 Yep, Charlamagne the God. Andrew Schultz. We are the Brilliant Idiots podcast. Back for another week of Brilliant Idiotness Man. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. We are here. We were just watching, because we're recording this on a Monday. Schultz was just showing me J. Williams on ESPN's first take. Oh, yeah. Going head to head with Stephen A. Smith. Mm-hmm. And I guess the conversation was about Kyrie. I was enjoying whatever personal digs that they were trying not to take it each other, but taking it each other. Seemed very personal. Seemed very personal. Which I can probably see at first take. I'm sure a lot of people at first take who have personal grapes, which Stephen A. Smith. Why? Because he's Stephen A. Smith. Yeah, but it's sports. You're Stephen A. Smith. He likes a different team. Who gives a fuck? Oh, absolutely. But he's the big dog. Yeah. Oh, there's like envy and jealousy. Absolutely. And I'm not saying that's J's position, but I can see where a lot of people probably feel like that about Stephen A. Smith. And Stephen A. Once again, you got to read his book. I love his book. It's called, what the fuck is his book? It's called Straight Shooter. Yep. And the reason I love his book, he talks about personalities that he doesn't like. Like the reason he loves Skip Bayless, because he says Skip Bayless was a natural contrarian. So what he hates is people like a J Williams, because he said this in the clip, and we could play the clip, but he said to J Williams like, go ahead, you find everything interesting. That's what J says. I find it interesting that, he said that's what he didn't like about Max Kellerman, because Max Kellerman would say something, and then come back on the next day and apologize. So Stephen A. loved the debate, and he wants you to have an opinion and stand on it. You know what I mean? He don't want you to be around about it with it. Yeah. Like I find it interesting. Like no, what do you think? Don't tell what you find interesting. Yeah, he said, he's talking a lot about finding stuff interesting. Why don't you tell me how you feel? How you feel. Word up. That's what he wants. He wants you to tell you how he feels. Yeah, it's a tricky thing, man. And with Jay, it's like, Jay's, when it comes to at least college basketball, he's one of the greatest team players in history, but when it comes to- But he's picking the draft. Yeah. But when it comes to one-on-ones, man, it's not his game. You know what I mean? Like the one-on-one, if it was maybe like a group conversation, if it was maybe a three-on-three or something like that, or a four-on-four, a five-on-five, but the one-on-one, something happens where he really wilts under the pressure. Nah, you got, I mean, listen, I've seen it first hand, you know what I mean? Especially when he gets a head start. Dude, when he gets a head start, bro, that's what happened. He was going downhill on Steven A, and then Steven A flipped it. Yeah. Because he tried to bounce the ball off Steven A's head just to use a metaphor. And whenever that happens, he's putting himself in a very dangerous situation. Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. That's all I'm trying to say. And just for anybody who's brand new to this brand new podcast, because we are a new podcast. Yeah, we are a brand new podcast. We're just starting, you know what I'm saying? You might want to Google Andrew Schultz, J Williams, you know. Oh, shit, we fucking played. One-on-one. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God, I forgot about that. You beat him. I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I fucking destroyed him, man. That is crazy. I definitely whooped his ass, dude. No, that is crazy. Oh, you're right, that J Williams versus Andrew Schultz. Oh, do we have a video of it? Oh, wow. I mean, you can't really hear it. Yeah, but, oh, he missed that shot. I think this is the day that Hethie was born. I mean, we know that the day that Hethie was born. To pull up on purpose. This is the day you went full heal. This is the day Andrew Schultz decided I'm not doing this good guy shit no more. Nope, I'm gonna be the bad boy of this shit. See y'all, see y'all. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, the bounce. That is the hardest one points ever in history. I got the ankle braces on. Oh my God, man. Oh my God. Damn, Jake Patrick L's, bro. Jake's day's catch. My man in the background working out. Who is he? What Russian bath house is attending? That's when I first started getting him Dr. Sandy procedures. That shit look crazy. That shit look like Sammy Sosa. Now I get it. My God. The funny thing is, Kyrie Irving elicits this kind of emotion out of people. And Jay did ask Steven A. One thing that was true. It's like, yo, he said, why do you seem so personal with Kyrie? I don't think Steven A. is taking it personally. I think that Steven A. is right. I'm right about him. And what Kyrie does to teams. He's a franchise killer. That's why I think it comes off. It's not the fact that Steven A. really cares about Kyrie like that. Steven A. cares about being right. And he's right. He's absolutely right. Kyrie is not the ideal player to have on your team. He's an absolute magician with a basketball. Unbelievable. I think he might have the highest offensive IQ that I've ever seen on a player. His ability. That's a big, big thing. I mean it. Better than the guy he was playing with, KD? And then don't get me wrong. I think KD is probably one of the greatest scores ever. Better than Michael Jordan? No, he's one of the greatest scores ever. But the amount of problems Kyrie has to solve in order to score is way different than KD. Nobody can block KD's shot. He's seven feet tall. Nobody guarding him at seven feet can. So he has to be a smaller guy. He just has to pull up and then he's an amazing shooter. Boom. He's got great handle for his size for sure. But Kyrie is fucking six feet. Six, two. What about AI? What about Steph Curry? Michael Jordan? Steph's up there too. But here's the thing. Steph's threat is the three. I'm not threatened by Kyrie shooting three off the dribble. That motherfucker is, he already knows he's getting by you. He's solving two more problems after you. And he's going to find a way to get the bucket. It's unbelievable. That being said, I would never, I would have a woman on my team before Kyrie. I would rather a WNBA player on my team for someone to watch the jerseys. You know. So Alan, I was going to me is like, Kyrie is like close to AI to me. Like AI was that type of person you're talking about. Like he had to solve problems in order to score because he was smaller. Had to beat you off the dribble. You know what I mean? Fine. Fine for Ness ways to get to the basket. You know what I'm saying? You think Kyrie's better than Kyrie? To me, AI more explosive. Yeah. And AI more loyal to whatever franchise you play. Oh, absolutely. I mean, just coiled away in Philadelphia. Yeah. Listen, you know what you're saying about the WNBA player? You're saying it in jest, but the reality is one thing that WNBA players are fantastic at are the fundamentals and team basketball. We need somebody like with Kyrie Irving's talent, if he knew how to if he loved the play team basketball and I'm not even talking about how he plays on the court with the players. I'm just talking about how he approaches his loyalty to a franchise. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like he's done this at three different franchises. Yeah. When I saw this yesterday I wasn't surprised. Yeah. I'm like, this is what Kyrie Irving does. Yeah. And you know what he's going to do when he goes to Dallas? The same thing. The same. He's going to run right out of fucking Dallas. Yeah. He's going to get run right out of fucking Dallas. And here's the thing that's quite interesting and like I have a lot of respect for Mark Cuban, obviously. But I think what often happens here is like I think owners and successful businessmen also have big egos and their egos are their ability to manage and lead people. And why would he not have a big ego? Yeah. He found a way to do it in business, found a way to do it in tech, found a way to do it with a basketball team. Why would he not think that he can get Kyrie Irving to get on board? Of course he thinks he can. This ain't about getting Kyrie to be on board. Maybe it is. Of course, bro. It's more so about getting Luca to stay on board. Like, Luca, we love you. We're going to do everything we can at all times to put a team around you. But Luca doesn't want Kyrie. There's nobody that wants Kyrie. They say they asked Luca and he said, yeah. Bullshit. I mean maybe you know. If he says it, he says it. I'm sure they brought it by him. Yeah. But I'm just saying Luca is one of the smartest players in the league. Yeah. There's no way. He's smart enough to stay off carbs. No, he's not. Yeah. He's a little thick guy. Yes, he's thick as fuck. He is kind of thick. Yeah, man. Yeah. Like King magazine, old school thick. Oh, really? Yeah, you don't think so? Yeah, I guess he is. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is. Yeah. I don't disagree with him. Yeah. Yeah. It seems personal for you though. No, no, no. It's not personal. I mean, I like Luca. You know, I just find it interesting that, you know, Kyrie Irving, so pro-black, you know, and you know, signed with the white star during Black History Month. Well, he don't have a choice. I don't have a choice. Yeah. Maybe that's a punishment. You know, I don't know, man. They're going to have a good offense because of Luca, because of Kyrie. They got a lot of shooters, but Dallas is the number 23 in the league. Yeah, it's not like Kyrie can deal. He's not a defensive wizard at all. You know what I'm saying? If he couldn't make it work with Katie and Brooklyn, what makes you think he's going to make it work with Luca and Dallas? I don't know, man. You couldn't make it work with Katie and James Harden in Brooklyn. What makes you think you're going to make it work with Dallas? No, there's just nothing. This is one of those things where he's so talented he's going to keep on getting opportunities like, fuck, no. And I guess maybe Dallas is going, listen, we got nothing to lose here because we are not a championship team. We have to find a way to become a championship team. And we got to take pressure off Luca, Luke getting his ass kicked out there. It's carrying too much of a load. Man, it's Luther Mark Cuban. Well, I just found out it was Jewish. We had no clue. I had no idea. You think Kyrie knows? No. Kyrie thinks he's Cuban. Mark Cuban is Cuban. He's in for a Jude Awakening. This is going to be really fun. God bless Kyrie, man. In more sports news, Tom Brady says he's retiring from football for good. Hmm. What's your take on this? There's this feeling, there's this sentiment that he threw away his whole marriage to play one more year football. Do you think there's any validity to that? Yes. Talk to me about that, because you're a married man. Yeah, I think it is. And by the way, it's so funny, I was just listening to Nadra Tawab-Globa, who I love. Nadra Tawab-Globa, she wrote the book Set Boundaries, Fine Peace. She got a new book coming out. I love Nadra. She literally was just talking about how we have to stop rushing to fill in people's blanks. When I'm like, what would we do? There's no media, there'd be no podcast if we didn't fill in people's blanks. But yes, I do, because Tom Brady has played forever. You tell your wife, I'm retiring. Your wife is like, great, now we're about to go see the world. Y'all both feel free rich, so she probably done made plans. You know what I'm saying? Y'all gonna be doing this with the kids. All types of different things, right? And then you just all of a sudden turn around and be like, God, damn. Taylor couldn't even squeeze through the door. You open that shit wide. That was crazy. I don't want to say nothing. Thank God, man. Come on, Taylor. You just got birthed. God damn, Taylor Duncan. Jesus Christ. God damn. Taylor, just sit down. Taylor, just sit down. Boom. So I feel like they had plans. My wife was, you know, ready to do that and then he decides y'all want to go back to play football. And I think, you know, maybe some arguments ensue. Like, you love football more than us. Might be a tough question for Tom. I'm serious. If your wife asked you, you love staying up more than me. I love my wife more. I would hope so. Tom may not feel like that. Why? I don't know. And even if I didn't, that's what I would say. Unless you're Tom fucking Brady. Why would Tom? Because Tom don't lie to nobody. Clearly. I do think Tom made the wrong decision going to Tampa Bay this year, though. Why? I think he should have went to San Francisco. But starting over. No, that was his dream. He talked about it. He was like Joe Montana with his favorite quarterback growing up. Joe Montana inspired him to play the game. Oh, was he from up there? Can you imagine if Tom Brady was in San Francisco? Oh, yeah, they needed a boy. That would have been the perfect ending. I actually thought he would have probably went there next year. Yeah. And called it a date in. He said he's done, but I don't know. Do we believe he's done? I believe he's done because I think he's going to make more money behind a booth than he is playing football, which is crazy. 385ms? Isn't that crazy? Yes, but you got to give it up to Tony Romo even though I read an article to the day that said CBS executives had to go talk to Tony Romo because they felt like he's lost it. You didn't see that article? No, but I saw everybody trying to say he was about to say the M word. How did that come to that conclusion? Yeah, I didn't think he was. I watched it a million times. I mean, he did do Ni, but I thought he was thinking there was the Niners. Really? I didn't even hit an Ni. Oh, it was an Ni. There's three, and then he goes Defenders, yeah. Can we play? Who got the clip? Of course, Van found it. You know Van found it, quick. Jesus Christ, man. Got a van. I get what you're saying. I think he looked at the Jersey and the Niners are playing that day, too. He's thinking Niners. He goes three. Three nickel bats, maybe? What? It wasn't three nickel bats. I don't know. Let me see them here one more time. Wow. Damn, that's crazy. That's how Patrick Mahon says to Edward. What did he say? He said half of it. What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean, guys? Congratulations to Tom Brady, yo. Did you watch the Grammys? No. Me, neither. I'm not gonna lie, I was watching it last night. Oh, really? All it takes is one thing for me. I wanted to see Jay-Z perform the God did verse, which did not disappoint. And it was the last performance of the night. That shit was phenomenal. I mean, watching Jay-Z sit at that table with the big dinner, I don't know if that's the last supper or the mafioso meal with OG1 on one side and both of his longtime partners, OG1 and Emery Jones on the other side. The only thing I wish is that I wish Jay would have had his whole team sitting up there. OG1, Emery, Tata, Jay Brown, Desiree. I wish it was all of them. No disrespect to Ross and Wayne and Khaled, but to watch him do that one verse right there, that would have been crazy to me. That was... I thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it. And I wanted to see who won Best Album of the Year. And Best Album of the Year was Harry Styles. What'd you think? I can never judge something I didn't listen to. You know what I'm saying? And that's the thing, right? And I saw that with the Grammys a lot this year. We get mad about things that we don't know, which we've had this conversation. I think we was having this conversation on the podcast about fame, right? And fame being subjective. Like, I don't give a fuck that you don't know Bonnie Raitt. It's Bonnie fucking Raitt. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't care that you didn't listen to Harry Styles' album and you might have just listened to Beyoncé and Kendrick. That means nothing. Harry Styles was the second highest selling album of last year if I'm not mistaken. So clearly it's a big deal. So I wasn't mad at it. I would have loved to see Beyoncé and went, hell, to Beyoncé with you. I was rooting for Mary J Blanche. That's what I wanted to see when I won Best Album of the Year for Good Morning Gorgeous. What'd you think about the R&B album? He was feeling salty about it. But do you think Chris Brown is losing because of maybe some of the mistakes he's made in his life? No. Chris Brown wouldn't be nominated if those mistakes were really holding him back. The Grammys just wouldn't simply, they would simply just not nominate him at all. Think about it. These award shows get flack for just having people perform. So why would they even nominate him if they were concerned about stuff like that? Have you heard Robert Glassman's album? No. Have you heard Robert Glassman's album, Taylor? I was listening to it. Because of the Grammys. I never heard Robert Glassman's album. How is it? Oh, I thought it was good. Okay then. Did you listen to it? No. But that's my point. I can't sit here and say that they're wrong for giving Robert Glassman the album, R&B album of the year. I didn't listen to it. You know what I'm saying? Stuff like that is so silly. We really think that's because we're in our ruins and our bubbles. That's all that matters. You know what I mean? And if we're not familiar with something, we're like, who the fuck is that? How could they win? Do you know how big the world is, bro? Yeah. How many people are in America? Yeah. Like, come on. Stop. Yeah, you're right. Cut it out. That is the problem with, I don't want to sound too much like a boomer here, but like social media does give you this illusion that your world is the world. Yes. And I don't blame people for thinking that because your world is the world. If you grow up in China and you see all these famous Chinese people, you're going to think that those people are famous everywhere. You're right. And we think that about, I mean, imagine podcasters, people think that about musicians, etc. When reality is most people don't know most people. We had this debate on I'm telling you, man, could I even talking about like TikTokers and like, who are we to say these TikTokers? You can't tell me Mr. Beast isn't famous. He's not a TikToker. Whatever the fuck he is. You know what I mean? What is he? He's a YouTuber. Okay. But he's famous. He is one of the most famous people on the planet. That's what I'm saying. But just because we don't know him, you know what I mean? We act like, oh, Mr. Beast isn't famous. Fame is probably the most objective thing out here. I think so anyway. It's just like, yo, I don't And we also like increase the fame of certain people just because they're in the institutions that we like. Boom. That's right. Maybe a Mr. Beast is actually more famous than a person that's like in an HBO show. But because we value the HBO show in a different way we're like, oh no, that's true fame. I could pick five HBO. I could pick five people on HBO shows right now and they couldn't fill up a mall with 10,000 people like Mr. Beast. 