I love the premise of this show.   Oh, we go where we not supposed to go, baby. The Brilliant Idiots podcast. Yep, Charlamagne, the guy. And to show, we are the Brilliant Idiots podcast. Thank you for joining us for another week and today's episode is brought to you by Squarespace from websites and online stores, the marketing tools and analytics. Squarespace is the only one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business. There are no hidden fees or price hikes and all websites are optimized for mobile and it's so simple. Start with a design template and use drag and drop tools to make it your own.  Let's start this show. We back, baby. We back.  Yeah, it seems like you keep pushing it. Cause you know, you gotta switch it every two weeks. Yep. And when you first, yeah, when you first put it in after every two weeks, that's when that shit hurts the most, man. Stay one of the new tray. Like day two. Yeah. Day two of the new tray, maybe. Yeah, I put it in yesterday. Yeah. That's the day two.  Trying to. Yeah, you know.  Yeah, I feel like you need a little breather. Yeah, just sleeping it. All I did is go to sleep in it. Really? I don't wear it all day, but like I said, if I eat dinner at night, I don't put it back on. Cause I know at night I'm gonna have me a drink. I'm gonna do a edible. I'm gonna get the munchies. I ain't got time to be taking it in and out. You know what I mean? So I just sit there and let it breathe for a minute.  No. I only do edibles on weekends. Oh, okay. I'm not a drug addict. I don't need edibles to survive the cope with life. You know who I bumped into yesterday? A drug addict, clearly. No. If this is what you're using the second to it.  Is that Tiffany Haddish? Okay. Yeah. Okay, my girl. Love Tiffany. She's. Are you sorry? She's in New York? Yeah, she's in New York.  How she in New York? She ain't hit me. What's she doing in New York? Okay, okay. But yeah, I bumped into her last night at this bar and I haven't had like a one-on-one conversation with her before. She was talking to me about you recently. She is a force. Duh. She is an absolute unstoppable force. All energy. Absolutely. I mean. You gotta read her book. You should read her book, The Last Black Unicorn. I want to. No, you should read her book. The first time I ever got turned on to Tiffany was Neil Brennan and Moshe Cash's podcast, The Champs. I had met Tiffany years, years ago when we were filming a guy. Well, it wasn't a guy. It was a four-guy cult. Me and Duvall were filming. A hood-stated union? No, it was like, okay. It was like a little bit right after hood-stated union. We first started doing stuff with Viacom. I think it was like, what's that show, VH1? Used to do best? Two girls, one car.  There's one in the talk ahead show. So I met Tiffany way back then, but I heard her champs interview in like 2014, 2015. And when you hear that interview, you like, yo. She's charged up. Man. She's charged up. I mean, it was unbelievably entertaining talker. Oh, y'all was kicking it, kicking it. Yeah. Oh, that's dope. We were just chopping it up. Nah, she good people, man. She was funny too, man.  She walked in and she was like, what's up? Ugly? I said, what? She goes, nah, I gotta tell these motherfuckers they ugly. That's how I get laid. I go, what? Ah! Ah! Ah! You just tell them motherfuckers they ugly. They fall in love with you. And then she turns to the group of people and she's like, ain't he ugly?   I mean, that's exactly what she just said. I can't blame her.   Nah, she just busted balls. But I will say what they, she's so funny. She wants to bust your balls. She might want to bust my balls. No, but she was, she said she's very protective over you. That's my girl, man. Because she loves your wife so much. That's what she's talking about.  That's what she's talking about. Oh, man. She says that she does it. I can tell y'all a story right now. That's it. No. But she ain't lying. And I'm gonna tell you something. I remember one, I can tell this story. I don't gotta say who the girl was. But one night we was at, it was something, what Tiffany had just hosted. Tiffany had just hosted some award show and we was at the after party and I was in LA. Mind you, this is me and my faithful days. I'm faithful now, you know what I'm saying? And my wife wasn't there.  Pressing. But what she didn't know was not only was Tiffany Haddish in the party, Alicia Renee was in the party too. Woo! And somehow or another, not even knowing. Double two seconds. Tiffany came from one side and Alicia came from the other side and it was like, you know he's married, right? You know he's married. Like, but not like on some, you know he's married. Like, yo, you know he's married, right? Yeah. Like, hey man, thank you.  Really? Yeah. Because I'm so oblivious. Like when girls compliment my stand-up, I think they really like my stand-up. So like, this girl's like, I really love watching all your shows and I'm like, she's got good taste. Two things can be true. Two things can be true. I guess I'm more arrogant about my art than I am about my face. Yeah, I'm sure every artist that got laid music-wise or a comedy has gotten the same thing. I love your stand-up. I love your song.    But she's saying, you know what I mean? Like, but she's coming at the stand-up but I'm like, oh, God, yes, there we go. This girl's a great sense of humor. And she came up one last time and Tiffany just stepped in with the high spin. It was like, uh-uh, uh-uh, it ain't gonna happen. That's right. It ain't gonna happen. And then she was like, what, what, what, what? He's married. And then the girl goes, everyone's married. Yo, what is up with these toxic women that don't respect our bow, yo? I mean, thank you for the compliment but what's going on? We don't have these conversations enough, man. There's these toxic women out here that don't respect vows, yo.  Am I not wearing a ring? Bird is born. Are we not wearing a ring? Not only am I wearing a ring, we're letting you know we're married. We talk about being married all the time. This is a new flag. This is a new flag, yo. This gang right here. We're gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, yo.  What's wrong with you, yo? They don't respect our vows, yo. It's disgusting. For real, back up off the block.  Meaning like- I don't even know, Sharla, man. No, but that's- I think they like me for me. But that's disrespect when you be like, everybody's married, yo, what's that mean, yo? I didn't know until she said that. I genuinely thought she was a fan of my comedy.  Why was she there? You know what I'm saying? Your motive is pure. My motive is pure. You know what I'm saying? I'm just walking in the room, trying to have a conversation.      No, I'm not judging. Why would you even do such a thing like that?   I'm not judging women who, you know, are only doing what the married man allows them to do. You know what I'm saying? Oh, wait. I'm not judging women who are only doing what the married man allows them to do. But if you know that you're dealing with a faithful male, don't try to put your lips on that faithful male's cock. Facts. Don't gaslight me. That was gaslighting me. Now I think she probably did like you stand up. Yeah, she did.  Down, down. We should have had Tiff on the podcast. Down. I don't even know if she was interested. We do have to get her on. That'd be great. No, but speaking of marriage, man, what do you think of the TJ Holmes, Amy Roback situation from Good Morning America? Have you been paying attention? Here's the thing. I know I might be shocking to you. I watched Good Morning America 3. But I have heard about what is happening here. And I'm not at all surprised. Okay. Okay. Why? I think that's what happens a lot of times with people who spend an inordinate amount of time together. Like I used to see when people worked in restaurants all the time. I'm sure you see it with movies. It's like you're spending so much time with these people and away from your family, your wife, your girlfriend, et cetera. And she can get sticky out there, man. I get it.  And as a man, if you're married, I really think you got to respect those vows. Cause man, boy, when you don't respect, I think when people don't realize when they're making vows, you're not really making them in front of the pastor.  You're not making them in front of the church or wherever you got married.   And you don't respect those vows and then God taps your jaw. You think that's what happened right there? You think it was God in there? I mean, it's proven, right? Meaning that you didn't respect your vows. You got your jaw tapped. Now, both of y'all sitting at home, even though I just think that's something that ABC is doing, cause it's the holiday season. So it makes more sense to have two people go sit down and then come back in the new year and see what happens. But the interesting thing about situations like this, the reason this is never gonna work for anybody, especially men, is cause what does that headline say? TJ Holmes allegedly cheated with several women at ABC. Never failed that the man will be demonized. Whoa, like she was taking advantage of her something, but she could have been doing what that girl was doing to me the other night. She's a married woman too. It's the same thing with the other situation with the Boston Celtics coach. That's the married woman. They say, oh, you can't even bring up the man. They made jail and rose apologized for even asking, how come nobody's having conversations about the married woman? They say, oh, it's because of the power dynamics and everything else. Well, guess what? These power dynamics are even. TJ Holmes and Amy are both co-hosts. Yet and still, TJ's the one getting demonized the most. He's the one in the headlines.  Can I be honest with you? I don't even think the power dynamics are even. Talk to me. Women are always in power when it comes to sex. If they're not, it's not consensual. There's one power in consensual sex. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Women are always in power. So it can't happen without her. You're really not saying consensual sex is the first thing somebody will say when they hear that is, that's not true. What about people who get sexually assaulted? You know what I mean? Of course, of course. In consensual sex, I agree. So we're assuming this is consensual because they had a relationship. So the woman who is the power broker in this relationship agrees to engage into us in a sexual act. All the man can do is ask when you think about it. As long as it's consensual, all the man can do is act. Or try by courting, right? You're courting. That's why I meant by that.  This woman crossed the line. Technically, a man can't cheat without a woman making him. They both crossed the line. No, no, no, no, no. Technically. He's married too, though. They both crossed the line. But he can't do it without her agreeing. He's got self-control. He know he married. No, no, no, no. You don't understand what I'm saying. She, if it's consensual, she made the decision. It's in her control. Sure, but as a married man, if a woman... Am I wrong right here? No, I'm going to tell you why he's wrong. I can't go on the nightclub and let the bouncer let me in. No, wrong is the right word. He's not wrong. Can I go on the nightclub with the bouncer? Don't let me in? He's not wrong. That's a very valid point, but there's another point to that. If a woman... You will get angry if I'm in the nightclub. You let me in.  