Absolute DMV
Absolute DMV
Gym Chronicles: Fashion Faux Pas: Mixing Brands and Interracial Dating Nuances
Can you really mix Adidas and Nike? On this episode of the Absolute DMV Podcast, things get personal and hilarious as Ace Boogie, Marc, and Egogh navigate the minefield of fashion etiquette. We kick things off with Marc’s anticipation-filled chatter about his upcoming trip to Armenia and Egogh’s laugh-out-loud gym anecdotes. If you’ve ever wondered about the unwritten rules of gym attire and grooming habits, this episode will have you reflecting on your own choices and probably laughing in agreement.
Ever caught flak for pairing Nike socks with Adidas shoes? We have, and we’re breaking it all down. The conversation takes a fashion-forward turn as we dissect the do’s and don’ts of brand mixing. From luxury cross-brand exceptions to the ultimate faux pas, we dish on how financial status and brand loyalty shape our wardrobe decisions. We each recall our retail adventures, whether at Macy’s or Saks Fifth Avenue, and share why some brand pairings just don’t make the cut.
But it’s not just about what we wear; it’s also about who we date. Wrapping up, we dive into the complexities of interracial dating, peppered with our personal stories and perspectives. Do compatibility and shared interests truly trump racial background? Our reflective, sometimes humorous chat navigates the nuances of relationships shaped by diverse experiences and cultures. Tune in for an episode packed with laughs, relatable moments, and thoughtful discussions on fashion, fitness, and love.
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Absolute DMV Podcast. It's your man, ace Boogie. I'm here with a few good guys. I'm here with my man, mark.
Speaker 2:Hey, what's going on everybody.
Speaker 1:And my man Ego on the boards.
Speaker 2:I'm on the boards.
Speaker 1:We are here with another episode of the Absolute DMV Pod. Didn't I already say that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, me it's cool.
Speaker 1:You said it before.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's going to be always another episode.
Speaker 1:I mean how y'all doing today.
Speaker 3:I'm great.
Speaker 1:Hanging in there, can't complain. I'm feeling nice. I've been sipping a little bit, so if, if I, if I get a little saucy, y'all don't mind it. It's summertime, the weather is nice.
Speaker 3:Super nice, we're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 1:Man cuz I mean I won't get into it now. But yeah, I mean, what's going on with y'all man, how y'all doing? Yeah, mark, how you been.
Speaker 2:I'm hanging in there, man Can't complain, just busy, you know, getting some new records put out, getting ready for this trip to Armenia that I'm going to. Okay, just getting all the itinerary, interviews, meeting with people, connecting all that you know day-to-day stuff lined up.
Speaker 3:He's doing that business stuff.
Speaker 1:Sorry to cut you off, but I mean I gotta ask With you going to Armenia, that means Armenia, excuse me.
Speaker 3:Armenia.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I said Armenia, armenia, With you going to Armenia. That means that we're gonna have to take some time off for the pod no we're not.
Speaker 2:No, we're not, I got it covered. Yeah, we figured it out, I got it covered.
Speaker 3:Hey, hey, let me.
Speaker 2:There'll be a special guest host.
Speaker 3:I know we got a special guest host. We got people coming in.
Speaker 1:You know, mark is not leaving, he's just going on a.
Speaker 3:Hey, we're gonna keep going.
Speaker 1:Hey, I love Mark, so missing one third Of the podcast Makes me feel like, well, are we just Gonna take a break?
Speaker 2:I'll be here in spirit, hey.
Speaker 1:And I'll come back With stories. I love it, I love it, I love it. Ego, what's up with you, man?
Speaker 3:Man, I don't know man. Alright, so I got some questions, I got some things I could talk about.
Speaker 1:Okay, me being an old head maybe okay, old head pod cracking off right now definitely, I feel some type of weight all right, so I was at the gym.
