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Welcome to the show. Still taking place in this blank void. It's actually the
place all your AirPods go when you lose them.
I bet you thought that this was rattling around your car's floor mats.
Nope, it's mine now. Into the pile you go.
Look, it's been a busy week from Republicans trying to oust Liz Cheney
from House leadership to California gearing up for the recall election of
Governor Gavin Newsom. Multiple candidates have already filed to run
against him, one of whom released this ad.
This beauty has proven he can't do it. This beast can.
This time.
Make the right choice for California and your family.
Recall the beauty and elect the nicest, smartest beast you've ever met.
John Cox.
Now, all of that is completely idiotic, but I'm gonna choose to focus on the
fact that he seems to think the problem in Beauty and the Beast was about
choosing between the two, when everyone knows that the problem was, how are
these two fucking? We know it's happening.
We know it's great, and we know it's weird, but how exactly does it work?
Do they take special precautions around the flames to avoid burning, or is the
burning part of it? Same question, but about the feather duster and sneezing.
Is the sneezing part of it?
I hope the sneezing is part of it. Now, that guy really committed to the bear
metaphor, even bringing one to a campaign event, only to complain the
next day that the coverage yesterday was all about the bear. And yeah, no shit it
was. You brought a literal dancing bear, the universal metaphor for distracting
gimmick people pay attention to instead of whatever the fuck you're talking
about. Now, meanwhile, the week saw the latest attempts to undermine the
democratic process with Texas and Florida continuing the trend of
Republicans enacting new voting restrictions.
Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, a man with a vibe that screams, we'll flirt
with your teenage friends, signed a bill live on Fox and Friends for some reason
that targets ballot drop boxes and voting by mail. Meanwhile, in Texas,
their new voter suppression bill initially featured a line about the
importance of protecting the purity of the ballot box.
leading to this awkward exchange with one of its sponsors.
following the Civil War.
Did you know that?
No, that's... I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah, I bet you are. Although, I'm guessing you're less sorry to hear the
historical connotations of that phrase and more sorry to hear that publicly,
especially in front of all those fucking cameras.
But perhaps the stupidest election-related story is currently
taking place in Arizona, where Republicans have been trying to
relitigate the presidential election by recounting all the ballots in the
state's most populous county.
This is yet another tally of the nearly 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County.
But this so-called audit is unlike any other.
These are ballot counters heading into a shift. Have you ever done election
counting before?
No, but there's nothing to it. It's pretty obvious.
That's not reassuring.
Normally, when a guy in those sunglasses says, there's nothing to it, it's pretty
obvious. He's just seconds away from reversing his brand new ATV through the
front window of a Fuddruckers. And for the record, this recount is a total
joke. The audit company in charge, Cyber Ninjas, is owned by an advocate of the
Stop the Steal movement.
And obvious bias aside, the process alone seems pretty slipshod.
Arizona's Secretary of State has expressed alarm over accounts of ballots
being left unattended and...
of untrained workers using different rules to count ballots, all of which the
audit's official Twitter account disputed as baseless claimees, which
doesn't exactly fill you with confidence about their attention to detailees.
And it is genuinely insane to swoop into a county that, remember, has already
done multiple audits of its election count finding no evidence of fraud with
the attitude of, okay, but what if we do it shitty this time?
And it gets even worse when you consider the Secretary of State is now receiving
death threats. And all of this is so that they can chase down crazy
conspiracy theories like this one.
There's accusations that 40,000 ballots were flown in. To Arizona?
To Arizona.
And it was stuffed into the box, okay?
And it came from the southeast part of the world, Asia, okay?
And, uh, and what they're doing...
is to find out if there's bamboo in the paper. Why do you check for bamboo?
Because they use bamboo in their paper processing.
Who's they?
People in Southeast Asia. Wow.
Southeast Asians attempted to sway the 2020 election in Arizona via bamboo
ballots. Sounds like something your drunkest uncle would say before passing
out at his niece's sixth birthday party.
And look, that is obviously nonsense, and in fairness to that man, he doesn't
believe any of it. He runs a nonprofit focused on election fairness and is
volunteering, hoping that this process manages to disprove many of these crazy
theories, which is a nice idea.
The problem is, though... the people behind this recount aren't going to be
convinced unless the results swing their way. We know this is true because,
again, there have already been multiple audits conducted in Maricopa County, and
they weren't convinced by the results.
