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UFOs, Knockouts, and Kidnapping Hoaxes: A Potpourri of Topics
In this captivating podcast episode, we embark on an exhilarating journey through a potpourri of topics that will leave you both entertained and enlightened. First up, we dive into the music realm with Nas' highly anticipated album "Magic 2." Join us as we explore the soul-stirring beats and lyrical prowess that have captivated fans worldwide.
Switching gears, we shift our focus to the world of sports with the intense title fight between boxing titans Terrence Crawford and Errol Spence. Feel the adrenaline surge as we analyze their epic clash inside the ring and discuss its implications for the boxing world.
But that's not all! Brace yourself for a mind-bending conversation as we delve into Congress' UFO hearing, where astonishing revelations about extraterrestrial encounters and potential government cover-ups come to light. Unravel the mysteries and immerse yourself in the unknown.
Finally, we unravel a strange tale of deception as we uncover the shocking story of a girl who faked her kidnapping. Unraveling the truth behind this bizarre incident, we explore the motivations and consequences that led to such an elaborate hoax.
Join us for an unforgettable blend of music, sports, intrigue, and strange tales, as we navigate through a multitude of topics that will leave you pondering and yearning for more. Tune in to this podcast episode and broaden your horizons with an eclectic mix of captivating narratives.
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Other Topics Discussed: Bronny's cardiac arrest and the implications on his and his dad, Lebron's, futures.
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UFO hearing key takeaways: What a whistleblower told Congress about UAPs - CBS News
Carlee Russell: Alabama woman who faked kidnapping charged - BBC News
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Welcome to another episode of the coach podcast. Like all through that, this is your boy, jeff. I'm here with my man, aunt. What's goodie.
Speaker 2:Hello everybody, how are things?
Speaker 1:No, we haven't been around for a couple weeks. A lot has been going on.
Speaker 2:I had my son's birthday and right after that is my sister's birthday.
Speaker 1:Everybody have just a lot of shit going on people get old man birthday's happen. Yeah, we're up, yo, but yo, we got a new coach, a crew member, we got a new patreon. It's actually the same gentleman we had on the show last time, my man razz. I don't know what's gonna give him a nickname, razz. I guess razz works.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go by what the man name is. Man, let's not be cute about razz ear.
Speaker 1:Jay, just a K razz.
Speaker 2:Thank you, is that his government name?
Speaker 1:I don't think so.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Sounds dope, though.
Speaker 2:It is, it is you? So no, who or what to somebody like that razz, like not, not that razz, the other razz like okay it sounds like a strain of a weed.
Speaker 1:Like you, let me get that razz. Let me get that raspberry.
Speaker 2:Let me get that blueberry. Let me get hit of that blueberry like a eighth of razz, like yeah, I got you raspberry bubblegum hydro. Have you been to a dispenser yet?
Speaker 1:No, but I went to the new mall. You know the one-hand jersey.
Speaker 2:What is it? The American dream? Which?
Speaker 1:is now the second largest mall in the entire country, behind the one in. Minnesota and it just surpassed the one in Florida.
Speaker 2:So Florida's now third, the Aventura mall, or whatever but the thing is that they're not even malls, man, they're really just entertainment center.
Speaker 1:Yo, I went in there, my my godson it was in town shot out to my man, james, and we went up and then we walking around this motherfucker and we got lost in that shit. Yo, and the shit is segregated. As a motherfucker bro, they have a section for the rich motherfuckers. Whole other side of the mall is for the rich motherfuckers, bro, who's like, yeah, what the fuck is this? The artwork is different. They got statues. The hallways was different, the furniture was different. This is where all the Gucci stores is. And you know I'm saying and I can't even remember the names of all the name brand shits, but they're the expensive shit, the Birken, and you know, whatever they got, like some of the stores got securities at the front. They got bouncers a kid you not? Some of these stores got bouncers at the doors. You know I'm saying I'm like, oh shit, let's get the fuck out of here. We don't belong in this side. My focus is looking at us.
Speaker 2:You belong there, fuck them.
Speaker 1:We're walking around with basketball shorts, fitted hats and all of this. You know I'm like, yeah, let's go back to the poor motherfucker section, Anyway we're going there, stop that we're going there, we found this store.
Speaker 1:It's like a I don't want to call it a weed store, we're marijuana store, cannabis store, whatever. So new story got the lady at the door and she's trying to come inside. Come inside, but we need ID. So they ID me. I'm like I'm oldest fuck, yeah, I deeming what she's like what about your god son? I'm like, nah, he's like 17. Like, yeah, he can't come in. I'm like, damn, so it was like that. So they let him come in, but he had to sit down. Like you can't shop, just sit right here. Well, he walks around. So I got me some some gummies and shit and I got me some seltzer. They got these seltzer drinks.
Speaker 1:It was like TAC infused For a couple of those. I was like, oh shit, they had all types of shit in their vapes, gummies, pre-rolls, they had everything in there. I was like, oh shit, they even had some mushrooms. Shit, the gummies that the dude was trying to sell me. He was like, oh you try these shit. Me and my wife had these last night and we was fucked up for like eight hours. I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa man. I'm not ready for all of that yet, but let me work my way up to that.
Speaker 2:We take a slope is there a functional time to be fucked up like eight hours seems excessive. This that's it. That's a job shift.
Speaker 1:He was like it's good, for like six to eight hours. I was like hell.
Speaker 2:No man, I gotta be on vacation to take one of these shits like you want to be half, like two hours, maybe three, but like eight hours like yo, that's so long time.
