Episode 336 | "Fishnets & Coke"
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
SaVon and Alex open on fall weather in New York and how September always feels like a reset, before joking through an AWS outage that exposed how dependent creatives are on big tech (0:00) and calculating the real cost of streaming the NBA season (9:00). Next, they deep dive Kevin McCall’s viral breakdown and his long history with Chris Brown (15:20), which leads into a broader talk on Gucci Mane’s admission of schizophrenia on The Breakfast Club and mental-health transparency in Hip-Hop (35:55). From there they dive into DJ Vlad vs G Herbo (57:00), debating entitlement in media, the line between “platform vs personality,” and why artists no longer need the press. The discussion expands to NBA YoungBoy’s polarizing appeal (1:19:33), Stephen A. Smith’s appearance on Carmelo Anthony’s 7 PM in Brooklyn and the ethics of letting him diss LeBron James (1:21:51), before closing with the latest in new music (1:49:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, what's going on? |
| 0:00.7 | We are back with another episode of the Needs to Know podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Alex, what's going on? |
| 0:04.3 | My brother. |
| 0:04.7 | Hey, man. |
| 0:05.2 | We are in the building another week. |
| 0:07.1 | How you doing? |
| 0:07.6 | I'm doing all right. |
| 0:08.3 | That's a lot. That's a lot. It's a lot going on. The weather is changing here in New York. Yes. You're happy, right? I do love this time of year. This is our bag. |
| 0:17.1 | Fall is like, what's your favorite season? |
| 0:19.1 | It's got to be full. |
| 0:19.9 | Is it fall? |
| 0:20.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.8 | Winter is too cold. |
| 0:21.9 | Summer's too hot. |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.0 | Right in the middle. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm a spring baby, but, man. bag. Fall is like, what's your favorite season? It's got to be fall. Is it fall? Yeah. Winter is too cold. |
| 0:21.9 | Summer's too hot. |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.0 | Right in the middle. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm a spring baby, but, man, too much rain. |
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