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Mal
Oh, my God.
Rory
We know how to take a blackout. We know how to. I don't know. Amongst other things, Rudy Giuliani, all of our mayors, Cuomo. We continue to rise above, so we will be okay. I want to make sure. I saw. I see everyone is feeling a little depressed today, but this is nothing to a New Yorker. Nothing. If we. If we were the New Hampshire Knicks. Yeah, this would defeat us. This ain't nothing. This ain't nothing. Snoop came in and kicked the whole fucking tower over, and we was cool. We was like, yo, we got two more if you want them.
Damaris
Yeah, I guess. I mean, you know, I mean, just Tibbs just stood there and watched the whole thing happen. Like, that's. That's the problem I have with all of this. But whatever, man. That is what it is. New York is just. It's raining, it's cold today. The coffee is stale, the donuts are old. I mean, nobody is. You know, nobody's even honking their horns. They don't care if you cut them off. New York is just in a different mood today, Mo.
Rory
This is what. This is how they want us to feel. You don't understand. You're letting them win right now. You're letting Halliburton and the oil companies win.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
No, but Halliburton, how they want us to feel. They're happy that we feel down. We have to get up and positive smile like, nah. What would Jalen Brunson do? What would our leader. What would our father say? He doesn't want us feeling this way. If Brunson doesn't feel this way, I don't feel this way. Who wants game one? Game one is like, that's for weird. That's weird shit.
Damaris
Brunson feels terrible today, dog.
Rory
Nobody even fucks with game one like that. Yo, man, who wants to be the first to party?
Damaris
And then to make matters worse, they said Halliburton went to Pergola and bought lamb chops for a party.
Mal
You fucking lying.
Damaris
82 orders of lamb chops. What type of fucking. What type of terrorist orders? 82 orders of lamb Chops.
Mal
And y' all let him walk away untouched.
Rory
Streets done.
Mal
Streets is done.
Damaris
There's lamb chops for everybody.
Mal
He should never be safe in New York.
Damaris
Oh, man. Listen, man, that was a tough game last night, but it's only one game. That's the. That's the good thing. The game's over. It's only one game. Hopefully the Knicks able to bounce back.
Rory
Let's get our energy up. We don't. We can't let the Pacers see us down.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
All right.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
It's like after 9 11, when my dad used to scream in TSA lines, the terrorists are winning.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Or we'd be going into, like, Giant Stadium, and, you know, security went crazy, and my dad would just be drunk, screaming, the terrorists are winning. Like, not that we have to have security. Like, this is. This is okay.
Damaris
The terrorists.
Rory
And, you know, he thought, like, he ate that. Like, he thought he was really making a political statement. It's like. Nah, you know what? Maybe we should take our shoes off. Dad.
Damaris
It's all right, man. We'll be all right. But anyway, we are back. Episode sponsored by Boost Mobile. Rory, you know nothing about Boost Mobile. He wasn't outside with the. He wasn't even there for that.
Rory
I definitely was.
Damaris
Were you?
Rory
Of course.
Damaris
Okay.
Rory
I appreciate how young you think I am. No, actually, thank you. But, yes, I was around for Boost Mobile.
Damaris
I keep thinking you're closer to 30 than 35. That's what it is.
Rory
I'm actually right on the nose of 35.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
I couldn't get closer to it, actually.
Damaris
That's why. But I keep thinking you're, like, 31. That's. That's the problem.
Rory
It's because of, you know, the lighting doesn't do me any justice, but my skincare routine, my youthful spirit.
Damaris
Yes.
Rory
I don't have a youthful spirit. I have such an angry old soul. Nothing about me is youthful.
Damaris
Yeah. Not at all. And you have your.
Rory
Just how I tackle the day with. With so much angst.
Damaris
Your Duck Dynasty couture is back.
Rory
Yeah.
Damaris
I love when you. I love when you wear a Duck Dynasty.
Rory
Well, I've never worn the short sleeve. I've only given y' all. I've given y' all the mesh long sleeve, the regular long sleeve. But I've never given y' all the. The short sleeve. This is. Listen, man, this is just to show the Pacers this war.
Damaris
Yeah. No, no, no, I love it.
Rory
You know, slow. I walk today. I'm never pacing again.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
You will never see me pacing this off fast walks.
Damaris
We're not fast walks ever. We need fast walks. Listen, man, oh, man, we're down, but we're not out. Peach. As soon as Josh text the group last night, it said, go Nicks. Naismith hasn't. He hasn't missed the three since Josh said, go, Nicks. We got to kill. I think we got to sacrifice Josh.
Rory
We can take a loss, but also at the same time, can we look into magnets? I don't think that. I've never seen a basketball drop like that. Can we look into the theory of magnets in the rim and in the ball?
Damaris
Yeah, we might have to.
Rory
Somebody. Can we get like, physics TikTok on the line right now to break that down? There's no way that ball was supposed to fall that way.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Magnets.
Damaris
Magnets.
Rory
And then two air balls from Jalen right to Cat. And Cat was kind of like open open.
Damaris
No magnets.
Rory
I got to see a different angle. No, there was a magnet on the floor to the two air balls in the bait.
Damaris
They had to magnet. Oh, yo, man.
Rory
I was with Damaris and Beatrice watching the game at the crib. I was like, joking in the last two minutes, even when the Pacer started to hit a few shots, I was like, let him have it, man. This is an easy win. Yeah, Like, I start, like, stopped, like, even paying attention. I started making beats on Amara's mpc.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Like I was having fun. And then I looked up 125 to 125. His foot was on the line. Thank God. We'll be fine.
Damaris
Oh, my God. Listen, the only thing that saved New York from a mass suicide is the fact that Halliburton doesn't wear a size 10, dog. Cause if he wore a size 10 and that was a three, and they didn't go to overtime. That heartbreak, I mean, it was. It's heartbreak anyway. But at least. At least the Knicks had a chance in overtime to. To win it. If they would have lost on a walk off. Step back.
Rory
Three was that game was on ESPN last night or tnt. All right, can we look into. This is the only time I'm supporting doxing somebody's address. Whoever is the producer at tmt. Tnt. That then cut to Reggie Miller's face after the Pacers won. Let's find the address, but let's put that on the Internet.
Mal
Are you mad at them being good at their job?
Damaris
They had to do that. Reggie's calling the games. We know his history in that building.
Rory
No, but the timing of when they cut. Yeah, I ain't like that they had to do that.
Damaris
That's. That's part of it, man. We just was on the losing side of it last night.
Rory
But I didn't even like Halliburton's choked Reggie Miller thing that he did. Like, pause. Like, at least Reggie, like, added some heterosexual ness to it. You just looking, like, wild, Ao.
Damaris
Spoken like a Republican. I like that. Yeah.
Rory
What you doing over there? The dick out of your mouth? Halliburton.
Damaris
Damn.
Rory
Sorry. I was really hurting.
Mal
Rory was so mad last night that he said, don't get home safe.
Damaris
Yeah. No, I like that energy right there sometimes.
Rory
She was like. She was laughing, like she was sweet.
Mal
I just said, all right, little bro. I' ma holler at you. Have a better day. He said, don't get home safe.
Damaris
Yo, listen, I was watching a game with my homeboy. He used to play in the league. And we smoking on the couch, watching the game, and he falls asleep, like, a deep sleep at the half. And I'm like. I'm looking at him like, this is a good game. Like, how you fall asleep. Game one, Knicks in the conference finals. First time in 26 years. So I'm like, yo, like, third quarter started. Hila wakes up, looks at the score. End of the third, top of the fourth, he wakes up, look, halfway through the fourth, he goes, they're gonna walk him down.
Rory
Waking up out of a slumber, like, they're being walked.
Damaris
He just woke up and looked. He was like, they gonna walk him down, man. So I'm looking. I'm like, yo, man, he's like. He was like, all right. He went back to sleep. He woke up with four minutes left. He looked. He said, yo, as soon as Nate Smith hit five, three, I thought he was sleep. I turned and looked at him. He was up the whole time. He was like, I told you. I was like, though, there's no way they walking them down like this, yo.
Rory
And even, like, I was still confident when it was kind of close. I was even explaining to Damaris and Berus, like, the history of Reggie Miller getting nine points in, like, three seconds. And I was like, but that's like a once in a gener. Like, that'll never happen again.
Damaris
Yeah, no, that never, never will happen. That guy is retired. He's actually calling the game now. The only guy, like, we could do something like that.
Rory
That's when it was, like, generational. Maybe in, like, 200 years that'll happen again.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Walk down.
Damaris
Yeah. No, I'm going to be honest with y' all, all jokes aside, that may be the worst loss I've ever watched in Knicks history.
Rory
I was legitimately speechless.
Damaris
The Reggie Miller one was, was, was tough because it was what, 7 seconds, 9 seconds? However many seconds. But the fact that I think that those shots that the Pacers made last night were tougher shots for N. Smith to hit five threes in a row, I'm just like one three. He shot from damn near the logo. I, I, I just can't, I still can't believe that game. And then the, the Halberton shot that bounced, that was like the kawhi Toronto Raptors, 6.
Rory
Yo, that shit might have been worse.
Damaris
Yeah, that would, that game was. But, you know, as a, as a.
Rory
That was so high, I thought it was going over the backboard.
Damaris
Yeah, but he seems like that, though. Halliburton has a high arcing shot.
Rory
I know. I'm saying when it hit the rim, I thought that was going over the backboard.
Damaris
Yeah, no, I, I knew it was still right there. It was a great game. It was a tough, tough loss. Heartbreaking loss for the Knicks, but overall, great game. But I do believe that it's just one game. We gotta wait and see game two, see what the, the Knicks, if their spirit is broken or not. I think game two is gonna tell us exactly where the Knicks are. But a loss like that can be a series break in loss, but I hope not. I think the Knicks are equipped with the right pieces this year to come back from a loss like that. I think they'll make some adjustments, but again, it's going to be tougher than it was because now Indiana has all the confidence in the world.
Rory
All I'm saying is jet fuel cannot melt steel beams. A missile hit the Pentagon. There was no evidence of a plane in Pennsylvania. And Halliburton was once ran by Dick Cheney and then was involved with every bit of oil and defense contract after 9. 11. That's all I'm suggesting. Yeah, and Bin Laden was a CIA agent.
Damaris
And, and Tyrese bought 82 orders of lamb chops at Pagola after the game. Lamb chops for everybody in, man.
Mal
Like, is that confirmed?
Rory
Like, I gotta talk to security. Like, y' all just let them in like that?
Damaris
What? They wouldn't.
Rory
Nobody said you got some pride.
Damaris
If somebody says how many lamb chops they got back there? They say 90. He says, Give me 84. You're not gonna let him.
Rory
No, I sent him to Josh Hardhouse. Yo, your family ate today. How you feeling? I know it was a rough loss. Let's get. Let's get some food in your stomach.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
And regroup.
Damaris
All right, but it's all good, though. Game two, man. Look forward to game two. We back in it.
Rory
Go New York with game Tuesday.
Damaris
Come on. Go, New York.
Rory
And here's my thing. You know, of course, it was Nixon in four at one point, but I was thinking about it, like, the amount of Nixon for. I was thinking about the amount of income that brings into the city. The more games that happen. Like, I think it's just better for the city if it does go seven. It's just bringing in more, you know, more money for us as a city where we can fix potholes and such.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
So I get it. That's why we blowing game one for the city.
Damaris
Okay.
Rory
The tax, you know, payers put some money back. A lot of money goes into the city for each playoff game.
Damaris
Got it.
Rory
I get it.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Yeah. Let's. Let's drag this out fat in our pockets a little bit.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
And. And at Pergola, they paid New York State and New York City tax for those lamb shops. They doubled up.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Most places don't do that. Yeah.
Damaris
That's a fact. Yeah.
Rory
You pay tax and tariff. Yeah. No fly. You got to pay to come here. Rory.
Mal
Let it go, babe.
Rory
Never, never, never.
Damaris
I'm holding on to this loss for the rest of my life.
Rory
No. The Pacers have been ruining our lives for quite some time.
Damaris
Yeah, man. Only the Knicks and Pacers could have a game like that. Only the Knicks and Pacers can have a playoff game.
Rory
And I don't even like, like, Yankees, Red Sox, rivalry. Like, cool. New York, Boston, get it forever. I don't even like having Indiana as an op. Like, it's not even like. Like, if it was like, Knicks, Lakers, I'd be like, yeah, that's. That's an amazing rivalry. Respect. Like, ugh, look at. Look at our OP for this long fucking Indianapolis, Indiana.
Damaris
But look at how the universe works. The reason that this is a thing and this is a rivalry was because of the guy that was calling the game last night. Like, Reggie Miller's sitting there. Like, you can't write that. Like, that type of moment, that type of game to happen. Like that first time the Knicks get to that, to the conference finals in 26 years. And the guy that broke the heart of New Yorkers for years, that played for the Pacers and is courtside calling the game. Like, this is like, this is movie. This doesn't. This does not happen. Like, you have to, no matter what side you on. You have to enjoy just the whole. The whole plot of this whole thing. You have to enjoy it.
Rory
Listen, thank the Lord for Joey Badass. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know if I would have made it into work today.
Damaris
Yeah, it's just. It's a lot, but we.
Rory
At least the universe can balance itself out. But, yeah, I mean, that's just how. How the world works and how the universe works. Yin and yang. Joey Badass cleaned up the entire world, so the universe had to come back to us and humble us and balance everything out. It's cool.
Damaris
I was chilling. What was that? Tuesday. And Josh text me, hey, whenever Josh.
Rory
That was the tone of.
Damaris
Yeah, whenever Josh italics. He said, hey, are you jumping on the Twitter Spaces tonight? And I had forgot that we had talked about doing the Twitter Spaces, just kind of talking about the whole Joey, Joey Halliburton, Joey Badass diss between. I mean, it's just. He's kicking everybody's ass. But we had a Twitter Spaces shout out to everybody that joined the spaces and spoke. Shout out to Mickey Fax. Lloyd Banks was in the spaces. Reason, shout out to Gina Views. Who else am I missing? It was other people, because I got there kind of like, I got there like, 45 minutes after y' all started.