Speaker 3:I'm getting my fitness, though, like I mean, I'm getting my fitness, I'm getting a little fat. I'm a little fat and trying to lose that weight. You know, I'm getting tired of where I get ready for summer. No, it's already summer, technically true true, not true, true, yeah, I can't. I can't act like it's just because the date didn't come out.
Speaker 1:It's 90 degrees outside. Yeah, it was like 100. Yeah, no, you're right, it's summer.
Speaker 2:It's past Memorial Day, that means the pools are open. Yeah, the pools are open. The pools are definitely open, you're right, so like.
Speaker 1:I'm avoiding the pools At all costs. Right now, I understand what you're going through.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, I understand. I can't keep wearing this XL shit, XL XL. I mean, it fits well on me, but after a while.
Speaker 1:I'm sucking it in all the time.
Speaker 3:Yo, it's so funny. So I'm at the gym, right? Oh man, so back in the day, when you were at the gym, you knew your gear, you knew what to wear, you knew what to rock at the gym. You're serious, you're going in for work. You're not going in there. Flaunt, you're not going in there, sure, yeah.
Speaker 3:And it's weird to me this day and age the way that people are laxing Daisy or pretty much don't give a fuck how they carry themselves. Even at the gym I saw this homeboy. It fucking baffles me. This dude was walking around with a bonnet oh shit, oh shit, a bot. No, a women's bonnet, and I get it, I get it. I get it. Like they're it's more of a cosmetic thing or not cosmetic, like they're moisturizing their dreads or whatever. Oh yeah, I mean a do rag, like the same thing, like a do ragrag, but even a do-rag.
Speaker 1:I'm do-rag man. If I don't have a hat on, I have a do-rag on.
Speaker 3:Okay, so you got the waves right. It's for the waves right, yeah, but are you doing that in the gym?
Speaker 2:Maybe. So here's a question. Then, if you're at your girl's spot and you don't have a clean do-rag or anything, are you taking a bonnet? Definitely, because it sounds like that. Maybe is a scenario with this guy where he ran out of options.
Speaker 1:Look, look look, I'm not going to knock, I'm not going to fully knock the bonnet because I wouldn't rock the bonnet. Oh my God, I mean I figure that there's all types of different head wraps that the red heads and other people would use. So the actual elastic with the ruffles bonnet, I mean, I, I nah yeah, I mean and I had braids at one point in my life and even then did you have braids?
Speaker 3:when you have bonnet? I never had a bondnet, I never had a bonnet.
Speaker 1:It was always stocking cap, do-rag something of that nature. The thing about it is I get it.
Speaker 3:Okay, if you have long hair you need. But come on, man, like a bonnet is for a woman, for that long hair, weave whatever. It needs to be taken care of. Sure A man wearing a bonnet.
Speaker 1:Hey, I don't know how I feel about a bald head dude telling people with hair what they should be wearing on their head, and that's okay, because you know why I accepted it, that I didn't need it.
Speaker 3:What if I had dreads on the side long and I had a bald head and I wore a bonnet? Exactly, I mean, just stop the sentence that dreads a bonnet, that's exactly, I mean just stop the sentence that dreads on the side.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's already crazy.
Speaker 3:I would've yeah, but would it be okay though?
Speaker 1:I would've had a nice laugh at you, but at the same time I wouldn't have like knocked you for it.
Speaker 3:For wearing a bonnet. A grown ass wearing a bonnet. No, bro, I said I would have laughed, but I wouldn't have knocked you. I didn't sit there and laugh at a dude in front of me. I mean.
Speaker 1:I go by the I'm sorry, I go by the standards with all, with everybody. That it's no judgment, it's all jokes. Yeah, so anything that you do is subject to some type of joke, like I grew up, true, and like I said, I grew up in, you know, the early 2000s, in one of the most diverse high schools. Shout out to John F Kennedy High School in Montgomery County, the only thing we did was fight or flame, and when I say flame, I mean we flamed each other up. It was verbal sparring.
