Episode 958 | "Quarterly Cheating Updates"

**Joe Budden** (0:00)
The thoughts, views and opinions expressed by this podcast, as well as its hosts, are for entertainment purposes only. I repeat, it is not serious. It is not real. No one is exposing, revealing, indicting, or telling you anything about themselves.
Also, we do not encourage you to try this at home. We are trained professionals. Do not have your best interests at heart, or our own.
Enjoy the show.

**Joe Budden** (0:29)
Mic check, mic, mic, mic, mic, mic, the levels, the levels, the levels, the levels is good. The levels are good. Last looks, last looks. Last looks, audience, go out there and make your morning coffee, roll up. Some of you day drinkers, go ahead. It's noon somewhere. Go ahead and get you a Bex or a Corona or something. A mimosa. What else niggas do in the morning? A little espresso.
Get you a little espresso. Hey, get you a mocktail. If you're pregnant out there, you're listening, get you a little mocktail.

**Imani Cezanne** (0:59)
Shirley Temple.

**Joe Budden** (1:00)
Yeah. Get you a little something. Get right. If you got us on the big screen, what's popping? What's popping? Let me put this down so you can see all my beauty. If you got me on a big screen with the LEDs, if you are watching this from a nice beautiful setting, environment, and all that. Look at us. We beautiful. Look at us. Drawing our fucking best to come sit here and talk to you all today. Boy, do we have some takes. Boy, do we have some takes for you all today.
The last few days, women have been fucking just talking, giving you their opinion on things. Anytime there's a cheater topic that comes out, we got to sit home and read some of this bullshit. But thankfully, we're here to set it straight for you all today.
Don't touch that Dow.

**Joe Budden** (1:47)
Great pod coming up right here.

**Joe Budden** (1:48)
What's up, y'all?

**Joe Budden** (1:49)
What's up, man? What's up, y'all good?

**Parks Vallely** (1:50)
Feeling good, man.

**Joe Budden** (1:52)
Come on, man. Room full of black faithful men in parks.

**Parks Vallely** (1:56)
Room full of black faithful men in parks.

**Joe Budden** (1:58)
What you down with us? Well, you don't count, Come on, you know. You know you slinging it.
You know my guy.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:05)
My boy get that itch.

**Joe Budden** (2:08)
My boy get that itch.

**Parks Vallely** (2:09)
Got to scratch it.

**Officially Ice** (2:10)
Salute to everybody this morning.

**SPEAKER_9** (2:12)
Salute, salute, salute.

**Flip** (2:14)
You just talking some shit earlier?

**Parks Vallely** (2:16)
Yes.

**Ish** (2:16)
Yeah.

**Parks Vallely** (2:18)
That's my man.

**Flip** (2:19)
That's my man.

**Ish** (2:20)
I'm not ashamed of that.

**Flip** (2:21)
Don't talk to me, boy.

**Officially Ice** (2:23)
No, you stay over there, my.

**Flip** (2:25)
Yo, look. He ain't with you today.

**SPEAKER_11** (2:27)
I'm not with you today.

**Flip** (2:29)
Yo, listen.
Yeah, Come on. What's up? Your man party. You ready? You ready? I'm going to live right through you, boy.

**Imani Cezanne** (2:39)
You got your suit?

**Flip** (2:40)
No, I'm working on it. I'm going to live right here. Don't ask me no questions about me.

**Officially Ice** (2:45)
That's okay. That's so much.

**Flip** (2:48)
I'm ready to see you.

**Imani Cezanne** (2:49)
It's a good season. Virgo season, man.

**Officially Ice** (2:52)
It's the start. It's the start.

**Flip** (2:54)
It's the start.

**Officially Ice** (2:55)
Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo.

**Joe Budden** (2:57)
Damn Virgo.

**Flip** (2:58)
You excited about your dinner?

**Joe Budden** (2:59)
Not yet. Not yet.

**Parks Vallely** (3:03)
You running out of time to be excited.

**Flip** (3:05)
Yeah. You got to...

**Imani Cezanne** (3:06)
No, the excitement start when you walk in.

**Flip** (3:08)
No, it don't. Yeah.

**Joe Budden** (3:10)
Hell no.

**Imani Cezanne** (3:11)
Or when you put your shit on. At least when you start putting your shit on.

**Parks Vallely** (3:13)
Better question. Are you stressed about your...

**Joe Budden** (3:15)
I don't get excited no more.

**Parks Vallely** (3:16)
Are you stressed?

**Joe Budden** (3:17)
Like, Leo Cohen killed the feeling of excitement in me.

**Ish** (3:21)
Def Jam.

**Parks Vallely** (3:22)
I tell you.

**Joe Budden** (3:23)
For real, honestly, when you're young in the game and they just making promises and none of them is hitting, it's like...

**SPEAKER_7** (3:29)
Joseph, the budget is closed.

**Ish** (3:31)
You don't get excited.

**Parks Vallely** (3:32)
But you throwing your own birthday dinner, man.

**Joe Budden** (3:35)
And I invited some of the record industry responsible for my trauma.
I mean, you got to play sick, twisted games. Give me now. Am I stressed? I'm not stressed yet. Okay, that's good.