The Brilliant Idiots - Ask Tha Idiot

Episode Date: October 20, 2023

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Now let's get to the show. De Hezzi Hezaki Walker He's not here this week He's on tour He's on tour He's uh Where's he at Taylor in Europe right

Could you talk to the microphone? See one see you don't How do you forget how to do this already He's in Europe Where do he got showed at this week? London I know my home girl Cuppie wanted to go And I feel like it was Dubai

Might have been last week I don't know I definitely know he's in London this week So you know salute to Andrew I really we say this every other podcast but I really mean it, man. I don't think that people are truly understanding what the good brother, you know, Andrew Schultz.

My good brother, Andrew Schultz, is out here in the world doing. You don't know what I mean? Like, he's selling out arenas all over the world. We're not talking about, you know, theaters and all of that is great. I love salute to everybody that, you know, sells out theaters and everything.

That is great. But, man, when you can put 20,000 seats, 20,000 asses and seats in arenas all over the fucking world? Come on, man. This is a kid from, Manhattan, you know, who literally got it out the mud in every way, shape, or form that you can think of in regard to comedy. And he's selling out arenas all over the world. So salute to Schultz

and make sure y'all go check him out wherever he is in Europe. So I thought about what I wanted to do. There's topics I want to talk about, right? But then I'm like, eh, it don't feel right talking to y'all without Schultz about those topics. And the reason that it doesn't feel right, is because I don't know if you all know, but Brilliant Idiots is a big release for me. Like, I like, no, I don't like, I love doing Brilliant Idiots every week. And, you know, when we first started doing Brilliant Idiots like a decade ago,

and, you know, my man Chris Moreau, I always got to salute Chris Moreau because Chris is the person who literally came to me over a decade ago and said that it's two things you got to do. He said, you got to do a book, and you got to do a podcast. And I tell you all this story all the time. I was arrogant when it came to the podcast. I knew I always wanted to write a book.

My mom is an English teacher, and I love reading, and I always knew I wanted to write a book. I even knew what my book was going to be called years ago, even though it ended up not being called that. I wanted to call it. I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck. A self-help guide on how not to give a fuck.

But, you know, my book publisher, Salute Simon, and she used to love you all to death. They told me that a book like that would never sell. And it will, though. Well, I mean, ended up, you know, the subtle art of not giving a fuck ended up coming out, you know, and that did, you know, pretty well. But they weren't wrong. glad that, you know, I pivoted and I ended up naming my book, you know, black privilege.

But those two things have absolutely changed my life, you know, books, book publishing. You know, I have an imprint at Simon & Shoes to Black Privile Publishing. Tamika Mallory, State of Emergency, How to Win in the Country we built. That's out. Anita Copac, shallow waters. That's out, Invisible Generals by my man Doug Melville. That'll be out November 7th, but you can pre-order it now. I got two New York Times bestselling books, Black Privilege and Shook One.

and I'm working on my third book. So the book industry absolutely changed my life. And it's personal for me because I come from South Carolina, you know, a place where the first anti-literacy laws were created. Like you used to get, you know, fined or jailed if you taught, you know, slaves to read. Now one of the descendants of those enslaved people, you know,

have their own bookprint and I'm really in the book business in a real way. So it's not just business for me as personal. And when it comes to the podcast, I was arrogant. But I'm glad that I was like, you know what, let's do it. Why? Why was I arrogant?

Because I was doing more than radio. So to me, that was the pinnacle at the time, you know, 10 years ago. Well, we know we've been doing breakfast club for 13 years, but I was already doing the pinnacle of what I thought the audio business could be. I was like, I'm doing radio at the highest level. I'm in New York City in the number one market. So, and, you know, Chris came to me about doing a podcast. I'm like, for what?

Even though I did enjoy listening to him at the time, Combat Jack. The Reed, the Reed was kind of fairly new. but I enjoyed listening to them. And I was like, yo, why not? It's just another way, it's just another platform you're creating, number one. And I can grab one of my friends who I have great conversations with

and kick it with them every week. And literally, that's what it's been for the last 10 years. So for brilliant idiots to become the brand that this became and the business that it became, at the end of the day, it's still me getting to come in here and kick it with one of my favorite people. to talk to.

It's not limited. It's not limited, you know? When you say not limited, what do you mean? Like, you guys are free to really talk more. Yeah. FCC rules. Yeah, and don't get me wrong. On Breakfast Club, we were able to talk freely as well.

It's just that it's radio, so it's more time constraints. You know what I'm saying? You can't really, you know, go deep, deep, deep on a lot of things. Even though I feel like, you know, with Breakfast Club, as far as, you know, our interviews and stuff like that, we kind of created the template for what you see now. in regards the podcast. But I'm saying all that I have to say, I don't like talking about a lot of the topics,

you know, that I could be talking about this week without Schultz, because like I said, this is an outlet for me, and it is a place that I like to come and just kick it with my guy. So what I decided to do was just reach out, tell Taylor, let's just do asking idiots. Let's do asking idiots.

Let's talk to the people, you know what I mean? Let's see what the people are talking about. So read them, Taylor, what we got? How do you give me all these papers, but you ain't got nothing? Can I have digital? Oh. I try to help you out.

Let's do it. Let's try to go through all of these. All right. Start from the top. First one is by Lexus4. Dot underscore. Okay. If you could trade anybody apart with any human on earth, what would it be?

Why you sound smarter? Excuse me? Like you sound smarter without showshed. Why is that? Because y'all be fucking with me. Y'all out there listening, y'all are, like, who is that talking? Is that Taylor? That can't be Taylor talking, is it?

Okay, if you could trade any body part with any human on earth. Huh? You say that sounds stupid. Anywhere else? I don't say that. I ain't say that. I ain't say that. Okay.

Smart. No, I ain't say that. Okay. Go ahead. If you could trade any body part with any human human on earth, what would it be? Think about what you admire. Wait. I know what it would be.

I would, I would, I would, no, now, how long is the train? I don't know. Why do we, why do we do that with these questions? Just keep it as it is. Because I don't want it to be a permanent thing, you know what I'm saying? But if I could trade any body part with any human on earth, it would be the vagina. I think that if men, I'm going to tell you why, I think that if men traded their penises for vaginas for, let's just say 30 days, I think they'd have a more appreciation for the vagina. I really do.

I think they would appreciate it more. I think they would understand what women go through, especially because what comes to the vagina, the menstrual cycle and everything else. I think people would, especially men, we would appreciate the vagina. of more if we had one for 30 days. I'm very surprised he said that. Why? I thought you're going to say something about like Morris Chestnut. I already got that.

I don't have to trade anything with Morris Chestnut. Me and Morris Chestnut came off the same assembly line. We came out of the same factory. When God had Marr-I don't know who came. Well, clearly Morris came first because he's older. So God made the Morris model. And then after the Morris model, he made me to Charlemagne's. I got that already.

I don't need to trade nothing with Morris. If you could, what would you do, Pam? If I could trade parts of it. the human? I would want to have pretty okay with my body type and everything. So, but I guess kind of a little vice versa. I always wanted to know what it felt like

to have a day. Why? Because how y'all, like, I just want to know what the pussy feels. Honestly, I just want to know what the pussy feels like. Oh, so you want to fuck some pussy? Yeah. I get what you saying.

I want to know what it feels like to y'all. So what's the, I mean, you don't have pussy before, though? Stop. No, I haven't. No, I haven't. No, I haven't. She just ate me out. That's it.

Oh, never mind. Your mama listens to this podcast, Taylor. Give me another. What's the next one? Teveras 310 underscore. What kind of music have you been listening to lately? Don't got to be no new bumping one. I already know which one you're going to say.

What kind of music have I been listening to lately? Sexy Bread. That goddamn, I mean, listen, I hate to tell you all this, you know what I mean? Because y'all think that I'm a Drake hater, you know what I mean? But I really like that goddamn rich baby daddy record with Drake, sexy red and motherfucking sizzling. You know what I mean? I've been playing that a lot, you know? But right now, it's a couple of albums.

Offsets album, set it off. I think it's great. I don't think people are talking about it enough. I know he did like 65,000 records his first week. I think that we're not used to seeing the Migos by himself yet. No. And I think it was like this before takeoff passed away. God bless the dead.

I think before takeoff passed away, even when... People are on Cuevo and takeoff's album. I think people were looking at Cuevo to be like the breakout star. Like, you know, it's always like that in a group. Like anytime you see a group, whether it's Destiny Child, in sync, whoever it is, everybody's always looking for that person who can break out and beat a star. Yeah. I don't know if, I don't know if Domingo's ever had a,

a person that everybody thought without a shadow of a doubt would be a breakout solo star. I think that we knew all of them had potential to be, you know, breakout solo stars, but it's not like, you know, it's not like it was, everybody was so head and shoulders above each other. But I think people focus more on Cuevo just because I think Cuevo have more features with a lot more artists. I think that's what it was. I think there was a period of time where people just gravitated towards Cuevo. I don't know what that. I mean, I like Cuevo.

lot. I don't know what it was. I don't know if Offset was in jail or because takeoff has always been the best one lyrically. But see, that's what I like about Offsett's new album. Offset stepped it up in every single way. He stepped it up in his production. He stepped it up with his lyrics. And Offset also said, you see more of his personality, him doing all those interviews. By the way, Offset was on Breakfast Club. Offset said two things that I want all your motherfuckers to remember. He said, number one, you can't forget the importance of radio. He said that. And if you look, Offset did a lot of different radio runs. He was at a lot of different radio stations sitting down with a lot of different radio personalities.

And he was stepping out there and doing, you know, podcasts that you wouldn't necessarily see him on. Like the Bobby, what's her name? Bobby Autof. Yeah, Bobby Attoff. I seen her. He's doing a call her daddy, stuff like that. But he also said in the interview that he got an N. So I don't know if y'all know what NR is, but that's an artist and repertoire.

That's a person who helps you develop your sound. You know, that's a person that will help you pick beats. That's a person that will go out there and say, hey, man, you should try to do this. That's a person that I go out there and get features. Tell you what songs you might should write about, like, just help you with the direction of your album in a real way. And I think that's something that's been really lost.

