Ep 319: Playoff Football and California Wildfires (Men's Round)
Liquor TalkJanuary 15, 2025

Ep 319: Playoff Football and California Wildfires (Men's Round)

Prayers go out to all the people in California dealing the wildfires. This is the last episode before the season finale. Only 15 days into 2025 and a lot has transpired to kick off the new year. Buckle up grown folks. On this episode of Liquor Talk Vic welcomes Ringold from the We Need to Talk 23 podcast and Godfrey from the New Orleans Finest Sports podcast for the first men's round session of 2025. Topics discussed were natural disasters affecting California, the unpredictability of the college football playoffs and the implications of NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) deals in college sports. The conversation delves into the evolving landscape of college sports, particularly focusing on the impact of the transfer portal and NIL deals on player accountability. The discussion shifts to the challenges faced by black coaches in the NFL, emphasizing the need for better opportunities and the importance of saying no to unfavorable situations. The group also shares their predictions for the Super Bowl, highlighting team dynamics and the significance of the upcoming halftime show featuring Lil Wayne and Kendrick Lamar. Also in this conversation, the men discuss various themes surrounding Super Bowl performances, the dynamics of male-female conversations, accountability in relationships, parenting responsibilities, double standards in relationships, and personal experiences that shape their views. They explore the expectations placed on individuals in relationships and the societal pressures that influence behavior and decision-making. Please follow and support all platforms represented on this episode.

[00:00:01] Liquor Talk, a brand new episode starts now. Welcome everyone to another edition of the Liquor Talk podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the home stretch of season seven, ladies and gentlemen. We are nearly done with it. One more episode after this, but this is the men's round session. The other guys that pop on as well. So shout out to them. Shout out to the one that is here on time. Shout out to Mr. Ringgold holding it down in New Jersey, host of the We Need to Talk 23 podcast.

[00:00:30] How you doing, my brother? It's been a long time. I'm doing good. Doing good. Thank you so much for helping me reintroduce myself to the people. I definitely appreciate this invite. Hey, I appreciate you for coming through, man. So what's been going on with you, man? Because it's been some time since we last recorded. Yeah, since then, I mean, I'm back in school. So part of the break that I took was focusing on school and the family and everything.

[00:00:59] I graduate this year. Thank God, finally. It's been a minute, but that took up a lot of my time. So I had to fall back from recording, you know, one episode a week and all this other stuff to focus on school. And, you know, it worked out on maintaining a 3.3 GPA. So I had to do what I had to do.

[00:01:22] But now that I'm in the home stretch and graduating the middle of the year, April, May timeframe, yeah, now it's time to get back into the podcasting. Hey, that's what's up. Congratulations on graduating and maintaining a GPA average because it's tough nowadays, especially with everything going on. Because sometimes once you get past that age of when you want to go to school, it's like it's tough. But especially during when you got a family and bills and stuff. So big ups to you for real.

[00:01:53] Thank you. I appreciate that because, trust me, it's been times when I looked at it and was like, I got a nice career. I'm like, do I need this degree? But, you know, I got three boys. I can't quit because I don't want them to think that quitting is an option. So I pushed through. Of course, of course. Now, are you still teaching as well? Or is that what you're trying to get your degree and get out of? No, I'm still in a... No, I actually, I don't teach. I'm in the school system, but I don't teach.

[00:02:22] I'm the... I'm trying to think of a good way to put it. I'm the person that deals with all of the trouble in the school. So, not... So if there's any issues, so sort of like a dean of behavior. So when the kids, the fighting and when they return to school, I'm the person that sits down. And when they return to school, I'm the person that sits down with the parents and talk to them about, you know, what's going on, what's the strategies,

[00:02:50] what plans we can put in place to, you know, try to keep them out of whatever trouble they got into in the first place to get suspended. And, you know, also lead all of the... All of the mediation. So the kids have a fight, you know, we sit down, try and get them to talk. You know, I do... I got... I have my own style of dealing with it. You know, a lot of people, or you try to force them to talk, I don't force a conversation. If you don't want to talk, you don't have to talk.

[00:03:18] But that's... That's sort of the gist of my job. There's a lot more to it. And I'm also the athletic director at my school. So there's a lot that goes into it. But for the most part, I'm, you know, you could say like dean of behavior at my school. That's what's up. Hey, that's a lot on your plate and going to school? Man, you doing it, man. Now I got to understand why you had to take a break from the podcast. Because that's a lot. That's a lot of things you're dealing with. Yeah. I mean, it's been...

[00:03:48] Dealing with that, I didn't realize... I'll say in the last year, I didn't realize how much mentally it takes from me. Like, I would come home and, you know, I would only... Because I used to work in, you know, dabbling law enforcement, that was more physical. This here, dealing with kids, especially middle school kids, it's mentally draining. So I would come home some days, talk to the wife and kids, sit on the couch.

[00:04:17] And next thing you know, it's 11, 11.30. I fell asleep because I'm just so mentally drained. So... Damn. Damn. It happens, though. It happens. But you're still here. You're still pushing. So... Yes, sir. For the people that weren't listening the first time we recorded, tell us a little about the We Need to Talk 23 pod and now what you're working on going forward with this year. Okay. Yeah. So We Need to Talk 23 podcast, like a lot of us started during the pandemic.

[00:04:46] And in the beginning, it was just a way for me to keep in contact with, you know, family members all over the United States and even some family in Canada and stuff. And then from there, it rolled into a podcast. It was just a conversation talking about all the things going on, starting with the George Floyd incident. And then just from there, you know, it's a freestyle podcast where I really, I don't write down anything.

[00:05:12] I just come up with a topic, reach out to some people, and we sit down and we have a conversation about, you know, what's going on. Just getting raw, you know, getting people's actual feelings rather than writing it down and having it, to me, it felt scripted. So I didn't want it to be scripted. I wanted to get people's actual feelings on certain situations and stuff. So that's what I did with the We Need to Talk 23 podcast.

[00:05:39] And like, you know, yourself and a couple other people, you know, connected with a lot of good people doing the podcast. Um, so something else that I'm working on now, and like I told you prior to coming on, I have another podcast, um, called The Robbed Podcast, um, that I'll be rolling out in February. Um, it is more along the lines of true crime, but I'm taking, how can I describe it?

[00:06:08] I'm going to put a spin on it. So instead of me just sitting here, there will be a couple solo episodes, but instead of me just sitting here doing the solo episodes, I'm going to invite a guest on. I'm going to run through, um, you know, what the, what today, what that episode, what that day's episode is. And then I'm going to have a conversation with whoever the guest is about, you know, what I just went over, I just finished, um, writing out my first, um, these are all true crime, they're true crimes. It's not anything that I made up.

