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He was rushed to the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest during a basketball practice at USC on Monday a spokesperson for the James family revealed that he was treated and is now in stable condition. He was also released from the ICU. Bless that brother. As a parent man, the worst thing in the world is that kind of news because when your children are in a situation that you can't do anything about, oh my God and our job is supposed to be to protect and provide but you can't protect them from health issues. You know what I mean? And you can't even provide them the care that they need in a situation like that. Like this is literally up to the doctors and stuff like that can make you feel completely helpless as a parent man. So I'm happy that Ronnie is in stable condition man but to be 18 years old and having cardiac arrest, cardiac arrest is a heart attack, right? Yeah. I mean, it's 18 year old athlete your entire life. Like your body is in peak condition. Something like that goes on. Anyway, I walk in here and I'm like, yo, there's something in the water. Right? There was something in the water. Well, it's the beginning of the video and we'll get demonetized if we say what I think it is. So it's something in the water. Y'all know what that means. All I'm saying is over the last... You don't know what that means. That's RFK, junior. Oh man. You know what I mean? That's something. Dr. Umar, tell you. Umar, tell you immediately. He'll tell you right now. You know what's in the water? Why? You might've already posted it already. Dr. Umar might've already posted what it is and I don't even know if that's what it is. All I'm simply saying is over the last few years I've seen a lot more people having heart attacks, a lot more people having cardiac arrest, a lot more people having strokes. What happened when I came in? I literally go to you. I go, damn, Brownie happened this. And then I go, man, I just found out I was having some trouble breathing last episode. I go to the heart doctor. Okay? Cardiovascular. I go to the cardiovascular, right? And well, first I went to my therapist and my therapist said, he goes, he goes, we should try this breathing exercise. He goes, put your hand on your stomach and then put your hand on your chest. And he goes, breathe in. Ain't that the baby song? No. I don't know how to dance. I can lean, make a ghetto bitch, put a hand on the stomach. Ain't that what it is? Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. That's not what it is. Maybe, I don't know. That might be it. Maybe he's a big fan of rap music. Yeah, yeah. But I know that he was like, if you're feeling stressed, you're feeling short of breath and just for anybody else out there who's also feeling it, he said, put your left hand on your stomach and your right hand on your chest. And he goes, and then take a deep breath in for your stomach and then stop being a. It was crazy. He almost ruined that whole shit with his little baby. No, you know what? Cause I'm laughing, I'm thinking about it, right? And I'm like, is that a medical term? And then I had to think about what he said. I mean, I've never heard that medical term and I'm like, nope, nope, nope. That's not what that was. That's not what that was. That's not what it was, it froze it right there. Like a police siren just went off. Well, no, but I go to the cardiologist. That was the other part of that joke. Remember Eddie Murphy? What he said? I go to the cardiologist, get my heart checked. They tell me that I have some slight calcification of my arteries and my heart. What was the number? They give me a number, but he's like a slight, it's almost nothing, but, and then I come in and then Charlemagne, what do you say? You immediately go, I got calcification. I asked you what the number was. Listen, flashback, Brittany, it's December, 2022. I started all these cardiovascular tests in the fall of last year. I was wearing a heart monitor. I did every cardiovascular test you could think of. I did the heart monitor. I did the calcification test. Is that where they put the ink in you? They put the iodine in you and your body warms up. Yeah, so they can see what's going on in your arteries. I did the stress test. I did the, what's the other one? I can't remember what the other one was all, but I did them all. Bro, the doctor asked me, he didn't ask me. He assumed I was Jewish. He goes, he has some slight calcification in your heart. He goes, but if you're an Ashkenazi Jew, this is very normal. It's genetics. It is genetic. And I was like, what do you mean? He goes, yeah, if you're an Ashkenazi Jew, then you're totally good. And I go, well, I'm not. And he goes, all right, well, we probably should put you on some medication to get you. My doctor told me the same thing. He said, I'm fighting genetics. He asked if you were Jewish. No. He said, my arteries are aging, I guess coronary arteries are aging faster than me. But we gotta know why. That's what I'm trying to say. Well, mine is genetics because my uncle has it, and my dad has it. Like they have all had multiple bypass surgeries. I blame it on a woman. Why? I blame it on Maxine. You don't know Maxine? Who's Maxine? You don't know Maxine? Man, Maxine was with everybody over the last few years, bro. No, okay. Yeah. He's a good, he's Jewish, I'm just saying. It's like watching stuff right now. I was like, is that gonna go in? But I get it. It went in. Some people have Maxine twice. Yeah, man. Chris had a damn near five Maxines, probably. For all types of shit. He was calling Maxine for shit that Maxine had nothing to do with. Because he's an Oskanazi Jew. He's got to Maxine them up. But no, and the reason I did the calcification test last is because he was telling me a story about how a lot of people get this stress test and they do the heart monitor and everything else and everything seems fine. But you don't realize you have calcification on your heart and the calcification on your heart can break off and that's what causes the arteries to block. So that's why I did that test and then that's what I did that test and I saw my number was like a 76 and I had high cholesterol at the time. And the cholesterol attaches to the calcification. Yes. And that's the reason why you need to go on the cholesterol med. Because if we lower your cholesterol, it can't attach to that calcification. Now, the doctor I'm sure said to you, if your heart stays this way for the rest of your life, you can live a great life. You're fine, absolutely. So it's more preventative. You don't want it to go up. You don't want the number to be over a hundred. Bro, it's one of those moments. It's supposed to be zero though. It's supposed to be zero. But I had that moment which I'm sure you had last year, two years ago, where it's just like, oh, we ain't gonna live forever. Bro, when Nick, when the guy called me, this, let me tell you- No, not mine. Oh, I can see you now. No, but it was 77. No, no, no, he's the dead one. I'm good. I'm gonna be right, I'll be right here for like 80, 90. But what would create, what fucked me up is, the doctor's assistant called, I don't know if he was an assistant, but he was like an understudy. He wasn't like the doctor. Oh, the doctor didn't catch it, the assistant called. No, the doctor called it, but the assistant was calling me trying to tell me what it was. And so he was like, you gotta come in on such and such. So I go in there with my wife, me and my wife sitting in there. No, no. So the doctor comes in there and the doctor goes, what's wrong? What the fuck you mean what's wrong? Y'all called me and told me I got a fucking 76 or whatever. And your guy said my arteries are getting thin. He was like, what? He was like, no, narrowing. That's what he said, your arteries are narrowing. He was like, I knew when you bought your wife and they said, when people bring their wife in here, or they take significant other, they take something's wrong. He was like, no, it's a, it shouldn't be zero. But he was like, you're healthy. You eat right. Just make these changes to your diet. Stay on the statin in the baby aspirin every day. You'll be fine. Isn't that crazy? It's like, it's this part of life that when you are growing up and young, you don't imagine what happened to you, even though you know it's a reality. You just can't fathom that one day, you might have to take a cholesterol pill when you're 20 years old, running around, taking fucking tequila shots. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was just in this moment. It was one moment. I saw myself become old or enter the next part of my life. It was profound, bro. I'm sitting in bed just like, holy shit. What I hate is that I've always felt like my whole life, I've been able to manifest things and I see things before they happen. I've been going to the emergency room thinking I'm having a heart attack forever. And they were saying no when you were like, It was anxiety, you know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? It was always anxiety. They always told me I got an athlete's heart, I got an athlete's heart, I got an athlete's heart. But now it's like, you just don't know. Because of things like the cholesterol, because of things like the calcification, because of Maxine, who I wish I'd never fucking met. Yo, meet Maxine, though. You know what I'm saying? Honestly, I don't use this word a lot with women, but fuck that, you know what I'm saying? Unless she works. Thank God, God bless her, bro. Sometimes, sometimes, listen, there are some old people or people with pre-existing conditions that need to be with a woman like Maxine. But Maxine represents a lot of people, right? Like, I'm good for you here. Yeah. But over here. Hey, he's like, what's the, you know what I'm saying? But then we have fun, but then we have fun. Then we have fun, then we have fun over here. Oh, you didn't know this was gonna happen, right? That's every side chick, bro. Yo, Maxine has that side chick, bro. Why would she do? It's fun, but it might not be good for you. You know what it is? It's fun until you stop fucking with her. And then you stop fucking with her. I told you come back. Yeah, because if you break her heart, she gonna break yours. Maxine told you come back. She said come back. Told you fucking come back, right? You're supposed to be two dates, right? But you ain't come for that second date. I went for the second date. Oh, you did? Yeah. Oh, she got you hooked. I had to go back for the other dates. The other dates. I was like, nah, I'm cool. Oh, word? Uh-huh. We gonna see how cool you are. We gonna see how cool you are. I don't know what's going on, bro. I just know that. Damn, Maxine. Are we lying, though? Yo. There's a lot more people that got cardiac issues and shit, yo. Bro, I am an athlete. Me, too. I'd be a number two draft big, a number one draft big. In the NBA, in the NBA draft. I used to have a 73 inch vertical. Shout out to you, bro. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to you, bro. I ran a four fucking one when I was 17 in the 40. Take one, two dates with Maxine. It was actually a three nine, but the guy, when the coach did it, he was like, that's no way. So then they had to give you a four and one. I believe you, bro. No, no, I did it again. I did it, like, immediately. I believe that 100%. Out of breath, four and one. No question. No breathing. Can I breathe underwater, bro? Facts. The guy breathes underwater, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You breathe underwater, you have two dates with Maxine and all of a sudden. Oh, you said facts. I thought, I was like, damn. You have a flashback to your doctor again? I'm like, what? I'm like, this guy is crazy. Bro, he's my therapist, bro. He's my therapist. He's a harsh therapist, bro. All I'm trying to say is we got to look into this. Chris damn near melting over there. He don't know what to do. He don't know what to do, Chris. Luckily for you, Maxine. Have you gotten your cardiovascular test, Chris? Yeah, so I had an incident last year, I think, where I went for my normal annual checkup. They give you what's it called, the EKG. So I was running late for the checkup. Doctor or assistant made me a little uncomfortable of sweating. I sweat when I get nervous. The EKG, they said, OK, you can leave. I'm walking down the block. I get a phone call from my doctor's office. I pick it up and say, listen, you're having a heart attack right now. You need to check in to go to the closest emergency room as quickly as possible. Now, I'm a hypochondriac, you know, Chris. But in my mind, I'm not having a heart attack. But I'm also a 50-year-old man. If a doctor's office calls and says, go to the hospital, you're having an heart attack, you've got to go. So I checked in to NYU was there for like a day. They ran a million tests. They were like, yeah, your EKG is abnormal. Had to go see a bunch of specialists. Long story short, unlike YouTube, the diagnosis I got back is I have the arteries of a teenager. Wow. My arteries are completely clear. I have some sort of little electronic thing. Me too. I got that, too. I got like a abnormal heartbeat. But honestly, they're like, it's not worth addressing. You're as likely to have a heart attack as anybody else. You're fine. Don't worry about it. That was after, like, six appointments, but that was the. That shit, something like that happened to be like a month ago. Hold on. Can I just point out one thing? Yeah. Recently, it was brought up that the Maxine doesn't affect Asians and Jews as much as it affects blacks and whites. I'm just saying he's both Asian and Jewish. Right. Does your wife