The Brilliant Idiots - Ignore The Noise (Ft. Stylebender)

Episode Date: February 18, 2022

This week on the podcast we have UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya A.K.A. Stylebender in the studio, and we discuss what life is like inside and outside the ring, and catch up on Kanye-Kim-Pete drama, recap the Super Bowl halftime performance, ask an idiot, plus more!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's so stupid. It's positively brilliant. Yep, ShalaminiGy God. Andrew Shult. We are the Brilliant Idiot's Podcast. Doodoo Herm is here. And our guy Izzy is here. Let's go.

The champ. Telling wax how thick he is. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Straight away. Straight away. Wow, you're just going to have to take that, bro. I ain't listening.

He's just going to have to take that. I'm not supposed to listen to everything. No, I was talking to Izzy about how many calories does he burn in the day? Because that's something I'm on now because, you know, I'm getting my, my, I'm really taking training serious for, like, the first time. No, I'm on, I'm on a hit training diet. I don't know what firm guy that's doing. That's my cousin Tony, but it's like I watch how many calories I just burn in a day just doing regular stuff. Yeah, just sitting down.

Just sitting down, walking around. I can you tell. The Apple Watch. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Why does this girl act like this? shit more important than her job. You're going to miss your blessing. Real talk. Sit down right here.

Izzy was asking about you. He was asking about you. Hello, Taylor. How are you? Pleasure. That's Chloe Bailey. Oh, you mean, I'm back. Hey, Taylor. He said for some reason you remind him of Chloe Bailey. I never said that. Yeah. For some reason.

For some reason. He's got pants on, so I don't know what the thing looks like. God damn You can tell he ain't from here You're still talking like it's the 90 Yeah, baby You're talking like It's the early 2000

Jesus Christ What that thing look like I just want to see I just want to see If you said what I'm saying I want to see if it looked like Chloe Bailey's because she got her thing all online So you know that is true

That is true Respectively That is true Context is key Listen they do me dirty So I got you Exactly I appreciate that

Yeah How do you feel man you just in here regular, like you just wasn't fighting for your life? This is a brutal sport. You know what the name walks around all day with crippling anxiety? So the idea that you're just calm after fighting for your life, it's shocking. For me, like, it's about, so after that happens, right, you go backstage, they pull you, like, different directions and, like, you know, media this way, come speak to me, and come speak to Laura,

press conference, and this guy, and that, then, right, take this photo, take that photo, and this. And then like I always say after the fire, I look forward to my shower. Because that's, for me, a shower is the most honest place in the world. I feel like I'm Neo in the Matrix when it's all that white space. Because you're,

well, you're normally there by yourself. More so than taking a shit in a public place? Nah, that's fucked that. No, but like you're just, yeah, you're in the shower and you're naked, you're in your bare essentials and with your thoughts. So then I get to really process how I feel. And then that's what helps me kind of like,

I guess, uh, get back into being, get back from being, I guess, the alter ego of being the style being is, it's just being Izzy. And yeah, I mean, now I'm just on, I'm on the job right now, just doing this whole media tour. So it's just similar thing, kind of like, you know, being pulled in different directions. But then after this is done, I'm going to the game tonight.

Same thing, I'll be, you know, on my shit, just smile and wave, all that. And then when it's all set and done, I go back to my hotel room and then silence. Yeah. But I never see you get, like, everybody. Yeah, like, you never. like that even at the fights, you never like, it don't ever seem like you're in violent more. W.W.E? Yeah, it's like you just enjoy what you do.

There's only one time where I saw you upset in a pre-fight. Remind me. When Costa brought out the white belt. Oh, yeah, that. I saw that. That's the only time. Also, Brunson kind of got to me in L.A. one time. This is at the bar before the press conference. He was sitting across from me and

starts talking shit. And it's on tape. It's on my Instagram somewhere online. And, yeah, I was just, we started talking shit back and forth. And the security had to kind of coming between and just, you know, settle it. But the Costa one, I saw everything beforehand. I was so on for that fight. Like, I knew there was a bulge in his shirt, none in his pants.

Aim for the bulge. There was a bulge. Like above his, like, just around his abdomen. I was like, he's got a belt on. And then I saw, I was like, you have a black, if you notice, I say, you have a black belt. He lifts it up and says, I have the gift for you. And then he brings out this fucking, leave a robe.

The bathrobe thing. And I knew that was coming. So I knew he was going to try and hit it at me. And I kind of like. flinched the first time because I thought I was going to throw it. And then when he threw it, caught it with the left. Because, you know, I'm Nigerian. I know my way around the belt.

Since I was a kid. So he tried to hit me. I was a snatched it with my left. And then I whipped him with the right. And then I got him. And then he's like, and I was calm the whole time. Yeah. I was like, this is all for gazing.

This is all acting. It's theatrics. I even said. And he's like, and then right there. And then he shows me his game plan. He goes, I'm here. Come here. I'm here.

Come here. And he wants to act like he wants to do a, a face off, but I was like, this is what he wants to do in the fight. And guess what in the fight? He does, you runny, why are you running? Come here. Come here. So he showed me his hand too early.

His levels to this, man. Like, people don't realize, you watch it at the wayans. He's like, I'm here, come here. Because he wanted to get it back. So if I had obliged to come there, then he would have pushed me or something. But I'm like, no, I'm just going to stay right here. And I was looking at him. And then in the fight, same thing, when he couldn't touch me.

He said, why are you running? Why are you running? Come here. And then I came elsewhere. Wow. So in a moment like that, did he eventually come to you? Did he eventually come to you? No, I came to him on.

Oh, you didn't see the end of that one. I don't know what you're humped him. Damn, man. Is that the new biggest fear after losing a fight? We're getting humped on? Yeah, because before it's just like, I don't want to get knocked out in front of all my people. But now you get knocked out and then just violated. It depends on you fight.

If you fight in style and you know he might do something like prison rules. It just depends on how it was before the fight. Like this guy, like I was saying before in the other room, I said, like, it's all about the story you're telling yourself, right? So this fight, that fight, or that fight, I felt like he was a quintessential jock or bully that I had to deal with coming up because, you know, I got picked on a lot

being a skinny black kid in a town that didn't have many like me. And, yeah, he just reminded me of all these cunts I used to deal with back in the day. And the way he was acting before. the fight just being a bully and I was just like I'm gonna get you fuck I want to take the bite out the bully so I had to become what I hated and be the bully so I guess

UFC gotta be kind of therapeutic right yeah fighting it is it is yeah it's a way of um kind of like comedians I guess you know there's I like I said I've got the chips and the dip of my shoulder so there's certain things I want to I want to express you know from past past trauma that I I get to do so now

this is interesting we're talking about this before I'm curious perspective he's like Well, tell, Charlotte about how you don't want to necessarily let go of the trauma because it inspires you. This is my fear as well with like settling on my trauma. I'm like, is that going to take away my advantage?

That's why I'm like being hungry. No therapy because therapy going. You need therapy way. You need therapy. Everyone needs therapy, but there's a certain level of like. So I haven't been to the jungle of Peru yet because I don't want to touch.

I respect the sacred sacrams. I lost. I can't wait to do it. But I want to. I want to. But, and when it calls me, it will. But I just don't want to go there. Just call me, bro.

You've been calling me for like a year and a half. I got to do it. I have to do it this year. And I've had opportunities to go get it done, even in New Zealand. But I was kind of like, you know, I'll wait until I'm done fighting because I don't want to, you know, deal with all the stuff that I haven't dealt with yet.

That starts just suppress, suppress, that this is going to bring out to the forefront. I'm forced to look. And then what if I come at it, you know, enlightened or understanding where that comes from? and then I identify the monster and I kill it. And then what if it affects my fighting? But this also happened in the Avatar series.

Long story short, Prince Zuko checks in the Avatar, trying to catch him, finally catches him, then becomes friends with him, and then he can't firebend anymore because he doesn't have that anger, that drive anymore. So he and Ang have to find the first source of firebending. They go to this tribe that's hidden in and find the original firebenders, which was these two dragons.

And then they were able to learn the original way of firebending with that all that. So I believe I might even be a better fighter for it. Yeah. That's the gamble. That's the gamble. Yeah. What I'm like,

what if I'm not? But what if it's not even the anger that's driving you though? Exactly. That's what if I'm not? What if I get that done? And it just lifts the weights off me. And I'm just like I'm even more sure of myself, more lighter. You know what I mean?

More dangerous. That's the word I would use for you, you know, when I see you in the ring, it's lighter. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's like, I don't even know if anger is. I mean, you know, you know better to me because you're anyone in there. but I don't know if anger is what fuels you when you're in the rain. Yeah, you don't seem like me.

I'm not angry. The last fight I had just on the weekend, I wasn't angry. And we talked about this as well. My guy, Jeff, he's, uh, he, he, he kind of brought it to my attention to that whenever I have static with someone or beef with someone, I really take them out. I really go at them in a different way. And this guy fought, um, this is a rematch. First of my fault him, he just reminded me again of these fucking cunts I used to deal with back in the day. and like I said at the press conference before the fight

were in Melbourne in his country and the whole crowd was on his side and he'll say something and everyone would just be like like they'll ham it up and I'm like you guys are just fucking it just felt like he was a jock and he had this cool kids around him

and just talking shit and I was like fucking watch this like I was just like I want to show you guys like he's full of shit and I humbled him I let him know he was full of shit so this time he came at me correct at the press conference he was somber quiet he said he said

I had bringing rights. So I beat him up. I dropped him in the first round, but, you know, Jeff made a note that, you know, maybe I didn't have that same sting I do like with Costa,

with a Brunson. Well, God damn, Jeff, what you want him to do? The first round, knock out. He wants prison rules, that's why. But did you lose that, too?

Like, as you... You changed, I'll be honest. Not just your skin tone, by the way, but you change. Page of Maine? Like, like, when

Radio War is Charlemagne. Like, that, when you were in, with the beef, the battle, do you think that you still have that switch that you could turn? Or do you think that you've come to a place where you're like,

I don't even need to turn it? I think it's different. And the only reason I think it's different is because I think that, like, I think when you talk about somebody like, Izzy, I don't think he does what he does out of anger because you have to be strategic in that ring.

You're going to angry, you probably get knocked the fuck out. There's ways, though, you can use your anger to your benefit. You can raise your, your, your, your, your level of anger for your benefit. And example, Brunson, when I fought him in MSG, right, in the fight, the first time he grabs my shorts. And I'm just like, I know you grab my shorts.

And the second time he does it blatantly. And I'm like, that's twice now. That's twice for that dick. Yeah. My man, trying to say, dick talk. Yeah, and then like I flipped him off. And then I raised my level of anger consciously. I'm not attached to this guy.

He's not my friend. You know, he's not like Jeff. Like, if me and Jeff, had beef, I'll be clouded with emotion. Anger from emotion clouds your judgment. Yes. Yeah. Anger from emotion, but anger, when it's just from someone you don't really give a fuck about,

you can raise your level of anger to be assertive, to be dominant. And it's like fire. You can use it to, like, fuel you or you can use it. It can burn your house down. Yeah. So there's ways to use anger, and there's a time and place to use anger, but a lot of people who have misplaced and misuse anger, man. That right there what he said is true, because it's like,

back in the day, if I'm talking about a person, that was my mindset. I don't know this motherfucker. Yeah. You know what I mean? That person can't make you angry. But no, no, I don't give a fuck what that person feels. Yeah, because you're not engaging with them at all.

At all. But then as you get old, then, you know, you start doing more work on yourself. And also you start hearing things about yourself. Yeah. You like, I don't want to make nobody feel like that. You know what I'm saying? Just because, like if I, so now if I do approach, like if I have some conversation for somebody,

which I do, it's critique. actual, it's actually coming from a good place, not a, fuck you. I'm just trying to entertain, you know what I mean. Trying to put, even though I may mean what I'm saying, but I'm understanding the performance behind it. Now I was just like, no, you really need to hear this. Also, like, as you get more successful, you're going to interact with these people that you make fun of when you realize they're really human.

And they're human beings, bro. You know, just the person on the screen. That's right. Name on the thing. That's right. That's right. You put a face to the name. Bro, the other day, well,

Flagrant teasing Kid Cuddy. I don't even listen to Kid Cuddy. I'm literally doing it as a joke. I can name one Kid Cuddy song. I'm sure the guy's a nice guy, whatever. But we're just going in, I doubt this at anything to do it. But later in the day, he's, like, posting something on his Instagram, like, pray for me as I'm going through these times. He deals with really severe mental help it.

