The Brilliant Idiots - The Vows We Keep

Episode Date: December 10, 2022

This week our Brilliant Idiots get right into the nonsense on Good Morning America host’s TJ Holmes and Amy Robach’s affair, which Dr. Umar would give TJ Holmes 100 lashes for it! Next, they speak on Britney Griner’s release as well as the uproar with Deon Saunders leaving an HBCU to coach at a PWI. Later on in the show, they also touch base on TI snitching on a dead man, give credit to the youngest mayor getting elected in Arkansas, all while Charlamagne tried to avoid Wasabi’s toot stance (check out the YouTube video) Moreover, during “Ask an Idiot” Charalamagne felt insulted being called a bottom, when he believes he’s a power top! ********************************************************** Check out Andrew Schulz www.theandrewschulz.com Stream Charlamagne "Hell of a Week" on Paramount+ Check out all the podcast on Charlamagne's "Black Effect Network" www.blackeffect.com/ Empty Thoughts Podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empt…ow/id1622292632 Empty Thoughts Youtube www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zRsExS9E0VBmwb9Cekdug Check Out "Summer Of 85" on Audible www.audible.com/pd/Summer-of-85-A…areTest=TestShare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah, it seems like you keep pushing it. Because, you know, you got to switch it every two weeks. Yep. And when you first put it in after every two weeks, that's when that shit hurts the most, man. This is day one of the new tray? It's like day two. Yeah, day two of the new tray. Maybe day two, yeah, no, day, I put it in yesterday.

Yeah. Yeah, so day two. And are you doing 20 hours a day or whatever the fuck they say? Trying to. Yeah, you know. I never did that shit. Yeah, it's like you need a little brieval. Yeah, just sleep in it.

All I did is go to sleep in it. Really? Oh, no, I wear it all day. But like I say, if I eat dinner at night, I don't put it back on because I know at night I'm going to have me a drink. I'm going to do an edible. I'm going to get the munchies. I ain't got time to be taking it in and out.

You know what I mean? So I just sit there and let it breathe for a minute. And like you said, put it back in if I go to sleep. Yeah. Are you doing edibles every night? No. I don't do edibles on weekends. Oh, okay.

I'm not a drug addict. I don't need edibles to survive to cope with life. You know what I bumped into yesterday? A drug addict, clearly. No. If this is what you're using the second to it. No, but she's fucking great. Tiffany had it.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. My girl. Love Tiffany. What you saw her at? She's in New York? Yeah, she's in New York.

What the fuck? How she's in New York? She ain't hit me. What she was going to New York? She may be shooting something. Okay. Okay. But yeah, I bumped into her last night at this bar.

And I haven't, like, had like, a one-on-one conversation with her before. She was talking to me about you recently. She is a force. Duh. She is an absolute, unstoppable. Yes. Force. All energy.

Absolutely. You got to read her book. You should read her book The Last Black Unicorn. I want to. No, you should read her book. I'm going to tell you. The first time I ever got turned on to Tiffany

was Neil Brennan and Motion Cash's podcast, The Chance. I had met Tiffany years, years ago when we were filming a guy. No, it wasn't guy. It was a four guy cold. Me and Duval were filming. A Hood State of the Union? No, it was like, okay, it was like a little bit right after Hood State of Union. We first started doing stuff with Viacom.

I think it was like, what's that show of VH1 used to do best? Two girls won't. Maybe Best Week ever, one of them shit like that. There's one of them talking a head show. I met Tiffany way back then, but I heard her champs interview in like 2014, 2015. And when you hear that interview, you're like, yo. She's charged up. Man.

She's charged up. I mean, it was unbelievably entertaining talker. Oh, so y'all was kicking it, kicking it. Yeah. Oh, that's dope. Yeah, we were just chopping it up. No, she's good people, man. She was funny, too, man.

I'm not going to lie. No, she walked in. She walked in and she was up. What's up? What's up? Ugly? I said, what? She goes,

I got to tell these motherfuckers they're ugly. That's how I get late. You tell the motherfucker they're ugly, they fall in love with you. And then she turns to the group of people that you should say, ain't he ugly?

What the fuck is happening? All she's doing is telling you she want to fuck you. No. No. I mean, that's exactly what she just said. I can't blame her. I got to tell you that you're ugly

because I want to get. get laid. All she really was saying was, I want to fuck you. Nah, she's just busting balls. But I will say what thing? She's so funny. She wants to bust your balls. She might want to bust my balls. No. But she was, uh, she said, she says she's very, uh, protective over you. That's my girl, man. Because she loves your wife

so much. That's what they all say. He says, any girl comes up to you, she'll fuck him up. Oh, man. She says that she doesn't. I can tell y'all a story right now. Say it. No. But she ain't lying. And I'm going to tell you something. I remember one, I can tell this story. I don't got to say who the girl was. But one night we was at some, it was something, what Tiffany had just hosted?

Tiffany had just hosted some award show. And we was at the after party. And I was in L.A., mind you, this is me and my faithful days. I'm faithful now. You know what I'm saying? And my wife wasn't there. And this young lady was, you know, being a little too touchy feeling. But what she didn't know was not only was Tiffany Haddish in the party,

Alicia Renee was in the party too. And somehow or another, not even. Knowing Tiffany came from one side and Alicia came from the other side and it was like, you know he's married, right? You know he's married. But not like on some, you know he's married. Like, yo, you know he's married, right? Like, hey, man, thank you.

She did that shit with me last night. Really? Yeah. Because I'm so oblivious. Like when girls compliment my stand-up, I think they really like my stand-up. So, like, this girl's like, I really love watching all your shows. And I'm like, she's got good taste. So two things can be true.

I guess I'm more arrogant about. my art than I am about my face. Yeah, I'm sure every artist that got laid music-wise or comedy has gotten the same thing. I love your stand-up. I love your song. I'd also like to suck your dick. See, they'll say that shit straight up. If they said that shit straight up, I would know. But she's saying,

you know what I mean? Like, but if she's coming and saying, she knows the stand-up and I'm like, oh, yes, there we go. This girl's a great sense of humor. And she came up one last time and Tiffany just stepped in with the high-sman. It was like, uh-uh, uh-uh, it ain't gonna happen. That's right. It ain't going to happen. And she was like, what, what, what?

He's married. And then the girl goes, everyone's married. Yo, what is up with these toxic women that don't respect all bowels, yo? I mean, thank you for the compliment, but what's going on? No, we don't have these conversations enough, man. There's these toxic women out here that don't respect vows, yo. Like, if that was a guy, that guy would be considered a pig and disgusting.

Am I not wearing a ring? Are we not wearing a ring? Not only about wearing a ring, we're letting you know we're married. We talk about being married all the time. This is the new flagging, yo. This is a new flagging, yo. This gang, gang, gang. Gang, gang, gang, gang, y' gang.

Yeah, yeah. And respect our fucking vows. What's wrong with you, yo? Respect our vows, y'all. It's disgusting. For real, back up off the block. We as men have to stop being afraid to tell women when they're doing that type of shit. Meaning like, I don't even know, Charlam, man.

No, but I think they like me for me. But that's disrespect when you're like, everybody's married. Yo, what's that mean, yo? I didn't know until she said that. I genuinely. thought you was a fan of my comedy. I get it, because you're not coming from a place of lust and disgust like those that women is.

You know what I'm saying? Your motive is pure. My motive is pure. You know what I'm just walking in the room trying to have a conversation. Tiff. That's it. These girls out here trying to suck. That suck.

Suck a married man's cock. Yo, why are you going to suck a married man's cock? Why would you suck a married man's cock? You know damn well this cock game been sucked in forever? No, I'm not. Listen, why would you even do such a thing like that? Now, I'm not judging women. Cobwebs all over.

You don't want. on no married man's dick. I'm not judging women who, you know, are only doing what the married man allows them to do. You know what I'm saying? Oh, wait. I'm not judging women who are only doing what the married man allows them to do. But if you know that you're dealing with a faithful male,

right, though, don't try to put your lips on that faithful male's cock. Facts. Come on, go gaslight me. That was gaslight me. I think she probably did like your stand-up. Yeah, she did. I'm sure she probably did like you stand. Down, down.

We should have had tip on the podcast this week. Down. We should have to get her on. That'd be great. No. But speaking of marriage, man, what do you think of the TJ Holmes, Amy Roleback situation from Good Morning America? Have you been paying attention? Here's the thing. I know it might be shocking to you. I don't watch Good Morning America 3. But I have heard about what is happening here. Yeah. And I'm not at all suppressed. Okay. Okay. Why? I think this is what happens a lot of times with people who spend an inordinate amount of time together. Like I used to see when people worked in restaurants all the time. I'm sure you see it with movies.

It's like you're spending so much time with these people and away from your family, your wife, your girlfriend, et cetera, and shit can get sticky out there, man. I get it. I mean, for me, man, I always feel like as a man, you just get more out of a relationship with a woman when you don't try to sleep with her. And as a man, if you're married,

I really think you've got to respect those vows because, man, boy, when you don't respect you. I think when people don't realize when they're making vows, you're not really making them in front of the pastor. You're not making them in front of your wife. You're not making them in front of the church. Or wherever you got married, you're making them in front of God. Oof.

