0:34

M-O-M-A-Q-W-E W-E , that's my name

0:37

. Mama Q M-O-M-A-Q-W-E

0:45

, w-e , that's my name . Mama

0:47

Q , Say it fast or slow

0:50

, don't really matter , though the U-E

0:52

gets them in the tongue . Tizzy yo Head

0:54

, kinda dizzy bro . Who was she ? Mama Q , slow , don't really matter , though the ue gets them in a tongue . Tizzy yo head , kind of dizzy bro . Who was she ? Mama

0:57

q , mama gave birth

0:59

little waste , no girth several years ago

1:01

. No , I don't want mo q is

1:03

a lie and I tried to align this double

1:06

entendre . Petty ha is one

1:08

of my mantras . Mama

1:10

q , I'm the first one in

1:12

and the first one out . Memphis Tenneke

1:14

is my whereabouts . Don't complain

1:16

, man Say , stick to one topic . I reply

1:18

your mind is very myopic with

1:20

Mama Q . You

1:23

need better optus picking and choosing company

1:25

. Are you uninspired ? Um , definitely

1:28

no need to whisper gracefully . I like it better

1:30

off key . Now let's see . Um , do

1:32

you remember me ? M-o-m-a-q-w-e

1:34

, w-e , that's my name . Mama

1:47

Q M-O-M-A-Q-W-E W-E , that's my

1:50

name . Mama Q , that's

1:52

my name . Mama Q

1:55

hey , hi

1:57

, it's me . Mama Q , I welcome you

1:59

to Moments in Q , in

2:07

Q today . Hi , why black business ? Who

2:09

do , who do , and are you kinky or not ? Hi

2:11

, why I give you the greeting of the day , day and I'm explaining

2:13

the why of this episode Happy 420

2:16

. Smoke if you got them . Now , look , I

2:18

don't smoke at all . And I do understand

2:20

that today is the day after

2:23

420 . I had every

2:25

intention of doing my episode

2:27

, but what had happened was I fell asleep . Now

2:30

is today Earth Day , because if it is

2:32

, see , I'm still keeping it real Earth

2:34

Day for 20 . Same

2:39

thing . So smoke if you got them . I don't smoke at all . I get drug tested , so

2:41

I probably light up some incense

2:44

or something like that . Ok , speaking of

2:46

herbs , I want to highlight a black person

2:48

that educates me and others on

2:51

Mother Nature's beautiful me

2:56

and others on Mother Nature's beautiful , bountiful blessings in our backyards

2:58

and our forests for the free , eating off the body and using herbs

3:00

. And you're working . It's all about Mother Earth

3:02

. For the most part , this episode , black

3:09

business . I highlight a black business

3:11

to bring awareness and my experience with said

3:13

business . Unless , I say it , it isn't a paid ad . I highlight a black business to bring

3:15

awareness and my experience with said business . Unless I say it , it isn't a paid

