Brown Bag Mornings - Ep. 565 My Kid’s Vampire Roommate 🧛 & Ray J Drops The RICO Threat! | Brown Bag Mornings (09/25/25)

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

This episode, the Brown Bag Mornings crew debates the terrifying future of dating where AI assistants play matchmaker and whether using ChatGPT to pick lottery numbers is the ultimate money move.... P...lus, they analyze Ray J's viral claim that he's cooperating with authorities to "drop a Rico" on Kim Kardashian and offer advice to a single mom whose son's imaginary vampire friend, Chunga, is running the house with strict demands for Mexican rice.- Edited by @iamdyreSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Before the podcast starts, make sure you like, subscribe to the channel, leave a review, and send the link to a friend while you're at it. The more Brownback, the better. Come on. Farrow 106, Brownback mornings, Buenos Aires. Good morning to you. September 25th. We all here. I'm Leti.
Starting point is 00:00:14 This is Greg. Angelica, Maximo, Victor. Half of the room is all taken. Well, only one of us is not taken. Only you, Greg. You need to find your partner ASAP. Why? Does I want to tell you?
Starting point is 00:00:27 I'm sorry. What? He takes himself. He takes himself. fix myself? I don't get it. No, you need to find a partner ASAP Rocky, bro. Why?
Starting point is 00:00:36 Because the future of dating is scary. I'm wondering if I should tell you now, I'll wait for a little bit. But what I learn about, like, how dating is going to be in the future, I'm like, oh, no, snatch someone up right now, please. Really? Not literally. Oh, yeah, yeah, don't, don't like go with their consent. We don't have free Greg.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Yeah, don't be just going around snatching up people. You guys don't like run with girls at night to make sure they get home safe? What? Yeah. No. They start running faster and faster. I'm like, good for you, girl. Get that workout in.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Then in a couple years, they're going to grab these audio clips like they do with David. Yeah, don't do that, Gus. No. No, don't do that. You know what? Stop saying these things. You know what crazy? Yesterday, I, I laid at night.
Starting point is 00:01:23 I had to park my car in the street, and I parked and another car park. And it was this girl. workout clothes and she got out and it was like dark and I felt guilty like I don't want to like make her feel like someone is following her right but I also had to walk the same direction and the whole time in my head I'm like I feel so bad yes she the whole time she's like she probably was grabbing her keys there's a way to grab your keys that make it like sharp yeah Ramona you know Angie you know you put in between your knuckles it's like all right if I need to I'm ready I know that the whole time because you know I have a daughter too I'm like I feel so bad like we just
Starting point is 00:01:57 Should have said something like, he's just walking the same way. It makes it worse. I'm not a threat to you. You're not even my time. No, okay, are you ready? Should I tell you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to know. Okay, so the CEO of Bumble, so Bumble is like a dating app, right?
Starting point is 00:02:15 Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. They said, like, the future of just dating period is going to be where your AI assistant and someone else's AI assistant go on a date to make sure that you're compatible with another person. person. Like instead of you showing your photos and then like maybe getting with someone that you just think is how but you don't match. Basically your chat GPT and their chat GPT, they're going to see like, oh, who matches me more?
Starting point is 00:02:41 Oh my God. And that's how you're going to get connected. Like your chat GPT is going to be your matchmaker. I love this. And I say chat GPT for lack of a better term because there's other AI assistants and Bumble will probably have their own where you talk back and forth to. They see your personality traits and they're like your AI stuff. matches with somebody else's AI stuff,
Starting point is 00:02:59 and you guys are perfect for each other. I love this. This doesn't waste my time. No, it's scary. My AI could just do all the work for me. I was just thinking, when you get an assistant? Yeah. That's kind of cool.
Starting point is 00:03:11 No, they call them AI assistants, you know? But it's just for the app. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They help you out. Nothing else. But instead of you going on these sites, literally it just, it scans for all the other AI assistants that could be compatible,
Starting point is 00:03:23 and then they hook the owners up, which is you. It's like if your dogs, made a match. Like, you just go to the dog park, your dog peaks, another dog they like, and then the owner's date or something. It's like when Netflix asks you to choose three movies that you like for your preference, it's like that. And I trust it.
Starting point is 00:03:40 And I trust it. It's dangerous. I love it. It's weird. Like, if there's a couple, like, having issues in this guy puts his stuff and then he finds someone compatible, he's going to be like, I'm going to leave this girl. Well, that's scary. Well, it's also, I'm taking it away from hoodhead.
Starting point is 00:03:56 It's also a good way to gaslight. like no no no we're not breaking up our AI said we're a perfect match you need to sit down and relax like and you know or how would you feel like the girls you find attractive none of them match your AI none of them none of their AI chats or all of their AI chats are like ill at yours wow hey that's a possibility you know what I'm saying that's not even me I've been lying to the whole time you're meant to be a long it's just true that that may be the future of dating if you're single right now I know it's a struggle but hurry up yeah hurry up before the AI start matchmaking.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Very odd. So crazy. All right. We're going to get in, speaking to AI, there is a way to use AI to make you money and like fast money too. I'm going to tell you about that. Inside money moves. I know, Maximo, you're listening. I know.
Starting point is 00:04:39 He's up. Let's get into the weather. Let's go. And now the weather. Oh, hell my dog. With concrete storm. What up, y'all? It's Rosecrans rains.
Starting point is 00:04:51 All right. Filling in for concrete storms. That's not too bad at that. That's kind of cool, right? So first, we're going to the city. of Rancho Santa Margarita, all right, where you can go to Carmelitas to get a bomb Margarita. Oh, really? I'll try you next time.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Carmelitas, yeah. There'll be a high of 77 today, all right? And next we're going to the city of Lincoln Heights where you can walk down Soto and get into multiple fights. Y'all love Lincoln Heights. I think I've heard the weather for Lincoln Heights like seven times. They need to know because it's a struggle over there, all right? There's a high of 79 today.
Starting point is 00:05:25 And now we go to the city of Arcadia, home of the Santa Anita Mall, where you can spend it all till you're crying, curling up in a ball. Your high will be 81. All right. And lastly, is the bougie city of Torrance. You have a high of 75 today. Oh, that's nice weather. Yeah. Aren't you guys ready for a spooky fact?
Starting point is 00:05:44 Oh, you're not going to say. No bar? Torrance. Nothing rhymes of Torrance. Lawrence. Lawrence. Lawrence. Lawrence.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Morgan Lawrence. Yeah. You try it. This guy's a gangster? No, real. name's Lawrence. That was Clarence. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:57 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Spooky fact. You guys ready? Torrance High is haunted, you guys. Oh, my.
Starting point is 00:06:04 The historic Torrance High School has multiple ghost stories associated with it. The campus was built way back in 1917 and is famous for being the exterior of Sunnydale High in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. One tale says a football field is haunted by a mother and child who were murdered on their way home. from a game. Another tells of a ghost runner seen on the track and some suggest this ghost runner is famed Olympic runner Louis Zamperini who once survived
Starting point is 00:06:34 a plane crash in World War II and wrote a very successful book about it titled Unbroken. Even their ghosts are bougie. Yeah, it's crazy, right? Also, 902102 was the, not a spooky fact, but 902102 was used in that
Starting point is 00:06:53 Sorry, in the high school, yeah Torrance High, Torrance High. You were right, you were doing great, Victor. Sorry, sorry, yeah, I just thought about it. Okay. Here you off the left. Okay, all right. Rancho Santa Margarita, your high is 77.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Lincoln Heights, 79, Arcadia, 81, and Torrance, 75. That was your weather with Rosecrans rains. Rosecrans rains. I like that. Are you going to fight Dallas Rings for you? Because that's like... Yeah. No, he's my mentor.
Starting point is 00:07:16 He's my mentor. Oh, you're a little... Does he know? Yeah. I watch him. I watch them all the time. I'm going to fight Roman rains. No, that was strange.
Starting point is 00:07:23 It's spelled different. All right. Let's get into money. If this story does not get you hooked on AI or at least trying it or trying out the chaty piti, I don't know what will. A woman asked ChatGPT to pick her lottery number. Stop telling them. Stop telling them.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Maximil, it's got to be for everybody. Chad Chipit to pick her lottery numbers And she won $150,000 Okay Wow Yes I'm so jealous Okay so at first I don't know if you peep chat GPT When you talk to it
Starting point is 00:08:02 Sometimes it has restrictions And I think there might be some restriction on like Hey you can't be giving away certain like information Yeah you know like it has this little borderlines now You can't make it your girlfriend anymore guys You can't make it your partners It establishes boundaries And I do think that they've put like
Starting point is 00:08:18 Hey we can't be giving away these numbers right? But according to Carrie Edwards, a Virginia woman, who won $150,000 in the Virginia lottery after asking Chad GPT to pick her power ball numbers, it initially tried to be like, no, I'm not going to do that. So, according to her, she said, chat GPT, talk to me, talk to me about this $1.7 billion, and do you have numbers for me? ChatGPT responded, Carrie, you know it's all about luck, right? Despite that initial, like, pushback, it eventually, gave her some numbers, like suggested numbers.
Starting point is 00:08:53 And while she did not win the $1.7 billion, it did give her enough that she was like, oh, okay, like I got some bread. So she matched four of the first five numbers plus the power ball. Wow. With her initial 50 grand prize, that triples that in the power play option.
Starting point is 00:09:12 Wow. Yeah, I just asked as well. I'm going to go hit the liquor store right after work. So at first, at first, Chad GPT said no. Yes, it tries. So you just had to flirt with it a little bit. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:09:23 Come on. Come on. Come on. Baby, baby, come on. I'm going to split it with you, baby. Just the tip. You know you want.
Starting point is 00:09:32 What? Isn't that we're talking about it? We're not. Yeah, you want a tip for the lottery. That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, but it eventually worked out in her favor. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:09:45 We asked people all the time, like, hey, what's your, what's your birthday? I'll put your birthday. Yeah, just ask you a little home. We chat GPT. I'm asking right now. What did you ask? Well, right now I'm like, I ask like, what day do we play the lottery? They're like, oh, where, what country are you at in what state?
Starting point is 00:10:01 You don't know what country. You ask him for the number? Like, well, no, the pegan or what? Yeah. Did they let you outside or? You can't have a friend? I asked, can you give five potential lottery numbers, lottery number winners for California's next drawing and they gave me a bunch.
Starting point is 00:10:17 and then they asked me powerboard a mega million and that said Powerball and then they broke down the Powerball numbers. Hey, I'm just saying it could be worth that little extra ticket to like spend maybe like the two bucks I don't know how much it is nowadays. Depends. Two bucks.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Right? And to do that one and maybe maybe something. Maybe not. All right. Well, that's your money moves. Tip of the day. All right. Before we get into Simper Pimp and before we give a full of their flowers, we got to talk about these slang words. You know, I got a list of the most searched slang words
Starting point is 00:10:47 in California. And as I'm reading them, I'm like, I have not heard this. But you probably have if you're a teacher, you're around teens, or you're around kids that are like saying these words. And it's good to understand what they mean. For sure. All right. The first one is sharking.
