The Brilliant Idiots - Angle Of The Dangle

Episode Date: December 23, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I love the premise of this show. Smart people talking about dumb shit. I think it's dumb people talking about smart shit. Oh, we go where we're not supposed to go, baby. Yep, Shalamanda God. Andrew Shope. We are the Brilliant Idiots podcast. And today's episode of Brilliant Idiots is brought to you by Squarespace.
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Starting point is 00:00:48 Gay how gay? They say on a scale of one on the scale of one to I don't know who's the gayest person we know Fauci probably on a scale of one to Fauci how gay are you? Oh bro. I'm COVID-19, like, booster shot. Do you know what I'm saying? Probably not really gay, though. You see, you're using gay in the 90s, early 2000s way.
Starting point is 00:01:11 No, I'm not saying he's gay. I'm just saying he looks like a gerbil, which is something that gay has put up their ass for fun. That was Richard Gear. Richard Gear wasn't gay. See? Now you're doing another mistake. He's mistaken butt play for gay.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Can we start up the pot over? Mad people like butt play. What do you mean? Let's start it from the beginning. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I go by the name of Charlamagne, the guy.
Starting point is 00:01:33 I go by the name of gay. Listen, listen, I'm converted. What? I'm converted to his alarm. You see, you know what it is? You know what it is? Here's the thing. This is what happened.
Starting point is 00:01:49 I told Andrew to go look at, I told Andrew to go on gay Instagram, G-A-Y-E. Gay magazine. Gay magazine. The greatest Instagram page on planet. I told you. Now you love it. That's my boy. What are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:01:59 I always love this. You know why? Why? Because there's nobody with a better sense of humor. I'm a person that likes to laugh. You're a person that likes to laugh. There is nobody with better sense of humor, and there's nobody who's more comedically funny than the gay people.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Yo, I don't care. And I'm not talking about laughing at them. No, the shit they say is hilarious. It's hilarious. It always has been. But they'll also laugh at the joke is funny. Like, we were saying some shit in there like, I ain't going to lie. That shit's hilarious.
Starting point is 00:02:27 Listen, here's the thing. We all live for compliments. from gay men. It's a fact. Why do you have gay stylists and gay hairdressers and everything else? Like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:39 A woman can be like, yo, you're fine. Charleman doesn't have a gay stylist, by the way. I know there's a lot of gays watching this right now. But you see him in sweatsuits every single fucking day. There's no way.
Starting point is 00:02:48 Charleman dresses like you're trying to make weight for a fight. That's right. I was at the doctor today doing a stress test and I was on the treadmill. I had my shirt off. It's a man, too. The doctor goes, MMA?
Starting point is 00:03:06 That's what he said. I promise to God. I go MAMA? What do you mean? Munch manass? No. He was like, you look like an MMA fighter. I'm like, no, no, no, just work out.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Really? That's what he said. He was trying to rizz you up right there, bro. When it worked. He was like, he was like, can you go a little faster? How fast you want you to go? No. You know what I'm?
Starting point is 00:03:27 No. Hey, man. It worked. It worked. doctors got crazy Riz. The best. The best. That's why you have to be honest with them.
Starting point is 00:03:35 Go on that. They have to have Riz because sometimes people go to doctors and like either they don't want to explain what's really wrong, which is so stupid to me because I don't know how you get a proper diagnosis. Oh, bedside manner is the original Riz. I don't know what that means, but continue. Bedside manners, what you're trying to say? Like they have to communicate things for you in the most effective way and sometimes it's the worst information. They got to get you to talk.
Starting point is 00:03:56 You know what I mean? Sometimes people don't want to just divulge all their information to the doctor, which is so win. But I don't know if it's that they don't want to divulge or they don't know exactly what to say. If I go there and I'd be like, yo, my chest hurts. That's all I know. That's all I know. Like where? I'm like, what do you mean? I don't know. And you got to point like a little kid like here, you know? And then you got to say why you got, you know, fat heifers sitting on it. Fat hefers? What is hefuss? You never taking down a heifer back in the day?
Starting point is 00:04:22 What, a big woman? Yeah. You never seen, you never seen, you never seen some hefas back in a day, bro. This guy crazy. You're trying to bring Heffas back? Yo, hefers? I'm trying to ris up some hefas, bro. Sometimes I'll set a trap for some hefers. I'd be like, yo, Simba's dad's in the middle of that alley.
Starting point is 00:04:37 And then the hephers come running, bro. What is the real definition of hefuss? I mean, it's a word we start. It is a cow? Well, cows are all female, guys. I'm glad we got some biologists. And cows are all female? Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:49 A bull is a man. A cow is a female. Oh. But a heifer, if you get yourself a nice hepha for winter, keep your bed warm. A female that gets on your nerves And R does annoying things That's not true
Starting point is 00:05:03 No, that's a big bro That's what you are I'm just saying I like, hey bro, I like heffless Man shut up Come on You heard it somewhere Why did you hear the word at you
Starting point is 00:05:14 Tell us when you heard it Why can't I just Were you watching old episodes Of Good Times or something What did you wait did you Can I be great bro? Good time to Jefferson No you were watching good times
Starting point is 00:05:22 The Jefferson is right You ain't just coming here screaming Heffley Honestly You need Who's a job turkey You need a little heffah in your life You need a little heffa in your life. I can tell.
Starting point is 00:05:30 I can tell. You too in shape, bro. A heffa would never do that. My wife's a trainer. I know. I got to get it in. You know what I was thinking about yesterday, man? My wife fall in shape, too.
Starting point is 00:05:42 She cooks crazy, though. But she cooks crazy. She's trying to make me a heffel. It keeps you from being desirable. Like that mustache isn't doing it already. Why do you do that every winter, bro? Why do you grow that's the Why?
Starting point is 00:05:59 Like, why? Like, what is the point? Why do you do that every winner, yo? Yo, this guy's an assholes. This guy's an asshole, man. Y'all, first of all, don't know how to ris women. Okay? None of y'all have no wrist.
Starting point is 00:06:13 This is how I risk my wife up, bro. I'm a happily married man. No, but no, mustaches are back. Heffas are back. What do you think a heifer likes the most? A heifer like a cowboy. Do you know what I'm a cowboy and I'm trying to wrangle these hefers? Grow a beard at least once.
Starting point is 00:06:31 I can't grow a beard, you son of a bitch. There's no way you got that much facial hair over your lip and can't grow a beard. No, it stops growing over here. I'm Mexican. I'm from Mexico, bro. You didn't know that? I'm a gay Mexican, bro. Did you not know that?
Starting point is 00:06:49 Did you not know that? It's so crazy, man. Yo. It's got happy holidays. Come on all the gay. Yes, happy all days. Belize not be died to all the Mexican. Felice Navidad.
Starting point is 00:06:58 You know what I mean? Felice Naviad. Hotest, listen, most fire Christmas song of all time, by the way. What is it? Feliz Navidad. Nothing slapped like Feliz Navvita. All right, let's sing it together. Feliz Navidat.
Starting point is 00:07:13 Feliz Navidat. Felis Navidat Prospero, an year. Hey, hey. I want a wish you a merry Christmas. I want to wish you a merry creamer. I want to wish you a merry creamer from the bottom of my heart. That was fire. Yo, it's the most fire Christmas song of all time.
Starting point is 00:07:42 Imagine how fire would be if you were a mustache like this. No. Singing it. Singing it to a nice heifer on the street. That looks suspicious. Why are you mean? Who is this white guy with a Mexican mustache singing for least nine? Navidad to a big girl on the street.
Starting point is 00:07:59 And gay. What's this music playing? This ain't please Navidad. That's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's a new version. They ain't the original. Oh, I thought you were playing lean on me. The original slaps. Did you see, um, the president of Ukraine yesterday?
Starting point is 00:08:16 No. Explain to me. I'm, you know, I'm not the, the highest grade of weed in the dispensary. Okay. Your country's in the middle of a war. Yep. How do you have time to fly to America? to have a press conference in front of Congress.
Starting point is 00:08:30 Son, that's all you should be doing. What do you mean? When you're a country that's the size of Ukraine, going up against a way bigger country, you need the world support. So you've got to be doing podcast tours. It's like you're dropping a special or dropping an album. Well, he was doing stuff over Zoom before,
Starting point is 00:08:46 but I'm just saying, how do you... Zoom don't slap, bro. Like, why would they trust flying out of a country? You know what I mean? I think... I'm going airborne, coming all the way to America. Like...
Starting point is 00:08:55 I'm not trying to undermine the war, but I think that you've got to look at it a little bit more like Russia's occupying territory, not like they're just trying to take over the whole country. Got you, got you, got you. So the parts that aren't occupied by Russia, fly out. Operate normally, do your thing. Nancy Pelosi will show up, like whatever. Yeah, he thanked Nancy for coming in the height of the war.
Starting point is 00:09:20 Oh, okay. Yeah, I, you know, I just, what, what? I'm just trying to figure it out. Nancy Pelosi got some Felice Navid Dodds, if you ask me. I'm just trying to figure it out. Can we bring up Nancy Pelosi's Feliz Navi Dodds? We don't need to. We don't need to do that. Prospero año Nuevo.
Starting point is 00:09:36 We don't need to do it. I'm just saying, what? Is that normal, Chris? What normal? It's normal for leaders of countries to leave the countrywide at war? Right there. Right there, Taylor. Ben Franklin wasn't a leader.
Starting point is 00:09:48 That's not true. Ben Franklin wasn't a leader, though. He was already there, my G. But Ben Franklin wasn't a president? Oh, no, Thomas Jefferson was over there for a president. Oh, Thomas Jefferson. Yeah, because he was the ambassador to France. Got.
Starting point is 00:10:00 Thomas Jefferson was the American ambassador of France. Oh, okay, okay, okay. So he was out there, and I learned that from Hamilton. There's a rap. Really? It's a rap. I didn't pay that. I mean, I watched Hamilton.
Starting point is 00:10:10 I thought it was great, but I... It's in the battle scene. When they're all in the circle. Okay, see? That's Hamilton's education. Bars. Bars will teach you everything you want. But if we want to talk about Nancy Pelosi,
Starting point is 00:10:22 you want to talk about that older woman Like that. Stop objectifying that. They like it. After a certain age, they like it. What? If a 90-year-old woman likes to be objectified, you don't think?
Starting point is 00:10:39 I mean, I can see the logic. I'm just saying like, you're around a 90-year-old-old-old-old- I can see your logic. Like, damn, what are you, 50? No, I can see the logic. Yeah, no, no, no. But that's different. That's different than saying, you know,
Starting point is 00:10:50 you got some big Feliz Navi Dodge. That's different. It's way funnier to call them some Feliz Navi-Dots. you know what I mean? Look who got presents. Look like someone got some presents need to get opened up.
Starting point is 00:11:04 You know what I mean? Listen, shout out to Nancy Pelosi. At 90, they probably wouldn't care. They'd probably laugh at that. Exactly, bro. Die and laughing every time I talk about them things. When you're that old, you die and when you do everything. That's all so true.
