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She got to produce some antibodies to handle that fucking deltas. She had two tests already, but she's negative. Okay. Contrary. Wax is here. Wax. Contrary to popular belief. COVID's still out here in these streets, bro. It's out here in these streets, man. I thought it was over. You see what? I thought it was over. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. It's hard to act like it's over for me. I'm faxed. If you're not faxed, you gotta worry about it. I see you guys walking with your little masks and shit. No, even if you're still faxed. I'm still faxed. Nah, I don't use a mask. Let me tell you something. I was in South Carolina all last week for vacation. Okay. And I went to the, I was at the Tanger Outlets. You went to Outlet Shopping? Well, I didn't go, my good sister, Angela Rye, was down and she took my daughter and my niece. And so I was just, I'm paranoid, so I was like, you know, let me be here with the weapons, right? So I'm following them around and shit like that. And I'm sitting down and this white dude sits by me. Oh, white dude. He goes, he's South Carolina. You still wearing a mask, huh? Oh, good. Where is this going? Have you been faxed? I'm like, where is this going? You know what I mean? You still wearing a mask, huh? I say, yeah, yeah, still wearing a mask. He goes, uh, yeah, you faxed? I go, nah, I'm not faxed. He goes, how old are you? I said 43. He goes, yeah, if I was your age, I wouldn't have got faxed. I said, I said, you faxed? He said, yeah, yeah, I got both of them. I said, what you got? He said the Moderna. I said, why are you saying you wouldn't get faxed? He was like, I don't know what's in this shit. He was like, we don't know what's in this shit. He was like fucking December. I could be dead because of this shit. I don't know what the fuck's going on. A lot of people I know is pissed off that they got it. It's fucked up. Nobody's pissed off. We're heroes. Y'all look pussy. Y'all are scared. Like, we had to open up the country. We just went out. We put our life on the line. And so you guys can go to work. You're welcome. We are soldiers, bro. Like, honestly, I think non-vax people need to say thank you to people like us. I appreciate you. When I saw that it took 70% of the country to get vaccinated, salute to the 70% percent. That's what we do. Y'all got bigger balls. That's right. 85 South Show got 85 percenters. The NOI got five percenters. I salute to all the 70%ers of the United States of America. Thank you for getting back. Y'all appreciate y'all, man. So the rest of us don't have to. We got to look out for the little homies. By the way, I've never been vaccinated for nothing in my life. Me neither. That's a lie. You can't even go to public school if you don't have vaccinations. They vaccinate the hell out of you. If you don't remember, did it happen? Yes. No, man. It's true. We can all drop dead, but we did it for y'all. I appreciate you. In all seriousness, we got to open up the country, man. The country's open. What about lab rats? Y'all forgot about lab rats and shit like that. Why don't you let them get it first? They did. You don't think they tried it on that? Why do you think all lab rats are white, bro? You right. Because we're the guinea pigs. Anyway, point is, yeah, go get Vax if you want and if you don't, don't get Vax. I don't even know why it's that difficult. If you're scared, don't get Vax. But here's the thing, don't... But if you die of COVID after not getting Vax, I don't want you crying about it. But if you die from COVID... I don't want to hear you crying about it if you die from COVID. If you die from the shit. If you die from the shit. I told you don't cry about it. You point it back. No. Yo, you bring up a good point, though. It should be about choice. You're allowed to choose, bro. That's it, man. You're allowed to choose, but you're not allowed to bitch and cry. So birth control. This is birth control. Yeah. What do you mean? Because you know how girls have birth control and none of them is okay, but if they don't, they still let you have sex. That's not the point of birth control. Birth control prevents pregnancy, but you still not supposed to have unprotected sex. Yeah, you prevent... We're not supposed to have unprotected face masks. You know what I'm saying? We all hear bare face and shit and we ain't got the fucking vaccine. You following this? I'm just... Taylor, we miss you, yo. No, no, no. We really... I don't want you to understand what I'm saying. Listen, the vaccine is the birth control. Okay. Yeah. Mask is the condom. Yeah, so if you don't take the birth control... Oh, I hear it now. He's actually making sense. Yeah, no shit. The mask is the condom vaccine. It's the birth control. So you can either take the birth control or wear the mask, mask or condom. Absolutely. Exactly, but don't bitch about both. And if you get pregnant, that's on you. But the reason that's not... You're not taking the birth control. But it don't make no sense because even if the girl is on birth control, if you still have unprotected sex with her, what about STDs? What about them? They got other things like AIDS. They got other things like... That's what I'm saying. What about STDs? Yeah, but if you're faithful and your girl's faithful, you'll be good. Yeah, girl. Wax, you been putting some work in with those two guys. Oh, yeah. I was on the farm this week. Them shit need a vaccine. Them shit need a... Them shit might have took the vaccine. Yo, your tips are crazy, bro. Why do you do that in the attempt? I don't know. I go out there to the farm and I just be out there working and stuff. And then by the time I get there... You don't have a non-work, Tim? No, I fuck them up every single time. I mean, they look crazy, bro. And he just got those. I just got these. You got those like two weeks ago. I know. No, no, bro. This is literally this week on the farm. Nah, dude. You just trying to keep calling busy, bro. That's what I feel like. You don't keep sending it to the store for the stay out. You just trying to stay out the house. That sometimes we do do that, right? Like, sometimes we realize you got to fix something out of the house. Like, sometimes it's not gonna howl at me with these shit. Yeah, go on. Keep her confidence. How's he doing along, baby? This shit is really stupid, man. I want to... Can we talk about entitlement a little bit? Yeah, let's talk about entitlement, man. Just a little bit, right? Yeah. I really just want to tell this generation of young people, not even just young people, because it's some adult, middle-aged people that are the same way. Bro, nobody owes you anything. You're not just... I can't even say you're deserving of anything. I don't think any of us are deserving of anything. You get what you work for, but I think that this generation has a problem with said work. I don't know if they know what work actually looks like. And why is that? Why is it this generation specifically? Or do we think every generation after us is lazier? Like, you know how our parents are like... Mm-hmm. You know, we take the bus to school and our parents are like, I used to crawl to school. Yeah. I think it's a cell phone and microwave that fucked them up. What do you mean? Everything is so fast for them, so they expect and they don't want to work for food and stuff. Everything in life is so convenient for them. Mm-hmm. I think a lot of... So why not this job? Why not this fucking media pay more? Yeah, but just because something's convenient for you doesn't mean that you deserve it. You know? I don't feel like I'm deserving of anything. You know, do you think it's social media where it seems like you see an inflated amount of people like you succeeding? So you're like, well, I should be doing that. Whereas our generation, we only grew up with our friends around us. So as long as our friends weren't... Jesus. Whoa. That's crazy. What the fuck was that? I don't know. What happened? That was an earthquake, wasn't it? It's New York. I have no clue what that was. I don't know you. I thought it was him. It felt like it was in the next room, though. I know. I sensed that about a minute ago. I think that's my vaccine. I got, like, spider-sensitive. Or maybe goddamn somebody turned juvenile back that ass up and Mark is in there. Back that ass up. Mark is in there. The fact... Well, Mark is shaking his ass. Crazy. Someone's on the roof. Somebody's working. That's the roof. I think it's on the roof. No, I think that's Mark working. Cut that shit out. But what were we saying? You was talking about social media, making people feel... Oh, yeah, yeah. You see so many people that are supposed to be just like you, but they're in these higher positions. They're succeeding. They're doing all this crazy shit. And they're lying. And they're lying fingers. Exactly, right? But they're supposed to be just like you. When it was our generation, it was you and your friends. And you guys were on the same level. When you all went to college, everybody went to college. If you were in high school, if you failed a test, they failed a test. Everybody's good. If they didn't fail a test and you did, you fell like an asshole. So maybe this generation just sees an inflated amount of success. And they're like, well, I should have that too. I agree with that. I think that's a fantastic point. And I'll expound on that with social media and say social media gives you an audience. When you talk about how all we had was our friends, very true. Now these guys got a thousand followers, 10,000 followers. Hold on. There's some furniture moving going on, bro. Some furniture moving going on. What the hell's happening out here? It sounds like somebody getting caught by their girl and they running. They trying to hide. It sounds like somebody fighting. Yeah, getting chased by his girl. That sounds like somebody was doing some real furniture moving, bro. And somebody was losing. When you start hearing that much furniture moving, somebody getting their ass kicked and they trying to get out the way. Yeah. It's like a man running from his wife. What was that? Uh-oh. Okay. All right. Well, but no, what we were saying is... You're not supposed to shoot in a room, but they feel entitled that they could do absolutely anything. Millenials? Probably some millennials up there with no fucking permit or nothing like that? Absolutely nothing. But no, it's like, yeah, people have an audience, right? Because in Mayhem, we would never do such a thing. We would never shoot anything on a room. Oh, really? We got certifications. We got insurance with everything we need. We pay for our permits. Exactly. Listen, if you got double-digit followers on social media, if you got 100 people... Like, I was fucking with Nila yesterday. Nila's definitely not one of these entitled millennials. Nila's great. But she was talking to 36 people. Her and Wax. Talking to 36 people on Instagram Live. That's the craziest shit. But they were giving it up. They had gospel music playing. I'm like, man, nobody at this church. Listen, I was trying to get her to do a gospel mix because you know, every time you tell me, it was the top 10. Top 10. It was like, damn, just hip-hop. I don't listen to hip-hop. Listen to gospel. So I want mine. Yeah, but y'all weren't talking and nobody is my point. I get it. Yo, how many people... That's it. A church is a church, man. How many people is Instagram Live ridiculous at? I've seen some stupid numbers. Six. Doin' verses. No, verses. I've seen some verses. No, but when you talkin' about verses, there's a regular if somebody get up there on live. I'm talking about regular Instagram. At what point you gotta shut down the Instagram Live? Bro, if you have less than 10 people, you gotta shut that fucking... Oh, you mean stuff like that. I just group checked. I've seen people live talking to one person. I'm like, call that motherfucker. Literally. That's FaceTime. And by the way, you can bring more people on FaceTime nowadays. 100%. Which I didn't know. I just found that out the other day. Under 10, you look crazy. You look stupid as hell. Under 10, you look crazy. But guess what? Sometimes all it takes is 10. Just think about it. Think about when we was in high school. It's only one. All you need is one person to gas you up. That's it. I had Kolaska. Kolaska. Listen, that's it. All I need is one person to go along with whatever dumb shit I was doing. Anything. We'll stop the store. Anything. And it ain't no stopping me now. Damn. Ain't no stopping us now. Like all I need is one person to gas me up. Yeah. Hit him with that lock. Yo, maybe that's why people do such stupid shit. This is just way more people gassing them up. That's it. That's all it is. They got hype, man. They got crazy muscle. That's all it is. That's why you see these people online. And literally, all it takes is a few people to gas you up and make you think you are something that you're not. It's just really that simple. It's like really making people think that there's something that they're not. I'm going to take one girl to make you think that you got a little meat though. All the girls are like, oh, you got a big meat. One girl, so you got a little meat. You fucked up. That's very true. Yeah, the negative shit sticks to us for a long, way longer. That's a fact. That's a fact. But that's why the funny part about anybody who, you know, initially might get a lot of love. You ever be looking at them and you'd be like, oh, bless their little heart. They don't even know how this shit going to turn on them. That's how social media does it. They'll love you in the beginning. Oh, man. That's some real Southern shit that he just did. That's right. That fake kindness. Bless his little heart. Bless his little heart. Bless your little heart. What the fuck do you mean? No, we don't do that. That's my little heart. But when northerners go down to the south, we think that y'all are being nice when you say shit like that. Oh, that's his heart. That's the worst thing you can say to someone. You just said, fuck you. God bless you because I really cursed you. God bless you. God bless you. You don't see that with up-and-coming comedians though. You don't see like a new comedian. And you see that they got that new car smell. And they all happy. And you just like, you have no idea. You know how to deal with that. You would awaken it. Only if there's arrogance tied to it. This causes the arrogance. Yeah. This shit right here will make you think you're better than what you already are. You ain't ready yet. You know why you don't see it with comedians a lot of times? Because the stage is humbling. Like you're going to bomb. You can't avoid a bomb. Bombing happens. So the stage is humbling. But before that humbling, they on this shit making motherfuckers die like that. But that's why that shit right there gives the inflated sense of ego. Like if you're on stage, you're bombing. They stay there though. They won't go on stage. That's why it's easy to go that way. It's easy to stay on stage. It's easy to stay on stage. It's easy to stay on stage. It's easy to stay on stage. It's easy to stay on there. It's easy to do things on there. Everybody fucking loves you in the negative comments. You just delete them shit. That's right. You can't delete a boo. That's right. You got to deal with that shit. You can't filter that shit out. You can't filter that. You can't on stage. So you're really in prison on stage. That's right. And I mean, I hate to sound like the old guy, but I am. I come from an era where you really had to earn that attention. Literally. You had to earn those motherfucking, you had to fuck the likes. You had to earn people liking you. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Literally whatever you did. You had to learn it from somewhere. And that's why I disconnect from this shit so much because I don't ever want this thing right here, that smartphone, that social media to influence my thoughts and my words because it will. There's nobody that's exempt from it. If you spend too much time on it, it's going to impact you or affect you in some way, shape or form. You know what's crazy about it is that not only the people, but like the algorithm and the rules of social media, like if all the content's going on in social media, right? And then social media decides, we don't like curse words in our content. That shifts how comedy exists. That's right. Right? That's just how music exists. You start writing the lyrics to your songs differently because you know the only way that shit is going to splash is if it... So those people, these nerds that are at these social media companies, they could dictate culture. They could dictate music. They say no twerking. I was just about to say, if certain dancers are too sexual, they go go no. And then all of a sudden, choreographers are like, well, I want to be famous. I'm not going to start twerking. There you go. Wow. That's a lot of power. Isn't that kind of crazy? It's so much power. I want you all to add to audio with T-Pain because T-Pain was talking about how we already got a little baby. We already got a baby. We already got... I forgot who else he named, but he was like, we need y'all to be original. To your point, it's hard to be original when you see something working. When you see something working for somebody, you're like, oh, shit, well, let me make some music like that. I'm a baby too. I'm a baby too. I'm a rat like that. You know what I'm saying? That's exactly what all of this shit is. We're all walking around being human algorithms. Don't even fucking know. It's so true. Because we're just drawing a success of whatever's going to work. Motherfuckers copy. But what's interesting is the people that usually pop off, especially out of nowhere, are doing something unique. That's right. It's scary. Everybody doing this, they go that way. I mean, but yo. It is scary. It is for people like, I don't know. I like going in that lane that actually kind of grosses me out to like copy certain people and do their things because why do it? But I understand the person that isn't willing to do that because they might have bills to pay. They got kids to feed. How do I continue to feed the fucking kids and do that shit? That's why I don't respect everybody's opinion. And the main reason I don't respect everybody's opinion is because you're just going along with everybody else. Exactly. Because I come from an era where you said things and you didn't care whether somebody agreed or disagreed or not. And you had to stand on whatever that thing was. Nowadays, people take the safe route. They look at whatever everybody's talking about. They look at what the popular opinion is and they just go with that. Yeah. As opposed to crafting their own thoughts and their own ideas about a situation. That's what I respect. Thinking outside the box. That's right. Because there's easy money. There's quick money. It's easy money, but it's short money if you just go along with the narrative. That's right. And you can sniff when somebody's being authentic. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's interesting. Even when I see things on social media and they'll be like, oh, Charlamagne is PC to God, right? Yeah, yeah. I'm cool with that. Okay. Because that's me. That's who I am. That's this point. What's PC? Man, shut up. See? You can't even say it. You can't even say it without laughing. What's PC? Huh? I don't know. What is PC to me? PC. Never smoked PC? Oh, politically correct. Politically correct, yeah. I don't know what that means, right? But I know I'm being true to myself. I didn't say nothing. Hey, bro. This is the devil on the show that's like, no, you're not. That's facts. This is you here. That's facts. Okay. What's going on? I'm trying to drag you back to this political incorrectness once a week on this goddamn podcast, okay? I can't wait to ask you about Black Widow so you can face down it. I haven't seen it. All right. I really haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen it. I'm behind. I'm behind on Loki. I'm on, I think the final episode of Loki. I tried to get into Loki, man. I tried. The first three episodes, I fucked with Loki. You liked the first episode? I thought it was regs, the super regs. Well, I can tell you the reasons I like it. The reasons I like it is because they really introduce Marvel phase four in a real way. Like we know where the world is going. And now they're about to get into the cosmos and time travel and everything else and Kang the Conqueror. Like I like that shit. Right. So I fuck with it. I ain't getting never going to talk about it. I tried. I really wanted it. Like I wanted a new show. I put that shit on. I was like, I don't know. Trying to make it even afraid is dope. Making it afraid is dope. I fucked with that shit. Oh. Loki does make me think about like, what if there are variants of us? Say what? What if there are variants of us? Yeah, that could happen. Okay. I'll give Marvel credit in this as they are going after a super abstract idea, which is time travel, right? Especially in the way they try to tell it. Like that shit is tricky, difficult and confusing. Listen, I say this all the time. I don't know who the fuck at Marvel is putting this shit together, but they laid out a 15, 20 year plan that they are executing to perfection. Yeah. They don't waste nothing. Except for Black Widow. I haven't seen Black Widow yet. So you think it's like two of us? It's two of everybody? It's really that bad. You're the second person to tell me that. It's really... It's like men in black. Not men in black. What's Mission Impossible movie? It's just all action. Well, she's a spy. Yeah, but it's just all action. There's no storyline. There's no funnies. There's no... Well, she's a spy though. Yeah, but you know how their movies are so great because it's action and there's fun. There's a great story. There's a lot of development. You understand this character. Marvel has great villains. There's a great storyline. There's no storyline? It is a storyline, but I'm just saying there's no character development. You don't understand why the character is doing what they're doing. Bro, just say you hate women, Alex. See, that's the thing. That's the thing right here. I like Wonder Woman. You ain't like that shit. I hated Wonder Woman. The first one was I. The second one was God. Both of them was garbage. Nah. Wait a minute. What? I thought both Wonder Woman's were garbage. I'm not giving you no. Somebody will edit on Reddit. Charlemagne said he thinks women are garbage. I told you he was gay. He just said women are garbage. He's gay and misogynistic. I never liked Wonder Woman. Nah. I gotta watch it. I gotta catch up. What is it about a female empowerment character that you hate so much? I love Captain Marvel. Oh, I was confusing them. Captain Marvel is different than Wonder Woman. Captain Marvel is from Marvel, obviously. All women don't look alike. They don't, though? You know what I'm saying? They don't, though? Like, come on, bro. What do you mean? I gotta watch Black Widow, man. You know what I think might be fuck up Black Widow, too? What's that? That's the fact that it's out of place. Because Black Widow was supposed to be the first movie after in-game. And then they were supposed to roll into the TV show. They actually edited a lot of Captain America when a soldier, because Captain America when a soldier, like Black Widow's sister was in that. And they edited that. So a lot of that was supposed to have some synergy. So they just threw that shit out, essentially. They're like, let's just get this out the way we already made. And that's how they fucked up, because by throwing that out of the original movies, now all of a sudden this bitch got a family, and yo, and even though that, she had to be the B-word. Sorry, my bad. She's a character. She might be a bitch. Like, if you're one of the people she killed, you probably think she's a bitch. This is what we're talking about. This is why we can't have an objective conversation about Black Widow. We see the guy, right? Everybody was doing fine. You see the guy. I bet if it was White Widow, she could be a bitch. You know what I'm saying? I bet if it was White Widow, this Karen-ass spy out here, you know what I mean? I bet that she could be a bitch then. Did you see that woman in Short Hills, Marlborough? No, what happened? Man, I know you saw that. Oh, she's the person that started crying? Man, that shit was incredible. Y'all just learned about White Women, bro? No, but we knew this shit existed forever. Very scary. You remember when LaVar Ball was on Colin Coward's show, I think it was? The Hurt? The Hurt. And remember the woman was behind him, and he was like, I'm not even looking behind me. I don't want no problem with you. I don't see you. And we were sitting back like, I know exactly what he means. I'm scared. Remember we said that? Yeah. We were like, yo, I'm terror. As a black man, I'm terrified when a white woman starts acting like that. And she was like, are you threatening me? And LaVar says, see? That's what I'm talking about. There we go. That's what I'm talking about. So when you see the woman in Short Hills, Marlborough, I can't remember her name. When you see her acting like that, that's what we're terrified of. I'm most good at that. You don't get this alone. Really? They're also terrified. Tell me your trauma. No way. Come on, dude. 100%. Yeah, we play games with that shit. Come on. White women are crazy. You didn't notice? I'd rather be around a bunch of black dudes with guns. Say what? I'd rather be around a bunch of black dudes with guns than one of those. You'd rather be around a bunch of black dudes with guns than one white woman. One white Karen would act like that, for sure. She's way more dangerous. No. I'm going to sit here and say those are equal opportunity dangers. No. Because I've been around it. And I felt no way. I'd rather be around a Karen because I understand how to navigate the Karen. You'd rather be around those black dudes because you understand how to navigate the Karen. I have no problem. I've been around it all week. I have no problems at all. Yeah. And I didn't feel away. She even came through and walked past. Yeah. Everybody would have looked with guns on them. Yeah. And said nobody looked like that. Somebody said to me yesterday what would I have done in that situation? And I thought about it. I'm like, if she falls and she's acting like that, because my mind is I'm going to run away. Yeah. But if I'm the black guy running away from that situation, I'm getting hurt, right? Yeah. And she can say anything. You know what I would do? You got to tape it, bro. I'm going to jump down a break dance with her. No. I'm going to get on the floor. I'm going to start spinning. No, but they're going to try to fight her. No, I'm going to do my social distancing. But I'm going to start break dancing, too. You got to do it. She start doing her legs like this. I'm going to start doing that shit, too. That might be aggressive for them, though. No. It's going to look like the Eurocup. Bro, that shit is insane. No, you got to do what she did. You got to tape for real. Bro, that shit is insane to me. Yeah, dude. This is what it is. They could cry on spot. But you got to do that, though. That's dangerous. It is. You take somebody whole life like that. What? Crying on spot. Doing that bullshit right there. I know, dude. Here's the thing that I want to ask that young woman. Yeah. Why? Why? Because she can. Why? Because when white chicks fuck up, they realize they fuck up. And then they realize if they play victim, then nobody talks about what they did. Not at all. It's a convenient manipulation strategy. It's you do something wrong, and then it's... I got anxiety. I feel like this, and why have you done that? I'm getting anxiety. Not right now. I got anxiety. Now, all of a sudden, you're the victim. Yeah. And fucking Charlamagne done told everybody they got anxiety. So now we got to deal with that from everybody. I start using it. Everybody get pulled over. Yo, sir, I got anxiety right now. That is, though. What? I'm used to this shit now. That's trauma, bro. It is. Wouldn't the police pull you over? I just feel like he's a criminal. They're supposed to. They're supposed to pull him over. Not now. Not now. It's no trauma. The police are feeling trauma. It's still trauma. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. It's still trauma. You got trauma from all the times you've been pulled over? Yes. Plus just generational trauma of that shit just going through our bodies and our veins from... So I was literally... I bought a book last week called Slave Patrol that talks about the history of slave patrols in the Carolinas and how it correlates with the police now. You know what's crazy? All those generational trauma, bro. You know what's crazy? How do they hire people for that? Every time I drive... For slave patrol, they just... You hate niggers? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Chill out, dude. That's the end of you fucking... I'm just saying, like... You're not hired. All right? You didn't answer with a search. Just a hesitation. Yeah! Just a hesitation. I should feel uncomfortable. But listen, every time I drive, though, and I see them... No, I'm just saying in general, with the slave patrol, like, how did they hire the white guys to do that? I haven't, though. I haven't. Probably a group that lived together and they probably raised them to be like that. I haven't started reading the book yet. Say it again? I haven't started reading it. You didn't start reading it? I just read the title. But I'm just saying, like, you're in the woods, right? So it's not like you can, like, take a car or anything like that. Like, you got to chase these guys. Yes. You know? So, like, who's going to catch the black guy? Well, that's what it's for. It literally was for slaves who would run off to plantation. Yeah, but how did you guys ever get caught? This is the... To my told. Slave patrols are all in violence in Virginia and the Carolinas by Sally E. Haddon. So when you drive and you see them, don't you already have something in your head that you're wondering about to say if they pull you over? No. That's kind of fucked up. I've talked about this a million times. I pull over to the side of the road and let them pass me. Always. If I see you behind me... I don't want the interaction. Please let a gas station be somewhere. A store complex. I don't want the interaction. Please. I don't want the interaction. What do you do? Who? You just pull whatever it is. I don't care if it's Victoria's Secret. I'm pulling over in there. That's exactly what Abigail was at. I think that's her name. When you do that and you do that because you've had these horrible racial experiences, you also seen so many on video. It's a 90-10 chance that he's going to fuck with me. That's right. About 50-50. I've never had a horrible racial experience. But you've seen so many on video. That's right. I don't want the interaction. Now do you understand why white people cross the street when they see you guys? No. We are not... They've seen a lot of video. No. They've seen a lot of video. So why don't we act like that with white people then? What do you mean? What do you mean? We've seen way more. White people acting up and doing something to black people. Absolutely. We can't even do nothing to y'all. What's wrong with you? Historically. I was just making a joke. But what the fuck are you talking about? We can do something to y'all. What the fuck are you talking about? We're going to actually bring up real numbers here, guys. Are we being for real? I didn't see these videos. Last time we did that, Taylor got fired from the podcast. Taylor did not get fired. Taylor is doing what she's supposed to be doing. I miss you, Taylor. Which is producing. I miss Taylor producing in-house. She'll be here next week, but she got to follow proper COVID protocols. Oh, she got to go through protocol. That's all. That's all. Listen, everybody has to focus on what they're here to do in the moment. Now, if you grow out of that and you want to do other things in the future, salute. Salute. Not mad at that at all. You know what I mean? Don't let what you're doing be impacted by something that you ain't got no business doing. You know, it's great. We got this new kid that's working for us right now. And he's 18 years old, just out of high school. The kid out there? Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. Roughly. It's amazing. Guys cleaning up all the time, throwing a fucking garbage out. That new energy you need in a company because it makes everybody else go, oh shit. I got to do that shit. Yes. You know what I'm saying? It is really good. Check out your body entitlement. But that's why. Like interns when they try so hard. That's right. It lets everybody know, oh my God, like I got. Go, go. Because you're one of those. The same way we all still have our inner child in us. We still have that inner intern. That guy who was just happy to be there like, man, what do I need to do? He told me a funny story. He said that he was working at Home Depot, right? And his boss asked him, so what are you trying to do in your future? Like, what do you want to do? And he's like, I really want to work at Schultz Studios like that. That would be the dream. Wow. And his boss told him, he's like, yeah, there's no chance of that happening. Why don't you start figuring out like what you can do here? This is your best chance of doing it. I don't believe that story. Listen. All right, fair enough. Maybe he's lying. That's great. I just don't believe that story. That's what he said. And then he said he got to walk into his fucking boss's room the other day and say, yo, I'm quitting. I'm going to work for Schultz Studios. That's dope. That ain't nothing. Nobody's saying that. That's dope with old man. No, it is. No, no, no, no. Let me explain. No, no, no. Hey, bro. Let me explain what I mean by that. Hey, bro. No, where's my political correctness? You politically correct about everything else. No, PC. Motherfucker. I've been literally arguing. We get in old school, see the God back in the day. I've been debating about this all morning. Because, you know, in the group chat, it's me, it's Wax, it's Nyla, it's Makayla, it's Taylor, right? Yeah. And Simp. And I'm talking to them about how... I don't want to be in that black-ass group text anyway. But listen, I'm talking to them. I'm talking to them about how people get gassed off the littlest things. Ah. You understand what I'm saying? I think he's still shittin' on me. No, no, no, no. I think he's still shittin' on me. I'm going to tell you. No, listen. But listen, he just looted my phone. Looted that brother. But he got an internship at Soap Studio. He getting paid. Ain't no internship. Oh, great. He got paid. But guess what. You still ain't did shit, young man. You haven't. You still ain't did shit, young man. This is true. You still got to earn your kid. You might fire him after two week shows. That's awesome. Not saying you would. I don't know if he keeps cleaning up. I love that shit, bro. But he might want to grow out of that. That's right. Until he tells you, I ain't coming here to clean. Yep. You asked me to give him a mic one time. Exactly. I came here to be the cameraman. I came here to take out some job. He didn't come here to clean, but now that he does it, that will be part of the job. That's true. So be careful what you do to help out around the studio. Let me get it. United's relationship, don't stop it. I see it, but I see it all the time. You know what I'm saying? It's just like, I hear what you're saying, even though it sounds like you were shitting all over me. It did come across like that. OK, let's say if it's the breakfast club. Yeah, let's talk about the breakfast club. And let's just say, if there was somebody on the breakfast club, and you let them talk every now and then, and then they started to get gassed up a little, feel like they parted the show. Yeah, whatever, whatever. In your mind, you know what I mean? Like, bro, this is nothing to be gassed over. I don't even fuck if it's the breakfast club. You ain't done shit. Like, what have you done? But the problem is people think that they're successful by proximity a lot of times in this area. But sometimes it's somebody's dream to work at the breakfast club, right? And just getting that job is their first level to their dream. It might be they might have 20 other dreams, but one of their immediate dreams is to get an internship, to get into college. Like, let's say you get into college like, yeah, you didn't graduate, but still, that's that's still an accomplishment to get into the college of your dream. Yeah, but you know, that's the second place trophy. That's not even second place. That's third place. Yeah, you ain't finished. That's participation. Yeah. Hey, you made it to college. Congratulations. All right, you got married. You ain't got family. Now I'm going to start on the main side. Fuck that. That's the truth, though. Fuck yeah, what, what, what, what, what? What you saying? What, what, what, what? Which one say who? Who said truth, though? What do you say? I missed it. You said you got married, but it's not like you got a family. Well, some people start their family before they got married. That's true, too. But it's another level. Yo, real talk, like, being faithful to three years, like, that's nothing, bro. No, it's not. Yo, that's nothing, bro. Like, you talk all this faithful shit. I've been faithful for almost six. Yeah, that shit is nothing. It ain't shit. Six years? Six years, son? Hey, no, no, no, no. That's barely a, that's a light sentence. Hey, three years. When you forgot to pay your taxes, come on. By the way, three years ain't shit. No. You know what else? Three years ain't shit. What? Three years of college. You better get that fucking fork and get a degree. You right. But come on, man. Give me game. You thought that was going to get hard, so you thought that was going to get hard. You thought that was going to get hard. Knowledge. You thought that was going to get hard. You can tell he ain't going to college. Skip the green. He done passed it. He ain't going to die laughing to me knowing college was four years. I didn't know what the reaction was going to be. I thought I was going to get one. I was like, what? No reaction. I don't know if it was going to be laughter or like true or true. I'm like, damn, nothing. I didn't do nothing for you. I wouldn't hit the model. There's many, there's many successes you could have in your life. I think your accomplishment of six years of fidelity is great. Mine is too. I think your two is great too. Thank you. I really appreciate that, y'all. We're done. Because nobody gave you my flowers. For real, and I fuck with people who stop drinking and shit like that. Like, that first month is huge. Big, because it's an addiction. It's addiction, it's addiction, bro. You got to solve somebody when they are sober. Yes, 100%. So, like, any accomplishment, any goal you set, even if it's losing five pounds, that might be nothing. But if you set something out and then you do it, I don't care if it doesn't mean anything to the average person. But to you, well, if you get back fat again, that's fucked up. You should feel bad about that shit. And it depends how much you weigh when you lose the five. That's what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying? I guess what I'm saying from, like, a self-esteem perspective, like, when you decide that you're going to do something and then you do it, there are a few people say they're going to do things because they're afraid of the failure attached to it. So, when you decide, yo, I'm going to do this thing and then you actually achieve it, you deserve to feel good about it. Okay, no, no. Schultz is right. But this is what I would say. You still haven't done anything. It's still more levels. Congratulations. I'm glad you're in the door with the ultimate. Now stop partying and keep going. Keep going, man. And that's my problem. A lot of these guys and these girls, they stop and they celebrate and they spike the football. It's like, yo, it's so many other levels. You only score one point. You got a whole game to go. Come on, man. Yeah. Come on, man. And it's like, once again, I think a lot of people think that they're successful by proximity. It's just like on social media. Just because you can add Diddy and Diddy might tweet you back. You're not Diddy. Yeah. You're not seeing eye to eye with Sean Combs or whoever it is, LeBron James, whoever it is. Like, that's why we, some shit, man, we might have to stop rewarding, bro. Like what? Like, if I tweet you, all right, if somebody tweet, I forgot to, it was a basketball. Didn't somebody tweet, tweet a, I think it was C.J. McCullum or something. And then the person ended up on ESPN. That's why. Why are you doing that? That's why. You're right. Why are you doing that? With me once, I made fun of Kenny Smith's legs. And then they put that shit on. The tweet is fine. But I'm talking about actually doing an interview. Oh no, they didn't. The person, I believe they did. I thought they just showed the tweets and whatever. And listen, maybe I'm just old school, but I just, I see it too much, man. I see it when certain people get really, really gassed and I can see how that ego trip will lead them on a journey to nowhere. Yeah. That's what I tell people all the time. You want to take a trip that's not going to take you nowhere? Let it be an ego trip. But usually that's quick success. Like if success takes time, usually there's some humility behind it. Or if there's confidence, it's like, yeah, I'm confident because I worked 20 years to get this shit. But like, if you have quick success, it's almost like you've got to trick yourself into believing while you're there. And it's like, oh, it's destiny. I'm meant to be here. This is. But that's the thing too. I'm going to fuck it up too. I hate when people get upset because they don't get what they're not even there to do. Like if you're here to be a custodian, right? And your job is to clean up. If you walk in here one time and you're cleaning up and I say something to you and you get a little mic time, a little camera time, don't start complaining that you're not getting no mic time and camera time because you're not here to be a personality. This shit really. You're a custodian. This shit really got to you. Because it's stupid. Imagine losing opportunity or losing money because you're complaining about not getting time to do a job. You're not even here to do. This shit don't even make no sense. Yo, it makes no logical sense. To be clear, you're not talking about Taylor. No, I'm talking about the machine behind him. I'm not talking about Taylor. You're talking about there's another idea. There's another potential