If you let her, that's your fault. You know you're married. You know what you should and shouldn't be doing. So you know that old saying, it takes two... I didn't say that there's not fault. Yeah. That's what I'm saying is, a man can't do it without them. A woman can. Nobody's going to say that it's assault. Nobody's going to say it's... I get what you're saying. But if a man tries, and then the woman pushes away, that guy's assaulting her. If a woman tries, she just failed at hitting on a dude. The woman is the person, she's the bouncer. She's TSA.  I think it takes two, man. It takes two to cheat, bro.  It takes two to cheat.   Well, speaking of TSA, when you walk through that security cameras, a married man, your wedding ring better go off.  But I have not seen a person win in these situations yet. Not no man. Not no man. You know you went on vacation with her, too.  Your wife has been waiting to go to the woods with you for years. Now that's the other part, too, though, because I don't know if both of them were separated. That's the other part of the story. They're saying that they were both separated from next significant others, but then other people are saying that's not true. So I don't know. But you're right.  But you're right, man. You got to stop treating the side like the main, bro. Yeah. Wabi, I'm not your main. Wasabi.   I'm talking to the dog. What do you think Sobby was in another life? This with that woman at the bar last night? Just licking on you with no consent. You know what I mean? Down! But that's what you got to do. I'm only in control of me, man. I'm not in control of nobody else.  Jesus Christ, man. I don't have it, bro. What you want me to do, man? I'm going to tell you something. I saw it. This guy's worth millions and millions of dollars. Why are you keep saying this? Why do you say? Why, why, why is this happening? Why are you keep saying this? It's crazy, huh? Millions of dollars. You got to stop saying this. Millions of dollars? Millions of dollars. Tens of millions. Why do you keep saying this? It's not true. At least tens of millions. You know what I want for Christmas? And this is true. I thought about this. I literally thought about this this morning. What?  But I want to be able to go in my sock drawer and find socks that batch.  What's happening with the socks when they go in the drawer? They're completely... I don't know. It took me 15 minutes to find socks this morning. Do you have a maid or something like that? I mean, that's a terrible term. Have... Help? That's not worse. Have people who help us with the house.  I don't think nobody matches the socks. This is a historic thing. That's only you, bro. Huh? That ain't true. I don't believe... Let me see y'all socks right now.  Do your socks match? Tell me, let me see if your socks match. Your socks match? Look at this.  Can't tell you.  I'm the only one with... Technically my socks match, but they're just dirty. Down! Here's the thing.  That's crazy to me. I think I realized...  You can't do that yourself? I think I realized I don't have that many matching pair of socks. You have to, they come matching. I don't know what happens. Let's just find them individually. I don't know what happens to them, bro. I'm not even lying to you. I've never been a sock guy. What's happening right now, yo? I'm starting to get into socks now. What's a sock? No, I'm gonna say... What is happening right now, yo? Salute the stance, right? Because stance kind of like made cool socks. Yeah. But I started like paying attention to socks. Okay. Prior to that, paying attention to socks like that. You'll go buy briefs.  But you have socks. And then somehow... I'm gonna be honest with you... You only have one of them? As I look at my feet, I'm not sure I have socks, bro. And when I think about what was going on in my drawer this morning, I think that those socks are really there for props.   None of the socks matched. You know, these were the only pair of socks that I could find that matched. Call your housekeeper right now. For what? So we can have a conversation about it. You really think you're gonna be able to understand her? Honestly, yeah. You might. My wife speaks the language a little better than I do. I don't have the housekeeper's number, though.  Or you just have one sock. She don't even have to touch the drawer. When I find socks, I usually get socks out of the laundry basket most of the time. Uh-huh.  Why isn't she putting them away? Do you see, is there? I don't understand what you're saying. No, I totally understand. It's really coming to me now. What's coming to you? What I realize is I get my socks out of the laundry basket. You know, the cleaners come like two times a week. So I'm probably wearing the same pair of socks. Every single time. You have one pair of socks. Maybe two. You have one to two pairs of socks. Maybe two. Maybe two. Maybe two. Maybe two. I don't have socks to wash. Yeah, I don't have socks to wash. Show them in. I know what I'm gonna get you for Christmas. I want socks. I'm not even joking, yo. I know. But I gotta really start investing in socks in a real way to where I know they a pair. You know what I mean? This is a... I got on the 85 style sweatsuit right now. I notice the pants to it. This is the top. So I need the same socks so I can look and say, okay, these go together. Yes. I'm dead serious. What do you mean? It's a million. Yeah, how you got tens of millions of dollars? I don't have tens of millions of dollars. Stop saying that. How you worth a hundred million dollars and you don't have it? Bro, I don't have that. That's why I keep losing friends now. This guy's the first billion man. Do they think I got stuff? I don't have. There's the socks. This is unbelievable. Taylor said that there's socks that come together. Don't all socks come together? It's never been a problem. It's never been a problem for most people to have socks that match. How do you know Rich is Black man in America? You're literally the Rich is Black man now. You say who's the Rich is Black man in America? You do. Now the Kanye is not Rich no more. You're the Rich is Black man in America. The Rich is Black man in America is my good friend Robert Smith. Wow. That's Cap, good friend. That guy's white. Rob... Did you know Robert Smith is white? Robert Smith is black. No, Robert Smith is black black. Robert Smith is pay off all the student loans at Morehouse graduating class black. Wouldn't you do that if you were really white?  No, I would do that if I was really Rich. That's what you do. So TJ and Amy, God bless them. What is happening right now? We wish them the best. The Vanderbilt's ain't leave his sister real now. You're good bro. We wish them the best. You missed the goat this week man. Oh, I know. You walked in, you was very disappointed that you missed the goat this week. I saw the goat two times this week man. Dr. Umar Johnson was on Breakfast Club. Ann Helibowin. Dr. Umar Johnson was on Hell of a Week. OK, tell me about Breakfast Club first. Breakfast Club conversations are always great because people look forward to Dr. Umar on Breakfast Club. OK, why do you think he's such an engaging figure despite the fact that a lot of his rhetoric may be not as progressive or deemed as polarizing? I don't think it has to be progressive. I think that black people and people of color think that your messaging has to be progressive. But the reality is, man, most people are conservative. I really feel that way. Speak on it. I just think most people are conservative. I think that the way we were raised, a lot of us have old school values. Now there's things about myself that I've grown to question, especially in regards to religion just because things don't feel right with my spirit. You know what I mean? But other than that, for the most part, most people have conservative values. It's not really that difficult to express. And I think a lot of things that he expresses a lot of conservative values, even his thoughts on interracial relationships. It's not weird when Asian people say that. It's not weird when Jewish people say that. It's not weird when a Latino or a Dominican says I want my Dominican daughter to marry a Dominican man.  No, I yeah, I've seen a lot of people say he says it. First of all, I just want to make it very clear. I absolutely love Dr. My Johnson.  He's one of the best communicators, the most hilarious. He really is, Joe. So but I think what a lot of people do is they go, well, just because they're doing that, why can't we do that? But if you do something that we that we deem as wrong, it doesn't make it OK if other people do wrong things. Yes. In other words, right? Like if somebody's like, yo, they beat their wives, why can't we beat our wives? No, they shouldn't. That's right. And you should continue not. So if you fall in love with someone who is of a different religion or of a different race, God bless you. Some people don't feel that way. Dr. My Johnson actually had like a fire argument for it. You know, me as a comic, I'm just looking for cool connections. And his own thing was he says what often happens is a lot of affluent, educated black men, like the rich black men are marrying outside their race. And he thinks that that puts the black community in a tougher situation because I guess they're not like because women outlive men. And so when the man passes, that wealth goes to a community. A lot of times that has been taken from the black community. We can put that clip in. I mean, and that's the thing I like about Omar, whether that's right or wrong. It's like as a comic, I'm looking at them like, oh, that's interesting. It's not prejudice. It's based on economics and business. Yeah, I understand what you say. I guess what I'm saying is just because things are even doesn't mean it's right. Yes. There's a lot of ways to be even. Yes. That are absolutely wrong. Oh, that person commits crime.  No, you shouldn't.   He said he looked incredible.   Dr. Umar showed me that he really is the star we've always known him. And I tell you what I mean by that. He is not performing as much as we think he may be performing. Yeah, I don't think he's performing. Well, the great ones make you think they're not performing. Well, I think that he recognizes when he has the opportunity to really get messaging across that he feels can benefit people or better people. You know what I mean? Because what he had to say about the Brittany Grindel situation, whether you agree or disagree with it. What was his take on his take on it? And we can insert that, Taylor, but his take on it was that, you know, it's just a political stunt from the Biden administration. You know, to garner support in 2024 because Brittany Grindel checks off a lot of boxes. It checks off Woman Box, Black Box, LGBTQ and celebrities. You know, and I mean, I think I'm pretty sure at this point, we are safe to say Brittany was a political pawn, not just even for the USA, but for Russia as well. Russia used her to get back their merchant of death, you know. And now Biden has another thing he can put on his resume to say that he got done and it's a cultural thing that people wanted to get done. People are going to remember that. That is that's one of those things that nobody is going to ever forget in regards to President Biden and the Biden administration. And what's what's been interesting is that like there's been this comparison made between Brittany Grindel and I believe something. We all willing Paul Wheeling former US Marine Paul Wheeling. And and what was Paul Wheeling doing in Russia? He got a he was I don't know. I forgot what he was actually doing there, but he got arrested for espionage. But he was he's fine. No, he said he wasn't. I mean, that's yeah, of course, that's what you say. That's what I was saying. No, that's fine. It's on vacation. And I don't I don't I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I guess what I'm trying to say is like I don't think it's a fair comparison if his job was to go there and spy. You know, if your job I know he was working for some security firm or something like that. I guess what I'm trying to say is like if your job is to go somewhere and spy and then you get captured, right?   