 Yup, y'all. I mean the God Andrew shows a brilliant idiot's podcast back with another week of brilliant idiotness. Hezzy. What's up, baby? How was your weekend? How was your week? How you feeling? Bro, I've been having trouble breathing, man. What? I think anxiety is playing tricks on me. Either that or COVID is back. COVID might be back, bro. What you mean? Like you have a real respiratory issue? That got to affect you, especially, you know, being on stage. I think it's anxiety, man. I think it's stress. What you're stressed about? You selling out fucking stadiums? Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't be stressed. Marriage? No, marriage is great. What is it? I don't know, man. I don't know, but I wanted to talk to you about it, because you have so much experience with this. Have you ever had that where anxiety made it feel as if you? It was hard for you to get a full breath. Hell, yeah, that's the whole point. That's what the anxiety is. You feel like you're having a heart attack. You got to take a deep breath. Bro, I felt like pressure on my chest yesterday. Knees weak. On spaghetti? On spaghetti. It's foaming on a sweater. What were you doing in that moment? I don't, nothing. Your therapists will tell you to recognize your environment. Are box breathes? What are you thinking about? What's box breathing? You go down on your wife. And you're laughing, but that's true, though. When you get anxiety, no. The first thing, at least for me, I want to do something for somebody, you know what I mean? A lot of times that makes me feel better. People please, yeah, which is something that I've always struggled with, people pleasing. But I just feel like I want to do something good for somebody that makes me feel good in that moment. Yeah, yeah. OK, so what do you do when you feel that struggle for breath? And I know it's just my brain playing tricks on me, but it's so weird. You're inhaling, but it doesn't get to that 100% mark. That's the only way I can describe it. Yeah. I have an affirmation. I have one affirmation that I've been saying my whole life since I was a kid. Before I even knew I was dealing with anxiety and shit like that. So I would say, I love Jehovah God and the Son Jesus Christ. I'd say that three times. And I'd say fuck Satan three times. And as I got older and actually started doing real meditation, I say my actual mantra. So that's what I'm doing those moments. I actually say my mantra. And it just brings me back to center. Absolutely. That's cool. You should try the Huberman breathing techniques. Yeah. Two inhales and then a hold. You probably need one. Bro, I didn't think that my nose is too big because there's this Navy Seal box breathing technique where you do inhale for four seconds. And I'd be like, OK. And I'd go, and one second would be done. But I had no more air to go in for the rest of the four seconds. I was like, God, maybe I do have a big nose. I can't even do the box breathing. Now my anxiety is even worse because I never developed a breathing technique for people with nostrils as big as mine. But you know what's so crazy. Maybe that's why you also had that bunky nose. That bunky nose. What have you got? I was going to ask you, I asked you, but what is the reason? But there is no reason. That's why I say anxiety. Yes. There's no fucking reason. Yeah, I think it's just a bunch of different things from all different angles. But I never had it to the point where I felt like the breathing was restricted. And I can see how that would just further induce the anxiety. Man, sometimes slight cases, not slight cases, imposter syndrome can make you feel like that, which I've actively been fighting against. Because we deserve it. Yeah, we deserve it. We deserve it, man. We deserve it. We deserve it. And you got to tell yourself that sometimes, I am worthy. I deserve it. I am him. I am him. I am him. I am him. Yeah. That's the truth, though. Like sometimes you got to tell yourself that because you'll, man, I don't know about you. But sometimes I just be like, man, life is trippy. Life is trippy. Sometimes life can be so trippy that you'd be like, is this real? And you'd be like, yeah, it's real. I have an idea of what it might be, but I have to tell you off the podcast. OK. OK. The haircut, the looks you get whenever you get a fresh shaving of the sides. But I had a funny joke about this. But I can't talk about it. OK. OK. OK. OK, anyway, where do we begin? Tell me, tell me, tell me, what's going on? Wait a minute, no, there's been a lot of things that have happened this week. And there's been things that I've been excited to talk to you about in the news. The first thing that came to my mind when I walked in is like, yo, Hollywood really might be in trouble, yeah? Oh, that was it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Hollywood. Oh, no. And Chris, we found out Chris's Limes was an experiment from the United States government. You're a mutant? Chris? No, he is. Lime man? He's Lime Man. You're Lime Man, Chris? Lime Marine? Literally, the Limes disease was created on Plum Island, which is right across the water from Lime, Connecticut. And I think it was created as a bio weapon originally to take down cattle or whatever in Russia. So America made Lime disease. And fucking Russians, yo. The Russians are only behind some shit, yo. No, no, we did. Oh, we did take down Russia during the Cold War. Oh, got you, got you. Yeah, and then what Russia gave us, lemons? Hey, hey, hey, just another disease that the United States government has created. Huh? Huh? The ancient history of Lime disease in North America revealed with bacterial, what's that, gnomes? See, I don't even like looking at genomes. Genomes? Nah, that's some bullshit. You still got it, Chris? Chris, say where it was made. Made in Plum Island off the coast of Long Island, directly across the Long Island Sound from Lime, Connecticut. That's why it's called Lime disease. That's why it's called Lime disease. Holy shit. Keep talking that shit, though. Keep talking that shit. I mean, look. Let's get the episode demonetized right on the jump. Keep talking that shit, US bioweapon, US bioweapon. Say what it is, bro. Well, listen, if you. What do you mean, they created a lab for a bioweapon, right? For animals. And they named it after the city, right? Well, they named it after Lime, Connecticut because in the late 70s, mid-70s, children. I'm just saying, is there a lab in Wuhan? I'm just saying, is there a lab in Wuhan that studies coronaviruses? Is that also a thing? So nope. Could the same thing have happened twice in history? So no ideas original, nothing new under the sun? Nothing new under the sun? Something new? Yeah. Woo-hoo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Wow! I mean, the land of the rising sun is Japan. But it's close enough. It's close enough. It's close enough. It's close enough. Fuck it over here. Do you know what I'm saying? We cook it. Damn, Chris. Damn, Chris. He can't get away. Damn, Chris. Chris is the only one. He's the only one. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What if he's the day walker? What if Chris is the day walker, bro? What if Chris is the fucking U.S. government trying to take Chris out for decades? Oh, my God, Chris. My disease ain't working. So that ain't Chris Corona. Damn, Chris. What's next, Chris? What's next? What's on the docket? What's on the menu? What they serving? Come on, Chris. Talk to us. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. We got Chris on the dark side. Chris is on the dark side, ladies and gentlemen. It's officially happened. The reason of this podcast, the logic, the brilliance has been stripped away. He's a victim of Fauci. Why is Fauci getting to blame now, Chris? Why? I don't think you can pin. No, he didn't. You can't pin the lime on him. Not lime. The lemon, definitely. Well, this is what you could say. Probably bird food. That was probably him. Joe, real talk, it was probably him. That was. That was. E. coli. E. coli. If I was the city, a country that that shit came out of, I would push back on them naming it after us, yo. You're right, though. Why would you want that? Like, nobody's going to get a home in line. I'm like, don't you can't call it the Wuhan. You just bought your retirement property in Wuhan? You know what I'm saying? If I'm lime Connecticut, I would only want to drive through lime Connecticut now. Well, that's one of the theories why it might be true. Because listen, think about who lime disease has affected. What might be true? That it could have resulted. Does lime disease not affect Jews and Chinese? I'm here to say that it does. You're both. Right. My kids are good on COVID, but we're susceptible to lime. But think about it. Who does lime historically has it affected the most? I have no idea. Tell us. Wealthy, white people along throughout Connecticut, the Hamptons, wealthy places where traditionally those are the type of people, if there's a medical emergency, what happens? The government gets involved. They correct it. They fix it. They come up with cures. So it's curious to me that if you look at this as a disease that has traditionally affected very influential wealthy people in America, nothing's gotten done. Damn. So why do you think that is? Well, the argument would be because the government doesn't want you to look too closely on where it originated from. So is it a bioweapon to take out the 1%? What are you saying? I thought it was, someone told me it was a bioweapon to take out like the cattle population in Russia. It was created to destabilize, in theory. We don't know what happened. But the theory would be it was created to destabilize. The Soviet Union. The Soviet Union enemy. You introduce something into their population or their livestock population, which destabilizes the country. Either intentionally or accidentally, it gets out of this testing facility in the Long Island Sound, makes its way to the mainland, Lyme, Connecticut, and then spreads from there. They've always said that about Texas, too. They've always said that the next pandemic is going to come out of one of those meat factories in Texas. The cow factories, whatever the fuck. Butchery? Butchery, there you go. Meat factories farming. I was about to say, I said meat markets, whatever, in Texas. Meat factory in Texas, bro. Everything big in Texas. Everything big in Texas. I'm just saying. Did you see Salma on National Bikini Day? No. Oh my god. Salma hike? Oh my god. She had the bikini on? Oh my god. Pull it up, Alex. It might be one of them. It might be one of them. T, can you pull it up? Yeah. Now, while you go get that, can you tell me why you think it's over for Hollywood? S-E-L-M-A. H-A-Y. S-A. S-E-L-M-A. I think it's about H-E-A-V-I-E-S. Oh, I need to talk about that. Salma hike was 20 years ago. Salma hike was marching with Martin. Martin was distracted. Oh, Salma. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Baby, that's why he kept marching. He was telling you they up there. Oh, that's Salma? Oh, that's Salma. That's Salma. That's Salma. That's Salma. That's Salma. Salma. That's Salma. I didn't see that. Nationalwithdeme. Yup. No, no, no. That one right there. That's a 50 plus year old woman. Nah, Salma got it. She been had it though. Yeah. Yeah. She got it. That could keep doing a spoil boy. No, it don't. No, it don't. No, Salma got it. Salma been had it. There's a new expectation for 50-year-old women, ladies. I just wanted to let y'all know. Man. There's a new expectation. Not even just 50-year-old ladies, us too, man. Like, yo, guys are aging very well now. Oh, you always did. Nah, nah, I saw Samford and Son, bro. You saw it all in the family. Archie Bunker was 37. Wait, what? He was. Archie Bunker. There's no way. Archie Bunker was wild, Sammer. Just kidding. Wow. I mean, that's nice. That's 50 something? Wow, go ahead, Sammer. Do your thing, do your thug. There's a, go ahead, Sammer. So you can tell Sammer works out. You know what I'm saying? I'm sure she eats right, you know? And I mean, and she got access and resources, the things that we don't have. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that. Why should I hate her? She got access to resources, but she also access to fucking chicken and rice. Sure. She got access to that Mexican diet that y'all have access to. Absolutely. She's defying physics right here. I'm looking at that fifth picture. That's a well, she's in shape. Like, she can tell she works out. Yeah, man. Yes, bro. Yes, like, that's- But you know how many kids in here she got to go to, you know how much, or chata she got to drink? There's so many things that she got to go through. That's what I'm saying. The average person does not. Like, look at the waist. Like, the weight of the waist, that's amazing. That's amazing. That's amazing, too. That's amazing. Also, oh my God, yeah. Yes, I'm a one in one. Anyway, tell me why you think it's over for Hollywood. Because they look great. Hollywood look fantastic. Hollywood look amazing for this view. I think that, I think Hollywood's in trouble because there's been a lot of smoking mirrors in regards to screaming services. I think that the reason a lot of these screaming services, you know, don't. Well, first of all, let's take a step back. When it comes to the actors and the writers, the actors and the writers, they want a piece of the residuals when it comes to screaming, right? But there are none. There are none because, number one, there's only like two screaming services that are actually in the black and that's Hulu and Netflix. But also- I don't even think Netflix is making money. No, Netflix is in the black. Netflix is in the black. Netflix is in Hulu. Everybody else is. Someone looked that up. I don't think Netflix is making money. They're like the only two. I'm just reading about this. But it's not like they're making profit over profit. They're just in the black. But the reason that I feel that's never gonna happen as far as them getting a piece of the residuals or the screams is because if these screaming services ever really opened up the books and were really transparent, Wall Street would be like, what the fuck is going on here? Now explain. Because it's not real profit being made. Like we know a lot of these networks, they get more subscribers which causes the stock shares to go up. But that don't mean it's actual money coming in. Say Wall Street, you mean investors. Yeah. So like the average investor, if they found out that every streaming service is losing money, I don't think Netflix is making money. I think Disney makes money. No, they're not. You know, Disney spends so, you're not much secret and basic. No, not Disney plus. Disney the brand. I'm not talking about the streaming. Yeah, but the streaming, Disney plus is in its own stock. Disney plus is part of the Disney stock. So if you're investing in Disney and it's so profitable, you'll be good. Whereas Netflix is its own stock. Hulu is part of the Disney stock. The Disney thing, yeah, yeah, yeah. So Netflix is by itself. And if Netflix itself is not what is called in the black, in the black means a profitable business, right? If Netflix is losing money in the hopes to continue to eat up Market Share, which is what Uber does, which is what so many of these tech platforms do. They just go, we're gonna keep spending money and burning money in hopes that we'll eat up enough Market Share that then we'll be bought out or we'll be profitable online. For example, Amazon, I don't think even is profitable. I think they take all their profits and reinvest it into business. Amazon might not even be in the streaming business this time next year. Amazon. Why do they have to continue to do their original programming when it comes to TV and films? That's not even their primary source of income. Well, I think that's what allows them- Self fucking toilet paper. I think that's what allows them to be doing this, right? They can compete so well because they don't have to make money on their streaming platform. But I can't waste money either. I can't keep dumping money into the streaming platform doing all this original programming and not getting to ROI. They waste money with the ROI, it's culture. I think Amazon and Apple would be out of the screen business soon. I think before Apple gets out, it would buy Netflix. That's the other thing- Or Paramount Plus. Yeah, I don't think Paramount Plus is the last. Yeah, I think Paramount Plus is the easier property. Apple is the most successful company in the history of the world. Maybe Disney. Maybe Disney buys what? Maybe Apple buys Disney Plus. No, no, no, because I think that- That's been one of the rumors. I don't think that Disney, I think Apple could potentially buy Netflix, but I don't know if Netflix has enough intellectual property that's valuable in order for it to happen. They got all the intellectual property. Netflix is the only people that's still cooking right now. Netflix is over in Korea shooting movies right now. They're doing TV shows and shit right now. Like the strike has happened is affecting here in America. No, but Netflix is still cooking overseas. I'm talking about intellectual property, meaning like, so what Amazon have is, I'm pretty sure Amazon bought MGM. So they have their whole back catalog for movies. So they have the ability to remake any of those old movies, right? Which is a very popular thing that's happening. So they have so much IP. Not only do they have the old IP in terms of the movies, every time those movies get licensed abroad, every time those movies get licensed by a Netflix, Netflix goes, I want to re-up on Backdraft or whatever the fuck thing is. And they go, okay, you got to pay us a fee and this happens globally all around the world. But Netflix got that too, though. Because Netflix got a lot of old IP. Like, people never stop watching shows on Netflix. You're just always finding new shit. True, but they had, so they had to license all those old shows. Like they had to license friends, they had to license Seinfeld. And now what's happening? They got their own shit, though. Like Orange is the new black, House of Cards. Like Netflix got a lot of screen games. Yeah, but you can't really compare those two. Like Friends or like Seinfeld or like other legacy shows. Their goal is to be able to build that up, but it takes years. And they've had a few incredibly huge successes. They've had the Stranger Things, et cetera. So hopefully they eventually continue to build those things up. But they don't yet have a show that you just turn on and it's in the background and it's just making syndication, right? It's like a Seinfeld or a Friends dip. They have some great reality shit that's really successful like Selling Sunset. You just throw that on the background. The difference with Netflix, though, is Netflix is literally worldwide and Netflix isn't necessarily a screamer anymore. Like you can go be anywhere. Netflix is on remote controls. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like Netflix is in hotel rooms. They were first. They did a great job. There's no question. Not only were they first, they fucked the game up. They fucked the game up so much that they made everybody run to say we need to be in the screaming business. Yes. I don't think that was ever a sustainable model. I think there was supposed to be a Netflix and then there was still supposed to be cable television. But I think cable TV jumped out the window and was like, you know what? We need to be in the screaming business, too. I think the game was really only designed to have two screaming services, Netflix and Disney. Everything gravitates towards convenience and cable television just wasn't convenient enough anymore. So this is just with the internet. It's just with Uber. It's just with everything, right? It's just the more convenient version at the same price. We say that until some dope shit come. What was your favorite show? On what? On HBO that you just loved. It was convenient. I just watched it whenever I wanted. On The Dragons or what? No, what was the one you used to like, based off a video game or something? The zombie show, Last of Us. Last of Us. And that's what you used to come on, what, every Sunday? Yeah, but I could watch it whenever I wanted. Or you were watching On Demand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stream it, yeah, you stream it, whatever you want. That's the convenient thing. I do agree with you 100%. This is what Apple's doing, which I think is brilliant. They're releasing shit weekly now. They're like, we're not gonna let you burn through this content in one fucking weekend and then the show's done and we gotta keep on making more shit to keep you happy. I said that last year. If your point with cable is stagger the shows out, you're 1,000% right. And subscribers. Keep going, what do you mean by that? Like when people paint for cable television, put it like this, cable television is a model that at least you know how much I'm, you pretty much know how much you're gonna make, right? The screaming business to me is kind of like a Ponzi scheme in a way. Talk to me what it was. Because it's like, okay, I launched a screamer, I launched a screamer, the screamer comes out and in my mind I'm like, well how much could this necessarily make, right? But you don't necessarily know what those subscribers will equate to. Well, no, you know how much you're gonna spend on content, right? But you don't know how much they're gonna make. You don't know how much you're gonna make. Well, you know how much you're gonna make once they subscribe. Once they subscribe. You know how many people are gonna subscribe. Exactly. But that's the hope with any business, right? You're just like, I gotta start the business if I open a coffee shop. I hope that a lot of people come by coffee. You hope? But it's a lot of hope and screaming. That's all I'm saying. It is a lot of hope, but I will say this. Cable was more of a tried and true model that they kinda blew up. Like why did they blow, my point is why did they blow it up? It was a tried and true model that showed it had worked for years. Was it convenient enough and people stopped watching and then they gravitated toward Netflix and YouTube which were just more convenient. You could watch things at your time. I wish, I'm with you, but I think they jump too fast. I really do. Well, why do you say this? I think Netflix made them jump too fast. I think people saw what Netflix was doing and was like, we need to be doing what they're doing. They wanted to hold on to cable for as long as they possibly could and they had contracts in place to hold them there. The problem was nobody was watching the shows. The ratings in our lifetime, shows that would make five million, 10 million viewers, dropped to one million or less. But just give it a minute. All I'm saying is if they would have just gave it a beat instead of everybody just running to start the streaming wars. If you give it a beat, you let Netflix get even further ahead than it was already. Listen, I'd rather lose market share than Netflix than everybody else now because right now there's nobody winning except for Netflix. Even right now in 2023, none of the streaming services are in the black except for Netflix and Hulu. None of them. Did we find out if Netflix, it's profitable. It's profitable but their overall profits and I'm seeing different numbers have declined since last year. So that's why Wall Street's upset. They're still making billions. It's just moving in the wrong direction. And they lost a bunch of subscribers last year. But I'm telling you the only reason that is is literally because I feel like everybody just jumped too fast trying to follow Netflix's model. If everybody would have just waited to be to your point and the point I've been saying, HBO, every week you put out a dope ass show like Euphoria. Motherfuckers is tuning in. That shit you was just talking about that's based off the video game. Every week people are tuning in. I only gotta do three or four at all the year. So I think- People like Netflix gotta constantly put out product. I think what you're trying to say is that it's not that we should have kept cable. You still wanna be able to watch your show whenever on demand. So in other words- Oh, give me both. So yeah, but what I would say is have a streamer just have shows come out 10 o'clock on Sunday, which is what cable did. There's no advantage to just cable. There's no advantage to just running television all the time that nobody's watching and then having your advertisers bail and then having no ads up and then not knowing what to do. Like- But they don't have ads on cable, on HBO. On cable they do. On cable television? What's going on right now? They're doing it by HBO. Like a premium channel. Oh yeah, the premium channels you might as well have at streaming, because it- It's the same model. I've never seen commercials like all my whole life. No, no, no, no, no, but a premium channel like HBO Showtime Cinemax is like a streaming service already. Yeah, but I'm talking about those networks. I'm not talking about like fucking regular cable television. I'm talking about like the premium guys. Yeah, like I think the premium guys going to streaming just made their content more convenient. So like if HBO, do I wanna watch what HBO tells me to watch on a Saturday night if I'm just home for a movie, Or do I want to look through their entire catalog and then pick the movie or TV show I want to watch? That's more convenient to me, that's always gonna win. Give me both. Yeah, but Charlotte, if there's no stream. I mean, they're doing that now, really. But like, say if HBO didn't have a streaming service, half the people wouldn't watch Game of Thrones. Nobody's getting a cable channel, I mean, a cable package just to be able to watch HBO. That's not, I don't know if that's true, bro. We always used to. Our generation does not have cable channels. We always used to get cable packages. Yeah, but this, and also to your point, it's still something about appointment TV. Now don't get me wrong, you're gonna go back and watch it on streaming service, but when everybody's on a Sunday at 10 o'clock, tweeting at the same time, there's no experience like that. I just think you should have both, is what I'm talking about. I'm letting you know there's no show that's that good that people are going to buy a cable service, subscription service, like cable, get a box in their television. I disagree with that. Cause you can even see it when, and you can see it when stars, you can see it with stars. I think what. Stars other with power. No, no, no, but. You can look it up. It shows when power is not in season. 