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Kid Mero on Zohran Mamdani's rise, Eric Adams' hilarious scandals, Knicks check in | 11.04 · The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time. A wave original.
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Speaker 1: My name is Beaumont Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you
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Speaker 1: a hater. This time of week, we got a guest
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Speaker 1: joining us. Check him out. It's Merrill, the Kid Merrill, man. Like,
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Speaker 1: I lose track of what everything is. It's the Victory
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Speaker 1: Light podcast. I just feel like at this point, you
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Speaker 1: are your own freestanding entity.
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Speaker 2: Bro, I'm not a businessman. I'm a businessman. You know
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying? To go home. But now, you know,
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Speaker 2: we got it. Listen, like I always say, bro, I
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Speaker 2: got four kids and two mortgages. I got to stay
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Speaker 2: in motion. You know, if a shark stops swimming, they die.
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Speaker 2: So we got to keep the motion in.
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Speaker 1: You are definitely operating on the, this is a long-term
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Speaker 1: game program. It's like my daddy's argument for shopping and
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Speaker 1: getting gas at the cheap places. It's not about one tank.
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Speaker 1: It's about a lifetime behavior of getting tanks and then
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Speaker 1: eventually snack your bread.
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Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. That's all, man. I'm just out
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Speaker 2: here trying to get it. So we got Victory Light.
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Speaker 2: We got 7 p.m. You know what I mean? We
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Speaker 2: got According to the Kid. We got, you know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying? I'm writing a book of essays about fatherhood,
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Speaker 2: you know, because I got way too many kids to count.
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Speaker 2: You know, so it's a lot of content coming from
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Speaker 2: your boy.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest with you, brother. You're going
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Speaker 1: to have to earn the I'm going to listen to
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Speaker 1: Mero about being somebody's daddy. Like when that book comes out,
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Speaker 1: send me the copy. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. You get in the galley. Don't worry
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Speaker 2: about that. But it's like, it's more, it's more like
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Speaker 2: observational stuff. It's not a manual. Don't get it twisted.
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Speaker 2: Cause I tried to do that. And then I was like,
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Speaker 2: you know what?
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Speaker 3: Let's pivot away from this because I'm probably, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I get very good advice about being a dad, but
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Speaker 3: you know, it's, it's outside the box thinking, you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: You're not going to find my advice. I have no reason.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like I have no reason to think that you're
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Speaker 1: not good at dadding, right? I just don't have that
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Speaker 1: many reasons to assume that you are. And that's not about,
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Speaker 1: that's as much about me as anything else. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Like you have to admit you have
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Speaker 1: built a brand that does not imply that we should
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Speaker 1: be leaving kids with you.
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Speaker 2: But, hey, I'm the fun uncle, except when I'm your dad,
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Speaker 2: it's 24-7. You know what I mean? Right.
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Speaker 1: See, there we go. And now we have hit on,
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Speaker 1: now I want to read this book so bad. Like,
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Speaker 1: now I'm in. The homie Roy Woods got a book
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Speaker 1: about fatherhood and what he learned from different men. in
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Speaker 1: his life, and we're hoping to get him on to
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Speaker 1: talk about that. And so that could be an interesting juxtaposition.
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Speaker 1: Roy the dad versus Mero the dad. We always ought
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Speaker 1: to have you guys together doing a face-off sort of
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Speaker 1: thing on your parenting techniques based on what you picked
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Speaker 1: up in these streets.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it. All right.
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Speaker 1: Now, it is an interesting time, election week in New
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Speaker 1: York City, election on Tuesday, and This we are in
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Speaker 1: the midst of what for me, I've lived in a
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Speaker 1: lot of places now. I've lived in different regions of
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Speaker 1: the United States. I've never seen an election quite like
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Speaker 1: what's going on in New York City right now. And
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Speaker 1: I imagine a lot of you are familiar, which is
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Speaker 1: rare for an election in an odd number year. But
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Speaker 1: the mayor's race in New York is so interesting because
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Speaker 1: I feel like we all know who's going to win, right?
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Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdani is going to win. He did the hard
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Speaker 1: work early. He is going to win. I've never seen
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Speaker 1: more people more terrified of a diminutive South Asian man
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Speaker 1: that I have seen with people being... terrified of what
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Speaker 1: is going to happen if this dude wins oh my
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Speaker 1: goodness it is the wildest like you you are from
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Speaker 1: new york you lived around here forever you've seen giuliani
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Speaker 1: win elections like you've seen a lot of things this
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Speaker 1: this is different right it's.
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Speaker 2: It's different because it's like this there's like an energy
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Speaker 2: you know what i mean like that's like like just
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Speaker 2: like permeating like the city, right? Like you said, like
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Speaker 2: there's the side of people that are terrified and there's
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Speaker 2: a side of people that are like hopeful and are like, man, listen,
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Speaker 2: we've been doing the same shit for I don't know
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Speaker 2: how many years and it ain't got us nowhere. So
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Speaker 2: let's try something different. You know what I mean? And
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Speaker 2: then you got a guy who's, you know, not an
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Speaker 2: establishment politician, bro, which I think is kind of like
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Speaker 2: a barometer for the nation. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Like people are tired of like the same old guys.
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Speaker 2: Like I told Zoran, When we were doing a walk-in
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Speaker 2: talk and I was just like, listen, bro, the problem
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Speaker 2: is that a lot of people are just uninformed voters, man.
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Speaker 2: They're just uninformed, dog. And if you run a guy
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Speaker 2: who has the same last name as another guy who
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Speaker 2: was formerly in office, they'll just be like, all right, well,
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Speaker 2: I guess he knows what he's doing. Let me go
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Speaker 2: just check that box. And I told him, I was like, listen,
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Speaker 2: brand loyalty is great. for ketchup, for tires, you know
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying? For bobby pins, whatever you use, bonnets,
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Speaker 2: whatever you use. Not for people, not for politicians. You
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? Just because my dad was a
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Speaker 2: great HVAC technician don't mean I'm going to come down
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Speaker 2: to your crib and fix your walk-in freezer. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what the fuck I'm doing in that regard. So,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean? I think, like, with Cuomo,
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Speaker 2: it's crazy that you can have a guy... that failed
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Speaker 2: at governor, resigned, you know, like disgracefully. And then he's
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Speaker 2: trying to like do a, basically use the mayor, the
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Speaker 2: mayor's office as a PR campaign, four years of PR cleanup.
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Speaker 2: He's doing like the Saudi Arabia shit where he's just like, yo.
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Speaker 2: He's trying to get back. Yeah. He's trying to get back.
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Speaker 2: He's trying to like, you know.
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Speaker 1: Cuomo need to be in charge of something again. Like,
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Speaker 1: can you imagine what life has been to be around
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Speaker 1: him and he ain't had nothing to be in charge of?
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Speaker 1: I can only imagine how exhausting and insufferable he is.
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Speaker 1: Because look, man, you've seen these debates and stuff, man.
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Speaker 1: His heart ain't in it. He is not really trying
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Speaker 1: to do this, but he needs something to be in
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Speaker 1: charge of. But he clearly doesn't want to be the mayor.
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Speaker 1: You used to be the governor. Now you talk about
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Speaker 1: you want to be the mayor. You don't want to
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Speaker 1: be the mayor.
