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Uh, the Hezzi, Hezzi Kaya Walker, he's not here this week. He's um, he's on tour. He's on tour. He's uh, where's he at Taylor in Europe, right? Could you talk to the microphone? See, once he, you don't, you forget how to do this already. He's uh, he's in Europe. Um, what he got showed that this week, London. Um, I know my homegirl, Cuppie wanted to go and I feel like it would Dubai might have been last week. I don't know. I definitely know he's in London this week. So, you know, salute to Andrew. I really, we say this every other podcast, but I really mean it, man. I don't think that people are truly understanding what the good brother, you know, Andrew shows. My good brother Andrew shows is out here in these, in the world doing, you know what I mean? Like he's selling out arenas all over the world. We're not talking about, you know, theaters and all of that is great. I love to do everybody that, you know, sell that theaters and everything. That is great. But man, when you can put 20,000 seats, 20,000 asses and seats and arenas all over the fucking world. Come on, man. This is a kid from Manhattan, you know, who literally got it out the mud in every way, every way, shape or form that you can think of in regard to comedy. And he's selling out arenas all over the world. So salute to Schultz and make sure y'all go check him out wherever he is in Europe. So I thought about what I wanted to do. There's topics I want to talk about, right? But then I'm like, eh, don't feel right talking to y'all without Schultz about those topics. And the reason that it doesn't feel right is because I don't know if y'all know, but Brilliant Idiots is a big release for me. Like, I like, do I, no, I don't like, I love doing Brilliant Idiots every week. And you know, when we first started doing Brilliant Idiots like a decade ago, and you know, my man, Chris Moreau always got to salute Chris Moreau because Chris is the person who literally came to me over a decade ago and said that there's two things you got to do. He said, you got to do a book and you got to do a podcast. And I tell y'all this story all the time. I was arrogant when it came to the podcast. I knew I always wanted to write a book and my mom is an English teacher and I love reading. And I always knew I wanted to write a book. I even knew what my book was going to be called years ago, even though it ended up not being called that. I wanted to call it, I don't give a fucking, neither should you, a self-help guide on how not to give a fuck. But you know, my book publisher, Salute Simon, and She Used to Love Yard of Death, they told me that a book like that would never sell. And it will though. Well, I mean, ended up, you know, the subtle art of not giving a fuck ended up coming up, you know, and that did, you know, pretty well. But they weren't wrong. I'm glad that, you know, I pivoted and I ended up naming my book, you know, Black Privilege. But those two things have absolutely changed my life, you know, books, book publishing, you know, I have an imprint at Simon and She Used to Black Privilege Publishing, Tamika Mallory, State of Emergency, How to Win in the Country We Built, That's Out, Anita Kopeck, Shallow Waters, That's Out, Invisible Generals by my man Doug Melville. That'll be out November 7th, but you can pre-order it now. I got two New York Times best-selling books, Black Privilege and Shook One, and I'm working on my third book. So the book industry absolutely changed my life. And it's personal for me because I come from South Carolina, you know, a place where the first anti-literacy laws were created, like you used to get, you know, fined or jailed if you taught, you know, slaves to read. Now one of the descendants of those enslaved people, you know, have their own book print, and I'm really in the book business in a real way. So it's not just business for me, it's personal. And when it comes to the podcast, I was arrogant, but I'm glad that I was like, you know what? Let's do it. Why? Why was I arrogant? Because I was doing more on the radio. So to me, that was the pinnacle at the time, you know, 10 years ago, we've been doing Breakfast Club for 13 years, but I was already doing the pinnacle of what I thought the audio business could be. I was like, I'm doing radio at the highest level. I'm in New York City in the number one market. So, you know, Chris came to me about doing a podcast. I'm like, for what? Even though I didn't enjoy listening to them at the time, Combat Jack, to read, to read was kind of fairly new, but I enjoyed listening to them. And I was like, yo, why not? It's just another way. It's just another platform you're creating, number one. And I can grab one of my friends who I have great conversations with and kick it with them every week. And literally, that's what it's been for the last 10 years. So for brilliant idiots to become the brand that it's became, and the business that it's became at the end of the day, it's still me getting to come in here and kick it with one of my favorite people to talk to. It's not limited. It's not limited. You know, when you say not limited, what do you mean? Like, you guys are free to really talk. Yeah. FTC rules. Yeah. And don't get me wrong. On Breakfast Club, we were able to talk freely as well. It's just that it's radio, so it's more time constraints. You know what I'm saying? You can't really go deep, deep, deep on a lot of things, even though I feel like with Breakfast Club, as far as our interviews and stuff like that, we kind of created the template for what you see now in regards to podcasts. But I'm saying all I have to say, I don't like talking about a lot of the topics that I could be talking about this week without shows, because like I said, this is an outlet for me. And it is a place that I like to come and just kick it with my guy. So what I decided to do was just reach out, tell Taylor, let's just do Ask an Idiot. Let's do Ask an Idiot. Let's talk to the people. You know what I mean? Let's see what the people are talking about. So read them, Taylor. What we got? How do you give me all these papers, but you ain't gotten them, but you're not here for them. I have digital. I try to help you out. Okay. Let's do it. Let's try to go through all of these. All right. So first one is by lexus4.underscore. If you could trade any body part with any human on earth, what would it be? Why you sound smarter? Excuse me? Like you sound smarter without shows here. Why is that? Because y'all be fucking with me. Y'all out there listening. Y'all like, who is that talking? Is that Taylor? That can't be Taylor talking, is it? Okay. If you could trade any body part with any human on earth. Huh? You say I sound stupid. Anywhere else? I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. Okay. Smart. No, I ain't say that. Okay. Go ahead. If you could trade any body part with any human human on earth, what would it be? Think about what you admire. Wait. I know what it would be. I would, I would, I would know how long is the trade. I don't know. Why do we, why do we do that with these questions? Just keep it as it is. Because I don't want it to be a permanent thing. You know what I'm saying? But if I could trade any body part with any human on earth, it would be the vagina. I think that if men, I'm gonna tell you why. I think that if men traded their penises for vaginas, for let's just say 30 days, I think they'd have a bit more appreciation for the vagina. I really do. I think they would appreciate it more. I think they would understand what women go through, especially because what comes with the vagina, the menstrual cycle and everything else, I think people would, especially men, we would appreciate the vagina more if we had one for 30. Got it. Why? I thought you were gonna say something about like more chestnuts. I already got that. I don't have to trade anything with Morris Chestnut. Me and Morris Chestnut came off the same assembly line. We came out of the same factory where God had Morris. I don't know who came. Well, clearly Morris came for us because he's older. So God made the Morris model. And then after the Morris model, he made me, the Charlemagne. I got that already. But I don't need to trade nothing with Morris. If you could, what would you do, Tim? If I could trade parts with a human. I would want to have, I'm pretty okay with my body type and everything. I guess I'm a little vice versa. I always wanted to know what it felt like to have a dick. Why? Because how y'all, I just want to know what the pussy feels like. Honestly, I just want to know what the pussy feels like. Oh, you want to know what the pussy feels like? Yeah. I get what you're saying. I want to know what it feels like to y'all. So what's the, I mean, you done had pussy before though? Stop. No, I haven't. No, I haven't. No, I haven't. She just ate me out. That's it. Oh, never mind. Your mama listens to this podcast, Taylor. Give me another. What's the next one? Taveras310 underscore. What kind of music have you been listening to lately? Don't got to be no new bumping one, but I already know which one you're going to say. What kind of music have I been listening to lately? Sexy red. That goddamn, I mean, listen, I hate to tell y'all this, you know what I mean? Because y'all think that I'm a Drake hater, you know what I mean? But I really like that goddamn rich baby daddy record with Drake, sexy red and motherfucking sizzle. You know what I mean? I've been playing that a lot, you know? But right now, it's a couple albums. I'm off sets album, set it off. I think it's great. I don't think people are talking about it enough. I know he did like 65,000 records his first week. I think that we're not used to seeing the Migos by himself yet. And I think it was like this before takeoff, passed away. God bless the dead. I think before takeoff, passed away. Even when people are on Quavo and takeoffs album. I think I think people were looking at Quavo to be like the breakout star. Like, you know, it's always like that in a group. Like anytime you see a group, whether it's Destiny Child, Inc. whoever it is, everybody's always looking for that person who can break out and be the star. I don't know if the Migos ever had a person that everybody thought without a shadow of a doubt would be a breakout solo star. I think that we knew all of them had potential to be, you know, breakout solo stars. But it's not like, you know, it's not like it was everybody was so head and shoulders above each other. But I think people focus more on Quavo just because I think Quavo have more features with a lot more artists. I think that's what it was. I think there was a period of time when people just gravitated towards Quavo. I don't know what that, I mean, I like Quavo a lot. I don't know what it was. I don't know if Offset was in jail or because takeoff has always been the best one lyrically. But see, that's what I like about Offset's new album. Offset stepped it up in every single way. He stepped it up in his production. He stepped it up with his lyrics and Offset also said you see more of his personality, him doing all those interviews. By the way, Offset was on Breakfast Club. Offset said two things that I want all y'all motherfuckers to remember. He said, number one, you can't forget the importance of radio. He said that. And if you look, Offset did a lot of different radio runs. He was at a lot of different radio stations, sitting down with a lot of different radio personalities. And he was stepping out there and doing, you know, podcasts that you wouldn't necessarily see him on, like the Bobby, what's her name, Bobby? Altoff. Yeah, Bobby Altoff. I seen her, he's doing a call her daddy stuff like that. Oh yeah. But he also said in the interview that he got an ANR. So I don't know if y'all know what ANR is, but that's the artist and repertoire. That's a person who helps you develop your sound. You know, that's a person that will help you pick beats. That's a person that'll go out there and say, hey man, you should try to do this. That's a person that'll go out there and get features. Tell you what songs you might should write about, like just help you with the direction of your album in a real way. And I think that's something that's been really lost. But