 It's so stupid it's positively Yep, Shalemaine the guy Andrew Schultz. We are the brilliant idiots podcast Thank you for tuning in to another week another quarantine week or at least quarantine for me Andrew been back out there in the streets in them streets, bro I'll be joining you soon. What we on phase 2 in New York? I think I don't know what phase it is to be honest I was out in LA obviously doing Rogan But I went up to Rogan SB to be with my girl and her family and I went out to a restaurant, bro I went to two restaurants. Really? Yeah, living life on the edge edge bruh. I'm bug chasing. How was it? Honestly, it was great. It just it was nice to see people being normal You know like people sitting down having some food having conversation like yeah The waiter still comes up to you with a face mask on but it's just nice. It's like It's nice to see people living life as we usually live it again. It was just we're not This is like that exhibit video. I don't know if you remember that video What you see is what you get when exhibit was just walking through his neighborhood acting like everything was normal It was all types of wild shit going on behind him shit was blowing up people was getting shot Helicopters were crashing. That's where we're at right now. Are we gonna act like we can act like it's normal But it's not normal. Yeah, I guess I would say that like I Would say like this is part of our normal in America This is not a new thing like the fight for our civil rights is not a new thing That's you know been part of the American existence You know it is a failure of the American existence, but it's it's something we're trying to perfect And poverty poverty's definitely not a new thing poverty is not a new thing a hundred percent You know, I don't know how we get rid of all poverty Maybe we just make life better for the poor But in order to have rich people there has to be poor people We really not you don't have to be poor you can still have rich people matter of fact The rich will actually get richer if more people have money They're got to be poor people somewhere in order for capitalism to function and like they're kind of what do you call poor though? Relative relative poor, right? So it's like the genius thing I think that a lot of those geniuses nefarious, but like did America did is like they're like I bet instead of Exploiting American workers will exploit Chinese ones because it's way cheaper over there or we'll exploit labor over there and like because capitalism needs us Somebody to exploit. There's no way that you can get the type of wealth that you want by paying somebody what they're worth Yeah, but I don't think that a person has to be poor Right, we could but I guess I'm saying like poor I think I think everybody can have a livable wage I think America has enough resources to where everybody can have a livable way Yeah, that's what I'm saying like we can make life better for the poor like and maybe don't even call them poor Maybe call them. I don't know humans? Yeah, like humans that can pay their rents Wellfully challenged or something like that I Naturally challenged financially challenged, but you know, I get it. I get it, you know It's always gonna be a class system that I know. Yes that I know and that's not necessarily wrong as long as you're not Mistreating people because they're not as wealthy like it's okay That people have way more money than me and it's okay that people have way less than money to me as long as those people with Way less aren't dying because of it as long as they're comfortably living and they have the opportunity To get the same amount as me and more as long as they have that same opportunity and they're okay at the lower end I'm cool with that society. I think it's like a video game, right? America has created this capitalist free and free enterprise system that You have the opportunity if you have the resources you can create something that can Financially set you up for life right. Yep, but what America also did was Systemically cut people off from those resources and from that opportunity So therefore what about them? What about those have not right? I mean like we have to provide Resources and opportunity for them to be able to compete Yeah, and by the way the best ideas come from come from the bottom. Yeah Best ideas I think come from the bottom. Yeah, so yeah, it is that's all we just got to create a We got to create a class system where everybody can compete. That's all I'm all for the livable wage I'm for I'm for I've been thinking a lot about universal basic income, you know universal health care I think giving people a thousand dollars a month Isn't a bad thing You give everybody a thousand dollars a month. It's equivalent to giving nobody anything depends It's don't let inflation happen. Well, how do you do that? I don't know when you're printing money inflation happens when you print money man, I Don't know maybe maybe maybe don't let inflation happen to certain places for example Like the cities where there's the poor and disenfranchised, you know I'm saying in these cities that have in these cities that literally You know the engine of these cities are That have not right keep things the way that they are it'll be tough to restrict interstate commerce that would create that inflation, right? I mean like but but can't you put tap? Can't you put can't you put laws on these companies and these corporations not to do inflation though? Well, don't they do that during hurricanes and shit like that when it's a natural disaster and these people try to spike things up Yeah, but that's a little different than inflation You're talking about price gouging and that's illegal like when everybody needs toilet paper all of a sudden You know toilet paper costs twice as much. That's illegal, right? Take that no price. Yeah 100% that's already illegal can't do it But inflation is really a function of how much money is in the economy versus how many goods are in the economy? And when you have more money than there are things to buy. It's a bad look You'll never have it listen America. Well, I think we talked about this couple weeks ago America will never run out of things to buy bro. Yeah, somebody got rich off the chia pet right America Right to think about these type of things about the type of things people buy here. Yeah, they will buy bullshit Yeah, there's no better place to sell bullshit than America Why do you think people come here because they want to buy bullshit? No, they come in a cell bullshit They selling they selling bullshit in America you can get rich selling bullshit. Let's go to America Yeah, they come up with crazy ass ideas and crazy ass Americans bio. Yeah, like what's the last bullshit What's the last really bullshit idea America was crazy not the Popeyes chicken sandwich that we bought What's the last thing that everybody's like I need that last thing everybody wanted Resist I can't remember right now. It'll come to me later. I call me Elmo or some shit Take take take on me Elmo. I don't know frozen. No Let's let's get into some positively brilliant and what a fucking idiot man. What did you see this week? That was positively brilliant There was positively brilliant. Oh, you know what I saw that was positively brilliant what the Democratic senators did with the kente cloth and taking a knee Get the fuck out of here. No, I did ask Why was that brilliant? Because they out trumped Trump No, they did it. They did Yeah, I think they actually pissed their base off They said we all we don't like Democrats the panda that white condo shit They pulled yeah with fucking Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and all them It's like I don't care about that. I care about policies and legislation. Yes, that's true That's what I care about that's true But the reason Trump is president is because he found a way to dominate the conversation in the same way to Kashi 6 9 is A famous rapper found a way to dominate the conversation, right? They understand the value of attention and for a whole few days Everybody was memeing and focusing solely on that picture. So yeah, they knew is pandering Yeah, they knew was stupid, but they knew for two or three days They could take all the attention away from Trump and with Trump doesn't have attention He has no power that motherfucker is like attention is like the sun for him that gives him all his power So they took that shit away from