3:17

ad . I'm open to paid ads , but I definitely want to highlight black business

3:20

. There's enough money for all of us to get it

3:22

. Alexis Nicole , aka

3:24

Black Forager . She is a foraging teacher

3:26

, environment science enthusiast

3:29

, vegan food concocter from Ohio

3:31

. Let

3:36

me paraphrase to you this Bon appetite article that was written about her . She

3:38

considers her online fame a quote-unquote fortuitous accident

3:40

that occurred during the pandemic

3:43

whilst working as a social media

3:45

person for a company . Her family

3:47

introduced her to foraging , being

3:50

outside and plants when she

3:52

was younger . She she loves singing , which

3:54

is where you'll find her doing a lot of her social

3:56

media accounts . Her wife for

3:58

your friends , which matters to the story , never

4:00

gets questioned like Alex

4:03

does . Not surprising . Initially

4:05

, the idea to share forging education

4:08

came during the pandemic because people

4:10

were nervous to go outside and some

4:12

people live in food deserts . Alexis

4:14

showed people you can find food in your

4:16

backyards and or your neighborhood . Now

4:19

I can't remember how I was first introduced

4:21

to the black forager , but I'm glad I follow

4:23

her . She makes chicken of the

4:25

woods look so freaking good

4:27

. I remember learning about cacti

4:30

when she sung

4:32

about them . She

4:34

let us know when to eat them and when not to

4:36

eat them . As always , to me , representation

4:39

matters , so I love seeing someone that

4:41

looks like me , and even quirky too

4:43

, talking about finding and eating plants

4:46

for free , making recipes from

4:48

the findings too , because I'm

4:50

not there yet , but I

4:52

do love following her recipes because I

4:54

am open-minded and I enjoy learning

4:56

about different foods , and to me , she does

4:58

an amazing job of putting

5:01

together the recipes and making the food

5:03

looks good . Okay . So

5:05

, of course , she isn't the only black person

5:07

out here eating from Mother Earth , but

5:10

her introduction allowed me to learn and

5:12

look out for others that look like me . More

5:17

about her will be

5:19

in the show notes . Who do ? Who

5:21

do I get to the root of ? Who do conjure

5:24

up thoughts that pop into my mind about spirituality

5:26

. Come on , get this work all right . So

5:29

I'm thinking about planting again

5:31

this year , not the hemp , though I plan

5:33

to take a break from that . So here's

5:35

a brief reminder of how I got into

5:37

being a gardener . And how does all

5:39

of this have to do with hoodoo ? All

5:42

right , so my mini me learned about

5:44

germination back in high school and

5:46

she was like yo , mom , let me tell you about germination

5:49

, yada , yada , yada . And I was like

5:51

, okay , let's . She was like let's have a garden

5:53

. So I'm like , all right , cool . So we

5:55

started doing um , plants and

5:57

stuff , and so at this time I

5:59

was living at the spot

6:02

where the woman that gave birth to me is , and

6:04

even now , some of the plants

6:06

I planted are still coming back , which is kind

6:09

of cool and weird to me , because

6:11

I planted oh my goodness

6:13

, I think they're iris , I can't remember

6:16

, but I know for sure green elephant ears

6:18

and they're supposed to be . The green

6:20

elephant ears are supposed to be annuals

6:23

, which means they come back . I mean , they

6:25

only do one season and then

6:27

they don't come back . But for some reason

6:29

, I guess , with us living

6:31

um where we

6:33

, then maybe that's why

6:36

it's able to come back every year . But yeah , so

6:38

it's pretty cool . And so I

6:40

did transplant . Didn't

6:43

do so well with that that first year

6:45

, because I didn't know how to do

6:47

it correctly . I thought it was just

6:50

easy Dig it up , put the plant in there

6:52

, but they , the flowers , had died , and

6:54

so last year I did my first transplantion

6:57

and , oh my gosh , it was great

6:59

. Um , first of all I googled it and

7:01

I went by the steps and everything , and so

7:04

I was so proud of myself . So

7:06

, anyway , over the years um , we

7:08

went from me doing

7:10

um well , us doing the gardening

7:12

, to , like , maybe the next season

7:15

or two . It's just been all about me , because

7:17

some way , somehow she got

7:19

um allergies from it , which she

7:21

really does . So that makes sense , okay

7:24

. So then we um eventually

7:26

well , me myself I

7:28

eventually went from planting

7:31

flowers to adding

7:33

um herbs in it and , as you

7:35

know , I did do hemp . It

7:37

was one good year and then

7:39

the next year , no and

7:41

um last year , just nothing