Starting point is 00:11:17 What's the next topic? I don't know. Jesus Christ. I don't know. Make an avatar at a Nancy Pelosi, though. You seen Avatar yet? Yes, I have. I haven't watched it.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Is it good? Yes, it is. Like better than the first one? I don't remember the first one. The first one was great. This is why we go to the movies, I'll be honest. I saw people boycott. I'm saying they want to boycott because they were saying that they make fun of indigenous culture or something like that.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Oh, my God. It's fake people, bro. Oh, my God. It's not real people. Who's the blue people? Who's the, like, what are they saying? Some like Samoans and like Hawaiians. They go to the water tribe and it's basically Samoans and Hawaiians.
Starting point is 00:11:55 But I don't know, they didn't get no Samoans and Hawaiians to play them. The first one was in the jungle. Now they're going to the water. Next one they'll go to the mountains or something like that. How much money is Avatar to me? I don't know. The first one is the highest grossing movie of all time. This one got to make like $2 billion.
Starting point is 00:12:12 To break even, what's the point of even doing a movie like that, yo? How much is it made so far? $500 million. I mean, I'll be honest. They say it was supposed to make that the first weekend. Well, this is why we go to the movies. I truly do believe this.
Starting point is 00:12:24 It is spectacle. It's amazing. You get wrapped up in this world and it's like, it is totally worth putting on clothes, leaving your house, and go into the movie theater and enjoying this for like three hours and 20 minutes and it's like the story's the story is solid to some people to my wife she's
Starting point is 00:12:39 bawling out crying my my boy derrick post in hilarious comedian he said he was like so fucking teared up by it he was like embarrassed i didn't get teared up by it i guess i didn't relate to the story as much but the the spectacle what they built like it's genius what they just put together you know what's so interesting that you say that to get people to go to the movies it's going to have to be events from now exactly you can't just put a rom-com out there and expect us to go. It's like it has to be top gun. It got to be Avatar. It's got to be Black Panther 2. It's got to be Nancy Pelosi giving a speech. Because when I went to go see the menu, I said that to myself as I'm leaving. I'm like, this could have been on screaming. And that's like
Starting point is 00:13:16 kind of the way our brains are. Oh, how was the menu? I didn't give a fuck about it. My wife like that kind of shit. I literally only went because by it's a, it's a horror movie, right? I guess. Nothing that shit is scary no more. The reason I say none of that shit is scary no more because like, yo, I've lived life. Yeah. I'm 44 years old. I know what actual fear is. I've seen things that are actually terrifying.
Starting point is 00:13:37 That's shit that they put in my... That's not scary. It would never happen. You want maybe, what, more of like a psychological thriller? This is a psychological thriller. I just think that real life is scary than anything they could ever put in a hard movie. Like, we've lived long enough to see things scary than Freddie Krueber. We've lived long enough to see things scary than Jason Boyhees, Michael Myers,
Starting point is 00:13:58 because the reality is, all jokes aside, Jason Voorhe's a Jeffrey Dahmer. Jason Boehner, yeah. No, who's scary to you? Jason Voorhees. No way. Jeffrey Dahmer could actually exist. Jeffrey Dahmer could be living in your building right now.
Starting point is 00:14:14 Yeah, but as long as I don't go to the gay bar, then I'm good. Allegedly, you might look delicious that day. Oh, and then he'd find me anyway. That's what I'm saying. You're right there. All I'm simply saying is we've seen people that are scarier than they've showed us on
Starting point is 00:14:29 actual movies. When I watched the Jeffrey Dahmer's story, that shit is way scary and this guy in a hockey mask chasing you through the woods. Yeah, but something about the guy the hockey mask chasing you is just absolutely terrifying. Really? Yeah. More so than somebody fucking eating you a lot, eating you? I didn't grow up around woods, bro. You know what I mean? Jeffrey Dahmer was in the city. That's my point. Yeah. So that's it. I read a story the other day in the New York Post at the time. I think it was the post. It was a young lady.
Starting point is 00:14:56 she was coming home at night walking in her building this guy followed her stayed behind her just enough to when she got to her door on the sixth floor to rush in and then stabbed her today Jesus Christ
Starting point is 00:15:13 you know what I'm saying and everybody in the building heard it and I'm like did nothing the people called 911 but I mean nobody went in there to go see what was wrong I mean yeah who's gonna stop but that's my point just this random 25 year old
Starting point is 00:15:25 following you for blocks, following you in your building, and then waits just enough time for you to open your door to Russia, and that's more terrifying than Jason fucking boy. No, that's terrifying. Come on, man. Yeah, you're right.
Starting point is 00:15:36 You're right. Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. You know? Jesus Christ. Damn, Charlotte. What?
Starting point is 00:15:44 Damn, Charlotte. I'm just trying to keep you to talk about the police, stop you from talking about Feliz Navi Da. Oh, you accomplished it, man. Oh, your boy. Your boy's been arrested. I don't know him. Do you see Avatar in 4D?
Starting point is 00:15:54 Uh, 3D. There's a 4D now? Yeah, you should have did 4D, bro. 4D is just what? Like the seat vibrates? So seat moves. You feel wind, you feel water. There's like flashing lights sometimes.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Yeah, I don't need all that. It's amazing. Oh, I had that. I saw that somewhere. Times Square got it. That's like the avatar ride at Universal Studios. It's almost like that. But you can watch a whole movie like that.
Starting point is 00:16:16 I don't need all that, though. I don't need all that. I want to eat snacks, bro. I'm not trying to get fucking pissed on the whole time. Imagine watching a porn like that. Yo. Yo. 40 porn is crazy.
Starting point is 00:16:28 You just get missed down. Getting a little sweat on you. Yeah. Yo. Like somebody spitz in a butthole, you feel it on your hand. You know what I mean? Jesus, that's a genius idea. Why don't you invent that just yet?
Starting point is 00:16:41 Then when the jizz comes. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. They got to make an edible, though. The jizzler. No, no, no. They would have to make the jizz edible. It is edible.
Starting point is 00:16:49 Why do these girls act like that shit and not edible? That's what I'm trying to understand. Like, I don't understand why that's why that's, That's not edible. Why is it not edible? It is. That's it. I think that's what the term eat a dick came from. You know what I mean? What do we do our own? It's, it's part of us. It's already, we don't got to eat. What do you mean if it splashes?
Starting point is 00:17:10 Taylor, what do you say? Get on the microphone. I'm what you're trying to see. Taylor trying to add crazy questions. Taylor, I'm not going to lie, you look skinny, yo. She does, right? I thought I was thinking the same thing. You look skinny. No, it's pressed. I work out and do so cycle every week. Well, it's working. I was going to say you guys You had a story
Starting point is 00:17:30 That you jerked off one time And it hits you And you was like Discussed with yourself Damn son I didn't say I was disgusted with myself I was more proud of myself That's your boy got fucking distanced
Starting point is 00:17:39 That's why you grew the mustache I had to catch you next time Honestly for real I think I grow more On the part that it landed Yeah yeah yeah It doesn't grow as much As the other side Yeah you gotta fertilize it
Starting point is 00:17:48 Teller what are you asking us Have we ever eaten from? Yes No No But but but But what is so what? That's what I'm trying to say.
Starting point is 00:17:58 Like, why do we got to eat it? Does a chicken eat his own egg, Taylor? Does a chicken eat its own egg? No. But would it eat somebody else's egg? Yeah. But guys are grossed out by their own. Say again?
Starting point is 00:18:10 Yeah, because it's our own, bro. We just say it's edible. You don't think gay guys be sucking each other's dicks and cum? I know. Who's grossed out by their own? Great guys. Like, they are grossed out by their own come. Who?
Starting point is 00:18:23 He just said he is. You drinking your own cup? No, that's a total, wait a minute. Come in. Why don't go so crazy, stop, stop, stop? This is two different questions. This is two different questions. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:18:34 Exactly. You asked us, are we afraid of our own cum? The answer is no. I'm not that narcissistic. Then you said, do you eat your own cum? The answer is no, too. Yeah. No, I'm saying, like, if a girl was to swallow your cum,
Starting point is 00:18:46 and if you're kissing her afterwards, you got to wear to brush your teeth. No, she's got to drink something and also swallow. You're not doing that to your wife. I mean, my wife, no, it's not even, we're not even talk about that with my wife. I don't know what we talk about. I can only relate to one thing, bro. Don't talk to married men like that, Taylor.
Starting point is 00:19:04 Say that for these other podcasts with these single motherfuckers that still be out here fucking. Yeah, exactly. And sucking everything that's moving. All I'm trying to say is that women, it's allowed, you're allowed to consume that. It's not gross at all. What you mean? You just said it. That's what you were just saying.
Starting point is 00:19:18 I don't know what she was saying, to be honest with you. I'm asking you guys. I, we don't, you don't. You don't come. To ask him to the question. But yes, Brooklyn Pastor Lamar Whitehead was arrested. What was he arrested for? He went viral on social media for his lavish lifestyle.
Starting point is 00:19:33 Although being a pastor, he's been arrested on charges of fraud, extortion, and lying to the feds. According to authorities, Whitehead scam money from several people, including one church member who he scammed for $90,000. Pastor Whitehead had denied all allegations. Interesting. Interesting. Thoughts? I don't know. I mean, I'm just, I'm shocked.
Starting point is 00:19:53 I'm shocked that the pastor that drives a Lamborghini and stripped out in Dior might be a scammer. But how was that scamming? I just said might be. No, no, no, no. Yeah, but he's allegedly shocked. But I'm saying, let's just talk about the church for a second. If you have a pastor, yep, and this pastor preaches every Sunday, he does his sermons, and you believe in what this pastor is saying, and you make, you know, you tithe and you make offerings to this pastor,
Starting point is 00:20:23 Is that scamming? Well, it depends how they do it. He's not, what is, what is he, how are he scamming? It depends. He took money for, come here, I don't know, I don't know the story. It's always weird when you see a wealthy pastor. Yeah, it's always weird when you see a wealthy pastor because you're a little bit concerned that they're using God and people's belief in God to enrich themselves. So he, if this is the same charges that have been,
Starting point is 00:20:56 Against him for a while. Basically, there was a woman in his church. I think there were several women like that who couldn't get a mortgage on their own for whatever reason. He said, I have connections. In the real estate industry, you give me the money. I'll go procure the house for you. And you'll get the house that way. And they gave him in this case, I guess, $90,000.
Starting point is 00:21:13 Nobody ever got a house. He pocketed it. Wouldn't give it back. And I think they're... That don't got that to do a church. No, not. Yeah. But, well, the relationship starts through church.
Starting point is 00:21:21 Yeah. They trust them because he's the pastor. I mean, this goes on in Brooklyn a lot, especially you have these houses that are worth a lot of money now, and people don't have any real liquid assets, but they're sitting on property that's worth a lot. And they give money to somebody they know who says they're going to basically shortcut the system,
Starting point is 00:21:37 and then the person just never gives the money. Oh, so that's different from what we're talking about. What were we talking about? I would think you were talking about just people who give money to pass them. No, I don't think that that's necessarily wrong because, you know, you're tithing, and that's part of the religion, and I don't think that that's bad. I just think that there are also other ways that you can scam.