know about Maxine? Does she know about her? Yeah. She loves her. She loves her. Got to have four dates with her. Bust her down four times. Four times? That's why Maxine ain't fucking with him. That's it. You know what I'm saying? We should have gone back. We got to go back to the footage. You got to calm down. After you get those two dates, you got to go back to Maxine and she's going to fuck with you. You got pegged two more times? How many times did Maxine enter? As many times as they'll let me. Wow. As many times as I go back. Wow. Yo, what if that's real, though? What if the first two dates, Maxine's just checking us out to see if we fuck with her. And if we don't fuck with her, you know, when they tell us to go take Maxine out two more times, that's the correct, the shit that they fucking fucked with us about the first time. You can't stop in the middle. You can't stop in the goddamn middle. Mm. Mm. Fuck. Fuck, Maxine. Wow, though. Talk about her like this. Yeah, wow, if I ever go on a date with Maxine, that's crazy. Wait, wait. You never had a date with Maxine? Never had a date with Maxine. That's not true. I swear to God, you know this. Damn. Fuck you for being faithful. You know what I'm saying? That's what you got on your shirt. Going to kill you, though. Yeah. That's facts. That's facts. That's going to get you too. That's going to get you too. OK, Maxine, that's the only murderer out there who got that cognac. You proudly promoting that cognac on your shirt. That shit going to take you out. What's crazy is a month ago, I did the same exact thing yo, a month ago, because I did all the EKGs and the, what's the test, they put the dye in you and all, I did all of that. And then like a month ago. Catscan, an iodine catscan. Yep, because I'm sitting there. One of my mentors, man, he actually had a heart attack a couple of years ago and he talked to me through, and he's a doctor. He's a medical doctor. So he talked to me through all of symptoms and the feelings and everything. And he was like, he knew he was experiencing one, so he popped six aspirins. And that helps save him. In's your blood. In's your blood. So it doesn't get caught in a clot. That's right. And then somebody took him to the hospital and he was able to get it done. And so about a month ago, I woke up one morning, man. And I'm sure it was just anxiety, but you couldn't tell me. This is it, bro. So I took six aspirins, I took six aspirins. Forget the heartburn medication and all that. I could have probably just took that and been fine. I took those six aspirins. Please, wife, take me to the hospital. She took me to the hospital. I'm putting on a show, too. She's just, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm praying. I'm praying. I'm like, oh, I'm like, the will and the trust is good. I'm like, I'm not going to die. I can survive a heart attack. I get to the hospital, get to the ER. They already know me, right? You know what I mean? I'm like, yo, man, I don't know, man. I said, I don't want to say it's a heart attack, but something ain't right, irregular. When I say they went into immediate action, they was like, oh, we don't play when it comes to this, because you might be experiencing a heart attack. They put me down on the gurney, put the EKG on me, all types of shit. But I was good, you know what I'm saying? But they, when I say they sprung into action, oh, they sprung into action. And I'm sitting there for two, three hours asking, what is the problem? He was like, man, you sure it's not physical? He was like, I got everything from your doctor. He was like, you sure it's just not like a physical thing? And I'm like, I did do chess yesterday. Oh my god. Oh my god. This is why they hate patients, bro. We got insurance. You're going to treat me, god damn it. I got insurance. I don't give a fuck. You're going to treat me. It's costing me money. I don't give a fuck. I'm like, yo, can y'all do a, can y'all do an X-ray on my chest to make sure it's physical? Listen, man, you can never be too careful. I'm not playing about this shit, yo. So. Man, when you said you were really acting up, like you were with your wife as in the car, is she at the point in your marriage where she's over you? She's been with me 25 years. So she's not even nervous no more. She's not even caring. She's putting the music louder. Please, please. No, nobody know my greatest hitch like her. She's seen every concert, every show. She know what I'm about to do. She's seen this set a million times. My wife just started to get on with that. She's not nervous about anything. My wife will be surprised. I was on the phone with the doctor. I was like, can I find it by my chest? I swear to God, she's like, do you need me? And already that is like, she don't want to be there because she knows that I'm exaggerating. Don't you hate it? Do you need me? What do you think? Yeah, I'm talking to the doctor about my heart. What do you mean you're talking about my heart? Yeah, what would you like to be involved? No, I swear to God on my life. I swear to God on my life. She went to take a shit. She went to take a shit while I'm finding out if my heart works or not, bro. That is so funny. Two women broke my heart. Maxine and my wife. You know why that is so funny, man? Because when I got the calcification record, and I had already been to all these tests by myself, right? So when I said I got the calcification and my arteries are narrow and shit like that, when she said to me, so should I come next time? Well, you didn't come the first three or four times. Clearly, you don't care whether I live or die. Make them feel guilty, son. Make them feel guilty. Make them feel why don't they love us? Why don't they love us? Clearly, you don't care. Come on, yo. Whether or not I live or die. Right? What would you have those more important to do? To take care of your husband? You know what I mean? To take care of your husband. Man, we are children. You hear me? Yo, okay. Bro, I can't be sick no more. Bro, in the beginning of our relationship, when I was six, you would take care of me, make me tea, all that kind of shit. Nothing, bro. Oh, man. Nothing. See, you think you done seen the set. That's why. That's it. Okay? This is the new one I added to the set that you ain't seen yet. But you know what? They over your comedy. They over my fucking comedy. They over your comedy dreams. You know, that's the craziest part about being married or being with a woman for a long time because not only do they know how you're gonna react, and I try to switch it up on purpose, right? So they'd be like, I already know what your daddy gonna say. I already know what he gonna say. And so you might overhear that. And so then they come to you and be like, nah, nah, nah, I'm thinking about it. Nah, that's, maybe we can't do that. Nah, nah, that's not gonna happen. You know what I'm saying? Like every single time, man. I just had a thought that one day, many years from now, we're gonna be doing this podcast and you just gonna grab your heart, right? Don't do it. Wait for it. And then I'm gonna look at you and I'm gonna grab my heart. And all of them are just gonna laugh thinking that we're fucking around about heart attacks. That's gonna be it. And that's gonna be it. That's gonna be it. That's gonna be it. That's gonna be it. Listen, we're just gonna be y'all's fault. God. I'm gonna fuck around, play with the joke, play along and grab my heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You was not singing? Oh, sir, can't you see? All I ask if that happened to Dwayne, just play how sweet. To me and it. To me and it. And let it just fade out. Oh my God. Life, man. You gotta enjoy this. This shit is gonna happen regardless. To every one of you if you're lucky. If you're fucking lucky, man. If you're lucky and you're blessed. Bro, I had a tear this morning thinking about it. I was like, how lucky am I to reach this stage? Bro. To reach a stage. Like some people never even get here. Man, my wife, it's so funny. My wife said something the other day. She was saying how much gratitude she feels. She's like, y'all just woke up feeling so great for this morning. And I was like, I've been feeling that too. The last couple of months show. I'm like, Oppenheimer? Is something about to happen? Oh. You know what I'm saying? You're too crazy. Yeah. It's like you feel good, bro. Feel great. I've never been here. What does that mean? I've never been to this level of gratitude. You've never been happy, you've never been calm in that regard. You're like, oh, something wrong. Muscle's coming up, something bad is gonna happen. Yes. And then it's like all that therapy and shit finally kicks in and it's like, bro, enjoy it. Enjoy it. You earned it. And I'm not even talking about life and talking about being successful. I'm talking about just, I am happy as a human. Yo, enjoy it, bro. We wake up, we're relatively healthy. Relatively. You know what I mean? Got a beautiful family, great friends. And I'm just happy with all the bullshit that goes on in life is just whatever. Yo, look into your health. Maybe that's a takeaway. Maybe that's a fucking takeaway. You look into your health. Go get your heart checked. I did everything. I did colonoscopy in December. You did that for personal enjoyment. That shit was funny. I'm gonna be honest with you. The drugs? Yeah. Worth it. That shit they give Michael Jackson? Totally can see why he OD'd on that shit, yo. Oh, really? And every doctor that gives you- They put you on that for a colonoscopy? Yes, they give you that for the colonoscopy and the endoscopy. And both doctors that did it to me both said the same thing was like- What's endoscopy? When they do the thing down your throat. So you had something in your ass and your mouth at the same time? You know what's crazy? You are wild, bro. You know what's crazy? You can't get spit roasted and talk about it on a podcast without a fast forward. I had a little yeast on your suffocates, bro. You had a little what? Little yeast on your suffocates. Come on, son. There's a joke here that I can't make because it's about why a man would have yeast on your suffocates. I'm just saying it's a joke that I can't make and I think you're making. I'm joking. Right, though? Are we thinking the same joke? Of course. Okay, all right. It's wifey. I can't say that. I can't say that. That's crazy. What do they do with the yeast on your suffocates? You need to make a sourdough loaf out of that shit, bro. Scoop it out. Well, suffocates was straight. Not this suffocates. What it's called? The endoscopy. Yeah. But that is at the same time? No. I'm just saying, that's crazy. What if they did, they put the same camera in your throat that they put in your ass? Yo. That would be wild. Which one would you go for? Yo, the colonoscopy and the endoscopy combination. That's crazy. Only in Jamaica. Only in Jamaica. In Canada. Toronto and Jamaica, you can get the colonoscopy and the endoscopy combination. You can't get the both. You can't get the both. Don't worry. You ain't seen Drake say that shit? No. Oh my god. Pull up the Drake. Yo, you got to pull it up. He don't even know what I'm saying. Pull up the Drake Freestyle. I thought you were saying, because it's the most gay thing. Bro. So you're making it Jamaican. Drake is the funniest rapper without even trying to be. He don't even know what he the fuck he be doing. Why? Watch this shit. That's my man Gabe on the radar freestyle show that he does. Gabe is a DJ on Power 105 New York, but he started this on the radar platform by himself about five years ago. And he's cooking. He's gotten to the level where he got Drake pulling up to do freestyles. Nah, Gabe my guy. Man, Gabe used to do, we did a little podcast together for a minute called Comic Kings. No way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Gabe was a kind of guy. He was an intern then. But he was just like, he was an intern at Power. And me and him used to always just talk about comic books all the time. So one day my dude Tony, who does digital at iHeart, he's like, yo, y'all should do a comic book podcast. When was this? Before we ever did one? No, no, no. This was. Duran. Yeah, this was Duran. This was recently. It probably was about five or six years ago. Because on the radar, it's been around for like five years. So it's been about six, seven years ago. Me and Gabe was doing that. But he started on the radar, man. And it's been dope because he started off just covering the drill scene in New York. And I'm glad he pivoted, man, because all of them started to die. So he wouldn't have had nobody to put on there. And so he started just focusing on new rappers in general. And so now he's gotten to the point when he started doing dope ass freestyles, like the ice spice freestyle that even got Drake in ice spice cools from on the radar. And I guess Drake just been paying attention. So he decided to pull up. Listen to this. Listen to this shit, man. Combination. Combination. Come on, man. That is hilarious. Yo, who's the dupe? Central C? Yeah. Fire. Yeah, you can spit, man. Central Speak is busy. And he got a very LGBTQ-friendly song. I don't know if you got a confi- I don't know if you got a cue to being homophobic. How can I be homophobic? Well, my- My bitch is gay. My girl gay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's- I mean, there's a- there's an answer to that. You can still be homophobic if your girl is gay. That means nothing. But it's a great record. That's true. It's a great record, man. Yeah. Now, he got bars, man. No, he can really rap. Yeah, they both killed that freestyle. Nah, nah, nah. They went crazy. They went crazy. This is Luke the