The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Kid Mero on Zohran Mamdani's rise, Eric Adams' hilarious scandals, Knicks check in | 11.04

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

Bomani Jones is joined by Kid Mero, of 7 PM in Brooklyn to discuss the New York City's mayor's race, including the unprecedented rise of Zohran Mamdini & Andrew Cuomo's bizarre pierced nipple. Later, they reflect on Eric Adams' WILD 4 years in office and do a quick check in about the New York Knicks. 03:00 - The rise of Zohran Mamdani 11:00 - Eric Adams, corrupt but hilarious 23:00 - Zohran's appeal and the billionaires who fear him 34:00 - Concerned about the Knicks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. This time of week, we got a guest joining us.

Check him out. It's the Kim Merrill, man. Like, I lose track of what everything is. It's the Victory Light podcast. I just feel like at this point, you are your own freestanding entity. bro i i i'm not a business man i'm a business man you know what i'm saying to quo but now you know we all right we we got listen like i always say bow i got four kids and two mortgages i got to stay in motion you know if a shark stop swimming they die so we got to

we got to keep the motion motioning you know you are definitely operating on the this is a long-term game program it's like my daddy's argument for shopping and getting gas at the cheap place it's not about one tank. It's about a lifetime behavior of getting tanks. And then eventually you snack your bread. That's it. That's it. That's it. And that's all, man.

I'm just out here trying to get it. So we got Victory Life. We got 7 p.m. You know what I mean? We got a quarter to the kid. We got, you know what I'm writing? I'm writing a book of essays about fatherhood, you know, because I got way too many kids to count.

You know, so it's a lot of content coming from your boy. I'm going to be honest with you, brother. You're going to have to earn the, I'm going to listen to Merro about being somebody's daddy like benefit. Like when that book comes out, send me the copy. Oh, for sure. You're getting a galley.

Don't worry about that. But it's like, it's more like observational stuff. It's not a manual. Don't get it twisted because I tried to do that. And then I was like, you know what? Let's pivot away from this because I'm probably, I mean, I get very good advice about being the dad. But, you know, it's outside the box thinking.

You know what I'm saying? You're not going to find my advice in what you're expecting. I have no reason. Yeah, like, I have no reason to think that you're not good at dadding, right? I just don't have that many reasons to assume that you are. And that's not about, that's as much about me as anything else. You know what I'm saying? Like, you have to admit you have built a brand that does not imply that we should be leaving

kids with you. But, hey, I'm the fun uncle, except what I'm your dad is 24-7. You know what I mean? Like. Right. See, there we go. And now we have hit on, now I want to read this book so bad.

Like, now I'm in. The homie Roy Woods got a book about fatherhood and what he learned from different men in his life. And I were hoping to get him on to talk about that. And so that could be an interesting juxtaposition. Roy the dad versus Miro the dad. Like, we always ought to have you guys together, like doing a like a face-off sort of thing

on your parents and techniques based on what you picked up in these streets. Let's do it. All right. Now. It is an interesting time, election week in New York City, election on Tuesday. And this, we are in the midst of what for me, I've lived in a lot of places now. I've lived in different regions of the United States. I've never seen an election quite like what's going on in New York City right now.

And I imagine a lot of you are familiar, which is rare for an election in an odd number of year. But the mayor's race in New York is so interesting because I feel like we all know who's going to win, right? Zoran, Mom Dani is going to win. He did the hard work early. He is going to win. I've never seen more people more terrified of a diminutive South Asian man that I have seen with people being terrified of what is going to happen if this dude wins. Oh, my goodness.

It is the wildest. Like, you are from New York. You lived around here forever. You've seen Giuliani win elections. Like, you've seen a lot. lot of things. This, this is different, right? It's, it's different because it's like, there's, there's like an energy, you know what I mean? Like, that's like, like, just like permeating, like the city, right? Like you said, like, there's the side of people that are terrified,

and there's a side of people that are, like, hopeful and are like, man, listen, we've been doing the same shit for, I don't know how many years, and it ain't got us nowhere. So let's try something different. You know what I mean? And then you got a guy who's, you know, not an establishment politician, bro, which I think is kind of like a, like a barometer for the nation. You know what I mean? Like, people are tired of like the same old guys. I told, like, I told Zoran, you know, when we were doing a walk-and talk and I was just like, listen, bro, like, the problem is that a lot of people are just uninformed voters, man. They're just uninformed, dog. And if you run a guy who has the same last name as another guy who was formerly in a old.

office. They'll just be like, all right, you know, well, I guess he knows what he's doing. Let me go just check that box because, you know, and I told him, I was like, listen, brand loyalty is great for ketchup, for tires, you know what I'm saying, for, for bobby pins, whatever you know, what you know, whatever you use. Not for people, not for politicians. You know what I'm saying? Just because my dad was a great HVAC technician don't mean I'm going to come down to your crib and fix your walking freezer. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing in that regard. So, you know what I mean, I think, like, with Cuomo, it's crazy that you can have a guy that failed at governor resigned, you know, like disgracefully.

