Speaker 1: Wake up, wake up, wake y'all. You're time to get
Speaker 1: it off your chat mad blak. We want to hear
Speaker 1: from you on the breakfast, but a lot. Who's this?
Speaker 1: But what I'm trying. She's lame, she's not here yet.
Speaker 1: I want to solom man. Pieces, how you I'm doing? Girl?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know guy boys won
Speaker 1: the game? Baby, we out here, we out here, we
Speaker 1: out here. Job, but you know the giants of six
Speaker 1: and one though, I just want to let you know
Speaker 1: that I don't know if you know that. And you
Speaker 1: know who gave you that one last? Baby, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. If you don't just talk to me about anything, envy,
Speaker 1: why you know? Oh? Because um, I'm still out here,
Speaker 1: you know, waiting on something from you, because Star, I
Speaker 1: thought I got it and I haven't said nothing. But
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting on something. Oh I thought you hit
Speaker 1: because he lost the bet. You'll get out of here. Man,
Speaker 1: What do you want to draft? You didn't get the
Speaker 1: Cheeks draft, you know, and and we know he's been
Speaker 1: ignoring me, but I ain't I believe it. You alone alone,
Speaker 1: your traf Cheeks, bro. You need to cut this out. Man.
Speaker 1: What you want man, don't your ass better, bro, pay up?
Speaker 1: Definitely a mad ass better. No, no, now, I don't don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want any money from you. I don't want
Speaker 1: any money from your kids. Now you're here, done too
Speaker 1: much for me, you know, let me in free doing
Speaker 1: my album and stuff from it. I don't want any money.
Speaker 1: He still he still wanted. He's still gonna let you
Speaker 1: in free. Shut up, man, goodbye traffing. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 1: Because I'm getting up chess bro. Yeah, I was just
Speaker 1: I was gonna sending your man some like the school
Speaker 1: shooting at Seana ask that question, like, well, while the
Speaker 1: old schools like airports and all that, and it's crazy America,
Speaker 1: like these people back to this thing like oh the image,
Speaker 1: it don't make the school not look safe. And it's like, bro,
Speaker 1: people go to courthouses and airports that he said. Every
Speaker 1: day people say I'm not going to work because it's
Speaker 1: not safe. No, they're safe in there because they go
Speaker 1: through the middle texts. They know that. All right, these
Speaker 1: people was checked. I wouldn't mind as a parent at
Speaker 1: my school or my kids school had medal texts and
Speaker 1: I think their bags to those little machines. Now, I
Speaker 1: know that you said every pu caution to make sure
Speaker 1: the school was safe. But a lot of people they
Speaker 1: don't well that they like to react or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: They don't. You don't put things in motions or something
Speaker 1: to happen. Nope, nope, nope, no prevent defense. And I
Speaker 1: agree with you, man, Like it would really like decrease
Speaker 1: my parental paranoia if I knew that my child school
Speaker 1: had like metal detectives, and I mean really really like
Speaker 1: make them go through it when they come in that school,
Speaker 1: check their bags, you know, wand them down all of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I like listening. I feel safe as all right, bom,
Speaker 1: I like that. Man, I'm telling my kids these schools
Speaker 1: all four years were not transferred. Nothing to you guys
Speaker 1: making sure nothing happened. Like most of the people wait
Speaker 1: till something happened, then any want to put stuff in places.
Speaker 1: But oh we were sorry for the families being know
Speaker 1: this was going to happen in our neighborhood. Man, please anywhere.
Speaker 1: I agree with my brother, Well, thank you to be
Speaker 1: safe out there. Get it off your chest eight hundred
Speaker 1: five eight five one o five one if you need
Speaker 1: to vent here. This uthing now was breakfast club the morning.
Speaker 1: The breakfast club is your time to get it off
Speaker 1: your chests, whether you're man or blast. So pree better
Speaker 1: have the same dry we want to hear from you
Speaker 1: on the breakfast club. He was Yo was at, hey, man,
Speaker 1: what's happening? Peace King? I'm right head. What's happening, brother Charlemagne?
Speaker 1: What's happening? Brother? Listen? Let man should couple questions? Okay?
Speaker 1: Number one, I just want to let you know it
Speaker 1: is not harder to get a marriage license. Oh we're
Speaker 1: gun license in Florida? Uh? Nor is it? Uh? Ain't
Speaker 1: it harder? Since you a lot of the things that
Speaker 1: you actually said on that list, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell they're talking about, but that's not true. Number two,
Speaker 1: Why y'all didn't get this to say more? Slack man
Speaker 1: for coming up in there and he ain't taking kids kids? Man? Like,
Speaker 1: just giving money ain't enough. Like y'all got three you
Speaker 1: got four girls, bro? You know it thing more than
Speaker 1: just money to take care of kids. Bro, y'all should
Speaker 1: have been a little bit more on him. Ain't should
Speaker 1: have gate that he shouldn't have taken care of his kids?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? The man that boys twenty
Speaker 1: five years old, man years old? You know much money
Speaker 1: fifty didn't paid in child repoort? And and and But
Speaker 1: if you're listen, I'm with you. But I'm not defending fifty.
Speaker 1: I'm listen. I'm just listening to what fifty said. Fifty
Speaker 1: said he's been trying to be in his child's life
Speaker 1: for the longest, but but the mother was keeping him
Speaker 1: away from the child. I don't know if that's true
Speaker 1: or not. That what the brother says, if he could
Speaker 1: get to court, if you could get the child repoort,
Speaker 1: why I go to court and say, yo, man, to
Speaker 1: keep my kid aworking. But if your son don't want
Speaker 1: to see you, or your son don't want to talk
Speaker 1: to you, or allegedly they come to the house and
Speaker 1: then they don't answer the door and turn off the lights,
Speaker 1: the man said he didn't try. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's but there's two sides of every story. But you know,
Speaker 1: I meant side of the kids side on the right side. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, man, we need to we should have.
Speaker 1: We should have, say the long head. But why are
Speaker 1: you picking a side like we didn't? We didn't we
Speaker 1: didn't pick a side. We just let him tell his story.
Speaker 1: But right now you're picking a side. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not picking aside. I'm nearly going on for fifty said.
Speaker 1: All the things he became saying was that he he
Speaker 1: setting money, he's sending money. I didn't hear him really
Speaker 1: going detail on him, trying to spend time, spend time.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear. Now. He definitely said that. He said
Speaker 1: him in several cases he said, he said he was
Speaker 1: chasing him his whole life. He definitely said that. But
Speaker 1: also too, I said, I didn't say it was easier.
Speaker 1: I said five things that are more complicated than buying
Speaker 1: a gun in Florida. And they say a marriage license
Speaker 1: is one up and that's a court to CBS News, Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? Hey? Good morning guys. What's going on? Feast
Speaker 1: and blessings? Man? Hey, put the part of guy? Whatever man,
Speaker 1: Pace King? How are you? I'm blessed man, Holly every two? Man?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yes, sir? Are you going? Sir?
Speaker 1: I'm doing I'm doing great, amazing. I can't complain, brother,
Speaker 1: that's good. Can I just get a shout out to
Speaker 1: one of my friends and Atlanta man called JayR. You
Speaker 1: got a powercast called Close Friends Podcast. I just want
Speaker 1: to shout him mom, man ycya stand up? Okay, all right, brother,
Speaker 1: Well thank you for checking it. Man. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 1: Yes from Connecticut. Hey, Cheryl from Connecticut. Get it off
Speaker 1: her chess Mama. Yeah, I want to get it off shooting,
Speaker 1: especially family, Missoury. Absolutely, Um, it's crazy. You just kind
Speaker 1: of one to meticude whether they there's an actually shut
Speaker 1: out Friday in high school and that was scary enough
Speaker 1: for those children. There was eighty schools that got that
Speaker 1: call on Friday. They need to do talk about union.
Speaker 1: But they said the one in Missouri that they had
Speaker 1: scurity guards, but in not arm. I think they need
Speaker 1: to arm the security guards for these days. Happened very much,
Speaker 1: and they need to work metal. The deptives in office.
Speaker 1: You have to libated convenient. But we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm with you. I don't know about
Speaker 1: arms security. I think armed security outside of the school,
Speaker 1: metal detectives all throughout the school. Like you really got
Speaker 1: to treat these schools like airports. Man, they got to
Speaker 1: be that intense when these kids are going through these doors. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: get it off your chest. Eight hundred five A five
Speaker 1: one or five one when we come back. We got
Speaker 1: rumors hopefully you'll be here. If not, we'll figure something out.
Speaker 1: It's the breakfast clogal morning, the breakfast clubs. So you know,
Speaker 1: Kanye West is out in about he's doing podcasts. He's
Speaker 1: being asked questions and he's still talking. He's still talking.
Speaker 1: He talks about himself being canceled. I think about drop here.
Speaker 1: I ain't lose no money. They never take me nothing. Basically,
Speaker 1: do you think if he does, we're going through legal
Speaker 1: right now, say anything can happen. I think people just
Speaker 1: try to score points, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: Maverick Carter hand me going the show just to say
Speaker 1: we took him off the show. Then I go on
Speaker 1: drink Champs, then they take it down. The day when
Speaker 1: I was taking off the bliss Yaga site that was
Speaker 1: that was one of the most free in days. You know.
Speaker 1: You know, we're about making product that's twenty dollars, the
Speaker 1: best design in the world, and that's the reason why
Speaker 1: we had brought the head designer from Leyadema, who's a
Speaker 1: great designer. That's why I brought him to the Gap
Speaker 1: in the first place, but they didn't allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: And that's why I had to get up out of
Speaker 1: those big corporations. I could get directly to the people.
Speaker 1: He's full of poopoo. By the way, man, please, if
Speaker 1: y'all think that Kanye was, if this is something like
Speaker 1: master strategic plan to get away from all of these corporations,
Speaker 1: y'all are bugging well. He said, he's not canceled, but
Speaker 1: how are you okay? So Ever since his comments recall
Speaker 1: label good music no longer part of death jam, you
Speaker 1: gotta dropped by his new lawyer, but Lencia can stopped
Speaker 1: working with him. Vold cut Ties dropped by Cia with
Speaker 1: a prominent Hollywood talent agency. Albums they say album by
Speaker 1: Kanye down twenty two percent through October twenty of no
Speaker 1: access to post on any social media platforms and JP
Speaker 1: Morgan bank cut ties when they don't want your money
Speaker 1: no more, bro, he said you yep, you said good music.
Speaker 1: You said Cia, you say his banking effort with him,
Speaker 1: no Instagram, no Twitter, and let's be Cleardidas is on
Speaker 1: the clock. I'm sure Adidas will be making their announcement
Speaker 1: any moment now. And they got a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: because Kanye literally said on drink Champs he can say
Speaker 1: anti Semitic comments and Adidas can't drop him, which is
Speaker 1: one of the most ego fueled comments I ever heard
Speaker 1: in my life. And the fact that they are a
Speaker 1: German company founded by someone who was in the Nazi Party.