if you listen to his album, you know, it reflects, you can hear it and be like, damn, like Offset really put out a great album. And Father of Fall was a great album too. So I just think the biggest thing with the Migos is that we're just not used to seeing them solo. Because even when they put out that series of solo albums, when it was Quavo, Take Off, Offset, they all put out their albums, you still kind of looked at them as the Migos. And they came back and I think they did Coach It 3 after all of that. So you definitely still looked at them as the Migos. Oh yeah, they did do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They try to trick people thinking they would break up. And that's an interesting thing. I was just talking to somebody about that, man. You know, sometimes you cannot grow or evolve because of the situation that you may be, I don't want to say stuck in, but you've gotten comfortable in. If you can always go back to the group dynamic, you know, it's hard to break out and really spread your wings. I think another reason Offset's album sounds so good, because they know that there's no group to go back to. You know, sadly, Take Off is no longer here. So there's no group to go back to. So him, Quavo, they really, really do got to carve their own lanes out as individuals. So Saluta Offset, I'm bumping that. I'm also listening to Summer Walker's album. What's Summer Walker album? He's liked her album. You kept playing it. Oh, the Soft Girl. I mean, I'm still in my Soft Girl era. I didn't stick with that Summer Walker album the way that I should have though. But I did like the album a lot. I didn't like, I didn't stay with it. I didn't live with it. Like I'm still living with Michael from Killer Mike. I still think that's the rap album of the year. I think Offset's up there for rap album of the year. If I had to pick my top three rap albums of the year right now, it would be Killer Mike, Michael Offset set it off and Nick Grant's Sunday Dinner. Those would be my three albums of the year right now. Like Nick Grant's Sunday Dinner is very phenomenal. And I love the fact that Nick Grant is fully embracing South Carolina. He's fully embracing the 843, fully embracing Walterboro. And he's dope. So that's that's what I'm really listening to. Other than that, you're going to catch me listening to 90s R&B and early 2000s Crunk music because I miss both of those errors. I think little John is a motherfucking God. I think little John is a God and he should always be respected as such. Okay. I think that we don't give enough credit to people who gave us actual whole genres of music. Little John is the architect behind a genre of music. And that genre of music is called Crunk. So salute the little John. Little John needs to put out a book. Or we need a little John documentary. Like people need to like really like little John needs to really be celebrated. Remember when Salam Remy was here in the breakfast club studio? Because I'm recording from breakfast club studio right now. He was here in breakfast club studio and he had like flick Rick on a painting. Like that's what little John needs. Because we really don't be appreciating, you know, our pioneers and hip hop. These people who have contributed such great things to the culture. We really don't be appreciating them the way that we should. And I think that we look at our music and our art and our culture as something that's disposable when actually it really truly is art. I don't think they look at that as disposable. I feel like it says with the times, everything is so fast. Everything, yeah. Yeah, everything's fast-paced. You're right. Yeah, you're right with that. I'd be wondering like that with y'all generation when it comes to like music because... All we're doing is copying off of y'all though. You just changed it. Yeah, we are. We're using, I'm saying we're using the same instrumentals and just remixing it, revamping it. I don't know what you're talking about. I take back what I said about you earlier. Sign us smarter. I don't know what you're talking about. Yes, you do. Explain a little bit more. Oh, yeah. Open the door. Oh my gosh. What? I'm doing a podcast. They asked me a question. They said, what is the toughest part about you being married? And how do you get through it? Oh, they asked you that? No, I'm doing a segment called Asking Idiots. This is just the last I've just walked in. I'm doing a segment called Asking Idiots. Actually, I was talking about what kind of music I've been listening to lately. Oh, Nick Grant. Yeah, that's great. See, brother. How you know that? Sunday dinner because I listen to it with you. You want to talk? All right, what you want me to say? Yeah, go sit. Get just a chair. Oh, you want to get a chair right there? Yeah, sit right here. How long else? I don't know. I'm just asking questions. I'm going to ask the question. Okay. But that long story short, that's what I'm listening to. Offset, killer mic, and Nick Grant. And Lil John needs a statue. Turn your goddamn mic up, Taylor. Somebody out there saying, no, Taylor. Keep it down. But turn it up. Taylor producing. Taylor is producing right now. Okay. Okay, what's the next question? Do you listen to Disney? You listen to Disney now? I have a son. Yeah. Why you don't ask the third question? Okay, fine. Okay. We can do them. I might know some things going still. Well, it was a silly question. So, by Soul Rock, I don't know how to say his name. What is the toughest... He's worse than me. Let me see. What is that? Can't need the one of y'all for nothing. Oh, Soul Rack. Okay, that's his name. That's not it. Soul Rack. What is the toughest part about being married and how to get through it? Oh, my gosh. Oh, well, go ahead. Go ahead. You married now. Go ahead. You married now. I took a deep breath. Like, I was like, oh, my God. Y'all know, just came out, her and Brittany Grindel married. First of all, no, I did not come out yet. No, for real. No, Lil' Britt, Britt, Britt coulda got it, but she ain't wanting it. She was over there in Russia, so I was like, I'mma leave you alone. But it's all right. You talking about Britt before? No, I would have. But no, I'm not... Even gay like that no more now. So you got with your new boob because you look like Brittany Grindel. No, stop. No, that's not... He just fell into my life. I didn't know... Brittany was when she first went over to Russia or whatever. She was cute. I was like, uh-huh. And then she came back. She got a haircut. I was like, uh-huh. Y'all, it's even cuter. But she married. I don't deal with married people. How do you just fall into your life, Jess? He fell into my life. All right, so I walked into this bar one day. Are you telling the truth? No. All right. I met him. I met him back in February 23rd. Actually, I was actually doing... That's the day I met Stephanie Mills at Breakfast Club. February 23rd, that's when I met him. I went down to Baltimore, and it was NCAA weekend or something like that. Oh, no, see y'all, NCAA. Yeah. That's your birthday weekend. See y'all, NCAA weekend. Yeah, my birthday is February 13th, but my party was February 26th. That's the party that you and me didn't come to. Y'all said y'all would. But I was stuck. They were a while old. That was it. It's a little too long. It's a little too long. Yeah, the wallow is great. Not at a party. So, I met him at this restaurant. Now, he's a driver, a truck driver, so he was on a break. And I was like, oh, okay. What are the odds that I meet you? I've never met a Mexican truck driver who was really, really tall. I was like, what? He's full of Mexicans? Yeah, yes. No, no, no. He's not fully Mexicans. He's Mexican and African-American. Okay. Yes, his dad is African-American and actually Indian, Native American, and then his mom is Mexican. And there's some other stuff in there going on too. I don't think she knows all of what she is, but I was like, hmm, she got like a little bit of Indian soup in her, but I just don't think she see it. But yeah, he's Mexican, Native American, and Black. We got to mix it. Very much. African-American, yes. He still ain't say how you met him. He just walked in the bar. You just- Yeah, y'all. What did he say to you? All right. So, he didn't say nothing to me. I started, I asked him. I looked at him. Yeah, I liked him. I was like, but he had a cousin who was trying to get with me at first. And then I was like, uh-uh. And then we over here. He walked in. The first one, the cousin was Black, so ain't no me over nobody. Shut up, y'all. He did not. And that was a horrible Mexican accent. But yes, the cousin was trying to get with me or whatever, but he was, the cousin's from Baltimore, born and raised. And he talked just like me. I'm like, oh no, I can't deal with nobody to talk just like me. What? You. Yeah, you. Yeah, you. Get in your teeth. Get in your teeth. Why? I mean, you don't know why. No. You single me too. Yeah, like, both of us walking in the bar and talking like that? No, they could be like, oh, hell no, Jazz. No. Then for my future kids, what are we going to do? No, we can't. So now. What you was drinking? Casamigos. Give me two casamigos. Yeah. And he was like, no, I don't drink. I was like, you don't drink. He was like, no, I drink wine. And I was like, well, I'm not going to buy you no wine. He was like, I don't want you to buy me anything. And I was like, OK, but I want you to have a drink with me. He was like, I don't drink. I said, OK, so why are you at the bar? He was like, because I can get something to eat too. I said, no, why at the bar? He said, because I'm grown. I was like, OK, I like a little, you know what I'm saying? Like, OK. So I still bought him a shot and shit. And they set it over there. And he was just like, you can give it to her. And I was like, oh, he really ain't trying to take my drink or whatever. So he go to have a nigga. I take it like, nigga, no, I don't want you to take it. So he ended up telling me, I really don't drink. I'm not even trying to be disrespectful, but I'll pay for the round that you just bought or whatever because I don't drink. So he paid for it. And then I was flirting with him a little bit longer. And then he just was like, he started laughing. And that was the first, that boy was sitting there with me. That man was sitting there with me for like 30 minutes and didn't laugh. I was like, oh, hell no. But I was like, oh, it could be just the Mexican. Like, you know, they probably don't understand. You know, I was like, yeah. I was like, oh, because I ain't ever drunk. Yeah, yeah. That's all I was like, nah, he Mexican. He don't understand what's going on. Did he know who you were? Yeah. Like, please. So yeah, he knew who I was, but it was like, okay, I don't know if she playing. And then I don't know about her. I can't date no comedian. But first date, nigga, never laugh for you, so. So y'all married now? No, we not yet. Yet? Yeah, not yet. You want to marry him? I did. Oh, shit. I did. I did. I did. Will you marry me? I did. I would just say I will. I'm just saying I will. I did. I did. I'm not going to say I do. I'm going to say I will. All right, let's go. I don't know if there's a tough part about being married. Stop. Well, listen, what I think, now I've never been married, but I grew up in a two-parent home. They were married. Yo, you got to communicate. Even had the uncomfortable conversations. You got to be able to do that. Like, why? Because everybody look at a marriage from the, even with what? Kids. I'm saying like. Girl, she didn't tell out of me. OK, all right. Girl, did you say, even with cancer patients? What the fuck? What the fuck? She didn't tell out of me. Get real hard. It's like, girl, what? That's why I thought you sounded like, what the hell are we talking about here? All right, y'all talking to me caught up. No, you have to communicate. Because one thing that my mom and my dad did not do is communicate. They like, if my mom had an issue with something my dad did, Shane tell them. My dad had an issue with something my mom wasn't doing or was doing. She didn't tell him. He didn't tell her. So what you do is you find comfort other places. And because it's uncomfortable to tell your wife, you ain't doing this. You ain't doing it for me. You ain't. Like we had somebody recently