Rory
Yeah, I think you named. I mean, there was a bunch of people in there. It was. It was a great time.
Mal
Over 12, 000 people joined. So thank you to everybody. Joined.
Rory
Yeah, for sure. And again, apologies for my outburst. I'm resetting. I'm good now. All right. Twitter Spaces was amazing. I had a great time. It's always fun to talk about in. In real time with all, like, listeners and fans and everything. Like, it's fun on the podcast, but in real time, talking to the timeline, I find it extremely great to just talk with them. And we jumped the West Coast. We jumped Reason, and I felt like it was karma. West coast tried to jump Joey Badass. So Reason had to get jumped in Twitter Spaces. Then he tried to run and get Gina, but Gina's service didn't work. So Reason was sitting there getting his ass whooped, screaming for Gina. And she's just. She has one bar. Yeah, he can't even find the WI fi.
Mal
He kept saying, like, put Gene on stage, yo. Now she up there. She ain't talking. That ain't on me.
Rory
All right, let's. All right, we can tie this in with some of the recap. Reason was trying to suggest that everyone won in this and Even Gina, who is very direct in how she feels, especially after the victory lap that the west coast had. And there is no middle ground. Gray area. It's either somebody won or lost. Said the fans won. The west coast looked way different than it did in 2024. Now there's a gray area for everything. Now the fans won.
Mal
I agree with them, though, but.
Damaris
No, you don't.
Mal
But I. No, I agreed on the spaces. I agree. When Gina was saying that Rayvon does not walk away with the L on this. He walks away with a W. I agree with them when they said that.
Damaris
He walks away with a W because he's getting interviews.
Mal
No, it's not. He lost the battle and that's what we were trying to get across to you.
Damaris
What did he win?
Mal
He lost a battle. He won a whole bunch of publicity and attention that he didn't have before.
Damaris
What's wrong with that clout chasing shit?
Mal
I don't care when you're a. But you bring up all the time that when you're a rapper, you need that, like, for your career. More people are now listening to Rayvon, which is well deserved because he is very talented. More people are now listening to him than ever before.
Damaris
Yeah, but don't mention that in a battle. We know you're right and Gina's right in saying that. But don't mention that in a battle. Don't tell me that he's getting interviews and his streams is going up. And don't tell me that during a battle. We know that. We know that's gonna happen.
Mal
It wasn't during the battle. The battle was over. He lost. That's the general conclusion.
Damaris
As a result of the battle, he's getting interviews, his streams are going up, and I'm cool. Great. I'm not. You know, I don't. Regardless of what Rayvon thinks about me, like, I'm not mad at his. Like, I wanna see him be successful. He's another black.
Rory
Doesn't affect your life.
Damaris
Yeah. At all. Either way, he's another black dude. Like, I support that.
Mal
I'm sorry. He's another black dude.
Damaris
As funny as. Yeah, like, I got. I support my black. I support my black people. Like, I support him. I don't. I may not like him, but I support him.
Rory
Right.
Mal
Okay.
Rory
I don't think you dislike him. I don't think you have any feelings.
Damaris
Yeah, I don't have any feelings about Rayvon. I could care less. But what I'm saying is, don't tell me during a battle or after battle, it's okay. It's okay. That's just.
Mal
Today is just not his day.
Damaris
That's just. See, don't let it. Don't let it take you there. Don't let it take you to that space.
Rory
I always felt that Reggie's sister was way better than he was.
Damaris
Cheryl is the way better.
Rory
I just want to put that out there. No.
Damaris
The greatest Miller of all. But yes, Rayvon. Stream numbers go up. Things like that. We know that. But to mention that during a battle, when we're. And when we're talking about Joey Badass winning and defeating everybody that stood in front of him or threw shots at him, it's like, don't do that right here. Don't tell me what the numbers are. Don't tell me what the streams are right now. Don't. I don't care about that. I'm talking about the records and the bars that were put forth in a battle. That's all I'm talking about. Don't tell me that you. Nah. But you know, he getting three interviews tomorrow and he going in the stream. I don't.
Mal
But they also said that it's closer than the New Yorkers are making it. No, it's like he didn't get his ass.
Damaris
It's worse. It's worse. It's worse than the LA LA aliens are making it appear to be.
Rory
And that's where I know. Like, I'm so sick of people saying New York bias because that is not the case here. The west coast bias was showing so much because we respected Rayvon.
Mal
A little crazy. Yeah.
Rory
First. First diss. I thought it was great. I thought it was really close. After Joey did the finals, I still felt like Joey edged him out in that first round. But then when you get to the town, my town, and then the follow up is the Golden Eye record and the west coast is trying to tell me it's still close.
Mal
The west coast was saying the Golden Eye record was like. They were like, oh, yo, that's the one. I'm like.
Rory
It's saying. No, it's not saying he's gay in 20 different ways. Over a bad flip of the back down beat is not close in the battle. It's just not. After Joey and loaded Lux clean everybody up.
Damaris
Yeah. No, it's not close.
Rory
Even Daylight's AO shit that came out after. Which was way better than his first one. Probably my favorite one that light put out. It may be in the top three of this battle. Still didn't hit. It was over after My Town came out. I don't care what you put out after. Put out a whole mixtape. It's done.
Damaris
Listen, it's over. I don't care to hear any more records about this or coming out of this. It's just one of those things that was a moment. It was cool. All of the rappers, all of the emcees put their best work forward. Let the people decide. It's decided. It's not closed. Joey cleaned everybody up. Everybody go back to their respective corners. Work on your music, Put out your music. Do whatever it is you was doing before. But I don't want to talk about this battle no more. It's not even a battle I liked.
Rory
I did kind of sigh when I saw that daylight put out another record either this morning or last night. The end credits joint. But I actually thought it was a cool way to end the entire battle. He just recapped everything that happened. Like, I thought that was cool to really end everything. Cuz even I was starting to get drained as somebody that was trying to instigate every rapper to get in to this battle. I started to get exhausted. I was like, all right, man. I can't. I can't listen to another one. This is. This has gone way too far. And even to. I'm happy that Rayon definitely stopped and I saw that he posted like a live performance. I'm with Gina in reason on. Okay, it's kind of a win for him, for the eyes. But if he doesn't do anything with the eyes, because I feel like attention these days is cheap, they just move on to the next thing. So, yeah, he could have 500, 000 impressions, but they're just gonna move on to the next thing. He doesn't capitalize. So I can't say. I can say for sure Rayvon lost this battle. But on the other side, I can't say it was a win for him unless he capitalizes off the eyes that are on him.
Damaris
Because it's not a win for him even if you do that. He lost the battle, period. That's it.
Rory
But we're talking about the separate part. Who takes away from. But he has to capitalize. All those eyes that were looking at him now need to continue with or at least, you know, a percentage of them need to move on with Rayvon, with his career and keep following him. Then I'd be like, all right, cool. That was a way to get more fans and more attention on you. But if you just do a battle and then everyone moves on to the next thing. You took two L's in my Opinion. You didn't even use the marketing that was set up for you by Top. If you don't capitalize off that, that's two L's to me. Yeah, I hope that doesn't happen because like Damaris, I think he's talented and deserves eyes on him. I hope he uses it to, you know, better his career because he is a good rapper. But if he doesn't, that's two Ls.
Damaris
Yeah, but just stop saying it's a W for him. If he puts. If he capitalizes, it's not. You're always capitalizing as an artist. Put out good music. Capitalize off the moment, capitalize off the opportunity to release music. But the battle is the battle. All of y' all lost. Joey cleaned everybody up. I hope everybody comes out of this and does everything that they want to do in music. I hope everybody's successful. But I ain't gonna be like, yo, nah. But he ain't. He ain't really lose the battle, cuz, you know, he. He put out a classic joint after the. Nah, he lost.
Rory
He lost. Which is fine.
Damaris
Yeah, no, it's. Of course it's fine. You win or you lose. They lost.
Rory
Cuz even if, like Damaris, back to your point that you were saying to Mall of all right, if his streams go up, more attention goes up, then that's a win. That's kind of like saying, okay, Drake didn't lose because he was still the most streamed artist at the end of the year. It's like, nah, he. He's still took an L by the court of public opinion.
Damaris
I was. I didn't want to bring that up, but I was looking at you, waiting for you to be like, but you.
Rory
You being by the court of public opinion, Drake took an L, but at the end of the year, he was the highest streamed artist of the year. And no one went, oh, never mind. Drake didn't take enough. But that's so.
Mal
That's completely different because that's completely, completely different because Drake had. And we said this before the battle, Drake had nowhere to go. Butt down. There was nothing he could have gained from this battle other than when we mentioned during the DJ Head interview the. He could completely kill that boogeyman. Like, I'm the real boogeyman. That was the only thing that he had to gain from this.
Rory
If he beat Kendrick, I had said he. He would be in the absolute conversation of one of the greatest rappers of all. Like, if he clean. If he cleaned up, like, yeah, that would have been like.
Mal
But that was the only Drake is.
Rory
Already here, but now he's got.
Mal
That was the only accolade he had to gain. Right? Which is a big accolade. But he's already at the top with Rayvon. Rayvon had nowhere to go but up. So that's why I think that that's streaming numbers.
Rory
You can't say someone didn't take an L just because they got more streaming.
Mal
Nobody said that he didn't take a L, okay. Nobody. Yeah, nobody.
Rory
Well, I mean, literally the entire west coast thinks that shit was better than Ether and Takeover. He's stupid.
Mal
Yep.
Rory
Yeah, I. I can really appreciate as New York crab in the barrel, like, we don't stick together shit. I do admire how much the west coast will defend blindly knowing they sound insane and still be like, nah, Ray cleaned everybody up. So what? I can appreciate that type of support.
Mal
I don't think that it's blindly. I do think that we have different opinions on what music sounds better because we do have different sounds. So I do think that they truly believe that it was closer than it was because they might value Raise Swag more than they value Joey Badass.
Rory
What was the name of the Daylight record that he had? The chopped cheese as the artwork. That Daylight even took off his own YouTube page. I need all the.
Mal
All the.
Rory
I want to lend some west coast ears so they can tell me if that sounds good. I'm cool with having different ears if that. If that sounds good to y' all.
Damaris
Listen n. That wasn't.
Mal
I didn't even really see them standing up for Daylight. I saw them really standing up for Ray.
Rory
Well, that's. And. And that's actually what I want to talk about. I'm glad you brought that up. The only person I felt actually had something to lose in this battle for real, was Daylight. Because us even came in here, we were shaking for Joey because he has rightfully so. He's proven the status of being an alien. He's one of those. We. We revered Daylight's pen probably more than most rappers, period.
Damaris
Well, because he's a battle rapper, and.
Rory
The expectations were so high for him. How he delivered was so underwhelming. I felt like that was kind of the only real L that somebody could have taken in this because, like the mayor said, the only place you can go is up. Joey's still gonna be. Joey's still gonna act, no matter what. Daylight's brand, I think, was the only one that was kind of like, damn, that was underwhelming. We had no expectations for Ray.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Even With Joey Badass, we're like, we know Joey could rap. He's great emcee, but we. He's not super battle tested. We didn't even have the highest, highest expectations for. For Joey Daylight, though. Yeah, he's the only one I think really took like a brand loss. Like, damn, I'm never gonna forget this part about Daylight. But I only had nothing but amazing things with Daylight. And like, everyone should be terrified of Daylight. When Daylight shows up, everyone should leave the park. He's that good of a rapper. Now I'm. I still think that about Daylight, but this was like.
Damaris
I think what we learned in it is you can be a battle rapper, but when it comes time to battle rap on records with music, you know, having flows and things like that, it's a different ball game. I think that Daylight is just the cerebral thing works on a battle rap stage. Cause you get to kind of be performative and you get the, you know, the theatrics of battle rap. So that whole cerebral angle is. It lands better on stage. The cerebral, you know, I am a God. All of that on wax in a battle is not, I think battle rap, you have to be a little more cool. I think you have to be a little cooler in battle rap. I think you have to be a little more charismatic. I think you gotta be a little more witty.
Rory
You're still putting on a performance for real. It's a performance.
Damaris
But you can't be like. Daylight's thing is too. It's too much of his own world that he creates in his music on wax. It doesn't land the same as on stage. I can kind of perform and create this whole thing where I'm bringing you into my world with the music on a diss record. It's just. It doesn't land the same. And that was the disappointing part for me. Listening to Light, I was like, it's not landing the same. If I take the music away and put Light on stage with Joey Badass and let Light perform this, then it might look a little. And look and feel a little differently. But on just listening to the music, it didn't land. Again, his battle rap career, I think, takes a hit now because all the battle rappers have incredible ammunition now to kind of like go at Light if they battle. Now, I still think Light is a dangerous opponent for anybody, of course, because he's obviously talented. But I do think that coming out of this moment now, other battle rappers have ammunition, which is why it was so clever for Joey Badass to put Lux on The record. Yeah, to kind of like, you know, allude to that.
Rory
Like Luxx floated on that shit.
Damaris
You understand? Like Luxx can on music. But you see, because Luxx is a little more charismatic. He's a little cool in the things that he's saying and how he frames and things like that. It's not as Lux can get into that cerebral zone too, but I think he knows how to turn it off a little bit when it's like on in the music.
Rory
I mean, Lux even knows how to dumb it down at the right times. Because we know Lux can leave Earth the way Daylight. They're actually very similar in that way of leaving Earth. But Lux some is. I mean, his most famous round ever was Dumbed Down. He repeated that. He made a hook out of that. She repeated the same thing 15 times. That's one of his best shits ever. Because he knows when to dumb it down. And we were talking on Twitter. Twitter spaces. The hip hop purists are gonna just have to face the reality that in the history of battling the simple wins. Yeah, it's not who's the best rapper. You have to simp. The most famous battle lines that we all go back to are very, very simple. Even from the most lyrical rappers like Beans and Kiss, Dumb down their own. And that's one of my favorite battles ever. Even Hoven Nas, they were. They weren't going lyrical miracle. 10,000 different metaphors and we were like, oh, he's the winner because he had more metaphors here. Now you got to dumb that shit down. What's going to hit, what's going to land, what punch is going to matter?
