INTERVIEW: Gary Owen Defends Himself Against Loren LoRosa & Jess Hilarious, Talks New Special + More

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Gary Owen Defends Himself Against Loren LaRosa & Jess Hilarious, Talks New Special + More Released on August 8, 2025

Introduction In this lively episode of The Breakfast Club, hosts DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God, and Just Hilarious welcome renowned comedian Gary Owen as a special guest. The conversation delves deep into Gary's career, his interactions with other comedians, his approach to social media, and his personal life, including his recent divorce and efforts to reconnect with his children.

Social Media and Content Creation Gary discusses the pivotal role social media has played in elevating his career. He emphasizes the importance of consistent content creation, stating, “Every day we gotta post a clip” ([15:48]). Charlamagne highlights Gary's strategic move to hire a dedicated camera person, Adam Fink, which has significantly improved the quality and reach of his online clips. Gary attributes much of his recent success to this collaboration, mentioning, “He takes the craft serious. Like, even when he's not with me, he's on stage every night” ([15:35]).

Relationships with Other Comedians A significant portion of the episode revolves around Gary's interactions with fellow comedians and media personalities. An incident involving Lauren LaRosa and a misunderstanding about Gary’s identity sparks a humorous yet revealing exchange. Gary clarifies, “I have no malice” towards Loren, emphasizing the blurred lines between personal feelings and public personas ([17:53]). The hosts also touch upon Gary’s past beefs, which he describes as “fake,” underscoring his commitment to maintaining positive relationships within the comedy community.

Personal Life and Reconciliation Gary opens up about his turbulent divorce, sharing heartfelt insights into his journey of reconciliation with his son. He recounts a pivotal phone call where his son reached out after three years of silence. “The first thing he said was, dude, I know we got a lot to work on, and I know we'll get to it, but I really need your help with this problem right now” ([30:20]). This conversation marked the beginning of mending their relationship, culminating in their recent trip to Las Vegas together ([29:00]).

Comedy Specials and Career Growth The discussion shifts to Gary's comedy specials and the challenges he faced in securing platforms like Netflix. He expresses frustration over not being contacted by Netflix despite his growing popularity: “What did you do to an executive at Netflix? Did you bang somebody's wife?” ([13:27]). However, Gary remains optimistic, focusing on his YouTube strategy to post daily clips, which he credits for his recent surge in popularity. “I have to post a clip every day. I have to take over people's phones and I have to post good clips” ([15:19]).

Robbery Experience and State Farm Endorsement A standout moment in the episode is Gary’s recounting of a harrowing robbery experience. While withdrawing cash from a Bank of America, Gary left his money in the car to grab a workout, only to return and find his vehicle broken into. “I'm waiting on the tow truck, bro. And then he... I didn't think she was Tommy from Power” ([36:31]). This incident not only showcased Gary's storytelling prowess but also led to an impromptu endorsement for State Farm when he humorously credits his insurance provider for assisting him post-theft: “So, yeah, you got. Look at God. I'm telling you, come come, 20, 30, Gary's ahead. You think you robbed the wrong one today. State Farm” ([38:16]).

Conclusion As the episode wraps up, Gary shares updates on his sold-out shows and teases his upcoming comedy special, humorously emphasizing the correct spelling of his name: “Owen, not Owens. And check out his comedy special, no s on YouTube” ([27:42]). The hosts express their appreciation for Gary's candidness and humor throughout the interview, highlighting the dynamic and engaging nature of the conversation.

Notable Quotes:

• Charlamagne Tha God ([15:48]): “Every day we gotta post a clip.”
• Gary Owen ([17:53]): “I have no malice.”
• Gary Owen ([15:35]): “He takes the craft serious. Like, even when he's not with me, he's on stage every night.”
• Gary Owen ([30:20]): “The first thing he said was, dude, I know we got a lot to work on, and I know we'll get to it, but I really need your help with this problem right now.”
• Gary Owen ([13:27]): “What did you do to an executive at Netflix? Did you bang somebody's wife?”
• Gary Owen ([38:16]): “So, yeah, you got. Look at God. I'm telling you, come come, 20, 30, Gary's ahead. You think you robbed the wrong one today. State Farm.”
• Gary Owen ([27:42]): “Owen, not Owens. And check out his comedy special, no s on YouTube.”

Insights and Takeaways:

• Strategic Content Creation: Gary’s emphasis on daily content posting and hiring a dedicated editing team highlights the necessity of consistency and quality in building a digital presence.
• Maintaining Positive Relationships: Despite occasional misunderstandings, Gary prioritizes positive interactions within the comedy community, viewing beefs as unnecessary distractions.
• Personal Growth and Reconciliation: Gary’s journey through divorce and his proactive steps to reconnect with his son serve as a testament to the power of perseverance and open communication.
• Humor in Adversity: Even in recounting traumatic experiences like robbery, Gary maintains his comedic persona, turning adversity into relatable and humorous content.

This episode offers a comprehensive look into Gary Owen's multifaceted life, blending professional insights with personal anecdotes, all delivered with the quintessential humor and candidness that The Breakfast Club is known for.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. Y' all finished or y' all done?

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, we do.

[DJ Envy]

One of my favorite comedians, ladies and gentlemen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why is not one of ours.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. But one of my favorite comedians, ladies and gentlemen, Gary Owens. Here, ladies. Yes, Gary Owens.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's get it. Ratings are about to skyrocket.

[Just Hilarious]

I already know what's up, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Well, how you feeling? First and foremost? How's everything?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everything's great. No complaints.

[Just Hilarious]

I've been.

[DJ Envy]

I've been really watching your clips. The last couple of. The last couple.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I looked dead at her last.

[DJ Envy]

The last couple of weeks, I've been watching your clips and I just want to say salute to you. I seen a couple of clips where one guy, which was kind of weird. I thought it was kind of weird. His wife died.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And he still went to see Gary Owen.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes. Two days. Two days later.

