)

So my next one is just following the Jackson family. Remember the time by Michael Jackson?

09:24 - Damaris (Host)

What you took that from me, girl, you have that too, yes.

09:30 - Nachi (Host)

My goodness, I remember when the video came out and it was a thing. Everybody was just glued to the TV. Yes, and when I say you saw beautiful people.

09:43 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, oh, my goodness, yes, it was everything. Yes, it was no the chills you got when you saw them yes. And I mean, here's the thing about Michael he's like the most. He gave off the most swag for the most asexual person that I know Like yes, he was mad asexual, but when he performed and he sang those lyrics he had a lot of swag. Like you, listen to those lyrics he's like he said do you remember, girl?

10:17

Yes, on the phone, you and me. He said two dogs, two, three. What about us? Like, why are you playing? What about us? He said. And then, with the break, he's like do you, do you Right? No, do you. He's like come on. Oh my goodness, no, no that song, that video and when they were dancing.

10:40 - Nachi (Host)

he's like I bet you remember Wait he's like I bet you remember.

10:43 - Damaris (Host)

What do you mean?

10:44 - Nachi (Host)

They bet, I remember.

10:45 - Damaris (Host)

He's like, I bet you remember, like girl, stop playing. I know you remember, yeah.

10:51 - Nachi (Host)

And I'm like I do, michael.

10:53 - Damaris (Host)

I do no it was that song is a whole package. It's video lyrics. Song rhythm beat Just everything, michael Jackson was everything, and we need to let people know how we fumbled the bag with Michael Jackson. I'm prepared to embarrass us how you fumbled. How you fumbled.

11:18 - Nachi (Host)

How you fumbled.

11:21 - Damaris (Host)

Our father, Bobby, rest in power. He was a big fan of Michael Jackson and he asked us. I guess it was like in an early 90s too, because I think you would, just I can't remember.

11:38 - Nachi (Host)

It was the late 80s it was like 89.

11:39 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, it was like late 80s early 90s. This is when Michael's going to be at the garden. Yeah, he was going to be at the garden. I think you might have been like in any grade or something, and he was going to be at the garden and he asked you first Nachi, you want to go to Michael Jackson, or?

11:57

actually he asked us and you were the first to answer. You were like no. I was like no. So I looked at my stupid ass teenage. I looked at my big sister. I'm like she says no, I guess not, don't play, don't play some blame on me, but. I have and I will and I'll continue. Yeah, yeah, no, that's what happened. That was terrible. No, it was. We fumbled the bag and now that man has died and he was there again, I don't know what.

12:30 - Nachi (Host)

I don't know how big stupid. Yeah, yeah, no big stupid.

12:34 - Damaris (Host)

There's no performer that I'm aware of since him where they will sell out stadiums where they play, like you know, football overseas and like football arenas are much bigger than the football arenas here in the United States because we play, you know what we call football, but football internationally is soccer and those soccer stadiums are ridiculous and who would perform sold out at those arenas and people would be fainting before the show even starts.

13:08 - Nachi (Host)

I mean, I've not seen any. It was ridiculous.

13:12 - Damaris (Host)

I've still not seen a performer where people are constantly fainting and crying.

13:16 - Nachi (Host)

And women and men, yes, everyone.

13:20 - Damaris (Host)

Yes. And our dumbasses like no, no, we don't want to go. No, we're too cool for school, dumbies.

13:31 - Nachi (Host)

Oh, my goodness.

13:33 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah Well, we fumbled the bag.

13:34 - Nachi (Host)

Yes.

13:36 - Damaris (Host)

That was a life lesson.

13:38 - Nachi (Host)

That was Okay.

13:43 - Damaris (Host)

So that was your second, so you took that from me, so I don't have that one anymore. Back to life by soul to soul. However, do you want it? Yeah?

13:59 - Nachi (Host)

However, do you need it.

14:01 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, I can't sing, so I'm not going to even attempt to write, but that song will get you hype. You'll think you're in that hype Williams movie belly. You think you're walking through the tunnel at your city.

14:17

Matt oils and lotion on your face. Yes, real shiny looking. But you're like I look, I'm a vibe, I'm, I'm it. Yes, that song will have you Right. I never got to go to the tunnel. I was sad. No, not you. You were older. You got to go and sneak away by the time, no, I was still in high school and the tunnel was not seen my ass, even though I knew people and our class going to the tunnel on a Sunday night. I'm like. I'll just be like how do you do that? How you go?

14:51

to school the next day I'm like how does that work? I don't even know what you're doing. I don't understand how that's possible, but you know what they did and I live like I was through them. I was like, oh, that sounds like a time I did not have.

15:09 - Nachi (Host)

But I knew of it.

15:10 - Damaris (Host)

No, because you probably went by the time you went to college and then it closed a few years after. Yeah, no, the tunnel, that was. That was the thing. But you know the, that song back to life. I could play that now. I mean how we were playing that in the in the house in Florida. Like jam, every day, all day, like I stood at five o'clock and you were off the clock for work. It was like, however, do you?

