Drink Champs - Episode 450 w/ Andrew Schulz

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode we chop it up with the one and only, Andrew Schulz!Schulz dives into the nuances of stand-up comedy, discussing the challenges of navigating a landscape where audiences may interpret humor differently.Andrew also talks about recent projects, including his Netflix special "Life," and his experiences in the entertainment industry. He offers perspectives on the intersection of comedy and social commentary, emphasizing the importance of authenticity and resilience in his craft.Schulz's trademark wit and storytelling shine, complemented by the Drink Champs Family dynamic energy.  Get ready for a perfect blend of humor, introspection, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes, making this a must-listen for fans of comedy and cultural discourse. You don’t want to miss this! Make some noise for Andrew Schulz!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆 *Subscribe to Patreon NOW for exclusive content, discount codes, M&G’s + more: * https://www.patreon.com/drinkchamps *Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.com Follow Drink Champs: https://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps https://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps https://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps https://www.youtube.com/drinkchamps DJ EFN https://www.crazyhood.com https://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy https://www.twitter.com/djefn https://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions N.O.R.E. https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga https://www.twitter.com/noreaga  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's time for Drink Champs Drink up, motherfuckers What it could be, hope it is what it should be This is your boy N.O.R.E What up, it's DJ E.F.N And it's Drink Champs, yeah This is your boy N.O.R.E. What up, it's DJ EFN. And it's Drink Champs. Y'all make some noise! Now, I don't think I've ever said this,

but this man's comedic timing of how he lines up his jokes, how he presents himself, is probably one of the most iconic I've seen to date. It transforms race. You don't have to be... You could be black.

You could be white. It transforms the race? I mean, it transcends. It transcends. You don't fuck up. You do it. We all do it on you. You can be any race. You can be crippled.

This man is straight up funny, man. He is. We're going to get to all that. That's our favorite race. And it's so needed. You can be crippled. That's right. You know who will never win a race?

Down syndrome. It's comedy. It's so needed. You could be crippled. That's right. You know who will never win a race? Down syndrome. His comedy is for everybody. And everybody should be for his comedy. In case you don't know what we're talking about, we're talking about the one and only Andrew Collins! You know what I didn't know? What's that? Googling you, how many times I Googled you

and Andrew take care of it. Oh, Jesus. Are we getting confused? No, not of it. I was like, we getting confused? No, not me. I was just saying, I think Google, do you think that when he Googles himself, you're popping up? I think your Google's racist.

I think your Google thinks all white people look the same. I do have black Twitter. That's all I have. I don't have regular Twitter. I might have black Google. You might be right. Let's set it all for a drink. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, we're going to get have. I don't have regular Twitter. I might have black Google. You might be right. Let's send it over to Drake. I'm not going to lie. I want to celebrate you so bad. Thank you, bro.

First of all, it's an honor to be here, man. Thank you for joining us. But let me just say something. This special is so special. Say that with all pun intended. It's so special. I remember this is how good your special is, right? You clearly know that you had a daughter and you were successful in making of the daughter and all that.

But when you go through the process, I literally cry. I don't know what the fucking end result is. Isn't that ironic? It's like, you know, at the end result is Isn't that like ironic It's like you know at the end He does have the door But the process I just looked And I was just like you know what That's what comedy is missing

That's what the greats like Richard Pryor And people like that They said things that was comedic But shit that hurt And it was reality And that's something That I super appreciated Like I said I said it on text

And I've seen you And Charla Bain said it But I literally laughed Cried And then laughed again Respect Thank you bro This was a great

So let's Let's stick on a special For right now Sure sure This was your first Netflix special? This is my first Netflix stand up special

Stand up I did like a talking head Kind of thing I sold that as well You did more than one right? What was thatup. Yeah. I did like a talking head kind of thing. Yeah. I saw that as well. You did more than one, right? What was that called? America? I did a bunch of those.

Schultz Saves America. Okay. Those are dope. I would do those during COVID. And so we did that. But then, you know, because you couldn't, there was no audience. Right. Right.

And then, so this is my first stand-up special on Netflix. For Netflix. Watching that other thing on Netflix, what was it called? I forgot. Schultz Saves America. Watching that other thing on Netflix, what was it called? I forgot. I didn't know that Amy Cooper and George Floyd happened on the same day. When he broke that shit down, I was like, this should be in the news somewhere. When she was accusing the guy of being the bird watcher, it was the same day as George Floyd.

I didn't know that. Yeah, but the bird watcher in New York, come on. Yeah, that was crazy. Yeah. I think he got a show bird watching. No fucking way. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, but the bird watching in New York, come on. Yeah, that was crazy. Yeah. I think he got a show bird watching. No fucking way. Yeah. Good for him.

Good for him. When Karen does do good. Okay, but let's get back to the special. Do you have any Karens in your neighborhood? Let me just tell you something. Yeah, yeah. They're kind of nice when they're in your neighborhood a little. I'm going to be honest with you.

Yeah. Every month, my neighbors, they get together, and they do a barbecue. They don't season the meat, so I never eat. Yeah. But I enjoy the fuck hanging with them. Yeah, yeah. They drink Jägermeister. Yeah.

They drink. It's safe. Yeah, yeah. So today, after I leave here, I'm going to my neighbors. And pretty much, it's me and a Holyfield pretty much the only people Oh, does a band or live in your neighbor? Yes Okay, but I just break it down Yeah, so Netflix approaches you because Netflix is the place to be right used to be HBO

Comedy and all that we were growing up. It was. And then Netflix kind of took over by just getting. They debilitated. They really did. By just getting the most prolific comedians in there. And then, yeah, so I was just doing specials. And then I had this tour that was great. And we started having conversations. And then there was other streaming networks that were also in conversation.

Because you don't have a real deal until you have two deals. Okay, wow. A bidding war of sorts. Yeah. Because you don't really know what you're worth okay that's what i realized because i was i'm you know i'm not educated about the game but in my mind i'm like okay i think i'm worth this and then you'll just pay it and then they offer you something else and then you're like well damn that's a lot less than what i thought it was worth but if you have another company that's willing to pay you right they'll match it because they don't want to lose you like the only fans exactly yeah that's what i was yeah, they'll match it because they don't want to lose you. Like OnlyFans. Exactly.

That's what I was going to do. I was going to do my special on OnlyFans. Well, you know they are getting regular content now. Yeah, they're trying. You're not really taking it seriously. Remember when Lyft tried to do a black car? Like Uber Black?

Remember, no one took Uber serious at first neither. Uber I did. But my friend was Ubering. I was like I remember no one took Uber serious at first neither. Nah, Uber I did. But my friend was Ubering. I was like, come on, dude. You're a loser. No. You're not going to make it nowhere. Not all of us drive a Maybach like you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's why no one took Uber serious at first until they I took it serious from the beginning. No, not in the beginning. When it was just like in L.A.? When it was just in the Bay Area.

And all the drivers were scientists? You remember that shit? I don't remember that shit. You might have better drivers than me. Rocket scientists and shit.A.? When it was just in the Bay Area. And all the drivers were scientists? You remember that shit? I don't remember that shit. You might have better drivers than me. That's where it's invented. I first had an Uber, was in the Bay, and I thought the promoter was jerking me by sending me that.

I was like, yo, I wanted a car service. Dude, this guy, name is Jeffrey. I know him. You know what I'm saying? But OnlyFans, yeah. And Mike King trickled down to that. What would happen if comedy Because people are censoring comedy so much

What happens if comedy winds up on OnlyFans? Shit Yo, honestly, wait Well, I'm not going to lie Back in the day When we were posting on YouTube We thought about putting it on Pornhub I've been on there a couple times

Have you? Yeah, yeah What's your like over there, bro? It's pretty cool, man I prefer you porn You prefer you porn? You porn, yeah Okay, okay, okay What's your go-to? It's banned in Florida man. I prefer you porn. You prefer you porn? You porn, yeah. Okay, okay, okay.

What's your go-to? It's banned in Florida. That's right. You guys can't watch porn. Yeah, yeah. Damn. I mean, you can, but you got to put your ID there. That's too much information.

Mr. Mito's all about it. Give me an X-hamster. Yeah, you got to whip. You got to give your license to go jerk around. That's crazy, bro. By the way, Trick Daddy has a whole campaign against this. I'm thinking about getting down with Trick Daddy's dad. I'm just throwing it out there, Trick.

I will be down with you. Yeah, I think you got to free up the porno. What is the idea? It's like kids. They just say for kids not to get on it. That is good, though, because we were watching porn too early. We didn't have... I remember we had a lot more ways to get caught.

We're older than you. How old are you? I'm 49. I'm 47. 47. Okay, I'm 41. So you're a little, like you guys remember Robin Bird

on Channel 35? Okay. You remember the public access porn that we had in New York? Okay. I'm from Miami. Okay, so in New York we had this. Did you have a TV in left back?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That back is a rich project. It's just a case. Left Brack? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Left Brack is a rich project, just in case. It's a community. I like to stop and just tell it. Keep going. You know what's crazy? I didn't know Left Brack was named after a guy.

Left Brack. He's my friend. He's my friend. No way. You know him now? Hold on, you know him now? Yes, I absolutely know him. Oh, that's great.

It was one of the illest flosses was going out to dinner with Fat Joe. And Joe with his people in it. now? Yes, I absolutely don't. Oh, that's great. It was one of the illest flosses was going out to dinner with Fat Joe and Joe with his people and then I introduced him. I'm like, yo, this is Left Rack. And Joe's just like, there's nobody who owns the Bronx. He's like, you actually know

the person who owns your neighborhood. Well, his family obviously. And Toronto's great people, man. I hang out with them, go to their parties. We hang out. His wife is a marathon runner. Toronto's been great people, man. I hang out with them, go to their parties. We hang out. His wife is a marathon runner. Does he know that you single-handedly reduced the value of those properties by like 20%?

Well, actually, it's quite... This guy lost me $10 billion shooting people up. It's actually, if you do, if you follow the algorithms, it's actually brought more attention

to it in a positive way because... Because you moved out. Yeah. We can go into that one. I'll fuck with you. I'll fuck with you.

Yeah, but so what were we talking about? Damn, I was just so into it. Only fans. What do you do when you watch?

No, no, I'm done. Since Florida banned it, I stand with my Floridian. I'm not going to do bootleg porn. You with my Floridian I'm not gonna do Bootleg porn You know how I used to watch Remember Backroom Casting Couch You guys remember

Yeah our boys out here Did it Bang Bros and them Wait you guys Knew the Bang Bros I worked at the Hell Record label And I was the VP

Of marketing for the Bang Bros is the van Yeah They were a company And then reality came How did we get here This is so great This is the Mecca of porn.

Didn't you hire me for Bang Brothers? That was them too. I was in, I remember my first year. Didn't you hire me for Bang Brothers? Yeah, I hired him.

Did you do Bang Bros? Yeah, he did. No, he did. You were in the bus? No, no, no. They had a talk show. They had like a chick naked and doing a talk show

and then I had him as a guest on it. They didn't fully warn me so I just showed up and it's... He didn't even know he was coming. I didn't know. It was just you just showed up and it's... He didn't even know he was coming. It was just like,

oh shit, I'm on a porn set. I had no idea. Did they get after it? Were you there? I don't remember. I think after you left they had the scene.

But they were like, they were pretty. Almost everybody in this room probably worked for those companies at one point. Really?

Is that true? Yeah. Yeah, okay. You see him trying to put his shit off for how long? That Miami shit. That Miami shit. true? Yeah. Yeah, okay. You see him trying to put his shit off for her? That Miami shit. That Miami shit.

It's real. It's real. That Miami shit. You meet a chick nine out of ten times, she probably... So I almost dropped out of college

when I found out about that bang bus shit. Oh, really? Wow. I remember, because I was in freshman year of college and I'm trying to put

my life together and everything like that and I see these dudes just driving around with a van getting girls in and getting their dick sucked and shit. And I'm like, what am I doing? Spending 30 grand a year to go to college?

I'm going to buy a bus. With a dude that just got here from Cuba. And you already got the porn star mustache. I'm built for it. Yes, you already. I'm built for this shit. You're the best porn star. I've been using Rewinded.

Listen, I've been using Rewinded've been using rewind to keep my status. Go online and shop. That's right. If you want to look like a Dominican spy, you got to use rewind. A Dominican spy. Oh, shit.

A Dominican spy. Is that my camera? Okay. This shit is crazy. This shit looks good, though. I don't know why. So I'm going to bounce around a little bit. Yeah, yeah, please. We're going to have some fun. You drew the Casamigos. By shit looks good though. I don't know why. So I'm going to bounce around a little bit.

Yeah, yeah. We're going to have some fun. You drew at Casamigos. Yeah, yeah. By the way. Is this the Repo? Okay. Huh?

No, no. We got Casamigos. It's okay. Okay, okay, okay. But also Los Andes. Shout out to them. All right. So I just want you to know, we make a bet every time someone's here.

Okay. So we predict what they drink. Okay. And we predict if they're going to be on time or not. Uh-huh. I fully be on time or not. I fully wonder on time. I feel like I know where this is going. I'm not going to lie.

You would have let down a lot of people if you had come late. A whole race? A whole race. A whole race of people. So white people are always on time to this? You know what? MC Search and them was on time. It was on time. Scott Storch was late.

That's such a bummer. Burt was on time. Burt was 10 minutes early. Yeah. Yes. And he's ready to pregame. I was like, I don't pregame before this. Was Kevin Hart on time?

Kevin Hart was late, but remember, because we switched locations. We did switch locations on him, yeah. Why? But Kevin Hart's not white, though, brother. No, I'm just thinking in general. I was going down the comedian line. You see where it's at? I was thinking comedians.

You didn't even say nothing. He just kept it going. You went with it. You're like, yeah, Kevin. Kevin is so successful, he became white. He became white, yeah. He became white this weekend. But Casamigos, I'm going to describe to you what Casamigos is.

Yeah. Especially Casamigos with club soda. Boom. It's either you're on a diet. Yeah. Yeah. You're very aggressive. Ooh.

Or you're not really going to drink at all. Ooh. That's what Casamigos says But we think you're going to break The Casamigos We think you're going to break it I see how you guys are doing this You guys manipulate the guests

Like I'm a pussy if I don't drink You just called me gay two times So now I got to get drunk And say crazy shit To prove I'm not gay I'm sure you don't need the drink for that. No, but you know what? You know, I'm bouncing around a little bit.

You know what's one of the parts? I watched the special three times. And on the first. Do you really got a cock or spaniel? No, that was the name of a gun. We'll get back to that. We'll get back to that. I got so many New York persons for you.

I got so many. Cool, cool. So here's the crazy part. I watched it twice. That's a gun? Like cock the gun. I got so many. Cool, cool. So here's the crazy part. I watched it twice. That's a good one. Like cock the gun. I'll break it down for you. So I watched it twice,

but I didn't understand the Staten Island joke, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like... So the end, I mean, the end, I got it. You know what it was? Yeah.

I didn't hear the end the first two times. So this morning, I'm watching it, and I'm like, I have to make the Staten Island joke make fun. And then hear the end the first two times. So this morning, I'm watching it and I'm like, I have to make this Staten Island joke make fun.

And then at the end, because I don't want to blow it all up. No, you can blow it up. No, no, no. I want you people to go off. I think I've been seen it already. He said it out properly.

He said it was scientific reason or something like that. Yeah, I do it like a throwaway. Right. So it's basically this whole story

of me trying to get my wife pregnant, my sperm sucks, which you guys know nothing about. Yeah. And it's basically this whole story of me trying to get my wife pregnant, my sperm sucks, which you guys know nothing about down here. And there's probably some. Because we're Latinos. And you don't watch porn. Your sperm is wrecked. It's healthy.

So anyway, so we got to do like IVF, IUI, whatever. But there's this joke earlier where I do this little throwaway to Staten Island and I say, yeah, it's a scientific reason why they are the way they are. But we'll there's this joke earlier where I do this little throwaway to Staten Island and I say, yeah, it's a scientific reason why they are the way they are. But we'll get to that later. It's just a little throwaway. But knowing the whole time, the last punchline of the special is going to be that. Circle back to it. Yeah, shout out to Staten Island.

Yeah. The fucking Lost Borough. Yes, yes. I mean, Wu-Tang really helped, really saved them. They really did. Imagine Staten Island without Wu-Tang. But here's the thing, it made people think that Staten Island had black people. I think all the did. Imagine Staten Island without Wu-Tang. But here's the thing, it made people think that Staten Island had black people. I think all the black people

in Staten Island were named Wu-Tang. I wasn't ready. And half of them were from Brooklyn. Exactly. They literally gathered the six black people

in all of Staten Island like, you're in a rap group and we're going to call something Asian. Damn. Because the rest of Staten Island is like policemen,

it's like Italians and like Irish, right? Yes, yes. Have you met a black dude from Staten Island? Be honest. They affiliated with Wu-Tang. That's it?

Yes, I've never met a new true Staten Islander. Just a random black dude from Staten Island. No, no. Have you met an Asian from Staten Island? I've not met a...

An Indian from Staten Island? I've never even thought of these questions. It's all going over my head. I can't say I recall. I mean, nah, you're not going to do it. Imagine moving to New York and then you got to take a ferry to go to this place. You're like, no, there's no way.

Do you think Staten Island people have a head out on you right now? No. That's love. They know it. They know my heart, man. They also got great sense of humor. They like fucked up jokes. They never got sensitive. Right. You know what I mean? When everybody was sensitive. They also got great sense of humor. They like fucked up jokes. Right. Like, they never got sensitive.

Right. You know what I mean? When everybody was sensitive in Staten Island, you could say whatever the fuck you want. Right. And you think, one thing you said about the special that I agreed and disagreed with. You said that Chicago people are more prouder than New York people. No, I said we're more proud. But it's close.

