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The Champs with Neal Brennan + Moshe Kasher

Russell Simmons

The Champs with Neal Brennan + Moshe Kasher

The Champs

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The hip-hop legend sits down with the Champs for an all too short interview regarding his new book about yoga, what he tells young stars, and the beginning of Def Jam records. His final line is bananas.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Neil today's episode is brought to you by audiblepodcast.com go to audiblepodcast.com slash the champs and you get a free audiobook download you can go on there download any book you want there's hundreds of thousands including the number one

0:16.0

audible book right now flash boys by Michael Lewis it was all over the paper a couple weeks ago and it was on 60 minutes basically dudes with super high speed connections to the internet are

0:30.0

fucking with the stock market and they're getting the jump etc but it's interesting and it's really well told Michael Lewis wrote money ball which is also on there he wrote blind side he's like a really good easy

0:42.0

write it a read you can also download those if you want and as well as our guest today Russell Simmons has a book on there he didn't read it though so there's no listing success success I just

0:57.4

list like that success through stillness so go in there you can download that audiblepodcast.com slash the champs you're going to get a free book to start which is pretty good deal you pick out any any book you like my friend they got the game of

1:15.4

drones they got there's a new Johnny Carson book there's tons of books on there all right audiblepodcast.com slash the champs go do it pick yourself out a book to have somebody else

1:31.4

read it to you okay you don't got to do nothing close your eyes listen all right bye

2:01.4

now you're fucking with the champs

2:17.4

this is all this is all off the record yeah we should say we're here we we're here we're poolside this is for us this is exciting you might be able to hear it

2:27.4

yeah you're probably the richest guest we've ever had is that right I put this house and my wife's Jacuzzi fuck out of here y'all think it's trying to make me seem rich don't do that to the audience my house when I want one of my

2:39.4

eyes out no this is not a normal size house it's it's it's it's a it's less than normal in belly hills how's that yeah no this is in on the street you live on this house right yeah do recognize that voice

2:51.4

do you recognize that voice maybe you recognize it from thanks for coming out God bless you good night we'll recognize real nigger oh we I got to say this is it's it's Russell Simmons we have had a very good first few moments in his

3:05.4

modest size house they don't think it's getting a son I can't believe that we've been yeah we're in the shade we were probably and we're many times it's not cool no we like no we love it

3:15.4

and you know and the ancestry and you can you know use the n word if not don't use it he's got it you're Jewish I mean yeah yeah if you go back

3:23.8

yeah but that's a different kind of how far we have another word I don't know what the word is that and I'm trying to decide to own that word I certainly have not used it you know recently it's not a great idea you think I you used it five times in the last five minutes

3:37.4

cake oh cake no no that's me yeah no I don't kikes not you're not going to want to do that no one wins me say cake no one wins let's talk about you I want to talk about your book I do too what is the book the book is look for this motherfucker is just so I didn't shit it's a lot of it's alright these my god don't pick shit up they don't pick it up okay yeah my book I wrote this book because for 20 years I've been meditating and you know I've taken my life took a turn 25 years ago you know towards sobriety and

4:07.1

and 20 years ago I went to yoga there was so many chicks in that it was two gay guys myself and 58 beautiful girls and Bobby Sriva who took me his sexuality is still a question so I don't I can't say that he's but but anyway it was us and the girls and it was really fun and I came out of class I was high as hell I went for the girls but I came out with this high so it worked the yoga class yeah it worked like the way it's as advertised me

4:35.9

ties I went there with the chicks I came out with something else there was a second a present one of the dudes the second a present no I didn't really I didn't really you know

4:44.8

care for the guys I didn't just I did not care for them you know you know you don't want to be an advocate for that's dirty yeah no no you literally don't want to shit on you want to get on the road you want to I mean if you got to

4:56.4

I don't want to I don't want to shit on you but I'm not all right fair no that's what that was from your drunk days go ahead right probably probably anyway as far but no I listen I went because it you know I thought it'd be fun and you know

5:12.8

obviously I was there because a lot of hot chicks and I came out of class first class I'm sitting outside the class and I'm for a moment I had a couple of seconds of

5:20.5

presence extended seconds of presence not a shock like a joke happens and everything goes away the future to pass and the joke tickles you and you laugh or you see a sunset and

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