Episode 944 | "They Are Amongst Us"

**Joe Budden** (0:00)
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**Joe Budden** (0:28)
Yo, this technology is getting out of hand, man. Nah, we don't need a smart tea maker. Electric kettle, man. Boil the fucking water on the stove, man, and dip the bag in there. Why we need to get the weather on the tea maker?
Electric kettle, man. I don't need Bluetooth to make tea.

**Parks** (0:44)
At all.

**Joe Budden** (0:45)
Fancy ass tea maker.

**Parks** (0:47)
Everything don't need to be smart.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (0:49)
Everything don't need to be smart.

**Joe Budden** (0:51)
This is the absolute truth.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (0:51)
My fridge and my toilet. That's all I need.

**Joe Budden** (0:54)
You don't need a smart fridge either, yo. That's just elitist bullshit. I mean, you kind of do. Why?

**Marc Lamont Hill** (0:59)
Shit, because you just said you ain't got one.

**Joe Budden** (1:01)
It helps. Well, I don't have one because I don't need one.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (1:04)
You always think that to you. You didn't think you needed a smart toilet. Now you can't live without it.

**Joe Budden** (1:07)
I don't need a smart toilet. Actually, I bought one too many.

**Ice** (1:10)
Oh, no. No, he learned.

**Freeze** (1:12)
I don't need no smart toilet at all.

**Joe Budden** (1:15)
Hey, Marc, remember you said your power went out?

**Ice** (1:16)
Yeah.

**Joe Budden** (1:17)
That means your toilet don't work.

**Parks** (1:19)
That sucks.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (1:21)
Oh, you can't manually?

**Joe Budden** (1:22)
You can't manually do shit but piss on the floor.
And my bowel movement is faster than the smart technology can lift the thing. Man, I'm already peeing everywhere. I ain't got time for this shit.

**Joe Budden** (1:35)
But it's beautiful opening up while I'm peeing everywhere.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (1:37)
Oh, it's lovely. It's my wife's really. I just sneak and use it when she's not around.

**Joe Budden** (1:42)
What do we really need smart?

**Parks** (1:43)
Phones.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (1:44)
Phone for sure.

**Parks** (1:45)
That's it.

**Joe Budden** (1:46)
And even that's debatable.

**Parks** (1:48)
Honestly, I kind of wish that they made like an Apple phone that was dumb.

**Joe Budden** (1:51)
Yeah, we don't need the phones like that.

**Freeze** (1:53)
Yes, we do.

**Ice** (1:54)
Audience, listen, Slow News Day.

**Parks** (1:56)
Word.

**Joe Budden** (1:57)
Grab your tin foil.
Oh yeah, we hear the deck. Slow News Day, Isha's still on vacation, unbeknownst to me.

**Freeze** (2:06)
I had no idea.

**Joe Budden** (2:07)
I'm ready to work with whoever the is going to work.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:09)
You still look sad, by the way.

**Joe Budden** (2:10)
Who?

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:11)
This morning when I said, Yo, Isha isn't coming in again, I can start to drop in your face again.

**Parks** (2:15)
Wait, you told him that Ish wasn't coming?

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:16)
Yeah, he said pay attention.

**Joe Budden** (2:18)
You don't know him.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:19)
You know he don't pay attention.

**Joe Budden** (2:20)
Ish told me he was going on vacation. Stupid me think that that mean you're going to miss a pod. But you entitled podcasters, for y'all that means-

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:28)
Most of all, these workers.

**Joe Budden** (2:29)
For y'all that means miss a few pods, which is like longer than a week.

**Joe Budden** (2:34)
My vacations are normally restricted to places that are two and three hours away, so I can make it back here just in case of news breaks, in case the people need me. You guys, when y'all go, y'all go. But I mean, I'm not comparing.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:49)
Yeah, I was about to say, because when the funds come in from the subscriptions-

**Joe Budden** (2:52)
I'm not comparing. I'm not comparing. So it should be back. Grab your tin foil. We're going to have to flip.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:58)
Also, you lied to us, Joe.
This is the thing, because you talk about us, but when I negotiate, I'm not getting into contract stuff, but when I first started working here, I met with you personally, then I met with Ian, and y'all both told me the same thing. The workday starts early, we get in and out, first episode will be done by two o'clock, you'll be home by, we'll be out of here by five or six o'clock, so it's no problem at all. I was like, were?