The Brilliant Idiots - Winter Storm Brick

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

This week on The Brilliant Idiots, Charlamagne Tha God and Andrew Schulz kick things off reacting to climate chaos, conspiracy theories, and whether the government is secretly controlling the weather. From there, the conversation spirals into AI dragons, Bigfoot, unicorns, whales, and why humans believe some wild things but draw the line at others. Things get very Brilliant Idiots when they dive into aging, masculinity, sex, relationships, and the realities of getting older, including brutally honest (and hilarious) takes on erections, marriage, masturbation, and how youth is truly wasted on the young. On the political and sports crossover side, they break down power, influence, and control in America, from government narratives and media manipulation to LeBron James, Rich Paul, Bronny James, and the Los Angeles Lakers, questioning who really runs institutions and what happens when stars lose leverage. ************************************ Sponsor Brilliant Idiots: ⁠⁠https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/brilliant-idiots⁠⁠ Jess Hilarious - Til Death Do We Parent - ⁠Pre Order⁠ 2Chainz - The Voice in my head is God - ⁠⁠Pre Order⁠⁠ The Black Family Who Built America - Cheryl McKissack Daniel -⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠ Uncommon Favor - Dawn Staley - ⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠ Get Honest or Die Lying Why Small Talk Sucks- By Charlamagne Tha God - ⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠ Check out Andrew Schulz - ⁠⁠www.theandrewschulz.com⁠⁠ Check out all the podcast on Charlamagne's "Black Effect Network" - ⁠⁠https://blackeffect.com⁠⁠ Download Cash App Today: [https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/zt3hy9x9] #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement.Discounts and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yep, Shalameen, the guy. Andrew Shogh. We are the Brilliant Idias podcast, back for another week of brilliant idiotness. Heather Kyle Walker, how are you? What's up, my man? I'm good, brother. How are you? I'm blessed black and highly favorite.

How was your weekend, man? What you were to spend some of that money on? What money, bro? What was your first big purchase? I don't know what you're talking about, man. I know what you didn't do. What I didn't do? I know you didn't buy...

No way, Jose. Just cut it. No, no, no, no. I think that we still... No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. All I'm saying is. No, no, no.

All right. All right, we're back. Hey, we're at the show. Epichael Walker. Hey, Solomon, God. How you feeling, my brother? I'm good, man. What was that first purchase you did we bleep it up?

Can we bleep all of that? That was so good. Can we bleep it all? Can we just start off with you? I know what you didn't do. Beez. Maybe. Because all I want to say right now is,

it's it. That's how we start off brilliant. That's all I want to say. Use our audience entirely. It'll be fun when we reveal it, you know, 10 years from now. 10 years from now, we're going to drop it all. We're bracing for a fucking storm, bro. I've never in my life seen a winter storm have a name.

Now, oh. This shit is got a name. It's winter storm fern. They always give her. I've never seen them give a storm a name. You think they're getting us ready for Greenland? No, you know what I think, man? I think that Donald Trump was like, you know what?

Ice we got out there now? It's not enough. Harp. That's good. Harp. I thought my joke was pretty good. But that was a better joke. Like, harp, we need another to describe.

We need some real ice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. These motherfuckers forgot how bad ice ice ice is. No, ice ice is bad. Which ice now? Like the cold? Oh, snow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really fucked up. I mean, they're both fucked up, to be honest with you. They're both fucked up, very fucked up. But did you know that I've never seen a winter storm with a name? Yeah. I've never seen this shit in my life. They're saying like two feet of snow.

Parts of Jersey, even where I'm at in Jersey, a foot of snow. Like 200 million people are supposed to be impacted by a hurricane fucking fern. That is interesting that they don't give the winter storms a name. My daughter told me... Where do winter storms originate? Midwest. And my daughter said in the Midwest, that happens a lot. I didn't know that.

And maybe that's why they don't get a name. Because hurricanes... Hurricanes get names. They originate in foreign countries. So we treat them like migrants. But winter storms originate here, so they're just a storm in this two days. But we don't give migrants names? Of course we do.

No, we just be like illegal immigrant one, illegal immigrant two. Undocumented, undocumented... Undocumented... Is there another word after undocumented? Undocumented? Undocumented is undocumented. They don't even say immigrant. They'd be like he's undocumented. No, no. I think maybe like the politically correct answer is they don't get names for sure. The politically correct answer is actual, they say illegal immigrants isn't right because

people aren't illegal, which I don't make any sense to me. I don't know what's going on. Well, you could be here illegally. Sorry, I derails your point. You said did the winter storms don't have names. Yeah, and it's just on this way, bro. I don't know what the fuck is going to happen. I don't know how bad this storm is going to be, but break yourself. How much colder can it be? than already freezing cold in these parts of the country. Like, these parts of the country are used to freezing cold. No, this is a different type of cold that we experienced the last least week.

They said this shit, I haven't really felt it. I can't have nothing to compare it to, but they say it was colder than Alaska in New York. I ain't never been to Alaska, so I don't fucking know. I went to Alaska. Alaska was pretty cold. It was really cold. It was pretty cold, yeah.

I mean, look, cold is cold. You get to fucking seven degrees or zero degrees. Look at that shit, man. I'm just trying to say, like, Canada is used to freezing colds all year around. When it's cold in Texas or Florida? Different ballgame. But that because the people down there aren't used to that, they don't got jackets, like it snows

and then the highway gets congested. Can I tell you why I think this is actually, I really do think this is hard. I'm going to tell you why I really do think that Donald Trump pushed the button, right? Now, this is the brain. Push the weather button. The weather button, harp.

Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina. Why are all these sovereign states getting hit with this type of cold? I thought that, wait. What makes it more colder? when it's red and purple or when it's dark and blue? I don't, the blue, right? The blue would be the cold.

Blue is light in this scenario. Blue is light in this scenario. So yeah, they're not even getting that much cold. No, Chris, blue is the coldest. No. This is inches. Inches of snow. Oh, shit.

Yeah, so this is not even really affecting the South. Look, it says Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina were the first to issue preemptive emergency declarations. Here's the thing. Because, talk about, they're from New York City. Yeah, we're used to it. Exactly. In South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas.

in the South, it's not. You go down there with a one-inch dick. You know what I'm saying? You fucking the shit out of some people because they're not used to snow. They don't have the snow plows. They don't have the salt. They don't have all of that type of stuff.

It's just like a hurricane up here. Remember Hurricane Sandy came up here? To me, I was like, I care about no tropical storm, a little punk-ass category one. We're playing those in fucking South Carolina. Yes, 100%. But here, it shut everything down. Yep.

Same thing with snow down there. Yep. Now, when have you seen the South, at least, especially the South, get hit with something like this ever. Civil War. I don't know what I'm talking about. Okay, but I know that this potentially historic winter storm.

It was snowing white man down there. I'm the fucking stop. This potentially historic winter storm is going to hit all these red states and who's going to come in and be the savior? Who? Donald Trump and the federal government. Wow. Once again. So he changed the weather.

Donald Trump changed the weather. Right. Right. and made it inclement in these southern states or these red states. That's right. So he's punishing his base? Yes, the ICE agents aren't enough of a distraction.

I need a bigger one. And I can not punish. But the red states are his states already. Not punish. Yeah. Just dump a bunch of money there. Like the guy. That's right.

So you think he needs support in his base. You think his base has raining support. The base is still mad about Epstein. The base is mad about the economy. Yep. Yes. Yeah. Here, here, here, here, here.

Come on. Everybody's mad about it. This ice shit in Minnesota is cool, but we need more ice. That is what Donald Trump did. Harp. Y'all forgot about Harp. See? I don't even know what-Harp is, right? No. They control the weather.

Oh, I thought there was different. Donald Trump didn't defund them. That's one organization Donald Trump did not defund. Is harp. I'm making all this up, by the way. But Donald Trump did not. I need to put that disclaimer because somebody will post this. Some people think Chris controls the weather.

Really? He's Mike, he from China? Yo, Chris, I'm getting some good video from China. I want a fucking dragon, yo. I know you got the hookup on some dragons, bro. What size? They got some big ones. You seen the big joint?

Hold on, let me show you the big one. The big one that they had in the fucking, they said it was at a secret Chinese lab. Everything ain't AI, bro. Look at this shit, man. Hold on. Look at this shit shows. You talking about the white one?

Come on, bro. Everything's not fucking AI, bro. If that's not AI, that's a good-ass movie scene. That's a scene that's shooting a movie or something. That's real. Come on, man. That's real. Come on, yo.

Lemon pepper white dragon wings? Slap. You have too much influence to be this gullible. Look, hold on. Yep. Look at this one. Look at that. Look at that.

This motherfucker got a fire-breatving pet dragon, bro. Hold on, hold on. Chris, what is this? Come on, Schultz. Old people really got no... We got to take old people off the other. What you mean? This shit.

Everything ain't AI, bro. No, man. Imagine what our parents are thinking when they're scrolling Facebook and seeing this shit, and they don't really understand what Sora is. Nothing gives me more fear than when my mom goes, well, I was on Facebook. I was on YouTube. First of all, why are you on YouTube? You can't watch the view on TV like regular people?

Yeah. Like what the fuck? So you tell them you don't believe in dragons? I guess, yeah, I believe in them. Look at, when you go look at... It's a commota dragon, right? That's a real dragon. That's what I'm saying.

But when you go look at Chinese astrology, right? Look at Chinese astrology. Every single animal they use in Chinese astrology is a real animal. You're just going to throw a mythical creature in there called the dragon. Dragons existed at some point. Well, dragons are just dinosaurs, right? That's all I'm saying. Like, they scooped up the bones just like anybody else around the world.

They saw the bones and they organized them. They're like, yo, this should look kind of like a dragon. And a couple of years ago, I remember the story where they said that somebody, they were, they found some type of egg and they were trying to clone whatever the species of the egg was. Yes, man. I don't know why we act like these things are so out of the realm of possibility. We live in a world where it's fucking whales. You're talking about Game of Thrones Fire Breathing Dragon.

We live in a world with a fucking whale. Let me make this point here. Have you ever seen a whale? Bro, can you imagine the first motherfucker that saw a whale and then tried to explain that shit to people? Nobody believed them either. A whale. Who is the first person who's seen whale? I have no fucking idea who the first person was.

Where do you think they were? What part of the world? Probably Africa. Probably Africa. No. No, not Africa. I don't fucking know somewhere in the ocean. All I know is...

Is that why y'all like fat white woman? Man, shut the fucking... Well, the black and white, though. It's like fat biracial. Fat biracial woman with good credit? Woo! Woo! Jackpot!

In Miss Economy? You know, a woman called the radio station this morning. She said she was 5 feet, 200 pounds, and she didn't want to give her a real name. Her name was juicy. That's right. She ain't ever tried juicy. Soda.

And then Emmy was like, she wanted to request the song. And she was like, yeah, this play something from Biggie Smalls. And I was like, so you're a Biggie Smalls fan. And you just called up here and picked your favorite Biggie Smalls record as a nickname. Five feet, 200 pounds is... But seriously. Me and Duvall was having this conversation another day because he always sends me Bigfoot shit because he acts like me believing in Bigfoot is the craziest thing in the world.

It is. Have you ever seen a silverback gorilla? Yes. You understand what I'm saying? If you're... If these shit is huge like a month... Why is a primary? The whales thing is interesting to me.

A thousand pounds it can jump so gracefully out of the fucking ocean like it's nothing? A thousand. I think they're like. A ton. Yeah, you're right. A ton. A ton. A ton. A lot more than that. A blue whale is probably 10,000 pounds. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're right. And don't. Whales are crazy. And don't knock over boats and shit. Like, so kind. How can you see a whale but not believe in a dragon? Because we see them. That's your fault for not being able to only believing in what you see.

Yeah, why do you only believe in what it exists? You're your fault. Hey, Al. What are you fucking dumb or something like that? But now we're getting into the God's territory. You believe in God, right? I believe in high power. That's God.

Yeah. Have you ever seen God? Yes. See it every single day. I think so. When you see a fucking whale or a dragon, how can you believe in something so all-popple? I believe in whale. And I believe in God and I've seen enough on this planet that makes me go wow.