[00:06:38] It's no, it's not a play or anything. These are actual things that happen wherever. Um, so I just finished writing the first episode and starting on the second episode. So I have three episodes in mind and I'll say shout out to Dolomite. I don't see how any, anybody else that does a solo podcast could sitting, sitting down, writing out a podcast. It's, it's a lot of work. I didn't think it was going to be that much work writing out these episodes, but it's a

[00:07:08] lot of research and stuff that goes into it. So that's something that I'm working on. And like I said, you'll hear and see more about it. You know, as I get closer to the rollout date. That's real. Hey, if you ever need anybody to pop on with you or help you out, just let me know. And I'll definitely now, what up, Mr. New Orleans finest holding it down. He's from New Orleans, but holding down to Orlando. What's up, man? Thanks for popping on with us today. How you doing today, man? I'm blessed and highly favored. You know what I mean? What's going on with y'all? All right. How you doing?

[00:07:38] Just another day, another day at the podcast trap house. You know what I'm saying? So, hey, we, we definitely blessed and highly favored. He was just telling us he's going to start a true crime podcast. That's something I'm definitely looking forward to it. And what's been going on with you, man? Because I know you putting out books and stuff. So what's been going on? I got my book. I did like four years ago, soon to be five. America, the beautiful corporation. You hear me? Just got it in a bookstore in Sanford, Florida.

[00:08:07] I got them in like five locations at this moment in time. So if you want to look at America, the beautiful corporation, you can find them in Walls of Books in Oviedo, Spellbound Bookstore in Sanford, Florida, Essence of Knowledge in Cocoa, Florida, Chamblin Book Mines in Jacksonville, Florida, and Amazon.com. Yes. Everybody get on the Amazon right now because I know me and my listeners are in Florida. I got listeners everywhere.

[00:08:36] So if you're not in Florida, I need y'all to go support this man, support the vision, go ahead and support the book as well. And also we're definitely looking forward to it. But now that we got everybody here, fellas, how y'all been doing? What's been going on with y'all? I know y'all been both grinding. So shout out to everybody out there. Listen, we got to say a quick prayers up for people out there in California because I know y'all seen what's been going on with, you know,

[00:09:03] California and everything with the fires and stuff. I'm like, are you serious? Yeah, that's, that's why. Truthfully, you're starting to give me like, you know, New Year's will happen in my hometown, New Orleans. And then the Palisade fires in California. Starting to give me book of revelation vibes. Be real with you. Oh, that's interesting. Book of revelation vibes. It's interesting because I feel like if it was book revelation vibes, it'd be the hometown country because,

[00:09:33] you know, you got the West coast on fire and then you got the East coast over here freezing. So I'm like, maybe it might be the book of revelation vibes for real. It's having a hell. It's just a perfect balance right now. Sad, sad to say, but that's what it seems like. It's the perfect balance. And I feel bad for anybody out there in California with them insurance companies. Cause I feel like those insurance companies, they're going to try to find a way not to pay these people.

[00:10:02] Cause that's what it's looking like. Cause I, we dealt with that here in Florida. Like when we got hit with hurricanes, they were trying to find ways not to pay people. I'm like, are y'all serious, man? We paying you all this money for insurance. Now some shit happens. Now y'all don't want to pay out. I think on what I found out was actually was finishing up a little gig. You know what I mean? A guy that I was working with, you know, he does on real estate or he used to, he was telling me some, uh, forgive me if I'm saying it wrong, but I think it's called like a, um, a private adjuster.

[00:10:32] You can find a way to get a private adjuster where you can basically have them like combat against the insurance company. So they have to like compensate y'all for like the damages with the houses. Hmm. Yeah. The claims adjuster. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it is. Claims adjustment. Yeah. So, so I guess it's, get your own personal claims adjuster instead of one from the company, because I don't know. It's not like the ones from the company there. I know they just trying to make a dollar, but I'm like, God damn. Yeah. I'm like,

[00:11:02] y'all in it just like us, but y'all, y'all partier than the actual company. Dirty business. It's all about dirty business. Yes. It is definitely a, yes, it's definitely a dirty business. Dirty business indeed. But talking about people out there in California, we're definitely praying for you. I'm happy to hear that. Most of the people I know in California, most people I've reported with that's holding it down in California. They all good and stuff,

[00:11:29] but I'm just so bad because the wildfires are just crazy out there. Yeah. They just was showing someone, I think it was on social media. I think specifically Facebook, they were talking about they arrested a guy who supposedly was creating arson that's exacerbated the wildfires, which is, I don't know how that's possible, but I guess. Yeah. I saw that. It looked like a young, young black guy walking around and, you know, they,

[00:11:57] they tackled them and held them until the police got there. So I want to, I definitely want to look more into that and see what's going on. That's what that's about. Yeah, because I want, I want to know too, cause I don't know if it sounds like it's something that they just trying to cover up and call him the fall guy or is he actually out here starting these fires? Cause something tells me it feels like they might be trying to pin this on him as the fall guys, the culprit. I'm like, but if you look at Los Angeles culture, South Southern California, it barely rains. So I don't see how you can pin,

[00:12:27] um, it on one person. But it's also crazy. If you follow California, it's like really, really rough out there way before the wildfires. Like, if you ever heard something called skid row, like it's real. Yeah, man, I've seen skid row. I was like, wow, LA, it kind of reminds me like Miami, like, because you can ride, you can keep riding, right? And have one nice part, but you stay on that same street, you'll hit the skid row.

[00:12:57] You hit this first 48. And I'm like, wow. Wow. And it was like, I just couldn't imagine being out there. I'm just like, that's why I sound blessed where I'm at. Because it's like, I couldn't imagine, you know, being out there on that skid row, especially when it's about to be, um, burning down like that. Not to mention, the cost of living out there is ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. I don't see it. I don't, I don't see it. Pay all that money to live out there. And I guess you,

[00:13:26] you're paying for the ambiance. You're not paying for nothing else because this, what that, like you said, that cost of living. And I give it up to you people in Florida as well. My mother lives in Florida with all the hurricanes and everything. I don't see how y'all do it every year. I really don't. Yeah. We made the best of it. That's why we have to go and travel and stuff because we try to, you know, make the best of it. And we don't live on the actual coast. You know, we live in England. We don't live on the beaches and stuff because the beach areas,

[00:13:54] that's going to be your first line that gets hit and stuff. So, but if we're in England, we should be okay. Even though I will say for hurricane Milton, when that hit, everywhere got knocked out of power. Everywhere was flooded. So it was crazy. So what part of Florida your mom lives in? About 15 minutes outside of Lehigh acres. Right outside of Fort Myers. Hmm. Oh, I feel bad for that area because Fort Myers did, that area does definitely get hit, especially with some hurricanes. Yeah.

