Ping Paddle Supreme

Summary

The Brilliant Idiots – "Ping Paddle Supreme" (August 7, 2026)

Episode Overview

In this energetic and hilariously off-the-rails episode, Charlamagne Tha God and Andrew Schulz return after a brief hiatus and dive deep into Hollywood stardom, superhero movies (especially Spider-Man), comic book lore, and current NBA/WNBA drama. They also celebrate Charlamagne’s new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and reflect on fame, success, time, and parenting—all with their signature blend of insight, clowning, and no-holds-barred debates.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

1. Return From Break & Life Updates

• Timestamps: 01:20–03:16
• Charlamagne & Schulz catch up after missing a week, trading "old man, working dad" stories.
• Andrew is filming a new inspirational movie, "Running," directed by Gavin O’Connor and shot by Janusz Kaminski (Spielberg’s DP).

"We just two forty something year old old man, doing the best we can." – Charlamagne [01:30]

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2. Spider-Man: Tom Holland vs. Tobey Maguire vs. Andrew Garfield

• Timestamps: 05:00–08:46, 09:59–14:36
• Heated, hilarious debate on who’s the greatest Spider-Man.
• Charlamagne strongly favors Tom Holland, calling him the biggest current Hollywood star—but Schulz pushes back, asking if Holland's box office draw is due to franchise power versus personal star power.

"Tom Holland and Zendaya might be the only true Hollywood stars left." – Charlamagne [05:32]

• They revisit the legacy of Tobey Maguire (and clown his non-Spidey roles) and compare Twilight and Batman's box-office to Spider-Man.
• Schulz questions whether Tom Holland has personally carried a box office phenomenon: "Has Tom been put in a position where he's the lead in a movie that has no existing IP and is generating the rev?" [07:12]
• Shift to how Hollywood stardom is defined: box office, public persona, franchise vs. individual draw.

"Tom Holland is the Odyssey. Tom Holland. Him standing next to Tom Holland." – Charlamagne [33:45]

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3. Comic Book Movie Critique & Marvel Lore Rants

• Timestamps: 14:51–22:06
• Deep dives and rants over the latest Spider-Man movie and MCU directions.
• Charlamagne is frustrated about "too much going on" in new Marvel films: "It's too much going on, bro… you can't just introduce Jean Grey, bro." [15:19]
• Detailed discussion about integrating the X-Men and characters like Jean Grey, Punisher, and Hulk into the MCU.
• Panelists provide comic book background, Marvel movie history, and speculate on plot developments—like Dr. Doom's rising role and recent end-credit teasers.

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4. Box Office & The Nature of Stardom

• Timestamps: 22:21–34:19
• Animated back-and-forth on how “billion dollar movies” get made.
• Zendaya and Tom Holland both pegged as "billionaire boys club" members for their box-office streaks.
• Classic debate over ticket price inflation vs. modern record-breaking weekends.
• Schulz: "Now it's $20 to go to a movie!" [42:13]
• Charlamagne: "Tom bought people back to the movies two weeks in a row." [42:25]
• Banter on whether franchise success means personal stardom.

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5. Zendaya, Representation, and Future of Marvel Movies

• Timestamps: 23:09–24:02
• Discussion on Zendaya’s possible record year, being in several billion-dollar blockbusters.

"Zendaya quite possibly is gonna be in three billion dollar movies this year. She still got fucking Dune three coming out." – Charlamagne [23:16]

• Talk about upcoming movies: "Doomsday," "Secret Wars," and speculation on Spider-Man's, Toby’s, and Tom’s roles in these.

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6. WNBA, Representation & Social Commentary

• Timestamps: 47:05–51:17
• Satirical take on the introduction of transgender dolls in Minnesota schools and recent WNBA news.
• Charlamagne calls out "rage-bait" media cycles.
• Debate over athletic advantage, representation, and how the WNBA no longer needs “gimmicks” because of rising talent and drama.

"WNBA storylines are better than NBA storylines." – Charlamagne [51:13]

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7. NBA/NBA Fandom: New York vs. Philly

• Timestamps: 53:01–68:41
• Spirited debate on whether Philly, New York, or Boston is the truest basketball city.
• They dissect fan loyalty, local culture, and iconic athletes.
• Jokes about Gilly Da Kid as Philly’s greatest homegrown basketball star.
• Ongoing riff on LeBron James’s potential Philly move, what defines “ring chasing,” and how greats like Kareem and LeBron bring championships, not just chase them.

"You're not ring chasing if you're the reason the people get the ring." – Derek Fisher (quoted by Charlamagne) [64:05]

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8. Celebrating & Demystifying Fame: Charlamagne’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

• Timestamps: 74:16–84:27
• Charlamagne announces he’s set to receive a Hollywood Walk of Fame star (radio category).
• Explains the selection and financial process with humor: "You have to be selected for it first, then you gotta pay for it." [76:33]
• Reflects on fame, recognition, media criticism, surviving the “algorithm” of public opinion, and why he’s proud but never even considered the Walk of Fame a goal.

"What would the world be if people didn’t try to discredit you, man?" – Charlamagne [77:16]

• Schulz: “It is an unbelievable accomplishment to be immortalized in the center hub for entertainment for the world.” [82:34]

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9. Life’s Big Questions, Parenting, and Time

• Timestamps: 87:42–97:42
• “Ask an Idiot” Q&A rapid-fire: Would they achieve the same success starting today? The role of luck vs. “it-factor.”
• Reflections on summer memories, chasing “dopamine hits,” and how parenting changes perspectives about time and drinking.
• Charlamagne and Schulz swap stories about fatherhood, “being present,” and treasure fleeting moments.

"Time. Time. Time, time, time, time. You have so much of it until you have none of it." – Andrew Schulz [95:18]

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10. Light-hearted Closing and Final Banter

• Timestamps: 98:00–End
• Scattershot “Ask an Idiot”: If fruits and vegetables went to war, who would win? (Panel mostly: vegetables.)
• If they could give each other superpowers, Charlamagne would “possess” Schultz to finally film his “White Devil’s Advocate” special.
• Brief rant about Gen Z stay-at-home dads and changing family norms.

"To kids. Summer isn't just time off. It's time spent building confidence and curiosity." – Charlamagne [100:40]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "None of this is real...we're going off whatever one got written down hundreds of years later than it actually was." – Andrew Schultz (on Greek mythology movies) [04:44]
• "Spider-Man was getting in her way...he didn't know she was actually trying to get her sister." – Charlamagne (on Marvel movies’ convoluted plots) [20:30]
• "Twilight was gay vampires. They sucked each other's dick together forever. Nobody got time for this shit you talkin’, bro!" – Charlamagne [31:57]
• "He’s KD. The Golden State is ring chasing. LeBron goes, the team, the rings follow him." – Charlamagne [65:15]
• "Taking pleasure in the criticism of the successful is the drug of the mediocre." – Andrew Schultz (paraphrasing a quote) [78:22]

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Episode Structure & Timestamps

• [00:00] Ad reads and comical skits
• [01:20] Hosts catch up, movie talk, “Running” project
• [04:00] Odyssey & Greek mythology banter
• [05:00] Spider-Man actors debate – Tom Holland supremacy
• [14:51] Rants on the MCU, X-Men, Jean Grey, Doomsday rumors
• [22:21] Box office success, stardom and “billionaire boys club” discussion
• [34:40] Chalamet, Robert Pattinson debates, comic book diversity, Black Panther talk
• [47:05] WNBA & transgender topics, league drama
• [53:01] NBA cities, fandom, LeBron to Philly debate, ring chasing philosophy
• [74:16] Charlamagne’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star & fame discourse
• [87:42] “Ask an Idiot” Q&A: luck, time, parenting, summer memories
• [98:00] Final Q&A, fruit/vegetable war, mutual superpower wish
• [100:40-end] Reflections, dad wisdom, closing, additional ad spots

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Recap:

Style & Tone: As always, the episode is fast-paced, contentious, and loaded with jokes, inside references, and cultural commentary. Both hosts are in rare form—critically incisive, never above clowning, but consistently insightful.

Who Should Listen? Anyone who loves movies, Marvel debates, comedy, or just wants to hear two of podcasting’s sharpest hosts (and their crew) riff on everything from Spider-Man to fatherhood, from deep NBA fandom to what makes someone truly “famous” in 2026.

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Bottom Line

"Ping Paddle Supreme" showcases The Brilliant Idiots at their best—unfiltered, hilarious, sometimes idiotic, always brilliant. Whether you’re here for the Marvel deep cuts, debates about the true meaning of stardom, or genuinely original takes on family, time, and legacy, this episode is a must-listen.

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Transcript

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[Bobby]

Queen Carvania stood haloed by the morning sun. An AR hung on her every word.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My champions, I have sold my chariot on Carvana.

[Andrew Schultz]

Twas a lovely suv, an inexplicably queenly offer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're even coming to the castle to collect it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Tonight we feast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

An offer you can feast on.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Sell your car today on Carvana.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pickup fees may apply. Yep. Charlamagne de guy Andrew Scholl. We ought to bring in his podcast. Heather Kyle Walker.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes, sir. Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you, sir?

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm well, man. How are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Blessed, black and highly favored man. We just two forty something year old old man. Man, doing the best we can.

[Andrew Schultz]

We doing the best we can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We just. We just doing the best we can. Try to take care of our family. Two old fathers just out here doing the best we can, man. Working class men. You see what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

Just working hard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

Just working hard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You was in la? You was. We took a week off last week. Sorry we didn't tell you.

[Andrew Schultz]

Sorry about that guys. That's on me, man. I was out in LA shooting this movie and it's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How's that going, man?

[Andrew Schultz]

The movie's beautiful. It's like. I mean the guy is shooting it like the director's sick and then the guy who's shooting it is like a legend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can you say what it's about yet?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, yeah, I think the. I think it's out. So homeless high school kid becomes the fastest mile runner in America.

[Elliot]

How a homeless high school.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What does he eat get into that high school kid?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you become a homeless high school kid? Sometimes you're homeless and you still choose to go to school, I guess, though, right, to get a. Get a meal?

[Andrew Schultz]

You have to. You have to go watch it. You have to go watch it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't get in nothing. Does he. By some adult looking to see if he, you know, what you're willing to do for some room and board.

[Elliot]

He's sleeping in the school, though, right? If he's homeless? I don't know.

[Andrew Schultz]

These are the. I mean, the fact that you guys are asking so many questions makes it feel like, you know, there's some interest out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the name of it? It has a name yet.

[Andrew Schultz]

Running.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Okay.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Little on the nose. Does it become like a. Does it become like a track star or something, Guys?

[Andrew Schultz]

Who knows?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When does it come out?

[Elliot]

Who knows?

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When does it come out?

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, who knows? They're still filming. It takes so much time for filming.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's just like, some shit that's going for a fucking Oscar or something.

[Andrew Schultz]

The guy who. Who's making the director is Gavin o'. Connor. So did you see Miracle? So it's a movie about the US Team that beats the Russian hockey team. You saw it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

And then, like, Warrior. I don't know if you saw that one. Tom Hardy, the Accountants, Ben Affleck.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, sound prestigious.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, no, he's a beast. And then the. The DP of it is this guy named Janus Kaminsky. Janus Kaminsky is a Spielberg's guy. So he did say Prime Ryan.

[Fellow Panelist]

He did.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's just an absolute beast. So you got some really cool people to be working with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you. I saw people. They were talking about our Odyssey review.

[Andrew Schultz]

What they say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They were mad that I didn't know Greek mythology. Who the fuck said I knew Greek mythology?

[Andrew Schultz]

Where have you seen these reactions?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody sent it to me. Well, you know, I don't know. It came up on my. It did came up on my Instagram, though.

[Andrew Schultz]

But what was the criticism? That you're not an expert in, like, ancient Greek mythology?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wasn't trying. It was, you know, I saw it because it was a debate, because people were saying, is he supposed to be. They're talking about the fucking movie.

[Andrew Schultz]

Like, but what was the take?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And somebody said that that wasn't Helen Detroit.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, it was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I thought too, when you

[Andrew Schultz]

told me was Helen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But then they was like, she didn't have a twin sister.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Or they said. Or say. They said maybe the movie didn't flesh it out. That.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, some versions of the Odyssey, they are twins. Others, they're just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you, got you, got you, got you, got you.

[Andrew Schultz]

None of this is real. Like we're going off. Whatever one got written down hundreds of years later than it actually was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Told it was a good ass movie, man.

[Andrew Schultz]

It was incredible.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's it. That's it. You seen Spider Man?

[Andrew Schultz]

Not yet, but I heard his fire.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whoa.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, son. Somebody you hold what you mean? And I'm shouting out whoever DM'd me, but someone DM me. They go get ready. They go get ready for Sharla to hate on Tom Holland. Listen. Cause you know, once a white boy gets emotion, Charlamagne gotta shut that shit down. Especially if he's married to a black woman, you gotta shut that shit down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll give Tom some props. I thought about this while I was watching the movie.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Did you ask what he's done for black people?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Tom Holland and Zendaya might be the only true Hollywood stars left.

[Fellow Panelist]

Who?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I mean, just in general, like from. For what we know as Hollywood stardom, they might be the only two.

[Andrew Schultz]

So what does that mean?