15:39 - Nachi (Host)

have it. Do you need me? That was the start of start of our evening and weekend.

15:46 - Damaris (Host)

Hello, that's definitely a good one Mm.

15:48 - Nachi (Host)

hmm. My next one takes me back to college. Now you know my love for Mary J Blight.

15:58 - Damaris (Host)

Hello.

16:00 - Nachi (Host)

Her first album for one, one with the four, one one, but I love the classic album. Oh okay, the album was the best, the best and my favorite one out of there was the song my Love. What you going to do without my love? My love. That's what I used to say yes, yes, I love that song. But that was my answer whenever some dude, I was dating.

16:32 - Damaris (Host)

We're at stupid.

16:33 - Nachi (Host)

That was my song. Oh boy that.

16:36 - Damaris (Host)

and we be feeling ourselves.

16:38 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, yes, that and guys, goodbye oh yes, guys, yes, goodbye. That was another answer.

16:46 - Damaris (Host)

God was great. I love that album.

16:48 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, yeah, and sadly I did not add them, but they have some great songs too. But yes, my Love remix album oh, that's a good one. I didn't even think about the remix one.

17:02 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.

17:03 - Nachi (Host)

Now shout out to the remix.

17:06 - Damaris (Host)

They don't do that anymore. They don't Her remix album that remix album. That was an era and I remember this one guy.

17:14 - Nachi (Host)

You know I went on a few dates and he was filming me and I wasn't, and I don't know what are we going to be got into. He took my CD and get out the damn car.

17:26 - Damaris (Host)

He said that's what I'm going to do with your love.

17:29 - Nachi (Host)

That's my CD, Hello, and of course you know later he won't apologize and bring me a damn puppy. I don't want to puppy.

17:37 - Damaris (Host)

Weirdo.

17:38 - Nachi (Host)

I can't even take care of myself. I'm in college.

17:40 - Damaris (Host)

Right, dami Stupid.

17:45 - Nachi (Host)

No, I want my CD. Thank you, oh, my goodness, that was my. That was my favorite song off that album.

17:54 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, that's a good one. I think love without a limit is my favorite on that one.

17:59 - Nachi (Host)

I don't know something about that.

18:01 - Damaris (Host)

It was just a just such a simple key to it, a simple beat to it and just the lyrics is really I like that one.

18:08 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, yeah, no, that one's good too, but yeah, no, that whole album was yeah reminisce.

18:14 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, I mean yeah, that was a good album. I should have done top albums. Stay out. I know I'm telling you as I'm fumbled again, we fumbled again.

18:24 - Nachi (Host)

As I was going to the next I was like oh, but I kind of like more songs on this album than.

18:30 - Damaris (Host)

I thought I did yeah.

18:32 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, I mean what's, what's your next one?

18:35 - Damaris (Host)

So my next one is I guess is my final one, but it is definitely top there because we already did. Do you remember Michael Jackson? But Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz, oh, first of all, I love me a Lenny, I love me a black rock star, oh. And then it's just like again, yes, yes, the lyrics. He's like you know, I just want to fly away like a dragon, fly away Like a dragon, fly the hell out of here. Okay, I'm like I feel you, but sometimes I feel that way too. And the guitar, everything, the riff, I'm like, yes, brother, yes, I love it all. He just he was, he still a vibe, he's still a vibe.

19:28

And that song it just in the video was like the perfect visual for that song, because it's like, yeah, you just had a party, you're just letting freight bro. You're like, yes, living your best life. That's how I felt listening to that song and I still feel that way. So I like these songs are top for me because it makes me feel away, it makes me feel good, I like the, the energy, the vibrations, you know, and keeping my frequencies high, and that's that, yeah, that's that's mine, mm-hmm yes, my.

20:03 - Nachi (Host)

My next one is Jill Scott. He loves me that song. First I want to say Jill.

20:16 - Damaris (Host)

Oh yeah, she's awesome.

20:18 - Nachi (Host)

She is Her voice is. Yes.

20:21 - Damaris (Host)

Chef's kiss man.

20:22 - Nachi (Host)

It's like she paints this pictures in her song Mm-hmm, Like yeah, so she's talking about he loves me and she's like, oh, my goodness.

20:31 - Damaris (Host)

You felt the love.

20:33 - Nachi (Host)

Of, yes, the depth of how he, this man, loves. So I'm like, oh, yes, girl, that's what I need. It's like she has a way of, yeah, yeah, Rubbing just the feeling and it's like, yes, yes, I am with you, girl. That has been one of my favorite. I love a lot of her songs, but that's one of my favorite.

21:00 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, that first album of hers. Another one, yeah, that so many bangers Like there's just like so many good songs that you didn't have to skip, like I you know the album is awesome.

21:13 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, that first album. You, oh my goodness.

21:15 - Damaris (Host)

I think every every song was yeah, yeah, you could just play it, and there was no skipping.