Starting point is 00:21:56 And if you're using those ties to personally rich yourself, like, for example, if you represent God in the church, there's like, I believe Bible verses about humility and, like, helping the poor. But how can you help the poor if you're riding around a Lamborghini and your, pause that for a second, Taylor? You're riding around a Lamborghini and you're wearing fucking Dior. Like, wouldn't that money be better spent, you know, at soup kitchens and, you know, helping people who are back on rent and, you know, giving back to kids for. after school or what's called before school drives, et cetera. Listen, there's been millions of people, not millions, but there's been plenty of people
Starting point is 00:22:32 who've manipulated, you know, God and religion for financial gain. You know, I look at it a little bit different sometimes and not talking about, you know, Bishop Whitehead, just in general, if you have committed your life to God, like in a real way, like if you said,
Starting point is 00:22:48 this is what I do, I am a pastor, I am a bishop, and you are an amazing pastor, like your sermons, a fire, like people buy into everything that you're saying, they love what you do, and you build a congregation over time, and people tithe and they offer, and you become wealthy because of it, what's the problem? Because here's the thing. Nobody cares when...
Starting point is 00:23:09 Give it away. God told... But people do, though. Was God rich? If Jesus was rich and Jesus was bowling and Jesus was driving like a Lambo camel or whatever the fuck they got around with back in the day, then do it. But if Jesus was out here in rags, giving everything that he had to everyone, around him and you're emulating Jesus, but you got the Lambeau and the plane, there is a disconnect. Jesus is not a good example, though. Of God? I tell you why.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Of Christianity? No, I tell you why. Because Jesus knew magic. But Jesus was able to do miracles. He was able to turn water to wine. He was able to take, you know, two loaves of bread and some fish and make it plentiful enough for everybody to eat. We don't know magic.
Starting point is 00:23:51 So the magic is the economics of it all, right? So when you have these people, and I'll use somebody like Bishop T.D. Jakes, for example, Bishop T.D. Jakes does so much for the community of Dallas. Like, so much. Like, provides everything from housing, the food, everything. Like, he gives, gives, gives, gives to the community. You can't do that if you're in a position of financial distress. I didn't say distress.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't say there is a spectrum between distress and being a multimillionaire. and I understand the criticism from religious and non-religious people who look at pastors who are incredibly wealthy and say, hey, I feel like that's more money that could be going to the people because that's what our God says to do. I understand their criticism. I'm not saying that, listen, this is your life. You can do what you want. I'm not a follower of a specific religion. so for me to like tell you what to do for your God makes no sense. But I understand that criticism.
Starting point is 00:24:56 I think that's reason. I just think it's weird that we want public servants to be poor. I want service of God. I don't want service of God. But what if serving, what if submitting your will to God and being of service to God, that's the reason you're wealthy? And by the way, don't even wrong.
Starting point is 00:25:11 There are scamming-ass pastors. I don't want anybody to think I'm saying that there aren't pastors out here that scam people, you know, under the guise of God. But what about the ones who are people who are the ones who are people who, really believe, really out here preaching the word, and they're getting blessed for. Like, maybe that's what happens when you submit to God in that way. Maybe what happens when you're, maybe that's what happens when you're of service to God in that way. Maybe we're doing it wrong. But the religion teaches you to give it away. Literally.
Starting point is 00:25:35 Like, bring up the Bible. They don't say to give it all the way? What did it say that? Well, bring up the Bible verses. What does religion say, hey, give all your money away? But you're not getting the money. God is getting the money. Let's just be very clear. God don't need the money. No, no, no, but like the money is for. preaching the word. The money is not for getting a Lambo. So when that money goes to, I wish we had someone who is more well-versed on religion here to speak on. If you want to buy a lambo, why can't you buy a Lambo? That's like saying you, that's like saying a pastor shouldn't live in a nice house. No, I'm not saying you shouldn't live, you shouldn't suffer. Well, I think it's like
Starting point is 00:26:11 prosperity preaching, right? Like, that's the term for this. And I think the idea, if you look at it a positive way, is you're inspiring the people who follow. you through what you've achieved because you've led a godly life and if they you know follow a similar path they'll get the same things i mean that goes back to like the reverend ike thing right who's reverend ike was like the most famous prosperity preacher he operated out of i think harlem uptown in like the 50s and 60s he would literally tell people send me a dollar in the mail and if you do that you'll get back five dollars because god's just silly well yeah yeah that's just nonsense like i got that's That's nonsense to me.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Because I'm not going, first of all, we don't. You're a hustler. Yeah, we know God don't need money. Like, that's number one. So when you say things like, oh, donate some money to God or you give me this dollar, you're going to be blessed. Like, I don't believe, I don't believe in none of that. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:27:02 But if you do go to my church every Sunday or you go to my church every week and you're inspired by what I say and inspired by what I do and you want to tie an awful. Cool. And how I choose to use the money is how I choose to use the money. Yeah, but it's like, I guess there's the other thing is that you get rich off someone else's bars. You're saying, you're bad. bars. You know what I mean? Like, no, I mean that. Like, he's ain't your bars. He's in your song.
Starting point is 00:27:25 But it's the delivery. You know what I mean? It is the delivery that matters too. But you are taking the greatest things that God has ever said, humans have ever said, the prophets have ever said over the last 5,000 years. Of course they're going to touch people. So if you're making no money off that, you're just giving it back to the people, I go, ooh, that guy's out here for the betterment of people. and this is awesome. If you're doing it, you're getting rich and I'm like, yo, you're playing the hits. Those are the pastors that suck.
Starting point is 00:27:54 The pastors that suck are the ones that do the karaoke. If all you can read is scriptures, you're garbage. It's the ones that can take that script. Like you're a comedian. You can take a scenario and build a whole thing around you. That's what the fire pastors do. The fire pastors take a scripture. That's true.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Yeah, yeah. And they say, hey, this is the scripture that we're learning from today. And then they can build a whole sermon from different levels. 100%. I don't want this to come across that guy and being hypercritical of like a Bishop T.D. Jake
Starting point is 00:28:24 so there's other guys who have made a lot of money. What's the guy, the Houston dude, he gets a lot of stuff. Joe Loflis. Creffle Dahl. I was thinking of Osteen. So it's like, yeah, there are many that have. Now, I'm less critical, for example, like if they have a private jet.
Starting point is 00:28:39 If the use of that private jet is to touch more people and preach the word, like I don't see that. I'm more critical of like having 14 cars than a private jet because you only need a couple cars in order to get to the church to preach to the people.
Starting point is 00:28:54 You need a jet potentially to fly around so you could preach the word get more people, help more people. The 14 cars, 17 houses, these types of things, that's where it gets a little bit if you're just using God.
Starting point is 00:29:06 If you're somebody who believes in God but makes your money doing something else, make all the goddamn money that you want. Yeah, it's just strange to me like we don't have no problem with people who make their money by, I don't want to say, nefarious.
Starting point is 00:29:17 But like if I'm out here doing music and the music's talking about violence and the degradation of women. Yeah. And the celebration of drugs. I can make millions of dollars and nobody will ever say anything. Yep. But somebody out here actually saying something good is being rewarded. And we look at it like, oh, that's a little sketchy. I don't understand the logic.
Starting point is 00:29:39 It's because they're saying, yo, God told me to tell y'all to give me money. That's why. Why is that so hard to understand? Hey, God told me the other day to bust it open and give me that 10%. I don't hear that as much as I used to. But to that point, you know what I mean? Yeah, I got you. To that point, what about activists, right?
Starting point is 00:29:58 You have people who literally go out there on the front line. Speak on it. And they protest. Speak on it. They protest. They protest for us. They're fighting battles that we know nothing about. They're the ones getting arrested at the Capitol and everything else.
Starting point is 00:30:13 And then when they buy 14 houses. With the money that was given to them and then hire all their friends and pay their friends millions of dollars, we criticize them. No, I'm with you on that. But that should be criticized it. You should be able to ask where the money is. But I'm talking about activists that we see actually doing the work. Why do we get upset when they ask for donations to do the work on behalf of us? I never get upset.
Starting point is 00:30:38 I think that's awesome. And we should donate and we should help these people. We want them to be out there on the streets. We want them to be fighting for these causes. Because clearly we're not doing it full time, so we need someone else to do it full time. But when it looks like they are personally enriching themselves from those charity, from those donations and not furthering those causes, that's when we get to be like, hey, what's going on? And I think the same thing applies to the wealth gospel or what Christmas is saying. Prosperity. Prosperity gospel. Not saying that they shouldn't be able to do it and not saying that they shouldn't also have a life.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Let's say, for example, he makes a very reasonable salary, takes that money, invests in other things. That investment makes a bunch of money, and that's why they're so rich? I wouldn't say a single goddamn thing. But they do that, though. I know, I know. And I wouldn't say a single goddamn thing because they're not directly profiting. That's a great point. You see what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:31:30 If you have a salary that everybody thinks is reasonable, okay, let's say this guy who's touching all these people is making half a million dollars a year. but he finds a way where he can turn 250,000 of that every year, get 20% return, and he's involved in all these other deals because people want to work with him because he's a man of God that they trust, not because he's trying to manipulate them. And then he makes millions off of his other investments, not off of the direct money from people that he's saying, God tell me to give money and gives away most of it. I wouldn't criticize him for a second. That's a great point.
Starting point is 00:32:00 Is that fair or no? Suppose he does those investments through a nonprofit that he doesn't have to pay taxes on because it's set up as part of it. Smart business, man. I need to learn the fucking same. I don't know. I mean, I don't feel great about that. Well, because basically Chris is saying, whoa, you're using God as a shield. You're using, I mean, this goes, I mean, you know, the Catholic Church historically has been the biggest landowner in the entire world. I think it's now the Mormon church. What do McDonald's?
Starting point is 00:32:23 Or something like that. Yeah. I mean, it's like, yeah. They're running businesses, but they're not paying taxes on it. Man, you ain't going to ever see me be angry at nobody who has found a way not to pay tax. God. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Starting point is 00:32:35 Amen. Listen, that's how, hey, whatever religion could teach me to not pay taxes, I believe in you. I believe in your God. And you know what? To that point, everything we're saying here, if I saw those tax dollars go where I actually wanted them to go, if I saw them go to the communities that needed them, if I saw them go to schools, if I saw them go to mental health services, if I actually knew where my tax dollars were going and who they were impacting in a positive way, wouldn't be upset. That's true. Wouldn't care. but the fact that I don't know where my taxes are going
Starting point is 00:33:07 let me keep my money because I know what I do with it. You know what I mean? I know where I donate my money. I know my money goes to mental health resources. I know my money goes to scholarships at HBCU. I know what I'm going to do with my money. Yeah. You know?
Starting point is 00:33:21 Didn't we build the roads already? Like that's what I don't like. But like they're going to the roads. They're going to the highways. And it's like they built it. Maintenance. How much we need to maintain, right? A lot.