But they brag about things that are crazy. The team shit was hilarious, yeah. No, I say we're more proud, but it's close. But they brag about things that are crazy. The team shit was hilarious, yeah. Because I'm going to tell you the reason why New York has to be the most proudest. We are, without a doubt. Like, a person from Brooklyn, like, people from Miami do this, too. But a person from Brooklyn don't even feel like they're from the East Coast. No, he's right about this.

They feel like they're just from Brooklyn. They're not even from New York. They're not even from New York. They're not even from New York. And I'd be like, yo, bro, I can walk to your house from Queens. And it's just a different planet. So New Yorkers are very proud people. No, we're the most proud. But it's like, we should be.

It's the greatest city. It's the only city I think that people move to and then immediately start saying they're from there. I think people will move to Miami, but they'll be like, oh, I'm actually from whatever. But people will move to New York and then day two, they're like, I'm a New Yorker. So it's great. Like, they got haze, though, because you get haze there immediately. Yeah. Living in New York is not easy.

It's unnatural. Living on top of each other in these little boxes. Like, you don't see sunlight for like three months. Yeah, it's wild. It's a weird place to live to live this shit is nice we were walking around this neighborhood now you guys pulled up on us that shit was terrifying yeah yeah yeah don't let don't let the nice oh no there's still a bad bad area right here this they ain't cleaning this all up yeah yeah this is they yeah they got some cleaning to do here still yeah yeah still so let me ask you right like you you did you sell out the garden first and get the netflix special or you had the netflix special and then sold out

the garden i think probably sold out the garden first right yeah really okay yeah i claimed your success when i heard that I was like yeah Because me knowing your story Knowing the underground people Me knowing that You worked with like Smokey Suarez Oh yeah Shout out Smokey man

Smokey's one of the Like that's why Like success And like all this Doesn't mean nothing New York legend bro To me he's one of the Funniest comedians

Was that the Harlem story That you told Yeah yeah yeah He's one of the Funniest comedians ever But let's Bro there's a story up I went up to one of his Roomsians ever. There's a story up.

I went up to one of his rooms in the Bronx. Where the fuck was it? This one you got punched in the face? No, that was in Harlem. But he had a bunch of rooms. So he was like one of the goats in New York. And you would run a few rooms. It would be like weekly rooms.

And he was so sweet. He would just let me come to whatever one, go up and get on stage. And he did that for pretty much every young comic that's coming out of New York. He was willing to do all the different circuits. And man, he, you good? All right. Don't worry, he's random. He's random.

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He's a medic He's a medic He's a medic He's a medic No black comedy show has ever started on time. I just want to point that out. Not to this day. That seems like a gross stereotype, but it is 100% factually true. I sat in that bar by myself for two hours before Smokey even got to the fucking venue. I was two hours at this place before he even got there. And he was like, he said, why'd you come and eat? I was like, he said the show started.

He was like, yeah, you know what I mean, though. Shout out Smokey, man. He's a legend. So, as a New Yorker yeah the garden the garden this is

this is this is that's all we care about it's almost it's almost I don't want to say bittersweet but there's no other way to describe it

because it's like this is this is for a New Yorker this is the end after this like yeah so it's like

people say that to me they're like do you want to do SNL? And I'm like, none of us watched SNL growing up. Like, yeah. I think the Garden

trumps SNL, yes. I'm trying to explain to people, they're like, why weren't you watching SNL? And I was like, because it's on

Saturday night and I was trying to get some pussy. Who is staying home Saturday night to watch people wear wigs? Like, I'm out

trying to finger a girl. You know what I mean? It just wasn't part of the culture for us growing up. It just wasn't part of what we did. But the garden was always a garden. So, yeah, when I did that, yeah, it was just unbelievable. So let me ask you, do you get the call or do you call them to say, I want to? You ask.

Okay, you ask. You ask to do it. Okay. And that shit is crazy expensive. Oh, you have to rent it out? You have to buy it out? You basically rent out the venue. Okay.

Yeah. Wow. And then, you know, so you control the ticketing and all that kind of stuff. The rental is crazy. We were able to do two shows there, which is awesome. We sold out two shows. And we almost weren't able to do it because the Knicks and the Rangers were in the playoffs. So we didn't know that we were going to do the shows until like three days before.

Dang. Because they take precedence. Wow. So the Knicks had to play that day. But you had promoted already? They bought, we sold them out already. Wow.

And then you were going to have to reschedule the... I'm watching every Knick game actually Karen for the first time in 10 years. Right. Like it was, it was crazy.

And so we were able to do the game and that was just, and we were able to do the shows and that was just, that was so cool. 50 came out, that was like... And is this,

did that happen to be, turn out to be the next special? No, no, no. We did the next special at the Beacon. Oh, wow. So we did a different venue. One thing I know about you, right, is every time I go and I look at your comedy, it seems like you always have fresh, new material. It seems like you don't repeat. And by the way, I love, you know,

comedians who do that because I'm a rapper. I get that I have to use my verse more than one time. But when it's a particular special, I don't want to look at a special and see a joke that I heard. Unless it's a repetitive joke

that continues. What made you always come with original material? I just didn't want to, I just didn't want to like waste people's money. You know what I mean? When you're starting comedy

and you're touring, you're going back to the funny bone in Albany every year if you're lucky that you could do these comedy clubs. And when people buy

tickets to a comedy club, they're buying two tickets, they're probably getting a babysitter, they're getting Uber to go there. It's not a cheap night. And drinks. So if you tell them

the same jokes that you told them a year or two years ago, you're not stealing money from them, but it feels like you're not really respecting them. And I was always trying to make sure that everybody who came to the last show would come back with friends. And that's how I've kind of built my career. It's like, if it starts at 100, then I come next year and it's 300 people. The next year it's 600.

And then next year after that, it's 1,200. So yeah, it was just about that relationship and respecting that relationship with the fans. Okay. Now, this is a question. I'm pertaining to you. A Cocker Spaniel is a gun. How did I not know that?

Okay, I'll get to that. Make sure we get to that. But look. It wasn't that obvious to you? When did you find out you couldn't run laps around the English channel? No, I still think I can run laps around the English Channel, sir. I still think I can. In fact, I'm going to try to do that.

But you can't run around it. It's the swimming. I was trying to say I was that strong. So I said, light a candle. The original line was light a white candle. When you light a white candle, someone passed away. So I light a candle, run laps around the English Channel. I'm so mad I could run laps around the English Channel. I'm so mad, I could run laps

around the English Channel even though it's a body of water. That tune was like a Cocker Spaniel. Cocker Spaniel was the 22, a rock ball that was a 45, a 9mm was a pit bull.

So that's how we was like, yeah, we was disguised. So the 22 is just like a little gun. A little gun, yeah. That's what I got a Cocker Spaniel. I thought you were

like ahead of the game. I thought all these white girls had these tiny little Cockcker spaniels I was like, no worry, we was doing that 20 years ago I was like, this guy's playing You're gonna edit this part out, just like that Damn, but now he lost my train of thought

My bad, I just got all I need to know New York Tales I need to know about the tunnel So, um Comedy has been Like, I look at archie bunker yeah i look at george jefferson yeah and i say these people are legends but these people cameras would have would have canceled these sure sure right but that made my childhood. Like, I had to know that it was people like that that existed.

It wasn't this community, whether it was poor or whatever. It was people that's outside. But it also lets you know that it's funny to laugh at other people. It's funny to laugh at our indifferences. You know what I'm saying? Like, I grew up black and Puerto Rican. Yeah. I got the best Puerto Rican jokes that I got from black people.

Yeah, of course. And I got the best black people jokes. That you got from Puerto Rican. That I got from Puerto Rican people. Yeah, yeah. But I got to experience both sides. So what I'm trying to say to you is, what comedy being, I don't want to censor it almost. You know what it is?

How do you walk that line? I still... To me, it's like... Well, first of all, if you're offended by a joke, you're allowed to be. That's what I keep telling people. I think there's this idea

that comedians are out here going, you're not allowed to be offended by this joke. However you feel, you feel. I don't know how you grew up. Maybe something really traumatic happened to you and if I'm joking about it, you feel all those horrendous feelings that you felt as a kid. Right. So you're allowed to feel however you feel. I don't know how you grew up. Maybe something really traumatic happened to you, and if I'm joking about it, you feel all those horrendous feelings that you felt as a kid.

So you're allowed to feel however you feel. If you tell me I'm making you uncomfortable to your face, I'm not going to say that joke around you anymore. I'll still say it around the world. I'm not going to say it to you. So I want you to laugh. But what I'm realizing now that things are bigger for me is that the way that we

grew up, specifically in New Yorkork you probably have it here in miami maybe in los angeles maybe in like san francisco maybe chicago but it's very unique most people did not grow up with a level of comfort with another race race or ethnicity where you could bust balls people People who've been in the military have felt it. To the extreme in the military sometimes. You're protecting your brother every single day. It doesn't matter if he's Asian and you're fucking black. You've got to joke to each other

because there's so much love. I'm keeping you alive, you're keeping me alive. But we felt so much comfort growing up with it. We never even thought about it. It wasn't until I got out of New York and maybe went to college that I even knew people got offended by things like this. Right. Because it doesn't come from malice in our hearts.

Right. I mean, I was growing up in New York. I never met somebody who was like, I hate this group of people. Right. I never met a person like that. Right. Like, I met tons of people who were like, oh, yeah, here, we got Chinese jokes. We got Puerto Rican jokes.

We got Jew jokes. We got white people jokes. Like, whatever. It's just those were rampant. But I never met like a I identify as a racist person. Right. Like, did you meet any of them? Oh, in jail, yeah.

But that was a different. Yeah, but you've got to do that in jail. Yeah, yeah. Because you guys are bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how would you start? When you toured, though, middle America and these smaller towns where things might have been more segregated, how did the jokes come off?

The smaller towns aren't the issue. What I find mostly, I find the issue is probably like people, it's probably like white people that came from maybe more affluent or suburban areas. Maybe they're from like Vermont or Maine. They don't really have any minority friends. And they're trying to do what they think is the best thing they can do,

which is protect people who are oppressed. Like the uber-liberals. I'm not trying to make a political thing. It comes from a good place, a lot of them. Some are just virtue signaling, but some are just like, hey man, I don't want his feelings to be hurt. You shouldn't do that, which is kind of nice. You want to protect somebody.

What they don't realize is that because they don't have friends that are minorities, they never even hung out with minorities, they kind of are infantilizing minorities. They're kind of condescending. Yeah, they're making them babies. They can't defend themselves. Or they don't also have jokes. Right, right. We're not worried about making a joke about somebody growing up in New York because they got jokes back. Right.

Like, if you were going to crack on the Asian dude, he's cracking. You don't understand him, but it's coming back. You know what I mean? Like, even gay people. I know some of the funniest gay people. They have the most movement. I know some of the funniest gay people ever. Oh.

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You said, oh, yeah, it's either you're Christian or you're going to heaven. I didn't make this up. Like, I can see my gay friends saying, oh, yeah, well, I'm going to dick heaven. Like, say some dumb shit like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, I'm sorry. Clip it. Clip it.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just being honest. I'm just being honest. And repeat it. Clip it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just being honest. That one line's going crazy. Okay. I'm going to dick heaven. I can see what you're saying. I don't tune on it.

But his was crazy, right? Now we know what you were on the run eating. Don't make me Mill me, man. Chill, chill. So, hold on. Because that's something right there. Like, you joked with Meek Mill. Meek Mill is...

I love Meek. Free Meek, bro. Yes. What? Meek is straight. Free Meek. Meek is straight. Stop saying he's gay.

It's you who keeps saying it. Oh, my bad. Stop that shit. I always say he's straight. I say he's bad at proving he's straight. Okay, okay. I believe he's straight as well. If I call you gay, you don't go,

I fucking love pussy. I love pussy. I love pussy. Right? I love pussy. Right? But if you did do that, me and him, we'd look at each other like, yo, what the fuck is up? But you got to, now, let me. He's going to dickhead me. Now, but free me.

Let me defend me. I always say he's straight. Let me defend me. And he gets a bad shake. Let me defend me. I always say he's straight. I always say he's straight. Let me defend me. And he gets a bad shake. Let me defend me. Yeah. As a person who has never been accused of being gay, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's probably thrown off because that's probably the furthest thing. He probably used to like the Illuminati rumors, used to like, you know, what's the guy, Ruben Benson, what's the guy, Ruben? Michael Ruben. Like, used to that The other shit But when he When he's being Bungarded with these Gay rumors

He's like So I mean It's like Someone calling you Four eyes Or some shit like that He's just not used to it Yeah

He's also gotta see The pictures from that Party in the Hamptons And be like Yo what the fuck Are we doing Yo every summer You see the pictures

And it's crazy But alright Now let me be Devil's advocate That shit is crazy bro Every year doing like you know every summer you see the pictures and it's crazy but all right now let me be devil's advocate that shit is crazy bro every year this is waiting for you to grab the guy's hips there's no pictures where they're not hugging there's no pictures where it's just a regular conversation and a tap up this is the next next summer they don't invite me to these parties i don't know i know why because you got a dude bit of a pitch. They don't invite me to these parties. I don't know. I know why. Because you got a copy of Spinner, but you're trying to hug me with a fucking fucking bat. You get invited to those parties? No.

No. But so, like, Meek, again, let me just stay on that for a second. Because to me, Meek is a street guy. He just, like you said, do you ever, like, be cautious of that type of thing? Because maybe he'll find it funny. I remember at first, he tweeted. He found it funny. He tweeted and then, he tweeted. He found it funny. He tweeted,

and then you doubled down. And I think you tripled down. You're a double down type of dude. That's the other thing. I'm for like, whatever. No, but let me ask you because as a rapper, he found it funny at the first, right?

He tweeted it out. But that's funny. And he was like, all right, you know, that was funny, cool, boom, boom. But then you double down and then you triple down. Are you wrong

if he takes that in a wrong way? Because it's like, all right, cool, I got it at first, but you kept going. He's totally allowed to be bothered or offended. Okay, okay.

Like, 100%. And I get that, actually. I understand. Like I was saying before, how you react to anything is okay. We're not about to police the way Americans react to shit. You've got freedom to react however the fuck you want. Within the confines of the law, 100%.

But if you're offended or bothered or annoyed, you're like, why the fuck does this kid do that shit? I would hope that he knows my heart and I'm just trying to make light of this kind of fucked up situation. But I always, if you notice, in the captions or anything, I'm always like, yo, leave Meek alone. Meek is not gay. These, you know, like I, cause I do think he gets an unfair shake on the internet. Yeah. Yeah.

Like the internet really comes for him because he kind of tweets shit that's wild. So that's the other thing. Like he can't be, just as I can't be like upset at how he responds to something, I don't think he can be upset at how the internet responds. People think a million different things of me, you, and you. We put content out on the internet, and they can cut it up however they want, make us look however they want. And that's the cost of success.

We can't have success. We can have a show where we sit around, smoke weed, and drink alcohol, make money, feed our families, and then go, but why doesn't everyone understand me? It's crazy. I had a comedian call me the other day about a doctored footage of Kevin

Hart. Someone doctored footage of Kevin Hart on our show and used AI? It wasn't fully AI, but they edited it. And I was like, Mike,

I had to tell him, I was like, yo, bro, they got you. I was like, yo, they got you. This footage of Mayweather spelling the goat wrong on our show. Yeah, that was... No, it was goat. It was goat, sir. He spelled it correctly. Yeah that was Who? No it was Goat I said Mayweather How'd he spell Goat?

It was Goat sir He spelled it correctly If you're going to interrupt They had him spelling it wrong He spelled it right But they They did it They just changed it around

Then this footage Of Lil Wayne Literally doing like this He blows The weed thing off But they reversed it So it goes like this And they go

Look at Nori's face And Lil Wayne goes like this And it looks like at Nori's face And Lil Wayne goes like this And it looks like He sniffed a lot And I go Oh shit And I'm like Idiots

We would've edited that shit But Shit is wild right now Yeah shit is wild Yo but free meek Free meek though Okay yeah If you have anything to say

To meek I love you Okay that's dope And anytime you want To tweet about How much you love girls Just hit me first I'll approve it

and then you put that shit out and next time you get invited to that party wear black you see what I mean like you gotta do something to let people know

you're not allowed to hug me from the back you gotta do something you gotta wear a turtle shell or some shit you gotta just there's that party's getting too

it does not feel a little weird the party and I know we could just say this because we're, doesn't it not feel a little weird at the party? And I know we could just say this because we're not invited, but it does feel a little weird, right? Yeah, but I want to be invited. I don't want to lie to y'all. How badly?

I want to wear a watch there. I want to shut down. I want to wear a watch there. No, I'm going to buy a watch just to go there. To the white party. Yeah, to the white party. Yeah, yeah.

No, I think he means well. I think it's Michael Rubin is his name, right? He seems like a good dude. Yeah, he's good. He does seem like a good dude. It's just funny how the internet reacts to pictures, but that's what we do as humans. We see a bunch of people enjoying their life, having a great time. Our knee-jerk reaction isn't to go, well, I wish them the best.

Right. Our knee-jerk human interaction. Man, fuck you. But I'm going to be honest. Now, this is for everyone in the room, right? If you look through your album photos, everyone has one suspect picture. I got a million. Of course.

I'm just being honest with you. You had it on an angle where you look this way and you had your tongue out and you look like Jordan going like that. I'm just being honest. If you look this way and you had your tongue out and you look like Jordan going like that. You know what I mean? I'm just being honest. If you look through everyone's... And the way they take pictures out. That guy picked a...

That looks foul. When the hand was just going like this. So it's crazy, man. So... Oh, yes. Yes. Okay. We can segue some flowers.

