Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh dissect the FBI raid on Jake Paul's Calabasas home, linking it to a conspiracy involving Armani Izadi and questioning if federal action aims to deter future instability under a potential Trump administration. They analyze the brothers' calculated "heel" and "hero" personas, arguing their fame as wealthy white men invites disproportionate hate. The episode concludes with Mark's story of being ghosted by Ellen DeGeneres's former producer Kevin Lehman after alleging sexual assault, highlighting Lehman's bizarre rejection message claiming gay men don't want to "smoke" him, underscoring the absurdity of modern power dynamics. [Automatically generated summary]
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Federal Gun Precedent00:04:23
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Your take on this Jake Paul shit?
So I hit Logan and I was like bro, if y'all don't know what's going on with Jake Paul, the FBI like seized his, they raided his home.
They raided his home like one of his homes, which is great, that's fire.
It was Arizona Arizona, I think it was Arizona.
You can double check it, saying Calabasas, I think.
No yeah, I think it was Calabasas and Arizona, if i'm not mistaken, and the Arizona home got Calabasters.
It was Calabasas.
Gun seized.
You know it's fire, about a home that nobody could live above and also have hooked up with your girl.
That's a fire thing, you know.
My only regret about sharing this story because it's created great content, a lot of laughs is I gave y'all ammunition against me and I know i'm gonna get Ak-47 by y'all motherfuckers.
Now here's the thing about going at Schultz.
Though Schultz is like Trump with the nuclear codes, like that motherfucker will press that button at any moment.
Oh, both y'all, you two motherfuckers, got nuclear kingdom.
We tell you something.
Al, you right, I don't know what.
I don't normally know what it's like to be on this end of it, though you know what I mean.
It's a lot of power to have that button guys.
All right go go, go.
Yeah, so these are actually new updates, that.
So the Calabaster's CRIB raided gun sees and the raid involves a Scottdale protest, that's so.
They're apparently coming after him because of the, the video of him with the looters.
Yeah, that's federal.
You need the feds for that.
Yeah, because the local court dropped the case.
Yeah, why are they coming after him?
He's not even on video actually doing anything.
Uh, everyone hate this kid, is my question.
Well, he leans into that.
I believe he plays off the hate.
I hit up Logan and I was just like, yo, tell me it's not child porn, because that's what I thought it was initially.
Because the FBI has shown up, I was like, what the fuck should it be?
Also, you're allowed to have guns in your home.
Right, it's California.
Yeah, guns are legal in calibration.
That's what I also can't understand, though.
Um uh, but Mark had an interesting point yesterday about like setting an example thing.
Yeah, I think they might be setting a precedent to be like, yo, if you loot, this is what could happen to you.
We're gonna like come through with the boys.
We're gonna your whole shit up.
They couldn't do it to like some poor random black kid, like in the middle of Black lives matter, send a fucking raid to his house.
So they had to pick someone that like was guilty, that was also like hatable, so he fits that mold and famous enough to like warrant a story.
Yeah, so not only warrant a story, but also like make other people think it's okay, send a message.
Right exactly, so it sends a message.
But also like Jake could make other people go, oh, looting is fun yeah, it's cool with the kids, whatever.
So they're sending this in to make an example, potentially because there might be more riots in the future if Trump coming on the election.
So I think, I think that that last part right there, that last part, is where I get on.
If they like they did with the statues remember Trump came out was like 10 years, you Down a statue.
Yeah.
We ain't seen nobody with a rope or nothing trying to take down statues.
Yeah.
Right.
So now with this, it's like, oh shit, let's say Trump wins and motherfuckers go to tear shit down again.
Well, don't tear down the statues because you go to jail for 10 years.
Well, don't loot and raid stores because FBI shows up to your crib.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I think they're saying the precedent now.
And when I mean they, I don't necessarily mean Trump's cronies.
I think the people that have America's safety at the forefront of their interests, regardless of who wins.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Like, let's say the FBI, CIA are not biased towards a political party.
