The Breakfast Club - John Witherspoon Interview

Episode Date: February 23, 2015

John Witherspoon stops through to chat about his upcoming shows at Gotham Comedy Club, will there be another Friday movie, his relationship with Bill Cosby and much more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's Teresa, your resident ghost host. And do I have a treat for you. Haunting is crawling out from the shadows, and it's going to be devilishly good. We've got chills, thrills, and stories that'll make you wish the lights stayed on. So join me, won't you?

Let's dive into the eerie unknown together. Sleep tight, if you can. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Come on. Real people. Real celebrities. Real talk. Join the Breakfast Club. Blast off in your head. Weekday mornings, 6 to 10. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Special guest with us this morning, Mr. John Witherspoon. Mr. Witherspoon. Hey, thank you for having me, y'all.

Thank you. It's cold, but I'm happy to be here. You look good, man. 73 years young, y'all. 73. I'm going to go to about 120. 120? You're going to go to about 120. 120? You're going to clock out around 120? About 120.

About 4.30 in the afternoon. You know, you guys interest me, Matt, because we had Larry King up here a couple days ago, and he's 81. 81. And it's just like, y'all just keep moving. Y'all just keep going. He's 81. His wife is like 55 or something.

That's a good combination. Yeah, it's a good gap. Real. What do you think keeps you going man um working and getting this paper all right well i was a broke man when i was coming up see yeah yeah you haven't been broken a long time but but the fact is that you never forget uh i i was from a family of 11 kids right yeah so uh we didn't have no paper. So, you know, now that I'm making money, I'm doing fine. You know, what keeps me working is I used to go to school,

like as cold as it is right now outside, I used to wear two left boots to school. My mother made me wear two left boots, fifth grade. I hear people say that. How do you wear two left boots? Just, you know, they kick your ass out the house. That's how you wear them. Who had the right boot?

The left foot, the right foot. I don't know which Because the boots Were two left boots Got you Yeah so You never forget that When you're growing up

And you grew up in St. Louis Detroit Oh Detroit Motor City My brother used to work At Motown So I knew all the people I knew Marvin Gaye

And the Timps And I played basketball With the Timps And I know Smokey today I knew all those people In Detroit Were you cool You were cool with Bill Cosby Huh. Were you cool with Bill Cosby?

Huh? Were you cool with Bill Cosby? No, I never met him. I met him once, I think, in passing. Really? We were on an airplane, I think. And I met Bill Cosby. But we weren't in the same arenas.

They would never let me in the Playboy Club. Playboy Mansion. I tried to get in the Playboy Mansion. You tried to get in and you couldn't? Yeah, they wouldn't let me in. I've been there one time. Did you go in there? Yeah.

Yeah, for a party. So when you see everything that's happening with him, and he's had a long, illustrious career, and now towards the end of his career, his name is just... It's mud. Yeah. What do you have to say about something like that and those allegations?

Well, he must have had some misunderstanding with a lot of women. Because they didn't particularly like what he did to them. But he didn't have to do this. You're at the playboy club. Women want to run around naked. Right, they are. So why are you giving somebody,

they say you gave them a pill or some liquid. You don't need to do that. That's a fetish. You got a different kind of thing going. How do you avoid being accused of things happening? You know, were you ever in a situation where you didn't do something, but somebody accused you of it? No, I never.

That's never happened. No, it ain't happened yet. You're too late in the game for that now. But I got too much game now. No, I never had that happen to me. But Bill shouldn't. I don't understand what he's doing in a situation like this. I think some people have fetishes though. Like maybe for some people, that's what turns them on. He got too much game. If they said I gave him some pills,

only thing a woman will get from me is a high blood pressure pill, some cholesterol medicine and her bladder might be okay because I take them bladder pills too. So, no, no, I ain't never been no game like that. But you got to be careful, though. You got to be careful. Yeah. Were you really in the Civil Rights Movement, you told TV? Yeah, back in the Civil Rights Movement.