That shit like... You don't think. TV is crazier than a whale. You don't think cameras are crazy. I mean... No. Hell no. Explain to me how this machine is capturing your image.

We have no idea. That's interesting. I mean, no, I mean, what Chris is interesting. Just think about, like, throughout the course of human history, if you had tried to explain an iPhone or TV, any of the modern tech, people would call you a witch. Nah. But then if you saw a whale... Explaining a whale is different.

I mean, like, there are museums that just got a fake whale there and people just go look at it. I remember being in Cabo, man. Sloop to my good sister, Debbie Brown, being in Cabo staying with Deb and eating breakfast, you know, where she lives at, and she's right by the water. And I remember seeing a whale jump out that motherfucker. I was like, yo, that's a fucking whale.

And at the time, I might have been 40 at the time. So imagine seeing that at 40 for the first time. Imagine being the first person to see a whale. Yeah. Imagine the first person to see a deer. We only got to go all the way to whales. A deer, bro. This shit comes.

comes out of the fucking woods, got these fucking horns, staring at you with them big, beautiful, motherfucking eyes. Yo, dears, people were so enamored by theirs, they made a fucking movie. Bambi. Oh, Bambi. You know what I'm saying? Like, dears were, people were so enamored by dears

that they made a fucking movie about them, bro. Like, y'all are not... I thought about that. What? Even with my kids, I'm like, a child's first reaction to an animal is always fascinating to me, right? Because how do they, you know, they've started to process us.

Yeah. And maybe they have some innate understanding that they're connected to us. But the first time they see a dog, they must be like, what the fuck is that? You see what I'm saying? But they always like it. I wonder, actually, I wonder if it's like a primal instinct. There are certain animals that they're drawn to and then there are certain animals

that might be afraid of. But kids, you all, kids always have a reaction to animals. Yes, agreed. They're fascinated by them. But I think like we need to for survival purposes. People think unicorns. Like, for example, my daughter, if you roar, hold on. I just missed it.

I just missed it and I moved on. Unicorns are mythical. I want to devote all my attention to this, but like my daughter is afraid of the roar sound, right? A roar is a sound. Well, it depends on what context you did it. Did you do it to scare? I mean, no, it's just like, do the polar bear roar. Roar.

Some sort of premortal response to it. I think there must be some innate response that like that is a dangerous. sounds like when a dog growls kids know that that's kind of a dangerous sound and when a dog is just kind of like happy looking on them yeah yeah yeah so i think there has to be something built in there also we got like crazy connectivity with dogs like over centuries no over like what is that called millennia yeah right like i think that like we've incorporated them in our lives and they've allowed us to like act more independently in the world by protecting us when we slept like right what about when you growl at a dog i did that before there's a little one of them little shit shoot shit when i was a little kid, fucking getting on all fours, barking at the dog, growling at the dog, scaring this fucking dog all day, bro. This dog backing in the corner, back in the corner, back in the corner, back in the corner. Man, I turned my back on that dog for one split second, and all I heard were, and from the it was me screaming, because this motherfucker latched on to right between my back and

the top of my ass and was hanging there. I mean, hanging there. And I had that scar for a long, motherfucking time, because I was growling the time. the fucking dogs. So you were antagonizing. So it goes both ways. Like he felt threatened. I feel threatened. Like, you know, I think, I think even with the growls and shit, it just depends. Because the first time you hear like a roar, you're not, you're not scared. You're like, what the fuck is that? No, I feel, I feel there's an innate negative response when you hear a roar. You ever been out of the country and hear some shit? Like, you hear an animal you ain't used to. You're not scared.

You're just like, what the fuck is that? Yeah. If you're like in Costa Rica or some shit, you're in the jungle and you hear some random, like, shriek. That happened in Cape Town. It was like, I'm like, what the fuck is that noise? It was like, oh, probably the baboons. And then that's when they started warning us about the baboons. I was like, yo, make sure your doors are locked because the baboons know how to open doors. They were like, you know, if you go out, they'll snatch your hats, take your fucking person. Have you seen the baboons that trade?

No. They'll take your phone. There's great videos of this. So they'll take the, I think people are doing it in, I don't know, like Thailand or someplace. I pretty exactly where. But they'll take your phone and they won't give it back to you unless you trade them food. Oh. And they'll know the quantity of food.

food that a phone is worth. So you try to give them like one orange, they're like, no. And then you give them two oranges. Like, all right, fine, that works. That's some sophisticated shit to be able to like- Why would you want an Apple? It's an Apple, especially if this took an iPhone. I'm just saying. An Apple for an Apple. How many Apple is the iPhone 17 were, bro? Okay. And then everybody like what the- This is it? Oh, this is it? Yeah. Yeah, them baboons ain't no fucking joke. I seen, I saw baboons. They called this like the Monkey Palace or something like that. I didn't see none in Cape Town. I saw baboons and, um, what? It was like when I saw Grenada, I saw a bad boons.

I don't think they have baboons in Grenada. It was some type of fucking monkeys, yeah. I thought it was a bad boon. Maybe I'm tripping. It was definitely some type of monkey. So what is a baboon? Is this like the kind of dog version of a monkey? Is that the idea?

I think these are called like Remus monkeys maybe. So let me ask you a question. Imagine the first person that saw a bunch of them. Like, y'all saw a bunch of old fucking albino men. You know what I mean? They were smallest shit and they had fur. Like, imagine trying to explain a pack of baboons. But imagine you're the first person that evolved from them.

Like, imagine you're the first one in the family that's not full monkey. Right. Damn. You've got to look at your uncles and aunts. No, no, we've seen that before. No, no, no, we've seen that before. That's like the person who, like, converts to Islam or converts to Christianity. No, for real, man.

That's the kid that went to college and got an education. First person in the kid, the first person to go to college and the family, now he's better than everybody. That we see that before. Like, that's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is. You think that's how they would have treated there? A baboon that evolved to a human is exactly like the first person in the family to go to college. First person to get some real money.

You know what I'm saying? They got regular feet. And they're like, yo, you're still peeling that banana with your feet? You know what I'm like? Use your hands. That's all that is. But even with the unicorns. How can you not believe in unicorns?

It's just a horse with a horn. We see mad horned animals out here right now. A narwhal? A narwhal got a horn. I'm not falling for that. I'm not falling for that. There's a real. It's like a dolphin with a horn.

Sure. So whale, can you bring it up? That's a real thing. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, shit. I didn't know. I didn't have seen that shit before.

That's in the fucking ocean. That's in the ocean. That's a marlin, bro. That's not a marlin? That's not a marlin. That's a narwhal. So if that shit got a horn. Why wouldn't why is the unicorn so far-fetched?

Because it's pictures of this thing and there's no actual pictures of Unicorn. I got a video-I-Gon-I-Gon-I-Go. What the fuck y'all talk about? Everything could be real if all you need-is. I think there's been unicorns, bro. Every- Yes, why wouldn't it be? I think there's been a horse with a weird growth.

Why not? There's humans with weird growths. Bro, none of this shit is so, none of this shit is far-fetched. And look at that shit, man. Why wouldn't it? It's just a fucking horn. It's not, it's just a horse with a horn. It's a hairy rhinoceros. And we see animals going to woods right now and they'll shake their antlers off. Deers lose their fucking antlers. Mooses lose their motherfucking antlers. Maybe unicorns are just horses who shed their horns forever. How long does it take the deer to lose their antlers? You're saying they grow them all back seasonally? There's no way. There's no way. I don't know if it's seasonal, but they do grow their horns back. If you ever grew up in the country, you walk through the wood.

Shit, I do that now in Jersey. I fucking found antlers in my woods in Jersey. They do shed them, though. Yeah, deer lose their antler annually every late winter after the trending season, triggered by dropping testosterone and allowed. Oh, I didn't know they regrow that fast. So, yeah, it's the, I think the deer antler is the fastest growing substance on the planet or something like that, or the fastest growing substance on a mammal.

Like, they've tried to use the components or whatever. the chemical compound that's in a deer horn for, like, human stuff that they're trying to grow? What's it called? Oh, it's tough with a C. I know what you're talking. Right? Like, coming? I don't.

Is it anything? Wow. Is it anything like men? Like, like, after a certain age, do the horn stop growing faster? I mean, stop growing as fast? Why? What's happening to you? I'm just saying after a certain age, you know, you...

Do you think that your erections are as sturdy as they were when you were younger? The first one. What do you mean? You know, so that's a great question, and I'm going to tell you something. Can we just pause for a second? No, no, I mean the first. What do you mention? The first one?

The first election, like, after you nut that first time, like the second time, once you get back up, it finally. Are you still doing that at your age with four children? Okay, yeah. No, I mean. I was about to walk off the podcast. I mean, I'm talking about days later. Round two at 45 with four children at the house?

No, no, no, that doesn't happen. Round two is days later. Yeah, that's just round one again. Yeah, yeah. Round two only counts if it's within the same night. No, no, I haven't done that in years. Nobody wants a woman to a certain age, they don't want that. They don't want that.

Ah. Nobody wants it. Nah, no, no, no. I will say this, but what you said is so interesting. And this is why if I had to give one piece of advice to young people, right? We were just having a straight man to young man conversation. Yep. Bro, the way we say enjoy the moment, enjoy your erection, bro.

It's like you don't know what you don't have. You don't know what you're not? Because when you ask me that question, I don't remember. Because I don't know what if I didn't appreciate the erection back then. My dad used to say, and this is a quote, I'm sure they predates him, but youth, why is it wasted on the young? Yes. And you don't understand what that is like. Yeah, man.

You just out here 20-something years old, brick to fuck up, you know what I mean? For no reason. Brick to fuck up, waking up with wood. Like, you're not looking down, realizing how hard that shit is because that shit just seemed normal. And then when you get 40 plus, you're like, damn, where the brick? Where the brick? It's still a brick, you know what I mean? I don't know if it's a brick.

Oh, man. I really don't know. It's like a yoga mat rolled up. No, no, no, no. Rolled up. No, no, no, no. Rolled up. Yoga mat.

I still got brick. I still got brick. I ain't got no fucking brick. I still got brick. Definitely not. I got a brick. I don't have, I can't lay multiple bricks. But that first brick is a brick.

How much boy yo-yoing do you have on it? Like, if you're a while. If you flipped it down, how much boy yo-yo-e-e-it takes a while to get to the boy yo-yo-e-e-eing. But you got boyo-yoing? Or if you pushed it down, it would just stay there? Will it flip that, pit in your stomach, and they go back? I don't even know if I can do this naturally. I haven't done.

See, here's the thing. When you're young, you do those things. When you're young, you know, you do this for no reason. Here's a question. You flex it, you know what I mean? When you get older, you don't do that no more. What seasonal jacket could you hang on it? Oh, shit.

I know you're not hanging a fucking Woolridge. I know that for you. Yeah, Monclay ain't going to do it, bro. A windbreaker, maybe? A windbreaker. We got windbreaker dick now. Oh, you can hang out the windbreaker. We got Nike tech.

Oh, not the windbreaker, bro. But you're not putting a fucking thick-ass Averax on it. Now I got to try. But the fact that you're unsure. I don't know. You're unsure. Yeah, I wouldn't bet on him. 20-year-old Charla, fresh out of jail.

But see, that's my point. I don't remember. And I'm almost guaranteed there was more brick back then. Yes. But I didn't think about it. I didn't enjoy it. You know what I mean? I didn't appreciate it.

You know what I mean? Like, appreciate the brick, bro. You do. But how do we tell them to appreciate when they don't know what's going to happen? That's the thing. It's you can't even compare it. So there's no way you could appreciate it. It's like appreciating the peak of your athleticism.

You'll never know the peak. I won't say this, though. Let me take a step back when it comes to the brick. The brick exists when it's time for it to exist. It don't exist just because. When you're young, the brick exists just because. Like, I think about how much I used to masturbate as a kid. You know what I mean?

And then you get older, the masturbation slows down a little bit because you just don't want to waste it. You don't want to waste that erection. You know what I mean? Back then, you just like, fuck it. I don't know about wasted. Yeah. All right, so here's the question.

When you're jerking off, do you still jerk off? Yeah. When I feel like it. Okay. Which is few and far between the other days. It's back in the day, though. All right. Have you nutted, like, kind of like 60% hard?