call up, just fixed my mess, breakfast club. And he was saying, yo, my wife held me down seven years, been with her for 24 years. But she's not attractive to me anymore. What should I do? Tell her. Tell her. And y'all don't want to hear that. Yeah, it's not about what we want to hear. So you're going to risk her killing you. You ever go cheat. Because you said your wife is in the streets. If she found out I cheated on her, I'm a killer. She going to kill me. So I don't want to cheat. I mean, I can't cheat. And you say here you want to. He said he can't. So the thing is you just tell her. Tell her. Like what's the outcome? But yeah. She knows it from then on. She knows. Just right. Because at the end of the day it's all like, she's absolutely right. It's all about communication. So when I say, when you say what's the toughest part about being married. And I say, man, I don't think it is no real tough part about being married. That is the toughest part. Communication. Either you're going to be not communicating, or you might communicate a little too much. But you got to be willing to deal with that. Because if that person loves you and that person, I mean, my wife been together 25 years. So that's my people. That's your dog. It's nothing me and her can't talk about. Like that's when it's actually an issue. When I feel like we're not communicating. But we don't ever have that problem. You know her and she know you to the point where if she walking around and something is wrong, you'll know to call it out. It's a lot of that going on in marriages. It's like my wife walking around, she acting all crazy. Just like, damn, you're not even trying to see why. Sometimes it, oh, I can't read mine. She got to tell me why. Sometimes guys turn a blind eye. She feel like she can't talk to you. You know what I'm saying? So, and then vice versa. Like a man could be unhappy. And the woman, I don't know what to do. All right, he keep acting like that. I'm going to just keep going out with my girls. Nah, you're not even trying to make it safe enough as an environment for her, for him to come to you. You know, men, men get the worst end of that. In my opinion. Women, we always wear how we feel right here. We talk about it. Sometimes we over talk about it. Y'all be lying though. Yeah, it was a lot of times we do. Lying about what? Everything. What the problem is. Exactly, y'all want to be strong. You like women just handling on your own. Yeah. You know, I want to know what's going on. What's the problem? And I see that in y'all early. Like my 15-year-old like that. Now, what's the problem? She don't want to tell me what's wrong. Yeah. Like you ain't got to walk through nothing alone? She's 15 though. Nah, that's true. That's definitely true. I just think as women now, not even like, because I can't speak for back then, but like now, I feel like women have this chip on their shoulder. Like I can do whatever. Y'all still got that? But that's not the thing with kids though. Like so, Charmaine, when you guys had a kid that didn't make it harder? Harder to what? Be married? Just be married or just... No, it actually made it stronger because that's the other thing I was going to say too. You know, when you're looking at your significant other, it's levels, right? Because sometimes we don't recognize the growth in people. The reason I love my wife the way that I do it is because we literally grew up together as kids. So I've seen, she's seen a bunch of phases of me. I've seen a bunch of phases of her. Her being a mother made me grow to love her even more. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because I'm watching her be this amazing mother. To a child that belongs to you too. That's right. You helped her create this human being, you know? So now you're making your own people and it's nothing like being with the person who helped you make these people and watching them do that. Of course. But I remember when Michelle Obama, she was saying like, she didn't like her husband for how many years because they're like battling who takes care of the kid more. That's what I was saying. It's not hard. She said that. Yeah. That would sound like something Michelle would say too. Like, are you serious? She did. She said that it was a competition. A competition of what? Ain't no competition between fathers and moms. Fathers play a role, moms play a role. Kids gonna always gravitate towards the mom a little bit more. Dad is there for a reason. Like, I got two, definitely got two daddy's girls in the house. Yeah. But they still love mama. You know what I mean? Yeah. I can never give them what my wife gives them. And my wife can never give them what I give them. Right. But I think whatever the mom gives them is stronger. Yeah. Like, you know how much of a piece of shit you got to be if your mama don't like you? Yeah. Your mama will love you to the end of time. Your mama will be in the courtroom after you didn't kill 20 people. Talk about that's my baby. Daddy will be like, man, fuck that nigga, man. Yeah. You're gonna fuck that murderous ass nigga. That ain't your mom. Yeah. All right. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You're right. You're right. So it's just something mama has that, you know, daddy can't compete with and you shouldn't try. That's just like Blueface's mama. What she say, she say, my son whenever shoot you in the foot here, shoot you in your ass but he gonna shoot you in your foot and I stand by that. Well, I'd rather be shot in my foot than my ass. Yes. Right. So yeah. You love Blueface mama. I know. I know. I don't. You really do. I don't. Just got a stable of mama she love. Blueface mama, Tokyo Tony. I do love Tokyo Tony. I do not love Carlisa. That's her name. They all be in your DMs. I think they be looking at you like a little daughter figure. Yeah, I guess. I don't know why. I don't know. I don't know. And then I don't know because all they kids was fucked up once. Right. And I was like, why I gotta be the, you know what I'm saying? Because Tokyo, Tokyo do like me. Yeah. And then I, but I do like Angela. I mean, I like Black China and Black China. She ain't want, she don't want to be Black China no more. She's Angela White. So that's what she is now. And then Mama D, she like me. Even Jim Jones mama. Like, yeah. So you, I got a thing with the moms. And that's crazy. And that's what they probably been telling them. Why you don't date that Jesker? Yeah. Right. Why you no little, you know, no funny Jeff that be on Instagram? You know, a little too-too. Yeah. Hey y'all, no little too-too. Hey y'all, I'm done. I can't. I'd be the wrong one. I'd be the wrong one. I don't care. Blueface would go crazy. Ain't no way. And then you think you going crazy behind Christiana? Shout out salute to Blueface. He done turned out of Baltimore girl before. Blue. Blue. Blue then turned out of Baltimore girl before. Y'all light work the blue. Get nudge. Christiana light work the blue. Christiana's light work that, yeah. He called her young. So I don't know. He called her right out, right out of the what, the Ninja Wars. It was Ninja Warriors. Because that's what she was doing. She was doing athletic shit. She was doing Ninja Warriors before she- Christiana? Yeah, before she lost that too. Oh yeah, she was. She was a crazy athlete. Crazy athlete. Christiana was on Ninja Warriors? Yes. That's Ninja Warriors. You know she had videos? She even talked. Yo, she even talked to her. She was like, hi, I'm Christiana. Right. Like that's like- No way, yo, it wasn't- No, bro. I swear, yo, she wasn't like- She wasn't like this, I don't mind. Well, she wasn't like that. Somebody told me she was an athlete in school though. She was. She ran tracks. She did football. She did everything. She didn't get the same school as Neyla. She swam like a fish. She did everything. Damn. And then she met, yo, she went in my bed. She met Zeus. And then- Let's do this next one. Let's do some commercials Taylor. What's the next one? All right. Oh, you got commercials? Yeah, we got commercials. I know, that's right. Um, Andrew, PW83 wants to know, are you still a Pinkett Smith, Nose, Nose, Free, Winfrey, Carter? Ooh, say it again. Please read it over and we'll go out of that. I can't say it. I'm saying, are you still- Well, it goes necessarily to Charmaine. She said, I get it. She said, because I always say my last name is Charlamaine Pinkett Smith, Winfrey, Nose, Carter. Oh, they said it wrong. Charmaine got going on. They said it wrong. They know how he put it in order. All right, I'm a Pinkett Smith, Winfrey, Nose, Carter. Yeah, I'm still a Pinkett Smith, Winfrey, Nose, Carter. Okay. Why wouldn't I be? Here's the thing, Jada is just telling her truth. Yeah. And I cannot be mad at Jada for telling her truth. You know what I mean? And she wrote a book, like it's a memoir. That's what you should do in a memoir. I prefer Jada writing a book, a whole memoir, which I bought yesterday, Amazon Prime was in it yesterday. I'd rather her doing that than just be all over Instagram, spilling her guts in long ass captions or be on somebody's podcast, unless it was Oz, spilling her guts, you know what I'm saying? Unless it was Oz. You know what I mean? For real, like I don't have, write it in a book. That's when you're supposed to give up those secrets and all that shit. Yeah. Yeah. And Will Smith's memoir, he didn't really say nothing crazy though. Well, Will don't have to say anything. No, Will had his moments. Yeah, he had his moments in his memoir. Big moment. Jada? I can't write anything. There was some Jada moment. He didn't like delve into their relationship the way that Jada did. Like she's doing. Yeah. But you can literally see it play out in just clips. Just look up Will Smith clips. Just, you know, it's out there. I wonder if your boyfriend's concerned. For what? Jada Pinkett? Just Baltimore women in general. Yeah. Think about it. We can talk about Frishan, Jada Pinkett Smith. Monique. You know what I'm saying? Monique from Baltimore too? Monique is from Baltimore, up and down. Monique good though. Monique and her man, like they good. Yeah, they good now. I just wonder if your boyfriend looking at you with the side. I like. No, I don't know. He, I don't know. Oh, shit. I can't even tell you. I know he ain't going nowhere. But I don't know. Have I any of them so here? I'm gonna tell you something. I mean, if you call a woman a whole Jada, that should be infuriating them this week. What that mean? Yes. That's what they're trying to do to me. Like yo, you a Jada. You a whole Jada. Like yo, you a whole Jada out here. You be like, I'm going to be mad for no reason. I don't think Jada doing nothing wrong. I don't either. I don't either. It would be wrong if we didn't know anything about Will. What do we know about Will though? You keep saying this. We don't know nothing about Will like that. We know about this. Will said, only a man knows what a man needs. Now what's that mean? That don't mean nothing. That means, only a man knows what he needs. That don't mean nothing. Because Will can't speak for other men. Maybe he was joking. He was. He was. He was. He was. You know what he did. Maybe he had a gay sense of humor like me. No. No, no, no. That nigga was being massaged by a man when he said that. But so who cares? Some men like to get massaged by men. Who cares? His wife cared. Did you see them pan over to her when he said that? Tell me who cared. Jada Pickett cared. Let me have a question. How can we, when we see a man getting a massage from another man, we look at it crazy, but we don't look at it like that with a football player laying on the field and that trainer rubbing that football player's thighs and stretching them out and things. No, it's not about that. We know you watch sports just for that. No, we're not talking about that. It's not about that. It's about what that football player say in the act. Only a man knows what a man needs. You don't say that, wow, your wife is sitting right there on a boat to the right of you while a man is caressing your shoulders. The next person in the interview will got to ask him about that video because I think it's context to that video. I think he was making a joke because he know people look at that and be like, damn, you letting a man massage you? I think