The Brilliant Idiots - Whispers From The Moped

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

This week on the Brilliant Idiots Podcast, Charlamagne tha God and Andrew Schulz are back. They kick things off talking about why respectful convos still matter—even when folks wildly disagree. From Mayor Adams catching heat, to deep dives into the idea of a “permanent government,” the migrant crisis, crime, and public safety—it’s all on the table. Chris share some personal stories, like a jaywalking moment gone sideways, unexpected run-ins, moped fails, and thoughts on maternity leave at work. They even chop it up about Will Smith’s evolution and what growth looks like under the public spotlight. Then they get into some spicy political territory—talking gun gestures in sports, Cory Booker’s marathon filibuster, and how the Dems might need their own Tea Party-style comeback. They break down how sports, politics, and pop culture all collide, and why public perception is messier than ever. Plus, they show love to Insecure and Issa Rae’s boss moves, debate whether Playboi Carti is the new rockstar energy we needed, and unpack the Kendrick vs. Drake drama—complete with rumors, video theories, and some parenting wisdom thrown in for good measure. ************************************ Sponsor Brilliant Idiots: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/brilliant-idiots Black Effect Podcast Festival: http://blackeffect.com/podcastfestival/ Uncommon Favor - Dawn Staley Pre Order - https://a.co/d/4pLD1C3 No Holes Barred -Mandi B & Weezy WTF https://a.co/d/cGFDUoB The Wind on Her Tongue - Anita Kopacz https://a.co/d/fWDancH I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience - Tamika D. Mallory https://a.co/d/7DoCtWX Get Honest or Die Lying Why Small Talk Sucks By Charlamagne Tha God https://a.co/d/gpFlOol Check out Andrew Schulz www.theandrewschulz.com Check out all the podcast on Charlamagne's "Black Effect Network" https://blackeffect.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shalaman the guy. Andrew Shoe. We are the brilliant idiots podcast. Back for another week of brilliant idiotness. Heather Kyle Walker. Hello, sir. You know what's crazy? Squarespace has been advertising with us

for at least 10 years. It's unbelievable. Are we going to meet somebody from Squarespace at least once? I just like that. I just like to do stuff like that. Yeah. Like we want to show our appreciation. We want to have a conversation.

We want to show our gratitude. We're grateful individuals. Yeah, when you come to New York, pull up to the pod and do a Zoom. That's the last thing Chris wants because Chris has been taking money on the side this entire time. Oh, shit. Once we find out that direct connection, now we're going to see. Oh, shit, Chris.

How do you think he afford his new sneakers every episode? This guy got a new pair and new balance that don't even come out yet. They do a big buy with loudspeaker and you just break us off a little big trip? Just a little tiny... Wow. Actually, not how it works, but go off. Go off. Go off. Go off, please.

Go off. How was your week, man? Man, good. Man, good. I watched you on the pivot. I thought it was a fantastic interview. Oh, thank you. Shout out to those guys, man.

They're awesome. I thought it was, I mean, personally, that was my favorite interview of yours so far on this press front. And, you know, I love the pivot.

That's one of my favorite podcasts. It's always dope when you get to see, like, all your favorite personalities in one space and everybody is doing them. Ryan was being Ryan, Fred was being Fred, Channing was being Channing,

you were being you. And it was a good faith conversation. That's what we need more of. Nobody tried to dunk on each other. It was just a good conversation. How do we have, How do we have these conversations and just how do we go into things? Like, if people are respectful, you could disagree and you could say certain things.

When we get into dunk culture, it's not, there's no respect. It's like, I'm trying to humiliate you so that people give me paths on the back. You worried about the audience. Yeah, instead of worried about the person you were talking to. You worry about the audience. You worry about what the audience is going to say as opposed to what is this conversation. How did you feel after doing it? I thought it was great.

Like, I was really appreciative that they would have me on and that we could have that conversation And then we could have that conversation, like, specifically, like, just talk about comedy, talk about jokes and, like, get where they're coming from, understand their perspective. And hopefully, you know, feel mine a little bit more. Very honest moments, you know, especially sending around what people choose to edit out of interviews. Oh, yeah. You want to know what my initial reaction is, which I think is kind of unfair. But my initial reaction was when I saw you guys talking about it,

And I was like, okay, he wants to protect black women, and this is very important. And then I looked on every one of the episodes that you had to see if there was any guys on here that beat up black women. And there were. And I looked to see if you guys addressed it on the pod. And you didn't.

Okay. Now, I also saw you guys had the episode with DeAndre's mom talking about domestic violence. So I was like, okay, this is good and this is powerful, this is important. But my knee-jerk reaction was, man, I get a whole section that's not even part of an episode and these guys who we know have actually

for like a joke and these guys who have actually like hurt black women and convicted, not allegations, because I don't go off of allegations, I go off conviction. Everybody can get an allegation. It means nothing. And then these guys, they don't get anything. So in that moment I was like, this feels like a clout play. It doesn't feel like the highest priority is protecting these women. So that was my initial reaction.

Let me say this. Yeah. We have had people on this show that have been convicted for domestic violence that have pulled it out of the show. That pulled it out of the show. That I have asked about it. Oh, and then they're like, I don't want it on the show. Yeah, and I do because people come on our show voluntarily.

Of course. I do ask those questions in respectful ways. Right? I'm not, hey, man, you're a woman beater, but I will say, like, in one of the instances that was poor, I said, look, you know, you were convicted of something that no man wants attached to his date. Amen. And they answered it. We talked to their people.

I was like, man, the answer was good. Like, and they pulled it out of the show. So we've had that happen. We also had an instance with one of our guests who was talking about sexual assault. And he talked about it in a way that almost said that, okay, how do we blame the women? And I addressed that as well. So as far as for me, I try to address it in every opportunity that I get a chance to. I try to ask them questions in ways that they get to tell their side of the story.

Yeah. When they sit with us, I do not bash them over the head with it, condemn them or judge them in the moment. Yeah. I do try to have a conversation about it. I thought that was very, very honest conversation. Because I mean, everybody does it depending on what it is. Sometimes you do it because...

You just say something dumb. You say something that's crazy. Like you say something too wild because you're with your friends and you're acting as if there's if there's not five cameras in the room. Yes. And you know what I realized. That's the majority of cuts on a podcast, mind you. It's you just talking to your friends

and there's five cameras in the room and you forget. And you know, sometimes we say things that, and it's not something, I'm not going to sit here and act like I always did this. I always knew this. And honestly, one of the reasons I don't like to do it anymore is because you just don't know what's going to cause somebody to be hurt.

You know what I mean? Yeah. But sometimes you say things and then it goes out and then you realize, oh, shit, you hurt somebody and now people are upset, people offend you, like, I probably shouldn't have said that. Exactly. You know?

But then sometimes you just don't know. Like you said, we're just kicking it, having a good time. Now you got a whole big back brigade out front, you know what I'm saying? That's that is crazy. Nobody does that on purpose. Those girls skip breakfast to protest. You know what I mean? That's the most important meal of the day.

Come on. They eat before they protest. I mean, you start early, bro. You started, what, six in the morning? They eat before they protest. Come on. They're not just coming out there empty stomachs. They came to the breakfast club.

Get mad when they're first. Wait a minute. Where is breakfast? No, that's the name of the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the name of the show. But, nah, Pibble was great. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

What else happened this week, man? Man, Mayor Adams is free. Yo. Mayor Adams, he came on a pie. Mayor Adams is awesome, dude. What did you take a Mayor Adams? Awesome. Is he running again?

Yeah. He is going to run again. He said that in a part? Yeah. I heard he was going to announce, oh, they said he was going to announce on Thursday, So I guess he knew the charges were probably getting dropped today. That's probably.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, yeah, he was just, he was a great hang. Like, he's a fun dude. He's a New Yorker. It was cool to hear his perspective on all the bribery charges. Like, we asked him all the questions. Yeah. And just, like, the state of the city.

And, but, yeah, the kid used to squeegee people's windshields as a kid. Yeah. Or the dude, the mayor. And then he's, I mean, to go from squeaging people's windshields and to being the mayor of New York City. is a pretty amazing achievement. I didn't watch the whole interview yet. I watched the clip.

I thought it was very interesting that he admitted there the deep state. Bro, he... I thought it was interesting that he admitted that he felt like it was after he criticized the Biden administration, then they hit him with those charges. Immediately.

The mayor is the second most powerful position in America. Do you know, like, what happened with Epstein? As Obama said, if you say it, they got to kill you. Oh, wait. So do you know? No, no, no. I have no idea. So tell us what happened with the migrant crisis.

Oh, great question. So let's talk. But to migrants. This cost us $7 billion. This was the tipping point where I decided I got to publicly criticize the Biden administration. So listen, and I don't want to get conspiratorial. After you come out, all of a sudden, the Justice Department looks into Eric Adams. And there's this thing about Turkish airlines, right? Do you think there's any connection to those two things?

You're done right, I do. Do you know who you think it came from? That's a great question. And I don't want to sound conspiracy theory, but there's a permanent government. Is this like what people refer? what people refer to. And I think this word has been used too much, but like the deep states or whatever it is. It's not used too much. It's real. Mayor's coming and go. President's coming go. Government's coming. Permanent government is real. And whoever's trying to act like it's not real,

they're lying. And which borough has it the most attractor women? I think all of them have great shorties. And I really want to know more about what he means by permanent government. Well, I was trying to ask him. Throughout the interview, he's just like, read Cash Patel's book. You know Cash. Yeah. He's like, read Cash Patel's book. He explained, I'm like, who are these people?

He goes, just read Cash Patel's book. He explains it. He'll talk about these people. I think he was like genuinely concerned to out certain individuals. But his idea of permanent government... Let me look that up. Yeah. If the book is called, what's Cash's the book called?

Anyhow. But his idea of permanent government makes sense. He goes, I deal with in New York City, but it also exists on a federal level. He goes, there are a department head. for every department in New York City. There's the sanitation department, et cetera. These people are not elected, and they've been there for 35 years. So they look at a mayor and they're like, yo, you're here, you'll be gone.

We don't really got to respect you. Like, we're here forever and you're here for a little bit. Yeah. Government gangsters. Yeah, I'm looking at it now. Permanent government refers to the body of career officials, civil service, and institutions that continue to operate regardless of changes in political leadership or ruling parties. it's also sometimes called the bureaucracy,

our administrative state are the deep state, right? Yeah, well, the nefarious actors, they would argue, are called the deep state. Yeah. Now, we don't know who those people are. Here's the thing. We need to have like an honest conversation about this. In order to function as a country that changes its leader every four years, you need something that's kind of permanently operating.

But isn't that what law should be, like the Constitution? Of course, of course, of course. But like imagine you had to literally rehire every department every time a new administration came in. So Trump comes in and then everybody within the Department of Education is fired and rehired, retrained on all the things. I know what they're doing there. But imagine every single department. We're talking about like tens of thousands of people fired and rehired every four years. Like what people would even sign up for that?

Like you're going to quit your job for potentially four years of work in a department that then you can be removed and maybe you're making. 100 grant. I get it. In order for a country to function long term, right, to have a plan for 30 years from now, you need something there. The problem is a lot of those positions are positions of power and influence that are not democratically elected. So they're making decisions based on, they're making decisions about us based on whatever they feel most comfortable. Yeah, that's what it says. One of the key characteristics of permanent government is unlike politicians, these individuals are not chosen. Exactly.