21:21 - Nachi (Host)

Mm-hmm, none whatsoever. Oh, I love it.

21:23 - Damaris (Host)

So I went through all five songs. Did you go through all five?

21:28 - Nachi (Host)

Um, oh, my last one was Erica Bardu's Next Lifetime. She's another one, that and that's another sweet song, Although it's talking about someone that she met, that just it wasn't the right time, right place type of thing. Right, right but it's just that.

21:51 - Damaris (Host)

But we've all met that kind of dude in your life. You know that person that's like, okay, maybe not now.

21:56 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, it's not gonna work this lifetime. Maybe in the next lifetime.

22:00 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, because you're crazy. You were a little funny, but you're hot, you're so fine, but you are not good for me. Yes, maybe another lifetime.

22:17 - Nachi (Host)

We've all had that Hopefully things things smooth over, Hopefully you get your life together, right, right, don't miss me too much. Okay, okay, oh goodness. Yes, that was definitely a good song. Oh, my favorite, that's nice, good, good.

22:39 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, I'm excited to get into the Top 5 Rap Songs. I think this is a good segue to do that, and I think just add a little bit of context, because I know some people might be like, oh my God, top 5 Songs, but they didn't mention any Spanish songs, right? And I and you and I talked about this a while ago, in that I thought about it one time, about huh. You know, unlike some of our other cousins, I'm like we really don't listen to Spanish music like that. We grew up with it, but it's not my first choice. And then I started to think about well, why is that? And then I thought about our childhood and where we grew up. So, while we had cousins that lived in the part of the Bronx you know, fox Street, shout out to Fox Street.

23:27 - Nachi (Host)

Okay, we didn't grow up there.

23:31 - Damaris (Host)

We grew up in neighborhoods that were largely, at least at first, african American and Puerto Rican, with some sprinkles of Ecuadorians.

23:40

I had a few Ecuadorian kids in my grand school In my class in particular there was like two girls and then when we moved again, we moved to an area that then was more Caribbeanites and you know, and Puerto Ricans. So there was no, there was very not a lot of Dominicans at all, if any, and so our exposure to Spanish music was on the weekends, at home or when we would go to a house party, family event. But, thinking about the first years of our formative years, we grew up in River Park Towers and if people know that, it's in the Bronx and that is like a landmark place because that's literally across the street. We're right by Cedric Avenue, which is the birthplace of hip hop. We're right by that building where I think it's like what they call the birthplace of hip hop, because I think of Cool Herc or something I don't remember. But the point being was that our complex of buildings had these little retinas, these little yeah these little block parties and these little circular driveways right in front of our building.

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They would set up turntables, ones and twos, and so literally we're on the second floor, we're looking out our window at DJs that are like on radio stations, just spinning yeah.

25:03 - Nachi (Host)

And people dancing. Yes, the latest hip hop joints the Y.

25:08 - Damaris (Host)

Breakdancing all of that, and we were upstairs because our mother was not going to let us go downstairs.

25:14 - Nachi (Host)

I was like we're on the second floor. You can see me from the window.

25:18 - Damaris (Host)

And she's like, and therefore you can watch too from the second floor.

25:21 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, this is what I'm talking about Cage Burr Wow.

25:24 - Damaris (Host)

Wow, anyway, I couldn't even have fun.

25:28 - Nachi (Host)

You did.

25:29 - Damaris (Host)

You could listen and you could watch with your eyes.

25:31 - Nachi (Host)

I was trying to have fun. I was trying to have fun.

25:33 - Damaris (Host)

She was like I'm trying to save my children, but you know. But in any case, though, we grew up with that Hip hop and R&B, like that's just what we were surrounded by outside of home, and even at home. Your father had a very eclectic taste in music, so it wasn't just Merengue and salsa. It was. I mean Lionel Richie. He loves Lionel Richie. Yes, that was the thing I mean. You put on all night long. That man is on the dance floor.

26:09 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, yes, he loves Stevie Wonder, stevie Wonder.

26:13 - Damaris (Host)

I mean Linda Ronstadt.

26:15 - Nachi (Host)

Yes.

26:16 - Damaris (Host)

Some of y'all might need to look her up because y'all don't know who she is. Big up to Linda Ronstadt Okay, who else? Zorba the Greek. You don't even remember that, but you used to listen to Zorba the Greek and I remember. The beat is in my head. So, oh, my God. So yeah, like you know this, our music, our music choices, reflect how we grew up and what we were surrounded by and what ultimately influenced us the most, and I'm grateful for that. Now you know that's, that's just what I love and it's just what it is. So, moving on to top five rap songs, this is where you're going to get to know me and where my heart gets really hard. I'm going to start off like with one of my top five. It's going to be I'll be there for you by Method man in Marry.

27:13 - Nachi (Host)

J Fly that was line two.

27:15 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, that was line two. I'm not big on the love rap song, but that one Listen listen.

27:27 - Nachi (Host)

It is a bop every time it comes on.

27:29 - Damaris (Host)

Every single time I could have that song on repeat Hmm, yes, definitely. Yes.

