Cocktails and Cousins

A Little Colored Cocktail

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Today’s Topic: Discrimination & Racism

In this episode we talk about an upcoming Saintuso drop, Jane Elliot, the blue eye brown eye experiment, humorous racism, our earliest experiences with race, why do we have to learn Spanish, cultural sections of town, classism, differences in white and black culture, white work experiences, white people saying nigga, other minorities saying nigga, identity within your culture, Tranise’s white college experience, taking meatless food to a black grandma, cool story dude, what age should kids learn about race, teaching race without teaching racism, Kyle Rittenhouse, distrust in the US justice system, Jream is a menace, black people being accepting of others cultures even though we aren’t accepted, Dr. Umar, segregation, using HR, CYA, appreciation vs. appropriation, Cady from Africa, nigga passes, how white people describe everything about a person except their race, POC, learn from the bad and encourage the good, positive racial understanding, discuss race with your kids, support all things black and soo much more

The featured cocktail for this show: A Little Colored Cocktail

Covid Chronicles

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Today’s Topic: How Covid Has Changed Our Lives

In this episode we talk about our weekends, Jream’s Pondersa, Trae’s crazy Halloween excursion, Tranise’s article feature, the AstroWorld controversy, Travis Scott, life pre and post Covid, living with masks, vaccinations, the choice is yours, concert woes, security fail, celebrity apologies, doing your research, druggies, how Verzus held us down, swine flu, Covid like movies and soo much more

The featured cocktail for this show: Covid Chronicles

Shoulda Woulda

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Today’s Topic: Consideration & Expectations

In this episode we talk about our weekends, Jream’s recovery from surgery, Halloween things, Jream’s ballad, taking care of Jream while he was down, friends, expectations, unequal relationships, strong friend needs, reciprocity, being a giver, taking givers for granted, navigating expectations, counting favors, different levels of tolerance for different relationships, friendship contracts, not being able to be everything, communicating expectations, grace & leniency in relationships, being a handful, looking at things from a different perspective, from friends to followers, putting relationships in park, how being confrontational is not always a bad thing, different ways to be considerate, the importance of effort, normalizing outgrowing relationships with no beef, our 2022 freaky Friday Halloween plans, Trae killing the eyebrow game, entitlement, lack of accountability, making time for what matters, friendships changing when a friend enters a relationship, balancing your friendship and your relationship, being secure in friendships, desiring security, hard truths over consistent lies, justified fallouts, under promise and over deliver, being a person that loves hard, minimizing expectations, categorizing friends, not being taken seriously, re-evaluating relationships during life changing moments, making sure they got you like you got them and soo much more

The featured cocktail for this show: Shoulda/Woulda

 

A Smokin‘ Gun

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Today’s Topic: Growing Up in a Black Household

In this episode, our Cocktails & Cousins Review Contest is still going on, we have an in studio guest: Summer, Tranise’s little sister, we talk about what’s new in our lives, Jream’s hernia repair surgery journey, hot girl Summer, a Jream solo selection, growing up in a black household, social media cousins, losing your privacy in a black home, how it’s weird to be naked and alone, the pros of being raised in a black household, stronger bonds, resilience, hood cuisine, hookups, noodles be smacking, sibling closeness, youngest vs. oldest, black pets treated like kids, black household rules, how spaghetti has black homes in a headlock, humor, childhood stories, Tranise vs. Summer, the pressure of being the oldest child, accountability, disadvantages of a black household, parental expectations as you get older, financial differences, the switch from being a child to being grown at 18, being grown at your parents’ convenience, trauma cycles, Harriet Tubman, not having an opinion, RIP our grandma Sally, grandma memories, black parents beating you up while getting you ready, told old for beatings, Underground, Jream lying about being suspended, school issues, shoutout to Western High, toxic behaviors & sayings, being open with black parents, what we want black households to start doing, the importance of apologizing, Dreamgirls, the more you cry the less you piss, destruction vs. deconstruction, how we appreciate black parents, and soo much more

