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What's happening? Chilling, man. I just got back from Africa. Talk to me. I saw you. Man, let me tell you something. I know y'all getting money, man. You took the whole crew. I always take the crew to go to Morocco. You do always take the crew, but when you take the crew within 12 hours. That was wild. You know what I'm saying? That was wild. Like I'm going to see the World Cup. What's the best way to go for it? You didn't even see the World Cup. It wasn't in Morocco. What? The World Cup is in Qatar. Explain. So Morocco is this unbelievable underdog. Okay. And they had reached the semifinals and they were playing against France. So there's all these great storylines that are happening. Morocco was colonized by France. So they're colonized against the colonizer. Morocco's playing unbelievably well. How the hell is Frisch Montana's name Frisch Montana? And he's from Morocco? Well, they speak French there because they were colonized. Oh! They actually have a good relationship, it seems, with the French. But I just felt like the energy was so crazy and I wanted to be there for that moment. I love like the what if moment. What if this could happen? I love being involved in something miraculous. So, you know, I was like fellas. Cleveland. So they played Golden State. Imagine you were there. And let me tell you something. One of the greatest memories I have right now is I was literally in, I think it was a Ruba. I was in a hotel with a guy from fucking Cleveland and his girlfriend. And I watched him watch his team. Oh, beat Golden State. In the hotel. We watched him with a bunch of like expats and there are a few Americans, a bunch of people from like Europe and we're just watching in a random hotel in the bar. And it was this, he was crying, we're jumping, we're hugging. And I was like, okay, if we go to Morocco and this happens, you've never experienced energy like that. No, I know what you mean. I had that experience before. We had to go. So I was just, I wanted to see it. And I just love this is the first African team that's been to the semifinals, the first Muslim country has been to the semifinals, the first, what was it? Arab team, I don't know, what was the other one? I forget the other one. There was like three things that you never, so it's like the entire like North African community was coming behind it. The entire like Muslim communities coming behind it. It was just. So what y'all watching like a bar in Morocco? In the plaza. So the last game was watching was 30,000 people. They just put up a TV, right? We go watch. And it's like. Explain what that is. So that's like being like in the middle of Times Square if the Knicks were playing. Yeah, but only there's not screens everywhere. You're still in a, you know, developing country. So they just put up a big screen and put up some speakers. And of course, torrential downpour, right? So the first half we have to go inside to this bar and we're watching on TVs that are half the size of that, right? There's two TVs half the size of that. And they're just way far away. You could barely see anything. They're just going off of energy and people are smoking inside. Like it was just fucking awesome. I had, I had experience like that once when I was, I was in Jamaica and I was leaving Jamaica and you saying a boat was running in the Olympics. And I was, I was in the airport. When I tell you that they stop everything. I'm not even joking. Like stop everything. Not, not, not like accidentally, purposely. When Usain runs, security stops, everybody stops and we all just watched Usain running the airport and those Jamaicans lost it. Lost it, you know? So yes, I understand that, that feeling of energy. Dude, there's, I mean, like, I'm so, I'm actually really excited that at 39 I've just discovered soccer, which is the most famous sport in the world. But I'm excited because I have the rest of my life to kind of like dive into it, but it's just so amazing, especially the World Cup, because every one of these countries has fought each other in war. Like there's so much history in every single match, especially just in the European ones. I mean, you're talking about like centuries, millennia of them just fighting one another. So soccer is this proxy to work out all those old beefs that they've had forever. And you're talking about colonized countries going against the colonizers. You're talking about like World War I rematches, World War II rematches. Like everything is so heightened in a safe enough version of it. And people's identities are wrapped up into it. It's fucking awesome. So why hasn't it led over to America? I think it's starting. I think it's starting. But we also don't have that history. We don't have that history of war. It's like, we don't have the history of war with Europe where we get to play it out. Yes, we were involved in World War I and World War II, but almost like as outsiders. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I mean, you know, every time we go up against somebody, we always remind them, like if it's USA versus Japan and some shit, you know, we're saying some things. Who was it this year? Was USA or somebody in the World Cup they put on television? Was it the World Cup? We were in the World Cup. We were in the World Cup. Yeah, we made it to Netherlands. I mean, we had a few games, but we lost to Netherlands. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Man, it was cool, man. I know. It was definitely cool. Morocco's an amazing place, bro. I've never been to Morocco. It is amazing, bro. Like you go back there and travel again? I've been there before with my wife and I went back again. But just like little subtle things that you don't realize like in a place where like women are not hypersexualized, like when they do do something, it seems way more naughty. Like we were watching this live band that were fucking amazing, right? And like the girl was singing and at one point like the guy got behind the girl and the girl started like twerking a little bit on him. And I remember like looking around at all the home, he's like, is she gonna get killed? Like, like, are they gonna arrest her? That's a real, no, you're right. But how crazy is that? If I saw that in the street in New York, I wouldn't turn it up. You'd be like, turn it up. Yeah, exactly. That's all you got? You know, pop a titty for a goon. You know what I'm saying? I'm a goon. So, but the littlest thing felt so spicy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's kind of cool. It's kind of cool to have that reset. I've never been to Morocco, man. Speaking of spicy, I had a colonoscopy. Yeah, you called me about that. You woke up hard. Why is that, you think? Can I read the text that you sent me? That's the weirdest thing I ever got in my life. I was glad I was out the country. I almost didn't come back. I almost didn't come back when you sent me that text message. What was the text? You must have still been high. I was high as shit, bro. Bro, you're in the stage, you ain't wear off till like later that night. And I'm like, go away. Saturday, 1149 a.m. I don't need texts like this before noon on a Saturday. I just had a colonoscopy, period. Like literally just got out. It's criminal that a man can give you something within 10 seconds, you're knocked out. And then he's in your butt. Not to mention, I woke up with a crazy hard dick. This shit not right. It seemed very right. It seemed exactly what you wanted, to be honest with you. Listen, the hardest thing about a colonoscopy. What made you text me that? I do not know, bro. I'm really trying to understand. What made you message me? Like, why'd you wake up with a hard dick after a dude was in your ass? And then you go, I gotta tell shows this one. I'm trying to figure out who else I sent that shit to. Cause in my mind, I only told my wife that shit, yo. Yeah, spelling mistakes and everything. I knew you was feeling good. I was still shaking after that one. No punctuation, nothing. You just need to get that shit out. They told me when I went to go get my colonoscopy consultation, they told me to come back when I'm 45, right? But I have a history of it in my family. So being able to have a history of it in my family, it was like, all right, you can get the colonoscopy. I went to go get the colonoscopy. First of all, everybody should go get a colonoscopy when you get around that age. But the hardest part about it is the prep the day before. No. The hardest part about it was the prep the day before cause you gotta take these pills. Oh yeah, you gotta flush the system. Flush your whole system out with your life. Like, you know, you can't even leave the house. Like, you gotta be by that toilet. Let me continue this conversation. I go, how you wake up hard? You go, bro, I have no idea. I go, did you ask? You said, nah, I was kind of out of it and couldn't believe the anesthesia worked so well. Doctor was like, in 10 seconds, you'll be out and when you wake up, it'll be over. And I woke up and I was like, doc, we just getting started. I didn't say that. Are you sure you didn't say that? You think I made up that last part? Is that it? I'm not gonna lie, yo, that shit is wild. You ever had the anesthesia that they put in your, I never had anesthesia before. Have you ever had anesthesia? No. What