Yeah, but that's so wag. Yo, but isn't that the funniest one? Yo, but isn't that the funniest one? Because you're like 60% hard. It's almost like your body's like, man, don't make me do the whole push-up. You know what? Like, what do you make? It be like, hey, we can get this shit out and get on with our day,

or I can really find the blood in your body necessary to get to this day. You know what, though? The 60% makes you think too much, bro, because it's like, am I supposed to be doing this? I'm grown. I'm a grown-ass fucking man. You got to squeeze your eyes extra hard to think of shit. I used to be able to jerk off eyes wide open, staring at a fucking wall.

Why am I doing this? No. I'm a fucking, I got a family. Why am I doing this? Yeah. Why are you doing this when you got a family? Hey, hey, you ever given up at, like, 35% heart.

Yes. You got it. You're all got it today. Yes, man. Yes, man. Yes, man. Yes, sometimes. You hear your kid crying in the other room, like, man, we ain't going to get there.

Why? You asked you significant other questions like, you still play with yourself? You know what I mean? Just to make sure you ain't the only fucking idiot in the house. Yeah, but we are. We are. You know what I mean? Because they're taking care of a whole family.

You know what I mean? A family that I'm thinking about when I'm just, jerking off. Whoa. Not in that way. I just told you. I just told you that. You're distracted.

Yeah, I'm distracted because I'm like, why am I doing this? I got a fucking family. I got a family. Exactly. I'm glad we clarified that. Now you feel bad because you wasted fucking lotion. You know what I mean?

Yeah. No, it's bad. It's dumb. Also, there's nothing more pathetic feeling than drying your dick off from lotion when you didn't even. Lord have mercy. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, you got it.

You know, with a wash glove, like, wiping lotion off your fingers. Like, bro, you don't even do it like you used to, bro. You used to put it down. You got to try to left you. You know what I'm like, maybe I got some more on this. I haven't felt this one in a while. You don't even turn yourself on no more. Like, what the fuck is your problem, bro?

I'm going to tell you the stupidest shit. This is the stupidest shit. Go. Because when you get older and you have a family, right? Even if you're home by yourself, you just don't feel comfortable, masturbating the way you used to. When you was a bachelor, you whip it out and be sitting on the edge of your bed,

let it rip on the car, all types of shit, right? So now you go in the bathroom. I have a bidet. And it's an automatic bidet. So I'm on the toilet. The batheet is trying to lift up when I'm sitting on it. Too much.

But that's what makes you feel stupid too. You have the bidet functioning while you're jerking off? It don't turn off. What you do? Turn on bottom. No, I got an automatic bidet, bro. As soon as I walk in the bathroom, it lifts up.

What do you mean lifts up? I don't know what to tell y'all. No, no, no. No, no. Don't try to pour us out of you being gay. Don't you dare throw that on us. You are jerking off. I have the automatic bidet.

As soon as you walk in, the bidet starts bubbling? No, it lifts up. The seat, the cover seat. How do you poop into the toilet? What do you mean? How do you take a poop into the toilet if the bidet is shooting water in your ass? No. Are you pooping through the water street?

No, no, no, no, no, no. The bidet, soon as you walk in, the bidet lifts up by itself, the cover, and the seat is there, so then you sit down on the seat and do your business. What I'm talking about is when the cover is down. You're talking about the cover and the seat. Yeah, yeah.

So the seat is down and the cover is down. So as I'm sitting on the cover, the cover keeps trying to lift up because it feels. So wait, you sit on top of your soil seat, you don't, you don't, yeah, that is peculiar. You're saying you sit on top. of that to jerk off. You don't open up the cover for the toilet? Why would I sit like I'm taking a shit? Because then that's how you do it. Done, you could just go straight in the toilet.

Oh, now. Y'all jerk off in the toilet? No, but like if, yeah, sometimes. I wouldn't sit on that seat. Me neither. I would not, no, I would ever sit on this? No. Also, doesn't it like? That's what I just explained to you. That's what I was just showing you. That's exactly what I was doing. So I'm sitting on it trying to jerk off and it keep doing the hydraulics. But just sit on the seat. It's made to sit on. That feels weird. I'm trying it for you to sit on.

Yeah, that's way more comfortable. Yeah, but not to jerk off. Your penis goes inside of like you, wouldn't that be kind of a weird angle? No. You dick points down. I'm gonna try it when I get some free time and some free blood flow. When I get some free time and some free blood flow, I'm gonna try it. I'm like baffled at the way that you jerk off.

What's your technique? No, I mean, just like the idea that. that you would sit on top of the seat is just so odd. I can't be the only one. I think you might be the only one. No, I can't be the only one. In your own house, it's so much more comfortable. I just feel like that would be weird.

No, you're going to enjoy this so much more. Yeah. But do you let your balls go into the toilet? You let your balls just sit on top of the toilet? No, but I'm on the edge of the joint. You're working too hard. You are working way too hard. You are working way too hard.

You were telling me that y'all jerk. Oh, I see what y'all say. You sit on the edge of the seat. How do you just sit on a seat regular? Like you're taking a shit? Yeah. Let's do you a serious question. Yes.

When you poop, do you first just shit into your hand and then you throw it into the toilet? Do you know how to use a toilet? Do you know the purpose of the toilet? No, you sit on the toilet, balls inside of the dick inside of it, bro. It's there for a reason. I can't imagine. So you just take your dick out. Yeah.

And then you do the exact same thing as you're pooping, but instead of pooping, you jerk off. Try that. It's going to change your fucking life. Yeah. All right. I am. That's wild, look. What if you take, what if you accidentally shit

just because your body is like in the habit of it? Are you saying like when you come, your butthole opens? That would be crazy. That would be wild, bro. That would be wild, bro. That would be like, bro. That would be weird. That's like getting your G-spot touched.

What? Never mind. Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys. Can we talk about the Los Angeles Lakers? Yo, man. Did you read that article? I wish I had. that much money where I could just admit

this gay shit on a podcast, bro. What was gay? I wish I had that. Masturbating technically is gay, though. You know what? I think that we should have that discussion. It is. I think we should have that discussion.

We cannot sit here and say that we don't enjoy playing with dick. None of us can sit here and enjoy... R, you don't enjoy a man's hand on your penis. You enjoy a man's hand on your dick. You do. Word up. You enjoy... And if we're really going to talk that shit,

You would prefer a man's hand on your dick than a woman's hand on your dick. No, I'm not, I'm not going to go that far. You think your wife jerks you off better than you? No, but. So who jerks you off the best? Me, but we only jerk off. We jerk off because our women aren't around. You jerk off before you had a woman.

Because I didn't have a woman. Your woman's all the way, right? So your hand is always, your hand becomes a clear number two, bro. Like, your hand is like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Your hand is, even though you want your hand to be number one, it's clearly. number two, bro. Like when you think about the big three, that is masturbation, blowjobs, and vagina. Yeah. It's a clear number three, bro.

Yes. Of course, it's a number three. It's a number three in terms of enjoyment and all that stuff. Yes, I get it 100%. But it's only number one when the other two aren't available. I mean, sometimes it's, you just want the variability. Sometimes you want to change it up a little bit. You can't have pasta every night of the week. No. I'm taking the number one every single time. If I'm doing the number three, it's the last resort. I remember the first time I masturbated, I cried. Oh, my God. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. You're telling me there's every time before you jerk off, you try to have sex with your wife and then she rejects you and then you go jerk off. No, no, no, no. I'm just saying that if my wife is there and we're about to have sex, jerking off, not even a. Yeah, obviously. Obviously. And I'm never, I'm never that. I got, I'm never that. I got, I got. I'm never that. I

You do that sometime when you just, like, it's like a silent protest. You know what I mean? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, me and my wife been together 28 years. So if we're having a little beef or something and, you know, like, ninging, you ain't getting no. Like, now you're like, I'll show you. Now, she don't give a fuck. You don't want in there jerking off like a fucking loser.

Which a dick that won't even get fully hard. Well, this is when it used to. Oh, and now there's no more silent protest? I haven't had to do a silent protest in a long time, bro. Have you ever jerk off now just for recreation? I jerk off now for the same reason I do box hops. What's a box hop? Box hops is when you, you know, you're working out in the gym and you do the box hop and you, you know, you jump to see how high you can jump and you got to try to land softly and silently.

You just do it to see if you still got it. There's a little box jumps. Box hops. Yeah, I mean, it's just so cat. Oh, like, gosh, damn. Yeah, yeah, I hear you on that. I mean, sometimes you do it just to like clear your mind, get it out of the way. That too.

You know. That too. Or sometimes you do it as a prerequisite. You know what I'm saying? To what? A prerequisite, you know? Do what? Like before sex?

Because later on. Oh, I'm not doing that. I would never roll those guys. No, no. If I jerk off, we're not fucking that. No, no, hours later. I have a theory, right? As long as you can do it within a certain time frame.

Like, let's just say, you know, you're all going out to eat, right? Like, you're out of town, you're going out to eat, right? It's 9 o'clock you're in the shower. You get one out real quick. Because you know, you'll be. back in a few hours and it might be time for action. Are we having dessert at dinner? Mm.

Probably not. My wife and I have a rule if we eat dessert, we're not fucking. Really? It's dessert or fucking. What's the science behind that? Something about eating dessert. When we get home, I'm going to sleep. You're going to sleep, right?

Immediately going to sleep. But if I don't eat dessert, then I might have a little more energy. Are you at that point where you do naps? Do we do naps? No, no, no, no. Naps before sex. Before sex. Yeah, meaning like if you get home, like, might get home like midnight.

You know what I'm saying? You lay in the bed for a little while. You know what you're supposed to get and then then you wake up and it's 2.30. He was like, oh, okay, I'm refreshed now. I didn't tell you this one time my wife woke me up. She goes, I'm dead asleep. She goes, hey, help me go back to sleep. Oh, I love that.

I thought she legit wanted me to help her go back to sleep. I didn't realize she was trying to flirt. And I'm looking at her like, is this woman insane? Like, how dare you wake me out of my slumber to help you get into a slumber? This is crazy. Literally, I thought that shit for like two weeks. Man, that's funny is shit, man. I brought it up to her in an argument.

Like, she was complaining about some shit that I was here. You never put away your clothes. I was like, you wake me up to put you back to sleep. She was like, I was trying to get some dick. Now you're sitting there looking dumb. Yeah. I was like, why don't you just say you wanted some dick? Now you're sitting there looking stupid and shit, like a man in the bathroom who can't even make itself nut.

Ain't nothing worse, bro. Those are some great word. I love the world. It's harder for a woman knowing a man says that women know what times. He may help me sleep. You know what I mean? When a woman says that, it's just like... I thought you had a nightmare.

You know what? I didn't know that you... Like, I didn't know what your head gonna do. Mine makes you sleep? I didn't know I had melatonin in this mouth. If I knew that, I'd have gave it to you more often. I had no idea. I am one of Mochanui.

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I don't know. Who released this? What outlet released this? Oh, Jeannie Bus. Was it ESPN? I saw a headline, but she said that LeBron wasn't grateful enough that they drafted.

Brony? Was that the... I don't know of LeBron. Yeah, he did say something like that, but I've had this theory for a while. I've said it in numerous group chats with different sports people. The worst thing that has happened to the Lakers

over the last seven, eight years has been LeBron Jinks. Wow. Okay. Wow. Let's have this discussion. I vehemently disagree. Let's talk about it.

Well, it depends what you mean by worse. Definitely in the last couple of years. Yes, you know, he bought them a championship, right? In the bubble, great. I'm sure I don't think the Lakers have ever had a problem putting butts in the stand, right? It's the fucking Los Angeles Lakers. They've never had a problem selling merch.

It's the motherfucking Los Angeles Lakers. But in the last couple of years, let's think about the things that have happened. LeBron James got Bronny James drafted, right? Which is great. That's a great story. as a father and everything else. But when you're talking about basketball business,

it's not good for, it wasn't good for the business of basketball, especially for the Lakers organization, right? That's number one. Why, how can we confirm that? If we're talking about basketball business. He hasn't produced. Basketball, you got to, if I do a draft pick, right,

that person has to produce on the court. If Bronny James was any other player and not LeBron James' son, you would be saying that was a bust by you. Yeah, yeah. Well, bust is not bust because it was a second round pick. It's a second round pick. Yeah, but it didn't pan out to be anything.