Okay, yeah. What a segue. That was hard, though. I liked it there, though. Yes. Okay. Oh, okay. Segway some flowers. Okay, yeah. What a segway. That was hard, though. I liked it, though. And it was hard? Come on. I liked it. But this is what we got to do with the, this is like, so white people have this thing called

like white boy fun. Are you familiar with this? Yeah, it's very gay. It's just gay jokes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, I know about them. Yeah. I got white boy friends.

Okay. Okay. And now I think black people Are getting in on White boy fun And it's awesome Yeah but they be fucking up though Cause they be saying Pause and being You can't do

You can't do white boy You can't Pause has to go out the window We say fast forward Fast forward yes You fast forwarded Cause the other day He was like

I'm getting a date to come I was like Andrew It's not that type of show So I think I think that The more you embrace The white boy fun Or the gay jokes the other day. He was like, I'm getting a date to come. I was like, Andrew, it's not that type of show. So I think that the more you embrace the white boy fun or the gay jokes or whatever like that, the less it can hurt you when it happens. Right. Does that make sense?

No, but I get it. I drank Jager before with Red Bull. What is that called? The Jager bombs? The Jager bombs. No, no, that's Jager and... With vodka, right? No, what is Jager bombs? The Jager bombs. No, no, that's Jager and... With vodka, right? No, what is a Jager?

With beer, with beer. Jager and beer. Jager and beer. Yeah, Jager bombs. Those are Jager bombs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Like a sake bomb.

Yeah, yeah, I've been down with that shit. That's crazy, bro. Nobody gets white boy wasted. Yeah. That is the best. And you know what's great about real white guys who drink? Yeah. Is they wake up the next day like nothing happened.

Nothing. Screaming at the mirror. This motherfucker was fighting the mirror. Yeah. He was punching the concrete wall. Yeah. And he'll wake up in the morning like, nothing happened, man. Yeah.

It just made my hand swollen. Yeah. How awesome is that? Yeah. He was punching a fucking concrete wall for 20 minutes calling it Albert. Albert, fuck you!

So I love it. I love it. This is good. My only thing is when I... This is good. I'm going to tell you my rule, though.

I love you embracing our culture. No, I'm going to tell you my rule, though. No, I'll be honest. I'm very experienced. Is this cultural appreciation? No, this is cultural appreciation.

I've been more successful than I have been. I appreciate it. This is what I don't do. I don't mix. You don't mix. White boy fun ends. No, I don't mix drinks.

Oh, okay. Because, yes. Because they have like certain hours where they change. Oh, yeah. And it's like, all right, cool. It's Johnny Walker time. I'm like, wait a minute. We was just on Hennessy.

Don't we stay on Hennessy? And they don't do that. So you find if you keep the same alcohol you can be more responsible i could never let them know that i'm keeping the same alcohol because when they switch i gotta act like i'm switching too really yes when they go all right cool it's jay good time i'm like yep yeah it is important to us that everybody takes part exactly in indulgence. Why is that? Yes. Like, if I'm doing shots, everybody got to do shots. And if you're not doing it, you're, like, ruining the vibe for some reason.

Yeah, we do peer pressure like that. It's the best peer pressure in the world. Yeah, we're good at peer pressure. Yes, yes, it's great. We're fucking good at it. We stormed the Capitol. We did that shit. We got in.

We talk about that. We got in, yeah. We got in. We got in. They got inside. Everybody talk their shit about what they're going to do. They got him. Get him out of here. They got inside. Everybody talk their shit about what they're going to do. What the fuck? And we out.

You know how long we've been saying, we're going to storm the Capitol. These motherfuckers really did it. We're going to break into the Capitol. One dude had a lunch. What is this called? A lunch bucket where you take the lunch? They had a lunch box that he planned to stay in. That's real shit.

We thought it was going to be our country. Right. In 2022, it was ours. In 2022, you did a special and you said that you miss Trump. Right? Oh, yeah. And now we have Trump back it's the first

time ever we've all witnessed this we've never seen a president the context of the joke is is important though yes because like i say you're a comedian like i miss how absurd he is and like the news is just so crazy oh he's giving it to us yeah bro i feel like he's it hasn't been that many bars thank you you're trying to get me fucked up What do you mean? Elon Musk is a bar in itself Yeah, Elon Musk is what replaced Those custom bars That's kind of what I think I think Trump is like

Laying in the cut And letting Elon take all the smoke It might be the strategy Because nobody says shit About Trump anymore Because it doesn't stick Like I feel like for so long They've been saying things

About Trump Trying to make him like Radioactive and toxic And people were just like, all right, whatever Like they convicted him of shit. Yeah, people got over it He was grabbing him by the pussy and I did I did defend that one I did defend that one. Yeah, I did because he was like if you're famous like you could do that that you've been famous 1998 best year of my life I still have never grabbed nothing by the pussy you know I don't think so that's good for you I think it

might have been the fifth the first you can't start like that. But if you use rewars, you can absolutely grab the pussy. If you see a girl walking down the street and her pussy looks ungrabs, rewind it. Is this real or not? It's real. Bro, not this box. It's an actual box there. Look at what they're going to say.

Look at what Nori's going to say. You buy a whole box of nothing when you buy Rewind. So let me ask you. Jet black. As a comedian, is Trump giving you the material that you need to successfully deliver these jokes? No, not anymore. It was fun in the beginning when he was just so, people couldn't believe what was happening.

And now I think it's very common. So in the early stages, we all kind of knew he was funny, but people were scared to admit it because they're like, well, if I say that, what will my friends think? And now that he's won and he won easily and he's popular and the majority of the country supports him, it's no longer dangerous to defend it. If anything, it's more dangerous to

defend the opposite side. That's more fun and exciting. I think with comedy, you always want to go against the grain. It was risky to defend Trump with the grabber by the pussy shit. That was a fun joke for me. I'm thinking about, okay, how could I... This is a crazy statement that he said.

How could I defend this? Like, what's something funny about it, you know? So I write a joke about it. And so now it's like the opposite. What is the joke defending, I don't know, lighting Tesla on fire or some shit, which I don't think you should do. But, like, what's the funny joke defending it, you know? But when he met with that dude That had the sweatsuit on Zelensky

Yeah The dude with the sweatsuit That shit was crazy That shit was wild That shit was crazy That was a rap battle I don't give a fuck What you talking about

Yeah but it was It was two on one That was smack TV In their neighborhood He was like You're in no position You're in no position I was like

And he was touching You know that contact That was the first time I was like That's some queen shit Right there He was like You're in no position I was like that was the first time I was like that's some queen shit right there this is the queen shit one of the reporters goes and it was like a Russian reporter while they're all there he goes and what if Putin doesn't accept the ceasefire

this guy's German? how do you do Russian? that is German how do you do Russian? That is German. That is German. How do you do Russian? I'll take German. What if the Germans, what if the Russians do not accept the C-SWAT?

Right? And Trump just looks at you and goes, he goes, what if someone drops a bomb on your head? What if? What if someone drops a bomb on your head? But if? Yo, he said that's not a matter of fact. But that's, this is what people don't realize. And I keep telling people, Trump is like this billionaire. He came from money and all that kind of stuff.

But he talks poor. Like he doesn't talk like he comes from money like he went to Ivy League schools. He talks like he's from the block. He's just off the cuff. What if someone drops a bomb on your head? He's the president. He just told the reporter, What if someone drops a bomb on your head? He's the president. He just told the reporter, what if someone drops a bomb on your head? He's like playing the dozens

with you. That's it. He goes, what if, what if? I mean, to a woman. So I think there's a relatability to that. Now I think most people are comfortable saying that. So it's not as like dangerous

to defend him or like even admit that he's funny like obviously the guy's funny you think he thinks he's funny? yeah and he like when we interviewed him if he says something that makes you laugh oh that's right you guys he said this shit that made me laugh he was like yeah I got shot

these country doctors and I laughed because it was like he's so New York that he don't even realize it sometimes. So, like, he called a doctor in Ohio a country doctor. And it's just like, wow, that's where he got shot at? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania, sorry. Butler, right?

Yeah. So, Pennsylvania, not even really like middle of America. In his mind, if you're not from New York, you're from the country. Miami's a country to him probably. These country doctors, in his mind, he was surprised they had instruments and shit. So these country doctors, and I laughed, and he saw me laugh, and he kept saying it a few more times because he's like working his set. Yes.

He's tweaking it. But like anybody else would be very like disciplined. They'd be like, oh, this doctor was excellent and the training that they received. And he was like, nah, this fucking country bumpkin with his overalls fixed my ear pretty good. He's a pop boy. Oh. I mean. Right, though?

Yeah. No, yeah. I mean But going back to you having him on the show Did you get any other insight Of having him in person in front of you? Like in You met him? He's like a cute listener to like what people are Going through

Really? Yeah like And it could be for better or for worse But that's I think his competitive advantage Is like if you are saying something is bothering you, he will listen. Where a lot of politicians on both sides, they might hear you, but they'll go, we know how to make it better. Just trust us. You guys sit down and don't do anything.

Whereas Trump is used to entertainment and TV. He's used to the ratings. He's like, what do the people like? Okay, let's do this. Oh, they like when I say you're fired? That's going to be my tagline. You're fired. He's very in tune with the audience, if you will.

So it's not surprising to me when people are like, man, the food is unhealthy in America, and he appoints the guy who says the food is poisonous to run the food. It's very transactional in that way. Who, Robert Kennedy? RFK, yeah. What's wrong with his voice? I'm not going to keep saying. Too much white boyfriend, bro.

He definitely sniffed a lot of cocaine in his life. I think he admitted he was on heroin for years. That's right. Yeah, yeah. He wanted to do a drink challenge. Yeah, yeah. Why are you laughing at that, bro? Wait, I missed that. What happened? Why are you laughing at it? bro? Wait, I missed that.

What happened? Why are you laughing at it? Yeah, we got a heroin fiend running. Make some noise for Rob Candy. Yeah. You want them over here, goddammit. You need bands from here. I'm doing heroin over here, goddammit.

And show the American people how to eat. Exactly. Only a heroin addict can show you how to eat. But he looks good, though. Like, for his age. And who's his best friend The Rock or something His best friend

Yeah The Rock The Rock With Robert Kennedy Google it You're putting on some crazy shit Google it Robert Kennedy

And The Rock He's like That's his friend That's the tag team Yeah Google it You just made that shit No

I've never heard this stuff Google it That's the most My Google's different Your Google's way different Your Google's way different. No, there's no way. And Google's the slowest Google in the fucking world. Your Google's not on cocaine.

You checked me to hear some shit. You're on cocaine. Your Google's not on cocaine. I'll look that shit up. I guarantee he's going to find a white Google. Some celebrity. I swear that you write in Spanish. It's not the rock.

It's somebody else. It's a celebrity. It's not the rock. Who? Who do? The rock and RFK. Yes, yes. It's not The Rock. It's somebody else. It's a celebrity. It's not The Rock. Who? Who? The Rock and RFK. Yes, yes. I mean, everybody's good friends with a Kennedy, so I guess.

I ain't got no Kennedys. I got Kennedy fried chicken. You know what I'm saying? They all have celebrity friends. I know them. But they were down with El Cajon. I've never seen The Rock and RFK together. It's one of these actors.

He was supposed to run, and he was going to have him as his VP. Oh. I see what you're saying. I forget what it was. I forget what it was. This is when he was trying to come to drink champs. That's how I know this. We should have had him on. You should have had him on. You were supposed to have him on. He's great. He's charming.

Yeah, but he ain't going to drink. That's right. Who cares? We have people that don't drink. Do you have sober people on here? Yeah, but I want him to drink. You want to hear the stories? Yes, ain't going to drink, so. Oh, that's right. Who cares? No, we have people that don't drink. Do you have sober people on here? Yeah, but I want him to drink. You want to hear the stories. Yes, I want him to drink and be like, hey, man, I remember Marilyn Monroe was sniffing coke. You know, I want to hear that.

He's the son, though. That's his uncle. No, no, no. That's not the son. No, no, his father, too. You know. His father smashed Marilyn? Supposedly, yeah.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. It was walling out. Let's make some noise for Kennedy's getting locked up. Hey. Now, that White House must be crazy. Oh, yeah. That was.

Did you hear that Kid Rock has a replica of the White House where he lives? This is property? And it's property. Wow. No, I didn't hear that. Yeah, and all they do is cocaine all day. He made a White House to do cocaine? This is not accurate.

Nah, the cocaine part I made up. Yeah, I did. That part I made up. I heard that he has a replica of the White House. I've seen that. When you walk in, it's like a party house stuff. Oh, okay. That's what he does his parties in the White House.

Alright, that's vibes. That's a lot does is parties in the White House. Yeah. All right. That's vibes. That's a lot. That's vibes, right? That's a lot of money. You got to have a lot of money. To have a replica of the White House, be your guest house.

Be your guest house. Yeah, that's a flex. That is a flex. Yeah. Yeah. I heard Kid Rock is a little racist, but we'll still have him on. Yeah. You know.

You know. You know. He's racist? I don't think Kid Rock's racist. Do you think? You know. He's conservative? I don't think Kid Rock's racist Do you think? I don't know He's conservative for sure Listen, you said something about a MAGA hat, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah Okay Just so you know Yeah, the Tesla truck is the new MAGA hat Which is crazy Which is crazy Because it was the ultimate symbol of liberalism at one point But the MAGA hat

By the way, I wake up every morning I see this Latina lady Every morning The one from the Thing in his special? No That's the Latina nurse That's the nurse

The nurse doesn't come out But I see this Latina lady Comes out every morning On the beach And she has a Make America Great hat She trying not to get sent back And I swear to God

I swear to God Me, Los, and Mitch has been running this shit for maybe three straight years straight. We see her every single morning. She does not know whether to say hi to us. Or?

But guess what? What? We don't know whether to say hi to her neither. But why? We don't know. Why can't you say hi to her? You're Cuban, right?

She looks at us. We look at her. You don't think he's MA her? You're Cuban, right? She looks at us. We look at her. You don't think he's MAGA, bro? No, I'm definitely not. No, it's not. I can't. Y'all believe in this shit? Are we really going to believe in this shit?

I know where you're coming from. Now, Cuban people are hella MAGA. Yes. I got some Puerto Rican MAGA. I'm not mad at you right now, but I'm not MAGA. It's horrible. Ain't nobody more MA mad than a Cuban in Miami You're right

Stop it You're right Let me just tell you something I regret how me and Deft Hold on Would you say the community The Cuban community here Especially in Florida

100% Not 100% Obviously not 100% But the majority Would you say the community, the Cuban community here, especially in Florida. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Not a hundred percent, obviously. Not a hundred. But mostly. Yeah. But this goes back to the Kennedy's Bay of Pigs.

This is very historical with Cubans. Well, I think that's it. And being Republican, you know. I think that's an important thing to understand is like, so if you understand like what Cubans have been through, you'll understand why they're so concerned about a country going towards communism. And they see liberalism go to socialism, then to communism, right? So anything super liberal,

they get concerned that they're going to go through what their family already went through, these horrible stories, right? Where they lost everything. Right, right. Because I don't think anybody gives pushback to Cubans when they say what they experienced and how they don't want to experience it again. Right, but they've gotten pushback. Because people don't know the history, but people who know the history understand why. And as a Cuban, I'm confused sometimes too, and when they're so mad because I'm like, this administration is also very cozy with Russia, who in a former KGB, the ultimate communist, you know.

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So you guys stopped talking over politics? I believe so. No. I believe so. At that time. We. I believe so. When he publicly, at that time. We got to call him. Who, John McCain?

No, Daddy Yankee, bro. Let's get him on the phone now. What is that? Call hell. Get John McCain on the phone. I mean, heaven. Excuse me, my bad. What the fuck?

I didn't mean to say that. No, we got to call. Yeah. Man. Yeah, but that's where I pinpoint it. Wait, so you guys Caught beef over that I publicly

Denounced him For publicly You were against McCain Of course I was And he was for McCain Yeah And I believe McCain was against

Obama Or was Yeah Obama and McCain Ran against each other But they had like a really Very like Cordial

Yeah very cordial They had respect And then Trump Shitted all over McCain After death Which is wild to me McCain said he didn't Want to come to his against each other, but they had like a really cordial, they had respect. And then Trump shitted all over McCain after death, which is wild to me. McCain said he didn't want him at his funeral.

He told, on his deathbed, he said, tell Trump don't come to my shit. Do you know how mad you got to be on your deathbed?

Nigga said, yo, what you want? He's like, just make sure Trump don't come up to my shit. Yeah, like, see, there's a lot of craziness in all of this shit, dude. It's just wild. Wait, why, what you want? He's like, just make sure Trump don't come up to my shit. Yeah, like, see, there's a lot of craziness in all of this shit, dude.

It's just wild. Wait, why? So you haven't spoken to him since? I believe. I could be getting my time. That can't be the reason.

I mean, me and him have no other problem. We have no other, we have nothing. We haven't spoken 17 years. I believe that's,

I believe that kind of says it's something. He didn't want to talk to me on that flight? I don't have no text. Knowing that I was your friend. Huh? On the flight to LA.

I told you. He was right next to me and he didn't say a word to me. Oh, yeah. Okay, see. I don't like this. Clearly, there's something. I don't like this. We could have seen each other.

But it's okay. What I'm saying is that's how deep politics is. That's why I brought that up. Yeah, but like. And the thing about it is. We need to get away from that. The thing about it was. Yeah, the polarization. The way that it divided. That's why I brought that up. Yeah, but like... And the thing about it is... We need to get away from that. The thing about it was... Yeah, the polarization

and the way that it divided the world. Like, Nicky Jam's... Remember, I didn't understand Nicky Jam supporting Trump neither. I didn't understand all that. But then Nicky Jam's came out and he called him a girl.