7:44

germinated at all . Fuck , I don't

7:46

know what's wrong . And then I

7:49

also tried to take um

7:51

doing food that didn't work out . My okra

7:53

last year , um , I planted

7:55

it wrong um because it

7:57

got too hot in Memphis Tenneke and

7:59

it wilted and it wasn't in

8:02

my um garden

8:04

. It wasn't in my um garden shed

8:06

either , my greenhouse , I mean . So

8:09

I don't know if that would have protected it and stuff

8:11

. Um , I didn't have a great seasoning

8:14

at all , um , a great

8:16

season at all gardening last

8:18

year . Um , I'm waiting for it to

8:20

be continuously 50 degrees or higher

8:22

. Um . There's this other thing

8:24

as far as gardening goes , um

8:26

, I forgot what it's called . I

8:30

have one of them , I think it's called like a seed starter

8:32

, where you put the seeds in there and if you do

8:34

it around , maybe February or March

8:36

in Memphis , about

8:39

time we get out of the freezing

8:42

zone . That should be enough time

8:44

for you to transplant the plants . But

8:46

life got busy for me and

8:48

stuff and I wanted to do it this weekend but

8:50

we kind of caught a cold shield , I

8:53

mean a cold season . It wasn't freezing , but

8:55

it was like 49 and

8:57

I was super nervous to want to start

9:00

my plants . So I'm gonna look at my weather

9:02

app again to see how that

9:04

goes . I'm all over the place

9:06

, but you know me , I like to give details

9:08

, all right . So , um

9:10

, last year I

9:12

had planted basil , ok , and

9:15

I learned how slightly

9:17

spicy it is Not spicy in

9:19

a bad way , but it definitely

9:21

. The leaf definitely

9:24

tasted different than the basil

9:26

that I had in my house and I know that's like duh

9:29

, but my first

9:31

time eating the leaf I

9:33

was super nervous off of

9:35

it . I'm an overthinker , germaphobe from

9:37

time to time , and it's weird

9:40

as I say it out loud because

9:42

, okay , going into the grocery store where

9:44

they have all these herbs and who

9:46

knows how long they've been sitting on the

9:48

shelf , because until I got with my boo

9:50

thing , love of my life , um , I

9:53

never looked at expiration dates and

9:55

stuff when it came to seasoning or whatnot . So

9:58

that's that , and it's dried

10:00

on top of that . I didn't want to

10:02

get the um herbs with the whole

10:04

leaf to it because I sometimes

10:07

didn't know when I was going to um , I

10:09

didn't know , I didn't know when I was

10:11

going to cook and so therefore I

10:13

didn't want the urge to go bad . So

10:15

sometimes I feel like um

10:18

, dry herbs would be quote-unquote better

10:20

. And so , again , like I said , it's weird

10:22

that I had no qualms at all

10:24

, qualms at all about

10:27

getting this food . But the

10:29

food , as far as from the seeds

10:31

like I literally planted , I

10:33

know I didn't put any pesticide in it . I

10:36

know that in the basil that

10:38

was inside of my greenhouse

10:41

, so I knew that no birds

10:43

got into it or anything like that . So for

10:45

the most part I knew that

10:48

it was 99% good for me because

10:50

no pesticides involved . But you know

10:52

, you just don't know sometimes what's in the

10:55

foods that we eat here and

10:57

stuff . But you know I'm going to get

10:59

a little bit better about

11:01

when I'm

11:04

getting better about trusting myself

11:06

when I grow

11:09

things and eating off of it

11:11

. But I'll go more into all of this stuff

11:13

a little bit later . All right , so

11:15

during my

11:17

hoodoo journey I've learned a lot

11:19

about plants . I learned

11:22

that my mini me has a gift of

11:24

talking to plants can't make this

11:26

shit up y'all and so that made

11:28

sense that many years ago she

11:30

wanted us to have our

11:32

own garden . I also learned

11:35

that different herbs have healing medicinal

11:38

properties , of course , and they can be

11:40

used in different workings , depending on

11:42

what you want . So a thing that

11:44

some people talk about a lot is

11:46

that basil is used

11:49

can be used

11:51

for prosperity

11:53

workings , and I

11:55

think it's also used for protection

11:57

as well , and for me , I always

12:00

like to include protection in

12:02

anything that I do as

12:04

far as my workings , whether it's prosperity

12:06

, protection , duh protection . Of course

12:08

, I want to have lots of protection , but

12:10

prosperity , because that seems to be one

12:13

that a lot of people want , and there's nothing wrong with that

12:15

. But even love , because that seems

12:17

to be a follow up number two that a lot

12:19

of people want , and I always

12:21

like to add protection into it , because

12:24