[00:14:25] I remember when Milton did damage out there, right? Yeah. Yeah. Milton got everywhere in Southwest Florida. Like you get from all the way down to Fort Myers, all the way up to, um, Wesley Chapel. Like it was crazy. Milton got everybody. Okay. I'll stay up North for y'all. See, I know, but see up North, they'd be snowing. And, um, also I don't, I don't know what's up with New York, but New York got this system where they pay, they,

[00:14:54] they charge you to come into the city. Now I'm like, are you serious? And I heard some of the rates. I'm like, y'all are, this is ridiculous. Now we got told here in Florida, but it ain't that bad. It's maybe like 50 cents a pop. But up there, they talking about four or $5 just coming to the city. I'm like, are you shit, man? Oh no, it's even, it's even worse. It's, um, certain, I think they have, um, I'm peaking off peak times and to go through some of the tunnels, it's like $27. Yeah. I said, I would, I told New York,

[00:15:24] I said, y'all won't see me unless it's an emergency. Um, $27. That's too much. $27 to go through a damn tunnel. Yeah. I'm like, nah, ain't nothing in New York. I don't need to see that bad. If I haven't seen it by now in my 45 years, I guess I'll never see it. Cause I need to see New York. I go to Baltimore. Get all the, the,

[00:15:51] the Yankees hats and Timbs that you need all in Baltimore. Yeah. You can definitely get that in Baltimore. You could definitely get online, but, um, to the person that, people got me coming to talk to tell me to come to New York. I hope y'all asses have a plan for that. Cause I'm not trying to contribute to y'all tool fund. Hell no. Okay. Catch a bus, a train, some fly into the city, something, but everything don't go up now with a $27 toll. They're going to,

[00:16:19] they're going to hit you in your pocket somewhere. Yes. They're going to hit you in your pocket somewhere. That's why I'm grateful for Florida, because even though there's some people that complained about the tolls, but I'm like, the tolls only add up. If you're driving long distance, if you, if you're only going a few blocks, ain't that bad. Yeah. I'm not. Thank you. Yeah. They can, they can definitely keep that $27 to go into the damn city. That is ridiculous.

[00:16:47] New York y'all have got to be ashamed of yourselves. Y'all going to charge people $27. But what if you got to work and stuff and you got these jobs, demanding people come back into the office because, uh, cause they don't like to work from home. I'm like, it's ridiculous. I think, I mean, one of the good things I think about New York though, is similar to DC. Cause now I'm in Maryland. I left up North, but so now I'm in Maryland, but I think one of the good things is, you know, it's a lot of,

[00:17:15] you got the trains and a lot of people walk and different things like that. So that, that's one of the good things because DC and New York, the congestion is just too much for everybody to be driving. And, and New York paying them damn $27 tolls, or I think it's $9 to go from like, from like the Bronx into Manhattan. And it's, it's stupid. You pay, you pay to enter, you, from one city to the next, essentially is how I see it.

[00:17:46] Yeah. We're just grateful that we don't have that here in Florida. And also, also shot at Maryland. We were definitely in Baltimore as well. It was definitely good vibes, but all the things we had about Baltimore is just, it wasn't much to do at late at night. Mr. Noam's finest. He knows he was with me. So you don't want to be out there too late either. So. Oh no, we learned that lesson. It was like, we, yeah, you, you, you out too late trouble to find you.

[00:18:16] You ain't got to look for it. We too busy trying to find stuff to do. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that video and I just had to agree with him. Cause I'm like, this shit is just weird. Now the first night was so bad, but then the second night I'm like, this shit is just crazy. So if you see us again in Baltimore, we're going to be in Baltimore for our first audios, they've already started advertising and the damn conference ain't until October. So.

[00:18:46] Hey, they own it. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to black businesses. They're, they're really on it. It might have to pop up there. And you said, October. Yes. Yes. Yes. October. It's in, it's in Baltimore. So, Hey, I mean, you're already in Maryland. I say, why not? Hey, to leave, you can listen to this. This is your free advertisement, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, this is look and talk. The boy you drink, the better we sell. All right, fellas, we'll pop it off with some sports for a minute.

[00:19:13] So what do y'all think of this college football playoff so far? Like, um, cause so far this whole series has been trash, but we've only had one good game, which was the Penn state Notre Dame game. That's the only game I've seen so far. I'm an Ohio state fan. So hopefully Ohio. So I enjoy, you know, enjoy watching them beat Oregon. Um, although I would have, I'm an Ohio state fan,

[00:19:42] but I was kind of pulling for Oregon also, but you know, it, as long as my team makes it, I don't care about nothing else. It's just good to see no Alabama, no Georgia. We get Texas up out of here. It should be, it should be all good. I feel you. For me, you know, it's the college football playoffs. It's been the most unpredictable playoffs I've seen in a while.

[00:20:10] And it kind of shows based on like the 12 teams that's been in the playoffs. There's levels to this because while people were hyping up teams like Arizona state, you know, shout out to Max Scatterbow, but, teams like SMU and Boise state. You're a man. They won, can people know Notre Dame? They won't compete with Georgia, Penn state. No, that levels to it. So you, you're starting to see like everybody gets a fair shot, but you understand this levels to it.

[00:20:40] Yeah, it is definitely levels to it. But the only thing I would like to see, I would like to see it reseeded to where we have some more, more even matchups, you know, and not, not having to say Ohio state, Oregon, which that could have been a semifinal matchup. That should be like a semifinal matchup, not in the second, not in the second round of it, you know, but I would say, I would definitely like to see a little more balance to it because a lot of these first blocks, me, matchups are just blowouts and stuff, but you're right. It's definitely levels to it.

[00:21:08] And it definitely shows that some teams that they play nobody and they get in. And then when they got to play somebody, they get hit in the mouth because surely Boise state got hit in the mouth. I'm like, you take away their running backs. They couldn't do shit. They wouldn't have been anywhere without JT. No way. Cause if you really watch the highlights, if you watch Boise state, you're a man, it was always Ashley JT, which I believe he's going to be a pretty good running back in the right system. You're a man in the NFL. But once you take him out the game plan,

[00:21:37] what else did you know about Boise state? You don't know who the offensive line is. You don't know what it's on defense. You didn't know what it was. Receivers was. You didn't even know who the quarterback was. That's what I was about to say. Nobody can tell us. Unless you're a Boise state fan, no one can tell us who the Boise state's quarterback is. And outside of Boise, I didn't know they had too many fans. Like, cause I know it was mainly like a lot of people, a lot of regional and also, and then also looking at the big 10, and I'm looking at Indiana. I'm like, y'all do all this talking. Like this coach said,

[00:22:08] I went, Google me. What happened when he went to Notre Dame? You got smacked. I'm like, now I would have, I would have definitely like matched it up a little bit better. So to where you wouldn't have that kind of matchup, but it is what it is. And for all you Alabama fans out there, like, Oh, we should have been in this stuff. We should have been in. Cause I hear Alabama, Ole Miss, all this SEC hate. I'm like, play your damn schedule. And don't lose three games. Simple. I'm bam, Alabama.

