The Hit List (Ft. Akaash Singh)

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And Mayor Adams was saying that Monday, Donnie's supporters are the gentrifiers. They are, though. But I was like, who? I'm a supporter. He kept saying the people. And I was like, who? So I said Indians. Yes. Because a large portion of people who went out there and voted for him in the primary were Indians. And he was like, no. And I was like, who? Rich white people? And I'm like, yo, you got to be specific. Who are these gentrifiers? No, he means not racial. It's the kids who live off their parents' income. Okay. Outside of Indians, because we like them. But the kids who live off their parents' income and have all these ideas about, and how they know how the world should work, even though they've never had a real job, those guys vote for them, I'm done. How do you give a more eloquent answer than the mayor of New York? I feel like if you're going to say that, you got to be able to answer who people are. Because somebody's going to ask that. Look at his supporters. You know, these are the same, his heart and soul of his community are those same gentrifiers that moved us out of our communities and are disrespectful in our community. That is the heart and soul. So we're buying into a concept, of a person. What do you mean by that? Those are the same, his supporters, that mean spirit pocket. You mean like Indians? I'm sorry? What do you mean? No, no, no, no. When you look at Harlem, Best Eye, other parts of our community, when you saw the change of our demographics, you saw gentrification come into our communities. That's the heart and soul of his supporters. That's the heart and soul of him. Other people have bought into the message, and started growing, but the heart and soul of his supporters are those same people that came in and gentrified our communities in the first place, won't patronize our restaurants, won't change our schools. The rich white people? Because they're not black. What? No, not, it's not even, gentrification. You gotta be specific when you say that. What do you mean? Gentrification to me is not an ethnicity, ethnicity is a mindset. He wasn't prepared for you. You're a good interviewer. You ask follow-ups. He's interviewed me a billion times. I'm listening to Madam, and I like Madam's eye with me. I don't, you know, I don't live in New York, so I don't have, you know, I don't. What is the issue with Mayor Adams? That's a very political way of saying you wouldn't like Mayor Adams if he had anything to do with you. No, actually, I don't think I, I don't have a problem with Mayor Adams, but I also, you know, don't live in New York City. Tell me the problem. Nothing seems better. He'll tell you everything is better. Nothing feels better. I was walking to, I don't remember where I was walking, but I saw three guys shooting heroin, and then I saw a guy with no shirt on walking down the street, piece of his small intestine sticking out of his stomach. Damn. What looked like shit smeared all over his stomach. That wasn't happening in Bloomberg's New York. Definitely wasn't happening in Bloomberg's New York. Valid question I asked Mayor Adams, though, I said, because he was explaining all of these things that he's done, right? Because he said, you got to remember, I got in office during COVID. But he was explaining about all of the progress that they've made. Still with that excuse, yeah. And the things that they've done better. So I said, well, if you've done all of those things better, how come what you've actually done isn't resonating as much as Mondani's messaging about what you've done? Well, he will do. Good question. Because to me, action should speak louder than words. What did he say? I actually said Mondani's just a better liar. Is that what he said? That's what he said. He said Mondani's just a better, he said Mondani knows how to sell the lie better. A year in office, I sat down with the team. I said, listen, I don't have any control on the price of bread, but I could put bread back in the pockets of New Yorkers. We put $30 billion back into the pockets of New Yorkers. What does that look like? Free high-speed broadband for 90%. And other homes. That's $159 a month. We dropped the cost of childcare. If you have two children in schools, we dropped the cost in childcare. We dropped the cost of childcare from $22 to $20 a month to less than $20 a month. That's another $200. We're paying off medical debt. If you're a low-income New Yorker and you have medical debt, we're paying that off for you. You no longer have to pay for that. Universal after-school program for free. Paying the college tuition of night, of our foster care children. So when you start picking apart our programs, it comes to a total of $30 billion. So why are those actual actions not resonating with people, but when Donnie's messaging of affordability is? Because if you actually already are putting more money back in people's pockets, why is it not resonating what his messaging of affordability is? Without a doubt, brother. Think about it for a moment. Because what he has done successfully, it says, I'm going to, identify the pain that people are feeling. Yes, Eric is addressing it, but you're not learning about that. I'm addressing it because it's not being covered. We need to be clear on that. And so what he has done successfully is said, I'm going to identify the pain that people are feeling. I'm just going to tell them anything that they want to hear. But it shouldn't be no pain if you're actually addressing the issue. Yeah, but going back to what all of you said, perception is reality. Yeah, but that's not the point. The point is your reality is not matching up to what you're telling. That's right. Because he kept talking about perception. Like, you know, perception in the media shapes the perception. And, you know, Envy, you asked the question about, you know, people, the same thing you just said, people feel a way. But this is what we're actually doing. But my thing is, if you're actually doing those things, then people shouldn't feel that way. Yeah. And maybe it feels less dangerous than it did a year ago. But I remember walking by Penn Station and you, I mean, you go, you live in Jersey, but you probably drive. You just see guys outside of Penn Station shooting drugs. But isn't that New York though? Yeah, that's all. That wasn't New York when I moved here. Penn Station has always been. Nah, nah. I do. Nah, that's not true. I used to go to Penn Station. Nah, bro. I went to Penn Station every day when I lived in Secaucus and I was broke. That's how I got back and forth. It didn't feel great, but it didn't feel like this. Yeah, I moved here in 06. Who was here in 06? It was Bloomberg in 06, right? Bloomberg was the shit. Yeah, from 06. When I moved up here, I was in Penn Station every day coming from Fort Lee, New Jersey on the bus to Penn Station. And I never once felt like, damn, this is dangerous. If I had to guess, I think they have a bunch of homeless shelters that they move towards that. Because people don't like it in their neighborhoods. Since that's so commercial, not too many people complain about it. Because I have a studio over there and there's a hotel that is actually a homeless shelter. You got a studio by Penn Station? Yeah. It's on 38th and 8th. So you got two WTFs? Yeah. You haven't known this? You got four? God damn, Alex and Weezy getting motherfucking money. Alex is rich, dude. How did you not know this? I thought y'all had two. I thought y'all had one over there and then one in LA. Alex has that SS truck. What do you call it? I know he got this. I have a truck. Shut up. Yeah. Hey, salute to your car, Alex. Salute to your car. Salute to your car. My heart goes out to your car, dude. Hell, Alex is crazy. That's crazy. Don't throw that. I already got niggas. They draw dicks on my car and shit like that. I don't need that. That's crazy. I didn't know that. I'm sorry. I got a little carried away with that one. So what do the sets look like? I know what the set over there looks like. Nah, I got two in Soho, two in Midtown, and one in LA. God damn. Congratulations, WTF. I film all my. My wife has a podcast she films out there. I film whenever I do my podcast in LA. Alex, don't ever give us a discount. Never. Never. In the beginning. You're going to keep coming back, nigga. But honestly, I wouldn't want a discount. If I was you, I wouldn't want a discount. I've never asked, to be fair. He also never offered. I just noticed he never offered. I would say no. He just never was like, I'll give you one. Because it's like, you got it. No, I want to support. I also don't want my friends to be like, hey, can you. If my friends say, hey, you think you can give us a discount, now I get to say I pay full price, so I doubt it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he also never offered. Now I feel bad because I thought we were. No, it's fine. I would have said no, but you just didn't ask and that's all I noticed. I never understand giving people with money discounts. It makes no sense to me. I refer him to quite a few people. That's what I'm saying. What's the point of giving people with money discounts? So when you go to dinner with a friend you don't offer to pay? I got a rule. If I know this person's richer than me, why would I disrespect that individual? You know what I'm saying? See, I'm more likely to pay if they're richer than me because I don't want them to feel like I'm using them. Nah, now I'll act like I'm reaching for my wallet. You know what I mean? But by the way. That's all I wanted. That's exactly what I want. You see what I'm saying? Oh, I'll take care of you. I got you. I got you. But most people who really, really got it are going to pay for it before you even know that the bill has even came. The bill has been taken care of. So by the time you fake reaching for your wallet, you know what I mean? They're like, oh, it's already taken care of. Exactly. I didn't even know we was charging you. Now, I'm not entitled. I'm not entitled to it. But I just always have had a rule. If a person has more money than me, I don't want to insult them and pay their bill. That's just stupid. How do you order? Do you order whatever you want? Yeah, because I can pay for it if I need to. You understand what I'm saying? Like, I'm not. I can order whatever the fuck I want on the menu because I can pay for it. You know, this is probably not exclusive to Indian families, but we will fight over who pays the bill. It's like a fight. Like a real fight? Like legit grabbing, wrestling with the billfold, all that. Why? I don't know. It's just a cultural thing. That's how we grew up seeing our parents do it. And then you get older and you're like, no, I want to pay for this. I want to do this for you. It's a nice thing, so let me pay. Have you ever taken it back? Have you ever, like, offered to pay when they're taking it back? - No, no, no, no. - You know what they call that, right? ♪ In the end ♪ - You do know what they call that. - Oh, man. Oh, man. - Listen, free speech, Akash. - I love free speech, dude. You know what they call it when you knock on someone's door and run off? I'm just asking a question. - What do they call it, Akash? - I don't know. I'm asking you. - Oh, my God. Jimmy Kimmel. That's one of the reasons I needed Akash here today 'cause I needed a comedian's perspective. And I guess not just comedians nowadays because I'm just interested in a lot of different things about this conversation. - Okay, talk to me. - Where do we begin here? I think for me, right, everybody keeps talking about free speech, correct? - When it comes to free speech. - When it comes to the Jimmy Kimmel conversation. - Correct. - And it's not just Jimmy. I guess you gotta go back to free speech even with Charlie Kirk. The reason I don't like people that are conflating the two issues or acting like the two issues are equal is because Charlie Kirk got murdered by just some random mentally ill kid or just some violent kid who decided he wanted to take Charlie Kirk out 'cause he didn't personally agree with his speech. That's a big difference between the government, the president of the United States, and the state of America, weaponizing the FCC to make a company and a network punish their talent. It's literally not the same. I don't even know why people are conflating the two. But I do feel like when I watched Jimmy Kimmel last night, I felt he played it too safe with his monologue. - That's interesting. I think he was classier than I thought he would be. But I thought he tried to be like a human being about it, I thought he tried to be empathetic about it. To be honest, I think he tried to do what liberals always think they try to do and do not, which is have empathy and be open-minded about it. - For the other side. - Yeah, I think he actually, in that way, I was like, I was happy he handled it how he handled it. - By the way, I like Kimmel. I like Kimmel, I've met Kimmel a couple of times. - Heard he's the nicest guy. - Yeah, everybody, he is. When you meet him, he's a very nice person and people have nothing but great things to say about him. But I just felt like now was not the time to play it safe. Jon Stewart didn't play it safe. Stephen Colbert didn't play it safe. I didn't understand why Jimmy Kimmel was kind of both-sides-ing it a little bit. - What did he say that was both-sides-ing it? - 'Cause it felt like he wanted to, he felt like he apologized without apologizing. - Okay. - Like, can we play something of it? Can we play something of it? - Yeah, I don't mind a guy saying, "Hey, I regret what I said, but freedom of speech is--" - But he didn't say that, though. - I thought he kind of. - That's what I'm saying, it was the tone of that. - I thought he did. He said, like, if you interpret it a certain way, I apologize and I understand. And then he said-- - But he never apologized, that's my point. - Video. - Here's what he also said that I thought was cool. If the shoe was on the other foot, I would probably react like you guys, which I thought was very mature of him to do. - Yeah. - And to call attention to. - But after you get your hand slapped a little bit, you understand what I'm saying? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought he did the mature thing. The Therapy Charlemagne should like this. By the way, I have to say, I haven't gotten to see you in person. The Dame Dash interview really made me so happy because that's my favorite. Charlemagne. - I don't-- - He's un-Therapized, Debt Dash. - Why do you want-- - Debt Jam. - But those are just jokes. Jokes never, I can always snap. The snaps, they never went nowhere. You know, y'all just want the snaps to come from a place of like-- - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Meanness. But even then, it wasn't mean. - Yeah, yeah. - No. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Let's hear some of Jimmy's monologue, man. - Breaking news on Jimmy. - Jimmy Kimmel. - Great intro. - And autism. - Jimmy Kimmel. - Oh, great intro. - Using all the Fox. - The montage. - The montage is great. - ABC chose to bring back their low-rating nighttime host. - We are in for a monologue that will be a marker in late night show history. - It's gonna be in a moment. - Yeah, no question. A huge moment in American history. - It's one of the most pivotal moments in broadcast history. - He will be delivering what is being dubbed the most anticipated monologue in late night in years. - I'm telling your followers that our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and do not say on television, and that we have to stand up to it. I've been hearing a lot about what I need to say and do tonight, and the truth is I don't think what I have to say is gonna make much of a difference. If you like me, you like me. If you don't, you don't. I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind. But I do wanna make something clear because it's important to me as a human, and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. - He didn't. - I don't think there's anything funny about it. I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and I meant it, and I still do. Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what, it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. I understand that to some that felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both, and for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset. If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd have felt the same way. I have many friends-- - It felt like I'm sorry without saying I'm sorry. And it's like he didn't make light of Charlie Kirk's death. - Isn't that the best way to handle it? Because he's not saying I'm sorry for anything. - Here's the thing. - He's saying you misunderstood me. - I lost my train of thought earlier, but this is what I wanted to say. Everybody's acting like this is an attack on free speech. Donald Trump just has a hit list, bro. - Yeah, but in that hit list, he attacked free speech. - I don't know if he would be attacking free speech if he didn't already have a list. - He wouldn't, but it's still an attack on free speech. Does that make sense? - Yes, it is. I agree, but I think the bigger issue here is Donald Trump has a list of politicians, media personalities. - Teenage girls. - He has a list of people. He has a list of people that he wants to attack. And I think sometimes we get lost in the, "Oh, this is an attack on free speech," when that bigger issue is no, you got a real vindictive president who we all knew when he got back in the White House, he was going to be on a revenge tour. - People don't believe when I say this. I didn't know it was going to be like this. This is not, this don't make anybody happy. - Here you go, you about to go viral again. He been on my time. I've been seeing this all week and they don't, all they say is the flagrant boys. - I didn't vote for the man. I talked to him. - I don't believe that. - As I should. What do you mean? - He says he didn't vote. - Raise your hand if you believe Akash voted for Trump. I don't believe your dad's Trump, Akash. - Why would I not? Or why would I lie about that? Andrew, I could have easily just joined it. I'm the most loyal guy. - That is true. - I'd have joined Andrew and I voted for him. I was uneasy when he won. - No, but you couldn't though. - Why couldn't I? - 'Cause you Indian. You couldn't really, you couldn't say that you voted for Trump so easily. - Why? - Not as easy as Andrew. - It's much more likely I get deported saying I didn't vote for him. I didn't vote for Kamala, to be fair. - What? - No. - And she's Indian. - When convenient. - So who'd you vote for? - I didn't vote. - I like that respect. - I generally don't vote, but I also, I remember saying to, 'cause I also live in Texas, like I'm based in Texas and my cousin or my brother-in-law or something was saying like, man, Texas might swing blue. I said, if Kamala gets within 10% of Trump, I will pay you 10,000. - He thought Texas was gonna swing blue? - He thought it could. I said, if she gets within 10%, I'll pay you $10,000. - I would love to know what made him think Texas was- - You know how delusional everyone was? They thought she was a good candidate. Have you seen the clip where they said, why would you not have Pete Buttigieg just 'cause he's gay? - I read the book. - And then Kamala was like, no, I didn't say I didn't choose him 'cause he was gay. I said, because we had 107 days, I couldn't pick a gay person. - Nah, nah, nah, it was so, it was bad. - I saw the whole thing. - Nah, I read the book from beginning to end. Number one, I think it is a great book. - How long, was it 107 pages? - Nah, it's not long at all. It's really not long at all. 'Cause it literally goes in days. She skips two days though, and I wonder why. Nobody's asked her that yet. She skips, I think it's the 12th and the 13th or the 11th and 12th of October, I don't remember why. But it's a really good book, but it's a fast read 'cause it's just, it goes by days. So it's literally like two, three pages of a day. - That's your diary. Why am I reading your diary without any of the- - I love it. I think that if Democrats don't get any feelings, which they already have, this could be a great reset for the Democratic Party. 'Cause the Democrats need honesty. They need truth. They needed it last motherfucking year. - Yep. I would love for her to come on flagrant and also just admit, yeah, you guys did ask us. We thought it was risky, blah, blah, blah. - That is a good point. 'Cause that is where I think she's been dropping the ball on her book tour. - Yeah. - 'Cause it's just like, go to the places they told you that you didn't go during your campaign. You're still going to all of the safe, traditional spaces. You're still going to The View. You're still going to Late Night TV. - Can you tell her this personally? Hit her on Black Planet or whatever? - I'm saying it now. I'm saying it now. Hit her on Black Planet. I'm saying it right here, right now. I feel like she's still playing it too safe. - Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. - And you're on Rachel Maddow, like you said, like backtracking what is actually in the book. I'm reading the book like, yes, Kamala, finally. - She's being honest. - Yes, but then you go on TV and revert, revert, what's the word? Revert back to being a politician. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Come on, we read the book. - Absolutely. - You know? - I agree. Now, having said all of that, I'm surprised this guy's hit list is so open and I think I didn't expect it to be this insane. Everybody typically when people are like the worst case scenario, people, I'm like, it's not gonna be that bad. This is that bad. This is a hit list. And he's using free speech to get it. And I'm always going to be in favor of free speech. Even Alex Jones getting deplatformed. Even though I hated everything he had to say and I was kind of happy I didn't have to deal with the shit back then. I was like, he shouldn't be, though. You know why nobody felt like Donald Trump would seek revenge? Because people don't look at him as human. But when you look at everything that he went through, the four years that Biden was in office. Yes, that man was going to go. Of course, when he got back in power. Are you saying because people were so punitive and like grinding him down? How many charges did he have, Chris? Quite a few. You had to know that. That's why it should have been so dire to keep him out of office. That's why I don't care what nobody says. Joe Biden's legacy is shit. I agree with that. I thought it was shit before, but it was definitely was shit. After the original sin. And it's definitely shit after 107 days because it's Kamala says in 107 days. Joe Biden's second his his his second term shouldn't have been him running again. Shouldn't have been left up to his own ego. I was that serious. It was embarrassing. It was that serious. So everybody's sitting around saying, my God, I can't believe Trump's doing this. You had to know Trump was going to be like this. Number one, because he's Donald Trump. But also, number two, because of everything that they put. Number two, because of everything that they put. So why wouldn't they fight like hell? Fuck a Mary Garland. Why wouldn't you hire an attorney general that you know is going to go out there and prosecute the case against him? If you thought he was such an essential threat, Joe Biden, why didn't you govern like it? And furthermore, why didn't you simply say, I'm a one term president. I'm getting out the way. The stakes are too high in the future for this country, for me to sit around and bullshit and even attempt the run again. And then drop out with 107 days and say, hey. Y'all take it. He was. I don't know why y'all not furious that President Biden. Yeah, I really don't. I don't. Only way I'm not furious because most. First of all, that was beautiful. That was fire and brimstone. That was awesome. Most people have dementia. Don't realize how much dementia they got. So it's like he thought he still had it. Take the keys from the guy with dementia. You've got a grandfather with dementia. He's like, I could drive. You're like, no, you can't. Who's he's right. Who's going to tell the president? You can't run. Everybody around him. The black and Indian woman. Yes. Yeah, but that's the thing. I got an Indian woman who tells me what I can't do all the time. Yes. Your wife. Yes. And he was listening to only his wife. That was the only person he was listening to. So why wasn't nobody screaming at Jill? Hey, maybe this is what I'm saying. Maybe we should be upset at Jill. I love blaming women. I love that. When you watch. I