Laugh with Me

JO & Lavetti Get Into The Mud

43 min
Feb 17, 20262 months ago
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Summary

Jeremy Oda and comedian Lavetti Vegas discuss a basketball challenge loss, upcoming comedy shows, and a public dispute with local entertainer Ben Webb over an OEAA Awards nomination. The episode covers comedy competitions, social media drama, and Lavetti's arcade gaming content project.

Insights
  • Social media engagement farming through controversial posts can backfire and create unintended conflicts within local creative communities
  • Clarifying definitions and rules upfront in competitive challenges prevents disputes and ensures fair outcomes
  • Local entertainment award nominations can become sources of tension when definitions of 'ensemble' differ between creators
  • Diversifying competitive challenges (basketball to bowling/pool) acknowledges different skill sets and keeps content fresh
  • Direct communication and mediation are more effective than public callouts for resolving creative community disputes
Trends
Local comedy scenes leveraging social media for engagement and audience buildingPodcast creators competing in physical skill challenges as content differentiationNostalgia-driven arcade gaming content gaining traction on social platformsSketch comedy integration within podcast formats as ensemble content strategyCommunity award recognition becoming catalyst for creative professional tensionsComedians using multiple revenue streams (gambling, competitions, live shows) for income diversificationRetro gaming content performing well with minimal production (no music, no voiceover)Social media gatekeeping behavior by established creators toward emerging talent
Topics
Comedy Ensemble Definition and Awards EligibilityBasketball Three-Point Contest CompetitionSocial Media Engagement and Farming TacticsLocal Entertainment Awards (OEAA)Sketch Comedy in Podcast FormatBowling and Pool Competition ChallengesArcade Gaming Content CreationComedy Community Dynamics and ConflictsLive Comedy Show PromotionNostalgia Gaming Content StrategyTwitch Integration for Gaming ContentNew Edition and Bobby Brown Concert ExperienceKansas City Gambling ExperiencesComedy Mafia Group HistoryOmaha Entertainment Scene
Companies
iHeartRadio
Podcast distribution platform mentioned multiple times as host for various iHeart podcasts in ad reads
Apple Podcasts
Podcast distribution platform mentioned in multiple ad reads as alternative listening platform
ABC
Television network mentioned in context of The Bachelor reality show in sponsored podcast ad
Barnado
Venue in West Omaha hosting comedy show on February 19th with Gary Curtis and Lavetti Vegas
People
Lavetti Vegas
Comedian and 2024 Laugh With Me Guest of the Year; main guest discussing basketball challenge and upcoming shows
Jeremy Oda
Host of Laugh With Me podcast; engaged in dispute with Ben Webb over OEAA Awards nomination
Ben Webb
Local entertainer and comedian who criticized Laugh With Me's OEAA nomination definition on social media
Gary Curtis
Omaha comedian who challenged Lavetti Vegas to basketball three-point contest and won $50
Bobby Brown
New Edition member whose concert performance and sobriety status discussed during episode
Toni Braxton
Performer at New Edition concert attended by Lavetti Vegas; praised for vocal performance
Keyonis Berry
Early supporter of Lavetti Vegas in Omaha comedy scene; mentioned as influential figure
Jason Regan
Omaha comedian mentioned as early supporter in local comedy community
Quotes
"The only thing you've done on purpose was get into the mud with me and it is dirty. And I am not planning on showering."
Jeremy OdaMid-episode
"You got to diversify, man. Diversify, man."
Lavetti VegasBasketball challenge discussion
"That's the definition of a gatekeeper."
Jeremy OdaBen Webb discussion
"I'm just happy. I bring this up, and you completely agree with me, and you have my back. I think that's so cool."
Jeremy OdaConflict resolution discussion
"That's my prerogative."