[DJ Envy]

Two days later. Because he was supposed to go with his wife and his wife died and he still went, which was surprising, but he went. And Gary, you decided to take care of the funeral course.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, they cremated her. I took care of the urn. Then I gave him. I gave him more because he had to take off work for a month, but he didn't. I don't think he had a. A GoFundMe. So he got that. And that got over 14,000.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So. Yeah. But the reason, it just was kind of spur of the moment, but it was more he didn't ask because then you see the good and the bad side of social media. Do something like that because I had. My DM's got overrun. Well, since you helped him, help me, can you do this? All he sent me a message was he told me that his wife passed. They. And then when I saw his page, they go to a lot of comedy shows. That was their thing. So they got pictures of all kinds of comedians. And so he's. I'm gonna go. Because she wanted. She. We were supposed to go. And so that's why I took care of it. Cause he didn't ask. He said, man, I don't know if you do meet and greets, but I really like to get a picture with you. That's all he wanted.

[DJ Envy]

That's all he wanted.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I could even tell even when he was asking, he was stuttering like, I'm not here for this, but thank you. And I wanted to know, you know. Cause you pick on. I don't wanna say pick on, but you will call people out at a show. Have you ever called out somebody and it was wrong? Like, I've done it up here all the time. But like, so what did your mom think? And they'd be like, my mom's dead. Like, it's happened a bunch of times. So has that happened?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. You just like us. Way to bring the show down. If you had a comedy show, you're there to laugh. But that's going to happen. You know, I mean, like that people think I'm just doing like crowd work. Sometimes I get interrupted. And we're taping it now. So I finally got a full time camera person with me, which I should have did a long time ago.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, that's why I'm seeing so many clips now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, well, I got the right editor too.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. I mean, I had camera guys, but then I'd be like, why did you stop it there? Now I got it took trial and error. Now I got the right team. So that's why I think you're seeing me more in the algorithms and the clips are better. Cause they're actually capturing it and they're editing it correctly. You know what I mean?

[Just Hilarious]

So you were always doing it. You just got a team to actually capture it, edit it and put it together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Thanks to Nate Jackson.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw him here last week.

[DJ Envy]

We don't get it to Nate Jackson, but also Lauren LaRosa that's sitting to the right of you, threw a shot at you. Just, just, just you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I didn't throw a shot.

[DJ Envy]

It was another white comedian here. And I think she was trying to pit two white comedians against each other.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw that.

[Just Hilarious]

Whoa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is the white comedian.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. And she just threw a shot at you for no reason. And we didn't. Let's. Let's listen to the audio, know what's going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But they brought up the Kendrick Lamar thing. And all sudden, girl that fills in for Jess. Hilarious. That was there when I was there a few months ago. They said, you know, Kendrick has never really said who he's talking about. Andrew's like, how do we even know Kendrick was talking about me? Now Envy Charlemagne and Schultz is like, we don't even know who Kendrick was talking about. He could have been talking about Gary Owen. And literally, the girl goes, ain't nobody checking for Gary Owen. And I was like, I tell you, this girl, I can't remember her name. I don't know what her issue with me is, but I'd be like, what? How did I catch a strain? Anybody checking for Gary Owen? And I'm like, well, I just did 12 shows in Baltimore. Somebody check it for me. I love sold out Nashville this weekend. Somebody checking for me? Yeah, you can tell she, like, takes her hip hop real serious and the lyrics real serious. I could tell when I was there. I go, so she's like, you know, Andrew, how can you say that? And, you know, you got almost. He almost was defending Kendrick, but I was like, oh, she takes those lyrics serious. Takes her hip hop serious. It reminded me. It was like when Tyrese got mad at me because I said of a. I said a joke. Like, in her mind, I'm not a real celeb. I'm not a real entertainer. She doesn't take me serious. Yeah, she doesn't feel. I bet you in her mind, if she was booking the show, she wouldn't have me on. I bet you in her mind, she goes, no, no, no, no, no, no. Why are you like that? So why.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, hold on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Why?

[Lauren LaRosa]

First, before we ask me questions, do you know my name now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, you didn't know then.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

From Delaware. Went to Delaware State.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They don't know my name, but I know your name.

[DJ Envy]

But why. But why throw the shot in?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? So why you do that to me?

[Lauren LaRosa]

First of all, it wasn't a shot.

[DJ Envy]

What you are.

[Just Hilarious]

I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, so I have a tendency.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was a shot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can you be quiet?

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I have a tendency to say things, and I don't think much of it, but then I'm realizing that people. It hits people differently because I thought I was saying that during that time, it was very clear what Kendrick Lamar was talking about, because Andrew Schultz, in the conversation that he had with was all over the news. And then the Kendrick Lamar stuff happened.

[DJ Envy]

So I. Gary Owen, don't be all over the news. Gary Owen, don't be all over Things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had a show with Kendrick. Andrew's never worked with Kendrick at the same time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

True. Y' all know what I'm talking about. Like, it was very clear at the time what was happening. It wasn't a dig at you. It was like a. I thought we all saw the same thing.

[DJ Envy]

I saw, like, when you said ain't a blank.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was the. Got my eyes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think you a celebrity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I just want content. I want you to react. It's what y' all know about me. Lauren, I don't take none of this personal. Personal. And if I'm doing a rant, I'm like, yeah, they'll probably pick this up.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And sure enough.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. I mean, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw you in your car.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Views was good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah. It helped out. Help both of us out. Now, look, then they're gonna clip this up.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we're still riding that Kendrick train.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, you were like my first celebrity or not celebrity beef somewhat.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All my beefs are fake.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Michael Blackson one was fake. This thing we're about to do with Nate, it's fake.

[DJ Envy]

Well, before we get to Nate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stop.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, before we get to Nate. And I don't see. I don't know what your problem is, Gary Owen, with black women. Black women just disrespect you, then to the left of you. You and Jess Hilarious went back and forth because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did we? Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

I ain't never say nothing to this nigga.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It wasn't a back and forth. It was a.

[Just Hilarious]

And I. And I don't know why this white man decided to attack me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's listen. Me. Yeah. Jess Hilarious went to Detroit Mike Epps comedy club, which Mike Epps had nothing to do with it. I think his name is on it. But I guess it just wasn't run well the weekend she was there. She goes on the Breakfast Club and she goes, you know, they told me Damon Williams is going to be on the show. I get there as Damon Williams. I don't know no damn Damon Williams. And I'm going, jess, everybody knows Damon Williams in the comedy world. I don't know why she took that moment to dig on Damon. Like, I don't know no damn Damon Williams. Every comic knows Damon Williams out of Chicago.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm from Baltimore. I ain't from no damn Chicago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't know Dame Williams?

