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Yeah, it seems like you keep pushing it. Cause you know, you gotta switch it every two weeks. Yep. And when you first, yeah, when you first put it in after every two weeks, that's when that shit hurts the most, man. Stay one of the new tray. Like day two. Yeah. Day two of the new tray, maybe. Yeah, I put it in yesterday. Yeah. That's the day two. And are you doing 20 hours a day or whatever the fuck they say? Trying to. Yeah, you know. I never did that shit. Yeah, I feel like you need a little breather. Yeah, just sleeping it. All I did is go to sleep in it. Really? I don't wear it all day, but like I said, if I eat dinner at night, I don't put it back on. Cause I know at night I'm gonna have me a drink. I'm gonna do a edible. I'm gonna get the munchies. I ain't got time to be taking it in and out. You know what I mean? So I just sit there and let it breathe for a minute. And like you said, Are you doing edibles every night? No. I only do edibles on weekends. Oh, okay. I'm not a drug addict. I don't need edibles to survive the cope with life. You know who I bumped into yesterday? A drug addict, clearly. No. If this is what you're using the second to it. No, but she's fucking great. Is that Tiffany Haddish? Okay. Yeah. Okay, my girl. Love Tiffany. She's. Are you sorry? She's in New York? Yeah, she's in New York. What the fuck? How she in New York? She ain't hit me. What's she doing in New York? Okay, okay. But yeah, I bumped into her last night at this bar and I haven't had like a one-on-one conversation with her before. She was talking to me about you recently. She is a force. Duh. She is an absolute unstoppable force. All energy. Absolutely. I mean. You gotta read her book. You should read her book, The Last Black Unicorn. I want to. No, you should read her book. The first time I ever got turned on to Tiffany was Neil Brennan and Moshe Cash's podcast, The Champs. I had met Tiffany years, years ago when we were filming a guy. Well, it wasn't a guy. It was a four-guy cult. Me and Duvall were filming. A hood-stated union? No, it was like, okay. It was like a little bit right after hood-stated union. We first started doing stuff with Viacom. I think it was like, what's that show, VH1? Used to do best? Two girls, one car. Maybe best week ever, one of them shit like that. There's one in the talk ahead show. So I met Tiffany way back then, but I heard her champs interview in like 2014, 2015. And when you hear that interview, you like, yo. She's charged up. Man. She's charged up. I mean, it was unbelievably entertaining talker. Oh, y'all was kicking it, kicking it. Yeah. Oh, that's dope. We were just chopping it up. Nah, she good people, man. She was funny too, man. I'm not gonna lie. She walked in and she was like, what's up? Ugly? I said, what? She goes, nah, I gotta tell these motherfuckers they ugly. That's how I get laid. I go, what? Ah! Ah! Ah! You just tell them motherfuckers they ugly. They fall in love with you. And then she turns to the group of people and she's like, ain't he ugly? She's like, what the fuck is happening? All she's doing is telling you she wanna fuck you. No. No. I mean, that's exactly what she just said. I can't blame her. I gotta tell you that you're ugly because I wanna get laid. All she really was saying was, I wanna fuck you. Nah, she just busted balls. But I will say what they, she's so funny. She wants to bust your balls. She might want to bust my balls. No, but she was, she said she's very protective over you. That's my girl, man. Because she loves your wife so much. That's what she's talking about. That any girl comes up to you, she gonna fuck them up. That's what she's talking about. Oh, man. She says that she does it. I can tell y'all a story right now. That's it. No. But she ain't lying. And I'm gonna tell you something. I remember one, I can tell this story. I don't gotta say who the girl was. But one night we was at, it was something, what Tiffany had just hosted. Tiffany had just hosted some award show and we was at the after party and I was in LA. Mind you, this is me and my faithful days. I'm faithful now, you know what I'm saying? And my wife wasn't there. And this young lady was, you know, being a little too touchy-feely. Pressing. But what she didn't know was not only was Tiffany Haddish in the party, Alicia Renee was in the party too. Woo! And somehow or another, not even knowing. Double two seconds. Tiffany came from one side and Alicia came from the other side and it was like, you know he's married, right? You know he's married. Like, but not like on some, you know he's married. Like, yo, you know he's married, right? Yeah. Like, hey man, thank you. She did that shit with me last night. Really? Yeah. Because I'm so oblivious. Like when girls compliment my stand-up, I think they really like my stand-up. So like, this girl's like, I really love watching all your shows and I'm like, she's got good taste. Two things can be true. Two things can be true. I guess I'm more arrogant about my art than I am about my face. Yeah, I'm sure every artist that got laid music-wise or a comedy has gotten the same thing. I love your stand-up. I love your song. I'd also like to suck your dick. See, they'll say that shit straight up. If they said that shit straight up, I would know. But she's saying, you know what I mean? Like, but she's coming at the stand-up but I'm like, oh, God, yes, there we go. This girl's a great sense of humor. And she came up one last time and Tiffany just stepped in with the high spin. It was like, uh-uh, uh-uh, it ain't gonna happen. That's right. It ain't gonna happen. And then she was like, what, what, what, what? He's married. And then the girl goes, everyone's married. Yo, what is up with these toxic women that don't respect our bow, yo? I mean, thank you for the compliment but what's going on? We don't have these conversations enough, man. There's these toxic women out here that don't respect vows, yo. Like, if that was a guy, that guy would be considered a pig and disgusting. Am I not wearing a ring? Bird is born. Are we not wearing a ring? Not only am I wearing a ring, we're letting you know we're married. We talk about being married all the time. This is a new flag. This is a new flag, yo. This gang right here. We're gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, yo. And respect our fucking vows. What's wrong with you, yo? They don't respect our vows, yo. It's disgusting. For real, back up off the block. We as men have to stop being afraid to tell women when they doing that type of shit. Meaning like- I don't even know, Sharla, man. No, but that's- I think they like me for me. But that's disrespect when you be like, everybody's married, yo, what's that mean, yo? I didn't know until she said that. I genuinely thought she was a fan of my comedy. I get it, because you're not coming from a place of lust and disgust like those, that women is. Why was she there? You know what I'm saying? Your motive is pure. My motive is pure. You know what I'm saying? I'm just walking in the room, trying to have a conversation. These girls out here trying to suck. That suck, suck a married man's cock. Yo, why you gonna suck a married man's cock? Why would you suck a married man's cock? You know damn well this cock ain't been sucked in forever? No, I'm not judging. Why would you even do such a thing like that? Now, I'm not judging women- Top webs all over. You don't want no married man's dick. I'm not judging women who, you know, are only doing what the married man allows them to do. You know what I'm saying? Oh, wait. I'm not judging women who are only doing what the married man allows them to do. But if you know that you're dealing with a faithful male, don't try to put your lips on that faithful male's cock. Facts. Don't gaslight me. That was gaslighting me. Now I think she probably did like you stand up. Yeah, she did. I'm sure she probably did like you stand up. Down, down. We should have had Tiff on the podcast. Down. I don't even know if she was interested. We do have to get her on. That'd be great. No, but speaking of marriage, man, what do you think of the TJ Holmes, Amy Roback situation from Good Morning America? Have you been paying attention? Here's the thing. I know I might be shocking to you. I watched Good Morning America 3. But I have heard about what is happening here. And I'm not at all surprised. Okay. Okay. Why? I think that's what happens a lot of times with people who spend an inordinate amount of time together. Like I used to see when people worked in restaurants all the time. I'm sure you see it with movies. It's like you're spending so much time with these people and away from your family, your wife, your girlfriend, et cetera. And she can get sticky out there, man. I get it. I mean, for me, man, I always feel like as a man, you just get more out of a relationship with a woman when you don't try to sleep with her. And as a man, if you're married, I really think you got to respect those vows. Cause man, boy, when you don't respect, I think when people don't realize when they're making vows, you're not really making them in front of the pastor. You're not making them in front of your wife. You're not making them in front of the church or wherever you got married. You're making them in front of God. So when you make those vows in front of God, you know what I mean? And you don't respect those vows and then God taps your jaw. You think that's what happened right there? You think it was God in there? I mean, it's proven, right? Meaning that you didn't respect your vows. You got your jaw tapped. Now, both of y'all sitting at home, even though I just think that's something that ABC is doing, cause it's the holiday season. So it makes more sense to have two people go sit down and then come back in the new year and see what happens. But the interesting thing about situations like this, the reason this is never gonna work for anybody, especially men, is cause what does that headline say? TJ Holmes allegedly cheated with several women at ABC. Never failed that the man will be demonized. Whoa, like she was taking advantage of her something, but she could have been doing what that girl was doing to me the other night. She's a married woman too. It's the same thing with the other situation with the Boston Celtics coach. That's the married woman. They say, oh, you can't even bring up the man. They made jail and rose apologized for even asking, how come nobody's having conversations about the married woman? They say, oh, it's because of the power dynamics and everything else. Well, guess what? These power dynamics are even. TJ Holmes and Amy are both co-hosts. Yet and still, TJ's the one getting demonized the most. He's the one in the headlines. How come there's no headline that says, Amy Roback was sleeping with a bunch of people at ABC? Can I be honest with you? I don't even think the power dynamics are even. Talk to me. Women are always in power when it comes to sex. If they're not, it's not consensual. There's one power in consensual sex. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Women are always in power. So it can't happen without her. You're really not saying consensual sex is the first thing somebody will say when they hear that is, that's not true. What about people who get sexually assaulted? You know what I mean? Of course, of course. In consensual sex, I agree. So we're assuming this is consensual because they had a relationship. So the woman who is the power broker in this relationship agrees to engage into us in a sexual act. All the man can do is ask when you think about it. As long as it's consensual, all the man can do is act. Or try by courting, right? You're courting. That's why I meant by that. You're dating, you're going out, you're kicking it, you're giving off signs. This woman crossed the line. Technically, a man can't cheat without a woman making him. They both crossed the line. No, no, no, no, no. Technically. He's married too, though. They both crossed the line. But he can't do it without her agreeing. He's got self-control. He know he married. No, no, no, no. You don't understand what I'm saying. She, if it's consensual, she made the decision. It's in her control. Sure, but as a married man, if a woman... Am I wrong right here? No, I'm going to tell you why he's wrong. I can't go on the nightclub and let the bouncer let me in. No, wrong is the right word. He's not wrong. Can I go on the nightclub with the bouncer? Don't let me in? He's not wrong. That's a very valid point, but there's another point to that. If a woman... You will get angry if I'm in the nightclub. You let me in. If a beautiful woman walks in here right now, Shopes, stands in front of you, drops all her clothes, and reaches for your penis. If you let her, that's your fault. You know you're married. You know what you should and shouldn't be doing. So you know that old saying, it takes two... I didn't say that there's not fault. Yeah. That's what I'm saying is, a man can't do it without them. A woman can. Nobody's going to say that it's assault. Nobody's going to say it's... I get what you're saying. But if a man tries, and then the woman pushes away, that guy's assaulting her. If a woman tries, she just failed at hitting on a dude. The woman is the person, she's the bouncer. She's TSA. If a fucking bomb gets on a plane, we got to talk to the TSA, right? I think it takes two, man. It takes two to cheat, bro. They're pussy TSA. It takes two to cheat. They pussy TSA, bro. They pussy TSA. Well, speaking of TSA, when you walk through that security cameras, a married man, your wedding ring better go off. When you walk through that goddamn metal detector, whatever the shit, you better make sure your wedding ring go off to remind you, amen, you married. But I have not seen a person win in these situations yet. Not no man. Not no man. You know you went on vacation with her, too. That's the foul shit, like, maybe your wife forgives you if you just got your dick suck in a broom closet or something like that, but not a vacation into the woods. Your wife has been waiting to go to the woods with you for years. Now that's the other part, too, though, because I don't know if both of them were separated. That's the other part of the story. They're saying that they were both separated from next significant others, but then other people are saying that's not true. So I don't know. But you're right. They're both separated, then you do whatever the fuck you want to do. But you're right, man. You got to stop treating the side like the main, bro. Yeah. Wabi, I'm not your main. Wasabi. Go give him a kiss. Go give him a kiss. I'm talking to the dog. What do you think Sobby was in another life? This with that woman at the bar last night? Just licking on you with no consent. You know what I mean? Down! But that's what you got to do. I'm only in control of me, man. I'm not in control of nobody else. Are you in control of buying a new pair of fucking socks? Jesus Christ, man. I don't have it, bro. What you want me to do, man? I'm going to tell you something. I saw it. This guy's worth millions and millions of dollars. Why are you keep saying this? Why do you say? Why, why, why is this happening? Why are you keep saying this? It's crazy, huh? Millions of dollars. You got to stop saying this. Millions of dollars? Millions of dollars. Tens of millions. Why do you keep saying this? It's not true. At least tens of millions. You know what I want for Christmas? And this is true. I thought about this. I literally thought about this this morning. What? I want a bunch of socks, right? But I want to be able to go in my sock drawer and find socks that batch. Why is that the hardest thing to fucking do as a man, bro? What's happening with the socks when they go in the drawer? They're completely... I don't know. It took me 15 minutes to find socks this morning. Do you have a maid or something like that? I mean, that's a terrible term. Have... Help? That's not worse. Have people who help us with the house. And they don't fucking match the socks up before they put it in the drawer? I don't think nobody matches the socks. This is a historic thing. That's only you, bro. Huh? That ain't true. I don't believe... Let me see y'all socks right now. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Do your socks match? Tell me, let me see if your socks match. Your socks match? Look at this. You ain't even got no socks on. Can't tell you. Shut up. I'm the only one with... Technically my socks match, but they're just dirty. Down! Here's the thing. You are paying a housekeeper to just take your socks out of the laundry and then throw them in the drawer without bunching them together. That's crazy to me. I think I realized... That's absolutely fucking crazy. You can't do that yourself? I think I realized I don't have that many matching pair of socks. You have to, they come matching. I don't know what happens. Let's just find them individually. I don't know what happens to them, bro. I'm not even lying to you. I've never been a sock guy. What's happening right now, yo? I'm starting to get into socks now. What's a sock? No, I'm gonna say... What is happening right now, yo? Salute the stance, right? Because stance kind of like made cool socks. Yeah. But I started like paying attention to socks. Okay. Prior to that, paying attention to socks like that. You'll go buy briefs. You'll go buy, you know, tank tops, but you don't really go buy socks. But you have socks. And then somehow... I'm gonna be honest with you... You only have one of them? As I look at my feet, I'm not sure I have socks, bro. And when I think about what was going on in my drawer this morning, I think that those socks are really there for props. I'm telling you, it took me 15 minutes to find socks with a drawer full of socks. I'm gonna take a picture of my sock drawer later and send it to you and you're gonna understand what I'm saying. None of the socks matched. You know, these were the only pair of socks that I could find that matched. Call your housekeeper right now. For what? So we can have a conversation about it. You really think you're gonna be able to understand her? Honestly, yeah. You might. My wife speaks the language a little better than I do. I don't have the housekeeper's number, though. I just can't believe that somehow your housekeeper is getting away with just tossing your fucking socks in there. Or you just have one sock. She don't even have to touch the drawer. When I find socks, I usually get socks out of the laundry basket most of the time. Uh-huh. So, shit. Why isn't she putting them away? Do you see, is there? I don't understand what you're saying. No, I totally understand. It's really coming to me now. What's coming to you? What I realize is I get my socks out of the laundry basket. You know, the cleaners come like two times a week. So I'm probably wearing the same pair of socks. Every single time. You have one pair of socks. Maybe two. You have one to two pairs of socks. Maybe two. Maybe two. Maybe two. Maybe two. I don't have socks to wash. Yeah, I don't have socks to wash. Show them in. I know what I'm gonna get you for Christmas. I want socks. I'm not even joking, yo. I know. But I gotta really start investing in socks in a real way to where I know they a pair. You know what I mean? This is a... I got on the 85 style sweatsuit right now. I notice the pants to it. This is the top. So I need the same socks so I can look and say, okay, these go together. Yes. I'm dead serious. What do you mean? It's a million. Yeah, how you got tens of millions of dollars? I don't have tens of millions of dollars. Stop saying that. How you worth a hundred million dollars and you don't have it? Bro, I don't have that. That's why I keep losing friends now. This guy's the first billion man. Do they think I got stuff? I don't have. There's the socks. This is unbelievable. Taylor said that there's socks that come together. Don't all socks come together? It's never been a problem. It's never been a problem for most people to have socks that match. How do you know Rich is Black man in America? You're literally the Rich is Black man now. You say who's the Rich is Black man in America? You do. Now the Kanye is not Rich no more. You're the Rich is Black man in America. The Rich is Black man in America is my good friend Robert Smith. Wow. That's Cap, good friend. That guy's white. Rob... Did you know Robert Smith is white? Robert Smith is black. No, Robert Smith is black black. Robert Smith is pay off all the student loans at Morehouse graduating class black. Wouldn't you do that if you were really white? You want to trick black people in the thing and you're black? No, I would do that if I was really Rich. That's what you do. So TJ and Amy, God bless them. What is happening right now? We wish them the best. The Vanderbilt's ain't leave his sister real now. You're good bro. We wish them the best. You missed the goat this week man. Oh, I know. You walked in, you was very disappointed that you missed the goat this week. I saw the