was anesthesia? Bro, I don't know but whatever that shit was the doctor goes you ready in 10 seconds You gonna be in my mind the lab. I'm like, yeah, right. I don't you had it before Chris Don't remember. I mean house out and when you wake up you somebody got to wake you up And I'm like the fuck just happened yo, and then you wake up the only tell you is turn over on your left side So you turn over on your left side and you wake up on your left side Astute it in the air and then when I and then when I rolled over whoa, I wrote over I got the big stiffy You weren't concerned at all the doctors sucking you off That could happen. I don't you know, you'll never know I just you'll never know I just know that's what I when I rolled over one of my first thoughts was when I do like this on my chin My back. I'm like No, they didn't hit nothing they sucked on it There's no way you don't know if they sucked on it. You need video Anytime you do a colonoscopy, they should let us watch the video afterwards. Yeah, especially if you wake up bricked I just want to see what went on The anesthesia the anesthesia wears off later So you don't feel any saw this in your butthole until way later in the day The shit is wild bruh, man. Well, how'd it feel later? What you mean the butthole? Yeah, very tender like tended to like the point where like it felt like you was doing kegels Yeah, yeah, when you would do kegels it would hurt. Yeah, you know what I mean So you the thing is trying to keep your butt from doing like the this this from the squeezing. Yeah You know when you squeeze it the kegels. Yeah, the kegels, the butt kegels. Yeah I still know all bruh tell us that that's your G spot. That ain't your goddamn We do not have a G spot on our ass that is gay propaganda Oh my god, I hate when I hear this bullshit excuse Clearly the American pie started that I say what I thought American pie started that when Stifler was getting Seminal fluid comes out the actual fluid, but no actual semen comes out. What do you mean? You can that from your butthole not not it's not not just stimulates you it doesn't stimulate you It just there's a liquid that hasn't come out, but there's no actual comment. I don't know man Talking about that. I'm just saying that you'll have a spot there that turns out. Oh, do we? Hey, you telling a man about his body, okay tell him you tell me about my but how about this How about this you don't have a G spot It's a dick the Gucci ain't the G spot though. Tell you talk about inside That if there was really a G spot in our buttholes, it'd be more compensation about it It's really not a conversation about yeah Like it's not like when you take a shit you start nutting Like if we had a G spot when we were shit, we would not think so coming down So much pushing don't think the shit would tickle it a little bit on the way. Yeah, it's gonna push against it That's the same thing. I'm asking about like what do you mean? Like when you go on like a horseback ride like that shit hits your clit feels good or a roller coaster. It's a great point It's a great point. Yeah, we don't have that Quite a right And why would our creator make it so hard to reach nuts all over a horseback, you know Why why do you that's why women have to ride side saddle? Is these horny sluts were coming all over these stallions? No, that's true. They started using it as conditioner for the main No Looks the way it does back in the day instead of like wiping it off. Yeah, it was just like brush it through the main Yeah, you know it's true. These are true facts that we made up if your G spot was in your butt Yeah, I would that your creator make it so hard to find You know, there's no G spot in the butt like this is listen if I was gay dude I'll say the same shit to straight guys, you know You See how stiff we got turned on exactly But gay people like they clearly enjoy it. Let's stop trying to tell us about our bodies. It's the only hole they can fuck You know, I mean whether they enjoy it or not that was there you got to work with what you're giving salute to the LGBTQ community I don't want to talk about them this week because they said that we'd be Appropriating gay culture, you know what I mean, what you mean? I don't want I don't want to I don't want them to feel like I would probably get Well, how are we appropriate remember? We had the conversation last week about uh, you know, whether I'm a bottom or top Yeah, you know what I'm saying and I was saying how I got power top energy. So I was on a Not that that's neighborhood talk forget neighborhood talk go to the book to the great Instagram of gay gay Instagram gay magazine I love this Whenever I get posted on here this this Instagram Bro this right here is the funniest Instagram, bro At least when they pose like yo, these they are they are so mad About well, no not all of them are mad. Let me take that back because they're actually having a great discussion About straight men like us who are comfortable having these kind of conversations with then there are other people saying that we're appropriating gay culture And they need heterosexual men to stop appropriating gay I really I'm losing my eyesight I Like how he takes questions. Yeah, that would have most Yeah, dudes heated Charming goes to get lacing Serger fix his eyes wakes up dick rock Lacing I Would love any doctor to tell me why that is though. I don't want to Google this information I tried googling it, but I'm like this. I don't know at the beginning. Why what is I googled like why you wake up with this But I want if there's a regular thing I want to know why this No, no, no that doctor was suck You again sucked on bro Oh Just scroll down Yo, let me tell you LGBTQ community. Let me tell you something. We are gay man. Shut up We are gay on this podcast one guys that my people can't make up their mind if he would have gotten angry saying I'm straight Don't come with don't come with me with that gay shit We would be up in arms talking about his homophobia being able to have some type of education on the community is a great thing in my opinion He's able to laugh and have fun with the interview. I agree. Scroll down. All right, they're right to this one This guy he said I don't we are losing our culture to the pseudo straight man Sex isn't your culture I think being gay is a culture no sex, but we're talking about the sex the act of sex the act of sex is a culture That's how unique I agree But I think what you mean culture is like the the the language We're doing that activity. We're using their language. Yeah, but we're gay Don't tell me I'm not gay. I come in here once a week. I'm gay. I'm gay from Tuesday 10 a.m. To about 12 noon on Tuesday. Your boy is Hands on my knees You made me think about something though, there is something to that, right? What? Not to you being But no, you went to Morocco. Yeah, what are you doing Morocco? You embrace their culture, right? Thank you I was I'm a great that culture you want to celebrate that culture you wouldn't watch the game in the Like you went to Morocco to be a part of the culture. I want to be North African Okay, so it's the same thing, right? It's just like yo if we use the language Listen, I think I use the language because I thought that was the language I thought that's what they're referred to bottoms tops. That's what we call each other And I do think I do are gay. I do think gay lingo is hilarious I used to love listening to the read just to listen to kid Furie's the sympathy he had towards bottoms the empathy That he would show Towards bottoms No, Travis you telling me bottoms have a tough life. Yeah, he was like Yeah, he had a tough life, you know what I mean, what do you mean? They just basically look down on them like they like to fuck cuz Travis a top But he likes to fuck them but they do live like they messy bottoms like you said I don't want to have this conversation with no LGBTQ members. Anyway, but so we're gay man And that's okay. Yo, it's okay to be gay. It's okay to be gay from 10 a.m. To 12 follow gay Instagram What is it g a y e-tailor gay magazine gay follow gay magazine No, it's actually a really good Instagram. I'm falling right now What did you see the the tweet what tweet bro that do ball posted I did see it Let's pull this tweet up. No, I did see it. Oh, you got it. Hey, why we got to pull that thing closer, man I might need to go see the goddamn late six to get a brickie for real Little do ball says if you can't afford to work for free for some years in the entertainment business Oh, I thought you want to be in I thought you go to school or learn a trade with other tweet I thought you're talking about the The gunner. Oh, let's do that. You want to go? I mean, I'm obsessed with a cop I had that third on the list of we ain't order we went Morocco colonoscopy. We could go to YSL Third on the list. Okay. So so do all comes out of the two you're talking about Which basically said yo, don't pin snitch on gunna until you hear thug talk about it first I agree with this could all be part of thug's plan This just goes to Everybody on the internet thinks they're an expert at whatever the topic of the moment If it's cove it then everybody's all of a sudden the scientists And all types of other shit if it's you know, something to do with prison and jail Now all of a sudden everybody's a lawyer