Speaker 1:Hey, wait, man, let's start the show. Man Once again shout out to our new culture crew member, rad. He's not like a member of the Wu Tang rad. We got Riza the jizz, the raz, the M E T H O D.
Speaker 2:The funny thing that you was talking about, that the Wu Tang thing pops up when you're talking about dispensary. Cuz norc is so petty because Ray Kwan was trying to build a dispensary on. On brush read nook. But they Said it. They were against it because it's like moral whatever the fuck like moral. You deny no more grounds in North New Jersey really. Hmm, come on, now we got. It's like I go four blocks and find eight liquor stores, but this is a step too far. Come on, come on, stop that man.
Speaker 1:Yo, we're gonna talk about this week a new Nas album dropped Last week, magic two, and I said it's okay, but I don't like it as much as I like his previous shit. Like I like the King disease series that he's made with hit boy, I like that much better than magic to. Hmm, people are like oh, what the fuck? You mean you don't like it. I'm like I ain't say I don't like it. No, magic said I don't like it as much. Yeah, it's like a mixtape. At this point he's just. You know, you don't even have to make these Shits, he's just making it because he enjoys it.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm saying you don't have to make no money off of it, he's rich as fuck.
Speaker 2:I mean I think I appreciate that more about Nas than I do about Jay that when Jay does something it has to be like an event. Now I was just instilling enjoys rapping, like he still likes the wordplay, the lyrics. He found a Partnership that works. Like people still like when they were gonna have a whole premiere Nas album like that's great, right, but it's for a very particular subset of hip-hop, like hip boys. I mean, he's not premier, so don't take that. Oh, say no shit like that. He's someone of a different breed. He's an extremely talented producer and they work well. Now I just tried. A lot of people didn't work well with him. This works extremely well. I don't think magic, was it? I think it's. It's a Out of ten, it's like a six and a half. It's not bad.
Speaker 2:Hey that's not right, but it's not. His most inspired work is good. He could, you, could, you could, you could have. You could have threw that whole 50 version of garbage that.
Speaker 1:You know what was that? I need, yo. If it wasn't for the fact that he puts the you know featuring 50 cent, I won't have no idea who that was. I'm like, who is this guy? He sounds different. He sounds like he's on a you leaving a voicemail on an old phone. Like his voice is different. I'm like what is this?
Speaker 2:I think the problem with a guy like 50. I think it's not a problem, I think, with a lot of guys who become successful in hip-hop and that they become successful inventors outside of it. They're their creative abilities and tension goes that way and it starts to not shine as much in their music. Like like I, like I know he's going on tour with him and and think Buster and like bust is the perfect woman back because bust is gonna tear shit down. People still gonna be excited, we'll still hit a 50 shit, but it's like it's from what? What? 10, 15 years ago? Probably this one.
Speaker 2:Oh, so it was like it doesn't really ring a bell the way that you think it was supposed to. And he like said he wasn't ever like the greatest Robin. I think he was. That's a lot. It's more like that grittiness, the reality of it it's hard not to believe a nigga talk about. You know it's a lot of people that talk about shoot guns, me, you know, here from over the guy shot nine times like oh, yeah, you do this for like okay.
Speaker 1:But he also had the production of Dray and shady behind them, you know, sam.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's the whole thing with hip hop. No more. Like where the machines Mm-hmm. Like before you like you had the shady sound, we had the Dray sound or the Timberland sound or whatever. Like you had the machine behind you, like, but who's the machine? I have no idea. There's no, those clicks don't happen, no more. There's no more groups, there's no anything. There's a basic bunch of rope, like Romads, I mean no mats running right here to do whatever they want to, but it doesn't inspire anything because there's no Connection. There's no Dray and Snoop. There's no Missy and Timberland, there's no, there's no. That thing that the clips in and I'm in Pharrell, that it just doesn't have any more. Like even for a produce, something now like the last time frozen news to what do you think? Like the new, like creative director at, like blue vatons, some shit like that, like but we still have Nas and hip boy.
Speaker 2:You're gonna, you're gonna always have not, I think, projects now, it's gonna forever. I think Nas is gonna. Nas is gonna be a leg Legs act. I think he loves it so much He'll keep doing it for the next Probably 10, 15 years, like he can just live off the Hennessy money alone and the lift money, the lift money he was like the first person to invest in lift when it was a startup. Hmm, how much he invests though.
Speaker 1:I don't know, it was a lot though.
Speaker 2:I guess enough of him not to worry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his, his investing game is underrated. They don't mention him like with the Forbes guys and with Jay Z Niza's doing very well for himself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think we just complain about the money chase. Niza's doing fine, Not like like nothing broke nothing struggling. Now it's doing just fine. You don't keep it that way too.
Speaker 1:And speaking of features, another problem that dropped was the Travis Scott joint.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh utopia.
Speaker 1:And what he did was he got features on him but he doesn't meant he kept them hidden for whatever reason. You know I'm saying he got like a drake on there, he got like Beyonce on him, but you don't see that you have to, like, listen to the shit to know. And if it wasn't for again, for my fucking godson, I wouldn't have even listened to this shit, because I'm not into this psychedelic fucking music. Quote-unquote. You know I'm saying like it's not for me, like I'm good.
Speaker 2:You never be Travis Scott guy.
Speaker 1:I'm good, my fuck is dying. At the concerts Promoting pill popping like that's not what I want. To fucking listen to, bro man, I don't. I'm super good.
Speaker 2:I would never pop the pill and I don't plan on doing it. Like I don't like taking regular medicine prescribed to me by a physician, I'm just gonna take some other shit.