Okay. But we walked down Woodward Avenue once. And I used to curse out the TV a lot. Yeah. But I was back in the Civil Rights Movement, yeah. I did all that. Gotcha. When I was coming up, man.

Martin Luther King was there. But we didn't march as much as they did in the South. You know, everybody in Detroit in the 1960s, players, pimps, they had their Cadillacs and their hair conked. Y'all drove down the block. Yeah, they drove with the woman sitting on the side with the red hair.

Talking about we shall overcome. Yeah, yeah. You still got a light little conk going. No, this actually, when you dye your hair, it's straightened out on you, see? Okay. That's all that is. When this dye come out the head, my hair gonna say. Now, what's your relationship with Eddie Murphy?

He's just a good friend. He's still a good friend? Yeah, a real good friend, and I work with him. He called me for jobs that I didn't even know I'm gonna get. Really? He said, I want Spoon to do that. That's really cool. Richard Pryor used to do

the same thing when I knew Richard. But Eddie, we worked on Vampire and Brooklyn together. We had a lot together. You're talking about somebody funny

when the cameras are off. That's when Eddie's just real funny. You know, did you see him on SNL the other night, the 40th anniversary? Yeah, I didn't see that.

But the fact that that part, they talking about Bill Cosby, that wasn't nothing anyway. Yeah. It was nothing. And Eddie got enough money to say, I didn't see that. But the fact that that part, they talking about Bill Cosby, that wasn't nothing anyway. Yeah. It was nothing. And Eddie got enough money to say,

I don't want to do no crap like that. Another comedian was telling me, oh, Eddie Murphy was scared. I'm like, Eddie Murphy don't get scared. He ain't got to be there. He got so much money. He went to smash it in their face. I'm going to go with it,

but I ain't going to do nothing. That's all that was. Do you get a lot of that, too? Because I feel like people like Eddie don't get appreciated by the institutions that they helped establish. Me? I don't give a damn.

People appreciate me, but I don't give a damn if they appreciate me or not. I got some money now. Out of all the movies that you've been in, what do you think deserves a part two, a sequel? Every movie that you've been in, what would you love to see a part two of? But, you know, I don't know.

Friday, they need to do another one of those. I'll make a lot of money on that one. You got to pull the original cash. You got to be Chris Tucker. Everybody got to come back. Chris Tucker is not coming back. He got saved, and that's what I'm told. And he got his income tax stuff taken care of now

with the government, so now he's fine. Right. But me, thinking about my little world, I'd like to have another fourth Friday. Because I read the third Friday, they pay you a lot of money. So they know they got to give you more money on the fourth one. Right. So that's the one I think I'd rather come back. And also, I love Vampire in Brooklyn.

That was a good movie. I had a lot of fun. Oh, yeah, it'd be funny. And it ended like it was going to be a sequel. Yeah, it did. Because of Kadeem Hardison. Yeah, we've been. He was the vampire.

He was the vampire now. Yeah, and I was a limousine driver. But never did. They never, nobody picked it up. Yeah, and you get disappointed because I'm thinking to myself, boy, they're going to do a sequel on this because it ended like it was going to be a sequel. You said you worked with Robin Williams, too, when you used to work with Richard Pryor. Yeah, Robin had just come in town.

We were all day players. We only got about $500 a week. And Robin had a little young dude. He was real scared. And they made him an extra. He was an extra in the movies. Richard Pryor would say, I want Spoon to be in this scene. Let Spoon do this.

Let Spoon do this. Robin, let him stand in the corner. But, you know, he'd give Robin spots. So Robin was a lawyer when I was charged with rap be in this scene. Let Spoon do this. Let Spoon do this. Robin, let him stand in the corner. But, you know, he get Robin spots. So Robin was the lawyer when I was charged with raping a white woman. I remember that. He was our lawyer. And let him ad-lib. We both ad-lib.

And it's a funny scene. You got charged with raping a white woman? In the movie. Oh, in the movie. Oh, I wanted to say. Lord have mercy. Oh, no. What is wrong with you?