Jeremy OdaBobby Brown reference
Full Transcript
This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby, we unpack the story of an unimaginable tragedy that gripped the UK in 2023. But what if we didn't get the whole story? I've just been made to fit. The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapsed. What if the truth was disguised by a story we chose to believe? Oh my God, I think she might be innocent. Listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. In 2018, the FBI took down a ring of spies working for China's Ministry of State Security, one of the most mysterious intelligence agencies in the world. The Sixth Bureau podcast is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets. Listen to The Sixth Bureau on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it, all I would. That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. Listen to Love Trapped on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I'm joined by Luke Combs, award-winning country music artist and one of the most authentic voices in music today. The guy that says he's always going to be there and that will do anything to be there is the only guy that's not there. No matter what, I'm going to prioritize my wife and my children. I dread the conversation with my son. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Live With Me, a podcast with Jeremy Oda. Bye, y'all. J-O, and we have return. First time in studio. First time in 2026. And it's a good one, ladies and gentlemen. We have stayed up comedian, actor, writer, producer, father, not so much a basketball player. We have Lovetti Vegas, the 2024 Laugh With Me Guest of the Year retards. But before we get to that, I got to give a little bit of a disclaimer in this episode. What do you, LeVette, he asked me to. He just said, hey, me, you might want to put a little disclaimer at the top and just let him know that all of your opinions and statements in this episode are just yours and not ours. And to that, I just want to say that's just frankly not true. We are in this together. It's LeVette Vegas returning on a very fun, laugh with me. He's always like that. I'm telling you, he's phony as fuck. That's why I'm cool with him. I'll shake his hand. We'll have a little conversation, but we're not as close as we used to be. You got to start getting, you got that stacks of cash. You're flashing around. You're cool with everybody. Dude, you're cool with everybody. That cash is in his dwindle. Valentine's Day, I mean, you think, how much of that money went to Valentine's Day? About $300. Damn Yeah 200 Between 200 and 300 About 200 and 300 How come when It doesn't matter What you post It gets backlash Because people don't like me I can say My grandma died These motherfuckers Be like You know Be like Damn Motherfuckers Motherfuckers Don't like me It's gonna get backlash It's That's why I like I'm doing them comedy posts still But I think people thing i'm doing it for me i know what the epk is yeah it's a it's a conversation piece people don't understand this is a con it's a converse i'm not that's why you don't really see like like i don't i'll let live that's why you don't see me you see me respond until the next day i do it every time i let everybody talk this i don't say nothing to the next day i can always tell when it's a real it's a real post because if i post something if i get an immediate like comment back from you, I know it's real. And if it's the next day, you're just trying to farm engagement. Even when you ask me, you know it's crazy and I was going to leave it until the next day. Just recently, you asked me about those lost picks. I didn't even know about those picks. I was like, where are these picks coming from? Oh, and I was just doing a joke. Can they remain lost? Yeah. So she had sent it. That's why I was like, oh yeah, no, they got lost because somebody sent these to me. It's funny, California, which wasn't really all that. We've recorded? Yeah. Oh, okay. Hold on. I don't want to sit here. The festival was great. That festival was off the fucking chain. But no, I didn't take video or picture of that festival. I did get asked to come back, but California was a lot, man. A lot of money. A lot of shit had to happen for California to happen. And that's where the stacks of cash came from? No, stacks of cash came Kansas City. I don't think you've ever not walked away from Kansas City ahead. Have you? It seems like recently you've been hitting... Are you in the tables? Are you playing the slots? Well, it just depends on ahead. So, Kansas City, this past time, yeah, ahead. Time before that, yeah, but it wasn't really much and the time before that, I left ahead but uh no it was with my dad i didn't leave a head oh okay we ended up getting hit this one i got hit a little bit went to the concert went home and i was like man you know what i'm gonna go back to the tables oh that's right you saw boys the men no i saw no edition boys the men it's only breakfast you know it's funny i would have i would have 100 gone to see boys the men i think they're badass and then new edition's good i mean i just i wouldn't have gone to see New Edition. Nah, see, see, that's when you got fucked up. First off, I'm a big New Edition fan. Oh, so I wanted to go see New Edition. Boy, the man could've stayed home. Okay. I'm gonna tell you that right now, especially how they were singing and them motherfuckers. I could've sounded better than them motherfuckers. Oh, no, they know. They tried, but New Edition still sounded like New Edition. Okay. They sounded good. Bobby, Bobby gonna be Bobby. Toni Brackson actually sounded, she was pretty good. I was like, man, she got this song. Oh, I forgot this song. Oh, I forgot. I was like, damn. Wait, hold on. When you say Bobby, who are you talking about? Bobby Brown. Bobby Brown. Bobby Brown was there? He's