Speaker 1: I'm to wake up Tchacken Ngeli and Charlomagne the Doctor
Speaker 1: to practice club bitches, the voice of the culture. People
Speaker 1: watch The Rectors Club for like news and really be
Speaker 1: tuned in. It's one of my favorite shows due just
Speaker 1: because y'all always keep you one, honey, y'all keep your real.
Speaker 1: They might not watch the moves, but they're on Twitter,
Speaker 1: they're on Facebook, they're you know, they're listening to the
Speaker 1: rest of the brothers. Yo ass so good morning, usc
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Speaker 1: Good morning nangeli ye, good morning, Charlomagne. Your mic sounds
Speaker 1: like trash. My mic sounds like trash. Yes, look sounds
Speaker 1: like you're about thirty feet away in the underwater. I
Speaker 1: sound like I'm about thirty and he's underwater. He's unplugging.
Speaker 1: It's Mike. We got technical difficulties. If you don't know,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't know. By now, we're broadcasting from our own houses.
Speaker 1: Charlemagne is in his crib where you know, he's in husband,
Speaker 1: I'm in mine, and every once in a while, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is with Charlemagne's but sometimes it's
Speaker 1: he has a little technical difficulty out to unplug and
Speaker 1: plug it back in. But good morning everybody. How are
Speaker 1: you yesterday? Yesterday? Yesterday was the first day I went
Speaker 1: to the office in twelve weeks. With the first day
Speaker 1: I went to the office, I mean I only work
Speaker 1: with three other people in my office. For other people
Speaker 1: in my office, it was me, Fernandoze Caesar and our secretaries. Um,
Speaker 1: they have been in the office in and out. I
Speaker 1: haven't because I'm the one that goes and gets the
Speaker 1: food and gets the food for my family, my mom
Speaker 1: and and me, and I just didn't want to get
Speaker 1: it give it to them. If I did have the coronavirus, uh,
Speaker 1: I know, especially with seas, I don't know his immune system.
Speaker 1: So I was like, let me stay away. But yesterday
Speaker 1: I had to go to the office. That was my
Speaker 1: first day back to the office. What about you easy yesterday? Well,
Speaker 1: I want to commend somebody, Brianna Johnson. She is from
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and she actually I'm part of this Hamilton committee
Speaker 1: and you know, Lemmanuel Miranda went to my college, Wesleyan University.
Speaker 1: So every year they do this Hamilton Prize now and
Speaker 1: whoever wins gets four year full tuition scholarship to Wesleyan.
Speaker 1: So Brianna Johnson is the person they announced as the winner,
Speaker 1: and she was the person I had as my first
Speaker 1: choice as well, so I want to congratulate her. She's
Speaker 1: getting a four year full scholarship to Wesleyan University. She
Speaker 1: actually did an album mixtape called Dreams to Reality, These
Speaker 1: Change and Da Damages of Duality. She wrote these songs
Speaker 1: in eighth and ninth grade. She was struggling to adjust
Speaker 1: to her predominantly white school. She was one of the
Speaker 1: only black students in her classes, and it was around
Speaker 1: the same time that the shooting of Michael Brown happened,
Speaker 1: and that's basically what she was talking about in her entry.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was very powerful. So I want
Speaker 1: to congratulate her. That's a big deal for a year
Speaker 1: fow to it. Yes, yeah, absolutely, you know it's funny
Speaker 1: that you said that. Of course, if you have a
Speaker 1: senior in high school, they have to write, you know,
Speaker 1: certain essays to colleges, and my daughter wrote an essay
Speaker 1: similar to that, just being the only African American in
Speaker 1: the class, black in the class and explaining how that felt,
Speaker 1: and when everything was going on in the world, whether
Speaker 1: it was Donald Trump, whether it's the shootings, how how
Speaker 1: she felt like an outsider and nobody to talk to
Speaker 1: and it felt like people were looking at her and
Speaker 1: she had to write a previous essay and you know, um,
Speaker 1: it's a serious thing. You know, it's a serious, serious thing,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't understand how how that
Speaker 1: would make their child feel. You know, sometimes you feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're making a little money, you want to
Speaker 1: put your child in a in a you think, a
Speaker 1: better school district, and when they're in their school district,
Speaker 1: they feel lonely about themselves because nobody looks like them.
