Ep 161 "Worst Halftime Show Ever?, He Could've Just STFU, & Y'all Really Hate Beyonce, Huh?"
100%. So, Super Bowl happened.
Blak:Very much.
Mac:The game, however, was not the most, discussed topic. So we'll get into to what was. There is a a podcast. I don't wanna say it was the Joe Budden podcast. The, the setting seemed very Joe Buddenish, if I if I may.
Mac:But, you know, going through the comments, it's I couldn't find anything. So we'll talk about a certain podcast where somebody was trying to eloquently explain and justify domestic abuse. Again, here at the smoke pit, we're not for that. However, we're gonna laugh at the person who tried to justify it. And then we will end with, not a shameless plug, but, we're gaining some traction, if you will, over here on the, the pit of smoke.
Mac:That is correct. I don't know if it's the traction we were intending to pull, but, we'll talk about that when it comes to whose mans. Outside of that, you got anything to say to the folks before we start the show?
Blak:Let the shenanigans begin, ladies and gentlemen.
Mac:Well, alright. Ladies and gentlemen, episode one sixty one of the smoke pit starts right now. You are tuned in to the Debt Filling podcast network, reminded you to always question the answers.
Blak:Welcome to the smoke pit. It's Friday night. Come and take a load off. Come sit relaxing. Get some lapsing, and let's talk about these brackets.
Blak:And while we at it, tell me whose man's is this? Because I got questions. I'm hoping you can answer it. Get ready because you know we gonna talk a lot of shit. It's Mack and Mack.
Blak:Welcome to the smoke pit.
Mac:Yep. Y'all know what it is. Sunday night. Mood is still right. Dynamic duel of black and Mac here on your screens.
Mac:Episode one sixty one of the smoke pit, my boy. How you living? How you feeling?
Blak:You know what, man? I am, one of our pit masters has this saying, and they say that they are alone and unsupervised. Shout out to, shout out to Rob, pit master Rob Givens
Mac:Hey. Yeah.
Blak:Who was actually a legitimate pit master. So I I am alone and unsupervised. I I we we did the Valentine's Day thing and then, you know, I flew her out the next day.
Mac:Hey, man. Yeah. We're good. My wife's out and about with her friends having dinner and stuff. So, I'm here, but I am not alone.
Mac:I got the kids and stuff. So, having the older kids kinda comes through. You know what I'm saying? They they holding it down, watching the the youngest. But, yeah, man.
Mac:It's a good night to get to it. I don't have work tomorrow, so, you know, get to cut up a bit. I gotta stay up and do some editing and stuff to make sure this gets out on Monday like we promised people. So with that being said, we got a toast like we usually do. I wanna hand the floor over to you.
Mac:Motivational moment with my man, Black, to get you through the next work week. What do you got for the folks, man?
Blak:Hey. Listen. Short work week this week
Mac:Yeah. Yeah.
Blak:For for you guys. Here's to enjoying the week. Here's to letting off a little bit more steam tonight. That way, you can enjoy the week starting tomorrow. Get your spirits up.
Blak:Remotivate yourself. I'll nominate myself to have a good week. I don't know about you, but
Mac:I also nominate the rest of the I nominate everybody. Nominate me. To have a great week. Salud, my guy.
Blak:Okay.
Mac:Yes. So, without further ado, Super Bowl came. A lot of people were wishing on a Chiefs' downfall, and your wish came true in spectacular fashion.
Blak:Very much.
Mac:I I tried to give it a chance, but once they went up, like, you know, halftime came around, Chiefs got the ball. I'm just like, they're down 20 you know, what was it? 27 or something,
Mac:and I'm
Mac:just like, you know, 28 to three. I've seen crazier things. You know? You can't count out Patrick Mahone, Travis Kelce, Andy Reid. You know?
Mac:One of the best coaching combos out there and stuff. So, hey, maybe maybe we may see the comeback of the and then once they went up 34 o, I was just like, bro, I'm out. It's over. It's over. Turn the TV off.
Mac:Turn the TV off. But, yeah. So shout out to, the Eagles. Shout out to all the, the Eagle fans out there celebrating their second Super Bowl in about, what, four or five years, I think. Something like that.
Blak:Yeah. Five five years.
Mac:Must be nice to be celebrating the Super Bowl. I don't know how that feels, but, yeah. You can't say shit.
Blak:I was there with your team.
Mac:Hey. Hey. You lost me. Hey, don't. Don't you do
Mac:it. You
Blak:know I was like, yeah.
Mac:You've experienced that in your lifetime. You know? I was like, yeah.
Blak:I don't know it all.
Mac:Yeah. You ever think, like, the pressure teams are under to, like, win a championship in the lifetime of their fans? You know, like, there are people, like, they're don't you like, they're playing. They're like, you know, there is somebody who's rooting for us, who has never seen us win a championship, and they may pass away without ever seeing us win one. Like that little bit of added pressure.
Mac:I don't know if I need to to to hit the Panthers up in their their inbox. Be like, you know, the average lifespan of a human is about 72. I'm 44. I ain't you know?
Blak:It's been around. You've been around.
Mac:You've been to two Super Bowls, man. You've been two Super Bowls, and you let me down. You know? And and, like, I'm not expecting us to win next year, but I need to see some moves being made to show that we're trending in the right direction. No pressure.
Mac:But don't let me die without seeing my team with a champion. Oh, man. No pressure. No pressure at all. But, speaking of it, like I said, I waited till after halftime because, obviously, as a fan of Kendrick, I wanted to see his performance.
Blak:Mhmm.
Mac:What were your thoughts on it before we talk about the general population's thoughts on it?
Blak:So I'm going to I'm going to approach this from two different angles. One is as a fan. Mhmm. Right? I, as a fan, I enjoyed the performance.
Blak:There were some songs in there I thought he'd do that that he ended up not doing, which I thought a lot of damn would have come into play. Obviously, I thought I thought he would have did euphoria, which he did. He got into he got into that, and he had some stuff that in his repertoire that I thought he would have done that he didn't do. Mhmm. That being said, I thought how he played the the mister, uncle Sam, and I thought that was cool.
Blak:As an Mhmm. I was like, this is this is a fucking work of art. Mhmm. This is art. Few people few people get to do that on that level.
Blak:And for him to do that at the Super Bowl
Mac:Mhmm.
Blak:Was phenomenal. Not only was so you can approach it from well, the songs weren't as energetic. But if Prince can do Purple Rain at the fucking Super Bowl people, listen. There's room for everything.
Mac:Mhmm. You know
Blak:what I mean? There's there's there's a pallet for somebody in the audience. You know what I mean? Like, what he did and how he did it first and foremost, there was zero cuss words.
Mac:Mhmm.
Blak:Because he he edited them out himself.
Mac:Mhmm.
Blak:There was no backtrack because he was doing the lyrics himself and, you know, moving around four different stages. That's incredibly hard. As an artist, as a performer, that's incredibly hard to do. And then to bring a message on top of that listen. I I get I get the talk that everybody's doing, but as an artist, you don't you don't see that at a regular show.
Blak:So to see this at a Super Bowl, when you have about fifteen minutes to get as much as you can to be as impactful as you can and for people to remember it, as an artist, I remember. As a fan, I thought it was a great performance, but as an artist, y'all behind. It it's gonna it's gonna take y'all it's gonna take y'all a while to figure this shit out. What he what exactly he did, the message he conveyed, and breaking it down as a whole episode in his on his self. But I'm just saying, as an artist, that that was a phenomenal performance.
Blak:It it really was. I I would love to do something like that on a regular show. He did this at the Super Bowl. Insane.
Mac:So my whole thing is this. I knew I was gonna watch it as a fan of Kendrick Lamar. Right? Anything he would have done, I I would have consumed because I'm a fan. The songs he performed, if you're not a fan and listen to mixtapes, albums coming up to it, there may be songs that don't mess with you.
