Cheesecake Factory

Ever wondered what are the worst places for a first date? We're here to help! We're putting the infamous online list of refused first date locations under the microscope, and challenging the idea that a first date should revolve around food. Whether it's a trip to the Cheesecake Factory or a movie night, we're asking: should you be focusing more on your date's interests to make a lasting impression?

Switching gears, we're also diving into the world of hip-hop. From the 'bad boy' allure to the seemingly overlooked 'nice guys', we're examining the stereotypes and expectations in this industry. We're even listing our top five 'nice guys' in hip-hop. Plus, we're discussing Lauren Hill's record-breaking concert and what it means for female rappers in the industry. And speaking of representation, we're tackling the recent controversy around Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's wax statue. Is it whitewashed? And why do wax museums often miss the mark when it comes to accurately representing people of color?

Wrapping up, we're digging into the intricacies of creating wax figures that accurately represent skin color. With a broad spectrum of colors to consider, why do sculptors get it wrong? We're calling for more communication between the creators and their subjects to ensure accuracy. Join us as we challenge norms and dive into these riveting discussions. Whether it's about dating, hip-hop, or wax figure representation, we're ready to shake things up. Buckle up, it's going to be an enlightening ride.
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Website: The Culture Podcast

Topics Discussed:

• The Cheesecake Factory list
• Lauryn Hill breaks record
• Will Smith tried to date Peppa
• Eating 4 dozen oysters
• Nice guys in Hip Hop
• Kodak Black on Drink Champs
• A new "Is That Racist"

Referenced Links:
Viral list of top places not to take a woman on a first date (yahoo.com)

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson wax statue to be redone after star criticises its white skin | Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) | The Guardian

Lil Wayne reacts to his wax figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum (ew.com)

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Chapters

• 0:00 Choosing First Date Location
• 7:15 First Date Expectations and Unusual Dining
• 15:06 Nice Guys in Hip-Hop Discussion
• 23:06 [Ad] Face Your Ears
• 23:48 (Cont.) Nice Guys in Hip-Hop Discussion
• 27:00 Record-Breaking Concert and Whitewashed Statue
• 33:56 Skin Color Misrepresentation in Wax Figures

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:31

You know we're not. We couldn't write to the chase. Now, this is how we doing. This is a new format. You know I'm saying we go right to the chase. We don't sugarcoat shit, we don't waste time.

Speaker 1: 0:41

Of course we got to give a shout out to the culture crew, but yo, I Got a new is that racist segment? But first I Want to ask you what's wrong With taking a date to the cheesecake factory? Do you find anything wrong with that? Because I don't. Hmm, cheesecake factory ain't even cheap. People don't know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1: 1:07

I'm talking about this list that's circulating all over the internet, supposedly made by some female or some females, and it's a list of places that women absolutely refuse to go on a first date. Supposedly right, okay, and number one on that list is cheesecake factory. There's about 30 different things. I'll run some of them down as cheesecake factory all the way at the top Applebee's, chilies, chipotle, olive Garden. By the way, I love all these places. I don't know what's wrong with any of these places. The movies Okay, that one is valid. It's valid because if this is the first time you're going out with somebody, you know that's not really personal. You know you sitting there watching more, you can't really get to know somebody. So I understand that and, coincidentally, the first date me and my wife ever went to was to the movies.

Speaker 2: 1:57

High-coach, shit on it.

Speaker 1: 1:58

We went to. We went to go see super bad very first movie, but but the only reason it worked is because we had already chilled like we met at a party. You know I'm saying mm-hmm, so we asked questions where we already met each other is what I'm saying. We already hung out politics, we dance, we talked, we laughed. So you know I mean, but if it's like the first time you're meeting somebody, like you mess somebody off on a website or whatever. Yeah, you don't want to take them to the movies. So that's valid. Though some what else is on this list? Your house? Yeah, you know, you probably don't want to take somebody to your house on the first day. Any fast food chain valid. Buffalo Wild Wings, I don't know, I don't got a problem with Buffalo Wild Wings. Wingstop, yeah, that's it. Yeah, wingstop, ain't it just red lobster? I don't see a problem with red lobster. Okay, a buffet.

Speaker 2: 2:46

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: 2:47

I mean shit, you don't, I don't know my reserve, my high hop, you call it hop, I hop.

Speaker 2: 2:55

I think that hi hop.