he was just making a joke. Like only a man knows what a man needs. Nah, no joke. And he ain't laughing. And he wasn't Fresh Prince, right? He was Will Smith. He was serious and everybody was like, right, right. And Jada was like, what? Literally, literally. By the way, that's happened to me before. I've had situations like that. I told you, I was at Bishop T.D. Jakes birthday party and this was the same week that Diddy had sat down with Karishan and Diddy came, Diddy came, I was sitting down eating dinner and Diddy came, I stood up, gave Diddy that and Diddy goes, the sexiest man alive. All right, the sexiest man alive. And I go, Mr. Act bad, you acting bad today and T.D. put, you know, you do a shave. I'm acting real bad. My wife looking at us and saying, that's all y'all can think to say to each other? Yeah, that's it. Y'all can't think to say nothing else to each other. But see, it's different. That's Diddy. Like, you know what I mean? What you mean? We know, we know Diddy. Like, come on. This is Diddy. This is. Mr. Party Party. Yeah, this is, yeah. This is the same nigga that acts fabulous. He's like, why you didn't come party with me? He was like, I did. He said, nah, not us. You know what? I thought that story was going to help and it ain't helped shit. Like, yeah, no. It helped my theory. Only a man knows what a man needs. And Jada Pinkett is not a man. I am a picket smith. She don't know what Will has needed over the years. God, I'm a picket smith when Freedon's caught her. Okay. Okay. What the Winfrey got thrown in there for? Oprah, big Oprah. I know, but I'm saying, what makes you a Winfrey? Um, I just, I like Oprah. I like what Oprah has built, you know what I'm saying? Okay. More importantly, I like what Oprah has built, but I like how Oprah has empowered other people because it's one thing for you to be Oprah. But man, Oprah, you know, assisted Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz. And what was the other woman named? Rachel Roy, I think it was. Oh, she did all of them? Yes. Gail King, like Oprah, like all of them. Oh, yeah. Like Oprah used to bring them on the Oprah Winfrey show. And then they all spun off and ended up, she ended up executive producing their own shows and they all had super success. Gail King, you know what I mean? Yeah, definitely. Ayon Levanzan. Ayon Levanzan was supposed to be part of that Oprah camp, you know, but she decided to go off and do her own thing. But eventually came back, you know, when she had her show on the own network. Right. I just like people like that. I like people who, I like people who serve others. So what about Perry? You don't want to be a Perry? So Perry on that? Sure. That was my cousin. What's wrong with all that? No, no, no, I do. I fuck, Tyler Perry, another one, man. People can see what they want about Tyler Perry. That motherfucker empowers people, you know? And like when Nicole Lavar was here last week, really, my top four inspirations in this game is Clarence, Avon, Arsenio, Jay-Z, and P.D. Green. P.D. Green is an old school grader personality from DC. Nice. But all of them serve people. Tyler Perry serves people. Like, you know how many black people Tyler Perry employing? Yeah. How many black people, like black women, right? Taraji P. Henson, Tiffany Haddish, all of them will tell you, like in Hollywood, and you know this, Jess, you get a quote, right? Like, so at some point in your career, you have a quote, like you star in a movie and people know this is your quote. Tyler took both of them in particular, put them in stars as movies, paid them a certain amount. I forgot, I don't know what the exact number was. I don't want to get blinded. But whatever the exact number was, from that point on, that's how much Taraji and Tiffany had to get paid. But they would have never gotten that if Tyler didn't put them in that position. Yeah, in those positions, yeah. So it's just like, yo, Tyler's there. Tyler wanted it once, like. No, he is. Like, he's another one, need a book. Documentary. He definitely needs a book. Like, so you can really see his life and his journey and how he came up. Because Tyler came from the bottom in the south in Louisiana, you know? So yeah, I throw a little Perry in there. Yeah. That's my cousin. Well, that's nice. Let's face it. I don't get podcast big. You can leave if you want to. No, I do 20 little minutes. What's going on? You do certain? He should like, I would. Like, I would have. All right, what's the game, though, real quick? What game? What game? I thought he said we about to play a game. No, I would do commercial. Oh, no. You know, I'm excited. Oh, he's going like, we about to play a little game. Let me pay. What commercial is that? Let me pay the bills, man. Let's take a break and pay some bills, man. Salute to Hero Bread. Hero makes sliced breads, buns, and tortillas that are available on hero.co and Amazon. Okay. Hero has fewer calories than the leading national brand with five to 10 grams of protein per serving. 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I also got to tell y'all, make sure y'all go pick up my man, Doug Melville's book, man. Doug Melville's book will be out November 7th. It's called Invisible Generals. It is the next release off my book imprint, Black Privilege Publishing. It tells the amazing true story of America's first black generals, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Junior, a father and son who helped integrate the American military and create the famous Tuskegee Airmen, we're dropping this a week of Veterans Day because it's telling a book about the veterans. Y'all already know how I feel about veterans. I say it all the time, man. It pains me to see veterans walking around these streets, homeless, walking around, can't even get no food after they done fought for this country, almost gave their life for this country. Some of them walking around with no limbs and they can't even get a meal. I think at the bare minimum, veterans shouldn't have to pay taxes for the rest of their lives. Veterans shouldn't, they should get free housing. Veterans should get a stipend every month to where they can pay for their food and whatever else. They should get free health insurance at the bare minimum. That's what we should be doing for our veterans. So Invisible Generals by Doug Melville, it'll be in stores November 7th, but you can pre-order now. I think that's all I got for the moment. That's all I got for the moment. Let's get back to some asking idiots. Taylor, what we got? Richie underscore X-Base wants to know, who got the best comedy special on 2023? Trump last speech or Dr. Umar Jaderant? Are you talking about Dr. Umar Jaderant? Dr. Umar's had better ranch than the Jaderant. I like Dr. Umar ranch when Dr. Umar isn't talking about pop culture. I don't like Dr. Umar pop culture ranch, you know? The reason I don't like Dr. Umar pop culture ranch is because I just feel like I don't want to hear Dr. Umar talking about pop culture. Like I just think that we live in an era right now where, you know, everybody has an unhealthy obsession with celebrity. And I guess you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and know the variety for people to listen to you. But the same way, I don't want to hear our scholars and academics, you know. Well, yeah, talking about pop culture is the same way. I don't necessarily want to hear, you know, the rappers talking about social issues. Like that's the conversation we was having with Vlad, right? Vlad was like, yo, Drake and Khaled need to say something about Palestine and Israel if they want to. Yeah. That's not really their thing. Like, you know, there's artists that I look too for that, like a killer Mike, you know, like a David Banner. They don't say that about Jay-Z. But Jay-Z's always done that, though. That's my point. Like Jay-Z's always spoken about social issues, whether Jay-Z did it, you know, in his music. Quietly. They do it silently, though. I feel like they'll give money or whatever. Sometimes I think he's been a lot more louder lately, especially, you know, establishing things like the United Justice Coalition and reform. Like I think that he's been over the years, he's been very, very vocal. Like Jay-Z has never had a problem being front and center in regards to like either, like you said, cutting the check or just bringing some type of awareness to social issues. Like Jay-Z's done concerts for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, trying to get them elected. Jay-Z has, you know, him and Diddy gave a million dollars to Katrina. Like, like even Kanye. Make an action, though. Why do they want, why do they want Drake and all of them to talk? Listen, I get it. You know, with great responsibility comes great power, but that doesn't necessarily mean I need to hear everybody talking about everything. Yeah. Because here's the thing. Drake said something. Khaled said something. Wasn't that knowledgeable a little bit? But then what? Yeah. After like, what after it said, then what? You know, it's just like- So they could criticize him? That's all they're going to do. They're going to kill Drake for being, his stance would, I would assume would be pro-Israel. They're going to kill Khaled because his stance I assume would be pro-Palestine. It's like, yo man, maybe them brothers is just pro-peace. Yeah. Maybe those brothers is just pro. I don't want to see any innocent kids being killed. Maybe they're pro. I don't want to see innocent civilians getting killed. Like, and by the way, that's, I think that's what we all should be. Right. Like I got just this whole, you know, pick a side mentality is so strange because I don't understand how anybody can have any objectivity and really take a step back and see what the actual truth is if you're just already on the side, you know what I mean? If you're already on the side, that means you're already assuming that whatever that person says on the other side is a complete and total lie. I'm not, I'm not with that. I just think that there's always a gray area. I really, really do. And I don't think we can ever get to that with people picking sides. How do we even get here? What the hell are we talking about? We're talking about what's the better comedy Trump or Dr. Umar? We got there from that. If you say, yeah, Mike had Dr. Umar. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, see, I want to hear Dr. Umar talking about social issues, not pop coaches. I don't even know what Trump's last speech was. So I don't, I don't need, that's not even a serious question to me. Who got the best comedy special of 2023? I'm, if you're talking about real comedy, was Neil Brennan wasn't this year? Was Neil Brennan blocks this year? Let me see if Neil Brennan blocks it this year. I don't know if it was. Let me see. Neil Brennan. The infamous was this year? Infamous was this year either, right? No, it was his last year, but he's still on Twitter. Was Neil Brennan blocks this year? No, that was last year. Yeah, I don't know. I got to think about what was the best comedy special I saw this year. Because I have, everybody talks about Ali Zadik, I think the brother name is. No, what's the comedian name? What's the comedian name? Everybody says his special is amazing, but I haven't gotten the chance to watch it yet. What is his name? Let me shout the brother out. Yeah, Ali Zadik. Yeah, he's got a comedy special out. I need to listen to it. I mean, I need to watch it, actually. What else you got, Taylor? Give me another one. Make.America.Negro wants to know, what's the dumbest thing you ever spent money on? Dumbest thing I've ever spent money on, clothes. You know, early on at breakfast club when, you know, we would have these appearances and I'd have, you'd have these dumb ass denim leather jean type ensembles, like them jeans that cost like $1,800 in the store, you know, and I would always keep the tag on and bring them back. And they stopped taking my clothes back because I was getting on the radio, saying exactly what I just said. And so my good sister, Ty, you know what I mean, who'd be picking out stuff for me, you know, she couldn't bring the stuff back no more. She was having a hard time because of me in my big mouth, you know, but I don't give a fuck about stuff like that. I don't think y'all, I think