The Brilliant Idiots - Double Bunny With A Side Of Weave

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

This week on Brilliant Idiots, Charlamagne Tha God and Andrew Schulz break down everything from the Street Fighter movie trailer and why theaters are officially “back,” to the absolute chaos surrounding Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua and why everybody’s tuning in just to see what happens. Things get unhinged as they react to Ray J’s viral Diddy comments, debate celebrity scandals, workplace relationships, and whether people at the top should ever date coworkers. The conversation gets deep (and hilarious) as they talk marriage, cheating, accountability, and power dynamics, plus a brutally honest breakdown of why men ruin good situations. The crew also dives into sports, unpacking LeBron James’ viral ref moment, the future face of the NBA, Steph Curry vs LeBron debates, and why American stars are still treated differently than international players. Plus, they roast Timothée Chalamet’s Kendrick Lamar comments, argue about rap beef paranoia, and question why Hollywood loves pretending it’s “in the streets.” ************************************ Sponsor Brilliant Idiots: ⁠⁠https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/brilliant-idiots⁠⁠ Jess Hilarious - Til Death Do We Parent - ⁠Pre Order⁠ 2Chainz - The Voice in my head is God - ⁠⁠Pre Order⁠⁠ The Black Family Who Built America - Cheryl McKissack Daniel -⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠ Uncommon Favor - Dawn Staley - ⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠ Get Honest or Die Lying Why Small Talk Sucks- By Charlamagne Tha God - ⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠ Check out Andrew Schulz - ⁠⁠www.theandrewschulz.com⁠⁠ Check out all the podcast on Charlamagne's "Black Effect Network" - ⁠⁠https://blackeffect.com⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yep, Shalda Mee and the guy. Andrew Shull. You are the brilliant idiots podcast. Back for another week of brilliant idiotness. Hasa Kyle Walker. What's up? How was your weekend, sir? Man, I don't even remember.

I don't even remember. Genuinely. He was in L.A. Street Fighter stuff. Oh, that's right. I was in L.A. For the Game War, we dropped the Street Fighter trailer. Funniest of shit in the world is Andrew was in his shit in all movies last week.

And he got Street Fighter coming out. I don't know why that didn't dawn on any of us. You know what I'm saying? Right. So in typical shows fashion, in November, theaters will be back, baby. Theaters will be the only first- You're watching-OBA. October theaters are back, baby!

The best place to watch movies is in the motherfucking theaters, man. Trailer looks good, though. Trailer looks good. Trailer looks good. Trailer looks good. Movies are made in the edit. That's what, you know, movies are made in the edit. But like, I think it's going to surprise some people.

I mean, I don't see why. It's a nostalgic IP. That's IP that people having an emotional. that people have an emotional connection to, you want to go motherfucking see Screet Fighter. I see. How did they happen to do a live action street fighter?

They did. They did. The shit was ass. I don't remember that one. John Claude Van Dan played Gile. How are you going to have the American... I don't remember that shit. You know, war hero played by a guy

with a French accent. I remember the live-action Mortal Kombat. But I don't remember the live-backer Street Fighter. It wasn't that good. I'm lying. I don't remember the live back. Chris is bad. Chris, do we have any pre-rolls?

Chris was cursing someone out on the streets, man. Chris, what happened, bro? The scooters, man. What happened, Chris? I don't know you know to speak Mandarin, Chris. No, you were going crazy. I don't know you to speak Mandarin.

We heard you from up here. What did you say? Hehow. Ni'hao. Ni'u. Can you speak into the mic, my boy? Neal, good people. Shout out to Chris.

Shout out to Chris. What the fuck, man. That was something I was just thinking about. And they fucking slipped my mind just that fucking fast. Oh, this weekend, Jake Paul dies. Not literally, but figuratively, it's out. You know, it's over. Shout out Jake Paul, bro.

Listen, I got nothing but respect to Joe Paul. Shout out Jake Paul. Because I told y'all before, I like my white boys that aren't afraid to die. I like the white boys that really white boy, extreme sports, extreme activity. This is jackass level shit. This is Johnny Knoxville. Oh, please. Johnny never done nothing like this.

He would never think of it. No, no, no, no. He's taking on a world champion boxer. Two-time Olympic, I mean, not two-time, two-time heavyweight champion, Olympic bopster, who's what, 36, 37 years old? Like, Anthony Joshua is not Mike Tyson. Anthony, God bless him, Mike Tyson back day, but I'm saying he's not an old man. Anthony Joshua is still active right now. Yeah.

He's lost four fights in his career. Two of them have been to a guy that some people might say is the top five heavyweight of all time, U.S. The other was Daniel Dubois, the other was Ruiz. Okay. Hey, from what I'm told, they both getting paid. like 90 to 95 million dollars apiece. Wow. Nah.

Yeah. Shout out both of them. Get your money, man. They say the purse is 180 between both of them. Get your money. Because I don't think people realize how big of a draw

Anthony Joshua is. He is a huge boxer in the UK. No, no. Huge. Anthony's a huge draw. He's got like eight fights that have broken over a million in pay-per-view. There's no question.

He's a massive star in boxing. But I think the draw of this fight is Jake is going up against someone that people feel confident will beat him. Absolutely. But you gotta give Jay credit because he built up the hype. Yes, but also Anthony Joshua is a huge boxer in the UK. You know, like, globally this is going to be massive.

Of course, what I'm saying is Anthony Joshua, if he was fighting some tomato can that like none of us ever heard of. Put it this way. If Anthony Joshua was fighting a boxer that had the exact same amount of experience of Jake Paul without Jake Paul's name. Nobody would care. Nobody would even buy to fight. No, no, no. So that's why I'm giving the majority of the credit here for Jake because you open this combo with Jake dies.

That is, it's like back when Mayweather, people would pay to see him lose. They were hoping. No, this is different, though. It's one thing to hope that somebody lose. I don't, I don't, because I'm not a guy that dislikes Jake Paul. But I also do like a car wreck, meaning you know how you'd be scrolling online sometime and you'll see the headline, man gets ran over by car, but lives. You want to watch because you're like, okay, it's not that bad.

He didn't die. But you do want to see how hard the car hit. I don't even know, but, I don't even need butt lives. I can't watch the death. I don't like that. Yeah. Yeah. Me neither.

Yeah, I don't like that. Yeah, right. But this is going to be something else, bro. Bro, it's Friday, by the way. I'm here. I'm watching. I'm all in. By the way, I watch all Jake Paul fights anyway, though.

So I watched Jake Paul and Tyson Fury. It's like, what was Fury's brother name? I can't remember right now. Tommy. Tommy Fury. But I'm watching. And it's going to be. entertaining. That we know.

Yo, the most entertaining thing about the last Jake Paul fight with Mike Tyson, it wasn't even the fight. It was everything leading up to it. The build up to it. The undercard and Mike Tyson in the fucking dresser room with his cheeks out. We got, you know what I'm saying? Mike Tyson in the dressing room with his cheeks, I was worth the

price of admission. I rewind that in my head all the time, not because of Tyson's cheeks, but because of Tyson, when he goes, vicious, vicious. He's what's your prediction for like, vicious, vicious. knockout. Vicious one. And he just says it with so much confidence and just turns around and nobody wants to tell Mike his cheeks around.

Mike is still so intimidating to this day that nobody wants to say, hey, man, Mike, you got a thong on. You know what I'm saying? Nobody wants to even say it. Facts. But we're watching, man. 2019. I mean, December 2000, what is it?

No, December 19. December 19. No, because Taylor was typing in the headline that fucking. threw me off just now. Did he took my ass? Oh. Yeah, that was a little distracting. I'm not going to lie.

What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? Diddy took my ass? Who's the ad? Clip that right. What do you mean?

Did he took my ass? We've normalized this. Why is this just a regular headline? Did he took my ass? Yeah, we need to start with that right there. Press play, Taylor. Press play. Who's asked it?

Did he take? And how can he take? Is this somebody from jail? Pause. Ray J says what? Oh, come on. Not Ray J. Pause.

Ray J says his asshole has been runny ever since Diddy took it. Whoa. Press play here. There's no way. This is serious. Ray J was you was in jail for 12 hours. All I saw was we do not condone booty taking our violence. What the fuck?

Is that how people got a preference. That's how you preference Diddy Post nowadays? That's the type of disclaimers you got to have with Diddy Post? Nah. We do not condone booty taking our violence. What is it been ever in my life? Should I say I have to take it? Everybody.

You got one? But girls don't do that. My shit, runny. Diddy? Yo, Diddy took my ass. You can't hold it anymore. My shit been runny ever since. My ass open more than this been ever in my life.

When I try to fart, my shit come out. It's crazy. Bro, I didn't. All right, so can we get through? It's serious. That's all you got to say. That's all you got to say. Behind the gate, just say, Did he made your, like, what did you say?

Diddy? What? Would you record me? No. You. I told you Diddy took a . Shout out white boy fun, man. Yo, we changed the world, dude.

That ain't white boy fun? That's white boy fun. That's white boy fun. Sean had been having that type of fun way before y'all. Nah, you don't think he actually cracked Ray J. No, I don't know. Oh, Ray J is having some white boy fun. I don't know.

I don't think that now is the time to play about something like that. Now is the best time to play. Now is the best time. Now is not the time to play about that, Ray. That's not the first time he said that, though. It isn't? When he was on that news, didn't he, like, say something about when he was going on, like, a news network? Oh, he had his, like.

I think Ray was playing, but I also think that he could have been mocking somebody, and we just caught him in the middle of mocking. Like, you know, like, if I'm, like, if I'm, if I'm, if I'm, trying to clown a little rod or somebody, like, are any of the guys that said Diddy took advantage of them? Yeah.

Could he be making fun to them? Or is he, is that, like, first-person experience? Hmm. He's joking about it a lot, man. I mean, because it's the,

it's the number one fucking show in 50 countries. Maybe he's trying to say so. Man, get out of here. Stop. Stop, stop. Nah, Ray ain't get crap. Ray ain't get his cheeks, too, man.

No way. Not by Diddy. And if Ray did, he would, boom. No, I don't need it like that. By whom? I don't need him like that.

Why do you even need to add that little part to the set thing? I'm just saying Ray wouldn't do it on that platform. Ray would do something way bigger than just giving some information like that up. Yeah, he would find a way to... Yeah, man. Ray wouldn't do that, bro. Should we call Ray? Yeah.

I don't want to see. Yeah, I think we need to get to the bottom. It's not just put it, just make sure you put it kind of by your mic. Hopefully he is crazy. Yeah. Let me see, bro. Let me see if Ray pick up the phone, man. It's just a shame. I got too many numbers on Rager. Hold on. Let me see. I just got to ask. I don't want to just assume.

Let's see if he picks up. What time is it out there? 1 o'clock, 1.30. Your call has been forward to voice now. He sent me the voicemail. Because he knows I'm going to ask him. Hit him one more time so he feels like it's an emergency. No, no, that could be serious. What do you think you would call him in the morning, not right now?

That's true. That is true. This is giving one more call. Oh, back. It's a single call. Wait a minute. All right. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Okay. What else we got? Yo, Merry Christmas, everybody. Happy Holidays. Happy Kwanza. What are y'all doing for the holidays?

Anything. Taylor's celebrating Kwanza for the first time in her life. No, I've been celebrating Kwanza. I haven't done it in a long time, but I have. How do you celebrate it? Have you told people the experience of your birth yet? Y'all asked me. I did tell y'all.

You told the whole story? What's the whole story? What's your whole story in? Not the thing you came in here saying that was crazy. Teller, do not say that again. What did I say? About the big birth canal or whatever. I did not say.

How you were scared. Taylor, go on now. I didn't say that. No, I was never scared. You didn't trust your vagina? I was never scared. Actually, top of the year, we're going to do the, contractions for sure with you guys.

Oh, she wants to put a contraction out for. Because now I felt it. And now y'all got to feel it too. Y'all, I want that for my birthday. But you guys are built for pain. We're not built for pain. No, no. You are built for pain.

Women can endure and way more pain than men can endure. Yeah, that's why we understand the contraction thing for guys. How are you going to say that? Like, it's not up for us. Everything about your lives is painful. Walking in heels. The cramps. You know, cramps.

