Who Owns The Blame For Kids Online

A promotion list gets changed at the top, and the silence afterward is almost louder than the decision. We kick things off by breaking down reports that multiple Black male officers and female officers were removed from a brigadier general promotion list, and why that instantly collides with today’s DEI backlash narrative. We talk merit-based promotion, what “qualified” really means after decades of scrutiny, and why leaders who refuse to explain themselves can still damage trust across the ranks. 

Then we take a hard left into culture with the Tank versus Tyrese Verzuz. We debate whether R&B even fits the Verzuz format, why preparation matters, and how one improvised joke turned into the night’s most quoted moment. From there, we get into Drewski’s viral parody and the bigger question underneath it: is satire protected art, or does comedy still need boundaries when the target never opted in? 

We close with a run of stories that all point to the same theme: accountability. A comedian gets hit with a huge lawsuit tied to a Lion King translation joke, and we compare that energy to parents suing Meta and Google over teen mental health and addictive design like infinite scroll. We talk parental controls, personal discipline, and whether the legal system is starting to reward blame-shifting. We also touch on TSA pay chaos, political gridlock, and a coach blaming the bracket after a 50-point loss. 

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Yeah, I think everything's working well. I think going on early kind of helped me out. Uh, not sure if it helped everything else out, but right now helped me out. Uh yeah, that's it. That's it. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go. I've I've read up on most of the topics we're gonna talk about. One topic I didn't read up on, but everything else I read up on. So hopefully everything's working well. Internet seems to be working well, so no jinx on that, and we'll move it on.

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Yeah, how was your week?

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Um, how was my week interesting? I guess to say the least, uh, different than last week. Uh, next week's gonna be more interesting, so I think every week after is gonna add uh to it every week. But all in all, slow steady wins the race. So it's one day at a time, one day at a time. Okay. Sound loud. I need to turn myself down.

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Good. What's that on your couch back there?

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That's funny. Uh, it's a tape measure and my computer, and then my note taken. So I was measuring stuff for fixing my closet, uh, that luckily you can't see. And then uh I had my note taken. I had an interview this week, so I was in the interview taking stupid notes. No, I shouldn't say stupid, taking notes, taking notes. That was wrong of me to say stupid. Yeah, taking notes.

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Yeah, just omit that comment, y'all. Well, that's good. So I had a good week. That's good.

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Yeah, I gotta give Stream Labs some credit, uh, but we could do that later on. Not Stream Labs, but uh Elgato. I gotta give them credit later on, but we could do that later. Whatever, man. Whatever.

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She'll never be sponsored again.

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I'll do it later on. I'll do it correctly later on, but right now, you gotta make sure you make it good, man.

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Cause you know, you might ask, they might be watching, you know what I'm saying?

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Good, they should be watching.

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You got a camera ready to show the stuff to no, no, no, uh-uh.

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Don't worry about I got everything how I want everything, so I got it, I got it.

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You know, as a suggestion, you could always like take a picture of it and then show it on the show, not doing that.

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I mean, like, but anyway, we'll talk about that later. I'm about to say something real crazy.

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This uh whatever he's saying is not reflection on me. I would trust me, send it to me if you like, I will do a better job. Don't don't hold it against us.

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That's crazy. Not send it to me, I'll do better. That's crazy. That's probably the third craziest thing I heard all day.

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Constructive criticism.

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That is crazy. Send it to me, I'll do better.

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That's like somebody eating a candy bar. The candy bar is good. Where is it at? Oh, I don't got a picture of it, but trust me, it's good.

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Like I'm gonna show them what they need later.

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All right, okay, all right, all right. Pressing on.

Promotion List Removed Without Answers

SPEAKER_01 7:35

All right, so I suggest let's start off with let's start off, let's start off with the uh Secretary Hegsef joint. Oh, okay. Yeah, let's start off with that and so we get some more people in the building. How many people you showing? I don't care. Okay, so I'm not looking. But let's start with that one first. Okay, let's see. All right, so our very own secretary of war, Pete Hesek Hexeth, has been uh quite an interesting character since he's been appointed the Secretary of Defense, now Secretary of War. As you know, when the new administration rolled in, there was some changes when it comes to DEI and the perception of folks who are hired in positions because of perception of hired by DEI. I'm sure you're aware of the former chief of staff, uh General CQ Brown, who was dismissed, along with some other officials who were either a minority or female. And so here we are back again. So there's been reports that Secretary of War P. Hexaf has removed several other people from the promotion of brigadier general lists. And these folks impacted are black male officers and female officers. So, what that means is when you are an 06, in order to be promoted to general, you get put on the list, and this list is sent up to the Secretary of War to approve it. In this case, for whatever reason, the Secretary of War removed these folks from the list. Now, to be fair, we don't truly know why. We don't know why, because you they had something derogatory in their records. Maybe they weren't qualified. I don't know. But one thing to put in context is that if they made it all the way up to his level, nine times out of ten, they were more than qualified for the job. Something else is amiss. We don't know what it is. I'll pause there.

SPEAKER_04 9:51

I mean, I think you recapped that spot on. Uh, I don't know if this is the first time this ever happened in history. That's what I would be more interested to know is if this is the first time this has ever happened. I don't know if you're privy to that.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

I don't know. I'm sure folks were. Well, I think the key question is I'm sure it happened in history, but I don't know if it was because of race or gender. Maybe because who knows? We don't, I don't know the exact reason why. But the reason why this has brought so much attention is because of the the change in policy when it comes to DEI, the perception that folks who are in who are African American or minority or female put into positions of leadership, the perception that they were put in there because of DEI practices. How much of that do you think is true? You mean as far as how many people was put in those positions under DEI? That's a good question. Um I can't definitively say that has never happened. Perhaps. Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 11:00

Then if you're gonna ballpark, I give a ballpark number. Like out of 10 people, uh how many of them do you think were in DEI? Just random office. I know this is all hypothetical, so just randomly.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Okay, so out of 10 in a random office two, two, two out of ten, I would think. Okay, that's not too bad. Okay. That's to say, I'm not saying that it never happened. I'm sure, you know, I mean, because over time when DEI was at the forefront, they wanted to make sure there was positive representation across the board.

SPEAKER_03 11:38

Right.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

If you remember years back, they did a study on the number of black officers in the military, and it was significantly low. Then you had the period between George Floyd years up to this administration, where there was a big push to making sure folks were represented properly. Right. So that's why I would say two out of ten. But I think for me, the danger is when we get into a point where we assume because you are a you are a minority or a female, that you get selected for a senior position. That's the only reason why. I think that's true.

SPEAKER_04 12:18

Yeah, I think that it's a dangerous slippery slope. And uh I think it's dangerous on both sides. Also accusing Secretary Heges um for not selecting them because he thought they were selecting a DI, because I don't think he ever said why he actually didn't select them.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

Yeah, he's not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

Yeah, which which I I guess begs to the question, oh man, this is where it gets interesting. Would you ask somebody else, any other president who did that, to tell everybody why they didn't?

SPEAKER_01 12:54

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_04 12:55

Like, say it was Joe Biden, say it was Obama, say it was the Bush, uh, would you ask him, or whoever their Secretary of Defense was at that time? Uh, would you ask, or would the question come up, why didn't you select them? That's why I would be interested to know if this has ever happened in history. I guess it has because they're not making a huge deal out of it. I think it's extra unordinary, because like you said, when you make it up to that level, how many people have scrutinized your records throughout years of service? You know, it's not like they've been in for 10 years, they've probably been in for 20, 25, 30 years plus. And so it's like if you've been scrutinized all that time, it's like, and you make it up to the hiring authority or the top dog and they say no, I would think somebody would ask a question. Because how many people, I mean, I don't think you know, maybe you do. Uh I should have just asked the question, not assumed that. Uh, how many people had to look at their records to go to that level?

SPEAKER_01 13:59

I don't know the exact number, but quite a few. I mean, quite a few. Through their media supervisor, which is more likely a two-star.

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Right.

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And then I would imagine it would go to like a major command review who's a four-star.

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Right.

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And then straight through probably, I would assume, Congress or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 14:18

Somebody at the Pentagon, probably.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Yeah, it's gotta, yeah, it's a lot of people that had to look at those records. So why these particular folks, you know, specifically, you know, I mean, and then I mean, if the shoe fits, I mean, if you look at it, if they're talking about DEI and the practices of DEI, you look at the history of the folks who were removed because they were they were more than qualified, but because they were a minority, and then you have this where you have these folks removed from the list and they just happen to be African American and females, you can't help but think what is the issue? Yeah, of course, they're not gonna come out and say I removed them because they were black or female, he's not gonna say that, but I do think it's fair for uh the media to come to an assumption and ask the question, and I think it's fair for him to be able to say, like, look, this is the reason why I just didn't think they were qualified. Then we would just have to come to our own conclusion, but we didn't get that.

SPEAKER_03 15:27

No, you're right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

That begs a question like

Merit Versus Diversity In Leadership

SPEAKER_01 15:30

this. We talked about this before on previous shows about uh merit versus diversity. You know, the example I believe I gave one time is you've got an African-American uh individual and a Caucasian individual and a Latino individual going up for the same job, and they're all both all three are equally qualified. But let's just say the hiring authority wants more representation by a specific race, and he decides to select the person who's Latino. Is he wrong? I don't think so. The key is are they all equally qualified? Yes. And if he decides, he or she decides I want to hire the individual who's a Latino because I want more Latino representation in my formation, in my leadership formation. What's wrong with that? I mean, they're all qualified, right? Now, it's one thing if out of the three, the individual they selected, let's say the Latino is not nowhere near as qualified as the other two, but they select the Latino anyway. That's why you have an issue. Because now you just you're you're basing it off of of um of race outside of merit.

SPEAKER_03 16:51

Right. Right.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

But the thing in this case is you just don't know, you know what I mean? Like, and then the issue with checks and balances, too. Like, who overrides the secretary of war? The president. And will the president be will do that? Probably not.

SPEAKER_04 17:08

No, he would look crazy. I mean, you know what? I would read up on this. Uh there was a case uh a while ago where there was a female doing the same thing, and she got uh she didn't get the promotion, but then it went up to somebody else. I can't remember who at the time, I can't remember the name or position, but they overrid it, and then she ended up getting her promotion. But uh I don't think it was the Secretary of Defense who who who blackballed it, I guess if you want to call it that. I don't know what the proper term is, stopped it, blackballed it, whatever. But yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

Yeah, it makes me uh I don't know. I think I don't have to worry about that anymore, but it makes me concerned about because you know, when you're in a leadership position, what you say do matter. Okay and it can permeate down to the lower ranks. And if you have a person in a senior position like that making decisions based off of well, if these individuals, even though they're qualified, I'm not going, I'm not, I'm gonna remove them from the promotion list, how does that affect other folks? Well, here's why positions now that may be the same race or gender, people might look at them sideways like, hey, they're a DEI higher too.