Speaker 2:No, like, like, like, as always. Like we can sick the dog, like you have a back off to like his pro-mephazine. I'm like you know, can you give me something lighter than this? Like a better cost-pressing you got, give me the strong fucking shit. I remember one, though, a while ago with the work that said that a cold night of cough, and that guy promising You're like yo, if you don't drink all day, you can give it to me. I'm like the fuck. No, get your lean sipping ass, the fucking one, out here, like that, because I hate drinking cough medicine. I hated cough medicine growing up. You ever had bucklies. It sucked, dr Johns, it sucked. It tastes like fucking burnt tires and syrup.
Speaker 1:Oh, my dad used to make us take Scott's emulsion and also 40 malt. Look that shit up, as it was brown, it was molasses. You pour the shit down out of the bottle. You had to wait because it was slow, was like molasses. It was thick and heavy and brown. And he was like this is good for you, this is gonna help you immune system. I was like, well, fuck, I'm still getting sick what you're talking about dog, that, that's just a Spanish.
Speaker 2:Dr John's man, seriously, is the same shit. They just they took the label off and gave it to a different community. It's the same fucking thing. It ain't shit. That is not special, not not fucking pill popping views. Man, it's not me.
Speaker 1:It ain't you know? You don't fuck with the Travis.
Speaker 2:Scott, never big fan of him. I Understand how he has a particular audience in a particular brand and I think you know, fuck on one of the Kardashians Probably help this profile a little bit. But I'm not big on Travis Scott like that. I think he's a he's a good rapper, but there's nothing that pops in my head like oh yeah, I remember that bar, I remember that line, just some shit here and there. He just he doesn't grab me like that. I understand, for a particular generation they feel different, but that's fine. Hmm, travis Scott, fuck you, I Got surprise features. Fuck you that. That that mean I want good enough to do it on your own. Like I got a surprise for you. No, nick, no, like when I hear Kendrick album or here a cold album, if y'all got features, that's great. I'm here to hear y'all right, and that's exactly what they do. You know I'm gonna play the album and guess what I got on here?
Speaker 1:I don't want to fucking mystery box album, fuck off and we had the probably the most anticipated boxing match of like what the decade maybe or since since Pacquiao and Mayweather yeah, and they were both over the hill by the time we got that fight. So we had Terrence Crawford.
Speaker 2:Before you go forward, if if they're in their prime, does that fight end up the same way?
Speaker 1:Mayweather and Pacquiao. Yeah, no, I think Mayweather probably still wins, just because he's hard to hit. You can't put your hands on him. He's so quick and agile and he's so defensive minded. But I think it would have been a more interesting fight, more entertaining fire, and I think Pacquiao would have had more rounds in him. He would have fought, you know, I'm saying he would have won a few more rounds.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think you would touch them up a little bit.
Speaker 1:He would have touched them up a little bit, but mayweather so far with a one this fair yeah but anyway, the fight that we had just last night was Terrence Crawford versus Arrowspence, and these are two probably the two best fighters right now, right Pound for pound, and they're both in their primes. And they were both in the face of champions. They each had like three belts.
Speaker 2:It was some touching up getting done and I underestimated Crawford.
Speaker 1:I ain't going a lot man, I was going for Arrowspence. I don't know why Terrence Crawford destroyed this man.
Speaker 2:You know what it is, man, when you watch Arrowspence's fight. It's like he walks you down, like he's like he's the predator, like no matter what, he keeps coming forward and like the pressure just wears you down. He just starts beating the living shit out of you. And the thing with Terrence he's such a, such a brilliant counterpuncher. When I saw him duff that man to put him in the ground with a jab, I'm like, oh, this shit is over. Yo, for real, he got your timing already. If he drop you with it with a with that, oh, he has your timing nailed.
Speaker 1:It's some of the shit. Some of the shots weren't even like solid. You know, I'm saying like he dropped them three times when it was like a side blow to the neck, another one to the side of the head and he's just dropping. I'm like dance guy's powerful, knocked them down three times and then the ref prevented it from being a fourth knock down Because he stopped. That shit was the eighth, eighth knife in it around.
Speaker 2:I mean, when you look at homeboy's face is like he couldn't see. His eyes was. His eyes were fucked. He was like it like he like I know y'all can't see me like he was like squinting, but he wasn't squinting, that's just how swollen his eyes was and he just tagging his ass up. I said whoo Jesus.
Speaker 2:And the bad part is like we got two of the best fighters in the world. You expected to be competitive and it wasn't competitive at that point. But the truth of the matter was Like I don't think Crawford broke a sweat, like it wasn't. Like I'm wearing them down, like this is one of fights. Well, I'm just grinding and I'm just sweating them. Bust them ass. It wasn't that. It really really wasn't that. It was entertaining. I thought it was dope that that that Crawford was so fly. He's like look at here, I mean him. You gonna come out and you're gonna like Announce this song for me and you're not gonna rap. I got it from here. Like you got Eminem right there, walking him not even, not even out. He walked him to like the entrance to walk to walk out To the lose yourself.
Speaker 1:And I thought he was gonna rap. He ain't rap. He just said you know, he just announced him coming down the champ, the best fighter, whatever, whatever the champion, tamar's cross, tamar's Crawford, and I'm like dang, he ain't gonna spit. Nah, he just walked him down with his hoodie Because he promised him that he was gonna come out with him. So he was all right, let me just come through. You probably did that shit for free too, because how much can you pay him to come out with you?
Speaker 2:It's good. You probably could do people's like you know. I can walk you out, but if I rap you got to pay me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to pay me. Just play the music in the background. I ain't saying shit.