Speaker 1: They can't be a German company the home of Denazification
Speaker 1: and being bad with a Nazi like KK. Kanye and
Speaker 1: his ex wife posted this yesterday. She said, hate speech
Speaker 1: is never okay or excusable. I stand together with the
Speaker 1: Jewish community and call it on the terrible violence and
Speaker 1: hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.
Speaker 1: His other family members ex family members, I guess they
Speaker 1: said that. Let me just get this right. It's a
Speaker 1: whole lot of Kanye Ish. I support my Jewish friends
Speaker 1: in the Jewish people. That was from every Kardashian and
Speaker 1: I saw that in the household. I saw a boot
Speaker 1: post that too. Yeah, ks brother box manager, Yeah said
Speaker 1: I support my Jewish friends and the Jewish people spread love.
Speaker 1: I seem d nice posted too, But I didn't see
Speaker 1: the oh Man When Justin the Boy posted Kanye gonna
Speaker 1: pass out? Think goodness, gracious. Well, it was on a podcast,
Speaker 1: Alex Friedman podcast and they too, Freedman Slex and they
Speaker 1: talked about some of the things that Howard Stern said
Speaker 1: about Kanye and this was his response, Boy, Howard Stern,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to kiss you. To shut the fuck up,
Speaker 1: I said, by the way, I've antagonized you, Howard Stern.
Speaker 1: I used to be a fan of you. Now you're
Speaker 1: just doing clickbait like everybody else. Now you're just a
Speaker 1: saddle man, Howard. All right now, Howard Stern, this is
Speaker 1: the first time anyone's said your name in years. Your
Speaker 1: own family doesn't say your name unless they're calling to
Speaker 1: get their bills paid. You're going hard. I see. That's
Speaker 1: beautiful right there. That's much better than calling Jewish media
Speaker 1: call go after individuals about you know what it's about
Speaker 1: that Kanye. Kanye sounds like he's talking about himself when
Speaker 1: he said that, Like that's how people feel about him,
Speaker 1: really call him when they asking for money. Well, no,
Speaker 1: they used to be fans, and I didn't think he's
Speaker 1: just a sad old man who's doing things for clickbait.
Speaker 1: Like you antagonize black people for clickbait. You antagonized Jewish
Speaker 1: people for clickbait. Now you got to deal with the
Speaker 1: consequences of being an anti black, anti Semitic nazi. Oh.
Speaker 1: He also talks about why people love him people just
Speaker 1: in general. They love me so much. I'm like, actually
Speaker 1: a hard guy to really hate for a long period
Speaker 1: of time. It's just because, like because like my huge cock.
Speaker 1: And that's what I know. I didn't I didn't understand
Speaker 1: why he showed it to me when we first met.
Speaker 1: But now I understand. Yeah, it's very nice. Congratulations. I've
Speaker 1: heard of a lot of rumors, but I haven't heard that.
Speaker 1: Sounds nasty. I'm just telling never heard Kanye had a
Speaker 1: big penis. Why would you hear that? Why why would
Speaker 1: you have when you talked about penis? But you know what, now,
Speaker 1: he wants that. He wants that, he wants that energy
Speaker 1: Pete Davidson getting out here. He wanted to be me
Speaker 1: too easy. You ain't about to be me too easy.
Speaker 1: Not it's MEDIPD, you know, Tesla figure Testling. Figirl coined
Speaker 1: the term MEDIPD. There's MEDIPD. Ain't about to be no
Speaker 1: medio easy. I've never care anybody say me easy. I
Speaker 1: wish Kanye, he loved himself the way people love him.
Speaker 1: That dude don't love himself. That's why he can't love
Speaker 1: nobody else. He don't. He don't love black people. He
Speaker 1: don't love Jewish people because you don't love himself. He
Speaker 1: don't love the skin that he is. Let me just
Speaker 1: ask you that I'm telling that man seeks white validations
Speaker 1: so freaking what he I told y'all this, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you all this all the time. He seeks white validations
Speaker 1: so much. Then he turned around and tried to be
Speaker 1: so pro black and then you know, y'all ride with it.
Speaker 1: What the reality is he don't love himself, so he
Speaker 1: could never love y'all. I tell y'all he was a
Speaker 1: clam months ago. Let me ask you a question. You know,
Speaker 1: and when we see this with artists and we see
Speaker 1: people say the wrong things, we see people get camped.
Speaker 1: So we see people there's a reason, like we could
Speaker 1: point to it. What's what's his reason? Like why I
Speaker 1: have no idea if there ever comes up, there's a
Speaker 1: handbook of self sabotage. This is it? Like this is it?
Speaker 1: Like he did all of this to himself. He decided
Speaker 1: to put on you know, the White Lives Matter shirt
Speaker 1: antagonizing black people, knowing that, you know that slogan was
Speaker 1: created by white supremacist hate groups. When black people started
Speaker 1: to affirm himselves with the term black Lives Matter, you know,
Speaker 1: he decided to get on Twitter and say, you know,
Speaker 1: he's about to go deaf Con three on Jewish people.
Speaker 1: He decided to go on drink Champs and you know,
Speaker 1: tell those lives about how George Floyd you know, uh
Speaker 1: got killed. You know. So it's just like he he
Speaker 1: made those eight what did he say? Slavery was a choice?
Speaker 1: The words that are coming out of his mouth for
Speaker 1: a choice, I don't you know he got to deal
Speaker 1: with the consequences of those words at this point. You
Speaker 1: gotta deal with the consequences of being an anti black,
Speaker 1: anti Semitic Nazi. All right, Well that is Kanye Goodness gracious,
Speaker 1: that's who he is. Jesus Christ. Now you want to
Speaker 1: have a big penis. But that's all you got out
Speaker 1: of all this David and Peters rolls driving him crazy.
Speaker 1: Now you want to have a big penis. That PENI
Speaker 1: is really upseting like that you're just randomly volunteering a
Speaker 1: n because of my big all right, Okay, I've never
Speaker 1: heard that one. All right, all right, well we have
Speaker 1: front page News next and Secretary Pete we'll be joining
Speaker 1: us this morning. All right, this is awkward. It's a
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Speaker 1: the breakfast club. Has anybody spoke to her? Did she
Speaker 1: finally quit? Did she finally said you know it's over,
Speaker 1: I'm not coming in no more that will? I mean
Speaker 1: she did you know a few months ago there was
Speaker 1: it breakfast club as we know, it is finally over? Maybe?
Speaker 1: And did she finally say effort your bull crap? Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. They say she's on the way, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what she didn't broadcast from the crew anyway,
Speaker 1: But let's get into the front. Come enjoy your last
Speaker 1: day on the breakfast club. All right, Monday night, but
Speaker 1: let Chicago Bears beat the Patriots thirty three to fourteen.
Speaker 1: All right, now, Tornado watched. They're saying thunderstorm mornings issued
Speaker 1: in parts of Texas. They say it's about to get nasty.
Speaker 1: The weather's about to be severe in the States. So
Speaker 1: they're saying everybody please be careful. They saying, this weather's
Speaker 1: gonna be nasty from Dallas to Waco, to Austin, to
Speaker 1: San Antonio to parts of Houston, all right, or even
Speaker 1: here on the East coast. We've seen what rain the
Speaker 1: last three days straight, so the weather's pretty nasty. We
Speaker 1: got to send a rest in piece to Leslie Jordan.
Speaker 1: He died at the age of sixty seven, they said,
Speaker 1: in a car accident. They said, he's best known from
Speaker 1: Will and Grace. Do you watch that? No, I never
Speaker 1: watched Wiland Grace. I mean I'm familiar with it, but
Speaker 1: I never watched it. Yeah, So man sixty seven nine
Speaker 1: a car accident. Jesus Christ, he passed away yesterday. And lastly,
Speaker 1: I haven't been following this too much, so maybe you
Speaker 1: could help us out now Florida governor debate between the
Speaker 1: Santis and Christ and Chris. I mean you debated Christ.
Speaker 1: Damn Jesus had to go ahead. Hold on, y'all got
Speaker 1: Jesus running from governor of Florida. Y'all need it. I
Speaker 1: know Jesus body run to Santus in a beat, Christ
Speaker 1: and Chris. And now here's some of the debates. Charlie,
Speaker 1: I'm looking to put out the pasture is Charlie. Chris. Yeah, well, Ron,
Speaker 1: we know you love to bully people. And the little
Speaker 1: name calling you just exchange. I can take it, but
Speaker 1: you shouldn't do it when children are stand behind you
Speaker 1: at a press conference when they're wearing a mask. Didn't help.
Speaker 1: But apparently that's your nature and that's too bad. Then
Speaker 1: they went back and forth about a bullshit about the
Speaker 1: hurricane response. The state's all going culture was rising Republicans'
Speaker 1: Future and a host of others. They also talk about
Speaker 1: stolen land. It Actually, if you look around the country,
Speaker 1: they do have programs. Unfortunately, well, they will take a
Speaker 1: student look at their race, say okay, you're white, you're
Speaker 1: an oppressor. If you're black, you're oppressed, and think about
Speaker 1: what that does to a six or seven year old kid.
Speaker 1: That's wrong. You're seeing that you have people that are
Speaker 1: teaching and actually his running mate has said this in
Speaker 1: the past, that teaching the United States was built on
Speaker 1: stolen land. That is inappropriate for our schools. It's not true.
Speaker 1: It's the truth. What it's not inappropriate is the truth.
Speaker 1: Maddy also talk about race theory. He talks not teaching
Speaker 1: about the history of our country. That might offend some
Speaker 1: people in our schools. We ought to teach facts in
Speaker 1: our school There's an old expression run those who don't
Speaker 1: know history may be condemned to repeat it. Usually people
Speaker 1: who use that in reference to the Holocaust. It could
Speaker 1: just as easily be referenced to slavery in our country.
Speaker 1: It happened. It's a fact. We shouldn't have a whitewash
Speaker 1: approach to educating our children. How are they going to
Speaker 1: do well in life if they don't even know our
Speaker 1: own history and we're not going to teach people to
Speaker 1: hate each other in our schools. I don't have hate
Speaker 1: in my heart, and I don't think we need to
Speaker 1: be doing that in our school I just don't understand
Speaker 1: how Flawda does it. How Flawda says, you know what,
Speaker 1: the past. We the past is too hurtful. We're just
Speaker 1: not gonna go over the past and explain what really happens.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of different places doing that. But wow,
Speaker 1: the reality of the situation is because it hurts somebody
Speaker 1: feeling to know the truth. Yeah, that's where less saw.
Speaker 1: The reality of the situation is um brond the Santis
Speaker 1: is still gonna when and become governor, be governor of
Speaker 1: Florida again. I think I saw Paul yesterday that shows
Speaker 1: Hispanic voters in Florida favorite the Stantus for governor like
Speaker 1: forty four percent or something like that. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. All right, well that is your front page news.