Speaker 1: So that has a lot to do with how they talk,
Speaker 1: how they speak, how they raise, how they moved. So
Speaker 1: that is a big, big thing, I know, even for myself.
Speaker 1: I went to Catholics. That happened to me. I went,
Speaker 1: I went to Saint Francis Prepp and Queens, but I
Speaker 1: lived in Queens Village, in shady village with you know
Speaker 1: what we call it, So it wasn't as bad because
Speaker 1: even though I went there, I still had to go
Speaker 1: back to Jamaica Avenue. I still had to go home
Speaker 1: and might have my friends at home. So it was
Speaker 1: different for my kids, and a lot of other people's
Speaker 1: kids they don't have that. So congratulations to her man.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for her. Yeah, four years I was
Speaker 1: saying when when I was younger, I went to school.
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm from Flat Push in Brooklyn, and
Speaker 1: you know that's a black neighborhood, a lot of West Indians.
Speaker 1: And and by the way, excited for that Booge and
Speaker 1: I mean not Booze you a bounty killer and Beanie
Speaker 1: man versus is happening on Saturday. You know, I was
Speaker 1: pushing booj you and Beanie. But hey, I'll take Beanie.
Speaker 1: And I know I thought about that too, because I
Speaker 1: actually had said on a zoom before that's a battle
Speaker 1: I would have liked to see. But anyway, I was.
Speaker 1: I grew up and I went to school. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know any white people except for my teachers. And
Speaker 1: then in seventh grade I went to a predominantly white school,
Speaker 1: probably Prepp in Brooklyn, and I felt so out of place,
Speaker 1: and so I stayed there for three years. All right,
Speaker 1: lam you back with us? I think so. No. Now
Speaker 1: you said like sounds said like your volume is at two?
Speaker 1: Why will we do this? Don't nobody say this as
Speaker 1: soon as the show started in the mic, sounds terrible.
Speaker 1: You gotta talk to you getting it? I don't know
Speaker 1: right now? Now you sound good. I think they put
Speaker 1: your volume up. I think that was up. Dumbasses in
Speaker 1: the goddamn studio. Love y'all. But Jesus Christ, Well, but
Speaker 1: Cary Sellers will be joining us this morning. My guy,
Speaker 1: But Cary Sellers, he's got a new book out, his
Speaker 1: first book, actually My Vanishing Country. It came out of
Speaker 1: a Tuesday and it's, you know, just about him growing
Speaker 1: up in South Carolina when he ran for lieutenant governor.
Speaker 1: Talks a lot about him and his father, him and
Speaker 1: his father, Cleveland Sellers. Man. Cleveland Sellers was a radical
Speaker 1: from South Carolina who was shot in the Orangeburg massacre.
Speaker 1: So it's a great, great story. All South Carolina stories
Speaker 1: must be told. That's my guy right there. All right,
Speaker 1: but Cary Sellers will be joining the next hour. We
Speaker 1: got front page news what we're talking about. Ye man,
Speaker 1: this is unfortunate, but a shooting that happened in Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked.
