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Speaker 1: off your Okay, So in our community, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the black community, we should normalize raising our kids without
Speaker 1: abusing them. It's just something that shouldn't be done, like
Speaker 1: why are we beating our kids? And like and then
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Speaker 1: and I felt so stupid, and I always say to
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Speaker 1: did that not bother? And that's and that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: but I think we needed to be more conscious of
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Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this yo? Dj ND
Speaker 1: Charlotte Maine, m god Angela, good morning that morning morning.
Speaker 1: So what I want to get off my chest. I
Speaker 1: know DJM, but you go through this all the time.
Speaker 1: Half black people come up to me to ask you
Speaker 1: about my nationalities, and a student I'm banished for the reekend,
Speaker 1: but my dad's black, I'm white. It gets me frustrated
Speaker 1: sometimes I want to know what you do about that?
Speaker 1: How the hell would we know he tooked about me.
Speaker 1: I don't pay any mind. I don't pay it any mine.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't care. I mean it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1: It's not like something like, oh my god, this grinding
Speaker 1: my gears. No, I don't care. You don't like when
Speaker 1: people say you demand again, so Joe back, I'm saying black,
Speaker 1: but I don't upset me to the point where I'm
Speaker 1: going to corner cry. But people ask you what if
Speaker 1: they ask you, what are you? Bro make up your mind?
Speaker 1: You just you just say it's not a problem. But
Speaker 1: now you're saying you're not to get mad and that
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying to understand. So people just say, what
Speaker 1: are you? Yeah, they asked me what my nationality is.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I told him to guess, and they usually
Speaker 1: go a Spanish. For the reason, I wish envy would
Speaker 1: I wish Envy would human me one day and say,
Speaker 1: guess what I am. I understand that he's annoyed that
Speaker 1: people come up to him that don't even know him
Speaker 1: and just say, what's your nationality? Like, yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: It's annoying, Thank you, brother. I don't have a problem,
Speaker 1: like I never really under still why people get mad
Speaker 1: at that. There's so many nationalities and so many people.
Speaker 1: If you see somebody, you want to ask, why does
Speaker 1: that bother people? I don't understand, Well, he's bad. It's inquisitive,
Speaker 1: like what are you? Oh, you're this and that? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's I'm in the entitled to be bothered. But if
Speaker 1: you have something in your mind, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: if you in your mind you know what you are,
Speaker 1: I can see why that would be annoying because you
Speaker 1: think you would hope everybody else sees it too. But
Speaker 1: what are you showing me? Black? One? Pure God? Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't look black to me? Hello, who's this? Look
Speaker 1: more on the white side. I'm ninety s I've actually
Speaker 1: ninety seven percent West African. I've done my African ancestry. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this yo? What's going on? Phillip brown listen, yesterday
Speaker 1: was too crazy. Everybody stupid over social media. Man, you
Speaker 1: need to all get off of it. Social media is
Speaker 1: just to ever lasting change some fool over foolboy people
Speaker 1: we don't care about. That's right. How did you know
Speaker 1: everybody was going crazy over it? Where'd you see that
Speaker 1: on the article anything? All these Yeah, it was news
Speaker 1: like it was on CNN, MSNBC. I'm like, okay, so
Speaker 1: you don't use social media. No, not like that, because
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, You start comparing yourself for
Speaker 1: people who do. Put up the highlight char char, I
Speaker 1: literally I said, I told Duval this is about a
Speaker 1: week ago. I was like, your winded. Social media become
Speaker 1: like a university of higher learning, like I remember ten
Speaker 1: years ago, and it was literally just the playground. It
Speaker 1: was literally just a place we went to have fun.
Speaker 1: We unplugged. People don't unplugged no more. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 1: You know what's up? Broke it off your chest? I
Speaker 1: want to send a shout out to this miserable person
Speaker 1: I met this week and who worked at the Barclay Center.
Speaker 1: If you are a miserable person, do not cans it
Speaker 1: on the other people. What happened. All right. So I
Speaker 1: was working at j Cole concert. First of all, he's
Speaker 1: my favorite artist. I was praying to work this concert.
Speaker 1: I worked the concert. Um, I'm also an artist, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I hope I can get a chance
Speaker 1: to shoot my shot tonight. I'm standing on the side
Speaker 1: of the stage right and Jay Cole stuck in leg
Speaker 1: up on the speaker and it ended up pulling off
Speaker 1: the stage. I caught the speaker. We put the speaker
Speaker 1: back on. Now, if you have seen it, you would
Speaker 1: have known that whole chain of speakers would have fell off.
Speaker 1: So okay, I just saved that from happening. The woman
Speaker 1: sees me, yeah, she goes, uh, yeah, you don't belong
Speaker 1: over here. You gotta you gotta go. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: now I go to where I'm supposed to be. But
Speaker 1: you know, and you guys have been to the Barklay Center,
Speaker 1: you know where where the cars come into where downstairs.
Speaker 1: And I just waited over there respectfully. You know, I
Speaker 1: could have pretended I was a part of the entourage,
Speaker 1: snuck back there. I didn't do anything like that. I
Speaker 1: just waited quietly, um while you know, while going back
Speaker 1: and forth and working, and the same miserable worker came over,
Speaker 1: where do you belong? Oh you don't belong here? Now
Speaker 1: report more than me and a whole bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 1: But you could just tell, man, she was just a
Speaker 1: miserable person and she wanted to pass that on to
Speaker 1: whoever else. You know. Now you're leaving out the part
Speaker 1: where you was trying to slip J Cole your mixtape,
Speaker 1: and you're telling J Cole you rapped on I just
Speaker 1: said that. He said that wasn't a mixtape, and and
Speaker 1: I don't get down. You just said shoot your shot.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to. I didn't want it. That could
Speaker 1: go any that could mean anything. You said shot. She's
Speaker 1: a manager. But was she a manager? No, she wasn't
Speaker 1: a manager because because she could have gotten in trouble.
Speaker 1: Maybe Jay Cole's people would have called. I respect that.
Speaker 1: It was just the way she went about it. The
Speaker 1: way she went about it was just nasty and Charlo Man,
Speaker 1: come on, I'm shooting my shot up with you on
Speaker 1: these men. Man, you said shoot your shot. Didn't he
Speaker 1: say that? You said you wanted to shot my artists
Speaker 1: before I said that you shot. I'm worried about I
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of picture you wanted to paint,
Speaker 1: but I was. But where Okay, I got a question,
Speaker 1: where are you? Where are you? Not where you were
Speaker 1: supposed to be? Though he wasn't you know, he was
Speaker 1: somewhere else. No, No, I wasn't. I wasn't where I
Speaker 1: was supposed to be. I mean like, it's not like
Speaker 1: I was making a disruption or or like I went
Speaker 1: about it like you know, I work in production, so
Speaker 1: I'm try not to invade people's face. I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but she was, she was. She was security. But I
Speaker 1: will say, out of every venue that I've ever been to,
Speaker 1: any any concert hall or any arena, the ball layers
Speaker 1: usually the nicest people I've ever been to a lot
Speaker 1: of people, the black lads. This is the nicest place.
Speaker 1: I was surprised because at the at the Garden that
Speaker 1: that like that. Yeah, I would say, you know, I
Speaker 1: love the I would say the back Lace is better
Speaker 1: than the Garden to me and E Buddy, all these arenas,
Speaker 1: but I love it the Garden. Dude. We got to
Speaker 1: do your job, bro, that's it. Good a job, all right.
Speaker 1: Joe Man the Breakfast Club, Angel and Charlomagne the guard 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. Yes, indeed we have doctor Cameron Weett. Welcome Brubbo,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for happening. How you doing. He's the
Speaker 1: Senior Policy Advisor for Equity on White House COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: task for What does that mean? Yeah, that's the first
Speaker 1: question I asked when when the administration asked me to
Speaker 1: come in in this role, Because equity means different things
Speaker 1: to different people. But I think from my perspective, and
Speaker 1: I think the perspective of the Vice President of the President,
Speaker 1: it's making sure that everyone in every community has the
Speaker 1: opportunity to achieve their best health, and in this pandemic,
Speaker 1: it means not just to survive, but hopefully thrive. You know,
Speaker 1: it's been a tough moment for they're attaching that word
Speaker 1: equity to a lot of things. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they should be attaching that word equity too. You saw
Speaker 1: what happened last week when they or they when they
Speaker 1: said it was crackpipes, but it was say smoking supply, kitch,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Syringes and all that,
Speaker 1: and they attached racial equity to that too. Why do
Speaker 1: you attaching equity to all these things? Different things become
Speaker 1: buzzwords at different times, right, And I think then for
Speaker 1: a long time we talked about disparities and equalities, and
Speaker 1: now I think people are focused on this notion of
Speaker 1: equity and appropriately so, right, equity means that you know,
Speaker 1: you're not doing the same thing for everybody, but you're
Speaker 1: finding ways to write systemic inequalities that have exists it
Speaker 1: over time. And to do that you have to make
Speaker 1: sure that you tailor strategies in different directions. So I
Speaker 1: think that's the notion that's it's an underpinning of a
Speaker 1: lot of what the administration aims to do. But as
Speaker 1: much as it's a it's an animating principle for the administration,
Speaker 1: it's a buzzword that a lot of people attack otherwise.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why the piece with the crack
Speaker 1: pipes it was it was just a straight up attack,
Speaker 1: you know, not for good reasons. So what's the COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen task force? What is that task for us? Because
Speaker 1: it seems like you know, we've been we say one thing,
Speaker 1: and we bring it back. Then we say another thing
Speaker 1: that we say, ohs, we were wrong, then we say
Speaker 1: something that it changes so much. So what is the
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen task for us? What is it supposed to do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so on the in the White House COVID Response Team,
Speaker 1: it's really kind of the core entity coordinating across government.
Speaker 1: So you know, um, there are a couple of different
Speaker 1: pieces and when you mentioned task force, there there was
Speaker 1: a Health Equity Task Force specifically on the way that
Speaker 1: the President initiated and doctor Marcella Una Smith was leading that.
Speaker 1: So their role over the course of twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: was to convene experts, work with communities, really identify what
Speaker 1: is going to help us to really accomplish this goal
Speaker 1: of health equity, health equity specifically within the context of
Speaker 1: the pandemic. And so they issued their final report in November.
Speaker 1: So that was the health equity task for us. The
Speaker 1: COVID Response Team is more so just the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the effort. So we work with CDC, we work with
Speaker 1: you know, all the different pieces of HHS. We work
Speaker 1: with other components of the White House and other agencies
Speaker 1: to say what is it that we can do that
Speaker 1: we can leverage from your agency, your office to help
Speaker 1: advance the goals of really eliminating our addressing this pandemic.
Speaker 1: Now we see cases dropping all across the country, but
Speaker 1: they say it's still higher than they were at this
Speaker 1: time last year. So what is this? Has herd immunity
Speaker 1: kicked in though? What is it? Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: think OMICRON was a unique monster, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: it showed up and we just saw cases spike. And
Speaker 1: I work clinically in the hospital, so I work as
Speaker 1: an internal medicine doctor, and you know, even on the floor,
Speaker 1: we just started seeing record numbers of patients coming in.
Speaker 1: And these were folks who had navigated this pandemic for
Speaker 1: a year and a half and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden coming in sick with COVID. And I think that
Speaker 1: you see the cases spike, you know, I dug into
Speaker 1: the data and they really peaked among you know, black folks,
Speaker 1: eighteen at thirty nine in Southern States. And I think
Speaker 1: you see the combination of the lack of mitigation measures
Speaker 1: like masks, like you know, some of the physical distancing
Speaker 1: and avoiding crowded indoor spaces, the impact of the booster effort,
Speaker 1: right because when you're disproportionality with boosters, then you see
Speaker 1: that manifest in the hospitalization race. So the cases were concerning,
Speaker 1: hospitalizations were really concerning. We had four times the hospitalization
Speaker 1: rate in the black community just over the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: And so when I hear people saying the pandemic's over,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't know what pandemic you're watch
Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's hard to you know, all
Speaker 1: the stuff that they're talking. But then you see certain
Speaker 1: governors in certain states and they're taking the mass mandates off,
Speaker 1: and you know, even the airports when you're flying. At
Speaker 1: one time, you know, there was a middle, there was
Speaker 1: a seat between everybody for social distancing. Now they're cramming
Speaker 1: people in, like Saldines like, so what do what should
Speaker 1: people believe? Because they change things so much. They do
Speaker 1: in a couple of things. Whereas people say, you know,
Speaker 1: they change recommendations a lot, and that's true, just the
Speaker 1: same way the weather man changes the recommendations of what
Speaker 1: you should wear in December verses June. Right, I think
Speaker 1: the environment changes and that's why recommendations change along with it.
Speaker 1: But that being said, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: lean into like false equivalency. You say, this is what's
Speaker 1: happening in hospitals, therefore what's happening in communities. You know.
Speaker 1: I'll give the example from my own family. I have
Speaker 1: two kids, one six, one is ten. Right for my
Speaker 1: two kids, even if the governor in Virginia is saying, oh,
Speaker 1: kids don't need to wear masks, my kids are gonna
Speaker 1: be wearing masks. And the reason isn't just that it's
Speaker 1: going to protect their health and well being. It's that
Speaker 1: my wife's an emergency dot with the work she does
Speaker 1: and the work that I do, we can't afford for
Speaker 1: our kids to be out of school for five to
Speaker 1: ten days because they caught COVID, right, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: do everything we can to protect them. And I think
Speaker 1: for people who can't afford to miss work for a
Speaker 1: week and a half, keep your kids protected, right like
Speaker 1: this is these are mitigation strategies that are rooted in
Speaker 1: public health. That just makes sense. And so while some
Speaker 1: governors are relaxing these mandates, the thing I keep reminding
Speaker 1: people is that nobody's saying you cannot wear masks. What
Speaker 1: they're saying is that they're not mandating masks in or spaces.