Damaris
I mean, I think that's your girl.
Rory
Is that your tour? Your girl's toy? Like, that was a finisher. And then Meat got came back and barred it the fuck up. And it was like, nah, I'm cool.
Damaris
I think that was nothing that, like.
Rory
That we can repeat.
Damaris
I think a lot of that relates to the Drake Kendrick thing. I think not like Us is a dumbed down, but just diss record. Like, it's nothing to think about. You get it as soon as you hear it. It's a hook. It's, you know, I mean, like, so.
Rory
I think, but so the bridge is over.
Damaris
Right? Right.
Rory
Is that KRS's most lyrical performance?
Damaris
No.
Rory
Purposely?
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
He made a fucking hit. And that was the bar. The bridge is over. Sorry. Queensbridge, right. Fucking buried a whole borough for 10 years because he just said the bridge is over. That's where I think. Because, you know, I'm the on the side of the nerds. But I don't want to go through every single daylight metaphor when I can just listen to my town and clearly see who's winning right now.
Damaris
Right?
Rory
Beats do matter.
Damaris
Yeah, like, music matters in the battle.
Rory
Like, what are we talking about? Because someone even said that on Spaces. She was, of course, from the west coast, was bringing up daylight bars and like, oh, Joey just picked a better beat. Okay, why is that not a stat?
Damaris
Right?
Rory
It's a music battle. Yeah, like, music's now not important. Yeah, they're musicians, so, I mean, it is what it is. But I saw you getting some of your get back. Yo, where's. Where's my Boost mobile phone? Let's get punch on the line. Boost. Can we get punch number cold?
Damaris
Punch, man. Punch respond. I tweeted, I said, where punch at? Just being funny. I wanted to kind of just, you know, poke some fun at Punch and those guys over there. And Punch responder said, getting ready for these three sold out shows at SoFi, I'm like, all right, see now that's not.
Rory
Nah, nah.
Damaris
But you don't.
Rory
Now it's accolades, right?
Damaris
Yeah, now it's accolades.
Rory
Like, what? You can't.
Damaris
All right, man. And now I can't. How do I respond to that? All right, hit me when y' all done. That's like, what am I supposed to say to that?
Rory
That's like when someone's getting cooked and they. Their only response is, all right, but do I get right?
Damaris
It's like.
Rory
It's like, come on, have that same energy you had before when y' all was winning. I have to see you're losing swag too.
Damaris
Yeah, don't tell me about these three sold out shows. That's so far. Where you at? Yeah, come get your mans in them out the park, man. They getting punched on.
Rory
That's. That's like in the rap battle when someone getting barred up and it's like, all right, well, let's. Let's exchange net worth. Nah, that's not what we talking about right now. We're not talking about that right now.
Damaris
It has nothing to do with nothing, man.
Mal
Can I ask you guys what your favorite part of this battle was? Because I know my mind is the.
Damaris
Fact that it's over.
Mal
It wasn't. This wasn't enjoyable for you. We. We just came out. We're off the heels of the most annoying and treacherous battle that originally we look forward to. We were asking for. We got it, and we all wish that we never got it. And Now I feel like no one asked for this, but I feel that I'm very happy that we got this. I feel like it was kept very, like, respectful. Everybody did their best, and it. There was some winners and some losers that came out. I'm so happy to have discovered Kai Cash.
Rory
Kai Cash is fire.
Mal
He dissed our friend, and he has one of my favorite disses of the entire battle.
Damaris
He dissed our friend. Was our friend.
Rory
He clean reason up.
Mal
He clean reason.
Damaris
Not bad.
Rory
Oh, he was in our group chat, like, it went from jokes to, like, me and Damaris being, like. Not for, like. You really gotta, like, reply, though. And I'm here. We with you, but, like, I'm here. That was a really good, like. God kind of smoked you, man.
Damaris
I'm here to start Shit. Hey, Davies.
Rory
Oh, yeah.
Damaris
Oh, Reza said he wants smoke. Yo, Dave, I don't know where you at. I don't know what you doing. Reason said he wants smoke, fam.
Mal
In the studio and on the court. He said he could smoke you in basketball, too.
Damaris
I'm just saying, Dave, I don't know where you at. I don't know if you on the east side or the west side. My, but Reason talking like he wants smoke in your free time, Dave, you know, whenever you're just not busy and booked, I mean, I think you should just.
Rory
I'm gonna text. I'm texting Dave right now. I'll see if we can get him on the phone.
Damaris
Yeah, just. Just.
Rory
Cause he. Listen, man.
Damaris
Cause reason was talking greasy.
Mal
He was.
Damaris
He was talking greasy. He even called out, banks. I said, what? That's when I had to be like, all right, slow, everybody, wherever you are in the world, just slow down and stop.
Rory
No, no, no, hold on.
Damaris
We not gonna just start calling out.
Rory
Really tell it, though.
Damaris
We not gonna call out Banks, of all people, Reason as he should, had.
Rory
A lot of bass in his voice. Every rapper should feel that way, talk that way. Once we got to Banks, his tone did change. He was like, I mean, we could do. We could do. We could do whatever.
Damaris
We could do whatever.
Rory
It's funny. No, you didn't just sound like that.
Damaris
It ain't. We could do whatever. Do you want a battle?
Rory
If that's what Banks wants to do.
Damaris
You want smoke with Lloyd Banks? Cuz I don't think you do. But as a. As a rapper and as an mc, you have to do what reason did and accept all willing challenges. You have to. You can't back down and shy away from nobody. I respect that, but I Know when we was on that Spaces talking and Reason, when Banks name came up, I know Reason's toes curled up in his boots. Cause this is Banks. This is Banks we talking about, man. Like this. This ain't nobody to even play with like that. Like, we not. It's certain names when it comes to battle rapping that you should just kind of leave alone.
Rory
And. And Reason is like a real hip hop fan for real and pays attention to everything. I know he just listened to AO N3. Banks just put out. Banks is rapping better than he's ever rapped in his life. And that's crazy to say that Banks is still getting better. I. No. Reason was sitting there like, well, shit. I mean, I. I can't say no, but I do.
Damaris
You can't.
Rory
And then, then we took it too far and say, I mean, if Ransom was from New York with this little different story here. He said, nah, man, I just had him on my, my project. Like, I don't stop.
Damaris
Don't tell us. Don't tell us about what you just had him on.
Rory
He's still. If I'm Kai, I might put another reason diss out. Like he was you reason rightfully. So we said he. He's allowed to enter the chat. His name was brought up, whatever. But once Kai gets in and you have like a great verse towards Reason and no response. Like, I thought Reason your whole was saying you wanted to rap. Now you don't want to rap.
Damaris
I gotta listen to this Kai Cash dude. Cause y' all keep telling me about him. I know he's lakes and lake and drums artist. So I wanna get into his music. I gotta hear what. What part of the city you from.
Rory
I believe Brooklyn. Okay, yeah, pretty sure.
Damaris
I'll check him out, man.
Rory
And I'm pretty sure he's tied to like the Junior MAFIA camp as like one of the kids. Because, like, I've seen him rap with like, Drock's son, even cj. Like, he's. He's tied to Junior Mafia somehow.
Damaris
Okay, I gotta check him out. I gotta. I gotta see what he talking about, man.
Rory
Oh, and I was such a phony friend when Kai Cash dropped that shit. We was on FaceTime with reason and turned it up.
Mal
Turn that shit up.
Rory
We turned it up. And then I followed Kai on Instagram and then showed reason. I said, yo. He followed back. Yep.
Mal
Because me and Rory left, literally all this happened. Me and Rory left the studio. We're in fucking rush hour traffic so bad that I got out the car and went and got Food and came back. Rory was still in the same fucking spot. And Disses just started dropping. Ja Wan dropped kai cash, dropped C.J.
Rory
Fox.
Mal
Somebody dropped like, then Joey dropped. All of this happened like within like fucking three hours while me and Rory are trying to get home. It was fucking insane. But I loved it.
Rory
Yeah, listen. Anytime rapping is the focus, especially in this era, I'm happy. Even if they're dragging it. There's been so many times where bullshit has always been the focus. Anytime rapping is trending or on the front lines of media, I am a happy person.
Damaris
Yeah, I love. I love to hear, you know, a lot. Like I said, the Kai Cash, I never heard of him, but I'm glad that this moment happened because now I heard of him. I'm hearing, you know, he's one of the. The new young, young spitters out of nyc. So I'm gonna listen to him, I'm gonna check them out. But that's what this moment is able to do. It shines light on other people that you may not be aware of and not maybe not be on your radar. So shout out to Kyle, man, I'm gonna get this. Because I had somebody else told me last night too. They was like, nah, he's dope. Yeah. But I never heard. I never heard anything from him. So I gotta check him out.
Rory
Listen, man, let's. Let's go to Quad tonight. Cause I know Dave's in Quad. I've never not been in Quad, not seen Busta Rhymes or Davies. Davies is in Quad tonight. Yeah, we running up there with a beat pack and I'm gonna give him all the information I know about reason.
Damaris
That's crazy.
Mal
You are really hot. You can't trust me.
Damaris
But don't get it twisted though. The one thing I do respect about reason is his name was called out and the very next day he dropped. So I respect that. I respect when anytime a rapper gets right to it, we not gonna wait. It ain't no rollout, it ain't no marketing. We getting right to the music.
Mal
And I'm not gonna lie. I truly believe. And y' all could disprove me whatever. I truly believe that out of this entire reasons was the only one that was actually written in 24 hours. I believe a lot of those disses were pre written, I think.
Rory
I'm sure there was ideas and like. Yeah, I'm sure there was. Similar to what when we had asked DJ Head, like, did Kendrick have all these in the tuck? And he's like, well, I'm sure he had, like, a few eight bars or whatever and then pieced it.
Damaris
I think every rapper. Yeah, every rapper always has.
Rory
I think they all have folders just in case.
Damaris
Yeah. Like, directed at certain individuals and. And, you know, it's interesting now because the way cats used to battle before, a lot of their bars were for, like, whoever they were standing in front. Now things are more tailored to specifically who they're talking to and going at. But when cats used to battle before, you could take a battle verse and tour the country with a battle verse and stand in front of any rapper, and it feels like you're talking directly to and about him. But now things are more specific and direct. So I think a lot of those rappers had some bars already. I think Rayvon might have had some bars already since the Too much West coast dick licking bar. I think that was the bar that kind of, like, perked. A lot of the west coast guys perked their ears up and got them kind of like, you know, just like, yo, all right, in case something goes down in the next couple weeks, I got at least 16 ready.
Rory
Of course, that's it.
Damaris
But then you add on to that, and then it becomes. You gotta make a record. So you gotta add, you know, just the music and then things like that. But I do think a lot of those bars were written in the last probably two, three days before they came out.
Rory
Well, reasons was definitely in 24 hours because he wasn't preparing for this battle. Like, it's not like he was involved until that.
Damaris
He gonna always have bars ready.
Rory
His point of view of that was not really in the beef. It was more kind of replying to like, hey, I wasn't dropped, and you know, a bunch of other. But, yeah, that. Just because he wasn't involved. But I've been with reason, and there was just a. A small possibility that somebody may have said something. He's like, all right, I'm about to write a 64 and just leave it my phone just in case. Like, yeah, yeah, all rap rappers should do that. They should do that prep, but also shout out to reason for having one of the only, like, cool New York beat flips. Y' all butchered a lot of those beefs.
Mal
Yeah, it was terrible.
Rory
Like, reasons was really good. I mean, Joey didn't do a beat flip. That was just Wu Tang. But, yo, some of those. The back down was awful. There was another one New York beat that somebody from the west coast flip.
Mal
They're gonna say you hating.
Rory
Awful.
Mal
They're gonna say you hating what they.
Damaris
Gonna do Sam hating some more. You said I was hating all last year. Like, they gonna do. Say I'm hating more. Like, all right, cool, man. It is what it is.
Rory
Like, listen, they need to change a lot of definitions in the actual dictionary right now. The exact term for hating is. If you don't think everything the west coast does is the greatest thing of all time, that's now the definition of hating.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
If you are slightly, slightly objective or critical of anything the west coast does, you're a hater. If you don't think they are levitating above us as hip hop gods just showering us with the greatest music of all time, you are a bitter hater.
Damaris
Yeah, stop that narrative.
Rory
And you just. You wear Tim's to sleep and other corny jokes.
Damaris
Let's stop that narrative of the East Coast. Don't rock with the West Coast. I've been listening to west coast music before. Some of y' all were even born. Like, so to call me a hater is like. Well, you. You just started coming outside in 2008. Yeah, like, what are we talking about?
Rory
The first Kendrick album you heard was Damn.
Damaris
Come on, man. It's nothing but love for the West Coast. But this was a good moment. Shout out to all the MCs, all the rappers that participated, and put some music out, but let's wrap this shit up. Yeah, it's over.
Rory
Stop me if this is too much hip hop talk, but I feel like we don't talk music as much as we should. We did have another interesting conversation on Twitter. Spaces Mall. I had said that the west coast for like the last 15, 20 years, at least since 2010 and maybe before, has been the Mecca for lyricism.
Damaris
Yeah, I let that. I let that sit with me for a couple days. My knee jerk reaction would have sounded very emotional on Spaces.
Rory
It was like me at the beginning of this episode with the Pacers.
Damaris
Yeah, it sounded like I was hating. I just don't know how you could say that. And they just got packed up by one rapper from. From New York.
Rory
Agreed. But they didn't send every. They didn't send everybody. I mean, they sent one of their best, which is Daylight.
Damaris
But who is everybody?
Rory
What do you mean?
Damaris
Like, who else? Who else was they supposed to send?
Rory
I mean, west side Boogie didn't get involved. Vince Tables didn't get involved. Kendrick didn't get involved.
Damaris
Okay.
Rory
There was.
Damaris
Jadakiss didn't get involved.
Rory
Fair. No. But I'm saying the news first came out in the 90s. I'm talking about from like 2010 on, I feel like the west coast when it comes to lyricists, they've had the most. If you go from Vince to Boogie, Kendrick, Q J, Rock, Nipsey, like, I could continue. And yeah, we. I don't know if another region can say that. Great ones. There's been great spitters from Atlanta.
