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Paranormal Permeation

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Paranormal Permeation

The podcast features a lively, heartfelt conversation centered on personal milestones, including Taylor’s engagement and the birth of a son named Lincoln. The group reflects on the emotional intensity of childbirth, noting how anxiety and stress manifest physically, while also celebrating the joy and chaos of new parenthood. Charlemagne addresses a viral rumor about a $200 million deal, clarifying that it is a misunderstanding and emphasizing his long-term commitment to cultural and social initiatives, such as Black-owned publishing and media. The discussion delves into the role of comedy in political discourse, arguing that satire serves as a powerful tool to expose truth and critique systemic issues, especially during times of crisis. They defend comedians’ right to make controversial jokes, asserting that such content is essential for holding power accountable and reflecting societal tensions. The conversation also touches on media narratives, the influence of social platforms, and the importance of free speech. Ultimately, the group emphasizes community, creativity, and activism, highlighting upcoming projects like book releases, NAACP nominations, and a benefit show supporting food banks. Through humor, honesty, and shared experiences, the podcast underscores the value of open dialogue and the enduring power of comedy as both entertainment and social commentary.

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Yep, Charlemagne the guy Andrew show y'all a brewing e is podcast back for another week of brewing it in this Hella card walk oh 2026 man, how do you feel? How do you feel? I need a loan man Alex? I need a loan man to get his I heard I heard I heard about that deal The gang is all here Alex is here Chris is here. Tell oh he's the Flex everybody's here to flex some them commas over here But listen there is congratulations to go around okay first of all Taylor got engaged Congratulations, Taylor gay But anybody who thought it never would happen for anybody who doubted for anybody who doubted that somebody would ever take her But anybody who ever thought that nobody would buy that cow that they were getting all that milk for free Taylor gay Taylor gay is engaged shot out the pee man Making her a host woman. It's all it's all because of me. Oh really? Yeah, I mean you put the pressure Well, first of all introduce her if you know you did not that's number one and then I'm also you know right Like I think maybe the episode before the last episode of the year, you know I was putting pressure on Peter, you know propose to tell everybody when I was shaming her You know not shaming her, but just thinking that it would never happen right and he did it My god, yeah pink How you feel Taylor you are ridiculous how you feel mother Taylor was ridiculous beyond say Taylor. I can't even deal I can't the way she shames all of it. Oh, really? It's subtle flexes. You just come in smiling like an African like It's smiling for no reason. Okay. Oh, it's disgusting. Don't we're happy for you? He's a kind walker Yeah, and then there were four and then there was shows party of four, man, congratulations Congratulations, it's a boy right boy. Yeah, now you and Chris, I don't have boys Y'all pick y'all picked it though, right? No, really. Yeah, oh, we did I be up. We did. I be up But yeah, we've never picked man. Yeah, what's his name? Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lawrence Sholt salute the Lincoln Lawrence Sholtz, man He needs a special you can't have one sibling with a special You gotta get Lincoln a special Lincoln needs a special man. Let's see. We're gonna see look at come on man Imagine the arguments when they get old. Yeah, I got a special that he loves me more. He loved me more I'm actually special you're not you got the creator link. I'm sorry. I don't think is that How does it feel though? dude, it's a I mean, it's awesome. You know nobody gives a fuck about your second-kit No, no, no, no, don't be here for a second. I don't even know if Alex congratulated me just yet I think I think he commented in the group chat. Maybe I think he like hard it a picture or something Yeah, yeah, nobody as excited as you're Nobody and I did not happen, but I'm not better about it But no nobody cares about your second-kit, but it is amazing It is incredible and it's fucking terrifying every single time you know what it is You know so fast interesting you say that because probably with the first one people doubted it could ever happen Oh people were very excited given what they knew about the journey exactly like how fucking stressed I was and I was Stress my wife was like so I think that there was like a sigh of relief not just for us, but like all of our friends And then what you wore a waddle you wore the first one very well like I mean I didn't see you didn't seem stressed. Oh, I couldn't breathe. Yeah, but you didn't do it publicly is what I'm saying Yeah, yeah, I mean what happened in the episodes I would do that I would like yawn a lot and people thought I was tired, but I was just drained. No, I literally couldn't breathe So your body gets it has this like weird reaction where in order to get enough oxygen it It like it's called a anxiety-induced Exphyxiation or something like that you couldn't be cool with the anxiety of just I guess I was stressed. Oh, yeah Yeah, it's just like this weird shit anyway, but at number two sick and Very grateful this time - no, actually yeah, like I and then when you go in then you think it's gonna be like an easy C-section birth and it's just fucking terrifying once again It's just but you have a son now so I know it's okay. What pressure? He had I'm teasing People are very sweet and people reach out and they're said amazing things and it was awesome what pressure he has you got to be funny Like for real breath. Oh, breath. A lot of it. You know does he? Yes. Yeah, I guess Make a fun regardless of why you don't got to be a comedian. It's funny does what he does. He got to be funny Yeah, yeah, I guess that's true. But it's funny having a boy like I'm immediately far more inappropriate around him That I have my daughter like I'm very protective around my daughter I don't make any really inappropriate jokes. Or if I do it's like very subtle but with him immediately Yeah, but you know what's going to happen. She's gonna be the inappropriate woman. Oh, she's gonna be the one Oh god, she's absolutely one hundred percent the sun's gonna be woke a hundred percent No because that's how he's gonna rebel and she's gonna rebel against a hundred percent. That's what I do He's gonna be the Woke one man. Congratulations. Thank you, man life life is beautiful. I'm sick. Dude like it is beautiful It is it is awesome. It is awesome. Would you do for the holidays anything fun? I just had a baby Yeah, baby came out January 3rd pants. Oh, we were all like you know cooped up until then so so now my wife was at the due date January 3rd is when you like schedule it if you're gonna do a C-section is everything goes well And then yes, we went in linking got too much pressure and he got a birthday right after the holidays Like nobody's gonna care about his birthday Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, people are already broken. So I said oh my god, I'm gonna build up He's gonna be a tough kid. I was in a Cape Town. Yeah, he wants to ask to white Africa I was white Africa. Like why did you decide to go to white Africa? I just people Not white people you went to the white no when I went to Johannesburg everybody was $200 million from, you know Hang out white people But when I get it when I'm not going to Ghana with $200 million I love my God. It was great Yeah, that was before the 200 million, but when I went to do it 200 million I would be no talk about when I went to Johannesburg Everybody was like yo, you got to go to Cape Town and then when I went to Cape Town and Cape Town It's rich to be in joker, but it's not as white as people say it is, but it's wider than Africa I mean, it's you know what it is mad colors. That's what they call them anybody. That's not white as the color So it's a lot of colors got it, but then it was white people too, but you know, yeah, it was interesting white people was walking up to me saying You you tell them there's no genocide happening here to us Hey, I'm by the way, I forgot what the hell what the hell he was killed the boy Killed the boy. That's what that's what the leader was saying, right? I have no idea I was like the farmer. It's me two seconds. It took me like 30 seconds to realize what the fuck why people get not Africa man They're getting out of South Africa. No, I didn't explain bro. They were there. No, they weren't though That's what they were trying to tell me to say don't they were saying to me you tell them it's no genocide happening here It's beautiful. By the way Cape Town looks like Malibu Like literally like there's a whole stretch where you can drive to go see the penguin that look like the Pacific coast highway Yeah, they got the sphinceries in Africa, bro Mike Tyson has a dispensary in Africa You know the Tyson bike edibles and all of that shit like that like he has a whole dispensary in Cape Town Yeah, it's beautiful. You going to get a fucking THC slussie sit down in the fucking lounge watch all the old fights They show all his own fights on video and then they start showing all the old heavyweight fights people in this smoking having a good time I'm like, yo Tyson don't even have this in America. It's that you got one in Cape Town and one in Amsterdam. Yeah, it's it's I listen script clubs in Cape Town food is amazing like I Thoroughly enjoyed myself when I was there, but tell us about that deal, though I was subscribing to your YouTube channel. I still want to subscribe to my channel I was subscribing because I want to support you and then literally the next day News breaks of like NBA player contract. I don't know what you got a max contract talking about I listen I did I did restart what I had I did you did restart with that and there's a number that's out there That is just propose. I don't know nothing about that. Okay, when we said the number We're like I honestly thought you rejected the deal and went back to Africa. That's I thought Literally I thought you did some shepel shit. I thought you're like I can't handle it anymore I'm so about Africa life is not about numbers. I hear you. I hear you. I hear you about life is about Life is about hopper. What is life about life is about opportunity? Yeah, about if if what you build only benefits you it's not big enough. Okay, that's what life is about Okay, we are you know building the black effect podcast network we've been around for five years We are you know building things like experience productions. We are building things like black folks publishing We just build it man. Yeah, I'm saying we just building just building just building. I will say though. I've watched two weeks of very bad takes About that situation you're talking about what situation did this you know that situation you keep me I don't know you're referring to it. Yeah, you know the situation. I keep mentioning you fling Taffer good No, man, the thing why didn't people say you went to Africa for another reason Tell me She pal bounced well, he didn't take it off he bounced from way less. Yeah, he didn't take it. He didn't get 200 I don't know what you talking about, I don't know what you talking about. 200! 200! 200! 200! You were to figure it away out. 200! I thought that was what you were supposed to do, though. Liz, I thought you were going to help out. I thought you were supposed to go to Africa. I thought you were building wells, bro. That's what I thought. I thought you got the 200. You're like, "I need to get it." I don't know what you talking about. I'm just saying. That's why I thought you went back. I really did see two weeks of just bad takes, man. People just talking about things. They have no knowledge of the whole idea. What would they say? This ridiculous stuff. I will say this. This is going to upset some people. Okay. Okay. The eat people didn't know. Breakfast club, Netflix situation. Yeah. There's a whole other situation than me resigning. That's not included in the I Heart Deal? Why would it be? I don't even know why people even conflated those two things. That makes no sense. That makes no sense. But that didn't make that. When y'all hear that, I'm like, "Nobody stopped to say this makes no sense." The Breakfast Club Netflix deal was announced on what a Monday or Tuesday. Then it was a total different announcement on Friday for a sleuth of full ups. Look at my guy. Jibarra. Jibarra did a fantastic write up just about all the different things that I'm building. It was interesting for him to write that the angle he took as me as this superhero in the media. Because I also got a sleuth of variety because variety did that at the top of the year. Right. I was on the cover of variety and it said Charlemagne Incorporated. And they highlighted all of the various business ventures that I have going on. And then Jibarra just did it at the end of the year. So I appreciate it. That was dope. That is cool. That is cool. But I don't know why people would think that the two deals are together. Like that makes no sense. That's what he's saying. Stop lowballing him is what he's saying. Oh wow. I didn't say that. I did not say that. All I simply said was the Breakfast Club in Netflix deal is a completely different situation than me resigning without a heart. Like I don't know what the. I don't. I don't know. Listen man. God damn good. I don't know what to tell you. Yes, we getting raised guys. We getting raised. Shit, I want to raise. Well, no. Well, no. Well, no. No. I