The concept of "the cookout" is discussed as a symbolic safe space for Black culture, with the hosts critiquing the trend of "inviting" supportive white people to it. Max Kellerman's comments on white privilege are analyzed, with the hosts finding his refusal to "give up" privilege while acknowledging it to be hypocritical. They mock the "woke" audience for embracing Kellerman's rhetoric over Stephen A. Smith's more conservative realism.