Damaris
But. But here's what you said. You said the Mecca, meaning the most.
Rory
Yes, there. There is the most lyricist, but you.
Damaris
Just going off for the last 15 years.
Rory
That's what I was like.
Mal
Of all as like, okay then.
Rory
All right, I missed.
Damaris
Yeah, like, that was my. That was my thing with him problem.
Rory
Like, I meant with. In this time span. Of course. Not like even the Garden, when we haven't been to an Eastern conference final since 1998 was still the Mecca. We haven't won A championship since 73. It's always me, the Mecca. I get y' all that I'm saying of just that time frame, not of all. Of all time. It's New York and it's not even remotely close.
Mal
Oh, oh, hold on. Actually, let's. Let's clarify. Maul. The definition of Mecca is a place regarded as a center for specified group activity or interest. So it doesn't mean just from the beginning of. It means the center. It's the main place, the main meeting ground. So.
Damaris
And New York City is the main place for rap and lyricism. And we'll always.
Mal
Today, you think today, absolutely.
Damaris
You think that more Absolutely. Lyricism is the key word you talking about. Like New York has always been known for lyricism. There are some west coast cats that can get into their lyricism bag. But the west coast was always more vibe. It was always more energy. It was always more style, like catered. It wasn't so heavy. Heavy lyricist.
Mal
But baby, now, what about now? Can you name.
Damaris
In the last. In the last few years, they've had a lot of. A lot of. A lot of cats coming out of the west coast that can. That can really rap and get into the lyrics.
Mal
But I'm saying now if for New York, can you name anybody from New York that has been active after the blog era?
Rory
Actually, Joey, Yeah, there's a few grabbers, but again, I don't think that matches up to the amount that the west coast has. Has had it based off just the seven names that I just named. And then you even add in people like Reason, people like Simba, like, it keeps going. As far as lyricists and lyricists that have been dominating with catalog too, like making good music and to me, that's big on lyricism, too. I don't care if you could just rap all fucking day. I like that every now and then. I like freestyle, but. Nah, you. I like lyricism with music. And I can say the west coast has been doing that at a high level.
Damaris
No, they've had. You've had some really, really dope artists come out of the west coast in the last few years. Like, I will get. I will say to that, like, there's been a lot of talent, but there's always been. There's always been talent coming out of the west coast, though. Like.
Rory
But I'm saying specifically, like, lyricists. Like, I wouldn't even say YG is the most lyrical guy ever, but my crazy life he's barring up in that. And it's great music. Like, the west has been dominating in how I feel with lyricists that can make good music and make good albums. They're going to borrow up in this whole thing, and we're going to enjoy the song.
Damaris
I'm just saying. Just saying that and then Joey Badass just packed everybody up is insane to me, though, because I get what you're saying and I understand why you saying it. Cause you're looking at volume over the years and albums and artists, things like that. But to say it's the Mecca of lyricists, at least in the last 15 years, you said. And then Joey Badass come along and whoever y' all feel like is y' all guys right now, on the lyrics aside, who can battle, who can really rap? He just packed everybody up.
Rory
So again, it's like, if everyone got involved, I'd be curious to see that. I mean, I leave Joey alone right now. I'm a. In shape. Shape. But I mean, listen, somebody.
Damaris
Somebody said, boogie. We need boogie. Need to say something. Boogie said, no, we don't. Yeah, we need to hear from boogie. And boogie was like, no, we don't. Like, I'm not in that.
Rory
I'm going to my son's basketball game.
Damaris
I'm not in that. Like, leave me alone. My son is playing ball. He looking like he's trying to really do something with this right now. I'm in the gym. We don't need boogie right now.
Rory
Even like, Dom Kennedy, of course, is. Has a lot of style and lifestyle to his music. But let's not act like Dom can go. I don't know if I'm looking the original Dom Kennedy. He is born up in there.
Damaris
I don't know if I'm looking at Dom Kenny Like a lyricist.
Rory
The original Dom Kennedy mixtape, he rapping.
Damaris
I know Dom could rap, but I'm not going to look at Dom and be like, yo, he's a lyricist. I would never look at Dom Kennedy and say he's a lyricist. I think he got a whole lot of style and vibe and, and, and, and char of that. But lyricist. I'm say that about Yellow album.
Rory
Cool because that was. He was trying to make great music with love from the west side too. All that. But the original Dom Kennedy mixtape, he is just straight rapping that entire time.
Damaris
No, that's ly. He could rap.
Rory
So that's also what I'm saying. With the west, like, they got guys that can go, but pull it back to make better music. Like School Boy. I don't even think it's credit for how good of a lyricist he is because schoolboy focuses on making good songs. But you throw schoolboy in a leakers freestyle with people that you think are top tier lyricist, he's gonna hang like it won't feel like a misstep. J Rock right there too. I feel like J Rock on Redemption dumbed down a lot of stuff to make great music.
Damaris
Yeah. I.
Rory
Let's not act like Soul can't go. Kendrick can't go. I mean, they've been smoking us. I. It hurts me to say, but you know.
Damaris
Well, thank you.
Rory
We have to. We have to regroup.
Damaris
Thank you.
Rory
Joey needs to hold a summit as a Jalen Brunson and Joey Badass need to keep the city together. That's all I'm saying.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
And since Jalen Brunson and all them got streets.
Damaris
What.
Rory
What street we got to give Joey, like Flatbush Ave. Right? Atlantic, something Atlantic Marcus Gar, Maybe the borough, the whole.
Damaris
Brooks. No, you can't give them.
Rory
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Happens all the time.
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And you just feel duped.
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Absolutely.
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Damaris
Was it cheddar extra sharp? Stop. Cracker barrel. What? I love cracker barrel, extra sharp. Baby D on the Big Mac.
Rory
Are we now going to call Kid Cudi a snitch?
Damaris
He's a rat.
Rory
No, he's not.
Damaris
He's a rat.
Rory
He's a tax paying citizen who had a crime committed.
Damaris
He ratted. He snitched. He snitched on the P. Diddy case, man.
Rory
Nah, he's a tax paying citizen that's snitching on somebody that deserves some jail time. But this morning. Yeah, so we got, you know, of course there's no cameras in New York City trials, but Kid Cudi says he and Cassie dated in 2011 after she and Diddy have been having some problems. He testified that Cassie called him earlier in the morning, scared, saying Diddy had found out about them. Kid Cudi picked up Cassie and shortly after his house was broken into, gifts were open, his dog was locked in the bathroom and security cameras had been moved. His dogs became jittery after the break in, and he testified that Diddy told him over the phone, I'm over here waiting for you. Diddy snitched on himself. Later, Kid Cudi's dog babysitter called to say his Porsche was on fire. Cudi says the fire was caused by a Mozoff cocktail thrown into the car. He identified the damage in court photos. He told the court that he believed Diddy was responsible for both the break in and the car bombing. Mainly because Diddy called and said, hey, I'm responsible for this.
Damaris
See that last line? He told the court he believed Diddy. That means the court didn't know if Diddy did it or not. Okay, Maul, that's biting the cheese, man.
Rory
I know you wouldn't do a podcast with a rat if Diddy broke into my house and lit my mother's Mazda on fire. And I went to court, which I absolutely would, and said, you, Honor, P. Diddy broke into my house, locked my locked bays in a bathroom, and then lit a Mazda on fire. Are you gonna continue to do the Pod with me, because I'm going to tell the courts that.
Damaris
Absolutely not.
Rory
Like, without question. I'm going in, Your honor. Here's my security.
Damaris
I mean, listen, it's the rat cast already, man. So fucking get your shit off, man. It is what it is.
Rory
And we have Kid Cudi actually hanging up on our bathroom door.
Damaris
Kid Cudi is hanging up on the bathroom door. We've been ahead of this, Cudi. We're taking your photos down. I'm letting you know. Well, I'll take your photos down. He bit the cheese, man. No, but all jokes aside, I mean, I think he had to. He had to testify he was subpoenaed, right?
Rory
Yeah, but I mean, even if you're subpoenaed, you can plead the fifth. But I'm curious, you know, I'm. I'm not part of lawyer Twitter, so I don't really know the prosecution strategy. What's wrong, Damaris?
Mal
Nothing, go ahead, just plead the fifth. You can't plead the fifth on shit that. I mean, I guess, but you can't plead the Fifth on that wouldn't incriminate you. That's to keep yourself from being incriminated it.
Rory
Well, that's the rule of the fifth, but you can just plead the fifth. You don't have to speak based off counsel. I plead the fifth.
Mal
Okay, go ahead.
Rory
Yeah.
Damaris
He says his dog became jittery and on it. Your dog was jittery before that break in.
Rory
I think it's a good move.
Damaris
Your dog has separation anxiety every time you leave the house. Your dog's shaking like a leaf. You know, puppies, you know, Baez gets shaky every time you leave the house.
Rory
Oh, for sure. But, I mean, this is a good move because regardless of what happens with this trial, there will be a civil suit no matter what. And Cudi is getting ahead of that to say that he was affected by this, this, and he is entitled to some compensation or at least some dog treats for the dog to help with the anxiety or dog therapist. I don't know, but I see what Cuddy's trying to do. Because no matter what, there will be a civil suit and people will be getting money regardless of the criminal.
Damaris
But he's trying to get that farmer's dog sponsorship.
Rory
So are we. Don't say it.
Damaris
Farmer's dog.
Rory
Again, I'm not sure what the prosecution is doing at this moment because it feels like everyone they bring up is not speaking to anything that Puff is actually charged for. So I guess they're maybe taking these first few weeks to Just paint Puff's character of who he is. But from what I've seen, there hasn't been anything that, like, points directly to the charges. I feel like. But again, I know nothing about legality, and I'm sure the state of New York has a good strategy and knows what they're doing, but. Yeah, Yeah, I guess this is just trying to paint Diddy as an awful human being.
Damaris
What do you feel about the trial so far though? Do you feel like there's absolutely no way Puff can walk away from this? Do you feel like he absolutely will walk away from this?
Rory
I don't know if the prosecution continues to go this angle of just bringing in people that are making Puff rightfully so, look insane, controlling, a monster adolescent, like a. A danger to society? No, because that's not what he's charged for. Like you and I both have said, based off just the footage in that hotel room, we think Puff needs to sit down. But that's not what he's charged for. So when you're asking about the case, they got to start bringing in some witnesses that can provide some real evidence to what he's charged for. But I guess maybe they're just trying to get the jury in the beginning to see that this guy was out of control and that Cassie, even though she was giving consent in certain things, was in a position that she could not leave. Look at what this guy would do if you even spoke to her. Cassie had no, no way to leave him at this point based off the environment that he created. I don't know if that's gonna then pivot to. Here's why it's a RICO sex trafficking case, I think.
Damaris
But the RICO is so. Because there are things in the rico, I think that if they prove like. I think arson is one of them. I think intimidation is one of them.
Rory
Okay.
Damaris
You know, so it's a lot of those little nuances inside of a RICO case that I think that they are absolutely proven to be true right now.
Rory
And I mean, I've always. I was always very confused at the one man RICO thing, but I guess they're trying to say, like his staff was complicit to this because they were booking certain stuff and involved in it, and I guess it was funded by his business, but I don't know if that makes his business a criminal enterprise just because he used the staff. But I could be wrong. Again, I don't know what that would be. But I've never even seen a one man RICO before.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
So. And usually within the RICO Other people are charged with in it. Like, even when Gotti was doing the rico, there was co defendants of why this was a crime syndicate and what they were doing here and there. Like, to just have one person, I don't know. But again, I don't know. So, yeah, if there is like arson and stuff like that, yeah, it could definitely be part of a rico. And. And that's proven here. And I mean, I. I know he's joking about the rat thing, but you know, Cudi was privy to the abuse Cassie was going through and how crazy he is. Like, yeah, stick up for your friend. Yeah, go tell what the was going on, what he was doing with somebody. Because I don't even. Cuddy didn't even beat. Right. It was just friends.
Damaris
I hope he did.
Rory
Imagine your car getting blown up and you didn't beat. I would be so mad.
Damaris
That's what I'm saying.
Rory
And again, I want to joke about the abuse, but like. Like, have you ever been approached by a dude about his girl and you didn't beat and you're like, dope. Like, please, you don't. You're misleading your energy right now. Like somebody trying to fight you approach you when you not even like, I'm not your girl.
Damaris
No, I never been approached. But I found out why some dude didn't like me like, years later, and it was because he thought that I had. I had been with this girl and I was like, I don't even. First of all, I never even had a conversation with your girl, let alone had sex with her. Like, and that was the whole reason why, like, you. It was always like weird energy whenever, like you was in the room. Like, yeah, you thought, why not ask me?
Mal
Like, you must have been her type. Okay, you should have went and after.
Damaris
She wasn't my type.
Rory
But what if maybe she or he saw like in her phone maybe, like, you know, some extra likes on your page or like, maybe he just had an idea that she liked you and that's why he disliked you. Cool.
Damaris
That sounds like you and your lady need to have a conversation.
Rory
It sounds like you and your insecurities need to have a conversation. Yeah, like the mirror, but yeah.
Damaris
Yeah, like you. No, that's just. No. So, yeah, I've never been approached. I'm past the being approached age limit at this point in my life. Like, nobody's approaching me about allegedly sleeping with that woman at this point.
Rory
Damaris, how would you feel if your girl had a history with Mal or, like, was a little too thirsty in comments five years Ago towards male. I don't know if I'd like it either.
Mal
I'd be turned off.
Rory
But like, we don't know mall. This is like we're not on a podcast with him. Just, you know, we know of him. Like we, you know, we see him get busy on the mic.
Mal
Oh, okay. I feel like I would still feel the same way. Like, why are you being thirsty? Being thirsty to a man is crazy. You and you all in his likes, like commenting under his. And he don't know you.
Rory
That's all right, but what if she, what if she likes his pod like a little too much? Like no flirting, nothing but like just be laughing a little too hard or like even be tweeting about like certain moments of the show and be like, yo, Mall, crying emojis, not flirting. Just a fan of the show. Yeah, I don't know how I'm cool. Yeah, cool. Weird how that works. That's a lot of self hate too. Like I would hate if my girl liked me.