Starting point is 00:33:31 Is it that much? You want to drive over a Brooklyn Bridge that was built? 200 years ago for horses. Bro, I'm in Rome. They got the same roads that were built 2,000 years ago. Get some fucking Romans to do it, right? Why is it that every single time I'm on the FDR
Starting point is 00:33:45 it's a fucking pothole? These Roman roads built 2,000 years ago still work till this day. Because the aliens made them. Well, let's get there. That's right. This is why they need to just let us know extraterrestrials exist. So extraterrachios can come back down here
Starting point is 00:33:58 and do the work that they did all those thousands of years ago because all that shit still stands. They did. That shit. They did. That shit. Right. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:34:05 What? Jews. Pyramids, you're trying to take that from us? Y'all, you heard my joke about that shit. No.
Starting point is 00:34:11 I said, I said the Jews got the contract for the pyramids. I don't know if they built her. I go, they hired some Mexicans to do that shit.
Starting point is 00:34:18 Oh, do the people built the pyramids? Yeah. They say the Jews built the pyramids. I never heard this one. This is new. You never heard that? Uh-uh.
Starting point is 00:34:24 That's the whole story of the Exodus. Yeah. They enslaved the Jews. They brought them down to Israel to work for the pharaoh, make the pyramids. Yeah. That's what happens.
Starting point is 00:34:32 Boy, they're not going to like that one. Moses set our people free. They're not going to like that one. You haven't heard this joke I got? No, when'd you tell it? Where I say, when I said they hired,
Starting point is 00:34:42 then I said the Jews hired some Mexians to make the pyramids. And then I'm like, that's why they say aliens built a pyramids, illegal aliens built a paramis. Yeah. You haven't heard this fucking bit? Bro, this is so funny.
Starting point is 00:34:54 This is from this set? No, this is this for the last. And then the other part of the joke is that there are also pyramids in Mexico and nobody questions who built those. It's only when the Jews build the pyramids That's true But nobody ever wonders
Starting point is 00:35:12 I never heard that Yeah People are mad at Chris But they're gonna be like you know what Let's shoot the nose off Chris Gotta bring a big gun So there's this There's this series on Netflix right now
Starting point is 00:35:26 But he's got named Graham Hancock Have you guys said it's called ancient apocalypse Have you guys heard of it? No I didn't want to watch it Watch. Okay. So it's getting so much flak because they're basically saying he's a wild conspiracy theorist that they just gave an eight episode show to.
Starting point is 00:35:39 Right. And his whole thing is the reason why there are the pyramids exist, the reason why you have these pyramids of Mexico, you have these what are called megalithic structures. Megalithic structure to basically giant rocks formations that they're used, Stonehenge. Easter Island maybe. Is that considered the same thing? Yeah, exactly. Now there's like, now there's a few of these.
Starting point is 00:35:59 There's like a bunch in Turkey. Yeah. They have like underground city. Not necessarily pyramids, but- I saw that. That was wild. You actually saw that? It's not in person,
Starting point is 00:36:07 but I saw pictures. Bro, a whole city that they built underground with air tunnels and everything. Like all the way down to the water level. It doesn't matter. It's unbelievable. It doesn't go thousands of years ago.
Starting point is 00:36:17 Well, that's the dispute. Archaeologists say, oh, it had to be less than 8,000 years ago because that's when human beings stopped being like hunter-gatherer and started like building societies. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:29 And his whole argument is that that's actually more like 12,000 years ago. And he thinks that there was an ancient civilization. There were ancient civilizations of humanity on the planet that existed. And then there was a global cataclysm. And that global cataclysm wiped out a huge portion of humanity. I've heard it. And because of that, you have these megalithic structures that still exists.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Is this a theory of the big people, the tall people? In some... So basically, in some countries, they're tall people. And basically, like, every single culture that has these megalithic structures, they all speak of the same exact story, which was a... God got pissed off and basically created a huge flood. And sometimes it's Noah's Ark. And sometimes it's God got angry and just flooded, got rid of all the people. They all speak of this same story.
Starting point is 00:37:21 And what his argument is, is these stories are based on truth that has just been passed down and they've been mythologized. So you have people going, yo, yeah, it's crazy. crazy right now because back in the day there were way more people, but there was this huge flood and it wiped out everybody and we were the lone survivors. And that story gets passed down, pass down, pass down, and eventually, you know, they throw these structures together and they put these different things on the structures. They put a snake on the structure. Well, what is a snake? His argument that a snake was, is what people see as like comets. So they're like sky snakes. And there's a reason why every one of these megalists has like snake features on them is because
Starting point is 00:37:57 it was the snake that hit the Earth. Like when I was asking about, like, why are there dragons in Chinese mythology and dragons in Irish mythology? I believe all that shit existed at one point. 100%. I don't care what this guy's takeaway. So what he thinks is there is this global cataclysm
Starting point is 00:38:12 that happened before what is called the Younger Dryas, so it's like 12,000 years ago or something like that. And it basically, the world, the Earth entered the belt of an asteroid. So it's not that an asteroid hit Earth, but Earth basically went through the belt
Starting point is 00:38:31 and remnants of an asteroid and because of that got absolutely demolished by all these smaller asteroids. And because of that, you have asteroids hitting the fucking ice it's, they're hitting this massive glacial shelf that covers all of North America. Well, when you have something on fire
Starting point is 00:38:49 that's massive hitting ice, one, you're not going to see the remnants of it because it hits ice, that ice melts. So now you don't see any holes, but you have crazy flooding. You have all these floods that create these amazing landscape shapes and they're created almost instantaneously.
Starting point is 00:39:06 They're not created over 100 million years like a lot of things we've seen. They're created over fucking weeks. It's like torrential hurricane floods. So that's happening in America. Other places, imagine where would you build an underground city? Well, when you saw what happened above ground,
Starting point is 00:39:22 you saw fucking asteroids hit. I think the last thing I wanted to build There's an underground city and a flood. The flood thing is very peculiar for building the underground city, 100%. But I think that maybe there was more like asteroid concern. And a flood would only happen if you were near glacial areas. So if you're in Turkey where it's probably- And I think it's high up on the plains.
Starting point is 00:39:40 I did read that in Turkey. It's like elevated. Yeah. That is real though because like if you go to like some of these islands after they've been hit by a hurricane, you can see how the hurricane reshape the whole island. Sometimes it looks even better. It looks even more beautiful. Nature is the wildest thing.
Starting point is 00:39:55 shit. We're ants. We're fucking ants. We have, not only are we ants, we have no idea about anything. Well, I swear to God, when I went to the Antelope Canyon, I saw horseshoe bend, which is just amazing. It's basically the
Starting point is 00:40:10 I guess the Colorado River over 100 million years. It's just 100 million years of water flow has like slowly carved out this beautiful little horseshoe shape amongst other things, but it is 4,000 feet down. It is the most amazing thing, most profound thing.
Starting point is 00:40:25 ever see you fucking in life. It's unbelievable what 100 million years of water passing through a space can do. And I was looking at it and it was sunset and it was sunset. My wife and I were walking off. I looked back and because it was sunset, every person was silhouetted. So all we saw with these little black specks and those little black specks looked like ants. And you couldn't see a single building or a house anywhere around. It looked like we had zoomed into a piece of fucking dirt and seen little critters walking on it. That's how small we look. And that's how small we are. And I don't understand why we treat the Earth, the way we treat the Earth when the reality is the Earth has seen it all.
Starting point is 00:40:58 The Earth is looking at us like, y'all, y'all keep fucking up. Like when we're ready to get, when I'm ready to get rid of y'all, it's over. What do you want? How are we going to do this? Volcano, hurricane, cyclone, asteroid. What we're going to do this thing? I got it all. No, that's literally how you have to look at it.
Starting point is 00:41:18 And if you look at it, like we're all connected, right? Earth is like, let's call our people to bring the masterids this time. That was fun. Simple as that. Simple as that. I do not understand why we don't respect the Earth more because of what you just say. Bro. Anyway, you should watch this series.
Starting point is 00:41:35 It's really fun. The episodes are kind of fun. A little conspiratorial, but I kind of subscribe to it a bit when you try to explain like how we built the pyramids that some people say could go back even 30,000 years, not just 4,000 years. And it's like, it is completely possible. the question often is like, well, how could people have this advanced technology while they're still hunter-gatherers? And it's like, buddy, they're a hunter-gatherers now.
Starting point is 00:41:58 We have Elon Musk living at the same time as a hunter-gatherer. There's a guy who's making spaceships and going to the fucking Mars at the same time as there's an Amazonian tribe that is hunting for their food every single day. These two people exist in the same time frame. Good point. Now, if this global cataclysm happened, maybe it wiped out all the remnants of the remnants of the remnants of, of the technology and these other things they used to build it. I think that's the hardest thing for me to subscribe to, which is like, where are the homes?
Starting point is 00:42:25 Where do these people live? If there was an advanced technology and advanced society, where are they? Like, where's the tools? Where's all the shit? You know, we say that, right? And we expect to see some like great monuments or great housing. Yo, if they really were that advanced,
Starting point is 00:42:41 they were advanced enough to know to live off the land. You know what I mean? They were advanced enough to know that less is more. Like, that's what I would assume. Most people that have that level of intellect, that level of genius, they know they don't need all this other shit. This is our new generation of geniuses that do all of that. Yeah, we think that we need all these things to be happy. But when you exist for 10,000 years, yeah, you start to.
Starting point is 00:43:03 Look at Warren Buffett. It's crazy, but look how Warren Buffett allegedly lives. Yeah, I don't buy that. You don't buy that. Not for a second. You don't buy you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Warren Buffett had a fire-ass bar.
Starting point is 00:43:15 This woman was interviewing him. I was shocked to even said that shit. The woman's interviewing, she's like, how much money do you just carry around? And he's like, I don't know, $3,400 and like that. So that's just like what you have in your wallet. He's like, yeah, I'll show you. She's like, she goes, yeah, I'd love to see. He goes, yeah, women often do.
Starting point is 00:43:34 I couldn't believe it. I'm like, this guy's got to worry about his PR, his image. And he just called his, gold digger. Does he? No, he don't. No, he don't. Come on, man. Please.
Starting point is 00:43:43 I did a panel last week at the Operation Hope Conference with Tony Ressler and my man John Hope Brian and T.I. and Killer Mike. And Tony was talking. And John was like, he was like, and Tony was like, maybe I shouldn't say that. John said, say what you want. You're a billionaire. And Tony wrestling, he owns the Atlanta Hawks. But that's the truth, though. It's like, what are going to do to Warren Buffet? What they're going to do to Warren Buffet? What are you going to do to Warren Buffet? That's how you know Warren's really a good guy. That's how you know, and I don't know any of them personally. But that's how you know the Warren Buffet's of the world. Bill Gates. Who else?
Starting point is 00:44:18 Bernard Arnault. Yeah. Jeff Bezos. Yeah. Elon is the only one that's out here whiling. Well, because those guys... These dudes been billionaires for a long time and they ain't really out here just whiling on people. Well, because those guys are more...
Starting point is 00:44:32 Gates people are coming after for sure. Gay people? Oh, yeah. Gates. Gates. Yeah, but they're trying to cancel Gates from there. But they think Gates have too much influence on the world. No.