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I do. Now. I know who he is now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a good dude.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, Obviously he's a good dude. But I met him one time backstage right we was on the same show. I meet so many people I'm on shows with. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I think it was the dam.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, it was the dam.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said, I don't know Damon Williams. I don't know no damn Damon Williams.

[DJ Envy]

She was more taking her frustration out.

[Just Hilarious]

On the nightclub, and it was just more so. And it was. You weren't the only one. It was a lot of people, I think he called and asked to meet videos to say, like, yo, come on, shorty. Ruining my credibility. I'm valid. I'm in these streets. I've been, like, a pioneer in this shit. Can y' all please let her know who I am? And it was. It was you amongst other, you know, OG Comics that made the video and said it. But I'm like, yo, I. I really did not know who he was until videos were. No pictures were posted. A couple pictures were posted from one night at a club. We were on D Ray show, shout out to D Ray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was the New Year's Eve stuff, right? Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

And I did. I swear, I meet so many people. Like, I just did not remember, oh, that's Damon Williams. Okay, cool. Even still, only met him one time now. My bad. But, like, I'm not gonna say sorry because I didn't know who he was by name. And every comic does not know Damon Williams. Every comic does not know me. Every comic don't even know your ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shocking. Every comic.

[Just Hilarious]

Everybody don't know everybody. Now, you know, some people are just like, duh, we know who that is. You know what I mean? But it's like, I did not know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, well, he ran with it. And like I said, it's all content.

[Just Hilarious]

He did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't say he actually. Huh? No, no, no. I did. On my side, I like David.

[DJ Envy]

So you just jumped in the beef? You didn't even. He didn't even call your ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I'm very. Listen, I'm very strategic with what I say. You don't see me calling them out their name. You don't see me saying they should get fired. You don't see me saying they're not good at their job or, she got a bad wig. I don't ever. I'm like, anybody check for Gary Owen? You know who damn Damon Williams is? And then I just keep it moving. I'm like, they're gonna respond. I literally go to my phone, be like, oh, yeah, Lauren did it. Exactly. When I go on, Jess is gonna bring this up.

[Just Hilarious]

And you know what's crazy? When you did that when you posted the video, somebody was like, why Tommy from Power gonna make a video talking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About, you know who.

[Just Hilarious]

Damon. I said, tommy from Power.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tommy from Power.

[Just Hilarious]

Probably don't know no movie. But I was like, you know, that's Gary.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

So boom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. See, now we're talking about, man. I was like, oh, damn, Em, you gonna get the smoke. You get smoke one day. You better get the smoke. I'm the most respectful, like, beef person, Jess. I like her. Lauren. She's good at her job.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You didn't say that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Huh? He did.

[Just Hilarious]

He said you take your hip hop very serious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hip hop serious.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was a dish. You didn't say I was good at my job. You said I take my hip hop very seriously. Like, that was like a.

[DJ Envy]

He said he didn't know your name.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was. That was. Yeah, that was on purpose.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But if you think I'm good at my job, you can say now, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You good at your job.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think you add something to the show. You know what I mean? It's good to have a little antagonist every now and then.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But what does that do for you, though, at where you are? Because, like, wow.

[DJ Envy]

For me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, a real question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Wow. It's fun.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, where you are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we have fun in this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I'm just saying where you are. Meaning. So when I. When you said I didn't think you were a celebrity, I was like, what? I've been watching you. My household has been watching you forever. I do think you're a celebrity. I'm saying where you are. As if, like, you. You're at a point where, like, that type of trolling. Do you need to do that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think it was trolling. I like the Breakfast Club. So I chime in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, you're so commentating.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Commentating, but same thing you're doing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but my. I feel like my comment, like, you're. You're here saying those weren't your true feelings. If I say something, that's really how I feel.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, well, we're different.

[DJ Envy]

Gary's fake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I'm completely fake on the Internet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, that's what I'm saying.

[Just Hilarious]

I mean, I did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One of my specials is literally called hashtag doing what I do. Because I go, I'm lying if I do that. Hashtag, I'm lying. I. Taking pictures in front of yachts. I wasn't on the yacht. I was lying.

[Just Hilarious]

You know, so that's where Bow Wow got all that fake shit from.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, probably.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Meow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you go At Bow Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's where I got it from.

[DJ Envy]

That's where I got it from.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I go from the best. When he was on a private plane and go, that's a good idea. Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

So you got your comedy special, Gary Owen.

[DJ Envy]

No S. You got the one on Netflix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. You know that's a lie.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You guys do a video about Instagram? Ain't no way. Netflix chat.

[Just Hilarious]

But, yo, so do you really? Does it really grind your gears when people call you?

[DJ Envy]

Grind your gears?

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I mean, he's one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When they put an S on my.

[Just Hilarious]

Name, when people say Gary Owens, is that a thing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not. I don't think the public, but I think when a promoter hires me and you put on the flyer, I'm like, dude, you put the wrong name on the flyer. The funny. Like, it just happened last week they did some promo video about some city I'm coming to, and it was Gary Owens. I go, bro. And he's like, why aren't you reposting it? I go, because you got the name wrong.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They don't do it to nobody else. You don't see Bruce. Bruce's.

[DJ Envy]

No. You and Joe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Buttons, Earthquakes, Just hilarious.

