MESS with Sydnee Washington & Marie Faustin - "The Brooklyn! Expert" with Kerry Coddett

Episode Date: October 21, 2016

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and you're listening to the unofficial expert there it is well we just we just smart we like we're smarter than everybody 1600 sat scores i was an expert this week at what at catching up with my friends oh that sounds terrible what do you mean how are you an expert at catching up with your friends i always just throw that text like hey how you doing you good and i always try to make plans which i know that i'm not gonna do but i just just throw them out there so they know that i'm thinking to them wow yeah and you do that with how many people i did that with seven people seven you got seven extra friends seven people and when are you gonna see these seven people i don't know well they come to the warm-up they actually come they see us

they're like you got time for marie you don't have time for us i was like this business business oh wait what do you really do that you do that every week you message somebody just out of the blue well sometimes i see my friends on snap having a good time without me and i just gotta let them know like you know you can invite me so i could say no see that's why i'm not on snap i'd rather not know what you're not doing uh i don't care i don't i'm not good at that i feel like i need to be a better friend for sure this week i was an expert at not being a good friend I think yeah like people call me and I was like no I don't have time or people send me that hey like you do this a lot you'll send hey and then nothing else yeah and I'd be like well what

did you like sit hey comma and then the rest of the stuff that you hit me up to ask that's that's how you get them that's how you let them know like I was thinking of you I'm not gonna finish this but I started it no see I don't when I get that hey or that hi and nothing else I just don't want respond i'm like oh it ain't no no because because you're one of these people who text like a sentence at a time i do like a sentence at a time and i'd be like uh just put it all in a paragraph beginning middle end yeah but then don't you ever see your your phone conversation and you're like oh man this person is like blowing me up and then you only have like one sentence that's what you do you send like one sentence that hey so i was just out uh

and guess who i saw it was so-and-so and so-and-so like every name gets like i guess you blowing me up yeah but i just feel like a paragraph looks like what i was saying was way more important than what it is no because you know what happens is i look at my phone and it'd be like 17 texts from sydney i'm like oh what is this and it's legit hey what are you doing today i fell got my period you got up like that's what like so annoying hey at least i've messaged you and then see if you're doing okay i'm a good friend to you yeah you are anyway you need to keep up with your friend how many friends do you have i probably only have like two legit friends like that you can yeah probably like two what's their names uh sydney and joanne and but even that like

she'd be texting me sometimes i'd be like and she texts like you like it'll be like 30 30 missed texts and i'd be like what happened and it's legit like like and then she'll like correct her typo yes i do that sometimes i don't care if you can't spell with the asterisk we're already friends it's too late. You got to do the asterisk. I don't even know what window I got to hit to get the asterisk. The asterisk is like, excuse me, just in case you didn't know, I knew that I fucked up. I knew it was your

and not your. Whatever. Well, I just wanted to let you know that I'm smart. Okay? I already know that you're stupid. Shut up. Okay. Speaking of smart, we have a great guest today. So excited to have her. We have an expert of in all things Brooklyn.

Okay. Our expert today is Carrie Cotton. Yay! Hi, Keri. Booyaka! Sorry. You look very West Indian today. Thank you very much. Is that a bright lip?

Like a neon-ish green? I tried to have on all of the colors. It's yellow, but I feel like it's giving me like a neon undertone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, you came in here with grills? With fronts? With fronts. There's a difference.

No, they're actually the same thing, but I grew up in Brooklyn in the 90s. we were calling them fronts. Grills only came out in the early 2000s with like Paul Wall. Paul Wall. And that was a very Southern thing. And he was white. Smile for me, daddy.

What you looking at? Or was it Nelly? I wanna see your grills. Well, they all had grills, but Paul Wall was like the, I think he was like a grills maker, a jewelry dude. And then he started rapping.

So his grills were better than everybody else's. No way. How many carrots are your grills, your fronts? oh they are the lowest of the low there i think they're like 10 carats if you go up to like 12 or 14 it is like four times more expensive why it jumps up that much i was like oh no let me get the basic bitch fronts that's what i want they don't look basic how many teeth how many teeth i have six i feel like i should have gotten eight but i have six on the bottom and i'm and i'm gonna pick up my gold star wait what you have nice teeth too one groom i'm gonna just have the one cap just

a gold star. No, you're not going to do that. Yes, I am. I'm picking it up. I feel like the more they gentrify, the more I have to represent and ground myself as an original Brooklyn New Yorker. Is there going to be a diamond that you could

take out? No, you can always take them out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a little cap. You just put it in. You look like somebody's mama. I can't wait. I'm really looking forward to it. Are you really picking that up? Yes, I'm dead serious. I believe you. I would have gotten them both at the same

time, but the cap takes longer to be ready, and this was like a one-day grill thing. It was like same day. It's like a gold retainer. It is. It's so much fun. That's why her teeth look so good. They're so good. Platinum Invisalign. They're marinating underneath

those fronts. Oh, you're so sweet. Did you have braces? No, but I can't wait to get Invisalign for real. I want to get Invisalign. For real? Yeah. Really? But your teeth look fine. They're fine for regular street teeth, but Not on, I'm going to be on TV. Street.

Actually, speaking of that, this woman has been all over the place. She was on the nightly show. R.I.P. MTV, rest in peace. Joking off. Mm-hmm. Various things. Comedy knockout.

You did for Essence. Comedy knockout. Comedy knockout. Bang, bang, bang. You're just getting it in. You had an awesome year, I think. And last year, too. Yeah.