Speaker 3:Flame is the newer term.
Speaker 1:Like we were joning, I mean, yeah, we were, joning, we're frying them up, yeah, but that's what I'm saying. I mean, that's what. That's what we did. It was it was verbal sparring or physical sparring, but back, either way, you were gonna do one or the other clown them up.
Speaker 2:But back in the day it was like you're right. Especially when it comes to fashion kids, especially in middle school, they'll make funny for anything like there are rules that don't make no sense but everyone somehow knows them, like when I was a kid if you had shorts that went above your kneecap you get nowadays it's the opposite if you wear pants that are below your cap it's not in fashion, you look weird and then on top of that, it's like if you have a brand like a t-shirt, you got to wear that matching brand on other gear because you can't have an
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Speaker 1:I've seen a lot of kids nowadays with the Nike Tech and the Yeezys. Okay, and in our day that was like you said. That's blasphemy. You know what I'm saying? Like you were going to get fried up for mixing brands in that fashion. Like if you were going to mix brands, it would have had to been like a luxury item, like you could wear polo with Nikes, you could wear polo with Jordans, like type thing it would not like, not to competing brands.
Speaker 3:You can't have an adidas and a Reebok. You know you couldn't do sport. You can do fashion in sport, right yes.
Speaker 2:so like fashion and fashion in sport, right, yes? Or fashion in fashion.
Speaker 3:No, even that's even. Oh, it depends on what's your money look like True true, true.
Speaker 2:That's another thing, if you got a Gucci shirt and I guess, Balenciaga shoes, I guess I don't know if people are going to knock you. That's okay. That's okay, what are they going to say? You too rich.
Speaker 1:They make fun of you for being rich. I don't know, so like.
Speaker 3:I said, that's a different tax bracket.
Speaker 2:I guess so, yeah, I guess, so yeah, one of those good problems.
Speaker 3:You need to go to Saks See what the we live a hype.
Speaker 1:True, I'm Ralph.
Speaker 3:Lauren Polo all day.
Speaker 1:That's probably the highest brand that I'm going up on True yeah, what's the mall at, what's the hub?
Speaker 3:I lie, I lie Highs.
Speaker 1:I will every now and then.
Speaker 2:Macy's, there was Hex, and then in Friendship Heights they had the one with Neiman Marcus and Saks, fifth Avenue and like those ones, it was like you'd go in there. I only went in there like for the yearly sale they had, and I was like. They had like a bunch of stuff was like 50% off and still $700.
Speaker 3:Back in like, yeah, like for a small, I'm gonna give him big. Yeah, they had a little mom and pop joint so you can you get the discounts or whatever. You go to Ralph Lauren. That was when you you use the shit and Stomping grounds oh. Guess guess gene.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I guess little stomping grounds. Oh, I mean, I worked out there, yeah, that's why I call it remember, guess guess jeans. Oh yeah, I guess but oh, that's no, no, that's too old, that's not. If you want to talk, see. So we're going.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to do that anyway. So like, yeah, so speaking of mark, like that, like what do you feel about cross branding of wearing like nike shoes with Adidas socks and then wearing some Reebok shorts? Like crossing all that shit.
Speaker 2:For me personally. I'm like you can't do two different footwear brands. You can't do Adidas shoes with Nike socks. That's off For me. I always was like, if you got shirt or shorts or hat, then that's different because it's, like you know, is not footwear at that point and it's also like kind of like you know, like how the expectations are too high, like you gotta the loyalty to these brands that that having that demands. It's like you gotta go out and buy mark, you're gonna do deep no, no, no.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying like how are you gonna have only nike stuff for an outfit and then only adidas stuff for another outfit?
Speaker 3:no, no, no. So the thing about it is you, the you grew up like for us. When I grew up, it didn't matter. You will find a way to make everything match. You will find a way, okay.