y'all know that about me just because y'all been listening to me for the past 13 years. I don't care about material things in any way, shape, or form. I like to be comfortable, you know. And, you know, I like, I'm not, I don't have those vices. I don't care about the Bentley's and the Phantoms and what, you know, the Rolls Royces and the Ghosts and the, you know, the Slimers and the, you know, whatever other spirit she all got out there. I don't, I don't, I don't have any of that. You know, like I don't, I'm not in the jewelry like that. You see, I got my Apple watch on. Okay, I got a few pieces. I got a few watches, you know, that I throw off for special occasions and like any jewelry I have means something to me. Like I got this little anchor. You're not gaudy. Nah, this anchor, this anchor that I have, you know, it just means for me to stay grounded, you know. And I got my black effect piece because that's my company. And I got a piece of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. It's where that, and maybe just because I'm in the culture, but I, it's where that black people just go towards so much materialistic self, trying to fit in. I mean, Kanye West said it the best though, and all falls down. Yeah, he said, what did he say? Even if you, even if you're in Coupier or something. That ain't the line you're looking for. You know what I'm talking about though, that's not what you're talking about. That ain't the line you're looking for. It's, we, we, we, we hate, we love our wealth. Something, something. Yeah. That's why we hate ourself and love our wealth because Chody's asking where the ball is at. No, it's true. Like, you know, I think a lot of that does have to do with trauma. And I think a lot of that has to do with. It's like, we're still trying to fit in with the white people, but they're following us. Oh, we just trying to make ourselves feel good. Like that, that could be the thing too. Like we really just trying to make ourselves feel good. You know what I'm saying? Like we, um, we just trying to make ourselves feel good. And I think a lot of times, um. Why does it have to be that though? Like this, like you said, you can hunt it out of jeans. It's stupid. Like all that stuff is stupid. Like I'm comfortable. Like right now I got on a hoodie that some Lamrimi gave me. Do you know what I'm saying? With Marvin Gaye on it. That says, save the world. I got some Art Meets chaos jeans on that my man Don Juan gave me. I got donkey of the day slides on that I've had for years. Like I'm good. Like I, like I'm me. I show up as me everywhere I go. I'm not what I'm wearing. And I learned that a long time ago. I'm not what I'm driving. I'm not what I'm wearing. Cause all that stuff can be taken away from you. And all that stuff goes out of style. Like there's a reason that cars have a year on them. You know what I mean? You might have had that, that 2000 something you had, ain't shit in 2023. It might have been the shit in 2000, but it ain't nothing in 2023. You know, that gear you had, that shit might have been in style three years ago. Might have been in style last year. It's not in style now. But you, you, you. Look at me, look at me, look at me. You, if you keep evolving and growing the way you supposed to, you'll never go out of style. I'm, I'm timeless. I'm classic. You know, like, you know, that's, that's just how I feel. Like people running around talking about, I am him. Yeah. I really am him. You know why I am him? Because God made me him. And the same confidence, the same insecurity, the same self-awareness, the same anxiety, the same depression, the same joy. It's all me. And there's always been me, my whole life. And no matter what's going on in my life, I just, I figured things out. Like, you know, one of my, one of my OGs, salute to my OG. One of my OGs yesterday hit me about another one of my OGs. And when I say OGs, I'm talking about elders. Like one of my, one of my OGs who's, and I'm not, I don't mean OG because of what they have. I'm talking about actual age and, you know, how this person carries theyself. He's a brother that I love. He's always, you know, been around. And he, we were talking about something and he told me about what one of our elders, because the person we're talking about is in his 90s. And he was saying how one of, one of my elders in his 90s was expressing concern about me. And I was like, concern, like concern in what, what way. But it wasn't like, he used the word concern, but what he meant was, he's just been asking about you a lot. And I just was like, yo, you know, I can't wait to sit down with him again and let him know I love him. And you know, I'm bless black and highly favored. And any so-called drama that comes my way is all for my greater good. And I truly feel like that when you are living the way you're supposed to be living, when you are moving the way you're supposed to be moving, when you are actually walking righteously, any so-called bad thing that happens to you or comes your way is supposed to happen to you. But it's not happening to you, it's happening for you. And I really truly believe that. How did we get here? What was the question? What's the dumbest thing that you bought? The dumbest thing I ever spent money on? I got there from that? All right, well- Wow. Well, no, I'm not gonna do that one. So- That's a good one, actually. Tarjay? Underscore? Just Moe. Um. Really? You wanna do that one? Okay. I don't mind it. Just Moe21 wants to know, if you can suck your own dick, is it self-love or straight-up gay? What happened now? Just Moe21 wants to know, if you can suck your own dick, is it self-love or straight-up gay? I think it's self-love, the same thing as masturbation. It'd be like, yeah, it's the same thing as masturbation. Like, if you could suck your own dick, is it self-love or straight-up gay? Is masturbation gay? Exactly. You, it's your hand now. It's your hand. You ain't the same little thing that's crawling around on Adam's family. It, whatever it is, it's your hand. By the way, if you had it, you'd let it jack you off. But what I'm saying is, you've never seen it, Adam's family? Yeah. Your little hand that you're walking around. If you had a little it walking around, you let it jack you off now. You would. Like, I think you could- That should be kind of cool. You wouldn't eat- Come on now. You're not going to sit here and tell me that, uh, what's the Adam's family daddy man? Uncle Festin, one of them was letting that goddamn, was letting it jack them off. You ain't going to tell me little Pugly, little Pugly, little Pugly was letting it jack them off or something, man. That motherfucker was not just crawling around like that for no reason. You know how cool the thing is, Gato, because if you suck it, you're going to definitely taste more of a precom or whatever. It don't matter. I would say, if you know, it's your body. It's your own body. Like, you shouldn't be afraid, you shouldn't be afraid to touch your own body. It's your body. It's your body. Like, you should be able to do what you want with your body. Like, there's nothing wrong with that. Like, I don't think that- No, how can you be gay with yourself? That don't make no sense. Like, we got to stop that we can't be that homophobic the way we think we gay with ourselves. How you be gay with yourself? So once again, if you jack off, does that make you gay? No. I don't think so. What else we got? Um, I don't want to skip over. I kind of went over that. See, that's too heavy. See, Tartaj is asking me something about Palestine and Israel. I don't want to talk about that with our show. Exactly. Because I do have some thoughts. He actually asked me, do you think black people should be worried about the things in Israel? We tie it. Oh, he's asking me, do I think black people should be worried about the things in Israel? Yeah. Yes. You should be worried. Because- I know. The things we're not, it doesn't mean- Did you see that the right? What the right? I saw it somewhere where, like, I don't know which side it was, but they didn't like the U.S. trying to, you know- Well, I think- Iran. Iran said that if, um, Israel don't stop pushing in the Gaza, they're going to intervene. They're going to come from here. And then that means, I don't know if they'll come over here, but they're going to definitely intervene. But America's definitely going to help Israel. Right. And then all global hell going to take loose. Going to break loose. Um, yeah, I do think black people should be worried about the things going on in Israel, simply because, you know, Israel and Gaza, like, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Period. So when you see bad things, you know, happening to people, yeah, you should be concerned. Like, absolutely. Like, you should- Like, just you as a human should have some level of empathy. Like, when you see those- the things that's happening over in Israel and the things that's happening in Gaza, yeah, you should absolutely be concerned. Because once again, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And whenever you see innocent lives being lost, whether it's on- whether it's in Israel, whether it's in Gaza, that is injustice. Right. When innocent lives are being lost, when you are seeing kids killed, I don't get what side they are on. That's an injustice. Yeah. Period. Give me another one, Taylor. The wise runner wants to know, what's been your most successful business career venture that involved the least amount of effort? What's been- I haven't had one of those yet. They all require a certain amount of effort. I mean, I guess at this point in my life, I guess I would say real estate, but then that wouldn't even be accurate either because it's like, you know, I buy property and land in South Carolina because I truly believe you can't say you're from someplace. You know, you can't say you represent someplace if you don't own any of it. So, you know, me and my wife, we have land properties in South Carolina. And like, there's one property I bought back in 2018. And for five years, like the building was just sitting there. And then like slowly but surely, like we ended up, the building got a- they rented the building for that TV show. What's the TV show on HBO that Kenny Powers is on? Righteous Gemstones. Righteous Gemstones rented my building. So, I guess when- I don't know if the new season came out, whatever season that's about to come out, I don't know if it's running out, if it's about to come out, but the new season, Righteous Gemstones, they rented one of my buildings. Is that a studio? No, no, no. It's just a building. I don't know what they rented it for. I guess it's for a scene or something like that because, you know, they come through and they spray like, they paint, they do a mural on the building. I guess that's part- I don't watch Righteous Gemstones, so I don't know. But that's a part of, I guess what they do on the show, like they'll come and when they rent buildings, they do a mural on the show. If people who watch Righteous Gemstones, y'all know what I'm talking about. But they rented out my building, so, you know, that was easy money, you know what I mean? Because it was just a couple of days that them renting my building, checked going through that account. And then just recently, somebody's leased that same building. And but I can't call that, you know, stress-free because having the building is one thing. But then when somebody actually wants to lease it, and then they bring their inspectors, to see things that need to be done to the building, you're spending a whole, you're spending a whole other grip of money making repairs and stuff like that. Like whether it's HVAC installation, or roof being fixed, all of that type of stuff, right? And so you got to do all of that to lease the building. I'm like, I guess, I guess it's stress-free because all you're doing is like paying for those repairs and stuff to be done. But, you know, I don't think it's something, it's not something I would call, you know, the least amount of effort because there's a lot of effort that goes into, you know, doing that. But like, yeah, right now, it's definitely real estate. But real estate, the real estate game is an interesting game because, you know, you can buy properties and you can buy