He's like, he's one of... He's like, I'm introducing Nicky Jam. She's hot. She's one of the hottest out there. He's talking about a guy, bro. Fire, bro. Yeah. Fire. And introducing Nicky Jam. She's hot. She's one of the hottest out there. He's talking about a guy, bro. Fire. And then Nicky Jam still stayed on the campaign until Homeboy did the comedy special and called Puerto Rico a floating garbage, which was a horrible joke.

Horrible joke. Who said this? Tony Hinchcliffe. Oh, that's right. That's right. I'm going to say you don't get Puerto Rican newspaper. No, no, that's right. You don't get the Cuban newspaper? Tony is a hilarious comedian. You Oh, that's right. I'm going to say you don't get Puerto Rican newspaper. No, no, that's right. You only get the Cuban newspaper.

Tony is a hilarious comedian. He did not take it back. So here's the thing about that joke. He actually had a thoughtful explanation of what happened, but I didn't realize this because at first when I saw him do the joke, and Tony's a buddy of mine. I love Tony. But what I thought is that he just doesn't understand

what Puerto Rico was. That was my knee-jerk reaction because Puerto Rico to New Yorkers, if you saw the way the audience reacted, they were like, ooh. They didn't cheer at it. They were confused. Because to New Yorkers,

Puerto Rico is our first exotic vacation. When you grow up kind of regular in New York, you don't get to go to Cabo or some shit. Your first exotic vacation with your family is you go to fucking Rincon or whatever and you just enjoy Puerto Rico, right? So I was like, okay, maybe he doesn't

know how we feel about Puerto Rico. Or that it's even a U.S. territory that they're U.S. citizens. Exactly. So he goes and then I was either talking to him or watching him say something about it. He goes, dude, actually, it had nothing to do with that. It's an old bit. Do you remember when there was a floating pile of garbage in the Atlantic?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I don't. Yeah, with the way the shit was moving, it was binding it. It was like miles wide. Yeah. So it was a play off of that. Oh. But because that was a story three years ago, we didn't really make

the connection. You know what I mean? So it wasn't really. I mean, I understood that connection. I just thought it was in poor taste for that. You're smarter

than the rest of us. But like, I guess the idea was it wasn't just, hey, this is funny because I'm calling something garbage.

The idea was I'm playing off of this thing that's happening, you know, this, what would you call it? Like some sort of sort of recycling issue in the world in the oceans or whatever.

It doesn't matter. I hate explaining jokes. What I'm trying to say is it's not coming from this place like, this is how I see Puerto Rican people. I think they're garbage. It was a play off of this horrible thing that's happening. I'm going to tell you. It was the platform where it was said, I think.

It made it a little weirder. Of course. This is what I keep telling people. It's like how everybody interpreted that is okay. Right. We can't be upset at how people interpreted it because they don't have all this information about him. They might not even know who he is. So if that upsets them, that's all right.

I'm just explaining where he's coming from as a friend. I'm going to tell you where the people were coming from because right now they have all this tax breaks for the wealthy people that's coming into Puerto Rico. I saw a lot of Dominicans agreeing with that joke. I just want to let you know. About what, Puerto Rico? Yeah. When Tony said that shit, they were like, let's fucking do it.

But here's the deal. They have, and Bad Bunny recently made, damn near a whole album about it and made visuals about it. They're visualizing a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans. So you're talking about that tax break where essentially you pay zero dollars in income tax if you make over a certain amount of money. And you have to live there for six months in one day or seven months in one day. We know people. Yeah.

And the idea is to bring people into the territory? To bring people into the territory that have a lot of money and hopefully they'll inject money into the local economies. That is the idea. But it also could be gentrification because now you're bringing these people with money. They can move people out.

Those are your friends too? First of all, I get why people do the same shit in Florida, by the way. Okay, I'm out here. You know how much taxes cost in New York? And then you've moved here and you're like, whoa, I could save a lot of money. Much better. Exactly. So Puerto Rico is the Florida for Floridians.

No, it's even better because I don't believe there's no federal tax in Puerto Rico. I believe it's not. Do you get what I'm saying? In Florida, it's still federal tax I don't believe there's no federal tax in Puerto Rico. I believe it's not. Do you get what I'm saying? In Florida, it's still federal tax. Of course, of course. What I'm just saying is like, so in New York, let's say you're making a lot of money. You're spending 50% in tax. And then you got to spend 5% in city tax.

Yep. And in property tax, if you own. So you're at 50% at least, so maybe a little over. You come down to Florida, you save 13%, right? So let's just do raw numbers. If you're a rich dude, you're making $10 million a year. You're saving $1.3 million cash a year just living in Florida. That's why I got that.

So that's why a lot of people move to Florida. Now, there's a lot of- We're going to end this part out. Stay where y'all at. They do the same shit. We should just put another state. Yeah, put another state. When you move to Minnesota.

They do it in Texas too. And then there are people that go, okay, I can save 13% here, but wait a minute. I could save another 40% on top of that if I move to Puerto Rico and I just got to stay there for six months. And I travel every weekend. That's not even really moving there. So I guess I'm hesitant to criticize everybody that goes to Puerto Rico to do it because I know a lot of people that moved to Florida to do that exact same thing. And Texas to do the exact same thing. So you're just doing it to different levels.

Now, it does suck if they're pushing people out of certain areas. That's the part that made that Puerto Rican joke not funny. It's because that was something that I didn't realize that they were going through. And then Bad Bunny and then Nicky Jams. Nicky Jams came up. It's like I'm not taking back my support of Trump because of that joke but and then the people was telling them like, yo look, how many people like this?

Like I remember Queensbridge. Like Queensbridge. I remember at one point this is when Trump wasn't president. Trump was just the real estate tycoon and letters was under these people's doors. And they was giving everybody like $10,000 to move out. Because they wanted to turn Queensbridge into the first Manhattan development company.

Queensbridge is fucking a golden mine. It's right across the street. It's right across the street. And I remember people like, that was like the first sign of gentrification ever hit in New York City. And I remember people like, that was the first sign of gentrification ever hit in New York City. And I remember people like, certain people were happy. They were like, I got $10,000.

And certain people had nowhere else to go. So it's a totally different thing. You know what's tricky about the gentrification thing also is there's a lot of people that are minorities or whatever that ethnic group is that have lived in that area forever. And they bought their homes there.

And those people are actually really making a lot of money because of gentrification. So there's this one argument where you go, it's really fucked up that this other group is moving in and causing prices to go up and moving these people out of the community that they built. There's another part where it's like those people that made that investment

in that area are now getting reward off their business. They get cashed out. Exactly. Low key. It's like white people get to do that all the time. They get to buy real estate somewhere and then they get to sell it. And nobody goes, how dare you sell out the community?

Everybody goes, Oh, you're a smart real estate developer. But the second a black person does it or a Latino person does it, they're like, how dare you sell out your community? It's like, he's just trying to make like, but most minorities don't own in their community.

That's that's the problem. That's where the problem is. That's not entirely true. I think the percentage would probably, I don't know this, but I'm sure it'll show us that it's lopsided. I get what you are saying, but there are definitely ones that do. And like there's part of me that like goes, man, I don't knock that person that has an opportunity to make life-changing money of selling their brownstone. They could take on crazy debt to put their three kids through school, or they could make billions of dollars selling their brownstones to some fucking white family from the city. And now their kids don't got to worry about college. This shit is a little bit more complicated. It's mad.

And you know what it is? Sorry, politically, I'm going to switch back to the interview, but it's an example, a perfect example that just happened right now. It's Flo Rida, just bought a whole

goddamn fucking plot. Plaza, yeah. A whole fucking plot. Him and Freezy, right? Him and Freezy? Who did it with him? I didn't know if he had a partner. Yeah, he has a partner, yeah.

Yeah, my bad, Freezy. What's his name? I think it was Freezy, right? Okay, yeah, but Flo Rida just bought a whole fucking thing, right? And then I saw that. I wanted to promote that. But then I seen Trick Daddy double down on him.

It was like, yo, I'm going to actually have a store there. Do you know how much... And I'm not saying black or white. I'm saying hip hop. I'm saying the people who understand that we want our community to be better. The more things like that happen, the more this shit is. It's the education, man. We haven't gotten the financial education to make those moves.

And that's really where we fall short. That's like, I think the illusion is that white people got that financial education too. Like, I'm financially illiterate. My parents were financially illiterate. They were fortunate enough that they made money. Like, my were financially illiterate. They were fortunate enough that they made money. My parents had a dance studio. They were teaching dance lessons. Then dance lessons were popular, so they were able to

make money. Manhattan? Manhattan, yeah. The illusion is that I think that there's the majority of us know what the fuck is going on. We don't. I think that's where the resentment comes from. You see these people that understand the stock market

and they understand investing, they understand real estate and they seem to get richer and richer and richer and I'm going to use us. Obviously we're doing well, but people that grew up similarly to us, we grew up at different levels, but still without this, maybe you're financially literate, I don't know, but I didn't grow up learning about none of that shit.

So the rest of us are kind of like hold on hold on how are they making 30 on the stock market i don't even really understand no we grew up scared to invest anything because i heard the market's gonna crash i'm gonna lose everything i'm gonna invest money to this thing that's called a stock that i don't know and i can't grab it and i can't use it so of course i'm gonna buy something stupid it looks like i could use a watch a car whatever jordan's right exactly because in my brain i'm like well at least I can hold it and it has value and I can see it. So I think that to your point, that financial education, getting as many people that grew

up without that education, which is really passed down from your family, it's not at school, but getting people invested into the market, or at least understanding what the market is so that they're not so intimidated, then they'll feel connected to the success of America. Right now, it feels like there's a few people that make a lot of money in America, and everybody else kind of just hopes to get lucky.

That's the sentiment that I feel. I saw you talking about that, and it makes sense. Once you're invested, then you're invested in the whole country being successful. That was this idea, and I'm sure that it's short-sighted and there's definitely holes in it, etc. The gist of it is there. It makes sense. If every American born got $10,000 put into an account that was invested in the S&P 500,

so the top 500 stocks that are being traded, and they weren't allowed to touch until they're 22, I wonder if they would have a lot more positive energy towards American industry, simply because in, let's say they're 15 years old, in seven years, you want these companies to thrive because in seven years, you're going to reap the benefits of that. So instead of lighting Tesla on fire, you're looking at Tesla, you're going, holy shit, this is an American-made auto company. 100% of the cars are made in America.

I'm invested in that company. I want it to thrive. Maybe I disagree with Elon on all this other stuff. And protest, that's American. Find another way to protest, but I'm not going to light that shit on fire because, hey, we're all invested in the success of this company.

I think that's what a lot of the politics shit misses. There are people that are, they come from situations where they don't have access to this type of financial education and they are left behind. And they're just looking at these politicians going, you all are lying to me. I'm waiting for one of you to actually look like you care. I think also there's people lack in this country, historical context to a lot of things.

So they'll get mad about something right now and they'll be standing a backstory. They're like, no, no, we live in in the present but this is what happened right now sure but you don't understand what happened here here here and here that led us to here and not knowing that if you knew that then you could maybe understand people more put yourself in their shoes absolutely and we'd have more understanding let me switch it up for a little bit right um the the the the thing to me about your comedy is I can actually

just put it on strap I can walk and just listen to you

all day like all your comedy he's gonna strap you on man you like

you like that hold on I'm sorry you walked out I gave you out of you'll get it out of you. I'll get it out of you.

He's with you. He's with you. No, no, because the thing about it is, like, you know. I got this strap. So many different times, if you name, you know, a comedian, you'll say, he's a Mexican comedian. And then you'll say, he's a Puerto Rican comedian. He's a black comedian. Or he's a Puerto Rican comedian he's a black comedian or he's a white

comedian I feel like your comedy is so good that I don't think people even address you as a white comedian that's interesting you know what I mean I feel like I feel like you are like the Michael Jackson of white people meaning like what are you meaning by that? Makes sense. Meaning like you trans, it's because people don't judge you race wise. Right, right, right. They judge you comedic wise. Like if you speak to a person that's white, they don't look at Michael Jackson like he's a black person.

No, he transcends race. Yes, and to me that's what you do with your comedy is like... Like Mike Tyson isn't black. Yeah. He's Mike Tyson. Like OJ. He's OJ.

No, OJ became black again, though. No, he didn't. No, OJ transitioned that shit. You know what's funny? No, no, no. Hey, fuck it. No, no, no. No, no, no.

Not to cut you. But like, that is a good point. Because I remember there was a lot of contention when he said that. The documentary came out that OJ was like, I'm not black. I'm not black. I'm OJ, yeah. And everybody looked at that like he was maybe embarrassed of being black or something like that. But I think he was making a statement that was kind of true, that he was so famous, he was beyond his race.

Yes. And I think you can—Will Smith is Will Smith. Denzel is Denzel. Right. They're beyond the compound. Their brand transcends can, like, Will Smith is Will Smith. Denzel is Denzel. Right. Like, they just, they're beyond the compound. Their brand transcends all of that, right? A hundred percent. Right.

That's really interesting. And Michael Jackson is that. Right. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if you remember, George Jefferson and Archie Bunker had a conversation. And then George Jefferson says to him, like, he asked him about a black dude. And he's like, Sammy Javis, I believe. And he was like, Sammy Javis is not black.

And then George Jefferson is like, what? Yeah. And certain people transition that. Yeah. They don't look at them. Like, Michael Jackson was one of them. Yeah. Eddie Murphy was one of them.

This is crazy, right? It is interesting, yeah. And you, to me, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to throw you in that. No, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry to throw you in that. Compare me to, no, no. I'm sorry to throw you in that. Compare me to the racist. Compare me to Archie Bunker.

But I literally listened to your specials. I was jogging. That's what I meant by strap on. So I was jogging, and I was like, I pictured myself as a white person. And I pictured myself as a Chinese person. And then I pictured myself as every racist I could think of. And I was like, your comedy is that good. Appreciate that.

I felt like I could appreciate the comedy as any race. I appreciate that. And I think that I genuinely give all the credit to that, to growing up in New York City. And I don't think it's even possible to do without growing up in New York City. Because that was my school. I went to a public school in New York City. Half of my public school was Asian. You know what I mean?

It was just, you are around so much diversity that you learn how to communicate with each other, and it's just natural. I'll be honest with you, it's probably more uncomfortable for me to be around some super rich, snobby white people than it is to just be around like working class, middle class, everybody else.

That's real. And we don't talk about this a lot, but a lot of it is class. You know what I mean? Like just being around like super rich, bougie people, it's just a little different. And it's not like a language that I communicate in. I'm a little rough around the edges.

I'm going to make some fucked up jokes, you know, whatever. And they might be like a little put off by that. But that's a New York thing, 100%. We are comfortable with each other. We say these jokes about each other. And I think, no, but. How is that gay? We're comfortable with each other.

And who bought that? Oh, because he heard it in Spanish. This is why I love you. He just heard it. This is why I love you. Like, if this was right over the edge, you go right there. You're right there. And most people laugh.

I don't know how to explain it. It's just like... Well, that's the beauty of stand-up versus sometimes a podcast. Okay. When we're just chopping shit up on a podcast, we might say some things that go over the edge. And then we look back and we're like, yo, what the fuck were we talking? Like, that's crazy.

That happens all the time. All the time. Whereas with standup, you say that on stage for a year and sometimes it goes too far and the audience is like, nah, we didn't like that. And then you just slowly refine it.

So podcast is like a bunch of lumps of clay, I always say. Whereas like the standup becomes like a statue. Exactly. So podcast is like a bunch of lumps of clay, I always say. Whereas the stand-up becomes like a statue. Right. So, yeah. So what you're saying is... Yeah, we're basically vomiting here. Exactly.

I'm not going to lie. We have almost like 200 guests. Not one of them have put on the belt. I'm not going to lie to you. This is... But our show is about giving people their flowers. Nori, this is called white entitlement. That's amazing. Yeah, but our show is about giving people their flowers. Nori, this is called white entitlement. That's right.

You won the title. Let me just tell you something. Our show is about giving people their flowers, where they can smell them, their thoughts, where they can tell them, their drinks, where they can drink them. Which he's slow drinking. Yeah. And we want to give you your flowers

And we want you to understand Your comedy is needed Do I keep it in the case? Yeah Keep it in the case Oh it was chocolate Go play the flowers This is fire

I'm keeping this Justin please Because You are truly You have You have Go play the flowers. This is fire. I'm keeping this. Justin, please. Because you are truly, you have, I'm going to quote Drake. You started from the bottom and now you're here. I'll say you started from the middle, but I'll take it. My bad. I appreciate it. My bad.

I appreciate it. You started from the middle. You got to redo that song. You started from the middle and now you're here. Because I know people who started like... From the bottom bottom. That's the thing, like, pause. Where did that pause come from?

The bottom? Do you know what the bottom is? Yeah, I mean, I wasn't even going there. What's a bottom bottom? No, no. But like, for example, like, Charlemagne, where he came from, like in his life experience. Monk's Corner, South Carolina.

Dirt roads, population 8,000 people. He say that so much, I remember it. I remember I went to Monk's Corner. The roads were paved. There was 24,000 people living there. I'm like, this motherfucker been lying to me for 10 years. And they got the crystals there now. Exactly.

It's his. They got the crystals there now. Exactly. It's his, but they got the crystals. But yeah, I just see where he came from and where he got to is incredibly impressive. And I think that a lot of times you can judge the impressiveness of somebody. If somebody gives you a million dollars and you turn it into $1,100,000, that's not as impressive to me as if you go from $0 to $100,000. You see what I'm saying? And so I look at a lot of those people

that are in those kind of situations and I'm like, whoa. That took a lot of straight just genius. Really genius. I remember one time we was in Hunt Fish Club. Oh, yeah. And I was sitting there. We had dinner.