Speaker 2:How can you make an Adidas and a Nike match? No, because that's the thing.
Speaker 3:No, we won't. That wouldn't exist If you were a Nike all or Adidas all. There's no like wearing Adidas shirt and Nike shoes. No.
Speaker 1:It would never match. Don't do that.
Speaker 3:Like you don't do any brands. If you're going to wear like Nike shoes, Nike socks, you better have a Nike shirt or off-brand shirt.
Speaker 2:Off-brand, yeah it can't be, it's true. So you got to be loyal to whatever brand you pick.
Speaker 1:For me when I was in elementary school, every Friday I had a different Nike fit I would wear.
Speaker 2:And it was all Nike.
Speaker 1:And it had to be. I mean, it just had to be.
Speaker 3:It was expensive.
Speaker 1:That's my point. It was expensive at the time, I mean, and you had to. So, like you said, at that time I had no Reeboks, I had no other brands. All I wore was Nike.
Speaker 3:It has to make sense. You know what I'm saying. So when you bought shit, even though it would be cheaper or whatever, you already had enough Nike that actually you had to keep it going.
Speaker 1:That's what it was. I got one For me. I have one exception to that rule what Slides? If you are wearing slides, if you are not putting together like an, if it don't look like you're putting together an outfit, like you just happen to have an off-brand shirt, you have on your Nike sweats and you throw on your Adidas slides and you roll out.
Speaker 1:I said, if you're trying to put together a fit and you start cross-branding with different sport brands, you start trying to wear some Adidas, yeah, some Adidas pants with a Nike hoodie or something like that. Now I'm like, all right, bro, you look crazy.
Speaker 3:You look crazy and yeah, so, like that being said, it's, it doesn't mean because me, being old school, I used to get fried or like. I used to get joned like because it didn't make sense to the person who looks at me like how you cross branding your gear. Um then, hmm, damn, I got some shit like get off my chest.
Speaker 1:I love to say he about to get in the therapy session.
Speaker 3:Look at this guy. He's just one of those real deep sides.
Speaker 2:He was about to plunge into the abyss of a conversation.
Speaker 3:And you know this is all at the gym. I haven't left the gym yet. This is crazy. So also Crocs, these kids, crocs in everything. Working out in Crocs kids, crocs in everything.
Speaker 2:Working out in Crocs.
Speaker 3:Playing basketball Crocs yes, it's Croc City. It's lazy to me. I get it. It's comfortable, I get it, it's a fashion to them, but I feel it's unsafe If you were running away from a gunshot.
Speaker 2:It's unsafe that was my thinking too. You're running away from a gunshot and safe. That's. That was my thinking too, because, again, I've never owned a pair of crocs, I've never worn a pair of crocs I got, so I don't know how supportive, how attached they are to you, but from looking at them it's like they're basically just slides with a little back strap around your ankle.
Speaker 2:So like yeah, you're in, but like there's no laces, like it's not a high top, it's one strong kick and then you can kick them off probably the only difference between sport mode and not sport mode.
Speaker 1:It's sport mode, yeah, it's sport mode. That's what the kids call them Sport mode. Yeah, I watched a kid play basketball in Crocs and literally break a dude's ankles. And when I say break them down, I mean dude fell, and at that moment I was like that's when he questioned his life. Yeah, I did not.
Speaker 3:I did not question Crocs any longer.
Speaker 1:Wait like he fell no, the dude, the dude dribbling the ball had on Crocs. The dude who was guarding him did not have on Crocs. He had on sneakers, high tops, laced up. He was ready to play basketball and dude with the Crocs put him on the ground in some Crocs and I was just like sport mode is a real thing At that moment.
Speaker 2:I knew sport mode was a real thing. Maybe it's because the Crocs are just like. They're just one big piece of material and they're probably pretty light in comparison to a shoe which has like leather and cloth and dummy stuff.
Speaker 1:But, like he just said, safety, he's thinking about support.