goat two times this week man. Dr. Umar Johnson was on Breakfast Club. Ann Helibowin. Dr. Umar Johnson was on Hell of a Week. OK, tell me about Breakfast Club first. Breakfast Club conversations are always great because people look forward to Dr. Umar on Breakfast Club. OK, why do you think he's such an engaging figure despite the fact that a lot of his rhetoric may be not as progressive or deemed as polarizing? I don't think it has to be progressive. I think that black people and people of color think that your messaging has to be progressive. But the reality is, man, most people are conservative. I really feel that way. Speak on it. I just think most people are conservative. I think that the way we were raised, a lot of us have old school values. Now there's things about myself that I've grown to question, especially in regards to religion just because things don't feel right with my spirit. You know what I mean? But other than that, for the most part, most people have conservative values. It's not really that difficult to express. And I think a lot of things that he expresses a lot of conservative values, even his thoughts on interracial relationships. It's not weird when Asian people say that. It's not weird when Jewish people say that. It's not weird when a Latino or a Dominican says I want my Dominican daughter to marry a Dominican man. So why is it so like when a black man says a black man should be with a black woman? No, I yeah, I've seen a lot of people say he says it. First of all, I just want to make it very clear. I absolutely love Dr. My Johnson. I'm the biggest fucking fan. He's one of the best communicators, the most hilarious. He really is, Joe. So but I think what a lot of people do is they go, well, just because they're doing that, why can't we do that? But if you do something that we that we deem as wrong, it doesn't make it OK if other people do wrong things. Yes. In other words, right? Like if somebody's like, yo, they beat their wives, why can't we beat our wives? No, they shouldn't. That's right. And you should continue not. So if you fall in love with someone who is of a different religion or of a different race, God bless you. Some people don't feel that way. Dr. My Johnson actually had like a fire argument for it. You know, me as a comic, I'm just looking for cool connections. And his own thing was he says what often happens is a lot of affluent, educated black men, like the rich black men are marrying outside their race. And he thinks that that puts the black community in a tougher situation because I guess they're not like because women outlive men. And so when the man passes, that wealth goes to a community. A lot of times that has been taken from the black community. We can put that clip in. I mean, and that's the thing I like about Omar, whether that's right or wrong. It's like as a comic, I'm looking at them like, oh, that's interesting. It's not prejudice. It's based on economics and business. Yeah, I understand what you say. I guess what I'm saying is just because things are even doesn't mean it's right. Yes. There's a lot of ways to be even. Yes. That are absolutely wrong. Oh, that person commits crime. I'm going to commit crime. No, you shouldn't. But you both should not commit crime. But he was fucking phenomenal. He said he looked incredible. The suit was beautiful, fucking hair done like he looked made for TV. You know what Dr. Umar showed me when he did hell of a week? Dr. Umar showed me that he really is the star we've always known him. And I tell you what I mean by that. He is not performing as much as we think he may be performing. Yeah, I don't think he's performing. Well, the great ones make you think they're not performing. Well, I think that he recognizes when he has the opportunity to really get messaging across that he feels can benefit people or better people. You know what I mean? Because what he had to say about the Brittany Grindel situation, whether you agree or disagree with it. What was his take on his take on it? And we can insert that, Taylor, but his take on it was that, you know, it's just a political stunt from the Biden administration. You know, to garner support in 2024 because Brittany Grindel checks off a lot of boxes. It checks off Woman Box, Black Box, LGBTQ and celebrities. You know, and I mean, I think I'm pretty sure at this point, we are safe to say Brittany was a political pawn, not just even for the USA, but for Russia as well. Russia used her to get back their merchant of death, you know. And now Biden has another thing he can put on his resume to say that he got done and it's a cultural thing that people wanted to get done. People are going to remember that. That is that's one of those things that nobody is going to ever forget in regards to President Biden and the Biden administration. And what's what's been interesting is that like there's been this comparison made between Brittany Grindel and I believe something. We all willing Paul Wheeling former US Marine Paul Wheeling. And and what was Paul Wheeling doing in Russia? He got a he was I don't know. I forgot what he was actually doing there, but he got arrested for espionage. But he was he's fine. No, he said he wasn't. I mean, that's yeah, of course, that's what you say. That's what I was saying. No, that's fine. It's on vacation. And I don't I don't I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I guess what I'm trying to say is like I don't think it's a fair comparison if his job was to go there and spy. You know, if your job I know he was working for some security firm or something like that. I guess what I'm trying to say is like if your job is to go somewhere and spy and then you get captured, right? And then you're comparing that to a woman whose job was to go play basketball. And she fucked up by bringing drugs in there. But the only reason that she was put in jail in this way is because she's famous and she was a tool. It was a proxy. Go back to that. But I just people are making this comparison. They're like, why are we letting this girl out who quote unquote hates America versus this guy who sacrificed for America? Yeah. And it's like, well, the reason why they're in prison might be different things. Yeah. But Taylor Taylor is amazing. What she what she said. She just she just informed us that Paul Willing was accused of spying. Oh, wow. No, we were sure. But we were sure what he was accused of. We don't know if he actually was spying. Like, for example, I did a show in Russia, they could easily. And I was actually concerned about this. They could easily at any point in time go, oh, this guy's out here. He's out here on behalf of the United States of America. He's trying to put out information or like research different parts of Moscow so they can attack him. Let's lock this motherfucker. Yeah, like that. They could have done that at any point in time and trump up some weird charges and then that's right. Let's insert the Paul Willing clip here, Taylor. But he Taylor Paul Willing said I was arrested. He called CNN last night. He said I was arrested for a crime that never occurred. I don't understand why I'm still sitting here. Willing, a former Marine who was the US, Irish, British and Canadian citizen was detained at a Moscow hotel in December 2018 by Russian authorities. Alleged he was involved in an intelligence operation. He was convicted and sentenced in June 2020 to 16 years in prison and a trial US officials that now is unfair. I would say that if a message could go to President Biden, that, you know, this is a precarious situation that needs to be resolved quickly. And I would hope that he and his administration would do everything they could to get me home regardless of the price they might have to pay at this point. Here's the thing. I can't believe the Biden administration didn't prepare for this backlash. As soon as this broke yesterday and we talked about it on Breakfast Club after I, you know, saluted Brittany for coming home and, you know, gave the Biden administration props. Cool. The second thing I said was, but you know, you're all about to get crazy backlash because there's a former US Marine named Paul Willing who they were talking about doing a two for one deal for. And I said, everybody's going to say WNBA player versus somebody who served the country. Right wing media is going to eat that up. They're going to eat that up. And then for a merchant of death, you know, what are you working for us to because I watched that movie. I heard that too. Yeah. So that's the other thing that's weird about this is like we locked up a dude who we were also working with. I heard that. I don't know if that's true, but I heard that. Yeah. And he definitely plotted on killing a bunch of Americans. He definitely supplied weapons that killed a bunch of Africans and Afghans. So I mean, that's the other thing I was thinking, right? Like, you know how there's so many like unstable nations in Africa, right? Especially the ones that have all these incredibly valuable natural resources. Yeah. Doesn't it behoove the countries that are extracting those natural resources to keep those nations as unstable as possible so that they can't organize and find a way to nationalize those resources and then make it far more expensive to remove them. Yeah. If you keep everybody, if you keep everybody else in chaos, but you're you're organized to do what it is you want to do, meaning take that take those resources from that country. You'll never lose like it's no surprise. Like they're doing it here now. A hundred percent. But I'm also like, if you look at the Congo, right, who which is I think the most resource rich region in the world, right? It's also one of the most unstable places. And I'm like, this can't be a coincidence. There has to be purpose here, right? Like, I don't know. I feel like you keep everybody confused. You keep everybody in chaos. They'll never pay attention to what you're really doing. Because I guess if you look like you look at the Middle East, right? We were extracting oil in the Middle East far before they were these organized, incredibly wealthy nations. And what do we have? What did we have to do before we started extracting oil war? Exactly. But I'm saying what I'm saying is what I'm saying is maybe they learned from what happened in the Middle East and they were like, oh, shit, we gave we gave. We allowed these people to profit. Enormously off of the oil money that was extracted. We being, you know, Great Britain, United States, many other countries develop all the