SPEAKER_04 18:37

Wait, okay, wait. This is where I think we go left. And I know it's almost like hit dogs will holler, right? If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it must be a duck, right? So he never said that it was a DEI thing. And he's not an elective official. He was put into a position by the president of the United States. He really doesn't have to give an explanation for nothing. Who does he owe an explanation to? He's not an elective official. I can see if he was Congress and somebody elected him in that position, but he just was hired. So he doesn't owe anybody an explanation. If it's in his realm of his responsibilities as the Secretary of War, I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying he don't owe an explanation. Nor does he, nor can we assume, if he didn't say anything, why those people were not selected.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Well, that's where you're wrong on that last point. Yes, we can assume. We can.

SPEAKER_04 19:44

No, you can. I mean, you can assume anything you want. Nobody's saying you can't assume, but you have to be careful with assumptions.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Just like he can be, he has to be careful based on the message he sends. It doesn't matter if you were not an elected official or not. If you are in a position of leadership, which he is, he is in all in the same line of leadership position as the president, as the vice president. President was elected. It doesn't matter if you wasn't elected. You are a leader. Just like a commander is not elected, right?

SPEAKER_04 20:24

Correct, correct.

Transparency And Trust In Command

SPEAKER_01 20:25

Right? So, in other words, just like the commander don't have to explain it, but he should, he or she should, right? I mean, if you are in a position where you're leading people and you make a decision and it causes a bunch of dissension in the ranks, the right thing to do is to say something, is is to make an explanation, whether they like it or not. And furthermore, you know, they always say, like, you need to you need to write your own story. If there is no issue, or if he had a legitimate reason for doing it, what is the harm in saying I removed them from the list because I didn't feel like they were qualified? Period. That's it. Yeah, I get that. I get that.

SPEAKER_04 21:07

You're saying that you're saying the right thing to do, and I agree with you, that's the right thing to do. That is the right thing to do. But I mean, he really doesn't have to.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

That's the issue.

SPEAKER_04 21:19

Yeah, I think that you're right on this the dissension, dissension, I think the word is. The the the disruption amongst the formation ranks. You're absolutely right about that. At the end of the day, I don't want to say he probably doesn't care.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

He doesn't care.

SPEAKER_04 21:34

Okay. Yeah, I would hate to say it. It's obvious, I guess, that it's not on his forefront how this affects the force. That is probably the when I say the force, I mean Department of Defense.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

I just uh transparency is important. And I think it's a sign of it's a sign of. Leadership, of strong leadership, of being transparent. And it's no different than you tell somebody, you give somebody an order. They may not like it, your explanation, but you gave one. Right. And then there's some cases where you don't give one, like you're in the battle or whatever, you don't have time to tell somebody to take a heel or whatever. But in this case, if there's a narrative out there that states or is trying to state why he removed these folks from the list, why not address it? Why not? Yeah, I mean I agree. I agree with that. If there if the media is saying something, that means people in your ranks are saying something. And then not only that, people are going to scrutinize every decision, which they already are.

SPEAKER_04 22:46

Right.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

He makes in that respect. So why not say something?

SPEAKER_04 22:50

And maybe he's waiting for his PR people to uh uh to get give him the right the right verbiage to say, but anyway, we'll see. We'll see. Maybe next week he'll say something.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

He he don't give two ducks, man. And and then I'm not gonna, I wouldn't say like I'm sure there are some people out there that subscribe that this guy's doing a phenomenal job as a secretary of war. There's some folks out there like, yeah, this is what we need, a leader who don't give two shits or whatever. I'm sure there's people out there like that. Just like there are people out there to be like, I'm I'm happy I'm in an administration where we're gonna bomb the enemy into oblivion and we're gonna say what we mean. I'm sure there's people out there like that. I, for one, am not. I think this is I think it's ridiculous. You know what I mean? Like, you gotta get to a point where there's certain things that is expected of you from being a leader. There is. I don't think they get that. But anyway, moving on.

SPEAKER_03 23:50

Move on.

SPEAKER_01 23:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so then you had that

Tank Versus Tyrese Verzuz Recap

SPEAKER_01 23:54

one. Ah, let's move on to some funny stuff. So, for all you just full transparency, I'm not an R, I'm not really a big RB person, you know, back in the day. I like, you know, I like old school RB, like like new edition, Patty.

SPEAKER_04 24:09

I'm about to say, some people say Tank and Ty Tyrese are old school, depending on what your generation is.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

No, that yeah. If you if you think Tank and Tyrese are old school, just go listen somewhere else, man. Because you're that's another story. I was talking to my wife yesterday. We were watching old school videos, and my god, my god, there was no era better than the 90s. Oh my god, it brought back so many memories, man. The 90s was where it's at. The music, the clothing style, sports, entertainment, the 90s was where it's at. Now we're in a dark period. Anyway, that's another topic for another day. But as Pete alluded to, we're gonna talk about the Tyrese versus Tech versus Battle. For those who may not know what versus is basically it is a platform created by Swiss Beats, and I can't remember the other person's name, where they grab artists, usually old artists, and then they put them together and they do their hits back and forth for the people in attendance and watching. Um, they've had a lot of rap versus battles and stuff. They had a couple of RB and gospel battles. The reason why this one is pretty interesting is that these two individuals, Tank and Tyrese, they were once on a group called TGT. Tyrese, Genuine and Tank, or vice versus uh Tank, Genuine and Tyrese. I don't know. And according to Genuine, even when they were in a group, they would go back and forth with each other like brothers. You know what I mean? It was all like fun, but it was a healthy competition. So they did a versus, and before the versus, they was going back and forth on social media, jibber jabbering back and forth. So anyway, they did the verses, and it was quite entertaining. Again, I'm not a big tank and Tyrese fan, I don't know too many tank hits, not too many Tyrese hits. But what's up, Chris? What's going on, brother? Welcome. Good morning, man. But it was interesting, and so usually in these versus battles, they try to figure out who won. I will tell you, there was one particular point in the versus battle that I think the reason why they say tank won. Well, if you're in the comments, y'all put down there, if y'all watched it, who you think won. But anyway, I would love to play a clip of the one spot where I think Tank actually won the battle. I'll pause there if you want to comment on that before I play it.

SPEAKER_04 26:55

Yeah, yeah. Um, so I watched, I watched it this morning, man. I'll be honest, man. Versus is not meant for RB. It is not meant for RB. Uh it is more, I mean, hip hop steals versus, and I think we talked about the cash money no limit one, the JD Kiss one. Yeah, obviously Chris saw it. Uh so he uh I don't really know who won because they were so left and right with their stuff, and I think Tyrese has more mainstream hits lately. And uh what was his first uh song? Um Coca-Cola Joint. Yeah, that one. That one. Hitting out the commercial. No, that's a whole song. The Coca-Cola Joint, yes, it is. It's his very first single. This is very his very first. Oh now, I gotta look it up. Somebody help me out in the comments while I'm looking this up. Nah, man. Yeah, first single was on the Coca uh Sweet Lady. No, no, no, yeah, Sweet Lady. Yeah, Sweet Lady was a Coca-Cola commercial.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

No, it was not, man.

SPEAKER_04 28:13

Here we go. I'll play it. Don't worry, I'll play it. Goodness gracious.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Once again, I'll prove myself right again.

SPEAKER_04 28:21

Oops. Let me get this thing up and running. Goodness gracious. Tyrese Coke. There we go. Man, that was nineteen ninety-four. All right. Uh let me see if I got this vote uh for this here. Hey, hey, hey. Cooperate. Cooperate. Put this up here. Put this down here. Make sure. It's so hard to do this on the fly. We need an engineer. Alright. Uh let me give you access. I don't know if it'll play. Let me see. I don't think it'll play. No, you ain't gonna be able to hear it. I can hear it in my ear.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

Let me make sure I'm right before I actually you're right.

SPEAKER_04 29:40

It wasn't. It wasn't. It was always Coca-Cola. Always Coca-Cola. But uh Sweet Lady was his first single. Uh, but anyway, like I'll say, Sweet Lady, Lately, uh, Signs of Love Making, uh, all those are hits. Tank has some hits, and Tank has some hits that you just vibe out to. He's not really a live performer, hit maker. Either really is Tyrese, to be honest. And Tyrese brought out, I think he brought Chingy out. I didn't know Chingy had a song with Tyrese. I was like, man, who the hell is Chingy? I ain't heard Chingy in years. But uh, yeah, that's that's my thought on it. Man, Tyrese came out in '98. Goodness gracious. But uh at the end of the day, I don't I don't think any one of them won. Um it was it was very lackluster. It's not something that you listen to on a versus at all. Nah.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Nah, I disagree, man. I noticed on my um Streamlabs, I have no ability to share anything, so I wanted to play the video, but I cannot. So I wanted to play y'all the the one point or part of verses that I feel, and really the internet saying as well, why tank won. In fact, they said tank dominated. What? The only thing I will say that is an asterisk is Tank, the majority of the songs he sang were stuff that he wrote for people, and he brought out a lot of guests like Jamie Foxx and some other people or whatever, whereas Tyrese only had like one guest or something. But although he did, although technically in the versus joint, that's fair. You can do third songs and songs that you contributed to. So maybe Tank was a little bit more prepared. And if I could play this clip, which I thought was a highlight of the versus battle, that to me shows that Tank was ready. He yo, he got that dude good. But I will give you my rendition of it. There was one point of the versus battle where Tank was finishing up a song, and Tyrese was changing his wardrobe throughout the battle, and so while Tank was finishing up a song, people was waiting around. So Tank was singing, like, you know, he's he's back there changing his wardrobe, changing his wardrobe, and then Tyrese walks out, and throughout the whole versus battle, Tyrese had on this long black turtleneck, and so he was changing his clothes, but he changed everything besides the turtleneck. So Tank, which I thought was brilliant, and he's known to be like you know, an amateur stand-up comedian. I guess he spotted to get in comedy. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he he gets on the he's on the microphone and he says, You recycle that turtleneck, and then the band was all in sync with how he was singing. He was like, You recycle that turtleneck, and you can hit a reverb, turtle neck. Anytime you feel like you can take off that turtle neck, you gonna suffocate in this verses, and it's like turtleneck. It was and then it was so bad. Tyrese was singing along with him, and when he finally finished the set, Tyrese looks at the audience, he says, You know the hard part is trying to bring y'all back up because of this dang turtleneck. Go ahead and get it out, y'all system, start singing the turtleneck, get it over. So that was the whole joke of this of the whole versus battle was that one. He got them pretty good. So I personally enjoyed it. It was all right. I'm not a big RB head, but in comparison to some of the versus battles what that was rap battles, I thought it was pretty good, especially for RB one.