[DJ Envy]

No Joe. But that do it now, you know, on a serious note, you are funny. You sell out shows all the time. You sell out specials all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

What did you do to an executive at Netflix? Did you bang somebody's wife? Did you bang somebody's man? Like, what did you do where they are not reaching out to you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

It's ridiculous now. Come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know, I. But you know what? It's been. People think, like, I got all this. These special. All these networks. Not. It was. BT had a good relationship with them when they were doing comedy. And then Showtime, I had a good relationship with them. So Showtime stopped doing comedy specials. So it pretty much. There's three buyers right now. Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix. Right. So I don't know. You asked me. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

You see comedians getting specials that you feel like, he's not better than me, he's not better than me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think we all think we're better than everybody else, if we're being honest. We're like, but I would. I'm not ever bitter towards another guy getting a Netflix special. I'm like, yeah, that's fine, because I'm doing fine. Like, I'm selling out everywhere in advance. You know what I mean? So I'm YouTube's. I finally figured. Figured it out with YouTube. I said, who was the highest paid people on TV. It was judges and it was daytime talk show hosts. And I was like, why? Because they're on every day. That's why. You knew Jerry Springer. Jerry Springer was on once a week. Week. He wouldn't have been. So I go, I gotta post a clip every day. I have to take over people's phones and I have to post good clips. Once I figured that out, I go, it just went. And this is all in the last, like, three months. And I can tell it just went because even my guy Adam, who's. He's like, slash opener. And he's also my web guy. It was the best DM I ever answered. This guy DM me, like two years ago and said, hey, I'm just starting out doing stand up. You know, I've been watching you forever. And I said, I looked at his page. Who does your clips? He goes, I do it myself. I said, you can come down to a guest spot. He's at the West Palm Beach Improv. I go, if you film me and let me see how the clips look. And me. And it's been seamless ever since. Took a while for me to bring him on, like full time, but now.

[DJ Envy]

But you just hire him for the clips.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he's very funny and he takes the craft serious. Like, even when he's not with me, he's on stage every night. He's open mic, and he's. I'm like, dude, you're on stage again. So he takes the craft serious. And I love the way he edits me. And just. It just. It's seamless. So I. I'll even call him, be like, that. That clip wasn't funny. Take down anybody or it's too short or, you know, but we work. We were good together. But that's what. That's what's happened over the last, like, three months. We finally was like, we made a decision. Every day we gotta post a clip.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You know, it's worse because I. I could tell the difference.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. So he's a comedian.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a comedian named Adam Fink, and.

[Just Hilarious]

He is a videographer. And he does.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He came from, like, doing rap videos. He was, like, working with Big Sean and some other people. And so working with me is great. He goes, dude, there's less weed.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He goes, I'm getting paid on time. No offense, I got paid, but I have to ask, right? You know what I mean? Can't get my money. The video's over. The song's number two. Oh, yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Hi, everybody's. Hi.

[DJ Envy]

And what happened with you and Nate Jackson? So you and Nate Jackson, y' all do a. Well, y' all used to do a podcast together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And he alluded that you might have stole some of his material.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did not steal nobody's material. Me and Nate Jackson, you seen us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, not material, but it was like.

[Just Hilarious]

The jersey of the concept.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was the concept Nate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Here's Nate's issue. He reads comments too much and takes from the heart. And so I'm sure in his brain, two people said, gary wore a jersey, and I did. I live in Houston. I got an Astros jersey. I put it on one night. I thought nothing of it. My first headshot was in a jersey. So I was like. To say I stole a jersey. I was like. I was looking at Nate, like. And then I know Nate puts out a lot of clips. I didn't know he does, like, a monthly thing because he puts out so much. So I was sitting here going, huh? I said, I'm gonna get all these cities. We're gonna clip it up. And I said, at the fir on the 1st of the month, we'll do whatever city I was in, like, in Baltimore, we'll do that, and we'll do. I'm going to call it off the Dome. So, Nick, I guess there's a podcast. When he goes, hey, man, I got a beef. He goes, you put on a jersey, and then you put on the best of and you call it off the Dome. I go, and. And then he was like, man, you know, I do a compilation, and I wear jersey in every city. I said, yo, so you. You gotta. You can't wear jerseys? Is that what we're saying right now? You know? So I just think he read the comments, and then, I don't know. We're good. Like, he said, we're good. I just. I think he shouldn't read the comments as much, because I. I read the comments. I don't take them personal.

[DJ Envy]

This is what he said for people that don't know, so we can have a clear understanding. When he said, when he was here, I rock with Gary.

[Gary Owen]

I have no. I have no malice. You know what I'm saying? And so he. Good, but not. But it's just Ann. And so I have noticed that as I'm up in the Pacific Northwest, fighting for ways to be an innovator and stay relevant from way the fuck up there and off the grid, that sometimes people come up and they're like, oh, that is.

[DJ Envy]

That's the sauce.

[Gary Owen]

You can't. I Can't protect that. Whether he comes close to me and does it or stays away from me and does it, if somebody sees a editing style or a wave or, I don't know, a dress or a way somebody walks to talk, and it's working. Astro, there's nothing you could do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He from.

[Gary Owen]

He from there. Well, he from Ohio, but Ohio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He lived.

[Gary Owen]

This nigga. Envy is wild.

[Just Hilarious]

Crazy. Envy is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, but I, I wore. I wore an XL jersey. Nate's not wearing an XL jersey. You're stupid. My Astros with extra large. Nate's not wearing an extra large Astro jersey. If I would have wore a triple X, I stole it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not me. Is it me?

[Just Hilarious]

He's wearing a triple X. Oh, is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That a joke or that's like a real feel?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. I just want to. I want him to see it and I want him to react.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, everybody, this shit was fun.

[DJ Envy]

So y' all don't do the podcast anymore. Now he says it's timing. Is it timing or no?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It really was. Like when I did his club last year, I said, yo, he's. Because he's, he's. He's an impressive guy. And if I took anything from Nate, it's work ethic and, you know, invested in yourself. So the full time camera guys that are on the road with you, I said, I, I gotta start doing that. You know, I'll be the first one to admit, like, I was probably. I saw Bill Brown here and he was like, I take care of my people. I make sure they're paid well. And I, When I hear comics, I go, yeah, I don't want people working for me struggling. So I make sure everybody's well compensated. When I saw Nate taking his camera guys on the road, I go, I got, I got to do that. And Nate's the one that told me, you should have the camera guys with you at all times. So if I took anything from him, it's that. So the podcast away, because he does live in Tacoma. It's far. And I'm going up there once a month for like two, three days, and we're busting out five, six episodes. And so it was just. It was a lot. It was taxing. And we weren't, you know, it just. He got busy, I got busy, and I was like, dude, this is a lot. And we both agreed. You're la, I'm Houston.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, you're Houston. And he's watching. Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he's got his own studio, which is impressive. I Was like, yeah, this is. He's. He's like a mini, mini Tyler Perry going on over there. He's got his own spot he can do, and he runs his merch out of there, and he's got like three people in cubicles just cutting, cutting up his clips.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So if I took anything from Nate, it's that. But no, like I said, we're good. I don't take nothing personal. You know what I mean? I just think he got a couple comments and then he was like, hey, wait a minute. I do this because, like, Charlamagne's got a podcast. He wasn't the first one to do a podcast. Somebody did a podcast, saw there's money in it, saw that you could build stuff and you go with it. You know, Matt Rife, I didn't know I had a Tick Tock. And then I remember I was in Atlanta and the club owner there, Gary Abdul, I saw Matt Rife and he was sold out, like, month in advance. I go, matt Rife, sold out already. He goes, tick tock, bro. He went nuts. I called my web people. I go, dude, do I got a tick Tock? They go, you got 600, 000 followers. I didn't know I had a tick Tock. They had already had it. And my clips was up there, and I was like, oh, I got one. Yeah. So now I make sure. Just like Instagram, YouTube, I make sure I'm active in my tick Tock. But where'd I get that from? Matt Rife took off.