27:38 - Nachi (Host)

That is. That is definitely a repeat song. Yes, you could just hear it over and over again.

27:43 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, I love it.

27:46 - Nachi (Host)

I'm like yeah, that is my favorite, one of my favorites.

27:49 - Damaris (Host)

Because the remix, the original, all of it, and the video again, it's so gritty. It's so New York, I'm like, it's home, it's home. Method is so New York, it's home. Marry is so New York, it's home, it's just home. Yes, and I'm like, and if you're in a relationship, you feel it that much more, and even if you're not, you're like oh, I can't wait till I get a boo like that.

28:16 - Nachi (Host)

Okay, okay, oh my gosh, this is why we never even talked about this.

28:26 - Damaris (Host)

And look how we're having like the same songs.

28:29 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, that's my favorite and I'm not. I'm more of an R&B person.

28:36 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, you're all sweet and you like all romance and love.

28:39 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, yeah, that's, that's me, that's me. I love that. So, going through this, going through this, this exercise here with the rap songs, okay, well, of course I can't get with a lot I would say many of the rap songs nowadays, because I can't even understand.

28:58 - Damaris (Host)

I don't even know what they say. So it's like okay, that's why all of these songs are not of anything in the last Five years or now, even now, now, now.

29:10 - Nachi (Host)

But my, my favorite one after that I'll be there. Song is not if, if I rule the world.

29:21 - Damaris (Host)

Oh yes, because that has some.

29:23 - Nachi (Host)

Lauren Lauren Hill. Yeah, of course.

29:27 - Damaris (Host)

I'm like, of course, you would.

29:29 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, I love it. Yes, if I rule the world. Yes, yes, yes, that's my favorite. I love, I love it, although I like other songs from not though I didn't, yeah, he he's just smooth with it.

29:46 - Damaris (Host)

He's good. Like that's just one of my favorite rappers and musical artists, period. Like he's just. His lyrics are great and most of the time, when his record company wasn't digging him over, he would have some great producers and his beats were just that because I'm the type of person that I just can't, especially when it comes to rap.

30:05

It's just not enough to have like great lyrics and you're on this lame ass beat Like. That's just not going to work for me. I need to feel both. I need to feel what you're saying and then also you know, okay, I feel that beat like okay, yeah.

30:18

I see where you're coming from and Naz is definitely he's great at that, he's a storyteller and he's just and he's just smooth with it. Yeah, no, that one, that song, yeah, and I think it's some really fresh things. That I was like okay, naz. He was like, if it was a perfect girl, I go down on every girl and I'm like, oh, okay, okay, naz. Well, well, all right.

30:44 - Nachi (Host)

It was only a perfect word.

30:45 - Damaris (Host)

Right.

30:46 - Nachi (Host)

Right. I'm like okay, Sign me up. Oh my gosh.

30:53 - Damaris (Host)

Right, so anyway, moving on to the next song. So for me, let's see, okay, you know, I have to show so much love to Harlem. Harlem, stand up, I really mean it by the diplomats, if y'all know, you know stand up dip set.

31:19

This is what I'm talking about. I really mean it is just like quintessential Harlem and not this new Harlem where we got all these new people. I mean Harlem Harlem and it came run like his lyrics, just be so wild and crazy and I appreciate it. I just appreciate it because he is he is hard Look personified.

31:46 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, and you was going crazy when they were on versus, it was the fire. I wish I had a video. Yeah, no, I was like saluting like crazy. Yeah, the rise was like she was up there with, though.

32:00 - Damaris (Host)

And then I got embarrassed. I was like I was embarrassed with their performance on versus.

32:05

I'm like oh, I was busy on the corner playing C Low and playing C Low and thinking I didn't have to do sound checks and practice. I see what y'all did. Anyway, that's yet, that's sidebar. But yes, no, I love to set because they are just like New York City, harlem stand up, this is what they do, this is what it is with them. I love them and I really mean. It is like one of my favorites. You just like mm. Mm that beat. You. Just listen to it. Look it up.

32:40 - Nachi (Host)

You'll love it. Yeah, my, my other favorite rap song was from child called Quest Electric Relaxation. Oh, yes, I love them. Yes, I love that song. It is a beat like you could dance to. It was just like it's. You could get hype.

33:03 - Damaris (Host)

No, it's great. That's a good one yeah.

33:06 - Nachi (Host)

That's a good, good song I like to listen to. I like to listen to the track called class. Again, I would listen to artists, groups from back in the day, definitely more so than I would. You know today's music, so that's my favorite from them.

33:27 - Damaris (Host)

That's a good one, so I'm gonna go. My next one is going to be Shook Ones by Mobdete. First of all, this came out when I was in high school and I think one of the lyrics said I'll stab your brain with your nose bone and I was like, wow, these guys are interesting.

33:50 - Nachi (Host)

I was like that's a visual.