SPEAKER_04 34:03

Gene Harrison said the fans of the two won, but this versus battle was not it. I totally agree. I totally agree. What did y'all expect? What did y'all expect? I don't, I don't know. It's just like compared to the other verses in this versus, it was totally different. And I think that's the that's the the downfall of it. It's not it's not hip hop, it's not like with the cash money no limit one, bro. I was in, I listened to the whole thing and was sitting there bouncing around, singing along and all that. Man, with this, with this one, it's just like and I'm gonna compare that to and I really and I really like Tank. I like Tate more than Tyrese, but I like Tyrese's drum. I think I know the majority of both they songs. I just couldn't get into it. I mean, they both can still sing. Don't get me wrong, it ain't like they couldn't sing, but I just it just was not something that moved my knee. I I spent most of the time fast-forwarding it. Like, oh, okay, I know that song. Fast forward, fast forward. I know that song. Jill Scott, Erica Baidu versus fire brought you back to the top. That one was good. Good shot, good, good comment, Gene. That one was good. So that's okay. If you want to compare those two, now I could tell you that, yeah, that one was trash. That one was definitely trash.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

I don't think it was come on, man. It wasn't trash, it wasn't better than Joe Scott, Erica Baidu. First of all, Joe Scott, Erica Badu are much, much better artists than Tank and Tyrese. Okay, how many people riding around their car listening to Tank? True. Or Tyrese.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

True, you know what I mean? Yeah, true. And that's why I said they're not that type of verses where you know they're not gonna get you. It's just something to it's something I wouldn't want to listen to live. I listen to, I would rather listen to their tracks and do like my own verses than listen to them live and do it. But you're right with the turtleneck part, it's like that's how bad the verses was when that was the highlight. That tells you how bad the verses was when the only highlight was not one of their songs, it was an improv. Wow, that's just my comment. I mean, I don't I don't know. I don't know. Wow, man. I mean, Tyree C. I mean, take it. Hey, what do you do? What do you do? Do hey? No, no, no, do it.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

Do one of your regular boys. No, no, no, no, that ain't worried. Do one of your regular boys. What do you do?

SPEAKER_04 36:40

Do a baby sitting in the front row,

R&B In The Car Debate

SPEAKER_04 36:51

got that shirt on that I lie. Like, I just can't get into it. Can't get into it.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

I'm not really an RB guy, anyway. I just I think it's mostly for the ladies. I think it public service. Here's a PSA for you. If you are a man and you ride around listening to an RB leaning out the window, something's wrong with you. Hey, wait a minute, hold on.

SPEAKER_04 37:16

I do that.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

I'm talking about a full album, I'm not talking about like a full album.

SPEAKER_03 37:23

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

If you are a man and you are listening to take in your car the full album, pack it up, son.

SPEAKER_04 37:29

Nah, I do that, I'll do that in my house. I'll put it in a hair photo. Matter of fact, speaking of full albums, you know, Kanye just dropped the album. Really? Yeah, last night. Really? I didn't know. Called Bully. Hey, if you listen to that first track, a bully, my god, you would think Kanye is back, and then it falls off. But that first track, holy bully, like Kanye is back. Really? Yeah, Kanye had a good, good, good album. That first that first song called Bully, my goodness. He was in his bag on that one. He was in his old Kanye bag.

SPEAKER_01 38:08

Really? Oh, it's an EP.

SPEAKER_04 38:10

Yeah, G said nobody listening to Tank.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

I like Tank.

SPEAKER_04 38:14

I like Tank. Especially EP.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

Especially if you're trying to get the ladies in the mood, Tank will get you there. Back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

Look, first of all, here's another thing. If you are a man and you're with your woman and you haven't, like, you know, an intimate moment and you playing some other man, pack it up. Are you serious? No. Are you serious? No, I am not. Look, if if your lady says put on tank, that is something's wrong with that. Pack that up, man. No, no, no, no. So here's the thing. I'll put like this. It's different. Okay, it's different, like say, you say you got some Johnny Gilles, True, Johnny Gill, right? But I'm saying if your lady tells you, stop, put tank on, pack that up, son.

SPEAKER_04 39:08

Yeah, if if if a girl ever tells you to put on this artist, like she's more into the song than into you. Like, you're right. Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unless you would, unless you're in the car, that's about it.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

But the goose is gonna be like, hold on, baby. You know what I mean? Put on uh, I don't know, put on Jill Scott.

SPEAKER_04 39:31

Nah, see, this is why I kind of like you're supposed to have your playlist on deck, and whatever your playlist is, what it is. Now, Chi B like, I don't like that song, cool. You skip it and go to the next song. But I ain't a freaking DJ, I ain't gonna just sit here and give you requests of what you want. You get my playlist, and that's it. But uh take, you know what's funny off the top of my head, I couldn't name take three tank songs, I can name dirty nah. Dirty is probably my favorite one. Uh, and then there's like two other songs. I just know them if I hear them. Laugh out, put tank on. I don't think that was ever thank you, Gene. I don't think that was ever stated ever. Put take. I wish somebody would.

SPEAKER_01 40:14

You know what, G. I know. You know what, G. I can tell, man. Knowing you, you a lover dude, man. I bet you be rolling around just like Nicholas Jackson listening to RB in your car, man. Tell the truth, bro. Okay, like a lover dude, man. Okay. Like, sweet lady, won't you be my back of your car? Nah, man, pack that up, you gotta you gotta have the right.

SPEAKER_04 40:39

See, you don't have the right moxie to do that. That's a more of a light skinned thing. Uh, to be able to sit there, ride with a girl in a car, and sing Tyrese. You gotta have the right flow and skill. Like, that's like singing Bruno Mars. Like, you have to have the right skill to do that. Y'all don't have it as y'all's skin complexion, it's really a light-skinned thing.

SPEAKER_01 41:03

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You got you shaming me because of my complexion? No, I'm not shaming.

SPEAKER_04 41:11

I'm just saying y'all, who are you referring to? Y'all dark-skinned people.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

Y'all dark skinned people. You say you're I'm not shaming. I'm speechless. I'm not shaming.

SPEAKER_04 41:29

I'm just saying more or less of a light-skinned thing. We ride around, listen to our RB. You know, that's where I'll be sure started everything out. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 41:39

We already established that old show.

SPEAKER_04 41:42

One is a race, one is a skin complexion. You can't compare a skin complexion to a race.

SPEAKER_01 41:48

What I'm saying is, is we don't know who you are.

SPEAKER_04 41:51

It doesn't matter. I'm just saying skin complexion. It doesn't matter if I'm Puerto Rican, black, white, uh Turkish, Jewish, Mediterranean, Mediterranean. None of that matters. It's a complexion. It's like if you look at a wall, like, man, that wall looks Turkish. You don't say that. That wall is gray or that wall is blue. That's a complexion. Hit your button on yourself. Hit your own button on yourself. Uh, ain't no Tyrese plan. My pops was old, thank you. My pops was old Earth Winning Fire and uh Keith Sweat. Man, Earth Winning Fire go hard. Keith Sweat, I never really got into. Never really got into Keith Sweat. Uh P, we not stating colorism. I'm just saying, you ride around listening to Drake, John. Oh, Job B was the joint. Christopher Williams, I'll listen to, but Job B was the joint.

SPEAKER_01 42:49

What are you gonna say? You you know what? You just said you don't know Christopher Williams, but you listen to Job B.

SPEAKER_04 42:58

I didn't say I didn't know him. I said I don't really listen to him.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

It's the same thing. No, it's not.

SPEAKER_04 43:04

That's completely different. That's completely different. If I say who the heck is who the heck is who the heck is, I don't know, name anybody, and you be like, I don't know who that is. That's fair. Or if you say, hey, who the heck is this person? I don't watch them, but I know who they are. Completely different.

SPEAKER_01 43:27

Just totally different.

SPEAKER_04 43:28

It's just like if somebody says, Hey, I like I like Drewski. I don't really watch Drewski, but I know who he is. If he was up on a TV, I'd be like, oh, that's Drewski. Completely different things.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

That's that's just why your black car was taken shows a go. How can you listen to John B and not Christopher Williams?

SPEAKER_04 43:53

I didn't say I don't listen to him. I said I don't really listen to him. That doesn't mean I haven't heard before. No, it's It's not. It is. Okay, uh, let me think. Uh, do you really listen to Lil Wayne? Who's Lil Wayne? Exactly. My point. Exactly my point. Little Wayne is fool. I said, do you listen to him? Yeah, occasionally. But you know who he is. Yeah, I heard of him, yeah. That's the same thing. That's the same thing. So what you're saying is, I don't you don't listen to Lil Wayne. Oh no, I do occasionally. Because so you were the you use the word occasionally. That makes it how about how about uh styles p? Do you listen to Styles P? Yes, I do listen to Styles. Do you even know who Styles P is? I just randomly picked a random name. I just randomly picked a random name. I could oh what's the ready? Name a style peace song. Name a styles peace song. Ghost. I never heard of it. Exactly. Never heard of it. Never heard of it. Never heard of that song. Never heard of that song.

SPEAKER_01 45:01

All right, moving on, man. Moving on. I don't even know how we got on this one. Moving

Rating Classic Verzuz Battles

SPEAKER_01 45:06

on. All right. So that was Tank versus Tyrese. Takeaway from that one. He don't like it. Not surprising. Me, I thought was all right. I would give it a B. Damn. I would give it a B. Who would you give an A to? Who would you give an A to? Erika Badu, Jill Scott.

SPEAKER_04 45:26

So they're right under who would you give a C to?

SPEAKER_01 45:29

Cash Money Records versus No Limit. A. Who would you give a C? Uh locks versus diplomats. That was a C?

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Oh, oh, oh.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

That's an A. Bam, what you talking about?

SPEAKER_04 45:39

I said, who would you give a C to? If they're a B, who would you give a C to?

SPEAKER_01 45:43

Oh, let's see. The Kirk Franklin joint.

SPEAKER_04 45:46

Oh, that was whack. Yeah, that was whack. That was worse. That was real bad.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

What was the other one? G was it Jing, G Z and something? Did Jeezy have a versus? That's versus. I can't remember. But oh, the uh yeah. Anyway, Eric Body. Oh, yeah, this the producer joint. I thought those are C.