But the only reason that she was put in jail in this way is because she's famous and she was a tool. It was a proxy. Go back to that. But I just people are making this comparison. They're like, why are we letting this girl out who quote unquote hates America versus this guy who sacrificed for America? Yeah. And it's like, well, the reason why they're in prison might be different things. Yeah. But Taylor Taylor is amazing. What she what she said. She just she just informed us that Paul Willing was accused of spying. Oh, wow. No, we were sure. But we were sure what he was accused of. We don't know if he actually was spying. Like, for example, I did a show in Russia, they could easily. And I was actually concerned about this. They could easily at any point in time go, oh, this guy's out here. He's out here on behalf of the United States of America. He's trying to put out information or like research different parts of Moscow so they can attack him. Let's lock this motherfucker. Yeah, like that. They could have done that at any point in time and trump up some weird charges and then that's right. Let's insert the Paul Willing clip here, Taylor. But he Taylor Paul Willing said I was arrested. He called CNN last night. He said I was arrested for a crime that never occurred. I don't understand why I'm still sitting here. Willing, a former Marine who was the US, Irish, British and Canadian citizen was detained at a Moscow hotel in December 2018 by Russian authorities. Alleged he was involved in an intelligence operation. He was convicted and sentenced in June 2020 to 16 years in prison and a trial US officials that now is unfair. I would say that if a message could go to President Biden, that, you know, this is a precarious situation that needs to be resolved quickly. And I would hope that he and his administration would do everything they could to get me home regardless of the price they might have to pay at this point. Here's the thing. I can't believe the Biden administration didn't prepare for this backlash. As soon as this broke yesterday and we talked about it on Breakfast Club after I, you know, saluted Brittany for coming home and, you know, gave the Biden administration props. Cool. The second thing I said was, but you know, you're all about to get crazy backlash because there's a former US Marine named Paul Willing who they were talking about doing a two for one deal for. And I said, everybody's going to say WNBA player versus somebody who served the country. Right wing media is going to eat that up.  And then for a merchant of death, you know, what are you working for us to because I watched that movie. I heard that too. Yeah. So that's the other thing that's weird about this is like we locked up a dude who we were also working with. I heard that. I don't know if that's true, but I heard that. Yeah.   So I mean, that's the other thing I was thinking, right? Like, you know how there's so many like unstable nations in Africa, right? Especially the ones that have all these incredibly valuable natural resources. Yeah. Doesn't it behoove the countries that are extracting those natural resources to keep those nations as unstable as possible so that they can't organize and find a way to nationalize those resources and then make it far more expensive to remove them. Yeah. If you keep everybody, if you keep everybody else in chaos, but you're you're organized to do what it is you want to do, meaning take that take those resources from that country. You'll never lose like it's no surprise. Like they're doing it here now. A hundred percent. But I'm also like, if you look at the Congo, right, who which is I think the most resource rich region in the world, right? It's also one of the most unstable places. And I'm like, this can't be a coincidence. There has to be purpose here, right? Like, I don't know. I feel like you keep everybody confused. You keep everybody in chaos. They'll never pay attention to what you're really doing. Because I guess if you look like you look at the Middle East, right? We were extracting oil in the Middle East far before they were these organized, incredibly wealthy nations. And what do we have? What did we have to do before we started extracting oil war? Exactly. But I'm saying what I'm saying is what I'm saying is maybe they learned from what happened in the Middle East and they were like, oh, shit, we gave we gave. We allowed these people to profit. Enormously off of the oil money that was extracted. We being, you know, Great Britain, United States, many other countries develop all the infrastructure. They weren't developing this sophisticated infrastructure. Then once they made billions and trillions of dollars, they were like, OK, we don't need you guys extracting anymore. Now you're going to have to pay for the oil.    That's right.  Bro, keep people in chaos, man. I'm telling you, why do you think every day on social media is some shit? And that's what I said yesterday.  But I knew what was going to happen. I knew that the right wing media was going to be highly upset that, you know, Paul Wheeling wasn't home. I knew they were going to be highly upset that they traded a merchant of death for Brittany Grindel.  I knew that was going to turn into something. I knew that people were going to say, oh, this is an agenda because Brittany's LGBT like all it was, it was so predictable. And all the usual suspects did what they always do. And what did we do all day yesterday? Fuss and fight.  You know what I mean? This is a good lesson. Like you get locked up abroad.  Why? That's the last thing you want to do is be in some of these countries. No, but I need I need extra boxes to bring me back. Oh, I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying.  I get what you're saying. I'm Chinese. I will say. I'm all the whatever it is that you need to curry favor with. That's me. I will say, though, man, the Brittany situation did show me what, you know, communities are capable of. You know, when they decide to organize and strategize and bring awareness and attention to something. Oh, you think that's what made it happen? A hundred percent. Like, yo, I don't even know what endorsement deals Brittany got. And you know why I don't know? Because they don't do a good a job of marketing hers. People have done over the past seven to eight months. You know, I mean, the whole we are BG campaign, constantly talking about it. Yo, not even on the on the low. Paul Willing benefits from Brittany Griner. Yeah, being arrested. Yeah, I never heard of Paul Willing. Yeah, I never heard of Paul Willing. So the Brittany Griner situation.    Yeah, yeah. You better make sure that that's not just fluff to criticize the Biden administration. You better make sure you actually care about that, man.  So a WNBA player gets called with a weeping Brittany Griner. And they gave us the merchant of death for her. Yep. Oh, he's definitely not giving up. Oh, we're not giving up for nothing less than like five first round pits. You know what I'm saying? Seriously, like that's that's literally what that's literally what it is. I know that's why they're keeping Paul Willing out. It like, oh, this is what we got for this. Oh, I know. Oh, my God. No, I didn't got bodied in that trade for sure. Easily. Absolutely. But I mean, listen, it might help him to Dr. Womar's point, it might help him in 2024. I don't know, you know, here's the thing.  How does it feel? Do you feel like he looked out for you? I'm going to be honest with you, man. Whenever I see any black person, you know, get free from an unjust charge. Well, it was it was a just charge. Nine years, bro. I don't know what the rules are there, but they're countries. That's true. I mean, the rules are different. You're right. I'm comparing it to America. You're right. You're right. But it just seems unfair. But here's the thing with Biden, though. And this is what I've been saying for the past couple of days. And I'll continue to say, keep that same energy for America. Joe Biden has been responsible for some of the harshest crime, drug legislation in the history of this country. Free him up. You know what I mean? Let him out. If you can look in Russia and say that's unjust for Brittany Griner to be over there with a vape pin.  It's right. You got people locked up here. Affirmative nonsense. Right now, he should pardon everybody that's in prison on a federal level for a nonviolent weed offense. Agreed. Pardon them. You can do that. You don't need no votes in there. He can do that. Done. You know what I'm saying? You should expunge the records. No, he didn't. That's not what he did, Alex. What he did was he pardoned everybody who has a simple possession charge, but there's nobody in prison on a federal level for simple possession. I thought it was nonviolent weed offense. No, it's a simple possession of marijuana. There's nobody in prison on a federal level for a simple possession of marijuana charge. So that's great and it looks good, but there's nothing there, bro. You know what I mean? The only reason I never really criticized it too hard because this is stepping the right direction. But now that we see what you can do. Run it up. Hey. Run it up. You can do that right here in America. You know what I'm saying? And by the way, there is nobody alive right now who should do that more than Joe Biden. Because how do you right your wrongs of the past? You write your wrongs of the past by righting the wrongs of right now.  You have the power to pardon everybody in prison. First of all, you can pardon anybody you want. That's number one on a federal level, but you can pardon those people that are in prison right now for nonviolent weed offenses on a federal level. Do it. Keep that same energy. And that's political prisoners here in America, you know, that you can let free. So I'm just saying keep that same energy. You know what I mean? And that's what I want us to do. Keep the pressure where the pressure needs to be. Because I think sometimes we get jaded with democracy, but are we really participating in democracy?  You got to push until something happens. That's why I love when my girl tells me to figure all.  So that's all I care about. Let's see if he does it. I don't think he will. And also with Brittany, I'm just like, for me, it's just like, why wouldn't I be happy that Brittany Grine is out of prison? You know what I'm saying? Just like when Paul Wheeling comes home and be happy too. I've been in jail.  You know? Which is why people said initially when Brittany got arrested, they didn't want nobody to say nothing. That's when they didn't want nobody to say nothing. Because they were busy negotiating. That's right. They didn't want nobody to be, because it messes up the negotiation. Yeah, the more valuable she looks, the more value you have to offer to get her back. That's right.  