Gay, man. Movies. What did you see this weekend, man? Oppenheimer. Did you enjoy it? I did enjoy it. I haven't seen it, but I'm down to do a review of it anyway. And Barbie. Haven't seen Barbie down to do a review of it anyway. Didn't see Barbie. My wife saw Barbie, then we went and saw Oppenheimer. And I did enjoy the movie. Christopher Nolan's my favorite director. I think he's like the most brilliant man making films right now. And but it was a little different than- it didn't exactly live up to what I thought it was going to be. What did you think it was going to be? I thought it was going to be more of a story about a man saving society. Or destroying it. Yes. Haven't seen the movie. Yeah. It's more of a story like is it justified what happened to Oppenheimer? Because he was treated a certain way after they made the bomb. So I thought I was going in there going, oh, this is the story about the time crunch to make the bomb. And they ended up making it before the Germans. And because of that, we ended up winning the war. But historically, that's not accurate, because the Germans basically what they do, they bent over before the bomb was made. And then it was made, and the Japanese were still fighting. And then we dropped on the Japanese. But what's very interesting about the movie is there is not one good character in the movie. Oh, everybody's a villain? Everybody is just both good and bad. Because what they're working on is something that everybody knows is bad, but they think it's for the greater good of the world that they have it. They care so much about their little science shit that they're not even thinking about all the deaths that could be associated. And they just want to see this big thing blow up. And Oppenheimer's a piece of shit. He's like, fucking the other scientist's wives and shit. You know what I mean? He's still engaging. Basically, later in his career. I looked at that as a stress reliever, though. Maybe. Haven't seen the movie, though. I looked at it as an absolute ego maniac, where it's just like, I can do whatever I want. I'm the smartest guy. I can build a bomb if I want. I can blow it up. I can fuck anybody's wife. I can do whatever I want because the world revolves around me. It's like if Tony Stark's never turned to Iron Man. Yeah. If Tony Stark's never made that pivot. Yes. Yes. I haven't seen the movie, though. Yeah, I know. That's these are the best reviews without saying it. Yes. And how much worldwide? 200Ms. Damn, well, we love that. That's not even fucking with Barbie. I want to get into Barbie in a second, just as like a cultural moment. But yeah, what was interesting about the Oppenheimer thing is that like, also like he had all these ties to communists. Like his wife was a part of the Communist Party, then she left it. His brother was in the Communist Party, left it. Like his best friend was in the Communist Party. And like he's banging his side, bitch, who was in the Communist Party. And it's like. His Maxine? His Maxine, 100%. And basically like. Did she end up being bad for him? I don't want to give it away. Actually, it's historical record. They know what happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She ends up killing herself. And that Maxine's, bro, huh? Did she take anybody out with her before she did it? No, I don't think so. She ends up killing herself. I don't know if. I don't know if. But what I'm saying is like, you're making the bomb, right? You're making the bomb. You have access to all the information, and you're still fraternizing with these communists when you know America is trying to keep communism out of America, right? Still got a dig. No, what I'm trying to say is like, it's just all ego. Like I can hurt anybody around me. I can do anything I want to anybody around me. I can engage with communists, even though the government is telling me not to, and I have top secret information. They could literally be trying to extract that information from me and giving it to the Soviets who are also trying to make a bomb. Even though we're allies in this war, we don't know what's going to happen afterwards. Like what I thought was cool about Nolan is that he gave a well-rounded look at Oppenheimer. And I didn't know this until afterwards. The movie is shot in black and white and color. And the black and white scenes are the realistic view, I think, of Oppenheimer? Yeah, I saw it in 70 millimeter. You didn't see the movie. You're right. The color scenes are the, his view of himself. Or maybe, I'm fucking that up, and I didn't realize, I didn't know going into it. So some are in color, some are in black and white, but I didn't realize that one of them is what Oppenheimer is thinking is happening to him. And the black and white is the objective view of what was really going on. And had I known that going into it, I'm like, ooh, I kind of want to see it again, because maybe that would have completely transformed the way I looked at the film. Did you see Barbie? I did not see Barbie, but I can give a review with it without seeing it. I didn't see it either. My daughter went to go see it. Did she dress up? Did she dress up? Yeah. Yes, yeah, I don't know. Barbie, like a pink Barbie t-shirt and like a cowboy hat. That's what I thought was brilliant about the movie is it tapped into culture. And that like people were dressing up. It felt like Halloween. It tapped into their own identity and it gave them an excuse to do something for the whole day. Listen, all this is, is a massive marketing campaign to relaunch, not relaunch, but to get the Barbie dolls popping. And it will. Oh, a hundred percent. I don't want to sound like I'm... All I'll say is when I was in France, I had a meeting with some top execs at Mattel and we had a whole conversation about this. You know what I'm saying? And it was a very insightful conversation, not even just into what's happening at Mattel, but even how certain top execs see things as far as diversity is concerned. And you know, I mean, I could say, well, one conversation we were having was about diversity dolls, right? In particular, you know, black dolls. And they were explaining how, of course they want to do more black dolls and things of that nature, but a lot of times when they put these black dolls on the shelves, they don't move the way that they should. One doll he told me about in particular was Ludacris' daughter has a doll, because she has a show on Netflix called Karma's World. I think it's called. And so they did a doll based on the character Karma. If I'm not mistaken on Ludacris' daughter, I don't remember, but they did the doll, the doll didn't necessarily move the way they wanted it to move. And what happens in those situations, places like Target and Walmart, who are like their biggest distributors are like, yo, we can't keep this on the shelf because it's taking away shelf space from the things that we'll actually sell. You know what I mean? It's like, is it racism or is it capitalism? It's all capitalism. It's the same reason why they don't have black band-aids. I mean, not really. You know what I mean? They have way more beige band-aids because the band-aid company is going, you know what, the majority of people are kind of beige-ish. So between whites, Latinos, light-skinned blacks, we can kind of cover all of them with beige, but if they just have a dark-skinned black band-aid, way few of them are gonna be purchased. I always wonder about the band-aid thing, too, though, because even with band-aids, it's not like nobody's really the color of the band-aid. They're just trying to do the closest to everybody. That's right. One size fits all, if you will. I think when people started making noise about the fact that they wanted a more darker-colored band-aid, that's when they started to do the more flesh-colored band-aids. But I mean, the conversation with the guy from Mattel was interesting because it really, like he said, it's not about racism, it's about capitalism. They want to do the dolls. I'm not even gonna, I'll just keep it at the black and white, but there's other things we discussed. That, you know what I mean? Hey, I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm just saying, there's other dolls we discussed that don't move at all. Like not even a little bit, like no motion. You know what I mean? And they're trying to figure out even ways to do that. They want to do a more direct-to-consumer model with that. I'm serious, because they're like, we'll make it. But we're not gonna make a bunch of them and put it out. Like, we'll make it and then you order it and then we'll send it to you. And he was even talking about that with some of the black dolls, because he was like, yo, should we do more direct-to-consumer? But you know, my wife made a really good point to the guy about at least the commerce world thing, because he was like, I just don't know how we market. And she was like, well, commerce world is on Netflix. Netflix don't have no commercials. I bought my toys based off my kids watching YouTube or watching Nickelodeon or Disney or whatever it is and seeing commercials. And then they see the commercials and be like, mommy, will you buy that for me? Daddy, will you buy that for me? Netflix don't have no commercials. So she was like, I didn't even know that karma had a doll and our kids watch karma's world. But we didn't know karma had a doll. Yeah. So long story short, the Barbie movie is just a big ass commercial from Mattel. All this advertising that you've been seeing are just big ass promotion and marketing to get the Barbie dolls cooking and it will go. And I would say one thing specifically about the dolls, which is different than like, for example, X-Men or Marvel or any of these types of things, is that like the reason why there's multiple dolls is because the doll is supposed to represent the one you relate to the most. That's right. And if black people are 12% of the population and the women are 6% of the population, right? And white people are 65% of the population or whatever white people are, you're just like, okay, we're gonna probably sell more dolls that look like the consumer if we go at that chunk. We had that whole conversation. But on the opposite end, black Panther isn't meant to be like you. Black Panther is just a dope superhero. So white kids are gonna go, ooh, I wanna look like the dope superhero. And the black kids are gonna go, ooh, I wanna look like a dope superhero. And they kinda look like me, which is cool. So I think in those cases where the character isn't only representative of you, you'll see more people buying the diversity. What I told them was one of the ideas I had was like, I think sometimes adults overthink things that kids don't. Because kids just have a diverse friend group, you know what I mean? Because they don't know about race. They don't know it, right? So they know black, they know white. And we forget that a lot of these young white girls, they love black girls. They love their hair texture. They love the way they dress, everything else. I say what I would have done, and I think they're starting to do it now, like they have a Brooklyn Barbie, right? I'm like, why call it Brooklyn Barbie? Just call her Brooklyn. Barbie is Barbie. And she's got this whole group of friends. These are her friends. So once you get Barbie, you got that already. Give me a world. And I think that's what the, I haven't seen the movie. Also Brooklyn is representative of something beyond race. Yeah. And that's what's really cool. That's smart. Yeah. Yeah. Oh shit, shout out to Jamie. Did we talk about Jamie? Yes, you didn't see they cloned Tyrone? Bro, you gotta watch they cloned Tyrone. No, is it really good? It's actually really good, Joe. I watched it twice over the weekend. I watched it, well, I'm gonna be honest with you. I started watching it Friday night and fell asleep. My wife watched it, told me how good it was. We watched it again Saturday night. It's really good. It's really interesting. And it just, you know, two things, man. Number one, when Jamie Foxx, when everybody thought Jamie Foxx was about to pass away, everybody was giving it up. Everybody was talking about how Jamie is by far probably the most talented person we've ever seen, which is very true. And keep in mind, we've been saying that when he didn't have it. That's right. I mean, there's nothing Jamie Foxx can't do. Facts. Great. Facts. Things good. Jamie Foxx does multiple things great. All of the things that make other people great, whether it's singing, he does that great. Acting, he does that great. Comedy, he does that great. The things that people have one of, that one thing they have that makes them great, he has multiple. And everybody was giving it up for him. But then you watch a movie like they clone Tyrone, which he absolutely bodies. He plays a character named Slick Charlie. He absolutely kills it. And I don't see people giving it up for Jamie like that. I need to watch this movie. This movie didn't get enough press. And now they can't do the press because of the writer's show. What is it on? Netflix. I'm gonna watch it. It was number one trend on Netflix all weekend. The best thing about it, it did get a lot of press, which I say, I keep telling y'all, God is the greatest executive producer of comedy ever. They've been saying Jamie Foxx is a clone for two weeks. And then this movie, they clone Tyrone, comes out. I mean, it's amazing. It's unbelievable. But that might be a nice little PR campaign that they're cooking. I don't think Jamie would play with his health in that way. I think they might be... No, not Jamie. I'm saying the movie. Yeah, yeah, they might be playing with it. I mean, he even played with it. Like, you know, he even did a video saying like they didn't clone me, but they clone Tyrone. You know what I mean? But phenomenal movie. I don't even wanna talk to nobody about it until you've actually seen it because it's a very interesting movie with a lot of different layers to it and a lot of different metaphors. A lot of different metaphors. You seen it, Alex? Oh, okay. Well, salute to Jamie. I'm glad Jamie's back. You wanna pay some bills? Let's do it. Let's pay some bills. We got today. Thank you, Talk Space, for always being a sponsor of The Brilliant Idiots. And also Talk Space, thank you for providing the safe space for people to actually talk, okay? Do you think seeing the therapists or psychiatrists would be helpful, but you don't have the time to actually find one and meet with them or afford them? You gotta try Talk Space, man. By doing everything online, Talk Space has made getting to help you go on easy, accessible, and affordable, and Talk Space takes most insurance, okay? 