So when you make those vows in front of God, you know what I mean, and you don't respect those vows and then God taps your jaw. You think that's what happened right there? You think it was bad at the hearing? I mean, it's proven, right? Meaning that you didn't respect your vows. You got your jaw tapped. Now both of y'all sitting at home,

even though I just think that's something that ABC is doing because it's the holiday season. So it makes more sense to have two people go sit down. and then come back in the new year and see what happens. But the interesting thing about situations like this, the reason this is never going to work for anybody, especially men, is because what does that headline say? T.J. Holmes allegedly cheated with several women at ABC.

Never fails that the man will be demonized. Whoa, like she was taking advantage of her something. But she could have been doing what that girl was doing the other night. She's a married woman, too. It's the same thing in the other situation with the Boston Celtics coach. That's the married woman. They say, oh, you can't even, you can't even, You can't even bring up the, they made Jail and Rose apologize for even asking.

How come nobody's having conversations about the married woman? And they say, oh, it's because of the power dynamics and everything else. Well, guess what? These power dynamics are even. T.J. Holmes and Amy are both co-host. Yet and still, T.J. is the one getting demonized the most. He's the one in the headlines. How come there's no headline that says Amy Roeback was sleeping with a bunch of people at ABC?

Can I be honest with you? I don't even think the power dynamics are even. Talk to me. Women are always in power when it comes to sex. If they're not, it's not consensual. There is one power player in consensual sex. Yes, absolutely. Women are always in power.

So it can't happen without her. The reason I say consensual sex is the first thing somebody will say when they hear that is, that's not true. What about people who get sexually assaulted? You know what I mean? In consensual sex, I agree. So we're assuming this is consensual because they had a relationship. So the woman, who is the power broker in this relationship,

agrees to engage into a sexual act. All the man can do is ask when you think about it. As long as it's essential, all the man can do is ask. Or try by courting, right? You're courting you. That's why I meant by that. You're dating. You're going out.

You're kicking it. You're giving off signs. This woman crossed the line. Technically, a man can't cheat without a woman making them. They both cross them. No, no, no. They both. Technically.

He's married too, though. So they both crossed the line. But he can't do it without her agreeing. He's got self-control. He knows he married. No, no, no, no, no. You're not understanding what I'm saying. She, if it's consensual, she made the decision.

Sure, but it's in her control. Sure, but as a married man, if a woman... Am I wrong? No, I'm going to tell you why he's wrong. I can't go in the nightclub unless the bouncer let me in. No, wrong is the right word. He's not wrong. Can I go in the nightclub with the bouncer don't let me in?

He's not wrong. That's a very valid point, but there's another point to that. You will get angry if I'm in the nightclub. You let me in. If a beautiful woman walks in here right now, Shokes, stands in front of you, drops all her, her clothes and reach it for your penis. If you let her, that's your fault.

You know you're married. You know what you should and shouldn't be doing. So you know that old saying it takes two? I didn't say that there's not fault. Yeah. What I'm saying is a man can't do it without them. A woman can't. Nobody's going to say that it's assault.

Nobody's going to say it's anything else. I get what you're saying. But if a man tries and then the woman pushes away, that guy's assaulting her. If a woman tries, she just failed at hitting on a dude. The woman is the person. person, she's the bouncer, she's TSA. If a fucking bomb gets on a plane, we got talk to the TSA, right? I think it takes two, man.

It takes two to cheat, bro. They're pussy TSA. It takes two to TSA. They're pussy TSA. Well, speaking to TSA, when you walk through that security cameras and married man, your wedding ring better go off. When you walk through that goddamn metal detector, whatever the shit, you better make sure your wedding ring go off to remind you, A man, you

married. But I have not seen a person win in these situations yet. Not no man. And you went on vacation with her too. That's the foul shit. Like maybe your wife forgives you if you just got your dick sucking a broom closet or something like that. But not a vacation into the woods. Your wife has been waiting to go to the woods with you for years.

Now, that's the other part too, though, because I don't know if both of them were separated. That's the other part of the story. They're saying that they were both separated from the significant others. But then other people are saying that's not true. So I don't know. But you're right. If they both separated, then you do whatever the fuck you want to do. But you're right, man.

You got to stop treating the side like the main, bro. Wabi, I'm not your main was Sabi. Go give him a kiss. I'm talking to the dog. Go give him a kiss. I'm talking to the dog. What do you think Sabi was in another life? This was that woman at the bar last night?

Just looking on you with no consent. You know what I mean? Down! But that's what you got to do. I'm only in control of me, man. I'm not in controlling nobody else. You know what I'm not in controlling. control of buying a new pair of fucking socks.

Jesus Christ. I don't have it, bro. What you want me to do, man? I'm going to tell you something. This guy's worth millions and millions and dollars. Why do you keep saying this? Why do you see? Why?

Millions of dollars. Why do you keep saying this? Millions of dollars. You got to stop saying this. Millions of millions. Tens of millions. Why do you keep saying it? It's not true.

At least tens of millions. You know what I want for Christmas? And this is true. I thought about this. I literally thought about this this morning. What? I want a bunch of socks, right? But I want to be able to go

in my sock drawer and find socks that batch. Why is that the hardest thing to fucking do is a man, bro? What's happening with the socks when they go in the drawer? I don't know. It took me

15 minutes to find socks this morning. Do you have a maid or something like that? I mean, that's a terrible term. Have help. Housekeepers. Have people who help us with the house. And they don't fucking match

the socks up before they put it? I don't think nobody matches the socks. This is a historic thing. That's only, bro. Huh? That's only you. That ain't true. I don't believe.

Let me see y'all. Is your housekeeper a college kid? Do your socks match? Taylor, let me see if your socks match. Your socks match? Look at this. You ain't even got no socks on, can't taste. Shut up.

I'm the only one with, well, technically my socks match, but they're just dirty. Down! Here's the thing. You are paying a housekeeper to just take your socks out of the laundry and then throw them in the drawer without bunching them to together? That's crazy to me. I think I realized. That's absolutely fucking crazy. You can't do that yourself?

I think I realized I don't have that many matching pants socks. You have to. They come matching. I don't know what happens. I don't know what happens to him, bro. I'm not even lying to it. I've never been a sock guy. What's happening right now?

I'm starting to get into socks now. What's a sock guy? No, I'm going to salute. Salute to Stance, right? Salute to Stance, right? Because Stanch kind of like made cool socks. Yeah. But that's when I started like paying attention to socks.

Okay. Prior to that, I never paid attention to socks like that. You'll go buy briefs. You'll go buy, you know, tank tops, but you don't really go buy socks. But you have socks. And then somehow... I'm going to be honest with you. You only have one of them?

As I look at my feet, I'm not sure I have socks, bro. And when I think about what was going on in my drawer this morning, I think that those socks are really there from props. I'm telling you, it took me 15 minutes to find socks with a drawer full of socks. I don't know. I'm going to take a picture of my sock drawer later and send it to you and you're going to understand what I'm saying. None of the socks matched. You know, these were the only pair of socks that I could find that matched.

Call your housekeeper right now. For what? So we can have a conversation about it. You really think you're going to be able to understand her. Honestly, yeah. You might. My wife speaks the language a little better than I do. Really?

I don't have the housekeeper the number, though. I just can't believe that somehow your housekeeper is getting away with just tossing your fucking socks in there. Or you just have one sock. She don't even have to touch the drawer. When I find socks, I usually get socks out of the... I get socks out of the laundry basket most of the time. Uh-huh. So shit.

Why isn't she putting them away? Do you see, is there... I don't understand what you know. No, I totally understand. It's really coming to me now. What's coming to you? What I realize is I get my socks out of the laundry basket. You know, the cleaners come like two times a week.

So I'm probably wearing the same pair of socks. socks. Every single time. You have one pair of socks. Maybe two. You have one to two pairs of socks. Maybe two. Maybe two. Maybe two. I don't have socks to wash. Yeah, I don't have socks to wash. I know what I'm going to get you for Christmas. I want socks. I'm not even joking, yo. I know. But I got to really start investing in stocks in a real way to where I know like they a pair. You know what I mean? Like this is a, I got on an 85-style sweatsuit right now. I know

this is the pants to it. This is the top. So I need the same socks so I can look and say, okay, these go together. Yes. I'm dead serious. What do you mean? Yeah, how you got tens of millions of dollars? I don't have tens of millions of dollars. Stop saying that.

How are you worth $100 million and you don't have anything? I don't have that. That's why I keep losing friends now. This guy's the first billion. Because they think I got stuff I don't have. This is unbelievable. Taylor said she, she said that there's socks that come together. Don't all socks come together?

It's never been a problem. It's never been a problem for most people to have socks to match. How are you the richest black man in America? You're literally the richest black man. You're the richest black man now. Danny Kanye's not rich no more. You're the richest black man in America is my good friend Robert Smith. That's cap.

Good friend. That guy's white. Did you know Robert Smith is white? Robert Smith is black. No, Robert Smith is black black. Robert Smith is pay off all the student loans at Borough's graduating class black. Wouldn't you do that if you were really white you wanted to trick black people in the thinking you're Black? I would do that if I was really rich.

