Taz
Appearances
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
Like, I think. It takes so much effort to even try and get people to care about black stories in general, and especially black girls. There's always a reason to turn it on their fault. They're over-sexualized at a young age because their bodies develop faster, so then it turns into them being grown or... The boy was a thug.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
Like there's always an excuse to why the black person doesn't deserve justice. And white people always kind of get that benefit of the doubt. Like, oh, well, he just needs mental issues. He's got he needs help. You know what I'm saying? But nobody's offering that help or those resources to the black people or even that sympathy. And so it's absolutely a thing.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I would say, I think TikTok is It's the Google.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
But, like, it definitely gives a way for people to push their stuff out there in a much bigger sense than we had the ability to do in the 90s, even the early 2000s. Like, MySpace, even if you make a post, it's only going to your friends. TikTok has the opportunity to go viral in the early 2000s and stuff. So it's definitely a resource we didn't have back then.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I don't think we've handled it yet because right now we cover finished cases. Right, okay. We tell the case from beginning to end. So for somebody to say, can you tell this story, it doesn't necessarily fit our format.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
But I do like to, like, if somebody comes to me and says, hey, bring awareness to this black girl missing, I'd be like, you should go to Black Girl Wrong where she's highlighting, she's got people focusing on black girl missing, and that's, like, a better platform for you to use. You know what I mean? Yeah. Sorry, y'all.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
They'll even post for each other. There was a time where somebody's family member went missing, and they found them.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
How we met? Mm-hmm. Mariah and I went to high school together. Okay. And... We didn't like each other because Taz was trying to steal my man. Oh! That's the story that she told.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
It was just so interesting. I think the Chicago one, we did K.I. I don't think that's the closest that we've been. And people were like, they was like, I don't know if y'all should be covering this story.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
It is. So much. And like, when we covered that case, I had to get a board. And I was writing, okay, so he mad at him for this. So then he retaliated to them. So that was her cousin. So now she in it.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
Most of them weren't gang-related. I feel like the only reason... One, when you hear a lot about a gang-related body, it's not usually black women. It's usually black men. Yeah, yeah. So I think that narrows our pool a lot. And I think this one was also sensationalized. There's a lot of coverage out there already.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
No. I had been going to that school since ninth grade, but Mariah didn't get there until tenth grade. Uh-huh. And in ninth grade, I had made a best friend. Okay. And then she started dating my best friend. Oh!
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
And so we just going to, like, these people said, and these people trying to be careful about it. But I don't know that we necessarily get the opportunity to even dive into that. Right. Thank you.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I... I did, but I didn't want to... I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! This is your first time admitting this. Well, I don't know that you've ever asked me, but I think there's always probably been... There was something there, but I never wanted to go there because I didn't want to ruin the friendship. I love to ruin the friendship. That's very noble of you.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
And then he ruins the friendship on his own.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I was like, I know your business and I shouldn't know your business.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I think Mariah has been telling me we need to start a podcast. Okay. Since probably 2014. So you the leagues. Yeah.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
We just need to be documented. Well, we couldn't find it. And then a pandemic hit. And Mariah was door dashing. And she was listening to a lot of. True crime while door dashing like podcasts. And I was watching documentaries like Unabomber, everything. And so, you know, usually during the day you talk about what you've been doing, but ain't nobody doing that in a pandemic. Right, right.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
So we was talking about, oh, this is the case I heard. This is the case I heard. And we was like, you know what? This is it. Yeah. This is the podcast.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
But you have to learn how to control your emotions. You have to. Like, you not being able to control your emotions is a lack of skill that you, the parents ain't teach you whatever reason. I think there's like this point in adulthood where you got to be responsible for, you know, all the things that the parents miss. We're not going to get it all.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
Like, even as best as the next parent might try, this is going to fuck the kid up or that's going to fuck the kid. You got to learn how to fill those spaces without taking somebody's life.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
But if you're in your 30s, mid-30s, I'm like... And you still that mad that you taking, like... I'm not.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
And I'm not saying that it's okay. Some people will gladly go behind belts and shit.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I have... Before you get... You might need a while without y'all.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I don't think anything's ever became too much drama. Right. The next week, another episode dropped. Yeah.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
That's the work. They want to be in that world. They want to feel like somebody caring about them.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
It's also very much, I'm not going to tell you anything real about me. Yes. Like, this is a fantasy. We are in this fantasy. Yes. You play along, I'll play along, but this is fantasy. They draw that line.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
It's so common. Google, when Google hit, they started the internet at two years old. You know?
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
There are. I say majority of our fan base is black women.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I don't think for a karma passion, both people have to be... You don't. You know, like, for him, it was passion. For him, that was hers, you know? And he's jealous of all these other people and other things. And so if he's doing it out of the love that he has for her, it doesn't matter if it's reciprocated. That's still why he did it.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
It could be a mother and a daughter. It could be a mother and a daughter.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
But don't you think crimes of passion are when people hit that mental break?
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
Yeah. I wouldn't say a lot, but I'm not going to say that it's never happened. Right, right, right.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
A couple of weeks ago, somebody in the discussion group made a comment saying, uh-oh, not my two favorite black true crime podcasts doing the same case in the same week. And she was like, that was disappointing, but I'm going to listen anyways. I was kind of feeling away about it. Listen.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
She like, no, bitch, I was for real. Keep this for real. I don't know. I feel like... And my sisters, like, there's one sister, I have to ask permission to tell her about a case. Like, just to see if she can hold it. The other one would be like, I don't know how you do this scary stuff. And I was like, it's not scary. It's just a story.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
And I don't know. You know what else I think? I think I've always been scared of something. Like, my biggest fear growing up was being kidnapped. Girl, me too. Like, I used to sleep in the middle of my sisters, so if they came from either side, they would get somebody first. Not to a sedentary. I feel like as soon as I became self-aware, there was a fear of mine. All the time. So I feel like...
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
I've always had this mindset. I don't feel like paranoia, like, on the cases. I'm already on the lookout.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
dedicated to consuming it but usually it's just having a clear mind going into it I think it's also just knowing that even if somebody's heard the case they've never heard it how we tell it you know what I mean like We approached this when we were building a format for the show. I was like, I want it to be these phone conversations. So nobody is telling it this relaxed.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
Nobody is going off on tangents where they're relating and you start to sympathize with them. Nobody's telling it in that perspective. So I think even if we did tell JonBenet Ramsey, we'd have that other perspective that nobody else is talking about or afraid to mention because we're towing closer to that line.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
Because we're being more relaxed about it.
Pour Minds Podcast
Mystery Inc FT. Sistas Who Kill Podcast
Let's really get to know her before we start to judge her.