[Fellow Panelist]

Compliment? He still had to shit on Chalamet in order to get.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, Chalamet don't got shit on Tom Holland. No, no, no, no. Chalamet don't got shit on.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chalamet don't got shit on Tom Holland.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no.

[Andrew Schultz]

I would like you to define Hollywood

[Charlamagne Tha God]

star walk outside, swarmed by paparazzi, literally can't move box office.

[Andrew Schultz]

So box office success.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Box office success.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right now.

[Andrew Schultz]

Because I got a lot of love for Tom Holland.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tom Holland's gonna be in $2 billion movies. This motherfucker dropped it. Spider man almost did a billion a weekend.

[Andrew Schultz]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I got a lot of love. Because I think Tom is brilliant. Yes, no question. But if we're talking about. If we're talking about box office success, I can't attribute box office success when you're part of the franchise to just box office success. In other words, you said this before. You were talking about the Daily Show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

And you were like, you can put people in there and it will work because it's an institution.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can't do that with Spider Man. Tom Holland is the greatest Spider Man. This is not all time.

[Andrew Schultz]

Tom Holland is unbelievable. And he's just so charming. He's an amazing actor. He's incredible. What I'm trying to say is, is as Tom been put in a position where he's the lead In a movie that has no existing IP and is generating the rev.

[Guest]

Spider man versus Marty Supreme. They're two very different.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, I wouldn't even. I wouldn't even count Marty because I think Josh Safdie has. Right now we follow directors more. It's like Coogler put something out. It don't even need to be made based on anything. We're going to watch it for Coogler. Yeah, Josh has got that. Nolan has got that. You know, there are certain people where you're just going to go see the

[Charlamagne Tha God]

movie, but Tom is in very rare air that I only want to see his version of Spider Man.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, that's fine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The next Spider man, whenever it's going to be five years from now, ten years from now. Hard act to follow, bro. It might take a nosedive to be honest with you.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, this is the Bond shit. James Bond. You get an idea of who. You let me get this out. But you get an idea of who James Bond is in your brain and then they throw someone else in there and they got to be so spectacular for you to like, essentially, like, edit out what you thought James Bond was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know what? And I agree with that. But I also think Tom shatters that theory of having to be part of a franchise because we've seen other Spider man franchises. Tobey Maguire can't fuck with Tom Holland. Andrew Garfield can't fuck with Tom Holland, bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

I think Garfield can't. Toby was a beast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And by the way, they were all in a movie together and Tom still outshined him. Listen, I'm not saying Toby was a close second.

[Andrew Schultz]

Are we gonna act like Toby wasn't him, though, during Spider man back in the day?

[Hollywood Insider]

During.

[Andrew Schultz]

Are we gonna act like he wasn't him?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody'.

[Andrew Schultz]

Garfield.

[Ad Read Announcer]

I didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Chrysler 300 thinks it's a Phantom. Till a phantom shows up.

[Andrew Schultz]

Bro. I know you're not.

[Fellow Panelist]

Now we talking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying.

[Andrew Schultz]

Now we talk about Toby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought Toby was a fan. Jones. I thought Toby was a fan of. Listen, I thought Toby was a fan of.

[Andrew Schultz]

Bro. We got that dancing sequence walking down the street that Toby had. Remember when Toby found he got his powers? I don't know if Tom got. Now, listen.

[Fellow Panelist]

But Tom Holland did that dancing thing with Zendaya where he was. Did some show. Yeah, that shit was crazy.

[Elliot]

Yes, yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y. We all remember that.

[Andrew Schultz]

That shit was. That almost lost him his career. That shit was unbelievable. I couldn't believe it. That happened. I was like, what the hell is going on?

[Elliot]

He did a Great job with it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, it's too good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Toby can't fuck with Tom Holland.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let me just put this out. I. I can accept Garfield. Garfield a better emotional actor. He's a better dramatic actor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know, bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

You're not going to say Tom washes Toby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy.

[Bobby]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, shows. I'm staring. Watch it. You're crazy. You got to see the new one, yo. And it's good, by the way. I liked it. I thought it was a great movie.

[Andrew Schultz]

Who was in the movies with Toby?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't even know exactly. I don't know exactly. Ain't nobody in these movies with Tom either. Zendaya's like a big people. Don't. She's a big character. She's probably on the screen, what, 30 minutes?

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah, not that much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a bit player, like. And I like Zendaya in these movies because she's his emotional anchor. But nah, bro, Tom is different. Tom is different.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's like that. It's like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tom different.

[Fellow Panelist]

Like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I fuck with.

[Andrew Schultz]

I love Tom. Wait, I don't want to see him as Tom Shade here. I love Tom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And what else has Toby done?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, you're being racist. You're tripping.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's got a lot of.

[Elliot]

You are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm asking a question.

[Andrew Schultz]

All I know is,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, what the fuck else is. Toby.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm being this sincerely. Pull it up, Toby. I'm being sincerely. You're tripping up. Toby will fuck you up.

[Fellow Panelist]

Hold it up.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, I'm telling you, you sleep on Toby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not asleep. I just don't know what else he's been in.

[Andrew Schultz]

You think Jonah Hills does your trick?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was in the Great Dad Boss baby. He was in the Gay Boss baby.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, yo. Stop it, bro. Boss baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fire. Boss baby.

[Andrew Schultz]

You being disrespectful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. Look. Hold on. Stop. From the top, Taylor.

[Andrew Schultz]

Look at this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Spider Man. Spider Man. Spider Man. Spider Man. Was it brothers? The fuck did he do it? Brothers?

[Andrew Schultz]

The Great Gatsby.

[Fellow Panelist]

Gatsby.

[Andrew Schultz]

Are we, like, pretending that we don't know movies here?

[Elliot]

I can't remember. I would say I can't remember him now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Leo was all Seabiscuit. He was in Seabiscuit?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, he was the horse.

[Elliot]

I thought he was

[Charlamagne Tha God]

baby Spider Man. Seabiscuit.

[Fellow Panelist]

Tropic Thunder.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tropic, bro. I don't remember. Come on, bro.

[Elliot]

Oh, I thought he was in Lord of the Rings.

[Fellow Panelist]

Come on. Come on, man.

[Andrew Schultz]

Come on, come on, come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all I'm trying Come on, man. Fucking Tom Holland's in the Odyssey, guys. What do we do?

[Elliot]

Who's the guy that's in Lord of the Rings?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, you know how hard it is to be a superhero?

[Andrew Schultz]

And the Rings?

[Elliot]

What is it, Lord.

[Andrew Schultz]

And listen, you know how hard it

[Charlamagne Tha God]

is to be the star of a superhero franchise? Go do another franchise, and it'd actually be good and a hit. And not once did I wait for him to fucking throw out his web slingers in the Odyssey.

[Andrew Schultz]

What other franchise is he going to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I said, you know how hard it is for him to be the star of a franchise and then go to another film. Go to a movie like the Odyssey. People have tried to do it. Think about Robert Downey Jr. He did Sherlock Holmes at the height of Iron Man. You don't even remember that shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, think about all the stuff Chris Helmsworth has done.

[Fellow Panelist]

He really didn't do that good in the Odyssey, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who?

[Fellow Panelist]

Tom Holland.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Really?

[Fellow Panelist]

No, he didn't. Stop it.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right, so now.

[Elliot]

Now what are y' all judging?

[Andrew Schultz]

I want you to. I want you to show me. And this is no shade, because Tom is unbelievable. But show me the. The massive success that Tom carried. That's not Spider Man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Andrew Schultz]

Because we know massive successes did so be had.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We do.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm not gonna do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come Ask It.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm not gonna do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was Leo. That was Leo, baby.

[Andrew Schultz]

Cut it out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Leo.

[Hollywood Insider]

God.

[Andrew Schultz]

Leo was in that cover.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go back to that cover. Toby's not even on the COVID bro. Go back. You're right. Yo, you're right. Toby's not even on the COVID bro. You're right. You're right. Stop. Tom Holland.

[Andrew Schultz]

You know why I forgot he was in it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why?

[Andrew Schultz]

Because in the book, the Great Gatsby, Toby is playing the guy who's the star of the book.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't know that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Exactly. See, I'm not. I'm tired of explaining.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is it Leo and the Great Gatsby?

[Elliot]

I'm like, yes. Toby playing the Great Gatsby. Who's he?

[Bobby]

Tom.

[Andrew Schultz]

What's his name?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Holland. Toby wants to play Tom Holland in the Bible.

[Andrew Schultz]

Tom. What's his name?

[Elliot]

Oh, there he is.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's the writer.

[Elliot]

Nick.

[Guest]

He's Nick Fitzgerald.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, no, no. Nick.

[Elliot]

He was Nick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nick Carraway.

[Andrew Schultz]

Nick Carraway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I'm not shitting on Toby because I'm looking forward to seeing Toby in Doomsday. All I'm saying is Tom Holland is the greatest Spider man of all time.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, he might be. He might be. But you were acting like Toby was trash.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, nah, nah, nah. Not trash. You just can't fuck with Tom.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's fine if you can't fuck with time.

[Bobby]

But wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You a Hall of Famer?

[Elliot]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

You know what I'm saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But then there's levels to the hall of Fame.

[Andrew Schultz]

Not everybody couldn't be Jordan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all I'm saying.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's fine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tom up there, bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

You said act like he was trash.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, nah, nah. Not trash. Just not Tom.

[Fellow Panelist]

He was the best Spider man until Tom Hop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was the best Spider man until Tom Holland.

[Andrew Schultz]

That I can deal with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Tom Fortune. The four of them.

[Andrew Schultz]

That doesn't make an interesting pond conversation. What makes an interesting pond conversation is what he said initially. That's what makes it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen. He's done four of them, bro. And listen. I like. Let me, let me. I like the new Spider Man.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you're not a fan of comic books. Oh, no. If you're a fan of comic books, you'll probably enjoy it. If you're not a fan of. If you're not a fan of the MCU and you're just a casual person going to see a movie, it is a great movie, it's entertaining, it's action packed. But if you are a stickler like me, it's too much going on, bro. What you mean there's too much going on? There's too much going on. What do you mean? And it's shit that Marvel's doing that I just don't agree with. You can't just introduce Jean Grey, bro.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yes, you can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you can't.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yes, you can. How they just now got the rights for to introduce X Men to Marvel. No doubt you're not going to do it when they're already grown. So the only way to do it now. This is her. She just got her powers not too long ago. She hasn't even met Professor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They haven't even told us how they ended up in the 616. You can't take a omega level mutant, one of the founders of the X Men and just put him in a Spider man movie. And when you listen to Kevin Feige and Kevin Feige tells you how they, they, they, they decided at the last. She was the last person.

[Hollywood Insider]

But that was one of the big development changes that we kept going through was who is the bad guy? And there was one version of a bad guy, then another version of bad guy. Then a version essentially of, of this bad guy that was revealed to be a very obscure character nobody ever heard of. And, and it just wasn't, it wasn't satisfying. And that might be with Tom was talking about. Because he said, well, what about this character? And I said, well, we can't use this character. But. And knowing that all of the journey that Peter was going on has to culminate in his confrontation with the villain at the end, that's when Gene starts to come up. A young person very similar in age to Peter, maybe a little younger Peter again, who I just said had a mentor in each of the other Spider movies. And seeing a young person who did not have a mentor, seeing a young person who has powers like Peter did, but didn't have an ant man, they didn't have anybody to help guide to help guide. And that is what led. And the origin story of Jean Grey in the, in the comics before Xavier finds her, before she joins the X Men does have something to do with her sister and something to do with her not controlling her powers. And that is when it really came together. And then our co producer Emily Fong, sitting around the table said, what about Sadie Sink? And we all went, okay, it's Jean Grey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like they were gonna go with like mind Mind worm or somebody. They just, they just wanted a villain that had powers to take over people's minds and that you turn that into Jean Grey.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah, but they're gonna put the X Men in Spider Man's universe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I, I see what they're doing.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't like it. Because what they're trying to do is they're gonna, they're gonna make it to where the snap.

[Andrew Schultz]

Did you see who they thought was gonna play for Mindworm?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who?

[Andrew Schultz]

Mind worm in your mouth. Come on, Charlie.

[Elliot]

Charlie. When you get intense, that's what he

[Charlamagne Tha God]

knows when you go to it, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

He loves comic books too much. His curiosity got the better of him. Now you got mom worm in your mouth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he watches new work star new rock stars or something. Okay, but they're gonna try to make it seem like the X gene was activated because of the snap or something. Right? So that's where all of these mutants came from. That is whack, bro. You can't have this whole 10 plus years, 15 plus years of Avengers and all this stuff and give us the X Men after the fact in the world, in the Earth616.

[Fellow Panelist]

You got to give them a little grace because they didn't have access to the X Men characters.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't care. They could have introduced the X Men the same way they introduced the Fantastic Four. They could have been in a whole other universe now. You got incursions coming. They could have still been young and all of that shit like that. And then the world could have came together. The way they doing that shit now is whack. Where did Punisher and Spider man become friends? When did that happen? And why the fuck did all. Why were all of those superheroes in New York and nobody helped Daredevil's blind ass? Daredevil was getting his ass kicked all up and down New York City. Punisher couldn't show up. Spider man couldn't show up.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yo, you deal with low level stuff and we deal with upper level stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's fire. Don't mention them. They mentioned Spider man and Daredevil in this Spider man movie. There's a poster of Kingpin in the background or some shit like that.