But if you listen to his album, you know, it reflects. You can hear it and be like, damn, like, Offset really put out a great album. And Father of Four was a great album, too. So I just think the biggest thing with Amigos is that we're just not used to seeing them solo. Because even when they put out that series of solo albums, when it was Quabo takeoff, Offset, they all put out their albums,

you still kind of looked at them as Amigos. And they came back, and I think they did coach your three after all of that. So you definitely still looked at them as Demigos. Yeah, they did do that. Yeah, yeah. They tried to trick people with thinking they would break up. And that's an interesting thing.

I was just talking to somebody about that, man. You know, sometimes, you know, you cannot grow ROV. because of the situation that you may be, I don't want to say stuck in, but you've gotten comfortable in. If you can always go back to the group dynamic, you know, it's hard to like break out and really spread your wings. I think another reason off the set's album sounds so good

because they know that there's no group to go back to, you know, sadly, like takeoff is no longer here. So there's no group to go back to. So him, Cuevo, they really, really do gotta carve their own lanes out, you know, as individuals. So, um, Suluta, Sulauta offset. I'm bumping that.

I'm also listening to, uh, Summer Walker's album. What Summer Walker album? You liked her album. You kept playing it. Oh, the soft girl. I mean, I'm still in my soft girl era. I didn't stick with that Summer Walker album the way that I should have, though.

But I did like the album a lot. I didn't like, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't stay with it. I didn't live with it. Like, I'm still living with Michael from Killer Mike. I still think that's the rap album with a year. I think Offset's up there for a rap album of the year. If I had to pick my top three rap albums of the year right now,

it would be Killer Mike, Michael, Offset, Set It Offset, Set It Off, and Nick Grant Sunday Dinner. Those would be my three albums of the year right now. Like, Nick Grant's Sunday dinner is very phenomenal, and I love the fact that Nick Grant is fully embracing South Carolina. He's fully embracing the 843, fully embracing Walter Burrow. and he's dope. So that's what I'm really listening to. Other than that, you're going to catch me listening

in the 90s R&B and early 2000s crunk music because I miss both of those eras. I think Little John is a motherfucking God. I think Little John is a God and he should always be respected as such, okay? I think that we don't, you know, give enough credit to people who gave us actual whole genres of music. Little John is the architect behind a genre of music.

And that genre of music is called Crump. So salute to Little John. Little John needs to put out a book. We need a Little John documentary. Like, people need to, like, really, like, little John needs to really be celebrating. Remember when Salam Remy was here in the Breakfast Club Studio? Because I'm recording from Breakfast Club Studio right now.

He was here at Breakfast Club Studio and he had, like, flick Rick on a painting. Like, that's what Little John needs. Because we really don't be appreciating, you know, our pioneers in hip-hop, these people who have, contributed such great things to the culture. We really don't be appreciating them the way that we should. And I think that we look at our music and our art

and our culture as something that's disposable when actually it really truly is art. I don't think they look at as disposable. I feel like it's just with the times everything is so fast-paced. Everything, yeah. Yeah, everything's fast-paced. You're right.

Yeah, you're right with that. I'd be wondering like that with your generation when it comes to, like, music because... All we're doing is copying off for y'all, though. No, you know. You just change... Yeah, we are. We're using...

I'm saying we're using the same instrumentals and just remixing it, revamping it. I don't know what you're talking about. I take back what I said about your earlier, Sina Smarter. I don't know what you're talking about. Yes, you do. Explain, explain a little bit more.

Oh, yay. Open the door. Oh, my gosh. What? What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What? What? What? They asked me a question. They said,

what is the toughest part about you being married? And how do you get through it? I'm going to ask you that? No, I'm doing asking. I'm doing a segment called asking idiots. This is just the last one just walked in. I'm doing a segment called asking idiots.

Actually, I was talking about what kind of music I've been listening to lately. Mm-hmm. Oh, Nick Grant. Yon. See? Brada. How you know that?

Sunday dinner, because I listen to it with you. You leaving? No. No. You want to talk? All right, what's what I'm saying? Get just a chair.

Are you going to get her? You just sit right there. Yeah, sit right here. How long else? I don't know. I'm just asking questions. All right, go ahead. I'm going to ask the question.

Okay. But that long story short, that's what I'm listening to. Offset, Killer Mike, and Nick Grant. And little John needs a statue. Turn your goddamn mic up, Taylor. Somebody out there saying, no, Taylor, keep it down. But turn it up. Don't do it.

Taylor producing. Don't do that. Taylor is producing right. right now. All right. Okay. What's the next question? Um,

do you listen to Disney? No. I have a son. Yeah. Why don't ask the third question? Okay, fine. Okay. We can do them at all.

I might know some things. Go ahead still. But it was a silly question. So by Soul, Rock, I don't know how it's his name. What is the toughest? Let me say.

What is that? Can't. Neither one of y'all from nothing. Oh, soul wreck. Okay, that's his name. So, right. What is the toughest part about being married and how to get through it? Oh, my gosh.

Oh, well, go ahead. Go ahead. You married now. Go ahead. You're married now. I took a deep breath. Like, I was right. Oh, my God.

Just came out, her and Brittany Grind and married. First of all, no, I did not come out yet. I ain't. No, for real. No, little Brit Brick could have got it, but she ain't wanted. She was over there in Russia. So I was like, I'm going to leave you alone. But it's a couple.

You talked to that at Britt before? No, I would have. But no, I'm not even gay like that no more right now. So you got with your new boob because he looked like Whitney Grine and Burrits. No, no, that's not. He just fell into my life. I didn't know. Brittany was when she first went over, Sorosho, whatever.

She was cute. I was like, uh-uh. And then she came back. She got a hair cut. I was like, uh-uh, yes, even cuter. But she's married. I don't do with married people. How did he just fall into your life, Jess?

He fell into my life. All right. So I walked into this ball one day. Are you telling the truth? No. All right. I met him. I met him back in February 23rd.

Actually, I was actually doing, that's the day I met Stephanie Mills at Breakfast Club, February 23rd. That's when I met him. I went down to Baltimore and it was NCAA weekend or something like that. Oh, no, C.I. Double A, yeah. That's your birthday again. My birthday is February 13th. But my party was February 26th.

That's the party that you and me didn't come to you. I said I was. But I was stuck there with Wallow. that was it. It's Luwawa. It's great. Yeah, the Walo is great. Not at a party.

So I met him at this restaurant. Now, he's a driver, a truck driver. So he was on a break. And I was like, oh, okay, what are the odds that I meet you? I've never met, like, a Mexican truck driver who was really, really tall.

I was like, what? He's supposed to be Mexican? Yeah, yes. No, no, no. He's not fully Mexican, African American. Okay. Yes, his dad is African American. And actually, Indian,

Native American, and then his mom is Mexican. And there's some other stuff in there going on, too. I don't think she know all of what she is. But I was like, she got like a little bit of Indian, too, in her. But I just don't think she see it. But, yeah, he's Mexican, Native American, and black. Very much. African-American.

He still ain't said how you met him. He just walked in the ball. You just, yeah, y'all. All right. So he didn't say nothing to me. I started, I asked him. Yeah, I liked him. I was like, but he had a cousin who was trying to get with me at first.

And then I was like, uh-uh. And then we over him. When he walked, First of all, the cousin was black, so ain't no me over nobody. Shut up, y'all. He did not. And that was a horrible Mexican accent. But, yes, the cousin was trying to get with me or whatever.

But he was, the cousin's from Baltimore, born a race. And he talked just like me. I'm like, oh, no, I can't deal with anybody that talk just like me. What? Yeah, you, yeah. Mm-hmm. Why? Why?

No. You single me, too. Yeah, like, both of us walking in the ball and talking like that? No. No. Oh, hell no, Jess. No. And then for my future kids, what are we going to do? No, we can't. So now.

What you was drinking? Casamigos. Give me two Casamigos. Yes. And he was like, no, I don't drink. I was like, no, I drink. He was like, no, I drink wine. He was like, well, I'm not going to buy you no wine. He was like, I don't want you buy me anything. And I was like, okay, but I want you to have a drink with me. He was like, I don't drink. I said, okay. So why are you at the bar?

He was like, because I can get something to eat too. I said, no, why are at the bar? because I'm grown. I was like, okay, I like a little, you know what I'm saying? Like, hey, okay. So I still bought him a shot and shit, and they sat it over there, and he was just like,

you can give it to her. And I was like, oh, he really ain't trying to take my drink or whatever. So he goes to have a nigga, I take it. Like, nigga, no, I don't want you to take it. So he ended up telling me, I really don't drink. I'm not even trying to be disrespectful, but I'll pay for the round that you just bought or whatever

because I don't drink. So he paid for it. And then I was flirting with him a little bit longer. And then he just was like, he started laughing. That was the first, that boy was sitting there with me. That man was sitting there with me for like 30 minutes and didn't laugh. I was like, oh, hell, no. But I was like, oh, it could be just the Mexican.

Like, because, you know, they probably don't understand. Well, your jokes were hitting. Yeah, I was sitting. Yeah, I was like, oh, because I ain't. Your jokes too black? Yeah, yeah. I was like, nah, he's Mexican, hell, understand what's going on. Did he know who you were?

Yeah. What, please? So, yeah, he knew who I was, but it was like, okay, I don't know if she planned. And then I don't know about her. I can't date no comedian. But first date, nigger, not a laugh for you. So you're all married now? No, we're not yet.

Yet? Yeah, not yet. You want to marry him? I did. Oh, shit. I do. I do. I do you.

Will you marry me? I do you. I'm going to say I will. I will. I will say I will. I will. I do you. I'm not.

I'm going to say I do. I'm going to say I will. All right. I don't know that there's a tough part about being married. Oh, stop. Well, listen, what I think, now I've never been married, but I grew up in a two-parent home. They were married. Yo, you got to communicate.

Even had the uncomfortable conversations. You got to be able to do that, like, why you? Because everybody look at a marriage. Even with what? Kids, though. Oh, girl. She's a hell out of me. Okay.

All right. Girl, did you say, even with cancer patients? What's the way? Chasing her. Get real on. Like, girl, what? That's why I thought you said. What the hell are we talking about here?

All right. Y'all's trying to get me caught up. No, you have to communicate because one thing that my mom and my dad did not do is communicate. They, they like, if my mom had an issue with something, my dad did, Shane Talley. My dad had an issue with something my mom wasn't doing or was doing. or was the... She didn't tell him. He didn't tell her.