Mac:Kendrick is not a commercial rapper, just to let you know that. He's not out here with club hits and stuff. Does he have bangers that are out there? Yes. TV off, obviously, not like us.
Mac:Swimming pools. That I think that's what people wanted, more of a good kid mad city. You know what I'm saying? But he wanted to as an artist, artistic liberty, he picked the songs that he felt needed to be performed in the current state of America as it is. Yes.
Mac:Whether you picked up on the symbolism or whatnot, there are plenty of creators and YouTube videos, and and everybody has an opinion of what meant what. What Kendrick met behind it, I don't know. Kendrick's mind is an enigma, and I I am not one to try to dissect this man's brilliance. You know what I'm saying? Like, Black mentioned, couple episodes ago.
Mac:This man has a pollster for fucking, to pimp a butterfly. You know what I'm saying? Like, the the highest award given to people who who's who has a pen game. Authors. You know what I'm saying?
Mac:Yeah. Amazing. My thing is, if you were not a fan of Kendrick, why tune in to the Super Bowl halftime show? Why not just go get your snacks, go do whatever, take your smoke break? Because I'll tell you what, when you two was performing, when the Eagles were performing, when Maroon five was performing, when Katy Perry was performing, Lady Gaga, like, I'm not super big fans.
Mac:I just went and did something else rather than watch a show with the artist that I wasn't a fan of. Right. So that's why I look at the people who have something negative to say about it. And I'm just like, well, why watch? Unless
Blak:you're
Mac:a I don't wanna say shallow or surface level Kendrick fan and we're just expecting, you know, swimming pools.
Blak:Right. What you saw in the rapids.
Mac:You know, DNA, be humble, you know, all all of the big commercial hits that he had. You know what I'm saying? Right. A part of me feels like let's be honest. The majority of the people who didn't like it probably felt some type of way about it because of the messaging.
Mac:You think that might be a part of it?
Blak:I think that's a major part of it. I think that is a huge part of it. Also too, you have to think in the history of the Super Bowl performances, this is the very first rap performance in Super Bowl history. Like, solo rap act. Like, the whole rap act is is rap.
Mac:Just one person.
Blak:That's One It's one person. Yeah. Mhmm. Like, he came out, and he he was when Beyonce did the halftime show, he came out with Beyonce. Like, you have people pop up, but this is the first solo rap act in Super Bowl.
Blak:Like, you had Doctor Dre and Snoop, but that's kind of a combo. So and they had hits between each other that they can go to, people rock with. They they shift the pop culture with these songs. You know what I mean? Kendrick is the very first solo artist with his catalog.
Blak:He didn't have anybody features featuring. He did the person that that he featured on songs with. He did his first form, which that was a dope shout out to to that artist. Mhmm. That was fire.
Blak:But he is the first solo rap app in Super Bowl history.
Mac:And and for people to say it's the worst pro like, I don't know what you're expecting from Kendrick. Like, I I don't know if you you wanted the whole spectacle fireworks and and and people swinging from fucking cables and and and the the fuck Cirque Cirque du Soleil type stuff. You're not getting that from Kendrick. No. But to say it's the worst, like so let let me just scroll down.
Mac:Super Bowl halftime performance. So you have Kendrick this year. Right?
Blak:Yeah.
Mac:Last year, you had Usher at the the, in Vegas. Yep. I was neither here nor there for that one. It was on in the background. Like, I'm just not a huge Usher fan.
Mac:Like, does he have hits? I'm not saying he doesn't. Of course. But I'm not, like, Usher at the halftime show. I'm just like I kinda knew what his set list was.
Mac:You know? That that's the crazy part. For Kendrick, I tuned in because I'm like, I don't know what the biggest thing was, is he gonna do not like us? No. Because he's gonna get sued.
Mac:So everybody's just, like, waiting. And he how we kept teasing it throughout the show, like, he was gonna do it, but then stopped.
Blak:That was cool.
Mac:And And everybody's like, oh, he's going oh, he's not gonna do it. Oh, he's gonna and then he hit it. Bro, but I lit in my living
Blak:room, bro. Lit. Yes.
Mac:But, so Usher does this thing. Twenty twenty three, you had Rihanna, which was okay. You know?
Blak:It was
Blak:okay. She Rihanna. That
Mac:was just pregnant. Right? Yeah. Like, she so so she ain't going all out. So it was good.
Mac:You had Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Mary j, Kendrick, fifty, Anderson Paak back in in LA. That was lit. Like, that was
Blak:Yeah.
Mac:That was one of the top tier ones for me as a fan. The Weeknd, which I wasn't a fan of that one.
Blak:Nope.
Mac:But he he commercial hits. He sang them. Before that, you had Shakira and Jennifer Lopez featuring Bad Bunny, Jay Blavin, and Emmy Munoz. So it was like a very it was in Miami, so very, very in tune with the reggaeton, Hispanic, Latin community, which I was there for, but the whole performance, I'm just like, Jennifer Lopez can't sing. I don't know why she's out here.
Mac:You know? Like, vocally, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez don't do it for me. And low key Live. Yeah. Jennifer Lopez do
Blak:it live.
Mac:Jennifer Lopez has built her career on the back of back background singers, and she's just using their vocals. Like, Ashanti has been the vocal lead for almost all of her songs, but she won't tell you. That's just me. Before that, we had Maroon five, Travis Scott, and Big Boy when it was in Atlanta, and that one was trash. I thought Travis Scott would add a bigger part.
Blak:Super trash.
Mac:Oh, that was horrible. 20
Blak:That one in The Weeknd. Like, those two?
Mac:Like, I had high hopes for them because the week like, bro, I fucks with The Weeknd. The Weeknd's older shit.
Blak:Me too.
Mac:When The Weeknd be be on on that shit, I'll fuck with it. But
Blak:Yeah. Me too. But that performance wasn't it. No.
Mac:Like, you when people try to do too much to make it a spectacle, that's where they lose the shit. You know what I'm saying? They try to do too much to make it a fucking iconic moment. Bro, just go out there
Blak:and do
Mac:your stuff. You know what I'm saying? Be you. Yes. 2018, you had Justin Timberlake, doing all of his joints from, man in the woods.
Mac:And I was just like, what? Bro, if you just don't do,
Blak:If you don't give me the 2020 experience, bro.
Mac:That and love stoned.
Blak:Future sex or what
Mac:is it? Future sex love sounds. Yeah. Give me the joints you did with Timberland. Quit quit playing with that stuff.
Mac:Say something. Say something. Like, bro, this ain't Get
Blak:the fuck off. Yes. Get off.
Mac:Whose mans is this out here, buddy? You got Lady Gaga, the the one before that. And if if you're a Lady Gaga fan, you probably enjoyed it. Coldplay featuring Beyonce and Bruno Mars in the Super Bowl that the Panthers lost because Cam Newton didn't jump on the fumble. And fucking dude from blindside couldn't block for shit.
Mac:So so needless to say, that that halftime show, like, I paid no attention to it. I was drinking. I was drinking. I was drinking. That's Beyonce would say.
Mac:The Super Bowl before that, Katy Perry featuring Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott.
Blak:That one wasn't bad.
Mac:I I I just don't know a whole lot of Kenny, Kenny Perry shit.
Blak:It wasn't bad. So, like
Mac:Like, when Misty came out, I was like, okay, Misty. Yeah. And then people were just like, who's this new artist? I was like, now I'm old. Yeah.
Mac:I love how Katy Perry's giving her spotlight to, like, up and like, are this has to be trolling. You have to know who Missy Elliott is. If you have a Facebook account, you have to be old enough to at least know.
Blak:Who missy is.
Mac:Missy be putting it down. She's the hottest round, at least. But we go to 2014, Bruno Mars holding down that Super Bowl. Probably one of the bad the best performance. Bruno Mars puts on a show.
