The Brilliant Idiots - DreamKilla

Episode Date: April 5, 2024

In this episode of the Brilliant Idiots podcast, Charlamagne tha God and Andrew Schulz discuss various topics including Meek Mill, Jerrod Carmichael, and a controversial video posted by former Preside...nt Donald Trump. The conversation covers humor, honesty, and the boundaries of comedy. Women's college basketball is more exciting than the NBA due to the urgency of one-and-done tournament games and the development of players over four years. The potential for higher earnings in professional leagues may influence players' decisions to stay or leave college early. The hosts discuss the challenges and scrutiny faced by female athletes, particularly in the WNBA. They also discuss the importance of standing strong in the face of criticism and not letting it define one's worth. The conversation then shifts to a discussion about the influence and impact of certain rappers, including Future, Drake, J. Cole, and Kendrick Lamar. The hosts debate their rankings and the ways in which these artists have shaped the music industry. ************************************ Check out Andrew Schulz www.theandrewschulz.com Check out all the podcast on Charlamagne's "Black Effect Network" www.blackeffect.com/ TaylorMade-It Production Contact: Taylormadeitprod@gmail.com Check Out "Summer Of 85" on Audible www.audible.com/pd/Summer-of-85-A…areTest=TestShare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:50 Who's why do you want to kill the dream chase's dream, yo? I have never seen anybody be on Meek like this since. Arbery Graham, yo. I'm not on Meek. What are you talking about? I love Meek. I said free Meek. I'm the only one's defending Meek saying he's not gay.
Starting point is 00:01:06 He don't want to be in these situations. I'm the only one on the internet saying that. But you keep bringing him back to the gay. He's a victim. Okay. Maybe. He's a victim of the joke. In the joke.
Starting point is 00:01:19 Even in the joke, he's a victim. He doesn't want to be there. He doesn't want to be there. I'm Team Meek, bro. You did the forum this weekend. Form was crazy. How did it feel? Crazy.
Starting point is 00:01:27 Amazing. Thank you so much. Everybody came out. That was awesome. How did it feel? Um, I didn't feel anything until I drove up and I saw it in the distance. And the forum, like, when you look at Madison Square Garden or you look at a lot of, like,
Starting point is 00:01:47 arenas that are, like, in a city, they're, like, all blocked by other massive buildings. But the forum is, it looks like the fucking Roman Coliseum. It has, like, the columns and the red behind it. And then it's this massive parking lot around it. So it's the only structure in a five mile radius. And that was like, that was kind of profound. That's what Magic one rings. And that's what Karim one rings.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Magic was probably in the showers taking beautiful women down in the 80s. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying, man. And you had to feel something. Well, they did a renovation since then.
Starting point is 00:02:30 They did? Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did they sanitize the place? I think that's what they did. I don't even think they renovated it. I think they just did Purell.
Starting point is 00:02:41 Shout out to the forum, man. Shout out to everybody came out, man. That was fucking awesome. I had home boys texting me while you was there. People was texting me while you was there. Man. You decided to just evasquerate. Is that the word?
Starting point is 00:02:55 Avaserate. Aviscerate. eviscerate. I like evascerate. I evascerated, bro. Hey, three times, New York Times, best-owned author right here. I've never planned to be able to pronounce nothing. You evascerate.
Starting point is 00:03:10 Why do you keep doing that for meek? Why do you keep doing this word I can't pronounce the meek? I thought the joke was about Ditty. Ditty joke, fair game at this point. Ditty joke. I did a ditty joke. But damn, meek. Yo, I love Meek.
Starting point is 00:03:28 I love Meek. I know. One of my favorite songs is Tori Lane's and Meek. This is what I told Andrew, man. This is what I really mean. And I love saying things like this because I know it's going to piss off a whole bunch of black comedians. How are you out hip-hopping the black comedians? How are you going to make this?
Starting point is 00:03:47 Brutal! How is he? Don't let them do this to us, comedians. Don't let him do it to us. Why are you not giving him anything? You know smoke on Club Shane Shenzh. Stand United! How was he out hip-hoping the black comedians?
Starting point is 00:04:03 How? Wait. Play the joke, Taylor. This is a perfectly executed cultural hip-hop joke. Where is the good? Oh my God, Taylor. Greatest producer. Grace producer in all podcasts.
Starting point is 00:04:20 Go to him. Greatest producer in all podcasts. If there's one thing Taylor is going to do, it's going to keep you humble. Let's go to do it. his page and go to his page. Where is the joke? You see, Diddy's house right there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Time about, first of all, this is hilarious. Because just seeing you standing there like this. Yeah. With the captioned Diddy's house, you don't know if it's about to be something serious. Or a joke. Like, press playtale. You're this great city. They're saying you're a bunch of fucking criminals, drug addicts, and pedophiles.
Starting point is 00:04:52 That is not the whole city. That is a very small, specific section. of the city, it's called Diddy's house. That is, listen. Allegedly. Allegedly. Did he go to jail? What's the over under?
Starting point is 00:05:06 Someone asked Shohei Otani. I know he got the... A little Japanese love gambling, bro. Or I believe they call it driving. But whatever, man. This is the only reason I think he might be guilty. Every celebrity in L.A. has had their home robbed except Diddy. And I thought about it.
Starting point is 00:05:27 bro Robin Diddy is terrifying because what if he's there? You break down the door, he's butt naked on the couch. Meek Mill sitting on his lap just petting him like a Maltese cat. Meek Mill crying, oh no wait a minute, I thought you was finished. He's like, can't stop, won't stop. You try to run out. You try to run out. You run out.
Starting point is 00:05:58 The door is locked. You turn around. All of a sudden, you hear. You ain't go in nowhere. You ain't go nowhere. I can't be stopped now. It's your asshole tonight. See.
Starting point is 00:06:14 Right. God. Damn. If there was a nuclear weapon in the form of a joke. Stop. Stop. Stop. The same job.
Starting point is 00:06:22 God. Damn, man. Hezishima. Yeah. Jesus. Right. My God, man. I posted it yesterday.
Starting point is 00:06:32 On Instagram, it shows up. No caption. Won't let me comment or won't let anybody comment. I'm like, oh, fuck, what's going on? I thought the joke is flagged. I got a text from you immediately. You go, yo, what happened to the joke? I said that to the group chat.
Starting point is 00:06:46 I'm like, bro, I think Diddy's involved with Facebook or something. Every time I try to post it, it doesn't show up. Like, I'm literally thinking there's a conspiracy. The conspiracy of the ages. I think it was the pedophiles. Bro. I'm not even joking. Facebook was down and Instagram was down for a few hours during the day.
Starting point is 00:07:03 It was? Yeah. We reposted the joke and all it. The curse words out, everything out, did it matter. Well, that is a phenomenal joke. I mean, it's just a phenomenal joke. It's one of those jokes, even if you're the main victim of the joke. Can't give it up.
Starting point is 00:07:23 You've got a kind of chuckle. It's a comedy, pet. He got to chuckle. Then you got a laugh at that. Great fucking joke. Poor Meek, man. Yo, you keep bringing me. What about Shohei Otani?
Starting point is 00:07:36 I don't even know who the fuck that was. So that's why this is... I didn't know who that was. So this deep... This deep cut. So Shohei Otani is the Japanese baseball player that got that like $700 million deal. He plays for the L.A. Dodgers, so he's L.A.
Starting point is 00:07:48 Okay. And he got in trouble because his... He said he paid his interpreter, $4 million so his interpreter could pay off a debt. Okay. But people are like, why would your interpreter be able to rack up a $4 million debt? So they started to go, oh, this motherfucker's gambling. And then they changed the story to, oh, my interpreter stole $4 million from me.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Oh, okay. So that was the L.A. deep cut. So yes. Got you, got you, got you. It wasn't just me. I didn't get that one, but I liked it because I liked the follow up because I immediately understood the follow up. Yeah. Japanese club gambling.
Starting point is 00:08:24 I had another line. I had another line. Why don't they call that drive? I cut it on the clip, but I had another one because I kind of fucked it up. But they call him the Japanese Babe Ruth. Uh-huh. And, or as I call him, the Great Bamboostick. Fucking terrorist, man.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Fucking terrorist. This is a terrorist right here, man. But once again, Andrew Shultz is out hip-hop and all the black comedians. Yo, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't let you all make great these narratives. Canadians do not let this happen. Because how do you not as a comedian have that? Or maybe they're just, maybe they're still working it out in the comedy clubs and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:09:09 Because a lot of people, that's a very risky joke to do in front of 18,000 people. Yeah, yeah, it was kind of. You know what I'm saying? You're in front of 18,000 people. You kind of want to go out there with your best shit, right? Yeah, I didn't know that we were going to, I mean, like, I had no clue. Like, I literally was like 15,000. minutes before I went out and I was like oh fuck because I got to LA I was telling everybody on
Starting point is 00:09:28 Flager at this but like I got to L.A. Friday because I was like let me try to work out some local shit. Yeah. Because sometimes I like to do some local stuff, you know, to start the show. And I went out Friday night and every local thing I was doing was bombing. Really? So I was like, that joke? Fuck. No, I didn't do that. I didn't think of that one yet. And then it was literally like 30 minutes before the show and I was like, man, what can I open up with locally? None of this local shit is hitting. And then I was like, oh, fuck, it's not about L.A. It's a, it's a out ditty. That's the story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the fucking thing.
Starting point is 00:09:59 Anyway. All I'm simply saying is, man, I think that folks are using a lot of their best material on podcasts. And I think some of these takes do serve better on this stage. If you were to say that same thing on a
Starting point is 00:10:15 podcast, it's still funny because you're a comedian and people know it, but it's different when you see it on the stage. When you see it on stage, it's a joke. It's art. Nothing else but a joke. It's just a joke. That's right. On a podcast, people can take it. It's like, this is how I feel. I need you to know this. That's right. Let's fucking fight.
Starting point is 00:10:31 That's right. It's like seeing something in a song. If you're in a podcast, bro, imagine DMX was singing that song with all the girls, but he was just saying it in a podcast. It was Keisha. You'd be like, God, he's a hope. Was he at the form with magic in the 80s? But you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:10:49 But in a song, it's funny, it's fire. That's right. That's right. That's right. So, yeah, right plays right time. Speaking of Bees, Gerard Carl Michael. He, um... What happened with Gerard? Played Gerard. Played Gerard.
Starting point is 00:11:03 Played Gerard. Played Gerard. I love Gerard Carl Michael. I want the record to show. What happened with Gerard? I want to put that on record before I comment on any of this. Press play. This is his reality show on AP.