So what you do is you find comfort other places because it's uncomfortable to tell your wife you ain't doing this. You ain't doing it for me. You ain't... Like we had somebody recently call up

just fixed my mess, breakfast club, and he was saying, yo, my wife helped me down seven years, been with her for 24 years, but she's not attractive to me anymore.

What should I do? Tell her. Tell her. And y'all don't want to hear that. Yeah, it's not about what we want to hear. So you're going to risk her killing you. You rather go cheat. As you said, your wife is in the streets.

If she found out I cheat on, I'm a killer. She going to kill me. So I don't want to cheat. I mean, I can't cheat. And you say, hey, he wants to. He said he can't. So the thing is, you just tell her. Tell her.

Like, what's the outcome? Yeah. She knows. From then on, she knows. Just right. Because at the end of the day, it's all about, like, She's absolutely right. It's all about communication.

And when I say, when you say, what's the toughest part about being married? And I say, man, I don't think it is no real tough part about being married. That is the toughest part. Communication. Either you're going to be not communicating or you might communicate a little too much. But you got to be willing to deal with that because if that person loves you and that person, like me and my wife been together 25 years. So that's my people.

There's nothing me and her can't talk about. Like that's when that's when it's actually an issue. And I feel like we're not communicating. But we don't have that problem. And you know her and she know you to the point where if she walking around or something is wrong, you'll know the call out. Absolutely. It's a lot of that going on in marriages is like my wife walking around, she acting all crazy.

It's like, damn, you're not even trying to see why. Sometimes it, oh, well, I can't read mine. She got to tell me why. Sometimes guys turn a blind eye. She felt like she can't talk to you. You know what I'm saying? And then vice versa too. Like, a man could be unhappy.

And a woman, I don't know what he did. All right, he keep acting like that. I'm going out with my girls. Nah, you're not even trying to make it safe enough as an environment for him to come to you. You know, men get the worst end of that, in my opinion. Women, we always wear how we feel right here. We talk about it sometimes. We over talk about it.

You all be lying, though. Yeah, a lot of times we do. Lying about what? Everything. What the problem is. Exactly. Y'all want to be strong. Black women, just handle it on your own.

You know, I want to know what's going on. what's the problem? And I see that in y'all early. Like my 15-year-old was like that, now what's the price? You don't want to tell me what's wrong. Yeah. You ain't got to walk through nothing alone?

She's 15, though. Mm-hmm. No, that's true. That's definitely true. I just think it's women now, not even like, because I can't speak for back then. But, like, now,

I feel like women have this chip on their shoulder. Like, I can do, I can do whatever. But that's what I'm saying with kids, though. Like, so, Charming, when you guys had a kid. kid that didn't make it harder? Harder to what? Be married?

Just be married or just? No, it actually made it stronger because that's the other thing I was going to say too. You know, when you're looking at your significant other, it's levels, right? Because sometimes we don't recognize the growth in people. The reason I love my wife the way did I do it because we literally grew up together as kids. So I've seen, she's seen a bunch of phases of me. I've seen a bunch of phases of her. Her being a mother made me grow to love her even more.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Because I'm watching her be this amazing. nurture to a child that belongs to you too. So you helped or create this human being. That's right. You know, so now you're making your own people and it's nothing like being with the person who helped you make these people and watching them do that.

Of course. But I remember when Michelle Obama, she was saying like she didn't like her husband for how many, how many years because they're like battling who takes care of the kid more. That's how I was saying it's not hard. She said that. Yeah. That doesn't sound like something. Michelle would say Taylor.

Oh, you did? She said She said that it was a competition. A competition or what? Like. There ain't no competition between fathers and moms. Fathers play a role. Mons play a role.

Kids are going to always gravitate towards a mom a little bit more. Dad is there for a reason. Like I definitely got two daddy's girls in the house. Yeah. But they still love mama. You know what I mean? Like I can never give them what my wife gives them. And my wife can never give them what I give them.

Right. But I think whatever. but the mom gives them it stronger. Yeah. Like, you know how much of a piece of shit you got to be if your mama don't like you? Yeah. Your mama will love you to the end of time.

Your mama will be in the courtroom after you didn't kill 20 people. Talk about, that's my baby. Daddy would be like, man, fuck that nigga. Yeah, yeah. Fuck that murderous ass nigga. Hey, mine. Yeah, right.

Yeah, you're right. So it's just something mama has that, you know, daddy can't compete with and you shouldn't try. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. That's just like Blueface Mama. What she said? She said, my son, whenever shoot you in the foot,

he is shooting your ass. but hang on shoot you in your foot and I stand by that. Well, I'd rather be shot in my foot than my ass. Yes. So, yeah. You love blue-faced mom. I know. I know.

I don't. You really do. I don't. Just got a stable of mama she loved. Blue-faced mama, Tokyo Tony. I do love Tokyo Tony. I do not love Carlisa. That's her name.

They all be in your DMs, though. I think they'd be looking at you like a little daughter figure. Yeah, I guess. I don't know why. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, because all their kids was fucked up once.

Right, and I was like, why I got to be the, you know what I'm saying? Because Tokyo, Tokyo do like me. Yeah, and then, but I do like Angela. I mean, I like Black China. At Black China. She ain't want, she don't want to be Black China no more. She's Angela White. So that's who she is now.

And then Mama Dee, she liked me. Even Jim Jones' mother. Like, yeah, so I got a thing with the moms. And that's crazy. And that's what they probably You're telling them Why you don't date that Jess girl? Mm-mm, right?

Why you know a little You know a little funny Jeff that be on Instagram? You know a little too too. Yeah, and yo, no, no, no, too, too. Hey, yo, I'm done. Mm-mm, I can't. I'd be the wrong one. I'd be the wrong one.

I don't care. Blue face would go crazy. Ain't no way. And, hey, you think you're going crazy behind Chris? Man, shout out, I slew the Blueface. He doesn't turn out of Baltimore girl before. Blue, blue. Blue. Blue didn't turn out of Baltimore

girl before. Y'all light work the blue. Yeah, no. Chrishon light work the blue shit. Frashon is light work. Yeah, he caught her young. So I don't know. He caught her right out of what the Ninja Wars.

Ninja Warriors. Because that's what she was doing. She was doing athletic shit. She was doing Ninja Warriors before she lost that too. Oh, yeah, she was. She was a crazy athlete. Crazy. Crazy.

She was on Ninja Warriors? Yes, Ninja Warriors. You never seen a video? She even talked. No. She even talked different. She was like, hi, I'm Kashan. Like that type.

Like, I swear. No, bro. I swear, yo, she wasn't like, she wasn't like this. She wasn't like that. Somebody's talking about she was. She was. She ran track. She did football.

She did everything. She did the same school as night. She did swim like a fish. She did everything. And then she met, yo. She went, my bed. She met Zeus. Let's do this next one.

Let's do this next one. All right. Oh, yeah, you've got commercials? Yeah, we got commercials. I know that's right. Andrew P.W. 83 wants to know, are you still a Pinkett Smith, Nose, Nose, Winkley, Karton? Say it again.

Please, we go out. I can't say it. You know what I'm saying? Are you still, well, because that's necessarily to Sharmine. I get it. She said, because, you know, I always say my last name is Shalameen, Pinkett Smith, Winfrey, Nose Carter. Oh, yeah, I say they said it wrong. They said it wrong.

No, how he put in the order. I'm a Pinkett Smith Winfrey Nose Carter. Yeah, I'm still a Pinkett Smith Winfrey Nose Carter. Okay. Why wouldn't I be? Here's the thing. Jada is just telling her truth. Yeah.

And I cannot be mad at Jada for telling her truth. You know what I mean? And she wrote a book. Like, it's a memoir. That's what you should do in a memoir. Yeah. I prefer Jada writing a book, a whole memoir, which I bought yesterday, Amazon Prime, and it yesterday.

I'd rather her doing that than just be all over Instagram, spilling her guttsy. and long-ass captions or be on somebody's podcast unless it was ours spilling her guts you know what I'm saying unless it was ours

you know what I'm like writing it in a book that's when you're supposed to give up yeah all these gems and all that shit yeah

yeah and Will's Miss Memorial he didn't really say nothing crazy though well well don't have to say anything no Will had his moments

yeah he had his moments in his memoir big moments I can't write there was some Jada moment he didn't

he didn't like delve into their relationship the way that Jada did But you can literally see it play out and just clips. Just look up, Will Smith clips. Just, you know, it's out there.

I wonder if your boyfriend's concerned. For what, Jada Pinkett? Just Baltimore women in general. Think about it. We talk about Frasanne, Jada Pinkett Smith. Monique. You know what I'm saying? Monique from Baltimore up and down.

Monique good, though. Monique and her man, like, they're good. Yeah, they're good now. I just wanted if you're a boyfriend. looking at you would decide, like, no, I don't know, he, I don't know, shit, I can't even tell you. I know he ain't going away, but I don't know.

He's not like any of them so here. I'm gonna tell you something about, I mean, if you call a woman a whole Jada, that should have been infuriating them this week. What that means? That's what they're trying to do it to me. Like, yo, you're a Jada. You didn't even got to say,

you're a whole Jada out here. He was like, I'm, yeah, it's gonna get, yeah. Be mad for no reason. I don't think Jada doing nothing wrong. I don't need. either. I don't either. It would be wrong if we didn't know anything about Will. What do we know about Will though? You keep saying this.

We don't know nothing about Will like that. We know about the... Will said, only a man knows what a man needs. What's that mean? That don't mean. That means only a man knows what he needs. Because Will can't speak for other men. Maybe he was joking. He was wild. He knows. You know what he gets... Maybe he got a gay sense of him.

humor like me. No, no, no, no. That nigga was being massaged by a man when he said that. Some men like to get massaged by men. Who cares? His wife, kid.

Did you see them pan over to her when he said that? Talking of who cared? Jada Pinkett kid. Let me have a question. How can we, when we see a man getting a massage from another man,

we look at it crazy, but we don't look at it like that with a football players laying on the field and that trainer rubbing that football players thighs and stretching them out. No, it's not about that. We know you watch sports

just for that. No, we're not talking about that. It's not about that. It's about what that football players say in the act. Only a man knows what a man needs. You don't say that, wow, your wife is sitting right there on a boat to the right of you while a man is caressing your shoulders. The next person in the interview will got to ask him about that video. Because I think it's context to that video.

