Leslie Jones On Stephen A. Smith's Weak Rihanna Apology | Charlamagne Tha God

Everybody's excited, well almost everybody. Sports canst Stephenie Smith laurens the hard way, you better watch what you say about Rihanna. Yah. Members of the Rihanna Navy is they've known, have been gunning for him all day long. Following his appearance on The Sherry Shepherd Show. Take a listen. Are you excited for this halftime show? I don't want to say I'm not excited. She's fantastic. There's one thing she's not. She

ain't Beyonce. I know she's not to wait a minute, molda molda dude, No, why would you do this to yourself? You know what, stephen A Smith, you need to act like your hairline and back the hat. Now, the good news is that he did apologize. The bad news is his apology Orihanna to know you're a superstar, your sensational and you are a worthy person to be doing the super Bowl halftime show. I apologize for creating whatever bru ha ha comes up this. I gotta be more careful

where people twisted and turn it into something. It ain't my bad on that. Now, I gotta go. Good luck's when you're looking forward to seeing you perform? Oh, how dare you call Rihanna suite? Ain't you're calling her sweetie like you know her. She don't know you, but you know who she does. Now be I needs on one of these ladies. Need your opinion, sweetie? Why are you trying to save your life in the back of that dark ass bus? All right, let's move on now. Everybody

this year is the Daily Show. So I know that there's some people out there thinking, is she ever gonna talk about policy or is she gonna spend all weeks saying pussy, pussy, pussy. Well, don't worry. I take my job seriously. Um, you want me to talk about the debt ceiling, I will talk about the debt ceiling. So the debt seiling is kind of like America. It's pussy four pussies in a row. I love it, you know what,

I'll let the news explain it. Breaking news from Washington, d C. The US has hit the national dead limit. Once the US hits the upper limit of what it can legally borrow to run the government, the Treasury Department now starts juggling with so called extraordinary measures, deferring investments into important retirement funds. For example, for public servants, various accounting moves can buy sometimes and keep the bills paid until maybe June. Damn, America is broke as hell, Amica.

It's so broke the government might have to resort to extraordinary measures like texting the rich or not going to war all the time. Crazy ship like that. Want But here's my question, what is the money going? We don't have anything to show for it. We got homeless crisis, we got medical bills. Where is the money going? You know what? Exactly? Please please tell me that Biden has spent it on developing a black panther suit. Now I'm

still a little lost with this debt ceiling crisis. But lucky for me, I know someone who can help me explain it. Y'all give it up for Dad's a lot of all, Right, Leslie, I got you. Okay. Now, the debt ceiling might seem complicated, but let's think about it like this. Say you've open to change Sapphire card with the ten dollar limit and you've maxed it out on

I don't know, Gucci handbags and laser facials. Then you get screwed because you have to pay for your kids new glasses because his dumb teacher says he's having trouble reading in class. And when you can't get that teacher fired, you have to get the bank to raise your credit limit or else your husband will find out. And you promised him that you were done stealing credit card numbers. And that is pretty much the situation America's in. Oh did that happen to you? Oh? That These are just examples.

I'm just saying America is in a bit of financial trouble, and you do not want to get into deep. You know. It's kind of like how we all have gambling debt. I don't have. Oh no, I I don't either. I don't neither. But let's just say hypothetically that I owed a lot of money to the Russian mob because I was convinced that this was the season the Knicks were going to turn it around. Dazzy, everybody knows the Knicks will never turn it around. Well, yeah, that's obvious now.

But the point is sometimes you need to find more money and fast, just like America does. And until then, America will have to find ways to pay the bills, like selling one of its kidneys or begging for Venmo donations. Good look, look, it's okay. I don't want anyone to stress, because if it doesn't work, America can always get out of debt by running to Mexico and changing its name. The one thing you want to think about is you don't want the name to be too similar, Like you

can't go from Anastasia to Anna Maria. You can only go from Anastasia to Dasi. Is that what you did? Oh my god, Oh my god. No, of course not. No. Anastasia is dead. Yeah, she died in a horrific car fire and her remains were too charred to be identified. Daisy, If you need money, you're not gonna help you, right, oh, Leslie, think that that really? That means a lot. But no, No, I would never beg you for money on a show that the I r S watches, And if I did

do that, it certainly wouldn't be for this amount. Damn. Then she's got what you all? This was money? What you do? No, No, I'm not that wasteful. But maybe you can spot me just a little bit so I don't get my pinkies broken again. Okay, look, look, look, Daisy, I can pay a little bit of this, but you gotta promise me that you do not gamble it. I see, I promise you I will not gamble it away. Okay, all right, Okay, I'm putting it on the giants this weekend.