That's what you do. So, TJ and Amy, God bless him. What? What is happening right now? We wish him the best. Them edibles ain't leave his system here. You wish him the best. You missed the goat this week, man. I know.

You walked in, you was very disappointed that you missed the goat this week. I saw the goat two times this week, man. Dr. Umar Johnson was on a breakfast club. And hell of a week. And Dr. Umar Johnson was on hell of a week. Okay, tell me about breakfast club first. Breakfast Club conversations are always great because, you know, people look forward to Dr. Umar on Breakfast Club. Okay. Why do you think he's such an engaging figure despite the fact that a lot of his rhetoric may be not as progressive or deemed as polarizing?

I don't think it has to be progressive. I think that black people and people of color think that your messaging has to be progressive. But the reality is, man, most people are conservative. I really feel that way. Speak on it. I just think most people are conservative. I think that the way we were raised, a lot of us have, you know, old school values.

Now, there's things about myself that I've grown to question, especially in regards to religion, just because things don't feel right with my spirit. You know what I mean? But other than that, for the most part, most people have conservative values. It's not really that difficult to express.

And I think a lot of things that he expresses are a lot of conservative values. Even his thoughts on interracial relationships, it's not weird when Asian people say that. It's not weird when Jewish people say that. It's not weird when the Latino or Dominican says, I want my Dominican daughter to marry a Dominican man. So why is it so like, when a black man says a black man should be with a black woman? No, I, yeah, I'd see a lot of people say, he says, first of all, I just want to make it very clear.

I absolutely love Dr. Imar Johnson. I'm the biggest fucking fan. He's one of the best communicators, the most hilarious. He really is, Joe. So, but I think what a lot of people do is they go, well, just because they're doing that, why can't we do that? But if you do something that we, that we deem is wrong, it doesn't make it okay if other people do wrong things. Yes. In other words, right? Like if somebody's like, yo, they beat their wives, why can't we beat our wives? No, they shouldn't.

That's right. And you should continue not. So if you fall in love with someone who is of a different religion or of a different race, God bless you. God bless you. Some people don't feel that way. Dr. Romar Johnson actually had like a fire argument for it. You know me as a comic.

I'm just looking for cool connections. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And his, on the thing was, he says, What often happens is a lot of affluent, educated black men, like the rich black men are marrying outside their race, and he thinks that that puts the black community in a tougher situation because I guess they're not making...

Because women outlived men. And so when the man passes, that wealth goes to a community, a lot of times that has been taking from the black community. We can put that clip in. The reason I'm against interracial marriage envy in Charlemagne is because marriage, is an economic contract.

It's an economic contract. Most women do not marry down in status. They marry up. And if you don't believe me, show me a rich white woman married to a broke-ass black man. Have you ever seen a rich white woman marry a broke-ass black man?

No, you have not, and you never will. Because marriage ain't about love. It's not colorblind, and it is totally economic. So if marriage is an economic unification, and a contract, how can we, who don't have enough already, give so much to the white woman and to white people who have already taken too much when we got all these black women out here who will never get married? Only one out of every four black women in America will ever taste marriage, and half of them who tastes marriage will be divorced within five years. If you want to

save the black family, if you want to save the black family, you have to protect it. And in order to protect it, you have to be against interracial marriage. You can't say, I love you. I love the black family, but I don't have a problem with interracial marriage. Interracial marriage is eliminating the black family because it is not providing our women with enough available and able black men to be their husband. I mean, and that's the thing I like about Umar. Whether that's right or wrong, it's like, as a comic, I'm looking at that I'm like, ooh, that's interesting. It's not prejudice. It's based on economics and business. Yeah, I understand what I'm saying. I guess what I'm saying is just because things are even doesn't mean that's right. There's a lot of ways to be even

that are absolutely wrong. Oh, that person commits crime. I'm going to commit crime. No, you both should not commit crime. But he was fucking phenomenal. He looked incredible. The suit was beautiful, fucking hair done. Like, he looked made for TV.

You know what Dr. Umar showed me when he did hell of a week? Dr. Umar showed me that he really is the star we've always known him. And I'll tell you what I mean by that. He is not performing. As much as we think he may be performing, I don't think he's performing. Well, the great ones make you think they're not performing. Well, I think that he recognizes when he has the opportunity to really get messaging across that he feels can benefit people, are better people.

You know what I mean? Because what he had to say about the Britney Griner situation, whether you agree or disagree with it? What was his take on his take on it? And we can insert that, Taylor, but his take on it was that, you know, it's not. just a political stunt from the Biden administration, you know, to garner support in 2024 because Brittany Griner checks off a lot of boxes. It checks off woman box, black box, LGBTQ, and celebrity.

Umar, what do you think? What does this do for the Biden administration? Does it, do you respect them more? Absolutely not. Okay. I remember when Joe Biden was having a conversation with you and he told black people that if you don't vote for him, you're not black.

And then after he got elected, he took care of every other constituency except black America. When they look at Britney Griner, they're looking at four distinct voter bases. You're looking at the celebrity base. You're looking at the LGBTQ base. You're looking at the woman base.

And you're looking at the African American base. These are going to be four, very critical voter bases come election time. So they're really just arming up for that war against Donald Trump. You know, and I mean, I think, I'm pretty sure at this point, it's safe to say Britney was a political pawn.

not just even for the USA, but for Russia as well. Russia used her to get back. They're merchant of death, you know. And now Biden has another thing he can put on his resume to say that he got done. And it's a cultural thing that people wanted to get done. People are going to remember that. That's one of those things that nobody's going to ever forget in regards to President Biden and the Biden administration.

And what's been interesting is that like there's been this comparison made between Britney Griner and I believe something wheeling. Paul Wheeling. Paul Wheeling. Former U.S. Marine Paul Wheeler. And what was Paul Wheelan doing in Russia? He got a, he was, I don't know. I forgot what he was actually doing there, but he got arrested for espionage.

So was he spying? No, he said he wasn't. I mean, that's, yeah, of course, that's what you said. No, I'm not fine. It's on vacation. I don't know. I don't know. I guess what I'm trying to say is, like, I don't think it's a fair comparison if his job was to go there and spy.

You know, because if your job is. I know he was working for some security firm or something like. I guess what I'm trying to say is like if your job is to go somewhere and spy and then you get captured, right? And then you're comparing that to a woman whose job was to go play basketball and she fucked up by bringing drugs in there. But the only reason that she was put in jail in this way is because she's famous and she was a tool. It was a proxy. Go back to that tale? But I'm just, people are making this comparison.

They're like, why are we letting this girl out who quote unquote hates America versus this guy who's sacrificed for America? Yeah. And it's like, well, the reason. why they're in prison might be different things. Yeah. Hold on. Taylor, Taylor's amazing. What's she say? She just informed us that Paul Willing was accused of spying.

Oh, wow. No, we were sure. We were sure what he was accused of. We don't know if he actually was fine. Like, for example, I did a show in Russia. They could easily, and I was actually concerned about this, they could easily, at any point in time, go, oh, this guy's out here.

He's out here on behalf of the United States of America. He's trying to put out information or, like, research different parts of Moscow. so they can attack them. Let's lock this motherfucker up. They could have done that at any point in time. And Trump up some weird charges and then that's right. Let's insert the Paul Wheeling clip here, Taylor, but he told Paul Wheeler said I was arrested.

He called CNN last night. He said, I was arrested for a crime that never occurred. I don't understand why I'm still sitting here. Wheeling a former Marine who was a U.S. Irish, British, and Canadian citizen was detained at a Moscow hotel in December 2018 by Russian authorities alleged he was involved in an intelligence operation. He was convicted in sentenced in June 2020 to 16 years in prison and a trial U.S. officials denounced is unfair. I would say that if a message could go to President Biden that, you know, this is a precarious

situation that needs to be resolved quickly. And I would hope that he and his administration would do everything they could to get me home regardless of the price they might have to pay at this point. Here's the thing. I can't believe the Biden administration didn't prepare for this backlash. As soon as this broke yesterday and we talked about it on Breakfast Club,

after I, you know, saluted Brittany for coming home and, you know, gave the Biden administration their props, cool. The second thing I said was, but you know y'all about to get crazy backlash because there's a former U.S. Marine named Paul Whelan,

who they were talking about doing a two-for-one deal for. And I said, everybody's going to say WNBA player versus somebody who served the country. Right wing media is going to eat that up. They're going to eat that up. And for a merchant

of deaf, you know what? Wasn't he working for us too? Because I watched that movie. I heard that too, yeah. So that's the other thing that's weird about this. It's like, we locked up a dude who we were also working with. I heard that. I don't know if that's true, but I heard that. Yeah. And he definitely

plotted on killing a bunch of Americans. He Definitely supplied weapons that killed a bunch of Africans and Afghans. So, I mean... That's the other thing I was thinking, right? Like, you know how there's so many, like, unstable nations in Africa, right? Especially the ones that have all these incredibly valuable natural resources. Doesn't it behoove the countries that are extracting those natural resources to keep those nations as unstable as possible so that they can't organize and find a way to

nationalize those resources and then make it far more expensive to remove them? Yeah, if you keep everybody, if you keep everybody else in chaos, but you're organized to do what it is you want to do, meaning take those resources from that country, you'll never lose. Like, it's no surprise. They're doing it to us here now. 100%. But I'm also like, if you look at the Congo, right,

which is, I think, the most resource-rich region in the world, right? It's also one of the most unstable places. And I'm like, this can't be a coincidence. There has to be purpose here. right? Like, I don't know. I feel like it... You keep everybody confused. You keep everybody in chaos. They'll never pay attention to what you really doing. Because I guess if you look, like, you look at the Middle East, right? We were extracting oil in the Middle East far before they were these organized, incredibly wealthy

nations. But what did we have to do before we started extracting oil? War. Exactly. No, no, but I'm saying... What I'm saying is maybe they learned from what happened in the Middle East and they were like, oh shit, we gave, we gave, we allowed these people to profit. enormously off of the oil money that was extracted. We being, you know, Great Britain, the United States, many other countries, develop all the infrastructure. They weren't developing the sophisticated infrastructure.