Speaker 1: But like Floyd Mayweather said, protect yourself at all times, right,
Speaker 1: Like you really have to have that mentality in this work.
Speaker 1: All Right. We had more with doctor Cameron Webb coming
Speaker 1: up on the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club, Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: and we are sitting here with doctor Cameron Webb, DJ Envy.
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on mandating the vaccine? You know, some
Speaker 1: people if they don't have the vaccine, their jobs are firing.
Speaker 1: And what's your thoughts on that? Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: think if you look back at work requirements for instance,
Speaker 1: you know, we put those in place last summer, and
Speaker 1: and my first thought on it is I was like, well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reason. Sometimes it's rooted in people's confidence.
Speaker 1: We have to do the hard work of really talking
Speaker 1: to folks. We had ninety million people who weren't vaccine
Speaker 1: at that point in time. You fast forward six months,
Speaker 1: seven months, and we're down at thirty million. Sixty million
Speaker 1: people were vaccinated in that time just from those requirements,
Speaker 1: and then omicron hit, right, And when Omicron hit, we
Speaker 1: had far fewer hospitalizations in depth than we would have
Speaker 1: had but for those vaccinations. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: things like the flu. We have about fifty percent of
Speaker 1: people nationwide who get the flu vaccine. It's not mandating
Speaker 1: forty percent of black folks. But you look at COVID,
Speaker 1: eighty four percent of black people have gotten a COVID vaccine,
Speaker 1: and so you know, and as eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: white people, eighty six percent of Latin individuals. So this
Speaker 1: is unprecedented levels not only a vaccination rates, but of
Speaker 1: equity in terms of those vaccination rates. And I look
Speaker 1: at that and I say, it's not just numbers. Those
Speaker 1: are lives saved. Those are people who aren't in my hospital.
Speaker 1: So so you know, as a as a physician, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you I'm glad more people are protected than I
Speaker 1: would have been the case. I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court made the decision they made on work requirements,
Speaker 1: but I think that at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: these requirements have saved lives and they work. And for
Speaker 1: people who get protected, you know that that benefit of
Speaker 1: cruise over time they had that immunologic protection. They care
Speaker 1: with them every single day. What your thoughts on kids
Speaker 1: getting the vaccination? You know, I got six, so at
Speaker 1: first I was a little scared, a little nervous because
Speaker 1: you know, I just felt like it wasn't tested enough
Speaker 1: for children. I did get it for my older kids,
Speaker 1: but you know, it was still a little nerve wracking. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: so I mentioned I have a six year old and
Speaker 1: a ten year old, and I remember when my daughter
Speaker 1: Avery was born. I'm a whole doctor, right, And I
Speaker 1: remember first time they showed up to put a shot
Speaker 1: in her arm. I was like, hold, oh wait, you know,
Speaker 1: like she's she's straight from God, Like, you know, this
Speaker 1: child hadn't been touched by anything. Now you're starting to
Speaker 1: put shot. But again, I had to remind myself, this
Speaker 1: is part of my being a good parent. It's making
Speaker 1: sure we're using all the tools we have of today
Speaker 1: to protect her from the worst of what can happen.
Speaker 1: You know, those same two kids, they got vaccinated as
Speaker 1: soon as possible from COVID, And in large part it
Speaker 1: was because for my wife and I, we work on
Speaker 1: the front lines in the hospital. We were always worried
Speaker 1: about bringing something home to those kids, you know, And
Speaker 1: so I think that you know, from our perspective, there
Speaker 1: there was a process that led us to that decision.
Speaker 1: We don't just follow go with the flow. We said, well,
Speaker 1: where's the data, And if you dig into the data,
Speaker 1: the data on kids five to eleven was fantastic. Remember
Speaker 1: that the dose for adults for fires or for instance,
Speaker 1: was thirty micrograms. For kids it was ten micrograms. It's
Speaker 1: one third of the dose reduced the side effects significantly.
Speaker 1: And in the side effects, I'm talking about headaches, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about muscle pain and stuff like that. My kids
Speaker 1: didn't have any of that when they got vaccinated. But
Speaker 1: even a step farther you realize that it's really effective
Speaker 1: because kids have a really robust immune system. So not
Speaker 1: only was it you know, safer from a side effects standpoint,
Speaker 1: but it was just as as good the immunogenicity of
Speaker 1: of promoting a good immunologic response. And so from that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, my kids are getting the best of two
Speaker 1: worlds here. And what's crazy is that, you know, when
Speaker 1: omicron hit and kids all across their school are getting COVID,
Speaker 1: my kids were fine through it, right because they wear masks,
Speaker 1: because they were vaccinated. That's those are layers of protection
Speaker 1: that were grateful for. Well, even that information was kind
Speaker 1: of confusing because I remember when they was telling us,
Speaker 1: you know, COVID doesn't affect kids at all. And then
Speaker 1: it was just like just all of a sudden one
Speaker 1: day it was like, you gotta go out there and
Speaker 1: get your kids vaccinated. Yeah, you gotta. What I always
Speaker 1: tell people is, um, you know, don't you gotta. You
Speaker 1: gotta listen to the messenger, Right, don't let people tell
Speaker 1: tell the story because I they say it's not affecting kids. Sure,
Speaker 1: it was affecting black kids. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: the rate of deaths. There were more deaths and black
Speaker 1: children than they were white children, several times more. Right,
Speaker 1: COVID wasn't the top ten causes of death for kids
Speaker 1: before the vaccines came out. So people will create a
Speaker 1: narrative just to further their their point. But the truth
Speaker 1: of the matter, COVID has affected kids this entire time,
Speaker 1: and not only just that. No, it's it's context, right,
Speaker 1: It's not these aren't lies. Like the context is that
Speaker 1: people say, are we seeing kids in ICUs to the
Speaker 1: same rate that we're seeing seventy five year olds? No? Right,
Speaker 1: But I think for a lot of like people like
Speaker 1: to boil things down into really simple terms. This really
Speaker 1: complex concepts, right, But there are a few things So today,
Speaker 1: if you ask me what's the risk of of COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen versus the flu and kids, I would say, in
Speaker 1: terms of severe illness the relatively similar. But in terms
Speaker 1: of long COVID I don't know. And one thing I
Speaker 1: want to protect my kids from are the lingering and
Speaker 1: long term effects of COVID, right, So, so those are
Speaker 1: things where it's like. And also remember data continues to evolve.
Speaker 1: We continue to get new information as this pandemic goes on.
Speaker 1: So the information that Vauci had back in March of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty versus March twenty one versus next month in
Speaker 1: March of twenty two completely differently. You're saying that in
Speaker 1: March twenty twenty, the information he dispensed could have been
Speaker 1: considered misinformation. Now I think it would be considered information
Speaker 1: that has that has been updated, right, Because if in
Speaker 1: March twenty twenty we had just started to see cases,
Speaker 1: by twenty one, we had seen cases, but we hadn't
Speaker 1: seen what vaccines we're going to be able to do,
Speaker 1: and we hadn't seen some of these some of these variants.
Speaker 1: And now in March of twenty two, we've seen variants,
Speaker 1: We've seen two years worth of effects of it, because
Speaker 1: but there's just way more information. And I think that's
Speaker 1: that's the thing. People. There's not a lot of grace
Speaker 1: in our society for that, you know, But I think
Speaker 1: that if you're a scientist, when the way you look
Speaker 1: at this, you're like, of course we're gonna learn stuff
Speaker 1: over time. Of Course we're gonna get new data. Of
Speaker 1: course there's gonna be new articles. Of course that's going
Speaker 1: to update the way we treat people. That's that's science, ye,
Speaker 1: I mean said I mean at one point five you
Speaker 1: said don't wear a mask. He said mask only for
Speaker 1: health professional. And I think people see that and you
Speaker 1: know what you're what you're speaking to is kind of
Speaker 1: how that undermines some confidence, right for everybody who's keeping
Speaker 1: track and has a list of you said this this
Speaker 1: day and then that change. You know, they're just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can trust you. It's funny.
Speaker 1: I did some focus groups working with the Department Health
Speaker 1: and Human Services on unvaccinated young black people. I was like,
Speaker 1: what are your reasons? What are you concerned about it?
Speaker 1: And they're like, well, people keep saying different things. I
Speaker 1: don't feel like I can trust government. I don't feel
Speaker 1: like I can trust any politicians, and we're like, well,
Speaker 1: who do you feel like you can trust? People? Saying nobody,
Speaker 1: that's really and it's just like that's that's that's so disappointing,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it is real. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, you know, I think about the work I've
Speaker 1: done a community long before I was in government, and
Speaker 1: the way that community members look to me then and
Speaker 1: continue to look to providers in their own community. They'll
Speaker 1: say they don't trust anybody, but they'll know the local doctor,
Speaker 1: the person who's like in the neighborhood. They'll be like,
Speaker 1: let me call up so and so and find out
Speaker 1: what's real. Right. We still have that dynamic. We know
Speaker 1: the local trusted messengers make the difference. But I think
Speaker 1: that's what happens when you're communicating like nationally, for something
Speaker 1: that's very local, very individual, not everything applies to one person.
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Speaker 1: dract this club and we are sitting here with doctor
Speaker 1: Cameron Webb. It's DJ. I was gonna ask, you know,
Speaker 1: we talk about the healthcare workers and when COVID first happened,
Speaker 1: the pandemic first happened, a lot of them were on
Speaker 1: the front lines. There was no vaccine and a lot
Speaker 1: of them died, a lot of them lost their life,
Speaker 1: a lot of them went in the work and not
Speaker 1: knowing what's gonna happen. Now fast forward a little bit.
Speaker 1: Now they're saying if a lot of them don't get
Speaker 1: their vaccination, they're gonna be fired. What do you say
Speaker 1: to that? Because they put their lives on the line
Speaker 1: when there was no vac I am them, you're talking
Speaker 1: about talking about me. But then some of them people
Speaker 1: didn't and they don't believe in it, they don't want to.
Speaker 1: But now we just fired them and just throw them away.
Speaker 1: But before they were beyond them. We love them. They
Speaker 1: were heroes and that was like, oh, you're gone, and
Speaker 1: see it. And again, let's let's tell the facts, right,
Speaker 1: because people will try to tell you a story. Over
Speaker 1: ninety eight percent of healthcare workers have vaccinated. Right, It's
Speaker 1: a great majority of healthcare workers of vaccinated. And this
Speaker 1: isn't new to us. Every single year they make me
Speaker 1: get what my flu shot? If I don't have my
Speaker 1: flu shot, I got to talk to somebody. That's a problem.
Speaker 1: Every time the flu shot has been tested, it's been tried,
Speaker 1: it's yearly, fully FDA approved. This COVID vaccine is fully approved.
Speaker 1: Right And if you so, if you ask me that
Speaker 1: question January of last year, and you're like, oh, these
Speaker 1: are new vaccines, I'd give you that. I'd grant you that. Right.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a vaccine that passed the same gold
Speaker 1: standard as the diabetes medicine you use, the asthma medicine
Speaker 1: you use. You don't think twice before you take a
Speaker 1: puff of that albut role. But this is a vaccine
Speaker 1: that has passed that rigorous evaluation process, right, And so
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people, it's not because
Speaker 1: the data on the vaccines themselves is a little shaky.
Speaker 1: It's because of this narrative that's been weaved for the
Speaker 1: last year and a half that just undermines a lot
Speaker 1: of public confidence. We have those conversations. I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, there are people who are
Speaker 1: always going to make decisions that they think is in
Speaker 1: their best interest, and if that impacts their employment, that's
Speaker 1: the decision to make, right. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, as a healthcare worker, I know that it's
Speaker 1: not mine. I don't have the right to bring illness
Speaker 1: in when people are sick. Right, the patients I was
Speaker 1: taking care of over the weekend, those individuals who were
Speaker 1: already sick, I can't bring COVID to them. My coworkers
Speaker 1: who are working their butts off for the last two years,
Speaker 1: I can't get them sick with COVID after they've been
Speaker 1: doing everything to protect themselves, just because they're in the
Speaker 1: physicians lines with me and I happen to have COVID, right,
Speaker 1: so we have to create safe environments and healthcare spaces.
Speaker 1: That's not new to COVID. That's something we've always held.
Speaker 1: People politicize it more. It's more charged than COVID. And
Speaker 1: you've got three hundred thirty million people who were talking
Speaker 1: about intervening all right now in this moment. Whereas for
Speaker 1: some other things. If it's your measles, most of rubella vaccine,
Speaker 1: everybody got that when they got it. Tetness, they got
Speaker 1: that when they got it. Right, this is all at once,
Speaker 1: and that's what creates this kind of frenzy, all at once.