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Speaker 2: He don't. He just want to clean up his image,
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Speaker 2: be like, yo, I'm still a viable politician, y'all. Vote
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Speaker 2: for me. You know what I'm saying? And whatever, like
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Speaker 2: you said, like. Put me in charge of something. I
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Speaker 2: don't care if it's the North Shore Animal League, bro.
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Speaker 2: Put me in charge of something. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Because I think Homie just has no marketable skills. And
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Speaker 2: as an elderly man with a pierced nipple, it's hard
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Speaker 2: to get a job out here.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot about the pierced nipple.
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Speaker 2: Crazy work.
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Speaker 1: That's still, that's absurd.
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Speaker 2: Crazy work. Bo, if I'm a single issue voter, a
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Speaker 2: nipple ring is going to get you out of that.
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Speaker 2: It's eliminating you from my contention.
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Speaker 1: Imagine what it's like for the ladies. Because look, some
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Speaker 1: of us know what it's like when you stumble upon,
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Speaker 1: oh shit, It's a ring there.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how that goes for women, though, when
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Speaker 1: this happens. Like, I don't feel like it's nearly as.
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Speaker 2: Intriguing as it is.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it signals. I feel like, and honestly,
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Speaker 1: what it might signal to women is the exact opposite
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Speaker 1: thing of that which I wish to signal in that moment.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. You know what I'm saying? And that's the
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Speaker 2: other thing. The physiology of a woman's nipple is different
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Speaker 2: than that of a man's nipple. So for you to
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Speaker 2: get your nipple pierced as a woman is a lot easier.
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Speaker 2: There's more surface area of the nipple to account for.
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Speaker 2: So you mean to tell me that you got enough
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Speaker 2: nip to pierce and then you're going to go ahead
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Speaker 2: and do it. and follow through and be like, yo,
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Speaker 2: you know what? I got big nipples. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm going to do? I'm going to make them more
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Speaker 2: unsightly by putting a big-ass ring in them. That's crazy.
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Speaker 2: And then you're going to do a serious State of
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Speaker 2: the Union of the, you know, blah-bitty-blue, whatever's going on,
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Speaker 2: with that white polo and the nipple ring sticking through
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Speaker 2: looking crazy. I was like, oh, nah, man. This got
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Speaker 2: to stop. That's crazy, dog. Imagine the president started gauging
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Speaker 2: their ears or something like that, doing some different shit,
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Speaker 2: and you'd be like, bro, this is not... Hey, do
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Speaker 2: what you do. Live your life, man. But if you
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Speaker 2: running a government office, I don't want you with no
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Speaker 2: type of shit on your face and your titties, bro.
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Speaker 2: Leave that shit alone.
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Speaker 1: Well, hold on. This is what this is now making
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Speaker 1: me wonder is who out here, it could be a politics,
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Speaker 1: it could be a whole bunch of spaces, somebody got
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Speaker 1: like a nipple ring and we would be surprised to
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Speaker 1: find out that they got it, right? Or people who,
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Speaker 1: like how Kevin Durant has all those tattoos, but you
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Speaker 1: can't really see none of them. Right? Like, and I
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Speaker 1: have met somebody, shall we say, with the exact same setup.
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Speaker 1: You'd have no idea what kind of party it is
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Speaker 1: until the party actually begins, right? So somebody out there
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Speaker 1: got like a nipple ring and or more. Bro. That
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Speaker 1: we had not considered, had never known.
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Speaker 2: And when you say more.
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Speaker 1: And this has been, I mean, more. Like a lot more.
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Speaker 2: That could be anything.
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Speaker 1: Todo es posible, mi amigo. Todo es posible.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, man.
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Speaker 1: Like, think about that. Every time you see a politician, man,
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Speaker 1: they might have a nipple ring.
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Speaker 2: That's wild. Or more. Think about it. Think about you, like,
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Speaker 2: Clarence Thomas having a Prince Albert. I know you didn't
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Speaker 2: want to think about that. I know you didn't want
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Speaker 2: to think about that. I'm sorry, America. I'm sorry, the internet.
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Speaker 2: for putting that image in your brain. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Well, the issue is not me thinking about it. It
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Speaker 1: is the invariable text that I know I'm going to
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Speaker 1: receive from my mother that says, what is a Prince
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Speaker 1: Albert question mark? Which I think I just guaranteed she
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Speaker 1: would send to me now that I've actually brought it up.
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Speaker 1: But that's still 100% on the board. And I'm going
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Speaker 1: to put her on a... No, I can't let you
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Speaker 1: tell her because you will. in capital letters, nevermind. I
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Speaker 1: was gonna like outsource that to you to give that explanation,
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Speaker 1: but actually, no, I can't allow that to happen at all.
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Speaker 2: That might ruin the holidays for you, Bo. I'm not
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Speaker 2: trying to do that to you.
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Speaker 1: I'm in a terrible place right now. I'm in such
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Speaker 1: a terrible place. It's a dark mental place. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: Here's what we need to talk about, though. And this
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Speaker 1: is the thing. And if you have not followed the
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Speaker 1: mayor's race, have you followed anything the last four years
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Speaker 1: of the Eric Adams era? And I need to ask
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Speaker 1: you about this because Eric Adams once was trying to
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Speaker 1: get out of some trouble. And the quote he gave
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Speaker 1: was make sure the Dominicans know that Eric Adams is
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Speaker 1: the only mayor to ever hang out at the clubs
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Speaker 1: on Dykeman. And I was like, oh, man, this is
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Speaker 1: like he really made hanging out at spots that me
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Speaker 1: and you might not go to. That was part of
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Speaker 1: his mayoral strategy.
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Speaker 2: Fam, when I seen him smoking hookah with rappers, I said,
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Speaker 2: we are cooked. We are, this is over. It is over, over. Like,
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Speaker 2: when he got elected, I was like, yo, y'all elected
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Speaker 2: a party promoter to run the city. Good luck. Let's
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Speaker 2: see how these next four years turn out. Ladies free
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Speaker 2: before 11 at the Social Security office. Like, what is
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Speaker 2: going on? This dude was a, he was a walking meme.
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Speaker 2: Every city was the New York of that country. Yo,
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Speaker 2: it was crazy. He had like five catchphrases. He hung
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Speaker 2: out with Jim Jones. I'm like, yo, listen. I love
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Speaker 2: Jim Jones. That's my guy. I don't want my man
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Speaker 2: hanging out with Jim Jones. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: There might be some bad influences going on there. You
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? Well, I want to say this.
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Speaker 1: In fairness to Adams on the... Blank is the New
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Speaker 1: York of blank that he did everywhere. This is very
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Speaker 1: similar to how Instagram make it to where people got
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Speaker 1: to spend way too much money on clothes. because once
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Speaker 1: it go on Instagram, it is there forever, and now
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Speaker 1: you can't wear this anywhere else, right? That's what happened
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Speaker 1: to him with this. We didn't always have access to
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Speaker 1: all this video that you could run it in a line,
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Speaker 1: and you could just spit that line over and over again,
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Speaker 1: and it would be okay, right?
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Speaker 2: It kind of hit.
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Speaker 1: Once people were able to chop that up, that's like
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris had that one line, something about being unburdened,
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Speaker 1: and they found out that she had been saying that
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Speaker 1: all the time. Hey, man, if you got a line
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Speaker 1: that works, You got to lie networks. I've seen Dave
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Speaker 1: Chappelle live three or four times. And I think every
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Speaker 1: time I've seen him live, he has told the same
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Speaker 1: joke where somebody made reference to a little something, shall
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Speaker 1: we say, and asked him to describe, you know, to
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Speaker 1: describe it. And it was referred to as it's delicious.