I mean, the year is almost over. Yeah, you had an awesome year. I can't believe this year is almost over. I know. We so old. time is flying way too fast that means that means we're old no we're good and that means we're busy yeah getting it done speak for yourself so old 23 is so old yeah we can curse all right you're old and so you're our expert of uh brooklyn and you actually have a show called

brooklyn stand up brooklyn stand up now where did that name come from i mean the name is great well brooklyn stand-up is a thing it's something we always said like where you at brooklyn stand-up it's a thing is it like funk flex big cat the tunnel like do they say yeah maybe because it's like because dj clue you know there's certain things when you say it's brooklyn in the house everybody goes without a doubt i've done that in brooklyn places and some people don't know what i'm talking about it's brooklyn in the house they're like oh yeah but you did that in the 90s or early 2000s it's brooklyn in the house everybody without a doubt you know what i mean so brooklyn stand up you represent it very well yes so born and raised in brooklyn it's the only place i've

ever lived where in brooklyn east flatbush and what's your background i am as west indian as they come um my mom is from trinidad and my dad is from guyana i didn't know that you didn't know that? No, I knew you were Trini. I didn't know you were Guyanese as well. Yeah, you know. Oh, you don't claim them? You really rep where your mom is from for the most part. And you have a dad. Like, that is amazing. Come on. Everybody has

a dad. Not everyone is privileged like you do. Oh, my God. What if you had a shitty dad? Is it still privileged? Not that my dad was shitty. He wasn't, but I'm just saying. Okay, I know your dad. All dads ain't created equal. I can tell by your teeth, like, your father's in your life. I can tell. My dad was in my

life, and my dad has crazy teeth. Oh, Samuel is dumb. Crazy. Carrie, your mother is off the chain. Her body is sick. I see where you get everything from. Thank you. She reps.

I love her. She reps hard. Didn't she go to Carnival? She goes to every Carnival. All of them? All of them. She goes to Miami in October, and she goes to Trinidad in February. And we're actually fighting right now because my 30th...

Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Edit that out. Your 30th cousins coming to town. We're going to have to cut that right off. Yeah, we're going to cut it.

So we're actually fighting right now because I have a huge birthday trip coming up next year. And she's trying to go to Carnival. And it's like, bro, you could sit out one Carnival. Oh, you want your mom to come? To come on my birthday trip with me. Oh, I don't know if I would. Yeah, I would never want Ramona to come. I love my mother.

I love my mom too, but she not. But it's going to be a whole bunch of us. She's going to bring her boyfriend and I'm going to come. She not a man? Oh, she got a man. How tall is your mom? Your mom is pretty tall. She seems tall, but she's not.

She's 5'7". No way. That's tall to me. Yeah. 5'7", as a woman, is tall to me. Like a dude who's 5'7". You don't even talk to him. He's a little brother.

Yeah, no way. You just look right over him. Excuse me, I'm looking for somebody else to buy me a drink who's taller. So, who is your mom's boyfriend? He's West Indian, too? He's from Trinidad. He's very, they're equally yoked. He wants to go to Carnival more than she does.

so they party together every weekend it's the cutest thing wait now is your mother from Brooklyn as well no she's from Trinidad when did she move to Brooklyn she actually moved when she was young she did high school here so she got to Brooklyn when she was 12

so she's a Brooklynite I guess it's Trinidad at first but yeah I guess she's a Brooklynite did she teach you everything about Brooklyn or you just kind of learned it on your own I feel like you learned it along the way yeah I learned it along the way because for my parents I feel like I got a very Caribbean

influence and perspective and then the other stuff you pick up just learning on your own and being out there. Going to school. How did you know like Brooklyn was a different place than any other borough? When did you realize that? I don't know. There's just always a sense

of Brooklyn pride. You just shit on everybody else. We don't fuck with Harlem. You know Sydney's from Harlem. Queens is dusty as hell. That's okay. Queens is dusty Queens is dusty

Queens is so dusty Staten Island No one talks about it No one wants to go there In the Bronx Nobody knows what happens there We know what happens there We just don't want to go there

It's on Channel 7 News All the time All the time All the time My mom be like Stay out of the Bronx Every time I turn on the news There's a fire

Or a stabbing I had a boyfriend in the Bronx And I went there You did? Was that like a long distance relationship? No she lived in Harlem I lived in Harlem She was just crossing the street

He had corn He had corn rolls And And beets And uptowns and a cat a cat yeah he had a cat he was the only person in the bronx that i was like has a cat there's that's not it wasn't like a street cat that like came in and sat down and didn't like he went to pick up a cat no it was a fluffy cat like it looked like from the aspca no too many

no okay i brought it down with my uh everybody you mentioned the bronx everybody just gets sad like the bronx sucks all the air at the I'm like, shout out to Petey. Oh, yeah. That's right. He was awesome. He represented the Bronx right. He says the Bronx.

The Bronx. Hope of the hood. He was here. He was our Bronx expert. So tell us your most Brooklyn memory. What's something that you're like, this would only ever happen here? Something that will only ever happen in Brooklyn. Or something just like it happened and you're like, man, that's Brooklyn as hell.

Yeah. Like, that's it right there. Probably, well, I don't know. I'm going to say, like, my experiences, things that have happened to me. Yeah, that's what we know. Okay. We know, too. Well, in high school, I was kind of a terror in high school,

and I went to Brooklyn Tech High School. Okay, there. That is a school. Okay. You went to Brooklyn Tech. Well, it's a gifted school. It's a school for nerds. It's, like, it's one of the specialized high schools,

but there were so little uh black kids in there that we sort of had to like band together and be like yeah we're smart but you ain't gonna come up here and jump us and other students used to come from like other schools like the the bad schools they would come up to brooklyn teff because they were just like oh these smart kids are victims so they would come up they would rob the asian kids they would rob anybody that they could rob and we were kind of like nah we we smart but we hood And I remember, I feel like every school, there's a McDonald's where the fights happen. Yes. I don't know what it is about McDonald's and high school.