Starting point is 00:44:40 Well, this is what I think it is. It's like, they... I think when you're a billionaire and you just accept that you're a billionaire and you're not looking for people's approval. You're just looking to make more money. People are okay. When you want to be a billionaire, that's well-liked. That's when everybody takes your ass down. Who got in trouble? Bill Gates. Bill Gates went on... He tried to be a saint. By what? By donating money? By being a philanthropist? No, by curing all the illnesses and all this kind of shit. That's what I mean. Like, what's wrong with it? No, there's nothing wrong
Starting point is 00:45:09 with it. It's a beautiful thing. But what I think people go is like, yo, you, I think people are looking at this and shout out to Bill Gates who came to my Radio City show. You did. But like, Bought out the whole first row. Bought out the whole first row. No, not the first row. It was a row. It was a whole row by itself. No, no, it was just Florida.
Starting point is 00:45:25 That's still a lot. It's like 20 seats in a row. No, no, but they only had four seats. There wasn't, they didn't buy out the whole row. The picture, I saw nobody was around them. No, no, that was people sitting. But there were people around them. Oh, I thought they bought out the whole row.
Starting point is 00:45:39 My story way more. The thing is, the thing is, they probably tried, but it was sold out. You know what I mean? He got hit those up earlier. But no, what he basically did is like, okay, I'm going to cure malaria. I'm going to cure AIDS. I'm going to get drinking water in Africa. I'm going to be a good guy.
Starting point is 00:45:54 And I think what happens is all these people look and they go, well, well, you weren't a good guy when you fucking got the patent on that Xerox shit and enacted like it was yours. And you weren't a good guy when you created a monopoly over here and screwed over these guy. You were a ruthless businessman over here. But now you want to be looked at as the savior of all humanity. Oh, fuck you. We're taking you down. What's wrong with that, though? If we're giving past this shit and saying pass to reinvest.
Starting point is 00:46:19 What I'm saying is this is, I'm not saying whether something's right or wrong. I'm just describing the human reaction. Like, for example, when somebody goes out there and they go, I want to save the environment. The first thing, when someone goes, you should save the environment. I believe in saving the environment, right? If you're a person that doesn't care about the environment, that makes you feel bad. You're like, oh, shit, am I not as good as that person? So instead of changing your behavior, you look to point out while they're a hypocrite.
Starting point is 00:46:45 It's just what human beings do. So Leonardo DiCaprio goes, we got to save the environment. And the knee-jerk reaction is to go, motherfucker, you fly private around the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You are worse for the environment than any of us. You tell me, not use plastic bags. Which is a valid point.
Starting point is 00:47:00 I guess. But we would rather them be hypocrites than us change our behavior. And I think what happens is the Warren Buffett's and all these other guys that make billions of the Arnaos. I don't know what they do either. And he don't need to be liked. Elon out here. wanted to be liked.
Starting point is 00:47:16 It's, it's, he, he, he, he goes, he basically put out the, the, you saw him put out the poll. Yeah, Elon Musk is calling for a do-over after Twitter users voted only, overwhelmingly the oustimus CEO. He not called for a do-over, though. You know what's so stupid about that? Elon, you had to know people was going to say, yes, we want you to fuck out. Oh, he has the data. You had to know that. Like, like, what, like, or maybe he thought in his mind, like, this, this backlash ain't really
Starting point is 00:47:41 that real. Let me throw this poll out there. I mean, that shit, didn't that shit just scream, like, do you? like me? He does it every day. Yeah, I see him seeking attention every day. I'm, you know, it's one of the reasons I hate social media. You're not going to be a billionaire and liked by everybody. You could be liked by everybody or be a billionaire. You cannot be both. Man, Shored, you don't even got to put billionaire in front of it. Shit, millionaire even. You're not even millionaire. You're not going to be a person and be liked by everybody. Right? That's just not the
Starting point is 00:48:09 way the world works. It's not designed that way. It never has been. It never will be. But when you are a billionaire are a public figure, there's more of a target on your back. People do not want to like you. Which is why I don't understand why people focus on the folks that don't fuck with them. Like, why would you spend all day long trying to convince people that don't fuck with you to fuck with you? Focus on those people arriving for you every single day. Give them the attention.
Starting point is 00:48:30 You know how much more they appreciate that attention? Man, come on, man. I guess because the people that support, you know, they don't speak up like that. They just support. You know, they just come to your shows. Or they just tune into your radio. Or they just watch television. are they just support your story that you have?
Starting point is 00:48:45 They just support. Yeah. You know, focus on that. Elon said he is going to step down and he finds a suitable, a suitable, which I'm sure is a million of people that are suitable to run Twitter.
Starting point is 00:48:56 I mean, I'm sure his goal was always to step down. You know, like I'm sure he has a CEO for SpaceX. I'm sure he has a CEO for the boring company. I imagine maybe he's still the CEO for Tesla. Maybe he's not. But I'm assuming every one of his companies, he has like a chief operating officer or CEO. Somebody who can look over the company.
Starting point is 00:49:16 So having a CEO at Twitter isn't the ideal thing for him, right? But yeah, so I don't think he lost much by doing this poll. He still owns the company. Yeah. But he just found out, I guess more people were not into him, which is obviously going to hurt his feelings. I keep going back to everything that I've told, I've said before. None of these companies are going really, really flourish until there's some type of regulation.
Starting point is 00:49:39 and I think it needs to be FCC rules and regulations. These are broadcast platforms. You have to treat them like every other broadcast platform. You got to treat them like all the traditional broadcast platforms, whether it's TV, radio, newspaper, whatever. It needs to have that same type of regulation because the truth to the matter is it's just too much power. It's really that simple.
Starting point is 00:50:00 No one man should have all that. Period. It's just too much power. It has too much influence. What do you think Kanye was talking about when he said that? Hmm. Anyway, look, guys. This guy really is a comedic asshole. Jesus.
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Starting point is 00:53:31 Let's continue to show, man. Church announcements? It's the holidays, man. Yo, I do have a church announcement, man. We went to Morocco. Okay. To watch Morocco play France. Now, I know they are playing in guitar, but we want to watch the Moroccan people. So last minute decision, we fly to Morocco and we did this whole, we basically created a whole, you know, documentary out of it. Vlog is what the kids would call it. But we got to find a better name than vlog. So that's up right now on my, the Andrew Shultz channel. You can go watch us there. It's crazy. We're fucking,
Starting point is 00:54:07 there's snake charmers in the streets. We're taking pictures of cobras. They're throwing monkeys at us. It's like. Marrakesh, where are you? America. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:54:15 yeah. Dude, they got the greatest. I almost don't want to give away the hustle right now, but like this is one of the best hustles I've seen. So when you're in what's called the souk, the bizarre, culturally,
Starting point is 00:54:25 it's a whole negotiation. So they'll tell you, if they're selling you a bottle of water, the bag, oh, this is $500. And then you got to, of their dollars. You got to negotiate down and do this whole thing.
Starting point is 00:54:34 What is $500 in America? dollars in American though. 50 bucks. For a bottle of water? It's not that. Oh, they might be like, oh, this is 20, 20 Durham.
Starting point is 00:54:42 I got you. You know, $2 and you got to negotiate everything. So it's part of the culture, part negotiation. My little thing that I would do with them because I don't like negotiating with like third world countries. It just feels bad.
Starting point is 00:54:53 So what I do, but they like the game. Right. So what I do is if the guy goes, okay, give me $300 for this. I'll get them down to what I feel like is a respectable price. So he goes,
Starting point is 00:55:04 it's $300. listen, it's $100. I'll do the whole thing where I walk away. It's this dance that they love to do. They come back and goes, okay, $150. We agree on $150 and then I just give them the $300 because it's fucking $10 more to me, but to them it's huge. And then their reaction is they feel like you respected them by negotiating.
Starting point is 00:55:24 Right. That's beautiful. But at the same time, they're like, oh, I really appreciate that you gave me that tip. And it'll keep them honest. They want to try to get over on people because they realize like if I'm fair, then I get it might get blessed. And then they start giving you extra things. Like he gave me this ring and this other day.
Starting point is 00:55:39 I don't know. It was really cool. Anyway, so, so Dove is negotiating with this guy. He's just trying to buy this Maraca and flag. And the guy starts at 1,000. Dove gets him down to 375.
Starting point is 00:55:50 Okay? This is their money, not ours. Okay. Doug goes, I'm fucking with them. I'm trying my hardest to make the price go up. I'm going over on like,
Starting point is 00:55:59 this flag looks nice. I think you should charge 600. Like, I'm trying to screw over here because I'm an asshole. I'm an asshole. Why? You negotiate with a guy who got no teeth. Like, give him all the money he asked for, right?
Starting point is 00:56:08 So, also, Dove is Moroccan, right? So I'm like, if anything, you want to help. Do you're Moroccan? Yeah, he's Moroccan. Moroccan, Moroccan Jew. Moroccan Jew. There was plenty of Jews in Morocco. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:18 Oh, okay. Yeah. So, um, so basically, we walk away from the negotiation. Doves feeling great about himself, got that motherfucker down to 375. A guy who's part of the crew runs back, right, with a $20 bill that Dove paid for. $20 would be the $200. right? And he goes, hey, this is no work, this no work. Like, it's fake.
Starting point is 00:56:38 So I look at this for a second. I'm like, holy shit. My initial thought is you cheap motherfucker. Did you get counterfeit $20 bills to rip off your fucking Moroccan countrymen in the souk when they don't know anything about American currency? You piece of
Starting point is 00:56:57 absolute fucking garbage, right? This is your countrymen. How are you going to do this? Also, where are you getting the fake 20 is like I'm like my brain is exploding with these ideas right dove changes out a 20 and gives them 200 which is the same of their money right so I'm like oh my god you piece of shit though what the fake 20 so no then Alex goes oh shit he just got dove I go what he goes they switched out the 20 on their end right hilarious they switched out the 20 on there and bring back the fake 20 tell you that you're paying with a fake 20 You switch out, give them real money, so now you pay double for the garment. Damn. That was a genius fucking hustle. Y'all was in the Brooklyn part of Morocco.
Starting point is 00:57:42 We were. Damn. Yes, there was some scammers out there. Damn. It was, and the crazy thing is, the guy is, you're around all these other people. There's other tourists, there's other vendors, et cetera, and he's holding a 20, accusing you of it being fake. If you walk away from that, it looks like you're ripping off these Moroccans.
Starting point is 00:58:00 Yeah. And you don't know if the other dudes in the Suker are going to come for you. someone's trying to fuck you up, you can't steal it from the people, so you kind of get, like, caught up in it. I mean, it was one of the most beautiful scams. Plus, who checks your 20 before you give it to somebody? Exactly. You're just giving it to them.
Starting point is 00:58:14 It's a 20, not 100. We don't check it yet. You don't look at it. And the person who receiving it always checks it. They do that in America all right. All right. They do that with every money. They hold it up to the light.
Starting point is 00:58:22 You know what I mean? Yeah. They do that with everything. Anyway, so it was wild. Go check that us up on my YouTube in Morocco? Yeah, I mean, I tip everywhere. I tip everywhere. I tip. I'm American everywhere.
