Um, let's get right to it What did we see this week? That was positively brilliant. What did we see that made us say?  Yeah, it was good, bro Hey wax man, it's great to see you How's the knee? Oh, it's the ankle is actually doing very well back in the Tim so, you know, we early Okay, you can't beat me up no more Baby is doing great.  Got back got big hands brown feet. Definitely brown. Definitely. He's definitely a Smith Dominican Puerto Rican. Yes part. God man. Congratulations. Let's appreciate it Did wax ever tell y'all how he's how he tore his Achilles to begin with you said it you tore your Achilles I tore my Achilles. Yeah, I was racing to pit bulls in Florida.  Yeah, I got a surgery. I was on the boot That's why I stayed away. I ain't let nobody see me because of course a lot of people want to beat me up You include it. I'm telling you remember when you got fat. I Do remember and you got that now. I'm definitely not fat no more Slightly chunky a lot of bad habits. I was sitting down for 12 weeks. Nobody knew I was acting like nobody see me I stayed on the camera. Look what I took from him. I had to take it from him Take it from him. Hold on. Hold on One is five left out of a dozen. Let's see who really ate them. Take it from him. Is that Krispy Kreme? Yes, it's different though. Wow, especially if it's warm. You should see you should see Evan in here fighting the feeling Listen Andrew's having a problem Nutting fast and I think wax has a positively brilliant solution. What you mean? He's he's he's got a problem Oh, I used to have all the control when I was on my back, right?     I'd get on my back. This is back in my single days way back in a day way back Man, I remember I just lay on my back and the girls like no you get on top. I go trust me Back it was a problem That's a very liberal sex position. Yeah, that's giving the woman all the control You know what I'm saying that's letting the woman be on top being very vulnerable. That's very progressive of you Andrew Ah, I'm very progressive guy. You got to let the matriarchy, you know, you got to give them a chance That's what it's about hop on girl ride it. Well, you got you got to start thinking of some things You can't enjoy it. That's what you got to do. You got it.  I'm looking out the window. I'm trying to do everything I am the count and don't even work Say what the count and don't even work the count always work work ever since I got Corona I'm like a little bit Asian. So my That's what I thought he was gonna tell you to do he did the tub of ice before but the tub of ice is actually That's just one to transform places that you go to like the couch You know I'm saying that you go to the sink in the bathroom Then the already had the ice and stuff inside the um in a sink.  You got diarrhea only I do a similar taller with cold feet with cold water And you go up to know what you did to fix your Achilles, bro. If that's how you have What backyard medicine you used to fix your fucking yeah, you know the doctor is really happy for me He was like man, you came back really like I'm like he said I'm two and a half weeks early I'm moving more than anybody else do so Well, I'll be working at home, man. I got the towel. I got the bands I'll be at home getting in because I'm always thinking that somebody gonna try to beat me up So I got a hairpin get back. That's karma though. That's because he doesn't beat up so many people That he didn't come and gonna come back. Hell. Yeah. I don't know when it's gonna be where it is But I'm ready.   It's the stomach though The stomach is what make people try you when they see wax done got a little stomach. It's all good Still here, baby. He just asked McDonald's french fries cuz I'm starving.  I was running a thousand yards a day I was racing pit bulls, bro And Carla was pregnant when you pregnant when your woman is pregnant you automatically gain weight if you're not taking case Listen, I understand that that's why I was running.    It's embarrassing. No, man It's her. I told you this before it's her. She is telling she got that fire, bro Works for like two times and they should be like well extinguished the fire You gotta start masturbating before sex. Yeah, that's one take a little edge off. Oh, I know I got how I got you Okay, that goddamn that goddamn royal honey pack, bro Seymour Royal honey pack What's that? Look it up. It's at the FDA discontinued it, but it's a VIP.   I have you hard like Rottweiler Yeah, but something else might happen Sure, it's Rottweiler quick though. Hold on one second hard like Rottweiler But what is why is a Rottweiler hard, I don't know it's from belly the movie man Linux Linux Like when the dog's dick comes out like lipstick Hey, by the way, maybe Linux wasn't saying right while I don't even know what I don't know But I always say what like I was what Rottweiler It's from the movie belly you never seen belly. Yeah, I see belly.  I could probably do it within an Instagram post. You don't even have to go to IGTV One of that's it like a like a like a trauma-induced behavior You think maybe I'm like finally like calm and accepting of where I am in life and like Like my brain comfortable man Yeah, you're in love with her number one You're thinking about what's important so you maybe you getting performance anxiety that's causing you to God Yeah, I see that that happened to me with Carl it up Maybe before I was stressed with like Achievement and success and all these things and then that was allowing me to last long because I wasn't focused on the task at hand Mm-hmm. Now. I'm like really appreciate you comfortable. Yeah, all of a sudden boom.  Oh, and you hitting it raw, too Condoms help condoms out at least 20 minutes at least almost told me.   You gotta get it back. Well, I got that get back Hey Well, but she didn't know I popped you can't let them know Pop that chew and then she didn't see me and then I laughed at something and she saw that the blue in my You know what you tell me you said look if I'm not cheating I'm not trying hard enough. Yo, let's go Miss enhancing drug. It's a patriot way.   Why wouldn't you?  Nah, yeah That's a lot of rich guys Cuz even with that the woman gonna want something that last long, you know, I'm saying they want that That's why I used to come to wax all the girls.   You want to act spicy? We gonna put it out I ain't doing nothing. I edited nothing Carla. Carla. You heard them.  You got a ring too. I see that congratulations, man. Oh Yeah, I put the big I put the big rock I Don't know that was better wax the shots How did I propose? Mine was dope I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna tell you what I did for real at all just aside I was there. It was at SeaWorld and you jumped through the I Said I'm gonna jump through a ring to get you a ring But but not all to the side like really that early that morning.   He's give me a ring.   So listen, she got to get this ring Why not? I told him he should have put the Tim. He should have put the ring in the Tim No, you should have put the ring in the Tim got down on one knee and he already had the boot on So everybody would have been like damn he got one boot So he to pulled out the other boot told call it a reach in it ring would have been there boom Happily ever after Listen, we was opening gifts was opening the gifts and stuff like that They was like, oh, we got one more gifts like she had no idea She was arguing with me the whole day yelling at me because things wasn't happening of course is my fault You know I'm saying and so they were like got one more gift I got a hobble over there to the back cuz they should just like bought something out for me because of my leg Mm-hmm, so I went inside came back out with nothing and she like where's the gift and I just got on my knee and Voila and I said on my knee like it was supposed to be somebody else cuz I didn't realize I was actually doing that I was surprised for myself.  What'd you say to her though? Now the crazy part about I didn't even say nothing I just got on my knee and just smiled at her like I was one of the people looking at this nigga on his knee You should have got down and wax you to look the call and say I Now know something When I said that I don't know nothing No, no, it was good. I'm happy I did it But nothing changed anything changed with you.  Is everything still my fault Ring like how long does the ring last for them to be in a good mood?  Yeah, you're right. I'm ready to do it, bro I'm ready to get married. I'm not wearing something. I'm married. The first the ring is we're married. We already done. Yeah Y'all on the 50 yard line Y'all 50 yard line. I got four downs man. You gotta see it all the way through Mmm It's still up to her. No, whatever she tell me the date.  Why why can't Because call the Puerto Rican They talk all the time and stuff I'm good you've been to a Puerto Rican wedding before shows I didn't know they got married Puerto Rican one no, no, I think about it. Yeah, that's kind of true as well They don't have they don't have weddings, bro This should say black on I don't see not a drop of Puerto Rican in there. Yeah, not even a flag Nothing Yeah It's not Asian listen, what did you see this week that made you say positively brilliant?  What did you see this week? Well, honestly what I saw right now is just us coming to the conclusion about Puerto Rican wedding Yeah, I'm not saying that they don't happen. I'm just saying I've never seen me I've never been in one of them. I think they happen But they must happen in a different way that we don't know In jail yeah, they have a lot of them in jail a lot of them in jail. Yeah, they always get married in jail I've seen a Puerto Rican jail and one in jail. I've seen it was on a movie What it was on the movie. I see the Puerto Rican get married in jail.  He was a black man lawyer and he got no matter fact. He got the He got the what's the thing you gotta pass the bar the bar.  All right. I'm telling you I'm gonna get that name for this guy. I forgot his name.  I think 50 involved with that movie, too. Man.  That's ABC is ABC. That's a TV show Everything for life Learn I'm a dance it says Says for the first dance the bride and groom might choose a traditional Puerto Rican waltz called a Danza Criola see what I'm saying. That's why you got that's why you got to be involved with the planet away Yeah, you're right.  No, you definitely doing that you waltzing There's a color not a dance like that. Anyway, she'll know that type of shit She know how to dance regular, but she don't know how to do like a lot of nothing like that You know how to do it. Let me see Is that what is it called Lombada? Goddamn Super Bowl trophy.  I'm sorry. I'm Central American central. I don't know what that is.  Let's talk about how somebody in shows his crew got COVID again Come on back.   It's why he was calling him flabby. I saw the video use cause I'm like Mark.  