Videos

For mental health support: myconnectcounseling.net TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@PhoneHomePodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phonehome_podcast/ Subscribe & turn on notifications 🔔 Opinions are the hosts' own. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 00:00 Intro — Legendary 81s (Tim Brown, Megatron, Randy Moss, Kobe's 81) 02:50 Is Dink a fake Chiefs fan? (the Magic Johnson jersey)…

Episode 79 of the Phone Home Podcast. The Chiefs drop one to Seattle and Dink reads his letter to the front office. Is Mahomes still a top-5 QB, or is the roster holding him back? Then the Angel Reese vs. Caitlin Clark popularity war reignites, and Smooth settles it with…

Episode 78 is live from the loft. The crew breaks down Pascagoula vs. Moss Point homecoming, a chaotic college football weekend and whether a 24-team playoff ruins the regular season, 50 Cent's take on Jay-Z's era, J. Cole and Drake skipping the Grammys, whether it was harder to make it…

lucky seven. The crew argues whether Michael Vick deserves a retired jersey or if the NFL only respects rings, defends Arch Manning from the interception police, and asks if Jeremiah Smith is really the best college receiver ever. Then it's Complex's best rap albums of 2006, the Ludacris snub nobody's…

Episode 76 starts with football as we break down the NFL and college football weekend, Travis Hunter playing both ways, Alabama, the SEC and some early quarterback debates. Then we get into whether 2026 has been a weak year for hip-hop, what happened to rap's middle class, DDG balancing streaming…

Smoo comes back from Jamaica with a new outlook on hustle culture and what "enough" really means: "The work gonna be there regardless. Take that trip." Then the crew goes at it: did Jeezy hold back vs Gucci, the QB double standard in the media, whether Mike Vick deserves a…

Is sneaker culture dead, or did we just get older? And what exactly makes a waffle worth $45? Episode 74 gets into Jordans sitting on shelves, Kanye’s influence on sneakers, and whether the shoes lost their creativity or people just have other things to spend money on. Then DaBaby’s restaurant…

Episode 73 of the Phone Home Podcast gets into the return of college football, why Lioness might be one of the best shows out, Cassidy’s influence on Lil Wayne and the 2000s rap era, and whether hip-hop has lost the “middle-class rapper.” We also debate whether Rod Wave is truly…

Episode 72 gets into it. The fellas break down the NFL "scammer" who took women for $1.3M, the man who sold a fake $242M airport, and then it's all-out war: did Rod Wave do Boosie dirty over those samples? Is the Deion Sanders era at Colorado already over? And T…

Episode 71 gets into it: the Lakers' $12B sale kicks off a real debate on whether generational wealth is actually generational (inheritance vs stewardship), NFL players running back to college on the NIL wave, the Shedeur Sanders vs Deshaun Watson QB1 situation in Cleveland, independent artists vs the label after…

The gang goes at it over what actually makes a rapper make it — skill, execution, or pure self-starter energy — then splits over Rod Wave vs Yung Bleu, the "Black-owned vs locally-owned" business debate, and the question nobody agreed on: how much money is enough? Plus Invest Fest, when…

Episode 69 gets straight into it. The crew breaks down the Pooh Shiesty / Gucci Mane situation and what an artist really clears off a hit — $76K off 72 million streams — then argues leverage, Master P, and whether a record deal is any different from a regular job.…

The crew gets into the Target boycott and whether it's real or just online, Jay-Z the rapper vs. the man, changing the system from the inside-out, the Ryan Clark situation, and a full-on debate over the greatest Greek mythology movie ever (Troy, 300, Gladiator, Odyssey). Plus why LeBron leaving LA…

Episode 68 opens with a 1968 history lesson and runs through the fits-vs-kicks debate, whether MJ really got cut from varsity, the boldest take of the year — is it harder to become Jay-Z or Barack Obama? — plus the man who lost $950M of Bitcoin in a landfill and…

Episode 66 and all roads lead back to Phone Home. The crew gets into affordable-luxury music and the Larry June effect, whether Jay-Z can pack a stadium outside New York, the J. Cole vs. Future streaming-vs-touring debate, high- vs. low-vibrational music, streaming's shift toward real-life redemption stories, and a full-blown…

The boys are back for Episode 65! We recap the 4th (RIP to Smooth's $72 brisket 🪦), break down the wild NBA offseason — Jaylen Brown to the Sixers, LaMelo to the Wolves, Ja to Portland, Giannis to the Heat — and get into whether private equity ownership is changing…

David Calloway joins the Phone Home Podcast for one of our most honest conversations yet. We discuss how fitness became a tool to overcome depression, why discipline beats motivation, and the mental benefits of resistance training. Coach Calloway also shares his perspective on cannabis, recovery, and breaking the stigma surrounding…

Mother's Day and Father's Day says something bigger about men, and how much delusion it actually takes to chase a dream — capped by the question nobody could settle: is it harder to make it as a rapper or as a pro athlete? Plus: the clean-as-you-go debate, the real origin…

Episode 62 is here. The squad gets into the Spurs-Knicks Finals fallout (did Wemby fail his moment? Is Jalen Brunson the most clutch since Kobe?), the UFC card at the White House, Elon hitting trillionaire status, whether Kendrick killed rap's ecosystem, the science rabbit hole that says we're closer to…

Episode 61 is a full culture sweep. The crew breaks down the fallout from Drake's ICEMAN run, whether Jay-Z's surprise freestyle was a legendary moment or just goofy, a real Wale vs. Big Sean Verzuz, Drake's greatest collaborators, and one of our deepest debates yet — who survives if you…

Episode 59 of the Phone Home Podcast is here — and we're going ALL the way in. We start with Two defending Drake's "Iceman" a week later, and things get deep FAST. Why did Drake keep Future close while beefing with everyone else? Who was really the head of the…

Episode 58 of Phone Home Podcast is a loaded one. We kick things off celebrating one year since going viral, then dive headfirst into the Dr. Cheyenne Bryant controversy — is she a fraud or just a victim of the fake guru era? Eric (licensed therapist) goes toe-to-toe with Dink…

This episode starts with stories about freestyling in school, driveway records, rap cyphers, and why freestyling used to make you popular. Then the conversation takes a turn into Tyler Perry’s impact on Black culture, art vs religion, typecasting in Hollywood, and whether being “too good” at one thing can actually…