Blak:Yes. Yes. He does.
Mac:So if you're looking at that and then expecting Kendrick to be the showman that Bruno is, I'm sorry, to disappoint you. You know what I'm saying? If you're tuning in, Nicky, he gonna get up there. Like, that's not Kendrick. Okay?
Mac:At all. At all.
Blak:Like, the choreography the choreography that we got from Kendrick, I was like, oh, this is this is new.
Mac:Yeah. Like, if you're expecting Kendrick to come out there and fucking, you know, high step and fucking have he's not that. Okay? And my biggest thing is, like, they tell you who's gonna perform at the suit. So you should know.
Mac:I don't really rock with Kendrick. Let me not pay too much attention or invest myself too much Right. Into the show, but nah. Nah. But, I mean, I can keep scrolling down Madonna, Black Eyed Peas, The Who.
Blak:The Who. The yeah. Yes.
Mac:Bruce Springsteen in the East Street band, Tom Petty in the Heartbreakers, Prince. Wolf. Now Prince.
Blak:Yeah. That one was a good one.
Mac:Okay.
Blak:But that was Prince. Like I said. Yeah. Bro went out there and played Purple Rain, and the shit started raining.
Mac:But Prince is a show like, Prince is a showman. Yes. He is he is that's his thing. My man puts on his show. The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, you know, then you got the, infamous Janet Jackson, Kid Rock, p Diddy, Nelly, Justin Timberlake one.
Mac:But before that, Shania Twain, you two.
Blak:This this is depressing.
Mac:Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, the 80 person choir.
Blak:But Kendrick is the worst. It
Mac:is. Yes.
Blak:They have marching bands doing this this Super Bowl.
Mac:Bro, I mean, it's the Blues Brothers bash featuring Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, and Jim Belushi with ZZ Top.
Blak:I just want people to know that.
Mac:But Kendrick was heads down the worst. Right?
Blak:I just want I just listen. I just want people to know that these Dan Aykroyd is not really a musician. He's an actor.
Mac:Oh, he's a improv comedian from fucking Saturday Night Live. In 1995, Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye. So they had a whole Walt Disney skit going on featuring Patti LaBelle in the Miami sound machine at the end. Oh my god. But but, you know, that's Weird.
Mac:That's the worst performance ever. Now people have been saying, like, the audio mixing was bad and all that other stuff. Still, like, if you could hear the lyrics, like, I don't know what to tell you. Like, my shit was fine. I was able to
Mac:get shit
Mac:just fine.
Blak:Me too.
Mac:I don't know if it's because I got a a soundbar and a and a woofer, but I'm I'm I haven't heard from most other people that it was bad. But
Blak:What does he say? This hippity hop shit, I don't I don't know what he's saying.
Mac:Okay. Now my opinion and my opinion alone, Jay z is the person I'd still think is responsible for finding the music acts for halftime. Mhmm. I I like, I don't know what you want, country fans. Like, you guys
Blak:I'll make that happen.
Mac:You guys had your time in the sun. Like,
Blak:Shaboozy wanna
Mac:Shaboozy. Shaboozy wanna roll through? Come on through, Shaboozy. You know, let let let the country let Jay z let these people have what they want.
Blak:Yeah. Give them what they want, Jigger.
Mac:Give them what they want, and we'll we'll see what the reaction is. And I'm pretty sure the same people with the Oakleys with the white frames, the goatees, driving the the super lifted trucks with the blue lives matter flag on the back. Back the blue. With the don't tread on me license plates and the, the the current administration bumper stickers, they're probably gonna love it. You know?
Mac:Because it's it's nothing's more country than football or nothing's more American than football and country music and Nelly, if we remember.
Blak:Yeah. That matter of fact, that's what you do. That's what you do. Give them fucking Brooks and Don and Nelly. Give them that shit.
Mac:Florida Georgia Line and Nelly because they I know they got at least two songs. They gonna
Blak:And Jelly Roll. Give give them that shit.
Mac:Jelly Roll who used to be a rapper by the way.
Blak:And Post Malone. Give them that shit.
Mac:Oh, man. But we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. I also wanna say there have been people who are just going out there just saying the stuff, trying to cause drama.
Mac:There's a a friend of mine who is just always trying to be the the person that's just like, this is Ash. Right? For whatever reason. So I posted something like, you know, I love petty Kendrick. That's all I posted.
Mac:I didn't say this was a banger. I didn't say nothing. I was just like, man, I love when Kendrick is petty. You really thought that halftime show was good? I just let it go because he did the same thing for Rihanna.
Mac:I was just like, hey. Rihanna came out and did her thing. That was ass. You think that was bro, calm down. I read your post.
Mac:I saw you didn't like it, and I just kept scrolling.
Blak:Yep. Because you had your
Mac:opinion, and this is mine. And your comments are going mine, which is cool because, you know, it's it's available for you to comment on. But if I'm not responding to you, don't hit me up in my I'm And and and Don't
Blak:text me either.
Mac:Don't hit me up in my DMs and be like, so you thought it was a good show? Because you won't be left on red, but you are.
Mac:You know
Mac:what I'm saying? I'm not here, like, listen. Twenty twenty five, Willie, is is is is something y'all didn't experience before. I ain't protecting my energy At all. Because I need At all.
Mac:I need
Mac:it in this in these days and times. I'm not giving my energy to this stupid shit no more, man. I'm not doing it.
Blak:Shit. It's like that for me too, bro. It's like, so you really didn't is that what you really thought? Mate, man, get the fuck out of here, bro. Stop.
Blak:Leave me alone. A %.
Mac:One thousand alone. 1000%. I'm not here to to pour into your cup and to have you because there's nothing I can say to change your mind.
Blak:You're set.
Mac:You're set. Yeah. You're you're you're
Blak:you're in the ass and yes. Yes.
Mac:What's the point of the die because there's no dialogue. Your mind is set. Your goal is to try to get me to to to to change my mind, and it's not going to change. So if you're not gonna change it, I'm not gonna change. What's the point?
Blak:Bro, this is gonna sidetrack. Like, if you're writing a whole paragraph of shit, I ain't got the time, bro. I'm not reading that shit. Fuck fuck that opinion.
Mac:He said he said give me
Blak:that off the bat.
Mac:Bottom line up front. Give me that bluff.
Blak:Yeah. Yeah, bro. Give me that bluff. Read more behind the first shitty opinion. I'm not reading that shit.
Blak:I don't give a fuck. Like, it's not getting my energy, bro. You put way too much energy out to the universe. I don't wanna respond to it. Fuck that.
Mac:Read more?
Blak:Nah.
Mac:Nah. Nah. Mm-mm. I don't have the time. But yeah.
Mac:And and low key, sidetracked before we get into, what did I just watch? It's the same energy when it comes to this new Captain America movie. Yes. You know? I get on YouTube and there's channels upon channels of movie reviewers saying that this was a disaster.
Mac:And I'm like, you know, I click on the video for a bit and I see who the dude doing the video is and I'm just like, I'm not trying to make assumptions. But I'm like, okay. I get it. You know, a lot of these people are just like, you know, it's hard to move on from from Steve Rogers as Captain America. It is hard to move on from the OG, Avengers.
Mac:Right? The movies were well done. Everything worked out. But, hey. You know, it's time to move on just like the comics did.
Mac:Right? Yeah. Young Avengers are up next. Yep. When Ironheart comes out, I already know people will be mad.
Mac:Can we all agree that people are gonna be mad at this movie because it's not Tony Stark and she doesn't have the because she's not Tony Stark. That that's why she's not Tony Stark. It's because she's not Tony Stark, my boy. People just gotta learn, like, if it's not for you, cool. Do your review.
Mac:Just say you didn't like it, but don't just assume it is a disaster. Because box office numbers haven't even come out for it yet. I don't know what rotten like, rotten tomatoes probably had it some certain way.
