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The Mix with Mani

Weighing In and Checking In w/Kendrick Tucker (I Ken Not!)

The Mix with Mani

Imani Marcus

After Shows, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8771 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The Ken is BACK! A Hilarious and lively kiki (conversation) where Mani and Kendrick discuss a range of topics from their morning routines to the complexities of reality TV. They celebrate body positivity and personal growth while critiquing the dynamics of shows like Love Island, shows on VH1 and Bravo. The conversation touches on accountability in reality TV, the intricacies of celebrity relationships, and the challenges of parenting in the public eye. Talking from Basketball Wives to RHOC and RHOSLC Trailers, RHOM dynamics, discussing the implications of parental choices🥴, the representation of different cultures in media (shout out to Family Karma and Texicanas and Summer House MV), and the impact of racism within the reality TV genre. And of course some Bravo and other Hot Topics going on because we have to be messy. 
Come mix it up!

Catch Kendrick (and sometimes Mani!) on the I Ken Not! Podcast. Make sure to subscribe and show Kendrick some love in those stars and reviews! He covers it all. 
Follow Kendrick on the things @withkendricktucker 
WATCH this episode (yup!) or listen ad-free on Patreon.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Soundstri.

0:09.2

Hello, hello, hello, beautiful and wonderful mixologist out there.

0:13.7

It's your girl, Monty, and it's your other good Judy Ken.

0:18.6

We're here.

0:19.4

We're back.

0:20.0

It's me and Kendrick from I Cannot. How you doing, Kendrick?

0:25.1

Hello. I'm so happy to be here. Look, we're recording a different time that we normally do. I got my coffee, my protein shake. I've got it all. Okay. It's a good, it's a good day.

0:36.0

I have my morning dirty chai and I had my morning blunt and all is so well happy.

0:43.3

It is Saturday when we're recording this and me and Kenji were already off to like the yippy, yappy, happy, Kiki start when I got on here and saw this skinny person in my presence.

0:53.0

It's getting full Lizzo, what the fuck? Like you just blink and go, oh, Betty, wait, Betty a cop. Like, it was baddie before. But, like, you know how Lizzo really shocked the girls when I was like, oh, no, body tea. What? Body tea. Do you hear me? She was just like, hey, bitch. That's how you do it. Sometimes you got to pop out and show niggas, okay? I said, shut me right on up. Period. I mean, I never said anything I love Lizzo. I'm a thickens myself. So I'm like, you know, be the, I'm very much. Maybe we love the thickens. Body that I give it. You know what I'm saying? Yes. It's going to be the body that I put it in, you know? Okay. Period. This beach go give what I give it. But when it works, it works. And Kendrae, you were out here working your tail off. You had to take all new pictures. You're a whole new hers and are you living your best life are you having like such a nice time oh my well I'm I'm definitely working hard I don't know about best time you know we have a fool out there trying to make everyone's life miserable it's miserable yes yeah that's a lot of you know trying to when you try to drown that out yeah that out, yeah, you got to drown that out. But when you drown it out, it's okay. Yeah, you know, and you're, you're very close to it. Like, you're, you're close. So, yeah, I'm just, you know, I'm used to being down here with the idiots, you know, I'm surrounded by idiots all day. You know, it's just kind of, you know, we're a state of idiots. That's just how it is.

2:18.5

You know, I live in the city that's, you know, where you don't get the idiot,

2:22.6

the idiotness, you get the violence.

2:24.9

So, you know, it's just, you know, what you count on.

2:27.4

So, you know, it's just, but, you know, I drink my coffee and I just go on about my day.

2:31.8

You mind your business. I mind my business. Have you felt extra thoughty in this new body? Oh, you know, I just, you know, I'm out at the places, doing the things, you know, when I travel. You know, I go up to New York every like two months, you know, just have me a time, you know, just out there. Yeah. You know, listen, y'all better go outside. You might see Kendry. Okay. I better come and get you one of the, you better look at him. Thank you. Working home on his body. It's T. Y'all, give me till next year, okay? I'm really gonna pop out, okay? Hey, you won't even be stopped. even. Oh, no. He's like, prepare to be sick of me. Okay. Y'all be seeing the lives

2:51.5

the lives, the reels, the angles, the faces. All of that. I might start doing, I might get a TikTok on y'all ass, okay? Okay. We're going to get full front face content creator. Don't even get it.

3:28.3

We're going to be doing them countdowns of the hot topics.

3:30.1

He's going to embellate his face.

3:31.2

Yes.

3:33.0

You better hype me.

3:33.9

I know this right.

3:36.3

Listen, one thing about me, it's the teacher in me.

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