And the thing is, Arizona is playing a dangerous game here, and things are
probably only going to get more volatile. Put it this way.
Arizona's recount is kind of like that guy bringing a bear to his event in that
it's chaotic, it's pathetically desperate, and we'll all be lucky if
nobody gets seriously hurt. And now, this.
And now, happy Mother's Day from the disappointing men of local news.
I got a lot of moms, related moms in my family. My wife is a mom.
My mom-mom.
Your mom-mom. My mom-mom. My step-mom and my mother-in-law.
Wow. Yeah, I got four people that I disappoint.
She had kind of hinted that you should know what to get her for this Mother's
Day. Did you figure that out? No, I didn't.
Actually, I did suggest something that I thought she wanted.
And then she told me, no, that would be a terrible idea.
Mother's Day is Sunday. Do not forget. High temperatures there are 54 degrees.
If you have any good ideas for my wife, let me know. Last year, I remember I got
my wife like a $40 bouquet for Mother's Day. It was beautiful.
This year, I'm buying for four moms.
$10 bouquets all around. Don't make the same mistake I made. Don't give her a
Wonder Paw for Mother's Day.
Nathan, you got your Mother's Day gift ready for Mom and your wife?
Yeah.
Moving on, our main story tonight concerns hair, specifically black hair.
the subject that gave us the single greatest Real Housewives entrance of all
time, when Kenya Moore crashed Marlo Hampton's wig launch with a marching
band to promote her own line of hair products, and Portia Williams reacted
like this.
Even if I did agree with Kenya in the fact that people's edges matter, they
don't matter today, bitch.
You are wrong. This is absolutely insane, okay?
So today, I don't agree. But tomorrow, yes, my edges matter, and I'll be using
the product.
You know what?
As per usual, Portia is right about a number of things there. Kenya is wrong.
Edges do matter.
And I, like Portia, will also be using the product tomorrow.
Monday is my wash day.
And look, I realize I'm not the ideal person to talk about black hair. I look
like I still go to an old-timey barber named Valentino and ask for the tidy
Liza Minnelli. And I also know that the danger is when a white guy on TV starts
confidently talking about black hair, even with the best of intentions, it can
end something like this.
I didn't want the little tea light to overheat, and then all of a sudden,
we've got breaking news here at the channel. I told you, if the sprinkler
systems come on, I'm done for the day. Yeah.
That is not... Sitting up here looking like a mop.
Yeah, you don't want sprinkler system and a beautiful weave, because they do
not go together. Oh!
Wow, you're beautiful.
You said it was a weave, right? It's not a weave.
Wow.
That is the exact right reaction to announcing your black co-worker's hair
is a weave live on air. Getting up from your desk and just running away. Running
forever, running until your life fades behind you and your feet touch the
ocean. Now, you should know, those two co-workers seem to have gotten over that
incident, putting out a video titled, Blaine and Layla Discuss Hair Weave A
Rebuttal, where Blaine says he's learned the difference between quick weaves,
lace fronts, and sew-ins because of their friendship.
But the fact is, on the whole...
white people don't really understand a lot about black hair. And by the way, if
your first reaction to that was, hey, not all white people, maybe look inside
yourself and figure out why that is your response to things. But importantly,
that lack of understanding and lack of interest in understanding can have real
consequences from the personal to the professional, as you probably know,
either from experience or from seeing stories like this.
Chastity Jones was tangled in a nearly 10-year legal battle after she says an
employer took back a job offer at an Alabama call center because she refused
to cut her hair.
She said, are those dreadlocks in your hair?
And I just looked at her and I was like, these?
And she said, yes.
I said, yes, they are.
She said, um...
Well, we can accept that here.
Can you imagine turning someone away who wants to work at a call center?
The universe's most thankless job.
A place where you answer the phone and immediately there's an angry woman
screaming at you because some of the broccolini in her Hello Fresh kit didn't
smell right, and now she wants to speak to Mr.
Fresh. If you have someone who wants to do that job, let them. What's on their
head has nothing to do with it. They could show up to work in a wig made of
living ferrets, and they deserve not only that position, but double whatever
you're paying them.
The point is, black hair and hairstyles are frequently yet another pretext for
discrimination. So tonight, let's talk about it. And let's start by
understanding why black hair is so important.
