WEBVTT - Shaka Senghor Interview and more 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:12.200 Your love. You're gonna you're hot. I'm not even dealing you. 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.600 I'm so peggy. Are you so patty? The world's most 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.800 tainctrous morning Jo dj Ca, this bitch, Angela. I stay 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.160 in everybody's business, but in a good way. Charlemagne the guy, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.239 the ruler rubbed you the wrong way. The breakfast club 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:35.000 ain't for everybody. Good morning, Usa, yo yo yo yo 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:36.720 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:38.559 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.800 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:45.040 Good morning, Angelaine, Good morning's Charlomagne the guy. Peace to 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:52.280 the planet. Is Thursday, Yes, it's Thursday. It definitely is Thursday. Baby. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:57.040 What's happening? How y'all feeling? Are you calling baby? You 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.240 know he loves you calling my people baby. I'm talking 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.000 to the listeners, all the listeners out there. Well, Thursday, 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.039 Good morning to you. What's happenings? You guys had a 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.320 great night and a good morning. If you woke up 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.040 earlier this morning, you know. I'm on. My wife has 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.399 been doing a lot of work at a couple of 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.440 different properties that we're flipping and telling. So my wife 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:17.920 has been doing a lot of work at the property. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.720 So it's been daddy daycare the whole, you know, last 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.399 three four days. So when it's daddy daycare, I'm with 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.640 the newborn and it's really nothing to do but clean 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.080 and watch TV. So I've just been watching everything you 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.200 name it. I happened to I just happened to catch 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:34.160 the president on yesterday. You heard the president bowing down. Now, 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.480 I just happened to catch him. Yester, you saw, you 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.920 saw how you know the voting rights legislation did not 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.160 get passed through the Senate as expected? As expected? Why 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.160 because Manasion in cinema said, hell no, I don't want 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.160 to hear all of that conversation about I don't want 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.640 to hear that conversation about Republicans no more. Because at 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.000 the end of the day, when you have two people 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.840 on your team who are supposed to be for the people, right, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.080 the Democrats, and they won't get in line, it's on them. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.800 Well we'll talk about that during Front Patients. It's been 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.040 a year though since Biden's been in office, right, yeah, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.120 his first year, his first ship. Well, today will be 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.160 grand open, their grand closing. They're gonna lose the midterms 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.200 this year when they lose the midterms this year, He's 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.440 definitely not gonna be able to get nothing done, grand opening, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.919 grand closing, one term president, So rap give it that people, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.919 So fu it's not getting no better. So I'm gonna say, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.960 I look at I'm a little I'm a little confused 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.079 with it. Like you know, if we all let's just say, 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.680 I just put it in simple terms, right, we all bloods, Right, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.880 we're all supposed to rock with each other. That's that's it, right, 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:31.360 It's really that's it. But that's what they told us. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.400 We don't rock with the crips, right, so we all bloods, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.520 we ride with each other. And that's what they told 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.160 us and said, hey, if we get to Senate and 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.440 we got the White House, we'll get things done. That's 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.560 why they went so hard to flip Georgia Philips is 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.760 what happened. Joe Man and Joe Manson and Christen Cinema 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:50.440 are dinos Democrats in name only. Remember when the Trump 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.880 called the Arizona jail for legislators rhinos. Yes, a couple 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.600 last week the Republican name only, That's what manoning in 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.400 Cinema are democrats in name on. They ain't riding for 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.399 the tay ride with the team at right, All right, well, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.120 not even a little bit, but I don't know. Well, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.000 we definitely wouldn't have voting rights to legislation if Republicans 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.520 were if Donald Trump was the president now either right, 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.880 we noticed though, right? No, no, no, they would have 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.919 passed the voting rate legislation. It would just been some bs. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:18.120 They everybody passed vote suppression laws and what eighteen states? 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.959 Thirty different voter suppression laws in eighteen state, so it 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.200 would have been hard to vote regardless, it sounds like 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.280 we need more Democrats in the Senate. Sure, that's what 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.080 it is, so that it wouldn't rest on two people. Sure, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.440 All right, Well we'll talk about that more in Front 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.400 Page News and Shakas and God will be joining us 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.520 this morning. Of our guy. He's the best selling author 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.800 New York Times, best selling author. He had writing My 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.680 Wrongs last time when he was up here, and he 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.560 has a new book. It's called let Us to the 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.360 Sons of Society and for all this invitation to love, 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.920 honesty and freedom. So we're gonna kick it with him 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.400 next hour, right, all right, so we got Front Page 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.880 News next, don't move, it's to Breakfast Club, Go Morning Morning. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.720 Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:03.000 are to breakfast clubliskin some front page news. All right, 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.000 A lot to talk about. What we're starting easy, Well, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.360 let's start with the Senate last night. They did feel 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:08.920 the chance to feel ab us the rule that would 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.920 allow voting rights legislations to pass with a simple majority. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.000 It would have required fifty one votes to pass, but 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.880 did not have the support of all Democrats as we know. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.080 And so here is what Kamala Harris has to say 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.120 about voting legislation. I am here to make a very 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.240 strong statement that this is whatever proference tonight comes the 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.159 outcome of this vote, the President and I are not 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.960 going to give up on this issue. This is fundamental 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.200 charge democracy and it is non negotiable. Well, let's see 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.520 if Democrats challenge the seats of Joe Mansion and Kristen Cinema. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.039 All right, if they're not on your team and they've 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.280 showed you that, then I would expect you to run 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.360 some other Democrats against them and challenge them. If not, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.040 y'all all in it together in Cinema and Mansion are 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.000 just to fall gods and gal Well, here's what Joe 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.599 Biden had to say on voting rights legislation. I've had 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.520 their back. I've had their back my entire career. I've 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.559 never not had their back. Life started on the voting 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.279 righteous She's long, long and good. This would got be 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.200 involved in politicstion in first place. Now the Senator and 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.240 mansion has some criticism about people telling him what he 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.799 needs to do. The rule book means that the rules 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.800 changes are done on the basis of broad body partisan consensus, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.920 not imposed on the minority by raw majority power, no 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.000 matter who's in power. Now, my colleagues propose a sidestep 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:27.000 this process. They would use the nuclear option to override 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:31.080 a rule that we have used ourselves but now seem 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.240 to find unacceptable. We're going to break the rules to 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.479 change the rules and make up new rules as we 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.120 go along. Invite them ourselves to future majority to just 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.359 regard the rule book of will No rule of the 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.200 Senate can withstand the act of a willful majority. Let 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.280 this change happen in this way in the Senate will 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.960 be a body without rules. Now, that's in regards to 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.640 getting rid of the filibuster, because Senate Majority leader Chuck 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.000 Schumer said Democrats would carve out to the filibuster rules 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.240 to pass voting rights legislation by replacing that sixty vote 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.360 the threshold needed to break a filibuster with an old 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.080 fashioned talking filibusters. They just don't care about black people 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.440 voting people. That's all because if you can't get rid 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.599 of the filibuster, philibuster, car about something in the philibuster 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.640 to preserve the cornerstone of democracy, voting rights is because 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.440 your voting rights aren't threatened, you don't care if black 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.200 people can vote. No, he just said he with us. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.520 He said he just got to come out and see 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.240 us more. That was Joe Biden. Yeah, well, here's what 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.480 Joe Biden has to say about things that he has 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.520 and he did a solo news conference ahead of his 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.240 one year mark in office. Yet a whole bunch of nothing. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.320 Here's what he said. You're spending package voting rights legislation. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.239 They're not going anywhere. So that's true. Is there anything 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.720 that you are confident you can get signed into law 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.279 before the midterm elections. Yes, I'm confident we can get 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.400 pieces big chunks of the bill back Better Law signed 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.960 to the law. And I'm confident that we can take 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.560 the case to the American people that the people they 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.760 should be voting for her going to oversee whether your 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.560 elections in fact are legit or not, should not be 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.080 those who are being put up by the Republicans to 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.719 determine that they're gonna be able to change the outcome 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.560 the election. I think the best, the most important thing 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:09.720 to do is try to inform, not educate, inform the 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:14.880 public of what's at stake and start terms. Yesterday, he 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.440 said the twenty twenty two midterm elections, if they don't 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:23.040 get some voting rights passed, will probably be illegitimate, that's 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.200 what he said, right, or they'll probably be you know, interference, duh. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:28.640 So that would be all the more reason to try 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.440 to get some voting right legislation pass all right. Well, 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.480 we have more of that in the next hour on 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.280 front page new And I also want to say man 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.760 salute to Joe Madison and all the pastors who are 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.960 on a hunger strike until voter rights for pass Please 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.680 go eat all right, Please, voting rights legislation died on 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.920 the Senate floor last night. But you don't have to 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.360 please go eat all right. I'm begging y'all to God, 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.559 didn't have a meal this morning. I'll send y'all cash, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.000 have money if you need it. Man, please don't starve yourself. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.240 No more waiting on these politicians to do the right 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.640 thing because they not. Please all right, Joe Madison, please 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.200 go have a meal, please, sir? All right, get it 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.400 off your chests. Eight hundred five eight five one five one. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.680 If you're upset, you need to vent. Call us up 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.440 right now. Phone lines a wide open again eight five 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.480 eight five one o five one is the Breakfast Club? 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:22.520 Good morning the Breakfast Club. It is your time to 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.720 get it off your chests, whether you're man or blast, 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.880 so you better have the same and we want to 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:32.360 hear from you on the breakfast Club. Hello is this Hey? 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.640 What's up? Brother? Get it off your chest? Yeah? A 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.200 couple about to vote it right. The best thing we 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.440 can do is get our ducks in the road and 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.280 just go ahead and just start voting. However it is 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.120 they need us to vote for that way, we want 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.599 to hold up stuff back. What do you mean so 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.880 they're trying to stop us from voting? Right, So the 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.240 best thing we can do is whatever it is they 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.280 want us to comply to comply to it, and that's 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.880 why we can win the election. And what's gonna happen. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.880 What's gonna happen? Then, did you tell that's what I'm 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.600 trying as what I'm trying to tell y'all. This is 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.880 the same listen. Democrats were in the same play, same 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.720 play every single time during the presidential election. It was like, Okay, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.800 we get the White House, we get to send it. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.000 Change your happen. They got the White House, they got 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:19.720 to send it. Nothing's happening. Hello, who's this? Oh? Good morning? Um? 