Starting point is 00:11:15 Yes. Let me hold. Let me read the headline first. This is from Neighborhood Talk. OMG. Gerad Carl Michael confronts Tyler the creator about avoiding him. after he confessed his feelings for him. Tyler then laughed in his face
Starting point is 00:11:31 while remembering he replied back stupid bitch. I mean, that seems like the most Tyler answer. I kind of felt like a distance between us. I have an idea of what it is, but what I think is made it awkward is because I told you I have feelings for you and we didn't talk about it ever.
Starting point is 00:11:52 That was like weird. I don't know if it was just too awkward to talk about or too, I don't know. I don't know. Like, it's just like, I feel like you left me hanging out there a little bit. Like, when you said that, I think I replied with like something super mad, normal, regular. Like, you laughed and called me stupid bitch. Yeah, that was the man, yeah. That was the man, though. I remember one time.
Starting point is 00:12:22 How many times Gerard going to come out, you know? How many times do you come out? How many times can you come out? How many times can you come out? How many times? Gerard has done like three of these. What is the show about? Is it coming out again? He is about his lifestyle.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Like, I watch some of it. About being gay? Man, he did this before. A couple years ago, he did this. He told his, I think his mom and grandma, he was gay. Nobody really cared. Pro, I thought he had a terminal illness. But during.
Starting point is 00:12:50 I literally, I was like, there's no way. But during. There's no way he's coming out as gay again. Again, then he did Rothaniel. He's going back and forth on the stage, like him telling it as a joke version. But you told us in Rothanio, I guess this right here, I haven't watched it yet, but it seems like this is more just of an exploration of his actual life, because I saw the trail of him sucking toes, sucking white men's toes and shit like that.
Starting point is 00:13:14 You know what I don't know what, it wasn't a black man, but it was a white man. It was an Asian something, I don't know. But I'm going to tell you what's so funny about this. I remember the last time Gerard did you know, how'd you know what it was. The foot? I just saw the trailer. I just know it's not black. Yeah, but the bottom of our feet are all white.
Starting point is 00:13:32 I know. That's why I did it wide. I said white. He said not black. It could be black. No, he wasn't black. No, he definitely wasn't black. A bottom of a black man's foot is a white man's foot.
Starting point is 00:13:41 Pull it up, Tela. Pull it up so he can see this. Yo, come on now. Della, let's get that foot action. Pull out of me. You see this white foot in Gerard, Carl Michael's Mildon have gender. A foot is a foot.
Starting point is 00:13:54 You know what's so crazy, last time, Gerard did Brad I don't know if it was the last time, but I just remember me and Gerard talked this one, he was in the old studio. He came out. But no, he was talking to me about how dope Tyler the creator was, and I think I missed the whole point of the conversation. Oh, he was flurring. I'm sitting there. Maybe I thought he was talking about a rap, but he was talking about something else.
Starting point is 00:14:16 And I'm like, yeah, Tyler to create is dope, and he's bigger than people even realize. You know what I mean? I was talking about him as an artist. He's bigger than people even realized. You started it. Yes, I know. You really started it. He didn't even want none of that until you was talking about his meat.
Starting point is 00:14:35 You meat checked him live on the breakfast club. No, he weren't. This wasn't even on the air. Off air, you meet check? This was just us having a conversation. I didn't meet check him. He was just talking to me about Tyler and has Tyler ever been up here? You meet check Tyler in front of him and he was like, I need that.
Starting point is 00:14:49 He was like, yo, if Tyler ever been on breakfast club? I'm like, no, Tyler never been on breakfast club. And he was like, man, Tyler is dope, yada yada. I'm like, yeah, Tyler is dope. man, I said, and he's bigger than, you know, people even realize. I don't know. I didn't know Gerrida was talking about something else. But what happened?
Starting point is 00:15:02 What you mean? When you said that sentence, what happened next? I think I kind of realized after that fact of the conversation that, oh, no, you're talking about something else. And I think I realized that he had a crush on him. I thought he actually was dating back in the day, to be honest. But I guess not. If Tyler curved him.
Starting point is 00:15:23 What did you Google, Taylor? It's not going to show up I'm trying to say Just Google the trailer Oh it's on the trailer Yeah Google the trailer You look off today Pell
Starting point is 00:15:33 You look diesel as shit You look like you wearing that shit Drake me wearing on 60s You don't think so I'd never see No You don't You don't think so
Starting point is 00:15:49 No I was a No I was a private you on No Let me tell you that he's not control of what's everything above the neck. He cannot control. Below the neck, maybe, but this shit right there.
Starting point is 00:16:03 He looked at you. He saw a certain angle. Hey, you're a fuck today, Delah. His autism just slip right out. Della, you're a bump today. She's do. Hey, what are you deadlifted, Teller? Don't look like that.
Starting point is 00:16:18 She likes you got that shirt, drink me wearing on stage, man. And you got your natural hair out. Excuse me. Talk to me nice because I have a surprise for you all afterwards. Woo! But y'all got to act correct. And I like how you low-key called Drake Buff on stage. No, Drake wears this shirt that makes him. It's a fake shirt.
Starting point is 00:16:34 It's a fake muscle. You didn't know that? But you think that Taylor got fake muscles? Wait, Drake? No, no, no. No, Drake wears this fake shirt on stage. You ain't seen that shit? I know he's talking about it.
Starting point is 00:16:43 Yeah. What is our sister-tis? This is not like the fucking shirt. Taylor, what's the surprise? You do look buff, though. You look D-Dee-Lie-L. Tell her. Tell us the surprise.
Starting point is 00:16:52 Are you're going to tear a phonebook and happen? or something? Actually, talking to me nice, right? I am talking to you nice. A natural head-o. Natural hair don't care. He said,
Starting point is 00:17:03 he said, Taylor, you look. What? Why is that so funny? No protective hands out. You know, she's too little diesel.
Starting point is 00:17:17 You don't get to. She looked diesel is shit. Mid-Sense. He was talking about Gerard's feet and sucked or something looked at you How do you get all the muscles
Starting point is 00:17:30 in a week? Damn, Taylor, you look buck! Well, Becky Lynch. Press play, Taylor. Come on, let's see these feet. I've been like just trying to maintain
Starting point is 00:17:46 being truthful on camera. This is a narrative that will be edited I'll be choices. That's not true. I'm trying to self-Truman show myself. There's public and private, and then there's masturbatorily public. We might need one more layer, actually. I'm revealing it too much.
Starting point is 00:18:10 Being honest is cool until you have a reason to lie. Here's the thing, man. That was... How do we feel about... That's all first episode. On-camera honesty. It feels forced. I think he's trying to call. himself out.
Starting point is 00:18:27 What do you mean? He was like, I'm trying to be as truthful as possible on camera, and then I think his friend goes, you can't be truthful, there's cameras everywhere. That's my point, yeah. It's like, it just seems forth, like, you suck in toes, I don't need to see you do that in order to say,
Starting point is 00:18:43 oh, Gerard Carl Michael is being honest. Yeah. You know, when I saw Gerard host, what did Gerard host? What was it that he hosted? The Global Award? Golden Gloves, maybe. I don't know, it was one of those awards shows. I felt like there was a level of honesty in his monologues. You know what I mean? So I don't need you to be sucking toes on camera to be like, oh, Drod's being honest.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Do you think he believes that we don't believe he's gay? Does he feel like he needs to prove the homosexuality? Well, you shouldn't be sucking toes then. You got to suck a dick on camera. Sucking toes on camera don't necessarily make you gay. Who says he doesn't? What? First of all, I agree with you on that.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Yeah, fucking toes don't make you gay. Foot is a foot. What is a foot? Suck a dick. Suck a dick. You're trying to prove you gay. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I don't care. You know what you get on over there with your buff ass. Motherbug. I'm just saying. People do shit like that on fear factor challenges. Like, all right, you suck some toes. That is more of a game show experience. Sucking a foot is more of a game show experience.
Starting point is 00:19:48 Like, come on. That's equally bad, though. You think sucking a toe is like sucking a dick? A man's talking. No? Like, think about the optics of that. Don't worry about man or a few minutes. It's just a toe. Oh, no. No, no. But that's a difference. If it's another man's toe is way different.
Starting point is 00:20:02 No, it's not. I think your manlyhood starts at the ankle. I think the foot is... I think a foot is fair game, dude. A beautiful foot is a beautiful foot. When you're looking at F.E. online, you don't know. If it catches me, if I don't know... Chris, why are you looking like you slept the man's toe before? Why are you looking at us like you slept to me? I was just thinking about it. I did see a Japanese...
Starting point is 00:20:22 Of course. You did. Game show. Of course you fucking saw a Japanese game show where they're stuck in toes. No, not toes. Oh, what? It was a gay porn star. The challenge was, could he suck a straight? No, it was not a porn star, a gay man trying to suck a straight porn star's dick to see if you could make him come on the TV show.
Starting point is 00:20:44 That was the... That's the... They're showing over in Taiwan, Chris? Yeah, and it was crazy. You know, China invade! You know, China invade! It's getting crazy over there. What the fuck?
Starting point is 00:20:52 They need a little bit of order. The crazy thing was... of discipline. It was on during the middle of the day and I was watching it with all my wife's relatives. We're just sitting on a couch. I'm not going to lie. Japan is like 30 years ahead in game shows. They got one game show where like you got to try to sing karaoke while a girl's jerking you off. Really? And you got to see if you get through the whole song before she makes you nut. That's the show. Did he nut? Yeah. The guy. What did your family do? You watched a completion, bro. What did your family do?
Starting point is 00:21:25 What is your family? By the way, I'm sold. I'm looking for this shit online later. It was crazy because one of the guys is basically incapacitated. I mean, he was like 85 years old. He couldn't move. He was in a chair. So I didn't want to, he seemed to be watching it.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think by choice he was watching or he was just watching the news before and then this fucking... I have no idea what was going on. It was one of the wildest things I've ever seen that. It was crazy. And did he react in any way to it? Nothing. No reaction whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:21:55 Just it was just a regular Japanese. They run a lot of Japanese programming. And they got the game shows are nuts in Japan. But they got the nerve to talk about Western civilization and how bad we are. And they banning our shit from TikTok over there. And they're showing shit like that. That's China. This is Japan. Oh, Japan stays wild.
Starting point is 00:22:11 No, I'm not going to lie. Damn. But don't they blur private parts in there? Yeah, they did blur it. They did blur. I think they had to. Little blurs? Very substantial blur.
Starting point is 00:22:22 Very substantial blur. It's very good. A little tiny blur. They're capping in their blur. They blur up to here. Come on Japan. No, but they stopped showing intercourse, I think.