[00:22:37] You know the crazy part about this? Oh, it's crazy. The part is like under the new coach, they did. Okay. Alabama did. Okay. They were nine to three. However, because Nick Saban says such a standard, that ain't good enough. Nine to three. Good enough. They play. They used to play championships. They were entitled. They, they trying to play for college football playoffs, top fours, top twos,

[00:23:06] nine and three, bro. They already talk about the guy. What's his name? What was the head coach? Yeah. Yeah. Kaelin DeBoer. Yeah. Yeah. Bro, they already talk about firing him at the one season. I'm like, bro, he just got there. But it's crazy. That's how much what it was in Alabama. But, but who are they going to get to come in? They know that's, that's like someone, someone gone, Gerard Mayo going in,, following up behind, um, Belichick. Yeah.

[00:23:36] There's no way to meet Nick Saban or Belichick standards. There's no way because there's no, I don't think we're going to see it again where a team is going to win six championships because if they all, let's say if they had a good season, made it to the playoffs, they would have still been unhappy with it because he didn't get to the Superbowl. So there's no way, even if they give, if Alabama gets rid of the coach that, that replaced Saban, who are you going to bring in? At that level.

[00:24:06] Cause you're going to have to bring in a great recruiter, a great coach. You know, they're, they're not, I don't even know who you would bring in. Cause I, you know, would you try to plug Dion from Colorado? Maybe. I really don't know who you bring in because it's like impossible to replace. And also keep in mind, you got a factor in NIL now because I really, because many people want to say that's part of the real reason Nick Saban retired,

[00:24:33] because now you got NIL money and like all these schools throwing around NIL money. They're just not in the South, you know, because they got, everybody got NIL money now. So I agree with you. We say we're probably never seen seven, six, seven championships again, because it's the parody is real. Now, if I got money to go ahead and go get these recruits and stuff. And also these recruits aren't staying a while. They're now, as soon as they don't get their way, they're in the damn portal. And it, and it sucks. Cause it's messing up.

[00:25:04] It's messing up football. It's going to trickle into basketball soon. And that, you know, and that's the thing is, you know, like I love college basketball. I can't stand the NBA. The only time I'll watch the NBA once it gets to the finals, but during the season, I really don't care for it. But now you got kids jumping ship. And the problem is that they're running from, they're running from the grind. They just want their way. Sort of like the, I can't remember his name.

[00:25:33] The young kid from that left Colorado and went to Florida, went to Florida Gators. Who am I to McClain? Yeah. McClain. And he didn't play it. I'm just like, if you had stayed with Dion, you might've learned something. But you left there, you went to Florida thinking it was going to be better. Once you got to Florida and he's still not on the field. These kids don't want no damn accountability. They don't want to get better because in our generation coming up, we learned to, Hey, you got to sit behind somebody to go ahead and learn. Now what you might say,

[00:26:04] you know, I was going to say like y'all both are right. But the bigger picture is this college football, NCAA as a whole have treated these star college players like brands. So all the players are doing nowadays are embracing the brand that they've seen themselves as. So when the NIL deals come into play, you're a man, we're basically doing exactly what we were supposed to be receiving.

[00:26:33] Like for instance, it's a Reggie Bush almost what? 20 years to get his Heisman trophy. Yeah. Never should have took it. Everybody. Everybody was getting paid on table. What about his name on Johnny Manziel? Johnny Manziel said he did a hell of a lot worse than what Reggie Bush did, but somehow he, he never got his Heisman taken. Mm-hmm. Well, we know what that is, but yeah, exactly. We exactly know what that is. We all know what that is.

[00:27:02] Everybody listening to this right now knows why, knows that reason. So, but yeah, I'm happy Reggie guys. Um, take it way back further. SMU got the damn deck, Tony for 83, about, about $61,000. I'm like, these kids are getting that and they sleep. Hey, the thing about it is, it's all about the brand awareness. They treat these players. The players are embracing the brand. So that's what it's all about. We're living in an era where everybody wants to make a name at the expense of

[00:27:32] somebody. And now in college football, because it's an even playing field where I can pay for your services, there's really, there's really no rapport. Like when you have like Colorado, when they started up, when Dion got there, it was only like two seasons. Look at the progress he made from year one to year two. He built that roster up from jump. He used the NIL. He had rapport with the young players.

[00:27:58] He was relatable and he was successful in college and in the NFL. There's not a lot of coaches that nowadays, because everybody's so focused on trying to win now, instead of building something from jump, like build it organically. Everybody wants to have like the microwave. They don't want to do the crock pot work. And that, go ahead. I'm sorry. No, I was going to say, I like what Dion did too. You know, you go to NFL, then he went to high school to coach his kids, the HBCU route,

[00:28:28] and then you go to the majors. So, I mean, you know, he's proving himself at every level. And that's what these kids have to understand. They think once they get that three, four or five stars coming out of high school, they think they automatically made it. Like I'm it. Like I'm supposed to be starting ahead of this person. Not knowing that the work and the grind that you got to put in to get to that level and stay at that level is, it's a lot, but they, you know, like you said, this, this money,

[00:28:57] I'm glad they're getting paid. Don't get me wrong, but the amount of money that they're getting paid is, it's crazy. I haven't done anything. No national championships. All these players can pay 10 to $12 million. Not one Heisman. Nothing. And you might be a bust. For real. And it's like, I'm happy for them getting paid. Cause they should have been got paid after all the money that these universities and these, um, these coaches we were making off their backs. I'm happy they're getting paid,

[00:29:27] but they should be like, they should be like the NFL having like incentive base and stuff. Like these quotas, then get the money, not give you all the money up front. And then also, some people are asking for services. That's come from calls. I'm like, no, we're not going to give your young ass a car. You got to earn this car. You got to earn this shit. You got to find a way to balance it. So I don't know where this is going to go, but it's going to be interesting to see. But shifting gears, like to the NFL, like why the hell is it that black coaches,

[00:29:57] they don't get as long. They, they, they get thrown into these situations where they're giving nothing. And it's like, they're giving so long. They don't get as long as, oh, your white counterparts. And also like, whether it's a coach or GM, because I saw the Titans fight their gym. I'm like, bro, this man only been there for like maybe a season or two. And then you see two black head coaches got fired, but they basically had a shitty roster. So I was, what are y'all thinking here? Like,

[00:30:26] and I feel bad for my black head coaches. Cause I'm like, how am I supposed to build when you're not giving me none to build with? I can say for me, it's easy to like, to use the racial undertone to talk about, you know, the fire ends and the shortcomings. But in actuality, it just shows how incompetent these front officers really are. They are. That's why I can't say the NBA. These front officers are awful. Like, like you talked about with the, um, the Titans GM,

[00:30:56] you heard me? Two seasons. And the season before that, they fired the head coach, Mike Braywood, who knew that like, it was a bunch of incompetence and lack of structure there. Like you let your best player walk, but you overpaid Ryan Tannehill. Now you don't have neither of them. Mm. Yeah. And then something. After the guy that you thought was going to be like Michael Vick. And then you realize he ain't Michael Vick because you haven't developed him to be like Michael Vick. Now he's over there in green. He made me do his thing as a backup.