There's always a McDonald's, like, right in front or across the street from high school. Always. Yeah. And that's where everybody used to meet up. And I remember one time I had a fight. Me and my friends had a fight with another group of girls. And some dude came in. And it was just like, no, don't jump in our fight.

And me and the girls we was fighting against, we all just flipped this dude. I feel like that's a very Brooklyn thing to do. like get out of here wait he tried he came in to try to fight you guys in hindsight

I'm sure he was trying to break it up in hindsight I'm sure when you see some old dude named Otis with a jerry curl

and he's just pulling chicks off of each other oh yeah that's a major place what I can't believe you beat up

this poor old man see that's why I've never broken up a fight in my life no I would never I'm not about to get scratched or get my hair pulled

I don't even want to get in a fight let alone break up a fight I mean I'll slow down if a fight is happening and then she'll have her phone out no I don't put my phone out I won't put my phone out you're not going to

world star it? I don't even know how one submits videos to world star yeah I was wondering about that I don't see enough Brooklyn fights on world star I'm sure they get a million videos a day how do they like go through to find the right ones at world star

I don't know Sydney, you've been a world star. How do they do it? Well, you have to be on a hoverboard with a dildo on it. That's how you got to do it. You got to have a blue skirt from Rainbow. Probably a dusty wig. You got to do a couple things.

You got to do to be on there. Carrie, what's like the do's and don'ts of Brooklyn? Like making it in Brooklyn. You know what? I was on the train and I drive, so I don't take the train a lot. No excuse. what kind of car you got carrie i got me a hansa fit it's a little hatchback it's a miniature station wagon it's silver it's sexy it's silver it's sexy dice you got fuzzy

dice no you got rims does it have fronts are there fronts on the front of no i don't have my car is very practical i only trick myself out i don't check out you ain't got no sunroof top no nothing no i was on the train last or the night before last um driving coming into brooklyn it was probably after midnight and i saw this lady with her 15 inch macbook gleefully typing i was fucking enraged yeah i was enraged because i was like brooklyn we slipping ain't no way in hell this bitch should be this comfortable yes you're too comfortable in a 15 it was a macbook yeah it a macbook pro and she's what train was it a train going to bedside like i want to snatch her fucking her laptop just to let her know that it gets that real and stealing your toes yeah yeah

yeah yeah but that's the thing brooklyn has changed so much there's a starbucks on myrtle avenue now like a starbucks and a chipotle and breaks my heart oh my god literally it breaks my heart so much that one day i was driving and i saw a beer garden open up on bergen and something and i just started crying i literally started crying it's done my sister was like what's wrong i'm like it's everywhere it's everywhere no in my mind when i see a starbucks that's when i know it's like there's a starbucks on eastern parkway now in franklin is there yes and every time i pass it i get i don't get no i don't think it's a starbucks it's american apparel because when they put the american apparel in harlem i was like oh i was up there the other day i was like

we are done zo no harlem been done yeah that's that's that's uh the upper whatever side it's so hot it's so hot so people can use their laptops on the atrium now but what was like something that you couldn't do i don't know maybe you couldn't do that you couldn't do that you couldn't you couldn't you and i'm not trying to make it out like it was a super dangerous place but you understood that there are people that are suffering. That there's a level of privilege and there's a level of things that you have access

and resources to and you kind of don't flaunt it in front of other people. Oh, they flaunt everything now. And it's sort of taunting almost. It's like, I'm daring you. I mean, Brooklyn's changed. My boyfriend talks about it all the time

because he's a real Brooklyn dude. He is like Mr. Brooklyn from East New York. Oh, yes, yes, yes. He's always, like, that is, he should have been on this podcast. He is always talking just about how Brooklyn changed because we lost our identity. And Brooklyn used to mean something. Brooklyn music used to sound a certain way. Brooklyn rappers used to have a certain sound.

Now you got designers sounding like he from the South. I didn't know he was from New York. Me neither. I met him and I said, what part of Brooklyn are you from? I don't know what the fuck part of Brooklyn he from. I don't know. He's from, like, Brownsville? Vinegar Hill or something like that.

Brownsville. I have no idea. But so I think Brooklyn is losing what it means and people are trying to come in and redefine it. Well, yeah, it's getting diluted, I think, is what it is, right? Is people move into all these neighborhoods and to them, and you know how when a neighborhood

is like, want to come up or they gentrify, they change the name of the neighborhood. Like it's Prospect Leopard's Gardens instead of Flatbush now. And it's like people come in and they think that that's what it is because that's all they know. You know what I mean? but there's some places

in Brooklyn that are still broken like Canarsie and East New York those are just the ones the furthest back and they even starting to push it up

like they're starting to build up things Crown Heights no Crown Heights is not ours no more really and we always share

Crown Heights with the Jews but we all respected the spaces Franklin and Eastern Parkway and what she's talking about it's a whole bunch of it's gentrified

oh my god it's a lot of cafes so a cafe is gentrification Cafe for sure is the first time. What if it's black-owned? It wouldn't look the way that it looks on Franklin, though. Franklin Avenue is like, it looks like 34th Street now.