Starting point is 00:22:32 Because I think the people just stopped having sex. Like in Japan, they have like... They have a population issue. They have like a population issue. People aren't fucking. They won't flirt. But they'll have game shows of all this shit going on, but it stops with porn.
Starting point is 00:22:47 I think so. There's not a lot of... The culture doesn't have a lot of romance. There's no like... You know how Latin culture has charisma? Like, like, it's like, in Latin culture to like charm. And it's in Latin culture for women to be seductive.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Even if they're being seductive in a silly way, it's still part of the culture and like the men to be charming to women. A Latin dude might be charming to an old woman he would never even try to sleep with. But it's just part of it calling her beautiful. And Japan doesn't have, there's a rigidity with the gender. Really?
Starting point is 00:23:18 I mean, like gamifying sexual acts. Well, it's like you're taking away to all the romance out of it. No, but you're really, what's really interesting is that they gamify, commodify everything. You can rent a, dad for the day. What? Like, there are women that do it.
Starting point is 00:23:30 They're, like, they don't have a dad, so they rent a dad for the day. Dead ass. They do. You can, you can leave me off the pole. For real, though, like, so you rent a dad, you could just have a cuddle buddy. You could rent by, like, 15 minutes. They've basically commodified and gamified every aspect of being a human. What are dad duties?
Starting point is 00:23:49 Say again? What are dad duties? Google that, Taylor. I would love it. What are dad duties? If you rent a dad. I mean, this is just so funny. A black guy.
Starting point is 00:23:56 going, what is dad? No. What's a dad duty? But either you're a dad. You got to hang out with them or something? That's my point. Like, what is a dad duty when you rent a dad? Like, what is the dad expected to do with them?
Starting point is 00:24:11 Ask you questions. How's your day? Go take you out to get some... Get a dog. Yo. Google Japanese dad do you. Taylor. I'm telling you.
Starting point is 00:24:22 I'm not trying to tell you. The kangaroo. That's what I'm telling you, yo. You know what I'm saying? I hope you know no steroids and that in a lot. Say what'd you say? What did you say?
Starting point is 00:24:35 I hope you're on no steroids in that and Taylor. First of all, again, I have been working out when I'm doing a lot with my arms, actually. Put rent. Put rent that dad duties. I'm looking at it right now.
Starting point is 00:24:46 You can rent them for, what's it say, your conversations, outings, helping around the house with tasks, even giving you life advice. That's right? Yeah. Yep. So why is it not renegey friend? Like, why does it have to be a father? Right and dead
Starting point is 00:25:02 I don't even know if you're allowed to be gay in Japan. I wonder if that's, that might be illegal. 275? It's illegal to be gay in Japan, Chris? I don't know. I don't know if gay marriage is legal though. No idea. The culture is rigid, man. 275. Shout out to all the dads out there making money being rented. And listen, what if you have real kids? Like, if you have real kids, do you still? They got to pay too. Okay, so clearly you would need to be a father in order to be rented. Like, you'd have to be a father already. Yes, you have to have the experience.
Starting point is 00:25:31 Okay, 100%. Okay. A wedding. Oh, wow. A wedding. A wedding. Sorry. Wow.
Starting point is 00:25:39 About 140. I don't even care no more. Let's, uh, what else we got Taylor gang? What else? Give us some names of the week, hell. What else is on the docket? Yeah. Oh, Biden pickup truck.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Did you see this show? No. What is this? Biden pickup truck. What is that? Make that bigger Taylor, Paul? It's shocking even for the, what does this say? Okay, this guy tweeted this too, that Mike Stington says, shocking even for the depraved
Starting point is 00:26:07 monster that he is. Trump has posted a video on true social that depicts an image of President Biden tied up and bound in the back of a pickup truck. Do you have John Stewart speaking about this, Taylor? Please pull up John Stewart speaking about this. I want you to hear this show. I want you to tell me what you think about what John Stewart said. As many of you are aware, the news has been pretty bleak.
Starting point is 00:26:33 The past two, three, hundred years. Listen. But this weekend, there was one story that was so disturbing, so dark. Even the news couldn't handle it. In our editorial discussions this morning, we were asked not to show the image from this video because of its violent and disturbing nature. Video, which we are intentionally choosing not to show you.
Starting point is 00:26:58 We're not going to show because of how disturbing it is. I was extremely disturbed to see this. Horrible, horrible, violent imagery. Violent and dehumanizing imagery. We're only going to show you a clip of this briefly. All right, that's enough. Let's take it down. There's got to be devastating.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Use channels show images from Ukraine, from Gaza, from natural disasters. They get through them dispassionately. I can't imagine. How devastating this footage must be. Former President Donald Trump shared a video, this one, on his truth social account, featuring an image of President Joe Biden, hogtied on the back of a pickup truck. That's what was so disturbing and dehumanizing. You wouldn't show it on television and an airbrushed Biden decal on the back of a truck.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Aren't you the same networks that show reruns of 9-11 every year? I mean, I don't think it's great that Trump is boasting things like this, but it's not like people really think Joe Biden was tied up in the back of the truck. It's a doctored image, but it's plastered on the tailgate of the pickup truck. So if you're driving behind it, it would have as if Joe Biden were actually restrained on the vehicle's flat bed. You know how you did this guy. I don't know how to halt that, people? What would I halt? If you think that's really Joe Biden,
Starting point is 00:28:53 tied up on the back of the pickup truck, I don't know that you have the mental acuity to be operating a motor vehicle. I really, I think the scales are broken. The scales are broken. Everything does not weigh the same. And we have to stop making inconsequential things seems so consequential.
Starting point is 00:29:18 Now, is that fucked up for a former president? The Post? Yeah. But if you're a news outlet that shows people, that shows unarmed police, law enforcement killing unarmed people that shows images of war, to John Stewart's point that shows you 9-11 every year, shows people jumping, these poor souls jumping out of buildings, if that is okay to show on television,
Starting point is 00:29:41 how come that's not? How do we know Biden does, doesn't enjoy that in his private time. People being hauled time. Like, I don't even understand. We can't even say that it's actually offensive just yet. We don't know what Biden is into. I get it because people are saying things like, you know,
Starting point is 00:30:01 Trump has the type of followers that would try to do that? Do that type of violence? Try to do it. I dare it. But guess what? If they are ever able to do that to President Biden, the Secret Service says totally, totally, totally failed. Like, you know how many things have to go wrong in order for somebody to get a sitting president of the United States and hog titan?
Starting point is 00:30:23 I mean, that'd be crazy. It'd be insane. That'd be embarrassing. It'd be embarrassing. Like, what are we talking about here? But just the point, the John Stewart's point, the fact that MSNBC and CNN acted like this was the worst image ever in the history of life that they couldn't even show it? Yeah. What are doing, y'all?
Starting point is 00:30:42 I don't think they should have showed it. Why? I feel like it's, I have some trauma from that. I don't know if I can move on after seeing I present in that position right there. That was disgusting. But then they wonder why nobody trusts the media anymore. I don't even think they care. I think they're so far gone from being trusted.
Starting point is 00:31:00 They're just trying to appease people's feelings. And there are plenty of people that watch that and they're like, oh, my feelings are met. And by the way, both sides do it. I mean, the Republicans did it this weekend. All of them do it. Yeah. With that whole transgender Easter thing. Which was such fucking horseshit.
Starting point is 00:31:14 So did you, you saw what the whole history was of it? I mean, I just know that the transgender day of visibility has been March 31st for a while. 15 years. 15 years. Easter changes every Sunday. Exactly. Every year. Every year.
Starting point is 00:31:29 Yeah, yeah. Because it's on a Sunday. Every year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like, how did somebody even put those two things together? So he declared it the day three years ago when it obviously wasn't the same day as fucking Easter. Yeah. But then it comes around now and it's the same day as Easter.
Starting point is 00:31:43 Now, would he have done it within the same year? Of course not. Now he's tricky. He's going, uh-oh, what do we do? It's going to be on Easter. Fuck, they're going to think that I wanted it to be Easter Sunday. Should we move the day? If we do that, we piss off all the gay people and the liberals and the progressives.
Starting point is 00:31:57 Yeah. If we don't move it, then we have the right, you know, tearing us up. This is fucked up. Yada, yada, yada. It's, but here's my issue with that is just like there are people that know that the issue is way more complicated than it presents. Is that a complicated issue? No, no, no, no. Meaning, like, they know what I just said.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Okay, okay, okay. But they're purposely ignoring it and putting out headlines like, Biden declares Easter Sunday transvisibility. Yes. And when there's too much money to be made off that outrage, you continue to make the money. Jesus. That's what it is.
Starting point is 00:32:29 That's how simple is that. But there's no checks and balances. Nobody at Fox says, listen, man, Easter Sunday changes every year, y'all. Like, this is not, we know this isn't factual. Nobody at MSNBC or CNN goes, look, man, let's not act like, we can't show this image. Even if you want to rant and rave about the image and talk about it was terrible for Trump to post,
Starting point is 00:32:48 I understand that. But to act like that's the worst shit we've seen. If it bleeds, it leads. That ain't even bleeding. But the people think of it, like the people are just waiting to gnaw on that. They're waiting at Chomp. There's enough things bleeding.
Starting point is 00:33:01 You right? You know what I'm saying? We can find some real things that are bleeding. Trust me. I agree with you a thousand percent. It's the dumbest fucking waste of time ever. And it's just so. And when I see so much of it postings,
Starting point is 00:33:12 out there. After you know the truth and you see so much posted, you start to not trust anything. Nothing. Like any headline that's interesting that I see. I saw one guy post this. He was like, he posted a video or picture of the LSU team not being present for the national anthem, right? And then goes, Iowa just beats LSU team that skipped out on the national anthem or something like that. When they skipped out, I think it was last year or two years ago. Yeah, yeah. But so it's not inaccurate to say that Iowa beat the team that skipped out on the national anthem. It just didn't happen this year.
Starting point is 00:33:52 But it's presented as if it happened this year because that is blood. What you just said is why a sense of pragmatism sets in with all of these different situations and we all get numb to everything. Yep. Because if you make, if you have such outrage over stuff like the. pickup truck or the transgender day of visibility falling on Easter this year. If you make that kind of noise about that, when something is really wrong, when there's something that you really need to get people riled up about, we won't give a flying fuck. We don't care now.
Starting point is 00:34:26 We don't care now. We're in the era of don't care at all. That's right. Quote, they create it. The media created it. When you feed us enough bullshit, and we're also guilty of it as well, like private media or like independent media also puts out bullshit, it's just as biased. Like everybody's bias.