him and if they can continue doing it with goofy ass antics like that You're good to go the Democrat supporters hate Trump so much They're not gonna vote for him no matter what the Democrats do, but what they did was savvy It was savvy marketing Trump used to back in shit up with policy Even if it was the most simple shit like build the wall. Yeah, all the Mexicans are taking jobs from you Yeah, so we got a we got a fucking get them out of the country. He still had some messaging in it What policy does the Democrats have like what pot? What are their policies? What they today that day they had released the Justice in Policing Act and what is that it? There's a lot of stuff in it, but some of the main things was it bans chokeholds. They're killed Eric Gardner Not Eric on the right Floyd George Floyd George Floyd. I'm sorry. Um, it stopped. No No knock drug entry. That's how Breonna Taylor got killed So I mean it has it was a good it was a good law. It's a good comprehensive police reform bill Yo, they were not that they were trying to get past but the sentence probably gonna block it the more I read about this Breonna Taylor story The more absolutely Ridiculous it is that there has not been any arrests made about this it makes no sense. This is crazy It makes no sense It makes no sense and I put them in the what a fucking idiot category first of all you you raid the wrong house, right? The person that they were looking for already was in jail. Yeah, but they give you the warrant for the wrong house and you raid the house. Oh They give you a war. They gave them a warrant for the wrong house. I didn't read that So they did go to the house that they thought they were supposed to go to no It went to the wrong house, but did they go to the house that was on the warrant? No, okay, so they went to the wrong house. Yeah, they went to the wrong house fucking idiots They kicked the door in right friend does what he's supposed to do You sit in your house in the middle of the night. You hit somebody kick the door and grab your motherfucking hammer So I blasted right he got arrested his charges got dropped. I think it's charges got dropped Yeah, pretty sure it got dropped and Breonna Taylor's dead and when you look at the police report They basically tried to cover the whole shit up. Yeah, they didn't they say that the body didn't get to the hospital or something like that Yeah, son, this is crazy This one is the craziest and this is the difference when you got a video when you got a video it makes it real when there's no video is hearsay I said the same thing. What do you say the exact same thing? I said the exact same thing you said I said that the reason Breonna Taylor is not getting the attention that She should get is because there's no video like I met Arbery. There was a video You know George Floyd. There was a video When Breonna Taylor there's no video it's just hearsay so you don't see how bad it is you hear the 911 call But if we actually saw The police kicking the door in in the wrong house and then just lighten that place up. No, it'd be a total type of outrage Where are all the animators at? Animate these fucking killings bro Animate these killings give all give all the details in the animation and show what's going on and people will pass that shit around Dude, I bet they really will you have all the information you have with transpire before and you have with Transpired after and how fucked up it is how they try to cover it up Yeah, but then people will just say all they're exaggerating You know what I mean? Good. Let him say it. Let him say that at least people will know the full details of what went on I think most people just hear Breonna Taylor and they're like another person They are shot by the police They don't know the full extent to what went down and the cover-up efforts made to I mean is unbelievable And what you what you said is true, right? Like details matter the reason You know George Floyd is hitting the way that is hitting to a lot of people is because they sat there and they watched eight minutes In 46 seconds of a man who had his hands in his pocket Office on his neck two other officers on him people telling him to get off clearly not resisting Yeah, calling out for his mom like it was just like y'all y'all really murdered that man So you saw just to just blatant disregard for human life If you saw that in the Breonna Taylor case and you knew that they just ran it But you can't say my bad on some shit like yep, that's not a my bad You know I'm saying that's that's not a you know at first you don't succeed dust yourself off and try again Yeah, that's not what that was. Yeah, I'm up in the wrong house Kills somebody that doesn't deserve to be dead and then you just go live your life like it's golden you get administrative leave fuck nah I be nah, nah fuck all that. Yeah, what's your whole take on? Defund the police. Maybe we should get into that talk about that explain that. Um, I think it's uh I don't want to say positively bro. It's not positively But it was positively brilliant messaging matters and in messaging Every word has to count so when people hear defund the police they think Defund the police take all the money out of the police department. I don't know why some people thought You know about about I don't know why they were even talking about disbanding and abolishing because that never crossed my mind When I when I heard defund the police, I was like, okay, take all the money from the police officers But when you read what the fund the police means is They want to take money out of these bloated police budgets and put them into communities that need them Hmm, which which which makes absolute sense because why does New York City have a six billion dollar police budget? Take a couple of those billion and put them into the hoods in the city that need them put them into the schools Yeah, people better housing create drop job training programs create motherfucking stem programs, you know Get put more money in social services so people can have better mental health health services at their disposal like once you do that Then what happens is The hood has opportunities now. They say that Crime is a result of relative poverty. Not just poverty. All right. Okay here coming in. I see you See you Stephen a charlotte Hey, as soon as I said you see me Siri goes, what can I help you with a haircut Siri? That hairline, bro But um Where was I? Poverty said poverty in city. Oh, yeah, it's like a poverty is that is a function of relative poverty It's like a crime is a function of relative poverty That's what they they say where it's like there's a lot of crime in places where there's poor people living right next to Really rich people but if everybody's poor, there's not that much crime because it's like well. Yeah, that's his life, right? Yes so So I guess what they're saying is is Take some of that money and invest it in things that would reduce the poverty If the poverty is the thing that causes the crime So it's so fucking simple state jobs other things other opportunities that people can do not just suddenly giving people money to put Their pockets but giving the place that they could potentially work you fix the schools up better education You fix the housing up people got a better place to live So they're waking up and they feeling better about their life right put the money in the social services So you can have mental health care for these people in the hood job training programs teach people how to work trade school STEM Prepared them for the 21st century. What the fuck so I will say this calling it defunding the police is quite possibly the worst marketing ever done in the history of humankind because When I hear the word detach, I don't think Detach your arm. I don't think take a little piece of your arm and then put it somewhere else I think take the whole arm right if I'm going to get a detox I'm going to get all the toxins taken out of my body any time the preface D is before word, right? It's take everything that comes after it There we go So so it's like of course people are gonna naturally have this reaction where they go fuck that we can't have this etc If they said reallocate the police, I'd be like, okay Talk to me because apparently what they're also thinking of doing is doing things that police have been asking for There's this sheriff in like Houston or like a police commissioner. I think it's Houston