Like, it's mainly white folks. And then a couple black folks who, like, held on, who lived there for, like, years and years, who still have, like, their apartments and their brownstones and whatever that lived there. I went to an Erykah Badu concert two weeks ago. How was it? And you were the only black girl?

haha right how can you it was awesome I love Erica it was like my second or third time did you look her in the eyes

because I feel like when you look her in the eyes it's over I love her we were really close my friend came in and the last minute

was some VIP tickets and it was at the new amphitheater that they built in Coney Island which I never heard of I didn't know it is amazing

it's beautiful it's like indoor outdoor it has like these movie theater style seating where it's like white leather they have servers

coming around it's huge it seats like 5,000 people what like it was dope and i was like this is great for brooklyn and then i was like is this not for us though so you know the change is coming like they don't put nice stuff in here for us when you see something like that happening you know you know displacement is about to happen yeah you know it's gonna go up a bunch of buildings are gonna go up yeah but that you

know erica's like the beginning yeah it's the beginning if you look let's let's let's have the same conversation five years from now and see what coney island looks like it doesn't even need to be five years from now right when is the when's they you know they bring the q train up second avenue to like the upper east side right so the q train is going to connect all the way to coney island oh great so it's it's already happening every time i go outside there's like a like a like a happy white man in boat shoes walking two little ass dogs every time i step out in my neighborhood and i'm in flatbush it drives me nuts not only because of the people that it displaces but also because they come into the community and and take over the community

they don't want to become a part of it they want to do what they want to do but they don't send their children to our schools nope you know they i don't see their kids playing in the park so our kids are not able to even benefit from this cultural diversity because it's still very segregated us and theirs they come in they they you know what's so crazy they have called 311 complains on the ice cream trucks. Why? This whole summer, we were talking and we were like, yo, we haven't heard Mr. Softy

do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. They don't like the noise from the ice cream truck. Wait, you called 301 and they told you that? No, I saw an article on DNA Info. You know how it's just like the local water. It's like, yeah,

they've been receiving a lot of complaints from people. And you know it's the white people and the gentrified that just moved in. ice cream truck like the whole anthem is a white last night last yes that's a beat that even they can follow right so is that like a slave song i feel like kyle has a bit about it and he's like that's actually a slave catch the negroes on the store they should like that song i was in my i was in my kitchen last night my roommate is a white girl from connecticut she like that's how that's who she is and uh she was like is there an ice cream man outside right now legit it was like

10 o'clock i was like yeah people like it's hot out like people want ice cream there's still people outside and she was like why though like why yeah she's but she's the type of person who will call and complain well wait didn't she call the cops and your bill tell the story tell the story i got home i'm minding my business she had a little tinder piece coming through because you know she they swiping on that and um uh she was like oh my god the guy downstairs is yelling i can hear him through the floor can you hear him i was like no i go in her room she's like she's pressed her ear against the ground and she's like he's so loud clearly not that loud on the floor ear she let the cup out it was crazy and she was like i'm gonna call the cops and i was like why are you

gonna do that because it's so loud but she had a dude coming she had a she had a you know she had some tinder so she wanted it to be quiet for him some tinder dick coming to the house she wanted it to be quiet for him i guess right so she was like i'm gonna call i was like i'm not i wouldn't i've never called the cops i'm on anybody like ever i've never dialed 9-1-1 no i mean except when i was a kid once and i was like well missy what happens oh my god yeah it's not something we do no for what for why so i was like well if you're gonna call them i said don't tell them where you're calling from don't say my apartment number nothing she did all of that so she gets on the phone and i hear her go 3a i said what what did you just say she's like oh they asked and i

just answered so i was like i wouldn't you could have just hung up she's like and then a bunch of like a wave of cops like a whole like a wave of cops the cops and she's concerned they could They probably heard her voice. She has blonde hair and her eyes are maybe hazel. It irritates me. Like, don't come in here. Don't come in here. I live with my sister now in Bed-Stuy.

And, you know, we have block parties. It's just what we do in Brooklyn. People sit outside. We sit in the stoop because it's hot. And don't nobody got money to be spending. Open fire hydrants. We open the fire hydrants. Why does this bother you so much?

Don't move in here. This is something that was happening before you got here. don't think you could come here and be like well i want it to be peaceful there's this lady that bought a house next to my sister's neighbor on the other side and i guess they share a backyard he always plays music on like saturdays and sundays when he's cleaning his house and um i guess the lady had a baby and when she brings her baby home she's like you know you're gonna have to turn all that music down now right oh like she's just like oh you know you can't do this anymore right you know now that me and my child are here you know that this has to stop

you're the one who had the baby yeah exactly that's your problem moved in here when you came here i was playing music every saturday and sunday bitch bye like get out of here so what happened he looked at her and kept playing his music that's the story he told us he was like i just looked at her and was like crank it up like go ahead bitch go ahead people don't realize how important it is to have music when you clean your house you have to always play and it's always like some old ass 90s the crazy thing is is that white people be making noise too noise that don't have no rhythm no beat no it's not even music they just be like yelling and screaming like frat boy shit i have let me ask y'all this this is a theory that i'm working on and i'm pretty sure and i know

you guys could probably relate because you guys are great laughers do you feel like there's something irritating about the black people laughing around white people yeah like there's something about our laughter that irritates them and you know we laugh they're always there is literally always a complaint about black laughter you know what it is they're having so much fun