situation. This whole generation. I don't know if I'm talking to Taylor. I don't think I'm talking to Taylor. I don't have Taylor in mind right now. But no, it is a generation. It literally is a generational thing. And I was having this conversation with Taylor and McKaylee and Nyland Sim this morning because I don't want to see any of them make those kinds of mistakes. Because they trust me when I tell you they are mistakes. It's literally not putting the weed in. But you got to learn from it. You know what I'm saying? Like you said, you got a big journey and stuff like that going on. This is something you got to learn from. You got to fall sometimes. I'll give you a story, right? I remember when I used to work, we're syndicated on there now, Z93 Jams in Charleston. But that's why I started as an intern and as a radio personality. And I remember one time we used to do this thing where we would take the station vehicle and we would go to different towns in South Carolina. Like any jock might get in a vehicle who might just pop up somewhere, have tickets, whatever. You just, hey, meet me at such and such right now. Pull up. And I remember we had a list of like different towns we were going to. And I remember Baby Jan Tessa slew the Baby Jan Tessa, let him to death. Actually we're the Breakfast Club in Charleston, South Carolina. They went to Monks Corner. And I remember being so mad, like, why the fuck y'all going to Monks Corner? That's my time. That's where I'm from, yada, yada, yada. And I remember Baby J saying to me, yo, where you from? You know where I'm from, from Monks Corner. He said, yeah, because you say it all the time on the radio, they know you out there. Why don't you go to West Ashley? Why don't you go to some of it? They don't know you. Go somewhere where the people don't know you and haven't met you. And I was like, oh, shit. You know what I mean? But initially, ego kicked in. I'm like, what the fuck? Yada, yada, yada, yada. But he was absolutely, positively correct. I don't think this generation, not saying everybody, because that's a big general statement. I don't think a lot of people in this generation are receptive to that, because they got this shit. And they got 50 people telling them, they good. Are they great? Or what they should be doing? I would do that dumbass shit too. You say what? I would do that dumbass shit too. Like a dream. You know what I realize? Everybody got someone in their DMs saying that they're the best part of whatever they're doing. And it don't matter how insignificant you are. There's a motherfucker who will DM you and be like, bro, it would be nothing without you. Yo, the show would be nothing without you, bro. Yo, you're saving the show, bro. And then you think you're the only one getting those DMs. We've all got these DMs, bro. And you think you're the only one getting those DMs in the beginning, right? So you just block out all the negative shit because you're like, oh, I got three DMs. And you said that I'm the one saving the fucking show. But you got to be honest with yourself in those moments. Yeah, you got to be like, am I really? What do I do? What am I doing? Like really, like seriously, look at, sometimes take a step back and look at your resume and ask yourself, okay, why do they like me? Yeah. Do they really like me? Yeah, yeah. I don't know if they really like you. And sometimes they like you because you're great. Sometimes they like you because it's cool to like the underdog. Sometimes they like you because of the proximity of the thing that you're around. Yeah. And sometimes the combination of all of them. Sometimes they love the role you play and you're the most relatable person, but they might not be speaking for the majority of the audience. But here's the thing, what if you don't even have a role? Yeah. That's my point. Like we're talking, we're personality. What if you don't have a role? What if Alex said to you right now, like, yo, you know, man, you know, I need to be heard on this podcast. Well, if on Flayre and I would understand that. Okay. Because he plays a role, he's got a mic on it, I'm brilliant. I mean, I'm open to it because I know what he brings to Flayre. It wouldn't be that shocking, but let's say it was just this podcast. We never did Flayre and Alex barely talks. And he's like, my voice isn't being heard enough. Yeah. Something like that. I'd be like, what's going on? I wonder if anybody around Howard Stern ever had an issue. Say what? I know how to play my role. There you go. Say that again, Alex. I know how to play my role. Playing the role, playing your role, playing your position is such a lost art. Because so many motherfuckers are out of position. I don't think they know how to do it though. They don't know how to do it because of this. We would train, we had to do it. We had chores, we had all the type of stuff we had to do. Everybody has an audience. Even if there was a janitor, and I keep using the janitor. If there was a custody audience. We didn't hire a janitor. We hired an editor. Oh, he's an editor? Yeah, he's Mexican. Doesn't mean he's fucking clean. I didn't know what he was doing. Number one, number one. I didn't know he was Mexican. You know what the fuck he was doing. What? Huh? Number one. I got two for one. Number one, I didn't know he was Mexican. Number two, you didn't tell me what he did. You just said he comes in here and he cleans up. That's not fair. I said he started doing that extra. First of all, I love those kind of people. Yeah, I do. But that's the kind of person I am. That's who I am. That's who I was. God, I start... Whatever you need, yo. It was something I read. I read something with it. I mean it was a movie. It was something where it was like, you always look busy. So it was like, even if you just sitting around like, grab something, start dusting shit. And I was that person. And I'm like, oh, I'm a dust. Just because you always want the person to do what you did. You notice that he's cleaning up. You notice he's doing things he don't have to do. That right there makes you like, okay. I like that. There's something there. He's hungry. I see who want weed. Instead of cleaning up. Oh, that was done to me. What's that? You or what? I see if somebody want weed or like stuff like that. I know how to play my part. I know how to fill the air in the room. That's it. But I ain't trying to be the room. A guy said that to me yesterday. You know, the sales team came back to I Heart. And I went downstairs. I said to use the bathroom. And the dude was sitting there. He's like, show me. I'm like, what's up, man? Good to see you. Anything you sense the pandemic, whatever, whatever. He said, where's wax? I said, oh, he's upstairs. You know what I'm saying? He was like, man, I'm gonna come up there and see him. I said, no doubt. He said, no, I'm bullshitting. He said, I don't really want to see him. You know what I'm saying? Unless he got something for me. I have nothing to do with that. I don't know nothing. All right. I don't have nothing to do with that. I don't know. The moral of the story is, man, I just don't want people to have a sense of entitlement. Nobody owes you anything. And you're not deserving of anything other than what you work for. Yeah. Maybe there's a separation between entitlement and gratitude or happiness. You could have a goal, achieve it, and then feel really good about yourself. But it doesn't mean that you automatically feel like the world is owed to you. Gratitude and happiness is shown through your work ethic. I can give you examples of people like a page, people like a sim, who gratitude and their gratitude is shown through their work ethic, meaning that they're always around. You know how Paige became an executive in my company? Why ask no? Cause she wouldn't leave. She was always around. Like, I know I'm coming. I'm gonna be here. Like she was there. She was playing roles way before she had official position. You understand what I'm saying? Same thing with a sim. Like, sim literally learned everything. Everything. She's my assistant. Everything. Everything. Camera work, production, programming. She's happy to be there. When you're happy to be there, it will show in your work ethic. When you're not happy to be there, it will show in your work ethic. And guess what? It all gets noticed. The energy and everything gets noticed. It all gets noticed. And it gets rewarded. That's the thing I don't realize. Like, if you kill it, it is rewarded. I've never not seen it work. Yeah. I haven't. Not once have I seen somebody who is happy to be there. Gratitude is their attitude. It shows in their work ethic and they have not been rewarded for it. In fact, those are the people who, it seems like they're accelerating fast. Yeah. The people who are stagnant are the people who find something to complain about all the time. They aren't happy to be there because maybe they're not reliable. And by the way, maybe they're out of position. Yeah. The left tackle don't play quarterback. Imagine the left tackle telling you, I need to be throwing the ball. Yeah. I suppose we catch it in exceptions. Yeah. You're a left tackle. Yeah. Is that so? The reason I'm using that example? Because brother, the left tackle is just as important. Yeah. As the quarterback. That's what protects the quarterback. The lug nuts, man. I don't care what position you play if you're a producer, a board-op. Very important, man. Music, everybody, the custodian, everybody plays a position. If the room wasn't clean, if the studio wasn't clean, we couldn't perform. Word up. Who would come in and perform for a dirty fucking studio all the time? Yeah. Everybody plays an important role. That's it. That's all. So I just want to tell these kids, man, don't get gasped because an ego trip was a journey to nowhere. That's all. Let's pay some bills. Guys, this episode has been brought to you by keeping your fucking hair. As you can see, your boy's got a full head of hair. And it's because I've been on keeps for over the last decade, man. 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Yo, the infamous tour. Okay. These shows are crazy, man. Selling out like crazy, I'm just so excited, man. Can't wait to come to one. It's gonna be wild, man. I don't even know which one to recommend for you to come to, bro. Definitely come. I'm gonna pick it by the city, y'all. All right, bet. But yeah, it's gonna be wild, man. And we're looking to shake some stuff up. So we are coming to your city. We added a few shows. I can't even believe that we're adding fucking shows. Some of these venue sizes are just nuts. I mean, we added another one in San Francisco. We're doing the Masonic Theater in San Francisco. We're doing the Chicago Theater in fucking Chicago. I mean, that's like a iconic venue. I can't believe we added another show. So Chicago, come show out for your boy. We added a fourth show for the special taping in Austin. Go get that. All these available at TheAndrewShows.com. Thank you so much. Spread the fucking word. Get your tickets early. I hate seeing motherfuckers not being able to come to the show like Denver shows this weekend but sold out for fucking months. Please go get them early. Don't get killed by these scalpers. TheAndrewShows.com, the infamous tour. Go get them. Thank you guys so much for getting them early and spreading the word. Wax, you got any church announcements? Yes, sir. Please go get that. Who's Wax over in the dispensaries over in LA? And I got my, I got my THC. I got Delta 8's, man. The gummies, these is really, really dope too. You named it. How many milligrams of this? You named your THC Delta? Just 20 milligrams right here, which is two of them. No, it's Delta 8. That's what they'll be able to go into stores. So I'm in a couple of gas stations and stuff like that, places you all see gummies. So I'm expanding on that. Oh no, is 20 a dick or one? No, it's... One is 10 or 20? 20. So one of those... Yeah, it's really good. Really, really good. Delta 8's some of these type of things. I heard you. We just have the things I get to go inside of stores and stuff like that. So, and also you see my boots. I was on the paintball facility, you know, getting that together. You see my boots? Please donate to my GoFundMe. You know what I'm saying? I don't need no GoFundMe. My GoFundMe, you're right. Go to my GoFundMe is actually the paintball spot. You know what I'm saying? Go sign up. You know what I'm saying? I want all the little podcasts to start coming together. I'm doing podcast wars. So, you know what I'm saying? Y'all come out there and come, you know, come shoot around and have fun. Mine is simple, man. BlackEffect.com, salute to my guy, Scarface. My guy, Willie D. We launched the Ghetto Boys Reloaded Podcast today. Well, today is Thursday, but on yesterday, they were the number one podcast in the music section. Actually, it was one day this week. We had like five podcasts in the top 10 in the music section. I know Nyla and Mouse was in the, was for the what? Drink Champs, of course. Luta, N-O-R-E. Who else was in the top 10? Top five. I don't remember, but I know the Ghetto Boys Reloaded was number one as of yesterday, man. And like, if you want to hear two OGs who don't give a fuck, because they are made men already. Go listen to Scarface and Willie D, man. Like, I love those brothers, man, because, you know, it's interesting when you grow up listening to somebody and you have a perception of them in your head. And like Willie D is just the logical, common sense OG who's gonna pull your card when they think you're doing some bullshit and who's gonna salute you when he see you doing some OG, man, real OG. And he's always done that with me. You know, pick up the phone, call me, tell me when you think I'm on some bullshit, new or old, you know what I mean? He'll call me and think I'm on some bullshit and he salute me when I'm doing dope shit, man. So I thank him for that and Scarface, man. One of my favorite MCs of all time always comes through for me. He wrote the forward for my second book, Shook on Anxiety, playing tricks on me because the subtitle of that book, of course, was based on the legendary Ghetto Boys Song of Mine playing tricks on me because that whole song is about anxiety. You know what I mean? And people dealing with their own trauma and PTSD and stuff. So salute to