Maybe.  Maybe. Because if nobody cared, they wouldn't even get it. That's what I'm saying. I understand both sides. It looks weak politically, that like one of our sports stars is locked up in another country. We can't do anything about it. It looks weak as a country. And you have to think about, like, outside of whether or not we should protect our citizens abroad. Because I was thinking about that yesterday. I'm like, if we break the law abroad, do we bully other countries to make exceptions? I don't know.   Yeah, yeah. So I'm like. And now the diplomats from those countries got to deal with each other. I like what you just said though. You said it looks weak to have one of our sports stars locked up. You know what else is weak? When you don't treat her like a sports star when she's here. Nobody was talking about the WNBA and bringing the grind up beforehand. So that's the other thing. What happens moving forward? Moving forward, all of those games should be packed, right? No, they won't be packed. And they just, it's just not interesting. We know this though. Yeah, I know. You know what I mean?  But people do like female sports, like female tennis. You go watch the tennis. I love female basketball. Okay. I watch college basketball all the time. Why? Because of Don Staley and the University of South Carolina Lady Game Cops. I love watching them play. I started watching in 2017 when Asia Wilson was playing for the Lady Game Cops. You know, she from the crib. She from South Carolina. Don, they got a great program there. I love watching college basketball. But I'm also a person who loves the fundamentals of basketball. Right. There's no better fundamentally sound people than college women basketball players. You don't believe that. That's a fact. You don't believe that. They're fundamentally sound. You don't believe that. You don't believe that. They're fundamentally sound shows. You don't believe that. They do everything but dunk. Everything else. The basics of basketball, they are the best. You know why they're the best at fundamentals? That's all they can do. NBA players, college basketball players that are male also know those fundamentals. They know them better than the women. And they're athletic enough to do all these amazing things that are incredibly entertaining. But that's what I mean. They can do other things, right? They can shoot from half court like the Steph Currys. And they can dunk and, you know, do crazy things with handling everything like that. A lot of them focus more on that than the fundamentals. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, and one players aren't fundamental? Yeah, but we're not comparing them to M1. We're comparing them to the top level, you know. I think when it comes to fundamentals, there's nobody better than college women basketball players because that's literally all they can focus on. I mean, you can think that. That's fun. It's wrong. It is completely wrong, but you can think it. I would love more people to go support college basketball. The reality is women aren't into it. And if women aren't into it, it's up to men to go support the female sport. And that's unfair.  Go support the women when they do things. The reality is you would rather watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills than go out and support a show.  And a WNBA game has absolutely nobody that's on women. I don't want to hear no more complaining. U.S. soccer, if the women are upset, maybe I understand that a little bit more just because so many people do go out to those games because they win.   Hey, you know, Bill Byrd said that same thing, man. But I feel that same way about the movie Broads. I mean, we talked about Broads last week. Yeah, that's on you. Like where's your community?  And you know that if it don't do good, I'm not pointing at you. White people are saying, why y'all ain't show up? How will Conor do? Amazing. All right. You know, but I mean, that's different though. No, no. I get what you're saying, but that's different though. I don't think it's different. Black Panther was not this like huge Marvel character for us growing up. It's just supported by the community. A movie that's reflected the community, it resonates within the community. Right now, that's not to say that white people aren't excited about too, and kind of fans aren't excited about too. And you want to have multiple umbrellas that you could like pull from.  I think Black Panther, I don't disagree. You're right. I think Marvel has a built-in thing already. But when you take the casual black person who wants to go see Black Panther, we may not go see no other Marvel movie. That's why our movie is like Wakanda Fever and Black Panther the Great. That's why I got to build this thing. It's one of the most popular sports in the world. Now what you're doing is drafting off of basketball, and it's not working as well.   And I'm not saying that they should objectify women to do it, but there are certain sports that have objectified women, and it's been very valuable.  I personally think it's, you shouldn't need to do that to them. But the numbers are undeniable. Simple as that. I think the WNBA just simply needs eyeballs, man.  What else, that's what I'm trying to say. Make the game more interesting. I don't know what to do. The game is interesting. I promise you, I love- With tennis, female tennis is interesting, and it's not because they're moaning and crunching when they're hitting, it's literally because the volleys last longer. So their lack of athleticism and power makes the game better in a way because you see more back and forth action. Whereas the men, the serves are so strong, a lot of times it's one or two touches and then that's the point. So the game itself is really interesting and entertaining. Women have to find a way to do that with basketball. They have to find a way where their game is really great. College basketball is like, women's college basketball is like that. Yo, nobody goes, you know what I wanna watch today? Some fundamentals. Nobody's ever- I do! I wanna watch Alan Iverson cross someone over and make them drop. I wanna watch somebody dunk from the free throw line. But there's a lot of girls that do that too though. They handle be nice and they can shoot. I like women's college basketball. Now I'm not gonna lie, I don't watch WNBA. Not because I don't want to. I watch it when Asia's playing. When Asia's playing, Las Vegas Asia's are playing and the game's on, I'll watch it. But WNBA college basketball, I mean college basketball, women's college basketball, I definitely watch. I mean, look. But it's because of the lady game. The UFC has found a way to get people to watch women's MMA. That's different. Well, it's different. We love blood. Blood sports, yeah, violence will always win, bro.  Who? Who? You're married, bro. We married, bro. Oh, yeah, we out here. Period don't stop number the sentence, bro. Yeah. Let's talk them up. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? It stops a good dinner combo. Off it. Did you know that? It's so stupid, man. No, but I guess what I'm saying is like, with boxing, no one really cared about female boxing. Maybe Laila Ali a little bit, but like it wasn't as big with female MMA. There are female MMA stars that are literally almost as big as the top male MMA stars. So they found a way to make the sport interesting, entertaining, and really enjoyable when these girls are fighting. But that's because there's nothing those women MMA fighters can do that. There's nothing they can do that the men can't do with vice versa. Like it's the same thing. What can a man do in the ring that a woman can't? They kick each other. They hit each other. They beat each other. You can say the same thing about WNBA. No, no dunking. That's what Shaq said. Shaq said they don't drink champs. Shaq was like, if they just lowered the rim a little bit and women could dunk more, people would be into it. You know what my idea was. I don't know if it's fair, but my idea was add one trans woman per team. That was my idea a long time ago. And what happens? Now you get to dunking. That's all it's about. Now you get Ali's getting thrown and stuff like that. You know what I mean? If I'm wrong, if you would have dunked as a woman, I cannot remember her name. She plays for the stock line of Gamecocks. She dunked in the game this year. You know what I mean? So it's just like, that's what's missing. Shaq said that Shaq was like, if you just lowered the rim just a little bit and the WNBA, it changes the whole complexion of the game. And I believe that. So it's like, you know, my vibe is add one trans woman per team. Or lower the rim. Or lower the rim. I think they got to do something because it's not working out. Shaq was like, I love watching fundamentals, but the way to fix this game is add and dunks.  What are you trying to do, man? You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying y'all wrong. I'm saying, I know I'm one individual. Okay, we're trying to bring more than just people like me. It's not clearly not a lot. Yeah. You know what I mean? They really like the Gamecocks because they're from South Carolina. And Don Staley is a bad motherfucker, man.  Have you ever watched? I know you're going to say, no, I'm asking you. Did you ever watch the women's Olympic team, Doc 30 for 30? When it was Lisa Leslie and Don Staley and Cheryl Swoops and Rebecca Lobo?  It came out this year. Love the documentary, but just what Don, what Don has done for the sport of women's basketball and who she is as a person and what she represents, man, is incredible. Like some people are just special. Some people have gifts like, you know, Deon Sanders. We're about to talk about Deon Sanders. Like Deon Sanders has a gift, you know, Ray Lewis. Ray Lewis has a gift. Like it's something about them that the way they speak is able to motivate athletes to be the best. Version of himself. The best version of himself, Phil Jackson. You know what I'm saying? Like Don Staley to me is, she's got it like that. You know what I mean? And it proves it shows because she wins at every level, you know? So yeah, salute to her. What do you think of the Deon Sanders situation, man? I mean, have you given it any thought? I have, cause I like, I also heard about Umar and what he had to say. And I've heard people make that criticism, but like, I don't know. I thought him going to Jackson State and, you know, dedicating three years there, taking his son there, his son as a top recruit, he could have gone to any school in the nation. And he's potentially sacrificing that exposure at a top university. What do you have gone to any school in the nation? Oh, I thought he was like a number one ranked quarterback. Oh, his son. Oh, I thought you meant Deon as a coach. No, no, his son. Okay. Yeah, I mean, one of his sons. At Jackson State. Yeah, one of his. Potentially sacrificing major exposure. Thank God. His other son was playing at South Carolina. Is that right? Yeah, his other son was playing for the Gamecocks. He transferred to Jackson State. I don't know. I guess what I'm saying is like, one, he's allowed to go make money. Two, he's clearly made an impact for that university. Three, maybe other people will do what Deon did and he started a trend, but he's also allowed to go make money. He's also allowed to take his son to a division one prime time university so he can compete against the best talent. So he has a chance to prepare himself for the NFL. Like what are you expecting him to do? Like have his son not go up against top competition then go into the NFL and then be like shocked and then flame out. I think it's bare minimum. His son should definitely go there. I don't even know just about his son. I think Deon is a person who's always bored in the people. And that's what I've been telling people all week. Deon Sanders, coached high school football for several years. Deon Sanders opened up Prime Prep Academy, which closed because of financial issues. Deon Sanders has always said he wanted to coach at Florida State University.  