infrastructure. They weren't developing this sophisticated infrastructure. Then once they made billions and trillions of dollars, they were like, OK, we don't need you guys extracting anymore. Now you're going to have to pay for the oil. And now I imagine the Western countries going, oh, we fucked up there. We let shit be too sweet. It was way better when they were in chaos and we were just yanking that shit out and paying whatever fucking propped up leader they have. That's right. It's kind of fucked like. Bro, keep people in chaos, man. I'm telling you, why do you think every day on social media is some shit? And that's what I said yesterday. I'm like, oh, God, today's going to be one of them shit shows online. But I knew what was going to happen. I knew that the right wing media was going to be highly upset that, you know, Paul Wheeling wasn't home. I knew they were going to be highly upset that they traded a merchant of death for Brittany Grindel. I knew that, you know, once that fashion of black Twitter and, you know, what they called a hotep found out that, you know, oh, this dude, Victor, was responsible for the death of a bunch of Africans. I knew that was going to turn into something. I knew that people were going to say, oh, this is an agenda because Brittany's LGBT like all it was, it was so predictable. And all the usual suspects did what they always do. And what did we do all day yesterday? Fuss and fight. And who knows what the fuck was really going on in the world yesterday? You know what I mean? This is a good lesson. Like you get locked up abroad. If I get locked up abroad, I'm gay. Why? That's the last thing you want to do is be in some of these countries. No, but I need I need extra boxes to bring me back. Oh, I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. I'm gay. I get what you're saying. I'm Chinese. I will say. I'm all the whatever it is that you need to curry favor with. That's me. I will say, though, man, the Brittany situation did show me what, you know, communities are capable of. You know, when they decide to organize and strategize and bring awareness and attention to something. Oh, you think that's what made it happen? A hundred percent. Like, yo, I don't even know what endorsement deals Brittany got. And you know why I don't know? Because they don't do a good a job of marketing hers. People have done over the past seven to eight months. You know, I mean, the whole we are BG campaign, constantly talking about it. Yo, not even on the on the low. Paul Willing benefits from Brittany Griner. Yeah, being arrested. Yeah, I never heard of Paul Willing. Yeah, I never heard of Paul Willing. So the Brittany Griner situation. And now conservatives got to carry through and all the shit they talking about it, right? Because if you're going to prop him up and say, look, how unfair it is when you get in power, you better get his ass back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, shit about how important he is and the sacrifices he made and all that. Yeah, yeah. You better make sure that that's not just fluff to criticize the Biden administration. You better make sure you actually care about that, man. Yo, the ill thing is Russia probably sitting back like, hold up. So a WNBA player gets called with a weeping Brittany Griner. And they gave us the merchant of death for her. Yep. Oh, he's definitely not giving up. Oh, we're not giving up for nothing less than like five first round pits. You know what I'm saying? Seriously, like that's that's literally what that's literally what it is. I know that's why they're keeping Paul Willing out. It like, oh, this is what we got for this. Oh, I know. Oh, my God. No, I didn't got bodied in that trade for sure. Easily. Absolutely. But I mean, listen, it might help him to Dr. Womar's point, it might help him in 2024. I don't know, you know, here's the thing. You're black. How does it feel? Do you feel like he looked out for you? I'm going to be honest with you, man. Whenever I see any black person, you know, get free from an unjust charge. Well, it was it was a just charge. Nine years, bro. I don't know what the rules are there, but they're countries. That's true. I mean, the rules are different. You're right. I'm comparing it to America. You're right. You're right. But it just seems unfair. But here's the thing with Biden, though. And this is what I've been saying for the past couple of days. And I'll continue to say, keep that same energy for America. Joe Biden has been responsible for some of the harshest crime, drug legislation in the history of this country. Free him up. You know what I mean? Let him out. If you can look in Russia and say that's unjust for Brittany Griner to be over there with a vape pin. People locked the fuck up here. It's right. You got people locked up here. Affirmative nonsense. Right now, he should pardon everybody that's in prison on a federal level for a nonviolent weed offense. Agreed. Pardon them. You can do that. You don't need no votes in there. He can do that. Done. You know what I'm saying? You should expunge the records. No, he didn't. That's not what he did, Alex. What he did was he pardoned everybody who has a simple possession charge, but there's nobody in prison on a federal level for simple possession. I thought it was nonviolent weed offense. No, it's a simple possession of marijuana. There's nobody in prison on a federal level for a simple possession of marijuana charge. So that's great and it looks good, but there's nothing there, bro. You know what I mean? The only reason I never really criticized it too hard because this is stepping the right direction. But now that we see what you can do. Run it up. Hey. Run it up. You can do that right here in America. You know what I'm saying? And by the way, there is nobody alive right now who should do that more than Joe Biden. Because how do you right your wrongs of the past? You write your wrongs of the past by righting the wrongs of right now. You're a president of the United States of America. You have the power to pardon everybody in prison. First of all, you can pardon anybody you want. That's number one on a federal level, but you can pardon those people that are in prison right now for nonviolent weed offenses on a federal level. Do it. Keep that same energy. And that's political prisoners here in America, you know, that you can let free. So I'm just saying keep that same energy. You know what I mean? And that's what I want us to do. Keep the pressure where the pressure needs to be. Because I think sometimes we get jaded with democracy, but are we really participating in democracy? Democracy isn't just voting and they get in and then you just wait for them to do something. You got to push until something happens. That's why I love when my girl tells me to figure all. It says push the fucking line, yo. So that's all I care about. Let's see if he does it. I don't think he will. And also with Brittany, I'm just like, for me, it's just like, why wouldn't I be happy that Brittany Grine is out of prison? You know what I'm saying? Just like when Paul Wheeling comes home and be happy too. I've been in jail. I can only imagine how that shit feels to be locked up in Russia and you know, you probably are being held captive just because you're being used as a political pawn. You know? Which is why people said initially when Brittany got arrested, they didn't want nobody to say nothing. That's when they didn't want nobody to say nothing. Because they were busy negotiating. That's right. They didn't want nobody to be, because it messes up the negotiation. Yeah, the more valuable she looks, the more value you have to offer to get her back. That's right. So we fucked up. Maybe. Maybe he's fucked up. Maybe. Because if nobody cared, they wouldn't even get it. That's what I'm saying. I understand both sides. It looks weak politically, that like one of our sports stars is locked up in another country. We can't do anything about it. It looks weak as a country. And you have to think about, like, outside of whether or not we should protect our citizens abroad. Because I was thinking about that yesterday. I'm like, if we break the law abroad, do we bully other countries to make exceptions? I don't know. If someone from another country came here, broke the law, lock that motherfucker up. How dare you disrespect them? Yeah, yeah. So I'm like. And now the diplomats from those countries got to deal with each other. I like what you just said though. You said it looks weak to have one of our sports stars locked up. You know what else is weak? When you don't treat her like a sports star when she's here. Nobody was talking about the WNBA and bringing the grind up beforehand. So that's the other thing. What happens moving forward? Moving forward, all of those games should be packed, right? No, they won't be packed. And they just, it's just not interesting. We know this though. Yeah, I know. You know what I mean? That's the fucked up thing about it. But people do like female sports, like female tennis. You go watch the tennis. I love female basketball. Okay. I watch college basketball all the time. Why? Because of Don Staley and the University of South Carolina Lady Game Cops. I love watching them play. I started watching in 2017 when Asia Wilson was playing for the Lady Game Cops. You know, she from the crib. She from South Carolina. Don, they got a great program there. I love watching college basketball. But I'm also a person who loves the fundamentals of basketball. Right. There's no better fundamentally sound people than college women basketball players. You don't believe that. That's a fact. You don't believe that. They're fundamentally sound. You don't believe that. You don't believe that. They're fundamentally sound shows. You don't believe that. They do everything but dunk. Everything else. The basics of basketball, they are the best. You know why they're the best at fundamentals? That's all they can do. NBA players, college basketball players that are male also know those fundamentals. They know them better than the women. And they're athletic enough to do all these amazing things that are incredibly entertaining. But that's what I mean. They can do other things, right? They can shoot from half court like the Steph Currys. And they can dunk and, you know, do crazy things with handling everything like that. A lot of them focus more on that than the fundamentals. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, and one players aren't fundamental? Yeah, but we're not comparing them to M1. We're comparing them to the top level, you know. I think when it comes to fundamentals, there's nobody better than college women basketball players because that's literally all they can focus on. I mean, you can think that. That's fun. It's wrong. It is completely wrong, but you can think it. I would love more people to go support college basketball. The reality is women aren't into it. And if women aren't into it, it's up to men to go support the female sport. And that's unfair. Like women, you, if you are, if this is a feminist movement and equality and all that kind of shit, you're 60% of the population. Go support the women when they do things. The reality is you would rather watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills than go out and support a show. That's why the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills got fucking four million viewers or whatever it does. And a WNBA game has absolutely nobody that's on women. I don't want to hear no more complaining. U.S. soccer, if the women are upset, maybe I understand that a little bit more just because so many people do go out to those games because they win. Like when the U.S. soccer is winning, you know, Olympic gold or like World Cups and that kind of shit. But if your stadiums are empty, that ain't men's fault. Hey, you know, Bill Byrd said that same thing, man. But I feel that same way about the movie Broads. I mean, we talked about Broads last week. Yeah, that's on you. Like where's your community? If I put something out and I put something together, and it's, you know, driven by the culture, like it's a black cast. And you know that if it don't do good, I'm not pointing at you. White people are saying, why y'all ain't show up? How will Conor do? Amazing. All right. You know, but I mean, that's different though. No, no. I get what you're saying, but that's different though. I don't think it's different. Black Panther was not this like huge Marvel character for us growing up. It's just supported by the community. A movie that's reflected the community, it resonates within the community. Right now, that's not to say that white people aren't excited about too, and kind of fans aren't excited about too. And you want to have multiple umbrellas that you could like pull from. But the reality is, black people were fucking with Wakanda, and that's why it's successful. I think Black Panther, I don't disagree. You're right. I think Marvel has a built-in thing already. But when you take the casual black person who wants to go see Black Panther, we may not go see no other Marvel movie. That's why our movie is like Wakanda Fever and Black Panther the Great. That's why I got to build this thing. It's one of the most popular sports in the world. Now what you're doing is drafting off of basketball, and it's not working as well. You got to find a way to make it work, change some shit up. I don't know what the fuck you got to do, but you got to change some shit to make it exciting. And I'm not saying that they should objectify women to do it, but there are certain sports that have objectified women, and it's been very valuable. You look at volleyball, they got these girls dancing around in fucking thongs and bikinis and shit like that. I personally think it's, you shouldn't need to do that to them. But the numbers are undeniable. Simple as that. I think the WNBA just simply needs eyeballs, man. I know that's what we're saying, but you dumb ass, how do you get the eyeballs? What else, that's what I'm trying to say. Make the game more interesting. I don't know what to do. The game is interesting. I promise you, I love- With tennis, female tennis is interesting, and it's not because they're moaning and crunching when they're hitting, it's literally because the volleys last longer. So their lack of athleticism and power makes the game better in a way because you see more back and forth action. Whereas the men, the serves are so strong, a lot of times it's one or two touches and then that's the point. So the game itself is really interesting and entertaining. Women have to find a way to do that with basketball. They have to find a way where their game is really great. College basketball is like, women's college basketball is like that. Yo, nobody goes, you know what I wanna watch today? Some fundamentals. Nobody's ever- I do! I wanna watch Alan Iverson cross someone over and make them drop. I wanna watch somebody dunk from the free throw line. But there's a lot of girls that do that too though. They handle be nice and they can shoot. I like women's college basketball. Now I'm not gonna lie, I don't watch WNBA. Not because I don't want to. I watch it when Asia's playing. When Asia's playing, Las Vegas Asia's are playing and the game's on, I'll watch it. But WNBA college basketball, I mean college basketball, women's college basketball, I definitely watch. I mean, look. But it's because of the lady game. The UFC has found a way to get people to watch women's MMA. That's different. Well, it's different. We love blood. Blood sports, yeah, violence will always win, bro. I mean, usually when women are bleeding, we try to stay a little bit, you know, away from them. Who? Who? You're married, bro. We married, bro. Oh, yeah, we out here. Period don't stop number the sentence, bro. Yeah. Let's talk them up. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? It stops a good dinner combo. Off it. Did you know that? It's so stupid, man. No, but I guess what I'm saying is like, with boxing, no one really cared about female boxing. Maybe Laila Ali a little bit, but like it wasn't as big with female MMA. There are female MMA stars that are literally almost as big as the top male MMA stars. So they found a way to make the sport interesting, entertaining, and really enjoyable when these girls are fighting. But that's because there's nothing those women MMA fighters can do that. There's nothing they can do that the men can't do with vice versa. Like it's the same thing. What can a man do in the ring that a woman can't? They kick each other. They hit each other. They beat each other. You can say the same thing about WNBA. No, no dunking. That's what Shaq said. Shaq said they don't drink champs. Shaq was like, if they just lowered the rim a little bit and women could dunk more, people would be into it. You know what my idea was. I don't know if it's fair, but my idea was add one trans woman per team. That was my idea a long time ago. And what happens? Now you get to dunking. That's all it's about. Now you get Ali's getting thrown and stuff like that. You know what I mean? If I'm wrong, if you would have dunked as a woman, I cannot remember her name. She plays for the stock line of Gamecocks. She dunked in the game this year. You know what I mean? So it's just like, that's what's missing. Shaq said that Shaq was like, if you just lowered the rim just a little bit and the WNBA, it changes the whole complexion of the game. And I believe that. So it's like, you know, my vibe is add one trans woman per team. Or lower the rim. Or lower the rim. I think they got to do something because it's not working out. Shaq was like, I love watching fundamentals, but the way to fix this game is add and dunks. Hey man, you want me to think of some ideas? What are you trying to do, man? You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying y'all wrong. I'm saying, I know I'm one individual. Okay, we're trying to bring more than just people like me. It's not clearly not a lot. Yeah. You know what I mean? They really like the Gamecocks because they're from South Carolina. And Don Staley is a bad motherfucker, man. God damn, Don Staley is a bad motherfucker. Have you ever watched? I know you're going to say, no, I'm asking you. Did you ever watch the women's Olympic team, Doc 30 for 30? When it was Lisa Leslie and Don Staley and Cheryl Swoops and Rebecca Lobo? Oh man, I mean, I'm a documentary guy. It came out this year. Love the documentary, but just what Don, what Don has done for the sport of women's basketball and who she is as a person and what she represents, man, is incredible. Like some people are just special. Some people have gifts like, you know, Deon Sanders. We're about to talk about Deon Sanders. Like Deon Sanders has a gift, you know, Ray Lewis. Ray Lewis has a gift. Like it's something about them that the way they speak is able to motivate athletes to be the best. Version of himself. The best version of himself, Phil Jackson. You know what I'm saying? Like Don Staley to me is, she's got it like that. You know what I mean? And it proves it shows because she wins at every level, you know? So yeah, salute to her. What do you think of the Deon Sanders situation, man? I mean, have you given it any thought? I have, cause I like, I also heard about Umar and what he had to say. And I've heard people make that criticism, but like, I don't know. I thought him going to Jackson State and, you know, dedicating three years there, taking his son there, his son as a top recruit, he could have gone to any school in the nation. And he's potentially sacrificing that exposure at a top university. What do you have gone to any school in the nation? Oh, I thought he was like a number one ranked quarterback. Oh, his son. Oh, I thought you meant Deon as a coach. No, no, his son. Okay. Yeah, I mean, one of his sons. At Jackson State. Yeah, one of his. Potentially sacrificing major exposure. Thank God. His other son was playing at South Carolina. Is that right? Yeah, his other son was playing for the Gamecocks. He transferred to Jackson State. I don't know. I guess what I'm saying is like, one, he's allowed to go make money. Two, he's clearly made an impact for that university. Three, maybe other people will do what Deon did and he started a trend, but he's also allowed to go make money. He's also allowed to take his son to a division one prime time university so he can compete against the best talent. So he has a chance to prepare himself for the NFL. Like what are you expecting him to do? Like have his son not go up against top competition then go into the NFL and then be like shocked and then flame out. I think it's bare minimum. His son should definitely go there. I don't even know just about his son. I think Deon is a person who's always bored in the people. And that's what I've been telling people all week. Deon Sanders, coached high school football for several years. Deon Sanders opened up Prime Prep Academy, which closed because of financial issues. Deon Sanders has always said he wanted to coach