Mal
I tell people all the time, like, people be like, yo, I listen to the pot automatic. How. How you like us? We unlikable as fuck.
Rory
Like you not my type. If you like us, like, like we.
Mal
Don'T talk about number on this podcast all day.
Rory
You're not a, a suitable partner. If you like the new Rory Mall podcast that.
Mal
Which is not true. That's not true. We're joking.
Rory
It's kind of true.
Mal
No, we're joking everybody. We appreciate the support. Please don't stop listening to us. But yeah, yeah.
Rory
Cause I don't know.
Mal
Nah, I don't like my, like I.
Rory
Like, I don't like my girl having hobbies or even like his. That's kind of weird.
Mal
Nah, like listen to something motivational. Like something. You know what I'm saying? Like why you care about hip hop?
Damaris
Like why you care about hip hop is crazy.
Rory
Like, listen, I think Lucky Day is a classic too, but like, like you always playing it.
Damaris
Yeah.
Mal
Which one of your girls. Never mind.
Damaris
That sound like a real conversation. Yeah, yeah, that sounds like you see, you let. You let people tell jokes long enough, somebody gonna say something that's gonna land a little real. Like, well, hold up, that felt a little personal. It ain't. That didn't feel like a freestyle. That was a written more.
Rory
I took a woman who I was in a full blown relationship with, that loved Kid Cudi to go see him at Radio City and hung with him. I do not have any insecurity of a girl liking Lucky Day.
Mal
Yeah, you hung out with him knowing that she was drooling, looking through his drawers the whole time like she had X ray vision looking at that dick sitting next to you and you hung with him. That's. Wow.
Damaris
You. Or she just loved man on the Moon. She could have just loved man on the Moon.
Rory
Like, she just likes music. Yeah, you said that. Maybe Lucky Day has three amazing projects.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Yeah, I don't have that. But if she was like, hypothetically, like thirsty about Cudi or like, you know, I saw maybe in the past we weren't together, that she was throwing wild heart eye emojis or like a DM or something, then I'd be like, no, we're not going to that show. I'm cool with that pjs. What if Lucky Day saved her kid Cudy? Oh, I see. What? Peter, Who?
Damaris
Who? Kid Cudy saved somebody's life in high school.
Rory
Everybody that's like 34, Cudy saved their life in high school.
Damaris
That is true.
Rory
No, probably like 28, because I was in college when Cudy came up. Yeah, 28 year olds. Like, there'd be no 28 year olds. They all would have killed themselves if C didn't exist.
Damaris
The whole generation, they're literally.
Rory
We would not know. 128 year old. Yeah, it would just go 27 to 29 and that's it. There'd be no Pete Davidson. Nothing.
Mal
Just stupid.
Damaris
Oh, my God.
Rory
Well, yeah, Cuddy has that story.
Damaris
For a lot of people, this trial is interesting, though. I'm not gonna lie. Like, the more I kind of like, you know, read up on it and see what's going on and listen to things, I'm just like, oh, man, I don't know. As a somebody on. As on the jury, like, what do you think that their stance is? Like, how. What are they talking about? Like, are they a little, like, confused? Are they a little, like, you know, indecisive? You think they're still indecisive or you think they're like, leaning more towards, like, nah, this dude is definitely guilty of all this.
Rory
I think they think he's an insane person, but I think they're sitting there waiting for like, all right, when are we gonna get to the reason we're here? Like, when is something going to be trafficked? Yeah, because, I mean, yeah, I guess hiring a male prostitute consensually is illegal, but I. Is that a sex trafficking rico? Like, if. If you're flying, like plane loads of prostitutes across the country for a while, then I guess maybe that would be.
Damaris
But you don't have to be.
Rory
But if I go to back page and just hire a prostitute, I get that's technically sex trafficking this and that, but not to the degree that the. The state and feds would do this. They have to have more info that we don't know. They have to just be setting this up.
Damaris
That's what I keep.
Rory
For some bombs.
Damaris
Like there's no way it's something that, that they still holding that big joker somewhere.
Rory
Because of course we already know that prosecutors in court always try to get the celebrities and you know, that's how they move up in the ranks. Detention, this and that. But there's no way they would do all this knowing that they could potentially completely lose this trial. Because then you're never gonna have a career again.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
So they have to have some. There's no fucking way.
Damaris
Well, we'll see. I mean, I think that, you know, is moving pretty quickly. I will say that I feel like this trial is. Once it started, it didn't slow down at all.
Rory
Yeah.
Damaris
Every day is something new. Steam picks up. Did. What's her name? Did Aubrey. Did she take the stand? I know they said that she. She was. And then I heard that maybe she's not going.
Mal
No, I don't think she's taking the stand.
Damaris
Okay.
Mal
Yeah, that was a rumor, but I don't. As of now, it hasn't been confirmed that she's taking the stand.
Damaris
Did Dawn. Dawn took the stand?
Mal
Yes, dawn took the stand. She ain't really saying anything worth knowing. All she really brought up was the domestic abuse that she saw Cassie suffer. But I don't know how that just.
Damaris
To kind of add to the.
Mal
Yeah, okay, yeah. Listen, even if, I mean, I want him to go to jail. I want. Even if it's not for this, like, I just feel like that man needs to be in jail. But if he doesn't go to.
Damaris
Well, he's been in jail.
Mal
Yeah, well, I mean, stay in jail. Let's put it like that.
Damaris
Oh, you want. Okay.
Mal
But if he ends up out, do you feel like this was enough to tarnish his image?
Damaris
Absolutely.
Mal
You don't think he goes back to being. To be in love?
Damaris
No, it's over.
Rory
I've. Listen, I've already seen the energy change and of course the timeline is an awful point of reference for life, but we live in this world. I've even seen some of the energy where it was across the board, fuck puff. Outside of like TD Jakes, it was fuck puff from everybody. I've. I've seen a little bit of shift in since Cassie's testimony with the red pill taken over the Internet. The energy with Tori the Diddy, like, on women and propping up men as the victim is trending. That's a thing. I could definitely see the energy shift out of this entire thing. That Puff is now a martyr for men and we need to prop him up. Look at what this great man had to go through because quote, unquote, women be lying. I see it. I see the Republican Twitter already got a hold of. Of Tori. I saw. What's that white chick that Charlemagne hangs out with? What's her name?
Mal
Tommy.
Rory
Tommy. I think it was Tommy. Her show got a hold of it. Breaking new evidence in the Tory case because, you know, everything on the right is to make sure you know you hate women. That's their marching orders. Even the women have to point out that women are liars. Breaking new evidence. Duh. Y' all don't know the definition of evidence. Somebody overhearing some shit that wasn't even involved with the case is not breaking new evidence. And now the Republicans got a hold of that. Now Tory's a victim to the right. Like, we need to save this man and get him out of jail. Can Trump pardon him? Like, it's become that now. I can totally see that shift happening with the right pr. With Puff, people forget about all that footage. And now Puff is the. The martyr for men and women lie.
Damaris
Well, people forgot about that footage even before he went to. He was arrested. Like, people was out. He was. Remember, he was walking around Harlem. People was taking pictures with him and all of that. He was in the park. Like, people don't.
Rory
I think we walk into Miami with King Loaf.
Damaris
Yeah, I think we. I think we need to get to the point where we just understand that people don't care. A lot of the Tory. You know, I can't even say Meg cases. State of California versus Daystar Peterson, even with that case. I wish people would just say they don't care.
Mal
Yeah.
Damaris
Stop saying he didn't do it or you don't think he did it. Just say you don't care. Because if the state of California and a jury sat in the courtroom and sometimes we know the justice system is flawed and for sure, things get, you know, mixed up. But if all of these things happen and, you know, a victim, a woman takes a stand and she's subpoenaed by the state of California to. As a witness in this case and she goes up there. I don't. I just something some. I never met Meg. I See, but something about me said just says something about Meg. Says that she wouldn't get on a stand and lie if she's subpoenaed by the state of California. I don't think she would lie in the face of the state of California. I just don't. I don't. That just doesn't sit right with me. Nothing about her energy says she's lying. Now, you could have your feelings personal about Torrey and be a supporter and all of that.
Rory
Great.
Damaris
You know, dope artist. I get that part of it. But I think people just need to get to a point where they say, yo, you know what? I don't care if he did it or not.
Rory
Well, they pick and choose that. Cause, you know, Meg did lie to Gayle King about Tory, but I always said, like, okay, the does have to do. I lie to Gail King about bodies too. Like, I could have to get on the news and say, I him.
Damaris
I could find 30 million women that have lied about who they slept with.
Rory
Yeah.
Damaris
I can't find one woman that has ever lied about who shot her.
Rory
Well, maybe. I'm sure there's somewhere that's happened.
Damaris
I mean, find it.
Rory
But even that, like, they pick and choose what lies to take, because that's everyone's shit. Like, yo, we've. We've seen Meg lie before for. So she must be lying to the state of California and to us. Okay, But I've seen Tori lie plenty of times. And Meg just put out her statement that no one really wanted to address what she had to say. They just wanted to call her a liar. Okay. At first, Tory said I wasn't shot. Now he's saying, Kelsey shot me. Sounds like a liar to me.
Mal
But then he.
Rory
Is it UCI Wiley? Is it one Mic?
Mal
Then he has. Right after the shooting, when people were saying, oh, Kelsey shot Meg, Tory was commenting underneath like, no, Kelsey didn't. Meg's. Actually, as we speak, Meg's lawyers just put out an entire document that literally chronicled everything. All of. They broke down every lie. They broke down what these blogs are saying. Because this is. This is the biggest thing with me that's really between this Diddy case, the Hallie case, the. All of this. People believe. Just because somebody has a verified Twitter account and they put some shit in big, bold font, people think that that is news. That is not news. Y' all are believing fake tweets. Y' all are believing AI articles. There is no meter Media Liter. People don't know how to recognize AI anymore. Like, it's very Very scary how easily people's brains are manipulated. Like, just because you see somebody from the right, when a senator or somebody come out and say, oh, there's exculpatory evidence that's going to free Tory. And y' all automatically believe them.
Rory
Because senators never lied.
Mal
Not you. And first of all, they don't give a fuck about you or Tory Lanez. He's not even an American. They're pandering on your emotions like people have been doing for centuries. And it's like no one paying attention to it.
Rory
No one cares, because it folds into their overall goal. They don't give. They don't know who Tory is. They don't know who Meg is. They don't give a fuck. But this case now, PR wise, folds in to what their narrative is of hating women and not believing women. And, you know, they've been so anti me, too, and this and that, it just falls into their marching orders as is. And even, like, I've been guilty of it, too. Once you want something to be true, you kind of purposely miss a lot of things that are said. Like when Tory texted Jason Lee, and Jason Lee asked a straightaway question that all of us have been wondering forever, and I'm so happy he asked it. Tory, if you didn't shoot Megan, why did you not take the stand and say that? His response, like, I got a bridge to sell y' all, man. Oh, his response of saying, yo, I lost my mom when I was 11, so I took the blame for Kelsey, so she wasn't separated from her child. So you want to separate from yours?
Damaris
Wait, that was a real response?
Rory
Yes. And they.
Damaris
Nah, man.
Rory
And the timeline. The timeline.
Damaris
And then the people that's sitting here telling me anything.
Mal
No, that's.
Rory
That's.
Mal
That is what was said. That is what was said.
Damaris
Here's the thing, yo, what is going on?
Rory
This shit has gotten me and Vlad to agree on something. Something. When Vlad, he putting up like, dog, there's no world where Tory Lanez, at the point of his career, takes the blame for some random chick. He was kind of in the sense of parenthood. And then everyone. Under that said, Vlad, you don't understand the streets. Tory is a strict code.
Damaris
Listen, as somebody that has had people in court and go through things, I know what this is, trying to get that appeal. And while if the appeal is granted, he will be released from prison and allowed to, you know, be with his family. Like, I know. I know this angle. And this is the. And to be fair, to be 100% fair, in this conversation, this is exactly what his lawyers are supposed to do. They're supposed to create this momentum and create this thing of, you know, there was evidence not submitted or whatever, whatever. Like, they're supposed to do that. This is what they're supposed to do. This is what they're getting paid to do. Anything to get him out of the prison system and get an appeal and let this go back to court so that he could still be out and be with his family, maybe even be able to record music and be able to make money to support his legal fees. This is all part of just a bigger thing than I didn't do it versus did he do it? This is all what the defense is supposed to do. They're supposed to try to get their client out. He was just stabbed in prison. He was just attacked in prison. You know, so this is what's supposed to happen as a result of that. Like, we need to get him out of that environment. Let's try to fight the case. Let's get the appeal while he's home, while he's on the outside. Like, this is what his lawyers are supposed to do.
Rory
And again, like, guilty of it when you want something to be true. I saw people saying, oh, well, Tory owned a strip club, and if he took the stand, he wouldn't have been able to run. There's Miami law that once you're take the stand, you can't be involved in strip club or places that sell alcohol. So that's why he couldn't take the stand, because then he couldn't run the strip club he has. I'm like, yo, do y' all just, like, type in a chat? Gbt, make up some bullshit for me to tweet.
Mal
My favorite ones is he was finally independent and he was about to change the music industry game. And just like Michael Jackson, they had to tarnish his name. Y' all gotta be fucking kidding me.
Rory
Me?
Mal
Y' all have got to be kidding me, please.
Rory
He sold the first NFT song. Like, so Jay Z had to take him out.
Damaris
Yeah, that's one thing they got. They got. I promise. Listen, I promise. One thing.
Rory
I respected what he was doing independently. I thought it was great. But nobody in the industry was like, we have to take him down because he's going to change. Change.
Damaris
I'm not going to say nobody couldn't.
Rory
Do it, but Tory will.
Damaris
I'm not going to say nobody in the industry. I will say that Jay Z is not trying to take down Tory Lane. I'm not gonna say nobody in the industry is trying to. I can promise y' all. The one person who is not invested in this as much as y' all think he is is Sean Carter.