And then he's trying to, like, do it basically use the mayor, the mayor's office as his, as a PR campaign, four years of PR cleanup. He's doing like the Saudi Arabia shit where he's trying to get back. Yeah. He's trying to get back. No, let me tell you what having to Cuomo, man. Cuomo need to be in charge of something again. Like, you imagine what life has been to be around him?

him and he ain't had nothing to be in charge of. I can only imagine how exhausting and insufferably is. Because look, man, you've seen these debates and stuff, man, his heart ain't in it. He is not really trying to do this, but he needs something to be in charge of. But he clearly doesn't want to be the mayor. You used to be the governor.

Now you talk about you want to be the mayor. He don't want to be the mayor. He does. He just want to clean up his image, be like, yo, I'm still a viable politician, y'all. Vote for me. You know what I'm saying? And whatever, like you said, like,

put me in charge of something. I don't care if it's the North Shore Animal League, bro, put me in charge of something. You know what I mean? Because I think homie just has no marketable skills. And as an elderly man with a pierced nipple, it's hard to get a job out of you. Oh, I forgot about the pierce nipple.

Crazy work. That's still, that's absurd. Crazy work. Bo, if I'm a single-issue voter, a nipple ring is going to get you out of it. He's eliminating you from my contention. Imagine what it's like for the ladies. Because look, some of us know what it's like when you stumble upon, oh, shit.

It's a ring there. Okay. I don't know how that goes for women, though, when this happens. Like, I don't feel like it's nearly as intriguing as it is. I don't know what it signals. I feel like what it, and honestly, what it might. signal to women is the exact opposite thing of that wish I wish to signal in that moment. Thank you. You know what I'm saying? And that's another thing. The physiology of a woman's

nipple is different than that of a man's nipple. So for you to get your nipple pierced as a woman is a lot easier. There's more surface area of the nipple to account for. So you mean to tell me that you got enough nip to pierce and then you're going to go ahead and do it and follow through and be like, yo, you know what? I got big nipples. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to make them more, I'm going to make them. I'm going to make them. I'm going to make them. I'm going to make them. I'm going to make them more unsightly by putting a big ass ring in the union of the, you know, blob-bitty blue, whatever's going on. With that white polo and the nipple ring sticking through, some different shit. And you'd be like, bro, this is not, hey, do what you do. Let me. Let's go. Let's go. your life, man. But if you running

a government office, I don't want you with no type of shit on your face and your tities, bro, leave that shit alone. Well, hold on. This is what this is now making me wonder is who

out here, it could be a politics, it can be a whole bunch of spaces. Somebody got like a nipple ring and we would be surprised to find out that they got it, right? or people who like how Kevin Duret has all those tattoos

but you can't really see none of them. Right? Like, and I have met somebody, shall we say, with the exact same setup. You'd have no idea what kind of party it is until the party actually begins, right? So somebody out there got like a nipple ring and or more.

Bro. That we had not considered, had never known. And when you say, And we not, and this has been, I mean, more. Like, oh, more. That could be anything. To do it's possible, my amigo. All right.

I'm telling you, man. Like, think about that. Every time you see a politician, man, they might have a nipple ring. That's wild. Or more. Think about it. Think about you, like, Clarence Thomas having a Prince Albert. I know you didn't want to think about that.

I know you didn't want to think about that. I'm sorry, America. I'm sorry. the internet for putting that image in your brain? You know what I'm saying? Well, the issue is not me thinking about it. It is the invariable text

that I know I'm going to receive from my mother that says, what is a Prince Albert question mark? Which I think I just guaranteed she would send to me now that I've actually brought it up. But that's still 100% on the board. And I'm going to put her on a... No, I can't let you tell her because you will in capital letters.

Never mind. I was going to like outsource that to you to give that explanation, but actually, no, I can't allow that to happen at all. That might ruin the holidays for you, Bo. I'm not trying to do that to you. I'm in a terrible place right now. I've been such a terrible place. It's a dog mental place. Oh, my God.

Here's what we need to talk about, though. And this is the thing for, and if you have not followed the mayor's race, have you followed anything in the last four years of the Eric Adams era? And I need to ask you about this, because Eric Adams was, was trying to to get out of some trouble. And the quote he gave was make sure the Dominicus know that Eric Adams is the only mayor to ever hang out

at the clubs on Dykman. And I was like, oh man, this is like, he really made hanging out at spots that me and you might not go to. That was part of his mayoral strategy. Fam, when I seen him smoking hookah with rappers, I say, we are cooked. We are, this is over.