I think he was making a joke because he know people look at that and be like, Damn, you letting a man massage you? I think he was just making a joke. Like, only a man knows what a man needs. Nah. No joke. And he ain't laughed. No, you wasn't fresh prince right now.

He was Will Smith. He was serious. And everybody was like, right, right. And Jada was like, what? You know, literally. Literally. By the way, that's happened to me before.

I've had situations like that. I told you I was at Bishop T.D. Jake's birthday party. And this was the same week that Diddy had sat down with Corretian And Diddy came, I was sitting down eating dinner And Diddy came, I stood up, gave Diddy Dap, and Diddy go The sexiest man alive

Right? The sexiest man alive And I go, Mr. Act Bad, you acting bad at night And Teddy's putting, you know, you're doing shades I'm acting real bad My wife's looking at us That's all y'all can think to say to each other That's it. Y'all can't think to say nothing else to each other. But see, it's different.

That's Diddy. Like, you know what I mean? What you mean? We know Diddy. Like, come on. This is Diddy. This is... This is...

Yeah, this is the same nigga that ex-fableness. You know, why you didn't come party with me? He was like, I did. He said, no, not us. You know what? I thought that story was going to help. It ain't helped shit. No, it helped my theories.

Only a man knows what a man needs. And Jada Pinkett is not a man. So she don't know what Will has needed. over the years. God damn. I'm a Pinkett Smith Winfrey knows Carter, okay? Okay.

What the Winfrey got thrown in there for? Oprah, big Oprah. I know, but I'm saying. What makes you a winf? I just always, I like Oprah. I like what Oprah has built. You know what I'm saying? And more importantly, I like what Oprah has built,

but I like how Oprah has empowered other people because it's one thing for you to be Oprah. But man, Oprah, Oprah, you know, assisted Dr. Phil. Mm-hmm. Dr. Oz. And what was the other woman name? Rachel, Rachel Roy, I think it was.

Oh, she did all of them? Yes. Gail King, like Oprah, like all of them. Oh, yeah. Like Oprah used to bring them on the Open Winfrey show. And then they all spun off and ended up, she ended up executive producing their own shows and they all had super success.

Gail King, you know what I mean? Yeah, definitely. Ayon LeVanzan. Ayon LaVaninzaa was supposed to be part of that Oprah camp, you know, but she decided to go off and do her own thing. But eventually came back, you know, when she had her showing the own network. Right.

I just like people like that. I like people who serve others. What about Perry? You don't want to be a Perry? Don't want to be a Perry? That's my cousin. What's wrong about? Tyler Perry, another one, man.

People can see what they want about Tyler Perry. That motherfucker empowers people, you know? And like when Nicole Avon was here last week, really my top four inspirations in this game is Clarence Avon, Arsigno, JZ, and Petey Green. Who's old school rated personality from D. Nice. But all of them serve people.

People. Tyler Perry serves people. Like, you know how many black people with Tyler Perry employing? Yeah. How many black people like black women, right? Taraji P. Henson, Tiffany Haddish, all of them will tell you like in Hollywood and you know this, Jess. You get a quote, right? Like, like so I don't know, at some point in your career, you have a quote. Like you star in a movie and people know this is your quote. Tyler took both of them in particular, put them as stars as movies, paid them a certain amount. I forgot, I don't know what the exact number was. I don't want to get to line. But whatever the exact number was, from that point on, that's how much Taraji and Tiffany had to get paid. Yeah. But they would have never gotten that if Tyler didn't put them in that position. Yeah, in those positions. Yeah.

So it's like, your, Tyler's there. Tyler wanted him ones. Like, he's another one. Need a book, documentary. He definitely needs a book. Like, so you can really see his life and his journey and how he came up because Tyler came from the bottom in the south in Louisiana, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, yeah, I throw a little parry in there.

Yeah. That's my cousin. Well, that's nice. Let's pay some bills to it. I don't want to get a podcast big. You can leave if you want. No, I do 20 little minutes. What's going on?

You do, sir. Like a hour. Like a hour. All right. What's the game, though, real quick? What game? I thought he said, we about to play a game. No, I'm going to do commercial.

Oh, no. I was going to play a little game. All right. Let me pay the commercials. What are the commercials? Let me pay the bills, man. Let's take a break and pay some bills, man. Salute the hero bread.

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That's H-E-R-O.C-O to save 10%. today, all right? Let's do some church announcements. First of all, Jess O'Larris just walked out of here. I should have made her staying here so she could tell y'all what she got going on, but I'll tell you. Jess will be in Detroit on November 7th, 8th, and 9th, okay, for a pop-up comedy event with Desi Alexander. She got six shows at 7 o'clock in 930, November 7th, 8th, and 9th at Punch.

Yeah, that's what it's called. At Punchline, at Punchline Comedy Lounge. The Punchline Comedy Lounge in Detroit, tickets are at Just Hilariousofficial.com. Yes, November 7th, 8th, and 9th, six shows, 7 p.m., 9.30 p.m., Punchline Comedy Club in Detroit. I also got to tell y'all,

make sure y'all go pick up my man, Doug Melville's book, man. Doug Melville's book will be out November 7th. It's called Invisible Generals. It is the next release off my book-in-print, black privilege publishing. It tells the amazing true story of America's first black generals, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and create the famous Tuskegee Airmen. We're dropping this the week of Veterans Day because, you know, it's telling a book about the veterans.

You already know how I feel about veterans. I say it all the time, man. It pains me to see, you know, veterans walking around these streets, homeless, walking around, you know, can't even get no food after they didn't fought for this country, almost gave their lives. for this country. Some of them walking around with no limbs and, you know, they can't even get a meal. I think at the bare minimum, veterans shouldn't have to pay taxes for the rest of their lives. Veterans shouldn't, you know, they should get free housing. Veterans should get a stipend every month to where, you know, they can, you know, pay for their food and, you know, whatever else. They should get free health insurance at the bare minimum. That's what we should be doing, you know, for our veterans. So Invisible Generals by Doug Melville, it'll be in stores November. seventh, but you can pre-order now.

I think that's all I got for the moment. That's all I got for the moment. Let's get back to some asking idiots, Taylor. What we got? Richie underscore X-Base wants to know. Who got the best comedy special on 2023? Trump Last Speech or Dr. Umar Jada rant. Oh, you're talking about Dr. Umar Jada rant?

Mm-hmm. Dr. Umar's had better rants than the Jada rant. I like Dr. Umar ranch when Dr. Umar isn't talking about pop coach. I don't like Dr. Umar pop coaching rants, you know? The reason I don't like Dr. Umar pop coach and rants is because I just feel like, I don't want to hear Dr. Umar talking about pop culture. Like, I just think that we live in an era right now where, you know, everybody has an unhealthy obsession with celebrity.

And I guess you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and notoriety for people to listen to you. but the same way I don't want to hear our scholars and academics, you know, well, yeah, talking about pop culture is the same way. I don't necessarily want to hear, you know, the rap was talking about social issues. Like that's the conversation we was having with Vlad, right? Vlad was like, yo, Drake and Calid need to say something about Palestine and Israel, if they want to. Yeah.

That's not really their thing. Like, you know, there's artists that I look to for that, like a killer Mike, you know, like a David Banner. They don't say that about Jay-Z, though. But Jay Z's always done that, though. That's my point. Like, Jay Z's always spoken about social issues, whether Jay Z did it, you know, in his music. They do it silently, though, I feel like they'll give money or whatever.

Sometimes I think he's been a lot more louder lately, especially, you know, establishing things like the United Justice Coalition and reform. Like, I think that he's been over the years, he's been very, very vocal. Like, Jay Z has never had a problem being front and center in regards to, like, either, like you said, cutting the check or just bringing some type of awareness to social issues. Like Jay Z's done concerts for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton trying to get them elected. Jay Z has, you know, him and Diddy gave a million dollars to Katrina. Like, like, like, even Kanye.

But in action, though, why do they want, why do they want Drake and all of them to talk? Listen, I get it. You know, with great responsibility comes great power, but that doesn't necessarily mean. I need to hear everybody talking about everything. Yeah. Because here's the thing. Drake says something. Callis says something. Then what? But then, then what? But then what? after like what after after after after it said then what you know so they can criticize him that's all they're going to do they're going to kill drake for being well his stance I would assume would be pro-Israel they're going to kill

Cala because his stance I assume would be pro-Palestine it's like yo man maybe them brothers is just pro peace yeah maybe those brothers is just pro I don't want to see any innocent kids being killed maybe they're pro I don't want to see innocent civilians getting killed like and by the way that's I think that's what we all should be right Like, just this whole, you know, pick aside mentality is so strange because I don't understand how anybody can have any objectivity and really take a step back and see what the actual truth is if you're just already on a side. Right. You know what I mean?

If you're already on a side, that means you're already assuming that whatever that person says on the other side is a complete and total lie. I'm not with that. I just think that there's always a gray area. I really, really do. And I don't think we can ever get to that with people picking sides. How did we even get here? What the hell was we talking about? What's the better comedy, Trump or Dr. Umar?

We got there from that. Yeah. And you say, you didn't like how Dr. Umar. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to hear Dr. Umar talking about social issues, like not pop culture stuff. I don't even know what Trump's last speech was. So I don't, I don't need, that's not even a serious question to me. Who got the best comedy special of 2020?

I ain't, I'm, if you're talking about real comedy, was Neil Brennan wasn't this year Was Neil Brennan blocks this year? Let me see if Neil Brennan blocks this year I don't know if it was Let me see Neil Brennan The infamous was this year?

Infamous wasn't this year But he's still Was Neil Brennan blocks this year? No, that was last year Yeah, I don't know I got to think about what was the best comedy special I saw this year

Because I have everybody talks about Ali Sadiq I think the brother name is No, what's the comedian name? I don't know. What's the comedian name? Everybody says his special

is amazing, but I haven't gotten the chance to watch it yet. What is his name? Let me shot the brother out. Yeah, Ali Sadek. Yeah, he's got a comedy special out. I need to listen to it.

I need to watch it, actually. What else you got, Taylor? Give me another one. Make. America. Negro wants to know what's the dumbest thing you ever spent money on?