Jackson State University was a school that offered him an opportunity to take a step. Friday that day, he got offered an assistant coaching gig somewhere. He didn't want to be an assistant coach. Jackson State like, okay, Deon can give our, you know, school a boost. They hired Deon. Deon said from the beginning, hey man, I'm here to, you know, change the perspective of HBCU. This is what God told me to do. And it's bugging me out that people are saying, why did he say God told him to do that? God don't tell y'all to do something. Y'all go do it, be successful at it, or be a failure at it. And then God tells you to move on to something else. Like he went to Jackson State, $1.2 million for four years. Three years, decided to move on, told them a year or two ago, take half of that salary, use it for student facilities. How can people say Deon was in it for the money when his track record clearly shows he's never been in it for the money? Was he in it for the money when he was coaching hospital football? Was he in it for the money when he launched Prime Prep Academy and it closed the financial issues? Let's say he was in it for the money. What's wrong? Where's the money though? My point is whenever somebody's doing those things. No, no, it's like going to Colorado's for the money. Not doing Jackson State. I don't even know if Colorado's for the money as much as it's for, I want the opportunity to coach on a power five level because my ultimate goal is Florida State. And I told y'all that from the beginning. Yeah, I don't know. I think this is a really unfair criticism of somebody that's clearly dedicated time and personal resources to uplifting in HBCU and the students that were on that team. And people are doing what they usually do which is focus on the individual and not the issue because the issue is HBCUs are chronically underfunded. Why are they chronically underfunded? Because of underfunding from the state that they're in from low donations from alumni and low endowments. You know what I mean? So it's just like a lot of this stuff. I'm like, when the last time you donated to an HBCU? You know, if Deion Sanders is at this school. If you haven't donated, we don't want to hear it.  It's not like he even went to Jackson State. Where is he? It's not like he's, that's his alma mater or anything. He feels like he owes him it. The only reason he did his to give back to that community, which is going to be way more than the average person criticizes. Yes. And Deion Sanders, I mean, HBCUs were criminally underfunded before Deion Sanders and they're going to be criminally underfunded after. How do you fix that? You fix that by digging down in your pockets. You know what I'm saying? And donating to the school of your choice. And I'm only speaking from somebody who does it.  I came out of my pocket, quote a million dollars, my mother's alma mater South Carolina State with a lot, with a lot more to come. You know, just a couple of weeks ago, you heard me on here talking about our Thriller Possibility Summit that we did in Nashville back in November. I don't remember what date that was, Taylor. Did it with Black Effect, my podcast network, I Heart and Nissan. We flew 50 HBCU students out. We paid for that, you know? Flew 50 HBCU students out, had a panel, panels all weekend, you know, for them to learn from other people who went to HBCUs who have gone on to be successful. So once again, what are you investing in HBCUs?  Deion is not your savior, brother. Yeah. Sister, Deion Sanders is not your savior. And guess what? Deion came and showed us the possibilities. He showed us what HBCUs could be. There you go. If folks actually- You had the right talent, people went there. That's right. And guess what? Anybody who makes the move that Deion did, which there is Eddie George out there, by the way, Eddie George is at Tennessee State. Y'all don't know that, because y'all fake caring about Deion, but Eddie George is at Tennessee State. But any, you know, there's only one Deion, but anybody, let's just say with that kind of experience, as far as, you know, being an NFL player or whatever, and deciding to come play college football, if they're really good, they're probably not going to be at the HBCU long. Because the HBCUs can't afford to pay them. They can't compete. Well, that's another good point where it's just like, yo, let's put our money where our mouth is. If it is about the money, then where are those, what are they called graduates? Where are the alumni that are making tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars? Where are those, I think they're called boosters or something like that, that are going to be donating to the school to keep a guy like Deion? Why does Deion have to not only sacrifice what he wants to do, meaning eventually close to Florida State, what his son wants to do, which is prepare the best visibility to play in the NFL, and what they both might want to do, which is generate generational wealth. Why do they have to do all those sacrifices while everybody else is looking around criticizing? To me, it seems unfair. I think Deion has made a lot of sacrifices, man. Deion lost two toes, bro. Oh, are they gone? Amputated. Which ones? I don't know which ones, but he lost two toes over the past couple of years. People forget Deion was in the hospital earlier this year. Yeah, for what? I don't remember what it was. I think he had a blood clot or something like that. You know what I'm saying? But it's just like, yo, he's 55 years old. He's probably looking like, I don't, let me do what I need to do now.  And everybody wanted this situation.  Jackson State University won. They got what they wanted over the last few years. Deion Sanders won. He got what he wanted. Now everybody's moving on. But here's the thing, HBCUs are still here. So what are we gonna do? Keep pointing at Deion. He be like, okay, Deion's gone. Deion, this is your fault. HBCUs are like this. Knock it off. HBCUs were like this before he got there. HBCUs were like that. Wow, he was there. So what are we going to do to help, you know, the HBCUs of our choice? That's all. That's all. You wanna pay some bills? Yeah, let's do it. Let's pay some bills, man. What you got? All right, guys, let's take a break for a second because listen, some of you guys might be missing out on your favorite shows because it's not available in your region, in your country, wherever the hell you're traveling to. Listen, trying to keep your private time, you absolutely can. And you can do it with NordVPN, okay? If you're bored with US Netflix, why not take it for a spin in the UK using NordVPN and a click of a button, you can do that. 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Next week is our final episode of the year. Ooh. Yeah, and then we'll be back hopefully in January.  How'd that feel? Were you around for that? Did you watch it? I mean, I watched it. Honestly, if I tell you how I felt, I was really kind of upset a little bit. Why? Cause they didn't tell us that Trevor was going to be on for an hour and some change. Oh.  I'm feeling good. I got Yvonne Orgy and I got Umar and I got Kaz and I got Sam. And I know we had a great show. And I was excited.  So I know it's going to be a lot of eyeballs on it, but I didn't know that it was going to be an hour and some change.  I'm like, okay, cool. You know, till 1145 came. And Trevor was still on. He didn't go up to a 1205. Wow. So I felt the low weight, but then I had to, you know, take a step back and be like, well, it is Trevor's last show, but still it's not a live show. So. So they knew. Yeah. At least tell us. I just want to have, I just want the information so I can tell my people when the tune in. That's all.  But then it didn't come until 12 something.  God bless. You know, Trevor's getting a lot of props because he praised the black women for his success while signing off the daily show for the last time.  Yo, can black man get any credit? Yo, he's a black man. We get no credit. Like I feel like we do so much. He's a black man in shows. What? Black man. As a black man, I have to. What? I am Jew. I am semi. I am black man. Okay. I'm for real.  Salute to Jalen Smith. Jalen Smith is an 18 year old who is now the youngest black man in the United States. Man, this is so funny, but it also shows how politics work, man. Jalen Smith literally had 218 votes. Yo, youngest black mayor in the United States of America. He might be, you got to be the youngest mayor. There's nobody younger. I've never, yeah. I think you got to be 18 to run. Got to be 18 to run, bro. But no, I'm proud of us. We got it. We got another mayor we got. And it's, no, this is fire, dude. This is amazing. It's an amazing thing.  Getting 250 votes. 218 votes, whatever, Russ. And only 2,000 people in the town. I'm like, I want to know what the funding is like for that town. Like what's the budget? The access to the budget star, but salute to you, young King. Okay, I see you with the phone on the belt buckle.  I thought that was a people. Nah, bro. That's the iPhone sideways. Whoa. Yo, that guy. That's how they do it in Earl, Arkansas, baby. Jalen got it. That's how they do it in Earl, Arkansas. Taylor, let's do some black Kings. Finally, a little respect bestowed. Let's do some, what?  I want to see more black women supporting black men. See, that doesn't seem very supportive. Cardi B, no, that doesn't seem very supportive at all. This real, Cardi B gets anxiety making music. Right? Yeah, she should. Everybody gets anxiety doing what they do. Of course, because you're worried about the way that people are going to perceive it. That's why the music is good. That's right. Yeah, Cardi, that's good for you. Wasabi. You care a lot. Why do you like me, Wasabi? What do you mean? OK, yes. Cardi, Cardi. What's wrong with liking you? Come on, Wasabi. Here you go with this again, man. Get up in there, get up in there. Wasabi, cool, man. Dude, you're good. We here, we here, we here, we here, we here, Wasabi.  We here, we here, we here, we here. We here, we here, Wasabi. All right, Wasabi. He knows a strong black man. He knows a strong black man. Good job, Wasabi. Somebody left that comment. Somebody said, man, one day, somebody said, man, Shalemane, the way he got anxiety, man, one day a dog.    What? So somebody left a comment under my page, under that post and goes, one day, Shalemane's going to get a dog, man. He's going to understand why we love dogs so much. I'm like, it's the wrong post to leave this kind of comment, bro. Like, like, like, I get what you're saying. Are you talking about something totally different? That's. In regard to the anxiety and like, you know. That's something.  