[DJ Envy]

Do you know that they monetize it? Did you get a check from Tick Tock?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every month.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, crazy.

[Just Hilarious]

You know what? Because Envy just put me on today. I didn't realize that I had, like, that I could monetize Tick Tock. I never posted on my average 300, 000 views. I literally had somebody running it. I never was on TikTok. I never been on Twitter, any of that. I just run Instagram, right? So when Envy came in here a couple weeks ago, like, yo, are you monetizing? I'm like, no, I didn't know you can make. I didn't know I could make money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Off Facebook's for the money.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, right. But he told me that. And so now I'm working on all my, you know, social media.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You stole that.

[Just Hilarious]

You stole that, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, I'm saying you're a thief, obviously.

[Just Hilarious]

Obviously.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what? Damon Williams has a tick tock. Shut up.

[Just Hilarious]

Shut up. He actually should have off that whole moment. He should have had a. Who Is Damon Williams toy. So he could tell people who didn't know. I think he was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think he. He. One thing I will say he maximized. I think that was. We say, like, how could Jess do that? But that was like the best thing for. For him at that time. It went everywhere.

[Just Hilarious]

You know, you welcome.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's like Angel Reese, the best thing she ever did was do the ring thing to Caitlin Clark.

[DJ Envy]

Of course.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because she's the villain.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, because WMA is kind of boring.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But now every time they play, it's sold out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But when angel and Caitlin play, you watch that thing.

[Just Hilarious]

They went from Angel Reese doing that, you know, to the D. Those all over the court, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's when you know your. Your league's boring. That's the headline, not the score. Because I guarantee you, all those. All those games that do got thrown to court, nobody knows the score.

[DJ Envy]

I got in trouble for that the other day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because on the court.

[DJ Envy]

No, I reported yesterday. I was like, wnba, there was a dildo throwing on the court. Charlie go, what was the score? I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Green deal, though. Nobody cares.

[Just Hilarious]

Did not know. Look, going back to what you said about your videographer, right? Like you say, he's a comedian, right? What do you do? Was he a comedian? But when you met him?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, he DM me and he was like, yo, I'm a comedian.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And he was already. I went to his page and I saw his videos.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I go, that's pretty good. I go, can you record me? And he was like, yeah. So we tried it and it took about seven, eight months for me to bring him on full time.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he got better too. Like he. Now we're. We're synergized, like a team. He gets me, I get him. He's so. I like how he's like, he's way younger than me, so he's like 30. So he. He knows what the 30 year olds are looking for. Nah, that attention. Spanish gonna be there for that. Yeah, he really. It's great.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For real. So.

[Just Hilarious]

So what do you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sorry, am I neglecting eye contact? I'm over here. How do I leave you out?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, like this. Yeah, the energy's great.

[Just Hilarious]

So what do you do Right when he goes, like when he blows, he pops off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good. We talked about. I said, dude, I would love to have the Jo Koy opened up for Chelsea Handler, Chris d' Elia opened up for Joe Coy, that type of deal. And he told me, he goes, dude, by the time that happens, this is going to be a well oiled machine. You're going to be good. Because he's we. I have a full time camera guy. That's not Adam. Adam edits it. So Adam doesn't have to be with me every week.

[Just Hilarious]

Gotcha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, but I like him with me because when you're in the room, you know, when the energy's right, he gets it.

[Just Hilarious]

He's a comedian.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That one that went nuts last month. The paper straws one in Baltimore.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember the guy? I was like imitating four people at the same time. The security guards and everything. It was like I forgot all about that. That was back in February. That happened.

[Just Hilarious]

Hilarious though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. But he captured it. If he wasn't there, we missed out on that. So if you're talking about what I took from Nate, keep the camera guys with me. Because that wasn't crowd work. That was. I was getting interrupted. The guy was like animated. And we come to find out he doesn't drink. And they were trying to get him to buy drinks. That was a discussion. He bought the VIP tickets, but he wasn't buying anything. They're like, dude, you need to buy some drinks. He's like, I don't drink. Yeah, that was what I didn't know. But they were so animate. I just started. But that wasn't like crowd work that just got interrupted and rolled with it. You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

You said John Cena's interview really, really changed your perspective on things 100%. So break that down. How did it change your perspective?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was funny because, like, the week before he came on Kelsey Plum, we're talking about the WN player, she, like, snapped on somebody that was trying to get her autograph. And she goes, how's that make you feel? That as a grown person, you know, doing that? Then when John Cena came on your show and he goes, if I can sign something and a guy can make money off of it, it's no sweat off my back because I'm helping put food on somebody else's table. And I go, dang. I was caught up in the. You're just going to sell this now? I'm like, yeah, it ain't nothing. I'll sign it. You know what I mean? So I'm glad I saw that because it really did change my perspective on things because we get so caught up in, like, we feel like we're getting taken advantage of or we want a piece of everything that has our name on it. But if somebody's gonna blow up a 8 by 10 glossy and I can sign it and they can get 100 bucks for it, it's no sweat off my back.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean? So I'm glad. I'm glad I saw that. You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that was dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was good.

[DJ Envy]

Now let's talk about this special.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Gary owen. No on YouTube. No s on YouTube.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No s. Because black people put an S on my name.

[DJ Envy]

No s on YouTube.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gary Owen.

[DJ Envy]

No s. No s on YouTube.