Then once they made billions and trillions of dollars, they were like, okay, we don't need you guys extracting anymore. Now you're going to have to pay for the oil. And now I imagine the Western countries going, ooh, we fucked up there. We let shit be too sweet. It was way better when they were in chaos, and we were just yanking that shit out

and paying whatever fucking propped-up leader they had. That's right. It's kind of fuck. Like, bro, keep people in chaos, man. I'm telling you, why do you think every day on social media

is some shit? And that's what I said yesterday. I'm like, oh, God, today's going to be one of them shit shows online because I knew it was going to happen. I knew that the right-wing media

was going to be highly upset that, you know, Paul Wheeling wasn't home. I knew they were going to be highly upset that they traded a merchant of death for Brittany Griner. I knew that, you know,

once that faction of black Twitter and, you know, what they called a HOTP's, found out that, you know, oh, this dude, Victor, was responsible for the death of a bunch of Africans. I knew that was going to turn into something. I knew that people was going to say,

oh, this is an agenda because Britney's LGBT. Like, all, it was, it was so predictable. And all the usual suspects did what they always do. And what did we do all day yesterday, fuss and fight. And who knows what the fuck was really going on in the world yesterday? You know what I mean? This is a good lesson. Like, you get locked up abroad.

If I get locked abroad, I'm gay. Why? That's the last thing you want to do be in some of these countries. No, but I need extra boxes to bring me back. Oh, I get what you're saying. I get what you saying. I'm gay.

I get what you're saying. I'm Chinese. I will say. I'm all the thing. Whatever it is that you need to curry favor with, that's me. I will say, though, man, the Brittany situation did show me what, you know, communities are capable of, you know,

when they decide to organize and, strategize and bring awareness and attention to something. Oh, you think that's what made it happen? A hundred percent. Like, yo, I don't even know what endorsement deals Britney got. And you know why I don't know? Because they don't do a good job of marketing her as people who have done over the past seven to eight months.

You know what I mean? The whole we RBG campaign constantly talking about her. Yo, not even on the low. Paul Wheeling benefits from Brittany Griner. Yeah. Being arrested. Yeah. I never heard of Paul Wheeler.

Yeah. I never heard of Paul Wheeling told a Britney Griner situation. And now, Conservatives got to carry through on all the shit they're talking about it, right? Because if you're going to prop him up and say, look, how unfair it is, when you get in power, you better get his ass back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And talked all that shit about how important he is and the sacrifices he made and talked all that shit. Yeah, yeah. You better make sure that that's not just fluff to criticize the Biden administration.

You better make sure you actually care about that, man. Yo, the ill thing is Russia probably sitting back like, hold up. So a WNBA player gets caught with a weed pin Britney Griner and they gave us the merchant of death for her Oh we're definitely not giving up Paul

for nothing less than like five first round picks You know what I'm saying? Seriously Like that's literally what That's literally what it is I know that's why they're keeping Paul wheeling now They're like oh this what we got for this

Oh I know Oh my God No, I didn't got bodied in that trade, for sure. Easily. Absolutely. But, I mean, listen, it might help him. To Dr. Humaw's point, it might help him in 2024. I don't know.

You know, here's the thing. You're black, how does it feel? Do you feel like he looked out for you? I'm going to be honest with you, man. Whenever I see any black person, you know, get free from an unjust charge, I'm happy. Well, it was a just charge. Nine years, bro. I don't know what the rules are there, but there are countries with her.

That's true. I mean, yeah, the rules are different. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You know. But it just seeing.

It seems unfair. But here's the thing with Biden, though, and this is what I've been saying for the past couple of days, and I'll continue to say, keep that same energy for America. Joe Biden has been responsible for some of the harshest crime,

drug legislation in the history of this country. Free them up. You know what I mean? Let them out. If you can look in Russia and say, that's unjust for Britney Griner

to be over there with a vape pin. And they still got all these people locked the fuck up here. It's right. You got people locked up here. It's affirmative nonsense. Right now he should pardon everybody that's in prison on a federal level for a nonviolent weed offense. Agreed. Pardon them.

You can do that. He only need no votes and he can do that. You know what I'm saying? You should expunge the records. I think he didn't. No, he didn't. That's not what he did, Alex. What he did was he pardoned everybody who has a simple possession charge.

But there's nobody in prison on a federal level for simple possession. I thought it was nonviolent weed offenses. It's nice. It's simple possession of marijuana. There's nobody in prison on a federal level for a simple possession of marijuana charge. So that's great. And it looks good, but there's nothing there, bro. You know what I mean? The only reason I never really criticized it too hard because it's a step in the right direction. But now that we see what you can do. Run it up. Hey, run it up. You can do that right here in America. You know what I'm saying? And by the way, there is nobody alive right now who should do that more than Joe Biden. how do you write your wrongs of the past? You write your wrongs of the past by writing the wrongs of right now. You're a president of the United States of America. You have the power to pardon everybody in prison.

First of all, you can pardon anybody you want. That's number one, on a federal level. But you can pardon those people that are in prison right now for non-violent weed offenses on a federal level. Do it. Keep that same energy. And there's political prisoners here in America, you know, that you can let free.

I'm just saying keep that same energy, you know what I mean? You know, don't, and that's what I want us to do. Keep the pressure where the pressure needs to be. Because I think sometimes we get jaded with democracy, but are we really participating in democracy? Democracy isn't just voting and they get in and then you just wait for them to do something. You got to push until something happens.

That's why I love with my girl Tesla's a figure-all. He says, push the fucking line, yo. So that's all I care about. Let's see if he does it. I don't think he will. And also with Britney, I'm just like, for me, it's just like, why wouldn't I be happy that Britney Griner's out of prison? Like, you know what I'm saying?

Just like when Paul Wheeling comes on and be happy too. I've been in jail. I can only imagine how that shit feels to be locked up in Russia. And, you know, you probably are being held captive just because you're being used as a political punk, you know? Which is why people said initially when Brittany got arrested, they didn't want nobody to say nothing. That's what they didn't want nobody to say nothing.

they were busy negotiating. That's right. They didn't want nobody to make because it bests up in negotiation. Yeah, the more valuable she looks, the more value you have to offer to get her back. That's right. So we fucked up.

Maybe. Maybe. But if nobody cared, they wouldn't even get up. That's what I'm saying. I understand both sides. It looks weak politically that like one of our sports stars is locked up another country. We can't do anything about it.

It looks weak as a country. And you have to think about like outside of whether or not we should protect our citizens abroad, Because I was thinking about that yesterday. I'm like, if we break the law abroad, do we bully other countries to make exceptions? I don't know. Like, if someone from another country came here

broke the law, locked that motherfucker up. How dare you disrespect? Yeah, yeah. So I'm like. And now the diplomats from those countries got to deal with each other. I like what you just said, though. You said it looks weak to have one of our sports stars

locked up. You know what else is weak? When you don't treat her like a sports star when she's here. nobody was talking about the WNBA and Britney Griner beforehand, so that's the other thing. What happens moving forward? Moving forward, all of those games should be packed, right? No, they won't be packed.

And I'm not, they just, it's just not interesting. We know this, though. You know what I mean? That's the fucked up thing about it. But people do like female sports. Like female tennis, you go watch the talent. I love female basketball. Okay.

I watch college basketball all the time. Why? Because of Don Staley and the University of South Carolina Lady Game Cups. I love watching them play. I started watching in, 2017 when Asia Wilson was playing for the lady gamecocks, you know, she's from the crib, she's from South Carolina,

Don, they got a great program there. I love watching college basketball, but I'm also a person who loves the fundamentals of basketball. Right. There's no better fundamentally sound people in, than college women basketball. You don't believe that. That's a fact. You don't believe. They're fundamentally sound.

You don't believe that. You don't believe that. They're fundamentally sound, Schoach. You don't believe it. They do everything but dunk. Everything else. The basics of basketball, they are the best. You know why they're the best that fundamentals?

That's all I can do. But NBA players, college basketball players that are male also know those fundamentals. They know them better than the women. And they're athletic enough to do all these amazing things that are incredibly entertaining. But that's what I mean. They can do other things, right? They can shoot from half court like the Steph Curry's and they can dunk and, you know, do crazy things with handling everything like that.