love that. It's one of my favorite things to do. When you watch Jimmy Kimmel going through what he's going through. Yeah. All right. You know. Damn. God bless the dead Charlie Kirk. When you see that type of stuff. Right. Yeah. It is because they didn't fight hard enough when they were in office. They didn't govern hard enough and they didn't fight like. Charlie Kirk thing we can't put on. To keep Trump out. Let's put Charlie Kirk. I agree with your general point. Let's just to be safe. Let's put Charlie Kirk out of whatever caused that. Because that's a mentally ill person. But I think the political rhetoric would have been way, way, way, way, way, way, way down. Yeah. That is. Wait, what are we talking about? Like, I think it would have been way. Way down. Yeah. Like that. I mean, according to what the Internet is saying, it's not like he got clapped because, you know, it was some super liberal. No. That was, you know, from what I've been seeing, they said he wasn't conservative enough. No. Am I making this up? Yeah. No. There's a certain group saying that. But some people would be like, I think that's like Nick Fuentes and his people are saying he wasn't right enough. But I don't know. It's. I think he was also apparently a Fuentes fan. He was a griper. Yeah. That's what one of the booths said. And that's getting lost. That's getting lost. Everybody's acting like that. That conference. That. That didn't happen. They said one of the bullets said that on there. Yeah. What the fuck is it? A group. It sounds like a fish. It does sound like. I don't know what the etymology is. Let's not. Let's not pull a Jimmy Kimmel right now and try to identify what party this guy was from. Let's just say. Oh, no, no, no. This has nothing to do with the party. I'm just saying. I'm just talking about the climate. Yeah. I know that the climate of the world would be completely different if Donald Trump. Yeah. Let's leave it there. It'll be different. There's no causation. Yeah. Exactly. After all, four years of Biden and it was a lot quieter. And I don't know why. Once again, everybody's not going back to the root. None of this would be happening right now if President Biden didn't lead with ego. The original. And if everybody around President Biden didn't lie to him about the condition that he was in, if they didn't try to tell us, the American people, that we were tripping when we called him out for being like, this guy can't win. This guy's old as shit. Like, why? Why all of a sudden now everybody's just acting so. The guy was stumbling all over interviews and then people were like, oh, behind closed doors. He's sharp as he's ever been. No, he's not. You shouldn't be blaming no voters. You shouldn't even be blaming Trump. You should blame the Democrat. No, Chris. How? The Democrats had the power. You say they had it for four years, Chris. You're acting like Trump behaving the way he's behaving, moving the way he's moving is a foregone conclusion. He is not. That's good. What do you mean? I mean. If Biden lost, his legacy is over. But when you talk about furious, I'm furious at Trump. I'm not furious at Biden. Can't you be furious at both? I mean, I wish, I wish he had done a thousand things differently. I wish his circle. His point is, we wouldn't have Trump. But it's almost like, well, Trump just has to be Trump. He has no choice in the matter. We're not, we're not removing him from being any culpability, but what I think Charlemagne is saying is, you knew what he was going to be. Yes! You knew what. Oh, for sure. You guys told us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On every turn, what a threat he was. Yes! And maybe we didn't listen enough, but also you didn't give us an alternative that was very appealing at all. And you didn't act like he was actually that type of threat. You just said it. But you never did anything to actually show it. I think they thought Biden could win. Because he'd won once. Honestly, I think it's that simple. I think that's what they thought. I think it's that simple. I think they didn't give credit to the Democratic voters. Right. That if they let, if they had a primary, they would be able to do it. I also think they didn't trust moderates to vote for. A woman of color. Which there's probably a lot of people who wouldn't have. But if you let Kamala go on some of these other, flagrant, I swear to God would have made her look great. It was not, it's never our intention to make a guest look bad. And we're pretty good at making you look good. But y'all are missing the point, but I want y'all to step back again. We wouldn't even have got to Kamala if Joe Biden would have said, hey, I'm going to be a one-term president instead of that. Yeah, I agree. Because then there would have been a primary. And then there would have been a bunch of other candidates. And that's not true. Like that bench of Democratic candidates that they had, they could have had them all out there. This is my question. Who's the they in this scenario? Right? Because it's like. The Pelosi's or whoever the general. Oh, all of them that pushed it. So there's a vacuum. Have you read the original sin? No, I need to. You got to read the original sin. And you got to read Kamala's 170 days. I read half of the original sin. I thought you were talking about Kamala's. It tells you who all of the days are. So the question is, there's a vacuum now in terms of Democratic leadership. Right? Clearly, whoever the they is. And I don't know. They are a person. They failed. Right? Like, there's no other way to look at it. Yes. They fucked this up. That's right. So who's coming in now? Jon Stewart. But see, but that's why I love Kamala's book. And that's why I keep saying Democrats shouldn't be in their feelings about this book. If you get out of your feelings and you actually embrace the truth that she's saying, it's perfect because she blows it all up. What did she say? She basically said that the old regime was undermining her. The Biden administration was undermining her at every turn. And they all should have taken the threat of Donald Trump more seriously. They shouldn't have left it up to Joe Biden's ego. Remember what I was telling you about last night? That went viral this week. Not me saying it, but about how Joe Biden called her on debate day to basically get in her head and tell her that these other donors don't fuck with her like that and to make me look good and blah, blah, blah, this and that. And she was like, why would you do this to me on debate day? This is my question. I don't know if she addresses it in the book. Why didn't she throw an audible? And it's easy for me to say that sitting here. Loyalty. Blind loyalty. Literally. Blind loyalty. That's what she keeps saying. Blind. She was too loyal. Then you're not electable. Right. I don't want you to be president. I want you to be a leader. If you're going to put loyalty over common sense, that's something I would do. And I shouldn't be president. You're right. Like, to your point, she, I think, is also just, she's not really admitting any wrongdoing. Going on the other platforms. Okay. Based on what you're saying. Yeah. In her book, she does. What did she say she did wrong? She was too loyal. Literally. That's all. What a fucking flaw that is. What an easy way to say some shit. Come on. He put her in that position. If I killed somebody that insulted myself. I killed my friend, and then I was at my parole hearing, and they're like, what do you think you did wrong? I was like, I was just too loyal. No, you murdered someone. That's true. You fucked up a lot of things, and saying I was too loyal is the most self-flattering way to say you fucked up. I get what you're saying, but that's not a good reason. I mean, he didn't kill anybody. He was just a little bit off mentally. He was not. He wasn't as sharp mentally, but if she's trying to have a conversation with him, and he's saying, hey, I'm good enough to run, what does she mean? No, no, no. When they ask you this, and I think, honestly, what we forget. Okay. And I think this is where she lost the election. The view. The view. What would you do differently than Joe Biden? I can't think of anything. Right there, it's over. She got a whole chapter about it in the book, and she admits, I fucked up right here. Yeah. But not because I was too loyal, because you decided. She said that out of loyalty, to not make him look bad. That's right. Then you shouldn't be running the country. That's not, a person who's like, you know what? I'm going to put loyalty ahead of the general well-being of a country is not fit to be president. She says, and I'm paraphrasing. in that chapter. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, just became friends three years ago. No, they've been friends for a while. She said this. Put her in that position. Her and Bo used to be really cool. Remember when she dogged his ass out at the first primary debate? Joe, that really hurt my feelings. That really hurt my feelings when you said that. In tears? You weren't loyal then. She says in that chapter that she basically forgot. But she didn't realize how much what they were actually doing wasn't resonating with people. And I'm paraphrasing here because she knew Joe Biden was unpopular, but she just thought that everybody could see the difference between her and Joe, which I don't understand why she would think that. They just met you. You just started running a few weeks ago. And you said he didn't do anything wrong. So how are we going to differentiate the two? Yeah. She was in. She was in a hard position. I mean, she was in a hard position because she was playing politics. But I mean, that's what she's been doing. She's a career politician. She's a career politician, man. I'm not going to lie. I am blindly loyal to Andrew. I am blindly loyal to you. I am blindly loyal to Alex. Don't vote for me for a single fucking thing ever. I wouldn't run for a single fucking thing. By the way, I don't even call that blindly loyal. I'm riding for my people. Yeah. Right or wrong. I'd rather you say that. I'm riding for my people right or wrong. That's her version of saying that. Nah, because I'm not blind with my loyalty. My loyalty can see very well. Like, I'm not blind with it. And y'all should be able to see, like, I already know how he's going to come about his people. Yeah, okay. So, that's not blind loyalty. Blind loyalty. Question. Question. If Andrew says some crazy shit, you're not going to publicly say, I don't understand what Andrew said. I don't know what he said. I agree with it. You're not going to get online and be like. I'm acting like I didn't see it. Exactly. But that's just blind. But that's what she did. That's just blind. That's exactly what she did. Okay. Yeah, she did the same thing. But that's why you shouldn't be president. That's why you shouldn't run. Oh, okay. She should have said, I'm not going to run. I know. Because I'm not prepared to go against this guy. And I know people aren't happy with him. I'm not going to run. I just think it's a very easy thing to be like, to write an entire book saying, oh, yeah, hey, I'll tell you what, we fucked up. It's because I was too loyal. Somebody had to do it, though. That's my flaw. I know somebody had to do it, Akash, because I've been saying, whoever's going to lead the party. Now. Now and into the future has to throw the old regime under the bus. There's nobody better to do it than her. It's one thing when you hear from Jake Tapper and all these anonymous sources, when the actual VP says, no, we fucked up. I was a part of the fuck up. This is where we fucked up. I'm with that. My only problem is, is when you go on TV now, have that same energy. Yeah. I just read the book. So I'm looking forward to seeing some interviews. And I'm like, what do you mean? You didn't say this and that. Like, what do you mean you didn't mean it that way? Like, no. That's another reason she probably didn't win. But that's not just we can't just do racism, sexism. They go back to the politician bag. They become a politician when they are public speaking. Yeah. I'm not with the racism, sexism thing. When 72 million plus people vote for you. No. Yeah. And as she said, it was the closest election of the 21st century. That's what she said. It was number wise. She just got swept in all the swing states. Yeah. Sure. And even with Hillary, Hillary won the popular vote by over three million, four million votes. As men. As men, we shouldn't allow the sexism shit. Yeah, I don't. We was out there. I voted for Hillary and Kamala. Yeah, me too. I don't like that sexism conversation. Yeah. Because once again, Hillary had three million, four million more to popular vote than Donald Trump. It was not for that fucked up electoral college. Hillary Clinton is president. Yeah, it's true. Kamala Harris had the second highest votes of any Democratic nominee ever. Oh, I didn't know that. Yes, behind Joe Biden. Because we voted a lot more. You know, that's the one. Still, Gary, every time I say that, it don't even feel right. See? What? What you saying? I'm not saying nothing. But every time I say that. Say what? When I be like, she had the second highest. Because you know you're capping. Ever because. No, it's true. It's true. But you know, spiritually, you're capping. Just how? That's why. I just want to know how. Because you are. You know when Ben Shapiro's like, facts don't support your feelings, but the facts you have all support his feelings? It's like conveniently handpicked facts. That. The facts don't support. The facts don't support my feelings because of. Because of how bad I'm looking at how things were. Because of what I saw in my own eyes. I just saw a lot of this. And I didn't hear what you said. Because of the original thing. Because you were doing a lot of auntie movement. It's just like, how the fuck did Joe Biden get all those votes? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, because he didn't. I'm not saying he didn't. He clearly did. No, I think that's what you're saying. Yeah, I sounded a lot like Trump right now. No, we're not. That's what it's saying. No, because Trump would have straight up said the election was rigged. Oh, I thought that's what you were saying. No, that's not what the fuck I'm saying. That's what it's like yesterday. Who said that? That's what it sounds like yesterday. You sure? You got that from that? It's more fun if I do. Damn. Yes. But back to Jimmy Kimmel's monologue. I just felt it was too safe for the moment. I thought you were trying to be classy. And Jimmy's not a guy who I would think would just fire bazookas at anything. Like, Schultz would go super hard and super reckless. I never saw Kimmel as that guy. And the fact that Sinclair Networks still didn't put the show back on. Yeah. Sinclair Networks. Sinclair Networks. Yeah. Sinclair Networks. Sinclair Networks is still wanting him to apologize. They want him to donate a bunch of money to the Charlie Kirk Foundation. As we said, free speech is under attack. Yeah. Why don't y'all donate money? And you know Trump got a list. Like, I just felt like it was just too safe. Especially being we know what the outcome is ultimately going to be. You think he still gets canned? Yes. Yes. I don't think so. Yes. At some point, yes. I don't think so. Sinclair's not putting his show on, bro. Yeah, but. Sinclair's like, they said Sinclair's like, responsible for the majority of his markets. 60 different markets. And they don't, they're not carrying his show. Disney has deep enough pockets where they can eat that. I don't know, bro. They do? I don't know, bro. And Sinclair wants to merge it with Tegna. I guess a lot going on here. I think ultimately, Trump gets his way. I don't know. I really do. And he jabbed him again. Yeah, like. He already got his way. That's the thing. He probably will. How? The fact that he even is at this point, he won. Well, a president can't, I mean, there's a million things I could say, but like, I think what Kimmel needs to understand is it's not about him anymore. And that's what I had hoped he understood. Okay. That's what I'm trying to say, Chris. Go ahead. It's not about you and your show anymore. Yes. Your show was the one that was picked at this moment to see what Trump could get away with. And he got to get, he got away with it. And from this moment on, it's about protecting democracy. But that's why I said, that's why I said he played it too safe at this moment. He has to be a warrior right now. Yes. That's all up there. Yes. Yes. Okay. For everyone's sake, honestly. Yes. Because the pendulum swings both ways. One party or group can be in power now. If this keeps going on, it's going to come back and smack all the Trump supporters in four years. And then it almost has to. I'm with you, Chris, but we know Democrats do pussy for that to happen. Because I would agree with you if they weren't so pussy. That's why Republicans aren't afraid of it. They're like, give him the gun. I'll turn my back on this motherfucker. He ain't going to do shit. You heard the thing that the Biden administration. The Biden administration was putting pressure on Google to censor a bunch of stuff on YouTube. They were also violating free speech, which is the same thing as what the FCC did to Kimmel in a way. Yeah, but it's more like a, that's like a, that's like a kid threatening you. Put him up. Put him up. I'm going to fight you. It's this tall. Let's fight. Let's fight. But why? Our first Alex Jones episode got taken down probably for the best, but because he said some shit about vaccines that they said is misinformation. Episode is gone forever. Really? Well, Alex also didn't back it up, but I think he did that on purpose. I know. Hold on. You never record. You didn't back up. You didn't back it up. I ain't like that guy. Okay. I don't care. I do. I can't executive decision. No, he never recorded. He never backed up anything, but I, you know, you made an executive decision. I'm not going to save him by that for myself. I'm not mad at that. All right. But one thing people aren't pointing out is that Kimmel did point out how the FCC chair had made those threats. Like he basically outlined how, Hey, we got a case. If y'all, I want to take it there and I think that's why he didn't want to go so hard. He's like, Hey, what do you mean the FCC got a case? No, no, no, no, Disney, Disney and Kimmel. They have a case against who, because the FCC publicly, this is the government putting pressure on private institutions to, um, but I didn't need Jimmy's monologue to know that we heard it. I know we saw it. That was kind of, it was like, uh, uh, veiled threat where it's like, I don't think it was veiled. I didn't think it was veiled at all. Like we saw it. He literally said we can do this the easy way, the hard way. And frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, uh, on Kimmel or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. No, Jimmy's response. But how was Jimmy's response of veiled threat? Yeah. Basically like they can sue. Yeah. But how was Jimmy telling the government or whoever they would sue that? Hey, just so you know, we still got that in our back pocket. You're saying that's what he was implying. Yeah. How? By pointing out, he was like, Hey, this is the government, um, FCC putting pressure on a private institution. Like he just pointed it out, said it publicly. And I think he said that in his monologue. Yeah. In the monologue. Yeah. I saw that when he had the guy play the mob boss. That was Robert De Niro. That was in a different sketch, but he also, I think said it, this is why we need to fight for free speech. So I think that's enough where it's just like, it's going to be on Disney, whether or not they want to fight that fight. Then, uh, and that's my whole point. What I keep saying. When I even talk about Trump's list, Trump has a list of people that he wants to attack and. And you had the FCC chair make a blatant threat. But all we're having these conversations about free speech and, you know, comedians are surprised that Trump is doing it. Like, can we look at the other issues? That felt hurtful. Oh, y'all are the poster children for this. It's only you and Andrew. Every time I see it, it's like him, Andrew, Rogan. Y'all are the poster children for it. Oh, really? Y'all couldn't believe this? You know, I wanted to be a part of the conversation for most of my career. Now that I'm in it, not that great. Not that great. Y'all was doing okay before. But you know what, though? The funny thing about the conversation is every time people bring it up to me, I'm like, guys, I promise you, they just did not know. I know it sounds crazy. But here's the thing. I'm not shooting nobody no bail, but it's just hilarious, right? People say, comedians don't know the stakes of this, so they shouldn't be talking to the politicians. And then when things like this happen, they're like, y'all should have known better. Yeah. Which one is it? Which one is it? Which one is it? I think their point is we shouldn't have talked to them. Y'all should have talked to them. Yeah, I would just say if I have a chance to talk to a guy, and I literally looked up because I was like, how big of a difference did we make? Polls when we interviewed him were too close to call. Trump typically overperforms in the polls. It's probable if we don't talk to him, he still wins. But I was like, let's talk to the guy, see if I can get through to him at all. I don't think I did. Me and Dolly Bishop, the president. Black Effect Network. We spoke on a panel for Axios the other day. And man, I thought it was a trick question because it was a live audience. The lady was like, would you do an interview with Trump? I'm like, I don't have no fucking choice. He got the FNC in his pocket. I don't know what you mean. What is this? Even without FCC threats, you'd do it. You're a good person. Oh, yeah, I would. No, I would. Yeah. Why would not? Yeah, I trust you to interview more than most people. Bro, I grew up on fucking Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey. They interviewed people who ate folks. Yeah. Jeffrey Dahmer literally ate people. Yeah. Charlie Manson had a coat when he was killing folks. Of course I'm going to talk to Donald Trump. Absolutely. What are you talking about? She went to Cuba and interviewed Fidel Castro. The people who complained would say, yeah, but those are journalists. Okay. Yeah. I don't know what that is anymore. I don't know what that means. What does that mean? I don't know what that means anymore. Because the journalists, the so-called journalists, are the journalists the people that's on cable dudes all the time? They've been asking pussy-ass questions for the last decade. Yep. Are the journalists the people that's in the press room? Because they've been asking pussy-ass questions for the last decade. That's why the best questions. Charlamagne's on fire right now. It's the truth. That's why the best questions have been coming from the new media and coming from people who aren't the so-called journalists. So it's like, what's the problem? Damn. It's just the truth. The sexiest Charlamagne has ever been. Man, shut the fuck up, man. What happened? I'm too gay for you? No. There's no such thing. You can't. I don't think there's too many people who can out-gay me. You haven't hung out with enough white people. Yeah. Yo. Tell them about that. Okay, verbally then. Tell them verbally about the human shots. Yo, Mark Dagnon was telling us he took body shots off of dudes and we were like, that's crazy. So you just drank the shot glass off of their stomach? And he was like, no. You fill their belly button with liquor and then you out-gay them. I didn't even have to say that. Eh. What? Charlamagne. Come on. I've never done that, but that's not gay. How? What? Is it straight? Gay would be like, like, like using a guy's dick to stir a drink and then sucking this. Like, you know, you put the straw in your mouth real quick to lick the liquor off. That's just sucking a dick. Yeah. Yeah. What are you saying? I didn't say suck it. You don't suck the straw. You might do like this and then, you know, put the straw in your mouth. You put your mouth around the straw and then you inhale. So imagine. What do you think sucking a dick is? Imagine. Imagine using a dick as a straw. That's not sucking a dick. No. You don't suck a straw. You suck straws. Yes. How did the liquid go through it? Oh, no. I meant the straw you use to stir the drink. I don't mean like the. Oh, like a spoon. Like. No. You know, the little. Like a shaker or something. The straws that aren't suckable. Like a coffee you put sugar in. Yes. That's what I'm talking about. The stirrer. The stirrer. You lick it. The stirrer. You lick it. That's