Oh, come on. How am I supposed to know about these things? Yeah, he deals with really bad depression and anxiety. I didn't think it was real. Yo, that guy said it now. Come on, right. Yeah. This guy made everyone depressed.

No, he was doing. Cutty was way on that. He saved live, bro. He saved Pete life. I'm not going to lie. A lot of a lot of people, damn, he took Kanye's wife's son. God bless. That's why Kanye angry,

that's why he saved him. That's my Kanye angry says. Well, he saved him so Kanye can beat his ass, isn't it? Oh, man. Kanye gets a real. No, that's seriously what happened? You know what's crazy? What's crazy?

The only times that I be happy is when somebody want to fight me. I only get angry when I can't fuck you up. Why is that your comfortable place, though? Because he's got anger issues. No, no, no. You went to anger back in the day. I had to go. You think I put myself in there?

Oh, I see. You have to go. I never put myself in self-reflecting on the couch. You had him in the beyond scare straight program. Oh, no way. Yeah, that dumb-ass shit, man. When you were young, this role. No, I was in college.

He was in college. He put me at a scare street. The inmates were supposed to scare him. He's begging to get in there. Let me in there. Let me in him. Dudes over in Akkad all crazy. I beat the fucking shit out, you boy.

You haven't here eating fucking peanut butter and jelly and fucking other tuna fish. I know the fucking eat. Imagine how the inmates are like, where the little boy? I'm freaking these big motherfuck. Garred ass motherfucker. The OG is like,

nah, man, we get it, man. We ain't fucking with you. I'm like, I'm like, y'all know why I'm here? Yeah. No, but Cuddy really did say people's life. Pete said that. He said that on breakfast club before. How?

He was like, did his music. Sometimes, man, just hearing people share their story and talk about what they're going through, being vulnerable. It gives people's strengths. Somebody said that about Kevin Gates not too long ago. Somebody said, yeah. He seemed like he's changed as well. He's leveling up.

But aren't you supposed to? You got to go through something. You have to. I feel like keep the same energy, but you need to evolve as a person, mature as a person. Yeah, yeah. It'll be easier for you, though, because it's like eventually you won't have to retire from fight. 100%.

I like this, I can't do this forever. And I know I'm like, if I was going to retire, man, I would have done this. like three fights ago. It was just about money. And I make my money and bounce. But I am learning and I'm enjoying what I'm doing right now. I'm in the stride of my prime. So I'm really enjoying, even just this camp,

you know, we had to get locked down for three months in August. We're kind of behind with this whole COVID shit in New Zealand. It's bullshit. I don't want to get too much into it. But we locked out from the gym, but we still found ways. We still found ways to train, allegedly. We still, you know, did our thing. And they didn't slow down our learning.

They didn't stop our learning, but they slowed it down. and now I'm just like, I'm really enjoying being back in the gym and soaking things up. I feel like the young Izzy again, the kid that would like learn this today and use it on you tomorrow. Yeah, yeah.

That's right. But that's, I wonder if that's because that's how I feel. Yeah, 100%. I've been feeling like a kid the last few years. Like, I don't know nothing. I'm just learning. I'm re-learning.

How the fuck do I have? Well, let me buy a house. Like, that's how I feel like. I really, I'm learning the game, but I'm just, I still feel like sometimes. I range from like age 12 to 45.

That's, you know, depending on the day. That's how I feel. Yeah, we don't know how mature you are until you tell us how many women you're in that rotation. How many women? Nah, I'm celibate right now, man. Bullshit. Straight.

Bro, wait, did I party after this fight? Jeff. Jane Goodall, come on. Allegedly. That's wild to say, I'm celibate and point to Jeff and say, did I call you? What? You ain't getting nothing, huh, Jack? Struggling.

Why don't you do? No, but for real, like, I. Everyone's being out, we're in Houston, everyone's being out my team. I just went to the Super Bowl party and I fell asleep because I ate too much. But, yeah, after this far, I've kind of just been, I find my time to myself and just kind of reflect and just be on my own and just build my thoughts. But I'm on this world tour right now. So, you know, I mean, we're in New York. I know some establishments that my friend knows.

So I will visit these establishments and have a good time. What you mean like brothels? What? Brothold. This, nigger. That's what we use the word establishment for. Oh, no, no, no. That's strip club or bravo?

A strip club maybe, you know. You can't smash in there. So, yeah, you can't. You can't smash. I'm trying to get no one pregnant. I know that, look, I'm not getting trapped. There's a reason I don't have no kids that I know of, allegedly. There's a reason I'm on TMZ.

I'm smart with the way I move. I'm smart with the way I, I've learned from the mistake of others. Yes. You know, and I've made my own mistakes. Trust me, I ain't no fucking sane. but you ain't no none either. Listen, how long you say Selim and for? At the moment, it's real celibate or Nick Cannon

celibate? No, I'm, I'm, I'm not like, I'm just, fuck, I got, okay, so I got scared straight in a way, not long ago, maybe like three months ago, I slitting someone's DMs, right? And then I heard about it the next day, and I was like, how do fuck you know about that? And it's, oh, no, she, like, just, you know,

talked about it in some group chat, and I put a screenshot. And I was like, oh, yeah. And what I was like, I didn't even open with nothing while, I never do. But like, I'm like, it kind of made me feel like, man, I can't even just like say what's up in my own city and, you know, just shoot your shots. So I do it the old way now. Either I get rejected in person or I get accepted in person. Yeah.

Now, you got to stay in them DMs, bro. Nah, man, I'm good. It's clout. It's all clout, man. They're after the clout, man. I had a girl posted a date that we went on years ago. Really? And post the picture I sent of myself to her.

No, bro. You saw it. Oh, no, you sent it to me. I was like how fuck Charlotte got on this? That shit was hilarious. What was my line? Look at this line. This is a real player shit.

You want to know about pushing feet? Oh, wait. How old are you at the time? Say what? How old was that? This is you. Hey, wait before my wife. I don't even know what to find it.

Receipts, receipt before my wife. No, this shit was funny, man. I can't get it. Shott is the man. You know why, listen, some people are just always funny. That's why Shote is in the line of work he's in. Yeah. I just saw Tee was like, show me those teeth.

He was like, let me objectify those teeth. Teeth. You have my seat? No, but I know if I, if I ask for anything else, I'm wild. If I ask for teeth, she's going to show me a picture naked, smiling. Yeah. And then I didn't ask for it. I'm like, oh, why do you give me this shit?

That's level. Can I be honest? She's trying to say, I'm a weirdo for asking to see the teeth. What does she send me? Titties. Of course. She sent me that goddamn tithy. Anything you do, like the teeth, tities and toes is all.

always like, you say teeth, I mean tities and toes. Yeah. T, T, T, T, T, T, T. You just have to know that when you're texting with people talking to them on the phone, they probably recording. Yeah. They definitely screenshot. Yeah. It's just like, you got to know that in this one.

Damn if you do, damn if you don't. Yeah. So what do you do? Watch porn. I do it in person. In person. Shoot your shot in person. That might be even worse.

Nah. The only reason I say that? You're a creeping person. Yeah. But those secondhand stories are worse because all they want is the story. Yeah. I just talked to Izzy somewhere and he said X, X, X, and Z. And then Chinese whispers as well.

Chinese whispers eventually, like, if I tell you something and then you tell him and then you tell it and then it goes around them. Before you know, it's a whole different story. You're like, yeah, you offer her. Yeah, exactly. It's like, that wasn't me. I never did. What? Am I?

No. That's not like COVID misinformation. It is. It does. That's not like COVID misinformation. He said. He said, she said. Yeah, pretty much.

That's the world we're living now, though. It's all clout. That's the new art. This clout, man. That's the currency, bro. Yeah. It's sad. And it's also sad, like, I think when girls post that kind of shit,

is them realizing this is as far as it's going to go. Honestly, I feel like if you, if that's like your flex, you smashed, um, I see, I sometimes I see clips on Adam 22's thing where some chick could be like, I did this with Drake. I'm like, is that like your, that's their peak. That's their peak. They don't see anything past that. That's these, man.

It's sad. What's these? You get in front of these. You feel like you have to say something. Everybody got a voice. You know what I mean? You feel like you have to have some type of content. You want to say something that's going to create a buzz or something.

I'm right. Tell your grandkids. You know what it is? It's like it's like some, it only happens when, at least for me, like some shit goes viral. Yeah, when you're popping. When I'm popping, like you got a fight coming up and all of a sudden, all these girls looking through their DMs like, oh, didn't that guy DM? Let me share the picture.

2014. They just want to get on board, man. Of course. They see the energy. They're like, I want a little piece of that fucking energy. I want to ride that wave. I want to ride that wave. Yeah.

And I don't think there's too many things that's naturally viral. I mean, naturally organically viral anymore. Because like sometimes, right, I think I spoke about that here before, you'll see clips of shows that will go viral about us talking about certain people. And it might be like a week later, a month later, whatever. You're like, why is this coming out now? I really be thinking the person we're talking about putting it out just to keep it on. Yeah, I see it.

I really believe that. I see it in the media. I see. I really believe that. I did see Sandbad this week for no reason. season. Simbad. Yeah, I talked about Simbad last show and just for some reason I've seen a Simbad. We had a checkered, a white and blue checkered,

Feli, I think. What are you talking about? Max, I don't know what's going on. Simbad. I talked about Sinbad last show and then he just happened to be in my algorithm. They're listening. That's why they're listening. One last time you've seen Sinbad.

I see Simbad all the time. One last time you've seen Sinbad, man. I think he's been a little under the weather, but does that sinbad? He's been under the weather? He's been under the weather? That's not the term? No, that means sick. Sick.

Yeah. Wait, he's been sick? cancer or something. No, no, no, I don't think it's nothing like that. Sinbad is still alive? Oh, my God, man. Simbad has been on breakfast club so many times. Yeah, and that old.

I love Sinbad. I feel like I see them all the time. I feel like, I feel like comedians talk about Sinbad all the time. You got to be the most popping person in the museum. Yeah, are you number one most famous person in your country? It's hard to say. You are the prime minister lady, right? Let's see.

No, she's all right. She's not bad. But she's pretty famous. She's alright, but she's not. Who's pretty famous? Who? Who? Who?

Who? Who? Lord? Lord from New Zealand? Yeah, she's from New Zealand. I thought she was from Australia. I didn't know she was from New Zealand. I went to a Lord concert once.

No, Lloyd's, Lord, Lord's slapping, bro. She's so slapping. She's got an Instagram page for a business. I think Stephen Adams is an athlete. He's pretty... No, you're more famous than Stephen. Stephen's the man, but you're more famous than Steve. Where does it?

Oh, shit. Russell Crow from New Zealand? Yeah, that's OG. I ain't know that? Russell Crow is pretty goddamn famous. Yeah. That guy's saying. Jackson?

If we want to talk like current, like current, right now. I'm doing well. I make, this is why I like some, some of the things I say sometimes get taken out of context on purpose

so they can sell, you know, what they want to sell in their website. Yeah. Like what? Your clicks? I mean,

does you get a lot of flag food sticking up for Rogan? No, not that, no. I mean, who's going to tell me shit? I'm like,

no, come at me. But something happened early in the year. I don't want to get to, how do I get into it a little bit? So remember when I told, what did I say, I think one of the,

the fighter said one time to some doggie guys like, you know, I got dildos in the car. I could fuck them boys. And he was talking shit to me at the time. And I was like, and I said to him in a clip that I said, yeah, this is like, this is Kevin Holland. Kevin Holland said that. He said, I've got dildos in the car. I can fuck them boys. And then he was talking shit to me at the time as well. So then I responded with the clip that I said to Derek Brunson like and I said, bitch, I'll fucking, you know, this is this fucking cancel call. They're going to, the thing is they're going to take this out of content. So I said, bitch, I'll fucking. I said, I'll fucking. I said that. to him face to face at the wayans.

And then I posted that. With drops. That's rushing. It's defined to edit. That's nothing. And then they took that. They took that. Just bleep it.

Yeah, they bleep it. So they took that and then ran with it as like, listen, I'm like, you're taking out of context on purpose. You know what's so crazy? Think about how much Mike Tyson used to say stuff. Bro. How fuck it till you love me, maggot? You know all that shit?

And he actually said what you said. Yeah. I'm like the real world. And I'm like, I'll eat your kids. Yeah, come on, man. That's like, that's right. That's light eat your kids, man. That was the 90s, bro.