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.880 This is evlent Um speaking. Good morning to you, Um, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.960 dj Envy Solomon God and miss Eve good morning, Um, 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.319 good morning. Well, I just wanted to get this off 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.560 my chest concerning the voting Right bill that just um 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:43.000 died under Senate floor. Yes, ma'am, n um. This politicians 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.720 they are just playing games. And we citizens, we need 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.360 to get educated. We need to know what we need 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.760 to do. We need to vote the people out. That's 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.480 our job, right. We need to do our research and 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.360 we need to vote them out. And democrats all this 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:06.640 political politicians say, so called democrats, they need to have 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.920 a clear understanding that they need to do what they 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:16.080 need to do. Republicans they do whenever, whenever it's their turn, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:21.120 they make things happen. That's rights in fall in line. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.600 So Democrats they need to get their house in order. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:30.160 I don't understand why they keep playing games and having 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:35.240 this argument back and forth. Get your out in order. Yeah, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.120 there's the problem. Did you see yesterday when they asked 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.520 Joe Biden did he even reach out to any Republicans 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.080 about voting rights? And he was like no, I didn't 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:44.680 get a chance too because I was too busy trying 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.560 to get people on my own team to get a board. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.000 And see, that's the problem right there. This is a 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.360 guy that has been in the Senate for over thirty 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.800 something years. It knows how to talk to Republicans. But 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.720 if it's houses not in order, how can he reach 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.600 out to the other guy in the Republicans they say, hey, guys, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.200 come along. He can't do that. It doesn't even make 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.040 any sense because the first thing that we're telling me, oh, botowing, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.800 miss submissive president, we still have two nitors that is 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.720 olding out, why are you talking? Why are you talking 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.839 to us? So that's number one and number two, I'll 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:24.880 understand why Democrats can't just get in line. Just get 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.280 in line, do what you need to do. Yeah, and 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.600 make things dropping. Yeah, and imagine the cinema don't want 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.640 to get in line? How come democrats don't challenge for 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:39.080 their seats? Hello? Who's this? Good morning? My comedy buddy, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:47.600 angel is this snack man? Happy birthday month? Why are 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.280 you hating on it? Thank you snack man. I appreciate it. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.600 We miss you. I don't know who we is? Who's 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:57.000 weird or not? Me? Then he was perfect? Listen, acronyms. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.920 You were going to agree with me on this one? Okay? 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.880 It was acronyms. Do you don't know what an acronym out? Yeah? 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:08.480 Any who, After all these years, Angela, I never told 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:13.200 you about my previous comedy buddy. Like me and her, 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.120 we practiced in Manhattan up to the time I placed 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:23.040 third in the Staten Islands Comedies Festival seven. Her initials 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:29.079 are A S. So acronyms you and I agree? Um? Okay, 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.120 I'm funnier than her. Who the hell is acronyms? Me? 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.160 All right? So um the joke, Angela, your birthday joke? 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.040 You're ready, I'm ready. I like Dayton African American women 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.600 because then I have something in common with airplane. What's that? 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.880 I ready? Yeah, yo, we booked, got a black box. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:57.480 Thank you boo. Get this man to say boohoo, why 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.280 there was something there? You know what I mean, It's 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.720 just you know it was something there. Snack man. Okay, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.920 if your chest eight hundred five eight five one on 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.160 five one, call us now it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:16.280 the Breakfast Club eight hundred five eight five one five one. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.720 We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Allow. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:28.720 Who's this dude, Jacksonville. 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All right? Brother? I ever 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.720 go with yes, y'all to Hello, who's this whatever? Man? 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.199 It is wine busy straight out of Detroit. Man. What 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.640 I'm telling y'all, I'm calling y'all to give a shout 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.520 out to my city. Man. We've been planning it up 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:18.280 peg baby face Ray, baby money the whole drink. We've 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.480 been going crazy. Man, Okay, I love it, baby face Ray. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.640 I love Detroit rappers. I swear Vessel side of Babyla. Man, 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.080 you need to let us come up theem man called 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.640 up to the man slut to my guy, Vessel Man. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.320 I was talking to Vessel a couple of weeks ago. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.880 Come up here and do what you want, right, whatever 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.720 do man, That's not how this works. Now. You can't 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.440 just come up here and do whatever. That's not how 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.360 this works. Brother. Hello, who's this? This is que from Atlanta? 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.320 What's up? Queen? Getting morning? Queter? Hey. I talked to 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:51.840 you guys a little a couple of months ago, back 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.160 in November. Not sure if you guys remember, um, and 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.240 I had my daughter with me and I kind of 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.520 gave you guys my cashel and you guys help me out. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.160 You know, there's great sious to that. But I was 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.280 calling you guys. I want to kind of get something 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:06.880 out of the way and also talk to you guys 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.960 and get some advice on what I could possibly do. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.880 But if you don't remember, I'm a single mother five 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.840 I live here in Atlanta, and my children's father, you know, 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.880 doesn't help me. Then my keys have the same father. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.920 But um, I had kind of got some feedback from 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.280 some of the people, like someone cashed up me and say, hey, 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.440 get a job, and I wanted to kind of touch 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.520 on that a little bit. Hold on about you can 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.480 cash you people and leave messages like, yeah, that's how people. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.160 If you block somebody, they'll send a cash app like 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.240 and send you like a dollar with a message in 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.360 case you block that can't get to see it. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.440 they leave you when they told you get a job. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.320 They spent a dollar and said get a job. But 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.920 this is a thing, Let'll tell you. Not only do 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.200 I not get help from my kid's father, I'm kind 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.440 of an entrepreneur, but also with the car problems, I 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.000 really can't go in to my client's houses and do 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.720 here because I don't have a car. But the thing 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.200 is I can't work because I'm waiting on disability. I 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.680 was diagnosed with a disability back in March, so you know, 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.960 give my interview, and the lady like, hay, you know 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.800 you can't work. I don't you know, you won't get 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.720 approved so you can't have a job. And I'm like, well, 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.200 I have kids, will take here. So of course things 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.080 I'm not supposed to. I'm not supposed to work, but 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.120 I still do here when I can, if I can 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.480 get to my clients. But anyway, I'm calling today because 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.320 I need some type of advice on my daughter. Um 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.160 she's going through and it's mainly has something to do 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.800 with their dad, you know, not really being that involved, 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:40.840 but she's having like emotional issues, you know, and it's 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.320 things that I really don't understand and I can't you know, 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.120 get through too. So first, Charlotte pay, can you please 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.600 send me your book? I do need your books that 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.600 may help. How many? How many you got five kids? Right? 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.360 They all they all can read? Of course reading age 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:01.040 is what I mean, because you know thirteen as so, yes, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:02.680 they do read. But you don't have to send that 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.919 many copies. I mean, we do shear things. So I'm 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.520 gonna send you, solf, I'm gonna send you. I'm sending 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.480 you the unapologetic guy in the Black Men to help out, 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.520 doctor to walk in and shallow Water's body need to 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.119 cole pack. And I'm gonna send you to me comality 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.760 state of murders. Thank you so much. Okay, one more thing, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.760 one more thing, one more things. So I do I 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.119 also because people just didn't understand my situation and they 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.280 feel like, oh, she's just asking for money. But that's 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.960 not the thing I get. I get help from no 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.120 one like I struggle, hustle and do what I can 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.920 do by my soul. And it's not queen. Listen, queen, 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:40.400 you don't have to explain yourself. No body, okay, if 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.880 you if that's just for the people that understand where 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.320 I'm coming from, Like blessings, the blessings are needed. And 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:49.840 I also want you guys to pray for me and 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.480 my family. My mother's like literally on her diat bed 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.399 right now. Um. But like I've just been dealing with 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.160 so much. But my like I said, my cashing up 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.879 is huge. You are nineteen eighty four. Were people that 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.920 truly want to help me, I would appreciate the help. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.000 We like, I said, you do not have to explain 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:12.800 yourself to nobody, Queen, We totally understand. Okay, And guess 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.440 what if a million people all send you a dollar 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.080 and tell you get a job. It don't matter. You 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.640 got a million dollars, get it off your chest. Eight 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.080 hundred five eighty five one o five one. Now we 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.560 got rooms on the way and we'll be talking Nick Cannon. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.400 You know he said he's insecure about being naked when 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.119 he's having sex. We'll tell you what else he had 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:34.840 to say, the breakfast club. Let's talk Nick Cannon. Let's 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:42.639 just stand. Oh gosh, got the rumor reports? It's reports 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:47.280 breakfast Club. Well, yesterday on the Nick Cannon Show, Nick Cannon, 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.080 who was doing a man panel, and he was talking 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.080 about some of his own insecurities when it comes to 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:57.480 having sex. Are there any insecurities when it comes to 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.200 the bedroom. I'm gonna tell you off top, I definitely 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.480 have an insecurity when it comes with being intimate, ripped 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.840 with just making fun of I'm I'm actually I've been 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.520 skinny all my life, so therefore I'm never liked to 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:15.200 be completely naked when so like it's it's it's usually 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.600 are like a hide under the cover. As much as 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:27.119 I love, I boast about being shape and got some 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.400 type of some type of stock. So that's my security. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.760 Anybody else, that shouldn't matter. If that slong slonging though, right, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.560 if that thing hanging, it shouldn't matter. You're fine with it. Yeah, 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:39.280 it just shouldn't matter, you know what I mean, Like 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.639 I mean me me personally, I hide the shrink it. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:42.800 You know what I mean. I don't want abody to 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:44.560 see me when I'm fresh out of the shower. You know, 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:46.720 I don't want you know, my wife to see me 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.199 after you know, I ejaculate and I've been laying there 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.040 for a while because you know, the hawk turns back 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.280 to Bruce Manner. I want to I want to see 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.840 that look. I don't care out the shower, in the 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.280 shower after Jack. It don't matter, not not shrink it, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.359 just my insecurity. I want no no, I'm I don't care. 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:02.680 I'm gonna growing out of show. I need to be 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.399 my best off at all. It's great because when a 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.200 guy does, when he's done, and it's small, it's smaller. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.680 It's nice to be you'd like, look, I've never seen 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.040 it so little, and then he really, yeah, I don't 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.760 want insecure, But that's him talking about his own insecurity, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.040 and clearly it stems from him having been skinny his 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.280 whole life or whatever. So I'm sure when he's comfortable enough, 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.080 you know, he ain't that shamed about it. All them 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.920 kids he got somebody seeing now the day doesn't get naked. 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.000 He's just a little insecure about it because I guess 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.760 he's thinking about being used to being skinny and being 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:40.240 insecure about that. All right. Now, let's talk about Megan Good. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.720 So she's single now and she posted up a picture 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.080 she's you know, Megan has always been in really good shape. 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:48.639 It scenes like ever since I've first seen her, and 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.880 Heave's value. Um. So a lot of people were talking 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.639 about that and they're like, all right, Megan, you know, 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.240 back back out here. But one thing she did talk 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.760 about on the Kelly Clarkson Show was the show Harlem. 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.680 I know you guys watch some of that Harlem on 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.680 Prime Amazon Prime. And one thing she talked about was 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:09.160 Whoopi Goldberg helping her with her lines. She's so nice 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:10.920 and like whenever you meet people, you're like, oh God, 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:12.960 please let them, be a wonderful don't fail me, don't 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.280 ruin it fall. And I remember there was one day 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:20.359 I kept saying, uh, Seneca instead of Seneca Village, and 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:22.840 she was like, it's it's Seneca. It's it's Seneca Village, 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:24.600 Seneca Village. I was like, Okay. So then I come 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:26.960 in and I like butcher her coverage saying the line wrong. 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.200 And then on my coverage, I come in and she's 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.639 taped it with the pronunciation across her boobs, and I'm like, senate. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.560 She was like, I was like, look at my boobs. 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:42.000 I am trying to help you exactly. That's dope, that's yeah, 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.680 that's Cute's certain words you just always pronounced wrong, and 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:47.560 the other people could pronounce it right all the time, 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:49.520 but for some reason in your head, you're pronouncing it 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.840 a certain way. Believe me, I know every word on 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.400 Believe me every other word. Now, we told you guys 0:21:57.440 --> 0:21:59.560 about Cardie b helping out with the funeral cost for 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.560 all the victims of the Bronx apartment fire. So one 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:07.320 of the relatives of a Bronx fire victim has called 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.920 Cardi be an angel for paying for a funeral costs. 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:12.760 This woman's niece was killed in the blaze along with 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.240 her husband and three children, and she doesn't have to 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.080 worry about finding the money to bury her five family members. 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:20.119 And so he said, it's a huge help to his 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.080 family to not have to bear that financial burden. He's 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.440 sending Cardi blessings for stepping up to help so many 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:28.120 people who she's never even met, or dropping a clue. 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.639 Bronfel body Man said it yesterday. You can say a 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:33.840 lot of things about Cardi, but you cannot question her 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.320 heart in any way, shape or form. And I love 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.000 to see people do things that somebody can't hate on. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.119 And if they do, if they do say something negative 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.720 about it, then yeah, just know you a hate if 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:45.720 you say something negative about that. All right now, trade 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:47.440 the truth prayers to him. He was involved in a 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.800 car accident and hospitalized as a result of the incident. 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.920 He shared all of this on Instagram. Yes a couple 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:55.880 of days ago. He said, one thing after another. Devil 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:58.280 couldn't stop me if he wanted to. And the evil 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.719 certain people who try to pray evil on me, tell him, 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:02.680 I'm gonna look at that ish and walk it down 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.000 on the hospital back to it out of the hospital, 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:07.960 back to it, God sent it, slew to my God. 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:09.560 Trade true. I hit him my body and know that. 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:11.400 You know, Trade one of those people you always wonder 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:13.800 who does the go to guy go to? Like he's 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:16.159 always providing relief for so many people along, you know, 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:18.200 with mister Rogers and the whole relief gang. It's like, 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:20.560 you know, who's who's there for Trade when he when 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:22.560 he needs to shout the trade, shout to mister Rogers 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:25.040 and Trade man. All right. And then there's a rumored 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.680 new Celebrity Big Brother cast, so a lot of people 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:31.040 talking about this. Shout out to Baller and Learn. I 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:33.800 saw them post this all. So some of the people 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:36.359 that could be on Celebrity Big Brother. What they're saying 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:43.959 lamar odom Nini, Neo, Tiffany Pollard, Shicari Richardson. I mean, 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:49.320 this sounds like a nice house, a cety. It was 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:52.280 a spinoff of the regular show Big Brother where they're 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:54.919 constantly under surveillance in the house, and then they did 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:58.600 a Celebrity Big Brother. So it's yeah, and there's always 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:01.520 cameras everywhere. Okay, so there's always kind all kinds of 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.399 drama on there, but it's a social experiment. They take 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:06.560 you out of normal society, put you in the house, 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:09.840 and it's all different people with different backgrounds, different beliefs, 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:12.439 and you have to avoid being eliminated. So you're all 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:14.320 fighting to win a grand prize. That grand prize is 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:17.399 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All right, Well that 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:19.240 is your room of reports. All right, we got Front 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:21.240 page news next. What we're talking about, Yes, and let's 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:24.320 get more into Joe Biden and the press conference he 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.679 had today is one year since he's been president. All right, 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:29.720 we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:38.399 to wake up. It's the Breakfast Club Angela year here 0:24:38.560 --> 0:24:41.080 and my friends at the General Insurance give you quality 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.119 car insurance for less. Check out their affordable rates and 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:47.359 flexible payment options by calling eight hundred General or visiting 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:50.680 the General dot com. The General Auto Insurance Services in 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:58.800 an insurance agency Nashville, Tennessee. Some restrictions apply. Morning. Everybody 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:02.199 is DJ be Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy we ought 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:06.520 to Breakfast Club. Let's get into front page news. When 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:10.639 we started, well, yesterday Joe Biden had a solo news conference. 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:12.880 We played some of it during the first front page 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:15.439 news break. Now, let's talk more about what he had 0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:19.480 to say, and one thing he discussed was being realistic 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:22.400 and about his planning needs to be out there. American 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:27.800 people overwhelmingly agree with me on prescription drugs. They overwhelmingly 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:31.160 agree with me on the cost of education, they overwhelmingly 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:34.200 agree with me on early education. They're overwhelming go on 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:38.680 the list on childcare. And so we just have to 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:41.320 make the case what we're for and what the other 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:43.960 team's not for. And one of the things that I 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:46.480 think is we're going to have to do is just 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:49.280 make the case. I don't think there's anything unrealistic about 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:51.680 we're asking. I'm not trying to I'm not asking for 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:55.240 castles in the sky. I'm asking for practical things the 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:58.879 American people I'm asking for for a long time. What 0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:02.000 is he talking about? He also says he didn't over promise. 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:05.240 He said I had probably outperformed what anybody happened. What 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:06.920 I want to know, what is he talking about? Who 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:08.440 is he talking to? He's the president. Why do you 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:10.520 sound like he's on the campaign trail. You're the president, 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:13.960 You're in charge now. He also went to Twitter and 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:16.000 said in our first year in office, we created six 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:18.800 point four million jobs. That's the biggest year of job 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:22.840 creation in American history. In perspective, though a lot of 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:24.800 people were out of work because of COVID and a 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:27.600 lot of businesses we're not in so you should have 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:30.800 the biggest job creation in American history because there were 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:33.000 so many jobs lost. A lot of people were resigned 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:36.280 too because of COVID. And then he also tweeted out, 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:38.159 in our first year, we achieved a record number of 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:40.800 jobs created, a record dropping the unemployment rate, a record 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:44.000 dropping unemployment claims. We're getting America back to work, the 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:46.719 record dropping unemployment claim because a lot of people resigned. 0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:48.400 A lot of people realize that they can make money 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:50.679 doing a lot of other things, and so they decided 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:54.520 to be entrepreneurs. Resignation absolutely right now. He decided to 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:56.840 be entrepreneurs, and they quit their jobs. Another thing he 0:26:56.920 --> 0:27:00.440 talked about was his next term, stating, I'm going to 0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:03.320 do differently. Number One, I'm gonna go out and talk 0:27:03.400 --> 0:27:06.359 to the public. Number two, I'm also going to be 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:11.000 out there seeking the more advice of experts outside from 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:15.560 academia to editorial writers, to think tanks, and I'm bringing 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:18.040 them in. And the third thing, I'm gonna be doing 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:21.160 a lot more of. I'm going to be deeply involved 0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:24.560 in the offices off your elections to go out and 0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:29.000 make the case in plain, simple language as to what 0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:31.600 it is we've done, what we want to do, and 0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:34.240 why we think it's important. There is no next term, 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:36.600 President Biden, You're gonna move the midtterms this year. When 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:39.000 you lose the midterms and the Republics and Republicans get 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:40.800 control of the Health and the Senate, you damn ain't 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:42.040 gonna be able to get nothing done. You can't get 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:43.840 nothing done now, So you damn shin't' getting that done. 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:46.320 In one question on twenty twenty four ambitions, he did 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:49.440 say that Vice President Kamala Harris would be his running mates. 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:52.640 It was a two hour press conference that he had. 0:27:52.720 --> 0:27:55.760 And another thing he discussed was giving away four hundred 0:27:55.800 --> 0:27:58.200 million and ninety five mass that's all going to start 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:01.960 next week two. So they did stockpile all of these masks, 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:05.080 and they have more than seven hundred and fifty million 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:06.760 of them on hand. You know, it's been hard for 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:09.240 people to find those in ninety five masks, they said, 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:11.440 those are the ones that offer the most protection. So 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:13.520 they are going to make those available for free to 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:17.040 US residents starting next week. What I don't understand is 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:19.119 it vote and rights legislation hasn't passed, and they have 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:21.040 made it hard for black people to vote all over 0:28:21.080 --> 0:28:23.640 the country, and Biden hasn't gotten any of his campaign 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:26.680 promises done for black people. How and why is he 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:30.480 expecting black people to vote for him in the next election. 0:28:30.560 --> 0:28:32.840 How is he already talking about another term? What he say? 0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:34.359 You don't think that's arrogant? Yeah, but what do he 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:36.440 say to you if you don't vote for me, you 0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:39.160 ain't black? That's still his mindset. No, you're right, you're right. 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:42.160 He's still he still think y'all nigga gonna go out there. Well, 0:28:42.200 --> 0:28:44.479 they asked him about his ambitions for twenty twenty four, 0:28:44.520 --> 0:28:47.000 so that's why he addressed it. He was questioned about it. Listen, 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:48.840 I'm gonna vote because you know that's just and I'm 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:50.720 gonna tell everybody else to get out there and vote 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:53.760 and don't let them suppress your vote. There I am. 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:56.040 I'm telling everybody, y'all need to get out there and vote. 0:28:56.040 --> 0:28:58.400 I want everyone to exercise their right. I'm going to 0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:01.040 vote because I'm trying to take away from us because 0:29:01.040 --> 0:29:03.040 of the power that we have. Yeah, but even when 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:04.920 we do vote, they get in and don't do anything. 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:07.360 But I'm gonna vote because I'm a taxpaying American citizen. 