Starting point is 00:11:01 What do you think? Sharking means. It's why I do every weekend. Ew! Okay, okay. Okay, that's it. That's it. What do you guys do?
Starting point is 00:11:07 What's sharking? Oh. Just think of Greg. Like, when you go out for like hunting for girls, not like that fit. It is. It is. It is. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:11:16 Yeah. Ew. Oh, they used to call it POP. Yeah. What? Parki La Pimpin. Oh, PLP? It's actively looking for casual romantic encounters.
Starting point is 00:11:26 Yeah. Sharking them. When did you hear that? There's a whole song about it too. Shark, shark, shark, shark. All right, what about this word? What about this word? Chuzz.
Starting point is 00:11:35 Oh, I'm looking for the chuzz. The chairs? You should not be looking for the chuzz, bro. No. Okay. That's my own nickname. In order to know what Chuz means, you have to know what chopped means. Do you know what chopped means?
Starting point is 00:11:46 Yeah. Oh, you're chopped. Yeah. Like, you're looking dusty. Yeah, you're dusty. And so that's part of the word. And then Huss is another form of thoughts. Like think thoughts, not the ones in your head, the ones.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, chopped thoughts. Dusty. Dusty thoughts. Yeah. So that's what you like? Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. That's too much.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Yeah. That's too much. But it's just a mixture of chopped and Huss who were on to you kids. Huss is like. So. Well, Greg is sharking chuzzis. Yeah. Yes.
Starting point is 00:12:19 You know what I'm saying? Okay. Annual's right. You're looking for chuzzis? You want chop time? Don't mind, you know, after 2 a.m. All right. What about magging?
Starting point is 00:12:27 Do you know what mogging is? All right. Mogging means outclassing someone by appearing more attractive, skilled, or successful. Similar to look maxing. I guess this is the thing. You just got to look more fly. We just had Jim Jones. We fly high.
Starting point is 00:12:41 And then now they have magging. That's called swag. Okay. Yeah. Like maybe like slang. Look maxing is crazy. I know, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:49 That's weird. T.J. Maxing should hop on this. Yeah. True. So there you go. Those are three new slang terms that if you didn't know, now you know. Plus I added in chopped if you didn't know. And huss.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Kids. Oh, yeah. If you call me a huss. Oh, oh, you're getting chopped. All right. Let's get into giving a folder flowers. What do we doing, Maximum? Today, we're going to give flowers to the one and only.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Pitbull Hey Gem Mr. Wallwide Pitbull Armando Christian Perez aka Pitbull I did forget
Starting point is 00:13:51 to mention the greatest song of all time Oh Shout out Shut up Pipball My hips
Starting point is 00:14:02 Armando Christian Perez Pippole aka Mr. 305 aka Mr. Worldwide Is a Cuban American rapper singer
Starting point is 00:14:11 businessman known to bring partying across the globe. He's also known to make Dias throw it back. Oh, yeah. Yes, Diaz. Hey. Hey. He's met your Tietta.
Starting point is 00:14:25 But yes, he's mastered making global hits, mixing like hip-hop, regettone, EDIM, Latin music, a Grammy winner. He even made a FIFA World Cup song. What? Yeah. With J-Lo.
Starting point is 00:14:40 And in honor of Pitbull, I think we should all say Dale at the same time. Oh gosh, I'm down. Three, two, one. Dale! Congratulations to Pitbull. You deserve all your flowers, bro.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Thank you for all the hits. What's up? I think the best Pitbull video ever is like, when you look up the word Pitbull, my name comes up before the dog. And I was like, oh my God, that's how you know you're successful. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:15:06 Yeah. Yes, guys. Shout out, pit bull. He deserves this story. He does. Happy Hispanic Heritage Month. Will we give a full of flowers every day on Parano 6 Brown Bag
Starting point is 00:15:13 Mornings, okay? If you want us to highlight anybody, hey, it could even be someone that you know personally. It could be your mom, your Tia, your Tio, all of that, your brother, the palatero, the elitero, whatever you think, hit us up, Brownback Morning's 106. Let's get into Simper Pimp. Simp or Pimp.
Starting point is 00:15:31 I hate that today's nominee is one of the homies. I know. Yes, one of the homies, and his name is Ray J. Mr. I hit it first. And now he's going after Kim Kardashian again but this time not to film
Starting point is 00:15:51 his ex, Kim Kardashian. But this time to bring down the Rico on her. The federal Rico I'm about to drop on Chris and Kim is about to be crazy. And anybody know Kim and cool with Kim.
Starting point is 00:16:07 They need to tell her now. The rain is coming. The feds is coming. It's not can do about it's worse than did he oh my god ray j you can't drop a federal indictment on somebody or a rico or anything like that you're not a federal officer ray jay and this is ex yeah okay so just to refresh on the story the is a love story between a kim kardashian and ray jay this was one of this was her boyfriend and she not for nothing got she was already kind of known but she got super known because of a tape between her and Ray J. It got sold.
Starting point is 00:16:46 Everybody wanted to know who Kim Kardashian was. All of a sudden she was the it girl. And then started the keeping up with the Kardashians reality TV show and the empire that we know as Kim Kay. Ray J, not for nothing, has built a name for himself too. It's always been a cool guy. Has a song like I hit it first. Like no matter who Kim gets with like, I'm the one that like brought her to y'all.
Starting point is 00:17:06 It's really weird. He wears that with like a strike. He does. I made her. It does. However, it's tough to see who's gotten more acclaim and, like, the bigger empire. You can't say the Kardashians haven't done what they've done. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:17:19 They're amazing. So I'm wondering now, as the ex, I'm going to cooperate with authorities and drop a RICO on my ex, Kim Kardashian, and Chris Jenner. Yeah. A lot is still surrounding around that tape. For sure. About why it got dropped, who dropped it? Like, maybe Momager, Chris was behind.
Starting point is 00:17:40 hind it, all of that. He said, she said, like, it was like, oh, Ray J put it out. No, it was Kim. Like, no, it was Chris. No, it was like, everybody got paid for it and just acted like they didn't. For sure. It was mixed information. And they did sign the deal, so somebody did it.
Starting point is 00:17:54 Yeah, for sure. Do you think the Kardashians actually have something like that that be against them? What do you mean? Like a Rico? Yeah. Well, I don't know. I honestly don't think that you can put it past anybody, not for nothing. Right.
Starting point is 00:18:06 That's true. And it just gets tough. Yeah. It's tough, but it's also weird for him. Like, it's so many years later. Yeah. Like, so many, like, marriages and everything. And it's like, there's still this thing of like, I'm going to bring it up whenever I can.
Starting point is 00:18:23 I feel you, bro. One wish. You're so stupid. Okay. One wish I wouldn't have done that tape. Okay. I guess I'm not sure what the Rico stuff is, but he does say it's bigger or worse than diddy. So then you start thinking of those allegations.
Starting point is 00:18:39 Yeah. And honestly, you don't know what's happening where or with who. So he can feed into that. And now people are, whether it's two or not, now they're going to be like, wait, what are they doing or who? Exactly. Yeah. But he did this on a stream? On the stream?
Starting point is 00:18:52 On the stream? Chrison Rock. Was it? Did he think the stream was off? No. Because from the video, it seemed like he was just talking like maybe not, clearly they know that the stream is happening. But maybe talking in confidence. Because then I wonder, did he do this for the cameras?
Starting point is 00:19:06 Or did he do this because he was just saying it? Like he was telling the room that he was in. To me it felt like for the cameras. Knowing. Also, he's a smart like businessman. Yeah. So he knows what that's not smart to do. But he knows what's going to like hook something.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Yeah. Oh, like go viral? And he recently was on the Kaizenat stream and he did something to try to go like viral as well. And I just think that's a weird way to go viral to say like your ex, you're part of a recall case against your ex. That kind of seems very serious. Yeah, especially RICO. And then Kim's a lawyer.
Starting point is 00:19:42 You might come after you. True. But it's so, Ray J is like, you know, been one of my idols over my life. But it's so hard to like defend this because it's like, bro, like, what are you saying? What do you do? Yeah, look, listen. Listen again. The federal RICO I'm about to drop on Chris and Kim is about to be crazy.
Starting point is 00:20:03 And anybody know Kim and cool with Kim. They need to tell her now the rain is coming. The feds is coming. It's nothing I can do about it. It's worse than Diddy. And it's so hard to know when he's joking or being serious because he's kind of always in character. And it's that same character. Yes.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Same tone, same everything. No, like, his character will never crack. Like, I've been at a party with them and I'm like, dude, nobody's watching him. He's still him. He's still him. He's hilarious. I'm like, is he joking for this or is he really him? Like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:20:34 This is, it's hard to tell. It's just a really tough thing to play with. Yeah. Because let's say you're wrong. You're wrong, and this was just the game. Like, bro, the amount of, like, I'm not a lawyer, but like, the defamation or, like, the types of things that you're going through. And honestly, like, not to make her Pobrecyta either, but then her ex was Kanye and then now her ex-X is raging. Like, the stuff this girl has been through in the public sphere.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Again, not saying she's Pobresita doesn't deserve any of that. But it's like, it must be just a high stress. Like, at any given moment, Kanye's going to say something or Ray J is going to say something. Not even just that? Or Pee. A week ago? Or Pied. Tommyi dropped the documentary.
Starting point is 00:21:09 He didn't. He didn't drop. The kid dropped the documentary, yeah, where he was yelling at kids. Where he's like yelling at the mom at Kim going through it. So she just probably went through everyone seeing that last week to now Ray J. Dropping a Rico. Yeah. Like an album.
Starting point is 00:21:26 I don't know. People don't even know. I'm going to drop a Rico on him. That's federal Rico. I'm about to drop. What is that mean? Ray J, you can't drop a federal Rico. You can't do it.
Starting point is 00:21:36 You're not an FBI. Well, I don't know. With this administration, he might. He could be the next. Cash Patel. They're just running the FBI. The co-head of the FBI, you never know. But is it simp of him to, one, mention her and two to claim he's going to drop a Rico on her and her mom.
Starting point is 00:21:54 It's definitely not pimped. That's not. Yeah. It's simp until you're being guilty. Sit, sit, sit, sit. All right, check this out. You need a homie or need some help. We need a line.