SPEAKER_04 46:11

Babyface, Teddy Riley. Yeah, C. Brandy Monica. I don't remember that one. C. DMX and Snoop Dogg. They did oh, Jeezy and Gucci Man. Thank you, Gene. Yeah, Jeezy and Gucci Man. D. Uh, here are the list of versus battles that have taken place. Swiss Beats and Timberland. Don't remember. Hip boy and boy ID. I don't know. You know. Uh Neo and Jotana Austin. Uh Scott Starch and Manny Fresh. I didn't hear that one. It's probably pretty good. Uh T Pain and Lil John. Didn't listen to it. Nellie and Ludacris. Oh, that was actually all right. That was actually all right. I do remember that. 112 and Jagged Edge. That sounds good, but I don't remember it. Uh Ashanti and Keisha Kohl's. 36 and Bone Thugs. Don't remember that. Omarion and the whole list? That's it. There's like four more, but that's it. Anyway. I'll give it a beat. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 47:23

Moving

Drewski Parody And Offense

SPEAKER_01 47:24

on. Let's talk about something even more funny. So I'm sure you guys have heard of the comedian Drewski. Drewski has been pretty famous across the social media landscape for all of his impressions. So he's done an impression of a NASCAR Caucasian individual with a with dressed in white face and uh denim overall coveralls. That was pretty famous, went over a million views. Then you had the depiction of a white man hanging out with black folks in the hood. That one went viral. And then you had the one where he portrayed the black church as a preacher, which I thought was hilarious. That went viral. So he has done it again. I wish I could show it, but I don't have to share it, Drake. Maybe you might want to pull it up and share it. Quick review. Perhaps you can pull it up.

SPEAKER_04 48:23

No, I can't. I would change the whole sound thing, and I think the whole podcast would go out if I switched it.

SPEAKER_01 48:30

Oh well, I guess I ain't gonna show it. So we just go on Instagram, go into his profile, type juice, and it's in there. Basically, he did a parody of a white conservative woman. And then the video it shows this individual. He was he's dressed in white face, blue eyes, white blazer pants, and he comes out with pyrotechnics, American flags in the background, and he's talking about how um he's got a Bible in his hand, and he's looking in the camera weird, talking about how we need to protect white men, they're they're precious. And anyway, so it was a very funny skit, but it has caused a lot of a lot of discussion over the internet on whether it was funny or went too far. So after a while, it draw the drew the attention of Erica Kirk. If you know who Erica Kirk is, she is the the the spouse of the deceased Charlie Kirk who was killed earlier this year. Was it this year or last year?

SPEAKER_03 49:42

Last year.

SPEAKER_01 49:43

Okay, last year in 2025.

SPEAKER_03 49:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:46

So if you don't know Charlie Kirk, Charlie Kirk was a pretty vocal conservative, conservative individual talking about going around doing debates on people about racism and slavery and things of that nature, and about uh the Christian religion. So anyway, he was unfortunately killed. But his wife, after his death, was has been thrust into the spotlight. She does a lot of different engagements and talks, and there's one particular one she did that matches up with what Drewski did in his parody. So she, of course, assumed that he is making fun of her among with other people. Two people ride around listening to tank, his mom and his great auntie. Great point. But anyway, so to the point, it is believed that Erica Kirk is trying to is thinking about suing Drewski for what he did, saying that it was a bad representation of who she was. So I think it's freaking hilarious. I think it nails her, although the whole point is he doesn't look exactly like her, but it's a great resemblance. And if you look closely, if you put his face the way he's maked up in this parody, to the vice president, he looks like the vice president too. Someone on the internet said if he looks like in this parody, he looks like the vice, if the vice president and Erica Kirk came together as one. And when I looked at it, I was like, that's brilliant. He does look like vice president Vance. I'll pause there.

SPEAKER_04 51:27

Did we forget in Living Color, Truski is a product of the cool things of comedy? Interesting. That that hey uh Gene, that's actually a good point. This is like Living Color. So I watched it this morning. Uh you know my way of comedy. So I'm not, so it's kind of hard for me to judge. So I'll say this, and I know I'm gonna get judged for it. I didn't find it funny at all. Uh, I didn't laugh one time. So I the makeup artist, whoever that is, did an A movie makeup job. Because I nobody would think that's Drewski if you saw him and then saw this woman he's portraying. There's no way you can look at it and be like, dang, that's Drewski. Uh number two is he never said who he was portraying. So for her to assume that it's her, now was there a lot of similarities to things that she has done and things that he uh mirrored or he he he stereoed, he he I don't know, he mimicked, uh, then yes, there are. But he never said it was her. Um a lot of and I'll say Pete Sweat. I'll say uh a lot of people say comedy has no boundaries. Uh comedy has no is the I that's where I think that comedy can go too far. Now, is am I like, oh my gosh, he shouldn't be making fun of a widow? No, I'm not saying that at all. That's why I'm saying that uh I think comedy has boundaries, but it's just the way you do it. I don't think he did anything wrong. I did think it was weird that when Erica Kurt came out to her husband's memorial, I think it was, that she came out with pyrotechnics. That was kind of weird. That was a little off. And you know, if that was the point of making fun of that with the dance moves in, you know, with comedy, you gotta go over the top to make it funny. So he went a little bit over top. But I don't think he said anything crazy. The the comment about black people was kind of crazy, or about, excuse me, white people, like we love all American, especially the white people with a black cop standing behind him. That was kind of wild. But uh, I didn't think it was funny, but I didn't think it was over the top. I didn't think it was over the top because it's comedy. And if you think it's not like Drewski's making fun of race because he did the whole thing with the church, with the black uh pastors, making fun of them with the cars that they drive and asking for offerings every five seconds and the wardrobes they wear. So that's my comment about that. Uh she came out like she was a wrestler in WrestleMania at his memorial. Yeah, that's that's kind of what I think he was making fun of, or what he saw.

SPEAKER_01 54:37

Well, in full and in all honesty, like your style of you don't really, you're not really a comedy guy anyway.

SPEAKER_04 54:45

I don't think making fun of people is funny to me. I have a real soft spot in my heart, and it it doesn't, it affects me differently than it affects other people. I don't mind if it's a roast, like the Tom Brady roast was hilarious because you signed up for that, and everybody knows what it is. But just to throw out just a random thing and just make it fun of somebody, I just have a soft spot in my heart for that. I don't find it funny. That's just me personally.

SPEAKER_01 55:15

So, did you find a Rick James skit Dave Chappelle did something?

SPEAKER_04 55:19

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 55:20

You didn't find a Rick James skit funny, no, you know what's coming.

SPEAKER_04 55:29

Why can't I have my own opinion about what's funny and what's not? And it'd be different than yours, and that'd be okay. This is why I don't like when people make fun of people for stuff. I have a real soft spot in my heart for it because you find something funny, and 98% of the world finds it funny. It's okay for somebody not to find it funny. It's almost no different than a car. If you like a type of car and I don't like the car, ain't nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01 55:56

Wow. Yeah, I think we need to pack this one up right there, man. Ain't much more to say, it was funny. I will say, like this, this uh let me I'll just give my spin on it. We can move on because then at this point it is pointless. But here's my spin, I thought it was freaking hilarious. I think when it comes to comedy, is there limits to comedy? Um, I think there's certain things you shouldn't touch, but ultimately, when it comes to comedy, especially parodies, I think it's whatever the artist sees. If the artist sees something and he portrays it, say, hey Charlie, there's a new joke going around. If you heard it, what did the Five Fingers say to it? Exactly. Justin tell me, y'all put in the chat, am I wrong for laughing at my co-host because he didn't think the Rick James skit was funny?

SPEAKER_04 56:52

The question is, what is funny about me not thinking something's funny?

SPEAKER_01 56:58

What do you mean it's a question? Because you don't think it's funny. So, what is funny about that?

SPEAKER_04 57:03

I will wait. What is funny about that? That was the question.

SPEAKER_01 57:05

If you let me explain, I will tell you. Why do we have to go through this every show? Go ahead is you wait for a pause, then if no one says something, you continue. You know, that's how conversations happen. Now, as I was saying, the reason why I find it funny, uh you don't think the Rick James skit is funny in relation to this, is because you said, I don't find it funny at all. But you also didn't find a Rick James thing funny. And you also said when someone makes fun of someone else, you don't think it's funny. So that's why I think it's hilarious about it, because you are not in a position to really critique this because you don't have another parody that you ever thought was funny. If I were to say, somebody were to say, hey, DC, do you think the portrayal of, say, um, case in point, Barack Obama was funny from the from the president, whoever sent it out. I'm like, I don't think it's funny. Okay. And I'll tell you why. Then it was like, what about Erica Kirk? This is why it's funny, because it was a person dressed up as a conservative woman. Nowhere in the line or in the video did it mention her name. But the fact that she saw it and she assumed it was her, that's what makes it more funny. Do we know that he was intentionally trying to make fun of her? No. But if you were to ask me and I were to bet the farm, I would say yes. I think that's where he got inspiration from, but he didn't mention her name. That's why I think it's funny. But back to you, you nowhere in there, there is not one parody that you have seen that you thought was funny. Because you said in yourself, you don't think it's funny. You have a soft place in your heart. That's why I think it's funny. So for this topic here, I feel it it offers no relevance because you have nothing to compare it to. Justice has slap, not at all, but Pete is entitled to feel that way. That said, Rick James is off the chain. I will accept that. That's fair. That's fair.

SPEAKER_04 59:20

What I said was, if you remember, I said the Tom Brady roast was hilarious. So I did compare it to something.

SPEAKER_01 59:28

That's not a parody.

SPEAKER_04 59:30

What's a what would be a comparable parody? I didn't think the Barack Obama thing was funny. Was that a comparable parody?