Through elections. All I'm realizing, man, is a lot of this shit is like, well, not a lot of it. It's just all an illusion then. I mean, people have always said that, but it's just like, you know, there's no real figurehead. The president of, well, maybe, maybe now. But until now, the president of the United States of America has always just been a figurehead. Now, don't give me wrong. They still have a lot of, like, power.

Like, they can decide to go to war and they can murder, you know, millions of people. Like these horrible things happen all the time. But isn't Cash going to go after them? No, I'm not talking about the deep stay. I'm talking about presidents. Presidents still have tons of power. What I'm saying is that... But who tells them to go to war?

Well, honestly, Adams is on the pot. He even said this shit. He was like... Because he was meeting with Biden and Biden's people about the migrant stuff. And he didn't come out until he kept asking them for things and they refused to give him. So he goes... Because he broke it down really well. He's like, listen, immigration is a federal responsible.

responsibility. Keeping the border closed is federal responsibility. It's not a state responsibility. So when they're sending 4,000 migrants a day up in buses from Texas to New York, right? And then I'm going, hey, we need funding for this. And they go, ah, you can take it out of whatever you have already. He goes, hold on, hold on, home, huh. Why should I have to pay, I of the city, have to pay for a federal issue? Like, that doesn't make sense to him. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Like, even when they So when they were saying they were sanctuary states, that was all local stuff. That wasn't...

Well, I think the state decides to be a sanctuary state. I don't know if they received federal funding for being a sanctuary state. But like, the state decides to be... And even the sanctuary shit, there's a difference between sanctuary state and right to housing. So like, if you have a right to housing,

which the Yorkers do, that's for homeless people. That's not for migrants. And basically, as a political move, Texas was trying to, like, show the northern states that seem to have strong opinions about immigration, yet don't deal with it.

Don't deal with it, 100%. And I get that perspective, too. I said it was genius when it happened. Everybody got mad at me. All I was like, you know, it was like, oh, Charlie and both sides. No, I just like strategy. It works.

It absolutely works. If I'm governor to Greg Abbott, if I'm DeSantis, oh, y'all don't think this is an issue, y'all don't have to deal with it. Here you go. Oh, y'all sanctuary cities? The right thing to do,

if you're in sanctuary city would be to send the migrants to sanctuary cities. Put them on buses, put them on planes. Here you go. As soon as they got here, what happened? So when they got to the D.C.s. He started making a phone call. In the New York's.

And the Chicago's, whoa, whoa, whoa. We don't want this no more. 100%. I, you know, I thought it, when they did it, I thought it was a genius move. And guess what? It fucking worked. So he's like,

Democrats, never. They don't get money from the Fed. So we don't get money for the Fed. So it's coming out of state. It's coming out of state funding and city funding. Anyway, so he's just like, yeah, it was a move. And we had to, and I was critical to the Biden administration

that I was a surrogate before. I was there, one of the people hands selected to promote it. I'm critical of it. And then immediately after that, these charges get brought up. And I'm thinking you think that's connected. He goes, of course I think it's connected. He goes, I don't even think the Biden was getting proper information from his people. I go, what?

He goes, his people were, Biden's people were telling Biden something that wasn't true. I go, what do you mean? And I go, who are those people? Because that's what we've always been concerned about. We're like, who's really running the country? And I don't know. In his opinion, he's like, there was a group of staffers or whoever they may be. that we're really making the decisions

and then informing Biden of whatever they saw would be, what they thought would be the best for America. All this shit is scary, right? And I didn't like, all this shit is corrupt. The thing is like, don't give us a boogeyman and then not call him out.

Who will come up? Like, he'll say, oh, these people are telling him wrong information, and then we said, who are the people, then he won't say. So you want to give people killed? No, I want to know. I thought he might can't tell him. I don't know.

I thought he was worried about. himself, not being murdered, but like... I think he was, but I'm saying. He'd said he spent $3 million of his own money on his legal fees, and he was facing 35 years in prison. Yeah, if you just got... If you've already been a victim of what you're claiming to be to deep state,

you're not going to go back down now. Lighting it up anymore. When are we going to have faith in the government if people don't just start air and shit out? We're never going to have faith in this. So that is bullshit. So... Like, seriously, we're never going to have faith in government.

I don't think ever again. I asked him about Cuomo. Running as well? Oh, shoot. I thought she said, no, no. I was like, what? I never heard those rumors. What?

He said, he liked the shardy. I didn't know what that. What? I asked him about Coleman. I was like, what do you think about Clinton? I'm not concerned about that. I'm like, I'm like, why? You know, like, this guy's like a very big political figure.

He's like, he got accused of something and he stepped down. I got accused and indicted for something. I ain't go anywhere. I stood tall. He goes, how could you support the guy that the second that he got into something, he removed himself. Like, why would he not do that again? All it takes is an accusation and then he's going to bend over.

That's a great point. I was facing 35 years, $3 million of my own money that I had to spend to spend myself. And now the charges are dropped because I'm innocent. That is a great point. Where did he get $3 million? Say again? Where did he get $3 million? Yeah, you asked so many questions, Chinese man.

You know what I mean? What the hell, bro? What the hell? I don't know either. What again? Brooklyn Barrow president. president. Turkey. He owns a lot of properties. Turkey. Maybe he's getting rent on some of his

property. Maybe he is. That's where he got the three million. Listen, I even said that to him, I was like, listen, there's... You'll ask him when you got the three million for him? No, I didn't ask him about that. But I asked him about corruption. Cap. I, you're saying... No, not you. I'm saying hid and saying he spent three million of his own money. Right. So maybe maybe somebody else is like funding it is what you're trying to say? Possibly. Hey, man. And he should be, he should be available for that criticism, too. Like, don't, I'm not trying to defend in that regard.

Right. But I did really enjoy him as a personality. Like he was very, he was fun. He was making jokes. We were talking about the shorties. Like, at one point during the potty, he's like, you know what New York needs? And 11.

I'll go, what? And he's talking about the strip club in Miami. He's just a wild boy, bro. I know, but he got a kid. Yeah, I think he got a kid. Yeah, I had Mary Adams do a, I put out this project with Audible a few years. years ago called We've Got Answers.

And so I just assembled a group of people that I consider like real thought leaders to give like different insights on like, there's a lot of different things, right? It's basically, the premise of the project is if you're a white person and you want to know what black people think, you put this on. And then boom. And they answer all the questions. And Mayor Adams was one of the people I used. And he came through.

We paid somebody for that. I interviewed him for that. Oh, you interview? Okay. He thought I was a black guy of the entire interview. They call me brother. You know how it is, brother. You are white.

Black people and Jewish people are brothers. I didn't say anything else. I said, I know how it is. Did you enjoy that? Did you like him when you did that? I liked him a lot personally when I spoke with him. I think he's very personal. Bro, he's so tough.

I don't like him as a mayor at all, but he's a person. Tell me why. I don't live in New York. I live in Jersey. Tell me why you don't like him as a mayor. I think he's done a bad job. I mean, I think he's, I mean, I think it's ironic that he talks about entrenched city workers who can't get out of there where, you know, I think at last count, 15 people

that he's appointed personally or under investigation. I think he's appointed really unqualified people to a lot of positions. And, you know, despite my progressive leanings, I'm actually pretty pro policing and tough on crime. And that was one of the things he really ran on. And I don't think he's really delivered on it. Well, the last mayor that's really been tough on crime was Giuliani, though. So here's the thing that's tricky, right? That was the first thing we brought up to him. We're like, yo, what's up with the subways?

What's up with the mopeds running me over every day? Well, that's not crime. It should be policed. Oh. It should be controlled. You can't have, I want my oba eats fast. I'm sorry. So you can just run over an Asian guy in the street.

Yeah. Look both ways. God, well, let's be it. God, that was crazy. Open your eyes. This guy is wow. You're a wild guy out. That's so racist.

You can't be racist. That was very wild for no reason. Chris is a brother. All right. He is a brother. He is a brother, woo. It's our brother woo. I want those guys arrested.

Oh, Chinese? Everybody. If you're driving around, up on the sidewalk, what they do to you, man. What they do to you, Chris? They ran me over. That's what they did. They were, what the moped lades you out, Chris?

In real life. Fractured my leg, yeah. Oh, my God. No, thank. When? I don't remember Chris having a cast? No, I didn't have a cast. Tell us the story, Chris.

I was talking on my phone. I checked to the direction the traffic was coming. Stupidly, I didn't check against the traffic. Yeah. I stepped out in the street. He was coming. I think he was looking at his phone, and he hit me really hard. And, like, I remember you guys were clowning me,

but I was holding on to his handlebars trying not to fall down because I thought I was going to get pushed into the street. and then get run over by a car. He was crying afterwards. This is your friend. My own with you. It's your fault. That poor man.

You said you only looked one way. Why didn't you look the other way? I looked with traffic. No. You got to look both ways. You get on that sidewalk in New York. You see the bike lane. You got to look to the left.

You got to look to the bike lane. Somebody's done this as a joke. But like, we look both ways for the subway. It's true. So now you want all mopped riders arrested just because you didn't both ways, Chris? So when I had to go to the doctor, he said every week he's seeing multiple people who have, he said, I got all very lucky.

He's seeing multiple people who have been either killed or harmed very badly in these crashes. They're never going to be the same again. It should be regulated. You know what I love about life. You should have looked. Chris is not wrong. Yeah, you should have looked both ways.

Chris is not wrong, but all you need is one personal experience for something to jump to the top of your life. No, no, I was talking about crime. Like, I started this about crime. He's talking about walking into the street and getting hit by a car. What the fuck that gun doing? A modepad. A mopet.

What are we talking about? I'm talking about people. Are the delivery mopeds out of control? Yes or no? No. No. Yeah. If you look both ways, it's not a problem.

This is that, you know, God forbid, God forbid Chris gets robbed by a black dude because this motherfucker will become the biggest racist in history. Bring back the crime bill. Are that? Yeah. Are they dangerous? Are they dangerous people? Happened every day in high school.

Chris said, Chris said, is the mofair problem out of control. The mofed delivery problem out of control. Son. Oh, it's not. It is not. I hope you guys don't have to learn the hard way, too.

It's as to control. Lock them up. Lock them up, Mayor Adams. Lock them up. Oh, my God. Where's that tough on crime? Lock them up. Oh, Chris.

Yo. Who's been the last? Good Mayor in New York? What's his face? Bloomberg. Bloomberg? Yeah, Bloomberg. Without blooming.

Across the board, very solid. Bloomberg was tough. That's when I was here. Well, that's when I first got here. Bloomberg was, what, old... What did he do? It was good. I know I'm supposed to like him,

but I don't know what he did. It was good. How long was this term? It was three terms, right? Three terms. What years was it, Chris? Oh, God, I can't remember. Giuliani ended, what, after 9-11?

So it was probably, like, 08 through, like, 18 or something? Yeah, I was here for the Bloomberg, yeah. I know. I know. I know, Julie. Those were prime New York years, baby. 2002 to 2013. All right.