I forget the exact city, but he basically was like why are police being called if there's a cat in a tree Why are police being called if somebody is? Mentally ill why are police being called if an animal escapes from the zoo? That's not our job You have to let us focus on the things that we're doing and then and stop putting everything under the police belt Because you don't want to fund these other organizations, so even the police agree with that shit then let's go I agree Especially when you can't even get police officers to do Wellness checks on people that you think may be suffering from some type of mental illness You know I'm saying they'll tell you dumb shit like well She hasn't hurt herself or he hasn't hurt herself Hurt somebody you can't do no wellness checks. Get the fuck out here Yeah, you know you gotta wait till it's too late. So yeah, I agree with you I think they should have called it remix the police. I like it. You got talking these kids like I like that You know saying and then you go then that's when Joe Biden you reach out to diddy They did I need you to do a little little commercial for me called remix the police since you invented the remix You know me and that's what I and honestly that's what I would do like even what Joe Biden is saying about reform I did first of all, let's be clear. I don't know why Democrats can't get their messaging, right? I really don't like I watched Joe Biden fumble that to fund the police questions so bad what he said What they asked him does he believe in defunding the police? He said no and Then he talked about you know, he has this plan where he wants to put 300 million dollars Into into policing to help reform Policing and help community policing and I'm like you got to really think about how do you American people? American people are in the streets right now Protesting against police brutality, right? So if they think defunding the police is a good idea because they're the ones out there championing the fun The police the fun the police the fun the police you have to know how to answer that question better Trump fucking set them up because Trump and them went out there and said they wanted to fund the police And then that's what they said afterwards. They want to abolish the police. They want to get rid of the police That's not it's not the same thing. They put they put the fund abolish and get rid of all in one One sentence and if and if fuck the Democrats up So now they were playing defense when they could have just been on offense, right? Senator Kamala Harris bodied in on the view what she said Taylor played this clip if you can't but make a McCain asked her does she believe in defunding the police? And I didn't say yes and no she said I think that we should absolutely Allocate resources for the communities that need them. We should take we should take money From from from these budgets and put them in communities that need them and she started just naming things that the hood needs Megan McCain was slick enough to go Well, yeah, of course, but do you believe in defunding the police? Senator Harris says, what do you mean by defunding the police? What do you what do you what do you mean by defunding the police everybody definition everybody got their own definition Words don't fucking matter. Well, they do what they don't You got to be real specific with those words, bro. You got to be specific. Yo, I was thinking this past weekend I wonder, you know, I know Chris is is is By the way, Chris is in the hospital. He's okay. It's not corona. It's a kidney stone, but uh And I wonder if he has some perspective on this too, but like maybe it should be illegal for Police or other essential workers to Unionize against the government or to strike against the government like Okay, so like Let's say for example me and you got a factory right to make shoes, right? And then the workers want to unionize and they want to go on strike so they can get better wages, right? Me and you are personally invested in that factory and we want to make sure the factory makes money So when we're in the negotiation with the unions, we're not gonna give the shoe factory union that much Because that's gonna come out of our pocket But if you're a government worker that's negotiating with the unions and you're gonna be out of your job in two or three Years anyway, you don't give a fuck how they figure that shit out in the future You're just gonna let the unions get whatever they want because you're like I don't got any stake in this anyway So the unions bully the government and they get all these crazy rules built in where like you get whatever your last year of Work is you get that for the rest of your life in your pension so that they back They like super load that last year their last year. They'll do tons of overtime They'll do tons of extra shit so they go their salary goes from 100 to 150,000 that last year And then they carry that pension forever as it goes on. I think that's why these budgets are so swollen. I Don't know anything about what you're talking about I have no idea anything you're talking about but I would say people don't retire bro retires Well, it's 20 and out or 25 and out That's the goal and that in those jobs you retire because you have this amazing pension Once you do 20 or 25 years you get a hundred percent of is a hundred percent out Or 80% it's a little bit lower, but it's a little bit lower But it's significant amount of money for the rest of your life I would love to hear how often that happens. I'm serious I would love to hear how often how often does it happen out? I'll used to be in law enforcement Yeah, like everybody retires the goal is you start young you retire and then you get a second career So now you have a second career and you're getting your retirement at the same time So you get Go-go. No, that's what I was about to say like the second career A lot of people don't ever get to that point because to retire always was told retirement. It's not an agency income. I Can't retire after 25 years if I can't afford to but what we're saying is you have this thing built in your pension Right, so when you retire as a police officer after 20 or 25 years you get paid 80% maybe even 100% in some places, but at least like 80% of your salary That lasts your sight for the rest of your life I'm sure it happens. I've just never seen it I've never even seen it in movies and movies is always the goddamn officer who's just about to get his pension Who gets fucking killed remember and train today? That's a movie Are you saying you don't believe the police officers make it to their pension? No, bro, I need to see I'm not saying that it don't happen I need to see some recent examples not some shit that happened in the 60 70s I need to see some motherfuckers who that started in the 90s and they live in good off their pension right now You know what do you think happens to them? They just die right before? Yes If every policeman died the year before their pension, we would be having a way different protests right now, dude I don't know man. I got to see it to believe it. I'm not saying it don't happen All I'm simply saying is I have never seen how do you believe in Sasquatch and not pensions Well, it's pictures of Sasquatch. I never seen a police officer holding up his goddamn picture Son I was on Rogan and he made an argument for Sasquatch. I saw it. He's right But I've said I've been saying that like a Sasquatch was just a primate It literally was a primate in the woods and it came here over that land bridge or whatever from yeah Yeah, yeah I never I never looked at Sasquatch is any like huge Mystical mythic mythical creature, right? If you're if you were a native American back then Growing up in that era and you saw that shit. You'd be like what the fuck right? You probably would worship it You know, I mean I would bow down to it, but I never thought it was anything else There's one Taylor just texted me said it's half It's half your one and a half salary after 22 years. I don't know what the fuck that means What's that mean? I have no clue what Taylor's talking about right now. Yeah, I saw I saw that segment I like you and Rogan together man. I'm gonna miss Rogan on um on YouTube. Yeah, I know because I'm not subscribing to Spotify I don't have it out of stone, but you don't have to subscribe. You could just watch it. I think I'll download it I don't have it on my phone. Oh, why you don't fuck my you don't fuck with Spotify I don't rockin spot if I got too much shit on my phone now. I got app I got fucking iTunes. I got title. I got I hard. I got fucking Instagram I just got too much shit now Like the only reason I still catch your button podcast is because I watched the fucking YouTube clips right and I don't even watch the whole episode I just watch the clips that's the thing Rogan's gonna keep his clips on YouTube the clips ain't going anywhere Oh, the clips get to stay on YouTube. Yeah. Oh, I thought that he had the Spotify had the new on video Platform they're gonna do video the full episode video is gonna be on Spotify, but the clips are gonna still be on YouTube and I think that's smarter Spotify be is the clips of the advertisement You know, you have the clips going out there get everybody digest a little bit A smaller version of it and eventually you're like, oh, I gotta check out this podcast I bet mad people listen to this podcast because they were watching clips of ours No, I believe it. 