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wol with everyone. And if you were hoping to lose all your money in crypto, well then I've got some good news. Plus hip hop legend and New York's very own nas Is. Our guests are life talking about a brand new albums talking. Let's through these people. Let's sounds

straight into today's headlines. All right. Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world, starting in the United Kingdom, where a protester who threw eggs at King Charles has now been banned from carrying eggs in public as a condition of his bail. I mean that just really shows you how much England has lost its edge. You know, in the old days, if you came at the King, they would torture you in the Tower of London for

the rest of your life. Now it's like you attacked our king. Well, good luck making a omelet now. In some news from the world of philanthropy, Jeff Bezos announced that you will be giving Dolly Parton one million dollars to celebrate her good deeds in the world. Yeah, and that's how rich Jeff Bezos is. Imagine me so rich that you think it's charity when you give money to millionaires. He's like, oh, you poor thing. You don't even have a spaceship, do you. Heah, let me break you off some.

In a major geopolitical news, President Biden met for the first time with his Chinese counterpart, Jijing Ping, and after the three hour meeting, Biden declared that an invasion of Taiwan is not imminent. And I know what probably happened here. Jesing Ping went into that meeting planning to stick it to Joe, But first Biden told him about that one time we had their friend who a negro baseball player. He's work of the pool with all the kids and he'd rather amer all the way to Scranton. Man, it's

not Scrand to day man. Scrand different back then, pot boys, and my word is a Biden and ice cream marder. Come on, come on, Jack, And Jesing Ping was like, you know what you can have Taiwan to stop to. I don't, I don't know what any of this is. Just let leave you alone, Harv. Let's move on to some of the biggest stories of the day, starting with the mid terms, that magical term of the year when

the most exciting thing on TV is Steve CORNACKI doing math. Now, votes are still being counted across the country, but a few things are clear. One, you can take off your I voted stick and now we get it. And two Senate Democrats are about to get two more years in the driver's seats. Let's begin with Democrats shocking the political world by retaining control of the United States Senate thanks

to a win overnight in Nevada. Democrats now taking a victory lap, defying history and expectations, on track to their best mid term performance since John F. Kennedy was president. This is a very happy day with at least fifty seats and Vice President Kamala Harris's tiebreaking vote. Democrats now keep control of the upper chamber, regardless of the outcome

of George's Senate runoff, sleated for December six. Holding the Senate gives President Biden and his party control over the legislative agenda there and critically judicial confirmations, including the Supreme Court if another seat opens up. That's right now that Nevada and Arizona have been called, the Democrats have officially kept control of the Senate for another two years, which

is a huge surprise. I mean, when Chuck Schumer heard that happened his glasses and that he fell right off his face, I mean, at least I'm assuming that's why they're down there, right. I Remember, Remember, the reason this is so important is because keeping the Senate means that Democrats can keep confirming judges, including Supreme Court justices, like if any of them retire, or let's say, I don't know, gets like a d u I you know, I still

like my man. But but remember, if Republicans take control of the House, then every dream that Democrats have of codifying Rov Wade or taxing the rich or turning Pete Budajas into a real boy. They can't do it. Yeah, I mean they probably weren't gonna do it anyway, but now they have someone to blame, those passing Republicans. Now, of course, there's still the Georgia runoff in December between Raphael Warnock and herschel Walker, which the Democrats don't need anymore.

They don't need to win in order to control the Senates, but it would give them extra cushion for when Joe Mansion tries to cop block them, or Kirsten Cinema goes rogue, or Bernie Sanders and misses a vote because he's arguing with a grocery store manager. He's just there was a shot that apple play up your ass. I want to pay with a check. Wait, hold on, I wrote the wrong day. You go give him, give me another chance. So we're gonna have to wait until December to see

what the final count in the Senate is. And really that race can go either way. But can we just admit, now that the stakes are a little lower, you kind of want to see what herschel Walker would be like as a senator. I'm not saying they should. I'm not saying they should and I'm not saying it would be good for Georgia or for the country. But but when he gets Ms McConnell pregnant with another secret baby, it

will be all worth it. It'll be all worth it. Ah, He's certain, Marrik card and our five hour dollar rare. But while the Democrats are celebrating their success in the midterms, Republicans are being forced to look ahead and the question of who will take on the animated corpse of Joe Biden for the presidency. So obviously, obviously all eyes on Donald Trump, you know, you know, because he's the person

who has promised a big announcement from Mara Lago tomorrow. Yeah, and no one knows what the big announcement could be. It could could just be that he successfully walked down a ramp, or or that he finally memorized all the words to the McDonald's Big Mac song. But but everyone is expecting that it's going to be his entry into the residential race. Yeah. And there are a lot of reasons people think that Trump is going to run again, all right. They think he wants to avoid an indictment.