Blak:Rotten Tomatoes had it at 52%.
Mac:Yeah. I'm a watch it tomorrow. Like and and and let me be upfront. I am not the biggest Anthony Mackie supporter. That is on record.
Blak:Yeah. Mine too.
Mac:That is on record. Mine too. But I am going into this with a open mind. And from what I've heard, it has a lot of the feelings of a winter soldier, the espionage, the government, all of that other stuff. So I'm here for all of that.
Mac:And, like I said, I'm I'm I'm just here for a good time. I'm not into the comics like most people are, but there have been a few people who I know are really into the comics and really follow it, and they have given me a great review of this movie. So, it is what it is. I'm going into it with with some with some decent expectations.
Blak:Hope I saw it already, and I can tell you
Mac:I saw your review of it.
Blak:Yeah. I could tell you that it it's worth no spoilers. It's worth going to check out. Like, it really is. And you just mentioned the comics.
Blak:They do a really good job of setting shit up very closely to what the comics added.
Mac:Okay.
Blak:I I would say it it's worth going to check out, man. There are people out there giving their opinions.
Mac:Yeah.
Blak:And I learned from Star Wars. Opinions are like assholes, bro. Everybody got them. Go check this movie out for yourself. Make your own opinion.
Blak:%. I enjoyed the
Mac:movie. %. Well, shout out, Brian. He says, yeah. It's the winter soldier winter soldier vibe.
Mac:Alright. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm all I'm here for all of that. But, without further ado, it's time for us to get to our next segment, where we find something on the Internet that has us, very perplexed and having us asking, what the hell did we just watch? And, this week's is very, you'll you'll just have to watch it with us.
Guest:Tell me I did not just see that.
Mac:So like I was saying in the cold opening, if you heard us, this clip came across, and I think it's best if I just I just roll the clip so everybody is, everybody kinda knows, get some context on why we're all perplexed, and who the who the heck would have this kind of mindset when it comes to this issue. Again, I don't know whose podcast this is. I was looking through the comments. I used Google. Google's like, bro, you're describing some very wild stuff.
Mac:What's the podcast that promoted domestic abuse? Like, what? Are you talking like, you know what, Google? You're right. You're right, Google.
Blak:They're monitoring.
Mac:For my s for my FBI agent that's assigned to monitoring my Google search history, I was trying to do research on on this podcast. Okay? I don't need y'all What
Blak:was he searching for?
Mac:Rainbow six siege in my house. Okay. Apple's fine.
Blak:Open the file. Open the file.
Mac:Open your search history. But here is here is the clip in question. This is abuse. Oh, it is Joe Budden. Well,
Blak:it is.
Guest:Okay. Let me pose a question to you.
Host:Mhmm. Talk to
Guest:the mic. Let me both pose a a serious question to you.
Host:And The answer is probably
Guest:against abuse of of nobody should be hitting nobody. Let's put it that way. Don't hit me or, you know, show this I might hit you back. You don't just let's not
Host:put our hands on each other. Right.
Guest:Let's have
Guest:a talk.
Host:That makes sense.
Guest:Okay? While we talking, I tell you to shut up.
Host:Okay.
Guest:Do you think it's wise for you to keep talking?
Mac:So it was the Joe Budden podcast. So let me let me go ahead and share your thoughts while I do some research to see who the fuck this man is.
Blak:So if I tell you to shut up, first of all, you're crossing the line already, bro. Like, if I tell you to shut up, do you think it's wise that you keep talking? That just means you're ready. Like, they've crossed your threshold, and you are plotting abuse. So are you saying that that was your warning?
Blak:Shut up is your warning? Because if they violate that and you hit them, that is definitely abuse. My god. That's like textbook. That's that's not provoked because no.
Blak:It that it's them. If they're gonna talk, they're gonna talk. If they say if you say shut up, naturally, the reaction is gonna be hostility because you've opened the conversation to hostility. So you should expect that back. And that doesn't mean you get to attack.
Blak:Like, that that's 100% abuse, my guy. Like
Mac:Yo. I can't find this dude's name. I'm like, recent guest on Joe Budden. I'm, I don't know. Is it in the comments somewhere?
Mac:But I'll let me just say this. Like, when you play the video and she's like, you know, old girl says what she says. And he's like, well Wow. I don't know if it's Joe or somebody else on this show. They're just like, nope.
Mac:And
Blak:they're They were trying to stop him.
Mac:Yeah. Then the white the white like, listen listen to how many times people try to shut his shit down before he says what he he's trying to say. Listen to this stuff, man. I think abuse is abuse.
Blak:Well Look at how you looked at him. It is.
Mac:Well, it is. No. Abuse is abuse. Well, it is. Like, don't don't don't don't please don't don't
Blak:don't don't do it, bro. Just
Mac:And then there's another part too. Listen to what, like, the answer's still the watch watch. This white dude is just hella confused. He's like He's stressed. He is stressed.
Mac:His feet keep twiggling his
Blak:his feet.
Mac:He's like, well comes to the He's looking at Joe like, are y'all are y'all gonna let this shit go?
Blak:Next topic. My guy. Just keep keep shit.
Mac:Joe and fam, are y'all y'all cool with this? Or
Blak:Please don't let this
Guest:Okay. Let me pose a question to you. Mhmm.
Host:Talk to
Guest:the mic. Let me both pose a serious question to you.
Blak:And the answer's probably against
Mac:you. The answer's probably no.
Blak:I know where you're going.
Mac:Talking to the mic, and the answer's probably no. I know where this is going.
Blak:Nope. Where this is going in. It's no. It's it's an automatic no.
Guest:Right. Abuse of of nobody should be hitting nobody. Let me put it that way.
Blak:Nobody should be hitting nobody.
Mac:So right there, cool. We're on the same page. Nobody should be hitting nobody. But then he further like, he he stops digging a hole and he starts climbing out. Nobody should be hitting nobody.
Mac:Alright. Cool. Alright.
Blak:Alright.
Mac:You back here you back here with us now. Continue your point.
Guest:Don't hit me or, you know, show this I might hit you back.
Blak:Okay. Self defense.
Mac:Okay.
Blak:We we could we could we could be in self defense.
Mac:And and I feel like as a dude, if you're saying that you are in a relationship with a woman and the woman hits you, yes, self defense is a thing, but at what level do you really feel threatened enough to to apply self defense
Blak:That too.
Mac:To where you can't, like, turn around and leave the situation. Because, you know, as a man as a black man too, when they roll up, the the the the law enforcement rolls up.
Blak:Clap. They ain't they ain't asking no questions, bro.
Mac:Clickety clack, bro. Clickety clack.
Blak:So just put your hands behind
Host:you back.
Mac:Bro, just walk away from the situation. As a dude, like, unless she's coming at you with a weapon or or you are legit in fear for your life, keep your hands to yourself. That's just your boy talking. But, continue, random random nigga that puts his foot in his mouth.
Guest:You don't just let's not put
Host:our hands on each other.
Mac:Right. Let's have
Guest:a talk.
Mac:That makes sense. Okay?
Guest:While we talking, I tell you to shut up. Okay. Do you think it's wise for you to keep talking?
Mac:Look at this.
Blak:Look at this. Time out. Time out.
Mac:He trying. He's trying to not laugh. And she over here like, what? If I tell you to shut up, you think it's wise to keep talking? Why why would I not?
Blak:Sir. Sir. That is
Mac:You think that just
Blak:ends crazy.
Mac:You think that ends all arguments, sir?
Blak:Shut up.
Mac:He told me to shut up. Nigga, you shut up.
Blak:That's what's coming back
Mac:to you, bro.
Blak:Let me tell you
Mac:how my my ex like, my my wife knows the buttons to push.
Host:And that
Mac:and that's the that's probably the downside of being with somebody for so long is they know you so well, and they know the exact buttons to set you the fuck off. Yep. So if she is getting you to the point where you just like, could you just shut up? She's like, oh, I got them now.
