Valuetainment - September 07, 2025


“Killing Kids & Destroying Communities” - Ray Lewis TORCHES Big Tech & Media

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Sugar Ray Lewis Steve Harvey P. Whatever Chris Pratt Bill Maher Marvin Jimmy
“You’re Playing Politics” - Armenian PM Pashinyan REJECTS Netanyahu Genocide Recognition ＂You Don't Control A Missile＂ - Ray Lewis SLAMS NFL's Helmet-to-Helmet Hysteria

Episode Stats


Length

12 minutes

Words per minute

166.36

Word count

2,067

Sentence count

205

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

3

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Summary

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On today's episode, the brother and sister duo of the sit down with former NFL player Jermaine Dupri and discuss his life story, how he got into the business, and how he became the man he is today.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 When you're at the house, birthday party, your friends are there, you're up there, you're praying, right?
00:00:06.880 You were emotional, you were given an incredible, powerful message, you're listening to you.
00:00:12.200 And I think your prayer went viral, if I'm not mistaken, it was all over the place.
00:00:17.020 I don't know where it's at, but it wouldn't be hard to find it.
00:00:19.700 But, you know, from talking to a lot of your friends, you know, that were there, is that the one?
00:00:25.600 I think that's the one. Yeah, that's what you were wearing, you had that hat on.
00:00:27.800 Yeah. Is that you? No, it's...
00:00:31.800 Yeah, this is it. That's Jimmy singing right now, though.
00:00:36.240 Right, right, right.
00:00:38.820 But when you were up there, when you were up there and you were, you're doing what you're doing,
00:00:42.940 I went around and I probably spoke to 70 of your friends.
00:00:47.380 Yeah. 60, 70, I spoke to Eddie, spoke to Marvin, spoke to, a bunch of guys were there, spoke to...
00:00:53.800 But mainly the pattern I saw, and maybe this is different, I got the feeling most of your friends were conservatives.
00:01:03.380 Yeah. Yeah. I could say that. For sure, actually.
00:01:08.500 And the way you live your life, you don't like excuses, right?
00:01:17.180 You just explained, you joined the NFL, you're going to get hit, you're going to take that kid out,
00:01:21.620 you chose to play this game.
00:01:22.640 So, it's not even like, hey, it's not fair, you know, you chose to, this is not this, this is not that.
00:01:28.180 Yeah.
00:01:28.460 Straight up having that type of conversation of high standards, right?
00:01:30.840 On the, would you say yourself, you live more of a conservative life?
00:01:37.240 Yeah.
00:01:38.380 Faith, values, principles?
00:01:40.740 Yeah, of course, my mom's a pastor, and what she done for me, the direction that she gave me,
00:01:47.840 for her to introduce me to God so young, and for me to fall in love with God,
00:01:53.160 was, I wait on it every day.
00:01:56.060 Like, and I think, I think I just saw so much bad when I was younger that I said,
00:02:05.920 I don't want to, I don't want to make my mother ever feel like that.
00:02:09.760 And that still holds true to this day.
00:02:13.120 That's why, that's why at 25 years old, I stopped cursing, I stopped going to clubs,
00:02:18.840 never been to a strip club since.
00:02:21.660 Don't, I've, last time I had any type of taste of brown liquor,
00:02:26.060 even when we was out, give me a glass of wine, I'm good.
00:02:29.880 But, yeah, you put that one thing in there.
00:02:31.680 Yeah.
00:02:32.640 Like, let me get a couple.
00:02:34.840 But, but I think it was, it was me, P, actually saying that I was going to do something young,
00:02:44.100 and nobody believed it.
00:02:46.540 And so I said, I'm going to continue to do it.
00:02:51.440 And it became such a thing that you were so alienated because most kids started disrespecting their moms and their parents.
00:02:59.040 And I'm like, I would never do that.
00:03:01.320 I would never curse in front of my mom.
00:03:03.540 I would never drink in front of my mom.
00:03:05.380 Are you kidding me?
00:03:06.680 No.
00:03:07.120 And that thing, it started to pick up.
00:03:10.680 And then me being a stutterer, I stuttered so bad.
00:03:14.160 And then for me to travel the world now, I just got through speaking in, what, five, six countries.
00:03:20.900 And I've always had that calmness inside of me.
00:03:27.220 I've never, I used to have to be forced to fight.
00:03:30.060 Like, if you wanted to fight me, you like, like, this dude would almost hit me in my jaw three times before I fight.
00:03:36.400 So you, you, you control your emotions.
00:03:38.360 Oh, man.
00:03:39.340 I'm the greatest in it.