Starting point is 00:34:40 But we're in the age of don't care. The things that are crazy that people have said, we're desensitized to. Like insane things. We just came out of the age of, if you say one thing that's kind of wrong, you're canceled forever. And now it feels like we are in the polar opposite of that,
Starting point is 00:34:55 where it's say whatever the fuck you want, and 24 hours later, nobody even remembered. Because everybody, they call it flooding the zone with shit. Right, Chris? Well, that's the Republican term. Republican term. love that term. I think it's a great term. Steve Bannon created it. What does it mean? Tell them what it means, Chris. I think it's just throwing so much disinformation out there that it becomes
Starting point is 00:35:17 impossible to tell what is true and what it's false. Everything's, the whole place is flooded with shit. All the zones are flooded with shit. I can't sift through all this shit to find what's real and what's not. So guess what I end up doing? Not looking at it. Not a goddamn thing. I don't even give a fuck. Have at it, y'all. Isn't that it? No, but it's true. I find myself doing the same thing. I read the headline and I think I texted the group. I was like, there's no way that this is real. Which one? The transgender day, like on Easter.
Starting point is 00:35:49 We're in an election cycle. There's no way that Biden's team, right? I'm not even saying Biden's making the decision. His team would purposely make transgender visibility day the same as Easter if it was up to them. I knew it wasn't real simply because I'm like, Easter changes every year. Exactly. I'm like, I knew that before. As soon as I started head of it, I'm like,
Starting point is 00:36:08 But Easter changes every year? But didn't they make it seem like he declared it this year? Yes. And if you don't know any better, you just see the headline and go at it. Bufuble start leaving comments, start reposting this and that. Now all of a sudden, the lie has traveled all the way around the world. You know what? For the truth, he can put his shoes on.
Starting point is 00:36:26 I thought that, you know how like Instagram went down on yesterday? I didn't know that. So went down for a few hours. I like the other, I like the lie of that somebody did he did. Yeah. I mean, that's a way better lie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I thought that Instagram went down simply because April Fool's creates so much misinformation because that's the game.
Starting point is 00:36:47 Like just say something false to get people for April Fool's. So I thought it was meta. But what happens is two weeks later when that meme is still out there, you don't know it was dropped on April 1st. So now there's this piece of information that's not true that's pushed out there from maybe like a source that you kind of believe. And now you forgot about the date. So I thought when Instagram went down, I was like, oh, this is Facebook choosing to control misinformation by just logging everybody off or Facebook and Instagram being down
Starting point is 00:37:19 during this time where a lot of misinformation would come out. I'd be feeling bad for the people who decide to do something on April 1st and forget this April Fool's Day. Oh, yeah. Like you might do some real important shit or make like a real important announcement. And everybody's like, I'll get the fuck out of here. April Fool's. I adopted two black kids.
Starting point is 00:37:35 You know what I? You're like, did you? But no, you really might, he really might have adopted those two black kids. That's a thing. But nobody gives up. We got to wait until April 2nd. That's right. So then they see you on April 3rd and they fucking call the police on you for trafficking.
Starting point is 00:37:48 They're like, why you get two little black kids? But no goddamn reason. And then Tyrese. Good old Tyrese. Good old Easter egg head, Tyrese. Come on, Tyrese. Let me read this headline. Tyrese, the man's apology from Joe Biden after declaring Easter Sunday,
Starting point is 00:38:04 transgender day of visibility. Pick up your Bible, Mr. President. Jesus don't do politics. Pick up a calendar, Tyrese, okay? And realize that
Starting point is 00:38:15 if you're a Christian, shouldn't you know Easter Sunday changes every year? Why does it change? It's something with the solar the sun and the... But not even, like, it should just be
Starting point is 00:38:27 on the day that it is. I'm not reading all of that. And the funny part is Tyrese ain't even going to apologize. No, just move on. Just move on. Everything is move on. Nobody gives a fuck because guess what, Tyrese, you're right to somebody. Even though you're wrong in the bigger scheme of things, you're right to a lot of people.
Starting point is 00:38:44 So you might as well just be right to those people. By the time they figure out you're wrong, it'll be next Easter. Don't even worry about it. Exactly. But shout out Easter though. Shout out Jesus. Christ is King. I don't know what Easter is anymore.
Starting point is 00:38:57 What is Easter about? Say what? What is Easter about? You know the history of Easter was that people used to, speaking of Japanese game, sexual games, games. People used to play hide and go fuck. So they would paint their bodies a bunch of different colors. And then they would go hide. And then like if a man found a man, he would have to fuck the man. If a woman found a woman, they would have to fuck. That's what a whole concept of the painted Easter eggs and everything came. You let him say these things looking on these like that.
Starting point is 00:39:27 It is the truth. You let him say these things. That's why the playboy bunny. That's why the bunny is is there because the bunny represents sex and fertility. Hold on. I have heard something about that, though. It's the truth. Bodies like the fuck and bunnies have mad kids. That's what they do. Boney's represent, look it up. Look up if bunnies
Starting point is 00:39:46 represents sex and fertility. Buffing, buffing the vampire. Look it up. Look it up. You're just made it. Look it up, young Diesel. Young D. Young D. You look like Meek Mill Security right now. Yes.
Starting point is 00:40:02 You look like you just did a bid with Beanie Siegel. For real, for real. Keep it up. I can't wait until y'all see the surprise and y'all not going to have any. I didn't say nothing. Say what? I didn't say no. Buffy the Cheesesteak Slayer.
Starting point is 00:40:17 Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy right there. Look up bunnies and sex. Bunnies and sex. bunnies symbolized sex all right maybe they do but what about the rest of the shit you just said it got nothing to do with that it's true I forgot what who it was
Starting point is 00:40:41 but there was these group of people who used to paint their bodies and they used to go play they used to play hide and go fuck and if you found the person whoever you found you fornicated with them bunnies were used as a fertility symbol by various religions probably starting with this a game that did he's house is oh oh oh hold on hold on Bunnies were used as a fertility symbol
Starting point is 00:41:02 by various religions, most likely starting with the Samarians and Ishtar, where Easter gets its name, also used for the ancient pagan holiday Astorara and other various spring festivals. They were used as fertility symbol since they reproduced prolifically. Look up
Starting point is 00:41:18 Easter, look up, put Easter and put Hyde and go fuck. This is true. You really want to die on this. You sharing your child God cares about this. On the podcast.
Starting point is 00:41:33 God knows this is some BS. Monnies don't even lay eggs. Okay. When y'all got bunnies. Alex, I know you ain't just look at me like it. I, Jesus what I said. I thought it did too. I thought it was like this city.
Starting point is 00:41:46 We don't got bunnies here. I thought it was like a chicken. Not, they don't like a chicken? I thought they got like three or four eggs. Bodies do not lay eggs. Man, come on. What's wrong with you human? Yo, I swear to God.
Starting point is 00:41:59 I don't. You all believe in him. For real? Bunny's laying eggs or not? No. So then why is it part of the holiday? I don't know. First of all, once again, you think God cares about any of this?
Starting point is 00:42:10 God is like, if y'all don't get out of here with that stupid shit, like y'all got bunnies laying eggs. Wait, y'all ate in Easter A? What does any of this have to do with me? If I'm Jesus, I'm like, what do you any of this have to do with me? Hold on. Bunny's for real, look at it. No, I have one.
Starting point is 00:42:24 They do not lay eight. You had a bunny? I had a bunny. What did you do with it? Really? What did you do with me? I buried him. I didn't eat him. Nah, he's supposed to do that.
Starting point is 00:42:34 What haven't you? Squeeze them too hard. Yo. Oh shit. Holy shit. I'm always down for a good mice and men refra. Yo, no doubt.
Starting point is 00:42:44 Holy shit. No doubt. No doubt. Yo, what did you bring here that you think is so delicious that we're going to eat hours later? I know what it is. Is it the pie? Is it your mama's pie? I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:42:59 I'm sorry. No, no, no, I'm sorry. Hold on, is it your mama sweet pie? It's your mama sweet pie. Y'all not going to give none of us your mama's sweet pie. What is it? I don't know. Taylor Googled this and all that came up is porn up.
Starting point is 00:43:19 Damn, Taylor. Hide and go fuck porn videos. Well, I know what I'll be watching later on. Oh, my God. Let's pay some bills, Taylor, getting it. Let's pay some bills, Taylor. Gang, let's pay some bills. Taylor looks like he used to bunny a little bit when he's a little bit.
Starting point is 00:43:37 You look like a little diesel. With your natural hair? Like, what the hell? I'm going to be honest with you. You look like you took your little bunny ears and put them in the back. Yuck. You got the little deaziness like you don't be eating nothing but vegetables in your shoulder. You look like a little cabberry bunny, Taylor.
Starting point is 00:43:53 Is it cake? Is it cake? Is it cake, Taylor? I have it right here. So either y'all keep talking Or y'all want it Clearly y'all want it So keep talking
Starting point is 00:44:04 But why don't I just come over there And take that shit from you The fuck you're going to do Okay All right I'll be able to make no more ditty jokes Right No but for real though
Starting point is 00:44:16 Can I get it What is it? That's her mama's pie She told me she was sending it No, she didn't She told me He did She didn't
Starting point is 00:44:24 Yes she really did Yeah she did Yeah she did Okay Okay, okay, she did. She told me it was going to be in a nice little green bag. No, she didn't. She said she made extra for Easter.
Starting point is 00:44:35 She told me she made extra for Easter because she cooked and she said she made a few extra pies. It wasn't for you. I decided to make this decision, but clearly, you don't want any. Who was it for then? Is it already eaten? I take a piece. Gotcha. I got to go pee.
Starting point is 00:44:51 I'm going to pee, yeah. See, I be trying to be on your side, talking about how you're in shape. And then here you go doing the fattest shit. She can pop you think of. No, first of all, again, she didn't cook it. She didn't cook it for you guys. So I'm like, oh, I'll get the rest for you guys. But clearly.
Starting point is 00:45:08 I got to try to put it. No. Come on, let me just try. I want an apology. Let me do it. For me? I said it. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:45:16 I'm sorry. I want some pot. For what? I want your mama fuck. No doubt. No doubt. Andrew. Are you going to do that?
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Starting point is 00:48:00 and OTC advance fees may apply. Terms and conditions apply. Go to chime.com slash disclosures for details. Now let's get back to the show. Fucking Taylor tried to give us that liberty bell pie came with a cracking it already. This shit is funny as fuck, man. What happened?
Starting point is 00:48:18 Oh, I can't watch it. Hold on. Hold on, man. Oh, long. I'm sitting here. We just had a conversation about Gerard Carl Michael. Salute to my home girl, Courtney, my young OG. This is Gerard Carl Michael.