Early. Those are prime new year. I was here from, I was here, I got here in 06. Those are prime New York years. And there was a lot of remnants of the Giuliani shit still going on. So crime was, and crime was still, you know, pretty low, if I remember correctly. What I'm trying to say is, what did he, like, why did you like him? I thought crime was relatively low.

I thought he was a very strong supporter of the arts. I thought he found a nice balance between making the city livable and safe, but also really encouraging the art scene. You know, the reason I feel his presidential campaign got sunk a few years ago was because of stopping frisk. No, that was very much a given reason. I don't personally do that. I don't think he ever ran a real campaign.

He never had personality. No, Bloomberg has a lot of personality. Not up there on the podium. I don't think he haven't ran a real campaign. He jumped in the bottom of the knife in. The way that people, I think, very mistakenly say about Trump, he's doing this because he wants to do it. He doesn't need to do it. I think that was actually the case.

With Bloomberg. With Bloomberg. I think Bloomberg had a ton of money. I think he put really smart people in positions. I think he was a little too close to the developers, but you're not going to get a perfect mayor. And I think that was his biggest flaw. But I think he really put the city first. You hate stopping frisk, but you want all moped drivers.

No, I said stop and frisk. I said they just need to expand it to white people. That's what has to happen. They got to stop and frisk X amount of white people a day. Why? We don't do anything bad. I'm all right. You frisk me.

That's why I'm okay. Frisk me. We don't do anything bad like you Asians, dude. What about the moped drivers? Should they be stopped and frisk? What do you want to happen with the moped driver? I just want them to stay off the sidewalks. I want them to stop at red lights.

Is that too much to ask? Are they sagging their pants? They're in a bike lane, Chris. They got to stop sagging their pants. They got to stop listening to rap music loud. You weren't in the bike lane? There was no bike lane. I just walked into the street.

I was j-walking. Oh, no. No. Wow. No. This is white people, bro. This is how white people are. Yo, you are a cracker, bro.

I didn't realize what a cracker you were. And when he says jaywalking, he means Jewish. You think you just walk around the city. It's your city. It's your city. It's your city. Huh? Used to be.

Damn, bro. That is crazy. You fucked up. And now you're trying to get rid of all because you were in the wrong place. You didn't look both ways and you were j-walking and you mad because you got hit by a mofay. It's all your fault.

You lose that in the court of law nine times out of ten. I mean, it's like going to the ocean, getting eaten by a shark and be like, we gotta get rid of sharks. You know what I'm saying? Get a shark bite and survive. You're gonna put the nets up. No, you're gonna stay out the water.

What the fuck is this guy talking about? Chris. Now, you guys all took acid today or something. The fact that I got- Wait, wait, hold on, hold on. People. We took as to because you were walking in the street like an idiot and you got hit by the thing that's supposed to be in the street. You were walking illegally.

You were jaywalking, Chris. I'm going to cut you guys out right. I'm going to turn to Taylor. You don't think the mopeds or anything like things. He won't let go. Oh, no. I don't think they're out of control, but I have seen them like just be careless and like just keep going fast and don't. Yeah, when they're in the bike lane.

Yeah, but even when someone's walking and see someone, they won't stop something. Chris, Chris, if you got hit by a person in the street, I'd be like, okay, that's fucked up. That person shouldn't have been the street. That street is for mopeds and cars. You got hit by a moped in the moped area. Going in the wrong direction. Going in the wrong direction. Chris, you were jaywalking and you were in the wrong direction.

He's like, I can go in this direction because nobody's supposed to be in the street. That's right. Humans don't do that. And you were jaywalking, Chris. I cannot believe you are trying to pin this crime on this anything. Believe it. Lock him up. Lock him up.

Lock him up. What race was? You said he's Chinese for real? No, he wasn't Chinese. He was, I'll say, East Indian. Wow. What do you mean? Wait, how did he sound?

He was crying. What was he saying? Don't do it. It sounded like an upset human being. But what was he saying? upset human beings. And you have no empathy for him? I had a lot of empathy. We hugged.

We hugged out. Oh, okay. So who do you want to get locked up? He just, he was looking at his phone is what I think happened. He realized he'd hit somebody badly. People were gathered around. I was lying out. I think he was worried about what his situation is. So an honest mistake you want to leave the jail time? You want him to go to prison? This gentleman in particular, no. But I want Mayor Adams, Mayor Adams, Get this shit under control. No. End it under control.

What do you say? What do you say? Just tell me what he said. You imagine Chris in a town hall meeting, everybody up there talking about the high taxes, the fucking and congested. Assaulting to subway. Really idiot New York listeners.

Say something online. Back me up. I can't believe. Shut the fuck out. I do not believe what I'm hearing right now. The mopeds are, the mopeds are. being driven in the place they're supposed to be driven.

You guys are creating bad karma right now. What do you mean? You guys are out there every day. You're out there with your families, with your children. No, I'm not. I live in Jersey. Everybody else. No, it's scary.

Where? What did he say? What did he say? Yeah. He said he loved brilliant idiots. Andrew and Charlemander the goats. Oh, no, no. That's it.

That's what he told me. It's incredible. How did he even know? Get out of here. It's incredible. So you're saying, He can't stop playing. Chris, you're going to make us bring this guy on the pot.

You gotta let us bring moped man on the pot. You're telling me, the East Indian guy in a mopet that hit you. Blue my mind. Was a fan? Blew my mind. That's all he wanted to talk about. What he said? He didn't say anything else.

That's all he said. Really? Sorry? No, just said Billy idiots, Andrew Charleman and the goats. That's all he just hugged you. That's all he could say. After he hugged you? Yeah.

Chris, I don't believe what he's fucking saying right now. Incredible. What a random. moment. Chris? Christopher. Can you ask Eric Mayers about the congestion prices?

Ask him about the congestion pricing? Yeah. No, I didn't. Why? Is it something that bothers you? Yes. This is what we need to do. Before we move on today, we got to buy Chris a helmet for his birthday. No, okay. Chris is getting in too many random accidents. We do. That me like the catcher leg. Yeah. We need to get you the whole thing.

You got a whole thing. Fucking bonus cycle umpire. You need to dress like you're riding a motorcycle and being an umpire, okay, at the same fucking time. You're actually driving your motorcycle to Yankee Stadium to be an umpire. That's the outfit we need to buy you. Chris, I need to know what he said in his accent right now. I need to know what he said. He's crying. He spoke perfect King's English.

It was incredible. He's crying, though. Probably educated. He's weeping. What happened? Oh, my gosh. Chris. Chris.

Why were you walking in this street? Chris. Sir. Sir, why are you dead walking in the street, sir? Sir, why are you dead working in the street? Sir! Sir! Oh my God.

Let's do some all memes. Sir, I'm so angry. If you don't give me a hug. Right now, I don't know what I'll do with myself, sir. Sir, if you don't squeeze my body right now, sir. Squeeze my body, body, body, squeeze my body, squeeze my body, squeeze my body, squeeze my body, da-na-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-l. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I got to pull my music up, man.

Hold on. Andrew just inspired a song. Just get it up. Hold on. Chris. Chris. Chris from brilliant idiot. Chris from brilliant idiot. Oh,

I can't, you know what? I can't find it because I can't fucking spell Punjabi. I. P-U-N-J-A-B-I. What's the name of the joint

that all of Indian law? Never came out. Me. What's the name? Me. Yeah, squeeze my body body. Squeeze my body.

Squeeze my body body, listen. Squeeze my body body. It is? It is. Oh, I didn't even do nothing. Oh, my shot.

No, no. I didn't even press play. You saw that shit. You saw that shit. I didn't even problem. My phone was all the way. Damn. They warned us to rock out.

God was like, no. God was like, no, you got to let us go. He's not trying to. Hey. He's not, no, no, no. Hey, squeeze my body, body, body, squeeze my body, squeeze my body, body, squeeze my body, squeeze my body, squeeze my body, squeeze my body, body, squeeze my body, squeeze my body, hey, hey, hey, hey, Chris, we got a jam.

We got to bring Moped Man on the pod. You need the Moped Man on the pod. Let's order some food. What kind of food? Through the studio, I mean, it's obviously going to be in the food. Okay, okay, he'll come in, and then he'll lock eyes with you again. Because I don't believe this story, Chris. Goodish.

What part? They know us? How I remember. Goody. All means necessary. Let's do so all memes necessary. What in God's green earth is happening, Chris? What do we got, Taylor, gang?

Basketball at his finest. Who is this? What does this mean? Uh-oh. What does this mean, Taylor, gang? Uh-oh, Taylor. Internet. Instagram down, Taylor, Gang.

Ajee hit you with the hazy. Instagram down, Taylor, gang. IG hit you with the hazy. Video's awesome? Yeah. I don't know. Tell us, because we're just going to rock it out how we normally do it.

We don't need videos. What is the video, though? What is it about? It's about the basketball fight with the pistons. Oh, that shit was weak, man. This is how I know this air ain't used to nothing. First of all, it's not a fight if no punches was thrown. Happy for what?

That shit was nothing. It was a kerfuffle. That wasn't a fight. It was a kerfuffle. It was a bunch of pushing, a bunch of shoving. It looked like a little John concert in the early 2000s. In fact, little John concerts in the early 2000s were way more violent than that shit right there. There was nothing...

Hold on. Hold on. What I gotta say hi to our boy. New York legend. Hold on one second. Who's that? Ah! What's up, my boy?

Yo, we're doing brilliant idiots right now. You know, Charlemagne? What's up, Mike, guy? You know about the Aki Way? Oh, shit. Yo, hey, let me tell you something. That shit you made for La La San Cyan with the chips. That shit looked good as a motherfucker, yo.

That would be legendary, bro. I don't eat cheese, though. You can do it with vegan cheese? No, you got to do it with the vegan cheese. You got to do it the Aki Way with vegan. You got to put it on a while out. Yo, I'm pulling up. What are you at?

What's creed on? Yo, we're going to pull up. Oh, I need some good shit. I need the good shit. I need something blessed, bro. All right, dog, we're doing a pod, man. I'm going to hollered to you. As a Lama's chopped cheese.

Face. No, I want that, Joe. I don't want that shit. Yo, that shit looks so fucking good. As a llama. Kyan threw him like some chips or something. And then he puts it all in. It's an incredible.

Oh, my God, that shit looked good as a motherfucker, yo. Why are you still showing us this pussy-ass fight, Taylor? Yo, Taylor, we don't care about this fight, Taylor. I just started loading that. Yo, what's this outfit, yo? I need to understand this outfit. I need to know what's going on. She looked like Violet from Willie Wonka after she ate the fucking gumball.

My blue jump shoot stands for the way that I'm having. Oh, thank you. Woo, PJ Jr. Oh, thank you. Shout out Junior! Shout out Junior! How many months are you now, Taylor? Damn!

Six months and already planning to go to Kendrick concerts at eight and a half months. It's gonna be seven and why? No. No, that's great. We're not doing that. We're not doing it. We're not doing. We not doing. I'll be safe. Kendrick is not going anywhere. He will be around. Are you serious? Yes, we're serious. We've got to make sure PJ get into the world. We have to hear Kendrick.

He will. He will. He will. He will. He will hear plenty of Kendrick. Oh, Patrick. Put the freaking um, headphones to your stomach. Yeah. I need to be there, like for a... No, you don't. You're too pregnant. No. I do.