A lot of them focus more on that than the fundamentals. Yeah. You know what I mean? like hand one players aren't fundamental yeah but we're not comparing them to ham one we're comparing them to the top level you know i think when it comes i think when it comes to fundamental there's nobody better than college women basketball players because that's literally all they can focus on i mean you could think that that's fun it's wrong it is completely wrong but you can think it i listen i i would love more people to go support college basketball the reality is women aren't into it and if women

aren't into it it's up to men to go support the female sports and that's unfair like women you You, if this is a feminist movement and equality and all that kind of shit, you're 60% of the population. Go support the women when they do things. The reality is you would rather watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills than go out and support a show. That's why the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills got fucking 4 million viewers or whatever it does. And a WMBA game has absolutely nobody. This is on women. I don't want to hear no more complaining.

U.S. soccer, if the women are upset, maybe I understand that a little bit more just because so many people do go out to those games. they win, like when the U.S. soccer is winning the Olympic gold or like World Cups and that kind of shit. But if your stadiums are empty, that ain't men's fault. Say, hey, you know, Bill Burr said that same thing, man, but I feel that same way about the movie, Brods. We talked about Brols last week. Yeah, that's on you.

Like, where's your community? If I put something out and I put something together and it's it's, you know, driven by the culture, like it's a black cast and, you know, if it don't do good, I'm not pointing that you, white people are saying why y'all only show up?

How would Konda do? Amazing. All right. You know, but, I mean, that's different, though. No, no. I get what you saying. I don't think it's different. Black Panther was not this, like, huge Marvel character for us growing up.

This is supported by the community, a movie that's reflected, the community, it resonates within the community. Now, that's not to say that white people aren't excited about two, and Kahnbrook fans aren't excited about too, and you want to have multiple umbrellas that you could, like, pull from. But the reality is, black people were, fucking with Wakanda, and that's why it's successful. I think Black Panther, I'm not, I don't disagree, you're right.

I think Marvel has a built-in thing already, but when you take the casual black person who wants to go see Black Panther, but may not go see no other Marvel movie, that's why movies like Wakanda Feldwood and Black Panther look great. It's one of the most popular sports in the world. You're right. Now, what you're doing is drafting off of basketball, and it's not working as well. You've got to find a way to make it work. Change some shit up.

I don't know what the fuck you got to do, but you've got to change some shit to make it exciting. Yeah. And I'm not saying that they should objectify women to do it, but there are certain sports that have objectified women

and it's been very valuable. You look at volleyball. They got these girls dancing around and fucking thongs and bikinis and shit like that. I personally think it's, you shouldn't need to do that to them.

But the numbers are undeniable. Simple as that. I think the WNBA just simply needs eyeballs, man. I know that's what we're saying, but dumb ass. How do you get the eyeballs?

What I was just, what I'm trying to say. the game more interesting. I mean, because the game is interesting. I promise you. With tennis, female tennis is interesting and it's not because they're moaning and grunting when they're hitting. It's literally because of the volleys last longer. So their lack of athleticism

and power makes the game better in a way because you see more back and forth action, whereas the men, the serves are so strong. A lot of times it's one or two touches and then that's the point. So the game itself is really interesting and entertaining. Women have to find a way to do that

with basketball. They have to find a way where they're game is really great. College basketball is like women's college basketball is like that. Yo, nobody goes, you know what I want to watch today? Some fundamentals. Nobody's ever said. I do. I want to watch Alan Iverson cross someone over and make them drop.

I want to watch somebody dunk from the free roll line. But there's a lot of girls that do that too, though. They handle be nice and they can shoot. I like women's college basketball. Now I'm not going to lie, I don't watch WNBA. Not because I don't want to. I watch it. I watch it when Asia's playing. When Asia's playing, if Las Vegas is the playing, and the games on,

I'll watch it. But WNBA college basketball, women's college basketball, I definitely watch. I mean, look, but it's because of the lady game card. The UFC has found a way to get people to watch women's MMA. That's different. It's different.

We love blood. Blood sports, violent, yeah, violence will always win, bro. I mean, usually when women are bleeding, we try to stay a little bit, you know, away from that. Who? You're married, bro. We married, bro. Oh, yeah, we are here.

Don't stop nothing but a sentence, bro. Yeah. You're talking about. Yeah. It stops a good dinner combo. Did you know that? I guess what I'm saying is like with boxing, no one really cared about female boxing,

maybe Laila Ali a little bit, but like it wasn't as big. With female MMA, there are female MMA stars that are literally almost as big as the top male MMA stars. So they found a way to make the sport interesting, entertaining, and really enjoyable when these girls are fighting. But that's because there's nothing those women

MMA fighters can do that there's nothing they can do that the men can't do with vice versa. Like it's the same thing. What can a man do in the ring that a woman can't? They kick each other, they hit each other, they beat each other, they slam each other. You can say the same thing about WMBA. No, no Dunkin.

That's what Shaq said. Shaq said that on Drink Champ. Shack was like, if they just lower the room a little bit and women could dump more, people would, you know, be into it. You know, my. idea was, you know, I don't know if it's fair, but my idea was, I had one trans woman per team. That was my idea a long time ago. And what happens? Now you get the dunking.

That's all this about. Like, now you get Ali's getting thrown and stuff like that. You know what I mean? Now, don't get me wrong. There's people that dunked. There's a woman, I can not remember her name. She plays for the Stockslawn of Gamecocks. She dunked in the game this year. You know what I mean? So it's just like, that's what's missing. Shaq said that Shaq was like, if you just lower the rim just a little bit. And the WNBA, it changes the whole complexion of the game. And I believe that. So it's like, you know, my, my ideas add one trans woman per team.

Or lower the rim. Or lower the rim. I think they got to do something because it's not working out. Charles was like, I love watching fundamentals. But the way to fix this game is adding ducks. Hey, man, you want me to think of some ideas about it? What are you trying to do, man? You know what I'm saying?

I'm not saying y'all wrong. I'm just saying I know I'm one individual. Okay? We're trying to bring more than just people. like me. It's clearly not a lot. You know what I mean? He's only like the Gamecocks because they're from South Carolina.

And Don Staley's a bad motherfucker man. Yeah. God damn. Don't Staley is a bad motherfucker. Have you ever watched? I know you're going to say, no, I'm asking you. Did you ever watch the Women's Olympic Team, Doc 30 for 30? When it was Lisa Leslie and Don Staley and Cheryl

Swoves and Rebecca Lobo. Oh, man. I mean, I'm a documentary guy. It came out this year. Love the documentary. but just what Don, what Don has done for the sport of women's, you know, basketball and who she is as a person and what she represents, man, is incredible.

Like some people are just special. Some people have gifts. Like, like, you know, Dionne Sanders. We about to talk about Dionne Sanders. Like, Dionne Sanders has a gift. You know, Ray Lewis. Ray Lewis has a gift. Like, it's something about them that the way they speak

is able to motivate, athletes to be the best version of the best version of itself. Phil Jackson, you know what I'm saying? Like, Don Stanley to me is she's got it like that. You know, I mean, and it proves it shows because she wins at every level, you know. So, yeah, salute to her. What do you think of the Dion Sanders situation, man? I mean.

Have you given it any thought? I have because I like, I also heard about Umar and what he had to say. And I've heard people make that criticism. But like, I don't know. I thought him going to Jackson State and, you know, dedicating three years there, taking his son there. His son is a top recruit. He could have gone to any school in the nation.

And he's potentially sacrificing that exposure at a top university. Could he have gone to any school in the nation? Oh, I thought he was like a number one ranked quarterback. Oh, his son. Oh, I thought you meant Dion as the coach. No, no, his son. Okay. Yeah, I mean, one of his son is,

potentially sacrificing major exposure. Thank God. Because he does someone playing at South Carolina. Is that right? Yeah, the other son was playing for the Gancocs. He transferred to Jackson State. I don't know. I guess what I'm saying is like, one, he's allowed to go make money.

Two, he's clearly made an impact for that university. Three, maybe other people will do what Dion did. And he started a trend. But he's also allowed to go make money. And he's also allowed to take his son to a Division I prime time university so he can compete against the best talent. So he has a chance to prepare himself for the NFL. Like, what are you expecting him to do?

like have his son not go up against top competition, then go into the NFL and then be like shocked and then flame out? I think it's bare minimum. His son should definitely go there. I don't even know if it's just about his son. I think Dion is a person who's always poured into people. And that's what I've been telling people, you know, all week.

Dion Sanders coached high school football, you know, for several years. Dion Sanders opened up Prime Prep Academy, which closed because of financial issues. Dion Sanders has always said he wanted to coach at Florida State University. Dion Sanders has never, ever, you know, hidden his desire to say he ultimately wants to be a coach at Florida State, but he knows like everybody else, he's got to, you know, take those steps. Jackson State University was a school that offered him an opportunity to take a step. Prior to that, he got offered an assistant coaching gig somewhere. He didn't want to be an assistant coach.