He got work on a little bit. That's what's got you got you got you right now corona is Devouring that man bro for the second time around it wanted Did he have was he asymptomatic before Yeah, like we're we actually think he might not have actually had it back in the day. Nope. Don't try to move the goalpost Son, if you can move a goalpost, weren't you? I get it Do we smoke we Don't smoke we cuz ain't a lot of people that smoke we don't get corona Facts, yo, whatever people do on the regular they try to say will prevent you from getting Time up, yo, you won't catch COVID Joe or knock out Every Thursday, so that's how I've been COVID-free Not for real, I don't think so you cheat on your girl every Thursday. No way. Oh, oh Well, you say I said you acting crazy right now wax why cuz I said about smoking Oh, I thought you talking about you and your girl every No, why I'm gonna tell you this is the one thing about her She has all my information. She has you know, my location. She's exactly what I'm at right now. That means nothing Waxes passcode has been one two three four on all his phones for the past Who doesn't who can't figure that out? But she knows everything. Wax. Let me go through his phone Take my phone That's good Like I ain't got nothing in there. You can take my phone and run with it. I don't go for exactly You want some baby pictures? That's good. Listen, I am a proud member of the faithful black male community. I think all men should be faithful I think it makes your life less crazy.  Yes. He's married. Oh, yeah.  Oh my gosh, I told you so you only one going to house That's what that is. I already know it. Oh, if he good though, I don't know man I Can't be calling him a potassium man. He need he need bananas yo bananas and milk Bananas and milk bananas and milk.  Yeah, why I did I picked up their remedy for corona What is it? Just keep it moving bro.  Sometimes you get it, but it is what it is We just get it and you keep moving you got your antibodies and you use them. That's it Only last three months. All right, so how low you supposed to have it? How we know that I don't know science Yo, but science has been wrong bro science is definitely wrong.  I think it's smoke. We you know Russian limbaugh died You know he did. Yeah. He died today.  Oh Say what lung cancer 70 years old?  Well, yeah, we did a we did a cross cross show So we did we you know because he was with I heart So we all did one show together and he aired it. He aired it on his afternoon show. We aired it on on the Breakfast Club Yeah, I saw it.   That's why I said, you know, I can't I can't fight. I can't I'm not I'm not spiking the football I see people celebrating on social media. I'm like, that's kind of wild like I you know Years is kind of 70.  They may be celebrating his life though That's a long time. I guess cuz he don't even wax don't even know who rush limbaugh.  No, he don't now. I thought it was a wrestler for real Wax thought I hold it was Barack Obama I can't I can't rock was in the White House for eight years.  I knew Barack was bad I still I still don't know who that is if you could have told me right there That's the guy that's the mayor from New York, or you also say that's a guy from Sopranos Or you can tell me a guy from so much shit from that you can tell me that's Chris Farley.   What? No, what happened The blaseo this schmuck.   Do you find yourself? Do you find yourself caring more about New York issues? Not that you're not handle more.   You can't do anything That's what happens when you got these cowards Cuomo in the blaseo running a city Cuomo de Blasio two worst Italians in history What do you think two worst Italians in history that guy's Italian? Yeah, two worse Italians in history. Yeah, that's kind of harsh, bro. I mean Two worse Italians in history, you know when you said that I don't know why Krista Stefano came to mind For a second Chris came I like Chris though. Yeah, Chris cool, but Chris Chris is a great Italian I think he's only a quarter Italian. I think he's more like Irish and German now.  He just blames it on the Italians It was this story look the same don't we I Didn't know the blog the old Italian. Yeah, dude.  You come here you get corona within 48 hours. It's guaranteed I was having a conversation with an older person who doesn't necessarily believe in the vaccine But they was like look I'm already in my motherfucking 70s. I don't know how much time I got left I'm not spending the rest of my time in the house. That's it right there puts a lot in perspective, bro 100% bro, and my dad's Shot ain't taking none. I I can't like have him out here like he has long-term memory He just doesn't have short-term memory So he can live in New York because he knows all the streets and he knows all the people and he knows everybody in his area He's fine, but if we take him to a new place, you'll be lost never remember He'll just get lost every loss. So it just sucks, man It just sucks, but that's what it is.     Oh, but this is how they're this is how they're planned to get everybody to go back to school And get the kids go back to school the reason that they haven't had it happen just yet is because the teachers union Got the Democrats by the balls So the teachers union is like now we don't want the teachers to go back to work And I understand that for the most part for the older teachers a lot of teachers are older Mom was a teacher, right Charlotte 100% so it's like you don't want to put these people who are at risk in a position to die I got a lot of friends who are teachers they could go to work, bro Cuz if they're not gonna work they're teaching at home, and then they're going out to the bar They're going to party shit. They're gonna get corona over there So I'm not go to work. I feel more sorry for the kids than the teachers Because those are very pivotal years.  Somebody came in close contact But when when she's in school, she's there for like two hours.   You guys know that's just a full time It's a luxury. It's a luxury to be the parent that can stay home You know, I mean work from home and take care of a kid like it's almost impossible, bro That's impossible to do.  They're like You can decide as an employee as long as you get approval from your like manager or whatever But they just said you can decide to work from home or go to a co-working space or go to the office and Spotify will pay for the co-working space if that's where you want to go and They'll do that for indefinitely Spotify is new like a policy when it comes to their employees That's dope as she was fired because a lot of people can't stay home with the kid and get any work done So they need to leave the house. You know, that's a great.    I'm supposed to see my friends.  He's not going to anyone's houses at all No I want to take my son fishing and all that type of stuff like you got to really be active with your family You got to have to take them out. You have to do certain things. You got to they're already bad What do your kids watch go on YouTube and watch other kids play? My my five-year-old loves Ryan and his family. You know Ryan Ryan's the like Ryan's like the low I think he's Asian or something.  There's not a rapper alive a comedian alive with a bigger YouTube presence than Ryan Ryan's work. I get Ryan. Who's wax?  Yo, your dad Your dad wants to be famous Ryan. I see your dad. I can't remember his name right now He's already like he's already famous. I don't know. I don't know his dad's name I just know that's Ryan's dad. That's Ryan's dad.  I've seen Ryan's dad a lot, too. I see what you're saying, though I see what you're saying. They really here for this guy.  My son don't want to see that shit, bro I kind of thought that but it's like no happy you said it. Okay.  I'm sure I'm like look at it like that But I see what you're saying. Yeah, Ryan's dad is a little weird, bro What's a little shine, bro? Do you he's like Taylor? What do you want? T-ditty T-ditty, bro Do you guys think that it's taking away from kids being like creative because they're looking at someone else being creative like So why can't they create that like their own little toy little ideas their own? No, I don't think it takes away from people creativity. I think it inspires the kids You know what I mean? Like I think anytime you see something that you want to do It just didn't it just inspires you to want to do your own thing I don't think it takes away from the creativity playing with toys isn't creative Yeah, he's making a story. They go on less places though. I don't see what you're saying But it's like their whole life. They getting less of only the guy is just the computer We did everything. Yeah, we learned how to run fight. We did everything. We know how to talk to girls and everything Exactly, it's not good man. It's definitely not good generation of kids.  They already miss one year They about to miss a whole nother one school almost over. That's the question at what point do you start going? All right, we got to let the kids go back to school. We got to open up restaurants We got to get back to the parents though Say no, but I'm saying like we got it We got to get as close we came back to North while being safe But we just have to accept that this is part of life and this is the risk of life But we can't just stay locked in the fucking cupboard for the rest of existence Yeah, I mean these shaky regulations are nuts, right?  You know what it is They don't want the criticism. They're cool with all the parties and shit happen right now Because all the heat is going to Florida Atlanta has been lived like Georgia has been living scot-free Everybody talks about Florida, you know, it's like it's like it's like in the same way how like the mafia I don't want to say the mafia acted with impunity in Philadelphia But like there was less scrutiny of the mafia and like Philadelphia and and the Rhode Island area because everybody's focused on the mafia in New York And I think that's what's happening in Florida everybody's you know, Florida's so crazy and then Atlanta is just right up the block And they're like, oh, they're not talking about us That's a great point And you know why that's a great point because the NBA all-star game will bring much national national attention to Atlanta So when the national attention comes then people start paying attention to the fact like yo Atlanta been wide Because if you on social media, of course, you see all the rappers and athletes and stuff They be in the clubs already in Atlanta, but now with the NBA all-star game It brings a whole new set of eyeballs to it But and you got democratic leadership and then all of a sudden the Democrats that want the lockdown are gonna start putting pressure on Democratic leadership Say what his both cuz you got Republican leadership. That's the governor.  Yeah, and key.  We can't go to Florida.  I don't want to go The politicians they got to take all the smoke for these decisions, but the business people in Florida Are so grateful Yeah for York being locked down like I have conversations with motherfuckers. They're like own the clubs and shit out here They're like I cannot tell you That's a relief They I please Cuomo keep everything locked down Please the Blasio keep everything locked down because they're making Millions tens of millions of dollars new hotels going up new apartment complexes going up Everything being bought up.  Are you a really pay for COVID and how many people did she already fuck?  I don't you know, it's a it's a plethora of other Things that could exist within this body Yeah, they might be immune to it because the COVID party the STD party could push that COVID out the way They probably got STD's It do feel like that though for the past year some change COVID has been a disease that gets top billing over at everything Oh, yeah Then now they got that prick test only you want to smash a girl put through the prick test You got 15 minutes and we can have sex because that's really something you got to think about y'all Man what you want kiss somebody and smash a girl and she might have COVID. That's kind of wild It's wild if you get a COVID test with a girl.    