Obviously, there's evidence to say that they are, but let's say they're not.
They still want to keep shit calm.
There being riots and looting all over the country is not good for the country.
Yeah, instability is not good.
Instability is not good.
Right?
So I get it.
That they're trying to make an example in order to procure more stability.
Yeah, I get it.
But I think it's more than just making an example for the rating.
Like, I'm pretty sure this has been an investigation going on for a while because the federal state.
The DBI don't just act out of nowhere, right?
And then his friend, some dude out in Vegas, his house got raided the same exact day.
Skill Over Clout00:11:38
That's it.
Yeah, yeah.
So now that's what makes it federal because now it's connection.
They can prove a connection between states.
Now it's federal.
Oh, that's right.
Anything.
Ah, explain federal again.
So it's like if there's a conspiracy that's going across more than one state, neither state has jurisdiction on the entirety of the conspiracy.
That's when the federal government comes in.
And so all they got to prove is that one gun, if they see a picture of one gun during their surveillance, and now this same gun is in the other place, boom.
You've taken guns across state lines.
You might not have the permission.
That's trafficking.
Yeah, guns charges.
Who just got caught up on guns charges?
Is that Torre Lynch?
Jake, they took a bunch of guns out of his house.
Right.
And then who's he?
Who's friendly guys?
This other guy is called Armani Izzadi.
And at one point, he actually.
This guy's got a diverse group of friends, man.
He was arrested a few years ago for a prostitution rape.
So this guy, he's been involved in shit like that.
So now this is his second time getting in trouble.
I assume that the tone was like celebratory that he got arrested on online social media because everybody seems to hate him.
And I cannot find like good reasons why.
I think when he came up, he came up as a Disney star originally.
So like, well, he came up through Vine originally.
Let me take that back.
So like pops off Vine.
His little brother starts popping off Vine also.
He's the older brother.
Logan is younger.
Logan's older.
Jake is younger, too.
I understand.
Okay.
So then Jake gets on this Disney show.
He's doing the Disney shit and then like goes rogue and starts doing like wild stuff.
He gets his house in Calabasas doing all these crazy parties.
Like the neighbors are calling the police.
Like there's a kid, like a child with millions of dollars like ruining our neighborhood.
He's just like ignorant and like the cops would show up and he would like stand on his car and like tell him to go fuck himself.
So like he was just like a rowdy like rebellious kid.
And when you are like a rich, attractive kid with millions of dollars, people don't like you.
That leans into it.
He leans into the left out a really important adjective and that's white.
Yes.
If he's a rapper doing this, this shit is amazing.
Yeah.
But the feds are still coming after you.
Yeah.
But the people won't be.
But the feds are coming after rappers because they talk about breaking law.
They talk about shooting people.
Bobby Schmurdo wasn't in jail because he was rowdy because he was throwing crazy parties.
Right.
I think, and I don't, listen, I'm not the guy that wants to defend white people, but I hate when we just hate a straight white dude because he's a straight white dude who's successful.
Case in point.
I would say this, though, that Jake Paul leans into the hate.
He creates the hate.
I think Floyd Maywell.
He's working to be the heel.
He's Floyd.
Yeah.
So Logan is the American boy.
This is my assumption.
If there's like, if they've cultivated this like Paul fandom, right?
Logan is the hero, but Jake is the heel.
Isn't Logan filmed people killing themselves in the fucking 40?
He filmed someone who had already committed suicide in this thing.
They both tripped up throughout their careers, obviously.
I don't have a problem with either of them.
I'm just saying.
Again, film it.
Like, you wouldn't film that.
Like, I don't understand how we can film every single fight on the street and we can film all these people, like everybody, like cops leaning on people's necks.
Like, all this shit is filmed.
And then all of a sudden, Logan filmed someone who had committed suicide.
And then that's like this bad thing.
It's like, we're all disgusting.
We all film things every single day that we should be helping instead of doing it.