Speaker 2:Like I. It's gonna be fair play. Unless you do this, you can play the song. People come out to it all the time. It's all right. If I rap one bar, give me my hundred fifty thousand dollars right now. He probably just gave him a free ticket.
Speaker 1:He probably gave him a front row ticket and I I swore I saw Hailey in the front row too. My god, someone's like. Is that Hailey? I was like, is it? I don't know. I mean he probably gave him a couple tickets and shit for him to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but because you know in the front it's like celebrity road, everybody's there. What I saw, wasn't it? I want to saw the thing. Thomas Ernst Tyson tight, yeah, but Mike's in Vegas all the time.
Speaker 1:But I'm a Judah Zab. Judah was there.
Speaker 2:Zab was there, manny was there, floyd was there.
Speaker 1:Roy Jones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we're. We're sitting right next to um, to Zab, um, I saw Tracy Morgan and a couple other people, but that's I mean that's happened in boxing. I mean Before, like all the stars have come out. I mean these are the stars, but I mean all the stars. Now, these little like tic-tac people and YouTube people like no, I won't see y'all at the fight. Man, I might go fuck about y'all, so don't show up. But was it a good fight? It was one sided, but yeah, you saw what a masterclass in boxing looks like. Once someone gets their ass handed to him, these kind of things happen. That's exactly what occurred.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Crawford destroyed Spence and I want to see him negotiate with Canelo. Maybe they can agree on a catchweight 150, 154, 40. Somebody has to go up, somebody has to go down, whatever. Because what? What else is there now for for for Crawford Besides Canelo? And I think he'll wash Canelo?
Speaker 2:I think he'll beat dogs without a Canelo and I like Canelo, but I don't think you can beat him.
Speaker 1:I'm ready to say this. You tell me if I'm off base. I'm prepared to say that Terrence Crawford is better than Floyd Mayweather, pound for pound, all time. Um, the only thing that could be against him is probably that, and that's probably not even his fault, and that's probably just because the sport isn't as popular as it was, you know, 10, 15, 20 years ago. Maybe just because we don't really know all the guys, like we knew all the guys that may weather for, like may weather for everybody. He fought the La Jolla. You know, I'm saying he fought Pac man, even though they were over the hill, he fought. You know, I'm saying like we knew the guys he was fighting. He fought Zab Judah. We fought all the Mexican fighters.
Speaker 1:Hmm but that's not to say that the level of competition that Crawford is beating is Lesser. He's just making it look easy because he's beating everybody that's being put in front of him. He's a defensively, he's defensive and he's also offensive, as where Mayweather's only been a defensive fighter. He wasn't worried about Mayweather knocking you out. He was only going to beat you with points, right, because he wasn't going to touch him at all. And he was going to touch you and get his points. But Crawford will knock you out.
Speaker 2:I think it would have been a hell of a fight if they fought in their private thing. It would have been a hell of a fight. Is he better than Mayweather? No, but he's clocked it, but he's. His career is at a point we can make an argument.
Speaker 2:I Think he can make an argument because basically whoever's in front of him he fought, and the thing people often see about me was like you should have fought Pacquiao five years before. Your fault, like, seemed like he was running for a long time, but the whole thing was like for a very long time, I mean pretty much after Oscar de la Hoya. Mayweather was a guy who was carrying boxing Right and like anytime, like we always talk about it since, like you know, people getting together, having fight parts on the floor you didn't really do with any other fighter besides after. Well, I remember de la Hoya cuz no, really gave a shit, but really until he came along. So, to have any spice, where he fights de la Hoya, he fights Canelo, like the whole thing that people can't say. He ducked like whoever's the biggest guy who made the most money.
Speaker 1:But he doesn't fight, but he ducks guys and he doesn't fight the best guys in their prime. You know, I'm saying like he fought Canelo when he was 20 years old.
Speaker 2:Right, you fought a young kid off.
Speaker 1:He fought de la Hoya when he was already, you know, towards the end of his career fair.
Speaker 2:But the whole thing I can only fight who I'm fight, and the whole thing is that if I'm at this level, like why would I fight down for somebody that it's more challenging? But I'm not gonna like. My whole thing is that I'm gonna make money. So I always you always make money fights period. Like I could have fought better competition, sure, or guys you thought would have been at that level at that time, yes, but what you're gonna run into is like this Like I'm bringing here You're not box office, you don't bring in the people gonna watch it. Like I said, what? What they got? Like like four, five million pay-per-view buys from him fighting Conor McGregor.
Speaker 1:Yeah he's fighting youtubers and Logan Paul's of the world and these guys and like I'm good man- what is it?
Speaker 2:I think Francis and God is gonna fight Tyson Fury and I don't think anybody cares. Mm-hmm, yeah, no one cares. The, the, the baddest man in USC, who's now under his own promotion, is gonna fight the, the heavyweight champion of the world. No one cares. No one's talking about it, cuz the thing like you guys can't fight boxes, he's gonna watch you. That's gonna be it, and they're probably not lying.
Speaker 2:So we have a guy like Crawford, who was amazingly talented but just doesn't have the box office draw. He proved he could do so now. So I think he's gonna need to fight guys like canal. He's gonna need to fight the, whatever the biggest name is gonna be out there from this point forward until he decides to stop boxing, cuz it just no other bridges across. We waited so long for this fight. It was a one-sided aspect and so, like now, you basically fight for the check, like Whoever's gonna bring in the biggest bank and the biggest buys. We are gonna do that. So don't be surprised if, if canelle gets past Jamel Charler, that, um, that Crawford is gonna be up next, for I believe that.