0:29:07.440 --> 0:29:09.400 But for anybody out there who feels like they don't 0:29:09.400 --> 0:29:11.920 want to, I understand why. But you, I mean, you 0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:15.240 still have to have top people feel like, you know, 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:18.160 I don't like you, don't you know what because a 0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:20.920 lot of people tell me you vote right, They don't 0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:22.640 want to vote for about it? They don't feel Biden 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:24.840 represents them, but they don't want to vote Republicans. So 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:26.880 what do they do? No, they feel like these people 0:29:26.920 --> 0:29:31.600 don't getting anything. Not voting for that people are feeling 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:33.680 like they're not getting anything done. When you know what 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:36.480 I hate is the fact that we're always putting pressure 0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:39.280 on the voters to get things done. When we're gonna 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:41.960 put pressure on them to get things done. They running 0:29:41.960 --> 0:29:44.280 around here saying, oh, you got to vote like democracy 0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:47.600 depends on it. When y'all gonna govern like democracy depends 0:29:47.640 --> 0:29:49.480 on it. Why do we always got to have the 0:29:49.560 --> 0:29:51.880 sense of urgency? Why not them should be I think 0:29:51.880 --> 0:29:54.120 it should be both. I think that if you don't vote, 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:56.880 then we got hard on people who who say things like, man, 0:29:56.920 --> 0:29:58.240 I don't want to vote because I don't feel like 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:00.160 nothing's getting done. Then we do the people who are 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:02.600 actually in positions of power right now, you know, not 0:30:02.760 --> 0:30:04.960 doing anything. Not Dowers. He's still on the campaign trailing. 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:06.640 He's the president. You also have to look at your 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:09.160 local elections though, I agree with that, so you have 0:30:09.200 --> 0:30:11.200 to get out vote. You're not just voting for the president. 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:13.240 And it's mid terms. I agree with that. You have 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:15.080 to get out there and vote. And I would never 0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:18.120 encourage people not to or tell them you feel discouraged. 0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:20.360 You have to do your part. You feel discouraged, because 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:21.920 that's your part, and your part is awesome. I mean, 0:30:21.960 --> 0:30:24.800 you can feel discouraged, but don't not discouraged. That's what 0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:27.960 democracy is about. Democracy is about challenging these elected officials. 0:30:28.000 --> 0:30:29.880 The marcacy is telling them that we don't feel good 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:32.200 about what's going on. What you mean and get out 0:30:32.240 --> 0:30:34.000 there and speak, and you have to make sure that 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:36.360 your vote. You vote for people that you feel like 0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:38.720 represent you and then put the pressure on them. And 0:30:38.840 --> 0:30:42.080 it is important too for us to also strategize come 0:30:42.160 --> 0:30:44.360 together and make sure that we make demands and make 0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:46.080 sure our voices are heard. But if you're not voting, 0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:48.880 they don't care about you. If you're not voting, it's 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:50.480 the same most on. They don't care about this. When 0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:53.800 we do vote, I have some local officials who I 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:58.040 really local. Yes, I'm hyperlocal. I'm hyperlocal. I agree with that. 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:00.720 So that's all about voting. So so you mean vote 0:31:00.800 --> 0:31:03.160 vote on a local talking about mid terms right now? Right? 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:05.800 Midterms coming up? I thought we were talking about him 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:08.040 saying setting up. I thought he's his next turn in 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:09.840 between twenty four. That's what I thought we were talking about. 0:31:09.840 --> 0:31:12.040 We're talking about both though, I mean midterms. That what's 0:31:12.080 --> 0:31:15.320 coming up next? All right, and that is your front page. 0:31:15.520 --> 0:31:18.080 Like I said, you know, I don't see how he plans, 0:31:18.520 --> 0:31:20.520 you know, to winning the mid terms. I really don't 0:31:20.840 --> 0:31:23.680 when when when voter rights legislation hasn't been passed, they're 0:31:23.680 --> 0:31:25.640 making it hard for black people to vote, and he 0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:28.640 hasn't gotten any of his campaign promises done to black people. 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:30.640 I don't know how they checks a high vote, the 0:31:30.680 --> 0:31:32.880 black turnout. They're making it high press to vote because 0:31:33.040 --> 0:31:35.760 of how important voting is. So don't be discouraged and 0:31:35.880 --> 0:31:37.480 not vote because that's what they want you to do. 0:31:37.600 --> 0:31:39.920 That as a form of voter suppression when they tell 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:41.600 you know those is a form of vote depression. When 0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:43.320 you got people in power who promise things and they 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:45.239 don't get those things done, that's a form of voter 0:31:45.320 --> 0:31:49.600 suppression too, because it discourages voters. Did not come out, Ladies, ladies, ladies, 0:31:50.640 --> 0:31:53.520 Thank you so much. Later. The problem now when we 0:31:53.640 --> 0:31:55.800 come back, shock us and Goal will be joining us. 0:31:55.840 --> 0:31:57.760 So right, New York Times best selling. Of course, he's 0:31:57.760 --> 0:31:59.320 the author of writing My Wrongs, and he has a 0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:02.400 new book, let Us to the Sons of Society, a fall, 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:04.800 this invitation to love, honesty and freedom. We're gonna talk 0:32:04.840 --> 0:32:07.320 to him next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the 0:32:07.560 --> 0:32:13.240 Breakfast Club, a breakfast club. Your morning's will never be 0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:19.080 the same morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne, 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:20.800 the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We got a 0:32:20.840 --> 0:32:23.520 special guest in the building. Yes, indeed he's back, the 0:32:23.640 --> 0:32:28.040 brother Shaka and Man. Thank y'all so much for having me. 0:32:28.040 --> 0:32:30.200 I'm excited to be here. Welcome back. Brother. First of all, 0:32:30.240 --> 0:32:32.840 how were you doing with COVID and and everything that's 0:32:32.840 --> 0:32:35.360 been going on in this crazy world. I'm blessed just 0:32:35.720 --> 0:32:37.600 you know, taking it one day at a time. You know, 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:39.720 I think I got a very unique experience that kind 0:32:39.760 --> 0:32:42.400 of prepared me for these isolated moments. So I've been 0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:45.719 good man, just really taking opportunity to be more creative, 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:48.560 more thoughtful about life, more present with the people in 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:50.680 my life, and taking it one step at the time. 0:32:50.680 --> 0:32:51.880 But I'm ready for it to be over, to get 0:32:51.920 --> 0:32:55.560 back to living freely. I don't think the world as 0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:58.160 we know it's never gonna be the same. Because Shaka 0:32:58.280 --> 0:33:00.200 was here before, he was talking about his book Any 0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:03.840 of My Wrongs, and now he has another, Yes, Letters 0:33:04.040 --> 0:33:08.440 to the Sense of Society. And when you reference COVID 0:33:08.520 --> 0:33:11.480 and isolation, I saw you were talking about how when 0:33:11.640 --> 0:33:13.720 you were locked up in seven years you spent in 0:33:14.080 --> 0:33:18.600 solitary confinement and the comparison to COVID. Yeah, I mean, 0:33:18.840 --> 0:33:20.400 you know, I think it's very different. But I think 0:33:20.440 --> 0:33:22.320 one of the things, and I actually talk about it 0:33:22.360 --> 0:33:25.640 in the book, that similar is the kind of disoriented 0:33:25.680 --> 0:33:28.280 effect of not knowing when something is going to end 0:33:28.400 --> 0:33:31.360 or normalize. And people was like, well, how would you 0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:34.080 compare that those two things. But when I was in solitary, 0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:37.160 my senses was indeterminate, so they never told me when 0:33:37.200 --> 0:33:39.719 I was getting out. And I think the same thing 0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:41.720 as kind of happened early. Always was like, oh, we'll 0:33:41.760 --> 0:33:43.480 be done with this in a couple of months, we'll 0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:46.520 be done maybe six months, and you know, we're almost 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:48.240 two years later and we still don't know. So it 0:33:48.360 --> 0:33:50.440 just kind of makes it hard for you to put 0:33:50.480 --> 0:33:53.280 your feet onside ground. And I wanted to be sensitive 0:33:53.680 --> 0:33:55.680 to the reality that people were facing with so that 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:58.680 people can get themselves grace and understand that it's a 0:33:58.800 --> 0:34:01.360 real thing. It's not something then that they're matching and 0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:03.880 as difficult. It really is difficult. That makes perfect sense 0:34:03.920 --> 0:34:07.640 to me, Like it sounds like the perfect analogy. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, 0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:09.239 I mean, but I guess if you've never been in 0:34:09.400 --> 0:34:14.279 solitary confinements, yeah, I mean, this is not quite solitary. 0:34:14.320 --> 0:34:16.359 You know, we still can get real food and all 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:19.600 those things. But I think psychologically what happens, and I mean, 0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:21.399 you know, you talk a lot about mental health, which 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:24.520 I really respect, but mentally what goes on is the 0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:27.120 most important. Pardon you know, I tell people all the time, 0:34:27.239 --> 0:34:30.400 like I got free from prison mentally before I ever 0:34:30.520 --> 0:34:32.839 walked out of prison, and it's one of the reasons 0:34:32.840 --> 0:34:34.120 I'm able to do some of the things that I 0:34:34.200 --> 0:34:38.359 do now because that recognition that the worst prison will 0:34:38.400 --> 0:34:40.719 ever be in as our mind was something I was 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:43.719 able to acknowledge early on in my incarceration, and that 0:34:43.920 --> 0:34:48.120 helped me get through a book. Yeah, Letters to the 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:51.800 Sons of Society, A father's invitation of love, honesty, and freedom. 0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:54.120 What does that mean? I mean, you know, as as 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:56.920 a dad, I've had two very unique experience, which is 0:34:57.040 --> 0:35:01.520 crazy when you think about it. Yes, it's it's wild. Yeah, 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:04.839 when I was arrested, my oldest son's mom was still 0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:07.080 pregnant with him, so he was born like six months 0:35:07.120 --> 0:35:11.680 after mind carceration, and so I only experienced fatherhood with 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:14.960 him through my dad bringing my son to visit me, 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:16.600 you know. And so basically I kind of made up 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:19.200 this narrative about being a good dad and being a 0:35:19.280 --> 0:35:21.680 prison dad because I was able to write letters and 0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:25.120 get phone calls, but I wasn't able to really spend 0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:28.720 the time that's necessary to nurture a child through the world. 0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:31.040 And you know, now I had this wonderful experience of 0:35:31.200 --> 0:35:34.759 raising my now ten year old son, say cool, he's 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:40.320 a young entrepreneur, he's creative, very intelligent, and it's dramatically different, 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:42.520 you know, But I'm also different too as a man, 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:44.280 Like I'm a grown man. When I went to prison, 0:35:44.560 --> 0:35:47.520 I was a nineteen year old kid, and so you know, 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:51.279 this book really is a reflection of those experiences, but 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:53.480 it's actually a little bit deeper. You know, I mentor 0:35:53.719 --> 0:35:55.840 young people all over the country. You know, you go 0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:58.640 through what I've been through with prison, where I spent 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:01.399 nineteen years of my life, and most of the guys 0:36:01.440 --> 0:36:04.600 I spent time with were kids, and so for me, 0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:07.520 you know, working with young men across the country, I'm like, 0:36:07.680 --> 0:36:09.000 this is the book I want to write. So I 0:36:09.080 --> 0:36:11.759 start off like letters to my hip hop songs, letter 0:36:11.880 --> 0:36:15.320 to my young entrepreneurial sons. And then I realized between 0:36:16.000 --> 0:36:17.719 all the young men that I get a chance to 0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:21.400 mentor existed my two sons, and I felt that intimacy 0:36:21.440 --> 0:36:23.920 would come through more if I just wrote directly to 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:27.640 them about life and what I've experienced, but also what 0:36:27.880 --> 0:36:30.240 I whispered them and dealt with some of the issues 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:32.840 that were faced with What is your oldest son. How 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:35.560 is your relationship with him? Because you know him being 0:36:35.600 --> 0:36:37.239 the older now he's looking at you and your younger 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:39.080 son right now, and how the fact that you could 0:36:39.160 --> 0:36:41.120 be there and that you are at his games and 0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:43.399 you are helping him with his homework and all those things. 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:46.399 But I mean, I'm sure he feels like, damn, I wasn't. 0:36:46.480 --> 0:36:48.480 I didn't have that part of my dad. So how 0:36:48.600 --> 0:36:51.279 is your relationship? I mean it's very complex. You know, 0:36:51.480 --> 0:36:55.080 my oldest son is now thirty years old. And when 0:36:55.160 --> 0:36:56.840 I came home and I talked about it, one of 0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:59.520 the one of the most impactful chapters I think that 0:36:59.560 --> 0:37:01.840 people really going to resonate is to first resonate with 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:05.440 is the first chapter, because it really explains the complexity 0:37:05.960 --> 0:37:09.239 of coming home to a young man and trying to 0:37:09.360 --> 0:37:12.160 insert my life and myself into his life as his dad. 0:37:12.719 --> 0:37:14.719 And really I came home as a mentor, Yo, this 0:37:14.800 --> 0:37:16.600 is how we're gonna do it. We're gonna make these 0:37:16.680 --> 0:37:19.839 things happen. And yeah, and it wasn't fair to him, 0:37:19.880 --> 0:37:21.520 you know, it wasn't fair for me to come home 0:37:21.680 --> 0:37:25.680 because the story I had was contracted to the reality 0:37:25.719 --> 0:37:28.319 of being in prison. And so it's been it's been 0:37:28.360 --> 0:37:30.399 a very difficult. It's probably been the most complex part 0:37:30.440 --> 0:37:32.799 of my life and the hardest thing I've ever had 0:37:32.840 --> 0:37:35.000 to confront as a man. And that's where the honesty 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:39.560 and then the title comes from, is as dads, oftentimes 0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:41.880 we're not honest, whether it's honest about the things that 0:37:41.920 --> 0:37:45.640 are positive or honest about our shortcomings. And I really 0:37:45.680 --> 0:37:49.600 wanted to create space for fathers to really have honest discussions, 0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:52.360 especially when we think about what's happening with black males 0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:55.000 in our communities. Well as you talk about what you 0:37:55.120 --> 0:37:57.320 did do when you came home, and your son obviously 0:37:57.440 --> 0:38:00.520 felt like, well, you can't just come and change my 0:38:00.600 --> 0:38:02.360 life and tell me what to do now because you 0:38:02.480 --> 0:38:05.759 haven't been present as a father. So a lot of 0:38:05.800 --> 0:38:07.520 people have had to deal with that when they get 0:38:07.520 --> 0:38:09.480 out of jail because we don't even think about that, right, 0:38:09.760 --> 0:38:11.680 what is that relationship? Like? Can I just step back 0:38:11.719 --> 0:38:15.000 in nineteen years later as a dad and tell you 0:38:15.080 --> 0:38:16.680 how to do things when you've been doing things your 0:38:16.719 --> 0:38:19.399 own way? So what advice do you have forefathers out 0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:22.439 there who are trying to get back into their children's life. 0:38:22.920 --> 0:38:26.560 My advice is always to take the you know, the 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:30.560 guidance of a child, because you know, we owe them. 0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:33.520 They don't know us anything, and I think it's really 0:38:33.600 --> 0:38:37.120 important to be patient, to give yourself grace, but also 0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:40.520 to acknowledge that you know it was your decisions that 0:38:40.680 --> 0:38:42.480 took you out of their life and not their decision 0:38:42.600 --> 0:38:44.840 to not be present. And so what I've tried to 0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:47.680 do is just be patient and be you know, allow 0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:50.000 him to kind of set the tone for our engagement 0:38:50.360 --> 0:38:53.319 with no expected outcomes. And I've really detached my ego 0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:55.680 from parenting, not just with him, but also with my 0:38:55.760 --> 0:38:57.840 youngest son. And what about with the mom too, because 0:38:57.880 --> 0:39:00.440 that's also an issue because now you want to make 0:39:00.440 --> 0:39:02.239 sure that you have this time. And if you know 0:39:02.360 --> 0:39:04.719 at first your son isn't comfortable or certain things are 0:39:04.719 --> 0:39:06.600 going on, because we've had people call up here with 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:09.239 issues like that, Well, you know, the mom is has 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:12.000 a new boyfriend, she's moved on, she's done this, and 0:39:12.520 --> 0:39:15.040 I need this to happen for me with my son 0:39:15.120 --> 0:39:17.200 and she's not helping with the relationship. How did that 0:39:17.600 --> 0:39:19.560 dynamic work? I mean, I think that one was a 0:39:19.640 --> 0:39:23.080 little bit more complex because my dad really stepped in 0:39:23.200 --> 0:39:25.840 and kind of filled the gap. So to speak. So 0:39:26.080 --> 0:39:30.399 he and my oldest son's mom, they kind of had 0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:33.520 almost like a parent child relationship. You know. He stepped in, 0:39:34.120 --> 0:39:36.799 you know, as as my dad is just