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Yeah, I don't even uh I don't even I didn't want to do breakfast club this morning And I was looking forward to the podcast, you know only because the podcast is um It is very therapeutic for me only because it's a big difference between You know the long form conversation that we have here and uh, not so long conversation we have on the breakfast I just feel like I can express more of my my thoughts here, but um Yeah, if y'all don't know we lost uh the first guest ever On the brilliant idiots podcast literally the pilot episode the episode when you know We was like, all right, we're gonna do a podcast and you know jazz jazz fly jasmine waters was hanging out With me at the radio station like she used to do she used to tend to do a lot when she was in new york And I was like, yo we're going down the engine room to record and she's like, all right, let's go And it was called the star shame episode enterprise the star shame our shame enterprise episode And um, you know yesterday about 130. I'm at the crib I'm on the phone arguing with van. I'm I gotta start. I gotta stop arguing with them every time I argue with van I always get the worst news the last time you Me and van debate a lot But when we're arguing this is you know argument debate when we're arguing or maybe I'm not gonna say it's all right But just a heated heated debate and I guess yesterday it was kind of heated not heated heated, but last time was in february and I got a text from this from devy dev and and and dev texted me to say no not coby And Kobe Bryant died. I'm like, oh it and yesterday I'm on the phone with van and I get a text from dev What dev called me and I didn't pick up and then she text me. She said call me 911 And then my wife hit me and was like called dev right now. I'm like, oh shit. What's going on? So I hit dev I was like, are you sitting down? I'm like, yeah, she's like Jazz is no longer with her like Talk about like jazz is no longer with her Jazz is not here and I'm just like She's dead You know, you never get used to getting those kind of phone calls. You never get used to hearing that kind of news But it's it's it's never expected, right? You know when it just happens that way You know when you get the news that way that fast And it's just like man, I'm fucked up That was my homie like in a real way like like a real friend like a person. Um, I would call on Whenever I needed advice person I would call on just to just to randomly talk talk shit shit with because Jazz fly was absolutely one of the most intellectual people one of the smartest people you would ever come across in your life She literally did not see the world The way other people saw the world and that's I think what made her such an amazing Storyteller and you know, I was I was blown away not just by her her art In her her creative mind, but just her as a person like I never met a person who Always knew the right thing to say Not only knew the right thing to say could always give you the right strategy on how to move And when I and when I think about how she used to do it She never was telling you anything She was talking you through it almost like a therapist And it's like she would even know the answer But she would let you get to the answer yourself Before she laid out exactly what it is you should be doing or how you should be And I just I just always thought she was so so so so dope for that and man You know Talking to her mom this morning Talking to her pops talking to her sister yesterday talking to her brother I'm just really sitting here and other No, I'm not in this. I'm just fucked up I haven't I haven't compartmentalized all of my feelings And and and and it still really hasn't Hit me yet Are there are there any details about her death that are available? Um, none that I mean none that I'm gonna give out Okay, that's that's that's that's that's the family That's the family's um Yeah, that's the family's choice and decision on when they want to You know reveal the details of the situation. Yeah But only that could tell y'all man is um Like always check on your strong friends always, right? And don't just check on your strong friends Strong friends if you're the strong friend, which I which I know I I am but I have a lot of strong friends around me My Andrew you're a strong friend. Mm-hmm. You're a strong friend And somebody checks on you Be open To that check-in. Mm-hmm. You know I'm saying like, you don't got a front for your people You don't got a front for your your family. You understand. I'm saying. Yeah when when when when things aren't you know going the way that they They should or you don't feel like your life is where it needs to be If somebody's giving you that check-in You have to open up and and receive that because Can't help anybody If they aren't receptive to the help Why do you think it is that the strong friend often shuns the help That they're so ready to give but they had a strong friend. Do they feel like they have to Like uphold an image to their friends or I don't think it's about image. I think it's about um when you're a strong person A strong minded person. I think that um I think when you're a strong minded person You don't ever want to admit to yourself That that shit might not be the way You wanted to be You know what I'm saying when you're a strong minded person You may not accept the fact that you might be having a weak moment because that kind of like defeats the whole purpose of you being strong It attacks your identity in a way. It attacks your fucking identity Yeah, and it makes you start questioning yourself You know, that's that's when the anxiety kicks in and that's when the pressure might kick in and that's when the The insecurities and you start questioning yourself and the low self-esteem kicks in and it's just like I wonder fuck how strong you are we all have The opportunity and and and we should all reserve the right To have to be weak There's nothing wrong with it Like that's just life and life. There's gonna be f there's gonna be flows. It's gonna be ups It's gonna be downs There's gonna be moments when you the strongest person in the room There's gonna be moments when you the weakest person in the room It's gonna be moments when you the person in the room with no fear There's gonna be moments when you the person in the room with all of fear How to you gotta embrace it all You have to embrace it all man. You really really really really do That's why I'll be on everybody's ass about being as mentally healthy as possible. That's why I advocate, you know, for mental health the way that I do. I never considered myself a mental health advocate. I just was a person telling my story and I'm still telling my story because it's things that, you know, I have to deal with all the time. I'll be honest with you, before hearing about the passing of jazz, I was so emotionally, mentally and spiritually exhausted. Gone? You said gone or good? Exhausted. Oh, exhausted, exhausted. Yeah, I was so spiritually, mentally and emotionally exhausted. I don't know, I don't know if it was, you know, the George Floyd situation. I don't know if it was just like, how are we going to dismantle systemic racism? I just feel like it was a lot. Like it was real, real heavy. Like I sat in my basement on Saturday night. I had one glass of cast of draconis. I'm talking about like this much. I got halfway through