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August 21, 2025 17 mins

The crew gets real about “Black card revoked” moments, debating everything from not watching The Color Purple or Friday to not knowing how to play spades or skipping Frankie Beverly classics. Listeners call in with their own confessions—from choosing pumpkin pie over sweet potato pie to not eating mac & cheese. Things get wild with food debates (cube steak vs. Salisbury steak, chitlins vs. okra) before Special K’s “News You Can’t Use” delivers a hilarious list of “Don’t Be That Guy” habits—from owing money but flexing on Instagram to breaking the two-minute funeral speech rule.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
On tyn AXT when it's seven minutes after the out yard.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Every culture has, uh, you know, I have some unridden
rules and for the black community, and if you slip up,
you just might get your black cart revoked, right Ricky.

Speaker 6 (00:58):
People might say that if you don't know how to
like spades, your black card is revoked. Or if there's
certain movies you ain't never seen, like Friday Boys in
the Hoods set it off coming to America the color purple,
t J.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Folks are coming for your black car quick.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I'm in shock this morning because we got somebody
on the show that have not seen the color purple.

Speaker 7 (01:20):
Two people actually to and that's DJ and no, no, no,
it's to minute yeah to.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Only twelve.

Speaker 8 (01:35):
Yeah, she gets.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay, that's a real.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Age morning to what.

Speaker 9 (01:46):
So well, super name doesn't count, GUJ TJ.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Why you haven't seen the color purple going on.

Speaker 8 (01:53):
I do not lose my black card because I haven't
seen you.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Don't get tomine that.

Speaker 8 (01:58):
Yeah there's a jury.

Speaker 7 (01:59):
Yeah, but I.

Speaker 8 (02:02):
Right words all my life. I had to fight this woman.
It's just the.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Color purple.

Speaker 9 (02:13):
I started watching it a million times and it just
was like, oh, I just can't do it. I just
couldn't do it. I just was like, what is happening?

Speaker 7 (02:24):
I didn't like it.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I know that is so incredibly football.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I got you up from in front of the TV.

Speaker 9 (02:31):
It was just, you know, I got to give my
mind right for certain kinds of movies, like if I'm
watching the slave movie, I gotta give my mind right.

Speaker 8 (02:38):
I was. I sat down the everybody loves the color purple.
I just couldn't. I was like it was depressing. I
don't know, I couldn't do There.

Speaker 10 (02:44):
Are some funny parts and some great music and a
great ending.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
It's a great story. Yeah, the ending is victorious.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh my god.

Speaker 11 (02:54):
A cultural phenomenon that you just would parts.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I know, all the good part if you know, yeah.

Speaker 11 (03:04):
I'm still black though, like a white person saying, but
I got black friends.

Speaker 7 (03:10):
That's the energy right now.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, you you you got you got to see? Uh
and now who have seen Coming to America?

Speaker 11 (03:18):
Everybody remake okay, okay, and we can let you too
because he's under the age of thirty.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of like a
generational thing.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Now. Now in all the Friday series, that's that's a
black thing.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
Absolutely Friday.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
You don't even have to have seen all three, but
you have to at least have seen the first one.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
Absolutely, how about like do the right thing?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You have to have seen because that's Spike Lee.

Speaker 8 (03:47):
Have see the right thing.

Speaker 11 (03:48):
That's another generational thing though, because if you're under thirty five,
I don't know right that came out?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's it is, but yeah.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
Oh was iconic.

Speaker 11 (03:58):
But I'm pretty sure this new everybody all yeah, no
Roots yea album.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
I raised my kids on Richard Pryor Which Way is Up?

Speaker 11 (04:08):
They had the oh yeah yeah, oh Harlem Knights.

Speaker 8 (04:14):
But my kids can't see they can't see Harlem Nights.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah. Yeah. Movie.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
My favorite movie is Claudine. Oh I love track. Oh yeah, yes,
oh god yeah? Who on the shows?

Speaker 8 (04:26):
Never had a sweet Potato Poe life. Oh you're talking
about something else.

Speaker 11 (04:30):
I thought you're about the pie from Life the movie.

Speaker 9 (04:33):
You definitely lose your black cart if you don't like
Sweete you prefer Pumpkin Pie.