Mal
They saying Sean Carter trying to take down ddg.
Damaris
They just gotta. I mean, listen, man. All right, Is there anybody else in the industry other than Sean Carter? Is there anybody else in the music business other than Sean Carter? Like, why is it always on Jay Z's play?
Rory
We are Jay Z. Stans Hovangers, Everything as that. I'm telling you guys, you're giving Jay Z too much credit.
Damaris
Way too much credit. He don't give a.
Rory
No influence in the California court system.
Damaris
At all and at all.
Rory
Listen, man. And I'm fine being the pander. Pick me cast. Yes. I'll pander to Truth and Logic. I pick Logic because I love Chig's YouTube page. Shout out to Chiggs. He supported us great in the podcast space. Chiggs, I know you've thus deleted this video, but I cannot believe the level of delusion you are taking your page in the name of Tory Lanez. You had your man up there do a deep dive in how the guy that stabbed Tory Lanez, Chigs and his team went through that guy's background. In 2001 or whatever, he killed like a 12 year old. It was an awful case. And during his case, when he killed a 12 year old, his cousin took the stand. And his cousin's last name was Perez. The head of Roc Nation is Desiree Perez. They were suggesting that because in 2001, this guy had a cousin with the last name Perez, that Desiree Perez was also related to this person and went through the cousin to then have that guy kill Tory Lanez. I also want to note that this gentleman is Mexican and Desiree is not. Not. And Perez is one of the most common names.
Damaris
Yeah, it's.
Rory
These are Mexican Perez. Desiree is not Mexican.
Damaris
Now. But they cousins, though. That's your cousin.
Rory
Listen, man, it's not even the same country.
Damaris
Listen, I, I, I enjoy the. I think it's entertaining, some of it. I think it's funny to see how people think and people, you know, how their minds work. I think it's interesting. It's interesting.
Mal
I feel bad.
Rory
Eden has a cousin that I met with last name Perez. We need to investigate Eden.
Damaris
Yeah, yeah. He might be part of it.
Rory
He's tied to this.
Damaris
Yeah.
Mal
I could laugh at people's stupidity if it wasn't so scary. And the fact that people. The fact that Meg even had to address this, like she just can't she can't move on. It's really. That's so sad. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like you still being harassed on the Internet every day in the court of public opinion for nothing. For being.
Damaris
Listen, regardless of how I feel, you know, it is what it is. But I will say what I've always said. If he's guilty, which is he was found guilty by the state of California, then he has to go sit down and take that like a man. But now if for whatever reason on the same hand gotta be consistent and fair. If for whatever reason Meg is lying about this, then she should be prosecuted to the highest degree.
Rory
Completely agree.
Damaris
And she should be thrown in prison.
Rory
I agree.
Damaris
Keep it fair and consistent across and.
Rory
No, it would be if she lied on the standing is she should actually just be prosecuted based off that.
Damaris
Exactly.
Mal
Killed a kid yesterday. Rory should be put in jail. I feel like that's obvious. But that didn't happen.
Damaris
And no, I'm.
Rory
And I don't think this happened. Let's just keep it fair. If there. If actual real evidence comes out, not some faceless guy that we don't know that happened to overhear some from Kelsey. Like, if there's some real evidence, I will happily. You guys can replay every clip of me cursing out Tori on repeat, laugh at me. I will happily come up here and say I was wrong. I apologize. Meg should go to jail. Tori should also get some type of settlement. He did not deserve any of this. That was. I would happily come up here and say that likewise. But I don't feel that way. And that's another thing when people like, oh, wait you for your gotcha moment. Okay, I've been wrong mad times. But that's not gonna.
Damaris
I've been wrong plenty of times.
Mal
Plenty of times.
Damaris
I just don't feel.
Rory
I just don't feel like I'm wrong here.
Damaris
Like here. I just don't feel like I'm wrong. I've been wrong plenty of times in my life and I've apologized plenty of times. And glad I will gladly apologize as.
Rory
Loud as we yelled here.
Damaris
I will gladly apologize if I'm wrong here. Something in my soul and my spirit tells me that I'm on the right side of history and you know, I'm.
Rory
On the conspiracy side of question everything. I see why everyone would have that mentality. We've been lied to so many times in our life that used to question everything to the point point that like when I find out that Johnny Gill lost to Stevie Wonder in Air Hockey. And then Gerald Lavert did too, followed by Keith Sweat. I feel like maybe I've been lied to my whole life.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
So I get it. Question everything.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
I could see like one time like a fluke. No, he beat all three of them in air hockey.
Damaris
I keep telling you, you got to feel it. You have to be able to feel the air, the board. In air hockey you feel the air, you know, you can kind of, you know, I mean, you know where the puck is at. That Stevie just his, you know, his other senses kicked in. Touch. Feel those senses just, you know, heightened because he can't see.
Rory
Man. I. You know when you were a kid and you were losing video games, you cut that off like some real petty sore loser. I'm definitely cutting the air off so Stevie can't feel hitting that puck right in. Stevie have no idea where the board is.
Mal
You cool?
Damaris
Oh my God.
Rory
Imagine.
Mal
Are you cool?
Rory
Fuck. Losing air hockey to Stevie Wonder. Wonder. Imagine like just having that honor of being around Stevie Wonder. Kicking it with him, becoming a friend, soaking up game. Like just being around, picking his brain musically. And then like you just had, you know, you had the crib in between session. He's like, let's, let's fire up the air hockey table.
Damaris
First of all, imagine.
Rory
And then you look at CD like, are you like, you want to play air hockey?
Damaris
Yeah. Like if Stevie Wonder says fire up the air hockey. Anybody that says fire up. Like if somebody says fire up the grill, he can probably call cook. He can, he can grill who Fire up the air hockey is crazy.
Rory
Who was the person that said like Stevie was like double parked at a like a house party or something and so was like, yo, who's, who's got the Lexus? And like Stevie backed his car out.
Damaris
Nah, I swear.
Mal
Terrible. Yeah.
Damaris
See this is what. People just go crazy.
Rory
I'm putting a little sauce on it. But somebody did say that they watched Stevie Wonder like back a car out cuz it was blocking somebody at a house.
Damaris
I could see Stevie Wonder like playing into jokes like that, that like people he's with his, you know, his, his circle and they be like, yo, whose car is that? He like mine. And then he act like he's going to move it. I could definitely see that happening.
Rory
But that's what I'm saying. I think Stevie's in on the jokes. And if he said, rory, let's go play air hockey, I'd be like, haha. Then he'd be deadass about it and then beat me.
Damaris
Yeah, like I could see that happen?
Rory
This is the Matrix.
Damaris
Yeah. Then you could hear. You know your hearing is heightened. He knows which side of the board the puck is bouncing off of. Ricky Shane off of. Yeah, man, I can see it happen. And why not? Hey, so we all make mistakes, but owning up is the right thing to do, you know? Degree Cool Rush Deodorant well, last year they changed the formula and it did not go well with their fans. Degree's whole thing is it turns up the sweat and odor protection when you turn up the effort. And good thing it does because Cool Rush fans really turned up the effort to bring back the original four Formula. One guy even started an online petition. And degree listen, they admitted they effed up and are bringing the original Cool Rush scent back. And it's exactly how you remember it. Cool, crisp and fresh. It's back in Walmart, Target and other stores now for under $4. There's a reason why it's been the number one men's antiperspirant for the last decade. It's the same reason why people were not happy when it changed. So if you never tried it, it might be a good time to see what the fuss is about. Head to your local Walmart or Target to try the OG degree Cool Rush for yourself.
Rory
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Damaris
Do we have voicemails? You've got mail.
Rory
I have a question and a quick story about a man, but he's based in New York, so I'm not giving.
Mal
A ton of context here.
Rory
I apologize. So you guys have been around men with different degrees of access. My theory, and I could be wrong.
Mal
I'm asking is that if a man.
Rory
When he was younger was in a.
Mal
Position to exchange his money for women's convenience and time? No, they were just there. The money was there. I get it.
Rory
Whatever.
Mal
Do you think that man would be very good at dealing with a quote.
Rory
Unquote normal girl as I've been described? I'm cool with that.
Mal
In the future, or would it just be too fucking hard once you've had that convenience?
Rory
And for the funny part, I was.
Mal
Out last night with this individual.
Rory
He's telling me he does all this reading now. It's really important to him. Time away from the phone.
Mal
I'm like, oh cool, what are you reading?
Rory
The man says, mein Kampf. I said, oh my God, I heard you wrong. I thought you said that Hitler book. He said, no, yeah, that one. Like, it's really interesting to see where.
Mal
People started out and I'm not offended by it.
Rory
But of all the fucking books. I wish you had seen my damn face.
Mal
Just sending you guys lots of love. This Isn't even that serious.
Damaris
I'm already over this guy.
Rory
So thoughts, theories, concerns, I have them. Maybe he's a history buff.
Mal
I don't like my red flags to scissor. Like, don't.
Rory
I don't like crazy left.
Mal
No. But I don't like my red flags to bump coochie's. Like, why do you have more than one huge red flag? Like, just have one huge red flag. Maybe I could drive past it. But you got two big.
Rory
I fully understand reading my cough would be a red flag for somebody. What's the second flag?
Mal
One that he. The majority of the relationships in his life he's paid for. They have been like prostitutes. Like, he pays for women.
Rory
But he wasn't in relationships. But he was just buying.
Mal
Yes, but that's. He's never had. Like, he's not known for having regular women. He just buys. That is a red flag when you're trying to get into a relationship with somebody.
Rory
But when she was saying, what would it be like to date a normal woman? I'll give the other side of this coin. The main real reason for prostitutes is for men in normal relationships to cheat without any problems.
Mal
But that's not his.
Rory
Like, it's four people in normal relationships.
Mal
Yes.
Rory
That's what. That's what people. Men do that. Why do people say who you think prostitutes the most? Married men or single men?
Damaris
I think both.
Mal
I think. I don't think that's a specialty.
Damaris
Yeah, that's why I don't understand. People say, oh, you know, guys that are in relationships, are married, they have sex with prostitutes because they don't want no problems. We see mad prostitutes cause problems every day on the timeline. We see mad prostitutes do ig. IG lives and tell everything that happen and expose text messages. We see that all the time.
Rory
Remember the golden era when people were paying for pussy in return for silence? Now you're paying for a problem.
Damaris
You're paying for a problem. You're paying. She want a roll out. She want a Rolex. She want, like, she want all kind of roles.
Rory
How I paid for stress cinnamon rolls.
Damaris
She won everything.
Rory
Okay. But I mean, she did mention he was a man of access, but usually that only happens with men that have a. A high status and they're trying to get some attention based off saying, hey, I was this guy. He was flying in for this and that. You know, that's usually when we see. When prostitutes or escorts do that, it's for an NBA player. But if it's just a guy that may have A few dollars and some access. I don't know if prostitutes doing that, but, I mean, this POD is not the one to be well versed in buying. But I've always felt that prostitutes were there more for married men than anyone else. Like, they're dating norm. Like, they're in a normal relationship and it's not working. So they. Instead of confiding into a regular woman, they just go buy some.
Damaris
I like.
Rory
I like their system.
Damaris
I like that you feel like you said that. I feel like prostitutes are there for married mother men. Because I could promise you a prostitute is not gonna be like, you married, right?
Rory
No, no, they're not.
Damaris
That's the thing. If you ain't. I ain't giving you no pussy.
Rory
No, I'm just saying the highest clip of, like, why they're so in demand is more for men that are trying to escape for a second within their relationship where, you know, cheating is messy. If. Especially if you're, like, really talking to somebody else, that's where things get crazy. But if you just say, yo, here's a hundred dollars, because, I mean, can't be that expensive these days. This is plummeting. I feel like on the national has.
Mal
Actually gotten more expensive.
Rory
Okay, good for. All right, great for inflation. That's America, you know, filling up your tank with these prices to just go buy inflated.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
I don't know how these guys. That's America, but that's usually what men would do. Like, I know in this situation, I'm paying for something. It's a transaction. This girl won't text me. She won't show up in my house. Like, that's what I always felt that was for. Because we've been in strip clubs. Clubs that aren't like, say, starlets or, like, you know, real strip clubs. It's usually, like older businessmen that are probably truck drivers that are probably married. So I think there's a world where a man that did prostitutes, like, could just date a normal girl. He may. He may still those prostitutes, but I don't know if it's red flag that he's dated them or if you love.
Damaris
You know, a great story. One of my favorite movies of all time, Pretty Woman Woman. He got tired of dating normal women and married. Wanted to marry a prostitute.
Rory
We had Clay up here said he prefers promiscuous women. I think in this day and age, that's probably more normal than it's ever been. That men are just like, at this point, I don't even care. Matter of fact, let me go with the horror, because there's no surprises. I already know she's one.
Damaris
Yeah, but I feel like men that only date promiscuous women, my ego's not built for that. I don't know.
Mal
Go ahead, say it.
Damaris
Mom said something there, man. Something a little funny about that. Like, why you only like promiscuous women? Because they.
Mal
Well, in their minds, they're more fun, they're more open, they're more freaky, they're more experienced. And by promiscuous women, we're not just saying prostitutes. There's women that are promiscuous who don't sell it. Sometimes it's free, but they feel like they're more fun. But y' all have always said that hoes were fun.
Damaris
Fun, yeah. But I know regular girls that ain't hoes that are fun too.
Rory
And I know non promiscuous women that once you have an actual interaction with them and start dating for real, they're freakier than the horse. It's like, to me, it's more. I know where mall is taking it, and I actually hope he lands that plane because I want. I know what he's trying to say.
Mal
I know he's not saying that's why I said.
Rory
But I also think those men are also sort of, like, lazy because it's easy. Like, they're treating it more like a high and a dope mean.
Mal
Like, they don't want to put work.
Rory
There's no work or effort involved. Like, I'll go with promiscuous women because I know I could just be in more.
Damaris
Like, yeah, I've had that. I had that phase where it was just like, promiscuous women, because, you know, they're not looking for nothing serious. They're not looking to be tied down in a relationship, which is fine.
Rory
So this isn't a slut shaming thing, I think.