Speaker 1: What do you say to people who feel like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know there's people out there getting the vaccine, but
Speaker 1: they're still catching COVID and they're still getting sick and
Speaker 1: you can still pass you know, the vaccine, which was
Speaker 1: another thing that you could say was misinformation because people
Speaker 1: told us that couldn't happen. It's heartbreaking, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think that that's one of the things that is
Speaker 1: so frustrated to me because on the front end, you know,
Speaker 1: I was one of those hopeful people right when I
Speaker 1: got vaccining on December seventeenth of twenty and twenty. I
Speaker 1: was hopeful that this was going to prevent me from
Speaker 1: getting COVID, you know, forevermore Right, that's just not what
Speaker 1: the data ended up bearing out. What the studies did
Speaker 1: for that vaccine is they said, I'm much less likely
Speaker 1: to be hospitalized or die from COVID. But we said,
Speaker 1: but I'm also less likely to transmit it or to
Speaker 1: get COVID as well. Ultimately, I think a couple of
Speaker 1: things blew the lid off that you look at omicron,
Speaker 1: so many people were getting COVID. Again, I'm always reminded
Speaker 1: how many people would have died from COVID if it
Speaker 1: weren't for vaccines, or you know, the primary endpoint of
Speaker 1: those studies was looking at death in hospitalization. We still
Speaker 1: saw a lot of hospitalization, but those hospitalizations would have
Speaker 1: been deaths, right, Those cases would have been hospitalizations. The
Speaker 1: benefit of the vaccines has it limited the severity of
Speaker 1: the illness. And that's just part of it, right, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I look at other pieces. You know, there
Speaker 1: are conversations that we have because we feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're all we're all healthy and well, there are people
Speaker 1: walking around who look just like you and me, who
Speaker 1: are living there everyday lives, but they also are immune compromise.
Speaker 1: They're also dealing with a new cancer diagnosis. Part of
Speaker 1: our obligation, our responsibilities to keep in mind there are
Speaker 1: folks who don't have the benefit of all the opportunities
Speaker 1: we have to work from home, who don't have the
Speaker 1: benefit of some of the different medications or the you
Speaker 1: know and whatnot. And for them, this idea of vaccines,
Speaker 1: it's truly life saving for them. And if as a
Speaker 1: society we're not taking care of, or thinking about, or
Speaker 1: prioritizing the ability to keep society saved, that's a problem, right,
Speaker 1: and especially in the black community. Right, fourteen percent of
Speaker 1: us are disabled. In the black community, we carry more
Speaker 1: chronic medical conditions. So when we see even vaccinated folks
Speaker 1: now who are being hospitalized. You know over the age
Speaker 1: of sixty five, the Black individuals over sixty five carry
Speaker 1: more chronic illness into that. And what's your thoughts on
Speaker 1: the COVID pill. I know, we know we how to
Speaker 1: go the COVID pill, the new poil. They're saying, what's
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that? Well, you know, we're in New York.
Speaker 1: It's a different station here. I think it is ninety
Speaker 1: percent reduction in hospitalization and mortality, So it's really beneficial.
Speaker 1: So what is the COVID pill for people that don't know.
Speaker 1: So there are two of them right now, one called
Speaker 1: Monoperevier from Murk, one called packs of It from Visor.
Speaker 1: The packs of It we so as a government, we
Speaker 1: got twenty million doses of that, right so that was
Speaker 1: a big deal. What it does is it makes it
Speaker 1: so you take that pill within five days of getting
Speaker 1: a COVID diagnosis, it decreases you're likely at a hospitalization
Speaker 1: in death. Now the people who should take it are
Speaker 1: folks who are at risk for severe disease, so have
Speaker 1: different chronic conditions, things that put them at increased risk.
Speaker 1: You know. One of the big things is making sure
Speaker 1: that right now, it takes a while to make those drugs.
Speaker 1: This strugg didn't even exist, wasn't even dreamed up this
Speaker 1: time last year. So the Visor is actively making these pills,
Speaker 1: but in the meantime we have very few of them.
Speaker 1: So what New York has done is they said we're
Speaker 1: going to prioritize the risk factors that put people a
Speaker 1: great risk for severe COVID. One of them being raised
Speaker 1: in the city right and that's created a store because
Speaker 1: everything's politicized because people take that and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: now you're discriminating against white people. Knows, anybody who has
Speaker 1: a risk factor that puts them at severe risk, at
Speaker 1: risk for severe COVID should have access to these medications.
Speaker 1: They can save their lives, keep them out of the hospital.
Speaker 1: So so I think that this has the potential to
Speaker 1: be huge because then what we focus on is getting
Speaker 1: people tested, and that's why we have COVID test stock
Speaker 1: Gov and we're getting tests out to people. That's why
Speaker 1: private insurance is requiring tests, Medicare is getting tested people,
Speaker 1: Medicaid is getting tested people, making sure people can know
Speaker 1: whether or not they have COVID and go from there
Speaker 1: and get the treatments in Do you, um, well, I
Speaker 1: know you gotta go with you. Do you think there's power?
Speaker 1: And just simply saying I don't know absolutely? You know
Speaker 1: if you if you've been a physician for any period
Speaker 1: of time, that's critical. You know, my barbershop in Charlottesville
Speaker 1: is called the Barber's then, and every time I go there,
Speaker 1: like sit down in the chair. You know how the
Speaker 1: barbershop is, They're just like cam I got a question
Speaker 1: and people just start, you know, rapid firing around the shop.
Speaker 1: And what's interesting is so often I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to that. Right. That inspires confidence
Speaker 1: because then they know that what I'm saying, if I
Speaker 1: tell them something that's factual, they're just like, I trust
Speaker 1: him because when he doesn't know, he says, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's something you have to learn to do. Some people
Speaker 1: aren't comfortable doing it, but I think that at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, that's it's for encouraging inspiring confidence
Speaker 1: for people, especially in this era of you know, there's
Speaker 1: always a camera in your face, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like if you're putting somebody on TV every day, they
Speaker 1: gotta say something. So sometimes I can say I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right, or doctor camera where we appreciate
Speaker 1: you for joining us and thank you for spitting some
Speaker 1: facts for sure, Come up anytime, man, We'll do all right.
Speaker 1: It's a breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody's DJ Envy, Angela Yee Sharlamage and the guy. We
Speaker 1: are to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: she tried to come a couple of months ago, but
Speaker 1: her security tested positive for COVID. Can't you believe it?
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Who don't test positive for cod Wow?
Speaker 1: You didn't test positive? Did And then a couple of
Speaker 1: days later you did? Yes, I did? Oh my godness,
Speaker 1: but you're back. Yeah, COVID free. Absolutely, no, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for well. Actually this coat came
Speaker 1: from the set of Ghost Book Too Power when I
Speaker 1: shot and um, I think Mary, I mean no, it
Speaker 1: was a gift. And no, I didn't really did answer
Speaker 1: this one. But I do see a wardrobe but this
Speaker 1: wasn't from Power. I think that Mary was supposed to
Speaker 1: wear it and she didn't. And they fit me and
Speaker 1: I asked for it and a girl like me, and
Speaker 1: so I got it. Really, don't mean my power people
Speaker 1: at the wardrobe people not they'll be asking for it. Jadabits,
Speaker 1: don't fitty somebody? Now, well, yes it is. Now. First
Speaker 1: of all, I've been really actually very good. I'm healthy, okay,
Speaker 1: most important, Yeah, and I'm working and I'm in demand.
Speaker 1: And my family, you know, there's always challenges in the family,
Speaker 1: you know, a little health scares from folks over here
Speaker 1: and a little you know, it's a lot of that
Speaker 1: going around with everybody. But other than that, I can't
Speaker 1: I really can't complain how the concert has been because
Speaker 1: I know a lot of comedians are saying that some
Speaker 1: of the shows haven't been asked pack because some of
Speaker 1: the venues are making people wear masks or have to
Speaker 1: be vaccinated. So a lot of people that they said
Speaker 1: it wasn't like before. So how was it? Were you
Speaker 1: going out back there on the road. We haven't had
Speaker 1: a problem like that, you did, Cat Williams, lou Now Curry.
Speaker 1: They don't allow you know, packed houses and they made
Speaker 1: people we mask. Well, whatever they're doing, our audience is
Speaker 1: doing it and doing it well. I love the community
Speaker 1: that you know, you and Kat and Red Yell always
Speaker 1: go on tour together. Well, we were on tour together
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago on his first tour, right when people
Speaker 1: were starting to transition him from Money Mike into the
Speaker 1: Kat Williams, you know. And for us to be back
Speaker 1: on tour together again fifteen years later, I don't even
Speaker 1: know that I've heard of anybody doing that. Wow, you know.
Speaker 1: And then there's an Oakland connect action with all this,
Speaker 1: because Mark Curry is from Oakland, like as is Laura
Speaker 1: Hayes and Paul Mooney. I'm from Oakland. I met Red
Speaker 1: in Oakland and I met Kat in Oakland. Wow, so
Speaker 1: we are And me and Cat been knowing each other
Speaker 1: since we have a kid the same age, and uh,
Speaker 1: he's been done me since my daughter's probably four. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: I saw you on the Amazon Doctor fat TUZI. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the era of hip hop comedy, and he talked about her.
Speaker 1: You know, Black comedians had to form their own community,
Speaker 1: you know, when Hollywood wasn't given them a look. What
Speaker 1: was what was that experience like in that era? I
Speaker 1: think that was really empowering because we were not city
Speaker 1: waiting for them. They weren't coming where we were. We
Speaker 1: did our own thing and then they came there and
Speaker 1: we were doing it whether they came or not. You know,
Speaker 1: we were doing it far as So this is comedy
Speaker 1: with no money. Don't forget. There's no such thing as
Speaker 1: money in comedy at our level. We'd looked up to
Speaker 1: the Eddies and stuff like that, but there was no
Speaker 1: you know, Guy was coming up, Joe was coming up,
Speaker 1: Jamie was coming up, DL was coming up. We was
Speaker 1: all coming up to this like era. I've never been
Speaker 1: part of an era before, I mean the sexual seventies.
Speaker 1: Of course I was there, but I'm talking about, you know, professionally,
Speaker 1: and it was really exciting because the hustle was a
Speaker 1: different type of heat. You know, we didn't have social media.
Speaker 1: To social media was you need to see that money
Speaker 1: and that was it. If somebody told you, then you
Speaker 1: go see them and to see a word of mouth
Speaker 1: builds like that. It's like watching the wave at a
Speaker 1: baseball game. You know. I was gonna ask, you know,
Speaker 1: you you speak with whatever, whatever's on your mind, and
Speaker 1: you come from an eraware comedian sport what's on their mind?
Speaker 1: Or you ever nervous about cancel culture? Do you watch
Speaker 1: what you see now at all? I would be lying
Speaker 1: if I said I didn't. I don't want to sound hockey,
Speaker 1: but I really sort of can't be canceled because too
Speaker 1: many people love me. I would have to, like Melissa Child,
Speaker 1: let's do something really hideous to lose all my fans.
Speaker 1: I got fans from where I used to live, and
Speaker 1: I got fans from when I used to be girls
Speaker 1: got leaders, and I got fans. It's gonna ride with me.
Speaker 1: Whatever they say. I've been drug you know. I've been
Speaker 1: drug in social media before, and I find that, first
Speaker 1: of all, you can't be cyber bullied if you don't
Speaker 1: read the right for two days. That usually all scandals
Speaker 1: only last for the eight hours or something. To the
Speaker 1: naxt scandal, you know, you gotta go on, it's gonna end.
Speaker 1: It's silly to me, though, because I feel like man
Speaker 1: comedians have a different license than everybody else. Always have,
Speaker 1: you know, and always should have that. So it's just
Speaker 1: weird to me when people get mad about things comedians. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, when I say I do think about something,
Speaker 1: I do think about them, and then I usually go
Speaker 1: ahead and do whatever the I was gonna do anyway,
Speaker 1: because when people who come to see me, they came
Speaker 1: to see me, they want to know my perspective. They
Speaker 1: didn't just I don't. I get new fans every day,
Speaker 1: but they're pale in comparison to the people that have
Speaker 1: been riding with me for the whole thirty years. I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask, are you familiar with the metaverse? You know,
Speaker 1: I smoke weed, and so that's the only verse that
Speaker 1: I know about. I don't really with the metaverse place
Speaker 1: right exactly, Hollywood, but they possibly could start charging people
Speaker 1: like if you harass somebody in the middle verse, like
Speaker 1: if you hey, smack somebody in the ass or your
Speaker 1: ass look big or something like that, they can possibly
Speaker 1: maybe press charge. Okay, I think I think that's good
Speaker 1: because but it's fake. We have enough perfect that fake. Listen,
Speaker 1: that metaverse and this universe is all fake. So you
Speaker 1: know the point, uh, I think that we do have
Speaker 1: to get a grip on all these pedophiles and traffickers
Speaker 1: and nasty mother. You gotta be able to have a
Speaker 1: game that don't end up for somebody maybe in somebody
Speaker 1: up or can somebody really you know, get a real thing, woman,
Speaker 1: get a relationship, get out of this and then you're
Speaker 1: going there and taking frustrations out on bitches in the street.
Speaker 1: So you're going your metaverse he smack holes around or
Speaker 1: do whatever they do. You know, Yeah, yes, yes, charge
Speaker 1: the others. Charge them. Stupid said you spoke, how much
Speaker 1: you spoke? Not enough? I'm gonna tell Whack give you something.
Speaker 1: Wacked out. He got his own line. I tried to
Speaker 1: tell Wax to give me something to lass. Ain't talking
Speaker 1: about that. Lu. I'm all right, how's your husband doing?