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First of all, thank you to everybody who's been pre-ordering Invisible Generals. That is one of the next releases on my book, Inprint Black Privilege Publishing with Shaman and Shoes to salute to my guide, Doug Melville, who is the author. 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. You can go pre-order that now. Everywhere you buy books, it'll be out in November. I can never remember the exact date, but it'll be out in November. So go pre-order that now. Also, I wanna tell everybody this Thursday, I will be welcoming people to the Low Country Mental Health Conference, which is happening in my birthplace, my hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. You can go to lowcountrymhconference.com to register for that. There'll be a lot of great things there, man. You know, I love mental health. I love talking mental health. Mental health is my life's work. So it's a conference from July 26th to the 28th in Charleston, South Carolina. It's in partnership with my Mental Wealth Alliance. It's the Low Country Mental Health Conference. Go to lowcountrymhconference.com to register. And I wanna tell everybody, thank you to everyone who has listened to, downloaded, Alicia Renee's Unleash for Love, which is available right now on Audible. It is the latest release from SPH Productions. SPH Productions is Kevin Hart and I's company with Audible. It is an audio scripted romantic comedy, okay? It stars Alicia Renee. It stars Logan Browning. It stars Pretty V. It stars Jess Hilarious. We have Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy playing Alicia Renee's parents. Portia Williams is on there. Giselle Bryant, Naeem Linn, Spank Horton, Lamorne. A lot of people, man. It's a great, great, great, I wanna say great show because it is a show. It's just something that you listen to. And when you download it, when you listen to it, make sure you leave a ranking and make sure you leave a review, okay? I love seeing the rankings. I love seeing the reviews. And yeah, man, just thank you to everybody who's been supporting us on Audible. And salute everybody who got DJ Drama's project on Audible too. I haven't gotten a chance to listen to that yet, but I definitely want to. Alex, you're a producer on that, right? Yeah, produced, engineered and edited. Let's go. Celebrating 50 years of hip hop, DJ Drama in partnership with Collabo, which is Kenya Barris's network. Sleuth and Weezy. Yeah, we interviewed eight of the most iconic people he did, mixed tapes with. Yeah, I saw that. Lil Wayne, Tyler the Creator, GZ, who else? TI, Two Chains, Fabulous. Classic, man. Sleuth and Drama, Drama. I can't believe I haven't gotten a chance to listen to that. There's been so much shit that came out over the past week, bro. Like, damn, but I'm definitely gonna get around and listen to that. And if I turn around and we do a DJ clue audio documentary. And that would be very cool. No, DJ Drama and what y'all did, Kenya and Weezy did with that is what the inspiration was. Now let's get back to the show. What else we got on the docket, guys? Tiddies is always a good transition. Oh, is it? You know what's so interesting about this, though? What? She threw her 36G bra size on stage and now she's claiming, since Drake said who's the girl with the 36G cup bra? Playboy's hitting her up and Playboy's like, yo, we want you to do a spread. God. I don't believe that, yo. I feel like if this is true. Well, I think I need to see what they look like in a bikini or something. She just showed you. She just had a picture. Nah, but it's just from the back. I feel like the bar to do nothing is literally nothing. Okay, explain that. It's so easy to do nothing nowadays. All of a sudden, she throws a bra on stage and now Playboy's hitting her up to be in a spread. Well, yeah. I mean, like the bra is a letter we didn't even know existed in bras. So there's obviously gonna be some intrigue about it. Oh, there's no such thing as GGs? I didn't know that there was GGs in bras. I didn't know. Taylor, is there GGs in bras? Yeah. I had no idea. Taylor, is that also just normal? Yeah. What if I was like, yo, a girl G-sized tits is regular? Like, what are you talking about? What would you say? That's not regular. Usually we're like season. I think GGs are pretty, like, if you don't have a size G-tits, you basically got a small sack of tits. I didn't know people were still in the breasts like that. Oh, dude. I mean, I know you a heavies guy, but I didn't know. The heavies are back. Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know either. Heavies is like some 80s stuff. She is a baby. We're 80s babies, man. That's why she got, you know, we breasts more so. That is not why she got big breasts. It's because she got a baby, Taylor. You are such a hater. You are a hater. Oh, wait, tell me, tell me, tell me, why is that a hater? She didn't just grow them 30 things. Geez, I'm trying to ask like, if you had a baby, they do, true, but we don't even know how old our child is. Now scroll up. Like, when the babies three, they go back after you have the baby. You're just trying to act like you would have huge tits like that if you had a baby. That's what you're trying to act. I wouldn't want huge tits like that. Well, then how would you control it? Who's this? You just want the baby. Maybe. I'm talking about the rapper. Here, here you go. Okay. Nah, that's not her. It was like, they don't... I mean, scroll through. Maybe she just threw the bra to get Drake's attention. That pretty hard. Yeah, that's what I said. Maybe she just brought a size to throw it. Nah, maybe she did that. Maybe she just threw the bra to get the attention. Keep going. Maybe we'll see you again. That's not it. There's no way in hell. No? No way in hell? I mean, this is crazy. What are we looking at? Absolutely, all I see is dinner plates, bro. All I see is food. I know, we can't eat anything delicious anymore for the rest of our lives. I know, right? Oh, no, I still do, though. I don't go crazy. I don't do no fried foods. I've never really done a lot of sugar like that, but I'm not playing that game. My doctor even told me don't do that. He was like, don't do that to yourself. Because he told you to take the pill. Once you take the pill, you can kinda... Well, medicate me up, baby. You know what I'm saying? You can't have everything in life. Facts. Jalen Brown signed the richest deal in NBA history. What is it? Five years, $304 million. Congratulations, Jalen. Congratulations, Jalen. I am happy to see a black man getting their money, but I have to say that is fucking ridiculous. I like Jalen Brown as a player, but he hasn't won a championship. He hasn't won an MVP. I don't think Boston's on the brink of winning a championship. This is the kind of money you give to somebody after they done got you a ring. You starting to tell it right now, bro. What do you mean? It's a hit show. Five years, $304 million. Yo, man. Give it up to that man. I'm not mad at him, but what's the incentive to do anything when you get this? He's saying what everybody's thinking, which is exactly how is he a max guy if he's not playing like a max guy in a playoff? How? I feel it, but... That's the kind of money you give Giannis. Yeah, but this is the thing. It's like when there's a salary cap, the reality is you would give Giannis 100 million a year. Oh yeah. But there's a salary cap, so... But that's about to change too because of the new TV deal about to happen in I think like two years? Year or two? Maybe. So yeah, probably will. But I guess what I'm saying is like you would give Giannis a $100 million contract, but you can't because there's a salary cap. So you give him 50 and then there are other people that aren't as good as Giannis that also get the 50. You know what I'm saying? I know the game, I know times change, but like if you say, show me a top 10 list of the greatest players in NBA history and you look at the money that they made and then you say what a richest NBA contract in history went to Jalen Brown. That's just because... You're gonna say why. Yeah, but that's he's the first to sign. Like other people are gonna sign and then have the richest as well. It's just a peculiar. Is Jalen Brown a five year, 300, I'm not, get your money, King. He is. Are you a five year, $304 million player? Westbrook is getting $8 million this year. Even as a veteran's minimum, that's some bullshit for Russell Westbrook, yo. Yeah. Like come on. So if they got that kind of money to throw around five, you know how much, five years, $304 million? How much is that a year, $60 million? Five years, $300 million. 60. God, damn. That's too much, bro. That's too much for Jalen Brown. That's the new benchmark, and now every single contract after that is gonna be the new one. Gonna be that. But still I... But if you start 304 for Jalen Brown, where do you go? Yeah. Well you can't go right to Jalen Brown. And I like Jalen Brown. That's the top. I guess what I'm saying is like, we have to look at like this, like what other team is going, Jalen Brown is our number one guy. And maybe we're living in a time in the NBA where you have a few guys that are eating up 90% of the salary cap and then you have a bunch of role players that are making the veterans minimum. It seems like that's where we're going. You have two or three guys that are getting max or close. That's insane. And then everybody else gets almost nothing. Maybe I don't look at Jalen like that because he plays next to Jason Tatum. So maybe I'm not looking at, because when you said that about, you know, how many teams would look at Jalen as the number one guy? How many would? None. None. Am I missing something? Did you see Austin Rivers? Did you see Austin Rivers complaining about the CBA and complaining about what's going on? No. It's interesting. He's like, yeah, the new CBA, everything's so top heavy. So basically he's trying to, he's complaining because he's getting like 2 million a year right with his veterans minimum or something like that. And he's saying that all the big money is going to the big guys. And that takes away from the money that the other guys get. The top heavy, 36 GGs, bro. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying. I'm not knocking Jalen Brown. I want Jalen Brown to get his money, do your thing. But Jesus Christ, I'm just looking at it from a business perspective. If you paying Jalen Brown, who I don't know if he's an A guy. Like here's the question. I don't know if he's an A guy, he might be a 1B. Here's the question you gotta ask yourself. Who is a better player? Jimmy Butler or Jalen Brown? Jimmy Butler. And it's not even close. Jimmy Buckets. Right, not even close. So what is Jimmy getting? Did Jimmy get that Super Max at Miami? What's Jimmy getting? Look that up. If he can't be getting 300 or 4 million, that's the richest deal in NBA history. What's Jimmy getting? Jimmy gotta be, if Jimmy not getting the Max in Miami, something right. Well, I think he is gonna get the Max 100%. What if he signed Damien Lillard? What? They signed Damien Lillard, you know? But Jimmy's the type guy, I think Jimmy's made so much money already that he's like, man, I wanna win. Jimmy's on a three-year, 146 million. God damn. So Jalen Brown's gonna make in two years. What Jimmy Butler's whole deal is. How much does he say, three-year? What deal? Why the only sign of three-year? That might have to do with the fact that like the, they wanna. But it was a trade too. No, it might be a trade or it might be. Well, it's a four-year contract extension, they said. 184. But at a three-year is guaranteed. All NBA money's guaranteed though, right? Well, not if the contract says it's player option or team option. Oh, okay, okay, okay. But still, yeah, I guess. Hey man, salute to Jalen Brown. More importantly, salute to Bernie's Burgos, okay? Why, he take that down? I think they together, I don't know. Last I checked, I just wanted to salute Bernice. Bro, you know who? Bernice needs a five-year, 304 million dollar deal. I feel like she had a few of those. Bernice, even as a veteran, even as a veteran, Bernice should still get a five-year, 304 million dollar deal, yo. Bro, you know who the white Bernice Burgos is? Who? Irina Shake. Never seen her, pull her up. This girl has the greatest riz of any woman in history. Irina Shake. Bernice don't even got no riz, but Bernice is just a nice person. She has the greatest riz in the history of women. Bernice is just a nice person. She got a kid with Bradley Cooper, okay? She's rumored right now to be dating Tom Brady. She was dating Cristiano Ronaldo for five years. She was dating Kanye West from Barry. This was the quick girl that he was seen with, and then it kinda split up. She has only attacked, hunted, and sniped out the top of the top of entertainment and sports. What does she get out of it, though? Leo, it is, she's an assassin. What does she get out of it? You are helpless. If Irina comes for your man, there's nothing he could do. I can't give her the riz crown until you tell me what she got out of it, though. You know what I mean? What kinda car, what kinda house? She got a baby from Bradley, so she's always good no matter what for the next 18 years. I don't know. That's actually correct. She was. I was about to say that sang, right? That strike might break him, but that's Bradley. Bradley caked up. Bradley gonna be all right. Bradley caked up. I'm just saying, it is unbelievable her roster, bro. She is. That's great. 