Starting point is 00:58:31 You got to take the good and the bat. I mean you. I mean, is it expected. Oh, no. It's expected from Americans because we tip. But like, if I go to Europe and tipping ain't part of the culture, I still tip. Yeah, me too. Like, because my culture is better than yours.
Starting point is 00:58:43 Yeah. So I need to, I need to put my culture on the team. You got a show respect. And let me tell you something. They love appropriating that. Not never once has a waiter been like, oh, please get your American culture out of here with this huge tip that you just bestowed upon me. Right. So they really love that part of American.
Starting point is 00:58:59 But you're going to deal with me being loud at the table too. So I'm American wherever I go. I get it. Take the good and the bat. Listen, I'm with it. Especially in countries that, like, that service is their form of, services their main form of making money. You really got a tip then.
Starting point is 00:59:19 You really got to show how American you all is. That's what I'm saying. I like to bust it on it. But sometimes these motherfuckers were getting a little spicy. The guys at the souk, they're like, oh, well, the white people, you do not know how to negotiate. What? And I'm like, motherfucker, like, I don't have the heart to say it, but like, weren't you colonized?
Starting point is 00:59:36 Yeah. That wasn't a negotiation. That's the greatest negotiation ever for zero. It wasn't really a negotiation, though. It was for force. That's how you know it's the best. By force? Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:49 Me paying you extra is like a, my bad. That's reparations. I'm repairing. I don't know what the hell you're talking about. I'm repairing. And I wasn't even the French. I'm not even the French. But I was reparating.
Starting point is 01:00:03 I was repratered. I was rewritten. You was risen and reparated. I still haven't told y'all what the word Riz even comes from because y'all are so old. You don't know anything. Listen. Pass me that.
Starting point is 01:00:14 Can you pass me that water? I want to, oh, I don't have no church and out since either because it's the end of the year, man. It's the holidays, man. Just thank you to everybody who's been supporting us all year long and all of our endeavors, man. It's been a great year all across the board. Make sure you watch hell of a week on Paramount Plus.
Starting point is 01:00:30 You can scream all the episodes while you. away for holiday break. What did I do? Oh, I got an interview. I do have a conversation with Ab Sol that came out like... Yes. About a couple weeks ago.
Starting point is 01:00:39 Yeah, Ab Sol's new album, Herbert is out. That's on my YouTube page at C-T-A-S-H-O-W. A lot of people was shocked that you know, Ab-S-Sol, you know, decided to tell his story just about how he attempted suicide. How did he attempt it?
Starting point is 01:00:56 Jumped off a freeway. He was high and... He said it was... drug-induced and he jumped off a freeway, which is, you know, if you know the story of Absoil, you know, the love of his life, you know, committed suicide a long time ago. And as he spoke about in the interview, you know, he's always looked down on suicide. But of course, now his perception of suicide and his thoughts on suicide completely changed because he, you know, tried to attempt suicide.
Starting point is 01:01:22 And what happened? I mean, he messed, he messed himself up, but he lived. But like he landed, he landed on a car or something like, car broke his fall. That's crazy you say that. Yeah, a car broke his fall. Lucky. What do you mean lucky? I mean, if he didn't break, if the car didn't break his fall, like, what kind of car was it?
Starting point is 01:01:37 I don't know what kind of car was, but he, like, he messed up his leg, he lost his teeth. But, you know, and it's funny because he's always had an extreme faith in God. Right. Right. Like, always. Like, he's always had an extreme faith in a higher power. And, like, now he's more sure that, you know, God wants him to be here. So salute the, um, salute the, you know, let's check that out.
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Starting point is 01:03:29 So yes, I guess that is reason to leave your country in the middle of a war to come stand up in front of, you know, Congress and tap dance. And the speech wasn't that fire. I actually turned from it. I watched some of it. Yeah. That's a lot of money, bro. Now, think about it. I ain't never seen a pastor give a speech that fire and get $47 billion.
Starting point is 01:03:49 Passed. Pastos be having some fire. That's facts, bro. This is why final funding bill includes $45 billion for Ukraine. How much is that on top of, bro? 40, 40, that's a lot of billion dollars. I think 65 already. 65 already.
Starting point is 01:04:03 So we're talking about a buck 10, 110 billion dollars, bro. So they're getting $8 billion more than the 37 billion President Biden asked Congress for last month. You cannot get mad at American people when they're pissed off about shit like this show. When Americans are pissed off about shit about what's going on in our country and how fucked up schools are, how fucked up affordable housing is, you know, how they're not donating money to mental health. self-services, all of these different things.
Starting point is 01:04:30 They just got to explain to us how this benefits us. And it probably does in some weird geopolitical way by like applying this pressure to Russia. It limits their influence on the world. And by limiting Russia's influence on the world, it increases our influence.
Starting point is 01:04:46 And by having more influence, we get goods for cheaper, oil for cheaper, blah, blah, blah. I don't know exactly. I don't know. But you got to explain to us why giving them $47 billion makes it better for me. Please, man. Because that's not their money.
Starting point is 01:04:58 Tell us the geopolitical ramifications of this shit. That's our money. That's the people's money. Government don't got no money. Why do you think, Chris? I mean, I think you nailed it. I mean, I think it's part of our larger American strategy going back, you know, 50, 100 years of you contain things.
Starting point is 01:05:14 So in theory, if Putin's about to start, I mean, it probably has a lot to do with oil is the best way you could frame it, that you don't want Russia controlling all the Europe coming, I mean, oil coming out of Europe. Or two Europe going to Europe. to Europe and the market, but I got to be honest. I'm trying to look at it a million different ways. I have a hard time justifying it. I do get a kick out of the Republicans who are looking at their phones and not clapping
Starting point is 01:05:41 and basically. I love that. They've been doing that since the Obama era. Right. But you got to remember, as someone my age who grew up in the 70s and 80s when Russia was the ultimate boogeyman, the ultimate bad guy, and who was the Russian's greatest enemies? American Rocky. Well, Rocky.
Starting point is 01:05:57 But the Republicans, the Republicans spent, forget about billions, trillions of dollars, we got to contain the Russians. Now, you could argue, okay, that's Russia, the Soviet Union versus Russia of Putin. But the larger argument that the Republicans held up for decades and decades and spent so much money in time was the Russian mindset is one that if we don't contain them, they're going to take over the world. They don't value things the way we value things. They're a different type of people. We have to keep them in check. This isn't Putin a old-school Russian like that? Of course he is.
Starting point is 01:06:29 So I'm like, now the fact that the Russians have flipped and supporting Putin and not wanting to contain Russia, you know that this is all BS. You know, it's all... So what's going to keep somebody like Putin, you know, who they say allegedly is, you know, under the weather. What you've been said. You've been said that a long time ago. Right. Well, he has cancer.
Starting point is 01:06:46 He's more than under the weather. Oh, he's got can't? He actually hasn't? The theory is either as Parkinson's or cancer and he's in the later stages of it. I think that allegedly still. I think that's cap. You think it's a cat? I think that's put out.
Starting point is 01:06:57 buy Russia. Okay, but I think that's Russia to throw you off the Senate. But even so, what's to stop Putin from hitting the button? Because regardless of whether you say you're participating in the war,
Starting point is 01:07:08 if you're funding who I'm going after, now we at war. That's what I'm saying. Oh, I mean, look, you can look at us. How close did we come to hitting the button when Russia was sending money to Cuba and arms to Cuba? Why?
Starting point is 01:07:19 That shit was on our backyard. Ukraine, it's closer than the backyard. They share a border. So, I mean, we talked about, this the other day. This is a public display of support for Ukraine. Beyond public and it's been beyond public. Yeah. You know what I mean? So now you're bringing us
Starting point is 01:07:34 into potential war with Russia. You can't tell me you're not at war with me if you funded my enemy. But how much of our foreign policy for the last 60, 70 years has been about containing Russia? Yeah. And Russia, this is the most aggressive they've been since right after World War II.
Starting point is 01:07:51 Yeah, but no, and to your point, nobody's going, to your point, too, showed him you said they have to show us how this benefits America. nobody's buying that war with other countries benefits America anymore. We haven't seen it, not where it matters
Starting point is 01:08:03 because at the end of the day we're still going to be passing through these poor and disenfranchised neighborhoods wondering where the money is going. You know what I mean? Like if these are our tax dollars, go back what I'm saying about taxes.
Starting point is 01:08:12 If these are our tax dollars, I don't want my tax dollars going to that shit if I don't know what's going on. But then you've got to also say it's not just whether it's $60 billion an additional $41 billion. You've got to look at the U.S. Defense budget in its totality.
Starting point is 01:08:26 800 plus billion. A 0.6 trillion. Oh, really? Yeah. I just saw them approve like 800 something. This is nothing. I think everything we're saying is fair. But if you look at it through that lens,
Starting point is 01:08:37 then you have to say, then why are we spending all this money in general? Jesus Christ. Is that annually? Yeah. Jesus. I just saw them vote for the annual bill, which is like 800-something billion.
Starting point is 01:08:47 But God damn. They increased it, I think, 8% this year. Oh, my God. Yeah. I don't know, man. What else we got, Taylor? Let's do some shit you won't care about next week. Pushy T is revealed in a new interview
Starting point is 01:08:58 that he is no longer president of good music. In fact, he's not affiliated with the label in any way. Pusha Tull double X-L. I mean, I can understand that. I mean, I don't even know what good music is anymore. Like, who's on good music? I don't know if Big Sean is. I don't know if Tiana Taylor still is.
Starting point is 01:09:14 Push is not. I don't even know what good music is anymore. But also, too, man, I was thinking about just the other day, you know. Oh, are people still talking about Kanye? We're talking about Pushing right now, but it does relate to Kanye. It's almost dry. Fantastic album.
Starting point is 01:09:29 If I had to rank it, it's definitely in my top two hip-hop albums of the year. My number one hip-hop album is Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morales, and the Big Step was I'm on record saying I think it's the most important
Starting point is 01:09:40 hip-hop album of all time. But both of those albums are nominated for, I believe, rap album of the year at the Grammys. I wonder how much Kanye's bullshit is going to impact
Starting point is 01:09:50 push-a-tees chances of winning. Because the fact that Kanye They produced six songs on that album. We produced more than half the album. I wonder if the people who vote for the Grammys are going to hold that against Pushing T. Do you really think Pusier T is a chance of beating Kendrick Lamar?
Starting point is 01:10:07 This year, yes. You just said that Kendrick Lamar's album was the most important album all the time. To me, but the category is rap album of a year. And, you know, it's a lot of factors that go into it. Like, Kendrick's always the Grammy darling. We know this.
Starting point is 01:10:20 Pusher is 44 years old. You know what I mean? All due respect to Pusha, there is more of a chance of you being a Chinese person than of him winning a Grammy over Kendrick Lamar. I don't know. Because this ain't Puscher's first time being nominated either. Push has been nominated for a rapper album a year before, and he's been putting out so many great bodies of work. There's actually a real story around Push's album. No question.