part of New Edition. He is? Please tell me you're joking. My prerogative? Did he? Did he? I'm joking right now. What? Please tell me. We were going for real. No, you got to be joking. We were going for real. You got to be joking right now. Bobby Brown. No shit. You didn't know Bobby Brown was part of New Edition? No. They kicked him out. He did a solo thing and then he came back to the group. All right. So did he do my prerogative? He did all the hits. My prerogative. All right. Rody. Okay. Every little step I take. All right. I'm with you. Don't be cruel. I'm with you now. I'm with you now. Side by side. I should have gone. White and 42. Yeah. That's legit. Damn. You almost sounded better than a white girl who said, who's new addition? I hung up on her. No wonder, though, that they were the headliner over Boyz II Men then. They should have been a headliner. Still, even if it wasn't Bobby there. Oh, no. Bobby's a star. Bobby's a star. See? But he's a star, yeah. But you didn't know Bobby Brown was part of New Edition. Is Bobby sober now? He's sober now. No, he's sober now. Is he? But that clip that's going viral right now, that was in Kansas City. The one that when he says he's dancing, he's like, y'all want to see me dance? And I'm like, yeah. And he said, Google me. And he just walks off the stage. Yeah. I've seen that. Okay. That was in Kansas City. It was his birthday So he probably was irritated I don't know I think you're trolling me You gotta be fucking trolling me right now There's no way You are serious right now There's no way I'm about to walk away You gotta be trolling me It's taken me a long time To get you You've been on the show many many times To get you in person has been a struggle It's been a struggle but fucking rewind. You better be trolling me, man, because I'm on the posters. You better be trolling me. I cannot believe this is real. You're killing me. You're killing me, man. You're killing me right now. You're killing me. When I saw you flashing the cash, I was thinking, have you seen that meme with Floyd Mayweather and he's at the conference table with all the cash? Oh, man, I wish. And I'm like, man, LeVetian Floyd. I did. I was just definitely troller. It was only like $1,400, close to $1,400. 1350 or something like that, but I was definitely trouble. I told him I was like give me all fives. Oh, yeah I just give me give me give me three hundreds and give me all five the first pick when you're like guess how much this is And I'm looking I'm like there's some different colors in there. I know that's Different colors. Yeah, I definitely did it to troll Well, I was a bitch was in the inbox when they seen that Hey, how you doing bitch? They were the fuck you a You ain't even getting McDonald's out of me man. That's awesome. I definitely show that's why I'm like man post just post what you really want to get you know leave it alone but it was definitely i like the people that that that was sort of trying to play me though hold on i was like oh that's 400 i was like come on man stop yeah get out of here you know this damn damn ain't more than dollars you know what i mean but you you keep going you know people people everybody's a comedian anymore they are so speaking speaking of the money i mean you lost 50 bucks in this uh basketball challenge We're talking about this basketball challenge because two things. One, I challenged you. You challenged me after Gary challenged me. And I know for a fact I didn't get the challenge because I'm white. And you didn't want to lose to a white guy. You know, the last black comic that lost to a white guy in the basketball tournament was Rashad versus Lucas Snyder. And he lost during Black History Month last year. And I was like, man, the fuck out of here. Hey, speaking of that, my apologies. I didn't wish you happy National Black History Month. Hey, man. We've been sitting here talking for a good hour now, and I haven't even said it once. We damn near mid through February, man. You know, shame on me. Black History Month, that's a little shaky, man. I love it, but people always use the common people. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King. get a little deeper than that Bobby Brown the real history Bobby Brown every little step I take you will be there my prerogative hits my playlist at least a playlist once a year hits my playlist that's my least favorite Bobby Brown song every little step I take don't be cruel and running kills my prerogative My prerogative. My prerogative was just because he was on a solo tip and, yeah, he was talking about you do what he want to do and shit. But give me every little step I take way before Give me Don Be Cruel Don Be Cruel is a classic But you talking musically like you like that over my prerogative I like the attitude of my prerogative Yeah, and everybody did. That's why I blew up. Everybody did. I think that's why I blew up. But you want to talk about writing and actually the beat and just the cadence and everything. I like Don't Be Cruel. Every little step I'll take, like I said, is a classic. Well, just to catch folks up, if you didn't know about this basketball challenge, so Gary Curtis, another really, really funny guy in Omaha. He challenged you. You took the challenge. You guys played on like a Sunday. This will happen. I was at a hotel, man, and I felt good. I made like a couple three-point shots. I was like, I think I still got it. So then I had a ball, challenged the comedy world. I didn't think anybody was going to say anything. He bit. But I should have made the rules. I bit, too. You bit, too. But I sort of, he wanted to do the actual three-point contest, like going around. Oh, five-shot seat spot, yeah. Yeah, whatever. I should have said, no, no, no, no, just shoot whatever you want. But then I'm like, man, that gives him the advantage, too, if you just