The Dalai Lama faces backlash after a viral video shows him asking a boy to "suck my tongue" in New Delhi, sparking debate over whether the gesture was a culturally respectful tease or inappropriate misconduct. While one host cites Berkeley sources defending the Tibetan folklore context, the other dismisses this as liberal spin, mocking the Nobel laureate's appearance and questioning his judgment amidst pandemic concerns. Ultimately, the incident highlights how cultural misunderstandings can rapidly escalate into global controversies when amplified by social media scrutiny. [Automatically generated summary]
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Sucking Tongue to Holiness00:11:14
Yeah, got a new show for y'all.
Man, we got a damn good show for y'all today.
Damn good show.
Yeah.
All right, so we're talking about this, what is he, a monk?
Put up his picture.
A picture?
Yeah, a picture.
Hey, put a picture.
Well, he's a...
Who's the dude with the bald head and the blankets?
That's him.
That's him?
It's the Dalai Lama.
Wait, is he cold or something?
We wearing on them blankets.
And the Dalai Lama's in the news because he did something.
The Dolly, what?
The Dalai Lama.
What the hell is that?
That's like a monk or something in Tibetan.
I'll read it.
I don't know.
All I see is a guy with some blankets.
He look cold, though.
He looked cold as shit.
You know, old people, when they get old, he always cold.
Well, no, this dude is like a spiritual leader.
Oh, he is?
He believes in God and all that?
No, he believes in Buddha.
Who the hell is Buddha?
There's that fat boy, ah.
That fat boy with that jerry curl.
There's that fat dude with that big old gut like a Simo.
Hey, man, I think we're this is disrespecting someone's religion.
Sorry, I'm a comedian.
I have the First Amendment right to do this, okay?
If you don't like it, go back where you came from.
Hey, uh.
No, you're fine.
All right, so let's go to the video.
And this is what he's in the news for.
Oh, that's sweet.
Why them two dudes got masks on?
They believe in Buddha, though.
This is kind of suspect.
What's this all about?
It's an act of love.
Yeah?
This is what's going to get him in trouble.
Is that his daddy or something?
I don't know.
My tongue.
You suck it.
Don't suck it.
Cut like that.
Cut it.
No, I seen enough.
I didn't see enough of the dude with the blankets.
Whenever you tell a kid to suck it, it's not good.
Yeah.
I mean, you can take out a lot of pop and say, suck it.
It still is going to come up wrong.
How are you going to tell some kid to suck it?
Huh?
Suck it?
What else you want him to suck, huh?
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Okay, back to the child sucker.
I mean, the tongue sucker.
You told that little boy to suck his tongue?
Suck your tongue.
Yeah, suck.
Sorry, I'm tired.
Suck your tongue?
What else you want him to suck?
You sound like me.
My wife, suck it.
Be like, hey, babe.
I'd be like, yes, it'd be two o'clock in the morning.
I'd be like, yes.
Hey, suck it.
You doing this in front of cameras.
Well, church.
With a little boy?
Well, he apologized for it.
What do you apologize for?
He thought it was cool at the time.
Well, this is the next.
The only reason why he apologized because people's in the uproar.
This is, this is.
That's why you apologize.
You're not sorry for what you did.
You thought it was funny.
Now you sorry.
He's a suck it.
Suck my tongue.
Suck it.
I could not even fathom me going up to a boy that's not...
I can't even do that to my son.
Suck it.
Who do you think you are?
Just cause you a religious figure.
You can just tell people to suck it.
Suck it.
Really?
You just tell anybody to suck it, huh?
Hey.
It's crazy.
That's all Starcomps, the kid asking for a hug.
Yeah, he just want a hug.
You told him to suck it.
He sucked my tongue.
What else you want him to suck, huh?
Hey, Kel, let me just talk you.
All right, bring up the, he apologized.
Bring up the website.
What, you praying?
Who are you praying to?
Look, Dalai Lama apologizes after the video shows him asking a boy to suck my tongue.
No, I don't like that title, man.
You should be Dalai Lama apologized after video showing him asking boy to suck it.
That's what the title of the story should be.
I like his Michael Mexicanes he got going though.
At least he got that going for him.
Go ahead and scroll down.
Why is one of his hands pink and the other one's white?
Do you see that?
Scroll back up.
I think he's old, Kevin.
Well, that shit looks pink, don't it?
This might be like a light or something.
Some kind of light.
All right, he ain't got no shoulders.
Yeah, you need to hit them down.
You need to get some.
Hey, bring Kevin back to me.
You need to get some 15-pound dumbbells.
You need to hit them damn shoulders.
Your shoulders is non-existent.
All right, so do less praying and pick up some dumbbells.
Hey, Kel, look.
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetans, 87-year-old spiritual leader, apologized on Monday after footage showed him asking a young boy to suck my tongue.
No, you said it wrong.
New Delhi, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan's 87-year-old spiritually, it apologizes on Monday for after footage showing him asking young boy to suck it at a public event.