incredible. He's 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:40.000 a really incredible human being, and so he kind of 0:39:40.080 --> 0:39:42.839 raised her. You know. So by the time I came home, 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:44.680 my son was grown, so we didn't have to have 0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:48.640 as much engagement, but there were moments, you know, And 0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:50.520 again I talked about it in that first chapter where 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:53.320 I had to reach out to her like, Hey, this 0:39:53.440 --> 0:39:55.640 is what's happening with me and him. And I'm not 0:39:55.760 --> 0:39:58.160 trying to go back to the old way that I 0:39:58.320 --> 0:40:00.160 was living, but I will if, you know, if I 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:02.640 get pushed to that point. And so just being able 0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:07.560 to have that understanding what her was really important. Health. Yeah, 0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:09.320 I was super triggered. We had a we had a 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:12.160 very intense moment. Someone wasn't going down the right path 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:13.960 and use it well. Now we got into like a 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:17.239 real conflict, and it happens often, you know, especially with 0:40:17.800 --> 0:40:19.800 guys coming home from the joint, Like i'ven't been in 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:22.799 the joint, on the yard, thugging it out, going through 0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:26.480 all the violent realities of that and that experience and 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:29.160 what I didn't account for is I hadn't healed from 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:31.759 that PTSD, And so there was a moment when me 0:40:31.840 --> 0:40:34.720 and my son got into a conflict and he physically 0:40:34.840 --> 0:40:38.080 threatened me, and I told his mom, like, you know, 0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:41.200 you need to holly him because otherwise I'm gonna take 0:40:41.280 --> 0:40:43.719 him over here and leave him in his field. And 0:40:44.040 --> 0:40:47.239 something actually happened where we thought. That's what went down 0:40:47.320 --> 0:40:48.759 with my son, And that's what I talked about in 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:50.960 that first chapter. All right, we got more. We shot 0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:52.880 us and goal when we come back, don't move. It's 0:40:52.920 --> 0:40:58.960 to Breakfast Club. Good morning, every envy angela yee. Charlemagne, 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:00.879 the guy we are the Breakfas Club was still kicking 0:41:00.920 --> 0:41:02.759 it with Shatkus and Gore. You know, he's a New 0:41:02.840 --> 0:41:05.200 York Times bestselling author for writing My Wrongs and has 0:41:05.200 --> 0:41:07.880 a new book called Letters to the Sons of Society, 0:41:08.200 --> 0:41:11.600 A Father's Invitation to love, honesty, and freedom. Charlemagne, how 0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:13.080 long did it take you to get out of that 0:41:14.080 --> 0:41:17.240 survival mode of fighting? Like I got to protect myself 0:41:17.280 --> 0:41:18.799 at all time. I wanted to take you to get 0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:21.879 out of it. Actually, that that experience with my son 0:41:22.640 --> 0:41:25.239 was the first time I had really really realized that 0:41:25.320 --> 0:41:27.640 I hadn't fully processed all that out of my system, 0:41:28.680 --> 0:41:30.239 you know, when I was when I did that last 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:33.239 stretch in solitary, I just came out focused on life 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:34.800 at the prison, and I didn't First of all, I 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:36.680 didn't know if I was ever getting out, but I 0:41:36.800 --> 0:41:39.040 had wrote down all the things I wanted to manifest 0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:40.960 in my life, because I believe you attracted your life 0:41:41.320 --> 0:41:43.320 what you think about the most, and so I started 0:41:43.400 --> 0:41:45.480 living my life in that way. But it's still the 0:41:45.560 --> 0:41:48.200 big yard, and I still was who I am on 0:41:48.280 --> 0:41:51.440 the yard, so I had to navigate that first. And 0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:53.239 I was fortunately, you know, like I had reached that 0:41:53.360 --> 0:41:55.920 status or respect where I didn't have to deal with 0:41:56.000 --> 0:41:58.600 all the conflicts. But it also set me up for 0:41:59.360 --> 0:42:01.920 the reality of what happens when you get home and 0:42:02.560 --> 0:42:04.799 nobody cares about your transformation when you're in the hood. 0:42:04.800 --> 0:42:08.840 Nobody cares that you're thinking about peaceful resolution as opposed 0:42:08.880 --> 0:42:11.480 to taking it back to the block. And so after 0:42:11.600 --> 0:42:15.120 that experience with my son, I really was like, I 0:42:15.120 --> 0:42:18.239 actually need therapy to really process like what I've been 0:42:18.280 --> 0:42:20.880 through because a lot of it was being covered up 0:42:20.920 --> 0:42:24.280 with achievements. Right I got out I was successful relatively 0:42:24.360 --> 0:42:27.600 early on. You know, I've achieved, you know, probably an 0:42:27.640 --> 0:42:30.960 exceptional level of success in pretty much all the endeavors 0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:33.520 I set out to do, and that covered up what 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:36.239 was actually the reality is that I was in prison 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:39.960 for nineteen years. I was in solitary. Nobody leaves that 0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:43.080 place without scars. And it doesn't matter if you've been 0:42:43.120 --> 0:42:46.520 in there for one day or ten days or ten years. 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:50.400 That place scars you in a way that shows up 0:42:50.440 --> 0:42:52.719 in different areas of your life later on, and you're 0:42:52.760 --> 0:42:55.359 retelling those stories over and over again, like you said 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:59.279 in interviews, and talking about the book and reliving it 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:02.720 all the time. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, when when writing 0:43:02.760 --> 0:43:04.399 My Wrongs came out, you know, I was on tour, 0:43:04.440 --> 0:43:06.200 I was doing all the things I had, you know, 0:43:06.280 --> 0:43:08.719 the conversation with Oprah and you know, all the things 0:43:08.760 --> 0:43:11.319 that come with promoting a product. But then I also 0:43:11.480 --> 0:43:13.800 was a sought after speaker. I had to did a 0:43:13.840 --> 0:43:18.000 ted talking like twenty fourteen and from their universities in schools, 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:20.520 and so I'm just constantly talking about what I actually 0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:22.880 went to prison for, which was murdered, and I had 0:43:23.000 --> 0:43:27.480 never reconciled that, you know, And so I found myself 0:43:27.560 --> 0:43:30.160 in this in this real dark space, and it kind 0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:33.160 of culminated with me driving down the wrong side of 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:36.040 expressway drunk one night and I was like, yeah, I'm 0:43:36.040 --> 0:43:37.879 about to throw it all away, and that's when all 0:43:37.920 --> 0:43:40.799 the things that started coming back, like, yo, you you've 0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:43.560 been traumatizing a way that you haven't been honest about 0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:48.560 because who the hell talks about PTSD, posting cars, rady. 0:43:48.600 --> 0:43:51.160 We're just happy to get out, celebrate, had the parties, 0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:54.600 get back to living, or you know, this dream be concocted, 0:43:55.440 --> 0:43:57.319 But the reality is a lot of us come home 0:43:57.520 --> 0:44:00.960 deeply scarred. And it's really you know, you think about 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:03.200 those stories of somebody coming out and then they can 0:44:03.400 --> 0:44:06.520 create or commit a heinous act of violence. We're like, see, 0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:08.600 we should have left for men. But the reality is 0:44:09.239 --> 0:44:11.920 we have to ensure that people are getting the therapeutic 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:14.480 treatment so that they can't come home healthy and hole. 0:44:14.520 --> 0:44:16.279 Because you could you tell people how important it is 0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:18.480 for folks who have done you know, a lot of 0:44:18.520 --> 0:44:20.799 prison time to get mental health treatment. Cause always say 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:23.799 they call these facilities correction facilities, but you're not correcting nothing. 0:44:25.360 --> 0:44:27.840 In order for a person to get out and not 0:44:28.040 --> 0:44:32.160 just operate out of that survival mentality. They need help, 0:44:32.480 --> 0:44:36.920 you know, And we have to destigmatize what mental health 0:44:37.000 --> 0:44:40.719 treatment looks like, especially for black males. It's not a 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:43.879 weak thing. It's not something that makes you a suck 0:44:44.040 --> 0:44:47.200 or you solve. It's really healthy to be able to 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:50.080 process the things that you're thinking about in a way 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:53.560 that isn't harmful to your community, is harmless to your family. 0:44:54.200 --> 0:44:56.800 And you know, when you come out of a environment 0:44:56.920 --> 0:45:00.160 that violent, you've been infected by that, you know your 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:02.920 own edge. Like I mean, my first part of my incarceration, 0:45:02.960 --> 0:45:05.520 I was at the Myxican informatory is called the Gladiator 0:45:05.520 --> 0:45:07.799 of the school. You know, my first week, my first 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:10.000 actual day in prison, a guy gets stabbed in the 0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:12.440 neck and he keep it moving. I'm like, okay, well, 0:45:12.480 --> 0:45:13.920 this is what it is. This is where we're at. 0:45:14.040 --> 0:45:15.920 This is the land of the lions and the lambs. 0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:18.680 And you make a choice early on, and like that 0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:20.920 doesn't leave just because you walk out of prison, Like 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:25.239 it doesn't leave just because you get parole. Those realities 0:45:25.280 --> 0:45:27.879 are still there, and so you know, I think it's 0:45:28.000 --> 0:45:32.560 it's exceptionally important for anybody who's been through that to get, 0:45:32.719 --> 0:45:35.919 you know, psychological evaluation first of all of their mental 0:45:35.960 --> 0:45:38.160 health treatment. You know you said something earlier that you know, 0:45:38.200 --> 0:45:40.399 when your son was older, you figured that you would 0:45:40.400 --> 0:45:42.440 have to fall back for a little bit, right. I 0:45:42.600 --> 0:45:45.280 have two sons, and what made me really think about 0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:46.879 that is, you know, as a kid, when your dad 0:45:46.960 --> 0:45:49.000 tells you to do something like, you're mad, like why 0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:50.800 is he making me do this? Right? Then when you 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:54.040 get older, you understand why, you know. But you know 0:45:54.600 --> 0:45:57.040 what scares me sometimes is, you know, thank god I 0:45:57.120 --> 0:45:59.000 went the right way where I didn't have to I 0:45:59.120 --> 0:46:00.960 didn't have to learn. He was telling me no. So 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:03.520 hard does that ever scare you with your kids? You know? 0:46:03.520 --> 0:46:04.880 I mean, because, yeah, you have to fall back. You 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:06.319 gotta let your son learn on his own, and one 0:46:06.360 --> 0:46:07.920 day he'll get to the age of black. I understand 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:09.879 what my dad was doing, but it's always that fear 0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:11.960 of what if he goes the wrong way? You know, 0:46:12.080 --> 0:46:14.400 what if he goes that takes that wrong turn, or 0:46:14.440 --> 0:46:16.600 does that stupid thing. You know, he might not get 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:19.440 that grace, that empathy. Yeah, I think you know. The 0:46:19.480 --> 0:46:23.640 way that I've approached parenting is I honestly have egoist 0:46:23.760 --> 0:46:28.200 parenting because I realized that whatever outcomes my son you know, 0:46:28.400 --> 0:46:31.120 has in life, those will be based on choices that 0:46:31.239 --> 0:46:33.600 he made. So my response will be, as his dad 0:46:33.680 --> 0:46:37.400 is to set up all the resources necessary, the guiding principles, 0:46:37.440 --> 0:46:40.240 but ultimately he's gonna have to choose. And I based 0:46:40.320 --> 0:46:42.800 that on you know, my experience with my dad and 0:46:43.000 --> 0:46:45.560 knowing that my dad, you know, wanted the best for me, 0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:47.120 and he wanted the best for all of his kids. 0:46:47.640 --> 0:46:49.680 But there are things that I transpired in my live 0:46:49.920 --> 0:46:53.200 life that my dad didn't even understand how to help 0:46:53.280 --> 0:46:56.200 me process, which led to me running away, led to 0:46:56.239 --> 0:46:58.759 me getting caught up in the streets. And you know, 0:46:58.920 --> 0:47:00.560 one of the one of the things that was really 0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:02.520 important with me and my dad was for me letting 0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:05.400 him know that he wasn't responsible for the decisions I 0:47:05.520 --> 0:47:08.719 made that led to me being in prison, and that 0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:11.279 was a liberating moment for both of us. And so 0:47:11.440 --> 0:47:13.719 with my son, I just do egoists parenting, Like, you know, 0:47:14.160 --> 0:47:17.160 I provide the resource of the opportunities, and ultimately he's 0:47:17.160 --> 0:47:18.719 going to have to make the decisions. And like I 0:47:18.760 --> 0:47:22.040 don't have any ego attest as outcomes. Why why is 0:47:22.160 --> 0:47:26.279 the relationship with our fathers so complicated, because that's that's 0:47:26.320 --> 0:47:27.480 the one thing, you know, for me, even when I 0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:31.200 started going to therapy for anxiety and depression realizing all 0:47:31.200 --> 0:47:34.040 these father issues I had. Why Why is that so 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:37.040 complicated that relationship? You know, I think there's a few 0:47:37.120 --> 0:47:40.479 things that has happened, specifically with black Man. For one, 0:47:40.960 --> 0:47:45.480 our narrative has been shrunken to us only being capable 0:47:45.520 --> 0:47:50.440 of providers, and if there was any struggle with provision, 0:47:50.880 --> 0:47:54.000 then that's a direct attack on manhood, and any other 0:47:55.080 --> 0:47:58.000 male figure is a threat to that, you know. With 0:47:58.160 --> 0:48:01.080 my dad, my dad, when he met my mom, she 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:03.359 had three children. He is just out of the Air 0:48:03.440 --> 0:48:06.719 Force twenty one years old, so he went straight into 0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:11.320 provision mode. And then they had three more children. And 0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:15.080 I have a deeper appreciation now as I have one son, 0:48:15.160 --> 0:48:17.920 to just realize how hard it is to be a provider. 0:48:17.960 --> 0:48:20.560 But I think because that narrative has been so limiting, 0:48:21.440 --> 0:48:25.399 it hasn't allowed us the opportunities to have real meaningful conversations. 0:48:25.480 --> 0:48:28.120 And what happened with me and my dad is probably 0:48:28.160 --> 0:48:31.600 about you know, four or five years into my car's ration, 0:48:31.760 --> 0:48:34.600 I started really maturing and we were able to just 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:39.120 have deep, meaningful conversation. It was all through letters, which 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:41.320 is the inspiration of the book. And these are actually 0:48:41.320 --> 0:48:44.600 my daddy, my dad. I'm like my daddy, my daddy's letters. 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:49.279 These are actually his letters on the book because I 0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:52.440 really wanted to honor how he showed up in that 0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:55.719 meaningful way. But you know, I think that the more 0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:58.520 honest we are with what our emotional needs are, but 0:48:58.640 --> 0:49:02.800 also with our ability a teacher to provide beyond, you know, 0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:06.480 finances and discipline. I think the more we open up 0:49:06.520 --> 0:49:10.440 those conversations, the better relationships become between our fathers and son. 0:49:10.560 --> 0:49:12.560 All right, well the movie got more with Shaka to goal. 