Gary's spot, right? I believe, yes. No, no, no, no, no. It's the place in Times Square. Times Square, yes. Hunt Fish Club. Oh, yeah. And I was sitting there. We had dinner. Gary's spot, right? I believe. Yes, my people. No, no, no, no, no. It's the place in Times Square. Times Square, yes. Times Fish Club. And I'm sitting there.

And then this was the time, I'm telling you, Andrew out-hooded me in a hood spot. I don't know if you remember this. We're sitting there. I believe y'all talking about Brea Elliott. I'm not sure Brea Elliott's Was at this point in time But we're talking about On the Run Eat It Yeah of course

Me and Charlamagne My food show Oh no they already had Because you know I saw him So then they already had When I signed the contract At CBS Radio

He walked by Okay so this might be Drink Chats Yeah yeah yeah So you already had Brea Elliott's And I'm sitting there We said hi You were such a gentleman

You said hi to me I said hi to you I remember we were At the back of the restaurant At the back of the restaurant And then as I'm leaving I was was like, all right, cool. You know, we did everything. And then you looked at me and you was like, fucking Noriega?

The whole time I didn't know you. You didn't know me. I'm like, did you see him? Like, we had a whole meeting. And then as I'm leaving, I'm like, yo, goodbye. And he's like, wait a minute. This whole fucking time that was fucking Noriega? And I was like, yo, that was one of my most awkwardest,

beautifulest moments of my life. So how did the relationship with you and Charlemagne start? We met on Guy Code. So we were doing Guy Code. MTV? Oh, I thought that was like a Tinder. And he swiped left? He swiped left?

Yo, yo, this is fucked up This white boy wasted too I'm about to dash it I'm about to dash it I'm about to dash it Let me get white boy wasted Let's go Let's keep it going

Let's go I need another one So yeah So we met on Tinder And It was You said that Okay

You go And we We went And it was Yeah it was just like We were both doing the show, and I thought he was hilarious. And keep in mind, he's coming into New York at this time.

We all grew up listening to Hot 97. This is what we did our entire lives, right? He's coming to Hot 97. Enemy. But wait. No, but didn't he work with Wendy Williams before? No, but he was- Still Hot 97.

Enemy. Remember, she left Hot 97 to build her shit. She was in Philly Or something like that right When he worked No he went to Philly She still had syndicated In New York Got it

Just Philly New York So what he's saying is correct He's Almost enemy number one Right Hot 97 It's Hot 97 that's it Hot 97 was life

Like you're a radio You understand In terms of like Hip hop Like the way that we Especially in New York City But also the world Like I think that was a lot of, like, America's access to hip-hop. Yeah, yeah, no, no, yeah.

Hot 97 was the beacon of hip-hop everywhere. And they made you choose gangs. I promise you. I mean, it's just, like, and then he came in, and to see, like, Hot 97 deteriorate into what it is now compared to what it was. Don't say deteriorate. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. We still love Hot 97. I don't want to be insulting, but, like, clearly there was. Don't say deteriorate. Sorry, sorry, sorry. You still love Holiday 7.

I don't want to be insulting, but clearly there was a victor in this battle. And Breakfast Club became one of the most prolific hip hop shows in the world. And I know that for a fact, because when I would travel the world and do standup, people would come out from Breakfast Club. They would come out from Brilliant Idiots, which was born off of the success of Charlamagne and Breakfast Club. To see what he... I mean, and that was like radio wars. People don't even realize...

It was nasty. Nasty! It was like gang wars. Straight up, yeah. Violence. It is gang wars. I think people think it's just the artist that was doing that shit,

but it's the radio guys. Which I thought was a little ridiculous for it to get that crazy. I agree. I don't know how many... I don't know, I don't want to tell anybody else's stories. But like, yeah. Okay, let me know. Nah, nah, nah.

You guys know more about that than me. Yeah, I do. Let's go. So tell me, tell me. No, no, wait. Tell me about the audio work. How is that connection, though? Like that initial connection.

Oh, yeah. So then we were just doing pods. And then he hit me because a guy named Chris Moreau, who produces the podcast. Loudspeaker. Loudspeakers Network, of course. Which had approached us originally to do Drink Champs. Oh, really? Yeah.

Chris Moreau. Oh, you guys should have done Drink Champs, man. Well, it wasn't Drink Champs yet. They approached him to do a thing that we used to do on SiriusXM together. Got it. As your own thing. Well, that was smarter than to do it. Anyway, and he was like, do you guys want to do it?

And I would just get on the phone every week anyway and just talk shit about whatever it was he's like do we just do this as a podcast and we did it and it was successful almost immediately because of him and people were listening to him every single morning anyway so listening to him on a podcast wasn't this like foreign like an easy it was it was like i want more of this guy right and um and yeah from there the rest is history man but it was it was like i want more of this guy right and um and yeah from there the rest is history man but it was it was awesome it was just awesome yeah so tell me radio wars because i really don't think people know how serious it got no i don't know radio wars is serious i don't know if people know um he doesn't want to go he doesn't want to i don't want to

he's like i still want to be on the radio yeah I kind of do Yes but I'll be honest with you There was an incident that happened In front of Hot 97 I was not there You talking about the incident I mean But that has something to do with the wars? With the radio wars?

He asked me my experience Oh I thought he was Yeah yeah yeah I mean I can't give him I thought he was talking about the wars Between the radio stations I mean I'm taking all stories I can't give him anybody else's other stories Go ahead bro give him to him I don't want to give him I thought he was on my The ward between the radio stations I mean I'm taking all stories I can't give him

Anybody else's other stories Go ahead bro Give it to him I don't want to give him my story Got it Get the wedding So There's a shootout that happened

In front of Hot 97 I was not there This is when Hot 97 was where? Hudson Street When it was still Yeah Yeah this is when the feds came And

It was a little Kim Foxy Brown Capone of Noriega Whatever And It was like 21 shots that happened I had nothing to do with it I wasn't there and it's a little Kim, Foxy Brown, Capone, Noriega, whatever. And it was like 21 shots that happened. I had nothing to do with it. I wasn't there.

My story, I'm sticking to it. This is a war that happened at the radio station, not the radio station. But that's where the people, that's the other thing people don't realize

is like that's where the rappers would go. No beef all the time because they would see each other there. Exactly. So it's easy to say Capone and Noriega realize is like that's where the rappers would go beef all the time so see each other exactly so it's easy to say capone and noriega junior mafia little kim and foxy brown was banned for life from ms broadcast wow slash clear channel i believe i could have it was a big incident

it's a big incident. It's a big incident. We are dead. It's like a year and a half. And, yeah, we're basically dead. We had... Even the radio stations that hated Hot 97 stood by them because they was like, that was

disrespectful of what happened. Mind you, no one anticipates this at all. All of a sudden, radio station comes out of nowhere called Power 105. Their first

event or first whatever had Lil Kim on there. The band Lil Kim and Hot 97. Me, I'm the band Norwich. Call up Def Jam immediately. Mike Kaiser, what's going on? That's why if you look at the original drops from Power 105,

I'm a part of that army. I'm the only one that says, I do not say, I flip a switch. What do you say? I say, I'm on Power 105. Because Hot 97 held me down at that moment.

Hot 97 said, we're going to clear you because we actually spoke to, they had to speak to the fucking car service guy to literally say that Nori wasn't there. They had to do their own deposition. You know that shit where, yeah, with the car service guy to literally say that Norrie wasn't there. They had to do their own

deposition. You know that shit where the car service. This is real shit. I've never said this publicly. This is how I got. And then Russell Simmons took that and brought it to... Because the press thought you were there. I knew him and I called him. Yo, you good? He was like, I want a ticket.

I forgot. Yo, you know what? Damn, yo. He's like, yeah. No, I do remember. He didn't believe. I'm like, I wasn't there. I did it two ways.

I did it two ways. Yo, I do remember that. And so if you think about it, out of everything that ever happened, I'm the only person that's from that Def Jam era. Def Jam had control of power 105 at that time. Sorry, I don't know if they have now.

But I'm the only one that just says, don't flip the switch. I don't say don't flip the switch because I was a power, I was a Hot 97 artist. But that's how deep the radio wars was.

I literally couldn't get shows in New York City, but my record was playing around the world. But New York City, In New York City But my record Was playing around the world But New York City And New York City Ran the fucking world Yeah

So This is around when Like this isn't Super Thug No This is Late 90s Early 2000s Early 2000s

This is early 2000s Because this is Yeah early 2000s Yeah It was after Bang Bang This is Bang Bang Right This is Bang Bang So this. This is Bang Bang.

So this is 2004. Something like that. I mean, we got a Googler that's not Googling. Oh, man. Jesus, man. He doesn't Google. He's dialing.

He got fucking managing Google. He's Googling on a rotary phone, bro. Yeah. Look at it. Look at the way he Googles. He looks at us

and he's still Googling. All right, so that's Quick Thomas line. Oh, we doing that? Yes. Yeah, we got to do it. Is he going to finally drink? He looks at us and he's Alright so Quick time in salon Oh we doing that? Yes Yeah we gotta do it Is he gonna finally drink? What's that quick time in salon?

Okay It's my third drink She keeps giving me drinks Yes Alright this is our drinking game Okay We're gonna ask you two questions Yep

You pick one You do not drink If you pick from one of the two You do not drink Two choices Yeah You get two choices You pick one we Do not drink. If you pick from one of the two. You do not drink. Two choices. Yeah. You get two choices. You pick one.

We don't drink. Right? I don't know what you're saying. I'm going to give you two choices. Okay. John or Joe. Okay. If you pick John, we don't drink.

We don't drink. If I pick Joe, we drink. No. If you say both or neither, You don't want to answer the question Just let's start it and you tell me what happens How many times have we all done this game I have no clue This is how you describe it

And it's always a terrible description Me and him both describe it We debate who describes it worse Who describes it worse So you're right up our alley. Thank you for not understanding. But understanding. Get his shot ready, though.

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No, the movie and the song. That would be a good promotion for the movie. I was too hip hop on that one. You went way too hip hop. You went way too DJ. I didn't say you were DJ Without being I was saying you were DJ You're crazy

Alright so we ready? Alright let's go I still don't know what we're doing But we're going This is when we drink it off Off camera just in case You don't know This is the shots that we're drinking

Dos Osos? What is it? That's hilarious Hey I'm not going to try that Why Two of the whitest dudes in America Have a Spanish last name Tom is Peruvian Yeah but But it says But also Spanish last name. Tom is Peruvian.

Yeah, but his wife counsels his Peruvian. It does kind of, right? It kind of counsels his Peruvian. Because he's so white. Yeah. He speaks Spanish, though, so he might be out Spanish in me. You could pass white. They've been saying that.

I've heard Arabian, Mexican, Puerto Rican. Definitely could be Arabian. After 9-11, I would get the TSA fucked up shit. Uh-huh. I like that. I was like, I'm going to lie, I, Puerto Rican. Definitely could be Arabian. After 9-11, I would get the TSA fucked up shit. I like that. I was like, I'm going to lie, I guess. You pronounce that too good. He's a spy. This guy's a...

How did we pronounce this? I'm very Cuban. But also, but what's the first point? Wait, didn't you do reggaeton? You don't know how to speak any Spanish? I don't speak Spanish. He did this reggaeton in English. I'm a hustler.

His was in English. Hey, man, great to meet you Can you tell me what Can you tell me what the Daddy Yankee line meant? What? With the What does that mean? Somebody else got to say it

Because you just Butcher whatever you just said What did he say? No, sumale Oh, he's talking about on gasolina Yeah, on gasolina Sumale? Sumale or subele? No, sumale. Oh, you're talking about on gasolina? Yeah, sumale. Sumale or subele? No, sumale.

Sumale, mano, porque mi gata prende los motores. You're basically saying to turn on the motors. Yo, you speak, yo, you're Puerto Rican. I used to live in Spain. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah. All right. You said that with your chest up.

I used to live in Spain. La madre patria, eh? I'm going to be honest with you. No te olvides. Spain is the most racist. Oh, yeah. He did that with a good Spanish accent, too. Let me just tell you something.

Spain is the most racist country. Hey, relax. I got my family's in Asturias. That is the most racist. I knew you were white. My grandfather's from Asturias. I knew he was white. I knew it.

I could tell a white, though. History. History. They got invaded by the Moors. Exactly. So you might be Moroccan. That's my Arabian side. That's what Dove is.

You are one of them, bro. I love this show, man. No, it's true. He's right. The Moroccans came in. He's white or he's right? Both of them. But no, they did come in and get y'all.

Yeah. That's what gives the olive skin. For real. You're right. 100%. Yeah, and a lot of architecture And the music And all the other good shit

Mathematics Okay are you ready Yeah let's go Richard Pryor or Red Fox Richard Pryor That was easy Nas or Jada Kuz Hey all respect to Jada

But it's Nas But it's Tons of respect to Jada I love fucking's Nas. But it's tons of respect to Jada. I love fucking Jada. But for me growing up in New York City, if you ask me that question, Nas or Jay-Z, I'd tell you Nas growing up in New York City. So that's just how it was when I was growing up. So you picked Nas? Yeah, Nas. Okay.

But no disrespect to Jada. Not like Jada's heartbroken that I don't think. Like, how is he going to recover? Jada is upside down on a pull-up bar right now. Yeah, exactly. He's doing calisthenics. He's doing calisthenics. Ready to beat my ass.

He ain't worried. Patrice O'Neal or Bernie Mac? Patrice. It's nobody. Rest in peace to both. Patrice O'Neal, right? But Bernie is like, those my two of my top four Get out of here

Who's your top It's Patrice number one Eddie Bernie Chris Rock Fuck yeah I like your I like your

So you just named the top four You said fuck a top five Yeah just That's Rushmore for me Those are Those are That's my Rushmore Rushmore

Yeah I'm not even naming order But for me Pat That's Mount Rushmore. Rushmore. I'm not even naming order, but for me, Patrice is the best. But then the others were like, those other three were the most transformative for me. I remember seeing Kings of Comedy at the movie theater on 11th Street and 3rd Avenue with my friends. And seeing Bernie for the first time and being like, holy shit. No way. Get the fuck out of here. You said you were on the polls? No, because I grew up in the East Village.

He was on the West Village. What's that other village? Yeah, Webster Hall was around the block. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, y'all making this a big moment. With your legs crossed. No, no, he's comfy. He's comfortable around white people.

This is how you know he's getting money. So that movie theater. All right, so you know this. You know how there's the exit door that you can go through the back of the theater? So we would buy one ticket. And then there was an exit at the back of the movie theater and then a back door that was right next to Webster Hall and then 10 of my friends would come in through the back door.

Yeah, that's some Dominican shit. He knew that. You were probably aware of it. Yeah, he helped y'all out. But there was, I don't even know if he was still working there but anyway, it doesn't matter. Alright, go, who else? Biggie or Big Pun? Big L. Wow, you just went for the third if we're going off of big then we gotta take a shot for that because

you you made up some different shit and i'm a big fan so i'll give it up you thought you you got in this shit let's do it oh yeah i mean big l like Big L. That's another one in New York City where it was like, even getting the albums or the cassettes were tricky. But there was so much buzz about him. I remember at that time. Yeah, and he was going to sign to Rockefeller. That would have been crazy. I thought he did.

I don't think it ever happened. It was going to happen. And then didn't he get shot over his brother's feet? Yeah, it was... But I just remember listening to him and just stylistically, It was going to happen. And then didn't he get shot off over his brother's beat? It was, yeah. But I just remember listening to him and just stylistically, the shit that he was doing was so funny. There's that line, Ask Beavis, I get nothing but head.

My game is vicious and cruel. No, he had crazy punchlines. Oh, my God. Yeah, he was one of the illest lyricists, for sure. And it was so clever and funny. And even the storytelling was great. Like that Casualties of a Dice Game song He was prolific Like absolutely prolific I'm good, thank you

I just had to try The weed, I can't fuck with the weed It makes me sad So give him the heroin Give me that RFK You need that RFK afterwards Bill Burr or Burt Kreisner? Bill Burr.

I mean, Bill Burr. Bill Burr. Yeah. I love Burr. I feel like I have to copy it. I love Burt, but Bill Burr is one of the most prolific comedians ever. To hang out with? Burt Kreisner any day of the week.

Any day of the week. But if I got to watch an hour of stand-up, I don't know. That made people I would choose over Bill Burr in reality. I'm going to be honest. I want to watch his new one too, man. Bill Burr. And Burr's got a new one too. Yeah, yeah.

Burr's got a new one too. He just dropped. Lucky. Lucky. Check that out on Netflix. And then Burr got one on Hulu that just dropped as well. That's the one I want to watch, yeah. I'm going to be honest.

The way he described not wanting to watch the Super Bowl. Who? Bill Burr. With non-Super Bowl people, because, let's be honest, there is people who watch the Super Bowl for the fucking commercials.

Yeah, half of the population. I halfway hate those people. Yeah. They just sitting there, and they're loud during the game and quiet during the commercials. Are you describing women? I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I didn't describing women? I didn't say that.

I didn't say that. Because this is a couple of guys. I might be in. I believe you. I believe you're a commercial guy. I believe you're a commercial guy. You look like a commercial guy. I don't give a fuck about none of that shit.

But I'd rather do commercial. You look like you're into that new bubble. I'd rather commercial and the last part of the score Okay who won Alright cool let's go Yeah Who played the Super Bowl this year The Eagles

And the Almost there No no no St. Louis Nope What's it called What's it called The homies from last year

The Chiefs There you go There you go I mean I got all of you Alright what else This is the reason why We didn't do sports great I love it I love it from last year. There you go. There you go. I got all of you. All right. This is the reason why we didn't do sports, Gray. I love it.