[Fellow Panelist]

Spider Man's in between.

[Andrew Schultz]

He does low level stuff.

[Fellow Panelist]

And then the Avengers tapped him. One mission.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't like it.

[Elliot]

I have a question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't like Savage. Hulk shows up for this shit, but can't show up for Infinity War Endgame?

[Fellow Panelist]

This was the best version of Hulk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But why wasn't he. Why didn't you become the best version of yourself when we needed you? This shit is kind of crazy.

[Elliot]

I have a question, though. Why did. I'm sorry. Giving it away.

[Andrew Schultz]

Best fucking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a great movie.

[Fellow Panelist]

It was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not. I'm not gonna sit here and act like it's not a great movie.

[Fellow Panelist]

Was it not the best Spider man movie?

[Elliot]

It's. No, it's not.

[Fellow Panelist]

Name one Spider man movie.

[Elliot]

The one before that one was better.

[Fellow Panelist]

Nope.

[Elliot]

You don't think so?

[Fellow Panelist]

The one before had all the incursions, all that extra shit. We need all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

None of that.

[Fellow Panelist]

This. This one checked every single box.

[Andrew Schultz]

You know what he wants to say. I know one. You want to say which one?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Second one.

[Andrew Schultz]

I know the original with Toby is the one. No, no, no.

[Elliot]

I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want to say it's a Spider man movie. I don't know. That's a good question.

[Elliot]

Why did you. Gene. Spiderman did not know who Jean Grey was though, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Elliot]

So why did she come in like, oh, you still can't sense where I am? Like they knew each other already. I didn't, like, I didn't understand that.

[Fellow Panelist]

No, because his power was malfunctioning. And so when his power was malfunctioning, when he's like, the hormones were changing yeah. Then he couldn't sense her, the way he was sensitive.

[Elliot]

Yeah, but she was talking to him like they knew each other already, though.

[Fellow Panelist]

No, it was just like. I mean, she was thrown off. Like, why are you the only person who's able to see when I'm jumped into somebody's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, she did know him because she went to his head a little bit. So she knew a little. She knew a little bit of it.

[Elliot]

But also Spider had nothing to do with what she was trying to get either, though. Like, it's very.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Spider man was getting in her way. Spider man didn't know that she was actually trying to get her sister. Yeah, he didn't know that's what she was looking for.

[Andrew Schultz]

Who's her sister?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sarah Gray. Because once again, they're just introducing mutants today. Oh, to the.

[Fellow Panelist]

Sarah Gray was in the comics, but she just wasn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're just introducing mutants to the mcu. And not. That would have been giving us no explanation why the he was mutating the way he was mutating.

[Elliot]

Yeah, that's what tell us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That started squirting. Come all over the place.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes, they did. He was going through puberty.

[Elliot]

No, but look like he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All they said was his arachnid DNA was acting up.

[Fellow Panelist]

How they show us that, hey, this is the lifespan of a spider. So this is going to happen to him in his lifetime.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That shit's silly.

[Fellow Panelist]

Oh, you wasn't paying attention, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That shit silly. That shit was phenomenal, by the way. In the comic book. I've seen that and that happened. They did a better. And I know you can't, you know, be be right on par with the comic books, but at least give me a little bit more detail. At least show me a little bit. That would have been a good way to explain mutation because they could have said, yo, there was something that happened from Hulk was there. Hulk lived through all of that. Both of them did. They could have said it was something from the snap that's causing mutations. Now you like? Oh, okay. Now I see why Jean Grey is here. They just said, here, here's some fun shit. Here's Punisher, here's Jean Grey, here's the Hulk. Here's a lot of action. It was good. No complaints. Great. You're going to love it if you go see it. But as a comic book guy, as a Marvel Cinematic Universe guy, a lot more questions.

[Fellow Panelist]

The only thing I agree is, yes, they should have did X Men in a different universe. I agree with that one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That shit is too much.

[Andrew Schultz]

Why did they introduce it here so that in Doomsday it could make sense probably.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't even know how this shit connects to Doomsday.

[Fellow Panelist]

I think they did it because they know how big this movie is going to be. And so let me introduce people into the X Men by putting them on our.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think they anticipated this, bro. Almost $1 billion in a weekend. It's the second highest grossing movie of all time.

[Fellow Panelist]

Last one did crazy like that too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But a billion a weekend, Alex. I mean, almost a billion a weekend is crazy about it.

[Fellow Panelist]

Cheat, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They did kind of cheat.

[Hollywood Insider]

Why?

[Fellow Panelist]

Because they did an early preview to the movie on Wednesday, so they got two extra. Rollout, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, this is how big of a star Tom Holland is. The movie theater I went to, literally every theater was showing Spider man different variations of Spider Man. RPX version, 3D version, standard version. Like they had show. I mean, it was just rolling. Show, show, show, show, show. So Tom Holland and Zendaya, if you ask me, two biggest stars in Hollywood and it's not even close.

[Andrew Schultz]

I think you're right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, Zendaya quite possibly is gonna be in three billion dollar movies this year. She still got fucking Dune three coming out, yo.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's gonna be the crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, Tom still got Doomsday coming out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know if he's in that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Why would he not be in it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Spider man, they haven't announced that he's

[Andrew Schultz]

gonna be in it, but why would his character not be in the movie that he was a huge part of? Oh, make.

[Fellow Panelist]

They're making it seem like he's not going to be in it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He'll probably be Secret wars, but he's

[Fellow Panelist]

gonna be a secret.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't. I don't know if he'll be in. Toby's in Doomsday, though.

[Andrew Schultz]

What's Secret War?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Secret was the sequel to Doomsday. Yeah, Toby is definitely in Doomsday. They said Toby's actually in the opening scene.

[Elliot]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. From what I. From what? From some of this. I don't know if these scripts are real, but he's actually one of the opening scenes. I'm not lying, yo. I promise you. Look it up, Taylor. I'm not making this up. I watch new rock stars. A lot of it.

[Andrew Schultz]

I watch new rock stars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They said Toby's going. Quite possibly he's going to be in the opening scene. They said that was the end credits scene of Spider Man. They said that's what that represented.

[Internet Narrator]

We just Found the biggest clue that confirms Tobey Maguire is returning in Avengers Doomsday. When the spider tracker glitches, we boosted the color grading and saturation, and a hidden number suddenly appears on the screen. That number appears to match Earth 92683. Tobey Maguire's universe. If that's intentional, Marvel may have just teased Toby's return, but here's where it gets even crazier. After no way home, Dr. Octopus is finally cured. He's no longer obsessed with the power of the sun. And after seeing Tony Stark's nanotechnology, he could return home and use it to upgrade both his mechanical tentacles and Toby's Spider man suit. That completely changes their timeline. Now combine that with the reported doomsday leaks. They claim Deadpool and Wolverine destroy Toby's universe, forcing Toby's Spider man and a redeemed Dr. Octopus into the multiversal war against Dr. Doom. Which means we could finally see Tobey Maguire's Spider man fighting alongside Wolverine, Deadpool, and Dr. Octopus against Dr. Doom himself. Himself. If these reported leaks are true, this could be Tobey Maguire's biggest MCU role ever.

[Fellow Panelist]

The end credit scene was a preview to Secret Wars.

[Elliot]

Which one?

[Fellow Panelist]

When Doom transports everybody into outer space,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

maybe, or they said that that was because the Spider man stayed in Queens. It didn't move, I don't think.

[Andrew Schultz]

What's the lore to doom?

[Fellow Panelist]

Dr. Doom.

[Andrew Schultz]

He was the strongest, but what's the lore to him?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's not really a bad guy, technically. He just thinks that the world would be a better place if he ruled it.

[Andrew Schultz]

But what is. How does he have power? How did he come up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Science and magic. So he blends technology and magic.

[Andrew Schultz]

And how did he come up. Like, did he come up with anybody that we know? Were they friends as kids and then they separated? Like, I don't remember Fantastic Four. Oh, he's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, yeah. He was with the Fantastic Four.

[Fellow Panelist]

Him and, like, Richard. What's his last name? Whatever.

[Elliot]

Reed.

[Fellow Panelist]

Reed. They're like the two smartest people in the world.

[Andrew Schultz]

Got it. And they knew each other as kids?

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah. Or like, high school or college. One of them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then they.

[Andrew Schultz]

Reed Richards. So that. So this is kind of like Magneto and Professor X in a way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Andrew Schultz]

Is that Marvel's version of it?

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Got it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Born Victor Von Doom in the fictional Eastern European nation of Latavria. How do you pronounce that? Latveria. I'm sorry? Latveria. He was raised in a poor Romani family. His father, Werner, was a physician, and his mother Cynthia was a powerful sorceress. Cynthia made a bargain with the demon Mephisto for power to protect her people. But lost her soul in the process. After both parents died while Victor was still a child, he became obsessed with two things. Becoming the greatest scientist in the world. Freeing his mother's soul from Mephisto's realm. His brilliance earned him a scholarship to a university in the United States, where he met Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic. The two became academic rivals. Victor built a machine intended to communicate with the dead. But Reed warned him that his calculations were flawed. Victor ignored the warning. The machine exploded horribly scarring his face. Rather than admit his own mistake, Victor blamed Reed Richards becoming one of comics greatest rivalries. It's gonna be good. But I don't even like that. I don't even like how they fucking introducing Dr. Doom.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, man, why not?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because, man, you can't just get to a Dr. Doom. You gotta lead up to a Dr. Doom the same way they gave us a slow roll of Thanos over the last decade. Like there is nothing. I'm gonna be honest with you. There's nothing about the Marvel universe in this phase where we should be getting a doctor Doom movie. We should be getting a king. Seriously, we should be getting. They should have just recasted Kang. We should not be getting a Dr. Doom right now.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't think Kang has enough juice.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah, didn't have enough juice.

[Andrew Schultz]

I didn't know who the fuck Kang

[Fellow Panelist]

was in Ant Man. Nobody liked it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Not anime. People fuck with, they watched. They made a billion dollars that movie.

[Fellow Panelist]

But people didn't like the whole king.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, they were watching for Paul Rudd.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bro, Earf is so sweet right now. Earth is so sweet right now that the superheroes in New York can just kick their feet up and let a blind lawyer run around New York City and try to protect it. All of those fucking superheroes were in New York. The Hulk, the Avengers, Spider Man, Punisher. And they sent Jessica Jones going through menopause to fucking help Daredevil. She was going through menopause so much that her powers would work sometimes. Yeah, on and off. What the fuck are we talking about?

[Fellow Panelist]

They dealing with low level criminals.

[Andrew Schultz]

Avengers dealing with aliens. Compared to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, so Spider Man, Daredevil was fighting the hand, okay? Spider man was fighting the hand. Where was you when Daredevil needed a

[Andrew Schultz]

hand against the hand?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And fighting Spider Man?

[Fellow Panelist]

Nah, Come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Fellow Panelist]

Come on, Charlotte.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm saying all that to say Tom Holland and Zendaya are the biggest stars in Hollywood.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't think anybody would refute that. What I'm saying is I'm curious to see what happens when Tom has got to lead a movie that has no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He led Odyssey.

[Andrew Schultz]

Billy. Yo, you being disrespectful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, you're being disrespectful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, who was in Odyssey?

[Fellow Panelist]

Matt Damon, Matt Damon, and Hathaway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When the last time Matt did a Billy?

[Andrew Schultz]

Interstellar or not interstellar, The Martian years ago. Now, hold on, let me look at Matt's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't even know. I don't know if the Martian did a Billy. Tom. Three people in fucking Odyssey are in another billion dollar movie this week. Guys, there's a billionaire boys club in the Odyssey, and it ain't Matt Damon, okay? It ain't Travis Scott. It ain't Elliot Page. Yeah, but it ain't Charlie Theron.

[Andrew Schultz]

This is the thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It ain't Robert Patterson. It ain't Anne Hathaway.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, I'm sorry. My bad, my bad. There was a little movie that Matt was in called Oppenheimer. I don't know if you heard of that. That shit.

[Fellow Panelist]

That was two years ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shout out to the Jewish community, Yo, what are you talking about? Oh, yeah, you will give him credit for Oppenheimer. You tell a story, a historical story. Of course. People gonna show up. Oh, come on, man.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't even know what I am doing right now because it's every episode. Every episode. What this podcast is, it's a literal shoehorn, is we will start here, close. We will go as far away as possible, and then by the end, he will just say the first thing that he disagreed with me about. Every conversation we have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All I'm saying is, you tell me, is there not a billionaire.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, you tell me, is there not

[Charlamagne Tha God]

a billionaire boys club in the Odyssey that ran it back a week later? The Odyssey just came out two weeks ago and hit a Billy. Now Zendaya freaking Tom and John ran it back for another Billy.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, it's. It's great. Ooh.

[Elliot]

Woo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Matt Damon wishes, bro. Robert Patterson wishes.

[Andrew Schultz]

Robert Pattinson's in Dune. He's gonna run it back for a Billy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know why Tom better than Robert?

[Andrew Schultz]

Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Clearly, Robert ain't get Robert. Robert got a franchise with a superhero, and they popped it off like, tough.