50 Cent talks shit about this all the time. When power is not in season, stars lose subscribers. But they're also digital subscribers. Yeah. You could do the app. There's just a miscommunication here. What you're saying is you believe in the streaming model. Yes. You just think that shows should be released weekly because it's a better, for the network side, it's a better return on investment. Yes. Your show lasts for eight weeks or 12 weeks. One show that you pay for lasts for 12 weeks instead of lasting for one weekend. And then you need to get them new content later. Oh, okay. I think that's, we're all in the same page. Yeah. And I'm also saying, I feel like everybody jumped out the window too fast trying to chase Netflix and everybody, sometimes you gotta let the person go over the hill first. Well, so. And let them take the bullets in the arrows, then figure out how to come over the hill without taking so many bullets in so many arrows. Okay, now we're on the same page. I think you're saying we should go back to cable through everybody off. I think what you're saying is going binge culture is jumping, yes. Binge culture, and listen, Netflix was smart, right? You, in order to catch fishing is stir up waters, what is the- Stir up water to catch fish. Okay, how do you stir up waters? How do you create chaos in an industry that's already established? You give people the whole season right away. Holy shit. Now what are the advantages of that? If the show is not as good, I will stick around to watch it because I have the next episode ready to go. If the show is not as good in the traditional weekly model and episode three, it's kind of eh, I'm not coming back Sunday. I'm not building my whole Sunday around this fucking show schedule. If it's binge worthy, and what I've always said about a lot of the Netflix shows, they're not as good because they don't need to be because all you need to do is leave me on a cliffhanger. I'm toning in to that next episode that's gonna come right up. So they stirred up the water to catch fish. All the other networks came in and tried to compete and now they're realizing the smart ones like HBO, small ones like Apple are realizing, oh shit, we don't need to give these motherfuckers a new show the whole season immediately. We could give them a new show every week as long as that show's fire. And because you produce less content. And low key if I'm them, I would assess the show and I'd go, oh, this show's not that good, lend a binge it. And if the show is fire, you go stretch it out week by week. Listen, if I only gotta do three to four shows a week and you gotta do 27, 28 a year, you know what I mean? And I think we all forget where everybody was at before they had their own streaming platforms. On Netflix, they had their content on Netflix. They were doing licensing deals. So think about this, companies like Disney were getting paid from Netflix because Netflix was doing licensing deals with these companies. They all said, nah, fuck that. Let's take our content off, start our own platforms. Worked for some, didn't work for a lot. Out of all of these streaming networks, you mean telling me only two of them are making a profit. But I will say this. And Hulu got the best model because Hulu got like four or five different channels on this show. But no one knows what Hulu is. The problem with Hulu is nobody knows what the fuck it is. You saying that, but they in the black? I don't know why. Well, they run ads. Yeah, they run ads. I just don't know what they are. They got ABC on Hulu, FX is on Hulu. It's like cable, but also streaming, but also got their own things. Like I was in a movie on Hulu. So it's like, they also got movies. Hulu was so, the white man can't jump. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I watched it on Hulu. So it was like, there's so many different things that are happening on Hulu that it's just confusing and I think they have a brand issue. If it works, it works. I can't criticize if they're doing well. I just think that people don't really know what Hulu is. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like do I watch cable on Hulu? Do I watch a tone show? Like what is it? I watch it all. I do. I watch it all. I just think Hollywood's in real trouble this time because I don't see how the writers and actors win this one because I don't see how it be hoos to Hollywood studios and meet any of their demands. Because I think when it comes to the writers, you're gonna have a couple of people who cross the picket line. And like I said last week, whatever week I said, it's gonna be like a showrunner, a head writer, and then AI, at least for a while. Not saying that's gonna be the end all be all, but at least for a couple of years, they're gonna at least try that shit. And when it comes to the actors, I just don't see them ever being transparent with the actors as far as how much these shows are really screaming. Because to be transparent with the actors, you gotta be transparent with Wall Street. And they don't wanna be transparent with Wall Street. So in order for the actors and the writers to calculate a comparable syndication value, right? It used to be there'd be a show that's really popular like a Seinfeld or a Ray Romano show, right? And then they would sell that show in syndication once it made 110 episodes. That means you could sell it around the world. You would see it coming on five days a week on like channel 11 or wherever the fuck channel it is and where you grew up. I think where we grew up there'd be like channel 11, right? And they would just play the reruns of... All the network channels. All the network channels. They'd have Beverly Hills 90210, and they just play them all day. And you make so much money on that syndication rights. Now with streaming, the streaming network owns it in perpetuity. So what they've been doing is paying upfront syndication fee. So they go, yo, Will Smith, we want your movie, here's 20 million, that includes your syndication fee. So I think the writers and the actors are trying to go, let's find a realistic syndication fee and let's find a realistic version of how much this show is worth based on how many people stream it. Music did it with streaming. They have a per stream fee that the artist gets. One difference with that. Well, real quick, just to finish out the point. So with syndication, like to what you were saying, the streaming platforms haven't been forthright about how many streams these shows are actually getting. They say, number one most streamed show on Netflix, or number one most streamed show on Netflix, but they're not given the numbers. So without the numbers, you can't calculate the value of the show, especially the value of the show to the network. And without the value of the show to the network, you can't calculate what your worth as a writer or what your worth as an actor. And to what you were saying, since so many of these networks are dependent on the stock valuation. And not actual profit. And not the actual profit. They don't want to say how few people are actually watching the show, or how many people. Because Wall Street will go either tank or they'll find out that the entire network is only watching one show, i.e. Stranger Things. And then every actor on Stranger Things is going back up the truck, motherfucker. If nobody watches nothing but Stranger Things, we're keeping your fucking streaming service alive. We need the breath. Yeah, everybody keeps trying to talk about the music industry and the TV film industry. Yeah, what do you see as a difference? Totally different, because title, Apple, Spotify, they're not paying to make the albums. Oh, shit. You know what I'm saying? The Netflix is in the Disney's and all that. That's a great point. They're paying to make these fucking products. It's totally different. Netflix, title and Apple is damnate all profit. All they gotta do is make a proper split with the labels. Not even the artists, just the labels and keep it moving. So it's almost like, yo, actors, writers, make your own shit. Make your own shit, we'll buy it from you and then you will accept it. And you know what? That does happen and you know what? Those people who, but those people who do sell accept the fee and they're good with it. That's the play. And you can do it two ways, right? You might shoot some shit for $3,000,000, sell it to Netflix or Disney for 20, 25 days. There you go. I'm gonna sell it, but I wanna get this percentage of it. You know what I mean? Percentage, let me get my production money back. But what percentage? Because you're not making any, there's no money to be made. You're servicing the streamer. The streamer gets their monthly revenue. Yeah, you might have to sign an NDA. Might have to sign an NDA and be like, look, all right? We do a deal. You shot this for how much? $5, $10 million? Okay, you'll get your production money back. Yes, right. But you gotta sign an NDA, we'll be honest with you about what the dumpers are. They never gonna do that. They never. That's too risky. That's what I'm saying. That's why I think Hollywood might be kind of fucked in a lot of ways. I saw the dude that plays Incredible Hulk, Mark Ruffalo. He said this yesterday. He was like, yo, he started encouraging people to go do independent films. I think that might be the wave. Well, I don't think so. Look out for Tooby. Let's go. Y'all been laughing at Tooby. Look out for Tooby. Let's go. Tooby might be the guy or the girl. Whatever the fuck. My understanding is they can't work on independent projects. Like they can't work on a project that... If you're sad. If they're gonna sell it. Yeah. So it's like, how can they do that? I don't know, bro. Here's the thing. And I'm sagging at WGA. And I'm just simply saying, I don't know. I don't know where this ends, bro. I saw it in a variety. They're like, anybody who's sagging at WGA, the things that you have to boycott are live appearances. And I said, I'm crossing the picket line. Yo, so that makes me laugh. By the way, pull that up, Alex. I'm going on stage. But pull that up. Because nothing on that list makes sense to me. I don't make my living. I think I go, I got that right here. That makes no, why wouldn't you want the actors to make money while the strike is going on? Like that makes zero sense to me. Hold on, I got this shit already. They don't want the films to make money. But I'm not promoting the films and I'm doing appearances. They assume that you are doing live appearances to promote the films. Tours, personal appearances, interviews, conventions, fan expos, festivals, for your consideration events, panels, premier screenings, award shows, understand that, junkets, podcast appearances, social media, studio showcases. How am I supposed to make any extra income? What if I'm an actor who hosts a podcast about food? I can't do my fucking podcast about food. What if I'm just getting paid because I'm me? Forget the show I'm doing and the character I'm playing. I'm getting paid because I'm whoever. I can't go make my money. Like you really think people want to see rules in dial? Yeah, they should be. Job man. I don't know, man. No, no, no, no. I think that one variety is wrong. I heard a bunch of people respond to that and they're like variety continues to not know what the fuck they're talking about. That's not true. I think it's like somewhat true, somewhat not true. There's nothing wrong with us podcasting. There's nothing wrong with me going on tour. I think some of that has to do with promoting current projects or past projects. We've had a lot of actors and actresses that was on Breakfast Club, that was scheduled to be on Breakfast Club the next two weeks. All of them had to come. Because they can't promote their films. Yeah. That's why. But we have a podcast that is not based on SAG After. It's about nothing. It's just if you're working on a project, that's a SAG. That's a SAG project you can't do. Exactly. I don't know how this ends, man. I don't like it. Well, I think what's really interesting is I think that the music, sorry, sorry, the film industry and the TV industry, are