The brilliant, the brilliant, the brilliant, the brilliant, the brilliant, the brilliant, the brilliant, the brilliant, the brilliant, the brilliant. You do that. Yep, Sheldon, mainie guy. Andrew Schultz.  Squarespace. Squarespace, turn your great idea into reality with Squarespace. Squarespace makes it easier than ever to launch your passion project, whether you're showcasing your work or selling products of any kind with beautiful templates and the ability to customize just about anything. You can easily make a beautiful website yourself. And if you do get stuck, Squarespace is 24-7 award-winning. Customer support is there to help.  And when you're ready to launch, use the offer code IDIOT to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Charlamagne, let's get the show started. How are you doing? I am blessed black and highly favored, sir. How are you? Same. You know what I mean? There is no race in quarantine, bro. We're all the same. I like quarantine. We're all locked in. We can't be treated differently because we're not outside to be treated by other people. We are all the same during this quarantine. And I got to say, as a black man, it's pretty good. That is a fact. Listen, a lot of people are getting to know themselves in a way that they didn't know themselves.  Say what?  Bro, you know what I'm realizing? I am gaining weight at an exponential pace. Oh, I did it. I had to do a diet. What'd you do? Because I need to do it. I got, you know, Dr. Sandy has this diet. And it's like she gives you this protein powder. She gives you this white powdery stuff that you take before bed that helps to flatten your stomach. And she has these, like, energy boosting pills. But it's really a diet plan. So for, like, three days, you got to do this detox where you only have a shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch with the energy boosting pills.  Not pounds, ounces of meat. And then you do that for three days. And then for the next 30 days, you can have either egg whites for breakfast, a protein shake for breakfast, or a salad at lunch with the protein, and then two snacks in between. So, like, protein bars. Long story short, I was 196 and I'm 182 now. Oh, wow. And I started last week. Wow, that's weight cutting for a fight, bro. 14 pounds in a week. Absolutely. But I mean, I've done it before. I've done her diet before. You know what I mean? So it's kind of like... So you're used to it. It's kind of easy for me, but it absolutely works. So I had to drop weight too. I was 196.  I can't be calling people a wide hip having hater. And then God damn... When you look at all wide-hipped... Yeah, you start to spread.   In between every single meal. I'm probably polishing two bags of dried mango a day. How many meals do you eat a day? Three meals a day plus dried mango plus granola bars when I'm at the studio. I haven't stopped. Me and my girl polished off an entire beef Wellington. I mean, it has been... We've been eating like royalty, but at the same time I am gaining weight and I am shitting nonstop. I took six shits yesterday. Wow. Yeah, my girl thought I was avoiding her. Like, you're just going to the bathroom and use your phone. I'm like, I am doing that, but I'm also taking shits because we haven't stopped eating the entire time we've been in quarantine. No, that's the wildest part about quarantine, right?  And you know, it's crazy because I know why. I think it's because on vacation I eat like that, right?  This ain't no holiday, baby. We're still in fight season. You got to stay in shape, motherfucker. That was wrong with you. No, I drink every single night of quarantine. I don't even drink that much. I'm not a drinker. I've had multiple drinks every single night we've been locked down. Every single night. I was doing that on weekends. But what about during the week? Not during the week. I was definitely doing it on Friday and really on Saturday, especially when it's a beat battle on Saturday, when it's one of the verses on Saturday. Oh, you have some sips. Oh, I was there. Yeah.  I was there. Now, Remy. I didn't drink no room. You know why? Because I got Remy here. But I got so much liquor here. And I was like, damn, let me open up some of these new bottles. So I just happened to try Hennessy VSOP because I hate Hennessy, right?   Let me try this VSOP because it's a better version.  So I enjoyed it. Liquor is an interesting thing in that you got to drink a lot to distinguish flavor. You know what I mean? Like you have to be a very, like anybody who says they could taste the difference between like Srirac or Grey Goose or Kettle One or these things.  No, you can't.  Fam VSOP. You could taste the one that has pomegranate in it, but just a regular clear one. Well, that's a good point. That's a good point. I mean, listen, if somebody gave me three glasses at each one, I could tell that they're different. I couldn't tell you what they were though. I couldn't say, oh, this is Srirac. This is Kettle One. I bet you couldn't tell which one was better. Like I bet you couldn't guess what was a higher quality. Oh yeah, I feel what you're saying. Nobody can.   No, that's why it's so easy for famous people to get into the alcohol game because the alcohol tastes the same anyway. So you might as well take your celebrity and put that celebrity on a bottle. And then all of a sudden it's the bottle. That's what Diddy did with Srirac. Yeah, yeah. Diddy really drinks it though. He might really drink it, but it'll taste no different from the last vodka he was drinking prior.  You know what's so interesting about that?  I don't know if that helped any, but. Son, it's such, it's such horseshit dude. It's like vodka is just like the diamond trade where it's all like, like my girl, you know, we're talking about maybe a little ring situation right now. Okay, okay.   Like now rap songs make sense to me that never made sense. Like I didn't know what like VVS was or VS. Do you know what I mean?  But now VS is like very slightly indicated. Yeah. So that means it's a really good diamond if it's VS and then there's VVS very, very slightly indicated.  And it's just like, what are we doing?  Son, I thought it was Victoria's Secret.  It's V something in a car. V. Oh, that's the cylinders. You know, a V8. V8. V8. There you go. V8 cylinders. And I got a metro car. And I got a metro car. You have to trust your jeweler. Say again? You have to trust your jeweler.   Sluice to my guy, Mr. Flawless, flute to my girl, Pat. They could have been getting over on me for years. You got to hook me up, plug me in with someone because these parts are- Oh, Flawless the man. Well, Flawless, how about your boy? I'm about to go to Paul Wall for my engagement ring. Hold on. Let me say his real name. Greg Yuna. Oh, Greg. The guy who makes traffic. Yeah. He loves making some traffic. I don't know. I've never seen him do that in real life.   Ow, he's in the middle. Like, if you see where his business is, it's in the middle of the diamond district. And that right there is, I think that's Fifth Avenue he'd be on.  And you know what's so interesting? Great.   Maybe he's banking them. Maybe he's banking like 10 for the future. And they'll post them once everybody's back in motion. Yes. You might be and put the in Photoshop the cars in it. Hmm.  I tell Greg, look out for you. All my girl Pat. I got my my wife's wedding ring for my girl Pat. Pat not from here though. Very hard. Very hard to understand. Where I forgot what her ethnicity is, but very hard to understand, but always treats me very right. Where's she from?  She's her. Her building is in the diamond district. Is she white? She's black. She's Asian. What is she?  Come on, bro. I really don't know what she is. I'm not the feds. I'm not asking. I'm over here. Just tell me what the lady is. She's told me a million times. I want to say I started to say Peruvian, but that don't sound right. I need, bro, I need a real like I need a diamond expert diamond connoisseur. Is Pat man. I need the hookup though, man. I need the plug. I don't care if the diamonds illegal.   I just can't play pay this market value for these types of diamonds. This is absurd. What do you want? Say again. Let me catch you on. I want and how many my girl wants are very different questions. Man. Yeah. What does she want? Say again. What? How many cards does she want? Too many. Hmm. You know. Okay. But I get it.  They've been thinking about this moment. You know what I mean? Like they've been thinking about how they're going to get engaged to and every Disney movie has been manipulating them into thinking that this is the exact moment. So it's more than just a piece of jewelry. So I understand and I empathize with them for that. But as a guy, we're not trained in any way to like enjoy or look forward to this moment. Like I'm not. It's the championship, bro. What do you mean? It's the championship. You got to get her a nice ring. It's the championship. This is the closest women will get to feeling like they're in the NBA finals. Hmm. You know what I'm saying? Like this is when they get that ring, man. This is like that Super Bowl at MLB World Series ring. Like, you know, yes, I know. But isn't there part of you that also goes where I could put a down payment on a house? You know, like these rings can get so expensive. We're not talking about two, $3,000 ring. We're talking about, you know, it's a lot of thousands of dollars. You could put that money down the house. You could put that money in the stock market right now while it's super low and then 10 years from now, who knows how much that's worth. Maybe your kids colleges pay for it, you know?    You just let a little bit of come out. And then hold this. Hmm. This is a little squirt. Just enough. Just enough to go. You know what I'm saying? That's all you want. You don't want to go to...  Just love it. That's why you got three girls, bro. You haven't been busting the whole load. You might be right.  You might be right. That's that scared pulling out at the same time, but you're just letting just enough get in. All the little boys end up on the stomach.   I acted my wage and I bought my girl what I could afford. Right. And I think I spent like 10 grand on a ring back in like 20, what? 13 when I got engaged. I don't remember. I think it was 2013. So it's like, yeah. And then what I've done over the years is I've upgraded the ring. That's all. And that's something I'm going to continue to do. I think I've upgraded it twice already. And that's just something I'll continue to do. Just continue to upgrade, upgrade the ring. I actually bought her a whole new ring and she wears like both of them. Yeah. So it's just like, just continue to upgrade the diamond. That's all. Yeah. But I think that... Yeah. There is that. There is that option. What do you think about like surprising them with it? You know, I think... Got to. No, no. I know you have to surprise them, but like I'm practical about this. I know a woman wants to be completely surprised by the engagement, right? Uh-huh.  