Speaker 1:Real quick. Let's touch up on the situation that happened this week with Brani Entering the cardiac arrest.
Speaker 2:Oh, god bless.
Speaker 1:Well, he's like 17, yeah whoo. How do you get a heart attack? That at that age, bro, that young I.
Speaker 2:Don't know if it was. I mean Cardi it hard attack is a sign of cardiac arrest, but it's not necessarily like a heart issue kind of um oh my god, what's on my name? Um, the more hammer the guy from Buffalo, like it's the one of the million thing that happened. I mean it's hard stop. But he never had any heart issues. Yeah, but he got hit.
Speaker 1:It was the blow.
Speaker 2:You know I'm saying right at that point, I mean it's. I mean the most famous case is a guy like Hank gathers who died playing basketball. But I mean, I mean it always sounds. It sounds strange when it's it comes from athletes, but it's not as extreme or as rare as it might seem because quite simply it's this when you're an athlete, like the heart, some muscle, so if the heart and the muscle gets stronger or the, the lining gets stronger, something else like that you can get. You know, no, it's kind of just that happened up. I'm glad he's okay. Yeah, I wonder what it means for the future, but I'm glad he's okay.
Speaker 1:And that's the question I was trying to pose, like I mean, we we've we've seen guys make it to the NBA with heart conditions and with different health issues, right, but we know that LeBron James's future Is directly contingent on what happened with his son. If he gets drafted, who he gets drafted to, because before he retires he's already said everybody knows a his last dream is to play at least one season with his son, and I don't know if he'll be like a top Five pick or anything like that, because he's not like as good as his dad was in high school, right.
Speaker 2:No, no, far from it.
Speaker 1:I think I'll argue that Carmelo Anthony son is better than than brahney, because the dude be shooting the lights out in all the videos I'll be seeing. But a team knows that if I draft brahney, I'm gonna also get dad. You know I'm gonna get LeBron and I think teams will draft him just for the premise of that. But if he's not healthy enough to play that, that changes things.
Speaker 2:I think, even if he's healthy enough to play, I think this kind of give LeBron maybe perspective I'm not saying that he didn't have perspective before, but I think it did because it's more like I'm doing this, I'm keeping in great shape so I can still play in an NBA level, a very, very high NBA level, and I'm doing this, you know, get a chance to play on my son. But then this happens. Like Am I worried about the wrong thing? Like I raise this boy he's my son's, my first son, you know and make sure like his life is good and everything's happy. Like is this that much of concern to see if he can make it to the NBA, when I'm really like His health, more than anything else, is going to come first. All all the shit, secondary, all of it. Like Like it's something really tragic happen to Bronnie. Like then, whatever dream you had of having that happen Doesn't happen. But it's your dream? It's not. I don't necessarily think it's it's. You know Bronnie's dream at all.
Speaker 2:I think Bronnie's dream is to play in the NBA. His dad's dream is for a son to play in the NBA so I can play with him sometimes. And two dreams don't coincide and it doesn't click and I think it's kind of Hopefully it gives him perspective, like I'm just gonna play as well as I can play, for I feel like I need to retire. I'm gonna retire, but I'm not gonna hold out this hope for Bronnie, even though it may be possible. But if he, if he can succeed and that's his dream, that he should do so.
Speaker 2:But seeing that you know you're so close to losing your son's life, like we are fine for your generation, after yours, after, after you, will never have a word. But whatever your dream, whatever your passion is, you should go for it. It's the NBA, do that. If it's something else, do that. But I think one of the guys you don't want to lose your child and it was such a random thing like pop my phone, like what the fuck happened. That is like it's not a concern, like as long as you're, okay, bronnie, if you want to hoop who, if you don't want to do that, we have a bunch of family business when I do that.
Speaker 1:If you want to go off on your own and do your own thing, that's fine too, but this is it's not his fact, because there's something right, because how hard is it when you have a legendary parent, that shit must be like anxiety inducing, to try to live up to their legacy, you know, to always be in their shadow, or to try to Live up to what your father was. You know I'm saying it never works out. We see it in all sports. You know sees her chive, as his kids didn't work out as boxers. You know Jordan's kids ain't become basketball players, that shit. You know I'm saying like when was the last time we saw a father who was a legend and then had a kid? The closest thing is probably Muhammad Ali, because his daughter was good, but still she I don't. I wouldn't call her as legendary as her father was. She just ain't have nobody to compete with her in her sport.
Speaker 2:Right and and Dale was a legend. No, dale wasn't a legend, he's a really good shooter.
Speaker 1:His sons surpassed him her sons surpassed him right? It is very hard, bro, if your father is LeBron James and he's a first-ballehalla fama and he's a top five player of all time, and now you and he's saying, you know, I'm waiting for my son to come to the NBA so I could play with him. I'm sure that has to be stressful.
Speaker 2:In the only time, like and because Ken Griffey's senior was good, wasn't great, but he was good but his son was way better easily surpassed them, correct, but it's.
Speaker 2:It's a hard thing because people always think like cuz you're? It's almost like if your dad does this and you're gonna do that, like no, you got to sustain and create your own legacy. You don't want to do that. And the thing with with bronies like no matter what I do, I'm, as always gonna be in comparison to my dad, it's never gonna be like the stature of what I can do. As you know, lebron James Jr Like just just just me.
Speaker 2:But the fact that when it comes down to it, whenever someone sees me, like oh, oh, your LeBron James son, like yeah, that's my dad and he taught me how to play, but all of this shit here was on my time and on my merit, it wasn't on anybody else, and for him to kind of deal with that and it deal with this and the aftermath, it's like how much work really want this shit like like do I want to go to the US? You just to hoop, just have fun? Or is like door, I want to leave after a year just to make sure I can do this thing. On my dad, like maybe I'm not ready, maybe, maybe I enjoy college, maybe I like playing college basketball I. That's a part of my life, the legacy of the thing that I want to do.