SPEAKER_01 59:39

But again, you have not found or mentioned one parody that you thought was funny. Because you said yourself, anybody that's made fun of, you have a soft place in your heart for it. Now that's your opinion. That's fair. I just think it's funny because there's no way you can really critique this one because you don't think parodies are funny at all. That's why I think it's funny. That's like me saying, I don't like, I don't like any, I don't like uh four-door cars. Right. And then somebody puts a car on the screen and says, What do y'all think about this car? I don't like this car. Well, of course you don't like it. You don't like four-door cars. It's one thing if I say I like Toyota four-door cars, and someone put a Honda up there and say, I don't like this car. Why not? Well, because it's not Toyota, it's a four-door. But I do like Toyota, so I have something to compare it to. So in this instance, there's nothing to compare it to because you period do not like parodies.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:47

So, what is funny about that? So back to your four-door car. Wait a minute. You can't ask me not to interrupt and wait for a pause to talk, and then you just interrupt me. Uh, so with your car analysis, if you said I don't like four-door cars, and people start laughing, would you be like, what is funny about that? Nope. What what is funny about that?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:13

Is that a rhetorical question?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:15

That's an honest, that's an honest question. What's up, Charles Davis? What that's an honest question. If you said, I don't know if you do or don't like four car, I don't think you have a problem with four-door cars. But if that was your that was your stance, I don't like four-door cars, and somebody starts laughing, you wouldn't say, What is so funny about that? What would you say? I wouldn't say nothing. What was there to say? I would think that somebody would ask the question, why did you have that reaction? Just like if I'm telling a story and somebody starts laughing, I'm like, what did I say that was so funny? And they say, Oh, when you said this, it reminded me of this. Okay, all right, didn't be better to be funny, but cool. Happy you laugh. But when I say I didn't think it was funny, I didn't think the Rick James uh skit that uh uh Dave Chappelle Chappelle did was funny. I just don't know what's what's funny about somebody not thinking something's funny. That's I guess where I'm confused.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:19

I think if you would have led off your critique with, well, first, it's difficult for me to really weigh in on this because I don't have I'm not a fan of anybody making fun of anybody. Then I probably wouldn't have thought it was humorous, but you did not. You went into the analysis and you said, I don't think it's funny. And then you said, I don't think anybody gets made fun of, but it's funny. I have a soft place in my heart for it. And then I asked, okay, do you think the Rick James skit was funny? You said no. So how I it's funny to me because you critiqued a person's work, and in the end, there's anything in that genre you don't think is funny anyway. So, how can you critique it if you don't like the genre anyway? Again, that goes back to the car. If I'm a fan of motorcycles and you ask me to critique a car, and I says, I don't like the car. And then I go online and says, I don't like any cars anyway. How can you critique it? I get that.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:26

I do understand that. Uh, Pete, did you not like the Prince Kit too? I don't remember the Prince Kit. I'll be honest, I don't remember the Prince. I don't think I watched too much of the Dave Chappelle show because I'd be honest, I didn't think it was that funny. But a lot of ways I think it's comedy, people don't find funny, and I'm the I feel like I'm the minority in this, which is fine, which is fine. Uh and it's okay for me to have an opinion about something. Now, I will agree with you. I'm not critiquing it, I'm not saying it's bad, I'm not saying it's good, I'm just saying I didn't find it funny. I thought the thing about the Pyro, I think it brought light to a few situations, and you know, the way he was portraying how conservative women act when they go to Starbucks. Like, I just was like, okay. It didn't move my needle to laughter. It was just like, oh, okay. Maybe I'm just too serious, but just didn't find it funny. But I'm interested to hear your opinion why you found it, uh, why you found it entertaining.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:38

Is that rhetorical or that? No, I no, I'm really interested. Oh, okay. Uh, I thought it was interesting on a number of levels. One, because the parody was based off white conservative women. And so when you look at the current landscape or where we're at today, based on administration, conservatism is on the rise. If you look at the the issues within our government, it's mostly conservative views, it's on the rise. And then you look at the way the skit is portrayed, where they show different, two different sides. You see, there's a white conservative woman, but she comes out the pyrotechnics. Then she's in a video or interview holding the Bible, and she's emphasizing the importance of the Christian religion and Jesus Christ and stuff, and she looks in the camera and stuff. But then in another clip, she's in a video where they were talking about Iran, and he was she was saying how she was worried about, you know, say a prayer for our troops and things of that nature. And he said, What do you think about the bombing of Iran um school? And she kind of like deflected it. And then it was a part about where she said, or Well, in the parody has said that, oh, uh, we need to protect the white men of America. They're really important. And they showed a black guy in the background. This there's a hidden sign of that too. And then you look at Erica Kirk's video, there's some a lot of similarities in there. And so there was always a there was a lot of discussion about how, unfortunately, when his her husband passed, how she was kind of pushed into the limelight.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:28

True.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:28

Because she wasn't there before. So all those elements make it hilarious, in my opinion. I think it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:36

I think your your points to what you spoke of were more truthful than what I found funny. And I think maybe it's just the me thing, but uh just didn't find it funny. Charles Davis says, Pete, the one who asked the Joker why pretty much my favorite line, or one of my favorite lines in that movie, why so serious? I like that. I like that, Charles. That's very true, very, very true. Uh, that that could be me in a nutshell. Why so serious? Or why so funny? I just need to know. I just I want to laugh. Let me know what I said or what I did.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:12

I just want to know. Give us all an example of something you think was belly hurting, headache-inducing laughter.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:22

I said the trunk or the Tom Brady roast was funny. It was the more recently, the Tom Brady roast was funny. Uh, I found Martin Lawrence, uh, I forgot his first comedy thing, uh, You So Crazy, I think it was. I thought that was hilarious, although that was way back in the day. Uh recently, I don't find too much comedy uh laugh out, sticking, you know, can't breathe funny. I I can't remember last time I laughed at comedy like that. The latest Cat Williams one, it was okay. There was a couple funny parts, but it's almost like a chuckle. I can't the do you remember the Dave Chappelle one that uh came out not too long ago?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:10

What's not too long ago? I remember.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:12

Maybe a year ago, maybe a little less than a year ago on Netflix. Yeah, I'm sure I'll watch it. I just can't remember the name of it. Yeah, I can't remember the name off top, but I thought that was okay. Like some of the stuff he said was pretty funny. Some of the way he storytells, and at the end it's like a a joke to it. I think those are funny, those are pretty funny. But I like Shaq, I'll give you a point when I say making fun of people. I think Shaq and the Fool was funny. I thought that was funny when he was making fun of how people play basketball or things that happen, but I think that's more or less of saying not really laughing at somebody like the JaVel McGee stuff. Did I think he went too far? Yeah, he went too far. Having something out there every freaking shacked in the fool about how JaVel McGee was messing up. Yeah, calm down. We don't need to make fun of somebody that much. So I think there is a limit. I just don't, I don't find it funny picking on people. I really, really don't. I really, really don't. If anything, I hate to say I already put hands on somebody who does stuff like that. Uh Tom Brady's roast was funny. Come on, Pete. Uh, were you that dude in the conference room laughing at the 06 corny jokes? Nah. Nah, that's not me. Anybody knows me, that's not me. Not at all. What was the last thing that you remember was, you know, stitching funny or whatever?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:43

I I guess I'm a little bit different. Um there are some things I don't find funny, but when I look at comedy, I try to look at the intent uh from the artist.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:55

The last thing I heard, well, I wouldn't say the Drewski skit, this last one was belly. Um belly hurting, headache induced laughter. Funny, humorous, I guess. I would say I thought his skit with the passive was funny. That was very funny. I thought um the shoot, the Saturday Night Live skit with Domingo, I thought that's freaking hilarious. I thought the um one of my favorites is the um Keenan and Meyer Rudolph skit when they do um their version of, I think it was like Reese and CC or something. Uh they don't do the skit anymore, but I thought that was hilarious. Dave Chappelle's last one. I think there was a couple of jokes he made that was pretty hilarious.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:45

So um, but anyway. You said there's some things that you don't find funny that maybe other people do.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:51

Yeah, I don't think that thing with the Barack Obama's and I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:56

A lot of people that found that funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:59

There are some people thought it was funny, and they actually compared that to what Drewski did.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:03

Oh, wow. Yeah, that's a little bit different.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:05

You know what I mean? Like, I would say anything, uh example, like when Drewski dressed up as uh a white guy hanging out with with people in the hood, I thought that was funny because that's what really happens. You know what I mean? I think that that make that happens. Now, if someone I've seen comics dress up in blackface and pretend like you know they're black or something, um that's borderline. I think if you did that, Charles David says, besides funny or not, what is your analysis, Pete? I'll pause there and let you answer that one.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:43

Yeah, just real quick, I think I already gave it. I thought it was interesting. I thought uh I thought he was trying to make a point more than it was funny. Uh so really my analysis of it is that it was just interesting. I just didn't find it laugh out loud funny. I thought it was more uh a little bit more truthful than funny.

When Comedy Turns Into Lawsuits

SPEAKER_01 1:12:08

Shifting quick gears is kind of related. I was I wanted to put this on the document. I thought it was funny. And it's gotten to a point, I think you mentioned it a show before how people are using what people say as a precursor to take them to court for a bunch of money. So it's comedians these days, it's it's like an unwritten rule like if a comedian says a joke, it's almost like assume they're protected because it's artistry, right? It's artistry. So there was a a comedian, um, I think it was a couple of weeks ago, that was on stage. His name is Learnmore John Jonassi. I can't remember pronounce his name. But anyway, he made a joke on stage about the Lion King. For folks who watched The Lion King, you know how they hit it, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:03

The opening scene, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:05

Yeah, yeah, the opening scene, right? So apparently, this comedian was on stage and he said the opening chat sounds like, Look, there's a lion, right? So the composer of the song, Grammy winning composer Lebo M served a comedian at the show, at another show he did with a $27 million lawsuit, saying that he falsely translated the Lion King opening chat. Served them papers while he was on stage. This is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Like the thing, don't yeah, not so 10, that's not what the song says, right? But to sue somebody for will he get 27 million? No. Well, he win is another story, but it's comedy. Now I have a line. Like, if you're saying something that is totally untrue, right? Like, say if if if if someone comes out and it says, you know, I know that dude, Pete Man, that dude is a rapist and he's a child molester. That's different. You know what I mean? That's defamation of character. Okay. If if someone to say, I knew that dude Pete on unpopular celebrities, he's on that, that show is nothing, spit, none but racial tones, and he hates white people. I think you should be sued for that. Because that's clearly not the case. Now, somebody say, I know that dude pee for unpopular celebrities. Yo, that dude, he be talking about he knows RB music, whatever. I don't think that, I don't know what that dude is. Is he black? Is he Italian? Is he Turkish? Whatever. I think that's ridiculous. That's that's their what they that's what an individual sees from their perspective.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:50

So to me, that's the fine line. But in this case, I think it's ridiculous to think that people are gonna go to the movies and see the Lion King and just assume because this one comedian says that, that that's what the song says is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:08

