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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about their 4th of July plans?
She probably says my black friend. Sure. She definitely doesn't say that. If you're the black friend. If you're the black friend, that's insane, first of all. By white girl standards. Look at Greer. He's definitely the black friend. Yeah. But like if Greer's like my black friend and you pull up and it's like a real black guy there, he's like, yo, come on. That's the thing.
There would be no other black guy there. That's sick. What do you say to my Greer? She's white. No, but like deeper than that. What are you saying about her? Oh, I'm the black friend. I know my role. You're the representation? Yeah. I'm the quota. Okay. White women! Gotta love it. What are your plans for 4th of July? I'm gonna go to Montreal for the Jazz Fest.
My mom been wanting to go up for some years. Un-American. Yeah, so I think I'm gonna go to Montreal for the Jazz Fest. It's like two or three days. What are you, part of the Confederate Army? No, I'm just, you know, Montreal is beautiful, man. Why would you leave America on America's birthday? Because as I just asked around the room, y'all have zero fucking plans. Y'all are not doing anything.
Getting drunk and doing nothing is pretty damn American. That's a regular fucking day in America. I don't know. I could go like bald eagle watching or something. True. Somewhere. Where are you going to go bald eagle watching? New Jersey. Just don't cut your hair. They attack bald heads. Is that true? Yeah. They're not bald either, which is kind of weird. Yeah. They're kind of bald.
How did the eagle end up being like our mascot? I don't know. But you know, the sound that you're used to is not actually the sound of a bald eagle. Because they swoop down and kill people and take shit that isn't theirs. What is the sound of a bald eagle? I don't even know. It's like some bullshit. It's like really whack. Yeah. It sounds more birdy than masculine.
Have you guys ever seen one before? No. I saw a bald eagle before. Where? In Canada?
Yeah.
No, it was upstate somewhere. See, look, bald men beware. An eagle owl has been attacking your kind. Okay. It's kind of like orcas and boats. All right, well, I'll wear a hat, I guess. I'll dress like Jewels and go into the forest. But if you had a bald head, you know that changes your entire, like, the way people speak to you. Okay, I'm on board so far. Why and how? And what are they saying?
White power? I don't know. I would definitely look way more racist. That one shirt you have with the American flag, the FDNY. The post 9-11 flag. If you wore that shirt with the baldy. With your Dusty's pair of New Balances. Big Aryan vibes. When you go to prison, you have to pick a side. That's a fact. What side would you pick? I just don't know if the Crips would have me. I might...
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the ongoing writers' strike?
that they had to get an actress as good, as great as Zendaya. They had to. That's how good that show is. Like, they couldn't get an actress that was like... You know, she's good. They had to get a great actress.
And it's one of those shows that has retroactively launched everyone else's. Like, Sidney Sweeney took off because of Euphoria.
That, Jacob Ellaroy, the football guy, took off from that show. Like, there's been a lot of careers made from that show. I mean, I think it's overly exaggerated in a lot of places. In the show, but at least they do it in a good way. How they exaggerated shit in Idol is fucking awful. Like, in Euphoria, when the son and dad were fucking the same girl, but they were gay, but both gay.
Like, that was very over the top, but at least it played well in the storyline. With the kid and the dad being a fucking dirtbag. It was over the top, but it played well. Everything in the show is over the top and awful. Like, everything is just bad. Yeah. Nah, but when The Weeknd ate her out on Sunset, I felt that. You able to be on Sunset before? No. Oh. It's such a bad time.
Like, actually on the street or a hotel on Sunset? Oh, well, in that case. All right. Yeah. Am I The Weeknd? No. I know you want to be. All coke aside, Jonathan Mason. Probably in your other friend group, they call you Abel. All coke aside is funny. Anyways, with the shitty writing strike, it shows in this, and now actors are about to go on strike.
Are we fucked as far as entertainment goes outside of music? I'm not going to say fucked, but I do think that in some way, I think this is a good thing. I think that this gives a lot more room for new creatives to kind of like get out there and do their thing. Okay. Because these are like, you know, this strike is for like the big A-listers.
So if you're like an up and coming writer, producer, actor, I think that this is space for you now to put out some good work. Well, I think anyone that joins SAG is part of the... part of the strike in general. Yeah. It's the A-listers leading it just to show we're not fucking around because Jennifer Lawrence is involved. But even writers that aren't really big... Meryl Streep is involved.
They're on strike as well, even the younger up-and-coming writers, just because they are part of that community. This, I think, is going to get weird. And I think we'll see it hit at the top of 2024 because they would be shooting everything now. Yeah. I think it's going to take... Over a year. Winter of 2024 is when I think we'll start to get more shows, movies, TV series. At the earliest.