They think he thinks he's already one lost time. It could be the fact that he has a Cinemax movie in the White House DVR that he wants to finish watching Willie Manuel Get Back from Space. I don't know, but the biggest hint that he's running again is that he spent a lot of time recently making fun of

other Republicans who might think of running. Alright, do you remember he called Rhonda sanctus Rhonda sanctimonious, He mocked Mike penceis polling numbers, and then last week he found something to say about a new target, Virginia Governor Glenn Junkin. On Friday, the former president posted on his social media platform Truth Social the Youngcan's last name quote sounds Chinese. The post read, in part, young Kin, Now, that's an

interesting take. Sounds Chinese? Doesn't It couldn't have one without me. You know, just when I think Trump has hit peaks strange, he finds a way to take it to another level. He's like super saying I'm strange because first of all, first of all, how are you so racist that you can make an anti Asian remark about a white guy? I don't even understand that? And secondly, how are you so weird that you can surprise yourself in your own text. He's the one typing that. He's like, now, that's an

interesting thing. You wrote, kids are you guys? Seeing what? Just happy? You type kids like who are you? How's your where you work? But the only the only explanation that makes sense in my head is that he typed the guy's name in and then it auto corrected to young kid. And now Trump is having a conversation with his ulto correct like, wow, I never thought of it that way. Keyboard, you should be my running mate. So smart,

so strong, show clever. But this moment here is just another one where you realize that the tide is turning against Trump ever since the mid terms, because this time Republicans are pushing back against him. Yeah, they've come out. They're like, this is not cool. Why you're saying this? They're fighting him. You realize if this has happened before the mid terms, young Kin would have come out like why yes, in fact, I am a Chinese man, how y'all?

And Mr Trump? So let's move on to some financial news. After being hailed as the future of money, two has been cryptocurrencies worst year yet. The crypto market has lost one point three trillion dollars worldwide. Hundreds of cryptocurrencies have completely disappeared, and Matt Damon has moved on to selling herbal life. And now, just when we thought the crypto world couldn't fall any lower, this happened. One popular cryptocurrency

exchange is on the brink of collapse. This morning. F t X filed for bankruptcy Friday, leaving investors scrambling and destabilizing the entire industry. The company's thirty year old CEO, Sam Bankman Freed, resigned and his sixteen billion dollar fortune erased. Bloomberg has called his meteoric fall from grace one of

history's greatest ever destructions of wealth. At its peak, the crypto exchange was worth thirty two billion dollars and benefited from superstar endorsements from Tom Brady, Gezell Bunchen, Naomi Osaka, and Steph Curry. The NBA's Miami Heat had its venue renamed as f t X Arena just last year, but now that name's coming off the building. The downfall of ft X began earlier this month, when reports raised serious

questions about its financial health. Those questions triggered a bank run on the exchange as too many customers tried to withdraw their assets. By Thursday, bankman Freed was apologizing on Twitter, saying quote, I'm sorry. I should have done better. Yeah, one of the biggest cryptocurrency ex rangers has filed for bankruptcy, going from being worth thirty billion dollars to being eight billion in the hole. And do you know how hard it is to lose that much money overnight without buying Twitter?

This wasn't easy. And look, I will say I am glad that he apologized, but a tweet saying I stop it doesn't capture the enormity of what you've done. You know, I've stop? Is the wrong addressed up? Is like the wrong uber or something at the very at the very least, you've got to add like ten more US because you've uh. And this, this crypto collapse is sending shock waves everywhere everywhere, from people losing billions of dollars to the Miami Heat

being forced to change the name of the arena. Right now that FTX is broke. You saw that, And and I'll be honest with you, I feel like the one is on the heat. If you're gonna let a company by the naming rights to arena. At least make sure it's an established company. Don't commit to some crypto startup that's been around for two years. It's like going on a first date and then when the person goes to the bathroom, you gotta lower back tattoo of their name.

