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SR Report August 2021: NYC Verzuz Mandates, No Cuomo

Peace and Salutation, Tribe! Welcome back to another episode of the Sophisticatedly Ratchet Podcast. Today we present to you our monthly “SR Report August 2021- NYC Verzuz Mandates, No Cuomo”, moderated by our SPEWGod Drip Drip, Mash.

August 2021 was a busy month and we have a lot of topics to discuss like: L.O.X and Diplomats Verzuz battle, the resignation of New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, Covid Vaccine Mandates, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, and Syesha Mercado’s child custody battle. Please pull up a chair and join us as we review the August SR Report.  

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SR Replay: Porno Taught Me pt. 1

Peace peace, SR Tribe! Welcome back to Sophisticatedly Ratchet Podcast, the giving the real in a world of fake.

Full disclosure Tribe- we have been working really hard to provide you all with weekly content, so after almost a year we decided we earned a damn break. So with that being said, we didn't want to leave you all without an episode and we decided to replay some of our favorite episodes. This week we opted for Porn Taught Me part-1

Don't trip thou! We are back in the kitchen cooking up that new content but until we get back to our regularly scheduled program, please enjoy!

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SR Replay: Dating Outside Your Race

Peace Tribe! It's been nearly a year since we first launched our podcast. We are proud and honored that you have been rocking with us! With over 40 episodes available, we decided to take it back to the beginning with a replay of our first episode: Dating Outside Your Race. We look back on our first episode and discuss the differences, changes, and overall growth from our first year to now.

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for listening to us. We appreciate the downloads, comments, reposts, shout-outs... Tribe, we thank you for EVERYTHING! Lil' Mo, Mash The SPEW God, TJ, Shake The Wanderer, Sly_Boogie, & Flash The Philosopher... Please tune in and join us back to the beginning...

SR Love Languages: Gift Giving

Peace and blessings, Tribe! Welcome back to the Sophisticatedly Ratchet Podcast, giving the real in a world of fake! In this week’s episode, we continue our SR Love Language Saga and discussion about, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, by Gary Chapman. In his book, the author explains how individuals generally express and experience love in five distinct ways: physical touch, receiving gifts, acts of service, words of affirmation, and quality time. Today, Shake the Wanderer, moderates our discussion about gifts.

For people with gifts as a love language, the act of giving a gift serves as a gesture of affection and care because it shows the person was thinking about you while you weren't around and wanted to find a way to make you smile. The gift also becomes a physical token memorializing a moment, experience, or feeling.

Gifts are a straightforward love language: You feel loved when people give you "visual symbols of love," as Chapman calls it. It's not about the monetary value but the symbolic thought behind the item. People with this style recognize and value the gift-giving process: the careful reflection, the deliberate choice of the object to represent the relationship, and the emotional benefits from receiving the present. 

Gifts are obviously an awesome way to communicate and express love but are all gifts appreciated. What's the worst gift you've ever received? Is giving a gift the appropriate way to apologize? Have you ever been disappointed because a gift wasn’t appreciated? Have you ever re-gifted and is the amount spent on a gift a reflection of how much you like someone? Let’s talk this one out, pull up, tune in and join the “Gift of Giving” discussion. 

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SR Love Languages: Words of Affirmation

Peace and blessings, Tribe! Welcome back to the Sophisticatedly Ratchet Podcast, giving the real in a world of fake! 

Love is an attitude with appropriate behavior, and the attitude is “I’m here to enrich your life”. In this week’s episode, we continue our discussion about The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, by Gary Chapman. In his book, the author explains how individuals generally express and experience love in five distinct ways: physical touch, receiving gifts, acts of service, words of affirmation, and quality time. Today’s episode is moderated by Mash aka The SPEWgod Drip Drip, and we are discussing Words of Affirmation.

Words of affirmation are any spoken or written words that confirm, support, uplift, and empathize with another person in a positive manner. Affirming your partner with words of love and genuine gratitude. Some examples are saying words, I love you, I’m here for you, you’re doing a great job and you’re so intelligent. These affirming words are powerful and can often validate the feeling of the person who receives love this way… In short, if Words of Affirmation is your love language, it means what your partner has to say about you and to you speaks volumes.

You ever wonder if words of affirmation can be used against you, what’s the best affirmation you could receive/ give, or if words of affirmation are appropriate in the bedroom?  Let’s talk this one out, pull up, tune in and join the “Words of Affirmation” discussion.

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SR Love Languages: Physical Touch

Peace and blessings, Tribe! Welcome back to the Sophisticatedly Ratchet Podcast, giving the real in a world of fake! In this week’s episode, we continue our SR Love Language Saga and discussion about, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, by Gary Chapman. In his book, the author explains how individuals generally express and experience love in five distinct ways: physical touch, receiving gifts, acts of service, words of affirmation, and quality time. Today Flash The Philosopher and Outspoken Introvert- Sly Boogie both moderate our discussion about physical touch.