Speaker 1: Now when we come back, Secretary Pete will be joining us.
Speaker 1: That's right, he'll be here, Secretary of Transportation of Pete
Speaker 1: ble to judge, I like Secretary Pete man because Secretary
Speaker 1: Pete is the only person from the Biden administration who
Speaker 1: consistently and constantly comes to the breakfast club, even when
Speaker 1: it's not an election year. Whenever he's in New York City,
Speaker 1: he pulls up to the breakfast club. Nobody else in
Speaker 1: the Biden administration does that. It's diverse. It's the Biden
Speaker 1: administration is No, none of the black people from the
Speaker 1: Biden administration come up. He is constantly and consistently as
Speaker 1: Secretary Pete. But nobody came after they won. No, that's
Speaker 1: not true. Couple of Harrison come oufter? She want? Well,
Speaker 1: she came on TV show. No, let me see he's
Speaker 1: up here. Who else came? Cedric Richmond when he was there?
Speaker 1: I don't remember who else? All right, well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk to secretary the Secretary of education. Um, yes, his
Speaker 1: name slips my mind right now? Great, yeah, yeah, what
Speaker 1: a great show. I started to say, Miguel uh huh,
Speaker 1: Miguel Pogona mcguel, huh Cardonaea. I thought I was kept
Speaker 1: thinking car Bone. But I'm like, that's the restaurant, Miguel Cardona. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a great show with all the facts. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to secretary people when we come back. Facts,
Speaker 1: I said, who cares about facts? Oh my goodness, it's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Cloud Goal Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is te dj Envy angela Ye, Charlemagne the guy. We
Speaker 1: are to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
Speaker 1: the building. Yes, indeed, the friends in the room. He's
Speaker 1: been up here several times. Listen, I say it all
Speaker 1: the time. He's the only person from the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: who comes during the off season, when when it's not
Speaker 1: an election year, even though it is an election year,
Speaker 1: but when it's not an election year, Secretary Pete comes.
Speaker 1: That's right, Well, Secretary Pete, thank you for joining us
Speaker 1: this morning. Thanks for having me on. How are you man?
Speaker 1: Pretty good in New York? Absolutely too. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a really exciting time for the work we're doing.
Speaker 1: So why do you like a position? You know, since
Speaker 1: you started, how has it been for you? Stressful and
Speaker 1: non stressful? Well, gray hair, tell us about it. Definitely
Speaker 1: more gray. I mean what I say is it's it's
Speaker 1: the best time but also one of the toughest times
Speaker 1: for transportation. It's the best time because we're making investments
Speaker 1: that we haven't been able to do in my lifetime,
Speaker 1: the funding that's in the infrastructure package. The other side
Speaker 1: of the coin is we've actually been through more disruptions
Speaker 1: to the transportation system in the last couple of years
Speaker 1: than at any time, with the partial exception to nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. Then anytime since World War Two. We've had
Speaker 1: container shipping issues, We've had cancelations and delays in our airports.
Speaker 1: We've had a number of disruptions everything from trucking and
Speaker 1: supply chains to passenger travel. But we've been working through
Speaker 1: those and the causes of those are mostly temporary. Most
Speaker 1: of it have something to do with the pandemic. So
Speaker 1: as we're tackling those issues, the investments that we're making,
Speaker 1: the repairs that we're making, the improvements that we're making
Speaker 1: to the transportation system, that's permanent. So I love the job.
Speaker 1: It's been almost a year since the infrastruction, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I signed it in November. So what have the updates been?
Speaker 1: So one year in, we've been standing up all of
Speaker 1: the different programs that it created and starting to move
Speaker 1: the money out, something like one hundred billion dollars already
Speaker 1: moving in order to fix roads, fixed bridges, airports. We
Speaker 1: were just in Orlando. We're improving the airport there. We're
Speaker 1: just in Detroit. We announced a project there. We're putting
Speaker 1: one hundred million in to help Detroit take I three
Speaker 1: seventy five, which cuts right through it. They destroyed a
Speaker 1: couple of neighborhoods when they built it, and it's just
Speaker 1: like a gash. It just kind of slices those mostly
Speaker 1: black neighborhoods apart from from downtown. We're going to lift
Speaker 1: it up and turn it into a boulevard and use
Speaker 1: it to reconnect the community. We're doing a project in
Speaker 1: the Inland Empire Fontana, California, part of the region that
Speaker 1: doesn't get as much attention as LA. You got kids
Speaker 1: who have to walk basically on a highway. There's this
Speaker 1: road that has no gut or no curve, no sidewalk,
Speaker 1: and in order to get to high school, they're they're
Speaker 1: competing with cars and trucks, and we're funding an improvement
Speaker 1: that's going to fix that. We're doing the elimination of
Speaker 1: railroad crossing. Literally hundreds and hundreds of projects, so getting
Speaker 1: those under way, who's been the work of the last year.
Speaker 1: It's a five year bill, so the Bill of Presence
Speaker 1: sign has five years of funding. We're just through year
Speaker 1: one and it's really I mean, it's still the very
Speaker 1: beginning of a lot of what we're working on, but
Speaker 1: we're starting to see the results now. Secretary Pete, another
Speaker 1: issue always is this right making sure that black owned
Speaker 1: businesses also have access to getting some of those contracts
Speaker 1: to get this work done. So where are we with that,
Speaker 1: because I know that's something that's been needing improvement. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so a lot of work to do here, a lot
Speaker 1: of progress that we've made. The first part is the
Speaker 1: contracts that we directly control out of the Department of Transportation.
Speaker 1: So we set a goal for STB Small Disadvantaged Businesses
Speaker 1: of twenty percent. There's a more ambitious goal than we've
Speaker 1: been able to set before, and so far we're beating
Speaker 1: that goal. But I have to say for every dollar
Speaker 1: that we contract out of the Department directly, there's about
Speaker 1: ten dollars that go out indirectly. In other words, we
Speaker 1: fund a transit agency like the MTA or a state
Speaker 1: Department of Transportation or a city that's rebuilding a bridge
Speaker 1: or an airport, and then they do the actual contracts.
Speaker 1: So we're working with them to make sure that they
Speaker 1: are inviting more businesses to the table that haven't had
Speaker 1: a seat before. Black owned businesses have enormous potential right
Speaker 1: now to do all kinds of work, not just if
Speaker 1: they're directly involved in construction and engineering, but if you're
Speaker 1: involved in let's say accounting serving one of the companies
Speaker 1: that is doing the construction right there's opportunity there too.
Speaker 1: So we're actually in the middle right now of the
Speaker 1: process of redoing the policy for dB disadvantaged business enterprises
Speaker 1: where there's a history of discrimination and we have legal
Speaker 1: authority to pay particular attention to creating opportunity there. You
Speaker 1: can go online. I know the website Regulations dot gov
Speaker 1: probably does not sound like what a lot of people
Speaker 1: are excited to check out on Monday morning, but there
Speaker 1: is a chance right now through the end of this
Speaker 1: month to weigh in. If you're involved with a black
Speaker 1: owned business or any kind of MB your dB and
Speaker 1: you've had an experience trouble getting certified, a problem getting
Speaker 1: a seat at the table, or you have a success
Speaker 1: story to share about how public work, maybe being part
Speaker 1: of a construction project help you build your business. Now
Speaker 1: is a great time to enter public comments about your
Speaker 1: experience through Regulations dot gov on our DBE rule, because
Speaker 1: that will be part of what we use to make
Speaker 1: decisions about how to update the rule. Bottom line, nobody
Speaker 1: has a better track record of creating jobs and opportunity
Speaker 1: for people who have been left out in the past,
Speaker 1: including women in construction, including black building trades workers, than
Speaker 1: businesses who are owned by people who've been left out
Speaker 1: of the past. And I'm really excited about what we
Speaker 1: can do. But it's not going to happen on its own.
Speaker 1: That's why we're putting a lot of effort and emphasis
Speaker 1: on it, and I think we're gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of results. I just sat down with the National Association
Speaker 1: of Black Women in Construction. They have incredible success stories
Speaker 1: about how they've created opportunity, but also about what it's
Speaker 1: like trying to get a seat at the table because
Speaker 1: there's been a pattern in the past where you kind
Speaker 1: of had to already be in the business, already be connected,
Speaker 1: already be doing business with units of government to feel
Speaker 1: like you were in the know about what the next
Speaker 1: opportunity was going to be. So we're trying to make
Speaker 1: that more transparent. So I don't have any illusions about
Speaker 1: the work ahead. But I think we're going to be
Speaker 1: really proud of the opportunities that we create if we
Speaker 1: stay very focused on it. That's all you and philing
Speaker 1: how do you do that? Though you know, the conversation
Speaker 1: was about how do you diversify federal tracts in black
Speaker 1: and black and brown people? So how do you go
Speaker 1: about doing it? So the first thing that we did
Speaker 1: just when we were there was talking about some of
Speaker 1: the challenges they faced. So for example, access to capital.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to get started or you haven't had
Speaker 1: these kind of big business opportunities, just being able to
Speaker 1: get capital funding or cash flow. Right, if you're a
Speaker 1: giant multinational corporation and one of your vendors takes two, three,
Speaker 1: four months to pay, or now one of your customers,
Speaker 1: then you can absorb that. If you're a small business
Speaker 1: and a lot of these businesses starting out or businesses
Speaker 1: that are just trying to break their way in, they
Speaker 1: need prompt payment right, stuff like that. So we're talking
Speaker 1: about those direct issues that can be on an obstacle,
Speaker 1: but also we've got to have conversations with the prime
Speaker 1: contractors that are bringing on a lot of these black
Speaker 1: owned businesses as subs about how to be more inclusive
Speaker 1: and how to get some of these subs to be
Speaker 1: in a position where someday they can be the primes.
Speaker 1: We're talking to a lot of state leaders. I was
Speaker 1: at convening Friday in Florida with all of the state
Speaker 1: departments of Transportation in their heads saying that that you know,
Speaker 1: we're counting on you to create more of these opportunity.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of different pieces of them, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that we're doing in parallel,
Speaker 1: including this DVE role that that I was just mentioning
Speaker 1: that we hope there's a lot of public input on
Speaker 1: because then we can actually update the formal processes around contracting,
Speaker 1: the way the directories are built, just even the expectation
Speaker 1: of the requirement that you check to see if there
Speaker 1: are any new minority owned businesses that could be doing
Speaker 1: the work that you're about to open a contract for
Speaker 1: before you sign a contract. We got them all with
Speaker 1: secretary people. When we come back is the breakfast Club
Speaker 1: Good morning, Jay Envy, angelau Ye Charlemagne, the guy we
Speaker 1: are to Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Secretary Pete.
Speaker 1: You know, with the with the airlines, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: been horrendous. It's been horrible. People have been missing, you know,
Speaker 1: birthdays and weddings and funerals and families. What are we
Speaker 1: going to do to fix that? I've gotten better though, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, this is gotten better. The couples still bad,
Speaker 1: like you know, and like she said, prices are high.