shoot whatever you want. For real. What's really happened is I was practicing on one go before he even got there. So then I took a break and people start shooting on that goal. So the goal we wanted to go shoot on, I didn't even get no practice shots on that at all. And I should have wanted to go get practice shots. And, you know, I made it as what it is. It's your game. You should have set the rules. I mean, it is your game. I know, but it is what it is, man. He got the 50. He took my money and took my pride. And you found out that he also has like a history of basketball. Like he's a baller. You know what? I don't, you know, according to my sources, man, he used to play ball in college, man. Some people, somebody told me that, man. I ain't got to submit it. But, yeah. And then I went to his post on Instagram. They was like, oh, man, I guess he didn't know about how he used to play. I was like, this motherfucker played me, man. All these people knew he played ball, man. Hey, you know I played in college, too, right? Like, 2K? It's funny. You had a joke. Mine was in the driveway. But, yeah, that's good. Yeah. Oh, that's good. That's good stuff. Well, you're on a show with Gary on Thursday, February 19th, 8 o'clock, Barnado. Have you played that before? I've been there. Not for Gary, but March Pacific when he was up here. Okay. I did it. And I was like, oh, yeah, I got to dress up. I was supposed to dress up. Yeah, it's in the speakeasy over in West Omaha. Yeah, I had to jack it on last time I went up there. So, nah. Yeah, I'm up there, 8 o'clock, Thursday, February 19th. yeah you got any like uh like is it porsche what's the car dealership that is is it porsche it's something it's something like that it's something nice uh i gotta i don't know they let you test it right like i don't know they do or not i ain't trying to test right now and i ain't buying i don't know i've seen that cash you can't afford to buy i've seen that cash i think there's a chance that cash is gone shit that cash is so what's next what's the next challenge because That was fun. I think you had fun with it. What's next? Man, you know, I got to scare some people, man, and show them that I can actually do some shit. Next, it's either going to be bowling. It's going to be pool. Bowling or pool. Bowling or pool. Bowling or pool. And you play pool? I play pool. Yeah, I play pool. Because you see, I have a pool table just 200 feet away from where we're at. I only play for money, man. Okay. You can bring that money out, man. That bull tap, you can go right here. But, yeah, it's either pool or it's bowling. We'll see when we do it. This framed $10 bill right here on the table is a break in emergency situation. We will break this, and I will put it down on the table. You better add another zero to that. You won't play me. That's awesome. So this Thursday, February 19th, Barnado, West Omaha, 8 p.m. show, in the speakeasy. You weren't kidding. I mean, it's a nice place. So come have some nice drinks, have some fun laughs. Food is good. Yeah, it's going to be a good show. Who else is on the show? Do you know who's on the show? Serenity Doherty and Will Doherty. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. Yep. All right, Gary Curtis is hosting. Hosting, yep. Very nice. And then we've got bowling and pool coming next. I can't wait, honestly. It's coming up. I don't know when, but it's coming. Maybe when I get my money up. I'm still trying to recoup that $50 I lost. Well, I just think it's great that the first challenge is basketball. You know, you have to be fairly athletic to play basketball, and then you lose immediately and then quickly turn to bowling and pool. So you have really changed the game. You got to diversify, man. Diversify, man. That's awesome. In 2023, a story gripped the U.K. evoking horror and disbelief. The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history. Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict, a villain, a nurse named Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses. I'm Amanda Knox and in the new podcast Doubt the case of Lucy Letby we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Letby was No voicing of any skepticism or doubt It'll cause so much harm at every single level if the British establishment of this is wrong Listen to Doubt the case of Lucy Letby on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life. And that's a unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets. Listen to The Sixth Bureau on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first Bachelor to ever have his final rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it, all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show made even bigger headlines. It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom, with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. Please search warrant. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped. This season, an epic battle of he said, she said, and the search for accountability in a sea of lies. I have done nothing except get pregnant by the f***ing... Razzler! Listen to Love Trapped on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I'm joined by Luke Combs, award-winning country music artist and one of the most authentic voices in music today. Luke opens up about success, self-doubt, mental health, and what it really takes to stay true to who you are when your life changes overnight. I hate fame. I hate the word celebrity. I hate those words that you make me uncomfortable. But I think when you get to a certain point, the fame or the success or the influence, it just accentuates and exacerbates the inherent person that you are. The guy that says he's always going to be there and that will do anything to be there is the only guy that's not there. I'm in Australia when Bo is born. My whole identity is that no matter what, I'm going to prioritize my wife and my children over my job. I dread the conversation with my son. What do you think you'd say? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, this one's near and dear to me. Okay, we're going to talk about this. Okay. The Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards just happened. O-E-A-A, as a lot of people know. We just had it. Laugh with me. We were nominated for Outstanding Comedy Ensemble. We did not take home the prize. That's okay. Honestly, and you've been. You've been nominated many times, right? It's okay. It's an honor to be nominated. I mean, and honestly, it's a little bit of motivation to go and get it done, you know, the next year. Hey, maybe we can get nominated again and see what's up. I think that's fun. I think it's fun, too, to celebrate the winners. Weisenheimer's won our category, and congrats to them. They'll be doing a damn thing. So I put out this post on our Laugh With Me Facebook page, okay? And it's, you know, congrats to the winners. And I make this stupid meme with my face on Kendrick Lamar, maybe, or Bad Bunny, somebody with a whole bunch of Grammys. And it's like, hey, one of these days, right? Like, that's going to be me. And it's all fun and games. And really, congrats to the winners. Congrats, yeah, most definitely. but this son of a bitch this son of a bitch I didn't know we was going there man so he's take a drink please get ready for this I thought you was joking man no this son of a bitch no this guy he's a local entertainer he's a comedian he's an actor he's in musicals he is Mr. Joy on purpose Oh, shit. Usually I got the drama and the beef, man. Not today. Okay. I'm going to let you do your thing, man. I'm a little worked up about it. I'm excited that Laugh With Me got a little recognition, and I just wanted to keep the excitement going. This guy, I don't think he's happy that we were nominated. He's in December. Here's a little back story. In the beginning of December, I made this little video with the announcement. We were nominated, and it was awesome. And he posts on it, and he posts on a lot of shit. I'm just going to throw that out there right now. He posts on a lot of shit. He posted, he says, because it's for Outstanding Comedy Ensemble, meeting multiple people. And he goes, oh, so you and your guests? Yeah. Yeah. Me and the guests, a lot of the regular guests, a lot of frequent guests on our global platform. Yes. Yes, Ben. Me and the guests. You got me scared, man. You got me scared. You about to take it there, man. You didn't even know what you were getting yourself into. I said I wanted to talk about this. Take me through there. Take me through there. And I let that one go. Okay. And I was like, yep. I made a nice response just saying absolutely. And in my humble opinion in this group, and Levetti was one of them, you know, as part of our ensemble. I mean, he's on the show many times in a year and helps bring the laughs. And, yeah, I do think that we are one of the best and outstanding comedy ensembles. Well, then, I put this post out congratulating the Weisenheimers. Maybe next year it's our time, right? And Ben feels the need to post again And this time it well you know maybe in the next year they rec they uh recognize podcasts yeah maybe they will and if they do i surely hope we get the opportunity to be recognized in that right number one they don't so no until then this is what it is number two why can't we still be recognized as a comedy ensemble i i think there's a he has an issue there and he just keeps turning for somebody who on purpose is supposed to be bringing joy he is really uh he's really bringing a different message i called him out on that i was like you're bringing something on purpose. It's certainly not joy. And that's the thing. He's not spreading joy. Okay. He's trying to audit it. Ben, you're not the auditor of joy, of fun. And frankly, you're the opposite of that. You're quite negative person. I mean, go through, please go through to his Facebook page, Ben Webb, B-E-N-W-E-B-B. He will post and comment on any little thing that you put on there. And he's right. He's right. He's right. He's right. Just saying, man. You posting, buddy. The only thing you've done on purpose was get into the mud with me and it is dirty. And I am not planning on showering. Amen, man. You know, this your boy. Amen. Amen. I just want to say it's all J.O. It's between y'all two. I've been I didn't know we was coming like that. All I know is I said hey I wanted to talk about this and you said I've got things to say about them too. You said that That's not what I said. I want to make sure you get your platform That's not what I said. You know that's not what I said. Yep that's what happened. I said I have I have some things I would like to say. Well, let's put it out there. And you said, me too. Me too. Actually, that is not what you said. You're right. You responded back, hashtag me too. And I said, I don't know. That's not the right usage of that. Listen, listen. So, okay. So, we got to look at both sides here. I'm going to play devil's advocate a little bit. I appreciate that. so it says comedy ensemble yeah Ben believes comedy ensemble is a comedy group that works together and does things together probably shows everything else you got comedy ensemble as you know your guest which is me included man which I appreciate and your guest and your show and the podcast so he believes one thing as a comedy ensemble and you believe another thing as comedy ensemble. Would you say sketch comedy is a form of comedy ensemble? Sketch comedy, yes. It's just like improv. Just like any regular comedy group. I'm going to peel just a little bit behind the curtain here on Laugh with me. I'm just telling you what he thinks. This ain't what I think. And I'm assuming this