Dumbest thing I've ever spent money on, close, you know, early on. with Breakfast Club when, you know, we would have these appearances and I'd have you have these dumb ass denim leather jeans type of ensembles, like them jeans that cost like $1,800 in the store, you know, and I would always keep the tag on and bring them back. And they stopped taking my clothes back because I was getting on the radio saying exactly what I just said. And so my good sister Ty, you know what I mean, who would be picking out stuff for me. You know, she couldn't bring the stuff back

no more. She was having a hard time because of me and my big mouth, you know, but I don't give a fuck about stuff like that. I don't think y'all, I think y'all know that about me just because y'all been listening to me for the past 13 years. I don't care about material things in any way, shape, or form. I like to be comfortable, you know, and, you know, I like, I'm not, I don't have those vices. I don't, I don't care about the Bentley's and the phantoms and what, you know, the Rose Royces and the ghosts and the, you know, the, the, you know, whatever other spirits you all got out there. I don't, I don't, I don't have any of that, you know, like I don't, I'm not in the jewelry like that.

You see, I got my Apple watch on. I got a few pieces. I got a few watches, you know, that I throw on for special occasions. And, like, any jewelry I have means something to me. Like, I got this little anchor. You're not gaudy. Nah.

This anchor that I have, you know, it just means for me to stay grounded, you know? And I got my black effect piece because that's my company. And I got a piece of the honorable Elijah Muhammad. It's weird that, and maybe just because I'm in the culture, but I, it's weird that black people,

just go towards so much materialistic, so trying to fit in. I mean, Kanye West said it the best, though, and it all falls down. Yeah, he said, what did he say? Even if you were, uh, even if you're in a coupie or something. That ain't the line you're looking for.

You know, though, I'm talking about that. I know what I'm talking about that ain't the line you looking for. It's a reason we hate, we love our wealth, something, something. Yeah. That's why we hate ourselves and love all wealth. Because Chody's asking what a ball is that? No, it's true.

Like, you know, I think a lot of that does have, have to do with trauma. And I think a lot of that have to do it. It's like we're still trying to fit in with the white people, but they're following us. Oh, we're just trying to make ourselves feel good. Like, that could be the thing, too. Like, we really just trying to make ourselves feel good.

You know what I'm saying? Like, we, um, and I think a lot of times, um. Why does it have to be that, though? Like, this is, like, you said, $100 jeans is for this. It's stupid. Like, all that stuff is stupid. Like, I'm comfortable. Like, right now I got on a hoodie that Salam Remy gave me.

You know what I'm saying? With Marvin Gay on it that says, save the world. I got some art meet chaos jeans on that my man Don Juan gave me. I got donkey of the day slides on that I've had for years. Like, I'm good. Like, I'm me. I show up as me everywhere I go. I'm not what I'm wearing.

And I learned that a long time ago. I'm not what I'm driving. I'm not what I'm wearing because all that stuff can be taken away from you. And all that stuff goes out of style. Like, there's a reason that cars have a year on them. You know what I mean? You might have had that 2000 something you had ain't shit in 2020. It might have been the shit in 2000, but it ain't nothing in 2023.

You know, that gear you had, that shit might have been in style three years ago. Might have been in style last year. It's not in style now. But you, you, you, you, look at me, look at me, look at me, you. If you keep evolving and growing the way you're supposed to, you'll never go out of style. I'm timeless. I'm classic, you know? Like, you know, that's just how I feel.

Like people running around talking about I am him. Yeah, I really am him. You know why I am him? Because God made me him. And this same confidence, the same insecurity, the same self-awareness, the same anxiety, the same depression, the same joy. It's all me. And there's always been me, my whole life. And no matter what's going on in my life, I just figured things out.

Like, you know, one of my OGs, salute to my OG. One of my OGs yesterday hit me about another one of my OGs. When I say OGs, I'm talking about elders. Like one of my, one of my OGs who's, and I'm not, I don't mean OG because of what they have. I'm talking about actual age and, you know, how this person carries themselves. He's a brother that I love. He's always, you know, been around. And he, we were talking about something.

And he told me about what one of our elders, because the person we're talking about is in his 90s. And he was saying how one of, one of my elders in his 90s, was expressing concern about me. And I was like, concern, like, concern in what way? But it wasn't like, he used the word concern, but what he meant was he's just been asking about you a lot. And I just was like, yo, you know,

I can't wait to sit down with him again and let him know I love him. And, you know, I'm blessed black and highly favored. And any so-called drama that comes my way is all for my greater good. And I truly feel like that. When you are living the way you're supposed to be living, when you are moving the way you're supposed to be moving,

when you are actually walking righteously, any so-called bad thing that happens to you or comes your way, it's supposed to happen to you. But it's not happening to you, it's happening for you. And I really truly believe that. Well,

how did we get here? What was the question? What do you mean? What's the dumbest thing that you bought? The dumbest thing I ever spent money on? I got there from that. All right, well. Wow. Well, no, I'm not going to do that one.

That's a good one, actually. Tarjay underscore. Just Moe. Oh. Really? You want to do that one? Okay. I don't mind it. Just Moe 21 wants to know if you can suck your own dick.

Is it self-lover straight up gay? What happened now? Just Moe 21 wants to know. If you can suck your own dick, is it self-love or a straight-up gay? I think it's self-love. The same thing as masturbation. It would be like, yeah, it's the same thing as masturbation. Like, if you could suck your own dick, is it self-love or straight-up gay?

Is masturbation gay? Exactly. You, this is your hand now. It's your hand. You ain't the fucking little thing that's crawling around on Adams family. It, whatever's name is. It's your hand. By the way, if you had it, you let it jack you off.

But what I'm saying is, you never seen it? Adam's family? Yeah. Your little hand that'd be walking around? If you had a little it walking around, you let it jack you off now. You would.

Like, I think you could, that should be kind of cool. You want, now. You're not going to sit here and tell me that, what's the Adams family daddy, man? Uncle Feston, one of them was letting that goddamn was letting it jacked them off. You ain't go tell me a little puggly.

Little puggly, little puggly was letting it jack him off for something, man. That motherfucker was not just crawling around like that for no reason. You know why people are going to think it's gay, though, because if you suck it, you're going to definitely taste more of the precom or whatever. It don't matter.

You know, it's your body. It's your own body. Like, you shouldn't be afraid. You shouldn't be afraid to touch your own body. It's your body. It's your body. Like, you should be able to do what you want with your body. Like, there's nothing wrong with that.

Like, I don't think that. No. How can you be gay with yourself? Like, that don't make no sense. Like, we got to stop that. We can't be that homophobic the way we think we gay with ourselves. How do you be gay with us? yourself. So once again, if you jack off, does that make you gay? No. I don't think so.

What else we got? Um, I don't skip over it. Could we kind of went over that. See, that's too heavy. See, Tarjeet is asking me something about Palestine and Israel. I don't want to talk about that without shows. Because I do have some thoughts. He actually asked me, do you think black people should be worried about the things in Israel? We tie it. Oh, he's asking me, do I think black people should be worried about the things in Israel? Yeah. Yes. You should be worried.

I know. This thing is we're not, it doesn't mean. Did you see that the right? What the right? I saw somewhere where like, I don't know which side it was, but they didn't like the U.S. trying to, you know. Well, I think, oh, yeah.

Iran said that if Israel don't stop pushing into Gaza, they're going to intervene. And that means, I don't know if they'll come over here, but they're going to definitely intervene, but America's definitely going to help Israel. Right. And then all global hell going to take loose. Going to break loose.

Yeah, I do think black people should be worried about the things going on in Israel simply because, you know, Israel and God's are like an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, period. So when you see bad things, you know, happening to people, yeah, you should be concerned. Like, absolutely. Like, just you.

Like just you as a human should have some level of empathy. Like when you see the things that's happening over in Israel and the things that's happening in Gaza, yeah, you should absolutely be concerned. Because once again, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whenever you see innocent lives being lost, whether it's in Israel, whether it's in Gaza, that is injustice. When innocent lives are being lost, when you are seeing kids killed, I don't get what side they own. That's an injustice. Yeah. Period.

Give me another one, Taylor. The wise runner wants to know, what's been your most successful business career venture that involved the least amount of effort? What's been, there's no, I haven't had one of those yet. They all require a certain amount of effort. I mean, I guess at this point in my life, I guess I would say real estate, but then that wouldn't even be accurate either because it's like, you know, I buy property and land in South Carolina because I truly believe you can't say you're, from someplace. You know, you can't say you represent someplace if you don't own any of it. So, you know, me and my wife, we have land properties in South Carolina.

And, like, there's one property I bought back in 2018. And for five years, like, the building was just sitting there. And then, like, slowly but surely, like, we ended up, the building got a, they rented the building for that TV show. what's the TV show on HBO that Kenny Powers is on? Oh. Righteous Jimstones. Righteous Jimstones rented my building. So I guess when, I don't know if the new season came out, whatever, whatever season that's about to come out.

I don't know if it's running now or if it's about to come out. But the new season of righteous gemstones, they rented one of my buildings. Is it a studio? No, no, no. It's just a building. I don't know what they rented it for. I guess it's for a scene or something like that because, you know, they come through and they spray like, they paint, they do a mural on the buildings. I guess that's part.

I don't watch righteous gym stones. So I don't know, but that's a part of, I guess, what they do on the show. Like, they'll come and when they rent buildings, they do a mural on the show. If people who watch righteous gemstones, y'all know what I'm talking about. But they rented out my building. So, you know, that was easy money, you know what I mean? Because it was just a couple of days and then renting my building, check to onto the account. And then just recently, somebody leased that same building.

But I can't call that, you know, stress free because having the building is one thing, but then when somebody actually wants to lease it and then they bring their inspectors to see things that need to be done to the building, you spend a whole other grip of money making repairs and stuff like that, whether it's HVAC installation or roof being fixed,

all of that type of stuff, right? And so you got to do all of that to lease the building. I guess it's stress-free because all you're doing is like paying for those repairs and stuff to be done. but, you know, I don't think it's something, it's not something I would call, you know, the least amount of effort because there's a lot of effort that goes into, you know, doing that. But, like, yeah, right now it's definitely real estate.

But real estate, the real estate game is an interesting game because, you know, you can buy properties and you can buy land. You could be sitting on that shit for years. Yeah. I didn't even think about that. Yeah. But I'm saying when it comes to filming, like, I'm thinking about all this stuff like Issa Rae, all the buildings that she put on in her show. Oh, yeah.

