Broke Bestie
We Talk Back
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
AJ and Tam Bam recap highlights from a recent cruise while opening up about the real-life conversations that followed once the vacation ended. From the emotional realities of aging parents and family health concerns to the growing responsibilities that come with adulthood, the hosts reflect on how life shifts as priorities change.
The discussion expands into modern relationship dynamics, with a sharp focus on financial boundaries, expectations, and independence. AJ and Tam Bam unpack topics like financial celibacy, navigating friendships with money disparities, being the so-called “broke bestie,” and how grief and healing play out publicly in the age of social media.
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| 0:34.5 | Welcome to We Talk Back Podcast, a production of IHeart Radio and the Black Effect Network. |
| 0:43.0 | We're just two unapologetically black women with an opinion who talks back. |
| 0:50.3 | What's up y'all? |
| 0:51.2 | A.J. |
| 0:52.5 | Holiday, what's up, Tandam? Hey, y'all. It's Tambam. I love y'all so your girl AJ Holiday what's up tan bam hey y'all it's tan bam I love y'all so much how you doing AJ why you're why you doing this you want to fight no I just did a good mood I'm fresh off a vacation hey how is that what was that looking like |
| 1:07.1 | girl I cut up so bad on them people boat oh I went on a, and I'm not a cruise girlie because I always end up sick. |
| 1:14.6 | But this time, I started taking my drama mean a day before, and I was taking it just twice |
| 1:21.6 | a day the whole time, and I never got sick. |
| 1:23.6 | And I just must have drank liquor all day for four days straight. |
| 1:30.3 | Did you have the top shelf package? |
| 1:32.3 | And I should have got a package. |
| 1:34.3 | I did not get a package and that was a mistake. |
| 1:38.3 | So you just was on the boat buying liquor? |
| 1:40.3 | I was swiping other people's sale card. |
| 1:43.3 | Where the bull left from? I don't really like that. I was swiping other people's sale card. |
| 1:47.5 | Where the bull left from? |
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