Charles Davis says the original coming to America funny. First of all, that's hilarious. That's one of the best comedy movies ever. That's hilarious. Uh probably my favorite Eddie Murphy movie was Coming to America. But uh I I so a little bit that I took from that that part, the only thing that I thought he was suing him on was he did like a uh an interview, and he said, I know I I think he was being funny. He basically says, like, because I think he has an African accent. I don't know if he does originally or if he does during this when he does that part, but he basically said that I know what they said. They said, Look, there's a line, and everybody thinks it's so funny. And the composer took offense to it, and the composer said, like, look, there's the king, or look, there's the king. Something like that. It's like a chant or something like that, uh, that gets used. Uh, but to sue you, uh the part I agree with you to sue somebody for $27 million, I get making a point, but come on, bro. It's almost like saying, I'm gonna ask for whatever I want. And if I get 1% of that, I won. If I get 5%, I really won. If I get 10%, it's amazing. $2.7 million for somebody going up on stage and doing their craft and saying this? Now, I would be interested to know if this lawsuit does come happen anyone, because to your point, is it responsible for what he says?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:47

Um not in a sense, I think, yeah, he is, but there are specific rights that are protected by the First Amendment. One is parody and satire. So I think for that case, he's protected. But I will I want to quickly say that you were correct, but it was my mistake. It wasn't, he didn't do it on stage, but it was during the interview. Reading the the story, it said that this John Nazi received a standing ovation for a similar joke he made about the song during a March 12th stand-up performance in LA, according to the lawsuit. The guy, Lebo M, says such viral statements it says are interfering with his business relationships with Disney and his income from worldties causing more than 20 million dollars of actual damages.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:38

Like, how do you even I don't know how those two things relate?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:42

Obviously, how do you verify that?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:44

Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe how much he was making before the joke and how much he was making after the joke, I don't know, but no one can say that joke did it. That joke was the one that messed everything up. That's kind of that's really wild to go out there and go on, like you said, go on stage and serve somebody papers. Like you just want to be made fun of. I would think he would have ripped that thing up right in front of everybody.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:13

The other interesting thing is says that the complaint also argues that Jonasi presented his translation as authoritative fact, not comedy. So it shouldn't get the First Amendment protections afforded to parody and satire. I would argue, how do you determine that? That's it.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:29

I was just about to pass that. Yep. How do you determine that? But you know what you have to find is a judge that interprets it the way you do, and you win, which is kind of sad. But I I think to your point, as a comic, you gotta be careful. Uh not in this day and age, it's not the 90s where you can almost say whatever you want. Uh I remember Jamie Foxx did a skit not too long or a long time ago, excuse me, about, you know, uh, I'm sorry, it was Martin Lawrence. It was Martin Lawrence. He was making fun of uh how Africans were brought over here and how Africans they dance and you know, they or somebody made a joke about you know the Feed the Hungry commercial that they used to have where they had showed a bunch of hungry, uh I don't know, maybe Africans or whatever they were, and they have flies all over them, and they were like, Blink. I don't know how you sit there with your eyes wide open with flies flying in them, like blink. And so I didn't find it funny, but somebody else who didn't find it funny was like, I'm gonna sue them because they're messing, they're they're trying to say that this is a funny situation when it's not supposed to be funny. Whereas to your point, and most people's point, comedy doesn't really have any boundaries. So it's really like, but you have to be careful. I mean, if somebody takes offense to and they have a lot of power, maybe it, you know, uh, but just be careful. I mean, that's the best thing I can say. Be careful.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:00

Yeah, I think if you're defaming somebody's character to a degree, like I said, something that's not true and it hurts them legally and financially, then I can see why you would sue them. But in this particular instance, it was a joke. And this guy from reading it, I guess he's he's of African descent. Correct. No different than what Michael Michael Blackson did. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Uh, has anybody sued him for the way he stays after? He said some wild stuff, like you know what I'm saying? You know, does anybody he said some wild stuff too? And I said his skit, or not his skit, but his comedy shows in person. And there was a couple of things he did I didn't think was funny. It was like borderline, like you know, I don't think he should be sued.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:49

Yeah, sue it. And I think it's just to make a point. Yeah, people, yeah, people, and you you put a high dollar amount that you know you can't sue. That's like suing me for 27 million. Like, bro, I have had 27 million in my whole life. If I never spent a dollar my whole life, I still wouldn't have 27 million. So for somebody like that who probably doesn't have 27 million either, you're not gonna get 27 million. So you're just pretty much being a bully to be a bully. It's just like me suing you for something and then asking for 27 million. You'd be like, What the hell?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:26

Like, are you familiar with the Tasha K Cardi B court case? Who's the first name? Tasha K.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:34

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:34

So Tasha K is this pretty popular um media presence on YouTube that does a show. She does like, you know, makes fun of celebrities, different things. So, anyway, she's been made famous and making fun of Wendy Williams and stuff. Anyway, so she did some shows about Cardi B, talking about she's got like a venereal disease or some stuff. Whoa, and so Cardi B sued her and won in court. I can see Cardi B to this day. So that's something I can see and agree why somebody would sue.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:08

I'm guessing that's not true, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:10

Cause you're you're saying something that's not true, that's damaging the person's character. You're profiting off of right, yes. I I can see that, yeah,

Meta And Google Sued Over Kids

SPEAKER_01 1:22:21

yeah. But speaking of which, going moving into the next quick story is social media. So obviously, we own one Facebook and then Instagram and all this other stuff. I have two children and two grandchildren. When my kids was growing up, I didn't really have to worry about social media until they were like teenagers. By that time, it was still in its infant stages. I've always said, I don't understand how people today are parents who feel for them having their kids grow up in social media. So when you're walking around, let me ask you this question, it's not rhetorical. How many times have you walked around in a place and you see somebody on their phone?

SPEAKER_04 1:23:06

All the time.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:08

All the time. How many people have you seen that are children from middle age up to teenagers on their phone?

SPEAKER_04 1:23:16

More frequently than anybody else.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:18

Do you feel like, in your opinion, that children are on social media too much? Some what you mean?

SPEAKER_04 1:23:30

Like uh, I would say 51%.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:35

Okay. And do you think that children should be on social media at all? Yeah. Okay. Do you think I'll say this? I've I feel like I'm belaboring the point. Last question. Do you think if you're what you're saying, you don't have an issue with children being on it for the most part? If a child is on social media so much that it affects their mental health, is it the parents' fault or social media's fault?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:06

That's where it gets interesting. I think all in all, you're the parent. And we're speaking about a kid under 18, or we're speaking about like a kid like seven to ten.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:16

Let's talk about 18 and below.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:18

Okay, 18 below. So I think it's as a parent, if they're living in your household, it's your fault. You are the responsible one for protecting your child, and protecting them means putting the knife down when you see they're about to cut themselves. Or, you know, telling them the stove is hot before they burn themselves. You know, I think this all comes together in the same realm that this is messing you up, you need to stop. So, yes, parents' fault 100%. You can't blame social media, you can only blame people what they see.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:00

I agree with you. And so this is what surprised me and is disturbing to me after hearing about this story. March 25th, there was a lawsuit by a bunch of folks like parents against um Meta AI, Meta, and um Alphabet's Google. They're the ones that designed the social media platforms.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:22

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:22

So they were sued and they lost a $6 million verdict stating that they created platforms that were harmful to children. The jury found Meta liable for $4.2 million in damages and Google for $1.8 million, small amounts for two of the world's most valuable companies, but it sets a precedent for opening more lawsuits. So apparently uh the case involved a 20-year-old woman, a minor, when the case began, who was known in court by her first name, Kaylee. She said she became addicted to Google's YouTube and Meta's Instagram at a young age because of their attention-grabbing design, such as Infinite Scroll, that encourages users to keep looking at new posts. True. The jury found Google and Meta were negligent in the design of both apps and failed to warn about the dangers. So some people compare this to the tobacco back in the day. I'll pause there. I'm curious to see what you think about that.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:30

No, I I I can see her point. Do I think she's right? No, but I definitely understand. That is what, and they preach that is what that is meant for. We say it too. Help us get in the algorithm, like our stuff, and we will get in the algorithm so more people will see it. Uh, and that's what they that's how their AI system is designed. So, yes, she is a hundred percent right. Where I say you're wrong is they're not making you scroll, they didn't make you download this thing. No, it it's automatically put on your phone, I think. If you have a Google phone, I think it's automatic, but nobody made you get an account, nobody made you get on the dang platform, and nobody made you scroll because you don't have the self-discipline to stop. That does not make somebody else wrong. It's like a speed limit on the highway. They put signs out there saying drive this because it's safer. If you want to go 150 miles an hour, you can. You can't blame the car next to you for going 150 miles an hour. That is their fault. It's pretty much the way I look at it.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:41

That's a great point. Because it's to your analogy, if the car tells you, the car gives you the gas pedal, you determine how fast you go. They even got signs up there that post what the speed limit is. If you decide to exceed the speed limit and drive your car. Past the speed limit and excessive speed, and you get an accident and you get injured. You can't blame the car manufacturer because they didn't put a sign in your car that says, do not go too fast. Right. You know what I mean? So this what disturbs me the most is it it to me it takes the responsibility away from those parents. If you were a minor at the time to what she claims and she got addicted, at what point does the parent take responsibility to monitor your child? There is a comment, I'm trying to find it here, that uh I think Mark Zuckerberg made that I thought Zuckerberg made perfect sense. Zuckerberg? Zuckerberg, sorry, that made a comment. I'm gonna paraphrase it because I can't quite find it. He says something about a child's mental health is a lot more complex than just a social app.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:56

Very true. A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:59

Yeah, I don't I agree with that. I think again, they are taking away some of the responsibility from the parents. How does the child get the phone? Nine times in from the parents.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:13

How does the child get the internet and the data to use the phone? Not times in from the parents. Does the app have specific ways you can limit access to certain sites? Yes, they do. In fact, you can get a phone and you can lock down the app store where they can't get the apps, but you allow them to have it. It's almost like giving, I look at it as you give a uh a kid um access to buy candy. If the kid keeps eating candy and gets cavities, you can't blame the candy manufacturer. Yeah, they don't brush their teeth and you tell them not to buy candy or you allow a kid to eat anything and they get fat. You can't blame the food manufacturers. Right. At some point, you got to take some responsibility. As a parent myself, I find this disturbing that they that they want this. And this opens if this opens up the door for more lawsuits. I am no fan of Meta or Facebook or Instagram. I'm not getting paid by those guys. I think this they got this one wrong.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:25