They got to rent those. I've had people who tried, I've had, I've had, like, American Horror Story came to us about renting my house in Jersey. Oh, really? I'm not doing that. You know what I mean? Like, but if that was just a property I had and not where, like, I actually lay my head, you know, and my family lays their head, I probably, I would have done it.

Are they able to change it, though? I don't, yeah. I guess they come in and they, yeah, they rearranged the whole thing. It is, you know, I don't know. But, yeah, there's, there's no. successful business venture that involves, you know, least effort. Like everything involves some type of effort. While we talking about business is salute to my home girl, Angela too, man. You know, you see this all the time. This is called Viva detox. Prebiotic fiber man.

You know, Angela's the homie. That is in 300 stopping shops right now. And I always shout Angela out because she's a Asian woman who launched a very successful product, you know, that I genuinely enjoy. And she's doing her thing. So salute to. Angela, you can go get Carviva wellness at 300 stopping shops throughout the country. What else we got, Taylor? Abel Casso wants to know, how do you handle mental stress or a mental health crisis in your life? How do we handle those? It's tough, man.

I'll probably take a lot of naps and then try to just wake up. I mean, I've never really had, I have mental stress for sure. So, you know, I love therapy and I love meditation. and I love plant-based medicine. You know, I love getting around the friends and just laughing. What's that thing that Taraji P. Hinton was calling it, a Joy Corner or something like that? I forgot what she was calling it,

but it's like literally you find these little pockets of joy and, you know, you just get with the people that you love. I think one of the biggest things that keeps me from, like, really being stressed out mentally is really being aware of my energy, meaning, like, being aware of who makes my energy go up and being aware of who makes my energy come down. I think that we don't do that enough.

I think that if we really stay away from our phones and everything and really just tap into the universe, you can really connect with what's really going on in the world and what's really going on with people. And there's just some people that come around you who drain the fuck out of you. Like immediately, like you know, they're about to exhaust you. You know?

That's why Taylor is so frustrating for me because it's like... I knew you were about to come over. Because she don't exhaust me. She actually makes my spirits go. go really, really, really up. But then I just find these little moments. You just have to pickle me. It's just slightly,

it's just slightly exhausting sometime. You know what I'm saying? But then it's just like, she makes me so happy. So I just don't, it's just weird. I just really don't know. And as far as a mental health crisis, I've only really dealt with I've only had to personally deal with one person who was going through an actual mental health crisis. And it's the craziest thing in the world because there's really

nothing you can do. Because when you call these numbers, you know, like you call 911 and you tell them to go do a wellness check, they'll tell you shit. Like, well, the person hasn't hurt anybody or hurt themselves yet, so we can't do anything until they do that. I'm like, what sense does that mean? Like, what's it? Don't we have enough examples of people who have hurt themselves or hurt somebody just by observation? Why wouldn't we intervene before they do it?

And then, you know, that person tragically took their life. So, yeah, I'm, yeah, I don't, I, I, how do I handle it by going to, you know, I, I, I, I, how do I handle it by going the experts. That's how I handle it. I handle it by going to the Dr. Alfie Breeland-Nobles and the Dr. Rita Walker's and the Elliott Connys, you know, all of these great therapists and psychiatrists that I've been blessed to meet my man, Dr. J. Barnett, all these people that I call friends, you know, that I genuinely love, you know, when I'm, if I got like mental health crisis in my life or somebody having a mental health crisis, I know who to reach out to. And it's definitely those individuals. I'm going to pay this bill, Taylor, and then we'll come back

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A couple more. You got to do elevate. Shit, it's a lot more. You want to do elevate? I do a few. I like, I like answering the people. people's questions. I never feel like we answer enough asking

idiots, so we can jump around. We can... Yeah, I have a question for you. Oh, God. Because I don't know where it came from. Isaac, and maybe Andrew should be here, but Isaac Mendez, Torres, wants to know what does nickname

Hezhi come from? Wait, is what? It shouldn't say where. Where does the nickname Hezzi come from? Oh, man. You must be new here, huh, Isaac? You must be new here. You can't be an OG, brilliant idiotist listener asking a question like that.

But you added more to his name, like. I mean, I'd say it's all derivatives of Hezzy. But the Hesey came from one time on this podcast when Andrew Schultz was being Andrew Schultz. And if you know anything about my guy Andrew Schultz, Andrew Schultz thinks that he can do anything. And Andrew Schultz told Jay Williams that he would bust Jay Williams ass in a game of basketball. ball. Jay Williams, former number two NBA player, I mean, former number two draft

in the NBA came out of Duke University, got drafted by the Bulls, had a tragic motorcycle accident. Career was cut short, but he's going on to be a great television analyst, sports pundit. And so, Andrew and Jay Williams played a game on one-on-one.

You can go look it up. It's on YouTube. Jay spotted Andrew five points, and it was the first, I think it was first, player to six. So he spotted Andrew five points and he was busting Andrew ass. He tied the game. And then he got a little cute and he bounced the ball off Andrew's head. And I'm going to honestly tell you something. I think that's when Andrew turned heel. I think that's when Andrew became the bad guy. I think that bouncing the ball off Andrew's head flipped the switch

in Andrew where he was like, fuck y'all niggas forever. You know? I'm dead serious. And I mean, when I say the end word, I mean, I really think that turned something on him that made him say fuck everybody. Like, really? Like, for real, for real. If you go back and watch that video,

you can see the ball bounce off his head and you see like a switch turn on in Andrew. And then Jay Williams shot and he missed and Andrew got the rebound. And Andrew stepped back, drove to the lane, and he hit him with the he.

Jay Bitford. And as Jay, was coming down, Andrew was going up, the ball goes up, bounces around the rim, falls, drops, Andrew wins the game, six to five after being spotted five points. Wow. And the Hezzi was born. You're new here, aren't you, Isaac?

You should know that story. What else we got, Taylor? The Wise Runner wants to know, what Earth movie do you think aliens are most offended by? What Earth movie do you think aliens are most offended by all of them? Because the fucking humans win. We ain't beating no motherfucking aliens, bro. Maybe I'm wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Most of the alien movies I see, Earthlings always win. I'm telling you right now, when it happens, and we should hope, we should pray that the aliens aren't hostile. We ain't got nothing for them. And the reason we know we don't got nothing for them is because they got here. And if they got here, that mean they've always been here. So unless we, as an Earthling's success, society, have a bunch of technology that, you know, we don't know about.

And they have been traveling the solar system and traveling all these galaxies and visiting different planets. They have technology that we don't have. So that lets me know they can fuck us up. So, yeah, I think that. We know that there's other planets, though. So what? Do we?

We thought we knew. In our solar system, in our solar system, we thought we knew that there was nine. But then Pluto. I know. of them they decided who there was not one or no more. I don't think they know I don't think they know 90% of what we

think that they know. And I don't know why I'm always using 90% as a as a whatever the fuck percentage. But I just feel like I don't think they know as much as they tell us that they do. I really don't. I think that they're discovering new things all the time.

And I think as they get more technology here on Earth, we're going to start to see more. So I think aliens are offended by all Earth movies simply because Earthlings always win. And if they get access, to some of these movies.

I know they're looking at this shit. Like, we would fuck them up. That shit would never happen. You think some men in black can beat us? You think these niggas walking around in black suits? Shit. Salute the will. I love Will.

I'm just saying, I know aliens got to be sitting back chuckling. Like, come on now. I love Will. I really do love Will Smith. I think y'all, y'all doing the Smith's way dirty. So mad. You know what I'm saying?

I'm just saying, imagine. how the aliens feel. I want to know what they look like for real. Do you think that the images that they show is something relatable to it? I do. Because some of them should look like the grades. They do. I'm not going to lie.

If you know what if you know about the grades, if you know what I'm talking about, you've seen the gray aliens. Like, yeah, some of that stuff they show us on TV do. And as a person who's seen a flying saucer, because I've actually seen a flying saucer before, Monk corner South Carolina, third grade, eight years old, sitting in my grandma's yard, playing, pretending to be he, man, a Shira, knowing me. and there was a black disc literally hovering over the trees. And I wasn't even scared.

I just looked up and I just like, what is that? In my mind, I don't even think I thought what is that? I was just looking at it. It was just like a black disc hovering over the trees. You know, you're in third grade eight years old. I wasn't thinking anything. If you don't know what something is, you're not afraid of it or thinking anything of it. You know what I mean?

You're just observing. So I was just observing it. And then it just shot off. And then as I got older, and started reading about UFOs and, you know. How big was it? Oh. Whatever.

How big was it? We're talking about the thought, the whatever it's called. You tell somebody you playing Sharon. Now they all of a sudden want to ask you how big it is. Was small? I mean, I was eight. So it was like, it was hovering over trees.

It was like, it was large enough for me to see. It was large enough for me to see and notice. And when I'm looking back on it, I'm like, it was big. than what a drone is considered now. Like, think about the biggest drone you saw. It was definitely a lot bigger than that, but it also looked very slim.

You know what I mean? It didn't look like a wide. You know, when you see a plane, like a plane looks like wide and like bulky, it didn't look like that at all. But it was just hovering over the trees and it looked like it was spinning as it was hovering.

I remember that vividly. And it wasn't nighttime either. It was in broad daylight. You saw that they saw, they spy Bigfoot again. Oh, I definitely saw that. And I've always thought that Bigfoot had some type of camouflage capabilities. That's why people don't see them.

Give me some more. I wonder why they call them Bigfoot, though. Oh, I got to answer this one. This is a great one. Which one? Tone Gaines. Okay, Tone Gaines wants to know who's the kind of spirit you ever met.

I already know that one for me. Oh, tell me. Mama. Mama. Mama's one of them. No, no, Mama's one of. Mama, Miss Anita. Yeah, Miss Anita used to work here

at Eyeheart. I think, speaking of Will Smith, y'all saw her in the videos with Will Smith, you know? And, yeah, because Will, I guess Will met her years ago. Did Will meet her years ago and remembered her? What was it? Not that I remember. Why did that moment go so viral? I mean, we just showed her who he, we showed him who she is and, you know.