[Andrew Schultz]

Ooh, Say it again. Robert.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Robert got a franchise of an iconic superhero, Batman, and ain't popped it off like, tuh.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay, well, what I would say is. What I would say is, I want you to look at the numbers for Twilight. Then I want you. We're not done yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're not done yet.

[Andrew Schultz]

We're not done yet. I want you to look at the numbers for Twilight. Then I want you to look at the numbers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Isn't that gay? Vampires.

[Andrew Schultz]

Then I want you to look at the numbers. Wait for it for Harry Potter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Robert Patterson was a Harry Potter.

[Andrew Schultz]

You're not even a fan of Harry Potter. I don't even know why I'm talking movies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Robert Patterson wasn't in Harry.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't know why I'm talking movies with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talking about Daniel Radcliffe for somebody, man. I don't even know why I'm talking movies with you. I don't even know it was in movies.

[Elliot]

Stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Twilight was gay. Vampires. They sucked each other's dick together forever. Nobody got time for this shit you talking, bro. You know what's mad? You know what's crazy? I was trying to find a way to hate on Tom, and I can't even do it. That's how good he is. No, Tom, I tried, bro. I tried. As soon as I was like, I gotta keep this streak going. I can't even think of nothing to hate on Tom.

[Andrew Schultz]

The only knock you could ever say on Tom is, has he been positioned with a movie where he has to be the draw? Spider man is going to get a certain amount of draw. Oppenheimer is going to get the Odyssey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, we went to go see the Odyssey because of Tom, Zendaya and John. Yo, just face it, Schultz. I didn't even know Matt Damon was in that shit, bro. I knew Tom was in that shit because I saw the interviews Tom did. When Tom said, yo, whatever, Christopher Nolan is doing Marvel, y' all need to get on board. I was like, oh, shit. I didn't even know fucking Matt Damon was in that shit.

[Andrew Schultz]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, bro, not at all, bro. Didn't Matt do something with you?

[Andrew Schultz]

Fuck you, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was Matt's greatest role. Listen, listen, listen. Matt hasn't done nothing that great since the Odyssey was the closest thing, all right? That Odyssey was the closest fucking thing, bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

And, yo, he literally left the next day after filming that promo for the special with me. He left the next day to go film the Odyssey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If Matt sold fire.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why is Christopher Nolan to draw Christopher Nolan and Tom Holland is the reason we went to go see the Odyssey?

[Andrew Schultz]

Christopher Nolan is the biggest thing in Hollywood. He's bigger than any actor. He's bigger than any producer. He's bigger than any studio. Christopher Nolan is the biggest thing in Hollywood. No question about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but Tom Holland makes him bigger, bro. Tom Holland is the Odyssey. Tom Holland. Him standing next to Tom Holland.

[Andrew Schultz]

Whoever sent me that DM about how Charlotte was gonna hate on Tom Holland, I just wanna let you know he saw it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No hate for Tom Holland.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's doing his best to now celebrate

[Charlamagne Tha God]

the white Boy of the Month. No hate for Tom Holland. But Tom Holland makes it easy for me to hate on all the other white guys.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yo, Tom Holland.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Robert Patterson. Not even close. Tobey Maguire. Not even close. Timothee Chalamet, please.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, wait. Tom Holland, please. If you didn't have a British accent and you were a swaggy, like, white boy from America, he would be hating you so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Best role Timothee Chalamet played in years was the role. The role of a Knicks fan. Ok? The role of a Knicks fan was better than Marty Supreme. What else was he in? What was the Ping Pow movie? What's the shit called?

[Andrew Schultz]

Ping Pow.

[Elliot]

Wasn't he the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory guy, too?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, I ain't watched it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, look. Garbage. What else going on, man?

[Elliot]

Wait. While you're on Marvel, what do y' all think about the new Black Panther?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I trust Ryan Coogler.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let me ask you this honest question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

100% honest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Would you be comfortable with Tom Holland being Black Panther?

[Elliot]

Why would he be in there?

[Andrew Schultz]

Is Black Panther. Is Tom Holland good enough?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, there was a white guy that was a Black Panther at one point.

[Andrew Schultz]

Do you think that he's good enough?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't want. I don't want that in my superheroes. Like, I want, like, even when they're talking about now having the black Magneto and black Professor X, I don't want that. I want make Magneto Jewish. Like, he's always been Professor X handicapped. You know what I'm saying? Like, I want. That's the X Men is the. I was literally having this conversation on. The X Men is the one superhero film that they don't have to do any diversity to because it's already diverse. They got everything you want. Black people, Asian people, handicaps.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm sure people have asked this question, but, like, Professor X has the ability to, like, move his chair with his mind.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Why doesn't he move his legs?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I really don't.

[Andrew Schultz]

Not. Like, that must be a question people ask.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's actually crazy. I really don't know.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, what are his legs made out of?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why don't you just float?

[Elliot]

Yeah, why.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why doesn't he just float? You know what I'm saying? Or go possess somebody that can walk. You can do that too. You know what I mean? Like, it's just.

[Guest]

I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't. I don't know. I don't know. I don't want no white Black Panthers.

[Elliot]

What about Black Spider Man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We have one Miles Morales.

[Elliot]

I know. Do you think that's gonna. That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, it's on the way. He's Puerto Rican or Puerto Rican and black.

[Bobby]

Black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's black and Puerto Rican. He's Afro Latino.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's Puerto Rican.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's on the way. That's absolutely on the way. They got one more spider verse movie which is going to do crazy numbers. And then they say they're going to introduce the live action Miles Morales. Tom Holland said that's actually who he wants to pass the torch to.

[Fellow Panelist]

Oh, wow.

[Elliot]

I saw. But that's what I was saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wouldn't do it.

[Elliot]

There was a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't follow that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Don't follow Tom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't follow like that.

[Elliot]

There was a cover.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not right now.

[Elliot]

There was a cover I saw with Spider Man. I guess was wasn't brand new day. And if you look closely, there's like a shoe mark of miles.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it's not.

[Elliot]

Yeah, that's some sit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Internet made up a Schumacher. Why would there be a shoe mark of miles?

[Andrew Schultz]

Because everybody knows the miles. It's the ones.

[Elliot]

Yeah, that's what it was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe. I don't fucking know. What else we got, man? What else going on? Shotzi.

[Fellow Panelist]

Wait. Where do you rank it in terms of Marvel movies?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Marvel movies?

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah.

[Elliot]

Marvel.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. I don't think I rank it.

[Fellow Panelist]

You rank it now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not connected to nothing. See, this is what I got to do. I got to stop going into Marvel movies looking for continuity. Like none of this shit has had any continuity over the last seven, eight years. The reason I can't rank it over any of the original Infinity Saga movies is because all of those movies had continuity. Like, I can't put this over Endgame, Infinity War, Civil War. I can't put it over none of the Avenger movies. I can't. I don't know where I would rank it. I can't put it over the Black Panther. I don't know, bro. I don't know. It's just a good movie. It's good, but it's good. It's a good movie that doesn't feel like it's connected to anything. At least now, maybe later we might feel connective tissue.

[Andrew Schultz]

You can't give it up. The what if Tom is as great as you say? Why can't you just give it up to the movie that you saw?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because Tom, See, Tom can. He's carrying a film like this. You know what I'm saying? So he can be in a film that may not be necessarily. Where do you rank it? Before I even say it, what do you rank it?

[Fellow Panelist]

Probably top five.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. He thinks it's top five. I don't.

[Andrew Schultz]

He thinks top five of all. Marvel. Not just top five. Spider Man.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah. No, it's top one Spider man and then it's top five Marvel. I put it really Endgame, Infinity War, Civil War, and then probably Ragnarok. And then I'm putting.

[Elliot]

I thought you like Black Panther, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's really good. But it's good in the way of panther.

[Fellow Panelist]

Would be in probably top 10.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's crazy. Any Guardians movies in there?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Guardians.

[Andrew Schultz]

Those Guardians. I think we don't even consider Guardians part of it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fire,

[Andrew Schultz]

like Guardians feels like its own thing, even though it is connected in Marvel.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Outside of when you be like Avengers shits. We don't even really consider Marvel for some reason.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

But it's incredible.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Which is crazy because all the Spider man movies, the comp would be the Guardian movie.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because they're light, they're campy, they're fun.

[Andrew Schultz]

So far of the spider mans I've seen, they're not fucking with Guardians. Guardians on a different level, bro. Guardians on a different level.

[Elliot]

I can't get past the raccoon.

[Andrew Schultz]

The raccoon is the. Come on now.

[Elliot]

And this thing is weird. I knew. I think it's weird having a raccoon with a gun.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's not weird.

[Elliot]

A green girl, but that's because aren't they. Aren't they part of space? So, like, why is a raccoon in space?

[Andrew Schultz]

N she makes.

[Fellow Panelist]

He would be offended if you called him a raccoon.

[Elliot]

I know that. But he is, though. That's what he is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Superhero movie, man. I don't want to hear nothing about wokeness or none of that in superhero movie. I don't want to hear about what's real in a movie. Where are flying, bro? It's a superhero movie.

[Elliot]

Y' all just questioned why that guy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what's even crazy about these movies? How the fuck do they breathe in space?

[Elliot]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nobody ever questions how Spider Man, Iron Man, Chris Evans breathe in space. They're all humans.

[Andrew Schultz]

I can see that.

[Elliot]

No, they had the helmet. What do you mean?

[Fellow Panelist]

They always have stuff.

[Elliot]

Yeah.

[Guest]

I mean.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, they don't. They get on them ships and they masks come right off.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, but on the ship there's oxygen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not in the alien ship. Yeah, remember when they snuck in on the alien ship? How do the aliens clearly don't. I don't know what the fuck the aliens breathe. Yeah, you don't. So once again, why are we trying to figure that's a fucking movie. It's a superhero movie. Who gives a fuck? I'm just saying this is what happens when you try to make sense.

[Fellow Panelist]

Complained about what we try to figure out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know, man. This is what happens when you try to make sense of superhero movies, okay? It's a fucking superhero movie. Let the superheroes be superheroes. Look at these pitiful numbers that Robert Patterson has in Twilight. I can't even believe he even pulled those shit up.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, what are they. Come out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you crazy?

[Andrew Schultz]

Read them out. Read them out. Read them out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The first one, 7 million worldwide.

[Andrew Schultz]

Second one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo.

[Andrew Schultz]

The second one is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo. The Second one is 709.8 million. Third one is all time.

[Elliot]

That doesn't mean that they were.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Third one is comp. Did that in the weekend. Third one is 698.5 million worldwide, all times, and that's been since 2010. Fourth one is 712 points.

[Andrew Schultz]

Fifth one is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was 2011.

[Andrew Schultz]

Hold on, hold on. Fifth one is 829. Now, I want you to run those numbers through inflation.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yes.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, and I want you to tell me what that's worth now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But listen, listen.

[Andrew Schultz]

I want you to tell me what. In 2009, right after the financial crisis, motherfuckers lost everything. And they went in debt to go

[Charlamagne Tha God]

see, they ran up these numbers. It took 23 years to get to this number. Tom Holland did it in 48 hours, bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

What's she talking about?

[Fellow Panelist]

But you got to. You got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tom Holland did Almost a billion 48

[Andrew Schultz]

hours buying a ticket. Back then, a ticket for the movies was like $7.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How difficult is it now?

[Andrew Schultz]

Now it's $20 to go to a movie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So Tom Holland's the fucking goal.

[Andrew Schultz]

The opposite, if you know math. What do you mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said the chickens were cheaper back then.

[Guest]

Correct.

[Andrew Schultz]

So you got to sell more tickets to make that money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, first of all, ain't nobody going through the house. Nobody. Nobody's going to the movies. Now, Tom bought people back to the movies two weeks in a row.

[Andrew Schultz]

Did you just see what he did? Yes, yo, he just did. He said he brought it back two weeks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because I'm acknowledged that I know it's three, but that was cuz my body won't let me lie. I know it's three.

[Andrew Schultz]

How do I argue with that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because I know it's three, but for the sake of the argument I gotta say two weeks in a row.

[Andrew Schultz]

You see what I. I don't even know. Do y' all know what I have to go through? Because I don't know if my ears or my eyes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My body won't let me lie I threw up three. Cause I know it's three weeks but for the sake of the argument I had to say 2.

[Elliot]

But you

[Fellow Panelist]

829 million in 2012 is about 1.2 billion today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, Tom Holland did that.

[Fellow Panelist]

No they didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tom Holland did. Almost a billion this weekend.

[Fellow Panelist]

Almost a billion. What if the movie falls off a cliff?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Seconds first of all, look this up. What's the highest grossing box office film of all time? If Spider Man's number two, what's number one?

[Andrew Schultz]

Avatar.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Probably Avatar, right? Yeah, yeah, probably one of the Avatar. I was thinking Titanic. Spider Man. I was thinking Spider Man. I mean Star Wars. One of the Avatars.

[Andrew Schultz]

I was thinking no, Avatar. And then Titanic.

[Elliot]

Yeah, Avatar.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Avatar, right? Which one? The first one.

[Andrew Schultz]

This is every James Cameron joint is basically it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shout out to fucking Tom Holland man. The goat.