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:14.399 When we come back as the Breakfast Club, God Morning 0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:19.280 and I don't want to morning. Everybody is DJ Envy 0:49:19.480 --> 0:49:22.120 and Ngul Yee Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast 0:49:22.160 --> 0:49:24.360 Club were still kicking it with Shakas and Gore. You know, 0:49:24.440 --> 0:49:26.480 he's a New York Times bestselling author for writing My 0:49:26.640 --> 0:49:28.480 Wrongs and has a new book called Let Us to 0:49:28.560 --> 0:49:31.880 the Sons of Society, A Father's Invitation to love, honesty 0:49:31.960 --> 0:49:35.239 and freedom. Yee Chaka, can you talk about how instrumental 0:49:35.320 --> 0:49:38.760 your father's support was for you while you were in prison, 0:49:38.880 --> 0:49:41.799 because imagine not even having that, you know, I mean, 0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:44.680 my dad was my primary supporter. We don't we don't 0:49:44.760 --> 0:49:47.959 hear that story. You know. For nineteen years, my dad 0:49:48.320 --> 0:49:51.400 came to see me at prisons all over Michigan. I 0:49:51.480 --> 0:49:54.120 think the farthest I've ever been away was about twelve hours, 0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:57.160 and he and my stepmom and they would travel up 0:49:57.200 --> 0:49:59.040 to see me. You know, he wrote me consistently. I 0:49:59.160 --> 0:50:02.279 still have all this letters. Um. You know, he took 0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:05.640 those phone calls. You know, he you know, was present 0:50:05.719 --> 0:50:07.719 with the real conversations. You know, there was a lot 0:50:07.800 --> 0:50:10.360 of hurt that we both shared. You know, there was 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:12.360 a lot of areas of life where I felt, you know, 0:50:12.520 --> 0:50:14.880 he hadn't stood up, you know, the way that I 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:17.040 thought he could have to protect us and make sure 0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:19.640 we were good when it came to things that was 0:50:19.680 --> 0:50:22.520 difficult in the household. And he was just man enough 0:50:22.600 --> 0:50:24.960 to listen and to give us a perspective and to 0:50:25.000 --> 0:50:27.239 give me a perspective, and we were able to talk. 0:50:27.280 --> 0:50:29.759 And so, you know, I celebrate him and everything that 0:50:29.840 --> 0:50:32.600 I do. You know, that's my guy. The proudest part 0:50:32.640 --> 0:50:35.000 of this book is just having his words like to 0:50:35.200 --> 0:50:37.960 my son on there, you know, um, And because I 0:50:38.040 --> 0:50:40.000 think dads deserved their flowers, you know, and they deserve 0:50:40.080 --> 0:50:43.279 more than the big piece of chicken. What did you 0:50:43.400 --> 0:50:45.839 learn about your relationship with your father? You know from 0:50:45.880 --> 0:50:48.560 from the letters he sent you while you in prison? Man, 0:50:48.840 --> 0:50:52.000 you know, I learned that I had broke his heart, 0:50:52.480 --> 0:50:54.600 you know, and that was that was crushing to me. 0:50:54.719 --> 0:50:57.080 Like I was an honor rolled scholarship student, I was smart, 0:50:58.040 --> 0:51:00.279 very charismatic, like all the things you know, you were 0:51:00.360 --> 0:51:02.560 wanted a child, and I really learned that I broke 0:51:02.600 --> 0:51:05.560 his heart, and that was the hardest thing for me 0:51:05.800 --> 0:51:08.799 to navigate, you know. As I've matured into a man, 0:51:09.520 --> 0:51:13.120 and especially as I've grown into a dad, and you know, 0:51:13.200 --> 0:51:16.200 I think about moments with my son where I'm watching him, 0:51:17.200 --> 0:51:20.600 you know, navigate life, and you know, I'm thinking of 0:51:20.760 --> 0:51:22.759 all the promise that he has, you know, and I 0:51:22.840 --> 0:51:25.000 think about my dad and what that experience was like 0:51:25.120 --> 0:51:29.120 for him to watch his first biological son in an 0:51:29.239 --> 0:51:31.960 environment where he couldn't protect, he couldn't help, he couldn't 0:51:32.400 --> 0:51:36.640 do anything other than listen. And I remember this one 0:51:36.719 --> 0:51:38.520 moment when when I was in solitary, I wrote this 0:51:38.640 --> 0:51:41.239 letter home, and I told my dad. You know, I 0:51:41.320 --> 0:51:45.160 was in solitary for a SOLAN officer, and you know, 0:51:45.200 --> 0:51:47.319 I told my dad, I said, you know, these people 0:51:47.360 --> 0:51:50.319 said I'm never getting out of prison. And they said 0:51:50.320 --> 0:51:53.440 I'm never getting out of solitary. And I believed it 0:51:53.560 --> 0:51:56.239 because my neighbor across me had been a solitary for 0:51:56.320 --> 0:51:58.920 twenty years. My neighbor next door had been a solitary 0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:02.200 for ten years. And I told my dad, I was like, man, 0:52:02.400 --> 0:52:04.040 you know, I really just want you to go on 0:52:04.120 --> 0:52:06.640 with your life and take care of Jay and you know, 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:08.799 take care of family, and I'll figure this out in here, 0:52:08.840 --> 0:52:11.239 you know. And my dad wrote me back, he was like, 0:52:11.280 --> 0:52:15.200 I'd never leave your side, you know. And so I, 0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:17.680 you know, as as a man, as a dad, now 0:52:18.480 --> 0:52:20.800 I understand exactly what that meant, you know, And I 0:52:20.880 --> 0:52:23.880 understand how heartbreaking it was for him to have to 0:52:24.280 --> 0:52:27.440 be in a situation where the only thing he had 0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:30.040 was the letters that he could send me to nurture 0:52:30.120 --> 0:52:32.440 me and support me. And I read those letters over 0:52:32.520 --> 0:52:34.400 and over. Man, doing my toughest moments, I would just 0:52:34.480 --> 0:52:37.759 go back to those letters and read him. So when 0:52:38.000 --> 0:52:39.480 when you when you went to prison. Did he feel 0:52:39.560 --> 0:52:42.440 like he failed? Oh? Absolutely, it was. It was heart broke. 0:52:42.480 --> 0:52:44.959 He felt like it was his his faut. He felt 0:52:44.960 --> 0:52:46.759 like there was something that he didn't do or something 0:52:46.840 --> 0:52:49.600 that he missed. And I think, you know, all of 0:52:49.680 --> 0:52:52.719 us as parents played Monday Monday Monday Morning quarterback where 0:52:52.719 --> 0:52:54.920 we kind of go back like, you know, oh, if 0:52:54.960 --> 0:52:56.640 I would have did this, the outcome would have been 0:52:56.680 --> 0:53:00.040 doing um. But you know, we had a moment and 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:02.120 I think it was nineteen ninety five, and this probably 0:53:02.160 --> 0:53:04.960 was the hardest visit I've ever been on with my dad. 0:53:05.440 --> 0:53:08.120 I was in solitary for something different at that time, 0:53:09.040 --> 0:53:12.920 and they had me shackled up, like the handcuffs on 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:15.520 but also the shackles on my feet, and I'm literally 0:53:15.600 --> 0:53:17.600 walking up to the windom. I see my dad looking 0:53:17.680 --> 0:53:22.160 at me, and I see him trying to hold it together, 0:53:22.960 --> 0:53:24.800 you know what I'm saying. But it's hardest breaking. Like 0:53:24.880 --> 0:53:27.759 I'm literally like shackled up, like I just got off 0:53:28.200 --> 0:53:30.759 you know, a ship, you know what I'm saying, that 0:53:30.920 --> 0:53:34.560 that held our ancestors in slavery, you know, and you know, 0:53:34.840 --> 0:53:38.359 just watching him process that and try to figure out 0:53:38.400 --> 0:53:39.800 how to bring me a sense of piece, you know, 0:53:39.880 --> 0:53:42.920 the little jokes, the little conversation, you know, so that 0:53:43.560 --> 0:53:45.800 doing it was doing that visit that we had the 0:53:45.840 --> 0:53:48.120 conversation where he thought he was responsible and I was like, 0:53:48.800 --> 0:53:50.520 I was like, nah, Like you know, there was a 0:53:50.600 --> 0:53:53.040 series of things that happened, like I was dealing with PTSD, 0:53:53.160 --> 0:53:57.000 I got shot seventeen months before I ended up shooting 0:53:57.000 --> 0:53:59.760 and taking somebody's life. What about the art of writing, 0:54:00.120 --> 0:54:02.560 because you said your dad still writes letters to this day. 0:54:03.280 --> 0:54:05.520 What would you say to people, because it's not something 0:54:05.600 --> 0:54:07.680 that people do too often, but it means so much. 0:54:08.400 --> 0:54:10.799 I think it's one of the greatest forms of communication, 0:54:11.160 --> 0:54:13.560 you know. I think the intimacy that's required for you 0:54:13.600 --> 0:54:16.120 to really sit and be present and think about what 0:54:16.239 --> 0:54:19.120 you want to share with another human being, it's just 0:54:19.280 --> 0:54:23.720 so powerful, you know, because it allows you to reflect deeply. 0:54:24.360 --> 0:54:26.200 And you know when I when I first came up 0:54:26.200 --> 0:54:28.160 with ideas I mentioned, I was thinking about writing like 0:54:28.200 --> 0:54:30.799 all the sons I've encountered. But when I sat down 0:54:31.200 --> 0:54:33.400 and I started writing, you know, I saw the faces 0:54:33.440 --> 0:54:36.080 of my boys, you know, I heard their voices, and 0:54:36.160 --> 0:54:39.440 I thought about little mannerisms and you know, the beauty 0:54:39.520 --> 0:54:42.200 of who they are, you know, I closed the end 0:54:42.280 --> 0:54:44.640 of it, you know, the book out with one of 0:54:44.680 --> 0:54:46.440 the passage I think is one of the most beautiful, 0:54:46.440 --> 0:54:49.759 and it just talks about how the swagger of their 0:54:49.920 --> 0:54:51.719 you know, their nature and how they walk to earth, 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:54.439 you know. And I think it's so important for black boys, 0:54:54.560 --> 0:54:58.120 especially in these times, to really hear that from their dads, 0:54:58.200 --> 0:54:59.680 you know, and from other men, and that we have 0:54:59.800 --> 0:55:02.239 to firmed them and lift them up. And so that 0:55:02.480 --> 0:55:06.360 that intimacy of writing um, you know, it was really refreshing, 0:55:06.480 --> 0:55:09.359 you know, and it was actually healing for me as well, 0:55:09.480 --> 0:55:13.600 because what I realized is that we always here we 0:55:13.719 --> 0:55:16.840 have to change the narrative around black men, and I 0:55:16.880 --> 0:55:19.239 don't believe that to be true. I think we just 0:55:19.360 --> 0:55:21.759 have to expand the narrative to include all of who 0:55:21.840 --> 0:55:25.280 we are, like not just not just our negative moments. 0:55:25.320 --> 0:55:28.280 You know. One of my mentors, Trabian Shorters, he always 0:55:28.360 --> 0:55:31.000 talks about how we have to start asset framing each 0:55:31.040 --> 0:55:34.800 other and thinking about what is the most positive aspects 0:55:34.840 --> 0:55:37.200 of us. And in my experience, like all my friends 0:55:37.239 --> 0:55:39.640 are dope dads, you know, the friends I talked about 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:41.960 in the book, my guy Fame, I think i'd tell 0:55:42.040 --> 0:55:44.560 y'all he came to your car. So he brought that 0:55:44.640 --> 0:55:48.719 big red caprice. Uh. My guy Calvin, who I met, 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:52.759 my best friend I met in prison. He was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:55:52.880 --> 0:55:55.080 My guy Calvin, who did twenty four years for crime 0:55:55.120 --> 0:55:57.600 he didn't commit. Uh, you know, he's been out now. 0:55:57.680 --> 0:55:59.879 So these are these are my guys. They're like dope 0:56:00.120 --> 0:56:03.080 as you know, my brothers, my cousins. So I'm used 0:56:03.080 --> 0:56:05.840 to seeing men who show up, and so I just 0:56:05.920 --> 0:56:08.239 think we had to expand a narrative and clue all 0:56:08.280 --> 0:56:10.400 of us because if you think about this, right, what 0:56:10.560 --> 0:56:14.319 if my story would have stopped at nineteen ninety one, 0:56:15.040 --> 0:56:17.600 You know, I wouldn't be one of the only C 0:56:17.800 --> 0:56:20.799 suite tech execs in Silicone Valley. I wouldn't be one 0:56:20.800 --> 0:56:24.920 of the only formally incarcerating investors, a best selling author, 0:56:25.200 --> 0:56:28.080 you know, a dad community builder like I wouldn't have 0:56:28.120 --> 0:56:29.680 been none of these things of my narrative would have 0:56:29.719 --> 0:56:33.640 stopped back when people was okay with defining me from 0:56:33.680 --> 0:56:36.360 that moment. You know, I've lived tons of life in 0:56:36.360 --> 0:56:37.920 the eleven years i've been out, you know, and so 0:56:38.040 --> 0:56:41.000 my narrative has expanded and I've been able to contribute 0:56:41.000 --> 0:56:43.160 in a real way. And so I think we have 0:56:43.280 --> 0:56:46.000 to just expand a narrative for black men and especially 0:56:46.000 --> 0:56:49.120 amongst each other, like seeing each other as more than 0:56:49.760 --> 0:56:52.600 what we've accomplished, you know, seeing a humanity of who 0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:55.120 we are and all we're capable of. And so that's 0:56:55.280 --> 0:56:57.239 what you know, I really wanted to present in the book. 0:56:57.480 --> 0:57:01.160 Shocker led us to the son of society, invitation to love, honesty, 0:57:01.200 --> 0:57:04.839 and freedom. We appreciate you for man, appreciate you all. Man, 0:57:05.160 --> 0:57:08.279 it's been love. Got some fantastic blurbs too. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:57:08.320 --> 0:57:11.799 we can embarrass Angela rd, Ben Horrowich Van Jones. Yeah, 0:57:11.920 --> 0:57:15.120 my guy, Ben. Shout out to Ben. That's my bro. Leo. 0:57:15.239 --> 0:57:17.560 Put me on to the Silicone Valley Vibe. You know. Yeah, 0:57:17.960 --> 0:57:20.680 it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, all right, morning, everybody 0:57:20.840 --> 0:57:24.120 is DJ R Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are 0:57:24.160 --> 0:57:26.600 the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the room as let's 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:30.800 talk our Las Vegas residency. This is the rumor report 0:57:31.280 --> 0:57:39.720 with angela year now. This is a good one. Silk 0:57:39.840 --> 0:57:42.240 Sonic has announced that they are going to be doing 0:57:42.280 --> 0:57:46.200 a Las Vegas residency. They called it the sexiest party 0:57:46.320 --> 0:57:49.280 of the year and it's impact posted the terms are 0:57:49.360 --> 0:57:51.600 locked in Vegas might not ever be the same. Jack, 0:57:51.640 --> 0:57:53.680 You're invited to the hottest show in Sin City. Hit 0:57:53.760 --> 0:57:56.440 the Lincoln Bio and get your tickets now. So that 0:57:56.640 --> 0:58:00.280 thirteen date residency starts on February twenty fifth. The last 0:58:00.280 --> 0:58:04.400 show was April second. I'm going to see that. They 0:58:04.480 --> 0:58:07.320 seem like they built for Vegas. It's like I can 0:58:07.360 --> 0:58:10.440 Stilksgnic is a Vegas group groping include Bob for Silksgnic, 0:58:11.680 --> 0:58:13.160 you know what you shoot like the album got slept 0:58:13.200 --> 0:58:16.320 on because it was an incredible album. I did. I 0:58:16.400 --> 0:58:18.600 really like it. I was definitely vibing to it in 0:58:18.680 --> 0:58:20.840 the car, like it just came and went. Like people 0:58:20.880 --> 0:58:23.080 didn't really gravitate towards that project the way they should 0:58:23.080 --> 0:58:25.200 at I gotta see what those numbers was looking like. 0:58:25.640 --> 0:58:28.040 All right, And Farrell has announced a new lifestyle and 0:58:28.160 --> 0:58:32.120 designed forward project with David Gretman. You know he's Miami 0:58:32.200 --> 0:58:34.560 based at doing a new resort part of the Atlantis 0:58:35.000 --> 0:58:38.000 Paradise Island. So that's gonna open in twenty twenty four. 0:58:38.000 --> 0:58:41.320 It's gonna be about four hundred rooms and suites, multiple 0:58:41.400 --> 0:58:45.040 restaurants and bars, along with recording studios. Shout to Farrell Man. 0:58:45.040 --> 0:58:46.480 He's been doing a lot with David Gretman. I know 0:58:46.560 --> 0:58:49.040 they get that hotel in Miami, so he's he's doing 0:58:49.080 --> 0:58:50.640 a lot of shout to Farell what up? Seven five 0:58:50.680 --> 0:58:53.680 to seven m That sounds dope. I haven't been to 0:58:53.760 --> 0:58:55.200 the behind. I haven't been. I feel like I haven't 0:58:55.200 --> 0:58:58.120 been anywhere in a minute, all right now. Antonio Brown 0:58:58.240 --> 0:59:01.000 was on the I Am Athlete Show with x NBA 0:59:01.080 --> 0:59:04.160 starting Nick Young and former first round NFL draft pick 0:59:04.480 --> 0:59:07.280 Jared Odrick, and they talked about his future in the 0:59:07.440 --> 0:59:10.160 league and whether or not he has any regrets about 0:59:10.280 --> 0:59:12.640 how he ended things with the Buccaneers. Here's what he 0:59:12.720 --> 0:59:15.760 had to say about his mental health, because he said 0:59:15.760 --> 0:59:18.040 a lot of fans and experts have been referring to 0:59:18.160 --> 0:59:21.360 him as quote crazy. Everyone in the world got different 0:59:21.400 --> 0:59:24.440 former reactions or what happened to him, and it's all 0:59:24.520 --> 0:59:27.080 based upon where are you from, how you feel, and 0:59:27.160 --> 0:59:29.760 no one only gonna know that regards of who you is. 0:59:30.520 --> 0:59:33.240 The thing with football players, mental health and CT is 0:59:33.320 --> 0:59:36.120 this these guys are willing to do whatever it takes 0:59:36.240 --> 0:59:40.520 to make some obligator game. But they're in the midst 0:59:40.520 --> 0:59:44.040 of those games, they're being mistreated. It's a lot of facts, 0:59:44.320 --> 0:59:46.440 stuff that went on that may not been handled right. 0:59:46.440 --> 0:59:48.080 And then you and then you started your career on 0:59:48.120 --> 0:59:52.040 a high. If we all players and we all saying 0:59:52.120 --> 0:59:54.880 we care about mental health, why every time something happened 0:59:54.920 --> 0:59:57.800 bad or how song react, Oh he's craziest song. Wrong 0:59:57.840 --> 1:00:00.919 with his mental health. It's not wrong my mental health. Yeah. 1:00:00.920 --> 1:00:02.600 I think it's because a lot of folks are still 1:00:02.760 --> 1:00:06.920 just learning about CT. So whenever they see, you know, 1:00:07.880 --> 1:00:10.800 any actions that they made, Deem is crazy, they already 1:00:10.880 --> 1:00:13.600 automatically assuming just because he's a football player, you know, 1:00:14.200 --> 1:00:16.720 something's wrong with him and in that regard. And people 1:00:16.760 --> 1:00:18.760 also don't know what goes on behind the scenes, so 1:00:18.880 --> 1:00:20.680 all they see is what happened. They don't know what 1:00:20.840 --> 1:00:23.200 led up to it. Like he said, yeah, and that's 1:00:23.200 --> 1:00:24.800 how I feel through When I saw him on the sidelines, 1:00:24.840 --> 1:00:26.760 I'm like, yeah, he looked like he just made a choice. 1:00:26.800 --> 1:00:29.600 To me, he didn't like he was having no mental breakdown. 1:00:29.680 --> 1:00:31.200 He just made a choice. I was just waiting to 1:00:31.200 --> 1:00:32.919 see what he had to say about it later before 1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:36.120 you pass judgment. He was out all right now. Fat 1:00:36.240 --> 1:00:39.080 Joe was also on the Iromathlete podcast and he was 1:00:40.160 --> 1:00:44.160 talking about basically fake friends and getting rid of them 1:00:44.200 --> 1:00:46.840 and what his plan was. So we had fifty guys 1:00:46.880 --> 1:00:49.520 with me, We all had the same Cabillac truck, we 1:00:49.640 --> 1:00:52.320 all had changed. Everybody go to jail a bellam, I 1:00:52.360 --> 1:00:55.439 pay for the lawyer. This, this, this, that one time 1:00:55.520 --> 1:00:57.560 I said, all fifty of them together. We was at 1:00:57.600 --> 1:01:00.520 the Rich Carlton in Puerto Rico, and I say, you listen, man, 1:01:01.160 --> 1:01:03.000 she ain't the same. I ain't got it. And I 1:01:03.160 --> 1:01:06.720 had it when I was checking out. Of the fifty 1:01:06.880 --> 1:01:09.920 guys that was dead, only six of them saying, Yo, 1:01:10.000 --> 1:01:12.000 if your dad broke, I'll be with you man, no 1:01:12.120 --> 1:01:15.600 matter why. Every day those are six guys that's still 1:01:15.680 --> 1:01:17.960 with me. Now. So God put that in my head 1:01:17.960 --> 1:01:20.720 and say, yo, try these dudes, man, See they really 1:01:20.760 --> 1:01:23.760 with you. They wasn't really with me all right. In 1:01:23.840 --> 1:01:27.040 addition to that, he was talking about jay Z and 1:01:27.760 --> 1:01:32.400 the lyrics from Feeling It, the hardest lyric in hip 1:01:32.480 --> 1:01:36.880 hop jay Z's first album, when he said something something 1:01:37.440 --> 1:01:41.000 and we will be each other's crutches. So the point 1:01:41.160 --> 1:01:43.680 is this, everybody want to be the guy everybody look 1:01:43.760 --> 1:01:46.880 up to. There's no real strength in that. The strength 1:01:47.160 --> 1:01:51.160 is everybody eating. So if one of us falls, we 1:01:51.280 --> 1:01:53.560 can left him up. Whether your friend is a barber, 1:01:53.600 --> 1:01:55.520 we want them to be the best barber in the world. 1:01:55.840 --> 1:01:57.320 We need to be the best so that when we 1:01:57.440 --> 1:02:01.200 need each other, somebody's dead for right all then, And 1:02:01.360 --> 1:02:05.360 that's the true power, the people power. Joe is absolutely right. 1:02:05.400 --> 1:02:08.200 But Joe, you can't something something that scripture. Well here's 1:02:08.720 --> 1:02:12.120 you can't do that. If everybody in your click is rich, 1:02:12.160 --> 1:02:14.840 your click is rugged, we have it for you. Ring 1:02:14.880 --> 1:02:19.200 your click is rug nobody because everyone will be scrut 1:02:19.600 --> 1:02:22.800 I hope you boost choose to listen. Bus these are 1:02:22.840 --> 1:02:25.080 the rules I follow with my life. You gotta love it. 1:02:26.000 --> 1:02:30.960 Come on, Joe, you can't Joe ain't talking about large money. Joe, 1:02:31.080 --> 1:02:34.680 you can't something something scripture? What's the point that's scripture? Joe? 1:02:35.120 --> 1:02:36.760 All right, Well, in the next hour will tell you 1:02:36.840 --> 1:02:38.800 more about what fat Joe had to say. One of 1:02:38.880 --> 1:02:41.520 the things that he discussed is who, no matter what, 1:02:42.480 --> 1:02:44.760 is his favorite rapper? Can we play that jay Z song? 1:02:44.840 --> 1:02:48.400 Can we pull that out right fast? You do what 1:02:48.480 --> 1:02:50.240 you want to do? All right, let's do what what's 1:02:50.240 --> 1:02:54.960 your name? Give him? Come on? Can you find it? 1:02:57.240 --> 1:02:59.200 Kind of questions to play no music, So let's tease 1:02:59.200 --> 1:03:01.080 the donkey. Who you when you don't get to come on? Right? 