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Speaker 1: And he was like, hey, that's not a way that
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Speaker 1: I imagine somebody would describe that thing. He's told it
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Speaker 1: every show I've seen him do it all over the
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Speaker 1: course of 20 years. It was funny every time. Like
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Speaker 1: sometimes you get a line and it works, baby.
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Speaker 2: That's it. You know, the only problem is that now
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Speaker 2: we got the internet and we got video, digital video,
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Speaker 2: and we got a lot of people that have editing
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Speaker 2: skills and can make these things that we in the
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Speaker 2: media industry call super cuts. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: Of you saying the same thing over and over and
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Speaker 2: over again. And then you become a living meme.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm going to say this, and I feel
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Speaker 1: like you and I can both say this because we've
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Speaker 1: been working in this business for a while, man. I
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Speaker 1: feel like the people that be making them cuts is
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Speaker 1: people that ain't never had to come up with a
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Speaker 1: good line before. Like, it ain't that easy, guys, right? Like,
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Speaker 1: I think there's got to be somebody that's like a
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Speaker 1: super cut guy that's like, nah, man, I know what
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Speaker 1: they was going through. I can't even participate in this.
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Speaker 2: I'm out. You don't know what it takes to come
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Speaker 2: up with Islamabad is the New York of Islamabad.
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Speaker 1: Like, you say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you say something funny, right? Like, that's what he's saying.
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Speaker 1: You come up with something to make these people feel good, right? Like,
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Speaker 1: what y'all got?
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Speaker 2: That's his opening joke. You got to let him have it.
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Speaker 1: Got to let him have it. He was amazing. We
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Speaker 1: also had the thing happen very recently where a woman
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Speaker 1: put out a book that basically, I mean, it's hard
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Speaker 1: times out here where you can get a book deal
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Speaker 1: because you used to sleep with Eric Adams. which was
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Speaker 1: the whole way that this woman got the book. But
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Speaker 1: the thing was, it didn't make Eric Adams look bad.
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Speaker 1: It actually made Eric Adams look good because she was
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Speaker 1: kind of fine. And everybody saw that and was kind
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Speaker 1: of like, damn, even Eric Adams, huh?
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Speaker 2: Bro, it was an absolute glaze fest, bro. I skimmed
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Speaker 2: that shit and I was like, wow, Shorty's just glazing, homie.
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Speaker 2: But you know, everybody trying to come up, get a bag,
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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? I did a little digging myself.
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Speaker 2: Shorty used to sing background vocals for Stag Elite. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, if you're singing vocals, background vocals with Stagg
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Speaker 2: and Lee, man, then, you know, you got other, you
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Speaker 2: got bigger problems. So you're just trying to secure the bag, man.
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Speaker 2: So you'll do anything.
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Speaker 1: Hey, look, man, I saw how Eric Adams got to
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Speaker 1: be the mayor. Eric Adams, in that book, that woman said,
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Speaker 1: Eric Adams looked at her and said, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be the mayor and I don't want to do it
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Speaker 1: without you. She said they wasn't even doing the thing
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Speaker 1: no more. And she signed up on that.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'll throw a flag on the play.
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Speaker 2: I'll call cap. You know, whatever you want to do.
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Speaker 2: Because the way Eric Adams has been moving, he moves
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Speaker 2: like a dude that's like, yo, you know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: I'm not claiming you. We're not doing nothing public until
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Speaker 2: I see what that thing's more like. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Well, no, he knew that, and then apparently they stopped.
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Speaker 1: I think the surprise in this one is that Eric
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Speaker 1: Adams is someone who actually can abide by sure we'll
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Speaker 1: just be friends. That is not behavior that I would
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Speaker 1: expect from Eric Adams.
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Speaker 2: Well, no. He is not doing that in the least, bro.
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Speaker 2: He is like, listen, again, he's a club promoter. And
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Speaker 2: you know what club promoters are trying to do? Give
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Speaker 2: the pretty girl extra drink tickets. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: Butter her up. You know what I mean? Finesse it.
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Speaker 2: Get some like, you know, liquid lubrication poppin'..
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Speaker 1: It makes sense. Did we find out that he was
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Speaker 1: like down at Far Rockaway? For people who don't know,
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Speaker 1: Far Rockaway is far. That is the best way to
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Speaker 1: describe Far Rockaway.
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Speaker 2: It's in the name.
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Speaker 1: I can get to my house, I can get from
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Speaker 1: my house to Philly faster than you can get from
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Speaker 1: where Mero grew up to Far Rockaway and it's all
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Speaker 1: in the same city, right?
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Speaker 2: That's a fact, bro.
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Speaker 1: But he was like, yeah, I used to have a...
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Speaker 1: He's like, yo, I used to have a shorty down here.
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Speaker 1: And then we looked it up. Nope, it looks like
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Speaker 1: Eric Adams did. In fact, like Eric Adams is that
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Speaker 1: dude that you can't believe nothing he says except the
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Speaker 1: one time you check into it, he did do the
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Speaker 1: thing he said.
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Speaker 2: So then it fucks you up and you're like, yo,
17:02
Speaker 2: wait a minute. What about the other stuff? Could it
17:05
Speaker 2: possibly be true? Was he really on tour with Jay-Z
17:09
Speaker 2: and Memphis Bleak in 2002? Like, you know what I mean? Like,
17:13
Speaker 2: you never know.
17:16
Speaker 1: That's the one danger about checking somebody you know who
17:19
Speaker 1: be lying. You got to make sure you get them
17:22
Speaker 1: on that lie.
17:25
Speaker 2: Or else, you know, you got a Fat Joe situation
17:27
Speaker 2: on your hands where it's just like, yo, the story
17:28
Speaker 2: sound ridiculous, but then you got other people confirming it.
17:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know. You never know, right? And once
17:35
Speaker 1: that person, Trump has the same thing too. Trump mess
17:39
Speaker 1: around and tell you some wild shit and then the
17:40
Speaker 1: next thing you know, it's kind of like when it
17:42
Speaker 1: turned out that Joe Biden did know a dude named
17:44
Speaker 1: Corn Pop. Like, Corp Pop really was something. After that, man,
17:49
Speaker 1: we had to listen to whatever Joe Biden said.
17:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to listen to all that malarkey.
17:52
Speaker 1: We thought you made it up. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it.
17:56
Speaker 1: We thought it was malarkey. In fact, it was the
17:59
Speaker 1: real McCoy.
18:01
Speaker 2: Corp Pop is vindicated. Yes, yes.
18:06
Speaker 1: Now, there's something else going on with this mayor's race.
18:08
Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know, and this becomes
18:10
Speaker 1: very interesting, is that Eric Adams is the mayor and
18:14
Speaker 1: he ran as he was a Democrat, but he wasn't
18:16
Speaker 1: running as a Democrat because he was under indictment. He
18:18
Speaker 1: got himself out from under indictment because he agreed to
18:20
Speaker 1: do Trump's bidding on the immigration stuff. So Cuomo, who
18:26
Speaker 1: was the governor and left in disgrace, he ran against
18:29
Speaker 1: Mom Donnie in the Democratic primary. And the expectation was
18:32
Speaker 1: very similar to Barack Obama in 08. We're like, oh,
18:35
Speaker 1: come on, man. There's no way that this can go.