I think part of it is that they think we might be laughing at them and we might be we are there's like a 59% chance that we laughing at them

definitely so that's what it is and then also when we laugh like you know when children laugh they laugh like they've never heard

something so funny when black people laugh it's the same laugh we laugh on the diaphragm we throw our whole necks back and they're like well can't you just hold it in

but also I feel like white people don't know how to laugh they don't know how to let it out and have a good time they're like asians you know asians cover their mouths when they call they laugh and when they do laugh you're like you're laughing at that you're laughing at that shoestring just blowing in the wind that you're laughing at that paper bag what's trying to cross the street it's crazy crazy when you think of like brooklyn girls carrie like what do you name the whole look What would she be wearing Head to toe

What's the outfit Brooklyn girl What would she be wearing Because it's all different Kind of Brooklyn girl Well okay I'm gonna give you an example When I think of a Bronx chick

I think she probably Puerto Rican Her hair is gelled All the way down It's a ponytail It's probably wavy She got on a white t-shirt Tucked into some jeans

With a thin belt The belt Jeans The Jordan Size five Jordans They always get The kids Jordans Like Spanish girls

Like small feet So they Baby Jordans That match the belt The coach belt The coach bow and like a little wristlet, something like that. So that's Bronx to me.

When you think Brooklyn girl, what do you think? Well, I guess if I'm thinking quintessential Brooklyn girl from like the 90s. Not like Brooklyn now. There's all different ways. It's hoop earrings. Gotta have hoop earrings or some door knockers.

You know, I'm from the Coogee sweater Kuji sweater Kuji was Brooklyn Guest suits Guest denim suits Like you have to have

The jackets And the jeans And a pair of Construction Tims Like that's Quintessential You will always have A Tim boot on

Always No matter what You need some Tims You need a pair of Tims And I feel like The Brooklyn people They don't have The different kind

Like the beef and broccoli Or the chicken and something It's just mainly The construction boot The regular It's the classic Tim Classic I mean

No, we've done all of that, but I think the construction boot is, the constructs are the only ones now that are still trendy. But back in the early 2000s, we had every pair, every pair, every different color. I had two pairs. That's it. I tried to keep up with the gems. And what you had? You had the fubu boots?

Beef and broccolis, chicken and broccoli. The fubu ones? Stop it. I had all of them. Well, you know, Timbs are like, even Timbs aren't ours no more, because the Kardashians wear Timbs now, so everybody wears Timbs. Everybody. Yep.

The classics. Ugh, it's so gross. It's so terrible. Carrie, do you know about this place called Casablanca? Yes. I feel very strongly against it. Yes. So there was an older black woman who used to own it.

She died. I mean, it's a legendary place. It's white men owning it now. They kept the name. Most of the crowd is black, but the owners are white, and I feel like they're fronting. so i happen to be on the inside of that because i used to work um at another black owned lounge shout out to voodoo yeah that's right that place is so great yeah i love voodoo and um apparently

i don't i don't love voodoo oh the space the space the place not the voodoo as in the haitian yeah no no the uh the portuguese do that too thank you anyway um but apparently solange was in town and she called someone up and was like uh where can i go where's open and at that time voodoo wasn't open on monday nights like it was the one night that they were that they were off and so they went by voodoo and voodoo wasn't open and then somebody was like try casablanca and so solange went to casablanca had such a good time there that she was like oh guys this is gonna be our new spot so she had like a birthday event there jay jay-z and beyonce popped by no way and then it became this thing now where all the black people are just going there because

they just think it's a cool place it's not cool it's it's very it's very bland there's nothing special about it it's small and i only know this from hearsay because i won't step inside it come on no i went there before the white ownership no because um when it was maybe it was closed down for a while yeah it was closed down for for a little minute so i know and the owner i actually know him too it's two of them um but i i just won't patronize it i feel like there's so many great black owns businesses and i'm tired and that's the shit that i hate about these fake woke people yeah it's the same it's the same people like i know people that go there every day all every weekend it's the same people that's on facebook oh this this that but it's like you're

not even walking that walk no here you are making casablanca popping they don't even serve stuff that caters to black people like they the the the beers that they carry they don't carry heineken or red stripe they carry youngling and pbrs and white people shit yeah so you don't they it is just like why are you even playing yourself and it drives me nuts can you tell us can you tell as like top five black owned restaurants or go to spots

yeah clubs in Brooklyn in Brooklyn okay Voodoo is number one okay 333 that's one

Woodland that's one Sugarcane is an awesome restaurant what kind of restaurant black owned

it's Caribbean it's amazing wait where's Sugarcane Sugarcane it's on Flatbush Avenue right near

Barclays oh oh okay Bedford Hall is another black owned spot

I did not know Bedford Hall was ours. That's ours. Okay. Oh, maybe I didn't know that. Bessel. Love Bessel. Love the food in Bessel.

Oh, yeah. We went there for your party. Yeah. Like, I have my go-to places that whenever I throw an event, this is where I'm giving business to. Whenever I'm eating, this is where I'm going to. I've heard of Milk River. I haven't really been there.