if it's a politics everybody's a political strategist Like everybody turns into an expert of whatever said topic is that's facts like just 10 minutes ago We were experts about lgbq things. No, it wasn't you was speaking from the perspective of a gay man You were too No, you're gay According to gay magazine. I'm more of a verse top Which is part of the gay umbrella You're within the gay umbrella, dude Listen, we embrace our gay brothers and sisters man. Shout out to the gays. That's right, baby We under that gay umbrella and we're under the umbrella because there's rain in me That was right there, you know, we're gonna appreciate that the lgbq community, baby The lgbqs are loving now. I'm not oge. I'm ot baby. What does that mean original trade? I thought they said original top You're not an original top Come on now, listen, let's talk about gunna. Um, I I was speaking to the gay I was let's talk about Atlanta rap. I was confused by this whole situation because I didn't know who gunna. I'm like, who who's he telling on? I don't see who he's telling on I didn't see that when I watched he he okay From what I saw and again, I'm assuming because I'm getting so obsessed with these trials But uh, I'm assuming that this was all part of the plan because thug sister came out and she was like Why are you even saying that about gunna? That's right. That's not the case And I'm assuming that thug sister is having conversations with thug I listen when I'm assuming yeah when I saw gunna do this and then I saw the other guy from ysl plea And then I saw Thug and caught the next day and is some evidence that they can't use About him. Yeah, you know, I said I thought to myself Oh ysl just smarter than everybody else. That's That's what I'm looking at. That's coordinate. Exactly now It is an interesting situation because he did admit that ysl was a gang He did admit that he said that the guns in the car weren't his and he was the only in the car with thug So that means they It's alluding to the fact that maybe they're thugs Did they say I thought they said that they weren't the only two people in the car So maybe that was the other thing I heard it was like they were it's unclear whether it was they were the only ones in the car Yeah, so maybe that's the case. Well, I'm just saying I like what do well said Which is don't don't jump to that because this all could be part of the master plan Hey, yo, it looks like it. Yeah, you know what I mean? I don't I listen. I'm not gonna sit I'm not gonna sit here and act like a legal expert because I'm not but I see all of these people Taking pleas which is the best case scenario, but the problem the one problem is the plea deal was incredibly generous Well, they didn't really have a case on gunner though They didn't really have nothing on or they could get rico if he's part of this gang conspiracy But it's just like okay and so what eight months time served. That's it nothing else eight months time serve I think what probation for four years because this was a five-year sentence with four suspended Doesn't that mean you're on parole or probation or something? Maybe and then you got a whole bunch of community service and everything else I mean listen, man. I mean the best case scenario is those guys plea they come home. They keep the ysl movement going I don't think that they're gonna just let thug come home. But I mean thug might get a way better sentence than he Originally was you know, I mean thug might Do five to ten or something like that a five to seven, you know, I mean, which is better than fucking 30 40 50 At least you get five to ten. Yeah, you know, you have you'll you still you'll still be somebody when you come home Right, you know, I mean people who still care when you come home So I don't know. I just look at this situation and I'm like man We love the label people man. And this don't this just don't go back to just gonna I think that our need to understand things makes us just label things which lessons are understanding because we're not even discussing the actual issue For example, elon musk. I saw two articles this week One was in the new york times and it was like people are saying elon musk is a conservative But it's not that simple the elanic was like elon musk is a far-right activist And I read both those articles and I thought to myself Who gives a fuck and the reason I say who gives a fuck because we're not discussing the issue The issue is is social media out of control to social media be regulated You know what I mean the social media doing more harm than good right now We're not even having that discussion. What does it matter what elon musk politics are? What does it matter with mark zuckerberg's politics are? Does it matter? I think it matters if those politics are influencing the platforms Because you want the platforms to remain ideally politically neutral And what was exposed from twitter before is that there are far more twitter employees That were left leaning and therefore they are willing to make accommodations for certain political groups that were left leaning They also did it for right leaning. They were just far less Employees there that could make those things happen. You're right. So with that said What do you do fcc rules and regulations because fcc rules and regulations are supposed to keep people from being Partisan maybe it's possible that elon musk is learning that That moderation and regulation is kind of necessary on a platform like this. Yes, like he kind of went into it going We're just going to let free speech rock and then all of a sudden they started posting like where he was And like where his family was and then he was like, all right. Well, maybe we need to regulate some things Maybe we moderate something so so maybe twitter was a little bit too left leaning or a little bit too integrated in government It'd be nice if it was a little bit more neutral and it wasn't, you know, hiding certain stories, etc Like it did I agree with my situation that being said I think we all agree that a certain amount of moderation is important If you even look into freedom of speech, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater Why can you not because you could actually hurt people's lives? So there has always been limitations on free speech, especially if it's going to protect human life shows The biggest broadcast platform in the world right now is the internet. Yeah, it's social media It's youtube. It's bigger than television. It's bigger than radio. It's bigger than podcasts You have to regulate it. They should have the same fcc rules and regulations that all those other platforms have It's too big and it has too much influence for it not to be Simple as that. So it's like But what what should the regulation like for me? I'm I'm a big freedom of speech guy, especially as it affects, you know Comedy right and like satire. This is what I love So I want people to be able to make jokes. I want people to be able to say things I think the problem is is when you become The arbiter of truth That's a sticky situation when you take something down for being fake news But the truth or what is real is defined by your political party's opinion Now we get in a shaky situation. Well, I think when it comes to that, especially when it comes to the news, man, just Just vet it But we're trying to get away from opinion based news on these traditional platforms. Here's a perfect example that duval brought up, right? instagram was was banning certain accounts and like shadow banning people and punishing people for saying certain things that Were viewed as bullying because they were unaware of the culture that were coming from Yeah, right. So when uh when somebody goes you stupid Or this dude dumb oftentimes it means He's hilarious But instagram was looking at that and just seeing those words and going. Oh, you're bullying. This is a bad account We need to ban this person or blah blah blah So clearly they're unaware with black influence and culture sayings vernacular absolutely If they don't fix that They essentially make Using black slang Illegal on the internet. Absolutely. That's not fair to black people that want to use black slang or white people Don't want to use black slang. I agree wholeheartedly. So my thing is make it a cultural Illegal instead of having cultural police. Let's use the system that's already in place. Which is the FCC We have a system already in place that has worked for tv and radio All these years, but it's also dumbed down not dumbed down, but it's also made tv So neutered. No, that's us. That's these good. That's those cultural police you're talking about That's those people who work at instagram who are looking at black content and like no, that's not accepted. That's not acceptable That's this won't coach it. That's not the FCC because think about it the FCC didn't change Society changed think about what we used to watch in the 90s on television, bro Think about what you used to watch on and on tv in the early 2000s that never changed It's the way people's sensibilities and culture and society Has changed not the FCC. I'd have to look at it. How was there was fine Until mudbuckers started getting a little too sensitive and he said, you know what? I'm going over here And I mean he was getting cancelled left and right and he was getting too many fines