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Episode Date: February 9, 2023

This week our Brilliant Idiots Andrew and Charlamagne discuss the Grammy's and how famous a person is can be subjective. Later in the episode they discuss Black History Month, which also seems to be the month where the other race tries to show how "woke" they are. Moreover, they discuss the history of the stereotype of black people liking fried chicken as well as Netflix getting rid of passowrd sharing. Lastly, they answer some questions for "Ask an Idiot". ***************************************************** 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 Check Out "Summer Of 85" on Audible www.audible.com/pd/Summer-of-85-A…areTest=TestShare Podcastbrilliant idiots charlamagne tha godandrew schulz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I love the premise of this show. Smart people talking about dumb shit. I think it's dumb people talking about smart shit. Oh, we go where we're not supposed to go, baby. Yep, Shalameen the guy. Andrew Shultz. We are the brilliant idiots podcast. Back for another week of Brilliant Idiotness, man.

Bam-bhap-bang! Bam-Bah! We are here. We were just watching, because we're recording this on a Monday. Shultz was just showing me Jay Williams on ESPN's first take. Oh, yeah. going head to head with Stephen A. Smith. Mm-hmm.

And I guess the conversation was about Kyrie. I was enjoying whatever personal digs that they were trying not to take at each other, but taking at each other. Seemed very personal. Seemed very personal. You know, which I can probably see at first take. I'm sure a lot of people at first take who have personal grapes with Stephen A. Smith. Why? Because he's Stephen A. Smith.

Yeah, but it's sports. You're Stephen A. Smith. He likes a different team. Who gives a fuck? Oh, absolutely. But he's the big dog. Yeah. You know what I mean?

There's like envy and jealousy. Absolutely. And I'm not saying that's Jay's position, but I can see where a lot of people probably feel like that about Stephen A. Smith. You know what I mean? And Stephen A, once again, you got to read his book. I love his book. You know, it's called, what the fuck is his book called? Straight Shooter.

Yep. You know? And the reason I love his book, he talks about personalities that he doesn't like. Like the reason he loves Skip Baylis because he says Skip Baylis was a natural contrary. So what he hates is. is people like a Jay Williams, because he said this in the clip, and we could play the clip,

but he said to Jay Williams, like, go ahead, you find everything interesting. That's what Jay said. I find it interesting that. And he said, that's what he didn't like about Max Kellerman, because Matt Kellerman would say something, and then come back on the next day and apologize.

So Stephen A. loved the debate, and he wants you to have an opinion and stand on it. You know what I mean? And he don't want you to be around about it with it. Yeah, yeah. Like, I find it interesting.

Like, no, what do you think? Don't tell us what you find interest. Yeah, yeah. He said, you're talking a lot about finding stuff, interesting. Why don't you tell me how you feel? How you feel? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Word up. That's what he wants. He wants you to tell you how he feel. Yeah, it's a tricky thing, man. And with Jay, it's like, Jay's, you know, when it comes to at least college basketball, he's one of the greatest, you know, team players in history. But when it comes to,

picking the draft. Yeah. But when it comes to one-on-ones, man, you know, it's not his game. You know what I mean? Like the one-on-one, yeah, yeah, yeah. If it was maybe like a group conversation, Yeah, yeah, yeah. If it was like maybe a three on three or something like that or a four and four or five and five. But the one-on-one something happens where he really wilts under the pressure. Nah, you got, I mean, listen, I've seen it firsthand. You know what I mean? Especially when he gets a head start.

Dude, when he gets a head start, bro, because that's what happened. He was going downhill on Stephen A and then Stephen A flipped it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he tried to bounce a ball of Stephen A's head, just to use a metaphor. And whenever that happens, he's putting himself in a very dangerous situation. Yeah, you're right. You're right. That's all I'm trying to say.

And just for anybody who's brand new to this brand new podcast, because we are a new podcast. Yeah, we are a brand new podcast. You might want to Google Andrew Shultz, Jay Williams, you know. Oh, shit, we fucking played. One-on-one. That's right. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, my God. I forgot about that. You beat him. I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I fucking destroyed him, man. That is crazy. I definitely whipped his ass, dude.

No, that is crazy. Oh, yeah, right there. Jay Williams versus Andrew. Oh, do we have a video of it? Oh, wow. I mean, you can't really hear it. Yeah, but. Oh, wow.

Oh, he missed that shot. I'm not, I think this is the day that he was born, bro. I mean, we know it was the day that he was born. The pull-up brick on purpose. This is the day you went full heel. This is the day Andrew Schultz decided

I'm not doing this good guy shit, though. Nope. I'm going to be the bad boy of this shit. See y'all! See y'all! Oh, oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh, shit. Oh, the bounce. Look at the time. John, look at it. That is the most Andrew Schultz shit ever. I'm not surprised. Amos that, do you believe in America?

Look how tired he is. Look how tired. The funny shit was this shit says seven to six. Andrew scored one point. That is the hardest one point ever in history of one point. Damn right. I got the ankle braces on. Oh my God, man.

Oh, my God. Damn, Jay catching L's, bro. Jay stays catch. Yeah, my man in the background working out. Who is he? What Russian bathhouse attendant in the background? That's when I first started getting them Dr. Sandy procedures. That shit looked crazy.

When you get crazy. That shit looked like Sammy Sosa for radio. Now I get it. My God. But you know, the funny thing is, Kyrie Irving elicits this kind of emotion out of people. And Jay did ask Stephen A, one thing that I was

true, it's like, yo, you know, he said why do you, why does it seem so personal with Kyrie? No, my job You say, you say, I find it interesting. You always say that. Say what you're saying. What are you saying? What did I just What are you saying? What am I saying?

I just said what I'm saying, Stephen A. Which is? And I'm not allowed to say what I find interesting. Of course you are. But once again, you're like you on the show to say what's interesting. He thinks you're too preoccupied with Kyrie, too hard on Kyrie. Did I, Bridget, Bridget, Briardie Irvin last week before he demanded a trade, we were talking football? How many times have I mentioned Kyrie Irvin over the last few weeks?

I don't seem to me to one being triggered right now. Well, it's, I'm always triggered. No, you're not. Oh, yes, I am. No, you're not. Yes, I am. No, you are not. Okay.

I've seen you. I watch your show every day. So what are you? I'll be talking about Kyrie or is this personal. It seems personal. I don't want it to be personal. What seems personal? It seems personal for you.

For me with Kyrie? Yes. You are of all people with all the interest you have got the nerve to sit here in national television and tell me I'm getting personal with a player. I don't lose no sleep. I didn't say you lose sleep. I don't lose any sleep over time. I'm, I'm passionate about the subjects I'm passionate about.

I don't accuse you are getting personal when you take the person. You have a place. You have accused me again, personal. Oh, my God. You have, Stephen A. I don't think Stephen A is taking it personally. I think that Stephen A is just simply like, I am right. I'm right about him and what Kyrie does the teams.

He's a franchise killer. That's why I think it comes off. It's not the fact that Stephen A really cares about Kyrie like that. Stephen A cares about being right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's right. He's absolutely right. Kyrie is not the ideal player to have on your team.

He's an absolute magician with the basketball. Unbelievable. I think he might have the highest offensive IQ in terms of just scoring that I've ever seen on a player. Like his ability. Really? Bro. That's a big, big state. I mean it.

I mean it. Better than the guy he was playing with, KD? Yeah. Really? Yeah. And don't get me wrong. I think KD is probably one of the greatest, he's definitely one of the greatest scores ever. Better than Michael George?

No, he's one of the greatest scores ever. Okay, okay. But what the amount of problems Kyrie has to solve in order to score is way different than KD. Nobody can block KD's shot. He literally just has to pull up. He's seven feet tall. Nobody guarding him at seven feet can. Right?

So it has to be a smaller guy. He just has to pull up. And then he's an amazing shooter. Boom. He got great handle for his size for sure. But Kyrie is fucking six feet. Six two. That's what I'm saying?

What about AI? What about Steph Curry? Michael Jordan. Now, Steph's up there too. Steff's up there. But here's the thing. Steph's threat is the three. I'm not threatened by Kyrie shooting three off the dribble.

That motherfucker is, he already knows he's getting by you. He's solving two more problems after you, and he's going to find a way to get the bucket. It's unbelievable. That being said, I would never, I would have a woman on my team before, Carrie. I would rather a W-NBA player on my team for someone to watch the jersey, you know.

So Alan Austin to me is like, Kyrie's like close to AI to me. Like AI was that type of person you're talking about. Like he had to solve problems in order to score because he was smaller, had to beat you off the dribble, you know what I mean? Find finesse ways to get to the basket. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, for sure.