Blak:Go ahead and fuck up. Go ahead and fuck up.
Mac:Or what? Or what? Or what?
Blak:I'm fucking leaving. I'm fucking leaving.
Mac:Because they know
Blak:you can't They know.
Mac:If you Lost. Bro. Yeah. If you show any any crack of frustration
Blak:Yes. You're no longer making sense. That's the goal for them. The do not make sense.
Mac:The chink in the armor, my boy. If we argue it and I tell you shut up, do you think it's wise bro, you just blood lost.
Blak:Blood in the water. Yes. Yes.
Guest:Could you just leave
Mac:me alone? Stop talking to me. Or what? Oh. Or what?
Mac:That is Or what? Exactly. What you gonna do if I don't stop talking? Because I'm not, and she just gonna take it to the next level on you, bro.
Blak:Yep. Yep. On your head, bro. Like, just nonstop.
Mac:So going back to what he was saying, try when he was trying to dig out the hole, Let's just just just talk and have a conversation. Yes. I agree. But if we're talking and I tell you to shut up, do you think it's wise to keep going? Bro, that is not in every argument I've been in with someone from the opposite sex, telling them to hush does not work.
Mac:They're not your child.
Blak:Oh, that is
Mac:They're not your child.
Blak:Wrong move. They're not your child. Wrong move. Absolutely no no.
Mac:You you instantly lost the game.
Blak:Yep.
Mac:That is the
Host:You lost.
Mac:You that's the equivalent of throwing in the towel. Yeah. But the audacity let let's look at these comments. Right? So this one says stay away from any any nigger who starts a sentence with, well this one says maybe unpopular opinion, but I don't think you should ever tell someone you love to shut up.
Mac:This man says, do you think it's wise for you to keep talking? Bro was never on board with the original statement of abuse is abuse. This one says, not
Blak:answer his question.
Mac:Do you? Bro saying he would hit her if she talked. This is the funniest shit I've seen this year so far. Finger to the lip was the spirit of righteousness trying to stop him. Man, it sounds like his tug and gobs too big for his mouth.
Mac:Bro tried to save it with the it is.
Blak:Yeah. He
Mac:still built a bridge over that and attempted mitigation and cross him with conviction. All of the barriers people was trying to put in front of him, like, the bridge is out. Don't continue down this road.
Blak:Yeah. Don't, bro. Don't. You losing.
Mac:I'm a keep going. He hitting all the traffic cones. Bridge is out. I'll let you know when
Host:it's out.
Blak:Flying.
Mac:That is the the most outlandish fucking just I don't know what point like, I was trying to find the full podcast episode. I'm just like, how do who is this man? Man. And why is he acting like this On this topic.
Blak:It's wise if you keep talking.
Mac:And I tell you to shut up. Do you think it's wise if you keep talking? What happens if the that's what I wanna see. What happens if I keep talking?
Blak:Yeah. Exactly.
Mac:I'm liable to hit
Host:you.
Mac:Get out of get sir, this this interview is over.
Blak:Bro, you've lost so many arguments. I can tell.
Mac:This interview is over. Yeah.
Blak:Yeah. I can
Mac:tell. We'll be right back after these messages. Get this motherfucker off our set now.
Blak:My sponsor. Bro, you got to
Mac:go, bro. Get them off our set now.
Blak:You got
Host:to go.
Mac:Oh my god. But, yeah. That that
Blak:focused on communication, bro. Like, this is this is terrible.
Mac:Be like, do you is your wife okay? Are you do you have a significant other?
Blak:Right. Right.
Mac:Can we talk to her real quick? Because, based on your answer to this question and your stance on this topic, I got some questions.
Blak:Ma'am, are you okay? Is this man This man put his hands on you?
Mac:Can we interview you? Away away from him? Does he not need to be in the room for us to talk? What's that?
Blak:Don't look at don't look at him.
Mac:Just just look at him.
Blak:Answer us.
Host:Yeah.
Mac:Oh, man. But shout out to Joe Budd talking to Mike. I need to hear you. This needs to be on record.
Blak:Yes. Yes.
Mac:Oh, man, bro. These comments is wild. But, I don't know who this man is. I will try to, find out to see if he's been on any more podcast talking crazy out the side of his neck like this. But,
Host:we're
Mac:we're at about a little over forty five minutes in, which is good because I feel this next topic is gonna take some time for us to fully, fully, what's the word I'm looking for, digest, I guess. Mhmm. And fully fully
Blak:Fully breakdown. And
Mac:Because there's levels to it, and, yeah, I don't wanna get too much. We'll just go ahead and get into this week's, whose man's is it.
Blak:Let's do it.
Guest:Hey, who is this?
Mac:Oh. Who is this? There's a reason I put fans in quotations because there's legit country music fans who
Blak:Yes.
Mac:Who are acting with some sense, some decency, some some, you know Decorum. Yes. Shout out to Eric Mays. Rest in peace. Rest in peace.
Mac:Decorum.
Blak:There's will be decorum in this courtroom.
Mac:But, again, we'll we'll lead with this. So our show last week, we talked about the Grammys. We mentioned Beyonce winning for best country album of the year, beating out the likes of Chris Stapleton, Lainie Wilson, Chris Musgrove, and Post Malone. Right? Yeah.
Mac:So we made a segment, and we put it on our Facebook page.
Host:Mhmm. And,
Mac:you know, not not for nothing. You know? It got some traction, to say the least.
Blak:Very much. However To the point to the point where you start talking to yourself, like, fam, do you see?
Mac:What the hell is going on here?
Host:What the fuck
Mac:is going on here?
Blak:Do you see this?
Mac:So I I I will bring it up on the screen so you can see.
Blak:Did you did you boost this post while
Host:I'm here?
Mac:All I did all I did was link the YouTube video, the segment that we did, and, some people decided to share their thoughts on it. Right?
Blak:Yep.
Mac:We have. This is this is the post in question. Right? Yep. Obviously, your thumbnail has to be something to bring people to it, like country newest star.
Mac:What? And, you know, the it's a simple once again, the Grammys messed around and made some people mad. However, we have to question if the level of, it should say of, my bad, outrage that is being displayed. Is it worth all of the outrage that has been getting?
Blak:How many comments?
Mac:82. Right? And we posted this on Tuesday. Yep. Tuesday this week
Blak:last week.
Mac:And it has about 900 reactions. Right? Let that Yep. Look at the angry reactions. Now I click on the angry reactions.
Mac:I wanna see do do we see something in common when I hover over these profile pictures? You know, got some motorcycles and stuff. Yep. Little red, white, and blue. Yep.
Mac:Old glory. We got a, you know
Blak:Boomer.
Mac:Old man, old white man. Got a old white man. Another old white man.
Blak:Boomer.
Mac:Whatever this thing is.
Blak:The fisherman.
Mac:Anonymous Doesn't know technology. Another old white man. Got an American flag. Old white woman. Oh.
Mac:Picture of a dog and a cat. Picture of a neighborhood. Whatever's going, like, flags, you know, old white man. So I'm just saying just that's just a handful of the 241 hates.
Blak:You did 10 profiles and
Mac:10 for 10.
Blak:Percent hit. We probably
Mac:coulda did a we probably coulda did a SZA and and KDOT, thirty for 30. You know what I'm saying? Yep. 30 for 30 on 30 for 30. We go to the laughing ones.
Mac:You know, white couple, a white couple, white man, a white man, A white man from West Virginia, apparently? A Tasmanian devil? I can't see this one. Her name's Ally Wong Lash, but it's a picture of a white woman, I guess. Another white woman.
Mac:Bird. No. Hey, bird. And this guy here, Frank Stutterford, old white man. So, you know, it is it is what it I'm just saying.
Mac:I'm just hey. This is the raw data. I don't want people to think that we're just out here just making shit up. This is you see you see it. You see it.
