The Brilliant Idiots

Street Fighter hits theaters October 16, and Andrew Schulz is counting down to his first major blockbuster, with Charlamagne handing listeners homework to go see it. They also check the competition, argue whether box office records still mean what they used to, and look into whether the promo team photoshopped Andrew’s nose. Then comes the big debate: after Kat’s dad takes a shot at Jimmy Butler, does a championship ring beat a résumé? Chris Morrow brings Dirk, Barkley, and Butler dragging two teams to the Finals, and it spills into Caitlin Clark and the WNBA. Plus LeBron’s prediction-market deal, the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger, and the Green Lantern finale.
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Glasses Malone and Problem, both part of FX's The Drop, sit down with Charlamagne tha God and Andrew Schulz to talk about the Snowfall spin-off, The Drop. Also, Warren G's place in rap history, NBC's alleged Diddy prison footage, Michael Jackson's dance influences, and the Savannah James flight debate.

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Charlamagne and Andrew dig into the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran-Robert Kraft mess, unpacking what "free Palestine" really means, why Sheeran's taking the heat while the stadium owners who pressured him skate, and whether artists have any obligation to push back on institutions that police speech. That leads into a wider gut-check on Trump-era press access and what it says that even lifelong conservatives are getting twitchy about their freedoms, with Charlamagne's "vanilla ISIS" theory of who actually revolts when rights get squeezed. Chris jumps into the debate over public vs. private school, teacher pay, and Nikole Hannah-Jones' gut-punch essay on failing her own daughter, plus a heated legacy-admissions and DEI showdown that gets personal fast.

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Charlamagne and Andrew Schulz dig into the AI researcher who quit Anthropic warning that the industry is racing toward superintelligence with no plan to stop it, and whether "10% chance of extinction" should actually change anything about how these companies operate. From there it's a wild ride: a heated debate over who gets to use the N-word and why the argument itself might be outdated, and a full teardown of Kanye's cultural legacy versus 50 Cent and Jay-Z in the history of New York hip hop. Plus: sending your kid off to college, astrology arguments, and way too much bathroom talk.

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Charlamagne and Andrew dig into Keefe D's conviction for orchestrating Tupac's murder, thirty years, a memoir, and a mountain of podcast interviews later, ego finally caught up with him, before turning to John Morgan's controversial "camera up your ass" return-to-work policy and whether employers can demand office-hours accountability while texting employees at midnight. The conversation shifts to Dolly Parton's legacy following her death, with Jaylen Brown's community-investment comments thrown into the mix. They close out breaking down HBO's "Lanterns," the show's handling of race and fear, and a wild Times Square stabbing that turned into a real-time NYPD standoff.

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The Black Family Who Built America - Cheryl McKissack Daniel -⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠

Uncommon Favor - Dawn Staley - ⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠

Get Honest or Die Lying Why Small Talk Sucks- By Charlamagne Tha God - ⁠⁠Order Link⁠⁠

Check out Andrew Schulz - ⁠⁠www.theandrewschulz.com⁠⁠

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