that glass and I was listening to Jay-Z's title playlist. It's called survival songs, the songs of survival. Crying my ass off for no reason. And I had a great week last week. I had a great week. I had a phenomenal week. I had a great week at radio. I had a great week, you know, out there talking about the situation that's going on in the world. I'm sitting in my crib. I'm looking at my TV and I'm just sitting there sad as fuck. And I just felt so drained. Emotionally, mentally and spiritually. I didn't know why. I even texted, I texted, I texted Nyla and I texted him. I don't know why, I don't know why I didn't text Taylor. But we all on the same group chat. Oh, I know why. I know why I didn't text Taylor. Why? Because Wax is on that group chat. I didn't want to. So that's why I asked what it was. Wax and Wax. You know, honestly, I didn't think Wax, I didn't think Wax, McKayla and Taylor would have been sympathetic to me in that moment. Really, why? I don't know. I just doubted me about you. Y'all bullies. I didn't feel like being bullies. I didn't need to hear any jokes. Don't do that. I'm being honest. I needed sympathy. I really needed sympathy. I was having a very weak moment Saturday. Show me. I always have a day. You are, but a little joke. And listen, a little joke with a little levity would have been fine. You know? When? Whatever, keep going. I don't know. So I just texted him and Nyla, and I just said, I'm sitting here crying my ass off. And Nyla going to text back shrooms. Question marks. I'm like, you know, fucking shrooms. I'm having a little drink, and I'm just in my life. And I was feeling that feeling going into Monday, going into Tuesday. And then yesterday when I got that call, it was almost like, aha, that's what this was about. I've been feeling like this. I've been feeling like this since Saturday. Right. And this was what this was about. And you know, I'll say this. No, I don't want to say too many details. But yeah, I'm fucked up. Rest in peace, jazz fly. I don't know how I'm going to get over this. To be totally honest with you, not this one. And we could talk about it a lot more later when more details of the situation come out. But yeah, man, she was a great soul, a great person. Literally somebody in my circle that was ready for war at all times. And always made so much goddamn sense that it, yeah. She was incredibly fun to talk to because it felt like you were talking to someone who had it all figured out and kind of understood everything. And yeah, it was just, it was really pleasant to talk to. I mean, you're talking about, obviously, all of our conversations were surrounding Hollywood and how the game works and what's happening there. But it felt like you were talking to someone who had their ear to the door of all the crazy conversations that were going on. And I understand why you saw her as a strong friend because you get comfort in talking to people who feel like they know exactly what's going on, especially when you're going through a time that could be chaotic. You don't know what's going on. You want some truth. You want something with a strong foundation. And I keep wondering, like, when you said that about check on your strong friends, I'm like, do you think strong friends seem to know what's going on because not only what's going on in the world, but what's going on emotionally because they've felt it so deep? Wow. You know, like, they could give advice. That would make all the sense in the world, right? You know what I mean? Like, they could give advice about you being sad or depressed. Not because they haven't been sad or depressed, but they felt that shit probably on another level. You know what I mean? They felt the lowest of the lows. So when you come to them with something low, they're like, now I know exactly what you're feeling, and this is how I dug myself to fuck out of this. So this is what you're going to do. It's like, maybe they'd make great, you know, they have great advice for that reason. I think, you know, yeah, that makes so much fucking sense, yo, because when you're the strong friend, if you've been through something, if you've had those experiences before and you've worked through them, but I'm sitting here wondering, like, did you work through them? Because sometimes, man, when you're the strong friend and you feel those things, you don't allow yourself to feel. You understand? Like, you don't want to feel that. Because if that shit makes you feel uncomfortable in the slightest, or if it makes you feel weak in the slightest, you're like, yo, get that shit away from me. I ain't weak, I'm the strong friend. You know what I'm saying? Like, so I wonder if really what we call strong is oftentimes just numbness. And when that numbness wears off, which I think is something that's happening to a lot of people. A lot of people are doing this quarantine because they don't have a lot of distractions that they have before. Sometimes you can bury yourself in your work and you're always busy, you're busy, you're busy, you're busy, you're too busy to deal with what you got going on mentally and what you got going on emotionally. But man, when that noise stops and when that music stops and it's just you and yourself, and you know, all you got is that. And it's like, that shit, man, that shit can drive some people fucking crazy. Yeah. That shit can drive some people fucking crazy. That's why I've been, maybe I haven't been doing it enough, but I feel like I should have really been encouraging teletherapy. I still should be encouraging teletherapy. But I have, I've been telling people, guard the energy and make sure they stay mentally healthy during this quarantine time. Cause it is, it is, man. When you, especially if you alone. If you alone and you got shit that you haven't dealt with. Yeah. Man, that shit, man. And then also, man, looking at the world. You look at the world and on the news, 20,000 people dead, 30,000 people dead, 40,000 people dead, 100,000 people dead, 100,000 people dead. Like death is all around us. Then Armad Arby, then George Floyd. It's like, yo, man, how much fucking death y'all gonna show us? Like, I'm gonna start, I'm gonna start believing that your thoughts become things, right? Right. And the things that you want to happen in your life, you should constantly think about. The things that you don't want to happen, you try not to think about it all. But it's like, literally for the past three months, four months, the one thing, the one common theme that is, that is, that ties all of these shit together is death. Whether it's coronavirus, whether it's the protest, police, all of that, it's, it's all about death. It's about the loss of life, right? So it's just like, imagine if you just, like sitting at home all day and that's all you see, all you see, all you see. And by the way, yo, yo, shows, every big story this year has been centered around death. Before Corona, what was it? Kobe. Kobe. Yeah. So it's like, yo, we've been in a constant state of grief. You've been in a constant state of grief all year long. Man, I can even go back to Nipsey in April last year, but we've been, we've just been in a constant state of grief. We've been in a constant state of people questioning their mortality in ways that they've never questioned their mortality. And sometimes, man, cause I even go there, sometimes my mind literally does wander to that place of, is it more peaceful after this? Like is that how you truly quiet the noise? You truly quiet the noise when you're, when you no longer cease to exist physically. That's why it fucked me up when I was having a conversation. I'm pretty sure it was with Dev, and Dev was telling me about this psychic. It was with Dev. It was about this psychic who was telling this story about how she saw Kobe. She saw Kobe when they died physically, he walked everybody into the afterlife and he came back to look at the wreckage and contemplate how did this happen? Why did this happen? And I'm sitting there thinking like, wait a minute, I still gotta be thinking about worldly issues after this? And then I went down this whole rabbit hole of people who had died for brief moments, right? Like they died on the emergency table, emergency room table. They died in a car accident. They saw themselves on the side of the road and then they came back. And a lot of people believe, I don't want to say scientists cause I don't even remember who the fuck I was