Speaker 1: He's really sick, you know, really yeah, So you know,
Speaker 1: having a sick mate teaches you what the real vows
Speaker 1: are about that better worst rich report sickness now. And
Speaker 1: so I'm a woman out here where a husband can
Speaker 1: travel with me no more. And that took a lot
Speaker 1: out of our relationship because he used to ride with
Speaker 1: me and ride for me. But you know, I'm still there.
Speaker 1: We see each other when we can. You know, I'm trying.
Speaker 1: He can't be at my house because I'm going or
Speaker 1: if I'm having to him. So he says, with his daughter,
Speaker 1: and I love my daughter in law, and so you know,
Speaker 1: it's all cool. I just don't get to see him
Speaker 1: that often. I would love to say that I'm out
Speaker 1: here trolling and recruiting, but that wouldn't be right to
Speaker 1: say on television work. No, it would not have a
Speaker 1: You're gonna get better? Is it's something that's gonna He's gonna?
Speaker 1: I don't think so, No, man, are you seeing like that?
Speaker 1: First of all, he has a heart monitor. Yeah, CLPD,
Speaker 1: that don't get that's a real bad like lung disease.
Speaker 1: People who love smoked cigarettes yet the people who smoke
Speaker 1: crack get it. And people who just some people just
Speaker 1: get it. I guess it's a terrible lunges makes it
Speaker 1: very difficulties on oxygen and stuff like that, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just real frail, and so I don't
Speaker 1: think it's gonna get no better. But it's mine and
Speaker 1: his mother's mouth are still working just fine. They ain't
Speaker 1: even say let's pray for him, like, let's no, he's fine.
Speaker 1: He's just sick. He's not like gonna drop dead any day,
Speaker 1: because we already thought that. And the mother he's strong.
Speaker 1: You know, he ain't going anywhere. Okay, yeah, no, because
Speaker 1: each other. Like, we've been married twenty years okay, but
Speaker 1: we got married in ninety days. So I didn't really
Speaker 1: know a lot about him when I married him. Why
Speaker 1: did you marry? We was in love just like that.
Speaker 1: What did yall meat? But not all in a row? Um? Wait,
Speaker 1: first of what did your meat? We met at a
Speaker 1: restaurant buy in Sacramento. Okay, And what you mean you
Speaker 1: haven't been married twenty years straight? Well you know litten
Speaker 1: periods that we were separated, okay, And so anyway, but
Speaker 1: we're cool, we're good. We say a little sweet stuff,
Speaker 1: look through each other all the time. Like, shut up
Speaker 1: and get the fuck off me. I'm hot. You got
Speaker 1: you a little boot you a little I would never
Speaker 1: tell you that. On the Breakfast Club Stupid. We have
Speaker 1: more with comedian lou Nelle. When we come back. It's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club comorning morning. Everybody's DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. We're still
Speaker 1: kicking it with comedian lou nell Charlomagne. I love seeing
Speaker 1: you on Black TV and lu Now. I love seeing
Speaker 1: you do interviews and I love seeing you be interviewed.
Speaker 1: And you did an interview recently and you talked about
Speaker 1: the Kardashian cursing because he said Kim is trying to
Speaker 1: take Kanye's catalog. Yeah, because what else is it. She's
Speaker 1: got money of her own. She don't need a dime
Speaker 1: from that mother, her kids, kids, kids that never need
Speaker 1: a dime. Why would you have suggest my black ass
Speaker 1: female opinion. But while after you've had two six one baby,
Speaker 1: you carried one you had to do by sager when
Speaker 1: you had two, why did you press and just how
Speaker 1: to have two more kids with a man that you
Speaker 1: already know is unstable? Oh, he could have been doing
Speaker 1: the work at the time. He could have been going
Speaker 1: to a therapist, he could have been on his Why
Speaker 1: four you already had two kids? Why four? I think
Speaker 1: it's the more kids, the motor motherfuck catalog is gonna
Speaker 1: you gotta divide it with all the kids and bitches
Speaker 1: generational wealth in this mother. She just wanted the same
Speaker 1: kids from the same fall. What's that like? What do
Speaker 1: you think about her new relationships? I think that's real. Um,
Speaker 1: I think she's having a lot of fun. Lift him.
Speaker 1: He looks like a vampire to me. He's so hell
Speaker 1: you know, he got big ass something like that. That's
Speaker 1: what I heard in the streets. I had some word
Speaker 1: on the street. Is Pete Davidson the song who said
Speaker 1: good like a baby arm? Really? Yeah, that's what I heard.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna want to find out a good luck
Speaker 1: him and ain't like she can't take it so God sake.
Speaker 1: So people have those conversations about people's petises. No bitches
Speaker 1: have those kind of conversations. So women just be on
Speaker 1: talking about Yes, whoa there's the wet adress elbow pants pictures.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of celebrity big rumors and factuals out
Speaker 1: there that we talk about. So maybe that's what it is, right,
Speaker 1: because she is a woman who has everything, has he's
Speaker 1: had everything. You just want to have some fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that after the last how many township in
Speaker 1: man if I say out of the last six marriages,
Speaker 1: I think that that did not work out and were
Speaker 1: extremely painful. She might be throwing costumes when to say it,
Speaker 1: this mother makes me laugh. Let me tell you something
Speaker 1: about comedy people. It's the greatest afrodijac and the most
Speaker 1: charming thing you can do to win any motherfucker overs.
Speaker 1: Be funny. You can pull a motherfuck with your new man.
Speaker 1: I've done it a million times. And if you got
Speaker 1: a big two, god damn well. I don't need all
Speaker 1: that most Let me tell you something. I'm getting ready
Speaker 1: graphair cracked. But I'm at an age or I don't
Speaker 1: need my commuterus tilted to the side. I don't need
Speaker 1: a goddamn bladder infection. I don't need to be walking funny.
Speaker 1: Then they I don't need all that I've done, all
Speaker 1: that I've been that got to peels nice, comfortable, comfortable.
Speaker 1: So so it's it's comfortable. It's a comfortable you're getting
Speaker 1: very personal. How big it's you're seven inches three fourth
Speaker 1: eight when it is warm, but let's warm it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're very very ball Charlotte. Man, let's give me a ruler.
Speaker 1: Let's warm this bitch up and measure. Let me do
Speaker 1: a married man and I get married, not buried. But
Speaker 1: it's seven inches three four eight seven. That's nice. That's comfortable, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm starting fromingt my penis. That's comfortable, comfortable,
Speaker 1: cocomfortable is that's a winner because people get bitch. You know,
Speaker 1: we're watch to get goals of out. Then we gotta
Speaker 1: go to the goddamn doctor. And every time I pee myself,
Speaker 1: that's because your uterus has spent the around. I don't
Speaker 1: need that. Right on, Charleagne, that's comfortable. Right on. The
Speaker 1: Instagram took down your finty potos. Yes, and the stupid
Speaker 1: thing was they put them back up, so there was
Speaker 1: an outcry, honey, rebellion. They took the pictures down, not
Speaker 1: for I don't know why I put the fistures down,
Speaker 1: because if anybody read anything, that was the compilation of
Speaker 1: pictures which had already been posted, but not in a
Speaker 1: compilation like that, had already been on the net for
Speaker 1: like a year, and it was the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: and I was trying to pay allmags to people who
Speaker 1: really made an impact on my life that year. One
Speaker 1: of those people was in Rihanna. I met her a
Speaker 1: friend of GOT, a mutual friend of facetimed me and
Speaker 1: she popped on her and she's a comedy fan apparently
Speaker 1: and fan of mine, and so I said that my
Speaker 1: daughter was a big fan of her lines dre. I said,
Speaker 1: I wish that you made it in large. She said,
Speaker 1: well I do. I said you do, and she said, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I want to be a model. She said, let's
Speaker 1: do it and not a little. And so then a
Speaker 1: couple of days later she DMed me and asked me
Speaker 1: for my email. I was like, oh yeah, and I
Speaker 1: emailed her back, I mean said of my email back,
Speaker 1: And you know, a couple of days later, contracts started
Speaker 1: coming this at that and then you go to a
Speaker 1: catalog and you pick out the lingre you want to model,
Speaker 1: and then they send it to you and then you
Speaker 1: take pictures and you send them back. They approved, but
Speaker 1: I tried to keep it classy because number one I
Speaker 1: had already done a penthouse six pages spread and you
Speaker 1: know I didn't bust it open there. I did that
Speaker 1: real classy. You can go online and find it Luneill
Speaker 1: Penthouse the Mega Long story Short. So what I would
Speaker 1: have to do with Drake the pitches you wanted to
Speaker 1: show off the part of the LINGDREI is cute. It
Speaker 1: was on the ass. You got to show your ass.
Speaker 1: I was on the you know, hearts and nipples whatever.
Speaker 1: Not the only thing that made me a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I got four brothers with then you know, the pervs
Speaker 1: and my family and everybody's family. I don't want to
Speaker 1: like my uncle looking around. But you just have to
Speaker 1: suck it up and take that because you know your neighbor,
Speaker 1: you don't know who's seen it. But also I had
Speaker 1: to take him a consideration. My daughter, you know, like
Speaker 1: she was getting that yo de nail. Your moms like
Speaker 1: yo yo. So you know, a lot came with that.
Speaker 1: But then there was the check. So he did with
Speaker 1: the check. So so you wanted to pay homage to Rihanna. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I did that and then they took but I
Speaker 1: took some of the five like Hottest Pictures or the
Speaker 1: Channel whatever to swipe this and uh put them all together.
Speaker 1: It was too much blackness for that Instagram and he
Speaker 1: I was shutting him down and then they took it down.
Speaker 1: Then I went on and said, mother, could please, First
Speaker 1: of all, these are approved by Rihanna. These photos are
Speaker 1: approved by him is. I'm advertised for her. This is
Speaker 1: a guy did and they put it back up. It
Speaker 1: made me back down. Now, I don't know, but have
Speaker 1: you congratulated her on her pregnancy. I'm dying too. I
Speaker 1: haven't DMed her. I may I feel like you may
Speaker 1: not be going through her DMS that much right now,
Speaker 1: but I probably will do that and leave her voice message.
Speaker 1: But even though she watches says, hey, Rihanna, I'm so
Speaker 1: happy that asap Rocky is a snack. And I'm very
Speaker 1: very happy for you. You're beautiful and radiant and can't wait.
Speaker 1: This is this beautiful chocolate baby. Yeah, all right. We
Speaker 1: have more with comedian lou Nelle when we come back.
Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Club. Comedi in angel Cholomna guy, we
Speaker 1: are the breakfast Club. We're still kicking with comedian lou
Speaker 1: nell Now for everybody comes up, we always talk about
Speaker 1: the Mount rushmore comedy Mount Rushmore for me, yes, ma'am,
Speaker 1: Mooney m Richard, how many muscles on the hire for
Speaker 1: John Rivers. This is a good one. H And actually,
Speaker 1: with the racism aside, it still remains from me. Roseanne
Speaker 1: barn too. Really, that bitch beat all the odds. She
Speaker 1: was white trash, she had like five kids, she had
Speaker 1: a loveless marriage. She was a waitress and a diner.
Speaker 1: She was heavy set, she wasn't classically beautiful, yet she
Speaker 1: was slaying people in that diner. And that's how she
Speaker 1: even got noticed. She was everything that Hollywood don't say
Speaker 1: is what you should be to be successful. And she
Speaker 1: saved CBS or whatever that station was ABC. She came
Speaker 1: in there and restructured that host and took ther over
Speaker 1: the Ore show. And here's the other ironic thing. We
Speaker 1: had met and became friends like I've got you know,
Speaker 1: we got out having dinner and stuff like that. I
Speaker 1: know her kids. So on the second season, that would
Speaker 1: have been after that first season of the new one,
Speaker 1: which was still good. The first episode was good. Whenever
Speaker 1: saw him no more after that because you know what happened.
Speaker 1: But the second season, had it came up, I was
Speaker 1: gonna be her black grandchild's grandmother. J her Son a
Speaker 1: long time ago in the first first season had kissed
Speaker 1: the black girl well, and when they brought it back,
Speaker 1: he married a black girl and they had a child,
Speaker 1: and I was gonna be the kid's grandmother. But you
Speaker 1: know what happened after that. She did bring the show back,
Speaker 1: though they called it something else. She ain't back, and
Speaker 1: I mean there was her, I there, not there. Oh
Speaker 1: got you got you, got you got you. That's a
Speaker 1: good asmall rushmore Man, because I think Paul Mooney is
Speaker 1: very underrated. I don't think they realized how powerful his
Speaker 1: pin was. He's my everything, He's everything, and how a
Speaker 1: lot of Richard material came from exactly and I can't
Speaker 1: pass you know. Of course I wanted to throw in Eddie.
Speaker 1: Of course I wanted to throw my girl homegirl. Lord
Speaker 1: Hay is from Oakland. You know, I want to throw
Speaker 1: in people like that. You said four, that's my four
Speaker 1: and Joan Rivers fantastic worked until the day she dropped.
Speaker 1: She didn't retire. Try to tell people comedians don't retire.
Speaker 1: We died. One of my favorite books is Joan Rivers.
Speaker 1: I hate everybody, including myself Joan was a beast. Beast
Speaker 1: but yo, Phyllis Diller do you know who that is?
Speaker 1: Phillis Diller wrote a crow a cookbook one time, and
Speaker 1: I went and bought it and all empty pages, one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five of them, lying empty what that was?