them. Make sure you go check out their podcast, go to blackeffect.com to check out all the podcasts. And this right here, Shallow Waters by Anita Copax. It'll be out August 3rd. It's the second release on Black Privilege Publishing, which is my book in print. Salute to Mika Mallory, State of Emergency, How to Win in the Country. We built best-selling book. That's out right now. But this right here, Shallow Waters, it's a young adult fiction book about the Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemiah. It'll be out August 3rd. So what made you choose this one? Man, that is a great question. And yeah, I mean, my sacred purpose coach, her name is Yadi Albu. Yadi is just an incredible person. If you wanna know what a sacred purpose coach is, it's like a spiritual therapist. It look like an avatar in the front. The red avatar. No, I'm saying the avatar is blue, but it's red, it's kinda dope. I like it. But Yadi is my sacred purpose coach. She's like a spiritual therapist, man. And she said that she was in the water. This was last year, last summer. She said she was in the water. And she got the download from God. She was like, I gotta connect, you know, Lennard with Anita. And you know, what's so crazy is, Yadi didn't know I had a book in print coming. You know what I'm saying? Like she had no idea. So she was like, I wanna connect Lennard with Anita. So Anita got this great, this great book, you know, called Shallow Waters. And I think Anita might have been with another publisher and things didn't work out. So, you know, she connected me with Anita and Anita sent me the manuscript. And I remember just sitting outside under the pergola and I read it in like a few hours. And I'm like, yo, this was phenomenal. You know what I mean? And immediately I wanted my daughter to read it. My daughter's 13. I need you to tell people what this book is about. Cause I'm reading the back of this book and I had no fucking clue that this is what it's about. I'm amazed he could read it in two hours. I thought this shit was about mermaids. Shit. It is about mermaids. No, it's not. It's about a girl who's taken from Africa to America in the slave trade. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then she uses the power of Yemiah. No, no, no, no, Yemi, it's about Yemiah. And I don't wanna give too much of the book away, but I can. It's like a love story. Can I read the end? No, no, no, no, no, read the back. That's the back, right? Thank you. Yes. And I want everybody listening because he's been talking about this book for a lot of three months. Tell me if this sounds familiar at all. Only three? Six? I don't know. I just want to see what you're saying. The last one. Years. The last one, y'all talk about that shit forever, bro. It was like, church. He's coming back. Christ is on his way. State of emergency. How to win with the man that y'all crucified. Shallow waters imagines Yemiah. And Orisha, a deity in the religion of Africa's Yoruba people, cast into mid-1800s America. Mm-hmm. We meet Yemiah as a young woman, still in the care of her mother and not fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she holds dear. The journey laid out in Shallow Waters sees Yemiah confront the greatest evils of this era, transcend time and place in search of Obatala, a man who sacrifices his own freedom for the chance at hers, and grow into the powerful woman she was destined to become. We travel alongside Yemiah from her native Africa and on to the new world with vivid pictures of life for those left on the outskirts of power in the nascent Americas. Yemiah realizes the fighter within travels the underground railroad in search of the mysterious stranger Obatala and crosses paths with icons of our history on the road to freedom. That's right. Shallow waters is a nourishing work of ritual storytelling from promising debut author Anita Copax. Yeah, so basically Yemiah is a mermaid. Hold on one second. Hold on one fucking second. This sound like a lion king. Hold on one second. Al, Al, Al, I need you to objectively say if the Aqua, Black Aquaman movie that he's been describing for the last three months. Aquawoman. Aquawoman. That's now nothing like what you've been talking about. That's exactly what I've been talking about. Nothing. I ain't even heard Aquawoman and that. What do you mean? I've been telling y'all about the African. You've been talking about mermaids and all that shit not on the ground railroad? Because she's an African mermaid, the Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemiah. She falls in love with a guy who lives on land who gets enslaved. So she follows the slave ships to America. And then when she gets to America, you gotta get, you gotta. So she is actually a mermaid the whole time? She's actually a mermaid. Are you sure that? A hundred percent. Well, well, well, well. You gotta read the book. You've seen Splash, right? No. You've never seen the classic movie Splash? No. When Tom Hanks and Darryl Hanna? I didn't either. Who are you humans? No. You've never seen Splash? No, I didn't. Splash was incredible. Splash, and she was a mermaid, but she could also have legs. She got her mermaid when she went into the water. Little mermaid. You never seen Splash? Y'all gotta watch Splash. I've seen Little Mermaid. Kids, Google Splash. Why would she be on a railroad if she was a mermaid? You gotta read the book. It's the 1800s, man. Underground railroad. Well, why don't you go underwater? Railway. She did that. OK. Get from water to land to find her boo who was enslaved. She got wet. Duh. Ah, not paying attention. Just out of curiosity, what? Don't know what we're talking about. No, I think I have to pay attention. Now, when Obatala goes down on her, he's like, yo, this is kind of fishy. Oh, my God. Why do you want to do that to everybody? You ruined the purest thing, man. Why? He got a point to Obatala. Got a point. Like, he down there, like, oh, you take the ocean. And she got to be like, I am the ocean, bro. Like, I have scales and all that shit. Hey, by the way, by the way, let's be honest. Man, that's how I'd be feeling, though. When you ever jumped in that blue Caribbean water, and how nourishing it feel, and how it just makes you feel healed, like, that's how that vagina you love be feeling, too. Does it? Yeah. I don't know. But does it taste like that sushi dinner, bro? Yeah. What's wrong with sushi? Scarlet. What's wrong with sushi? I love sushi. I ain't going to lie. You're describing this vagina. This is spectacular vagina you're describing. Yeah. I'm serious. But more of the story is shallow waters out August 3. Yo, but now that y'all know what their book is really about, go out there and support this book and get this book. OK, because before, y'all had no fucking clue. You thought you'd watch a black little mermaid, bro. You had no fucking clue what the book is about. The girl's on land all the time. She's doing the Underground Railroad. She's probably bumping in the fucking. Harry and Tubman and shit is in it. Oh. Is that the big reveal? Who else you going to run into on the Underground Railroad, Charlotte? Nobody else. Who else? Who else you knew from the Underground Railroad? John Henry. Come on, y'all. Oh, yeah? The fuck? Well, that's what I was saying. Yeah, of course, you're going to bump into these people, bro. It's a lot of historical figures in the book. Avatar 2. This is Avatar 2. Come on, son. Avatar is not around in wax. Avatar is the future. I'm just saying, now that y'all know what the book is really about, get ready for these copies of fly. I should have read Tamika Malley's book to make sure that's what it was about. Tamika Malley might have a completely different book. Is it Black Humpty Dumpty? Humpty Dumpty, Saddle the Wall. And let's take it down and let the Mexicans in. I'm just here to tell you to get it, OK? Yo, that's my job, bitch. Y'all sent me the copax. It's about the artist have to explain that art, but I can just tell you that I love the book. And as a person who grew up on Judy Bloom and Beverly Clearly and those type of young adult fiction books, man. It gave me that kind of energy and the fact that it's a black woman who wrote it. It's about a black character because my mother told me to read things that don't pertain to me when I was young. That's why I read Judy Bloom and Beverly Clearly because I didn't know about no little white girls. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So this is like, yes. Without spoiling it, does Obatala get to taste that yummy young? I can't say. John Henry. I don't want to give all that away. John Henry is a beast. John Henry is a beast, bro. Yo, do mermaids get periods? Because sharks will probably be all over that. There's no way they can. It's not. Too much. That's dangerous, right? Very dangerous. That's not dangerous, bro. He's just dripping around. I literally thought about that. The girl's going to an ocean with their periods. I'm going to be honest with you. I think that's a very large point. That's a lie we got to know, yo. I think that's a very large point. I've never read anything about it. I'm saying I need a co-pack. I need a co-pack. Go wash shallow waters, bro. I'll get third. Go wash shallow waters. But you can pre-order now. Shallow waters is exactly where you need to be if you're mermaids with your periods or them sharks don't eat your fucking ass, OK? That's why you're going to be real old. That's not what you need to be. I'm going to chill out. Let's get in there. You got to fucking run. Yo, Charlotte, man, you're a wild boy, yo. I need a co-pack shallow waters. Let's get in this shit you don't care about next week. What we got? What we got? What we got? What we got? What we got? What we got? Yo, the guy in that was punching in the ground, right? Bushwick Bill. You saying he had anxiety? That's why he was doing that? I mean, if you listen to the song. R.I.P., though. Didn't he pass away? No, I'm just saying. That's what anxiety do. I know what anxiety do that makes you do that. You're hallucinating. He actually might have went a step further. That might have been some paranoid. That's what I'm saying. I'm thinking Bushwick Bill was dealing with. Don't tell me anxiety do that to you. I'm like, damn. Because he was a hallucinating. He thought it was Halloween and it wasn't Halloween. He thought he was whiting somebody. He thought he was whiting some 6-foot-10 monster. Because of a drug? Because of a drug. Anxiety. No, not just anxiety. Usually, there's some sort of drug. This year, when he came in, I don't know if he was on. I don't know. To me, I took that versus an extreme, I would say, now that I have the language, I would say, paranoid, schizophrenic. That's what that verse seemed like. I think I might have been. But also, if you didn't know it was Halloween and then you just went out, that's crazy. Wild boy. Right? If you didn't know it was Halloween, you go outside, you see all these people, that's not wild. Wild boy. Oh, this is good. Shit you won't care about next week. All right, go. The baby. Not paying the kids for candy when they tried to hustle him. I don't think he did. Don't try to hustle me, bro. I hate it. Give it to you. Word is, Maude, I hate when people come at you and expect you to do something because of who they know you are or because of what they think you got. Fuck you, I hate that. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you're selling candy, let's say the candy is a dollar candy bar and let's say you got 30, 40 bars in there. If I ask you how much for the box, don't tell me 200. No. I treat everybody the same. I don't care for who you are. You could be Oprah if it's a dollar to dollar for Oprah. You're trying to finesse me. You know what I'm saying? And you people online are saying things like, oh, well, you know, the baby got it. You're essentially saying it's OK to con people. It's not cool. It's not cool, bro. I hear what you guys are saying. I'm not going to give much pushback. I think I'm with you because it's a weird situation because when you say a crazy number like that, yeah, he got it, but he doesn't want to get hustled and he doesn't want to negotiate with a kid. Now, I negotiate with a kid, but if you make it make sense and I don't see you trying to hustle me in the beginning, I'll fuck with you. But you're all that trying to hustle. I got to teach you a lesson. You do that against somebody, you might fuck you up. If I told you that I got 30, 40 candy bars and they're a dollar a piece, that's $40. I'm going to give you a hundred. And I'm probably going to tell you, keep the change. The baby's so speedy. Keep the candy bars. Keep the candy bars. I usually do that, too. I love to keep that product, too. If we talk about teaching kids lessons, you can't do that. That's not how this works. You don't want to fucking store it. If you let them keep it, they're never real. That's right. That's right. I'm taking the goddamn thing. Make sure he wrote it real. It's a transaction, right? But I saw him tell speedy, I gave him $1,000 if they had just kept him 100. Why are you trying to fadest the guy? I hate that. Why? Does the baby got money like that? Hell, yes. Really, he's killing it. The baby is one of the biggest hip-hop artists out. And, you know, man, put it like this. When we had the baby on Breakfast Club last year during the pandemic, he had to cancel the tour that he was supposed to go on that summer. I said, man, how much money you think you missing out on over the next 90 days? He said, all right, like $6 million. Yes, the baby makes a lot of money. That's good money. That's a lot of millions. Hey, I'll tell you this. The baby slew to the baby and slew to my man Arnold. You know what I mean? This is kind of inside baseball, but it don't matter because it's not like it's a bad story. One of my partners in Charlotte was having like a sweet 16 for their child. And they wanted the baby. Maybe Liz and Charlotte. And it was like, I think like $20,000 you might have had. You know what I mean? Just to pull up. You in Charlotte? Mm-mm. No. Like, no, no. And you in Charlotte? Yeah. I wouldn't have gotten that money. It's right around the corner. You know what I'm saying? He's like, no. Nah, bro. He can't perform at a little birthday party. He wasn't even going to perform. They wanted him to pop up for how long? I don't