you know , in my experience you

12:26

have to be very specific about the things that

12:28

you want and you desire . That's one , and

12:30

then the other things that there could be other

12:33

forces , whether it's spiritual , family

12:35

, friends , etc . That could

12:38

try their best to knock

12:40

you off your path . So it would be nice to

12:42

have protection and or

12:44

to add your spirit teams that

12:46

extra oomph of protection . Ok

12:48

, and so I

12:51

bought a herbal book to learn more

12:53

about what plants I could plant . Now

12:56

, my first introduction

12:59

to wanting to start a

13:02

hoodoo garden , if that makes sense

13:04

, is when I was reading the book 365

13:07

Days of Hoodoo by Stephanie

13:09

K Bird . I'm saying this off the top

13:11

of my dome . I feel 99%

13:14

confident that that's her name . Okay

13:16

, so in there she was talking about

13:18

similar to what I just said , about

13:20

having your own garden where you

13:22

can go to the backyard

13:25

and get your own items and

13:27

stuff for hoodoo , and so I wrote down all

13:29

these different herbs that I learned in the book . And

13:32

then she had talked about a business that

13:35

you can get the herbs from , and I saved the

13:37

business . I want to say Richter's R-I-C-T-E-R-S

13:41

herbs , but my small

13:43

issue with them and it's

13:45

just me is that they give

13:47

you a lot of seeds . I don't have that big

13:49

of a backyard to get

13:51

a lot of seeds , and at this point I don't

13:54

know many family members that I'm cool with

13:56

, or even family members that I'm

13:58

not that are into gardening like

14:00

I am so therefore , it's

14:03

difficult for me to

14:05

want to buy seeds , since there's

14:07

about a hundred of them like what am I going to

14:09

do with them ? Of course I could save

14:11

, but I'm always nervous about saving

14:14

them because I think the seeds

14:16

have to be at a certain temperature

14:20

. Now , look y'all , I have not taken my meds

14:22

yet . I know I am all over

14:24

the place . Some of this is notes

14:27

, some of this is from the dome , but I promise

14:29

you eventually it will make sense and if I'm

14:31

repeating myself from when I talked about

14:33

herbs , when I first started growing

14:36

hemp last season

14:38

or season before that , y'all will be okay , all right

14:40

, okay , so anyway

14:43

, um , I wrote down all

14:45

the things and , of course , I learned that

14:47

you have to be in different

14:49

planting zones and that'll help you

14:51

out , which is why I have the greenhouse , because

14:53

my part of being in

14:55

Tenneke we are planting

14:58

zone 7A or 7B

15:00

, but I just pay attention to 7 . All right

15:02

, back to the herbal book . All right , this

15:04

herbal book , if I'm not mistaken , is called Cunninghams

15:06

, and in this book they

15:09

have the different type of herbs . So , for

15:11

example , let's go back

15:13

to it being about basil . All

15:15

right , so when it comes to

15:17

basil you . It

15:19

tells you the name of basil

15:21

, obviously the scientific name and also

15:24

other nicknames of basil , which helps out a

15:26

lot Because sometimes , as you know , some

15:28

people might not know the scientific or

15:30

the common name to it . So

15:32

if you're looking at other grimoires or

15:35

talking to your ancestors

15:37

or whatnot , they might call it

15:39

. I don't know , I

15:41

can't think of off the top of my head , but

15:43

they might call it something differently . Or a book

15:45

you read might call it something differently and

15:48

it could actually be basil

15:50

. Thanks to that , you have the other names that people

15:52

call it by . It'll tell you if

15:54

it's a feminine or masculine plant

15:57

. It'll tell you what um

15:59

planet it's associated

16:01

with . It'll tell you different ways

16:03

to add other herbs to it . It'll

16:06

also tell you the different ways of

16:08

um things that can help

16:10

you with , like I said , basil protection

16:12

, prosperity , all of that . So

16:14

I really enjoyed . Oh , and also a another

16:17

line that really , really , really is important

16:19

to know is that it's safe . You

16:21

know , um , there are some . I

16:23

want to say what is it called ? I think it's

16:25

called foxglove . That is

16:28

poisonous to

16:30

us , um humans , so

16:33

you don't want to grow it , obviously . So

16:36

, um , there's also some plants that

16:38

are um , let

16:41

me see . If I'm not mistaken , there are some plants

16:44

I can't think the name of them that you can

16:46

grow , but certain parts of the plant is

16:48

poisonous to us and certain parts aren't

16:50

. So , again , the

16:53