For centuries, black people in Africa innovated ways to protect and prolong
the health of their hair. And that practice has continued and evolved into
beautiful and distinct hairstyles with a deep connection to culture and heritage.
And for as long as that has happened...
White people have been unable to handle it. One of the first things slave
traders would do was shave the heads of enslaved people, which erased their
cultural identity.
And black hair has historically been described in dehumanizing fashion with
racial typologist Charles Hamilton Smith describing his hierarchy of three main
types of people, the bearded Caucasian type, the beardless Mongolic type, and
the... the woolly-haired tropical type.
And the only time woolly-haired tropical is an acceptable term to use is if
you're talking about Madagascar's Wooly Lemur, a tropical little sweetie who
always looks like he just accidentally replied all.
Other than that, it's off-limits.
Now, by the late 19th century, beauty companies were advertising products like
skin lighteners and hair straighteners, reinforcing the idea that black hair was
dirty and unkempt, and the closer your appearance was to whiteness, the better,
like in this ad from 1900 from Magnetic Comb that promised to destroy the hair
germs on your head and take you from a curly-haired black person to a straight
-haired white one. And the desire to make black hair smoother and straighter
was so strong, just listen to the sheer delight this British newsreel... in
showing you the process.
Oh, no!
Hearing that beauty standard reinforced in that particular voice is definitely a
sign that something has gone terribly wrong.
And I know, for some viewers, passing a hot metal comb through the hair to
straighten it might look like a curio from the distant past, but I guarantee
some of you were just transported back to being eight years old, sitting on a
high stool in the kitchen at 6 a.m. on school picture day, holding your ears
down while your mom or grandma gets the hot comb uncomfortably close to your
scalp. For some, the smell of burning hair is a sign that something's wrong,
but for others, it brings back memories.
By the 1960s and 70s, though, the embrace of black hair's natural texture
and culturally significant styles had become a radical act of self-acceptance
and political power.
Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?
Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that you bleach to
get like the white man?
Uh, white people.
The answer is white people. That question answers itself, just like the
answer to the questions, who lets their dogs kiss them in the mouth, who wants
to pick apples for fun, and who's coming to dinner on Ina Garten's show. The
answer is white people.
But despite the natural hair movement... white people's discomfort and ignorance
around black hair has very much remained.
One study found black women were 80% more likely to agree with the statement,
I have to change my hair from its natural state to fit in at the office.
And another found that black women with natural hairstyles were perceived to be
less professional, less competent, and less likely to be recommended for a job
interview. The point is, the way your hair is perceived, and therefore, the
way you are perceived, can manifest in all sorts of ways.
I know the anxiety.
that people have after getting their hair done, and, like, okay, what's gonna
happen when I go to work? Are they gonna say anything?
You know, it's a big thing in the workplace.
A lot of people don't want to draw attention to their style, so they try to
do the norm.
A lot of the time, I would always get people just, like, saying how, like,
soft my hair is and everything, and, like, wanting to touch it. That's, like,
always a big thing. And, like, adults doing that, too. And grown women, like,
can I touch it?
You know you don't touch no black women here. No, you already know that.
I feel like you're in a zoo.
Look. You obviously shouldn't be made to feel like you're in a zoo ever for any
reason. Also, and this is clearly not the point, but if you are touching
animals at the zoo, you're doing the zoo wrong.
Don't be stressing out the otters by shouting unwanted questions and trying
to sneak your hands into the cages to cop a feel. Yes, the bald eagle's
feathers are laid, but don't shout, yes, queen, and try to pet her. Unlike your
co-workers, the eagle will snap your fucking fingers off and you will have it
coming. Unfortunately, though, white people's biases and ignorance are often
just laying in wait for the right moment to strike.
Jonathan Sutherland is a Penn State football captain and a Dean's List
student. But what people are talking about tonight is his hair.
That's thanks to this letter. The author is a proclaimed alumnus from decades ago
named David Peterson. He calls Sutherland's hair awful, stating his
locks are disgusting and are certainly not attractive.
He also writes, we would welcome the reappearance of dress codes for
athletes. Everything about that is upsetting, from the racist attitude to
the hurtful language to the fact that he chose to express moral outrage over
something in college football. But it's not that the NCAA makes millions off
student athletes. Instead, it's, I can see your hair outside your helmet.