1:03:01.080 --> 1:03:04.280 You got President Joe Biden, Joe Mansion, and Kristen Cinema, 1:03:04.320 --> 1:03:07.840 President Biden, President Mansion and vice President Cinema all getting 1:03:07.880 --> 1:03:10.280 dunkey to day this morning. There's no feeling it. We 1:03:10.320 --> 1:03:14.360 ain't got a damn well, come on, permission you look back. 1:03:14.520 --> 1:03:17.840 You better to ask for forgiving us informission. Yeah, come on, 1:03:18.920 --> 1:03:25.920 I guess we're not feeling it. No, I guess their 1:03:25.960 --> 1:03:32.920 crews not rugged nod well, we fell guys definitely felt 1:03:32.960 --> 1:03:36.000 this before. Damn it man. Now really I'm trying to know. 1:03:36.400 --> 1:03:39.800 It's not all right, dunkey. The day is up. Next 1:03:39.840 --> 1:03:42.760 it's the breakfast Club. Come morning, So breakfast Club, your 1:03:42.840 --> 1:03:46.720 morning's will never be the same. Our Audible pick of 1:03:46.800 --> 1:03:49.040 the day is the perfect day to boss up. This 1:03:49.240 --> 1:03:51.880 is Rick Ross's guide to building your own empire. Now 1:03:51.960 --> 1:03:54.280 listen up your first dirty days of Audible or free 1:03:54.360 --> 1:03:56.959 when you sign up at audible dot com slash Breakfast Club. 1:03:59.600 --> 1:04:04.760 This is miracles. There is no question that there are 1:04:05.000 --> 1:04:09.720 problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you 1:04:10.360 --> 1:04:13.520 are a donkey to the latest on that police killing 1:04:13.520 --> 1:04:15.200 of a black man. Not a new developments in the 1:04:15.240 --> 1:04:17.800 deathly spashooting rampage. Yes, it was a really bad day 1:04:17.800 --> 1:04:19.320 for him and this is what he did, and so 1:04:19.560 --> 1:04:24.000 we are in a state of emergency. Okay. White supremacist 1:04:24.080 --> 1:04:27.760 violence is always have been the number one threat to outside. 1:04:27.880 --> 1:04:30.240 But I'm also very proud that my wife was white 1:04:31.600 --> 1:04:34.760 because the practice club bitches slight running. Please tell me 1:04:35.000 --> 1:04:38.680 why was I the other day? Hey, donkey to day 1:04:38.800 --> 1:04:41.160 for Thursday, January twenty feth go to the forty sixth 1:04:41.200 --> 1:04:44.960 President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, as 1:04:45.000 --> 1:04:49.400 well as Arizona Senator Kursten Cinema and West Virginia Senator 1:04:49.520 --> 1:04:52.680 Joe Mansion. These three are collectively responsible for the deaf 1:04:52.720 --> 1:04:54.920 of the Democratic Party as we know it. Okay, Joe 1:04:54.960 --> 1:04:57.320 Biden and other Democrats love to run around and say 1:04:57.360 --> 1:04:59.000 we have to go out there and vote like democracy 1:04:59.080 --> 1:05:01.960 depends on it. People are asking if we are witnessing 1:05:02.000 --> 1:05:04.480 the death of democracy in America. Will guess what if 1:05:04.560 --> 1:05:07.440 it is, which I believe it is. For some of us. 1:05:07.880 --> 1:05:10.680 These three are to blame, simple as that. Okay, if 1:05:10.680 --> 1:05:12.880 you haven't heard, last night, Democrats came up short on 1:05:12.960 --> 1:05:16.000 a last ditch held Mary type of effort to advance 1:05:16.040 --> 1:05:18.120 the voting rights bill. Let me tell you something. You 1:05:18.240 --> 1:05:21.280 all know that your uncle Charlotte is a diehard Dallas 1:05:21.360 --> 1:05:25.120 Cowboy fan. Okay, and I shut up. And I really 1:05:25.200 --> 1:05:28.000 thought that Sunday night, watching my Dallas Cowboys down twenty 1:05:28.040 --> 1:05:30.800 three seventeen with fourteen seconds left in the game and 1:05:30.960 --> 1:05:33.200 Dak Prescott running a draw play from the forty one 1:05:33.280 --> 1:05:35.720 yard line instead of maybe getting one of possibly two 1:05:35.760 --> 1:05:37.560 shots at the end zone off, I thought that was 1:05:37.600 --> 1:05:40.600 gonna be the dumbest finish I would see this week. 1:05:41.040 --> 1:05:44.320 But President Biden said, hold my prove juice. All right now, 1:05:44.360 --> 1:05:46.800 I'm gonna keep this as simple as possible. Since the 1:05:46.840 --> 1:05:49.920 last summer nineteen states have enacted thirty three laws that 1:05:49.960 --> 1:05:53.080 will make it hard for Americans to vote by Americans, 1:05:53.200 --> 1:05:57.000 I mean negas, all right, the Blacks, all right. All 1:05:57.040 --> 1:06:01.120 these geop sponted state laws will suppress turnout by minority voters. 1:06:01.200 --> 1:06:03.560 This is an old tune, ladies and gentlemen, I write 1:06:03.640 --> 1:06:06.120 voter suppression by the GOP against black people is the 1:06:06.160 --> 1:06:08.960 greatest hit, all right, a golden od kids, trust me, 1:06:09.240 --> 1:06:11.440 it would break off screaming records. It is the ed 1:06:11.520 --> 1:06:15.160 sharing shape of view of American politics. All Right. President 1:06:15.240 --> 1:06:18.000 Biden knew that going in and after the attempted coore 1:06:18.040 --> 1:06:20.000 of this country on January six, that should have been 1:06:20.040 --> 1:06:23.160 his first order of business, protecting voting rights. I've told 1:06:23.240 --> 1:06:26.960 y'all so many different times on this here, radio and 1:06:27.040 --> 1:06:29.600 on other platforms, on TV and everything else. There's three 1:06:29.680 --> 1:06:33.439 or four things Joe Biden had to do to protect democracy. Okay, 1:06:33.520 --> 1:06:36.600 this morning, I'll give you three. One. Prosecute everyone involved 1:06:36.640 --> 1:06:38.920 in the attempted cool of this country to the highest 1:06:38.960 --> 1:06:41.320 extent of the law, not just the members of Vanilla 1:06:41.320 --> 1:06:43.840 Isis who stormed the Capitol, but the members of Congress 1:06:43.880 --> 1:06:46.560 who helped him to get rid of the filibusters. So 1:06:46.680 --> 1:06:51.800 you can properly govern in three protect voting rights. Voting rights. 1:06:52.040 --> 1:06:55.080 But guess what, none of those things have happened. Okay. 1:06:55.440 --> 1:06:57.280 I never understood why anyone thought it would. I mean, 1:06:57.320 --> 1:07:01.360 if you have the GEOP passing, you know, the thirty 1:07:01.400 --> 1:07:04.080 three laws in nineteen states and support a voter suppression, 1:07:04.080 --> 1:07:06.400 why would anyone in their right mind think that you 1:07:06.440 --> 1:07:08.680 could work with any of those people to pass voter 1:07:08.880 --> 1:07:12.440 rights legislation. It makes no sense. Republican politicians are the 1:07:12.560 --> 1:07:15.640 epitome of unity and group operation. They fall in line 1:07:15.720 --> 1:07:18.200 with each other, and if one doesn't fall in line, 1:07:18.280 --> 1:07:22.479 they get the business okay. Last week on NPR, Donald 1:07:22.480 --> 1:07:25.480 Trump called Mitch McConnell a loser and blamed him for 1:07:25.520 --> 1:07:27.960 the GOP senators who won't go along with his claims 1:07:28.160 --> 1:07:31.120 that the election was stolen. Last week, he also caught 1:07:31.160 --> 1:07:35.120 out Arizona Republican officials for accepting the twenty twenty election 1:07:35.200 --> 1:07:39.600 results and called them rhinos Republicans in name only. Why 1:07:39.720 --> 1:07:43.040 did Trump do that because those individuals blocked his agenda 1:07:43.560 --> 1:07:45.760 kept him from getting done what he wanted to get done. 1:07:45.840 --> 1:07:47.960 That's what you should do when people in your own 1:07:48.040 --> 1:07:50.720 party are blocking your agenda. Now we all know Trump 1:07:50.880 --> 1:07:53.480 is doing that for self serving reasons. So if you 1:07:53.520 --> 1:07:55.760 can call out people in your party for self serving 1:07:55.840 --> 1:07:58.200 reasons and everyone is fine with it, then why can't 1:07:58.240 --> 1:08:01.520 President Biden call out Joe Mann and Kristen Cinema for 1:08:01.600 --> 1:08:05.320 blocking his agenda when them blocking his agenda is actually 1:08:05.480 --> 1:08:09.640 hurting the American people. Okay, if you ask me, it's 1:08:09.680 --> 1:08:12.840 because he don't care Black people. Voting is simply not 1:08:12.960 --> 1:08:15.720 a priority for Biden, matching our cinema, simple as that 1:08:16.200 --> 1:08:18.479 this should have been a priority. He had to notice 1:08:18.560 --> 1:08:21.080 day would come, but he didn't care. Why. My man 1:08:21.200 --> 1:08:24.160 Sean King said it best on Instagram last night, because 1:08:24.280 --> 1:08:27.679 Joe Biden has never known to day in his life 1:08:28.120 --> 1:08:30.479 what it means to have his voting rights threatened. All right, 1:08:30.520 --> 1:08:32.719 does a matter of white privilege for Biden. He failed 1:08:32.760 --> 1:08:35.360 to give this issue the true energy and priority that 1:08:35.439 --> 1:08:38.920 it deserved because he simply can't relate. Same with Cinema 1:08:39.000 --> 1:08:42.360 in Mansion, they have never experienced their voting rights threatened, 1:08:42.479 --> 1:08:44.920 and they don't need you negroes to win elections, so 1:08:45.080 --> 1:08:48.040 why should they care, well, Mansion in Cinema, why should 1:08:48.080 --> 1:08:50.080 they care? Biden needs to care. By the way, we 1:08:50.240 --> 1:08:53.520 knew that jig was in when last year GOP legislators 1:08:53.560 --> 1:08:55.880 praised Mansion and Cinema for not getting Ridy to fill 1:08:55.920 --> 1:08:58.360 abuster because without that they would be dead meat. Let 1:08:58.400 --> 1:08:59.800 me play this for you again. I played it for 1:08:59.880 --> 1:09:01.720 you a few times last year, but now that y'all 1:09:01.760 --> 1:09:03.640 might be paying a little bit more attention. This is 1:09:03.800 --> 1:09:08.000 GOP legislators praising Joe Mansion and Cinema but basically being 1:09:08.040 --> 1:09:10.760 on their side. This was last year. Listen. Fortunately for 1:09:10.880 --> 1:09:14.240 us to filibuster still in effect in the Senate. Without that, 1:09:14.600 --> 1:09:17.160 he would be dead me. But thank goodness for Cinema 1:09:17.240 --> 1:09:19.840 and Joe Mansion. Yeah, I just really thank you for 1:09:19.920 --> 1:09:22.760 saying for the country. You know, all of you in 1:09:22.840 --> 1:09:24.960 the shroom, people at home on zoom. Let me tell 1:09:25.000 --> 1:09:26.960 you right now, if you want to do one thing 1:09:27.160 --> 1:09:32.400 to keep the republic aflow. Called Joe Mansion's office, called 1:09:32.479 --> 1:09:36.439 Curson Cinemas on Cristin Cinema's office, be polite. He's like, Hi, 1:09:36.800 --> 1:09:38.479 I'm here to talk to us Senator Joe Mansin and 1:09:38.640 --> 1:09:42.280 thank him. We're keeping the filibuster attacked. Mmmm. Those are 1:09:42.320 --> 1:09:44.840 GOP legislators. Didn't even when they were being recorded, all right. 1:09:45.080 --> 1:09:47.439 Joe Biden gave a statement yesterday after the failed vote 1:09:47.479 --> 1:09:50.120 to change the filibuster. He said, let me reach some 1:09:50.200 --> 1:09:52.880 of it. He said, I am profoundly disappointed that the 1:09:53.040 --> 1:09:55.560 Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy. I 1:09:55.640 --> 1:09:58.519 am disappointed, but I am not deterred. We will continue 1:09:58.560 --> 1:10:02.640 to advance necessary legis slation and push for Senate procedural 1:10:02.800 --> 1:10:06.280 changes that will protect the fundamental right to vote. End quote. 1:10:07.439 --> 1:10:09.360 I don't know if it's because he's old or maybe 1:10:09.400 --> 1:10:11.599 he really doesn't care, but I never hear the sense 1:10:11.640 --> 1:10:16.600 of urgency. It's literally always more urgency for us to 1:10:16.680 --> 1:10:19.160 go out there and vote than it is for elected 1:10:19.240 --> 1:10:23.320 officials to protect voting rights. All you're about to hear 1:10:23.400 --> 1:10:25.760 for the next however, many months before the midterms, is 1:10:25.800 --> 1:10:28.600 how we have to have the largest voter turnout in 1:10:28.680 --> 1:10:31.200 the history of the midterms in order to protect democracy. 1:10:31.280 --> 1:10:33.920 How we have to vote like democracy depends on it, 1:10:34.040 --> 1:10:38.120 but they never ever govern like democracy depends on it. 1:10:38.200 --> 1:10:39.680 You are gonna hear you have to go out there 1:10:39.720 --> 1:10:41.840 and vote, because if votes didn't matter, why are they 1:10:41.960 --> 1:10:44.400 fighting so hard to take them from you? Yes, that 1:10:44.600 --> 1:10:47.519 is true, but you know what else matters when you're 1:10:47.520 --> 1:10:51.040 an elected official getting things done. When you're an elected 1:10:51.080 --> 1:10:53.559 official who keeps campaign promises, you want me to get 1:10:53.640 --> 1:10:56.439 up and fight through all these various voter suppression efforts, 1:10:56.680 --> 1:10:59.560 in some cases literally fight to keep an administration in 1:10:59.640 --> 1:11:01.800 that had done what they said they were going to do, 1:11:02.520 --> 1:11:05.759 not keeping campaign promises as a form of voter suppression. Okay, 1:11:06.040 --> 1:11:07.760 now let me tell you something. I'm gonna vote in 1:11:07.760 --> 1:11:10.040 the midterms and the presidential election. I don't know who 1:11:10.040 --> 1:11:12.160 I'm voting for. I don't even know what I'm voting 1:11:12.200 --> 1:11:14.640 for yet, but I'm going to vote. Okay, But if 1:11:14.680 --> 1:11:16.960 you don't want to, I understand. And for all the 1:11:17.000 --> 1:11:19.080 folks out there who are going to push people to vote, 1:11:19.160 --> 1:11:22.000 like actively go out there and campaign for folks, what 1:11:22.160 --> 1:11:24.360 are you going to tell them? That's what I want 1:11:24.360 --> 1:11:25.519 to know. What are you gonna tell them? The Biden 1:11:25.560 --> 1:11:28.280 administration has armed you with nothing. Ten thousand for student 1:11:28.320 --> 1:11:31.760 loans that didn't happen. George Floyd Policing Act didn't happen, 1:11:31.960 --> 1:11:35.400 Bill Back Better didn't happen. Okay, voting rights didn't happen. 1:11:35.439 --> 1:11:37.280 All right, I know it's even a year, but none 1:11:37.320 --> 1:11:40.200 of those things have happened. But voting rights, the cornerstone 1:11:40.240 --> 1:11:43.320 of our democracy, didn't happen. And it's because the real 1:11:43.439 --> 1:11:49.040 leaders of this country, Joe Mansion and Christen Cinema Democrats, allegedly, 1:11:49.439 --> 1:11:52.479 it's because they are false flagging. And since they are 1:11:52.560 --> 1:11:55.240 false flagging, are the Democrats gonna attempt to run them 1:11:55.280 --> 1:11:57.200 off the set. Are they going to run someone to 1:11:57.320 --> 1:11:59.800 challenge Joe mansion seat? What about christin cinema? I don't 1:11:59.800 --> 1:12:01.679 even know how that works, but I know when someone 1:12:01.840 --> 1:12:04.360 not really in your gang and they fall flagging you, 1:12:04.520 --> 1:12:07.120 let it be known. In all right, they won't even 1:12:07.200 --> 1:12:09.040 let it be known. They won't even call them out 1:12:09.320 --> 1:12:12.000 on how they help blocking progress because Democrats are willing 1:12:12.080 --> 1:12:18.920 to try every political strategy except honesty and courage. The 1:12:19.040 --> 1:12:20.720 moral of the story is, and I really need to 1:12:20.760 --> 1:12:22.200 take a drink of water before I say this, because 1:12:22.200 --> 1:12:25.160 it's really been on my mind. The moral of the 1:12:25.200 --> 1:12:28.160 story is what I really want to say on this 1:12:28.360 --> 1:12:31.599 radio this morning. This is Nad McKelvey, Charlomagne and God talking. 1:12:32.840 --> 1:12:36.080 I just want Joe Madison to eat. Joe Madison is 1:12:36.120 --> 1:12:38.920 a radio personality on Serious XM, and him and some 1:12:39.040 --> 1:12:41.840 pastors they went on a hunger scrack until voting rights 1:12:41.920 --> 1:12:44.160 was passed in Congress. I need you all to go 1:12:44.320 --> 1:12:47.200 get some shrimp and gritch right now. Okay, Joe Madison 1:12:47.240 --> 1:12:50.839 hasn't eaten in like sixty plus days, no solid foods 1:12:51.160 --> 1:12:54.200 until Congress passes voting rights. That's what Joe Madison said, 1:12:54.520 --> 1:12:57.160 Joe is time to eat. I don't know that brother, 1:12:57.280 --> 1:12:58.800 don't think I ever met him. But when I saw 1:12:58.920 --> 1:13:01.479 him on MSNBC over the holidays and I saw him 1:13:01.520 --> 1:13:04.160 saying he was on a hunger scrike until they passed 1:13:04.200 --> 1:13:06.519 bolting rights in Congress, first thing I thought was, Man, 1:13:06.640 --> 1:13:09.720 those white folks don't care if you starve. Okay. Oh 1:13:10.040 --> 1:13:11.840 it was around the holidays when I saw him too, 1:13:11.880 --> 1:13:13.720 I said, damn, this is a hard time to not eat. 1:13:14.120 --> 1:13:18.599 And he's he's staking he's not eating on whether voting 1:13:18.720 --> 1:13:22.599 rights get passed. Listen, I applaud y'all faith in these people. 1:13:23.200 --> 1:13:28.320 But that Democrat diet, that fash is fast. It isn't healthy. 1:13:28.920 --> 1:13:31.360 So please go eat, brother Joe Madison, and all the 1:13:31.400 --> 1:13:33.400 pastors who went on a hunger scrick and tell volting 1:13:33.520 --> 1:13:36.360 rights pass, please go eat. Get a big meal this morning, 1:13:36.439 --> 1:13:39.040 some scrimping grits, all right, maybe some corn, beef, hash 1:13:39.120 --> 1:13:41.000 and eggs. Okay. I've really been thinking about y'all. I 1:13:41.040 --> 1:13:42.880 promised you last night. That was the first thing on 1:13:43.000 --> 1:13:45.040 my mind. I was in a few group chats telling 1:13:45.120 --> 1:13:47.840 folks that know y'all to please tell those brothers to 1:13:47.920 --> 1:13:50.120 go eat. I would even cash at them some change 1:13:50.160 --> 1:13:53.200 for some breakfast or some lunch this morning, because voting rights, 1:13:53.320 --> 1:13:56.439 legislation and democracy may have died on the Senate floor 1:13:56.600 --> 1:13:59.600 last night, but we can't let y'all die from starvation. 1:13:59.680 --> 1:14:03.360 Two all right, so please let remy ma give President 1:14:03.479 --> 1:14:07.080 Joe Biden, Senator Christen Cinema, and Senator Joe Manchin the 1:14:07.320 --> 1:14:11.519 biggest he had. He ha he ha, you stupid mother? 1:14:11.840 --> 1:14:14.439 Are you dumb? I'm sure this won't be the last 1:14:14.439 --> 1:14:18.439 movie discussing this, but but for real, Joe Madison, please 1:14:18.560 --> 1:14:22.439 go eat my brother. Please. It's Kanye running again and 1:14:22.600 --> 1:14:29.080 shut up? All right? Up next, asking Ye. And that's 1:14:29.120 --> 1:14:32.360 why these things happen. That's why they make movies like 1:14:32.479 --> 1:14:36.840 don't look up. Okay, but nigga like you curious of Kanye? 1:14:37.040 --> 1:14:38.519 You know what? You know what? You know what? Nigga, 1:14:38.600 --> 1:14:42.240 you don't deserve vote right or no food? Give me 1:14:42.280 --> 1:14:44.840 all your Chinese food after all, give me everything everything 1:14:44.920 --> 1:14:48.439 over the path it okay? Ask no shrimp fried rice 1:14:49.000 --> 1:14:55.400 all right? No man, no egg rolls, no nothing, all right? 1:14:55.680 --> 1:14:58.320 Up next is ask ye. If you need relationship advice, 1:14:58.400 --> 1:15:00.560 any type, if advice, call ye right now, it's a 1:15:00.600 --> 1:15:04.120 breakfast club. Good morning, what what what? What? What you 1:15:04.280 --> 1:15:07.080 gonna know? Baby mama issues need some words of wisdom. 1:15:07.160 --> 1:15:09.720 All up now for asking eight hundred and five eight 1:15:09.800 --> 1:15:17.799 five one oh five one breakfast club, Hello, the relationship advice? 1:15:18.360 --> 1:15:21.800 Need personal advice, just need real advice? Hall up now 1:15:21.920 --> 1:15:28.440 for asking. Morning everybody in stej Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne, 1:15:28.479 --> 1:15:32.160 the guy. We are the breakfast club. It's time for asking. Hello. 1:15:32.240 --> 1:15:37.600 Who's this this Joe Detroit? How's it going? And what 1:15:37.760 --> 1:15:40.599 I've done? Man? What's your question for? Easy? Yeah? Quick questions. 