Yeah, but he was using from the FCC. He was using the words that he shouldn't have been used Well, he was playing around it. He was trying to find a way to say the words that he couldn't say Yeah, listen, I'd have to look and see what the regulations are from the FCC because I think one of the reasons Why the internet absolutely explode is because you could put like real pure authentic content out there There wasn't kind of shackled and neutered by these rules now might not only be rules from the FCC but also from advertisers They were maybe terrified. They're like, I don't want to advertise on this if you're saying a curse word I don't want to advertise in this or there's too much nudity. I don't want to advertise this It's too salacious and then all of a sudden the internet has all the salaciousness It has all the curse words It has all the authenticity and then all the eyeballs are going to gravitate towards authenticity I I agree with that, but I think that's the second step to why the internet exploded The first step why the internet exploded is just because the point of entry is nothing Yeah, you know what I mean? Anybody can get on the internet anybody can open a youtube page social media page anybody can start a podcast You can't just get on television. Well back in the day. You couldn't just get on television You couldn't just get on radio, you know what I mean? So it's just the point of entry was nothing Yeah, there's no cover fee. Yeah, so it gave everybody a voice so then who decides What is okay and what's not okay to say who decides what's the truth and what is not the truth like It's really tricky man. Yeah, the truth thing is tricky because even news networks play with that, right? Like everybody got that's why that's why they're trying to get away from opinion-based news, right? Because the foxes the cnn the msnbc's they just lean to the party, you know, fox leans, right? msnbc leans left cnn leans left cnn is trying to be more Center now, you know, because they have Republicans on as well as democrats, but you just got to see where that's going to go So it's like the truth is tricky But everything else you can regulate what I mean when I say regulate is you can't just post any story online I can't just you can't people wonder why certain stories don't reach the main Scream because they can't do that. They're held liable. They'll get sued You can't just report something that's false just because it's the hot topic on youtube You know what I mean? You got to vet things. I think it should be the same way on social media And we'll be we had this conversation earlier this year We'll be saving so many broadcasters, bro Because you see these broadcasters getting hit with these lawsuits That they're not even ready for Because in their mind, they're watching other youtubers Do what they're doing and so they're like, well, it must be okay because everybody's doing it That's true until somebody jumps on your ass and shows you that this is uh A Are shows you why you can't broadcast misinformation like a Alex Jones getting hit for a billion dollars You can't just get online and you know spread lies about people Well, you shouldn't you can't what you shouldn't be able to is what I'm saying Yeah And that's what an FCC will come into play. Where what is the difference between freedom of speech and a defamation lawsuit? Why are you allowed why are you not allowed to defame? Someone because if if it's not true if it's a lie, then a person can sue you for defamation. And if that defamation causes harm to that person, you know what I mean? Whether it's financially, whether it's emotionally, you see people sue for emotional distress, all types of stuff. Right. No, I'm not saying that they shouldn't be able to. I'm just understanding like, how does that, how did people even in the past handle that limitation on free speech? I think of the difference between having an opinion and just straight up lying on somebody, you know what I mean? You can have an opinion and clown somebody, close what they look like or what you may think about them. But if you be like, and this has happened, you've seen it. Oh, that person's gay. You know what I mean? I'm suing you for defamation now. You know what I mean? That person's a thief. That person stole from such and such. It's like, you can't say that if it's not true. What's your factual proof? What's your evidence? You know what I mean? You can say allegedly. You know, if O.J. wanted to, O.J. can sue you for calling him a murderer. If you get on a podcast and something and you say, O.J. Simpson is a murderer, he committed a murder, he can sue. Wow. Because he never got, he didn't get charged for murder. Yeah, that's true. That's defamation. Yeah. That's what FCC rules and regulations come into play. And it's not going to make the, people think it's going to make the internet less fun. No, it's not. Not at all. You know what I mean? I mean, legislation always makes things less fun. I don't think so. It just, I think there's a, there's a scale and it's, you know, safety and fun. You perform in front of large crowds all the time shows. Yeah. You ain't never had nobody shut you down for inciting a riot. You ain't never had nobody shut you down for inciting violence. You ain't never called, you ain't never called fire. You never yelled fire in the crowd. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I've had venues not allow me to perform there because of my material. That's on them though. That's not because of the FCC. That's because that's why I keep going back to the... Well, what if the FCC does that to a human being? What the FCC comes to this podcast and they go, Hey, you're making these jokes that are insulting to certain groups. We're going to have to shut you down. You can't have a platform anymore. We don't allow this on the internet. I think the FCC only does that when it's allowed, when it's hate speech. But what's defined as hate speech? Like a joke to us might be interpreted as hate speech to a group. That's why freedom of speech is so important is because you can never know what somebody is offended by. I'm with you. But once again, we always have this conversation about free speech. You're not free from the consequences of that speech. Yeah, I didn't say you're free from the consequences. That's the other thing about the internet. I think that's why we get upset. We was having this conversation last night on hell of a week. And I'm like, you know, because we had Alice Stewart on from CNN. And she was saying how she hates how these people can hide behind these cat profiles and say whatever they want. And I was like, well, they hide behind the cat profile because they pussy. But the thing is, that's what I think we get upset about. Because show to you say something that pisses somebody off or insult somebody, they can hold you accountable. These motherfuckers get online and say anything and hide behind these cat profiles. Who do we hold accountable? Yeah. So as Chico said last night, if you want to talk your shit, you got to put a name with that shit, bro. An address or something. Stand on that shit. That's why I don't respect a lot of those people in those spaces. I respect people who put a face with that shit and who got something to lose and still stand on it. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's when the respect comes from me. It's easy to, of course, you can sit at your basement all day and say whatever about whoever behind a profile. That's not gangster. Why are we respecting that? I don't respect that. I kind of like that idea that Elon wanted to make sure everybody was verified. Not necessarily blue check, but like every account that's on Twitter is attached to a real person. We need to know who you are. We need to know who you are. You can have a satire account. You can have an account where you make fun of people. You can do all these things, but we need to know it's attached to a real person and kind of who that person is because then it becomes different. You know, you and I operate in a very different world in that like when we say something about somebody, it's going to get back to them. Immediately. Boom. They know. They know. Boom. So it's a little bit different than the anonymity that most people experience on the internet where they can say whatever they want about whoever they want and they never have to deal with it. You're getting DMs. I'm getting DMs from people that are salty about the things that were said. That's right. And we might have to bump into these people. That's right. So it's not like we don't deal with the repercussions for the things we say. We have to measure whether we want to say some shit or not every single time. So there are repercussions for what we say, right? But the average person, yeah, maybe not. And that kind of freedom, that must feel good, but it also could create a very toxic place on the internet. Man, you ain't lying, y'all. That's what I'm saying. There has to be accountability. That's it. But isn't it weird that we're going to suffer in terms of what we're allowed to say to fix the problem that is the anonymous people on the internet and what they're saying? I don't think we're going to suffer shows. Suffer is made the wrong word. But we will be inhibited in some way. There will be certain things that we would