No. I just asked you. Did you ever get accused of something? No, no, no. That was just a movie. I ain't got a job raping no white woman. You said Robert was a coke fiend? Was he in drugs there?

He wasn't a coke fiend or a drug dealer. He loved cocaine. And one time, he saved me because, you know, I was, you know, I was hitting everybody with coke. But one time I bought a gram of cocaine of my own. And I had no idea how much you get. I didn't know you get that little pile for $100. I was shocked.

And so I'm hitting my little coke. I had my little spoon around my neck in the back of the comedy store. And so Robin come in there, and I'm hitting his joint. Yeah, man. And Robin came and said he wanted to hit my coke. I gave him the coke. Yeah, Robin here. I gave him the spoon off my neck. He went into my little vial, that little brown vial, and hit that coke and turned it to the coke. Yeah, Robin, here. I gave him the spoon off my neck. He went into my little

vial, the little brown vial, and hit that coke and turned it to the side and flipped some coke out of there. I said, damn, Robin. He's the volleyball. I didn't know you

was the Hoover vacuum cleaner company. Coke was regular back then, though. Oh, yeah. That was like weed now. Well, you know, when

Richard Pryor come off stage, the coke man would have somebody at the door to give Richard, give his bodyguards and stuff, Coke to give to Richard. If you like it, you can buy more. That's what they do. They give you a lot of Coke.

They wouldn't give it to me, but they give it to Richard. For Richard Pryor's biopic, have they asked you just for some consulting, like maybe some good stories since you know him so well? Well, I knew, well, you know what happened? In the comedy store back then, I was the MC, the host of the show. And Richard would come in. I didn't know he was in the room.

He'd be sitting in the back. And he would say, I would come by, hey, Richard, how you doing, man? What are you doing here?

He'd come by and say, how you doing, Spoon? You know, but I know he wanted to go on stage, but I need to coax him into going on stage. Right. He would never come in and say,

I want to go on stage. So, I had to do something. I said, Richard, you want a drink? I'll get you to go on stage, but I need to coax him into going on stage. He would never come there and say, I want to go on stage. So I had to do something. I said, Richie, you want a drink? I'll get you a drink. Yeah, just give me a drink. So I know to give him a drink. Now I leave and come back again. So I said, Richie, so you okay, man?

Everything, you want to go on stage? He said, no, no, no, no. I just come see how you're doing, Spoon. So I walk away again. And then the third time, I said, Richie, let's go up on stage and let everybody know that we got big stars coming to the comedy store he said okay I go up there

he said where am I going I said you're going next I put him on he stayed up there an hour and a half then he had the secretary call me the next day and say

tell Spoon thank you for putting me on stage for getting me on stage he was that kind of person who owned the comedy store Mitzi Shore Sammy Shore's wife.

She took it from him when they got a divorce. And Pauly Shore's mama. I remember there was all kinds of legal issues with that. Yeah. That's between two brothers and his sister. Because Mitzi is so feeble now, I don't think she know her name. Do you still go to places like that, just pop up yourself? Oh, no.

I haven't done that in 20-something years. I got a son that go to a comedy store now, a lab factory. Oh, so you don't work out no more. You just do great shows. I don't work out no more. If I want to try something new, I try it on the stage where I'm working. I never go to a comedy store and try it out. When I do David Letterman's show, I used to be so nervous and all that stuff, man.

Seven minutes, I do that stuff. I go on the show, and try it out. When I do David Letterman's show, I used to be so nervous and all that stuff, man. Seven minutes, I do that stuff. I go on the show and work at work. But he's my friend, so we, you know, he'll ask me

different questions that's not even on the list. So that makes it funny, see, if we can be ourselves. But you're the OG now, so that's it. Like,

you're too old to get booed. Ain't nobody gonna boo you now. Oh, no, I'm getting booed. They may holler at me. Yeah. You know, I was in Constitution Hall. I didn't know what the. Yeah. You know, I was in a constitutional hall.