22 million followers? I never even heard of her. Oh, she was like one of the biggest models in the world. Sports sells straight at Irina. Oh, she was with Ronaldo? She was with Ronaldo for five years. In America, we don't really fully understand what Ronaldo is. Who don't? We. I'm not French. I don't understand fully what Ronaldo is. The French understand it more. Hey, man. I just look at his contract. Oh, okay. All the other shit. Just saying, being the girl that's staying Ronaldo, it's like the closest in the world, it's like the closest thing to dating. I don't think nobody over here, maybe Jordan. God? Yeah. Like I'm just like, it's insane. And that would have been like Jordan in the 90s. Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, salute to her. Clearly she's one of the best. Unbelievable Riz. Unbelievable Riz. She's riding around with Tom in the Phantom. Might be. Might be. It is what it is. Salute to her. A lot of people loved our conversation last week about what's going on in Hollywood. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I still stand by what I say. I feel like it's gonna end up being two screaming services at the end of the day. It'll be Disney in Netflix. They'll be the last one standing. Disney will acquire Hulu. Even though I think Hulu- Already owned it. Yeah, but it's something I think they gotta, it's still gotta buy it or something. It's something I don't fucking know. They were talking about selling it off, but I think Disney will end up just acquiring it, purchasing it, it'll all be one thing. And I think everything else will fade. I don't think Amazon will do original programming. I don't think Apple will do original programming. And I still think that we're gonna go back to a world where it'll be appointment television again, even though HBO put a show on Sunday at 10 o'clock and then Monday at a certain time, it will hit the app or the screaming platform or whatever the fuck it is, you know what I mean? And I think that way you keep both audiences, you know what I mean? Cause there's some people who don't, sadly ain't fucking with screaming services yet. They still got regular cable television, you know? So now you got both audiences and like your point you was making last week, people still want convenience. But if I miss that show on Friday, Sunday night at 10, I'll just watch it the next day, you know? I mean, you could just watch it later that night. What's up? I don't know if you made that point on here or on your Instagram about like, if the streamers release their numbers, then they're gonna lose money and then they pay. Oh, we talking about that last week? Yeah. A lot of, I heard from a few of the performers, they're like, they want them to release their numbers. Because then they, the studios will go back to regular TV cause that's where they'll make the bulk of their money. Studio the boys. If the Netflix can't pay for them to make good shows, then they're gonna just start going back to TV. But nobody's watching, go, go, go. No, I'm gonna say studios are gonna go back to regular TV just because it makes more sense for them. Because they've already failed in the screaming world. Yes, also, but the issue isn't just the content, right? Like some people are like, yeah, it's cause all their shows suck. And it's like, well, there's been a lot of shitty shows that have been on TV for years that people watched. The issue is, and why that won't work if it goes back to regular TV, is that there's not as many viewing hours on TV anymore. TV's competing with this. It's competing with Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. I go every night, I turn on Netflix or I turn on Disney Plus or I turn on one of the HBO. And I scroll for a little bit. I can't find something. I don't wanna commit to a show or a movie that I don't really know about. And I go, you know what? I'm gonna have so much fun scrolling this for 15 minutes and then passing out. So they're losing so many hours. Like think about it, how many hours you spent on your phone a day? If you actually look, you get six hours, eight hours, whatever. All those hours on your phone are hours away from TV. So they're losing man hours to the phone. So what they need to do is either create content that exists on the places where people are, right? Or downsize how much total content they're putting out. There's not enough hours to watch it all. That's what you do. If I'm HBO, if I'm Showtime, I'm not trying to compete with the Netflixers of the world no more. And Netflix, these are gonna have to slow down a little bit too and Disney Plus. I'm not trying to compete with them. What I'm doing is I'm gonna create four tentpole events every year. I'm gonna create four shows that I can do mass marketing and promotion campaigns around and I'm gonna push the fuck out of those shows. We gonna live and die by that because you can't keep up with Netflix if you're HBO and you gotta do 10, 15 shows a fucking year just to survive. Hell, Netflix can barely keep up with Netflix. You know what I mean? You damn sure can't keep up with Disney Plus even though Disney Plus model is a little bit better because they're putting out a show a week but they're still spending too much fucking money. And that's the thing about the networks where they're just like, the actors want upside if the show does well, right? But they're not asking to take any downside if the show doesn't do well. So the networks are going, we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars, nine out of 10 of these shows don't get any views and lose money. One out of the 10 wins. We need to recoup as much as we can off of that one out of 10 to pay for the other shows that don't make anything. Simple. But the actors are going, well if my show hits, I wanna get paid on that upside. And they're like, that upside is what allowed us to make 10. Now what I would say is one actors, I want you to get all the fucking money you can. So argue for your money, that's fine. But what the execs might need to do, and I understand the execs, the actors are going, these execs are making $50 million. Why the fuck are they making so much? I agree with the actors on that. If you scoring one out of 10, if you shooting one out of 10 for the field, you don't need to be making $50 million. Unless I'm Bob Iger. Well he not shooting one out of 10. I know but- Now it's been a little rough because he's been away from the game but he was shooting like 10 for 10. So he was making crazy money. People forget, Bob got the Michael Jordan last two year contract. Bob got the Kobe contract from the Lakers. I'm Bob Iger. Before I retired, I was the guy. You know what I mean? I only came back because y'all were fumbling. Y'all fucking were fumbling. I was on my fucking yacht with my kids. I done did it, you know what I mean? I don't wanna be here. Y'all have to pay me to come out of fucking retirement. I don't wanna be here. I don't wanna fucking be here. I don't wanna be here. Yes, so Bob Iger, I understand why Bob Iger got this shit load of money. He got his track record, speaks for itself. 100%. And I guess what I'm saying is the actors can feel rightfully frustrated that they're the execs ex that are making all this money when they don't feel like they're getting paid but know what you should criticize. You shouldn't criticize them for, for you not getting dividends on your show or residuals on your shows that suck and no one watches. You should criticize them on shooting such a bad percentage from the field. Think about it. If they greenlight better shows, which is their job, is to make good decisions on the greenlighting, those shows will theoretically be more successful. The more successful shows there are, the more money is generated, the more leverage you have to get residuals. When they're losing money and no money is being generated, there's no leverage for residuals because there's none to pay you. Yeah, I was looking at this. If all those shows are going to streamers, even the ones that pop, they're still not getting residuals on it. Yeah, but the problem with this, that's what I just explained is, what the networks are saying is one out of 10 pops. Nine out of 10 lose tens of millions of dollars. Where do you think the money from that profitable show is going? No, I get that for a TV network but I'm talking about for the streamers. I'm talking about streamers. That's what I'm talking about, the one out of 10. I think the problem with the streamers is these actors think these streamers are making so much money and they're not. And I don't think people really understood the whole issue with why the stock price is important and keeping it inflated is important. Because you can essentially get loans against your stock price, right? And use that money to create the content. But if your stock price drops, the loan itself becomes very insecure. You're getting a loan of let's just do round numbers, a million dollars, right? Based on a couple million dollars worth of stock. But with that couple million dollars worth of stock drops 50%. Now that bank is like, oh shit. That loan isn't worth much now. Wall Street, the shit itself, if they saw that people weren't really watching all these motherfucking shows. Like I said last week, a lot of these streamers are focused on the stock. They were focused on what the stock price was as opposed to what the actual profits they were bringing in were. People keep bringing back, no the stock price is based on how much money and how many subscribers are coming in. No, stock is predictive. The whole market is what is going to happen. You put your money in there because you're like, Apple is going to grow this, right? So we're predicting that Netflix will be the behemoth that has become. We're predicting that Apple might take it out, whatever, it is predictive, the stock market. So it's not based on what's coming in now. And if we see that nobody's watching any of the streamers, our prediction changes what is going to happen when we realize that nobody likes it and they might stop subscribing, we're gonna go, oh I need to get my money out of there before everybody knows that this is a little bit of a Fugazi, it's a little bit of a Ponzi scheme. Then they take their money out, stock price falls, no more lending to make shows, no more shows get put out. And just hypothetical on that, if that were to happen, then wouldn't a lot of streamers go belly up and then those studios happen now, make the shows for the networks. That's what's going to happen and then. What networks? What networks? Like on TV networks. Those TV. Because that'll be the only place. The premium cable networks, I think you just gotta, all you gotta do is simply look at everybody who jumped into the screen. Just hold on one second, let's just address that real quick. You feel like if it doesn't work for streaming, you're going, oh there's these networks that are just existing there and they need the content and then everything will be fine. If nobody's watching it in the most convenient way to watch it, which is streaming, even less people are watching on the networks. It's not like, oh once it goes back on the networks people are going to watch it. The only reason. That's why you do both. No, no, but what I'm saying is the only reason things are streaming is because they hoped that's where the eyeballs would be. But that's why you do both. That's their whole gamble. Hold on, hold on, hold on one second. You gotta meet people where they are. But they're not watching cable. That's why. That's not necessarily true, because Yellowstone did very well on the Paramount Plus network. And so they would. That's streaming. No, no, no, they got a linear channel too. So Yellowstone would do well on the Paramount Plus network, but then it would do just as well or even better on the streamers. So why not have both audiences? Maybe that's because Yellowstone skews a little older. So some of those people still have cable. Because people don't wanna pay for cable and pay for streaming. And eventually those old people or the people that are doing it are going to stop. Yeah, and some things are like events, right? Like euphoria. Motherfuckers watching that shit every Sunday. That's streaming. That drag, no, but people would watch on 10 o'clock when they would come on HBO. But a lot of people. And we tweet about it. A lot of people would watch it through Max or HBO Max or whatever they're doing. Absolutely, but that's something. Why not do both? Like that dragon show. I never even used to watch that shit. The Game of Thrones. But that shit used to be trending all the time whenever it would come on HBO. Because if you have something streaming you don't need both. It exists streaming whenever you want it and at 10 o'clock when it comes out. So there's no reason to have a less convenient