know. But he's like, nah, the baby not showing up there. Baby makes a lot of money. But you saw the big stack of money he had in his hand, but that's not even the point. People think they can get over on you because you're you. It's fucked up. I had something like that happen last week. And I was telling, I paid for a service through a family member. I told him, please do not let the person know. It's me because I feel like they're going to tax. You know what I'm saying? Experience is the best teacher, but go ahead. That's what happened. People see it's the baby. They think they can finesse. I don't think that's cool. I don't think that- Okay, how much money you got? Word of bond. Because you're essentially saying it's okay to con somebody because they got it. It's like, if I paid for my, if I gave my credit card somewhere and then somebody took $500 off my credit card. I don't give it to two dollars is a problem. I'm supposed to be okay. Oh, he got it. Yo, yo, you got it. Why are you tripping? The fuck you mean why I'm tripping? I'll be mad at you. Somebody steals from me. It's the principal. I might smoke my blunt and I don't give a fuck how much weed I got. I don't wax, I got my weed, whatever. You smoke my blunt and fuck you off. But that's disrespectful. Ask, ask, ask. Ask me. You got enough. You got enough. Why, why ask? That's how they feel. You got plenty of weed, yo. You got plenty of weed. You tripping. What are you talking about? It's the principals. I don't think the baby did anything wrong. Respect everybody. And those young men learned a valuable lesson. Number one, just keep it 100. How much it cost for the box? Well, it's candy bars with two dollars a piece. It's such and such candy bars in this box. It's $60, whatever it is. Cool. I promise you the baby would have gave you $100 and told you to keep it change. Probably would have gave you $200 and told you to keep it change. He told speedy he would have gave you $1,000. I'm sure he would have. Because he told his camera guys to roll because he's like, this is going to be a moment. He's smart. This guy understands social media. Oh, he definitely does. I'm going to cake off these kids when they have, when they buy their candy bars and I'm going to look like the savior giving kids a bunch of money, they're going to go crazy. And then the kids flipped it on him. He's like, you little son of bitches don't even want to go viral. It's a lesson for a whole lot of people though, a whole lot of other kids. You know what I'm saying? Maybe. Hopefully. I'm going to be honest with you, I don't know what lessons these kids learn. Can I tell you? Because those two kids might be looking at that video like, yo, we lit. Look at how many views this shit got on Shade Room. You never know. I don't know what moves people anymore. I really don't know what lessons these kids learn. I don't know what they get out of these things. I got a lesson. And this is a conversation we had on Flaker and we had ACK on and ACK was talking about, you know, shots at academics, man, hilarious episode. And he did, we were talking about Lil Baby. And I was explaining to ACK and I was like, I got to be honest with you, I don't think Lil Baby is crossed over. And he goes, what are you talking about? He goes, I understand from speaking to you, did like Lil Baby is the biggest artist. Like, and I think within the black community Lil Baby is massive. He's the biggest fucking thing on a planet. Selena in Spanish. Is Selena exactly like what Selena was to Mexicans and shit when at the point we didn't know who the hell she was, but Mexicans loved her like it was crazy. So when I was like, I'll be honest with you, I don't think white people got enough room for two babies. I think there's the baby and Lil Baby and white people don't, not enough white people know which one is which. And then he told me that Lil Baby's tour with Dirk was struggling to sell tickets. And I really wonder if in order to like sell out the arenas, you need white fans simply from a population standpoint, like white people are what, a little bit over maybe 50% of the country. If you want to sell out arenas, you're going to need to have access to all 300 million people that are here. I think he's going like theaters in large venues. I don't think he's going to arena. I think they were like 12,000 cedars. What was he saying Al? Just so you can clarify. I think that's, I don't totally disagree with your point. I think the little baby's on his way though, just because like, he sold more records than Taylor Swift last year. Like he was the highest selling artist of any genre of music last year. That's a fact, right? There's no question. So he's on his way. And when you look at, he performed at every award show, Billboard, Grammys, American Music Awards. So he's definitely on his way. But I think the concert thing is tricky only because I think we're still in a pandemic. I don't... That's fair. Yeah. That's fair. I just say this because I just think it's weird that he hasn't permeated my music listening. Now, I'm the last person to find an artist. Like I'm listening to fucking top 40 and shit like that. Like I'm not really searching, but for how big he is within the black community, for me not to name a single song, I can't name a single baby lyric. Like something's going on, right? I mean, the little baby is like still very new. Also, my name is, what? That's Eminem. I know. You know that one. Is little baby that big? I was really concerned about, is more white people than Mexicans? They always got babies. They'll never see white people now, but eventually they got it, bro. Was it 2040? They said that white people won't be the majority. Yeah, y'all be the minority. 2040. That's a lot of y'all. But now little baby's definitely on his way. Like he's definitely on his way. I keep saying it. Like little baby is on a little Wayne-type trajectory. And he's moving. Let's be clear. A little Wayne crossed over. Like, I can't... But it took a while. No, it didn't. It was immediate. The second bling bling came out and it was a wrap. I can tell you, I remember. Nah. I remember it. I remember the hot boys. I remember the whole thing. What's going on with that light? Yeah, but that's because the hot boys were so big at the time. Like Juvenile backed that ass up was a goddamn sensation in 1998. You know what I'm saying? It was on that record. But when Little Wayne became like that super household name, that was like Carter III. I don't know. We all knew who he was. When he came out with Lollipop, sold a million records in a week. You know what I mean? Then he came out with Carter IV, sold another million records. That's when he introduced your money, introduced the world to Drake and Nicki and everybody else. I'm just telling you from white people. You guys are more plugged into music, obviously. You're more plugged into hip hop. I can only tell you when white people are going to adopt a new musician and feel like, oh, this guy's next. I don't like white artists adopting black anything. We do adopt y'all. So who's the white person over there with y'all right now? We do adopt y'all. We like to adopt. We like to go out of our race with adoption. So who's the guy? Who's the biggest artist to white people in here? Drake. He's not even close. No, I mean for y'all. Who's the white person that we adopted over there? Yo, here's how crazy it is now. There's this new artist named Olivia Rodrigo that's killing the fucking charts. Our whole album. Never heard of her. I never heard of her neither, bro. I heard of her. You see, my daughter's born in June 27. Your kids? My daughter had a luau at the house. Nah, stop, Olivia Rodrigo. It took you a couple weeks to go to the door. That's all she was saying, like Olivia Rodrigo, we want to hear Olivia. I'm like, who the fuck is Olivia Rodrigo? And it's so funny because I'm listening to my daughter who just turned 13 and all her friends that are like 12, 30. They love it. And they got this whole love triangle thing and me and the parents are sitting around and the parents are like, I don't like this music. It's too depressing. It's female school shooter music. That's what it is. This is female school shooter music. When? Have there ever been a female school shooter? There have never been because they could make albums, Adele, all these women that when they have this... They go put out this amazing music. They channel their energy. Exactly. Taylor Swift, all of them. That's female school shooter music. They would shoot up schools if they didn't have this sort of pop music that they could make. 100% guaranteed. It's therapeutic. It's therapeutic for them. You gotta let women... I told you white women, be careful. Yeah. I told you white women, be careful. You told me? White women don't start singing, they're gonna start shooting. I sat there one weekend and I knew all about... They're singing and shooting for white women, bro. I knew all about Olivia and the love triangle with Josh and Sabrina. You got into it, huh? No, not really. I just know those names. I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah, now you know that fucking song. Olivia Rodrigo don't want no man to be happy after he been with her, bro. Even last week, my niece and my daughter the same age. So my niece, she's like, Olivia Rodrigo is a genius. And I'm like, do I introduce her to Stevie Wonder now? Nah. Nah. What do you mean genius? What is genius? Nah. Like, you know what? Let the kids have whatever they want. Yeah, that's their genius. They're Stevie Wonder, bro. I'm not saying she's not. I ain't listen to enough of her. I don't know what she does. Other than the parents complaining that she makes depressing music. She makes depressing ballads, but like poppy ballads about being upset that her old man is with a new girl and it drives her crazy. And they like it. Oh, these kids love it. No, they really love it. They fucking love it. Like taps into something. She's their Mary J Blige. Ooh. She's tween's Mary J Blige, I think. Ooh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, remember how we... Mary Lauren? I don't know about Lauren because there was a point where people used to listen to Mary, especially when it came to like, you know, like having like emotional issues in a relationship when you were going through it with your significant other. They used to say, man, we love when Mary's hurt because she makes this great music. That's like Olivia Rodrigo. Now this should make sense. But I remember when you came on a podcast wearing the Mary J Blige 10 and that was right before you got faithful, bro. I remember this shit. You were going through it. I was faithful, man. You were going through it. No, no, it was before that. You were going through it. It wasn't 40 below. It was coming up to your kneecap. 80 below. This shit was up here, bro. That shit... Well, I gave the wrong one. He gave the wrong one. This shit wasn't 40 below. They actually might have been 400 degrees. It looked a little too hot, bro. It was boys, bro. This shit came up to your thigh, bro. This shit came past your knee. I remember you bent your knee and the shit kept going past your knee. Oh, what the fuck is going on? He's walking like a penguin, bro. I gave the wrong two, man. Listen, I had to do something. But how would you talk to me about which Tim's to give? That shit was crazy, bro. You were probably going through it emotionally and then Mary was speaking to you in that moment, bro. I gave him shit away, too. Who you gave that shit to, bro? Fucking... I think I gave him to my man. I think I gave him to the deli. White-houred motherfucker, who'd you give that shit to? I think I gave him to the deli. He know it better. He know it better. No, he liked him. I'm gonna be honest with you, when I saw him on deli, he was rocking him dope, though. No way. They look good on him, I'm telling you. It was mad funny, because during the podcast you just kept scratching under your knees. Like it's a cat. Like it's a cat. He got a pen in there. I look like the white woman of Victoria's Secret with his legs straight. I keep teaching all day. I keep teaching all day. Nah, them shit was fucked up. Don't play with Tim's, man. Just stick to what you're using. Yeah, come on, man, slow down. Them shit was stupid. Oh, let's pay some bills. Let's pay some bills. I want to come back. 