I've never told that part of the story, but I'm glad he finally telling the truth I thought in the water.   You just found the condom in the water. No, this is back in the day anyway obviously used No in Jamaica Is Wild days back in the day and I didn't do that though. That's a lot Did not You when you see this probably what it was going down. I don't know how far he was back in the day Then it didn't happen though. No, listen, I'm gonna tell you when he's saying probably was down the water I was always at the top of the water So you see the flight of floating past that's when I threw that tampon in the water and I should expand it I should expand it This guy was Thought it was a stingray That's kind of nasty the period or raw sex that's kind of crazy Period Condom out the water and putting the condom on taking a campfire the girl That's that's worse. All right.    Okay, it was not successful at all Did you see the meek mill to Kashi six nine video? Oh my gosh, yo It's so funny, bro. Cuz both those guys need each other so bad explain. Yeah, I don't get it I mean, they're just both not hot right now, right? And to Kashi the way I was saying I'll click it is like to Kashi's a sale, right? Like a sale is nothing without wind You know what I mean?  He needs beef and he's excellent at beef He's really funny when it comes to the beef and if he's beefing with someone he could lean in and generate a lot of interest But if but if nobody's beefing with him He can't generate interest and now the thing is once he's been exposed as not street If he calls out a street dude a street dude doesn't have to answer to him because he knows he's not street a street Dude, I imagine only has to answer to another street dude, right?   What's up? It's on site. Let's do something But if a cornball calls you out this like working with the feds, you don't got to respond to him I'm supposed to brush them off. Yeah, right like I like the sale analogy, but I think the difference now Is is you know sales don't just need when they need water I think I think music was Takashi's water because you know Prior to him getting locked up when he was beefing with everybody He also had records that was out here charting and all types of shit. You know, that was his other Now without the music it's like What is this?  It's like an abandoned boat in the desert. It's like. Oh, that's cool But how cool really is a boat in the desert? That's a rat. Yeah, dude.  So he just got a thing is over for him. No, you think it's over You think it's over for him. I Mean, yeah, I think it's over for him as like a gangster rapper Like I think he's so funny that he could find a way to just be funny on the internet But he's got a change. He's got to change what he's doing. Yeah I mean for me, man, and I've said a million times.  We all knew that what he was doing was gonna lead him to jail or death You already been to jail. So it's like now what and it's just like it's almost comical, right?  This guy's crazy.  It's weird.  He's gone.    Yes, he's rubbing his hands like that. That's right. I Slowly put on my clothes I Threatened me with a good time. Let's follow through I'd like to reclaim my time Hey, I'm serious I really don't know what people wanted me mill to do in that situation And I'm gonna tell you something else Takashi six nine security They should lose their license and I tell you why security is not goons You know what I'm saying you ain't supposed to be able to tell your security.  That's interesting.   Oh I mean, that's what that's what to Kashi would want more than anything I think he's crazy to want to get shot not killed But I think he is I think he is addicted to it and bring him back That he would want to get shot because there'd be so much gravity around that. Yeah. Yeah that bring him back Remember there was some New York rapper that like paid for him to get shot, right 15 paper himself to get shot I remember when gravy got shot So the gravy they said it was a publicity stunt the guy who played biggie.  Yeah, that was a different era though. That was when the super thug era was really in Yeah, that's when when you that's when you would that's when you would like try to be the hardest person on the planet Like you get shot and still go do an interview. It's like no, you're bleeding Like you could die right now like go take care of this man and now it's like who got the best manicure I Don't know what it's about now. Like I'm telling you it's too complicated. I don't get it like I'm so happy I'm not in the streets no more because I don't even understand the rules of engagement anymore Like even with them like I said with the meat six-nineteen I'm like what did y'all want me to do is meet post to pull out a pistol and start like Off in security like yeah What is he supposed to do? I didn't get what they wanted and six nine calling you pussy.   I'd be okay.  He won't have teeth. What's it? Which one though? If you had to choose one They won't have teeth in either one. No, man.  Why are you sagging? I?  What would you rather? What would you rather wax come on? What is it called? What is it called? All right?  Yes?  Yeah. Okay. So I'll add a wet willy lunk wonka because of the chocolate that comes out That's a wet willy wonka Shot that's one shot With the four or five keep going Would you rather a wet willy wonka uh-huh wax would you rather a wet willy wonka, okay?   That's poppy pocky. Like you got mad at that.   Okay Call his brother kiss you y'all I'm making right here something happening that we don't know about Tell us the truth you've never seen that before come on. That's it. I thought Italians did that. I didn't know Puerto Ricans did that Very normal wax it's very normal But what I'm wondering is what if when he went to do that kiss Right a little bit of your lip touched his lip and then and then he just went like this He just went like this. He went he went And then he just he just He just he just he just kind of nibbled your lip with his lip. Can I ask you a question?  You know six nine is suing meek for a soap Is he really because it is spit. That's so corny man. Come on.     Yeah, that's a dangerous. That's a dangerous person to be dealing with. Yeah He wanted a shot like he said I just want I do want six nine. I do want him to like get his life together for him though He should be like do a bunk doing you see the guy bunk. He got yes, man.  What's his name? Bunk? Bunk choice or something like that?  I saw bunk getting baptized others. Yeah, me too. That's why I said his name Yeah, that's what he needed to do. I respect you We were somewhere and I saw bunk and he was trying to speak to me and I remember Did I speak to him? Yeah, it was cool. Yeah, I think I did speak to him. Yeah, it was cool But I'm glad to see a brother like that get his life together. Oh 360, man But that's good. No, it's not a 360. It's a 180. What's it 180, bro? He's all the way back around, bro Back around to the beginning 360 with me.  You gotta chill out pro Actually I was telling I was telling I want to I want to see six nine do a bunk though I was telling Taylor earlier about a 360.  I heart radio podcast.  What do you mean?  I told you not pulling the parking lot. Wax was wilding. He needed a little act right there.  Why I asked me before we went in there So tammy was working the bar.  Yo, he's disrespectful.   I slip out because I saw tammy she got hot took a couple shots She's like, I'm gonna fix this motherfucker.    He's running towards the truck. I said now this way it's about to be good Unbeknownst to him. I had the doors locked on purpose So when he got to that door You ever see mic ebbs getting chased by lady of rage and friday after next that's how wax was around the car the whole Listen Listen, these country girls who had some day hit hard hitting all you This is cornbread rice eating girls a gravy.  I'm ducking these girls. I'm playing football at the time Oh, you need to drive that day We knew where to go to get the action Ask him right before we pull the parking lot. I'm like, man, come on, man. I know anybody here. Come on.  What you mean? What was the resolution? I ain't got nothing to do with this. The resolution was they got tired Not somebody been beating on somebody so much and chasing somebody that they just got tired No, I read to the corner.   I wasn't fine no more 20 years ago, baby We talking about we talking to whose baby Carla I don't know if you're talking to Carla his brother at this point It's They got you going crazy in that Puerto Rican household, man.  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As always they have four grand pre-rolls What's new is five packs of half grand pre-rolls.  Let's get back to the show. Um, I want to tell everybody out there To keep listening to the black effect Podcast network. Thank you to everybody out there that's listening to our various podcast this week. We launched the big Payback with uh, erica alexander and she has a host name. Um, Whitney Whitney dow Yeah, Whitney dow Um, it's a podcast about reparations. It's a specialty podcast that we're doing. Um for black history months.  Erick alexander is a brilliant queen You know erica alexander maxine shaw attorney at law from living single pamp Okay, pamp from the cosby show You know what i mean kovie You know Whenever somebody coughs they say kovie over Well, make sure you check out that big um payback podcast and uh black privilege publishing, you know, we have to mika mallory's book state of emergency Coming out may 11th state of emergency how to win in the country we built Please go pre-order that but we also announced another title That's coming out this year by my girl anita copas.  You probably heard Darius love hall lorenz tate's character and love jones when he mentioned yemiya You remember that taylor in that poem? I remember that you my yemiya I don't think she even seen Excuse me when you heard Beyonce say baby sister reppin yemiya Anita copas wrote a great young adult fiction fantasy book about uh yemiya We released the cover a couple days ago and um she was the number one bestseller on amazon And um the science fiction fantasy black, which i didn't even know was a category black science fiction fantasy category So i was happy to see that man. So yeah go out there and pre-order anita copas's book shallow waters It's a great read for the young adults in your life Okay, and as I said pre-order to micah mallory state of emergency how to win in the country We built all on black privilege publishing Which is my book imprint through simon and shoestre. We cooking baby I'm gonna do i'm gonna do like two titles a year two book titles a year I think I think that's a good number So we got two more. We got two more coming in 2022 already on the books But we'll announce those at a later date. You got any church announcement show see Yo, we back on tour talk to me March the injured shows that come for tickets, but uh salt lake city sold out columbus, oh, hi, I believe it's sold out Then we're going to fuck. Let me get a couple more of these cities, but uh, I'm excited to get back on stage man and um Let's see. We got a nashville, tennessee Atlanta georgia Atlanta, baby, uh, raleigh north carolina west palm beach florida phoenix arizona and then tampa bay florida We'll be adding more shows But yeah, go check out the injured shows comm for tickets before they're sold out and um, god bless you guys I support. I also want to do a show here in miami. I'll announce that soon I think it's going to be a real like a pop-up like maybe we'll announce that a day or two before because um I got to get my sea legs back. Is that what it's called your sea legs. You feel like you lost it, bro Yeah, yeah, I lost it, bro. Really that core man that core week, man.  