Now, that man later explained that he only wrote the letter because,
You think of Penn State as... is just not a sentence that ends well under any
circumstances, especially when you realize that man actually got a degree
from Penn State in 1966, the same year as Jerry Sandusky, who somehow, despite
his short hair, turned out to be a heinous sex criminal. I know it sounds
ridiculous, but it's almost like the haircut doesn't fucking matter.
And it starts way before college.
You may remember the terrible case of high school wrestler Andrew Johnson, who
was basically forced to cut his locks off or forfeit an important wrestling
match by a referee.
That case made national news, but there are hundreds of others that don't. From
the school in Kentucky that once banned, and I quote, dreadlocks and corn rolls,
to twin sisters in Massachusetts that received hours of detention because of
their braided hair, to this daycare in suburban Chicago.
Mom may like the smell, but according to this note Tiona Norris posted on her
Facebook page, Amaya's teacher didn't like it, basically saying... Your child
stinks. Don't put the coconut oil in her hair. The kids were teasing her.
Norris says Amaya was the only black child in her preschool class at the
Raggedy Ann Learning Center in Elmhurst.
I was just hurt for my child.
Especially after Nora says she met with the teacher and school administrator and
learned the children in the class never complained.
It was just a teacher who didn't like the smell.
We called the school and left several messages. We visited and got this.
Hi, I'm Dorothy Tucker from Channel 10 News. Goodbye.
Wow. That feels like a perfectly staged five-second play encapsulating the
history of race relations in America.
A black person trying to discuss racial inequality with a white person who then
immediately says, goodbye.
So, black people from an early age are often told that their hair is
unattractive and needs to be corrected.
And that is already just a lot before you even start getting into all the ways
that society makes it difficult to navigate the world because of your hair.
Even just buying hair products can be an unnecessary challenge with black hair
products routinely locked in a case where someone has to come with a key to
get it for you or maybe even walk it to the register in the same aisle where
products for white people that cost just as much or more sitting out on the
shelves. And the explanation for this is never great.
So I went and found the manager, and I said, I'm waiting for the key for
shampoo and, um, conditioner.
I said, but let me ask you, why are the black hair products locked up and not
the white hair products? He said, um, um, and another associate said, well,
people have been stealing.
Yeah. Now, that Walmart claims that it was based on data of theft in the store,
but when a town council member asked to see that data, the store instructed her
to call 1-800-WARMART. And just out of interest, on a touch tone phone, which
button do you press to hear the bullshit data used to justify locking up $4 Eco
Styler gel? Is that like number seven, or do you have to ask for an associate
first?
So, it is already hard enough to get products to do your hair at home, but
finding a qualified stylist can be even harder. The cosmetology industry mostly
revolves around and trains for caring for straight, non-textured hair, so
there is no guarantee that a stylist in your area can work with black hair.
Just watch one TikToker call 23 salons in their hometown and get nothing but
responses like these.
I was wondering if you guys worked with African-American hair, specifically 4C
type?
We do not. None of the girls do here. No.
We don't really have a lot of experience.
So I would say that you're probably better to keep looking around.
I was wondering if you guys were able to work with African American hair
specifically for C-type?
Oh, hold on just a moment. Let me ask.
Is anybody familiar with African American hair?
Not very much. Yeah, that's not great.
But I do love that that receptionist is asking the entire staff like she just
got called as a phone-a-friend on who wants to be a millionaire.
Hey, Donna, it's the $25,000 question.
Can you do a silk press and bump those ends?
Final answer, she can't.
And this isn't just a problem in salons. Even in Hollywood, stylists who are both
familiar with black hair and who are in the stylist union are rare. And actors
definitely know when their production has failed to hire one.
I was on this show. They made me a series regular. I was hella pumped.
Walked in the hair and makeup trailer first time. Oh, shit, I'm about to,
like, get paid. Let me see.
Homegirl, this white lady, she tapped my head.
Yeah. Not lying, she tapped it, sprayed some water, didn't brush, didn't comb,
and left.
And I was like, oh, wild.
Now, I actually recommend going back and watching each actor in that clip as he
tells that story, because you really get the sense that every one of them
identifies with what he's saying there. And it's not ideal that for a lot of
hair stylists, their strategy to deal with black clients is the same that you
would use to get your cat off the kitchen counter.