like to say that will be removed from us to solve a problem that isn't us. It's not caused by us. I hear what you're saying. For example, the people that go out to the people that go out drinking, right? Let's say there's some alcoholic comes in, drives drunk, kills somebody. And let's say the state comes in, they go, that's it. Everybody's only allowed two drinks, right? And we were like, well, we were only having three drinks. This motherfucker's having 10 drinks. Why can't I have three? Why do all of us have to suffer for one asshole? But they do have those type of rules though. They do? Yeah. If you in a bar, like a bartender have to stop serving you after a certain point because then the bar is held liable. Like if the bar knows that if they're looking at you and they know that you're drunk and you're saucy, after a while they got to stop serving you because you get in the car. That's very rarely happens. No, I've heard those cases happen often. No, no. Yeah. People get kicked out of bars for being drunk, but at the same time- But no, I've heard bars being held liable. Yeah, kind of. I'm just saying you can't live in a world where there's no consequences and repercussions. No, I'm not saying that we don't. What I'm saying is that we're not the issue. The issue is those people that are anonymous on the internet. So maybe if you have an anonymous account that's not attached to anybody, you have more strict rules in terms of what you can or can't say. And once you attach that to an actual person in a real account, then you could have more freedom because we know it's going back to someone. People are way more willing to say some foul shit if you never know who the fuck they are. That's right. So then, yeah, limit their assets. I don't even know if I care about them as much as I care about the people who pretend to be like broadcasters, like actual sources of news online. I don't know if I care about like the everyday person as much as I care about like the person who pretends to be a news source. Yeah. You know what I mean? You could twist and turn everything these days. That's the crazy thing. That's right. I don't believe anything that I read. And that's the entire issue that's dangerous. I can't believe you're okay with that. You can just make an Andrew Schultz account, get a verified check and start tweeting wild shit and folks will believe it. Yeah. You don't want that? Yeah. I know. I know. I don't give a fuck what nobody say. We need regulation, but you know what we just did for the last 15 minutes? What's that? We discussed the issue. Yeah. Not the individual. Yeah. That's what we discussed. Let's have a conversation about the issue to your point. Yes. If you know somebody's too far right or too far left and they let their politics lean into these platforms, that's wrong. But you would not have that problem if you actually had FCC rules and regulations, you know what I mean? And I don't think nobody ever thought social media and all that shit would get this big. I don't think that we ever thought that we'd be looking to Twitter and everything else is as a platform for actual news. I guess we thought that these traditional outlets like the newspapers and the news organizations would always sustain their position. Then we started to realize all these motherfuckers do is reflect what's going on on social media. Oh yeah. That's why I think it's silly to get into politics. It's like you can affect culture. The politicians are just going to respond to whatever the culture desires. That's it. So if you affect culture, you can affect politics. But politicians aren't going to dictate the culture to the people. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. We dictate the culture and then they have to react to it. If we want a certain thing, they're all going to flip flop on their words and then execute on that specific thing that we want. In my lifetime, I've only seen one president or one presidential candidate who became president put his will on the people and made people lean towards what he was talking about. Literally, culture. Shift culture. DT. DT. I personally never saw it. I never saw somebody shift culture with their words like Donald Trump. I've never seen it. You know what I mean? I don't think Obama shifted culture with his words. I think Obama shifted culture with his identity because like one of his books was titled The Audacity of Hope, it was a change that people really could believe in. It was like, oh man, this is what I would want America to be. This interracial, I mean this biracial person leading our country. This man who's embracing everyone it seems. Like I think that's the idea of that is what people wanted. But as far as like culture, as far as like this is fake news, you know. No, that motherfucker destroyed information. Like the concept of fake news is quite new. Like I don't remember news being fake before Donald Trump. Now I'm sure it was. It was, nobody was calling it out. Exactly. He called it out. And now it's to the point where and maybe this is good that like I have a distrust of all information that I'm consuming and maybe this is good because maybe I was blindly believing some shit just because it said CNN on it. Or I was blindly believing some shit because it said MSNBC. And now I'm realizing, oh wow, they might have a political agenda as well. So maybe we're getting closer to the actual news, but there is yet to be a news station that has been propped up that's like, hey, this is the truth. What you just said is so true, but think about that from a social media perspective. Now it's not about what label is on the information. It's just simply about, do you believe this information? Yeah. Like if I already have an opinion about something. Yeah. All I need is some shit that reinforces that. That's it. So I can go on YouTube and find a video. I can go online and find somebody saying something that reinforces what I say. So I believe it. And the truth is always way less interesting. It's way less exciting. What do I say all the time? Nobody cares about the truth when they're live more entertaining? Yeah. And that's the lies are always way better. The truth is way more boring and like reasonably understandable when you actually come to it. Yeah. But conspiracy is just so much fun. I would way rather listen to conspiracy. It's just so exciting. Like it's incredible. And that's why I go back to- Like this Tori and fucking Meg case. But that's why I go back to labels. Yeah. Labels. We got people want to label Gona and inform it because of the story. Yeah. Gonna rat it on dog. I can't believe it. His artist. You know the person that he put on just right. Like they gotta be the story. So now it's this whole conspiracy. And that's why when somebody with common sense like Duvall comes in and goes, Hey man. I don't think y'all should be saying shit. They'll thought that. Yeah. That's just common sense. That is. Yeah. And what else I find funny. The sister can come out and say don't call Gona a snitch. Yeah. The lawyer can come out and say Gona didn't snitch. They can write all these articles saying no. That's not how it works. I had an attorney tell me. No, my only one. Whatever. But all I'm saying is YSL seems like they're smarter than everybody. But all of those people can say these things and people be like, No man. No. No, that ain't true. Yeah. I'll fuck with one of my homeboys yesterday. Not gonna say his name. But he was like, don't listen to the lawyer. Listen to me. Okay. But that's everybody's mentality. Yeah. The lawyer's wrong. Yeah. All right. Which lawyer? The guy who keeps going. Gona's lawyer. Oh, Gona's lawyer. So Gona's lawyer posted this statement. It was like he didn't snitch. Like, yeah. His testimony can't even be used. Because sometimes I forgot what it was. I might be misconstruing it. But what Megan Torrey. Yeah. Just there's a perfect example. What? Oh, you want to pay some bills? Okay. All right. We can pay some bills and come back and talk about. Damn. Taylor, why are you so angry? She thinks she's producing. Talkspace. Let's pay some bills, man. And we'll come back and talk about Megan Torrey. Talkspace. Using Talkspace feels a little like having a mental health professional in your pocket. Talkspace offers both therapy and psychiatry and being able to reach out to my provider anytime, anywhere. Makes taking care of my mental health super easy. I'm more relaxed when I'm traveling. Knowing that if I need to talk with my therapist, I can just send a message from wherever I am. 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Oh, it's like that. It ain't like that. I just, you know. It's like that. I'm like, you know, I must, baby. I don't let you know. You got to move in silence. I don't know. Nobody needs to know the location. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'll tell you when I get back. If you see me tell you I've been somewhere, you see me somewhere. I'm already gone. Really? Believe that. Well, I promise you. I'm going to Costa Rica and Colombia. Ooh. Yeah. Okay. Wait, when you going? Think I'm leaving the 23rd. I'm going to 26th. I'll be going to 26th to the third. Okay. Yeah, I'll be going to 26th to the third. I will say though, thank you for a great year. You know what I mean? Thank you to everybody who's been supporting, you know, all the projects that we've been putting out this year, man. You know, SBH Productions, you know, me and Kevin Hart's company with Audible, we put out two projects, Finding Tamika and Sum of 85. Both projects absolutely crushed it. Sum of 85 was named the best. The best one wasn't Chris? Best history? Best history podcast of the year for Audible. Amazing. Amazing. And Finding Tamika was named best true crime podcast for Audible, which is huge because true crime is like the biggest genre going right now. And Finding Tamika was labeled the number one and a variety just named Finding Tamika, the number five Audible story of the year period. You know, so thank you for supporting both those projects. Thank you for buying Tamika Mallory, State of Emergency, how to win in the country we built. Did that book come out? Yeah, the paperback came out this year. The hard cover came out last year. Paperback came out this year. Well, what do you say? I need a co-pack shallow waters. That's amazing. Thank you for supporting that as well. We have a lot. We have a lot more books coming out through Black Privilege Publishing. Simon and Schuster next year. So let's thank you, man. Thank you to everybody who watched Hell of a Week this year. When you putting a Dr. Umar book out? Dr. Umar? Umar got books out. No, but you putting it out? Um, I don't know if that would go with Dr. Umar's thing. I don't know. Dr. Umar's all about independence. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is Black Privilege Publishing. I mean, but yeah, but he's all about independence. And I mean, he's been self-publishing so far. It's like, no, why stop? That's been working for him. You know what I mean? That's what I think. I think if you're a self-publisher and you've been self-publishing your books and they've been selling, you know, why get with a publisher? Unless you just want, like, maybe wider distribution, maybe? Maybe. You know? Maybe, maybe. So, Meg and Tori, your thoughts? I mean, I'm just so fascinated by the case. Tell me why. Because both of them seem to be 100% convinced of their own stories. Isn't that how it always is, though? You don't go to, you don't go to trial prosecution and defense. You don't go there like, okay, I might have been a judge. Yeah, but I think, I think what's happening here is like we've seen them outside of court for so long. Usually there's like a shooting or something that people go to court. It's quickly after, or at least in the next few months, we've seen like, this is, this feels like years. Like how long ago was that shooting? Three years ago? So Tori put out 15 fucking albums, made music videos, you know? Meg's won awards and all that kind of shit. And they're both saying completely opposite things happened. And now you look at the first few days of the court case and all these things that we thought happened, we're being told that they did not happen. We're finding out that everybody's having sex with everybody. Which has nothing to do with the case. No, but it's awesome. I don't even understand why that's in the case. I don't care. It's great. It's a great story. It does matter if you're trying to imply that there was a jealous rage that caused certain behavior and incited the incident. But you got to name multiple things? Can't you just name one? I mean, it's so much better when you find out that she was just getting split open by everybody. I mean, it's true though. It's most people, guys, right? Like, is it true? That's what I heard. I heard Sesame Street also ran up in a big car. And she did say, I'm not, she did say her boyfriend was embarrassed. So I guess I don't know, man. I just don't think that has nothing to do with the case. But you know what? She should have nipped out of the boy. She should have nipped out of the boy. There's a hilarious picture of party. It's partisan politics. Yeah, my guy party. There's a hilarious picture because he got a picture with his shirt off and he has a feminist tattoo. Have you seen that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he got to take these dicks. You know what I mean? Like, he can't be angry at it. Like, it's her body, her choice, you know what I mean? Like, you got to support a woman doing what she wants with her body. But even if you, outside of party and Meg, even if you knew about your significant others, other people, I don't want to know about that shit, though. I don't want to know about that shit. I think you could live with it. Like, if you knew your girl's body count, you probably could live with it, but you wouldn't want the world to know. I don't want to know about that shit. I'm too insecure for that. So you don't know? That's honest, though. Yeah, I'm honest. That's honest. No, no, no, no, no. So you wouldn't want to know. I don't want to know. You don't want to know your girl's body count. Bro, if I would support my girl. You might need to know, bro. I don't want to know about it, bro. What if she let another comedian hit? I don't want to know about it, bro. No, you got to know about it, bro. You got to know, bro. I don't want to know about it. You got to know, because if you start making jokes about smashing other comedian's girls, you might have to run down on him to watch his fucking mouth. I don't want to know about it. Keep your wife's name out about your fucking mouth. No, you seem even more insecure when you do that. I don't want to know about it. I don't want to know anything about it. None. That's interesting. How many do you want to know about it? I mean, listen, ignorance is bliss. That's why they say ignorance is bliss. Right. Because when you don't know, you happy. That's what I'm fucking saying. I'm with you. I don't know. You want to know the radio personality hooked up with your wife? I don't know. I don't know. I really don't. I don't know if I would want that information. I really, truly do not know. I know that information ain't necessary for court, though. It might be. You want to bring out all the bullshit that you possibly can. It almost feels like they were just trying to make her out to be like a shady character in the eyes of the jury. You know what I mean? As if, you know, a woman sleeping with a bunch of guys makes her shady, you know what I mean? That's what I thought. Well, why were they bringing it up? I don't know. That's my point. Well, I think that part of the fact was that Tori was sleeping with Kelsey and Megan, right? I do not know. And I think that, oh, actually, no, there is a reason. Wasn't Kelsey also sleeping with the baby? I have no idea where you're getting this from. Weren't they? She was? Rumored to be sleeping with the baby. So what they're trying... What's the baby got to do with it? Well, Meg was also sleeping with the baby. So what they're trying to imply is that Meg stole the baby from Kelsey, stole Tori from Kelsey, stole all these dicks from Kelsey. And there's a reason why Kelsey would have so much animosity towards her that she might shoot her. Because the defense's argument is that Kelsey was the one that shot her. Oh, I got you. I got you. Now, Kelsey is not, what is it called, being charged. So... I don't know, man. The way she's going, she might get a perjury charge. No, she's got immunity. She's never fucking like that. No, she don't. They told her on the stand, they said immunity don't mean you can get up here and lie. They told her that. Wait, really? Yes, they told her immunity. They reminded her in court that immunity does not mean you can get up here and just lie. Well, she said a bunch of things that she already lied about. She admitted to lying, right? She said that... In her original statement. They're using that evidence now. They're using which evidence? Because she's saying that didn't happen. The original statement that she made that she said didn't happen, they say they can use that now. Even though she's saying it didn't happen. Yep. Well, that seems flimsy. I don't know, man. You think... What do you think happened? I have no idea. And I think that's the problem. I've been saying from the beginning, sometimes you just got to let things play out. Like, once again, everybody wants to be a lawyer. Everybody wants to be a detective. Everybody wants to be a private investigator. This should have been playing out in the court of public opinion for two years. You know what's so interesting? Literally, for two years. But what's so interesting about this case is that Tori doesn't need to prove that he didn't do it. He just needs to create a shadow of doubt that it wasn't him. So he just needs the jurors to go, well, maybe it was Kelsey. He don't need to prove Kelsey did it. He just needs them to think maybe it was her. That's kind of... That's possible if you both in the car, the residues on both of you, Meg didn't see who shot her. She's assuming... No, Meg did it, Meg. That's the thing that people keep forgetting, right? What? Meg is the victim here. Meg said, he did it. I saw him do it. It's kind of hard to be... Maybe she's upset. Maybe she's super jealous. Maybe she's super jealous. I witnessed, bro. Yeah, but maybe she's jealous because he was risen up Kylie. Kylie too? You didn't know that he was risen up in the pool? What is prison? No, I'm old. What is prison mean? What is prison mean now before we continue? Now I feel like the Instagram people with the kind of