at Florida State University. Deon Sanders has never, ever hidden his desire to say he ultimately wants to be a coach at Florida State, but he knows like everybody else, he's gotta, you know, take those steps. Jackson State University was a school that offered him an opportunity to take a step. Friday that day, he got offered an assistant coaching gig somewhere. He didn't want to be an assistant coach. Jackson State like, okay, Deon can give our, you know, school a boost. They hired Deon. Deon said from the beginning, hey man, I'm here to, you know, change the perspective of HBCU. This is what God told me to do. And it's bugging me out that people are saying, why did he say God told him to do that? God don't tell y'all to do something. Y'all go do it, be successful at it, or be a failure at it. And then God tells you to move on to something else. Like he went to Jackson State, $1.2 million for four years. Three years, decided to move on, told them a year or two ago, take half of that salary, use it for student facilities. How can people say Deon was in it for the money when his track record clearly shows he's never been in it for the money? Was he in it for the money when he was coaching hospital football? Was he in it for the money when he launched Prime Prep Academy and it closed the financial issues? Let's say he was in it for the money. What's wrong? Where's the money though? My point is whenever somebody's doing those things. No, no, it's like going to Colorado's for the money. Not doing Jackson State. I don't even know if Colorado's for the money as much as it's for, I want the opportunity to coach on a power five level because my ultimate goal is Florida State. And I told y'all that from the beginning. Yeah, I don't know. I think this is a really unfair criticism of somebody that's clearly dedicated time and personal resources to uplifting in HBCU and the students that were on that team. And people are doing what they usually do which is focus on the individual and not the issue because the issue is HBCUs are chronically underfunded. Why are they chronically underfunded? Because of underfunding from the state that they're in from low donations from alumni and low endowments. You know what I mean? So it's just like a lot of this stuff. I'm like, when the last time you donated to an HBCU? You know, if Deion Sanders is at this school. If you haven't donated, we don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear shit you got to say. It's not like he even went to Jackson State. Where is he? It's not like he's, that's his alma mater or anything. He feels like he owes him it. The only reason he did his to give back to that community, which is going to be way more than the average person criticizes. Yes. And Deion Sanders, I mean, HBCUs were criminally underfunded before Deion Sanders and they're going to be criminally underfunded after. How do you fix that? You fix that by digging down in your pockets. You know what I'm saying? And donating to the school of your choice. And I'm only speaking from somebody who does it. You know, breakfast club, we raised over $800,000, you know, for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, you know, which goes to students at HBCUs. I came out of my pocket, quote a million dollars, my mother's alma mater South Carolina State with a lot, with a lot more to come. You know, just a couple of weeks ago, you heard me on here talking about our Thriller Possibility Summit that we did in Nashville back in November. I don't remember what date that was, Taylor. Did it with Black Effect, my podcast network, I Heart and Nissan. We flew 50 HBCU students out. We paid for that, you know? Flew 50 HBCU students out, had a panel, panels all weekend, you know, for them to learn from other people who went to HBCUs who have gone on to be successful. So once again, what are you investing in HBCUs? To sit around and say, oh, Deion Sanders, you know, should have stayed a little longer because he was going to help all HBCU rise. Deion is not your savior, brother. Yeah. Sister, Deion Sanders is not your savior. And guess what? Deion came and showed us the possibilities. He showed us what HBCUs could be. There you go. If folks actually- You had the right talent, people went there. That's right. And guess what? Anybody who makes the move that Deion did, which there is Eddie George out there, by the way, Eddie George is at Tennessee State. Y'all don't know that, because y'all fake caring about Deion, but Eddie George is at Tennessee State. But any, you know, there's only one Deion, but anybody, let's just say with that kind of experience, as far as, you know, being an NFL player or whatever, and deciding to come play college football, if they're really good, they're probably not going to be at the HBCU long. Because the HBCUs can't afford to pay them. They can't compete. Well, that's another good point where it's just like, yo, let's put our money where our mouth is. If it is about the money, then where are those, what are they called graduates? Where are the alumni that are making tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars? Where are those, I think they're called boosters or something like that, that are going to be donating to the school to keep a guy like Deion? Why does Deion have to not only sacrifice what he wants to do, meaning eventually close to Florida State, what his son wants to do, which is prepare the best visibility to play in the NFL, and what they both might want to do, which is generate generational wealth. Why do they have to do all those sacrifices while everybody else is looking around criticizing? To me, it seems unfair. I think Deion has made a lot of sacrifices, man. Deion lost two toes, bro. Oh, are they gone? Amputated. Which ones? I don't know which ones, but he lost two toes over the past couple of years. People forget Deion was in the hospital earlier this year. Yeah, for what? I don't remember what it was. I think he had a blood clot or something like that. You know what I'm saying? But it's just like, yo, he's 55 years old. He's probably looking like, I don't, let me do what I need to do now. Like, I don't understand why we're acting like somebody can't have multiple callings throughout their life. And everybody wanted this situation. Nobody got fucked over. Jackson State University won. They got what they wanted over the last few years. Deion Sanders won. He got what he wanted. Now everybody's moving on. But here's the thing, HBCUs are still here. So what are we gonna do? Keep pointing at Deion. He be like, okay, Deion's gone. Deion, this is your fault. HBCUs are like this. Knock it off. HBCUs were like this before he got there. HBCUs were like that. Wow, he was there. So what are we going to do to help, you know, the HBCUs of our choice? That's all. That's all. You wanna pay some bills? Yeah, let's do it. Let's pay some bills, man. What you got? All right, guys, let's take a break for a second because listen, some of you guys might be missing out on your favorite shows because it's not available in your region, in your country, wherever the hell you're traveling to. Listen, trying to keep your private time, you absolutely can. And you can do it with NordVPN, okay? 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I mean, I watched it. Honestly, if I tell you how I felt, I was really kind of upset a little bit. Why? Cause they didn't tell us that Trevor was going to be on for an hour and some change. Oh. So you guys were- I'm promoting regular like, you know, hey, check us out 1130, you know, 1130, 1130 Comedy Central. I'm feeling good. I got Yvonne Orgy and I got Umar and I got Kaz and I got Sam. And I know we had a great show. And I was excited. Cause I'm like, oh, this is Trevor's last show. So I know it's going to be a lot of eyeballs on it, but I didn't know that it was going to be an hour and some change. And then they was like, oh, it's going to, you know, be over at 1145. I'm like, okay, cool. You know, till 1145 came. And Trevor was still on. He didn't go up to a 1205. Wow. So I felt the low weight, but then I had to, you know, take a step back and be like, well, it is Trevor's last show, but still it's not a live show. So. So they knew. Yeah. At least tell us. I just want to have, I just want the information so I can tell my people when the tune in. That's all. Cause you know, you got everybody that was on the show posting saying, hey, 1130, 1130, 1130. But then it didn't come until 12 something. So, you know, Wow. God bless. You know, Trevor's getting a lot of props because he praised the black women for his success while signing off the daily show for the last time. Well, that's the right thing to say. Yeah. Praise his mom and his grandma and you know, just different black women that he's learned from. Yo, can black man get any credit? Yo, he's a black man. We get no credit. Like I feel like we do so much. He's a black man in shows. What? Black man. As a black man, I have to. What? I am Jew. I am semi. I am black man. Okay. I'm for real. Listen, you got to respect me. Amen. Shut up. Salute to Jalen Smith. Jalen Smith is an 18 year old who is now the youngest black man in the United States. Man, this is so funny, but it also shows how politics work, man. Jalen Smith literally had 218 votes. Yo, youngest black mayor in the United States of America. He might be, you got to be the youngest mayor. There's nobody younger. I've never, yeah. I think you got to be 18 to run. Got to be 18 to run, bro. But no, I'm proud of us. We got it. We got another mayor we got. And it's, no, this is fire, dude. This is amazing. It's an amazing thing. Also politics is not that fucking hard. Getting 250 votes. 