Starting point is 01:10:48 There's no question. In fact that he's 40-plus years old, he's like, I'm the Martin Scorsesea rap. I've been rapping about this street shit for so long. but I do it in such an eloquent way. I don't know about that. I agree with you. And, you know, it's Kendrick Lamar, yes. And this is no disrespect to Pusha.
Starting point is 01:11:03 There's no disrespect to his skill as a rapper. Like, I'm not even like this massive rap fan, and I recognize how brilliant he is. There's no question. But when it comes to Grammys, this is a popularity contest at the end of the day. And Kendrick is just more popular, especially within the industry.
Starting point is 01:11:24 And it's just an easier. ago too. I would agree with you, but for some reason, I think pushing does have a chance at rap album of the year. Gotcha. Rap album. The fact that it's rap. Gotcha. You know, because Kendrick's also nominated
Starting point is 01:11:38 an album of the year. What do you think? What's that? Album of the year? Bad funny, right? I don't know. The Grammys is a little tricky. You know what I mean? The Grammys would give it to a Beyonce, a Kendrick. I haven't heard of...
Starting point is 01:11:51 It's got to be bad. It got to be I'm not going to sit in and say Beyonce's going to win, because when I thought that, when I thought Lemonade was going to win an album of the year, Adele won. So I don't know. Bad Bunny is the biggest artist in the world. Mary Jay Blige was nominated for album of the year. Wow. For Good Morning, Gorgeous, the deluxe.
Starting point is 01:12:06 Wow. I don't know who wins Almond a year. If you ask me who I think should win, I ain't heard all of those albums even fucking give that opinion. I've heard Mary J. Blige, Kendrick, Beyonce. I've never listened to Abel, Adel, Bad Bunny, Brandy, Carly, Coldplay, Harry Styles, Lizzo, I have not listened to those albums,
Starting point is 01:12:26 so I don't know. But rap album of the year, I'm not counting, push your tea out. I just wonder how much the Kanye effect of it all is going to impact, you know, voters,
Starting point is 01:12:38 especially this year. What we got, Taylor? What else? Some shit you won't care about next week. What Tyler Perry do? Tyler Perry has opened up about attempting to end his own life following the news
Starting point is 01:12:55 that Defer Dancing, Stephen Twitch, I mean, I think everybody's been there. I haven't attempted. You've been there? Have you ever been there shows? What? Attempt?
Starting point is 01:13:02 Or the thought about it? About killing myself? Yeah. Yeah, but not to do it. Everybody thinks, every time you're at the edge of a building, you go, I can jump off those building. Yeah. You don't think that?
Starting point is 01:13:15 I thought about stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't think that that makes you suicidal. I think you look at it and it's almost like, I, do I have control of my destiny? Could I choose to do something that is detrimental to my health if I'm. I want to. Yes or no, because you don't end up doing it. But yeah, really contemplating suicide, like being suicidal is I want to do it. Not I could. Yeah, I think about all that all the time. The one time that I thought I was, now that I look back on it, I was just one of those people who was trying to get attention from my girlfriend who had broke up with me. Yeah. Yeah. She's my now wife.
Starting point is 01:13:50 Yeah. So you didn't even really want to kill yourself. You wanted to attention. I thought I did, But I realized I just... And then she gave you attention. You're like, oh, I don't want to kill myself. She ain't really give me no... She gave me attention, but she gave me the attention I needed, which was, I'm calling your goddamn father, because I ain't dealing with this shit.
Starting point is 01:14:05 You know what I mean? Is this the next thing we're going to popularize? What? Are we going to make, like, being suicidal normal? No, that's... I don't think that's popular. I mean, I think people, I think there's a lot of people out there. I don't, like, to your point,
Starting point is 01:14:15 I don't know when I'm really... I've never been really serious about it. I think when you're really serious about it, you attempt it or you complete it. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. You know, I think when you're really serious about it, I think sometimes you can get so down that you feel like, you know,
Starting point is 01:14:29 there's no way out, but then you might say with your therapist. Or you might have a conversation with somebody that pulls you off the ledge that, you know, brings you back to the reality of the moment, you know? I'm not saying that those people aren't dealing with reality, because I told you all already. Or maybe I didn't tell you, I have a whole different philosophy about suicide now. Okay. And I think it's some people just know when they're ready to go.
Starting point is 01:14:57 And I think it's as sad as we may look at that, you know, and we want these people to get help. But I think when they know, they know. And they're just ready. And what made me really truly think about that was, you know, somebody who we lost that I know was very strategic. You know what I'm saying? And I know did everything with intention, you know?
Starting point is 01:15:15 So when that person decided this is the day that I want to exit, they decided to exit. And if you go and you look at like the social media, you know, there were things that that person was saying that let you know. Like they were saying things like, I wonder what my next life is going to be like.
Starting point is 01:15:33 You know, I learned about myself during, you know, this quarantine that I would have jumped off to slavship a long time ago. They were saying these things. I think sometimes people just make up their mind and just like how when we're ready to wrap this podcast up, we're going to wrap it up. I think some people, you know, come to that conclusion.
Starting point is 01:15:51 Yeah. I just do. I think they're like two, I mean, I've been thinking about it a lot, but more in the terms of chronic illness. Mm-hmm. Because what you're starting to see in Europe is like assisted suicide is becoming. More popular. More popular, normalized, if you want to use that word.
Starting point is 01:16:07 And I think about it, like, right. Like, if you had one of these terrible chronic conditions, wouldn't you rather end it on your terms with your family around you while you're still fun? I mean, it's not the type of stuff you want to think about, but, like, frankly, as you get older, like, you start thinking about the shit and it's your parents' age, and you see, you know, it's like, I think that's different than depression.
Starting point is 01:16:29 I think the difference with depression is people would say, you feel that way in the moment, but you're going to get out of that moment. Yeah, you're making a permanent decision based off of timber. And you don't want to give up right now because it's going to get better. Whereas, if you've got one of these diseases, there's no, there's not necessarily.
Starting point is 01:16:45 I agree with that's my understanding of suicide. is life becomes an unbearable burden. Right. It is just pain every single day, and it just becomes so much that you're like, I need a break. I just need a break from this, and suicide is the break.
Starting point is 01:17:04 Sure. And I think with the chronic illness that happens with maybe chronic depression, it gets that way, and it's incredibly sad. I've never experienced that. I've never felt like I want to kill myself ever. Like I really enjoy.
Starting point is 01:17:18 I'm very fortunate that I really enjoy living and everything. I thank God for it all. Yeah. Everything. That being said, when I am on something high, I always look over and I go, it's human. Yeah. I also have a crippling fear of heights.
Starting point is 01:17:33 9-88. That's the suicide prevention hotline. 9-88 is the suicide prevention hotline, man. You know, and we don't want nobody making no permanent decisions based off temporary feelings. Facts. I do just wonder. I do think sometimes I really feel like. Some people just know.
Starting point is 01:17:47 And then you hear things about like, you know, they were so at peace. You know, days before they did it, nobody saw anything. They didn't think anything was wrong. You know, I think because they've just made up their mind. Like, what if it's a calling? Like, what if your next life or next dimension is calling you? What if you just know, hey, man, I'm done here. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:18:07 Well, but then there's the pain that the people who you leave behind who love you. That's selfish though, right? I mean, that's selfish of us to think, like, bet. You know, of course, of course we have every right to be hurt and we have every right to grieve, but we don't know what was going on with that individual. That's why most people probably don't do it that are very depressed or suffering from chronicos. They know the pain that they would impose on their family members. Yeah. But I think we should move on before we all commit suicide. Right. 9-88. Are you saying we should kill this topic? Yeah, we should definitely
Starting point is 01:18:42 kill this topic. That's what we do when we get uncomfortable. I'm sorry. All right. I don't know. I didn't know any other way to get out of it. I was trying off. Listen. Little Yadi, you don't want to have sex no more, Charlottomay.
Starting point is 01:18:57 I don't blame him. Find you a goddamn queen and get married, Lil Yadi. Little Yaddy said he doesn't have casual sex anymore. Salute to that king. There you go. Yachti. Okay? He says he feels that some women may think he's gay because he's obtaining from sex.
Starting point is 01:19:10 No, little Yaddy. Not at all. Nobody thinks you're gay because you're obtaining from sex. Be a slut, a male slut. that's crazy right you know that's like wearing skinny jeans like that was fire back in the day but like we've moved on
Starting point is 01:19:25 thank you man thank you you know what I'm not out here doing that I'm not even joking when I tell you all that you know what are you trying to do like word is born what you're trying to do oh yeah that's back in the day shit that was so funny you know back in the day when you were just cracking cheeks left and right yes
Starting point is 01:19:42 now shit has moved on you talk about Netflix and chill man find you a relationship in chill. Relationship and chill. Get married. You know what I mean? Say I love you, bro. Look how Alex dresses.
Starting point is 01:19:52 You say how silly Alex dresses? Show me a camera. Staying in front of the camera. Won't you show them what you wearing? I can look at your pants. You got zipples on your ankles, bro. Come on. You got your nails done.
Starting point is 01:20:03 I got a manicil, pedicule yesterday, though. I did. Look at that. I like cute Alex look. You got rich in your head. You look like Zara, H&M. You're just cute. I'm comfortable.
Starting point is 01:20:15 I'm comfortable. Crazy. Oh, you got a, you in a relationship. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that. It's new? But that boyfriend, girlfriend, shit don't count.
Starting point is 01:20:23 Like, we talk about love, bro. Marriage. Oh, it's a new relationship? Nah. No. Oh, you've been? How long? It's been a while.
Starting point is 01:20:31 You met her. You ain't shit, bro. That's also you ain't shit. Two things can be true. Alice can dress like a complete idiot. I just wanted to see his outfit. I'm not going to, I was just sitting here wondering, where the fuck are those zippers and what does he have him on his pants leg for?
Starting point is 01:20:46 I just want to just see why I really just wanted to see the zippoor. They think fashion is putting zippers in odd places. That is true. That's crazy as shit. That is true. Why you need a zip on your ankles? You think fashion is wearing a sweatsuit every single day.
Starting point is 01:20:58 I don't know what fashion is. I don't think about it. I look. I don't think about fashion. Yeah, because you're not trying to be desired when you're out there in the streets. That's right. That's right.
Starting point is 01:21:06 You know what I'm saying? These great sweatpants are for comfort because I ain't even got no friends. Because you're comfortable already, bro. You're comfortable in your heart. All I'm saying is Shousey Yadi for actually grown up and trying to find love.
Starting point is 01:21:16 Yeah, dude. And shame on all you women that's shaming him calling him gay because he's abstaining from sex. What kind of shit is that arrogant? He's gay because he don't want to fuck you. Hey, that's arrogant. That's arrogant. Stop being so arrogant.
Starting point is 01:21:30 Maybe that's why you're single because you're arrogant. And Yadi, I want you to know that what you're doing right now is you're filtering out all the bullshit and you're about to find you a queen because it's going to be a queen out there that respects what you're doing because that queen is respecting herself in that same way. And she's not going to. want you to get those cheeks until y'all get married. 100%. Now, keep in mind, you're going disappoint the fuck out of her when you first have sex.