You think Harry's better than... To me, AI more explosive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think he's... And AI more loyal to whatever franchise he played. Oh, absolutely. I mean, just toiled away in Philadelphia. Yeah, I... Listen, you know what you're saying about the WNBA player,

you're saying it adjust, but the reality is, one thing that WNBA players are fantastic at, are the fundamentals and team basketball. We need somebody like, with Kyrie Irving's talent, if he knew how to, if he loved the play team basketball, and I'm not even talking about how he plays on the court with the players. I'm just talking about how he approaches his loyalty to a franchise. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, he's done this at three different franchises. Yeah. When I saw this yesterday, I wasn't surprised. Yeah. I'm like, this is what Kyrie Irvin does. Yeah. And you know what he's going to do when he goes to Dallas?

The same thing. The same. He's going to get run right out of fucking Dallas. Yeah. He's going to get run right out of fucking Dallas. And here's the thing that's quite interesting. And like I have a lot of respect for Mark Cuban, obviously. But I think what often happens here is like,

I think owners and successful businessmen also have big egos. And their egos are their ability to manage and lead people. And why would he not have a big ego? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He found a way to do it in business, found a way to do it in tech. found a way to do it with a basketball team? Why would he not think that he can get Kyrie Irving to get on board?

Of course he thinks he can. This ain't about getting Kyrie to be on board. Maybe it is. Of course, bro. It's more so about getting Luca to stay on board. Like, Luca, we love you. And we're going to do everything we can at all times to put a team around you so you can compete.

There's nobody that wants Kyrie. They said they asked Luca and he said, yeah. Bullsh. I mean, maybe, you know. If he says it, he says it, I'm sure they brought it by him and he knows he needs offensive help, right? And, but I'm just saying, like, Luca is one of the smartest players in the league. Yeah.

There's no way. He's smart enough to stay off carbs. No, he's not. Yeah. He loves, he's a little thick guy. Yes, he's thick as fuck. He is kind of thick. Yeah, man.

Yeah. Like King Magazine, old school thick. Oh, really? Yeah, you don't think so? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he is. He is, yes. He's, yeah, he is, yeah. I can't, I don't disagree with him.

Yeah. Yeah. Seems personal for you, though. No, no, no, that's not personal. I like, I mean, I like Luca. You know, I just find it interesting that, you know, Kyrie Irvin, so pro-black, you know, and you, you know, sign with the white star during Black history, mom.

You know what I mean? It's kind of crazy. Well, he don't have a choice. You don't got no choice, right? Maybe that's a punishment. You know, I don't know, man. They're going to have a good offense because of Luca, because of Kyrie. They got a lot of shooters.

But Dallas defense is, like, number 23 in the league, right? It's not like Iriek and D. He's not a defensive wizard at all. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? If he couldn't make it work with Katie in Brooklyn, what makes you think he's going to make it work with Luke and Dallas? I don't know, man.

You couldn't make it work with Katie and James Hardin in Brooklyn. What makes you think you're going to make it work in Dallas? No, there's just nothing. This is just one of those things where he's so talented, he's going to keep on getting opportunities because he truly is talented. Yeah. But eventually you just got to be like, fuck now. And I guess maybe Dallas is going,

Listen, we got nothing to lose here because we are not a championship team. Yeah. We have to find a way to become a championship team. And we got to take pressure off Luca, Luke getting his ass kicked out there. Yeah. It's carried too much of a load. Yeah. Listen, man, salute to Mark Cuban.

Yeah. Well, I just found out was Jewish. We had no clue. I had no idea. No clue. You think Kyrie knows? No. Kari thinks he's Cuban.

He definitely thinks he's Cuban. He definitely thinks Mark. He's in. He's in for a Jude awakening. This is going to be really fun. God bless Kyrie, man. In more sports news, Tom Brady says he's retiring from football for good. All right, what's your take on this?

Like, okay, there is this feeling, there's this sentiment, right, that he threw away his whole marriage to play one more year football. Do you think there's any validity to that? Yes. Talk to me about that. Because you're a married man. Yeah, I think it is. And by the way, I was so funny,

I was just listening to Nader Tawab Glover, who I love. Nader Tawab Glover. She wrote the book, Set Boundaries, find peace. You got a new book coming out. I love Nader.

She literally was just talking about how we have to stop rushing to fill in people's blinks. When I'm like, what would we do? No, no, there'd be no social media. There'd be no podcast.

It's bad lips. If we didn't fill in people's blank. But, yes, I do because Tom Brady has played forever. you tell your wife I'm retiring your wife is like great now we're about to go see the world

y'all both filthy rich so she probably done made plans you know what I'm saying y'all gonna be doing this with the kids all types of different things right and then you just all of a sudden turn around and be like god damn Taylor couldn't even squeeze through the door

you open that shit wide as fuck that was crazy I don't want to say nothing my God man I mean come on Taylor Damn, Taylor. You just got birth. God damn, Taylor, Donkitch.

Jesus Christ. God damn. Just sit down. Just sit down. Boom. But listen. So I feel like they had plans. His wife was, you know, ready to do that.

And then he decides, you all want to go back to play football. And I think, you know, maybe some arguments ensued. Like, you love football more than us? Might be a tough question for Tom. I'm serious. If your wife asked you, you love stand up more than me. I love my wife more. I would hope so.

Yeah. Tom may not feel like that. Why I don't know. Yeah. And even if I didn't, that's what I would say. Yeah. Unless you're Tom fucking Brady. Why would Tom?

Because Tom don't lie to nobody. You know what I'm saying? Clearly. I do think Tom made the wrong decision going to Tampa Bay this year, though. Why? I think he should want to San Francisco. But starting over. No, that was his dream.

He talked about it. He was like Joe Montana was his favorite quarterback growing up. Joe Montana inspired him to play the game. Oh, was a big club up there? Yeah, 49 was his team growing up. And he was just like, yo, you was a free agent. Instead of going back to Tampa for a year, go to San Francisco. Can you imagine if Tom Brady was in San Francisco?

Oh, wow. They need a quarterback. That's what I'm saying. That would have been the perfect ending. I actually thought he would have probably went there next year, you know, and called it a date in. But, I mean, yo, he said he's done. but I don't know.

Do we believe he's done? I believe he's done because I think he's going to make more money behind a booth than he is playing football, which is crazy. 385Ms? Isn't that crazy? Yes, but you got to give it up

to Tony Romo for setting the stage for something like that. Sure, sure. Even though I read an article the other day that said CBS executives had to go talk to Tony Romo because they felt like he's lost it. You didn't see that article? No, but I saw everybody trying to say he was about to say the M word.

How did they come to that conclusion? Yeah, I didn't think he was I watched it a million times I mean he did He did do N-I But I thought he was thinking It was the Niners Really?

Yeah I didn't even hit an N-I Oh it was an N-I Really? Yeah Yeah Yeah Let me hear it bro, I know

Let me hear it And then he goes Defenders Yeah Can we play it? Who got the clip? Of course Van found it Oh my God

You know Van found it quick Jesus Christ Man Got a van I get what you're going to play. Right there you got three niggins. Oh, I get what you're saying. I think he looked at the jersey.

And the niner's are playing that day too. He's thinking niners. He goes three. Three nickelbacks maybe? It was. Three nickelbacks? I don't know. Let me see.

Let me hear it one more time. Wow. Let me see. Man, that's crazy. That's crazy. That's how Patrick Mahone says to end work. What is he said? Because you only can say half of it.

What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean, guys? Congratulations to the time. I'm Brady, yo. Did you watch the Grammys? No.

Me neither. Who cares? I'm not going to. I was watching there last night. Oh, really? Because I was waiting. I wanted to see, yo, all it takes is one thing for me.

I wanted to see Jay Z perform the God did verse, which did not disappoint. And it was the last performance of the night. That shit was phenomenal. I mean, watching Jay Z sit at that table with the big dinner, I don't know if that's the last supper or the mafioso meal with OG 1 on one side and his, his long time, both of his long time partners,

OG Juan and Emery Jones on the other side. The only thing I wish is that I wish Jay would have had his whole team sitting up there. I wish it was OG Juan, Emery, Tata, Jay Brown, Desiree. Like I wish it was all of them. No disrespect to Ross and Wayne and Calid, but to watch him do that one brush right there, that would have been crazy to me. That was, I thoroughly thoroughly. thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it.

And I wanted to see who won best album of the year. And best album in the year was Harry Stiles. What'd you think? I didn't. I didn't, I can never judge something I didn't listen to. You know what I'm saying? And that's the thing, right? And I saw that with the Grammys a lot this year.