Speaker 1: This to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is cg Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy we all the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning. Let's get in some front page news. But
Speaker 1: we're starting you well. NBA teams they're expecting guidelines for
Speaker 1: how players will be getting back to work on June first,
Speaker 1: so that's when they expect the league will call back
Speaker 1: players who have left their home markets, and also that
Speaker 1: same day to represent a point in which they can
Speaker 1: also ratchet up the intensity for workouts for players who
Speaker 1: already are going to team facilities. So you can look
Speaker 1: forward to either Orlando, Florida at Disney World or Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Those are proposed cities for a return for players to
Speaker 1: be able to play their games in the future. So
Speaker 1: did you say June Firth they're gonna have the meeting
Speaker 1: or June Firth they're gonna start back playing. They'll not
Speaker 1: playing games, but we're talking about a ratteting up the
Speaker 1: way that they work out for players that are already
Speaker 1: working out and for other players to be called back
Speaker 1: to come and work out. I see they had a
Speaker 1: nast called yesterday, had nass called cup Race yesterday. So
Speaker 1: I mean they opening things back up. They're like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go, all right, Armando Junior Hernandez. He went to
Speaker 1: Snapchat and they're saying that he posted and it's hard
Speaker 1: to look at him and watch this, but it was
Speaker 1: a video that was shared on social media, and he
Speaker 1: is the man who gunned down three people in Glendale, Arizona,
Speaker 1: at the Westgate Mall. So now, fortunately at this point,
Speaker 1: nobody was killed. Three people were shot, two are expected
Speaker 1: to survive, and one person was taken to a hospital
Speaker 1: in critical condition. But the police did respond to an
Speaker 1: active shooter situation at the Westgate Entertainment District shopping center.
Speaker 1: And he has been identified by his mother as Armando
Speaker 1: Junior Hernandez. He was taken into custody. He's twenty years
Speaker 1: old and he attended Raymond Kellis High School. So right now,
Speaker 1: that video was very disturbing, but he was showing himself
Speaker 1: pulling up in his car saying that he was going
Speaker 1: to do this shooting. He puts on a cameo face
Speaker 1: mask and then you see him with the gun firing
Speaker 1: off the rounds and you even see one woman who
Speaker 1: was shot lying down, possibly injured, and he says society
Speaker 1: is bullish. Well, you know that's that's that's yet another
Speaker 1: reason to stay quarantined. How old twenty and right now
Speaker 1: they do not have a motive. That's another reason to
Speaker 1: stay stay socially distanced away from crowds. Yeah. I just
Speaker 1: don't understand people like that. People. If you feel like
Speaker 1: society is BS, and you know, I would rather you,
Speaker 1: you know, go get help and sit down with a
Speaker 1: therapist or psychiatrist. But if you feel like society is
Speaker 1: BS and you want to hurt somebody, start with yourself. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: gotta take out innocent people. You know, you don't want
Speaker 1: to be here no more, that's on you. But do
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna putting that hurt on other people.
Speaker 1: That's why you got That's why I would say, hurt people,
Speaker 1: hurt people, and they need to sit down and talk
Speaker 1: to somebody. Oh, if you want to fight so bad,
Speaker 1: you want to shoot people so bad, why don't you
Speaker 1: join the military. You can join the military that way.
Speaker 1: People like that aggression. You're shooting people that are laying
Speaker 1: on the floor, begging for their lives, like, how does
Speaker 1: that make like that can't make you feel good? Join
Speaker 1: the military. Go focus that aggression somewhere positive. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: the last front page news get it off your chest
Speaker 1: eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If
Speaker 1: you need to hit us up right now eight hundred
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Speaker 1: Come morning, the breakfast club. This is your time to
Speaker 1: get it off your chest. Whether you're man from you
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Speaker 1: what's happening? Uh? Seven scheleven Hey guys hey blind Beauty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just called him to say that. Um Beauty did
Speaker 1: a wide clubs challenge and yesterday White Plus posted it up. Yes,
Speaker 1: um so, I want to foods bonds for Blind Beauty.
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Speaker 1: with me to find like a legible charity, like done
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Speaker 1: it for Amad rest in peace. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: donate it, you know, the money, because for me it
Speaker 1: was just for him to be with the steed. You
Speaker 1: know what I was able to do. And the money
Speaker 1: I don't really care about. That's dope. No, absolutely, I
Speaker 1: can use a bit free and Paz, but she don't
Speaker 1: want to me. Oh my gosh, listen, she gotta make
Speaker 1: millions more anyway, So that's what you do. You care
Speaker 1: for her? That's joke, tra You and blind Beauty work together.
Speaker 1: You do this is my boomed. I mean I kind
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Speaker 1: Biggi's birthday too, by the way, so happy birthday, b I.