The featured cocktail for this show: A Smokin’ Gun

Big Poppa

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Today’s Topic: Black Fatherhood

In this episode, we talk about our Cocktails & Cousins Review Contest, we have an in studio guest: Trae’s best friend Ashaad, we talk Prime Fit Apparel, the bbl girls, support black business, we love Kenzie, fatherhood in 2021, watching women give birth, how fatherhood is more than just providing, coparenting, learning to not have kids just because, talking to your child, boys vs. girls, preparing your kids, daddy’s girls, males teaching toxicity, daddy lessons, boundaries, unconditional love, toxic masculinity, no homo, learning from the lessons of other people, dating as a single father, introducing people to your children, trusting the other parent, Russell Wilson, black dad support system, black fathers working from a deficit, absent fathers with loud opinions, waiting on a deadbeat dad, sharing blood but not a relationship, Trae & Shaad bffs, a tough labor and experience at University of MD, high school sweet tarts, the birds and the bees, having two parents vs. having a two parent household, respecting your child’s mother as a man, friendship, how having kids change relationships, changing perspectives on fatherhood, sneaky link babies, putting your kids first, shoutout to single moms, Disney movies, Lion King vs. Toy Story, porn stars, a “fap-pe,” All of Us, different rules for each parent’s house and soo much more

The featured cocktail for this show: Big Poppa

Thou Shall Prosper

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Today’s Topic: Parenting & Dating While Parenting

In this episode, we talk about what’s new for us, how Cocktails & Cousins has reached 1000 downloads, we have an in studio guest, Tranise’s cousin Tiara, we talk hustling, being a parent, baby daddies and boyfriends, how the dynamic of the parents’ relationship affects the child, coparenting, conversation vs. altercation, moving on in relationships, clear communication, Queen Tiara’s castle, discipline, building a relationship with kids when dating their parents, why you being weird to me, men being good fathers but bad men, Trae the resident zodiac checker, tips on dating with kids and dating someone with kids, having a crazy baby mother or baby father, listening to your kids, finding a PPP man, smack that hoe, getting beat up in front of your kids, OSD, support Touch of Beauty Braids and soo much more

The featured cocktail for this show: Thou Shall Prosper

Woo Hoo

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Today’s Topic: Sex Education

This episode is a LONG one but it’s soo worth it!!

In this episode, we talk about Tranise’s trip to meet Joanna Gaines in Waco, TX, Trae’s Saintuso x ShootHer photo shoot, Jream’s baby cold, let's talk about sex....education, The Sims, having the sex talk, knowing when to have the sex talk, things that the youth should learn about sex, consent, TV sex vs. real sex, learning about sexual hygiene, the booty cat, ph balance, from kitty kat to litter box, fingering & BV, the male G-spot, sexual exploration & freedom, black men & homophobia, the dookie chute, males not understanding a woman’s period, sexual etiquette, coercion, being vocal about what you like sexually, sexual maturity, the different components to sex, giving our younger selves the sex talk, the best type of lube, the hard life of a bottom, chocolate Picasso, balancing the pleasure and fear of sex, peeing after sex, Little Ceasars Hot and Ready, running red lights, brunch punch still going strong, Freddy Krueger, touch me nots, sucking straps, dental dams, strap hygiene & protection, learning your body first, sex being a life long learning experience, every saint has a past every sinner has a future, Jream’s glo up, first time stories, big power bottom, small penises, the death of good dick, having an emotional connection with sex, how withholding sexual education isn’t a form of protection, porn experiences, embarrassing teen sexual stories, masturbation, the shame of sex, the issue with sneaking, giving respect with limits, unsolicited dick pics, sexual fetishes, dark skin is in, songs about sex and soo much more

The featured cocktail for this show: Woo-Hoo

A Beat

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Today’s Topic: Music Matters