Speaker 1: So what are we doing to fix that? Are they
Speaker 1: finding the airlines? And right, so what are we doing
Speaker 1: for Yeah, so it did get better, but it was
Speaker 1: tough over the summer. We got big holiday seasons coming
Speaker 1: up that are going to test whether these improvements are
Speaker 1: going to hold. There's three sets of things we're doing. First, finds,
Speaker 1: so airlines are required to do things like offer you
Speaker 1: a refund if your flight gets canceled, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the airlines were slow to do that or they
Speaker 1: didn't do it at all. So we're subjecting them to
Speaker 1: find because we enforce that rule that you got to
Speaker 1: get a refund. That's part one. Part two, though, is
Speaker 1: the rules themselves need to be tougher. So that's another
Speaker 1: thing that we have in the process right now. It
Speaker 1: takes a while, it's a very ponderous legal process. You
Speaker 1: got to go through a lot of comment periods, but
Speaker 1: we've got that open right now on things like raising
Speaker 1: the floor, how long of a delay counts as a
Speaker 1: serious enough delay that the airline's got to give you
Speaker 1: a refund? And then the third part that has really
Speaker 1: helped is it's just transparency. So we set up a
Speaker 1: website that makes clear which airlines will do what when
Speaker 1: you get stuck with a delay. For example, will they
Speaker 1: give you a vatcher for a female? Will they book
Speaker 1: you on another flight? Will they look you on another
Speaker 1: flight even if it's only on another airline that there's
Speaker 1: a free flight, things like that. I wrote a letter
Speaker 1: to the CEOs of the airlines said, look, in a
Speaker 1: week or two, we're going to put this website up,
Speaker 1: So now would be a good time to fix your problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now it would be a good time to up your game.
Speaker 1: And they did. We went in two weeks from zero
Speaker 1: out of the top ten airlines to nine out of
Speaker 1: the top ten airlines that will offer you at least
Speaker 1: offer you food or hotel or something like that. So
Speaker 1: you can check it out on our website transportation dot com.
Speaker 1: It's a passenger dashboard just to give you the information
Speaker 1: so you can make a decision when you're favorite. I
Speaker 1: want to ask for some time, what do you don't
Speaker 1: know it exists? I know you know what I learned
Speaker 1: When my bags get delayed coming out, if it takes
Speaker 1: more than twenty minutes. You get Miley's credit, but you
Speaker 1: have you have to go in and ask for it, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to know that that doesn't follow any of
Speaker 1: this protocol. That's not give a nothing back. So i'd
Speaker 1: invite you to check the dad. I don't want to
Speaker 1: pick winners and losers here, but it's really interesting. We
Speaker 1: know we got a little green check marks, little red
Speaker 1: xes on who does what? Look. Some airlines have decided
Speaker 1: we're going to offer less customer service and we're going
Speaker 1: to be really cheap, and as long as everybody knows
Speaker 1: that going into it, that's fine. But what we can
Speaker 1: have happened is, first of all, we have to have
Speaker 1: a floor where I don't care how cheap the ticket is.
Speaker 1: There are certain things you can do to a passenger,
Speaker 1: like leave them completely stuck and not offer a refund.
Speaker 1: But also as you're making those choices, we've got to
Speaker 1: make sure it's transparent. We got to make sure it's clear.
Speaker 1: And we have more work coming up on things like
Speaker 1: these fees, these little extra fees that aren't part of
Speaker 1: the airfare, but you wind up paying for them, and
Speaker 1: that's part of the cost of traveling on a certain airline.
Speaker 1: They got to be upfront about that what was causing
Speaker 1: these flight cancelations and delays over to thumbody, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like a lot of things in our economy,
Speaker 1: part of it had to do with staffing, hiring, being
Speaker 1: able to find people. What's frustrating about that, I think
Speaker 1: for a lot of us is we put billions of
Speaker 1: dollars into saving the airline industry and one of the
Speaker 1: conditions was you can't fire people if you're taking this
Speaker 1: federal money. Now they lived up to that, but they
Speaker 1: let a lot of people go into early retirement, including
Speaker 1: pilots that are hard to replace. It takes a very
Speaker 1: long time to qualify a pilot. So when the demand
Speaker 1: came act and we're glad it did, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a good thing. It's a good sign for our economy
Speaker 1: that so many people want to fly, but it came
Speaker 1: back faster than they were prepared for, and our messages
Speaker 1: you've got to be We're glad that demand is back,
Speaker 1: but you've got to be prepared to service and tickets
Speaker 1: that you're selling. You're collecting money on this right. Another
Speaker 1: thing that we've talked about is scheduling, realistic scheduling, so
Speaker 1: if you know that you don't aren't going to have
Speaker 1: the staff on this route. Doll schedule has many flights
Speaker 1: and that's gotten better, and that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: we aren't seeing the cancelation rates, like you said. But
Speaker 1: the prices are so expensive now, prices through the roof
Speaker 1: so presses for the rest inflation. So how do we
Speaker 1: come on bad inflation now because people are not making
Speaker 1: much now, I'm like, this is ridiculous. Well, this gets
Speaker 1: to the bigger story, right, of all the different things
Speaker 1: where prices are high, and part of it is that
Speaker 1: the costs are higher. I get that. I mean obviously
Speaker 1: one of the biggest expenses for an airline is fueled, right,
Speaker 1: But that's not enough to explain all of it. You
Speaker 1: look at the price of oil and the price we're
Speaker 1: actually paying at the pump, and the spread between those
Speaker 1: two things is higher than it used to be. And
Speaker 1: so we also have to have a cup conversation about
Speaker 1: a lot of corporate profits that are getting fatter on
Speaker 1: the margin there. And that's a big part of what's
Speaker 1: happening across the economy that we need to talk about
Speaker 1: when it comes to inflation. Because we've got some friends
Speaker 1: in Congress, for example, on the other side of the aisle,
Speaker 1: who love talking about inflation but refuse to offer any solution.
Speaker 1: Can you still call those people friends? I'm being polite.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fascism in there right now. Can
Speaker 1: you call those people friends when they're democracy? Look, I
Speaker 1: think we need to call something what it is, and
Speaker 1: when somebody is threatening democracy, we need to call that out.
Speaker 1: I know that there are a lot of people, definitely
Speaker 1: in Congress, in the Republican Party, who are horrified by
Speaker 1: what's happened to their own apart speak out because they're afraid,
Speaker 1: because they don't vote like they are afraid. Right, No,
Speaker 1: And so you know, my job as a policymaker is
Speaker 1: to sit down and work with them on anything where
Speaker 1: where they're willing to do the right thing, which they did.
Speaker 1: On infrastructure, for example, we had you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of Republican Senators and a handful of Republican House members
Speaker 1: come over and vote with Democrats and work with the
Speaker 1: president on that. What are the solutions to regulating these
Speaker 1: corporations pack is getting fatter while everybody's paying more and
Speaker 1: not come at a Yeah. Well, on something like energy,
Speaker 1: we had an idea. President put forward an idea called
Speaker 1: use it or Lose It, which is basically, if you're
Speaker 1: sitting on these permits at these leases, but you're not
Speaker 1: doing anything to produce energy, then at a certain point
Speaker 1: you don't get to keep sitting on it. That didn't
Speaker 1: go very far, largely because it was blocked by the
Speaker 1: allies that the big oil companies have in the House.
Speaker 1: In the Senate. We've got to have more again, more
Speaker 1: transparency about the practices of some of these companies, and
Speaker 1: we got to keep working toward a tax code that's
Speaker 1: fairer when it comes to these things. We think that
Speaker 1: the best thing we can do for inflation is create
Speaker 1: breathing room for people. Right. That's why we cared so
Speaker 1: much about cutting the cost of prescription drugs thirty five
Speaker 1: dollars insulin. We could have had that and student Loanda
Speaker 1: absolutely right. That creates some breathing room when you're facing
Speaker 1: these higher prices on groceries, gas, you name it, even
Speaker 1: on for gas itself. Right. It's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why we're pushing to make electric vehicles cheaper. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying everybody can go get an EV tomorrow, but part
Speaker 1: of how we can give people alternatives is to make
Speaker 1: sure everybody can afford an EV. Some of the people
Speaker 1: who are beating us up over EV's being too expensive
Speaker 1: voted no on a bill that would have made them cheaper.
Speaker 1: That did make them cheaper. So we've got to look
Speaker 1: at who actually has ideas and proposals to create that
Speaker 1: breathing room because prices are going up here. Prices are
Speaker 1: going up around the world. By the way, it's not
Speaker 1: like this is a US thing now. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of you know that many of the analysts the
Speaker 1: banks predict that it's going to go down, but we're
Speaker 1: not comfortable with that until it happens. It's why we're
Speaker 1: pushing to create a little more space, a little more room,
Speaker 1: and lower the everyday cost people are basing on everything
Speaker 1: from healthcare to housing, the transportation. All right, well, move
Speaker 1: we got more with Secretary peat when we come back.
Speaker 1: Is the breakfast clubal morning ej Envy Angela Yee. Chalomagne,
Speaker 1: the guy we ought to breakfast club, was still kicking
Speaker 1: it with Secretary Pete Chalomagne. The pressure mounting for you
Speaker 1: and regarded the twenty twenty four because I know you
Speaker 1: said you didn't want to do anything else in government
Speaker 1: other than this. But the Democrats have a very weak bench,
Speaker 1: and I see how you move like, you know, you'll
Speaker 1: come to places like the breakfast club, You'll go to
Speaker 1: Fox News like you're talking to a big swap of
Speaker 1: the American public. So it is it growing louder for
Speaker 1: Secretary Pete to run in twenty twenty fourth president? I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I already have a job, and we already have a president.
Speaker 1: So the best thing I can do is support this
Speaker 1: president that I really believe in, in the agenda and
Speaker 1: the vision that the administration has, and as long as
Speaker 1: he trusts me to do this work on transportation, try
Speaker 1: to deliver on that. I mean, look, every job I've had,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to be cute about the politic
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of political chatter that goes on,
Speaker 1: but every job I've had, especially in public life, the
Speaker 1: best thing you can do is just try to be
Speaker 1: good at that job, and then whatever you want to
Speaker 1: do next, you're going to be better off if you delivered.
Speaker 1: And delivering, you know to our earlier conversation is hard
Speaker 1: as hell, but also incredibly rewarding. When you're working on
Speaker 1: stuff like, are you concerned with more celebrities coming up
Speaker 1: as being president and doesn't necessarily know politics, that really
Speaker 1: doesn't know what they're doing. We have another situation like
Speaker 1: in Donald Trump. Yeah, it's we're seeing a lot of this, right.
Speaker 1: I think there's something to be said for outsider energy.