Yeah, uh uh for a judge or jury, whoever was, I guessing a judge to uh say this is a thing is kind of disturbing as well because I think you put 10 people in a room and give this case, eight people are gonna say that, yeah, this is crazy. Uh uh Charles Davis said, What about the person who sued McDonald's and won millions because they spilled hot coffee on themselves? Grab the hot coffee, know when it was hot, but put it on their lap and spilled it and got scolded, scold. Uh, yeah, that's the same thing. I mean, all this is like, I don't want to be like, I'm oh man, I'm trying to think how to word this. All this is ridiculous, more than anything. It's straight ridiculous. Like, what is wrong with people? Like, and even on the YouTube thing, you could set time limits. How far you how much you want to listen to, and put a pin code if you want to stop it. So it's like almost like you're blaming YouTube or Google and Meta for raising your kid wrong. It's like I I'm lost. I'm just totally lost. Now, do I think that some companies go beyond and they some of their suits make sense? Yes, but this to me, I agree with you, is not one of them.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:51

Yeah, I think in the case Charles about the hot coffee, I think what they allege is that the individual who served the coffee through the drive-thru, the top wasn't all the way on it. And it spilled.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:05

No, the suit was that there was no sign on the cup that said it was hot.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:15

So uh now if you look at coffee cups, they say hot on the side of the cup.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:22

I think it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:23

No, yeah, it's still ridiculous, regardless.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:26

Or a cup of coffee. How many people want cold coffee?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:29

Right. Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:31

You know what I mean? Like that's that's ridiculous. I I think that um I guess it goes to the to the to the point of it's all fun and games until it happens to you. It's no different than if I'm walking down your block and I'm in front of your house and I slip and fall, and I get to sue you because you didn't de-ice your sidewalk. Exactly. Exactly. You know what I mean? But I'm gonna sue you because you didn't shovel your sidewalk.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:01

And that's why I say money has no morality at all, has no ethics, no moral, nothing. Uh and I hate to say it, some lawyers don't either, but it's not their job to have that. It's their job to win cases, no matter how crazy. They might think the case is crazy too. They'd be like, hey, you're gonna pay me uh, you know, $500 an hour to represent you, and something I think is crazy. Cool, let's do it. Which to me, I mean, it's no morality, no ethics, no nothing involved with money, which is kind of sad. But when you make money so important to the world, this is what happens. I mean, I don't how many parents did you say was? Or did you say how many parents? Okay, I mean, say it was 10. I mean, six million dollars is you know, a little less than a million dollars a person is bonkers. Is b and all you're gonna do is buy electronics for your kid. All you're gonna do is buy computers and video games, and then like it's you remember the video game company, I think, got sued for not saying how dangerous the games are. Now games have ratings on them, like M-rated, whatever the other rate, N17 rated. Same thing as the movie, you know, the movie theaters, like you had to be 13 to get inside a movie theater. Like, so all these things happen because people look at it and be like, it's your fault. Like, you knew the movie was scary, like blame it on the movie before you went to go see it. And maybe there was uh I a 1.01% chance that you didn't see a preview, you just walked in the movie and say, Oh, that's an interesting title. Freddy Kills Jason, Freddie versus Jason. I want to go see that. And you walk in the movie, they'll be like, oh man, they never said it was scary. I have nightmares now for the rest of my life, so I'm gonna sue them.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:55

Crazy. Crazy. Some of the trial arguments I'm reading is interesting. They said at the trial, the plaintiff's lawyers sought to show Meta and Google intentionally targeted kids and made decisions that put profit over safety. Meta's attorneys emphasized the plaintiff's difficult home life as a child as the cause of her mental health struggles, while YouTube argued her usage of the stream platform was minimal. Jurors saw internal documents revealing how Meta and Google sought to attract younger users and heard executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, take the stand last month to defend company decisions. This part is interesting. He said, when asked about Meta's decision to lift a temporary ban on beauty filters that some inside Meta warned could be harmful to teen girls, Zuckerberg said he decided to let users express themselves. To me, that is that hammers home the point. Having parents have control of their children. And to say that an app that you gave your child access to cause them to have mental health distress, and you're gonna blame the company, right? I think it's ridiculous. I it's one thing if you put all the filters there to monitor their stuff, and they made it easy where you can, like in other words, if you can have a child can figure out how to turn it off and they made it easy, then I can see it. But if you don't even engage with the child to prevent it, why are you not held liable?

SPEAKER_04 1:37:04

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:07

I think it's ridiculous, and that I think this sets a bad precedent to other parents. Just blame other people for how your child ends up. Blame other people. You're right. You know what I mean? It's ridiculous. Anyway, all

TSA Pay Chaos And Politics

SPEAKER_01 1:37:25

right. Um where are we at now? I could have gone into the TSA one, but I guess that might not be that much great stuff to talk about. I do find it interesting, Tyler Perry gave out $250,000 in gift cards to the TSA, TSA officers who weren't getting paid. I thought that was interesting. Say what? Yeah, Tyler Perry gave $250,000 in gift cards to TSA workers who weren't getting paid. Wow. And I feel bad because I think Tyler Perry has a terrible, makes terrible movies. Terrible. That's pretty cool he did that.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:03

Do you didn't like the last one he did? What was the last one? Uh where he was uh basically his uh his son was going to college and he drove with his uncle, his his grandfather across the country to go to this college, and while he went across country, he like exposed him to different things of life because he was so sheltered, and he was talking about. I mean, he it some of the stuff was crazy, like he gave him a like a prostitute to have sex with and fell in love with the prostitute. Tyler Perry movie? Yeah, that was Tyler Perry.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:34

What was the name of it? Oh man, I won't say all, I would say 95% of his movies I've seen were terrible.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:47

Yeah, his plays are really good, plays were really good, his plays are fire. It's called uh Joe College Road Trip. Joe's College Road Trip.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:57

Oh, what's that? Uh it's a play off the Medea character where um it's the dude, the one dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:04

Yeah, his yeah, I don't know if that's his dad or whatever it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:19

Man, and his his his uh TV shows, they're terrible.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:24

Terrible, yeah. Those are it reminds me of Lifetime, like they're just all like the same thing over and over and over and over again.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:34

And it's like black people, we give him a pass because yeah, he's got his own studio, but I mean that's the show in itself. Like, how how often, how far do is it go when we give somebody a pass because we want to champion that they're trying to do something cool that you know, they're the underdog that we just ignore that the product is terrible, right? Terrible, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:00

I I'm not really a big fan of his at all. Uh I like you said, you said it perfectly. His plays were really good. Yes. But other than that, man, once he started making movies, it all went downhill. It all went downhill from there.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:16

And to the interesting about the TS workers, quickly is the president signed an order to pay them using, I guess, unused funds from somewhere. But they thought they had a deal with the Democrats to end the shutdown to pay the TSA workers. Devon says Tyler Perry's audience is majority women. I agree. Like, y'all, anyway. Um what I wanted to say about this TSA workers thing is I find it rid, I think it's irritating going back to the the couple of shutdowns we had earlier, where the Democrats and the Republicans cannot get on the same page to agree to something, and people are affected by it. These dang TSA workers, man, been getting paid, they coming to work, a whole bunch of them quit. Now they're gonna pay them. And they lost a bunch of them anyway. Like the confidence of the U.S. government, in my opinion, has dwindled. Because no one cannot come and agree on something. Devise says the DHA bill will take long because of ICE funding. True. Like, bruh, why I'm not saying I'm not saying I agree with what ICE does, but can we find a way to come to an agreement without affecting a bunch of people?

SPEAKER_04 1:41:46

Yeah. That's the bad part. And not only affecting them, but you're affecting everybody because longer lines and you know stuff like that. So it affects everybody. It's like I uh anyway, but yeah, I saw uh, did you see a thing on uh Elon was gonna pay TSA workers?

SPEAKER_01 1:42:07

I don't I think I missed that.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:09

I think he offered and they told him no.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:11

Oh, yeah, I did hear about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:14

And then uh also, did you hear President Trump signed his name on a hundred dollar bill? Yeah, that's pretty wild. I've that's I think this is the first time it's happened in like the since 1930. Signed it so you can have a Donald Trump signature on your latest hundred dollar bills. And I'm like, TSA workers can't get paid, but this is what you're focusing on? You heard the thing he said about Sharpie? Sharpie. You know, he signs the uh bills or whatever with Sharpie pins, and then he hands them out. You know, he hands out the sharpie pins. Correct me if I'm somebody needs to correct me if I'm wrong, and hopefully I'm not wrong. I think they charge like a thousand dollars a pin. The government paid for those pins. It's either a hundred or a thousand, it whatever it was is ridiculous. And he's handing these things out like they're ten cents. I thought they were like the regular Sharpies, but because Sharpie Sharpie made these, they charged the government that now they have new pins that are all black with uh his signature on it or replica of his signature and the White House in gold. It's ridiculous. Uh Pete, this is why we should vote. No, no, no, Charles Davis is the complete opposite. This is why we don't vote. What you voting for? We did vote, we voted for him, and this is what you got. Right, wrong, or different. Right, wrong or different. I didn't vote, so I don't have to fight in this, but hey, you voted, maybe you voted for him, maybe you voted for the other person, but regardless, it doesn't matter. It does not matter as long as the electoral college determines oh man, who's the president, who's not? No need to vote. My personal opinion. I mean, god dog it, who to have rights? Trying to fix my camera. There we go.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:43

Charles says, Pete, we're not going down this road. You sound cray cray.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:50

Hey, cray cray. All right, we don't yeah, we don't have to. Anyway, that's all topics, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, can

Syracuse Coach Complains After Blowout

SPEAKER_04 1:45:02

I bring up the last one? I sent you the video on it. I'm not sure if you watch it. The the coach for Syracuse. Yeah, I think I saw some. I think her name is uh Felicia Legate Jets or something like that, but she's upset because Syracuse, which you know Syracuse is up there by New York, keeps playing Yukon in the tournament. And they play in Yukon. And she's upset because she says it's not fair. Basically, she and their team lost by over 50. And so she says it's not fair that we have to keep playing this school at their gym or in Yukon in the tournament. What's your thoughts?

SPEAKER_01 1:45:51

She probably upset she lost.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:53

Oh, 100%. But what's your thoughts on them having to keep playing this team in their school?

SPEAKER_01 1:46:01

I don't I don't know. I I don't really have none to be honest. I mean, they're in the same conference, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:46:07

Well, it doesn't matter, they're in the tournament, but they get put in the bracket.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:11

Why do they get put in the same bracket?