You know. He's like, yeah, there's no way this get backfire. Yeah wait, it's Channis that it was Jenny, And you have to admit. You have to admit it is crazy that a crypto collapse can take so much real money with it. Think about it. It's fake money, but people lost real savings. It's like finding out someone's imaginary friend died by driving your car off a cliff. You're like, oh,

your friend wasn't real. They were real to me. And personally, I hope Tom Brady didn't invest too much of his money in this company, because otherwise he'll never be able to retire. He's gonna be like ninety years old in a huddle, just like you're gonna run a post out laughter and you blocked the blatch and and did I have a jack by that time? Matter fraid it was

a negro big ball player. You should hear the pool with the kids and I'm tracking this curving up my way to jump and come on, Jack, come on, let's do it. All right, that's what the headlines recording go to crick really quick break, let's checking on the stock market. Finance expert Michael Cost to everybody, Michael, absolute insanity. What is happening in the market today, Trevor, I am crushing it. I mean I'm crushing It's so hard that I too

should be banned from carrying eggs because I would crush them. Okay, I got a hot tip for you to some pay attention. I got a hot tip for you. Okay, But obviously, Trevor, today it's all about cry crypto and f t X, which collapsed last week. Now this is really important. Okay. People are losing their third houses because of this. All right. Now, obviously I didn't invest in f t X. I didn't like that Tom Brady was promoting it. I am a

very simple investing rule. Don't take financial advice from people who get hit in the head all day. Okay. That's why the only athletes I listened to our swimmers. Okay, they don't get hit in the head. Now this is important. Wait until they're out of the pool to hear what they have to say. Otherwise you put all your money into rule. Pay attention to this right here, this fifty two week low. One point two. That's low. Okay. Now

I'm an expert. I don't expect you to understand numbers, but let me explain it to Okay, zero is the bottom. You can't get lower than zero unless there's a windshield. So look, I know this this looks like the price of FTX token. But what this chart actually represents is the age of people who trust crypto. Okay, in November, It's like maybe at one point it reached thirty years old, but now the only group that trusts crypto two and

a half year old. Trevor. Okay, yeah, two and a half year old believe in crypto because they'll believe in anything. You know. They believe in Santa Claus, they believe in the tooth thing, they believe I actually got your nose, Trevor. This one kid bade me twenty bucks to give it back to him. I'm crushing it. I am crushing it. Okay. Now it's gotten so bad. If you ask a four year old about crypto, they'll be like no, no, no,

absolutely not. I'm not an idiot. Now, will you take me to the potty so I can make a doo doo? All right, Trevor, Why why did this happen? Okay? The founder one man, three names, Sam Bankman Freed. Alright, Look, the writing is on the wall, everybody. No, no, no, specifically this wall bank Man Fried. If that's not a warning, yeah you say, I'm an expert. If that's not a wording, I don't know what is. Would you eat in a restaurant where the chef was named Brian undercooked chicken? Okay?

You know he did try to save his company by going to his chief rival for a bailout. That's gotta be tough, right. That's like asking your wife's tennis coach for sex tips, you know, which reminds me, Jake, you gotta call me back, dude, I mean okay. Lastly, this is yet another reminder that we shouldn't automatically assume that nerdy,

quirky looking people are geniuses. Right the same way, you gotta be careful with these handsome guys on TV and their suits giving you these financial tips, and just because they're standing in front of a stock chart, people will trust them with their life savings. It's it's disgusting. Okay. By the way, I got a hot tip for you. Okay, if you're still in on crypto, I got your nose. And if you want to back, you gotta give me

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Well for more, we turned to Roywood Jr. In another episode of CPE Times. Welcome to CEP Time, the only show that's fuller culture. Today we'll be discussing black superheroes, iconic characters like Falcon war Machine Cyborg and the dude the Churches Chicken who puts onion rings in your bag of fries. That brother uses his powers for good. Black superheroes are not new. In fact, they've been squeezing into

spandex for decades. They didn't as far back as nineteen thirty six, when cartoonist J Jackson created Speed Jackson in the Chicago Defended newspaper. Speed Jackson was a former track star at Howard University who was an excellent fistfighter, which may not sound powerful compared to today's superher heroes with their laser eyes and sticky spider hands, but you have

to think about it. Like sports, today's best athletes are the pinnacle of human physicality, while the best athletes from the nineteen thirties were just the ones with the least polio times change, Jackson used his abilities to fight against fascists during the war and right the wrongs of a racist society, which is tough because superpowers don't help when you're fighting systemic racism. It doesn't matter if you have the strength of ten men if none of those men

can get a mortgage. In seven, Black superheroes made the leak from comic script to comic book with lion Man, a cat themed superhero who protected the world's largest uranium deposit in Africa's Gold Coast. Although a cat may not have been the best animal to defend the valuable resource. Sure cats are fast and agile, but you're getting there doing one of those twenty two hours that they're asleep,