33:52 - Damaris (Host)

That's a visual and I was like, and I appreciate it and it's like the start of it is you just hear the tick, tick, tick from the your gas stove turning on? That clicker and it's like tick, tick, tick, tick. That was the genius of Havoc, the producer, the second. You know that the other half of Mobdete he will produce these beats that were just like crazy.

34:21

And that's why two of his songs made it to my top five, and Shook Ones is one of them. And that whole tick, tick tick is because you know they will cook, you know something on the stove and it's like, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not here to judge. Y'all do what y'all need to do to survive, but he's like tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick that you hear that. And it starts off with two of my killers and my hundred dollar billers. I'm like yeah, to Ruf, who ain't got no feelings. I'm like mm-hmm, like I'm some thug dude. I'm not, but it resonated with me.

35:02 - Nachi (Host)

I got you feeling like it. Yeah, it resonated with me. I don't know why.

35:06 - Damaris (Host)

It just did. I'm like, I'm a delicate flower, like I said, like I said, but something about it.

35:13 - Nachi (Host)

Right, right. My other song, again another one that you could dance to, is Jay-Z. And what's that little one? Dupri, money Ain't a Thing, oh, okay, yes.

35:27 - Damaris (Host)

Oh, my sister, she just loves that little nice outfit. Yes, yes, yes.

35:31 - Nachi (Host)

Little Bobless dance.

35:33 - Damaris (Host)

Little Bobless, dance you know, I know, you do, I know, you do, I know this is me.

35:40 - Nachi (Host)

This is me.

35:42 - Damaris (Host)

Look, that's what you're gonna get and I love it, but I still go one too. It's cute. It reminds me of you know them club days when he actually went to a club and danced.

35:53 - Nachi (Host)

That's what I'm saying, like that's what you know what I thought of Just going to the clubs and dancing and just getting high. Yeah, it was back in the day. Yeah, we just had fun going to the clubs, I know.

36:05 - Damaris (Host)

I don't even know if clubs even exist now, cause I keep seeing like memes and tweets and stuff about like oh young, like I guess Gen Z and I guess maybe the younger millennials are like I don't. Even these videos have me fooled into thinking that this is what it's like going to a club. But it's not like that, I guess. Now I'm like really that's sad. I feel sad for you. Because, the parties used to be banging.

36:34 - Nachi (Host)

People used to dance.

36:35 - Damaris (Host)

You used to come out sweating. Yes, it was a thing, and you would have like five numbers you like who am I going to call? Who's calling me? It was a thing. I loved it.

36:49 - Nachi (Host)

It was an era man. Oh my goodness.

36:52 - Damaris (Host)

It was an era. Yes, yes, my next one. Ok, this song now. I heard it in a club Done.

37:07 - Nachi (Host)

Annie M the remix by MOP.

37:11 - Damaris (Host)

Listen.

37:13 - Nachi (Host)

Remy.

37:14 - Damaris (Host)

Maz her verse, the bars that she had, like I'm sorry, I know y'all people love Nicki and you love Cardi, that's all great, but Remy, she was that girl. For me that's like first of all she's from Castle Hill, big up, shout out to Castle Hill. She is a true True Castle Hill Bronx chick. I mean, the girl went to prison for someone robbing her for a stack. I mean we're talking about $1,000. I'm like that's some real Bronx shit. Like I would have just taken it out like OK.

37:52 - Nachi (Host)

I'm just not fucking with you anymore. No, I'm not going to rest. No, she was like I'm not going to rest.

37:56 - Damaris (Host)

She was like retribution. She's like you're not going to steal from me, even if it's a dollar.

38:00 - Nachi (Host)

And I'm like you know what, and I love her husband sticking by her through all of that, listen, while she was in prison.

38:05 - Damaris (Host)

I love her yes.

38:08 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, that is method man and marriage.

38:10 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, that's the, I'll be there for you. Yes, they are that personified. Yes, but her bars in that verse. She's like you think you're cute? Ho, take off them, gucci shades, what I was like, ok.

38:28 - Nachi (Host)

This bitch said you think you're cute? Ho, that's how she started. She's ready to fight.

38:32 - Damaris (Host)

You think you're cute? Ho, take off them Gucci shades. I get my dogs to do you dirty. What? Ok, yeah, no, it's great. I love it, I love it, I love her. And I was like, ok, annie, up, you play that. Dunzo, dunzo. My husband, adam, be like calm down, you wallowing out, just chill, because I'm just at home and I'll play that and I'll start wallowing out.

38:56 - Nachi (Host)

And you're doing too much.

38:57 - Damaris (Host)

He's like you're doing too much and I'm like I don't think so.

39:01 - Nachi (Host)

He's like you're doing too much.

39:03 - Damaris (Host)

I think you are, and then I'm like you think you're cute, ho Right. He's like what? Yeah, he's like OK.

39:11 - Nachi (Host)

Bye. I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm like I need to stop.

39:16 - Damaris (Host)

My next one is a go one. But you go next, not you, ok.