It is over, over. Like, when he got elected, I was like, yo, y'all, elected a party promoter to run the city. Good luck. Let's see how these next four years turn out. Ladies free before 11 at the Social Security Office. Like, what is going on? This dude was a, he was a walking mean.

Every city was the New York of that country. Every, yo, it was crazy. He had like five catchphrases. He hung out with Jim Jones. I'm like, yo, listen, I got, I love Jim Jones. That's my guy. I don't want my man hanging out with Jim Jones. You know what I'm saying?

There might be some bad influences going on there. You know what I'm saying? Well, I want to say this, in fairness to Adams on the blank is the New York of blank that he did everywhere. This is very similar to how Instagram make it to where people got to spend way too much money on clothes because once they go on Internet is on Instagram, it is there forever. And now you can't wear this anywhere else, right? That's what happened to him with this.

We didn't always have access to all this video that you could run it in a line. And you could just spit that line over and over again. And it would be okay, right? But once people were able to chop that up, that's like Kamala Harris had that one line, something about being unburtoned and they found out that she had been saying that all the time. Hey, man, if you got a line that works, you got a line that works. I've seen Deis-Capel live three or four times. And I think every time I've seen him live, he has told the same joke where

somebody made reference to a little something, shall we say, and they asked him to describe it, you know, to describe it. And it was referred to as, it's delicious. And he was like, hey, that's not a way that I imagine somebody would describe that thing. He's told it every show I've seen him do it all over a course of 20 years. It was funny every time. Like, sometimes you get a line and it works, baby. That's it.

You know, the only problem is that now we got the internet and we got video, digital video, and we got a lot of people that have editing skills and can make these things that we in the media industry call super cuts. You know what I'm saying? Of you saying the same thing over and over and over again and then you become a living meme. Yeah, but I'm going to say this.

And I feel like you and I can both say this because we've been working in this business for a while, man. I feel like the people that be making them cuts is people that they never had to come up with a good line before. Like it ain't that ain't that easy, guys, right? Like I think there's got to be somebody that's like a super cut guy that's like, no, man, I know what they was going through. I can't even participate in.

this. I'm out. You don't know what it takes to come up with. Islamabad is the New York of Islamabad. Like you, you say, yeah, you say something funny, right? Like, that's what he's saying. You come up with something to make these people feel good, right? Like, what you all got? That's his opening joke. You got to let him have it. Got to let it happen. He was amazing. We also had the thing happened and very recently where a woman put out a book that basically, I mean, it's hard times out here where you can get a book deal

because you used to sleep with Eric Adams, which was the whole way that this woman got to book. But the thing was it didn't make Eric Adams look bad. It actually made Eric Adams look good because she was kind of fine. And everybody saw that. It was kind of like, damn. Even Eric Adams, huh?

Bro, it was an absolute glaze fest, bro. I skimmed that shit. I was like, wow, Shorty's just glazing, homie. But, you know, everybody trying to come up, get a bag, you know what I'm saying? I did a little digging myself. Shorty used to sing background vocals for stagglely. So, you know, if you're singing vocals, background vocals for stagglea, man, then, you know, you got bigger problems.

So you're just trying to secure the bag, man. So you'll do anything. Hey, look, man, I saw how Eric Adams got to be the mayor. Eric Adams in that book, that woman said, Eric Adams looked at her and said, I'm going to be the mayor. don't want to do it without you. She said they wasn't even doing the thing no more, and she signed up on that.

Well, I'll throw a flag on the play. I'll call a cap, you know, whatever you want to do. Because the way Eric Adams was moving, he moved like a dude that's like, yo, you know what I'm not claiming you, we're not doing nothing public until I see what that thing's more like. You know what I'm saying? Like, well, well, no, he knew that and then apparently they stopped. I think the surprise in this one is, is that Eric Adams is someone who actually can abide by sure will just be friends. That is not what,

that is not behavior that I would expect from Eric Adams. Well, no. He is not doing that in the least, but he is like, you listen, again, he's a, he's a club promoter. And you know what club promoters is trying to do?

Give the pretty girl extra drink tickets. You know what I'm saying? Butterer up. You know what I mean? Finesse it. Get some like, you know, liquid lubrication popping. It may you have.

Did we find out that he was like down to Far Rockaway, if people who don't know Far Rockaway is far. That is the best way to describe Farway. Like, I can get to my house. I can get from my house to Philly faster you could get for where Merrill grew up to Far Rockaway and it's all in the same city, right? That's a fact, bro.

But he was like, yeah, I used to have a shoddy down here. And then we looked it up. Nope, it looks like Eric Adams did. In fact, like Eric Adams is that dude that you can't believe nothing he says. except the one time you check into it, he did do the thing he said. So then it fucks you up and you're like,

oh, wait a minute, what about the other stuff? Could it possibly be true? Was he really on tour with Jay-Z and Memphis Bleak in 2002? Like, you know what I mean? Like, you never know. That's the one danger about checking somebody you know who'll be lying. You got to make sure you get him on that lie.