Blak:This is And if Right there.
Mac:If you're listening to the audio, you have to come and look to make sure that we're not making this shit up. Right? But should we get into these comments?
Blak:Let's get into this.
Mac:This is what we said when we were just like country music fans, it's not a good look. Now you're not a monolith. I don't wanna say all of you guys feel the same way, but you probably should be policing these comments. It's not on you. Let me stop.
Mac:It's not on you as a loyal country music fan with some sense No. To try to speak up and because like, you know, as a black man, when black people say stupid shit, don't be running to me. Be like, look. This black man said this shit. Like, hey.
Mac:They they own people. You know?
Blak:They they Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Blak:Hey.
Host:Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Host:Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Host:Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Host:Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Host:Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Host:Hey.
Mac:Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey That ain't me. Oh, man.
Mac:But, I wanna go to all comments, right? And, so Phyllis Marie Scott says, I wonder how many judges she slept with to get that outcome. She's out here with the whole, American flag with the eagle on it. She works at retired. Janine Olsen says, not in my book.
Mac:She's was brought and paid for. In my opinion, her music is not good. And I would not be surprised that that is her opinion based on the profile picture. Bill Daley says not really. The award was bought for her ass and, old stock car racing there.
Mac:You know? Driver and owner at Bill Daley Racing. You know, hope your cars are doing well. Raymond Randall says, how much does it cost to buy a Grammy award? Because she sure as hell didn't win it.
Mac:She is not now and never will be country. No. Okay. Good on you with your no picture having profile. So David Lee Creight says this was a big slap in the face to all the real country artists.
Mac:You know? And, you know, feel how you feel about that, David. You know? Because I also felt that when the robbery of twenty thirteen happened. Like, bro, this this is a bad look for hip hop.
Mac:But at that point, I I it was from that moment, I was like, you know what? This ain't it. You know? Like, the the Grammys should not be the end all say all for what the best album is because real ones know what it is. Right?
Mac:Exactly. Terry, whatever his last name is, got the little army airborne thing. He starts laughing. Putting on lame chaps, dye your hair blonde, and use your finger pistol does not make one country. The Grammy was a DEI award.
Mac:She's as ghetto as she's always been. Her husband bought that award, making a Grammy the same as winning a roll of toilet paper from now on. Alright, Terry. That's how you feel.
Blak:Damn.
Mac:Yep. Hold on. It's like I said, it's it's the bitch can't even spell country, right, from, Rudy Galerio. Right? Bought and paid for.
Mac:Puke. I don't think so. She's not country. It's all a joke. A country singer.
Mac:That bitch will never be. Alright. Tammy Tammy Hamilton.
Blak:Goddamn. Yep.
Mac:Yep. Tammy Tammy Hamilton. Yep. I didn't bother to click on the video. Did it mention viewership was down 9% from last year?
Mac:I don't know. Click on the video, Ted Anthony, and see what we talked about. Give us that view, my boy.
Blak:Yeah, my guy. Yeah.
Mac:And this is why I don't watch this. Beyonce is the greatest country singer. Oh, I like this person trolling. The right amount of money put in, candidate for joke of the year. I guess you can so a lot of people are saying you know she bought it she bought it she bought it this guy when the bubble oh look at this guy when the bubble travels up your cooter oh Greg b
Blak:Oh my god.
Mac:Can I not click on your shit, Greg b? Why can't I click on your shit? Why can't I see your profile, Greg b?
Blak:Oh, no. No. Come out. It's okay. Yeah.
Mac:It's okay. Oh my gosh. In the ghetto of Africa, she may be a country singer, but they probably wouldn't like that crap either. Alright. Jay Wilson, works at Disabled Self Employed.
Mac:I hope things are going great for you. Stop. Stop. Why are you I'm trying to the hate. Did or wouldn't affect their livelihood.
Blak:Look at him. He works at disabled. So
Mac:He works at disabled self employed. You know? I'm just that's the information he wants us to know about him. You know? Depends on what country you're referring to.
Mac:Clearly not The USA. Bill Jorgensen Studied at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky. Good for you. But, yeah, it's it's, I'm I'm looking at it, but why are people so hurt about this?
Blak:I don't know, man. And it's like, I I get it, but I I see the energy and I'm kinda jealous of it.
Mac:Why is that?
Blak:I really am. Because sometimes I wish we were this unapologetic about shit
Host:Mhmm.
Blak:When it gets out into the world. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Should not culture that gets appropriated. You know what I'm saying?
Mac:Keith Like,
Blak:when we come up with shit
Mac:This guy says he loves blocking all these pages with this cunt on them.
Blak:Wow.
Mac:Yeah. So Wow. Keith Sut Sutfin.
Blak:Good for you, man. Wow. People
Mac:are people are like the Internet is
Blak:Ain't mad, bro.
Mac:Like, here's the great thing in. Man. Look. I mean, it's just the full on hate for this.
Blak:It's wild. But and I I I respect I respect their their first memorize. I'll say that.
Mac:Uh-huh. Because, you know,
Blak:we have to do that thing. But what I will say
Mac:She sing What
Blak:I will say
Mac:cool tunes. K.
Blak:Shit is crazy.
Mac:KJ Paul. Crazy. Go ahead. Go ahead. Shit is crazy.
Blak:History lesson. So does anybody know where where country music originated from?
Mac:Educate us, my boy.
Blak:Country music is a derivative of jazz and blues and eventually r and b. So all the music in America is derivative of something that was started from black culture because we bought the instruments and we bought the music and we bought the rhythm to this country. So when you say when you say, like, country music, country music is is is is American. Yes. But y'all gotta y'all gotta give the people the flowers, bro.
Blak:Like, blacks bought the music to the country. Like, we bought that shit. We were the entertainers. We were the the providers of of the rhythm and the and the soul and the feeling and the stories and all the shit that you see now. So, like, when I see shit like that, I I don't get really too mad.
Blak:I I know it's I'm actually happy because y'all mad. Like, it it really makes me happy that y'all get this mad. It really does. But I'll be looking like, bro, I wish we were as unapologetic about shit that we come up with and shit that we make popular.
Host:Mhmm.
Blak:Because there's a whole genre of music, pop music, that comes from shit that we made popular. Like, that shit, because rap wasn't able to be its own genre and you couldn't get awards for that shit, like, it became pop music. Like, I wish we were as unapologetic about our influence and our impact on culture, and we kept that shit to ourselves. Because look at what they doing, bro. Like, those comments, we and it's not something that we actually went out and looked for.
Blak:We were just like, hey. Here's a post. We do this segment. We this is no different than what we do every fucking week.
Host:Mhmm.
Blak:It's just this week, the catfish bit. And it was just like, goddamn. We do this shit every week, bro. And it's like, they came out the woodworks with opinions this week, and I'm not mad at it. Thank you, y'all.
Blak:You know what I mean? Thank you for the shit. But I'm like I'm like, bro, the woman won. She won a Grammy, and and I really wanna I really wanna make this hit. She won a Grammy in a genre that she she just hopped into.
Blak:Why? Because you motherfuckers don't make great music. It's it just is what it is. Let's just call a spade a spade. You have about three people that do country music really good.
Blak:The rest of you motherfuckers suck. Let's just let's just let's be fair. Let's just be fair. So Beyonce comes in, puts her influence like we always do on a genre of music, makes it popular, and now y'all hate her for it. Give that shit back to Shania Twain, bro.
Blak:Give it back to her, Beyonce, and let her let her handle it. Y'all love that shit so much. Y'all got about twenty good summers of country music left in your bodies. Enjoy that shit. Because y'all don't y'all don't need it.
Blak:But Beyonce makes music. She didn't even get a Grammy in her own genre. Why? Because, like I said, pop music, a lot of people jumped into pop music when it was shit that was created for people like Beyonce. And she can't get win a Grammy in that in that genre of music.