I'm like, you're not paying attention. You're not paying attention. But yeah, yeah, salute to Cardi, man. Cardi, just make the music. Cardi, you won already. Yeah. Cardi has over exceeded all expectations. That's facts. I knew Cardi was going to be a superstar. I said it a million times.  You never did that, was I?  Dogs are crazy.  You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I came over here. I'm cool. That's what I'm saying. What's that song? Put that thing up. That's what I'm saying. He came over here. He was cool. He told me he liked me. She told me she liked me on the radio. She was throwing that pussy. I know. Then we have a little conversation. I give her a little ribbon.  Man, that's crazy. God damn. Now she all sad because you said no. It's OK. That's what happens after they say everybody's married. I'm married. Oh, everybody's married. What's that?  That's wrong.  That's not right. That's offensive to us. Why do women always do that? You know what I mean? Why do women always do that? Actually, actually. OK, see, all right, let me stop flirting with you. Yep. Go to some, do some asking idiots, Taylor. Yeah. How long have you been recording, Alex? About an hour. What? Took that thing up. Oh, y'all getting this week as a hot 60, baby. There we go.  I love y'all, though. I really do, man. Don't worry.  We got y'all. OK? What? Taylor, Taylor keeps showing us stuff. Oh, this is interesting. Now, this is interesting. Yeah, this one's really good. An old video of T.I. You can play this. An old video. Oh, this one's fire. We were talking about this one. An old video of T.I. on his podcast in 2020 is making. I don't even know if that was from 2020, though. It's making the rounds on the internet with T.I. amidst the given information to the authorities in regards to his dead cousins. So basically, he's saying that he, you know. Snitch on the death. Yes. Well, he pulled us over. He pulled us over. I have a gun. Why are we going through the court process? So we caught no good case to that.  To if it was Tramels out of here, passed to have a talk with him. What to say? Say, I take all the charges you got. If you could walk away free and put it on me.   No, here, no. OK. Nobody know about that. I just volunteered. This is the only time. I'm just being honest. That's the only time. I don't ever see it again. No information about it. Because that's my cousin, my big cousin. He was dead. And he told me that it was OK. What do you think about that? That's what they are for. Snitch on the dead. Listen, as long as you're not putting something crazy on him, like pedophilia, you know what I mean? Rape, like, as long as you're not making that person out to be, if what he's being accused of, everybody knows he used to do on a regular. So if he's being accused of carrying a gun, he's being accused of robbing a store. He's being accused of shooting somebody. I don't see why he wouldn't take that charge for you.  It's not going to affect me. That's right. That's right. You get to live free. You get to be with your family. You get to be with your kids. We should absolutely be snitching on the dead, 100%. Why was this ever an issue? Look at that again. This is the issue.  Again, she said, munch. Get out of here. She called you a munch. Why do Matt, what he talking about? She called you a munch. She said, you're an eater. You eat it for lunch. Why do married men always got to fight off advances? Unwanted advances. Say wasabi. You thought I was feeling you? Say wasabi. That's what I'm talking about.  That was crazy. Like a skunk.  Yo, what's up? I think you can say that one. I ain't hold on. I'm not. I think you can say that one. That's true. I think you just got to say it. Oh, man. Oh, man. Nope. Listen. I don't know how I feel about this. But why? I agree with it. In theory, I just don't like playing with the dead. I don't know if I don't even know how that works, because I would think that if you got caught with a gun, would it matter if the person who owned the gun was dead because possession is nine attempts to the law? So usually when you get caught with a gun, the police are like, oh, that's yours. Oh, the way I assumed it was going is that the person that was dead was alive when they were caught together. Yeah.  Well, let me put that on you.  God damn. Don't put that on me. Just give a hypothetical. All right, Alex. Okay. The three of us are together. God forbid, Alex dies. Jesus. We all got arrested together. Oh, you mean we're okay. See, I didn't know that. I didn't I didn't understand the context. That's what I was. The dead body in the car. This guy. This guy is crazy. This guy. What? This guy? This guy is absolutely crazy, bro. What? That's not what happened.   I swear.  Hey, oh, I got it now. Here's the dumbest thing ever said by anybody ever. Hey, I got it. It didn't sound like that to you. I understand your sock drawer now, bro. I understand your sock drawer. I think you confused after seeing that doggy pussy. That motherfucker, man. He threw you for a second. He threw that tail up. Imagine dogs talking to each other. Yo, I was with her. Yo, she threw that tail up. Tail up. Say you want some wasabi on that. You want some wasabi on the tuna. Oh, man.  Okay, the three of us are out here, right? Yeah. There was a gun in the car, right? A few weeks later, Al dies. God forbid. We still got this charge for the gun. You and I talk to our lawyer. Our lawyer's like, yo, one of y'all are dead. Just say it was his gun. You guys are clean. They could charge him, but he's dead, so they're not going to charge you everybody's good. That's what I assumed it was. Oh, listen, I'm not mad at it in theory. I'm just saying I don't like to play with the dead like that. Unless you're four daughters. I don't know. Unless you're four daughters. I don't know what I was doing. I'm not mad at it, though. Now that I know it's a possibility, yeah, I'm sure a lot of you will add that to that repertoire if they ever did it. Yes, 100%. The only thing about this is people have been trying to paint a narrative of tip for years, so now they're trying to use this to say, see?  Get off my guy, man. God does a lot for the city of Atlanta. I don't think Tip gets his credit at all for the stand-up individual that he is. What else we got? All right, guys. We're going to take a break for a second because today's episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all-one platform for building your brand and growing your business online. Stand out with a beautiful website.  You could do your time. You could sell your time on there. Guys, if you have a business, you need a place for it on the Internet. The Internet is where the people are, and you need that to be your landmark store right there on the Internet. 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Improve your website and build a marketing strategy based on your top keywords or most popular products and content.  And when you're ready to launch, choose the offer code IDIOT to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.  Let's do some asking idiots, Taylor. What we got? What we got? AlexBoss34 says, how do you weigh doing what you love versus making money? You do what you love, you will make money. I am a stern believer in that. If you do what you love, it won't even feel like work.  I think about that.   Can you believe this shit? The reality is, no, I cannot. I'm just being honest. That's how I feel about my whole life.   That goes for everything across the board. It don't matter if it's breakfast club, black effect, brilliant idiots, family, my publishing company, my book publishing company, I'm in the shoes too. Boston Dog Lips? No. SBA Productions at Audible. You know, businesses I do, it's all unbelievable to me. And it's all because I genuinely love what I do. I make money doing what I love to do. And guess what? I did it for the love initially. Yep. And it turned into what it's turned into. And I will not stop having fun. The moment I stop having fun, the moment I stop loving it is when I'm going to stop doing it. Agreed. Cookie Man 1 says, is the pod going to release at a certain date and time when the reintroducing begins in 2023? That is the goal, Cookie Man 1. It is going to release at a certain date and time. It is. That's the goal. We're not going to say it, but it is. Yeah. That's the goal. We act like we want to be late. We don't want to be late. We start this like, yo, we record, we try to record. Damn. Man, why you got a whitelist? It says, here's what I found. Brune it is with Charlemagne the God and Andrew. Damn.  Serious, like, don't even lie right now. But we do try. We try to be on schedule. We do. We just, we're busy guys. We busy, man. We busy, man. I think also having a new studio and, like, both of us just trying to lock in a time and prioritize that time will make it easier. There's going to be weeks where it's not that way, but we're going to do our best. One question X to the Z says, Andrew, with talk of having a child in the future, do you feel your comedy will change? I hope so. I hope my comedy evolves.  I think that the true testament to having a great career is continually evolving. And I think those are the people who last the longest. I think a lot of times you almost see creators becoming, like, caricatures of themselves. Like they're doing an impression of themselves. So they're not tapping into what's real. They're tapping into what was working for them all those years. Yeah. So I hope. I'm, like, excited for the life change. Like, I almost feel like I've spoken about everything. I've said everything I want to say. Like, I'm at this point in my life where I want to digest new things and I want to put myself in more uncomfortable situations. Like, the thing about comedy is it oftentimes comes from uncomfortable situations. The thing about money is it creates comfort. So you need to have discomfort for good comedy.  You're going to hear more marriage stuff from you. Yeah. When you have kids, you're going to hear kids stuff from you.  I mean, that just sounds like an Andrew Shoshake. You know what I mean? So it's going to be fun. Yeah, I'm excited for it, man. I think that's cool. And it's also cool to, like, get older and all the people listening.  I don't ever think that that's good. I think that you have to evolve with the people who listen and then be an inspiration for the youth.  This is what cool family meant. This is what I aspire to be like. When I was younger, I was watching Chris Rock and I was like, oh, wow. That's a cool way to think of as an adult and all these things. So, yeah, I'm very excited for it. And thank you for asking. Um, El Nino Pepin O says, Charlamagne the God. Sorry. Sabi? Sabi, what you doing? No. Sabi, come. El Nino Pepin Zero says, Charlamagne the God, who would you rather let clap them cheeks? DJ N via Andrew Shoshake. Ooh, this is a really big question. Why?  But this is really a size thing. It's not a personality. No, bro. Don't play me.  Easily power top energy over here, bro. Really? So you just wasting that thing? Taylor, what? That's what I'm saying. That's a waste. Taylor said, I can not say that I'm thick and don't want to be a bottom. That makes zero sense.  