Speaker 1: I came into national politics as an outsider, a different
Speaker 1: kind of outsider. I was involved in policy as a mayor,
Speaker 1: but I was not part of Washington and I don't
Speaker 1: think you have to be, you know, a Washington lifer
Speaker 1: to be effective. But I do think you have to
Speaker 1: care about public policy. I mean, you see some people
Speaker 1: now who just don't seem like they care. And I
Speaker 1: think Kanye's running in twenty twenty four, God, okay, great,
Speaker 1: why not? Look In the end, I think what people
Speaker 1: most want to know is what do you care about?
Speaker 1: And who do you care about? Question? When you do
Speaker 1: interviews right and you're not allowed to talk about things
Speaker 1: like the mid terms, how does that help Democrats in
Speaker 1: the midterms. I think the good policy is good politics.
Speaker 1: Like if we're doing things that make sense and we
Speaker 1: can explain it, then people will appreciate that. And in
Speaker 1: that way, there's no difference, or there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of difference between coming out on a campaign trail and
Speaker 1: saying I think you should vote for this person, which
Speaker 1: is not what I'm doing today, and what I am
Speaker 1: doing today, which is saying, here's what we're working on
Speaker 1: as an administration. Here the policies we think are good.
Speaker 1: Some folks voted for it, some folks voted against it,
Speaker 1: and this is what we believe in. It's odd, but
Speaker 1: is there for a very good reason, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: the reason we have these rules is so that you
Speaker 1: don't go out using the powers of the federal government
Speaker 1: and push a political outcome on people. So I respect it.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't you go isn't at the whole point, I
Speaker 1: can go put on a different hat later when my
Speaker 1: flight wasn't paid for by the taxpayer and talk about politics.
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to have those things be separate.
Speaker 1: I think the important thing, though, is that I don't
Speaker 1: ever want to say something in one context that I
Speaker 1: would be embarrassed to have repeated in another context. So
Speaker 1: it's also just really important that we're consistent and we're
Speaker 1: clear about what we care about and what we believe in.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like Democrats are rising to the urgency
Speaker 1: at a moment because we know it as a real
Speaker 1: threat to democracy, and like the midterms are right around
Speaker 1: the corner, But it doesn't seem like it's a sense
Speaker 1: of urgency coming from the Democratic Party about it. I
Speaker 1: think we have a sense of urgency. I think that
Speaker 1: sometimes something can be so big that it's hard to
Speaker 1: make it out and you actually have to break it
Speaker 1: down into something smaller, if that makes sense. So what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is that the stakes for our
Speaker 1: country right now, in terms of our own democracy, in
Speaker 1: terms of our future, in terms of our standing in
Speaker 1: the world, they're so enormous that if you try to
Speaker 1: talk about it that way all day climate too, it's
Speaker 1: so exhausting that I think it can actually shut people
Speaker 1: down a little. Not on the right. Right wing media
Speaker 1: does it all day. Well, they say that the democracy
Speaker 1: is about to be over, but they blame Democrats. That's true.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that I think is really
Speaker 1: important is that facts still have to matter. We have
Speaker 1: to make sure that there are actives actually such thing
Speaker 1: as true and false. And you look at what happened
Speaker 1: last January, you look at what's happening right now, with
Speaker 1: people denying the legitimacy of elections that actually happen. Where
Speaker 1: you know, part of how democracy works is when you lose,
Speaker 1: you admit it, Yeah I've lost. Losing sucks, But part
Speaker 1: of your job is to acknowledge that reality. Because the
Speaker 1: whole idea of democracy is rules and policy choices that
Speaker 1: we all have to live by, and that means we
Speaker 1: all live by things we don't always agree. That's the
Speaker 1: whole that's the whole concept, right, But I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any confusion about what's at stake. I do think
Speaker 1: there's a need to connect all these big picture questions
Speaker 1: to very concrete things, and I think actually right wing
Speaker 1: media sometimes is a little better about that. I have
Speaker 1: a TV in my office where I've got it's kind
Speaker 1: of splits into four quadrants, and I can see the
Speaker 1: three big cable networks, and I'm usually watching one broadcast,
Speaker 1: and every time I glance up at it, what you
Speaker 1: see on Fox is more of a story from a
Speaker 1: specific place that is meant to make you angry about
Speaker 1: this big picture fear real or imagined, and it just
Speaker 1: puts you in a different state of mind. Whereas we
Speaker 1: I think on my side of the aisle tend to
Speaker 1: prefer to talk into the concepts the ideas, right, And
Speaker 1: I do think there's some work to do there. But
Speaker 1: that's part of what I love about my job, right,
Speaker 1: because there's nothing abstract about saying, Joe Biden signed this bill,
Speaker 1: and you're getting a better airport, or if you like
Speaker 1: this new subway stop that's coming to your neighborhood. It's
Speaker 1: there because Democrats with a few Republicans helping out in Congress,
Speaker 1: in the House and in the Senate, voted on this bill.
Speaker 1: Send it to the President's desk, and he signed it
Speaker 1: in my department. Implement right, like this is happening in
Speaker 1: your life. This isn't like some conceptual debate about conservatism
Speaker 1: or free market princess. This is like, we're fixing this problem.
Speaker 1: And I see the number one issue is the economy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the elections coming up, and so
Speaker 1: we can see who's voting for and against people to
Speaker 1: have more money in their pocket. Well, that's the thing
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, let's look at the choice. And
Speaker 1: again I'm saying it's not election wise, but legislation wise.
Speaker 1: Look at the choices that are being made. Right, So
Speaker 1: the last administration their number one economic policy, those tax
Speaker 1: cuts for rich people, and they did it. It's one
Speaker 1: of the promises they out. They didn't keep a lot
Speaker 1: of promises, right, didn't drain the swamp, and they didn't
Speaker 1: even build the wall. But they kept two promises, and
Speaker 1: those two promises represent two things they really care about.
Speaker 1: They kept their promise to cut taxes for the wretch,
Speaker 1: and they kept their promise to take away the right
Speaker 1: to choose. And what we're doing is working to keep promises.
Speaker 1: And I know there's some unfinished business in terms of
Speaker 1: promises that we've made. But we promised to get an
Speaker 1: infrastructure build on and we've done it. We've promised to
Speaker 1: act in ways that would reduce child poverty. We've done it.
Speaker 1: The President promised to get people back to work after
Speaker 1: we lost millions of jobs. More people are working in
Speaker 1: the private sector now than at any point in American history.
Speaker 1: So I guess you could say both administrations back to
Speaker 1: back have come in with a set of promises. People
Speaker 1: should think about which promises are kept. Like you say
Speaker 1: democrats are terrible that messaging, I mean, you didn't say
Speaker 1: that verbatim. You essentially say democrats I think we think
Speaker 1: in ways that we got to work a little harder
Speaker 1: to second message. But it's okay, that's what you're working on.
Speaker 1: It's okay to say that. Look, I hear you, I
Speaker 1: hear you. All right, we appreciate it, and thank you
Speaker 1: for always stopping through. That's pleasure. The secretary peat, it's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Come on, more than everybody is cj
Speaker 1: Envy angela ye, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Charlemagne and I, Hey, welcome back here. Hey, good to
Speaker 1: be here. Don't you quit? Yeah, we didn't know. We
Speaker 1: didn't know. We thought it was you know, the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club is. We know it is officially over. We thought
Speaker 1: that you just called it in the day like no,
Speaker 1: I'm early from my show which is going to start
Speaker 1: at ten am. Okay, get it. We were just talking
Speaker 1: about you and it's I guess it's officialeality. This did
Speaker 1: terminate the contract. Take them long enough. I mean they
Speaker 1: didn't release no statement during all this. They didn't sever tize.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, you hit your rumor report drop first. We're
Speaker 1: just saying we just did a whole thing, but we
Speaker 1: didn't mention that because it just did no, I said
Speaker 1: it would probably be happening any moment now, but well
Speaker 1: happened the seconds after. Okay, my bad. I thought I
Speaker 1: talked about it. Well, he been here, we know. But anyway,
Speaker 1: let's get the rumors to talk. A little bag going on.
Speaker 1: I'm going back home. But Little Baby is on the
Speaker 1: Big Facts podcast, and one clip that's already been circulating
Speaker 1: was him denying that he was in that photo with Sweetie. Remember,
Speaker 1: people said that she was sitting on his lap in
Speaker 1: a photo even though you can see his face. The Internet,
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram detectives tried to take with him. Here's
Speaker 1: what he said that with Sep with a cargo pants,
Speaker 1: it's too hard to be little at whatever would I
Speaker 1: reader that anything? So I take whatever come with it.
Speaker 1: But I do have to lie because of that. Then
Speaker 1: I've been trying my best man. Somebody had on the
Speaker 1: same cargo pants and the same sneakers. Solo to the
Speaker 1: Big Facts podcast, Baby Ja Big Bank DJ Scream. Make
Speaker 1: sure you subscribed to him on The Black Effect. I
Speaker 1: heart radio podcast network, great podcast, one of my favorites. Now.
Speaker 1: An Elie Chappa has clarified his sexuality after he posted
Speaker 1: a couple of pictures of himself and you could see
Speaker 1: his print in the picture. And then somebody sent him
Speaker 1: a message, and only Chappa said this is absurd, And
Speaker 1: the person who sent him a message was a guy
Speaker 1: and said, your d is huge, bro. No, gay Ish,
Speaker 1: that ish is an effing tree log. You knew exactly
Speaker 1: what you were doing in that post. No, Homo, your
Speaker 1: ish is huge, brother, holy ish Man. Humans are the
Speaker 1: fun is people man. First and foremost, I love myself
Speaker 1: and I'm comfortable enough in my skin to show the
Speaker 1: beauty God bless me with. Secondly, I love all, so
Speaker 1: I don't mind a tracting both genders, but most importantly
Speaker 1: my sexual preferences. Women, please stop trying to make me
Speaker 1: something I am not well. When you put your penis
Speaker 1: online for everybody to see, and then when I say everybody,
Speaker 1: I mean everybody. So men, women, whatever you identify your ass,
Speaker 1: the printer is online, they can comment on it. Right.
Speaker 1: Have you ever sent someone the message like that. I
Speaker 1: don't have that kind of penis to be sending. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't say about yours. Have you ever said someone
Speaker 1: he's definitely said, have you ever told somebody else like no?
Speaker 1: You know, yes, yes, oh no, no, no. I definitely
Speaker 1: have no no because I mean no no. I tell
Speaker 1: the huge no. But you definitely, as I thought, you
Speaker 1: said a message about a man trying you and you
Speaker 1: had to let them know like noah, I don't get
Speaker 1: down like that. Yes, I have never said all that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what y'all talking about now, but yes,
Speaker 1: I've had a man. I've had a couple of men
Speaker 1: dry me. I had to let him know, like nah,
Speaker 1: I can see why you might think that, but you
Speaker 1: know that's just the radio buddy. He's playing around a
Speaker 1: little bit. Okay, all right, Young BOYD never again has
Speaker 1: signed a deal with Motown. You know, he's no longer
Speaker 1: on Atlantic and so he has a joint venture with
Speaker 1: a Motown and has never broke again collective. He said,
Speaker 1: I felt like I had a responsibility to my artist
Speaker 1: to make sure to find the right partner from my label.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to working with Ethiopia, Keino and Motown Records.