Speaker 1: G oh m, before I let you go, you cool
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Speaker 1: Will what's up? So Beauty did something? Like? Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: thank honestly, thank y'all so much. It's like y'all the shoe,
Speaker 1: even though soom be trying to be funny, but I
Speaker 1: love him down all right, beauty, I have a going Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? Hello? Hello? Man? What's up? What's up? Broke
Speaker 1: it off her chest? All right? So I had more
Speaker 1: of a question for everybody. So my home girl sweater situation.
Speaker 1: So she's started messing about how baby falls his friend.
Speaker 1: So I told her, you feel me? It was supposed
Speaker 1: to be something casual and and then you feel me,
Speaker 1: I said. I didn't feel as though she was more
Speaker 1: so and the wrong. Boy, the feelings got intech. You
Speaker 1: feel me, you know, females feel different, said gods. But
Speaker 1: I said he was more wrong because he'd be sitting
Speaker 1: and the baby falling all the time. You feel me.
Speaker 1: He'd be brought him off, hating him up, and I didn't.
Speaker 1: I that's why I feel like he's more worse. He agreed,
Speaker 1: disagreed hexplay with the hell he's talking about? I don't know.
Speaker 1: He tried to kind of him out. Man, hold on you. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying she shouldn't have been missing her baby
Speaker 1: father's friend. Anyway. That's messy. I mean, that's obvious. But
Speaker 1: thank you for calling bro. Get it off your chests.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If
Speaker 1: you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the
Speaker 1: breakfast Club. Go more, the breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up,
Speaker 1: wake y'all. This is your time to get it off
Speaker 1: your chest. Whether you're mad or black, we want to
Speaker 1: hear from you on a breakfast club. Hello. Who's this yo?
Speaker 1: Let's try out of North Carolina. How are you going?
Speaker 1: What's up? Bro? Get it off your chests? Man? All right, So,
Speaker 1: first of all, I just want to appreciate y'all for
Speaker 1: the for what you do every morning. It keeps me going.
Speaker 1: I love listening to y'all. I'm working. I work for FedEx,
Speaker 1: and I make a lot of deliveries out here in Lexington,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, and I just got to get it off
Speaker 1: my chest about this one guy who told me to
Speaker 1: back on his damn driveway. And it wasn't even his
Speaker 1: house that I was delivering too. So first of all,
Speaker 1: the guy said, well, I pull into the driveway. He goes, Yo,
Speaker 1: who are you looking for it? And I gotta step truck.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know what that is, but
Speaker 1: you can walk in and out of him very easily.
Speaker 1: And he just steps into my truck and was like,
Speaker 1: who are you looking for it? And I'm like, Bro,
Speaker 1: you can't step in my truck. You gotta back up
Speaker 1: or back out. So at that point he said, or
Speaker 1: back out of my damn driveway. Then it wasn't even
Speaker 1: his house that was delivering to and what I don't
Speaker 1: even know if he is here, right, you keep jar
Speaker 1: of Craft Mayonnaise colonizer looking human specimen. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just start calling colonized from home. Because Bro had no
Speaker 1: right to step in my truck. He said he was
Speaker 1: gonna call the police. So I was like, I'll do
Speaker 1: you want further? I called him and I waited and
Speaker 1: I waited and they got there and they do whatever
Speaker 1: I got there, so nothing. Yeah, it did not. So
Speaker 1: you know, I've been seeing you guys, been getting people,
Speaker 1: been getting frisky with you guys the last couple of days. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with people. I like my
Speaker 1: ups guy, my FedEx guy, my post office guy. My
Speaker 1: Amazon people like, what's wrong? They delivering packages. They're doing
Speaker 1: their job. They out there delivering is during this quarantine.
Speaker 1: Showed them a little bit of respect and we should
Speaker 1: be grateful to that when we're waiting for our packages.