land. You could be sitting on that shit for years. Yeah, I didn't even think about that. Yeah! But I'm saying when it comes to filming, like, I'm thinking about all the stuff like Issa Rae, all the buildings that she put on in her show. Oh, yeah, they got to wrink those. I've had people who try to, I've had, I've had, uh, like American Heart Story came to us about writting my house in Jersey. Oh, really? I'm not doing that. You know what I mean? Like, if that was just a property I had and not where, like, I actually laid my head, you know, and my family laid their head, I would have done it. Are they able to change it, though? I don't, yeah. I guess they come in and they, yeah, they rearrange the whole thing. They just, you know, I don't know. But yeah, there's no successful business venture that involves, you know, least effort. Like, everything involves some type of effort. While we're talking about business, this is slew to my home girl Angela, too, man. You know, you see this all the time. This is Carviva Detox, prebiotic fiber man. You know, Angela's a homie. That is in 300 stop and shops right now. And I always shout Angela out because she's an Asian woman who launched a very successful product, you know, that I genuinely enjoy and she's doing her thing. So to Lutha and Angela, you can go get Carviva Wellness at 300 stop and shops throughout the country. What else we got, Taylor? Um, Abel Casso wants to know, how do you handle mental stress or a mental health crisis in your life? How do we handle those? It's tough, man. I thought you take a lot of naps and then try to just wake up. I mean, I've never really had, I have mental stress for sure. So, you know, like, I love therapy and I love meditation and I love plant-based medicine. You know, I love getting around the friends and just laughing. What's that thing that Taraji P. Hinton was calling it? A joy corner or something like that? I forgot what she was calling it, but it's like, literally, you find these little pockets of joy and, you know, you just get with the people that you love. I think one of the biggest things that keeps me from, like, really being stressed out mentally is really being aware of my energy. Meaning, like, being aware of who makes my energy go up and being aware of who makes my energy come down. I think that we don't do that enough. I think that if we really stay away from our phones and everything and really just tap into the universe, you can really connect with what's really going on in the world and what's really going on with people. And there's just some people that come around you who drain the fuck out of you. Like, immediately, like, you know, they about to exhaust you, you know? See, that's why Taylor's so frustrating for me because it's like... Does she know you're about to come over? Because she don't exhaust me. She actually makes my spirits go really, really, really up. But then I just find these little moments... You just have to pick on me. This slightly is just slightly exhausting sometimes, you know what I'm saying? But then it's just like, she makes me so happy. So I just don't... It's just weird. I just really don't know. And as far as a mental health crisis, I've only really dealt with... I've only had to personally deal with one person who was going through an actual mental health crisis. And it's the craziest thing in the world because there's really nothing you can do. Because when you call these numbers, you know, like, you call 911 and you tell them to go do a wellness check, they'll tell you shit. Like, well, the person hasn't hurt anybody or hurt themselves yet, so we can't do anything till they do that. And like, what sense does that mean? Don't we have enough examples of people who have hurt themselves or hurt somebody just by observation? Why wouldn't we intervene before they do it? And then, you know, that person tragically took their life. So, yeah, I'm... Yeah, I don't... How do I handle it about going to the experts? That's how I handle it. I handle it about going to the Dr. Alfie Breeland Nobles and the Dr. Rita Walkers and the Elliot Connies, you know, all of these great therapists and psychiatrists that I've been blessed to meet, my man Dr. J. Barnett, all these people that I call friends, you know, that I genuinely love. You know, when I'm... If I got, like, mental health crisis in my life or somebody having a mental health crisis, I know who to reach out to. And it's definitely those individuals. I'm gonna pay this bill, Taylor, and then we'll come back and do some more estimatives. Um, salute the prize picks! Prize picks is the most fun I've had winning up to 25 times my money this football season. All you gotta do is select two more players, all right, two or more players. Pick more or less on their projected stats and place your entry. Prize picks is a skill-based, real-money, daily fantasy sports game. How does it work? 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I mean, I said it's all derivatives of Hezzy, but the Hezzy came from one time on this podcast when Andrew Schultz was being Andrew Schultz. And if you know anything about my guy Andrew Schultz, Andrew Schultz thinks that he can do anything. And Andrew Schultz told Jay Williams that he would bust Jay Williams' ass in a game of basketball. Jay Williams, former number two NBA player... I mean, former number two graphic in the NBA, came out of Duke University, got drafted by the Bulls, had a tragic motorcycle accident. Career was cut short, but he's going on to be a great television analyst sports pundit. And so Andrew and Jay Williams played a game of 101. You can go look it up. It's on YouTube. Jay spotted Andrew five points and it was the first... I think it was first player to six. So he spotted Andrew five points and he was busting Andrew's ass. He tied the game and then he got a little cute and he bounced the ball off Andrew's head. And I'm gonna honestly tell you something, I think that's when Andrew turned heel. I think that's when Andrew became the bad guy. I think that bouncing the ball off Andrew's head flipped the switch in Andrew where he was like, fuck your niggas forever. I'm dead serious. And I mean, when I say the N word, I mean, I really think that turned something on him and I made him say, fuck everybody. Like really? Like for real? If you go back and watch that video, you can see the ball bounce off his head and you see like a switch turn on in Andrew. And then Jay Williams shot and he missed and Andrew got the rebound. And Andrew stepped back and drove to the lane and he hit him with the hezzy. Jay bit for it. And as Jay was coming down, Andrew was going up. Ball goes up, bounces around the rim, falls, drops. Andrew wins the game six to five after being spotted five points. And the hezzy was born. You're new here, aren't you, Izzy? You should know that story. What else we got, Taylor? The wise runner wants to know, what earth movie do you think aliens are most offended by? What earth movie do you think aliens are most offended by? All of them, because the fucking humans win. We ain't beaten no motherfucking aliens, bro. Maybe I'm wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong. Most of the alien movies I see, earthlings always win. I'm telling you right now, when it happens and we should hope, we should pray that the aliens aren't hostile, we ain't got nothing for them. And the reason we know we don't got nothing for them is because they got here. And if they got here, that means they've always been here. So unless we, as an earthling society, have a bunch of technology that we don't know about and they have been traveling the solar system and traveling all these galaxies and visiting different planets, they have technology that we don't have. So that lets me know they can fuck us up. So yeah, I think that- But we know that there's other planets though. So would- Do we? What do you mean? We thought we knew and our solar system, and our solar system, we thought we knew that there was nine. But then Pluto- I know them, they decide- Pluto wasn't a planet no more. I don't like that. I don't think they know, I don't think they know 90% of what we think that they know. And I don't know why I'm all, I use the 90% as a whatever the fuck percentage. But I just feel like I don't think they know as much as they tell us that they do. I really don't. I think that they're discovering new things all the time. And I think as they get more technology here on Earth, we're going to start to see more. So I think aliens are offended by all Earth movies simply because Earthlings always win. And if they get access to some of these movies, I know they're looking at this shit like, we would fuck them up. That shit would never happen. Yeah, you think some men in black can beat us? You think these niggas walking around in black suits? Oh, oh, oh. Shit. Sluutu, I love Will. What I'm just saying, I know aliens got to be sitting back chuckling like, come on now. I love Will. I really do love Will Smith. I think y'all, y'all, y'all doing the Smiths way dirty. I want to know what they look like for real. Do you think, do you think that the images that they show is something related to it? I do. Because some of them should look like the grays. They do. I'm not going to lie. If you know, if you know about the grays, if you know what I'm talking about, you've seen the gray aliens like, yeah, some of that stuff they show us on TV do. And as a person who's seen a flying saucer, because I've actually seen a flying saucer before, I was going to South Carolina third grade, eight years old, sitting in my grandma's yard playing, pretending to be he-man, a she-ra, knowing me. And there was a black disc, literally, hovering over the trees. And I wasn't even scared. I just looked up and I was like, what is that? And in my mind, I don't even think I thought, what is that? I was just looking at it. It was just like a black disc hovering over the trees. You know, you in third grade, eight years old, I wasn't thinking anything. If you don't know what something is, you're not afraid of it or thinking anything of it. You know what I mean? You just observing. So I was just observing it. And then it just shot off. And then as I got older and started reading about UFOs and, you know- How big was it? Oh, whatever. How big was it? We're talking about the thoughts, whatever it's called. You tell somebody you playing she-ra, and now they all of a sudden want to ask you how big it is. Was it small? I mean, I was eight. So it's like, it was hovering over trees. It was like, it was large enough for me to see. It was large enough for me to see and notice. Like, and when I'm looking back on it, I'm like, it was bigger than what a drone is considered now. Like think about the biggest drone you saw. It was definitely a lot bigger than that, but it also looked very slim. You know what I mean? It didn't look like a wide, you know, when you see a plane, like a plane looks like wide and like bulky. It didn't look like that at all, but it was just hovering over the trees and it looked like it was spinning as it was hovering. I remember that vividly. And it wasn't nighttime either. It was in broad daylight. You saw that they saw, they saw a Bigfoot begin. Oh, I definitely saw that. And I've always thought that Bigfoot had some type of camouflage capabilities. That's why people don't see them. Give me some more. I wonder why they call them Bigfoot though. Oh, I gotta answer this one. This is a great one. Which one? Tone Gaines. Okay. Tone Gaines wants to know who's the kind of spirit you ever met. I already know that one for me. Oh, tell me who. Mama. Listen to me. Mama's one of them. No, no. Mama's one of them. Mama's one of them. Mama, Mama, Mama, Miss Anita. Yeah, Miss Anita used to work here at I Heart. I think speaking of Will Smith, y'all saw her in the videos of Will Smith, you know. And, yeah, I guess Will met her years ago. Did Will meet her years ago and remember her? What was it? Not that I remember. Why did that moment go so viral? It was something. I mean, I just, we just showed her who he, we showed him who she is and, you know. Yeah, that moment went crazy viral for some reason. I feel like Mama met him back in the day. Maybe, maybe. And she remembered, he remembered her spirit. Yeah. But