100%. Yeah, 100%. To be honest with you, there might be one. There might be one right now that can do that. They can fill up the mall? That can fill up the mall. Zendaya? That's the only one. Yeah. She's probably the only one that could fill up a mall. Yeah. I don't even know how old those kids were. Zendaya is probably the only one. The numbers he's doing is ridiculous, man. It's just like, it's just hard to compare. But because we look at YouTube and we don't hold it to the same esteem as we do like a HBO we assume that there's not like a fame component attached. But these kids grow up not caring about HBO. Like your kids generation don't care about Netflix. They don't care about HBO. They're the most famous people to the mall. It's your kids, I can't tell you otherwise. Yeah, they care about Netflix. YouTube is big for them. YouTube, Netflix and Disney. Streamers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. YouTube, Netflix and Disney is what they know. Even though we got to monitor the YouTube thing. Oh, it's some wild shit on there. Oh, my God. We're on it. Yes! Man, let me tell you something. Two recent experiences. We had a competition. We had dinner with the parents. One of my daughter's friends was like, So, how's SZA? I was on YouTube and I was watching videos and a video popped up with you interviewing SZA. Yo, I swear my hands started shaking, bro. Like, what the fuck? Why does this shit exist? So, what happened in the video? You didn't sit at the seat right there. I don't think so. It was so long. I don't know. It was so long ago. It was years ago. SZA was on Breakfast Club a decade ago. Probably longer. We've been on it for 13 years. Do you remember when we used to do engine room? We used to run into SZA all the time. I didn't know that. SZA used to record in engine room. Oh, I didn't know that. We would walk past SZA. I talked to her all the time in engine room. In and out, what's up, SZA? All the time. I swear to God. I thought you were saying, what's up, sister? She's from Jersey. Oh, wow. SZA was early on SZA. So, it's like, I don't know what that interview was probably like. You know what I mean? You was probably wild. Probably wild, bro. Probably wild. It was early? Because I'm like, people might not know her. I gotta make an interest. It's her fault. This is a crazy person. I gotta do this because people don't know you. If you were more famous, we could just have an interview. Unfortunately for you, I gotta go crazy. I don't know, man. I really don't even remember. But when she said that shit, I'm like, oh, shit. This shit probably happens all the fucking time. All the time, man. Then I was with somebody this weekend. OG of mine. Very older, like 80 plus years old. Can you say? I'll say it later. I know who. I'm wondering if we can share. Because this is very cool. I'll say it later. But they were like, you know, I've watched a lot of stuff before. Because people send me stuff. You know, when you talk about me and I went down a rabbit hole. Me and the staff. And I look around like, oh, shit. I said it too. I said, oh, shit. That could go left quick. And all of them started laughing. But you know what I realized? They got a dirty sense of humor. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All people heard it all. And they all got time to be offended. They gonna die. Man, please. Please. Imagine you wasted the last hours of your life being offended. Come on, man. Why? Nobody got time for that shit. I salute the whole whole clothes, the multi-billion dollar deal with Bacardi. Billion? I thought it was 750 million. 750 million. God, I hate you. What? I said, oh, you said whole clothes of multi-billion dollars. I said, billion? I thought it was 750 million. And then you went 750 million. Like, you didn't just fucking save multi-billion. Stop reading. But Ted always makes things bigger than they are. But I think the deal is still a multi-billion dollar because he still has stake in the deal. Or maybe his part of it is 750 million or something? He got 750 million from Bacardi, bro. God damn it. What's the whole deal with this? Wasn't he accusing them of being racist or something a few months back? I don't think it was racist. I don't think it was. Remember there was some deal notes that he didn't like and... Because this has been going on for a while. It says the agreement is built as marking the launch of the next chapter of Duce and sees Bacardi acquiring a majority interest in the multi-billion dollar brand while Jay will also retain a significant ownership stake. So they basically bought a percentage of Duce? Yeah. I think Jay owns, I think, 50% or something like that. But he still owns the stake in it and just got 750 for whatever reason. Bravo. You seem, you're not happy? No, I'm very happy, man. I just, you know, I don't think that we give Jay the credit that he deserves for just being the entity that he is. You know, like he's just a different different individual and not just for a rapper for like who does who in entertainment does stuff like this? Jay Z. Seuss partner Bacardi over financial transparency concerns. So he must have audited them and they didn't want to show the money. But I mean, listen, man, he got a great team and they got a great team. I love Rock Nation. I love what Rock Nation does. There's so much of, you know, my business that, you know, I model after how they move just as a company, just as a unit. Like I just love the family vibe of it. I love how, you know, he empowers a lot of people around him, but not just people around him. He got, you know, women in like real big leadership roles and those women are like people like Dez. That's really who doing a lot, who doing the biting, you know what I'm saying? And the shaking of the tires and, you know, getting at people when they need to be got at. So, you know, salute the Rock Nation. What else we got, man? Are you doing anything specific for a Black History Month? I'm existing. I am existing and creating Black History. Ooh! By just being me. Why? What are you, what are you trying to say? Andrew, what are you, what is, what is What am I doing for Black History Month? What is it about Black History Month that you'd like to comment on? Is it the police car in Miami that drew criticism? Or is it the, you know, chicken and watermelon that was served at the high school in NIAC? Or is it the affirmative action bake sale that happened? You see the affirmative action bake sale? No, can we go to the chicken waffles in the, in the there's, hold on, there's a high school in NIAC that did what? They had up for the first, the first, uh, the first day of Black History Month to, to, to school. It's right here. What's the shit called? Chicken waffles and I believe watermelon as well. What's the name of the vendor though? Now that's a tricky thing though. Because you're, you're both like, this is racist, but also at the same time you're like, this is really awesome. It's not racist though. I mean, it's racial. No, it's not. Aramark is the name of the company. The day of the first day of Black History Month to put chicken waffles and watermelon on the menu when they never have that regularly. Here's the thing, if, if everybody, first of all, the first thing I would say is I would ask Aramark, uh, what is your intention by serving this meal? Because there is a story to be told. The reality of the situation is that watermelon was a symbol of freedom. Because after the Emancipation Proclamation the former enslaved started selling, started growing and selling watermelon. And it became a symbol of freedom and a symbol of hope and sovereign white people didn't like that. So they put the negative stereotype on watermelon. So it's like we allowed racist sovereign whites to steal our joy. The same thing with fried chicken. The same thing was happening with fried chicken. Well, fried chicken is a Scottish dish. Sure. But I'm just saying that I don't know if it is or not. We started fried chicken. We had this talk already. That's our shit. Don't take our shit. I think we googled that. Whatever. But all I'm saying is the former enslaved people were selling chicken and they were selling biscuits. That's how they were making money. And then that movie came out, Birth of a Nation and they showed all the black politicians bare feet in the office and eating chicken and all greasy looking all nasty and uncivilized. And that's how the negative stereotype of chicken fried chicken happened. There's no fucking way they