Speaker 1: To him dropping a clue box to Ethiopia, that's a
Speaker 1: big game. I don't know how Atlantic let that get away.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ Kaiser Kaiser the Kaiser, the president of Black
Speaker 1: music over there. Yes he is yes, how you let
Speaker 1: NBA young boy get away? Kais I don't know, I
Speaker 1: heard the all of him sixty million too. Yeah that
Speaker 1: was the reason. No, no, I heard atlantic him. I
Speaker 1: mean he makes a ton of money, you know, and
Speaker 1: he's very low maintenance as far as when it comes
Speaker 1: to having to pay for things for him. So he's
Speaker 1: always putting out music. Um, hard working young man. All right.
Speaker 1: Tyler the creator has been cast as Jesus and Netflix
Speaker 1: his Big Mouth season six. It's an adult and made
Speaker 1: a series, returning for a sixth season on Friday, October
Speaker 1: twenty eighth. Friday. Yeah, it's Friday, October twenty eighth, Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, so um, yeah, congratulations to him. And it's
Speaker 1: cute if you see the character, the animation of him.
Speaker 1: And let's talk about Halloween. Okay, so Ice Spice has
Speaker 1: reacted to the Halloween costume of her. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys saw that there is a Halloween costume
Speaker 1: of her? She said, you guys went them? Well, she
Speaker 1: posted a picture of it, and what you did? You
Speaker 1: guys see the picture of her Halloween costume. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: cute with the wig and everything that's real with the costume. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't not saw one of Eric Adams too that
Speaker 1: said he's a party promoter that don't do nothing. You
Speaker 1: know that one, No, it says ice spice on it. Nah,
Speaker 1: this is outrageous. It says I saw one just like
Speaker 1: that for Eric Adams, exactly what I saw A side
Speaker 1: of baby one that said Detroit rapper. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't think those are real. I mean, it really
Speaker 1: has her name on it. They just photoshops up. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's real. I mean, I think it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I can see people wanting to wear that cost you.
Speaker 1: Look a look at this one from Eric Adams that
Speaker 1: looks real as and it got the spirit thing on there.
Speaker 1: The spirit thing that says club promoter includes nothing helpful.
Speaker 1: Adult side sounds like a Republican made that post and
Speaker 1: photoshopped it. All right, Well, that is your rumor report
Speaker 1: or New Yorker, a Republican or New Yorker who's not
Speaker 1: happy with the job area got him doing everything in
Speaker 1: about party. Sometimes it's about people in the city not happy.
Speaker 1: There A lot of people are saying not happy. It's
Speaker 1: not I mean, I don't think anybody's gonna be happy
Speaker 1: with everything right, Come on, girl, No, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I think nobody's ever completely happy with any politician. Oh
Speaker 1: that's a fact, especially especially if it's a local. You know,
Speaker 1: a position like mayor. The smallest thing can piss you
Speaker 1: off like a pothole. Yeah yeah, Well, who are you
Speaker 1: giving a donkey to? Man four? After the dour speaking
Speaker 1: of politicians, Florida Governor rounderstand, this needs to come to
Speaker 1: the front of the congregation. Whenever there's an opportunity to
Speaker 1: tell some truth, we should tell some truth. So let's
Speaker 1: tell some truth this morning. All right, we'll get to that.
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Speaker 1: There is no question that there are problems in this
Speaker 1: country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey
Speaker 1: to the latest on that police killing of a black man.
Speaker 1: Not a new developments in the deadly spawshooting rampage. It
Speaker 1: was a really bad day for him, and this is
Speaker 1: what he did, and so we are in a state
Speaker 1: of emergency. Okay, White supremative violence is always has been
Speaker 1: the number one threat to aficide. But I'm also very
Speaker 1: proud that my wife was white. One club bitches, please
Speaker 1: tell me why was I your donkey? Every day Donkey
Speaker 1: Today for Tuesday, October twenty fifth goes to Florida Governor
Speaker 1: Ron des Stantists. Last night, Ron Destantists was debating with
Speaker 1: Charlie Chris, the Democratic challenger for governor in Florida, and
Speaker 1: when it got to one of his least favorite subjects,
Speaker 1: critical race theory, he decided to end his debate on
Speaker 1: a low vibrational note. He said that teaching that the
Speaker 1: US was built on stolen land is inappropriate and not true.
Speaker 1: All the Native Americans are looking at the radio saying, huh,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Say what would you like to hear it?
Speaker 1: Here it go it. Actually, if you look around the country,
Speaker 1: they do have programs. Unfortunately, well they will take a
Speaker 1: student look at their race, say okay, you're white, you're
Speaker 1: an oppressor. If you're black, you're oppressed. And think about
Speaker 1: what that does to a six or seven year old kid.
Speaker 1: That's wrong. You're seeing that you have people that are
Speaker 1: teaching and actually his running mate has said this in
Speaker 1: the past, that teaching the United States was built on
Speaker 1: stolen land. That is inappropriate for our schools. It's not true.
Speaker 1: I will never understand why any lie is ever referred
Speaker 1: to as little and white. Okay, White men like Ron
Speaker 1: de Santis don't tell a little lies. They tell the biggest,
Speaker 1: boldest lies that America has ever seen. All right, even
Speaker 1: if you don't want to read a book, all right,
Speaker 1: do your googles. I learned land was stolen from Native
Speaker 1: Americans in elementary school, which is exactly what they are
Speaker 1: trying to keep kids in the elementary school from learning now,
Speaker 1: all right. They are literally trying to revise history right
Speaker 1: before our eyes. This is like kk Kanye saying that
Speaker 1: that devil Derek Schauvin's knee wasn't on the cops neck
Speaker 1: like that, as if we don't have eyes we saw it. Okay.
Speaker 1: It's one thing for people to do what they have
Speaker 1: always done with the story of Native Americans, you know,
Speaker 1: in regards to Native American dispossession, and that's just the
Speaker 1: sweeping under the ruck, all right, don't talk about it.
Speaker 1: Hope Native Americans don't talk about it, but to lie
Speaker 1: and say it never happened. Come on, man, put a record.
Speaker 1: Between seventeen seventy six and the present, the United States
Speaker 1: has seized about one point billion acres from North America's
Speaker 1: Native people. All right, Some researchers have found that Native
Speaker 1: Americans have lost ninety nine percent of their historical lands
Speaker 1: in America. Maybe Roner Santris doesn't think it was stolen
Speaker 1: because it was done through legislation and treaties. But the
Speaker 1: treaties were reniqued upon okay, and the legislation resulted in
Speaker 1: Native Americans losing ownership in control of two thirds of
Speaker 1: their reservation lands. Now you got Native Americans trying to
Speaker 1: buy back land that was stolen from them. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine that buying back what was stolen from you? Tribes
Speaker 1: trying to buy back there and land on the open
Speaker 1: market even though it was theirs. Hey, Roner Santras, if
Speaker 1: the land wasn't stolen, how come Native Americans have been
Speaker 1: running with the land back slogan. In Congress passed legislation
Speaker 1: to restore ownership of nineteen thousand acres of the National
Speaker 1: Bison range in Montana to a couple of tribes whose
Speaker 1: names I can't pronounce. I think the Seletion Kutara tribes. Listen, listen, man,
Speaker 1: The truth is important, okay. And the truth is the
Speaker 1: truth regardless of who believes it, and a lie the
Speaker 1: lie regardless of who believes it. We need truth in America.
Speaker 1: Truth telling is essential for authentic communication to occur. And
Speaker 1: that's why we can't get nowhere in this country because
Speaker 1: everyone is so busy lying, so we spend all his
Speaker 1: time arguing about what's a lie, so we can never
Speaker 1: actually get to the truth for the matter, and the
Speaker 1: truth for the matter in this situation. His land was
Speaker 1: stolen from Native Americas, all right, simple as that. All right?
Speaker 1: And guess what, America. We will never heal what we
Speaker 1: are not willing to reveal. All right. Please let Chelsea
Speaker 1: Handler give Ron de Santis the biggest he haw he
Speaker 1: haw he haw. That is way too much, Dan Mann is,
Speaker 1: but Kathy Griffin getting in on that too. Man. Please
Speaker 1: give this giant jar of male the biggest he hawy.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Now,
Speaker 1: when we come back April, Ryan will be joined, Okay,
Speaker 1: she got a new book out that she has a
Speaker 1: new book out. It's called Black Women Will Save the
Speaker 1: World and the anthem. Yeah, so we're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: her when we come back. All right, it's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Heck power one O five one,
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We
Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
Speaker 1: the building, April Ryan, Good morning, Good morning, Charlomagne. How
Speaker 1: are you? I ain't blessed Black and Holly Favorite. How
Speaker 1: are you feeling? I'm blessed Black and Holly Favorite? This
Speaker 1: one there, you got to see you Black Women will
Speaker 1: Save the World. But the title is self explainatory yes
Speaker 1: and no, but you didn't add the last part an anthem.
Speaker 1: We're gonna sing it over and over, okay, anthem black
Speaker 1: women will save the World and an anthem okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: to keep it going, because what happens is people forget moments,
Speaker 1: and when we forget a moment, we lose out. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, black women are rising
Speaker 1: in number as head of household, rising in number as
Speaker 1: the breadwinner in a household. And with that said, we
Speaker 1: are taking care of everyone everything and not taking care
Speaker 1: of ourselves and not being heralded as a champion, as
Speaker 1: a shero, and we are that. I know, those stats
Speaker 1: got to be flawed though. And the reason I say
Speaker 1: those stats are flawdas because they've always been the head
Speaker 1: of household. They've always been a it's rising in number,
Speaker 1: it's rising in number. And you know you got when
Speaker 1: when you have And that's saying a lot about the
Speaker 1: structure of the black family. Now you've got a mother
Speaker 1: who's the head of household, and then what do you
Speaker 1: do is she's by herself and she's got kids. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we bring the kids along to help us fill in
Speaker 1: the gaps. And that goes into an issue that I
Speaker 1: talk about in the book for Black Girls, Adultification, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, we may a lot of our children
Speaker 1: become more mature than they need to be. They lose out.
Speaker 1: And it's so interesting. A friend of mine who's in
Speaker 1: the book for Drinka Newton, the widow of Hughey P. Newton,
Speaker 1: head of Black Panther Party, she said, you know, some
Speaker 1: kids are given fairy tales, others and nightmares, and I
Speaker 1: think all children should have fairy tales. And these are
Speaker 1: numbers that prove because I believe in the book It's
Speaker 1: black girls are eleven times more likely to be suspended
Speaker 1: yes than white girls in school, and nine times more
Speaker 1: likely to be arrested yes. One. That is the adultification
Speaker 1: adult young girls, adultification that way in so many other ways.