[00:31:26] Have, have his success as a backup. Yeah. He's not a starter. Yeah, exactly. He out here balling. Now, actually with quarterbacks, you feel he get time to learn and stuff. So maybe he needs to just sit behind, um, love up there in green Bay, just sit there and learn for a little while for a few seasons. And then he'll be ready to start. So, but I definitely agree with you. It's crazy out here. What'd you think, man? I think it's a C and I, I might have an unpopular take on it, but I think,

[00:31:54] I think the black coaches and GMs to a certain extent, we're going to have to start saying no, because Gerard Mayo, for example, you put him in a shitty situation. Yeah. He has Gonzalez at cornerback and they have Drake may as your quarter, as your quarterback. So you got two good pieces and the rest of the roster is shit. And then you're going to drop me in here, give me one season.

[00:32:22] And you expect me to turn it around with no players. And, like I said, I know, you know, black coaches and GMs don't get, you know, that many opportunities. So we're chomping at the bit to prove ourselves. But then when we're put in positions where we know, we're not going to be successful, you know, we're, you know, the coach, they're going to have to say no. Like, you don't want to say no. Cause you don't know when that time is going to come back around. But I think that's,

[00:32:52] that's what they're going to have to start doing because you can't put me in a shitty situation. For example, I'm a giants fan as a black coach was the Flores, you know, interview, the giant job. If he would have gotten the job, you got Daniel Jones as your quarterback. You fucked. Cause Daniel Jones is not, in my opinion, NFL quarterback. Yes. He's in the league. He just, you know, signed with the Vikings for their playoff roster and all of that, but he's not a good quarterback to tie yourself to.

[00:33:22] So now he's gone after the science, the season of giants just had three and 14. If Brian, Brian Flores would have got the job. He would have been out of here too. And this shows the white privilege right there. Like that three and 14, like how is the coach and GM not going? Like also in Jacksonville, looking at Jacksonville, like you fired a coach, but how is the GM not going? Like y'all not making sense of this. And also I grew, actually I grew to our popular opinion that some black coaches,

[00:33:50] we need to say no to shitty situations, especially if we're in a winning situation, because you know, Aaron Glenn, the defense coordinator for Detroit getting interviews and stuff. So it's like he, he getting all these interviews lined up. So I hope he chooses the right situation. That's going to give him time to develop, you know, because Detroit gave Dan Campbell the right time to develop. And then they hired a state of GM, Brad Holmes, who's the HBCU alum. So they gave them time to develop.

[00:34:17] So we got to find the right situation with the right owner to understand it. This shit ain't no damn microwave. You got to grind this shit out. You got to put these pieces together. At least, at least three, I'll say at least three to five years, at least. I say minimal. I said, I add on to both of your parents. So when it comes to Gerard Mayo, the reason he got the head coaching job was because Bill Belichick, a part of him in his contract, that Gerard Mayo be the next head coach.

[00:34:48] He ended up getting fired because technically the Patriots had the number one overall pick. He won the last game of the season, even though it really don't matter. Cause I'm like, let's be honest. Like either you're going to get Travis Hunter, or you're going to get like Will Campbell. You're still going to have to rebuild that roster. Yeah. So whatever you do, at some point of time, you got to develop that properly. Yeah. Or let's say they, he could have gotten the number one pick and just straight to no one pick

[00:35:16] and get other picks to really, yeah. Get more picks to build out your roster because you ain't got shit on that damn roster. Yeah. Just like Aaron Glenn, when you brought up Aaron Glenn, I hope Aaron Glenn doesn't go to the Raiders because the Raiders, if he does go to the Raiders, I hope he waits until you see what they do in the draft. If they're going to trade up to try and get a quarterback. Cause the Raiders, they don't have anything either. They don't have a quarterback running back.

[00:35:45] And then their receivers. And also they need to figure out the right GM, but yeah. Outside of Brock. What's it? Brock. He's going to be a stuff. Yeah. Yeah. But they're going to have to get him a quarterback. So let's say Aaron Glenn does take that job. Hopefully, but they're there. What? Number eight or number nine now. So they're going to have to mortgage the farm. Yeah. Okay.

[00:36:13] They're going to have to mortgage the farm in order to move up to either one, two or three. I know my same, Jeremy, we had 10. Sorry. I said like my same, either we're going for Joe Brady, Ben Johnson, or Aaron Glenn. Anybody else? I'm not even interested. I ain't even going to entertain nobody else. If the Saints don't get neither of those three as head coaches. For real. And I will say this to the coaches out there. If they pick the right coach, they need to pick this. Somebody like say Aaron Glenn,

[00:36:42] he need to pick the right offensive coordinator. They need to have that lined up because that, that's going to be the key right there. Like, how do you think Tom Bozeman doing so good in Tampa? Like, because he is a defensive mind. He'd be hitting home runs with his offense coordinators and stuff. Now I hope the current offensive coordinator stayed, stay put. I hope he don't leave and go to Jacksonville. Cause I saw that. I'm like, why the hell would you want to go to Jacksonville? They're dysfunctional, you know? So, but folks, who do you think I'm going to Superbowl?

[00:37:13] That's what this year, honestly, this is a tough one this year. I think I like, I like, I like how it lines up where you have four or five teams that are, that, that can take it. I think Baltimore has a chance because you either got to stop Lamar or Derek Henry is one or the other. You're not going to stop both. You got to stop one or the other in order to knock them out. The bills are the bills. The chiefs,

[00:37:42] you know, they had a rough season, but I still believe in Andy Reed and my home going to come to the playoffs. I know everybody's going to say, all the, you know, the referees, you know, that's their 12th man, whatever. So, but you also, the Eagles, maybe Detroit. I, you know, I like Detroit pulling for Minnesota, pulling for Minnesota hard. Like I hope Minnesota can do something. And that's a,

[00:38:12] so short story. So Minnesota for me, like I'm pulling for Minnesota because my best friend, his son was the one that got drafted by the Vikings and died in a car accident. Oh, wow. So yeah, Jackson. Yeah. So that's, that's my best friend's son. So that's why I pull, that's why I'm pulling for the Vikings. I hope they can do something. They make it to the Superbowl. Great. You know, but I mean, there's an,

[00:38:41] and let me throw the Eagles in there. So you have a lot of teams in there in the midst of all of that, that can, you know, that can do some stuff. So I think these playoffs, I think it's kind of tough to pull, to pick who's going to win the Superbowl this year. For me, I started off the season saying the lions and the Texans in the Superbowl, but knowing what I know now, I'm going to say Texans and Ravens. I mean, not Texas,

[00:39:10] lions and Ravens in the Superbowl. And I'm going to say for me, just for me personally, I kind of want to see Lamar get that trophy. Cause I think this roster is the only chance this year. He's going to have a chance at the Superbowl. Cause if you don't get it now, I don't think he'll ever will. That's not going to happen if they don't win this year. I feel that way about, and I agree with the both of y'all actually. Um, I say the same thing about Detroit and Baltimore. It's like, if not now when,

[00:39:37] because this roster is just stacked and being going to have to start paying people. And then your coaches might be leaving to take jobs. So if there's ever a time to go ahead and win it, it's now, now if the chiefs win it this year, I'm just going to say they, they on some devil magic shit. You know what I'm saying? Cause I don't even see how man, because a lot of games, they were like really close. I'm like, if they didn't have one or two plays, they could have lost. So if the last, I want to, I want to see you,

[00:40:04] but I can hit the Patriots phase with the chiefs where I like my homes, get black QB, you know, we got root for black QBs, but I done hit the phase where I'm like, God damn, you like Tom Brady now. Come on. We just can't keep your ass at this. So I want to see Detroit and Baltimore. You know, the NFL is entertainment. You know, my home is Brady. They got to have, you got to have Lamar as pain. If not now, when, when are you going to get that one?