I've seen it. It's black-owned, but I don't go out a lot, so I don't club, but I've heard about it. Black Swan is on Bedford. the food is popping that's another spot that's black on this bk wine bar there's therapy there's mad oh my god i'm here for this whole list yeah there's all like we gotta that's why she's a brooklyn expert right here i'd include this somehow some way that's amazing wait put a whole list of all these places yeah well carrie has operation mobilize yeah talk about that tell us about this let the let the followers know uh operation mobilize is a community-based resource

group that i started with a couple of like-minded individuals like myself basically trying to figure out how is it that black people can become united and start to empower themselves both politically and economically right i feel like we're so divided we're getting information from all these places things aren't being properly vetted we don't know what to do facebook yeah a lot of misinformation is spread there's a lot of people spinning in wheels and operation mobilize is basically just identifying the key things that are important in in black people's uh lives in terms of civil rights human rights and economic and we're saying like look this is what's happening and this is how this is what we do so in terms of like like the the nypd they asked for body cam

feedback and they have a pilot program for their police cameras and um they opened it up for feedback from the general public and was like what do you think about this no one really knew that the nypd was asking feedback they were asking what the public thinks about them wearing cameras yes and about their actual pilot program so so their program outlines like you know um when the officers will be able to record things what the protocol is when would they be allowed to view the footage um in relation to making a written statement about it yeah and they were like what do you guys think about this and no one really knew about it and the people that did know they didn't know what meaningful feedback to leave so me and my me and operation mobilized we did a ton

of research on different body camera programs all across the country we looked at peer review articles that sort of already reviewed it and we put together our own 10-point list based on what we thought the nypd needed to implement right like for instance one of the main points in their program they said that a police officer was should be able to watch the footage from his camera before write in a written statement in what world in what world could a cop shoot somebody or do anything and then watch the tape first and then write your statement yeah no that was what they outlined so one of our feedback was like no shut this down they should not have access to it another thing is we thought that the that the footage should be uploaded to an independent third party cloud

why are they recording it and it's going to the 67 precinct like that doesn't make any sense they can take everything out they're like oh the camera fell off or turned off or if it turns off or if it mouse functions there should be a written documentation explaining exactly what happened and it needs to be corrected like if there's something wrong

with that camera that model that number you need to recall it and do something so we outlined all of these things I don't think they should be allowed to turn them on and off themselves they shouldn't I feel like as soon as their hand touches their gun it should come on but here's the thing about that

is that what happens when they come into your house you know like like so in in times like this we often think oh surveillance is great but when shit goes back to normal or in situations in which our rights are violated then we're going to be like oh wait this is too much like if the cops you see how the cops came to call that guy underneath you in 2a what if he had weed what if he has something now it's recording and that that could be used against him okay you know what So it's tricky. Yeah, I feel like that is tricky. But if you're answering your door with weed, then you stupid.

You stupid. But they still can't enter his house. They can if he allows them in. You know what I mean? And a lot of people don't even know. They're right. That you can be like, nah, chill. Come back with a warrant.

Exactly. A lot of people don't even know that. So Operation Mobilize is just trying to get people to know what's going on and what to do. And we're making it very easy. So where can people find this information? OperationMobilize.com I'm here for all of that Wait I was wondering if you guys told them

That it should be like a live streaming From an independent party When the body cam comes on Because then it will be live And someone can be watching it while it's happening You mean like the whole thing with the car Yeah That's crazy

When she was live streaming when they shot her She live streamed it from Facebook So what if the body cam had like a third party who can watch it live while it's happening the only thing with that is that it's who's watching all of the cameras you know what i mean so it's one thing so what happens is um let's say it gets uploaded to the cloud the way that it says now is wherever the footage goes it stays on record for six months and if there's if there's a problem then they hold the camera longer they hold the footage they hold on to the footage longer right so it's situations like that like it's important

to just know that it's going someplace safe and if something happens you can recall it but i don't think anybody's going to be watching all police officers we're running to that but it's a good idea they need that though they need that they need as many killings as been going on yeah they need somebody watching everybody they if everybody had a section that could be watching each i guess precinct we can get somewhere with that i feel like they they know what they should be doing and they know how they can get this stuff done, but they're like, eh, it's too much work and it's not worth it for us, ultimately.

I think that's what it is. We're glad that you're doing that. My issue isn't even the recording because I saw a video of Rodney King back in 1990 or whatever it was. We see all of these videos. The problem is, what do we do when we see them wilding out on video? It's lack of accountability.

And that's really what we're focused on. The laws that make sure that when they do something wrong, they pay for it. Yeah, and they should. And every time, in my mind, any time a cop gets sued, it should come out of, like, their precinct's pension fund. Because they'd be quick to form that little thin blue line or whatever, and, like, none of the cops are snitching on any of the other cops. But if every time something happened, it affected all of those cops that they worked with. That's exactly one of my, that's one of the things I was saying, too.

Like, if you have a police officer that's known to be a cowboy, but every time somebody files a complaint against him, y'all all lose one vacation day. Then the next time you go out with Cowboy Marie and she's trying to wild out on a citizen, you be like, chill, I already lost Thanksgiving, Marie. Exactly. Chill, chill, chill. These tickets are not refundable. I don't know. It's like a cult. It's like a cult.

It's like a fraternity. I know. And that's why if you win together, you lose together. Exactly. That's how it works. And that's in most sports. Most punishments are team punishments. If your team captain is late, y'all all got to run an extra lap.

That's how it works. Find everybody. Yep. Find everybody. Carrie, you so smart. Yes. You're helping the community so much. I feel like what we going to do, we want to test how Brooklyn you really are.

We going to give you a little quills. Yeah. Okay. This is a big deal. Are you ready? Are you excited? Y'all are ready for me to not know nothing. That's not true.

Come on. You know, some of these are very quite easy. like novice beginner Brooklyn you went to Brooklyn Tech you got this you so smart and now for everything that you get right you get a point and then at the end of that you use that point to get tickets and those

tickets are going to get you a new Remy weave thank you haven't had a Remy weave in a decade I'm looking forward to it girl I still wear Remy weave Sydney you can give the tickets It's a Sidney weave

that she about to put in. It's leftover pieces from the last installation. I showed you that bag. I got a bag. She got a bag full of hair and it's not even organized. Okay, first question.