Give them a little spritz, and then give them a pat on the head so they know
you're not mad.
And when you consider all of the obstacles that get placed in the path of
black people, it's understandably pretty hard to take when white people wear the
exact same hairstyles that they get judgment for. From Bo Derek, famously
wearing braids in the movie 10, to Adele and Miley Cyrus trying on black
hairstyles for fun, to this Conde Garcon fashion show at which the models wore
lace front cornrow wigs, which were awful in every possible way. I mean,
just look at that thing.
There is enough room between each braid to land a fucking plane. And you don't
even have to look closely to see the model's dark hair through the lace. Come
on. You put a wig cap on first, then you put the wig on. You grab your gotta-be
spray or wig glue, you melt that lace, and you lay those edges down so well
they fall asleep.
There are only two situations where that appalling level of wig application is
acceptable. Either you're in the middle of hosting an episode of SNL, or you're
posing as a British nanny to stay close to your children after your divorce.
That is it.
And the thing is, white people appropriating black hairstyles isn't
just infuriating, it can directly make it harder for black people to fight
discrimination concerning their hair. There was a court case in 1981, a
discrimination suit.
filed by a Black woman named Renee Rogers.
She'd worked for American Airlines, and she wore her hair in cornrows. Her legal
argument was that her hairstyle was a part of her cultural heritage.
The judge ruled against her in federal court because he said she got her hair
done soon after the movie 10 came out. And therefore, there was no legal basis
for saying it was cultural heritage because she was doing something that
essentially was imitating how Bo Derek styled her hair. Yeah, it's true.
Among the reasons he dismissed her case, the judge suggested that a black person
wearing a traditionally black hairstyle was just copying a white celebrity who
stole it from black people, which is just ridiculous.
Hairstyles have cultural roots.
They don't just come out of nowhere to sweep the nation with the sole
exception, of course, of the Rachel, which wasn't appropriated from any
culture. It simply sprang forth fully formed from the concept known as the
90s. And I wish I could say that that is a thing of the past, but you know it
isn't. Chastity Jones, the woman you saw earlier, spent years appealing her case,
only to lose, in part, because judges interpreted civil rights law to protect
against discrimination based only on immutable or unchangeable
characteristics associated with race, like skin color. So for decades, courts
have found that hairstyles, even though they are deeply tied to racial identity,
are not covered.
And all of that means that a younger generation can still end up having to
deal with this shit.
19-year-old Destiny Tompkins has worked at this Banana Republic store at the
Westchester Mall in White Plains for just about a month. She was called into
a meeting with her manager on Wednesday, caught completely off guard by what
happened next.
He was like, yeah, so the district manager came in. She pointed out
something about your hair.
And I'm like, okay, so what's wrong with my hair?
He said, it's a little too urban and unkempt for our look and for our image.
We were just wondering, like, if you could just take them out.
Okay. Putting aside the use of the word urban there, a level of tone deafness on
par with naming your store Banana Republic, just take them out?
Those are words from someone who has zero idea of what it took to put them in
in the first place. That is coming from a man who, I'm guessing, has never spent
seven hours in a salon chair with an iPad full of movies and a backpack full
of snacks.
Now, you should know... The store called that unacceptable, and the manager was
fired. But the problem is, since professionalism gets defined by white
standards and expectations, black hair is more likely to crash into those
expectations. So, what can we do? Well... For some of the smaller issues
you've seen tonight, there have been changes.
Some chain stores, including Walmart, have announced that they will no longer
be locking up black hair products, which feels like the least that they can do,
but it is a start.
A bigger change will be to pass laws like Crown Act, or creating a respectful
and open world for natural hair.
Versions have already become law in these 11 states. And while the language
varies, generally, they expand the definition of race in anti
-discrimination laws to include traits historically associated with race...
like protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks, and twists.
Unfortunately, Crown Act bills have repeatedly met with Republican
opposition. In Utah, in one recent Zoom hearing on their bill, State Senator
Derren Owens, who voted against it, made a point of first addressing the bill's
advocates like this.
Let me make a comment.
You people are beautiful.
I... And I don't normally do this, but I'm gonna show you. In a... I was in a
store the other day.
And you won't be able to see this picture, but this gentleman in front of
me, a black man, had two young children, and they were just having fun up and
down the aisle. And I don't normally take pictures of children, but they were
adorable, two black children, because they're just the cutest kids in the
world. One has cornrows and one of them dreadlocks. I wish you could see that.