Isn't the writer's strike supposed to be over in like October? September, October? I'm not sure about that, but if the actors are about to go on strike and the writers come back...
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Chapter 4: Is Drake scared of Lil Uzi's success?
Might be scared of Uzi. You think Drake is scared of Uzi? Could be. What did Uzi sell on his last project, his last actual album? Uzi moves records. He does. So does Drake. Of course, but we saw with Honestly Nevermind. Stop. Don't count that.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of Uzi's album release?
Why not? Because that was just a, he put that out. It was no single, no song or nothing. If there's no singles with this one. Yeah, we don't even know what it sounds like. And it was also a dance album. It did 204 first week. What's it called?
The Drake one.
Honestly, never mind. That one. Dang. And then Uzi was probably what? Like three? 288. 288? And that was when Uzi was Uzi. And that was Uzi Prime. That was peak Uzi. Uzi has one of the biggest singles out, period, right now. Yeah. His cultural relevance is not that. Eternal Atake album. He just got a phone thrown in his face at BET Awards. It's been the greatest rollout ever.
Eternal Atake was so much more hyped. Yeah. Let me help you out. I was at Atlantic when Eternal Take was coming out. It was huge.
Chapter 6: How do friendships affect dating dynamics?
I still think the buzz around Uzi is pretty much the same, especially with the single he has. I don't think it'll do. I think this album will be good. I'm not dissing the album at all, but I think it won't perform as well. Well, I don't think it'll perform as well just based off numbers are different from the last time he dropped music and how they fucking calculate it.
Has he come up with another single, Uzi?
I can see Drake not wanting... Smoke with Uzi, who's had a rollout and a big single, and Drake has no rollout and is just going to drop an album. There is a risk there. I know it's Drake, but there is still a slight risk.
Chapter 7: What advice is given about navigating romantic interests?
Out of all the artists that there is, Uzi wouldn't be high on the list. Of course, you'd think Beyonce, Rihanna, Travis, you could even throw in there to some degree. But Uzi might make the bottom of that list of artists... that even the A-listers would chill to not release on the same time? I got to fight you on that one, bro. I don't think Drake is concerned with Uzi dropping at all.
I don't think Drake is concerned with anybody dropping, honestly. I don't think that's a thought of his. I think other people, if they hear Drake, if they hear the rumblings of Drake is putting an album out, I think they move. Oh, of course. He's not moving. Not for Uzi or anybody. Move for Thug. But that was more out of respect. That was out of respect. That was a favor for a friend.
And even like him shooting the video, I felt was like a super favor. He had to guarantee getting the key to Memphis to go shoot that video. All right. Knock out two birds with one stone now. Memphis has to give me the key to shoot this shit. Or I have to go to Memphis to get the key. Send the cameras over there. Yeah, I just don't.
I don't think that Drake is concerned about any artists dropping the same day he drops. Fine, let's say he doesn't get concerned. Do you still think he drops this weekend? No. Why not? Um, Uzi. No, maybe the music is something he's waiting for something musically. I just think that that may be it. But you don't think he'd want a clear path regardless with an artist like Uzi?
That's his 4th of July weekend. Um, I think that he would. Yeah. And in the best scenario, I don't think he would want to drop the same day as Uzi, not in fear of not debuting, not debuting at number one. But I just think that he feels like it might be like, damn, I kind of... I think Drake would look at it like, damn, I stepped on Uzi's release. Possibly.
I don't think he would look at it like, damn, I might not get the number one album. Anytime Drake drops, he's going to have the number one album. Oh, that's the truth. That's why I said in the beginning, that's what's happening. But it's not fun to say that. I'd rather just say he's scared of Uzi. There's a rumored unreleased record with Drake and Uzi that I believe is an Uzi record.
So there could be that too. If that's on the album, it's not... beneficial for Drake to put out an album even though he's got a feature on another big album. I think that's a play too. And the record's great. If he doesn't drop tonight, if Drake doesn't drop that album tonight, it's strictly because the music wasn't ready yet. That's all. It's not because Uzi is dropping. That's an afterthought.
Well, then he'd have to re-record because he was saying, and even though it all ended up being a troll with the book, he said he recorded an album to go out with the book and the book came out last week. He also said he pushed because of Thugger, so the music has to be done. That's who should be the most scared outside of his unfortunate situation, is that Uzi is dropping.
Those second week numbers on Thug is going to be... Well, the first week numbers, he was projected to do 110, and that dropped to 87.
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