So this is where we got to define the terms. When I hear you say business, I mean like financial reward. I'm hearing financial reward. There's also like the business of winning games. That's what I'm talking about. Okay, because those are different. Because the argument I would make for LeBron James. Financial reward, probably, yes.

Like when you bring him to Cleveland, for example, like he was generating billions of dollars, literally, I'm not making that up, of revenue for the city of Cleveland. Now, you make a good point where the Lakers are going to sell out every single night, no matter what. But they're... Well, LeBron, you can sell those tickets a little bit more. Exactly. With LeBron, you're not only going to sell them a little bit more, LeBron brings other talent there, i.e. like a Luca.

They haven't won, though. That's why there's two things going on. I think the people who own the team, right, they're not buying the team just because they want to win championships. We agree with that, right? Like, they also want to make money that this is like a profitable endeavor. And having LeBron on the team and keeping LeBron unhappy is worth it because you could

own, and I'm putting only in quotes, you can only pay LeBron 40 million a year or whatever the fucking salary cap is, but he's generating your team a disproportionate amount of money compared to the amount that you're paying him. Is he? Without a dollar. But without a debt, no, no, no, you could tell his tickets for more. Obviously, I don't know how much they're doing merch sales. Keep in mind, whenever he plays another team, those tickets are

crazy expensive. So he's making the league so much money. These top tier players in the league especially like a guy like LeBron or a guy like Steph, they're generating so much more money than they're being paid by the week. And look what she said. And team sources told ESPN she even begun to turn against the Lakersd star player, LeBron James. Jeannie privately grumbled people close to the team say

about what she felt was James outside's ego in the overt control that he and clutch sports, which represents both James and Ample. They do have that. Exverted over the organization at times. She didn't like that James was considered a savior for a floundering franchise when he arrived in 2018. and that it was he who chose the Lakers

rather than the team's leadership receiving praise for landing him. Team sources have been adamant for years that James Camp informed the Lakers as early as 2017 that he was coming to join them when he became a free agent the following year.

The distance between Jenny and James widened after the Lakers traded for Wessel Redsbrook in July 2021. People close to the team said the team had made the trade in an effort to appease James but the acquisition backfired in catastrophic fashion.

L.A. went 3349 and missed the playoffs and James seemed to wash his hands of his role in the trade. Now, this is what I mean. Appeasing, right? You drafted Brony to appease LeBron. One thing that never gets talked about, and I don't understand why,

you hired LeBron James' podcast co-host as the head coach of your organization, a person who has never had any coaching experience ever to appease him as well, and he's not a good coach. But for whatever reason, JJ Reddick ducks all smoke. Why does J.J.

not get smoked for not being a good coach? How do we know that he's not a good coach? Because they don't win. That's why. Yeah, but I think winning is a combination. I'm not just saying this because I like JJ, but I think winning is a combination of being a good coach and having the right team to win.

He had LeBron. He had Anthony Davis. Now he's got LeBron. He's got Luca. He's got Austin Reeves. Like, what are we talking about here? This guy's got plenty of these ingredients. So you think LeBron, Luca, Austin Reeves,

is enough to win in the NBA right now? I don't even, have Jay, have they made the playoffs? They made the playoffs once with under JJ or maybe not. I don't even know. Have they? No, have they? I don't think they did. How long JJ been there? Two years? Yeah, last year was his first year. And they didn't make the playoff last year. Oh, they did the play. The playing, maybe? Let me make, let me make sure about that. And they lost. Let's see. I guess what I'm trying to say here is like the expectation when LeBron is on your team is that you're going to win the championship or at least go every

single year. And then when you don't live up to that championship, there is frustration. But I think what, and again, I don't know what Gene E's talking about, whatever. Also, like, you sold the team. So, like, why are you talking at all? Oh, I'm sorry. His first as a head coach, they went 50 and 32, earned the number three seat in the Western Conference. They were eliminated in the first round by the Minnesota Timberwolves. So he made the playoffs. That was last year. And then I think, well, was it last year? And then. Two years ago. So it's like, so this is two years ago, right? But I think what's, okay, so what's important about this is, is that it seems like she's frustrated with LeBron's

control. And that's. And that's. That's a different discussion. Control only works when you win. When the decisions you make, okay, you want to bring in JJ as a coach, you want to hire Brony, you want to bring in Russell Westbrook. When you win and things go right is when the control is fine. I agree with you. Now, that's not all situations.

LeBron was with the Miami Heat. They were a winning team. And who had control? Pat fucking ride. Well, the reason why he left is because Pat wasn't giving him the control. that he desperately wanted. The organization, the culture, is bigger than any star over there in Miami.

And it's probably why they don't really get the big, big stars, right? Or the stars that do go over there, i.e., for a while it was Jimmy, but then, you know, things start to dissolve over there. But, like, Pat is in control, and he's the one that dictate what's happened. And then LeBron is very different. LeBron is like, listen, when we travel,

this is things that I've heard. It's like, my family travels on the plane. with the team. And I have my own special vans and they can get access to the whatever and my family can go wherever they want. And that's not, that's not unusual for a starfleet. Well, that's it depends on the culture of the team. With LA, they gave him the keys, obviously. And that's something he wanted. I imagine Cleveland. That's something he wanted. I don't think he was getting that when he was in Miami. And I think that there was some frustration about that. And it seems like Jeannie is frustrated that she gave him the keys and then they only got one championship out of it. I think

most teams, and I say this as a Nick fan, would be more than happy to hand over the keys and pay whatever the fuck amount of money that you have to pay to get one championship in 10 years. We wouldn't give a fuck. We would pay any amount of money.

We would give you any amount of buses, any amount of family on the plane. Most teams are NICs. Most teams are not winning championships. No, you're right. You're absolutely right. Most teams are NICs. Most teams aren't Lakers or Celtics.

That's fair. You know what I'm saying? Lakers and Celtics have an expectation every year to win a goddamn championship. What I would say is you spoil. Yeah. And be grateful for what you had. Be grateful the fact that the fans are, the stands are packed,

that people are paying exorbitant prices or tickets. Ticket prices are so fucking absurd. It's unbelievable. Ticket prices for everything. You want to go to the World Cup games. $2,000 to go to see a fucking World Cup game. I mean, Nick's ticket prices are insane. You know, since LeBron's signed with the Lakers in 2018, 2019,

he's reached the playoffs four times. 2019-20, NBA champions, 2020-21, first-round exit, 22, 23, conference finals, 23, 24, first round exit, 24, 25, first round exit. I didn't even know they made the play.

I thought they were playing in the fucking tournaments those times. Do you consider that successful? I mean, you won a championship, yeah. It's the lowest level of success. For a Laker, it's the lowest level of success.

But you won a championship. But you're six years have in the last 10 years. Yes, but you're 60s and Knicks, y'all don't count. We're talking about Lakers. When you go to LeBron, like, when you go,

when you're a Bronon, then you go to the Lakers. Think about the legacies, bro. I get what you're saying. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neill, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson.

He continues the narrative that Supreme players play for the Lakers, right? Yeah. So even if this didn't totally pan out to the degree they would have wanted, it continues the narrative

that, hey, the Lakers are the destination. Most big fish that the Lakers acquire, right? Key word, acquire. So, like, the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's, the Shakil O'Lews. Well, Magic was drafted as a rookie, so him and Kobe are a little different.

But most big fish that they acquire go to L.A. and win at least two, bro. And you only got Shaq and Kareem to base it off, right? It's really more about Luca at this point. That's the thing. If Luca doesn't deliver a championship, I think they'll look at that as a big bus. Well, so that's two in a row. Right. Even though LeBron did get a chip.

But it's still like, we're bringing in these big names, these super all-star caliber players, and they're not translated. If you come in and you win a championship, whatever happens next I think is kind of fine, dude. It's so hard to win in this league. Not when you're a Laker, bro. And why doesn't JJ Reddy get more smoke? Because he's only been coaching two years.

He's a DEI higher. Ooh, make that argument. He didn't earn it. Nope, no experience. No prior experience. None of these coaches that win have prior coaching experience. Yes, they do. They be having college.

At least play coaching college. Look up the last like five. coaches to have won NBA championship. They were assistant somewhere. Just let's look them up. They had to be assistant. I think they're all like first time NBA coaches. We're still talking about. Assistance though. He's never coached anywhere.

Why did you say last black? Just look at the last... No, no, that's fucked up. That's just... Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. I want you to still. Take that off real quick. It says the last black coach to win with a dude from the Celtics, but they got a picture of Bill Russell.

That's fucked up. They don't say that. Yes, it does. Look. Joe Mazza, what's his? Joe Mozilla. Mozilla, but he got a picture of Bill Russell. Right. That's fucked up. Go, go. Go, last five.

Go's winning a championship. Joe was an assistant with the Celtics. But. Michael Malone was an assistant. Joe was not an assistant with the Celtics. Because he was. No. I thought he came straight from Yukon. No.

What's his face got ran out? They promoted him. Yeah. Okay. Oh, what about Ker? Steve Kerr was the first time coach. No, he wasn't. No, he coached.

No, he wasn't. Well, he was in the front office in Phoenix. No, it was the first-time coach? Was he? But wasn't he an assistant somewhere? No. I think so. They were making a big deal that he was the first-time coach.

Hold on. And then he quieted the noise when he got some children. Nah, Steve Kerr was an assistant coach somewhere, bro. Hold on. What, the Spurs or something like that? I don't remember. He was doing TV. Yes, he was a first-time coach.

He was the general manager of Phoenix Suns, NBA analyst. It's not coaching. It's, it is not, it is not shocking that a first time coach will come. Listen, here's the now. And fuck that. I want JJ ready to get smoke, y'all. All right. Fuck all these.

Jay J. J. J. Coney's coming for you. The reason he should get smoke is because he's invited smoke. Because he talks way more than most time he's coaches about how his philosophy, what a great coach he is, how he understands basketball. That's why he should get, and he was LeBron James' podcast co-host. So that's yet another, you know,

move that LeBron and clutched them made. Now, I guess the verdict is still out on JJ. Reddick is only as a second year, you know what I mean? But I just feel like he should get more smoking. So, Bronny get Bronny so much smoke. He's like an average NBA coach. He's not terrible. Yeah, but the problem I have is the-

He's solid. Hey, how-the-ah. The problem I have with it is like, Bronny gets so much smoking. This is Bronny's second year, right? And they're like, oh, Brony's just here because of fucking LeBron. Why don't say that about JJ? They do.

No, they don't. You don't think that they say that he got hired because- They didn't even mention JJ in that article. They mentioned Brony. They mentioned Russell. I think we're living in an era where people don't think the coach matters. Damn. When it comes to basketball.

Like, I think that coaches are so transient. And what a lot of people don't realize is, like, a lot of the choices for the team come from management. So, example, like, the general. managers, if they're involved in the actual team and the gameplay, they'll tell the coaches what type of plays they're going to run, what type of offense,

what type of defense. And the coach will execute that. And when they're hiring them, because the GMs are the people that are building these teams, not these coaches that are placed in and out. But that's why I don't mind Steve Kerr ended up being a head coach because he was at least a GM. Well, I can tell you this. Nick Nurse has cost the Philadelphia's

76ers games this year. But Nick Nurse also won a championship with the Raptors. Off the strength of Why? That was it. Well, but again, the idea to hire nurse, right? Is Mori in the... What's that?

It's Darryl Mori in the front office. Well, no, I'm not even talking about seven-sixters. I'm talking about what the Raptors did, right? They're trying to find a coach that has a basketball philosophy that will fit the players that they've worked a decade. Which is long stretch forwards who can help get off the player and then get back and contest threes. Guess what the Sixers don't have?

Right. That. Guess what system he runs anyway. Right. That. But again, again, this is the whole. like a Mike Dantone thing, right? Where it's just like, okay.

Exactly. But we have to think about most of these coaches are not involved as we think. When we're kids, we're like, I want to be a coach and pick all the players on the team. GMs do all that. So the GM.