book helps out that if you want to ingest

16:55

the plants by any

16:57

way , you know , in your teas or

16:59

something like that , or just want to eat the leaves or whatever

17:01

it'll , let you know what you can or cannot

17:04

do . And again , I think that's very important

17:06

because you don't want to

17:08

pass away , obviously , from eating this

17:10

and stuff . So I really

17:13

like that and stuff and so

17:15

, um , I did not know prior

17:17

to this that I had a knack for working

17:19

the roots . Now , of course , I would

17:21

not consider myself a root doctor . I

17:24

personally feel like different titles within

17:27

the spiritual community means that

17:29

a person have lots of experience and

17:31

knowledge and at this point in time

17:34

I personally don't feel like I don't . Now

17:36

some people might think that I have more

17:38

than a newbie that's coming

17:40

out , which is fine and dandy , but when

17:43

I think of the word Rue Doctor , I

17:45

honestly think that this person is

17:48

like a doctor champion , which I've talked about

17:50

before , who had well

17:53

RIP , but he had the

17:55

background to

17:57

learning about using the different herbs

17:59

and roots in order to do the concoctions

18:02

. That's well known within the city

18:04

of Memphis . So that's one thing . And then

18:06

another thing is that I personally

18:08

feel like they have all of this

18:10

different knowledge of how

18:13

the plants look if they want to forage it

18:15

and things of that nature . And for me

18:17

this is a journey , not a pit stop

18:19

. So I don't want to just stop at

18:21

saying , hey y'all , I'm a root worker and

18:23

stuff . Now , if somebody else for some

18:25

reason wants to give me that um title

18:28

, I may or may not be okay with it , but I

18:30

don't want to call myself that

18:32

. But I do

18:35

get help from spirit as far

18:37

as how to use these different herbs

18:40

in my workings . Would

18:44

look them up on the internet before

18:46

I got the book just to make sure

18:49

that the thoughts that came into my head

18:51

were correct , because I'm a trust but verify

18:54

type of person and spirit always

18:56

gets on me because it's like I use

18:58

the quote-unquote wrong times to listen

19:00

to them . But I

19:02

just wanted to have some kind of self-assurance

19:05

and so 99% of the time

19:07

, the herb that came in my head was

19:09

exactly what I needed . Now , because

19:11

I've been doing this for a

19:14

while . I sometimes don't have to look

19:16

up the name of the herb

19:18

that I'm using because , duh , I've used it before

19:20

and I keep , uh , um , reading

19:23

written of

19:26

all the writing oh my gosh , writings

19:28

of what I use , how I

19:30

use it and the and the reasons for it

19:32

. Because what I like to do with my workings

19:34

is , even though I know that again

19:36

back to using basil , basil's protection

19:39

. Basil is used for

19:41

prosperity . I still tell the plant

19:43

what's what it's going to do . I

19:46

still tell my spirit guides what I would like for it

19:48

to do , just so everybody's on the

19:50

same page of knowing what it's supposed

19:52

to be . So , anyway , I would look it up

19:54

99% of the time . Like I said

19:56

, it's what I need . Other times I couldn't find

19:58

it , like , for example , a thought came

20:01

into my head about milk or magnesia . I

20:03

couldn't find a spiritual reason for it , but

20:05

I still wrote it down anyway . So

20:07

you know , so you know , I would just still

20:09

roll my intuition after I couldn't find it

20:11

. You know , like I said earlier , I'm

20:13

still nervous to eat plants that I grow and

20:15

or in and just herbs from it , regardless

20:18

if I trust them . So recently

20:20

I have bought a mixture

20:22

from Memphis Conjurer . It's um

20:25

, the name of the tea was a psychic

20:27

tea , and I trust

20:29

Memphis Conjurer , but just the weirdo

20:32

in me that likes to double

20:34

check . I looked up the herbs and there was nothing

20:36

wrong with the herbs , but I was just so

20:39

nervous to drink it . So

20:41

instead I did go to my book to make

20:43

sure that it was OK to be ingested

20:45

, and it was so . I decided to use it as

20:47

a steam to

20:51

be ingested , and it was so . I decided to use it as a steam . So once I steeped it and , um

20:53

, once I used my cure rig full of hot water , I put my tea

20:56

strainer in it , let it steep and

20:58

, as the um steam

21:00

was coming from it , of course I

21:02

inhaled it , and that was the best way that I could

21:04

, um , the best way that I felt comfortable

21:07

with having it so , um , and it's been working . Um , I already the best way that I felt comfortable