I didn't even know what the dude said. He's way back there. About 4,200 people. Somebody back there, you can't talk way back there. I didn't even acknowledge it. But then he stopped. Somebody around him probably told him to shut up. Do you get mad at, you know, some of your old stuff,

like bang, bang, bang, bang, you know, or 30, 40, 50 minutes in the bathroom? Oh, yeah. Do you get mad at that? Because when I was going to introduce you, I almost said, and now we have to bang, bang, you know, know 30 40 50 minutes in the bathroom oh yeah you get mad at that cuz when you when I was gonna introduce you I almost said and now we have the bang but you know cuz no no hell no no that made me I can't believe somebody don't want about it say like dynamite what's the name Jimmy Walker they want people to say dynamite oh no that's what made me living where I'm living was that ad-lib or was that written

in the script? Was that improv? It was all ad-lib. It was on Boomerang because the whole scene in Boomerang was ad-lib. There was no script.

Richard Pryor, I was in L.A. I mean, Eddie Murphy said he wants Spoon to play David Allen Griffith's dad in Boomerang.

And so Paramount, they were over budgeted already on the Boomerangs. You notice that my scene wasn't even having nothing to do with the movie. It's just me coming to visit my son. They said they don't want Spoon, whoever he is, to play this new scene. And they told Reginald Hutland, we don't want nobody. Who is this Spoon anyway? And Eddie said, I want Spoon to play the part.

We're not going to finish the movie until he do it. They flew me all the way from L.A. to New York. And I picked all them clothes I put on. I picked all that out. And I went in my little dressing room and wrote my little stuff down, what I'm going to say. So I said, all you got to do is ask me when I walk in the door,

how do I pick my clothes? So first when we shot the scene, Martin Lawrence was the one to open the door. Richard saw, Eddie saw so much. Last we began, he told Martin to keep walking to his seat. I'm going to do this scene with Spoon. Ain't that amazing? So he and I did it.

We had Sinbad on here, and Sinbad said that Hollywood never liked Bill Cosby. So I wondered, you know, you've been in the game a long time. Did you ever get any backlash from Hollywood just being black, just for you being black? Oh, not really. You know, I don't know why Hollywood didn't like Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby made tons of money. Tons of money.

Tons of money. Bill Cosby made out like he didn't make it, maybe didn't like Hollywood. Hollywood loved Bill Cosby. Brandon Tartikoff gave him the job. He used to be the president of Paramount. He's the one that hooked Bill Cosby up. Bill Cosby can't say nothing. Whatever happened and his misunderstanding with them ladies, it's his fault.

I don't know. He should have put a mask on. What about the Wayans brothers? You still cool with them? Oh, yeah. Man, they made me. They got me the best job. I had a regular check coming in.

Every week, that check was there. Oh, y'all should have seen that money. But I never had a series before. You got to realize, them series, you know, you're doing a series. We did 100 shows, five years. That check, boom, boom, bang, bang, bang, bang. The series is regular money, but is it better money than a movie? Well, see, the thing about it, if you're working on ABC, NBC, Fox.

Network television. ABC, what is it, CBS. Yeah, network television. You're going to get the big bucks. I'm working on cable. And that's not the same money you get on regular TV. But we were getting, like when I was on Tracy Morgan's show, I made a lot of money because Carsey Warner and Monebox were the producers and they

produced big time stuff. And what's the name from Saturday Night Live was one of the producers. The head of Saturday Night Live. Lord Michaels. Lord Michaels was one of the producers. So you get a lot of money on those. But cable, you don't get the same money. So you say the Boondocks and Black Jesus don't pay you well. Not as much as I

need, I deserve. No. Boondocks is gone. That's is going to pay you well. Not as much as I need, I deserve. Yeah. No, Boondocks is gone. That's canceled. I know, the last season was so bad. Yeah, well,

because Aaron Magruder did not write those scripts. Yeah. He got tired and they fired him so they got somebody else. They trying to get somebody to imitate my voice.