showed the politicians. Bro. They're putting it in shit. It's a silent movie called Birth of a Nation by DW Griffith. Go watch it. And they did this on purpose. It was basically like a double entendre, right? To show people this is what happened if you vote for black people. You know what I'm saying? This is what happened if we let black people vote. This is what happened if black people start taking office. So they put the negative stereotype on fried chicken. So you're saying that maybe they were historically aware. So maybe this food company wasn't trying to be racist but rather show respect and honor black history by using black cuisine. I'm not speaking for the company. I'm just saying that if people want to start if they want to start avoiding this type of controversy, talk about the intention behind the meal. Right. Because that is actual black history. What I just said is actual black history. And I'm not saying nothing that y'all motherfuckers can Google. You know what I'm saying? This is actual black history. See right there, DW Griffith. Look, DW Griffith's supremely racist 1915 silent movie about to supposedly what did that say? Heroic founding of the KKK was a huge sensation when it debuted. One scene in the three hour features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials acting rowdy and crudely in the legislative hall. The message to the audience, these are the dangers of letting blacks vote. Some of the legislators are shown drinking. Others had their feet kicked up on their death and one of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken. That message really solidified the way white people thought of black people in fried chicken. And you know what's so crazy about this? Think about the N word, right? Stop. This is what it is. This is what it is. What do you mean? The politicians. Yes. It's shockingly racist. Like sometimes stuff is so racist. It was 1915. What are you talking about? I'm so shocked at the racism I saw in 1915. Really? I mean, I don't know. Think about the N word. When did racism start? When did it start? When was the beginning of it? That's a good question we got to ask. This is what's so interesting about the stereotype of chicken and watermelon. The N word, racial slur. That's racist, right? We know it's a racial slur. Right? Even the first two letters of it? Yes. The first two letters of either the beginning of a racial slur or how some people describe Patrick Mahomes. You can't say the whole thing. You notice, but for whatever reason, we have found a way to take this word and say it's a term of endearment. It's our word now. We flipped it and bounced it. This is our word. This is ours. When you do it with chicken, then it's bad. And chicken and watermelon was actually ours. It was actually a symbol of freedom from the beginning. It was never bad. So is it racist if white people call black people just some chicken and watermelon? No. Attention matters to context. Well, if they're trying to be racist. If you're trying to be racist and you're like, old chicken eater, but how dare you? Is that racist? Yes. It's all about intention. It's all about context. What if it's out of respect and kindness? What if you meet somebody and you're like, thank you so much. It was such a pleasure to meet you. You would have sold the finest watermelons back in the day. That's racist. That's racist is shit. By the way, what do you mean I would have sold watermelons? What do you mean I would have sold the finest watermelons? I'm just saying you would have been a good entrepreneur. You are a businessman. That's fucked up context. That would have been racist. But it was a sign of freedom. It was a sign of freedom, but it's all about context. Any time they serve these meals, it's just all about intention. That is wild. And the fact that it was white people playing the role. That is wild. What about you? Oh, they got the clip from the movie? Oh, wow. You just want to make Andrew... I don't know if I can watch this one. I don't know if I can watch this clip. But that is a funny segment. Watch it like super racist old movies and see if you don't laugh. Hold on. Are you actually going to play it? No, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do it. You made yourself too much? Yeah. Let's see it, man. All right. Oh, no, we shouldn't do this. We shouldn't do this. Oh, it's a silent film? Mind you, this is all white people in blackface. Seems pretty organized. Historic incidents from the first legislative session under reconstruction. Now, all these people are supposed to be black, though. That's great. They ain't that drunk. That's a white person. Oh, no, that is really black people. That's some good paint I was about to say. You sure? Those are white people in blackface, yo. No, that's definitely black people. You sure? See, they all got you eating that chicken. See, he was... Come on, the house! Come on, the house! I mean, the point is it's supposed to make you laugh, though. No, stop the lazy and the chicken. Stop it, bro. Stop it, Al. The speaker rules that all members must wear shoes. They don't even have them wearing shoes. So the whole point of this is the show that black politicians is uncivilized, lazy, shiftless. This would happen if you put them in power. This is racist, bro. It's racist. It's supposed to be, though. It is a move and carried at all. Whatever, man. The moral of the story is... I was dying and him eating a chicken like that, bro. That's crazy that you were dying. I was laughing at you. I was laughing at you laughing at the guy eating chicken. The moral of the story is, man, stop letting goddamn people... Stop laughing! My man was hungry. Bro, he's been legislating all day. He can't have a little piece of chicken. Stop letting people burst your balloon over goddamn what sovereign whites wanted, man. And you're goddamn watermelon. Speaking of burst balloons, let's make Chris uncomfortable now. Yo. Yo. Listen. What was the deal? Do you think it was actually Chinese? Yes. 100% Chinese. Whether it was a spy balloon or a weather machine. Little Chinese said it was a weather machine, right, Chris? They said it was a weather machine. Whether it was a spy balloon or a weather machine, it was definitely Chinese. 100% Chinese. What's your thoughts? Oh, man. I don't know what they're going to learn about America that we won't already share ourselves. On TikTok. TikTok is the ultimate spyware. And also, we're a braggadocious country. Like, we don't hide shit. If we got some new shit, we talk about it. We share it. We put it out there. Like, so you're getting a bird's-eye view of America. What are you going to learn from that? Google Earth it. There's nothing you can't see on Google Earth. There's nothing you can't see when you come visit. It's just a peculiar thing. I don't get it. I'm glad we shot it down. Just on some, like, rah-rah-rah-rah-America shit. But it feels a little bit like they need to get a win for Biden. I, um... You know what I mean? Like, a show of force. I guess. It's kind of weird, though, because I was telling Chris this yesterday. Three of those balloons flew over America during the Trump administration. One flew... This is the second one that flew over America during the Biden administration. Because they got got? I don't know. So that's my point. Why do we conveniently hear about these things when they want to? That's what I'm saying. It seems like they just trying to get a win for Biden. Like, Biden needs a sign of strength. He needs to show that he's going to stand up against China or whatever the fuck it is. And that's why I think they let the balloon exist within the, you know, R, whatever R space. Well, they had to wait till it got over water. They didn't want to shoot it over land or something. They say it's the size of like three buses, three China buses. I don't... What? I don't buy that shit. They did, yo. I think that they were just trying to extract all the information. Because I think sometimes what you do is once you know that there's a spy in your mitts, what you do is if you're not going to flip them because you're not going to flip a piece of technology, you try to hack it and just get all the information. Well, they're collecting it now. What they shot it down there in the ocean, collecting it all. I mean, China been tapping our jaw for the past month or so. Yeah, what's up with that? I told y'all that. When that shit happened, when the FAA green went down, what did I say? I said that's neither Chinese or Russians tapping our jaw. That should have been Bank of America? What was it? The money was fucked up with Bank of America. Oh, that's right. I said Chinese tapping our jaw. And then what happened finally when America stood up for ourselves when black people were beating up Asians? Man, shut up, man. Remember when black people were beating this shit out of Asians for no apparent reason? It wasn't just black people. It was a community effort. A black community effort? No, it was not just black people. It was not just black people. Listen, we shoot up the schools, you beat up the Asians. Shut up, man. That is a fact. I've never touched an Asian. I love Asians. You don't? I got no Wu Tang shirt right now. There is not a single