much like the stand-up comedy industry. How do I say this? For years, doing stand-up specials and filming these grandiose things, right? And don't get me wrong. There are certain people where they should be that big. Like a fucking Kevin Hart should have that kind of spectrum. Absolutely. But for newer comics, they were spending hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to do these specials for comics that people didn't even know who they were yet. And what we kind of figured out is we could film our own specials and get even more people to see it by placing it on YouTube, a place where people could see it. So we kind of caused this disruption in this traditional industry. By filming stand-up comedy specials for a fraction of the price and focusing really on what people wanted, which was great comedy, not this insane production value. And then when you do eventually get to the upper echelon of comedy, yeah, you should go do that. But we disrupted the industry in that way. I think, and I've been trying to figure out as I've been doing these films, what the next level disruption for the film industry is. The film industry is, don't get me wrong, for Emission Impossible for Avatar, for all these big fucking films, you need these huge scale budgets, et cetera. Emission Impossible wouldn't even do well. But regardless, what I'm saying is you need them for an indie film. I think there's a version of making, people are saying, yeah, an indie film was for $5 million. I'm like, there is a version of a film that is far cheaper, and we can find a way to do it for far cheaper. And then when you do a film for way cheaper, you can put it in a place where more people will see it, right? And then when more people see it, you can find out ways to monetize it in the same way that we did, you know, with stand-up. I think direct to consumers is a great, is always gonna be a great model if the consumer gives a fuck about you to wanna direct with you. Y'all know what the fuck I just meant. Yep, I agree. And I think that storytelling is gonna be at a premium. I think if you have a great story, you can shoot it for much cheaper, and you can make that film for a fraction of the cost, and then put it in a place where people can consume it and then have way more success. And I think that restructures the film industry. We just haven't seen people do that yet. Yeah, that's a little bit harder to do only because a film does take a lot more hands to make and to be able to compensate people in a way that they can have a yearly salary, they can sustain themselves on, working project by project is just harder. That's why you need the... Two things though, two things. I can put out my comedy for free and then monetize the road. Actors don't have that. They have to make their money off of films. So you do have to generate wealth, but if you can, one, condense shooting schedules so that actors can do potentially more projects, like you can film, right now it's, it took two months to film Oppenheimer. That's Oppenheimer. You're telling me you can't film a indie low budget, really creatively put together project with great storytelling and an amazing story. You can't do that in half the time as Oppenheimer. You know what you're gonna need for that? You're gonna need the people behind the scenes to have the same enthusiasm. Dedication. The people in front of the camera because they're gonna be having to take some losses, right? And you may not want to when you're behind the camera that's a whole, that work is way more intensive, right? That's right. And what benefit is it for them? Cause if I was- There's none. These people that are on, that are striking right now cause the people behind the scenes, I'd be sitting around calling my folks like, yo, we should be putting together production crews. That's illegal. Cause we feel- Really? Right now you can't do anything. You can't write. You can't write. Writers can't even write at that free time. So even if you do like some, even if you do like some, you form your own production crew, you can't even go shoot some shit? Nope. Damn. They can't. If they're under the union, you can't do it. Fuck, why are you telling me that? They can't. I wanted to act like I didn't know that. They can't. Oh boy. They can't. Yo, look, did you see the numbers for Secret Invasion? What's Secret Invasion? I didn't see them, but Secret Invasion is fucking phenomenal. Great. What's the Secret Invasion? But nobody's watching it. On Marvel. Marvel. Based off of Samuel L. Jackson's character. Nick Fury, but no- Alex, you know nobody's watching it. I don't even know what it was about. I'll watch that shit real soon. Six episodes. How much do you think six episodes of that shit cost? I think it was like 500,000 or something like that? 500,000? I thought, that's what I thought the budget was. $277 million for six episodes. Per episode, I think, was like 500,000. No, no, no, no. 500 million. Over budget, the final tally came in at 211.6 million. Wow. Guardians of the Galaxy, the movie had a production budget of 250. Ant-Man and the Wasquan of Mania had a budget of 200 million. This is a TV show with six episodes. But keep in mind, six episodes, how long is it each episode? Uh-oh. No, like 40 minutes, 40 minutes. So we're talking about six episodes of TV, so that's between like four and six hours. So let's say it's about five hours. It's two movies. So it's two movies. So they basically, they've made two Marvel movies. I'm with you, but it's still TV. It doesn't matter. You know what I mean? It's still gotta treat it like TV, yeah. No, they can't. Ant-Man and he's chopping everything. He's got to get some, he don't give a fuck. Oh, he's fucking shit up right now. But if they treat it like TV, the production value isn't gonna be as good, and then we won't like it. That's the death-life TV. If we need production value as much as we need story. With Marvel with shit, that is CGI, you need good production value. I'll be honest with you, I think it's story. And I think that one of the things that, to be honest, one of the things that Guardians of the Galaxy shows, like there are moments in Guardians of the Galaxy where you're like, this is silly and weird and that makes no sense. Like large swaths of the scenes, right? Not even if it doesn't make any sense. You're like, did they put any money in this? But it doesn't matter because the story is so compelling that we're gonna lock in and just believe this reality. I agree, but you can't have a whole series just with fucking story. You need, in Marvel, you need some shit to explode. I feel like Disney TV has done too much. Oh, no, Kevin Feige said, just one of them said this, they feel like they've done too much with the TV stuff and that's why everybody has fatigue across the board. Because Bonomania didn't even fucking do what it was supposed to do at the box office. I don't even know what it is. Ant-Man. I think a lot of people after Endgame kind of checked out. Can I be honest? Okay, here's the reality of the matter. Endgame finished it. Not, no, it- For the casuals. No, no, just take this in. Endgame, Endgame was the Super Bowl, it was the World Series, it was the NBA Finals. Tough act to follow, yeah. Summer League is what's going on right now in Marvel. And the die-hard fans of basketball are watching Summer League, they're seeing Wemba and Yama, they're seeing Scoop, they're seeing all these guys. But the casuals could give a flying fuck what's happening in Summer League right now. There's been in Super Bowl money in the Summer League. Okay. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? We are here. We do our best, we do our best. We do our best, listen. So they're doing Super Bowl money for Summer League, but if they adjust it to Summer League money, then they can be okay. Now here's the problem they're gonna have. They have to build up a new reason to create 15 years from now, another version of Avengers Endgame. Which they're currently doing. Which they're currently doing. But we dealt with 50 years or 70 years or whatever the fuck it was of comic books that built to Endgame. It wasn't a 15 year run. It was 70 years of X-Men. It was 70 years of Iron Man. It was 70 years. Like we knew these characters as if they were like the Statue of Liberty. They were like bastions of American culture and it built up to this final fucking moment. Endgame was a world war literally. Yeah man. And now we need a break. You can have another war right after a world war. It's like, yo, we settled all that. I don't think they should have done no Marvel TV show now. They can't be. They can't take a break. They gotta figure something out and it might not be going back to Marvel. Boom, I'm about to say. I don't think they should have did no Marvel TV shows. I think maybe this is the phase where Disney should have just invested in the Star Wars or something maybe. I don't know. They did. They put on that movie. The money in the Star Wars, no one watched it. I don't think they should have did no Disney TV shows and I think the next saga we should have saw for Marvel was the Mutant Saga. All in film. Now is the time to roll out the mutants and all that other shit. Cause now that they have Sony, well now that they have like. Oh fuck Sony's fine. Let me tell you something, Charlotte. That was your fucking greatest idea. Mutants, you mean X-Men, right? Yes. Start from the jump. Yes. Start from the jump. And then take an off brand mutant like Iron Man. Iron Man was not the number one. No, not at all. Take that off brand version. Whatever the fuck it is. I don't care who it is. I don't care if it's Beast. I don't care if it's whatever. You make that person the centerpiece of this new world. Hover all the characters and then build towards your fucking end game. Take us on that dance for 10 fucking years. I mean they are doing that, but with both, with Marvel and with. Focus on one. Focus on one, suck. I think, I mean the only way. As a person who loves that shit, I'm tuned it. I love it. I'm just, from a, listen, as a fan, I love it. But from a business perspective, this shit is a fucking clusterfuck. But are they starting with the mutants from? No, they just started. They started to get into mutants. From ground zero? What's ground zero? But they can't because they were putting out X-Men movies. It's not like X-Men movies weren't coming out. We are so fine with them putting out more. You know how many Superman they put out? You know how many Spider-Man they put out? Just restart it. How many times we've seen Uncle Bender? Well, they gotta blend the world. So they're doing it right now with the multiverse. You know what I'm saying? And they introduce Earth 818 and all the mutants are clearly on Earth 818. So eventually it's gonna be an incursion where both worlds crash together. Deadpool's gonna bring a lot of that together from what I saw. That shit looks phenomenal, by the way. Oh my God. Because he Deadpool is the person that can break the fourth wall. Deadpool will probably end up saving Marvel because he can talk to the people. He can tell us everything that we already know is going on. Like you see the fight scene with him and Hugh Jackman in the 20th Century Fox logo was behind him. So Deadpool's just gonna go back and kill all these motherfuckers, all those old ass, wack characters. Yeah. This shit's gonna be, oh, it's gonna be phenomenal. It's gonna be phenomenal. Old ass, wack characters. Like all the old X-Men movies and all that shit like that. Oh my God. He's gonna go back and kill them. So the reset that you're talking about, they're gonna actually show the reset via movie. Yeah. Which is smart. I love it. But I do agree with you. Yes, it's not the smartest business model, but I think they're just looking long term. It's like they're making a lot of money with amusement parks, figurines, all that type of shit. Yeah, they do. Can I say one more thing? Disney's still in the... Disney had to cut like 5.5 billion. They fired mad employees from Disney Park. That's why all those cuts at ESPN was cause of Disney. Like they firing motherfuckers. Yeah, but that's everybody. Every company had a bunch of lives. I don't know, man. Oh, that was my other reason too. COVID fucked up a lot of shit. Like Hollywood's still recovering from COVID. And now they're just getting hit with this. This is just the strike of another pandemic. There's another thing that's going on, which is like all the streamers were bloated during COVID because people never had, they didn't have anything else to do. So they just watched shows. So the stock price skyrocketed. It probably went up 30, 40, 50%, whatever it did. So it's really regressing to the mean. It's regressing like where it should be. But it looks as if these companies are all failing. So if Netflix drops 30%, it was 30% inflated. It should come back to a normal version. But again, we look at stocks quarterly. So it's like, oh my God, this