form. It's like saying- But everybody having to cut their cable cord yet though. I still got cable. I'm aware, I'm aware. And don't get me wrong, I have YouTube TV which has the ability to watch cable for sports, et cetera. I'm just saying, what Alex's scenario that was pitched to me was, if it doesn't work on streaming then things will go back to cable. The only reason things wouldn't work on streaming is because not enough people are watching. The reason why it moved off of cable is because even less people were watching. Well there's not enough people are watching on the streaming services though. Only two! Who flew in Disney Plus? So everybody else is suffering. That's why HBO Max then changed six times. HBO Max then changed the streaming app five times in the last two years. And we can't talk in absolutes. People are still watching TV, people are still streaming. Absolutely, that's why I said do both. But if you take away one completely, then- That's where the mistake lies. There's gonna be some migration back to the other. By the way, you say migration back like people have left. Cable hasn't gone anywhere. That's what I'm saying. Like we still watch shit on cable now. Netflix goes belly up. Netflix ain't going anywhere. It's not going anywhere. No, no, Netflix ain't going anywhere. I mean if they put out their numbers and then there's stock price tanks. No, Netflix is the only one that's in the black. Netflix and Hulu are the only ones that's in the black. Because they don't release their numbers. If they release their numbers- No, nobody releases their numbers. I know, I'm saying if they release their numbers and the stock holders say, oh shit, yeah I'm really not doing well, they pull all their money out and Netflix goes belly up overnight. I don't know if that's the case. I think people are watching Netflix. Yeah, I don't know if it goes belly up, right? Cause I don't understand their books and I don't know if they're, if they are profitable, if they're making more money than they're spending, which is definition of being in the black, right? Then they should be okay because they're making more than that. I don't know what type of loans they have to pay off. I don't know what type of debt they're in. I don't know. I don't know enough about the books. And Netflix probably will suit back up cause we forget what happened before everybody had their streaming services. Before everybody had their streaming services, they were doing licensing deals with companies like Netflix. So it might go back to that. I just saw insecure is back on Netflix now. Insecure, all, so how many seasons was it? I don't remember how many, five or six are all back on Netflix right now. To me, that's a sign of things to come. If it never was on Netflix, it was on HBO, it was on HBO. It should be on HBO Max. I guess what I'm trying to say is the issue is not where it's playing. The, it's clearly more convenient and people gravitate towards convenience. Like for example, how many yellow taxis have you taken lately? Yeah, none. None, right? Because they're fucking disgusting. It's the same, how many times are you gonna get in one of these shit and see sperm on the back seat? You know what I mean? Fucking needles. You know what I mean? Why don't you get in the fucking yellow cab? That's the last time you've been in a yellow taxi. They not like that, bro. So, I'm probably not now, but they're gonna clean this shit up because they Uber and live. But now if you're right, if we get rid of Uber, right? Yeah, people will be forced to do more to ride more yellow taxis. But the reality is that more people are doing Uber than you yellow taxis when both exist. Also, and if we get rid of Uber, those people won't go back to yellow taxis. Those people will go to the competitor, which is Lyft. One fundamental difference is more convenient. That will happen with streaming, just real quick. That'll happen with streaming as well. The biggest issue of all time, I think right now, is the numbers are low, not because it's streaming, not because it's cable, it's because TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Shorts are dominating the hours spent watching things and more entertaining, frankly, than a lot of shows, and more engaging, and more addictive. And people would rather do that than watch TV at the end of the day. Until you create a show that those places love. So, you wanna create a show that those places eat up, that those places take clips from and repost. So, now people wanna see that shit in real time because they wanna catch the next hot meme or whatever it's gonna be. The only difference, the only pushback I would give on the Taxi Analogy is that Uber and Lyft just were better than Taxis. That's what I'm thinking. In every way. Discrement isn't better than cable in every way. It is better in terms of convenience, and the convenience allows the shows to be worse and you still be satisfied. So, in other words, an eight out of 10 show that I can binge and watch whenever I want, I will watch. That pisses me off more, to be honest. What does that mean? If I spend eight hours watching some mid, it's one thing, if you give me some mid over eight weeks, it's only an hour out of my week. So, I'll drop off by week three. It happened to me before, I was watching Walking Dead and it was season three or four or five and it was three mid episodes in a row and I was like, I ain't building my life around this shit. I gotta not do a show or not go out to the internet. It's too inconvenient and streaming has created the convenience. They've created a situation where they can put a show that's still good but maybe not as a wait every week show on and you'll binge through it, but one, you go through the shows too fast so they gotta figure that out. They just need to put a higher quantity and you're not competing with cable, you're competing with fucking TikTok, man. I think what they have to do is if the studios wanna make money, they have to make shows where the eyeballs are and they have to make content for social media. I think everybody should. I think that's the game. I think everybody should. Even places like Quibi tried it. No. Quibi tried to do the phone thing. No, no, no, not that. I'm not saying make, what did I do with stand up? Nobody was watching it on TV so I was like, I'm gonna put stand up in a place where I can do it authentically but also where I think the people are and they're gravitating to. Instagram, YouTube, right? Now that is the industry standard because that's where the people are for stand up. You gotta meet people where they are. You gotta meet, and if the people are on TikTok and they're offering 10 minutes or they're doing whatever, you never know. Give them clips. Why not give them 10 minutes of a show? That's what? Like why not take a game of thrones and say, hey, 10 minute preview on TikTok. Watch the full episode on cable. This is what I would do. That's, you know what? Okay, bro, we just figured out, of course, Brandon just figured out Hollywood for usual. Boom. Right? I wanna be where the people are. That's right, show comes out, right? I take a 10 minute clip. I don't know, TikTok got 10 minute, whatever. I think you can do it, maybe up to 10. Whatever the amount of reels is. I put that preview on Instagram, real, TikTok, everything else, boom. Did I say to watch the full episode? Go here. Sunday nights, 10 o'clock, HBO, then boom. Screaming services the next day. Come on, man. Can I tell you why I know that this will work? Because I have a lot, because one, we're billion idiots, but two, they do this thing on TikTok where people play scenes from movies. And they'll do part one, part two, part three. And sometimes there's movies I've never fucking seen. And I find myself watching, and they'll be from the middle of a movie, not even the first scene. And I'll watch part one, and then I'll be like, oh shit, let me go to the page, and I'll watch part two, I'll watch part three, and I keep on watching, then I go, I wanna see the whole shit. Bro, you know what else that shit works? Old content, like old movies that you haven't seen in a while, but somebody will make a meme or some shit. That's what I'm talking about. It's the old shit. Yeah, you be like, oh shit, we did that the other night with Love Jones, and that's my wife's favorite movie. We used to have that shit on DVD player. You gotta be where the motherfucking people are. And because y'all put out so much fucking trash and garbage in TV and movies, they are no longer scrolling your shit, they are scrolling TikTok, and it's also just more digestible. That's the new cable guy. Because also word of mouth, we always say word of mouth spreads things too, so all of that is word of mouth. So if a show is hot, you're going to go watch it because you see people online talking about it. Also Netflix doesn't allow you to screenshot the show. I told the people in Netflix, I'm like, I'm gonna give you a gift. I go, I'm gonna give you a fucking gift. Tell this to your boss. I don't even need credit for it. You tell this for your boss and you get all the credit. Let your shows be screenshot-able. Memes drive culture. You can't record your show because they're worried people are gonna put it out wherever. Let them put it out. Let it be culture. You know how many people want to go watch that Drake Freestyle because it had one little combination. Oh, exact. They want to know what the fuck this means. What does this mean? We're talking about right now. That's right. Combination. Combination. I don't know if you can- That's what Hollywood needs. You can kind of let it do a screenshot and then they can do a full screen record and then once you do that, then there's just gonna be a whole bunch of free websites that- And stop flagging fucking people Netflix and stop flagging fucking people when we record content and post it on Instagram. You should be happy we repost your fucking shows. But they're so protective of the shit, it doesn't matter. Let them post it on those sites. Most people don't even know how to get to those fucking sites. Only way they make money is from subscribers. No, but what I'm saying is let them do it. Let them do it. And then what's gonna happen is people are gonna get addicted to a show and then it's just gonna become too inconvenient to go to the site. You gotta worry about getting a virus. Maybe it's not good, whatever. And you'll just go like, you know what? Fuck it, I'll give you my eight bucks. I'll give you my 12 bucks. All right, they have to 20 now. But what I'm saying, and if they're charging too much, that's on them and they gotta bring it down. But get the content out there. Like it just, I didn't even know about the Jamie Foxx movie. Have your shit screen shotable. Have somebody rerecord the whole thing and throw it up on YouTube and then you take it down in a day. Have there be culture built around the show. To that point, they cloned Tyrone, definitely number one trend in on Netflix this weekend. And I had no clue. Because of the internet. And I had no clue. Guaranteed because of the internet. Between the whole Jamie Foxx stuff and then everybody watching it and then reposting, guaranteed because of the Jamie Foxx. Same thing happened with a movie like Get Out. Everybody wanted to run to go see Get Out because you wanted to know what the references were when everybody started posting tea cups and shit or the camera flashes. You gotta do that. Also, if you have something on social media that you think is really brilliant, it's funny, it's interesting. How often you send it to your boy, right? How often you sent a Netflix show to your boy? How often you sent an HBO show to your boy? How often you sent a Hulu show to your boy by just one press of a button? Never. Yeah, you can't even make me tell them about it, yo. You should be watching fucking such and such. Yeah, but now is telling somebody to watch something is different than, yo, go to minute three on this right now. That's what we just did with the Drake combination? Yeah, combination. It's like you have to adapt to the way things are being consumed and then not doing it and the stock price is high, so there's no real issue. But you gotta change, bro. It's crazy how scrimmels are making the same mistake that TV made. Remember when linear television didn't want to post on YouTube? They didn't want to put clips on YouTube? MTV killed itself on that. One reason, they went to war with YouTube and they were like, we won't put any of our stuff. Do you know how much guy code would have crushed on YouTube? Oh my God, it's probably best that it wasn't on. You might be right. You might be right. Think about what we were doing. And what we said. You think about how many of them don't air anymore? That's facts, bro. When you think about how they try to bury a show, they try, think about how they try to bury a show like guy code with everybody who came from guy code. Is thriving. You, me, Duval, Pete Davidson, Aquafina, Nicole Byer, like Jesus Christ, Carly, Krista Stefano. Chrissy Akash. Akash. Bro, it's Dan Soder. There's so many people came from that show, bro. They don't want us to see that shit. When I started realizing that they were editing stuff from episodes of guy code and just not showing them, I buried that part of my life. It was over, right? I didn't know what the fuck was going on. I'm like, what the fuck? You know what I did when they asked me to come to that reunion. Oh, you didn't do it. You remember? I forgot. Remember what they said to you? I remember, but I don't remember. I don't know. This is what you said to me. They were like, we asked everybody and everybody said yes. No, two people said no. Oh, two people said no. You and Nicole. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I did that more for Ling. Ling wasn't involved. Oh, Ling wasn't involved? And Ling brought me in. So I was like, why are you gonna cut this man out of his show? Yeah. I didn't even think about it. Yeah. You guys did know that. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Who can Ryan Ling, who's Dan Burns? Yo, start with Ryan Ling and Dan Burns. Paul Rich, y'all fucking guys, man, gang, gang. For life. Let's pay some bills, man. Squarespace, today's episode of Brilliant Natives is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all-in-one platform for building your brand and growing your business online. 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That was good. This headline. This headline. The fuckers. This headline is just saying what a lot of people already knew. Carly Russell made her story up. Oh yeah, what is, I don't, dude, I'm out of it. While the statement was being read to the public, you can hear the officer saying that the whole kidnapping was a hoax. My client has given me permission to make the following statement on her behalf. There was no kidnapping on Thursday, July 13th, 2023. My client did not see a baby on the side of the road. My client did not leave the Hoover area when she was identified as a missing person. My client did not have any help with this incident, and this was a single act done by herself. The statement continued, my client was not with anyone or any hotel with anyone during the time she was missing. My client apologized for her actions to this community, the volunteers that were searching for her. The Hoover Police Department and other agencies as well, we asked for your prayers for Carly as she addresses her issues and attempts to move forward understanding that she made a mistake. Carly again asked for your forgiveness. Yeah, I don't care enough to be upset about a situation like this, because ultimately situations like this just hurt Carly Russell. I don't like people who say things like, oh, things like this are wide. They don't take claims of missing black women serious. No, that's not true. They weren't taking the claims of missing black women serious before Carly Russell. Carly Russell wasn't even missing, and they couldn't find her. So that shows you how much they were not looking for Carly Russell. Showed so. Can you show? That's hysteric. It's the truth, though. She wasn't even missing, and they couldn't find her for 48 hours. That's got to be her angle. She wants to rehab her image that she was just trying to prove they don't search for black women. I wasn't even missing, y'all couldn't find me. Somebody said that shit. Somebody said something. Somebody said something to the effect of, damn, I heard somebody say this to me. They said Carly Russell. Oh, shit, it was something like that. It wasn't that. Oh, they said Carly might have been upset about something else. So she had no problem saying she was kidnapped because she didn't think they would come and look for her anyway, because she's a black woman. I like your angle better. Oh, no, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you. But I mean, my point with that is they never take these cases seriously. We put out Finding Tameka because of situations like this. Finding Tameka is about a woman named Tameka Houston who went missing in South Carolina in the early 2000s. Her case is what sparked the Black and Missing Foundation, which is the biggest organization that does this work, which tries to raise awareness to black women that are missing. So because of the Tameka Houston case, black and missing came to be. So they do this kind of work. All you got to do is read their stats and read what they're about to see how much they don't care about the cases of black women that have gone missing. And yo, since Carly Russell, man, the ill thing about the Carly Russell case to me is when you look at the hundreds of thousands of missing black women in this country, the real conspiracy is, why this story? What made this story go on social media? What was the story? Just the luck of the draw. Can you tell me what the story is? I don't know, even though the story is. It was a pretty good story. It really wasn't. I mean, if it was true. Break it down for me. You saw a toddler walking down a highway. Already I'm in. At night time. So you decided to pull over on the side of the road. She's on the phone with her boyfriend's girlfriend, I think it was, they said. What? And she's saying, are you OK? Are you OK? Boyfriend's girlfriend. No, boyfriend's sister. I'm sorry. Her boyfriend's sister. And so then the boyfriend's sister allegedly said, she heard her scream. She heard ask, are you OK? Are you OK? Heard her scream. And then she just heard the sound of the highway. That's pretty juicy. It's juicy, but that's why I love the Fifth Agreement. Be skeptical, but listen. Tell her I'll tell you. I didn't believe this shit, but there's no need for me to jump out there and be like. So boyfriend's sister goes. Boyfriend's sister goes. She screams. She said she heard her asking, are you OK? Are you OK? Then heard her scream. And then just the sound of the highway. And then she left her cell phone, a wig, and something else. Like her car was still there, cell phone was still there. But she had like a bathrobe, some snacks. For a man to snatch her own wig off is crazy. For a man to snatch her own wig off? She snatched her own wig off. So the story. Why you call her a man? No, I'm not calling her a man. Saying like the rumors are saying that she did that because she was trying to get back at her boyfriend. Yeah, of course. But all I would please slap me now if I ever was to like. Snatched my wig off. You wear wigs? No, I don't wear wigs. But I'm saying like. So why would you go to that? I'm just saying to go to that extent. I don't think that's a big estate. You just taking the wig off. So she's leaving it behind. That's not a wig that you're wearing? No, asshole. But she was trying. But look what she's attempting to do. No way. That's your real hair? That's a good buck up, no. So when? We're not doing this black hair education with you. Hold on. He be knowing. That's not your really knowing though. I never said it was. You just told Andrew that's your real hair. No, I didn't. But it's not your real hair, then it's a wig. It's not a wig. There's different forms of extensions. What's your number? What's your curl? Is it like a one? This is real though, right? Don't just text me first. This is real, right? One is definitely for white women, so stop. The baby hairs are real. You got nice baby hairs. Your baby hairs is a one. Your baby hairs is a one. Your baby hairs are a one. You're trying to tell me that only white women could have baby hairs? What are you talking about? Because you're saying because of my baby hairs, I have to be a one. No, I said your baby hairs are a one. No, they're not. I know hair. Your baby hairs are a one. I said gel. Rest of your hair probably a 17. But your baby hairs are a one for sure. You got a 17. You got a 17. What does 17 mean to you? You got a 17 hard curl. What does 17 mean to you? What does 17 mean to you? You got a 17 hard curl. 17 means you should walk away. You got a 17 hard curl. You got a 17 hard curl. And like the Kevin Durant curl, right? You got a 17 hard curl. You do. But your baby hairs are a one. I've never seen it before in my life. Honestly, I thought that the baby hairs were a wig. I thought that you got baby hair wig. I got edges as well. Now I know that. Your edges are a one for now. Listen. What do you mean for now? Carly Russell, bro. Yeah, what's your number? What's your number? What's your number? Be honest. Can I guess your honest number? You're not allowed to guess my. No. Baby hairs are a one. It's a nine. No, and you're a seven. It's a nine. No, she's a seven. There's no fucking seven or nine. I don't even know what we're talking about. I just thought we were playing a game. OK. 8 was number between 1 and 17. What's your number? I thought we were playing a game. What's your number? What's your number? You're a highest number it goes. I don't even know. I've never heard of numbers. What does it go to? What does it go to? I've not heard of numbers. What does it go to? It goes to four, four C. I did not know that. But listen, you're first of all, you're definitely a 1A with the baby hairs. No, it's not. Oh, stop playing with me, girl. Stop playing with me, child. Stop playing with me, child. What is a 1 in hair? Let me look this over. You're an asshole, it's not. Child, stop playing with me, child. So you're like, what, like a 3A? What are you? What does A? Is it A1 hair? Oh, type 1A hair is 100% straight. There is no hint of. You have type 1A hair. No, I don't. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. This is interesting. You got a Cambodian forehead. Listen, it's 80%. You got a Cambodian hair, bro. Type 1A hair is 100% straight. There is no hint of curl pattern or wave. Thank you. It's simply straight and flat as a white woman's ass. Damn. What did you say? Damn, Shala, why we got the shots? Listen, why we got the shots? Listen, it says another defining feature of type 1A hair is its white woman lip thinness. God, damn, bro. What's going on right now? I'm reading what it fucking says. You might be right about the baby. Dude, I got a great joke I can't even say, man. What you looking that up on? I can't. It's Google. No, I just can't even say it, but it's phenomenal. I want to give it to Al. And then Al can say it. Anyway. What type 4A hair do I have? Let me see. I'm definitely 4C. You're not. I'm a 3A. You're not a 4C. I'm a 3A. I have shrinkage everything. You have not seen my real hair. Yo, so you got a tight fro. You got a tight, tight fro? Yes. They call you Cambodian Taylor on the block. No, everybody knows you as Cambodian Taylor. I'm a 3A. I'm a 3A. I'm a 3A. How you a 4A? I'm a 3A. You are one. Child, please. Child, please. Child, get out of here, child. Send us the other. You are a lot. You are a lot. I'm waiting for Chris. He hasn't sent it to me. What's Chris doing? Having three heart attacks and a Lyme disease? Pneumonia. Jesus Christ. Pneumonia. All right, let's do some asking idiots. DJBJ21 says, if you could know one thing for a fact that actually happened, what would it be? Ooh, this is a good one. If you could know one thing for a fact that actually happened, what would it be? I think anything concerning Jesus. I want to see if all of this stuff in the Bible is even remotely accurate. You know what I mean? Everything from the miracles that were performed. What if the story's rising from the dead? What if the meaning is accurate? Like a Pixar movie ain't real, but it is. What did you say? I think it does. Ooh, how did it all start? Maybe it starts with Jesus. Well, no. That's not even according to Jesus. Jesus would know, though. Jesus would know about the Big Bang, because yeah, it pops, pops is the one. Yeah, Jesus would know. His dad would tell him, you know what I'm saying? You get cool with Jesus. You learn all the secrets to the universes. That's O, O. The multiverse. O. So there's a multiverse where Jesus might be Asian. There's a multiverse where Jesus might be. It's possible. Extraterrestrial. He could be extraterrestrial. Straight up. I wouldn't mind knowing the Big Bang, all that stuff, all that stuff, man. I think I thought there's more of like a conspiracy, like Epstein's Island and stuff like that kind of shit. You know what I would really want to know? All jokes aside, extraterrestrial. That's what I would want to know. I would want to know their life on other planets. Even though I believe it is, and I know it is, I would like to know for a fact that it's life on the planet. What about if they come here? That would answer my question, too, though. You know what I'd like to know? How they built the pyramids. I knew he's gonna say that. Yeah, like the ancient civilization. That's what I'm into. I just explained that to me because that opens up a lot of things. What happens if we get a two-for-one? What if they just tell you extraterrestrials? Boom, so now we got a two-for-one. We know extraterrestrials. But they won't give you, because you'd be like, extraterrestrials, but then you use up your question already. Nah, you could follow up. Tell me about it, my dream. Talk to me. Talk to me now. They think it's one thing. It's just one thing. Nah, but we talking about that one thing. We not done yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, bro. Okay, I get it now. Okay, so yeah, the pyramids. If the pyramids is extraterrestrials, then we got a lot of shit to talk about. You? Yeah, he's being specific. You? If you could know one thing for a fact that actually happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I could know one thing for a fact that's if Taylor is a one. If her hair is a one. Taylor meeting Kobe, if her hair is a one. That's what I would know for a fact. Taylor meeting Kobe is another one. Oh! Stop, because I had no proof. I literally gave you the proof. I had you agreeing to me on video. It's a little grainy. We're going to insert that video, because... They say we got proof for UFOs too, but all the videos are a little grainy. That picture is a little grainy. That picture is a little grainy. That picture is a little grainy. Kobe's clear as day. The baby... You could have taken two pictures and made a combination. That's right, that's right. You could have done that. That picture you got could have been the baby Carly Russell saw. Oh! We don't know, Taylor. Oh! Ew. Yeah, that's disrespectful. It