That's not a gamble. That is a lot. That is a lot. Oh man, man, I'm hot, man, don't give it up from dass. Let's talking about let me go back. I'm gonna talking to the cover. So don't go away. Girl, We're gonna talk about you know that. I'll lug bitches all the time. We go back turn the day that show, let's sen I watched the news for three reasons, weather, traffic, and Michael Straighthand's sexy ass mouth. Mum, you gotta blur that out, you can't show that sexy hole on TV.

You know, I'm trying to run a TV show. Man set that. But every time I turn on the news, there's one thing I see more than anything, men losing their ship. Another shocking incident on a plane as two passengers duke it out right before takeoff. A man went on a bottle breaking impage. Store workers say a customer gud I rate when they refused to sell him liquor at a discount. It's a shocking road rage incident going viral. These two knuckleheads are fighting like medieval knights in battle.

Why does every guy think if he gets a sword in his hand, he's gonna automatically be Steven Seagal, But when he actually gets it in his hand, he's like Jerry Lewis, I'm gonna a bad night. It's crazy, though, this stuff is happening all the time. Every night on the news, Let's the hold has to shout wild Star, and it's all because of men who can't control their anger. Man,

why are you so mad? You need the cop y'all as down, But since you can't do it yourselves, I decide I'm gonna help you calm down into Night's installment of Long Story Short. Now we know that women are going through it, but we have to acknowledge that men are going through it too. You guys are angry, you're depressed, and you're lonely. In fact, of men say they have zero zero friends, and the other they don't have friends either, but they was too sad to fill out the surveyor

no friends. I mean, women got our problems, but we always have some home girls. You know what I'm saying. You got them, you know, but me and they have nobody. So what do they do. They take all of those emotions and they bottle that ship up and then they throw that bottle at the cashier. Now, luckily there's a tool that can help you with all of this Falliby therapy is amazing. You pay someone to unload all your bullshit on them. They're like prostitutes for the feelings. The

problem is men don't use it. In fact, they're almost half as likely to go to therapy as women. Men out here treating therapy like Nick Cannon treats condoms. They're here to help you, Nick, Why won't you use them? God damn it, God damn that. The question is why won't you men go to therapy? And I think the same reason you won't eat a popsicle in front of anybody, because you're scared they'll think you a little bitch. Therapy works for women, but it does not work for men.

Sitting around talking about your feelings isn't gonna do it for you. How you feel, Go to the gym, lift heavyweights. Be a man. Therapy is no action. Therapy is sitting and crying and complaining. If you feel depressed, you go to the gym. You do something, you don't sit and cry about it. Andrew Tape, why don't you just arrested for selling bitches? If anybody needs therapy, is this neck and ass hot dog? And let's this be a man ship? What do you think being a man is? Because it's

not what women think it is. Being a man means taking care of your mental health just as much as you take care of your physical health. Okay, these dudes will use everything else for therapy except actual therapy. They're like, running is my therapy. No, running is running. Therapy needs to be your therapy. Everyone, I mean, everyone I know who does a marathon is stuck. If they were at peace,

they wouldn't be running until they pissed themselves. And I'm saying they'll be at all watch the next looks like everybody else. But we know, I mean, is this way because starting from a young age, we cheats them that they can't have feelings. We were taught at a really young age. Don't cry. I have no fear when you cry, does it make you feel like a failure? Oh there's that. That's a sense of sitting there going why am I crying? I shouldn't be crying? Up. There was this one time

I was with my friend. He just looked at me started crying. He just said, I think I just need a hug, and I hugged him. And afterwards we both looked at each other and we're like, we're you never going to say anything to anyone that's sad? Y'all see that? Not see what y'all men I teaching these young boys. But you know what, you know what I need to men the hug right now? Get right? Yeah? Who this that makes me feel like I got power, But but

I hug. That's what men to keep private. But y'all, air dropped your dick pics to a stranger on the subway. Why but look, if men's issues only affected themselves, I stay the hell out their business. But the problem here is that men not going to therapy is affecting women. Okay, Depressed men are more likely to commit domestic violence, They're more likely to commit abuse. Plus, instead of going to the therapists, they're using dates like therapy. Yeah, yeah, every

woman in here knows what I'm talking about. Some dude you just met on tender telling you about how his dad loves his brother Moore, Well, give me your brother's number, then maybe I like him better too, because this is not making me horny. You definitely should talk to someone, but a professional, not me. And what's messed up is, even if the day goes well, guess what, men with depression are twice as likely to have problems with they did.