18:37
Speaker 1: Except Mondani smoked Cuomo. Right. We thought and you knew
18:41
Speaker 1: it was bad because, look, black people, we try not
18:44
Speaker 1: to vote for losers. And Cuomo was expected to win
18:48
Speaker 1: the black vote. Nope, didn't happen. Black people was voting
18:50
Speaker 1: for Mondani, too, because Mondani has this fascinating approach where
18:54
Speaker 1: he's just like, guys, you ever notice that shit costs
18:56
Speaker 1: way too much money? Isn't that wild? Yeah, vote for me.
19:00
Speaker 1: And we was like, hell yeah, we gonna vote for you.
19:03
Speaker 1: And so now it's the general election. Cuomo is running
19:07
Speaker 1: as an independent and is another dude named Curtis Sliwa,
19:11
Speaker 1: who used to be homeboy that ran the Guardian Angels.
19:15
Speaker 1: So he'll be out here with a beret on and
19:17
Speaker 1: he's running for the Republican nomination. And it's worth noting
19:21
Speaker 1: that Curtis Sliwa is really hates Andrew Cuomo, right? Now,
19:26
Speaker 1: you may be asking yourself, why is a Democrat running
19:30
Speaker 1: against a Democrat? Because it has turned into a handicap match.
19:36
Speaker 1: Everybody is trying to make sure that Zoran don't get
19:40
Speaker 1: out of here. The big money don't like Zoran. The
19:43
Speaker 1: landlords don't like Zoran. People who are decidedly pro-Israel, they
19:47
Speaker 1: are not big fans of Zoran. Everybody is coming at Zoran.
19:52
Speaker 1: But the two dudes that are running against Zoran, the
19:54
Speaker 1: problem is Curtis Sliwa really hates Andrew Cuomo more than
19:58
Speaker 1: he hates anything else in this world. And I think
20:00
Speaker 1: that's the only thing that keeps him up in the
20:02
Speaker 1: morning is taking shots at Andrew Cuomo.
20:04
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you one thing, bro. This is not
20:07
Speaker 2: even a hot take. This is a lukewarm take. This
20:09
Speaker 2: is actually probably true. You know what I mean? I
20:12
Speaker 2: can say this with no facts or anything. It's my opinion,
20:16
Speaker 2: which is a fact. If Curtis Lewa was not a
20:19
Speaker 2: Republican on the Republican ticket, I think him and Zoran
20:22
Speaker 2: would get along. You know what I'm saying? Because Curtis Lewa,
20:26
Speaker 2: even though he's a Pixar character of, you know, New
20:29
Speaker 2: York City, the Disney movie, you know what I mean? Like, he...
20:33
Speaker 2: When they asked, the perfect example to me was in
20:36
Speaker 2: the debate. When they asked the question, have you ever
20:38
Speaker 2: gotten anything from a legal dispensary? And Mamdani was like, yes,
20:43
Speaker 2: I have purchased marijuana at a legal dispensary. And Curtis
20:46
Speaker 2: Lee was like, I got shot five times and I
20:48
Speaker 2: used marijuana to cure my pains. So yes. And Cuomo
20:53
Speaker 2: was just like, nah. You know what I mean? So
20:56
Speaker 2: I'm just like, one of these things is not like
20:58
Speaker 2: the other. You know what I'm saying? I think Sliwa
21:02
Speaker 2: and Zoran and the Cypher, they could get some things done. Yo,
21:09
Speaker 2: real talk.
21:10
Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa is... It's a somewhat Texas archetype, but I
21:15
Speaker 1: like my white guys white. You know what I'm saying?
21:18
Speaker 1: You don't need to be pretending like we got more
21:20
Speaker 1: in common than we actually do. Curtis Sliwa, I don't
21:22
Speaker 1: want to talk to him about everything, but I think
21:25
Speaker 1: I'd have a great time talking to him about everything else.
21:28
Speaker 1: My favorite part is... It's the guy with the beret
21:32
Speaker 1: that's the Republican and the dude in the nice suit
21:34
Speaker 1: that's the socialist. Is that what you're telling me here?
21:37
Speaker 1: Because if I told you somebody over there is a socialist,
21:39
Speaker 1: you're picking a dude in the funny hat.
21:41
Speaker 2: And a raspberry beret. Of course.
21:44
Speaker 1: Yes. This is really a thing. It's the dude in
21:50
Speaker 1: the beret, but he's not trying to take my daddy out. No,
21:54
Speaker 1: he wants to get Cuomo every time. When he said
21:56
Speaker 1: about Cuomo that Cuomo is slapping fannies and killing grannies.
22:01
Speaker 1: Cuomo got put out for some sexual harassment and we
22:04
Speaker 1: found out a lot of old people died during the
22:07
Speaker 1: pandemic in the nursing homes and Cuomo hid it from us.
22:09
Speaker 1: And so Curtis Lee has been on his ass.
22:14
Speaker 2: Fat curtis lee would need to go on joe and jada.
22:15
Speaker 1: Honestly how have none of them tried to like it
22:22
Speaker 1: would just be amazing just like 45 minutes of him
22:25
Speaker 1: talking to fat joe i'll watch i swear i'll watch.
22:29
Speaker 2: I'll watch i'll start a network on that premise.
22:34
Speaker 1: Like this is what it is until the issue is.
22:37
Speaker 2: Going to be.
22:42
Speaker 1: But yo we we know zoron's probably gonna win brother
22:45
Speaker 1: they about to be they gonna be on him like
22:48
Speaker 1: his name really his middle name is kwame he was
22:50
Speaker 1: born in uganda but they gonna be on him like
22:53
Speaker 1: you know like he kwame brown like it's about it's
22:56
Speaker 1: about to be relentless coming.
22:59
Speaker 2: In like you said man before i have never seen
23:02
Speaker 2: this level of like fear from like the establishment you
23:06
Speaker 2: know what i'm saying like you know, career politicians, billionaires,
23:11
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? All these rich people, boomers,
23:14
Speaker 2: you name it. Fear mongerers, you know what I'm saying?
23:16
Speaker 2: Et cetera, et cetera. I'm like, bro, this dude went
23:19
Speaker 2: to Bronx science. Do y'all know what the, like, fam,
23:23
Speaker 2: like this kid is a New York city kid. Like,
23:24
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? So like, it just, it
23:28
Speaker 2: baffles my mind, bro. Because another thing is this guy's
23:31
Speaker 2: running to be mayor of New York city and he's
23:33
Speaker 2: very focused on New York city. Like, he's, like, you
23:37
Speaker 2: know what I mean? He's getting very granular with the
23:39
Speaker 2: New York City shit. He don't care. He's not tripping
23:41
Speaker 2: about geopolitics and nothing like that. They keep asking him
23:43
Speaker 2: about it. But he's, and he keeps replying, hey, hey, man,
23:47
Speaker 2: I'm running to be mayor of New York City. That's
23:50
Speaker 2: my focus. New York City. And making it affordable for
23:53
Speaker 2: New Yorkers. You know what I'm saying? I left New
23:55
Speaker 2: York City when they stopped doing free UPK. I got free,
23:57
Speaker 2: I got four kids, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying?
24:00
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't afford to send all the
24:02
Speaker 2: other daycare while your mom goes to work and I
24:04
Speaker 2: go to work. That's crazy. So what are we going
24:06
Speaker 2: to do? I was like, I guess I got to go.