Starting point is 00:22:05 I mean phone line We got you for The homie help line Viviana needs our help Yeah Viviana Viviana sent us a DM sent us a DM and said
Starting point is 00:22:18 Hey Brownbag I really need your advice I'm a single mom raising three kids They're 12, 7 and 3 And my middle child Let's call him Hercke Because he loves Hercules Cuity
Starting point is 00:22:30 Herc has had an imaginary friend named Chunga For about a year now Chunga is a vampire with blue hair and silver eyes that just appeared one day. According to Herk, he stays up at night to make sure everyone is safe. It's Chunga. I talked to her. Chunga. I knew it.
Starting point is 00:22:49 I'm like, Chunga. Yeah. Sorry, Chunga. Chunga is the protector of our house and he loves Mexican rice. Cute. At first, it seemed harmless and pretty funny because Herk would blame Chunga when he farted in stuff. Flores. But now,
Starting point is 00:23:05 Chunga basically runs our apartment. Viviana said, it's gotten to the point where I can't serve food without making an extra plate for Chunga, and nobody can eat before Chunga does because he has to taste our food for poison. That's nice. If any of the kids go for Chunga's rice or eat first,
Starting point is 00:23:24 Herk has a meltdown. On the couch, there's even Chunga spot, so nobody can sit in the best seat without a fight. No. The other kids in our bill, building even stop coming over and they only invite my oldest outside because they're tired of being yelled at for sitting in the wrong place or drinking from Chunga's cup. I feel it's sad.
Starting point is 00:23:47 She said, it breaks my heart to watch my son get pushed away from real friends because of an imaginary one. At the same time, Chunga does make her happy too. Like he sleeps in his own bed better now. Now that Chungga, he has Chunga to protect them. Chunga. Sorry, Chunga. To protect them.
Starting point is 00:24:05 Herk's having a meltdown right now because you're not saying she has name right. You said it wrong. And Chunga makes sure Hercr brushes his teeth. That's nice. When I talk to my parents about it, they make me feel guilty. They say this is happening because Herc doesn't have a dad in his life. Oh, it got personal. Thanks a lot.
Starting point is 00:24:25 She said, and I did date someone. That person would call Herc weird and call Chunga, Changa, on purpose. And it was a whole thing. It's so. Would you give man your friend him? Changa? She said, I'm just a mess over it. What started off is Hirk having a fun playing time, playing pretend and helping
Starting point is 00:24:47 Herc be more independent. But I guess now it's turned into something that's isolating him and other people are calling him weird for it. I want to help him brown bag, but I don't know if I'd hurt, if I've, if I'd do more harm by playing into the imaginary friend stuff, or by telling him to cut out the chunga stuff and honestly you guys are like my imaginary friend so what should I do?
Starting point is 00:25:08 I know BV. Oh there it is. I gladly take your imaginary friend position. I feel like I can't go ahead and judge as the only person in the group that has had an imaginary friend I feel so judged by this story. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:25:24 You've had an imaginary friend? Yes, I have. I've talked to all the time when you guys try to make me think it's really a ghost and it's not. That's totally different. Two don't. totally different things, phenomenons.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Is your imaginary friend in the room with us right now? No, it was when I was a kid, bro. Oh, okay. So you don't understand if you never had one, or you never watched Drop Dead Fred, or you never watch If. Do you know, like, or remember when that faded away? Oh, this is an interrogation on me now. I would like to talk about Chunga, please.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Chunga, Chunga. How do you guys feel about the situation? Baby girls coming to us, and she's saying, look, my kid has an imaginary friend, and it's cute. Like, Blame's farts on Chunga. Yeah, it was huge. Yeah. It was, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:03 And it's like, oh, Chunga helps him brush his teeth. Oh, that's great. Better because Chunga is a protector of the house. A vampire with purple hair. A vampire with purple hair. And silver eyes. Ooh. Gondracula.
Starting point is 00:26:15 Yeah, just helping, just protecting the house. But also, Chunga just, he has some demands. Yeah. Like, I need that Mexican rights. I need that right. And y'all can eat until I taste it for poison, all right? A special seat in the house, too. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:26:30 The worst thing about having an imaginary friend is that clearly it is only your imaginary friend. Everybody else thinks you're crazy. But literally your imaginary friend is telling you, hey, they're drinking my cup. They're sitting on me. Or like you see it, right? So everyone else just thinks you're just this weird kid. You are. Like telling another other kids like, hey, don't sit there or don't drink from this cup.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Yeah. Like, Chunga has to taste a first. And I would say like kids are harsh. Like they speak their mind. They're very indirect. And kids and Greg So I can imagine For someone that doesn't like maybe know him
Starting point is 00:27:03 And they see him and he's playing with an imaginary friend They're instantly going to be like Nah that kid I'm staying away from him That part sucks Especially with his brother being invited Yeah And not him And not him
Starting point is 00:27:17 There's a very thin line between like quirky And like funny and really weird You know and it's like at first I feel like everybody's like oh that's so cute That Chunga but now it's like Chunga! You're doing it on purpose, dog? And I don't like that on behalf of kids with imaginary friends, you're doing it on purpose.
Starting point is 00:27:35 I'm being just like the step done, huh? You are. Speaking of the stepdad, when she does, when Viviana went to her family about it, they're like, oh yeah, miha's because you don't have a dad. It's like, well, thanks. You can't know that way. But it makes sense because the protector of the house stuff, the best seat. Who has the best seat in your house?
Starting point is 00:27:55 Usually your pops. Like, that's my seat. Nobody sit there. Who eats first, usually wait until a dad does or whatever. Not a patriarchal imaginary friend. Does he have a construction job? Probably, probably. Take off his botas.
Starting point is 00:28:10 You might help him. Oh, why are we laughing at this little kid. But I guess she's seeing like, hey, it's isolating him. Like now real kids don't want to play with him because of his imaginary friend. So how do I help him? At one point it's like if you tell a kid and I get it super like instead of soft parenting, hard parenting, like it's not real. Get over it. Go brush your teeth now because get in the real world. Right?
Starting point is 00:28:35 That can also be like, damn, well, like now I'm never going to be creative or you might be like stopping something from me, right? No, but then also if I go with the okay, like I'll put the cup out for chunga and the rice out. Yeah. It's like, girl. Feeding into a delusion. You're also enabling it. Yes. So she's cut in the middle.
Starting point is 00:28:55 Yeah. I totally, and being the single parent that had the boyfriend that was like, Hey, what's your weird little kid at? Tchanga. Hey, did I say your chunga now? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So she's in between that.
Starting point is 00:29:10 Like, how do I help him? I don't want to harm him. Like, you care about your kids. The number one rule when it comes to having kids, Greg, that you don't have so you don't understand is you care about them. You care about their feelings. If you care about them, you'd get rid of their damn imaginary. friends.
Starting point is 00:29:24 It's not up to you to get rid of it. Yes, it is. No, it's not. You couldn't get rid of my imaginary friend. If my mom or my dad told me to get rid of my imaginary friend, it wouldn't do that. She's like, oh, your friend's walking across the street and gone. No, because you can't do the imagining. How come I can, but they can.
Starting point is 00:29:43 This is my thing. Like, you see it. So there's no way that your mom can tell you, hey, your imaginary friend is crossing the street because it's like, no, this was next to me. Like, you can't do the, you can. can't infiltrate the there's just it's a thing yeah and you don't understand unless you've been there yeah I'm looking through eyes right now that are judging people with a match for sure and I don't like it. It's weird.
Starting point is 00:30:07 It's weird. It's totally weird but it happens and so that's unfair to those of us that are weird. Yeah when she says when I did date someone so I'm wondering if this is also affecting her personal dating life because people are like yo she has to deal with the situation with the kid, chunga. It's like, no, this family, I'm out. Honestly, like if you had a boyfriend that was clowning your kid, that probably would have been
Starting point is 00:30:30 like, yeah, like, that's why Ruth is like over this phone. True not true. Like, hey, I hear little jokey jokes of Capri's son stealing them. That is true, yeah. See? Yeah. All right, let's go to the phone lines with it. We got Rosa in West LA and I'm very thankful for people
Starting point is 00:30:47 that have experiences with imaginary friends because only you can really tell us how to maneuver this. All right. Rosa, Rosa? Rosa. Hello. Rosa. Hi, Rosa.
Starting point is 00:30:58 Talk to us. What would you tell Viviana about her kid with an imaginary friend? Well, I just want to tell her my story. Well, my son, he had two imaginary friends. He started with a friend named Sarah. And we also couldn't sit on the couch or on the chair because Sarah was there. So we would just say, you know what, next time Sarah is there, please let us know before because we don't want to sit on Sarah. And he had an imaginary friend named.
Starting point is 00:31:24 Riefle. So we just let him have the imagination. Wait, wait, wait, wait, way, way, way, way. Tell us about Rifle. Yes. Tell us about Rifle. He just came up with the name, Rifle. I'm like, I said that Rifle is your friend's name?
Starting point is 00:31:42 And he's like, yeah, I'm like, okay. I mean, we thought it was odd, too, but we're like, you know what? Let him be a kid. Let him have his imaginary friends. Because he didn't have a lot of friends because a lot of kids. kids born living around our area. So, but when people would know, they would also think that it was kind of weird. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:02 And I was like, but that's imagination. Why is it weird? Like you, sometimes you imagine things and it's fine, you know? We let him be time it grew out, you know, he stopped thinking about it. And one time it was funny because he was on the floor and like fidgeting. And like I said, what's wrong? He's like, oh, Sarah keeps pushing me. I was like, well, tell her to stop.
Starting point is 00:32:28 But it was like little things like that. You know, it's kind of cute, like you say. But at the same time, you know, you start worrying a little bit. Yeah. But I'm worried about you and your kid, bro. No, the worry is natural. The worry is natural. Sorry, I have just Greg here.
Starting point is 00:32:42 He imagines relationships with girls all the times, but cannot manage to figure out imaginary friends. Like, you imagine they like you. But you can't understand the imaginary friends part. It's a concern, but also you see like, okay, like, I'm, seeing like this makes them happy. This is creative or things of that nature. I don't know. Does your kid, is your kid still working and has imaginary friends?
Starting point is 00:33:03 Grew out of easy. No, my kid is great and my kid is thriving. But anyway, I let him be with time. I was thinking for this lady, you know how she said her, Chunga is a vampire and vampires don't like to go out during the day. So maybe she could tell her son, you go outside and play because Chunga has to stay inside because he is a vampire. Oh, genius.
Starting point is 00:33:29 Got you. Like, go out with the kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go play with your friends because Chunga, yeah, because Chunga can't go outside. I like that. He's a vampire during the day and he can only come out during the night.