The person's already killed.
It just seems weird that the entire world jumped out.
Yeah.
And they're like.
To my point.
He is a good-looking, straight white dude.
So fuck him.
With millions of dollars.
With millions of dollars, also.
So, yeah, no, and it's in poor taste, but yeah, we all.
I think it's the Beckham hate.
This is so funny how you guys really driving the point how good looking this guy is.
That's fine.
I haven't said it.
Everyone has said a mad time.
Have you seen his body?
They are.
It's like you kids talk about it.
It's like, it's good-looking white hats.
Why is it?
That's him.
That's just him.
It's me.
That's an indication.
I'm honest.
I'm not going to be able to get over here.
That's an indicator for hate.
Like, if you are, if you have things people are seeking after, then you're easier to hate.
They're not going to hate a fat schlubby.
John Gabris ain't getting hate.
You know what I mean?
I think you get hate when people see you as more famous than you are good.
So Kim Kardashian, like David Beckham is the perfect example of this.
Right.
Right?
Is David Beckham was the most famous soccer player in the world.
He was really good at soccer.
He was an elite soccer player.
Right.
But he was more famous than he was good.
And a lot of soccer purists hate him, to your point.
A lot of soccer peer purists, I don't even know if purists hate him as much as like, like, and again, I'm not a biggest soccer fan because I think a purist would be like, no, he's a really good passer.
And like, he's been on successful teams his entire life.
And like, he's good.
But the average fan who really loves Ronaldinho and thinks Ronaldinho is so good, well, why isn't he getting all the fame?
Well, because he's not this handsome guy who's got these cool tattoos, white dude, and he has a celeb wife and all these things.
So I think maybe when they looked at like a Jake Paul or they looked at like a Logan, there was this, they're looking at them and they didn't understand their fame.
A lot of people look and they're like, wait a minute, they're just making YouTube videos where they're going around doing crazy shit.
That's not a skill.
Yeah.
Why are they so famous?
And then it's fuck you.
They don't realize that like garnering interest is a skill.
And they exist in a time where like that is the currency and they're exceptional at it.
We don't see it as a skill because we're like, well, it's not stand-up comedy.
It's not singing.
It's not dancing, et cetera.
And yeah, like I think, I think to be honest, this is one of the reasons why we people in our field don't get as much hate because they see a skill and then they go, oh, he's famous because of that skill.
I get it.
Or I hate you, but I get, I hate you for your opinion, but like I get that you have a skill and people fuck with you.
I agree with that.
And it drives me crazy people who don't have, who are famous without skill.
I'm not going to act like I'm different, but their hate is on a different level.
All social media people, to me, not all, but a lot of them are, to me, more famous than good.
The big ones, why these two get the most hate?
Are they the biggest?
I don't think so.
I don't think Logan gets much hate, dude.
I think Logan is like celebrated.
He got hate during the Japanese thing.
Yeah, the suicide thing was the most hate I've seen.
But ever since then.
I can just follow a lot of black people on Twitter, but these motherfuckers do not seem to like this guy.
Yeah, he gets tripped.
Maybe I'm in my own echo chamber of shit I disagree with, weirdly, so it's not echo, but I'm seeing a lot of like hate for any Paul.
If you're not a fan of his, you have a different group of black people that you follow because the black people I follow don't even know who Logan Paul is.
Yeah.
I mean, look, there's a lot of, again, I'm telling you, when our kids will grow up and they will view garnering interest as a skill in and of itself, right?
We never looked at garnering interest as a skill back in the day because the interest was already decided.
There were these channels and we watched the channels.
And no matter who was there, we would watch them.
And if we watch them more, then they would get promoted within the channels.
Now, anybody could garner interest.
And it is a fucking skill.
Antics is a skill.
Antics is a skill.
And the Logan Paul, and you saw this with athletes first, the guys who make money based on what they do, the boxers and the MMA guys, that's a skill.