Like, that's for y'all. Like, we're not supposed to do it. You bleed once a month. And when you're not bleeding and you're either in a bad mood or you're upset about it. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Your life is pain. It's one of the most, it's one of the things that makes you so resilient. Now it's done. But isn't that why women are so resilient? It's because you can put up with such high tolerance. Y'all can't say like. We don't compare anything to have. We complain about everything.

We complain when we're hungry. We complain when we're tired. We complain when we're cold. But we don't complain about cramps. We don't complain about, you know, contractions. We don't complain about pregnancy. We never, I never dispute women when they tell me how I'm not a single time. I can only imagine I've seen it done.

Yeah, so how about y'all feeling for yourselves? But it wouldn't be the same. It's not the same. Yeah, yeah, that's not the same. You're built for it is what we're saying. You're built for it. Your body's built for it. First of all, barely.

That shit hurts for real. That's why you push it out. Damn. No. No. No. No. Let's be very clear.

I was well prepared to push my son out, but he was not dilating. So, yeah. And you were not dilating. You were not dilating. You were not dilating. You weren't big enough. Yeah, finally. No, that's only fun.

I have a man tell you that you're not big enough. How does it feel? How does it feel? Huh? Finally, I'm getting us back and getting you back by every man has ever been told. They got the snort. I never told.

Everybody. What do you never told? You said, podcast instead of a dick ain't 12 inches is not big enough. With 10. 10 is insane. There's not even human beings with dick's 10 inches. You said 10 inches is you literally, you're part another animal.

But I know what you're putting in. I know what you're talking about. I'm a mother now so I have no idea. We respect. We respect mothers on this podcast. 10 inches is one thing, but 10 inches going in is one thing. 7 pounds, 5 ounces coming out of the nothing. That's another thing.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why they're trying to tell all these big meat dudes. Y'all swear y'all doing something. Nothing. Please. Nothing.

Please. They push out something that is pounds and ounces. That's right. Put your dick on a scale, okay? Whoa. I don't care how long it is. I don't care. Wait a minute.

Put your penis on a scale. Thank you. And then you'll realize how you don't, you can't do nothing. No, you're 100% great. You know what's his name? He'd be like, put a push you on live right now. Oh, boozy? Put your pussy on live right now and give you a thousand dollars.

Put your pussy on live right now, I give you time. Put your dick on the scale right now. I give you seats. Wait, what? How much you give them for a dick on a scale? I don't know. I'm paying what I weigh. I'm paying what I'm paying.

Yeah, that's what you would do, right? If I would pay it for this. I'd be like, put it on the scale. Put it on a scale. I pay it by the pound. Exactly. I'm not going to pay nothing. No, that's a great point.

You know what I'm saying? The dick ain't going to weigh a pound. After going through pregnancy, has there ever been a dick that gave you that? The dick ain't even a preemie, boy. It really ain't. You know what I'm saying? Has there ever been a dick as painful as pregnancy? What's the question again?

You said what? Has there ever been a dick as painful as pregnancy? I don't know what you're talking about. Oh. You're so cute. That's an almost happily married woman. Look at you. Taylor's all growing up.

Taylor's all growing up. That's what I'm talking about. Shout out Taylor, man. We love that. That's growth right there. How has it been, though? That's growth. It's great, honestly, like, I'm missing right now.

It's not, and I'm glad, I don't salute to all the single women, but I don't know how I would be taken care of myself without, without my partner. Second you have a kid. I'm just saying, I don't know how, like. It's impossible, right? Yeah, like it's. It's truly any single woman, single parent, single, it is impossible. I want to say necessarily impossible. No, no, it's not trying to say.

I'm trying to, like, give them credit for the fact that it happens. How difficult is. It is so difficult. Like, you get why they say, like, the key to success for any kid is it's not money. It's, like, two parents in a household. Yeah. Three parents in the house. Four parents in a household.

Like, the more. My support team helps a lot, too, though. Oh, it's unbelievable. So your mom is around a house a lot? His mom helps. Amazing. And you guys get along? Everybody gets along?

I think that's been, like, one of the. in lesbian relationship. What? I'm serious, because women don't want to be single mothers. You know what I mean? Like, so you think... Thank you for getting that one.

So I gotta get these two incomes in the house. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, that's what I really believe. Yeah. That's why they're on that eucalyptus all the time. Wait, you think lesbians are getting together so they're not single moms?

Well, all of them. Some. According to Self magazine... They're literally... They're the... There's an issue with the lesbian couples and they're like almost addicted to eucalyptus for it. Wait, like... What?

You can lit this dick, you stupid. Oh, my man. You're an idiot. You can lick this dick, motherfucker. I don't know why you're an idiot, Alex. I heard it the first time I was like... You ignored it. Because the way he wasn't looking at me, so I'm like he's directing it to the room.

So whoever's done me to fall for this one, you deserve... I got it, I got it. I thought about it. Say that. I thought about it. Yeah, yeah. See, both of y'all want to suck dick under. Oh, my gosh.

By the way, a mistletoe. They're going to get called into a mistletoe and give a blowjob. That's what lesbian is called clits. So look, according. Yo, come here and rub your mistletoe on my mistletoe. According to Self Magazine, they say, they say best friends are the new boyfriend.

They say what? Best friends are the new boyfriend. Nah, we're not doing all this. What's that mean best friends are the new boyfriend? Women? Yeah. Women, friendships. I think that you should be your woman's best friend, but you're probably not.

That's a tough pill for men to swallow. I think that we're like best friends, but in a different way. That's a tough pill for women to swallow. Regina Hall, I think, said that. I think women are hurt when they find out maybe they're not our best friends. Whereas I don't think dudes are hurt. Yeah, maybe. I don't have a, I think they're.

it would be hurt if you had like a girl best friend. I don't have a girl best friend. You know what I'm saying? Obviously. But I'm just saying. Like, what would that even? But if you're like if you're like, like, if you're like, like, if you're, like, if you're, like, but you're, like, if you're, like, you'd be like, nah, get the fuck out of here. I would not.

Well, actually, no, my girl, my girl does have a male best friend. He's gay. He's gay, yeah. That's different. That's different. Because he's gay. But he's male. That don't mean anything.

He doesn't want. She really figured it out. What you mean? But she found a way to get someone who's interested in and not trying to fuck her. Yes, that's usually how it works when you got a gay best friend. That's what I said, but like, I get why girls have gay best friends. That's her best friend, though?

Yeah. Oh. I'm thinking about like your woman's best friend that she grew up with and went to college with, you know what I'm saying? Oh, okay, that makes sense. All right, okay, now that makes sense. All right, okay. Wait.

But wouldn't you want a male best friend? Like, doesn't everybody want that? That's kind of crazy, though, because you know that, you know, she, when y'all first met, she was talking to him about your meat. Oh, of course. Oh, my gosh. Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Describing in detail.

Yeah, exactly. Vane's hair. Yeah, absolutely. All that. You probably said you look like you're not packing and she was like, he is. Would y'all say that your wife's are your best friend? Huh? Y'all would say your wife is my friend for sure.

My wife is my wife. Is your wife saying the same thing about you? Um, I don't know. Because I'm only asking because Regina Hall said that. Would your best friend wait 17 years to marry? you? Jesus, it's... That doesn't count with me.

That does not count. And it wasn't 17, but that don't count with me. That's friendship right now. This is don't count. This is real friendship. You were a high school school school. That don't count. It don't count.

Oh, now we got technicalities. Now all of the sudden we're talking about technicality. But you wanted to get married when we were 19? Say again. You get married maybe six, seven years in or something? Six, seven. I think we did, though. Hold on.

No. No. We're not doing this. We're not going to start to work in a year like this. And now it's on. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I was asking just because Virginia Hall said the wives or a husband would say that.

I miss you. I miss you on the pod. I miss your energy. I just miss you. We're going to add the clip, too. But what you said? She said basically that. A husband would say that the wife is their best friend, but a wife would say, like, another female.

There was a study. If you ask men who their best friend is, most of them say their wives. Right. And if you ask a woman, she's really good. Her friend. She's like, Lisa. I mean, but probably the case, but it's a different. No way.

Like, husband is an all-incompassing thing. Like, I'm the best friend. I'm the protector. I'm the provider. I'm all of the, I'm a different level. But you do probably have a best friend that you talk that shit with. Yeah. But also it's probably you.

We probably like to talk that shit with you. We do. And you're probably slinging that thing still. But it's also things that- Slinging that thing still? Do you have a male best friend though? I'm you twerking. Oh my God.

We all twerk. You don't never think about that, do you? Think about that next time you're in some cheeks. Next time you're twerking. Y'all do be twerking. Men be twerking. You don't never want to admit it. But you'd be back then twerking.

No. If you got stroke. If you got stroke. If you got stwerking. All the men out there with a mean twerk game. Mean twerk. You know what I'm saying? Throw a bad.

Feel your butt. Y'all, see, y'all don't never want to call things what they are. You mean stroke game. No, it's not. It's mean twerk. Right. Yes, dude. Better than making the style you ever could.

Dang it style. Oh, and don't be standing up hitting it from the back. Oh my God. That's all twerk. That's all twerk action. All twerk action. You're really trying to go in there. You're really trying to, if you're trying to see the back of it,

I bet you'll, I bet you'll ever get in a room full of mirrors and you can look around at yourself. I see myself in the mirror. I stopped. You know, I did. I looked myself in the mirror and I was like, why my back so straight? You know what I'm saying? Back straight. And don't have some cheeks like me. Cheats here.

Oh, this shit was going crazy. They were opening? What? They were opening? Oh, no, they were not opening. They were opening? Get out here, dude. Get out your cheeks open like that.

Shout out to everybody twerking for the holidays. Yo. Okay? That's how you know you're a narcissist. You're watching yourself fuck and you looking at you. No. That's when I came to that conclusion. I'm like, I am twerking my ass.

Yeah. Yeah. Like a motherfucker. Hey, right wing Twitter, clip this. You know, put this out this peak. We dare you. Listen, I'm just letting all the guys know out there. Stop saying you don't twerk.

Just embrace the twerk. Okay. Every man twerks when there's some cheap. Don't women. You are performing out. I didn't have this conversation with my band. Chris, you would twerk up. What are you men?

I told them, let you all talk about. I say that same thing. You tell them twerk? No, I don't tell them to twerk. I didn't say it. No, you can't tell them to it. That's crazy. That's crazy.

You can't, imagine the girl's stand down. You got to say to him. Just be like, I bet you I can make you twerk. You're like, what? Did y'all just do it? Maybe like, I told you so. You're like, what you mean? I saw you back there.

You were getting it. You were kidding. Oh, this is. What else we got, Taylor, gang? Huh? Dang. Well, before I get to that, speak of it. of twerking in a sense.

What? What is this Taylor? Taylor headline would be so crazy. Oh, hilarious. Caught in the snow. So behind... You like the headline, right? Dr. Umar speaks on ex-Michigan coach Sharon Moore that got fired. Oh, no.

You want to do the behind this, uh, the backstory, I mean? Oh, the backstory is, uh, the University of Michigan, the former University of Michigan football coach Sharon Moore. He was criminally charged following allegations involving a woman. He previously had a personal relationship. with was later identified in reports as a university staff member, according to prosecutors, the relationship ended, but more allegedly continued contacting the woman despite her wishes, which authorities say escalated into repeated unwanted contact.

He is accused of entering or attempting to enter her residence without permission. Oh, no. ...leading the charges that include home invasion, stalking, and breaking and entering. War was in reigning in court, released on bond. And a judge reportedly issued a no-contact order the University of Michigan had previously fired more following an internal investigation. related to the relationship. Now, he's also married with, I think, three kids, I believe.

That's sad, man. What did Dr. Umar had to? Well, let's hear what Dr. Umar had. A very bad mistake. Cheating on a Snow Bunny while married to another Snow Bunny. He got Double Bunny. He's the first person I know who got double bunny. You know what I mean?

What's Double Bunny? Two of them. Got a Snow Bunny at home cheating on her with another Snow Bunny. You know, but I wish the brother the best. And guess what? He got fired. She still got her job. No.