don't know what to tell me. - Well, I just didn't remember the Asians. - Yo, they were upset. - They were upset 'cause in the show to the American, I said it started in China. - It did, though. - Yeah, it was improving. - I got canceled, or whatever that's super term is, for saying it started in China, and nobody apologized for me for canceling me for being right. - I didn't apologize. - I do, nobody apologized. - I do wish though that on the poor mind. I would have, I liked my answer, but there was something I wanted to ask you. - I wasn't able to do a show in one of these venues, in one of these venues in-- - In one? - No, no, no. No, in Canada, they're like, he said insensitive shit. This is post-COVID, he's like, he said insensitive shit to Asians, they're COVID. And the insensitive shit was, it started in China. But they're not looking at the fact that it was real. - Yeah. - Isn't that kind of funny that the only thing that sticks is you said something insensitive, even though it ended up being accurate? - I said, nobody cares. But, you know, smooth the head crack. I saw a head crack him in Claudia Jordan. We got a show and he gave it, we're taking. What he said is what I wish I would have added to it because I got a lead with that. - What's up? - At the end of the day, and at the beginning of the day, actually, you're a comedian. - Yeah. And comedy is weird. Like comedy is such a weird thing because things that people say on stage isn't always truly how they feel in the real world. You know, you have to be like a all-caps version of yourself saying the outrageous things that's gonna make people's bell rain. And one thing I've noticed about Andrew Schultz's comedy is like, everybody's eligible for the smoke. Like, he gives it to everybody. A lot of comedians give it to everybody. And people sometimes only get mad when they're offended because now the gun is turned on you. Meanwhile, you was just laughing at that crippled people joke a little while ago. And now you mad because they want to roll up on you. Like, at the end of the day, I feel like comedy should be a safe house for you to go in there and say the thing and not be canceled 'cause the thing you said, unless you're truly a racist, comedians should be allowed to say, and I'm not gonna say allowed, allowed not the right word. I'll say this, comedians say offensive stuff, comedians say things that are insensitive. That's what comedians do. There's not a great, most great comedians are going to offend somebody. We just saw Dave Schultz special. I don't know if y'all watched it. I enjoyed it. There was people that were offended by Dave Schultz special. I have never seen a great, Jesus price. What take that down? I've never seen, I've never seen a day, what is that? That is crazy. That is crazy. Dave Schultz special. Well, up to Forbes cover, that's better. Like, you know what I mean? That's not even about numbers. That's just about greatness. It's about success, man. It's about it probably. Why don't you put up the Forbes cover, Alex? If you're gonna put anything back. This is nice, right? Now, put up the Forbes cover. Put up the Forbes cover. But, comedians say in sensitive things, comedians say things that are offensive. You don't have to think it's funny. You don't. You can even criticize it. Yeah. You know what I mean? You can do all of that. But, more of the stories, I ain't asked. I'm not answering for Andrew and also Bernie is going to be doing this podcast for 13 years. This is why I say we do it for the fellow brilliant idiots, the people who actually listen to this show, and they listen to this show and they've heard us debate. They've heard us have conversations, they've heard us agree, they've heard us disagree. They've seen the gamut in the last 13 years. They can't worry about the people who just popped up in the last couple of years, bro, and they run it with some narrative. I think you said a good point, which is like, people are allowed to be offended by jokes. Yes. Like, I don't think it's fair for comedians to go, you're not allowed to be offended. Like, people get to react to whatever they want to react to stuff. Yes. You know, the hope is that you would see like comedians trying to make you laugh and doing something a little naughty and maybe something a little insensitive. Kind of the way that we act with our friends. I don't think anybody is like the most appropriate when they're just hanging with their friends. So that's the hope. Yeah, it's just so funny. Like, even when we did the New York Times thing before the holiday break, you know, I saw people saying, um, you know, why would they have a, you know, the, why would they? No, they said, he said, "Shall I me and the shots are here?" And they're not taking anything serious, especially shots. He's a comedian. That's why we're here. So the, so the, but, but, but the, the, the, the honest conversation. We're also the only ones that make good a vehicle of jokes. Well, yeah, but also, I think we're there because we're the only ones that kind of understood what was happening in the landscape of media. That's why we were there. And the conversation was about new media. So you need some new media to be there to kind of explain what's going on to legacy media. Duh. Yeah. And what is legacy media trying to do? No, this, like, don't invite me anywhere. I mean, these are serious. CNN got to show it. Roy Wood, Jr., Amber, Amber Ruffin, and, uh, it's another comedian on there as well. My point is, they even understand that news is probably best digestible through comedy. That's saying that that should be always the most through news. That is a thing to get your news, but that is a lens. But that is unfortunate that, like, everything has to be entertainment. You do wish that there was a thirst for news. The problem is that, like, news is boring. So people find more entertaining ways to, uh, share with people. And then the greatest political point of the last 20 years of John Stuart. Yes. Yes. He is a person, but he's not doing news. He is though. He is, but what I would say is that I would, I would, I would say it's not news. I would say he does a comedy show and he happens to talk about politics. Yeah. It's comedy, but the content of it is politics, this news is what's going on. But what's happening right now is that information is boring, so everything has become infotainment. And when everything becomes infotainment, you gravitate towards the most entertaining thing. And that's not awful. Well, I think a lot of times we get blamed for it, you know, why it's not our fault. All we do is come on this show, give our takes about the world and news outlets take them. Well, I think, I think when people are frustrated with what's happening, you know, they have to find a somebody to blame for it or some idea to blame for it or trying to blame for it. I think that's a natural human thing. I think I'm guilty of that. I think you're guilty of it. I think we're all fucking guilty of it. Yeah. I'm not putting ourselves on a fucking pedestal. I just think that's like the natural human reaction. So sometimes they might go, wow, Charlemagne or Shultz, you guys are so entertaining and you're entertaining these political ideas, but you're putting bad stuff out there in the world. And then we're just going, hey, we're just doing an entertainment show. We're not doing a news show or political show. And I don't have an agenda. How about that? How about maybe that's refreshing to people, maybe it's refreshing to hear somebody who don't have an agenda who's just sitting down talking to people on both sides of the aisle, just asking questions because I have an intellectual curiosity about what's going on. But that's why it's nice. But do you have to understand there are certain people that look through the life, through the lens of, if you don't have an agenda, you are being insensitive to their existence. Like there are certain people that go, there is only one agenda. And is the agenda that allows me to like live freely in America. And if you don't support that, someone is going to take away my rights, someone's going with it. And like I have empathy for them too. I understand where they're coming from. Like I might disagree on that that their rights would be stripped away. But it's not like it hasn't happened. It hasn't been circumstances that happened. So like, yeah. That's why I go, you're allowed to be offended. I just wish that like we had a label on the, like we literally put idiot in the title and it still doesn't work. But I wish that there was just like a fucking banner across everything that we did that was like, guys, this is only entertainment. And I'm not going to say it's only entertainment though. I think where, I think what you said about Jon Stewart is true. I think we might be just entertaining regardless of what it is we choose to discuss. I think that's true. But like, yeah, I think that's true. I don't want to like undercut ourselves. But if I had to, if I had to lean in one direction, I would lean in the direction of entertainment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I would about, then I would straight information or politics, like 100%. I think politics crosses over to our field, which is really just culture. Politics is pop culture because, you know what, I started to say politics is pop culture because of the last couple of presidents with the reality is I can't remember a time when it hasn't been pop culture. I'm old enough to remember when Bill Clinton was blowing the goddamn saxophone. And that was pop culture. Ron O'Ragan was an actor who came from Motherfucking Hollywood. George W. Bush was a character chair before Donald Trump, the most incompetent president who everybody used to make jokes about with George W. Bush. So I just, and then Obama came and was just the coolest guy around who was actually a really good politician and he became pop culture. That my fault GZ made a hot record, my president is black, my lambo is blue and I'd be god damn if my rims ain't too. What? I'm not supposed to ride this shit like that, you know what I'm saying? So I think, but again, like if you're frustrated with what's happening right now, you have every right to, you know, express that frustration and you're going to point in the direction of the different things that you think have like aided and abetted it. So for you, for example, if you're asking tough questions to a democratic candidate and you're making them kind of like, yeah, look like they're not prepared. Some people will blame you instead of blaming that candidate for not being prepared, you know. Which is ridiculous. Well, it's pretty, it's actually ridiculous. People are ridiculous, you know what I mean, it is like it's one thing to complain or cry about people, I'm not saying you complain or crying, but like people are who they are. That's what I've tried to accept. It's like people are who they are. I've accepted it. People go to people. I've accepted it. I truly am okay with everybody's opinion. Yeah. Everybody. Like I want, my guy, Katta, like Jack said, in a long time, I'm going to rule it in. Three people going like it. Four people going to be on the fence about it. Do your thing. Yeah. I like it all. I actually have an attainment. but I'll go on YouTube and just go down a rabbit hole of bad opinions, but you know the difference between me and a lot of other people? - What's that? - None of those opinions can affect me. None of those opinions can sway me. 'Cause when I hear it and I'm real, I'm like, that's just wrong. That's just bad information. Like, that's just not accurate. And I just keep it moving. So to that point, I'm just entertained. Remember when that scene and training day when a Denzel's character is in the store and he's trying to read his paper and Hoy's trying to talk to him and he looks up and he goes, you see this? This is the newspaper. It's 90% bullshit, but it's entertaining. That's why I read it. So since you won't let me read it, now you entertained me with your bullshit. (laughing) That's what it is. So when I want to be entertained by some bullshit, I know exactly where to go at on YouTube. (upbeat music) - I think one of the good, 'cause I look at all the criticisms and I try to take it in and I try to be objective about it. And one thing that I heard that I thought was interesting was like, should you be able to, nah, I'm not be able to. This is America, we're free. We can do whatever we want. But should there be entertaining interviews with people that are close to the levers of power, right? So it's like the style of interview that I think we've always done, at least on flagrant or even brilliant, is entertainment based, right? Like we bring you on and we wanna have fun with you, like see who you are, et cetera. Now, the question is if you have somebody, and I thought this was the best criticism, is like, if you have somebody that is that close to the levers of power, you have these politicians that can actually like make certain changes, do they deserve an entertaining video? Can they go on a Jimmy Fallon example, can they? Yes, yes, and I agree with you. I personally see it that way. I think that they should be able to do entertaining videos and then interviews, and then serious political. I don't wanna label them as gotcha, but more like gotcha that-- Just regular traditional new than a view. Hard hitting, whatever. I think that both of those things can exist. I'm old enough to remember when-- We saw Bill Clinton on our Cineo, yes. And but that was a thing, right? It wasn't about whether or not-- Saw them all on Jimmy Kimmel. We see them all on their late night show. Yes, we see them, right? Because it wasn't about a politician being able to handle 60 minutes. We know they can do that. We wanted to see them in a human form. Well, that's-- That's what the late