The 90s was different. 90s, early 2000s was different. And one day we're going to have to have those conversations. Oh, yeah. What conversations. Just those conversations about how culture changed. Stop punishing people for the fucking. Let it go before you dig up some shit.

Make sure they did. You only talk about it if they did. Yeah. That's true. I was talking to somebody, I'm not going to say who, but they were saying how like you can't even get people to have that conversation. Nobody even wants to have it. They don't even want to touch it. They don't even want to touch it.

They don't even want to go near it because they're like, I'm not fucking risking they putting up old tweets or old whatever. They was like, fuck it, let it go. Yep. That shit was crazy. Young Bailey. Back again. Yo, Taylor.

Hey. I can't believe you and said that. Taylor, why are you too busy for us? Oh, shit. What I got to do with this? You said Chloe Bailey? What? You said she looked like Chloe Bailey?

No, no, no. Why? Why? Why? Oh. You act like, you've heard that before? Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Yo, this guy's a hater, friend.

I like, stirring the puck. Sturring the park. Stirling the pot. Showing it calls him Morris Chestnut every single day. She can't be Chloe Bailey for an afternoon. She can't have three hours at Chloe Bailey. Wax told me that she had the fucking windowsill shit and it turned into Chloe.

Oh, the thing. I see, I see, I see. The TikTok thing? Can you see that? I heard you do it yourself. I heard you like you put the picture up yourself. Oh, really? Why didn't you make me one yet?

Morris Chestnut. Yeah. You already know. What do they say? Who do they say you look like? Morris! But why can make me one? I thought that was a filth.

That's not a feature? You can put the ad. You can put the picture up yourself. Yo, damn. Man, I wonder why that shit was checkered when I did it. Yeah. So you open you upload it yourself. What do you mean?

You have to upload it for yourself. It's just like a black and white screen when I did it. Oh, shit. That's the, that's the game's way of saying. I only found this out like a week ago. I thought it was growing the whole time. Me too. Hey.

Listen, but what do y'all think about everything that's been going on this week? No, I'm going to ask you all this question. Good transition, shawler. No, I'm serious. I'm about to ask you all the question. Is that a segment? What? I'm really about to ask you questions.

I was like, everything. That is the best worst transition I've ever heard. In my entire fucking life Don't you do it right now, what do y'all think about everything this has been

going on this week? Now what's been real cold lately isn't it? Because in my mind we got the wide shot. You have to sit. In my mind,

I saw a bunch of shit but it was really that whole everything around the Kanye we don't care about this week or shit we care about that too, yes.

The Kanye Pete Kimple. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do y'all think? From the perspective of... Film me and film me in because I've been focusing

other things. But I see like little things on Instagram and I might slide like twice or swipe twice and I'm just like... Is calling... Is calling the man that's currently dating your ex-wife

is calling him skeet an insult? What skeet? Like, Jizz? I don't know. He's calling him skeet. Could you argue that it's accurate?

Talk to me. He's skeeting on your ex-wife. Yes. So you are being more descriptive than insults? True indeed. So I don't know if it's that bad.

That's what I'm saying? What context did he use the term? Instead of saying Pete, he calls him Skeet. So Skeet Davidson. Oh, I see, I see. Is he saying he looked like Skeet? That's funny. Who's Skeet?

If he looked like come. He's trying to call. I don't think he looks like cum. Yeah, he's trying to call Pete that. I don't know. I think that's a horrible name to call somebody who's currently with your ex-wife, bro. Why? Yeah.

Skeet. Skeet, Skeet. Why is that even in your mind? Why are you putting that in other people's the mind? The only thing we're all thinking about. We're not thinking about what movie they watch. You think you're holding hands? Yeah.

You think about them fucking. Yeah. Clapping cheeks. That's it. Exactly. So you could, you would call your new, your ex-wife's new guy. It's all the relationship I have with them, but I don't feel like you'd be invested that much in, you know, someone else's a relationship. Even if you were involved with them, I feel like, skeet is, uh, I wouldn't like it, but still, it's like, context.

Context. There's worse things you could be called. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, like, you know I'm smashing your wife and your family's skeet. Your name's already Peter. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? There's nothing you can call him that's not going to remind you of it. Peter. You can say skeet. You can say Peter. Yeah. You know what I mean? It all comes back to the.

Or the man who's having sex with his ex-wife. Oh, my God, man. Yeah. I mean, listen. That's a better word. It's just sad. It's kind of just, it's kind of just sad to watch, bro. You know what kind of stuff.

Like it's just, why is it out there? Why are we getting involved? Yes. Because everybody benefits. You know the thing I hate the most? I hate when people say, they'll release a statement, but then say, hey, I want to keep this private, though. I want to be a private matter between me and my family.

It's like, you just made it public. Kanye is acting like, well, what's that guy's named Hoodville right now? Who's that? It's like an Instagram account. Toxic niggers, man. It's just, yeah, it's like memes and stuff. But, yeah, he's just... What is his constant?

Oh, just like, you know, he just posts all these, like, weird toxic memes. So I feel like Kanye West is like going for Hoodville right now. Yeah. Yeah. But you can't imagine that. Imagine somebody smashing somebody you love. It happens. It's life.

I mean, were they even living together? Wasn't he living in Montana? Wyoming. It's like, it's cap. I don't know. I just think that Kanye is an album mode. When he's in album mode, he just taps into whatever.

Maybe he's doing the Jordan. Like, you know, I took that personally. Yeah. Drawing from the negative. Yeah. For that fuel. And I think that he needs fuel and his fuels is just attention. And it's like, okay, he dates.

He dates a couple girls before Julia Fox. They don't really get that much attention. They did. But here's the thing. Once he started dating the Julia Fox girl, that exploded. So he's like, oh, okay, so this is my girl now. They're here for two weeks. Yeah, I'm going to be here for a little bit because this is attention.

Oh, now I make fun of Pete and everybody goes crazy. That's the new thing for attention. So I think what he really cares about is attention, and he doesn't care who he hurts or destroys along the way. You should watch the first part of his documentary. The first part of his documentary is out already. Yeah, the first part, genius. It's very interesting.

because it really does show how everybody fronted on Kanye. And this is Kanye after producing for Blueprint for Jay, you know what I mean? Like this is, he's almost on his way to being super producer Kanye, but he wants to rap. He knows that he has something to say. And he's walking, it's this one scene in particular where he's walking around the Rockefeller offices, and he's getting people to listen to All Falls Down. This is all falls down.

Like, it's the record we all grew to love, right? but nobody's paying him no attention. Like everybody's just like, igging them. And you can see where, oh, that's what drives him. You know what I mean?

So are you saying that when you're a super producer and the people around you don't want to give you a microphone that you should keep pushing for it? If you're good, if you're great. No. If you're great.

Don't be like no yoke or no. Are you saying, are you saying that if you're an absolute, leave genius producer. Taylor alone. And everybody's laughing at you and take away your opportunities and take away your microphones. You should keep on pushing because you might be a genius. You know what's so funny about stories like that? In theory, right?

Yeah, you should keep going. But the reality is everybody's not conning. Oh, you know what I'm saying? Some of y'all need to quit. I say if you need to be great, if you're great, fuck yeah. But you don't, how do you know when you're great to? You gotta try. You gotta be a cell.

Michael Jordan got cut in middle school. He got cut in fucking high school, but then he goes and becomes the best player. But all the ball time. Chips in the dip, man. Chips in the dip, man. 100%. You can't believe in yourself 180.

You got to believe in yourself full circle. That's a good point. No, no. Another transition. I'm going to say, we're going to believe in yourself. Full circle, though. 100% Taylor Dess.

If you don't, if you give up on your dream, I don't believe it was destined for you. Yeah. I believe that dream, that thing that drives you, nobody can make you believe you can't get it. That's 100% true. Because it's driven by God. Yeah.

Yes. God won't allow you to give up. Forget what everybody else saying, what you're telling yourself facts. That's what matters. Yeah. For you, it'll come to you. Yes.

Period. The work. Yeah. What's for you will not go by you is a, is a sky. my mom would always say. But that is Fubu for you? Yeah, that's white fubu. Yeah, for us, by us.

Yeah, for us. Yeah. I can't. No, what's for you will not go by you. But yeah, 100%, but also it requires, it requires the work. Definitely. It requires the work.

And like in almost, we were talking about this earlier, but the, like the manifestation thing is kind of interesting because you manifest something and then it happens, but part of manifestation is believing like it's your destiny. Yeah. And a lot of people talk about destiny and then you go, oh, those people are crazy.

But you truly have to believe. Like, you gotta go, I'm going to be the biggest fighter in the UFC. You felt that way? Yeah, 100%. Before he was in the UFC. This is how crazy. This is how crazy.

Like, there's times when I had this beat up Honda back in the day, my boy's car, when Diamond moved to China, I was driving it because I didn't have a car. And it was a manual, right, stick shift. So whenever I would change gear, Sometimes, like, this is how weird my manifestation goes. I would change the gears and I'll do this and I'd change the gear.

I'll do this. And that was me, like, practicing having a sports car. Now I go to 720S McLaren. I call Kurama, the Ninthale Demon Fox from Naruto. And that was me practicing. And there was times I'll do it for like a week straight. And then there's times, you know, I'll just kind of fall by. And then when I need to manifest that again and just get that going, I'll just be back.

And it just became a habit. It just became a habit driving like that. And there's levels to it, man. And so on would look at me doing it. doing that and be like, that's fucking nuts. Like, what the hell? Why would you be? No, but it creates the destination.

It's the address for the GPS. Like, I always tell motherfuckers, like, if you want some, if you don't even believe you deserve something, why should anybody give you the opportunity for it? Like, you got to believe, not only do you deserve it, like, the world would have to stop spinning for you to not get there. Yeah. Facts. That's a lot of people would be like, what was your plan B coming up?

I was like, what's playing. What? It was never one. This is what I love doing. I love doing radio. What is saying is, like, having a bunch of fat woman having sex with. them I get money. What is good

that's good. That's not I used to buy it those back. You're nasty ass going to raw. Fucking rap that shit. But isn't that funny

like your delusion? Like that's the other thing that I also notice is like the things that you say that are delusional and people react to to it

as if it's delusional like their belief in you exponentially increases once those things become true. So when you say your dream to somebody in the beginning

they're like, what the fuck is this guy talking about? But once you start checking off those boxes. Have you noticed like that? Yeah, but I don't respect people like that. Yeah, but sometimes it's family, bro.

Like sometimes they don't, you know what I mean? Family can dick ride you. 100%. That's the truth. You are from South Carolina. Yeah. I'm the South. Family can get this dick too.

Don't know why they chop that up and take it up. But it's the truth though. It's like, it's hard to respect people like that. It's like, yeah, it's easy to, you know, act like you believe once it's there. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Once they can see it. You could have been helping me from the ground up. So I'm believing your vision. One thing is so my parents did not want me. Nigerian parents, why you want to be a fighter for? Yeah. Want you to be a doctor. Yeah, doctor.

Yeah. If you're not a doctor, accountant, I'm a lawyer, you're a failure. That's it. But then I'm one of the first or the first, you know, the first from my country, from my family to be able to be like, I want to be a fighter. My parents were like, fuck no. But then they still supported me. When I moved to Auckland, they still supported me.

when I needed it. So some people might not be able to see your vision, but if they love you and they love you truly, they'll support you. They'll support your vision and they'll make sure, even your friends as well, but as those that don't support you until you start to kind of like make headway.

Once my parents started to see them checks coming and they were like, oh. Yeah. But they supported me regardless. It's funny, man. I had someone tell me once recently that my family only respect me or love me for my money.

I'm like, what the fuck? Like the family Exactly I was rich Before I was a millionaire They were there Even when they didn't believe in my vision They still supported me

Because they knew This is what this kid wanted to do And he wasn't gonna take no for an answer I think a lot of times Like immigrant parents Want their kids to be You know doctor engineer lawyer These times

It's there's a security in it It's like they go Yo we risk everything to come here Yeah So you could have an opportunity We just want you to be okay And that's also been thinking they think of success.

They don't know. Exactly. Even if you said something about tech, they probably would be like, what the hell of you? That's true. That's true. You want to make apps.

What is that? I forget those for once. My friend is, but it's like, they're just trying to be good parents, which is like providing safety for their children, right? They don't understand.

And then I think what happens is once they see that you're successful, they're like, we're safe. We've got immigrant parents as well. That's right. My mom, at least. You know what I mean?