We didn't want to do it if Aaron Magruder wasn't around. So they're going to try to get somebody to do the whole casting thing to see who can talk like granddaddy. So that wasn't you last season? Yeah, that was me.

Okay, okay. But they couldn't find anybody. Yeah. So that means we really. You charged them double then? We really had to. I charged them the end, boy. Then they had to pay me a whole season.

I ain't utter one word. They paid me a whole season. Wow. Ooh, that money look good. You should have seen that check. Yeah, man. You know, that bugged me out because I was such a big fan of the Boondocks. And I'm like, how can they take something that Aaron created and just say you're not part of it anymore?

That's cold because he sold his rights to television. He sold his rights to TV. They never sell your stuff until they give you $20 million. Wow. He sold his rights. And he can do a movie, but he's doing other stuff now. Yeah, like Black Jesus. He's doing Black Jesus. That's going to be a big hit. You he's doing other stuff now. Yeah, like Black Jesus. He's doing Black Jesus.

That's going to be a big hit. You wait until this next season. Oh, I love Black Jesus. It's going to be a bigger. They did the little show here, little easy show, 10 episodes to see if anybody like it. And it went over big time. And now this new season coming, they say they wrote a lot of new stuff and it's going to be too cold. You play a homeless person in Black Jesus.

How did you prepare for that role? Did you go sleep on the street every now and then? No, I don't do that. I used to wear two left boots. I know by being broke. So what happened was they didn't know that I was going to take the role. They said, just do the little scene up front in the first one. So I looked at the scene, and they gave me all the scripts for the

whole season to read and see what I like about it. So I added my little lines to this one. I said, this might be a good little role for me to play the homeless man. So I did it and they loved it. So we negotiated and I got I'm one of the most favorite characters

in Black Jesus. I live in a cardboard box. And I don't wash up when I go to the show. I don't comb my hair. I don't brush my teeth. I'm sure everyone appreciates it. I go over there. I'm telling you, it's the funniest role.

I have a lot of fun doing it. And Corey will tell you, we have such good times. That don't take you to a bad place, though? Because you said you grew up poor. No, no. You're like, I can't wait to get out these homeless clothes. Oh, no. Matter of fact, the clothes i'm using on this show the same clothes i wore on

hollywood shuffle okay i played a homeless man on hollywood i saved the whole outfit you wouldn't believe it 18 years ago i saved the outfit in a bag and put it in my closet in my garage you got you and i found the Wow. And I gave it to the wardrobe department. They did four or five copies of the same clothes and gave me my old outfit back. Same clothes I wore. You look at the Hollywood Shuffle when I'm sitting on the ground eating the whole cakes and they didn't sell.

That's the same outfit. Wow. Well, you're going to be performing this weekend. Yeah. Tell us your notes. Yeah, I know where I'm at. I'm being dead, dead, dead, dead,. Yeah, I know where I'm at. I'm being dead, dead, dead, dead, you know.

You know where I'm at. Gotham Comedy Club. Gotham, I said Gotham. Gotham Comedy Club. What's the time? You know the times? Yeah, 8.30 tonight and 10.30,

I'm just joking. I knew it was Gotham. 8 tomorrow, Saturday and one show Sunday at 8. Okay. Well, the Academy Award is on Sunday. Yep. I don't care about no Academy Award. I never did 8. Okay. Well, the Academy Award is on Sunday. Yep.

I don't care about no Academy Award. I never did watch that crap. Nah, no way. They make all the money. They got all the big breasts in France. They got all the cars,

all the houses. Then they give themselves trophies. The hell with them. 8 to 10 Friday, 8 to 10 Saturday, and 8 on Sunday. Check out John Witherspoon.

Bang, bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. I have a cooking show on YouTube called Cooking for Poor People. Cooking for Poor People. People gotta start checking that. It's gonna be a lot of pork on that. No, ain't no pork in it. Chicken. Okay. Chicken.