So that's why Steve Kerr was worthy of being a head coach. Because he's been in that position. He was a GM, yes. And he might have more control in picking the players and his offense has obviously been very successful

and he picked the players that work for the offense. But now you see he's human when he doesn't have the players as well. I will give JJ some credit. I mean, if you come from being a podcast, podcast, fucking co-host, and then you was 50 and 32.

That's not a bad season. That's a good season. You also have an aging veteran. You had a first round playoff exit, but that still was a good season. That still was a good season. And we are talking about a 40-year-old LeBron. You're expecting he's him. But I'm going to tell you something, and this is, this is a better point.

With wild injuries, too. Like, wasn't LeBron out have to see? I'm not, anybody looking for LeBron to still be the veteran, the guy is ridiculous to me. But I will give this to JJ Reddick, too. The problem with, and this is the critique, the problem with JJ as a head coach, if this aging veteran is the one who put you on, you can't say he's the problem.

Well, that is, right. You can't say, man, actually, you probably do need to move on from Braun right now. I love the guy, you know what I mean? But we need to move on for him. He's a man out of time. And now, you don't really have a position here, right? He's still a Bronn James.

That's why this article is. exists. This is the first move in separating from him, right? They're starting to show the fracture. Someone wants the world to know we're not on the same page. Now, what I think is real interesting, I'd be curious when your guy's reaction

to this, is the Rich Paul podcast comments, where he's saying trade Austin Reeves for Jaron Jackson Jr. I don't like it. And the reason... That's crazy to me. The reason I don't like it is because it causes unnecessary friction on the Lakers. Because if I'm Austin Reeves, I'm looking at Brown, like,

Yeah, what's up with your man? And Braun. Why your man want me out of here? Braun separated himself from the comments. Right? But at the same time, you have to look at it going, has Braun and Rich talked about this? Of course.

And Braun is saying, hey, Rich, I need you to put this in motion. I'm going to back away from it, act like you're your own man. But there's no way he's going to say something that's salacious without talking to Braun about first. It's not like Rich is stupid. So Austin Reeves, the agent got to go on a podcast and be like, the problem with the Lakers is actually LeBron James. That's who we need to treat.

That's who we need to get up out of it. Now, if you are the... And I know that sounds crazy because it's LeBron. Oh, no, it's not because it's LeBron at 41 years old. That's true. You know, we're in our 40s. We can't even get our dick 70%. You know what I mean?

This guy's playing 14 minutes. Now, LeBron definitely still getting bricked up. The shit he on is, like, because we just on peptides and shit. I'm not even on the peptides. I'm not even on the pepies. That's what I'm saying, the shit he on is probably next level. Oh, my God.

His dick probably wakes up for him. You know what I'm saying? Dick probably wakes up like, yo. Wake up, man. Time for practice. You know what I'm saying? He can hang a sheepskin. Oh, easy.

Easy sheepskin hang. You don't think so? He could hate that. Ron put a shirlin on that thing, man. Medieval armor. Easy, easy. Put a helmet on that thing. Put a knight's helmet on the king.

So you think he's on the juice? You think he's on a juice? I don't know if it's a athlete. Not illegal substances, but he's, you know. He's on something good. He's taking care of his body. He's an athlete. Like, why wouldn't he?

We're on supplements. We're going to get nad. and all that shit. Why wouldn't he be on some good shit? I need to get it. I'm not on any of that stuff. I'm just trying to get protein. But I need to. I'm not against it. I'm just lazy. I do. I wonder why Rich Paul is even doing the podcast. Like, I just feel like there's certain professions. We don't need that. Like, we don't need managers talking. We don't need, you know, agents talking. Is it entertaining? Yes. But I always ask this,

don't do a podcast if it affects your main thing. I can't see this not affecting his main thing. If I'm a player, why would I want to sign to Rich Paul knowing that my business are even not my business? I just respect the business of other players. I don't respect you going on podcast talking about people who should be traded because you might do that to me. Let me ask you a question. Okay.

If you're a young player and you know that LeBron is at the horizon of his career, he's maybe got another year left or something like that, would you even sign to Rich Paul knowing that Rich Paul's power and influence in the NBA is directly tied to LeBron James. That's interesting. Without LeBron James. Now, there is a version where LeBron could also

be part of the management company when he leaves, and he still will have some power and influence, but not close to as much as he has when he is the driving force of the biggest NBA franchise that signed the New York Knicks. What's the last young player that Riches sign in the NBA? Like, I'm talking about young star player. I don't know.

I really don't. I mean, he's got a big Roth. His client, which is crazy. Of course, but if you're a young, if you're a young player, like, you have to make that decision and you have to go, okay, he has tons of leverage right now with the league. He has tons of power with this team. He's got Maxie. Oh, really? Okay. But I'm just saying, like, if you're a young player and somebody's advising you, right? Let's say your kid is coming out of college and he's getting approached by all these people. If this is 10 years ago, you're like, go with Rich Paul. They dominate this league. They run this. They have so much power. There's so much leverage and everything. Right now, you're just, going, LeBron could not play next year, what leverage will Rich have? That's a good ass point. Right? Yeah, that's a great point. But, I mean, I think Rich still has leverage just because of clutch. He is one of the, I mean, the reason the podcast is making so much noise is because he's one of the most powerful agents, you know?

I agreed he's one of the most powerful agents, but he's one of the most powerful agents because he is LeBron's guy. But, I mean, he's still going to be connected to LeBron. I mean, LeBron may not be on the court, but LeBron James is going to be an ambassador for the NBA forever. Yeah, but the. the level of power and prominence and influence you have when you're no longer playing is like 90% less.

It's going to be different for LeBron. I don't know. No, it is because LeBron is going to be almost, like his career, almost Jordan desk. You know what I'm saying? Almost Jordan, but not quite there. Like Michael Jordan dominates the NBA still on a global level, bro. LeBron is like right there with him. Michael Jordan got an NBA, or did he sell a team?

Yeah, he did. He did. Yeah, he did sell it. Charlotte. Charlotte. He sold it, though? Yeah. Okay, so here.

LeBron don't end up getting the team. So here are Rich's clients, right? Where are we at? You want to read? You want to read that? I know he got Draymond. Go up, go up. Aaron Fox is a big name.

Anthony Davis is a big name. You got Anthony Davis. Who else they got there? Zackal Bean. You might believe in Arinas' kid as part of the next generation. I don't know. But see, that's what you got a bank on.

you got a bank on. You got to break on who is these next generation stars that, you know, Rich Paul had. Like the future of the league. Guy, Yang Hansen, Portland. He doesn't,

he doesn't have the big names in the league, if we're being honest. Maxie's his biggest young star. And Maxie is a stud. That kid's phenomenal. I mean, Van Fleet's a big player. Yeah, I get what you saying.

Yeah, yeah, Fred. I get what you're saying. I'm just saying, like, maybe that's why he started the pod. Maybe he's tired of being an agent. Maybe he like. Cooper flag. You didn't get Cooper flag.

You didn't get Cooper flag. You didn't, get Zion. You didn't get Zion. You didn't get Zion. You didn't get job when they were when they were supposed to be the people. And I wonder if I'm just very curious. Like obviously this guy is sharp, right? He's navigated his life and his career. Very well, right? There's no question. You know, like navigating the personalities of like absolute generational superstars like LeBron James is a difficult thing. You need high emotional intelligence to do. Like you have to give credit. Like a lot of people, oh, he's just his buddy and that's why he's not just your buddy. It's not just your buddy.

It's like you have to navigate the biggest athlete in the world and everything that comes with that. So you got to give credit to that if we're going to be, like, fair and honest. So why are you causing friction for this guy's team and unnecessary drama for this guy's team? Unless that's common from the king. So there's a thing that Chris probably knows way more about than any of us. But like, you know, like the Boston sports media mafia? Sure. Okay. And you could probably speak to this way better than me. But like the idea is Boston sports media led by bill fucking simmons who gave rich paula podcast just to destroy the lakers because bill simmons bill motherfucking simmons is a diehard boss of celtics fan and he wants the celtics to

continue to be the most winning his franchise in nba motherfucking history so he motherfucking gave rich paula podcast just to sabotage the motherfucking lakers now you are a fucking die bonoful guy man but what i would say is that uh what i would say is like what the boss of media would do is they would always protect Boston sports. And Boston sports were bigger than any player there was there. It was bigger than any coach who was there. And you could speak more than I can. But it's not like that in New York, right? New York, you have a bunch of different factions that all want different things for their teams. They'll talk shit about each other. There's no kind of like uniform identity for what's happening there. And, you know, maybe there's a version of this happening within the Lakers and

Clutch where it's like, okay, LeBron can't kick off, you know, Austin. They can't talk, LeBron can't talk shit about Austin because that could drive down his trade value, right? He can't say this guy on my team is not that good and then try to trade him for somebody good. Austin was smoking shit. But Austin was smoking shit this year. He might not be smoking shit in the way that

he was averaging 30 at one point. But he might not be doing it in a way that LeBron feels helps the team. This is the theory that I've heard. Austin's playing way better until LeBron came back. They can't resign Austin when his contracts up. He's a young superstar, a young white superstar. The Utah Jazz, any number of teams.

are going to go to the mat, and Rich Paul is just being realistic and looking at the situation and saying, you better get off this guy now. Because we will have, we won't be able to sign him and then we lose out. And we're going to lose him. He's right. So move him now. And that's a more cynical way would be like, what is Austin Reeves need to succeed? He likes the ball in his hand, right?

Like he, what is LeBron need? What is Luca need? They got too many guys. There's a lot of mouths to feed. Let's get rid of this kid. We're probably going to lose him anyway. Bring in Jaron Jackson Jr. He's a big man.

He's just going to rebound. do what he does. More, you know. But if you're an agent, shouldn't you be having that conversation? Didn't it be backroom conversations with the team. The thing that Rich Paul said is the type of shit that agents say every day of the week for the last hundred years. But behind those doors. They just don't say it on the pocket.

Yeah, not publicly. I'm trying to, my guy's in his last couple of years, he's been one of the greatest player. He is one of the greatest players of all time. We want to put him in the best possible position to succeed. Have those conversations with owners behind the scenes. Honestly, you know what's so crazy? Lakers got new ownership. Now that I think about it, he's probably having them conversations publicly because he don't have that leverage anymore with the organization.

Because he would have had those conversations privately with Jenny and the bus family. He don't have that type of leverage with the organization no more. Let me say them publicly. I feel like this is nothing new. Like whenever LeBron wanted a trade, he found a way to get that out to the people somehow. Maybe not in the podcast. Listen to what Charles saying. You don't have that leverage no more.

If you don't have that leverage with the team anymore, right? And the reason why you don't is because you're not winning. And you are not the dominant force that you used to be where you could single-handedly bare minimum will your team to an NBA champion, to at least the NBA champion chips. Maybe not winning it, but you could single-handedly bring your team there. That's how dominant LeBron was. In the East. Regardless.

No, it's in the East. All right, fine, in the East. But, like, there's credit there, right? Like so, so I wonder if this is a, you're doing this through frustration. You're just like, oh, shit, we don't have the leverage with the team anymore. And it makes sense that you don't have the leverage of the team. Why would the team blow everything up so that you could potentially win a championship this year when they got to deal with those decisions for the next decade?

So they're going, no, we're not going to do this dumb shit. We want to continue to build with this young talent. And he's like, all right, well, we're going to force your hand. There's a version of that. That's what that is. That's what it is. No, we just cracked the coat. That's what it is.

Rich don't have the leverage with the Lakers anymore. Ron don't have the leverage of the Lakers anymore. So he's venting on the podcast and using the podcast to get their attention. You know, it's all business at the end of the day. Because if you look at Rich Paul, right, he was Ben Simmons agent. Ben Simmons held out from the Sixers. It was incredibly acrimonious. Like the entire city was furious of Rich Paul, furious of Ben Simmons.

Rich Paul finally was like, this guy's not serious. They cut ties. then they had a situation with maxi last off season where they basically needed him to wait to sign his extension to get the max because due to the timing it would allow I think them to sign Paul George ultimately right who was Maxi's agent at the time rich Paul

most agents aren't going to let their client wait to sign the they're going to say get the money right now while you're healthy before rich Paul is going to play ball with people man like it you know as as hard as he went for Benson Simmons three years ago against Sixers. He hooked them up with Maxie. I mean, it's, these are just business relationships. Yeah.