Starting point is 00:48:32 Hi, Courtney. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to make a love connection. It's very difficult not to be awkward on the, like, it's just me and it's like, I'm not. But no, he says hi. So if he follows you on Twitter and Instagram or something, just accept his DMs, okay?
Starting point is 00:48:45 He's like, who is, why? This must be when Gerard did brilliant idiots back in the day. My home girl, Courtney, just sent me this at 5.11 p.m. What is that stage shows? I can't believe you tried to set me up with a gay man. This was eight years ago. We didn't know. I didn't know. She said all this controversy reminded me of this.
Starting point is 00:49:09 She said it popped up in memories. This is like eight years old. I didn't know Gerard was gay at the time. I was just like, yo, one of my young homies from Columbia, South Carolina, one of my young homies from North Carolina and Cherat thought they'd be a good connection. I didn't know. I didn't know. Next time, I'll make sure to connect Gerard with Courtney, my homeboy,
Starting point is 00:49:29 and not Courtney, my home girl. What you got for church announcement, show team? Yo, first of all, L.A., thank you guys so much. Ooh, that was crazy. We added, Houston, we're coming this weekend. Also, Dallas. We're coming out there. Then Charlotte, we added another show.
Starting point is 00:49:45 Las Vegas, we added another show. When this comes out, might be the presale for that second show in Vegas. Theandridge-shoulds.com, presale code is Andrew. Go get those tickets immediately. Nashville and Austin. Vegas is May 22nd. I got to catch one before the garden.
Starting point is 00:50:04 Sorry, May 25th. Vegas May 25th. And the garden is the single to my own weekend. Garden is May 3rd and 4th. I got to catch one before the garden. Where's one before the garden? Come through. You want to go to Abu Dhabi?
Starting point is 00:50:17 I'm thinking about Abu Dhabi. Abdub. Atlanta. Atlanta. Atlanta might be fun. Atlanta. might be fun. Atlanta might be fun.
Starting point is 00:50:26 When is Atlanta? I'll tell you, right now. Atlanta is April 14th. Jacksonville, April 12th. April 14th is a charity? I want to catch one before the garden. The garden is going to be such a celebration. I know the garden's going to be crazy,
Starting point is 00:50:46 but I want to see the show before the garden. I don't want to be, because I don't want to pay attention that much. You know what I'm saying? Like, I want to pay attention to the garden, but I know you got other special things playing for the garden. But that night, I want to be in a fly suit. You know what I'm saying? Walking around with a bottle of champagne or something. Like, I want to enjoy, like, just the moment of you selling out the garden.
Starting point is 00:51:06 I want to go see the material somewhere else. You know what I mean? We'll drag you out somewhere. Come through, come through. Come through to a fun one. I mean, they're all fun, but, like, maybe we go out. When's Austin? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:19 Austin would be fired. Austin, April? Austin is in... May? No, no. It is April 19th. April 19th. That's what day else is the weekend? That's a Saturday, I'm pretty sure. That's the sound like a good date night.
Starting point is 00:51:32 It's April 13th. Or Friday. It's a Friday, sorry. That's not like a good date night. Yes, sir. So when in Atlanta is on Friday? Atlanta is, I don't know the date of it. But Atlanta is April 14th. Atlanta's a beautiful theater too, the Fox Theater. Oh, no, Atlanta is beautiful.
Starting point is 00:51:50 Yeah, beautiful, beautiful. My church announcement is simple. April 9th, my black country will be out, okay, in bookstores everywhere, salute to Alice Randall. It is a journey through country music's black past, present, and future by Professor Alice Randall, man. This book is doing so well in pre-orders. I know for a fact that Beyonce has a lot to do with that because anytime that they're
Starting point is 00:52:14 having any, you know, larger conversations about like black people in country music, they always go talk to Alice Randall. We've seen a lot of these op-ed that she's been writing in Time magazine and the New York Times in different places like that. Then you know what I'm talking about. Alice Randall was the first woman who wrote a country song that went number one. Beyonce is the first black woman, I'm sorry, Alice Randall is the first black woman who wrote a country song that went number one.
Starting point is 00:52:41 Beyonce is the first black woman who just has a number one song on the country charts, period. But Alice Randall actually is the first black woman who wrote a country song that went number one on the charge, man. So to Lute to Alice Randall, my black country is available everywhere you pre-order books now, but it will be in bookstores April 9th, everywhere you buy books. And my book, get honest, are die lying, why small talk sucks will be out May 21st. I'm actually doing the audio book right now. I should be finished with the audio book by the time this podcast comes out. So make sure you go pre-order that right now. I'll be announcing my book tour soon. in April 27th, the second annual Black Effect
Starting point is 00:53:21 Podcast Festival is happening in Atlanta, Georgia, at Pullman Yards. Same place they went down last year. Wallow and Gilly will be on that podcast stage. Jess O'Larius will be on that podcast, doing her podcast Carefully Reckless. The Poor Minds podcast, Dre and Lex will be on that stage. They're going to have a special guest, too. Dre and Lex, y'all don't even know that yet.
Starting point is 00:53:42 Okay? But I'm about to tell y'all something in a minute. Horrible decisions. They're going to be on that podcast stage. Debbie Brown would deeply well. She's going to be on that podcast stage. The Ball Alert Show is on that podcast stage. And Will Lucas, Black Tech Green Money is on that podcast stage.
Starting point is 00:53:59 We got a business and podcasting panel. John Hope Brian is on that. Damon John from Shark Tank is on that. Carrie Champion is on one of our podcast panels. We have your picture podcast activation. That'll be there again this year. So come see us, man. Eventbrite.com to get your tickets.
Starting point is 00:54:15 I'll go to black effect.com slash podcast festival to get your tickets. I'm sorry the VIP has already sold out, but there's still general admission tickets left. So go get those. Now let's get back to the show. Did you watch any of the women's college basketball games shows? Nope. I told you three years ago. Maybe it was last year.
Starting point is 00:54:38 I think it was last year. I told you last year during the Final Four that women's college basketball is absolutely positively, one of the best things going today. Now, you called it. I want to go on the record right now and say that I believe women's college basketball is more exciting than the NBA. In what way? In the fact that the NBA is great.
Starting point is 00:55:07 It's the best of the best. The world's greatest basketball players play in the NBA. But there's no excitement because they're all just good. There's not a lot of defense in the league anymore, right? So you'd be having these astronomical scores, 150 points, right? A lot of three-point shooting, which is great, but it would be even better if you were getting these shots off challenged. I don't think there's any real storylines in the NBA right now.
Starting point is 00:55:41 There's no real rivalries in the NBA right now. and the NBA is in this weird transition period where there should be a new face of the league but it's not yet. Like LeBron James is... It's Aunt Edwards. Steph Curry is there. But the guys like Aunt Edwards are still on the rise.
Starting point is 00:56:04 I feel like... It's Aunt Edward. Jock could own the league right now, but you know... Yeah, it's Aunt Edwards, bro. He can't put the guns down. You think Anne is the face of the league, though? I think he will be. Will be.
Starting point is 00:56:15 And I think that's what makes it weird in the NBA. He's remarkable. Have you seen him play? Oh, he's phenomenal. Unbelievable. But I think that's what makes it strange. Like with college basketball, right, there's no doubt who the faces the college basketball are.
Starting point is 00:56:28 Caitlin Clark. Angel Reese. Flage. Flage is on the rise. She's a sophomore. But she's there. But those two, Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, you got page buckets from Yukon.
Starting point is 00:56:41 You know what I mean? You got Jujoo Watkins, the freshman at USC. You know, You know, you got what the South Carolina Gamecocks are doing just as a team, just the dynasty that Don Stanley is building. So you just have a lot more different personalities in women's college basketball. You got a lot of great rivalries. Like I'm looking forward to seeing Iowa and Yukon playing the final four this weekend because you got Caitlin Clark versus Page buckets. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:57:05 South Carolina Gamecocks and North Carolina State, you know, are playing this weekend. That's South Carolina, North Carolina, plus South Carolina is still undefeated, you know. I just, women's college basketball is just way more exciting. And I think, it's just my take on it, I think the tournament aspect of it where you're one and done adds a different level of urgency. Yeah, it's exciting. You know?
Starting point is 00:57:31 For sure. It's exciting. Add a different level of urgency. And I think that's the word, exciting. It's just more exciting. I mean, I've never seen people speak about the women's, women's basketball, the way that they are right now. Bro, you got to watch it.
Starting point is 00:57:45 I think I know more female players in the NCAA than I do male. I'm the same way. Of course. I don't know any in the NCAA. Because they stick around for four years. Exactly. So you get to know a little longer. What you just said, Chris, is another thing.
Starting point is 00:58:00 The fact that these women stick around for the whole four years, they get to develop into these stars. You know what I'm saying? Their games get to develop. So we get to watch Caitlin Clark in her purest form as a C. year. Last night she had 41 points, 12 assists, and seven rebounds, nine fucking three-pointers, bro, shooting from the logo on some Steph Curry shit. That was a very watchable game, I would describe it. Like, as an experience, it was as good as a men's game. I went to the Sweet 16 last week. I went to watch the Gamecocks play Indiana in Albany last Friday. My wife went to, you know,
Starting point is 00:58:40 the Gamecocks and I, you know, she was a cheerleader for the Gamecox. I support the Gamecox Athletes. Yeah. She was a cheerleader for the South Carolina GameCup. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. So it's like I support the Gamecox Athletics and everything that they do, man. Everything that they do.
Starting point is 00:58:56 You see I'm sitting here rocking my, uh, Malaysia for Wally shirt. Who's that? Malaysia for Wally. She is a freshman at the University of South Carolina. Baller. Future star. Don Staley says she's a generational talent. We've watched some of her highlights before.
Starting point is 00:59:14 We watched from here on the podcast. Oh, she's nice. She played like Tyree. Can you give her an NIL sponsorship? We should sponsor her. I've thought about some things. I mean, that'd be great. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:28 I thought about it. I want to, I want to be able to present her the right thing. But I do have an idea for her, though. Which is? I don't want to say on the pod. Why not? But I do have something, I think, I mean, what if the breakfast sponsors them?
Starting point is 00:59:41 That would be awesome. No, I think it's something else. I think it's something else that can be done. All right. Something a little stronger. But though, salute to Malaysia for Wally, salute to her family, met our family last week when I went to the game, when I went to go watch South Carolina play Indiana.