I don't want to throw them cheeks for what? For people to look at and be enticed by. Nah, bro. Nah, bro, this ain't a wax museum. You get to look at this and be enticed by it, but you don't get to clap it, bro. You better turn around. You know what I'm saying? Turn around. Oil up your ankles. Let your Tims tap. All right? What you talking about, bro? Disrespect me. I don't even know what that means, bro. I got power top energy and y'all know it. Nah, that's a waste.  Right?  BBL stands for be back later, bro. I figured that out. Y'all been using the term wrong for a long time because that's what happens.  You got to go right back to the DR with gaining tons of weight after having a fatty. Yes. Why?  They don't do everything that they need to do in order to motherfucking keep the body that they just went to go pay for.  Oh, no. Oh, no. Damn. Do we know a girl who did that? I don't even know. Scroll down some more, Taylor. Not who I'm thinking. Nah, she's working out still. That's a good idea, the corner. That's why I'm not going to say it out loud. What? Oh, this is a good one. No, this we can end on this one. This is a good one. This hurt my feelings, and I ain't even know comedian.  Y'all can do it. Whoa. Yeah, I think we leave that last line now. I'm not reading that last line, bro, bro. Whoa. That last line is wild, bro. Wild. What do you think, man? I'm good. What?   Oh, you don't do Caroline's? Nah, the guy there who would block me from the New York comedy festival. Who's the guy there? Who, Ferranda. Really? So now this club is going out of business.  Isn't that funny? Comedy Central, Caroline's. Comedy Central ain't going out of business. Others, you know what I'm saying? Their stand-up is done. Ain't no more stand-ups coming out on Comedy Central.  I'm just saying, I see a trend. That's what I'm saying, bro. I be feeling the same way. My God don't play about me, bro. My God don't play about me. And that's why I don't even be tripping, man.  I just sit back and watch like, yeah, watch what happens.  I try to help them. I don't feel good about it. Yeah. I don't feel good about it. You know what I'm saying?  You ain't doing nothing to me.  I'm gonna be good. But that guy? But then again, that could be arrogance on our part, right? And that could be ego on our part. Because the reality is, if they're doing you like that, that just might be who they are. So they're probably doing a whole bunch of people like that. So that's just a bunch of energy coming back to them. You know what I mean? I don't know that about Carolines. I'm sorry that happened to you. But I've, I saw you at Carolines. I've seen some great, I've performed there. Carolines is one of my favorite places to go and watch comedy. I've been going to Carolines. Like Wendy Williams used to do a Wednesday night at Carolines. And that was one of my first New York experiences. Like when I first started, when I first moved up here to New York, that was the thing. Like, yo, Carolines, Wednesday night, you got to be there. You know what I mean? And I would be there. And that's how I met a lot of these, you know, people in New York on the comedy circuit, the TK Kirkland, the Rob Stapleton, you know, the Drew Frazier. Like I met all of them, you know, when they was doing Wednesday nights at Carolines. I watched all of my friends. Like that was the thing. I watched Kevin. Like, yo, I'll never forget when Soul Train didn't perform well and then Kevin had that sitcom on NBC that ended up getting canceled. And so he decided to get back into the comedy clubs and that's all you kept hearing. Kevin Hart killing in these comedy clubs. Kevin Hart killing in these comedy clubs, selling out these comedy clubs. And then it was just one big weekend he had at Carolines where he had like 14 shows. I'll never forget. This was like 2010 maybe? 2009, 2010. We backstage and him and Duvall was arguing like they always do. Can I tell the story all the time?   And so soon as he said that he's like coming to the stage, Kevin Hart crowd goes crazy. Kev just winks and walks off. But think about that. You know how much 14 shows in a weekend is at Carolines? I mean that is unbelievable. But that's how everybody knew Kevin had arrived. So in a lot of ways when you see somebody do a set at Carolines and they got a four-show weekend, six-show weekend, they've arrived, you know what I mean? Akash Singh. Akash just sold out at Carolines. Sold out the whole week. That's right. That right there, when I saw you post that I'm like, oh Akash is here now. So it's just some of those moments. That's what I look at Carolines at. This is the iconic headlining venue in New York, it was for years where I saw all these guys, you saw all these guys. It was like a rite of passage as a comic to headline Carolines. And I think it's a recession-proof business for the most part, unless it's a pandemic where people can't be out.  Date night at a great comedy show with a fire comedian there all weekend You going? Especially tough times, you're going to want some laughs. There are other great comedy clubs in the city that you could go catch headliners at. Gotham Comedy Club is fantastic. And then great showcase shows in the city. Check out New York Comedy Club, the comedy cellar. There's so much comedy going on right now in the city. I love all of them. It's going to be very interesting to see New York without Carolines. I'm not going to front. That's going to be very, very, very, very interesting. That's all we got. 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.   Thank you for listening.


Why is Japan's basketball team so much better than China and the Philippines even though those countries actually value basketball way more? It is because we have a slam dunk anime 30 years ago and now it is finally happening in real life. Right, they spoke it into existence. Now big shout out to the men's Japanese basketball team. They just qualified for the Paris Olympics, which is a big deal. And then the only Asia team to do so so far, China and the Philippines, I think in theory could, but they'd have to win like every single game. Statistically, it's just unlikely. It's just not going to happen. And you know what the interesting thing is, Andrew? Japan, as a consumer base, they don't really value basketball that much, but they're still really good at it. So I think this sparked a lot of internet comments. If you guys follow Asia basketball circles and just NBA circles in general, people are talking about what does it mean for their governmental systems? Their societies, they're just team development in general. But also, what does it mean and what does it say about the teamwork amongst those countrymen? Maybe the teamwork amongst Chinese guys. I don't know. Maybe this is symbolic of it. It's probably really bad. I don't know.  Yao Ming is frowning in the stands. Make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications, Andrew. Real quick, we got to address Andrew. Got to give a huge shout out to Team Japan, Andrew. Yuta Watanabe, he's in the NBA right now. Rui Hachimura didn't even play because he had a long playoffs. Udaibaba's in the G-League. Yuka Degashi played in the G-League. Tomonaga is the Japanese. Steph Curry is the sharpshooter. And they got this short JJ Berea Flamethrower called Yuki Kawamura. This guy's like five, six. Yeah. And that's crazy to see a really small Asian dude tearing it up in the, you know, on the international stage, guys. Yeah. I mean, I guess a lot of people are talking about Japan sports systems. First of all, I do want to shout out the Philippines did just beat Team China. Right. So technically, they are the better team right now. Right, right. But I will say it is interesting that in the Philippines, basketball is super popular. They love basketball, number one. And then in China, I would say they do love basketball a lot too. And in Japan, I heard nationally basketball is number three or maybe four. I think I heard it's number five possibly.   In fact, Andrew, a lot of people said the Chinese national team basketball has regressed. So anyway, we're going to get into it, guys. This is a lot of talk, you guys. We are very passionate about basketball. We study the NBA. We do know a lot about international basketball at all. Of course, not as much as some of you guys. But yeah, Andrew, quick thoughts. Japan's crushing it in all sports, individual and team right now. What does it say about their systems? I mean, they're good at, I heard they're outperforming at rugby, soccer, even volleyball right now. Obviously, they have the top boxer in their weight class, anyway, and it's like, whoa, and the skateboarders are killing too. And it's just like, oh, and the snowboarders, right? All these very American sports that America actually values, Japan is actually very good at. It's not just like sharp shooting and things like curling, you know, in the winter Olympics that, you know, shout out to them. But like, not as many people value people don't really care about that sport. But I'm saying these are actually sports that people care about. Yeah. Well, Andrew, here's another quick thought. I'm going to keep it real. I'm not as familiar with other country situations, but I know that Chinese men, they suck at team sports. Man. They suck, bro. But there was a time when China did have a decent basketball team with Yao. But since then, they really haven't reached that level again. Right. A lot of people say the Philippines is also not as good as they should be at basketball, but it may be for different reasons than China. Philippines may suffer from some sort of state-sponsored support, whereas China is almost like lacking at a professional or like elite tier, like some sort of passion for the game. Yeah. Yeah.  So it's like, if they had that whole team, maybe they would be better too.  So a lot of foreign nationals want to go there to live and train, whether they're a fellow pro or as a trainer. So that really ups the level of like training for all sports, because people from around the world find Japan such a pleasant place to live. Oh, you're saying just even a lot of good coaches and other players and kind of sports systems, they like to just be in Japan. So of course it attracts them. Yeah. It's just a great place to live. Obviously, you know, if you can kind of like fit in or I've obviously learned to speak Japanese, it helps a lot. Andrew, I came up with the 10 S's that teams need to have like in Asia, but any team just needs to have like good team sports, Andrew. They need state sponsored systems, individual skill and team selflessness. They need soulfulness and genuine spirit, seriousness and studious scrutiny. And I'm telling you right now, the easiest way to put it is Japan has all 10 out of all 10 for both individual and team sports. And I think they're missing different S's, but China and the Philippines are missing some or a lot of these 10. All right, everybody, let's get in the comment section.  The manga started in 1990. Andrew, the TV show started in 1993. They just had a high budget CGI movie of slam dunk in 2022. You know what's crazy is some of those moves that were animated in slam dunk had not really even been done in the NBA until maybe recently. Or some people online and street ball started doing those moves. So what I'm saying is that was a super advanced street ball basketball anime. Yeah, yeah. It's interesting that creator and I'll shout out to all the players at Shihoku High School, they were doing moves that nobody had seen before.  