So you just gotta make sure you still got it But it's muscle memory. How long has it been I don't know last show I did I think was In new jersey when we went to do those shows in jersey When was that? I don't know Summer go out to austin bro. Go to stubs Say what go out to austin go to stubs.  Oh, it's a decade charl.    Have you heard them? Yeah, you heard the comments Who me?  What did he say basically Taylor basically saying that Uh, lori harby should stick with like how wax feels like with one person Yes, one celebrity. He she shouldn't be dating around and everything else like that And um doesn't think that and thinks that Don't put all that on me Michael be jordan like he's sorry. He um Just like wax he thinks that michael be jordan shouldn't have wife to lori harby Yeah, he said we shouldn't be giving lori harby credit For running through all of these dudes. You should be giving the guys credit for running through lori harvey Why you say wax said that he was like if you're if you're cool with what lori harvey's doing and that means you're cool with your Daughter having sex with seven or eight dudes I don't think it's cool, right men would pass out If they saw a woman's body count, right? They saw a woman's whole facts for lack of a better word, right? And I don't think there's anything wrong with it like number one.  But everybody know these motherfuckers. I know this motherfucker.   I ain't being with you like that. No way Here's the unfortunate truth.   That's not cool.  Yeah, you know now you a hoe to everybody not saying it's true. I don't believe that to be the case But that's the perception after per se and you want it You don't want that to be a no man want their wife to be percepticized.  I don't know What take take five minutes, bro Take five minutes. I didn't know that word Perceptitized What you just said Is what wax wants women to do after they slept with more than two guys No, it's not. No, let me let me put it like this. I said she she told me wrong.   Well, why are you thinking that she's having so she's not dating you in a relationship?  Why didn't say that you just don't want to know that's it because she's gonna have more She's going to that's wild Girlly virgins understanding that virgins but how many miles you want them to have It doesn't matter you're not gonna know anyway If you grow to love that one girl go ahead shows what you say Well, if a girl has had 20 penises Mm-hmm.  No, that's not what we asked you We asked Taylor one simple math equation on this.  I never gave head to no girl Yeah, you crazy. Yo and carl know my whole history My girl know my whole history though. That's what I'm trying to say You don't know your whole history. I mean, she know she know that I was out there. She know she know if she hear anything That's probably I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt whatever wax told you was a lie We gonna sit around and have some drinks.  I'm not question. Listen. Wax your whole facts on a cds for c CDC Gotta have goddamn waxes whole facts. Listen.   Yeah, right. Yeah.  Thank you No, especially if the girl's giving you head.   Listen, I'm I'm on team.   You jump in ubers every day.   Would you own the uber? Would you go? I would love to own a good job Here's the thing though. You might own a uber You don't know what yo your girl will never tell you her true history ever She know you're gonna react crazy. I understand that but I don't want my neighbor's car Lacks what you're trying to say is You'll be in a uber And you'll go wow, this is really comfortable. I really enjoy this experience I'm gonna get a car just like this uber, but I'm not gonna buy this uber because so many different people have been in this version of He won't delete that app off his phone though That app is a matter of convenience. He won't delete that app By the way from uber though wax is I'm gonna tell you how wax is consistent with this talk to me There is a young lady who I think is a beautiful woman pretty Can cook she was incredible. That's what I thought wax was gonna end up with The white girl. There we go. Not the white girl. There we go. It's way back in the day, but she She was us. She was one of us She used to get down. Listen, I don't know nothing. She she used to get cracked out.  I ain't got nothing to do with this That's a dangerous look What you mean You think calling those wack body count listen Why are you stressing? I ain't stressing but this is a lot to do with this guy My friend has been very very honest with her past with him.  Wax wasn't nothing. He wasn't nothing. Yeah, I wasn't nothing That's an important thing. He wasn't nothing for a while. I wasn't nothing in the same situation. No, he wasn't nothing for a while No, I'm making up for wax not nothing.  We have to say One a year. Which one one a year Because things don't have just you gotta be realistic. Yeah, that's not realistic.  What's okay? What's average for a girl one year?  Let's all be honest for one second What's your body count Taylor? I'm not saying The only person I need to know are my friends and my man Mandy and wheezy are in here. I know they're not afraid Mandy. What's your body count? Mandy lost count at 18 18 years old or 18 digs old 18 18 years old Okay, Mandy lost count at 18 years old wheezy. What's your body count? Yes Men and women weed is over 50. Nila's in here. Nila. What's your body count? Wow Nila, what's your body count Nila? Nila's in here with her Nila's in here with her boyfriend I didn't mean to put her on the spot Alex. Do you know Nila's body count? Oh my god. Whoa. Why you did this? Why you did this? Yo, Alex did this twice? He was like 10, 20 What is going on here? What is going on? One question wheezy There's a lot of numbers. You said over 50. There's a lot of women over 50 There's a lot of what? There's a lot of numbers over You said over 50 there's between 50 and 75 That's my real number. I wouldn't I mean, I know normally you multiply by three Do you count like do you keep like a tally? I have a tally in my phone. Really? Yeah Only 75 digs. How old are you wheezy? I'm about to be 30 in a month.   So maybe when I'm hoeing I'm really hoeing. When'd you lose your virginity? 16 16 so 16 to 30 so 15 years 75 do the math But threesomes I've had a lot of I fucked a lot of bitches last year. No, sorry the year that we were open. So 2019 Maybe like 10 in there. I don't think women count in this equation Yo, yeah, because women don't count. Just track the women out of this. We only count in dicks.  I don't think she got a pass. Listen. I'm not judging. I just said that I'm just for me the wife At least if I know let me accept it because only way only reason why I'm a be with a girl because I accept their flaws I ain't with her because I accept all the great things that she's showing me. I accept all her flaws That's why I'm with her.  What you want to do? You don't want to know what you want to know the car. I like to hear stories I don't need to hear like the number you want to know this car been crashed You want to know this car been in the flood? I fully understand things in terms of automobiles.  I need a car fax. Just give me the car fax. One thing about wax that I know I just want to make sure you ain't get flooded. Wax isn't going to get a bad car accident Same girl. So why is it mad wax is afraid of his own karma?   I don't even know now. He's afraid of his own karma Yeah, that's why it's the same thing with women. He knows that he's been a hoe Right, right. So he don't want to wipe a hoe because he wouldn't wipe himself I never fully committed with these girls This is serious question If that is something that we can't help it's not something society put on us But it's something that's like biologically built into a lot of guys, right? Okay, don't we owe it to women to tell them And say hey, we're not as into a girl that's had tons of partners That's right Maybe we should let you know this before you go out there and do something that could stop you from being with your dream man Like isn't that the the honest right thing to do carfax Yes, who's going to say it like what guy's saying this though? What you mean? You're saying it right now. What do you mean by that though? Like you talking about if you talk to a girl or you just i'm saying we're saying on the podcast Okay, in ideal world, you know that you guys wouldn't be Straight run through, you know my wife knows my body count Give a give a take a dozen, but that's only because I can't remember a lot of shit Yeah, I could tell you know me but the ones I can't remember she absolutely positively knows about Charlemagne told y'all are mine. Are you over? No, I have not.   That is true. That's not true I just don't want to have to deal with a girl that has sex with people that I know Like again, so she could be a hoe just not I could I could love this girl.  You think I might for her?  After she fucked anybody who's wife for just don't invite nobody with me to the way I can't do it. I'm sorry. She's a great girl too great girl phenomenal girl. Amazing.  So I know her. No, I don't think y'all know her Nila, you know her you met her at the wedding Who Nila says she met her at the wedding You wasn't at kente wedding. I hope that oh you talking about some oh you talking about somebody else You talking about the one my Chill out man.   We're gonna take a break for a second because I got to make sure that you uh aren't bald out here in these streets, man This is the number one most important thing when it comes to a dude aging. Well is having a full head of hair, okay I've been on Yeah, charlie man looks horrible for that reason if he had a fro man, he would be you'd be looking 25 years old you know, but um That's not the case because he's now and that keeps keeps simple as that I've been doing this for over a decade. I got a full head of hair matter of fact So my hair left. Okay. I was losing my hair. I noticed it. I got right on it and boom I'm back Hair thicker than ever you can do it.    You don't have to be bald anymore. All right Don't wait too long. Now you're out here with tori lanes looking like ali's coach You don't want that life. Okay. You want to stop that bad bad, man It's not good.   Yeah, tori lanes. Yo, man, tori should look crazy. Come on, man I saw that years ago on the breakfast club though If you ever if you go back and watch the old tori ladies If you go back and watch the one where tori had to puppet with him And I was asking tori because tori said he got $30,000. He paid $30,000 for his hairline But I kept asking him like what's up with this though?  What's up with that?  I'm like now I know We saw why Well, you just keep it low. Why you do that? Yeah, just keep a ball dude, bro. Let's keep a ball and get you well I guess you know at 30,000 you paid for the headline.   