[00:40:34] But I would say on the chiefs behalf, a lot of people are counting the chiefs out, but you got to think about it. Like we mentioned Tennessee earlier, you gave up the Andre Hopkins for what? So now imagine if my homes and Hopkins, you know, get on the same page during this playoff run, they're going to be scary. Cause you got worthy. Hollywood Brown. You got worthy on the other side. Pacheco came back at the right time.

[00:41:04] And you know, it could line up. Yeah. And also you still got Travis Kelsey too. So, you know, I know he up there in age, but he made them catches when he got to. So it's going to be challenging to see, but I know it was for entertainment purposes, but Hey, who can stop the dynasty, but who can stop the bad guys. But Hey, I want to see somebody else differently, especially since the Superbowl going to be in new Orleans. Now I hope we don't have no damn power controversies. Oh, you don't have the last time to want to Superbowl.

[00:41:34] Had the damn stadium shut down after the Beyonce concert. Oh, nothing. I like the halftime show. For real. Oh, that's going to be funny. I can't wait to see that. Yeah, that is. And also, and I know Kendrick is going to do his thing, but I really feel like, um, Lil Wayne or somebody from new Orleans should have got it though. But I realize that knowing what I know now, I realized that sometimes the people in power,

[00:42:02] they just want to start some little shit to cover up their own shit. So. I'm never, I don't see your phone. Go. You go ahead. Oh, no, no. I was going to say, but for little Wayne, the thing is, and I get what I get it. And I agree. Someone from new Orleans should be either co headline, something where somebody from new Orleans, whether juvenile, something, let him come out, do how for, you know, 400 degrees, do his, do his shit.

[00:42:31] And then go from there. But little Wayne, everybody was hollering for little Wayne. But again, like I looked through it. I'm not a little Wayne fan. Respect this, respect this catalog.

[00:42:40] And everything though.

[00:43:09] Wayne being in the super bowl in the wall. And we can't take a conclusion. Like, if you really want to be honest, just to let you know, it's 30 minutes of the longest you could stay in the store. Okay. No problem. So just having a conversation sidebar. So. If you really want to be honest, Drake is the reason why little Wayne is the headline of the super bowl. Because Drake's ego, because I don't know if people notice or not.

[00:43:38] Drake actually was offered the super bowl twice. And turned it down. And he turned the boat down. And he started ego tripping and flexing on Jay Z. So. Jay Z knowing like he a shrewd operator. Everybody who was aligned with Drake and. All the way till 2024 had beef with him. It was literally like a sort of hip hop Avengers type stuff. And Kendrick Lamar was the one that went Iron Man and like took him out.

[00:44:10] Yeah. So I think that'd be interesting to see if Kendrick. I think it would be so funny to me. Cause I can't stand Drake. But I think it would be so funny. If Kendrick somehow got little Wayne to come out. And do something with him. I think that would be the funniest shit. That would tell people like, bro, it will happen. Cause they technically Kendrick and all Wayne had a song together. Yeah. Oh, the only problem is they have that song together,

[00:44:39] but little Wayne doesn't remember that song. because I've heard, I've seen places where, um, little Wayne says, everybody requests that song, but little Wayne says, I don't remember that song. I'm like, sir, if you don't get your ass on Google and Google them damn lyrics, come on, man. He didn't leave them drugs alone. Everybody know. Like, why would you want him in the Superbowl? You know, for a fact, you don't even, bro. When he was at a Louisiana fest, he sounded awful.

[00:45:09] I saw the video for that. That's, it was bad. Yeah. I was like, bro, I only watched it for the hot boys. Other than that, that shit was terrible. Yeah. I saw a bits and pieces of it. The hot boys part was lit, but then I saw a little one by myself. I'm like, sir, you want, you want to have us to have sympathy for you for not choosing the Superbowl, but you're not helping yourself. Come on, man. You gotta be a better showman than that. People don't want to be honest, but people don't want to be honest with themselves and say, you know,

[00:45:38] he's just not a good fit for it right now. Or would he ever be? Because literally what song, like you said, what song outside of Latin the pop are you really going to play on the Superbowl where there's a hundred million people watching? And it's not all of us. Yeah. For real, it really isn't all of us. So, um, I can't even think, I think maybe one or two songs came to mind, but I'm like, you know what? Even then I'm like, I don't think he'd be able to perform. So y'all, it'll be interesting to see.

[00:46:07] It'll be interesting to see what Kendrick performs as well, because I know he had a lot. And I want to see him perform not like us because I heard Drake was going to send a cease and desist. I'm like, I will perform that just to say, fuck you. You know? No, because that song was the hottest song of the year of 2024. But the funny thing is, all he needs to do is play the music and let the crowd sing. Because he can say, I didn't sing shit. The crowd took over. The crowd, yeah, the crowd hit that beat.

[00:46:37] He get to dancing. Hey, you got a hot top show. I ain't got to say nothing. They did it. Let the crowd sing a minor. A minor. And then he, and then he do his little crip walk. Hey, that will be lit though. But ladies and gentlemen, this is liquor talk. The more you drink, the better we sound. This is the men's round fellas. Fellas, why do y'all think people, men have these pointless discussions with women on these podcasts on medias?

[00:47:04] Cause I know y'all see the clips where us may be trying to express something to women that don't listen. And you got me about to pour up a drink. That's what you got me about to do to get into this one. Hey, let's talk about it. I'm with it. Hey, I'll pour up another one with you because I've been seeing these clips and stuff. These men have these pointless conversations with these women. I'm like, these ladies are clearly not getting your point. You're making a strong point, brother. But these women, they just don't understand it.

[00:47:34] Like, what do y'all think fellas? No, as someone who wrote a book called the player's playbook, which is available now on Amazon. I got to a point where people got to realize, Jeremy, some women don't want to understand. Some women are just as prideful as men, what we call them emotional. They have to be right. They don't want to be held accountable. And either it's a generational thing.

[00:48:00] It's like a bad upbringing or it's just like bad logic. But at some point in time, it's like accountability got to be met, especially in this generation where we just let everything and everybody do whatever they want with no consequences. For real. Like, because growing up back in the day, it's like some things you could say, but the accountability means you're going to hit in the mouth for it. But we don't have that nowadays.