00:03:41.220 Because, because I, I will tell you, I witnessed something with my mom that I promised myself that I would never do anything to ever hurt her because of what she had already endured.
00:03:55.600 To see my mom go through the stuff that she was going through, man, that's tough.
00:04:01.720 And I'm like, I'm not adding more to that.
00:04:04.740 So my motto, my lifestyle started at 10.
00:04:08.960 Like, my lifestyle.
00:04:10.760 Read my Bible.
00:04:12.040 Praying every day.
00:04:13.700 14, chasing sunsets.
00:04:15.940 Reciting our Father's Prayer.
00:04:17.460 I'm 50 years old.
00:04:18.660 Every day I see a sunset, I still recite our Father's Prayer.
00:04:21.240 And that's when I had one pair of jeans, no shoes, duct tape wrapped around my shoes, same turf, Afro turfs that I had to wear to school, practice, and everybody knew it. 0.99
00:04:32.060 And, you know, kids back in the day was harsh.
00:04:34.180 Oh, you don't got no daddy. 1.00
00:04:35.680 You broke.
00:04:36.500 You wear the same clothes at school every day.
00:04:38.120 Yes, I do.
00:04:40.000 Then what?
00:04:41.900 Then what?
00:04:43.020 It still doesn't define who I am.
00:04:45.440 Still to this day.
00:04:46.240 That's why you had never seen me with what I used to do when I was in my 20s and 22 years old.
00:04:51.540 Ray, when you see, I'm a Middle Eastern myself, you know, family, divorce, the whole nine, 1.8 GPA.
00:05:00.200 Trajectory for me was nothing good.
00:05:02.240 What saved me was military.
00:05:04.540 When I went to the military in boot camp, because I had won the top three high scores for PT,
00:05:08.940 I was able to go to camp with this man's house, and he ended up giving me his Bible that his parents gifted him December 24th of 1974 that I have till today.
00:05:17.600 I'm like, don't give this to me.
00:05:18.780 Trust me.
00:05:19.160 I'm not worth you giving it to me.
00:05:20.300 He says, son, I think you need this more than me.
00:05:21.720 Great.
00:05:22.480 I started praying three times a day from then till today.
00:05:25.280 I watch my community.
00:05:27.280 I watch.
00:05:28.060 I'm Armenian.
00:05:28.960 I'm a Syrian from Iran.
00:05:30.420 I watch the community.
00:05:31.500 I watch what's going on.
00:05:32.500 But when you see community-wise and you see single mothers, you see fatherless homes, you see, you know, the stats that comes up, you know, where do you go to?
00:05:45.660 Do you say, well, it's the government's fault?
00:05:48.880 Do you say we should do something about it?
00:05:51.160 Do you say it's systemic?
00:05:53.120 How do you process that for somebody that seems like you're fairly reasonable?
00:05:57.240 Yeah, it's a lot of different verticals and values inside of all of them, right?
00:06:02.580 So when I got my doctorate just recently in humanitarian, it's what I've been studying the most, which is the dysfunction of communities.
00:06:12.760 Like, we're teaching everything about money, but we're not teaching history.
00:06:19.480 Like, we teach how to fight.
00:06:22.520 We don't teach how to love.
00:06:24.680 We stop parenting so iPhones and iPads take over.
00:06:30.580 We have done everything the complete opposite of what does it mean to help an individual.
00:06:37.340 There's, when you think about the structure of what we were not supposed to do, the reason why when I was growing up, you was growing up, the reason why a man was not supposed to see a woman's nipple is because your brain can't process that at five years old.
00:06:54.140 Now, you tell a five-year-old, I can give you the same gadget with every bit of porn and every bit of nudity and every woman as a stripper and everybody, what the freak? 0.96
00:07:07.160 No. 0.51
00:07:07.500 It's broken.
00:07:10.440 There's all of this fast technology and all of this cute stuff.
00:07:14.180 You're killing our kids and you're destroying our communities.
00:07:19.220 We don't even know what human connection means anymore.
00:07:23.360 Somebody lose somebody, somebody get killed, somebody die.
00:07:26.560 You send a text.
00:07:27.740 My condolences.
00:07:28.640 Great.
00:07:29.060 I appreciate that, but I can't use it.
00:07:30.780 There's no more connects, right?
00:07:37.440 A person who really cares, they're going to find you.
00:07:40.900 They're going to call you.
00:07:42.160 They're going to let you hear their voice.
00:07:43.620 They're going to let you see them.
00:07:46.640 Bruh, I'm with you.
00:07:48.120 So, man, it's like when you go through the phases of what has happened last year from age 22 to 55 years old,
00:07:57.360 we had more men commit suicide than we had in the last 100 years.
00:08:02.240 Those are not just play-play numbers.
00:08:05.620 One out of 12 children have a suicide plan.