Yeah, that moment went crazy viral for some reason. I feel like Mama met him back in the day. Maybe, maybe, maybe. She remembered her spirit. Yeah. But no, she's definitely one of them. She was definitely, Ms. Anita's definitely one of them. One of the most kind of spirits ever met.

There's a guy named Shane Gandhi. If you all remember that show on MTV from back in the day called Buck Wild. And it was all of these kids from West Virginia, all of these crazy white kids from West Virginia. And Shane was the star of that show. And Shane tragically passed away because he was mudding. Him and two of his peoples was mudding. And they got stuck in the mud.

and I guess the muffler got stuck in the mud and they all died of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is crazy because, you know, earlier that year, me and Duval was down in West Virginia because we shot an episode of Buck Wilde with them and we were all stuck in the mud. There was a, we all went mud.

Me, Shane, Joey, slew to my man, Joey. I ain't talked to Joey in a minute, but it was me, Shane, Joey, and Duval, and we got stuck in the mud. And we sat there for a while, But then we ended up getting out, you know what I mean? So I guess maybe the muffler wasn't stuck in the mud or whatever.

But Shane was absolutely one of the most kindest, purest spirits I ever met in my life. He didn't have no cell phone. He used to call him smart boxes. I don't want no smart boxes. He didn't want no cell phone. And he literally could like walk around New York City and observe New York City and nowhere to go. Like he would pay attention to details like that. He'd be like, you know it's an arrow to arrow on, you know, the FedEx thing is an arrow around

the FedEx, you know, that's an arrow. He would just know, like, just little stuff like that. Like, he was a very, very, very pure, kind person. I remember we, we was, it was freezing. And I had on like the full, and I'm sure I told this story before, but I had on the full camouflage outfit in Virginia with the rubber boots, straight duck dynasty with it. Had the ski mask on.

And I was about to get out the truck and Chang goes, no, Charlemagne, no. Oh, that's him. you're a nigger in West Virginia. They'll kill you dead. I wasn't even offended because he was explaining to me the severity of the situation and letting me know

how they would perceive me. If he would have said that any... Why don't you just say you're a black person? It wouldn't hit the same. I would have tested that there. I promise you I would have tested that there. If he would have said, yo, you're a black person in West Virginia,

they'll kill you dead. I'm like, man, fuck that. Because, like, it was... You know, back then we didn't call them shiasties, but it was just like, I'm black. I can wear my ski mask in the goddamn store if I want to. But the way he said it, it hit.

And by the way, I was around him enough to know that he don't talk like that. It's not like he uses that language. In fact, one of his friends, I never forget this too. One of his friends, we're in West Virginia. And Duvall can, if Duvall remembers, because you know, I can't remember nothing,

we were in a room like a trailer. I forgot whose house people was at, But we was at one of, it was either Shane or Joey's house. And one of Shane's friends was over there. And either me or Duvall was using the N-word. Shane's friend was white. He goes, man, man, my good friend, I can't remember the guy. My good friend such, man, he wouldn't approve you using that word, man,

because his friend was black. Yeah. Because I don't like y'all using that word, man. It makes me uncomfortable, man. You know what I'm saying? Just because I just know my friend wouldn't like it. And that shit was like, oh shit. Like, there's a white dude from West Virginia telling us we shouldn't use the N word.

Yeah. I was like, wow, I get it. You know what I'm saying? But, yeah, he was one of the kind of spirits I've definitely ever met. And my wife, of course, another kind of spirit. But what else we got? Tyler On Demand 13

What's your most spiritual experience You said that too though Wasn't it when you went to I went to Aruba I'd be having mad spiritual experiences Because God don't play about me God be showing me stuff man You went underwater or something like that

I can breathe underwater I don't know if that's spiritual Or just me being special Um What's my most spiritual experience Oh my most spiritual experience Ever when I got into a car accident I wrote about this in my first book.

You got to a Chrysend. Yeah, I was driving. My mom used to have this white lumina caravan, and I used to drive it all the time. And I don't remember what year it was, man. This had to be, it was definitely the, yeah. Man, what year was this? I wasn't doing radio yet.

Meprimand and Red Man Blackout album was out. I know that because I was playing it. But long story short, I was drunk as shit, and I was leaving Monk's corn. almost got into a wreck on the way to Mont's corner I was so drunk. I mean, on the way leaving Mont's corner, I was so drunk. Because, you know, you'd be driving on them two-lane highways. So I ended up getting my mirror knocked off because I was drunk as shit.

And the girl I was with decided to drive. She was like, no, you got to let me drive. You almost killed this. So she drove. She drove us to her house. On the way there, I had got enough sleep that I was able to drive to my home boy's house in North Charleston, but he wasn't home. And so I was like, fuck, I was going to thug it.

I drive back to Mont's Corner. Kids do not drive drunk. I was stupid as shit. I drove back to Monk's corner, made it to my mom house in my bed. I don't know how long. And then my guy, God bless the dead. Crazy.

I might say God bless the dead twice because my guy's father, my guy who's no longer with us, rest in peace, international. His father, who's no longer with us, rest in peace. He called me to tell me that the block was jumping. I grabbed my little pack Got back in the van

Drove off my dirt road Went down to Gear Yard Road in Mont's Corner Anybody in Mont's Corner Anybody in Mont's Corner know what I'm talking about You're driving down to Gil Yard Road Passed Weissville Elementary School Lost control of the van I went up this embankment

Because it was like the On the left side It's like an embankment So I for it off the side of the road Methfman and Red Man can't bop with the big dogs Blaring Hit the embankment Flew up in the motherfucking air

the van literally, like let's say this is the tree, right? This is the tree. I'm holding up the Carveeval Well in this bottle. The van, the undercarriage hit the tree. So the van literally wrapped around the tree. The lumatic, it wrapped around the tree. I didn't have a seatbelt on. So I flew out the back of the van.

I flew out the back of the van. Music's still playing. I go to knock on somebody's door. I see the person come running to the door because they heard it. And they look, they go, oh, my God, somebody's dead. That's all I heard the person say, oh, my God, somebody's dead. I'm like, oh, my God, somebody's dead. Dude didn't act like he didn't even see me.

Like, I'm right there at the door. I was knocking on their door. They come running out the house. I hear them saying, is the body in there? Like, literally, like that. I'm like, yo, what the fuck? I'm right here. I'm like, yo, nobody paying me no attention.

So I just sit down in this ditch. It was a ditch like right there. I'm sitting down in the ditch. I don't know how long I was sitting there, It just seemed like fast. Police came. Then my dad came. None of these people act like they could see me.

Do you think that you had an eye of body? I'm literally sitting there like, yo, I'm right here. My dad is like yelling, screaming. My mom pulls up. My mom, the only person who noticed me sitting over in the ditch. Straight up. I'm telling you, she's the only person knows me sitting over in the ditch. And the police said the police did not take me to jail.

They said they never saw somebody survive a car accident like that. When you said you fell in the window was already opened? No, I flew out the back. I flew out literally the, I flew in the whole back of the van. Like, I'm driving the van. I got no seatbelt on. Okay. When I hit and wrecked, I flew all the way to the back of the van and ended up climbing

out the back window and the van. The police said the only reason I lived is because I was so fucking. fucking drunk that I was numb. And because I didn't have a seatbelt on. It said if I would have had a seatbelt on, I would have ended up crushed and died in the van. I don't know my ex went through. He had a car accident.

He doesn't like to wear a seatbelt because if he did wear a seatbelt in that car accident, he would have died too, though. Oh. I still wear my seatbelt to this day. But the reason I said that was my most spiritual experience because, you know, if you're supposed to be gone, you're going to be gone, right?

But it just, it felt like God had a bigger purpose, you know, for me and my existence. And I hope I'm fulfilling it. Let's take a break and salute to elevate you, okay? I go by the name of Charlamagne, the God, y'all know that. I'm just here to tell you about something that's been keeping me feeling fresh, healthy, and energized lately. It's called Elevate You, Vitality Daily Greens, co-founded by Unk, the good brother, Steve Harvey, and formulated by Harvard scientists, okay? Game-changing formula, boost your body's mitochondrial production,

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Magneto, ma'am. Magneto, sorry. The same people who play them now, or played them in the Fox universe. I think Patrick Stewart is a great Professor X. And I think the dude who was in those other X-Men movies was a great Professor X. I think those are great characters. I mean, they might want to add somebody else for the MCU. But, I mean, you know, if you're talking about the variance and people from alternate realities and universes,

I think they're great, and you're probably going to see them, I'm sure, in Deadpool. So, I mean, I like, I like, I like who they got playing them now. I mean, this one I feel like it's obvious. But Jacob Unlimited wants to know how should someone who doesn't have the money to afford therapy approach mental read? You should reach out to organizations like Blackmun Hill. You should reach out to organizations like the mental wealth alliance. That's my nonprofit. You know, one thing that the mental wealth alliance wants to do, one thing that we're doing is we're trying to provide.

you know, 10,000 black people with free therapy, you know, over the next five years. That's why we raised, you know, with the donations that we get to. When I get these donations for the mental welfare lines, I give them the organizations like Black Men Hill because that's what Black Men Hill does. Black Men Hill provides free therapy, you know, for people. Or you can go to like Dr. Alfie Briland Noble. She has the Accoma Project. You can go on the Accoma Project.com.

You know, they have various ways that people can receive free therapy. I cannot remember the exact thing that they do in order to provide people with free therapy. But she does have something where she provides people free therapy. But there's a lot of different organizations that are doing it. Like Black Men Hill, like I said, definitely check out the Accoma project. And, you know, the mental wealth alliance, we can always point you in the right direction. So just go on the website, Mental Wealthenliance.org and check it out. Like, I mean, that's literally why I even have my Mental Wealth Expo, which is also a free event.

Because I always tell y'all, if you're providing a service for people, and it's a genuine service that you really want the community to benefit from, I don't think you should ever charge anybody for that service. And if I ever couldn't do the mental wealth expo for free, I just wouldn't do it. If I couldn't do it free of charge to people, I just wouldn't do it. So, yeah, go to mental wealthonlines.org and you can tap into some resources that can help you get some affordable therapy. Because he didn't say, I'm saying free, but he just says affordable therapy. So there's always somebody out there for you. How about also just reading, like, a Michael Gladwell book? I think reading books is good, but here's the cherry part about reading any book.