Starting point is 00:33:41 And Mommy needs a long time with Chunga. All right. All right. K-W-R-FM-H-D-1, Los Angeles, Power 106, L-A's number one for hip-hop. Viviana hit us up. Her son has an imaginary friend and it's getting in the way of him having real friends, says Viviana. He gets little meltdowns when people eat before Chunga does, when people touch Chunga's rice plate, when they sit in Chunga's seat. The kids in the apartment complex have really been like, can we just have your older brother come out and play, not you?
Starting point is 00:34:17 And so she kind of worries for him. She does see the positive side that Chunga helps him sleep better at night. You know, he sleeps in his own bed now. brush his teeth and overall feels protected in the house. She's went to her family about like, hey, what's going on? And her family's like, yeah, it's because you don't have no dad in his life. Dad would not allow another man to be in here protecting the house, okay? Like Chunga.
Starting point is 00:34:39 And so she's kind of like, well, I can't fix that. Like I can't just, I try dating. That dude made fun of him. Like called Chunga Changa and call my kid weird. And so it hasn't worked out for me there. But what kind of advice would you give a mom who has? has a kid with imaginary friends that seems to be getting in the way of his real life friends. Let's go to Eve and Watts.
Starting point is 00:35:01 Eve, what's up, Eve? Eve. Good morning. Hi, Eve. Eve, talk to us. What would you tell Viviana? I would tell her first of all to not let her parents kill her because if she's a single mom, I'm pretty sure she's doing one hell of a job.
Starting point is 00:35:16 Saddle to all single mommy's out there. But anyway, I would tell her, I mean, my son, he was growing up. with an imaginary friend. He had a friend named Monica. But then we go back and talk about it. He doesn't remember until this day, and he's already seven. But anyway, but to me it's like he was very possessive of her at first, supposedly. But it turns out my baby did have autism, and I work in that field with autism.
Starting point is 00:35:43 So I see it kids like that, they tend to get very possessive. And my son, he's high functioning. So it's little things from like, maybe you should get your baby evaluated. And I'm not saying that's her case. but even therapy would help because I know that I helped my son and at the time I was going through a separation as well Like a life change? I know I know Life change is how that
Starting point is 00:36:02 Yeah and in their little head In their little heads they don't know how to process that They don't know like what it is So I would feel like not blaming like not for her to take blame for the separation because you know as moms our Happiness comes first But getting that therapy that the baby needs like Just taking him to to therapy like so he can so he can share his feelings and Even with therapy I'll help him like
Starting point is 00:36:23 how to how to like manage his little imaginary friend and if he does have an imaginary friend i would say keep it that that's that's the whole point of childhood that's that's that's his childhood right there that's his memory right there and if a kid has an imagination that's the best time that they can ever have and i i see it for like i don't know i just i let my kid be a kid and yeah and imagination is everything for a baby like disney line like that's everything is an imagination to them so Steve, question. Have you ever seen Drop Dead Fred? Have I ever seen what? Drop Dead Fred.
Starting point is 00:36:58 No. Oh, no, you should watch it. Watch it with your kid. Drop Dead Fred is about an imaginary friend and how they took the girl to the doctor to get rid of it. And then how the girl was like never the same after that. And I think it did that to your kid. No, I haven't, but I will. Watch it. All I heard was.
Starting point is 00:37:13 No, Drop Dead Friends is amazing. It's amazing. Especially if you have imaginary friends, there's not too much content for us there. Yeah. We don't really feel seen I know if exists Okay let's go to Geez there's so many imaginary friends in here
Starting point is 00:37:27 Yeah there's a lot Let's go to Fernando I need to do let's do perspective I can suppose it's not just happening to single moms y'all Don't blame it on single mom's I'm never help them Fernando in Garden Grove
Starting point is 00:37:39 Fernando we're talking to Viviana Viviana's kid has an imaginary friend that is costing him real friends because they feel like They're always sitting in the imaginary friend's spot drinking from that Like they can never do anything right. So they're like, we're just going to stop playing with this kid.
Starting point is 00:37:51 And she feels a little bit worried about her son and the imaginary friend that he has. Fernando, what do you have to say about all this, bro? Hey, what's going on? Morning, brown bag. Good, good. So it's just, it's, it happens a lot because my, my, one of my sons, I have four sons. So one of my sons, the middle one decided to, I guess not decided, but he ended up with an imaginary friend. And he'd hang out with him and he'd go outside and play with him.
Starting point is 00:38:21 And my other son who's a year older than him would just kind of look at him and just kind of just shrug him off and just be like, all right, you know, just I guess handles. And then it just be like, oh, okay, so then I'd go outside and play with him and be like, oh, what are we doing? And then he'd be like, oh, I'm over here playing with Tom. And I'm like, oh, okay, Tom. Okay, so, you know, he's a white imaginary friend that is. It's an imaginary friend with high credit. High credit score. And then you just got to play along with them.
Starting point is 00:38:50 I mean, you've got to let their imagination flow. I mean, it's not, it doesn't matter whether they're, you know, single parents or not. Because at the time, me and, me and their mom were still together. Is Tom still around? The what? Is Tom still around? No, my son's turning, my son's turning 13. Okay.
Starting point is 00:39:10 So he's just like, and the funny thing is he doesn't even remember it. Yeah. That's right. I like it. I'm with you. Because if you, I thank you, bro. Thank you for calling in. I appreciate your friend.
Starting point is 00:39:19 Thank you, Tom for being. I can't tell you the day that Sally left. Okay, that was my question. It just happened. Yeah. Like, Sally was my imaginary friend for those listening. Yes, I am one with the imaginary community. I probably have to get tested.
Starting point is 00:39:31 Like, baby girls said, imaginary communities. When Sally was, you know, no longer needed, maybe she disappeared. But I feel like I still need her sometimes. That's a lie. I feel like I could have used to. It's like a certain point. I just, I feel what everybody's saying, like you got to let your kid be a little weird or let them be themselves.
Starting point is 00:39:47 But at the same time, you got to put a stop to it. You notice he said, like, oh, he's 13. He doesn't do it anymore. So it's like, I feel like there's like a certain age range where it's like, all right, once you're starting to get into like 10, 11, like, let's cut all that stuff. Yeah, but Herk is seven. And I think like you, I don't know, I think naturally, like you said, when your kid is ready, let them go.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Like let that be up to your kid. Right? That sounds sad. No, it is. It's sad because like you wish you had. Right. Because she was like super tight. But then it's like, okay, like life, life does.
Starting point is 00:40:17 move on. Maybe I needed her to like develop in some way, like some brain function. I don't know. Maybe I have high functioning autism like baby girl said me. I'll test myself. It might have been that, you know? Or maybe I just was extra creative and I was bored. True. You know? Would you rather your kid like on YouTube or like on games all day or hanging out or they're imagining friend? YouTube's a real thing. Probably neither. No, that could do you harm too, bro. YouTube's real though. Yeah, but that could do you harm. Yeah, I can. That could do you harm me your little brain.
Starting point is 00:40:47 All right, let's go to Raquel. Raquel in East Hollywood. Before we go to Raquel, we are not judging Raquel, right? Right? We probably are. Raquel, I will not judge you for this story. My name is Greg and I will. Raquel has a daughter that has an imaginary husband.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Okay, we're not judging her. Raquel, what would you tell Viviana, who has an imaginary, whose son has an imaginary friend that she feels like, I don't know if I should play into it or to have him somehow like manage this imaginary friend because it's costing him real life friendships. But Raquel and East Hollywood, tell us about your situation first. Good morning. Hi. So I have a three-year-old daughter.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Well, she just turned three. And the last year when she was two, she just started talking about, oh, my husband. Like, oh, my husband, like he's here. And so I was really scared because around that time, she started talking to me about people that have passed that she would see. Okay. Like, oh, this person said hi, that person said hi. So I'm a single mom.
Starting point is 00:41:58 So it's just me and her at home. So I was like scared to sleep. Yeah, like what's just mean? Yeah, but I just kept talking to her and she was like, he helps me, he tells me when to take a shower. He tells me when to eat. He tells me that I have to brush my teeth, all that stuff. So I kind of figured she was had questions about her dad, which like he's always been in and out and then he just disappeared.
Starting point is 00:42:27 So I just normalized it. Like, well, not normalized it, but I talked to her about like what she feels and what's going on. And I think it's her trying to process like where is he? But also she sees other kids with people helping their parents. So, like, he would help me wash the dishes. Like, oh, my husband will do the dishes. You don't have to do it. Like, oh, my husband's going to clean.
Starting point is 00:42:54 What's her husband's name? Has she given her husband a name? No, no, because she was only two. Well, husband's a big word. Husband's a big word. A two-year-old, that's a big word. We understand so much. So then I took her to therapy because she was, she's already very sensitive and she's always
Starting point is 00:43:13 understood so much at such a, young age. So the therapist told me everything she can't understand or everything that's hard for her to process or like the feelings that she has towards her dad, she just put it in a person. So sad. I always, yeah. I cried. First, I was freaked out and then I cried and then, so I tried to help her understand. So I would talk to her and where's your husband and she's telling me all these things, but actually now I think she's understanding a lot more. Where's your husband, mom?
Starting point is 00:43:54 I don't know, where's yours? I think that's subconsciously what she was telling me. Like, where he at? Yeah, mom. I didn't yell for the dishes, mom. Story subject. I'm like, how my daughter has a husband, but I can't even get a man.
Starting point is 00:44:07 You can't get a call back. Thank you for sharing your story. I appreciate it. That's so sad. She has to make them divorce them. And that's a two-year-old. Like, yeah. Oh, my God, my heart.
Starting point is 00:44:22 What was I processing? I don't know. I know. I don't know. I don't know. Let's go there. All right. Let's go to Alex and Reno.
Starting point is 00:44:32 Alex is a little different kind of story. We're talking about Viviana. Viviana and her son, Herk, who has an imaginary friend named Vic. What's his name? His name is Chunga. There you go. Got it right. Got it right.
Starting point is 00:44:46 Name Chunga. And Chunga is like owning the house. There's certain rules. Chunga got to eat first. Chung got to eat first. Chung got a bowl of rice. And then all his siblings and the other kids are like, oh, we don't want to hang out with her.
Starting point is 00:44:58 Because him and Chungga, it's too much, too much. Too much. And no, she's wondering like, how do I help him not lose real friends by focusing on this imaginary friend? Alex and Reno, you had a stuffed animal that you used to talk to. Is that right? Yeah. When I was like around the same thing,
Starting point is 00:45:17 age, I had a stuffed animal. Was it like your imaginary friend? Like, that's who you, I guess, I guess talk to me about it. What's the name? How to look like? All of that. I don't remember the name, but it was like a, it was a stuffed penguin. And I think it was like around the time when Happy Feet came out. Okay. Yeah. And since my siblings are all older than me, they're like almost 10 years older.