is a horrible quarter. What can we do? You could never sustain that growth. By the way, do we need all of these streamer services? Dude, we need all the channels either. No. They'll consolidate. Eventually it will just be one. It has to be. It's going to have to. I think it's going to end up being two. I think when the smoke is clear, Netflix, Disney Plus. Yeah, but you forget people have egos. And the leader of this streamer is like, nah, I'm in the game too. I'm going to keep going. I don't give a fuck. How much ego you got eventually? Everybody got somebody to answer to. Everybody got a boy. I don't give a who your CEO is. There's a boy and the boy going to be like, nah, motherfucker, we just lost a gazillion dollars. Shut this shit the fuck down. Like eventually I don't give a fuck. You have all the ego in the world. If that shit ain't making dollars, it don't make sense. And right now it ain't making no motherfucking dollars. What we got, man? What else we got? Oh, sorry, one more thing. They need to stop with this multiverse shit. This shit sucks. It's too confusing. Let me just say it. Let me just say it. Let me just say this. Let me just say this. Let me get it out. Let me get it out. It's the best. It's the best. For the people that are really in it, like you guys, it's really exciting. The casuals, it's blinking too many things that they're unaware of. So it completely ostracizes the casual viewer who just wants to tap in and be like, I know about Spider-Man. Spider-Man multiverse is a bad example. I'm talking about the traditional Spider-Man movies. It ostracizes the casual who's like, yeah, I grew up with Spider-Man. I know he got his aunt who's kind of whatever and then they got carnage or whatever. Kind of what, fine? Say what? Kind of fine? Kind of fine. The new one. Yeah, the new one. Shit, shit. I'm shooting webs. Listen, listen, listen. So it just completely ostracizes and just confuses them and there's an education process every time you're like, what do you mean? The multiverse, da, da, da, da, and then you just check out. The super fans like you, it satisfies every inch of your craving. But keep in mind, when you're creating movies for the masses- You gotta create it for the casuals. You gotta create it for the casuals. Yeah, but then you run into the DC problem. DC problem where they were just telling the same story over and over and over with different. Well, the stories are bad. That's the problem with DC isn't telling. The same story is fine to tell. They're just bad stories. Simple and plain. DC sucks. DC don't really suck. DC stands for dick and cocks because they suck. Because they suck. That's how bad the film goes. They have a worse, baddened average, but not all of them suck. The Dark Knight movies were good. God, don't count. Those were classics. What you mean? Yeah. That was part of the DC. That's Christopher Nolan. That wasn't part of the DC universe. That was a story. But I mean, it's still good. That's still part of the DC. No, that wasn't part of the DC universe. But it's Batman. Batman is DC. Yeah, but they were not part of the DC universe though. They tried to do it justly. I'll never forgive them for introducing Justice League in a fucking email. They rushed that. They rushed Justice League. They got introduced in email attachments. You were right. You exposed that to me. I didn't. That was the stupidest shit ever. They rushed Justice League way too fast. Like email attachments. Watch, you're gonna see this dude who's going over there to do it now. What's his name? James Gunn. James Gunn. He is nice with story. I don't trust James Gunn no more. He lied to me about The Flash. They told me that The Fucking Flash was the greatest superhero movie of all time. Wait, he made The Flash? No, he didn't make it. You know, they were trying to hype it up. Yes. So I think... Big flop, by the way. My theory? Big flop at the box office. My theory, they were trying to hype it up because since he was coming to change the whole regime, he's like, hey, if this one does good, I can at least keep one old character from the old shit. So let's pump this up and convince people that this one's good. But now that this one flop, they're gonna have to recast The Flash and now he has to like try to build that whole storyline up again. But he wasn't gonna recast The Flash anyway because he doesn't remember this. No, no, they said if this one did good, they were gonna run it back. Oh, I believe that. And they protected Ezra Miller. They tried. They tried. He can't say he didn't get a shot. He did. He got a shot, he got a shot. But people was like, nah, we ain't fucking with you. We not fucking with you. Salute the Hove, man. The Go. The Book of Hove. I think any creative should go to the Brooklyn Public Library. I don't give a fuck what you're into. I don't even care if you're a creative. Even if you're not into the arts or anything like that. If you're just a person who's looking for some inspiration. You know those American dream stories that we talk about, like somebody going from rags to riches. Somebody going from just the bottom and being successful in what they chose to do. By the way, that can be anybody. If you don't have to be a billionaire rapper to choose to do something and be successful at it. You might wanna be a custodian and you decided him will be the best custodian and that was your dream and you chose to be that. Now you're the greatest custodian in your town. You might have a custodial business, whatever it is. Go to that Book of Hove shit, man. And see it. You saw it, Alex? I haven't seen it yet. Oh my God, you should go show it. Inspirational. Oh my God. I was hating. I saw you and Weezy at the opening. Day before the opening for the VIP motherfuckers. Oh wow. Yeah. That's what it was? Yeah, you know what it was. Did Taylor go? Get to go? Did you? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You got the invite? Hold on, hold on. Hold on one second. You got the invite in the middle? You got the actual book? Go to the mic, go to the mic. Hold on, so you got the book? No, I don't have the book. I said I could have went to the opening. Nah, not if you didn't get that book. I think you're talking about like the first day. Friday, you got my Friday. Friday, but Thursday before it was open. Yeah. I mean, maybe if she was with somebody, I just know if you had that, but you gotta have that. Wait, you're trying to say she's a plus one, dude? Well. Okay, I'll be a plus one. Nah, there's nothing wrong with Weezy was a plus one. I'm snitching, fuck that. Yeah, she was quite a lot of plus one. That was a plus one. Hey, there's nothing wrong with being a plus one. I would have loved to be a plus one. I'm just saying everybody was fine. It was the actual book. Oh really? Yeah. I really flipped the game on me just right there. The game was machine on Taylor. And the first, second, I'm getting my soul with the goddamn water. Y'all are like, by the way, by the way, it don't matter if it's a private event, a public event, you can go see it. It don't matter whether you was there, Thursday or Friday. That's just foolishness. Like, it don't matter. It doesn't matter. It has this little spark face on it. That shit don't matter. Why you went Thursday? Yeah, yeah, if it don't matter. Cause. She was invited. No, no, I went Thursday cause I know I probably would never go when it was open to the public. Just the way my name's called. No, fuck it. No, just the way my would have gone. You should have just said you got invited, Charlotte. Damn. No, I'm not. I put on my sunglasses, y'all. This got to be my one. I want to talk to him. There's not too many people that can get me to come out to do some shit like that. And that's rock nation is one of those people just cause like rock nation is. It was actually at night time. It was actually in the daytime. It was daytime. It was a daytime event. It was from like six to. I thought you knew. I thought you got invited to. You were invited to. I did, but she went to. And I was five to five to eight. Yeah, well they arrived later though then. So. Who? My friends arrived later. Who was your friends? You met her. At the thing? She works at Power. I don't know, he don't know. But anyway, I'm just saying like, you know, it was a great. I'm just saying if you want some inspiration, man, go see it. Jay-Z deserves that. Why was it so inspiring? Just seeing somebody come to. No, because the greatest flex that Jay-Z has for me is his evolution as a man. Forget the, I ain't gonna say forget, cause you can't forget it, but otherworldly talent, fantastic entrepreneur and businessman. But I think that we take for granted the fact that his plane did not necessarily have to land with the wheels out. Because 2016, 2017, whatever that was, you know, he was going through everything he was going through in his personal life. And we don't know which way that could have went. You know what I mean? And how do people look at him six, seven years later if that all fell apart? Because at the end of the day, for me as a 45 year old man, I measure men based on how their house looks now. And to see the work that he put in as a man to be a better father, to be a better husband, to be a better friend, that's his ultimate flex to me. And I think that this is library, you kind of get to see that in real time. Like if you've been following the story and paying attention through his music, of course you know it. But when you get to actually see it play out through pictures and videos and everything else, it's like, damn. And ultimately, you know, being there that Thursday, there's a documentary that they show it's like a nine minute mini movie that they show. And it starts with his grandmother, Hattie White, who's from Batesburg, South Carolina. And then shows her moving to New York, they're in Marcy. But then her kids start to have kids and that's Jay's generation. And she was basically taking care of them off $20 a week. You know what I mean? And he was like, how do you take care of us off $20 a week? It was like, well $20 can get you a lot back then. But to see all of that and then to watch it full circle, this man being celebrated and honored, but his grandmother's still alive and his mother's still alive. And they're there with him on that Thursday. To me, man, I don't know what's better. Like, what else do you want? Like, what more do you want than to be celebrated and to have that in front of your family? Like the people that you genuinely love, you got your wife there and your daughter there, your people that you came up with, like, what's better than that? And I hold him in such high regard just because of how many people I'm watching crash and burn. Because they're choosing to lead with ego, because they haven't done the work on themselves, because they haven't healed that trauma and that grief and those things that exist that can ultimately cause you to self-destruct if you don't go do that work. Who are you saying? It's no need to name names, you know what I mean? But I mean, all you gotta do is pay attention, look around, you know? Just pay attention, look around and you'll see it. You'll see people who aren't in that space. And should be, because they grown, you know what I mean? You can look and see the people who, you know, don't have the family structure, don't have the wife and everything. Like, because that's important too, that's the other thing. Too bad you've got to have a good woman, yo. You have to have a good woman. And when you get a good woman, man, pour into, I keep telling you all this shit, pour into that woman, like really pour into that woman and watch how your life just does this. Pour into your woman, pour into your family, do the work on yourself to be a better man and just watch how your life does this. And that's what I see Hove doing. And I think that's very, very, very impressive. At least to me, that's his biggest flex to me. You see Braun another night when he was on stage with his wife and his two sons and his dog. That's your great flex, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like I can't, you can never say anything bad about that. You know, nothing. Then you turn around and tell me that you changed your jersey back to 23. Now I got to talk to you different. You know what I'm saying? Now I'm not talking to LeBron the man anymore. I'm talking to LeBron the player, okay? Wait, break that whole thing down. I missed that one. I don't even know what I was just saying. What I was trying to say, he's changed, I was just trying to switch the subject. He's changing the number of times. Yeah, I was like, wait a minute. No, but that was also a good metaphor. It's like, don't live in the past. Just, you know, keep going forward. Well, the only reason I don't think LeBron should be switching his number back to 23 is because I think 23 should be retired all across the league. You said what? He said, I guess he was trying to do that for six