She got to wear this for the rest of her life.  The ring ain't even about me. The ring is about her friends being jealous, right? About everyone in her family and her like close circle being jealous that she got the nicest ring, right? Yeah. Now, she would never say that. She might not even feel like that.   Does she have homegirls? Say what? Does she have homegirls? Yeah, yeah, of course. Uh, hello. Uh, all Andrew's future's wife, future fiance's homegirls. Could you help the brother out?  Yes, you... No, you can't.  And then she got to look at me and smile and be happy. You got to go right to the source, bro. But she is the source. My wife has the ring she truly wants now because our good friend, Debbie Brown, she was, she was talking to Debbie Brown and telling Debbie Brown what ring she wanted.  So that's what made me go get the, when I upgraded the ring, that's the ring I got.  It's a little pear shaped joint. You know what I mean? That's all I ask the friends. Ask the friends for help. Call a friend, bro. I don't know, bro. I don't know, man. For me with these types of things, I'm like, you might be a little bit less happy now, but in the long term, you're going to be way happier because you're going to have that thing. The joy of getting engaged, I think is only part of it. The joy of showing off that ring to your friends is the exact ring that you wanted. That's, I think, what their most value, right? Aesthetically about it.   I'm going to get her Batman ring. But that'd be dope. See? See why we can't do this? You know what I mean? The prongs of the diamond Wolverine claws. Batman diamond rings.  You can't leave it up to us, bro. That's fire.  My first positively brilliant in a week goes to the celebrity in chief, big dope 45. Donald J. motherfucking Trump. What he do? What he do, bro? The fact that he's ordering the IRS to print his name on the stimulus checks. Better believe it. Hey, bro. Hey, bro. Man, listen, man. Better believe it.  If you are surprised by that, then you've never had a Trump stake. You clearly live in a city where there's no motherfucking Trump tower. Donald Trump knows that there's an election in November.  He wants you to know where it came from.  And I'm just like, this is great branding. Dude, this is great marketing.  They're boxing, trying to boxing.  Like, no, let's box, let's box.  You're not going to beat him at his game, bro. He's a DJ-catholic, diddy-level brander. Brander, yeah. I mean, that's genius. But at the same point in time, it's like, if I'm giving away a trillion dollars, you're going to know who gave it away. You know me. I like my credit. You know what I'm saying? I'm not going to let some lowly congressman take credit for you getting that money. That's coming from Schultz. Is that not wild?  Congress had to vote for it. The Senate had to vote for it.  Ain't enough room on this goddamn check for all of our names. Donald J. Trump. I was surprised you didn't have to vote for that. Say what? I was surprised you didn't have to vote for that. Man, yeah, why didn't he? I mean, maybe there's certain things you get to do as president. You got to have like a little, I'm going to just do this power, but I just love it. I really do love it. I think it's hilarious. The guy's hilarious. He's hilarious, but he's actually very smart. And this is a, I think this is law 37 and the 48 laws of power. And it's just your create compelling spectacles. You know what I'm saying?   What you really did, they said, if he would have acted two weeks faster, I think they said he would have saved like, like tens of thousands of lives. I can't remember what the exact number it was, but they had an exact number of if Trump would have just acted two days faster to this Corona shit, he would have fucking, it would have saved tens of thousands of lives. And I want to put this in.  The media, bro. Haven't we only lost tens of thousands of lives? I think we only lost like 20,000 lives, right? I don't know. Or maybe it was a number of people that got sick.  Let me look it up. People got sick. It's about making sure people don't die. But if we only lost 20,000, that's literally tens of thousands. So he would have, we lost 25,000. So if he would have saved all 25,000 by operating a week earlier, I don't know if he would have saved 25,000. I think he would have saved, I don't remember what the exact number was. They had an exact number though. Well, it doesn't matter. Where's the brilliant idiots? We don't need to know the exact facts, bro. You don't come to us for facts. Come on.  And the reason I say that is because I was watching like, you watch CNN, right? And MSNBC, all the cable news network, that's not Fox. They'll play over and over. Donald Trump saying how he never said it was a hoax.  They'll play that clip over and over and over. And then after they play it, the anchors will come back and be like, but he lied. Now, average person watching TV, who do you think they're paying attention to? This clip, this loop being played over and over saying, I never said it was a hoax.  What they should be doing is playing the actual clip of him saying, oh, it's a hoax. We got it all under control. It's a democratic hoax. Play that over and over and over and over. So people constantly see that because I watched CNN the other day. And for two seconds, I was like, well, he never said it was a hoax because they keep playing the loop over and over and over and over and over again. And I think I got a little bit of sense. I'm not the highest grader weed in the dispensary.  You don't know what to believe. So if you want to push a certain message, you want to push a certain narrative about Donald J. Trump, and it's not even a narrative.  Just keep playing that over and over and over and over again.  It sounds like you're lying on him because he's your opposition. Just use the clip of him saying it over and over and over. That's the only thing you should be running. That's it. And why do you think they don't do that? Bro, I really don't know.  Like I wouldn't even show the contrast if I was them. If I was them, I wouldn't even show him saying he never said it and then him saying it. I would just constantly keep playing. It's a democratic hoax. We got it all in the control. That's it.   It's really not.  What do you mean? You turn on CNN right now. Yeah.  If you turn on CNN right now, all you see is Chris Cuomo and Donald Trump. You know what Joe Biden did this week? Pissed himself.  He got endorsed by Bernie Sanders. He got endorsed by President Barack Obama.   You got endorsed by President Barack Obama. Finally, the Black Panther came to speak up for Hawkeye and he got endorsed by Elizabeth Warren. Now, when you get endorsed, does that mean all the money that you raised goes to them? That's a good question. I don't know. Is that what the endorsement is? No, I think the endorsement is for people who are uninspired by a candidate like I am when it comes to Joe Biden. It's for people like me because if a guy like, you know, Barack Obama, I respect and appreciate if he says Biden is the guy, even if I don't believe Biden is the guy, maybe I believe Barack when he tells me that Biden is the guy. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I guess. I'm just so let down by Bernie Sanders, man. I voted for him before. I was going to vote for him again.  I loved him. I thought that he was a truly like brave guy that had our best intentions at heart. And now I just think that he's just like a disrupter. He doesn't really care about getting anything done. Like when you literally walk the people, remember when Martin Luther King was like, I feel like I'm walking my people into a burning house. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Like I don't even know what his goal is.  Coward.   Just call it out.  You know, the same people that will prop up Donald Trump will prop up Joe Biden. It's the same people. These people are not different. It's the same banks that are going to prop them both up. It's the same rich folks are going to prop them both up. It's the same people that are going to make money off of Trump and make money off of Biden. No different. Yeah. Bernie didn't even hold his nuts enough to say, motherfuckers. I was right. Because everything you do, and that was straight Bernie. This is what Bernie been telling y'all needs to be done. You know, all of this, all of this time when they was telling Bernie, they tell us all you can't get the money to do what it is.  They scraped up 2 trillion from somewhere. Out of nowhere. Huh. You know what I mean?  Like who right now in America after looking at the way our healthcare is being hit wouldn't say all Americans need.    And Van Jones is on breakfast club and Van Jones said right now Bernie Sanders looks like the smartest person in American politics.   They know where their bread is buttered. They're going to do it.  You know, same companies making money off of Biden being present.  There's a reason why everyone on CNN is the same opinion. Like that's not shocking. The same thing with Fox. There's a reason why they all have the same opinion, right? It's not like they hired people who all think the same. It's in order to work here, you have to think like this. And if you don't, you're either fired or we tell you to think like this. Yeah.  You know what I'm saying? I've never heard that type of truth before.  Nina Turner, who to send to the Nina Turner. Nina Turner has been a surrogate for Bernie Sanders for a long time. She used to ride with Hillary, but then she was like, oh, she used to ride with Hillary, but then she left Hillary to get with Bernie.  You know, I think she was supposed to speak at the Democratic National Convention in the last minute. They pulled her and never gave no explanation as to why they pulled her and Bernie Sanders didn't stick up for her then or come to her defense.  She was out there stomping for Bernie again. And, you know, Bernie endorsed Biden this week. You know, if you, if you heard what Bernie and Biden are going to do, they're starting these task forces. It was all of these different task forces. I think it's like six different task force, one for the economy, one for climate change. I just education, just different things. And so we had Nina turn on the breakfast club. And I was just like, yo, what task force are you going to be on? Because that's just a logical no brainer. Right.  