Starting point is 01:21:51 That's right. Because you haven't busted probably in a year or maybe more. That's right. So that's something you got to talk with her, you know, a little bit about. Be like, listen, we got to get one off and then we can run it back afterwards. You're going to have to change your name to little arc, bro. What you're talking about? Because it can't be a little boat no more because the arc was exclusive.
Starting point is 01:22:07 Oh. You know what I'm saying? Everybody couldn't get on the ark. You know what I mean? It was only a little boat. It was only a couple, bro. Only a couple people, you know what I'm saying? From now on we're calling you Little Ark Little Ark, you know what I mean? Little Ark, don't really hit the same, but it conceptually is there. Maybe Big Art?
Starting point is 01:22:23 Big Art. Big Art. Big Art. Big Art. Big Art. You no longer a little boat, you have grown up. You are a big arc now, God. Big Ark. Find love. Us married men respect you. I don't have sex. Mm-hmm. And I think women probably think I'm gay. Mm-hmm. Because sometimes I'm just, I don't care that much. It's like, I don't, I think a lot of Sometimes women think if they fly down to you like that we have to have sex or like that's on my mind.
Starting point is 01:22:47 Right. And sometimes I just like to see what someone is like or even if I can be around because I usually can't. That's okay. Shout out to flying out these hoes and not fucking them, yo. That's fire. Let's do some fire. That's the craziest mind game ever, yo. Let's do some assing.
Starting point is 01:23:04 Girl got a wax on her vagina. She shouldn't expect nothing. Why are you coming in expecting dick? For real, bro. I want to fly you outplay video games, get to know you. That's it. Puss box? Herd is born.
Starting point is 01:23:14 That's your fault. Somebody asked you for all that. Nobody said that. Nobody said to get a pedicure. Nobody said getting manicure wax your lip. Stop thinking men so easy, yo. No, that's crazy. I want you to come with your fucking legs looking like Shulton's up with lip.
Starting point is 01:23:26 You know what I mean? Don't expect shit. All right? What we got? Okay, ask an idiot. Well, brilliant idiots occasionally have live Twitch episodes like Flagrant in 2020. Y'all do Twitch episodes? We never did a Twitch.
Starting point is 01:23:44 We did a YouTube live stream. Yeah, I think in January we could work something out. No, we do. I want to do some metaverse shit, yo. You know what I mean? I don't know if anybody's over there yet. Nope. Nope.
Starting point is 01:23:56 Not at all. I do. Nick Popovich says, how do you think the overcorrection era we're in now ends our balances out? It's already balancing out. It is balancing out. I feel it's already balanced. It is balancing up.
Starting point is 01:24:10 The people who recognize the overcorrection are winning. Mm-hmm. and putting out great content and people are gravitating to those people and because we are winning the industry is forced to accommodate.
Starting point is 01:24:25 I think it's balancing out because people realize that everybody went too fucking far. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I think everybody went too far and we realized that it's not sustainable because it's all a circular firing squad. But if you came up in a certain era,
Starting point is 01:24:38 you were doing or saying something that is not considered acceptable now. Yeah. You know what I mean? So I don't give a lot. fuck who it is and you will end up canceling out one of your faiths. You know what I mean? Because you want to hold
Starting point is 01:24:48 people to a standard that's just not unrealistic. It's unrealistic. And I ain't talking about entertainment. I'm talking about all across the board. Politicians, you know, spiritual leader. Anybody, everybody got some shit with them if you came up in a certain era. Can you scroll down slightly, Taylor? Because this one looks interesting.
Starting point is 01:25:06 From Blake Long. Yeah, so I think it's balancing out. Is the angle of the dangle really inversely proportion to the beat of the meat. I like that. I like that. I like that. You know why I like this question?
Starting point is 01:25:18 What does that mean even? I know exactly what it means. When I woke up from my colonoscopy. Yeah. When I woke up from colonoscopy. Did you call it a cockoldeloscopy? It clearly was, right? People watching me get off.
Starting point is 01:25:32 Like, clearly, because when something was going on when they were back there. But when I woke up with the big stiffy, when I stood up, my shit for the first time ever. in my life looked like a kickstand, bro. It was down? It was like, because when I stood up, because I had no droves on it. So when I stood up, it did like this,
Starting point is 01:25:49 and it was like at an angle. And I'm like, yo, if I was that type of person, this is the picture you take. Wow. This is the meat pick you take, and you know, you fake leak it. Wow. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:26:00 You think because it looks cooler that your dick is facing down? I don't know what it was. I'm just telling you the angle of my dangle in that moment. Yeah. When I stood up, it was inversely proportioned
Starting point is 01:26:10 to look like the type of of meat you would want to leave. When you're fully erect, is your dick pointing a little bit up? Always. Okay, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Always. So all about the angle of the dangle, baby. All about the angle of the dangle. Rick James 244 says, what the fuck?
Starting point is 01:26:28 Did the rat just fall out the goddamn? You didn't see that shit just fall out the vent? No. Bro, some shit that just jumped out the vent, bro. No, no, no. It was a piece of tape. Oh. That's supposed to get on the table. Why you thought a rat fell out to fit?
Starting point is 01:26:44 That's what I thought it was. It was me, though. Stop. Why should take that? What did you think? Rich James 2444 says, why was everyone so worried about Y2K? It's kind of weird to look back on.
Starting point is 01:27:03 Why was everybody so worried about Y2K? Because we worry about everything in this fucking country, man. That's what we do, man. Technology was new. too, we just started getting everything digital. So it wasn't that crazy that it would just stop working. And I mean, it sounded right when you think about it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:27:16 Oh shit, we about to see the start of a new millennium. Like shit ain't about to just happen. Like 2000 ain't going to just coming. Nothing's going to happen. Like something's, there's got to be some type of big bang or something, right? Why do you think everybody was so worried, Chris? I don't know. I was worried.
Starting point is 01:27:29 I stayed home. I didn't go out there. Oh, nah. We was outside. I sat in with my grandmother in Washington. No way. I mean, I wasn't that old. But I always thought like if I was older enough to go.
Starting point is 01:27:39 there and like party party. How old was I at 99? 99, 78, 88, damn, I was 21. Yeah, I was 30. I should have been out there. I don't know what I did in 1999, you know, but if I had money, I would have really went and partied like it was 1999. I'm not going to waste that Prince song. Like that's the one song, like that's the one time that song can hit. That song can't hit no more after 1999, bro. You can't even play that shit no more? No, it's so. You think so? Yeah. It's still a classic New Year's song. I'm gonna be honest with you. Like, I love Back to the Future because it's such a great movie.
Starting point is 01:28:11 Shit don't hit no more now that we in that area. You know what I mean? In that year. Like, it's like, uh-era. Era. Yeah. Like, what was it dating back to the future that they kept going back to? I think we passed it already.
Starting point is 01:28:21 Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's just like, ugh. It's a great movie, but it don't hit the same just because of it's dated. People still read 1984. That's true. We're long past that. That's true.
Starting point is 01:28:33 But 1984 still has a lot of shit that's relevant right now. That's what I'm saying. That's the only reason. That's why I went back. and write it. What is the triple banana throw down? Oh, I know. I got to do that, bro. I got to do that. Remember I had the two bananas
Starting point is 01:28:47 on the pod? Remember when I was having my breakfast? I forgot to do it before the pot and I had it during. Oh, they want to see you do three? I can easily handle three bananas, bro. What? Y'all think I can't handle three bananas? I want you to see, bro. I want to see that for the new year. Y'all think I guarantee you I can handle three bananas.
Starting point is 01:29:06 You think you can do three? Son. I can't do three bananas. I can't do three bananas. kind of mock. Stop, bro. Now you're going to make me do four. Nah, you don't got that. Come on. Now you're wild. Now you wally.
Starting point is 01:29:17 No, dude. No, I got three. If you do three bananas, you make a point hub. You think so? Guarantee. I'd be fired to go via on point hook. That would be super fire. I definitely make gay magazine.
Starting point is 01:29:28 If we do that, you're going to make gay magazine for show. If Andrew does the three bananas, we got to put the headline, Andrew Shost takes three to the throat and put it on porn hub. And just to see how many views it gets. Bam, bam, bam. Nah, that'd be fired. Andrew Shost. I could eat three bananas at one time, bro. That's nothing, bro.
Starting point is 01:29:44 That's nothing. Andrew Shost takes three to the throat while cuckold Charlemagne watches. You know what I mean? Done. We're doing it. New year. New year, baby. New year, baby.
Starting point is 01:29:55 New year, new year. We've been in the new studio in the new year, too, right? Maybe a little bit after. All right. Thank you to WTF Media for always, you know, supporting us. Thank you. And that's it, right? Yo, thank you guys.
Starting point is 01:30:08 so much, man. Thank you for the year. Thank you for always supporting, always rocking with us, man. Just all this stuff, man. Thank you, no, thank you, not only to the people listen, thank you to the blogs, the blogs, like, thank you people who are cutting these clips, making them go viral. Appreciate it from Gay Magazine to Cultural, Cultural Millennial, Two-outs. We get posted a little bit everywhere sometimes. Academics, the Grand Wizard chat word, I can't say.
Starting point is 01:30:34 Like, just to everybody who's out there pushing a concert, shade room. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you to all the listeners. Just make it. Moderators. The moderators. For real, man. Thank you guys.
Starting point is 01:30:43 We appreciate it. We appreciate all the love. We appreciate all the complaints, you know? Yeah. We are here for all of it, man. It is what it is. We just come here and we do what we love doing every week. I love doing brilliant idiots.
Starting point is 01:30:53 I love coming here and, you know, kicking it with my friend Andrew Schultz. That's the best. You know, every week, even if it, you know, makes my blood boil and gives me high blood pressure. That's what the edits are for. When we're 50, we let him just go. Here you go, baby. One episode? Whoa, one episode, which is all the edits, that's fire, bro.
Starting point is 01:31:15 Here you go. When we just need to blow it up, when we decide we need to blow the whole thing up, it's over. I'm 50. That's not far for that. That ain't far from that. That ain't far from now. I might need a couple more. When I'm 50, we're not 50.
Starting point is 01:31:26 I was about say, make it 60. Maybe when you're 50. Not your trajectory, though. Nah, we all have some fun. You're going. We all, everybody's doing what they're supposed to be doing. We all live in the way we're supposed to be living. God is good.
Starting point is 01:31:35 Thank you, God. We thank God for it all. God bless. so much, man. As always, oh, okay, Taylor says, what was your favorite moments of 2022? Because you know, we're going to have to put together the best of buried idiots. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:31:48 Of 2022, because we're not going to be here next week. I'm going to be out of the country. You can be out of the country too, right? Yes, sir. Comment under the post. We'll probably post a little meme or something to ask you what your favorite moments are, and you can leave us those moments, and you'll get that in the best of show. But thank you,
Starting point is 01:32:04 as always, if you listen to this podcast, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant, you're absolutely right. But if you listen to this podcast and you think we're just a couple idiots who don't know shit, you're right too. It's the brilliant in this podcast. Thank you for listening.

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