Speaker 1: 2:56

I don't know, no, no, hi, denny's. We don't even have a Denny's around here, so I ain't worrying about it. The gym yeah, I don't know who would take somebody to the gym. Church yeah, I'm not taking you know. Starbucks yeah, no. Coffee dates a lot of people like coffee dates. Okay, ice cream dates. Mm-hmm, family functions no, that's a no. Movie night, like a Netflix, hulu, etc. Somewhere that requires a long drive yeah, that's a no. Okay. Bowling I don't know about. I've been on bowl. I've been bowling on first dates multiple times before. Nightclubs Okay. Hookah bars, a bar for just drinks, okay, even though I feel like most dates end up at a bar.

Speaker 2: 3:46

Okay.

Speaker 1: 3:46

I get you.

Speaker 2: 3:46

I see what you got a waffle house, which is it? Which is it what house Denny's? I saw one the same, okay so.

Speaker 1: 3:54

I don't know. I Don't have a problem with cheesecake factory.

Speaker 2: 3:58

Hmm.

Speaker 1: 4:01

It's not like an upscale five-star you know restaurant, but it's still not like you know McDonald's or nothing like that.

Speaker 2: 4:07

I guess it's more like if you broke, just say so, like if you want someone to pay for meals, just say so.

Speaker 1: 4:13

Yo Cheesecake Factory isn't even cheap, though.

Speaker 2: 4:16

But it's like, okay, with Cheesecake Factory, it's a bunch of options, like it's multiple. Now I see where someone is going with this, just because I don't agree with it. Like I understand, but it's to get to know you, and who says getting to know you has to be dinner? Like it has to be the first thing, like if you already talking and you kind of getting an understanding of each other and trying to get where, like, you both stand, it'll probably be helpful, like to pay attention to the little things that each person says, not just her Like. What are the things that she likes, she's interested in, catches her attention, likes to do, like, let's say, she likes art, maybe first. Maybe first they should be at a museum, or maybe like a painting set or something else like that. Things that kind of reflect the person. All these places are places for people to eat. Like, okay, you're going to break bread with somebody eventually and I understand that, but it's not going to be the end of the bill. You got to find the things that interest him. Sometimes a movie is fine for them. Sometimes it is Because maybe they like what they like, and I think this whole argument is stupid because you're worrying about things that really doesn't concern whatever.

Speaker 2: 5:29

If that person doesn't like going there, your follow up question is okay, where? Okay, where would you like to go? Now, if they name some shit, that's within reason. Okay, if it ain't, don't Like you ain't got to like. I don't think your first date should be like some suit and tie shit. Make a reservation restaurant Like this ain't getting to know you Like could you just enjoy in a meal. Like are we going to deal with the other story? That's kind of like like one age of this, which one I'll bring it up, it's about Oasis, but we'll get to that.

Speaker 2: 6:02

So, to make a big deal about this, and like people are really going back and forth and it's like look, motherfucker, just go where you listen to the person, see what they like, take them there or bring up, bring it, you know what. Don't even take them. Like I want to take you out on a date, and I know that she mentioned X. So why don't we do something like X Cool? Like if you pick a place and they don't like it, you're still paying for it, no matter what you do. It's going to be some kind of end result in regards to it, but again, it's a fact-finding mission. You want to get to know the person. You can take them to a sushi bar. You can take them dancing, you can take them, whatever the fuck.

Speaker 2: 6:47

But the whole thing is that I don't believe that your first date should be something where, like, I need to check my balance to make sure I have the shit covered. Shit can be that Like man, this date, $85. Fuck, do I like you that much? You don't want to come into that conversation either. You don't want it to be something that it ain't Just what is it that you enjoy? Let's try to do that. So get you in a comfortable environment and we can talk and see where it go from there. But if you're all basing all this shit around food, man, your first date sucks. You're like creativity.

Speaker 1: 7:19

The shit, like you said, is all subjective though, but I feel like this list was put together by some free-loading, gold-digging ass chicks. You know what I'm saying? Don't take me to no Olive Garden. Don't take me to no what you Mean Red Lobster. Red Lobster ain't even cheap. Cheesecake factory ain't cheap.

Speaker 2: 7:35

Like, if you want me to take you to places that you can't afford, just say so. Like if you want to go to this high-end seafood place but you saw the price, like the noodles are way too expensive for me, but for us it would make a whole lot more sense. I mean, unless you put an end, it'll make a whole lot of sense. Like I'm getting that vibe, but someone's like you know this person's about the money, because the thing that I did notice is like okay, so you put out this list of places that you don't want to go. I'm okay with that. Can I have a list of places that you would like to go?