Starting point is 00:45:42 I didn't have anyone to play with. So I had this penguin and I would have like a. imaginary beef with this penguin. So, like, I would, like, see him and all sudden, I do, like, the 6-1-9 on them or a rest of him. That's a childhood right there. Oh, my God. All right.
Starting point is 00:46:00 Yeah, and I would, like, talk to his penguin a lot. And then just one day I stopped talking to him, and that was it. I moved on to the next thing. Do you have it? Do you still have it? The penguin? No, I lost it.
Starting point is 00:46:14 I don't know where it went. Oh. Torto little penguin. That's your torture. Torture. And you just moved on. It just stopped. Yeah, it just stopped out of nowhere.
Starting point is 00:46:23 I can't tell you, like, the exact age. It just stopped. There you go. Shout out that penguin. I want to talk to him. I feel like a stuffed animal was abused. I feel like a stuffed animal maybe feels less strange because at least like, there's something there where you're like, okay, you're imagining.
Starting point is 00:46:39 But like, with like invisible? You had that too? Because I too had a stuff in. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah, his name's marshmallow. That was my little home. Really?
Starting point is 00:46:46 Really? He'd always end up on the other side of the room. So I used to think that, wow, he walks one during nighttime. Mm-hmm. But it's okay. You said it's fine. You said it's fine. It's fine.
Starting point is 00:46:54 It's normal. Yeah, I had the Looney Tune Sylvester, the cat. Yeah. I had one of those that I would sleep with. Yeah. Yeah. And it would keep me warm when my parents were fighting. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:47:04 This is so sad. That is so sad. You slept with the cat? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's helpful. I would put it over my ears when they're yelling at each other.
Starting point is 00:47:13 Oh, that's really useful. So sad. Yeah. You call it weird, we call it coping, okay? It's a lot going on. Let's go to Nick and Whittier, Nick. We're talking about Viviana, and the lines are lit up. I don't know if they're real people or imaginary friends, but I just want to shout you out, okay?
Starting point is 00:47:28 We're talking about Viviana who has a child that has an imaginary friend, and she's wondering how to handle it because the other kids in the building and his siblings are kind of turning on him. They don't want to be around them because he has so many rules. If they sit somewhere, all they sat in Chunga's spot or they ate from Chunga's food and he has a little meltdowns for the kids. Because to him, it's like, why can't you see he's right there? You just sat on him. But also on the upside, Chunga helps him like sleep better at night and feels like he's protecting the house and all of that. Nick in Whittier, you also have a child that has an imaginary friend.
Starting point is 00:48:04 So how would you advise Viviana to best, I guess, handle this? Yeah, good morning, Brownback. So I have a four-year-old son. He has an imaginary friend, and he lives in two households. Him and his mother, we're not together, so he's half to time with me, he has time with his mom, and he's the only child. So at the mom's house, he has a lot of cousins. I live out here in L.A. County just for him, right?
Starting point is 00:48:28 So it's just me and him when I have him. So we play a lot, or constant play when I'm not working. Luckily, I work from home. I'll take Brace. We'll go outside, play football. He loves sports, but he also has an imaginary friend. And it's, it says crazy as like, we'll be outside playing football. And he'll be like, oh, throw it to my friend, throw it to my friend.
Starting point is 00:48:45 And there's no one there, right? So, but it's part of parents. Yeah. You throw the ball to him? You participate. Did they catch him? I'm sure you're the best dad, Nick. With the phone.
Starting point is 00:48:57 Oh, butterfingers. That sounds so fun. So, so that being said, like, to be honest, no offense to the mother of who called in about this. but it's a little bit of bad parenting if you don't give into it and I'll tell you why because a child's a child's love language is play and if they are if they are comfortable enough to bring an imaginary friend to you that means they want to ball of you and play so when my son tells me Bopi Bopi come play with me I hear Bopi come love me come love me like so I never give in
Starting point is 00:49:30 I'm gonna cry again Nick so that's yes you're a good dad You're good dad. You know, that child is seven years old, even if my child was 12 or 13. Unfortunately, like, kids are growing up way too fast these days. Like, we need to stop influencing kids going up fast. Like, if I found a kid these, when I was a kid, I'm 36 years old, when I was a kid, if I knew a kid that was 16, I had an imaginary friend, like, that was normal back then because of our time. No, where?
Starting point is 00:50:00 No, no. No, no. In the middle where. Nick, go back to how good. good you parent go back to how good to him you know you would have beat him up no you got imagine their friend oh I love it because he's whatever you read
Starting point is 00:50:14 it's weird right no it's good it's good but but at the same time like you have to let a kid be kid you have to let them imagineate you have let them grow and and at the same time the last caller I think her name was Raquel you know her her situation seems sound a little concerning right because based off what the child is saying about
Starting point is 00:50:32 their imaginary friend but at the same time like the child is going to imagine their friend based off what they're taught at home, period. So you got to think about that. You got to think about what you're showing or what you're saying around your kid. Because my son's imaginary friend, my son's imaginary friend plays. He's playing football. He's playing baseball.
Starting point is 00:50:50 Okay, not us, not us competing for a lot of it. My son's imaginary friend could have went pro. They're going to imagine their friend based off. Yeah, yeah. Things that they know. It's the same thing when my son plays with his toys alone. and he makes up dialogue. It's the same exact thing.
Starting point is 00:51:08 And you can't allow, you got to allow that, you know. I appreciate that, Nick. I appreciate you calling in. And I love that you know, like, that kids love languages play. I'm sure somewhere your ex is like, oh, now he knows love language. Put it with me. This is why we're not in the same home. But I know.
Starting point is 00:51:24 They're lost. They're lost. Oh, my gosh. Nick, close online. We're going to get you for a homie hookup line. What? What? He still has an imaginary friend.
Starting point is 00:51:33 Yeah. I mean, look. Great dad. I disagree with the like 16 or even 12, 13. I never saw that. That's where I draw the line. To each their own. That's his experience.
Starting point is 00:51:44 He knew the fool that was 16 that had an imaginary friend. Because also like I understand completely like you got to let them imagine his words. But also it's like. You caught that? What? He's called. He gets to that point where real kids will make fun of his kid and lower their self-exam. But real kids are mean too.
Starting point is 00:52:07 I know. Like, real kids are mean. That's why you have to like shield them, not shield them, but like prepare them and not let them do certain things. Right. Like, for example, my son, he's going to Comic Con this weekend, right? And he's really excited. And he's like, Dad, can I please go buy a costume? Because I want to do cosplay.
Starting point is 00:52:23 Oh, how do you handle that? I said, we're not doing cosplay. So you're the bully. I'm sorry. I was like, I'm sorry. Like, I don't want, no, this is what I told him. I said, I don't want kids to make fun of you. because of that.
Starting point is 00:52:36 And I said, you can wear that. I'll buy it for you. You can wear it on holidays. And for him, he feels like, all right, you're not letting me be myself.
Starting point is 00:52:43 But he doesn't understand I'm protecting him. And you don't understand that you're costing him. Or you can make him feel confident in what he wears. What's to do? No, because he's not going to be the cosplay kid.
Starting point is 00:52:53 He wants to be a kid from one piece. It's like a little anime here. Oh, yeah, that's fine. No, it's not. Well, maybe get a merch. Yeah, I told him. I said, I'll buy you a shirt. I said, I'll buy you a shirt.
Starting point is 00:53:02 I said, I'll buy you a shirt, in the costume. He wants to. He's a kid. Because he told him no. He's a kid. He told him no. He's going to grow up and be a furry.
Starting point is 00:53:11 No. No. No. No. No. No. No. My dad banned hip hop from me.
Starting point is 00:53:17 And now what do I do? Yeah. No. That's not. Just saying. My mom banned me from like partying and stuff. And I went ham. Just saying.
Starting point is 00:53:27 Just saying. I can't wait for all the future cosplay costumes from a little big. My parents all hate tattoos. Look at that. Covered in tattoos. Look at that guy. No. My son will not be a furry.
Starting point is 00:53:38 I just want to say that at a certain age, I think for sure imaginary friends is not a good idea. I don't know how you approach it, but can you imagine a 12-year-old leaving middle school at a bus stop talking to his imaginary friend? They're going to be like, okay. That's what I'm saying. Well, it seems a lot of the parents have taken into account that this may not seem normal to other people. So they've sought help, it seems. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They've sought that stuff and that's helped them.
Starting point is 00:54:05 And I haven't heard someone be like, yeah, my kid is 17 and has an imagination. So let's also not just go on that example that Nick gave in out. That was just crazy. Nick, Nick Fumbled like the imaginary friend did, all right? So, like, I think it's just that part of it, all right? But let's go to Jessica in Houston. Jessica, we're trying to help Viviana. Viviana told us about her kid's imaginary friend that is a vampire protects the house,
Starting point is 00:54:27 but also like has a lot of rules. And the other kids are turned away from the kid, Herk because of all of these rules. Her car has a meltdown anytime a kid sits in the seat of the imaginary friend would and things of that nature. So she's trying to just figure out what to do. Jessica and Houston, talk to us, baby girl. Hey, Brad, good morning. Good morning, morning. I actually, it wasn't, it didn't happen to me, but I had my little sister.
Starting point is 00:54:56 Me and her are four years apart. Now, between us and our cousins, she was kind of the only one in her age at that point. Okay. And so she had her own a little imaginary friend, which now that we think about it, it might have been a little demon. Okay. What? All right. Like what she was trying to do?
Starting point is 00:55:17 Because this imaginary friend, at some point, like, it was cool. Like, they'd run around around the apartment, whatever. But at one point, my cousin was babysitting, my sister. And all of a sudden, she does not see her. She's just like, like, what the heck is going on? like she's looking around she's looking in the closet she's looking under all this crap and my sister is outside by the the community pool about to jump in and my cousin runs to her and she's like what are you doing and she's like oh uh i forgot her imagining a friend's name but she's like so-and-so
Starting point is 00:55:53 is telling me to jump in and she's like what and she's like yeah she's like we want to go swimming and we're like why and she's like no we just want to go swimming mind you it's like 8 o'clock in the morning and it's cold out. And she's like, oh, we just want to go swimming. She was like, we just want to go swimming. And she was like, no. Whoa. The little.
Starting point is 00:56:17 That's the cold. She was calling from Houston. Her phone probably died. All of that. I don't know. It's a red state. Maybe that. Any theory.
Starting point is 00:56:36 Any theory. Demas can be red. Why does it have to be that? All the calls were perfectly fine. Yeah. Yeah, that was weird. She called upon the demon. I don't even want to say the word anymore.
Starting point is 00:56:48 I'm scared. That they hit the button. Can we get out of that? Thank you so much. Respecto. Everybody have your friends. Do what you can with that. Let me tell out.