24:08
Speaker 2: And I helped them move. So, you know, there's a
24:10
Speaker 2: lot of things, man, like, like I call my, like
24:12
Speaker 2: I'm a single issue voter, like I'm not a single
24:14
Speaker 2: issue voter, but like there's a lot of people that
24:15
Speaker 2: are single issue voters. And for me, the most important
24:18
Speaker 2: thing is childcare, UPK, you know what I mean? Like
24:22
Speaker 2: the buses is nice. Everything else is nice. But really
24:25
Speaker 2: it's really about giving, you know, New Yorkers the opportunity
24:29
Speaker 2: to go out and work and not have to worry about,
24:30
Speaker 2: Hey man, I got to spend 20 bays a year
24:32
Speaker 2: on daycare. And that's sucking up all my money. I
24:35
Speaker 2: can't save up money. I can't do nothing. I can't...
24:38
Speaker 2: You know, I'm living hand to mouth. And New Yorkers
24:41
Speaker 2: are tired of that shit. And them billionaires.
24:44
Speaker 1: And the billionaires are like, fuck your kids. Yeah, fuck
24:47
Speaker 1: your kids. That Ackerman guy that Curtis Sliwa also hates. Like,
24:51
Speaker 1: that's the thing about Sliwa. When he talks, he doesn't
24:54
Speaker 1: sound like any Republican that I know.
24:57
Speaker 2: At all.
24:58
Speaker 1: Sliwa says way too many things where I'm like, no, no, no,
25:01
Speaker 1: hear the man out. Let the man in the funny
25:03
Speaker 1: hat finish. But they don't say too much. And it's like,
25:06
Speaker 1: all right, somebody tell the funny hat.
25:08
Speaker 2: All right, you crossed the line, champ. You know what
25:10
Speaker 2: I mean? Like... It's a sleeveless threshold, bro. Sleeveless to
25:15
Speaker 2: me is like me going to LA. I could be
25:17
Speaker 2: there for a week and a half, two weeks, and
25:18
Speaker 2: then I got to get out of there.
25:23
Speaker 1: But they all, all of the billionaires, all of the landlords,
25:27
Speaker 1: because my man is trying to freeze the rent or
25:29
Speaker 1: rent-stabilized places. Let me tell you something. I had a
25:31
Speaker 1: rent-stabilized apartment for a little while, baby. And let me
25:34
Speaker 1: tell you what they don't be trying to do. Put
25:35
Speaker 1: no money into that motherfucker. That's the only thing about it.
25:38
Speaker 1: They going to get you back. They going to get
25:40
Speaker 1: you back on that one. They like, ain't no profit.
25:42
Speaker 1: in this situation um but like everything he says to
25:46
Speaker 1: me yo everything he says to me sounds like it
25:49
Speaker 1: seems like a pretty good idea hey maybe that won't
25:51
Speaker 1: work but it seems worth a try terror i was
25:54
Speaker 1: talking to somebody on the phone the other day who
25:56
Speaker 1: don't even live here and he was petrified at the
25:59
Speaker 1: prospect of zoron winning i.
26:02
Speaker 2: Don't understand it i'm like listen man like look There's
26:05
Speaker 2: a lot of things that he's proposing. Like you said,
26:08
Speaker 2: they might work, they might not. But what have we
26:11
Speaker 2: been doing for the last, you know what I mean,
26:13
Speaker 2: eight years? Like, bullshit. Yeah. So, you know, and look
26:17
Speaker 2: at where we're at. So, you know, might as well
26:19
Speaker 2: try something new. I know Cuomo's not going to do
26:21
Speaker 2: anything new.
26:21
Speaker 1: Well, that's my thing. Y'all wasn't scared of Eric Adams? Like,
26:27
Speaker 1: it is amazing that, like, you think you can survive
26:29
Speaker 1: Eric Adams, right? But you don't think you can survive
26:34
Speaker 1: the homies O-Rod. That's what's kind of wild to me.
26:37
Speaker 2: That is super bugged out. I think, you know what
26:39
Speaker 2: it is? I think it's older. It's funny because it's, like,
26:42
Speaker 2: older people, a lot of older people that are, like,
26:45
Speaker 2: doing all this, like, fear-mongering and all this other bullshit.
26:48
Speaker 2: And it's trippy to me because I'm like, man, Aren't
26:52
Speaker 2: y'all like the hippies? Aren't y'all like the generation of like, yo,
26:55
Speaker 2: make love, not war. Like, blah, blah, blah. I'm like,
26:58
Speaker 2: all right, I guess all that shit went out the
26:59
Speaker 2: window as soon as you saw your social security check
27:01
Speaker 2: was weak. You know what I mean? And that ain't
27:03
Speaker 2: his fault.
27:04
Speaker 1: This is right.
27:07
Speaker 2: Boomer's got to figure shit out.
27:08
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this. I got one more point
27:11
Speaker 1: I'm going to make on this. We're going to take
27:13
Speaker 1: a moment. But coming up next, I'm going to make
27:15
Speaker 1: one more point that I do think needs to be
27:17
Speaker 1: made when it comes to Eric Adams. All right, back
27:20
Speaker 1: with the Kid Mero. And all these jokes we got
27:23
Speaker 1: about Eric Adams, I do think we need to stop
27:25
Speaker 1: and take a moment because I would love to direct
27:27
Speaker 1: the Eric Adams documentary. The fact that it happened at all.
27:30
Speaker 1: It is amazing that this particular man got to where
27:36
Speaker 1: he has been and almost went to jail. They accused
27:40
Speaker 1: his aides of passing bribes in a Funyuns bag or
27:45
Speaker 1: whatever kind of chips it was that was in the bag.
27:48
Speaker 1: And he beat the rap and he is going to
27:50
Speaker 1: walk out of the mayor's office not in handcuffs.
27:54
Speaker 2: Amazing um bro amazing doing all the the goofiest corruption
28:00
Speaker 2: scandal in the history of government this man going to
28:03
Speaker 2: turkey and getting first class flights i don't know if
28:06
Speaker 2: he went there to get his veneers done or what
28:09
Speaker 2: but not even like y'all make like a billion dollar
28:13
Speaker 2: stock trading insider trading nothing like that bro i flew
28:16
Speaker 2: to turkey and i got special treatment like dog what
28:20
Speaker 2: the fuck and like Fair. Homie was just the literal devil.
28:25
Speaker 2: He was like Kingpin. You know what I'm saying? For Spider-Man.
28:28
Speaker 2: Kingpin for Spider-Man became mayor of New York City and
28:30
Speaker 2: went on Ozempic.
28:31
Speaker 1: Hold up.
28:32
Speaker 2: That's Eric Adams.
28:33
Speaker 1: What if he had come back from Turkey with a
28:36
Speaker 1: full head of hair?
28:38
Speaker 2: I was expecting that, Bo. When I saw that he
28:41
Speaker 2: did not, I was disappointed. I was disappointed. I was like, yo,
28:45
Speaker 2: my man, you pushing the boundaries of the mayoral office
28:50
Speaker 2: in every direction except this one? You can't go get
28:53
Speaker 2: the Nori? Dark Caesar, bro? Like, Nori did it. Why
28:56
Speaker 2: can't you do it? You hang out with rappers all
28:58
Speaker 2: the time. They not giving you, they gatekeeping the doctors
29:01
Speaker 2: for you? Yes.