no, she's definitely one of them. She was definitely, Miss Anita's definitely one of the most kind of spirits I've ever met. There's a guy named Shane Gandhi. If y'all remember that show on MTV from back in the day called Buck Wilde. And it was all of these kids from West Virginia, all of these crazy white kids from West Virginia. And Shane was the star of that show. And Shane tragically passed away because he was, he was mutting. Him and two of his peoples was mutting. And they got stuck in the mud. And I guess the muck, the muffler got stuck in the mud. And they all died of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is crazy because, you know, earlier that year, me and Duvall was down in West Virginia because we shot an episode of Buck Wilde with them. And we were all stuck in the mud. There was a picture, like we all went mutting. Me, Shane, Joey, through to my man, Joey. I ain't talked to Joey in a minute, but it was me, Shane, Joey, and Duvall. And we got stuck in the mud. And we sat there for a while, but then we ended up getting out, you know what I mean? So I guess maybe the muffler wasn't stuck in the mud or whatever. But Shane was absolutely one of the most kindest, purest spirits I ever met in my life. He didn't have no, he didn't have no cell phone. He used to call them smart boxes. I don't want no smart box. Keep those smart boxes around me. And he didn't want no cell phone. And he literally could like walk around New York City and observe New York City and know where to go. Like he would pay attention to details. Like that he'd be like, you know, it's arrow, it's arrow on, you know, the FedEx thing is arrow around the FedEx. You know, that's arrow. He would just know like this little stuff like that. Like he was a very, very, very pure kind person. I remember we, it was freezing. And I had on like the full, and I'm sure I told this story before, but I had on the full camouflage outfit in Virginia with the rubber boots, straight duck dynasty with it. Had the ski mask on and I was about to get out the trunk and Shane goes, no, Charlemagne, no, no. That's him. You're a nigger in West Virginia. They'll kill you dead. I wasn't even offended because he was explaining to me the severity of the situation and letting me know how they would perceive me. If he would have said that. If I didn't just say you're a black person. It wouldn't hit the same. I would have tested that there. I promise you I would have tested that there. If he would have said, yo, you a black person in West Virginia, they'll kill you dead. I'm like, man, fuck that. Cause like it was, you know, back then we didn't call them shiesties, but it was just like, I'm black. I can wear my ski mask in the goddamn store if I want to. Like, but the way he said it, it hit. And by the way, I was around him enough to know that he don't talk like that. It's not like he uses that language. In fact, one of his friends, I'll never forget this too, one of his friends, we're in West Virginia and Duvall, if Duvall remembers, cause you know, they don't remember nothing. We were in a room like a trailer. I forgot, I forgot whose house we was at, but we was at one of the, it was either Shane or Joey's house. And one of Shane's friends was over there. And either me or Duvall was using the N word. Shane's friend was white. And he goes, man, man, my good friend, I can't remember the guy, my good friend, such, such, man, he wouldn't approve of you using that word, man. Cause his friend was black. Cause I don't like y'all using that word, man. It makes me uncomfortable, man. You know what I'm saying? He's like, just because I just know my friend wouldn't like it. And that shit was like, oh, shit. Like, there's a white dude from West Virginia telling us we shouldn't use the N word. I was like, wow, I get it. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, he was one of the kind of spirits I've definitely ever met. And my wife, of course, another kind of spirit. But what else we got? Tyler on demand 13 wants to know, what's your most spiritual experience? You said that too though, wasn't it? When you went to, went to a rubo. I be having mass spiritual experiences cause God don't play about me. God be showing me stuff, man. You went underwater or something like that? Yeah, I can breathe underwater. I don't know if that's spiritual or just me being special. What's my most spiritual experience? Oh, my most spiritual experience ever when I got into a car accident. I wrote about this in my first book. You got into a car accident? Yeah, driving. My mom used to have this white Lumina caravan. And I used to drive it all the time. And I don't even remember what year it was, man. This had to be, it was definitely the man, what year was this? I wasn't doing radio yet. Memphis man and red man blackout albums out. I know that because I was playing it. But long third shot, I was drunk as shit. And I was leaving amongst corner, almost got into a wreck on the way to amongst corner. I was so, I mean, on the way, leaving amongst corner, I was so drunk. Cause you know, you be driving on them two lane highways. So I ended up getting my mirror knocked off cause I was drunk as shit. And the girl I was with decided to drive. She was like, no, you gotta let me drive. You almost killed her. So she drove, she drove us to her house. On the way there, I had got enough sleep that I was able to drive to my homeboy's house in North Charleston, but he wasn't home. And so I was like, fuck, I was gonna thug it. I drive back to amongst corner. Kids do not drive drunk. I was stupid as shit. So I drove back to amongst corner, made it to my mom's house in my bed. I don't know how long. And then my guy, God bless the dead. Crazy. I'm about to say God bless the dead twice cause my guy's father, my guy who's no longer with us. Rest in peace international. His, his father who's no longer with us. Rest in peace. He, he called me to tell me that the block was jumping. So I grabbed my little pack, got back in the van, drove off my dirt road, went down and gave y'all road in amongst corner. Anybody in amongst corner know what I'm talking about? You driving down and give y'all road, pass, Weissville elementary school, lost control of the van. I went up this embankment because it was like the, like the, on the left side, it's like an embankment. So I forwarded off the side of the road. Mefferman and red man came up with the big dog, Vlarence, hit the embankment, flew up in the motherfucking air. The van, literally, like let's say this is the tree, right? This is the tree. I'm holding up the car, people, well in this bottle. The van, the undercarriage hit the tree. So the van literally wrapped around the tree. The luminic air wrapped around the tree. I didn't have a seatbelt on. So I flew out the back of the van, flew out the back of the van. Music still playing. I go to knock on somebody's door. I see the person come run into the door because they heard it. And they look, they go, oh my God, somebody's dead. That's the, that's all I heard the person say. Oh my God, somebody's dead. I'm like, oh my God, somebody's dead. Dude didn't act like he didn't even see me. Like I'm right there at the door. I was knocking on their door. So they come running out the house. I hear them saying, is the body in there? Like literally like that. I'm like, yo, what the fuck? I'm right here. I'm like, yo, nobody paying me no attention. So I just sit down in this ditch. It was a ditch like right there. I'm sitting down in the ditch. And I don't know how long I was sitting there, but it just seemed like fast police came. Then my dad came. None of these people act like they could see me. You think that you had a body? I'm literally sitting there like, yo, I'm right here. My dad is like yelling and screaming. My mom pulls up. My mom, the only person who noticed me sitting, sitting over in the, sitting over in the ditch. Straight up. I'm telling you, she's the only person who knows me sitting over in the ditch. And the police said, the police did not take me to jail. They said the, they said they never saw somebody survive a car accident like that. When you said you fell in the, the window was already open? No, I flew out the back. I flew out literally the, I flew in the whole back of the van. Like I'm driving the van. I got no seatbelt on. When I hit and wrecked, I flew all the way to the back of the van and ended up climbing out the back window in the van. The police said the only reason I lived is because I was so fucking drunk that I was numb. And then because I didn't have a seatbelt on, they said if I would have had a seatbelt on, I would have ended up crushed and died in the van. My, I remember my ex went through, he had a car accident. And he, he doesn't like to wear a seatbelt because if he did wear a seatbelt in that car accident, he would have died too though. I still wear my, I still wear my seatbelt to this day. But the reason I, the reason I said that was my most spiritual experience because, you know, if you're supposed to be gone, you're going to be gone, right? But it just, it felt like God had a bigger purpose. 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King underscore D71 wants to know who do you think should play Professor X and Magneto and the MC. Magneto, ma'am. Magneto. The same people who play them now or played them in the Fox universe. I think Patrick Stewart is a great Professor X and I think the dude who was in those other X-Men movies was a great Professor X. I think those are great characters. I mean, they might want to add somebody else for the MCU, but I mean, if you're talking about the variants and people from alternate realities and universes, I think they're great and you're probably going to see them. I'm sure in Deadpool. So I mean, I like who they got playing them now. I mean, this one, I feel like it's obvious, but Jacob Unlimited wants to know, how should someone who doesn't have the money to afford therapy approach mental read? You should reach out to organizations like Black Men Hill. You should reach out to organizations like the Mental Welfare Alliance. That's my nonprofit. One thing that the Mental Welfare Alliance wants to do, one thing that we're doing is we're trying to provide 10,000 Black people with free therapy over the next five years. That's why we raise with the donations that we get. So when I get these donations for the Mental Welfare Alliance, I give them to organizations like Black Men Hill because that's what Black Men Hill does. Black Men Hill provides free therapy for people. Or you can go to like Dr. Alfie Breland Noble. She has the Acoma Project. You can go on theacomaproject.com. They have various ways that people can receive free therapy. I cannot remember the exact thing that they do in order to provide people with free therapy, but she does have something where she provides people free therapy. But there's a lot of different organizations that are doing it like Black Men Hill. Like I said, definitely check out the Acoma Project. And you know, the Mental Welfare Alliance, we can always point you in the right direction. So just go on the website MentalWelfareAlliance.org and check it out. Like, yeah, I mean, that's literally why I even have my Mental Welfare Expo, which is also a free event. Because like I always tell y'all, if you're providing a service for people and it's a genuine service that you really want the community to benefit from, I don't think you should ever charge anybody for that service. And if I ever couldn't do the Mental Welfare Expo for free, I just wouldn't do it. If I couldn't do it free of charge to people, I just wouldn't do it. So, yeah, go to MentalWelfareAlliance.org and you can tap into some resources that can help you get some affordable therapy. Because he didn't say, I'm saying free, but he just says affordable therapy. So there's always somebody out there for you. How about also just reading like a Gladwell book? I think reading books is good, but here's the cherry part about reading any book. You can read a book about mental health, but you still should sit down with an expert. You know what I mean? Because you don't know, it might be things in that book that only an expert can walk you through. But you don't want to be listening to a book or