Too pregnant. Then put me in a sweet. Listen, Taylor, you're too fucking pregnant. Why can't I be in a sweet? It's a week before my birthday. No, no, you got certain responsibilities now. You're a mom. That's right.

You got to be on Sesame Street every week. You got a lot of shit with you guys. What do you all think is going to happen? I don't know, but I don't want to find out. I'm just being overprotective. You don't need to be on no plane. Yeah. You don't need to be in no Kendrick Lamar.

You need to be, it's bad enough you're going to work. When you take maternity leave. Mm-hmm. How many months do we give off women on this show? I thought, it's crazy. I'm not, it's crazy. The way she's being treated at the other spot is crazy. No way.

No, it's not, it's not. Two weeks maternity leave. That's not. Nah. Wow. Two weeks maternity. And they're counting the delivery date. Oh, my God.

No. Yes, man. Crazy. That's nuts. That's disrespectful. They're trying to get you to quit. Taylor don't know. They're trying to get you to quick.

I've been telling to this, Joe. And I had to squeeze two weeks for her. They wanted to give her a week. Did they pay? Who do y'all think she is? Does it pay maternity leave? No, of course not. So you get two weeks not paid maternity leave?

It's actually fucked up. Now, Chris, that is something you should be screaming about. Yeah. Mayor Adams, let's get on it. It's crazy. And you know what's so funny? Our boss drives a moped. That's what Steven's all fucked up.

I think we should buy Chris a moped for his birthday, bro. Chris, we need to get you a mo- No, that'd be dope, Chris. Then you can fight back. You got to fight back. The only way to fight fires with more fire. That's right. Get a mopee.

I think a mold would be a good look, Chris. Chase him down. Chase him down. What's Big Willie, Taylor? All memes necessary. Big Willie. What's Big Willie up to? Who's Big Willie?

Instagram me. You're fucking with you today, Taylor. Yeah, that's crazy, Taylor. Oh, that's Big Will. I ain't listen to Will Alib. You already a Will album? Oh, okay. I ain't heard Will Smith album yet.

He's got an album? Yeah, somebody tell me he, I saw something somebody told me he's cursing on this from what I was taught. I didn't see this. Let me hear it. Let me hear Big Living. Okay. I like this.

Yeah, y'all got me a little nervous. I know that I'll be on some other shit. I know that I'm different. I be on some y'all don't understand it. I don't mention it. Made it to the top of Hollywood without a membership. Kilt them in July. Then I switched them in July.

Then I switched to my mind. December shit I be overcoming shit that I be having trouble with let them run their mouths I mean really that's what come with this they built a wall but I'm jumping it and loving it they want me to be done with it but I'm still having fun with it writing songs writing checks writing history writing wrongs but I'm still right mentally I go to sleep and my ancestors visit me they surrounded me gave me division vividly gave me a lion to protect me in this industry now I just Walk and heat you through my enemies.

Feel like I'm just getting started. They tried to finish me. I'm like the universe infinite. There's no end in me. This is the bounce back. Watch will, y'all. This is the bounce back. Ah, la.

Here come to bounce back. Keep your eyes on him. This is the bounce back. With these mics, I feel like I'm customato. Hundred rounds of light with steel box and my shadow. Yeah, I took a knee. Never threw in a towel. Hip-Hops, Messi, Namar and Ronaldo

Gold scored on these boys Out in one damn near every single award on these boys Sold out movie theaters and even tours on these boys Feeling like a mop, wipe the floor with these boys People ask me how I do it I just bite off more than I can chew Then I chew it Yeah, y'all jokes thought I blew it

I pulled to pin out the grenade on purpose When I threw it And even though I'm an act action star sometimes I'm a act ma'ar because I'm an artist at heart

I'm not just an actor y'all this is the bounce back watch will y'all this is the bounce back like here come to bounce back keep your eyes on him

this is the bounce back Chris Hayes I can't believe you over there hating on your silly brother Chris Chris that was Fire! That was fucking fire shit! Hell, y'all.

Y'all ain't got this thing, Mr. Taylor. What are you talking about? Don't even find out. Listen, I wanted to listen. You are different, Chris. Don't act like Will wasn't spitting some bars in there, you. No, yeah, but- Come on, y'all.

Don't play with big fucking Will. Hey! That fucking Will, God damn Smith! All right. You know why that shit was so. I'm gonna do. That's what the dude said fucking Chris when he mowed him over. He's over his lifeless body.

That's why Chris didn't like it. That's what triggering. It was going to grow like, ah. I told you get out of the street. I told you no jail walking in my street. That's why you got to get a moped, Chris, and run that motherfucker over and say, this is the gig back. Oh.

This is the gig back. This is to get back. Shout out the big fucking Wicester. Shout out Willie to go. Because I had no expectation. I had no expectation. He had a couple bars in there. He did.

A couple bars in there. What? I just feel about him cussing. You know, I never even knew he didn't cuss. I did. And I always knew he didn't cuss because of the music. But I also watched, there was a great interview that Rap Radar did back in the day with BDOT and Elliot. And it was Will Smith.

And he talked about how he couldn't ever truly be himself. Yeah. Because he came up in an era where you had to present an image, you know. And his image was the squeaky clean, you know, sitcom star. So he could never curse. And he was just like, yo, you know how it feels to have to wear that mask all the time? He talked about it in his book as well. But didn't he get to himself, though?

Technically, like he made that image for himself. Exactly. Like, why, you know, we don't have. I feel bad for that. I don't think he made that image for itself. But you just said, like, he felt pressured by the industry to have that. Because it was a different, it was, it was, it was the era where everything was manicured. Yeah.

Like, literally everything. You had the publicist telling you what to say. You have stylists telling you what to wear. You had managers and agency and you have to do this. You have to do that. Like, he had to be squeaky clean, you know? Yeah, but he only had the, the only pushback I would give is like, he only had to do that in public appearances. And back in the day, you made so many less public appearances now.

There was no social media. It was like, so, okay, so you can't just do that for a few interviews when a movie comes out, and then the rest of your life do whatever the fuck you want with the millions of dollars you make? I mean, he did for years, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And I guess it wasn't like he was complaining, he was just saying like, damn. Well, you know, to your point, though, think about it. If you got to be like that in public, then you kind of got to be like that in your everyday life too, right?

Like that, meaning, meaning like, it would be too jarring if you saw Will Smith. street. You know what I'm saying? Not being Will Smith. Right? Like even when you're, even when you're, like people become the character.

Yeah, you never can really turn off. Yeah, like whenever you're out, you always got to be on. So when did the no cursing thing still? So it's like he was doing that, but that wasn't really him.

So now why doesn't he curse? He started as himself, though. Yeah. It was really, he was known when he first started as one of the third double time. Rattiebibb. Right.

Baby! Excuse me. Excuse me. See me. I'm sorry. Look, look both ways before you get on the mic. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Sir, why are you moving on the way? Oh my God. Yeah. Mr.

I'm coming. I'm coming so fast. Frum, Frum, in the Muppets. Please move on the fucking van. Please. Bebebe, be, be, be, be, be, be, move. So Chris.

Oh, no. What is up in? I think he... So you said Will Smith was the first Indian rapper. What'd you say, Chris? What happened, Chris? Sir, are you alive, sir? Sir, please.

Sir, are you alive? You sound like to air in here, please. Yeah. Oh my God. Chris is so traumatized. This is like your DJ Curry Curry and the fresh goat. What do we have? Chris, you said, Chris, Chris, he never cursed when he first started though.

I'm not going to do it. Hey, Chris on the ground grabbing his leg. Ah, ah. Ah. Ah. Oh. He didn't- Are you breathing so hard like that, sir.

Will didn't curse when he first started, man. What? He didn't curse when he first started. Yeah. I don't know when he, I don't know. You know what I think, I really do think the slap is probably the best thing never happened to Will. What? Yes.

Yeah, well, yeah, what makes you think of that? What do you make you think that? Because... It freed him. It freed him. It freed him. It freed him. It freed him.

And by the way, not even just, you know, the fresh Prince Will Smith thing. He's just been able, I think, to just showcase all his imperfections. Showcase all his flaws. Even though, you know, if you listen to a lot of his interviews, you read his book, you know that he has no problem saying he's flawed. But I think we saw in that moment, you know, his inner child, things that he's always been dealing with, especially if you read his book. If you read his book and, you know, he read about how his mom used to be a victim of domestic violence to his dad. Yeah. And he never stood up to his dad.

His brother was the one that would always stand up to his dad. So in that moment, you kind of saw like his inner child come out and he went into protection mode for his, you know, his woman, right? And so I think that ever since then we've been seeing the most. honest version of Will Smith we've ever seen. I really do. And I respect people for how I watch them react to life when life isn't going necessarily the way they wanted to.

And I didn't see him fall to crack under depression. He's been doing, he had to do a lot. Like, you know, they did Bad Boys 4. He's been doing a lot of interviews. He's just been front and center. The whole time. The whole time, with all his flaws. I would love to hear, I don't know,

I would love to hear, I would love to hear from Chris, though. I agree. Chris, what do you think? Is it a Philadelphia? Not that, Chris. Oh. Chris Rock.

Oh. Oh. Chris. Go to when will he learn, Taylor? When will he learn? All means necessary. What is Ven? Ven.

You've got to get Chris on camera. John Morant makes gun gesture during NBC. So he can't make it any more gun gestures? I don't even know if that was a gun gesture. How's that a gun justice? Extendo. That's an extendo? That wouldn't be an extendo.

What if you're talking about seatbelts? Oh, that's. Yeah. What if it's the extendo seatbelt? A.K. Something like that was. Yeah. It's just a little habit.

Like, he can't fucking re-overreact to everything he does, bro. That's a gun gesture. Well, whatever. Even if it was a gun gesture. No, do your gun shit, bro. Like, did he go to jail? Did he get punt? Is he holding a real gun?

And then like if the brands want to decide that they don't want to align to them, align with them, then that is fine too. They can make that decision. But we're not going to do this thing where like every time the kid celebrates with the gun gesture. It's like what a million people fucking do that he's not allowed to do it. And when the brands pull away, he might go, okay, maybe I got to chill out with the gun gesture. But right now the brands ain't going anywhere where he's one of the faces of the NBA. Like, I get over it.

Who cares? Even if the brands are going somewhere. Like you don't have to overreact because here the thing. If gun gestures are wrong, then it should be wrong regardless of who's doing them. Yep. So if somebody else does that, right, are they going to make a big deal out of it? I don't give a fuck. To play devil's advocate, he's doing it pointing at another play.

You should be like, pointing at the whole Warriors bench. But that's what I'm saying. Like normally, like, oh, you shoot a three and then you're just like, something like that, like celebration. It's triggering to some people. But there are other, like. You shouldn't use that language. You shouldn't say triggering for a situation like this. you shouldn't say shoot for a time like this.

The NBA needs to change it all. No more shooting. Don't say shooting. Don't say you're shooting the lights out. None of that. Ooh. If that's going to be an issue. What if they did that?

What if they're like that? That means you're holding off a dear life. What if they did that? Holding on to them handlebars. What if they did that? Holding on to them handlebars with their fucking. What if they revved that handlebar? What's going to happen?

That happens right. The funny part of that story. Chris thought he was going to die. Chris was talking. Chris said, I thought the moped was going to push me in the street. Like, God damn, Chris. It's a moped.