sucking a dick. No. That's just licking it. You use the dick as a stirrer. Saying that's. Yeah. That's. You just lick the little bit of coffee off the dick. Yeah. But go back to drinking your coffee. You've seen porn. You know, they lick the dick. That's the beginning. That's just you're sucking. Really? Yeah. I don't watch gay porn. So I wouldn't know. You don't watch. Straight porn has dick sucking too, dude. Oh, I thought you. Like what? No. Is it. Hey, this is why the title is perfect. Because this is the smartest guy I know. I know. I know. Yeah. I thought you. Perfect title. No. Back to Chris's point. Chris, what you said is absolutely right. And that's what I've been trying to motherfucking say. I just, I felt like this was too safe for the moment. Because at this moment, it is bigger than Jimmy Kimmel. So you're saying the stakes were too high to not go fire. Yes, man. You gotta go. You can't try to play both sides. You can't try to make everybody feel comfortable here. And I didn't like the tears. Goddamn. You know why I didn't like the tears? Why? You thought they were fake? Because he cried when he mentioned Charlie Kirk. Yeah. He didn't cry two weeks ago or a week ago when he got. I think he was crying that people thought he would celebrate the death of. Like, that is what hurt him. It's like, how would you think I'm that kind of guy? Yeah, that's how it is. He should have said that. No, no, no. I feel like he should have said that. Because it felt like he was just trying to do some performative emotion. If he's that good of a crier on command, he should act. I mean, he has that. He's back to travel. The man show. It wasn't acting, dude. I'm talking about. Jesus Christ. It was acting. No, it wasn't. The man show? It wasn't acting. That was this. Oh, you think that's just what he was in his life? That was a talk show. That's just where he was in his moment. But no, he used to do sketches and stuff like that. Yeah. Pretending to be calm and alone, for God's sake. That's true. That was great. And Oprah. He should have got an Emmy for that. It didn't bother me, none. But my point is, I felt like when he was getting emotional, he was doing that to show the other side, hey, I do care. You know? And then he did the apology. Apology. Not an apology. You thought he said, I'm sorry. That's how the tone sounded. Yeah, the tone felt apologetic. But he never said, I'm sorry. I don't mind it, man. Like, because if you. If you go hard. Jon Stewart rolls to the moment. If everybody goes hard, like, when is it ever going to stop? I understand your point. Stephen Colbert rolls to the moment. And I like Jimmy. But I just feel like. All they just said was, fuck Trump. No, they didn't. They spoke to the environment that we're currently in in regards to democracy. I understand his point. His point is, a lot of eyeballs. A lot of eyeballs. A lot of eyeballs. A lot of eyeballs. A lot of eyeballs are on you right now. You could really make a point because this has become larger than us. This has become an attack on free speech. This has become an attack on our constitution. You can say something like that. Yes. Gotcha. Okay. That's all. I'll concede. That's a good point. That's all. Yeah. No, and then hopefully he hears this or he decides, he goes back, we got our show. Now, tomorrow, we're going to drop this online and it's going to be a crazy monologue. Let's go. I got my sorrow out of the way. I got my apology out of the way. Empathy's out there. Let's go now. Maybe because Trump threw another jab. Trump came again. You know? Oh, really? Yeah. Trump was basically like- He's upset. Yeah. How could they bring him back? We sued him for $16 million last time. Let's see what we can get this time. Yeah. Trump came right back with it. He said, they told me he was getting fired. He puts himself in it. He kind of admits that he had something to do with it. Trump threatens to sue ABC. What's the headline, Chris? Trump threatens to sue ABC over Jimmy Kimmel's sudden return to air, A True Bunch of Losers. He is funny, dude. Bad president, good president. He's funny. He is. Oh, no. Where's the tweet at? Probably got to scroll up. Last time. Oh. I'll look it up if I can find it. He's got another arm. Yeah, he is yet another arm of the DNC. And to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major illegal campaign contribution. I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do. Wow. They are moving like some mobsters. Like some gangsters. Really? Yeah. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 million. This one sounds even more lucrative with A True Bunch of Losers. Now, you know what? To your point, Akash, he did tweet this later on in the evening, and I know they do. They tape in the afternoon. Yeah. So he did this monologue before this. So yeah, tonight we might get, you know, what I'm looking for right now. And just what I'm looking for right now is just for him to just, you know, stand up for democracy. Like, you know, there's no need to play it safe at a time like this. Especially when you still might get your head cut off. That's true. There's so much hypocrisy here, but the one that really kills me is when Trump tries to make this about ratings, right? Like, Republicans historically have been the party hands-off government, right? Like, Democrats over-regulate, over-government everything. Like, we got to step back and let the free market cook and do what it does. Now he gives a fuck about ratings. Now this guy should go because of the fucking ratings. Now they're that much in the weeds of the success of a fucking TV network. It's such blatant bullshit. Jesus. You know, another hypocrisy I've noticed, you guys heard the H-1B visa thing. They're going to charge $100,000 for H-1B visas. Yeah, I don't understand that. What is it? Now, they've walked some of it back, but the initial thing is an H-1B visa hire, you had to pay $100,000 a year, maybe for each hire initially, and then they've walked it back to something else. Either way, a lot of people just hearing that you're going to charge for H-1B visa people and keep them out of America, a lot of conservatives were very happy about this. America is for Americans, blah, blah, blah. You are supporting DEI when you say, - Bring it down. - Hey, you know what? when B visa is it's the most qualified person you can find to do the job. So bring him to America and let him do the job. When you say, I don't want these engineers coming for India from India and taking our jobs. What you were saying is I want diversity in engineering. I want equity in engineering. And I, as a white person want inclusion in engineering or medicine or whatever other field you want DEI. You just want it for you. Y'all are the same on both sides. It drives me insane that you don't see that how you not want the smartest people in the world coming to America. Isn't that what capitalism is? Isn't that what a free market is? Isn't that what giving the best and brightest, the best positions is now suddenly you're not okay with it because you're not getting the jobs. Yeah. DEI. Y'all some cucks. Y'all some cucks. Where do we go from here, man? I say, bring in more Indians. That's my general solution. And Taiwanese. And Taiwanese. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We need Taiwanese engineers in India. That's the answer. I actually believe majority of white people in positions of power wouldn't have any problem with that as long as they can control you. They are actually. They do control you. You're on a visa. That's what I mean. But they want ultimate control. As long as they can control you and you work for them, they have no problem with it. Maybe people in power. I don't think people in power were super. Felt one way or the other by the H-1B visa thing. It's a lot of people on Twitter who could be bots. That's another thing. How much of what we're reacting to is by myself included is bots. When y'all realize how deep the bot game is, you will really stop caring. I'm finally starting to, I heard 62% or something like that. It's unbelievable. Like there was articles about this shit three years ago. Chris, how long we've been on this shit? Like we know, been noticed it was bots. The YouTube videos people are creating are AI generated. Like this shit is not real. Like they don't really, I don't even think the world is as, this might sound crazy to some. I don't think the world is as divided as people make it. No, I don't think that's. On social media. Agreed. You're quite possibly right. I really don't believe that. When I saw that 62% thing, that was the first time I was like, oh, maybe it really is that many bots. And then I, you know, I still forget and whatever, but like, you might be right. Maybe we'll finally wrap our minds around the idea that so much of this is fake and the real life is out there. In real life, we're not super divided. And you'll see, you'll really see it when you hang out around a lot of places. Cause some artists get so much shit online. Like, like, and I use big Cardi, for example, they get so much shit online that they sometimes forget how much people loved them in the real world. And then they put out an album and it goes number one, and then they go do shows in the arena is packing. They like, oh shit. Yeah. Cause this shit on social media is some bullshit. Yes. People hire bots. They create these campaigns just to motherfucking attack you. Yeah. I don't know anyone who dislikes Cardi. Really? National Treasure. I mean, you, okay. If you're funny, you're going to get forgiveness. And for us, that's part of what gave Trump so much grace for the eight years. I ain't seen nobody chuckling in a minute. That motherfucker ain't said no shit. He stopped being funny. It's the problem. Yeah. He kind of fell off. No, he kind of fell off. No, he ain't said nothing that slapped in a minute. No, I know. I chuckled a little bit at true bunch of losers. And if he kept doing that, he'd probably, I'd probably have him on again. No, you wouldn't. But you know, that's not, that's a great question, Akash. Yeah. Would y'all interview Trump again on, I would interview Trump in a fucking second. You got to. In a fucking second. Would you handle it differently? Yeah. Now my thought process at the time was I want to get to certain questions about the rhetoric. That was the main thing I wanted to ask, but I knew I needed to kind of like make him comfortable and let him feel like he wasn't being attacked. Now the vibe would be a little different because he already knows what we've said at this point. So like, I'd still try to be as civil as I could because in my mind, if I get him to get up and walk out, that would look great for me personally, but it would be a clout chasey thing to do. Like it wouldn't lead to any, anything. It would just be me having a moment where I kind of dunk on him. And then everybody on the left is like, look at this. You want the conversation. I want to have a conversation. Let's actually try to do something productive. Let's endeavor. I love that word. That's what Schultz says about Mamdani. He's endeavoring to make New York better. I want to endeavor to have a productive conversation. We probably can't. Almost certain we can't. I'm going to try. I, no, I have a, uh, I have a whole strategy to interview Trump. What's your strategy? I don't want to say. I would love to know the strategy. See, but here's the thing. Can you, what'd I say? I don't understand. Come on, straighten this conversation out. Come on. I don't know. I mean, I think when you sit down to interview somebody, there's a basic understanding or an acceptance of the, let's call it the terms of the interview. Some people aren't always going to tell the whole truth, but they're going to, if presented with facts or certain truth, they're going to respond to it. Like you could say anything to Trump. trump you could trap him and catch him in a million corners and a hundred lies directly you know showing quotes that directly contradict something he said five seconds previously it doesn't fucking matter there's a way to do it he's not gonna cope to any of it there's a way to do it and i'm okay i might as well say because i don't think i'll ever have the opportunity you gotta use the mirror effect on him not in the way that gavin newsom is doing although you literally have to play his own words to him don't say them to him don't