I'm just telling you what somebody said to me, too I don't think that You know, I love you. There's one. There's one person that loves you. It's me. Okay. Taylor. What we got? Okay um I don't know. I say his name says stephen said seven eight one What goals do you have for yourself this year? What goals do you have for yourself this year shochi? I got to keep that a little bit quiet right now Uh-oh So we got shit a brewing man, but I got to keep that a little bit. Okay a little bit quiet All I got is execution execution is my word for the year. That's it. I just want to execute everything that we're doing I want to execute the black effect podcast network want to Execute black privilege book publishing company want to execute sbh, you know at audible with kevin heart It's just all about execution Execute something else that we're launching in may I just want to execute. That's it execution of the name of the game execution. That's it long as we execute Skye's the limit, baby. That's it All right, do you have one? um My goals is to have i'm in 30 stores in la right now in the spenceries of who's wax I want to be an all hundred in very near future. So dope definitely my goal Fire who's wax early? All right, um l underscore j underscore 21 wants to know biggest regret of your 20s biggest regret of my 20s I got time for that Be all dead. Do you know what i'm saying to 20s say for real the 20s was a wild decade, bro That was a wild 10 years 20s, but it's hard to you know, I realized it's hard to regret Things when you are where you want to be. Yeah, I see what you're saying Because they help get you there whether they were good or bad I don't regret anything for my 20s if i'm being told leon 20s was a good time 20s was 20s was Let me see. I started doing radio in 1998.  So that was like eight years of Between charlton socket line and columbia socket line and running this priest. We was having a ball That was the crunk era.   Yeah, he's gone. That was i-hop waffle house Fights and but you telling people that uh, you got me banned from i-hop too.  Of course. They were gonna see me, but come on. Wax used to go to eat and walk out No, but listen Come on.  He did that everywhere. He went No, that's not true. I hop banned them as they should have He might still be banned from my hop. I think I might be feeling he was stealing Pancake man, listen, he would go in and eat and then walk out man. Listen, man I don't remember out everybody walked out And it was like whoever the last person he got paid for the bill I was out but everybody didn't force it to go and look at me like he was there Like look all these other motherfuckers. You don't see nobody else Probably not. All right, come on. Nobody steals from my hop except for wax one time because I wasn't paying the bill More than once annie wouldn't sleep with the i-hop server. All of a sudden he don't want to sleep with her That's my girl. I love her. I can't remember her name. I wish I could remember her name Yeah, she's peace man, but I wasn't gonna smash it for the for that.  Let's back in the day. Come on Give us another one tail I'm not gonna say his name. I don't know it but is daniel kulia on On route to be the next big star in hollywood Is daniel kahwool on on route to be there? I mean, I would all I mean, I don't know if he's I don't know what you mean when you say next big star. I think daniel's already a star. I mean get out was a 100 plus million dollar movie.  Yeah, that's a classic role.  That's a billion dollar movie like I think daniel's pretty much a star bro. Yeah daniel's doing all right in hollywood Yeah, and judas and the black messiah is great Yeah, shout out lucas brothers, man lucas. Yo, man.  There's something as dramatic as goddamn judas and the black messiah There's not too many people that got this that range like comedians me that's my personal opinion Salute to the lucas brothers martin the comedian martin the comedian. Yeah, but shout out the uh Yeah, I think daniel's already on his way.   Bayes, uh, tennessee Uh, I want to know if brady is the gray's white guy. Who is the gray's black guy? Who's the greatest black guy of all time? Wax The greatest black guy of all time. I mean, I don't I mean for me. I always go back and forth between um Martin Louis the king jr. And honorable Elijah Muhammad for me. I personally I'll probably say the honorable Elijah Muhammad for me That's my that's my personal Yeah, I don't know too many people I say wax because I look at I look at I look at the fruit of people's trees So when you get the honorable Elijah Muhammad, you get Muhammad Ali you get Malcolm X You get the honorable minister Louis fracan you get the whole nation of Islam a person that can Transform men and women and make them be the best version of themselves. I you know for me It's honorable Elijah Muhammad.  Who he is. What else? I mean, I mean people he many people who are comparable Yeah, how many people he brought to the nation or to god or anything like that I don't know man.   Andrew. It's okay. It's okay. You don't have to rise to this challenge Hey, I think I have a good one You don't have to rise to this challenge Me guys, I think I have a good one. All right. It might be wet. Okay. Give it give it to us for shits and giggles fine for shits and giggles Greatest black man Of all time of all time. What did you miss? You know Is


You guys, how are you guys doing? Look, these pink glasses is about to be worn out. It's about to be fall time in a couple of more weeks. I'm gonna switch to my black or my, I'll show y'all.  I'm gonna switch to my black frames or I may even do these. I may do these. When I switch it because the vision is off just a little, I have to switch them over the weekend so that my eyes can get used to it.  But anyway, y'all, enough of that. Let's get right into it. Y'all know how we do this. This is another chit chat. I have actually a lot to talk about more so than what I'm watching on TV and all this other drama. What I'm gonna be doing is I did a video for you guys a couple of days ago showing you how I moisturize my hair and preparing it for a style. Now, this is literally like two days afterwards and my hair is done. It's air dry. So now what I do, I feel like in order to get a really good style, the base of your hair, the base of your hair has to be prepared or pretty good. I don't think I'm gonna get a great style if my hair is, girl, look at all this gray hair. And I pluck it out. For everyone I pluck out, I find a hundred more. The reason why I do this, y'all, is my gray hair is a totally different texture too. Look how straight that. It is so weird. So it's curly, curly, curly. Can y'all see that? And then look how straight it gets. There's no definition in that. It's gonna be interesting, but overall my gray hair is coming in totally different texture. Once I get so much gray hair, it's gonna be impossible for me to pluck. I'm gonna go ahead and accept it and completely go gray. It is, but it is. I'm gonna take off my watch. So anyway, you guys, I'm preparing my hair for a style. I'm gonna be doing a braid out. And I cook more days using these two products, okay?  So I'm not really adding any leave-in products, I should say. And I'm just gonna make the section here. The section is basically a little bit smaller. And look at this, look at my hair. Smells good. Ooh, there's some, is this what is it? Oh, that's oil. That's why it's so shiny. All right, let me spray it with water lightly misted. I do feel like my edges are kinda thin and I know y'all are like, well, girl, but no, it is. My edges are starting to thin out a little bit and that's more gray hair, but it is what it is. So y'all know how we do this. I talk about what's going on in my personal life. What I'm watching on TV and what I'm watching on YouTube. So, hmm, how can I say this? My child is the class clown. A lot of this started last year when he was in school and JV is the popular kid. He's popular because he makes people laugh and they find him funny. And they know that he has a little YouTube channel. Even though the channel has like 200, 300, I think like almost 300 subscribers, but to the babies, that's a lot. You know what I mean? So sometimes he does videos just for them so that they can watch it and they do watch his channel on free day at school. So I got a message from his teacher yesterday basically stating that she's having a hard time with him. He's laughing, he's making jokes. He's playing around with his stuff instead of listening and paying attention in class. And so by the time she passes out the work, he's getting everything done. So then she has to sit with him one-on-one to go over the material again.  JB does have ADHD. He has dyslexia. He has a couple of other learning challenges to where I forgot the right terminology for, but basically if you tell him something, what is it called? It's a process delay. And he may say that he understand what you're seeing, but really he doesn't. And so, and his teachers are aware of this. What's the point, girl? So when he came home yesterday, well, first of all, I wrote with my husband to go pick him up, because typically I don't. That's his duty. He picks up JB. But sometimes I do ride with him.  I remember last year when we had this problem, baby, it was the winter time. I had on my jogging suit. I had my glasses down. I had my hood on. Girl, I was in the back waiting for him. Like I'm part of some mafia. He was like, hi, mama. I said, don't hide me.  He's got quiet. Hi, mama.  Let me talk to you. So that's why I did yesterday. And I'm like, what's going on?   Girl, you know, black parents just getting right to him. He's like, he's just looking at me. So, you know, she sent me the message, but I need to talk to you in person.   I am, I've always been this way. I'm that mom that shows up to every event, every school event. I show up early, I stay late. I know the parents. I know the kids. I know the kids by name. I'm looking at the kids eye to eye. Yeah, I'm going to the other classes and talking to the kids because I need y'all to know that I'm here. You need to know my presence. Okay, I'm very involved in my child's education. I've always been this way. So anyway, I spoke to him. I let her know we talked to him. I want to step further. Like I said in this morning, I wanted to talk to her one-on-one to see how things are going, letting her know, you know, that we had a discussion. And again, taking it a step further, I'm gonna pop up tomorrow and stay there for a good 30 minutes and observe him.  Let's jump into it. So I shared on my community page a couple of days ago how I have just been so emotional lately. Now, some stuff is warranted, but other times it's like, girl, I'm looking at videos of other people's babies and pictures of other people's kids and just stuff in general. And I'm crying. I mean extremely emotional. I'm just noticing some changes with my body too. I'm growing a lot more hair on my face. Like it's not long, but I can feel it like a couple of chin hairs or pumping up. So I gotta shave my chin hair once a week. I'm like, I can't have no three-quack shadow.  