[Just Hilarious]

So, yeah, it's only us that do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you guys do it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Makes sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Filipinos put a P on it in the beginning. Perry Poens cuz Pilipinos.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My mom put an S on target. She like targets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Or shrimps.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know what it is even.

[DJ Envy]

Nowhere near target.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's just an older black person thing. I don't know. They put S's on everything.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's true.

[Just Hilarious]

I didn't know that we was the only one that did that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, black people love the letter S. You guys love it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You not come to the cookout anymore? We can't because the square.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are you disassociating yourself? Like, because they're gonna still call you Gary Owens, maybe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, I'll still come with cookout. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. We'll talk about it. I'm sure you'll be like, gary was at the cookout yesterday. And I'd be like, lauren, you knew who I was. You didn't even say hello at the.

[Just Hilarious]

Cookout or she ran up to you, Gary.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you said, I'm not coming to yours. It was a joke.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was trolling.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was a joke. You ain't coming to my cookout. Where's Charlamagne? I miss him.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy. Now, I always want to ask too, you know? So you had a crazy divorce, and it's finally over. You moved on, and everything is good. So you've been. You spoke about your relationship with your kids. Has that gotten any better at all?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Son got right after I left here last time, son got a hold of me, so now we're good. He was just in Vegas with me last two weeks ago.

[DJ Envy]

How did y' all make that interview?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He didn't see the interview. He. He. He had an issue at his job, and he. He needed my help, needed my advice. So he. He just called out of left field. It was funny because Adam, my opener, we're in Philly, and he. He matched with this girl on Tinder, and he goes, yo, I got a feeling this girl's trying to catfish me. Can you go to the bar with me just to play wingman? All right. So we're walking to the bar, and my phone rings. It's my son. I looked up. I go, my son's calling me. And he looked at me. I go, my son ain't called me, like, three years. So I picked up. I said, good luck with your Tinder date. I hope she's legit. But I'm out. So we talked for, like, three, four hours at night, and then, yeah, we're. We're. We're as close as ever now. It just took took time. Daughter is still. Still nothing, but she's. She's gonna be a tough one to crack.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have you attempted to reach out to your daughter since always?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I always do. But, you know, I don't have. I don't have any. I don't have a way to contact her. She's not on social media. She got a new cell phone, so I have. I have no way other than an email.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She's told her brother not to give you her number.

[State Farm Representative]

Well, it's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a little different than that. I'll. I'll keep that between them. I'll keep that between them. I don't want everything to be on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but that's good. But what was that initial conversation like?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was it like with my son?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Was it natural? Was it like, hey, how's it going? It was like, hey, dad, we haven't spoke. Let's speak. Like, how was that, that conversation after three years? Cause it's still your son at the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You could be mad, but, you know, you still got a place for your art.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. The first thing he said was, dude, I know we got a lot to work on, and I know we'll get to it, but I really need your help with this problem right now. So I went into immediate, like, dad mode. Like, all right, that's what we got to do. And then it just so happened I was going to be in the Bay Area like, two weeks later, and that's where he lives. So the phone call happens two weeks later. We got to reconnect, and then. And then he ended up flying back to Houston with me. I said, you want to. You want to fly back Monday when I fly back? He goes, yeah, because, you know, I got the twins. So we got to meet the twins. And then everything's good now. He's got it. You know, he's got his favorite already.

[DJ Envy]

I love him. Now, be honest. When you first seen that number, did you think it was a money call? Like, you know, like. Because, you know, when your kids call, it's either they're in problem or they need some money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no, he has no problem asking for money.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, that's not an issue with him. Let me tell you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like this. Oh, you're making up for that three years.

[DJ Envy]

So it wasn't a money call. It was. I need some advice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was that. No, that wasn't a money call. There's been money calls since. That's natural. Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

You're dad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you have a moment where you, like. Because last time you were here, you talked about it. There was. It was a bit emotional for you. Ish. Did you have a moment where you, like, were like, oh, okay, Like, I finally got to the point where me and my son are reconnecting. You were able to, like, take it in and, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, I was like. I was able to, like, be honest with him about the divorce. It had nothing to do with you. That's between me and your mom. Because I think he. I think. And maybe my daughter feels that way, too. I think they probably think they had something to do with it. And I was like, dude, it had nothing to do with you. Nothing. So, yeah, you got you. You kind of replay the. The years lost in your brain. But then where we're at now, you know, we're good. Yeah, I didn't miss a wedding. I didn't miss, like, him having kids or anything like that. So I think that would be. That would be tough. Like, if my daughter ever. When she does get married, my God, I hope we're. We're back in touch by them. You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Walk her down the aisle.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, all that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you change how you do your jokes now? Because, like, I mean, from this point on, because your son's watching and you know all the things, and you had jokes about the divorce and all that stuff. Did y' all talk about that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, he's. He's got a dark sense of humor, like I do, so he was good with it.

[Just Hilarious]

How old Was your son?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

24.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. He's an adult now.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. So now he's good. He'd be cracking up, and then he. You know, it's funny because now he's kind of hanging out at the comedy club up there in the Bay Area, because I, I. When I did the show, I brought him up there, and everybody knew him from back in the day. We used to come around. So now he's. He's kind of hanging out there a lot. So he's meeting a lot of the comedians. So it's been good, because I think I've been cool with most comedians, unlike Jess, you know, with Damon. But I. He says, man, the comedians really like you, dad. Nobody says anything bad about you. I said, well, I hope not. Yeah, you know, I don't really cross people like that. That was good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's funny. Is he trying to work?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he's funny. He. He could do it if he wanted to pursue it, but I don't think it's his passion. But he could do it. He's quick on his feet.

[DJ Envy]

This is how I knew you were white, Gary, not because of your complexion. You driving past a Bank of America, decide to pull over, crazy ass, and say, hey, I want to close my account today. Yeah, you close the account. And then say, oh, well, why are the money. But the account's closed. So they say, okay, you can either take a cashier's check or cash. Yeah, you take the cash. Then you proceed to go to the gym and say, you know what? I'm gonna leave the cash that I just took out the bake in my car while I go work out for an hour plus. Yeah, And I expect the cash to be there.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, it better be here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

45. It was 45 minutes.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, 45 minutes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I went to sit in the sauna.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, 45 minutes.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that's where I'm sitting in a.