We shouldn't be a surprised. If you're depressed, your dick is gonna be sad too. If you if you're walking around miserable, your dick is also gonna be like Swing Sweet Chairy on Nobody and knows the trouble I've seen. If you like those songs, you can check out my playlist Sad Dick on Spotify so long story short man, go to please. It's okay, all right, stay tuned because and Shay and we don't see what he thinks about all of this. We'll be right back. Welcome back to

the Dame Me Show. My guest today is a radio legend and author and leading voice and mental health discussion. You know him from the Breakfast Club on the I Heart Radio. Please welcome Charlemagne go God said, what's happening? What's happening? What's happening? Ye what I'm leveling. Man. We have never got to actually meet. We didn't been in the same place as when the cross paths we said hid to each other. Back Bay's baby. I'm so glad to finally get to talk to you. You look very

at home here. Well, thank you, man, Absolutely absolutely, I'm trying. I'm trying, and I must say having a depressed Dick playlist is nice. Jesus can play it on your show. It's the question, Well, it'd be soft and subtle. Well, okay, let's just get into it now. I want you to explain to me why do you think men are so scared of their me? Oh? Man, I think it's societal you know. For me, it came from like my father, because my father he went to therapy two and three

times a week. And my father, you know, he was on like ten to twelve different medications for his mental health issues, but he never told me that. I didn't find that out until November of two thousand and eighteen, after I wrote a book about it, and after I started discussing my own issues, and I remember asking my mom, like, Mom, you know Dad was going through all of that, and she said, I thought he was playing crazy to get a check, because that's what the that's what they did

in the state of South Carolina. They just would give him a check because they couldn't figure out, you know, anything else that he was going through. And I think about it, I'm like, damn, I was dealing with anxiety my whole life. I was dealing with, you know, about the depression. If he would have if he would have told me that, you know, back then, then I would have had the tools much much earlier. But what I do is uh, And I learned this for my therapist.

You gotta give your parents grace, and you gotta give your parents grace. You you got to give them grace because they were doing the best they could with what they had, Like we take for granted that where the first generation that has the luxury of healing, you know, that generation, they was really scratching and surviving on some good time stuff, you know what I mean. Absolutely. I think about it all the time that my parents were in their twenties and thirties raising two kids, and I

think about my twenties and thirties thing. God, if there was no children involved. That was the reaction when you started talking about this type of stuff. Did you get a bad reaction? Did you get a positive reaction? Well, like a lot of things that come out of my mouth,

I wasn't really caring about what people thought. Um So I was really just having these conversations because it was almost like it was a cry for help, you know, because I can't get on the radio and you know, discuss what everybody else is going through and not discuss what I'm going through. You know. And I've always been transparent about my life, but I think, you know, going to therapy made me more vulnerable. So I was flirting

with the idea for a while. So I'd be having conversations with a lot of people around me, you know, like you know, I gotta give credit to people like you know, a man the Seals and Neil Brennan, Pete Davidson, Like, even though Pete's younger than me, he was somebody that's

been going to therapy for a long time. And just like having conversations with those Why is that funny, Christ We should be applauding, But it's just like, you know, having conversations with those individuals about things that I thought were normal, you know, because it took a long time for me to realize that your anxiety is not normal. You know, these these these bouts to depression are normal.

A lot of times we think we can just you know, write anxiety off to being in a better position in life. That was my my case because I was dealing with

panic attacks my whole life. And then the fourth time I got fired from radio, when I was back at home living with my mom at like thirty one, thirty two years old, with like a two year old daughter, and my now wife was back at home living with her parents in Moss Corner, South Carolina, I remember having like one of those panic attacks where you couldn't tell me I was not about to die, Like it was the French Standford, Oh, I'm coming to join your lizable

like you. I thought, like I thought it was over. And so I went to the doctor like I usually doing. The doctor told me I got an athlete's hard. You said, your heart is fine. He was the first person to ever say to me, yo, do you do you deal with anxiety? It sounds like what you're describing was an anxiety attack. And so he was like, are you stretched out about anything? And I'm like, hell yeah, So in my mind, as long as I give me another gig and get back in position to get out of my

mama house, I'll be I right. Next year I got with the Breakfast Club. So you know, three or four years later, I got more success, more money than I've ever experienced. But nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. Anxiety might even be worse, the depression might even be worse. And I really just was looking in the mirror, not liking who I was becoming. And listen, I love I love my father, you know, I mean I love him

to death. But I saw myself turning into him. And I saw myself, you know, really indulging in the drugs and really indulgent in the alcohol, and really indulgent in you know, other women and not treating my my my, my woman the way I needed to. And I was like yo for somebody that I thought I reason inted because of how I saw him and treat my mom. Do you think that that's why black men don't talk about therapy too, because they feel like they're snitching on themselves?