She's like, I don't want me on the task force. He told me verbatim. They don't want me on any of the task force. And I'm like, why? And she's like, cause I wrote an iPad about Joe Biden, you know, earlier this year. And just telling the truth about Joe Biden, you know, and I'm sure that when she wrote that iPad, that iPad got approved by Senator Sanders. So it's just like, yo, when you were on the campaign trail and you being the goon for somebody and doing a dirt, it's all good. But now that you are endorsing Joe Biden and you putting together these task force, why wouldn't you get a truth teller, somebody who speaks truth to power, somebody that black people actually trust? Why wouldn't you get her and put her on your team? I look, that should make me look at Bernie crazy and look at Joe crazy. He don't care.  He never wanted to win.  It just, it makes, it makes, it's really just disappointing. It makes no sense whatsoever. And that's not how you make change.  You know what I mean? You can't wag your finger and then change happens. Change takes radical movement and radical points of view and then radical action. That's the only way change happens. You can't just go hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Eight years in a row and expect something to happen.    I had also, this is my last political thing. Positively brilliant. I got to give it to AOC, bro. What does she do? AOC is like, I'm not endorsing Joe Biden. What she said? She said, I'm not endorsing Joe Biden. She said it's very important to support the Democratic nominee. But I'm not endorsing Joe Biden until we sit down and talk about some motherfucking policies for me and my goddamn people. Meaning progressives and Latinos.  You know why?  Y'all don't even want no goddamn date. Y'all don't even want your pussy's ate. Y'all don't want nothing.  Dry, no condom.  Just stick it in. That's what y'all be letting these motherfucking Democrats do to y'all. AOC like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're going to court me, motherfucker. You're going to take me out. You're going to take me to dinner.  I want a VVVVVVVVVS. All right?   Period. Nothing more, nothing less. Yeah, no, no. Then I have to apologize to AOC because I thought that she was just towing the company line. I thought she was really quiet during this time. The fact that she came out and said that, hey, more power to you.  Good for you.  That is how you use your leverage. You have your most leverage right now. Like Joe, Bernie Sanders had his most leverage in this moment. Get some promises from Joe Biden. That's it. Don't just go out there, hop on Cardi B's Instagram and go, you should vote for him. Why? Why? Why, motherfucker? Why? What do they have on you? Guess what? Anybody with Trump ain't enough for me. Because guess what?  That's right. Every election is a boogeyman. Every election is a... George Bush. Trump. Yep. Every election. McCain. McCain. Romney. But then when you fought, when these people aren't in the goddamn White House anymore. All of a sudden, they're charming characters. They're so charming.  Tom McCain is the maverick. He is the ma... And Mitt Romney cares about the people. He balanced the budget. He balanced healthcare for Massachusetts. And George Bush is such good friends with Michelle Obama. I remember when Dave was calling George Bush to Auntie Christ. George Bush don't care about black people. Don't care about black people.  Every public gathering there is. That's what I'm saying, man. So it's just like every year they do this to us. They try to use scare tactics in order to make us just hand over our votes for nothing.  And the only way to stop, the only way to stop is if you stop calling people who defect. Coons, Uncle Tom, Sellout, et cetera. It don't matter what. If somebody says, if Kanye goes, I'm voting for Donald Trump and you ask him why?  Then you call him a Sellout. You call him a Coon.  If he goes, I'm doing it because the most important issue for me right now is prison reform. And I like his prison reform policy more than I like Biden's. You can't really call him a Sellout. He's voting his interests. But his interests are actually selfless, right? Because he's trying to get black people out of jail.   They're giving you the ammunition.  Of course. It's like, this is so easy to manipulate, man.   He already said he's going to put a black woman on the Supreme Court. And I want him to have an economic black agenda. And I want him to create some type of criminal justice reform plan that basically counters, you know, all the damage he did with the 94 crime bill. Man, that's good. You know exactly what you want. And if he delivers, then you vote for him. It's very simple.     Because it's like, you can't even front. Are you down with some progressives? Like, even if you just put her on the task force to keep up appearances, you know what I'm saying? Just to say, like, hey, we got need to turn it down with us. Like just, you don't even know how to front. Yup.  Jesus. Matter of fact, Joe touched Barack Obama and say, what is fronting me? Turn to Simone Sanders and say, what is fronting me?  What is fronting me? Because you need to learn how to goddamn do it. What?  Anything. I don't give you an old white man, an old black man. You ain't got time for friend? Mm-mm.  I'm serious. I can't wait to get to that age.     You might as well just call it out. You're dead in a few years. What do you got to lose? This is your one life. You spent your entire life fighting for this one idea. Bernie, I'm talking about, or not one idea, but for this group of ideas. And now you are this close, right? You weren't willing to lay it all on the line, bro. You weren't to give it up. Go in there and start swinging. It's the 12th round of your life. And you have the opportunity to potentially be present and you weren't willing to leave it all in a ring. I can't.  I agree with you. Let me play white devil's advocate a little bit. Please do. What if I'm Bernie Sanders?  What if I know I can't win the presidency, but this is my opportunity to actually be in the White House to impact some type of meaningful change. I may not be the guy, but I can influence the guy in a real way. What if he's looking at it from that perspective? He's been in politics for 300 years, okay?  Why does he think all of a sudden he's going to be able to? I agree. I mean, maybe, I don't know. Maybe just because now of the power that he's garnered over the past four or five years by building the... But he hands over the power, bro. It's like what you were saying. It's like you could have all this influence in the world, right? A group of people could have all this influence of the world, but if you're not willing to listen to people's offers, you have no influence. If you're selling a house, right? And you're going, I'm only going to sell the house to that guy. Whatever that guy offers you is what you're getting. But if you're going, I'm willing to sell the house to anybody.  All of a sudden those people are going to compete for what offer they would give you and the highest offer is the one you're going to get. Let motherfuckers compete. Absolutely. I agree. I agree. In one last part, well, positively, bro, and I got to salute Governor Cuomo. He's on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine with the headline, Governor Cuomo takes charge.  And I understand that Governor Cuomo was a governor and he was going to do daily briefings anyway, but that actually turned into comfort for the whole nation. Yeah.  And the time to look like a leader is in a crisis. Crisis reveals character, period. And his character looks like that of a leader. Joe Biden went to radio silent over that period of time when everybody was turning on the TV every day to listen to Donald Trump. And that's why for that moment, Donald Trump's approval rating shot up for the moment.   And it definitely worked for Governor Cuomo. And one of my partners, man, slew to my guy, Tommy, he was like, you think Joe Biden's not going to end up getting the cover of Rolling Stone? Let me put this in a little perspective for you. When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he got the cover of Rolling Stone twice that year. He got it in March of 2008. And then again, I believe in October our art in November issue was right before the election.  Everything.  Name brand recognition helps. Brand recognition helps you want to be top of the mind awareness Come November. Hmm, right.      Oh, I saw that.    Oh Keep that same energy. It's such apocrisy, man It's apocrisy because you know, you do want to protect people.  But then what you're also doing is hurting them physically Killing the truth. You're literally you're killing them.  So anybody tells you love your body. Love yourself.    It's a bad. It's a balancing act though, right? You want brothers and sisters to lose weight, right? Yeah, you got this elephant on a tightrope. So you got to walk Balance right so you got this elephant on the tightrope because you want them to lose weight But you don't want to ruin their self-esteem, right?  You want them to still be mentally healthy and emotionally healthy But it's it's a fine line of being able to Tell them that they need to lose weight but also keeping their self-esteem up And I think the way to do it is through the yo, I love you and I want you to be here You're going to die. You don't look bad.   It's gonna take eight ball bearers.    We got the barbecue I'm talking about the food shortage I might have to turn in the cannibals soon.   I think you can be big and beautiful, but can you be big and healthy as the question? You could be big and beautiful healthy Yeah, it's pretty big big beautiful women. Let's just let's define big and beautiful First of all, let's define big and beautiful. Okay here. Let's just define it what we're talking about. I'm not talking about a little fat That's not what I'm talking about.   It's unrealistic.  So somebody like so you mean Lizzo's a good number we could start at Lizzo So Lizzo in between Lizzo and my 600 pound life your 600 pound life is in there somewhere. Yes. Yeah Yes, 100% Yeah, it's just bad. It's unhealthy. That's what I'm saying.   