[Just Hilarious]

Sauna with money in your car, absolutely white.

[DJ Envy]

Then you come back out, your car's broken into, man. The money is gone, with a note that says, thank damn. Now, how. Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where?

[Just Hilarious]

How?

[DJ Envy]

Explain.

[Just Hilarious]

What was your.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dude, that. That. That white privilege was kicking in that day. I thought. I'm on. I'm good. You thought she was Tommy from Power, right? I wish he was there that day. I wish he was there that day. Get him, Tommy. Kiss for Christmas on these. So I'm literally. I don't bank a Bank of America, but I have an account there.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I've had money there for years that I just. I haven't paid any attention to.

[DJ Envy]

That's how you know he's white. He had money there and an account.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not an enormous amount he didn't.

[DJ Envy]

Know was even there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it's there, but it's not an enormous amount. I'm not gonna say, because I don't want to be judged.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Give us a range. Is it over 10,000? But under 50, I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's over a thousand. And under 30, you don't get to dictate.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I'm saying you don't get to dictate.

[DJ Envy]

There's nobody in this room that would have an account with over a thousand dollars in there and not know it's there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'd even leave it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know it's there. I just haven't. I don't bank there. So it's just kind of. It's not rich like that.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. I just. I go in. It took like, an hour. I was getting fed up. I go, oh, my God, dude. I'm looking at the lay. Like, I just want to leave. And then she was like, well, do you want a cashier's check or you want cash? I go, whatever, faster. Because once you're there for an hour, you're ready to go.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She goes, we can do the cash right now. All right. My car, I put in the middle consult. I go, now I'm just driving by Lifetime Fitness. I'm gonna stop in the sauna. I can use a little sweat.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I knew people break into the lockers in Lifetime. And I thought about it. I go, huh? I think it's safer in the car because I have the alarm on the car. You know, them Audis are like tanks. And I was like, this. I should be good. And it's middle of the day. It's like 1:30.

[DJ Envy]

Did you leave the Cash on the dash.

[Just Hilarious]

Crime don't have no goddamn time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Where did you put it? Where was it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In the middle.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Crazy.

[DJ Envy]

So you didn't even put it in the glove box and locker? You just.

[Just Hilarious]

That's the first place I used to look when I break in. Niggas, cars, yo, you don't do that, guys. That was back in the day.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You can't come out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I come out. I'm just. I'm doing. Not only am I getting robbed, because the widest thing I ever did was leave the money in the car. I got a smoothie, you know.

[Just Hilarious]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I think. I think I was listening to Chris Stapleton, White Horse. I come out, this security guard's on a golf cart just sitting by my car. And I go, hey, go. Yeah, they got you. And I went, huh? And I look around. I mean, that passenger side back window is gone. It's just crushed. And they tried to get in all four windows, but they finally got in. Well, the police department finally called me, right? And they said, all right, here's what's crazy. He clearly follows you out of the bank. It's called Juggin Joggin in Houston, where they literally. Guys will sit outside of banks and they'll follow people. Here's the thing. I'm glad I didn't go home, because he would have followed me home. And I'm. Because I. I was paying no attention to nothing. So I'm glad I went to the gym. And so they said, dude, you walked right by his car. They got the cameras at Lifetime, said, you got out. He parked about five cars away from you. He goes, you stopped and threw something in the garbage can. And you literally stopped right in front of this white Chevy Blazer I think he was in. Now I'm replaying the Blazer. White Chevy Blaz. Why is she a Blazer? And then I was like this. I go, hey, I'm not saying this, but I really want to know. What color was he? Do I get a guess? Do I get a guess? The detective was like, I don't know what you think. I go, black.

[Just Hilarious]

And he was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was. Yes, he was. Yeah, it was a black guy. It was really black. He was really black.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you rob me. You're really black. Okay, okay.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what?

[Just Hilarious]

What?

[DJ Envy]

So they happened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So they. He got the money. He gets there, and then. Here's the silver lining. Once he broke into the car, I went back and had to call my insurance company. And of course, they cover the damages. Well, they go, Reevaluate everything. They said, you know, shout out to State Farm. You know, you can consolidate the homeowners, the car and everything they go. And you're going to save $204 a month. So I'm not going to tell you how much it was, but in five years, I'm ahead. Thank you for robbing me, because I just saved money on my insurance. $204 a month. Boom. So, yeah, you got. Look at God. I'm telling you, come come, 20, 30, Gary's ahead. You think you robbed the wrong one today. State Farm.

[DJ Envy]

Did they catch the people? Did they catch them?

[Just Hilarious]

They did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, they said they're. They said they do have a guy that is. They got him for other jug. And so now they're gonna see if he ever rented a white Chevy Blazer. Because how do they do. They rent the car and they take the front light. They said this guy's a pro because he took the front license plate off. And the way he parked it, you couldn't get the lights away from the camera. And he backed up. And so here's the bad part. He tried to get into the driver's side first and couldn't. And he realized, oh, I can't keep here. So he. He drove and parked in another part of the lifetime fitness, and then came back like 15 minutes later. And that's when he got in the passenger side, right? They said the. The security guard on the golf cart that's supposed to patrol, where was he at, by the way?

[Just Hilarious]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then they said he drove. When he tried to do it the first time, he drove right by your car and sat there and looked at it for a few minutes. And then he. He drove off again. I'm like, where was this guy at? Listen, and let me tell you something. When you get robbed, this is what you don't do. I called a couple people, right? The people. You're like, hey, I just got robbed one. You don't try to share a story of somebody else getting robbed. The security guard tries to tell me about all the crimes he stopped. I'm like, I don't care about the dude you stopped before. He was like this. He goes, I can't believe this happened on my watch. But I take a lot of pride. There was another guy that came here. He tried to rob somebody. We had some kids tried to play basketball. They didn't want to leave. Found out they were robbing people in the locker room. I had to kick them out. I go, dude, I don't give a shit. What are we talking about right now?

[Just Hilarious]

All my money is gone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My window's still broke. I'm waiting on a tow truck, bro. And then he. So I'm waiting on the tow truck. I'm in my car. I got the AC on. I'm just sitting there with the door open. He keeps driving by, trying to talk to me. I finally said, dude, I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to be rude, but I want to talk to you. He was just like, yeah, and the same thing. How's it going? How you think? How you think it's going, man?