And in the future, we will look at this and we will respect these people for their ability to garner interest.
It's just we're too old or we're grandfathered into this thing where it's like we only view talent as skill.
And to be honest, we get upset when somebody who's talented but can't garner interest doesn't have that interest that we believe their talent deserves.
But I believe that our kids are going to grow up and go, oh, you got talent.
So what?
Like, why don't you garner interest with that talent?
Like, what do you like?
What are you initiating?
You're missing a huge talent.
Literally, we're going to go, you're lazy.
I think we're going to look at talented people who can't garner interest and we're going to go, wait, what do you mean you don't do Twitter?
What do you mean you don't do Instagram?
What do you mean you don't do social media?
You're lazy?
Yeah.
Like, why?
That's what it takes.
It's going to be a reflection of your talent if you do all these things and you don't have a following and be like, oh, you're not that talented.
Because a big part of talent is getting people to look at you.
Right.
Yeah.
I think that we'll be able to compartmentalize with talents, but I agree with you.
It will be a criticism.
Yeah.
Where instead, like, what's that rapper that never puts out and out?
He just put it out with Jay-Z.
Exhibit C was the song that he put out of Jay Electronica.
So instead of going like, yo, Jay Electronics is the truth.
He's the great, blah, blah, blah.
We're going to be like, well, he can't get anybody to be interested in him.
Why?
Yeah.
Like, he's not even, why wouldn't he focus on that and be good at that?
Right.
Like, I think we'll just look at it as part of the game.
And we'll look at the Takashis and go, oh, yeah, his skill of rap ain't that good, but his skill of gaining interest was fucking unbelievable.
Yeah.
I'm curious to see.
I'm curious if, and maybe kids already do that.
Do you think that your generation is like appreciating people who can gain interest despite their talent level?
Yeah, yeah, I'd say so.
And especially with the Takashi thing, I don't think it's necessarily like, oh, his music is like, I don't think it's like amazing, but like it is worse than his fame historically.
Yes.
Like normally people as famous as him have better music.
Yep.
But as far as like average SoundCloud rappers, his music isn't worse.
Yeah, yeah.
It's not horrible.
Yeah, exactly.
But like his ability at like rapping personally.
Yeah, exactly.
So that's the only distinction I make as far as like talent and like attention.
But I do think that my generation probably appreciates attention, your ability to like garner attention.
Garner attention.
And I think that I think that's where the term clout comes from.
I think it's your generation starting to understand what attention is.
And then they're starting to create words for attention and what the currency is.
So they're like, oh, it's clout.
Like we didn't grow up with that.
No.
We call it clout chasing something bad.
Yeah, clout chase.
And then I think their generation will call it kind of bad.
It can be critical.
It's a diss, but clout in and of itself is a thing.
We didn't have clout.
We had like respect.
Yeah.
Or like, we had like, I don't know.
There was something else that was like intrinsic to the skill.
Like, oh, yeah, you know, he got respect.
He got people's whatever.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
Interest.
Floyd Mayweather was amazing at creating clout.
Conor McGregor, amazing at creating clout.
Back to our antics and talent conversation from last time.
You know, the first example I can think of of that outside of like maybe period in entertainment, Deion Sanders.
Amazing at clout.
I remember him saying on something that like back then cornerbacks didn't get drafted super high.
They didn't get big contracts.
So he was like, I got to make myself a name so that I get drafted high, so that I get the big contracts.
So I get the endorsement deals.
Because that's not a sexy position in and of itself.
Keeping a guy from catching a pass?
How the fuck is that exciting?
But so your Deion, he created prime time and he started dancing all over and high stepping all the way to the end zone whenever he returned kicks and holding the ball out here.
Antics and talent.
And it really is a function of like the supply and the demand.
Like as the supply has increased, the competition for the eyeballs has increased.
And so, as a function of the supply side getting greater, there's more, there's more like value put in the ability to sort of climb the lane.
And in this example, the supply you're referring to is talent, where the supply was restricted before content, rather, yeah.