We get mad about things that we don't know, which we've had this conversation. I think we was having this conversation on the podcast about fame, right? And fame being subjective. Like, I don't give a fuck that you don't know, Bonnie Rae. to me. His ponny fucking rate. You know what I'm saying? I don't care that you didn't

listen to Harry Stiles album and you might have just listened to Beyonce and Kendrick. That means nothing. Harry Styles was the second highest selling album of last year if I'm not mistaken. So clearly it's a big deal. So I wasn't mad at it. I would have loved to see Beyonce and win. I would be honest with you, I was rooting for Mary J. Blige.

That's who I wanted to see winning out of the year for Good Morning Gorgeous. What did you think about the R&B? album. What R&B album? So what's Chris Brown lost? And he was feeling salty about it. But do you think Chris Brown is losing because of maybe some of the mistakes he's made in his life? No, Chris Brown wouldn't be nominated if those mistakes were really holding him back. Ah. The Grammys just wouldn't simply, they would simply just not nominate him at all. Like think about it. These award shows get flacked for just having people perform. So why would they even nominate him if they were concerned about

stuff like that. Have you heard Robert Glasspan's album? No. Have you heard Robert Glass' album, Taylor? I was listening to it. Because of the Grammys. I never heard Robert Glass' album.

Oh, is it? Oh, I thought it was good. Oh, Kaden. What, did you listen to it? No. Oh, okay. You know, but that's my point. I can't sit here and say

that they're wrong for giving Robert Glass for the album R&B album. I didn't listen to it. You know what I'm saying? So, stuff. Shit like that is so silly. Like, we really think, Just because we're in our worlds and our bubbles, that's all that matters.

You know what I mean? And if we're not familiar with something, we're like, who the fuck is that? How could they win? Do you know how big the world is, bro? Yeah. You know how many people are in America? Yeah. A lot.

Stop. Yeah, you're right. Cut it out. That is the problem with, I don't want to sound too much like a boomer here, but like social media does give you this illusion that your world is the world. Yes. And I don't blame people for thinking that because your world is the world. You know, if you grow up in China and you see all these famous Chinese people,

you're going to think that those people are famous everywhere. And we think that about, you know, I mean, imagine podcasters. People think that about musicians, et cetera. When the reality is most people don't know most people. Well, yeah, this debate on them. I'm telling you, man, because I was even talking about, like, TikTokers and like, who are we to say these TikTokers? You can't tell me Mr. Bees isn't famous.

Well, yeah, he's not a TikTok. or whatever the fuck he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what is he? He's a YouTuber. Okay, but he's famous. He is, I don't give a fuck. One of the most famous people on the planet.

That's what I'm saying. But just because we don't know him, you know what I mean? We act like, oh, Mr. Bees isn't famous. Like, fame is the most, fame is probably the most objective thing out here. Mm-hmm. I think so anyway. It's just like, yo, I don't. And we also, like, increase the fame of certain people just because they're in

institutions that we like. Boom. You know what I mean? That's right. So it's like, maybe a Mr. Beas is actually. more famous than a person that's like in an HBO show. But because we value the HBO show in a different way, we're like, oh, no, that's true, fam. I could pick five HBO.

I could pick five people on HBO shows right now and they couldn't fill up a mall with 10,000 people like Mr. B. 100%. Yeah, 100%. To be honest with you, there might be one. There might be one right now that can do that. They can fill up the mall? That can fill up the mall. Zendaya?

That's the only one. Yeah. She's probably the only one that could fill up a mall. full of, like, I don't even know how old those kids were. It was kids, yeah. Yeah, like that day is probably the only one. The numbers he's doing is ridiculous, man. It's just, like, it's just hard to compare,

but because we look at YouTube and we don't hold it to the same esteem as we do, like, HBO, that's right. That's right. We assume that there's not, like, a fame component attached, but these kids grow up not caring about HBO. Like, your kids' generation don't care about Netflix. They don't care about HBO. They're the most famous people to get on.

It's your kids. I can't tell you otherwise. But like, YouTube is big for them. YouTube is the shit. YouTube Netflix and Disney. Streamers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. YouTube Netflix and Disney is what they know,

even though we got to monitor the YouTube thing because YouTube, boy. Oh, there's some wild shit on that. Oh, my God. We're on there. Yes. Man. Let me tell you something. Two recent experiences.

I'm at my daughter's cheerleading competition. We had dinner with the parents. One of my daughter's friends is like, so how's Siza? I was on YouTube and I was watching video. and a video popped up with you interviewing Cizzer. Yo, I swear my hands started shaking from it. Like, what the fuck?

Why does this shit exist? So what happened in the video? You didn't sit the seat or anything at that. I don't think so. Yeah. This was so long. I don't know. It was so long ago.

This was years ago. Like Cizzo wasn't on Breakfast Club a decade ago. Probably longer. We've been on the air for 13 years. Like, do you remember when we used to do engine room. We used to running the Cizzer all the time. I didn't know that.

Br, Cizzo used to record in engine room. Oh, I didn't know that. We would walk past Cizzo. We talked to her all the time in engine room. Like in and out, oh, what's up, Cizzo? Like, you know, like, all the time. I probably thought you were saying, like, what's up, sister? Like, I swear to God. I thought you were saying, what's up, sister, and then I just kept the movement.

She's from Jersey. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was just like, I mean, Cizel was, we was early on Cizzo. So it's like, I don't know what that interview was probably like. Yeah. You know what I mean? You probably wild.

Probably wild. Probably wild. Probably wild. Probably wild. Probably wild. Especially if like it was early. Oh, because I'm like, oh, people might not know her. I got to make it interesting.

You know what I'm saying? It's her fault. This is a crazy person, Sean. I got to do this because people don't know you. If you were more famous, we could just have an interview. Unfortunately for you, I got to go crazy. I don't know, man. I'm not.

You know, I don't know. I really don't even remember. But it's just when she said that shit, I'm like, oh, shit, this shit probably happens all the fucking. All the time, man. Then I was with somebody this weekend, OG of mine, very older, like 80 plus years old. Can you say it? No. And I'd say it later.

I know who. I'm wondering if we can share it. I say it. Because this is very cool. I'll say it later. Okay. But they were like, you know, I've watched a lot of stuff for you before because people send me stuff. you know when you talk about me and I went down a rabbit hole

me and the staff and I look around like oh shit I said it too I said I said oh shit that could go left quick and all of them started laughing but you know what I realized they got a dirty sense of humor oh yeah because all people heard it all yes and they all got time to be offended they're going to die Oh, man, please. Yeah.

Please. Imagine you wasted the last hours of your life being offended. Come on, man. Or triggered? Why? No. Now, nobody got time for that shit. Salute to Hove.

Hove closed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Bacardi. Billion? I thought it was $750 million. $750 million. But. God, I hate you. What? I said, you said, home.

Hope goes a multi-billion dollar bill. I said, billion, I thought it was $750 million. And then you went $750 million. Like, you didn't just fucking say multi-billion. Stop reading, but Taylor. You know how Taylor always makes things bigger than they are. But I think the deal is still a multi-billion dollar because he still got, he still has a stake in the deal.

Okay. Or maybe his part of it is $750 million or something? He got $750 million from Bacardi, bro. Right. God damn it. Now, wasn't this, what's the whole deal with this? Because wasn't he accusing them of being racist or something a few months back? I don't think it was racist.

I don't know what the fucking shit was. Remember there was like some deal notes that he didn't like and, because this has been going on for a while? It says the agreement is billed as marking the launch of the next chapter of Duce and sees Bacardi acquiring a majority interest in the multi-billion dollar brand, why Jay will also retain a significant ownership stake. So they basically bought a percentage of Doucet. Yeah.

I think Jay, because Jay owns, I think 50% or something like that. But he still owns the stake in and he just got 750 for whatever reason. Bravo. Bravo. You seem,

you're not happy? No, I'm very happy, man. I just like, I just, you know, I don't think that we give Jay to credit

that he deserves for just being the entity that he is. Mm. You know? Like, he's just a different, different individual and not just for a rapper

for like who does who in entertainment does stuff like this oh Jay Z Sue's partner Bacardi over financial transparency concerns oh so he must have audited them

and they didn't want to show the money but I mean listen man salute to Jay man he got a great team man they got a great team I love I love Rock Nation I love what Rock Nation does there's so much of you know

my business that you know I model after how they move just as a company, just as a unit. Like, I just love the family vibe of it. I love how, you know, he empowers a lot of people around him, but not just people around him. He got, you know, women in, like, real big leadership roles.