So, like, where you, like, go, go, facing it? Chris, where you're,

like, facing it and like, like, like, face the face with the guy. Straight ahead. Yeah. Something hits me coming from my right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's going fast, about 25, 30 miles an hour, which is not insignificant. I don't know what hit me. I don't know if it's a car. I don't know if it's a car. I'm just trying not to hit the street, so I'm holding on.

So you're like hanging on from the side as it's still moving? No, I mean, I grabbed the two handlebars and then he braked and we kind of like skid it out. You thought you was going to die? No, I didn't, I didn't know what was going to happen. Man. I don't know. I'm bad in Dallas. Sorry, you're down on you.

Like, what the fuck is up with our guy, man? Somebody, you know what I'm saying? Like, they up there. Jazz is like, yo, Chris, I can like Chris about to join us. What the fuck? Careful. What do you mean? You guys are walking these same streets.

Careful. It's not. Put some bad energy out there. Careful. Chris, that's a foot. Chris. You didn't look both ways. Careful.

And you were jaywalking. Chris. Stop calling in the ball pad. Stop. Instead of the gun jester, when you ride by Chris, just go. That's gonna be part of the merch. We need Mopin. That's gonna be part of them right.

What? One of those Yeah, these cartoon people. You can make a little cartoon. But you've had the guy from the Simpsons that work at the fucking Quikymark. Oh, uh, Apu. Apu hits you, bro.

I don't want no bad energy out there, Chris. Yeah, I take that away. I was fucked up. That was fucked up. Yo, I think he'd do it. Chris calling Uberis right now. Yo. The pod over.

It's going to be ten. over East Bice coming down the street for no reason. What's the dehydration speech? It is really hot in this motherfucker. Yeah, it is a little hot, man. What's the dehydration speech, uh, tale again? Uh, that guy, Corey Booker. Oh, big Corey, man.

Let's listen to what Corey did. Corey broke the record for the longest filibuster ever. Yeah, what is that? He wasn't a filibuster. It wasn't a filibuster. No, like he wasn't trying to stop any legislation. He just did this in protest. No, it had to be a filibuster.

That's the only way you can. It's technically not a filibuster. Really? But what is he, what do he do it for? He's protesting Trump and Elon Musk. But it was the longest. How is it a protest? He was talking about what he isn't in favor of.

I'm going to be honest with you. I have no problem with it. You know what I'm saying? I don't, I don't. Yeah. What is the point of it? Can someone explain like how it is a protest? I think to raise awareness, but I'll tell you something, man, the Democrats have had so much

inaction, it don't bother me that he tried something. You know what I'm saying? He did something. He tried some. Sure, but like, just because I don't know. I'm admitting ignorance here. I don't know. What does this do?

Like, I understand the point of a filibuster, right? That's like delay the vote to the point where like, then you can't vote or something. Yeah, but this was, I don't know why I thought this was a filibus. So if this isn't running out the clock, what is it doing? It's a form of protest to bring light on an issue that he feels is so important. So he does this record breaking. speech. So now everybody saw it. He just showed some fight. Yeah.

It just... Like literally that's what it is. They showed some fight. It's performative. Yes, very performative. He spoke for how long? 25 hours. Straight. No piss break. No nothing. Like no sips of water, no, no snacks, no nothing. I mean, that's impressive. It is. It is. It is. I don't, you know, I don't know why it's impressive, but it is.

No, I should have impressed. No, no, it is. I'm not, I'm not acting like it's not. You know, I just, yeah, I have. I had the same question last night. I'm like, okay, so what, what exactly is this for? Yeah, I don't get it. Some of the messages I got from some of D.C. Delete. I say, yo, what was the benefit of Corey?

And I actually said filibuster because I thought it was a filibuster. I was like, what was the benefit of Cory Booker's filibuster? I respect him doing something. I just want to know what did it do. That's what I got. That's what I said. And my reason, I got two replies back. Nothing.

I ignored. that shit. Tomorrow, this thing is going to throw them tariffs out. Liberation Day is what I am on. And another person. What's Liberation Day? I think that's what they're calling the day. Well, that's what they called it. Yeah. I hope you, Chris, can you break that down? I haven't seen Trump speech yet, though. Has he done the speech yet? About that? I think so. He did it the same time that the, um, what's called? And another post I got, another one I got was first day Democrats won the first day Democrats won in a long time. They showed some fight and won some won some elections, but that's it.

I just don't understand what it did. I think he's showing some fight. I'm not even trying to be like right wing on this. I genuinely, I'm like, I don't understand. Like the filibuster when you do this, I understand what it accomplishes is he runs out the clock so you can't do a vote. So you're putting a stop to a vote. I don't know what this is.

It's simply so we talk about it. Yeah. So when you protest down the street, what is it doing? It doesn't get anything done. It just makes awareness to whatever issue that you're protesting. That was a form of protest. That's what he did. Got it.

Got it. So like you spend 25 hours repeatedly saying what your issues are. What was the issue? What's going on in the administration? Because all I've heard about is the time. Like, what was his issue? But see, that's why I thought it was a filibuster because he was, this was, he was talking about a bill that he didn't want them to pass.

Yeah, buddy. A lot of it. Oh, the bill they just voted for that Chuck Schumer fucking conceded on. Yeah. So that one, a lot of the Doge stuff. I have no problem with it. He showed some fucking fight. This is what I was talking about on the Daily Show this week.

He showed some fight. I don't have an issue with it. You know what I'm saying? I don't have an issue with Bernie Sanders and AOC holding rallies when it's not election season. That's what they should be doing. You know who did that very well? Donald J. fucking Trump.

When Donald J wasn't president, he was holding a fucking rally all the goddamn time. I think it's brilliant with Bernie and AOC. I have no problem with what they're doing. I really don't. Because the live experience shows undeniable support. Numbers don't lie. Yeah. People lie.

statistics lie, videos lie. And you're building a ground game. But when you see that many people show up, it's direct messaging. Hey, people support this ideology. Democratic Party, get on board. Democrats need a new Tea Party. Democrats need their own version of the Tea Party. That's what the fuck Democrats need.

Because the Democratic brand is garbage. Like, and it kind of reminds me of, you know, when the Republican brand was toxic back in the day, what did Republicans do? They created the motherfucking tea party. So Democrats need to do the same thing. They need their own version of that. That's it.

You know, the Tea Party was a little bit too extreme because isn't that why they fractured? But it was a tea party. Then what did it turn into, Chris? It turned into a couple different variations. I mean, it's MAGA now, but it was a Tea Party, then what? I don't know.

I feel like we're moving towards a parliamentary system. I feel like that's going to be the end result of all this. Oh. So, do you mean? A bunch of different parties? Yeah, it's just the thing. the Democrats versus Republicans straight up, every election just doesn't feel

like anybody won? Yeah. I think you'll see Maga break off to be its own party. AOC and Bernie break off for their far left. You have a centrist Democrat. You have a centrist Republican Party. You know, you have an environmental party. I agree with that, but the way the system

is currently set up, you still got to run as a Democrat or Republican. That's not going to change. I mean, you can run for other parties. There are other parties out there. And never stand a chance. But I'm saying, I think people are ready for... Eventually that's going to... Yeah, I think it was always too far past what people could handle,

but I think everyone on both sides is kind of fed up at this point where they... But the problem with having more parties... In theory, nothing happens. Well, no, no, no. I think the problem is that more people are upset. So instead of the country being divided 50-50, now it's about 25, 25, 25, 25, if it is even. And now the party that wins, let's say, gets like 30% or whatever.

Now 70% of people are pissed instead of... Do we need a party, though? Do we need more parties? Do we just need better ideas? I want to get behind the ideas. Talk that shit. I want to get behind ideas. Talk that shit.

I want to get behind the ideology. I want to get behind people. But that's what you get with parties. You get more specific ideologies, right? Yeah. Right now, the parties are kind of like a cable channel. It's like everybody watches. So we need to make shows that everybody can consume.

Whereas if you have a bunch of different parties, it starts to become a little bit more like magazines where it's like, all right, this is a specific thing for you. But if I like what this new party is doing, I don't want to be labeled part of that party. Like if there's a group, you know, whether it's AOC and Bernie, whoever, and they go out there and they start saying a lot of things, which I already do agree with a lot of things that they're saying. Just because I agree with the things they're saying, I don't want to be labeled a part of that group. You know what I'm saying? Too bad. You don't have to be labeled part of the group.

But I think what's in theory good about it is you might see a day where MAGA and Bernie and AOC's party actually agree in the thing. and then they cut a deal to get momentum on a certain law or something. It forces everybody to be in constant compromise, and that's what we don't have now. I like that. I think the party shit is fucking everybody up because if I agree with something that's going on overhead and I get labeled this.

If I agree with something that's going on over here, I get labeled that. If I push back on something that's going on over here, then they say you're the opposition. Like, no, I don't want that. I just like ideas. That's it. You, you're, y'all two are the leading political voices in this space,

Thank you. Most, for noticing that. Most other people, you know, we're normal people where it's like we can pick a side and know. You know what normal people should do? What? Shut the fuck up and listen to us. That all. Let the experts start.

I mean, that's what we're doing right now? Let's the expert stop. Very simple. But I really like what Chris said because it's like now it actually forces the party to cater to what people actually want. Because like right now you have no, you only have two choices. And there's a lot of stuff that I don't like from both parties, but now it's like picking the lesser of two evil. But imagine if you had to- I'm tired of doing that shit.

Well, I'm tired of, we got to change that. I've been telling Democrats change that fucking language of the lesser of two evils because nobody wants to vote for evil. Like literally, if you gave me in real life a choice to vote between two things that's evil, I'm staying the fuck home.

Yeah, but you get what I mean. It's just like there's stuff that you dislike about the Dems and stuff you dislike about Republicans, but imagine if you had multiple parties, then it's like, oh, shit, you know what, this party has all stuff I like. So now you can vote and confidently be like, oh, I like everything what they're doing.

That'll never be, though. There'll never be a party that you agree with 100%. Even when Obama was there, you didn't agree with 100% of the things that Obama was right. The question is how much does it splinter? And the argument against the parliamentary system is that it's much more chaotic because even when you elect a president or whatever, prime minister generally would be in a parliamentary system. Like, if different groups align during that time, they can vote somebody out.

The theory is there's too much of governments going in and out quickly. But we have chaos right now with Trump and everything changing every day. So I don't think we really lose anything on that front. Yeah. The Democrats, he spoke for 24 hours. 25. 25. Damn, I had a training thought that I wanted to say about the Democrats.

Oh, the Dems need somebody that just throws all this old shit under the bus. There's a part when Corey was filibustering, when Chuck Schumer, I don't know if you can find it to tell him, we can add it later, when Chuck Schumer was trying to tell him that he broke the record. And Chuck goes, I want to ask you a question, and Corey goes, this is the only time Senator Schumer that I can ever tell you no. And I didn't respect that. Because somebody needs to tell Chuck no. That's the problem. So when I saw that, I see people saying the day, like, I think I saw Jamie Harrison, say, you know, Corey became the new leader of the party.