Or else, you know, you got a fat Joe situation on your hands. It's like, yo, the stories sound ridiculous, but then you got other people confirming it. Yeah, you never know. You never know, right? And once that person, Trump has the same thing, too.

Trump mess around and tells you a while shit. And then next, you know, it's kind of like when it turned out that Joe Biden did know a dude named corn pop. Like, corn pop really was something. After that, man, we had to listen to whatever Joe Biden said. Yeah, you had to listen to all that malarkey.

We thought you made it up. Yeah, yeah, exactly it. We thought it was malarkey. In fact, it was the real McCoy. Carpaw is vindicated. But yes, yes. Now, there's something else going on with this mayor's race. For those of you who don't know,

and this becomes very interesting, is that Eric Adams is the mayor, and he was a Democrat, but he wasn't running as a Democrat because he was under indictment, and he got himself out from under indictment because he agreed to do Trump's bidding on the immigration stuff. So Cuomo, who was the governor and left in his district,

Grace, he ran against Mom Dani in the Democratic primary, and the expectation was very similar to Barack Obama in 08, we're like, oh, come on, man, there's no way that this can go, except Mondani smoked Cuomo, right? We thought, and you knew it was bad because, look, black people, we try not to vote for losers, and Cuomo was expected to win the black vote. Nope, didn't happen. Black people was voting for Mondami, too, because Mondani has this fascinating approach where he's just like, guys, you ever notice that shit costs way too much money? Isn't that wild?

Yeah, vote for me. And we was like, hell yeah, we're going to vote for you. And so now it's the general election. Cuomo is running as an independent and is another dude named Curtis Slewa who used to be a homeboy that ran the Guardian Angels. So he'll be out here with a beret on and he's running for the Republican nomination.

And it's worth noting that Curtis Slewa really hates Andrew Cuomo. Right. Now, you may be asking you, yourself. Why is a Democrat running against a Democrat? Because it has turned into a handicap match. Everybody is trying to make sure that Zoran don't get out of here. The big money don't like Zoran. The landlords don't like Zoran. People who are decidedly pro-Israel, they are not big fans of Zoran. Everybody is coming as Zoran. But the two dudes that are running against Zoran, the problem being Curtis Slewa really hates Andrew Cuomo more than he hates anything else in this world.

And I think that's the only thing that keeps him up in the morning is taking shots at Andrew Cuomo. And I'll tell you one thing, but this is not even a hot take. This is a lukewarm take. This is actually probably true. You know what I mean? I can say this with no facts or anything. It's my opinion, which is a fact. If Curtis Slewa was not a Republican on the Republican ticket, I think him is all right.

will get along. You know what I'm saying? Because Curtis Lewer, even though he's a Pixar character of, you know, New York City, the Disney movie, you know what I mean? Like, he, when they asked the, the perfect example to me was in the debate. When they asked the question, have you ever gotten anything from a legal dispensary? And Mom Dany was like, yes, I have purchased marijuana at a legal dispensary. And Curtis Leva was like, I got shot five times and I used marijuana to cure my pains. So yes. And Cuomo was just like, nah.

You know what I mean? So I'm just like, all right, one of these things is not like the other. You know what I'm saying? So I think Slewa and Zoran and a cipher, they could get some things, they could get some things there. Yo, real talk.

Curtis Slewa is, it's a somewhat Texas archetype, but I like my white guys, white. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You don't need to be pretending like we got more in common

than we actually do. Curtis Leewell, I don't want to talk to him about everything, but I think I'd have a great time talking to him about everything else. My favorite part is, it's the guy with the beret, that's the Republican, and the dude in the nice suit, that's the socialist? Is that what you're telling me here? Because if I told you somebody over there as a socialist,

you're picking a dude in the funny hat, right? And a raspberry beret. Of course. Yes. The good thing is the dude in the beret, but he's not trying to take Mottani out. No, he was the guy. get Cuomo every time when he said about

Cuomo that Cuomo is slapping fannies and killing grannies. Quobo got put out for some sexual harassment and we found out a lot of old people died during the pandemic in the nursing homes and Cuomo hid it from us. And so Curtis Lee was been on his ass.

Curtis Lee would need to go on Joe and Jada. Honestly, how if none of them tried to, like it would just be amazing. Just like 45 minutes of him talking to Fat Joe, I'll watch. I swear, I'll watch. I'll watch, I'll start a network on that premise. Joe and Leewood, talk talk shop. But yo, we know Zobron's probably going to win. Brother, they're about to be, they're going to be on him like his name really, his middle name is Kwame. He was born in Uganda, but they're going to be on him like, you know, like he Kwame Brown.