You can read a book about mental health, but you still should sit down with an expert. You know what I mean? Because you don't know. It might be things in that book that, you know, only an expert can walk you through. But you don't want to be, you know, listening to a book or reading a book and then, like you put it like this. If you read a book about heart surgery, you wouldn't do heart surgery on yourself. Yeah. Unless you're Andrew.

Andrew might try that. You know what I mean? But you wouldn't try to, you know, physically fix things on you. So it's the same thing with your mental. Like, you know, let the experts do that. The books can lead you in the right direction, but let the experts handle that. All right, let's do two more, man. Well, Marky underscore Mark underscore 27 wants to know, Charlotte, how do I stop myself from turning into a werewolf?

Being around nonbelievers. Marky Marky, Mark, 27, being around nonbelievers. This is how I know you are OG brilliant, that he has fan. This is how I know you've read, you know, black privilege. my transition into a werewolf would have been complete in third grade if I hadn't been around a bunch of non-believers because I saw Teen Wolf. And after I saw Teen Wolf, I just knew I too was a werewolf. And I knew that, you know, having those skills of a werewolf would make me the greatest basketball player on the planet. Because that's what Michael J. Fox was.

Michael J. Fox could really play ball. Now, we don't know if Michael J. Fox could have competed with people in college or competed with people in the pros because he never. got the opportunity to do that because he was just a high school basketball player. But from what we saw in that basketball court, when he was a werewolf, he was unbelievable. And so I wanted to be a werewolf for the basketball skills. Literally, that's what I wanted to be a wereer for.

But I just knew I was born. I knew I was one. And so when I started to see, like, I remember when the process was happening, it was a full moon and like, I'm in third grade. I'm not even going through puberty yet. So where the head come from?

All of a sudden, hair just started popping up on my arms. Like, oh, shit. You tell us wasn't a dream. I was there. It was real. Hair popping up on my arms. Every now and then I would be, I'll be just like randomly talking like,

yo, tell us, you know, they're, you know what I mean? Just randomly, right? Like, you tell her, you know, you tell us. So listen, we're going, like, what's what's going on? Right? And so the next day I'm at school. And I'm just not, I'm feeling weird the whole day. Like, you know how he was sweating and shit?

Like, I wasn't. really doing that, but I was pretending I was doing that. So I'm sweating, right? And I'm like, oh, shit, I'm sweating crazy. You know what I'm saying? Skin getting clammy. I see the hair growing and I'm sitting. I start telling everybody, like, yo, I'm going to turn into a werewolf, yo. I feel it. Lunchtime. I'm going to turn it to a werewolf, I'm telling everybody, teachers, students, nobody taking me serious. I'm just, I'm just, I'm the disruptor. He's disrupting class. No, I'm going to turn into a werewolf. I'm sitting at the lunch table. I'm eating. Right? I'm eating. I'm eating. I'm eating. I'm eating. I'm eating. I'm eating. I can

feel it, I can feel it, I can feel it. All of a sudden, I just feel something weird happening on my skull. All the kids jump up and run like, oh, they all ran, ran to get the teachers because my ears used to be round. In that moment, they started to get pointing. And the kids saw that. But when the kids started yelling and screaming, it startled the transition. So it was kind of like Avengers end game when Hulk didn't want to come out. It was like that. The wolf was coming.

Well, I think the wolf got startled by the kids. I don't, I don't know if I got taught. I don't know. I don't remember all of that. But I remember the hair and my ears getting pointed. And so it's like, yeah, the best way to, you know, stop yourself from turning into a werewolf is just being around people who don't necessarily believe.

You know what I do believe? Because they would have just sat there and, oh shit. Like, you know, if they hadn't. startled me, it would have happened. You know what? You made me do believe. Huh? I remember one time, this is a couple years ago,

he came into the breakfast club and you said that someone, like, put those marks on your knees. You used to have them? No, they're gone. That's crazy. I get those all the time. I'm all, listen, I know I've been abducted and probed millions of times. From time to time, they come collect me,

check me out, make sure everything good, and send me back. And I showed Dick Grady's. I had two cuts on my shins in the exact same place. No, because it was like, I think summertime and the day before you didn't have that. I know that. My wife said the same thing. Like my wife will see me now with certain marks on me and she'd be like, oh, they came again.

You know what I mean? Pause. That's funny crazy. Damn. Shit. Yeah. Give me one more. Let me get the fuck out of here.

Ricky Tiki, wait, Ricky Tiki Tavi 13, I don't think I said it right. What's the one hip hop artist or group that you think didn't live up to their full potential? One hip hop artists or group? That's a good question. I mean, here's the thing about living up to your full potential, man. Sometimes just things are what they are, meaning that who are we to say somebody didn't live up to their full potential? like success is subjective like success isn't always equated to

Jay Z success isn't always equated to LeBron James and I know these guys are top of their class but then we always forget about all the other people who play in the NBA those people are successful they make millions of dollars

doing what they love to do you know what I mean like even if you don't win a championship you never made an all-star game or you don't average you know 10 points a game if you play 10, 12, 13 years in the league, and you made tens of millions of dollars, if you were good

enough to constantly be on a roster, you're a fucking success. Like, you're a success. Because, especially if you're in something like the NBA, because think about the degree of difficulty it takes to get into the league. So the bar isn't LeBron James all the time. And it's the same thing in, like, rap or hip-hop. Everybody ain't going to be Jay-Z. Everybody ain't going to be run DMC. everybody's not going to be, you know, Migos or whoever. Everybody's not going to have tens of tin platinum plaques. But what if you're just the artists who, what if you tech nine? Tech nine is a great example.

Yeah, I'm going to say the lots. The lots is another great example. Like, like, but those are great people. Like, those are phenomenal careers. They've made hell of money and they get critical acclaim. They can still do shows. That's success. Like, it's hard to say, you know, who,

who didn't live up to their full potential. It's like, it's weird. I think everyone has a moment, though. That's why I said the lots where I feel like people really saw the potential of the lots with the versus. I think that we didn't see the potential of the locks. We saw the career of the locks. You know what I mean? Like that was them showcasing their catalog.

Like that's a, by the time you make it to something like versus, you already established. You got to be established enough to have a versus. And they're a perfect example of, yeah, they'll bust your motherfucking ass. They may not have sold tens of millions of records and, you know, got all awards and all of that shit like that, even though they do got some Grammys. They all bust your ass, you know?

But it's just like when people say you didn't reach your full potential, I got to have specific examples because not reaching your full potential to me is somebody who got scrung out on drugs, you know, because those are about life choices, right? Like you made the choice to get strung out on drugs or you, you know, decided to go rob a store,

committed a crime, ended up in prison, like stuff like that. Those are people who, like, Dad, that person didn't reach their full potential because they made a poor choice. If, you know, you're still in this game and still in this business and you've had a long career and you're able to eat off what you built, you're a success to me. No, I always thought Tiffany.

I love New York. I feel like she should have been more. She's New York. Yeah, but she don't get, like, all these other influencers now, like they follow in her really. She's just early though. Yeah, but she's just early. That's all, somebody like New York was just early.

Like Flavor Flav is another example. But guess what? But he was a hip-hop artist before, you know. But when you see Flavve in Vegas, these people love Flavor Flavs. Flavent. Flavent is still making money being Flavent. Just like New York is still making money being New York. New York can still get booked being New York.

So that's what I mean. It's just like nowadays, in reality, television, we compare it to Kim Kardashian, probably, right? Like, I don't know, Bethany Frankl maybe. Like, these people are like, fuck it, the Kardashians. The Kardashians are the bar in reality TV. But you've only seen that once.

Yeah. Like, everybody is not the Kardashians. You know what I'm saying? So to me, New York is a success. New York is a super success because I feel like I would see her more. That's what I'm saying.

Maybe she's choosing, but that's the other thing. Maybe she's choosing not to be. Maybe people like that have got a taste to the lime light, the spotlight and they don't want to be in it no more. I mean, I don't know if that's the case for her. But everything isn't about, you know, being the most popping person or wanting to be seen. Some people got a taste of it, made some money off it,

decided to fall back. That's Kendrick. Andre Z,000. I know, $100,000 for sure. David Chappelle did it once. Lauren Hill did it once. You know what I'm saying? Like, I respect that.

Like, to me, that's the ultimate. And, you know, as somebody who's had the, you know, pleasure of kicking it with a lot of. Andre and, you know, sitting down building with Andre and chopping it up, he ain't missing it at all. Yeah. And I respect that. Like, yo, do you know what kind of self-awareness you have to have and what type of person you have to be to be like, I don't want that.

I was the most famous person in the world at one point. I made so much money that I don't got to do nothing but walk around and play my flute all goddamn day. You know what I mean? Play my cello or whatever it is. All goddamn, I can travel the world. That's all Andre has been doing. he's been living life. That should be the dream.

The dream should be figure out what it is you love to do. Do it. Make some money off it. And then just live. I say that all the time. I say, yo, man, don't think for one second I wouldn't go live in Anguilla and take my family over there and just live. And wouldn't put no pressure on them to do anything.

I wouldn't put any pressure on my daughters to do anything. Now, I know that's not the reality of the situation, because they got their own, they're going to have their own hopes and dreams. Like I had my own hopes and dreams, so you got to let them go live life. But man, I have no problem just going to live. I want to travel the world, do plant-based medicines,

and just figure out the meaning of life. If there is even a meaning to figure out, but I just want to go live. That's literally what I want to do. I just want to go experience this third rock from the sun. Because shit, I'm 45. I only got about 50 more summers left. I'm going to clock out around 95.

95, 100, I'm going to die at 101. This I know. Yeah, I think I'm going to die at like 100%. I'm going to die at like 100%. I'm going to be 1001. I have a long jevelty of elders. The oldest one, 104. Really?

On my mom's side. Can you relax? See, stop. On my mom's side of, they have. very longevity, though. I'm happy your mom going to be out. You're not.

If I'm going to live to be 1001, is she going to be how old she is now? She's married. I know, but how old is she? I don't know. I'm just thinking about the pie. I'm just thinking about how much, how many more years of pie.

We're going to be receiving. All right. I'm trying to get my mom to do a bakery. I got her. I'm trying to tell her. She's scared, though. You don't want to hate what she loves. he thinks he's going to start.

Oh, because it'll become a business then. I can see that. I can see that. Shorts will be back next week. As always, if you listen to this podcast, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant,

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