29:02
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you this, though. I'm going to
29:04
Speaker 1: tell you the one person who need to be mad, though,
29:07
Speaker 1: at Zoran. And I know he probably talks to people
29:12
Speaker 1: about this all the time. They be like, yeah, I know.
29:14
Speaker 2: You right. You right.
29:16
Speaker 1: And that is our man. You remember Jimmy Mac? Jimmy
29:19
Speaker 1: Mac Miller? The rent is too damn high?
29:23
Speaker 2: Yeah. He been saying it. Yo, man.
29:27
Speaker 1: Zobrod beat his whole steez, man. Bernie Sanders beat his
29:30
Speaker 1: whole steez. AOC beat his whole steez. He had it.
29:34
Speaker 1: Very simple. One issue. The rent is too damn high.
29:38
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, the rent too damn high. you got this
29:41
Speaker 1: and they call.
29:41
Speaker 2: Him crazy see he ran he walks so Zoran can
29:45
Speaker 2: run you know what I'm saying so shout out to
29:47
Speaker 2: Jimmy god damn it because he was and I think
29:49
Speaker 2: I feel like if it wasn't for the facial hair
29:52
Speaker 2: he might have had a shot.
29:55
Speaker 1: I was just about to say the least that Zoran
29:57
Speaker 1: could do to show that man some love is to
29:59
Speaker 1: pay some homage and go ahead and grow it. Grow
30:04
Speaker 1: that crazy facial hair, man. You got to get this
30:08
Speaker 1: man some kind of props, man. You got to at
30:10
Speaker 1: least bring him out at the victory party.
30:12
Speaker 2: It's like he....
30:16
Speaker 1: Yo, Jimmy is like Fonte to Drake. You know what
30:19
Speaker 1: I'm saying? It's a lot of y'all that don't really
30:21
Speaker 1: know what's really going on, but those of us who
30:23
Speaker 1: know the real, we can see the straight line that
30:25
Speaker 1: was drawn.
30:26
Speaker 2: Right. You see the through line from Jimmy to Zora.
30:31
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Yes, yes.
30:34
Speaker 1: Yo, this tell you a lot about America, that more
30:36
Speaker 1: people don't simply run on, yo, man, these prices is crazy, right? Like,
30:43
Speaker 1: who's saying no to that approach? Like, who is the
30:45
Speaker 1: person that hears that and is like, no, actually, I
30:47
Speaker 1: think they're pretty reasonable.
30:48
Speaker 2: They're pretty good.
30:49
Speaker 1: Even rich people are like, yeah, them prices aren't high, man.
30:51
Speaker 2: Thank you. That's the craziest shit to me, bro. It's like, yo,
30:54
Speaker 2: my man is running on a campaign. He hasn't said
30:57
Speaker 2: shit except the word affordability 80, 100,000 times. And everybody
31:03
Speaker 2: who's living in the city and is like, damn, you're right.
31:05
Speaker 2: This shit is wild and affordable. I just paid $ 12.
31:09
Speaker 2: for jail commissary instant oatmeal. This is crazy. This has
31:12
Speaker 2: to stop. My rent is $ 8, 000 a month. I live
31:16
Speaker 2: in a two-bedroom that I share with a rodent that
31:21
Speaker 2: I can't identify. You know what I'm saying? And, like,
31:24
Speaker 2: this is out of control. We got to stop this.
31:26
Speaker 2: So somebody saying that and people being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
31:29
Speaker 2: take it easy there, buddy, is crazy to me. I
31:32
Speaker 2: feel like I'm in Zoolander, bro. Like, am I taking
31:34
Speaker 2: crazy pills? Like, y'all want the rent to be higher?
31:38
Speaker 2: I was like, I know one thing. Eric Adams on
31:40
Speaker 2: his way out bumped the rent up. He bumped the
31:42
Speaker 2: rent one last time for motherfuckers on his way out.
31:45
Speaker 2: And I was just like, God damn, bro. Thank you
31:47
Speaker 2: for the parting gift, you bitch. Now I got to
31:49
Speaker 2: pay an extra 500 for the studio.
31:50
Speaker 1: Yo, man. Yo, because part of it is you kind
31:53
Speaker 1: of get yourself to a place living here where you
31:55
Speaker 1: just don't think about how much it costs, right? It's
31:57
Speaker 1: not going to help. Like if it's something that you
31:59
Speaker 1: got to buy, you just kind of go ahead and
32:01
Speaker 1: buy it. But every now and then something happens and
32:03
Speaker 1: you look at the number and you're like, what's really
32:05
Speaker 1: going on, right? Man, I ordered some Indian food the
32:08
Speaker 1: other night, some curry chicken and some naan. It was
32:14
Speaker 1: 40 bucks.
32:15
Speaker 2: Dog!
32:16
Speaker 1: Now, granted, that's the fee game, right? There's a lot of,
32:21
Speaker 1: but the bottom line is, and by the time I
32:24
Speaker 1: saw it, I was like, fuck, man, I've already decided
32:26
Speaker 1: that this is what I'm about to do. 40 bucks.
32:30
Speaker 1: What are you talking about here?
32:32
Speaker 2: Fam, and this is ethnic food. People fuck with ethnic
32:35
Speaker 2: food because it's, by and large, affordable. You know what
32:39
Speaker 2: I'm saying? It's made by immigrants for their communities. You
32:44
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? And other people. New York is
32:45
Speaker 2: a melting pot. We know that. We love it. But goddamn, bro,
32:48
Speaker 2: if I'm going to the Dominican spot and the lunch
32:50
Speaker 2: used to be $ 5 and now it's $ 25 because you
32:53
Speaker 2: added fees and this and that and boom, bang, bing,
32:56
Speaker 2: and you beat me over the head. Like you said, man, like, listen,
32:59
Speaker 2: these are all things that we used to not really
33:01
Speaker 2: pay attention to until you get that alert from Bank
33:04
Speaker 2: of America that's like, hey, your account is overdrawn by $ 283.
33:06
Speaker 2: What would you like to do?
33:09
Speaker 1: Right. It's going to be wild. Zoran's going to let
33:12
Speaker 1: everybody down because, look, man, he's going to be fighting.
33:14
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? He's going to let you
33:16
Speaker 1: down because guys like him will always let you down
33:19
Speaker 1: because you've got to be somewhat realistic about what is
33:21
Speaker 1: possible once you get into the space. It's not going
33:23
Speaker 1: to be he's a bad guy. He already had to
33:24
Speaker 1: keep the current police commissioner. The people that's worried about
33:27
Speaker 1: him talking about defund the police, Zoran ain't stupid. You
33:31
Speaker 1: know that don't work no more. Somebody has let him know, like, hey, man,
33:35
Speaker 1: you might want to start getting cool with the police.
33:37
Speaker 2: Like, ow-nay. You know what I'm saying? And that's the thing, too. Like,
33:42
Speaker 2: he understands, like, the game, right? Like, he understands politics.
33:45
Speaker 2: He understands what you need to do to get into office.
33:49
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And, like, hey, try it, bro.
33:52
Speaker 2: Try everything that you're proposing. If one out of three
33:57
Speaker 2: of them things works, we good.
34:01
Speaker 3: Yes.
34:02
Speaker 1: Speaking of the game, I hadn't really been paying so
34:06
Speaker 1: much attention so far, but the New York Knicks have
34:08
Speaker 1: started off 2-2. Are you ready to fire Mike Brown yet, Mero?