and that uranium is yours. Lion Man was created by Oran Evans, who intended his comic to counter the racial distortion seen in other comics, although if he was trying to avoid racial stereotypes, I think it's fair to say the results were mixed. Look at lion Man right there, shirtless with the loincloth and an arrow through his butt, and somehow that is still the least problematic character on

the cover. Despite how it looks today, line Man was still groundbreaking as an all black, ridden and illustrated comic, even if now the cover looks like Tucker Carson tried to draw Africa. In the nineteen seventies, there was an explosion of black superheroes, characters like Black Lightning, Black Vulcan, and Black Goliath. Basically, if you were trying to create an African American hero, in the seventies, you put the word black in front of whatever was lying around you

in the apartment. This week, Black Schendelier battles it out against his arch nemesis, Black Candy Rapper. But the most popular of these superheroes was the newest member of the X Men, Storm, an African priestess who could control the weather to keep the rain from messing up her hair. Storm was a landmark character for both black and female representation in comics, and on top of that, she's definitely the best X Man. You know him right, Who's better

than Storm Rogue? What's her power? If I hold my boyfriend's hand too long, he'll die. Wolverine is indeed strong, except for when he has to go through t s. A professor X can read minds, but that means he also sees all the kinkis sex stuff. His enemies are thinking, good luck defeating mcneto when you know how much he loves feet. But the nineteen nineties, black superheroes were making it to the big screen. Robert Townsend directed The Media Man, a film about a mild menute teacher who was hit

by a radioactive media and got superpowers. And I must say it's bold to name yourself after the worst thing that's ever happened to you. My superhero name would be Sheila left him man with the power to eat one whole can of tuna over the sink. You were right, Sheila, I didn't do better. Marvel bet on Black with the Blade franchise. Wesley Snipes starred as a vampire hunter to great box office success, and Blade was a powerful Mama Gemma. He managed to be that cool while wearing the same

sunglasses as Guy Fieri. That's also why there's no vampires in Flavortown. Blade became a household name and the first major theatrical success for Marvel, setting off a wave of Marvel films to come in the next two decades. Because Wesley Snipes proved that no one's powerful enough to defeat Marvel heroes except for the I R s. Please don't punch me, Westley Snipes big fan. Now black super heroes everywhere,

even taking over the mantle of formerly white heroes. We have an African American Green Lantern, Iron Man, Captain America, and Spider Man. No Black Bruce Wayne, though that requires too much generational wealth. Well that's it for CP time. And remember before the what's that it's the CP signal. Someone needs to folks in man to come and tell him about black history. I'm on my way Florida to the see people. Bill. I need some gas money for

the cpeople. Bill, let's take letter. I can't afford. Thank you so much about Royal Rox State too, because when we come back, the legendary NAS will be joining me right here on the show. Welcome back to the day show. My guest tonight was a Grammy Award winning rap legend. If you had to talk about his new album King's Disease three, which is out now, please welcome the one and only Nas. Welcome back to the show. Yeah man,

welcome back. Congratulations on a new album. You know, I was I was thinking about this today when when we were talking about you coming on. I was like, you are a living hip hop legend, um m m. And I think the significance of that for me lies in in the meaning both ways. One, you are still in the game, you're still doing it, you're still contributing, you're still making great music. But also you are a living

hip hop legend. We take for grants and how many legends we've lost in hip hop we take for grants. How many people onto around who are part of that? Do you ever wake up in the morning and thinks yourself, damn, so many of the people I started within this game on't here anymore, and I'm still here getting to be a part of it all the time, all the time.

Somebody friend of mine today called me and told me, he said, you you realize how long and you've been around and how much you you survived the things you've been through. You know, we just lost a hip hop art hip hop artists, uh the other week man take off and you know, may you rest in peace. And you know, I lost so many friends even before I got into music. I didn't think I would get into music and then still see it going on. You know, yeah,

you've done that. You've done more than just survive it. You've succeeded in it. You've thrived in it. And I think what I love about this album is how it feels like you almost reminiscing whilst also writing a piece of the future. You know, you've you've always been childs to everyone will say, one of the greatest lyricists that's ever lived. But the stories that you tell, you know, the way you weave. I mean, for instance, everyone was in hip hop was familiar with like your beef with

jay Z right what it was? And then I loved having here you you talk about that beef, what it was, how it disappeared, but how You'll still text him saying, you know this isn't over well. When I released the track list for the album the other day, he released a picture with all his Grammys. Yeah, shout out to him and a shout out to hit Boy, who produced this album, the entire album. He produced the other two albums and also the album Magic We We slipped in