And those women are, like, people like Des. That's really who's doing the biting, you know what I'm saying? And the shaking of the tires and, you know, getting at people when they need to be got at. So, you know, salute to Rock Nation. What else we got, man? Are you doing anything specific for Black History Month? I'm existing. I am existing and creating Black History

by just being me. Ooh, why? What are you trying to say, Andrew? What am I doing for Black History Month? What is it about Black History Month? What is it about Black History Month if you'd like to comment on? Is it the police car in Miami that drew criticism or is it the chicken and watermelon that was served at the high school in Nyack?

or is it the affirmative action bake sale that happened? Hold on. You can see the affirmative action bake sale? No, can we go to the chicken waffles in the, in, uh, there's a high school in Nyack that did what? They had up for the first, the first, uh, the first day of black history month, the school, it's right here.

What's the shit called? Chicken waffles and I believe watermelon as well. What's the name with a vendor though? Now that's a tricky thing, though, because you're, you're both like, this is racist, but also at the same time, you're like, this is really awesome. It's not racist, though. I mean, it's racial.

No, it's not. Aramark is the name of the company. The first day of Black History Month to put chicken waffles and watermelon on the menu when they never have that regularly? Here's the thing. If everybody, first of all, the first thing I would say is I would ask,

Aramark, what is your intention by serving this meal? Because there is a story to be told. The reality of the situation is, is watermelon was a symbol of freedom. Because after the Emancipation Proclamation, the former enslaved started selling, started growing and selling watermelon.

And it became a symbol of freedom and a symbol of hope. And sovereign white people didn't like that. So they put the negative stereotype on watermelon. So it's like we allowed racist sovereign whites to steal our joy. the same thing with fried chicken the same thing was happening

with fried chicken is a Scottish dish sure but I'm just saying that former insured I don't know if it is or not we started fried chicken we had this talk already that's our shit

don't take our shit I think we googled that yeah yeah yeah listen I don't whatever but all I'm saying is the former enslaved people were selling chicken and they were selling biscuits that's how they were making money

and then that movie came out birth of a nation in 1915 and they showed all the black politicians bare feet in the office and eating chicken and all greasy looking all nasty and uncivilized. And that's how the negative stereotype of chicken fried chicken happened. There's no fucking way they showed the politicians. Bro. They're putting it.

It's a silent movie called Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith. Go watch it. And they did this on purpose. It was basically like a double entendre, right, to show people this is what happened if you vote for black people. You know what I'm saying? This is what happened if we'll let black people vote. This is what happened if black people start taking office. So they put the negative stereotype on fried chicken. Sovereign whites put the negative stereotype on watermelon.

So you're saying that maybe they were historically aware. So maybe this food company wasn't trying to be racist, but rather show respect and honor black history by using black cuisine. I'm not speaking for the company. I'm just saying that if people want to start to, if they want to start avoiding this type of controversy, talk about the intention behind the meal. Right.

Because that is actual black history. What I just said is actual black history. And I'm not saying nothing that y'all motherfuckers can in Google. You know what I'm saying? This is actual black history. Let's see right there, D.W. Griffith. Look, D.W. Griffiths, seminal and supremely racist, 1915 silent movie about the supposedly,

what does that say? Heroic founding of the, the KKK was a huge insatiated when it debuted. One scene in the three-hour features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials acting rowdy and crudely in the legislative hall. The message to the audience, these are the dangers of letting blacks vote.

Some of the legislators are shown drinking. Others had their feet kicked up on their death and one of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken. That image really solidified the way white people thought of black people in fried chicken. And you know what's so crazy about this? Think about the N-word, right? You're going to stop.

This shit is. It's what it is. What do you mean? The politicians. Yes. It's shockingly racist. Like, sometimes stuff is so racist. It was 1915.

What are you talking about? What do you mean? It was 1915, Andrew. What are you talking about? I'm so shocked at the racism I saw at 1915. 15. Really? I mean, I don't know. Think about the N word. When did racism start? You know, when did it start? When was the beginning of it? Like, that's a good question we got to ask. This is what's so interesting about the stereotype of chicken and watermen. The end word. Racial slur. Yeah. That's racist, right? We know it's a racial slur. We know it's either a, the first two letters are either the beginning of a racial slur or how some people describe Patrick Mahomes, right? Because you can't say. the whole thing, right? So, so, so you notice. But for whatever reason, we have found a way to take this word and say it's a term of endearment. It's our word now. We flipped it and bounced it and

make, oh, you know, this is all word. We're allowed to say it. You know what I'm saying? This is ours. But when you do it with chicken, then it's bad. And chicken and watermelon was actually ours. Oh. It was actually a symbol of freedom from the beginning. So can why? It was never bad. So is it racist if white people call black people just some Some chicken water milk? Intention matters to context is that reason? Well, if they're trying to be racist That's right.

If you're trying to be racist and you're like an old chicken eater, you're a watermelon melancheter, I might have just had chicken, but how dare you, motherfuckers? Is that racist? Yes, intention matters. Yeah. It's all about intention. It's all about how you say something.

You know, it's all about context. That's it. All right, what if it's out of respect and kindness? What if it's if you meet somebody, and you're like, this is like, thank you so much. It was such a pleasure to meet you. Like,

you would have sold the finest watermelons like back in the day. And that's, that's racist. That's racist. That's racist is shit. Like, what? What do you mean?

And by the way, what do you mean I would have sold watermelons, yo? What do you mean I would have sold the fun of? I'm just saying you'd been a good entrepreneur. Yeah. You are a businessman. No,

that's kind of. That's fucked up context. That would have been racist. I think so. But it was a sign of freedom. It was a sign of freedom. But it's all of. about context.

As I'm saying, anytime they serve these meals it's just all about intention. That is wild. That's the picture. That is wild. And the fact it was white people

playing the role. That is wild. That's the picture. Oh, they got the clip from the movie. Oh, wow. You just,

you just want to make Andrew. Oh, I don't know if I can watch this one, y'all. I don't know if I can watch. I don't know if I can watch this clip. I don't know. But that is a funny segment,

watching like super racist old movies and see if you don't laugh. Oh, Hold on. Are you actually going to play it? You want to see it? Oh, no, no, don't, don't do that. Don't do that.

Don't do that. Don't do that. Taylor, don't do it. Don't do it. You know yourself too much? Yeah, I just. Let's see it, man. All right.

Oh, no, we shouldn't do this. We shouldn't do this. Just be kidding about. Oh, it's a silent film. Mind you, this is all white people in blackface. Seems pretty organized. Historic incidents from the first legislative session under reconstruction. Now, all these people are supposed to be black, then.

That's crazy. They're drunk. That's a white person? Oh, no, that is really black people. Oh, is that? Honorable, that's some good paint I was about to say. No, that's black. You sure?

That's black. Those are white people in black face, yo. Nah, that's definitely a black person. You sure? Oh, God. See, that's got you eating that chicken. See, he was. Come on, Al.

Come on the hell. I mean, the point is, it's supposed to make you laugh, though. The way he's eating the chicken, stop it, bro. Stop it, hell. The speaker rules that all members must wear shoes. They don't even have them wearing shoes. So the whole point of this is the show that black politicians is uncivilized, lazy, shifeless. This is what happens if you put them in power.

This is racist, bro. It's racist. It's supposed to be, though. It is a move and carried at all. Whatever. man. The moral of the story is. Yo, Al,

Al is dying in him eating a chicken like that. Well, that's crazy that you was dying. I was laughing at you. I was laughing at you laughing at the guy eating chicken. The moral of the story is, man,

stop letting goddamn, you know, people. Teller, stop laughing. My man was hungry. Bro, he's been legislating all day. You can't have a little piece of chicken? Stop letting people burst your balloon over goddamn,

what's suffering. and whites wanted, man. Eat your chicken and your goddamn watermelon. Yes. Speaking of birds, balloons, let's make Chris uncomfortable now. Yo. Yo. Listen, what was the deal?

What was the deal? Do you think it was actually Chinese? Yes. 100%? 100% Chinese. Whether it was a spy balloon or a weather machine. The Chinese said it was a weather machine, right, Chris? They said it was a weather machine.

Whether it was a spy balloon or a weather machine, it was definitely Chinese. 100% Chinese. What's your thoughts? I don't know, man. I don't know what they're going to learn about America that we won't already share ourselves. On TikTok. TikTok is the ultimate spyware.

Yeah. And also we're a braggadocious country. Like, we don't hide shit. If we got some new shit, we talk about it. We share it. We put it out there. Like, so you're getting a bird's eye view of America. What are you going to learn from that?

Google Earth. There's nothing you can't see on Google Earth. There's nothing you can't see when you come visit. It's just a peculiar thing. I don't get it. I'm glad we should. shot it down just on some like rah, rah, rah, America shit, but it feels a little bit like

they need to get a win for Biden. I, um, I mean, like a show of force. I guess. You know, it's kind of weird, though, because I was telling Chris this yesterday, three of those balloons flew over America during the Trump administration. One flew, this is the second one that flew over America during the Biden administration.