Snow Bunny, Jonathan Majors, Shannon Sharp, the head coach of the University of Michigan Wolverines, Tiger Woods. We could be here all night on the list of black men who've been Snow Bunny in the 21st century. Don't get Snow Bunny. You respect everybody, young white women in the chat. I got nothing but respect for you, but black men have to learn to stick to black women. Otherwise, we're going to keep on getting our pockets snatched out. Yeah, right. And guess how much he was making?

How much? Six million dollars a year. Oh my God. Do you know how much that is? That's a half million dollar paycheck a month. Yeah, you can't lose that job. Well, listen, it's a couple of things to talk about. Yeah, let's talk about him, man.

Double bunnies is crazy. When he says that, you know, black men got to stick with black women. Like, I do like to see black men with black women, but the real moral is if you're a married man, don't cheat. Like, that's where the problems come into play at. If you're a married man, if you have made that commitment, don't cheat. I got, we've had this conversation a million times. I've told y'all a million times when, and I'm on, I'm nine years clean, but when I stopped, yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. The fuck yes. You know, I love this. I want a coin. God damn.

You deserve it. Yes, I do. And this is something that only men can understand. I ain't saying, and I know y'all out there right now, motherfucker, You don't get credit for what you're supposed to do. You're right. But I'm still giving myself some credit. Listen, I want to give you credit.

I want to give you credit. Nine years. And in those nine years, my life has done nothing but this. Think about it. Nothing but this. Think about this. Nothing but this. And when I see situations like this, it's just a motherfucking reminder.

Men that she had too much time in their hands. You said what? Men that she had too much time in their head. What's their record? What's the team's record? It was like nine and four this year. So, I mean, it was like, I think it was like nine and four. I think it was like nine and four.

That requires a lot of time coaching. football team. So, so I wanted, like, when he, it's not about the race of the woman in this situation. Number one, don't cheat. Number two, he brings up a very valid point, which I didn't know. He said the woman still has her job. She should not still have her job.

Why? Because there should be rules. And I'm sure there are. She was a subordinate to him, though. But it shouldn't be that way. You still you still, you still making a choice. I understand the power dynamic. Yeah. She didn't break into his house. Yeah. But, but, but, you know,

He got fired because of the relationship. No, he got fired because of... No, the University of Michigan had previously fired more following an internal investigation related to the relationship. He got fired because of the relationship. So if the relationship is inappropriate, it takes two to be in a relationship. So neither one of them should be working for the University of Michigan right now.

That was a good box, though. You said what? That was good box. To make them go that crazy, lose 6 million and break it to our house I don't know okay Alex No

Alex I can explain I was No I just think Like that's a lot He's throwing his life away He is throwing his life away His ability to provide for his family

Okay I get what Alex is saying But you threw your life away The moment you decided to cheat on your wife With somebody you work with There should be accountability with the For the person that works with them as well. Actually, listen, people are going to disagree with this and they're going to say there's a power dynamic, this, at the other, but I will say, if both were held accountable,

it would limit the amount of relationships that happen at work. There's really no cost for somebody that's below you in the power dynamic at work to try to even have a relationship with you, because if it doesn't work out, they're not punished at all. If it does work out, they get to come with you. And if they don't like it anymore, you get fired. And guess what's even better in, and guess what's even better in environments like this, if he hits on her, and she's like, what the fuck are you doing? You're a married man.

We work together, blah, blah. Soon as she reports him, he's in trouble. That is the protective thing. The reason why these rules came into play is because they were not protected in the past. But now clearly, the university takes it so seriously that she could go up and tell the university and they would fire him.

So now that we do have that protection for women, then we can hold them equally accountable. Yes, because the key word is... No, yes or no. In theory, yeah. In theory. Now, we also know some of these institutions, the head coach of like Alabama could murder somebody and nobody would do shit.

We do know that that happened. That happened? Not murder, but like, I mean, you know, shit has been swept under the world. If you're a young woman, the idea of reporting the football coach of a major college program is going to be a pretty intimidating. But clearly she did. She did. Clearly she did if they had an internal investigation into the inappropriate relationship.

and he was terminated prior to this incident. So why would you report somebody that you were willingly sleeping with? Because he broke it. I'm assuming like after he broke in, then she was like, that's what I was assuming. It says that he was, she, go back up. Let me read it again.

Go to the other one you clicked on Taylor because it had the whole story in. Because basically what she was saying was, yes, this one. According to prosecutors, the relationship ended, but more allegedly continued contacting the woman despite her wishes. Yeah, that's... Which authorities say escalated

into repeated unwanted contact. Yeah, that's what we're saying. He was harassing her. Yeah. So he's fired... Because she broke it off. Yeah, but he's... My point is she reported it is what I'm saying.

Yeah, of course, of course. But his firing was for the harassment, not the relationship. Is it? Yeah. That's what I assume. I worked at a company or something like...

Well, it said the University of Michigan had previously fired more following an internal investigation related to the relationship. What does that mean? I'm assuming the relationship. this internal investigation is they found out that he continued to contact her and she said don't contact me he's coming to show up at her house etc it's not you don't think you don't think that

you don't think that she should be held accountable in any way she ain't before he should it's not about whether she should or shouldn't because what we're always told that those relationships are inappropriate period i don't think regardless of he was harassing her or not yeah yeah i mean i don't think um i think she should have waited to the end of the season i think that you know if If you're a team player here and you want Michigan to win, obviously. You know, but you're going to be a distraction. You're going to be a distraction for this team that's, you know, maybe there's a bowl game at play. There's a lot of words that I don't like.

According to the prosecutor, the relationship ended, but more allegedly continued contacting a woman despite her wishes, which authorities say escalated into repeated unwanted contact. So that's the harassment. But isn't the relationship inappropriate even when the contact is wanted? think, wait, is it the relationship inappropriate? Even when the contact is wanted? So you could punish her for the relationship. We can find out whatever that is. I'm sure that you don't, I don't know, I'm not sure, but I imagine you don't get fired

for having a consensual relationship at work, but maybe there is some punitive measure taking place. But harassing another employee, even if it's not sexual, just harassing that person, bullying them, like, that's a fireable offense. And according to this investigation, they felt like that was something that he was doing. That's what I'm, that's how I'm reading. No, I get it. I get it. I mean, I agree that this probably wouldn't have escalated to this point if they had just got caught cheating. Yeah. If they had just got caught cheating, I don't even know if he loses his job.

Right, because the guy, the guy with the Boston Celtics, right? But I think in that situation, he was messing with one of the executives. I don't know if that's true. That's what they would say. It was messing with another employee's way. But my point is, he got another job in NBA. He's with the Rockets right now. Dirty work, though. What happened? That's dirty work. You smash in like one of your employees' ex. Like wives, current wife? That Alex's point?

I got to see her. I like to see why people make the mistakes they make. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Like sometimes you're like, we got to see if it was worth it. It's not never worth it. It's never worth it.

Also, she's thrown a biscuit at you like that. Yeah. I want to see. We got to see. You don't ever want to see? We got to see. I mean, the reason why they're showing us the pictures is because we want to see. That ain't worth it.

The middle one? Neither one. Wow. Nah, neither one. The middle one is... Who's the... The wife is the one he's in the picture with. That's the girlfriend right there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the girl. God damn, man. All I'm saying is, yes, clearly we've had enough examples to see that these relationships are inappropriate. When you have somebody that's the head coach, you know, best with an assistant, blah, blah, blah, this and that. But there's got to be rules all across the board for everybody. Double bunny, man. You were saying, too, that I guess he was...

paying her this chart showed that he was paying her. Paying her what? I'm not sure which one. 90-brain? Nah. Yeah, he paying her to keep quiet. Yeah. But she works for the team.

So why is that him paying her? Is he paying her extra? Yeah, that's what they were. So we can agree that there should be consequences for both parties. Yes. Yes, man. Yes. Yes.

It's tough when you're dealing with consensual adults, man. It's tough. But more penalty for the person who's higher. Here's the thing, Alex. Well, what? There's more penalty for him because he got more to lose anyway. He's the one who lost a $6 million a year job. He's no longer the university.

If you penalize them equally and you actually... You can't. No, I know, but if you actually penalize them, the problem is that we know that there are institutions and people that are so important to those institutions, they're like too big to fail, so they'll be protected. But if you were to actually penalize the employees equally, it wouldn't really matter the power dynamic

because the second someone felt uncomfortable they could talk to HR. No, but look, here's the scenario. What if the boss is like, you better sleep with me. If you don't sleep with me, I'm a fire you. And then... No, no, but look. It goes back to exactly what I said last week.

Then it's like, oh, you better not say nothing because if I say anything, we both get fired. Like, that's a lose-lose for the girl. It goes back to what I said last week. Stop compromising yourself for positions, man. Yeah. Stop. There's a lot of girls out there, too.

Like, you don't have to clap someone who works with you. And we use that excuse all the time. And listen, I understand the power dynamic. And I understand that people feel pressured to do certain things. I am here to tell those people you don't have to do that. Blow these motherfuckers spots up. Blow them up. What are they going to do?

Try to kill you after you didn't blew their spot up? But that's a lot. If you're just someone minding your business at a company and a superior comes after you at a Christmas party. Yeah. So how does it ever stop, Chris? But look, she blew. How does it ever stop?

No, the way it stops is, I mean, this is my first corporate job. An older guy took me aside. He's like, God damn, Chris. He's told me. Me, how? Oh. No, he gave me advice. He gave me advice.

No, no. No. You got to learn to talk, man. Yeah. I thought he tried you, Chris. He took me aside. What did Russell Simmons do you? Tell us what Russell Simmons did to you, bro.

It was one day during hot yoga. It was after hot yoke. How bad you want to write this book about my life? You're telling Russell really got a thing for Asians, huh? Is that what you're saying? Oh, no. What did the whole guy say to you know, Chris? Yo.

Don't shit where you eat. Yeah. And that's the moral of the story. Dude, you guys should have got married. You could be Kim Morrow Lee Simmons. Chris Morrow Lee Simmons is hilarious. Chris Morrow Lee Simmons. Oh, my God.

Listen, Chris is absolutely right. But this is what we got to tell doing. And this is actually a continuation kind of the conversation we was having last week. Because I was saying this to people all weekend. It's like, yo, at some point, we got to stop making excuses for why people end up making these decisions and choices. And let them know they don't have to make that decision and that choice. Blow these motherfuckers spots up. Yo, you know what?

The industry, there's nothing in the music industry worth debt. There's nothing at the University of Michigan worth that. But she blew his spot up and then he went and broke into a house and, like, harassed it. That's his dumb ass. But I'm just saying, like, sometimes. By the way, I'm not, everything he did was done. He's not saying that that's okay. He's saying that she was also involved in an inappropriate relationship,

and there should be some punished for that. That's right. Way before the breaking in when it was the wanted contact. Yeah, that's fair. Yes. That's not, if it's, if it's wrong across the board for people to be dating in those situations, it can't just be based off the power dynamic. Like she's going to always be an unequal power dynamic.

If she admits, if she goes, yeah, it was consensual in the beginning, then you got to go, all right, well, then you have to leave as well. You're not allowed to fraternize with employees. Simple as that. And it's simple as that. But now what you're doing is putting her in a situation where it's advantageous for her to say it was not consensual in the beginning. And I felt pressure based on a power dynamic to keep her job. And now she might be stretching the truth just to keep her job. Yo, these things are tricky.

These things are very tricky. No, it's tricky when it's the man and the woman. And this is why sometimes I like to see these roles reverse to see how everybody backtracks on all of the things that they've been saying. Have you ever experienced any of that? Of course. People ain't never consistent in shit like this when you flip the dynamic. If it was a woman in that power dynamic with a guy, nobody would give a fuck. Give us a hypothetical about that.

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And the press release came out December 2020 And we're almost there So, guys, Carrie can read. Carrie can read. That's amazing. You learned anything today. So I don't think you answered my question. Yeah.

We call that the weave, you know? The Bob and Weave. Yeah, saw Donald Trump say that on Flagrering, the Weaves. Yes, sir. So we don't. She's good. Can you answer the question? The question is your deal with IHeart expires.

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LeBron bitching again. What we got, Taylor? LeBron was bitching, bro. What was he said? He was. He was. He was. He was bitching.