Speaker 7 (04:40):
I don't know how to play stage. Get out of here.
I had no idea place.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't think I played in about thirty something forty years.
I forgot how to play. I forgot. I forgot what reneg.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I can't put I can play, But it's been so long,
did I?

Speaker 7 (05:00):
You need to be refreshed.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
But but but you get a past if you do
know how to play though, Oh.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
You gotta play.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Talking twenty one, I declare war.

Speaker 8 (05:14):
Come on now, you don't know how to play big with?

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Then high?

Speaker 7 (05:17):
Oh yeah, old people?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
And what I wanted to linked up and played in
the basement people.

Speaker 8 (05:26):
Perfect players know how to play big with? What about bunkou?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
What about? But what?

Speaker 5 (05:32):
What?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
What? Okay?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
You don't get out of it?

Speaker 7 (05:37):
Hold on, hold on, hold on?

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well other things can what other things other than playing
cards and movies?

Speaker 3 (05:41):
That uh, that you can lose your black card for
If you.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
Ain't never heard of the car the cutlass?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh yeah, yeah? What else?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
If you don't know what a Cadillacsville is?

Speaker 11 (05:55):
If you don't if you don't if you don't back
into parking spaces right.

Speaker 8 (06:00):
If you don't, if you've never seen a pick right.

Speaker 7 (06:03):
Right with the fist, yes, yes, okay, And.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
I don't know what that might mean. Yeah, that might
be generational thing. Okay, all right, so let go to
the bones. Eight sixty six nine eighty six six nine.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
I c k e. Why, good morning.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
It's a metre from a fort Worth.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I watched my Black Marty.

Speaker 8 (06:20):
I can grow up watching Martin.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Calling from Virginia, Richmond, Virginia called her the wrong name.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Oh, do not know how to fly chicken and do greens?

Speaker 11 (06:31):
Bread shimmy Muttin was fum beach and beast weeding, black cuts, cheese,
grits and fried fish.

Speaker 7 (06:38):
You don't like that. You gotta leave through the black cut.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh yeah, if you think Taylor Swift was the first
one to sing oh September, Uh.

Speaker 9 (06:46):
This is Dwayne called him the college box. That's the
way you lose your black cart strawberry jelly jelly.

Speaker 10 (06:52):
Hey, this is Teresa or tweet calling from east over
South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
The fastest way you can lose your.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Black card is not being able to do the electric
clide at a wedding or not knowing Franky Belly a
major song before.

Speaker 11 (07:05):
I Let Go.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
We're going from Atlanta, Georgia.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
The fast way to lose your black cart is not
worrying about it when you sleep.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
From at.

Speaker 11 (07:14):
Whichest way is you make that bunch macaroni thanksgiving up Christmas.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
My name is Tia.

Speaker 8 (07:23):
I'm calling from Columbus, Ohio.

Speaker 11 (07:24):
And the fastest way to lose your black cart is
if you've ever seen Belly or shots.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Calling from Georgia one O seven one on seven nine
and my h greens and is putting raisins in the
potato salad.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Okay, now now three stuck out.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
If you have not watched Martin, you're definitely gonna lose
your black cart or whatever your credits are gonna go up.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
And then if you ain't never uh uh.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
And if you don't know Frankie Beverley before I Let
Go or Donny Hathaway this.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Christmas, we got a problem with you.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
You need to come before the committee and you need
to get on your knees and and ask for your
blackness back.

Speaker 7 (08:03):
Okay, you don't know the words that can we talk
by Tavin Kim. It's gonna along with it.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
You need to come before the committee. You need to
be judged and get on your knees and beg for
mercy to be in this black community, because man, this
is just not right.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
So uh uh, here's what I want to know today.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
What is the fastest way to lose your black to
lose your black card is not knowing, uh who Nino
Brown is?

Speaker 3 (08:28):
That's what sure?