Blak:So she went to the she did the next best thing. You know who else did that? And no one said a fucking thing about it? Kanye. Kanye went and made gospel music
Mac:Yeah.
Blak:And won a Grammy for it. There was no big outcry. Nope. You know why he made a Grammy for it? Because gospel music isn't as popular.
Blak:Country music isn't as popular. So she made the shit pop. She put eyes on your genre of music. Y'all should be thanking Beyonce. You should be kissing her fucking feet.
Blak:Really. You should just be you be you should want to be in the sunlight with Beyonce instead of the comments that we read. Like, that's just wild, bro. Just say thank you. Thank you, Beyonce.
Blak:You put a spotlight on our genre of music. Y'all so goddamn dumb. Y'all don't even take no damage of the shit. What's the what's the what's the next best country music song? I'll wait.
Blak:What's the next best country music song that came out after Beyonce dropped?
Mac:I know. Just my opinion.
Blak:It was Shaboozy. Right?
Mac:Hey. You already know.
Blak:Look who took advantage of this shit. The people that needed the look. The rest of you motherfuckers need the look. And what are you doing? You're criticizing the person that that uplifted your genre of music.
Blak:You criticize her. Instead of going in the booth and making a fucking country hit, you sit there and you talk about the one person the one person that jumped into the she didn't have to. She jumped in the genre and said, I'm gonna make a country album here.
Mac:Let me just say
Blak:I wanna do it. Let me just
Mac:say this. Looking at her album, people who wanna gatekeep country music, The the the who's who of country music were on the album with her. They came and did the album with her. You got Willie Nelson on this album with her. Dolly Parton on this album with her.
Mac:Linda Martell and Shaboozy on this album with her. Willie Nelson again. Willie Jones, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, who y'all adopted and was up for best country album of the year. He on here now. So you know what I'm saying?
Mac:Y'all talking about, you know, like, Dolly Parton on, like, two of these come on. Come on. Is is this not enough? Like, when the the the I would say people look at Dolly Parton like the queen of this shit. Yeah.
Mac:I don't know. I don't know if the the the hierarchy, but Dolly Parton, Dollywood, Grand Ole Opry, like, she helped build that whole thing up over there in Tennessee. Yep. And she on two of these tracks. You know what I'm saying?
Mac:Willie Nelson, one of the greatest to ever do country music, two of these tracks. Post Malone, who y'all welcomed him with open arms and was mad he ain't win it. He on these tracks. So when the who's who of country music is cool with this, or I don't know if they were just like, we're just gonna jump on this album and try to get snagged some of Beyonce's fans. Like, that might have been a I don't know.
Mac:But I'm pretty sure Willie Nelson was just like the beehive really ain't gonna fuck with me. But if Beyonce wants to do a country song, I'm a help her do one. You know? Right. Right.
Mac:I'm just why people mad when the people who y'all wanted to win are doing songs with Beyonce. And let me tell you this. You act like if Beyonce don't go to Lainie Wilson right now and be like, hey. You wanna get on one of these songs?
Blak:You goddamn right, Lainie Wilson to jump her ass right on
Mac:that cheek.
Blak:Be right in the booth with a smile on her face.
Mac:It's a booth.
Host:In the booth.
Blak:In the boof. P o o f. Boof.
Mac:Hey, my god. I'm on
Blak:the sign with Beyonce. Like, she'll be tweeting this shit, bro. Like
Mac:but I'm just finally happening. Y'all out here crying that it's not country. She bought it. But the people y'all idolize is out here backing her by being
Blak:an honor for them.
Mac:Because they're all about a she wants to do music. Because as a artist, whatever the mood is, like, you could be in one mood and do one genre of music, but then if you just really want to sit there and look at your roots from Texas, looking at the the the the the music around Texas, and you're you're just like, there's so many genres. Let me tap into this. It's not like she tried to do a a Latin American and try to speak Spanish and all this other stuff, bro. Like, Texas is country.
Mac:You know? Yep. Just because she's from Houston and yeah. Like, If I if I scroll far enough for these comments, you'll see what they say about black people from Houston. But I'm just saying, like, there's country spots in Houston as well.
Mac:There's country bars, country spots that they they go to when they play the music. You know what I'm saying? So why can't she just dabble into that just for for and this was probably a passion project. You know? And and it just I
Blak:know a lot of I know a lot of black people, especially down south that I grew up listening to country music. And it was it was just a thing, man. It wasn't it wasn't like irregular or your normal. It's just
Mac:It's what you did. It was all.
Blak:We did. You know what I mean? Like, you'd be on the school bus. School bus driver's white. Some motherfuckers playing Hank Wilson, Hank Williams.
Blak:And I'm like, dude, I don't like this shit, but after a while, it, like, kinda grew on you. Like, I like tearing my beard. You know what I'm saying? Like, I like Conway Twitty.
Host:You know
Blak:what I'm saying? I like that shit, but good music is good music. You know what I'm saying? So it don't matter who fuck who the fuck makes it. It's just the opinions of this shit is wild, bro.
Blak:This ad is wild.
Mac:This this
Blak:That is wild.
Mac:This plus, like, the Kendrick reaction, I'm just like again, I'm not looking at profile pictures of the people making these comments. Can y'all just hey. Y'all need to be like me. Protect your energy.
Blak:Yeah. Please. Please. Go eat a fucking mayonnaise sandwich or some shit.
Mac:Don't be letting stuff like this. Have y'all act out in character like this. Wow. Because I mean, I'm just like like I said, I didn't click on any profiles. I ain't trying to see your whole family.
Mac:And if you have pictures, but just hovering over your profile picture, I'm just like, hey. You know that meme where it was, it it popped up when, doctor Draymond was about to do their Super Bowl. Like, the NFL just lost a fan and it was all motherfuckers that was you know what I'm saying? And then they just copied and pasted for for the Kendrick shit. You can copy and paste it for this y'all y'all I don't say y'all are predictable, but, man, just stop making Like, bro, like,
Blak:you just look like you go to Cracker Barrel after church. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like
Mac:And I love Cracker Barrel.
Blak:You know? Yeah. Exactly.
Mac:I walk in the Cracker Barrel feeling just fine. I know a lot of people be like, bro, that's a, you know, that's a that's a wild, like, I go in there. I get my my my my pancakes with the crispy edges. You know what I'm saying? I eat my food and I bounce.
Mac:You know? Never ever do I buy anything out of the shop unless they got the the soft the soft peppermints. Outside of that, I don't really be going there in the country store part. I go to eat, but then I leave. You know?
Mac:And it's not wrong with that. I'm just saying stop being so sensitive.
Host:Please. And
Mac:let me that's coming from me. It's hard for me to say that because I I was, bro, back man. It it it was it was a time leading up from the the election stuff leading up to now. Like, I'm just looking at people like, bro, how are y'all how are y'all do how are y'all cool with what's about to happen? You know?
Mac:And and I had to step back. Some people just feel a certain way, and you just gotta accept that and move on. There's no need to get caught up and and and waste your energy trying to talk somebody out of something that you can't change their mind, that they don't colors come out, and you just gotta so that's what it is. Alright. Cool.
Mac:Let me maneuver a different way. And now my peace is kept. You know? And it is what it is. That's all y'all gotta do, country fans.
Mac:Just, hey. You know what? Beyonce won that. But Chris Stapleton's album is still available for me to stream. Let me go listen to it.
Mac:Lainie Wilkes
Blak:I won.
Mac:They didn't gain
Blak:significant
Mac:If you lost, they didn't delete your music off the Internet. Go listen to it. Get those streams up. Put coins in the pockets of the people that you wanna put coins in their pockets. Don't listen to Beyonce if you don't like it.
Blak:They probably don't even listen. They just No. It's an echo chamber at this point.