fucking Asian in Wu Tang. I had to think about it. There's a lot of them. It had to be at least one. It had to be, right? Nope. Welcome, Wu Tang was never accused of cultural appropriations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now you see, first of all, did you see the 50th anniversary tribute last night? To whom? Of hip hop. The tribute of hip hop last night on the Grammys. Wu Tang outcast, back to back. Wow. God bless Dipset, but they were nowhere near that stage. Whoa. I can't run DMC was up there. The locks came out, which we didn't talk about last week. We said the locks? Of course he said the locks. Come on, bro. I called him earlier. I called him NBA Alex Media. That's what they're calling him now. A lot of New Yorkers would say, they was questioning, they was like, are you short New York and Alex and Andrew from New York? Man, get the fuck out of here. Bro, they was calling you NBA Alex Media, bro. They was calling you NBA Alex Media, bro. I still don't understand this NBA Alex Media. What is it? Non-binary Alex Media. Wait a minute. Is that what the NBA Young Boy is about? No. That's what they were saying about. They was calling him. I don't miss you. I don't know why. I don't know why. But NBA Young Boy is non-binary. But he has the nails painted. Hold on. I'm going to show you something. All I'm going to do is type in non-binary in my recent messages. Hold on. Non-binary Young Boy. Hold on. I'm going to copy and paste this. No, just show it to me. There's too much technology. In non-binary Alex, they mocked you with more impactful than Wu-Tae. Who said that? Who said that? Who said that? I'm not snacking. Why are they scared? Why are they scared? Who said that? What old motherfucker? They weren't old. They claim not to be old. But I need to see the birth certificate. Because? Like that. Like that. I got my doubts. Wait, wait, wait. Who we got? It ain't who you think it is. Do I know him? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tender Rody Jones. Oh, mouse. See the hell you thought it was somebody that had a snitch on mouse. Your ratting on a mouse is crazy. Your ratting on a mouse is crazy. Your ratting on a mouse is crazy. I cancels out. That cancels out. You allowed to rat on a mouse. You allowed to rat on a mouse. Yo, do you think we're going to be at war with China? There's a general that said about 2025. General South? What? What? What? What? What? You know what, man? Because that motherfucker is nice. The general South say so? Also, say that sentence. The general South say so? I'm going to commercial because this conversation is right. This conversation is fried, bro. This conversation is fucking fried rice, bro. 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Just because I'm white and he's white, you thought we would be playing basketball together in dear 2023? Yeah. I've seen the original movie. Yeah, white guy and a black guy play together. Oh, that is true. Damn. What's fucked up, bro? See? Goddamn, bro. Yo, not during this month, bro. Not during this month. Also, Dr. Umar posted about you people, the movie, so... Oh, I haven't watched it yet. I meant to watch it. That's all I care about. That's all I care about. I saw him say that there's messaging in every movie. Goddamn, I didn't get to... Oh, I was rushing. I saw it, too. I was like, oh, I got to click on this one. All I know is that Dr. Umar posted about it, so my tree has come true. When can we get Dr. Umar on the pod, please? I said you got to pay him, bro. Say again? Say you got to pay him. Who's against that? Oh, hey, well, shit, let's set it up. Dr. Umar, well, I want him on Flig. Yeah! I would rather watch. Yeah, I don't want to pay. I'm never going to pay a guest, but I will donate to his school. That's a good. That's great. Marcus Garvey, Frederick Douglass School. For Young Boys. Umar! Let's make it happen, man. Come on, Umar. You know, I'm executive producer of a movie called 88. You know, we debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. We got bought by Samuel Goldwyn Films and the trailer came out last week. And it comes out on February 17th and I have a list of screenings. You can catch us at the Monica Film Center in Santa Monica, California on February 17th. You can catch us at the Mall of Georgia in Buford, Georgia if you're in the Atlanta area on February 17th. You can catch us in Houston at Regal Bender's Landing in Spring, Texas. Los Angeles, Foothill Ranch at the Regal Foothill Town Center. Portland, Oregon, Regal Fox Tower. Memphis, well, really, Cardova, Tennessee, but close to Memphis, Malca, Cardova Theater. Memphis again, if you're in the South Haven area, Malco, South Haven. Memphis again, if you're in the Oxford area, Malco, Oxford Studio, you can go see 88. If you're in the Phoenix area, Scotchdale has it at Harkins, Shea Hall. If you're in the Columbus, Ohio area, the Gateway Film Center has it. And if you're in Houston, the AMC Golf Point 30 has it. So go see 88. It's the political thriller stars Brandon B. Dixon, Natory Norton, Orlando Jones, executive produced by me. You can go catch you at one of those theaters and see what happens. Okay, okay. Now let's get back to this show. Netflix removes passwords, sharing rules from their site after user backlash, thoughts, shows. You can't piss off the base, man. Talk to me. Can't piss off the base. So basically what happened is everybody obviously shares passwords and I think Netflix is coming close to running out of people to sign up. In other words, they've reached the limits of whether they have computers or TVs that can watch things on Netflix. So what they've got to do is find a way to increase revenue still and they can do that by stopping people from sharing. So if one account has served, you know, six people, they can technically get five more people to sign up if you can't share passwords. Yeah. And there was just a huge backlash on it and, you know, they basically rescinded like, okay, we're going to let you share the passwords. And it was the right move to make on their part. Yeah, I'm not mad at it because to me, this is just like shutting down bootlegging. No, no, no, they did the opposite. What you mean? They were going to stop you from sharing passwords and then they said, okay, fine, you can share. Oh, y'all are idiots. They didn't do nothing wrong? Yeah, but the thing is, in my opinion, they don't have something to hold over people's heads right now. This is not the time. For example, let's say Netflix had Game of Thrones and it's in the height of Game of Thrones and episode three, they go, hey, we're going to cut down this password sharing shit. Everybody signed it back up because they need to see the rest of the season. But right now, they're not mid-season on a show that's so impactful. Yeah, but it's Netflix. Like, Netflix is Netflix at this point. Like, do you even give a fuck with Netflix? Like, what show did we... I remember the first time I bought a Netflix account is because everybody was telling me about this show, Orange is the New Black. Exactly, you need a show. I stopped with Netflix because Netflix flooded me with so much content. Netflix is literally like when you're at home, like how you flip through channels. That's how we treat Netflix now. They felt, I guess, and this is not like a gut company. They're going off of data. They felt that, I guess, when they stopped people from sharing the passwords, not enough new people signed back up. So what's going to happen is they're going to have... Let's say, for example, it's only one password per person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's six people that were watching the password currently. If you go from six to one, and those other five don't sign up, you've just reduced the amount of people that have viewed your show by six times. I get it, but they didn't give it a chance. If you respond immediately to backlash, you ain't even give people a chance to be like... Man, I will risk it. Their stock's already down. They're in the worst time to actually do this. They've been in the red forever. No, that's not true. They were crushing it during COVID. They were? Oh, my God. You plus popped up during COVID. Disney also, but they were just crushing during COVID. That makes sense. Everybody's home. Everybody's home. Yeah. Listen, man, I guess... What you're saying makes all the sense in the world. I didn't even know that it worked like that because I would assume... I don't know. I thought that if you all share passwords, does that count as different views? I don't fucking know. 100%. You can have different accounts on it. They just want to see hours watched, the better. And if people are not watching on them, they're going to be watching on someone else. I mean, they're trying to compete with YouTube. I mean, that's just the reality. Well, bug me out when they say with a number of subscribers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, I don't think they're trying to compete with YouTube, bro. Oh, of course. You know why? Because here's the thing about YouTube, and I know YouTube does have YouTube red, which is subscription-based. Man, when you got 55 plus million people paying 40 fucking dollars a month for whatever the fuck Netflix costs. 