It's like, what I'm fucking talking about. This was weird, bro. Like, I've never seen LeBron act like this. I'm wondering if LeBron... No, no, no, no. Like this... I haven't seen it. But he does bitch a lot, though.

Dylan Brooks just slapped the ball at him and then it got in his face a little bit. And then he's pushing Why he grabbing the ref like that, yo? That was wild. Entitlement. I'm surprised they didn't issue him to kick him out.

No, that's crazy. That was wild. Putting his hand on the ref? That was wild. Wow. Now, do you get to earn that treatment, though? Yes. Like, if you're in the league at 40,

what is he, one years old. Yeah, but he should know better than the grabbing. Yeah. Bichin. I think you guys would make a big deal out of this. Yeah. He's making a big deal out of big.

Look at that comment. Damn, he grabbed the ref like he was Bronny. This is very interesting. It's going to be very interesting to see. He got a tech, though, right? How, LeB. I don't even think he got a tech. He did get a tech.

Look at his friend holding him back. I just don't know why he would do that to the ref. And I don't understand what Dylan Brooks did that LeBron had seen. He threw the ball off of him? Dylan Brooks did a completely. normal smart play. That's what I'm saying. I don't get it.

Then he bumped into him. Like, I just knowing him. Like, boy, get out with him. What is that good? He hit him with a little bow? Oh, I thought he was upset that the, oh, I thought he was upset that he bounced the ball off of him. That's what it looked like. I think it's a boat.

Nah, I didn't see an elbow or anything. He was already upset. He's kind of off screen, but he just bumps him. But Chris is a veteran. Like, LeBron has seen it all in the NBA. That shouldn't get him crazy like that. It's hard to get old. You think so?

Yeah. It is, but... That's what I'm starting to think. I'm starting to think that he... I remember the last time I used to play ball. I just want to fight because these guys are running around you. You don't have the skills you used to have. You don't have the ability.

You used to have it. You're saying LeBron don't got the skills. And this is the... This is the first time I think LeBron has been in this position. Like, LeBron might be... I think LeBron's like the third option on the Lakers right now. Good, though. Because it's Luca, it's Austin Reeves.

And then it's probably, bro. But I think that's... I thought he was your tying anyway. No. No. He got another year. He'll probably finish this year and maybe do one more. And I feel like him and Brooks have always had like a little attention.

So that's just like any little thing is going to set it off. Yeah, but not like that, bro. He grabbed the breath up under the arm. He could smell it. He could smell his fingers right now and smell his armpits if you wanted to, bro. But he's getting LeBron calls because anybody else, that would have been injection. That was wild, bro. Who throws worse tantrums, your daughter or LeBron?

Yo, that's. I don't think LeBron. He would throwing tantrums. Eh, I don't think. wouldn't say he throws to him. Bro. Kobe would never. This, LeBron is singular, bro. As far as what?

Like, this is the worst thing he does. Oh, yeah. Like, a guy that's had all the pressure since he's fucking 14 years old. The worst thing that he does is, like, lightly grab a ref by the arm as he's frustrated with another player. Like, it's almost like he's a victim of how good a guy he's been. 100%. You know, like, if this was Dennis Robman, we wouldn't even be reported.

No, you're right. Right? It's like watching a nun curse. That's it. If you hear a nun curse, you're like, what the hell is? You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, it's exactly right. He's been that pious.

He's been that, you know, good for the league. He's done nothing but uplift the whole league. So when he does this little thing, it becomes news. I mean, that's why I don't think people, LeBron gets enough credit. And that's the thing that people should study about LeBron. Like, when it comes to people like Jordan, we study his game. And, you know, he's the bar for that. LeBron should be the bar for how to start young,

exceed expectations, and keep your head through all of it. LeBron's never had a major scale. We just did a story about the University of Michigan coach 39 years old. You know what I'm saying? Just lost everything. LeBron has never been involved in any type of scandal like that.

Nothing. That's what needs to be studied. The worst thing he did is said he was going to Miami. that we accepted as fact or just a situation now, but you got to remember he got a ton of criticism for making his inner circle the guys that he came up with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, that was highly controversial at the time. It's a big mistake. No one's going to hold him accountable. They don't have the information, the know-how. He knew what he was doing. And now they're the bar. Right. Now clutches at the bar.

Now you're right, 100%. We represent a whole bunch of players other than in Brown. But, like, he should be the... LeBron James should be the bar. Like when you know you bring these young kids in the NBA and the NFL and teach them what to do and how to do it, it should be literally called the LeBron James rules. The Jordan rules were for the court with the Pistons. The LeBron James rule should be off the court for how to carry yourself as a young person. I mean, think about like when you look at Jai Morant, when you look at Zion, look at Aunt.

And it's doing well. He got like, baby mamas. He's paying them to fucking never seeing them again. Like that's not a ass normal. If Braun had one other, if Braun have one other baby mama, one other baby mama, people would make the biggest deal of this every single day. Skip Bayless would be talking about it nonstop, all of them. Bro, bro, bro, bro.

This is what we got to go off of. This is what we got to go off. They try to stir up any different. Well, I will say if he got, if he had another baby mama now, you know what I'm saying? But if he was coming out of Akron with a couple of baby moms. I don't think people would care. They would use it against him, bro. But look, same thing is like, it's a perfect example.

Like, aunt you should give the league to because of how he is on the court. And his just personality off the court, he's just so engaging, so charismatic. But, like, there is probably concerned because he's got some fuck shit to go along with it. And the league is like,

the league could put its entirety in LeBron's hands for two decades without a fucking care in the world. They knew everything would be a-okay, No controversy, nothing for two decades. But it's the fact that he started so young because you can put the Steph Curry's in that mix too. Steph has definitely done it right,

but Steph didn't come out of high school. Steph wasn't on Sports Illustrated in high school. The chosen one. By a single parent. I get what you saying. The circumstances did he came from. Based off the circumstances he came from, you would expect LeBron James to do something.

He had every, I mean, like, he has obviously amazing. God-given talent. Clearly, he's a brilliant fucking guy. He's got a mind for the game that's, like, incomparable. High emotional IQ. And maybe that's it as well. But like... Easily. Like, the craziest story we have against LeBron is, like, is he

really reading the books that he pretends to read before he gets interviewed in the locker room? That's the craziest controversy. And the decision. It was the Hummer in high school. He had a Hummer in high school. That was a huge deal at the time. Okay. So it's like, okay, he got a car in high school and maybe he shouldn't have had it. It's like, dude.

What gives a fuck? Like, that's a fuck. Like, that's, this man has been stellar, bro. You think Wembe Amma has it? I feel like he's got a little bit of that. I could see him having a 25-year run, maybe. I mean, he's so big that you wonder if his body will be able to do it. He's a foreigner, though, man. Not the same.

They'll never give the league to a foreigner. And the last few years have proven that. No. If Jokic was from Kansas, if Jokic was from Kansas, they'd be saying, by the way, he is one of the greatest basketball players I've ever seen. But if he was from Kansas, They'd be saying he's the greatest NBA player of a big white boy from Kansas. Are you kidding me?

Playing like him? 100%. What? Who's next then? Who's the face of the league going forward? I think they wanted to be, aunt. I don't know if it quite can. It's never going to be a foreigner because all the best players in the league right now are foreigners.

If shy was from Newark, imagine if shy was from Newark. He's cool as shit. He can dress his ass off. He's balling. He's been an MVP, got a championship. If he was from Newark, or the league would be eating out his hands. He'd be the man right now.

No controversies, no trouble. He'd be the man right now. Brand safe. Every brand wants a piece of him. Are you hitting me? Come on, girls like him. He got the championship already? The fashion world loves them.

Can it be a guard? Because they're guards who fit the criteria. They're not American. Brunson, Max, you know, like. He needs a championship, though. They need a championship. I think Brunton needs a championship. I think.

like, uh, if Brenton had a championship, he could do. Brenton is market specific. But he's market. He's very safe. Yeah, but he's market specific. He's going to be a god in New York. But the biggest market, the biggest market. He is a god in New York.

Yeah, he's a guy. If he wins a championship in New York, he's a, I mean, he'll be a god in the city forever. Like, he'll never have to pay for a slice of pizza. What about Kate Cunningham? Hey, Cunningham. Exactly. It's like, it's like, he's not even the most famous Cunningham in sports. You know what I mean? It's not to say he's not. great, but you also need to have that appeal.

People need to want to play like you. And that's what Aunt has. That's what Steph has. That's what Shy has. Jokic, you can't play like him, but his numbers are so video gameish. Yeah, it's also hard to be a big man in like the league is yours, right? But he, again, there is that component where if he was from Indiana, it would be a rap. Pull up Jokker's that.

If he was from Kansas, his nickname would be wicked or some shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, seriously, like, he would be the man. They would, they're not giving foreign to the league. Imagine if Janus was from L.A. You know, like, these guys would be all-world, yo. Yeah, and it's not just us. Like, if some American kid was amazing at soccer, you know,

Real Madrid is not going to give him the team. No. No. Paris ain't going to give him the team. It's just, you can't do it. You just can't do it. No. I mean, I'm looking at the last all-league teams. It's really paid him, and he just doesn't seem to have...

You know, nah, he don't got it. And he's got the championships and everything. He's incredible, but you don't want to play like him. It's a different thing. It's like, he's incredible. But Alan Iverson, you wanted to play like him. You wanted to play the game of basketball just like AI played it. Steph, you wanted to play the game of basketball just like Steph.

Ten-year-olds come down and pull from half court now. Steph changed the game. whole league of everybody. Tim was AI. You go outside and everybody's going. Exactly. Cross over. You're going at the cup.

You're going at someone's chest. But with like Tim Duncan, for example, nobody wanted to play like him. We recognized his greatness, but no one was like, man, I'm working on my fucking fundamentals and my drop- He's not American either though. Is he? He's close.

Isn't he like BBI? Ron has had it for the past 20 years, but no one really wants to play like Bron. Because you can't. You have to have the physical gifts to do. do that. LeBron James is Magic Johnson with muscles.

He's like Magic Johnson, Carl Malone. Like, that's the, that's actually the hybrid LeBron James is. You got to be a certain physical statute to even do what LeBron does. You don't want to not play like him. Like, his game isn't like Tim Duncan's game where it was boring. Like, LeBron is still exciting. You know, he's still athletic. His bag isn't crazy.

You want Kyrie's bag. Like, obviously, Kyrie and, like, you know, Kyrie's got his issues, but like Kyrie's bag is crazy. Everybody would love to hoop like Kyrie. Everybody used to want to play like Shaq. Who? Hardin had it for a moment. Hardin did. For a moment.

Hardin did when he was just dropping it. And also, you know who had it for a quick moment? Paul, George. I was going to say Russell Westbrook. When he was dropping a triple double a fucking game and he was just all heart, tenacity, like that intensity, there was a version where like, I don't know if you're handing him the whole league, but he's one of those guys where you're like, man, I love watching that guy play. But to get hand.

the whole league, you have to have a level of consistency over a certain amount of time. Yes. And you really have to be the undisputed bar. Like, you know, LeBron and Steph have been the undisputed bar. By the way, can I talk about something real quick? I see a lot of you sports guys taking takes from me that y'all told me I was crazy for saying three years ago. I've been had step over LeBron in the goat conversation because of what Chris just said. He revolutionized the game of basketball, period, male and female.

And when you talk about head-to-head matchups in the championship, Steph Curry is three to one against LeBron. Team sport. That's all I'm saying, I don't care. Team sport. Okay? It's just saying three to one against Braun. That's all I'm saying.

Three to one. Team sport. I heard Stephen A. Smith saying one time he can't put Will Chamberlain over Bill Russell because Bill Russell beat him more times in the championship. I got all these opinions on Bill Russell based on never watching him play. Like I need to stuff all my Bill Russell opinions into the fucking trash somewhere. Like, I just go off of what my dad says, and my dad said that he was the most dominant person he'd ever seen on a basketball court, both defensively. And offensively,

it wasn't like him scoring, but like what he would do and how he could control a game. Facilator. It was amazing. He just said he'd never seen anybody that was that transformative at the time. Now, there was eight teams in the league at the time. It was a very different game, but I literally just regurgist's a day my dad's talking points. So, and it seems like Will had a little brawn in him in that he was the most physically dominant player by far. But Bill was... They didn't win the chips as much. So I'm saying.