39:22 - Nachi (Host)

This one is actually a song that even my kids like, and we'll play it in the car. Click by Kanye.

39:30 - Damaris (Host)

Oh, my goodness, they love that song. I would say, almost do that too, but I love that song too.

39:36 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, that is the best that is the best song it will be in the car. Yes, first of all, the beat is dope.

39:43 - Damaris (Host)

And then again his verse is the best.

39:47 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, it's just so stupid.

39:50 - Damaris (Host)

I mean, he says so many things in that verse. I'm just like he's like. He's like. You know why people get money. You don't spend it.

39:59 - Nachi (Host)

I rather get 80, go chains and go ignorant. He said Spike Lee's going to kill me.

40:05 - Damaris (Host)

I'm just like you are so wild, but you are so correct, but he's talking the truth. He said I'd rather buy 80, go chains and go ignorant. We live with no limits.

40:14 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, yes, yes, brother no limit and you know what part of it is like, yes, we should be living with no limit.

40:24 - Damaris (Host)

And I mean, god bless him, because he kind of did live with no limit and he became a billionaire. He may have lost half his fortune, but half his fortune is 500 million. I'm like he's OK, he's still.

40:34 - Nachi (Host)

OK, he's fine.

40:36 - Damaris (Host)

I don't feel sorry for him, not at all. No, that's a good one.

40:40 - Nachi (Host)

I'm sure he's not feeling bad either. No click is a good one.

40:46 - Damaris (Host)

Oh yeah, yeah, that's a goodie. And OK, well, you know, top one for me right now is the Quiet Storm remix with Little Kim and Mobb D. Again, that beat yes.

41:03 - Nachi (Host)

You have it. Yes, you just killed it.

41:06 - Damaris (Host)

That beat is off the chain. And then Little Kim, she's you know, oh my goodness that I play. That's another song I play in the house and Anna, be like chill You're exhibiting zero chill, like yeah, he's like fall back. He's like stop Because.

41:30 - Nachi (Host)

I'd be like I'm about to go to war and you're getting on high.

41:33 - Damaris (Host)

I'm like I'm getting hope. Here we go again. Light is a rock, bitch Heart is a. This song is dope, sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, my goodness, and I mean even like what you know?

41:48 - Nachi (Host)

who's the other guy on it?

41:50 - Damaris (Host)

Prodigy. Rip to prodigy. But like his, you know, his lyrics are great too, and so I'm just like I just laugh. You know, he's like we come through like fuck it. I'm like, yeah, that's how we come through sometimes, like fuck it, fuck it. I felt seen with that song. I still do that just goes to show you how the lyrics back then.

42:14 - Nachi (Host)

it's like you were, they were relatable. I just don't think that the songs now are really really good. I think that the songs nowadays, nowadays, are as relatable as they were before.

42:26 - Damaris (Host)

But is that because you can't understand what the lyrics are? Because I don't even know what they're saying?

42:33 - Nachi (Host)

No, no, exactly. I don't know what they're saying, so I can't even, I can't even get into it. That, that's, that's it.

42:41 - Damaris (Host)

That in itself is the problem which is kind of sad.

42:44 - Nachi (Host)

You know it's sad, but I mean I guess the kids know they like it, they can get into it somehow.

42:52 - Damaris (Host)

Right.

42:52 - Nachi (Host)

I don't know and I have to ask the question Do you even understand what they're saying, or you just like going with the beat?

43:02 - Damaris (Host)

Right right, I mean what's so what? So what's your final?

43:09 - Nachi (Host)

No, that was it I gave you because we had the same. Ok, that's right, that's right OK all right.

43:17 - Damaris (Host)

Well, we're already like 40 minutes in deep on this, so we could quickly go through the musical artists For me. I'm just going to list my top. I didn't have five, I just did four. Because here's the thing about me I'm just not a real celebrity person, so I don't really care about musical artists or movie artists. So I'm just like I. My top musical artists are Michael Jackson rest in power. We fumbled the bag. We were stupid. Nas I love him. He's always been a cutie. His lyrics are dope and you know, he just knows how to flow.

44:00

He just he's super talented, knows how to paint a picture story and tell a story through his lyrics. And then Mary J Blash, because she is a soundtrack to my life. Every album is a different phase in my life High school, college, young adult, old adult.

44:19 - Nachi (Host)

I mean still slightly older every stage. Yes, she's sitting every stage. I love her for that. And then Prince. I mean come on, damn, come on, I know, yeah, I kind of aligned mine with my favorite songs, because these are my go to artists anyway. So that's Janet Jackson, michael Jackson, jill Scott, mary J Blash and Erica Badu but, yes, prince is another one. And the thing about, oh yes, shade.

44:47 - Damaris (Host)

The thing about Prince for me is just that I love him because he was always unapologetically him and so as a musical artist. I respect those that are able to continue to be authentic with their music and and maintain integrity Right, and by integrity I mean like you didn't. You fought for what it is you wanted to put out there and you did it Right. And not every artist is able to do that and he fought his way to be able to do that and when they didn't allow him he would fucking literally stick a middle finger up their ass and to the point that they're like OK, prince, we'll give you what you want.