I love it. I love it. All right, cool. Let's go. Kevin Hart or Dave Chappelle? Ooh. In terms of... Nah.

In terms of whatever. You do it in terms of nothing else before that. It's your criteria, whatever. Don't do that. I mean, Kevin Hart. Okay. I think I just like

Kevin Hart's personality more, but I think Dave is a better stand's like Personality more But I think Dave is A better stand up comedian But in terms of like So you're saying both then Yeah you said both Yeah that's how I'm gonna Cheers

Cheers Cheers Cheers Cheers Cheers He's a Spaniard This is written for you sir Alright go

This is written for you This is written for me? Yep Oh thanks Tupac or EZ oh not that oh yeah oh shit my bad tupac is written for you tupac or easy these guys write it is that yeah colombian dominican republic all they do is go there's a dominican and a colombian all they do is sniff coke and they're just writing before ice gets here but But is that like a hard... It's not real, though. But is that... Tupac, I guess, yeah. What do you mean, I guess? I mean, I'm always going to go with the New Yorker.

Ooh. Ooh. Damn. I felt like that was like a shot. That was like a weird shot. That's not a shot. All the greatest rappers come from New York. Like, what?

Like... I ain't saying it. But Tupac would be be like I'm from LA No no no Call it what it is Even the West Coast Greatest rappers Come from New York

What is this? What is this? Standing ovation This guy Hey Jim Credit where credit is due The biggest FOTs In the world right here

What's FOT? Fake out of town Bro these guys They're all Miamians Right here This guy doesn't even Have his green card There's FOTs in the world right here, bro. What's FOT? Fake out of towners, bro. These guys, they're all Miamians right here. This guy doesn't even have his green card, number one, so he's not even American. These guys have been in Miami like 40 years. I love it. I'm going to make a phone call for you.

Ice Cube or Scarface? That's what I was waiting for you to say. Ice Cube. You don't want to drink, huh? Oh, no. I'll drink anyway, but go on. Tiffany Haddish or Monique? I mean, you don't have to drink huh oh no do i i'll drink anyway but go on tiffany haddish or monique i mean you don't have to drink i'm just tiffany haddish or monique um man i love oh man monique is i'm gonna have to drink for this monique is more of a legend in stand-up comedy

but i love tiffany i've never met Monique personally, but in terms of history and stand-up comedy, of course. But Tiffany is just like, she's the most fun to hang. She's just straight energy. She's incredible. So I will drink to that one. All right, cool. I want you to be careful. Salud.

Salud. Because Kendrick Lamar critiqued you, right? Kendrick Lamar critiqued me. Yeah, he said, yo, Kendrick. Yeah, where's the Kendrick question? This is the question right now. That's the question? What is it? Kendrick or critiquing?

No, no, no, no. What did Kendrick actually say to you? He just said... He didn't say your name though, right? I don't know. I think he was talking about you. He was. He was talking about a white beard. I saw her. Other white guy.

Yeah, yeah. That Spanish guy. The Spanish white guy? That Spanish white guy with the Moroccan blood. Because, by the way, this is the biggest two rap battles in the world happening. And then, out the blue, he's like, well, no white guy should be. Yeah, don't let no white dude, comedian, talk about no black woman. That's the law.

I didn't even really care about that much, like, about that. Like, I thought it was, like, corny. Like, you'd try to, like, censor another artist because, like, you're an artist. Like, I always saw him as, like, prolific artist. But it was the next line that I thought was crazy and nobody really talked about. What's that line? He's like, and to the N-words, the coon and the N-words being grooves slide on both of them.

What does slide mean to you guys? What's that? Shoot, right? Nah, nah, it doesn't necessarily mean shoot. All right, whatever. My point is, I thought,

and a lot of people thought that that's in reference to Charlemagne and Alex Media, who I do the show with. So if you're telling people to slide on my friends, anything I say back after that is fine, in my opinion. But I love these people. So if you're going to put that energy out there in the world, whatever I say back to you is fine because you took it there. You know what I mean?

But he didn't say your name, though, so you're not 100% sure. Well, not me. It's you. I think it's you. Right, right. So my point being, he didn't say my name, though, so we don't know it's about me. Yeah, yeah. So how did,

but how did you and Kendrick even cross paths? We didn't cross paths. So what joke did you say that offended him? I think that he was, if he was talking about me, which I think he was talking about E,

but if he was talking about me. I agree with you. You agree with him. I'm sorry. Come binga. Yeah, yeah. Honestly, I didn't even respond to it for weeks. Right.

Because I was doing my special. And this was on a verse he said it. Yeah, I think it was on one of the songs. Okay. And then it was, and so I didn't respond to it for weeks. Like, I don't really give a fuck. Like, I was filming my special, so I was like, I'm not going to let this distract from it. And then, you know, I had some people tell me that that's, you know, there was some confirmation, let's just put it that way.

Right. And I was like, all right, cool, let's have some fun with this. And you did go at other rappers, so it's like you have to respond now, correct? I went at other rappers? Meek Mill, Diddy, other rappers, like you like. Yes, yes, that is true. Yes, that's true, I have to. That's a good point. You've got to respond. I didn't Yes, that's true. I have to. That's a good point.

You got to respond. I didn't even think about that. But I have to. No, I don't have to. No, I don't have to, but at the same time, I was like, ah, it's kind of corny, and if you're going to, like, call to violence to my friends, like, all right, like, we're going to have a conversation about this. Are you just going to sue Kendrick? No.

Oh, my bad. No, not at all. No, I'm going to make fun of him. That's what I do best. Okay. You know, so I do jokes. But also, like, he gets allowed to say whatever he wants to say. Right. Like, I'm not in the business of, like, policing art. Right.

You know, but if you do say some shit that's crazy about my friends, like, don't be surprised if I say some crazy shit, too. And there's a lot of people that were like, a lot of people were like, that was just a bar. He don't really mean it seriously. And it's like, do you think I meant it seriously? Do you think I meant it seriously? What was the bar that he was responding to? Oh, I think that, so we had these two cornballs from the UK on the pod,

and they were talking about... Bibbidi-bop. I'm lost now. Bibbidi-bop is on the... I must have missed this one. Bibbidi-bop is on the roof I must have missed this one Bibbidi-bop Is that how you came out first? The two old guys?

You came up I don't know what's going on I have no clue No clue what's going on now Don't carry spares I hear you now I'm sorry I went too far That was not right I'm lost Talk that shit. Go carry spares. I hear you now. Talk that shit. I'm sorry.

Nah, you good. I went too far. That was not right. I'm lost. My bad. I love London. Just don't love it. I have no clue. You're not into the UK drill.

You're not into the drill. What about this? There's this dude out there, Dave. The cops got to have guns first. And then I'm going to take you out. That's what I kept saying. It's like, there's that show out there called What was it called Top Boy

They were sharing a gun Everyone had the same gun They had a timeshare for a gun They were sharing a gun They were sharing a gun It was like yo we gotta kill them the third week of June Cause I don't get the I don't get the Cocker Spangles in the third week of June

So I'm looking at this As an American going how the fuck third week of June because I don't get the I don't get the Cocker Spaniel to the third week of June. So I'm looking at this as an American going, how the fuck is there a whole drama built around sharing a gun? Yeah, but they shanking motherfuckers out there. Don't get it twisted.

They getting it close. So they shanking. They do. They shanking. Because they need to make up for Camp Pal Powell, you know? It's, you know, it's crazy out there.

We're terrible people. No, this is going to hell in a handbasket. I'm just saying, if there was a sword fight outside of Hot 97 years ago, we would be going, what the fuck is going on? Like, we would be asking some questions. There's a duel. They're dueling. Lil' Kim brought out a samurai sword. The Musketeers are outside.

Watch us all get stabbed. We love it. We respect your gangsta. We understand. Y'all got crazy love. They gonna put out the choppers next time. Bro, we don't got it. Time to share this, bitch.

Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. They already told me I'm bad with South Africa. They're like, South Africa? No, they got guns out there. Don't fuck around with South Africa, bro. South Africa, they got guns. I said some shit about South Africa. They're like, no Nah they got guns out there Don't fuck around with South Africa bro South Africa they got guns Yeah I said some shit about South Africa

They're like Nah And they got good peoples I mean you know I was like Tell me For Americans It's weird to watch

Like Crime shows in other countries Where not everybody has a gun That says something worse about us Yeah we have grenade launchers It's like We have every gun Yeah

With the shit that Brad Pitt is in What is he in bro That says something worse about us. Yeah, we have grenade launchers. We have every gun. With the shit that Brad Pitt is in. What is he in, bro? It's one of those. Fight Club. Like, 11s. Oh, Ocean's Eleven. No, no, no.

Ocean's Eleven. The other ones. He's like a fighter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's hard. No, no, no. Lock, stock, and two smoking barrels and snatch. Yes, yes, yes. Phenomenal. But that was. Fire. That's hard. No, no, no. Lockstock and two smoking barrels and snatch. Yes, yes, yes. Phenomenal.

But that was... Fire. That was fire. I fuck with that show. Those are about the gypsies. The pikeys or whatever they call them. That's cool. Those are some tough motherfuckers.

Yes. I don't know how we got here. I'm sorry. How did we get here? We got here because we felt bad. We're making fun of people from London. And here's the thing. I love people from London.

We believe you're going to stab us. You hate their rap. You hate their rap. The new rap. The new rap. I like the old rap. You like the old one. I've been carding out.

They still got it. No, Cardinal's from Canada, buddy. He's from Canada, bro. Hey. Cardinal. Just apologize The real goat He's counting the colonies

He's like they colonized It's all just a game He just saw Hamilton His idea of America is a little bit different Than most of us He's like most pilgrims can wrap their ass off But you like Was it Dizzy Rascal?

Yeah. Look sharp. Whoa. Is that the more the UK rap you like or not? I'm not sure. I like gigs. What about Dave? You got to listen to Dave.

I like gigs and I like my nigga with the Nike tech. All of them? Who? Sensu C. Yeah. I like Sensu C. Although he got his Nike tech information Totally wrong

What do you mean? This motherfucker said that The UK invented Nike tech Let me just tell you something Who did that? Who invented Nike tech? Who invented Nike tech? Who invented Nike tech?

Tell him, Dory N Y You know the rest Who invented night tech? Tell him, Nori. N-Y. You know the rest. Y'all already said it. Y'all already said it. Come on. Are you crazy?

We are trendsetters. Nori needs some flowers. Nori invented the Neptunes. He invented the Neptunes. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Keep going. Keep going. He invented Neptunes. Neptunes basically invented on. Keep going. He invented Neptune.

Neptune was basically invented Pharrell, so you invented Pharrell as well. That's right. And I still ain't getting no Louis Vuitton free shit since. That's fucked up because they gave me some shit. They gave me. I didn't even invent them. I didn't invent them. You invented Power 105.

That's what I got from what you told me earlier. I was like the third artist to go to Power 105, so I'm going to take that. So you were one of the inventors of that? Yes, yes. You invented the Nike Tech? No, not me. My town did. My city did.

My borough did. My art boroughs did. Nike Tech. Bro, you got into the fucking worst of all this. That's what I'm talking about. Nah, we like this energy He's jealous bro He's jealous

Don't worry about that You're just making him feel good Now you're being honest You're fired Keep talking your shit about the UK No no no I love the UK This is what I'm trying to understand. Okay, so somebody gets a gun, right?

Yeah. Okay. Somebody gets a gun out there. Where, in the UK? Let's say that there's a gun in the UK, right? One. One gun. How is it organized?

It's an app. What are the rules? It's an app. So it's an app. They start speaking Jamaican accent. No, it's an app. That's how it happens. It's a timeshare app, bro. It's a timeshare. So you's an app. They start speaking Jamaican accent. No, it's an app. That's how it happens. It's a timeshare app, bro.

It's a timeshare. So you got an Airbnb. Airbnb the gun. You got an Airbnb. You're a gangster in the UK without some type of Caribbean-Jamaican connection. You got to eat a beef patty. So you have to go into the app and say,

what's a guan? I mean, you got to be like, why guan? And that's your first gangster shit. Shout out Jamaicans, bro. They got other ethnicities out there, bros. The Indian communities aren't out there. Bibbidi-bob!

They're going to come after that magic trick. Bibbidi-bob, people, bro. That's Kendrick. That's why they're going to come at me. Bibbidi-bob! Yeah, didn't Kendrick do that line? Bibbidi-bob! I don't know.

I think it's Nori. American Yankee boy, you pop! They're going to come at me. They're going to come at me. They're going to come at me. Yo, you better be ready. You don't go out at all. You better fuck that. We want a revolution, bro.

Bibbidi-bop. Bibbidi-bop is crazy. You ain't never heard that? Bibbidi-bop. You never heard that? No. Because they like a cross with like Jamaican, but then they don't want to be American. So they can't be.

Wait, wait. The Bibbidi-Bob's are American? No, they put the Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes on? Bibbidi-Bob. Yeah, that's what. Bro, I'm so fucking lost. I'm so lost.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boop is the. That's Kanye shit. No. That was his B-side. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boop No Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boop Is the That's Kanye shit No That was his That was his B-side That's a Disney movie I'm thinking of those Two old white dudes

From the UK That be killing it Cinderella Oh they be killing it You're not talking about that Let me stop They out the chain Two old white guys

In the UK They out the chain I'm bad for South Africa London I'm all type of shit. Nah, bro. You got to show love to these people, man. London, we love you.

We appreciate you. We don't bring guns. We're going to bring guns. We're not bringing guns. We're coming with guns. We're coming with guns next time. Mr. Lee, it has it it sounds that they're going to carry the guns for us.

How many of y'all got guns here today? Hey, this is Florida. Don't ask that. You got more guns in this room than all of the gangs in London. You got more guns in this room than all of the gangs in London. There are more guns in this room than all of the gangs in London and Top Boy. Isn't that crazy?

It happens. That's crazy. What is wrong with this country? No, we're fucked. We got a wild country. We don't trust our friends. It is crazy. We brought our guns here. It's like, I don't know if Mr. Lee's going to get crazy You wanna know how crazy this is

He pulled up We're walking here on the street right And you guys pulled up on me And Dove in a Maybach You drive a Maybach this is like an expensive car And like you honked and then pulled up to the side And then started to lower the window And I was like we're dead

In a Maybach. It's not like you pulled up in a Pacific or some shit. In an expensive ass car. That's very Miami too. Still, there was part of me like, nah, we're dead today. Why did we walk?

Why did we walk here? It was a beautiful day and I got to get murdered for sunlight? This is fucked up. Today was a good day. Today was a good day, man. I got it on film. I'm posting it soon as we leave.

Yo, that's, oh, you got that on, that's, we got, that's got to be the intro to the episode. I had to pull up with confidence. Go to the next question. We got questions? I didn't even know we was. Quick time is long. I didn't know this was a podcast anymore. This is so great, man.

Thank you so much, man. Of course, bro. Thank you, man. Mira que tu puedes. Wow. Damn, bro. M.O, man. Mira que tu puedes. Wow. Damn, bro. MOP or Mobb Deep? Ooh, this is a New York question.

Wow. I don't think your New York should allow you to even like that. This is a really fucked up one, man. Yeah. I think it's... I'm going to drink but this is because I want the explanation I think that M.O.P. just got the like shut the club down

bangers but Mobb Deep is the one that I would feel like more comfortable with? not even more comfortable with but like I bought a Mobb Deep album. I never bought an M.O.P. album. But there's more songs that you put on and you're like, oh, my God.

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to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. One of my favorite groups of all time, wherever you at, Billy Dance. If anybody wants to try that, they're up to me, bro. Where are they at? What are they up to? No, they're great.

Oh, they're working. They're working. They got to be. Yeah, no, they're working. When you have three songs minimum that just literally everybody in the venue- It's a flat line. Flat line. It's over.

Yes. And big up to Mobb Deep as well, man. Rest in peace, Prodigy. My family, man. I keep hearing great things about Prodigy's daughter, man I want her to continue to do her thing What's she up to? I believe she's rapping, yeah

Oh, awesome, cool, good for her Who we at, Smith and Wesson up here? Who picked up? Seinfeld or Curb? Your enthusiasm That was supposed to be his question He's late to the party right now I never watched Seinfeld or Curb Your enthusiasm Hold on hold on Chill That was That was supposed to be His question But he's late to the party

Right now Curb I never watched Seinfeld This is why This is why I love you Let me just tell you something Most people would say Seinfeld

Because Seinfeld Is the first Curb The reason why I'm more of a Curb Yeah Fan Is because

Curb Symbolizes to me where Larry David simply didn't give a fuck. There's episodes in Curb where he looks at a person's baby and says, that's not your baby. That's a Chinese baby. He gets banned from the golf course. He's the GOAT, bro. He is. I'm going to tell you how much Larry David is a GOAT to me. Yeah.

That if Larry David walked in this room right now. Yeah. And I'm sorry, this might sound racist. But I need a black guy to come to me and say, he's cool. If a black person doesn't come to me and say he's cool, I'm not walking up to Larry David. I'm leaving the premises. So much of a fan I am of him is I don't want him to let me down. Oh, I hear what you're saying.

He wants to shake my hand. Yeah, he doesn't want to be let down. Who are you? I'll be there. Bro, we ate a meal next to him once in L.A. Next to him? In L.A. with his daughter, randomly gets sat next to us, and I didn meal next to him Once in LA In LA with his daughter Randomly get sat next to us And I didn't want to bother him

So I just sat there the whole time Being like, holy shit, Larry David's right here But here's a perfect example Larry David is so authentically himself Like he's not trying to be The New York guy Or the Jewish guy He is being Larry fucking David.

Right. And he's so authentically himself. Everybody relates to him. Every culture relates to him. Every type of human being relates to him. That's what I think about your comedy. I respect that. And to me, that's the ultimate compliment.

