The Joe Budden Podcast Episode 910 | Cannot Confirm

TL;DR

The crew debates Paradise Season 2's collapse, Dwight Howard's cocaine drama, and whether attractive men can still pull from a passenger seat.

Key Points

• 1.Joe declares Paradise Season 2 the most epic season-to-season falloff in TV history, calling it a "travesty" compared to Season 1
• 2.With only 3 episodes left in the 8-episode order, the crew sees no way the show can clean itself up in time
• 3.Main complaint: too much backstory crammed into single episodes — they believe at least 4 episodes could have been condensed into 2
• 4.Ice's theory: the baby Hendricks is carrying around is a "golden child" connected to whoever took his wife, possibly part of some arranged exchange
• 5.Flip's hot take: DJs kill the vibe 75% of the time when clubs are closing, though the crew argues that's actually when DJs play their best sets
• 6.Ish appeared on Ari Melber's MSNBC show in a suit, which the crew mocked him for, saying he looked like "a lawyer who can't say too much right now"
• 7.Crew praised three underrated recent albums: Chance the Rapper's project, the JID project, and the Y project, saying all three came and went unfairly
• 8.Dwight Howard's wife Amy Lucien went on social media holding a large bag of alleged cocaine while CPS had already removed their daughter from the home
• 9.Crew's main question: if CPS is involved with your kids, why would you hold up a massive bag of cocaine on camera?
• 10.Theory: Amy is laying legal groundwork for divorce proceedings and trying to pin the cocaine on Dwight to clear her own name before allegations surface
• 11.Royce, an Orlando Magic dancer and Dwight's ex, chimed in saying she warned everyone about Dwight's behavior with kids and was ignored and called jealous
• 12.Both Dwight and Amy had previously filed for divorce separately approximately 6 months ago, then both retracted — indicating a long-running troubled marriage
• 13.The crew debated whether attractive men can still get women's numbers by rolling down a car window in 2025, with Mark and Ice arguing yes, Joe and others saying no
• 14.The debate devolved into the crew challenging each other to test the theory at various bars, including a hookah spot and the Standard Hotel
• 15.Magic City Nights was announced as cancelled, which the crew reacted to with disappointment before moving on