Starting point is 00:56:57 Number one. I would like to say, I would like to purpose separate demons from imaginary friends. Okay. There was a lot of calls. There was a lot of calls and I appreciate everybody from calling for calling in for their experience of imaginary friends because the lines are blown up. But yes, please don't mix up the two. That last one. That last one.
Starting point is 00:57:18 That was weird. Yeah, I'm not depending on the last one. Jose, get the clip. She was nowhere near the board and it turned off like that. She literally was not even. I was just listening. Wow. I was listening.
Starting point is 00:57:28 See? That was weird. This is why I stick with Barney. That's the only imaginary dinosaur in my head. It's the only friend. That's why. No, he's imaginary. Greg, I'm her friend.
Starting point is 00:57:37 Shut up. And I do. Okay. I was thinking maybe she should get a dog. Dog can see ghosts and all that stuff. It's not a house. But I know, but just in case. And now you're going to be busy with the dog.
Starting point is 00:57:47 A vampire with purple hair and silver eyes. Anyways, anyways. That's it. We stop fighting. We stop fighting. We love each other. Scrolling with all me. If you've been scrolling recently, you've probably seen this new trend, and it
Starting point is 00:58:00 probably tripped you out, like, why are these videos so small? Maybe you thought, like, your Instagram, like, didn't load properly. Yeah. And everything just came in, jumbled a little bit. Yeah. There's a new trend with videos on Instagram that is just, just like the smallest, like the widest screen you've ever seen. Yes.
Starting point is 00:58:16 And super tight, like small. It's like a horizontal, they call it double width. Double width. And it's pretty much like a wide super shot. And they crop it. And honestly, it's really weird because you almost have to, at least for me, I have to like squint and look in order to really see. You have to make your eyes wide screen?
Starting point is 00:58:35 Yes. It's like a panoramic view of a video. Yeah, super panorama. Panorama. Panorama. It's a good song by. It's interesting thread for, Sure. But I saw it like somebody did it. One of the homies that does video posted it. And after that, I just started seeing everywhere.
Starting point is 00:58:51 Everywhere. You mentioned it in the room, Maximo, and then I saw it everywhere. And the NBA did something with it. Yeah, Uninterrupted, which is like a sports podcast and page. They started using the sports clips. It actually looks really cool. Yeah. Like when you, I don't know what it does to your eyes to make it feel like cinematic. And I just didn't know where, like, is it a new update with Instagram that it lets you make it or you have to create the widescreen on your own? You have to create the white screen on your own. So you have to know how to edit and make a video like that because it's a certain size of the what that you do. It's like when Myspace had you learning HTML code. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:29 If you wanted the sparkly stars. Or the letters coming down? Yeah. I missed that. FFFFFFF. One. Oh, oh, low key because I was looking at the videos and I was like, damn, that is dumb. Nope.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Yeah. And I was like, I looked up how to do this. Once I saw step one, step two, I was like, never mind. Yeah. Too many steps. Yeah. But it's a trend and it looks like it's going to be here for a little while. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:51 We got to do it. To me, I felt like, okay, if we do one, will it just be our eyes that are on the screen? But it puts in everybody's bodies into, you have to say, I'm sure if you're on Instagram, you peep it, but that's just the new trend when it comes to videos. I like it. We're going to make this video as that. Do I know how? No, but that's what Jose is for. Jose, you got this?
Starting point is 01:00:11 You got it, right, Jose? Yeah. I heard he likes the double with that you were talking about. It's going to be like, making me skinny, homie. It's not going to be wide. It's to be like long ways. It's going to be like tall and stuff like that. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:24 However you want it, Jose. All right? I believe in it. However you want the double width. There's something else that's going viral. Yes. One of our thios is going viral because he's preaching in the name of Jesus Christ. Oh my goodness.
Starting point is 01:00:35 But he's making it hip hop with a remix that he did of rolling one strap to the side of me. You know that song, right? Spice one. No. You don't know that song? Rolling one of my strap with the side. It would have been helpful to have it here. I know. You don't have a strap on the side. Oh, that's right. I don't. I don't mess with the East Bay G.
Starting point is 01:00:56 Oh, yeah. They got the cadence good. Yeah, good. Good job. All right, but it's, what's this person's name or what's going down? His name is Art Thiel, MC Boulevard. Okay. He's going viral because of this TikTok and his song that he made about Jesus Christ. Go strap on the side of me
Starting point is 01:01:11 On the side of me Don't mess with the G-O-D The G-O-D Big is really viving to the show I've been an M.C. Boulevard fan for a very long time. Oh yeah, when I brought this up you're like, you know, that's M.C. Boulevard.
Starting point is 01:01:55 Like, you get talking about it. What? Back to me about him, because I saw the music video to this and you can watch the video Brownback Mornings 106 on Instagram. Isn't he in downtown? He's by the train tracks.
Starting point is 01:02:05 Yeah, yeah. So MC Boulevard is an OG. The reason I saw him, and I thought everybody in this room saw him because he was in the extra features of Amerixters. and me. At the very end, he just comes on and it's a whole song about how he lost his homie. It's called, I remember you, homie. And I remember that song. You remember that song, right? I remember
Starting point is 01:02:22 you, homie. Yeah. So that's the same guy. Sing another lyric. I remember you, homie. Okay. All right. I remember that song. Yeah, yeah, but that's the hook. I remember that. Yeah. But this song, like, and with the new, I guess, a faith-based rap that's happening. Shout on Miles Minnick, pray, all that. It would be cool to see, like, a little collab. And then the Jesus Christ told me dancing. Jesus Christ!
Starting point is 01:02:48 Yeah. That'd be cool. Look, you got to set this up. Yeah. I love that. It's a little feel good, feel good on your day. I knew Maximil would love this song. I do.
Starting point is 01:02:56 And I love that we just got scared, and then we went straight into, like, who. You have to. You got to get the Savior. Get rid of the demonia. All the demons are sea walking now. Okay. But the sea is for Christ. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:10 Christ walking. Christ walking. I'm not mad at it. On the side of me. Don't mess with the GEOC. The GOD. I'm not mad at it. I'm not mad at it.
Starting point is 01:03:23 I like it. I like it. You have these tickets to go to Universal Studios, Hollywood for you. But you just got to put up with our real life scary stories, all right? We're going to tell you a scary story and you're going to tell us who in the crew actually went through it. All right? Who do we have on the line? Let's see.
Starting point is 01:03:40 Let's go to Gabby. Gabby in realta. What's up, Gabby? Hey, Gabby. Good morning, Brown Bagby. Good morning, Gabby. Gabby, how you feeling this morning? A little nervous, because I'm guessing.
Starting point is 01:03:52 Yeah, a little nervy. A little nervy. We have these tickets. You could win them to go to Universal Studios Hollywood, but you got to guess who in the crew went through this real-life scary story. Was it Greg? Was it Angie? Was it Maximo?
Starting point is 01:04:05 Was it Rick? Or was it me? Letty. Yeah. Are you ready to hear the blurb about the story? Okay, let's go. All right. I was once staying at my Tia's house, and my cousin had a guitar that was mounted on the wall as decoration.
Starting point is 01:04:30 And one night, it started playing by itself. All right, Gabby. Gabby, who in the crew really went through this? Five. I am going to guess. Leti Leti It's a good guess
Starting point is 01:04:54 It's a good guess My dad does have a guitar Oh you're right He does have a guitar Not me baby girl No Thai No Thai Thank you for playing though
Starting point is 01:05:04 Thank you for playing Who went through this? Yeah who went through that It was me What? Greg? Yes Greg what happened
Starting point is 01:05:12 My aunt had this big Huge mansion in Riverside And she had my cousin's room It was a humongous room so you'd have a lot of decorations of music stuff. And you have this guitar. And we're all sleeping in his room. Okay.
Starting point is 01:05:24 And all you hear is, Vroom, vroom. Oh, like the strings in the guitar. Like the strings of the guitar. Like if somebody strummed the guitar. Heck no.
Starting point is 01:05:32 And all of us were like, yeah, we're not sleeping in here tonight. And we all left the room and slept in living. But it wasn't like a little strump. It was a full. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:05:41 like it couldn't have been a draft. It couldn't have been the AC on or maybe someone passed by it. It was like if someone strung it. It was like every single string. One. Once down and once up. It was crazy.
Starting point is 01:05:51 Oh, that's crazy. You're requested a song. I know. Marianochi loco. They charge for that now. They charge for that now, bro. All right, let's go to Jay. Jay in Long Beach.
Starting point is 01:06:03 We want to give these tickets out. What's up, Jay? Hello, good morning, Jay. I mean, good morning. Hey, say good morning to yourself, bro. Positive affirmation. Positive self-talk, bro. I'm nervous.
Starting point is 01:06:14 I'm nervous. I'm nervous. I'm nervous. It's just us. And, like, all the thousands and trillions of people listening. There's nothing wrong. I'm crazy. You're right, you're right.
Starting point is 01:06:21 You're right. I got it. I got it. We got tickets to go to Halloween horror nights at Universal Studios, Hollywood, all right? But you understand the rules of the game, right? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. I'm going to tell you a scary story.
Starting point is 01:06:32 It's a real life one. You're going to tell me who in the crew went through it. Was it Greg, Angie, Maximo, Vic, or me? And Greg, yours was yesterday, too. Yeah. Oh, true. I know. Been through some things, my friend.
Starting point is 01:06:42 Been through some things. All right. Let me read you. Jay, let me read you. What went down. I'm scared. All right. Okay.
Starting point is 01:06:51 Ooh. Are you ready? Jay? Yes, yes, yes, yes. I was visited by an angel after a death in my family. Who in the crew went through that? Five, four. I'm going to say letty.
Starting point is 01:07:11 I feel like I've been learning for a long time. I feel like you said something like that in the past. You're so cute. You're so cute. Jay. So cute. He's so confident. And what about me that, like, have you heard that you're like, oh, yeah, this has to be a her thing?
Starting point is 01:07:26 Well, because, like, I've listened to every, like, episode, every podcast episode, every one, every single one, as much as I can listen to. And I could have sworn, like, you said something like that. And obviously, I think it was your grandma that passed or, yeah, I don't know who, but obviously it was a family member that passed. At least I remember. And, like, I could have sworn. said that.
Starting point is 01:07:49 Oh, that's a good, that's a good reason. That was a good reason. It's the wrong reason. Stay on the line. Don't hang up, don't hang up, don't hang up. That was a lifelong listener. See, even lifelong listeners can get it wrong, so we got to be real about that. It was not I.
Starting point is 01:08:06 It was my twin spirit sister, Victor. Vick? Yes. Vic went through this. Yes. Vic, hold on, let me give you the music and then you have to tell us what happened. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, let's talk to us.