Because he doesn't look or have the same life as any of us. Right. But he does the things in certain situations that we either wish we would do or sometimes do. Like sometimes not hold the elevator. I like that. Like, you got to go. Yeah. You got to go.

Yeah. You know? It is what it is. Like, he is just that guy. So to me, I think. So you went to dinner. Let's describe that situation. I'm at dinner.

He then sits down. Like, literally the table right next to us. And I just, like, I didn't even look. I was just like, that's the whole dinner. I'm at dinner. He then sits down, like literally the table right next to us. And I just like, I didn't even look. I was just like, that's the whole dinner. I was, yeah, I didn't want to interrupt him. He's got like family time and shit, you know? You didn't sit him in the weed tonight? Man, I should have, huh?

You think he smokes weed? Nah, I sat next to Lionel Richie one day. What's that restaurant that's downtown from Soho? Soho House in LA? Not Malibu. The Soho House. Bayah? With a boa.

Boa. Boa. Boa. Boa. And I sat there, and Lionel Richie was right there. I was like, damn. It's the first time in my whole life, whole career, I called my mother. I said, Ma, Lionel Richie is literally standing next to me.

And my mother said, let me put on my makeup. I said, Ma, I'm not putting you on FaceTime. That's how much you put on FaceTime with Lionel Richie? I didn't know how to do that back then. I would have done it. So I'm like, all right, cool. I'm like, Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, that's not the way it is. I'm telling you that.

Tell me what your son should do to meet a legend. That's a legend to me, but it's a legend to me through you. Yeah. Tell me how to act. She said, boy, just go and get a picture. Yeah, be respectful. I walked up to Lionel Richie. I did everything but get a picture.

I said, what you drinking? Because his kids had seen my jewelry. Whoever he was with. And they was like, that's Nori. So they knew you. The kids at least knew you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was my cheat code. Huge.

So I walked up and then Lionel Richie. But I got to be tough. My moms. I feel like my mom is watching this. So I look at Lionel Richie and I'm like, what you drinking? Lionel Richie orders the coldest bottle of Chardonnay. On Boa's list. We sit it.

This motherfucker drinks a sip of my shit. And then leaves the restaurant. No goodbye. All night long. All night. He didn't invite me to his show. He got his girl to invite my wife

to a show. So that was enough. Right. But he left the whole bottle right there. Do you drink it? That is... Okay, all right, all right.

What's going on? All right, all right. Y'all too excited? What do you think? Do you think I drank the bottle? Or do you think I left the bottle? You left it because you're petty. You're petty thug mafia, bro.

Okay. If you paid for it, you're drinking it. No, you left it. You're petty thug mafia. I drank the shit out of that bottle. But Sober Norrie wouldn't have done it. Oh, no, this is not Sober Norrie. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Drunk Norrie don't give a fuck. He'll drink it, whatever. Drink it. And I couldn't understand Lionel Richie's palate. Was it? Not palate. Palate? Palate.

Yeah. But why? Oh, the wine was shit? I felt like i was drinking butter oh that yeah california shark i hate it yeah i hate it all right all right my bad i'll be having a moment george carlin or robin williams carlin damn no i didn't skip you you added that? I made that up. Oh, you put that too? Look at you, man. I like you, bro.

You got crazy. Dick, bro. Oh, yeah, it is there. Damn. No, I didn't. Rakim or Karis 1? Hmm. Um.

Am I Is Rockham thinking the earth is flat Or am I fucking that up No I don't think so Who was that No that was Lord Jamar my bad But you're going to judge him on that I think that's a pretty fair thing to judge Like of all the things we could judge, we belong.

You're like, well, people flatter than the other guy. No, shout out Lord Jamar. You're Lord Jamar alone. No, no,

no, shout out. He was ready. He was just all over TikTok and he was fighting hard and like, there was a real scientist he was going up against.

please, leave it alone. No, I'm just saying, like, I feel, I feel for him. I do feel for again. Oh, please, leave it alone. No, I'm just saying, like, I feel, I feel for him. I do feel for him.

I do feel for him, but what do you think the Earth is? It's round, motherfucker. Let's go. It is round, right? It is. I mean, obviously,

I'm not in space, but it feels pretty round. I think it's round. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like we got that figured out. I can't take definitive figuring this shit out.

Yeah, yeah. I think we go like this. It's pretty like that. The sun goes. Can I respond or Rakim? I mean, the fact that I just confused Rakim with Lord Jamar means I can't even really answer this question. So you have to say both or neither because you don't know. Both.

Both. Sorry. All right. Both. And by the way, Elon Musk been killing more people than gang members. I'm just throwing it out there. Why? Throw it out there?

But what's the throwing out part? What happened? He been sending niggas to space and they not been coming back. They just came back right now. He just brought two of those motherfuckers back. One tour bus. He sent seven. He sent seven?

No, bro. What are you talking about? This is how shit gets out there. This is how shit gets out there. On a massive podcast No I'm talking to him Elon is sending people to space He said tour buses out there

Tour buses to space And they not coming back They're all dying They're all dying They're like that plane That went into the ocean That we don't know about This is not happening

No bro That's why they call them Illegal aliens bro They're sending them back home They're sending them back Oh shit Yo I ain't gonna lie I seen them send

A gang full of niggas Literally What gang? What's up there? A gang full of people Back to Salvador What's that? That has nothing to do

With space bro Man Nori No hold on Tell me You can't even see Illegal aliens You can't even see

Space niggas The niggas Blew. You can't even see space niggas. Those niggas blew up. You can't even see that. What the fuck? Nobody seen the space niggas flying up? Listen, there's rockets that have nobody in it. Yeah, they keep blowing up all the time. That's what they be telling you.

You think there's people in it? Yeah. No, there ain't nobody in it, bro. I like that conspiracy. That conspiracy's fire. I have one person in it. But you don't know if there's nobody in it. No, obviously I don't know that. I think there might be a...

We don't know if the Earth is really round. Unless we leave. Lord Jamar's right. He might be. Lord Jamar's right. Apologies to Lord Jamar right now. And there are probably there are probably dozens of people inside those rockets that Elon is firing. I believe so, Sam.

You know, the moon is hollow 100%. Wait, the hollow? It's a hollow moon. What the moon got to do with this? Why are you throwing the moon in there? Because we're adding everything else into this shit. Why does it have to be hollow? You don't know about it? It's a fucking space station for I don't know who the fuck. Yeah, probably. And look,

you see who he just did? It's inner Brad. That's them Brad pictures. Bro, he be doing this and then he be doing this. Rewind. That's them Brad pictures. Bro, he be doing this, and then he be doing this. He be doing... Rewind. Yeah. That's real shit. You rewind time, right?

You rewind it? Yeah, no, he be taking hair pills in his special. Oh, I saw that. That's why he can't get nothing pregnant. Your hair looks like the pills? He been suing blanks for years. That's what I blame it on. It might just be my genetics, but I blame it on the hair pills.

That's what the doctor said. The doctor said it might be you, but you blamed it on your hair pills. I was like, I think it's the hair pills. Your hair pills. Yeah, because you don't want to think it's you. But it's probably just me. All right, let's get through this, guys. Please.

Thank you. I don't need any more of those, but I will drink it. Okay. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. We're celebrating. You people or white men can't jump? Who?

Oh, white men can't jump. You people sucked. And it's not white Man Can't Jump. It's White Man Can't Jump, no? No, White Man. Is it White Man? The original White Man Can't Jump, you're saying? Yes.

Not the remake. What, the remake is White Man? Is it a remake? No, I did the remake as well. White Man Can't Jump, too. But the original was White Man. Let's take a shot to not making that remake. I don't know what the fuck is going on here, bro.

Let's go. I know, I know, I know. Okay. He was not in the original, bro. Not the original. Oh. But the remake is what he's trying to say. No, he watched both of them.

He jerked off. I appreciate that, yo. I appreciate that, though. I appreciate that, though. Yeah, yeah. Which part? Did he jerk off or watch both of them? Yo, both.

Just any kind of commitment, I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Low-key, white man can't jump that Rosie Perez in the beginning. That is, with all due respect, wow. Those are early memories, yeah. I'm not saying I mastered band tour. I might have.

You might have? Yeah, I might. But you can't not think about her and also think about Woody and Wesley. You can't think about your Woody? I'm not going to lie. They might have popped into your mind while you were doing the deed. In my later days, and this is going to sound crazy. We're deteriorating fast.

This is going nowhere. We're not going to space texting. When I get dressed. When you get dressed. No, I get dressed to run. Yeah, I get it. You get dressed. And then when I wake to run. Yeah, I get it. You get dressed. And then when I wake up every morning, and that's my decision.

Am I Wesley or Woody today? And now my Woody never has sleeves on. Oh, I was about to say, does it strap on? And let me just tell you something. When I dress like Woody. Because you remember he straps on. Oh, the phone. But when I dress like Woody,

I can still play handball. Because, you know, I'm one of the best handball players in New York City. Fast forward. Yeah, you know, fast forward. Oh, God. He just called me gay. He just called me gay. I thought we were having white boy fun.

I thought you had to call me gay. I play handball, too. He thought you did. I mean, I having white boy fun. I thought you were kidding. I play handball too. I'm in. We all love handball. I just didn't know. You know who plays stickball? Now, guys, come on. Everybody calm down.

I'm just saying because there's Puerto Ricans here. That's the only reason, okay? It's the only Puerto Rican here. It is weird that Puerto Ricans love handball and stickball. I'm just saying. It is weird because I do love them both. Damn, man. Relax, bro.

I got to save you from here right now. You like sticks and balls, man? I'm just saying. Have your fun. I'm just saying. I'm confident in my masculinity. Have your fun. All right, hold on.

Yo, you were saying, though, that you love handball. No, no. Eminem or Benzino. Let's just keep it. Eminem. Let's truck through this. Eminem. In Living Color or Mad TV?

In Living Color. Flagrant or Brilliant Idiots? Wow, drink. Oh, shit. Actually, in all honesty, I got to give it up to Brilliant because there is no flagrant without brilliant. Well, take the shot. Yeah, we're going to. I got to drink, but I got to give it up to Brilliant.

Fuck, they're so small, the shots, but then... Because we do a lot. See, we're trying to be fair, but it fucks you up anyways. It does fuck you up. Mike Epps or Chris Tucker? Epsy, man. Epsy. Epsy. Yo, Mike Epps on Drink Champs was amazing, man. It always was. It always will be. Epsi man Epsi Epsi Yo Mike Eps on

Drink Shams was amazing man It always was It always will be I was so happy He's a legend bro I mean super legend He cursed me I was so happy

Oh he really thought That we allowed him To get disrespected On the show Yeah that's what he thought Wait why why why Again That's why I broke down

That whole thing About people Doctoring our footage Sometimes our show Is like Kind of like so big Is that people Again, that's why I broke down that whole thing about people doctoring our footage. Oh, wow. Sometimes our show is so big is that people doctor our shit. Yeah. Or maybe they don't send it to them. Maybe they tag these people.

Right. And then these people look at it, and they think that it's something that we let happen, and it's just not. It's just like we formed a bond. Yeah. We're friends already, but I'm not going to let somebody just shit on you. Like, I just wouldn't do that. You know what I mean? I would defend you.

I would say something. And when Jamie, like, at first, Jamie kind of flipped on me. But I was like, you know, a comedian flipping on you is kind of like, I don't know. It's like. Jamie Foxx, you're saying? Yeah, Jamie Foxx. No, no, no, not Jamie Foxx. Yeah, I'm like, you lost me.

I'm bugging, I'm bugging. Jamie Foxx or Jamie or Barton, and we're all fucked up here. No, no, no, no, Mikex You lost me Jamie Foxx or Jamie or Barton And we're all fucked up here Either or is weird Mike F. Tidby, I'm sorry I was just like, I didn't understand because I didn't realize that You know, how good our footage Be doctored sometimes

So I was like, what do you mean? Yeah, well AI is even crazier And then I was like, oh, you really and with AI It's even crazy And then I was like Oh like you really got caught Like EPMD or Gangstar EPMD Spotify or Apple Music Spotify

That was a white question Right there Is that Is that What's the white answer The white answer Or the right answer The white answer

I think they're both If you say both It's white answer Yeah I think You should take a shot For that think they're both. If you say both, it's white answer. I think you should take a shot for that. I didn't say both. Let's do the white answer. Let's do the white answer. Let's do the white answer.

If it ain't white, it ain't right. I'm not cheersing to that. You said it. Million dollars worth of game or Joe Bud? Million dollars worth of game or Joe Bud um million dollars worth of game yeah yeah Gale and Wallow are just like on a tear

yeah I respect that unbelievable shout out to both of them man John Mulaney is that how you pronounce his name Mulaney yeah fuck it fuck up his name John Mulaney? Yeah. You say, yeah, like, fuck it, fuck up his name.

Mulaney? No, John Mulaney is his name. And Matt Reife? And Matt Reife. They're both two comedians. John Mulaney

and Matt Reife. I don't like to choose favorites. I'm more familiar with Mulaney, to be honest. That is white-on-white crime, man. So you're saying both of them? It's a different type of whites honest. That is white-on-white crime, man.

It's a different type of whites, but it is white-on-white crime. So it's white is right. Both of them are right. Cheers. Fuck that. White-on-white crime on our watch. Hey, if it ain't puro, bro. If it ain't puro.

Camera mace. What'd you say Cam or Mace Cam or Mace Bro if you asked me this question Two years ago I would be like Cam bro like there's no Cam is hilarious he's like the most Interesting dude he's like I love how he's done

But Mace is So funny bro Like seeing him on the show yeah you see a different side of him for sure i only saw him from the music and he kind of was like we were judging him going to religions it just changed your perspective seeing his like energy on the show you're like oh i get i get why you knew at a young age you were going to be a star. Because he is a star. Yeah, I understood that. I think I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to drink.

But I think that show has... I don't think anybody's watching the show and realized that Cameron is funny or interesting or entertaining. I think we all knew that. We always knew Cam was off the chain. We're seeing a different side Of Mace on the show Right

And shout out to Cam For bringing it out of Mace too As well Bro Both of them It's incredible Like the show is hilarious Yeah

Mace sold entertainment He didn't even say nothing At one point He was just eating popcorn And I was like He didn't have to say shit And he was entertaining There's some clip

Where he goes I don't care Like there's this long run About he really doesn't care And I was crying laughing at that shit. Anyway, really good on both of them for doing that. Cheers. Salud.

Okay, who else? Chelsea Handler or Amy Schumer? Chelsea Handler or Amy Schumer. Chelsea, man. Chelsea had the amazing run with the... I mean, they dated, man. Chelsea had the, like, amazing run with the... She fucked 50 Cent. Yeah, she fucked...

I mean, they dated, bro. They dated. She gave some pussy to my boy, yo. They dated, bro. They dated as fuck. How can I choose Amy if you didn't give

some pussy to my boy? Right. But Amy looked like she'd been outside with some black niggas. I ain't gonna lie. Oh. She looked like it.

I'm not saying she did. What is it? When a white girl... You're like, how do you identify that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have an idea. What's the criteria? What's your idea? When a white girl butt start getting fat...

I know what you're going to say. Yeah, you're like, niggas be like, turn around. Really? Turn around. Like that? Really. Rum pot and sugar.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that? Really? Rum pot and cigar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bing bong, bing bong, bing bong. What is it? Bing bing bong. Bing bing bong. UK, UK. UK drill rap. How do you know if a black woman's been dating white dudes?

If you know a white girl's been dating black dudes, how do you know a black woman's been dating white dudes? Her credit got great. But black women have great credit. These are the most educated people in America. That's correct. But her credit got better than yours. Oh, wow. And she comes back and say, yeah, you know, I got that Hoffman Cools.

What's that? What is that? Hoffman Cools? It's luxury furnitures, guys. Damn. Come on down. Rick Ross or Fat Joe? Rick Ross or Fat Joe? Rick Ross or Fat Joe?

Neither one of them are fat no more. Fat Joe, man. I'm from New York. This is not even a question. Come on, New York. Get the fuck out of here. Look at this. Look at that.

We got love for Fat Joe, New York, man. I love Fat Joe. I love Fat Joe. By the way, I went to his Dominican's. I mean, I went to his Cuban father's funeral. Yeah. Smack dead in the middle of it. God bless me.

You remember our first episode. I challenged him on being Cuban. This is what I'm trying to tell you. We're in the middle of his father's funeral. Everyone there is Cuban. They're black as hell. I'm sitting there. I know he's going to say this. Everyone there is Cuban. They're black as hell. I'm sitting there. I know he's going to say this.

I'm sitting there. I'm sad. This is his father's funeral. He steps up and he goes, Nori, can you tell your friend? No, he didn't, bro. At the funeral, dog? Tell your friend. I'm really Cuban. I know he's Cuban, man. Who, Fat Joe Tell you, man. I'm really Cuban.

I know he's Cuban, man. Who, Fat Joe? The thing is that, you know, I'm a hip hop head growing up. And Fat Joe's one of the most prolific Latin rappers as I'm growing up. I thought he was Puerto Rican. I didn't know he was Cuban. That's the thing. His dad was Cuban.

We knew this as Cubans. Yo, my man, why you ain't repping the Cubans? So when we had him on the first episode of Drink Champs, I said, yo, why you ain't rep the Cubans? And he got hella mad at me. Look, look, look. You want me to do this? He does present as more Puerto Rican.

He does. OK, look, look. Look, just so you know, I didn't text nobody. I just wanted, he might not pick up. And so ever since then, he's always been like, yo, EFN, Cuban, man. He made his point. He was like, can you call EFN? And I was like, no, I don't have the funeral, dog.