21:09

with having it so , and it's been working . I already

21:11

have that ability , but I felt like

21:13

this was a way to reconnect me some more

21:15

, not to say , in my opinion , that

21:17

spiritual gifts leave

21:19

, but I think that sometimes , if you're

21:22

not taking care of yourself

21:24

spiritually , or crowded , or

21:26

have a lot of other thoughts on your mind , if that

21:28

makes any sense , that that can make it difficult

21:30

for you to use your

21:33

gifts . So for me , I

21:35

kind of feel like it's equivalent to

21:37

my ADHD . I have ADHD

21:39

bad , which is why I'm rambling

21:42

all over the place , squirrel , squirrel

21:44

, squirrel type of way , where my boo thing

21:46

would talk about me . But this is normal

21:48

to me . But when I take

21:50

my ADHD medicine which I don't take

21:52

it on the weekends , but when I take it , I'm

21:55

calm , focused and I know what's

21:57

going on and I'm able to , um

22:00

, sometimes articulate myself

22:02

a little bit better , because boo thing

22:04

will say , like , I think , what

22:07

was ? I think he was asking what's a sliding

22:09

scale ? Cause we were looking at Jessica Jones and

22:11

I gave him all the roundabout way when

22:14

he , when I could have , he got on me

22:16

and I don't care . I could have easily

22:18

said , um , that the amount

22:20

of money varies of how much money you make , but

22:22

I don't know . I'd like to give details . Whatever , whatever

22:24

, whatever

22:35

, whatever . So , um , again , I , I um inhaled the herbs that came from the tea and it

22:37

worked for me and , um , I'm back to where I am . So I also , as

22:39

I said before , use herbs

22:41

with spiritual baths or on my candles

22:43

and stuff , and so I

22:46

used to have this

22:48

big old tea strainer

22:50

and I would use that to

22:52

put in a in a plastic

22:55

cup or whatever , as I use my spiritual bath

22:57

, which is fine , but I also use muslin

23:00

I think that's

23:02

what it is M-U-S-L-I-N , which

23:04

is the bags that I

23:06

use for my spiritual

23:10

baths . That's what I prefer to use if

23:12

I want to reuse them again and

23:14

stuff , and so

23:16

I will put the herbs in there , let them steep

23:18

in the hot water and then that will be

23:20

another safe not safer way

23:23

, but another as far as

23:25

my bath is concerned

23:27

, another safer way for me

23:29

to use a spiritual bath in my shower and

23:31

to ensure that no herbs go down the

23:34

drain or anything like that . So , of course , you always

23:36

want to have a strainer so that you won't make

23:38

a mess in your

23:40

um bathtub shower

23:42

, what have you and stuff . So that's what I

23:44

use , um , because , again back

23:46

to what I said , you know I want to ensure

23:48

like what if the person

23:51

who bought these herbs didn't

23:53

grow them themselves ? Or what if they did

23:55

and they decided to use pesticides

23:57

so that they can have an unlimited

23:59

amount of this certain

24:02

herb and stuff , because you know we're in a capitalistic

24:04

society and I remember learning

24:06

in science class that you're not supposed

24:08

to to eat everything that you

24:10

use for science and stuff . So it just brings

24:13

me hesitations . So

24:15

, anyway , I do love the results that

24:18

come from my spiritual baths and using

24:20

herbs within my candles and learning the

24:22

knack of it and stuff . So

24:24

back to reworking . As know

24:26

, that is someone who works the roots and

24:29

they know how to use the works

24:31

to achieve the goals . And this , being

24:34

a root doctrine , were very needed

24:36

during enslavement and Jim Crow laws

24:38

because , as you know , the

24:40

enslaved Africans , when they were

24:43

enslaved and even when they became free

24:45

, they did not have access

24:47

to have doctors . They

24:52

became free , they did not have access to have doctors , so sometimes they had to use

24:54

the herbs that were around them to help them feel better . And I think Native Americans

24:56

also use this , but I'm not very familiar

24:59

with Native American culture so I really

25:01

don't want to say the wrong thing , but I do

25:03

feel like Native Americans and enslaved

25:06

Africans really use the herbs

25:08

they foraged around to

25:10

eat . And , again from my learnings

25:12

, when it came to the enslaved Africans

25:14

, nasa would give them just

25:17

a little bit of this , this and that , and so

25:19

they had to use a garden to make it work and make

25:21

it do what it do and stuff you know , taking

25:23

a little bit of nothing

25:25

and turning it into something . So

25:28

, again , little

25:31

bit of nothing and turning it into something . So , again , people would use these