Speaker 1: 8:15

Right, I think sporting event was somewhere down at the bottom of the list. What's wrong with a sport like yo? If you give me tickets to a Knicks game Shit I might love you, but if you don't like no sports at all, then we probably don't need to be dating, Because it's a conversation that you already had.

Speaker 2: 8:32

Knowing that you're a big sports lover, let me do something that involves that it don't gotta be a game. It could be Perfect idea. A person like sports, take them like Topgolf or some mini golf, some shit like that, something that entertains them, but you still got the time and space to actually talk and get to know each other, and so on and so forth. You do it at sports events. You see them talking next to the person and so on and so forth. But again, that's understanding the person, knowing what they like. Don't just do some shit, just do some shit.

Speaker 2: 9:02

Why would you want someone to take someone to an? Let's say, someone wants to go to the state it's an expensive ass seafood restaurant, like that's their thing, just for garnering the price of it? Let's say that you're allergic to seafood. Like well, can't do that. Like I'm definitely allergic to seafood. What kind All of it? I don't eat seafood. Okay, so you can try somewhere else. Again, I'm seeing a list of places you don't want to go. Do you mind giving me the offset? Since you asked these women for their opinion, let me know the places that you would like to go. Let's see how that fits, it doesn't all fit and it's not all gonna work, and that's fine. But to bug out about this shit, yeah, mm-hmm Problem.

Speaker 1: 9:41

But I just move on, man, I don't want to spend too much on this. I just saw this shit circulating heavy and I wanted to touch on it.

Speaker 2: 9:46

No, no, no. Here's one A, all right. So there was a story I think it may be an Instagram video of this guy who invited someone out for a date and she they hooked up, whatever and said I want to meet you for drinks. Okay, they sit down at the table and she decides to order four dozen oysters like 48. For only two people, no for her. She ate all 48. Oh my God. Then she ordered some roasted potatoes and some other shit. She like she took video.

Speaker 1: 10:19

I mean, I know oysters are supposed to be, what's that? She called Aphroditejack and Aphrodisiac, but goddamn Right because he saw her order that.

Speaker 2: 10:28

And then what happened was he said he was going to the bathroom. He left, he didn't come back. He didn't come back, yeah, he. So she, she, just she just ended up slurping up the oysters, just recording it, and order other shit and everything else. Then she takes a screenshot of the conversation had later and she would like she would like why to leave. Basically, like you know, I thought it was me enough for drinks and some other shit and she came up with some whole other skew, some bullshit. I'm like bruh, like like four dozen oysters on your lonesome, that's the whole thing. Like the whole. If you're broke, just say so, like if I say we're getting something to drink so we can get here and get to know each other again. I believe it was the first date. That doesn't that means we're going to drink. She needed the oysters to get in the mood, yo. If you need the oysters to get in the mood, man, this ain't it, then I'm not. If you need that, then, not to mention that oysters ain't cheap, yo.

Speaker 1: 11:16

I go out with my wife, I go out with you, my sister, we, you know, we order oysters and we usually order like just a dozen, just 12. Right, and she had. You know, we eat two or three each and that's it. She had four dozen to herself. God damn, and that shit's not cheap. No, she paid for it because he left. He said fuck this, that was like $100 just on oysters yo.

Speaker 2: 11:36

Yeah, but and she was like, and he was basically like I'll pay for the drinks. He said I'll pay him for the food, like it's like the basic. Give him money back, like whatever drink you had. Sure I'll pay for that, but I'm not paying.

Speaker 1: 11:47

He thugged out through the window. He said I'll bath through.

Speaker 2: 11:49

I don't walk smooth with the fuck out. I'm like yo, you can have this shit Like. I'm like waitress, like Check please, whatever else you're getting, that's all I'm out. Why are you leaving? Because this ain't what I signed up for and again, it's the first date. It's the understanding that there's going to be drinks which is on that list. We're not meeting for drinks, but she agreed to it. But once you got there, trying to do some whole other shit, which is unfair, because we already had the parameters set. Now, if we're vibing and we're sitting here like, are you hungry? Yeah, I'm a little hungry, then we can go ahead and get something, but we ain't getting full.

Speaker 1: 12:19

Fucking Doesn't know what's in season Ridiculous.

Speaker 2: 12:22

Ain't you going to get gout or, like I don't know, some kind of sickness which is raw, Like it's raw? That can't be healthy at all.

Speaker 1: 12:30

I don't believe so. 48, just raw oysters in your stomach sitting there, followed by alcohol. It's just all type of poison inside your body.

Speaker 2: 12:40

And she had some roasted scallop potatoes. She's so happy about that. I'm like nah, you had that. Good for you, bitch. I'm proud of you. Bye.