Speaker 1:I think I would go into a different sport altogether, but I know that I want to play baseball. I'm gonna play, you know, football, whatever. I'm not going into basketball with my father's LeBron James, I'm just not. I'm like your dad. Let me just manage one of these businesses you got. I mean you got this theater like Magic Johnson, or you got this restaurant. Let me just manage that. I'll be good. I'm not trying to, you know, I mean follow your footsteps.
Speaker 2:Or at least give me like a couple years to learn how to do it. So if I decided to do it for myself, I can do it Like cuz it's still under your thing, like if I can do my own thing, like I have the great financial backing, yeah, but I want to make sure that I'm ready and prepared for it. But more than anything else I'll start all that. I'm just glad he's alive, because that could that for any parent. Anything happens to the kid that has to be frightened when they say cardiac arrest, yeah, it's gonna freak out a little bit. So long as he's alive and doing better, I'm happy for him.
Speaker 1:All right, real quick. I wanted to touch up on this. I Don't want to get into, you know, conspiracies and I like this, but this week Congress had a UFO hearing. Here we go you know we got to talk about it a little bit.
Speaker 2:Sure, sure, sure.
Speaker 1:I got you, but they don't call it UFOs, they calling it. They call them UAPs now unidentified aerial phenomenon or whatever right. And you know you had, like former military, you know whistleblowers and former, you know Air Force pilots and all types of Authoritative figures talking about how, yeah, we got some shit, I saw something. Or yeah, we have recovered UFOs and yeah, we had some aliens. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:The truth is out there, brother.
Speaker 1:The main guy that was that everybody's talking about is the David Grush. He served 14 years as an intelligence officer in the Air Force and national geospatial intelligence agency. So here before he appeared before the house Oversight committees, national security subcommittee, alongside two former fighter pilots who had firsthand experience with UAPs. Quote-unquote he told lawmakers that he was informed of a multi decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program during the course of his work examining classified programs, etc, etc.
Speaker 1:But my thing is, either government or Congress is playing dumb right and they're like let's put some information out there but let's still act like we don't know shit, or there really is a secret government that handles this stuff. That works, you know, underneath or above the actual government. Like me in the black, I'm just saying because how the fuck? Either the government knows some shit and they just bullshitting this whole time in line to us, or they really don't know nothing and the people that really do know is a different you know saying a different organization or some secret shit. Like come on, just just hurry up and tell us bro.
Speaker 2:They can't. And and in these hearings they have all these hearings and nobody produces a picture.
Speaker 1:Nobody produces a body like look, this is the first alien we have, boom, this is what he is right here. This is the autopsy body to some. Give me a picture, bro. Give me a picture that's not grainy and far away looks like a dot, like everybody has a new iPhone that has HD, super mega pixel cameras and all of this shit, super HD shit. Everybody has a camera, everybody is a photographer, but nobody has a clear picture of some shit. Show me some shit, bro.
Speaker 2:The big foot. Thing.
Speaker 1:The Bigfoot thing was a hoax, though.
Speaker 2:Right, but the whole idea that there's a Bigfoot but then, like people are trying to take a picture Bigfoot, we can never find a picture Bigfoot. Very much as I seen right when sees Bigfoot, but no, ever take a picture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you see some dude in a costume from far away walking like all that's Bigfoot, like now.
Speaker 2:But it doesn't do where the Harry and the Hennison's costume right.
Speaker 1:So I don't know, man, I'm waiting for the aliens to just pop out and be like we hear motherfuckers.
Speaker 2:Like but that's the thing. If they, if they hear they can't tell you they couldn't, impossible, your brains wouldn't be able to accept it. We fall apart, that's it. Okay, here's the truth of the matter. And, like I said, my phone's gonna get tapped after this, but look, fellas, it's fine, I'm on your side.
Speaker 2:Let's say that that aliens actually do exist, right, that there are other life forms of an non-human In, not human being, living amongst us in whatever shape or form. We're going to assume that that being is probably of higher intelligence, we're going to assume so. We're gonna assume that their technology is of a higher level too, we're going to assume so, if you can get into the whole, they've been living amongst us, look like us, so and so forth, and been here this entire time. It's probably real possible. The aliens that might maybe been here a long time look just like us. We might be aliens, and I know it. Who the fuck knows?
Speaker 2:The thing is that you cannot say that there are the Idea of other life here or other life existing, because it kind of like literally deflates the whole idea, the Bible, and says we're the only ones out here and I've seen it's other people out here. You're kind of defaulting, this entire book, that a lot of little like literal, like your own personal moral code, that laws have been written about statutes and A lot of shit has kind of baseless Judeo Christian ideal Of what that means and things have reflected in society. If you no longer says that we are the only ones and these rules they're supposed to follow, if we're the only ones, all that shit becomes smooth. Therefore, you can't really have it, because this place will fall into fucking chaos. Imagine if you find out you see an actual alien.
Speaker 2:Right, the very next Sunday, churches be empty because, like y'all said, it was just us Apparently. Y'all lie, so fuck all this. It gets really, really weird. That's why you can't do it. So it really probably is this yeah, do we make a deal with them, like y'all can live a month's us, but we can't really have y'all like in the streets, like that kind of like a side chick Probably. But the truth of matter is you can't really do it because it's just, it was it kind of it, just it just Defraud this whole system.