Damaris
Right.
Rory
People should do whatever the they want.
Damaris
But I mean, when you just like. Like, that's all you want. It's just like, yo, you all right? What you going through, man? What's up? Like, that's all you want to date is promiscuous woman. Because I. I had a stage where I would date a lot of promiscuous women. But if I, in that moment, in that time, met a girl that was like a really good girl and was like, I would absolutely date her and be like, yo, I like her. Like, she's cool.
Mal
Like, yeah, you would date her, but you wouldn't stop. You would. Would you have been faithful to her? Or you would just hate her and walked her. Like was.
Damaris
No, no, I was. It was. It was a time I was dating somebody seriously. In my. In my whole face, if you want to call it that. Absolutely.
Rory
Why you do that? Girl like that?
Mal
Yeah.
Damaris
No, I didn't. No. I mean, I should have told her the.
Rory
The filthy ran through man that you were.
Damaris
Oh, no, she knew that. She knew.
Rory
She.
Damaris
She knows she saved me.
Rory
She didn't even know she had community dick. That's crazy.
Damaris
No, she knew.
Rory
Beside though, every mall, everybody had that.
Damaris
Nah, nah, see, nah, don't do that. We're not gonna say everybody. Not everybody.
Rory
That's how you was raised.
Damaris
Not everybody, but some women that shouldn't have. Absolutely, absolutely.
Mal
Knowing you got community dick is like, just. Why you signing up for that? That's self hate.
Rory
Why are you.
Damaris
Y' all want community dick, though?
Rory
I was about to. Let's not make this.
Damaris
How much time we got, Josh? Y' all women like community dick.
Mal
They do like it.
Damaris
They do like it.
Mal
But it's because I feel like women like it until you locked in like you.
Rory
You'll get it.
Damaris
Until you get it and feel like you could stop it from being community dick and lock him down and have a family and have a house and home with him. And then you realize like, girl, ain't no changing.
Mal
You see just how bad it is. Like, until you see just how much how involved the is in the community. Like what the ties to the community are.
Damaris
President of Neighborhood Watch.
Mal
That should have you crying, throwing up and at the same time.
Rory
Yeah, no, he's. He's Ghost in the last season.
Damaris
He's.
Rory
He's going for political daughter got killed, didn't cry.
Damaris
Sabitch got killed, went crazy.
Rory
Like he's. He's cutting ribbons in front of salons. Like he's that involved.
Damaris
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Rory
He's trying to clean up the community.
Damaris
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Rory
But don't do that because the same way we're shitting on men for going after the promiscuous women because sometimes they can be more fun or easy. Don't act like women that are not even hoes have a phase where they go after community dick because community dick's fun. You're gonna go on a date at 6 o' clock and not get home till 4am you're gonna go to three, four different spots. Community dick is fun.
Damaris
Peach cut the baby D. There you go. Look at her face, right? So you gonna have some of the.
Rory
Best dates of your life with community dick. He know all the spots. He know the waitresses.
Mal
It's not worth it. It's not worth it, though.
Rory
He got the same.
Damaris
I mean, it's a fun moment, fun time, but y' all just getting y' all feelings, and y' all be like, yo, I just want him for myself, and he ain't. You know what I'm saying? He not ready to retire.
Rory
You've definitely went out with the guy that called the promoter twin, but you got a section in the bottle, and it was four fun.
Mal
I've never in my life went out with a man that called the promoter twin.
Damaris
Him and the promoter. Him and the promoter got their own secret handshake. You. You walked in with.
Mal
See, I think y' all make me look nasty.
Rory
Make me look nasty.
Mal
That's. That's gross.
Rory
Don't to that. Yeah, he community dick. But. But you on the riser at the Drake show, so, y' all. I. God is strong. God is still working on me. Me.
Damaris
God is watching us. I'm just from a distance. Remember that? That was my. In church.
Rory
That was a lifetime ago. I don't even remember that person. Yeah, I'm sure that was a whole entire. I don't even like that. That didn't even happen.
Damaris
Did we help this young lady out at all?
Rory
She left him.
Mal
She said she left him. But no, baby, them was two red flags. It's two. Two big red flags. Stay away from.
Damaris
Stay away from.
Rory
I've never read that book. Like, what is it it really about?
Mal
Don't look at me.
Rory
I know, like, the history that, like, Hitler. He didn't write it. Right. He was just, like, into it. That's, like, what sparked the idea. Oh, he just straight up wrote it. Wow. Yeah. Maybe he's a history buff. I've watched some Hitler's documentary I watched.
Mal
I wouldn't be mad. I would.
Damaris
Why is that a red flag?
Mal
Yeah, I would read that.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Not to, like, be like, oh, this guy's making great points, but it's a very historical thing.
Damaris
Now, if I told you I'm reading that book and you come over and the documentary is on, then it's like, I fam.
Mal
Are you taking notes?
Damaris
Yeah, you all the way.
Rory
But, yeah, I see it as a red flag where you'd have to ask a few questions, like, damaris, you have the garage code in my house. Let's say you just came in, didn't tell me, and I was upstairs, like, just watching Roots by myself. You'd have some questions.
Damaris
Yeah. That's a long ass, that movie Three weeks long. Yeah. That movie with commercials. He watching it with commercial.
Mal
Oh, my God.
Damaris
Yo, watching commercials.
Mal
That is law and order at that point.
Rory
And, like, historical. Don't get me wrong. Classic. But, like, why are you watching this by yourself? Yeah, like, I gotta know why.
Damaris
What's going on? Yeah, what's happening?
Rory
It could be innocent.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
But nah, What's. What's going on here?
Damaris
Yeah, I need this. Questions. Definitely. Definitely some questions.
Rory
Or if, like, every time you come over, I'm watching.
Damaris
Yo, look at the book. The overview on the. On the minecamp F book 81. Like, this book. See?
Rory
And this is why Kanye said he's no longer anti Semitic.
Damaris
Exactly.
Rory
He's such a hipster.
Damaris
He saw the 81 people, like, nah.
Rory
Too much into this anti Semitism.
Damaris
I don't like it.
Rory
He. He always goes against the grain. Now that it's being popular, he's like, no, I want.
Damaris
Yeah, now that y' all like the Hell Hitler song. He like, man, nah, nah, I'm cool. I'm off that. Yeah. We ain't doing.
Mal
I'm off that. But, yeah, I don't think we helped this young lady at all. But what the.
Damaris
She helped herself. She left him, Right?
Rory
Yeah. She stopped dealing with the time. It was.
Damaris
Yeah, she knew what it was.
Rory
Us.
Damaris
It's all good. Shout out to that young lady.
Rory
But also, I believe in transparency in.
Damaris
Relationships, but I thought she was about to say something else, but go ahead.
Rory
No. Land your point from before.
Damaris
No, no, no. Land your point from. I'm exchanged. Man, look at the range, man.
Mal
I got a whole new game.
Damaris
Got a whole new game plan.
Rory
I'm leaving out that, like, I purchased a. If you get into no girl and you were, like, a serious serial purchaser, is that, like, something you bringing up?
Damaris
No, absolutely not.
Rory
Like, we all leave something off the table because one is from the past, and it's not coming back. And we don't even. With that type of. No more.
Mal
It's coming back. That's why you brought it up.
Damaris
How.
Mal
That's why he bought it up. It's coming back. He know that that's something she probably would have had to encounter in their relationship. That's why he.
Rory
How do you encounter addiction to prostitutes?
Damaris
You bump into her at Starbucks. One of the girls you pay for.
Mal
No, he was dating a girl, and I think he wanted to test her waters, like, test her temp to see if she was okay with him purchasing pussy. Because if she would have continued to date him, he probably would have continued to still purchase Pussy.
Rory
Oh, no, that's different. I'm saying if he's. And then she didn't show her to be in a monogamous relationship and, like, with her, but in his past, he's purchased pussy.
Damaris
Like, why would you even bring that up?
Rory
I don't know if that's, like, relevant.
Damaris
Yeah, like, that's not a conversation piece. Like, she asks you, yo, so what's for dinner tonight? But, yo, you know I used to pay for pussy. Right?
Mal
But if you haven't. I mean, sometimes you having, like, drunk strip Uno nights with the person you're.
Damaris
Excuse me, you're having what?
Mal
Drunk strip strip Uno nights with the person you're dating.
Rory
First of all, one on one. Uno is funny as is. I'm just taking my clothes off.
Damaris
We can, at this point, stop bringing your personal to work.
Rory
One on one.
Damaris
Uno is crazy with bringing your personal shit to work. Damaris, nobody plays drunk strip Uno.
Rory
You just. That's her lucky day.
Damaris
Yeah, like, what. What is that? Stop bringing your personal life to work. Please leave it off camera and off my same way.
Rory
This gentleman shouldn't have brought up that he purchased pussy.
Damaris
Play drunk strip Uno. Like, what are you talking. That's not even a real game. Yo, if you. You playing drunk strip uno, the marriage. Slow down. Nobody's playing drunk strip Uno.
Rory
No. Now I have a question. What are the rules? Okay, first, like, it's draw two. Two items of clothes.
Mal
That's not even a real.
Rory
Because once you would draw four. How many. How much clothes you even got on in the. Yeah.
Damaris
What's the reverse? I gotta put on your panties. Like, yeah, reverses. I put on your thong. Like, what are we talking about? What is it? Reverse, like, teach us. Teach us your moves.
Rory
A red flag if reversing. She's like, nah, but you gotta.
Damaris
Yeah, you gotta put my thong on. You gotta be. This game is over.
Mal
I don't never want. Nobody's on my phone.
Damaris
Man. Ass on your thong pissed me off.
Rory
Yeah, but back.
Mal
Okay, so that's not a real thing. I was just putting. Stringing words together. I was podcasting, like, what the.
Damaris
Oh, okay.
Mal
I'm sorry. I'm good at my job.
Damaris
I thought you had a flashback. I'm sorry.
Mal
My point was sometimes you get drunk with your partner in the house, and y' all are just bonding and having conversations, and I feel like that's when situations like that might get brought up. I don't think he just pulled it out, like, over the scrambled eggs in the brunch. In the lucky day. Album playing at dinner. Like, I don't think that that happened.
Damaris
I done drank some of the best champagne in the world, and I ain't never drank enough to where I was. Like, I'm gonna tell her tonight. I pay for pussy.
Rory
And, like, go through the timeline that don't come up. My guess is she found something in, like, saw in his phone or some. Or, like, maybe there was a bunch of unsaved numbers that you could clearly see. This was a transaction. Because there's no way a man is just even in the midst of drunk. Uno. We've all been there.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Strip. Uno.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Was just like, hey, just let you know, like, through my 20s, I purchased, like, 15 to 20 prostitutes. That's, like, really what I was doing.
Mal
Y' all never played let's get deep or, like, one of those, like, car played them all.
Damaris
Yeah, I'll play this.
Rory
They're. There's every card in that deck. There's certain things that's never coming out of my mouth.
Mal
Really.
Rory
I don't care if it's a specific card of run through everything you've ever done. I'm still holding something down, and I want her to do the same. I don't need to know everything about everybody. Play partner. I don't. She.
Damaris
You think we play those games and really, like, tell, like, the real. The marriage thing we get. We draw the card and be like.
Rory
Tell your darkest secret doing, like, the beginning talking phases where you're still trying to give the better represent your partner for real. They already know everything about you. You're not gonna play that game with somebody.
Mal
I've played that game with somebody I was with for four years and learned more about them, and they learned more about me. It wasn't like, how many prostitutes. We said, what.
Rory
How many prostitutes he.
Mal
I don't think he's ever bought prostitutes. I don't think we got that. We didn't. We didn't draw that card.
Damaris
A girl bought that game to. To. We went out to dinner one night, and she bought a car game.
Mal
That's cool, though.
Damaris
I thought that was stupid. I don't think I ever spoke that after that. Why the. Are you bringing cars if we in the crib? If it's like, we chilling at the crib tonight, the game is on. We ordering some takeout. Whatever. We in a real restaurant.
Mal
The restaurant is crazy. I went to. I. Me and somebody I was dating at the time. We got drunk at dinner, and then we went to. I got drunk and wanted to go in Target, and he just Was like, okay, buy whatever you want at Target.
Rory
The most richest woman on earth.
Mal
I was just buying shit drunk.
Damaris
And so.
Mal
And I bought that game at Target.
Damaris
Damaris bought a beast chip.
Rory
And no.
Damaris
Damn.
Rory
No.
Mal
You know what's crazy? I tried to buy an Ottoman drunk. I tried to buy an ottoman. He said, damaris, we're going to Ottoman, man. He said, we're going to a bar after this. Where are you putting the ottoman?
Damaris
You go sit on it at the bar.
Mal
I was up.
Rory
Ottomans usually match the. What you have. So you just bought, like, a stray.
Damaris
It was a oneo.
Mal
Trying to take ottoman.
Rory
That's like buying one Air Force One.
Mal
Stupid. So. But we went. We ended up going to the Moxy hotel rooftop, and we were just chilling, having drinks.
Damaris
You could have bought the ottoman there.
Mal
And not able to pay with. I bought that game and we. We. I had bought it in my Target bag, and we were playing it at the spot, like, so I feel like dinner is extra, but at the bar, like, at the lounge. I don't think that there's anything wrong with that. And we had bought the sexual one, so it was.
Rory
Go home. Yeah. You was at the Moxie stripping.
Mal
No, you don't. It's not. It's not a game where you do action. It's a game where you ask questions.
Rory
Okay.
Mal
It's like a get to know you type thing. So.
Rory
Yeah, imagine somebody's trying to enjoy their after work drink, drink at the Moxie bar, and Tamara's telling him their sexual fantasies. Like, can y' all go back to your room, please?
Mal
Yeah, I just thought you're boring.
Damaris
And the thing about that, the. The car game on a date is like, that's almost like having somebody in your earpiece and have somebody feeding you the questions almost to ask.
Rory
I'm not mad at it. I mean, a first date, I think that would be odd.
Mal
First, but date, that's crazy.
Damaris
First date, that's a red flag. Like, I'm leaving.