night shows used to be for. I know, but I think that a narrative that you've seen right now, which is like, they don't deserve those kind of fun, entertaining interviews. They should be only getting the hard hitting ones. And I think that that-- Oh, I think that narrative exists because obviously people are frustrated with Trump being in power, right? But what I would say if I was trying to really see through their lens is seeing someone be entertaining might be really nice, but they're really close to the levers of power that can drastically change people's lives. And I can see how that is scary for people who really don't like those people. Well, at the same time, I can see how it is euphoric if you really do like somebody. So for example, if you see your candidate look amazing in an entertaining interview with somebody, i.e. Bill Clinton on Arsenio, you're like, oh, shit. This guy's pretty fucking cool. I like him. Anyway, it was a criticism that I saw, and I was like, ooh, OK, that's interesting. I like this conversation. I think that it is cool to have an entertaining interview if what you have done while you're in office warns some laughter, meaning, meaning, meaning, if things are good, if things are good, then we can have a nice, light-hearted, funny conversation. There have been a time, though, where half the country was-- Oh, yeah, what's the definition of good? Yeah, I think what happens is that half the country-- Clinton in the '90s? Half the country hated him. They were impeached him, literally. Because he got some hate. Not because he got some hate. And Clinton did everything the conservatives want. And that was the last time America had a surplus, right? So the ways that people were talking about, those who were supposed to cut, Clinton actually did it in a successful way. Like, I think that warned some, you know, like, yo, you know what, salute to you, you got some hate, and you got the economy booming, bro. Like, come on, I'm a child at that time. If I'm a late-night host, we having a ball. You got the economy booming, and you, a guy that we know got some hate. People vote with their wallets. You're not wrong. Listen, you're not wrong. But I think to Chris' point, like, still half the country is going to be incredibly frustrated because they're not seeing-- But that's always going to be the case, though, right? Even outside of politics, like-- Yes. --if you get on stage right now and make a joke, there might be half of the country that last. And half of the country, that's outraged. Go back to what I said about the rule of 10. Three people are going to like it. Three people are not going to like it. Four people don't even know what the fuck is going on. You can't please everybody. Who pleases everybody? I agree with you. I agree with you. To a certain extent, I think sometimes jokes cut through. I think jokes, especially that aren't, like, politically targeted, like, obviously. Anytime Trump is in office, like, everything is just so charged. Every moment is so charged. Oh, that's his foot. Yeah, I mean, like, that is-- That is the gravity that he brings to it. Like, people who don't care about politics, all of a sudden, get really invested because they see this shit. And yeah, that's-- I think because what he does, you can see the actual impact. Or maybe because we're older now. So we see the impact of everything president is doing. We were younger. We didn't see it. I mean, Chris was having this conversation, and I know, y'all don't like brilliant news to talk about politics, but guess what? We don't give a fuck. So listen, we at Chris is talking about this, because I was telling Chris, I personally believe that-- We got collectively $200 million. I don't know what you're talking about. We don't got-- I don't know what you're talking about. Brilliant news has been doing good for a long time, though. I'm just saying it. Brilliant news has been doing very well for the last 13 years. Thank you, Donald. Brilliant news. Listen to that, listen. But I was telling Chris, in my lifetime-- and Donald Trump still has three years, right? In my lifetime, George W. Bush has been the worst president ever. If we look at it through roles colored glasses now, because Michelle Obama passes them candy at events. But George W. Bush was the worst president ever. Let's run down the list. Now, if you're looking at actual body stacked up because of decisions that he made, it's not even-- Let's start. An election was stolen. An election was motherfucking stolen in 2000, right? Then you go, you got the Iraq war. That happened because of a lie. Weapons of mass destruction. There wasn't a weapons of mass destruction. Went in there, took Saddam Hussein out, took over the oil. Hundreds of thousands of people killed trillions of dollars to spend-- $500,000. My favorite-- Yeah, go on, come on. That's my favorite. Who started the forever war? That's my favorite criticism when they're like-- You guys weren't prepared to have a conversation with Trump. It's like, I've literally read articles of you guys telling us to go to war in Iraq. Right. Like media outlets that are critical of having Trump on a podcast where the same media outlets telling us their weapons of mass destruction. They put the entire media platform into getting us into a war where a million fucking people died. Hundreds of thousands of people died. Choosing a dollar spent, then we talk about the forever wars. Afghanistan, right? That was Bush, Hurricane Katrina, that made Kanye stand up and said, George Bush don't care about black people. You talk about incompetence, the fact that they were telling him that there was intelligence that said 9/11 could happen, but he ignored it. And then when 9/11 actually happened, they catch him in the fucking daycare reading the kids and the book is upside down. Yeah, legit daycare. Do you talk about-- You're talking about collapsing in economy? Think about all the housing crisis. Think about all the jobs that were lost. We were in a motherfucking recession for real, for real, back when George W. Bush was in office. These are good fair points. George W. Bush was so terrible when it covered your ears, Shultz and Chris, that America elected a nigga. That's how terrible George W. Bush was as a president. Well, because Michelle Obama passes him candy at a pinch. All right, we forget all the other things. But this is what happens. I feel like with president-- Ice was created under Bush. Yeah. Ice was created in 2003. Yeah, I don't think that the creation of Ice is the issue. I think it's the implementation. How they are doing it. You can have it not-- I sent you this article, Chris. I think up until this year, the most ever deaths in ice custody was under Bush. I think it looked at it, make sure I'm saying that right. I think the difference is-- Donald Trump is threatening institutions in democracy like we've ever seen. Yeah, I feel like this thing could collapse pretty quickly. And as much as-- I went and protested against Bush when he was elected. I went to D.C. and I marched. I was not happy with his presidency. I didn't feel like this whole thing might fall apart. And that's how it feels. That's the difference. I mean, Donald Trump is threatening institutions in the democracies in ways that nobody ever had. Yeah, that's the thing. And I think that the frustration-- I also think Chris at that time, there was a lot more top-down control of the information that the average person was there. Oh, for sure, yeah. And as we know now, the media complex was complicit in pushing this propaganda, right? It's like they're a war on terror, whatever the fact that they were making us that mess. Well, maybe the time, specifically, if that's what you're referring to. I mean, that's probably the base. Because they advocated for it. That's what I'm saying, is that they were supported. And I imagine there's some top-down pressure on them advocate for it, right? So like, whereas now, you know, with the decentralization of information and news, like everybody's put putting a video up and they're saying this that the other, we don't know what the hell to think. And I think that it's one, it's terrifying, but it's also very frustrating. You don't know what's real. I don't know a video I watch. I don't know if it's real or not. It's, it's a perfect storm right now. Yeah. And unfortunately, Trump is the worst person to be in this position at this moment. Like, you can be critical, but like, ultimately, I think everyone loves America. This thing has been largely working. Yes. I mean, even with even with us, even with folks. Yeah, you want to keep working with adjustments and twists and corrections and not huge swing now. It feels like. The system is going to collapse. Yes. Donald Trump is the spirit. And I, and I, well, 2005 was ISIS deadliest year in two decades. Wow. Who was the president in 2005? So he was responsible for the deadliest year with ice two decades ago. Right. That's all imagine we have social media during Bush air. Well, that's what I'm saying is that things would have been very different. You know, and like, I think social media amplifies everything because the most salacious thing wins. So you're going to have the most salacious thing on your phone all day every day. And it's going to induce that anxiety. And I'm sure the thing that you felt during Bush, if you are scrolling social media now, you probably feel it tenfold. And that's what made me start looking that up, right? I thought imagine we were getting that during Bush. Like imagine we were getting these numbers. So these people dying and then soldiers coming back and doing interviews and being like, what the fuck are we doing here? We don't even know what's going on. There's no weapons of master. Imagine if we felt that gaslit, that lied to, and we were digesting that information on massive platforms while the media was propagandizing us in a different direction. That's right. Imagine the frustration we would feel then. That's what made me even look into it, right? Because I was thinking, the media started to cut you, the media can't even really lie that well now. Like they try to, they try to push certain things. But then they get checked and they have to, they have to like, uh, I guess not even the mediator. It's like, it's like elected officials, right? Meaning back in the day, Bush could say it is weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and get away with it. But now, officials are held accountable. Now we know what you voted on. And we got our example of what's the role of a comedy in this equation, right? Because if you think about that, when you say lying about weapons of mass destruction with butch, I immediately flashed his chappelle in the yellow cake skin. Right? Well, the yellow cake skin, I forgot. When he pulls the whole fake press conference and most-- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The table he's like, "Boy, what are you doing here?" Yeah. Clear's the table off. Yeah. [MUSIC PLAYING] The motherfucker bought some yellow cake in Africa. He went to Africa and he bought yellow cake. Are you sure? Yes, I'm sure, a bitch. I got him here to see it right here. Hey, what are you doing? Are you sure? Oh, you shut him, believe me. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Me and Jeb just coming back from Africa, cradle of fucking similar reasons. Listen, guys, it's my yellow cake from the motherland. Are you sure it was yellow cake? Yeah, I think he's going to believe me. I got some yellow cake right here. Look, you see, you believe this guy? You don't drop that? No, I know what you're doing. I got a wrapped up in a special CIA necklace. You don't drop that shit. Yeah. You know what I mean, don't drop this shit. It's great to god, you don't drop that shit. Yellow cake, fucking right. That's a way that the comedy-- Absolutely. --cuts through what's actually happening. Absolutely. --it makes commentary on it, but it's also entertaining. It brings attention and awareness to it because, you know, you see that sketch, and even if you don't know what he's talking about, you may want to know something, you're going to do a little bit more research. So even if the times are saying, no, we have to do it, there are all the geopolitical reasons we have to go in. Chipel was able to pull shit. But there's a-- --send it up. There's a value, I think, especially during that time, where maybe it was more sensuous or maybe there was just less information out there. And that's, I think, where comedy or even edgy or inappropriate jokes kind of thrives because it allows you to tell not the truth, but at least the emotional sentiment of the time. And I think what's happened now is largely, I think, because of Elon, allowing you to say whatever you want on the X, we call that free speech, and that's fine, and I'm a big free speech guy, obviously. But like, there is nothing-- there's no joke edgier than what some random treater is going to say on X. Right. Like, there's no wild joke that you'll hear where you will make you go, "Ooh, more than some random person is going to post or stream or say." There's also no sitcom that's going to make you laugh more than the comments of a certain post. Like, comedies in the hands of the people, right? But in a weird way, comedy, I think-- and I've always said this-- I think it thrives during censorship, right? Because it's the only way out. It's like that Oscar Wilde quote. If you want to tell some of the truth, make them laugh if not, they'll kill you. Like, the role of the jester, if you want to even look back, it's like the jester could make fun of the king. Nobody else can make fun of the king. They cut your fucking head off, but the jester could. But now we're existing at a time where like, you can really say whatever you want, true or false about anybody or anything or any story that's happening right now