We never heard about those first four. Because they got got? I don't know. So that's my point. Why do we hear? Why do they, Why do we conveniently hear about these things when they want to see? That's what I'm saying. It seems like they just trying to get a win for Biden. Like Biden needs to, you know, a sign of strength. He needs to show that he's going to stand up against China or whatever the fuck it is.

And that's why I think they let the balloon exist within the, you know, our, whatever, our space. Well, they had to wait. They wanted to wait until it got over water. They didn't want to shoot it over land because it would hurt somebody. They say it's the size of like three buses, three China buses. I don't. What? I don't buy that shit.

They did, Joe. I think that they were just trying to extract all the information. Because I think sometimes what you do is once you know that there's a spy in your midst, what you do is if you're not going to flip them because you're not going to flip a piece of technology, you try to hack it and just get all the information. Well, they're collecting it now. When they shot it down, they're in the ocean collecting it all now. Yeah, but it's going to crash into the ocean.

Like, there's other ways you can get a balloon down. I mean, China had been tapping our job for the past month or so. Yeah, what's up at that? I told you all that. When that shit happened, when the FAA-A green went down, What did I say? I said, that's either Chinese or Russians tapping our jaw. And that shit happened with Bank of America.

What was it? When the money was fucked up with Bank of America. Oh, that's right. I said Chinese tapping our job. And then what happened? Finally, when America stood up for ourselves when black people were beating up Asians. Man, no. No.

Right? No. Remember when black people were beating this shit out of Asians for no apparent reason? It wasn't just black people. It was a community effort. A black community effort. No, it was not. Just black people.

It was not just black people who would not own that one. Listen, we shoot up the schools. You beat up the Asians. That is a fact. That is not a fact. Bro. I never touched the Asian. I love Asian.

You don't? I got a little Wu-Tang shirt right now. There is not a single fucking Asian in Wu-Tang. I had to think about it. There's a lot of them. Let me say it had to be at least one. Right? It had to be, right?

Nope. You know, why can Wu-Tang was never accused the cultural appropriations? Thank you. Nobody said. Thank you. Thank you. Now you see, first of all,

you see the 50th anniversary tribute last night? To whom? Of hip-hop. They did a 50th anniversary tribute to hip-hop last night on the Grammys. Hutang Outcast back-to-back. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

God bless dipset, but they were nowhere near that stage. Whoa. Oh. And DMC was up there. Oh. By the way. The locks came out, the locks came out, which we didn't talk about last week. The locks.

We said the locks? No, we didn't say the locks. Of course he said the locks. Oh, come on, bro. That's what, yo, they told you. I called him Alex earlier. I called him NBA Alex Media. Why?

That's what they're calling them now. Wait, wait, why? A lot of New Yorkers was a, they was a, they was like, yo, you show New York and Alex and Andrew from New York. And I'm like, yeah. Man, that the fuck. I'm not. Bro, they were calling you NBA Alex Media, bro. I still don't understand this.

NBA Alex Media. What is it? Non-binary Alex Media. Wait, what? Is that what the NBA young boy is about? No. That's what they were saying about.

They was calling him. He'd been trying to get this job. I promise you. Oh, because in the outfit. I don't know why. The outfit. I don't know why. But NBA young boy's non-binary?

But he has the nails painted. There you go. Hold on. I'm going to show you something. All I'm going to do is type in non-binary in my recent messages. Now, hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on. I'm a copy and paste this. Now, just show it to me. There's too much technology. What is that? Y'all that shows and non-binary Alex say Bobbitt are more impactful than Wutein? Who said that?

Who said that? Who said that? Yeah, who said that? I'm not. Why are they scared? I'm not snaking. Why they're scared, y'all? Who said that?

What old motherfucker? They weren't old. I'm going to be honest with you. They claim not to be old, but I need to see a birth certificate. Because? I got my doubts. Like that. Like that.

I got some clues. I got my doubts. Wait, wait, who we got? It ain't who you think it is. All right. No. Do I know him? Yeah.

Well? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tender Rony Jones. Oh, mouth. See there you thought it was something

I had to snitch on mouth You're ratting on the mouse is crazy You're ratting on a mouse is crazy That cancels out That can't is out You're allowed to rat in the mouse You're allowed to rat in the mouse. Yo, do you think we're going to be at war with China?

There's a general that says by 2025 General Sal You know, You know what? You know what, General South say so? Also say that sentence. General South say so?

I'm going to commercial because this conversation is right. This conversation is fried, bro. This conversation is fried, bro. This conversation is fucking fried rice, bro. I'm going to fucking commercial, bro. Listen, shall we pay some bills, bro? We'll pay some fucking bills, man. All right, man.

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No. Damn, nothing? No. Oh, I do have a church announcement. Okay, talk to me. I do have a church announcement. Say that again? White man can't jump.

Oh, shit. Yeah, white man can't jump. they just announced white man can jump is not coming out until may but uh but shouts to that movie i got a little little uh little thing in that movie okay you on a jack's team i'm sure um well i might not be hooping my friend oh might be doing something else okay okay so why would you be so sure i'm on jack's team it's racism it's good old-fashioned racism godly bro what that was crazy right there just because i'm white and he's white you thought we'd be playing basketball together in the year 2023 yeah Oof.

Yeah. Oof. What? What? I've seen the original movie. Yeah, white guy and a black guy played again. Oh, that is true. Damn.

I'm fucked up, though. See? God, damn. This guy. I'm racing, bro. Yo, not during this month, bro. Not during this month. Also, Dr. Umar posted about you people, the movie, so.

Oh, I haven't watched this. I meant to watch it. That's all I care about. No, no, I saw, I saw, I saw, that there's messaging in every movie. God, damn. I didn't get to. Listen. Oh, I was rushing.

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Say again? Say you got to pay him. Who's against that? Oh. Hey, well, shit, let's set it up. Dr. Umar. Well, I want him on Flagman. Yeah.

I don't want, I would rather watch. Yeah. I don't want to pay. I'm never going to pay a guest, but I will donate to his school. That's a good. That's great. Marcus Garvey, Frederick Douglas. That's right.

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You can go catch you at one of those theaters on February 17th. Okay. Now let's get back to this show. Netflix removes passwords sharing rules from their site after user backlash. Thoughts, you can't piss off the base, man. Talk to me. Can't piss off the base. So basically what happened is everybody obviously shares passwords. And I think Netflix is coming close to running out of people to sign up. In other words, you know, they've reached the limits of people that have computers or TVs that can watch things on Netflix. So what they got to do is find a way to increase revenue still,

and they can do that by stopping people from sharing. So if one account has served, you know, six people, they can technically get five more people to sign up if you can't share passwords. Yeah. And there was just a huge backlash on it. And, you know, they basically rescinded. They're like, okay, we're going to let you share the passwords. And it was the right move to make on their part. Yeah, I'm not mad at it. Because to me, this is just like shutting down bootlegging. No, no, no, they did the opposite. They said, they were going to stop you from sharing passwords, and then they said, okay, fine, you could share.

Oh, y'all are idiots. Fuck that. Whose Netflix said that? Yeah, they didn't do nothing wrong. Yeah, but the thing is, in my opinion, they don't have something to hold over people's heads right now. This is not the time. For example, let's say Netflix had Game of Thrones,

and it's in the height of Game of Thrones. And episode three, they go, hey, we're going to cut down this password sharing shit. Everybody's signing back up, because they need to see the rest of the season. But right now, they're not mid-season on a show that's so impactful. Like, Netflix is Netflix at this point. Like, do you even give a fuck with Netflix?

Like, what show did we... I remember the first time I bought a Netflix account is because everybody was telling me about this show, Orange is the New Black. Exactly. You need a show. Like, when Stranger Things comes back out, I think they should try it then.

But after that, I didn't stop with Netflix, because Netflix flooded me with so much content. Netflix is literally like when you're at home, like how you flip through channels. That's how we treat Netflix now. They felt, I guess, and this is not like a gut company, they're going off of data. They felt that, I guess, when they stopped people from sharing the passwords, not enough new people sign back up. So what's going to happen is they're going to have, let's say, for example, it's only one password per person.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's six people that were watching per password currently. If you go from six to one and those other five don't sign up, you've just reduced the amount of people that have viewed your show. By six times. I get it, but they didn't give it a chance. If you respond immediately to backlash, you ain't even give people a chance to be like, you know what? They're going to risk it.

Their stocks already down. They're in the worst time to actually do us. They've been in the red forever. No, that's not true. They were crushing it during COVID. They were? Oh, I didn't know that. I thought Disney Plus popped up during COVID.