1:15:40.640 --> 1:15:43.920 So I'm I'm thinking this girl and she pretty much 1:15:44.600 --> 1:15:46.680 gave me the ultimatum, like, look, and we don't. If 1:15:46.680 --> 1:15:48.680 I can't move in, we can't be together no more? 1:15:50.320 --> 1:15:52.639 So what should I do? Should I? Should? I stand 1:15:52.680 --> 1:15:55.080 the situation? I mean, I want to be with it, 1:15:55.200 --> 1:15:56.920 but it's like that you don't want to move in. 1:15:57.760 --> 1:16:00.240 That's just moving too fast to me, you know. But 1:16:00.360 --> 1:16:02.280 if she gives you an ultimatum and it's not something 1:16:02.360 --> 1:16:04.200 you want to do, you have to say no. How 1:16:04.240 --> 1:16:07.720 long you've been dating it though, about a year and now? Yeah? 1:16:07.720 --> 1:16:09.880 And that doesn't matter though, because if you don't want 1:16:09.880 --> 1:16:13.240 to move in with somebody, and she gives you an ultimatum, 1:16:13.280 --> 1:16:15.040 I saying, I can't be with you unless we move 1:16:15.080 --> 1:16:18.439 in together. You can't compromise that. I mean, that's a 1:16:18.520 --> 1:16:21.280 big deal sharing space, and I think that you know 1:16:21.360 --> 1:16:23.599 what's the next move after that? If you're not ready, 1:16:24.800 --> 1:16:29.240 you can't let somebody force you into something. Yeah. See, 1:16:30.640 --> 1:16:32.720 I'm coming through in the same way. Like it was 1:16:32.800 --> 1:16:34.400 like one of those things. The first time she's going 1:16:34.400 --> 1:16:36.479 to my house. I woke up, she's going through all 1:16:36.560 --> 1:16:39.760 my stuff? Like what she was like, this is what 1:16:39.880 --> 1:16:41.880 I do. She's like, look, you know date needs. This 1:16:42.040 --> 1:16:44.400 is what I'm going through your stuff. We gotta live 1:16:44.439 --> 1:16:48.880 together otherwise I'll find another dude to replace you. I'm like, wow, 1:16:49.880 --> 1:16:51.719 well it sounds like she needs a place to stay. 1:16:53.479 --> 1:16:57.040 I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yeah, and imagine somebody 1:16:57.120 --> 1:17:00.519 even telling you that that sounds awful to tell you, Oh, 1:17:00.560 --> 1:17:02.120 if you don't let me move in with you, I'll 1:17:02.160 --> 1:17:05.000 find somebody else who will. That's not the type of 1:17:05.080 --> 1:17:08.560 relationship you want to be in. Actually, I thought it 1:17:08.640 --> 1:17:10.320 was one of those situations where she was just, you know, 1:17:11.080 --> 1:17:15.599 basically playing hard to get or just I don't even know. Yeah, 1:17:16.000 --> 1:17:18.479 that sounds like some red flags. And let me tell 1:17:18.479 --> 1:17:20.240 you something. If you're moving with somebody who you don't 1:17:20.240 --> 1:17:22.160 want to be with, you can't even find peace at home. 1:17:22.479 --> 1:17:24.720 Imagine you don't even feel like coming home. She's going 1:17:24.760 --> 1:17:27.439 through your stuff and she's questioning everything that you do. 1:17:28.320 --> 1:17:30.839 That's you know, home is like your peace you're having. 1:17:30.960 --> 1:17:32.320 You don't even want to have to deal with that. 1:17:32.800 --> 1:17:35.519 I appreciate that. I appreciate the advice much. Love y'all, 1:17:35.640 --> 1:17:38.080 much love y'all, y'all have a good morning. All right, half, 1:17:38.080 --> 1:17:42.840 I'm being single. Ask ye eight hundred five eight five 1:17:42.920 --> 1:17:44.920 one o five one if you need any type of 1:17:44.960 --> 1:17:49.240 advice calling now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I'm 1:17:49.240 --> 1:17:52.800 gonna keep for real some real advice with Angela yet 1:17:53.000 --> 1:17:57.519 ask ye morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Angela Yee, 1:17:57.680 --> 1:18:00.320 Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're in 1:18:00.360 --> 1:18:03.240 the middle of ask yee. Hello. Who's this Hey? My 1:18:03.360 --> 1:18:07.240 name is James, James. What's up? What's your question for? Easy? Hey? Man? 1:18:07.520 --> 1:18:09.080 First of all, I just want to say, man, I 1:18:09.160 --> 1:18:12.040 really really love you guys. You guys, do I listen 1:18:12.040 --> 1:18:14.320 to you? Guys all the time, every day. But UM, 1:18:14.920 --> 1:18:17.560 basically I just need some advice from going through some 1:18:17.680 --> 1:18:21.599 relationship troubles with my girl. UM start on the New year, 1:18:21.720 --> 1:18:25.280 she told me that she's feeling depressed and she doesn't 1:18:25.280 --> 1:18:27.120 want to be together. She feels like she needs to 1:18:27.160 --> 1:18:30.400 be by herself. And it's just really hard for me 1:18:30.520 --> 1:18:33.640 because I feel the complete opposite. I really love this 1:18:33.840 --> 1:18:36.439 woman and I devoted my whole life to her, and 1:18:36.800 --> 1:18:38.640 I really thought she wasn't gonna be I was going 1:18:38.680 --> 1:18:41.080 to spend the rest of my life with. So I 1:18:41.200 --> 1:18:43.880 just need help getting through this man, Because well, if 1:18:43.920 --> 1:18:47.400 you love her and she's expressed to you that she's depressed, 1:18:47.439 --> 1:18:49.120 then you have to support how she is, if you 1:18:49.200 --> 1:18:51.800 really love and care about her. Um, have you seen 1:18:51.880 --> 1:18:54.760 the signs of depression that she's talking about. I don't. 1:18:55.040 --> 1:18:58.880 I don't like I see that. Sometimes it feels like 1:18:58.960 --> 1:19:02.240 she struggles with what she's going on right now in life, 1:19:02.320 --> 1:19:06.120 Like like she just doesn't know the career that she's doing, 1:19:06.200 --> 1:19:09.880 if it's going off right, if if everything that we did, 1:19:10.000 --> 1:19:13.360 I guess we rushed into everything. We're both young. She's 1:19:13.400 --> 1:19:16.679 twenty six, I'm twenty thirty, Like I don't know it's 1:19:16.800 --> 1:19:19.880 that please into a role of everything. But like I 1:19:20.040 --> 1:19:21.880 understand what you're saying, Like, you know, I have to 1:19:21.960 --> 1:19:25.679 support her, but it's still hard when I genuinely don't 1:19:25.720 --> 1:19:27.519 want to be away from her and I love her, 1:19:27.600 --> 1:19:30.519 you know. Yeah, And you know that's hard. And the 1:19:30.640 --> 1:19:32.719 best thing that you can do though is be patient. 1:19:33.200 --> 1:19:35.439 Right if it's meant to be and if you love 1:19:35.479 --> 1:19:38.320 her and she does truly love you, we have to 1:19:38.400 --> 1:19:41.120 be able to stand as individuals before we can be 1:19:41.240 --> 1:19:44.840 in a successful relationship. And so I think for her, 1:19:44.960 --> 1:19:46.800 she needs to build herself up and do what she 1:19:46.880 --> 1:19:49.000 needs to do. All you can do is offer her 1:19:49.040 --> 1:19:51.160 your support and help. And when I mean help, I 1:19:51.240 --> 1:19:53.760 mean like maybe directed to some resources that you feel 1:19:53.800 --> 1:19:55.960 like might be good. Let her know that you care 1:19:56.000 --> 1:19:58.439 about her, whatever decision that it is that she makes. 1:19:58.760 --> 1:20:00.760 Let her know that you're there for her. You can 1:20:00.840 --> 1:20:03.479 be a friend right now, you know, like you said, 1:20:03.520 --> 1:20:07.519 and you agree that you feel like you rushed into things. Yeah, okay, 1:20:07.720 --> 1:20:11.080 I mean under the circumstances that we were in. You know, 1:20:11.200 --> 1:20:13.240 I agree, like she had just gotten out of a 1:20:13.360 --> 1:20:17.680 bad relationship, right and her, and yeah, I feel like 1:20:17.760 --> 1:20:20.320 that could play a role into everything. Yeah, so she's 1:20:20.360 --> 1:20:23.519 not completely healed from that. Is she getting some type 1:20:23.560 --> 1:20:27.200 of help? Um, honestly, I don't. I don't know. I 1:20:27.280 --> 1:20:29.960 don't think so, just because she's always so busy. She's 1:20:30.040 --> 1:20:32.479 in she's in r ND school, trying to get her 1:20:32.600 --> 1:20:35.280 r end. She's currently in open so she works all 1:20:35.400 --> 1:20:38.839 night overnight, and then in the morning she's at school 1:20:39.360 --> 1:20:42.120 and then she has to sleep, you know at some point, 1:20:42.800 --> 1:20:45.559 right well, any nice gestures that you can do for her, 1:20:45.680 --> 1:20:48.600 whether that's like sending her a breakfast or you know, 1:20:48.720 --> 1:20:52.519 just little nice things, maybe writing her nice messages, letting 1:20:52.560 --> 1:20:55.080 her know, but without being too pushy, because she has 1:20:55.120 --> 1:20:57.840 expressed to you she's going through something. She's told you 1:20:57.920 --> 1:21:00.920 that she needs space, so you should respect that. But 1:21:01.080 --> 1:21:03.560 you can also, at the same time try to be 1:21:03.640 --> 1:21:05.720 supportive as a friend, because if you care about her, 1:21:05.760 --> 1:21:08.920 you care about her health and well being as well. No, yeah, 1:21:08.960 --> 1:21:12.320 I understand, Thank you, I appreciate it. Okay, I want 1:21:12.360 --> 1:21:14.400 to say it again. I really, I really love you guys. 1:21:14.479 --> 1:21:16.360 Thank you so much for everything you do. I really 1:21:16.360 --> 1:21:19.760 appreciate it. And Charlotte Maine man, you're the man and 1:21:22.200 --> 1:21:24.240 I love looking to you. Guys. Thank you, all right, 1:21:24.280 --> 1:21:26.479 thank you. He seems like a sweet guy. Ask ye 1:21:26.680 --> 1:21:28.840 eight hundred five five one or five one? Now you 1:21:28.920 --> 1:21:31.599 got rumors on the way. And speaking of love machine Gun, 1:21:31.760 --> 1:21:34.760 Kelly talks about the ring that he designed for Megan Fox, 1:21:34.920 --> 1:21:37.960 her engagement ring and she can't take it off without 1:21:38.000 --> 1:21:40.759 hurting herself. All right, we'll get into that nextus to Breakfast. 1:21:41.840 --> 1:21:53.360 It's about this angela need the breakfast club. All right. Well, 1:21:53.439 --> 1:21:55.479 Fat Joe, like we were talking about earlier, was on 1:21:55.600 --> 1:21:58.040 the I Am Athlete podcast. He was talking about getting 1:21:58.120 --> 1:22:00.760 rid of fake friends by pretending to be Brooke. He 1:22:00.880 --> 1:22:03.120 was also discussing the feeling a lyrics from jay Z 1:22:03.280 --> 1:22:06.639 and another thing he said is his favorite rapper is Yea, 1:22:07.000 --> 1:22:09.559 No matter what, Kanye is my favorite rapper in the world. 1:22:09.600 --> 1:22:11.120 I love him to death. What you mean he's your 1:22:11.160 --> 1:22:13.439 favorite rapper? He's my favorite rapper? Why you keep he 1:22:13.600 --> 1:22:16.479 been my favorite rapper? So but what I'm saying to 1:22:16.560 --> 1:22:18.639 you is and I won't turn my back on him 1:22:19.040 --> 1:22:23.639 no matter what he doing? Right Kanye the allway, he's 1:22:23.640 --> 1:22:28.240 a genius. He's incredible and off. Okay, a lot of 1:22:28.280 --> 1:22:32.040 people were cool with they they don't vote like us. 1:22:32.080 --> 1:22:34.080 So they don't. They don't agree with everything, but we 1:22:34.160 --> 1:22:40.559 got with him. He made Jesus walks Jesus. I never 1:22:40.640 --> 1:22:44.000 heard fad Juley Kanye is his favorite rapper's and that 1:22:44.120 --> 1:22:45.960 was on Brandon Marshall's podcast. Right, what's the name of 1:22:46.000 --> 1:22:50.240 the podcast? I am athlete. I've heard fra Ju Nas 1:22:50.320 --> 1:22:53.840 is his favorite rapper. M all right, Well, speaking of Nas, 1:22:54.120 --> 1:22:57.400 Nas has invested in African mobile games publisher carry First 1:22:57.439 --> 1:23:01.360 in a financing round, raising twenty million dollars. So he's 1:23:01.400 --> 1:23:03.960 joining other people in this investment. You know, he's been 1:23:04.000 --> 1:23:08.080 doing some amazing investments and so that hit. That's with 1:23:08.200 --> 1:23:11.559 his his venture capital firm, Queen's Bread Venture Partners. He's 1:23:11.560 --> 1:23:14.720 also invested in Dropbox, Left, rob My Head, coin Base, 1:23:14.760 --> 1:23:19.639 and things like that. So shout out to bomb for Nazil. 1:23:22.640 --> 1:23:26.000 That's amazing, right. I think that does encourage other people too, 1:23:26.240 --> 1:23:29.280 because it is really your way to get it rich 1:23:29.400 --> 1:23:31.680 is to invest in these tech companies. And I know 1:23:32.280 --> 1:23:33.600 you may not be able to get in on that 1:23:33.680 --> 1:23:35.960 ground floor, but we've been talking so much about stocks 1:23:35.960 --> 1:23:38.920 and investments, so this is just one example of things 1:23:39.000 --> 1:23:43.479 that are possible. Now. One thing Evan, you just saw 1:23:44.720 --> 1:23:47.639 was TI and you said he was doing stand up comedy. 1:23:47.800 --> 1:23:49.760 I've seen something the Jasmine Brand posted that. They said 1:23:49.800 --> 1:23:52.200 t I was doing a stand up comedy last night. 1:23:52.280 --> 1:23:53.880 I don't know. I didn't hear it or just seen 1:23:54.000 --> 1:23:56.479 enough thought it was interesting. Oh yeah, So that's not 1:23:56.560 --> 1:23:57.960 an easy thing to do, though, We've seen a lot 1:23:58.000 --> 1:23:59.960 of people hit that stage. So what I want to 1:24:00.160 --> 1:24:02.760 do is do we have the audio because this is 1:24:02.840 --> 1:24:04.840 something that just got posted on the Jasmine brand a 1:24:04.880 --> 1:24:06.800 few months ago. Back. No, it's no audio. A few 1:24:06.840 --> 1:24:09.040 minutes ago you met. Oh yeah, a few minutes ago. 1:24:09.160 --> 1:24:12.760 So they said he just added stand up to his 1:24:12.960 --> 1:24:16.320 resume and he's just getting started, so that should be 1:24:16.400 --> 1:24:19.040 something interesting to see now. Bobby Schmirder was on million 1:24:19.080 --> 1:24:21.400 dollars worth of Game and they had a welcome home 1:24:21.439 --> 1:24:23.400 party for him. I know y'all saw this audio. Seemed 1:24:23.400 --> 1:24:26.599 like he was having an amazing time dancing with Gillian Willow, 1:24:26.840 --> 1:24:29.400 he fell off the couch and everything. But he also 1:24:29.520 --> 1:24:32.320 talked about the first thing that he did when he 1:24:32.439 --> 1:24:35.080 came home, how was your welcoming home? Was? It? Was 1:24:35.120 --> 1:24:38.160 it like we're gonna be hunted like ten bitches that 1:24:39.200 --> 1:24:42.040 but like t after like six mines the jet, like 1:24:42.320 --> 1:24:46.280 two bitches smoked. Well, you just came home eating rolla 1:24:47.720 --> 1:24:53.880 right on the jet. Six years bro, six years from 1:24:54.160 --> 1:24:56.599 ain't nobody coming, Ain't nobody doing a half a decade 1:24:56.640 --> 1:25:07.080 and not come home eating? No. I think there's a 1:25:07.200 --> 1:25:08.960 bitch minimum. I don't know. I think it's like a 1:25:09.080 --> 1:25:12.400 two bitch minimum. You gotta stop believing. Want to clue 1:25:12.439 --> 1:25:16.920 bum and dollars worth? That looked like a fun interview. Yeah, 1:25:17.560 --> 1:25:21.679 all right now. Taja posted this woman named Taja Riley 1:25:22.280 --> 1:25:25.080 and she was talking about the super Bowl halftime show. 1:25:25.560 --> 1:25:29.000 She posted a message that she had received and it says, hello, Taja, 1:25:29.080 --> 1:25:31.959 my husband told me that the Super Bowl is recruiting 1:25:32.040 --> 1:25:34.840 volunteers to dance for no pay. I also heard that 1:25:34.920 --> 1:25:38.120 production of the super Bowl halftime performance reached out asking 1:25:38.120 --> 1:25:40.000 if they had any dances on their roster who would 1:25:40.000 --> 1:25:42.680 be interested in volunteering and performing for no pay. I'm 1:25:42.720 --> 1:25:46.040 surprised that Black La actually considered an email their roster 1:25:46.200 --> 1:25:48.560 of the super Bowl situation. They should have said no, 1:25:48.720 --> 1:25:51.880 especially because black was originally the main agency with an 1:25:51.880 --> 1:25:54.600 audition invite for Fatima and Adrian is paid dancers we 1:25:54.640 --> 1:25:57.080 saw the clothes call on their Instagram. This is all 1:25:57.160 --> 1:26:00.400 bad now. Riley posted this on her page. Agent said, 1:26:00.400 --> 1:26:02.439 I'm sure I don't have to explain, but the super 1:26:02.479 --> 1:26:05.599 Bowl is the most profitable global sporting event on any 1:26:05.680 --> 1:26:09.080 given year. Why be cheap, especially on such an incredibly 1:26:09.120 --> 1:26:14.720 important performance honoring and showcasing African American talent? What do 1:26:14.760 --> 1:26:18.200 you guys think about that? With the super Bowl asking 1:26:18.240 --> 1:26:20.760 for people to just basically volunteer to dance for the 1:26:20.800 --> 1:26:23.280 halftime show and not paying the dancers. I mean they 1:26:23.320 --> 1:26:25.120 can ask for whatever they want. You ain't got to 1:26:25.160 --> 1:26:30.120 do it. Yeah, they should pay to people though. You know, 1:26:30.960 --> 1:26:34.400 it's interesting, right, like because it's an opportunity, and if 1:26:34.439 --> 1:26:37.280 you're like an up and coming dance troop, you know 1:26:37.280 --> 1:26:39.880 what I mean, you might take advantage of that opportunity. 1:26:39.920 --> 1:26:42.519 Alien's eyes on you. It's kind of it's an investment 1:26:42.560 --> 1:26:46.439 in yourself. I'm not mad at it, you know, listen 1:26:46.720 --> 1:26:48.559 as I get it. It's business, right, so you always 1:26:48.560 --> 1:26:50.439 gonna try to get somebody hit too something for free. 1:26:51.400 --> 1:26:55.760 But it is an opportunity, right. You can pay them 1:26:55.800 --> 1:26:57.880 a little something though, because as much money as they make, 1:26:57.920 --> 1:27:00.280 at least a day raid, But do they make that 1:27:00.360 --> 1:27:02.640 transportation If doctor Drake face for his own seting, I 1:27:02.680 --> 1:27:04.360 thought the artists pay for their own sets and everybody 1:27:04.360 --> 1:27:06.240 I'm thinking about that how much the super Bowl makes, 1:27:06.400 --> 1:27:09.360 but they're there. I think traditionally the super Bowl pays 1:27:09.400 --> 1:27:11.080 for your production and all of that, but they don't 1:27:11.120 --> 1:27:12.960 pay the artists because you get streams and you get 1:27:13.000 --> 1:27:15.760 all kinds of promotion from that. I thought we read 1:27:15.800 --> 1:27:18.360 something he said he's paying for his own But traditionally 1:27:18.439 --> 1:27:20.800 what they do is they do pay for the poet. Yeah, 1:27:20.840 --> 1:27:22.479 super Bowl don't care about that. They don't give it 1:27:22.720 --> 1:27:24.600 that budget, whatever that budget is, and the rest is 1:27:24.680 --> 1:27:26.919 on that game. Listen. I'm a starting believing and recognize 1:27:26.920 --> 1:27:29.160 an opportunity when it's not a paycheck attached to it. So, 1:27:29.240 --> 1:27:32.080 I mean, you know, I wish they were offering some money, 1:27:32.120 --> 1:27:34.000 but if they're not, I don't know if that would 1:27:34.160 --> 1:27:36.400 keep me from doing it. Just depends on, you know, 1:27:36.479 --> 1:27:39.400 how much visibility I want. I guess y'all do less 1:27:39.400 --> 1:27:45.160 for clout nowadays. I know, but this requires like rehearsals. 1:27:45.320 --> 1:27:47.559 I mean, it's real work. The super Bowl at time 1:27:47.600 --> 1:27:50.640 show It's really about what you want, all right, we 1:27:50.680 --> 1:27:52.439 do have we do have a clip of TI doing 1:27:52.520 --> 1:28:00.920 stand up. By the way, well, a friend from the 1:28:01.000 --> 1:28:10.760 house is six. Don't care ladies. Ladies cheap way better 1:28:10.840 --> 1:28:17.519 than us, So don't get into the day. Okay, cheap 1:28:17.720 --> 1:28:26.920 cheating is a big game anyway. Okay, hold on, that's 1:28:27.040 --> 1:28:35.560 your okay, Ta ta, that's fine coming on a podcast. 1:28:35.760 --> 1:28:39.320 But no, not to stand up. If that's expeditiously live, 1:28:39.600 --> 1:28:42.040 I'm with it. You're doing stand up, you gotta sit 1:28:42.120 --> 1:28:49.120 down town. I just flow into town and tight. That's 1:28:49.200 --> 1:28:52.000 my guy. But if that's expediciously live, great. But if 1:28:52.040 --> 1:28:54.360 that's you're doing stand up, leave it the little dudeha man, 1:28:54.479 --> 1:28:57.920 all right, that is mercy. I gotta starts somewhere. No, 1:28:58.040 --> 1:29:01.120 you don't not when you now, I'm saying, if you 1:29:01.200 --> 1:29:03.040 want to do stand up comedy, people do it because 1:29:03.040 --> 1:29:08.000 they all right, people who choice next up? Man, look 1:29:08.040 --> 1:29:10.599 into a buyin't hurt. It's the breakfast club, the morning 1:29:11.520 --> 1:29:18.040 wake up. You're checking out the breakfast club? Hey, what up, y'all? 1:29:18.160 --> 1:29:20.880 Is dj envy here? It's all fun in games. So 1:29:21.000 --> 1:29:24.320 someone screen shot your message, say goodbye to morning after 1:29:24.400 --> 1:29:27.800 get with that chat. 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Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, 1:30:14.560 --> 1:30:18.679 Charlomagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. All right, Charlomagne, 1:30:18.680 --> 1:30:21.360 you got a positive note. Yeah, you know, I was 1:30:21.439 --> 1:30:23.720 sitting there thinking about what we were talking about with 1:30:23.800 --> 1:30:26.040 the Super Bowl halftime show, right and you know, how 1:30:26.040 --> 1:30:28.920 do you want some dances to dance for free? And 1:30:29.000 --> 1:30:31.040 I'm gonna stern believer that. You know, you should always 1:30:31.040 --> 1:30:33.519 recognize opportunity when there's not a paycheck attached to it, 1:30:33.560 --> 1:30:37.200 because one opportunity to use wisely can change your life dramatically. 1:30:37.240 --> 1:30:39.559 So I guess my positive note is simply this man. 1:30:40.640 --> 1:30:42.880 It may cost you you know, it may cost you 1:30:42.960 --> 1:30:45.680 to invest in yourself, but always remember nothing is more 1:30:45.720 --> 1:30:50.160 expensive than a missed opportunity breakfast club finish for y'all 1:30:50.240 --> 1:30:50.439 dumb