reading a book. And then like you put it like this, if you read a book about heart surgery, you wouldn't do heart surgery on yourself. Unless you're Andrew. Yeah, Andrew might try that. You know what I mean? But you wouldn't try to physically fix things on you. So it's the same thing with your mental. Like, you know, let the experts do that. The books can lead you in the right direction, but let the experts handle that. All right, let's do two more, man. Well, Marky, underscore Mark, underscore 27 wants to know, Shaila, how do I stop myself from turning into a werewolf? Be around non-believers. Marky Mark 27, be around non-believers. This is how I know you're an OG brand that he a fan. This is how I know you've read Black Privilege. My transition into a werewolf would have been complete in third grade if I hadn't been around a bunch of non-believers. Because I saw Teen Wolf. And after I saw Teen Wolf, I just knew I too was a werewolf. And I knew that, you know, having those skills of a werewolf would make me the greatest basketball player on the planet. Because that's what Michael J. Fox was. Michael J. Fox could really play ball. Now, we don't know if Michael J. Fox could have competed with people in college, or competed with people in the pros, because he never got the opportunity to do that, because he was just a high school basketball player. But from what we saw in that basketball court, when he was a werewolf, he was unbelievable. And so I wanted to be a werewolf for the basketball skills. Literally, that's what I wanted to be a werewolf for. But I just knew I was one. I knew I was one. And so when I started to see like, I remember when the process was happening, it was a full moon. And like, I'm in third grade. I'm not even going through puberty yet. So where did the hair come from? All of a sudden, hair just started popping up on my arms. Like, oh, shit. You see, this wasn't a dream. I was there. It was real. Hair popping up on my arms. Every now and then, I'll be just like randomly talking. Like, yo, tell us. You know what I mean? Just randomly, right? Like, yo, tell us. So listen, we're going. What's going on? Right? And so the next day, I'm at school. And I'm just not, I'm feeling weird the whole day. Like, you know how he was sweating and shit? Like, I wasn't really doing that, but I was pretending I was doing that. So I'm sweating, right? And I'm like, oh, shit. I'm sweating crazy. You know what I'm saying? Skin getting clammy. I see the hair growing. And I'm sitting. I start telling everybody. I want everybody to be prepared. So I'm telling everybody, like, yo, I'm going to turn into a werewolf, yo. I feel it. Lunchtime. I'm going to turn into a werewolf. I'm telling everybody. Teachers, students, nobody taking me serious. I'm just, I'm just, I'm the disruptor. He's disrupting class. You know, I'm going to turn into a werewolf. I'm sitting at the lunch table. I'm eating, right? I'm eating. I'm eating. I'm eating. I'm eating. I'm eating. I mean, I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. All of a sudden, I just feel something weird happening on like my skull. All the kids jump up and run like, oh, they all ran, ran to get the teachers. Because my ears used to be round. In that moment, they all, they started to get pointy. And the kids saw that. But when the kids started yelling and screaming, it started to transition. So it was kind of like Avengers Endgame when Hulk didn't want to come out. It was like that. The wolf was coming. Well, I think the wolf got startled by the kids. I don't, I don't know if I got taught. I don't know. I don't remember all of that. But I remember the hair and my ears getting pointy. And so it's like, yeah, the best way to, you know, stop yourself from turning into a werewolf is just be around people who don't necessarily believe. You know, I do believe. Because they would have just sat there and the, oh, shit. Like, you know, they hadn't started with me. It would have happened. You know what? You made me do believe. I remember one time just a couple years ago, you came into the breakfast club and you said that someone like put those marks on your knee. Yes. Do they still have them? No, they're gone. That's crazy. I get those all the time. I'm all, listen, I know I've been abducted and probed millions of times from time to time. They come collect me. Check me out. Make sure everything good and send me back. And I showed Dick Gregory these. I had two cuts on my shins in the exact same place. No, because it was like, I think summertime and the day before you didn't have that. I know that. My wife said the same thing. Like, my wife will see me now with certain marks on me and she'll be like, oh, they came again. You know what I mean? Pause. Damn, shit. Yeah, give me one more. Let me get the fuck out of here. Ricky, Tiki, Tavi, 13, I don't think I said it right. What's the one hip hop artist or group that you think didn't live up to their full potential? One hip hop artist or group. That's a good question. I mean, here's the thing about living up to your full potential, man. Sometimes just things are what they are, meaning that who are we to say somebody didn't live up to their full potential? Like success is subjective. Like success isn't always equated to Jay-Z. Success isn't always equated to LeBron James. And I know these guys are top of the class, but then we always forget about all the other people who play in the NBA. Those people are successful. They make millions of dollars doing what they love to do. You know what I mean? Like even if you don't win a championship, you never made an all-star game. Or you don't average 10 points a game. If you played 10, 12, 13 years in the league and you made tens of millions of dollars, if you were good enough to constantly be on a roster, you're a fucking success. Like you're a success. Because especially if you're in something like the NBA, because think about the degree of difficulty it takes to get into the league. So the bar isn't LeBron James all the time. And it's the same thing in like rap or hip-hop. Everybody ain't going to be Jay-Z. Everybody ain't going to be Run DMC. Everybody not going to be, you know, Migos or whoever. Everybody not going to have tens of platinum plaques. But what if you just the artist who... What if you Tech Nine? Tech Nine is a great example. Yeah, I was going to say Deluxe. Deluxe is another great example. Like those are great people. Like those are phenomenal careers. They've made hella money and they get critical acclaim. They can still do shows. That's success. Like it's hard to say, you know, who didn't live up to their full potential. It's like... I think everyone has a moment though. That's why I said the lots where I feel like people really saw the potential, the lots with the verses. But I think that we didn't see the potential of the locks. We saw the career of the locks. You know what I mean? Like that was them showcasing their catalog. Like that's a... By the time you make it to something like verses, you are already established. You got to be established enough to have a verses. And they're a perfect example of, yeah, they'll bust your motherfucking ass. They may not have sold tens of millions of records and got all the awards and all of that shit like that, even though they do got some Grammys. They'll bust your ass, you know? It's just like when people say you didn't reach your full potential, I got to have specific examples. Because not reaching your full potential to me is somebody who... got scrung out on drugs. Because those are about life choices, right? Like you made the choice to get scrung out on drugs, or you decided to go rob a store, committed a crime, ended up in prison, like stuff like that. Those are people who, like, dad, that person didn't reach their full potential because they made a poor choice. If you're still in this game and still in this business and you've had a long career and you're able to eat off what you built, you're a success to me. No, I don't want to start Tiffany. I love New York. I feel like she should have been more. She's New York. Yeah, but she don't get... Like all these other influences now, like they following her. She's just early though. She's just early. That's all. Somebody like New York was just early. Like Flavor Flav is another example. But guess what? He was a hip hop artist before, you know... But when you see Flav in Vegas, these people love Flavor Flav. Flavor Flav ain't missing a meal. Flav Flav is still making money being Flav Flav. Just like New York is still making money being New York. New York can still get booked being New York. So that's what I mean. It's just like nowadays in reality television, we compare it to Kim Kardashian probably, right? Like, I don't know. Bethany Frankel, maybe. Like these people like... Fuck it, the Kardashians. The Kardashians are a bar in reality TV. But you've only seen that once. Yeah. Like everybody is not the Kardashians. You know what I'm saying? So to me, New York is a success. New York is a super success because... I feel like I would see her more. That's what I'm saying. Maybe she's choosing, but that's the other thing. Maybe she's choosing not to be. Maybe people like that got a taste of the limelight, the spotlight, and they don't want to be in it no more. I mean, I don't know if that's the case for her. But everything isn't about, you know, being the most poppin person or wanting to be seen. Some people got a taste of it, made some money off it, started to fall back. That's Kendrick. Andres 3000. Andres, I know, hundreds of thousands for sure. They should probably did it once. Lauren Hill did it once. You know what I'm saying? Like, I respect that. Like to me, that's the ultimate. And you know, as somebody who's had the pleasure of kicking it with Andre and, you know, sitting down building with Andre and chopping it up, he ain't missing it at all. Yeah. And I respect that. Like, yo, do you know what kind of self-awareness you have to have and what type of person you have to be to be like, I don't want that. I was the most famous person in the world at one point. I made so much money that I don't got to do nothing but walk around and play my flute all goddamn day. You know what I mean? Play my cello or whatever it is, all goddamn day. I can travel the world. That's all Andre has been doing. He's been living life. That should be the dream. The dream should be figure out what it is you love to do. Do it. Make some money off it. And then just live. I say that all the time. I say, yo, man, don't think for one second I wouldn't go live in Anguilla and take my family over there and just live and wouldn't put no pressure on them to do anything. I wouldn't put any pressure on my daughters to do anything. Now, I know that's not the reality of the situation because they're going to have their own hopes and dreams. Like, I had my own hopes and dreams. So you got to let them go live life. But man, I have no problem just going to live. I want to travel the world, do plant-based medicines, and just figure out the meaning of life. If there is even a meaning to figure out, but I just want to go live. That's literally what I want to do. I just want to go experience this third rock from the sun because, shit, I'm 45. I only got about 50 more summers left. I'm a clock out around 95. 95, 100, I'm a clock out. I'm actually going to die at 101. This side, yo. Yeah, I think I'm going to die at, like, 100. I'm going to be 101. I have a longevity of elders. The oldest one, 104. Really? Your mama's going to be around? Can you relax? See, I stopped. On my mom's side, they have very longevity, though. I'm happy your mama's going to be around. You're not. If I'm going to live to be 101, is she going to be how old she is now? She's married. I know, but how old is she? I don't know. I'm just thinking about the pie. I'm just thinking about how much, how many more years of pie we going to be receiving. I'm trying to get my mom to do a bakery. I got her. I'm trying to tell her. She doesn't, she's scared, though. She don't want to hate what she loves. She thinks she's going to start. Oh, because it's become a business now. Yeah. I can see that. I can see that. Showtime will be back next week. 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