say you said this because he'll just say you lie play it so your viewing audience and the people that are listening can watch his reaction to his own words let's see what we get from that you do that one time he realizes what type of interview this is he's out of it i don't care i uh that's why that's why you make sure that the first couple of things are your doozies like your joints like the ones that you the method you want out with bombs you can't come out with jabs that's right that's right i also think you just bounce off of him i don't think i don't think this is as wrong as you think it is yeah i know like we i don't know who we call them out for not being truthful he's like yeah i'm sometimes truthful no no no but you gotta be specific and show his own words to you said this about free speech back then what changed like show him like show him his words and like let him react to himself because we're always reacting to him and we're always reacting to him and we're reacting to him yeah when has trump ever had to react to trump it's a unique it's a unique strategy for sure i've never heard of it somebody said i was i forgot what i was listening to i know the screams would be popping if you did that the screams would be crazy well i don't know if it was rogan i was watching uh um john stewart but i forgot who he was talking to and he was just saying he used the term you might know the term i think i'll text you when i what i saw this but he was saying how he believes he truly believes trump believes everything that's coming out of his mouth right i forgot it's a term for it though it was based off somebody like a old politician our old celebrity i can't remember what it was but he was saying he believes that when trump talks he actually believes the things that are coming out of his mouth so if so show him show him what he said don't tell him show him he's looking at himself yeah i don't know i i don't think he believes everything that comes out i think he's like hey what's what do i need to say this speech okay i'm gonna say that this time yeah and then once that's gone it's a whole new i think it's just about winning yeah i just gotta win what makes me win i'll figure out the rest later yeah yeah um i just i just googled what do you call someone who believes their own lies trying to figure out the term a pathological liar that's kind of what i thought it might be there it is i was telling y'all earlier before the show started man there is no such thing as a liar anymore and i always said nobody cares about the truth when the lie is more is more entertaining but people really don't care no more no people will get on platforms and say bold-faced lies and not just say them like hey this is what i believe we'll say it and say like for example i'm the chairman of revolt right and then when revolt down and say tell me yo i see some shit he's the day he said dame dad said why can't lauren tell me who who said it i'm the chairman i can fire them she still hasn't facetimed me i could have showed her all the proof but she didn't want it so i was like well who said that you know i'm the chairman now i'll fire them she wouldn't tell me who i'm like oh my god what do we what do we even deal but the day where we're taping it i'm like what do we even do it so when you when we've gotten to this point nothing matters akash yeah you pick your own reality i saw the reaction to you and obviously we're biased toward you but the reaction to your stuff people were like dame really telling charlotte and it's like he's not telling him anything he's not answering anything well no but it depends if you watch the whole thing in full you have a different perspective i did i actually by the end i was like oh i think they actually like each other whereas before it seemed very confrontational but at the end it felt i was like oh i think i couldn't get away with saying this stuff about dame because i think dame has a level of respect for charlemagne that i don't dislike dame in no way yeah i don't think and i don't think charlemagne dislikes dame i was like oh i think they actually have like a friendly thing i don't know i don't know him outside of him coming to breakfast club we might have spoke like one time outside of breakfast club i don't know him outside of okay him coming to breakfast club okay but i enjoy that yeah that's fun it's very fun it's very fun to watch i'm saying like that's that's fun but let's it has to be fun with a level of honesty like when you just up here fucking with people's reality it's like come on but that's the world we live in nobody cares anymore and that's why that's something somebody like trump is mad Historically, politicians have mastered that, period. But now we live in an era where there's no curtain no more. So everybody can peel back layers, everybody can have an opinion about things. So it's very hard to keep up the lie. That's the people we should actually be very, very like, "Wow, that's impressive, bro." That you can keep that lie up in 2025 under all this scrutiny, you know what I'm saying? When you're bombarded with all this scrutiny and people calling you out on your shit and saying that you're lying, and you're like, "No, it's not me, it's y'all," god damn. If you can keep a straight face under all that scrutiny, that's impressive, dude. You got it. Let's pay some bills. Oh, let's pay some bills. You're listening to a quick ad. You know what else is quick? Selling your car on Carvana. Just put in your vehicle information, and we'll give you an offer. Done. No hassle, no negotiation, no guy from an online listing low-balling you. Which means by the time I'm done explaining this, you could have basically done it. Still haven't started? No. Hey, better late than never. Sell your car today on Carvana. Time for church announcements. Where you at this weekend, Akash? I'm in Cleveland, Ohio, but also go to my website, akashsingh.com. The Generational Triumph Tour. We're in theaters now. We got a bunch of big announcements on there. We already all sold out one show in Toronto in like three hours. That's fire. Love you guys. Dallas, get your shit together. Y'all keep telling me to come back to my hometown. Y'all are like the fourth city in pre-sale. Number four. Pick it up. Damn. Use the promo code "akash" for early access. Number four. Number four. Pick it up. Damn. Use the promo code "akash" for early access, depending on when this comes out. Dallas, y'all are the Eric Adams of Akash Ticket Sales right now, because he is fourth in polling in New York. Really? He's number four. Serious? Yes, he's fourth in polling in New York. He's behind my guy, Eric Siva? Nah, I guess. I guess. I think he would be third. Nah, he's fourth. I read it this morning. It was in the New York Post. No, actually, it was in the New York Times. Eric Sebo? Nah, I guess I guess. Nah, he's fourth. No, actually it was in the New York Times in the article about how the number of police misconduct cases has surged under Eric Adams. And they said he's fourth in Poland. Oh, that's just a feeling. I'm like, you're fourth in Poland. Why do you think you can still win? But yeah, he's number four right now. But listen, my church announcement is Saturday, October 11th from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. My fifth annual Mental Wealth Expo is happening at the Joelle and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center in Newark, New Jersey. It is a day of mental health education and healing, man. Some of the best mental health professionals in the country. Debbie Brown, Dr. Alfie Breland Noble, Elliot Connie, Dr. Jay Barnett. Oh, man. Corey Miner Smith is going to be there. It's a lot. We got some athletes that we're going to be announcing in the next couple of days and, you know, just some other I guess celebrity type you would call? Jay Shetty coming to this one? I want Jay, man. Our schedules never line up. Fine ass. That motherfucker handsome. I saw him. Oh, yeah. Again. I got a better look this time. Where you was at now? He was at the Miu Miu store. My wife was there spending money. And why you didn't say hi? Because I talk shit about him. My wife said hi. I was like, what are you doing? Hi. You really like Jay. That's the problem. No. You really like him. Because Jay is a nice guy. Jay is a great fucking guy. He's just not a monk. I would say this to his face. He's not a monk. He never said he was. The book is called Think Like a Monk. Think. Think, Akash. Think. Okay. Think like a monk. How would he know? Same way Steve Harvey can say, act like a lady, think like a man. Oh, is it think like a man, act like a lady? Which one is it? He's a man, so he knows how a man thinks. Act like a lady. He wouldn't say think like a lady because he doesn't know how women think. Who is he telling to act like a lady? He's telling ladies, here's how men think. Now you know. He might be progressive. How do you know he's telling ladies? I have a feeling he's not that progressive. All I'm simply saying, but I don't remember. All I know is Jay Shetty's a great guy and you actually like him and you need to stop. I would love to like him. Stop acting like you don't like him. He just stopped pretending you're a monk and we'll be friends. He's not. He never said he was a monk. His eyes, dude. I'm not even saying. His eyes are so much prettier than mine. It's like just shits on me. Boy band. Oh. Boy band. God. Leader of a boy band. Come on, man. That's wild. Has there ever been an Indian boy band? Yeah, Zayn Malik. Fine ass Zayn Malik. That motherfucker was fine, dude. Indian? Yeah, he was stepping up for all. All of us. Damn. Do me a side-by-side real quick, man. Let me see Zayn and Jay. Let me see. Nah, because I didn't know Zayn was Indian. I didn't know. He's half Pakistani. Nah, I'm just trying to figure out who's the finest Indian man. Z-A-Y-N. I never thought about this. Zayn versus Jay Shetty. That's not a good picture right there. You got to go to old school Zayn. Yeah. He's Indian? Half Pakistani. Motherfucker. He's gorgeous, dude. What's the other half? I think white. That's why him and Gigi worked. Okay, Jay got it, then. Jay the man. Jay got it. I mean, it's crazy. What is Jay? Jay's full. Oh, he got it, then. English Indian. They're the more Indians than Indian Indians. He got it. He got it. The moral of the story is Jay Shetty is a great guy, yo. I've had a lot of conversations with Jay. Dude, anybody who plays the Smiths big ups has to be very authentic and real. Zayn Smith. That's my man. Come on. Oh, he said Jada. I love Jada, too. Oh, that's right. You love the Smiths. Come on, Pinkett Smith went for Nose Carter. What are y'all talking about? These are great people. You know the problem with that folks be having? They've never met these individuals. You've never spent time with them. You've never kicked in with them. Look, dude, I'm telling you. I'm sure he's a nice guy. So why didn't you walk up to him at the La Boo Boo store? What was it? What did you say you was at? Why didn't you go say what's up to Jay Shetty? Because I talk shit. It would be phony. This is something I learned from you. Yeah. You can't talk shit and be nice. But what if you're tired of talking shit? What if you really just want to talk shit? Then I'll say, man, I'm tired of talking shit. But I ain't never tired of talking shit. He's the thing, Charlamagne. I don't get tired of it. Jay's never said he was a monk, though. He said he went to. Oh, my fucking goodness. Are you kidding me? He said he went there for a spell. I mean a spell, like a period of time. He visited a monastery. I visited a hospital. I'm not a doctor. If I were a book called Think Like a Doctor, I was like, yeah, I spent some time at a hospital. Okay, let me ask you a question. Is he not good at what he does? Has Jay not helped people? I don't know. Yes. I know people that Jay. I know people that live by Jay. I've gotten inspiration from Jay. What did you learn from Jay? A lot of different things. I think Jay. That sounds specific. That's not very specific, Charlamagne. But I'm different. I've read Jay's books. I've listened to his podcast. I think that I think Jay is one of the best in the mental health space. Okay, but what am I saying here that you disagree with? Nothing, but that's hate. That is hate. That's hate? That's hate. That's what I've been saying. These are people hating on Jay