Starting point is 00:59:56 So salute to the women college ball players, man. Y'all are the most exciting thing in basketball today. And it's not even close. It's not even close. What else we got, Taylor? Oh, this is the, okay. This is my only great book, college basketball. But I only have one.
Starting point is 01:00:14 What is it? Which one you want to play first? This is two different points, right? This is Andrew Reese delivering her emotional postgame interview following loss to Iowa. Flo J. Johnson comes to her to offense. My only problem with the WN, not the WNBA, with women's college basketball, is they cry after losses. Yeah, they're the victim.
Starting point is 01:00:34 But they all do. Juju cried last night when she lost. whenever the women lose, they cry. So it makes me one to something. What's that? Do men really want to cry after they lose, but they don't? We do cry after we lose sometimes. What man have you seen cry after they off?
Starting point is 01:00:48 You haven't seen them like in a Super Bowl on the ground crying like a little bitch? No. It's only a lot of guys. What? It's only the one that's crying. Whoa. I've seen LeBron cry. I've never seen LeBron cry over a lot.
Starting point is 01:01:01 You look like LeBron's leg sleep. No, I'm talking about actual tears. So what? No way Told she A little bit Give me a jab step I'm talking about
Starting point is 01:01:15 actual tears I'm not talking about being upset I'm talking about like actual tears That's the only thing I don't like It's just like Yo, it's a loss
Starting point is 01:01:22 Now I understand seniors Yeah And you know You're not gonna play again So I understand Being overwhelmed with emotion
Starting point is 01:01:28 But it's like You know You lost Is Angel a senior Angel can come back For another year If she wants to She's a fifth year
Starting point is 01:01:36 She's a junior, but I think because of COVID, she's eligible for another year. Well, if she's a junior, then she has another year no matter what. I don't know. They said it during the game. I don't know what the reason is, yeah, but I think she's listed as a junior. I mean, but she has another year of eligibility, but I don't think it's because she seems like a no-brainer.
Starting point is 01:01:58 She's a senior. I would come back. Right? You probably make more, well, I don't know if you can make more money. Somebody was having that company. Me and my cousin Tone was having that conversation about how it's probably hard to, you know, coach these kids that are making millions of dollars
Starting point is 01:02:14 and I don't think so. Because if I was a coach, I would simply tell them this and I would bring in, I would bring in people in the NBA. You can't really do it in the WNBA because there's nothing to compare it to, but in like the NBA, I would bring in these people who are making these $200, $300 million contracts. And I would say to these people like, look, I know you think you're making some money now in college.
Starting point is 01:02:34 Because you made $3 million this year You made $4 million this year But this is the reason you need to stay focused Because you can go to the NBA And make fucking $200 million $300 million. So don't think you're really doing some shit right now What do you tell the WMBA players
Starting point is 01:02:49 About how much they can make? You don't. You stay. You stay. Come to WMBA They give you a pair of Black Air Force Ones and a tuna sandwich You might as well stay your ass
Starting point is 01:03:02 in the fucking NC double A. If I'm Angel Reese, I'm staying another year, man. Taylor. Play the clip, Taylor. There's a lesson to be learned in this, too. Now, listen, let me set it up. You know, Angel Reese takes a lot of shit. She does take a lot of shit.
Starting point is 01:03:18 She takes a lot of shit. Social media is always coming at her. People are always coming at her. But Angel talks a lot of shit, too. But she backs it up for the most part. But this is what she said at the end. Let's play this. I've been through so much.
Starting point is 01:03:29 I've seen so much. I've been attacked so many times. death threats. I've been sexualized. I've been threatened. I've been so many things and I've stood strong every single time and I just try to stand strong for my teammates
Starting point is 01:03:44 because I don't want them to see me down and not be there for them. So I just want to always just know like I'm still human like all this has happened since I won the national championship and I said the other day I haven't had been since then and it sucks and but I still wouldn't
Starting point is 01:04:02 change. I wouldn't change anything and I would still sit here and say like I'm unapologetically me. I'm going to always leave that mark and be who I am and stand on that and hopefully the little girls I look up to me and hopefully I give them some type of inspiration that no hopefully it's not this hard and all the things that come at you but keep being who you are keep waking up every day keep being motivated staying who you are staying until I just try to stand strong. What if Flaugnais say let's play with Flajanae said I like how Flaughey's hold it down for a Everybody could have their opinion on Angel Reese, but y'all don't know her. Like, y'all don't know Angel Reese.
Starting point is 01:04:40 I know Angel Reese. I know the real Angel Reese. And the person I see every day is a strong person. It's a caring, loving person. The crown she wears heavy, bro. She's the type of teammate that's going to make you believe in yourself. The leaf that I took from my freshman the sophomore year, Angel gave me that confidence to go be a dog.
Starting point is 01:05:01 playing next to a dog every day and you know just to see how the media ridicule her went through our problems but like this is my sister right here and I'm so proud of her like the media y'all how they like to twist and call it a villain and all of that y'all don't know
Starting point is 01:05:17 angel bro and I'm just happy that I get to play with her I get to be around her presence her energy is different she just made me a better player and that's what great players do I tell you so much guys you said like Five. She said Flodginet sound like Khy's or not.
Starting point is 01:05:38 Yeah. That's money and shit. Shout out to Flodginet. That's Camouflage's daughter, man. Rest in peace to Camouflage, man. Shout out to Flage, man. This is the thing. And shout out to Angel. Salute the Angel.
Starting point is 01:05:50 It is true. She does go through a lot of scrutiny, especially for someone her age to go through that. And, you know, she plays a game passionately, sure. But, like, getting criticized at that age. You have no idea who you even. even are yet. It's what type of criticism, though?
Starting point is 01:06:06 But here's the thing. Here's the thing I would tell Angel. Here's the thing I would tell Flaugnet. His thing I would tell you, Andrew Schultz. I'll tell anybody that is a public person. People are going to criticize. That is true. This is part of it.
Starting point is 01:06:16 And especially if they have something that they can criticize, meaning like, you're Angel Reese. You are a dog, like Flajanae said. You go out there, you average double doubles every game. You won the ring last year. Motherfuckers going to talk shit. They don't want you to be in that position. How dare you?
Starting point is 01:06:31 have that kind of confidence? Andrew, how dare you sell out the forum and go up there on stage and make the kind of jokes you be making? How dare you? How dare you, Charlemagne, have an opinion about any fucking body. Who are you?
Starting point is 01:06:44 Like, there's going to always be people who are at just the cost of being successful. But I will say this. It's the type of criticism. Angel said something very important here. She don't need to, she don't deserve death threats. Of course not.
Starting point is 01:06:57 She don't deserve motherfuckers doing fake AI images of her naked and all types of shit. That's the type of shit that you should not have to wake up to. So when people say things like, oh, man, you know, everybody's going to get criticized. That is true. But what level of criticism? There's levels to the criticism. There's one thing to be like, man, I hope you lose.
Starting point is 01:07:18 Man, you suck as a basketball player. It's another to be like, I want you to die. Yeah. I hope somebody fucking kill you. And it's just, it's, and she's a girl that I imagine is on social media a lot because that's just what her and her friends do. Mm-hmm. And she's got to see all these different things.
Starting point is 01:07:34 He's 21. Yeah, it's gonna, you don't know a world without social media. Exactly. It's gonna make her tougher, but. Maybe. Yeah, or it could break her. I don't think it will break her, but it is, there is, I imagine a wait for someone at that age.
Starting point is 01:07:48 We're fucking old guys. We deal with it. And there are even times where we deal with it where it's like, annoying, it's stressful, it's frustrating. It's annoying. Yeah. I can imagine being 19 years old, you start going through this. So, yeah, because they, like, they're at the point where, like,
Starting point is 01:08:01 they still address it. Like I saw when Angels alleged nudes went out, she addressed it. I wouldn't even have known about it if she hadn't said anything about it. You know what I mean? But the fact that she even had to address this isn't me. This is AI, blah, blah, this and that.
Starting point is 01:08:19 You will get to the point where you stop addressing that shit, Angel, because you will realize all these motherfuckers is insane. And they want to fuck with your head. These motherfuckers is waking up, miserable, and they want to get in your head. So when they see you get online and reply to them and acknowledge fake bullshit that they put out, it's going to give them freedom to continue to do it because they think that they're affecting you.
Starting point is 01:08:48 So I would recommend that all of them get to the point where they don't even give that shit no energy. None what so fucking ever. Yeah. Because it ain't going to hurt you in no way, shape, or form. Yeah. It takes a while to get there. It takes a while to get there. And also, they're constantly asked about it.
Starting point is 01:09:06 So, like, after every game when they have a press conference, they can't control the questions that they're asked. Shit on the reporter. You're like, what the fuck they got to do with basketball? That's good. The fuck they got to do a basketball. But there's a perfect example. Like, I didn't even think that that's a way to answer it.
Starting point is 01:09:19 They might not also think that. You've been in this business for so long that you probably went through these things or seen people do or you just have great instincts. But it's like having somebody coach them on that part of life. too. It's not just basketball. It's just like, hey, if someone asks you a question about your fucking personal life or something, you do not have to answer at all. You're going to do a basketball.
Starting point is 01:09:40 Exactly. The second you start getting paid for your personal life, answer questions about that. But you're not getting paid for that. By the way, you're never getting paid for that. Low key, if they don't pay the players, you shouldn't have to go to a press conference. Ooh. Like, why am I...
Starting point is 01:09:55 Because they're paying the school. Yeah, a scholarship. But a scholarship is not payment. I mean, it is. It is technically. It is. You're getting a free ride through school. It's the best payment. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:10:07 It's not income. I guess what I'm trying to say is like I'm getting paid. I guess they go, well, this is part of your responsibility as a player on the team. You have to show up to practice. You have to be press. But for me, I'm like, hold up. A press conference, your ESPN or whatever is selling advertising on these things. Like, I'm paid to play basketball.
Starting point is 01:10:26 I'm not paid to do this shit for ESPN. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's the biggest. You know what you just said, Shultz is true. And I guess that's the biggest thing I would say to all of these athletes are just people in general, like, your personal life is your personal life. Even if you choose to share your personal shit over social media, yeah, you are giving people the license to be able to comment on it. But it's still your personal life.
Starting point is 01:10:51 You can share it when you want to. You can reel it in when you want to. That is true. You can talk about it when you want to. You cannot talk about it when you want to. So if these motherfuckers are asking you questions about your personal life on that motherfucking stage, man, you know what every team needs?
Starting point is 01:11:05 They need a professional, suck my dick representative. So you need a person on the stage that's like a PR, but their job is to strictly say suck my dick when you get asked a question that you don't want a motherfucker and be asked that don't got nothing to do with what we're doing.