What I will do is push back against anybody that enables that Right because if drug dealers are bad because they enable drug use then Body positivity people are bad because they enable your death via eating. I Know I think we got to be careful with the wording shows because I understand exactly what you're saying Yeah, but there's nothing wrong with body Positivity because you're just telling people to love their body, but You want people to lose weight you could you shouldn't love all your body though If sometimes you have too much body to love You can't properly love your body if you weigh 400 something pounds and you're going to the hospital and the doctor is telling you like yo, you're unhealthy That was nothing. There's nothing to you don't love your body when you're doing that to your body I'm saying so you go be healthy healthy.  Yeah, we're just getting ahead of it That's trying to flatten the curve that is your stomach Okay We're just trying to flatten your curves.    I'm telling you Saw it. It's only 10 people will allow that funerals. That's right Wait, you wait 300 400 pounds. It's gonna take at least at least six people to carry your casket. It's a lot, dude That's a lot.  Yeah I didn't like that. What was his answer? He basically said like he only had like nine people Right, that's too much. Well, the rule. I think it's 10. That's too much. Nah Tens too much. I'll give you some pushback. I think we got to stop it with all this talk to me. I'm done No, I'm done. We gotta hang out now. Yo I don't hang out. We gotta go outside. I'm done.  We out Can we do a deep dive on how?  I'm sorry.  I Forgot what a bishop from I think it's Virginia. Oh, yeah Bishop was like look God can protect you from the corona. God is bigger than corona. He died of corona You know I'm saying after having services, you know, I'm saying yeah, would he go bear you thought jazz? ha ha ha touching everything He got that corona. Yeah, rona gonna make y'all believe brah brah. Oh, I believe in it I'm I don't think it doesn't exist. I'm not saying that I'm just saying I've had enough Well, she hasn't we're going outside bro. We're gonna go outside. We're gonna hang out outside We're gonna come in smooth. No, we it's I have a feeling It's taking too long and we need to get back to it now. I'm not saying that we should um Play pick up basketball games Okay, but you should be able to take a walk go take a walk with your girlfriend hang out in a park These things should be okay. I mean, I think america They did great social distancing clearly work.       Because I have had a sense of calm The past few weeks that uh, I haven't felt in a while and it's good for me because It really lets me know what the source of my anxiety is the source of my anxiety comes from two things other people In stressing about my family like I have parental paranoia in a real way I wrote about it and you know shook ones and I got a whole chapter about parental paranoia But it's true like when you're worried about your kids being at school You're worried about you know your wife out and about throughout the day You know having to pick the kids up and things of that nature like those are the things that really caused me to get Anxiety those are the things that caused me to have palpitation.   I haven't I've been sleeping great Okay, we are just I this is great for me.  I know my daughter wants to be at school.  So maybe that's what you gotta do man Stay home home school to kids I'm a homebody. I'm a cancer. So yeah, there is something to that Absolutely is something to that but I mean also, you know leaning into the uncertainty of the whole situation, right because This shit is out of our control shows Yeah, it's out of our control. It is There's nothing we can do.  Just don't be around people Impossible you live in new york It I can be not around people first of all known to new york You see how few people really live in Manhattan like when this happens because I'm in Manhattan I'm born and raised in Manhattan. Nobody's in Manhattan.   Do we have to work yo? You say what I don't understand why why they keep talking about like does it work or does it not work?   You want us to bow?   Shaking hands is not the thing that's gonna spread the virus Yeah, you know a doctor told me this morning. I can't remember the doctor's name We had him on breakfast club. He said not to wear gloves He said gloves are the worst.  I'm touching my face non-stop.   You know what I'm saying?      We were saying it.   I'm just boils down to I watched that bill martin I was like I watched that bill martin. I said I had that thought six weeks ago I like I expressed that on the radio and on the podcast six weeks ago That's listen platforms matter bro And he also did it in a beautiful concise way and he had all the great arguments backing it up And I just don't understand. It's like why are people getting so upset?      That's where that's where that's where it got poppin Maybe there's That's where it got poppin like I don't think jamaicans were the first people have dreadlocks But that's where it got poppin But you don't call it goddamn jamaican locks Some people might you know call it a jamaican perm not be dreadlock You don't say I want a jamaican perm Dude that could work if someone said that I would believe it No, but I give me some jamaican locks.  Well, look here's the thing spanish flu, you know the spanish flu The spanish flu epidemic I think happened like 1917 Apparently that didn't start in spain. It probably started from in the wet markets in china But all the other countries just blame it everything on china sun.   I'm not gonna sit here and tell me you wouldn't try pterodactyl wings Bro, I'm not saying I want to try it but find a better way to sell it be that's just tasty pterodactyl wings He'd like a flint stuff.  Let's go now. What are the best terms you've heard for the coronavirus? Uh, I like the rona What about what about He's just made that one I have that one I have not Holy shit Hey, me and me I need it. I need an asian referee chris Chris jump in here real quick chris chris No, no, thank you. Let me ask you a question. Is that offensive chris? Yes. Goodbye Holy shit, that's a What about kung flu? I heard that that's a I heard that one. Okay. What about, um chopstick That one I have not heard That one I have not heard jesus christ. What about the wuhanic plague? I haven't heard that one That's not a bad one though. Wuhanic is good. It's from wuhanic. Yeah, that's not a bad Like wuhanic plague is not a bad one if you're putting it in the terms of like west nile virus zika Lime lime disease lime disease Spanish flu wuhanic plague is not a bad one. That's it Yeah, so now are you are you finished offending all of our asian? Listeners, I think I don't know. Okay. All right, do me listen. They could take a joke, right? If we could take a whole virus, I don't think so dude if we could take the whole virus I don't think so. I don't think they could take a joke.  You don't realize what's really going on over here? um I don't I don't listen.  I think one was 19 One was 15. They both killed themselves Just based on the fear That is being mongered behind the coronavirus. You know what I'm saying?  Like you can really convince yourself This is the end of the world if you want to you can really read the book of revelations and convince yourself like Armageddon is coming and this is it and you may not Want to be around to see that shit? Hey, bro We're back What's back we're back another month.   Do we have to go back to work? No, we'll work from home That's fine. But do we want to be able to go out enjoy the park? Enjoy the beach.  Yes.  It's like everybody you told they told us I think in that press conference that they were going to have 25 million Americans tested in Parking lots of walmarts all around the country so far they've done two million. I think that's your president. That's your president's fault That's walmart What do you mean? I listen. I don't know what it is. I but Listen, I'll be honest.   He did this pathetically, right? But also ilan must said he was gonna have all these ventilators and apparently the mayor of uh The mayor of la was like now. We ain't got no ventilators from him We don't know what's going on So everybody's talking his big game and all of a sudden we don't have some shit and low-key I think the reason why we're not getting tested for it is because People don't want the more people get tested the more people have it and the more people in your country have it The worse your country looks When there's not enough tests, I think that's on purpose Because here's the if your country is the one that has the most tests Your country looks the least capable of handling a pandemic. I think russia They says seven people died in the whole country from it And that's just because they tested motherfuckers out there and if they do come out the positive tests I think they made it illegal to announce that they had it So this is a whole pr game going on outside of just people's health I would rather be the country that shows The rest of the world how to handle a pandemic correctly So I think that they should do widespread testing because let's be clear the faster they do widespread testing the faster we can You know Get back into society You know, even though we're going to be doing a lot of social distancing once we get back out there And everybody's going to have on masks and gloves looking like michael jackson But once you start getting widespread testing out there motherfucking until there's a vaccine, you know, that's that's that's actually what I think, um Will make people feel comfortable, you know, I mean and then once you once you do widespread testing Then they have that uh what they do a containment tracing I think they call it so where you can am I am I saying is that correct chris? Can you chime in on this? You won't reveal I promise you want him to chime Is the containment tracing I think is called Yeah, I mean the the lack of testing to me is the a number one biggest issue right now because If you can't test people I mean it's elementary You don't know who has it and everyone can pour back into the streets in a month or six weeks or whatever it is But it's just going to go back to zero a couple weeks after that so I I honestly don't understand why we don't have the testing because it seems everybody would want that I can't you know imagine a scenario where Somebody wouldn't want that outside of what Andrew said, which is you just don't want to confront it Yeah, and and and the thing about containment tracing is you know who has it You know where the problem areas are and you're able to Contain it a little bit better by the way ain't no nba until they get that shit when they do that when the nba comes back That's exactly what the fuck they're going to be doing They're going to be testing people. They're going to be quarantining them after games. They'll probably keep them in one area They'll probably play in like One location. I'm I'm here in Vegas.   