Speaker 1 (08:29):
And maybe you never tried hot sauce or whatever, or
if you think Beyonce is overrated, see stuff like that.
Stuff like that, You're gonna have to come before the committee.
Hit us up a six six nine, Ricky eight six
six nine or c k e Y call us up
more on your phone.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Calls up next. Ricky's by the morning show, Oh man,
reasons by the morning show.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Am.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
We stood up there having a conversation.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
We're talking about what would make you lose your black
cart is uh, whether it being never watching the color
purple baby boy, or is it not knowing how to
play the bab Now.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Listen, we just had a conversation. Now listen to this.
Alfrida sending her butt up here.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I didn't know that you could eat turkey outside of Thanksgivings.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Stop.

Speaker 8 (09:10):
Turkey is such a white food.

Speaker 10 (09:13):
No, we.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Eat turkey.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
We eat turkey wings, which you say bread baby, Hey, Afridas,
we eat turkey wings on Sunday for dinner.

Speaker 8 (09:29):
Oh noah, how.

Speaker 10 (09:30):
Afrid of you do turkey wings dressing? Turkey wings dressing,
macaroni and cheese. That's like, yeah, pop them in the microwave.
But Afrida, yeah, you you can eat turkey outside of Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I'm gonna make a little little dressing and some turkey
wings today. Yeah. What's the difference between steak and Salisberry's
steak because.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Okay, sounds Beary's steak is like hamburger. It's like hamburger meating.
It's like Salisbury's steak. But you fry that steak but
you can still make up the gravy or whatever. But
q steak is more like steak. Okay, it's a little
tougher than Salisbury's steak. Salisbury's steak it's what you get
when you go to like Pigadillies, That's what I get

(10:16):
or whatever. But don't nobody really don't know. The restaurants
really out here sell cube steak. You just fry the
que steak up and season it real good, and put
you a little bit of.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Uh partially in some time, and some chives and some.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Cajun season and some mince garlic on there, and gone
get that thing right, and then throw them onions in
that gravy once you make your root and put the
top on that and let that thing simmer summer. But man,
we got to be yeah, afrigs, I'll make you somemor
I'm making turkey winks today. You come over here and
get you something and uh, you know, and I keep

(10:49):
macaroni and cheese made up in the freezer spot.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I gotta just take it and put it in the anyway.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
Well, so how we go from black losing your black
cart the recipes when.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
It got home.

Speaker 11 (10:59):
Somebody on social media said, you lose your black card
if you ain't if you don't eat chillings.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
That's right, it's lost.

Speaker 7 (11:11):
Call me mad.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
I love chiplings, honey with onions. I can't do it.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
Smell good.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
I love the smell. I can't do it. I can't
do it.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
I try, I even tried. I tried my best to
eat some chiplings. I tried to eat some some squash.
I tried to eat rule bacon squash.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I can't, I can't eat it.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
I can't squash ya don't do no damn squat.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
That's my mama with all that mess.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Phones eight six six snap Rick eight six six, nap ricing,
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (11:45):
I'm calling from Mississippi and the fact the way to
lose your black card is to eat green with the
fork and not your fingers.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
This cord from Richard, Virginia, and the fast way to
lose your Black cards of the bill, and you don't
think in your mind they gonna get it when they
get it. I'm all calling from Cleeveland, Ohio. The fastest
way to lose your black cart is if you're a
certain age and you don't know all the dance food
to Michael Jackson philer video.

Speaker 11 (12:14):
This taba calling from Decatur, Illinois, and a fastest way
to lose your black card if you ain't seeing candy Man.

Speaker 8 (12:21):
Bolttic calling from Houston, Texas, if you vote it for Trump, if.

Speaker 11 (12:26):
You don't know nothing about a hot coat cooked on soap.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Her name is Karen.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm calling from Port Lauderdale and I do not eat
my corni and cheese.

Speaker 8 (12:35):
And you're from Oklahoma.

Speaker 11 (12:37):
I lost mine because I do not like sol food
and I cannot play spade. I am calling from Saint Louis, Missouri,
and if you have not seen Bruke and the Wiz,
you have lost your cards.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
I'm calling from Gardendelle, Alabama. My name is Spreads the
Push and I said, the fast is your black heart
if you have not sit to the skating rink, skate.