Speaker 1: But mid sold that I bought it. Well, you got
Speaker 1: a little Diller cook but empty. I never met John Rivers.
Speaker 1: I tried very hard. I really really respect you said.
Speaker 1: You grew up in the sexness what it called the
Speaker 1: sexual seventies. Party called it the sexual seventies. Was that
Speaker 1: the hippie era? Yeah, I mean that's more sixties. I
Speaker 1: think the seventies was, you know, just people smoking a
Speaker 1: lot of weed. We didn't have the good weed we
Speaker 1: got now, but we did have something called tie stick
Speaker 1: back in the day. What it was sort of brownish,
Speaker 1: not so green, and it used to have like a
Speaker 1: little thread wrapped around it, and I swear to guy,
Speaker 1: it tastes like candy when you're smoking beautiful high. It
Speaker 1: was just adorable. Everybody loved it, so you mean it
Speaker 1: so all of us. If you're born in the seventies,
Speaker 1: you probably were products of that sexual seventies. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: was mushrooms. We had a lot of mushrooms, there was.
Speaker 1: I never took a quay loot or anything. I was
Speaker 1: under speed Binny's and your Mom's diet pills and like
Speaker 1: that running track in a performance enhancing drug. And yo,
Speaker 1: I'm pious about that too. But I get the man um,
Speaker 1: you know. And there's the LSD of mescaline that was
Speaker 1: like mascaline. I had used to take this called purple
Speaker 1: purple microdot. You see the inside of this whole. How
Speaker 1: tiny that is. That's how tiny a purple micro dot
Speaker 1: or on sunshine was. You take that, bitch, and honey,
Speaker 1: you know how how it feels to go up Escalator
Speaker 1: Corona coasture and then go down. Imagine going up that fast? Damn. Wow.
Speaker 1: I remember dancing the groove line like for like it
Speaker 1: felt like two hours. Damn. And you never had no
Speaker 1: crazy effects. No, I never had a bad trip on
Speaker 1: nothing really except that muther cocaine. Cocaine hell with drug
Speaker 1: the seventies was pure cocaine or right, that organic one
Speaker 1: you're tripping in the cocaine. No um, You know. I
Speaker 1: was there for when when the free base started, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: no crack was later free base was taking like uh,
Speaker 1: I think it was either They used to use to
Speaker 1: dip like your cotton swab into it and burn because
Speaker 1: it burns real clean and you don't get like if
Speaker 1: you had a lighter up took glass and get Black
Speaker 1: City one fifty one rum. It's what you would dipped
Speaker 1: it in. And then they had some kind of ether
Speaker 1: concoction they used to rock it up in before the
Speaker 1: bay con soda in the water. I don't know about
Speaker 1: that part. I'm a ba con solder. Or I could
Speaker 1: rock up a rock right now. You don't forget it.
Speaker 1: It's just like riding no body. I don't out or
Speaker 1: but never because it is totally the devil. I only
Speaker 1: have four regrets in my life, and that is I
Speaker 1: never met Tupot or three regrets and I met Tupot,
Speaker 1: I never got to go to Studio fifty four, and
Speaker 1: that I ever ever ever touched cocaine. It's like the devil.
Speaker 1: He was only for a wall or just well there's
Speaker 1: I mean not the rock so much, but there was
Speaker 1: just a lot of pout of around. It was like
Speaker 1: everybody had it at the club. We had clubs. They
Speaker 1: used to save them till six o'clock in the Warner
Speaker 1: in the Bear called Silks. Silks was like the Studio
Speaker 1: fifty four, but not so disco. And I've been saying,
Speaker 1: I'm just six o'clock in the morning, Well, how are
Speaker 1: you gonna dance? So six o'clock in the warning? That's right,
Speaker 1: living like that Studio fifty four that was in New York.
Speaker 1: What was here? People talk about it? What was the
Speaker 1: Lord then? Well it was like the disco era and
Speaker 1: the cod came madness. It was everywhere, and um, disco
Speaker 1: was real fun back then. And then it was the
Speaker 1: place to be because I don't know, Steve Ruebel and
Speaker 1: his partner were really connected some kind of way, and
Speaker 1: they had all the stars wanted to come there because
Speaker 1: it was had the best music, had the best job,
Speaker 1: and had to do the most beautiful people, had a
Speaker 1: lot of sexs going on, and I have musical stars
Speaker 1: and everybody you know, and the Warhall Michael Jackson's this
Speaker 1: bit Taylor Beyondca Jagger rode to the Mother on a
Speaker 1: white horse. I heard in the club and it was
Speaker 1: just wild in front of the bakery and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But you know, all good things. So like our tunnel
Speaker 1: was big and all the artists that rappers came in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that for that's crazy. You know how popping
Speaker 1: the club gotta be for you to know about it,
Speaker 1: and you wasn't even here. I tried my very best,
Speaker 1: but I was so young. I wasn't traveling then. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, that not only that, they got documentaries
Speaker 1: about Studio fifty four, extensive ones and the rise on
Speaker 1: the fall of it because Jay ended up when you know,
Speaker 1: the fans came and got the mother had so much
Speaker 1: money and there off and just you know, being reckless
Speaker 1: and didn't do that taxes. I feel like when we
Speaker 1: had Paul Mooney up here, God blessed Dad. He said
Speaker 1: he saw me in there. I was like, I'm not
Speaker 1: I wasn't no age being no Studio fifty four. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't you see that? Well, you know, say, goddamn
Speaker 1: thing make you start thinking about it? Was that there.
Speaker 1: We know we never put that interview out. We interviewed
Speaker 1: Paul Money way way back in the day. We put
Speaker 1: you a flashback and didn't drop it. Um don't I
Speaker 1: mean we was I like Paul Mooney. I've seen Paul Mooney.
Speaker 1: I've seen him make people walk out of shows, but
Speaker 1: that morning he was really in a mood abrasive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine. Oh yeah, I remember, like I don't want
Speaker 1: to put Paul out there in that light. We got it,
Speaker 1: I mean, we got it in me. I will actually,
Speaker 1: well they gotta Oh my bad. Damn, it's been kind
Speaker 1: of in depth like that. Well, thank you, crack. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be your cookbook, right, give me a Twitter and
Speaker 1: Instagrams and all that good. Okay, Instagram at lunell l
Speaker 1: u e n e l L. My um website is
Speaker 1: hey lunell dot com h e y l u e
Speaker 1: n e l l dot com. You'd be surprised, Charlot Magne.
Speaker 1: How many people get the spelling of hey wrong? But no,
Speaker 1: not Hey. Let's us eat And then um, oh you
Speaker 1: said he was mad about the track too. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: about Takari Richard and being kicked out after mama died
Speaker 1: and you got busted with some weed, and this other
Speaker 1: bitch is gonna got bustled with a performance enhancing drugging
Speaker 1: her and they're gonna let her run. That's that's wrong.
Speaker 1: That's wrong. That's wrong. They said the other one is underage,
Speaker 1: or that it's a loophole in it, but that a
Speaker 1: bitch is a white loophole wife one right, that's the
Speaker 1: little Paul right, that's right. Don't get me see, that's
Speaker 1: why I'm glad some water water. It's the breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: Well at Sharon. Donkey of the Day goes to the
Speaker 1: over forty people who got the scrapping in a Golden
Speaker 1: Corral last Friday. And Ben Salem, that's I pronounced Dye
Speaker 1: ben Salem, Ben Salem. Ben Salem is right outside of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: First things first, though, dropping the clues bombs for Golden Kraal. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was talking to our producer Taylor Taylor this morning.
Speaker 1: He's one of our producers. She's from Philly. I believe
Speaker 1: she was involved in this situation. I was watching the videos. Listen.
Speaker 1: I was watching the video and I really think I
Speaker 1: saw her. When I asked her about it, she didn't
Speaker 1: deny being there. She just tried to throw me off
Speaker 1: by saying, I don't like Golden Corral. You a damn lie.
Speaker 1: First of all, women from Philly loved buffets, Okay, loved
Speaker 1: him all right. Second of all, how can you not
Speaker 1: love Golden Corral? Drop another clues bombs for Golden Krawd.
Speaker 1: It's people listening to me right now headed the Golden
Speaker 1: Kral for that buffet breakfast, Okay, might be the best
Speaker 1: buffet if it's in the business. As far as chain
Speaker 1: restaurants are concerned. Okay, I'm forty three years old. I
Speaker 1: didn't ate at them all, baby, all right, some of
Speaker 1: them don't even exist no more. From Ryan's, the Shawnees,
Speaker 1: the Western Sizzling, the Sizzlers, Old Country buffet all slaps,
Speaker 1: Old Country come on now, come on now, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but they all slapped at one point or another. But
Speaker 1: none of them touching Golden Koral. Okay, right now, Golden
Speaker 1: Koral Omelet Station still slaps, all right. The waffles, the
Speaker 1: cinnamon rolls, the biscuits, the pancakes, the French toast to
Speaker 1: grilled corn, beef hash nigga, what is you talking? Wrote? Okay,
Speaker 1: assorted yogurts donuts. It's an elderly couple headed the Golden
Speaker 1: Koral right now hearing me talk, and they're saying, right on, okay,
Speaker 1: they got what you want at Golden Corral. From healthy
Speaker 1: to man, I'm high as hell. How much meat loaf
Speaker 1: and mashed potatoes cannot eat? Okay? My fat as them
Speaker 1: jumped at dinner? All right. You know I'm transfat. I'm
Speaker 1: about one hundred and seventy eight pounds right now, but
Speaker 1: I identify as someone on my six hundred pound life.
Speaker 1: Let me stick to the story. There was a fight,
Speaker 1: okay at Golden Corral, a fight, in all out brawl.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about forty people. It really looked like the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumba in their chairs were flying, big bodies banging
Speaker 1: into each other. I sway, I saw Mark Henry going
Speaker 1: head up with Rakishi and Golden Corral in his video.
Speaker 1: Bench McMahon would be proud. But what would make a
Speaker 1: brawl of forty people break out at a Golden Corral?
Speaker 1: You probably already know the answer. Let's go to CBS
Speaker 1: three News for the report. Police Boy. I talked to
Speaker 1: a man who posted that video online. He says he
Speaker 1: was told that fight broke out after the buffet here
Speaker 1: ran out of steak. Video shared with iowitness News shows
Speaker 1: punches being thrown and high chairs flying as a fight
Speaker 1: breaks out inside the Golden Corral and Ben Salem Friday evening.
Speaker 1: Ben Salem police confirmed the brawl may have involved more
Speaker 1: than forty people and happened following an argument among some customers.
Speaker 1: This man, who used to work at the Ben Salem
Speaker 1: Golden Corral, says he was told by a current employee
Speaker 1: about the initial altercation. From what I heard, it was
Speaker 1: over steak. Apparently somebody cut in line. His friend heard
Speaker 1: the same details. There was a shortage of steak. Take
Speaker 1: a close listen, and a man can be heard saying,
Speaker 1: all I wanted was some steak. All he wanted with
Speaker 1: some steak, man, that's all he wanted. Listen, listen. We
Speaker 1: got more eyewitnesses. Alexis Rios was an eyewitness. He was
Speaker 1: on the line Go six ABC News. Alexis Rio says
Speaker 1: it started over a misunderstanding regarding a piece of steak.
Speaker 1: Come on. Rio says the person in front of him
Speaker 1: became angry with the cook because Rios received his steak first.
Speaker 1: He's trying to understand what you want. He's trying to
Speaker 1: give you what you want. I had a rare steak,
Speaker 1: which is a lot faster to cook than a well
Speaker 1: done That's why I got my steak first. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, he says, that misunderstanding erupted into an all
Speaker 1: out brawl. I grab a chair to defend myself and
Speaker 1: then to the lads, was it punches were gaining throng,
Speaker 1: chances of games throng, you name it. You can call it, cups, glasses, everything,
Speaker 1: you name it. These folks got the fighting because the
Speaker 1: buffet ran out of steak. Now, let me tell y'all something.
Speaker 1: This isn't no Golden Korate commercial. I don't know anyone
Speaker 1: who works that works there. This is something I'm saying
Speaker 1: out of the goodness of my heart and the fatness
Speaker 1: of my thoughts. There might not have been no steak left,
Speaker 1: but I can't sit here and say I go to
Speaker 1: Colden Koral for the steak. There's a lot of other proteins,
Speaker 1: and that dinner buffeted I thoroughly enjoy number one on
Speaker 1: that list. I mentioned it before their tasty earth meat loaf. Okay,
Speaker 1: with some mashed potatoes and coin. Now we're eating. Okay,
Speaker 1: there might not have been no steak left, but what
Speaker 1: about those golden fried strips? Hi? Come on, now, y'all
Speaker 1: fighting over one protein out of buffey a buffey Golden Koral.
Speaker 1: There's unlimited options for everybody. They got bourbon screech chicken,
Speaker 1: they got fried chicken, they got fried fish, big fish
Speaker 1: pot rolls, they got carved vote in turkey pot pies,
Speaker 1: Golden Karls pot pies. All right, there's too much there
Speaker 1: for y'all to choose from. For y'all to be fighting
Speaker 1: over steaks. See, the problem is y'all didn't eat enough
Speaker 1: yeast rolls before you went to work on the buffet.