Okay, I can't be looking like Wanda from here in Wanda from Living Code. I can't do that. So I'm upping my skin regimen, but I know a lot of this is hormone. So, y'all, I feel like I said on my community posts, if I for sure, if I was young and fertile, and the reason why I say I'm fertile is because I am a high risk when it comes to pregnancy. Even when I got pregnant with JB, I was high risk because I suffered a miscarriage prior to getting pregnant with him. Then once I got pregnant with him, I was a high risk just due to the miscarriage because I literally had gotten pregnant within, I got pregnant within three months of the miscarriage and then with that pregnancy, I was in so much pain. They couldn't figure out what the pain was. I think I know what it is. I think it was an ovarian cyst because that's another thing I have reoccurring the ovarian cyst. So that happened. Don't worry, what's the point? So I can't get pregnant, girl. It's hard for me to get pregnant. I can, I shouldn't say that. I can get pregnant, but it's a bit challenging for me to get pregnant, but baby, this is the thing. I hear so many stories of women who thinks that they're going through menopause and then they end up being pregnant. Let me tell you something. I'm not gonna be able to handle a baby right now. I just, no, it cannot. So one of the things that I'm finding myself doing and I haven't told you guys just because I haven't, I just haven't, but I literally have had to take a pregnancy test. Every, I was at this point, I was taking a pregnancy test every three months. I'm getting my cycle still. That's not a problem. I know TMI. I am still getting the cycle, but my cycles are all over the place. They're not as, they're not, they're inconsistent. Okay, my cycles are inconsistent. They are extremely heavy. No, I don't have PCOS or whatever, but they are heavy. I am cramping. I may as well go to the dark. Tell my, what do you call it? My lady ports doctor. I'll be GYN girl, my kind of college is the lady ports doctor.  Yeah, you don't need to go to school. So this is some conversations that I should have with them. I know, but yeah, I'm feeling it. But the only thing I will say too, with me being this way is I am always cold. So I'm not getting like really hot. I've always been just a cold person. And so I should be taking iron and stuff like that for it because I'm always cold. I would have, oh, here we go. This is my little sweater that I put on at least once or twice a week. It is a hundred degrees here in Dallas. So yeah, when I'm outside, I mean yesterday was that yesterday we were at a girl at Waterburg and we wondered why I haven't lost this way. But then we were at Waterburg and JB and I and I'm sitting inside waiting. I was like, I am so cold. And I noticed that people in front of me turned around. They're like, what? I'm like, ignore me. I was cold, very cold. So who child experiencing this stuff? Yes. Like I said, psychos are inconsistent, extremely emotional. Hey, my best friend had her baby in her 40s. I think my best friend was 41 when she had her last child.  My other friend, Leia, she had her twins when she was 42, I look at that because she ended up I'm not going to get into it, but she had her twins at 42. I used to work with someone.  But let me tell you something. The way that my patience is set up, the way that I like to have wine is set up. I'm not gonna be able to, y'all. If God blesses me, thank you, Jesus. But I'm one and done. I really am. So, you know, hopefully my breasts are sore. The only thing I know I'm set to do in two years, my only thing that I know for sure when I was, the both times I was pregnant, my feet swelled up. And that's how I could really tell. My feet swelled up. Yeah. And it was fast. Like I was only six weeks pregnant with the first one and my feet were already swollen up. Ciao. So, y'all, that's that. So we'll see. You know, Jaby doesn't need no siblings.  So he's good. Okay, he's good. So what I'm watching on YouTube. So look, you guys, I wanna figure out what's going on with the Green Beauty channel. I hope she's okay. Cause she's in Hawaii. And due to the stuff that's going on there, I tried to find her personal account on Instagram and I couldn't cause I was gonna reach out to her. She's not accepting DMs on her business account. So I need to find her personal account. I know I'm subscribed to that too. Did figure out what she's doing and how she's doing. I'm gonna be very careful how I approach this. Chanel Diane is back on YouTube. Chanel Diane was very popular on Instagram and kind of popular on YouTube and her channel is now called Becoming Chanel. I believe that's the name. So she was all on the forms. Lipstick Alley and all of that a couple of years ago for scamming people. I can't even remember what type of deal it was. I think it was the thing where you go in together on something and then, and there was a lot of money, you would go in purchasing something or even when it comes hair, duh, when I'm talking about hair, she was selling hair, wigs, bundles. And I think she was even selling like a, she was doing that where I can teach you how to have your own business. Coaching basically. Coaching on how to be an entrepreneur and specifically for hair. So there was a lot of scamming going on and they were talking about it on Facebook and of course on Instagram, she was taking people's money and not giving it back. And so black women being the FBI, CIA agents that they are, maybe they did not stop. They created Instagram pages specifically specifically on this individual and basically seeing how she's a scammer. They started bringing up all of her old history, her arrests and stuff like this. I'm not gonna get into the detail of that, but if you wanna figure it out, it's on the internet, everything is there. So she posted recently, meaning Chanel, basically seeing why she's been gone and apologizing for what happened. The only thing I have to say about this, and I do appreciate her being able to come out and say it, but from what I understand, people have still lost their money and they didn't get their money back. It's really hard. I'm gonna, chow, I know what she gonna be this way. It's really hard for me personally, me. It's hard for me to go back and trust someone and be like, oh, okay. She says she's, this is the explanation and rock with them. I'm not set up that way. I'm not their type of person. And it's not that I keep grudges. That's not what I'm saying. I don't keep grudges because I think that's unhealthy. I do know how to let stuff go. I'm just saying that I can accept someone's apology, but that doesn't mean that I'm gonna be as trustworthy of that individual. Does that make sense? But with that being said, I wish her all the best. Honestly, I don't know what she's doing now because I didn't watch the video in entirety. The last time I even heard about her is she was getting engaged to somebody named Patrick. She was finding out all of the wedding stuff and actually during that time, excuse me, during that time, I actually had reached out to her because I was planning my best friend's wedding and her colors, their colors were similar. And I didn't buy, I think I even invited her to the wedding, but then stuff, like I'm starting to remember this, you guys. It wasn't nothing serious, but it was like in passing. Like, hey, if you're, yeah, did I invite her to the wedding? I don't know if I invited her to the wedding. Let me not claim that, let me not say that. Let me retract that. I'm not sure if I invited her to the wedding, but I did tell her about the wedding. She wanted to know a little bit more about it. This was years ago when I, myself and my best friend, we all got married in the same year and then Chanel Diane got engaged and she was finding stuff. Cause I even remember my best friend asking me about her like, did you talk to that other influencer? I'm like, yeah. But she's back you guys. Like I said, I wish her all the best. I'll have to say in general, is that as we have to be careful and just be a little bit more cautious on where we plant our money. And I say plant because I do believe that whenever you are investing against something that's planting, because you're planting a seed and hoping that it would grow, right? And so any type of investment, you need to be very careful, but from my understanding, she trusted some people that did her dirty and in the end, anyone who brought Bob into the business lost out also. It's a very unfortunate event.  That's possibly an idea for her. She should come out with some videos on lessons learned on what to do and what not to do when it comes to this type of business that she was trying to orchestrate. So that's my opinion for whatever it's worth. So anyway, you guys, what else I'm watching on YouTube? Not a lot, for some reason, even though I'm subbed from Peach, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, y'all know Peaches, Peaches, Macintyre or whatever. The one that's always talking about leaving her husband Wood, but she's still with him. I unsubbed from her, but she's still on my channel. But you know what my sister said recently that her top videos are of her nursing and public? Let me tell you something. I have nothing against nursing.  I nursed my baby for a 15 months straight. I am a huge advocate for nursing, but I am public where she's not covering up, girl. More power to you, but that's a bit, there's some creepy people out there is what I'm saying. There's some creepy men, let me be very specific.  They don't care if it's a baby up there. It's a boob. It's not even like a fetish with men getting milked. Let's move on, child. Let me get a drink.  Girl, what I'm watching on TV, Netflix, Hula. Okay, so baby, I wanna watch that new movie that Todd and Candy came out for. The one thing that kind of boggled my head, isn't it on Peacock, you guys? I can't remember what station it's on. The thing that boggled my head is apparently they used, meaning Todd and Candy, they used their own bed for the sex scenes.  She said they did it for budgeting reasons.  So interesting. Let me tell you something. I would be, why is that drawer open? Girl, hold on, what? But I'm pretty sure Candy made sure they had a good bed and a bad comfort set for that sex scene and they took everything out. I think that's just, okay, I understand that you got budgeting issues, not budget. I understand that you're trying to stay on budget, but that's, don't you got another bed? I mean, doesn't Candy has that huge, she has several properties. Couldn't you like put another bed, even like an air mattress or something to have them humping on that girl? So they said the movie's good. I'm gonna have to check it out on the name of it. I'm just like, you know, Todd and Candy, this thing, you got a new movie out. I am so here for only murders in the building. It's like a mystery clue. It's almost like clue, who's the murderer? Everybody could be the murderer at this point. It's on Hulu. I watched an oldie, buggoody, the craft, the movie, the craft. And watching the movie, you guys, of course I saw it in high school like everyone else. And my parents said, ooh, we're gonna pray for you. It was interesting to see it now as an adult. Everyone who was in that movie is over 50 years old.  Everyone that plays in the movie looks good, okay? And then I watched Unfaithful with, what is his name? Richard Greer and Diane Lane. And so, yeah, I think some of y'all have seen Unfaithful where the married wife has an affair with a French book seller or whatever. But the guy that played the French book seller is actually Hickley Berry's ex, Olivier Martinez. He's French. He is fine. He's holding that movie now. He hasn't aged it well. And it's so funny how they cast him as to be the younger side piece, but they are around the same age. Him and Diane Lane. He's actually the same age as Hickley Berry, but like I said, he hasn't aged it well in my opinion. But hey, I mean, how good can you look at 57? Let's just be honest. So that is it you guys. Thank you so much for watching. I think it was always to all of my new subscribers. Take care. Bye.