It's called Cooking for Poor People because when you're hungry, everything tastes good. What's a good recipe? What's a good quick recipe? Yeah, I need something. Something with chicken. Something with chicken and I need hot sauce. I like hot sauce and I like chicken. You should eat Chicken

Rosemary chicken With pesto pasta That don't sound like Something poor people Can afford That don't sound poor No you ain't got nothing But you go in the yard

And get you some pesto I mean some Whatever And you get the chicken You cook it in the pan Okay And make some pasta With some pesto sauce on top

Gotcha Yeah But you get rosemary. I got rosemary in my garden. Cooking for poor people. Because when you're hungry, everything tastes good. But I do a lot of funny stuff. My stuff is funny. It ain't like I'm just

cooking out of the series. I'm talking about everything in the world. I'm doing the ISIS and doing about the ISIS people. I call it is-is. I try to make funny jokes about ISIS. I'm doing the ISIS and doing about the ISIS people and jumping. I call it is, is. And I ain't messing with them. Try to make funny jokes about ISIS.

What do you think about older men dating younger women, like a 25-year-old dating a 17-year-old? 25-year-old making a choice at 17, that ain't old. Yeah, it ain't old, right? No, heck no. 17, make it 18. In case something go down. You want to cover yourself. She's she's legal yeah but make it 18

you can't miss 17 you don't want to be on TV and handcuffed and everything with the t-shirt across your shoulders 25 and 18 bang bang bang bang bang bang bang I wish I could get me a

I'll take a 35-year-old woman. You still get groupies? They still fine. No, I got groupies, but I have a wife. Oh, okay. But ain't nothing wrong with a 35-year-old woman. They fine. You still bang a young girl every now and then?

No. He's married. He's shot a man with that little woman. That's not too old. I mean, I look at the little girls and hug them. I might hug them a little too long. That might be a little molest in there, but... But no. No, I don't mess around. little girls and hug them. I might hug them a little too long. That might be a little molest in there, but...

But no. No, I don't mess around. I count my money. You have no idea how happy I am to be counting my money. I know you got it. All the stuff you've done, I'm sure you've just been saving your checks. Plus, I bought property. I got about

eight homes. There you go. I had an apartment built in Beverly Hills. I'm out there watering the grass, and they called the police on me. Really? No, they did not really call the police on you. Yeah. Some old lady said, some black man out here watering the grass. He might be ready to steal something.

And the police came in. What'd they say? They said, oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Witherspoon. I'll be so mad. If you was Mexican, they wouldn't have called the police on you. No, they wouldn't have called. Mexican watering the grass in LA. OK, that sounds about right.

Do me next. It's your time. You let him go. That's all right. But you got to make yourself, because you work hard, you're supposed to enjoy yourself when you work that hard, enjoy yourself. What do you drive? It seems like you drive an old school Cadillac or something.

No, no. I have about eight cars. Wow. Yeah, but I collect old cars. Like what? I have a 1964 Morgan. It's an English car. I know, with the round, with the oval lights.

With the oval lights, yeah. And I have a 1964 Triumph TR4. You know what that look like? Okay. And I have a 1955 Bentley. Wow. And I have a 1984 Rolls Royce. And I have a 1995 Range Rover. I have a 1995 Range Rover.

I have a 2004 Range Rover. But I love cars. Yeah, me too. 72 Mercedes. Nothing new, nothing new, because I know them old ones. I never drive. You got to put a lot of work with them old cars sometimes. You buy them when they're all pristine. You don't buy them with snow tires on in June.

We appreciate you joining us again, man. Oh, man, it's fun to be here. John Witherspoon, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Yeah, boy. Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag.

This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that?

Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Have grace with yourself.

You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, my undeadly darlings. It's Teresa, your resident ghost host. And do I have a treat for you.

Haunting is crawling out from the shadows and it's going to be devilishly good. We've got chills, thrills, and stories that'll make you wish the lights stayed on. So join me, won't you? Let's dive into the eerie unknown together. Sleep tight, if you can. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated.

Crooks Everywhere unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. into a mafia state.