Are you ready? Yes. Do you need a moment? Do you need to sip some water? Get like your lifelines together. What train is not available at Atlantic Terminal? a c e g um you want me to keep going no i feel like you gave us four damn girl i thought you

said two the three the four the five the n the q the r and the lord the b the d the q yep not the f either not the f f okay so that was like four points that's four points right there like you're ahead of the game right now thank you uh name three classic movies that were made in brooklyn do the right thing uh she's gotta have it though is that one i don't know where that movie is set we did not do our research we didn't um oh i have tons of them brown sugar oh yes that's um there's one major one that you you have to name you gotta know it it's it's major i don't know why i'm blanking out hold on it's similar to do the right thing but it's a spike lee movie sydney really you just wait wait wait i just want her to get it

wait a minute how am i losing it wait a minute well let me look let me look up she's gotta have it yeah look at you might you might already have some summer of sam that was in brooklyn no that don't count and that's likely don't that don't count how am i blanking out gotta do the right thing what's the one um what's the one what's the one with the girl and he calls her her name and it was a wesley jungle fever uh jungle fever was in brooklyn vampire in brooklyn oh yeah that was also in brooklyn yes uh we were looking for crooklyn but you got three oh crooklyn oh yeah she's gotta have it was queen queen so you get your you get your points for that uh okay here we go can you name three rappers from

brooklyn me i'm the bars biggie kim fab bors wait yes fab is from brooklyn how are you stopping right now. Seriously? Shut the front door. Oh, that's that Harlem-ish record. He seems like a... Bobby Shmurda,

designer, apparently. Don't you dare mention those names. Little Mama. Don't you dare. I thought she was from Harlem. Is she Brooklyn? She's from Brooklyn.

No, she's from Harlem. Maybe I'm thinking of Tiana Taylor. She's from Brooklyn. We get our nails done at the same salon. Well, maybe she lives in Brooklyn now.

She went to Madison High School tomorrow. Oh, she did? I thought she was from Harlem. Sorry, Mama. I can see why you would think that, but no. I mean, she looks very Harlem.

She looks very, yeah, Lennox. No, it's because y'all associate her with the chicken noodle soup type. Yeah. And that's Harlem. That's definitely Harlem. With a soda on the soy. What day did Biggie die? Biggie died on March 9th in 1997.

Oh, my God. You are, like, crushing it. His birthday is May 21st. Oh, my God. Stop playing. For the bonus point. Mm-hmm. For the bonus point.

Okay. Here we go. Can you name three major streets in Brooklyn? Oh, come on. Come on. Just three major streets. Utica. Okay.

Flatbush. Okay. Bedford. Bedford. There it is. Can you give us another street? Brooklyn Ave. I was actually looking for North Street.

North Street. Yeah. Or Fulton. Well, you know, I'm from Flatbush. So my major streets are those that come. I mean, Notion, maybe. I guess. There's a million streets.

I know. You're right. Carrie, you're so Brooklyn. Wait, let's give it up. Yay! You are the unofficial expert of Brooklyn, Carrie. Is there anything that is like a misconception of Brooklyn that you feel like you want to clarify? Like something that you're like, oh, Brooklyn's not that.

It's this. I did hear someone white-splain Brooklyn the other day. Oh, God. They were like, you know, when you go to Mike's, it must have been some comic. And they were like, I was just doing the most Brooklyn thing ever. You know, just like riding my bike, drinking a coffee and sitting. No, that's terrible. It was something that was just, I was like, oh, is this what Brooklyn is to y'all?

Because that's not what it is. That's maybe Williamsburg? Yeah, but still. Green Point? And that's not even what Williamsburg was. That's Green Point. I wrote down just a short anecdote. of what Brooklyn is.

Yeah, you got these notes. I got my notes. The best part about Brooklyn. I love, Carrie, that you brought notes. Brooklyn is fire hydrants, double dutch playing. I'm sorry, is this a haiku?

No, but... These are just all the things from the Brooklyn that I remember. Okay, okay. Fire hydrants playing double dutch, reggae music blasting,

dancing in the street and block parties, King's Plaza Mall, Nathan's Hot Dog, the Coney Island Boardwalk. In Brooklyn, we don't care where you're from

or who you know. It doesn't matter. We're not impressed. Nope. um empire skating rink is where everybody used to go to go skating flex in brooklyn we started a whole dance movement dances come out of brooklyn music comes out of brooklyn um brooklyn is grand army plaza library on a saturday kids don't go to libraries anymore no brooklyn is picnicking in prospect park this is definitely we should do a we should do a i love you brooklyn and brooklyn

is fuck Jay-Z. No, I'm just... I thought that was Nas. Sorry. That was Nas. I don't really like Jay-Z. Me neither. Okay, wait.

Wait, speak on that. Yeah. Speak on that, Carrie. Why is this? Is it because he blew up and then left? Well, it's because, yeah, kind of.

Like, he didn't do anything. He helped Sean Bell. He helped Sean Bell. Listen, the thing is, everybody that wants to do these things behind closed doors, when you a public figure, be public.

No, he was public about Sean Bell. I didn't see that. Listen, Jim Jones, Cameron, Harlem, they invested into the basketball courts out there. They invested into Dykeman. In Brooklyn, a lot of the basketball courts are closing down. Brooklyn used to be where a lot of the ballplayers go. A lot of kids from Brooklyn made it to the NBA. You don't see that anymore.