[Andrew Schultz]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

What else we got, Taylor? Huh? Pull up some shit. What else we got, Taylor?

[Elliot]

You gonna love me. Y' all ain't hilarious. Okay to switch it all the way over.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Why does that say transgender dolls?

[Elliot]

Did y' all see?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't want to see what happened?

[Elliot]

So there's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are they? Autobots? Decepticons?

[Elliot]

Transgender.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is it? What is a transgender doll?

[Elliot]

How come I don't want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are set to debut in Minnesota classrooms this fall. The taxpayer funded paper dolls come with genitalia that can be removed and then swapped out.

[Andrew Schultz]

A therapist at the University of Minnesota

[Internet Narrator]

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[Andrew Schultz]

The goal is to help kids, quote, learn about the different options.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not. I don't even believe this is real. I don't believe this.

[Andrew Schultz]

As a parent, I kind of like this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell me why.

[Andrew Schultz]

Because now you don't have to buy different dolls for your kids if they're different genders. So you have a boy. He wants to play with a boy.

[Bobby]

Then.

[Andrew Schultz]

Wait, why do we even show the genitalia of the dolls? When did we even.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When we were growing up, there was no genitalia of the dol. Oh, yeah, it was. Okay. I'm shocked Bobby even had titties. But she didn't have nipples. Bobby didn't even have nipples, okay? Ken didn't have a dick.

[Andrew Schultz]

He didn't have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't even have to see. Like, why. What's the point of this, guys? Like, this is really. I really. I really rage. Believe our bait. Rage. What's the term?

[Bobby]

Rage?

[Andrew Schultz]

Bait. I can't believe we're back on the trans stuff again. I literally couldn't believe it with the WNBA shit. I couldn't believe we're back in the same conversation. It feels like I'm in some, like, bizarro. What is that Bill Murray movie, Groundhog Day, where it's just like, every three or four years, the same topic comes up and everybody is performatively outraged by it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, I didn't hear exactly what Sophia Cunningham said, but the gist of it is she doesn't want biological men playing in women's.

[Andrew Schultz]

But I thought we all figured that out. Like, I thought we all came to the conclusion that it's not hateful to say that there's a genetic advantage for certain people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I always said it should be one per team, but that's before the WNBA was really, really exciting like it is now. This was. You can go back to early episodes of Brilliant Idiot. I was saying it should be one transgender per WNBA team. They don't need them now. Wnba Smoking shit like, that's. I love the wnba.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right, Right. No, that's a good point. I was about to take it serious,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

and then I was like, why not serious?

[Andrew Schultz]

We're not here for that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, we're not here for that. No. 15 years ago, they might not here for that.

[Andrew Schultz]

15 years ago, take it serious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I almost took the bait. Listen, you almost rage, baby. 10, 12 years ago, they might have needed one transgender problem.

[Andrew Schultz]

One.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? Just one. Just the one to make it exciting. Now they don't need it, they don't need it. They got Olivia Miles, they got the Asia Wilsons. You got the Caitlin Clarks, you got the Angel Reese's.

[Andrew Schultz]

I know the point you're making.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They out there balling.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, I know the point you're making, but yeah, go on, go on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the league is so good. The women are cheating on each other. They getting divorced. Britney Griner's on her second divorce with three kids. Fire. You know what I'm saying? Three kids just leaving broken homes everywhere.

[Andrew Schultz]

They're undressing Paige at the WNBA All Star game. You didn't see them telling. They bullied her to take her shirt off. You didn't see that? No, she's just chilling in a sports bra with a jacket on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, man.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Leave that girl alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, they throwing dildos on the court. WNBA is popping. WNBA got everything it needs to continue to be a prosperous.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, why have they never. Why have they never taken one of those, like, smelling dogs?

[Elliot]

Oh, my God.

[Andrew Schultz]

Because you know when they threw the dildos and they're like, we don't know who threw it. Take the smelling dog, have them smell the dildo and then smell throughout the arena.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it'll be confusing, man, because I know they sell tuna in the arena. The dog will be confused as like. Seriously, the dog will be so confused. Spinning around a circle. You see what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

Half court, spin around.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, all I'm simply saying is the WNBA has everything it needs to continue to be a prosperous league. Number one, they have a great product that they're putting on that floor. Number two, they got all the drama. WNBA storylines are better than NBA storylines.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, facts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the drama going on in the NBA?

[Guest]

There's no drama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

None. We still fucking LeBron going to the sixes. LeBron going to New teams is still.

[Andrew Schultz]

Come on, bro, don't shit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People talking about.

[Guest]

That's the biggest story.

[Andrew Schultz]

What's the biggest story?

[Guest]

LeBron to the Sixers.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't care.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, Nixon's six.

[Andrew Schultz]

Nixon.

[Guest]

It's okay being a one term president.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's no shame in Nixon.

[Guest]

People are going to look back at Biden better than it feels right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I will.

[Guest]

You just had a magical run. I'm happy for you.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, I didn't even know he was talking shit about me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know, I know.

[Andrew Schultz]

I just caught it now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold up, hold on.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let me sit up, man.

[Elliot]

Hold up.

[Andrew Schultz]

I feel nice to Chris now because he brought his daughter last week in the room. Like, Chris is a real human being, man. You have, like, a grown ass daughter.

[Guest]

Got a grown daughter teasing this guy. Grown daughter can't do this. Raised a Sixers fan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I will say, this is a very cool.

[Guest]

This is a lesson in authenticity. This is a lesson in resilience.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For who?

[Guest]

For me. Oh. When the Knicks made their run.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Guest]

I've lived in New York City for a long time.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Guest]

People said to me, come on, man, stop being a hater.

[Fellow Panelist]

Yeah.

[Guest]

Enjoy it.

[Hollywood Insider]

Yeah.

[Guest]

Go to the Watch parties.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Guest]

Celebrate.

[Andrew Schultz]

No. You said no.

[Guest]

I said, last round, they came to my city, they stomped on the jerseys. They disrespected. That's not what being a true fan is about. Andrew, you've lived in different cities.

[Elliot]

Yes.

[Guest]

Am I going to find any pictures of you out there in a Heat jersey and a Heat hat? Not a single one. Am I going to find you in it?

[Fellow Panelist]

No.

[Guest]

You don't do that. You don't switch it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. You always respect that.

[Andrew Schultz]

I respect you.

[Guest]

Don't switch it up. Even when the entire city is flown in the other direction, you stand and

[Andrew Schultz]

look 10 toes down.

[Guest]

It looked very dark a month ago. It looked very dark for us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? I had Jaylen Brown. No fucking Tyrese Maxey.

[Guest]

We had Maxey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Vj.

[Guest]

VJ Embiid. And a broken down George. And then something happened.

[Andrew Schultz]

What happened?

[Guest]

We got Jaylen Brown. And I said, this feels different. I'm not used to this feeling.

[Andrew Schultz]

And then what else happened?

[Guest]

And then, in his wisdom, the goat looked around the league. He surveyed the league.

[Andrew Schultz]

He didn't wait for this. This is good.

[Guest]

The goat surveyed the league and he said, what's the one fan base that stood ten toes down?

[Elliot]

Oh.

[Guest]

What's the one fan base that deserves my presence? What's the one fan base that didn't switch it up and flock like everybody else to the front row of msg? What's the one fan base where, if I bring my talents to that city, they deserve the difference I'm gonna make? And in his wisdom, this is how

[Elliot]

you talk in your mind.

[Guest]

He looked around, he said, the Philadelphia 76ers.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right.

[Guest]

Right now, I'm very happy for you guys. It was a beautiful moment in time, but it's just gonna be a moment.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think that.

[Elliot]

So you think that. Sixers about to take it off.

[Fellow Panelist]

Taylor.

[Guest]

Who are you?

[Elliot]

I'm not a. I'm sorry. I'm not. I wasn't raised to be a Sixers fan.

[Guest]

I understand. Where were you born? Where were you raised?

[Elliot]

In pa?

[Guest]

Phil?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Upper Darby?

[Elliot]

No, stop getting it wrong. It's Not Upper Darby.

[Guest]

I know there are some dark moments and you slandered the goat, but now's the moment.

[Elliot]

I already said, look, I said if he go, if he gives Pa a ring or Pa, if he gives Philly a ring, I respect him a lot more in a sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, the New York Knicks are The reason that LeBron James went to Philadelphia. Because I believe.

[Elliot]

Why you say that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because he wanted to play in New York and he saw the love that a team like the Knicks can get when they bring a championship to a city that's been starved of a championship. There's only like two for real. I'm just, I mean, I could be completely wrong, but I believe there's only like two, maybe three completely basketball cities in America. New York, I'm gonna say three. Philly and Boston.

[Guest]

And I'm going to give LA just a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fellow Panelist]

Lakers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.

[Guest]

You're really looking.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, but nobody's from la. That's what I think. Everybody moves to la. So you're pretending to be a Lakers fan.

[Guest]

I'm talking about the Paul Pierce's, guys like that. There are a lot of guys who really the hard.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't know if Philly's a basketball town.

[Guest]

Basketball, Hello.

[Andrew Schultz]

Can I, can I make an argument?

[Guest]

Philadelphia is a basketball team.

[Bobby]

Sure.

[Andrew Schultz]

I think Philly is a bigger football town than it is basketball.

[Guest]

Yes, but its roots are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We thought that about the new New York too.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, but what I was saying, when they started winning, nobody in New York City, you got to understand, nobody in New York City, not a single one of us growing up, put on football pads or a helmet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Or we have no understanding of football. Like the idea of playing football in high school is like absurd to all of us. We played one sport. You played baseball when you were a kid in Little League, when your parents would take you out to Randall's island. But outside of that you never touched a baseball. We played one sport. It's basketball. It's the only sport this town cares about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Philly's close to that, though. I would say Philly's the closest.

[Andrew Schultz]

Philly's close to that. But Philly got a relationship with the Eagles that like a college town has with their team.

[Guest]

Let me give you a counter to that. Yeah, I agree with you. There's no question the Eagles are the number one team in the city and a lot of that is because they've been successful. But this is the one difference between New York And Philly, when it comes to basketball, Philly is a college basketball town. Philly has the big five. They have a 60, 70 year old tradition of those teams going at each other.

[Andrew Schultz]

So they like college alive, so they like college hoops. But for example, what I would say is like there's no style of a Philly basketball player. So for example, you would never go, oh yeah, he's a Philly style point guard. Or he's a Philly style.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's interesting in boxing, Philly boxers. Yeah, I'll say that style, right?

[Guest]

Strickling, Kenny Anderson, these classic New York City pilgrims, Kenny Smith. But I think all that stuff is out the window with the Internet right now. I can see the point.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm just talking about culture that predates the Internet. You know what a New York point guard is? Sebastian Telfair, Stephon Marbury. These are like long legacies of point guards that go. Went to Bannister or what was the other school out Lincoln or went to Christ the King. Like we got these institutions. Even our rappers hooped in high school. Cam was playing, Mace was playing. Like Gilly played.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gilly played.

[Andrew Schultz]

Bro, I was better. Now shout out to Gilly might be better.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, listen, I was looking at Gilly's. Somebody put out a tape of Gilly in high school. Gilly is smoking.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, Gilly's basketball player.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I smoking.

[Andrew Schultz]

But even Gilly I see as an Eagles fan.

[Guest]

No, he didn't switch up. He didn't switch up.

[Andrew Schultz]

He switched up. But identity wise, he'll be more excited

[Guest]

when the Sixers bring it home this year.

[Andrew Schultz]

Definitely. Fair enough.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I guarantee you the highest selling jersey ever in Philadelphia sports history was Allen Iverson.

[Guest]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And probably, and probably Dr. J number two.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right, so let me tell you,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

in all the sports, I bet you if you looked it up, Allen Iverson got the highest selling jersey in Philly history.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right, sure. So here's the thing with New Yorkers. Love it. Oh, shit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See what I'm saying? He pulled out the AI. Why are you walking around with a random.

[Elliot]

Wait, wait. Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Well, why? Chris, it's time.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, pal, tell me if you think this take is crazy. Tell me this takes crazy. I don't even know if you grew up in New York City. This sounds crazy, but it might be true. Like, I don't even really know if you like football, if you grew up in New York City. I think people in New York, it's. It's Jersey and Long Island.

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Maybe some like more far parts of Queens or Staten Island.

[Fellow Panelist]

Staten Island.

[Andrew Schultz]

Staten Island, a little bit. But like, because they actually have room to play football out there, you can have. The high school's gonna have it. I think if you grew up in the city, city, you like the Giants or the jets or whatever. But it's not like that's really a suburban thing to like football. So to us it's only basketball. Boston, I would say basketball town. It's basketball because of the history of the Celtics and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause the Patriots aren't necessarily in Boston.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, to me the Patriots are Boston. But here's the thing that I don't get with Boston. I never seen people playing basketball in Boston. I never seen a hoop somewhere. I never heard of a pickup run. I never heard of like an iconic place where you could go play hoops.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got somebody just stopped dribbling in Boston right now. They're listening to the brilliant idiots in their headphones. They're like, what the fuck is Andrew talking about Alone?

[Andrew Schultz]

They're in that park alone. There's nobody else. There's no balls.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like homie. From above the rim. Sh.