Speaker 1: It's the customers like y'all to appreciate us. That makes
Speaker 1: it even better, because it's not like we're delivering a
Speaker 1: little bit of things. Everybody's oldering stuff. And I appreciate,
Speaker 1: like the business. I'm grateful to have a job. So
Speaker 1: not playing about the work. It's just that people are
Speaker 1: going to interact with and they exactly no reason to be. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then it was the same day another lady was waiting
Speaker 1: on medicine for a husband's foot that that might fall
Speaker 1: off for like days, and I so bad I could
Speaker 1: have crowd. I was like, yo, man, I feel so bathroom.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You know everything we can't. I agree with
Speaker 1: everything that you're saying. I don't think that y'all should
Speaker 1: be going through that, but you you can't take things
Speaker 1: personal at a time like this because this is a
Speaker 1: very stressful time for a lot of people. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. A lot of people might have gotten
Speaker 1: laid off the people got people might have gotten furlough,
Speaker 1: a lot of people might be grieving, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like a lot of anxiety is high right now,
Speaker 1: depression is high. So you can't take none of that personal.
Speaker 1: When people got an attitude, they can't take it out
Speaker 1: on the people that's just trying to do their job.
Speaker 1: They ain't damn but trying to do their job. It happens,
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. You know what I mean. Hurt people,
Speaker 1: hurt people. It's a lot of hurt people at a
Speaker 1: time like this. Well he's calling an event, he just
Speaker 1: want a vent about it. Yeah, he's calling. I'm just
Speaker 1: giving another perspective, guys, and and thank you for calling,
Speaker 1: and we appreciate you. And draws me. I fav would
Speaker 1: drop a bomb for ANGELI Ye. I'm so happy ANGELI
Speaker 1: ye hasn't had a package delivered in my house and
Speaker 1: at least fourteen weeks. Man, I know, I wonder things.
Speaker 1: Thank God, I'm thankful and grateful they ain't no packages coming.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right, yeah, you ain't shopping yet.
Speaker 1: Well yeah I haven't. But when we get back to it, babies,
Speaker 1: testing believe, get it off your chest. Eight hundred five
Speaker 1: eight five one oh five on If you need to vent,
Speaker 1: you can hit this up now. We got rumors on
Speaker 1: the way. Yes, and listen, there's still some fallout from
Speaker 1: this whole fire festival. I know you all have seen
Speaker 1: those documentaries by now on Netflix and Hulu, but that
Speaker 1: disastrous fire festival and now Kendall Jenner has had to
Speaker 1: pay up. Yeah, people, well we'll talk about it. They
Speaker 1: should have to pay no damn money back. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast logan Morning the Breakfast Club. She's filling
Speaker 1: the team. This is the rumor report with Angela Yee
Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club. Yes, Candy Birds, it has been
Speaker 1: a reveal that she is the masked singer the Night Angel.
Speaker 1: A lot of people had thought it might be her
Speaker 1: because you know, they give you those clues, and some
Speaker 1: of the clues pointed directly at her. So here's what
Speaker 1: you had to say when she won, what no excited?
Speaker 1: I did what I came here to do, and that
Speaker 1: was to be the first Oneman to ever win the
Speaker 1: Mass Singer. Your Mass Singer must come on every too much, right,
Speaker 1: it must be a new It wasn't it didn't They
Speaker 1: just reveal a winner mass singer, Like yesterday no, we
Speaker 1: was in the studio and that was like what three
Speaker 1: that seem She's the first Little wayne On to win.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so that's such a big deal. So congratulations
Speaker 1: to Candy Burrs. And she is on Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And you know, people keep saying that Phaedra might be
Speaker 1: returning to Real Housewives of Atlanta. Who knows. But what
Speaker 1: we do know is that she's going to be on
Speaker 1: Marriage boot Camp Hip Hop Edition. So for all of
Speaker 1: you that miss her and that have been waiting for
Speaker 1: her return to television, she will be on there. So
Speaker 1: get ready for that, all right. That's going to premiere
Speaker 1: at Thursday, July second on we TV. Now, Kendall Jenner
Speaker 1: has to repay some of her Firefest fee. That fire
Speaker 1: Festival was supposed to happen in twenty seventeen. It did
Speaker 1: not go down. Now she had to pay back ninety
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, but I think the whole amount was like
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy thousand, two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: thousand that she got paid to post about the event.