SPEAKER_04 1:46:13

It's just how the numbers come out.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:16

It's not based on conference, no. Okay, well, then she might have a valid point then. Like, if if there's no rhyme or reason, like they always in. I thought maybe if it was because of conference, I'd be like, all right, but take your L and chill. But if there's no rhyme or reason, just every single time they play them, then yeah, I can't blame her. But there's a part of me that says, yo, if you know you're gonna play them, get better. That's what I say a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:45

It's not fair we watch so many missed layups. Yeah, that's true too. But uh, that's my point. Like, I've never heard a coach complain about another team being better and we having to play them. What? It ain't like it was a surprise. You knew who was in your bracket, you knew there's a possibility. Learn that now, or if they're just better because they got more talent, NIL. I don't know, NIL was supposed to make it fair, get more money. I that is that was bonkers to me. Somebody actually went on TV and said, it's not fair, we have to play them all the time. What? If that was my coach, I would quit the team tomorrow. You should be mad at your team for getting beat by 50, mad at yourself for not having a better game plan. I don't mind if you get beat by a buzzer beater, you get beat by 10. Get beat by 50, you weren't even supposed to be there. And you're right, maybe you should be mad. Like, we wasn't supposed to be there why they put us there with them.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:50

I am I'm curious to see what the what the uh statistics are. Because I agree with you, but if every year they always play them, and it's not because of, say, the division, I have to wonder, like, okay, is why is it that we always end up playing them? I think it's a fair question.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:16

I think some of it is because where they're based out of, because Syracuse is by New York, Connecticut is by New York. I think her thing is not that we have to play him, it's that we're playing them at their home gym. Because Syracuse is QConn is the number one rank, usually number one rank they play at their house.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:34

That's what I'm saying. Yes, I think that's fair, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:37

Yeah, but they're saying where they're putting the bracket, they could be put lower and play the number two seed, but where they're put as a number 12 seed, they'll play them eventually. And she's upset, like, hey, put us at 14 so we'll play the number two seed. We and then when they do play Yukon, it won't be a Yukon's home. But basically, she's upset, like, get a I win more games, become the number two seed, then you ain't gotta worry about it. There's so many variables in place to that comment that it's just like you're basically saying my team is not that good, stop punishing us by playing the best team. Kind of ridiculous. I would never ever thought a coach would say that. Never in my life. Yeah, like Charles Davis, Syracuse coach should recruit better. You know you're playing, you're going to play them, then recruit to beat them. I never thought I'd hear a coach say that in my life. Anyway, good show today.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:51

Good show today.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:53

Um, I'm reading the story a little bit more. I guess there's some folks believe she has a legitimate beef. But I I don't think that's how you address it. I mean, I think in the end, like if you know they're coming, uh and the Charles made a good point, you need to recruit better. Yeah, you know you're gonna play them. It's almost like you know, this reminds me of maybe it's not the same, but it kind of similar. It almost reminds me of sh when the bulls were playing in the NBA, they kept losing to the Knicks, they kept losing to the Knicks at Detroit.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:27

Detroit, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:28

Detroit, yo, they know they always beat us, and then finally they got the right pieces together and they finally won. So I see it the same way. You just gotta put the right pieces together and win. But getting on the microphone saying it's not right, it's like y'all giving up. Like, oh, we'll never beat these guys, it's not fair. That's kind of how I took it. I'm like, that's a problem.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:56

If you were my coach, I'd be so basically you're saying you never believed in us from the start, and not being you're not even mad at us, you're mad at them. I'd rather you be mad at us. We got beat by 50. Yeah, take that L and B. 50. Yeah, you score 45 points. Like, come on, man. Like, that's and they scored 98. That's ridiculous. Yeah. And then be like, oh, it's not fair. We have to play that. Oh, so that's why you lost by 50. Because you had to play them at their house. Where if you played at a neutral site, you would have only lost by 20. That's okay. You here to win, or are you here just to not lose by a lot? Man, if I was Syracuse Aspray Director, I would be firing her so quick. Hey, you don't deserve to coach no more. Go coach freaking elementary school where wins and losses don't matter, where everybody plays. Ridiculous. Ridiculous, man. Disappointed. Disappointed as a basketball fan that you would have that, that she would have that take. Disappointed, highly disappointed.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:09

Cause, you know, frustrated.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:11

I can understand frustration, but that's just but tailor it to the right per people. You mad at the other team for beating you because they get to play at home and are mad at the NCAA for putting you against them. Like, what?

SPEAKER_00 1:52:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:29

Anyway.

Eagles Talk And Closing Thoughts

SPEAKER_04 1:52:30

Yeah. Oh well. Good show. Good show today. Longer show again. Getting these two-hour shows knocked out. But good topics. Good topics by you picking good topics. So I appreciate you doing that. Helps out the show move in a great direction. Move on as pace and a schedule. Thank you for everybody being on. Well, whether you're on live or be on later, uh, think we're messed up in Facebook algorithms, so we'll have to be on a little bit more to improve that, work on that a little bit. But uh yeah, maybe post a little bit more on there, stuff like that. See if we can improve on that. Always work room for improvement. Mm-hmm. Anyway, any comments about you before we get on? Go Birds. We're still Eagles fans? As always. Go Birds. Okay, all right. I heard uh Jalen Hurts is uh asking for a trade.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:22

Actually, I heard Miles Garrett coming to the Eagles. Okay, all right. Laugh, it's been all over, it's been all over ESPN. They said we the front runners. Yeah, I think they always say that about everybody.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:35

Yeah, I mean y'all should have the money. Y'all ain't got nobody else on defense that y'all paying, so y'all should have the money. I heard Slade's coming back to the Eagles to retire, though. Cause it's the Eagles, you know how they do that thing where they sign him for like one one day and then they yeah, I heard he's doing that.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:53

I wish I could show that map of the United States when they did the latest study of fans.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:59

Eagles fans are everywhere. Do you think it was the same in the early 2000s? No, yeah, okay. So just because y'all winning, uh, we're popping, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 1:54:11

That's fine. We'll take them. Yeah, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 1:54:15

Good luck on keeping AJ Brown, but I think he's staying.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:17

I think we don't care.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:19

We don't care about AJ Brown. Y'all heard it here first. Y'all heard it here first. Say it again.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:28

Say it again. I said that before. I don't care about AJ, let him go. Yo, his dude was a cancer, man. If hey, if he keep him, he better go to work. He better go to work.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:40

What happened to it being the best duo, the best receiver duo?

SPEAKER_01 1:54:44

Philly is known to get rid of people. Oh, you ain't lying about that. Y'all got rid of Santa Claus. Y'all don't care.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:54

If you ain't yo, if you wanna if you're gonna quit, you're gone. Now, there's probably half and half of the right dates that want to keep AJ. I've won don't give two ducks. I'm tired of hearing about it. What about Saquon? Shut the duck up. That's what I say.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:11

What about Saquon? He cool?

SPEAKER_01 1:55:14

Yeah, Saquon's cool. We got a backup now. Look, we got the dude from Houston, Texans. Oh, uh man, what's the old name? We still got Tank Bigsby. You know what I'm saying? What's the dude's name from the Texans? He's super old. I can't remember. Oh, he ain't super old, man. Let me look it up. Here he goes. Houston. Texans.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:44

Uh David Montgomery. Montgomery's super old. No, it ain't David. Oh, Marks? Woody Marks? That sounds familiar. No, yeah. Montgomery went to Detroit. I don't see them got nobody from the Texans.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:03

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:04

Let me see. I'm trying to find that dude. Damien Pierce. Oh, Pierce. Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:11

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:11

That's right. Yeah. Wow. Pierce.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:15

That's right. So we got we, yo, we got backups. You know what I'm saying? We're gonna hit the draft running, get another offensive lineman. You know what I mean? We got Hollywood Brown. Hollywood.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:27

Hollywood gonna be hurt by game three, come back game six, and be hurt again by game seven.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:32

We got Dallas Goddard back. You know what I'm saying? We good. If AJ wants to go, peace.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:38

Y'all got rid of your third wide receiver, whatever his name was.

unknown 1:56:41

Who?

SPEAKER_04 1:56:42

What was your third wide receiver's name? Y'all got rid of him. Yeah, Dotson. Yeah, y'all just got rid of him. Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:50

That's right. You know what I'm saying? We good. Now I'm saying on defense, we still got Jalen Carter. We still got Jordan Davis. Mr. Spit in your face. Quentinamo Bay Mitchell. We still got Coop De Gene. I do like the Jean. We got Jahad Campbell that took the place in the Kobe Dean. And we're gonna get Miles Garrett.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:10

We good. I like the Gene, and I like your other running back. What's his name? The one who went to the Pro Bowl. No, he's a linebacker. Dean, no, not Dean. Uh, what's your linebacker? He's really, really good. Huh? Zach Vaughn? Vaughn. Yeah, Vaughn. I do like him.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:28

Zach Bond, we good, bro. I do like him. Tell you. Super Bowl next year, baby. Tell you. Wow. I wouldn't say y'all coordinate. You know what I'm saying? We can work with Jalen a little bit, get him to throw him over, throw balls over the middle. We good. We Gucci, man. Y'all start Dory Jackson?

SPEAKER_04 1:57:47

Who? A Dory Jackson? He's trash. We got rid of him. Oh, y'all got rid of him.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:54

But yeah, we got that dude Watson from the Seahawks, bro.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:58

Oh, not Watson. Uh whatever his name is.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:01

Rico, whatever his name is.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:02

Hold on. He's really good. Uh it starts with the W already then. Dang, what's his name?

SPEAKER_01 1:58:10

Where's where's uh whatever his name is? Rico. Oh, whatever his name is.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:15

Where's Justin when we need him?

SPEAKER_01 1:58:17

Uh he knows what it is. Shoo. He got that red. Shoo.

unknown 1:58:27

Let me.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:28

Yeah, yeah. Wool, woolen.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:30

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:32

He's a head case. But y'all got him. Yeah, he's a head case.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:36

We had we had CJ Garden Josh. He can't be no worse.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:40

Yeah, he was like George Pickens, but George Pickens did right with the Cowboys. But he's like Pickens, he's a little head case. We good, bro. Shoot. Well, all I gotta say is Bang Bang Niner guy.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:52

Bang, bang, niner guy. That makes no sense.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:56

Going for the Niners next year, anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:59

Make a decision. Are you a Falcons fan or a Niners fan?

SPEAKER_04 1:59:02

Oh, always rise up, but you know we ain't going nowhere. We can't figure out our quarterback situation. We can't figure out our quarterback situation.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:10

If y'all a Falcons fan, yeah, it's sad for us.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:14

It's sad for us. It's sad, sad, sad. Sad, sad. Tom Brady done put a 20-year hurting on us. Sad. Sad, sad, sad. Yeah, we might need to. We might, we probably lose in the CFL. Shoot, we need to go to the NCAA. Probably lose there, too. Go to a bowl game. Yeah, we're bad.

Final Goodbye

SPEAKER_04 1:59:40

All right. Anyway, we're prolonging the show. So holla at y'all next week. See y'all later. Appreciate y'all for coming out. Unpopular celebrities. We out. Peace, peace, peace.