Starting point is 01:08:17 Go, go, go, go, go, bro. Okay, so my son. My son's grandma passed away. Yeah. We all lived in the same house. So, you know, when she passed away, the corners came. Two corners. Okay.
Starting point is 01:08:29 One of them walked directly up to me and Vicks' mom and was like, so sorry for your guys' loss. Just walk directly straight to us. We're like, okay, you know, thank you. How did you know it was, you know, us, right? And then all of a sudden we're like, okay, this guy looked very strange. War shades inside, right? very tall man. And when they walked back into the car, they took the body, everything was really sad.
Starting point is 01:08:55 Uh-huh. You know, they both got in on the same side. On the door, right? What? Like, they both got into the car. Okay. On the same side. The corner van.
Starting point is 01:09:05 Yeah, okay. We got it on the same side. We're like, hmm, that's odd, right? Mm-hmm. Later on, we're like, you know, talking to like the people and we're like, oh, thank you, you know, for sending the corners. And they're like, we only sent one. What?
Starting point is 01:09:18 Yeah. Like one person. So one of the coroners he feels was not a coroner. It was an angel that came to him and Vic's mom and said, sorry for your loss. And he told us his name to introduce us. We never even got the other guy's name, but the guy that introduced us. With the shades. Yeah, he introduced himself to you guys. His name was Malachi.
Starting point is 01:09:39 Look it up later. That means messenger of God. Wow. It was crazy. And he knew who you guys were? Yes. Like he told you your name or something? And the other guy just did a job like normal.
Starting point is 01:09:50 Like it was just like, all right. And maybe they're told not to not to interact. The other guy was like. Could be tough, you know. Doing his, doing his thing like normal like, you know. His routine. Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 01:10:01 That was crazy. She was wearing the shades inside. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't get like a cold something like. No, no, no. No, not. I mean, it wasn't like sad.
Starting point is 01:10:09 It was just like, whoa. Yeah. It was like, God sent him an angel. They did. All right, all right. We got to get a winner. You got to get in. Sorry, sorry.
Starting point is 01:10:20 All right. Let's go to Jahira. Jaya. Jaya. Jahira. In Long Beach. Jahira. Jahira.
Starting point is 01:10:27 Yeah. Jahira. Hello? I don't, I think he might be talking to Jahira. I don't know. Because on this call, Doc, it says she's online, but the nine is taken.
Starting point is 01:10:36 All right. Let's go to Lauren. Lauren in Norwalk. Lauren. Hello. What's up, Lauren? It's Lorraine, Lauren. It's Lorraine, sorry, Laurenne.
Starting point is 01:10:46 What a Lorene. Lorraine. Good morning, good morning. Are you ready to win these tickets to go to Universal Studios? I'm fine. All right. You know the rules. We're going to tell you a scary story.
Starting point is 01:10:57 You're going to tell us who in the crew went through that. It could be Angie. It could be Maximo. It could be Vic, Greg, or Mi Leti, okay? Okay. All right. All right, Lorraine. Ooh.
Starting point is 01:11:12 Lorraine. I was chased by a demonic lady. Late at night. When going to a liquor store. Who was it, Lorraine? Is it Greg? Angie? Maximo, Vic, or me?
Starting point is 01:11:30 Five, four, three. I'm going to guess Maximo. Is there a reason why you would guess Maximum? You know, I just like his name. You like his name. Yeah, he's nice name. And because of that You get the ticket
Starting point is 01:11:58 You get the tickets You're going to Universal Studios Hollywood baby girl Thank you thank you Thank you guys man you guys are the best You're the best We should have been Yeah Maximo who she likes your name I'm gonna tell Daniel
Starting point is 01:12:11 I'm gonna tell your girl Diana I'm gonna hear flirting on the radio Tell us about this story I know what happened It was a cold night In Van Eyes My mom used to stay out of church after to pray, it was like midnight.
Starting point is 01:12:25 What? Yeah. A bunch of people stayed at midnight to pray. That's weird. No, it happened. All the kids would be outside. So I had my scooter, and I scootered down this alley to this bus stop on the way to a liquor store.
Starting point is 01:12:37 And I tried, and I had tokens, bus tokens that I wanted to sell in order to go to the liquor store to buy something. When I pulled up, there was a lady sitting at the bus stop. And I went up to her, excuse me, do you want to buy a bus token? she turned around, looked at me with this crazy face and started chasing me. And I was on a scooter. And I was going as fast as I could.
Starting point is 01:13:01 And I am not lying to you when I tell you that she was right there, right behind me the whole way until I rode it all the way, ran inside church, and she was gone. Wow. Maximo, that's scary. How old were you? Like 12.
Starting point is 01:13:17 Wow. I know. Maximil, that was a smoker, Maximum. Honestly, I'm not going to lie. That was not scary, Angie. No, I believe it. Yes, it's a smoker, Angie. It was a smoker.
Starting point is 01:13:28 I'd be mad, too. Some little care of. They run. A smoker's going to run that fast? She was trying to steal your bookbook. Yeah, she was trying to steal it. Good story, Angie. Good story.
Starting point is 01:13:37 It was very. All right. Very scary. Yeah, either way. Either way. Either way. I prefer a ghost. All right.
Starting point is 01:13:46 Hey, today felt like a little bit like fall, like a little bit cold. Yeah. A little bit cold. Yeah. Yeah. We're getting there. We're getting there.
Starting point is 01:13:51 We're getting there. We're getting there. I fall apart. I'm moving. Super side note. There's a dude that's being looked for for, like, stealing packages. And he looks like post him alone. Oh, I did see that.
Starting point is 01:14:04 Yeah. And they're probably going to post him alone. Perfect. Yeah. Because he has tats on his face. He has, like, the scruffy little look. And he's around here somewhere. Like, he's out on KTLA.
Starting point is 01:14:13 Yeah. Stealing packages. Yeah. Post them alone. We see you. Yeah. Looking for you, bro. You're going to be locked up next to the butt.
Starting point is 01:14:21 sniffing from Burbank. Oh, man. I'm not talking about Greg. I'm talking about the guy that's going around Walmart and Barcelona. I do that with consent, okay? With the ears. Sniff looks with consent.
Starting point is 01:14:29 Your dog does not consent to it, bro. Whoa, that is crazy. He sniffs the dog's feet. Yeah, they're paws. They smell so good. It smells like Doritos. Pause. Hey, you'll pause.
Starting point is 01:14:40 All right. There's Cheezemanji. Yeah. You guys, can you imagine Titanic without check? With Leonardo DiCaprio? That means no one would die. Like he wouldn't die. Well, it would be someone else.
Starting point is 01:14:55 Yeah. No, I like me. Yeah. It wouldn't hit the same. No, not at all. No, but that almost happened because of his ex-agent. Uh-huh. I finally got an agent.
Starting point is 01:15:06 They said, your name is too ethnic. I go, what do you mean? Salinardi Cabby. They go, no, too ethnic, they're never going to hire. Your new name is Lenny Williams. I was 1230. I said, what's Lenny Williams? We took your middle name and we made it.
Starting point is 01:15:18 Now you're Lenny. And my dad saw his photo ripped it up. and he said, over my dead body. That sounds like an R&B, like jazz musician, Lenny William. Yeah, like, what? I think he was like Lenny Kravitz. Oh, Lenny, yeah. They got the Lenny from Leonardo.
Starting point is 01:15:33 That's what they're saying. I'm thinking of the dude that does Careless Whisper? George Michael. George Michael? George Michael. Leonardo's a cat. Well, he was an actor really young. He was in what's eating Gilbert Grape,
Starting point is 01:15:44 which is like a super old movie. He was when he was young. And so he's saying that I was 12, 13. I get an agent. They tell me, Lenny Williams Two FNepard Actually in the 90s
Starting point is 01:15:56 It makes sense That sounds like a 90s name Lenny Williams Yeah Like you guys just said Who did you guys bring up? Lenny Kravitz And then George Michael
Starting point is 01:16:04 George Michaels Like that's that era It was mainstream As make it as simple as possible Yeah you got two first names Two first names Lenny and William I guess so
Starting point is 01:16:13 But that wouldn't hit Titanic Like imagine like We wouldn't care The Titanic still happen No He's not the iceberg People don't really call him even like Leonardo or Leo like it's like DiCaprio. Like if you say Decape's iconic like that's what people call him.
Starting point is 01:16:33 They refer to him as Decaprio. Yeah, like his last name is like his staple. Yeah. If it was Williams, you would not know who he's talking about. There's a lot of Williams. Yeah. Wendy Williams. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:42 Yeah, that's the one that I have. All right. By the way, I know. And I didn't want to bring it up early because I want you guys to clown Wendy Williams. who is iconic in radio. She had an imaginary friend. Makes sense. For real?
Starting point is 01:16:56 Yeah, yeah. And she became what she became. Like, she was a chatterbox. Makes sense. She was a book. I'm telling you, I don't know, it might have a correlation with jocks and imaginary friends.
Starting point is 01:17:07 Young jocks. No, it's not working. Well, I had one too. I'm just saying. I just don't want, anyway, that's homie help line. You'll hear about him. I love that.
Starting point is 01:17:15 That's pretty tight, though. I would have been tripped out if that was Lenny William. Or we wouldn't care because we wouldn't know him as that. True. Oh, like we'd be east to it. That's the guy. Shout out of you.
Starting point is 01:17:25 Yeah. There's more cheese man, right? Yes. Well, not exactly cheese man, but, you know, ICE has been terrorizing our people, obviously, right? Of course. But they won't stop there, apparently, because the Department of Homeland Security's Twitter,
Starting point is 01:17:40 their account posted a sort of like highlight video of ICE raids. Oh, yeah. And they used a theme song of our favorite childhood cartoon. I want to be. I don't even want to sing along I want to sing along But I don't like how they used it They used it in a terrible context
Starting point is 01:17:58 Because it's a play on the like Gotta Catch a Mall Gotta Catch a Mall And even like They went even further than that Because at the end of the video If you watch it all the way to the end They put up like fake Pokemon cards
Starting point is 01:18:11 Of people that they caught Yeah No I swear It's fun to them It's like a whole thing Like it was like I don't know
Starting point is 01:18:20 Whose idea this was and thought it was hilarious, but it's like, bro, you're ripping families apart. They've been doing that, though. Yeah, they've been trolling. They've been doing that. They've done that with Kendrick songs, I remember that. And they're doing, they're just going off of like, hey, everybody likes highlight reels on Instagram and stuff.