15 or something? Whatever the fuck... That's a different ballgame. It's a different ballgame when people are paying for a subscription and when people are watching something for free. Don't get me wrong, they're all competing for your time and your eyeballs. YouTube made more money than Netflix. And more hours watched. I believe the more hours watched, the more free content. But also, YouTube just made more money in ad revenue than Netflix. Netflix don't make their money in ad revenue. No, they made more money in ad revenue than in subscription. Because YouTube red is done. They're not doing the subscription that you could do the YouTube so you don't have the ads and that kind of stuff. But it's inevitable. You can't beat YouTube. It's just like trying to say you're going to be Google or something like that. It's not possible. But what they're worried about is eyeballs. And if the time watch is going to these other platforms, then less people are going to go, I need this subscription. Well, the problem is... I don't think the problem is YouTube in this situation. I think the problem is all these other fucking screaming services. They're also... Disney Plus with 55 plus million. HBO Max with 55 plus million. HBO is the goat, bro. On the low? Paramount Plus? So that's all it takes. It takes one show. It takes one show to put you on. You see what Yellowstone's doing with Paramount Plus? And that's what Netflix, I think, maybe is starting to learn because what Netflix tried to do is replace television. They're like, we're just going to have so much content. We're going to flood the whole thing. We have different shows for everybody. And they were like, we're just going to continue making great shows that you have to watch. And you know what we do? We fucking watch. Euphoria comes around. Everybody's watching. That's it. Last of us is on right now. Incredible. Everybody's fucking watching. YouTube's got it locked. And then also Disney... What's that? HBO. Oh, sorry, sorry. HBO kept doing that. HBO is the fucking goat when it comes to scripted. Nobody comes close. I... Yeah, I'm not... And then Paramount Plus came out with Yellowstone and then the whole world watched Yellowstone. All the Yellowstone spinoffs. Which are incredible. He's a genius. I said this months ago on this podcast, but I don't know if people pay me attention because nobody pays me attention until, you know... Until you're right. Until I'm right. But the Netflix model wasn't sustainable. The binge watching. It was something that we all loved, but you literally shoot your load, bro. Like if I give you a season of a show and you can watch all 12 episodes in a night, I have... I have nothing. But if you're HBO and you give me 12 weeks of euphoria, all you got to do is give me 3 at O's a year and you covered the whole year. Exactly. It's about owning the conversation. We were talking about this. And that's what HBO... Now, the thing is in order for someone to wait a week to come back to a show, you need to create really good shows. Absolutely. And what Netflix has gotten by with is creating not as good shows, but... Giving you the binge shit. They give you a cliffhanger so you just keep watching. There's a lot of shows on Netflix that people wouldn't watch if you had to wait a week. But HBO is like, we're just going to give you the best fucking show. Dude, HBO's percentage, I'm dick-riding HBO and I'm happy about it. I don't even have no shit on HBO. This is just how fucking amazing they are. The percentage that they bat, I've never seen this before. Everything is a hit. House of Dragons comes on. Bang. Last of us. Bang. Euphoria. Bang. It is historic. For years. Sopranos. The wire. It's just non-fucking stop. They invest in creators. They invest in great show runners, great writers. And they also invest in talent. If you notice with HBO, if they like you as an actor, you pop up in their other shit, too. You almost become a star of HBO. Remember when we were doing all the MTV shows and we would just do five different ones? Absolutely. You become like a star of the network, but they fucking got it locked. And I think at the end of the day, that's what people want. They want stories that they can follow. They don't need all the content in the world, which is what Netflix is doing. They want stranger things. That's what Netflix did great, followed, and then you create cultural moments with that. So I think Netflix should shrink the amount of things they're producing and just focus on great quality content. I agree with that. I mean, the interesting thing, too, is what Netflix is doing so well right now is because that's what they're doing, right? They're focusing on great quality content. But another thing that they're doing, even though they're doing a lot of new IP, they're doing it with, like, seasoned actors. Kevin Costner, fucking Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone. They got fucking Jeremy Piven playing in one of those shows. You know these people. So you might get to show a chance just because yesterday I was watching TV and they got fucking... They're doing a TV show about grease. It's the Pink Ladies. Remember grease, the movie? Yeah, so they're doing a Pink Ladies sitcom. Well, that's the thing. It's like people are gonna tap into nostalgia. The same thing with you people. It's like, think about how... Excuse me? The fuck you mean, shows? The fuck you mean, yo? What are you talking about? Because we like different worlds? Yeah, exactly that. But the movie... The movie, you people. Okay? The movie, you people. That's what I'm talking about. Basically, who's not gonna click on a movie that has all of the most famous actors in it? Right? Because think about it, it's like, if you people is in the theater, you gotta get dressed, get a fucking babysitter, do all that kind of shit. The fact that it's on Netflix at your crib, and you got Jonah, Eddie, Julie, Louis, Dreyfus, David, the company, it's like, no matter who you like, they got it a little thing, so of course you're gonna click and pop on into it. It's the easiest barrier of entry. Oh, bro, the execution. Multiple movies. I wanted more funny from Eddie, though. He was like a straight man in the movie. I don't want Eddie playing a straight man. So Jonah, too. You want him to be a wild card. I didn't get that. Bernie Mac. Who's this? Look who's talking. Look who's coming to dinner. But you know what? I wanted Eddie to shoot. He wasn't the comic relief with what I'm saying. He was subdued. I didn't want that for Eddie. Yeah, I didn't. I think that we all want Eddie to just be the superstar, the most hilarious part of the movie. Why else would you have Eddie in a movie? 100%. And by the way, I've never seen it. I've never seen Eddie be a straight man in a movie. Have you? No. Never. Maybe you've seen him be dramatic in a movie. But in a comedy, usually you see Eddie being that motherfucker that's going after it. Yeah, listen, 100%. There's a reason why it's number one. It's because it's so easy for everybody to just turn on an access. And I think that that's going to be a model that people try to replicate. If you can get all these stars in a streaming thing, who's not going to turn it on? The Valentine's Day movies, where they get a bunch of stars to play small roles, and then everybody goes, all right, fuck it for Valentine's. Let's watch this shit. I still think Netflix has event television. Jeffrey Donald was definitely event television. Perfect example. They made an amazing show that everybody locked in on, and I hope that they see that, and they go, ooh, this is what people like. We don't need to throw out a bunch of fucking shit movies. Let's throw out really specific, beautiful content that people get locked in on. Absolutely. And you can spend more money on that. Yeah, and to your point about HBO, the other thing I like about HBO, and I hope Paramount Plus does this as well, HBO doesn't have a formula. Meaning, I'm talking about a formula as far as the shows aren't formulaic. You know what I mean? Every show is different. The wire is different from The Sopranos. The Sopranos are different from White Lotus. White Lotus is different from The Last of Us. The Last of Us is different from Succesion. You know what I'm saying? Literally every show they put out is fucking great. That's what I mean. I mean, it's unbelievable. Every now and then you'll get to drag the Game of Thrones and the House of Dragon. But for the most part, every show is different. And I hope everybody follows that model. You know what I mean? Because you can make dope shit for everybody. You can make dope shit for this part of America. You can make dope shit for Black people. You can make dope shit for Asian people. And the other thing about it is that HBO does a good job of HBO makes everybody feel welcome to watch the show. Even if this isn't your experience. And I see that with Yellowstone. Everybody seems to be watching Yellowstone. I was talking to some Native Americans about it. They were like, yeah, we love it. It's like finally we're depicted in a way that's more honest. I was out there at that hotel out there in fucking Utah. And they were like, it was a Navajo country. We were like, yeah, we