I just bought this up just to say, I don't like all the grace y'all giving JJ Redick, bro. I'm being honest with you. I'm being honest because LeBron gets smoke, even Luca gets smoke. You know what I'm saying? Bronny gets smoke. JJ don't get no smoke?

None ever, not even a mention? Well, here's a question. And why do they attach all this other stuff to Bronny? and Rich Paul, I mean, LeBron and Rich Paul, but not JJ Reddick. But JJ can't coach LeBron into not being 41. Right. And I think that's the issue. If LeBron was 34 and they were having these struggles,

JJ's probably out of there. So LeBron's age is probably benefiting J.J. Reddick. If they're not winning, everybody gets to go, oh, is LeBron. All I'm saying is when the media talks, like you can read that article. They talk about Brony. They talk about Russell, Westbrook. People even talk about Rich Paul having a podcast, all being distractions and problems and this and that. Throw JJ in the mix, too.

Okay, he's a coach that got you all to 50 and 32 the first year, but he had a first round exit. I do think having a podcast is you're putting yourself in positions where you could fuck up the bag bag. There's only one thing worse than an-than- there's only one entity on this planet worse than an agent having a podcast. There's only one other title that a person can hold that is. is worse than an agent having a podcast. What is it? What is it? I'm just saying, yo, to me, list of people who shouldn't have podcasts.

If I had a list, top three list of people who shouldn't have podcasts. Agents is probably like three. Then I would say any type of manager in the entertainment business is number two. What about a lawyer? Oh, lawyer definitely should not have a podcast. Especially if you on there talking about my case. They're too smart to do that. Like a lawyer would never incriminate.

themselves. A lawyer would know how dangerous a podcast is and never have. After the case is over. After the case is over and I win or something you can go out there and talk about maybe how we got it done. They'll do a podcast invite. But yeah, number one people that shouldn't be due podcasts are keep your

You might as well say it because we go fucking cut it anyway. You might as well say it because we're going to cut it anyway. Just bleep, man. Blieps are so much fun. No. Let's pay some bills, guys. Yeah, yeah, we do. Yeah, we got to do. Let's pay some bills. We got any church announcements? Yes, church announcement. May 8th, Netflix is a joke fest.

Jelly Roll, myself, some special guests, a beautifully broken night of comedy hosted by Jelly Roll. I'm going to be on there and then we're going to have some special guests. You know, it's going to be a very, very fun night. We're not allowed to say just yet, but it's going to be a very fun, exciting night. That's what I would like to tell you all. So, you can go get tickets for that right now. If we're still in the pre-sale when this comes out, the pre-sale code is Andrew,

and we're going to be at the Greek in L.A., the Greek. So it's a beautiful venue, and Jelly's the fucking man. And I'm very excited. Yeah, yeah. So it's going to be very cool. You can't even call them Big Jelly no more. Jelly.

No, Jelly is slim. No, jelly laws. Man, wait. Yeah. I'm stoked to be doing something out there a little different with Jelly, and that's going to be great. Well, speaking to Netflix,

man, make sure you set your reminders for this. Monday, January 26th because the Breakfast Club's content will be on Netflix. Salute to Canada. I was on the, I was on the Zoom with a lot of the folks from Netflix and they were saying, you know,

I had posted that you know, I had posted for everybody to set their reminders on Instagram and I saw Canada really heavy in the comments, but they said Canada hit the, hit the Netflix line so much that they was like, yo, we got to launch them in Canada on

on money, too. So, yes, America and Canada, we are launching Breakfast Club on Netflix on Monday, January 26th. I mean, we're going to eventually be in, you know, 109 countries around the world, but Netflix in Canada are the first two coming this Monday. So make sure you go to Netflix, click on Breakfast Club or type in Breakfast Club, and then our pictures will pop up, click on it and set your reminders, man. Podcasting is coming to Netflix. They got original podcast.

now too. I saw that Pete's got one. Yeah, Pete Davidson. I did Pete's podcast. Pete's podcast is coming. But I will say this. And this is just for anybody who wants to get in the podcast space. Please remember, podcasting is audio, guys. Like, if you're going to launch a podcast, you've got to launch the video and you got to launch the audio.

So even if you're doing original podcast on Netflix, you still got to have that audio up on an RSS feed somewhere. If not, it's just a podcast. So you could say it's your first original podcast, but it's not your first original podcast. So Netflix, you know. So is there going to be a way to listen to the Netflix shows on audio too? Or they just exist on the original? Well, here's the cool thing.

If you have Netflix, you know you can watch Netflix shows on your mobile phone. So you'll still be able to watch Breakfast Club on your phone. But also, they have a feature to where you can close video but still have the audio. That's what. So it's the same thing. It's like it's just a new distribution platform for your audio. Just like nowadays you can go on Apple. go on Spotify, you can go on YouTube, you'll be able to do the same thing on Netflix.

Because there are some people who actually, believe it or not, go to YouTube just to listen. Oh, 100%. You know? I think a lot of people at work are throwing it up on YouTube and they're doing whatever they're doing at their job. Maybe they pop in or the video gets crazy and then, but they have another window open. Absolutely. And guys, if you're in the tri-state area this Saturday, I'm throwing a comedy show. It's also a benefit show.

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Get your tickets there. I'll see you guys this Saturday. Trump backed off of Greenland. Said he's not going to invade Greenland with force. Good. I mean, that's more than good. That is the right thing to do. I think our reputation around the world is permanently damaged.

Oh, really? Yeah. I don't even know what that means because, I mean, it's like, it's kind of like saying, yeah, we don't fuck with them, but we got to fuck with them. Because it's still America at the end of the day, right? So, yes, the reputation is permanently down. If I'm any country, if I'm any country in the world, I don't trust America at all. And I'm ramping up all nuclear weapons programs just in case.

Not saying that we would ever go to war with the nuclear weapons are what keeps everybody from even thinking about being so sporty that they might jump. Like, you can't tell me. me not to ramp up my nuclear weapons program because I just don't trust what may come out of America at this moment. Yeah. Yeah. You talk about just invading countries? Like, I don't understand. You know what was so interesting when he said that they have to do it because it's like a threat to our national security if we don't. It's a threat to our national security if you do. There's an argument for that. Even just making the threat is a threat to our national security.

Why? If you're talking about going into another country and taking it over. Yeah, but they don't have a military that can. What about everybody else? I think the argument would be, if I was to make that argument, it would be like, okay, well, would NATO fracture from America? And then if NATO fractures, like, there's a reason why Putin is so supportive of this. It's not because he's invading Ukraine. It's because he likes the fracture between America and NATO, because he understands that

NATO can't function without America. It's not even, it's not even, it, Putin realizes what I think the, you know, the, you European leaders seem to realize a little bit more now at this Davos thing, but they kind of like lived in the illusion for a while that they maybe pretended to not know it or something, but which is like without America's support, which I think they donate like 65% of the money for NATO, NATO isn't like a functional defense system against Russia, which would be the closest enemy to Europe. So of course Putin's like, hey, I think I think Trump should go grab that shit. Anything that drives that wedge between America and NATO. Because if a American,

America's not defending Europe from Russia, whoever else, then they're fucked. But then why do you want to be America to have all these European countries click up? Then you still got Russia and you got China. And the common enemy is not America. I'll give you an example, right? Yeah. We're all people in this room. Yeah.

Somebody in this room stood up and swung on somebody in this room. Yeah. We wouldn't trust them to be in the room anymore. Yeah. That's America right now. Are you describing past experiences? I'm just saying Too soon

I'm just saying That's America right now Nobody trust America Right That's not good bro That causes global instability Like why Yeah so why

Yeah that's interesting Talk through that Talk through that That's it That's how to say It causes global instability Once again We said that it was a

It's a national security threat If we don't go into Greenland To me as a national security threat Just even threatening to go into Greenland Because why? What is the argument for needing Greenland for national security? I have, oh, because what was it?

Chris, because it's close to Russia or some shit. I don't fucking know this. I mean, it's really about the resources is what I think. I mean. So then it's not. The Golden Dome, they need that particular area to block off from Russia. My also understanding is that like with the polar ice caps melting or whatever, there's going to be a lot more waterways that will start to open up.

And then America's leverage on the world is controlling trade on, I mean, There's other leverage, but one of the leverage is the fact that the American fleet can kind of control all these different trade routes around the world. And if more trade routes open up and they don't have access there, which they could have access, they already have the, they already have the military bases in Greenland. And Greenland is already letting them do whatever they want to do. It's a very peculiar. No, why it don't make sense. What? Because it's just a distraction.

It's just a distraction. Okay, so can I tell you my theory? My theory is at some point maybe Just maybe People are going to stop bringing up the FSTI. Every time they bring them shit up He goes crazy

Get me Maduro That's what I'm saying He goes crazy At some point somebody's gonna be like You know guys Yo you know what's weird And I don't want to leave this But talking to the absentee

You know what's weird is like You know what remember when the Clintons were like You know release the whole shit they like they basically do you remember that but they're like this is incriminating to me i want you to release the whole epstein file so they put out this statement that was basically saying that do you remember that happened kind of a few weeks ago i didn't know they wanted the whole thing out or they said just release it all right i think that they were subpoenaed to come in front of the the committee that was investigating this or something like that and they rebuked it you see that yes but i heard a

good theory about think about it it it's like trump is doing everything in his power to distance himself from it when we know he's clearly in it right I wouldn't go up and be like, oh, so you're going to try to embarrass me, but you know you're in this shit too? Like, nah. Well, he should have to show up too. Everybody should have to. Yeah, everybody. Trump's the main one that's like, oh, scrub my name from it.

Which is bullshit. We want justice for those girls. So all of y'all are going to have to go in front of it. Exactly. But they don't get to not go because he's bitching out on it. Yeah, but he, but imagine if you were Clinton, you're like, no, I'm not fucking going up. If this guy's not going to. So my statement would be that.

So if on the Clintons, I make the statement, we will gladly go as long as everyone else there that's mentioned would go. That would be a better opinion. Because what it looked like from the statement is, oh, we're not going at, which makes you look wild guilty. No, I'm trying to find. I saw a good theory about this shit, man. Why don't you say that?

Be like, we would gladly go. And we would, just as long as everybody else there who's mentioned and Donald Trump is clearly mentioned, and we will both go. That's fine. Now you're putting pressure instead of backing off and looking guilty. This is the theory I heard. House Republicans are beginning to push the hold of the Clintons

in contempt of Congress over that. Epstein probe. People are saying it's a brilliant move by the Clintons because being held in contempt of court or Congress means you defy the legal order like a subpoena or court ruling. And this action itself often triggers further legal steps and forces the issuing body court or Congress to take action to compel compliance often through a motion to compel discovery to get the information or action they need in this case to Trump Epstein files. I think you can accomplish that same thing while at the same time saying, but you got to show up I don't know because they didn't want the hearings to be public.

They want the hearings to be private. Why would you want the hearings to be private? Nobody has read that article. That's the problem. The point is like a lot with this obscene thing, it's this gigantic like PR machine behind it. And it's fingers pointing. It's a Spider-Man meme, right? It's Republicans go, oh, it's the Democrats.

It's Democrats going, oh, it's Trump. He's there. And it's like everybody's pointing. And everything you do in every statement you make is either looking like you're guilty or looking like you're trying to avoid it. So with you saying, like, he's snatching up Maduro or trying to take Greenland as a distraction, people go, oh, yeah, he's, I think you're interpreting this. You're like, oh, yeah, see, he's guilty. He's trying to create distractions around this.