Speaker 3:Like you said, it's a slide.
Speaker 2:It's like you're barefoot, almost there's no support.
Speaker 1:So, how do you do that? I mean, given that all the basketball shoes nowadays are low cuts to me, they kind of remind me of soccer shoes Pretty much.
Speaker 2:Here's a question, though Was the guy that you saw who put him on the ground, who was wearing the Crocs? Was he just an amazing, like god at basketball Could be, or was he just like an average player? Because if he was amazing and he did that in Crocs, imagine what he could do in regular shoes.
Speaker 1:That's the—and I think that's what it might have been, but just the idea that he did it in Crocs, yeah that. Crocs with somebody who was laced up ready to play it's crazy.
Speaker 3:He's probably saying these niggas ain't shit. And it was crazy because he laced up his Crocs. I mean look at me.
Speaker 1:He laced up his Crocs. Oh, he put on his Crocs.
Speaker 3:He came out in his Crocs, that's the new Crocs coming out next year with laces. He put on his Crocs came out in his Crocs. Yeah, laces. That's the new Crocs coming out next year with Laces.
Speaker 1:He put on his Crocs came out. I was baffled when he kept saying that shit he put on his Crocs, came out and I looked at him and I was like young boy, you really going to play in some Crocs? Because little stuff like that to me is in our day. We consider that disrespectful Because it's like that's different difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we looking at you and and you don't feel like it's serious enough to, but you're not taking the time to put on real shoes. Yeah, to play, you don't think that the person you're playing is worth it. And bro, you know, and then he's, and then he did that, and then he did that.
Speaker 1:That is impressive and then he did that and at that moment I was like you know what sport mode is? A real thing, um, um, I won't doubt it anymore I mean, I put, I put on some Crocs, I put on some Crocs, bro, and they weren't in for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, see.
Speaker 2:But for this kid those were as good as some Jordans, I'm going to have to track Crocs next time I go to the shoe store.
Speaker 3:I'm going to just put them on and walk them around, go check them out. Go check them out.
Speaker 2:Try that, go check them out.
Speaker 1:All right, is this like ego?
Speaker 3:Let me cook, let me cook.
Speaker 1:Let me cook. I got something else to say oh damn, go ahead, I got something else to say?
Speaker 3:Go ahead. Are we still at the gym?
Speaker 2:No, we moved on.
Speaker 3:Okay, cool, all right. So now I pretty much said, all right, this is not my error, I'm good, I'm going to keep it moving. I left the gym and you know, next day I'm still thinking about it. And then I start thinking about the way the fashion is nowadays. I'm walking around campus and you know my campus.
Speaker 1:This guy was on an edible or something because he just was mad introspective. What was you on, bro?
Speaker 3:Get out of my face. What was you on?
Speaker 1:Anywho, anywho, so what would you want, bro?
Speaker 2:get out my face. What?
Speaker 3:would you want, tell me any who any who so when I'm walking around looking at how people carry themselves, this, this new thing, like there's a lot of like I don't know if it's the jeans cut or the way like women wear their clothes. Everybody in, everybody is thick, doesn't matter what race it is, doesn't matter how they carry themselves I was like and maybe it's my eyes and maybe I can't see anymore maybe I need to change my prescription. Maybe I'm like bald and blind and blind, but everything.
Speaker 3:Well, actually I'm probably seeing more. Like I see, I've seen all angles and what did y'all think like, how do y'all feel about, like this day and age, like how they carry themselves, like all races, like the races of any, like woman wearing jeans, wearing uh spandex or is, I think, like you were talking about that. It's like the idea that, like gym clothes like you know what used to be, we can go in a gym clothes that shit's like nothing.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, like the rise of Lululemon, you know, and like popular is like Fabletics and you know Zella and all these, like companies that make basically Lululemon sort of like. You know, tight sweatpants and it's like guys and girls wear them and they're tight and it's like gym clothes but they make them so they're like everyday clothes too and they, I think, like everybody wears them now as like uh you know, some of them are like office clothes too.