Now they're, they're, they, my mom took a big ass wrist so she was kind of cool with me doing she like really pushed me but I listened to what Akash like Akash went through the same thing you went through but I understand their mentality it's like you want to look out for your kid you want your kids have the best possible opportunity in this new place yeah and then they go for me I'm want to be a clown you know for you I want to be a box you like what the fuck is that me yeah like I love Nigerian I love Nigerian culture I've been having some conversations with people from Nigeria and a lot of them say they had to let go

of their Nigerian mentality yeah In order to be successful in America, for real. Wait, wait, what do you mean by that? I guess that whole wanting to be a doctor. The three or four jobs. The idea of what they think success is. And this is the thing I say about myself. Like, I feel blessed to be able to dream.

Because even the old job I had, I quit my job September 4th, 2013. That was the last time I worked, a regular job. And I never looked back. Next day, I was on a plane of China. That job, someone, even from the impoverished places in America, Because someone from where I'm from that's poor and broke, having a job like that would be a blessing.

It would be a blessing. And there'd be a, I got this job in New Zealand or I got this job in America. I can send money back home, all this kind of stuff. But for me, I'm blessed. And I used to have a little, this is back in the day years ago, I used to feel guilty about it a little bit that I'm blessed to dream, that I had bigger dreams than these people that I was like, this is more, this more than this for me.

This is more. But for someone else, this is the dream. But for me, I was just like, well, I'm blessed enough to have bigger dreams, so I have to actualize them. Yeah. Yeah, that is a huge privilege. Everything happened for dreaming. My mom gave me that shit. That comes from our parents, bro.

Yeah. It's like this idea. And my mom even, my mom said it to me. She's like, if you reach the stars and you get to the moon, you got to the moon and think about what that is. Like that is to me, I remember distinctly her telling me that. What else do we have? Even if you're everything in your beans, that's what else you have? I went to an elementary school.

My buddy teaches elementary school in Brooklyn. I remember asking these kids. And I was just like, I was like, what do you, or his middle school? I was like, what do you guys want to be? Like, what are your dreams? And they were terrified to even say it. The kids. And this girl said like, well, I'd love to be a baker.

And some of the kids kind of like laughed or whatever. And I was like, don't laugh. Like, should you do that? Do you want to do that? Yeah, but like, how could I do that? And I'd be like, does anybody else in this room want to be a baker and on a bakery? Nobody else raised their hands. And I was like, if you don't do it, there won't be any more.

Bakers. We need you or nobody gets croissants anymore. You can be the next little Debbie. You are little Debbie. Real talk. So it's like I think these kids like we've focused so much on teaching them like you know arithmetic and all this stuff in schools like teach these little motherfuckers a dream man

and teach them how attainable those dreams are. What happened to us? I don't know how school. Something that happened to us when we were younger that's all we had was dreams back in the day. This is the thing like a lot of people lose that as to get older. Like for me this is why I say like I said shower is one of the most magical places because you can I my imagination runs wild. Unless you're at Penn State, bro.

I'm not. That dream turned into a nightmare. If I heard that story, I heard that story. Whoa. Yeah. But like, I mean, you know, some people lose that when they get, well, that's why we're in the position we're earning because we're able to dream. Yeah.

A lot of people lose that. Yeah. You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised how some people can't even think past their hand. Next week. Yeah, exactly. This is like, nah, this is right here. I've got the secure job.

I'm going to stay right here. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to settle down. Like, you have to have, I feel for myself, I could not, I couldn't have settled down, man. Like when I was working a summer job where my dad currently runs as an accountant, is a tannery factory. And I'd see old men like 65, you know, 48. And they're working there the same job. And they work there maybe like 20 years just to get one of these.

And at the end, you get a gold watch. after I think 16 years and sometimes they'll get close like 15 years and three months and then they'll lay them off. Oye, yay, yay. NFL. Or they do that with your pension, right?

Or your last pet. Bonus pet. People get a big payday the next season. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, right. Yeah. So for me, I was just like, I was doing that job as a summer job

and I remember like the same for me. The same for me. And then it was, yeah, it was way too much, man. It takes confidence to dream. I think that's something that maybe we take for granted. Like, you know, used to it. Yeah, for whatever reason, we have confidence.

Like the bus sitting down right here, whether it was our parents fucking listening to us or loving us or whether we found it some other. Mine is because of Judy Blume. Judy Blum, maybe she made you great awesome. When I was young, I was reading a lot of. Behind every great black man, there's a strong white woman. Just read, all you there, God, is me, Margaret. I've heard that. It's actually a movie that comes out this year, actually.

But that confidence, I think, is what enables us. us to start dreaming because I think there's a lot of people who would love to dream, but their insecurities make those dreams seem ridiculous. And they're like, who the fuck am I to deserve this? I think is our traumas, I think trauma, especially with me, for sure, my traumas who got me to go higher. Somebody telling me, no, is what made me go higher. All the things that I had.

I love this for you wax. I love this for you. You're speaking like, you've really like stepped into yourself. Yeah. But sometimes you get dirty. You know, you know what's going on. Yeah. No, but for real, all the bad things that happen to see me is what got me here right now.

All the time somebody told me, yes, it's really what fucked me up. I wonder about that, though. It's the same thing when you talk about is he Angra. It's like, I wonder if those things really did propel us. Are there, because there's plenty of people that come to our lives and told us the right things to do and how to do things. And that has benefited us, too. Why do we always give it to our traumas? It is a combination.

It's like, it is a combination, but I do think that that plays a role. like shit. The other day my mom was shit, Faye's drunk, stressed up, and she was saying some wild shit to me, right? And I was just, she doesn't care, but like,

she doesn't mean these things, but she's like saying, kind of fucked up to pee, she's dealing with her stress. And I'm taking them, and I'm listening to this, and I'm just like, wow,

this is pretty cool that I'm like, not that affected by these things. And then I start to go, holy shit, maybe this is why I can deal with, like, internet scrutiny, better than some,

because I've dealt with. Oh, she was saying wild shit as in like, she was, Yeah, she was kind of coming at me a little bit. But it's her own personal stuff that she's projecting. And that's what your therapist will tell you.

Your therapist will be like, that has nothing to do with you. Yes. That's her? Yes. Yeah, but like I think maybe our ability or my ability, maybe to be numb to those certain things. I was like, that's maybe a trauma that turned out to be an advantage. But even, even sheep, they get hit to go to the side. If they were, if they had, if they had.

So you pet that sheep with him. I'm just saying. He patted the stick. Talking to a Scottish man about sheep. They guide him with the stick, but if they don't, if they don't get guy that they never get hit, they're still going the wrong direction. That's true. You know what I'm saying?

So thank God for Mr. Walmart for me to tell him I'm going to beat the shit out of him. He talked to me like that again. I probably still be working at Walmart. That's the nickname. No, what's the mallmart? He came, you know, around like holiday time, Mr. Walmart, they come check all the stores. And I used to work in the book. And he told me to come to the furniture department.

I didn't know what the fuck going on. So he's like, hey, sir, what's this? I'm supposed to tell him. Yeah. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're like, you'll fly up? Fuck you.

So you wanted to beat somebody up because they asked me to do your job? It wasn't my job. They just put me there to like fill in for the guy. That means that was your job in that moment. Thank God, Mr. Walmart. I told you I beat the shit out of you. Who is Mr. Walmart? Mr. Walmart, the guy who owned all the Walmarts.

Oh, the real, John Walton? The real, the real motherfucker came before. I told my shit out. I don't believe that. That's my word. I told him I beat the shit out of him. I don't believe me. What the fuck I'm alive for?

I think he's dead anyway. Hold on. Mr. Walmart came. Sam Walton? I worked there last week. What? How long ago this was? How long ago was this?

Hold on. The Walton family, hold on, hold on. Sam Walton. Die when? 192. When was I working at Walmart? Whoever he was, that was... You were six in 1999.

What are you talking about? No, I promise. It was... What's going to is different. The Walmart was the head general guy who should come to run... It might have been one of the Walton's their family. I don't believe it started.

They're not walking the fucking grounds. No, he was. He was going to all the stores, and he was like, you know, Mr. Walmart. Everybody was all tightened up that day. That's why I had to get somebody to fill in. No.

So who was it? Mr. McDonald's. A white person. A white guy. There's a white guy. You just assumed that they owned all the Walmarts. That's racism. A good kind.

Thank God for him. We brushed his teeth that day. He was like, I'm going to fuck with that black kid. He's going to be great one day. But that is still confidence. That is still confidence. If that's what you want to call it. Let's pay some business.

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Let's get back to this show. We have church announcements. The announcements are a very important part of what we do in church. Yo, infamous tour. Yes, we got some good news. Canada is cracking open so them Toronto shows are fucking on. We'll see you, Meridian Hall, three shows. I believe it's March 4th and 5th.

Thank God. So what was the problem? It was just closed because of COVID? They were closed because of COVID. And they were saying it was going to be closed until March 15th. So the shows are going to get canceled. Now they're saying everything's open back up. People are saying, fuck it, bro.

March 1st. Yo, people are done. Fuck it. COVID done, yeah. Coachella, they announced the day Coachella is wide over.

I saw that. Wide over. Man. And today and- today and Cali, mass man, Dave's gone. You know,

it is weird, like, it's weird that we can eat at restaurants. Car. And get me started. Yeah, but like this is the crazy shit

is like, you can sit down and eat at a restaurant and not wear the mask, but the kids can't sit down at school and just learn without a mask. It makes zero sense.

And what it is, honestly, for me, when I see it, it's just keeping up appearances. Yes. All these companies

want to like just look like because you see even like these videos of politicians before they go on stage they just like right they're backstage chopping it up and all that and then super bowl all them with their masks off you saw that picture it's and it's also weird as well seeing the um contract i was just in houston texas right barely saw any people wearing masks oh yeah i get here in new york yeah it's here there's there wild out there but then here i come out here and i'm seeing the streets like man everyone's wearing masks and i kind of got looked at a little bit because they're still like on the the door like you know please wear a mask or whatever but for me yeah i don't i'm a bit of a A rebel without a cause, if you want.

Sometimes. So I just, I don't, I don't want to be programmed to just like stretch. Just obey, obey, obey. My shit is. Like, you still buy condoms. Uh, too. Fuck all that, bro. Condoms are for America, y'all.

There ain't no condoms out there, New Zealand. Come on, bro. They don't got COVID. Is it? Come. Yeah. Yeah. Man.

If you know, you know. Come on, don't. Damn. If you know, you know. What's the point? What's the point? What's the point of condoms, Tom?

Where? For what? How long it been since you wore a condom, dude? I'm married. Exactly. Yeah. Years for me. You know what's so funny?

I did say that does. My girl finds a condom in my house. She thinks someone else moved in. She doesn't think he was going to work. I told my wife that the day we were that a chilling. competition for my daughter who's in Atlantic City. I'm like, y'all should go buy some condo, Joe. For what?

We in a hotel room. Just bring back that old feeling. He's got a feeling sometimes. This is for no reason. I might get caught. He's trying me to get a vasectomy anyway. So it's like, you know, you need a vasectomy. You got three kids, four kids now?

Four or four kids. I'm getting one. I'm getting a second. You should just cut the one that has the girl sperm. I'm turning the cable up. That's right. That's right. You got the players curse.

I leave one of them. That's what they call the players curse. Yeah. I used to call it the players, curse. Now I just look at it. That shit ain't the players. No, because you know the first. Toos out.

What? You have said. You have said. I think it's a blessing. Every time I have a new daughter, like, my life. And the first time I ever had a daughter, my guy told him. Why you lie to your friends, bro? Why you lie to your friends?

Why do you lie to you lie right here? Yeah. Why you lie with us right here, Doug? The name Torre. Torre. Hassan, Toray. What does he do? Oh, no, he's a designer.

Yeah. But I think he's from her face, baby. But he said you have a daughter. I know Toray. You know Torre? Yes. You said you're going to have a daughter. He made the suit.

And yes. I talked to Ray this week. That's crazy. You did? See? You're trying to get something made? What are you talking about? He's getting married, bro.

Jack Thriller is making a suit made from. That wasn't Jack Thriller. That was 50 cents. Why not getting the suit made? Jack Thriller about to go on verses. He did it already. He did it last night. So that's what I saw.

I don't know. Toray made his shit. But Toray said it's a blessing when you have a daughter. He was like, watch your whole life's going to change. Everything's going to open up you. And he was right. I respect. Before, before,

my life has just gotten better and better and better. I was a girl, dad. You're more man than a man than anybody because my father said you'll never become a man unless you have a daughter. Lord, have mercy. I ain't no man yet. Salute to Jack Thriller. They got mad at Jack Thriller just because he was making jokes last night at the

versus. How you hire a comedian to host versus and then get mad at his jokes? He was the joke. He told Anthony Hamilton, he said, he said, bring your runaway slave looking ass out here. And then he said, how many Negro spirituals are you going to sing for nothing? I thought it was funny. It is funny.