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harm talk to me somebody not here's the thing that's annoying we all know what he was trying to say yes and unfortunately what happens is when you feed a certain part of the media system that their diet is consistent of of outrage and you give them a nourishing meal that they can be outraged about they're just gonna get to work they also knew what he was saying when Stephen A Smith said he's harming the game by not being able to speak English that's wrong he's not making the game any less interesting if he did speak English he would make the game even more interesting because what he's doing is so unique but by not speaking it you're not hurting it in any way right but here's the thing the dude doesn't have to want to fucking speak English like maybe the guy doesn't want to be a superstar he doesn't want to be the most marketed player in the league maybe he doesn't want to make any more fucking money maybe he has no personality maybe he's fucking boring he doesn't have to do it would it help the league if he did? yes but it doesn't hurt if he doesn't and that's the one thing where he got himself in trouble I also think it's really funny that when he was imitating Sammy Sosa's voice nobody thought that was racist at all but if he was imitating Shohei Otani's voice I didn't hear him imitating Sammy Sosa's voice it's funny because I actually saw this episode in real time it was interesting that I was even paying attention because I always zone out when they talk about baseball I don't fuck with baseball I think baseball was way more interesting when everybody was on steroids but when he said what he said I didn't think anything of it and that's why I wanted to have a conversation with people who were actually offended by what he said so I could get an understanding of why they might have been offended because to me I've heard this rhetoric before in regards to boxers they've been saying this is about if Canelo and Triple G could speak English they'd be the biggest things in the sport I mean Canelo in a lot of ways already is but imagine if Canelo could talk that talk it hurts him I've heard I'm not going to say who I heard say this because I don't want to get my political my sports pundits wrong but I feel like I've heard sports pundits say you know if Luka Donchik or Dirk Nowitski was white an American they'd be the biggest stars in the league without a doubt so somebody bought a good point to us yesterday because we were talking about this on breakfast club Luka will be the biggest star in the league you think so? he will be he can speak? he can speak English he can speak English? he's a better player he's a better shooter I think his team will do better and also the fact that he's white there's a thing with humans I'm not saying it's right or wrong but a lot of people they just want to see themselves reflected in their heroes but don't you have to be white American? because Dirk was a beast Dirk is probably the second greatest power forward of all time the thing about Dirk is nobody aspired to have a game like Dirk really? everybody plays like Dirk now seven footer who can spread the floor and go plodding back I remember when I was playing Goobs on streets or whatever like that and you go to parks I wasn't even a shooter I would cross you up and I would get to the cup and people would call me Dirk because I was the most famous white basketball player and I would be insulted by that shit I'd be like Dirk what are you talking about? I'm Iverson but they just couldn't he's talking about white Iverson before Post Malone you know so we got a point about Post Malone I brought up an interesting point we get back to how you basically made his career by bullying his ass out of hip hop that's not true the second he came on the breakfast club he's like I'm no longer a rap artist if I gotta come to this show I'm not rapping I'm not rapping I gotta care about Black Lives Matter shit I want to drink but like get face tattoos fuck all this shit and he went to the pop genre and fucking exploded and became the biggest artist he owes you a little check he bought me joy just by being able to ask him what are you doing for the Black Lives Matter I mean nothing you know what was so funny that was like the Black Lives Matter movement was definitely the movement you know what I mean but then like really intense so you couldn't even ask that question no more you know what I mean but man when you used to ask white people that when they first thought that they had no response it's like PR people started saying like I saw Jack Harlow say some shit a couple weeks ago and I might have been last week I'm like that's a very great statement I don't even remember but it was something about Blackness and how him being a white person he wants to show other white people how to represent the culture correctly and not appropriated but appreciated and give back to it man that's a great answer but so many white people had to die on that what are you doing with the Black Lives Matter question in order to get to Jack Harlow to have that great answer man we've seen a lot of people die on that question bro but dirt so you could fit a dirt white yeah dirt's white they're all white but yes of course if you're American you're gonna be huge I mean like we saw what happened with Lynn Sanity like an Asian dude he was the one in the NBA and the garden is sold out with Asians every single night like Asians are going crazy the same thing with Yao Ming back in the day Yao Ming I mean it was crazy because you want to see yourself reflected especially if you're not reflected at all right like I'm sure as a Black dude you see tons of Black basketball players so it's not a big deal you got your choice but if you're a white dude and there's not a lot of white basketball players that you actually want to aspire to play like dirt didn't play that cool Luca plays cool yeah Luca's he boss so I think there's a lot of that going on now me personally I never understood that or felt that way but I also just had so many people I looked up to from different races growing up so it was just kind of like like the musicians and shit that I look up up to like I listened to hip hop so I didn't see myself reflected in that and obviously with basketball comedians funny is just funny so you're looking for the funny comedians I started watching comedy from Deaf comedy so it was like I was just used to that so I never thought about it but I do understand how people want to be reflected true absolutely yeah I think I think I think everything you said is true I think with the with the baseball thing and you know I thought about this by actually watching that segment I didn't realize baseball was so old right so baseball is what a hundred plus years old if not more oh man I thought it's older I think it's older it's very very old yeah and like most institutions that are old in America they're inherently racist right I don't subscribe to that I mean just go back to Jackie Robinson they were as racist to say the institution is racist still is I can't prove that well even they had a good point even they said the demo is not getting no younger right even they say it's still a old demo so I'm not I'm not saying I'm not once again it's not a general statement but if it is a old sport and you got a lot of old people that watched the sport you probably got some 70 year old 80 year old white people that's like I don't want to see these Asians and these like Dominicans and Latinos dominating baseball you want to make America great again how you think you felt about baseball it's the great American pastime I want to make the great American pastime again so they're like to your point where is the Babe Roofs you know what I'm saying where is the satchel pages no he was black Shula's Joe Jackson where is the Nolan Ryan where is the Mark McGuire I remember the good old days of baseball like I'm serious they probably do feel like that so it's probably it's probably an American thing more so than anything they want to see themselves represented so when you look at the numbers declining because baseball ratings are declining a little bit it's just boring the sports boring sports are coming around to replace it and this is what happens with sports throughout time like we used to watch people running around circle and thought that was interesting right like like the track and field was fire now we can tolerate it once every four years that's how boring it is right so I love track and field if motherfuckers said every Sunday we're going to watch track and field you can be like alright I get it I want to see the next person he's real competitive he's competitive I'll watch you and see I'll watch you and see did he race every week exactly if you and Taylor raced every week I'll watch that shit every week same result but what if she keeps saying she's getting better she's getting faster she's doing it eventually you'll be like alright you're not going to win the reason track and field is boring is because the same people win every single time by the way if you can't watch track and field you just got 80d or something it's one out of every four years and not only that it's like ten seconds nobody's watching it unless your country's attached so you could tell us if a sport is trash if you need the country to be attached I like watching you sing regular tournaments or when it was like whatever he would run that dude was incredible I like speed especially but I'm different I used to run a 360 so it's like I respect other speech I used to do the 400 meter and like man seven seconds it was like shut the fuck up the amount of lies that just came out of his mouth right now he goes can you just repeat a 40 yard dash and what? he says he goes he goes he goes I think he's bad with numbers he goes he goes 100 meter dash shit I used to run a 400 meters he just kept moving up what the fuck 400 meter 37 seconds 37.2 you lucky I grew up in an area where we didn't have cameras thank god no you lucky I had a 72 inch vertical lead too man man I was training and this guy talking he could jump over the fence leg got caught I don't know how to go get him oh no dude I could jump there I'm like I really don't know that's not stupid yo you're crazy remember how early we talked about it takes this one person to make you do something I'm that person for me listen wax was going to train right I just see the fence something said jump over that fence it was him I thought it was your friend no I can jump over that shit right for no reason he's doing his thing I walked up okay listen to the fucking guy oh shit I couldn't even finish practice it's time to go he's a weed shit was stupid man the leg got caught in dumb shit the moral of the story is what Steven A Smith said any type of phobic you gotta ask now I don't even know what phobic is I don't even know what phobic it is anymore you know what I want to see I want somebody to ask Khaled I want somebody to ask DJ Khaled what does he think of they oh right now wait wait wait we the best they what is it because remember he always used to be like they don't want us to win they is haters can you imagine if somebody said that to Khaled now and then you took it and put it online out of context they'd be calling Khaled so many phobics bro Khaled Khaled was trying to make America great again bro he was hating on him right they didn't want him to win yo it's true I just want to see how those are the type of social experiments I like to see cause we can really see how America has jumped this shark I wouldn't be surprised if somebody went back the one that Khaled's old interviews and brought it up and said look how he's talking about Dave how do you feel about pronouns they don't want us to win I think what Demi Lovato said is true and I respect your point Demi Lovato said don't be mad at people who who don't use the right pronouns she basically said it takes them getting used to yeah it's gonna take one more day than I will live yeah it's gonna take a generation if you're telling me now that's one of the genders I'm a 43 year old man who grew up on male and female A-E-I-O-U I thought they was a they is a vowel no they's a noun they's a pronoun A-E-I-O-U what those are vowels I don't know okay guys there was something else I wanted to talk about oh act sleuth act I didn't get to watch the interview because it was five hours long that's longer than in-game bro I saw clips of it and it made first of all you got a sleuth academic he's great bro I told somebody today I was listening to somebody say how they want to work from home and I was like you can't get to a certain level if you stay in the house right act coming outside was one of the best things that happened to him when he started doing complex you know I saw him at the verses with soldier boy and everything else and now I don't know if he announced it yet don't say where it is he said he got a podcast coming he came outside I salute act for everything he built prior to that but he's taking it to another level because he's starting it like seeing him do interviews and shit I like that just seeing him sit with flagrant okay I like that I saw somebody say something I actually think it was act who said this and then I saw people saying this online I think he was didn't he have a back and forth or something yeah and act was saying how nobody listened to their podcast or whatever comparing it to youtube I just want everybody out there to please man please this is just a I don't know what kind of tip you call it business tip or whatever there is a difference between podcasting and youtube even if it is a podcast that's on youtube that's two different revenue streams that's two different audiences we've had this discussion before do I think youtube videos help the podcast yes but sometimes it does not translate sometimes people can have massive audio numbers like horrible decisions does massive massive audio numbers but the youtube might not be popping you know what I mean and sometimes people can have massive youtube and no audio that's a hundred percent true sometimes they can have both sometimes you can have both I don't know what causes somebody to have they don't do crazy on youtube I think we have really strong youtube decent but the audio numbers audio numbers are big I literally saw that on reddit this week they literally on reddit this week they literally oh bless their little heart sus cause they was like man shitting brilliant in this podcast be bigger right like do you know what we do in audio numbers every week like we have a sound cloud we have a brilliant audio sound cloud can I read I just want to read some of the numbers no no no no Taylor told me it's impossible to run a 40 meter in 7 seconds as if I'm going to listen to you about racing anything she just text me rematch oh please we need Taylor back bro we need Taylor back Taylor is producing this is what producers do produce her ass in the room so that we can talk that shit I'm going to read some of these numbers I don't even know what these dates are this is we come in treats I don't remember what episode that was 308,000 this is just sound cloud this is just sound cloud this isn't apple this isn't Spotify or whatever else this is just sound cloud we come in treats 308,000 12 pump show with little duval 307,000 call them daddy 305,000 two weeks ago one day too late 272,000 before that brilliant it's the musical 296,000 ready set go 274,000 all I'm simply saying is we are a thank God because of y'all the listeners we are a very huge podcast audio watch half a million views slash listens is is big man and that's like I said that's just on sound cloud I'm combining YouTube and sound cloud and sound cloud yeah and I'm just Spotify and everything else we doing like 700,000 listen to this is a week thank God and we've been doing this for some years we've been doing the podcast for a long she had a long time that's what I'm saying so like listen we appreciate your concern but thank you we're doing very good but I just want everybody out there that's in this space podcast YouTube it's a difference you know what I'm saying it's podcasting which is audio and then it's YouTubeing which is video it's different so I wasn't even when I saw AX say that I was just like yeah I