[00:48:29] What you think, dog? We endorse them. Bitches and goofy assholes and shit like that. Bro, I be watching shit on like Instagram and it be just boggling my mind how some of these motherfuckers will literally go on the internet, literally pull up on their phone, I'm talking about they want a man to buy them things. Don't even know their names. Don't even know what job they work at. They want a nigga to pay for their nails, buy them some food, cash shop on $30.

[00:49:00] You ain't even wife. Your head game ain't fire. The cooch ain't. But you make it demands. the fuck out of here, bro. What you think, dog? Because, because I've seen them pulled up, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, little vodka. But I think, I think, I think it's two, I think it's two things. One, I think it's just lazy shit. Like, lazy, like for me, like I, like I said, prior to,

[00:49:29] prior to Mr. N.O. coming on was, like the free, the reason I do the free side podcast, I hate low hanging fruit. Like a lot of the topics that I did wasn't necessarily the hot thing. For example, like when the whole Will and Jada shit was going on, I did my best to stay away from that shit. Cause I said, there's a million podcasts out here. At least 500,000 of these million podcasts are talking about that. So that's what I think why we,

[00:49:58] why these conversations are still being had. It's just like, all right, this is an easy topic. I know it's going to set some people off and it's going to, you know, people just looking for the, looking for easy topics. They don't want to think, they don't want to write, they don't want to have adult conversations because even on the women's side of it too. Like there's another video, at least it's new to me. So I don't know if it's brand new or not. There's a lady out there. The guy brought his child. I don't know if it was a boy or girl, brought the child, the Christmas presents. The lady,

[00:50:28] first thing she did, she arguing with him. She pick up her phone. She's recording him and she's mad at him. He has one child with her from not mistaken. And she, but she has five kids. She's mad at him that he brought his child a gift. And said, why didn't you bring my kids a gift? Everything is just about striking a chord. Cause then of course I go straight to the comments and you're looking at the comments. Oh, he wrong. Why is he wrong? I have one child with you. I have them other four kids. One, we not together.

[00:50:56] So why am I getting gifts for your kids and we're not together? I'm taking care of mine. If we together, that's something different. But if we not together and I bring my kids gift, I don't owe your kids shit. Where, where's their father? For real. And I hate. That's nothing more than guilt trip. Yeah. It's a guilt trip. And also, it's a guilt trip. And also it's lazy. And it's on her part. Like, ma'am, fuck it, man. We had one kid together. Why I gotta take care of it?

[00:51:26] Why I gotta do the shit you should be doing? This is on you. If that man is not stepping up, it's on you, ma'am, because you chose to lay with him. You gotta deal with the consequences. Stop trying to push responsibility off onto another man. But then the thing too is like, there, there will be no win. Because if he brought his kids, I don't even know what the big toy is now. So for example, let's say if he brought his child, a PlayStation five, and then he got all the other kids gift cards,

[00:51:55] it would be a topic. That would be an argument right there. Oh, you got, you got your child, the PlayStation five, and you got my other four kids, damn gift cards. Because I don't know shit about your kids. I'm like, but it's like, but I know that some of these women, they just, you can't win with them. And, and that's the thing. It's just, it's just laziness. That's why, you know, these silly topics keep coming up about men, um, you know, what,

[00:52:25] what a good man is, how much a man got to make in order to date women and all this stupid shit. Cause I saw something the other day, a guy took the girl out on, on a dinner date, whatever. And she up there ordering half the menu so she could take food home to her kids. Yeah. I saw that too. I was like, are you serious? Now, first, I will say we got to hold ourselves a compliment. We got to do more. We asked better probing questions. We got to do more research on this girl. We got to ask better probing questions

[00:52:53] before we just really need to take this person out. Because we got to know if she got multiple kids, she'll be trying to feed them. But that's not every woman though. You would know that if you asked the right questions in the beginning, if you asked the right questions and stuff, you'll probably figure out, okay, she just trying to use me. But then, cause that's some women, cause I've been out with a few women, multiple kids. They have never once asked for, Hey, feed my child. They've never asked that. So I really feel like you need to do your homework on the woman before taking them out. Um, I know Mr.

[00:53:23] NL wrote the playbook. He probably discussed some of those things in the playbook. So go ahead and NL. No, I was just going to say, you got to make better choices, men and women. That's where it boils down to. It's too much entitlement. Too many folks trying to finesse one another. And when you get exposed, you try to play the hypocrisy call. Well, you let someone do this. You let someone do that. No nigga, you got caught. Just say my bad. Or Hey, it didn't go the way it's planned. Simple as that. It's not really hard to process. Like

[00:53:52] we live in a generation that's so crazy. Like we, we allow fuku entitlement that it's really fucking up people's logic. Like old boy Ringo, he made the example about, you know, he bought it. Let's say, for instance, he bought his son a P5 and the other kids or his brothers or sisters are gift cards. Now, first of all, that little boy coming with me with the P5. Because they ain't been touching it. My son's P5. I know what's going to happen. They all been trying to get turrets.

[00:54:22] I know that's right. Yeah, I know that's right. Because even like you said, even if you leave the P5 over there, even if you come with two controllers, what about the rest of my kids? Look, I'm not buying $70, four controllers at $70 a piece. No, we're not doing that. We good. They either going to wait till he finish, my son finish, or they going to take turns. It's one or the other. But I'm not buying four controllers for all of your kids to sit there and play,

[00:54:53] you know, with his gift. Look, I'm obligated to take care of my kid. The one I made with you, not the one you made with everybody else while you were out here going through your little hoe phase. I'm not going to pay for your little hoe phase. Hell no. But at the same time, you're right, man, you laid out with the chick who had the hoe phase. True. That's true. That's true. It is accountability. That's definitely true. So fellas, y'all need to be wrapping it up out there, you know, especially if you know

[00:55:22] it's somebody that, you know, got multiple kids. I was going to say, but he could have caught her in her church phase. Ooh. Yes. You know what they say? The church phase is the last stage of the hoe phase. So... You know, you could have caught her getting her life together, you know? That definitely is. And speaking of catching things, why the hell I see this video of the woman talking about the men are upset with women. I'm like,

[00:55:52] nobody's upset with women because she said that a lot of men that didn't get picked in high school, they're now CEOs and stuff, but now they're not, they're not giving the time of day to the women that rejected them. Like, what the fuck do you expect to happen? If you didn't love me when I didn't have shit, why the hell you expect for me to, you know, accept you now that you done laid up with the sorry ass niggas that you want to say, oh, I was a victim. How the fuck were you a victim? You, you weren't, you know, you could have made the choice