Speaker 1: 12:47

Speaking of dates, did you hear? You know how Will Smith has and I'm not going to talk about Jada today, but you know how Will Smith has a new podcast, right, I was unaware, I forget what it's called Something about 88. It's about like old school shit he talks about. You know, he discusses like shit from the 80s and shit from back in the day with people and he recently had pepper from Salt and Pepper Sandra Denton she had. He had her on and apparently you know they try to date back in the day. I didn't even know this story.

Speaker 1: 13:19

He took on a date. He tried to holla at her and this was like when she was on a break from Tretch. She was like broken up with Tretch. They were like on and off or whatever. They been on and off since on and off, they were like on a break or whatever. And this was before Will got with his first baby.

Speaker 1: 13:35

Mama Took on a date, paid for everything. Pepper was like yo, he was just so nice, he paid for everything. He never let me spend a dime. He always took care of me. He was like he gave a homeless man a hundred dollars. She thought that was so nice, but she just said like he wasn't her type because she likes bad boys, right, she likes thugs. So he was like just will wasn't my type, he was just, you know, too nice. And then she, you know, she also said that she kind of kicks herself for not ending up with will. I you know, obviously, but it just wasn't her type of dude. She liked those gangsta motherfuckers. It wasn't a guarantee would have worked. And then will said the only thing he was afraid of was stretch killing him.

Speaker 1: 14:16

And Peppo said like yeah, yeah shit, you would have fucked you up look, hmm oh Will.

Speaker 1: 14:24

We probably have some for some reason to have a feeling we're gonna get a lot more of these stories from will. Now that his wife is out there putting all her business out, I have a feeling we're gonna hear him open up more and more about all the fucking bitches that he's dated or has wanted a date or has slept with or has had entanglements with or whatever, and I'm all for it will go out there, tell the world everybody that you've been with fucking your wife could do it why you can't and that's the funny thing about will even like.

Speaker 2: 14:49

The stories about that are like cleaning wholesome, like right right. It didn't feel like you know. I know she was fucking with treachery and I knocked it down. No, I was a nice guy. We had a very careful.

Speaker 1: 14:59

He was a gentleman the entire night. Yeah, I want to hear him talk about some Margot Robbie, though. Tell us some stories about Margot Robbie.

Speaker 2: 15:06

I don't think he gonna talk about some of this, though, in a public eye, and that's probably married now. Well, she's married.

Speaker 1: 15:11

Yes, yeah, it's a part like it is what it is. I'm not guess who doesn't give a fuck if you're married or not. His wife, jada Jada, doesn't give a fuck who's married, she's gonna talk about her shit. She don't give a fuck if you're dead. Married divorce she don't give a fuck. You got kids? She don't care.

Speaker 2: 15:27

It brings up a good question about will. Is this things being too nice?

Speaker 1: 15:30

Yes, will is the prototypical too nice, except for the one time where he snapped. You remember that time when he went on stage and smacked the shit of a cup of a little old comedian? Yeah, that was the only time that he was not nice One time ever, 50 plus years of existence.

Speaker 2: 15:49

He's the nice guy.

Speaker 1: 15:51

That was the theme of his memoir. He was always the nice guy. It doesn't work.

Speaker 2: 15:57

It really doesn't like you could be. Girls don't like nice guys.

Speaker 1: 16:00

Historically girls prefer bad boys. That's one to the nice guys usually and historically gets stepped on.

Speaker 2: 16:07

Right, you know the nice guys ain't got time for your shit. Like, like, those nice guys that you see working those six, six for your jobs, they don't got time to be bullshitting around with you. Like I'm gonna show you a good time because that's who I am, but I ain't got time to be trying to figure shit out, or I can imagine I can just pick the wheel.

Speaker 1: 16:29

I can. I can just picture will opening the car doors for pepper, pulling out the chairs, giving money to the homeless man, saying please and thank yous and peppers like now, what the fuck is this man? I need a gangster, I need some. I need a grip or a blood. I need them all fuck it up to smack me if I get out of line like make me pay half of this bill. I need them all fucking to pull out a gun.

Speaker 2: 16:50

I think the problem is that if you run into like a Genuinely nice guy because of the way society isn't how jaded we are, you're going to think like what's wrong with them.

Speaker 1: 16:59

I need somebody to curse in the music wrong something's wrong.