Where when the Clintons don't show up, yes, there might be this sophisticated answer that you just said, that opens up discovery, and now we actually get to see all the evidence and makes it public. That might make sense. But the PR game is they're not trying to show up. And if you're not trying to show up, is you're trying to avoid something because you're guilty, especially after they bluffed with the, you'll release all the, files thing. Well, maybe the PR game is working because that theory is all I'm seeing, uh, circulate. Have you seen that? I haven't. This just happened this morning though. So give

it a minute. Yeah, give it a second. Up until this point. Oh yeah, yeah. This is what I'm this came out? What? Something I know, I know that they got, they skipped out. They must have skipped out on another one or something. No, no. So first they, X bill to come in and then the next day it was Hillary. Hillary, okay. All right. Well, yeah. So, so that's this, what I just read that theory, I just read, that's started. to calculate now. So what's the deal with Greenland? It looks like there's there's a framework where America gets to build bases wherever they want and you don't want that. Denmark has no say. If America goes into Greenland and then Chris loses his homeland, you know what I'm saying?

Because China's definitely going to Taiwan. You know, then Russia can take Ukraine. Like, there's no, there's not even, there's no moral standard for anything anymore. No, no, no, no. That's not what I'm saying. The framework that they seem to have agreed upon is that America gets to build military bases without autonomy. Oh, I didn't see no agreement. Did they come to? Yeah, that's what they started.

That's what they started saying yesterday. Okay. Like, the details aren't fully out, but that's kind of what. More or less what they're probably going to have agreeing on. So America doesn't buy it. The citizens of Greenland don't get any money.

They don't become American, but America gets access to the minerals and they can put their military bases wherever they want, not wherever they want, but in these certain... But don't they already have military bases there? So this is the thing

that I think people are missing out on. I think that Denmark would have been amicable. Is that the word to disagreement? And Greenland would have been amicable to disagreement before all the hullabaloo. No. So the issue is, and I saw this is the video back from like 2000. That's the white word I've ever heard you say in my life. What?

Hullabaloo? Hullabaloo? The fuck? I feel like that's Arabic. I don't even think I said. I feel like that's a drastic. I don't even know a word. I feel like I did.

I feel like I dipped some pita into that last week. Hullabaloo, that's a white word? All right, go. No, not, but so basically China was already in Greenland, like trying to get access to minerals and then Trump blocked it. So that's why he wants to own it. So then it just keeps China and Russia out from the minerals. Right. That's the main thing.

No, no, no. I understand that. I'm saying the current framework, right, is something that I believe could have been agreed upon without the threat of military activity. Yeah, but why would Denmark want to not make money? So, so what do you mean by that? With having China, like, if China is willing to invest just so they can have some mineral rights, some mines and stuff like that, why not? Because they would lose the support of the West, right?

The idea is that if you're putting them in, if you're putting China who's, I guess, like an adversary in an advantageous position to have the majority of these rare earth metals that we require to make all the batteries for our phones and all the other things that we need, that you're putting us in a position where we're going to be reliant on a foreign power that doesn't have maybe our best interests at heart. And America's going to give pushback to that. And there might be European leaders that get pushed back to that. So what I assume is through, why would we assume that they wouldn't have our best interests at heart? Like what China? Well, not China. I'm talking about like Denmark.

No, no. Who are you talking about? China having influence. Oh, got you, got you, got you. What I'm trying to say is, is I think that this could have been reached without the classic Trump approach, which is like, say the biggest, wildest, this craziest thing, and then meet in the middle. But I have to distract you from the Epstein five. Of course, of course. What are we talking about here? We're trying to make sense of something that doesn't make any sense.

Here's the problem. You know the problem? Everything Trump throws against the wall sticks. Some people throw shit against the wall and nothing sticks. Right. Everything he throws against the wall sticks. And now you're like, fuck. Well, I didn't think he realized

how well the Venezuela thing was going to go over. Like, I think they pitched it to him. And they were basically like, all right, we're just going to go with helicopters, and we're going to hit this button and everybody's heads are going to explode and the guns ain't going to work. and then we're going to snatch him.

And he was like, you could do that? And they were like, yeah. And then it happened. And he was like, oh, shit. We got weapons weapons. And immediately after that, he's like, Iran, we might take you. Cuba, we're going to take you. Greenland, I want that.

That was wild, bro. I think he was. He named 10 countries, bro. I think he got a little. It's like when you knock someone out. Like, after that, you look at everybody. Say what? Why you don't care about Cuba?

No, they're taking Cuba. Why you don't care about Mexico? He named six to seven countries. not only everybody just got stuck on Greenland, bro. It's, I'm telling you, it's the confidence you have after you chaos someone in a fight. You're like, everybody's jaw could get touched. And I think that he needs to just calm down, come back to reality.

But that doubt, because this is not what we don't, we don't want to, like, irritate our partners in the world. We can have good diplomatic conversations with Europe. We can have, like, a real, we can have a real discussion with Europe where we go, hey, guys, I get it that you want, you believe in climate change, and it's important to you to be, like, net zero with carbon. or whatever, but if you don't have the ability to produce energy on your own, now you're

reliant on energy for your adversaries. If you're buying oil from Russia while you're at war with Russia, that's a conflict of interest. Don't you see that? Yes, and you know what else? You don't want to... Real quick, real quick, real quick. If you don't, if you want to get off nuclear energy, I think like Germany shut down all their nuclear facilities, now you're more reliant on oil and gas from Russia. If you're just using battery-powered stuff and you're you don't have the ability to make batteries, right? Now you're relying completely on China for that. And this is not, like having these discussions is not, shouldn't be a fucking bully tactic, but it should be a real conversation the West wants to have, which is, hey, guys, it's great

we want to move towards net zero carbon emissions. That's awesome. That's a great endeavor. Climate change is real. Like, this is a good thing. But we have to first prepare ourselves in order to do that. So, for example, if you have a babysitter and you realize it's not working out with that babysitter. Before you fire the babysitter, you make sure there's someone else that can look after your kids. Be it, you stay home, your wife stays home, or you have another babysitter waiting.

You don't just let the kids sit there in the fucking cold all day. You're being way more rational about this than Donald Trump. I don't know that's all that. I like all that. That's the argument I'm trying to make. I don't like the way he's going about it because I think that there is a fair balanced diplomatic way to go about where

the West has a real and I think that people are starting to realize, okay, UK had, I think, drilling rights in the North Sea. I think they want to be net zero emissions, so they stopped doing the drilling. Norway continues to do drilling. They just purchased that oil from Norway, I'm pretty sure. I'm a casual with a lot of this information. So it's just like, so the carbon emission just changed from your country. It didn't change from the world because you still rely on that oil. You have to find a way to transition out of these things without putting your country in a very desperate situation. And I think that's a fair conversation to have

without being uber political. Yeah, but he's not trying to have a great conversation. He's just trying to distract from Epstein. Okay, okay. I think there are other things. But we've, our policy have moved away from that. I mean, the, the Venezuela invasion shows that we're doubling down on oil as our- Plenty oil.

So, you know, the one thing Trump's done did this. If I could just say. Why do you act like Trump's doing anything except for getting rich? Okay, okay, yes. Trump don't care about, like, we got to stop. Trump doesn't. I'm not, I don't like how this is being framed. No, no, no, I'm not talking about you.

I'm just saying in general. Trump is getting rich, guys. I know, and it's fucking horrible. Levels of corruption we have never seen. And we don't like it. None of us should like it. No, I'm actually, I'll take that back. I'm not going to say levels of corruption we've never seen.

Levels of corruption we haven't seen so done so publicly. Here's a thing. If you're a conservative, right, that gets upset at Nancy Pelosi for rigging the stock market for her, you should be equally upset at Trump or his, you know, cronies doing the same thing. and enriching themselves, okay? Like, it is completely reasonable if you're going to be objective.

If we're going to be ideologues, which is the only thing that fucking exists on the internet, let's just be honest, where you just go, I'm a right-wing guy, I'm a left-wing guy, and you just spout out all the talking points from that party. I get it.

And that's the only thing that works on the internet, and that gets all the views, and yada, yeah-da-ya-ya-a. And then it doesn't matter. But the reality is, is like, if you see corruption, you can call it out. You've got to.

And that's okay. And this is corruption. Like, we've never seen... Absolutely. A hundred percent. The first person to buy, to get some of the oil from Venezuela was a Trump megadona. Bro, Melania Trump has a documentary coming out. 80 million dollars.

How much was it? 40. 40 million dollars from Amazon. Do we really think... Oh, 28. I'm sorry. Do we really think for seconds that Amazon is not going, hey, it might be advantageous to do a little fucking $28 million dollar non-germint?

Like, of course, there's a lot of fucking handshaking here that is gross and we don't like it. Did you see this article in New York Times? I saw, uh, this is like classic fucking, I just saw the Instagram post where they did the slides of it. Major tech and media companies have paid Donald Trump 90.5 million in settlement since his re-elected. You guys are worried about what he's getting. That's the most foolish thing. Like this is, this is like, you caught up in a car, gave Mr. Trump a $400 million. Charlemagne, Charlemagne, Charlie, Charlie, and he will use his Air Force one while president. You're doing the low IQ. You're doing the low IQ corruption. Like all the deals, Cushner.

Yeah, like, oh, no, no, but like, no, but like, like. Just pointing this shit out is like... Of course. Is Charlemagne, pointing this out is the dumb stuff. No, it's not. Can I just point, can I just finish the sentence? It's the dumb shit because it's a distraction from the actual shit that is every... We can do both.

We're smart enough to call it all out. No, no, you can call it all out. The Trumps have made at least $867 million through barriers. So now... The Trump's... That's better. Now, now you're talking. Yeah.

So the... It's all the same. So all the people that were frustrated that, like, Biden put his... crackhead son on this board of a, what is that, oil and gas company or what exactly was a petroleum company or something like that? Light work. What was it? Yeah. No, but yeah, it was. The point is the frustration. I like my corruption guy. I like my corruption done under the with the, with the, covertly. But the point is the frustration with that, right? Like, is very reasonable. And that same frustration can exist if you care about America, you don't want

our politicians to enrich themselves when they're in office. You want them to just do the fucking job. Like, it'd be nice if a politician lost some money being a politician, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be nice if, like, a rich guy got in office and he was poor than before he got there? That would be fucking great. I hate how we politicize even corruption. Like, can't we just be annoyed by it, no matter who does it? We can be annoyed when he does it. We can be annoyed with Pelosi does it. We can be annoyed when there's the Somali daycare scam. We can be annoyed by all these things. Yes. Because what they showcase is Americans aren't eating first. All these things

showcase that Americans aren't eating first. And that's what the fuck Americans are feeling right now. Why are we eating last? But who ran on America first? Charlemagne. We're not saying the same thing right now? Yeah, I'm with you. But that's why people are agreeing with me. Like, I'm just saying, the American sentiment right now is this. I'm making an amount

of money. I can't afford the things that I used to be able to afford. Okay? Things get way more expensive. I used to be able to take my kids and my wife on one vacation a year. Now, I can't even do that. I got an Uber on Saturdays just to afford to put my kid in football in Pop Warner football. And I voted for you to fix it.

And Barron's just getting taller. Okay. And not because of his height because he's standing on his fucking ass. Barron! How much of Barron got like $300 out of crypto? It was a crazy number. Did you see the number Barron got out of crypto? You're talking about the tokens and all this.

I don't remember what it was. You know, they're getting paid. Here's the thing. Americans have a right to be frustrated on both sides of the aisle with this. But that was my point. It doesn't seem like his big. face is frustrated. I don't think that that's... And listen, listen, I don't know if that's true because I think all we see are people

defending him on the internet and then people shitting on him on the internet. I would imagine if you asked a regular American, are they frustrated with politicians enriching themselves when they're in office on both sides of the aisle, right? If they're frustrated by it, I think that you would see, you would see them go, yeah, I think that sucks and I don't want that to happen. If they're reasonable, if they're just these ideologues that just go, I believe in everything right, but you also have to understand like... And his approval rating with his base are not good right. Dude.

It's approval rating with the GOP or not good. Can we just point out something that, like, Trump is an ideologue, right? He has his ideology and he has his belief systems. And he is such a gravitational force that, like, the people that believe in him and feel supported by him look the other way at things that actually go against their general very nature. And this is the point we're talking about like... That's what's so funny.