Speaker 1:That don't fuck up the, it'll fuck up the fabric of society, bro, in many different ways. I get it technologically Faith-wise, you know, religiously, spiritually, everything, and I don't want to get into conspiratorial theories, but to me, and it always has been, the idea that we are the only intelligent life forms in this vast, vast Universe and galaxy to me has always been the most naive and the most egotistical and the dumbest shit ever. They discover new planets every day. Scientists do, and I just recently read that they found an earth like fucking planets somewhere. Right, they got planets with water, they got planets with all types of shit. You're gonna tell me we're the only planet that has life. No, that, just it just. I can't, I'm not fathoming that idea.
Speaker 2:And I live in this world. Intelligent life is a stretch for some people. Intelligent life is a real stretch for some like, nah, like, like, you know how to walk and talk, but that's really it, this whole smart thing, that shit ain't you though, but yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1:Like just life in general, whether we're dumb as fuck or not. There's life, bro. There's life outside of this and I'm pretty sure we're the probably one of the most primitives planets out there. When some of these other civilizations land on earth, they're like damn, these motherfuckers are ape, like you know what I'm saying. The way we feel about apes is probably the way other civilizations feel about us. Imagine.
Speaker 2:Imagine, you know, like an alien lands in california and like, let's say, calabasso, where like, quote, unquote, all the rich people live and they just put up there like man, this shit is a dump, oh, this shit sucks. Y'all are poor. This is the project. Like this is.
Speaker 1:Imagine them pulling up in florida like what is this?
Speaker 2:They play? Oh so, oh so. These are where the primates live.
Speaker 1:This is the sunshine state. Why they? Why they keep shooting each other?
Speaker 2:and the thing is that it's so hot. They said, like, like the like, even the water in florida is hot, which is Ugh, it's all right, it's already like fucking muggy and sticky. Not in there. Now you got like sticky water this summer, is it? It's not it boy, it just ain't it Huh.
Speaker 1:All right, man. The last topic I wanted to touch because I had a question for you sure Was carly russell sure alabama woman who faked Her kidnapping. It is now being charged with all kinds of shit to miss a means for the kidnapping plot?
Speaker 2:Yeah sure, first of all, what compels somebody?
Speaker 1:the first thing that came to my mind when I heard this story was the whole juicy, small ass shit Right.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Like. My question to you and to black folk and colored folk Is what would compel you to do some shit like that? Because we know and look and I'll admit, white people do this more than black and brown people do this shit, this type of shit. Right, we heard all kinds of story of black people, you know, uh, white people Faking the death, faking the kidnapping, pretending to be Hispanic. We heard about the lady member that a few years, like a year or two ago, whatever it was where she was pretending to be latina this whole time and she was just a white fucking woman. But when white people do it, we know why they do it. They do it for clout, they do it because they really want to be black or brown. They love our culture so much, right, or they're on drugs.
Speaker 1:But when a black person fakes, you know, a kidnapping, or fakes getting beat up because, oh it's, you know it's. Uh, you know they're homophobia agenda, they're they want to push a racist narrative oh racism. I got like what compels them to like especially this that we know why juicy small aid did his shit. We don't understand it, but we know why. What the fuck compel Carly Russell from Alabama to fake her kidnapping.
Speaker 2:Can you explain this to?
Speaker 1:me.
Speaker 2:Look man. No, because I've been trying to tell you after all these episodes. I'm not the arbiter of black people. I cannot tell you what all black people are thinking. Not at all, and kind of sick of that shit. I can't tell you fuck thing.
Speaker 2:The truth of matter come down to very simple story. Apparently the story kind of goes like this she's dating a guy. The guy was either Either either having the side thing going on or he had sex with a Adult entertainer shipper how do you want to call it? Not call her whore or prostitute. Have no idea she happened to be someone's adult entertainment, that apparently he might have sex. This person has some of us going on with her.
Speaker 2:Apparently she got the shrug.
Speaker 2:She's 25 years old, she's a nursing student, she's under hell of a lot of pressure, so crawled size and make up the story that apparently there was a baby on the side of the road and that it's someone kidnapped her and that they had this two-day mad hunt and that they sent out people To go look for her.
Speaker 2:And when she popped up two days later at her parents house, she explained the whole story that someone had kidnapped her and put in the back of an 18 wheeler, took pictures were naked, but then like the story is kind of like falling apart because they saw that she did stupid shit like like Google, like you know taking and how to like fake a kidnapping and shit like that, which wasn't really bright all into itself. So we're going to stick with that one point here. We're going to go forward. You know they I'm gonna read it specifically Said police on Wednesday listed some very strange online searches that rust mate in the days leading up to her disappearance. The search queries included Do you have to pay for an amber? Learn how to take money from a register without being caught? Birmingham bus station, one way bus ticket from Birmingham to Nashville and now the date of when she was supposedly kidnapped and then also the movie taken.
Speaker 1:She's look. Do people know that everything that's on the internet is saved forever? Your search history, whatever you post, it's out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the truth is out there, brother, and the reason how it's a mind like you want to see what I Google, like yo just tap it, you gonna see some funny shit. You might see some wild shit, but you asked like you really want to know, like you want to see the claws of crabs. Okay, you want to Google that. But it's all certain it could be because they need to do so so they can build a better search engine, so it's a more efficient to see the situation search for.
Speaker 1:But I've been at work shit like that.
Speaker 1:You ever been at work and you be trying you on the internet, you thinking like I know my boss is gonna see what you know what the fuck I'm searching you like then back in your mind You're like conscious of what you're about to search or what website you about to visit, because you know that management or whoever or it or whoever Can probably go through your whole history and be like why is this ball fucking searching? You know how to bury your body, how to kill your boss or some shit.