Speaker 2: 17:02

So like, could you? Could you always think, if you ever meet like a genuine nice person, one of the things that always pop into your mind like you can't be this nice and some people are because you're constantly like, okay, so what's the flaw? Like we never saw will's flaw. It got revealed to his wife but we never saw. Like what is that thing like? Why are you so nice and why can't we find anything wrong with you? Pepper didn't that's thing. Pepper didn't find anything wrong with them. She thought the guy was too nice, which is, but would rather guy be too evil. Like that makes no sense to me.

Speaker 1: 17:36

Like that I can't. I can't even imagine what the comment section looked at. Like you know, other women saying like yo, you fucking stupid, I'll take will in a minute. You know I mean.

Speaker 2: 17:46

Cuz. Why would you want to be with the man where there's a very Real possibility that he might be out of your life for two to five years? Not cuz you broke up, but just because, like, went to prison, cuz it you a perfect example.

Speaker 1: 18:01

even worse, he went to prison for fucking putting hands on you, remember?

Speaker 2: 18:06

Remy Went to jail, pat held it down and apparently some shit going on. What that she might be fucking with a battle rapper, some shit like that. We covered it, we covered it yeah exactly Glee, you know.

Speaker 1: 18:17

So you're saying Papus is a nice guy.

Speaker 2: 18:19

I no, I think, I don't think he's a nice guy like I don't know remember he also punched fat Joe in the face, right. I don't think he's a nice guy. I think he's a loyal guy. I Think he puts loyalty above everything else. Like niceness is not, like you can be, you know of the truth and everything, that's still be pretty much a generally a nice person, but he, just he requires loyalty more than anything else.

Speaker 1: 18:41

So he was a good list right there. Who are the nice guys in hip-hop like? What are the top five nice guys in hip-hop? Obviously will Smith, maybe. Maybe Pat Poole's Common with common would probably be on that list right now. You see that man dating history, common. Yeah, here, hold him boy. Yeah, nah, but yeah, but you never hit nothing negative about him. He's dated every chick, every celebrity chick ever, and not one of them, not one of them has ever said a bad word about him. It's not one. He just broke up with Tiffany, had it. She said nothing but good things about him, just said that they had to go their separate ways. And now he's with Jennifer Hudson. That's you cause we're gonna Williams.

Speaker 1: 19:16

He's been with everybody. He was with Taraji, he was with Erica bad dude. He's been with every chick. Not one of them has ever said a single bad word about him.

Speaker 2: 19:24

My mom would comment like how long he gonna carry this? You know, like you, 50 Like, don't you right? Like that's when people, somebody like no, and you didn't a lot of people, a Lot of. He just can't end with that one person. Well, I wouldn't. I don't know, if I put up my top five, I will. What will in there. Like, I'm not ranking them, but he's in that time five. Hmm, easily on that list is Dougie fresh. I've never heard anyone say a bad word about Dougie. And who has he dated, though? Too? It's not a dick, just a whole idea. Just been a nice guy. I'm like it was like a nice guy. Yeah, like period, like you, just like he seems I'm just shows up.

Speaker 1: 19:59

Does it be boxing shit? Smile, and it's not like you're being wholesome like you.

Speaker 2: 20:03

Just, I've never heard anyone say a bad word about Dougie, like if you say it's like if someone was walking up to you like you know who I really hate as an actor Denzel Washington like the fuck is wrong with you. That's like someone say like you know, I really hate Dougie fresh. Like what the fuck is done.

Speaker 1: 20:18

He doesn't anybody you think there's an error, though. You think there was like that late 80s, early 90s era that was, like you know, backpack rappers, conscious rappers, you know, like the Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff. They were like the little party rappers, the kid in play Um saying I was not a bad kid and play. I'll probably put kid and play on that little.

Speaker 2: 20:37

I was some nice guys mid 80s or early 90s, kid and right for gangsta rap. Hit right, kid and play heavy. D Kwame, what's in it? Um, I got a me rapper. Oh my god, who? What song is it? I got it made. I'm special ed Mmm, but even.

Speaker 2: 21:01

But he was just on drink chance while and out, but but it was a lot of them. It was like it wasn't poppy but it wasn't. It didn't get into like we are from the streets kind of thing, yet it was all like Musical, like run. Dmz is a perfect example. Like it's hard to like the things are going on behind scenes. I want to say say they were all nice, especially like the loss of jay, master jay, and Whatever violence. That might have been soft, but like it's. It's like it's not necessarily. The nice guy is like one of things like who is it that you really can't say a bad thing about? And that at least gets real small the more and more you think about it, because the ones you can't say anything about, about a generally nice guys, most deaf is not to live because it's to live whatever. Fuck shit going down with him.