words y'all use. Bro, he was risen. That's why you gotta shut the shit down. You didn't know Tori's the risenator, bro? What is prison mean? Tori is the risenator, bro. What is prison mean, bro? Not prison. Riz. Riz. What is prison mean? He was risen her up. He was kicking that game. Oh, trying to talk to her. Dude, yeah. He had Kylie moist. No, I don't. You didn't know this? He's in the pool kicking crazy Riz to Kylie. Yo, he was. All I know is. He got the pool floaties on and everything. He's kicking crazy game with the pool floaties to Kylie. And then Meg the Stalin was going berserk. She was bucket, bro. He said, what in the song, Taylor? About Kylie. What's the song? It was like that makes say he put out during the pandemic. What's the name of the song? We got to stop doing this. I need to hear this. Okay. What do you mean? I need to hear it. Why do you need to hear it? Because I told you. No, I think we just see things online. You don't think they were jealous when you just risen up another chair? So he made a song called The Rizza. No. And he was risen on Kylie. I don't believe that stupid shit. No, it was. But no, I don't believe that. You think that you could withstand Tori's Riz? Taylor, do you think that you could withstand his Riz? That's his corny spot. Whoa, whoa. What do you mean? Were you in the pool? Now, out of everything that's been said about Tori this week, that's the most defamation I've heard. Tori, you did not try to holler at you. Oh! Wait, Tori? When he came to the show, the first time, yes. Well, how do you try to holler at you? He just came up to me. He was just trying to say something to me. I'm suing you if I'm Tori. Allegedly. It's not, why? This young lady from lower Darby on here talked about Tori trying to shoot game at her. That's crazy. That's wild. Wait a minute, but what was his? Because I need to learn some of this Riz because this Riz. This Riz had Meg the Stallion going absolutely berserk. Yo, was your Riz back in the day nice or what? Could you Riz a girl up? Never. Never had good Riz? Never had good. Never. I didn't even know where to begin. Quoting rap lyrics and shit. What was you quote? What was your go-to? Abominatomically. Nah. You were biggie saying- You wouldn't walk up to a girl. I said, what's your name? What's your sign? You know what I mean? That's what Biggie said. That's what Biggie said. Bro, we gay, bro. You know what I mean? We gay. You know what I'm saying? That's what it is. Sometimes you just gotta be gay with it, bro. The track is called Queen and Slim. Queen and Slim. Okay. Yo, me and Kylie still off in the pool. We was chilling, kicking shit. It was cool. Both of us didn't know you was tripping. Even though I got a crush on Kylie, I would have left with you if I knew you were stepping for this simple Riz. I know they use nanocourt. Also, I saw- Why? That he's saying. Because you know what happened. But I know they're using nanocourt because it proves it. They also said that they're using one of his comments that he left on Instagram where he said, what's the girl's name? Kelsey. Kelsey didn't do it. Somebody said Kelsey shot and he was like, nah, she did not. Yeah. So it's like, yo, once again, the court of public opinion. But how do we know that Kelsey isn't Riz'd up right now? She's in a state of Riz. What do you mean? Oh, no, no, to your point, the lawyer did say that. The lawyer said that it's obvious she's been compromised in some way. By the Riz, bro. You know what I mean? So they said either she's scared or she's been bribed. Or what's the other one? What's the one other thing that could possibly be happening? But that's all Riz. Thank you. That's all Riz. You know, Tori got a master's in Riz Anometry, right? It seems like it. So maybe she's up on, maybe she's up on the stand and she's saying these things, but she's also getting Riz'd up by Tori who's in the courthouse. She hasn't seen this guy in fucking two years. So what do you think happens? This is a tricky one, man. This is a fucking tricky one. Okay. I think that I think Tori was Riz on a fuck out of Kylie, right? Megan starts to get super jealous. Leaves the party. Okay. I ain't asking you. No, no. I say what do you think happens? Not what do you think happened? What do you think happens in this court case? Oh, I just want me to tell you what happened, man, bro. I don't care about that. Come on, man. How do you think this court case ends? See, I just, I just Riz'd you up. You got Riz'd up. I got Riz'd up. You're not calling it my Riz. No, I don't call it my Riz. You even had to stop yourself. You're like, oh, shit. I want the future prediction. I'm getting colonoscopy again. Like, you had no clue what was happening. You don't want me to tell you exactly what happened that night. Allegedly, allegedly. No, I don't. Tori, Riz'n. Okay, okay. He's Riz'n. Kylie, he's doing all sorts of like breaststroke, all different strokes. He's like, I'm such a good swimmer, blah, blah, blah. Kylie can barely control herself. Okay. Megan sees this happening. Furious. You also have to remember all of this ends in her getting shot. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Exactly. That's not true. What you mean? She didn't get shot. She absolutely got shot. She has bullet fragments that were in her foot that have gone missing somehow. The doctor already confirmed it. No, it didn't. The doctor already confirmed it. Like, even the defense says she got shot. Well, what is shot? Bullet fragments? She got shot. They said there's still metal in her feet right now. But what if this man is about to go away for years for something he didn't do? So the joke should be on him. The joke is on him. I'm saying he's in a pool with floaties in the shower inn. Like, I'm not joking about him too. What are you saying? He's in the four feet and with floaties on. I don't want to talk about this. I don't want to talk about this. You know what I mean? That is so crazy about this. I hope that whatever happens in this trial happens and I hope that justice is served. Come on. You're really crazy, bro. This guy is nuts. You're genuinely crazy for not wanting to talk more about this. I think I can make you talk about it if I've bridged you up real quick. This guy is so crazy. Say marriage, your little sweatsuit. Uh-uh. One thing about Andrew. Yo, how do you reason? When Andrew commits to a role, he commits. Andrew started this podcast and said, I'm gay? He is not letting off the gate. Come on, dude. Yo, listen. I'm not gay. Nope. You already committed. You got to be gay until next week. Next week you can play another character. I'm homosexual, bro. Gay means happy. I ain't happy. Today you are anus-loving Andy. Oh, oh. I love anus. Yo, I love anus, but I'm not gay. Okay. I love anus. I can see that. I'm homosexual. But I'm not gay about it. You know what I'm saying? I'm just, I'm homosexual. So what do you identify as? Say what? What do you identify as? The resonator. The resonator, baby. Yeah. Add another one. The D-1000. I'll break your back. Oh, that's not, you know what's so great? That's not like a gay vibrator. That's what I'm talking about. You plug it up to the wall. And then just back. Move out the way. That's what you're saying to your organs. Oh, man. She's so stupid, man. Let's pay some bills, man. Nord VPN. Let's talk about Nord VPN. Salute the Nord VPN, man. You trying to watch Gay porn in Saudi Arabia? Ooh. You need a VPN. Ooh. That's real, though. 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You just start working immediately because it's not as desired to work there. Now, that's not to say it's not an honorable profession, but if you want to be in entertainment, which is a far more desired field, you're going to have to put years of free work into it. I did that shit with stand-up. I'm sure you did close to that with radio. I'm on that, of course. You know what I mean? That's why I agree with Duval wholeheartedly. I think that you have to recognize opportunity when there's not a paycheck attached to it. And one thing I'm hearing when I talk to these youngins, they're saying things like, even if it's not for free, we need to be having a livable wage. And I think that's where they mess up at because they have these entry-level positions in the entertainment business and they want a livable wage for it. No, you know what else I had when I was young on the come up? I had like three gigs. I did telemarketing. I worked at a clothing store in the mall and I was working part-time at the radio station. There's never been a moment in my life where I only had one gig. Even now, I don't just have one gig. Or live at home if you can. Like, if you have parents that will support your dream, live at home. That's where so many people are able to do it. Not everybody's able to do it because if you need to move to Los Angeles or New York or whatever to pursue your career, it's hard. But if you can pursue that career and entertainment from home, stay the fuck home. And I talk about this in my first book, man, but there's $168 in a week. That is more than enough time to pursue your dream but also deal with your reality. Because the reality is you're probably going to have bills to pay. The reality is you're going to probably have rent and stuff to pay. So find other gigs to supplement that income while you're pursuing your dream. Like, I don't know who told people that you got to spend every waking minute, every waking hour pursuing your dream. Now, I think this compensation stemmed from Glorilla because she got backlash for saying that she had the personal assistant job salary of $5.50 per week. I think the math when you do it is like $28,500 something a year. It just depends on what you're asking this assistant to do. You know what I mean? Yeah, they're full-time assistant. Are they part-time assistant? That's right. They have to travel with you. That's right. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of different things. Also, maybe that's what you can afford. I think a lot of times we assume that people in music are making a lot of money. And a lot of these people are not making a lot of money. So they're incredibly busy because they have all these events that they have to go to and they have to live this lifestyle that we perceive as someone who's this multi-millionaire. But a lot of them are not making that much money at all. And for her to come out of pocket $5.50 a week, that's probably the most she could spend or something like that. I've always been told I overpay. Do you know what I'm saying? I've always been told that I overpay for certain positions. This apparently is what assistance should be making. That's not it, sir. I don't think so. No, I think assistance generally make between like $50,000 and $70,000 a year. That's where I was at with it. Executive assistants make over $100,000. They can make up to $200,000. But executive assistants are with the person all day every day. To our personal assistants. Executive is more with business shit. Yes, yes, yes. So I mean, listen, man, and that's the other thing people say, well, you know, y'all generation struggled. Y'all just want us to struggle. Yo. Nah, motherfuckers. We just telling y'all the reality of the situation. Also, don't do it. You don't gotta be in this business. The thing that people are forgetting you to do it for the price you want. You know the thing that DuBall said in his tweet that people forget about? If not, go get a trade or something. Exactly. Go learn, go learn a trade. Also, the $5.50 is what you start at, right? Like if you come into business and you prove that you're helping her make $2,000 a week for the $5.50 that she's paying you, you don't think it's easy for her to give you a raise? You're going to be up to $1,000 in no time, right? Because it's like, wow, you're providing $2,000 of income for the $5.50 that I'm paying you. So go there, prove yourself, and then get more money. You're right. And I also wanted to, man. And maybe this was just our generation because we didn't know no better. I was never thinking about money. Yeah. I just wanted the opportunity. Everything else I could figure out. Like when I finally moved out of my mama's house because of the no scrubs song. When TLC made no scrubs, you know, and I realized like I cannot be the person still living at home with their mama. And I started doing radio in Columbia, South Carolina. I was making $6 an hour. I moved to Columbia, South Carolina. My mama thankfully let me get a mattress. You know what I mean? Back then, I think rent might have been like $550 in Columbia, South Carolina, something like that. I had a mattress and a small ass TV on the floor. But I didn't care. And I wasn't promised a full-time job at all. What Chris Kahn has told me at hot1039 then was I could do hours. I could come in every night and do these four hourly at $6 an hour, $8 an hour, whatever it was. And I just figured it out. To be honest with you, I don't know how I survived back then. But that wasn't my mindset. My mindset wasn't, oh, I got to make money. I got to make money. I got to make money. I just want the opportunity to be heard because I believe in myself that much. And I know eventually all of this shit is going to pay off. I mean, when you play a sport, you don't get paid at all until you're professional and you dedicate your entire life to it. You actually pay to be part of these leagues that you're in. You're paid to be part of these camps that you go to to get better. Like you are paying money. And the reason you're willing to pay money is because it's so exclusive to be professional in that sport. I think the difference people will tell you is though most of those people, when they're in college, they got room and board. They're getting taken care of. I'm saying before college. I'm saying when your parents are paying for you to go to camps every single summer since you're fucking eight years old. Like I'm saying when you're investing in these trainers, you're investing in these different programs, like you're investing so much into this career that you hope hands out and you can make tons of money. The more desirable the career, the more that you're going to have to invest in it in order to be part of it. I agree with you. But you're also speaking about people from a certain class and background because there's people that are poor and disenfranchised who the only reason they're even getting that opportunity to be taken care of in that way is because of their extreme athletic ability. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but they're investing their time. They're interning. That's true. They're interning as a professional basketball player. You know, I'm just saying, if you want something bad enough and it's an exclusive enough industry, you're going to have to work for free. You're just going to have to. Forgetting something that I feel like because now we have Instagram and everyone wants to flex now. Who thought is that? No, but I'm just saying though, that's why people care. I feel like more about the money. They see all these other people flexing with what they got, all these materialistic stuff. They want to have that. They want to show off. I think that's part of it, but also I think it's the LLC generation. It's the I own 100% or nothing and I know my worth. I think it's that. That mentality too. It's like you own 100% or nothing and you know your worth. So you how dare you feed out there? You work for free. You above working for free. Are you above working for, you know, what you call not a livable wage? My advice to all of y'all is there's 168 hours in a week. That's more than enough time to chase your dream and deal with your reality. Okay. Get other jobs to supplement your income. And when people come to me and they say things like, I shouldn't have to work more than one job. Well, you're practicing bad habits. Yeah. Because I was always taught that you got to have six to seven different sources of income. You know what I'm saying? And if you're the boss that you say you are, even when you create those six to seven different sources of income, you're still working for yourself. Yeah. So you have to have more than one job, sir. Yeah. Oh man. You have to have more than one job depending on what you want out of life. Like there are tons of people who work one job and then want to spend the most of their time in nature. They want to go camping. They want to go hunting. Yeah. They actually want a job that gives them much free time as possible. So that's also, it depends on what you want. If you want to be a millionaire, buddy, no one's going to hand you a million dollars. You don't have to work for it. If you want something else, then maybe you can have that one job. These are all your choices. It's all about choice. Yeah. I will say this though. What? We got to wrap this podcast up. Yeah. We got to wrap this podcast up because we're taping at WTF and Alex is kicking us the fuck out. This is fucked up. That is fucked up. Because in a lot of ways, we built this studio, bro. Damn, bro. I'm just saying, Alex, there should be some type of like some like preferential treatment or something. Yeah, man, it's a little bit. You know what I mean? Like throwing around like nothing. People know the idiot is here, bro. Yo. And you got to give them a 15-minute great fair or something. You know what I mean? Yo, that is a good ass point. Just a little bit. Like, I know y'all got a 12 schedule. You would think, you would think, wow, that a black business would support, you know, two black creators. I think so. I think so. But I guess not, bro. He like get the fuck out. So yeah. But we do have the new building that is opening, you know what I mean? And in the top of the year. Excited about that. That's right. We'll never get kicked out of our studio. No, but we will never. And we would never kick you out, Alex. Yeah, we're not going to kick you out of our studio, bro. We will never kick you out of shaking my head studios when we open it. Shaking my head studio. In January. I appreciate that, guys. But I also appreciate you being here as well. Who you got coming up? I didn't know you kicking us out for. I don't know, actually. Oh, wow. Wow, he knows. Wow. Nah, I don't know. That's crazy. It's just like so many people kind of. Oh, shit. Yeah, that flex. Big snap. Big snap. That flex. We'll be back next week, though. I mean, I'm done for the year, but. We got one more in the sky. Yeah, we got one more in us for the year. We got one more in us. And disconnected, man. We going out with a bang. 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. With the burn idiots podcast. Thank you for listening. Hey.