[Just Hilarious]

Jesus Christ.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So then I found out Nate Jackson got robbed. So I just want to do what he was doing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With you.

[Just Hilarious]

I cannot. I know he plays to you, but, like, man. Man, that boy saw you pull out the goddamn bank. It was like, oh, that's Gary Owens.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He got me. I was an easy mark, bro. They're like this. Oh, that's why I kept thinking, was it an inside job? Was somebody in the bank, like, tipping somebody off? Because that's what I heard also. They said, be careful. So now I'm replaying everybody in the bank. I'm like, there was a brother in a suit at the atm. There was another brother came in. The young Mexican dude. He was kind of walking around aimlessly. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

I'm like, everybody don't play with the Mexican dude, Joe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mexicans have black friends.

[DJ Envy]

You know, Fiance's Mexican.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, is he Mexican and black?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, where'd you meet him?

[DJ Envy]

Yo, that's funny as hell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where'd you meet him?

[Just Hilarious]

In Baltimore.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Where do you thought she met him at?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm asking, like, a specific occasion, like Chipotle. Where'd you meet him at?

[Just Hilarious]

No, Gary Ruth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chris.

[Just Hilarious]

I met him. His name is Chris, actually. But no, I met him at one of the downtown restaurants. Watershed in Baltimore.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was a waiter. No. I go crazy.

[Just Hilarious]

What, a truck driver?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a truck driver. So he's gone a lot? Yeah. Oh, that's good. I don't know. I didn't see you with the truck driver.

[Just Hilarious]

Why is it good that he's gone a lot, huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because it makes the heart grow fonder, okay? Because truck drivers ain't out there wiling truck stops. You know what could go wrong?

[Just Hilarious]

A lot, Lizard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm saying.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think. I don't think he's. If he's with you, he's not gonna go back to lot lizards. I'M sure he had one at some point in his life.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Just Hilarious]

What's the next question?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Anybody?

[Just Hilarious]

Anybody?

[DJ Envy]

Well, Gary's gonna be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, at one point, it's already sold out. It's already sold out. Oh, we added Sunday. It's sold out. Oh, you want to talk about Atlanta next week? Sold out. We did add a show. We did add a show Sunday in Atlanta. And then in two weeks, I got 11 shows in D.C. they're sold out.

[Just Hilarious]

I know that's right, girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's sold out, too.

[Just Hilarious]

That's good.

[DJ Envy]

What'd you say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wait a minute. I'm in. I'm in Virginia beach in October. Sorry about that. October, sold out.

[Just Hilarious]

You better tell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know what you're not doing on them.

[Just Hilarious]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No more divorce jokes. Because it came up in court mediation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I know. With that. With the. With the thing. It came up mediation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was gonna let you rock. So you sold out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. That was funny, though. I can't even lie. That was a good one. I never even like the same thing. If I'm talking about Jazz, we're talking about Lauren. It's all content. Even in the divorce, I was like, even with the mediation, it was content. Like, I was acting like I was serious. I was like, that's kind of funny. You know what I mean? You got. It's just.

[Just Hilarious]

And it's like, I know the lawyers don't even know when to take you serious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is what I learned. This is the biggest thing I learned. I hope anybody's getting a divorce. Listen, and you hear it all the time. Get to a point where you're cordial with your ex, and you guys decide what you want to do. That's fair to everybody. Because this is when I knew, these lawyers are playing us. This. We were held up for a couple weeks over life insurance. She wanted to take out, like. Like a. I think it was like a five million dollar life insurance policy. On me, right?

[DJ Envy]

On you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, on me in case I passed away. So she's good, right? Yeah, but she's got to pay the premium. I'm not paying it. So I. My lawyer went back and forth to her lawyer over, that's too much for life insurance. I said, I'm dead. I don't care what it is. She's paying for it. I don't care what my policy is. I go, well, I don't think the. The life insurance should be bigger than the divorce settlement. I go, who cares?

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When I realized I'm getting the bill, like, okay, why Am I getting charged every email over the. I said, it's done. Give it to her. I'm done. And then when I finally. We finally get to a point where you're like that, I go, this is so pointless. They will literally find one thing to keep it going. And that kept it going for a couple weeks. The dang. If I'm dead, how much does she get?

[DJ Envy]

And you know, I don't care. I'm not paying the premium.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All I do is get a physical.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Just Hilarious]

And getting your money, taking more money just to prolong it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I finally told her. I was like. I finally got to a point where I called her. I said, look, we just got to get this over with. Trust me on this. I said, yeah, I wasn't the best with fidelity, but I never did you wrong financially. You know what I mean? So say you should feel like, all right.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, y' all called you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every now and then, it'll creep back up like, whoa, you're really still upset?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, sure. You're really still upset. I think it's funny. I. On stage a little bit. Like, when I had the twins, I randomly saw her at an airport, and I. I said, hey, you know, I had. I had twins. She goes, yeah. And I go, well, do you want to see them? She goes, no. I said, I know you do. So I showed her the twins, right? So the twins. It's fun.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is not fun. She thought it was fun.

[Just Hilarious]

She knows him by now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So anyways, she goes, there's this white arm, and there's this white leg in the side of the picture. She goes, who's that? I go, the nanny. She goes, you have a nanny? You have a nanny? We didn't have a nanny. I go, well, you met me at the wrong time. If you was with me now, you would have a nanny.

[Just Hilarious]

He's a butthole, ladies and gentlemen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God. I would have threw my drink at you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why?

[DJ Envy]

It's funny, Laura.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you get divorced, you'll know.

[DJ Envy]

Ladies and gentlemen, Owen not Owens. And check out his comedy special, no s on YouTube. And we appreciate you for joining us. Anytime. You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is awesome. I'm glad. I'm glad we're friends again. Lauren LaRosa from Delaware. Delaware State. Boom. Just know if I ever say anything, I don't mean it. I don't at all say anything. Anybody checking for me? I worry about you.

[Just Hilarious]

You should have called the Lauren Larosas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren Laros from TMZ's Del.

[DJ Envy]

It's the breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold up. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. Finish or y' all done?

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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