It makes no sense Listen, you feel you feel more comfortable uh going to the park if you knew that the area you lived in um There weren't a lot of cases of coronavirus there I wouldn't care if there's a reason you would know that is because people have been tested I'm not gonna be great if people are tested. Don't get me wrong. I'm supportive of testing I want as much testing as possible. I'm also saying you should be able to go to the park You should be able to go to a beach You should be able to do these things like They're these absurd rules about quarantining that make absolutely no sense They just make no sense the play like we can go to a weed shop, but we can't go to the park weed is essential 420 is right around the corner In fact, I need somebody to do me a little drop off somewhere in jersey. I need some edibles for 420 Let's do a little drop off. No hand in hand I'm gonna leave the money somewhere and you leave the drug somewhere. We're gonna do this old school, baby I need some I need some edibles for 420.  Maybe she's been in the kitchen.  You pay five dollar shipping. You get it foe free That's right blue chew the better cheaper faster choice.  I'm telling you it is the truth But be careful out there. Okay You're gonna have something hard You don't want to hurt someone with it. Okay, so be careful with it. You got a weapon You got an active weapon. Make sure you use it accordingly. Let's get back to the show Got any church announcements? Um Uh besides uh rescheduling shows, you know rescheduling the special rescheduling a bunch of other shows I'm putting it out there So once I have all those out, we're gonna update them and I'm hoping that we'll be able to get back to work this summer, man Um the special I'm rescheduling for fall. So hopefully by November everything will be good, but You don't think so Right, he said that they didn't not having concerts until 2021 the fall of 2021. They said that like la I don't know if I exactly buy that. I really don't think it I think the second they let people go out People are going to go back out and the people that are out risk are not going to go back out And I think that's kind of how it should be Yeah, but you can't take the risk of having large crowds Together quite yet.   I'm good. I haven't had it, but I'm willing to Go out there and take the risk or if I'm an at-risk person, I'm not going to take that risk I'm staying home and I'm doing that and and I think that actually life will go back to somewhat Somewhat normal because but that's that's my opinion. That's that's wishful thinking.  Yeah Money's done till about fall 2021 You better lean into the audio game lean into the podcast game.  I don't know. I got I got some things coming that uh We'll be all right. Let's cook I got I got some things coming that will be a okay. All right.  That's why I tell all my musical friends You but listen you about to see some rappers. Yeah, you about to see some of your favorite gangster rappers Sponsoring fashion over in ways you've never seen really a lot of cameo Oh my god, you about to see some of your favorite gangster rappers showing off them flat tummy t abs, baby Really? All right. Who goes rough? Who goes for isn't there's no Conson they said that they said at the minimum concerts will be back fall 2021 now That's not true. Dr. They the one mayor in la presumed that that wasn't like a fact by the cdc or anything like that Dr. Fauci said that too say that Fauci said Dr. Fauci said fall of 2021 before we can start gathering in large crowds Now you have some doctors who are saying they're fast-tracking a vaccine Right, I think it's like 70 different trials going on right now with 70 different vaccines If they get a vaccine, I think I even saw one doctor say they might even have an emergency vaccine by the fall If something like that happens Back in business, baby.  No those days are over, baby $500 post it. That's it five.  You want this thousand? I'm serious that you you go see a lot of celebrities with only fans pages That's the next wave Right, you go see a lot of celebrities with only fans pages It's going to be it's about to be really you about to really see who been saving their motherfucking money and who been playing Who do you think is first? Who do you think is first? Who do you think is first? I'm already seeing some people who I'm not gonna say come on now No, I'm not gonna say but I'm already seeing some people man.  So now them flat tummy tea ads is just like They're a little bit more noticeable now, you know what I'm saying so yeah I'm it's gonna be bad the next few few weeks man And I want to say I got a lot of people That I know that are telling me they receive these stimulus checks And I'm confused about that because in order to get that check You need to be making in 2018 less than 70,000 or something like that 80,000 Yep Yep So It's a little weird, bro. So has there been some capping On the internet if you I would definitely I would definitely call that capping That is definitely capping. But yo, god bless him. You know, I'm not knock.  I'm just happy to know I'm blessed.  You're not gonna care about next week.   Yeah, you know I'm saying and I don't want to fire my employees I don't have a lot of employees But you know, I want to be I want my employees to be taken care of I think that if there's any type of resources like that available from the government Take advantage of them and don't let nobody shame you for it.   A lot of that's to go pay off debt Who's dead? So the way that the government creates money is it sells bonds or these treasury bills And the the way a treasury bill or a bond functions is you buy it for a hundred dollars Then the government says to you I'll pay you back a hundred ten dollars at a later date Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so So that how is it going to pay it back? The government is going to generate revenue through taxation and then pay the money back I look I'm no financial advisor. I can't be neither explain how this shit works But I do know when I know what you're talking about though.    I never realized this right A bank only needs to have 10 percent of the total value In the actual bank and physical money So let's say charlie made a gov, right? You give that bank a million dollars, right? That bank only needs to keep a hundred thousand dollars of your money in the bank It could take the other nine hundred thousand dollars that you gave them and lend it out to other people Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, right, but what's genius about this is that You have one million right? It lends out nine hundred thousand Right that nine hundred thousand goes out into the world Right, let's say somebody took that nine hundred thousand Right that you lent it to them and they don't want to buy and they and uh, and they buy a house From somebody for nine hundred thousand right Right So That person They got paid nine hundred thousand dollars for the house. Let's say they take That money and they put it back in the same bank where you are right? Now the bank has another nine hundred thousand that they can lend 90 percent of Yeah, that's why your financial advisor will tell you but wait wait wait wait wait wait There's now in that bank one point nine million dollars But there isn't there's only the one million that you gave them they just made up another nine hundred thousand I don't know That's how it works It's crazy think about it, right You you put a million in the bank, right? Yeah, the bank lends out nine hundred thousand dollars To to chris morrow chris morrow buys my house for nine hundred thousand dollars. I have nine hundred thousand I put it back in the bank that bank can lend out eight hundred nine eight hundred and ten thousand dollars now It just I know I know it's something like that That's why your financial advisor will tell you they just like if you just got money sitting in the bank That you all you're doing is helping other all you're doing is helping other people get long Of course, but what I'm saying is this is how money just gets invented out of nowhere out of thin air You're just inventing money because we allow people to lend money that they don't have And if you can lend money that you don't technically have then that's free money that comes out of nowhere But don't technically they have it though. This is what this is how it all start They don't technically have it because they only have to keep one hundred thousands one hundred thousand of your money in So now that nine hundred thousand is just going anywhere it wants and if somebody else wants to take that nine hundred thousand Put it back in the bank. They only got to keep ninety thousand of it in the bank Listen, uh, I'm not sure if that's how that works, but I can't say show just wrong. This is how it started This is how it started, right?   They'd write you a note that basically was like, yo Carry this piece of like paper around and it will basically equate to the gold you got right there So if you need to pay for something pay for in the papers, you don't gotta carry the gold, right? The goldsmiths figured out that nobody would ever ask for all their all the all their gold So what they started doing is writing out notes to people Without there being any gold backed For the note, I see what you're saying and then charging interest on that note So they're charging interest on money that ain't even there You know, that's what that's what uh Kadafi was doing. What was he doing? Hold on kadafi. Hold on. I want to read this real quick. I don't want to Miss quote this.  It's absolutely absurd.   Hey, bro. Hey, bro. You want to know something? He got nothing to do with the church, but you want to know something? Oh, yeah, that's what it was. Remember the commemorative said that uh, hillary clinton's emails I don't know if this is true But they said revealed that natto killed gadafi to stop the libyan creation of gold back currency Anybody if you go out there and google google gadafi and gold you could do your own research Hey, here's another one you could google. Do you know how our money is green now? Yeah, you know who uh, you it comes from uh, the green back And you know who made the green back to finance the civil war mexican leprechauns no what No, abraham lincoln printed the green back to finance the civil war Because bankers want to charge him 25 to 36 percent on money that he wanted to take out for the war efforts So he printed his own money the green backs.  