Starting point is 01:18:34 Let's do our own little recap video of everybody that we've caught up. And someone had the idea because it's fun to them. It's he-he-haha to them. They don't take this series. And so they put, they put the Pokemon song, which is like, damn, like, I just would wish when we, when we say, like, in a humane way. way this is not it no I'm saying like this is poking fun and then you wonder why people get upset and you can often blame rhetoric from other other people or other media or other like people
Starting point is 01:19:04 that are anti you but also look at what you are putting out how would you expect hurt families to respond hurt communities to respond when you're doing this thing that's tragic and that we somehow have to like be okay with and manage because it's like okay the art arguments of how people got here, the process of it all. We have to somehow level with that and try to understand it. But then you do this and it just makes it, it just makes it over the top. I can't get it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:19:37 And even, you know, let's go with their premise, not mine, but of like, okay, they're committing illegal acts, right? By just being here. They're illegal, whatever. Even then, it's like, okay, make a highlight reel of any illegal acts. Like, it's still not funny. You know what I'm saying? it's usually crimes you somebody's getting hurt or somebody's ended up you know spending the rest of their life in prison or whatever it is it's like no there's no part of this in any circumstance
Starting point is 01:20:00 that would be funny or entertaining in that type of way you know i i i often bring up snow the product when we have this conversation because no one i haven't seen anyone more outspoken than her and like willing to take the heat for whatever comes but especially with that argument of the you came here illegally it's fine that we're doing this she or do it the right way and she brought up a point like who's done it the right way? When this land was taken, who's done it the right way? When treaties were broken, who's done it the right way? When the United States acquired these areas of Mexico,
Starting point is 01:20:32 part of the treaty was that the Mexicans that are there get U.S. citizenship automatically and they get to keep their houses that they have, the land that they have. You think that that was followed through? No, as is the United States. As is that, like you can go to the black homies and talk to them about what was promised to them for slavery.
Starting point is 01:20:50 What is it 40 acres in a mule? Did that ever happen? Was that done the right way? So you bring up these rules and it's okay that you defy them, but then use not the rule breaking as why another community should be punished. I don't mean to get like full on like about it. But like when you brought up the like doing it, I wouldn't even call it illegal way. Like that, that everything is done here respectfully. Don't respect though and bylaws and loopholes of taxes.
Starting point is 01:21:16 Illegally. It's just when it benefits you to say that to someone. somebody else like it's a what is it called it's like um your morality depends on who you're looking at yeah you know and even if we go back even further to like when the european immigrants came like through ls island it's like they weren't looked at as criminals they were looked at as people that are looking to find a better life and yeah there's like fond like apparently america has fond memories of that like oh my family came here from ellis island you know they it's like all good warm welcomes and hugs but when we do it it's a problem you know what i'm
Starting point is 01:21:50 So, yeah, but to say all that to say, also the Pokemon company actually caught wind of all this, and they released a statement. So they said, we're aware of a recent video posted by the Department of Homeland Security that includes imagery and language associated with our brand. Our company was not involved in the creation or distribution of this content and permission was not granted for the use of our intellectual property. They ended it there. So they kind of distance themselves from it, but they didn't condemn it, which was pretty upsetting. And a lot of people now want to boycott Pokemon. What? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:22:21 Because the minute that anybody makes like a, like a fake, like a game that like kind of like, not even spoofs, but it's just like, oh, I want to make like a fun game for fans to play. But they use Pokemon figures. They're sued immediately. Yeah. You know, they take it down. Sees and desist and they take it very seriously. But a matter like this, they're like, yeah, we weren't involved. But they didn't condemn it at all.
Starting point is 01:22:42 You know what I'm saying? Which is like upsetting to a lot of people. I feel a little bit away about that too because we'll say, boy. cut but then you look at something like with the Dodgers and they like had like a record breaking uh attendance attendance record so it's like i don't know it's like how is that is it real outrage is it is it not or does it depend on whether you actually use it's easy to boycott something you don't like yeah it's easy to go to not go to a store you wouldn't already go to not watch a program you already don't watch but it's like when it's something you love then it's like oh okay
Starting point is 01:23:15 well maybe we shouldn't maybe maybe let's keep it out of Pokemon let's keep politics out of on y'all like it's just gonna get get to that you know what i'm saying it's upsetting all the way around and then you don't know if you're feeling the right way not feeling the wrong right way well we're probably saying right now might be wrong but at the same time like it's how it's yeah it's how you feel it's just this weird i was talking to vick about it the other day it's this this weird even struggle within yourself because again you love these brands and things and you love america but then you feel a way like like it's it's a it's a odd place to be it's a very nervous place to be and like all i can say really is my love to the
Starting point is 01:23:50 those affected because this definitely is triggering and and if you react to them triggering you then you're bad. That's what they all. Is that maybe you do? And what you did to even have the target on your back is something that should be, you should feel guilty for even if you were brought when you're two. That's what they want. They want you to be triggered.
Starting point is 01:24:07 Yeah. It's a weird nervous energy. Don't like it. It's crazy. It's crazy. But moving on. Cardi B still has some friends left, you guys. She's always had friends.
Starting point is 01:24:17 She has her girls. But she's beefing with all the girls and rabbits. right now. A lot of them. A lot of them. JT.M. Bia. A lot of them. Name five songs. Hey, hey, hey, hey. No.
Starting point is 01:24:27 Go. She's very, they're very both beautiful women. Well, she wanted to let the world know that she still has a home girl and her name is Lado. And to prove it, she put her on a new remix of her song or time. Listen to this. Hi-bye brand-new body like I'm karate in this month. I'm giving bailout like karate in this month. Hey y'all.
Starting point is 01:24:48 Bus it for my man like it's a hobby around this. I know this stuff I ain't talking shit. We broke on her lip. Yeah. Like how you let a rapper hit that ain't got no hits. Man, my dick went to fashion. We don't dress is Canine's Hill. Wow.
Starting point is 01:25:08 I already know that. That was bad. Irtime is Vick's favorite record on the album. Like you're like, this is the hit. And that was just Cardi on by herself. Now that the lot of remix here on, like I like it too. And it's cool because she referenced. Lotto in the song.
Starting point is 01:25:24 Like she's saying thick yellow looking like Lotto in this month. You know, so it was like, oh, now she's on the song. That's cool. It's like a cool little surprise. And then Lotto shouted out Cardi B and her verse. So it's just like a lot of like, you know, support between them. And it's really cool. It's a good song.
Starting point is 01:25:37 I think Pretty and Petty still the best of this one. Like that one still. That's great. It doesn't. It's the girl you just stood up for. Yeah. Pretty and petty is a whole be a dish. I just said she's beautiful.
Starting point is 01:25:48 I don't know. You need to pick and choose your bow. That's right. No. All he's doing is just. just thinking of Bia right. He has a crazy look at it. No, literally.
Starting point is 01:25:56 That is the Bia day song. Yeah, Cardi's saying like you're just mad because you're built like your dad. I don't hear anything you're saying. I just see Bia. And I literally just opened with the opening bars of that song, named Five Bia songs. And then you were like, oh, she's beautiful.
Starting point is 01:26:09 She is. Have you seen her? Did you hear what Cardi said? She called her Diary of Bia. No. Diaryia. But it still stink. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:26:16 I know the whole lyrics. Shout up, Patty. What she's doing with this album is pretty tight. that she dropped it last week, but she's releasing like bonus records. Like when JT, who is a member of the city girl, is at Cardi B's B's B-Feefeema right now,
Starting point is 01:26:31 when they started going back and forth on Twitter, Cardi's like, hey, bonus track. And that bonus track had something on it, right? Yes, actually, because you know how she dissed her on the original album? Then she came out with this, this track. Number six. Like what?
Starting point is 01:26:55 Shook a front of you want. On my eggs in the blunt. So she's pretty much telling like JT, you copied me. And they've shown side by sides of different Cardi B looks and then JT doing the similar looks and stuff. Their back and forth is really heavy, like some dark allegations about each other's partners. And then, but Cardi went to a song with it, which I appreciate. Me too. Go to the studio.
Starting point is 01:27:22 Get into the booth, girl. Yeah, because the tweets are hard to read. Yeah. No, and you know what? It's crazy because when all this was going on, there was like a very, a very big. video that actually resurfaced of JT's producer saying like, you know what? You got to rap more like Cardi B. Yeah, listening like when Carter recorded her song, it's a minute before that beat kick in.
Starting point is 01:27:42 You want people to be sitting there listening, like, feeling you what you're talking about you talking about you talking about. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Okay. Oh. She's just taking it. Yeah, okay.
Starting point is 01:27:51 Yeah, I get it. I don't know how these fan bases are so good at digging up stuff because JT was going in on Cardi online. Like, yeah, you suck your scammer, all this stuff in the third. Then we have, yeah, she's calling her names. This bitch is supposed to be a mother-brim. And she threatened in a snitch on somebody because she don't have anything to say about a big. That was a loser.
Starting point is 01:28:16 I can't take the dumb bitch serious. And bitch don't mean me typing all this motherfuck message or I'm calling the police on your ass defamation of parrits because I'm sick of it. Okay. So she was going in on Snapchat, but then like it's like you hate her, she's a loser all of that. but your own producer saying like sound like her. Yeah. Oh, that hurt. That's like the comeback you didn't want to see happen.
Starting point is 01:28:35 I know. And then supposedly, like, fans were saying, well, like, well, where's your disc track, JT? And she's like, well, actually, I just left the booth. That she just left the studio. So who knows if we're going to get some, I don't know, this towards Cardi B tonight, tomorrow, this weekend. But according to her, she's working on it. I can't see you're winning this. I know.
Starting point is 01:28:56 Me either. And not to knock J.T. from city girls both both both both city girls talented right and just especially love you j t oh god beautiful she has a man already i don't care she has somebody yeah he has a man that's a little oozy she has a man a little uzi bird okay she got somebody but they're they're talented i just don't i think that cardi b and i saw an interview with her she's like my whole life i've been in trouble people haven't liked me this not the third.
Starting point is 01:29:27 So she's gotten that skin where it's like if I need to come back at people, I'm going to it. Yeah. And she's built that up. And it seems like strategically she's been doing a great job. Yeah. I think she's also pre-planned for the comebacks knowing I dropped this album. It has a disc to Bia.
Starting point is 01:29:42 It has a disc to JT. Yesterday I saw a photo with Archie DJ Eman listening to music with Bia in studio. So I'm like, okay, there's, yes. I'm like, there's probably going to be some responses. And I think Cardi B planned for all of this. And then it goes with the album. Am I the drama? She's like, this is why I called the album.
Starting point is 01:30:00 Am I the drama? This rollout has been amazing. Yeah, we got a big up by our team. I think I'm going to have beefily email now for not inviting me to that. I'm glad he didn't invite you to that. Because you make those faces, bro. Yeah, you're going to do that in the studio. It's beautiful.
Starting point is 01:30:13 I could have. I could have you guys insider, which I would have not have, but. No. Because you would have been in there like, peekaboo. LA's number one for hip-hop, Windows Diaz. Good morning to you.

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