00:08:08.960 One out of six carry it through.
00:08:11.220 But for 10, and the number now of them committing suicides, our kids, are the ages 10 to 24.
00:08:18.800 That's the most alarming age because they're checking out.
00:08:22.160 What?
00:08:22.540 So what do you think is missing?
00:08:24.380 You think something is wrong with the kids?
00:08:25.840 Absolutely not.
00:08:27.300 It's what we're feeding them, right?
00:08:30.760 You got half of our country, 78% is obese in our country. 0.99
00:08:36.320 And these brands that has this legendary following feeds you garbage. 0.87
00:08:43.680 But we wonder why so many cancers and so many diseases are just running through our country. 0.79
00:08:49.240 And we're okay with that?
00:08:52.100 I want to know truthfully.
00:08:54.820 I want to know what a man is.
00:08:57.580 I want to know what the purpose of a man is.
00:09:00.540 I want to know when a man falls down, how does he get back up?
00:09:06.500 Because my kids checking out because they don't have those answers.
00:09:09.860 So I don't judge nobody, P.
00:09:15.620 Whatever you go do, go do what you want to do.
00:09:18.660 But I do take a hard stand in saying I won't be a part of it.
00:09:23.340 You think hip-hop had a negative impact?
00:09:25.680 I think all phases of every time technology took off, we, another wound.
00:09:36.620 Another wound.
00:09:37.480 Think about it.
00:09:38.720 Think about where hip-hop has went.
00:09:41.980 Think about where television has went.
00:09:44.780 Think about where video games has went.
00:09:46.780 Everything, shots to the brain, full clip, you're teaching them how to do it.
00:09:57.220 So what do you think you're going to raise?
00:09:59.060 What do you think you're going to create?
00:10:01.480 It's war.
00:10:02.840 It's all about war. 0.74
00:10:04.460 And once again, the leadership of that is where that should have been controlled.
00:10:10.660 There's no way that a seven-year-old should be playing Call of Duty.
00:10:15.100 Are you kidding me?
00:10:17.140 There's no way that our top people are rapping or saying the things they're saying
00:10:21.980 as if they don't got grandmothers, as if they don't have grandfathers or children.
00:10:29.020 The movies, everything, the most violent movies ever is probably the most popular ones.
00:10:36.580 So we're desensitized.
00:10:38.880 Yeah.
00:10:40.160 Yeah, I don't know what you're going to do long-term, Ray.
00:10:43.500 I'm curious to see what you're going to be doing.
00:10:45.560 Because I think, I told you the other day, I said, I don't know if you're starting a podcast.
00:10:50.360 I don't know what you're doing.
00:10:51.120 You've got to do something more than what you're doing now.
00:10:54.860 Because your method of delivering message is extremely important.
00:10:58.720 I hope you pursue it.
00:11:01.520 I hope you do something with somebody on a panel where you can voice your opinion on current events.
00:11:06.280 I think a lot of times, at least we go back when he was a president-elect.
00:11:10.180 I think Steve Harvey also went up there.
00:11:11.740 Maybe it was in 20, I don't know when he went.
00:11:13.440 But Harvey went there and visited as well when he went.
00:11:16.300 He got crucified too.
00:11:17.700 But there was a time you couldn't talk about this stuff.
00:11:21.160 I think after COVID, now, 25, I think everybody's free today to talk.
00:11:27.540 I think there's, and when I mean everybody, today Chris Pratt is a big-time actor.
00:11:31.280 He's on Bill Maher talking about what's going on.
00:11:32.900 You've got a bunch of guys that are willing to use their platform to talk about it.
00:11:36.360 I hope you do.
00:11:37.440 I'm doing it.
00:11:38.140 I hope you do.
00:11:38.880 I'm doing it.
00:11:39.300 I hope you do, and you do it regularly because, you know, you can have a very different kind of an impact, like what you said earlier, not just entertainment way.
00:11:50.000 I'm talking actual, true impact to kids.
00:11:53.200 And I'd like to see a coach as well for selfish reasons, man.
00:11:55.620 I just want to see what your defense would look like if you went up there.
00:11:57.760 I think the level of pride would be intense.
00:12:00.040 What's going on, everyone?
00:12:01.220 It's your man, Sugar Ray Lewis.
00:12:02.560 Listen, I'm on my neck.
00:12:04.520 I'm trying to connect.
00:12:05.920 I don't care what it is.
00:12:07.420 Let's say sports.
00:12:08.340 Let's say life.
00:12:09.460 Let's say leadership.
00:12:10.700 Let's say hope, faith, worry, fear, whatever it is.
00:12:15.120 Let's chat.
00:12:16.140 Let's do it.
00:12:16.840 I'm looking forward to seeing you soon.
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