is disrespectful, you would do that. I would want to know about Beyoncé and Jay-Z the fight in the elevator. What do you mean? You would use... What a waste, that's what you're talking about. What a waste. Why would you want to know what happened? What a waste. What a waste. Why is it a waste? Why is it a waste? You can know it anything, bro. And that's the one you want to know. Yeah, pray, pray, pray. Colonoscopy time. Let's not... No, pray. Seriously, pray. Come on, Taylor. Honestly, for real. Why are you saying that? If you can know anything... Don't blame her, Taylor. That's gonna be my top five, though. Taylor, I'm not even joking. It'll be my top five. Taylor, I literally just... It's the curling agent that she has to pray. Thank you. That's my top five. And it's not my first time praying for you, but in that moment... We needed to pray. I said, God, please. God, please help her. Please help her. That's not your top five at all. Please help her. No! Not even close! This is how I know your hair straight. That's how I know your hair straight. That's how I know your hair straight. My God! That's a fact. That's how I know your hair straight. I don't even think of that. You want to know why Beyonce's upset in an elevator? You couldn't guess it? It could be any couple in the elevator, I guess. That's what I was saying! Fuck you, motherfucker! I just want to hear some lines. Just air him out. Oh, come on. What else we got, man? This is why my heart broken. This is why my heart calcified. You. Man, Focaga says, looking back on your life, who or what makes you instantly light up? Oh, man, that's easy for me. My wife. Aw. And it's not even close. Me and my wife have been together 25 years. That is my heart. There's nobody that makes me light up. I was literally on the porch thinking about that shit yesterday, y'all. She's the person who believed in me more than anybody ever. The first time I ever felt out of application to a radio station, she drove me and took me. When she was in college, she majored in journalism and communications and she wrote a paper about me. You know what I'm saying? Man, it was like interviewed me for it. Even how she saw me back then and what I could be. That kind of belief is unbelievable. And she's my best friend and the closest person to me. So there's things that I talk to her about that my mom wouldn't know or my grandma wouldn't know. You know what I'm saying? You know, it's just like those deep, dark secrets, desires, you know, beliefs, things that you want to happen, she knows. And for somebody to believe in you in that way, come on, man. Come on, man. That's beautiful. What was the question? Who do you... If foreign enemy troops hit US soil, what's your first move? Would you fight? That's how you got there? That's how you got there? How the hell did that happen? I was wrapped up in that struggle. No, no, it said, looking back on your life, who or what makes you instantly light up? Oh, of course. Yeah, I think genuine surprise, awe and excitement from my wife makes me light up. And I know that like in our field, we get a lot of praise. So there's not a lot of times where they get to experience that. And they know that. And they're on board with that. And they're supportive of us getting that. But there's moments where they get to feel that too, be it a birthday or cool life thing that happened. And seeing them really light up and be excited about it and react to it and like even get emotional. Like when they get to be the star of the show, if you will, when they get to have that. And those are the times where I really light up when they're really proud of themselves. And they feel like they accomplished something. And it's harder for them because they're always, you know, probably comparing their accomplishments to ours. And thinking that because they're they're different that they might not be as good. But then and which is bullshit, like each person's accomplishment is beautiful based on where they are in their life. But seeing those moments where they feel really proud and really happy and really excited. And it's like about them. They get that spotlight. Absolutely. That's a really that makes me really light up. Absolutely. The underscore nobody will ever talk about you like that. The underscore as Jesus Christ says, Why do you do that? I don't even know why I had to do that. I couldn't even control myself. I saw her over there. Into it. And I couldn't wait to burst that bubble. I don't know why. I got to talk to my therapist about that. I really don't know why. You got to talk to his therapist. I'm being honest with you. That was safe. Say that. That's why your heart closed. I really don't know why I had to do that. You used to like to be a bully. That's why. That wasn't bullying though. Yes it was. What was that then? Something I've been working on since school. Yo, you liked it though. I liked what? Right now. What happened? No, that's your heart. No I don't. And it felt good that I know it just stung her a little. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. He likes it. That's that rough Philly shit, bro. Yeah, I know. That's Philly. It's like rough. There's a little bit of like. Yo, she enjoys it. You did enjoy it a little bit. Even right now you're like. You know what? The thing is I'm used to it because I'm the youngest and my siblings used to make fun of me and everything else like that all the time. Oh, well then why is it when I pitched that idea you looked at me like I was fucking crazy. They weren't as mean as you are though. We are not mean. Why are you bringing me into this and why are you making this a week? Fuck you. And fuck you. Both of y'all are crazy. I'm an innocent boss. They mean as fuck. Fuck you. I'm left here sometimes. Fuck you. My sister never says or anything like that to me. What? They would never do like. That's never going to happen for you though too. I thought they were my friends. Maybe my brother. Maybe my brother. Debbie told me. I love Debbie Brown. My sister love her to death. Before Debbie was who she was. She's always been a version of Debbie. So she's always been this nice sweetheart. Debbie told me one time that's why Jesus is ignoring your prayers. How does that feel? That's how you just made up. It was like 13 years ago. She was like that's. I was like what? That's crazy. No it was longer. This is about 15 years ago. You still remember that. Oh seven. Do I remember it? That shit was like. Where is Jesus? Like why would she say that? Like why would you just say something like that? Would you say to her? I don't even remember. Who knows. Everybody converted to the nation of this. Because I think I need to talk to someone else. Let's do a couple more. The underscore educated investor says how do you guys stay honest in a dishonest industry? I'm going to tell you something right now educated investor and I'm being honest. I like to lie. I don't give a fuck about being honest. Talk to him. In this dishonest world. What the fuck are we being honest with people for? Nobody cares about the truth when the lie is more entertaining. I rather entertain. No I think he's asking how do you negotiate the dishonesty. How do you, the people that around you maybe being dishonest. The executives, that kind of stuff. At least that's what I took it as. Well I don't think anybody's ever being dishonest. I think everybody's just always looking out for the best deal. You know what the, yeah you know people's true intentions so you're looking at that. It's like they know that they're going to you know ride a wave with you or catch her. It is a lie though. It's business never personal. So like everybody's got a business to run. Everybody's got a company to run. So people are always going to try to get the best deal. So it's just like they'll come to you and be like hey this is all we got. Well I don't want it then. I'm fine. Then they find some more. All of a sudden all this money like well we got this and that. Well yeah of course you do. You know what I mean? So it's just like you got to know that. And you got to know that people are just always looking out for their best interest. So you got to find people and get people around you that are looking out for yours. Amen to that. Build your team. Like build a team that you can be honest with and know that most people like I think a lot of people get let down you know when they find out that there are people in this business that have self-intentions and a lot of people get into this business for their their narcissism right. I'm not saying that we all don't have like a certain part of it but I think what happens is is they go oh yeah we're all colleagues we're all best friends we're all in entertainment together and then all of a sudden they find out that these people that they're all besties with weren't really looking out for them they're looking out for themselves. That's right. So it's like be cordial with people have friends with you try to try to help people as much as you possibly can because you believe in them and they have something special and that's the right thing to do but your core group build with the people that you think are high integrity individuals that you think will look out for you and be loyal to you and you do the same for them because those are going to be your friends. This idea where you're just friends with everybody. No those people may might be being nice to you because they think that they can use you for something. That's real. So yeah I trust that people will be selfish and build with the people that have unselfish qualities. Yeah and I agree with everything Sho said and I guess the only basic way I would answer that question is man when you get in a certain position man be be be be what you always wanted other people to be to you you know what I'm saying really is really just as simple that's that to me is honest because you know what you wanted out of other people so now that you're in that position make sure you're doing that for others to me that's a honest person because you're not it's not about self-interest you know like you actually do care about the greater you know when everybody's on the come up they're like I want the industry to be like this we got to fight for this and we got to fight for that so they get a deal they're like oh we're good oh man you're gonna see that with this action oh yeah the picking line because they got what they wanted it wasn't about what every the greater hold the greater you know what I'm trying to say the greater every the greater collective wanted yes a lot of times people use the greater collective to manipulate a situation in their advantage that's right let's do one more what we got to look find a good one man they asking about your poop so it got better thank you though for asking and then I got some great news about my fucking heart immediately after it so I've been having some nice health issues oh this is that we can end with this one a jai oh five says if you could bring one person back from the dead to be a pod guess who would it be who oh man she tried to make me cry I got damn tellin see I'm looking for entertainment you want to be honest yeah you know what I mean Jesus Christ rest in peace jazz rest in peace who would you want to bring back shots to have a conversation with my would be Jesus Jesus would be great Mohammed would be great Abraham would be great none of them slap like Jesus though now Mohammed's got bars bro I think more people in the Jesus throughout the world like more people would be the highest viewed anything ever in history with Jesus but Jesus got a 500 year has started I'm just saying I would love to talk to Jesus to don't get me wrong you know but like I'm also love to talk to Mohammed and I'd love to talk to Abraham but yes the religious figures as those people who have like carved out you know the exact existence Napoleon would be fired to talk to what if Jesus is more like soldier boy than we said that on this podcast a long time what if Jesus is on my whole flow what if I forgive not everybody trying to forgive you know he's like yeah but Jesus what about when you said you looked up to the sky you say forgive them father for they know not what they do I never said that why Jesus is like all these memes giving me I never said any of that me nothing you know I have to sit down with the J man big J we might have a J J J Jesus Jesus would be the one yo can we do that with AI oh shit feed the Bible into the AI these are the the words of Jesus and God and then we have a conversation with him based on the information in the Bible ain't none of that yet y'all y'all using AI all wrong yeah could you have a conversation with no what when he does have we know yeah Morgan Freeman everybody looks like yeah but I just got oh shoot you right what does Jesus's voice sound like Chris that would be so disappointed Jesus sounds like Chris I'll be so disappointed disappoint you man now I got now I really got to see some miracles now you know I get a certain tone when you can have in your voice I'll be like oh that's Jesus yo yeah but if you sound like Chris is like alright man okay I'll walk on the water okay guys we'll have more wine I guess keep the party going nobody likes sake you sure as always if you listen to this podcast you think we're smart you think we're brilliant you think we're intelligent you're absolutely right I think I said no as always we'll just understand we're smart you think we're intelligent you think we're brilliant you're absolutely right but if you listen is podcast you think we're just a couple idiots don't know shit you're right to. 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