reading that was doing these studies, but they believe that your conscience still lives. So even when you die, your conscience knows you died. You think so? I mean, that's what would be heaven, right? Yeah. That would be the afterlife. Your conscience would have to exist somewhere, whether it exists in heaven, space, whether it takes on another body. I don't really know what happens. I don't think about what happens. I didn't see so much shit in my life now and seeing so much shit happen that I didn't think was going to happen. This brain in our head, bro, one of the main reasons I keep stressing this mental health thing that that brain can be your greatest gift and it can be your greatest curse. Bro. Cause you have that. We don't really truly know how the brain works. Bro, you know what's crazy? We were just talking about this yesterday. Alex had a crazy dream the other day, right? And he's telling us about the dream. And then we all start sharing our like crazy dreams that we've had, right? It's crazy. We don't have more anxiety going to bed at night, bro. Like every time we go to sleep, we don't know what the fuck is going to happen. And whatever does happen, it is going to feel real. You know what I mean? Your parents die or God forbid in your fucking dream, it feels like they're dead. I had a dream where that should happen. It feels like they're fucking dead. And great till we wake up from it. We're like, okay, phew, that's fine. But there's a lot going on in this head of ours. That's the key though. Say again? That's the key. The key to a dream is that you know you're going to wake up. But in the moment of it, you don't. Yeah, but I mean, I guess going to bed at night isn't as scary because you know, hopefully, that's why you do your prayers. Now, let me down to sleep. I pray to the Lord my soul to keep up. I should die before I wake up. I pray to the Lord my soul to take at least you and your heart or in your mind, you know you're going to at least wake up. Like, and that is terrifying. You had those real bad dreams. And you wake up sad as fuck. Yes. Wake up. I've had dreams that I've cheated on my wife and woke up and slapped myself. Because you know how your wife would be like, if you even dream of cheating on me, I'm going to fuck you up. Let me go ahead and slap myself. Last night, the devil was trying me. All right. But by the way, I'm going to tell you something. I like how you called it a dream, not a nightmare. It was a nightmare. I had a dream. No, it was not an interview. Absolutely right. Thank you for correcting me, my brother. That was an absolute motherfucking nightmare. Okay. You know how I know what the nightmare and how I know I'm a changed individual. I woke up terrified. I woke up scared, feeling guilty. Whoa. Like, oh, shit, that was a fucking nightmare. That wasn't real. You know what I mean? Yeah. Shit. Back in the day, I might have woke up with a smile on my face. Got him. How do I know to free me right there, man? How do I know to free me? How do I know to free me? So that's a freebie, though. If you cheat in your dream and you nut. If you have a wet dream, you have a wet dream and you nut. That's a freebie. That's not cheating, bro. Dude, that's the Lord stepping in, going, you know, you need some size. And by the way, that will piss a woman off. Have a wet dream if you want to. And she wake up and see you with semen in your pants. What the fuck was you dreaming about, baby? You got a lot. You better be fast. You better be fast on the draw with that you, baby. You hit me? You better be fast as fuck. You started just a little bit. It's going to be consequential to repercussion. Oh, fuck, dude. But yeah, man, I don't, yeah, I hope to, yeah, I want to, I hope that we can, you know, continue to honor the life of Jasmine Waters in a real way. And when her mother and father and, you know, sister and brother reveal more details, then we can have a more deeper in-depth conversation. Because, you know, it's a lot going on in my mind right now. It's a lot going in my mind, you know, as far as what I need to do with my life, as far as the calling, I feel like, you know, God has on my life. And I'm going to tell y'all right now, if y'all were ever tired of me talking about mental health, if y'all were ever tired of me talking about anxiety, y'all are about to be fatigued, like a mother fatigued. And I'm not ever stopping, because it is too many of us out here suffering in our communities. And it's too many of us that need help. And it is my life's goal and my life's work to provide those resources and provide those services for the people that need them. That is what makes me happy nowadays. That is what makes me feel fulfilled. That is what empowers me. And that's what makes me feel like I failed in certain situations. No, you can never put that on yourself. That is not your responsibility. Someone else's life is not your responsibility unless it's your kids, you know? Oh no, man, no. I mean, I get it, I get what you're saying, but it's just hard to, you know, it's hard to feel that, you know, it's hard to feel that way at times. It's hard to feel that way. Yes. It really is. It really is. When you got friends and you got family and people are screaming for help in different ways and you know it and you try to provide it, but you can't really, because that person won't let you in. Accept it. Yeah. Shit is fucked up. It is fucked up, man. Really fucked up. It's not a good feeling. Any bills to pay? No, we paid them already. Oh, okay. Shit. But yeah, man, honestly, it's important. Do we get out of this? It's important. I don't know. I mean, we'll figure it out. It's what we do, but it's important that you recognize that, you know, that's not on you or anything like that. I mean, obviously it's hard for us to discuss it without understanding or giving more context and we'll leave that up to her family for sure. But yeah, there's nothing that you can do in these situations, you know? You're a good friend. You did everything you can. Jazz had this one clip, man, when she was on Brilliant Idiots and I want Taylor to add that when she was talking about the meaning of life. I can't speak for anybody else. I think for me, it's about figuring out who I am. That's been my process. And for me, it came from a surrender moment and from there has been a 10-year journey or so since. And I think that that's where I started to just sort of whittle away piece by piece. Oh, this is, I'm the person that like I'm hardheaded. They told me for years, don't touch the iron. And then when I was four, I walked into the iron and just laid my hand on it and got three degree burns. Like I'm that person. So I'm the person that like needs to be, I need to figure out what I'm not in order to figure out who I am and that's been a journey for me. But at the end of that was joy. Yeah, I mean, that should be the journey, right? Yeah. The journey is through all the turmoil, through all the confusion, to all the chaos, finding the joy. I told Deb last night, I was like, yo, I want it all. I want all life has to offer. And when I say that, I'm not talking about the good. That's just not the way life works. I want the bad, the so- Cause I don't believe in so-called good and so-called bad. I just believe that life is just one long process and we're all going along with the process. You gotta take everything that comes with it. I can't have a nationally syndicated morning show, right? That's on in a hundred markets, whatever. Like I had this dream of that. I can't have that without having the backlash that may come from a Rush Limbaugh interview, or a Russell Simmons interview. Or anything that happens on Breakfast Club or has happened on Breakfast Club over the past 10 years, you know what I'm saying? Like that's what happens when you have a massive platform. Like people aren't gonna believe you got things right all the time. So you gotta take that good with that bad. You gotta take the, oh, we want Charlemagne off the radio. You gotta take the petitions to get Char. You gotta take all of that. You know what I'm saying? You gotta take the New York Times bestselling books. But then some of the people you may have spoken about in the book, not liking what you said. But that's my experience. That's my life. So that's just the way the world works. So when I say I want it all, I want it all. I want the good, the so-called good, the so-called bad, the so-called ugly. I