I mean it depends Come on, bro.   That's why you have a wife Why wouldn't you want to listen? Let's let's let's let's all jokes aside Some million reasons why an actor would want to sleep. Okay. By the way most personal assistants Are indentured surface Like let's just like come on guys Most personal assistants for actors and actresses are indentured surface And by the way, it's a it's a personal assistant out there right now listening to me Who feels like She's in a relationship with her slave master Our in a relationship with his slave master, right?      It's brilliant. Yeah Um, let's do let's do some asking idiots Let's pay one more bill and then we'll do ask it eats Okay Guys turn your dream into a reality with square space square space makes it easier than ever to launch your passion project Whether you're looking to start a new business showcase your work publish content sell products and more Squarespace is the tool for you with beautiful templates created by world-class designers and the ability to customize just about anything with a few clicks You can easily make a beautiful website yourself Squarespace's powerful e-commerce functionality lets you sell anything online and analytics help you grow your site in real time Everything is optimized for mobile right out of the box and there's nothing to patch or upgrade ever buying domains Simple you'll get the help you need with square space is 24 7 award-winning customer support Now is the time to get your business ready to go for when this pandemic is over Make sure that you have a website without a website.  Did you send me asking idiot? Yeah, I just scroll all the way down You gotta scroll all the way down. Taylor over there lonely and sad bro. Taylor. She really is sad man. Taylor. What's wrong? I thought she had a boyfriend broke up with her. First of all, we're still together. Okay. What else? And then just depressed about the economy. It's just sad. All right For angelo five car phone.  What is it?  Is that the question? Damn, that is a good question I haven't used them I don't know if you still have a job angelo. We'll see once this is all local.    I can't wait either.  Let's go. Let's get back to it. Fuck.  I don't think it's shocking anymore.  No, that is true. I remember when that happened everybody immediately went to The body immediately went to magic's gay and they started talking about when he used to kiss Isaiah on the lips. Yeah.   I'm gay. Yeah. So, I mean, that was, that was a thing during that era. You know what I mean? So, I don't think it would be a surprise. I really don't think.  You know what I mean? But you always assume they cheat on their wives. So, it's like nothing, nothing is that shocking. Maybe raw dogging is a little crazy. Maybe Steph Curry would be the most shocking if he had it, but then again, he's in San Francisco. He's the closest to Wuhan of AIDS. Jesus Christ.  Oh, um, hmm, it's a good question. I don't know. I don't know. I plan on doing absolutely everything after Corona that I did before. Absolutely everything. And shakes, meet and greets after the show. All that. Yes, let's go. I was thinking about meetings. Um, don't get me wrong. I still love having meetings.  But I do miss it.   You know what I'm saying? Yeah. The reason, because I'm the type of, I'm the type that would get on a plane and fly to L.A. for a meeting and then fly right back. Fly, go to L.A. for an hour meeting and fly right back.  I mean, the fact that you would fly to L.A. for a meeting is kind of crazy. Just a meeting, nothing else? You weren't like filming something? No. I mean, I do that too. But sometimes I go just for a meeting, like, you know, especially depending on who the meeting is with. That's it. And a lot of times those have become like some of my biggest opportunities. You know what I mean? Like I've been planting a lot of seeds over the years that people will see the fruit from, um, you know, over the next year or so. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, yeah, like you take those, you take those meetings and they're stressful in there, hard to do and it wears and tears on you. But it's absolutely worth it. I just don't know if I would ever have to do that again. So I'm, this is a good question because it's something that I miss, you know, but I don't know if I would necessarily do it after Corona because I don't see the need other than to fill the energy of the room. That's about it. Yeah. You really need energy. It is nice. But I hear you. I hear what you're saying. It's a long trip to go just for a meeting, but you're probably meeting people that you want to meet in person. So it's different, you know? Oh, this is another good asking that he had a lycra, like lycra hoist that how did Charlemagne get his girl back back in the day when he used to be cheating? I'm going through it. That's a very good question. But you can't compare your situation to mine because me and my now wife, we were together very young. You know what I'm saying? We were together as kids since high school. So we grew together. We evolved together. You know, we didn't really know how to be in relationships with each other. And then, you know, she went off to college to get about it. You know what I'm saying? She's still going to live her life in college. I wasn't in school. I wasn't there every day. You're going to go through these different experiences. You're going to go through their whole phase at different times. So I'm not necessarily the best example. But I do say, you know, since I am a man who's cheated when he was married, I just think that the best apology is changed behavior. And I think the same way your girl has a sixth sense and she knows when you are cheating. She also knows when you're not cheating. You know what I'm saying? So I just think the best apology is changed behavior, man. That's it. Simple as that. That makes sense, man. Yeah. That's cool that she's passed it. I mean, or is she passed it? Is she forgiving you? Have you guys done something like that? I think so only because I'm clean. Bro, I'm four years clean. Yeah. I ain't cheated since October of 2016. Matter of fact, I'll be four years this year.  Four years.  It wasn't bad at all. It has nothing to do with it being bad. You know what I'm saying?  It was. By the way, you know what's so crazy, man? Once when like that's why everybody needs to read Way to Superior, man. It's a great book. And you know, it talks about a sacred masculine and divine feminine. It's a book that Lauren London recommended to Dipsy Hussle and Lauren also recommended it to me as well. And me and Dipsy actually had a discussion about it on his last interview with the Breakfast Love.   Sounds pretty gay, bro. Huh? Nothing. What you said? Sounds pretty gay, bro. I'm just saying, man. Maybe that's why I gave people maybe that's why the gay sex is so good, bro. Maybe they connected a different way.  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, bro. They they throw me under the bus. I'm just saying they can't jump around from part of the partner. So maybe they really focus so intensely on their significant other that they connect on a different level. They connect emotionally, spiritually.  I don't know. I can't speak for you. Oh, child, you have so much to learn. It's not, oh, child. It's sis, holy sis. All right, sis, sis, bro. Sis, listen. Dude, there's a thing in gay culture called the glory hole.   Wait, what? Wouldn't you love to have a significant? No, it's not your significant others. Just some random dude.   The fun part about the glory hole, I guess, is you don't know who's sucking it. But think about the person that's sucking it.  Yeah, that's what I'm saying.   What's happening over here, bro?  This is how that flu got passed around, bro. Come on. It's so crazy. Jesus, man. All right, let's do one more. Asking it in a game.  I don't know if this is true, though. T Money Sig says, how do y'all feel that this kind of natural disaster didn't bring people closer and are we fucked when the aliens come? Well, I mean, it didn't bring people closer because we literally have to distance ourselves from one another. That's part of it. And are we thinking digitally? You don't think it digitally made us closer? I know for a fact, bro. I'm I'm face timing way more than I ever have in my life. I'm zooming way more than I ever have in my life. I'm doing IG live way more than I ever had in my life.  You're just bored. You got nothing to do.  Let me distract myself. Everybody's hitting me. Everybody's like, yo, come on my IG live. Everybody got an IG live talk show. Yeah. Like everybody's doing something. Like everybody wants IG live action. They're like, yo, come do this, come do that. Like that's because we're craving live interaction. We want to do something together. Like that's why I wish they had that MMA fight because it was going to be something we could all experience together at the same time that was live.  We just want to experience something with each other.  That's why Tory Lane's live is popping, bro. It's like, give us a live moment we could all share. Let's go. True. True. You're absolutely right. Anyway, bro. I think that's it, right? I think that's it, man. You'd be good. I think we did it. Should we do a hairline check or not? You want it? I got a lot of hair, bro. Let me see it. Because I saw it when you were lifting the what's it called a little bit? Let me see. Yo. Yo. My hairline ain't that bad.  Officer Winslow. Let me see that hairline, Officer Winslow. Let me see that. It's a Winslow. Let me see it, bro. Hold on. Hold on. Let me see it again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Get a little sneak peek. I feel like I'm asking for a titty pic. Let me get it. Just show me a little something. No. I want to say thank you for listening. The views of Andrew Schultz are Andrew Schultz's views. Man, will you stop, bro? What type of friend are you, bro? The type of friend that knows when to move out of the way. And I'm telling you to move too. Why are you throwing me under the booty bus, bro? Like, you don't got to do this, bro. You're the booty bus. You really throw me under the booty bus. The funniest in the world. The funniest in the world is the text you get after this podcast when Chris is like, all right, I think y'all should take out from 1256 to 1987 to 1903. OK, all references to China just should be shrubbed. Just shrubbed. Dude, that's right. He works for government, bro. Listen, 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.  It's the bearded podcast. Thank you for listening. Thanks.