Mac:I will say it it it makes me laugh because it's it's you guys are so emotionally involved in this. And maybe you'll be like, it's nothing. I just put a comment because whatever. I can care less if she wins. A obviously, you can you can't.
Mac:You care. You care because you took time out of your day when this came across your feed. You're just like, I could keep scrolling, but I feel But I'm a give them a piece of my day. I'm a give them a little bit of my time. Yeah.
Mac:And I'm a let them know.
Blak:Pull up my britches and type this paragraph real quick.
Mac:Like Bruce O'Malley.
Blak:Y'all gotta stop that shit too, bro. Like, real quick. If you if you didn't participate in the shit, don't comment on it. Oh. Because there's more of that going around too now.
Blak:Like, especially the people that haven't seen captain, Captain America.
Mac:Mhmm.
Blak:Like, they're I'm I'm noticing a trend. You don't watch or listen or participate in the event because in your brain, you can care less. Don't fucking offer the opinion. Okay? We we don't care about your opinion because you didn't care enough to participate, watch, or listen in the shit.
Blak:So if if you didn't, your opinion is invalid. We don't wanna hear that shit coming out of you. Keep that shit to yourself until you watch it, till you listen to it, until you participate in the shit yourself. That shit is irking my nerves, bro. Like, did you listen?
Blak:Did you listen to it? No. I didn't listen to it. I don't care enough about that. Shut the fuck up.
Blak:Please shut the
Host:fuck up.
Mac:I haven't heard her album, but I know she shouldn't have won it.
Blak:I exactly. Exactly. How do you know? How do you
Mac:know this? Just know. That lets me know that lets me know how close minded you are. Therefore
Blak:Well, I was listening to a review on the YouTube channel, and they said and I agree with really? Really?
Mac:I let other
Blak:people Yes.
Mac:I let
Blak:other people influenced your shit. You you fucking idiot. Like, stop doing this shit, bro.
Mac:How do I feel about this? YouTube?
Blak:Point me in the right direction.
Mac:That's exactly how I feel about it. You saved me time.
Blak:And then spew the same shit that that's on the YouTube channel.
Mac:Yep. They just saw who it was. You're right on point, Brian.
Blak:Exactly.
Mac:You know what music she used to do, and now she's over here, y'all just cool with it. Alright.
Blak:You heard some shitty opinion on some shitty ass YouTube channel. Now you're offering that same shitty ass shut the fuck up. We don't care about that shitty ass opinion.
Mac:It's glorious. Glorious. Alright. So, country music fans, congratulations. You're in the running for February's whose man's is this, moving forward.
Mac:So, fans in quotations, not not the real fans that that move on and they listen to what they listen and they like what they like. But, the sensitive, all in their feelings, kiki, do you love me? These guys, they are upset. Oh, bro. Wait till Drake come out with his country album.
Mac:Y'all finna be big.
Blak:He's inching towards it now.
Mac:Y'all big mad. But, let us go ahead and get back to our regularly scheduled programming. Big mad, mad, bro. And now we return you to our regular scheduled program in progress. Before I forget, we here at the, smoke pit are, very, very interested in our following closely, the women's basketball team of the College of Biblical Studies of Houston.
Mac:And it's been a while since we provided a update. Yes. I'm feeling we should probably do a segment on this, but, but but the season's pretty much over for them. However, I wanna give everybody an update on how well they've been doing, this season. So as you see here, I'll scroll down.
Mac:Their next game is February 20. So three days. Their current record, however, is o and 18. Oh. They're o and 10 in their conference, losing streak of 18, o and seven at home.
Mac:Oh, no. They're they're not doing well. How bad are they losing, though? Because we remember the the whooping that they got from Grambling. Right?
Blak:Yes.
Mac:Almost lost by a 400 points. Yes. Let us see. So they lost against, McNeese State
Blak:University Oh.
Mac:By 70. Right? Goddamn. They lost to Dillard Lewis University of Louisiana by 98 points. So almost got They almost got that Hyundai puttin' on over me.
Mac:Then they ran it back. Right? They ran it back.
Blak:Did a little better.
Mac:And, yeah. They only lost by, like, you know
Blak:Cut that deficit.
Mac:By 69. You know what I'm saying? So good good for them. Then Texas Southern put it on them. Right?
Mac:They lost, 27 to a 19. Then they played, Litherno. Laterno. Laterno. Laterno.
Mac:That's so close. 36 to 61. Right? So, 25.1. Okay.
Mac:And then they only lost by 28 here against Ozark Christian College. And then got the brakes beat off by Texas a and m international, 29 to one thirteen. They went back to play a LeTourneau in 3290. And then they played Arlington Baptist University. And what's this say?
Mac:24 loss? Okay. You know what I'm saying? So they're trying. They're they're getting there.
Mac:And then, a 19 loss against Randall, who they have coming up next on the twentieth. They played Wiley, lost 41 to 101. Dallas Christian College, twenty nine to 81. Champion Christian College, 40 four 90 six. 16 loss to Southwestern Adventist University.
Blak:Damn, they lost to the seven day saints. God dawg.
Mac:A forty four ninety five lost to champion Christian college, Thirty five ninety seven to Dallas Christian again. Forty three seventy eight to Arlington Baptist. Oh, a three point loss to Southwestern Advent School. So now they have Randall University coming back up in Moore, Oklahoma. So keeping our eyes out.
Mac:I tried to go to their, their link to buy some gear to support. Apparently, you can't do that online. So I guess I have to try, like, a third party, like, eBay or something like that to try to get me a, college of biblical studies of Houston, apparel because I'm trying to support my sisters in Christ over here, as they walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Lord. It it Els.
Blak:They in the canyons at this point. God.
Mac:The trench is out here. God damn. Drug. Anyway, outside of that, that's all I have for the people. We're keeping an eye on college of biblical studies.
Mac:What what what do you have for the peoples, my man?
Blak:I wanna thank everybody, who's been, participating in my pain. To the subscribers, to the, smoke pit YouTube, Numbers have grown. Thank you guys for, for for subscribing. That that's amazing. Like, for real, for some amazing shit.
Blak:So, we got that. No gimmicks is back this week. USDN is back. Welcome back to Eat the Cake Anime. Kick ass show that we had this past week.
Blak:Can't wait for that to to hit the waves again, man. Like, we're we're almost at full strength, my guy. And just waiting on the queens. I know we're about to come back with some hard hitting shit with the queens, and we'll be back at full strength. So shout out to the network.
Blak:Make sure you follow, subscribe to all of these guys, and, yeah, man. It's been a it's been a 2025 is an is is shaping up to be
Mac:an awesome year already, and we're just in February. So Agreed, man. I can't wait. Yep. So you can expect, Queens to come out, Monday as well as the, the smoke pit or not Queens, eat the cake.
Mac:So that'll be dropping tomorrow as well as, smoke pit. So if you're listening to this, obviously, audio wise, it dropped today, for you. But for our patrons, just give you a heads up. And, we got some stuff. Well, I know I have some stuff cooking for, patrons only.
Mac:Couple episodes, almost like MEMS, but, just tailoring it a little bit, flexing it a little bit, trying to give you guys something for your, financial support of us, which we do appreciate. Yep. But, yes, YouTube channel is over a thousand views or a thousand subscribers and climbing. So whatever y'all are doing, putting us out there, showing us off, sharing links, all of that good stuff, Gracias. We do appreciate you.
Blak:Very much.
Mac:It it does it does not go unseen by us and unloved by us. So, unless you got anything else, we can go ahead and wrap it up, my boy.
Blak:That is it, sir. Let's wrap it up.
Mac:Alright. Ladies and gentlemen, once again, episode one sixty one of the smoke pit. As always, I'm the homie Mac a k a your boy.
Blak:And I am Brad like a king, made us coven, Kaitley. Thank you guys for tuning in. Until next time. Have love. Make sex.
Blak:Peace. Peace.
Mac:Because ain't right.