His actual ideology isn't what they believe. Well, well, no, this is... But I think this is like... This is the most obvious human thing, right? Is it when human beings feel represented by something and something very core to them, something very important to them, they have this ability to, like,

look the other way at things that would be abhorrent, right? Like, think about your favorite sports team. Like, when they make a bad trade or have a bad game, you're still rooting for them. They're like, that's my team. And I think, I think it's even, I think if we even go further back, like, I think it's like why a lot of people felt disillusioned

by like Biden and Kamala. It's like them, their handling of Gaza was atrocious to a lot of us. And it was just really, and it was really hard to see that and not see any pathway forward, not even seeing them talking about the stopping of it, not even seeing them even mention a plan or anything about it. And like, it was just really difficult to see that. It was really difficult to see that destruction. It was really difficult to see fucking.

He also told us that he wasn't going to be the president of war. Sure. It was really difficult. We're not talking about him right now. We're really difficult to see. That was wow. But it was really difficult to see dead baby. Like those things are really difficult.

And sometimes, and I think that there is a lot of Democrats, right? Like, not just myself, but like a lot of people, I think, probably abstained from voting because they didn't want to support more of that. And then they also didn't want to support Trump, which is very privileged position to be in. Essentially abstaining is basically supporting the person who won. But I think that is what happened. Like, you get caught on these things. So Trump is an ideologue, and he is such gravitational force that his believers that believe in him will look the other way at certain things. And I think it's important for us.

And again, I'm not trying to like fucking preach anything. But I think it is important to us, like, if you don't see yourself as an ideologue. But I also think we're now... You look at these different people and you call them out of the things that you disagree with that go against what your, you know, instincts are about what? But then you get labeled and not elulge anyway. I mean, hold on. I want to hear that. But you know what none of y'all are doing?

Can I just hear this point? What are you saying? All right. I've been someone who's been accused of having TDS any number of times a million times, right? I'm not naughty a lot. I know that. People might not believe me in saying that. I don't think you are. But if I criticize Trump the way I have, I've got TDS. And that's the issue when you have, I agree with what you're saying. But the problem is there's not room right now to call out what, in my opinion, is like incredibly blatant corruption, you know, recognizing. of the Constitution, threat to democracy, but you're still going to get labeled as an ideologue in this environment. I think what happens right now is that, like, you have to stomach that because the easiest way to dismiss you and your criticism is to just label you as an ideologue on TDS.

And that's, to me, that's just the opposition and not wanting to know the truth, right? Sure. That's just trying to live in a false reality. Look up Trump's approval rating with Republicans. And the reason I want you to bring that up. It's higher than you think, because I checked it the other day. What is it? At least in the New York Times, Paul, it was kind of...

Again, and just, and I want to hear your thoughts on, too, but, like, I just think that, like, that's what you have to do. And, you know, Lord knows, like, me... Every time I call Trump out, like, people are frustrated about you. You had them on your podcast, et cetera. It's like, yeah, the easiest thing in the world for me to do right now is just to become a right-wing ideologue. That would be easy.

There would be security there. Everything would be fine. But that's just not who I am as a person. And, like, talking freely, being a fucking free American and saying the things I'm frustrated by, but also, if there's something that is good, that he happens to do, then I'll say that too. Like, if he, I don't think he'll get it done, but if he actually stops these, like, institutional banks

from buying up all the single family homes, so regular fucking middle-class Americans can't buy him, that would be a good thing. And if that's Bernie who puts that through or it's him who puts that through, I support it. But you know why he said that. Well, because he knows, I assume he knows affordability is the most important fucking thing to Americans right now,

and he has to look out. It sounds good to Americans, but also like, hey, man, I see y' all over there getting all that motherfucking money. I need my tribute check. So I'm going to stop. this shit if I don't get my mother fucking trip. That is a classic Trump move.

That's a classic. So look, that is one way of looking at it for sure. But if there is a version where drug prices come down, if there's a version where middle class people get the opportunity to buy a home. Like, we have to start acknowledging the fuck shit that people are going through in this country. And it might be a little bit easier for us because we were fortunate enough and lucky enough, lucky enough to make some money.

But there are people who can't buy a home. They don't see any upward mobility in their jobs. I know, absolutely. And then they see money leaving the fucking country, and they see us spending billions of dollars on fucking stupid pet projects around the fucking world. And then you see my fucking president getting fucking rich. And then you see they're making a trillion fucking dollars

for it is, and they have every right to be frustrated. I will say this, though, because y'all keep saying one thing that I don't know if it's as true as y'all think it is. I keep hearing people say, like, you know, the base isn't calling it out. I'll be outside. And they're frustrated by it. It's mad people frustrated.

In a real, real, real, real, real, real, real motherfucking way. People hurt. Because ever since the Epstein files and I said this shit, people started paying attention. They realized they're being lied to. So now they're paying attention to all of the lies that they're hearing telling people that grocery prices are down. No, the fuck they're not. Oh, I see that. I see that. I see people upset about that. But that's what I mean. Now, hold on. He did stop eight wars. Yo, can I tell you something about that grocery prices shit? I'm not going to name the spot, but like a place that I go to regularly.

some of the people who worked there were like, the eggs cost less money now. I looked at how much the eggs cost when they buy them. And they haven't adjusted their cost to the eggs. Now we're conditioned to paying X amount for eggs. This is the thing.

It's like... I've seen that with coffee. So back in the day when we were growing up, a cup of coffee drip, not the fancy European shit. There just was a dollar. Once we started paying $5 for a Frappuccino, all of a sudden, bumped up the drip coffee to a pay $450 for a drip yesterday.

And you think it makes sense because we're normalized. So like, there is a version where business owners, now that you know the cost of goods have gone down, you got a responsibility to the people too. Like, the people were paying more than they could afford because they needed to eat. Now that it's cheaper for you, bring it back to the regular

price. Yeah, but this just came out yesterday, guys. American families paid $310 more for groceries in 2025 than the previous year, according to a new report, despite messaging from this Trump administration that food affordability pressures are easing. By the way, I don't even got a motherfucker. I didn't even have to read that report to know that

because I pay for groceries. Bro, this is the thing that people don't realize. And by the way, that's the same mistakes Biden made. Same mistake Biden made, telling people that things are okay. We're here. We go to the grocery store every freaking day. You can't continue to pee on my head

and tell me that it's motherfucking raining even if it's a rust and prostitute doing it. And also, And also, we got this, masculine need this because I got to go. But this shit is crazy. This shit is crazy on a different level, bro. This is why I think people are starting to realize, like, the allure of Mamdani, right? It's like, it's not like, oh, we need socialism.

Oh, we need communism. That's not what these kids are addicted to. Like, it's not like every one of them has been turned into a communist at these college institutions that they go to. That's not what this is. This is downstream from going, I can't afford my rent. What the fuck is going on? How are there people out here making billions of dollars and then you don't even put the heat on

during the coldest week of the fucking of the year? I don't like you giving Mondani credit for this. Why? Because we, I know for a fact, I've been on this podcast for the longest thing, Americans care about two things. Having more money in their pocket and feeling safe.

I agree. You are a politician who can make American people feel that. You are good money. That's what Trump. We might even like, go get you. Did you want a pocket 1.4? That's what Trump. So here's the thing is that that's what Trump ran on.

But no, but that's what Trump ran on. He ran on affordability, right? Yes. Now, now it's not being executed. But I think that's why Trump didn't rebuke Mumdani in the office. I think that's why he cozied up to him because he's like, You want to get a little bit of that. He goes, I can't bully the guy who's literally trying to give the people

and very well might give the people the affordability that I keep talking about. Well, he did say when the Democrats talk about it is bullshit. He said when the Democrats need the affordability. Of course, this is the ideologue bullshit. You know, there's this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about affordability. They just say the word. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. You just say it.

Affordability. The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats. But the point is, is like, people are hurting. They need some help. And if they don't foresee it anywhere else, they will go to government. And if you don't want it to come from government, you have to create something that allows them to be to alleviate a little of that pressure. And I wish I could prescribe the exact thing right now.

Obviously, I can't. I don't know if any of you guys can. Which is? Money. We can't print more that shit. Yes, you can. No, we can't. We can't fucking rain.

We can steal it from Venezuela. Might as well, listen. 500 million. Trump's quote yesterday. Usually they say he's a horrible, he's a horrible dictator type person. I'm a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator. Usually they say he's a horrible.

dictator type person. I'm a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator. What the fuck? He should be out of here just on that. It's game over. What the fuck? Game over. Or at least the America I grew up in.

This is the thing. I don't know what this America is. He's scared because that's why he's like if they lose the midterms, they're going to impeach impeach him again. I think that would be a waste of time. This is the thing where like, I think that would be a wish. This is the thing where they can actually impeach him and get him out. I think that would get away time.

But you know the other thing I thought about this, I do have to go. The other thing I thought about is the reason I'm also glad the Greenland thing didn't happen. If the military went in the Greenland, wouldn't that tell us that our military is compromised? Why? Because it's unlawful. It's unlawful. It's against international law. It's against constitutional law.

It would be an unlawful order. Yeah, but he would find a way to mask it to make it seem like, oh, the military is not stupid. They're not dumb? They mean, they did that with Venezuela? I mean, they did that with weapons of mass destruction, too. But this would be completely different. Like, all intel and all intelligence says there's no reason to go into green. Yeah, but Venezuela.

Like, there was no Congress approving that. That wasn't a war, though. That wasn't an invasion. I think you're being. It was people on the ground. No, that's not an, they didn't invade Venezuela. They went for a particular mission. This was to be an invasion of green.

I think you're being naive to how global politics really works. Tell me. I think that there are these rules set out, and they are, really on a global scale. Invading Greenland is against international law. Can I just point it out? There are these rules set out and they're on a global scale enforced, and I put that under quotes, by America. Meaning if America is not going to enforce it, you can do whatever you want, i.e. Russia, Ukraine. What Russia, Ukraine did is wrong, but America hasn't enforced it, therefore it's happened. So if we are the enforcer of the world, and that is something that Europe

subscribe to when we pay 65% of NATO or whatever it is, is and we don't follow our own rules, who's going to enforce our own rules? But isn't this unprecedented? I'm not saying it's right. It's a NATO ally. I feel like you're thinking I'm defending it, which I'm not defending. I've already said very clearly I'm against this type of stuff. I think you can do it through diplomatic relations, I would hope, right?

And make it advantageous to everybody. Like, I like having good relationship with Europe. Like, I want that, right? But what I'm saying is if we are the person, we are the body that enforces the rules and we are not willing to enforce them on ourselves, then who would? But this would be America policing America. This is the American military saying, no.

That's Congress has got to do that. The military has never. So that's another reason. If you're bypassing Congress, right? And if Congress is saying there's no reason to go in Greenland, which they've said. Right. And if the military still decides to say, fuck Congress. I'm listening to the president.

Wouldn't that mean the military's compromise? Sure. Well, they have some good ass food if that fucking meeting they had with the generals and admirals a few months ago. They have to file orders. Yeah, the military follows the orders of the president. Not unlawful orders. Well, now we get into bog down.

At least the- constitutional law, guys? Yeah, unfortunately. What? What they would say is there's like a, I forget the exact name of it, but there's like a 60-day clause where you can enact certain policies

and then in that period of time, you have to get them approved by Congress. The idea is like, if a country attacks us, do we really get every senator and every congressman in the building and then have a vote and decide what we're going to do. No, sometimes you need to act fast. But there is a window in which you would view that thing

as a constitutional unconstitutional act. And I think the real point of- The military does have the right to say no, though. The military can say no if they feel like it's- They're not going to do that. I mean, what you need is some shit like Bush did and Cheney did with Iraq where they- It's never really a war.

They come up with some convoluted excuse and they give testimony, and they have the yellow cake and all that bullshit and then everybody eventually goes through with it. You know, maybe Trump doesn't feel like he even has to go through that sort of. No, he's not going to try to get congressional. But I don't think you can expect the military

because you almost don't want that because if the military doesn't go... You don't want the military saying no to an unlawful order? Then the military is going to fracture. That's how you get civil war. Like... Besides what's lawful. Yeah.

Oh, we're fucked. It must have to be somewhere. Yeah, I got to go. Listen, as all of all. I'm sorry, man, we'll do asking idiots next week. But as always, if you listen to this podcast, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant, you're absolutely right.

But if you listen to this podcast, I think we're just a couple idiots that don't know shit, you're right too. It's the brilliant idiots' podcast. Thank you for listening.