with almost zero repercussions. That's a weird time. Like, how does comedy fit in that time? Right. Can I keep going in on Bush? I want some more things. Yeah, sure, sure. Guantanamo Bay opened, right? So enhanced interrogation, which people considered torture was normalized, warrantless wiretapping, expanded government surveillance, all the massive deficits and tax cuts for the wealthy. He turned the Clinton-era surpluses into deficits and damaged the U.S. global credibility. I think I hit on everything. Yes. And the reason I even looked all of that stuff up is because I was looking for a case about it. I'm like, you know, America, we've had to have gone through so much. The rough times. Some work. Don't give me wrong. It's fucked up now. We've never seen democracy and institutions threaten the way they are right now. But I'm like, when do I remember people feeling like this? This angst and this frustration. And I had to think and I was like, oh, before Obama. Because Obama was kind of like he said, the audacity of hope. Obama was the optimism. Yeah. Right? That's what we need. But he could be. Dude, I was like, oh, Bush. And then I started just thinking about all of the things that happened under Bush. And it's right there. Dude, I remember when they used to say Bush was the devil. And Dick Cheney was the devil. And those guys were the anti-Christ. And those guys were the devil with the mocks. I remember that back then. I remember when Bush had to give out bush bucks. Same shit. Yeah, just in our checks. Remember it was like a $750 check. You don't remember that? I remember all of that shit, man. But it is interesting, though. Like, yeah, it is interesting. I think people are feeling that same angst and frustration and that hopelessness. But I get it. I get it. You're seeing things cost way more, right? Not seeing upward mobility at your job. Man. You know, groceries are more expensive, but you're not making more money. You're seeing AI coming and replace jobs around you. You're starting to go, well, shit, it's my job. You're watching these people walk around with masks on, you know, killing American citizens. Like, you know, wustin' up fucking shops chasing people in the street. Come on, man. Come on. You seeing, you know, radio hosts make $200 million. Like, nothing makes sense. I don't know what you talking about. Nothing makes sense. Shout out to Druskey, man. Yo, they mad at Druskey. They mad at Druskey. They mad at Druskey. They mad at Druskey. Because Druskey did a skit. Okay. And this skit is about mega churches, man. And, you know, I don't even know what it even makes sense to play it. Well, not some parts you can hear it. Here's the thing. I don't understand any of the backlash that Druskey is getting from this. Because there's no reason to be mad at Druskey. This is what you call a spoof. He's a comedian making jokes. So he just imitated. So be mad at the people he's spoofing. Yes. Art reflects reality. Yeah, I get it. He's spoofing reality. He got this from somewhere. I agree. Like, and I'm always going to defend comedians making jokes. I think that like, there are some people that, especially with religion, man, especially with God, they take it very seriously. You're saying God? No, you're making fun of the pastors. Well, what-- He's not making fun of God. Where does the pastor work? Church. Okay. What that don't mean is God, yeah? If you have a-- If you have a church-- No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What I mean is, if you're a pastor and you're not pastoring the right way and you're pastoring for the wrong reasons and you're using the Bible and religion and God to take advantage of people. God don't exist in that church. Well, what if you're a part of that flock and you don't think that's what the pastors don't? Well, Satan got a kingdom too. So you're taking the argument that these pastors are corrupts. If you're a corrupt pastor, yes. If you're a corrupt pastor, you are not submitting your will to God, you're submitting your will to Satan. That is true. 100%. Yeah. We don't like corruption. Yeah. Here you go. Now, again, the problem isn't the institution, the problem is the people running it. And that's who-- That's who Drusky's making fun of. Drusky's making fun of the people who run the institutions. Like not once in a year to meet it, he insult the church. He's acting like somebody's mega-pastor's act coming in and play some of it. He's funny. Yeah, one bar in here. That was hilarious. Wanda told us earlier this month that she cannot have a baby anymore. So I impregnated her with the Word of God. I'm going to impregnate everyone with the Word of God. You're going to be pregnant with the Word of God. Give him some praise! I'll laugh! Christian first! And I walked in the blood of Jesus! With the red bottom on, I'll laugh. So we are raising funds for a project in Zimbabwe. Yes, we are trying to get a congregation over in Africa. Amen. We wanted to raise $4 million for that. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. That needs to appear to date. We are not letting anyone leave until we reach our goal, amen? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Life savings here! Give him some praise for that! Apostle Richie says, Baby King, you help me. I said a canya! Help me! I said a canya! Help me! I'm gonna finish this word here. And I'm gonna do the Christian version. Don't worry about it. I'm gonna do the Christian version. I'm driving this bill at Bentayga. Because I believe in Christ! Can you leap on your legs? Like a survivor! And you'll see what I'm going to do for you. What are you going to do for that? There's not too many character actors better than it is real. He's phenomenal. He is a man. I don't even know why the rest of y'all create content. I'ma be honest. I'ma be honest. Because to me, if I was a content creator, that would be my bar. Right. If I was doing sketches and stuff, I'm like, if I can't get to that, what am I doing it for? When you just got your little phone up and you doing little swear, everybody got to start somewhere. I got some talk about the older content creators, not the younger ones. The younger ones got to start somewhere. But for the one that's been doing it for a while, Drew's could took it to another level. That's what I appreciate about it. He keeps leveling up. There's production value in this. He got extras. They rented out a whole theater. They're hanging them from the ceiling. Like this is-- And him, Kim Her and Casna are bold too. I like them. They got great chemistry. Yeah. That's just dope because they're showing that they can do stuff like this. Right. That's when you're just sitting around and you're just talking and you chopping it up. But that right there is when he's doing with the sketches. That's like when you started doing the turn in the camera sideways. You was like, you know what? Everybody's sitting around doing COVID. Y'all just talking into the camera. Let's turn it into a real production. What ended up happening? You ended up getting an Netflix goddamn special. You know what I'm saying? Everybody's talking about the stand-up. Showed Steve's America was actually the first-- That was the first-- The first joint thing we did on Netflix, yeah. I'm just saying, if you have the means and you have the resources and you're able to do sketches to that level, do it. Yeah. You're only investing in yourself. 100%. And you're only going to get back what you put in. I saw Drusky's numbers. They said this is the most watched sketch ever. Of course. I imagine on X that shit went crazy. Yeah. Cause three reasons. Number one is good. Right? Alaris. Number two. It starts the conversation. And people being upset about-- It would be an upset. Outreach test. Are people really upset or are they just like two people? I mean, they're upset. Cause you know the media would be upset. They're upset because they need content as well. Yeah. Like everybody's creating content all day long. That's why y'all got to stop being upset at people like us. Cause what would you do without us? Remember what Scarface said? We the motherfucking bad guy. You couldn't do nothing without us. The neat paper like me so you can point your fucking fingers. I said, that's the bad guy. The bad man needs a joker. Yeah. Okay. You need people to be upset about. Yeah. Okay. You need people to take risks. You don't have the ball to take risks. So the people would have to take risks. And sometimes we get it right. Sometimes we get it wrong. But we always give you something to talk about. That's right. You can create or you can react. You can create or you can motherfucking react. What else we got Taylor? We want to pay some bills. We want to pay some bills that come back. Let's pay some bills, man. I need church announcements, have a Kyle Walker. My church announcement is, you know, Charlemagne that got us 200 million dollars. I don't know what they're talking about, man. I have no idea what you're talking about. 200 million more than he had last month. That's my only church announcement. Ask him for loans. Ask him for debt forgiveness. By the way, number one, that number you're talking is crazy. But also hypothetically, if that number was real, you don't get that in your bank account. I have a multi year deal. You wouldn't know. This is common sense. If you see an NBA player get that kind of money, they don't give them that. If an NBA player gets a max contract, they don't say here. You pay annually. Yeah. How many years is it there? Listen. You don't your church announcement? I'm talking about my church announcement. My church announcement is multi year deal. My church announcement. Man, I got a few actually two chains. His book, The Voice of My Head is God. It will be out March 3rd, 2026. The Black Privileged Publishing. Arsenio Hall will be on sale April 7th of this year. And Jessalaris will be on sale April 28th of this year. So please go out there and pre-order. And pre-order all those books. I'm sure you're going to see all of those individuals out on their various book tours on different late night shows and daytime talk shows. So salute to all of those individuals we're putting out this year. And I want to salute the NAACP Image Awards. I want you to go to NAACP Image Awards.com and vote. Because we have some really great productions that are nominated for NAACP Image Awards. John Holt Bryant and Jay Barnett, both of their podcasts are nominated money and wealth podcasts. John Holt Bryant just here is Jay Barnett. They're both nominated at the NAACP Image Awards. That's Black Effect. So salute to everybody at Black Effect. Don Staley's book, Uncommon Favor is nominated for a literary award at the NAACP Awards. That's Black Privileged Publishing. So go vote for that. And Oh, Native Land Podcast, Angela Rye, Andrew Gilman, Bacarii Sellers. That's Reason Choice Media. I Heart. They're nominated in Kingsland, which is an audio scripted project that me and Kevin Hart did for Audible. That's nominated for NAACP Image Award as well. So you know, go vote, vote, vote. Go to NAACP Image Awards.com and vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. Then my church announcement is I'm doing a Benefit Show. Canceled Comedy, which is my brand. We're doing a Benefit Show with Food Bank for NYC January 24th at the Hard Rock Cafe. Some of the performers. We have Ronnie Chang. We have Sam Rill. We have Mark Gagnon. A lot of others. Some really funny guys. All the proceeds goes to Food Bank for NYC. So that's included with the admission. It's none of that two drink minimum. Shit. It's just buy a ticket. Have some laughs. So head to Cancel ComedyX.com. Get your ticket there. And if you want to call in and speak with me live, I do a live show on Sunday's AM Mornings. Just go to AM Mornings.com. See you there. Peace. Let's get back to the show. What else we got, man? It's so much. We been gone for so goddamn long. A lot to talk about, man. What? What? Oh, this was crazy. This was crazy. I like, okay. First of all, let me give you some context. Jay-Z sat down. This was from a couple of years ago, actually, because this was the rookie class of that year. Because I see Calib -- what's Calib last name? Quarterback for the bass. Calib Williams. Caleb. I don't know. Calib Williams? Yes. This is the rookie class from a couple of years ago. And I guess Michael Rubin set up a conversation with them. And I guess he asked all of them, would you rather $500,000 or dinner with Jay-Z? And they was like, well, we got these nice rookie deals. So let's just take the dinner. And Jay-Z, eat a game with some good words. Let's listen. You wouldn't keep it real with you. And don't just kiss your ass and just tell you what you want to hear. Tell me, oh, bro, it's been three days, man. You ain't hitting it hard anymore. You're not working out. You're not attacking it the same way. Bro, like getting there, man. So I'll come with you. Well, time's running. Let's run. Six o'clock. Let's get up. Let's run, man. This is great advice. He was actually talking about, yes, man. And how you shouldn't have yes people around you. But people pause someone this? You got to. And that is part of not being a yes, man. There is no way you sit there and listen to it. Play that again, yo. Y'all ain't here with me. I ain't here. I ain't here. Show us, call it. Listen to what he said. The people that keep it real with you. And don't just kiss your ass and just tell you what. what you want to hear. You're not attacking at the same weight, bro. Like getting in, man. - That's a pause. - We'll tell him it's one of those rules. - Like no literal pause. - It's a pause for Paul to pause the video. - It's a party, man. - He's talking about not being a yes, man. - Yeah. - If you sat there and listened to Jay say that, and didn't say, hey, yo. - Hey, yo. - I hit him with a purple. - For Paul, fill me on this one. - You know what I'm saying? You are a yes, man. Okay, 'cause that was wild. - He said, bro. - But are you pausing Jay at a dinner, bro? - You got to. He said, bro, you ain't hitting it like you used to. You ain't hitting it in three days. You got to get in there and you got to attack it. - Come with me. - Come, I'll come with you. - So shall you, you're saying pausing. - Who? - Me? - Yes. - In that moment. - Yeah. - Hey, yo. - I don't believe you. - That's the ball. The table would have died laughing. There's a bunch of kids there. There's a bunch of rookies. They had a died laughing. Okay, Jay would have gave me a crazy look. But he would have had to admit, yeah, that was kind of crazy. That was kind of crazy, yo. Come on, man. - I mean, preference in it as saying, like, listen, I can't be a yes, man. So Paul. - Exactly. That's what I would have said. Listen. - And the spirit of not being a yes, man. - You got to pause that shit. - Hey, yo, Jay. That was wild. - Crazy, bro, you're not hitting, you ain't hit it in three days. (laughing) - Let's play one more time, Taylor. Now, if I go to my Instagram, man. I edited it nice. - As long. - Okay. My editing is better than this. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, what the, and I did it in the spirit and not being a yes, man. Paul has a sense of humor, like, like, Paul don't like the joke. Jesus Christ. - They're calling him gay. - No, we're not calling him gay. - Stop acting like you don't know how this works, okay? - He's like, you said something that made me think something gay. - That was wild. Listen. - Three days, man. You're not working out, you're not attacking it the same way, bro. Like, get it in there, man. Well, I'll come with you. Well, time's for the next round. Six o'clock. Let's get up. Let's run, man. (laughing) - Wait, grow up. - No, why? Why should I grow up, okay? What reason do I have to grow up? - I want to grow up, oh, man. - Not growing up. Might be on peptides and shit. (laughing) Okay, I'm wet the bed to other day. That's how much I don't want to grow up. - Oh, yeah, this is how he started the live. Before he started recording, told me that he wet the bed. So I've been saying he wet the fucking bed. - No, it shows so crazy. - What? - I had a dream that I was peeing. - Yeah, then you started peeing. - But no, you know, are you laying there? And I don't know if I was like in between sleep or not between sleep, but I'm thinking to myself, like, man, when I used to dream about peeing, I would wet the bed. But I also sweat a little bit when I sleep. - So you didn't know? - So you felt the little spot, I was just like, oh, I'm just sweating. And then when I came home looking at that bed, oh, I had all the sheets off the bed, right? - She didn't text you, so I was like, "Damn, did I wet the bed?" And I was like, "Yo, I think I wet the bed." - She didn't call you, she didn't. - I don't know if she, I told her that I'd be, I think I wet the bed. I just tell her, I think I wet the bed last night. And she was like, I just thought, I think it was just time to wet the sheets. I don't know if she was like, I don't know. And I don't know if I did or not, but I think I did. My point is, you know you did this. - Hey, you know, okay. - Well, I'm gonna tell you something, nothing makes you feel more like a kid again than wetting the bed. - Try it. (laughing) - Try it. - When the last time you had a dream, when the last time you had a dream about wetting the bed, you've had them before, right? - Yes, when I was a child. - How did it make you feel? - Not good. - Not good. - Like a child. Chris, you ever had a dream about wetting the bed? - I think I still might have them, huh? - You see what I'm saying? What the bed every now and then, man? - I wish I, I'm gonna be a bed every now and then. - I wish I was rich enough to not get up to pee in the night. (laughing) That's what I wish. I wish I had 200 million. - I couldn't be up to pee in the middle of the night, just be like, I'm gonna fuck it. (laughing) - I couldn't believe it though. I was like, oh, shit, I ain't had a dream. It felt like, man, it felt nostalgic. Like, I already had a dream about wetting the bed in a long fucking dream. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - This makes me feel better. - Have you ever had an internal emission? - Oh, the nut? - Yeah. - Oh, yes, come on, man. - Okay, so it's normal to do wet the bed. - Well, that's what goes you to fuck you in your sleep. - It's interesting that you choose the ghost to fuck you. It's interesting that that's what makes you become as a ghost fucking you. It could be a female ghost fucking you off. It could be a ghost riding a dick, but in this hypothetical, - If a male ghost, (laughing) - What the hell is this? - You know what I'm going. - If a male ghost suck you off, are you gay? - Nah. - Nah, some male ghost. - No, but you're gay 'cause your subconscious is bringing men suck you into this. - It's a ghost! - It's a ghost, bro. It's a ghost. - It's a ghost. - It's a ghost. - It doesn't help. - It's a ghost of the guy's penetration. - That. - No, you know what? I am a yes bad a-y-o. - A-y-o. - No! - So listen. The more wake up is slime was sucking your cock, right? - Lime. - I'm a ghost. - I know, boo. - Like a ball of ghosts. Like, why do I gotta be slimer? - I don't even know if slimer is a gender. - You can't have it, like, of all the ghost that exists. - Okay. - You're a ghost of a race? - Yeah. - Yeah, I mean, depending on who it is, like, let's say it's the ghost of somebody you know. - Well, when you get molested, who's a, what, is it white ghosts? - molested. - What's your brain? - What's going on? - What's going on? - Oh, my god. - What's happening to you? - Huh? - When they visit you. - Yes, when you get visited. - Yeah, yeah. - That's molesting, then. - No, he's. - No, I mean, I'm a molested. - He's dreaming it up, but I'm saying generally, what type of ghosts are they? - Oh, I've never seen the ghost. I just assumed that I'm just saying, if you woke up right from a nocturnal emission, and you could see the poltergeist, and it was a male poltergeist, wiping his mouth out. - Ew. - Like, what would you think? - Man, that's a lot to share. - Yeah, that's what you said. - You said a lot to share. - That never happened to me. - Yeah, I just said it. - Yeah, it's just a lot to share. It's like, yo, I saw a ghost last night already. That's not believable. - Why not? - Most people don't believe in ghosts. - Oh, that's not my fault. - Grow up. - Okay. That's what you should grow up. Okay, when you sleep in and you wet the bed, you don't grow up. But when you, if you wanna grow up, then you need to believe in ghosts. - I think if a male ghost visited me in the middle of the night, suck me off. I think I would also say I peed the bed. Damn. I think I would say that too. - I don't think there's anything wrong with paranormal activities. (laughs) - Yes. - Do you think, man? - And not ruining it. - I'm just asking if it was a male ghost. - It's 2026, man. - No, I'm just saying if it was a male ghost, can you say that you had a homo sexual experience? - No. - No, exactly. - It's a ghost. - It's a dead. - It's a ghost. - They're dead. - Now are you gay in the afterlife? Like when the ghost goes back and tell everybody-- - The ghost is gay, but you're not gay. - Ghost is gay. - Yeah. - That's crazy. - Ghost is gay. - That's crazy. - Not crazy. They were gay people back in the day. - What is this article today? - What the fuck is going on? - I don't know. (laughs) - Why is Chris wiping this off? - Essentially gay. - Chris will go, wow. - Chris. - Can you see that shit, man? You're like, man, I can't wait to be a ghost. (laughs) - Do I have to live out my wildness? - I almost spent time. (laughs) - Chris, let's say you become a ghost. Are you sucking first, man? (laughs) - I want you gone new now. - I have to suck somebody? - Well, in this hypothetical, yeah. (laughs) - I don't know. - Or who you smashing first, if you're a ghost. - I don't wanna show my hand right now. - Yo, Drew, you let that be your next sketch. Yo, a gay Freddie Krueger. - What? - Freddie Krueger, that's like hunting, like the most homophobic. Google wants the most homophobic zip code in America. - His, his glove is just, dick, those five dildos, five dildos on his glove. - Probably like Salt Lake City or something. Imagine everybody homophobic or afraid to sleep. (laughs) 'Cause Freddie Krueger got five, got a claw with five dildos. - Oh my God. - What the fuck in fingering you and your sleep? - Nah, that's terrifying. - Jesus Christ. - Um, so supposedly this guy has a micro penis and now he's out talking about it. So I have the actual-- - Why did they say, why did they say inside the curse lives of two men with the world's smallest and largest penises? I think this is both. - Think, yeah. - Which one does he got? - He is a small one, so I'm about-- - What small? - Oh no, am I just playing the interview for you? - Welcome back. Now then here at this morning, we've never shied away from tackling real life matters. And today, we're talking about what might be the last taboo. - And with the average UK penis size around 5.2 inches, and next guest measures up to just 0.38 inches, comparison to that size of garden pea. - Yeah, 38-year-old Michael Phillips will make your dad a man. - Just care, we were all bruh. - Do it care, we were all too small. - For more leaves, the world will be the smallest beautiful world. It's left him unable to be intimate and he's even had to try fat injections to see if that can help. - But while they proved unsuccessful, Michael wants to help other men feel better about their own bodies. And he's here. Good morning. - Good morning. - Thank you for joining us, Michael. - Thank you so much. We've been talking about this. And it's so important that you're here and you're sitting on the couch and you're prepared to talk about it. Why is it so important to you? - I guess because it should be like known that it's a medical condition can call it. it. And that if more people realized that it was a condition when they're younger, the day could be taken and seen by a doctor and hopefully get treatment that would actually provide some, some blood. How does he even jack off his fingers are too big to even jack off a 0.38 inch penis? No. I mean, do they show it? I don't want to see it, right? You want to see that little thumb screw? Is the thumb screw even as big as that? Thumb screw smaller than that, right? This is crazy. I feel sorry for this guy. Scroll down, man. You know why I feel sorry for guys with small penises, man? Cause there's nothing they can do about it, bro. Like there's no amount of money. There's no surgery. Like there's nothing you can do. Like women can. Yeah, but it just makes it like fat like a Pringles can, you know what I'm saying? Like it's still like a little snack size Pringles can't like a woman can go get breasts, a woman can go get a BBL, woman can go get lip injections. You can't do nothing with that 0. How big is 0.38? You got to cut it off. You might as well go trans. You don't got to cut it off and scoop it out. Go trans. You could have the smallest penis or the tightest pussy bro. Yeah, man. Yeah. You already got the clip. That's right. That's true. Leave the clip. Leave it and build around it. Yeah. This is crazy. It's one of the moments that you discover that and knowledge is fine. And then you can go and get some help. Tell the why he's still playing. He said something. You know, that's the only way we had a really small penis. Um, I would say probably around high school. Right. And dealing with like girlfriends and stuff like that. But I was always like under the belief that like maybe like I'm a late bloomer. Yeah. Maybe one day. So you're waiting for people to have an impact and that was going to happen. And then I never did. Just never did. I don't get those kind of interview, man. Taylor booked them kind of interview for me every now and then I cannot cannot talk to the male with the world's smallest penis on the practice club. We coming to Netflix January 20th. That's the kind of anger. People want, bro. Can I not talk to the man with the world's smallest penis? Not one time. Jesus Christ. God bless them, y'all. Well, Chris, say what you said. What did I say? You were asking like, how do you, do you tell the girl? Are you? Well, I'll be my question. Do you lead with that information? If you meet somebody. Yeah, because it's no, you don't. You don't. What do you mean, no, you don't? You know how many girls are with guys I don't aren't big 0.3 inches. 0.38. Yeah. Oh, you got my old point. That's less than a inch. That's like a half of a inch. That's your nail. Pretty much. I don't even know if you can hang a jacket. Yeah. It's like you was in the factory and like the workers just stopped. They was like, I'm tired. They just sit down there. Game of everything else except for a cock. And he got that lead in it or it just goes all over him really. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you can let it go. He just is down. He don't got to stand up. He got to sit when he peep. Yeah. God. I don't know if you can't sit in PB's who come right through the space. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, gotta go trip home. Yes. I gotta get your hand on the balls. It's gonna sit on the balls. I'm not the biggest, but I don't got to touch it all the time. I'll say that. What does that mean? Like sometimes I'd feel like just just to do it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Put your hands behind your back and just let that thing hang and piss in perfect aim. That's how you look at bed at night, huh? What else do you got to do? What else do we got? Oh, I think Barbie. They got the autistic Barbie. Oh, that was crazy. Now, go get that for your kids. I mean, aren't all Barbies autistic? Like what's more autistic, autistic, but autistic about this. Why is it that? Why doesn't that do with that little penis? I identify as a Barbie. You know, you know me. Oh, I didn't buy. Hey, are you going to identify as a kid? They don't have shit down there, bro. Like, I didn't find it as a fucking Mattel dog. That's what he should do, man. He's a real life Mattel. He's a real life fucking Mattel dog. First of all, I don't want to say why does Barbie is autistic? Like I don't get it. Like what makes it autistic? Yeah, headphones and a flower. I remember when they did the Down Syndrome Barbie. I thought that was racist. But that's racist. Oh, whatever it is. But this, there's nothing about this that screams autism. Yeah. Like what is it? What is it? Let me read it. Let me read it. I think that's that spinner thing. Which spinner thing? That's a fucking fidget spinner. You can't have a fidget. Can't fidget. That's. I fidget. That's not my mustache. But everybody's autistic then. No, but a lot. They need like something to be doing. We all need something to be doing. Is that right? I'm literally flipping my phone as I said that. You look on the spectrum. I might be. I don't like the stereotype about you. I'm like, yeah, I'm like, yeah, you know, wax there. That's for the look of the new dog. Mattel says the eyes of the new Barbie shift slightly to the side. It represents in how some people with autism sometimes avoid the wreck. The dog also was given articulated elbows and wrist to acknowledge what? Oh, yeah. Stimming. Sometimes they do like the over extension. Stimming, hand-flapping and other justice that some autistic people use to process sensory information or to express excitement. Yeah. Mattel running out of shit to do. Just get them a train set, man. I don't think a doll is what the autistic kid wants. Shit. Get them a calculator. Yeah. I'll test the kid's smarter. Shit. There you go. I'll test the kid to be figuring out so many problems. That might be redundant. Teach him out of cold. Do you know what I'm saying? Send him to a fucking steam school. I'll test the kid to smart it. I don't know why there's such negative vote. Autism. Exactly. Look how you start. Tell us. Let's say I'm going to something else. Let's even look. Let's not even shade to me. I might be low autistic. That's fine. I can agree to his butt. I don't fucking matter. Exactly. It's beautiful. There's nothing wrong with it and it's beautiful. Oh, you're going to the man punch me in the face. Yeah. That was great. Eric Adams was on a flight. And Eric Adams was coming off the flight. This got a suck, yo. Before we played this clip, they're really, you know, people who leave prison and then they just put them out into the world and we always say like they need therapy or they need to be in like some type of halfway house before they just get put out in the population. It should be the same thing for elected officials. Really? Especially when they only do one term. When was Eric Adams ever out of the public space? He's lived in the public. Yeah, but it's different. You ain't got your security detail no more with you. People can approach you like this. Let's press play till. Okay. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. They just chew you up and spit you out, man. You was the man New York City for four years. Now you just on a plane regular. People can just walk up to you, talk crazy to you. That's not right, yo. That's actually a problem waiting to happen for an elected official. That's not right. He caused that. How? With like his scandals and stuff like that. That's not true, though, because what Chris was even saying earlier, it's like there's always going to be half of the country that don't like even if you tried to do the right thing. Now, I'm not saying that's that mayor Adams. I'm just saying like I think of any elected. If you think of man, think of what Kamala Harris probably got to deal with, you know, they took the secret service from us. She's just out here. I mean, she got a security detail, but just imagine what she has to deal with. They took the secret service from her. Yeah. I took her. I didn't know that. As far as you did. It took away before I left the door. That's the vice president. But she's the vice president of the United States of America, dude. Like you don't put someone in that position with that type of power and then immediately remove their protection in this climate, especially you always have it for the rest of their life. No, they changed it. I don't know how long it is. I know for presidents it's definitely longer, but I think that I think if I'm not mistaken, Joe Biden extended hers because of the political climate. Am I tripping? All I know is Trump got rid of it right before her book tour. No saying. So, but I'm just imagine what she has to deal with. Just walking through an airport. I don't like it. No, regardless of how I feel about it, elected official. I don't like it because this is just a problem waiting to happen. You know, I was a prosecutor. He don't have a buffado. I at least have one security guy. Why he just walking around like a close promoter. I'm curious what she's upset at him about. Yeah. Well, I see what's the policy or is it the corruption that she's upset about? Oh, no. It's a good question. That's a good question. Yeah. What else we got? We're going to pay some bills and then do some action details. Let's do it. Let's talk to the people. Let's pay some bills and do some asking ideas, man. Let's do some ask and idiots. Taylor gang. And yes, I will be in Vegas to go watch Mary J. Blige's residency. I miss young GZ in Vegas, but I was not Miss Mary J. Blige. Shout out Mero. You can marry on a Mero man. New morning, O's, the hot 97. I salute to my guy, Merrill, I mean, I hit Merrill, I talk to Merrill every now and then that's my guy. You know, we all started, well, we were already at MTV too. And they started, I think, working on your, these are Merrill started working on. These are Merrill got bought in during our whole MTV two tenure. And you know, it's one of those things, and they used to do this to all the OG talent. They would ask us about new and upcoming talent, you know? Like, oh, yeah, I didn't know who they were, but I was like, oh, yeah, I fuck with them once I, you know, saw their content and stuff like that. So they bought them in, MTV too didn't really have anything for them to do. Like MTV too had some fire ass talent. - Yeah. - Like, and I'm talking about after the guy cold, girl cold, that era, the cold era, the cold era is what set off all of that new original programming. - Yeah. - But they were bringing in new talent and didn't really know what to do with them, 'cause, you know, we were still cooking. - Yeah. - And so when I started the uncommon sense, yeah, Diesel and Merrill had a segment on my show called Classic of Trash every week. - That's right. - So I think that's the first time they were ever on TV if I'm not mistaken, yeah. So yeah, yeah, at that time it was Diesel's Merrill and Zuri Hall. - Yeah. - If you did not know what to do with them, MTV too, did not know what to do. And so, Zuri was my co-host for uncommon sense, and Diesel and Merrill was on every episode. And Zuri did like the pilot and did one episode and she left and went to entertainment tonight. - You teen, yeah, yeah. - And then he had Diesel and Merrill. - Right, E, E, E, E. - Yeah, yeah. - This is Zuri Hall, the good sister Zuri Hall did. - Yeah, Diesel and Merrill started that fight and they went to show time and then, you know, things didn't work out between them. And, you know, Merrill, Merrill been cooking shit. Merrill was at 7 p.m. in Brooklyn. - Mellow. - With mellow and cast and I think a lot of community letters on there sometime. And now he's got more than 197. - Bravo. - I think it's great. - I think it's cool. I always felt like they should have been on radio. Like especially when they were the bodega boys. And you imagine the bodega boys, Diesel and Merrill on the radio, you know what I'm saying? Like, I would have gave them afternoon though. But they would, they, they, I would have gave them afternoon. - Like driving home or? - Driving home, yeah, too. Like Diesel and Merrill would have been on the afternoon, the bodega boys in New York City, like they far. - Yeah, come on. But Merrill, Merrill should do well, man. I salute to my guy Merrill. Mike Mason 3 says, oh, oh, this is a good one. Go back on it, I would. Andre the outlaw says, welcome back. Show, how did you come up with the name Lincoln? Lincoln is my, my brother's middle name. And it's actually my wife's grandma's middle name as well. And really, yeah, my dad named my, my, my brother after Abraham Lincoln, obviously. And we like that. And then Lawrence is obviously my dad's name. That's his middle name. Listen, it's Lincoln Lawrence. - LL Sholtz. - Yeah. - Ladies loves Sholtz and LL Sheltz. - Go to that first one. I like this first one, too, right here. This is a good one. No, that one. What's the other one? No, go scroll up, scroll up. What's better? Un-dead Assad says, what's better? A witty response or a quick response? A quick witty response? - Those are the best. - Those are the fucking, those are the greatest. That's why I love funny people, man. - There they are. - How the fuck you come up with that shit so quick, man. - It feels real, it's in the moment, you know. It's not performative. - It's not performative, man. - Yeah. - Classic Grant says, could either of you eat a human if it came down to it? - Yeah. - I got news for you, classic Grant. What you think beyond beef is? What you're thinking possible meters? - Yeah, I don't need any of that. I'm not doing it because I want it. I'm doing that to like survival. - Bro, we definitely need to eat some human, bro. - No, it could just happen. - That's sick. - You know how you know. - I saw a clip like that. - I don't know, they said it somewhere. - No, we definitely need some human. Come on, man. All of these bodies, bro, people dying. Like, come on, bro, we definitely need some human. - There was a game show. - That's some of these restaurants? I think beyond meat. What the fuck is beyond meat? Impossible meat? They say it's plant-based 'cause it's just fucking dead vegans. - Shut up. - It might be as when did they get most popular during COVID, maybe they used all those bodies. - Dude, what I'm saying? - They got all those bodies. They were sneaking them out the hospital. Remember when they had those trucks dragging them out the hospital? - And they got regularly impossible, and they got beyond, but then they got the plant-based beyond. The plant-based beyond is the carcasses of vegans, and the regularly impossible in the beyond is just, you know, bodies. - I mean, what is a vegan? It's plant-based meat. You see what I'm saying? - That's a great point. See what I'm saying? Next question. - You ever had some beyond veal? - This is the idiot. - You ever had some beyond fucking veal? You know what that is? Babies. - Yo, just tell me. I knew, hey, that's $200 million talking right here. - I know, I know. - He's invited, bro. He's in the Illuminati, he's eating the baby blood, the babies. - I'm not going for it. That's another thing that's so fucking stupid to me. Yo, I've seen a lot of coping going on, bro. Like, you know, some of y'all just really, you know, y'all sound comforting the losers. - Talk to me. - No, I'm just saying, when people be like, oh, he's in the Illuminati, or you know, you gotta suck dick to get a Netflix deal. Or this and that. It's like, yo, you sound comforting to losers. - Didn't you say that you're making an announcement about entering the Illuminati? - Oh god, Taylor, you've been around me all of these years and you don't understand how I entertain yet. - Yeah, but I thought you were going to actually make that announcement. - Yes, that's what I was saying. I was, you think I didn't know what the fuck I was doing? - Yeah. - You're like, you think this just happened? You think I just did this in the last month? - No. - No. - And you know what I'm saying? My fuck is crazy. My fuck is just really crazy, crazy. When they be like, he all of a sudden, they're doing a radio for 28 fucking years. I've been at Brooklyn's Club for 15. Okay? - They'll learn one day. - I did an interview with Axiose where a real journalist who actually does real research asked me what I was going to do because my deal was up. I said, how do you know that? She said because you signed back in September of 2020 and it was a five year deal. That's just common sense for anybody who chooses to use it. You know, and reads just a little bit. Just a little bit. But no, some of y'all do really sound comforting the losers and the only thing I would say to any of y'all, man, is you do realize you paint yourself in a corner because whenever you do achieve anything, right? Any type of level of success, you've put yourself in a corner because you told everybody the only way to achieve that is to suck Nick. - So you must suck. - You must the fucking suck. - You got it. - You told people the only way to achieve that was to be in the Illuminati. So, it's nefarious means when anybody else does it. - But when you do it. - It's talent when you do it. - Talent. - Like, listen. - But let's be honest, most people with suck for 200. - No. - For 200? - 200, most people suck. - So why is it a music honor? - By the way, I don't know what you're talking about with that number. But why isn't it more people getting that type of deal if it's so easy to get by just giving some head? - No, because it's not that many people who want to get suck for 200. - Ooh, that's a good point. - Like 200 million for a blowjob is horrible. - That's crazy. - How much money are you making if you can just give up 200 for a dick suck? - That's only Bezos could do that. Damn. - That's really