Like, no, he didn't. Until you're able to tell people like Chuck Schumer, no, you can never be a leader. That's just my, that's just my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, you think that he was just saying. Yeah, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to say that all you got to, all you got to, why you are, you, you're the one time I would, I would ever tell you know, you don't got to why you are you up, you're the one standing up there for 25. hours, you doing something that nobody in that party has taken the gumption to do? Everybody else just stayed in the room while he was doing it? I'm so confused. Yeah, I don't understand.

That's what I... The Republicans stayed in the room? Oh, here you go. Yeah, played this part. Played his part. Would the senator yield for a question? Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no. I just want to tell you a question.

Do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud this. Gaucus is of you. Do you know how proud America is of you? Well, don't speak too soon, Chuck, because we don't even know what this is. You can't say America's proud of it. We don't know what it is yet. It's impressive, though, for a man to stand up. Why is it impressive? Because he stood up there for 25 hours and spoke with no water, no pee breaks, no nothing. Muslims been doing that for 30 days. Yeah, but not standing up in one spot.

You don't know. And talking the whole time. And talking the whole motherfucking time. We look at David Blaine, dude, I shouldn't. He's just standing still, not doing nothing. That's not the Cory Book. I just didn't like the, I just did my only part. It's my only little small critique. Yes, I want y'all to be able to tell Chuck Schumer, though. But other than that, hey, man, he did something.

He did a-what. A round of applause with some action. Guy, y'all are desperate. So what? This is something. This is something. No, fuck. That's what, okay?

You can't spell desperate without a deed. All right? Okay. Okay. All right. By the way, I'm not desperate. I don't give a fuck. I'm not, you know, for either one of these parties, but all I'm simply saying is it is good to see him show some fight.

It is good to see him act like these are not normal times that we're in. That's, that's it. All right. You saw your boy, Trump today saying Elon going to be out in a minute. What do he say? That's what he said. No, Elon said fake news. Who said that?

Elon. Elon going to be reminded who fucking president is in a minute, okay? Do you think that he said it like on some? Well, he only got, he's only a, he's only a party. Was he's part of the special task? Was it a special task? It was it only 100 days anyway, but Trump said today that he's, well, I don't know if he's, he didn't say what a report came out

that he's told his in a circle that Elon's days are numbered. Like, he's got to step down from his position. I mean, they did say it was going to be limited to. Yeah, and you look at it, you know, it's just stocks and Tesla are crumbling. Do you think that it had something to do with the Wisconsin Supreme Court judge voting or whatever the fuck that was? Probably. Special election, yeah.

Special election. I'm so detached from what's going on. Musk spent $20 million on that campaign. I heard 30. 30. Well, he spent 20 directly with the candidate and he might have spent more with the Republican Party. Why was it so crucial for the Republican Party?

It's important because it's the first special election in any capacity since the election. So it's seen as a referendum on Trump. Trump and Musk, especially since Musk basically tried to buy the election. And then secondly, the Supreme Court, I guess, in Wisconsin is, you know, very important in terms of some of the voting issues there. And Trump's pride to have some votes thrown out in the past. So it was, you know, it's a referendum on Trump and must. So it's significant that the Democrat won, though there were also special elections in Florida. In that case, the Republicans won.

Yeah, Rachel Bade, that Rachel, that's what it says, Rachel Bade said, she said she had a scoop. President Trump has told his in the start. and members of his cabinet that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role. The press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said this scoop is garbage.

Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at Dowage is complete. Elon Musk says, yeah, fake news. So, yeah, they're in control of their narrative.

Elon will be stepping down. You know what I'm saying? They just don't want to make it seem like he's probably not getting pushed out. His days is probably up. He did the 100 days. He's probably out. And they probably like, you know what, Elon, your shit is all fucked up right now.

Your shit is in samples. Go off to the side and be in the shadows. And that's my whole thing. If you already are Elon Musk, there's no reason for you to be front and center with any of this. You could be still spending your money and still being puppet master behind the scenes. When you buy something, you want to play with it. You don't want to buy it. When you purchase something, a new car, you don't want to drive it.

Yeah, but when you buy a White House. You buy a vibrator, you don't motherfucking use it in the middle of the street in front of everybody. Elon's different. You buy pocket pussy, you don't motherfucking jack off in a room full of people, Chris. The guy made a big purchase, man. Let him have fun. Yeah, but he's not the first, you know, rich person who's made a big purchase in politics. Oh, there's nothing on this size.

This is a very special purchase. George Soros has been spending a lot of money for the long. Not like this. Come on. Maybe not in one pop. But George Soros has spent a lot of money over the year. I got a new watch. Let him wear his watch.

Don't know his ditty of this shit. He decided to be Frank Lucas. He put on the fur coat in the fur hat and he sat front row at the fight. And now this shit is coming back to bite him in the house. That's interesting. Go back into the shadows. You don't got to be front and center with this shit.

You don't got to be ditty all up in the videos. That's interesting. He really don't. Yeah. Why? This is this ego. He does not have to be front and center. That's a great point.

Like you're trying to tell me that there's not a rich person that has donated the camera. I don't know what George Soros looks like. It actually doesn't benefit it at all. None. Because it benefits his businesses because these are publicly traded businesses. So people, if they like him, if he's a celebrity CEO, they'll invest in that stock. You're not investing in the stock of the United States of America because you like him.

Yes, you could buy treasuries or whatever the fuck. But it's not something that can go up in value in that way. So it doesn't behoove the government to have you as a celebrity CEO. Just fix the things you think you need to fix and then do it without even mentioning it. And then more people will probably be okay with it. You've become so polarizing that it's probably limiting your ability to be successful in Tesla's stock is down, Tesla sales are down so much so that they had to put a Tesla in front of the White House that Donald Trump had to say he shouldn't be going through all of this. Like, it's silly.

You're a businessman. And you're getting all these checks from the fucking government. Nobody has to see you front and center, Elon. You don't have to be on Twitter, you know, chastising people, aggravating motherfucker. You don't have to do any of that. So all of this stuff that's impacting its business right now, he's caused that on himself by being ego Musk. Simple as that Let's pay some bills

Taylor gang Has the Kyle Walker Church announcements Yo, just life man And there's a bunch of podcasts I've done So if you want to I'll check something out

Over the weekend And do you just go check them out Yeah About you bro The third annual Black Effect podcast festival Is happening Saturday April 26

In Atlanta, Georgia Pullman Yards Man I really do love This time of year Because when you curate a space, you know, where people come out and they're there just to celebrate, you know, this, this beautiful industry that we've all been a part of building called the podcast industry. It is an amazing thing.

We have some fantastic podcasts that are going to be on that stage. The Trap Nerds podcast is going to be on that stage for all the gamers. You know, usually with the last couple of years, they've just had like a station set up where they were playing games with folks, but this year they're going to be on that stage to talk about the gaming industry. Good moms, bad choices is going to be there. If you love the Good Mom's Bad Choices podcast, if you are a mom who still wants to have a life too,

then you know what the Good Mom's Bad Choices podcast brings to the table. They're going to be on that stage. Carrie Champion is going to be there doing her naked podcast live. Tank and Jay Valentine are going to be there doing their R&B Money podcast live. And the good sister Sarah Jake Roberts will be there doing her Woman Evolve podcast live. And it's all hosted by Mandy and Weezy from Decisions, Decisions. I'm going to tell you something. Whenever I try to say decisions, decisions,

fast nowadays. It fucks me up, right? Like, my list really don't like the new title, but the new title has been working for them very well. And go pre-order decisions decisions book No Holds, Bard. It'll be out this summer through Black Privilege Publishing, Simon, and Shoots to go get their book. God bless those girls, man. Make sure you go get your tickets to the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. BlackEffect.com slash podcast festival to get your tickets, okay? See you on April 26. What else we got? Tyler. Did y'all want to come more into?

Positively brilliant. What a fucking idiot. Shout out the, oh, I was just about to shout out somebody. Shout out the, what's her name? Oh, um. Well, I can't pronounce her names. Orlette. Yeah, Arlette Amuli.

Bolia Matun da. Bolea Matun de. Shout out to them. Pop the balloon. Y'all know Pop the Balloon. The dating series that goes viral all the time. It will be adapted into a live Netflix version called Pop the Balloon Live, airing every Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern starting April 10th. I love stuff like this. I love stuff like this because they took a concept and, you know, they created that concept on YouTube.

You know, they promoted it and marketed via social media. It blew up on YouTube after, you know, 50 episodes and got over 100 million views. Now they got a big ass check from Netflix. That's how the fuck you do it. That's how you do it. Now, listen, there's nothing wrong with YouTube. If you want to be on YouTube, you know, for the rest of your life, you can make a great living doing that. Cool.

But what you should do is look at the people like the Mr. Beast of the World, like the Jake Pauls and the Logan Pauls of the world, like the Arlette amules of the world, like you're going to see Kai Sinat and Druski do in the future. Look at those individuals and watch how they've used YouTube to take things to another level. Issa Ray. Oh, Yso, yeah, nobody ever talks about Issa Ray, yo.

This is true. No, not in, no, not in the- Somebody who created on YouTube. Yes. And then from there took that opportunity. Yes. People don't have that conversation. People think that Issa just was out here pitching the show.

They forget all about the awkward black girl series on YouTube. They're not real fans then. You might be right. Well, most people aren't. Most people are casuals. Well, to the casuals out there who don't know. Issa Ray is another one. She started awkward black girl on YouTube,

and it took her eight. years to finally get insecure on HBO, and you see what that, you know, has done for her. So shout out the, shout out to Arlette. Are they going to bring back insecure? No. No. What not? I mean, he said she only wanted to do five seasons.

Yeah, I think it's been super successful, you know, to have an HBO show, to have five seasons of that. Unbelievable. To be able to have a beginning, a middle and an end. I'm assuming that it has to do with her time and availability. I bet HBO would take that show in a fucking heartbeat Plus it's just When did they stop

That's only been a couple years right Yeah Give it some time Let it breathe Also I think she doesn't want it to be One of those shows that Go on too long Yeah

It's like Rather go out on a high Then she did the right thing I love it I think No it's smart She's real smart Or it's been off

And everybody from the every This is the beauty Of a show like insecure Everybody from that show is prospering Yep Natasha Alfred is prospering. Yvonne Orgy is prospering. Yvonne's gonna be doing the hosting.

She's hosting this YouTube show. What's my man that played Lawrence? I can't remember his name. Why? His name should I be stupid. God damn. Sorry, that's my guy, too, man. Hold on, man.

Corona's this is popping. Well, not all of them. Who? That life skin guy is. Oh, playing, Lauren. That's secure. Yeah. Jay Ellis.

God, I'm sorry, Jay Ellis. How the fuck? It was right there. I'm head. Fuck, I forget J.L.'s name. But yes, yeah, majority of the people from Insecure are popping, you know. And that's all you want. You want to build something that everybody can fucking prosper from, right?

Amen. Shout out to Issa. Now he's out of them days. It's all Netflix now that shit that made $50 million in the box office after a $14 million budget. Did he watch it? What, one of them days? Yeah, I watch one of them days. He got a restaurant.

He got a restaurant? Yeah, she has a loud of a restaurant. She owns part of the fucking San Diego, football team, like, well, soccer, football. Like, shout out to Easter, man. He's a killer. Playboy Cardi has the biggest screaming week since Taylor Swift, positively brilliant.