Speaker 1: You have to eat at least one, no more than
Speaker 1: two yeast rolls at the buffet and drink it with
Speaker 1: a glass of water. Because when you eat the yeast
Speaker 1: roll and drink the water, it expands in your stomach
Speaker 1: and keeps things like steak shortages from ruining your experience. Okay,
Speaker 1: it keeps things like that from happening because when your
Speaker 1: stomach is full, Okay, you won't eat as much. Now
Speaker 1: I knew y'all might think I'm joking ninety five percent
Speaker 1: of the time. Okay, but you have to understand what
Speaker 1: places like Golden Corral mean to some individuals. Right now,
Speaker 1: I feel pure innocence thinking the Golden Corral. It makes
Speaker 1: me feel warm inside because those are moments I remember
Speaker 1: as a child with my family. Okay, Golden Corral offers
Speaker 1: a sense of comfort, a sense of peace that I
Speaker 1: don't want to see disturbed by a group of individuals
Speaker 1: fighting over steak. I heard pain and that man's voice
Speaker 1: during that fight. Listen, man, all he wanted was some steak. Okay,
Speaker 1: play it one more time. Red, you know what I
Speaker 1: heard when he said that, I heard all my life
Speaker 1: I had to fight. Okay. That is a brother that
Speaker 1: is tired, exhausted life kicking his monkey ass, and all
Speaker 1: he wanted was some steak. And yet he comes to
Speaker 1: this place, a comfort called Golden Corral, and ends up
Speaker 1: in a buffet fueled bra for what for what? He
Speaker 1: didn't even get the opportunity to get to the soft surf. Okay,
Speaker 1: we didn't even talk about the soft surf, the ice
Speaker 1: cream cones with the vanilla and chocolate soft surf. Okay,
Speaker 1: they got all kind of candy toppings and hot fudge.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, man, the carrot cake, the assaulting, the cookies,
Speaker 1: the cupcakes, banana putting, the fudge brownies. Man, stop playing
Speaker 1: with Golden Corral and stop playing in Golden Corral. Okay,
Speaker 1: learn the rules next time, or stay your ass home
Speaker 1: when you get there. Eat a damn ye stro okay,
Speaker 1: depending on your side, Eat three for drink some water. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you don't eat up all the food, all right?
Speaker 1: And every Golden corl Vett knows the point of the
Speaker 1: buffet is variety. Okay, assaultments. You don't go eating up. Okay,
Speaker 1: one thing, you try everything. They're saying something for the
Speaker 1: next man. All right. The reality is they probably didn't
Speaker 1: have no steak because beef is in short supply in
Speaker 1: a lot of places. Okay, supply chain disruptions are real.
Speaker 1: But the moral of the story is this. You know
Speaker 1: who's going through a lot right now, literally everybody, So
Speaker 1: just be kind. Please give those forty folks who got
Speaker 1: the banging in the Golden Corral the biggest he hall.
Speaker 1: I got a feeling. Taylor was there. You don't play
Speaker 1: a game. The Breakfast Club and everybody is tj Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We have a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: he is my tax attorney, Eric Lee. Welcome Eric, Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning everyone. Who is Eric Lee? Well, before we started,
Speaker 1: let me tell you how I met Eric. So I
Speaker 1: was having some tax issues and some tax problems. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of us sometimes we do, and that's
Speaker 1: because we come from places where we honestly don't know
Speaker 1: how the correct way to do taxes or how to
Speaker 1: set up out businesses. And I didn't, and I was
Speaker 1: lost and confused. I reached out to a couple of
Speaker 1: accountants and tax attorneys who guided me wrong, and I
Speaker 1: was stuck to the point where most people don't know
Speaker 1: where the I rs. Actually put a lean on my
Speaker 1: passport no yes, and I couldn't track if I couldn't move,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know, and it was and it was
Speaker 1: nothing I can do. It wasn't the fact that I
Speaker 1: owed the money. I was going back and forth with
Speaker 1: them and they were doing things that I didn't think
Speaker 1: was right. And a friend of mine named Steph told
Speaker 1: me that he had a friend that had a friend,
Speaker 1: and I reached out to Eric, and Eric came and
Speaker 1: he worked my issue out. And the reason he's here
Speaker 1: today is because I know tax season is right around
Speaker 1: the corner, and there's so many people that need help
Speaker 1: with their taxes and just don't don't what to do
Speaker 1: it or how to do it. So I was like,
Speaker 1: why don't you come up and try to break down
Speaker 1: a lot of the things that you do that maybe
Speaker 1: you could help people like you actually helped break it down. Eric.
Speaker 1: I want to know how you how you saved envy
Speaker 1: that we don't say how you saved my ass, but well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's definitely been an interesting journey, Envy, right,
Speaker 1: and what we actually need to consider, especially for your listeners, right,
Speaker 1: the people who make sixty thousand dollars one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars of lass. It's like the various deductions that came
Speaker 1: in last year under dividen administration that most people forget about.
Speaker 1: Most people actually never even heard about these days. For example,
Speaker 1: many of your listeners, if they have children, all right,
Speaker 1: under the age of seventeen, they should be getting three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month last year. All right, yeah, tax
Speaker 1: credit that's in child tax okay, okay, well, mansions in
Speaker 1: charge right now, we'll just send it, right. We probably
Speaker 1: don't have that right now, So it's two thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year. But last year it was three thousand dollars
Speaker 1: for children under six to seventeen. Kids less younger than six,
Speaker 1: it was thirty six hundred about if somebody has six
Speaker 1: kids up to how many kids infinite amount? Okay, But
Speaker 1: but that's the nice credit. That's everything that everyone hears about, Charlane,
Speaker 1: all right, but Envy, the big one, this is the
Speaker 1: one that people don't know about, okay, is a dependent
Speaker 1: care credit. The depending care credit is if you have
Speaker 1: children who you need to actually drop off at daycare
Speaker 1: or summer school, whatever someplace that you need to have
Speaker 1: your kids at when you need to go to work.
Speaker 1: All right. That is eight thousand to sixteen thousand dollars
Speaker 1: sixteen thousand dollars for expensive twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: all right, And this is something that is so important
Speaker 1: for our listeners. Sixteen thousand dollars. We always talk about
Speaker 1: how expensive childcare is. Right, the Body Administration got something right.
Speaker 1: They gave a sixteen thousand dollars for each um for
Speaker 1: the dependent care credit. Right, your listeners need to take
Speaker 1: advantage of that. What what qualifications do you need to get?
Speaker 1: Dead sixteen thousand to make sure that you know our
Speaker 1: listeners are able to get it. So this is this
Speaker 1: year's tax return which is due when April April fifteen,
Speaker 1: April fifteen, So what are the qualifications to get you know,
Speaker 1: that amount of money for that? What is it called again?
Speaker 1: Dependent care credit? Dependent? Uh? The dependent must be thirteen
Speaker 1: years or younger unless they cannot physically or mentally take
Speaker 1: care of themselves, okay, right, you also have to they
Speaker 1: have to live with you for fifty one percent of time. Now,
Speaker 1: this is also not just when we think about just kids,
Speaker 1: all right. If I'm taking care of my parents and
Speaker 1: they follow fall within the same criteria, it's also eight
Speaker 1: to sixteen thousand dollars dependent, all right. So it's also
Speaker 1: a misnumber when we think it's only for children, all right.
Speaker 1: So it's a valuable item, right, Your listeners just probably
Speaker 1: got sixteen thousand thouars. To wait a minute. So if
Speaker 1: I'm if I have a kid in this per kid no, no, no,
Speaker 1: up to two, up to two, Yeah, the first one
Speaker 1: is eight, two, three, four, five whatever it is, sixteen
Speaker 1: and then also like so I know a lot about
Speaker 1: our listeners. A lot of people out there, they have
Speaker 1: their mothers living with them or their fathers living with them,
Speaker 1: and they're taking kid of their mother and fathers. So
Speaker 1: they can get that under the Dependent Act as well. Yes,
Speaker 1: if they actually have a facility, that also help with
Speaker 1: them as well. Now, a lot of people always ask,
Speaker 1: you know, they're working on the five and they get
Speaker 1: taxes taken out of their check, what write offs can
Speaker 1: they do if they if they already working in on
Speaker 1: the farm, they already take taxes out How can they
Speaker 1: get more money back or write more things off? If possible?
Speaker 1: What do they need to set up? Do they need
Speaker 1: to set up a corporation? Es core but LLC? Do
Speaker 1: they How do they write off their gas? How they like?
Speaker 1: How do they do that to get more money back? Well?
Speaker 1: I hate to be a lawyer with you guys, but
Speaker 1: it kind of depends, right, It kind of depends, because
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to be just setting up a
Speaker 1: corporation just to get a tax deduction, because that doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. You're throwing away thousands and thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars to get a tax deduction of maybe thirty seven percent.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense, all right. What does make sense
Speaker 1: is actually going through your sources of income and finding
Speaker 1: out what your income is. Right. If it's just w
Speaker 1: two wages, all right, then we may need to actually
Speaker 1: set up a retirement account like an IRA or four
Speaker 1: one K you know, go to Morgan Stanley, go to
Speaker 1: Mary Lynch whatever and set one up, right. It doesn't
Speaker 1: take you very long. Okay. If it's interest income, we
Speaker 1: need to determine do you actually need to income or
Speaker 1: can you actually transform that income? All right? Maybe you'll
Speaker 1: want to change it into a municipal bond. Right. Some
Speaker 1: of our older listeners, you know, who are retirees, they
Speaker 1: may have like a bunch of savings income, interest income, right,
Speaker 1: so then they should change it into something that's non taxable,
Speaker 1: all right, capital gains. Maybe you don't sell your stock,
Speaker 1: or maybe you transform it into a what is called
Speaker 1: a dividend reinvestment plan. All right. So if you're getting,
Speaker 1: for example, dividends from Microsoft three dollars a year or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, right, you can change it where you
Speaker 1: don't get that three dollars. You actually get stock in Microsoft,
Speaker 1: and that is not taxable. So it really does depend
Speaker 1: on the client into situation. What are the top five
Speaker 1: things you can't write off? Because that thing, as you know,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. Okay, some people, some clients will
Speaker 1: say like, hey, I have all these clothes, I have
Speaker 1: this chain, right, can I write this off? The rule
Speaker 1: is ordinary and necessary business expense? All right. First of all,
Speaker 1: it has to be a business expense. Second one, you
Speaker 1: have to have income. If you don't have income, you
Speaker 1: don't have expenses. So when people say like, all right,
Speaker 1: can I buy a car and just write this off? Charlottagne, Right, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, is it necessary and is it ordinary?
Speaker 1: All right? What type of business do you have? If
Speaker 1: I buy a Rolls Royce, Right, that's probably not necessary,
Speaker 1: but in some situations it may be right. So so
Speaker 1: it goes down this path of like what is necessary? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have more where Eric Lee? When we come back,
Speaker 1: tax season is right around a corner. If you need
Speaker 1: some helps information, well, Eric Lee, I'll help you out
Speaker 1: when we come back. It's a breakfast club. Go Morning Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody's dj envy angela ye, Charlomagne, the guy we are
Speaker 1: to breakfast club. We're still kicking in with tax attorney
Speaker 1: Eric Lee. Now, tax seasons right around a corner, and
Speaker 1: they'll help you get some extra money. Charlomagne. How did
Speaker 1: the tax quo would hurt low and middle class families?
Speaker 1: There are two examples. I want to give you two examples, right,
Speaker 1: first example is let's look at interest. Right. My parents
Speaker 1: don't have much money, right, they open an account at
Speaker 1: City Bank, they put in a thousand dollars, they get
Speaker 1: some interest income. Right, that is taxet ordinary income up
Speaker 1: to thirty seven percent. Okay, up to thirty seven percent. Federally,
Speaker 1: let's not even talk about the state. Okay, thirty seven percent.
Speaker 1: If they got dividends, they go on robin Hood open
Speaker 1: up an account. Right. Dividend income is taxed at most
Speaker 1: twenty three point eight percent, so you have a swing
Speaker 1: of fourteen percent. All right, Who has dividends in America?
Speaker 1: The wealthy rich? Yeah? Right? Who has interest income? More likely?
Speaker 1: Retirees more likely? Poor people you know, who need to
Speaker 1: open up to something like a savings account. Why would
Speaker 1: decode change that because there's really no difference between interest
Speaker 1: income and dividend anycome. If you think about it, it's
Speaker 1: easier to open a robin Hood account than it is
Speaker 1: to open a savings account in Bank of America. Right,
Speaker 1: So that's one thing. Look at the meals that we're
Speaker 1: talking about, Charliemagne. When you take your kids out, right,
Speaker 1: not tax deductible. But if you have a business, why
Speaker 1: would that be tax deductible? You know? So these are
Speaker 1: like very very simple things, but into our policy things
Speaker 1: to your question. Right into fifties and sixties, there were
Speaker 1: significant tax credits and deductions for setting up multifamily households. Okay,
Speaker 1: now those are done. Now the tax credits and deductions
Speaker 1: are for setting up these McMansions. Right, So our shift
Speaker 1: in housing has gone into larger homes away from the
Speaker 1: multifamily homes that we need a place for New York.