It's early in the morning, and I'm out here working on my big project over here, and it started raining. Oh, I got such a good start too. Hopefully this will stop soon, but in the meantime, I think I'll just talk to a camera and sit under this boat roof here. So my latest situation is I need about $3,000 worth of wood cut. And that's like the cheapest price I can get. That's with the guy who doesn't really cut straight boards. To get straight boards, it's gonna cost more like $4,000 or $5,000. So let me just fast-forward. I think instead of doing any of that, I'm just gonna buy a chainsaw. Not like a little chainsaw I've had before that's like, wee! No, I mean like, like $1,000 chainsaw. And I'm looking at a Husqvarna 572 right now. I think I think I'm gonna get one of those. I can get it for a little under $1,000. I'm gonna get the 28 inch bar so I can make nice long cuts, and I should be able to cut pretty decent boards with that. Now ultimately, I do want to set up a nice lumber mill uh, where I can cut boards with electricity from from the sun and everything. However, even then I'm gonna have to cut logs down to sizes that I'll be able to transport to my lumber mill. So the chainsaw will be even useful then. Either way, it's gonna be a lot less expensive to buy a chainsaw and cut all this wood myself than to, you know, spend three or four thousand dollars. It's kind of a lot of money for me. Uh, so I think that's what I'm gonna do. And then I was thinking, all right, I want to cut really good boards for this thing I'm making. So I'm gonna make a, well, I'm either gonna make or buy an Alaskan lumber mill and I was, eyeballing my, you know, junk pile this morning. And just with a real quick look, I think I have the parts to make a decent Alaskan lumber mill. And then I should probably also make some safety equipment. I have some your things that will protect my ears. I should probably wear a mask because if I'm gonna be cutting like, you know, six or eight hours a day for a while, that's gonna be a lot of fumes. And I probably want to wear a mask for that.  Now the other major piece of safety equipment chainsaw users often use is leg protection things, chaps that are like, and I've never actually used these. I've used them like once or twice before. Generally I don't use them.  And I was thinking I can make those because basically the way these, these pants things work is they're not impervious to the chainsaw, but they, they have all these fiberglass fibers or something like that in them that gum up the chainsaw. So as soon as they hit your, your leg, it just stops the chainsaw because the chainsaw gets gummed up with all these fibers and stuff. So I was like, I can make that just make some pants with double layers. And so a whole bunch of fiberglass in there. I have to do a bit of research and make sure fiberglass will actually do. But then I was like, wait a minute, that is going to be so hot. I'm living in the tropics. I'm not in a cold place. That's going to be too hot. What if I just make myself like stainless steel leg armor? And that way it's not going to stop the chainsaw, but if the chainsaw like bounced off my leg and it's covered in this, you know, a decent thickness of stainless steel, it's not going to, it's not going to cut through that instantly. I'm going to have a second, we have a few seconds to realize, oh wow, I'm chopping through my leg before it actually gets to flesh. So I might do that. I don't know. I gotta think about all this stuff. Anyway, I think the first thing will be just, just get the chainsaw. And then when that's ordered, it'll take like a month or so to get here. I'm going to have to pay like import tax. But whatever. And while that's coming, I'll try to make in the lumber mill. That's not that hard to make. I should be able to make a decent one with stuff I have here and then, you know, collect my whatever other equipment I need in the meantime. Oh, and I lost one of my boots in the ocean the other day. Well, like three weeks ago now. So that was my only pair of boots. It did already have a hole in it. Anyway, so I bought four new pairs of boots. All like discount like cheap boots. So that's why I got four because I don't know. I'm hoping one, at least one pair is good. So we'll see. Because the, you know, the last pair I got was like $90 pair of boots. And they last a little while, but they got holes in them. And you know, so I was like, maybe maybe I just need to try getting like several pairs of cheap boots and from from different companies and just see if there's anything in there that's good. So hopefully one of those is good. Because I can't really go traipsing around in the jungle in my sandals. We could, but it's not that safe. Okay. So that's what's going on with me right now. Well, right now I'm just sitting here waiting for the rain to stop.  I can't get anything done in the rain. At least not what I'm working on right now. Oh, seriously, man. Oh, did I mention the weather report said full sun today?