Disney also, but they were just crushing during COVID. It makes sense. Everybody's home. Everybody's home. Yeah, I don't, whatever. I mean, listen, man, I guess. What you're saying makes all. sense in the world. I didn't even know that it worked like that.

Because I would assume, I don't know, I thought that if you all sharing passwords, does that count as different views? Mm-hmm. I don't, I don't fucking know. 100%. I don't know. You can have different accounts on it. Yeah. They just want to see hours watched. And the more hours watched, the better.

And if people are not watching on them, they're going to be watched on someone else. I mean, they're trying to compete with YouTube. I mean, that's just the reality. Well, bug me out when they say, would a number of subscribers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, I don't think they're trying to compete with YouTube, bro. Oh, of course. You know why? Because here's the thing about YouTube, and I know YouTube does have YouTube read,

which is subscription-based, man, when you got 55-plus million people paying 40 fucking dollars a month or whatever the fuck Netflix costs, 15 or something? Or whatever the fuck. Like, that's a different ballgame. Like, it's a different ballgame when people are paying for a subscription and when people are watching something for free. Don't get me wrong. They're all competing for your time and your eyeballs.

YouTube made more money than Netflix. They did? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. And more hours watched. I believe them while I was watched it because it's free content. YouTube just made more money in ad revenue than Netflix. They did?

But Netflix don't make their money in ad revenue. No, no. They made more money and ad revenue than Netflix made in their subscription. Oh. Yeah. Because YouTube bread is done. They're not doing the subscription that you could do the YouTube so you don't have the ads and that kind of stuff.

But like it's inevitable. You can't beat YouTube. It's just like trying to say like you're going to be Google or something like that. It's not possible. But what they're worried about is eyeballs, right? And if the time watch is going to these other platforms, then less people are going to go, I need this subscription.

Well, the problem is, salute to YouTube. I don't think the problem is YouTube in this situation. I think the problem is all these other fucking screaming services. They're also. And Disney Plus with 55 plus million. It's HBO max with 55 plus million. Yo, on the low? On the low, Paramount Plus.

So that's all it takes. It takes one show. It takes one show to put you on. You see what Yellowstone's doing for Paramount Plus? And that's what Netflix, I think, maybe is starting to learn because what Netflix tried to do is replace television. They're like, we're just going to have so much content. We're going to flood the whole thing. We got different shows for everybody. And then YouTube came or HBO came around and they were like,

we're just going to continue making great shows that you have to watch. And you know what we do? We fucking watch. Euphoria comes around. Everybody's watching. That's it. Last of us is on right now. Incredible. Everybody's fucking watching. YouTube's got it locked. And then also, uh, Disney. What's that? HBO. Oh, sorry. Sorry. HBO. HBCO kept doing that. HBO is the fucking goat when it comes to scripted. Nobody comes close. And then Paramount Plus came out with Yellowstone, and then the whole world watched Yellowstone,

and all of a sudden it put a screen on the map. All the Yellowstone spinoffs. Which are incredible. That dude Taylor Sheridan's killing. He's a genius. He did Tulsa King. He's doing that shit with Jeremy Pivot. I said there's much to go on this podcast,

but I don't know people pay me attention because nobody pays me attention until, you know, until you're right. Until I'm right. But the Netflix model wasn't sustainable. The binge watching. it was something that we all loved, but you literally shoot your load,

like if I give you a season of a show and you can watch all 12 episodes in a night, I have nothing, but if you're HBO and you give me 12 weeks of euphoria, all you got to do is give me three at alls a year,

and you cover it the whole year. Exactly. It's about owning the conversation. We were talking about this, and that's what HBO, now the thing is, in order for someone to wait a week to come back to a week,

to come back to a show, you need to create really good shows. Absolutely. And what Netflix has gotten by with is creating not as good shows, but... Giving you to binge you. They give you a cliffhanger,

so you just keep watching. There's a lot of shows on Netflix that people wouldn't watch if you had to wait a week. But HBO is like, we're just going to give you the best fucking show. Dude, HBO's percentage,

I'm dick riding HBO, and I'm happy about it. I don't even have no shit on HBO. This is just how fucking amazing they are. The percentage that they bat I've never seen this before. Everything is a hit. House of the Dragons comes on.

Bang. Well, it's because they take their time. Bang. Euphoria. Bang. It is historic. This isn't like... For years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sopranos. Yeah. The wire. Yeah. I mean, it's just non-fucking stop. And really, they invest in creators. They invests in great showrunners, great writers.

And they execute. And they also invest in talent. Like, if you notice with HBO, if they like you as an actor, you pop up in their other shit, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you almost become like a star of HBO. Yeah.

Remember when we were doing all the MTV shows and we would just do five different ones? Absolutely. You become like a star of the network. But they fucking got it locked. And I think at the end of the day, that's what people want. They want stories that they can follow. They don't need all the content in the world, which is what Netflix is doing. They want stranger things.

That's what Netflix did great. Followed and then you create cultural moments with that. So I think Netflix should shrink the amount of things they're producing and just focus on great quality content. I agree with that. I mean, the interesting thing, too, about, like, you know, about like a Paramount Plus. The reason I think Paramount Plus is doing so well right now

is because that's what they're doing, right? They're focusing on great quality content. But another thing that they're doing, even though they're doing a lot of new IP, they're doing it with like season actors. Kevin Costner, fucking Harrison Ford,

Sylvester Stallone. They got fucking Jeremy Piven playing in one of those shows. Like, you know what I mean? Like you know these people. So you're going to, you might give the show a chance just because of who the person,

Isn't it? Like I saw something that yesterday I was watching TV and they got fucking, they're doing a TV show about Greece. It's the pink ladies. Remember Greece? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're doing a pink ladies sitcom.

Well, that's the thing. It's like people are going to tap into nostalgia. The same thing with you people. It's like, think about how. Excuse me? What the fuck you mean, shows? The same thing. The fuck you mean, yo.

What are you talking about? Because we like different world reruns and Martin reruns? Yeah, exactly that. But the movie, the movie, you people, okay? The movie, you people, that's what I'm talking about. Basically, who's not going to click on a movie that has all of the most famous actors in it? Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because think about it. It's like, if you people is in the theater, you got to get dressed, get a fucking babysitter, go buy popcorn, do all that kind of shit. The fact that it's on Netflix at your crib and you got Jonah, Eddie, Julia Louis Dreyfus, David DeCovna, it's like no matter who you like, they got it a little thing. So, of course, you're going to click and pop on into it. It's easiest barrier of entry.

I salute Kenya for getting Eddie in a movie. Oh, bro, the execution, multiple movies. I want it more funny from Eddie, though. Yeah, so did I. He was like a scrape man in the movie. I don't want Eddie playing a scrape man. So Jonah, too. I don't mean a scrape man like not gay either.

No, no. You mean like you want him to be bigger. I want him to be the wild car. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I didn't get that.

Like Bernie Mac. Bernie Mac and what? And who's this? Look who's talking. I never saw that. Oh, look who's coming to dinner. I never saw that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you know what? I mean, I wanted, I want Eddie to shoot. He wasn't the comic relief with what I'm saying. Yeah. He was, he was subdued. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I didn't want that for Eddie. I don't, yeah. I think that we all want Eddie to just be the superstar, the most hilarious part of the movie. Why else would you have Eddie in a movie? 100%. And by the way, I've never seen it.

I've never seen Eddie be a scrape man in a movie. Yeah. Have you? No. Never. No. I mean, maybe you've seen him be dramatic in a movie. But in a comedy, usually you see Eddie being that motherfucker that's going after it.

Yeah, yeah, listen, 100%. I guess what I'm just trying to say is like there's a reason why it's number one. And it's because it's so easy for everybody to just turn on and access it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that that's going to be a model that people try to replicate. If you can get all these stars in a streaming thing, who's not going to turn it on? They do a lot of that, though. The Valentine's Day movies where they get a bunch of stars to play small roles and then everybody goes,

all right, fuck it for Valentine's, let's watch this shit. I still think Netflix has event television. I mean, Jeffrey Dahmell was definitely event television. Perfect example. They made an amazing show. Literally ate it up. They made an amazing show that everybody locked in on, and I hope that they see that. And they go, ooh, this is what people like.

We don't need to throw out a. bunch of fucking shit movies. Let's throw out really specific, beautiful content that people get locked in on. And you can spend more money on that. Yeah. And to you point about HBO, the other thing I like about HBO,

and I hope Paramount Plus does this as well, HBO doesn't have a formula. Meaning, I'm talking about a formula as far as, like, the shows aren't formulaic. You know what I mean? Like, every show is different. Yep. The wire is different from,

The soprano. Sopranos different from White Lotus. White Lotus different from the last of us. The last of us different from Neufthoria. You know what I'm saying? Literally every show they put out is fucking great. That's what I mean. I mean, it's unbelievable.