[Fellow Panelist]

That's it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shadow balling.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm just saying can you can like do people play? If somebody told me that there's not a single place to play basketball in Boston outside of the Boston Garden or the TD or whatever it's called, I would believe it. In New York we have iconic pickup courts. Pickup courts. The Rucker west, fourth, the Garden out in Queens or whatever, where like Marbury and Telefair played in the projects or whatever they called that shit. There's like iconic, not even professional basketball players.

[Guest]

Philly has Sunny Hill League.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I just saw?

[Andrew Schultz]

Nobody ever heard of that.

[Guest]

Oh, come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what they said? The highest selling jersey in Philly history is Chris fucking Bryce Harper. They said.

[Guest]

But that's like what Andrew said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They said when Bryce Harper signed suburban guys, suburban Philly number three jersey became the best selling jersey launch in the history of professional sports.

[Andrew Schultz]

What are we talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What the.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'll be honest, I don't even think. I don't even. I would be shocked if y' all even knew the rules to basketball.

[Guest]

Let's not get. Let's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's not get. Let's not get.

[Guest]

Let's not get sidetracked right here. Let's not get sidetracked right now.

[Andrew Schultz]

Gilly might be the best Philadelphian that's ever played basketball. You can't prove me otherwise. Homegrown talent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Andrew Schultz]

Tell me another homegrown talent from Philly. Well, can you name one NBA player from Philly?

[Guest]

Rasheed Wallace.

[Andrew Schultz]

I can't believe you didn't say Kobe.

[Guest]

By the way, I don't count Kobe because he was raised in Italy.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right, fair. So give me one. Give me one Raised Philly.

[Guest]

Well, you know, people say Wilt Chamberlain's one of the five greatest players of all time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wilt was Philly. Yeah, yeah.

[Guest]

Over Brook High. What are we talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right. I didn't know that, Will. I mean, technically, Wilt. Kobe.

[Elliot]

Yeah. Kobe's in a lily called Kobe squad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I don't even got to look it up. All I know is if LeBron James wins a championship in Philadelphia, it will be great. It'll be great for the city of Philly. They haven't won a championship in, what, 43 years? And winning a championship for our all time historic franchise, that's actually no chance, guys.

[Andrew Schultz]

There's no chance.

[Fellow Panelist]

It's gonna be so good.

[Andrew Schultz]

You got to the Knicks. How you gonna go through the Knicks?

[Guest]

Don't let me tell it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're gonna get their hope.

[Guest]

Don't let me tell it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, they're gonna fight. What's the one thing that's indisputable. I never heard Chris Reed sign.

[Guest]

What's the one thing that's undisputable about LeBron? What do we all agree about LeBron?

[Elliot]

He's choked.

[Fellow Panelist]

He chokes.

[Guest]

No flops. What basketball genius?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? I got to do everything?

[Guest]

It has to do with everything. He looked around. He could have gone anywhere. He could have gone to San Antonio to put them over.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Andrew Schultz]

I was saying the 76ers problems all these years has been. They've been too stupid in many ways.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know if there was a market for Brian like y' all think it was.

[Guest]

Oh, my God. Come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On. I really don't.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, there's a financial market, meaning people want to see him play one last time.

[Guest]

He's a basketball genius.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let me tell you something. Nobody's worried about LeBron. Nobody on the east coast, not a single team is going, oh, no, we're playing LeBron.

[Elliot]

Why? Because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you're not worried about him when

[Guest]

he has to be one of the top two guys?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to. You got to be worried about G. You're right. You got worried about Bridge.

[Guest]

I'm not worried about that. On your offense, why am I worried about Josh Hart?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all don't got no chemistry.

[Guest]

Jaylen Brown. I got a Rejuvenated. Joel Embiid. I got the young 42. Edgecomb.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Joel will play 42 games next week.

[Guest]

Oh, he's fine.

[Andrew Schultz]

Tops his knees.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't go 90 degrees. There's only one basketball bro who's going to be the number one guy on the team.

[Guest]

Every night's a different story.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, that's not going to work. That's not how it works.

[Guest]

It's called versatility.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right?

[Andrew Schultz]

It's called losing. You got to have a Jalen Brunson, where you get the Rock in his hand.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He want his team to be fluid. Fucking liberal.

[Andrew Schultz]

You would want your team to be fluid.

[Guest]

Going to flow right through the east, the west, the playoffs be a beautiful thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So y'.

[Elliot]

All. Well, it seems like Chris does. You respect a player that goes to different teams and try to win the ring instead of staying on one team.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I will say I. I loved what Derek Fisher said. That was hard. And I agree with that. Derek Fisher said, you're not ring chasing if you're the reason the people get the ring.

[Bobby]

You're not ring chasing when you're the guy that creates the rings. Yeah, like go back in NBA sports history, it's not about what team the guy is on. It's about what team. It's about where he is, not the city or the team. So Lu Alcindor, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, he didn't chase rings. Where he went, the rings followed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, yes, indeed.

[Bobby]

So it's the same, like, when you look at the history of all of the greats, it's where they are that the rings go. It's not the other way around. It's not like a ring is sitting in Philadelphia and he's going to chase it. His addition will increase the chances of them getting it. Yeah, they look good on paper without him, but they may not win it without him either. And they could also come up short with him.

[Andrew Schultz]

I agree.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, that's not ring chasing. Like, LeBron goes the team, the rings follow him. I completely agree that that was actually. I was like, you know what? That's.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's kd. The Golden State is ring chasing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kd, The Golden State is ring chasing. Because KD never won a ring anywhere and still hasn't won a ring anywhere else. He went to Golden State because Golden State were champions. He won two rings and hasn't won anywhere else. LeBron has won everywhere he went. He's been the difference maker 100%. So it's the same thing. He go to Philly. That's not ring chasing.

[Andrew Schultz]

You can't knock LeBron's rings.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Andrew Schultz]

People try to knock the bubble ring, and I think that's bullshit.

[Elliot]

Y' all respect that more.

[Andrew Schultz]

What's that?

[Elliot]

Going to different teams and getting a

[Andrew Schultz]

ring versus it's not about more or less. It's if you go to a different team and you build the team, you deserve the credit. If you go to a different team that's already an amazing team and they're already winning championships and you win another one with them, it's not as valuable.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's going to be one of the biggest points that people bring up if LeBron wins a ring in Philly, because he literally won a ring with every team he went to. So you. As soon as somebody says, man, he chased, he went to different team to see and he won a ring every time he went to a team, he's

[Guest]

going to win a ring with us and he will undisputably be the goat. I've always had Jordan above him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, really? You gonna play him above now?

[Elliot]

If he wins?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now you're just saying anything.

[Fellow Panelist]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now you're just saying anything for the sake of saying things. He's still. Listen, LeBron standing.

[Andrew Schultz]

This will change on that team. Like, let's just talk about the build of the team. Like, how are you? This is a three point game we live in right now.

[Guest]

Oh, I got my, my, my young. My young gun. Anthony Simons coming off the bench.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, no. Give me your starting five. The five that are going to play the last eight.

[Guest]

Tyrese Mark Maxi, arguably one of the best shooters in the league, can shoot his ass off. Now he gets a playoff ball with LeBron orchestrating.

[Andrew Schultz]

You got one.

[Guest]

VJ's been in the lab all summer.

[Andrew Schultz]

What does that mean?

[Guest]

Putting on muscle, perfecting his three point shot. He's going to be a sniper.

[Andrew Schultz]

You got Maxi Two, you got Maxi

[Guest]

Brown, a very legitimate shooter.

[Andrew Schultz]

No.

[Guest]

Yes. Embiid, always a decent three point favorite.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He better hope that he's out there.

[Guest]

He's going to pick it up. I'm going to see him at around 40% this year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chris. There's no way Joel Embiid will be playing outside of the perimeter on this team. He has to go down low. That's the only. He has to go low.

[Guest]

He's going to go where LeBron tells him to go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's dumb. If he's still shooting threes on this team.

[Guest]

No, I like him shooting threes.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, I like him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't.

[Andrew Schultz]

I mean, I me Personally, I think for that team you need him on the wing because you need to create lanes for Jalen and you need to create lanes for Paul because otherwise it's going to be to George.

[Guest]

No, he's gone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, he's gone.

[Andrew Schultz]

Sorry. Not Paul, George, Jalen Brown.

[Guest]

Jalen and Maxi to drive, VJ to drive and beat out on the perimeter. Now if he has to take a cat down low and bang him and post him, we'll do that too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maxi, I'm going to be honest with you. Based off what Schultz just said. LeBron Nicks and five bro. How did I think about it? Like they got to get this chemistry. I already knew they wasn't going to have no chemistry, but now they're out

[Guest]

hitting the club, they're partying, they're out

[Andrew Schultz]

of the first round.

[Guest]

Oh my God. Come on.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't think you make it out of the first round. You don't have any shooting. There's no shooting. This is a three point game. You don't come back from down 39 or whatever the hell we came back from with going two for two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, talk to me a difference. The thing I did like about the Knicks is the Knicks do take it to the basket. I think that San Antonio spurs died on the three point shooting that game. Cause they didn't switch it up in the second half and they just kept shooting, shooting, shooting and missing. Meanwhile, Knicks was going down there, getting layups, getting dunks. We were hitting threes, going to the basket, they were hitting a few threes. But I think it was the fact that the spurs were missing a bunch of threes and the Knicks were driving to the basket. That's what I like about the Knicks.

[Fellow Panelist]

You gotta hit.

[Guest]

You guys aren't ready for Maxi off ball. That's what you don't understand. He's been miscast playing out of position. Now LeBron is orchestrating. LeBron is playing point. He's setting all these guys up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why LeBron be playing point?

[Andrew Schultz]

Exactly. So you have all five of your

[Fellow Panelist]

players on the perimeter.

[Andrew Schultz]

Hey, that's kind of what we did.

[Guest]

If Embiid has to take you down low and punish you, so be it. Cat doesn't want it with Embiid down low.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cat will smoke. Embiid.

[Guest]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, come on. The Knicks are going to be so good next year.

[Guest]

It was a beautiful year for the Knicks. I'm very happy for everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're going to be better next year. They champions playing with a different level of confidence. Different level of confidence.

[Andrew Schultz]

You're not thinking about New York.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Confidence.

[Guest]

We got new confidence. This is a different type of confidence.

[Andrew Schultz]

I think you. I think you guys might miss the playoffs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, I'm not gonna put that. Fuck.

[Guest]

We're just gonna sit it out and then we'll.

[Andrew Schultz]

I think you might miss the playoff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, Embiid.

[Andrew Schultz]

God forbid. But Embiid could get injured. Without Embiid, that's like. You guys are kind of a mediocre.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said God forbid Embiid could get injured.

[Andrew Schultz]

God forbid. I don't wish that on anyone.

[Guest]

Embiid gets injured, we're gonna run.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, God said. Gotcha. You ain't even gotta worry about that. It's part of his legacy. It's part of his destiny. Joel Embiid. 47 games next year. Okay. This week's episode of the Brilliant Idiots is also brought to you by Tempo. Summer always sounds relaxing in theory, but somehow it feels busier than ever. I've been outside all weekend, man. Between vacations and concerts and, you know, pool days and the kids at camp trying to keep everybody fed. Healthy eating and just trying to keep the kids busy. Busy things can easily fall off track. That's why I've been loving Tempo. Okay, the meals are already prepared, ready in just minutes. And they make it easy to have a healthy option waiting for you no matter how chaotic the day gets. All right. Tempo delivers fresh chef crafted, dietitian approved meals right through your door. It's making it easy to eat well and save time. On our busiest days. Okay, Each meal is perfectly portioned for lunch or dinner and ready in just two minutes. That means real food, real fast without the sad desk lunch, our drive thru regression regret. With over 20 recipes every week made from nutrient rich ingredients, Tempo keeps things exciting and helps you stay consistent with healthy habits. And no matter your goals, there's a Tempo meal for you. Protein packed meals with over 30 grams of protein fiber, rich calorie, conscious gut Support and even GLP1 smart meals. Get GLP1 smart meals delivered to your door this summer. Tempo Meals are full of protein and fiber, making it easy to reach your goals and feel your best. It's convenient, but also flexible in the enough to fit the way you want to eat for a limited time. Tempo is offering brilliant Idiots Listen to 60% off your first box. Go to Tempo meals.comidiots that's Temple meals.comidiots for 60% off your first box. Templemeals.comidiots Rules and restrictions may apply. Let's get back to the show, guys.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Church announcements. This Saturday In Moncks Corner, South Carolina, I am having my 11th annual back to school drive. Okay. Book bag drive and fish fry. Okay. You know how we do 6pm to 8pm at the Berkeley High School bus loop. We're gonna have backpacks, and we're gonna have the food trucks and the jump castles and the face painting, all of that good stuff. All you gotta do is pull up the Berkeley High School this Saturday from 6pm to 8pm Salute to spray Ground, man. Spray Ground gave me a fantastic deal on some backpacks. So all the kids in Monks corner that come to my 11th annual back to school drive and fish fry will be getting spray ground backpacks and school supplies, man. So, yeah, see y' all this Saturday. What you got? Hezekiah Walker.