Speaker 2:You start googling. I'm so sick of these mouthfuls.
Speaker 1:What's the best way to quit your job?
Speaker 2:Like you Google. If I quit, well, I collect unemployment shit like that.
Speaker 1:Like you know, you getting called into the office. Like you're trying to leave us, are you giving us a two-week notice? Like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:But like it. We're not gonna say, but we're guessing you seem unhappy about your job performance, like how do you know? We're just getting a feeling. You check my sir Citri. Like, if I quit, do I get that paycheck in the hole? How long do I keep my health insurance after I quit? Like they look at all this shit. They were like Every day. So I don't know why.
Speaker 2:And, like I said, she's a nursing student, she's not stupid, she's far from it for her. So for her to think like, oh, this is a great idea, I'm going to kidnap myself and these people gonna care about me. Bitch, don't, nobody care. As a matter of fact, you got people looking at you crazy cuz. It's a dumb idea. Things happen. Relationship with them. Just don't work out.
Speaker 2:Understand, people end up hurt, people end up upset. But no one's trying to fucking kidnap themselves because, especially when it comes to black people, that shit's not funny. There have been white people who have said that you know, my child got kidnapped by someone of color and they'll just beat nothing, niggas left and right to find out that the white woman had killed her kids. This shit's not funny and, like I said, and you're putting precious resources Into some bullshit that could actually be out there. That might actually save somebody's life. As a matter of fact, I read about some kid who was 11 years old who got arrested Because she was doing some dumb shit. She saw like a YouTube prank about calling 911 and saying her friend got kidnapped, something else like that. They were able to trace the phone down. They went to her house, they called the phone and it's right there because she was. The police department kept calling her back. They're trying to get more information about this young 14 year old girl that got kidnapped.
Speaker 2:Like why do y'all play games like this? This is not funny. You're putting people's lives in danger. You're taking resources away from things that need to actually need to fucking attention. You got people out in the streets like searching for your dumbass. You just, you know, fake your kidnapping because you got mad. This nigga like you're a nursing student. I'm pretty sure you got some other shit going in life. This is not the end of it. There's so much more for you to do.
Speaker 2:And the fact that this became a story. Then people start clowning them and became the whole no, no, just use more late thing because like there's no reason for you to do so, like there's no reason for just to do so. You fucked up, just use pray out there doing some bullshit. You made a whole ass story that she ended up going to jail for, and she might go to jail for this.
Speaker 2:The thing is that in all I see, I just wanted them to give that child to find like she's trying to become a nursing student. She might be able to help people, she might be able to do some good with the rest of life and I really hope and pray that she does. But the truth of the matter is like if she goes to jail or she does something or there's something on her record, all that school and all the education, all that that nurse school shit goes out the fucking window. Now you're back a square one just because you made a silly fucking mistake. To try to say something like I'm getting kidnapped, it's so fucking dumb of her. Like I'm not even irritated by it's fine, it'd be stupid.
Speaker 1:Like do better has to be drugs.
Speaker 2:I don't know. No, no, no, no. Because when she googled that shit, she was very clear-minded and had nothing to do with drugs.
Speaker 1:Because you could Google some shit, but actually acting it out I.
Speaker 2:Mean, that's how it starts. I mean a lot, like a lot of people who like actually commit suicide, don't know how to do it, and they Google that shit like how Do I go about it? And if you actually did that, because I had to do it in college, when you do it, the first thing that pops up, like the first five Results are for, like the suicide prevention.
Speaker 1:How are you need help or somebody?
Speaker 2:right, right, it won't tell you like that. There's a bunch when the pop in beginning, just like look, look, we know what you googled but we can help you. But she asked them like, like, taking a bus, like people don't know what the fuck you look like, like your, your plastic all over the picture, all over the fucking, this, the state and all over the country. If you hop on a bus, someone's gonna know what you look like. Come on now. I know you're crazy, you ain't stupid.
Speaker 1:Come on, think this shit girl, like people, we all do better man.
Speaker 2:I'm not speaking all black people. She got to do better, was that little racist of me a touch? But don't worry about it Sunday. But yo. That was episode 142 of the culture.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of episodes, bro, not really never, because I'll be like I like. Then there is work.
Speaker 2:I go to work all the time and what I don't really listen to music. I go to work all the time and what I don't really listen to music or listen to podcasts, because it's more than I can focus and everything else like that. You've seen shows that been doing for like three years and they've been like episode 305 307.
Speaker 1:They're like yeah, but that's people that that's that's that's not a lot of those, and it's people like like the Joe Rogan, because he does like three episodes a week, type of shit.
Speaker 2:You know I'm saying which they got having a bag like it's a lot of fun episodes.
Speaker 1:We'll get to that point eventually.
Speaker 2:Doing this shit. That work, fuck that. Like you like see your birthdays and kids and vacations. I like that, did, did, did. Did homeboy the homegirl get her passport situation sorted out or still impending? This is that. This passport shit is a mess bro.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be in Jamaica in about three months. There you go, I'm gonna be in Jamaica celebrating my 40th boh.
Speaker 2:How's that reason? That's like. No, oh, that's racist, that's racist, but but you like I'm being. I mean to make this racist my bumbleclods. Ccc. Don't, don't, don't, don't put the bullshit man. You don't have to do this. I kid, I kid, I kid.
Speaker 1:I kid, I kid Yo, I'm out of here Yo we out of here. Yeah, be safe make your choices.
Speaker 2:I.