Jackson State, like, okay, Dion can give our, you know, school a boost. They hired Deon. Dion said from the beginning, hey, man, I'm here to change the perspective of HBCUs. This is what God told me to do. And it bugs me out that people are saying, why did he say God told him to do that? God don't tell y'all to do something.

Y'all go do it, be successful at it, or be a failure at it, and then God tells you to move on to something else. He went to Jackson State, $1.2 million for four years. Three years, decided to move on, told him

a year or two ago, take half of that salary, use it for student facilities. How can people say Dion was in it for the money when his track record clearly shows he's never been in it for the money? Was he in it for the money when he was coaching high school football?

Was he in it for the money when he launched Prime Prep Academy and closed the financial issues? Let's say he was in it for the money. What's wrong? Where's the money, though? My point is whenever somebody's doing those things. No, no, it's like going to Colorado's for the money,

not doing Jackson's... I don't think anybody is sick of Jackson's... I don't even know if Colorado's for the money. as much as it's for, I want the opportunity to coach on a Power 5 level because my ultimate goal is Florida State and I told you all that from the beginning. Yeah, I don't know. I think this is a really unfair criticism of somebody that's clearly dedicated time and personal resources to uplifting in HBCU and the students that were on that team.

And people are doing what they usually do, which is focus on the individual and not the issue because the issue is HBCUs are chronically underfunded. Why are they chronically underfunded? because of, you know, underfunding from the states that they're in, from, you know, low donations, from alumni and low endowments. You know what I mean? So it's just like a lot of this stuff. I'm like, when the last time you donated to an HBCU?

You know, if Dionne, if Deion Sanders is at this school. If you haven't donated, we don't want to hear anything. I don't want to hear shit you got to say. It's not like he even went to Jackson State. Word is born. He's not like he's, that's his alma mater, anything. He feels like he owes him it. The only reason he did is to give back to that community,

which is going to be way more than the average person criticizes me and that should be bullshit. And Dion Sanders, I mean, HBCUs were criminally underfunded before Dion Sanders

and they're going to be criminally underfunded after. How do you fix that? You fix that by digging down in your pockets, you know what I'm saying, and donate into the school of your choice. And I'm only speaking from

somebody who does it, you know, Breakfast Club. We raised over $800,000 you know, for the third good Marshall College Fund, you know, which goes to students at HBCUs.

I came out of my pocket, quote a million dollars my mother's on my mother's my mother's South Carolina State with a lot with a lot more to come you know just a couple weeks ago you heard me on here talking about our thrill of possibility summit that we did in Nashville back in November what day I don't remember what date that was Taylor did it with Black Effect my podcast network

IHeart and Nissan we flew 50 HBCU students out we paid for that you know flew 50 HBCU students out had a panel panels all weekend you know for them to learn from other people who went to HBCUs who have gone on to be successful. So once again, what are you investing in HBCUs to sit around and say, oh, Dionne Sanders, you know, should have stayed a little longer because he was going to help all HBCU rise.

Dionne is not your savior, brother. Yeah. System. Like, Dion Sanders is not your savior. And guess what? Dion came and showed us the possibilities. He showed us what HBCUs could be. There you go.

If folks actually. You had the right talent. People went there. That's right. And guess what? Anybody who makes the move that Dion did, which there is Eddie George out there, by the way. Eddie George is at Tennessee State. Y'all don't know that because y'all fake hearing about Dion.

But Eddie George is at Tennessee State. But any, you know, there's only one Dion, but anybody, let's just say with that kind of experience, as far as, you know, being an NFL player or whatever and deciding to come play college football, if they're really good, they're probably not going to be at the HBCU loan. Because the HBCUs can't afford to pay them. can't compete. Well, that's another good point where it's just like, yo, let's put our money where our mouth is. If it is about the money, then where are those, what are they called graduates, where are the alumni that are making tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars,

where are those, I think they're called boosters or something like that, that are going to be donating to the school to keep a guy like Dion. Why does Dion have to not only sacrifice what he wants to do, meaning eventually close to Florida State, what his son wants to do, which is prepare the best for his ability to play in the NFL and what they both might want to do, which is generate generational wealth. Like, why do they have to do all those sacrifices while everybody else is looking around criticizing? To me, it seems unfair. I think Dion's made a lot of sacrifices, man.

Dionne lost two toes, bro. Oh, are they gone? Amputated. Which ones? I don't know which ones, but you lost two toes over the past couple of years. People forget Deion was in the hospital earlier this year. Yeah, for what? I don't remember what it was.

I think he had a blood clot or something like that. You know what I'm saying? But it's just like, yo, he's 55 years old. He's probably looking like, I don't, you know, you know, let me do what I need to do now. Like, I don't understand why we're acting like somebody can't have multiple callings throughout their life.

And everybody won in this situation. Yeah. Nobody got fucked over. Yeah. Jackson State University won. They got what they wanted over the last few years. Dion Sanders won. He got what he wanted.

Now everybody's moving on. But here's the thing. HBCUs are still here. So what are we going to do? Keep pointing at Dion. He's like, okay, Dion's gone. Dion, this is your fault. HBC user like this.

Knock it off. HBCUs were like this before he got there. HBCUs were like that while he was there. So what are we going to do to help, you know, the HBCUs of our choice? That's all. That's all. You want to pay some bills?

Yeah, let's do it. Let's pay some bills, man. What you got? All right, guys, let's take a break for a second because, listen, some of you guys might be missing out on your favorite shows because it's not available in your region, in your country, wherever the hell you're traveling to. Listen, trying to keep your private time.

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Next week is our final episode of the year. Yeah, and then we'll be back hopefully in January. Hopefully in January. You know, Comedy Central. You saw Trevor Noah last night was his last show. How'd that feel? Were you around for that? Did you watch it?

I mean, I watched it. Honestly, if I tell you how I felt, I was really kind of upset a little bit. Why? Because they didn't tell us that Treble was going to be on for an hour and some change. Oh. So you guys were. I'm promoting regular.

Like, you know, hey, check us out 1130, 1130, 1130, 1130, 1130, Comedy Central. I'm feeling good. I got a Von Orgy and I got Thumar and I got Caz and I got Sam. And I know we had a great show. And I was excited because I'm like, oh, this is Trevor's last show. So I know it's going to be a lot of eyeballs on it, but I didn't know that it was going to be an hour and some change.

And then they was like, oh, it's going to be over at 1145. I'm like, okay, cool, you know, until 1145 came. And Trevor was still on. He didn't go off to a 1205. Wow. So I felt a little way, but then I had to, you know, take a step back and be like, well, it is Trevor's last show. But still, it's not a live show.

So they knew. Yeah, at least tell us. I just want to have, I just want the information so I can tell my people when to tune in. That's all because, you know, you got everybody that was on the show posting saying, hey, 1130, 1130, 1130, but then he didn't come on until 12 something. So, you know. Wow. God bless. You know, Trebles's getting a lot of props because he praised the black women for his success while signing off the Daily Show for the last time.

Well, that's the right thing to say. Yeah. Praise his mom and his grandma and, you know, just different black women that he's learned from. You know, can black men get any credit, yo? He's a black man. We get no credit. Like, I feel like we do so much. He's a black man.

What? Black man. As a black man I have to. What? I am Jew. I am semi. I am black man. Okay?

I'm for real. Listen, you got to respect me. Hey, man. Shut up. Salute the jail. Smith, Jalen Smith is an 18-year-old who is now the youngest black man in the United States. Man, this is so funny, but it also shows how politics work, man. Jalen Smith literally had 218 votes.

Yo, youngest black mayor in the United States of America. He might be, you got to be the youngest mayor. There's nobody younger. I've never, yeah, I've never, I think you got to be 18 to run. Got to be 18 to run, bro. Yeah. But no, I'm proud of us. We got, we got another mayor.

There we got. And is it, no, this is fire, dude. This is amazing. It's an amazing thing. Also,

politics is not that fucking hard. Getting 250 votes. 218 votes. Whatever, and only 2,000 people in the town. I'm like, I want to know what the funding is like for that town. Like,

what's the access to the budget saw? But salute to you, young king. Okay, I see you with the phone on the belt buckle. Oh, shit. I thought that was a beeper. Nah, bro.

That's the iPhone sideways. Whoa. That's how they do it in Earl Arkansas, baby. Jalen got it. That's how they do it in Earl Arkansas. Taylor, let's do some, um, Black Kings. Finally, a little respect bestowed. Let's do some, um, what?

What? You know, there's a lot of, a lot of us, black men support black women a lot. I want to see more black women supporting black men. See, that doesn't seem very supportive. Cardi B. That doesn't seem very supportive at all. This real.

Cardi B gets anxiety making music, right? Yes, you should. Everybody gets anxiety doing what they do. Of course, because you're worried about the way that people are going to perceive it. That's right. That's right. Yeah, Cardi, that's right. Good for you.

Wasabi. You care a lot. Why do you like me, Wasabi? What do you mean? Okay. Yes. Cardi, um, what's wrong with liking you? Oh, God, Watsabi.

Here you go with this again, man. Get up in there. Get up in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we here. We here, we here. We here, we here, we here.