I'm so washed, bro. And not like me. I bet you ain't watched it to me. I bet you when it comes to Playboy Carter, you ain't washed it to me. I guarantee you're watching me. I guarantee you. I don't know what State is from. Huh?

I don't know what State is from. I don't know. I know Playboy Cardi got to get his hell. You're pregnant. The only thing I know about Playboy Cardi is that he got a Maggie Azale are pregnant and she's not too happy about it. One of my youngest told me, I'm watching the pot. When we first talked about Playboy Cardi on the pot, shout out.

He did get her pregnant. It was her. It was him? Yeah. Yeah. See, you don't even know. She's quite vocal about it. Saluta.

I thought it was the other guy, though. What other guy? No, you're wrong. Are you sure? Hey, man, what do you mean? Taylor? Taylor. You have, what do you mean?

You have, you have proven yourself. Oh, to Dr. Humah's directory. Dr. Lumau has a directory of all black men who have gotten white women pregnant. Go to it. You'll see Playboy Carlin. Oh, you're right? Oh, you're right? What you mean?

We know we were right when we first let it come out of our mouths, Taylor. I don't know. I don't know. God damn. Are you saying all black people look alike? No, I'm saying all this crazy. That line. I'm saying this new generation of rappers, yes.

They kind of all look alike a little bit. I think that's why I get in trouble because I'm around you guys so much. And I just say what y'all say, thinking it's okay. Really your fault. One of my young boys' arts that I'm watching the pod, Playboy Car, Cardi is a rock star to my generation. You and Andrew were spot on. He's cryptic, mysterious, and he fully embraces the rock star persona.

And has created a whole new wave of underground artists that people love like Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, and Yeat. They all focus more on vibes and energy than lyrics. I actually know a Cardi song I think you fuck with. Shout out to Art. He's a good dude. Shout out Art. Shout out Art.

He was doing it three times. Who was? Kendrick Lamar. Yeah, he was. He actually was. What else we got, Taylor? What about that Drake video? Y'all seen a Drake video?

Yeah, I've seen him out there biting Kendrick. I've seen him out there mimicking Kendrick. I don't know why he thinks that's a diss. Or did the Internet think it's a disc? I mean, clearly he was trying to mock Kendrick Lamar's squabble-love video Not Like Us and his Super Bowl performance. It's obvious. Oh, really?

He thinks, I don't feel like I've seen it like that. It was obvious. The only thing is the game thing that he did, but I don't... First of all, Drake has never been surrounded about that many black women in his life. Oh, stop. Wait, really? He's never been surrounded.

He's the Houston Strip Pucks. Yeah. That's the holy time. Yeah, I mean. I'm surrounded by black women. I don't know. It just seemed like he was, and everybody was like,

oh, he was, I saw when I first watched it, I was like, then this shit seemed very similar the Kendrick Super Bowl performance. You think Drake only claps white? No, no, no, no, he's equal opportunity,

would it? He's equal opportunity. What was the point of shooting in an eye max but then putting it on YouTube? I have no clue what's going on. I haven't watched a video. I just saw Grandi post about it. Who'd have...

You just don't look like, can you? What? Did you see the video? Brandy, Grand Wizard. Oh. Okay. Right. I got PTSD, man.

Okay? Shit, post-traumatic dick syndrome. You... Yeah. Yeah. What? What? It's just too much.

Like, you can't think everything, is it? What? What part? You're talking about this part? No, not that part. Oh, when they're doing the other dance. Yeah, you'll see it. It's after when he starts going, baby girl.

Baby girl. Baby girl. This isn't really that much Kendrick. We're talking about this part. Baby girl. Baby girl. You're going to see it, baby girl. This song is fine.

Yeah. Like this song? Yeah, he got some slap. He does know how to make trendy. It's number one. It's number one this week, too. So what is Nokia? Give me a hug.

How did you say that is a bad thing? No. He just knows. He just knows that it makes trendy song. Because I didn't mean that the song's like, good. You don't like give me a hug? Not. Is that the same one?

Both of these was good. I like, there's a song I like on the Drake album, but wasn't any. What happened to the plot against Drake? The plot that y'all said existed that never fucking existed. This record is back. This record is number one. Radio was playing it. It's all over the playlist.

I thought that he was motherfucking, you know, getting blackballed and all this other shit. That's what exposed in the lawsuit with BOTADIS is the UMG is going to, through discovery, give information that's worth suit. No, they're not. UMG is going, UMG is doing for Drake what they do for any of their artists who got heat. Which is- Putting the building behind him. Why wouldn't you do that?

Why wouldn't, at this point, you want to make Nokia the biggest fucking song in the kind of? Well, that's now what BOTD is saying. So I don't know what to tell you. That's shy. You know what I'm saying? Wait, you're about to see it. Wait. Wait, wait, hold on.

No, this is a legit hit. Like, I'm telling you this comes on in a, like, at a bar club. Alex, why are you telling me, like, I don't know this? No, but you're saying that they put the machine behind it, and I'm saying, I think this is just a legit. He said, even without both of these, it's going to be fun. Even when it's a legit hit, just like not like us was, and it takes off in the world and in culture,

they come and put the machine behind it to make it even bigger. You want to maximize these big songs. Like, shit, he might bring the fucking Nokia phone back. That shit right there. Like, who knows? I like that. There's a part of this video. God!

What? What? Now, that was crazy. It wasn't. Go back to that. Now, that was crazy. Y'all, you just haven't seen no tities for you. Y'all like plastic, bro.

What's not? Real, those are real. That's real tip. That shit is so, they make those on the assembly line. No, that's real tip. There's about a million girls that look just like her. That's real tip. That's real tip.

And there's a Kim Kardashian silhouette. in a factory somewhere. All these girls go there and say, give me that. That's way more tit than Kim Kardashian. That's real tit. That girl got real tit. All right, I'm sticking on.

Right here. Come on now. Come on now. Come on now. That ain't dotted the Super Bowl? No, you know. Cut it the fuck out. Cut it out.

Cut it out. Nah, that's a reach. That's not squabble. That's not dot and squabble up. Reach. That kind of movement. I give it. Oh, come on, y'all.

I get what I'm saying. Come on. That's not dot? the patty cake and all that when come on reach I reach it bro whatever whatever listen

he can't get dot the owls the owl's not caged in the video his that's his logo like that's the owl's not caged remember they were caged in the kendrick video

listen man he can't get he can't get dot off his mind you know what no here is backwards who I knock no you know what

I can't knock no You know what Aknakno is? You know what Aknakno is? She's hosted the Ocknachno is. You know what Aknockno is? You don't even know what Aknock no is means? What's Aknock? No means Kendrick in Canadian.

That's true. Y'all don't even be, I thought of y'all. I don't even like talking to y'all because y'all don't even be knowing. It's fucking true. No, no. He's saying the truth, man. He can't speak English, though. He can't get Kendrick off his fucking mind.

Can't, man. Shout out to Dr. I'm glad that you got a hit. Drake, I hope that this gives you your confidence back. Shout out Drake. I really do. Shout out Drizzy, man. It's not over, okay?

Yeah. It's not over, baby girl. There's a coupler. There's a couple of like that shit. Baby girl. That's how I'm saying it's trendy. He made a lot of trendy songs. It's nothing wrong being trendy.

I'm not saying nothing wrong with it, but when I first heard it besides all this other stuff, I didn't like it. I didn't like the beat, nothing. What are your thoughts on a couple of? I didn't. Huh? What are your thoughts on Pupola? That's one of the songs on there.

No, that's a couple of balls. No, you can't do that. You can't do that. I didn't fall. I'm not. I can't do it to a pregnant woman. You can't do it. It's not how it's work. Nope.

That's a pregnant woman, bro. That's not how that works. I had to redirect it. Nope. I had to redirect it. I had to go to you. I had to go to you. That's a pregnant woman, bro.

You know what? Kappala means in Canadian? Oh. Baby girl. Baby girl. Baby girl. What else we got, Taylor? This was crazy.

Man arrested for leaving kids at McDonald's while at a job interviewer. George Mann is behind bars after police say he left his three children unattended while he interviewed for a position with McDonald's. Chris Lewis, 24 of Augusta, was arrested on March 22nd and charged with deprivation of a minor. The incident occurred to McDonald's on Washington Roll with a restaurant's indoor playground caught the attention of a concern customer. The customer noticed the children ages 1, 6, and 10 were alone and alerted authorities. A deputy responded to the scene and confirmed the children were unsupervised. A witness stated that Lewis had been at the restaurant with the children around 4.30 p.m. but later saw him leave and return multiple times. Lewis was detained by officers when he returned to the McDonald's at 6.18

p.m. He explained that he had walked to the restaurant with his children from their apartment and did not want to make them walk back while he attended his interview. According to Lewis, he didn't on a vehicle, the children's mother arrived shortly after and took custody at him. Lewis was arrested and taken into custody. I didn't know it was at McDonald's, the interview. The interview was not at McDonald's? That's what is this saying? I mean, leave it.

No, that's wrong. So, interview for a position with McDonald's. Whoever said that is totally wrong. How do you leave, Taylor, use some context clues here. How do you leave your children at McDonald's and interview at McDonald's at the same time? Well, the interview is not in the ball pit. Yeah. No, it wasn't at McDonald's.

It would have made more sense if it was at McDonald's. and what interview at McDonald's last two hours? What are we doing here? That's a good ass point. Hey, come on, man. What do you think of this, man? I think it's, you just can't leave a one-year-old definitely. No.

Or a six-year-old. No, you shouldn't leave any kids. But, like, six and ten I could make an... No. But one is too young. One is six. What's the age where you can leave kids? 13 is the legal age that you can leave a child.

What's the age that? Well, here's the thing. I think a lot of people are comparing this situation to when we grew up. Like, I was a kid that was getting off the bus in elementary school. And, you know, I would get off the bus at the dirt road, walk to my grandmother's house, you know, get the keys from under the mat and going to house. Right. I was also getting molested at each year's old. Right. Okay. So my point is, even in those situations that you think is a safe space, things like that can happen. Things like that can definitely happen when you leave a 10-year-old, a 6-year-old. and a one-year-old at McDonald's by himself.

No, you're right. I understand the situation that he might have been in financially, but I just don't feel like you should jeopardize your child safety in the pursuit of employment. Because the reality is there is no job you're going to get that if you come back to that McDonald's and them kids aren't there, it's worth it. If you come back to that McDonald's and there's ambulances all around because your kid then suffocated in the pit of balls at the playpen, it ain't worth it. Because it's not worth it.

I just don't feel like your money, job, nothing should come before the security of your kids. But what if you have to feed these kids and without this money, you can't feed the kids? Take your kids with you to the job? I think that shows ambition if you take your kids with you to the job. Oh, really?

I think it shows responsibility and said, listen, I, one, it shows you want to work. Like, I got kids to feed, so I got to work. There's some job that I thought that's gonna turn that down. They're like, oh, he might be too. Honestly, two things could happen, right? The job might be like, damn, he might feel sympathy for you. Yeah.

And be like, damn, yo, this dude, you know, needs a job. He had to bring his kids. He couldn't afford a babysitter or whatever, whatever. They give him the job, you know. I don't know, man, you know. Or they could have been like, damn, how are we going to hire him? He can't even. Exactly.

Right. Could be that too. That's the other point. Like, you know, like, damn. So if you can't get babysitting for your kids, how are you going to work here? It's a liability. I just know you don't leave your kids unattended at a goddamn fast food restaurant. Yeah.