Look, a video clip has been circulating that shows a recent meeting when a young boy asked his holiness, the Dalai Lama.
His holiness.
Is that name accurate for holiness?
Why would you call somebody?
Tell somebody to suck his tongue to holiness.
Let me read, Kevin.
The Dalai Lama.
Get your finger out my face.
If you could give him a hug, said a statement on the exiled leader's Twitter account, which has 19 million followers.
The holiness wishes to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as many friends across the world for the hurt his words may have caused.
I wonder what his daddy must have been thinking.
What?
Suck it?
The statement said that the Dalai Lama leader often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras.
He regrets the incident.
Hey, teases people in public, man.
That's fun.
Yeah, look, sticking out one's tongue is a sign of respect or agreement.
It was often used as a greeting in traditional Tibetan culture.
Okay, I get it.
According to the...
I understand.
Shut up.
According to the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
What?
Look, the liberals are already coming in, trying to cover for.
The liberals are already trying to cover for.
University of Berkeley, California.
That's a liberal ass school right there.
Let me keep reading.
So let me get you straight, Keith.
Don't mean to cut you off.
Let me reiterate.
Let me share some of my opinions on the show.
Now, in his culture, all right?
Yeah.
That's a sign of respect.
To stick your tongue out?
That's a sign of disrespect in our culture.
Yeah, according to UC Berkeley.
That's a sign of disrespect in our culture.
It's crazy, man, that different coaches, the different cultures.
Different cultures have different philosophies on life.
Yeah.
Now, where in that coach is...
Like in Africa, some areas cows are like gods to them.
They even let the cows piss on them.
Yeah.
Remember that video we did?
Neanderthals.
That's what that is.
It's African.
No, There's plenty of people in Africa.
Those are Neanderthals.
What were you going to say?
Shit, I don't know.
All right, bring up the article.
Let me keep reading.
Oh, yeah.
It came back to me.
It came back to me.
Hold up.
It came back to me.
Now, show me in that culture where it's okay to ask somebody to suck your tongue.
Is that okay in that culture too?
Because that's a bit of a stretch.
You go from sticking your tongue out to asking somebody to suck it.
Each little kid was like, I ain't doing this shit, old man.
If that was me, I'd have smacked the shit out of your ass.
I'm like, bitch.
I don't care how many blankets you're wearing.
Hey, let me keep reading.
According to Tibetan folklore, a cruel 9th century Tibetan king had a black tongue, so people stick out their tongues to show that they are not like him.
Anybody evil got to be black.
That's racist.
Yeah, the Institute said on this website, there's no mention of tongue sucking on the site.
Oh, the video which the video which has a million views on Twitter appears to show the Noble Peace laureate attempting to give the boy a peck on the lips in the presence of an audience.
The crowd can be heard clapping and laughing while a man captures a moment on a phone.
Everybody wearing masks around you, they concerned about COVID.
You over there talking about suck my tongue.
Y'all need to get y'all priorities straight.
And you old as hell.
COVID will eat your ass up if you get it.
You know how you get COVID.
It's sucking other people's tongues.
That's how you get COVID.
Yeah, that little kid could be a damn little outbreak monkey.
Kill everybody over there.
Kid can have COVID.
A lot of people get that age.
They have COVID.
Don't even know it.
So you over there sucking his tongue.
Yeah.
You heard of COVID, right?
I mean, I'm sure the people pull up the video.
Everybody's sitting around you wearing masks.
They old as hell, just like you.
You talking about sucking my tongue.
Yeah, that's a bit of a sick.
Everybody's wearing a mask.
Poor little boy.
A cute little boy, ain't you a little bit more?
Cute little boy.
Cute little boy, man.
Cute little boy.
Got him good, clean little haircut going.
Yeah, it looks like he's good enough to be in a Disney movie.
You know how they putting a lot of those in Disney movies, man.
Yeah.
Yes, it's called inclusivity.
Yeah.
Disney is all about inclusivity.
Hell, maybe, won't you put him on a Bud Light can?
You can put that down, the Dalai Lama, put them on a Bud Light can.
You're putting transgenders on there.
I was going to say training.
That's not correct, right?
It's transgender.
No, no, that's derogatory.
You can't say that.
It's like calling the F word.
Fire!
Can't say it.
Can't say it.
I can fire.
No, no.
Say.
Can't say it.
Can you say it?
I didn't put the two G's in that.
The key is the two G's and that T is in.
Fire!
Can't say it, man.
Hey, man, this Dalai Lama, the dude with the blankets, he should be disgraced.
He should lose his privileges as being a Buddha, a Buddhist priest or something.
Yeah.
Whatever the hell he is.
As you can see, we're ignorant when it comes to Buddhism.
But man.
Yeah, of course I'm ignorant of it.
I'm not a damn Buddhist.
I'm damn Christian.
I'm a Christian.
I ain't no damn Buddhist.
I'm Christian.
And I know damn good and well, it's not okay to have kids tell kids to suck your tongue.