[Andrew Schultz]

Saturday, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Great outdoors festival. Awesome show. Wild venue, outdoors like insane. So we'll see you guys up there, Halifax, Nova Scotia. I'm coming up there. I'm bringing Mark Gagnon, Cam Patterson, Lucas Zelnick, Rory Gardner. Open it up. So it's gonna be a great show. We'll see you guys there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, let's get back to the show. What else we got? Taylor gang. Oh. Salute to. I'm getting a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, man.

[Andrew Schultz]

Brother, I wanted to bring that up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm getting a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

[Andrew Schultz]

Unbeliev.

[Fellow Panelist]

In the category of radio, next we

[Charlamagne Tha God]

have a man who is the voice

[Fellow Panelist]

of the culture, a Radio hall of Fame inductee, and an absolute force. Charlemagne, the God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, all the digital out there, man.

[Andrew Schultz]

Tell me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just funny. It's funny to watch because it's not hard to have conversations with people about stuff like this because. Cause you can just tell them if they choose to listen, right? So people will see my name along with, like, who else is getting in this year? Keke Palmer, Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba. Right? Lil Wayne. And they're like, what the fuck is Charlamagne up there for? Guys, they have a radio category. The Hollywood Walk of Fame has a radio category.

[Andrew Schultz]

So they have radio music acting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's radio music acting. I forgot. I can't remember the other category, but they have a radio category. I know y' all think radio is just prehistoric, okay? And nobody listens to it anymore, but that's not the case. And the Hollywood Walk of Fame has an actual radio category. I think there's 2,800 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and, like, 9% of them are radio personalities. So that's. It's. Just. It's just a rare feat. Why wouldn't I be in there for radio? I'm just saying, like, why. Why wouldn't I be in the. On the Hollywood Walk of Fame for radio?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, There'd be no reason not to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Elvis Durant has a star. Angie Martinez got selected for a star a couple of years ago. Wendy Williams has a star. I feel like I should have a

[Andrew Schultz]

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for radioaction. You're so good at knowing what people are saying about things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, you look at it, you see it. If somebody put a post, somebody will at me and tag me, and they'll ask the question, like, why is Charlamagne getting a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Because there's a radio category. I'm already in the Radio hall of Fame. I think I'm pretty good at this radio Thing, guys?

[Andrew Schultz]

I think so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. I've been doing it for 28 years. Okay.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It'll be 16 years of breakfast Club this December.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. And the funny part is when motherfuckers be like, the fuck is the radio person? Where the fuck is the radio guy getting a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame for? Cause when they think Hollywood Walk of Fame, they think Hollywood. They think, yeah, movies. Yeah, movies and shit like that. No, they have a radio category, so, yes, I'm going to get my goddamn star on the Highway Walk fan. And for the people who think other stupid shit, like, you pay for it. You don't know what you're talking about either. You have to be selected for it first, then you gotta pay for it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay, yeah, what is the why? Yeah, I mean, why are they just trying to discredit Schultz?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on. What would the world be if people didn't try to discredit you, man?

[Andrew Schultz]

I saw a great quote.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you talking about?

[Andrew Schultz]

I saw a great quote.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you talking about? What would the world be if they didn't try to discredit you, man, in your accomplishments? But for people who want to know, you pay for the star after you get selected because you have to pay for the actual physical star. You got to pay for the star to be in the ground. You got to pay for the lifetime maintenance of the star, and you have to pay for the ceremony. So it's just like, you know, getting invited to the Met Gala. Like, I don't know if y' all know or not, but these people make donations, right? When they get invited to the Met Gala and it goes to the museum. So, hey, man, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they gotta. They gotta make money, too, I guess.

[Andrew Schultz]

I saw.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you don't pay for the star. You can't go there and say, hey, let me get a star. If that was the case, it'd be a lot more than 2,800 of them.

[Guest]

A lot of the award shows are the same way. Way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you mean? Like, spots, campaigning and stuff.

[Guest]

You gotta. You gotta pay the organization that throws them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, man, I wanted to find this quote.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the quote?

[Andrew Schultz]

Something like. Like. Like taking pleasure in the. In, like, the criticism of the successful or the downfall. The successful is the drug of the mediocre or something like that. Like, you're exposing your own mediocrity by taking pleasure in knocking successful people down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Does that make sense?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I love it. Listen, and by the way, I love it. There's nothing more that warms my cold heart than to watch people mad at me being successful. The time and energy that y' all take to make your videos and send out your posts. Thank you. I appreciate you. Because I keep telling you over and over, the algorithm don't know the difference. It just doesn't. The algorithm has no idea. What? Why your name is alive in the algorithm. It's just in the algorithm. So thank you.

[Andrew Schultz]

The downfall of the great has always been the joy of the mediocre.

[Guest]

Ooh.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that means that the. The continued evolution of the great must make mediocre sick, right? Or did I just make that up?

[Andrew Schultz]

No, they don't. Yeah, of course they don't want you to win because. Well, because there's got to be a reason why they're not winning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I can't wait to tell y' all when the ceremony is going to be. Okay.

[Andrew Schultz]

I want to be there.

[Elliot]

Me, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course. What are you talking about?

[Andrew Schultz]

I gotta be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you mean?

[Andrew Schultz]

I hit you up when I saw, and I was like, bro, when is this? I gotta go. I thought you were doing it, like, last week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no, no. I'll probably wait until, like, early 2027. Cause it's 4 to 2027.

[Andrew Schultz]

Got it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

By the way, I don't even know when. Cause once I, you know, take care of everything, then they tell you schedule the ceremony and stuff. But I hope it's at a time where all of us can, you know, pull up. You know what I mean?

[Andrew Schultz]

I can't wait to do graffiti on it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That'd be dope.

[Elliot]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

If y' all don't stick one of them WNBA dildos on his list. Weekly. We don't have real brilliant idiots fans if there ain't a WNBA dildo stuck on that plaque. Weekly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what the money's for. The money is the clean. We're gonna.

[Andrew Schultz]

Hey, I'm starting another fun, right? I'm starting another.

[Elliot]

Or make the.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's the WNBA dildo punt. Okay, so we need a weekly. You're gonna have the most popular star on the walking fan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't wait. And you know what's so interesting about this star? It wasn't something that I ever thought about. I never thought about a star in the Hollywood Walk of fam. Which is weird, because usually I see other. Like, if I see like, a Elvis Duran or Wendy, I'm like, oh, that's a goal. I never thought of that as a goal. I Don't know why. Like, never, like, never did I ever think about that as a goal.

[Andrew Schultz]

Because I don't know if it's like, I don't know if it's like a way that we judge radio people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it's not. Big boy got a star.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Andrew Schultz]

Big boy meaning, like, there are other examples of success that we would dictate, like the gravity of a radio personality outside a star on the walk of Fame.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

At least in my mind.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

You know, if someone told me, like, Howard Stern never got a star, I'd be like, ah, you don't have one. But I'm sure he's been offered a star.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know if he's been offered because he's publicly bashed the process. Like he thinks it's ridiculous that he. You have to pay for it once they select you.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, who do they expect to pay for chipping up the street and like inserting the thing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know, like, listen, I, I, I listen, I respect all sides of why people want them and why people don't want. I know I'm going to get mine.

[Andrew Schultz]

I mean, it's a small fee to pay for immortality. You know, as long as Los Angeles is here, and it will be here for at least another five, 10 years. I mean, it's an honor to have a methed out homeless person take a shit on your name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who wouldn't want. Hey, man, listen, I'm getting it. I want it. Hollywood star, Hollywood walk star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, hall of Fame, radio personality sounds pretty good to me.

[Andrew Schultz]

It is an unbelievable accomplishment to be immortalized in the center hub for entertainment for the world.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have no problem.

[Andrew Schultz]

What are we talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I have no problem with it. I was sitting on my porch and started getting texts and I was like, what the is going on?

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, you didn't even, you weren't even there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had no idea. I had no idea that I had been submitted that, you know, because you know, somebody, they have to submit you. Somebody has to submit your name. I had no idea I had been submitted. It was a complete, complete. Listen, I had the same reaction as everybody that was hitting me that was talking shit. The fuck I'm getting the star for?

[Andrew Schultz]

You know, the fuck am I getting the star for?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But then you, oh, they got a radio category.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Makes sense.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's so cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that's all I wanted. What else we got?

[Andrew Schultz]

Taylor, how much can I pay to have your name spelled wrong?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I'M definitely doing T H A.

[Elliot]

Really?

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought about this.

[Andrew Schultz]

You gotta do it. That's the name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the name, right? What's the name? That's the name.

[Andrew Schultz]

Why would you not. I want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't do Leonard McKelvey.

[Elliot]

Oh, yeah. Why would you do that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not the same.

[Elliot]

Why would you do Linari? People know you're.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's Hollywood, right? My stage name has been Charlamagne. I feel like your stage name should be on the Star.

[Elliot]

It is. Yeah. Why are you acting like you wouldn't be?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. I mean, it could be whatever I want it to be, but. Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, I think Charlamagne, the guy.

[Elliot]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Because every actor who's changed their name uses their actor name.

[Elliot]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whoopi Goldberg name. Whoopi Goldberg.

[Andrew Schultz]

Tom Cruise. Name ain't Tom Cruise.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jamie Foxx Name ain't Jamie Foxx. Absolutely 100%.

[Elliot]

What's Tom Cruise's name?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cruise. Tom.

[Elliot]

Shut up.

[Andrew Schultz]

What is his real name?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's gonna be Holland in a minute. He not even gonna wanna be a Cruise In a fucking minute. It's gonna be fucking Tom Holland. What else we got? Tail fellow.

[Elliot]

His name is Thomas Cruz. Map. Mapother what? I see why he changed it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's do some asking idiots, man.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let's do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's do some asking idiots, man. Yo, they got the.

[Hollywood Insider]

Is that real?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Yeezy 8 hundreds. Because them look fire. Have you seen them? Let me see on front. I want them right there. Look, Fire.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let me see them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Shit. Right there.

[Elliot]

I want those.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They kind of look like Sacconi's a little bit.

[Elliot]

They look comfortable, man.

[Andrew Schultz]

This is the first time I've seen him directly rip off a sneaker.

[Hollywood Insider]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

This is a direct rip off of a New Balance.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A New Balance? Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

These are new balance, like 995s or something like that. Yeah, I like the colors.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Colorway.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, but like the shape of the sneaker is an identical New Balance.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Or.

[Andrew Schultz]

Or like an ac.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, the Asics. Yeah, the new Asics too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right. Let's do some. Let's do these ads, Taylor. Then do some masking idiots.

[Elliot]

Also, while we wait, did you know that Gen Z men are being more stay at home and the women have to work?

[Andrew Schultz]

About time. How many millions of years we, you know, work for? Millions of years, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is a Gen Z, man? What? What year is that?

[Andrew Schultz]

My buddy. My buddy had a funny ass take. He's he's dead and he's gay now. He's dead. Oh, and he was, he's talking.

[Bobby]

He got.

[Andrew Schultz]

He got three kids. He's talking about, like, being with the kids or whatever. And he was like, he's like, man, we're spending. Our generation is spending three times more time with our kids than our parents and past generations. Like, we're the first dads that are just there all the time. Time and. But we still have the responsibilities of, of work and that kind of stuff, right? And what he said, he was saying to his wife, he's basically like. He's basically like, look like I never had anyone to learn how to do this from. You know what I mean? It's like I'm making this up as I go. Like you had your mom doing all the time with you and the kid. You have an expectation of what you're do to. Supposed. Supposed to do. We're the first generation being full time dads and our wives aren't happy with

[Charlamagne Tha God]

how we're doing it.

[Andrew Schultz]

We're like, who the fuck were we

[Charlamagne Tha God]

supposed to learn from?

[Andrew Schultz]

Our dads are playing golf or going to do other shit or hanging out or drinking at the bar.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was normal.

[Elliot]

No, my dad was very present.

[Andrew Schultz]

So is mine. So is mine. I don't have the excuse. I don't have the excuse. But the data shows that most times dads were. They're fighting a war.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My dad was outside. That was outside fighting the war against his loins.

[Guest]

All right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was, he was. He. My. My dad had a whole. He was in the family. Yeah. What are you talking about? Ask an idiot. What we got? What we got? Taylor Gang, what you got? Taylor Gang, what you got?

[Andrew Schultz]

Taylor Gang, what you got for us? Taylor Gang, what you got for us?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you sounded like some bougie just now. What you got for us?

[Andrew Schultz]

What you got for us?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you got for us?

[Andrew Schultz]

What you got for us?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Still one saint says, if both of you had to start your careers today, would you have the same level of success?

[Andrew Schultz]

If both of you had to start your careers today, would you have, I think more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I think more. Are we starting our career today with all of the knowledge that we've acquired over the last however many years?

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, I think they meant just randomly, like, we just had to start now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I don't. I guess, yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

If you're gonna have the same. Listen, luck plays a part in all this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, it does. I never used to believe in luck till recently.