In this episode, we talk about music and how much it matters, we have our own Cocktails & Cousins Verzus, how brunch punch still has Tranise falling out, pick your favorite songs from our lineups, Jream’s love for Lil Kim, how the r&b men had the game in a chokehold in the 90s, how the length of songs have changed over time, Tranise’s love for Dru Hill & Trae’s hatred, white artists that black people love, the King of New York aka Jay Z, Missy the GOAT of music videos, Fergie vs. Nelly Furtado, SWV thottin in the 90s, the rain music videos, T-Pain owned 07, best feature artists, sex songs, Outkast songs, Bow Wow the legend, best one hit wonders, where is Wayne Wonder, best Baltimore club mix, the best goodby songs, our favorite animated soundtrack songs, the Aux God game, Avant the savage, the importance of music and soo much more

The featured cocktail for this show: A Beat

Mental Meltdown

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Today’s Topic: Mental Health

In this episode, we talk about what’s new for us this week, Aaliyah self-titled on Apple Music, we hate skylights, the current lack of motivational music, the rise of music videos, Tranise hates reboots of old movies, OG Space Jam vs. Space Jam 2, cup of noodles vs. oodles of noodles, shoutout to Steph Curry, mental health, the stigma attached to mental health awareness, mental health in the black community, This Battle Is Not Yours - Yolanda Adams, the gospel songs that all heathens know, seeing mental health as overall health, how Charlamagne Tha God helped Jream start his mental health journey, our intro to the importance of mental health, mental health as a necessity vs. a luxury, The Sopranos, mental health representation in TV shows, fears of going to therapy, mental health for the next generation, boys don’t cry, the struggle for males and mental health, society’s disservice to men, passing on generational trauma, getting our black men and boys healed, Taraji P. Henson encouraging mental health, our personal forms of therapy, music is therapeutic, getting to the root of our issues, prayer and worship as therapeutic, Freakum Dress as a form of therapy, Google teach me how to make crack, how Roll Bounce broke Tranise’s heart, times when we thought we would have benefitted from therapy, using substances as an escape, being numb to your problems instead of solving them, Little Fires Everywhere (Episode 3 - 70 cents), Cranes In the Sky, how grief changes you, grief is not linear and more

The featured cocktail for this show: Mental Meltdown

Black & Blue

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Today’s Topic: Domestic Violence

*Trigger Warning*

We deal with a heavy topic in this episode. If you are not ready to discuss domestic violence, please listen to one of our lighter shows*

In this episode, we talk about what’s new, we’re still on Certified Lover Boy, Drake vs. Kanye, ASAP Rocky, poor poor Kanye, Kim Kardashian trying to be black and white, Have Mercy, Chloe Bailey coming into her new persona, Beyonce’, sex siren, Jream’s neighbors, The Ghetto Boys, the frequency of violence in same sex relationships, domestic abuse, how you can’t come back after you start fighting, the start of domestic violence, when love hurts, Stockholm syndrome, intervening in domestic situations, public servants, being the bearer of bad news, resentment, normalizing & romanticizing violence, the dangers of being a hero, learning to have sympathy for victims, a brunch punch, Tina Turner, What’s Love Got To Do With It, the snake story, answering DM questions, warning signs of domestic violence, threats that lead to violence, Chris Brown & Rihanna, women hitting men, Trae’s violent moment, triggered, why we need to take women hitting men more seriously, Tranise’s black out anger moment, Ms. Ethel getting beat up in The Chi, knowing people’s limits, resources for those in domestic violence situations, love should not hurt and more

RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

NATIONAL CRISIS ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSISTANCE:

The National Domestic Violence Hotline 
1-800-799-7233 (SAFE)
www.ndvh.org

National Dating Abuse Helpline 
1-866-331-9474
www.loveisrespect.org

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence 
1-800-537-2238
www.nrcdv.org and www.vawnet.org

Futures Without Violence: The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence 
1-888-792-2873
www.futureswithoutviolence.org

National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
1-312-726-7020 ext. 2011
www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org

TEENS

Love is respect 
Hotline: 1-866-331-9474
www.loveisrespect.org

Break the Cycle 
202-824-0707
www.breakthecycle.org

The featured cocktail for this show: Black & Blue