They let Bill coach the Boston Celtics during racism. Yeah, that's great. Like, this is Boston we're talking about. You know what I mean? And he was so... He's to the city. They were like, yo, do whatever you want. This is, like, that's how incredible he was.

So I think that part of, like, Bill's greatness is wrapped up in that. And it's the allure of the 11 championship. I mean, it's... You know what I'm saying? saying you win 11 championships, but to your point... You can't have something. I'm telling you, when it's all said and done, Steph is going to be the one that...

If Steph were to win one more, that would seal it. I don't think he will. Here's a question. Yeah. Does transforming the game make you the best? I personally don't think it does. It doesn't because Overson wasn't the best. Exactly.

But I wasn't... But I wasn't... Win the championships. That did. No, no, you are 100% right. Well, I have Steph over, obviously. Michael Jordan? Yes, obviously, yeah.

Michael Jordan changed the league. He's another one that revolutionized the game, and he won the championship. His game didn't revolutionize it the way that is Steph. I disagree on that. Who, Michael? I think Michael. Michael Berr of Kobe. If you...

Remember, in the days before the internet, you had to come fly with me, Tate. And you could see a whole generation of players who just studied... Michael Jordan, Vince Carter, Jerry Stackhouse. You're right. They used to call Harry out of Miami, Baby Jordan, J.R. Rider. Like, every two guard that came out. Jordan transformed the game. I think the tricky thing is that maybe you a little bit.

How old are you, Chris? 55. Okay, so you actually had time early Jordan years. Yeah. We only knew Jordan. I knew struggle Jordan. Exactly. But Charlene I only knew Jordan.

So we couldn't tell you. I didn't get into Magic Bird. But we couldn't tell you how the league was transformed because we weren't watching enough hoops at the time to be like, oh, everybody played this way. And then Jordan entered and now everybody played this way. I saw it. Really? Absolutely. I wasn't old enough to see that.

Because the first championship, and this is why sports, this is why it's hard for us watching sports now because of the storylines. When Jordan won his first championship, he beat Magic Johnson. So I remember watching basketball with my dad. I remember Larry Bird's last game. I remember the changing of the guard.

Not just watching it, but hearing my pops and uncles and everybody said, so when Michael beat the lake, when the Bulls beat the lake for his first championship, it was kind of like a changing of the guard. Oh, big time. And plus he went through the pistons. Went to the pistons.

He had to beat the pistons. Which was a huge thing at the time. I remember. In terms of a signature skill that changed the game, he was so well-rounded. I mean, the dunk, yes. And other people dunk. It was the leap, the vertical leap with the skills. We saw guys like Dominique Wilkins have the verticality.

But I don't think we saw Dominique score with ease and dominate the game offensively in the same way that Jordan did Jordan. I mean, Jordan's signature skill in a way was his competitiveness, and that's what it's hard to, like, put a pin on. Yeah, I hear what you're saying. It just went harder than everybody else. And every game, too. All the time.

He could go 100% all 82 games. Michael Jordan had people getting ballheads. You know what I'm saying? He had them putting their tongues out. Like, Harold, they used to literally call Harold Minor baby Jordan. All of them are baby Jordan. He didn't live up to it when he got to the league. But literally, they called him that in college.

Like, Michael changed everything. Let's pay some bills, Taylor. Church announcements, Hezzi. Yo, um, Halifax, Nova Scotia, we're going to do the Great Outdoors Fest out there. That's right. Okay, tickets are on sale for that, and that show is on August 18th, I think. Let me make extra sure about that. But Theandrusholz.com for that.

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The date is January 24th and now will be here in the Hard Rock Hotel in Times Square. See you guys there. Peace. Kendrick Lamar 2Com Click on this I didn't like this Taylor I didn't like this I was watching Timothy Shalame

That's how you say his name Timothy Shalame Timothy Shalamey was on the 7 p.m. in Brooklyn podcast Shout out Mero and Mello Mello and Kaz And Kaz I think Monica McNut's on there sometime too

but he says my white ass was like he's in the middle of this beef Can you imagine if this is how I go out So he was talking about an interview he did with Kendrick Lamar during Super Bowl weekend. Let's hear it. Let's hear it, Taylor. You interview Kendrick ahead of the Super Bowl.

What stuck with you with that conversation? My big takeaway from Kendrick, it was during all the huge beef last year. I was so impressed that this man was so calm sitting next to me. And I was like, wow, he's engaged in a gladiator sport right now. As much as I love hip hop and all this, I was sitting next. I was like, wow, I could not do that. I couldn't believe like you could be that big at war with somebody that big and go about your life. I don't know.

Just be chilling. Just be chilling. I did the interview with Kendrick in his studio for a day. We did 30 minutes and it was very, there was no time really to do it. And it was very stiff. And I went home a little sad because I was like, man, I felt like we really could have got a good rhythm. And maybe he's just in Super Bowl mode. And then he called and he was like, all right, let's just meet you in a car.

And let's just roll. I was like, all right, let's do it. And the GnX, you know? And then my white ass, I was like, wow, he's in the middle of this beef. I was like, can you imagine if this is how I go out with Kendrick. Rod in the car. Actor Timothy Sheld me, murder her. That would be crazy.

End of the Wikipedia. Yeah, he was taking out as a... So we'd be on a show mill and be like, shit got murdered, listening to Jedneck. That is crazy. I had, like, none of that shit, okay? Wait, why? I hated the undertones of that.

Just because you were the rapper and a rap beef, you thought you was going to get shot at, bro. Yeah, that's never happened. Don't do that. That's never happened before. Wait, hold on, let's be realistic here. They were shooting a Super Bowl commercial. I'm sure it was security everywhere,

cameras everywhere. Now you were just hanging out. Sure, but it's not a ridiculous assumption. That's ridiculous. You're comparing... And is Drake. Exactly. You're comparing Drake and Kendrick to Tupac and Biggie Beef is crazy.

Drake? That's this generation's rapper. Like, Drake... But Drake's not like that, though. Yes, he talks up. Hell, probably. No, he really doesn't. Can I be honest with you?

I don't think the concern is ever the main guy. The concern is the crazy fans that are trying to curry favor with the main guy. Yes. you're Timothy Shalamee shooting a Super Bowl commercial riding around with Kendrick Lamar. But they don't know it's Timothy Shalloway. They think it's Kendrick with his lawyer or something. But there's, like he just said, there's going to be security. There's security and cameras everywhere, Timothy.

Like, you act like you just pulled up to the block and was kicking it in Compton at Topps toy driving. Nothing would happen there either. But I'm just saying, you act like you was out in the streets. All right, all right, hold up. My bad, my bad. Hold on now. My bad, my bad. With cameras and everything and shot at his house.

But that's not. What are you talking about? Al, Al, Al, you're missing this. We're hating. We're hating. When did that happen? Go, go, go, go. We hate it.

No, we're hating. What do you got to happen? Al, we're hating. We got it. We're hating. Okay, go, go, go. No. Timothy Shadley.

You were in a full-blown production. You're in a production. Like, what are we talking about here? Come on, bro. Like, come on. No one's ever been fucking killed on, like, a huge fight weekend in Vegas or anything like that. Yeah, not suiting a Super Bowl commercial. Right.

What are you talking about those? I don't think there's more security in Vegas. Look, this is a commercial. No, Vegas. A soup. It's a, by the way, this is a production. Yeah, they're going to come to the production, Timothy. Do you think hit his way like, oh, let me make sure their schedule is free?

Yes, they do. Yes, they do. They're not coming to a full-fledged Super Bowl production and shooting that up. By the way, we don't even know what they were at. We don't even know where they shot it. I can, like, we don't even know where they shot that at. I think I think. No, how we're hating.

We're hating. We're hating. No. We're hating. But Drake's house got shot up. bodyguard got shot during this time of the peace. Oh, that's a great way. When you're doing a Super Bowl commercial?

No, but I'm just saying. No, you're not just saying. We're not shooting a Super Bowl commercial. That's a good point. His house has security. You're allowed to have irrational fear. You're allowed to have a rational. A few of all people, you're hugging a tree in the backyard.

No, but I put things in context. You can't be irrational? No, I'm putting things like this is. We can't be irrational? Listen, nothing was going to happen to him. Nothing, like, at all. Like, that's, and also, by the way, that's the whitest thing you could say, Timothy.

He's white. He's white, though. God damn. Now with an Averick's on. Mindy through this. Now with an Averick's on. He's a court side at Knicks games. That's the thing I don't like.

His stylist, they dress him to New York and he's not that. He's not that. He's not that. You got an Aver. I think he grew up in New York. That's why I didn't recognize him. Also, look at the commercial. By the way, that's why I didn't recognize him because I looked at that.

Timmy, Timmy, let me tell you something. He's a cool guy, but he's not that. Timmy, Timmy, you're just, you're doing a lot of pods and you're doing a lot of things. He does a lot of pods? There's a lot of exposure out right now, and people are just starting to hate a little bit. That's what this is. Listen, I don't know.

And we all go through it. When there's a lot of exposure, people start to go, eh, eh, you're doing great, kiddo. You're doing great. It's okay to be scared. Is he from New York? Yeah. He's from fucking New York.

And he's scared about riding around in a car with Kendrick Lamar. We don't ride in cars, bro. He's not scared being on the subway. He's not scared being on the subway. He should be. We scared. If you were in a subway.

We're in New York. He shouldn't have no fear in your heart. I'm hating. We're hating. Yo, Timmy. Nah, bro. Don't be scared, bro. How dare you be scared?

He's from New York is he from? From Harlem, man. Get the fuck out. No fucking way. What part of New York are you from? Yo, Timmy, Timmy, Timmy, Timmy, Timmy. Yo, by the way, I didn't even recognize him. What do you mean?

Because I was looking at that thing. I was like, yo, I must not know what Timothy Shalami. It looks like, but I'm seeing now it's because in this he had hair and a mustache. That's not Timmy Chalander. Shut up. Timmy, Timmy, Timmy, Timmy, Tidton. He also dates Kylie Jenner. He does.

Wow. Born and raised in Manhattan. Yeah, he's from a city. That's what... City, boys, we are up. I've never in my life... Hey, listen. Seeing you act pussy.

Who me? You remember that time? We went down to such and such. And you was with a hall of goose. Not once did Andrew say, oh God. I think you're going to shoot this car up. And you was with some that day. Just bleep that, by the way.

Listen, I'm just saying. Okay. Bleep that, that, bleep that, by the way. I might be more used to certain environments. Than Timothy Salome? There's a possibility. There's a possibility. That's, you know.

Let's do some asking idiots, mate. Yo, Timmy, it's all good, man. We like Timmy over there. I don't have nothing against Timmy. I'm just saying that sounded silly. I think this is what happens when people do a lot of interviews and they're exposed a lot and the mystery of them kind of goes away a little bit, it's easy for people to start going, ah, that's some bullshit,

you know what it was? It sounded silly, but then it also sounded very stereotypical, bro. Which is what? Like, don't be the white guy who's riding around with a rapper who says you're going to get shot. It's getting people with Drake. I hear what you're saying. I hear what you're saying. Like, come on, Tim.

He seems like a cool dude. He seems like culturally aware. But that was a very culturally clueless moment. Like, come on. Yeah, but I also think he's not from the hood. I think he's probably a kid who kind of observed it. And he believed the lore. And I think that when you believe the lore,

it's probably a little bit concerning to be involved in something when you hear that Drake's security guard got shot. I was happening. And I would have no problem with his statement if he wasn't shooting a Super Bowl commercial. If he said he was just out with Kendrick and yell, man, I ain't going front. I was out with Kendrick. And, you know, we was kicking it. We just at the studio. And then all of a sudden, I started thinking to myself, holy shit, he's in a

beef with Drake. What if they just come and shoot this shit up right now? You were shooting a Super Bowl commercial, Timothy. And the car was still. It wasn't like there was moving. Oh, they were fucking movie. Oh, the car wasn't, they were grown. It's a fool for day. You know, they do the shit on the fucking, um, they put it on the, uh, what's it? I don't want to say gurney. Is it like a gurney? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah. Come on. Security everywhere. It's Timothy, Shalamee, Kendrick Lamar. shooting a Super Bowl commercial, I think, by Apple? What should he have said?