Speaker 1: And it's just at this point we have to nurture
Speaker 1: not only ourselves but in the community. But we have
Speaker 1: to figure out how to help navigate what this world
Speaker 1: is giving to our young black girls who are future
Speaker 1: We're going to be the next hero, next generation heroes.
Speaker 1: Men are being honest with themselves. You got to say
Speaker 1: that the women have been the CEOs of our lives forever.
Speaker 1: Say that men are covering and I still say that,
Speaker 1: you know, but we are strong in the home. We
Speaker 1: a lot of times to the decision makers. We are
Speaker 1: for the most part, having your back, you know, not
Speaker 1: just some of us. You know, take care of the dinner,
Speaker 1: some of us take care of the wash, but we
Speaker 1: got your back and so many other ways. We have
Speaker 1: a hard time at work, but who's there A lot
Speaker 1: of times for us as we are taking care of
Speaker 1: the home, taking care of you, taking care of the
Speaker 1: boss at work, then go on to church and figuring out,
Speaker 1: you know, being the usher or you know, the choir
Speaker 1: member or the deacon ass and then going to the pta.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so many, so many things we have
Speaker 1: to juggle, and yet we don't get our flowers. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times we're also taught to
Speaker 1: kind of you know, endure, like you said, a lot
Speaker 1: of things. Yeah, especially in the workplace. Oh yes, And
Speaker 1: and I love you. I love your move I love
Speaker 1: your entrepreneurship, I love your business mind. You are not
Speaker 1: staying in a place that Okay, I'm stay here. You're
Speaker 1: moving higher. You're looking for higher. And unfortunately a lot
Speaker 1: of black women don't have that, that sisterhood to say
Speaker 1: let's push it further, because they don't see people who
Speaker 1: look like you and I in the workspace. A lot
Speaker 1: of us are alone and cannot talk to other women.
Speaker 1: And I believe in community and sisterhood, so we can
Speaker 1: bring forward that move be another Angelay, come on now, now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about you in your space that you occupy.
Speaker 1: When we talk about being the only black woman's that
Speaker 1: so people have some history on who April Ryan is. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm the only black woman. I'm the longest serving black
Speaker 1: female journalist in the White House. White House, Yeah, White
Speaker 1: House Correspondent. It's especially when you're focusing on black issues.
Speaker 1: It's a hard road and people want to isolate you.
Speaker 1: They want to call you the angry black woman. Do
Speaker 1: I look at angry? Shall thank you? I'm happy If
Speaker 1: you are angry, do you have every right to be?
Speaker 1: But no, I'm not gonna fall into that angry black
Speaker 1: woman's stereotype because people want to say when you bring
Speaker 1: up issues of a community that's underserved with the highest
Speaker 1: numbers of negatives, and every cat should be but they
Speaker 1: want to label you was that instead of saying no, no, no,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at the steps, they want to
Speaker 1: divert attention from the real issue and blame me. What.
Speaker 1: I have nothing to do with that. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: ask questions to get answers for a community that is hurting,
Speaker 1: and I just happened to be along the way, a
Speaker 1: black woman asking those questions. You've had those moments, some
Speaker 1: adversities you faced, the White House Correspondent, some adversities, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you saw it. Yeah, being told you know, sit down Trump.
Speaker 1: Trump told me sit down. Sean Spice says, stop shaking
Speaker 1: your head. Yeah, he wouldn't take your question because you
Speaker 1: was shaking your head. He say that was crazy. Sarah
Speaker 1: Huckaby Sanders, who's running for governor of Arkansas, told me
Speaker 1: my question was and you know, been targeted by Fox
Speaker 1: News death threats. Just were asking questions of the Black community,
Speaker 1: a community that they didn't want to deal with. So
Speaker 1: and you know this, you know, the black community has
Speaker 1: issues period. And then at the White House. Everything comes
Speaker 1: to the White House from water, peace and everything in between.
Speaker 1: And in between all of that is the black community
Speaker 1: who still is trying to figure out why is my
Speaker 1: water not safe to drink? Not just in Jackson, but
Speaker 1: in Flint still, you know, policing issues, you know, Ahmad Aubrey,
Speaker 1: George Floyd, you know we and then what about our economy?
Speaker 1: You know, we're we When the gas prices were slashed
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago and the President opened up
Speaker 1: the Strategic or Reserve allowing for millions of barrels to
Speaker 1: be released today, guess what, Black folks didn't see that
Speaker 1: price loring because we were having price gouging in our community.
Speaker 1: You know, you could go across the street and see
Speaker 1: a five dollars and something gallant of gas and across
Speaker 1: the street it would be four dollars, when in other
Speaker 1: parts of America was three dollars and some you know,
Speaker 1: gone gas buddy, And that's how you're really How about
Speaker 1: that that app I love that or cheap gas or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me tell you, Yeah, I get it. What are
Speaker 1: you thinking about the treatment of VP Kamala Harris? Then,
Speaker 1: in relation to this book Black Women Will Save the
Speaker 1: World an anthem? What I think about the treatment in
Speaker 1: the media and just by people in general speaking about her, Well,
Speaker 1: number one, being a black woman, people are hypersensitive about that.
Speaker 1: And some of the things that were coming out about
Speaker 1: her or about her staff or just unheard. It was
Speaker 1: just a lot of gossip and chatter and it was
Speaker 1: ugly because she was a black woman. Okay, no matter
Speaker 1: what you think of her, she is the first black
Speaker 1: woman to be in that position. She moved and I
Speaker 1: talked about this in the book. She moved Joe Biden forward.
Speaker 1: She pushed him to move forward on matters of phrase.
Speaker 1: Did she though when she Okay, you don't remember that
Speaker 1: debate you don't remember remember that, but it was like
Speaker 1: after she did that, when she called him out on
Speaker 1: the bus, and it was like after that, it was
Speaker 1: like almost like she got a phone called it like
Speaker 1: and she kind of did a lot since well let
Speaker 1: me but let me say this, and I talk about
Speaker 1: this in the book. It was a lot of It
Speaker 1: was a tense time. It was a huge moment that
Speaker 1: I witnessed at the NUBLEACP presidential Forum debate when all
Speaker 1: the candidates were there and she wouldn't get out of
Speaker 1: her her van to come and talk with all of
Speaker 1: the other candidates. She didn't come out and meet with
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. There was a tension there and Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was caught on a hot mic on stage with me
Speaker 1: saying you know my heart, you know my heart. He
Speaker 1: was hurting by it, and then backstage it was like
Speaker 1: you know my heart, you know my heart. Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: was not seeing backstage she was. It was It was
Speaker 1: so tense. There was a come to Jesus moment. Somewhere,
Speaker 1: there was a road to Damasks moment or something for
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, because I never thought the way he felt
Speaker 1: that pain, that those two would come together for this moment.
Speaker 1: So something happened, there was a coming together. But what
Speaker 1: happened was George Floyd right, this was a transformational moment.
Speaker 1: And then you had Amy Klobashar saying, you need to
Speaker 1: have a black woman as your running mate, and he
Speaker 1: had a list to include Stacy Abrams, Susan Rice, Karen Bass,
Speaker 1: so many other I want to give all them sisters
Speaker 1: the credit too, that did that for the USA today,
Speaker 1: That Angela Ry and Sonny and all, yeah, let's give
Speaker 1: them yeah, yeah, yeah, most definitely. And that pressure, it
Speaker 1: took pressure from all sides to make that happen. And
Speaker 1: you know, Sonny and Answer, they took a hit for that.
Speaker 1: They took a hit and Enjoy Read and Tiffany Cross,
Speaker 1: they took a hit for that from the party, from
Speaker 1: the party for standing up, pushing for what was right,
Speaker 1: what was right. When you stand up and speak the obvious,
Speaker 1: you get ridiculed, you get pushed back. It's terrible. You
Speaker 1: have black women in Karine Jean Pierre, black women in
Speaker 1: spaces and places that we've never occupied. And that's just governmental.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about CEOs. Let's talk about the moves upward.
Speaker 1: And this is a moment no one has said anything about.
Speaker 1: And I said, you know, I got a market because
Speaker 1: if you don't market and say, wait a minute, this
Speaker 1: is a moment of history, we lose the advances. Black
Speaker 1: women have taken a lot from a lot of different people,
Speaker 1: a lot of different groups, and now it's time to
Speaker 1: say we're here and we're not rolling it back. We
Speaker 1: got more with April Ryan. When we come back, don't move.
Speaker 1: It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning, Everybody's DJ Envy
Speaker 1: Angela Yee. Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday. We're still kicking it with April Ryan. Charlomagne. Oh,
Speaker 1: as a journalist, you know, there's all these conversations about him.
Speaker 1: Of speech. I don't think people really truly understand the
Speaker 1: First Amendment because like you can, you can, you're free
Speaker 1: to say whatever, but there are consequences behind the defamation
Speaker 1: and libel. If you say something that someone doesn't like,
Speaker 1: it could be consequenced. Kanye Alex Jones, well, no, his
Speaker 1: his the baby's mother for two hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1: That child has lost her father, That child is dealing
Speaker 1: with a lot. You know, Yeah, people are supporting her,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't have her daddy, and she will always remember,
Speaker 1: she will always see that horrific image of her father.
Speaker 1: I don't know if people are looking for attention, but
Speaker 1: we have a responsibility. It's not okay, we have a
Speaker 1: responsibility as journalist. Um Tucker Carlson shouldn't have done what
Speaker 1: he did, having him on that show, and he was
Speaker 1: sitting there smug and watching it. He loved it because
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, this is ratings. That's all he
Speaker 1: was thinking in his mom because Kanye was giving him
Speaker 1: everything he wanted. He knew Kanye wasn't well. Chris Cuomo
Speaker 1: bring up the issue. You know, I take my antidepression medicine.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you can do for Kanye, but
Speaker 1: what I know is I rather not talk about him,
Speaker 1: and I'd rather not amplify the ignorance of his message.
Speaker 1: How should we look at the role of journalism and
Speaker 1: how it impacts politics, especially right now mcause I don't
Speaker 1: feel like it's a lot of journalism out there. Are
Speaker 1: you reading the Grio? Are you reading My Peace? Can
Speaker 1: you read my stuff? Doctor Charlemagne? No, we got a newsletter.
Speaker 1: You know what. See, He's so high and lofty. Go
Speaker 1: to the gril dot com and look at the politics
Speaker 1: section that April Ryan dropped down. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: people have platforms now who aren't necessarily journalists. Yes, and
Speaker 1: that's the unfortunate piece, because we have a lot of
Speaker 1: citizen journalists out here who give a lot of opinion
Speaker 1: without facts. And that's part of the problem. Are we
Speaker 1: are so uninformed and we're not believing what we're seeing
Speaker 1: because so many people are talking things that are just
Speaker 1: not true, giving us information that's skewed. The onus is
Speaker 1: now on the reader, the listener, or the watcher to
Speaker 1: figure out what is opinion versus fact. The line is blurred.