A lot of people were talking about how Japan has blue lock for soccer and that came to life too. So they were just like, is everything that Japan just makes a manga or anime about just going to happen? Does the manga reflect reality or does reality reflect the manga? It's the first time Japan has qualified without being the host nation in the Olympics for basketball in 48 years. A lot of people are talking about how the women's teams in general are just way more competitive. Japan actually got second place for women's overall. Obviously they don't expect to do that well in the Olympics. A lot of people think they might get crushed in Paris, which is probably possible, right? Because of the way they've sectioned out that you need one African team. You need one Asia team. It's the bracketing. Yeah, it's unfortunate. But still, I mean, that's impressive. Yeah, Serbia and Slovenia are going to miss out due to the way they come out with the bracketing or whatever. But why do you think that Asia women's teams are so much better? I mean, China's women's team is way better relative within Asia and outside of Asia than its men's team. I would have to say, I guess there could be some type of pooling difference of like the pool, talent pool of maybe also perhaps maybe a lot of the men are in the military in China, too, that some of those men theoretically could have grown up to being pretty good athletes. And then also maybe women's teams teamwork, like they just buy in it together better. I don't know if they're less selfish or whatever, but maybe there's something to that. There might be something about the way the men are raised. Who knows, right? Somebody said literally it's just the luck of generational talents. If you look at Japan's team right now, they got all the generational talents that are NBA or borderline NBA players.  You know, they had Yao Ming, Wang Ji Ji, Meng Ge, Yijian Lin, and that was just like the luck of that era. Interesting, yeah. I mean, I think sometimes it just comes down to that. I do think it's luck and timing. That's part of it. Somebody said it's not. It's just about systems in general. Japan has clearly invested a ton of money into its systems. And they said in the Philippines, you either have to be a rich kid or the son of a pro player to get into the right academies. And in China, usually only middle or lower middle class people give up their children to basketball academies to have them be trained for the rest of their life because it's such like, I guess, a low probability success outcome. Right. That's interesting. Yeah. Like we said, guys, I don't know. Somebody said Japan is good at rugby, skateboarding, rock climbing, boxing, volleyball. They're just like, oh, they're just having like major success in all of them right now. Somebody was saying China just really regressed. Andrew, a lot of the players right now in the CBA are getting paid so much that they might they might be making a million dollars a year that they feel no pressure to go play in Europe or like Australia. Oh, very less pressure to be better, even because they're already like getting paid so much. I mean, that's interesting. But usually you'd think that if you were paying players so much, it would produce the best talent. But I guess not. Yeah. I heard that the Chinese players are really spoiled. They get all the endorsements from Leaning and Peek and Anta in the country because China is a huge consumer market. But they're actually like not challenging themselves to get better and see like other schemes. Yeah. I mean, people said that China has dropped to fourth in Asia, Japan, Lebanon, Philippines, China, South Korea, Iran, Jordan. That is the ranking of the FIBA national basketball teams now. A lot of people were just talking about how Japan just spends its money wisely. For example, a lot of people were talking about corruptions in the Philippines. All the money that should be spent developing the sport ends up in the pockets of the politicians and the businessmen. It's a little bit like soccer in China, Andrew. Soccer in China.  But I heard soccer in China is incredibly corrupt.  David, I actually have this theory too that I think Japan retained a lot of the talent. And it didn't like a lot of Japanese people, the diaspora of Japanese people is not as wide as the diaspora of the Philippines or even China. Yeah, I think that when they have a diaspora, they're just international students learning and then they come back to Japan. But I think a lot of people want to stay and live in Japan versus a lot of good talent, to be honest, does leave the Philippines at a young age and even like, you know, a lot of Chinese people, they like to immigrate to other places too. So I guess that could be part of it as well. Japan's retaining all the talent. All right, so if I was to analyze from what I know, China and the Philippines, Andrew, on my 10S scale, China definitely has state-sponsored systems, right? Right. And I would say some of the players have individual skill, but definitely I'm going to give them a big L on team selflessness. Basketball in a five-on-five schematic sense is a lot about teamwork, right? Yeah, but what they do love in China that I see is very, very popular is streetball, one-on-ones, two-on-twos, three-on-threes. I saw moves, right? Yeah, some of those guys that I see the highlights of, they look like they maybe could be professional basketball players, but they probably cannot play a five-on-five game. Right, the schematic IQ, right? Exactly. A lot of people were saying, both in the China and the Philippines, it feels like they learned basketball, watching Kobe Bryant, and figured that that was the only way that everybody could play. Right. And if you have a team full of Kobe's, that's actually not good. Back to the 10S, Andrew. I also believe that Chinese are lacking soulfulness and genuine spirit when they play the game, because they sort of like in the academies, Andrew, they're just looking for like femur bones and stuff like that, like tall players, not necessarily people who love the game and want to do film work and have that passion for getting 1% better every day. Yeah, I would say this has been an aspect under a lot of scrutiny for a lot of people saying like, hey, you're not raising athletes to actually love the game, and you have to love the game to be extremely good at it. Right. Like even if physically China and Japan obviously are no different, if the people in China don't have the love for the game, they won't produce as good of players, and then the players won't play together as well. Yeah, you're saying if all the players who actually love the game or Andrew are playing in Kings of the Underdog or something like that. Right, right, right. Um, seriousness and scrutiny, they probably have that to be honest, and they're probably gonna be under a lot more scrutiny now. As far as the Philippines goes, Andrew, a lot of people are saying the state-sponsored systems, that's actually the weak point. Whereas China is like pouring all the money and they were saying the Philippines, they just don't have enough money or structures. Right, right, right. I do think that for sure, the Philippines has the soulfulness and genuine spirit though. Interesting. But I do not think maybe that Andrew, as far as the PBA goes, they have the seriousness or a studious scrutiny because they allowed Manny Pacquiao to play a few games as a pro basketball player. Right, which is kind of an unserious thing to do. Right, it's goofy. Um, Andrew, anyway, there was just a lot of talk. How much do you think realistically, like a huge loss in something that you love and you focus on for both China and the Philippines? Whereas Japan, they don't even really love basketball there, but they're super good at it. What does it mean? How does it reflect on a country's systems? Well, again, like I think, when you think about how organized the country is, how good they are at getting things done, even if like a country realizes that something is an issue and they want to do something about it, but they have a very messy way of like, like no organization. You mean some sort of broken, they don't even have the systems to fix the system. Exactly, exactly. And in China, China, that thing definitely does kind of shock me. I'm like, man. Little confounded, right? Because I'm like, dang, China did have a lot of good players at a time and they did have a good team. They put a lot of money into it, but where did it all go? It must be something like physically, I think that there's Chinese players that can definitely be in the NBA. But for some reason, that skill and desire to be like good shooters and good passers and team players and play good defense, which are all the things that you need to play in the NBA if you're not a super superstar. Yeah, essentially like, I don't know. Those people just don't have it. Those guys just don't have it. It's kind of like, and I shout out to Yee-Jee and Leigh-Anne because he's actually like from the same like hometown as our grandfather. But like, you know, I felt like Yee always had the talent to be in the NBA. They called him the Chinese Kevin Garnett and he just retired from basketball. But like Yee always kind of suffered from some lack of fire or lack of actually schematic five-on-five IQ. Yeah. And I think it just kind of, it's saddening to see, it's not that I'm sad for Team China itself because I guess, I mean, it would be cool for Team China to do better. But I think it says to me, it speaks more about like the teamwork amongst some Chinese guys. And I'm like, dang, like Chinese guys can't figure it out. I'm not saying all Chinese teams are bad, but like I'm just saying, I think it does, it's symbolic of the culture. Is it a little emperor syndrome? Is it an authoritarian government? Nobody can make decisions. It's as much as we always say, like China is a collectivist society. I think people always throw that word around. It's like, there's a certain generation that seems very individualistic. And that doesn't help you in basketball. For sure. Yeah. And Japan obviously has a higher GDP, better living of standard. You know, maybe people will have bigger families, more coaching systems from a young age, maybe in certain aspects of Japan, it almost feels like kind of America when it comes to sports systems, right? Yeah, it feels almost feels like they're more focused on sports than anything right now. Yeah. So I don't know. As far as the Philippines go, Andrew, I really love their soulfulness. I do think that obviously they're really struggling to get it together on an infrastructure level. And that's why all the great players, like the guy, the most bounciest guy in Asia, Renz, he's a Filipino who plays in KBL, which is the Korean League. Or there's a lot of players playing in Japan too. Right, right, right. But I think that's if the Philippines can't sustain the top talent, then a good talent is going to go elsewhere to play. At least they can come back for the national team. Yeah, at least they can come back for the national team. Yeah. Anyway, guys, let us know what you think in the comment section below. Like you said, we follow basketball pretty closely. I think it is unfortunate that Serbia and Slovenia are probably not going to make the Paris cut, but that's just the way they're organizing the Olympics this year to get more representation from Africa and from Asia. So let us know what you guys think in the comment section below. Shout out to Japan. Until next time, we're the Hot Pop Boys. We out. Peace.