And by the way, I didn't even see it. Well, who's mad at him? I guess the internet. That's a good. You know what? That's a great guy. I said that from now on. That's right.

If you tell me they and I say who and you say the internet, I don't give a fuck. Yeah. Yo, we're going to make they so bad that trans people stop identifying as that. Is they? I thought it was already. We should make a they Because they No, but you know what I'm saying?

Like, they is the cause of all our problems. Like, they are trying to shut that rogue and like they are upset this way. They, we need to make like a visual of they. Call it already told us they was haters. They was haters, bro. What is it going to look? Yeah, who was it going to look?

Yeah. You know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking right now. You know what I'm saying? What do they look like, bro? Don't do it. What do they look like? Don't do it.

Don't do it. Just simply don't do it. I got it. There's no. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. There's no need to even do it. All right.

Just hit him with the hezzy. Got to get out the way. So Ray made James Hardin's outfit that he wore in Philly when he was sitting on the bench. He makes other stuff, too, brother. He makes some great other stuff. The back skirt? He makes other stuff. It's like a little back skirt.

Like a skirt in the back. He looked like an imicin. A cape. Oh, like a Batman Macsker. M. Bison, bro. You know, I remember the back skirt. That's a funny name for a safe.

You know, the next one will be good, though, yo. Who with Ben Simmons? Yes. I'm watching. I'm going to be there tonight. Yeah, I'm going to have a look. And Andrene. Who are they playing?

Tonight. Are you on a Nets game? Nets and Nix play tonight. At Garden or at the Nets play? Okay, good. Nets and Nets to Nix play tonight. Yeah. Well, I mean, this comes out on Thursday, but we put on Wednesday.

Nets and Nicks play tonight. Okay, bet. How many of your guys are going? All of us, but I'll just be on the floor and then, yeah, we'll swap out. He's trying to see if you got room for him. Oh, bro. I have season tickets there and I was going to offer tickets to a couple of guys. Oh, for real?

Yes, of course. Thank you. Oh, brother. You're the mac. What's your entourage like, isn't? Not crazy. We're just talking about this. I'm just with the circle.

I don't roll crazy. I don't roll too deep. I bring my people with me. Even flying in New York. So I came from Houston to New York. I thought, you know what? Let's get the PJ. On the PJ.

Yeah, just have fun. On the PJ. It was my baby sister's birthday, and I wanted to give that experience to them, you know. So I like to bring my people with me, my people who I really, I really fuck with. So, yeah. And that shit ain't cheap, bro. Yeah. But, you know, I'm rich now, so it's different.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, he's got deep pocket. I think he's number one and I'm number two highest paid UFC fighters, I think. But it was your reaction was funny. Which one?

You're like, I don't know nothing about that. when Connor, Connor said, Connor basically came out. It was like, congratulations to Izzy, you know, like, and Paradigm Sports. Oh, yeah, I want money. And he goes,

he goes, yeah, exactly. And he goes, you know, that's right. Me and Izzy are the two highest paid athletes in the UFC. And he's like, I don't know what money you're talking about. Like, don't come asking me for money.

Because I know what people's just like. I know what it's going to be like when I get back to New Zealand. So I'm just like, man. Oh, people hitting you up. Like, yo, what's up? I'm surprised, man. You be sorry. I stay broke.

Because it's interesting. Because people are always talking about UFC fighter pay? And then Izzy's just been like, they pay him, yeah, right? They're not paying you? Like, Jake Paul made it seem like the UFC fighters wasn't making no money.

Nah, there's levels. There's levels. I mean, boy, I even said it's the post-fight press conference. I'm like, look, he makes some valid points, you know, he makes some really valid points. So I'm like, yeah, the debuting fighters, the debutants, they should be able to fight for the UFC, pay their coaches, the managers,

and not have a second or third job, have enough to be able to just have a 12-week training camp without getting another job because guess what rising tide lifts all ships yeah if if the the quality of fighter pay goes up from those levels yep they're gonna be fighting much better for for the fact that they get they just get to train yeah that's all they do better quality product exactly yeah so trust me it's good and i said it's this effect's going to trickle down because francis already started it with his you know disclosing of what's happening with the ufc which was atrocious by the way and i think some egos got involved and it was just a little bit too much but it's gonna

trickle down now, they're going to have a meeting with them. And I know they're going to, I hope they come to an agreement. Because I feel like, you know what, the UFC heavyweight champion of the world should not be fighting for 600K. And he's such a great ambassador. 600K? Yeah, I know, but that's because I feel like they made some mistakes and there was

it's just stuff that I shouldn't be, he should talk about this because he knows better and it's not my place to speak. But I just felt like mistakes were made on the UFC's part. Because guess what? Humans. There's humans running the UFC. Yeah. And also humans have ego and human error is a thing. The average person is watching this in like 600K, I'll go get my ass kicked for 600K.

Not by Francis, fuck. Yeah, that's you. But also, another thing you got to look at is like, I don't know. And maybe I'm different because I look at things as opportunities. And like, I've done so much shit for free that I love doing. Now, it's different than getting your fucking ass potentially kicked. Yeah. But that is like the highest stakes of everything.

But like, I look at UFC and I'm like, yo, you could turn this into bread. Like, you might get low money in your first contract. But if you're a star, you get crazy sponsorships. You get other opportunities. start your own business, like flex this opportunity because if you're good in UFC, they're going to put that marketing muscle in that in the other fight sports you don't see.

Like, I'm looking at these boxers. I'm like only a handful of boxers are making real money. Literally, like seven boxes are making crazy money. The rest of them made, I don't even know if it's six. Because there's no promotional outlet for the other boxers. If you're not signed to one of these major promotional companies,

even if you want, they still got to sign a deal with another place to put on the box. I'm not making $3,000. I can't think we're all making money. Canello. Like my first UFC fight, I made six figures. And that was because I also got a bonus as well. But I knew my worth going into the UFC.

So my first UFC fight, UFC 2-21 in Perth, I made six figures. Before the UFC, I planned all this shit out, man. Yeah, I set myself up to win. Put it that way. Could you give somebody else that game plan and they could follow it? I already have. Just watch my story. Literally just watch the way I've done things.

The way I handled my social media. even what I went to school for, went to college for, media design, all that little stuff helped me farm my inside. I've never bought followers. I've never like,

you know, try and boost posts, and it's all organic. And that's just because I knew how social media worked. I knew how the currency of attention worked. And even back in the day in China, there's times I would make a post

and I'm like, fuck, if I post this with this caption, I'll look either. Oh, fuck. And I'd struggle with like 20 minutes of posting and I was like, ah, it's done.

And I'll put the phone down. It's done. And that was me practicing not giving a fuck. practicing, not caring. Even in China, like, little things in China, like being a big black man in the rural parts of China, being stared at,

that got me ready for the life I live now when I'm being stared at. Famous. Famous life. Like, straight up. Like, I've had the longest reigning, staring concerts with all Chinese people in the world. Honestly, man.

Like, not like, and they're not like, it's not in the ruin. Like, they'll just like, look at you like, oh, because you're marveling at you. Yeah, marveling. And then back in the day, used to get some like what the fuck are they staring at and I'll just like look at them as well but it was fun for me at some point but then I realized that sometimes and sometimes I'll break a

smile and then they'll smile back but then sometimes just they just like you said marveling at you like what the fuck is this big for just walking around my town for it's crazy but it all got me ready for this even having a car like Kutama my McLaren I only drive that car when I'm feeling good there was one time oh three or four months ago I thought I was like it was a sunny day I was like you know I want some dropped-up therapy jumping it start driving and And then I just started feeling weird. I only drive that car when I feel good and when I feel like I'm in a good place because then I don't want to be stared at.

And then straight away, I just put the roof up and then I just felt weird driving there because then at the lights, you know, people looking at me and I just hate that feeling of just people and I was getting anxious. And I was just like, oh, I want to go home. And I just double back and went home. Yeah, you got to be feeling yourself. Yeah. To drive a car where people are going to be staring the whole time.

It's all practice. It's all reps, man. Never wanted that attention. I mean. I don't like the attention all the time. But there's times when I feel like you got to let the motherfucking know. Hells, yes. Not me.

But you don't know who's who, though. I get what you're saying, though. I get why you feel that way. But my craft, you have to. Well, that's the thing. It's currency. Yeah, exactly. No, it's not.

No, it's not. Breaking a jaw is, nah. Like, little things. This is what I'm talking about. Like, people don't understand the level of, like, the, um, how the clout machine works. And it's the thing. I've done this so many times that it's just, it's almost like reps now. I just know what you do.

I know how to, like you said. I like what you said for the fight. Like, I'm being serious. I just knew how to, when it's time when I want to make people notice me, I'll make people notice me. The guys. Like Kanye and Alamo. Son, real talk. I noticed.

And there's a few guys that do it well. Yeah. You do it well. Connor does it well. There's a few guys where it's like literally fight week. I was waiting for a few. And it's like used to start maybe two or three weeks. Now it's seven days.

Now it's four days. He gave me nothing to play with. So I was just like, all right, you know, because like I said, I whipped his ass already. So he was kind of humble than the fact that he's nothing. What's he going to say to me? There was nothing to work with. A guy like, you know, Costa example. They're just going to run his mouth the whole time.

Exactly. My inventory, I was like, I bet. I've got so much to work with. Yeah, but I like that. I like seeing the fighters go, okay, it's fight week because that's what used to be. Yeah, I don't know. The fight is not. Like, I like going into a fight almost and going, I don't really care. And then you convinced me 48 hours out that I got to spend $75 on a pay-per-view.

Yeah. You got me. I'm here. I'm waiting. It could be even like on a fight date, like sometimes. Like weighings. There's certain things you can do that and just literally move the needle to that. Like, boom, from 500,000 pay-per-view bars to a million.

That right push. Yeah, exactly. It moves that needle. Even, like I said, the belt thing, I don't know if we're talking about it here with Costa. The belt thing, that just trend, that just went. Went crazy. And because I think the pose I did at the end as well, I was just having fun. So I just looked, like I said, that little trolley, skinny kid and this big bully getting angry, like, I'm right here.

Come. I'm here. So that, I think they said it was one of the highest trending videos they've had. And that's free marketing. Wow. You have to have a willing dance partner who knows how to push and pull. And you can't fake the shit. If you try and fake it, it doesn't work.

You know, like I remember when DC and Brock Lesnar had it at UFC. Fuck, I can't remember. And they went in the cage and they pushed him. I was just like, oh, this all manufacturer. Yeah, you can feel it. I thought about that. I'm like, are there ever fighters that go, yo, I'm going to push you. When we do the way in, I'm going to push you, you push me.

you push me, let's almost kind of scrap and then people stop. I've never done it. You can tell when it looks fake, though. Yeah, people feel it. It's disingenuous, you know? It is. Even when it's something as simple

as Jake Paul snatching off me, it was his hat, even though that was real. Yeah. But look at the commotion it caused. Yeah. From that simple-ass, silly-ass act. It wasn't a push. It wasn't a fight.

It just, erflesh his hat. Yeah. Got your hat. That alone. Yeah. Would you fight Jake Paul? Would I fight Jake Paul? I don't box.

I've boxed before, but, yeah, I heard wax was going to fight him. Yeah, what loves... Wex scared. Seriously, who you think went out of Jake Paul and Wax? Huh?

Jake Paul and Wax. I want to see Wax Box. I haven't seen him boxing. He has no boxing skills whatsoever. Never been in the ring. Jake Paul's no joke, man. Jake Paul's no joke, man. He always do all these years.

Yeah. He beat the shit out of motherfuckers. I don't know what you're talking about. He don't know nothing. He doesn't know nothing. He has no boxing ability, what's like. No, Jake Paul's no joke, man. This is a thing.

So when he fought Nate Robinson and I was there, I commented at the fight, right? And I ended up at his house. house later on. And I didn't realize how big of a fan he was. And for me, to commentate that far, I had to study what he did from Disney. And that's what kind of made me know like, okay, this is what this kid's history is. But then being at his house, talking to him, we talked for a long time. And then I kind of realized, man, this guy, he's crazy. And guess what? Those are the ones that get it done. Yeah. He was serious. Yeah. He was after the guy wrongs and fight. He was a little crazy.