218 votes, whatever, Russ. And only 2,000 people in the town. I'm like, I want to know what the funding is like for that town. Like what's the budget? The access to the budget star, but salute to you, young King. Okay, I see you with the phone on the belt buckle. Oh, shit. I thought that was a people. Nah, bro. That's the iPhone sideways. Whoa. Yo, that guy. That's how they do it in Earl, Arkansas, baby. Jalen got it. That's how they do it in Earl, Arkansas. Taylor, let's do some black Kings. Finally, a little respect bestowed. Let's do some, what? You know, there's a lot of us black women support black women a lot. I want to see more black women supporting black men. See, that doesn't seem very supportive. Cardi B, no, that doesn't seem very supportive at all. This real, Cardi B gets anxiety making music. Right? Yeah, she should. Everybody gets anxiety doing what they do. Of course, because you're worried about the way that people are going to perceive it. That's why the music is good. That's right. Yeah, Cardi, that's good for you. Wasabi. You care a lot. Why do you like me, Wasabi? What do you mean? OK, yes. Cardi, Cardi. What's wrong with liking you? Come on, Wasabi. Here you go with this again, man. Get up in there, get up in there. Wasabi, cool, man. Dude, you're good. We here, we here, we here, we here, we here, Wasabi. You're a good girl. We here, we here, we here, we here. We here, we here, Wasabi. All right, Wasabi. He knows a strong black man. He knows a strong black man. Good job, Wasabi. Somebody left that comment. Somebody said, man, one day, somebody said, man, Shalemane, the way he got anxiety, man, one day a dog. No, you know what was so funny about this? He came to that guy in Florida who was walking the dog and then decided to fuck the little golden doodle in front of everybody. He was walking the dog and then decided to fuck the golden doodle in front of everybody, right? What? So somebody left a comment under my page, under that post and goes, one day, Shalemane's going to get a dog, man. He's going to understand why we love dogs so much. I'm like, it's the wrong post to leave this kind of comment, bro. Like, like, like, I get what you're saying. Are you talking about something totally different? That's. In regard to the anxiety and like, you know. That's something. That was stupid, bro. I'm like, you're not paying attention. You're not paying attention. But yeah, yeah, salute to Cardi, man. Cardi, just make the music. Cardi, you won already. Yeah. Cardi has over exceeded all expectations. That's facts. I knew Cardi was going to be a superstar. I said it a million times. I told people, Jesus Christ, what's up with the ass, bro? You never did that, was I? She knows what a strong black man was. Dogs are crazy. Dogs act like fucking women when they see married men, bro. Bright though? You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I came over here. I'm cool. That's what I'm saying. What's that song? Put that thing up. That's what I'm saying. He came over here. He was cool. He told me he liked me. She told me she liked me on the radio. She was throwing that pussy. I know. Then we have a little conversation. I give her a little ribbon. Then she throw the pussy up in my face. Man, that's crazy. God damn. Now she all sad because you said no. It's OK. That's what happens after they say everybody's married. I'm married. Oh, everybody's married. What's that? Oh, you think Charlotte's gay? That's wrong. You can't say we're gay just because we don't sleep with you. That's not right. That's offensive to us. Why do women always do that? You know what I mean? Why do women always do that? Actually, actually. OK, see, all right, let me stop flirting with you. Yep. Go to some, do some asking idiots, Taylor. Yeah. How long have you been recording, Alex? About an hour. What? Took that thing up. Oh, y'all getting this week as a hot 60, baby. There we go. What you got shit to do? I love y'all, though. I really do, man. Don't worry. When the new year, when we get the new brilliant idiot studio, you know what I'm saying? We got y'all. OK? What? Taylor, Taylor keeps showing us stuff. Oh, this is interesting. Now, this is interesting. Yeah, this one's really good. An old video of T.I. You can play this. An old video. Oh, this one's fire. We were talking about this one. An old video of T.I. on his podcast in 2020 is making. I don't even know if that was from 2020, though. It's making the rounds on the internet with T.I. amidst the given information to the authorities in regards to his dead cousins. So basically, he's saying that he, you know. Snitch on the death. Yes. Well, he pulled us over. He pulled us over. I have a gun. Why are we going through the court process? So we caught no good case to that. And, you know, my lawyer said, well, you know, I can make everything go away if it. To if it was Tramels out of here, passed to have a talk with him. What to say? Say, I take all the charges you got. If you could walk away free and put it on me. God damn right. So is that all boys giving you shit about because you put it on? No, here, no. OK. Nobody know about that. I just volunteered. This is the only time. I'm just being honest. That's the only time. I don't ever see it again. No information about it. Because that's my cousin, my big cousin. He was dead. And he told me that it was OK. What do you think about that? That's what they are for. Snitch on the dead. Listen, as long as you're not putting something crazy on him, like pedophilia, you know what I mean? Rape, like, as long as you're not making that person out to be, if what he's being accused of, everybody knows he used to do on a regular. So if he's being accused of carrying a gun, he's being accused of robbing a store. He's being accused of shooting somebody. I don't see why he wouldn't take that charge for you. If he's in heaven or he's in hell, he's probably going, yo, put that shit on me. It's not going to affect me. That's right. That's right. You get to live free. You get to be with your family. You get to be with your kids. We should absolutely be snitching on the dead, 100%. Why was this ever an issue? Look at that again. This is the issue. Get your goddamn pussy out my face. Again, she said, munch. Get out of here. She called you a munch. Why do Matt, what he talking about? She called you a munch. She said, you're an eater. You eat it for lunch. Why do married men always got to fight off advances? Unwanted advances. Say wasabi. You thought I was feeling you? Say wasabi. That's what I'm talking about. She grew a pussy at you, bro. That was crazy. Like a skunk. Just back that shit up and say, eat it. Yo, what's up? I think you can say that one. I ain't hold on. I'm not. I think you can say that one. That's true. I think you just got to say it. Oh, man. Oh, man. Nope. Listen. I don't know how I feel about this. But why? I agree with it. In theory, I just don't like playing with the dead. I don't know if I don't even know how that works, because I would think that if you got caught with a gun, would it matter if the person who owned the gun was dead because possession is nine attempts to the law? So usually when you get caught with a gun, the police are like, oh, that's yours. Oh, the way I assumed it was going is that the person that was dead was alive when they were caught together. Yeah. So for example, me and you are caught, God forbid, I die. Well, let me put that on you. God forbid you die. God damn. Don't put that on me. Just give a hypothetical. All right, Alex. Okay. The three of us are together. God forbid, Alex dies. Jesus. We all got arrested together. Oh, you mean we're okay. See, I didn't know that. I didn't I didn't understand the context. That's what I was. The dead body in the car. This guy. This guy is crazy. This guy. What? This guy? This guy is absolutely crazy, bro. What? That's not what happened. This guy is one of the craziest people I've ever met in my entire life. You gotta know that that is not what the fuck we're talking about. I swear. What I hate is how you were like, oh, I got it. Hey, oh, I got it now. Here's the dumbest thing ever said by anybody ever. Hey, I got it. It didn't sound like that to you. I understand your sock drawer now, bro. I understand your sock drawer. I think you confused after seeing that doggy pussy. That motherfucker, man. He threw you for a second. He threw that tail up. Imagine dogs talking to each other. Yo, I was with her. Yo, she threw that tail up. Tail up. Say you want some wasabi on that. You want some wasabi on the tuna. Oh, man. Explain to me what the fuck y'all meant, though. Okay, the three of us are out here, right? Yeah. There was a gun in the car, right? A few weeks later, Al dies. God forbid. We still got this charge for the gun. You and I talk to our lawyer. Our lawyer's like, yo, one of y'all are dead. Just say it was his gun. You guys are clean. They could charge him, but he's dead, so they're not going to charge you everybody's good. That's what I assumed it was. Oh, listen, I'm not mad at it in theory. I'm just saying I don't like to play with the dead like that. Unless you're four daughters. I don't know. Unless you're four daughters. I don't know what I was doing. I'm not mad at it, though. Now that I know it's a possibility, yeah, I'm sure a lot of you will add that to that repertoire if they ever did it. Yes, 100%. The only thing about this is people have been trying to paint a narrative of tip for years, so now they're trying to use this to say, see? Shut the fuck up, man. Get off my guy, man. God does a lot for the city of Atlanta. I don't think Tip gets his credit at all for the stand-up individual that he is. What else we got? All right, guys. We're going to take a break for a second because today's episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all-one platform for building your brand and growing your business online. Stand out with a beautiful website. Engage your audience and sell anything, your products, your content, you creating even more. You could do your time. You could sell your time on there. Guys, if you have a business, you need a place for it on the Internet. 