Sure.
And even avenues for talent.
The avenues for talent were restricted before to TV channels, which there was like a finite amount of them.
Now, infinite amount, right?
And now, because of that, way more skill-talented people are coming out.
Right.
Skill-talented, way more rappers that are really good.
We could go on SoundCloud and find a guy who raps exactly like Kendrick Lamar.
A guy could just mock Kendrick Lamar be like, hey, this is how Kendrick Lamar raps.
I see these all the time.
This is how Travis Scott makes a beat.
And they just make a beat that sounds fire just like a Travis Cobby.
So the amount of people who have that quote-unquote skill talent are out there.
The ones who have skill talent and clout talent are the ones that start to pop.
All right, what else we got?
Wondering About Kevin00:06:59
You want to talk about Tom?
I almost got sexually assaulted by Ellen's.
Oh, my God.
Where should we save it for the regular app?
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
You're talking about it.
You're talking about this right now.
How didn't you talk about it?
Oh, yeah.
We talked about this right now.
I almost wonder if we should save it for the regular.
Nah, this sample up.
Let's go.
All right, go.
Go, go, go.
This is interesting.
So you know the dude that this explains everything.
I know.
So you know the dude that was the executive producer.
His name is Kevin Lehman.
He was out here like sexually assaulting his staff members, trying to get his dick sucked, trying to suck dicks, trying to jerk off dudes and like all over dudes.
Allegedly, allegedly.
The lawyer lady up there in the booth is telling me to say, allegedly.
Well, Mark reached out to him.
Yeah.
Mark, take it from here.
So in 2017, what part of him did you grab when you reached out to him?
In 2017, I reached out to this dude, Kevin.
I was like, hey, I'm a fan of Ellen.
I was like trying to intern in the industry and just try to get in.
Fan of Ellen?
Yeah, bro.
I liked Ellen.
Son, that's gayer than sucking that dude's dick.
Fan of your daytime talk show.
I thought Ellen was cool.
Ellen was great.
The show?
Go to him getting raped.
Go.
And then I hit him up and I was like, hey, man, like, I would love to work on the show.
Can I intern or whatever?
I was making content at the time.
I was like, yo, this would be perfect for the show.
Let me get in.
And then he hit me back and he was like, hey, man, no problem.
I appreciate you hitting me up.
Things have been crazy, but we're going to talk.
I'll hit you back for sure.
Summer internships are great.
Or summer internships are tricky, but we'll get it going.
And then I hit him up.
He ghosted me.
He kept on ghosting me.
He kept on ghosting me.
I hit him up like every day for like, or like every week for like a month.
Well, that was my whole strategy.
I was like, I'll hit people up till they tell me to fuck off and then I'll just will.
And that was like.
Scoreboard.
Yeah, scoreboard, bro.
That's what I'll do to them.
Okay, go.
And so he hit me up.
I hit him up for weeks.
And like, we talked.
And then he just ghosted me.
And I just hit him up two days ago and said, hey, man, I'm actually good on the internship.
I'm all good.
And he didn't get back to me, but yo, but how crazy is it that like that dude was going out there like sexually assaulting dudes?
Yeah.
Like trying to suck their dicks, trying to jerk off.
And he looked at Mark and he was like, nah.
How do you feel?
Wait, what do you mean?
You're not rapable.
Wait, what?
Yo, gay guys don't want to smoke you out.
You know, gay dudes be fucking.
They be fucking anything.
Why do you think they look at you specifically?
And they were like, and he was like, I don't want to fuck that.
No, he probably couldn't handle this.
He probably couldn't handle what I think there was just too much for him?
In my gap jeans, he probably saw what I had.
Yo, do you think that he was judging based on like your like preppy cut that you had back in college?
Like he didn't see the long hair?
Yeah, he doesn't know that I'm a rugged guy.
So do you want to like do you feel at all like a sense of rejection at all?
Is there any sense of rejection?