for Bill Russell. Well, six should have been retired, too. So both of them should be okay. Yes, there's some numbers that should be retired across the league, bro. Bill Russell, number six should be retired across the league. I don't know. You got to stop, Alex. Generational thing. But he's generational. You can read. No, but I mean like don't read better. No, no, no. I was like, no, I can't. I'm poor, I can't. Fuck you, man. He said, no, I can't. I don't know. I just don't believe in retiring numbers because it's like just let somebody carve out their own thing. Like, some people say LeBron's better than Jordan. So it's like- People are on drugs. That's true, true. But I'm saying, I don't know. I don't think you can- Just keep all numbers in there. I don't think you can carve out. I think you make it harder to continue to carve out your own legacy when people still think you're chasing Michael Jordan. That's true. So it's on that person to not pick a number that has that much clout attached to it. But at the same time, you keep retiring numbers. Now it's like, damn, who's worth being, number being retired? Because you gonna put Bill Russell, you gonna put Jordan, what about the magics? What about the, all the other players that are great? I think you have to elevate the game of basketball in order to get your number retired. That'd be a great player. I mean, that's- Bill Russell, I think elevated the game of basketball. Michael Jordan elevated the game of basketball. I think a lot of people would say that about different players. It's really- It's not too many. It's a short list. To me, it's a short list of people who actually elevated the game of basketball, who took the league to another level. Larry Bird would be in that conversation, I think. I think what Larry and Magic did together, changed basketball. What Michael Jordan did changed basketball. What Steph Curry has done, revolutionized the game of basketball. No, because Kobe's Michael Jordan. What about LeBron? See, like I think, I think a lot of people would say LeBron does. But he should have had his own number. He should have had seven. You know, he should have took God. That's God's number. What's a God to a king, you know? Michael's the God. Brian is the king. He wanted to be a God, so he took the God number. That's my personal opinion. All right, Taylor, damn, damn. I mean, she's brought some people around. Producing people around. 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Now let's get back to the show. Hezzy! Let's do it, baby! You got church announcements? I do, I do, I do. Yes. Long Island, Long Island, Long Island. COVID canceled the show of ours. So I said I'm coming back to the Paramount, man. We're recording this on a Tuesday. We posted a show up at the Paramount right there. You guys went crazy. This is awesome, amazing. We've added three more shows. So right now I'm telling you we're at four. We're gonna keep on adding shows as long as you keep buying them. TheAndrewShows.com for tickets. If the pre-sale is still on while this is coming out, the pre-sale code is Andrew. You get it from my website. Also, if you couldn't get tickets to the Toronto shows, we're adding Windsor, Ontario, and we're adding Niagara Falls. Those are both drivable, so make sure you go get those. Tickets, tickets are up for pre-sale right now. Pre-sale code is Andrew. TheAndrewShows.com. Make sure you go grab those. And Europe, thank you for selling out the shows. We're trying to look into adding another one in Manchester. Keep you posted on that one. And still some tickets left for Dublin, so make sure you go get those. TheAndrewShows.com. Thank you guys so much. The Life Tour begins. Word. I got a few church announcements. Thank you to everybody who constantly continues to support The Black Effect. We got a few new podcasts that we launched. Of course, the It's Up There podcast with Looney. Make sure you subscribe to that. Also, my man, Damon John. Yes, Damon John from Shark Tank. He has a podcast on The Black Effect called That Moment, a really dope podcast. He sits down with different people from different industries, and they talk about that moment where they knew they had something. Oh, that's far. You know what I mean? So, Damon is a great... Great premise. Yeah, great conversationalist. He's a great conversationalist, and he's a person who's had a few That Moments in his life, so he knows what he's talking about. Also, make sure you go out there and grab Invisible Generals. That is the book from my man, Doug Melville. It is the next release coming out on Black Privilege Publishing. It tells the amazing true story of America's first black generals, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and create the famous Tuskegee Airmen, man. So, if you like stories about Hidden Figures, make sure you go out there and pre-order Invisible Generals by my man, Doug Melville. It'll be out November. I can't remember the exact date, but it's available for pre-order right now, but it'll be out in November. And I gotta salute my guy, Kevin Hart. You know, we have our company, FBH Productions, at Audible this week. We are dropping another Audible original. If you, we, Finding Tamika was our first. Summer of 85 was our second. This week, we're dropping our first audio scripted comedy. You know, some Finding Tamika was a documentary. Summer of 85 was more documentary style. This is actual sitcom style, and it is Unleashed for Love, starring my good sister, Alicia Renee. That's right, Saluta Alicia Renee, written by Serita Wesley. It stars Pretty V. It stars Logan Browning from Dear White People. It stars Lamorne Morris from The New Girl. It stars Jasmine Guy. That's right, the OG Jasmine Guy. Kadeem Hardison. Nina Parker is on there. Jess Hilarious is on there. Kadeem Lynn Portia Williams. Giselle Bryant, Rome Green, Greg Reed. Great cast. It will be available this Thursday, July 20th. If you're listening to this on a Thursday, it's available today on Audible. Go check it out. Tell me what you think. Make sure you leave a rating on Audible, man. I'm very interested to see how this one will be received because you know, Alicia is a longtime friend of mine. Used to be my neighbor when we all lived in Hackensack, New Jersey, in Prospect Towers. Me and Alicia Renee and Roxy. Man, those were the good old single days. One on six and park? Yeah, one on six and park, yeah. We used to go to church together. We used to, speaking of cable television, I had cable. The leash did not, but the leash had the food. She brought food? Yeah, it's before my wife moved up here. So leash would bring down some food and we'd watch True Blood on Sundays or whatever the poppin' HBO show was on Sundays at that time, we would watch. At that, it was really True Blood around that time. So salute the leash, man. And you were driving into the city to do breakfast club? Driving into the city to do breakfast club. Yeah, because I moved up. I moved back here in 2010. And when I moved back here in 2010, my wife and my daughter didn't move back for another year and I moved to Prospect Towers. And then we all lived in Prospect Towers. I lived there for a few years and the leash moved to LA. And then we eventually started renting the house. We rented a house, I had an apartment and then we rented a house. Then after I rented a house, I bought a house. But yeah, I'm proud of the leash, man. Unleashed with love out on this July 20th. Now, let's get back to the show. Arizona Republican refers to black Americans as colored people in House floor debate. Can we hear it, Taylor? Unbelievably inspiring. My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people or black people or anybody can serve, okay? It has nothing to do with color of your skin. I'd like to be recognized to have the words colored people stricken from the record. I find it offensive and very inappropriate. Can I amend my comments to people of color? Mr. Speaker, to have the words stricken. I didn't ask for an amendment. What's interesting is, you know, I was doing a little reading yesterday and it was saying our color is usually considered offensive, but it was adopted in the US by emancipated slaves as a term of racial pride after the end of the American Civil War. It was rapidly replaced from the late 1960s as a self designation by black and later by African-American, although it is retained in the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. That's my only thing. Like, you know, I have no problem when people tell me something is offensive. My only issue is just like, well, if it's offensive and it's been around for a hundred years, why do we have organizations named after what we call what we say is offensive? Bro, you can say people of color. That's what I said. They got mad at me because they were like, you don't know the difference between people of color and colored people. What is the difference? I just feel like a better grammar. Like, if you can't say retarded people, can you say people of retard? That's a great point. Don't y'all believe that either. I want that. We need to have this discussion, God damn it. I want to know that. If that's the, if you can say any offensive word as long as you say of before it, if that's the rule, it's gonna be open season. Now, people of retardation. There are people of retardation. People of retard. Now I did see that too. There was an article of. It does sound nicer. People of retard. Shit. I read that too, the difference between colored people and people of color. The phrase colored people peaked in books published in 1970. People of color reached its apex in 2003. But the phrase people of color is not new. In fact, an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States was signed in 1807, which applied to any Negro, mulatto or person of color. So it indicates that the term was well enough established to be used in the text of legislation. So to me, if you're reasoning that colored people is offensive is because it's old. I want to know how can people of color isn't considered offensive either. I'm just confused. I just don't know. That's all I'm asking. I'm just asking questions here. I'm not sitting here trying to give any statements. You're not saying you're right. No. We just need to know. I just want to have the conversation. That's it. And if everybody's telling me colored people is offensive and white people can't use it, then how come the NAACP hasn't changed their name? We should make them change their name. Or you should just put of before things. Like when your wife is acting up, you know what I mean? You just. That don't work. That don't work. You're being a little bit of a woman of color. Okay, believe that. Just believe me. Just think, if that's the trick, just throw the of that. Could you stop it? Is that a bad word? No. It is. It's definitely a, it's definitely a. What's the worst way to call a vagina for black people? Like what? Stink. No, no, nothing. What? For any person, he's just black. Any human would have a vagina. That's the worst thing you can say about it. What is the worst thing black people call a vagina? Not the smell of it, like the name for it. But what's he's good? Let me like. It's not a black. We can't reduce vagina to a black thing. No, I'm saying white people say. We don't say that. Oh, but no, no, no, you're not calling the vagina that. You're calling the person that. Yeah. Yeah. You're calling the person that. Yeah, but in like great brain. He's like saying pussy. I guess pussy. You put it in. In great Britain, they'll say the word. Like they'll, they'll say it like, hello, why don't you, why don't you moisten up your for me please? It's like, that's how they talk dirty out there. Hello, Loss. What don't you, what don't you get some suds up in your lips for me, please? What the fuck? Hello, Loss. Hello, Loss. I don't know, man. I just want to. It's a bit dry on your. Maybe run some laps or something before we get to smushing Loss. So you can use it in that context, right? I don't think so. Yes. I don't think so. He's referring to the vagina as, because it does mean vagina. You just can't call somebody that. Yeah, you can talk about it, right? Oh, did you forget your undies you're just hanging down from yo skirt. So what's more offensive to call somebody pussy? Oh, calling someone a pussy. But it's the same thing. No, his fire is like alpha and pussy is beta. Like, oh, you're not going to roller coaster, you pussy, do you know what I mean? Punch me in my face. Damn. Right? It's like a positive thing. Yeah. That means you're a boss bitch. That's boss bitch. I mean, if you wanted to be, because you can flip it if you want it to be. Let's see, let's see. Is y'all flipping? What do they mean to the vulgarism? Generally referring to the female genitalia, in the gang, minor internet. That's a group. They're the group called in the gang. I guess. I think it was like the sheath for us, a knife or a sword, right? Words matter, bro. So