Starting point is 01:11:22 If I'm here to talk about basketball and you ask me some other shit, how do you feel about these alleged nudes of yours releaking? I got this one. suck my dick. That's all you got to say. Suck my dick. That's it.
Starting point is 01:11:33 That's it. Eventually. Eventually, these press people will get tired of asking. Can I offer a contrarian? Yo, yo. Suck my dick, yo. Suck my dick. Never mind.
Starting point is 01:11:45 See how good it is? That shit works. That shit works. Thaler. Don Stanley added that to the repertoire and y'all the cops too. You know, we really... We really need... We really need...
Starting point is 01:11:57 We really need... Fuck my dick. We need to put a picture of Taylor's outfits so that people know what we're talking about. They do. We need to put that up. You look Deterless fucktail. Yeah, so I don't know why y'all keep talking. I don't know why I keep talking then.
Starting point is 01:12:11 I don't know why I keep talking then. What is your contrarian viewpoint, Chris? This is a podcast. We'll take it. Yeah, it's a little bit of like a pet pee for me just in the fact that, look, there's no inherent value in playing basketball, right? As someone who's played thousands and thousands of hours and never gotten paid a cent. What? There's nothing that, you know.
Starting point is 01:12:31 A five, six Jewish man. A five six Jewish Asian man. Six foot. There's no value in playing basketball because he played for hours and hours and didn't make a dime. Fuck all the billionaires. And a hundred millionaires that exist because of basketball. Yeah. That's fucked up a billion dollar industry that basketball is.
Starting point is 01:12:49 The value is in the press's interest. The value is in the people's interest in these people's personal lives for better or for worse. The value is this entire. ecosystem around American sports has been created. What else is that? We didn't know nothing about these guys in the 80s. Yeah. And the league and the NBA was about to go out of business.
Starting point is 01:13:09 It wasn't until David Stern started more. No, until the otherworldly talent named Michael Jordan came. But they mark. You would give the credit to the Jewish guy. Of course. Magic and Bird changed the complexion of the game. Because they started investing in these players' personalities in their lives. There was none of that.
Starting point is 01:13:25 I think that there is a component with getting in touch with the personality. obviously that was very... The storyline. The storyline with boxing. For example, like the, remember the, what was the shit on HBO? I didn't you talking about... The behind 24-7. 24-7.
Starting point is 01:13:39 And it got us invested in fighters. I'm sure that also happened with basketball players and we're more invested. And definitely the league right now is more player than it is team. But it's not completely that. Like, people still... Most people that are fans of, like, football teams, don't know more than five players on a football team. Casual fans. But they like the team and they like...
Starting point is 01:13:59 the camaraderie of being a football fan. Sure. Yeah, but you also don't hear football players complaining about the media because I think they realize what they have is such a loose kind of connection to this money. Yeah, yeah. The NBA players are so empowered that now they feel like they don't owe anything.
Starting point is 01:14:16 And I'm like, this shit has only skyrocketed because people started caring about the personal stories, the humanized, they humanize Shaq. You know, with the magic of bird, I think it was all these guys. Yeah, that's interesting. I think Magic and Bird with the storyline and them coming out of college having a rivalry. I think that helped.
Starting point is 01:14:34 Oh, 100%. Right. Before that, these guys were kind of, you know, I'm sure there were a couple of ads here and there. Some players, local ads. There was never the sense of the media investing in them as personalities until the 80s. And then it just took off. And that's when the salary sky rockets. I'm like, you guys are messing with an ecosystem.
Starting point is 01:14:53 Don't fuck with the thing that makes you the money. Hey. I hear. Hey. Let me ask you that truth. But isn't it a thing with the star power? too, though, because there was magic and then there was bird. Who were the other stars in the league at that time?
Starting point is 01:15:05 Like, bona fide stars. Dr. J? No, well, Dr. J. was Kareem who was famously not a personable character, who the media hated and, you know, people didn't kind of feel a connection with. What happened? Jesus. What happened? Fart on Kareem's legacy, bro.
Starting point is 01:15:24 I think it's the star power. I think it's the star power of how they do. on the court. There were great players who never got the same level of recognition in the 80s and the 70s for sure. Like who? Bob McAdoo.
Starting point is 01:15:41 Cowan, Havilechek. These guys were the superstars of the NBA. You have no real sense of who they were compared to the players who came 10 years later. They had the hole. No what? Hose.
Starting point is 01:15:52 They didn't have a hose. They didn't have a hose. They weren't getting no hose back in a day. That would it boil down to. Yeah, how many hose you got? It really is about. who the holes want, Chris. That is true.
Starting point is 01:16:01 Who do the women gravitate towards? Magic was beautiful. Magic had holes. Bird wasn't. But Bird didn't have no hose. But who was the guy who fucked 15,000 women or whatever?
Starting point is 01:16:13 Chamberlain had hose. Knocking him down. Knocking him down. Listen, I mean, Bird didn't have the women that we know of, but Bird was so connected to magic and magic's wave was so strong. That bird was just a surf on it.
Starting point is 01:16:29 And he was in Boston. You take the greatest white player and put him into whitest city in America. He wasn't certain. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But Bird have bitches, though. I'm sure.
Starting point is 01:16:40 100%. 100%. Taylor. What's up? Oh, my God. Yo, shout out to Future. Okay, Future has another number one album. Ooh.
Starting point is 01:16:52 That is nine number ones for him. If I'm not mistaken, that makes him the number five or number six. rapper with the most number ones of all time. Am I making this up? I'm not making this up, right? I mean, life is good. I'm not making this up.
Starting point is 01:17:11 Last week, Alex said Future ain't shit compared to Drake. What? That was crazy, yeah. That's crazy. That was crazy when you said that. What did you say? You mean when I said Drake is number one compared to Kendra. And Future got five on the Billboard Hot 100 this week.
Starting point is 01:17:26 Five with the top 10 is Future Records like that with Future. booming and Kendrick Lamar is the number one single in the country. The highest selling single, rap single this year, or maybe the highest selling single this year. All I know is future got nine number ones. Only people that got more number ones than future is Jay-Z, Drake, Kanye West, and Eminem. Wow. He got more, he got nine number ones, Eminem got 10, Kanye got 11, Drake got 13, Jay-Z got 14.
Starting point is 01:17:57 Future is one of them, y'all. Yo, what? Y'all keep talking about a big three. There's a fantastic four. And if you really want to be tech, if you really want to get a little spicy, future could be in the big three. You mean, so it's Drake, Future, J. Cole?
Starting point is 01:18:13 I would have Drake Future Kendra. I would say. I would have Drake Future Kendrick, personally. But, but, you know, the only reason I wouldn't put Future over coal because statistically, statistically, if you talk about like numbers and all of that, future's over cold.
Starting point is 01:18:29 But lyrically, if you're talking about Big Three, you got to have Cole in the Big. If you're talking about Lyric. But Future's number four. It's a fantastic four, yo. I agree. Stop saying Big Three. That's been a fantastic four for the past decade plus. How about this?
Starting point is 01:18:43 Futures had more influence on the sound of music. Not even close. I, you're absolutely right. I think over Kendrick and Jay Cole. You're not even wrong at all. Oh, but Drake! Now, the only reason I push back on Drake is, because Drake has played in so many different genres.
Starting point is 01:19:03 And because of that, I think he's really helped popularize genres that were gaining steam. So I think that he's been instrumental in that. Future is his own thing that has influenced other people. Does that make sense? For better or worse, I can find a million future clones all around the world. Yes. I don't think there's any rapper that has influenced culture. I agree.
Starting point is 01:19:30 And music more than future over the last decade. It's profound. I think what you said just now is... With his style, I'm saying, with his style. But see, I think what you said just now about future is what I would say about Drake. I think Drake is an individual. Okay. As an individual has inspired a lot of people, right?
Starting point is 01:19:49 Just inspired. I don't know if there's influence, though. I think future have influence. People want to be future. People want to sound like future. Drake's style is so unique that is hard to sound like Drake. You know what I'm saying? I agree with you 100%.
Starting point is 01:20:09 What I was trying to say is Drake will do a Afrobeat song. He'll do a, what is the London rap thing called? You're right, but those people need Drake to do that. Like designer didn't need future to take futures. 100%. I'm just saying the way that Drake, Drake is influential in music is he can kind of uplift other genres in the West that maybe aren't as popular here just yet. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:31 The way that Future's influential is his style of doing rap. Yes. Becomes other people's style. That's right. But both of them are, I think, really influential. I think, yeah, I like you including him in that. Fantastic. It's kind of crazy that we don't.
Starting point is 01:20:45 It's wild to me that we don't. It's not a big three. It is a fantastic four. And Future is in that. And you can, you can, you can, you can, you can put him, he, he, he, he, he, might be two on three. He might even be number one on some people's list. I think he's
Starting point is 01:21:00 objectively, I think Jay Cole has this, he's unbelievable at rapping. Anytime he does a feature, you're like, holy shit, that's the best rapper alive. But his core fan base doesn't reach out to as many different places as futures does. I agree. Does that make sense? I agree.
Starting point is 01:21:16 Future, everybody has a future song that they listen to regularly. That's right. I don't know if we're all regularly listening to a Jay Cole song. Yeah, he, Jakel has a super core fan base. He does.
Starting point is 01:21:28 No, no, I'm saying his fan base loves every single thing he does. Oh, you mean casual? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You ain't never put on J. Cole in the gym. What? I put on that London song.
Starting point is 01:21:37 You've never worked out of J. Cole. Why not? What's song by J. Cole? His last album was all fine. He's fire. He's nice. What I'm saying is the casual American. White Black doesn't matter.
Starting point is 01:21:48 The casual, not the super fan of J. Cole. The casual American, I don't know how much Jay Cole is in his rotation. 100% Drake is in the rotation 100% A future song's in there I don't know if a J-Col
Starting point is 01:22:00 or even a Kendrick is in the rotation You also forget I don't know how much y'all follow like the people under J-Col He has a lot of fire
Starting point is 01:22:10 like artists under him He does he does He's nice The people he fucks with are nice Ari Lennox J-I-D Irfgang Nah I fuck with them
Starting point is 01:22:20 Smeena Yeah I do I really fuck with them We got any more bills that we can do some asking idiots I got to put some respect on Kanye, bro. Kanye. Beware of the...
Starting point is 01:22:29 What Kanye do? Hey, who's Connie? He berth, all that. Can you go? You're talking about the post that he put up. Kanye didn't birth no future. Kanye put up a post saying that he could
Starting point is 01:22:39 basically dominate all of them. Can you pull up the post of the Asking idiots? All right, let's stop and pay some bills before we do some asking idiots, man. SquareSpace. Thanks to getting the Square Space for supporting this week.