Luncheon program at the 159th ARL membership meeting, remarks by Michael Tanner, convened by Mary Case. There's a lot of good conversation going on in Florida and Iraq. But we are delighted this afternoon to have Michael Tanner here as our speaker for lunch. Our Michael Tanner is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer of the Association of Public and Land-Grad Universities. Minor joint APLU, I should say, in January of 2011. Prior to that, he was Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois in Chicago for almost nine years, where he was my very first Provost. And then prior to UIC, Michael had a 30-year career at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. At UIC, he was in charge of 14 academic colleges including the library and had principal responsibility for the budget. He spearheaded major initiatives in interdisciplinary areas including a successful NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award. At UCSC, he was chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Acting Dean of Natural Sciences before becoming Academic Vice Chancellor. He was the Academic and Executive Vice Chancellor for nine years, serving as the campus' chief operating officer. In 2000, Michael was named interim director for the University of California Silicon Valley Center, where he was responsible for planning a satellite campus for 2,000 students at the NASA Research Park at the NASA Ames Research Center. His principal research interests have been in the field of coding and information theory, and he is recognized as the founder of the field of codes on graphs, a theoretical framework for designing coding systems that correct errors introduced in the transmission of digital messages. He holds four patents and is a fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Michael's other interests include computer simulation models, educational uses of information technology, intellectual property, and issues of sustainability and energy consumption. A noted advocate for the academic needs and faculty rights in scholarly communication, Michael was a principal author of the 1999 report of the University-wide Task Force on Copyright at the University of California, a feature speaker at the 2004 CIC Summit on Scholarly Communication, and has been invited to a number of campuses around the country to speak on scholarly communication issues. He helped spearhead the CIC authors' copyright contract agenda, and was one of the CIC provosts on the Negotiating and Global Organization post-settlement contract. He's been an organizer, moderator, and panelist for the Saltwick APLU National Meeting Sessions, and he's a member of the advisory board for the NIH Pugnance Central. Please join me in welcoming Michael Tanner. Thank you very much, Mary. It's a great pleasure to be here with this very distinguished audience. I was, as Mary said, the provost of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and it's been quite a transition to be at the APLU. Thank you for listening to my old friend, Paula Caron. I haven't been sued in the last year. It's part of being a provost. I did come out of Silicon Valley. I grew up in the area of Silicon Valley, what it was still called, Santa Clara County, and picked part of the pair, which is now Semiconductor Lane. Maybe what I could do was talk a little bit about libraries from the perspective of someone who spent a life in technology. I know this is a very sophisticated audience, and I said, I don't know what might interest them there, but I'll give you a few musings on information technology and what it is doing for libraries. So the title is, Where in the Digital World is the Library? Which is sort of a variant of the typical question, exactly where is the library at this point. There are three themes in what I'm going to say here. One is around the internet. Back in the 1990s, I had the pleasure of being with some of the people who were part of this great internet and stuff, and everybody would have a conversation at the end and say, the internet changes everything, meaning if you were having trouble with this logic it seemed like it was taking you to some new space. It was because the internet changes everything. And at this point I think it's fair to say the internet has changed everything and it hasn't finished, so we're still in this time of very rapid change. It's both marvelous and terrible, depending on where you are, and what rights you want to try to protect. It's absolutely marvelous. It's very, very disruptive. Second theme is, in times of rapid change, design your future. You use another California metaphor, surfing. It's better to catch the wave than have it break on your head. So this is a time of flux and a time where there's opportunity. And the third theme is collaborative action is really necessary. And that's because we're in an increasingly interconnected world. You can't go alone, so you better get together. Now back to basics. What do I want in a library? The ideal library is a place where I can go whenever I want. I can get rapid access to any of the recorded texts of human intellectual activity on any topic of interest to me. I can read the pertinent material. I can have health and guidance and find that pertinent material. I will know that the records are authentic, and I know that they'll be there next time I come back and anybody else wants to get to those records. That's what I want from a library. There are five interconnected dimensions around this theme where the internet has had some impact. And I'm going to put them in sort of a cluster here and see if I can talk about each one. I had 50 minutes. No, no, no. Not today. I have to be somewhat agreed. The first is access availability and retrieval time. The second is the comprehensiveness and the quality of the collection. The third is density, durability, and security of storage. The fourth is the ability to find pertinent information. And the fifth is on the legibility of records. So I'm going to talk about some of these and the challenges that are there. There are lots of challenges out there for librarians. Now let me first tell you that many people said to me if you want to get something done, give it to a librarian. You have a very high brand name out there in the world of probos. Librarians and people are going to make sure that things actually work. Good thing. But you are challenged at this point. First, you're etymologically challenged. A library has to do with the bark of a tree and the writings that came out of the bark of a tree. And it's not too much about barks on trees anymore. It's not even going to be about paper very much anymore. It's not going to be about the physical records so much anymore. So other than the fact you've got the wrong name for the future. I'm going to sort of say there's a dividing line that's occurring in major form. There's no sharp division. But somewhere around 1960 we moved into an age where more and more was being recorded in some electronic form. And there was a break that occurred. Up to that point, it was really the physical medium that dictated a lot about how a library performed, what a library would be had to do with that physical medium. Now I think it's the Assyrian tablets that hold the record for longevity. I'm not mistaken. And that, as a movable medium, allowed you to have a library of tablets. And of course it created certain constraints on the size of the collection. It created enough constraints on the actual generation of the collection that you probably didn't have to worry about having the same problem. You had to carry it around, I guess. But it certainly kept down the number of manuscripts at that time because it was such a specialized form. So I'll go way back there. Because in the physical medium, our dependence on the physical medium and the effort of creating new works and duplicating new works actually proved a filter. Our record that would remain would be only those things that had high enough value that they could make it through a whole chain of filtering that was really generated by the physical medium. And that's where the internet is now causing us some problem because you can replicate and you can distribute almost anything at almost no cost. And while that is marble, it's also the problem. You've got to figure out how we deal with that. You have a massive record, of course, in printed form. And that record has to be preserved. The future is going to be more and more about things that are born digital, they're native to digital. And so I'm just going to concentrate on where that goes. They don't ever have one physical existence that you might say is the form. Think about that. I had the privilege of being at the Library of Congress and I got to see the original manuscripts of the composer doing these are a few of my favorite things and I can see where he crossed out and he found a better line and so forth. What are you going to do in the digital age to get back to that closest to the author? What? You can have the keystrokes recorded so you can figure out how to backspace. We don't have that. It never really quite existed in the same physical sense. That changes things. The physical records are going to be, of course, very important. There's always going to be a question that somebody would like to ask that will be tied back to the existing physical records. For example, are the tiers on this composition actually Mozart's? And you could probably find out something about that now but you can't find it out unless you actually have the physical artifact. So I think it's really important that we have that record but more and more the past is going to be converted into digital form. We're massively digitizing. Are there limits to where you can digitize? Well, sure, but it's hard sometimes to say what are the limits to where people will want to digitize and find that meaningful. The one that gave me a bit of a chuckle was being in Florence a few years ago and I went to see the famous statue of David by Michelangelo and right there in the room in the corner is the three-dimensional virtual and you can go and either look at the real thing or you can go and just look around. I'm sure you'll be comforted to know most of the people were looking at the real thing but I thought it was fascinating that they would have digitized it through all of this and give you this other form so the people could work with it. Access, availability, and retrieval. We've just made a quantum leap in the ability to do that if you enter the digital world and you should never underestimate the power of convenience the seductive power of convenience and flexibility. I confess I go to something that I can find easily. There's probably something better if I worked at it but in my busy life I say I don't have time to work at it what can I get to quickly that's good enough, right? And that's going to be a very strong force when you have the digital natives coming up. I don't, you know, digital the youth, the youth of our country I have a, my grandchildren I really was stunned to know that my four-year-old granddaughter knew exactly how to navigate to the URL to get to one of her favorite videos at age four. That was funny. Yeah, okay. Sit down and just start navigating on the web. The next generation is taking digital access as it's given certainly in the developer world and in many other places around the world where it's a leapfrog technology. I've been surprised. I've had to run a few tests with people that I thought were bibliophiles would stay with the beauty of holding onto a high-quality manuscript and they've come to me and they've said I just love reading on the kingdom. Really? Oh, the convenience of moving onto Kindle and I say, this is a person I never would have thought would have been a Kindle convert. So we're undergoing a certain kind of conversion. What time do I get, Mark Mary? We haven't chilled 120 for the whole session. For this whole session? Okay, I'll just speak quickly. We're undergoing a digital conversion all sorts of things are being digitized and it's the flexibility and convenience that's going to dominate that great deal of what we have in the past which has to be preserved carefully. It will be digitized so that people can get access. Now that leads to the next one which is the comprehensiveness and the quality of the collection. The great solution of this powerful information technology didn't solve the problem. It compounded it.  