25:33

different things to help them survive and to last within

25:35

these trying times . So I think that

25:38

root doctors are still out there . I

25:40

just don't know if there's a lot of them or if they

25:42

are moving in silence

25:45

. Again , I don't want to claim

25:47

that title because I'm not a title chaser in

25:50

the lifestyles I live . Same thing for me

25:52

, even though it's not the BDSM

25:54

section . Same thing for me when it comes

25:56

to BDSM . I'm just a kinkster . I

25:58

don't want

26:01

to be a master

26:03

, a mistress or anything because , as we

26:05

know , with titles becomes a lot

26:07

of responsibilities . All right , um

26:10

, and I also don't feel like

26:12

um . I'm educated enough to

26:15

give anything but my opinion

26:17

. Okay . So back to Alexis

26:19

Nicole , because I think I had said in the last segment

26:21

I would talk a little bit about

26:24

this . I learned about um

26:26

, the loitering and foraging

26:28

happened after

26:30

um , the emancipation from Alexis

26:32

Nicole . Of course I'm paraphrasing , but

26:34

that's how I think

26:37

that it came to be quote-unquote . Wrong

26:39

with people wanting

26:41

to go to other parts of the land to

26:44

forage because you know , there's the

26:46

, there's these plants of

26:48

duds that are out here for us to

26:50

use and so to keep black people

26:53

, they started to have these loitering laws and

26:55

I remember seeing uh , I

26:58

don't know which episode it was , but looking

27:00

at Naked and Afraid

27:02

with my boo thing we had saw that

27:04

there was a plant that someone

27:06

had used and

27:10

I think there was a larger reaction . And so

27:12

the Naked and Afraid person

27:14

has said that Mother Nature usually

27:17

provides antidote to

27:19

everything that's poisonous , and

27:21

so around that area was an antidote

27:23

and the person was able to use that to to

27:25

help their partner in the naked and fray challenge

27:27

. Um , get better

27:30

, and I've seen it so many times using plants

27:32

when it comes to looking at the show alone

27:34

. So again , it's out there , um

27:37

for us and I think , with these laws

27:40

that came to be before some

27:42

of us in our existence , it makes some of us

27:44

not all of us , but I know I'm one of them hesitant

27:47

to want to forge due

27:49

to breaking laws and not being educated

27:51

and knowing what is good for you , what's not

27:53

, and so it's just quote-unquote safer

27:56

and this is just me talking about a quote-unquote safer

27:58

for me to do what

28:00

is okay to eat versus

28:03

just going out there and finding it . But a cool

28:05

thing about Alexis Nicole is

28:07

that she always shows what

28:10

is the right thing to get and things

28:13

that look similar to it , so you won't get

28:15

confused and , you know , get allergic reaction

28:17

or something like that . Also learned here

28:19

in Memphis , tennekee , from my friends

28:21

that the city used to allow

28:24

people from growing their own food , and I'm

28:26

like what , and it's so sad

28:28

, and I'm like how amazing

28:30

things could be if we were allowed

28:32

to barter with our neighbors , assuming that they grew

28:34

their um , their fruits , vegetables

28:37

and the like correctly , we could feed ourselves

28:39

because , as we know , groceries bills

28:42

are getting super experienced . I mean expensive

28:44

, not not experience , I'm sorry . So

28:47

before I end this segment , I also want

28:49

to talk about a documentary that I saw

28:51

. It was directed by Chantrelle

28:53

P Lewis and it's called In Our Mother's

28:55

Gardens and it celebrates the strength

28:58

and resiliency of black women and

29:00

black families through the complex

29:02

and oftentimes humorous relationship

29:04

between mothers and daughters . So

29:06

, like I've said before , it's been a while since I've

29:08

seen it but if I'm not mistaken

29:10

, I think there were a couple of times where people

29:12

were talking about gathering herbs

29:14

and things of that nature . So you know

29:17

, for me I always believe that the ancestors

29:19

find a way that , even though we're so

29:21

removed from them that some of us , knowingly

29:24

or unknowingly , are repeating

29:26

things that our ancestors did . So

29:28

you know , check out the movie

29:30

and walk around your plants , garden

29:32

your forest , etc . And

29:35

be safe with it doing it , and see if anything

29:37

resonates with you , and maybe you could start

29:40

a grimoire where you start writing the workings