He was serious about boxing. Yeah. Because people with us are like, oh, he's just doing this for fun. He's just trying to make money or get, you know, clout. whatever, but I was like, no, this guy really, really, and he's got all the funds, all the access to be able to get it done. Yep. So, full team. Sparring part.

So do you ever fight a real boxing if you're Jake Paul? He will. At some point, I know he'll want to test himself. I want that Fury fight. That's the one that's going to really, really start. Tommy. Yeah, Tommy Fury. I felt like that that was the one that was going to be like, right,

this is going to check where his real level of boxing is at. Because that's all Tommy knows. He just knows boxing distance. He just knows boxing defense. I think Tommy beats him. Yeah. And I think that's a sellable fight, very, like, very lucrative fight. should do that later on.

That's why I think he's pushing it back. Yeah. I think Jake's purposely pushing it back to just keep far, keeps the work more reps. You know what I mean? Tommy, he's a real, he'll come from a fighting family. Yeah.

Why do you think it's difficult for the UFC guys to transition to boxing, even though they're working hands on. A lot of them, no, you work on so many different things on grappling, on, you know, kicking and whatnot. But, um, Jake's picked the right fights. He's picked the right fights.

Yeah, by not fighting boxes. Yeah. Yeah. But like, well, and also the, the level of, Specialism. It's like saying a UFC guy should go fight or Memei guy should go fight And de Garvow or Gordon Ryan

You know, just in your Jiu Jitsu. They'll get smoked Because that's all those guys do. It's straight Jiu Jitsu. So same thing. It's, um, if all you're doing is boxing, you're going to get really good at that. And like I said, Jakes got all the access in the time and he's young. He's like 24, 25. Of course he's going to get better. He's only, and like I said, when I talk to him, I realize he's fucking serious about this.

He's no joking, man. Yeah. Why the hell hasn't the Logan Paul gotten paid from Floyd? whether he is. I don't, that was weird to me. Yeah. I wanted to see,

you know about those pay-up do you take that long? No, no, don't take that long. So I don't know why when I heard that I was like, is he trolling him?

Is he trying to, he pushed him out? I spoke to Logan about it. I was like, man, you're bullshit. But did you know what he said? Floyd said? He said that it just takes time.

He said these checks don't, you know, come overnight. He was like, he was like, I'm still getting royalties from seven, eight years ago. Really? That's what he said. Royalties are replaced.

Royals is exactly, Over and over. Yeah. That royalty is a replay. Now, this is... The flat payout. Because, I mean, you fought, that was like maybe June.

Floyd didn't knock him out. Yeah. That's what it is. I didn't knock you out, and I'm a son you this way. Oh. You think he's just making them wait. Hell yeah.

Floyd's got deep pocket. But why is that... Why is the money coming from Floyd, though? Don't the money come from... Floyd? He's the big... He's the promoter.

Floyd's the promoter. That's why. So, yeah, I'm all surprised at that I was like. He did something growing me, too, apparently. apparently they cut a deal with like I think Qatar in another place to stream the fight over there. True. But didn't tell Logan about it. And Logan's

supposed to get a percentage of the purse no matter what they sell. I think he was doing some grand and it's fucked up because it breaks my heart because you know, Floyd is my goat. Right. Like what you said. I think he's the greatest expert at anything. Became what he hated. But he became the motherfuckers who were fucking him over. Yeah. Like he had to buy himself out of that Bob Aram

contract and it's like, don't become these guys. $750,000. He also pulled the racism card too. Oh no. He told Logan, he said, how long your people would have been making us wait? No. You did it? No. I don't pay attention to everything.

It's just noise, man. He was like, but the reason I watched that one in particular, because I really wanted to know why Logan hadn't gotten paid it. That is funny. I'm going to pay him in 400 years. Same amount of time took us to get paid. Still waiting for reparations. Yeah, but I say, Logan's reparations.

So how long do you take? No, for me, like example, I just fought in the weekend. It wouldn't take less than, it wouldn't take more than two months, a month and a half if I get fully paid. Oh, so you already got half. You get paid a pay per view. You get your disclosed country. People, there's one thing I always, I find funny from the jump of my UFC fight,

where people see like, oh, you only go paid this much for that fight? I'm like, that's the disclosed pay. There's the undisclosed pay. Oh, what's that? You know, a little son. A little sum. But that's the thing, like people, even the UFC, they know what I get paid. but no one knows what I'm worth

and I'm so happy I have like one of the smartest man with money behind me like I've said this already like during interviews I've said like you know Kabeb's dad was in his corner you know teaching him out of fight cornering him Jordan Stefan Curry

the ball brothers you know their dad's in the corner I've got my pops behind the scenes showing me how this whole thing works like money wise not on the front line he's a CPA yeah he's an accountant yeah so he knows how many works holy shit shit oh yeah so yeah like

he told me in Christmas how much I'm worth now I was like, what? He was like, yeah. I was like, oh, shit. So that's why I was like, fuck, I could have retired this many fights ago if this was just about money. But no, like I said, I'm really enjoying being in the stride of my prime right now. I'm enjoying what I do. I just signed this new crazy deal.

It hasn't even hit me yet. How? For UFC? Yeah, for the UFC. It hasn't hit me yet how monumental it is. Like I said, I'm now the second highest paid athlete in the UFC. And who's first Conner still? Conner still first.

Yeah, of course. Like, my man's, it's a kid. He won. though. He ain't one in a minute. But he's changed the game and he's got his... Caches checks, though. Yeah, he catches checks. Puts asses and seats. That's it. You know, and we're from the same management team, paradigm.

So they know what's being left on the table when it comes to these deals. They know what's being left on the table, so they... I'm glad now, at the moment, I'm getting a nice slice of the pie. Was Conner the guy before the Mayweather fight? What do you mean? Oh, yeah, yeah, he was ready. He was popping. He was up.

He was up, yeah. From the jump, you just knew straight away. This guy. Like, his second U.S. fight was against Max Holloway in Boston, I recall. And his fight felt like the main event. So he's always been up. Yeah, he's just, he's, he's another guy who's just amazing. He knows how to entertain. But he know, you know.

But he don't win, no. Yeah. He did, though. And he did in, like, exciting fashion earlier in his career. And, yeah, now he's not, but. We give about, we give out a lot of participation trophies nowadays. Yeah. Participation.

That's why I like people that still want to win. You still want to win. Yeah, 100%. I mean, I do this. Fuck money. I love money. Don't get him wrong. I do this for the money.

But for me, it's about winning and just taking, by the time I'm all, I'm done with this game. I want to be able to sit by my fireplace and just look around and see all the heads on the mantel pieces. Like, I took that guy out. I took him out twice. I really fucked that guy up. Damn. Who do you want now? Me.

I've got Jack. Who do you want? Kenanier. Kenanier. Who else? Strickland. I like the fact that he talks a lot. Yeah.

There's a guy who can build up the fight. Exactly. He might need another fight. or two. What are you? One fight. One fight. We've got an idea

for what we want to do with him. But yeah, I hope he does well. That's crazy. Yeah. You just premediting how you're going to beat somebody. I'm going to let him go

fight this fight. Then I'm going to beat him up. I try to set them up as well. I've tried to set Jared up in the past, but then he lost the fight. I've tried to set Darren till up so many times. Yeah, Darren keeps fumbling a bad. Exactly.

And that'd be a fun one. We always talk about that. Like on social media, you guys build in that fight. You got to win at the end of the day. Exactly. If you're not winning, you're not, unless you get to that, like you said, that Conor Stratusphere, where you've built such a big following, such a big stock of yourself that even if you don't win, you're still up. What do you think about the guy that everybody, he keeps saying I'm going to smash everybody.

Oh, same thing. Yeah, Cumquat. What do you think about come qua? Kamzot Chimaya. Even though at the post-fight press conference, they were like, oh, another fighter who's not in your way class tweeted at you. And I was just like. What does he fight at, 170? So he does fight at 185 as well.

but I'm like, who's he fought at 185? I don't know who he's fought at all. You 185? Yeah, 1.8. Well, no, not right now. I cut to 185, but then I walk around. Like, fight night, I was around 1,199, 200. Yeah.

Really? Yeah. How much you weigh right now sitting there? I'm a guess after all this chopping life, Texas barbecue, 207, 205. God, you look lean as fuck. Yeah, skinny boy. Well, muscle weighs more than fat.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, yeah, so, I mean, yeah. So, I mean, So what do you think about him? Is he real? I respect, like, his last fight, he showed up. He showed what's up. The guy he fought Gene Alianang was,

is like a legit contender, but his next fight, Gilbert Burns is a guy who will really test him. But I think that might be a, a harder fight for him that people think, and also an easier fight for him that people think. Burns, for Burns?

For both. Like, that's the thing. I think, from what I'm hearing, he's really good. But I'm like, he's not even in my weight class,

so why I've got to pay this guy any attention until he does some. something that makes me take notice that I'm like, okay, not I have to take them seriously. The moment it's just walking in the wind. It's like when the dog barks at the moon, it's normal. When the moon walks back at the dog, snooos. Exactly.

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I gotta salute Kodak Black man Legend Kodak Black you bought me so much joy this week watching that bar stool God damn I don't know what that was shot to Caleb Presley man

This guy's really That shit is hilarious You need to Let's let's make that happen Oh what's that guy Both of y'all I think I think I'm neither

Neither one of us Is Kodak Black Is he that might be true But He's just funny I think that's another guy Who's just uniquely himself Like yes

I don't really I know my brother likes His music and stuff like that But I just see him All the time on social media just doing like, he's just a walking meme. Let me drive the boat.

Did he get shot? Or I know he got shot this? Yeah, he got shot this weekend. My name is going on black, but when you see me, I'm white. How come. He said that. I mean, fuck you're white, wife. Oh, wow.

To the night fight. Y'all gonna stop fronting on yak. Yeah, he's a legend. Anyway, this guy's great. And he can't, listen, say what y'all want. I listen to Kodak black music. Kodak Black makes incredible music. I would go so far as to say,

but I don't even know what generation you put him in. Say it. Say it. But when it comes to songwriting, say it, songwriting, hook writing ability, I don't think there's nobody better. What did Duval say? Who did Duval compare him to? Well, I'm not going to go that far.

What do you say? Lukai. Well, I get what Duval was saying. Oh, people gave Duval a lot of flag. No, Duval was like, Kodak wraps as good as Kendrick Lamar. Oh, wow. You know what I mean?

No, Kodai said he's the pop. He said this generation's Pock. I don't know. I'm not going to say that. He said he's this generation's Beyonce. I agree with that. I mean, looking at those dance moves on Boston, he got some dance moves. He does.

I get what Duval was saying. All Duval was trying to say in a Florida way was that Kodak Black can really, really really. Yes. The pedestal he's on. That's it. He was just saying, he was just simply saying Kodak Black can really, really rap. And Kodak Black can really, really rap.

And he makes really, really great songs. I love Super Gremlin. You never heard that song? No, I probably heard my brother probably fucked it all the time. We could have been superstars riding around in jacking cars. Now it's not safe for you. Because you switch like a pussy little bitch. That's hard, man.

Do he get booked at barmiss for this? That's when you know he's nice. What? How do you even know what a barmeasurer? I've been singing that song wrong since it's been out. I thought he said riding around in fancy cars. What is it? Riding around in jacking cars.

Oh, jacking cars. Listen, if you listen to this song, he sounds so hurt that him and his homeboy not doing crimes together no more. And who's his home boy he's talking about? I don't know. Is that the other guy from Florida, then he's kind of like Beaver? It might be. Is it this record? I don't know.

But if this one part of the song, he was like, I've been raising my children. And then he goes, you ain't helped me with none of them children's. Man, contrast. What did he sounded so hurt, man? We could have been superstars riding around jacking cars. Yeah, that's fire, dude. Like, yo, the Super Gremlin is hot. I just, I really appreciate Kodak Black's music, man.

He's the stakes for us. He's dope. So what do you think happens with a Kodak Black? Kodak, it's going to be a moment where Kodak Black is going to absolutely be the biggest rapper in the world. Whoa, it's going to be a moment. It's going to be a moment. Whoa, it's going to be a moment.

I know I'm getting old because I start to like, you know, when you look at these rappers coming up now and like I said, I can't even speak on it because I don't know his music like that. But then my brother is always bumping like trap, drill. And then I realize I'm like, I'm starting to be like one of them old heads. Like, ah, what are these kids? Yeah. What?