Speaker 2:so, uh, that I guess has been a rise, and maybe the tight clothes is not just skinny jeans, but, like you know, Everything's fitted. Everything's fitted, everything's tight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we went through a situation or an era I should say situation an era where everything was baggy and then it changed really fast, it seemed like, to where everything got European, cut and skinny, and that's for the men.
Speaker 3:That's not even for the women.
Speaker 1:Skinny shorts, skinny jeans, skinny, whatever I remember when I was in sixth and seventh grade.
Speaker 2:it was like the big baggy pants, like the skater pants, Like if you had jeans. That almost engulfed your shoes and you couldn't even see what shoes you were wearing. That was the cool thing at the time.
Speaker 3:Was that Jenko's? Yeah, jenko's. They were big all those joints. Yeah, like uh, like you know, like the back in the day, like onyx, yeah like uh, naughty by nature when you wore jeans and then you tucked them in like your boot. But then it was baggy as hell, right, and then and then also skater fit like a skater, yeah skater fit and then also in the hip hop realm.
Speaker 2:You know when Nelly was doing, you know his bandaid sort of routine. He had the massive Like XL, like that was a big thing in the early 2000s. It was like Like triple, you know XL. You know t-shirts and all that stuff it was across the board and in a lot of demographics there.
Speaker 1:No, but the seam of my t-shirt Would come down to about here. Instead of sitting on my shoulder, it would be down here and I felt like I was the man. I felt like I was wearing something that fit.
Speaker 2:It's interesting too, because guys' clothes like there's a new thing where it's like you wear skinny jeans and then a big oversized shirt, Like oversized shirts, are making a big comeback and some of them will have like fitted torso and then big oversized sleeves. That don't you know they're made to not fit with your arms so it's a japanese cut.
Speaker 3:There's a lot of.
Speaker 1:There's honestly a lot of baggy baggy pants coming back out yeah I'm noticing that, like flared out ankles and things like that.
Speaker 2:I mean thank you. Yeah, like the 70s, bell bottoms are making a comeback for women too. Why are you doing that?
Speaker 1:I'm just saying they're around, People are buying them. They're bringing all of it back. I mean because to these kids it's all that 70s.
Speaker 3:That's a new trend. It's an ancient time 50 years old.
Speaker 2:It's like kids nowadays buying music will often buy it tape, cassettes because it's an.
Speaker 2:It's like an old analog thing that's historic and prehistoric to them and they, you know they get the digital download but it's a cool little thing that they can put on their desk and their shelves and stuff I saw a video one time where these kids saw a tape cassette oh, yeah, in the car, yeah, and they were like oh cool, it's an iphone holder yeah, or the kid looking at the old, uh like nokia phone and he's like how come it has a hashtag on here and it doesn't even have a full screen, like, how are you going to do that? Well, you can't even download.
Speaker 3:Tick tock hashtag, that's correct I know right hashtag pound tag all right hashtag, that's crazy so like yeah, so we're talking about, like the way women wearing their stuff. So what do y'all think about different races carrying?
Speaker 1:themselves. No, I mean from what you were saying is the gym culture has actually gotten big. That's why I feel like the legging culture has gotten big.
Speaker 3:Women wearing leggings has gotten big Pretty much. The booty is always going to be enhanced.
Speaker 1:As it should. As it should, is it motivating?
Speaker 2:I just like the way that he started that sentence. He tried to sound an intercut and say the booty.
Speaker 1:The booty.
Speaker 2:I just love that interjection right there to start a sentence. The booty meat.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's what it is. Gym culture's gotten really big, so a lot of stuff that women wear are from the gym and things of that nature. And not to mention these gym companies. You see them. They wear the leggings. They make the leggings with the little shadows on the butts or under the butts to make the butts look better. Enhanced, enhanced, yes, and it works.