all watch it. Matter of fact, a few tries came together to thank Kevin Costner. Get the fuck out of here. I haven't watched it. Is it good? Well Yellowstone? It's great. Everybody says how great it is. And what's great is that if you have success in a world, continue to make things in the world. Marvel has done this really well. Why not also do it with Yellowstone, which they did, right? But create other worlds is what I'm saying. Like I want Paramount Plus to also create other worlds. Yeah, but I guess what I'm saying is like, okay, for example, you have Game of Thrones, now you have House of Dragons, right? You have Stranger Things. What other things can you create in the Stranger Things world? You've already done the heavy lifting. Oh, Yellowstone, they're doing it. They got two spin-offs at Yellowstone. What I'm saying is that it's good that they're doing that. And then other shows should also replicate this model. Absolutely. Because we like the world, we like existing in it. You don't have to explain shit to us no more. We know what to expect. Now just have some fun and dance. You know what's so interesting? J. Williams. When I create in a scripted world, I always think of that. I always think of, could this show have a prequel? You know what I'm saying? Could characters from this show spin off? You know what I mean? Because stuff like that just makes success. We had Malcolm Jamal Warner on. And Malcolm Jamal Warner was talking to us about a show he had on NBC that I didn't even know. I forgot all about this show. He was like, yeah, I had a show that came on on NBC, but I wasn't Theo. I was some other guy when I was living in Harlem. You remember the name of the show? I forgot the name of the show, Taylor. But I was like, that show would have worked if they would have just said it was Theo. You just made me remember Cosby's show, then Different World. Think about that. If they would have just did Theo, grown up, living in Harlem, put that shit on Thursday night like people are used to. We already know the world. It would have killed. We know the character. Absolutely. Continue. If you have success now, that's if you have the passion to continue creating. But like generally speaking, if you know how to make a type of show, that is your genius zone. This is what you're so spectacular at. Absolutely. It'd be great if you at least oversaw other shows made in a similar way. And I think that's what Taylor Sheridan has done so fucking well. Was it Malcolm and Eddie? It was not Malcolm and Eddie. That's how they shout. Anyway, what else we got? Shit, my man. Want to do some Ask an Idiot? Let's do some Ask an Idiot, man. Let's do some Ask an Idiot. Price of eggs has dropped. The what? Price of eggs has dropped. The price of eggs dropped? I didn't know that they were up. I didn't notice they were up. I noticed the price of whiting was up. Price of whiting was up crazy. Whiting? Yeah, fish. And Krispy Kreme donuts. This shit is like $20-$3 a dozen now. Wow. You didn't know that? No. I can't believe Taylor acting like she didn't know. Taylor, um... Ask an idiot. Ask an idiot. Oh, lord. Just means that Taylor got something she made up. No, I didn't. Taylor wants that. This is when Taylor wants to ask us things. No, it's not. But doesn't want, but is afraid to ask and she's going to blame it on these random people. Let me see. See, it is not popping up on my end. Let's see. Oh, this is interesting. This is a very interesting question. Alex Ball 34 says, what do you think about having a negative or pessimistic POV so you're never let down? It's an interesting strategy. I know people that are kind of like this. I don't relate to it at all, but I think it comes to I don't believe in this at all or do this and I don't think that this is the right thing. I think you need to think positive thoughts. You need to manifest because not just manifesting makes it happen, but at least allows your brain to start solving problems. You figure out what you want and then you solve the problems to get there. If you tell yourself you can't have something, you won't even begin the problem-solving process. But I do understand why some people feel this way and that's because the pain of not getting something is too difficult for them to handle. So what they do is they convince themselves they're not going to get it so that they can handle the pain when that inevitably happens and then if they do get the thing they feel the joy of surprise. I can handle the pain of not getting something, I can do that, but I can't handle it if I don't try. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If I try and I don't, I can handle that. But if I don't try and I don't get it I feel or I fail, I feel so bad because I didn't put the effort in. I totally understand everything you're saying and I will second that but I also add that I believe in my thoughts and my words so much in my life. God, whatever you decide to call, the entity call God, I like to say, you know, God is a woman but whatever you decide to call God has shown me time after time that your words are powerful and I speak things in the fruition sometimes without even knowing I'm speaking them in the fruition. So when I'm intentional about the things that I speak in the fruition, a lot of those things have happened in my life. When I've been unintentional like literally just saying things over and over like I would love for this to happen. I would love for that to happen and I'm find myself like, oh, shit that happened to me this weekend was a big, big, big, big, big huge revelation of the power of my words and I told my wife like I will never even though I already knew this I will be so intentional about my words from now on because I'd be just talking things up. Anxiety. Well, anxiety is different because anxiety is the thoughts being that I know the power of my words I don't let those thoughts escape my mouth your thoughts you can't really control the only thing when they come in your mind you think about it, you might even let yourself feel it for a moment, you suppress it and my therapist says tell yourself your own hero story to get yourself out of that mind state but I don't speak it into existence. Good. What I've always said the things I want to happen in my life I constantly speak about the things I don't want to happen I try not to speak about it all and so I'm just intentional about the things that I say so what he says about being negative I could never do that I could never approach the world with a negative POV you know what I'm saying or be pessimistic because pessimism is never won any battles I mean I'm always wish for the best and to your point if I want something and I say I want it and I tried and didn't get it it just means that God didn't have that for me you know so it is what it is but I would never be intentionally negative that's just ridiculous. I also won't try as hard if I'm telling myself I'm not going to get it what's the point exactly I have to tell myself I'm going to do it and then I'm going to put every single bit of effort into this process and then I feel like an idiot like I kept telling myself I'm not going to get it I'm not going to get it and I'm not going to get it and then when I don't get it I'm surprised you told the world you told God you didn't want it you asked for it oh big boy Maloy big boy Maloy says do you guys feel like in modern times religion is becoming taboo? yeah it's a shame because we're not really feeling it with anything else so you can really tell that people are lost like people are really looking for focus they're really looking for guidance they're looking for you know how to be a human being and yeah and I grew up with no religion but I can tell that for the masses you have to fill that void and I don't think that we're necessarily feeling it now for me I just feel like you know religion to your point people are searching for something nowadays that religion can't help them find what do you think that is? the meaning of life what their purpose is I think the one thing you can't get from religion regardless the purpose is service, learning how to serve because your true purpose in life I feel is service to others but yeah I just feel like religion is um yeah religion is not providing what people actually I'm not saying everybody I'm just saying religion is not providing what people need there's religious leaders that I love to listen to but not because they're pushing religion down my throat but they just motivate you they motivate me, Bishop T.D. Jakes motivates me, Torrey Roberts motivates me, Sarah Jakes Roberts motivates me you know what I mean when I listen to them yes you learn scripture but even the way they break down scripture and allow you to apply scripture to your life is not religious you know what I mean like it's just maybe it is I mean scripture is religious that's the word of God they just make me want to seek out God that's religion man is it I don't know I don't believe it I mean depends your looking religion I think if you're looking at the most altruistic way it's about you seeking relationship with God but I think some people put church before God I think they do I really do God would be upset about that