Speaker 1: 21:43

But shout out, what's I live. I seen him at the hip hop and that's, that's your man's in there.

Speaker 2: 21:47

But it differs. So so, being nice, that's the whole thing. When you think of will Smith, a For a particular generation of very small my new part they think of him as a rapper. The majority was think of as an actor, and as an actor he always Was cognizant of the things that he did, that they weren't Overly aggressively violent or they weren't overly like. He didn't really curse in much movies at all. Really think about it. Who will like? Even in movies it was like fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck. It was a few here, a few there, without it, because a couple times a bad boy, couple times in the intermediate state. But you think of will as an actor more than you think of him as a rapper because there's a reason, album and God knows how long. So the nice guy, things spread over both things because as an actor it's always like Family-friendly stuff, always like. I'm still pissed off that will turn down the role in Django. That would have been a stretch.

Speaker 1: 23:15

I don't like that. I want to see also. He also turned down the matrix, correct because, because that he had a formula.

Speaker 2: 23:22

He read a book. He saw how, what the like the top 10 gross moves of all time were what they were looking for. Like I'm gonna make those movies and that's exactly what he did. That made him a millionaire beyond belief. But he could never shake that stigma just being a nice guy.

Speaker 1: 23:39

Speaking of drink champs, I was. I tried to watch the latest episode with Kodak black on it. I couldn't do it. Man, I'm sorry, I couldn't do it. I was high as fuck. I couldn't fucking do. I tried, bro. I gave it like 20 minutes and I respect Nori for sitting there for two and a half hours with this man and Understand everything he was saying. I couldn't understand a word. His motherfucker was saying man, I'm sorry, there's nothing against the south, there's nothing against whatever. I don't know if it's the goateef, I don't know what it is. Man Like mumble, shit is real. It's not even just in the music, it's in the way they just talk. That that's like he just mumbling.

Speaker 1: 24:12

I can't understand man. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to disnobody. It's a southern draw man, it's that. That's slow, yeah, but I can't understand. Nori's asking him coherent questions and he's responding with his noises. I can't. I don't know what he's saying. The only thing I made out was when he was talking about Trump and he said he would give Trump a million dollars if he asked for it, because obviously he's thankful and grateful for Trump getting him out of jail and she give them the out of jail free card. That's the only part I could somewhat understand. The rest of the shit was I was like yo, I can't do this. I gave it 20 minutes and I had to take it off, bro, you know it's like.

Speaker 2: 24:47

It's like when you used to have a take deck and it would be like a song. Let's say I don't know what rap album, but it's like a song, like a positive cut with three, four people on it. Like you get to one part, you just fast forward, pass it like I don't want to hear that verse. Let me hear the next. Like that was cool that for like two and a half hours, like you sit there, he looked a little spaced out or whatever. He just talking in that floor to draw his and then Not saying much like high on something right.

Speaker 2: 25:14

Oh, he looks spaced out. He looked high.

Speaker 1: 25:17

I just man's, I can understand his man's. His man's was there sitting next to him and he, you know he got that Southern shit too. But you know I was, he was more way more coherent.

Speaker 2: 25:26

Yeah, but I'm not interviewing his man, I'm interviewing Kodak right, and Kodak he not on planet Earth right now. I.

Speaker 1: 25:32

Was like, oh holy shit, what the fuck is he?

Speaker 2: 25:34

talking about these kids got stopped doing. Just you know what? I don't. I don't. I don't have an issue with drugs. You know, nancy, like you should just probably stop doing like dangerous illicit drugs, like things that kill you. Like you can't die from weed, unless you got like an asthmatic problem. You just smoke too much, you just pass the fuck out.

Speaker 1: 25:51

But you ought to be popping the prescription pills and it was awkward to my classes just dangerous, because Nori would ask him a question and he would respond with like one or two word answers like yeah, yeah, and I mean yeah, I mean yeah, I got shit or that good shit and I know elaborate and nor. It ain't gonna be like a silence and then lie. Let's get to the next question and she ain't gonna elaborate on that.

Speaker 2: 26:10

Let's just keep moving on and nor does it for the culture. But sometimes you got be like Cuz. I know they had an interview in a can like I did just show that I wouldn't even put it up. Like this is just a waste of time. Like cuz, I know they've got to shoot multiple episodes of multiple people. There's a kind of because remember that when on that show they're always talking about the careers, never talking about anything topical, right. So so it could be any. They could have shot the shit two months, three months, four months ago, no one know. But like we got a guy like that that's in the can and you just play it back from. Like you know what Scrap that we're gonna, we're gonna skip this one or we're gonna put it behind a paywall like you. If you want, if y'all want to see it, y'all can pay for them, watch it. But we just don't feel comfortable Putting this boy in the air like that. He just ramble for two and a half hours. It sucked.