That doesn't make sense. We're gone. All right, watch this. Watch this. Look. Nah, can you call EFN? And I was like, no, I don't have the funeral dog. That doesn't make sense. Where's gone? Alright, watch this. Watch this. Look. Nah, I don't believe at the funeral he would bring that up. No, that's crazy. And he put me on the phone with his dad. He said, dad, gentlemen, why are you keeping me up? But his mom is Puerto Rican. Yeah, yeah, his mom's Puerto Rican.

And he grew up more with his mom at that time period. Oh, so he grew up in like East Harlem like this. No, Bronx. The Bronx. Well, I mean, I guess East Harlem isn't at the Bronx. No, Oh, so he grew up in East Harlem. No, Bronx. The Bronx. Well, I mean, I guess. East Harlem isn't at the Bronx, dude. No, no, no, no, no. Well, he's from the Bronx. He might not be from the Bronx.

Okay. Oh, no, no, no, no. I'll keep that one. Let me keep that one. Let me keep that one. I'm only halfway done with this one. Yo, listen, listen. I had to tell EFN.

I went. I saw your whole Cuban family. I saw the whole. Listen, man. I don't believe it I don't believe what he's telling me right now Yeah The verdict is in The verdict is in

I believe it bro I believe it Yeah put on Put on the phone Sorry Yo where you at I'm in my mother's house I bought five so I'm dealing with the Contract of fixing

Everything five you know what I'm saying Alright I just wanted to let them know Because EFN did not Think that you was really Cuban. He believes I'm Cuban. No, bro. No, that's not what you're talking about. That's not what you're talking about.

I'm just playing. I'm just playing. I'm just playing. Let's say something to Andrew. What up, Joe? Hey, Andrew. What's up, brother? How you doing, man?

How you doing, buddy? Everything good? Everything's good. I'll be honest with you. I didn't know that you were Cuban either. Wait. But I feel like New Yorkers, we know you as more Puerto Rican, though. I believe you.

So EFN said there's only one. He said, he said, he said, there's only one. He said, there's only one way to prove that you're actually Cuban. Did you vote for Donald Trump? Did you go to Versailles? Yeah, yeah, did you go to Café Versailles? That's it. If I can tell you the truth,

yeah, I go to Versailles. But if I can tell you the truth, the truth is too hard to handle if I tell you right now. Woo! All right, we good. No, he's trying to end the call. No, he's trying to end the call. No, he's trying to end the call.

Joe, we going to go to Cuba. Hey, Joe, we going to go to Cuba together. Let's go to Cuba together. Let's do it. You're not going to Cuba together, bro. You're going to go, bro. I ain't going to Cuba. What kind of handshake is that, bro? You going to Cuba? I ain't going to Cuba. What kind of handshake is that, bro?

Like, fuck yeah. What the fuck was that? We know. I don't even know what the fuck that meant right now. That's Cuba's finest. We ain't going to Cuba. Cuba's finest is that. That's what it means.

So, I just wanted to get another shot with you, my brother. He's like, fuck my shot. You better ask me a question. You got to do something about this? You know what? You know what? Let me just say something. What do you have to do after this?

I'm flying back. Oh, so you don't have to do a gig or anything, right? No, I'm good. I'm good. Get fucked up, bro. You know what? Cheers. Cheers.

Yes, brush you. I'm going to take a piss, though. Hit me at a time. I'm out of here right now. Can we pee? Can we do a little quick pee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little pee break. Guys, we're in our 40s. I'm out of here right now. Can we pee? Can we do a little quick pee break? A little pee break. Guys, we're in our 40s.

I had a great speech. I want this speech. I'm about to be in my 50s, dog. Fair enough, fair enough. Hold on. Is it one by three? And we're back? Yes.

Rewind it. We're still on quick time. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. We're almost done. time. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. We're almost done. I need some hard-hitting questions. I mean, all right. I should have drank more water during this whole process.

Okay. Tony Hinchcliffe or Shane Gillis? Oh, man, I got to drink. I love those boys, man. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Both of them.

Salute both of them. Right off the rip. Gary Owen or Jim Gaffigan? Then this is a white question, right? Oh, Gary, man. You know. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network, hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores, and brought to you by Velvet Buck. This podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode, I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian, Dr. Randall Williams, and bestselling author and meat eater founder,

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subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Gotta fuck with Gary, bro. That's who Kendrick was talking about. A lot of people don't realize that. It wasn't about you, and it wasn't about me either. No, it was about Gary, man. And I had to take the smoke for Gary. You tried to put it on Cubans, bro. And I'm like, yo, it's not about the Cubans, man. No, it is about Gary, man, and I had to take the smoke for Gary. You tried to put it on Cubans, bro, and I'm like, yo,

it's not about the Cubans, man. No, it is about the Cubans, bro. It's about you or Gary. It's about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's always about the Cubans. It started with the JFK. Shout out to the conspiracy. Why'd you guys kill JFK, bro? Your family was there? They know about it? No, my dad came in Peter Pan.

You know what Peter Pan is? Yeah. You do? Yeah. That little motherfucker that's touching kids. No, you don't know what Peter Pan is. He's touching kids, bro. Peter Pan was touching kids. It was a CIA program that brought kids out of Catholic schools to the United States. Sounds like what I'm describing. Yeah, you're right.

You're right. It does sound the same. Why are they stealing Cuban kids, bro? They didn't steal them. I guess yeah Okay I'm not going to argue But my dad's a Vietnam veteran Marine

Fought in K-Song Shout out to him He believes Mike Tyson licks little kids ass What? I don't know what he's talking about What are you doing? You're off your stance right now I'm saying like Mr. Lee man

You and Mr. Lee Are going to hang out tonight I think Facts Facts! Facts! And you said you guys hung out at the same club, so here we go. We were at Gold Rush. Yeah.

I saw you at Gold Rush, bro. And who was the Rush? We were cleaning the place. All right, all right. There's two different Gold Rushes. Yeah, yeah. What's the one in Miami Shores or whatever? Like, uptown.

Biscayne, yeah. That's Gold Rush, right? That's called what? Dean's Gold, yeah. Yeah, that's a lot of drugs in there. That shit is crazy. I think people back home don't realize that the strip clubs out here

are so... Let me tell you something. Scores was so hardcore to me. Which it wasn't at all i came to miami i was like you know scores yeah in the city i mean it's just it's like two different the the strippers if you have like a table out here for everybody who's never been in miami you ever been to like a hilton where they got the koi fish and when you walk by they all go Like the fish come to the top of the water almost so you could like pet or feed them. That's how it is with the strippers in Miami. You have a table at Gold Rush and they just start, all of them flocking over and they just stand by the row. It's an insane concept.

Like in New York, it's like almost like they ignore you. You got to sit there like, hi. I'm like, why am I trying to, like, get attention from the. What the fuck is going on here? He's never been to. What's our spot down south that we used to go to? Showgirls. Showgirls.

Showgirls? Showgirls. I mean, I'm. In New York City? No, no, this here. This here. I'm out of the strip club scene. No, not terrible. Amazing.

Amazing. They play all of our records in there. Do you have a. Do you have sex with them? Wow, that was a very poignant question. Wow, bro. Are you a CIA or an FBI or what are you, bro? I didn't see a ring, my bad.

This is around my heart. Keep the belt on. Keep the belt on Keep the belt on You are the champ right now I gotta give you that one I gotta give you that one It's around his arm It's around his arm It's a lot

No, no, the strip clubs are So is it cool? Like strip clubs are just Such a part of culture out here. It's not even like a weird thing. I literally had... Your wife would go, right? It's how you become a man out here, honestly. Honestly.

In Tootsies and not looked at... No, Tootsies... Fuck Tootsies, bro. You got to go to the bullet hole wounds, the dirty down grimy spots. Like what? What's the name? Showgirls. Showgirls.

I mean, that's one of them. I mean, there's a bunch. There's a... Look, the owner closed this showgirls down. They of them I mean there's a bunch There's a Look the owner closed This showgirls down They're like It's jukebox for me Charlie what's the one

We need to go to With the jukebox Take one So hold on The jukebox You put They got the office right now They have the jukebox

For the music Yes So you get You get to pick That was back in the day That was back in the day It doesn't exist anymore You put the You put whatever you want.

You can put a hoe down. They got to dance to that shit. And then in Miami, is it more transactional? Like, if you want to do something, you can kind of do something. Everything goes. Everything goes, yeah. Whereas in New York, that's not really the case. No, no.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. New York. New York. Bitches be like, what the fuck is you? What do you want to do? Not just New York. Anything north of Florida, bro. This is to tell you I want a bacon, egg, and cheese.

Listen, we went. Like, yo, look, I just wanted a $5 dance. Yeah, yeah. Andrew, I like the fact that you understand that Miami people are the freakiest people on the planet. It's very sexually liberated. All of these niggas, do you hear? It's liberating. It's liberating.

Andrew, do you not hear this? Yeah. Every time we was talking about this, it was like. Yeah, there was a lot of teeth sucking. It was so much. Yeah, it is a little. What's your point? I'm just saying how freaky y'all are.

You guys are freaky. And you know how you hear, like, I like it, the freaky. That's who you are. I feel like I stand by my product. It's my shit. And I stand. That's not the product. It's my shit and I stand by it. That's not the product. That's not the product at all.

What does azbache mean? That means don't worry about it. Your shit gonna work when you... That means don't worry about it, bro. That means... It works in every country. This shit is so dumb, bro. Let me read this shit. Professional Italian color for a national look.

What the fuck is this? Hold on. What the fuck about this says Italy? Does anybody see Italy when you say that? I see ravioli. I see ravioli. I see ravioli. Shrimp scambi.

I see it. I see it. Linguine. Aloe and macadamia seed oil enriched. That's how Italians make it. I see it. Aloe and macadamia seed oil enriched. That's how Italians are made. That's Italian, man. Shout out to you, bro. I see olive oil.

That's how Italians are made. That was fucked up in case y'all do know. These spam callers are pissing me off. Hello? You taking phone calls, bro? Yeah, spam callers. Who's that? Oh, yeah.

Hey, this is Mary from Walmart. Shut the fuck up. Damn, damn, bro, damn. That's why they're all... Was that with the Adderall segment of our show? Adderall. I haven't started taking this since last year, bro. Adderall's phenomenal.

Coming to America or Harlem's phenomenal um coming to America or Harlem Nights coming to America alright which one one or two come on nobody knows

there's two shit there's just one there's just one I'm taking a shot to that yeah cheers

now you taking a shot to it, now you taking a shot today Let's all take a shot today Let's do it man Let's do it For the sake of taking shots Jamie, I need water This is why I love white people He's the only one

He's the only guest That remembers her name That is white privilege Everyone else says white girl or whatever. Being a nice person is white privilege. She's our family, so we appreciate it. You guys, people, that was white privilege.

How dare you? I was exercising my comedic rights. That's our sister, so we love the fact that you recognized her name. Thank you for being our gentleman. She's a sister? She's a sister of our show. She's your sister, man. She's half black.

And by the way, I voted against you because I said he's going to come in here with the porno. He was in the presidential election. The porno pornstache. Pornstache is like, oh, man. What made you choose the porno porn? That's the only way that... You went 1956 on us, bro. What made you choose the porno port? That's the only way to... You went 1956 on us, bro.

I don't have a... What happened in 56? I don't know. I feel like World War II, you're like... Nah, bro. You're so many years off. It's crazy. You're so many years off.

It's crazy. 42. There you go. There you go. What happened in 56? You guys almost lost Cuba. We did. No, we lost Cuba.

No, 59. Damn, look at you with those years. God damn with your brain power. Holy shit. Who do you think organized it? The white CIA. Okay, go. All right, let's go. Damn, I had a good one for this.

This is the last one. Go. Give them the last one. Loyalty or respect? Respects. Because with respect comes loyalty. Yeah. I think it's hard to be disloyal to someone you really respect. Right. And respect is like... Loyalty you can probably pay for.

Respect you can't really pay for. There are people that will be loyal to you just because it's advantageous for them. But respect is just an innate thing. Either people do or they don't. Thank you so much. You can make him a drink too. No, no, no.

Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, chill out. Chill out. Jamie, he wants a drink and he's just saying no, but he means yes. I'm driving. He's driving nowhere. That is the worst excuse with drink champs ever. You guys are responsible.

That's the only part that we didn't. Let's just take a shot just for the sake of it. Hold on. Hold on. Let me just say something. What the fuck is that? Hold on. I'm making myself an iced coffee.

Hold on. Holy fuck farts. Hold on. You've never seen this happen on drink champs? No, no, no. You've never seen someone finger their ice water and make an iced coffee? I've heard about it.

We heard about it. You got the finger on your wife, and I was uncomfortable about that. So was I. So was I. All right, but take a shot. Cheers. All right, go.

Just because. Okay. Because I didn't like that little finger. Filipino woman. I didn't like that either, right? She was just feeling like she wanted it. My bad, my bad, my bad. Yeah, my bad. That's it.

And you feel like... Perdóname, way. Okay. Coño, perdóname, way. What do you say? Acere. Acere. Damn, you're going all the vernaculars.

Come on, bro. Yeah, you're like a Nacho Libre actor. I feel like... I feel like... I feel like you oh he's he's the science yeah i believe in science i feel like i feel like i believe in science yo that was the best girl where's that guy bro he's the best no the fucking no well shout out to jack black but the other guy was amazing yeah i believe in science i love that dude in life Yo bring back Esqueleto bro He needs his own fucking

Movie by himself So So Tell me Are we making Esqueleto Nacho Libre When are we making a movie guys

Let's go Why are we fucking around Why isn't Miami like a hub For film Let's do it Let's go Low key that's a I don't want to say

A dream line But that is something That would be really cool is to build out the film and TV industry out here in Florida. Because you see it's going to start happening in Texas. Obviously, LA, there's certain tax restrictions. They were trying to.

Queen Latifah was trying to do it in Florida. Let's talk about your hair pills. I've been on hair pills since I was 20-something years old. Nah, bro, get out of here. Get ass, finasteride. And it's worked? Look at me and look at you. I don't mind not taking pills.

I don't mind. I don't mind saying, look at me and look at you. I'm telling you. The same way back. I'm telling you. There is a pill and it works. It doesn't make it grow back, but it stops you from losing it. It's called

finasteride or Propecia or whatever it is. There's other generic versions. Isn't that the... What's that? Propecia is what? No, it's hair pills. Dead ass. He can't get his wife ass. Uh-huh. He can't get his wife pregnant.

Uh-huh. And then, he said wah-wah. And the reality is it probably wasn't that. That was like a kind of funny joke. It was probably just like

my sperm sucks genetically. All right, I'm sorry. It was messy. You just hit the number one show on Netflix, right? You hit the number one. Number one comedy special. Number one comedy show.

Yay! You sold out Madison Square Garden thank you now you signed a loudspeaker right I'm just giving an example shout out loudspeaker shout out Chris loudspeaker is still around loudspeaker takes your genre

and it takes that audio and they put it in a hip hop section. Yeah. You might be pissed. No. Well, you're saying like my audio of my special? The audio of your special.

Oh, wow. Could they even do that, though? Yes, they can do that. I almost wanted to call you and be like, put this on the comedy section. Wait, but they don't have the rights to do that. No, I'm saying to him. Yeah. If they did.

If they did. I'm safe now? Of course. If they did. If they did. I literally watched your special three times. I listened to it twice.

Because I was jogging. Yeah. Why can't I have your special anywhere the fuck I want it? It belongs in comedy. It belongs in hip hop. Sure. It belongs in...

Oh. Am I bugging? No, I mean, like, I don't think there should be restrictions on what any artist can do. I don't think that. Like, I think that,

like, I think you should be able to do rap. You should be able to reggaeton. You should be able to do country, whatever you want to do. You want me to reggaeton? I've been hearing you keep saying it. I like the reggaeton. Okay, all right. I'm in.

I'm going to think about some reggaeton shit. Let's go. Let's go. He's going to be on the record. I'm actually down to that. But, yeah, I don't think there should be those restrictions for artists at all. I think that like... There should be no restrictions for artistry, period.

That's my... Period. Now you're speaking my language, but yeah. You can do whatever the fuck you want, bro. That's what I feel. But this is what I say about your comedy is... I literally... Watch and listen to your shit... As a white man. You your shit as a white man.

You watch it as a white man? We're fucked in this world, bro. We're fucked. How did it feel, bro? As a white man. How did it feel for that hour to be a white man in America, man? Yeah, let me keep going.

I want you to keep going. But let me just tell you America, man. Yeah, let me keep going. Go, go, go. I want you to keep going. But let me just tell you something, Andrew. Yes. Thank you, man, because I needed to hear that style of comedy where it's almost offensive. But it's beautiful. Respect. Thank you.

Salud. I love that comedy. I love that. How you delivered it. And I want to thank you. I want to tell you to continue to do your fucking thing the way you're doing it. Just take a figure. Let me get two more minutes, please.

Because, no, you know why? let me get two more minutes please because no you know why because this has no race this has nothing to do with this this is pure love respect thank you man you are what we need right now

in this time of day it's a terrible times that we live in there man I'm being honest man I follow David Goggins not because I love David Goggins it's because I just want to be better in life right and I do and hopefully he does too

but when you you put us in a perspective where we say you you know what? We want to be better. We want to continue. We want to do what we got to do. And you do it every day. But that's special.

That 2002 special, that's everything leading up to that. And knowing that all the comedians that you've been to, like you hung out with Smokey Swart. Of course. Shout out to Smokey. And Harlem. Yeah. And the Bronx. This is dangerous.

I'm just being honest. I'm from these people, and it's dangerous. Fair, fair. And you went there. Yeah, yeah. You did that. And you continue to be who you are. I want to salute you. Thank you. Hey. Thank you continue to be who you are I want to salute you

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