What should he have said? Nothing. I mean, listen, by the way, you say what you feel. It doesn't believe this true story. I respect. It is what it is. I'm just saying it sounded silly. He do look nervous, though.

That's just, and you can tell the moment when it kicked in. Like, oh, shit, what are the people in owls surround us right now? People in owl jackets. You know what I mean? That's when you could get out of the car as a white dude and be like, guys, I'm not involved. Guys, this has nothing to do with me. I have to shoot Dune three. Is he Jewish?

Timothy Shalame? Yeah. I don't think so. No. Why are you asking? Because that's all the more reason not to be afraid of drink. It's your brother.

What you hell you mean? That's your fucking brother, Timothy. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. That's what we all right. Cutting the fuck out, man.

Let's do some asking an idiot. Before that, though, Shout out to Taylor Swift. I definitely respect her a lot more. That's big. I mean, she gave out over, or not over, 190, 197 million to staff members. Click on the story. That's big.

Let's play that. Let's play that. That's big. That's big. So this is her talking about it. Hold on. That's fine. Did you watch the doc?

Why would I ever watch a Taylor Swift duck? I'm watching it now. What you mean? I want to see more. That shit ain't good as the ditty, Doc. Hey, hey. Hey, employees. I'm not going to say.

I'll give you your props. I'm not saying her performance is better than Beyonce. First of all, first of all, none of y'all should be getting no ideas. Yeah, I'm just saying the employer should you know. Taylor Swift is acting her wage. I'm just saying. Taylor Swift is acting her wage. I should look at what she did.

I give you bonuses, Taylor. I didn't say nothing. Oh. But you know what I'm saying? I'm saying. They see Taylor giving out $197 million in bonuses and they like, yo. Yeah. How much did our tour make?

Soon as one of this shit we do and make a few billion. Then you're going to get your little $20. We're going to give you $20. That's great. We go. We go do a little secret center. Come on, man. I just need people to subscribe to my YouTube right now.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Please subscribe to Charlomers YouTube, man. Please. Please. This guy is great. Let's see. Let's see.

Let's see it. This is what Taylor was saying about bonus day. Bonus Day is so important because setting a press day. setting a precedent with the heiress tour is really important to me because people who work on the road if the tour grosses more they get more of a bonus and these people just work so hard and they are the best at what they do so every single person on the crew I've handwritten them a note it took me a couple weeks but it's fun to write the notes it's like fun to think about everybody's lives that they're gonna go

back to and the time off they're gonna have and they you know the kids they haven't seen because they've been away from months and making that worthwhile for them It feels like Christmas morning when you finally get to say thank you. Everybody has the same message on their part, so I was hoping you could open it. My full gratitude doesn't come from a bank, but here's all this just a same thing. A long bleep, bro. That was the long-ass bleep, bro. Oh my God, do you need a hug?

Are you okay? This dude said I'm going to pass out. I heard seven hundred. One dude had a long-ass bleep. The other dude was like, I'm going to pass out. Hey, shout out to tell it. That's the most g-shy shit. Listen, I like shit like that.

I really like when I see people treating their people in that way, you know, because the easiest thing to do is make money. The hardest thing to do is for some people, for some reason, is make sure that people are getting taken care of. I don't know why. Like, if I got it, you got it. That is fire, dude. That is fire, bro.

197. I don't even know how big the staff is. And that's what I'm saying, too. How big is it that? That motherfucker said I'm about to pass out. You know what I mean? That's, hey, man, salute the tail of, yo. Let's do some asking idiot.

I need to know how much money that was. I need to know two. I heard seven something. I need to know the number. Because. Because what? Oh, wait, time out. Sorry.

It's my brain. Can we talk about this nastiness of your president? That was nasty. That was nasty. Rest and peace to Rob. What is it? Reiner or Rayner? That shit was nasty.

Rob Rayner. I don't understand. That shit was nasty. I don't understand the point of what Donald Trump said. So Rob Rainer died. Well, he got killed by his son. him and his wife. Him and his wife.

Was that the mom? Or was that... I'm not sure. It was? So it was the son's mom too? Oh, that's crazy. Donald Trump tweets, A very sad thing happened last night

in Hollywood. Rob Rainer are tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy stars, passed away together with his wife, Michelle. Reportedly, due to the anger, he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction

with a mind-cripling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome. sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness.

And with the golden age of America upon us, perhaps like never before, may Rob and Michelle rest in peace. A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on true social after the murder of Rob Reiner. Do you stand by that post? Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all.

He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. He said, he knew it was false. In fact, it's the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia controlled by Russia. You know, it was the Russia hooks. He was one of the people behind it. I think he heard himself

in career-wise. He became like a deranged person. Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape, or form. I thought it was very bad for our country. Just corny, man. It's disgusting

This is disgusting. In a lot of way, you know, in a way, you're admitting that you cause political violence. Oh, yeah. How? Because he's saying that he drove people crazy due to his Trump derangement syndrome. So because Rob Rainer didn't agree with Donald Trump's politics, somebody was driven crazy enough to kill? His kid?

Oh, that's the other thing. That's the other thing. It's like, we don't even know the circumstances. We don't know if his kid had mental health issues or drug issues. He was like, we don't really know what was going on. Also, his kid was his kid way before you were president. Like, this got nothing to do with. This is just.

Why are you even asserting yourself? This shit is gross, bro. And it's not even like, like as a president, if you just can't say rest in peace or condoneses to go to his family. By the way, this is actually something you don't have to comment on at all. At all. Because you're the president of the United States. He's not like Rob Rainer was an elected official or anything like that.

You don't even have to comment on it. You're just mad that this man has criticized you in the past. Yeah. So you decide to take a, I don't even know if this is not even a cheap show. I don't think people even know what Rob Rainey even probably said about Trump, too. No, he was very outskinned. He was? Oh, I didn't, I didn't hear it.

I've never heard anything. But we never heard it. That's the thing. It's like, this is the first time we're even hearing that they had beef. It'd be like if when Rosie O'Donnell goes, man, his Twitter, he's, if this is what he's doing a Rob Rainer. Because he hates Rosie O'Donnell. Here's the thing. When Donald Trump goes and everybody.

celebrating. You're inviting energy. Yes. I don't want to see nobody. If you're not denouncing this, I don't want to see nobody in Maga upset when the world is literally celebrating. Well, I don't think... Can I actually respond to that? Like, I don't think that's... Like, that is the human reaction to things. We would hope that he doesn't do this and we would hope that other people don't behave like this. Oh, but they will. No, they will. That is the human reaction. We're emotional beings and we're going to let that get the best of us. I'm getting. guilty of it. We're all guilty of it. But like, we would hope it'll, again, it's not the thing

where you got to be like sad. Like Dick Cheney dies, we don't have to sit here and have fucking tears about it, right? But at the same time, like stomping on someone's grave just feels ugly. It does, but they're going to do it. And you, and then nobody's going to be mad when they do it. You know what I'm saying? Because this is some energy that you just simply don't put out into the atmosphere. Yeah. This isn't, this is, I don't know what this was. This is more than he gave the dude that tried to kill him. Yeah. That's a great motherfucking point.

Like, there's a dude that tried to, there's multiple dudes to try to kill him. And they didn't even get a whole page tweet. That's a great motherfucking point. Right. Like, weren't there multiple assassination attempts on Trump? It was the one dude that got the ear, and then there was another what they got at. And when Charlie Kirk got killed, God bless the dead, didn't they call up people raging left lunatics? They were lunatics.

For saying shit just like this. But that's why we got to keep that same energy. It's like, if you're going to call that lunacy, you got to call that lunacy, you gotta call this lunacy. This is where the... This is... I mean, I know everyone thinks I got TDS and whatever, but like, this feels very unhinged to me.

Like, as the President of the United States to give this response, it's... Well, we gotta stop saying. Well, listen, yes. I'm just like... No, I'm with you, Chris. He is the president of the United States, but let's just remember, that's just the position.

Yeah. I get it. You know what I'm saying? Like, he wasn't groomed. As a personality time, I mean, we did... We spoke about Diddy last episode, right? Yeah. And, like, how you see us.

slightly psychopathic bent. And him a lack of empathy. Look, we were all together when Charlie Kirkus got killed. I, you know, I didn't have any love for that guy at all. I didn't say a word. Because you wouldn't wish that on nobody. The guy's a father, he has children.

Word up, word up. You don't do that. Word up. He didn't do anything to deserve that, even if I don't agree with his ideology. Rob Reiner didn't do anything to deserve this. Your son, cutting your throat? You also don't know what the fucking circumstances were. It could have nothing

to do with his hatred. There's also zero circumstance where a child kills the parents where it's because they don't like a president. It's just like you know what that is. And if they yeah, I mean, if they do do it for that reason, the child is dealing with some real mental health issues. Anybody, we all have unfortunately some version of this in our family. Yes. You know you don't touch that shit. So the fact that he's a dad himself. It's really. And the fact he's taking, it's like he's taking credit. He literally says, we're on his, This is unhidden shit. Reportedly due to the anger he caused others

through his massive unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind-cripling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome. I just don't know who this is for. Like, I don't even see his base. Like, listen, his base is obviously there's a bunch of different people. But like, what about the religious folks, like the god-fearing people that understand that we're all sinners? And like, do you think that they're looking at this

and they're happy? and they're proud of you? Like, I can't imagine, like, a God-fearing Christian looking at this and being proud of it. Like, I feel like his circle around him, like, doesn't check him at all anymore. I feel like he used to get checked a little bit. Now it's getting to the point where he's not getting checked at all.

Because you know he doesn't write his tweets. He dictates them, and there's a lady right there writing the tweets. Yeah, somebody should be like, don't know, why. So, like, somebody tweeted that and said, okay, let me press it. Somebody should say why, why. Why? No, no, he doesn't write. He just dictates and then. I saw that. Was that real? I saw that video where he was in, like, the room and he was saying, telling her. Yeah, yeah. I saw that. She's, that's crazy. I mean, shit. Until you see her salary and the bonus.

Yeah, no. Yeah, but it's, like, no. I hear you with some stuff is. I see. Like, damn. Some stuff is just not. I wouldn't want to. I'm with you. It goes back to what I say. Don't compromise yourself for a position. Yeah. Being Trump's Twitter, ain't worth this, bro, if you're not going to be like, nah, we're not posting. Because when I see stories like the Rob Reiner story, the first thing I think to myself is if something like that can happen, anything can happen. Meaning like if your son can decide he wants to slice your throat one day, your son,

you watch this person come into the world and this person kills, imagine, you know what I'm saying? But that's what I'm saying. That's like, come on. Like, this person that you've loved in your reigns. How do you not think about that? Come on, man. Like, like, ah, I don't, yeah. Ever since I turned to mom, any movie I see that has to do, like, family, like, literally,

I put myself in this. This is your family. And he also knows that this is probably a mental health issue because he capitalized crazy. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raising obsession of President Donald J. So you're saying that this one. That's not what people don't get driven crazy. People have mental health issues. that are unearthed, obviously, by drugs or circumstances, et cetera.

But these things exist, and they're unfortunately, in a lot of cases, things we're either born with or horrendous traumatic experiences that we endure unearth them. And it can happen to any family. Anybody, man. And we all in this room know better probably than a lot of people about how real that is. It can happen to you, bro. Like, you don't know. And every parent tries to fix it.

There's no parent who's like, yeah, whatever. It's, yeah. You know, like, come on. Yeah, it's not, it's wild. It's wild. It's actually wild, man. It's wild. Disgusting. This episode is brought to you by Accenture. When your advertising operations fall out of sync, everything else follows.

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Asking idiots with 2025 wrapping up, what cultural changes do you see coming in 2026? People believing actual trusted media sources and a lot of you people are going to get exposed for your lives. I wanted to do, and I'm still thinking about doing it, but I don't even know. I'm just giving somebody the idea. Y'all should do the top five bullshit stories y'all heard this year. Because you know what happens a lot? These podcasters, these YouTubers, I'm a part. You know, I'm wearing all of these things myself.