45:29

Yeah.

45:29 - Nachi (Host)

You know, so I fuck you. That's what I loved about him.

45:32 - Damaris (Host)

And that's why I had to add him, because he is. He was a G, he's an OG to to now Okay.

45:41 - Nachi (Host)

Nice.

45:41 - Damaris (Host)

Awesome, so why don't we get it to like your favorite cuisine? I didn't have five here, but I'll only put one, I just put a favorite.

45:54 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, oh, hands down as Dominican food.

45:59 - Damaris (Host)

That's my favorite.

46:01 - Nachi (Host)

And second would be Jamaican Caribbean food. Like I, I would I prefer that over Any other, and she does not step out of her comfort zone. And, and aside from that would be Italian or Mediterranean food. Okay, those are my other two favorites, but that you only have four, okay, I only have one as a favorite cuisine.

46:24 - Damaris (Host)

Here's the thing I didn't include Dominican food, because, again, is what we grew up with. Yes, I love it, like that's just. That goes without saying. But if you ask me, my favorite is going to be Korean. And the reason why I love Korean food is because they are they are, they do such a wonderful job with marinating meats, in particular, red meat. I love beef, I love steak you know how I feel about that and they're great about their marinades and how it gets cooked and I'm just like give me a bowl of rice and some marinated meat and I'm in heaven, yeah.

47:00 - Nachi (Host)

I have and they're me.

47:01 - Damaris (Host)

So pace, I'm like, I'm good, I'm like in heaven, heaven, heaven. Because I love rice, which is, you know, typical for us Dominicans. I love rice, I got to have it Give me some nice marinated meat and you're good. Yes, I love it.

47:16 - Nachi (Host)

I love it.

47:17 - Damaris (Host)

So that's why I put as Korean food as being my, my favorite cuisine. What about your favorite pastime?

47:28 - Nachi (Host)

So this one, yeah, I don't know if I have a favorite pastime, but I'll say this. I'm gonna say my favorite pastime is starting projects that I don't ever finish the.

47:42 - Damaris (Host)

German, I in her, and it's okay, no judgment.

47:45 - Nachi (Host)

No, you know I'll say yes, I love doing different things. So that's how I got into soaping, so that you know, making soap from scratch I love to do, because I love to identify the different ingredients that you can put in the soap. Right, it's just, oh, what can I create here? And sometimes you know the design and just having some artistic you know artistic feel to it is like it's fun, it's. You know, I love to do stuff like that. So crafting and those things like that I love to. You know, reading is another fun pastime. I don't have that much time to do that, but I've always enjoyed reading, you know, if I could sit back and read.

48:36

That's my favorite thing to do, and if I just want to be in a space of, I just want to register. I don't feel like thinking, I don't feel like doing you know, watching crime shows in reality TV. That's what I'll do. Yeah, I am.

48:58 - Damaris (Host)

What's your favorite pastime? Oh, my goodness, you're gonna laugh at this first one. Number one napping. I love a nap, I love to nap. I'm a Leo and I have two cats, and literally I think I just was. I was probably an Egyptian cat in a past lifetime where I was like, worshiped and whatnot, and cats sleep 16 hours out of the 24 hours in a day.

49:26 - Nachi (Host)

I love to nap. Whatever Fight me Might have been a cat in the past.

49:31 - Damaris (Host)

Don't fight me, I don't care. Followed by reading. I do love reading and, like you know, fiction like just light stuff just things that I could just, you know, just a veg out on and followed by being at the beach. Something about being at the beach is just like it's so cathartic. For me it's therapeutic. The water is good. First of all, going into salt water right Is just good because it, you release those toxins spiritually and physically. Thank you.

50:03

Please Leave it out in the ocean Salt water is good for that, and and getting all that vitamin D from the sun naturally is just like it's really great to do for you. You know, physically too it is good.

50:20 - Nachi (Host)

So yeah like that.

50:22 - Damaris (Host)

For me, those are like my favorite past times. I love it. I love it. Now it kind of goes into the favorite chips and places to travel to.

50:37

For me, my number one trip is having gone to Tanzania and I've you've heard me say this before yeah In particular going on a safari and doing that in the Serengeti.

50:55

Honestly, I don't think I've ever been, I've never felt closer to God than I did when being out in that kind of natural habitat, right, because we're in a car, we're the ones in a metal cage and we're observing all that that's around us and that nature is just that's untouched by man. It's, it's very humbling and it was an awesome experience and I and I look forward to doing it again. And I told you I want to do with the kids because I, just as a family, I would like to do that trip again because I just think there's so much you can get out of it and it is just a spectacular, once in a lifetime type of thing and I loved it. And then ending that trip in Zanzibar, a little island off the coast of Tanzania, chef's kiss, the beaches, the water in the Indian Ocean so warm. I've never felt water that warm it's like that water and while I in the Caribbean, the water is turquoise.