Physical touch refers to expressing and receiving affection through touch, physical closeness, and other forms of a physical connection. Kissing, hugging, holding hands, and sex is all ways of showing love through the physical touch love language. Most specifically, having touch as a love language means that small physical gestures—such as having a partner put their arm around you in public or snuggle up close to you on the couch while watching TV together—matter a lot more to you than things like gifts or saying "I love you.”

Physical touch is obviously an awesome way to communicate and express love but can touch also be misinterpreted? Is it possible for the physical gesture of love to be received as a sexual advance? Can there be too much physical touch and is PDA acceptable? Let’s talk this one out, pull up, tune in and join the “Physical Touch” discussion. 

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SR Love Languages: Quality Time

Peace and blessings, Tribe! Welcome back to the Sophisticatedly Ratchet Podcast, giving the real in a world of fake! 

In this week’s episode, we continue our SR Love Language Saga and discussion about The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, by Gary Chapman. In his book, the author explains how individuals generally express and experience love in five distinct ways: physical touch, receiving gifts, acts of service, words of affirmation, and quality time. Our very own Section 5 native, Lil Moe moderates today’s episode and we discuss Quality Time. 

People who speak the love language of quality time want to be the object of their lover's undivided attention. They want to feel cherished and prioritized, and rather than receiving gifts, words, acts, or touch, they prefer to simply spend meaningful time together. Perhaps more than most, people who communicate in this love language never lose sight of the fact that time is a finite resource and that every minute is irreplaceable.

By effectively focusing exclusively on a partner who speaks "quality time", you’ll help them feel loved, respected, and appreciated, keeping their “love tank” full of fuel. Also, just because two people are in the same place together doesn’t mean they’re actually spending quality time with one another. Hence the “quality” component of this love language.

You ever wonder if there can be too much quality time, are you capable to spend quality time with someone you're attracted to without it becoming sexual, and can sex also be quality time?  Let’s talk this one out, pull up, tune in and join the “Quality Time” discussion.

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SR Love Languages: Acts of Service

Salutations, Tribe!!! It’s always good to see you, thanks for pulling up. Welcome, welcome, welcome to a very special series of Sophisticatedly Ratchet episodes. This month we present to the Tribe, The SR Love Language Saga! 

In this lovely series of episodes, we will be discussing Gary Chapman’s book, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts. The tea on the 5 Love Languages is simple: different people with different personalities give and receive love in different ways. And by learning to recognize these preferences in yourself and in your partner, you can learn to identify the root of your beef, connect more on a deeper level, and truly begin to grow closer.

In the book, the author explains how individuals generally express and experience love in five distinct ways: acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch, receiving gifts, and quality time. Today’s episode is moderated by Ice Queen- TJ, and we are acts of service. Acts of Service is a language that can best be described as doing something for your partner that you know they would like, such as filling up their gas, watering their plants, or cooking them a meal. 

Now with that said, what’s an act of service that you would not accept? What is your preferred act of service and can begrudgingly performing a sexual act be considered an act of service? Let’s talk this one out, pull up, tune in and join the SR Love Language: Acts of Service” discussion.

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SR Report July 2021: "The Misappropriation of Dance, Food & Liquor"

Peace Tribe! This week in Current Events...

Healthy Eating

What up, Tribe?! Welcome back to another amazing episode of The Sophisticatedly Ratchet Podcast, giving the real in a world of fake.

In today's episode, Shake leads the team in moderation, and we discuss our views on food and the pros and cons of eating healthy. By definition, a healthy diet is a diet that helps maintain or improve overall health, but here at the SR podcast, we see it differently. We each have different relationships with food, but we all agree good food is magical! It has the power to trigger memories and emotions, reminding us of holiday meals and good times spent with great people. 

However, on the flipside - abusing food is a slippery slope because a lot of health-related issues stem from poor food choices. University of Alabama researcher's found data that confirmed southern diets are to be blamed for high rates of hypertension among Black Americans. Approximately 75 percent of black men and women develop high blood pressure by their mid-50s, compared with 55 percent of white men and 40 percent of white women of the same age. What it really came down to was the fact that while people of both races ate some amount of Southern-fried comfort food, African-Americans, on average, are eating much more of it — with the highest consumers eating something fried, overly salted, or doused in fatty dairy every day.

You ever wonder why it is so hard to make healthy food choices, why it is difficult for people to develop healthy eating habits or if you should judge people for eating fast food? Let’s talk this one out, pull up, tune in and join the “Healthy Eating” discussion.

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