Speaker 11 (12:58):
On the ear.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yes, I took my husband's black heart because he was
cutting grass and he found a snake and the neighborhood
is white.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh that's a good snake to my husband.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Let the snake go.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
What are you saying, hey, if you lost your black art,
if you ain't never shouting.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
In church to one of your shoes came off the
Morning show, coming up you wire, I believe him, Yo.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
I don't know why, but I do an The morning
is about that time it's supposed to take our news
your positive absolutely cannot use what up cake?

Speaker 7 (13:33):
What up wrecked boy? Let me tell you today. News
you can't use is title. Don't be that guy.

Speaker 11 (13:39):
These are things people do that get on everybody else's
nerves and make people hate you.

Speaker 7 (13:43):
So if you recognize any of these behaviors. It's something
you do. Stop doing it.

Speaker 10 (13:48):
Now.

Speaker 11 (13:48):
Let's start this off with the riddle of the day.
The answer is some teen wong, some teen wong. The
question whether the Chinese couple named the newborn baby after
they came out black.

Speaker 7 (14:02):
Some team wong.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Alright, So what do you think about that, mister Maine?

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Something wrong here? Yeah, look loo for you something some
dumb young boy.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
Some young guys, some dumb young young guy. You cheese
baby got nothing? He don't.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh no, don't money I make look loop for you?

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Why baby?

Speaker 11 (14:43):
All right, let's gory.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
Let's get into it. Alright.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
So here we go, Here we go, here we go.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
All right, So don't be this guy.

Speaker 11 (14:50):
Don't be the guy that keeps trying to make you
remember somebody from a long time ago that you don't remember.

Speaker 7 (14:55):
Come on yesterday. That is so annoyance.

Speaker 10 (14:57):
Stop.

Speaker 7 (14:59):
I don't know Curdie.

Speaker 11 (15:00):
I don't care how many time you describe Curtis. I
don't remember Curtis.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Attitude with you when you don't your memory don't meet
their expectation. They rick.

Speaker 11 (15:10):
How about this, when don't be that person at a
restaurant with other people at the table holding up the
ordering process by making way too specific requests for your order.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
I want yo, you know I want my meat.

Speaker 11 (15:21):
I wanted medium, well, but like just I want to
pink in the middle, but then around the edges, can
you make it?

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Well?

Speaker 3 (15:28):
You know what I got that when you got yourself, Garrett,
and I got a muster friend. We just get up and.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yes, lord.

Speaker 11 (15:36):
The bar with all that, okay, cringing everybody else trying
to order to look, don't be that person that owe
me money. Don't be that person that owes me money. Right,
and then I see you on Facebook balling out, yes,
oh we at the restaurant.

Speaker 7 (15:50):
We turned up. You gotta you gotta bottle you in
Jamaica like you owe me.

Speaker 11 (15:54):
One hundred and fifty dollars, You better pay me my
damn money.

Speaker 7 (15:56):
While you owe your living your best life.

Speaker 11 (15:59):
Don't be that it gets up to speak at a
funeral knowing, damn well, you can't honor the two minute rule.
I just suffered through this the last month. Somebody went
up there and talk for fifteen minutes. Hey, damn, we
going to get a sermon then, right, You know what
damn two minutes is. Don't be the person that called
my phone and then call back three more times in
a row because I'm not answering.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
I'm not I see you calling. I don't want to
tak Why do that keep calling?

Speaker 11 (16:27):
Oh my god, don't be that person that has twenty
seven items in the checkout line.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
You see me walking up with a sprite and a
bag of chips.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Let you go.

Speaker 7 (16:35):
Let me go ahead in front of you. You see
that we walking up at the same time. In Jesus name,
walk your stupid.

Speaker 11 (16:44):
Don't ride down the highway for twenty minutes with your
turn signal. I'm behind you and I want to crash
into the back of your car.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, that's Gary.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
I want to crash into.

Speaker 11 (16:52):
The back of your car. I promise you don't start
a conversation with Hey, I need you to do me
a favor.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
Can you do it?

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (16:59):
Yeah, for the even asked? Yeah before you you ain't
even ask me what it is. I'm Brad be doing
that right now.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Brad do that, man, Brad, you do that.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
Absolutely not do it for me all the time. I
can see Brad doing this one, and I'm gonna in
with this one.

Speaker 11 (17:15):
I can see Brad starting a conversation with Look, I
don't want to sound disrespectful,
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