Rory
Even your first day, I would be creeped out. That's. That's the woman that comes in, not dating for you, dating for marriage. Yeah, like, she don't care who it is, but I'm getting married.
Damaris
Yeah, that.
Rory
I feel like that girl does that on the first date.
Damaris
Absolutely.
Rory
Like, get to know me before you want to know how many kids I'd like to have. Clearly, you're just here because you want.
Damaris
That with your eggs crack.
Rory
Yeah, but, I mean, I don't know. I'm. I'm with the. The card game.
Damaris
No, not Me.
Mal
So, Ma, what's your. Like what. What do you do on dates? Like, what's your date?
Damaris
Swag bag, eat, drink.
Mal
You talk for a living.
Damaris
Yeah, I talk on dates too.
Rory
Okay?
Damaris
Have conversation, you know, have fun. Find to get into things like that.
Mal
Okay, so if a girl told you.
Damaris
Nothing scripted.
Mal
If a girl told you that she wanted to have a. Like, I want a fun date. I don't want to do dinner and drinks. Like, I want to have fun. Where would you take her if she.
Damaris
Wants to have a fun date?
Rory
Strip club. Prosecutor Juice.
Damaris
I will probably take her to the projects.
Rory
Facts. Never know what's gonna happen there.
Damaris
Take the elevator to the roof and. And tell her to get out. And I'm gonna. We're gonna race down. I'm gonna take the elevator to the lobby. She take the staircase and run down to the lobby and see who makes it for Mo.
Mal
I was being serious.
Damaris
Me too.
Rory
You learn a lot about a girl with that.
Damaris
Yeah. You ever ran down. You ever ran down a project staircase?
Mal
Yes.
Damaris
You raced the elevator.
Mal
No, I didn't. I didn't race the elevator.
Damaris
Aha. There you go.
Mal
Rory.
Rory
All right. I went up for the second date. Take it back to that same project. We both get in the elevator and I scream, corners. And I just see what she does.
Damaris
He Wilder. Don't pay him no mind to marry.
Mal
I don't pay neither one of y' all. You don't lock his mind.
Rory
Like, what, you don't think jumping somebody together would be a romantic second date? Like me and her just beat up another couple? Yeah. Cuz you.
Damaris
You learned. If she could fight, if she could hold her own, like, you got to see her. Her fight movement, her fight game, what her fight game looked like. I could see that being fun.
Rory
And maybe it's a little too forward. All right, date three. I think we could. We could fight another couple. Date three.
Damaris
Start a fight.
Rory
Yeah.
Damaris
Yeah, like that. Start a fight on day three.
Rory
But then it could get awkward.
Damaris
That could lead to us going home and having sex. You're like, if you could fight.
Rory
It's a risk, though. Like, what if you win?
Mal
And I was turned on by a girl that could fight.
Damaris
What?
Rory
I mean, I'm 35, now.
Mal
Watches baddies.
Damaris
I'm watching Baddies every week. I can't wait.
Rory
Watching it.
Damaris
Oh, next Sunday, the road goes crazy.
Rory
When he watches baddies.
Damaris
Baby D, you gotta. I'm gonna call you Sunday.
Mal
Don't fucking call me.
Damaris
I'm calling you Sunday to make sure you're watching Baddies. We're not doing that shit. I'm calling you Sunday, baby D. No.
Rory
We should all get on Zoom and watch it together.
Mal
Last of us comes on Sunday.
Rory
Sunday.
Damaris
Yeah, but I'm right. After that, it parlays in the baddies.
Rory
I'm also willing to record it, and then we can watch it together on a Monday morning.
Damaris
Baddies.
Rory
Starting your Monday with.
Damaris
Nah, you can't start Mondays with baddies. Baddies is the end.
Rory
You want to end your week with.
Damaris
It, you gotta end the week with baddies. Perfect. Perfect. Sunday night, go to bed and just play. You know, maybe life isn't that bad. Like, that's what baddies makes you feel like after you watch it.
Mal
Like, if he lose, I can't him.
Damaris
But see, but that's the risk.
Rory
I like. See, I like that there's a risk.
Mal
I can't do that.
Rory
That there's a risk to it.
Damaris
But lose how, though?
Mal
Like, if you get put to sleep, hit back pockets. I can't. If you hit ground, I can't. If you hit ground, I can't. And if your face is up, I can't.
Rory
There's only two scenarios that would work. You both win or you both lose. Because you both lose. Yeah, it's embarrassing, but it's a bonding experience. We're going through some tumultuous together, but at least we did it together.
Damaris
Yeah. Because, like, if y' all both lose, y' all could go back to the community. They packed us out.
Rory
That could be a fun bonding experience.
Damaris
You, baby. Did you at your girl? Like, yo, I ain't gonna lie. They packed us out.
Rory
Like you could respect it. We fought a good fight, but maybe sipping paint is more our thing. Maybe couples fight club is not for us, but we understand who we are.
Damaris
They knock both of us out and we get back to the crib and we lumped. That's kind of fire. Like, yo, they could fight. We should. We should. Where you think they from now? They definitely from Brooklyn.
Rory
Yeah, and it's cute. Like, remember in loving basketball when there was, like, icing each other's knees and, like, that would be fun in bed.
Damaris
Yeah. Pass me the witch hazel.
Rory
But if one of y' all lose and one of y' all of y' all win.
Damaris
Yeah. That's a long ride home.
Rory
I don't even. Did we get a ride home?
Damaris
We got how. How we got here? We gotta get home.
Mal
I feel like it's okay if she lose. Not me. Y' all speak for me, it's okay if she lose, but, like, if the man loses.
Damaris
No, but lose how? Like, how did she lose? Like, if she pulled your braids out? Like. Like. Like what you expect me to do in the house? Like, I supposed to sit here, act like I don't see that patch?
Rory
Like.
Damaris
Like, what are we doing? Like, you called your girl, yet your shop opened at what time? Because she need to go. She needed to fix. Like. Like, lose how? Like, if a girl just catch you and it's like, okay, she caught you, but she can't wrench you, though. Yeah.
Rory
If she wrenched you to the point that we. We're sitting in the back of the Uber and your titties is out because she ripped your whole shirt off.
Damaris
Titties is out in the back of.
Rory
The Uber and you just sitting in.
Damaris
The Uber like this, and I gotta stop and get you a NYPD T shirt from the tourist shop. And now they think I'm on a date with the feds.
Rory
This undercover. I do not have a driver's license. Get this cop out of my car. Yeah, you got to lose country today.
Damaris
You can lose, baby D. But you can't get wrenched, though. You can lose.
Mal
Crazy.
Damaris
You can lose, but don't if shorty straight, like, wrench you and dragging you and they world stars. Nah, we can't do that. I gotta let her go. You gotta get your fight game up. I gotta let her go.
Mal
That's crazy.
Damaris
That's a fact, though. Oh, my God.
Rory
But then I feel like the woman should judge you based off the couple that you pick. Like, if you. If you pick some squeak. Like, I feel like your girl's going to look at you like, all right.
Mal
Yeah, I'm. That's lame.
Rory
That's.
Damaris
And you got to let your girl start the fight.
Rory
You know what? It should be like a. A. A threesome to some degree. Let the girl pick.
Damaris
Yeah, pick.
Rory
Let her lead. Cuz it could get weird if you pick and then jealous. Let. Let this be her thing.
Damaris
Yeah. And she just so happens to go pick a fight with the guy with the cauliflower ears. She don't know what that is.
Rory
Babe, babe, I have. Have to. I have to explain boxing and UFC to you. This is a disease that forms from somebody that has been in countless fights in their life. They're shaking like Ali. Like, nah, I'm not going.
Damaris
See, she don't even see his ears. Like, you across the D. Like, yo, wait, I think that's Jon Jones.
Rory
And she don't understand sports brand. He at the club with a sleeveless Everlast shirt on. Like. No, no, no, no, no. Not him, not him, not him.
Damaris
Yeah, you can't. You can't start a fight with somebody wearing an Under Armour T shirt. Nah, any. Any outside on a date with an Under Armour dry fit on. Nah, we can't fight him. You can't fight somebody wearing the Under Armour. Drop it to the movies. Can't do it.
Rory
He got on. You know the Under Armour polo?
Damaris
Yeah, the coaching show.
Rory
That's a OG that could fight.
Damaris
Oh, my God.
Mal
One day I'm gonna tell y' all how a man tried to wear a Nike polo on a date with me.
Damaris
Me who you was dating Roy M. McElroy.
Rory
Who? She went on a date, cuz contractually he has to wear that on every day.
Damaris
What was that? Phil Mickelson? Like a Nike drit Polo? Yo, she.
Rory
She was the first 20 year old to go after Belichick.
Damaris
That was his casual.
Rory
That was his.
Damaris
The Marisol dress casual. He put on a.
Rory
No, that wasn't his casual. That was his dress up. You gotta understand.
Mal
Yeah, man.
Rory
That was his. We going somewhere nice?
Mal
We were going to dinner, bro.
Damaris
Oh, my God. Crazy.
Rory
And I'm not materialistic or judgy in that way, but. No, I fully understand a woman going like, I think I'm cool if homie shows up.
Mal
In that.
Damaris
Only person wearing a Nike polo shirt is a. That just came home from doing 16 years and.
Rory
And that was. That was the only shirt at his mom's house.
Damaris
He went in. Yo, that was dead when he went in. He came home and still in the closet. Oh, my God, Josh. I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Went off the rails a little bit. Oh, man.
Mal
All right, Right, let's close out.
Rory
Listen, she made the right call. Yeah. Leave that gentleman.
Damaris
Leave that gentleman alone. We will be back in a couple days to talk to y' all. Sorry, I just went off the R a little bit. I'm sorry, man. It's just we had to find a way to get out of this deep, deep, dark depression that Halliburton has placed above the city of New York. Hopefully. You know, you laughed with us today, you cried with us today. But today, game two take, no prisoners.
Rory
It's what, Saturday?
Mal
Friday?
Rory
Friday.
Damaris
Come on, man. It's today. You're listening to this now. Oh, I don't know why now. It was Friday tonight. Let's go tonight. We'll talk to y' all soon. Be safe. Be blessed. I'm. That. He's just ginger. Peace.
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Podcast Summary: Episode 373 | Couples Fight Club
Introduction
New Rory & Mal, hosted by iHeartPodcasts and The Volume, delves into a blend of sports, music, personal anecdotes, and current events with humor and candid conversations. In Episode 373 titled "Couples Fight Club," released on May 23, 2025, hosts Rory and Mal navigate through intense discussions about New York resilience, a pivotal Knicks vs. Pacers game, the controversial Tory Lanez trial, and the dynamics of battle rap within the hip-hop community.
1. New York Resilience and the Knicks vs. Pacers Playoff Game
The episode kicks off with Rory emphasizing the indomitable spirit of New Yorkers, especially in challenging times.
The hosts discuss the recent playoff game between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers, highlighting a dramatic loss for the Knicks and the ensuing emotions surrounding it.
They dissect key moments of the game, including suspicious plays and referee decisions, leading to speculation about possible foul play.
The conversation reflects a mix of sports enthusiasm and conspiracy theories, underscoring the passionate fanbase's reactions.
2. Tory Lanez Trial and Public Perception
A significant portion of the episode centers around the ongoing trial of Tory Lanez, with hosts expressing skepticism about the prosecution's approach and discussing public bias.
Damaris emphasizes the importance of fairness and consistency in the judicial process, urging listeners to avoid jumping to conclusions without concrete evidence.
The hosts debate the potential impact of the trial on Tory's career and public image, highlighting concerns about media manipulation and societal biases.
3. Battle Rap Dynamics and East Coast vs. West Coast Lyricism
Rory and Mal transition into a heated discussion about the state of battle rap, particularly focusing on Joey Badass's recent performances against West Coast rappers.
Damaris critiques the transition of battle rap from live performances to recorded tracks, arguing that certain styles don't translate well outside the stage environment.
The hosts explore the broader East Coast vs. West Coast lyricism debate, praising New York's dominance in lyrical prowess while acknowledging the West Coast's contributions to vibe and energy.
They conclude that while battle rap remains a vital component of hip-hop culture, the essence of live performance is irreplaceable when it comes to lyrical battles.
4. Casual Conversations and Humor
Throughout the episode, Rory, Mal, and Damaris engage in lighthearted banter and personal stories, adding a relatable and entertaining layer to the discussions.
Rory [32:43]: "But nah, why you being thirsty? Being thirsty to a man is crazy."
Damaris [56:05]: "He says his dog became jittery and on it."
These moments provide breaks from the intense topics, showcasing the hosts' chemistry and ability to blend humor with serious conversations.
5. Advertisements and Sponsor Messages
Interspersed between the main discussions are advertisements for various products and services, seamlessly integrated into the conversation. While these segments are part of the transcript, they are considered non-content sections and have been omitted from this summary.
Conclusion
Episode 373 of New Rory & Mal offers a compelling mix of sports fervor, music industry insights, and personal exchanges. The hosts successfully navigate through complex topics like the Knicks' playoff performance, the Tory Lanez trial, and the evolving landscape of battle rap, all while maintaining an engaging and humorous dialogue. Listeners are left with a nuanced perspective on resilience, fairness, and the ever-changing dynamics of hip-hop culture.
Notable Quotes:
Rory [03:00]: "We are New Yorkers and we are resilient. We know how to take a punch."
Damaris [05:26]: "That may be the worst loss I've ever watched in Knicks history."
Rory [07:21]: "Can we look into magnets? I don't think that ball was supposed to fall that way."
Damaris [80:55]: "If he's guilty, which he was found guilty by the state of California, then he has to go sit down and take that like a man."
Rory [29:09]: "Even Daylight's AO shit that came out after was way better than his first one. Probably my favorite one that light put out."
Damaris [29:09]: "His thing is too much of his own world that he creates in his music on wax. It doesn't land the same as on stage."
Recommendation
For fans of sports discussions intertwined with hip-hop culture and candid, humorous exchanges, Episode 373 of New Rory & Mal is a must-listen. It captures the essence of passionate fandom, industry critique, and the importance of resilience, all delivered with the hosts' signature flair.