Shetty. They're mad that Jay Shetty is Jay Shetty. This is hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. There's a Trump supporter for Jay Shetty. You a Trump supporter for Jay Shetty. I judge people off their energy. And I judge people off. That's the most bullshit. Jay's got great energy. I don't care what y'all say. He's got great energy. And he. I really believe. You know who else had great energy? Who? Who? Donnie T. No, Neville. How you know? You're right. I know what's around him. You're right. You're right. Alex? He don't want to answer because he don't want to. So Jay Shetty may have lied about the monk stuff. He didn't lie. There's no reason for you to not like him. He didn't lie though. Yes, you do. He is a phony. I've said this the whole time. He's not phony. I don't understand what's happening here. He's not phony. He actually was in the school. In what school? This Christian consciousness shit. Whatever the fuck this shit is, man. Okay? He did not. That's the thing. He was not. No, man. Also, there's no monk school. Nope. This shit is crazy. Y'all just got to hug it out. That's it. I have no problem. You like him. I'd hug him. I would just tell him you are a phony. Akash, I feel that you too are a good judge of energy. Your energy wants you to speak to Jay Shetty but your ego is saying, I can't speak to Jay Shetty because I've shitted on Jay Shetty. But you actually are intrigued by Jay Shetty. You want to get to know him. You want to be his friend. You're lying. You see yourself in him just a little bit. I mean, I'm lying. Can I be honest? And your wife probably loves him. No, we both talked about how hot he was. That's no problem. We aren't insecure about these things. We talk about hot people. We both were like, yeah, he's hot. She shitted on him before I did. Publicly. And that's why I was like, why? Why you got so hot about it? It's on her TikTok. That's what you want me to do. You got to keep her honest. That's why I was like, you can't do that. You can't talk shit. And then, hi! Do it. You can't do it. That's Jay Shetty, though. Okay? Always remember, Akash, the most powerful prison is the one our mind creates. Would you get that off the phone? You know who said that? Jay Shetty. Jay Shetty. Okay. We must keep the promises we make to ourselves so we can trust the promises we make to others. What does that even mean? Jay Shetty. A lot of those quotes were stolen. Yo! Who cares? Who cares? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Everybody steals quotes. I'm right all the fucking time. Y'all post Drake lyrics all the time and act like y'all came up with them. Just because Charlotte is louder than me and Andrew's louder than me, y'all don't know how right I am all the fucking time. Y'all post Will Smith quotes. Y'all post Drake quotes. Who's y'all? Y'all post Gandhi. Y'all don't give the credit. Who's y'all? Gandhi? I post Gandhi quotes without giving credit? shout out to Jay Shetty Joe I got your back Jay okay Jay is a great guy I will say I saw a Jay Shetty speech that was actually beautiful he said he has a dream that one day young black kids he had that speech he had another beautiful speech it was about a ballot or a bullet it was a beautiful speech I don't know if you heard that one listen man what is this what else we got this is the Kosh guy man people like your handshake with Leo they like my handshake with Leo bro the bar is in hell bro like we like handshakes it's the slow news was that Tiana yeah you fast forward I had a screen the other day for one battle one battle after another which is a new action you know it's a comedy it's an action comedy you had to read the dialogue you had to read the dialogue you had to read the dialogue I couldn't remember what the title was he has one battle after another and so he held a screen in his movie he held a screen didn't even know what the fucking didn't know what the movie was called crazy people you know I went to a screening it was for one battle one time and time again one struggle after the next that was one battle Warner Brothers and their PR team hit me up and they wanted to have a screening for one battle after another I love doing screenings because number one you know you get to get all of these people in for free to watch a movie that's always a beautiful thing and this was great because the cast had no idea I mean the audience had no idea I was going to surprise them with the cast oh that's fire yeah yeah yeah so I came out just to say what's up and I was just talking to them about you know how we watch trailers for movies and try to figure out what the movie is but nothing gives you better context than actually talking to the cast and then they came out like Chase Chase was there which is our first movie Tiana was there Leonardo DiCaprio the writer director Paul was there yeah it was dope so fun but why it was just a regular handshake they said he went in for the third you gave him the third dap and he knew to let's see if we can find the part oh so the beginning yeah Leo is down dude Leo is like homies with Q-tip and just hanging out there's a podcast where Leo's just hanging out with Q-tip and they decided to do a podcast with Chris Rock and I think Dave Chappelle Leo's in the poker bro I don't here that's Chase one two three oh okay okay yeah yeah yeah I just expect everybody to know that I'm gonna be you know what I've realized growing up now getting older it be the it be more black people who don't go for the third dap really yeah I'm getting maybe because I'm getting older so the young boys be trying to give me handshakes you know what I'm saying like it ain't the and I'm realizing that I'm getting older I'm realizing I guess it's a lot more I do a lot more pounds and a lot of people are doing a lot more pounds now I guess since COVID yeah it's becoming the easiest way to do it bop bop bop bop yeah yeah yeah the third dap is rare though like you know that's love I feel like now people kind of just do the clap and then the hug it's not oh yeah the hug yeah yeah yeah I love a clapping hug I like the clapping hug love a clapping hug I like the clapping hug but there is something about that third dap that is powerful that's nostalgia that means we're like we're exchanging energy yeah you know what I mean yeah yeah I like that third dap I love that that's like I respect you can we play this it does matter Kanye West yelling at Kris Jenner yeah dude my wife keeps trying to get me to care about this I haven't watched it ugh I keep hearing about it no one from the family has taken any responsibility for my hospital visit but if it wasn't on my mind that's 50% of what people say at least or maybe am I lying it doesn't matter am I lying it doesn't matter it doesn't matter it doesn't matter I mean probably you just said you know I haven't finished this sentence it doesn't matter it matters to us and you it doesn't matter what the internet says it matters what we think yay so what do you think did you have an effect on my mental health yes yes yes I'm saying yes and I love you I watch these videos like this man and I think to myself what's the context for that by the way I have no idea this is a documentary I'm pretty sure Kanye West is releasing which is the crazy part oh he's putting this up I'm pretty sure Kanye is releasing this documentary might need to double check that I thought Michael Che played a role in this in Consequence am I making this up yeah Michael Che kind of it makes him look great Consequence says this is not a full edit well that's what Kanye put out Che is saying and he says it with love he's like checking Kanye for shitting on SNL's black members like at the end of the show and he's like why would you do that oh so that's a different video I think that's a different video but that's the same documentary I think okay the crazy thing is I'm going to watch yeah I'm definitely going to watch it I'm going to watch but I watch these videos okay this is the Michael Che one let me see this I don't have a chance to say anything for myself no I wasn't calling I said that's not coming back I'm the black comedian that made the film about Kanye that's fucking why would you do that to me oh man I love you though bro I was talking about I love you too I'm a fan why would you do that to me I wasn't doing it to you okay okay I work here like come on man like we treat everybody that come in like family and you don't sell us out like that's fucked up man we look up to you we love you what you got against us I mean I do have some things against us now that's cool but I mean airing it out like that without letting us be able to reply is kind of sad you wait you wait you wait you wait to the last song and then say that foul shit to us and we brought someone here let's talk about the way you like to be I don't know but but I'm not you know what I'm saying that's fine I get it but no you're a hero to us now we love you like seriously we love you that's wrong to do to us this is an interesting contrast though to see him yelling at Chris Jenner crazy but he's super humble and Michael Che on him like that I don't even know what the context of this is like I don't even know what the fuck did he say that what did he say that got Michael Che hot I don't know I guess he insulted the black cast members of SNL he might have said some shit about oh and I guess judging by Che's context clues he said something about the black comedians who made jokes about Cosby and Che was the black comedian who made jokes about Cosby on SNL Kanye got very quiet where's Kanye been I've fallen apart dude this boy working on this documentary that makes him look horrible this is I never seen hopefully he's taking the time to get his mental health his mental health is fucked man that's I don't think he's healing but I don't think we understand this guy's fully falling apart if he's quiet that's probably a good thing maybe let's pay some bills and then do some Asking Idiots and get the fuck out of here let's do some Asking Idiots cause Akash got a flight to catch and I'm going to a play tonight oh what play tonight I'm going to see the Outsiders really are you a big Broadway guy yeah I was at I was at Broadway last night too I took I took my my daughter's my daughter's birthday was recently so I took her to her and my other daughter to go see the play starring all your cousins what play starring all my cousins you know a play on Broadway stars all your cousins I don't oh Aladdin a lot of I'm going to tell you something not a lot of representation I didn't like that I agree I didn't like that I agree there was not a lot there was a lot of white people in Aladdin yeah you mean it was good though the cast the cast he is actually the genies oh fantastic oh man man that brother was so good what was his name he's this I mean he steals the show but I mean that's actually his job that's what he talks about let's see if I can find his name he's great I went and saw it you saw it yeah you have to do that when you apply for an Indian visa that's the test his name is Michael James Scott yes Michael James Scott man he is incredible I mean he star of the show star of the show star of the show not even close not even close and he's actually got a line when he comes out when he actually says that he's like you know I can't remember what the exact line is but he basically let everybody know I'm the show stealer and he absolutely does like he I don't want to say carries but he's definitely he's the only thing I remember from that show he's definitely the spark I forgot there was white people because the black guy stole the show so much but no that is what y'all do I thought about it after the fact yes the girl that played Japanese was good though stealing in general shut up man I was like which way you went with that I just want to make sure that you didn't think I know that can be interpreted in many ways but you see though you see how we make nice racist jokes towards each other I love I love this man but you know the only time it'll fuck it up is when you people from the outside tune in and be like did you say that totally bypassing all the racist jokes I threw at that you know what I'm saying because I let y'all think of the punchline because y'all are the racist I said steal the show I didn't say anything else a lot of people can interpret it however they want to but it was an honor article about it yeah it's from 2020 though so I don't know if it's the same thing what did it say what was the headline not enough Indian actors yeah Aladdin is not white huh oh wow well Aladdin's technically not an Indian thing but yeah I'll take it we'll take it Middle Eastern yeah I think it's I went to Morocco with Dove actually and I was like this feels like what Aladdin was trying to replicate to me damn alright let's do some asking idiots man any advice or tips on being a girl dad especially with what's going on with the world today this is your answer dude because I don't have a daughter so I underscore B underscore that underscore jiggy, man. I just give you the advice that my mom gave me, which is simply love your kids, man. And I am at the point in my life where I refuse to stress about anything concerning my children because it's out of my control. And you know what made me feel like that, Chris? What? Her driving. Oh, my God. Oh, he's driving. It's the one advantage of raising kids in New York City. We got in a car. It's like I'll go crazy if I don't learn to let go. And I think it's good for me because, you know, this is our senior year. So she's visiting colleges. She's going off to go to school. If I don't learn to let go now, I'm going to drive myself crazy. Does she want to go to college in Jersey or somewhere else? Oh, no. She definitely wants to be down south. How big, in choosing the car, I'm assuming you could have gotten any car. How big was like safety features? Like how big did that factor into it? She knew exactly what she wanted. Okay. Got her exactly what she wanted. Oh, you got her exactly what she wanted. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's a nice, cool car. It's not crazy expensive. No, no. Okay. It's not even crazy expensive. But it's just like, you know, the thoughts that can go through your mind from driving, right? Like you think about everything from accidents to run-ins with the police to guys trailing. You think about all of this shit. Like if I don't let this shit go. This is God's way of testing me and saying, I'm giving you this little lesson in freedom to allow her to be free. And I'm just, you know what? It's like you're slowly easing into, okay, drive around. You're responsible. She's not like out all the time, you know? Can I ask what school she's looking at? I'm curious. HBCUs? One. Are you rooting for that one? Um. I wouldn't mind it. I have different reasons for why I want her to go to different places. A lot of it is accessibility. Mm-hmm. Like, Chris, I don't know how you fucking even sitting in here without pulling your hair. I mean, I've been on my phone this whole episode. I need to be able to get there or have somebody get to her fast. Oh, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I got my picks. But she does have one HBCU on her list, which I wouldn't mind because of her upbringing in Jersey. Right? Her upbringing in Jersey hasn't been the most diverse, but. You got money. Yeah, but it's not. I mean, that's the great point, but it is a class thing. It's not like. I'm lying. It has been diverse. Because it's not just white. It's white. It's black. It's Indians. It's Asians. Like, it's a class thing. So, it is a very diverse experience. You take her with you to Newark? No, never took her with me to Newark. That's foul, dude. Never took her with me. How are you going to get her to experience Newark? It's the world. What's your. With cars, what's your take on your kids and Ubers? Can't do it, bro. What? Why? To me, that's the safest. I feel the same way. I put my kids in Ubers all the time. My wife is a little. Well, I'm missing it. What's going on here? I don't think there is anything. The Uber could be like a sexual deviant or something? Yes. But I'm like, you're tracking it. You can watch if you really want to. That's true. But if you got a nut job. And I was thinking about this the other day. Tell me what y'all think about this. Our whole society. Is built on trust. Yeah. Really crazy. We don't think about that. But it's like getting on a plane. You're getting on a plane. Yeah, yeah. You got to trust the pilot to be in their right mind. You got to trust the Uber driver to be in their right mind. You got to trust the person making your food to be in their right mind and not poison you. Our whole shit is built on trust. And I've been doing this to lessen my anxiety about things. When you look at the world in its whole totality like that, our batting average is pretty good. Yeah, we good. Oh, that's a great point. It is. That's a beautiful perspective. We tend to look at the worst of. Everything and be like, oh, the world is so fucked up. But if you really think about how we interact with each other every single day and don't fuck over each other. We're peaceful as fuck. We pretty are. We're a pretty civilized society for the most part. I love that. For the most part. But I don't know, man. So my advice to you. The main reason I can't give you no advice, I'll be that jiggy, is because I'm so much. I'm so learning this shit, bro. I'm so figuring this shit out. I don't know if you ever truly figure this shit out. All you can. For being a girl, for being a girl, dad. Yes. Communicate. And then prepare yourself for what you get. Got it, man. And you have to take it. You got to accept it. He's like. You're going to hear things. Those conversations from mom. I've heard things I didn't want to hear. I know things I don't want to know. But you know. But I know. That's important. There's probably like 2% that I don't know, but I know 98%. And she trusts you. You made a save for her to tell you. Mike, you know, I don't want to put my kid's business out there, but they've called me in situations where if I had called my. Called my dad and said, this is what's going on. He would have helped me, but he would have smacked me around first. He would have beat me up. He would have. You know, like there have been like real. And I'm like, all right. Think about what happened next time. Maybe make. You know, like. I'm down with everything not sex related. No, you have to be. No, I don't. You do. No, I think I agree with Chris until he says it out loud. And then I'm like, that sounds crazy. I could tell you guys. It starts to sound crazy. Crazy. It sounds crazy. Crazy. Sounds crazy. Jesus Christ. DJ Mike Torch underscore says, without saying names, what's your biggest I told you so moment? Akash? I was arguing with a friend of mine about Jay Shetty. I said, I don't hate the guy. He's just a fucking fraud. And it is what it is. He's not a fraud, man. Why do you keep calling Jay Shetty a fraud? I had two big I told you so moments. We also. I've been saying robots are going to kill us for 10 years. Everybody's been laughing at me. We had this guy come on the pod today on Flagrant. And he's like, yeah, no, they're going to kill us. It's inevitable. Oh, I'm reading my. Oh, man. Damn, I don't have it on me. One of my favorite books to read right now, I just read, is called How Technofeudalism Killed Capitalism. And everybody's worried about Democrats, Republicans. Y'all better worry about the technocrats. Yup. Okay? This shit is about to. This shit is not going to be a game. And I'm not talking about 2060. I'm talking about 2030, 2035. We're going to miss arguing about Trump. We're going to miss this. You're going to miss arguing about Democrat, Republican? Yup. Like, this shit is no joke. Like, we talk about class systems. Y'all got to read this book. But when you talk about class systems, like, there's going to be so many different underclasses. And the underclasses, the robots are going to take over so much that they're just going to have humans doing shit for the sake of. of doing shit. And it's not. They're not even going to be getting paid in money. They're going to be getting paid in, like, credits. Meaning, like, you. Oh, you need to go to the doctor? You need health insurance? You got to. You got to put in a certain amount of hours to get your health insurance. That's a better system than we have now. Yeah, I know. I'll take that. You need food? You got to go put in a certain amount of hours to get your food. But it's, like, meaningless work. Yeah. It's not even anything that actually makes the world go around. They're just. Go pick up trash for three hours. Just to give you something to do. Just to give humans something to do because the robots are going to be completely running the shit. Read that book. It's called How Technofutilism Killed Capitalism. Who's the author? Sounds dense. And he wrote it really good, too, because he wrote it like he's writing to his father. No, no. It's not a tough read. Al really scoffs at this whole thing. Yeah, because it's, like, it's whatever. Why are you going to worry about it? Just live life. Enjoy life. That's it. That's crazy. Just be positive. Put it back into the kid thing again. How do you care about politics and then have this on a much more existential threat? Wait a minute. Politics is the here and now. Oh, yeah. It's called Technofutilism, What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis. I know I probably fucked his last name, but the book is great. DVR94 says, How gay would you get to save your family? Alex looking like he's saving them every day. Damn. Al. Look, you dress like me today. Get out of here. I'm dressed like Alex? Yeah, you look exactly like me. Put some cargoes in a sweater. A sweatshirt? Yeah, yeah. The pants are. The new balance? We look exactly alike. Yeah. So welcome. Welcome to the team. This ain't gay. This is Alex's most heterosexual outfit in months. Oh, really? I said that to him. I've been complimenting him. I love this outfit because it's not as wildly gay as he normally would. The most heterosexual outfit in months is hilarious. What makes it so hetero? It's just not. He's not doing too much. His nails aren't done. It's just like. It's just a. It's like a little experimental, but just enough that it's not embarrassing that he's 37. Oh, he got some pussy. What's you mean? You got the pussy recently? My wife? Get out of here. Whoa, don't use the term wife. Let's not disrespect Alex's fiance, but it's not your wife. Your forever fiance. All right. You were brilliant. You were brilliant. How, Dave, would you get to save your family? I would absolutely take in the butt to save my family. What are y'all acting like? These gay hypotheticals are crazy. Who's the guy that's like, I wouldn't fuck a dude to save my mom? How old is mom? Mom. That was my first question. Come on, bro. How old is your mom? You could extend your mom's life for five years. Five healthy, happy, happy years. Five years. What I got to do exactly? Get fucked in your butt. I don't even like how you say that. I thought you can't outgay anybody. You see? Hey, hands on the desk. Hands on the knee. Oh, my God. Bent over. slide in to completion. - All right. What are y'all doing, dude? You guys don't care about anything but your own sacred asshole. Let's do one more. Your virginal asshole means that much to you? You said to save your family. Charlamagne, you have children. You're not a good father. You said mom. What about your kids? I didn't think about kids because I don't have them. What if the robot is tricking you? I'll suck all your dicks to save my daughter. She ain't born yet. That's not a part of the hypothetical. The robot makes you think your kids are in danger. You're trying to not be gay for the hypothetical and making up parameters. Well, if you tell me my kids are in danger, can I at least check first? Yes. Because if you don't check first, if they be like, yo, your kids are in danger, you got to suck everybody's dick and you suck all the dicks and you're like, ha ha, we were just playing. No, but you check first. You got to check first. All your kids are in danger. Because if you don't check first. Even the ones you might not know about. In danger. Because if you don't check first, you just wanted to suck some dicks. You don't suck multiple dicks. I don't know why we're having this conversation. Because it was an ask an idiot. Yeah, it's an ask an idiot. I didn't ask this. I just answered honestly. Yes, to be totally honest, I would be as gay as I have to be. Thank you. Hey, happy Father's Day coming up. Let's end on that one because we're going to go. We're going to go. 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