four albums in two years. And the reason Yeah, says mean things and and the reason I think it happened is because we started the first one when the pandemic hit. So at first I was scared to come outside, and then he hit Boy was in the studio like, come on, man, it's like a month. You know, you didn't leave your house, and he got me to come outside and had nothing

else to do. We finished the first one really quick, and we said, you know, we should do this again, and here we are with the third one on my label, Massive Hill. I would love to know, Yeah, I'd love to know that when you look at hip hop as a whole, you know you you you were there when it was only seen as gangster rap. You were there when it was completely ostracized from society. Now it's at the super Bowl. Now it is, you know, at a hockey game. I remember that's when I was like, Wow, okay,

hip hop has done you know, not for real. I'd love to know, you know, where you would like to see the game progressing to now that it's you know, it's not in the exact same place it was before. I think it evolved and I think people can realize that you don't have to be scared of it. It's it's we learned from my mistakes and then um, we can grow with it. We don't have to stay doing one thing. The ones who stay doing one thing, unfortunately

they fall off. Um, And we have to understand that like hip hop is now, it's going on fifty years, and we've been behind this whole. Fifty years will be next year. Hip hop has been alive. So we've been behind trying to curate this museum that's coming up in the Bronx right now, and and and and the mayor has even gotten involved that's Mayor Adams and you know, and I noticed, yeah, I noticed one thing that the culture.

It's like artists don't think they can go past one way or we have to be all in one like area trying to fight for crumbs. And it's like hip hop's a multi sound genre. So it's like in rock, you don't have you don't compare kiss to the Rolling Stones, you know, but in hip hop, for some reason, we're fighting it for the same thing. And you know, uh, you feel like you have to be the number one guy all the time. So hip hop is multi sound genre.

You can have multiple things going on at once, doesn't matter how if you're twenty years old or forty years old or whatever. It's a beautiful culture and I love all of it. So I think that we should all as writers, get out of your comfort zone and spread your wings. And yeah, I really like that. Before I let you go, I want to I want to talk

about that idea of being more. You know, we know you for the music, We know you for being in the restaurant business and doing extremely well being successful with that. We also know you, you know, getting it's for normal people love it and you know, I remember eating and someone was like, you know, Nas owns this chicken. I was like this chicken that I'm holding right now. It was it was a weird way that someone said it

to me. But but but you you're also getting involved in a different type of storytelling, which is which is in film? You know, I know that you you directed a documentary you know that talks about you know, the supreme world of like it was this underworld in Queens. And I know you also involved in a really fascinating story about the civil rights icons everybody, Malcolm at Smart, Luther, King Jor, etcetera. What is it about that world that

entices you? Why? Why are you stepping into documentaries, filmmaking, et cetera and doing well at it. I'm a movie buff. I love films, and yeah, I love films. I love them, love them long. I was Halloween. I was going on Friday thirteenth crazy. I was going on Halloween crazy. I was. I went to see Halloween Ends and all of that. There's a whole what's your favorite film? What is like the movie that you can never get enough of? You watch it over and over and over. Beach Street, the

old school hip hop film. Okay, that's my favorite Dan, the Gums, their godfathers and all of that stuff. You know. Godfather is a family movie, you know, beautiful thing, you know. Um, But yeah, I love films. I love Steven Spielberg. I rapped about him on one of my first raps, and I always wanted to get into it. So the Supreme Team was one about it. Underworld, Um organization and Queen's long Ago were here about the Gotties and all of those John Gotti's and stuff. But we ever really hear

about this. So I like to uncover things, the good,

the bad, ugly in in America. And his story was some innocent people and some people are guilty, some are innocent probably, but um the new one, The Invaders that just came out, you can catch it on Apple, Amazon Prime is about this organization of musicians, intellectuals, Vietnam vets who got together who were trying to uh strike against a garbage truck company where someone was killed in his in his faulty truck and there was no pensions of money.

Was bad And Martin Luther King came down there and uh he stood with the Memphis people, the people that were striking, and he found out who the invaders were and they wanted to protect the march because the first March from bad. Of course we know that end, how Martin Lucy King, Um, uh, you know what happens. But there's another look into that story through the eyes of the invaders and that most of them are still alive. And it's really good picture and in nineteen sixty seven,

and um, it's amazing. So there's so many stories to uncover all over the world, and here's my world. I want to talk about it. Another one beside Sweet Chick, I gotta tag is coat Michelen Star Restaurant coat, You gotta you gotta go, You gotta go. Yeah, I'm it's not me, but I'm a part of it. Wow. Yeah, man, many talents. They appreciate your co reglations. Again, thank you

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