Not judging the brother. Didn't you go to school, like, by yourself? What age did you start going to school by yourself? I think we could go out to lunch by ourselves in, uh, I think definitely middle school, definitely middle school, but maybe even like sixth grade. Isn't that? 11? Well?

Yeah. Like, I don't think 10 is one. Now, one is crazy. No, no, no, no. I'm not saying for this. I'm just saying, like. schools let kids go out by themselves. Yeah, he's, that's early in the 13.

Yeah, I got a nine-year-old. My oldest is 16, and I got a nine-year-old, a six-year-old, and a three-year-old. I don't like leaving the nine-year-old, six-year-old, and a three-year-old in the family room and running upstairs. Yeah, yeah. You understand what I'm saying? Like, so I'm definitely not, the way my parental paranoia set up, and I talk about this in my second book, Shook One Anxiety, Playing Tricks on Me. Parental Paranoia is just that natural anxiety you have as a parent.

Just your kids living, your daughter turned 60. You don't have anxiety every day thinking about your daughter out in the world, Chris? Every day. Every hour. Every hour. So I just couldn't even imagine leaving my kids somewhere unattended. Like I just, you know, God bless that brother. And, you know, people were calling the radio station saying,

Shalomene, you forgot where you come from. Trust me, I grew up in a single wide trail in Monk's Corner, South Carolina. Where I come from, my parents were not leaving me unattended. no goddamn McDonald's. I don't even understand what y'all mean when y'all said, I forgot where I came from. There was no circumstance

where my parents were leaving me unattended at a fast food restaurant. Where was the mom? The mom came to pick them up. Exactly. But this is after the police were called. I don't know, I don't know, man.

I don't know. I feel like there's more to this story or maybe it's not. And if there's not more to this story, it is a sad, sad case. It's very sad. People have to make choices and decisions like that.

That's very sad. But if it's the one thing I can tell any of y'all, please don't ever let the pursuit of employment come before the safety of your kids. I always say a man's job is to protect and provide. There's a reason protection comes before provision. You know what I mean? That's all I'm saying.

I think you're right. To salute to that, brother. If this situation is what they say it is, It's a very sad situation, but man, let's not make choices like this, people. Please. Let's pay some bills, Taylor, and then come back and do some asking idiots, man. Do we? All right, let's do some asking idiots, Taylor, gang.

Taylor, Taylor, gang. Tricia Singer says, what's the most annoying thing about Andrew? I know. Why are you asking the question then? And the most annoying thing about Sharla. Ooh, that's a good one. Go. Maybe we should let the room answer.

What's the most annoying thing about me and Andrew Taylor? Go. You contradicting yourself. And Andrew, your fart and all that shit. How do I contradict myself? How do I contradict myself? I do fart a lot, huh?

You do contradict yourself. I be right. And y'all just don't want me to be right. I be right. You'll say one thing and then you're like, that's what I've been saying the whole time. That is what I've been saying the whole time. Y'all don't be listening to me.

And then when y'all run back to the tape, you're like, yeah, he hasn't been saying that the whole time. Sometimes you change your mind and act like you didn't. What's wrong with changing your mind? That's a good point. He's making a good point. Like, that's the problem with the world we're in. Nobody wants to change their mind.

And if I do change my mind, I will acknowledge, yo, I got a different thought about that. Take that. Are we talking about on the podcast or are we talking about personally? I don't know. Do both. You know us personally? Personally, sometimes I feel like you can be a little insensitive.

That's true. That is absolutely positive. That's a fair thing. That is a very fairer. You're dealing with that my whole life. That is 100, but my mom is told her, my mom's a union, daddy, you and your daddy don't never know what to say to people. And it's not that we don't know what to say to people.

We don't know what not to say to people. Sometimes you got to shut the fuck up. when your first thing comes to your mind, you did not have to say that. Do not let that intrusive thought win. You did not, don't let your intrusive thought win. Amen. But when you do what I do for,

here's the thing about intrusive thoughts. And I've always felt like this. The energy that comes into your mind during a conversation is what you're supposed to say. And that's what keeps the conversation going. Yeah. You ever just sat there and something came to your mind and you didn't say it?

Bork. And then the conversation is just, It's because you were supposed to say that shit that came to your fucking mind. Yeah, I agree with you. And it's okay. It's okay. And deal with whatever consequences. I'm not talking about that though.

I'm not talking about like in a conversation. Give me more, give me more, give me more, give me more. You could get defensive and then you could become insensitive and then you think about it and be like, oh gosh, you know. Not defensive. I just don't give a fuck. And I, you're right. I need to give a fuck more about the feelings of other people. That's why therapy was good for me.

Because it made me think about what other people may be going through. Yeah. Or what they're dealing with when, you know, you're having conversation. But that's just something I feel like in life you learn. You learn that, yo, you're not the only person going through shit. There's people going through shit that you don't know nothing about. So you might say some crazy shit and trigger the fuck out of it. Yeah.

So my thing is, if I'm going to trigger a person. if that would be something you believe. And make them laugh at the same time. Fair enough. Like, homie, we had Ellie Mistella on today. Now, I didn't say my intrusive thought. Ellie is like, what? Six.

Two? Yeah, six, two. Huge. How much he's he weigh? I'm not going to say that. What do you think? This is a wild guess, because he admitted it. How much you think he weighed?

He did? I didn't hear him. Yes. How much you think he weighs? Three? No, he wasn't that big. He's up to 200. A little bit more.

But, he's a little bit more. But, he's a little bit more. But here's the thing. I'm 200. He got a chapter in his book. Great book. I love that. By the way, I think Ellie Mustell is brilliant, but he's got a chapter in his book.

The name of the chapter is, oh, where's the chapter? Oh, yeah. Who gave away the skies to the airlines? And he talks about, you know, the regulation of the planes and all of this type of stuff, right? Or deregulation of the plane. Now, he goes, do you like to fly? Yes. Do you like to fly?

Yes. Do you like to fly? Yes. He goes, I. hate flying. In my mind, I already know why. But I shut the fuck up. Then you know what he goes? Nobody goes, why? He goes, because I'm fat. That was God. God wanted that to be said in that moment, because now we can have a real honest conversation. And you know what he said that really that touched me? He had to use an extended belt. It's annoying. He needs to use an extended belt.

He said, I thought he weighed as much as me. He said, he said the most embarrassing thing in the world is having the ass to flight attendant for the fucking extendo belt. I respect it. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Do y'all like flying? You like flying?

I hate flying. It is like the worst. It is always the worst day of my life. Why? Well, I'm fat. So I got to squeeze myself into a small ass seat that ain't built for me. I got somebody's, you know, seat back. fall right into my lap.

I can't eat nothing. The seatbelt extender. Right, I got to get the most embarrassing moment of my life every time I have to do it. Ma'am, can I have a seatbelt expender? I'm a fatty, please. And then I have to. Right? And then I like cry on the inside.

Come on, man. Come on, man. Let out of the Ellie. Go get his book. He's not just not on black privilege, but it's a great read. Bad law, 10 popular laws that are ruining America. You should go read it. What else we got, Taylor?

Oh, that's the easy one. Tedge X says, who would you take with you to space and why you can only take one person with you? Little Duval. That's all Lil Duvall been talking about. That's all he's been talking about since we've known him.

He's got to say. I've known Little Duvah. I'm not even exaggerating. I know Little Duvall for like 20 years now. That's all he's ever talked about. He got to take a selfie in space. You got to take a little. He wants to take a selfie in space

with the earth behind him. Yeah. Straight up. That's it. Like literally. We started to go fund me one time, but y'all don't give a fuck about people. Nobody dreams.

Y'all don't give a fuck about people. a fuck about nobody dreams unless they finessing y'all. So now one person donated a goddamn dollar the little Duvall's dream of going to motherfucking space. Now they got Gail King and Katie Perry and a bunch of women going to space. You know that? I didn't know, but.

Oh, yeah, yeah, they all going to space. I think soon, like in the next couple of weeks. Hmm. What else we got, Taylor, gang? What else we got Taylor gang? Oh, man. Oh, this is a great one. 343 underscore Allen says advice for being the cool boss

but not having your employees step over you. Oh, I don't know. What do you think? Um, well, I think that respect and that role goes both ways. As a boss, I'm not going to step on you. So why would employees step on the boss? You know what I'm saying? And I don't even look at...

You can't be too laid back. That is a fact. Not everybody has integrity. And you might be the boss of some people who don't. So if you are super laid back, they might take advantage of you. That is true. I think some people do take kindness for weakness. Our things can get too personal.

You know what I mean? I do think in certain work environments, you should have a very personal connection. Like, I feel like with the things that we do, we're all... We're on top of each other. You know what I'm saying? Like, we're with each other. every single day. So I do need to be aware of what you're going through, what your feelings are, what your emotions are. Just because, you know, if you bring that into the workplace,

it could cause issues. But, yeah, I don't, I think you can be a cool boss. I don't think employees step over cool bosses. Yeah. And, and, and, and, and, and also, I don't look at, I'm, I feel like I'm partnered with everybody that I'm doing business with. I literally was thinking about that today for some reason. You know what I was thinking about, I was thinking about what makes me want to do business with people. And there's two things that make me want to do business with people. Probably three. Talent, of course, but intelligence and character.

One of those, you have to have at least one of those three things. It's great if you have a combination of all three. But you at least have to have one of those things. Talent, intelligence are good character, right? Because good character makes you be like, damn, you know, whatever this person wants to do, maybe I can assist him in getting there. Because you all know hard work with these talent when talent doesn't. work hard. The talent aspect of it speaks for itself. The intelligence aspect is another thing

because, you know, sometimes, you know, for what we do, I'm always on the internet. I'm watching. Consuming, consuming, consuming. And I'm always looking for people, right? I'm always looking for dope people. And like, sometimes I was thinking, I'm like, man, when I watch certain people and they just simply don't know what the fuck they're talking about, regardless of how talented you are, I'll be like, I'll never do business with that person because they're not even trying to get good information. Like when I look at somebody like an academics

or even my guy, Loon, the thing that I like about a person like Loon, if they have access, they'll ask questions. To me, that is better than just getting on your platform and just spewing a bunch of things that you have no knowledge of, especially if you have access to the person that you might be talking about.

Reach out and see what the fuck is going on. You know what I mean? I ask for actual real information. To me, that shows a level of intelligence that I like. And I'm like, you know what? I like that. That shows me a lot about that person. And it says a lot about their character.

Because it goes back to who's doing this because they actually give a fuck about the game and who's doing this just because they want attention. Yep. Because some people don't actually care about, you know... How they get the attention. How they get the attention. You know what I'm saying?

That's why I always say. If you constantly want to talk about me and not to me, then you only care about the attention you get from talking about me. 100%. But talking to me, you might get information. You might get a check. You might get some money. You might get an opportunity.

It's crazy how short-sighted people are, man. Short-term game, that's what they're looking for. That's it. Long money takes time, but you've got to build relationships. That's it. Yeah, but it takes work. It takes discipline. All right.

Brilliant idiots, baby. We did it. 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 think we're just a couple idiots who don't know shit, you're right, too. It's the brilliant idiotous podcast.

Thank you for listening. Peace.