Like, it's about, it's about to be relentless coming at Zonron. Like, you said, I said, man, before, I have never seen this level of, like, fear from, like, the establishment, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, career politicians, billionaires, you know what I mean? All these rich people, boomers, you name it. Fear mongerers, you know what I'm saying? Et cetera, et cetera. I'm like, bro, this dude went to Bronx Science.

Do you all know what the, like, fam, like, this kid is a New York City kid. Like, you know what I'm saying? So, like, it just baffles my mind, bro, because another. The other thing is, this guy's running to be mayor of New York City, and he's very focused on New York City. Like, he's like, you know what I mean? He's getting very granular with the New York City shit. He don't care.

He's not tripping about geopolitics and nothing like that. They keep asking him about it. But he's, and he keeps replying, hey, hey, man, I'm running to be mayor of New York City. That's my focus, New York City and making it affordable for New Yorkers. You know what I'm saying? I left New York City when they stopped doing free UPK. I got four kids, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying?

I was like, I can't afford to send all the out of daycare while your mom goes to work and I go to work. That's crazy. So what are we going to do? I was like, I guess I got to go and I help them move. So, you know, there's a lot of things, man, like I'm a single issue voter. Like, I'm not a single issue voter, but like there's a lot of people that are single issue voters. And for me, the most important thing is childcare, UPK, you know what I mean? Like the buses is nice.

Everything else is nice. But really, it's really about giving, you know, New York is the opportunity to go out and work and I have to worry about, hey, man, I got to spend 20 bays a year on daycare. And that's sucking up all my money. I can't save up money. I can't do nothing. I can't, you know, I'm living hands to mouth. And New York is tired of that shit.

And then billionaires are like, fuck your kids. Yeah, fuck your kids. That Kirkland guy that Curtis Slewa also hates. Like, that's the thing about Slewa. When he talks, he doesn't sound like any Republican that I know, right? At all. Slewa says of way too many things. I'm like, no, no, no, hear the man out.

Let the man in the funny hat finish. But they don't say too much. And it's like, all right, somebody tell the funny. All right, you cross the line, champ. You know what I mean? There's a Slewer threshold, bro. It's like, sleeper to me is like me going to L.A. Like, I can be there for like a week and a half, two weeks,

and then I got to get out of there. But they all, all of the billionaires is all of the landlords. Because my man is trying to freeze the rent or rent-stabilized places. Let me tell you something. I had a rent-stabilized. apartment for a little while, baby. And let me tell you what they don't be trying to do. Put no money into that motherfucker.

That's the only thing about it. They're going to get you back. They're going to get you back on that one. They're like, there ain't no profit in this situation. But like everything he says to me, yo, everything he says to me sounds like, hey, I see it's like a pretty good idea. Hey, maybe that won't work, but it sees worth a try. Terror.

I was talking to somebody on the phone the other day who don't even live here. And he was petrified at the prospect of Zorah Winning. I don't understand it. I'm like, listen, man, like, look, there's a lot of things that he's proposing. Like you said, they might work, they might, they might not. But what have we been doing for the last, you know what I mean, eight years?

Like, bullshit. Yeah. So, you know, and look at where we're at. So, you know, might as well try something new. I know Cuomo's not going to do anything. Well, that's my thing. Y'all wasn't scared of Eric Adams? Like, it is amazing that, like, you think you can survive,

you think you can survive. Eric Adams, right? But you don't think you can survive to Hobie Zorod. That's what's kind of wild to be. That is super bugged out. I think, you know what it is? I think it's older,

it's funny because it's like older people, a lot of older people that are like doing all this like fear mongering and all this other bullshit. And it's, it's trippy to me because I'm like, man, aren't y'all like the hippies? Aren't y'all like the generation of like, yo, make love, not war, like, blah, blah.

I'm like, all right, I guess all that shit went out the window as soon as you saw your social security check was weak. You know what I mean? Like, and that's his fault. Right. Boomer's got to figure shit out. Well, I'll tell you this. I got one more point I'm going to make on this.

We're going to take a moment. But coming up next, I will make one more point that I do think needs to be made when it comes to Eric Adams. All right, back with the kid Mero. And all these jokes we got about Eric Adams, I do think we need to stop and take a moment because I would love to direct the Eric Adams documentary. the fact that it happened at all. It is amazing that this particular man got to where he has been and almost went to jail.

They accused his aides of passing bribes in a funnions bag or whatever kind of chips it was that was in the bag. And he beat the rap and he is going to walk out of the mayor's office, not in handcuffs. Amazing. Bro, amazing. doing all the goofiest corruption scandal in the history of government, this man going to Turkey and getting first class flights.

I don't know if he went there to get his veneers done or what, but not even like, y'all make like a billion dollar stock trading inside of trading. Nothing like that, bro. I flew to Turkey and I got special treatment. Like, Doug, what the fuck? Like, fam, the homie was just the literal, he was like kingpin. You know what I'm saying? for Spider-Man.