Speaker 3:So I guess that I keep wearing them, ladies, and that's the same thing. But they transfer that over to jeans now, too, that's what I'm wearing, oh yeah, even jeans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the jeans are specially fit. I mean, jeans aren't really like all denim anymore, they're like stretchy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're stretchy with the skinny jean era because you can't wear real denim.
Speaker 1:Sergio Valente's. Thank you, ladies.
Speaker 2:I remember those.
Speaker 1:Remember that era. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to hold, I'm hitting a vapor. I'm like yo, I'm trying to hold it in this guy. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:That's funny. You got to understand that. That's that, parasuco sergio valente. Era was a special era for, for, for young men, for young women, everybody.
Speaker 2:It was a a special, special era I will say you know what I think that has gone away, which I haven't seen a lot is like the, you know the, the puma or you know the, the one suit where you have a top and a bottom and it's kind of like the velvet material, kind of like the uma thurman kill bill sort of uh, yeah, the track suits, yeah the valor, but yeah like it's not like a track seat like you work out in, it's like a relax no, they got, they got people doing that yeah, but that's like high end, like if you do, yeah, like the.
Speaker 3:I think there's a Puma with Supreme, oh, Supreme.
Speaker 2:They'll sell you a stapler with Supreme written on it for $700.
Speaker 3:Exactly these motherfuckers Like yo. But it's, I kind of want, it, I kind of want it. Wow, because the thing about it is not, everybody has it. It's the same time you see a tracksuit with, like a louis tracksuit. No, no, there's no way I'm for that shit. No, I mean, don't get it twisted they.
Speaker 1:Everything is like we said gym culture is big, so everything is athleisure yeah so if, even if you are wearing this for casual, you can still go work out true, you know what I'm saying. So I guess velour is one of those things where it's not moisture wicking.
Speaker 2:So if you were to go work out in a velour sweatsuit. It's going to be shut up to you yeah. You're going to ruin it, yeah, or you're going to have a bad experience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you might as well go work out in a leather suit. True, it's just good to go. But yeah, speaking, speaking, but yeah, speaking of all the cultures in the gym and everything like that, like you were just saying with the different races.
Speaker 3:Different races, different cultures, whatever.
Speaker 1:As gentlemen I know to put our personal business out there we are all gentlemen who date outside of our race. I need to ask you, gentlemen, was that ever? Was that something that y'all did consciously, or is that something that just kind of happened for y'all? I mean because I know, mark, your wife is Brazilian, yeah, ego.
Speaker 3:I have a Polish wife. I mean girlfriend wife. Wow, yeah, I got to say it.
Speaker 1:Hey, to say it, hey, hey shut up.
Speaker 3:So so the thing about me like, like for this topic it's weird. Like I was never like put myself in a box to date, only one race.
Speaker 1:I date people who like me I date people I worked with me I like.
Speaker 3:So again, I dated, uh, black, I did it white, I did it asian, I dated indian, I did anything that actually made sense for me because, again, I'm all about no headache, sure, I don't give a fuck who it is, what color you are, whatever, if it works for me, it works for me. But most of my friends probably was like if you look at your statistics, if you look at your numbers, you have more white in you than you dated.
Speaker 1:I mean you.
Speaker 3:I care about You're.
Speaker 1:African bro. You're African, of course. You're going to want a white woman.
Speaker 3:No, that's not true. My mom will tell you the thing about.
Speaker 1:It is like African men, when they come to America, they're going to get a white woman. That's not true, Bro. I'm Liberian.
Speaker 3:I know, I've had my share of white women, but again, the majority of all Liberians.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no I mean we're going to get back to what we love.
Speaker 3:Exactly. So again me was not the typical Nigerian. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:And that's why you don't get a white woman.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you're saying all.
Speaker 1:Africans no, the majority of African men are going to dabble in white women.