But I'm saying these people in these spaces, the podcasters, the YouTubers, you know, they get on their platforms and say things that are not true. Yep. Get proven not to be true. And everybody just moves on. No. We need to do the top five or top ten bullshitters of 2025. Yon number one and two. What we did?

What we put up? Well, you'll tell people right beforehand, this is a lie. And then you'll say it and they're still running. I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about the people that say things like, Charlemagne's getting paid by record labels or, you know, like that type of shit. Like, I want that type of shit exposed.

And it's not only just, it's not only just shit about us, right? It's just shit about policy. Shit by shit. That's what I fell for you? with the Australia shooting. So that wasn't real? It was real, but there was a post going around that the sun. I'm talking about the shooting in Sydney, was an IDF, ex-IDF soldier.

And it got a lot of traction. And I was like, damn, that guy was IDF and he served in Gaza. Who started it, though? I forget the account, but it was an account with a lot. And I was actually, no, I Googled it, didn't find any cross-reference. And then I actually found an article in, I think it was the general. Jerusalem Post saying that these articles are getting planted by various sources trying to drive it back at a false flag Israeli event.

But I spent 20 minutes kind of having to do that research. People aren't going to do that. This is what I was saying on the New York Times shit where it's just like... That discussion was great, by the way. Oh, thank you. Appreciate you. Which is like the news will correct facts, but they don't correct narrative. Right.

And the YouTube reaction channels and the YouTubers, like, they don't. even correct facts. So it's like facts and narrative are completely bullshit. They put it out there. They let it simmer in the ether. And who knows how that starts to negatively impact culture? Who knows how that starts to negatively impact sentiment? And I think we're seeing a lot of it. And it's kind of dangerous because people are radicalized without thinking they're radical. And that's the word. Like back of the day, when you had radical opinions, you had to go to like a basement somewhere and meet up with eight people and then you all kind of sat in your echo chamber for an hour. Now, your feed just sends you 10 clips with the same point of view

and you start to think, oh, this is what everybody believes. So you feel normal in your radical beliefs. And that's a dangerous environment to live in. Did you guys see the press conference, the new head of M1 in the UK? No, well, that's their highest spy. And they have a new woman who's in charge of it. And she has a technology background.

And she said, by far in a way, the biggest threat to the West is Russian disinformation. You think it's just Russian? It's not just Russian, by the way. I can't mention Russia. It's not just Russia. And you wouldn't bring up China, obviously. But it's not.

And you spy? You're a fucking spy, Chris. Might be, bro. Well, probably not. But anyway. His glasses are recording right now. But no, I mean, she said that's our job moving forward. She said every eight, you know, in the past, the skill of a great agent was to be able to cultivate human assets and to kind of reach the personality.

She's like, you can, you can radicalize 100. thousand people. You don't have to cozy up to a motherfucker at a cafe. She's like, if you can't understand tech, if you can't understand social media, you can't be an agent. And there's this thing, and I think it is true, which is like the rich people or the government wants us fighting with each other so they could take all our money. And I'm not saying that there isn't true to that. But you know who wants us fighting with each other more than them? Our opposition. Yeah, absolutely. Because if we can't unite about like what America is, what our identity is, and what we want to do in the world, then it's very easy. You don't even have to go to war.

with us. We'll go to war with ourselves. And that shit is happening right now. And who's, who gets the advantage in that situation? That's a fact. These united countries that are unfortunately united under totalitarian regimes and they push whatever propaganda they want to the people and their people are too afraid to fight back. But like, they have a massive advantage over us.

If we have to go to war, we can't even decide what's right or wrong. We can't even decide what's true or false. And it's so funny, what did they say, what did they say, what did they say, World War III? It's going to be nuclear, but What was it? You know, the quote. You know, the one where it's like, you know,

World War II was fought over five years. World War III is going to be fought in 15 minutes or something like that. But it was something like nuclear weapons. I can't remember the exact quote. World War III will be fought with nuclear weapons. World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Yes. It's not going to be no nukes.

Nukes are so primitive. Nobody's going to ever let off a new. You don't need to. You don't need to. When you can just go cyber and fucking do these psychological operations against people, like you don't ever have to, nah, Chris, I don't see it. There was an article this weekend in, I think it was the late 60s.

We sent an expedition high into the Himalayas, one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas because we wanted to spy on China. And we needed a way to keep the recording equipment going once it was planted on top of this mountain. So the idea they came up with was a nuclear power generator, the size of like, you know, a bowling ball or a little bigger beach ball, let's say. They got it up to the top of the mountain. It's about a third of the size of a conventional nuclear weapon, but still a major

nuclear weapon. There was a storm. They left it there. They went back down the mountain. They went back up the next month or whatever to retrieve it. Because it was generating so much heat, the ice ridge that it was on melted. It actually embedded itself into the mountain. They have no fucking idea where it this thing is. Still, there's just a fucking nuclear bomb sitting on top of a mountain somewhere in the Himalay. Is it? Nobody knows where it is. Hopefully it just kept melting, melting, melting, Maybe. Maybe it's in hell. The Genghis River, which, you know, probably provides water for like a quarter of the world's population, gets its water from the Himalayas.

But, Chris, you just did some media shit. No, I'm saying. No, I'm going to tell why he did this immediate shit. I said that nobody will ever drop a bomb. He tells us about a bomb that's gone missing that could probably detonate on its own. No, it could contaminate the water supply. It leaks. But still, my point is, that's not somebody doing it.

it. Yeah, but that's why they're going to have. Sloppy people have been with you. What I'm saying that nobody, I'm saying nobody's going to ever push the button and say boom, boom, boom, that's all I'm simple. I don't know about nobody, but I hear what you're saying. It's like the collateral damage of that is game over for everybody. But that means if the bomb's in the hand of

a responsible government. The point is Chris, the bomb is in your lap right now. The bomb is a chaos right now. These are all the nuclear bombs. Yes. I get it. That laptop is the bomb. Like, this this is the bomb. Like, this shit got us in a chokehold. Yep.

This shit is feeding us so much shit all day, every day. That's what I see the biggest change being in 226. It's going to come back to people

just actually trusting certain sources because all they're going to want is the truth? I don't know about y'all. I can't go to rest of my life asking is this real or not? Every single picture,

every single video. I'm like, is this real? It's been an amazing uptick in that even over the last two months in terms of the images. Yes. I'm like, I don't know, I don't fucking know what's real or not no more, yo.

That video of T.I. With the bald spot. That's fake. A fucking I. Are you serious? Yes. Damn. Manipulated.

All right. Yes. Like, I don't know what's real and what's not real no more, man. But I do know I'm going to do my part in just exposing a lot of people who just be straight up lying. Because these people are making a lot. I don't know a lot of money, but they're doing pretty well, monetizing. No, they're making money. Just lies.

They're making money. And it'll be lies. about stuff that you could actually look up. Like, people will lie about ratings or numbers or numbers brilliant. And I can only speak about us because I know what we're doing. So I can know when somebody's lying. One of the biggest lies was the motherfucking when there was a guy who said I didn't want the Drake lawsuit to go through because there would be a line item in it that said,

Charlemagne, the God, gets paid by Atlantic Records. And I've been getting paid for the last 15 years. Like, what the fuck? How do you just get on your platform, say some shit like that? And, you know, I don't be forgetting nothing. I'm aware of everything and acknowledged nothing. But that's the type of shit I mean when I say people should be doing year-in rap-ups, exposing the biggest caps of shit that people just got on their platforms

and said for engagement and views that just was not real. Yeah. That's it. What else we got, Taylor, gang? I'm not talking about this. You know I'm not talking about that. Scroll up. What else we got, Taylor,

gang who's that who's this from chokolo choklo choklo rain one says if you could go back and relive a moment chocolate chocolate chocolate like chocolate chocolate oh chocolate rain one says if you could go back and relive a moment our event for the first time again what would it be and it has to be the exact same way that you did it like you couldn't change anything about it you just got to experience it again hmm oh no my wedding day was fucking wedding day was fire Wedding day was fire, bro. I would wear a different suit. I think about that all the time.

I would have a better suit. No, you got to, you just got to live the whole day again. You get to experience the whole day. I know, I do. That's why I want to wear a better suit, though. But you're not allowed to change that. Yeah, that's whack. I couldn't wear a better suit?

Nope. No. Waiting that guy is all sick. Yep. You know what I love? You know what I love? I'm going to tell you one of my favorite moments of that day. It was a very, like, um, very unappreciated moment because I'm the only person that I think noticed it.

Taylor was high out of her mind. Damn, you noticed? Like high as shit. Oh, yeah. Because of Alex. How because of me? He gave me shoes. But she's not in this space anymore.

So it's easy to laugh at. She was high out of her mind looking around. And all I kept thinking to myself was, this will never be you. Jesus. But now look at you. You know what I'm saying? But in that moment, look at God. And I think I might even extend after her.

Yeah, you did. You did say that to me? That's crazy. I don't know if I did or not. But I really did. thought it because the way she was looking, she was on the dance, you know. I was. You and your wife dancing, me and my wife dancing, everybody, you listen.

I'm looking at her like, this will never be. And now look at you, Taylor. Mama Taylor. Look at that moment. Was that the day? But you know what's so, I got to tell you. What? You was thinking that, wasn't you?

No, I was not thinking about that. I was like, wow, this is. beautiful, like, for real. That's, well, like, sure. That's her version. I saw deeper than that you were beautiful. She did think it was beautiful. No, I was, because I was recording it.

Like, I have still the recording of, like, what you said to her and when she said to you, like, I thought that was real, real beautiful. Your eyes were watery in the middle of the dance floor. Was it? Your eyes were watery in the middle of the day floor. And I'm just like, telling us will never be you. Now I look at you. God is good, man.

You're evil. The fact that you said you would never be me is crazy. Just because I was high. No, let me take that back. It wasn't that I didn't think that it couldn't happen to you. Just in that moment, it was such a great thing to say because you were so in your feelings about how beautiful the wedding was. Evil. Evil.

He's a bad guy. You're a bad guy. I can't wait to my wedding day. I want to say a specific thing just for you. you, Shown. Don't you dare. Don't you dare make it about him. Don't you dare give him any shine on your day. Just let me speak. You make it about you, boo. Listen, just let me speak at the wedding. I can tell the story. He's going to make up so much stuff. He's already saying that he's going to want to introduce me to my partner and all that. Like, yeah, man. He's walking you

that out. He just started saying that now. Like, it's so random. You're not good. Nah. No, he did not. I did. I think he did. He did.

No, he really did. He did. How do you remember? Roger from Rollway with the Range Rover. That's right. That's right. I introduced you. That's why I used to call him.

I introduced him. He's so. We were protecting his identity. Listen, I'm glad, though. How high were you at Andrew's wedding? I was. Out of her. I ate too.

So this is a problem, though. I had an edible. And then you gave me these chocolate shrooms. And you were out of here. That's right. Just hit at once And I remember Yo, I remember just sitting there

Like, yeah It was so much So going up on my mind Now I'm gonna be honest But you know I first of all that moment It wasn't last But I love a wedding, bro

And there's certain weddings I remember man When Andrew was sitting up At that goddamn altar And you took that deep breath And you When you wiped that goddamn Denzel Washington tear

That one tear Now Denzel had that one little tear from Glory When you wipe that shit away man I was like God damn love is beautiful. I like how it looks in traditional either, though. Yeah. And I loved the,

I loved the speech you gave before we ate dinner. And you were just talking about, you know, your diverse friend group and how you love just seeing all of these people together. And you was, I can't remember the exact words, but you was just like, and, you know, just take the time if you can make, if you really want to make me happy, take the time to talk to the person that you didn't come with or something like that. Like, get to meet people and know people here. I don't know, man. This was dope because that's like, that's a different level of love because you and your wife came together in Holy Matrimony, bringing y'all love together.