only Bezos. And I don't think he wants you to suck his dick. - Right. Like it's Bill Clinton and not Bill Clinton. Yeah, Bill don't got it. It's Bezos, it's who's the other guy Bill Gates? - It is funny. - What it is funny, though, 'cause I watch a lot of people who, you know, used to get deals like that, right? Used to get deals in corporate America. And it's just like, so it was cool and you was doing it. But then when everybody else after you was doing it, they did it by some nefarious means. - But it's really crazy. - People believe it makes them feel good, man. - I see a lot. - Is that what Drusky sketches about? - Yes, yes it is, yes it is. I like it, I like, I like, I like those of you who sound comforting to losers. And if you hear certain things from certain people and certain people say, you know, that you can only achieve certain things through nefarious means, our gay means. If you need that kind of comfort because you're a loser and you don't believe in God and you don't believe you have a talent and you don't believe in hard work, I don't know what to tell you, brother. Our sister, I don't know what to tell you. - Hey man, go eat up beyond burger. That's made a dick meat. What else we got, Taylor? Let's do a couple more. Are you looking forward to Jay Cole's new album? I underscore it down, I don't know. Looking forward, I'm gonna listen to it. I'm gonna definitely check it out. I don't know if I'm looking forward to it. Are you looking forward to it, Alex? - Not really, but I'm not really looking forward to any music, right? - Isn't that interesting? The press? - No, Jay. - Going on. - Oh no. - Like it's made different. - Music doesn't feel like it's driving culture. - I love music. I love what it's about. - Music is the only way. - I hear what you're saying now. - It just doesn't feel like we had, we had Drake and Kendrick that encapsulated what felt like a year. - Mm. - And then now, ever since then, it just hasn't really felt. - Like another story has been prevened. - I haven't heard anything that's like. - Woof, man, listen in, bro. There's some great guys. - I'm so glad you guys are having it, Joe. - Lutha, my guy Rubin Vincent from Charlotte, North Carolina, phenomenal. He got a dope project out with 911 to salute the Kai Cash from New York City. He signed the DJ Drama and what's the name of drama's joint? What's the name of generation now? Soluta, Nico, Brem, Soluta, Marko, Motherfucking. Plus from Atlanta, Georgia. Marko is so goddamn phenomenal. Oh my God, Soluta, Chris Patrick from New Jersey. Soluta, Fergie, baby. There's some dope at Soluta Wing. You seeing the white girl wing that be running around with Rob Markman? Oh my God, her and Kai got a joint right now that was dope. Them young kids, it's some really dope-ass young rappers out there. I was thinking about this over the holidays. I'm like, if I was Drake, if I was Kendrick, if I was Cole, they all got labels. Why aren't they scooping them up? Scooping up their whole new wave. Like, people I just named are some phenomenal as artists. Like, everything you love about hip-hop, everything you say you like about hip-hop, the top-tier lyricism, people that actually care about bars, then people I named are really, really doing it. Like, those are some dope-ass rappers. So, I'm gonna check Cole's OG. He's a veteran, you know? - I heard it was a room at J.Z. Might be back in the studio. So, if that happens. - I'm always checked for home. Come on, that's my era. I'm always checked for home. Like, I'm gonna listen to Cole as well. I just, my thing with Cole is, I don't know what the approach is gonna be. - Yeah. - Because, you know, the last few years, leading up to the battle, Cole was saying- - I'm the best. - He was the guy, I'm the best. You know, I'm Numeral Udo. I'm Muhammad Ali, it is shit. - He's still gonna say that. - Yeah, but then when he had the opportunity to prove it with the other two greats of a generation, he chose to back out. - He's good. - And if I'm being honest, I'm always being honest, but the offering that he did contribute to the dis war was like, eh, no, when he went that Kendrick way, 'cause I don't, you didn't even believe that. Like, you didn't believe that. You know Kendrick catalogues from nominal, like, eh. And so when he backed out cool, I respect him. I appreciate it, you know, if you did what your spirit told you to do, but I, what is the album gonna be about? If you're not trying to be number one. Understand what I'm saying? Like, I don't- - He kind of addressed, I forgot what Sonja was, where he was saying basically that, he'll been a fallout with his friend, talking about Kendrick. - You're gonna do a whole album, it's gonna be lemonade, you're gonna do a whole album about a fallout. - I know, I'm not saying that, but I think he's gonna, I think he's gonna address it again, though. - I don't wanna hear that, I don't. I'm not gonna say, but like I said, I'm gonna listen to it. You know, it's not like cold, doesn't wrap his ass off. We know that, like, you know, I'm definitely gonna check it out. Let's do two more, man. To kill a poppy. He said, "Why y'all so sassy?" Damn. - Man, let us sassy. - We can't be sassy. - We can't get some sassy, you know, like a sassy ass man, bro. - I'm wrong with that. - How are we sassy, though? - Yes. - What's the definition of sassy? - You're sassy. I don't know. - I'm sassy? - I think I'm sassy, tell her. - I'm not sassy, tell her. - I don't know what they, I don't know if you're sassy. - What am I? - You're just a white man. - Oh, that's fine. - The definition of sassy is lively, bold, and confident. - You talking about. - In attitudes style, often playful and spirited. - First of all, first of all. - That's what the definition is. - I'm talking about the definition and not what the culture says about sassy. - Oh, give a fuck about culture. Y'all don't even know words. - You're a fuck, you're a fuck about actual definition. - I care about actual definitions of things. Cheeky are impudent in a way that's amusing rather than rude. A little attitude, not outright disrespect. What's wrong with sassy? (laughing) - It's a sassy can be positive. - It's a sassy can be positive or mildly negative, depending on context and delivery. I don't have a problem being a fucking sassy, yo. Call me sassy, sassy Davis. - Sassy. - Sassy. - He pissed. - One more. (groaning) Ooh, this is a good one, 2006. What can Bernie and Nidia's fans expect from y'all? - What do you think, Charlotte? - We gotta think up our sleeve or something. - That's what you got things up on. - Merch is coming, the website's speaking. - Ooh, Merch is definitely coming. I think this is the year for a short film. I think this is the year for Bernie and Nidia's short film. I do. I animated short film. 'Cause I feel like only animation can capture what it is we can do. (groaning) I think we could do animation, but I also think live action is. - I like live action, you know? If it's written the right way, what's the last two great live action shows? Like the last two phenomenal live action shows you see. I got two. Comedy, or just anything. Comedy. TV, TV. - I mean, curvy enthusiasm was phenomenal. - Curvy's always phenomenal. Curvy's always phenomenal. I like Dave. - By low decay, of course. - Well, boy, the studio with Seth Rogan. - Oh, you like it. - Oh, you like it. - Oh, I like it. Interesting. - That shit is fucking hysteria. You didn't watch the studio? - I watched it a little bit. - That shit is hysterical. - I like things that exist in a real world. - Yeah. - And it's kinda like the evolution of entourage. - Yeah. - Seth is just fucking incredible. - Seth is fucking incredible. - This is on this first season. - I'm surprised you liked it because it's so inside with the acting world. - I love it. - But like you as someone who's not like entrenched in the acting world, you still get all the things that they're talking about. - Because it's more, - I feel like outsider in it. - But it's more from an executive perspective. - Got it, yeah. - It's more like on the agent side of it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - The studio head. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - So it's more from an executive perspective and you see how the executives be blowing smoke up people's ass. How none of them want to tell the truth. - Yeah. - The episode when they finally cast for the Kool-Aid Man movie. And they got ice cube playing the Kool-Aid man. And it takes one won't motherfucking in the room to be like, I think that might be racist, yo. They have the Kool-Aid man. They're like, but everybody likes Kool-Aid. We all drink Kool-Aid. And then they go around the office and the other black people are telling them like that, no, I don't think that's racist at all. But then they decide to make the whole cast black. And then finally the person goes, okay, see, now that's racist. That shit is fucking funny. And then when they finally reveal it at the upfront and ain't even the backlash to the race that they get, it's for something, you gotta watch it, man. The shit is, studio is fucking hysterical. That shit is good. If we, that's the pocket I like to be. Because that's the type of tone of humor and shit that I like. We doing shit like that. We doing shit like Dave, we got something. - Now we're talking. - We got something. But yeah, man, do you can expect that? I mean, I don't know, man. What do you think? A lot of these podcasts going to Netflix and shit. I don't know. But I don't think it's just gonna be Netflix. I think what people are missing about the Netflix thing is that it's gonna open it up. 'Cause all of the screamers gonna want it in, bro. It's not just gonna be Netflix. - Yeah. - Amazon's gonna make a play network. Screaming services like Peacock might make a play. I don't know if Disney Plus will ever get into it because it's Disney and the content that, you know-- - Maybe Hulu. - Maybe Hulu. Yeah, you know, like so you just never know. I think that it's gonna open it up for all these screaming platforms, man. And I mean, listen, I know a lot of y'all make a lot of great money on YouTube. Loot of YouTube is always gonna be great for discoverability. YouTube is always gonna be great for promotion and marketing as long as they're not suppressing, you know, your content. But it's good to have other options. Options get you more money. - Yes, you want people to be able to compete for you. Competition is good. - Yes. - So we love that. - So yeah, I mean, that's what I'm looking for. I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to bringing it is just continuing to grow in 2026, but I'm looking forward to watching how the podcast industry continues to grow in 2026. Because there's not just one way there. It used to be a pipeline, right? It used to be start your podcast. You social media to promote it, put it on YouTube and that's where it stopped. And then you know things like Patreon came around. - Yep. - So now people were able to have subscriptions. It's just good that people are looking at podcast creators in that way as being full-fledged shows that they want to partner with, you know? So it's not just gonna be Netflix. It's gonna be a lot of different platforms that come. And it's gonna be a lot of people doing great license and do it. And please, that's another thing. Stop saying that people are selling their video rights. You're only selling your video rights if you choose to sell your video rights. All of these deals, I'm seeing are licensing deals. They're licensing deals, the platforms like Netflix. If I don't care if it's barstools, Spotify, IHART, people are doing licensing deals. - I mean, you're licensing your content to YouTube when you put it on and then they sell ads on it. - And you don't even read the motherfucking terms in conditions. I mean, none of y'all ever read the terms of conditions of motherfucking YouTube. You just put it up and click and just throw it up there. You don't know what the fuck you don't gave away. YouTube might fuck around and I shouldn't even say this. Never mind. I'll tell you all for it. I don't even want to give nobody a YouTube any ideas. As always, if you listed as podcasts, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant, you're absolutely right. Whatever you listed as podcasts, I think we're just a couple. if you don't know shit, you're right too. Mr. Bruy need his podcast. Thank you for listening. - Peace.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Taylor has been engaged, and the group celebrates the personal milestone, highlighting how pressure and humor played a role in the relationship's progression.
  2. The birth of a son, named Lincoln, brings joy and new family dynamics, with humor about parenting challenges and sibling rivalries.
  3. Charlemagne reflects on the emotional and physical stress of childbirth, noting anxiety-induced symptoms and the contrast between public calm and internal panic.
  4. Charlemagne clarifies misconceptions about his recent decision to return to Africa, rejecting claims of financial deals or resignations, emphasizing his commitment to cultural and social initiatives.
  5. The conversation addresses the role of comedy in political discourse, arguing that satire and humor can cut through misinformation and expose truths, especially during times of crisis.
  6. A key critique is raised about the media’s role in shaping public perception, with concerns that entertainment formats are now seen as inappropriate for serious political figures.
  7. The group defends comedians' right to make offensive or provocative jokes, stating that such content is a necessary form of cultural critique and reflection.
  8. Charlemagne highlights the importance of community, content creation, and activism, including upcoming book releases, NAACP nominations, and a benefit show supporting food security.