I catch myself. I'm 43. Yeah, but I catch myself. And there's times I fuck with certain people from this generation's rap for certain songs. But I catch myself. I'm like, you know what? This is their moment.

This is their music. Let them enjoy it. Don't have to find show. What are you all in the South? So stuff like Kodak Black, you know, 21, all that stuff shit I like. I grew up on. I probably still resonates with you. Yeah.

Like a young strong to it. I grew up on Trick Daddy. I grew up on 3-6 and, you know, little John and Tip. and, you know, I grew up on all that stuff. Scarface, the ghetto boys, UGK. like, I love that. I like that. I like down stuff. I'm a lot of time I listen to now.

I don't listen to gospel. Man, stop mine. Why you lie? I like that for no reason. I believe you. I get my shit's gospel music right now, but I don't listen to anything besides gospel. What about it those bar mitzvahs that you're frequent?

I played out of bar in Missouri before. I played it at a bar in Mexico before. I did, though. I don't even know what that really is. All right, what else we got? The Super Bowl happened. Did we care? Yo, did

y'all think the halftime show is that great? Fire. Yep. I liked it. Fire. I think it was... I didn't see it and I liked.

Fine. There was moments. I felt like it was just nostalgia. Yes. Yeah, it was nostalgic. The bit with 50 cent pulled underneath.

Even the fact the way he handled just the memes, oh yeah, he leaned right now. 50's funny as fuck though. He knows what he's doing. That's how you know 50 funny. I love the fact that he just tags, you know, the cognac

and the show is underneath. It's all marketing. He understands how this whole thing works. He totally gets it. I love it. Once again, I'm 43. Yeah. So when I'm looking at that stage, I'm looking at it like, that is Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

That's my daddy made me cut my hair because I thought I thought I was Snoop and Snoop had a murder charge. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's Mary Jane fucking Blige. You know what I mean? Like that's that's us looking at the real love video like. damn she bad you know what I mean and they're on the Super Bowl

halftime show like oh man this is a genre of music that see Dolores tucking and was throwing the CDs on the ground like those artists in particular Snoop and Dre and running their shit over saying how bad they were what do you like about the children um I just thought it was fine everybody was like

oh my god this is the most amazing Super Bowl ever it was huge it's always recently biased though that's a thing it's recent she biased yeah I wasn't a big fan of the set Angles. Beyoncé's was better. Bruno Mars was better.

That's ridiculous to even compare them because it's two different type of artists. First of all, Beyonce... We're talking about the best seven. We have to compare it. No, Beyonce's a performing artist. Yeah. So, of course, her show is going to be bigger.

She's dancing. There was performance in this one. He was scriptwalking. No, yeah, he was script walking. You had a Kodak, not Kodak, Kendrick had the choreography. You're talking about the production. The wind. Let me ask you a simple question.

M&M took a knee. There was performance. performance. Yeah. I mean, was that not corny a little? It was forced, right? I don't even. I missed it.

I saw the knee, but I didn't get the correlation until I saw social media shade when I was like, oh, I get it. I'm not mad at it because he got what he wanted out of it. Yeah. Oh, 50? Hilarious. No, no, no. My man lagging.

Oops. He got what he wanted out of it. You know what I mean? And, by the way, it feeds into Eminem's persona. And I'm going to tell you what it was genius about that me. I'll tell you what was genius about it. Prior to the show, they leaked that the NFL did not want him to need. Oh, so it was a big deal.

And I saw that story. The story was NFL tells Eminem he can't kneel. So when he did it, immediately social media goes crazy like they was going to tell Eminem what to do. That's Eminem. That's the right. So now you're doing it, but now you're doing it for the headline, not for the cause. Who's saying he not doing it for the car? Now you're doing it to be a rebel, not because you support the thing.

And I don't know what his intentions are, but like, I don't know. Just felt forced, bro. I was like, are you allowed to talk about Eminem like that? That was for pity. Yo, it's Cap, bro. That's right. I'm with Cap. Look, come on.

He looked at Alex, like, okay. Minute marker. But listen. All of you. It's Cap, bro. When did you ever see it? When have you seen hip hop that big? No, no, long while.

No, no, long while. Up and smoke, maybe. Yeah. That has been a long time. But I'm talking about it on television. I can't think of a time. There was moments through all that where it was just like, oh, and you hear that track playing. And then Dre jumps on the piano.

And, ah. Those moments. The piano thing was great. Yo, Snoop is the main. Snoop is underappreciated. I can't believe me. Like smoke everywhere. No, no.

Snoop is under. I think we don't appreciate Snoop enough. I agree. You're right. And I can tell you why we don't appreciate it. Because he's, he's, he's, he's, he's so regular. Yeah, he's so relatable. He's so humble.

That's uncle. That's right. He's so humble. We don't appreciate him because he don't even put himself on that pedestal. Yeah. But he's royalty. Yo, you name me any person. I'm not talking about rapper.

I'm not talking about black. I'm not talking about any person ever. That don't know, Snoop. That also, but who's consistently been themselves since they want. And smoking everywhere. That's part I like. Nope, Snoop has never conformed to anyone and everyone is going to see how they were all in black. And it's like, oh, you know, we're going to have this for the uniform.

And it's like, yo, nah. Yeah, throw it up. Turn it out. Yeah. Dripping. Like, I've never seen it. I've never seen an individual like Snoop that literally shows up as himself everywhere. I want to if he do that at TDJ's church.

I want to be smoking there. A hundred percent. You think it's smoking there? It's the burning bush. It would absolutely be in there blowing his ass. Yeah. Yeah, he's just such a unique individual. He's so talented.

He's, even when he wraps, it's Snoop and only Snoop. Nobody else even really wraps like that. Even when he talks, man. When I was at the fight commentating with him. That's right. You guys did the fight together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had the pleasure of having the joint with him in the one of the suites.

And just the way he talks is cadence. It's like he's always in that flow. Yeah. He's just so cool. And it's like, you know, drug tested? Uh, yeah, you get drug tested. But like, this is before the, you know, like, this is just. Oh, so you can't smoke.

Yeah. The threshold is higher now before a fight. You just can't be like, say, high on fight day. Got you. You know, if not then, yeah, they snap you and find you for that. I loved everything about it. I thought Dre and Snoop delivered. They didn't play it safe at all.

Yeah. I thought Kendrick delivered. He didn't play it safe. I literally told Glassman alone, I said, I want Kendrick to, I want him to perform good kid match. And I want him to perform. And Glasson thought he would perform some other records just because they're higher charting. But he went for the cultural anthems.

Yeah, dope. And that shit worked. You know what I mean? I love Mary. No more pain. I was like, that's an interesting song choice, but she fell out at the end.

No, she killed me. You know what I mean? Like, that was the perfect song to do that because that's what became a meme. Her taking a nap at the Super Bowl halftime show. Like, I loved it. 50 coming out, hanging down. Like, that shit was perfect.

I don't know. You know, that was, it was a great show. Yeah, I thought of nostalgic. Nostalgia. That shit was, I don't know what you wanted. I would say, what does you want it? What you wanted? Maybe, um.

I would add it one thing. Okay, go. I have an idea too. I would have added Ice Cube coming out in the beginning saying straight out of Compton. A crazy motherfucker name. No point. You're not even a name from this air. A crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube with a stupid dog.

Like, because that would have scared people, right? Because that's, oh shit. Right? That's true. A surprise. A surprise. Announce to these other people, but then have a surprise. What I would have liked is if there was some form of like collaboration between all of them. So, you know what I mean?

like a song that, all right, Eminem singing this person's verse and Snoop maybe is on the song. His collaboration was Dre though. Dre was the unifier. But I wanted to see them all together, you know what I mean? Like, and Mary could sing the chorus of it. But like, imagine there is this iconic song that now they're all. I love the fact that Anderson Pack was playing the drums. Like I was like, okay, let's connect all these people.

That's all Dre though. Like all of that is Dre. Anderson Pack's Dre. 50 is Dre. Mary did. After math. Yeah. Yeah, it's all after a man.

F. Dre did a dancerie for Mary. Like, M's his artist. Like, all of that is Dr. Drake. Dr. Dre is the greatest hip-hop producer and top five musical producer of all times. Somebody said this. They're like, this is proof. Maybe it was you. Well, we'll talk about that.

He said, maybe this is proof. This is proof that nobody could see Dr. Dre in a versus. Nobody. Not even Jermaine or D. Oh, God. I don't, that's sad. This wetlands is tight, bro. If you're talking about producing or rap.

Your tight of mind. Redd-producing. Timberland. No. I don't think you can see. No. No titty? No.

No. Diddy? Diddy? No. It's not even close. All of these people are great, and they got records that we would love to hear, but when you hear them compared to Dr. Dre's joints, it'd be like, eh. Yeah.

Like, come on. Because think about when you come up with, no. No. No. Because when you're going against Dre, you're going against Snoop. M&M. 56. Giants.

The game. You got Tupac's records. You got dogs. Rock-time record. Does Jay produce? By the way, by the way, we're not even talking about it. The NWA era. Yeah, forget it.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, what are we talking about? There's no better hip-hop producer than Dr. Dre. And guess what? I think Didi might be better in R&B. Yeah. But do you really want to hear that against these Dr. Dre gangston West Coast rap tunes he

is he going to play? Does Jay produce it all again? Who? Jay Z. No, no. Just rap. He wrote still. He wrote still.

Honestly, the only one that could fuck with Dre is yay. I don't think so Yeah I don't think so And low key And low key And I'm not a Kanye Celebrator by any means

If it's just production we're talking about I think you ain't got him bro The only reason I don't think so is because when you're talking about You know the chronic is 30 years old Think about that The chronic Go slaps when you hear this piano Dink ding

Yeah that's it bro That's it That's it You want to it so crazy about that piano. There's this little video going around of this kid who plays it in his high school for a talent show. Have you seen in the gymnasium? Those kids

weren't even born when that shit came out, but they go crazy. That's different. That's different music. What is Kanye doing Drake plays in a youth? Oof. What is he doing Drake plays a G thing? Oof. What is he doing? He plays NWA, fuck the police.

Give it up for God. I mean, Jesus walks to him. Certain people are just different. And we got to respect them for being different. And I know it's fun to do the verses and everything. Certain people, you just leave alone. For me, Dr. Dre is one of those ones you leave alone.

Now, if you want to do it just to do it and you do Dre, if Dre versus Did he probably would be the closest thing. I'll shaking his head right now. Talk to me. If the younger generation is listening to that versus, they're going to say Kanye Wednesday. How are you all day? I doubt it.

I'm telling you. To your point, these are timeless record, bro. Like these got, they know, they know, Snoop Dogg's records. They know two pop's records. Not all the ones that you listen

just now, but only a couple. You know, Eminem is still, Eminem has still been top five streamed artists of the last decade.

M&M. Yeah, everybody knows that's Eminem. That's Dr. Dre. As I'm saying, like, Dre is different,

different. 50 states. Like, people were arguing online about what generation that was. Kids like,

we know them. That's our shit too. Yada, yada, it's different. Drey's different. I love Kanye. Dre's different. Different, different animal.

Those are art as well. Art's subjective. So what is the beauty's in the eye of the beholder? The ears of the beholder. So yeah, it just depends who's watching it. Wherever they have the verses. Whoever's watching it, whatever the crowd predominantly is, might lean one way or the other.

Yeah, I hear, and I think that's kind of what I was saying too, which is like these kids, they just might not have that connection to Dre. Yeah, they can't relate to it. But our generation is interesting because we live through both. So I'm wondering, like, if we're watching. We know the history as well. And like you said, 30 years, the chronic, you know, like the meaning of what that actually means for it to last this long. Yeah, that's real.

Stand the test of time. Because those were the memes online during the Super Bowl. It was all the little kids were falling asleep during the halftime and all our generation was turning up. Really? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. And also, too, why does Drainney decay into those little kids? Nah.

Yeah. Yeah, he know why he there. Like, let those little kids be little kids. I don't even know why we do that anymore. Like let the young demo be the young demo. Yeah. Because they're not even into their shit like they think they are. Yeah.

The shit they love now, they won't love 10 years from that. Mm. Tru. It's the only thing we got in common. Let's do a couple asking idiots and get up out of here, man. All right, let's go. What we got? What we got?

Okay. Oh, this is a good one. This is for you, Izzy. What are your toxic traits? Who are toxic traits? So what's a toxic trait I have? I put something on my story recently from Jordan Peterson, and I thought it was pretty powerful.