Speaker 1: 26:50

All right, so let's move on. Man, lauren Hill Just did a record. She broke a record. She just had a concert at the Barclay Center, hmm, and she broke the record for, like, the attendance for a female artist of some shit. It was like over a million dollars, that she made some crazy shit, mm-hmm. And it was nice for me to see that, cuz you know how I feel about Lauren and obviously she's still relevant. She could go up there and, you know, wrap a little old-ass songs from 30 years ago and still sell out a fucking stadium, mm-hmm, like that. You know I mean off, you know a basketball arena like that. Yeah, let's make a million dollars.

Speaker 1: 27:28

Well, yeah, it's an arena, not a stadium.

Speaker 2: 27:29

Yeah, she can, she can do Barclay, she can do it, she's a Barclay, but how?

Speaker 1: 27:33

many people fit at Barclays 20, 20, 25,000 probably. I mean that's not nothing to sneeze at, yeah, but it ain't 70. I Mean, no, I mean it's not the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and them shit like that.

Speaker 2: 27:44

Yeah, but that's like yeah, you're right, but that's for like rare, rare, rare artists, like pretty much what, what? The Rolling Stones, beyonce and Taylor Swift, that's it. No one else can sell out a stadium right now. I don't think, jay can sell out a stadium.

Speaker 1: 27:58

The record-setting concert took place at the Barclays centers on October 19th that was like a week over a week ago Mm-hmm. It grossed a total of 1.887 million dollars. She set the record for highest grossing concert by a female rapper, mm-hmm. I'm surprised like Nikki or somebody like that hasn't done that shit hmm, I Don't know.

Speaker 2: 28:22

I've never, I've never known anyone to have an interest in going to a Nicki Minaj tour besides her fans. Mm-hmm but with Lauren it's not, it's her fans, but it's like an eclectic fan base for people for a long time, a Long time, really like what? The message it came on? What 25 years ago? Yeah, yeah. So it's like there's people who've grown up with it and it's the only thing she's released.

Speaker 1: 28:47

I could wait a second, I'll find we will discuss the day.

Speaker 2: 28:50

I could see if she ever leaves something else. But it's just that, is really just that. So what do you do with it? I don't know, but it stands at the time. So it's one of them time this classic albums that you can have a tour and you can do shit like that because you can Just play the album, because people love it so much. But I mean, it's a, it's a great flex like, say, women hip-hop don't get that much credit and for her to sell, to make that kind of record at this point in her career, it's just an accomplishment 100%.

Speaker 1: 29:17

I'm gonna end it with the new is that racist? You let me know if this is racist or not. Sure, I'm talking about the wax museum in Paris, france, the Mousséa Grévin, that Recently unveiled a Wax statue of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Okay, some nice looking statue. I got the tattoos on point, got the nice bald head, got the facial features on point. The only problem is that they whitewashed them. They made this motherfucker look like a white man and of course, they're getting criticized and some of the comments that people are saying hey, somebody said they whitewashed the rock, somebody said Somebody called it a melanin deficient.

Speaker 1: 30:17

Hmm yo somebody said it looks like he works at H&R block. No, lord somebody said it looks like the rock ain't never seen a son of day in his life. It looks like the rock is part of the royal family and I'm gonna put a picture up on the video version of this. You should. I'll put a picture, so people can see.

Speaker 2: 30:35

Just make a screenshot, just just put it up there.

Speaker 1: 30:38

It looks like shit but the rock actually commented and he said For the record, I'm going to have my team reach out to our friends at Grévin museum in Paris, france, so we can work out updating my wax figure with some important details and improvements, starting with my skin color, and next time I'm in Paris I'll stop in and have a drink with myself. So why would the French Make a statue of the rock and make him white or make him a white man, when there's nothing white about him? He's half black. Have some mowing and apart. Canadian.

Speaker 2: 31:19

Yeah, but that's a dash reality. It's not an ethnicity.

Speaker 1: 31:22

What I get you right, so the right. But he's not white, he's not a Caucasian man, he's not from the mountains of Caucasus. So why are they making this man a white man? Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 31:33

Look, it's a wax museum. They have a tendency to fuck these things up, especially when it comes to people of color. It did the same. It wasn't the one in France, I think is the one, one of the ones in America. They did same thing, beyonce. She was a little bit too light, like this.