Speaker 1: All right, So you see this throughout the code, all right,
Speaker 1: And this is no slamm against RS. Seventy three thousand
Speaker 1: people work at RS. They're actually pretty overworked. There are
Speaker 1: fifteen sorry, there are sixteen thousand people who work at
Speaker 1: the phone banks into IRS. And when you called IRIS, Charlemagne,
Speaker 1: you're always on hold. You're on hold for hours, Envy,
Speaker 1: you're talking about your passport thing that was hours of
Speaker 1: just being on hold. Sixteen thousand you nominy calls it
Speaker 1: get a year, two hundred and forty million columns. It
Speaker 1: is it? True to IRIS was created to help the people,
Speaker 1: and then it changed where it's like more of a
Speaker 1: government thing ATNIT. Now yeah, I mean you know when
Speaker 1: we think about like what taxes were for, right, it
Speaker 1: was for education, it was for health and maintenance of society, right.
Speaker 1: But now it's just become an organ and it's become
Speaker 1: kind of like a political entity and almost kind of
Speaker 1: like a kicking bat, you know, like people just like
Speaker 1: kick it now, you know, and it's become this like
Speaker 1: organization that has to just interpret this behemoth? Did the
Speaker 1: Internal Revenue Code actually probably nine times the size of
Speaker 1: King's James Bible? Nine times? Who the hell can you
Speaker 1: read all it? Nobody can? Nobody can. No, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're asking me, right, yeah, Like I know my corporations, right,
Speaker 1: I know my transfers, corporate reords, I know tax planning, right.
Speaker 1: But if you asked me, like, hey, it's state planning. Hey,
Speaker 1: my mom has you know so many millions? I don't
Speaker 1: know that section. I don't know that sectioned out well, right,
Speaker 1: I have to rely on my partner, Christina Pazza, who
Speaker 1: knows how to reduce people's income, you know, for estate planning.
Speaker 1: So nobody anyone who says they know every part of
Speaker 1: the tax code, there's no possible way. Is there a
Speaker 1: way not to pay taxes? Like you know, I know
Speaker 1: at one time that's in the taxol. We got to
Speaker 1: read it. Anyway not to pay taxes? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you were Native American, you know you don't
Speaker 1: have to pay that? Is that any truth to any
Speaker 1: of it? No? No, no, no, noative, I mean you
Speaker 1: got to you gotta pay, you gotta pay where your
Speaker 1: income is source, all right. So even people who say like, hey,
Speaker 1: moved to Nevada, moved to Florida, moved to Texas, moved
Speaker 1: to Puerto Rico. Right. I have a client who, um
Speaker 1: knock on wood you know, is going to be a
Speaker 1: bitcoin billionaire, right all right, And everybody in the bitcoin
Speaker 1: industry is like, oh, just move to Puerto Rico. So
Speaker 1: any kind of avoid all your taxes I've heard that before, right, No,
Speaker 1: because or make sure your servers in Israel or something
Speaker 1: like that, you know, to avoid your taxes absolutely not right.
Speaker 1: You have to pay your fair share, all right, of
Speaker 1: where the income is source, all right. But where those
Speaker 1: people actually minimize or lower their taxes is to implement
Speaker 1: certain vehicles to get them from thirty seven percent where
Speaker 1: we were talking about for like interest income down to
Speaker 1: twenty three point eight in dividends kind of like how
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney did it, you know, with hedge fund money. Right.
Speaker 1: So that's how people reduce their taxes. And now I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to we did live in like a
Speaker 1: Florida or New York man that would say was so
Speaker 1: much money because New York state taxes to be kicking ass.
Speaker 1: One d p So you know, that's about how much
Speaker 1: they take you go. You know, you got ten point
Speaker 1: nine percent state and then if you live in the city,
Speaker 1: it's what three three point eight seven six, right, California
Speaker 1: thirteen point three. New Jersey's ten point seven five right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, you have to go to Texas. You got
Speaker 1: to go to Florida. Right. Some people say that, some retirees.
Speaker 1: Some retirees will say like, hey, um, how do I
Speaker 1: avoid all my state income tax? Well, you have to
Speaker 1: move to Florida. But the thing is, you actually have
Speaker 1: to move to Florida. You actually have to live there
Speaker 1: for like one hundred and eighty three days, right, And
Speaker 1: that's may not be as easy as you think. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people buying houses right now during a pandemic, interest rates low,
Speaker 1: it seems like people are giving money. How can you
Speaker 1: make you that Well, first of all, after you buy
Speaker 1: a house, can you write off anything in the house
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. And also, is there
Speaker 1: any way to get any type of tax returns for
Speaker 1: buying that house? Because you buy a house, now you
Speaker 1: got to pay taxes at the end of DYEA you're broke.
Speaker 1: So is there anything that you can do to write
Speaker 1: any of that stuff for? Yeah, so your property taxes
Speaker 1: will be part of your itemized deductions. That's a tax deduction. Okay,
Speaker 1: your mortgage, your interest is a tax deduction. All right.
Speaker 1: So those are the two key ones. All right. Now
Speaker 1: let's talk about your house. Right, are you using that
Speaker 1: for a business purpose? Right? If you have an office? Yeah,
Speaker 1: home office deduction all right? If you have a business, right,
Speaker 1: maybe you instead of taking a home office deduction, you
Speaker 1: should have some shareholder meetings in there, right, and that
Speaker 1: could reduce some of your business income, and then it
Speaker 1: would also then serve as a deduction for you, depending
Speaker 1: on how the business is formed. We have more with
Speaker 1: Eric Lee when we come back. Tax season is right
Speaker 1: around a corner. If you need some help, some information, well,
Speaker 1: Eric Lee to help you out. When we come back.
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club burning.
Speaker 1: Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Yee, Chalomagne the guy we are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking in with tax attorney
Speaker 1: Eric Lee. Now, tax seasons right around the corner, and
Speaker 1: they'll help you get some extra money. Chalomagne, how does
Speaker 1: do the loans affect people's taxes? So a great question.
Speaker 1: It depends. If you make less than seventy thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: make sure make sure you speak with your tax prepared
Speaker 1: because you get a twenty five hundred dollars tax deduction.
Speaker 1: If you make more than seventy thousand dollars up to
Speaker 1: around eighty thousand, it does phase out, meaning it reduces.
Speaker 1: What about people who just bought a new home, how
Speaker 1: how did they get a high retire Again, it would
Speaker 1: depend on home mortgage interest as well as property taxes,
Speaker 1: and then some of the things that we were talking about.
Speaker 1: You know, if you have a business, then maybe you
Speaker 1: need to utilize your house within the business. You know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the administration, the presidential administration, what
Speaker 1: helps people more when it comes to money as far
Speaker 1: as saving is it the Democrats are Republicans? You know,
Speaker 1: because you had a lot of businessmen saying I want
Speaker 1: Trump because Trump does better for business owners, and then
Speaker 1: you hear other people say no, no, no, Biden is
Speaker 1: going to help the people that need it more. So
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on as far as helping people
Speaker 1: and writing things off and for small business owners and
Speaker 1: regular people. So I live in Illinois, Okay, and we
Speaker 1: always hear about the corruption in Illinois and how bad
Speaker 1: potholes are the school system and everything. At the end
Speaker 1: of the year, my husband and I were very fortunate.
Speaker 1: We're very fortunate. We live a blessed life. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm in the breakfast club. Are you kidding me? Right?
Speaker 1: And we always try to make deductions at the end
Speaker 1: of the year, charitable deductions to reduce our taxes. Right.
Speaker 1: But there's something I do where I look up to
Speaker 1: zip code where we live. We live in oak Park,
Speaker 1: and we look for what do schools actually need? So
Speaker 1: teachers actually put up these projects, they ask for donations. Right,
Speaker 1: every year, invariably we get people teachers who ask us
Speaker 1: for juice boxes, crayons, toilet paper. We have teachers who
Speaker 1: are asking us for toilet paper. What country do we
Speaker 1: live in? Okay? And when we hear about wasting taxes,
Speaker 1: when we talk about that, Okay, hold that aside. I
Speaker 1: have students who don't have toilet paper, are you kidding me? Right?
Speaker 1: But in wealthier neighborhoods in Chicago, they're literally giving out
Speaker 1: ip iPads tor kids. All right, So when you're talking
Speaker 1: about who's better Republicans or Democrats. You know, I have
Speaker 1: to be agnostic about that, all right, But what I
Speaker 1: need to know is the listeners need to make sure
Speaker 1: sure that they call in, that they are actually educated,
Speaker 1: that they actually make sure that the senators and congress
Speaker 1: people are actually making sure that durings that dependent care
Speaker 1: credit for this year. That's so real, what you're saying,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter who's in the office. It's like
Speaker 1: the poor always stuff, yeah, or even if they're a
Speaker 1: provision Charlomagne, they need to know that it's there, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have this amazing platform, right, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are plenty of listeners who did not
Speaker 1: know about the dependent character or even a child tax
Speaker 1: credit to by are right. So when we're seeing the
Speaker 1: poor always suffers one hundred percent, but when they even
Speaker 1: get something, they may not know it's available. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: the reason I wanted to bring you on is because
Speaker 1: you know, we always talk about I always say, servicing
Speaker 1: our life. Right, We'll take our car to get oil change,
Speaker 1: we'll take our car to gets high is, we'll take
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many different things, but we have
Speaker 1: to make sure that as a person we're taking care
Speaker 1: of right and whether it's going to the doctor, whether
Speaker 1: it's having a will, whether it's having an accountant, an attorneys,
Speaker 1: things that you know that we use, that we need.
Speaker 1: And now I call you all the time. I don't
Speaker 1: care if I'm buying a car, a piece of jewelry,
Speaker 1: a T shirt, if I'm taking a trip, I call
Speaker 1: him because I want to know the best way to
Speaker 1: write it off or the best way to pay for it,
Speaker 1: and you're always there to help me. So I just
Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you, and hopefully you know you
Speaker 1: gave some thank you, some insight to people out there
Speaker 1: of why they need a good accountant and sometimes that
Speaker 1: fast food accounting services might not be beneficial to you
Speaker 1: and it might be actually hurting you. So I just
Speaker 1: want you guys to take a look to that and
Speaker 1: make sure you have a great tax attorney that can
Speaker 1: look into your stuff and help you on your journey,
Speaker 1: because a lot of us have journeys, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's part of this journey with me. So I just
Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you. Now you can want to
Speaker 1: get in touch with you. I know you're not really
Speaker 1: taking clients, but I know if they wanted. Maybe you
Speaker 1: have a good they have a question or whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. How can they get in contact with you
Speaker 1: or your firm? Yep um go to our website at
Speaker 1: Players Management Group dot com players p L A y
Speaker 1: e R S Mgmt Group g r oup dot com.
Speaker 1: Now with business, Now, what do you suggest for people
Speaker 1: that have a company LLC squote? What's best? What's better?
Speaker 1: Why they use each one? Because a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know the difference between LC escorp and what they
Speaker 1: should use it for, you know, or even C corps. Right,
Speaker 1: and that really depends because each one of their primarily
Speaker 1: six entities out there. Right, you could be a sole proprietorship,
Speaker 1: I just you know, do an uber thing. Right, I
Speaker 1: can be a little bit more sophisticated form an LLC.
Speaker 1: I could form an escorporation, and could form a C
Speaker 1: corporation Charlemagne, and I can open up a coffee store.
Speaker 1: Right that becomes a general partnership by default. Right. Each
Speaker 1: one of these have their own benefits, okay, but each
Speaker 1: one of them have their own weaknesses, all right. A
Speaker 1: good attorney or a good CPA would probably tell you
Speaker 1: to actually have them all if possible, because there are
Speaker 1: certain provisions within the S corporation, certain benefits that do
Speaker 1: not apply to the C corporation. Okay. So, for example,
Speaker 1: if I'm an employee at S corporation, certain benefits that
Speaker 1: I have as a shareholder employee I can't take. I
Speaker 1: can't take it. But if I'm an employee of the
Speaker 1: C corporation, I can take those deductions. Okay, for example
Speaker 1: health insurance, right, the company can actually deduct that if
Speaker 1: I'm an employe of a C corporation. If an employee
Speaker 1: of ANES corporation, I can't deduct that. Okay. So you
Speaker 1: may need a comprehensive plan where you actually set all
Speaker 1: those things up in place. Got you all right? Well,
Speaker 1: Eric Lee, very informative. It's the Breakfast Cloud. Good morning, Envy,
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Speaker 1: bit of a breakfast club your life stop. DJ v Angela,
Speaker 1: Charlemagne the Morning. Everybody is DJ envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne
Speaker 1: the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a
Speaker 1: special guest in the building. Them and CEO of one
Speaker 1: United Bank owner an owner, that's right, Kevin Kobe, welcome.
Speaker 1: What's up? Man's good to see you, cash Man. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen you in a while, and it always wants
Speaker 1: my heart to hang out with you. You know, such
Speaker 1: a source of inspiration to all of us, so as
Speaker 1: we appreciate you and everything you do as well, So
Speaker 1: we want to know what's new. I know there was
Speaker 1: Tell them what one United banker is. Friends, just just
Speaker 1: give them a reminder, Okay, a reminder. One United Bank
Speaker 1: is the largest black owned bank in America. What Mason
Speaker 1: specialists financial technology platform. It has built the technology to
Speaker 1: have a nationwide customer base and to provide all the
Speaker 1: modern financial services that we come to expect out the
Speaker 1: day to day life, things like Benmo, cash app and
Speaker 1: being able to use those kind of services, plus unique
Speaker 1: things we created that are special for the Black community
Speaker 1: and people who have limited resources, things like two day
Speaker 1: early pay. It's a big deal to people to be
Speaker 1: able to get their paycheck two days early as an example,
Speaker 1: that's a one United Bank program. Things like cash Please,
Speaker 1: and this is a big one because it was a
Speaker 1: black company that introduced it. If people are saying it's one,
Speaker 1: it's possibly a solution to pay their lending and that's
Speaker 1: that's one of our product that allows a person to
Speaker 1: get a short term, small balanced loan, which we often
Speaker 1: find ourselves needing in times of emergency, and being able
Speaker 1: to do that without relying on traditional credit kind of mechanism.