34:11
Speaker 1: Are you guys getting a little antsy over there? I
34:14
Speaker 1: hear y'all supposed to win the championship this year.
34:16
Speaker 2: Nah, man. I'm not getting antsy at all, man. It's
34:18
Speaker 2: not even December yet, man. Like, we ain't even... Come on, man. Like, listen,
34:25
Speaker 2: we went from complaining. The Knicks fans, I love y'all,
34:28
Speaker 2: but some of y'all got to relax because we went
34:31
Speaker 2: from complaining that Tibbs only played six motherfuckers to now, yo,
34:36
Speaker 2: Tyler Kolek minutes, yo, Cat is soft, all this other,
34:40
Speaker 2: other shit. Yo, Cat's unhappy with what he's doing in
34:45
Speaker 2: the offense. Man, we four games in, dog. Like, they
34:48
Speaker 2: figuring shit out. Like- Let them figure it out. You
34:51
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? Let this unit play together. Let
34:53
Speaker 2: that rotation expand. You know what I mean? Like, you're
34:55
Speaker 2: going from playing six dudes to playing eight, nine, ten guys.
34:58
Speaker 2: You know, shit's going to change. So you got to
35:00
Speaker 2: give it time. Give them time to gel. If by
35:03
Speaker 2: Christmas shit is looking spooky, I will retract every statement
35:06
Speaker 2: I have said thus far. But God damn it, the
35:09
Speaker 2: Knicks are fine. Everybody calm down.
35:14
Speaker 1: Okay. You're going to wait till Christmas that I feel
35:18
Speaker 1: like is going to turn to Thanksgiving.
35:23
Speaker 2: I'm pushing up to Thanksgiving, matter of fact. Because we're
35:25
Speaker 2: not even in November yet. It's Halloween. Happy Halloween, y'all.
35:28
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying, man, y'all are ready for it.
35:32
Speaker 1: I want the Knicks to do well because I keep
35:35
Speaker 1: telling people, man, it really is better here when the
35:37
Speaker 1: Knicks are doing well, right? The bright side is if
35:40
Speaker 1: it don't go well, then y'all can get hyped up
35:41
Speaker 1: about Giannis, and that'll be fun to watch too.
35:44
Speaker 2: Would you have done that?
35:47
Speaker 1: Would I have traded for Giannis?
35:49
Speaker 3: Yeah.
35:51
Speaker 1: Oh, I'd have found a way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:53
Speaker 2: But if you give up, like if you do the typical,
35:58
Speaker 2: like the historical Knicks move, right, is to go trade
36:01
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson, Carl Towns, and like, you know, throw in
36:06
Speaker 2: a random guy, OG Ananobi, right, or Mitchell Robinson. Take
36:10
Speaker 2: these three guys who are basically the cornerstones of this
36:12
Speaker 2: franchise and give us Giannis. And then Giannis is going
36:15
Speaker 2: to come over, score 50 a game. You know what
36:18
Speaker 2: I'm saying? We're going to go 20 and 62. And
36:22
Speaker 2: then what? He's going to sell a lot of jerseys, though.
36:28
Speaker 1: So my thing, though, is definitely I keep Jalen Brunson.
36:35
Speaker 1: I prefer to keep OG.
36:37
Speaker 2: You know.
36:39
Speaker 1: Con respeto, mi amigo. Tu hermano Carl. Yo quiero enviarse
36:50
Speaker 1: en el cambio. You know, you know, you know, Milwaukee's
36:54
Speaker 1: not doing that. The entire state of Wisconsin would riot
36:59
Speaker 1: if they did a one to one Giannis.
37:01
Speaker 2: To cat trade.
37:14
Speaker 1: Oh God, that would never happen.
37:16
Speaker 2: That would never happen. And that's the only way that
37:19
Speaker 2: team could function.
37:24
Speaker 1: Throw Bridges in there. Y'all going to get mad at
37:26
Speaker 1: him soon enough. Or are you already mad at him?
37:28
Speaker 1: He plays a little less physically than you New Yorkers
37:31
Speaker 1: tend to like.
37:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not mad at him, though, because like I said,
37:35
Speaker 2: he's in a rotation that has been expanded. It's not
37:38
Speaker 2: all about him. And, yo, you know what? New Yorkers,
37:41
Speaker 2: if you do one thing or two things, if you
37:44
Speaker 2: have iconic moments in New York sports, people fuck with
37:47
Speaker 2: you forever. Aaron Boone is the manager of the New
37:50
Speaker 2: York Yankees right now, not because he has a wealth
37:52
Speaker 2: of baseball knowledge, because he hit one home run in
37:56
Speaker 2: the playoffs. One. That mattered. You know what I'm saying?
38:00
Speaker 2: And he did that, and he rode that wave all
38:03
Speaker 2: the way to the dugout as the manager. So Mikael
38:06
Speaker 2: Bridges had two iconic moments against our most hated rival city, Boston,
38:13
Speaker 2: when he stripped Jason Tatum or Jalen Brown at the
38:17
Speaker 2: end of both games. He put the clamps on JB,
38:21
Speaker 2: and then he stripped JT for, you know what I mean,
38:24
Speaker 2: those two games. And those were iconic Knicks moments. He's good.
38:29
Speaker 2: He can ride that wave. He's probably going to end
38:31
Speaker 2: up on the coaching staff in 10 years.
38:34
Speaker 1: I want to ask you this while we're here. I
38:36
Speaker 1: haven't heard you and your thoughts on the NBA gambling situation.
38:40
Speaker 1: I'm curious what you think about that.
38:42
Speaker 2: Hey, brother, let me tell you something. I was gambling
38:44
Speaker 2: when you had to call an Italian man and go
38:46
Speaker 2: to a social club and fill out a paper ticket. Okay? So,
38:50
Speaker 2: I'll say this much. I saw this coming all the way.
38:54
Speaker 2: And it's crazy to me because it's It's really just greed, bro.
38:59
Speaker 2: It's greed. Because I'm like, yo, if you think about it,
39:01
Speaker 2: I said this shit on Victory Light. Even, like, a
39:04
Speaker 2: mid-NBA player is making $ 15 million a year, dog. If
39:11
Speaker 2: you are on an NBA roster, bro, and you score
39:14
Speaker 2: eight points a game, you fuck around and get $ 15 million.
39:17
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, the guys are getting $ 50,
39:20
Speaker 2: $ 60 million. So it's like, bro, how much money do
39:23
Speaker 2: you need?
39:27
Speaker 1: See, I don't see the... The reason I push back
39:29
Speaker 1: on the greed angle, man, I think what it comes
39:31
Speaker 1: down to, and this is important, man, Some people just
39:35
Speaker 1: don't make good decisions, right? And like, I can't relate
39:38
Speaker 1: to people who make, like, you know people who make
39:41
Speaker 1: just terrible decisions. I believe that you may have made
39:44
Speaker 1: a couple of bad ones at some point in your life, right?
39:46
Speaker 1: Where people are just like, why did you make those
39:47
Speaker 1: terrible decisions? You don't have an answer for it. You
39:50
Speaker 1: just did it. Some people never get over it though.
39:52
Speaker 1: They just make horrific decisions. Like Terry Rozier had to
39:55
Speaker 1: put his house up for bail and the IRS has
39:58
Speaker 1: got a lead on his house. That's a man who
40:01
Speaker 1: made a series of terrible decisions.