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I remember one time back in the day, when we were busting up some checks, he said this shit is like me printing money. I can't believe this shit, man. Can you believe this shit? The reality is, no, I cannot. I'm just being honest. That's how I feel about my whole life. I cannot believe this shit. When I look at my life, I'm like, whoa, I can't believe this shit. That goes for everything across the board. It don't matter if it's breakfast club, black effect, brilliant idiots, family, my publishing company, my book publishing company, I'm in the shoes too. Boston Dog Lips? No. SBA Productions at Audible. You know, businesses I do, it's all unbelievable to me. And it's all because I genuinely love what I do. I make money doing what I love to do. And guess what? I did it for the love initially. Yep. And it turned into what it's turned into. And I will not stop having fun. The moment I stop having fun, the moment I stop loving it is when I'm going to stop doing it. Agreed. Cookie Man 1 says, is the pod going to release at a certain date and time when the reintroducing begins in 2023? That is the goal, Cookie Man 1. It is going to release at a certain date and time. It is. That's the goal. We're not going to say it, but it is. Yeah. That's the goal. We act like we want to be late. We don't want to be late. We start this like, yo, we record, we try to record. Damn. Man, why you got a whitelist? It says, here's what I found. Brune it is with Charlemagne the God and Andrew. Damn. How serious, you know, the fuck are you talking about? Serious, like, don't even lie right now. But we do try. We try to be on schedule. We do. We just, we're busy guys. We busy, man. We busy, man. I think also having a new studio and, like, both of us just trying to lock in a time and prioritize that time will make it easier. There's going to be weeks where it's not that way, but we're going to do our best. One question X to the Z says, Andrew, with talk of having a child in the future, do you feel your comedy will change? I hope so. I hope my comedy evolves. I don't ever want to be doing the same shit over and over again. I think that the true testament to having a great career is continually evolving. And I think those are the people who last the longest. I think a lot of times you almost see creators becoming, like, caricatures of themselves. Like they're doing an impression of themselves. So they're not tapping into what's real. They're tapping into what was working for them all those years. Yeah. So I hope. I'm, like, excited for the life change. Like, I almost feel like I've spoken about everything. I've said everything I want to say. Like, I'm at this point in my life where I want to digest new things and I want to put myself in more uncomfortable situations. Like, the thing about comedy is it oftentimes comes from uncomfortable situations. The thing about money is it creates comfort. So you need to have discomfort for good comedy. All the funny stories we tell on this podcast are from uncomfortable shit happening and That's why your comedy is going to be so great because you're going to, I mean, it's going to happen naturally. You're going to hear more marriage stuff from you. Yeah. When you have kids, you're going to hear kids stuff from you. I already hear you saying, you know, raising a, having a dog is way easier than raising a child. I mean, that just sounds like an Andrew Shoshake. You know what I mean? So it's going to be fun. Yeah, I'm excited for it, man. I think that's cool. And it's also cool to, like, get older and all the people listening. Like, we've been doing this for a decade and I don't want to continue chasing fucking the youth. I don't ever think that that's good. I think that you have to evolve with the people who listen and then be an inspiration for the youth. They should tap in and they should be like, oh, this is what a cool set of adults are. This is what cool family meant. This is what I aspire to be like. When I was younger, I was watching Chris Rock and I was like, oh, wow. That's a cool way to think of as an adult and all these things. So, yeah, I'm very excited for it. And thank you for asking. Um, El Nino Pepin O says, Charlamagne the God. Sorry. Sabi? Sabi, what you doing? No. Sabi, come. El Nino Pepin Zero says, Charlamagne the God, who would you rather let clap them cheeks? DJ N via Andrew Shoshake. Ooh, this is a really big question. Why? Because do I look like a bottom to you, bro? But this is really a size thing. It's not a personality. No, bro. Don't play me. I ain't no bottom, bro. Oh, you're top. Easily power top energy over here, bro. Really? So you just wasting that thing? Taylor, what? That's what I'm saying. That's a waste. Taylor said, I can not say that I'm thick and don't want to be a bottom. That makes zero sense. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I don't want to throw them cheeks for what? For people to look at and be enticed by. Nah, bro. Nah, bro, this ain't a wax museum. You get to look at this and be enticed by it, but you don't get to clap it, bro. You better turn around. You know what I'm saying? Turn around. Oil up your ankles. Let your Tims tap. All right? What you talking about, bro? Disrespect me. I don't even know what that means, bro. I got power top energy and y'all know it. Nah, that's a waste. That's like getting a BBL and nobody hits it in front of back dummies. Right? Like to fuck the BBL. BBL stands for be back later, bro. I figured that out. Y'all been using the term wrong for a long time because that's what happens. You go to the Dominican Republic, you get some shit done, you come over here, eat whatever the fuck you want, don't work out, and that's why they say you'll be back later. You got to go right back to the DR with gaining tons of weight after having a fatty. Yes. Why? Because they don't fucking sustain it. They don't do everything that they need to do in order to motherfucking keep the body that they just went to go pay for. It's so stupid. Oh, no. Oh, no. Damn. Do we know a girl who did that? I don't even know. Scroll down some more, Taylor. Not who I'm thinking. Nah, she's working out still. That's a good idea, the corner. That's why I'm not going to say it out loud. What? Oh, this is a good one. No, this we can end on this one. This is a good one. This hurt my feelings, and I ain't even know comedian. The monster says that we should buy Caroline's and open up the brilliant idiots comedy club. Y'all can do it. Whoa. Yeah, I think we leave that last line now. I'm not reading that last line, bro, bro. Whoa. That last line is wild, bro. Wild. What do you think, man? I'm good. What? You gonna let this, you wouldn't want Caroline's? Nah, I don't fuck with Caroline's. Oh, you don't do Caroline's? Nah, the guy there who would block me from the New York comedy festival. Who's the guy there? Who, Ferranda. Really? So now this club is going out of business. Isn't it funny that people who be blocking me be going out of fucking business? Isn't that funny? Comedy Central, Caroline's. Comedy Central ain't going out of business. Others, you know what I'm saying? Their stand-up is done. Ain't no more stand-ups coming out on Comedy Central. Man, that is so fucking funny, man. I'm just saying, I see a trend. That's what I'm saying, bro. I be feeling the same way. My God don't play about me, bro. My God don't play about me. And that's why I don't even be tripping, man. They bring things to you and they, you know, they try to block you from things and get certain campaigns going. I just sit back and watch like, yeah, watch what happens. And then next thing you know, you see headlines like this. I try to help them. I don't feel good about it. Yeah. I don't feel good about it. You know what I'm saying? Because when they're doing things to me, I'm like, why are you doing this to yourself? You ain't doing nothing to me. Why are you doing this to yourself? I'm gonna be good. But that guy? But then again, that could be arrogance on our part, right? And that could be ego on our part. Because the reality is, if they're doing you like that, that just might be who they are. So they're probably doing a whole bunch of people like that. So that's just a bunch of energy coming back to them. You know what I mean? I don't know that about Carolines. I'm sorry that happened to you. But I've, I saw you at Carolines. I've seen some great, I've performed there. Carolines is one of my favorite places to go and watch comedy. I've been going to Carolines. Like Wendy Williams used to do a Wednesday night at Carolines. And that was one of my first New York experiences. Like when I first started, when I first moved up here to New York, that was the thing. Like, yo, Carolines, Wednesday night, you got to be there. You know what I mean? And I would be there. And that's how I met a lot of these, you know, people in New York on the comedy circuit, the TK Kirkland, the Rob Stapleton, you know, the Drew Frazier. Like I met all of them, you know, when they was doing Wednesday nights at Carolines. I watched all of my friends. Like that was the thing. I watched Kevin. Like, yo, I'll never forget when Soul Train didn't perform well and then Kevin had that sitcom on NBC that ended up getting canceled. And so he decided to get back into the comedy clubs and that's all you kept hearing. Kevin Hart killing in these comedy clubs. Kevin Hart killing in these comedy clubs, selling out these comedy clubs. And then it was just one big weekend he had at Carolines where he had like 14 shows. I'll never forget. This was like 2010 maybe? 2009, 2010. We backstage and him and Duvall was arguing like they always do. Can I tell the story all the time? Because this is real, Kev goes, they about to say my name, they about to announce me. This club is going to go so crazy and I'm not going to be able to hear you anymore. And so soon as he said that he's like coming to the stage, Kevin Hart crowd goes crazy. Kev just winks and walks off. But think about that. You know how much 14 shows in a weekend is at Carolines? I mean that is unbelievable. But that's how everybody knew Kevin had arrived. So in a lot of ways when you see somebody do a set at Carolines and they got a four-show weekend, six-show weekend, they've arrived, you know what I mean? Akash Singh. Akash just sold out at Carolines. Sold out the whole week. That's right. That right there, when I saw you post that I'm like, oh Akash is here now. So it's just some of those moments. That's what I look at Carolines at. This is the iconic headlining venue in New York, it was for years where I saw all these guys, you saw all these guys. It was like a rite of passage as a comic to headline Carolines. And I think it's a recession-proof business for the most part, unless it's a pandemic where people can't be out. But even during a recession there's certain things people are going to spend on. Date night at a great comedy show with a fire comedian there all weekend You going? Especially tough times, you're going to want some laughs. There are other great comedy clubs in the city that you could go catch headliners at. Gotham Comedy Club is fantastic. And then great showcase shows in the city. Check out New York Comedy Club, the comedy cellar. There's so much comedy going on right now in the city. I love all of them. It's going to be very interesting to see New York without Carolines. I'm not going to front. That's going to be very, very, very, very interesting. That's all we got. As always, if you listen to this podcast, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant, you're absolutely right. But if you listen to this podcast, and you think we're just a couple idiots who don't know shit, you're right too. It's the brilliant idiots podcast. Thank you for listening.