you would put it in, which makes sense, because if the sword is the dick, you would slide it into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it has a meaning that makes sense, you know? I don't know. But women get all shitty about it, so we can't fucking say that word. Sorry, sorry. I don't know. Listen, this picture, this is the most amazing picture I've seen in a long time. What is this? I've told y'all this before on this podcast that y'all motherfuckers think I'll be playing. E.J. Johnson is incredible, bro. Which one is E.J.? Which one is E.J.? The most fabulous motherfuckers in that picture. Come on, bro. Okay, E.J. looked like he averaged 2010 and 11. All right? Who's her, who is magic? Okay, forget the greatest point guard of all time. Who looks like they're the greatest point guard of all time in that picture? I don't know. E.J. by Fong. I don't know if he looks like the greatest point guard of all time. E.J. looks incredible, yo. Let me tell you something, man. You gotta see E.J. in person to understand the elegance of E.J. Johnson. You ain't never seen E.J. in person. I saw him in person. You did? Where at? L.A. Mm. I saw him in L.A. too. I saw him a few times. I mean, I've seen him at award shows and stuff, but I walked into a juice bar randomly one time. What? You don't say her. Her. Him? Huh? What is it? It's E.J. Johnson. Yeah, but... Is it a her or is it a him? Her or him? Who? E.J. doesn't identify as a her. Are you sure? I'm almost positive E.J. is that. They dress like they identify as a her. Yeah. E.J. is fly, okay? I walked into a juice bar one time, man. I was like, who is this well-dressed person in the juice bar? And he was dressed in, like, workout clothes, but it still looked fly. Look rich. And he turned around and I'm like, oh, shit. I'm like, E.J. You said what's up? Yeah, you got damn right. I said what's up to E.J., man. Dap him up. You damn right. I mean, I seen E.J. gracefully floating through the MTV Movie Awards with high heels on, bro. Like, he had on some, like, shoes that, like these super high heels at his size, gracefully. Only person I seen move in heels better is Beyonce. And she was dancing. And Beyonce ain't six foot six, you know, two plus whatever E.J. is, okay? And when E.J.'s feet would hurt, E.J. sat down and had somebody unzip his goddamn boots and rub his feet and put him back on when he was ready to start walking. Ain't no way. Fuck with me, you know I got it. Ain't no way. Okay, so what's the E.J., man? Can you handle that right there? Can you handle that? You know, I gotta take things somewhere else, man. He's talking about one-on-one. Basketball? Yeah. A bus E.J., yeah. What about in sex? For me. Okay. I tried to clean it up. Move it on, Taylor. Could you handle that? Could you handle all that? Taylor, move on. Could you handle all that? This was funny as shit, too. JT and Beast with little oozy verts, a less side chick. No, you know what I want to ask you about? Go to fucking, go to Sinaya Twain. I've been to Sinaya Twain's museum. Really? She got a museum? She got a museum, way up north in Canada. No, Carrie Underwood. Remember when she was performing? Remember when she was performing? Are you saying Sinaya Twain because we just look at E.J.? Who you mean? Man, I feel like a punk. I don't know anything about that. You know that song from Sinaya Twain? No. Da, da, da, da, da, da. Yeah, you've heard it. If you've heard it. Man, I feel like a punk. Go to the country singer who kicked the people out of the concert. She got a show like that for real? What's that, man? I feel like a one-man show. That was a good bar to her. That was a good bar to her. We're still shooting. You know what I'm saying? I don't know what you're talking about. Caleb, why do you use Twitter as a searching? Ba, ba, ba. No. What's that dance everybody doing? They can't just move in it. Ba, ba, ba, ba. Yeah, yeah, and then they go. Go to the country singer. Can we do that? I pulled my side back. I just pulled my side back. I want to know what you think about this as a performer. All right, let me see. Country singer kicks people. No. Shania Twain. Shania Twain. Type in country singer kicks people out of show. Shania kicked people out of show. Who'd I give donkey to today? Jason Aldeem. Name some country singers. She got this. Lil Nas X. Fuck, she's named after the rights. What's the right? Miranda rights? Is her name Miranda rights? Oh, Miranda? Lambert. The shorty took a selfie at the Miranda Lambert joint. Show me, show me, you carry it. Show me, you carry it. It's a great show, bro. You're a great busy. I don't get white people right on purpose, y'all. Yo, that's fun. They didn't master P. and Lufa Vandross. What they do? They said master P. with Lufa Vandross on Google, y'all. Sorry, fuse. Sometimes y'all look similar. That's how I feel about fucking Dolly Parton. Every time I'm on it, show me what Dolly Parton did. Show me how Dolly Parton kicked them out. Now, listen to this shit. What do you think of this show? As a performer. Let me see. Yes, that's it. Something's going to stop right here for a sec, Danny. I'm sorry. I'm worried about the selfie and not listening to the song. It's pissing me off a little bit. Why carry underwood tripping, y'all? I like it. That's fucked up, y'all. We're here to hear some country music, and now I'm singing some country music. Right, y'all. The fans left too, by the way. Because they got what they needed. Shall we start again? Shit. Would you do that to a fan? Well, it's different for you, because you're a comedy. If someone in the middle of my show stood up and took a selfie. You don't count. You don't count. You don't count. You're a comedy. Comedians, I totally get it. But this is what the concert experience is for singers and musicians nowadays. Here's the thing. If you saw what was happening, it wasn't one person. It was like six of them in a fucking line. Their flashes going off. Someone else was taking the picture. And they looked like they were standing on a walkway section. If the other video shows it more, if they're there for a while, she was saying it for a while. And look at that. Six fucking people. There's multiple shots. They're blocking other people's views. Other people are distracted. Well, I think it's a way to handle it then. How about telling them, hey, man, enjoy the moment. Watch out, put your phone down and enjoy the moment. 100%. But the other way is you have your fucking security on that ass. Get to it. You need your security on that ass. Because I'm sure she had a million people take pictures of her like this, film her, et cetera. Those people are distracting other people from the show. You're right. So I don't blame her. And it looks weird because they have their back to her. So many people have their back to her, even though they just want her to be in the picture. That's why they're doing it. I just want Loretta and Lynn to be nicer. You know what I'm saying? You can be nicer. You went with a deep cut right there. You went with a deep cut. I know some countries saying this, do you? Yeah, George Gay. You know George Gay, right? No, who's George Gay? George Gay. I don't know. You know George Gay? I don't know. Famous as fuck. You keep saying the name. I don't know who George Gay is, bro. George Gay. The country singer, Google George Gay. Why? He's going to come up on my search engine. George Gay, the country singer, yo. I've been stopped by Google search. You tell me there's not a country singer named George Gay. He said George Michael. Look, who that country singer George Gay? Somebody put in George Gay. All you get is a bunch of George Michael. No, man. Pull up country singers, then. Put this type in country singers. There's a George Gay. 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There is a lot of booty hole rap and what I call booty hole booty hole bars Is a lot of you know women rapping about their booty holes, but I think that a lot of those women are just doing that because it works Yeah, they gravitate to what's popular. Yeah, they gravitate towards popular But if you dig a little deeper these women do rap about other things I've been on record over the last four or five years my favorite rapper period male or female is Rhapsody can't wait for Rhapsody's new project Rhapsody definitely don't have booty hole bars, but even the girls that have booty hole bars. They can rap like I was listening to Emery Jones Has a mixtape I'll call humble souls that he did in conjunction with Puma first of all is fire The only way to even get the tape is you have to actually buy the sneakers and when you buy the sneakers There's a chip inside The sneaker that you can get the mixtape and I think even the Whatever this is on the shoe. What do you call this this piece right here? This piece is an ox cord on the on the fucking shoelace amazing technology But he's got a song on there and it's Rhapsody and Kent the man Kent the man is her name Ken the man is a kind of man or Kent the man. I think it's it can demand I've heard Ken before and I thought Ken was just one of those booty hole bar rappers But on this record she's snapping like her name is Ken the man Ken the man Ken the man and she's snapping on this record and I was like damn. I didn't even know she could do That you know what I'm saying and I think it's the same thing even with somebody like a Cardi or a glow Rilla or a lot. Oh, yeah, they can rap about sex and everything else But they can rap about other shit too You know you just got a dig deeper than just what you might hear on the radio or that single that they they have out You know me so I think a lot of these these female rappers I can't say that a lot of them are just being one dimensional I just think it sounds like that because we're hearing so many Singles yeah from these women and it's their single and their single may have that that that drive It's maybe our fault too. It's what we want to listen to yeah, if we gravitate towards it That's the thing that we want to digest I can't say that like I'm against booty hole boss I like you know saying I grew up on a little Kim saying it used to be scared to dig not though lifts to the shit Handler like a real bitch. You know I mean I Grew up on Fox and Brad I grew up on Trina I grew up on Jackie. Oh, I guess you don't bother me You know me I don't like no clips is what you trying to say China say I don't lick no clips and suck no nuts No, let me get China whites bar right China white don't lick no clicks Who would be the equivalent of like a Drake or a J Cole somebody who has a men's success But isn't doing booty hole boss. You mean in the history of hip-hop. No I'd like right now as female rappers China white don't suck no dick or lick no nuts Oh, I hit licks and flip bricks every two-hour switch whips to keep the people's off me What you know about that no doze and coffee? Fire bro. No, I'm saying China white. God damn it. What about what about shoot shoot? Oh Booty hole boss, do you know that song? Yes, this is I don't know What is that? How does this shit go? I used to know that shit What you shoot by word-for-word only the girl part when it do start rapping. I was like, I'm good Let's pull it up. Let's pull up salt and pepper shoot Shoot shoot bad shoot bad. Oh, let me see it. Let me see if shows really know this shit to the subject That makes you get hot make you work up a sweat. Why you don't come out to them a little my darling I don't come out to that But I thought it for you bet your body Here I go. Here I go again girls. What's my weakness man? Okay, then chill it chill it mine in my business Yo, go around but I couldn't believe this. I swear. I said my niece my witness The brother had it going. He was something kind of wicked wicked had to kick it. I'm not shy So I asked for the digits don't get flagged Cut that so we don't get Keep going. Damn is this pepper boy. You should be doing salt part. I should be doing pep Can you solve but I know this one better, but let's go Become like a lollipop should be licked came to my senses And I feel for a bit don't know how you do the voodoo that you do so well Make me want to shoot shoot shoot You're packed in your stack especially in the back brother Want to thank your mother for but like that the ad lib is thanks mom Shake shake booty if looks could kill you wouldn't oozie. I'm a shotgun bang. What's up with that thing? Hey, I want to know Charlotte. How does it hang? Mr. Lover like Prince said you're a sexy mother. I like him real wild be boy style by the mouth Smooth black skin with a smile bright as the sun. I want to have some fun Let me get some of that young young chocolate chip honey. Yeah, can I get a scoop baby? Take a ride in my coop. You make me want to shoot shoot Is there another verse that's Salute the salt pepper and spend the Rella fucking legends That's crazy how did y'all not know shoot Song on like TRL or some shit bunch of uncultured colors No, but you didn't