want to just explain that to people horrible decisions is a huge podcast like massive they do like a half a million listens per episode wow that's amazing easily actually probably more but I'm just on an average they probably do like a little over a half a million per episode that's huge that's huge so salute the horrible decisions and salute to my god Jamal Nolan at Jam 4 4 L on Instagram he made a video he told the story of the breakfast club dolls he shut that over that was fire he told the story of the breakfast club dolls so I think my man Nick put that on breakfast club page so yeah what else we got man shout out to Shaq on Earn Your Leisure too man to the Earn Your Leisure podcast on Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network that shit fucked me up last week when I heard that story man Shaq Shaq owns the likenesses of Marilyn Monroe Elvis Presley he owns like some of JC Penney and it's because he did some deal with this company I forgot the name of the company but he sold half of his likeness to the company but also part of the deal is that he got like half ownership in the company or some type of big equity state well the company wanted to buy half his likeness as part of that deal he didn't just take like a check he like give me equity in the company as well so he got equity in the company so now being equity in the company he owns the likenesses of Marilyn Monroe Elvis I think they even got Muhammad Ali oh yeah it's crazy like please listen to that episode of Earn Your Leisure with Shaq Hill on Nail very inspiring yeah he's made some good business move man that's an understatement alright let's do some asking idiots man and get up out of here who we got celebrity veneration nation says does wax ever get comments about his laugh Shaq and Andrew never flinch but I'm dying laughing each time greatest laugh of all time he's got a great laugh do you get comments about your laugh wax what do you mean they at wax don't disrespect people A-E-I-O-U sometimes why I heard that I don't know it's a laugh I don't even hear myself sometimes it's a very disarming laugh cause it don't look like it's coming from him you know what I'm saying it's probably what it is it's cute not cute it's a cute laugh you got a cute laugh don't even smile when I laugh that's what makes it so cute yeah he had a sweet smile too and then he shrubs up he gets all warm you're a cute laugh bro you do alright air tag Oscar asks big expensive wedding fully paid with a small honeymoon or small wedding with an expensive fully paid honeymoon wedding I'm having a what number is small for you guys what number do you consider a small wedding what you mean as in price or size size of people I don't remember how many was that mine I don't remember I guess I think it's like 50 is cool I'm trying to keep around 100 okay that's big I want to know everybody intimately there intimate is that's 10 people I don't think I had a big one no but it wasn't small it seemed like everybody at yours really knew each other what about the 80 people at least I think it was around that now but yeah for me I don't know I think if you do the wedding right I'll put it this way if it's like a cultural thing like the way I went to this Akash's wedding like Indian wedding those are so fucking lit bro but that was so much fun like there's certain weddings where and I don't think that was that one but there's certain weddings where it's like you're doing it for your parents really and that I'm like if it's for them if it's not for me let's do that small and I'll save the money and do the honeymoon with my wife but if it's the wedding that you want it to be like Akash and his girl had the wedding that they want to have like I want to have the wedding I'm down to have a nice wedding the wedding is for y'all man it's really for the woman but I mean it's really for y'all it's for y'all together so whatever makes y'all comfortable whatever y'all want to do do saving money is what's comfortable how did Akash convince y'all to put on the garb we wanted that shit but what was the conversation what was the best man aliens are the best aliens are the best because they want you to embrace their culture I agree I clearly know that are you talking about the pod or the wedding the wedding this was the thing they told y'all to wear this attire the thing about Indian weddings is they go you can dress in traditional western clothes or you can wear the eastern stuff you can wear the Indian stuff it is great and we're cool both we dressed up Indian weddings like a fucking week long theirs was like three days or three events so like the Friday shit we all wore suits they all wore the traditional Indian stuff Saturday they all wore suits we fucked up and wore art traditional Indian so it looked like we making fun of them we showed up everybody's in a tuxedo we got the fucking pugs on we got the whole group but they loved it it's so cool they don't see it as you mocking them or anything they're like we're lit so if you doing our shit then it's good if you do a if you go to a celebration in the temple you have to cover your head it's paying respect to god you cover your head in front of god so it's like when I would go to bar mitzvahs or bot mitzvahs everybody would put it on when you went in there 100% she looked very wholesome too she looked very wholesome in indian god like she bout to trick the fuck out of an indian god totally true totally true and she said that on instagram too she said I look like a virgin she said I look like something but I was just like yeah she really going to trick somebody yeah I don't know I love weezy man it's a little weezy warner the real says how did the person who invented the clock knew what time it was at that exact time that's so fucking smart that's a good question smartest question I ever fucking heard good question I would say that the person who invented the clock is the person who invented the concept of time I and I'm only spitballing here I don't know we know that the sun goes up we know the sun goes down we know that for a certain period of the day the sun is out and for a certain period of the day the sun is down but do you have to have a schedule back then but I guess you could know when it was like noon by the way the sun was you're more sensitive to things when you don't have phones and microwaves here's something weird why is the way that we calculate time the same throughout the world for example like our letters are different for the way that we write words right alphabets and shit are different but nobody around the world has a clock where it's like every hour it's really three hours or is an apple a set of three and a banana a set of two that's what you mean no they do have different ways of writing numbers what I'm saying is like one hour to us is 60 minutes but somebody else could have a different unit of measurement for an hour it could be three hours like everybody seems to go off of that scale they're going off the idea of an hour and a minute but why isn't there some place that goes now we don't have hours we don't have minutes we don't have days whatever like another completely another time is time I ran a 3640 in the UK I ran a 3640 in Africa I ran a 3640 in the US yeah 36 kilometers what kilometers who the fuck is this marble villain that you just named is it you CJ and freaking DJ Paul our marble villain now 36 kilometers well we got Moe Doverson Clifton says why all superheroes has daddy issues go why the fuck would I respect my daddy when I'm the superhero ooh your daddy ain't tough enough throw some balls dad exactly I can't even think of superheroes that got daddies they got two you know he ain't about the I know where you get the nut from the what oh the dad nutted but then dipped oh that's what you're saying but also a lot of superheroes aren't born superheroes though right like they get their powers through like other I wonder if they want the people if they're like targeting a group of people specifically like who feel like their parents are maybe absentee or their fathers absentee they feel like a little nerdy and a little alone and it's like oh man if I can live vicariously through that superhero who's life is similar to mine then it works I would like to know specifics I'd like to know what superhero you're talking about not to cut you but I think like the superhero shit kind of got popping after the war right like World War II so I think there's probably like a lot of fathers who went to that war who came back one who came back and weren't there or two came back with like some serious PTSD one arm missing nah but not even like oh you can't throw, pay cats is that what you're saying no man like Wolverine we got the thing in his arm we think he probably had a castle in his arm I think there was you could relate in that way but also like some sort of emotional trauma that the kid was going through didn't really understand what their parent was also like alcoholism was crazy after the war like nobody even addressed it so now you got all these kids that are like oh fuck I need somebody else to teach me how to be a man or teach me how to be brave or teach me to do something and then maybe these I don't even know if it's just daddy issues I can't even think of too many superheroes who fuck with mama like that bro a lot of this shit is but that's to see the step child oh yeah so Spider-Man was living with his fucking grandma and uncle or some shit like that uncle and aunt did they kill their parents? I don't know Batman's parents died so maybe comic books were about absentee parents that's what gave you the time you know what I mean or the desire to probably want to be a superhero that's probably why that was marvelous who are the superheroes with daddy's or mommies man that's a good question let us know I don't know who the superheroes are with daddy's or mommies I can't think of any and the ones that do it it's not like their parents play a significant role role in the universe yeah I don't know alright let's go let's do another one the only one I can think about is Iron Man Iron Man got a dad yeah that's right they got killed too I mean he had daddy issues like his dad never really loved him cause he was too busy with his work yeah yeah yeah that's true that's true how it starts okay let me see keep going oh I like that one I don't want to do it alright go down ooh that's a good one I guess we kind of talked about that but what did Akash's parents think about Andrew's Turban that's from Death's Raimi they had a rap for me we got a rap at the wedding uh okay how you feeling about the NBA finals thus far how about that one from alex underscore drummin we can finish on that don't care I couldn't care less about this NBA finals they're doing everything in their power to get me to care I do not give a fuck I haven't watched a minute of a single game why me neither man fuck I love it really I do I think that this is a great thing for the NBA simply because you have a mix of everything that you would need to have a great league you have a veteran in Chris Paul who's never been there you know what I mean you kind of want to see a ring just because when you see a guy doing something for that long you want to see him achieve the ultimate pride that's the reason why I watch it but then you have somebody like Devin Booker who's definitely one of the most you know future young exciting players in the league actually said that if Devin Booker balls out this series that averages like 30 in an exciting fashion and they win he probably ended up being the biggest star in the league he's so marketable you know what I'm saying he's so marketable he speaks English you know what I mean like it's just a lot of different things that go into his favor girls like him you know what I mean Giannis you know another two-time MVP who's like a superstar in the league like I like it then I like the fact that it's Milwaukee and Phoenix and the ratings are higher do you know that Steph Curry and LeBron James never had good ratings in NBA finals they did a whole thing about this on first take like the ratings are up like 16% of something I don't believe that I promise you google it more Americans watch the Euro Cup than they watch the NBA finals that's a fact I mean I'm not saying that they don't but look it up NBA finals ratings are up they did this whole thing that showed the ratings LeBron and Steph Curry and they was like yo they never did good in ratings I don't know why oh well not now now go back I just saw the article okay see that's two different articles New York Post says NBA Finals ratings way down from pre-pandemic numbers but in AP News says NBA Finals ratings up from 2020 pandemic down from 2019 Sun's Bucks NBA Finals averaging 9 million viewers through game 3 but then it's NBA Finals ratings up from 2020 down from 2019 2020 with the Lakers I was brawn in the Miami Heat but I don't know what it is I'm thinking that it's because Milwaukee all of Wisconsin is tuning in you don't like me I love Milwaukee that's one of my favorites I mean Milwaukee's cool food is good but I don't think anybody's watching this shit I don't know if 9 million is good and not to be honest with you not for regular television I don't think so viewership for game 3 to NBA Finals on ABC was up 51% from last year that's what I'm saying I was brawn in the Lakers against the Miami Heat in the bubble when everybody was home well the bubble was trash it's no sound my bubble was trash bro but what else do we have to do we have babies get engaged yeah buy a dog me too I did all that you did the same thing that was the thing to do I like watching the Bucks and Suns it's fun man and we'll see I don't know who's going in the series I have no fucking idea I really don't I'd love to see Chris Middleton win a ring cause he's from the 8-4-3 but I'd love to see Chris Paul win a ring too he's from North Carolina and I just think that he's been in the league a long time and he's represented well I don't know I don't have a dog in this fight that it guys did we do it I think we did it too as always if you listen to this podcast you think we're smart you think we're intelligent you think we're brilliant you're absolutely right if you're an idiot so you don't know shit you're right too it's the Brilliant Idiots podcast thank you for listening