[Andrew Schultz]

What made you change?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause I mean, I believe in God first and foremost. I believe in God and I believe in hard work. But I guess, I don't know, I guess maybe what's in my salute to Alicia Renee, my good sister Alicia Renee told me me to because I read Joe Morgan's book, John Morgan's book. I'm sorry, John Morgan book from Morgan and Morgan. And the name of his book is. Hold on, I'm gonna tell you right

[Guest]

now,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

it's not hard work, it's luck. Hold on, let me tell you right now. John Morgan book is called yes, life is luck, Lessons from a paperboy and how to improve your luck. And basically what he says is that being self made is a mystery and you have to focus on how to recognize lucky breaks, handle misfortune, and build a return on luck. But what he actually describes as luck is also too just God. Like, you know, some things are just, you know, destined to be. Right.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And so I believe that as well. So I don't want to say I all the way believe in luck, but I just believe that there are these divine breaks that happen, whether you want to call it, you want to call them luck, whatever you want to call them. Yeah. There's just these divine breaks that happen, but I think they happen for you because they're for you.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean? Like, I don't think everybody. I think your path is completely different than anybody else's path. Like you could tell another comedian exactly what you did.

[Andrew Schultz]

It might not work for them and

[Charlamagne Tha God]

it might not work for them. Trust me. I see it. It's one of my favorite things to do, watch people put stuff on YouTube and put they stand up special stuff. I like watching it. I like watching it. Cause I'm like, you know what? I can see why it's not happening for you. But then there's other people who do it. And I'm like, that motherfucker's funny. It's just a matter of time.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? That's the difference. But that's what I mean when I say what worked for you won't work for everybody else. Because they're not you. They don't have what you have. Like, and just because you see it work for. It can work for a few people. I'm sure at putting standup specials on YouTube. It has worked for you. What I'm talking about. It's work. It's working for a lot of people. I can think of Alisa Deegan, all those guys like that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh yeah, Amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But Those guys are funny.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, I mean, you need to have. You need to have it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gotta be funny. You gotta have it.

[Andrew Schultz]

You gotta have it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gotta have it. Yeah. The formula don't matter if you don't have the it. So I don't know, I feel like we. I feel like we'd still be successful if we had to start the day because that was just in our cards, I guess.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Plrd8222 said, what's your favorite summer memory ever? Ooh, I've made some good ones this summer.

[Andrew Schultz]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Definitely, bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

What you got going on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I told you, I've been chasing dopamine all fucking summer. Real dopamine hits. It started with the Jay Z show going to. Well, actually started with vacation, being in Anguilla for 10 days, you know, that's my happy place. But then coming home and then that very next weekend going to Jay Z for three days. Went to all three Jay Z show, which I didn't plan to do. I only planned to go to one. But that dopamine was so high from that Friday. I went to all of them. Then last week or the week before last, went to Vegas to go see Jeezy on a Friday. Mary J. Blige on a Saturday, dopamine high through the roof. And then this week was. Last week was I went to go see a great play. Oh my God. You should go see. Fuck, I can't remember the title or nothing. It's Every Brilliant Thing with Tracee Ellis Ross. Hold on, what's it called?

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm talking about. It's a one woman play, but you'll like it because you understand

[Andrew Schultz]

being on

[Charlamagne Tha God]

the phone or mental. I mean that too. Yes, every brilliant thing. Oh my God, man. When you talk about art that puts people's anxiety and depression and perspective and grief in perspective. Oh, and she's the only person. She's a one woman play, so it's just her, but the audience is her co host. So when you walk in, inside your playbill is a number and a line. And so as she's on stage, she's doing the play and she'll say the number and then the person, whatever number it is, you gotta scream the line back to her. So she incorporates the whole audience. Oh, that shit is so dope. It's is dope.

[Fellow Panelist]

That's risky though. What if you don't pay attention to the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She keeps saying the number.

[Elliot]

Just say nine. Nine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, like 10. 10,032. 10,032 and she does it so dull like you don't even realize.

[Elliot]

Like, is she in a scene though? Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, it's incorporated because it's called Every Brilliant Thing. So she's. The play is about her writing down all of these things that she loves and she numbers, you know what I'm saying? So when she screams out the number, the person screams out the thing and then that keeps the play going.

[Andrew Schultz]

Everyone in the play gets called on. There's no way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not everybody in the audience, but majority of a lot. A large part of the audience. Yeah. And then she's surrounded on stage by a lot of the audience. The shit is dope. The shit is dope. So long story short, and then I got like my good sister getting married this weekend. Like, you know what I mean? So it's just like, it's non stop dopamine. So this has been a very memorable summer. My daughter's going to college. Like this has been a very memorable summer. I will remember the summer of 26. I got the fucking star in the Hollywood walk of Fame. Like it's crazy. It's a big ass. This summer. I've been creating a lot of memories. What about you?

[Andrew Schultz]

There's like crazy childhood memories, but I honestly think, think it's my. My daughter's at an age now where like we're really communicating.

[Elliot]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

And it's just unbelievable. It's amazing. You know, it's like painful being away because she can literally go, when dad, will you come home? Will you come?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh my God, yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

But like just being able to have conversations with her, you know, being able for her to like express what she wants and then go do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Go on little like daddy daughter dude dates. That's been the coolest thing that I can remember in the summer for sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dope. I went to the Hamptons though. You other day I went to the Hamptons. I thought the Hamptons was dope. I get it. It reminds me of the low country.

[Andrew Schultz]

Interesting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It reminds me of like South Carolina. Like the Hilton heads, the Isle of Palms, the Kidwoods. I get it. I get why if you're in New York, you would want to go to the Hamptons. And it's a cool vibe. It's cool energy. Food is pretty good. Lobster rolls. Oh my God.

[Andrew Schultz]

Where'd you go go?

[Elliot]

You love a lobster.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love a lobster. I don't remember the name of this place is. Only thing place I remember is the ice cream spot. Cuz my kids made me go there like twice.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, the in town.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Clouse or something like that. Whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Something with a B. Budaberry.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, yeah. Buddha Berry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that's what it's called. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was dope, though. I had a good. Had a good time in the Hampton. What's one aspect of life that everyone takes advantage of? Of

[Andrew Schultz]

Time. Time. Time, time, time, time. You have so much of it until you have none of it. Yeah, Time. That's the best advice. The nice thing about having kids when you're older is that all the people that are your age that already had kids and older than you constantly remind you how fast it goes.

[Elliot]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

So now I have that in my brain. I'm like, okay, I got to soak up these moments. I got to take like this. All right, I'm tired, and I'm hungover because I had martinis at dinner. Well, it. Let's get up, because how many years. How many times. How much time am I gonna have with her at two and a half years old, just pushing her on a swing, like.

[Elliot]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's actually made me stop drinking.

[Andrew Schultz]

Interesting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because of that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah. The mornings you're cooked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got. I want to be up. I want to be up. I want to be up with the kids. Like, I don't want to be. Be. Wake up.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because it impacts everything. Your workout, all of that. Like, that.

[Elliot]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, it makes you. Yeah, I agree with that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Time, though, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Time, time, time. Definitely. Can you remember a time in your life that you wish time stopped temporarily? Absolutely.

[Andrew Schultz]

Million times.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every time I had a premature orgasm.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, yeah. 100%.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? Like, every single time. Like, why am I nutting fast again?

[Elliot]

Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He knows, like, God damn. That's not what he talking about. It's my time. You asked me a question. What about you, Schultz?

[Andrew Schultz]

I am. It's a good one. I mean, yes, of course, in those situations, you wish time stopped temporarily.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I be doing that shit, too.

[Andrew Schultz]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stopping time. Just like Blossom. I be like, is that what she could do? Yes. I. Every time I'm in a moment that I really, really enjoy, I do that

[Andrew Schultz]

shit, yo, just to see.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just be like, stop time. I'm dead serious. I do that especially on vacation. And time be stopping.

[Elliot]

What the hell y' all talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You too young to know who Blossom is, man.

[Elliot]

I mean, you talking about the fucking Powerpuff Girls. What the fuck? She had that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, man. That's the. That's the Power. That's the Blossom. Y' all know that's not the Blossom we know.

[Andrew Schultz]

Next one okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Blossom we know is motherfucking Mayim Bialik.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yep.

[Elliot]

Who's that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mayim Bialik. Okay. Jewish goat. All right. Okay.

[Elliot]

All right, I'm gonna explain more.

[Hollywood Insider]

What is it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go watch Blossom.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, it's a movie show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's on Big Bang Theory, too, though. Yeah, And Mayim is a legend.

[Fellow Panelist]

Oh, shit.

[Ad Read Announcer]

I didn't really.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't play with Miami.

[Fellow Panelist]

No, I didn't connect the two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry. Ba za 10 sai Chris. That sound like a name you should be saying. What you gonna do now? Are we gonna get brilliant idiots live in 2027? I just don't know how.

[Elliot]

Why. Why do you keep saying that?

[Andrew Schultz]

Cause we're busy, man.

[Elliot]

Yeah, but y' all find this is about finding time. People only make time for what they wanna make time for.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like making time for this. I like doing brilliant Idiots every week as a. A podcast. I love it. Y' all listen to us.

[Elliot]

Why not make it a.

[Andrew Schultz]

We'll end up doing something eventually for sure. But wait for the movie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, the movie, man. Don't y' all want the movie?

[Andrew Schultz]

Let us cook. Let us cook.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wouldn't y' all rather have a brilliant idiots movie?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? I got a. I got. I think we should have a scene in the movie where we walk past like, a graveyard. Oh, what movies did Christopher Nolan do next? The brilliant, hideous movie. Yes, it. Okay.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, Chris.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jcore. Stop.

[Andrew Schultz]

We need you, Chris. Your first comedy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, let's do one more.

[Andrew Schultz]

My bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't mean to do that.

[Elliot]

Wait, I know there is one. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Guest]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got one you wanted to do?

[Elliot]

Yeah, I went. Got to do this one. Which superpower did you give each other?

[Andrew Schultz]

What superpowers would I give each. Will we give each other? I would give him the superpower to be able to land one Dick.

[Guest]

Joe.

[Andrew Schultz]

Like, just one is. Is a superpower where. Where you're able to actually get one off. If fruits and vegetables went to war against each other, who would win?

[Elliot]

Vegetables.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, vegetables. Nah, they're way harder.

[Elliot]

Yeah, exactly.

[Andrew Schultz]

N. Vegetables are way hard.

[Elliot]

He get his. He's taller than the fish.

[Andrew Schultz]

Fruits also. A pumpkin is just heavy pumpkin.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, but the fruit's going to be squeezing people's butts. You know what I'm saying? Grabbing. You know what I mean? It's.

[Andrew Schultz]

They're going to war with each other.

[Elliot]

Oh, I know you're talking about.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I get it. These Annoy.

[Andrew Schultz]

I mess it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I mean, what would a fruit do to an eggplant? Are you serious? Like, what are you talking about? Okay. A fruit would fuck an eggplant up. You hear me? As always.

[Elliot]

You didn't answer the question, Charlemagne. What superpower would you get injured?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What superpowers would. I like the other one. You know what superpower I would give him? See, I wouldn't want to give him a superpower. I would want to be Jean Grey and then possess him and just go crazy and finally do this special that I want to do called White Devil's Advocate. I've been trying to get him to do a special called White Devil's Advocate forever.

[Elliot]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to possess him and do the White Devil's Advocate. Okay? That's kind of what I do already. Nah. But this is different because I want you to go in front of each audience and tell the jokes. You go in front of a group of transgenders, you tell a joke. Go in front of a group of black people, tell a joke. You go in front of a group of Jewish people that tell a joke. You go in front of MAGA folk, tell a joke. Like, it's just equal opportunity slander.

[Andrew Schultz]

They're all in my show when I do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But if you want it to be only that's. You remember that Chris Rock special where he starts it off, he goes, london, New York, and you show him in all the different. That's what I would want to do. Okay? And I would shoot the special, not tell nobody I shot it. Get on X one day and just go crazy. I mean, just start saying the most wildest shit to where Andrew's trending. Everybody's mad. And then it's like. Like watch my special at 8 o' clock on Netflix. Then it comes on and people are even more pissed off. And they're even more pissed off. Cause it's actually fucking funny. And then Shultz wakes up and don't know what the fuck's going on. And I'm just sitting there smiling. We wake up in brilliant idiot studio. He's sitting there, the chaos has happened. Nobody knows why it's happening happened. He's all confused. He's all confused. But the world is a better place. Why the world is a better place.

[Andrew Schultz]

The world is a better place.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, listen, as always, if you listen to this podcast, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant. You're absolutely right. But if you listen to this podcast, I think we're just A couple idiots who don't know shit. You're right too. It's the Brilliant Idiots podcast. Thank you for listening. Peace. To kids. Summer isn't just time off. It's time spent building confidence and curiosity. But when school meals pause, millions of kids lose access to the food they count on during the school year. As a neighbor led network, Feeding America is deeply rooted in every community, ensuring summer meals continue nourishing growth and potential. Your support puts healthy food within reach Reach Fueling the future for kids and their families. Give [e-mail] SummerHunger Ouch. This knee is killing me.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

The marathon is in two weeks.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let's get on Zoc Doc and find a doctor to take a look at that for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Here's a review. Dr. Craddock really takes his time. No, I don't have time. What about Dr. Charles? His patients say he can help by a quick fix. And he's in network.

[Elliot]

Great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now we're talking. Ah, book it.

[Elliot]

Booked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One mile down, 19 to go. Bring it on. You've got Options. Download the ZocDoc app today. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited Premium Wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills, but it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a [e-mail] Switch upfront payment

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