29:42

down with the plants that you used

29:45

and the date , the time , etc . And

29:47

maybe things will work out for you . Are

29:53

you kinky or not ? I'm a proud kinkster

29:55

of the BDSM community . Let me tell

29:57

you about this lifestyle to see if you want to come over

30:00

to the dark side . We got candles . Let

30:02

me talk about a kink that makes me hesitant

30:04

to participate , but lovely

30:06

to see from an artistic point of view natamori

30:09

. It means eating sushi off a perfectly

30:12

still woman in japanese . Now

30:14

, in my opinion , women um

30:16

includes trans women , because , duh , trans

30:19

women are women . Um , natamori

30:21

. Yeah , natamori

30:24

is the naked adult , is a man

30:26

, but you know me , if it's an

30:28

adult consenting with other adults , bon appetit

30:30

. Let me educate you from the garden

30:33

the guardian in 2019

30:35

. The woman is the plate

30:37

and the sushi is on her . There are

30:39

leaves to separate the sushi from the skin

30:41

. The author also talks about this

30:43

scene being in pop culture . Samantha

30:46

from Sex and the City . I remember that scene

30:48

and that , if I'm not mistaken

30:51

, when I found , when I did see it , I

30:53

think I was not kinky at

30:55

the time , so I was just like oh , okay , whatever . And

30:57

then , being amongst my ex kinky

30:59

community , they had talked about

31:02

it as well , but I don't think

31:04

there had ever been a time

31:06

within that particular kinky

31:09

community that they had an event where

31:11

a person was the

31:13

plate for sushi , but they

31:15

had talked about how cool it was or whatever , and

31:17

I kind of had this face like . But

31:19

then they started to explain about

31:22

the barrier . So I was like like , okay , okay , okay

31:24

. So , um , if someone

31:26

that enjoys being naked , I will consent

31:28

to this , but I have to be

31:30

covered with barriers , okay , cause , as I've

31:32

said before , I'm a freak and also

31:35

a dermaphobe . All right , I would

31:37

need a bodyguard , literally , so that no one

31:39

will put their hands or chopsticks where they

31:41

don't belong . Oh , and wasabiabi gotta

31:43

be on a whole nother table . All

31:46

right , because chemical

31:48

play is not my kink , all

31:50

right . So the the delish

31:52

ironically wrote about this in 2023

31:54

because it was for

31:56

kanye west birthday party and

31:59

he had a naked body being the plate

32:01

and sushi on top , and

32:03

the um author shared some food

32:05

concerns . So let me paraphrase this as well

32:07

the model's body should be clean

32:09

, not just soap and water . I

32:11

took a bath . Clean , but like

32:13

. Clean like hydrogen peroxide or rubbing

32:16

alcohol . Clean because the

32:18

germs can come from the hair

32:20

, and you know what kind of hair we all have

32:22

on our body . We have underarm hair , chest

32:24

hair , hair on our head and

32:26

our genital area and let's not forget

32:29

that germs can come and

32:31

creep into our fingernails too and

32:33

you can have hair from others . Ew

32:36

, because you know people

32:38

around you . They're treating you like you are a buffet

32:40

, so they probably don't have the little barriers or making

32:42

people have masks and things like that

32:44

. So , um , our rising body

32:47

temperatures can fuck with the sushi , because

32:49

you know sushi is seafood and you

32:51

can't have your seafood too hot because you can have

32:53

pathogens from that as well , but you know

32:55

what ? I am not gonna yuck your yum

32:57

. Okay , if you have participated

33:00

in this , you know . Let me know about

33:02

it . Um , if you're curious , it

33:04

seems pretty easy . You use sushi

33:07

sashimi make sure everybody's

33:09

a consenting adult , you have barriers

33:11

, whether the barriers are these sanitized

33:13

leaf type of things

33:15

that you would see at a sushi restaurant

33:17

. Or you wrap yourself and , um

33:20

, what is that ? Oh , my

33:22

goodness , yes , the word escapes me , not

33:24

aluminum foil , but what's the other one ? Um

33:26

starts with s . Oh my gosh , I

33:28

cannot think of it , but anyway it's

33:31

. Oh , there we go saran wrap , so

33:33

you can wrap yourself a saran wrap . Obviously , do

33:35

not cover up the nose or your mouth

33:37

, because you got to be able to breathe , okay , um

33:40

, make sure no one has any allergies . Um

33:43

, please , please , use face masks , because

33:45

, again , germs . So happy snacking , don't

33:48

die .