Speaker 1: And then because you've got a lot of people out
Speaker 1: here who are just pushing things out for to make themselves,
Speaker 1: to make a name, to be on the breakfast club,
Speaker 1: or to just push a narrative that's not true. And
Speaker 1: it's a sad time. I mean, the greatness of social media,
Speaker 1: the greatness of technology is everything, but when you have
Speaker 1: people abusing it because it's so open, we have anyone
Speaker 1: jumping on t it's true. Do you agree with seeing
Speaker 1: the moving away from opinion based commentary to more what
Speaker 1: they say what they want fact based news. I think
Speaker 1: it's a good idea because we are so as you
Speaker 1: guys just pointed out, we are so confused about what's what.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of news organs. I think there's
Speaker 1: a moment for opinion. I do. I do believe there's
Speaker 1: a moment for opinion. But I also believe there's a
Speaker 1: moment for fact. But we have to differentiate between the two.
Speaker 1: And there's gonna be a lot of people getting in
Speaker 1: trouble because I'm telling you, Miss Ryan, they do not
Speaker 1: know the difference. I was literally having a discussion yesterday
Speaker 1: with somebody about the whole George Floyd Kanye thing and
Speaker 1: it was like, well, why is he getting sued for
Speaker 1: his perspective. I'm like, it don't matter what your perspective
Speaker 1: is when something has already been established as a fact.
Speaker 1: He has a large platform, and what he says speaks
Speaker 1: volumes to a larger and broader community that wants to
Speaker 1: downplay and change the narrative and the impact of that,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. The impact. It's not the fact
Speaker 1: that he's just Kanye. The impact of what you're saying
Speaker 1: it's devastating, and who you're giving it to where you're
Speaker 1: getting it from. You're just repeating white supremacist rhetoric, the
Speaker 1: same rhetor that they who's to try to get this
Speaker 1: guy off. He's repeating it from Candace Owns his new
Speaker 1: best friend. So a documentary that I never watch. Do
Speaker 1: you think it's important to watch things? No, don't know. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's important that I see what's out there so I
Speaker 1: can be informed, like coming here, you know who knew
Speaker 1: we were gonna talk about him? But you know, but
Speaker 1: I haven't watched her documentary. I don't want to watch
Speaker 1: her document right because I already know the basis of it.
Speaker 1: I've talked to people in George Food's family. I've talked
Speaker 1: to people in the community. I've talked to people who
Speaker 1: were there when it happened. I've talked to Keith Allison,
Speaker 1: the state attorney general. I don't need to hear Candice Owens,
Speaker 1: you think people like attention from being a contrarian and
Speaker 1: saying things that especially as is it attention or are
Speaker 1: you being paid? Well? Is there a benefit of payoff
Speaker 1: for you? You know? I mean if you are this
Speaker 1: juxtaposed to your own community that you went into and
Speaker 1: ask for help from the NAACP for something that happened
Speaker 1: to you many years ago, and then you go polar opposite.
Speaker 1: You wonder why. I mean, it's it's more than attention, right,
Speaker 1: It's got to be more than attention. M Well, Brian,
Speaker 1: the world. You know, like Bishop td Jakes told you,
Speaker 1: I hope that you are celebrating myself. Thank you, and
Speaker 1: I love that you came in here and you, you know,
Speaker 1: gave me, uh you know, just lifted me up. And
Speaker 1: I want to make sure we do the same thing
Speaker 1: for you. I mean, thank you, sister. Black women will
Speaker 1: save the world. An anthem, thank you. It's a Brian.
Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Club, the breakfast Club. It's about Angela
Speaker 1: need the breakfast Club. Well. Adidas has officially ended their
Speaker 1: partnership with Kanye with immediate effect. They released a statement
Speaker 1: today saying they do not tolerate anti Semitism and any
Speaker 1: other sort of speech, and his recent comments were unacceptable, hateful,
Speaker 1: and dangerous. Adida said they violated the company's values of
Speaker 1: diversity and inclusion, mutual respect, and fairness. Now, sales and
Speaker 1: productions of those Easy branded products have stopped, as well
Speaker 1: as payments to Kanye and his companies, they're going to
Speaker 1: take a two hundred and forty six a million dollar
Speaker 1: hit to their fourth quarter sales because of this. They've
Speaker 1: been partnered since twenty thirteen. That's when Adida signed that
Speaker 1: deal and got Kanye away from Nike, And in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen they expanded their relationship with Kanye, saying it was
Speaker 1: the most significant partnership ever created between a non athlete
Speaker 1: and an athletic brand. But after he wore those White
Speaker 1: Lives Matter t shirts in public, they actually had the
Speaker 1: partnership under review and they said that is a hate
Speaker 1: slogan used by white supremacist groups included the Ku Klux Klan.
Speaker 1: Then when Kanye said I can say anti semitic ish
Speaker 1: and Adidas cannot drop me on drink champs, that's when
Speaker 1: they said yes again, my friend. That's one of the
Speaker 1: most egal fueled comments I ever heard in my life. Like,
Speaker 1: if you think that German company found about someone who
Speaker 1: was in the Nazi Party was gonna hold on to
Speaker 1: you after that, then the levels of narcissists you are
Speaker 1: can't be defined. You can't be a German company. The
Speaker 1: home or denotification and being bad with a Nazi. We
Speaker 1: already told you. But Lanciaga cut ties. Vogue magazine publicly
Speaker 1: cut ties. His talent agency CIAA dropped him as a client.
Speaker 1: The production company MRC that was doing a documentary on
Speaker 1: him said they are shelving that documentary. Shares of Adidas
Speaker 1: fell after this news about five percent, and frankfort Yeah,
Speaker 1: they said that yesterday. Though that's what I see. I
Speaker 1: hear when people and it's not you, but I saw
Speaker 1: somebody else say that. But yesterday we actually four days ago,
Speaker 1: they were saying how Adidas dropped ten percent, and then
Speaker 1: yesterday they had dropped as well. Because but they didn't
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with Kanye. Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: what it has to do with Butane and maybe it does.
Speaker 1: I read, I read, I read it, but I can't
Speaker 1: brief it over the radio that fast. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: nothing to do with or something to do with something
Speaker 1: going on in China. Well, anyway, they and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that today we'll see sales job as well. You might see.
Speaker 1: I mean that two hundred and forty six a million
Speaker 1: dollar hit is a huge hit for a duty to
Speaker 1: take in the fourth quarter. Yeahs, regardless of whether it's
Speaker 1: kind of the effects of that is going to make
Speaker 1: the shares drop. All I know is this is one
Speaker 1: of the biggest els black man ever took in business,
Speaker 1: and it's all self inflicted. This is self sabotage at
Speaker 1: his finest. All of this literally happened for no reason,
Speaker 1: just a series of poor choices, all rooted in bigotry,
Speaker 1: anti Black, anti Semitic bigotry. And I pray that this
Speaker 1: is the wake up called Kanye West needs to literally
Speaker 1: go get some healing. That brother is hurting and hurt people,
Speaker 1: hurt people. But that's not an excuse because he has
Speaker 1: access to every single resource available to get some healing.
Speaker 1: And I pray he gets it because he's really moving
Speaker 1: like a person who doesn't plan to be hit much longer.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's talk about Black China. She's threatening
Speaker 1: legal action against Aba Louise, who is a TikTok star
Speaker 1: who is accused of Black China of trying to kidnap
Speaker 1: and sex traffic her. Now Aba Louise, by the way,
Speaker 1: according to this letter that Black China's attorney, JD. Sanchez
Speaker 1: has sent out as a cease and desist. They also
Speaker 1: said that Able Louise has made false, extreme and outrageous
Speaker 1: statements about Black China in public, and rips her for
Speaker 1: displaying a pattern of menacing an outrageous conduct on social media. Previously,
Speaker 1: Able Louise is the person who admitted to making false
Speaker 1: statements about Kanye was hooking up with Jeffrey Starr, the
Speaker 1: makeup guru and you YouTuber. So here is what Aba
Speaker 1: Louise was saying about Black China that's causing this lawsuit.
Speaker 1: For six hours trying to help me hastage, she drank
Speaker 1: an entire bottle of cast Amigos in front of me.
Speaker 1: She wouldn't let me be alone. Every time she had
Speaker 1: to use the bathroom, she would make me go into
Speaker 1: the bathroom with her. She took in front of me.
Speaker 1: She forced me to take a wet towel and wipe
Speaker 1: off all off my makeup. She kept telling me that
Speaker 1: I had to stay until ten am because that's when
Speaker 1: Dream was going to be out of the home and
Speaker 1: she was going to go crazy on me at ten am.
Speaker 1: She kept saying things like that. At about nine forty
Speaker 1: five am, trying to FaceTime some woman named Donna who
Speaker 1: told me she was in the escorting industry. On FaceTime,
Speaker 1: and told me that I was good product. All right.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Black China is refuting these claims and
Speaker 1: allegations and has a sea synthesist and is threatening now
Speaker 1: to sue. Those are serious allegations to put out about somebody,
Speaker 1: all right now. A Shanty, Jyrul and Fab are going
Speaker 1: to be headlining the I Love R and B Festival
Speaker 1: that is taking place on Saturday, May twenty seventh in
Speaker 1: Long Beach, California. Some of the biggest stars will also
Speaker 1: be performing during that festival. Maya Pleasure, pe Nivea rough Ends,
Speaker 1: Marcus Houston, seven or two, Little Flip and more. Chiney's
Speaker 1: gonna be there as well. A Shanta You also announced
Speaker 1: to a new single Falling for You, which is coming
Speaker 1: out on Friday. Now. Mariah Carey is going to be
Speaker 1: performing a special holiday tour in two cities. You know,
Speaker 1: she always has some of the best holiday time music
Speaker 1: that gets you in the mood, So you can her
Speaker 1: out in New York and Toronto. And she said, come
Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas with me this December. Little excited to be
Speaker 1: back on stage and get festive with everybody. Tickets are
Speaker 1: available to the public on Friday as well. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm Angela Yee and that is your room of Reports. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just to be clear, like you know, because I
Speaker 1: saw this yesterday, Adidas stock has been dropping over the
Speaker 1: past few days, though it was not immediately clear if
Speaker 1: the decline was directly linked to what's his controversy, because
Speaker 1: they were trying to say that the stock was plummeting
Speaker 1: because they refused to cut ties with Kanye West over
Speaker 1: anti semitism. So it's not because they release them the
Speaker 1: data to stocks dropped. All right, all right, well, thank
Speaker 1: you for that Room of report up next to the
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Speaker 1: That's Charlemagne. You got a positive note. Yes, I do
Speaker 1: have a positive note, and it's simple. Free speech is nice,
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