oh absolutely God said you can't even find him in a man made temple boom you know what I mean so that's that's man corrupting religion and man is going to corrupt everything that it touches this is what we do but but yeah I think that there is a place for religion especially in organizing society and especially for maybe people who don't are familiar with their passion and are familiar with their purpose I think it's very easy for you to become religious about your purpose you know if you want to do stand-up comedy if you want to do radio it's easy to get obsessed about those things and live a life that's guiding you to that but if you don't really have that I can imagine how difficult life could potentially be trying to figure out that purpose trying to figure out what the point of it all is and how nice is it to know that like if you live this way God is saying that you're doing a great job here on earth and that you're going to go to heaven and like that's probably really comforting I think that the uptick in anxiety is absolutely tied with a down-tick in religion a down-tick in faith my therapist says faith and anxiety can't coexist if you have faith that this is exactly how life is supposed to go why would you be anxious and the fact that one, religion is no longer you know as synonymous with societies it used to be but two, even religious people seem to have some skepticism about it so now you can have skepticism about that faith now I'm someone who wasn't raised with it but I could see the value and there's definitely envy when I see people going listen God's got a plan for me and this is what the plan is what's your anxious about that? but that's the tricky thing about anxiety right nine times out of ten you don't know why you're anxious you know what I'm saying? you don't know why you're having these panic attacks like sometimes I could get to the root of it sometimes I'm like why the fuck am I bugging out right now you know what I'm saying? you just don't know you don't know I'm not saying it would get rid of all of it but the hopelessness that I think a lot of people are feeling you know it's like if God is saying hey live this way that's direction hey I was in I think I told this story I was in my doctor's office and the doctor was I had some calcerific tendonitis in my arm and so it was causing intense pain and so when I was at the doctor the doctor took my blood pressure and he was like oh your blood pressure is high but it's probably because of the pain so he goes I want you to think about your upcoming vacation this is before me, think about your upcoming vacation think about things that make you happy that make you feel good, do your meditation I literally sat there for like five to ten minutes and I got so deep into it that I didn't even you know he's putting the thing back on my arm and he was like see you're fine so literally my blood pressure came down within moments you know what I mean? two more, let's do two more bust down said what time period would you travel back to just to observe and wander around see this can get tricky for black people not too many time periods you can just travel back to and just wander around and observe bust down whenever they made the pyramids really? when they made the pyramids and I need to know how the fuck they did it I think that will be the next watershed moment in history I think in our lifetime we'll have enough evidence to show that ancient civilizations that are no longer around today were the real ones who made the pyramids maybe aliens or maybe not aliens maybe just groups of people who 30,000 years ago developed high technology maybe different technology we have now and they built all these pyramids around the world and then there was global cataclysm and then destroyed most of those people their lives, their livelihood and a lot of the technology they used but I think in our lifetime we'll find that to be true 100% so I want to know who built the pyramids you know be crazy, think about this Andrew Schultz had a time machine Andrew Schultz went back in time to where the pyramids and the sphinxes and everything were being built somebody put your nose on the sphinxes the reason they had to shoot it off was to cover the tracks of time travel like in Marvel they have this thing called the TSA and the TSA goes and fix times like so if people are in moments in time that they're not supposed to be because they're time traveling they go and fucking fix it what if you already had been back there bro? I think there's a good case for that because when I went to the pyramids I felt like no I'm thinking about this you did this this is a picture, y'all can put it up on the YouTube video you put your nose on the sphinxes identical it was unbelievable, it was like a match I'm like oh shit he did that, y'all didn't see that picture you saw the picture, I did it on purpose it looked perfect, like oh shit the sphinxes might be oh fuck do I go back in time in the future and they honor me by making the sphinxes holy shit and then somebody who doesn't like you went to the past and shot the fucking nose off the sphinxes hey there was it Kyrie or Kanye? was it Kyrie or Kanye? Kyrie or Kanye? definitely rapper boy oh one more, I like this one scroll up Taylor scroll up scroll up this is good, Jake Farrell wants to know would I rather be forever fit and jacked without having to work out or six feet tall easy call easy call for me rather be forever fit and jacked without having to work out why? because first of all being tall is overrated you never been tall? it's overrated if you tall and you ain't in the NBA you look stupid tall for no reason motherfuckers I'm with you at a certain height 6'8", a better come on bro 6'8", a better bro and you ain't in the league bro you look crazy as hell six feet is like six feet ain't even really tall you gotta be tall even if you said 7'2'' I'm still taking by sides right now which is 5'9'' and jacked without having to work out what do you mean? you would take 5'11'' and a half in a heartbeat to be jacked but ever and not have to work out you never have an anxiety again bro that's what being 5'11'' tall people got the most anxiety don't be chilling the view you wouldn't want to be jacked who me? I don't care to be jacked now I don't care about that I just want to be slim if you're tall girls don't really care that is not true if you're tall if you're tall no if you're tall you can be fat you can be all these things I don't believe it you look like a lowercase b all types of stupid shit I ain't got time for that you want to do one more? what we got Taylor? pull up a good one what's the biggest pause moment of your life? what's the biggest pause moment in my life bro I'm like Dinny bro décura when pauses bro whoa you never had a pause moment? what's the biggest pause moment in my life? nah bro what's that pause? 당 most you said you said pause fast forward boy you know what i'm saying gotten to the climax I don't have no biggest pause moment. All right, fair enough. I ain't getting out. For what? Shout to that. I mean, unless you want to say the, that wasn't even a pause moment. Y'all paused it, but that was, oh, I know the biggest, no, I do know the biggest pause moment. No, not that I think about it. No, no, no, no, not that I think about it. But it's not, it's not to me, but the only reason I'm reminded of this cause somebody sent me this yesterday and tagged me and it, when they tagged me, when I said, if six, nine beats this case, I'll suck his dick. Oh, that was, That was wild. That was wild. That was wild. I don't know why people couldn't find the humor in that one, bro. Did I give it, did I sell it? Like, did I really look like I would suck, suck this dick or something? Like, I don't know what was going on with you right there. It was a rough week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, somebody sent me that yesterday and tagged me in there and they was like, nah, bro, we ain't forgot, yo. I was like, I was 2,000 and fucking 23. Hold on, I'ma find this shit and read it. Hold on. Somebody literally tagged me in this shit yesterday, yo. Man, I'ma take back that picture you took on the bed. We took it on the bed. Yo, the bed dick was crazy. That's not me, bro. That was not me. I was before Photoshop. That was not me. Somebody said, look at this shit, yo. Look at this shit. This is yesterday. Yesterday. Somebody put, see to God, you have a debt to pay. So get on your knees because he beat his case. And to be honest, 69 wouldn't even let you. But just to show everyone what a clown's seat of God is, I can't believe anyone listens to this guy. Like, who says this on air and tries to be gangsta at the same time? I've never tried to be gangsta. When have I ever tried to be gangsta? You don't try to be gangsta leading with shit like this. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So I guess that would be the biggest pause moment in my life because for whatever reason, y'all really took me serious. I'll be honest. That was the biggest pause moment in my life too. Yeah. Yeah. You hit my tail. My tail be around. No. It was that one. Slew to my guy, Mateo. That was Mateo, man. 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