We here, we here, we here, we here. Oh, this is a good girl. We're here, we here, we here, we here, we here, we here, Wasabi. All right, what's saba. He knows a strong black man. Good job, Wasabi. Somebody left that comment. Somebody said, man, one day, somebody said, man,

Charlemagne, the way he got anxiety, man, one day a dog. No, you know what was so funny about this? I gave donkey a day to that guy in Florida who was walking the dog and then decided to fuck the little golden doodle in front of everybody. He was walking the dog and decided to fuck the golden doodle in front of everybody, right? What? So somebody left a comment under my page. Under that post and goes,

one day Charlemagne's going to get a dog, man. He's going to understand why we love dogs so much. I'm like, it's the wrong poster lead is kind of comment, like, like, I get what you saying. You're talking about something totally different in regard to anxiety and like, you know, that was stupid, bro. I'm like, you're not paying attention.

That's hilarious. You're not paying attention. But yeah, yeah, salute to Cardi, man, Cardi, just make the music. Cardi, you want already. Yeah. Cardi has over exceeded all expectations. That's facts.

I knew Cardi was going to be a superstar. I said it a million times. I told people, Jesus Christ, what's up with the ass, bro? You never did that. Come on. She knows what a strong black man was.

Dogs are crazy. Dogs act like fucking women when they see married men, bro. Right, though. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I came over here. I'm cool. That's what I'm saying?

What's that on? Do that thing. That's what I'm saying. He came over here. He was cool. She told me he liked me. She told me she liked me on the radio. She was throwing that pussy.

I know. Then we have a little conversation. I give her a little rhythm and she threw the pussy up in my mother. I mean, that's crazy. God damn. Now she's all sad because you said no. It's okay.

That's what happens after they say, everybody's married. Everybody's married. What's that? Oh, you think Charlotte's gay? That's wrong. You can't say we're gay just because we don't sleep with you. That's not right.

That's offensive to us. Why do women always do that? You know what I mean? Why do women always do that? Actually, actually, okay, see, all right, let me stop flirting with you. Yep. Go to some, do some asking idiots, Taylor.

Yo. How long we've been recording, Alex? About an hour. One? Took that thing up. All y'all getting this week is a hot 60, baby. There we do. All right.

We got shit to do. I love y'all, though. I really do, man. Don't worry. When the new year, when we get the new brilliant idiot studio, you know what I'm saying? We got y'all. Okay? What?

Taylor keeps showing us stuff. Oh, this is interesting. Oh, this is interesting. Yeah, this one's really good. An old video of TI. You can play this. This one was far. We were talking about this one.

An old video of T.I. on this podcast in 2020 is making, I don't even know if that was from 2020, though. It's making the rounds on the internet with T.I. Admits to giving information to the authorities in regards to his dead cousin. So basically he's saying that he, you know. Snits on the dead. Yeah. Pull us over.

We pull us over. I have a gun. Why are we going through the court process? And so we caught no gun cases to do that. And, you know, my lawyer said, well, you know, I can make everything go away. If it was Tremales. After he had passed, I had to talk with him. What two say?

Say, I take all the charges you got. If you can walk away free and put it on me, God damn right. So is that all the boys giving you shit about because you put it on? No, hell, no. Okay. Don't nobody even know about that. I just volunteered.

I don't know about that. I'm just being honest. That's the only time. I don't ever said a gay, no influence. information about nobody. Because that's my cousin, my big cousin. He was dead. And he told me that it was okay.

What do you think about that? That's what they're for. Snitch on the day. Listen, as long as you're not putting something crazy on him, like pedophilia, you know what I mean, rape, like, as long as you're not making that person out to be, if, if what he's being accused of, everybody knows. used to do in a regular. So if he's being accused of carrying a gun,

he's being accused of rob in the store, he's being accused of shooting somebody. I don't see why he wouldn't take that charge for you. If he's in heaven or he's in hell, he's probably going, yo, put that shit on me. It's not going to affect me in the way.

You get to live free. You get to be with your family. You get to be with your kids. We should absolutely be snitching on the dead. 100%. Why was this ever an issue? Look at that again. This is the issue.

Get your goddamn pussy out my face. Again, she said, Munch. Get out of here. Yo, she called you a munch. Why do you, wait, you know, she called you a munch. She said you're an eater.

You eat it for lunch. Why do married men always got to fight off advances, unwanted advances? Say it wasabi. You thought I was filling you? Say it wasabi. That's what I'm talking about. Yo, she threw a pussy at you, bro. That was crazy.

Like a skunk. Just back that shit up and said, eat it. Yeah. I think you can say that one. I don't know. I don't know. I think you can say that one. Oh, man.

Oh, man, nope. Listen, I don't know how I feel about this. I agree with it in theory. I just don't like playing with the day. And I don't know if, I don't even know how that works because I would think that if you got caught with a guy, gun, would it matter if the person who owned the gun was dead? Because possession is not attempts to the law. So usually when you get caught with a gun, the police are like, oh, that's yours.

Oh, the way I assumed it was going is that the person that was dead was alive when they were caught together. Yeah. So for example, me and you are caught. God forbid, I die. Well, let me put that on you. God forbid you die. God damn, don't put that on me. Just a hypothetical. All right, Alex, okay, the three of us are together. God forbid Alex dies, right? We all got arrested together. Oh, you mean, well, okay, see, I didn't know that.

I didn't, I didn't understand the context. That's what I was a dead body in the car. This guy is crazy, bro. This guy, this guy is absolutely crazy, bro. What? That's not what happened? This guy is one of the craziest people I ever met my entire life. You got to know that that is not what the fuck. I swear that's what it's happened like.

What I hate is how you were like, oh, I got it. Hey, oh, I got it now. Here's the dumbest thing ever said by anybody ever. Hey, I got it. It didn't sound like that's the only. I understand your sock drawing now, bro. I understand your sock drawer, bro. I think you're confused after seeing that doggy pussy.

That motherfucker man, he threw that tail up. Imagine dogs talking to each other. Y'all was with her, yo. She threw that tail up, y'all? She threw that tail up. You said, you want some wasabi on that. You want some wasabi on the tuna? Right?

Oh, man. Explain to me what the fuck y'all meant, though. Okay, the three of us are out here, right? Yeah. We get arrested together. There was a gun in the car, right? A few weeks later, Al dies. God forbid.

We still got this charge for the gun. you and I talk to our lawyer, our lawyer's like, yo, one of y'all are dead, just say it was his gun, you guys are clean, they could charge him, but he's dead,

so they're not going to charge you, everybody's good. That's what I assumed it was. Oh, listen, I'm not mad at it in theory. I'm just saying, I don't like to play with the dead like that. That's all.

So you wouldn't do it if you were him? Come on. Oh, I don't know. I really don't. I really don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know what I would do. I'm not mad at it, though. I mean, Listen, now that I know it can be, it's a possibility. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of you are adding that to that repertoire if they ever need it. You know? Yes, 100%.

The only thing about this is like people have been trying to paint a narrative of Tip for years, so now they're trying to use this to say, see, see? See? He's like, shut the fuck up, man. Get off my guy, man. My guy does a lot for people, man. My guy does a lot for, you know, the city of Atlanta.

And, like, I don't think Tip gets his credit at all for the stand-up individual that he is. What else we got? All right, guys, we'll take a break for a second because today's episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all-in-one platform for building your brand and growing your business online. Stand out with a beautiful website engage your audience and sell anything, your products, your content, you create and even more. You could do your time. You could sell your time on there.

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I am a stern believer in that. If you do what you love, it won't even feel like work. And by the time the money starts rolling in, you're going to be looking at yourself in the mirror and looking at all your people saying, I cannot believe we get paid to do this shit. Yeah. You know, I think about that.

I remember one time back in the day, you looked at me when we were busting up some checks. You said, oh, you said, this shit is like me printing money. Man, I can't believe this shit. Can you believe this shit? The reality is, no, I cannot. No. I'm just being honest.

That's how I feel about my whole life. I cannot believe this shit. When I look at my life, I'm like, whoa, I can't believe this shit. And that goes for everything across the board. It don't matter if it's breakfast club, black effect, brilliant idiots. Family. My family, my book publishing company at Simon & Schuster. Boston Dog Lips?

No. SBAH productions at Audible, you know, businesses I do. It's all unbelievable to me. And it's all because I genuinely love what I do. I make money doing what I love to do. And guess what I did it from the, I did it for the love initially. Yep.

And it turned into what it's turned into. And I will not stop having fun. The moment I stop having fun, the moment I stop loving it is when I'm going to stop doing it. Facts. Agree. Cookie Man 1 says, is the pod going to release at a certain date and time

when the reintroducing begins in 2023? That is the goal, Pookie Man. It is going to release at a certain date. It is. That's the goal. We're not going to say it, but it is. Yeah. That's the goal.

You act like we want to be late. We don't want to be late. Like, we be, we start this like, yo, we're recording, we try to record. Damn. Damn, you know what she found? Man, why you got a white lady for it. It says, here's what I found. Brune it is with Charlemagne the God and Andrew.

Damn. How Sherry know what the fuck we was talking about? Seria is like, don't even lie right now. But we do try. We try to be on schedule. We do. We just, we're busy guys. We're busy, man.