Summary:

The podcast features a lively, heartfelt conversation centered on personal milestones, including Taylor’s engagement and the birth of a son named Lincoln. The group reflects on the emotional intensity of childbirth, noting how anxiety and stress manifest physically, while also celebrating the joy and chaos of new parenthood. Charlemagne addresses a viral rumor about a $200 million deal, clarifying that it is a misunderstanding and emphasizing his long-term commitment to cultural and social initiatives, such as Black-owned publishing and media.

The discussion delves into the role of comedy in political discourse, arguing that satire serves as a powerful tool to expose truth and critique systemic issues, especially during times of crisis. They defend comedians’ right to make controversial jokes, asserting that such content is essential for holding power accountable and reflecting societal tensions. The conversation also touches on media narratives, the influence of social platforms, and the importance of free speech.

Ultimately, the group emphasizes community, creativity, and activism, highlighting upcoming projects like book releases, NAACP nominations, and a benefit show supporting food banks. Through humor, honesty, and shared experiences, the podcast underscores the value of open dialogue and the enduring power of comedy as both entertainment and social commentary.

FAQs

Taylor got engaged to someone, and the group celebrated the news, highlighting how the engagement was the result of previous pressure and teasing from the host.

The baby's name is Lincoln Lawrence Sholtz, a name chosen after discussions about the family and the need for a special boy.

He described the birth as terrifying and unexpected, noting that his body reacted with anxiety-induced hyperventilation and that the reality of the birth was far more intense than expected.

He believes comedians should be allowed to say offensive or insensitive things as part of their craft, and that people should be able to react to jokes without being canceled, especially when the content is not racially or politically targeted.

He went for a cultural experience, noting that the people and environment were vibrant, diverse, and different from expectations, especially in terms of the presence of African culture and social dynamics.

He argues that criticism of his jokes is normal and that comedy often involves pushing boundaries, and that people should be allowed to react to content without being silenced, especially when the humor is rooted in truth or satire.

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