Speaker 1: 31:46

Is it hard? Is it hard to color the wax? You know I'm saying this the statues of shit.

Speaker 2: 31:50

I'm guessing something. Keep fucking it up, sure.

Speaker 1: 31:53

How come they don't fuck up the white motherfuckers, cuz they're already white, make them darker or some shit that you don't make them darker, they're already white, we don't got to add no more to this.

Speaker 2: 32:02

Like your whiteness is there, we don't got to do shit else it's already. It's set in stone for us. We don't have to do shit, we just got to keep doing this. But whenever comes the people of color, they can't quite get the tone right. Either it's too light or too dark. It's, it's never quite. They just can't get a skin tone right cuz it's such a very huge like even like so let's see you being Dominican, like being Dominican is an entire shade of Whatever. Like you can really swing from one into the other. Like Sammy Sosa went from dark Dominican light Dominican. Now that's some skin bleaching shit. Right, and I was it now decision all of his own, choosing, and I get that.

Speaker 2: 32:45

But it's really hard to get down the texture in the color of someone's skin Right, like say they want to do the white people because you don't need to add more. Like it's pretty much like it's. It's white With a hue of pink and just kind of shaded from there. But with people of color it really kind of comes and goes. You can't put your finger on it, but it's it's a lot. So like my tone is gonna be different from my brother, is gonna be different. Like you can all tell you the black, but you're also like this, all slightly different shades and with a rock, literally like he's Samoan 90% of the time, he's black, 10%, canadian point, zero, zero, zero, one percent. Like he only claimed Canada because it's dad. But again, that's a nationality, it's not a not like an ethnic category. But If you have other Samoan people, which I'm pretty sure they probably have this somewhere, then you probably have a good idea of it. Like see, you got pictures upon pictures upon pictures of them. It shouldn't be this hard.

Speaker 1: 33:43

So is it racist? But at the bare minimum, Samoans are brown. I've never seen a white Samoan.

Speaker 2: 33:48

No, yeah, they are brown but again it's this shading of it, mm-hmm, like there is, like they could be light skin. Right, it's a lighter, it's kind of fuck up here, but it's almost like coffee. There's, there's a touch of cream, then there's a lot of cream, but still some shade of brown, depending how much you put there. But that's the thing. If you're doing a wax figure you can do. You know, once is, I think, like once you add it, you can't take it back. So if he came right here looking like his dad, like hold on, now he ain't that dark, but then it comes out looking too light, like Fuck, you got Bob and accounting, it gets strange. Hmm, but is it racist? No, they just they, it's. It's them. Now understand how these hues work, that people of color, it's, it's a broad spectrum, it we literally come in all shapes and colors, literally Everywhere. So to get it just right, I don't fault them, but that means well, whatever this is gonna cause on time for a Do-over, because you're gonna do better.

Speaker 1: 34:47

They actually. There was another wax museum here in the States and fucking Tennessee, the Hollywood wax museum in Tennessee. They fucked up Lil Wayne recently. They made his ass look like Steph Curry mixed with Bob Marley. Did you see this shit?

Speaker 2: 35:01

Yeah, it looked terrible. I told what part of they're not good at this, don't?

Speaker 1: 35:04

you understand, wayne tweeted out. He says sorry, wax museum, but that shit ain't me. You tried, though, and I appreciate that, for it's not, it's, it's hard, it's hard but yeah, but it's apparently is only hard when they're doing black motherfuckers right, cuz they can't get the color right.

Speaker 2: 35:20

Like I said, white white people are basically white with a different hues of Pink and red.

Speaker 1: 35:25

That's it. Like fucking Steph Curry.

Speaker 2: 35:27

That's funny as hell with Bob Marley dress looks terrible. But I say they constitute because they said they can't never get it right and the whole thing is like if I'm doing a wax sculpture of you and you know that I don't know if they know that they're gonna do it or not, but like, can y'all get in contact somebody? So I'm gonna take it like a look like yeah, I need to make that a little bit darker. My nose not that big, my hands are bigger, like shit like that. This happens all the time. So it ain't racist, it's just People not understanding the way that color is not just black. Black is a race. Colors a whole different thing.

Speaker 1: 36:01

Yo, but that's it, man. It's gonna be our show for today. Man, check out the culture that one. Check out our fucking YouTube. Yo, at the culture 2020, we'll see some shit. We got some. You know, we're gonna put up some more reaction videos up there and some other shit and, of course, these videos, these podcast episodes, yo, but I'm out of here. La cultura Peace.