We lost the basketball. We lost all that stuff. Jay-Z, the PALs, all these things are closing down. All these courts in Brownsville, these things with community. Like, I just want to see. Didn't he open Barclays? No. No.

He didn't open Barclay. He put his name on it, basically, to help kind of push that forward. Yeah, so that there wouldn't be a pushback. So that the black community, especially downtown, he used to live across the street from them on State Street. So if Jay-Z got on board, then the rest of Brooklyn would back it. And I was in Brooklyn. I was at Barclay's opening night, the very first concert. We bought floor tickets.

We were like, we're going to be here for Brooklyn. Oh, you're balling out. And it was a big waste of money. and I felt like Jay-Z played himself. Well, he's not even affiliated with them anymore. It's like a sports agent now or something. He let that go. Yeah, I felt like he could have, on the first concert,

he could have brought so many people to Brooklyn and he just did what he does. It was just him. You could have brought Sting to Brooklyn. You could have brought back Foxy, Lil' Kim. You could have brought so many. Inga. Yeah, Inga, right?

I mean, we know she's available. Kalinka Longhair. Can she be remembered? i'm so done yeah no i everything that you're saying is is partial partially the reason why i don't care about jay-z either i mean i've never been a fan of his though so i was never impressed yeah that's a brooklyn it's a brooklyn stance like i made a diss song about him after because i had a clothing line and i used to make shit for him and you had a clothing line what was it called save your vanity okay syv wait wait did you not bring the music you would have played it if you

provided it definitely oh it's on youtube still that was well send us a clip tear me apart send us a clip we can um that's how i started comedy i'll tell y'all after send me the clip and we'll like insert it in here somewhere we'll have like some space that's so crazy that's dope girl that was a beautiful poem thank you thank you carrie you have been one of the most educated most inspiring guest. Most smartest geniuses that we've had on the show. And now the match is laid

for the gods. For the gods. Do you have any projects coming up? Anything film, TV, anything we should look out for? We're watching your MTV Joking Off.

You're killing it. Yeah, where can people see you? When does this stuff air? MTV Joking Off comes on 1030 on Thursdays. I was just on last night's episode. There are about 20 episodes I'm in about 8 of them

So you just have to see when That's a lot I thought that you were going to be on all of them You should be on all of them Last season you and Matt Richards So proud Very very proud of you guys Thank you

How many people are on that cast? There's 20 of us It used to be 12 or 16 This season we got more people and more episodes and we have more guests popping in. And you're on MTV.

And we moved to MTV and Brooklyn Stand Up every first Wednesday is doing some stuff for Brooklyn Comedy Festival. That's it. Just trying to get funnier, yo. Just writing

and staying on stage. You got it, girl. You have it. You guys have never seen Carrie perform. She puts like, like you're so physical on stage too.

Like Carrie gets on stage and she comes off and she be all sweaty. You know, I didn't realize how physical I am until I'm on stage. I'm like, yo, Did I just stoke through my shirt?

Yeah. The sweat is real. But I'm also sweating right now, to be fair, and I haven't moved. So I also have a sweating disorder. But it's hot in here. What I want is, like, if you do your half hour or you do your hour, I just want a whole bunch of people in the front to, like, try to catch your sweat. Okay.

That's what they have. No, you know, what you need to do is have them Beyonce fans. Yes. I want Beyonce fans. That's it. I'm happy that we're doing this now on the record and saying that I sweat a lot because in five years, they're going to blame it on the drugs. No.

I'm going to be doing drugs. But just know, that ain't why I'm sweating. That's it. Shut up. I'm laying on the crack. Carrie, you have been outstanding. Thank you so much for being our Brooklyn expert. You did such a great job.

Can I just say, this has been about me, but honestly, I tell y'all this, every time I see you, there is not enough. I love what you guys are doing. You guys are an inspiration. Thank you. I remember seeing y'all at all the mics, hearing your laughs.

I love how motivated y'all are. I love the friends that you guys are to each other please do not let anything tear that apart I love how supportive you are of each other

I think brown girls and girls and just people that are doing dope shit need to stick together so I'm proud of y'all and I love that every time I turn around

y'all got a new project Cindy got a new thing I keep seeing you on these videos I keep seeing you on videos I love it I love it

we out here thank you black girls creating mess Yes, we are right here. With other black girls for other black girls. Don't do feelings.

Brooklyn girls don't do feelings. Oh my God. She doesn't do feelings at all. Right there, she was looking like, oh my God,

she's really saying things with emotion. She could have said this on her way outside. Don't edit this out. No, we won't. We'll leave it in. You're amazing.

Thank you, Sherry. What's your social media? Yes. At OverFab, short for Overly Fabulous. OverFab. On everything, on Twitter, Instagram.

On everything, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. you have a fan page on Facebook as well Carrie caught it how do you spell your last name C-O-double-double-D

E-double-double-double-double-D hey love it I see how you dissed Jay Z and as always I'm Marie and this is

Sydney Washington and you can see us at the warm up the second Saturday of every month at Karma Lounge amazing show Carrie's done it

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everybody was like six three oh stop it oh my god you had to make raise the ceiling oh my god raise the roof put them up there sydney we not raising that's very harlem of you we do not raise the roof guys we're gonna go make sure you listen to all the other episodes that are up wherever those are and we will see you in a week yep cool thank you bye guys bye for you the listeners of unofficial expert podcast, Zipcar, is offering $25 of free driving credit at zipcar.com. To earn $25 of free driving credit, go to joinzipcar.com slash unofficial experts. Again, that's joinzipcar.com slash unofficial experts to earn free driving credit.