I don't need them.
I'm happy to be.
They don't need you, to be honest.
But no, is there a little part of you?
Unrapeable is like a, that's like a, that's a shot at me.
That's insulted, man.
That's insulting.
No, you are not.
I can be assaulted.
No, you cannot.
Yeah, if I walk down the street by myself, I put the keys between my fingers.
Do you?
Yeah.
For no reason.
Just in case someone wants to assault me.
You know what?
He wouldn't be putting between his fingers.
Dude, I wonder.
I wonder if Kevin Lehman saw something about you and was like, not my type.
And if that affects you in any way.
Well, this has happened to me before.
Oh, shit.
This is not the first gay guy that's turned you down?
Yeah.
Okay, no, not, has propositioned me.
Okay, this guy didn't proposition you.
You propositioned him and he said no.
You thirsty for it.
You said everything.
It was too easy.
It was like, you know what a girl's like, like, yo, play hard to get.
Ain't gay.
No, he said we're going to be.
Rape me, rape me.
Angry fucking leaf this kid.
Basically.
Fishing with dynamite.
He's at Will Chat.
Will chat.
That seems like.
Yeah, he goes to you, dog.
Blow off every chick.
Yeah, yeah.
No, we'll talk later.
Talk about how you're not going to get this internship, you ugly motherfucker.
Yo, that's foul that he did that to you, bro.
Do you feel a way?
Like, you know how like there are girls that probably like Weinstein said no to?
I was just thinking.
Where he was like, look, you're really talented.
We're just going to take this in a different direction.
And that's it.
And do you, and they're like, oh, my God.
Like, he couldn't even Weinstein me.
Like, is that how you feel right now?
Now that you're making me feel that way.
Yo.
I am feeling it now.
I feel like we got to get to the bottom of why.
I'm not the bottom.
Not the bottom.
Yeah, by his choice, though.
That's what's going on.
Yeah, we got to find out.
Like, there's got to be a little part of you that's curious, like, what you did to be undesirable.
That is true now that you bring it up in this specific type of thing.
Like, I had this one Brazilian girl reach out to me once.
Like, it was after we stopped talking and shit like that.
Yeah.
And she reached out like months later and she was like, can you just tell me like what I did wrong?
Did you?
Nah.
That's not my job.
Like, you know, but I wonder if this is.
Should I ask?
Yeah.
I wonder if you should shoot an email.
We got this message up right now.
We can fill this out.
What do you want me to say?
Like, look, you were like sexually assaulting all these people and everything like that.
And obviously that's 100% wrong.
I just want to know why you weren't interested in doing that to me.
Was it something I said?
Was it the way I looked?
Was it my profile picture?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'll text him now.
Has he seen your message?
Yeah, he's seen all of them.
He saw the don't worry about the internship one?
Oh, no, he didn't see that one yet.
Oh, he's probably going through it.
No, but once he responds to that, then we hit him.
No, no, you need to send this now.
So it sounds like a sincere message.
Hey, man, I just wanted to reach out and see how you're doing.
You know what I mean?
That's going to pop up on his message shit.
So yeah, click that.
Like, y'all just want to know what about me?
It's so unrapeable.
Yeah, that's actually kind of hurt my feelings.
What do you think is the number one reason why Mark is so unrapeable?
I don't know because he didn't say anything about it.
I know why.
That motherfucker would probably be giving you all these facts about rape, during the rape, and shit.
He's like, actually, 99% of victims.
You like that?
Actually, as a matter of fact, I don't.
Stockholm syndrome can present itself in many cases, but in this specific one.
Oh, man.
Bro, we got to get to the bottom of this Kevin Lehman, bro.
Because he can't smell you over Facebook message.
What could it be?
Dude, Mark.
Yo, that's a sad, that's a sad story.
I thought this was going to be fun.
I thought somebody tried to rape you.
Yeah, I know.
Turns out nobody tried to rape you.
That's a sad story.
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