wanna feel it. I wanna feel everything. I wanna be 85 years old, 90 years old, talking like being a real strong friend. Why you think old people are the strong folks? Because what'd you say? They've been through that shit already. They've had those experiences. They've had those emotional ups and downs. They've had the depression. They've had the anxiety. They've had all of that shit. You understand what I'm saying? So I wanna be that. When I say I want it all, I mean all my years and every single experience life has to offer me. I bet you there's nobody. I bet you that's why when you look at Mike Tyson now, Mike Tyson seems so whole. Cause he done had it all, lost it all. You know, been through it all, had the depression, still deals with the anxiety. He done been the man, wasn't the man like, yo, I need, I want the fullness. If that's the fullness of life, if that's what life is offering me, that's what life is giving me, I'm gonna take it. I want it all. I want it all. I really do. I want the whole complete fullness of life. Cause I feel like that is a part of it. I wanna be that guy sitting back, having those conversations at 80, 90 years old, telling people like nothing phases me, nothing that I haven't seen. Yeah. Yeah, maybe happiness is a function of your expectations. And if you expect to experience the highs and lows of life, then you can be happy through that. If you only expect to experience the highs, of course you're gonna be miserable when the lows come. But if you're able to sit back and go, this is part of life, there are gonna be tragic moments that touch me deeply. And there also gonna be incredibly happy moments which touch me deeply too. And that is the entirety of what life is. And if you can sit back and go, that's what I'm ready for, that's what I signed up for, and that's what the fuck I want. Maybe it can help you get through tough moments like this because you recognize that there is no life experience without this. Nobody that gets to live a long life gets to live a long life without seeing their close friends die. Nobody. That's right. And maybe that's why you see so much wisdom in old folks cause you're like, man, these people have literally watched all of their friends die. If you're old, old, right? You watch all of the closest people that you know die and on some level be kind of like abandoned by even their family. As sad as that sounds. My grandma was the oldest child, but her, she saw her mom die, her dad die. All her brothers and sisters, I like, I think two brothers, two, three brothers, two sisters. She watched all her brothers and sisters die and her mom and dad die and her oldest son. I never met my uncle, but he was my oldest son. So she watched all of them die. She died in 2006. So imagine that. Of course you got your grandkids and you still got your daughters, but I'm talking about your siblings literally cause you're the oldest child. So your baby brothers, baby sisters, I think she was the oldest. Maybe uncle Ben was the oldest. I'm not sure, but I think she was the second oldest. No, I think she was the oldest. Either way, you watched everybody around you faster. Yeah. That can't be good. It really can't. It really can't be a good feeling. But maybe you start to accept that this is part of life, man. Like I have, my dad's memory is gone, right? Like I introduce his short-term memory is gone. I introduce my girlfriend to my dad every single time they meet, okay? And I asked him about it. I was like, how does it feel like to have your memory start to go away? And he goes, this is part of life. He goes, I accept that this is part of life. As you get older, things start to break down. This is one of the things that starts to break down. He goes, I've had a great life. I have two great kids that I love very much. I have an amazing wife who's still with me. I have so much amazing things that have happened to me in my life. I've gotten so wildly lucky. And weirdly enough, he's like in this really great space as he enters this late stage in his life. And I think it's because of his expectations. He bowed depression in his whole life, sadness, anxiety, all these fucking things. But he has been a great person through it and he's always tried to help people and he found that. And he's at this late stage in his life. I think he really is like, wow, man, this is part of it. I'm not angry and bitter. A lot of times when old people start losing their memory, they get angry and bitter. Why is this happening to me? Why is this doing? Why the fuck do I deserve it? And he's really taking it on like, this is part of life and there's nothing you can do. So you might as well enjoy it. Yeah, enjoy. You found that joy. You found that joy that Jazz was talking about. You found that joy. That's it, man. You have to see it for the entirety of things, man. I bet Duvall would be somebody really good to talk to at times like this. He has this amazing... I was speaking to him last night. What was he saying about it? Oh, first thing he said was... First thing he said was don't even... Before I even said anything, he was like, don't even do it to yourself. He knew. That you could do. Don't even do it to yourself. That's the first thing he said. That was literally the first thing he said. Only because I mean, he knew how... I mean, anybody that know we know how I felt about Jazz. Yes. That's not a secret, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's my girl, that's my girl. So you feel a responsibility, you feel some sort of like, how could I have changed things? How could I have done something different? And again, that isn't your responsibility. You can't take credit for the bad things that have happened to her. You can't take credit for the good things either. Jazz accomplished all those good things by herself too. It's not to say that you weren't helpful and you didn't play a part, but that's not... I don't think about it like that. I just, you know, you just always wanna be there for your people. That's it. That's literally the moral of the story. Like, and I feel that way about any of my family or my friends. Like, when I embrace somebody, I embrace them in a real way. Like, I don't have loose ends around me. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, if I embrace you and I'm like, it's my man, or it's my girl, it's my family. Like, it's my friend. Like, I take that shit very serious. And the reason I take it serious is because I don't feel like I ever really had that growing up. I don't think I ever really had real friends, so to speak. I think I had a lot of associates growing up. You know what I mean? I had a lot of associates. I think the closest I had to having real friends was when I was living on Cozy Corner and it was like me and my man, Reggie President all the time. It was Charles, John, Thomas, when Thomas was around, you know, but it's like I really grew up with those people, Reggie, Charles, John, being like we was always around each other all the time. And I mean, I don't speak to them at all anymore now. Not because I don't want to, it's just that you grow up and you lose touch. Ben still calls me though. I haven't talked to John or Charles in a while, but. Yeah, man. And then like my man, Booby, I love Booby, my dude, Jarrell, Jarrell's dead. God bless the dead. My man, Zeke, I had real partners. I did have real partners. Like, see, sometimes we tend to do that, right? Sometimes we tend to let the bad experiences overshadow the good experience. 