Like, if King Pete for Spider-Man became mayor of New York City and went on Ozempit. Hold up. That's Eric Adams. What if he had come back from Turkey with a full head of hair? I was expecting that, Bo.

When I saw that, he did not. I was disappointed. I was disappointed. I was like, yo, my man, you push in the boundaries of the mayoral office in every direction, except this one?

You can't go get the Norrie? Dark Caesar, bro? Like, Norrie did it? Why can't you do it? You hang out with rappers all the time. They're not giving you. They gatekeeping the doctor. Yes.

I'm going to tell you this, though. I'm going to tell you the one person who need to be mad, though, at Zoran. And I know he probably talks to people about this all the time. They'd be like, yeah, I know. You're right. You're right. And that is our man. You remember Jimmy Mac, Jimmy Mac Miller?

The rent is too damn high. Yeah. He's been saying it. Yo, man, Zoran bit his whole stees, man. Bernie Sanders bit his whole stees. AOC bit his whole steed. He had it. Very simple.

One issue. The rent is too damn high. Hell yeah, the rent too damn high. You got this? And they call him crazy. See, he ran, he walks so Zoran can run. You know what I'm saying? So shot to Jimmy, god damn it, because he was, and I think, I feel like,

if it wasn't for the facial here, he might have had a shot. I was just about to say the least that Zoron could do to show that man some love is to pay some homage and grow them, go, go ahead and grow it. Grow that crazy facial hair, man. You got to get this man some kind of props, man. You got to at least bring him out at the victory party. Yeah, he's going to be on the float. It's like he, you know, Jimmy is like Fonte to Drake.

You know what I'm saying? It's a lot of y'all that don't really know what's really going on, but those of us who know the real, we can see the straight line that was drawn. Right. You see the through line from Jimmy to Zoron. You know what I mean? Yes, yes.

Yo, this tell you a lot about America that more people don't simply run on, yo, man, these prices is crazy, right? Like, who's saying no to that approach? Like, who is the person that hears that is like, no, actually, I think they're pretty reasonable. They're pretty good. People are like, yeah, them prices aren't high, man.

Thank you. That's the craziest shit to me, Bo. It's like, yo, my man is running on our campaign. He hasn't said shit except the word affordability 80,000 times. And everybody else is, and everybody who's living in the city and it's like, damn, you're right. This shit is wild unaffordable.

I just paid $12 for jail commissary instant oatmeal. This is crazy. This has to stop. My rent is $8,000 a month. I live in a two-bedroom and that I share with a rodent that I can't identify. You know what I'm saying? And like, this is out of control.

We gotta stop this. So somebody's saying that and people being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, take it easy that, buddy, is crazy to me. I feel like I'm in Zoolander, bro. Like, am I taking crazy pills? Like, y'all want the rent to be higher? I was like, I know one thing, Eric Adams on his way out,

bumped the rent up, he bumped the rent one last time for motherfuckers on his way out. And I was just like, God damn, bro. Thank you for the part of gift, you bitch. And I got to pay an extra $500 for the studio. Yo, man. Yeah, because part of it is you kind of get yourself to a place living here where you just don't think about how much it costs, right? It's not going to help.

Like if it's something that you got to buy, you just kind of go ahead and buy it. But every now it something happens and you look at the number and you're like, what's really going all, right? Man, I ordered some Indian food the other night, some curry chicken and some nine. It's 40 bucks. Done. Now, granted, that's the fee game, right? You know, that's the fee game, right? You know, there's a lot of, but the box.

bottom line is it was, and by the time I saw it, I was like, fuck, man, I've already decided that this is what I'm about to do. 40 bucks. What are you talking about here? Fam, and this is ethnic food. People fuck with ethnic food because it's by and large affordable. You know what I'm saying? It's made for, it's been by immigrants for their communities, you know what I'm saying?

And other people, New York is a melting pot. We know that. We love it. But goddamn, bro, if I'm going to the Dominican spot and the lunch used to be $5, and now it's $25 because you added fees and this and that and boom, bang, bing, and you beat me over the head. Like you said, man, like, listen, these are all things that we used to not pay really pay attention to until you get that alert from Bank of America that's like, hey, your account is overdrawn

by $283. What would you like to do? Right. Like, this is, it's going to be wild. Zoran going to let everybody down because look, man, he's going to be fighting. You know what I'm saying? Like, he's going to let you down because guys like him will always let you down because you got to be somewhat realistic about what it's.

possible once you get into the space. It's not going to be he's a bad guy. He already had to keep the current police commissioner. Like the people that's worried about him talking about defund the police. Zoron ain't stupid. You know that don't work no more. Like he is somebody has let him know. Like, hey, man, you might want to start getting cool with the police.