Speaker 3:So that could go both. It could go a way of opportunity, I think most likely that this situation is more opportunity.
Speaker 2:Call it what you want, call it what you want. So it's not like a Call it what you want, bro, so it's not a preference that you have a certain personality, a certain cultural sort of conversation sort of thing that attracts you.
Speaker 3:It's just the Again at the time. Like I said, it made sense if it worked for me and we both meshed, it worked. Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I personally can say at a certain point in my life it was intentional I actually did stop dating black women. Okay, and that was because, well, I was just in a stupid point in my life and I'll just leave it at that. But I actually just hit a point where I was like you know what I want to just expand. I dated a lot of. I was black women, white women, things like that. But then I was just like, let me just see what else is out there and I wanted to date Hispanic women. I've always found Hispanic women attractive. I wanted to date hispanic women. I've always found hispanic women attractive. Um, I wanted to date asian women. Haven't had the opportunity to date an asian woman. I want to date an indian woman. Oh, like, I just wanted to date. So the full rainbow opportunity.
Speaker 3:Uh no it was.
Speaker 1:I was hitting a point where I looked at it and I felt like black men, this is weird. I felt like black men weren't very desirable amongst other races. So I was like, if I can you know, I don't know if I can get into every culture somehow, some way, this is gonna improve, like this is gonna improve yeah, like this is gonna improve racism.
Speaker 3:No, but like, yeah, he's, like I'm gonna give it to the community I was on some stupid shit.
Speaker 1:I ain't like I can't properly as I think about it now. I was like I can't properly articulate it and I and I know that I was on some stupid shit and I was probably just a young, horny young man. You know what I'm saying. Like I said, it didn't matter, yeah, but I and I know that I was on some stupid shit and I was probably just a young, horny, young man, you know I'm saying like I said, it didn't matter yeah, but I, I just wanted to date outside of my race, like it didn't it and it wasn't and to a certain extent it wasn't actually anything personal against white black women.
Speaker 3:Yes, it was just. I was just trying to date outside my race, it didn't. You didn't get hurt by a black woman numerous times that you had to convert over.
Speaker 1:No, okay, that's fine. No, I love black women.
Speaker 3:Okay, I love black women, mark. What about you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so my wife, we just celebrated our two-year anniversary. Congratulations.
Speaker 1:And we've been together. Yeah, thank you thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you mentioned she's from Brazil. You know she's black, so she's Afro-Brazilian. So yeah, it's. You know I actually yeah, I am intentionally too. I sort of intentionally did not date white girls. I just found again for me personally growing up in Bethesda there's a lot of you know know suburban Potomac sort of kids here and it was very preppy and no knocking anyone. But I'm just not into like the lacrosse sort of you know prep sort of stuff it's not, it's just yeah it just didn't mesh with me and it's not like a, you know, like a.
Speaker 2:It's not really a race or attraction thing, it's just the personality though that was with the culture culture thing, and again, it's just this pocket of location growing up in this part of moco. This, you know, was the sort of general overview and it's just. It just wasn't me. So I was rolling with different crowds, uh, you know which, just sort of fit where I was at and uh, yeah, just kind of I mean I played a part too my thing, maybe with me.
Speaker 1:I dated a white girl one time that said that she couldn't have a white man on top of her because she couldn't deal with all that pastiness.
Speaker 2:That's some self-hate right there.
Speaker 1:I was looking at her like you aren't tan, but hey, shout out to her. You know what I'm saying. To a certain extent I can understand what you're saying because of people like her, where it's just hey, man, you know it's no knock, but I just kind of like this and that's kind of how I am. I don't ego, like you said, I agree with you. I date who likes me. Yeah, I date who likes me. Yeah, I date who likes me. So if a black woman likes me, I will probably date a black woman.
Speaker 3:No, I date it all. Like I said, it didn't matter what it is. So, like I said, you can get it Pow, pow, pow pow.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 3:That's how we roll.
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