100%. So sometimes you can be in that environment and you have a lot of people that backstabbed you or did you dirty and you kind of like cast a wide net and think about how I started that off. Like I had no real friends. Like I did. I had real partners. I did have I did have real partners. But you know, as I get older, I just I cherish my friends and my family a lot more. OK, that's how I can say it. I know that I deal with a lot of people when I hear their stories, they feel like they didn't have the connection of the bond with their family the way that they wanted to. OK. Are they feel like they were the misfits? And for some strange reason, those are the people I tend to I tend to gravitate to. Those are the people I tend to love. Those those out of the box thinkers, those people who, you know, do move to the beat of their own drum in a real way because to me, those are the most authentic people. I love polarizing people. I do. I love people that you can't figure out, you know. And when I meet those people, I really embrace them. Like, OK, this this you and me now we got this, you know. And maybe it's my my nature, my cancer nature. I like to I do like to nurture. I do like to protect, you know. And when you feel like when you feel like you didn't do that, that should have a fucked up feeling, bro. I'm not going to lie to you. Really, really, really, really, really truly is. So rest in peace, jazz fly. Mist is not the word for you. And I know that you have left a whole lot of written words somewhere. I know I am almost positive of that. I'm sure that we will be blessed with a jazz fly wisdom for years and years and years to come. And yo, she was only 39. I thought jazz fly was in her midpoint. Not because of her aesthetic or how she looked. But her wisdom, she's her wisdom. And she was always so much like she I never I never asked her age. I never. Yeah, I just never thought about it. I just assumed. Yeah. Jazz was a little old. Yeah, because of her. Just the way she used to carry herself. She was mature in the way that she carried herself. Yeah, certainly. Yeah. Yeah, 39, man. She didn't I told but she didn't afford. Yeah. Crazy. Crazy. Yeah, man. It's tragic, dude. I'm going to get the fuck out of here now. Not because I don't enjoy talking to you. Say again. I said, I'm going to get the fuck out of here now. Not because I don't enjoy talking to you. No, I don't take it personal, but just because I don't feel like talking. And I got to get ready for this. I had to do this zoom call yesterday. I think this is so crazy. I had to do this. And it was kind of good because it was filling. But like I got the call at one thirty. East Coast time about jazz. And we were supposed to start doing the podcast at one. And I don't even know why I was I was sitting on the couch doing nothing. And I was like, yo, let's start the podcast. What? What I said, one fifteen or some shit. Well, you asked for one thirty one thirty. And so I'm just sitting there and then literally I get this call. And I'm like, what might have been like one twenty. And I'm like, yeah, fuck that I hit you. Told you, I said, I'm going to think about doing it. And I was like, no, yeah, I had to do. I had to do this thing with Tony Robbins. And it was it was me and Tony Robbins and Van Jones and a few other great voices. And I'm just I'm like, I wasn't even there with them. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like I and I started the conversation of just having to let them know and, you know, tearing up. And I'm like, you know, because the conversation was about what's going on in the world right now. Right. So for me, it just felt like trauma on top of trauma. Like we sitting around talking about traumatic experiences. Yeah. Now I'm just hearing about this. Hearing about jazz fly. So that's more trauma. And it's just like I was out of it. Yeah. I felt like that way. I felt like that on the breakfast club this morning to us. Just like, I don't give a fuck about the shit we was talking about this one. Yeah. Don't care. I don't give when I say I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit. Yeah. Like if it just I can't perform. I'm not a performer. I don't know how to perform. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not the guy that can hear some shit and have some shit on his heart and his chest and just go out there and do my fucking job. No, you got it. We got to talk about this shit. I got to talk this shit. I got to have a fucking conversation because if not, you know, there's no need for me to be here. So if you don't want to talk about this, I can't be here. Yeah, I just can't do it. I really can't. And it's good. You know, you get to laugh and stuff and you feel good. Then that laugh, like, then you be like, yeah. You know what I'm saying? So once again, rest in peace, jazz fly, Andrew, I love you. Love you, brother. Alex, I love you. Love you, brother. Taylor, I love you. Love you, too. Huggy bear, Dwayne, I love you. Chris, I want to tell Chris I love him, but Chris left us a while ago. Let's check on Chris. Make sure Chris hasn't passed away. It's been rough, man. It's been a rough three years for LSN, man. I'm telling you, man, it's been a rough three years. Did you see that picture of Combat Jack and Jazz? Yeah, that's shit. That was three years ago. I know, like two and a half or something like that. Like, I know, man, birthday. That was at who birthday? Oh, come as birthday. What? When was that? I think that was 2017 or 16. Come on, man. God, man. Yeah, yeah, shit. We got to get off last beaters network quick, man. Yo, come on, yo. Hey, bro, hey, bro. Yo, I would tell you about that time. I was in Toronto, a Vancouver and the dude said to me, man, this guy asked me a question. It was at a book signing. He said, you ever think about Combat Jack and Tak Stone? I think you're going to be next. I looked up and said, nigga, no. What the fuck is wrong with you? No, I don't think about that type of shit. No, I don't. But I understand the question much better now. Right. I do. I totally understand the question much better now. You know, the question is the question really is just life. We don't know what life has planned for us. When you ask me a question like that, shit, we're all next at some point, right? We just hope that it's much, much later than soon. That's fast. We were just talking about this yesterday. What? Me, when we were talking about dreams and stuff like that, I was telling him that, like, with all this stuff that's going on, I'm scared. I'd be scared to go to sleep sometimes. Just like just the mentioning what you were saying, just of constantly hearing about death. And then you put a perspective saying, we've really been hearing about it, the big news, for like six months now. And I haven't realized that until right now. And it's just, I don't know. And it's a. Half of it. Yeah. It's a specific type of death, right? Because it feels close to you guys especially. You know, it's like, OK, here's this figure that died that we all look forward to. Then we see this police brutality. And you're like, oh, those are just regular folks that could happen to me in that situation. And then one of your friends actually dies. It's like it just keeps on getting closer and closer to your heart, it feels like. Absolutely, man. Yeah. Yeah, man. Wow. That's right on time. Salute the whole vein, man. God damn it. Say again? I said, salute the whole vein. What happened? The vein just sent me a text, like literally just just sent this text. I appreciate you, Hove. I really, really do. Yeah, man, y'all motherfuckers go to therapy, man. Go find you a grief counselor. Go find you a psychiatrist, like really, really, really. Invest in your mental health in a real way. I don't give a fuck what your six pack look like. I don't give a fuck what your goddamn shoulders look like. If everything ain't the way it's supposed to be up here in your brain, it can be very bad for you, man. Because I tell people all the time, well, no, I'm not telling people all the time. I've just started saying this. Your brain can be your greatest gift in your greatest curse. Because the same thing that makes you genius is the same thing that can literally make you crazy. And a lot of times, man, if you're a comedian, if you're an author, if you're a writer, life is about storytelling. Yeah. But sometimes the scariest story is the story you tell yourself. Bro, a fire can warm up a house or burn it down, man. Word up. So you got to nurture that fire up there. It is a crazy thing, this brain that we got. It's a crazy thing that we... I mean, crazy brain is we still can't figure out how it works. Like, it's so complicated, it's so complex. Like, we create these AI systems and they're not even close. They're really not even close. We have no clue what happens up there. We're at the mercy of it in a lot of ways. And I've seen it. You know, I've seen what happens when the brain takes over and makes you think that certain things are happening when they're not. So take care of your brain, bro. Take care of yourself, man. Guard your energy, man. Protect your fucking neck. For real, for real. Rest in peace, jazz, fly, jazz and water. We love you. Love you, jazz. R.I.P. 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. 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 in this podcast. Thank you for listening.