Pearl - July 22, 2025


The Worst Take I Ever Had


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Length

8 minutes

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121.99043

Word count

1,037

Sentence count

1

Harmful content

Misogyny

14

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Toxicity

18

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Hate speech

11

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Jada Pinkett Smith joins Jemele to talk about one of the dumbest takes he ever had, banning divorce, and why he thinks women deserve a divorce. He also talks about why divorce is better than nagging wives.

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00:00:00.000 so i got on the internet when i was like 23 i think maybe 24 i started my tiktok account
00:00:07.800 and the embarrassing thing about like being on the internet so long is sometimes you have takes
00:00:14.460 when you're younger that were just bad i just thought i just thought were so good at the time
00:00:22.780 and you know you get a little older and you think you know that wasn't the best take i've ever had
00:00:31.940 and one of those takes i actually think was banning divorce i think that was one of the
00:00:38.520 worst takes i ever had and you might you might think but we you've done you know you've done all
00:00:46.540 this research you know how bad divorce is for the kids and that's true i do know how bad divorce is
00:00:53.880 for the kids and i think maybe ideally nobody would get divorced but you get a little older
00:01:02.520 you get more real life experience
00:01:04.500 and the past three years women really have tormented me and it's like a mental anguish 1.00
00:01:17.940 torment now i don't need i'm not saying this to like appeal sympathy i'm just trying to explain how
00:01:25.800 i got to this opinion
00:01:26.880 and it's like a psychological torture
00:01:31.600 you know like i'll do my show right and women in my life will torture they'll get mad about something 1.00
00:01:39.840 i said or and then it's psychological torture they send people after me old friends crash out it it's it
00:01:49.940 just uh they dragged me to court and i've really seen firsthand that hell has no fury like a woman scorned 0.99
00:02:02.940 uh my co-host during the week doug mpa he always says to me you're so brave like you know putting
00:02:10.280 your face out there and to be honest i was 23 24 i didn't really think about it too much i just started
00:02:17.500 saying what i thought and it got traction i've always been that like that i've always been kind
00:02:22.040 of blunt 0.93
00:02:22.460 but back to the divorce thing i think that was one of the dumbest takes i ever had 0.97
00:02:30.160 and the reason it was dumb is because i can't imagine living with some of these women 1.00
00:02:37.080 there has to be more peace getting raked through the coals in child support 0.97
00:02:44.640 living in an apartment by yourself
00:02:48.780 than living with some of these women 1.00
00:02:54.920 it just sounds like hell on earth and i i actually
00:03:00.940 i actually believe in divorce to free the men
00:03:04.800 from these nagging wives if you guys ever 1.00
00:03:07.440 lived with a nagging woman it just never 1.00
00:03:11.000 ends
00:03:12.400 ever they just always find something to complain about forever
00:03:16.980 and
00:03:18.940 and women are just so mean like they pick it you know 1.00
00:03:22.960 men can kind of see a guy's little dorky or awkward or different but 0.96
00:03:27.700 they can put their differences aside to
00:03:30.520 you know get the thing done they're not really harsh with it
00:03:33.820 but women will spend hours just telling you how you're you're a bad person that's their point 1.00
00:03:39.740 and they can never just move on
00:03:43.700 and they scare me you know
00:03:47.360 since i got on the internet you know
00:03:49.680 it scares me to have close female friends because 0.99
00:03:55.780 god they're just so nuts 0.99
00:03:58.920 anyways long story short 0.98
00:04:04.320 one of my worst takes was banning divorce 0.99
00:04:11.560 you got to free these men from these crazy women 1.00
00:04:15.600 i would like to see 50 50 custody
00:04:19.160 but if we could get the divorce on the table with 50 50 custody
00:04:23.840 then i actually think the kids are better off
00:04:28.600 because they can at least know what a house is like 0.98
00:04:31.280 without a nagging crazy wife 0.99
00:04:33.760 the problem is the court system now 0.81
00:04:36.720 um
00:04:38.540 it only gives the kid to the mother
00:04:41.600 so the kids are just tortured
00:04:43.320 oh my god i can't even imagine 0.96
00:04:45.580 just like if you guys had a crazy mother and it was just you 0.99
00:04:50.520 at home oh that would be torture 1.00
00:04:53.520 absolute torture
00:04:55.920 um yeah so that take you know
00:05:02.720 there's some takes i'll probably have to walk back
00:05:06.400 and that's one of them
00:05:07.520 repeal the 19th i can't talk about anymore
00:05:13.020 but you guys know my opinion on that one
00:05:15.440 can you imagine keeping
00:05:26.720 have you guys ever met an older couple
00:05:30.260 where the wife just has henpecked the husband for 30 years
00:05:36.100 kind of like will smith and jada
00:05:37.880 i think will smith deserves a divorce
00:05:42.480 i really do
00:05:45.040 i think
00:05:48.440 i even see matt walsh's you know wife hen
00:05:52.340 you know nagging him on twitter
00:05:54.160 or like making fun of him on twitter 0.77
00:05:56.120 i'm like matt walsh you deserve a divorce too
00:05:58.560 and i almost think the men do
00:06:03.280 like i almost think the more the men up talk their wives 0.81
00:06:06.940 the worse the wife is 1.00
00:06:09.700 because they're afraid of her right
00:06:12.260 but if they're like eh she's all right
00:06:15.100 usually she's pretty cool 1.00
00:06:16.620 pretty nice
00:06:17.580 and the other thing too is
00:06:25.080 you know so many women 0.59
00:06:26.500 i think god gives men
00:06:28.600 potential right
00:06:31.260 and like greatness that's just like in them
00:06:33.680 and so many times women ruin a man's greatness 0.98
00:06:37.440 like i mean cancer would probably be cured by now 0.92
00:06:40.500 if we didn't have women 1.00
00:06:42.800 nagging their husbands 0.87
00:06:44.540 like cancer would be cured
00:06:46.560 there would be world peace
00:06:48.360 you know i you know i bet
00:06:51.400 you know i bet trump's doing what he's doing in the middle east
00:06:57.280 because melania's probably nagging him
00:06:59.640 and he got pissed off
00:07:00.720 and he's like bomb
00:07:01.800 i'm not saying that
00:07:05.680 but
00:07:06.100 yeah my worst take ever
00:07:11.380 being in divorce
00:07:13.040 oh those poor men
00:07:14.440 those poor men
00:07:17.800 but you know let me know what you guys think in the comments
00:07:22.260 um make sure you like the video
00:07:24.340 make sure you subscribe to the channel
00:07:26.240 ring that notification bell
00:07:28.280 um but i think i'm gonna make this a series
00:07:32.540 talking about some of my like
00:07:34.260 worst takes
00:07:36.120 because you know
00:07:36.920 they can't all be great
00:07:38.260 not repeal though
00:07:40.160 but i can't talk
00:07:41.060 the fans that know know
00:07:43.440 repeal the you know
00:07:45.760 anyways
00:07:49.960 like the video
00:07:51.320 please if you can
00:07:53.160 put something in the comment section
00:07:55.040 i'd really appreciate it
00:07:56.560 um i gotta catch a flight
00:07:58.800 so i'll see y'all later
00:08:00.060 Here we go.