is what he thinks. Yeah, yeah. I don't want five paragraphs from him and have him say anything about what I'm saying or anything like that. I'll tell you what he's going to be doing on purpose after this. He's writing a lot. A lot. This is bad. Like Nelly said, it's getting hot in here. I know, and it's usually not that warm down here. I don't know why that's. so what what i wanted to get at here okay okay is to my to my point on what you were saying because i i get what you're saying and i have thought about his side of it and what you're about the ensemble thing and what he views as an ensemble i i view no different than when saturday night live is you know nominated for various things as assembles and sketch comedy a little peeling back of the curtain a little bit on laugh with me not to get too into the weeds but some of the stuff we do with some of the guests is sketch comedy for podcasts it's not all you know you what you and i do a lot this is real i mean a lot you and i we talk about shit like real real life shit and in the world of of where we're living and right um but i will promise you some of some of our guests we are doing sketch comedy on a podcast. Right. So it is a, I mean, there's work put into it and writing and jokes and whatnot. So for that to be thrown away on a random Facebook post by a fella who is just upset that we were nominated next to him, I mean, I got something to say is all I'm saying. And we both lost. He lost too, by the way. I just throw that out there. you got any gunshots? Gunshots sound effects? You throwing shots, man. Like I said, man, this is all you, man. I already did this episode about me, man. I think this is our episode now. This is our episode. But I say just holler at Ben, man. He's a pretty positive dude, man. I mean, he usually talks. I done cuss Ben out a couple times, and we done been cool. You know what I mean? I done told him to fuck off on that. We'd be cool. And I think if... And, you know, some things are just a misunderstanding, man. And, you know, the number one thing in life is communication. And, I mean, is this getting dragged out a bit? Nah, maybe. Could he have just liked the post and keep moving? Yeah, but that's not Ben. Ben's going to tell you how he feels. He could be right or wrong, but at least he's going to tell you. And, you know, you might have to get a bookmark, you know, to stop, man. Stop reading. So it's going to be a long paragraph. Because he's one of many people that will say what they want. And that's great. I think you should be able to. But to that point, there is repercussions to that. And that's right. And again, whether it's positive or negative. There's going to be. Especially when you put your life and your feelings on social media. Correct. your opinions on social media you gotta take the good with the bad you gotta take the you gotta you know whether you're trying to be nice or trying to be mean I've been on both sides people definitely know I've been dramatic I've been about drama I've had my beef I don't think I got beef with anybody anymore I'm pretty sure I done squashed every type of beef even if we're not friends no more well no we have a beef now with Bedweb so we have not squashed I didn't know I didn't know you was French because this we shit is over. This we shit. Hold on, man. I'm cool with both of y'all, man. We're a team here. I got a couple white friends, man. Come on, man. I'm cool with both of y'all, man. Y'all got to sit down and talk it out, man, or something, man. Something got to happen, man. I don't know. I've seen the comments, but he didn't respond. Did he respond to the last one? He did not. He did not. That could be the white flag. That could be him just saying, hey, man, you know what? I fucked up. I ain't trying to say nothing. Can I tell you how I took it? Oh, yeah, definitely. This is your show. Yeah, man, I'm here. Thank you. I appreciate it. It's your show. You do what the fuck you want. It's my house. It is. It is. So the way I took it, when there was no response, because to your point, there could have been a private message. There could have been something, right? And hey, I didn't mean it that way. You know, we could have talked it out. When there was no response, I said, I messaged you, and I said, we're going to war. And you said, I am in. You said hashtag me too. Only hashtags I use is Snowfogles the first quarter. That's it. I don't – And really, February almost done. We got March. It is almost done. Second quarter. It's going to be second quarter. But come on, man. Second quarter. I think it was a communication thing. But is he dragging us out? He probably is. He drug – If I'm going to be honest, man, Ben drug out something else. And I ain't going to put her on – I ain't going to put her on blast. This is the time. This is the time. No, because it got dropped. It's been told. I think it's a miscommunication, but it was a repeated thing. It is also about the OEA Awards. And that's how me got into it. But, again, I'm not going to get into all that. I just think he feels very strongly about the awards. He feels very strongly about who's nominated. He feels very strongly about the clarification or definition of getting nominated. That is the definition of a gatekeeper. if there's anything he's doing on purpose it's gatekeeping well now well alright man if you listen to you might listen I might hit him up you might want to listen to this I'll probably tell him Jeremy got a while I ain't got shit to do with this nigga but you might want to listen to this shit right here I feel like this is Vlad and I'm Aries Spears. This is what I'm feeling right now. I'm excited because I knew you were going to have my back, and you have had my back so far. And I'm excited. That's why I was like, this is perfect timing. This is perfect timing. Perfect timing, wrong