I learned this a while ago. It's something about be a monster. You know, there's a quote. It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardenier in the war. So I think so what do you say? He said, actually, I'll play it. That's my story. That's interesting.

Two seconds. Yeah, too dangerous. Stand by. I don't believe that he said. Yeah, what was he saying? You have to be a... Because what if the war, what if we need food? Turn this up.

The garden can grow food. Wait for it. You should be a monster. You know, because everyone says, well, you should be harmless, virtuous. You shouldn't do anyone any harm. You should sheath your competitive instinct. You shouldn't try to win. You know, you don't want to be too aggressive.

You don't want to be too assertive. You want to take a back seat and all of that. It's like, no. Wrong. You should be a monster. An absolute monster. And then you should learn how to control it. Control it.

Yes. It's better be a warrior. I always stay dangerous. Yeah. Stay dangerous. I tell all my younger brothers all that time. I mean, my nephews, I'm like, I'll be safe.

I'm like, yeah, I'd be dangerous but you know how to control it. Yes. You know what I'm saying? And because that is how you can be the most compassionate individual. Yeah. You're smart Hulk.

Exactly. If you're terrified all day, you're going to act terrified. Yep. And then you're going to probably treat people. You're going to last shout. Treat people like shit because you're going to be protecting yourself.

If you know you're safe and all these people are in danger if you get upset, you're probably going to be nice to every single one of them. No, I didn't know that's real. For real, because I always say, I never mind the guy who carried a gun around all the time. Because the guy who had that gun one day, you're like, I'm terrified. Yeah, yeah.

He don't carry around the gun every day. He has a purpose for it that day. Walk like a guy. Right? Like, why you guys that every day? I mean, worrying about you. Walk like a giant. You know what I mean?

You can look down and you see everybody. So you got to be gentle. But yeah, so I really talks a trait. But I'd say like, like you said, just being able to control it. So, yeah. When I was younger, I had to. mad anger issues but then I had to learn as I got older like maybe like late teens

that okay you need to learn how to like not let people get to you so much and learn how to control like now even I'm so good now to the point where and I will you know it's all it's all I will revert back but then I bring myself back to the balance not picking things up

so why do I give a fuck what Joe Blow over there said that's right or type like I don't even pick it up sometimes during fight week I like static because you know I'm in that mode I'm kind of like in that war mode So I like to pick things up and then fuck with people. But most times someone might say shit about me. Like, I don't even want to talk about fighting a lot this week.

Because now I'm done with the fight. I'm like, I've been in that mode. You can't redline it too long because then you'll wear yourself out. Yeah, yeah. So I just want to like, take the foot off the gas and just, you know, kick it, shoot the shit. So that's not just like, so how do you feel about the fight? What do you think about? It's like a little bit of that, you know, because that's what I do.

This is why I'm here. But then I'd rather just like get away from all that. Check out. Yeah. Do people try you? Check out. Check out. recharge.

My, I just tell him, I'm not gonna kick your ass for free. I get played bags, bags, bags to kick ass. So why would I kick? My knockouts alone might be 50,000

as a bonus. So while that, while that whoops on his ass for free. So people, not lately, not lately, but I've had that in the past and I'm like,

I ain't whooping your ass for free. I tell you those stories about Mike ties and people would run up on Mike. Knock you out, Mike. People try, people, the thing I hate that,

I don't just stare at like, people want to take a photos on. Can we do a stare down? I did one time with this guy, a bartender, you know, gets in my face,

and then we're staring down, and then he really switches it on. And I see it in his eyes. Like, he, not that he was going to do anything, but, like, he, like, because he did Taekwondo or something. He was good,

but he switches it on, like, he gets in my face and kind of, like, head butts upts me a little bit. And then I remember I smacked his dick. Just kind of like,

just take the, I was like, I was going to grab it, but I was like, boom. That's what I let us know. That's what I was. Yeah.

Prison rules. You know, Staird for a while. That's why I don't do stare downs anymore because I was just like, that's fucked up. Like, why the fuck? Because I wasn't expecting that from a barton who was serving me.

He's like, can I get a photo? I'm a big fan. And then stares down, squares me off. And then like, he just like puts us down and comes up close and nods me. And then I was like, what the fuck?

Boom. And that really just checked him so quick. I was going to grab it. But he's lucky. Uh-huh. Well, he wasn't expecting that yet. Yeah. Exactly.

So it's kind of like what season Milan does to the dogs. Snap him out of it. Yeah. So yeah, that was, By the way, please don't be the bartender that tweets out. I was the guy who's digging. He digwrecked. He did grab him.

Let's get another one. Alex, give us one more. What advice would you get someone who seems to have at all except a significant other? Oh, that's a good one. Braden 712 says, how do you differentiate your own anxiety from reality? King? Yes, all right. My way.

Let me give an example, a recent example, my own anxiety from reality. Okay, so we were through this lockdown in Auckland from August for like three months, something crazy. And then, like I said, through all that, you know, when you're locked down, it's isolation. This is how you, this is what they do to prisoners. What do you do, the prisoners when they behave, you, you isolate them. So I'm blessed that I had, you know, one of my best friends' chance who lives with me. You know, we picked each other up when we were down. and stuff. Then I went through some shit that kind of made me question myself because I was listening

to the noise. That's why I said fuck the noise. I was listening to the noise of some other people that was disturbing me. And then it wasn't until, and when it starts to get in your head, sometimes you might start to believe it. And like, am I this way? Is that true about me? But then surround yourself with your real ones. For me, that was one thing that really helped me. Surround yourself with your real ones. But people who've known you for years. They're like, you're not like that. You're not like that. Fuck all that noise. Don't listen to that, bitch. So it's like, yeah, You just have to, like, be able to understand how to, how to surround yourself with the real ones and understand who you are and trust that. And then you know, stand ten toes deep.

Ten toes deep in your truth. Yeah, that's the tricky thing is that once you acknowledge that you're, you have anxiety. Yeah. Everyone does. It's a spectrum. Look. Yo, it's hard to say, like, physical health. If you don't look after your physical body, what's going to happen?

You're going to get physically ill. You're going to get sick. Yeah, if you don't look after your mental health, you're going to get mentally ill. So even the way people use the term. Oh, he's got mental health. I'm like, everyone has mental health. Everyone. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, it's like, it's not mental health, it's not the sickness. Yes, you do. I mean, let's you do. Everyone gets anxious. Everyone gets angry. Unless anxiety is claustophobia. That's part of it.

Yeah, you get anxious. All right. That's all I got. You got out of the anxiety. I mean, a rat. That's, oh, yeah, rats. That's a phobia. Yeah.

That's not anxiety? I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, Maybe a thought of a rat being around might give you anxiety. If you saw a rat scurry right now. Then I, wow. You just talk about rats all day on peace. Yeah. Yeah, it can't give anxiety, though.

And just the anxiety is a feeling of being anxious. Being on hedge. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, the crazy thing about anxiety, too, is like if you're one of those people who you believe your thoughts become things. Yeah. Like when you're sitting around thinking all the negative thoughts, you think you're manifesting this negativity and that shit makes your anxiety even more crazy. It happens.

I mean, yeah. I mean, I guess the biggest thing when it comes to separating anxiety from what's real is just realizing that's your anxiety. It's like when you're high, yep, and you're telling yourself like, okay, I'm just high. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's it. Control. Yeah, that's just, I'm having a panic attack, relax, take a few deep breath. Ground yourself from a thing.

I like to, like, this is, I've had one of my bad ones was maybe over two years ago, and I remember just being out the car and I just, I was bare feet and I just held the ground. Oh, I love that. Held the ground and just like hand in the ground just breathing because it was in real dark shit I was going through. So I held the ground and I just breathe, breathe, breathe. And eventually I just realized, okay, it's okay. I'm just having either a panic attack. I thought I was possessed. I was just like, it was really that bad.

Yeah. Like I'd never done anything like that before. Did you ever, do you guys use it for fuel? Fuel. Anxiousness can use this fuel but at the right. So before fights, right, there's waves. I've learned how to like my breath. Yeah, butterflies.

It's all energy. Uh-huh. So you just breathe through it. Some people were like, who won't sleep the night before their fight, they'll literally be in bed, just like, I said this before the Whitaker fight, the first Whitaker fight, I was like, I was looking at my entrance on my phone, the rehearsal was just like, man, this is going to look so fucking sick.

This is me the night before the fight. So I did not have paralysis overanalysis. And I bet you Rob, because he was feeling the pressure. I knew this, and I told him this. He couldn't sleep. He was just in bed. Koster couldn't sleep. He drank some wine and got drunk before the fight.

So it's like, yeah, like it can be detrimental to you, like, like, like, fire, like I said, it can be used to fuel you or burn your whole shit down. So it depends on how you want to use it. So I do get anxious before fights, but I just breathe through it. And I don't hold onto it like whatever, whatever self-talk that's negative than my pop through. I'm not attached to it.

And that anxiety like that don't bother me because you know what you're about to do. You're about to go into the ring. You're fighting front of millions of people. You're fighting. So having anxiety in that moment makes sense. Us and we're about to walk out on stage, we know we're going to have that. It's the not doing anything anxiety that drives you for. fucking crazy.

That has to do other stuff. That's when it's just like, okay, it's something that you haven't dealt with. Sometimes when you smoke, when I smoke, then you get extra sensitive. And then it just brings stuff up to the surface. That's why people say, like, I had a bad trip. I know I don't do it. I'm like, uh, what happened was you just saw some stuff. That's deep down in there.

That's why I like you're not. Yeah. But that's why I'm just getting it. Sometimes I'll be on a plane and I'll just be lying down and I might have had like one or two edible. Oh, fuck this one time. Okay. Years ago, this is after the Bronson, what you call U.S., this is the Madison Square Garden Press conference.

I'm flying back to New Zealand and I buy this brownie that had 500 M.G of weed in it. Oh, real fun. Yeah, but I thought like, you know what? I was going to get the thousand, the blackout brownie, but I was like, I'll get the gorilla green. And I didn't have it then. I just took it back home and I had a quarter of it one time when I was lying in bed at home to maybe a week later. And I remember lying in bed and I could feel everything. This is like also when you eat it, you get, it's way more psychoactive than body.

So then I was just like feeling my blood pulsing, feeling my heart racing. At one point, I was just like, yeah, and I started to like just think of all these things and things that could happen, things that made me scared. And I was just like, man, I need to go outside. I need to take my shirt off and just, you know, I felt like I was a werewolf form. So I was going to, I'm going to stress.

I'm scared of mushrooms, man. But then what I did was just hop in the shower and just turn the water on cold and just chill. And I started to pray. And I was just like, yo, hey man, me again. I just had a conversation. regarded in it. Yeah, that's why I'm scared of mushrooms. It's like the Alawaki

Ayahuasca. I'm definitely doing I can't wait. I can't wait. What did you call it? Akawaki. That's the variant. That's a fucking moffi. He knew what I was talking about. So when you do that, I was close. Next time you ground.

Do face down ass up. What? What? When you ground, next time you ground, take your shirt off. Or facing the ground. Yes, lay on your stomach. Why your ass got to be up, though? But that's a smoot to Yadi. Yadi's might take a purpose because that's what she calls it to be funny, but you fit down ass up. All just lie down on the ground. Lay down on your

stomach. Oh, true. And put your ass in the air and just lay there. Put your cheek on the ground. That shit. Are you neck? Or he just... No, man. I'm just asking. Gary's shirtless. Yaddy got a camera in your backyard. All her friends come over and you're like, watch his dumb ass go hug a tree.

Now watch, watch. You're going to go hug the tree now. Look at him. Look at the air with your face is in the grass. There you go. They're just laughing at you. Every night. Women in the therapist. told me to look at my feet. Yeah, exactly. No, don't trust that shit. Don't trust it.

Before we go, I have to say this. Because it's on my heart. Taylor, Izzy did not say you look like Chloe Bailey. Nobody said. I just wanted to say it again. I just don't want to lead a podcast if you're thinking that. I don't know.

I respect everything you do. I know. Trust me, I listen. I listen. And I want to say, you are a valued member of the team. Fuck what Reddit says. Fuck the noise. You're a valued member of the team

if you have a mic or not. Easy. I disagree. Hey, T's their own. I appreciate you saying that, bro. Thank you. Thank you. Trying to get a conversation.

As always, if you look to this podcast, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant, you're absolutely right. But if you listen to this podcast and you think we're just a couple of idiots who don't know shit, you're right too. It's the brilliant idiots podcast.

Thank you for listening. I don't know nothing. Peace. Peace.