Yeah. I mean, every now and then you'll get to drag the Game of Thrones in the House of Drag. You know what I mean? But for the most part, every show is different. And I hope everybody follows that model. You know what I mean? Because you can make dope shit for everybody. You can make dope shit for this part of America.

You can make dope shit for black people. You can make dope shit for Asian people. And the other thing about it is that HBO does a good job of. HBO makes everybody feel welcome to watch the show, even if this isn't your experience. And I see that with Yellowstone. Like, everybody seems to be watching Yellowstone. Hell you know what I'm saying.

I was talking to some Native Americans about it. They're like, yeah, we love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, finally we're depicted in a way that's more honest. Really? Yeah. I was out there at that hotel out there in fucking Utah. Wow.

And they're like, it was on Navajo country. It was like, yeah, we all watch it. Matter of fact, like, a few tries came together to, like, thank Kevin Cost. Get the fuck out of here. I haven't watched it. Is it good? What, Yellowstone? Yeah.

It's great. Yeah, everybody says how great it is. No, and what's great is that if you have success in a world, continue to make things in the world. Marvel has done this really well. Yes. Why not also do it with Yellowstone, which they did, right? But create other worlds is what I'm saying. Like, I want Paramount Plus to also create other world.

Yeah, yeah, but I guess what I'm saying is like, okay, for example, you have Game of Thrones. Now you have House of Dragon. That's right. That's right. You have Stranger Things. What other things can you create in the Stranger Things world? You've already done the heavy lifting. Oh, well, Yellowstone, they're doing it. They got two spin-offs of Yellowstone. What I'm saying is that's good that they're doing that. And then other shows should also replicate this model. Absolutely. Right? Because we like the world. We like existing in it. You don't have to explain shit to us no more. We know what to expect. Now just have some fun and dance. You know what's so interesting, uh, Jay

Williams. Um, when I, when I, when I create in a scripted world, I always think of that. I always think of could this show have a prequel? You know what I'm saying? Could characters from this show spin off? You know what I mean? Because stuff like that just makes success. Like we had Michael Jamal Warner on, and Malcolm Jamal Warner was talking to us about a show he had on NBC

that I didn't even know. I forgot all about this show. He was like, yeah, I had a show that came on on NBC, but I wasn't Theo. I was some other guy, but I was living in Harlem. You remember the name of the show? I forgot the name of the show Taylor. But I was like, that show would have worked

because they would have just said it was Theo. You just made me remember. Cosby show. Yep. Then... Different world. Different world. That's right. Think about that. If they would have just did Theo grown up, living in Harlem, put that shit on Thursday night like people

are used to. We already know the world. It would have killed. Absolutely. Continue if you have success. Now that's if you have the passion to continue creating. But like, generally speaking, if you know how to make a type of show, that is your genius zone. This is what you're so spectacular at. Absolutely.

It'd be great if you at least over saw other shows made in a similar way. And I think that's what Taylor Sheridan has done so fucking well. Was it Malcolm and Eddie? It was not Malcolm and Eddie. That's what they show? Anyway. What else we got?

Um, shit, my man. Want to do some asking idiots? Let's do some asking idiots, man. Let's do some asking idiots. The what? Price of eggs has dropped. The price of eggs dropped. I didn't know that they were up.

Sure. I didn't notice they were up. I noticed the price of whiting was up. Price of whiting was up crazy. Whiting? Yeah, fish. And Krispy Kreme Donuts, them shit is like $23 a dozen now.

Wow. You didn't know that? No. Can't believe Taylor acting like she didn't know. Taylor, um... Ask an idiot. Ask an idiot. It's not loading on my things.

Oh. Oh, Lord. This means that Taylor got some she made up. No, I didn't. Taylor wants that. This is when Taylor wants to ask us things. No, it's not. But doesn't want,

but is afraid to ask. so she's going to blame it on these random people. Let me see. See, it is just not popping up on my end. Let's see. Oh, Alex, oh, this is interesting. This is a very interesting question.

Alex Boss 34 says, what do you think about having a negative or pessimistic POV so you're never let down? It's an interesting strategy. I know people that are kind of like this. I don't relate to it at all, but I think it comes to I don't believe in this at all

and I never do this and I don't think that this is the right thing. I think you need to think positive thoughts. You need to manifest because not just manifesting makes it happen but at least allows your brain to start solving problems.

You figure out what you want and then you solve the problems to get there. If you tell yourself you can't have something you won't even begin the problem solving process. But I do understand why some people feel this way and that's because the pain of not getting something is too difficult for them to handle. So what they do is they convince themselves

they're not going to get it so that they can handle the pain when that inevitably happens. And then if they do get the thing, they feel the joy of surprise. I can handle the pain of not getting something. I can do that, but I can't handle it if I don't try. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If I try and I don't, I can handle that. But if I don't try and I don't get it, I feel or I fail,

I feel so bad because I didn't put the effort in. I totally understand everything you're saying. And I will second that and also add that I, believe in my thoughts and my words so much in my life. God, whatever you decide to call, the entity called God, I like to say, you know, God is a woman, but whatever you decide to call God has shown me time after time that your words are powerful. And I speak things into fruition, sometimes without even knowing I'm speaking them into fruition. So when I'm intentional about the things that I speak in their fruition.

A lot of those things have happened in my life. When I've been unintentional, like literally just saying things over and over, like, I would love for this to happen. I would love for that to happen. And I find myself like, oh, shit, that happened to me. This weekend was a big, big, big, big, huge revelation of the power of my words. And I told my wife, like, I will never, even though I already knew this, I will be so intentional about my words from now on because I,

be just talking things up. Anxiety. Well, anxiety is different because anxiety is the thoughts. Being that I know the power of my words, I don't let those thoughts escape my mouth. Your thoughts, you can't really control. The only thing when they come in your mind, you think about it,

you might even let yourself feel it for a moment. You suppress it. And my therapist says, tell yourself your own hero story to get yourself out of that mind state, but I don't speak it into existence. Good. What I've always said,

the things I want to happen in my life, I constantly speak about. The things I don't want to happen, I try not to speak about it all. And so I'm just intentional about the things that I say. So what he says about being negative, I could never do that. Yeah. I could never approach the world with a negative POV.

You know what I'm saying? Or be pessimistic because pessimism has never won any battles. You know what I mean? I'm going to always, you know, wish for the best. And to your point, if I want something and I say I want it and I tried and didn't get it, it just means that God didn't have that for me, you know? So it is what it is, but I would never be intentionally negative. That's just ridiculous.

I also won't try as hard if I'm telling myself I'm not going to get it. What's the point? Exactly. I have to tell myself I'm going to do it, and then I'm going to put every single bit of effort into this process. And then I feel like an idiot. Like, I kept telling myself, I'm not going to get it. I'm not going to get it.

I'm not going to get it. And then when I don't get it, I'm surprised. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fucking idiot, you told the world, you told God, you didn't want it. You asked for it. You asked for it. You asked for it. Oh, big boy, Malloy.

the big boy Malloy says do you guys feel like in modern times religion is becoming taboo uh duh yeah it's a shame because we're not really filling it with anything else and you can really tell that people are lost like people are really looking for focus they're really looking for guidance they're looking for you know how to be a human being and uh yeah and i grew up with no religion, but I can tell that for the masses, it's, it's, you have to fill that void. Yeah. And I don't think that we're necessarily filling it. Now, for me, I just feel like, you know, religion, to your point shows people are searching

for something nowadays that religion can't help them find. What do you think that is? The meaning of life, you know, what their purpose is, you know, I think the one that you can get from religion and regardless the purpose is. service learning how to serve, you know, because your true purpose in life, I feel is service to others, you know? But yeah, I just feel like religion is, um, yeah, religion is not providing what people actually, and I'm just speaking, I'm not saying for everybody. I'm just saying religion is not providing what people need. Like, there's religious leaders that I love to listen

to, but not because they're pushing religion down my throat. But they just motivate you. They motivate me. Bishop T.D. Jakes motivates me. Torre, R. Roberts motivates me. Sarah Jake's Roberts motivates me. You know what I mean? When I listen to them, yes, you learn scripture, but even the way they break down scripture and allow you to apply scripture to your life is not religious. You know what I mean? Like it's just... Or maybe that is. Maybe it is. I mean, scripture is religious. That's the word of God. They just make me want to seek out God. That's, that's religion, man. Is it? I don't know if that's, I don't believe it. I mean, depends your look in religion. I think if you're looking at the most altruistic way,

it's about you seeking relationship with God. But I think some people put church before God. I think they do. I really do. God would be upset about that. Oh, absolutely. God said you can't even find him in a man-made temple. Boom.