language. That's what's going on right now, man. ¿Cómo estás? You know, man. No espanol. Well, I guess when I speak Spanish, that was stupid. I just do want to clarify. I did say I did plan on showering. I do shower. I just want to throw that out there. That was just using the word play for the mud and whatnot. People think I'm dirty. I'm not dirty. You ain't dirty. I just showered right before you got here. But you're bold with this one. Yeah, bold with this one. You're real bold. This is a little tough right here, man. I don't know. This is what we do in life with me. This is what happens when you're in studio. Don't say we, motherfucker. This is what happens when you're in studio. In studio. We ain't even take no pictures of that, man. Can you take a picture of that? Yeah, we're working on some of... Oh, yeah. I'm thinking about eliminating this here, right here, and then putting up a little desk made of cardboard. And we could do a little internet show, like a talk show. What do you think? You want to come on my talk show? With the cardboard? Yeah. I thought you was working on something with Well maybe you wasn't You asked me about it You shot it down faster than Ben Webb shot down my nomination No I'm talking about KPAO Yeah I've got ideas I just never The timing and days they got That is tough Shout out to KPAO They cool Tough schedule It's just a tough schedule But the same idea basically But just I would do it here And instead of trying to get A live studio audience It would just be this So it'd be a little different You're out That's okay We're workshopping I think I got that off my chest I feel good That's between you and you I'm a Shit man i was bad i didn't know i didn't know two nice guys have a problem but yeah that's all right okay here we are i don't even know if i oh is there anything else yeah man it's funny i should have left that for last i i wanted to i think this is your episode don't even say you interview me man because after that i'm like you're one of the mixtapes man i wanted to uh i wanted to segue into Lavetti's Arcade because I think it's super cool. And it's a little tough to talk about after. Yeah, it's a little tough. Yeah. Nobody's going to give a fuck about Lavetti's Arcade. That shit's dead after what you just said. No, man. I just try to get some ideas man It cool It a Did you see my idea about putting the TV monitor above the gaming unit Yeah I didn know what you were talking about though Okay so see this TV up here Mm-hmm. It'd be like that above the cabinet, and then it would mirror what's on the cabinet. So, you know, whoever's playing the cabinet, the TV monitor, it'll show the game. Oh, that'd be... That'd be kind of cool. I mean, I ain't got money like that, so motherfuckers, they're gonna have to see me playing right there. I mean, it was a couple ideas with it. It was a couple ideas with it or whatever like that. But right now, I just posted up a clip. Hey, y'all remember this game? Talk about it for a little bit. Then let people watch the gameplay. I know it sounds a little off. Then I had another idea. Maybe I might talk because the voiceover sounded a little wonky. So I might even redo that one. You got a Twitch? I don't got a Twitch. I'm not a Twitch guy. I don't really play video games. Well, you got a whole thing. It's called the Vettys Arcade. It's a whole. Yeah, but it's built into, it's like five, six of the games built into that thing. You could get a Twitch code on that. We might. And then you could clip that and then use it on your other socials. Maybe, but I'm not really playing like that. Yeah, but that's what makes it funny. I know, but then it's. Like you're playing Mario Brothers. I know, but then I got another idea. It's like, which game would you rather play? post two video games up. Would you play this? Which one would you play? And then see if I get enough engagement every week. Alright, last week, y'all voted for this one. This week, this game's going against this game. What if you played it until you beat it? I ain't got time like that, man. I got 50, 55 hours at work. I got a son. He ain't gonna let me play. So then I gotta play when he ain't around. What if he plays it? until he beats it. He's five, so y'all gonna have to be waiting a couple years. And when we on video 342, you've been playing this shit since he's five. He's only on level three. You know what I mean? So, here's some ideas. I just want to at least get something out there. And I'm glad I got something out there. And then probably just continue. Like I said, it's probably just bringing bad memories. Not really nothing like, all right, guys, I'm about to beat this game. It ain't really, it's not really there to beat. It's not really there for me to beat it. It's really, I'll play a little bit of it, but you'll see the gameplay of it. And then it being in the arcade cabinet, I think it's pretty cool. I mean, it's in a unique way. Actually, what you just said about the memories of it, there's an Instagram account I follow. That's literally what they do. They just show clips of old games, and it's awesome. Like, I like every single one of them. It's funny. One, I follow, too, and he literally, and he don't even put music in the background. He don't talk for nothing. He puts the title up, and then you watch him play for like a minute. It's fun. He cuts it off. He don't even have like an intro or nothing. He don't got none of that shit. And I'm like, I just didn't get 10,000 views and all he does is play. Nostalgia, man. Yeah. That's pretty cool. That's pretty dope. What shows and projects you got coming up? Oh, damn. We're already at the end. Oh, we got Gary Curtis and Friends at Barnado. February 19th, 8 p.m. Be there. I'm in a competition in Sioux City. February 20th, Friday. I'm not going to tell anybody to be there. Everybody's here. Next week, if