Like, owenay. You know what I'm saying? And that's a thing, too. Like, he understands like the game, right? Like, he understands politics. He understands what you need to do to get into office. You know what I mean? and like, hey, try it, bro.

Try everything that you've, that is all, that you're proposing. If, if, if one out of three of them things works, we good. Yes. Speaking of the game, I hadn't really been paying so much attention so far, but the New York Knicks have started off two and two. Are you ready to fire Mike Brown yet, Mero?

Are you guys getting a little, getting a little antsy over there? I hear y'all supposed to win the championship this year. Nah, man, I'm not getting antsy at all, man. It's not even December yet, man. We ain't even, come on, man. Like, listen, we went from having, we went from complaint. The Knicks fans, I love y'all, but some of y'all got to relax. Because we went from complaining that Tibbs only played six motherfuckers to now.

Yo, Tyler Colick minutes. Yo, cat is soft. All this other other shit. Yeah, yo, cat's unhappy with what he's doing in the offense. Man, we four games in, dog. Like, they're figuring shit out. Like, let him figure it out. You know what I'm saying?

Let this unit play together. Let that rotation expand. You know what I mean? Like, you're going from playing six dudes to play eight, nine, ten guys. You know, shit's going to change. So you got to give it, you got to give it time. Give them time to gel. If by Christmas, shit is looking spooky, I will retract every statement I have said thus

far. But, God damn it, the Knicks are fine. Everybody calm down. Okay. You're going to wait till Christmas that I feel like is going to turn to Thanksgiving. I'm pushing up to Thanksgiving, matter of fact. Because we're not even in November yet. It's Halloween.

Happy Halloween, y'all. I mean, I'm just saying, man, y'all, y'all are ready for it. I want the Knicks to do well because I keep telling people, man, it really is better here when the Knicks are doing well, right? The bright side is, if it don't go well, then y'all can get hyped up about Janus, and that'll be fun to watch too. Would you have done that? Would I have traded for Janus?

Yeah. Oh, I'd have found a way. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you give up, like, if you do the typical, like the historical Knicks move, right, is to go trade Jalen Brunson, Carl Towns, and, like, you know, throw in a random guy, O.G. Ananobe, right, or Mitchell Robinson. Take these three guys who are basically the cornerstones of this franchise and give us Janus. And then Janus is going to come over, score 50 a game. You know what I'm saying?

And we're gonna go 20 and 62. And then what? He's gonna sell a lot of jerseys, though. That is so my thing though is definitely I keep Dalen Brunson. I prefer to keep OG, you know. Con respect to my amigo. Your brother, Carl, I want

enviarses in the change. Yeah. Got. You know, you know, you need to

do you do a change, um, to do progress, see? You know what I mean?

I love Kat too, man, but like if it was a one, you know, you know Milwaukee's not doing that. The entire state of Wisconsin would riot if they did a one-to-one

Janus to Kat trade. Oh God, that would never happen. That would never happen. And that's the only way that, like, that team could, you know what I mean? Like, function. Throw Bridges in there. Y'all going to get mad at him soon enough, or are you already mad at him?

He plays a little less physically than you New Yorkers tend to like. Yeah, I'm not mad at him, though, because like I said, you know, he's in a rotation that has been expanded. It's not all about him. And, you know what? New Yorkers, if you do one thing or two things, if you have iconic moments in New Yorker, York sports, people fuck with you forever. Aaron Boone is the manager of the New York Yankees right now, not because he has a wealth of

baseball knowledge, because he hit one home run in the playoffs. One that mattered. You know what I'm saying? And he did that, and he rode that wave all the way to the dugout as the manager. So, Mikhail Bridges had two iconic moments against our most hated rival city, Boston, when he stripped Jason Tatum with Jalen Brown at the end of both games. Or a lot, he put the clamps on J.B.

And then he stripped J.T. for, you know what I mean, that those two games. And those were iconic Knicks moment. So he's good. He could ride that wave. He's probably going to end up on the coaching staff in 10 years. I want to ask you this while we hear. Haven't heard you in your thoughts on the NBA gambling situation.

I'm curious what you think about that. Hey, bro, let me tell you something. I was gambling when you had to call an Italian man and go to a social club and fill out a paper ticket. Okay? So I'll say this much. I saw this coming all the way. And it's crazy to me because it's really just greed, Beau.

It's greed. Because I'm like, yo, if you think about it, I said this shit on Victory light. Even like a mid-NBA player is making $15 million a year, dog. if you are in an NBA roster, bro, and you score eight points a game, you fuck around and get $15 million. You know what I'm saying?

Like the guys are getting $50, $60 million. So it's like, bro, you, like, how much money do you need? Like. See, I don't see the, the reason I push back on the green angle, man, I think what it comes down to, and this is important, man,

some people just don't make good decisions, right? And like, I can't relate to people who make, like you know people who make just terrible decisions. I believe that you may have made a couple of bad ones at some point of your life, right? When people are just like, why did you make those terrible decisions? You don't have an answer for it. You just did it. Some people never get over it, though.