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Starting point is 01:24:19 them just putting out great videos and great content and editing great stuff and so yeah I think it goes back even to when Alex and I were just putting out stuff and then finally catching on and gaining momentum and steam and obviously
Starting point is 01:24:35 Charlottlement and sharing his platform of fan base with me I disagree with everything you just said well you could disagree all you want but it is the truth of the matter Rogan sharing his platform with me like I disagree with all it Charlene and Rogan, I think, are crucial. And then putting out enough work where when those platforms were shared,
Starting point is 01:24:55 there was something for those people to enjoy. Nobody put Andrew Schultz on. Andrew Schultz put himself. No. Nope. Nope. And I'm going to tell you why that is the case. Because there's, like, we started this podcast 11 years ago.
Starting point is 01:25:07 Andrew has been a stand-up comic that has been, you know, focusing on his craft of stand-up throughout that whole time. I think the- I am one whole- of Mochanui. On July 10th. Tehu. Maui, you will board my boat and restore the heart of Tefeiti.
Starting point is 01:25:23 And here we go. The journey begins. See her light up the night in the... He chose you. Let's go save the world. I got your back, chosen one. Disney's Moana. Boat's neck.
Starting point is 01:25:39 His name is Hay Hey. His name is Yum. When he goes in my tum-tum. In theater's July 10th. Into a shift when Andrew said, you know what? I'm not going to be like all these other comedians who cuffed their material. I'm not going to be like all these other comedians who, you know, are afraid to share their app material because they can't come up with new hours and new shit all the time.
Starting point is 01:26:00 I think you starting to take your stand-up clips, posting them online, posting them on YouTube. I think that evolved into the turn-the-camera shit. Yeah. And I think that the Rogans and everybody else, salute to Joe Rogan, though, that's what they notice you. Like, it's like, it's like that old, what's that quote. I don't know if it's a quote, but they said if you see, if you see somebody on the side of the road and their car's broken down, you'll just drive by them. If you see them pushing it, you'll get out in the system.
Starting point is 01:26:33 So you taking that mental shift and start putting out your content, you know, I think that is what made people start to take notice. By the way, that could have been a risk. You could have started putting out all that content and don't nobody give a fuck. Yeah. Trust me, you know how many comedians I see every day trying to follow that model right now? And nobody gives a flying fuck. But don't you stop.
Starting point is 01:26:51 You keep on trying, buddy. You keep pushing. No, seriously. Yeah. Because it's like lightning in a bottle. Yep. It hit for you. So, you know, for everybody that's, you know, coming around now, it's like,
Starting point is 01:27:03 you really built this from the ground, ground up. With a lot of help from really fucking talented people like you and Rogan. But, but yes, you need to build it. You need to build it 100%. I agree with that. And it's not just being around guys. like you, but it's also putting in the work and making the work great and working really hard at it. But I think, like you said, once you do that, other people start to take notice and they want
Starting point is 01:27:30 to help promote you and they want to help put you on because they recognize the work. So I agree with that. Podcasting is not stand-up. Right. Like that's a whole different lane. We do the brilliant idiots podcast. You know what I'm saying? Rogan does a podcast, but Rogan is also a stand-up comics, so he recognizes other stand-up comics. Yeah. I think the podcast helps, you know, grow your profile and grow your brand, but I remember when people didn't even know you was a comic. They had no clue. I can show you a text right now. A motherfucker hitting me, sending me a clip where you want to say, I didn't know Andrew was a comic.
Starting point is 01:27:58 Yeah, I know. The fuck you mean. Andrew been doing stand-up for 12 years. Longer. I think like, fucking 17 or something like that's what I'm saying. It's just like, yeah. Personally, I think the mental shift was when you just started, when you stopped cuffing your material, which I think has changed the game of stand-up in so many ways because
Starting point is 01:28:15 other stand-up comics don't cuff their material now. Yeah. And I think you have to have confidence in yourself to go out there and make some funny shit. Yeah. Constantly. Yeah. This is comedy. We got to keep pushing.
Starting point is 01:28:26 People that have been doing the same set for years, that is disgusting to me. I'm not even joking, yo. You've been doing the same set for 15 years, the same joke. Yeah. Like, and you think that I don't remember when, you know, you used to talk about it being a payphone. But now without a cell phone, like, yo, what are we doing? Like, yo, you should be able to come up with funny, witty shit every day. If you say your job is to be a comedian, a stand-up comic,
Starting point is 01:28:53 if these people on Twitter are coming up with witty shit every day, if these people on these podcasts are coming up with witty shit every week and every day, you can't. But you're supposed to be the pro? You got to push. Come on, man. Yeah. Come on.
Starting point is 01:29:09 M.V. Can King Hesse beat Caitlin Clark one versus one? What would be the score? Yes. Nah, bro. You ain't ever see Caitlin Clark, but you have not watched enough Caitlin Clark, you're six feet tall.
Starting point is 01:29:24 She's really good. Chris, you watched Caitlin last night. Well, she's in better shape, first of all, right? Like,
Starting point is 01:29:33 this is coming from someone out of shape. I'm at my peak physical fitness. All right? No. I don't know. Listen, I'm going to win. It's going to be,
Starting point is 01:29:43 I'm going to have to be a dog. Right. but I'm gonna win but when I'm a dog I'm gonna have to be a dog it's gonna be ugly you would have to rough her up I'd have to decide
Starting point is 01:29:52 you cannot play her like she's a girl I'm not playing her like I'm going at her chest you got to you gotta play her like she's a man you got a player like she's trans like you got to go like you gotta I'm serious man you cannot play with Katie Clark
Starting point is 01:30:08 I agree I'm not playing with Caitlin Clark you can't like you're going to rough her up could you beat her if you weren't allowed to back her down if everything had to be off the dribble. Now we're not, first of all, yes, but like, well, bullshit. No, I could. You'll never get the ball.
Starting point is 01:30:22 How you figure? If you get, if you give her the ball first, you're not getting the ball. She's not going to the basket on me. That's impossible. She's so fast. She's so crazy off the dribble. Stop.
Starting point is 01:30:32 She's going to blow by you. You're 40 years old to your dad. It's all the respect. 40 years on your dad. Yeah, but I can foul. You're a dog, but you're an old dog. I'm an old dog. You're old dog.
Starting point is 01:30:43 You know what? Old dogs don't need new tricks. All right. Old dogs got one hesitant, and that's all it takes. No. Listen, I take out NBA players with it. You think I can't take out an NCAA player with it? You took out one wounded dog.
Starting point is 01:30:59 10 years gave you five bones. Six bones, six bones, six bones. But he decided those rules. If he didn't decide those rules, I would have taken them seven points. Easy, light work. My point is, Caitlin can get this work, too, with all due respect. No WMBA player, no female basketball players ever challenged me, and I've challenged every single one of them.
Starting point is 01:31:18 So whenever they're ready, I'm here. If you ever do a show in Columbia, South Carolina, I'm setting it up. I do a show everywhere. You, I'm throwing that shit. Versus Mala. I'm throwing that shit. That shit's getting thrown. All of these shits are getting thrown.
Starting point is 01:31:34 Look at that. Oh, what is that defense? Listen, you versus Malaysia for Wiley, yo. If you ever come to Columbia, South Carolina, you versus Malaysia. for Wiley one-on-one colonial life arena. Okay, if Asia Wilson's in town might even call up Asia Wilson, Asia backing you down. I'm throwing it.
Starting point is 01:31:53 I'm throwing her shit. I'm throwing all their shit. It's not even a question. Let's do this one last question, man. Classic Grant. This is a great way to end the podcast. How do you think, how do you guys think the world would end?
Starting point is 01:32:09 Natural disasters. I don't know if he's asking us which natural disaster would end. Or how do we think things are going to end, period? I mean, based off today, I think that Taylor balls up her fist and slams on the ground and the earth splits in half. Like, fucking. That's what I think is. God to happen now.
Starting point is 01:32:26 I'm playing with you. I don't think the world's ever going to end. Worlds don't end. Human civilizations, dude. There's plenty of players that's out there right now. They might be desolate, which probably, probably did have life at one point. But not no more. Not no more.
Starting point is 01:32:45 You know? Not no more. God's just sitting around with the real estate. Like, what am I going to do with this? This human thing didn't work. This human thing didn't work. That's why he created dinosaurs first.
Starting point is 01:32:55 You don't think he was like ever, you ever wonder like why he created dinosaurs. Like, let me see what this does. Like these are toys right now. You built like a little bronosaurus right now. A big diesel last bronosaurus right now. A little buff brontos. Okay.
Starting point is 01:33:12 Right now. I'm gonna be honest. Punch buggy white. I'm gonna punch you all right now. I think God sits around with his team. With his team. With Jesus them. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:26 And I think that they are having conversations about, and I think it's one person on this team that keep telling God, you know what you keep messing up at? This free will thing. If you stop giving these people free will, stop giving these creatures free will, why do you keep giving these creatures free will? Why do you keep giving these creatures free will?
Starting point is 01:33:43 It's the free will that's ruining it for all of these different planets. Now, you can give animals free will. Animals mind their business. Animals just do the circle of life thing. For real, animals just do the circle. You don't see animals bothering us? You can be in the ocean right now with a boat and a five-ton whale will not knock that fucking boat over.
Starting point is 01:34:05 Whales minding their goddamn business. They do mind their business? Mindy motherfuckling. Most creatures mind they business. It's us. We don't do that. It's these goddamn humans and these these intelligent, what they call, intelligent life, even though all life is intelligent.
Starting point is 01:34:22 It's us with this free will that keep fucking this shit up, yo. He might have a point. I'm telling you. Why are you like animals doing tech? There's mad alligator attacks, shark attacks. But that's when you go, when you take your stupid ass in their house. You're in the swamp. You're in their house.
Starting point is 01:34:36 Ain't a breaking an entry. Walking up to your door looking for war? Yeah. You ain't never heard of a fucking alligator doing a home invasion. But humans, we do it. God. Damn. Jesus Christ, man.
Starting point is 01:34:49 So to answer your question, how do we think the world's going to end? I don't fucking know. And no thoughts on the solar eclipse? It's going to be humans. Humans are going to end the world. What solar eclipse? Socialics is coming on Monday. That's all.
Starting point is 01:35:01 Well, I got to go see my daughter. That's right. 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 look to this podcast, you think we're just a couple idiots and don't know shit. You're right, too.
Starting point is 01:35:13 It's the brilliant idiotist podcast. Peace.

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