We're busy, man. I think also having a new studio and, like, both of us is trying to lock in a time and prioritize that time will make it easier. There's going to be weeks where it's not that way, but we're going to do our best. We're going to do our best. Oh, this is a good question. X to the Z says, Andrew, we're talking having a child in the future.

Do you feel your comedy will change? I hope so. I hope my comedy evolves. I don't ever want to be doing the same shit over and over again. I think that the true testament to having a great career is, is continually evolving. And I think those are the people who last the longest.

I think a lot of times you almost see creators becoming like caricatures of themselves. Like they're doing an impression of their selves. They're not tapping into what's real. They're tapping into what was working

for them all those years. Yeah. So I hope I'm like excited for the life change. Like I almost feel like I've spoken about everything. I've said everything I want to say. Like I'm at this point in my life where I want to digest new things and I want to put myself in more uncomfortable situations.

It's like the thing about comedy is it oftentimes comes from uncomfortable situations. The thing about money is it creates comfort. So you need to have discomfort for good comedy. All the funny stories we tell on this podcast are from uncomfortable shit happening. And that's why your comedy is going to be so great because you're going to, I mean, it's going to happen naturally. You're going to hear more marriage stuff from you. Yeah.

When you have kids, you going to hear kids stuff from you. You already hear you saying, you know, raising a, having a dog is way easier than raise a child. Yeah. I mean, that just sounds like an Andrew show shake. You know what I mean? Like,

so it's going to be fun. Yeah, I'm excited for it, man. I think that's cool. And it's also cool to, like, get older with all the people listening. Like, we've been doing this for a decade.

And I don't want to continue chasing fucking the youth. I don't ever think that that's good. I think that you have to evolve with the people who listen and then be an inspiration for the youth. They should tap in and they should be like, oh, this is what is what a cool set of adults are. this is what cool family man

this is what I aspire to be like when I was younger I was watching Chris Rock and I was like oh wow that's a cool way to think of as an adult being a relationship all these things so yeah I'm very excited and thank you for asking um El Nino Pepin O says

Shalameen Nagar Sorry, Sabi Sabi what you're doing? No Sabi come El Nino Pepin Zero says Shalameenegad who would you rather let clap them cheeks DJ Envia Andrew Shokes. Ooh, this is a really big question here.

Disrespectful question, though. Why? Because do I look like a bottom to you, bro? But this is really a size thing. It's not a personality. Nah, bro. Don't play me. I ain't no bottom, bro.

Oh, your top? Easily power top energy over here, bro. Really? So you're just wasting that thing? Taylor, what? That's what I'm saying. That's a waste. Taylor said I cannot say that I'm thick and don't want to be a bottom.

That makes zero sense. Wait, wait, wait, wait, no, it doesn't. Well, you got on them cheeks for what? For people to look at and being enticed by. Nah, no, bro. You know what I'm saying? This ain't a wax museum. You get to look at this and be enticed by it, but you don't get to clap it, bro.

You better turn around. No. You know what I'm saying? Turn around. No. Oil up your ankles, let your Tim's tap. Whoa. All right?

What you're talking about, bro? Disrespect. me an athlete. I don't even know what that means, bro. I am, I got power top energy and y'all know it. No, that's a waste. That's like getting a BBL and nobody hits it from the back dummies. Right? Like the fuck the BBL for BBL stands for be back later, bro. I figured that out. Why? Why? You've been using the term wrong for a long time because that's what happens. You go to the Dominican Republic. You get some shit done. You come over here, eat whatever the fuck you want. Don't work out. And that's why they say, you'll be back later. Oh, really? You got to go right back to the D.

y'all and get your shit done all over again. Women, do you know women who have gained tons of weight after having a fatty? Yes. Really? Yes. Why? Because they don't fucking sustain it. They don't do everything that they need to do in order to motherfucking keep the body that they just went to go get paid

for. It's so stupid. Oh, no. Damn. Do we know a girl that did that? I don't know. I don't know. Scroll down some more, Taylor? Not who I'm thinking? No, she's working out still? That's a good idea of the corner.

That's why I'm not going to say it out loud. What? Oh, yeah. Oh, this is a good. No, we can end on this one. This is a good one. This hurt my feelings and I ain't even know comedian. The monster says that we should buy Caroline's and open up the brilliant idioties comedy club.

Y'all can do it. Whoa. Yeah, I think we leave that last line now. I'm not reading that laugh. My bro, bro. Whoa. That last line is wild, bro. Wow.

Wow. What do you think, man? I'm good. What? You wouldn't want Carolines? No, I don't fuck with Carolines. Oh, you don't do Carolines? No, the guy there who would block me from the New York Comedy Festival.

Who's the guy there? Who Ferranda. Really? Yeah. So now his club is going out of business. Isn't it funny the people who be blocking me to be going out of fucking business? Isn't that? Isn't that funny?

Doesn't that give you a chuckle? Isn't that funny? Comedy Central, Carolize. You know what I mean? Comedy Central ain't going out of business. Others, you know what I'm saying? Their stand-up is done. Ain't no more stand-ups coming out on Comedy Central.

Man, that is so fucking funny, man. I'm just saying, I see, I see a trend. That's what I'm saying, bro. I be feeling the same way. My God don't play about me, bro. My God don't play about me. And that's why I don't even be tripping, man. I be, you know, people do certain things to you and they, you know,

They try to block you from things and get certain campaigns going. I just sit back and watch like, yeah, watch what happens. And then next thing you know, you see headlines like this. I try to help them. I don't feel good about it. Yeah. I don't feel good about it. You know what I'm saying?

Because when they're doing things to me, I'm like, why are you doing this to you? To your, you ain't doing nothing to me. Say it. Say it. You know God don't play about me. I'm going to be good. But that guy? But then again, that could be arrogance on our part.

right? And that could be ego on our part. Because the reality is, if they're doing you like that, that just might be who they are. So they're probably doing a whole bunch of people like that. That's just a bunch of energy coming back to them. You know what I mean? I don't know that about Carolines. I'm sorry that happened to you, but I saw you at Caroline.

I've seen some great. I performed there. It's great. Caroline's one of my favorite places to go and watch comedy. iconic New York venue. And you know, I don't go nowhere. And even prior to like me just going to Caroline. Like Wendy Williams used to do a Wednesday night at Caroline's.

And that was one of my first New York experiences. Like when I first started, when I first moved up here to New York, that was the thing. Like, yo, Caroline's Wednesday night, you got to be there. You know what I mean? And I would be there. And that's how I met a lot of these, you know, people in New York on the comedy circuit, the TK. Kirkland, the Rob Stapletons, you know, the Drew Frazier. Like, I met all of them, you know, when they was doing Wednesday nights at Carolinians.

And over the years, I watched all of my friends. Like, that was a thing. I watched Kevin, like, yo, I'll never forget when Soul Train. didn't perform well and then Kevin had that sitcom on NBC that ended up getting canceled and so he decided to get back into the comedy clubs

and that's all you kept hearing Kevin Hart killing in these comedy clubs Kevin Hart killing these comedy clubs selling out these comedy clubs and then it was this one big weekend he had at Carolines where he had like 14 shows I'll never forget

we backstage this was like 2010 maybe 2009, 2010 we backstage and him and Duvall was arguing like they always do. Can I tell the story all the time? Because it's real Kev goes,

they're about to say my name. They're about to announce them. This club's going to go so crazy and I'm not going to be able to hear you anymore. And so soon as he said that, he's like, coming to the stage, Kevin Hart, the crowd goes crazy. Kev just winks and walks off.

But think about that. You know how much 14 shows in a weekend is at Caroline? I mean, that is... But that's how everybody knew Kevin had arrived. Oh, believable. So in a lot of ways, you see somebody do a set at Carolines and they got a four show weekend, six show weekend, they've arrived.

You know what I mean? Akash Singh. Kosh just sold out Carolina. Sold out the whole week and five shows sold out at Carolines. That's right. That right there. When I saw you post that, I'm like, oh, Akasha's here. Yeah.

You know? So it's just some of those moments. Like, that's what I look at Caroline's at. This is the iconic headlining venue in New York. It was for years where I saw all these guys. You saw all these guys. Yeah. It was unbelievable.

It was like a write of passage as a comic to, like, headline Caroline. And I think it's a recession-proof business for the most part, unless it's a pandemic where people can't be out. But even during a recession, there's certain things people are going to spend on. Date night at a great comedy show with a fire comedian there all weekend. You're going, bro. Yeah. You're going.

Especially tough times. You don't want some laughs, you know. But there are other great comedy clubs in the city that you could go catch headliners at. Gotham Comedy Club is fantastic. Yeah. And then great showcase shows in the city. You go check out New York Comedy Club, the comedy. seller. There's so much comedy going on right now in the city.

I love all of them. I love all of them. It's interesting. It's going to be very interesting to see New York without Caroline's though. Yeah. I'm not going to front. Like that's going to be very, very, very, very interesting. Um, that's all we got. Yes, sir. As always, if you listen to this podcast, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant, you're absolutely right. But if you listen to this podcast and you think we're just a couple idiots who don't know shit, you're right too. It's a brilliant idiotous podcast. Thank you for listening.