They just make horrific decisions. Like, Terry Rozier had to put his house up for bail and the IRS has got a lead on his house. That's a man who made a series of terrible decisions. And yo, listen, and this is the thing. They got to, we got to do something. I mean, I know the NBA does something where they teach incoming, you know, draftees about, you know, financial fiscal responsibility and things of that. We got to expand that because it obviously didn't hit for everybody.

Yeah. But I think that people who make good decisions think that as long as people know that doing something is a bad decision, that is enough of a deterrent. And no, it doesn't work that way. No. They got to let, they got to touch the stove. A lot of motherfuckers got to touch the stove to find out it's hot. That's exactly it.

I didn't know if that adage made its way up to this part of the country. Got such a stove. I'm saying, stove hot. Is it really? Is it really, though? Let me see. Ah, goddamn. Okay.

Third degree burn. Oh, okay. They go your fingerprint. Like, damn. Oh, yeah. The fingerprint bird is the, that's the one. That is just to let just to remind you what a horrific decision that you made. That there is evidence right.

here whirls and swirls and swirles and swoops to indicate that you made this like horrible, terrible decision. Like I'm waiting though for us to hear about, because look, somebody like Terry Rose here, I see how somebody like that gets caught in the web, right? If we mess around and hear like a max salary dude caught into web, because look, if what they say about Charles Ebelips is true, he got caught in the web somehow, he made $100 million. And they say he somehow got caught in the web. By the way, Terry Rozier, higher career earnings than Johnson. Billups, which has to infuriate somebody like Chauncey Billis. But anyway, apparently caught in the web.

But let me tell you something else that's funny. I don't know if you saw this. But the Athletic wrote a story about Chauncey Billups. And it was kind of like going through the paperwork to trace who the people are. And they're like, we can't figure out how Chauncy Billups got caught up with this one guy, right? And it's like their families follow each other on Instagram. It's one of the people listed in the paperwork. I think he caught one of the charges.

But they missed it. is this guy who's down with BMF and they couldn't understand how would Chonzie, like, know the BMF guys and I'm like, that's the Detroit operation. Like there's going to be a lot of people traips it around the edges of this that, like, that's the first sentence of the wiki entry of BMF

is that it's a Southwest Detroit operation. And somehow this story didn't think, hey, man, the answer to this might be in Detroit because that's the Detroit and Detroit works. Detroit. And Troy was there for a long time. and, you know, there's connection there.

Yeah, so, but once I saw to this dude was with B, was a BMF cat, I was like, oh, this could get really weird, really fast.

Fam, there is, this is a, this story is a motherfucking onion, gang. And I am, I'm just waiting to see, like, you know,

as the layers peel back, how many people involved in this shit, who's going down for this, what's going to happen? And also, now, You got to look at now that this whole thing is kind of like blowing open a little bit, you got to look at situations that were suspect.

You know what I mean? Like suspect plays. Like, hmm, I wonder why he did that. You know what I'm saying? Like now I'm looking at the Andrea Barniani three, you know what I'm saying, against the bucks in the Knicks back in the day that completely baffled Walt Clyde Frazier when he took it. You know what I'm saying?

Now I'm looking at that shit a little different. Like, hmm, maybe a whole boy is trying to cover a spread or something. Come hang out with me, baby. I've been watching college basketball for a long time. I know when somebody's fixing some shit in college basketball. Like I have moments. I don't do it as much anymore because college was always a bit unwieldy because there's so many refs.

Like that's the, it's refs that I've always watched. It hasn't been players. It has been refs that I've been watching. But like, it'll be something I'm watching. I'm like, look up the spread. And that spread will be right there, right there in that number. I was once on TV and something that looked like,

It very obviously looked like a fix. Like it was so strange that a fix would be the only explanation. And I was doing Jim Roman's burning. And it came, it was over. And then it basically came to us. And I had no idea what to do because I could not say what my only answer of this was is somebody just fixed this game. Yo, and that's the thing. Back then, if you said that people would have been out, yo, Bo's crazy.

Yo, boy, how could you say this? The sanctity of the league. Oh, my God. How dare you? And now it's like, hey, bro. this shit is on my phone. Like, I got my cousin in the sand telling me to miss a three, you know?

Oh, what a time. On another day, we'll have to talk about you or the Italian man, because me and my buddy Joe were talking about this that like, we didn't really know, like, sports gambling. We just thought that stuff that white people did because we didn't know people who did it, but you in New York boys seem to travel in a different space.

Hey, it's just another hustle, baby. That is the kid, Mero. Check out the Victory Like podcast. Check out, according to the kid. Check out 7 p.m. in Brooklyn. Basically, just Google Miro because he's going to be somewhere. My brother, I appreciate you.

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