Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and those who don't identify as either, I've been drinking

Appletons. You are listening to Ratchett and Respectable. I forgot how good Appletons is.

I haven't had any since I was married to that Jamaican man.

You can see where the podcast is going today.

I was texting one of my friends and he stopped mid-conversation.

He said, you've been drinking deep?

Yeah, yeah.

I just got to Martha's Vineyard earlier today, staying at a house with some friends,

couples, two couples, and me. So kind of the

fifth wheel, but not because they go off and do their own thing. Like I've been here for like four

hours and like one of the couples came back from the beach and stayed in the house for all of 15

minutes and was like, we're out. And then the other couple just came and dropped off the car and then went to like a fish fry somewhere. So I still haven't actually seen them. I just see their car. So I know that they're, you know, have been to the house. So they were like, we have a house. Come stay. And I was like, okay, cool. I didn't really ask for details, which is fine. Like I can make my own entertainment. I appreciate not feeling like the fifth wheel, but that's not the point. The point is I flew in because I'm not driving six hours from D.C. Each of the couples drove up from D.C. And I was like, may God keep him bless y'all. I'm not driving that far. But okay. So I flew in and got to the airport and then got an Uber to the house

and they were already out gallivancing for the day because they've been here since Sunday.

I've just arrived today on Tuesday. So I come into the house and black people have been in the

house Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and then today, Tuesday. So say like a full 72 hours of blackness in the house.

When I come in the house, there's like no signs of blackness.

So it's like a rental.

It's a cottage, like an Airbnb situation.

Or what's the other site?

The one that you get like the big vacation home.

You know that site I'm talking about.

Okay.

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