You know, I think we just don't be having the tools, we don't be having the resources. I think we have it now because we're having more conversations about it. You know, like I said, I would have never known anything about it. I wouldn't have known anything. I would have known about it if my dad would have told me way way, way, way way back when. But I think, you know, man, come on, I'm forty four years old. I grew up in the era where you had to be hardcore. Like literally,

there was a term like hardcore. Like we didn't show no emotion. You know, we couldn't cry, We couldn't tell anybody we were sad. Sad you better go get a job, sad you better, you better go play outside? Why are you sad? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you live in your breathe that's right, Yeah, that's right. So so let me tell you. Let me ask you, how do you deal with the panic attacks? You wrote a whole book about it, so, I mean, because that can help women just as much

as men. How do you deal with panic attacks? How do you? You know, is that breathing exercises and this something that you do well. I got a new therapist now, and my my new therapist told me something that's really interesting. You know. He said, uh, he said, faith and anxiety can't coexist. So whenever you have those panic attacks, whenever you have those anxiety attacks, you gotta tell yourself your

own hero story. And I know it may sound arrogant, but no, you really got to tell yourself how far you've came. You know, you have to tell yourself you know what you've overcome. You know, you have to talk about the good things that you know you you do for yourself, the good things you do for people. And I think that's something that we don't do enough. We

don't tell ourselves our own hero story. So much of us to getting on social media, waiting for a bunch of strangers that we don't even know to validate us through likes and retweets and everything else. You know, So it's like yow. How often do you how often do you wake up and look in the mirror and really just tell yourself your own hero story? You know sometimes we laugh at Catlis, but Catlis right when he said, yo, sometimes you got to look at it like you're you're smart,

you know, you're beautiful. You know I do it too much, But I get I agree with you. I agree with you on that he might do it too much. But maybe we have to have a DJ Khalid level of annoyance. Absolutely, I get, in order to encourage each other. You know, Mary and Black had a song called good Morning Garden, Good Morning Guard. Yeah, sometimes you gotta wake up in the morning and do that for yourself. I agree. Sometimes you really gotta look at yourself and say, hey, I

live with myself. You gotta like yourself. That's all day, all that, when you go to sleep, up, when you ship, when you brush your teeth right, that's right yourself. That's like tell yourself your own hero story for all your brothers out there with the press, dick, you know, look in the mirror, look in the mirror and talk to your penis about the good time. That's what I was gonna do you think, do you think therapy like improves you as a sexual partner. I mean, please say yes

so they can go to therapy. Please, Yes, it does, but it really, it really does, because it makes you more vulnerable, you know what I'm saying. And I think that it makes you more It makes you more intimate, you know, And I think that you start approaching you know, sex, not just from a physical aspect, from a mental and the spiritual aspect, you know what I mean. There's a great song by Dead Press. It's an old it's an old school song. Damn, I can't believe I said it's

old school. But but but it's called mind sex. And it's true, you know what I mean, Like everything is mental, it all starts here. So it is gonna make you know what happens in the bedroom better. See, I just told my penis my own hero story. I might be dealing I might be dealing with the rector just so, and I just told my penis my own hero story. And right, that's right. So what would you say right now? What would be the thing that you say right now

to tell men to go to therapy? What would be your inspirational like, what would you say to all the men right now I would say the life you save maybe your own, because you know, I saw what you were saying about you know, men and being violent, Like yeah, I think that we do a lot of projecting, you know what I mean. I think that we haven't dealt with our pain, we haven't dealt with our hurt, and so we end up projecting that pain and that hurt on the other people, you know, and and and therapy

is really just one part of it. I got a good friend, I got to salute her man. Her name is Debbie Brown, and um, deVie always told me that your therapy will give you the language, and it will give you an understanding of what you're going through, but you actually have to go out and do things that help you heal, you know, because it's one thing to be able to talk about it, but what are you

doing to actually heal what you're dealing with? So if we don't actually deal with our issues and actually seek some healing, we're just gonna keep projecting that pain and hurt on other people a more. I'm so proud of you right now. All right, we're gonna take a prayer, but we all things like that. After this boy like we has well that's got Shan for tonight, and that's it for me this week. I had a great time. Thank you guys for laughing at my jokes and making

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