Speaker 1: So if you think of one United Bak as a bank,
Speaker 1: that is a technology company, something that has the actual
Speaker 1: ability to organize Black America and its allies on a
Speaker 1: national basis, and not just to provide them with financial
Speaker 1: services and products, but to lead to actual important changes
Speaker 1: in society. Something that has the ability to create a
Speaker 1: power base for us to give us the actual power
Speaker 1: to do things like affect racism and our society. We
Speaker 1: do things like conduct anti racism programs in a unique
Speaker 1: kind of way that can affect for all society. We
Speaker 1: do things like financial literacy programs that teach and communicate
Speaker 1: with Black people in a way that we understand. So
Speaker 1: now for people who are trying to buy home, how
Speaker 1: can is when United Bank first of all open open
Speaker 1: for business, so they are are lending. Man, We're absolutely
Speaker 1: open for business, and and we're on and we're popping.
Speaker 1: And any large base will tell you that they don't
Speaker 1: have the technology that we have. They don't have the
Speaker 1: ability to deliver services and products like we have in
Speaker 1: many ways because we have a new technology infrastructure, we
Speaker 1: weren't locked into old systems that have grown less effective
Speaker 1: over time. So it's the institution. Since we started this
Speaker 1: journey together, since we became friends many many years ago,
Speaker 1: the dream is becoming a reality what we all wanted
Speaker 1: to happen, just like you guys have grown. The breakfast
Speaker 1: club has grown one United bake It's grown. It is
Speaker 1: an example of black excellence. It can organize us as
Speaker 1: a people to create change that we've been trying to
Speaker 1: get since the end of slavery. I didn't like that question.
Speaker 1: You asked, what you're trying to make it seem like
Speaker 1: they can't give our loans to people because they're a
Speaker 1: black bank. What did you mean by that, sir? I
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that they're able to satisfy all
Speaker 1: the loans that people are coming in and asking, well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't they be able to That's what I'm asking.
Speaker 1: I know at one time, when they first started, they
Speaker 1: were minimal to a certain amount. So that's why I'm asking.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Well, it's true with any company. The
Speaker 1: companies go on journeys and they become stronger over time.
Speaker 1: That's the key. And and you know, look, you know
Speaker 1: I know him and got to watch them when it
Speaker 1: comes to watch them, Kevin, all right, you gotta watch
Speaker 1: to Kevin. And I ask what about cannabis? I know
Speaker 1: a lot of minorities are getting into cannabis, and thinks
Speaker 1: are not allowing them to actually have their money there?
Speaker 1: How was one gotta bank with that? Now, now let's
Speaker 1: be clear, it's not it's not the banks. Banks wanted
Speaker 1: to it. It's the government. You see, when we're we're
Speaker 1: we operate on a national basis, and when you're doing
Speaker 1: things that cross state lines, then you got to deal
Speaker 1: with the law when it comes to things like that.
Speaker 1: We think that black business is fundamentally changing and there's
Speaker 1: a whole new opportunity set that is critically important that
Speaker 1: we understand. Cannabis is one aspect of aspect of it,
Speaker 1: but the bigger phenomenized technology. See, you can't get stuck
Speaker 1: with buggy whip businesses in a better reality world. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we know, yeah, man like because look a look,
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, we lost fifty percent of our businesses,
Speaker 1: which is bad. But at the same time, he creates
Speaker 1: a new opportunity for us. Technology fundamentally changes the business
Speaker 1: opportunities that are available to us as a people, and
Speaker 1: we got to build technology based businesses. We have to
Speaker 1: develop new kinds of businesses than existed before. And that's
Speaker 1: one of the critical things that it's our job as
Speaker 1: leaders to convey to people. It's a new day. Social
Speaker 1: justice is now the reality. We can now for the
Speaker 1: first time, think about it. For the first time. We
Speaker 1: can stop people from killing us. We could use things
Speaker 1: like social media to create justice where we couldn't create
Speaker 1: justice before. At the same time, businesses are fundamentally different now.
Speaker 1: The new modern black entrepreneur is very different than what
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing, and uh, you know, we have
Speaker 1: to recognize those differences. We have to build those new
Speaker 1: technology based businesses. We have to support those new technology
Speaker 1: based businesses. And that's the key to our future. We
Speaker 1: have to recognize we hit a critical inflection point right now.
Speaker 1: If we're going to be effective and participate in society,
Speaker 1: we have to become masters of technology. We ought to
Speaker 1: be social media machines. We have to be able to
Speaker 1: you know, look, politics is great, that's one aspect of power,
Speaker 1: but the power is always with the people you get
Speaker 1: you can bring fifteen million tweets down on somebody, then
Speaker 1: you can get their attention. And that's our opportunity is
Speaker 1: to use this shift in technology to create political, social,
Speaker 1: and economic power. And that's our job as leaders to
Speaker 1: inform the people of what's going on. All right, we
Speaker 1: have more with Kevin Cohee when we come back, don't move.
Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We have the founder and owner of One United Bank
Speaker 1: CEO Kevin cohe still here, Cholomagne. Imagine your question, keV.
Speaker 1: You know you're og. What do you think, um, what
Speaker 1: do you think is more important? Equality or equity? Equality
Speaker 1: or equity? Well, I think both are important and I
Speaker 1: think that they're both happening. You can think of equality
Speaker 1: as being a right that not just black people understand,
Speaker 1: but everybody understands. If you looked at the social justice movement,
Speaker 1: you looked at the riots last year, those weren't just
Speaker 1: black people out there. There was all kinds of people
Speaker 1: who were involved in the social justice movement because that
Speaker 1: was just right. People understand right from wrong. It's just now,
Speaker 1: through social media and other technology, we have the ability
Speaker 1: to exercise our social point of views. That so that's
Speaker 1: the big thing. Remember, Okay, before last year, despite everything
Speaker 1: we thought about civil rights, you know, those boys would
Speaker 1: have got away. We're killing, killing, killing my men down
Speaker 1: to South Georgia. That's the last year we've been here
Speaker 1: to sixteen nineteen. But that's why I asked the question
Speaker 1: equality equity, because it seemed like during civil rights we
Speaker 1: always was fighting for equality. But when Martin Luke King
Speaker 1: Junior wanted to pivot to that equity. Four people's marching
Speaker 1: getting that money. That's when they got them about it. Okay,
Speaker 1: well that's what I'm saying. They can't get technology out
Speaker 1: out of here. Okay, see that it's a broader based
Speaker 1: opportunity to move the masses to get equality and equity.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to choose between equality. You think about
Speaker 1: equality and equity, I gotta have both of those. You're
Speaker 1: not going to take either one of those things away
Speaker 1: from it. What are some strategies do you think would
Speaker 1: help fight the racial wealth gap? The racial wealth gap
Speaker 1: is a knowledge problem. It's understanding what you need to
Speaker 1: do and then having someone to motivate you to complete
Speaker 1: the transactions you need to complete. So it all starts
Speaker 1: with the most basic things understanding where you are today,
Speaker 1: where's your money coming from, where are you spending it,
Speaker 1: what is your financial wellness? And from that foundation of
Speaker 1: starting there in an organized way, really understanding what's going
Speaker 1: on with you now and unfortunately, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of times we don't understand how to understand where we
Speaker 1: are and then us and then working from that foundation
Speaker 1: to engage in the basic transactions that are necessary to
Speaker 1: build well like in this pandemic they you know, we
Speaker 1: have been challenged with is getting Black Americans to understand
Speaker 1: the importance of a will. I mean, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: unfortunately that's not been something that's been at the top
Speaker 1: of our agenda and something that we're working on. We're
Speaker 1: working on, and so the conveyance of that kind of information,
Speaker 1: things like insurance time like this. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes unfortunately we can learn the hard way
Speaker 1: the impact of not having basic things like insurance, things
Speaker 1: like investing, things like homeownership and understanding where to buy
Speaker 1: home we're not to buy home and how to do it.
Speaker 1: So so it's a knowledge So when you say eradicating
Speaker 1: racial wealth gap, we see that as a knowledge problem.
Speaker 1: And for us, we always go to technology to solve
Speaker 1: that kind of problem. You talked about all these wonderful
Speaker 1: podcasts that is this that work towards that. But what
Speaker 1: we try to do is we try to create an umbrella.
Speaker 1: We try to create a framework for being able to
Speaker 1: do that systematically on the national basis. Think about it,
Speaker 1: if we were working in harmony on it, where we
Speaker 1: were all thinking about okay, for real, we actually want
Speaker 1: to deliver the knowledge to Black Americas necessary to build well.
Speaker 1: And then we're gonna like, we're gonna work with the
Speaker 1: person through the entire product process of both teaching them
Speaker 1: and then motivating them to complete the act. We can
Speaker 1: do that. Now, we can actually do that. That's why
Speaker 1: I say this is such an important time. We can
Speaker 1: eradicate the welcat. But it has to That's how it
Speaker 1: has to be done. It it has it has to
Speaker 1: come from with. It needs the creativity of Charlemagne talk
Speaker 1: that we already you already gave me some great ideas
Speaker 1: just sitting here for during this interview. It needs, it
Speaker 1: needs the energy of in me. It needs it needs
Speaker 1: that kind of involvement that, you know, the kind of
Speaker 1: involvement that that will allow us as a people to say, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm down with that. Okay, just like we do everything else. Okay,
Speaker 1: we want to make something hot. We know how to
Speaker 1: make things hot. We can make financial literacy hot. And
Speaker 1: the thing about that we make it where where it
Speaker 1: becomes part of our life. Where we're sitting there, we're
Speaker 1: watching the basketball game, and we say, man, you know,
Speaker 1: like what stocks do you old? Like all those podcasts
Speaker 1: I told you about that's literally what they do and
Speaker 1: they got millions and millions of followers, and which is wonderful,
Speaker 1: which is it makes an amazing opportunity. That's it. Okay,
Speaker 1: what you just describe that ability to convey financial information
Speaker 1: and to create millions of millions of followers which you
Speaker 1: can then turn into tens of millions. Okay, it's really
Speaker 1: to go, right. So technology has us on well on
Speaker 1: the way to being empowered in our society in a
Speaker 1: way that will make America better. So it's happening. There's
Speaker 1: no question that's happening. We just have to become better
Speaker 1: and more proficient and more organized and how we deliver
Speaker 1: our messages. So that's how you eradicate the racial well cappin,
Speaker 1: it's only one answer. It's not about the government. Nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna get us to us. This is about us doing
Speaker 1: what we're doing right now, okay, and by doing what
Speaker 1: we're doing right now, we can change this country. It's
Speaker 1: just knowledge we never okay, think about right now. Technology
Speaker 1: with all the corporations that the buys supplies or hiring
Speaker 1: people for new and better jobs as an example, we've
Speaker 1: never had an opportunity like this. The opportunities you can
Speaker 1: create for yourself using the using in the you don't
Speaker 1: even have to make the product anymore about it. If
Speaker 1: you look at the latest role of the billionaires, most
Speaker 1: of them don't make they don't make nothing. Okay, they
Speaker 1: don't they don't they don't make nothing. Okay. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, but that's that's the wonderfulness
Speaker 1: of today. We have to get our people involved in
Speaker 1: that we got into and now it's the time. Now
Speaker 1: seize the moment, make the move. This is time to
Speaker 1: make the money. This is the time to get the power. Well,
Speaker 1: how can people put money into the account? Give them
Speaker 1: a website so people might want to open up an account.
Speaker 1: They don't have to be in Atlanta, they could open
Speaker 1: it up anywhere in the country. Exactly. It's one United Bankers.
Speaker 1: That's simple, O N E, U, N I, TED dot com,
Speaker 1: one United dot com, go check us out. Okay. Then
Speaker 1: you make your decision to start start with Okay, our products,
Speaker 1: our cars, our card to fly. I would put our
Speaker 1: cars up against anybody like who's got the Fly's car? Okay.
Speaker 1: Then to start there okay. Then before we go anywhere else. Okay.
Speaker 1: It's one United for shore. Okay, like like we have
Speaker 1: so our products are fly. They work by let me see,
Speaker 1: please look at it. I always our Greenwood card is
Speaker 1: our newest card, but our solidarity cards our stuff it
Speaker 1: it's our stuff is fly, it's modern, it works. We're
Speaker 1: doing all we're doing all the right things for the
Speaker 1: individual and we're doing all the right things for us
Speaker 1: as a people. All right, well, Kevin, we appreciate you
Speaker 1: for joining. Definitely hit up to the website when United
Speaker 1: dot com. All right, yeah, it's the Breakfast Club. Is
Speaker 1: Kevin cohe Morning, everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne
Speaker 1: the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Leave us on
Speaker 1: the positive note. Listen to positive note comes from Steve Jobs.
Speaker 1: All Right, your time is limited, so don't waste it
Speaker 1: living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which
Speaker 1: is living with the results of other people's thinking. Breakfast Club, finish,
Speaker 1: y'all dumb,