Hello and welcome back! Now in this video I'll be going over all the key quotations and word-level analysis you need to remember when it comes to memorizing key quotations for the main characters and of mice and men. So we'll begin with George and as you can see here they're essentially these other key quotations to remember and to memorize especially when you're writing an essay on of mice and men for either your coursework or exams. So let's begin with the first quotation to remember when it comes to George's character. This is to do with the description that Steinbeck gives him okay and he's described as having restless eyes and sharp strong features. Now the word-level analysis you want to do here is point out the sibilance s hair to sharp and strong and what the sibilance does in this instance is it portrays George as very shrewd, very cunning, always thinking, always calculating, almost like a fox and of course this stands in stark contrast to Lenny who's quite big, hulking, bare-like so he has far more power than George physically speaking. However he's not as sharp-witted and as intelligent as George. Now the second quotation to bear in mind with George's character is when at the beginning in the first chapter he tells Lenny and instructs him I want you to come ellipsis and hide in the brush. This is vital instruction for Lenny because he's basically telling him in case there's any trouble we've now found work. In case there's any trouble we come back here okay to the river but more specifically come and hide in the brush and already this kind of foreshadows that Lenny might do something which will get them in trouble and George doesn't quite trust that things will go okay. Of course we then do realise that Lenny does what gets him in trouble and George ultimately sadly has to kill him okay. Now the word-level analysis you want to remember with this quotation particularly is firstly it's an imperative sentence. An imperative sentence just means a sentence that issues a command. That's the first thing you want to talk about and that's a structural feature. The second word-level analysis is mention and point out the verb hide. This idea that he tells Lenny that he needs to hide and again this is interesting because what this illustrates is brute force so Lenny's just brute force his sheer power isn't enough for him to survive in this modern world. He also needs to have the cunning, the intellectual ability that he sadly lacks. Hence he has to be reduced to a creature that's hiding in the shadows once he makes a mistake. Now the third quotation to bear in mind for George's character is when he states to Lenny guys like us ellipsis are the loneliest guys in the world okay.  Now the word-level analysis you want to do here firstly is a superlative adjective loneliest. Remember an adjective is just a word that describes a noun. There's also comparative adjectives better worse so it compares two things and superlative is the most extreme amount of that thing. Best, worst, loneliest, happiest okay. So this is a superlative adjective loneliest and of course this whole sentence is hyperbole it's over exaggeration and again what this quotation is important in illustrating is how the life of the ranch worker the immigrant worker the person like George and Lenny who were constantly in search of work that life was a very difficult and lonely life and hence why George and Lenny actually stood out in contrast to all the other ranch workers they were quite lonely they were very individualistic however they're also very very lonely and very alone okay and of course there's almost this element of hope there's almost this brotherhood that's captured in this quotation that George wants to illustrate. Now the other quotations to remember when it comes to George's character is when he's articulating the American dream the dream for both him and Lenny to own their own farm to have a small house with rabbits and animals that they contend to and he states as he's articulating this dream we're going to have a little house. Now here there's two word level analysis you want to do here the first is the collective pronoun we this is in contrast to I okay and again this shows that they have a community spirit together they have a brotherhood okay the second thing is the adjective little again this shows just how even if they have an American dream the dream is very modest and it's almost heartwarming for us to read as readers but equally very heart wrenching when it really goes beyond their reach once Lenny kills Curly's wife the other quotation to bear in mind is when Curly turns on Lenny so he's really angry and he's frustrated more jealous of Slim's power and the influence that he has over his wife but he vents this frustration and this anger and he attacks Lenny Lenny doesn't know what to do and he only acts once George tells him get him Lenny and this is what causes Lenny to crush Curly's hand now word level analysis and here actually it's more structural point you want to talk about imperative sentence George is giving him an order what this is illustrating is that George has all the power kind of like in this Darwinian environment whereby Lenny he's really really strong but he doesn't know what to do it's George that really almost pulls the levers and tells him what to do okay and that really captures it very very clearly now the other quotation to remember is when George eventually finds Lenny before all the other men do once Lenny has killed Curly's wife and Lenny says you must be really angry at me and George says the following I ain't mad full stop I never been mad now here the word level analysis you want to do is the repetition of this term mad it's repeated twice and what this is showing is George's paternalistic attitude his fatherly attitude towards Lenny he's almost telling him I still love you almost like a son and again this is so heart-wrenching as we're reading because of course ultimately George realizes because he loves Lenny so much but Lenny is incapable of wielding his power in a positive way he has to kill him it's almost a mercy killing okay but he's showing Lenny before he kills him that he actually has never been angry with him he actually loved him okay the final quotation to remember when it comes to George's character is the description of how he kills Lenny his demeanor when he's killing Lenny he was business-like and you want to talk about the adjective in terms of word-level analysis business now here this business-like approach actually interestingly ties into the capitalist idea this notion of making money seeing things from a very cold lens of profit now George no longer sees Lenny as profitable in his endeavor to get security to get a job to keep a job and to ultimately achieve the American dream so he has to kill him that's on the one hand however also his business-like demeanor shows maybe that he has stoically accepted defeat he's accepted that the American dream is now out of the reach and so he kills Lenny and with Lenny's death he kills his dream of the American dream so that's it when it comes to George's character and key quotations to remember for his character


In a recent episode of Lifespan News, we discussed the controversy surrounding Resveratrol, and today we'll update you on the reaction to that video and where we can go from here. Resveratrol is used by many people for what they believe are its health and longevity benefits, and much of this belief stems from work that was conducted by Dr. Davidson Clare and his team at Harvard University in the mid-2000s. Since then, the results of these studies have been called into question, with the argument being that Resveratrol is incapable of activating CERT1 in humans, that there's no reliable data for its benefits, and that it might not only be ineffective, but could actually be harmful. Dr. Sinclair seems to disagree and stands by his research. That's a quick summary of the situation. For more on the background, please watch our previous video on this topic and check out the source material linked in that video description. The purpose of our previous video, and the reason we're addressing this topic at all, is to find alignment on what should be the mutual goals of everyone involved. To attain and share knowledge about how to extend healthy human lifespan, and to make sure that those methods are made available so that they can help people. And once we agree on that mission, what should not be difficult, what to do about Resveratrol becomes obvious. Let's have the leading scientists, on both sides of this issue, discuss this disagreement directly. Come to a consensus on what evidence or data would settle their disagreements, and then gather that data. The Lifespan.io, the non-profit organization behind Lifespan News, offered to facilitate this discussion and to help fund the study that would provide resolution. But it doesn't need to be us. We would support the efforts of others to do this as well. And for those who would say that the science has long been settled on this issue, apparently it's not. The fact that people, even those who are knowledgeable about health and biology, are pulled in different directions, and are hearing contradictory things from people they respect, shows the level of confusion that exists for many. So that's the appeal that we made in our previous video. And the response was quite positive. Dr. Brad Stanfield and Dr. Charles Brenner, who were both featured in our previous video, quickly expressed a willingness to engage in a public conversation on this topic. Dr. Stanfield tweeted, Good video summary about the Resveratrol research. Totally agreed that an open discussion about the research should happen, particularly with researchers such as David Sinclair, Matt Caberline, Brian Kennedy, Charles Brenner, and I'm more than happy to join. And Dr. Brenner tweeting, Yes, I'd be happy to be interviewed by Lifespan.io about certs and Resveratrol. Jeffrey Flyer, the former Dean of Harvard Medical School, where Dr. Sinclair works, quote tweeted Dr. Brenner and said, If aging science was conducted properly, a scientific society or institute would do a symposium where key scientists discussed views on this contested issue together, had comments from independent scientists, responded to questions, recorded sessions, and then published proceedings. Personally, I agree with this. And the conversation continued in the YouTube comments under our video. When Dr. Stanfield was asked if he would be happy for Lifespan.io, or Aleaf, to facilitate a debate between him and Dr. Sinclair, he replied, absolutely. I have not seen any public comment from Dr. Sinclair on this topic. A Twitter user did reply to an unrelated tweet of his, and directly asked if he thought that a public debate on this topic would be helpful, and if not, what his suggestions for clarifying science communication and addressing confusion are. That also did not receive a response. Shortly after a previous video was released and these tweets were sent, Dr. Sinclair blocked both Flyer and Brenner on Twitter. For many observers, this didn't necessarily come as a surprise. There has been obvious animosity, and what some have called trolling, going on for a while. And as Brenner said, Sinclair is certainly within his rights to control his feet. Regardless, the whole situation is certainly not ideal. And I want to be clear here, Dr. Sinclair could have any number of reasons for not wanting to engage. Many may jump to the assumption that a demonstrated unwillingness to engage on this topic is proof that his position is indefensible, but I'm not willing to make that assumption. Possible reasons could be business interests, legal advice, confidentiality, or perhaps even just because he doesn't feel like these claims, or perhaps the people that are making these claims should be taken seriously, or feels that there are other motives at play. That's why I was hoping that, at a minimum, someone might be willing to argue his position in his place. Unfortunately, without a recognized expert willing to publicly defend the position that Resveratrol does activate CERT-1 in humans, or at a minimum does provide health and or longevity benefits in humans, I don't see how this debate or discussion that we've been advocating for can take place. And there's still new science on Resveratrol coming out all the time. Just recently, a team of researchers in China shared results in a paper titled, Modulation of CERT-1 Expression Improves a Rectile Function in Aged Rats that indicates that, quote, the protein expression of CERT-1 was increased in the Resveratrol group, and that Resveratrol treatment significantly elevated a rectile function in aged rats. So what does this mean in the context of the broader Resveratrol controversy? I have no idea, but we need to figure it out. Without any noteworthy developments, this may be as far as we can go in addressing the disagreements surrounding Resveratrol. In any case, we'll certainly continue to bring you the latest science and discussion. So for more of that, please subscribe. I'm Ryan O'Shea and we'll see you next time on Lifespan News.