You bought this room of people together that you wanted to. These are all the people that I love. Yes. And I wanted you all to connect. And I think I've been really fortunate in it, like, almost all of my friends kind of know each other. And some of them become incredibly close. But I don't have really that many separate groups. So it was cool to have all of you guys in one place and everybody kicking and hanging out.

and like, ah, it was just great. I love it, man. I love weddings are great. They're great. They're great. I love way. Invite me to the wedding, I'm pulling up. Because I just love weddings.

They are fine, fucking-tastic. What about you? You didn't see you for your moment. Yeah. I don't know. Oh, he said wedding, but he would want to change his suit. Boy, that was deaf of you. I don't, I really don't know.

I really don't know, yo. Because I'll be, I'll be afraid to go back. I don't want to go back. To the if I go back, I might not come back. No, but you don't know. You only get to live that day exactly what it was. Oh, so we don't know nothing. We know that.

No. I know. I would do. What would you do? When I went to go see Kendrick Lamar in L.A. Over the- Why you met? Over the birth of your child?

Yeah. Wow. Because, well, first of all, time out. Because, listen, listen, listen, listen. Hey, Timmy Shalamey, listen. He's got every right to be scared, bro. No, no. That's how, no, he got every right.

Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. That why you named your baby George Nicholas David Hayes. I did not meet him that. Stop.

George Nicholas, David Hayes. They call him G. That's not. That's not true. Do not listen to that. That's what you changed. You're talking about, and yet that was a happy moment, but it hurt, though. You're talking about just, I'm talking about without the pain.

Yeah, I'm going to see Kendrick again in L.A. That was fun. This is crazy. Why is that crazy? No, no, I don't think it's crazy. I'm going to be honest. I'm sitting there thinking to myself, it's, you would have had to happen. I'm just saying I don't, I regret the birth of my son.

That's not what I'm saying. You know why it's hard remembering where a moment I would want to relive? Because I don't be. Why are you laughing? Listen, George Nicholas Xavier Hayes. What? Don't wait. Come out.

Tell me. Why is that weird for me? But he didn't say his daughter. Yeah. That's good. I mean, that's insane. The wedding starts with the daughter, though. The wedding is the genesis of it.

The wedding is different. Also, like, my daughter's birth was very traumatic for all of us. Like, you know, it was just, it was. So why can I say the same thing? I'm not saying, like, I guess, how bad. But, I didn't say that. I didn't say to Taylor Swift concert. Like, if I said that, you'd be like, you're fucking crazy.

That's the one day your life. Well, okay. So back story. Back story was how I even got to the concert in the first place. Mm-hmm. So, yes. All right, let's do a couple more asking this. Do one more, man.

What else we got to? I'm not mad at you. I mean, listen, George, Nicholas David. That's not his name. All right, one more. GNX. Oh, this is a good one, Schultz. Somebody said, Unhinged Zoh, says,

did Schultz deal with imposter syndrome as a new comic? If so, how did you overcome it? Um, no. Never? Not as a new comic. No, because like, yeah, I think the imposter syndrome comes in when you're successful, right? So it's like where you feel like maybe your talent doesn't match the success you have. But I think in the beginning, you don't feel like an apostor because you're like, I'm just starting this and I'm nowhere.

So like those things are kind of aligned. I guess you could say a little bit like, I don't know if there's imposter syndrome, but like I didn't want my friends or family to come see me in the beginning. because I was like, all right, I fucking suck and let me try to get good at this before I invite them out. So maybe there's, yeah, maybe there's that kind of insecurity. What about when the success started? Do you feel it was warranted?

Yeah. That's interesting. It's something about you're not afraid to be naked in front of a stranger. But you're afraid to be naked in front of people that you actually know. Yeah, because they have an idea of you and then you're like, oh, fuck,

seeing me bomb on stage, is that going to shatter their idea of me off stage, which is like silly, but like those are things that go through your head. But in terms of like career in those things, like I think probably more imposter syndrome during like the MTV and guide code days. Really? Yeah, less with standup because it's like I'm putting it out and the people are there laughing and the people are coming. Like it was so transactional with the crowd, meaning like they saw the standup they wanted to come see me so it felt justified. I can understand like you're in a popular TV show and then people are coming.

I'm going to watch your stand-up or something, and you're like, do they even like me? Or do they like this character from the TV show? You know, like, if you're Ross from Friends, like, I wonder if you're thinking, do they like me the person? Or do they just like Ross from Friends? And you're not Ross from Friends. Maybe it's a version of you. But, like, you know, then I think there might be some imposter syndrome going on there. Even with the TV show, though, because on the TV show, we're being honest, we're being funny, all the things that you need to be on stage.

and you're still Andrew Schott. So what do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? So even if they're watching Guy Code and they like you from Guy Code, that makes them want to say, oh, he does stand up too.

I think he's funny. I think he's smart. Let me go watch you. It was definitely being myself, I think being myself and people appreciating that or not appreciating that, like, that felt justified to me.

You know, so it's like, if you didn't like me, it's like, yeah, you don't like me for me. If you do like me, it's like, yeah, you like me for me. I think if I made it in a different way where I was like pretending to be someone I'm not.

not and then I was getting all this love, I think there might be a version where it's like, do they even like me? And I wonder if actors go through that. Sean, what about you? Was there ever a time you feel? Hell yeah. I just got over Empathy Syndrome. I remember the day, December 2019. Really? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, you know, I think that it's the success that comes with what it is that we do. And you all, you all, you always wonder if you're worthy of the success. I mean, what the fuck did you really do, though? But where did you feel it?

And what realm? Like, seriously, like, huh? What realm did you feel it for, like, radio or like other things? All of it. All of it. Yeah, because it's like, I guess to Andrew's point, when I get on the radio, I just, I enjoy doing radio. Like, I'm, like, I know I'm good at that. You know what I mean?

But then when you start factoring in everything that comes with that, like, all of the other opportunities that you're able to create because of that, you know, you Yeah, it's just a part of you that's just like, am I really, am I really worthy of this? Like, am I really who I think? Like, I've literally been, I remember, and I remember sitting down when I did the homecoming speech, I mean, not the homecoming, the commencement speech

for South Carolina State University. Now I want to answer that question too. That's going to be the last one we ended on. And when they started, when they were just rattling off your accomplishments, right? This shit was long, bro. I'm talking about like 15 minutes on. There was a period. I'm not even joking.

There was a part where I'm just like, Like, who the fuck are they talking about? This motherfucker. You know what I mean? Like, I had to snap back in the reality like, oh, shit. Well, wouldn't that reset? Like, wouldn't hearing all those things about you make you go, oh, wow, I have done all these things and I am accomplished and I deserve my success?

I'm really just starting to get to that, yeah. Interesting. Like, really, like, I think 2019 was the first time I embraced it and said I was worthy, but I'm really just getting to the point now where I'm like, okay. But I also think you have to have a bigger intention to what it's, whatever it is that you're doing. I think intention helps to negate imposter syndrome. Because it's not about what you're doing

is what you're doing it for. And if what you're doing it for is valid, righteous reasons and what you're doing doesn't just benefit you, it benefits other people, I think that helps to negate the imposter syndrome. I think that makes sense. Like I've been told y'all,

if what you build only benefits you, it's not big enough. So, amen. Let's end on this one, man. It's Britt Bratt. Says, that's not, oh, I was about to say, that's not my cousin, Brit Brit Brat, Slukech, garlic crabs. What became more important to you this year and what became less important?

Oh, easy one for me. Yeah. What became more important to me this year? People. And what became less important to me this year, people. I need you to say that. Straight up. Yeah.

Because it's not about how many people are with you. It's the quality of the people. that's with you. Yeah. And people don't realize 2005 was the year of the snake. And the year of the snake is all about shedding. You shed people, you shed relationships, you shed negative energy, you shed everything you don't want to carry with you into 2006, which is the year of the horse.

Also, 2025 was a nine year. Nine is the highest level of change. So everybody out there, if you feel like things are coming to an end, and we've seen a lot of things come to an end this year. But you've also seen a lot of people have new beginnings as well. It's all carmic, bro. It's supposed to happen. If you feel like something is changing in you, if you feel a shift, if you feel like it's things that you want to let go of because you want to step in new things, do it. This is the year to do it. This is the nine year, the highest level of change. So, the only thing I can tell y'all going into 2026 is I can show you

better than I can motherfucking tell you, bro. I love that. That's it. I love that. Yeah, I think family. I mean, yeah, family, it's... A time. You always felt it, but then once you have, like, a wife and you have a kid, and you really, that's important to me, as long as that is good, everything's good.

Everything's good, bro. You know, like, I went through, like, a lot of crazy shit, you know, over the last year. but like as long as my kid loves me, my wife loves me, it's amazing how none of that other stuff really matters at all. You know? And I don't know, it's one of those things where I just feel so lucky. I was telling my wife this the other day.

I was just like, I feel super lucky that this is the most important thing to me. You know, if the most important thing to me is whether the Internet loves you or something like that, it's like you're set up for misery. And there are people I'm sure that that, like really is the only thing that drives them. And don't get me wrong. It's like that is also nice. That's amazing when that happens.

But you can't control that. Nope. If you're good for the cheers, you die by the booze. A, 100%. I've also noticed you've been more intentional seeing your folks. Yeah. I've always been like a super war cross,

work, work, work. And this year, like, you made an intention to see your folks more. And that's a blessing, bro. Have your family in New York City is a blessing. Have your parents in New York City. to be able to pull up on your parents because that is the one thing that I know for a fact

I'm going to regret over the last 15 years because I've been up here doing what I'm supposed to be doing and, you know, I got my whole existence, not just professionally, personally, is here. Like, my kids weren't born in South Carolina. My kids were born in New York and New Jersey. And so my life is here. So we get home when we can, but man, bro,

we are not young. So if we're not young, what are our parents? You know what I'm saying? It's just like, every time I go home, I see my parents and it's just like, yo, they're getting older, you know? And it's just like, you're not going, you cannot get that time back. So anybody that lives close to their parents, yo, take advantage of that shit, bro. And get to see them as much as you possibly can. Even if they drive you crazy, man.

Even if they drive you fucking crazy. Because you know, the illest thing about parents, I don't think we've, I don't know how you feel. I still haven't unlocked all the secrets. There's so much I want to know about my. parents. Because the more you know about them, the more you start to know about yourself. Like there's this little book, and I encourage people to get this for Christmas. It's this book. And it says, I don't know if they got a mom, but I only saw the dad one. But the title of it is, Dad, I want you to tell me your story. And so you give it to your father. And he writes down

his life story. That's all we're going to have when they're going. I did that's my mom for her to do. My father just dropped a story on me. I was like, how does that? the hell did you sit on that for my entire life? Some heat? Murder. He killed somebody? Great grandfather.

He killed his great-grandfather? No, my great-grandfather. Oh, what? I was like, what? I was like, where, you sat on that your entire life? He's like, I think I told you that. And I was like, yeah, I would have remembered that. Damn.

How do he kill him? He was an Irish immigrant in Massachusetts, and they didn't want to let the guys leave, apparently. You know, they'd make money, but they wanted them to keep the money in the camp. And he snuck out one night. He saved up all his money. He didn't drink. He didn't do what the other guys did.

And he was trying to get back to Boston, go back to Ireland. And he was walking on a train track. And he realized that somebody was following him to rob him with the money. He had gotten a gun before he left. And he shot the guy apparently. He kept them moving.

Went back to Ireland. And then had my grandfather in Ireland. And then my grandfather, in turn, came to America later. But I was like, you never told me. He was like, oh, no, I'm pretty sure I told you that. Wow. Like, whoa.

Wow. That's a story. Can I add on to what you said? Sure. So, God bless the day. My grandma passed this year. I'm sorry. But thankfully, she was able to meet her great-grandson.

Aw. But she's the last of her generation. Every year or every Christmas, like all of our family comes together, and that was the last. Wow. Telling you, man. But she got to meet. A little man. Yeah.

So I'm thankful for that. But, yeah, family's definitely. Yep. Spend time with your folks, man. Happy holidays, y'all. We love you. We love you all, man. As always, if you listen to this podcast,

you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant, you're absolutely right. But if you listen to this podcast, I think we're just a couple idiots who don't know shit, and you're right, too.

It's the brilliant news podcast. Thank you for listening. Peace.