ask my question who's aversion like what's the female? Yeah, what's the female? Oh, well No, no, no, no See when you say that I Can't make this statement without telling people We can't have the accolades. We're just talking about skill sets right So you talk about skill sets. No, I'm not just with the skill set somebody who has a skill set but also Makes good music where people are tuning into Non-booty hole rap because that's what I feel is the disconnect is like the ones that aren't doing the booty hole Rap their music isn't hitting like that You're right I feel like the last Rhapsody to me competes with all of them, you know, I think I think lyrically Rhapsody is up I've put my pros opinion Rhapsody is up there with Kendrick. I feel like the last one like that was Lauren Hill Yeah, but you say no, no, no, I'm saying now I'm saying the last one we had that wasn't making booty hole rap, but that was making bankers I feel is Lauren Hill if you're not gonna do boy oh, yeah No, not really no hush it was just like I'm nicer rapping in you. I'll fuck you up like But if you do booty hole rap MC light Queen Latif, I mean you Imani love like it's a I mean It's been a bunch of women rappers. I only know women rap songs by heart Bro, I pretty much only know me ex was hard Thanks. The boo was hard Yo, the brat China white was hard. I don't give a fuck. I love China I don't know why China white ain't take off like she should China white was hard. I'm just talking about somebody now No, I mean Rhapsody don't I don't know man I mean, I think what happens is like if you're gonna not do booty hole rap You need to build a community and they just got to work more and build in that community Like Jay Cole is not doing a booty hole rap, but Jay Cole is built a community for himself He's his friend fans have an identity they come out so they're down to digest whatever art he puts out Same with what's his face? Kendrick Kendrick built a community he built like a listener of viewership for his content But the thing with booty hole rap is there's already so much desire for it that you could be someone who's maybe not as famous and Then throw a booty hole rap song out there and then people like oh, I like this thing because I like booty hole rap Yeah, it's like a gangster gangster film it's like a gangster film like you could have a The lesser known person put out a film about some gangster shit, and we'd be like oh, I like it because I like gangster things. Yeah Gotcha, Nila Who is some women that don't do booty hole bars right now that are successful like women that don't just rap about their booty hole Of course, we know Rhapsody, but Chica who is Chica, I don't I'm not familiar with Chica. Oh That's the one who has like a kidney infection or something With the dreads that's the one who got into it with ti and tiny them over her kid or something. Oh So just that damn is this too. That's what I'm saying Oh, be as fire bro, but she only had that one Oh, hold on I got it I can answer your question to doja cat She's not Doja cat she sings that rap don't you sell records doja can wrap her ass off that new song doja got caught attention is fire She's a really talented. She's got look at doja cat as a rapper. I look at doja cat as a rapper. What do you say? You look at Drake as a rapper. Yeah, don't you oh doji doji too? Drake is rapping then doja's rapping to Yes, doja's talented man Like that girl is fucking oozing talent. Oh No, who doja cat listen her new song attention Nah, she's not like Ladybug from diggable planets on that shit fire fire fire. What did you say? She's not like She's not like Ladybug from diggable planets on that. What is that? Diggable planet. You remember diggable planet. I'm cool like that. I'm cool like that I'm cool like that. Is it a female rapper cuz that's yeah, I only know female rap Ladybug a woman What else we got a man? What a man? What a man? What a mighty good man? Every song about one and dick I know My boy right there. I'm him Jojo says is it more important right there? Is it more important to have patience or confidence confidence Be confident enough to wait Hmm. Yeah, that's a good enough to wait I like what you're going. I like I like I like that. I never thought about it like that But I like patients without confidence can't have patience without confidence like being patient I agree is the epitome of confidence and a lot of time in a lot of ways like just knowing Hey, I don't have to do this right here because I'm nice and I'll go get it Yeah, I agree. They're one in the same They definitely are one in the same because the cuz what Andrew said either way you flip it is the same thing You have to have if you have ultimate confidence you'll have patience because you know eventually your time will come and if you have Patience you're having patience because you're confident in the fact that your time will come now There's some people who I can have so I get I know you're about to go Alice because I can see this too You can have because I'm thinking a Kanye right now, right? Who had all the confidence in the world but was extremely impatient because he knew I am the one y'all don't see me I wouldn't look at Patience in that way like if you're I look at patience in this like You know you're gonna be great Some record label comes up offers you a shitty deal No patience and no confidence is I got to take it cuz I might not get this again true confidence is go No, I'm good. I'm gonna get my fucking fire deal true but being impatient in that Kanye scenario where it's like hey, I'm ready to go right now I don't know if that's impatience. I don't know if that's I'm not willing to wait any more because nobody I guess they were telling him to wait, but I don't know if that's impatience That's just knowing the time is now and the time is to go but having patience with no confidence. It's like I Can just see you just never do anything. You don't do But I don't know if it's I'm worth something coming like that's The Andrew point I don't think you can have patience without confidence. It's hard cuz you're not you're not patient Yeah, you're like what the fuck what's going to happen? Patience is I know something great is going to happen Yeah, you know, it's just a matter of time. If you don't have confidence you like, oh my god That's what I think that you'd be interested in my buggy. Yeah, yeah Eric G if aliens come to live with us on earth who was the first person race who would procreate? Oh come on That's easy Who would have sex with the aliens? Yeah It says who is the first person race who would procreate? Oh I Speak Spanish scroll up tell her what else we got let's do a couple more. No go down with it. Go down I'm gonna pull her fucking Taylor Fucking Taylor Maximality question. I'm not doing that. That's a crazy question Karl Marty You're basically asking name. He said name four people you would pick to join you on the ocean gate Why yo exactly like why you said four people I want to die with that's great Shot I'd be busting stupid dope moves as Charlotte was tripping when he said nozz isn't on the top of the greatest storytellers That's not what I said What I said was I said that there's good storytellers and then there's great elite storytellers I think nozz is a good great storyteller. I don't think nozz is he told a story in reverse Yeah, I think he's in rewind was crazy. It's a great story, but it's not on the level of something big has done I think it's not a story telling ability is his greatest out. Yeah. No, I disagree with that I mean nozz also just got bars for days Fantastic if I put it like if I did a top ten storytellers nozz would be in there But I was doing like a top five. Who's the best storyteller of all time to you biggie Smalls Notorious bi g and biggie was so good at storytelling. We don't even realize that majority of his work was stories. Yo, do you see yeah, yo and DJ what's his name? DJ if Yeah, yeah fat people act like that's not a good debate, but Yeah, you're caught it in slow motion. He's like what do you think it's been That's always a lot of time. He goes ice cube. He goes here. All right. Wait, what? Wait You think ice cube. It's the greatest story to better than big better than what We're screaming on one another. I love that so New York because you don't even make an argument. You just get loud And that's your argument Yeah, I think To me storytelling rap is the highest level of rap Because I think when you like we were talking about earlier with movies and everything We just want a great story If you're able to tell a great story through music like you're just a phenomenal artist to me Like people anybody can make songs but to make a great story beginning middle to end I definitely got cube high on that list. I got biggie high on that list I got slick Rick high on that list. I got motherfucking Scarface high on that list. You have to have cool G rap And that's a this is a great here TLC What about Jay-Z Jay-Z's on the tier with Nas and cool G to me. He's a great story teller Like I love Jay-Z story records, but I feel Nas story records are like one level up Like if you rap in a song backwards, bro, that's Bro, it was I remember listening to that for the first time going I can't even believe that I just heard it Yeah, I love rewind Now I've got some stories that I love I'm just saying like if I took biggie's 10 greatest story telling records and put them up against Nas's 10 greatest story-telling No, nobody's not close. Nobody's dissuading biggie and Nas. I think he is you could argue the best I mean he's got unbelievable cube is up there, too. Ice Cube is a really good story I know people run it was a good day, but then you got a my summer vacation Oh Man, he got a bunch of my can't think right now, but ice cube has some really great story telling records scarf it The emotion that a scarface makes you feel I think that's what I'm lacking from a Nas Nas tells good stories But he's never taking me never taking me anywhere emotionally. It's just a good story You know what I mean? You can't tell me listen to never seen a man cry till I seen a man die Tell me you don't shut it to you know, I mean listen to mine playing tricks on me The deepness the richness of that record and they're emotional like you listen to that song you can hear your anxiety You can you can hear your depression you can hear your schizophrenia Like I love Nas. I love Nas Nas is in my top five favorite rappers of all time Um, I just don't have him on that and it's not it's not like it's Leaps and bounds. Yeah, I think biggie is leaps and bounds. I think faces leaps and bounds, you know Ghost faces up there too Kendrick is a great story teller. Well, he's a great story teller But he's I'm the guy I'm talking about our elite man when biggie say he's the rap Alfred Hitchcock like come on man Mm-hmm different level. That's far. Um last one. Oh This is good brown butter says better big screen comedian Eddie Murphy or Martin Lawrence. Oh, that's good Yo, the knee jerk is to say Eddie but but Martin has had some fucking hysterical do blue streak Phenomenal was hysterical life life great both of them are in it both of them in that. Yeah The knee jerk is to go Eddie and I love Eddie and I probably say Eddie But I'm also adding the stand-up into it because he's like, you know one of my goats But then lying between loving hate Martin got but Martin was funny in movies, bro I think you gotta go Eddie because Eddie just has more. I guess when you add comedian to it Like you think funny, but I mean Eddie was funny and everything to the reason I got to go Eddie is because You know, so, you know, Beverly Hills Coppers for Sylvester Stallone. I Heard it was for somebody else. It was Sylvester Stallone. Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing So Eddie came in there and they was like they didn't even really change anything So all the funny you see is just Eddie being Eddie Adding the character work And then you know coming to America Boomerang. Oh, yeah, he just got a he just got a trading place You know 48 hours I love Martin though Martin is incredible to life is the one to me. I'm already got One two of the movie with Will Smith. Oh Russia not Russia Bad boys bad boys one bad boys two I didn't see three bad boys, but bad boys one was fucking amazing Bad boys two was good, too bad boys for life I want to play like all the family different family characters. That's big mama's house That was Eddie. Eddie did nutty professor. I didn't know any professor. You thinking I'm a professor Eddie You can't fuck you can't fuck with Eddie. I gotta go Eddie Thank y'all for joining us this week, man As always if you listen to this podcast you think we're smart you think we're intelligent you think we're brilliant Absolutely, right? But if you listen to this podcast and you think we're just a couple idiots who don't know shit You're right, too. It's the brilliant in this podcast. Thank you for listening