Jimmy Butler takes a chaotic day through Venice: a frantic taxi to Lido, an open-air drive over the city that terrifies him, and a water-taxi dinner with friends Angel, Darryl, and Ifaniko. He jokes constantly about the absurdity and his own fear while eating polenta, salmon, and shrimp.
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Mwah! Oh, wow. Yeah. Yo, what's your name? Mwah! You gotta go deeper, Jimmy. Go deeper. Man, it's my turn. Man, it's my turn. Oh my God. On the way to Lido with the taxi driver who's driving like a bat out of hell. Oh, my brother know I go, he don't see me. And then she go in the Porsche. We in a drop top in Venice? Oh. Oh. Oh yeah. Let my hair go blow back in the wind. Receiver. Oh yeah, he nice. See? He's very serious about his football. I can tell. Salute. Salute. Salute. Salute. I said I would try new things. That's polenta. It's good, but they ain't put the whitefish on yours. They ain't put the whitefish on top. This salmon is good, but you don't, you don't eat it cuz they got onion. I'mma polenta this right back on this damn plate too. Bye, I'm gone, I'm gone. Bye. You got a whole plate over there. I'm putting that shit on my plate. But you going to put it on my damn plate. What kind of sense does it make to put something like this on my plate? You just said it's a weird type of shrimp. This is good. They're very mild. They taste like popcorn shrimps? No. See? It's good. From Minnesota, went to Marquette. On a ride, gonna get in this truck. Oh, man. Gotta start watching my steps. They'll sneak up on you. Where we going? Over Venice. Over Venice? Yep. All right. Can I drive? Watch your step. Oh, we finna get in a drop top. Y'all can't tell me nothing. See that? That's where we going in right there, the drop top. How do you say, "May God be with us"? Que Dios te asista. Que Dios te asista. Que Dios te asista. Que Dios te asista. Que Dios te asista. Please, que Dios asista. Angel, tell me what we doing today. Man, we getting lit. Man, that damn camera ain't on you, shut up. Camera on me, ain't nobody worried about you. Yeah, she thought she had a friend. She thought she was gonna be on my Instagram story. Yeah, right. You think if I drive? Is it hard to drive? Yeah, quite a little. It ain't that hard. If you can do it, I can do it. Yeah, for sure. I don't know whether I'm sweating. I don't know whether I'm sweating because I'm hot or because I'm nervous. Bravo, Bravo, Tango, El Gato. El Palomos. No. I think you mean this. Y'all see me sweating? I don't know why I agreed to do this with the door off. Darryl. Yo, get your damn feet back in here, man. Oh shoot! Oh my God— ain't nobody else late? Hey hey... My god you fucking fucker! Okay okay I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm calming down collecting myself. How's it feel now? Yeah, yeah, no, this turn, this turn was cool. Okay, okay, I see. That was a little freaky turn. Yeah, we back. Yeah, man, that one scared. We back like we never left. We did it, man. I want to thank everybody for, uh, attending in on the Jimmy Butler III show, man. I know what y'all thinking, how I get so brave. And I was like, yo, how'd you do that without being scared, without being nervous? It's hard to do, but I did it. Keep your head down so you don't chop your head off. Got to keep your head down. Got to keep— they say keep your head down. Yeah. Got to keep your head down the entire time. Oh, why didn't y'all tell me to pick my head What up? We're back on the water taxi. Going to dinner. With who? Who decided to wake up? Angel decided to get your ass out the bed. Who else? Dun dun da da! It's Ifaniko! Woo! Somebody stop me. Somebody stop me. I see you eyeing me using your peripheral. Oh man, your eyes are astonishing. Wow, I've never seen that color eyes before. I gotta get back over here to the table to eat. Just send me your WhatsApp information. I'll hit you. Gotta get back to the Wi-Fi though. If I don't get to the Wi-Fi, I can't call you. Talk to you, man. I'll be back.