What are you doing, you exceptionally weird man?
Just to recap, he started off there by telling a group of black women... you
people are beautiful, then proceeded to say, I don't normally take pictures of
children, but, a perfectly acceptable sentence until the but part, then
launched into a story about how he keeps photos of strangers' children on his
phone, all of which evokes a response perhaps best summed up by this
expression, which I'd argue is an absolute masterclass in how to say, the
fuck, using only your eyebrows.
And if you are wondering how he got from that to voting against the bill... His
argument was that he felt existing laws were sufficient and that it almost looks
like we're trying to do something that doesn't exist.
But this discrimination isn't something that doesn't exist.
It's something that doesn't exist for white men who've never had to think
about it before.
The consequences of hair-based discrimination are very real.
Just listen to Connecticut State Senator Gary Winfield make the case for his
state's Crown Act in the run-up to it passing into law by talking about his
three-year-old daughter.
right now she runs through life with all of the energy that she has with all
of the beauty that she has with her hair natural that's who she is it's not
just what sits on top of her head it is who she is but i want her to be able to
participate in this world fully
And so even if she runs through this world with her natural hair, there will
be a discussion about what it is to run through this world with her natural
hair.
And what she will have to learn, whether she makes the choice to run through this
world with her natural hair or not, is that a part of her
is not acceptable.
That's awful.
It's infuriating that black children have to add hair discrimination to the
long list of things that they're already forced to think about, like the threat
of police violence, the danger of harassment by racist white people, and
of course, the very real risk of getting photographed by Utah State Senator
Derren Owens in a fucking checkout line.
That man's daughter and all black people should clearly be able to make choices
about their hair based on what they feel like doing with it, rather than, will
this get me harassed or fired? If you want to have natural hair, great. You
want to straighten your hair, great.
Whatever you like.
The point is, black hair shouldn't be viewed, corralled, or judged by white
people's comfort because it doesn't belong to white people, it doesn't
affect white people, and white people really don't need to have an opinion on
it. And our laws should reflect that.
And I know that there may be limits to what Crown Acts can accomplish.
Even if one passes at the federal level, there could be cases where a white judge
is asked to decide whether a specific hairstyle is associated with race and
completely fucks it up. But they are a start.
And look, if you're not a black person, it's probably easier to hear these
stories and think, well, it's just hair.
But the thing is, it's not. It's not at all.
Black people aren't getting hired or are getting fired. Black students are being
teased, taunted, and removed from school all because of their hair.
And Crown Act laws could make a real difference there.
And while social stigma and unrealistic beauty standards aren't going to go away
overnight, there are a few things that white viewers, in particular, might want
to keep in mind going forward. And to that end, if you are one, there's a
message that you should probably hear.
Hi, white people.
I'm Uzo Aduba. I'm Craig Robinson.
Hi, white people. I'm Leslie Jones.
What's up, black people?
Brothers and sisters, you good?
Your mama good?
All right. Listen, I got to talk to these white people for a second.
I'll see you at the meeting.
All right.
Look, white people, I know you have lots of questions.
Like, maybe too many questions.
Like, how often do you have to wash black hair?
What is a silk press?
What does a do-rag do?
Well, the good news is we're about to fill you in. We're about to give you the
answer to all your questions about black hair. You ready for it? You ready for
it? You ready for it? Okay, here it is.
Google it.
Google it.
Fucking Google it. Fucking Google it. I mean, it doesn't have to be Google.
It can be fucking Bing.
YouTube, Wikipedia. I don't give a shit. The information is out there. And once
you get the information, you can appreciate all the beauty and hard work
it takes to keeping my hair laid and looking good, okay?
And if you're not interested in Googling it, there is another option.
Fuck off.
Leave us the fuck alone.
Fucking off is always an option.
And look, white people, don't tell me you can't figure this out on your own.
You figured out sellers of Catan. You figured out sourdough bread last year. I
think you can Google the word weave.
You can learn what the fuck a box braid is, bitch.
Okay, I think that just about covers it. Basically, just Google it. Don't touch
it. And there's one more thing.
Don't spray my hair with water and tap my head.
I'm not a cat.
Bye.
Goddamn white people.
That's our show. Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next week. Good
night.
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