But out there we're in sort of an information tools race. It's not an arms race, but it's an information tools race. You come up with some way of trying to keep track of stuff and somebody else comes up with a new way of generating more. And so that volume of production if we're just keeping track of what I personally composed the data density is going up where I don't have to worry about it. I can put everything that I personally composed right inside my pocket but it's that we've got machines that are now generating all sorts of things and large data sets. You can have sensors that are the size of dust mites and they're only just a little more expensive and they don't know how to self-reproduce yet but they're going to put out these massive data sets. How are you going to do the triage? If you have to have a scribe right down the data, I can tell you you'd be doing a triage, but you're going to have to enlist professional societies to help do that triage because you can't possibly keep up with the flow of data. If anybody thinks you can, I can give you the counter example probably and you can ask me the question. I feel confident I can come up because it's just the ability to generate data. The information technology just causes form. So we're out here trying to figure out how do we deal with terabytes and exabytes and all that's going to be generated and how do we go through the process of winning them down to decide what's worth cataloging. To have reliable storage with rapid access is going to require coordinated action. There's just too much out there and you're going to have to use information technology to help tame the volume of what's there. You have to use the approaches of information technology to actually solve the problems created by information technology if you think masses of information and data and manuscripts are there. There's so much. You can count pretty much on connectivity. I'll say that as a footnote if we come back. Modern devices assume that you have connectivity. I'm an old-timer. I don't always trust it. I sometimes like to cash something. Something I can hold on to just in case I should lose connectivity. But how many tablets are in the room who are violating the rule and blogging? They don't have anything for reading one of those clunky old CDs or DVD-ROMs, right? They say we're going to be connected. I won't wax nostalgic about shrink-wrapped software. But this is the assumption of the modern world that you're going to be having all these data flows, and you have to build that into the way that you think about cataloging. And that means that you are part of a collective interconnected library in some sense. Every single library is not, you know, no library is an island. Everybody is part of this highly interconnected world. You can't hope to be comprehensive. The density, and durability, and security of storage. Well, let me take an example from the domain, the keeping of repositories for scholarly works. How should we organize the repositories? The first reaction is every institution should keep track of the works of its authors. Or maybe you count on the publishers to keep track. But do the publishers actually have an obligation to mark up? I think really, and I'm not sure you could tell me, but I think really the publishers don't necessarily always do a good job of archiving. They've been counting on you. Okay. And when it's all flowing and you're just licensing stuff, which I hope won't be the case right now. But you have to say now who's really keeping track of all this data? If you just allow this to go up, you can end up with some problems. I will argue against hazard as being good enough. I have a problem in my own personal space. It's so easy to replicate something that when I have something I'm working on, I'm prone to make a copy just in case I should lose this copy. Then of course it's being backed up someplace else. Then of course I'm revising it and I can't remember which of the copies were actually revision. And pretty soon I've got copies all over. So in a fit of peak, I purge. I've been known to purge every copy. I've been saved by it back up someplace. I nailed it somebody. So do as I say, not as I do. Somehow there has to be somebody has to think about the collective strategy that you're going to use to keep the volume down and to know nonetheless that you'll have the reliable access. There are some well designed protocols and you can't afford to get so buried in copies you don't realize which ones are actually important ones. Central repositories tend to solve that problem. So we have the Library of Congress as a good example here where if you have one integrated library that tries to be very comprehensive and say, okay we know it's in the Library of Congress that's where the real copy is. And that works pretty well because it says that integrated. But if you have a single point you also have the corresponding vulnerabilities. The Library of Congress, it was one single spot and if it weren't for the distribution of some copies that allowed retrieval that would have been a real disaster. I mean it wasn't real disaster as it was. But that's a problem with a single point. Is it a single point that's absolutely invulnerable to certain kinds of loss in the Library of Congress? We are dealing with attack. It's something we don't often have to think of in libraries that in so much of the world we're now in form of cyber warfare in a sense. But that's really what's going on. You have agents and counter agents. And nobody's said we're going to try to see if we can wipe out all copies of such and such in all libraries. But when thinking about the security and engineer speaking, you do have to say now what are our strategies and what are the vulnerabilities of the overall system? So my specialty is air correcting coding and reliable communication. In Wildness is the preservation of the world, said Thoreau and I say in design redundancy is the preservation of the world. You've got to design redundancy if you're okay. The advantage of this fluid information that only every once in a while becomes manifest in physical form. Again, it's got wonders for the disabled community. The fact that you don't have to have one thing that you can have the font blown up that you can change things that you've manipulated. That is such a boon. And when you're doing some of the conversions that require human intervention you don't need to do them multiple times. I don't know about all the projects but I hope that you've got projects for thinking about those conversions so that you're all finding some way of sharing those so that you don't have to do them repeatedly. The changing of formats does have that old downside and the question about are we going to be able to compete with the Assyrian tablets? How many people lost something when 8 inch floppy's went out? How many people lost something when the hard shell little floppy went out? That includes me. And I have discovered that I thought I had something in a format that was still readable. Now I know it's readable with forensic computer science and the right tools that we can get to but practically it's lost. So again, I don't know there may be ways that you're thinking through but you have to think about the constant evolution of the media and how do you have a reader that can read it and have you actually migrate every single one to migrate and if you don't have a systematic strategy at a certain point say we're out of we're out of luck. Then we have that find the pertinent information. Wow can we find information these days? I must say my colleagues I was up when Google was first coming up and I said yeah, an algorithm that searches. How are you going to make any money off of that? So I'm learning I'm thoroughly chastised. So they're out there and they have these wonderful algorithms that do their link weighting and preference and so forth and they're Google is really able to bring up an amazing number of things that's the problem at this point Google is trying to figure out how they weed out all the chaff I hope you don't have to store all the chaff Google has a hard time figuring out how to get rid of the chaff and while Google is trying to figure out how to do that there are other forces at play that are working against it one is everybody wants attention and so there are people out there optimizing if ever Google says what their algorithm is there will be someone saying how do we get higher up in the ranking so we appear closer to the top there is one way of doing it it's called money Google won't they'll tell you they're advertising to you all along the search path as you go down through your clicks they've already expressed yourself by what you clicked on they can give you targeted advertising so they make the money there they also tell you these are the ones that have got money I don't know inside maybe Cliff does or somebody how much in fact the algorithm understands which are the clients that they're going after and which not Google always says no I think they don't bias those search results but all sorts of other people are competing with those search results the end of which is when I want to find and that's why I think you're actually going to need librarians at some point to deal with the quality of information that you're getting in what is again become a flood of sometimes irrelevant information so we have the revolution going on it's changing practically everything and sometimes it's forcing us to surface the models for how we made the decisions how the publishing industry was deciding how how will it be decided in the future everybody can publish you're the star in your own youtube video which of the youtube videos should we hold on to any of them who's going to decide that we've got a lot of new challenges because of this digital revolution but I think it's a very exciting time I think what I'll do is just leave you with one question which is in the digital world what would be the criteria for membership in the ARL I'm not sure I understood it thank you for listening music was provided by josh woodward for more talks from this meeting please visit www.arl.org


So, Jack, tell us a little bit more about your operation.  Just paint a picture for our audience. Yeah, a quick picture is, you know, we're a pretty small company. We started out with two refurbished Delsovers seven years ago, companies around 12 years old, but now we have, you know, roughly 200 virtualized servers, mostly on-compellent, and you know, like most people with them, when you get to tiered architecture and virtualization, it starts, you know, pretty easy to get to 100 servers overnight. So, and how many physical servers? Wow, I have no idea. I wish I was more technical, but I have to imagine, you know, we're pretty relieving. We're typically at a 7 to 1 ratio. Yeah, okay. All right. And I'm sorry, how much storage did you say you had? I think we lost count somewhere around 500 terabytes. Okay. Decent size for a small company. Yeah, a small company. You know, the virtualization has really allowed us to increase the quality of our product, and by that, I mean, you know, we have dev environments everywhere now, QA staging, and being able to quickly roll and provision hosts by a-compellent or by, you know, in addition with VMware allows us to do those at quality level.  Yeah, we are roughly about 99% virtualized, and you know, everything that can be virtualized, we've done. It's only things that require certain smart cards or otherwise that can't be virtualized. So, configuration nuances are the only things that can hold you back from the universe. So far, we've found there's really no reason not to virtualize if you can. Okay. Now, Jason Somer, you're coming at this from a little wider perspective, both as a consumer of storage and systems, particularly a compelling storage, and also an integrator and seller of those. Is that right? Yeah, that's right. You know, to be a reseller of a compelling was an easy decision. We started off as a customer, basically, representing one of my customers, Passport Capital Hedge Fund, that at the time needed a very high performance sand. We had already made a commitment to VMware and needed virtualized storage to go along with virtualized servers. Again, so, you know, compelling was impressive enough that I'm not a reseller. It's not a really core focus of my business in a broad sense, but I decided to, you know, partner with compelling because just very impressive the product. I think they, you know, compelling leads in pretty much every category, and in particular, they're strong in areas that are really important to us, particularly in finance.