[00:56:21] to avoid the drug dealers, to avoid the niggas that you know ain't no shit because there are some women that they will ride or die with a man who they seem as lowest, but that man is working towards his potential and then ride off with him. what did y'all think of that situation? Because the chick, um, she basically said men need to get out their feelings. I'm like, are you shitting me right now? Go ahead, Mr. Anno, I'll let you go first because... I mean, it wasn't even worth entertaining, man. Watch the video because I thought

[00:56:51] it was a joke. I thought it was just like people on social media just trying to, like, get a reaction, trying to get, like, typical trigger response. But when I saw the video talking about, like, how the good man kind of left the damaged women not letting them fulfill their happily ever after that they dreamed of or they thought shit was gonna go to his plan and it didn't. No, bro, you made the choice. You chose the ain't shit nigga as a personal project and when the shit didn't go as planned, you want the good man

[00:57:20] to come running back to you. You want this to be like some Tyler Perry movie. It don't work like that. Hell no. We ain't Captain Savo. Hell no. We ain't. What was that one movie that was on Meet the Browns where, like, I think it was Andrew Bass was playing like a single mother with three kids and somehow, someway, like, she had Rick Box like falling in love with a chick with three kids. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I don't know the name of the movie but I know what you're talking about. Yeah, I know what I'm moving to and then I think also he helped the son as well get to the league or whatever.

[00:57:50] I'm like, man, you still got two other kids. Yeah, but then the part that's so crazy to add on to what you're saying because it was, I think that video showed up on an episode of like, I think it's Tonight's Conversation or Late Night Conversations. It's like a little podcast. They do like little live interactions about relationships but when she said that, you're talking about something. These men need to let it go and need to get out their feelings. I was like, that's the stupidest shit I ever heard in my life. I'm like,

[00:58:21] let this shit happen. All I got to do is just say this, you're right, man. Let the shoe be on the other foot and the dude said the same thing. Oh, Lord. Maybe damn near cancel. We damn near cancel. Hell yeah because apparently men can't hold women accountable but women can't. I'm like, it's y'all some fucking hypocrites. Make it make sense. But we've always lived in a generation where like women abuse double standards. Yeah, that is true. I remember saying

[00:58:50] something on Facebook. I said, some dudes in this world be letting unstable women slide with bullshit because we want to fuck. Ooh. Yeah. That's one thing you will always get with women. Women will abuse the doll shit out of double standards. That has always been that way since Eve gave a rib to Adam. It has always been that way. I mean, I think because I saw the video

[00:59:19] like I said, you know, I've been I've been in the house for the home on break for the last three weeks and that thanks for the snow got an extra week. But it's funny. I saw that video today and I was and I laughed and I had to comment on I tried not to but I had to comment and I said, like you said, why is it that we have to let it go? You done ran through however many drug dealers whatever because these are her words. It's not me saying this.

[00:59:49] You done ran through however many drug dealers that done came up to the high school like she said came to pick her up when she was a freshman all this dumb shit she was saying. Now all of a sudden because you ready to settle down you probably all used up. Now I'm the CEO I gotta let it go. I gotta turn the other cheek and be the bigger man and give you a shot? Fuck out of here. No, that's not that's not how this shit work. Well no, that's not how this shit work. Perfect example of it

[01:00:18] and like I said this is, you know, I think this is within this vein is like the Travis Hunter situation with his girl. You, you, she telling this man to his face you weren't my type. Soon as she figured out who he was you know, number one recruit top DB in the country he got a chance to go to the league all of a sudden oh you my type now. What kind of shit is that? Yeah, and he, and he's so dumb not to see it that's why it's like everybody want him to leave. I'm like he gotta find out

[01:00:48] on his own that she ain't shit. That's, that's kind of how I feel about it. I'm like, because we all have that thing where everybody will tell us to leave a person but then this person either turns it around or sometimes we gotta find out for ourselves that they ain't shit. So, you just gotta find out for yourself with him. But she tells, but the truth of the matter when it comes to like Travis Hunter and that situation sometimes like when you follow the story, that story don't be adding up because they said him and his chick were together for like five years

[01:01:18] but then he admitted in a podcast interview with his girlfriend who they never really gave an actual name until like maybe three months ago, Yerman that they were dating for an actual year. So, he might have been chasing for five years and got her within the last and year number six he actually got her and they've been together that long because I don't see it and then like I said me being a father of three sons I tell my sons this is who you

[01:01:48] don't want to be because I said for her to say I done went to the party and he sat outside in the car waiting for me as I had fun at this party. Man, listen, ain't no way to help. Ain't no way in hell. Man, ain't no fucking way in hell. I've been right there in the party too and normally I would have made her ass jealous because you in this nigga face I'm about to be in another bitch face. What's up? Make your ass jealous. Try me on that dumb shit, man.

[01:02:18] I'm him. You're not going to embarrass me in this party. I'm the one going to the league. Like, you say what you want. I'm hollering at a classmate or something. Hell yeah. Or I'm going to holler at somebody that's seen my worth or I'm going to find something that's prettier than you that's going to really get your attention. Like, oh shit. The best kind to get like revenge off of is the type of women that they know the women be trying to compete against and they know

[01:02:48] they got some competition with. That's the best type of revenge right there. Hell yeah. Yeah, try to win now because you didn't know I was capable of pulling her. You thought it was just you. You thought this was a game, huh? She thought she thought she was the only one that wanted him. Now is there somebody out there, some little nerd that sat in the back of the class? Oh, that's what I said. I said, when he get drafted, oh lord. Uh-huh. She's going to be

[01:03:17] right there with his ass too. I'm like, man, look at here. Ain't no way. All on here because you know that territory is going to be real. Of course, you know, look at all the other black athletes that got drafted. They all owned them and stuff. But shout out to the ones that have a beautiful black woman on them and stuff. So shout out to them. Amen. But fellas, I want to thank y'all for the roll out, you dig? All right, we're about to wrap this thing up.

[01:03:48] Hey, tell the people how they can find you. They can find me on Instagram at 504 underscore self-made, TikTok 504 and YouTube New Orleans finest. All right, we dropping that podcast. The goal is early this year, hopefully, either around Martin Luther King Day, maybe like the end of the month. We're going to see I'm trying to piece some things together, but I've been running a few trial runs on TikTok and YouTube and give me some nice traction, you dig?

[01:04:19] All right, that's what's up. Hey, bring on how the kind of people get a hold of you. Hey, I'm only on Instagram and TikTok for however long TikTok lasts in this country. We need to talk 23.pod. You can find me on Instagram and TikTok, same name. Those are the only two. I do have a YouTube channel. Like I said, it took a little break because I'm in school. Again, I'm going to pat myself on the back. I graduate this year.

[01:04:51] My new podcast, like I said, I'm rolling out the website and the new podcast, the True Crime podcast, will be starting in February. So just stay tuned and follow me on Instagram. Like I said, I think you'll like what I got. That's real. Hey, fellas, I want to thank you both for joining me today on the men's only round, the last men's round for season seven. The season finale will be the next episode. Thank you for joining me on Lickertalk. Whether you've been joining us on the MBG podcast network,

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