40:06
Speaker 2: And yo, listen, and this is the thing. We got
40:10
Speaker 2: to do something. I mean, I know the NBA does
40:12
Speaker 2: something where they teach incoming draftees about financial, fiscal responsibility
40:18
Speaker 2: and things like that. We got to expand that because
40:21
Speaker 2: obviously it didn't hit for everybody. Yeah.
40:25
Speaker 1: But I think that people who make good decisions think
40:28
Speaker 1: that as long as people know that doing something is
40:31
Speaker 1: a bad decision, That is enough.
40:33
Speaker 2: Of a deterrent.
40:34
Speaker 1: And no, it doesn't work that way.
40:36
Speaker 2: No. They got to touch the stove. A lot of
40:39
Speaker 2: motherfuckers got to touch the stove to find out it's hot.
40:42
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. I didn't know if that adage made
40:44
Speaker 1: its way up to this part of the country. Got
40:46
Speaker 1: to touch the stove. Stove hot. Is it really?
40:50
Speaker 2: Is it really, though? Let me see. Ah, goddamn. Okay,
40:53
Speaker 2: third degree burn. There you go, your fingerprint.
40:56
Speaker 1: Like damn you're oh yeah the fingerprint bird is the
41:00
Speaker 1: that's the one that's that is just to let just
41:03
Speaker 1: to remind you what a horrific decision that you made
41:07
Speaker 1: that there is evidence right here whirls and swirls and
41:12
Speaker 1: swoops to indicate that you made this like horrible terrible
41:17
Speaker 1: decision like i'm waiting though for us to hear about
41:20
Speaker 1: Because look, somebody like Terry Rozier, I see how somebody
41:22
Speaker 1: like that gets caught in the web, right? If we
41:25
Speaker 1: mess around and hear like a max salary dude caught
41:28
Speaker 1: in the web, because look, if what they say about
41:30
Speaker 1: Chauncey Billups is true, he got caught in the web somehow.
41:33
Speaker 1: He made $ 100 million. And they say he somehow got
41:36
Speaker 1: caught in the web. By the way, Terry Rozier, higher
41:38
Speaker 1: career earnings than Chauncey Billups, which has to infuriate somebody
41:41
Speaker 1: like Chauncey Billups.
41:42
Speaker 2: But anyway.
41:43
Speaker 1: Apparently, caught in the web. But let me tell you
41:47
Speaker 1: something else that's funny. I don't know if you saw this,
41:49
Speaker 1: but The Athletic wrote a story about Chauncey Billups, and
41:53
Speaker 1: it was kind of like going through the paperwork to
41:55
Speaker 1: trace who the people are, and they're like, we can't
41:56
Speaker 1: figure out how Chauncey Billups got caught up with this
41:59
Speaker 1: one guy, right? And it's like their families follow each
42:02
Speaker 1: other on Instagram. It's one of the people listed in
42:04
Speaker 1: the paperwork. I think he caught one of the charges,
42:06
Speaker 1: but they missed it. This guy is down with BMF?
42:11
Speaker 1: and they couldn't understand how would Chauncey know the BMF guys?
42:15
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's the Detroit operation. There's going to
42:18
Speaker 1: be a lot of people traipsing around the edges of this.
42:21
Speaker 1: That's the first sentence of the wiki entry of BMF
42:25
Speaker 1: is that it's a Southwest Detroit operation. And somehow this
42:28
Speaker 1: story didn't think, hey, man, the answer to this might
42:30
Speaker 1: be in Detroit, because that's Detroit, and Detroit works.
42:35
Speaker 2: Detroit, and Chauncey was there for a long time, and
42:38
Speaker 2: there's connections there. Yeah, yeah.
42:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, but once I saw that this dude was a
42:43
Speaker 1: BMF cat, I was like, oh, this could get really
42:47
Speaker 1: weird really fast.
42:49
Speaker 2: Fam, this story is a motherfucking onion, gang. And I'm
42:57
Speaker 2: just waiting to see, as the layers peel back, How
43:01
Speaker 2: many people involved in this shit? Who's going down for this?
43:04
Speaker 2: What's going to happen? And also, now you got to
43:07
Speaker 2: look at... Now that this whole thing is kind of
43:09
Speaker 2: like blown open a little bit, you got to look
43:11
Speaker 2: at situations that were suspect. You know what I mean?
43:14
Speaker 2: Like suspect plays. Like, hmm, I wonder why he did that.
43:18
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, now I'm looking at
43:21
Speaker 2: the Andrea Bargnani three you know what I'm saying, against
43:24
Speaker 2: the Bucs and the Knicks back in the day that
43:27
Speaker 2: completely baffled Walt Clyde Frazier when he took it. You
43:30
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? Now I'm looking at that shit
43:31
Speaker 2: a little different. Like, hmm, maybe old boy's trying to
43:34
Speaker 2: cover his spread or something.
43:36
Speaker 1: Come hang out with me, baby. I've been watching college
43:38
Speaker 1: basketball for a long time. I know when somebody's fixing
43:42
Speaker 1: some shit in college basketball. Like, I have moments. I
43:46
Speaker 1: don't do it as much anymore because college was always
43:48
Speaker 1: a bit unwieldy because there's so many refs. Like, that's the–
43:51
Speaker 1: It's refs that I've always watched. It hasn't been players.
43:54
Speaker 1: It has been refs that I've been watching. But like,
43:56
Speaker 1: it'll be something I watch and I'm like, look up
43:58
Speaker 1: the spread. And that spread will be right there, right
44:02
Speaker 1: there in that number. I was once on TV and
44:05
Speaker 1: something that looked like it very obviously looked like a fix.
44:08
Speaker 1: Like it was so strange that a fix would be
44:10
Speaker 1: the only explanation. And I was doing Jim Rome is burning.
44:13
Speaker 1: And they came. It got it was over. And then
44:15
Speaker 1: it basically came to us. And I had no idea
44:17
Speaker 1: what to do because I could not say what my
44:20
Speaker 1: only answer of this was is somebody just fix this game.
44:24
Speaker 2: Yo and that's the thing back then if you said
44:26
Speaker 2: that people would have been like yo Bo's crazy yo
44:29
Speaker 2: Bo how could you say this the sanctity of the
44:31
Speaker 2: league oh my god how dare you and now it's
44:34
Speaker 2: like hey bro this shit is on my phone like
44:39
Speaker 2: I got my cousin in the stands telling me to
44:41
Speaker 2: miss a three you know.
44:46
Speaker 1: Oh what a time on another day we'll have to
44:48
Speaker 1: talk about you and the Italian man because um Me
44:51
Speaker 1: and my buddy Joe were talking about this, that we
44:53
Speaker 1: didn't really know sports gambling. We just thought that's stuff
44:56
Speaker 1: that white people did because we didn't know people who
44:58
Speaker 1: did it. But you New York boys seem to travel
45:00
Speaker 1: in a different space.
45:01
Speaker 2: Hey, it's just another hustle, baby.
45:08
Speaker 1: That is the Kid Mero. Check out the Victory Light podcast.
45:12
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45:16
Speaker 1: be somewhere. My brother, I appreciate you.
45:18
Speaker 2: Hey, love, bro. It's always a good time on the
45:21
Speaker 2: right time. You know what I'm saying?
45:23
Speaker 1: Amen. I appreciate you, brother. And ladies and gentlemen, thanks
45:26
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