You know what I mean? So that's man-corrupting religion. And man is going to corrupt everything that it touches. This is just what we do. But yeah, I think that there is a place for religion, especially in organizing society. And especially for maybe people who don't, aren't familiar with their passion

and aren't familiar with their purpose. I think it's very easy for you to become religious about your purpose. You know, if you want to do stand-up comedy, if you want to do radio, it's easy to get obsessed about those things and live a life that's guiding you to that. But if you don't really have that, I can imagine how difficult life could potentially be. Right. Trying to figure out that purpose, trying to figure out what the point of it all is. And how nice is it to know that, like, if you live this way,

God is saying that you're doing a great job here on earth and that you're going to go. to heaven. And like, that's probably really comforting. I think that the uptick and anxiety is absolutely tied with a downtick in religion. A downtaking faith? My therapist said that. My therapist says that my therapist says faith and anxiety can't coexist. He does see that. If you have faith, that this is exactly how life is supposed to go, why would you be anxious? And the fact that, one, religion is no longer, you know, as synonymous with societies it used to be, but two, even religious people seem to have some skepticism about it. So now you can have skepticism about that faith.

Now, I'm someone who wasn't raised with it, but I could see the value. And there's definitely envy when I see people going, listen, God's got a plan for me, and this is what the plan is. What's you anxious about that? But that's the tricky thing about anxiety, right? Nine times out of ten, you don't know why you're anxious.

You know what I'm saying? You don't know why you're having these panic attacks? Like, you know, sometimes I could get to the root of it. Sometimes I'm like, why the fuck am I bugging out right now? You know what I'm saying? You just don't know. Yeah. You don't know.

I'm not saying it would get rid of all of it. No, no, yeah, I feel you. But the hopelessness that I think a lot of people are feeling, you know, it's like, I agree. If God is saying, hey, live this way, that's direction. Hey, I was in, I think I told this story. I was in my doctor's office and the doctor was, I had a, I had some calcerific tendinitis in my arm.

And so it was causing an intense pain. And so when I was at the doctor, like the doctor took my blood pressure. He was like, oh, your blood pressure is high, but it's probably because of the pain. So he goes, I want you to think about your your your your your upcoming vacation. This is before news. Think about your upcoming vacation. Think about things that, you know, make you happy that make you feel good.

You know, do your meditation. I literally sat there for like five, 10 minutes. And I got so deep into it that I didn't even, you know, he's putting the thing back on my arm. And he was like, see, you're fine. So literally my blood pressure came down within moments. Is that interesting? You know what I mean?

Yeah. Two more. Let's do two more. bus down and said, what time period would you travel back to just to observe and wander around? See, this can get tricky for black people. Yeah.

Not too many time periods we could just travel back to and just wander around and observe bust down. Oh, I know exactly. Whenever they made the pyramids, that's what I wanted to know. Really?

When they made the pyramids. And I need to know how the fuck they did it. I think that that would be the next watershed moment in history. I think in our lifetime, we'll have enough evidence to show that ancient civilizations

that are no longer around today were the real ones who made the pyramids. Maybe aliens or maybe not aliens, maybe just groups of people who 30,000 years ago developed high technology, maybe different than technology

we have now, but high technology, and they built all these pyramids around the world. And then there was, you know, global cataclysm and then destroyed most of those people, their lives,

their livelihood, and a lot of the technology they used. But I think in our lifetime, we'll find that to be true. 100%. So I want to know we build the pyramids. You know, it would be crazy. Think about this.

Andrew, Shultz has a time machine. Andrew Shultz went back in time to where the pyramids and the sphinxes and everything were being built. Somebody put your nose on the Spinks. The reason they had

to shoot it off was to cover the tracks of time travel. Like in Marvel, they have this thing called the TSA and the TSA goes in fixed time line. So if people are in moments in time that they're not supposed to be because they're time traveling, they go and fucking

fix it. What if you already had been back there, bro? I think there's a good case for that. Yeah. Because when I went to the pyramids, I felt like, I was home. No, I'm thinking about this because you did, you did this. This is a picture. Y'all can put it up on a YouTube video. You put your nose on the sphinx. Identical. It was unbelievable. It was like a match. I'm like, oh, shit. He did that. You saw the picture. You saw the picture. It looked perfect. Like, oh, shit. The sphinx might be, Oh, fuck. Do I go back in time in the future and they honor me

by making the Spinks? Holy shit. And then somebody who doesn't like you went to the past and shot the fucking nose off the Spinks. Hader. Whoa. Was it Kyrie or Kanye? Was it Kyrie or Kanye?

Cairo or Kanye? Definitely rapable. Um, um, let's hit, oh, one more. I like this one. Scroll up, Taylor. Uh, scroll up, scroll up. This is good. Jake Friar wants to know, would I rather be forever fit and jacked without having to work out or six feet tall?

Easy call. Easy call for me. Go. Rather be forever fit and jacked without having the workout. Why? Because, first of all, being tall is overrated. You never been tall. It's overrated.

If you're tall and you ain't in the NBA, you look stupid. Tall for no reason, motherfuckers. I'm with you at a certain height. Six eight are better? No, you should be in the NBA. Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Six eight are better, bro?

And you ain't in the league, bro. You look crazy as hell. Yeah, yeah. Six feet is like, eh. Yeah, yeah. Six feet ain't even really tall. No, you got to be tall. That's what I'm saying?

Like, you said six feet. I'm taking, you know, even if you said seven, two, I'm still taking beef by side right now. which is 5.9. Yeah. And jacked. Yeah. You're not having to work out.

You done captain or what? What do you mean? You would take 5.11 and a half in a heartbeat. No way. To be jacked for ever and not have to work out. Just imagine never having anxiety again, bro. That's what being 511 a half is. All people got the most anxiety.

Don't we chilling. You're the biggest targets. The view. You're the biggest targets. You know what I'm in? Stay ground level. You wouldn't want to be Jack Who me?

I don't care to be Jack now I don't care about that I just want to be slim I just don't want to be fat If you're tall Girls don't really care if you're That is not true There's so many tall out of shape

People that can't get no look Yeah but because they're tall like No No No No no You're 100% I don't believe that

If you're tall You could be fat You could be all these things I don't believe After the bottom I'll tell you why You look like a lowercase B all types of stupid shit.

I ain't got time for that. Okay, one more. You want to do one more? Yeah, one last one. What we got, Taylor? Pull up a good one. What's the biggest pause moment of your life? What's the biggest pause moment

of your life? I'm like ditty, bro. I'm unpauseable, bro. Whoa! You never had a pause moment? What's the biggest pause moment of my life? Yeah. Nah, bro.

What part like, what's there to pause? Fair enough. I'm like, what you said? You said, we don't pause. We fucking fast forward, boy. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Get to the climax. The biggest, I don't have no biggest pause moment. All right, fair enough. Like, you nah, for what? Shout to that. I mean, unless you want to say the, that wasn't even a pause moment.

Y'all paused it, but that was, oh, I know the biggest, no, I do know the biggest pause. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not that I think about it. But it's not, it's not to me.

But the only reason I'm reminded of this, because somebody sent me this yesterday and tagged me in it, I said, if 6-9 beats his case, I'll suck his dick. Oh. That was wild. That was wild. That was wild.

I don't know why people couldn't find the humor in that one, bro. Did I give me, did I sell it? Like, did I really look like I would suck, suck his dick or something? I love it. I don't know what was going on with you right back. I think that was a rough week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like somebody sent me that yesterday and tagged me in it, and they was like, nah, bro.

We ain't forgot, yo. It was 2000-fucking 23. Hold, I'm going to find this shit and read it. Hold on. Somebody literally tagged me in this shit yesterday, yo. Man, we wouldn't take back that picture you took on the bet. A picture on the bed. What picture on the bed?

Yo, the bed pick was crazy. That's not me, bro. That was not me. That was before Photoshop. That was not me. Somebody said, wasn't even Photoshop back then, bro. Look at this shit, yo.

Look at this shit. This is yesterday. Yesterday. Somebody put, see the God, you have a debt to pay. So get on your knees because he beat his case. And to be honest, six and nine wouldn't even let you. But just to show everyone what a clown seat of God is, I can't believe anyone listens to this guy.

Like, who says this on. on air and tried to be gangster at the same time. I've never tried to be gangster. Whenever ever tried to be gangster? You don't try to be gangster leading with shit like this. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. So I guess that would be the biggest pause moment in my life because for whatever reason, y'all really took me serious. I'll be honest. That was the biggest pause moment in my life, too. You hit my tail. My tail will be around. No.

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