I win, I'm back there on the 27th in Sioux City. And then the 28th, I'm in Salina, Kansas. There you go. Yeah. I feel like the power that you and I have together now, you know, I feel like you're not only going to win these competitions, but we're going to just win the fight, the great fight. So what's the list of people we got beef with? Right now it's just Ben Webb. Oh, see, see, because I remember, man, you know, and I'm cool with all these people, but where were you at when Bill Clinton was saying something about me? I wasn't around. Where were you at when Rome Daly said something about me? I'll tell you what. I'm around now. I'll go toe to toe. Where were you at? You know, we ain't going to drop no more names. That's it. That's all I'm saying. I ain't going to go through. I got a list. I will go toe. Where were you at when all them people was talking about me, man? Now you want to go toe to toe, man. I don't know, man. Your loyalty only can get thrown so far, man. I'm just happy. And it's air balling right now. I'm just happy. I bring this up, and you completely agree with me, and you have my back. I think that's so cool. I agree that you've got a situation, but I think it's a one-on-one. Don't tag me in. It's not tag team match. You know what I mean? Don't expect me to interfere. You know what I mean? So let's say he had a tag team partner. Who do you think he would be tagging with in this? You and me versus Ben and him. Ben likes everybody, though. He does. Except for me. Except for me. I don't think he does this to everybody, though. Yeah, but that's. What he does is to everybody. I mean, he does this to. He's going to say stuff like this. He does it to everybody. Isn't that the red flag? Is it the red flag if you call yourself Joy? I mean, that's like what an HR manager calls themself, so that you maybe like them. Hey, man, listen. I'm cool with both of y'all, man. Tag team partner, it's probably going to be him and God. That's fair. That's another point. That's another point. I got to bring this up. I have to bring this up. I thought we was at the end. Where are we at, man? I got to bring this up. He did have a spiritual post. um and i'll be honest i don't a hundred percent know what it was about because i just don't live in that world but i know it referenced the god or jesus so and i had seen that in uh the poly market like one of the things that's like really thriving right now is that jesus will return like a lot of people are behind the poly market generally hits their predictions so i took a screenshot of it i posted it to his thread and I'm like, you can ask him himself because he's coming back. It was a joke. And the first response is gambling ain't it. Why do you have to take a shot at gambling? What's the beef with gambling? It was a joke because Jesus certainly isn't coming back, but the polymarket certainly thinks he is. I don't know. I don't sort of. Maybe he's got beef because of that. He hates gambling. and you know not to talk about Morganville but maybe he's parlaying that into what's going on you think he lost the big bet somewhere along the line I wouldn't say you try to get me to say some shit I really need your back on this hey man I can ref I can mediate you know what I mean but this is tough man you know Ben is the first dude that was friends with me and comedy and actually believed in me a lot of people didn't fuck with me you know and this is a show that had Keyonis Berry. Homie, shout out to Keyonis Berry. Jason Regan, shout out to Jason Regan. But he was like the first guy. Only guy that wanted to take pictures with me. Talked to me. Nobody else was even fucking with me. He's always been a homie. Like I said, we even had a click at one point in time or a show, whatever. And we did a damn thing. Comedy Mafia. Shout out to the Comedy Mafia brothers. Man, we ain't together no more, but you know. R.I.P. Gone too soon. Yeah, just a bit. We moved too fast. So I don't got nothing bad to really say about Ben on air. But no, that's my guy, man. I hate it because you're my guy too, man. It's tough. You gotta take my side on this. It is. It's tough. I get it. It's between you, him, and Jesus. I'm going to tell you that right now. And if you don't believe in that. I'm going to lose this fight. All right. I'm just saying. There's always three sides to the story. There's always three people fighting, believe it or not. That's true. Yeah. I hope you. I mean, at the end of the day, we both lost because the Weisenheimers won. I mean, neither of us won the trophy. I mean, that's the thing. I mean, we're both simply just nominees. That's true. And I think we're both excited about that. So why can't we just drop it there? I think we just need to all celebrate that that's the case and not call out any individual one. Oh, and you said he called you out. Yeah, what the hell's up with that? Why can't we just celebrate our win, which was being recognized? So been fucked up. Been fucked up. That's my point. Been fucked up. Okay. A couple times on this. A couple times. A couple times. Well, I'm good. So then when he did the second time, that's when I have to call out the Joy Police. Okay? Sorry. In the words of Bobby Brown. I don't want to have to do it. In the words of Bobby Brown. That's your prerogative. That is my prerogative. Thank you. You're going to do what you want to do. That's right. That's Bobby Brown, man. I can't believe he's in new edition. I cannot believe that. I'm like You gotta be Fucking trolling me man Please just tell me you're trolling me So I can have a clear hair for the rest of the week Like I seriously thought Boyz II Men That is legit that you got to see Boyz II Men And then you come in here with Bobby Brown That's awesome You too white for me man You way too white for me Oh, it's great. 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