52:03

The water color is there. They're like jewel tones, so it's like it would be a deep emerald green or a sapphire blue. At me, it was just beautiful. It's gorgeous. Yeah, yeah. Well, watch out for them. Sea urchins.

52:17 - Nachi (Host)

Really. And those Jurassic sized bugs, oh, I can't even get into that on this one.

52:24 - Damaris (Host)

No, that was a nightmare. I can't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not you. I don't know if I'm going to sleep well tonight, thank you.

52:32 - Nachi (Host)

I remember you.

52:34 - Damaris (Host)

No, I heard that was the funniest story I heard. It was like what a housefly would look like to you. Imagine that housefly in Jurassic era and that would be like about 20, maybe a hundred times the no, I should be like 2000 times the size. And it was on my door and it was like how am I going to get in? I put that key in, slammed the door so quick and I heard that thing flapping on my door like, oh my God, what is this? I want to go home. It was a nightmare. It was a nightmare but I survived, I bet, oh my goodness.

53:19

But our trip to Greece is up there too.

53:21 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, yes, that was that's. My favorite trip is when we went to Greece. Oh gosh.

53:29 - Damaris (Host)

Number one, it was fun.

53:30 - Nachi (Host)

Just us two traveling together.

53:33 - Damaris (Host)

Yes.

53:33 - Nachi (Host)

The best, but Greece itself is just a beautiful country. I love Santorini especially. Oh my gosh, it's so gorgeous.

53:44 - Damaris (Host)

It was beautiful.

53:44 - Nachi (Host)

Sitting oh.

53:46 - Damaris (Host)

I know us having breakfast on the terrace. Remember we were just like part of their normal breakfast buffet and it's like on the terrace looking out to the agency and it was just like the most gorgeous, picturesque yes it was always sunny. That place was chef's kiss again.

54:07 - Nachi (Host)

Like that was beautiful and the food was great. It was just, yes, it was great. I love it. That was a great trip.

54:13 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, yeah, no, no, I had good times there. That was up there, and you know, and I'll just lastly say my, my honeymoon to Thailand was was great, because we went to three different areas within Thailand and they all had different climates, which was pretty interesting. So we visited Bangkok, which is the main city, and, yeah, it's, it was like a city, hot, you know, very busy, etc. And then we went up north to Chiang Mai, and that was like not a rainforest, but it was. It was like, you know, it was mountainous, so it was much cooler. And that's where we got to. We went to elephant sanctuary. Please, if you go to Thailand, do not write elephants, please, don't. Yeah. And so they're abused. I mean, elephants are not meant to be ridden by humans.

55:06 - Nachi (Host)

No, they're for entertainment.

55:07 - Damaris (Host)

No, exactly. So we went to a sanctuary and so we got to bathe them, feed them. It was actually really fun, a lot of fun. I did not go into the water to bathe them because, you know me, I was like there's probably bacteria in that. I don't did, I was like, have fun, I'll take pictures of you. But those elephants were hilarious because they would actually spray some people with the water.

55:29 - Nachi (Host)

Like this is why I'm not in the water, because you all play too much. But, get a little bacteria in that eye.

55:38 - Damaris (Host)

Right, and then I'm blind. No, thank you, but are there any? Are there any other trips you want to add to your favorite place?

55:48 - Nachi (Host)

No, I think Greece was my favorite. I mean the other the other trips that we've gone to has been like to the Caribbean island, so all I mean, all those trips were great, but if we're talking about favorite, yeah, okay.

56:04 - Damaris (Host)

Good, good. First of all, I want to start with, I want to thank us for believing in us, for doing something we have no experience doing and taking the chance on, on working on this podcast and focusing on our last episode, doing a full season. We did it and actually, you know this. We should be very proud of ourselves and I am proud of both of us. So, you know thanking us and then, of course, thanking you all for being along for the ride and all the good feedback along the way, the encouragement. We appreciate all those that have listened to the show and listening to us all season, and you know we just want to close out with what we always close out with, that.

56:55

There's a lot of noise out there, but our message is consistent Stop getting distracted by the smoke and mirrors, tune out the noise and focus on your purpose in life. Focus on what brings you joy in life. We're meant to be joyful, so live that truth and be the best that you can be in this lifetime. Right, you only have one opportunity, so fucking do it. So, that said, don't forget to subscribe to our channel and follow us on Instagram, tiktok and Twitter at I'm not yelling underscore. Thank you so much for listening and we look forward to talking next time. Bye.

Part 2:

00:08 - Nachi (Host)

Welcome to another episode of I'm Not Yellen, I'm Dominican, podcast, hosted by Nachi and DeMaris. Now let's get into favorite drinks. So for me, I didn't. I didn't have a specific drink. So this is what I did. For cocktail, I tend to go with mixed drinks that have a tart, sweet flavor to it. So if I'm ordering at a restaurant or anything like that, I I gravitate to those type of drinks, but I don't have a specific favorite cocktail that I would like.