Speaker 1: And a lot of her followers thought that there would
Speaker 1: be all these models on an exotic private island, some
Speaker 1: great culinary experiences. She also hinted that her brother in
Speaker 1: law Kanye West would be performing, So because she didn't
Speaker 1: let people know that it was an ad, she now
Speaker 1: has to repay some of that money. She had to
Speaker 1: put a D in parentheses, and that's whack. Like if
Speaker 1: she did a commercial. I've seen the commercial. She did
Speaker 1: a commercial saying that there was a festival, the Fire Festival,
Speaker 1: and this standing other. She was promoting the Fire Festival.
Speaker 1: She didn't say, you know, you know Instagram, some of
Speaker 1: those sites make you do that though. That's why you
Speaker 1: see like you'll read somebody's caption and you'll say, like,
Speaker 1: ad in parentheses, have one from yesterday? Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: to do that in a couple of days ago. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But it's just problem is that it didn't even go down.
Speaker 1: And then they said Kanye was never going to perform
Speaker 1: at the festival, and she kind of misled people. So
Speaker 1: I thought you said that Kanye was supposed to do
Speaker 1: a surprise performance look allegedly behind the scenes, but you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was an official contracting information
Speaker 1: and if he was supposed to come and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: You know, I was supposed to get my money back.
Speaker 1: That's not fair. You didn't get to keep almost two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. Guys, she didn't even have to go.
Speaker 1: And it's not like she made up her own caption right.
Speaker 1: If her posting on her Instagram was part of the deal,
Speaker 1: trust me, they sent her what to say. That was
Speaker 1: a copy and paste. I'm almost positive somebody wrote that
Speaker 1: for her. All right. Gil King has a new radio
Speaker 1: show that examines dating and relationships in the coronavirus era.
Speaker 1: She was on with Stephen Colbert and The Late Show
Speaker 1: and they were talking about it. Here's what she had
Speaker 1: to say. It is COVID based. What are you learning
Speaker 1: about yourself? What are you learning about other people? How
Speaker 1: have you changed? So it's every third Thursday, every Thursday
Speaker 1: at five. You know what I want the topic to be?
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night I meet what Thursday night? Dating in COVID
Speaker 1: or ationships in COVID? I think either people are either
Speaker 1: getting closer together or they're going to rip you apart
Speaker 1: trying to meet nobody damn coronavirus. She also talks about
Speaker 1: what it's like to be single while sheltering in place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people are home alone and they
Speaker 1: don't want to just not meet anybody. They're still like, okay,
Speaker 1: how can I find somebody? So that is something for
Speaker 1: people to think about safely, of course, without having to
Speaker 1: go out. And some people are saying it is a
Speaker 1: good time to meet people because there's not that pressure
Speaker 1: of having to meet up in person and get all
Speaker 1: done up, so you really get to know somebody during
Speaker 1: this time. That's true, all right, And it's a beautiful
Speaker 1: time to catfish the cat fish, your show, the catfish
Speaker 1: yourself down days. Beautiful time. Well, but you know a
Speaker 1: lot of people are face timing or they're doing little
Speaker 1: zoom dates, so you still get to see that the
Speaker 1: person is really who it's supposed to be, and you
Speaker 1: really want to connect with somebody that you never gonna
Speaker 1: meet in this time. It's not that you're never going
Speaker 1: to meet them, you just what fun is that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you meet them, but it just it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: for a little bit. You know, you really get to
Speaker 1: know them and to this quarantine's over, then you know,
Speaker 1: then you can meet them. I mean, I think that's
Speaker 1: greater right around Christmas, So now you got to buy
Speaker 1: Christmas gifts and all and all kind of other stuff
Speaker 1: for this person. You really don't know. Look, whatever people
Speaker 1: decide they want to do at this time, if they
Speaker 1: still want to continue to date, we encourage you to
Speaker 1: do it, but do it safely. Have a zoom date,
Speaker 1: have a FaceTime date, get to talk on the phone
Speaker 1: to somebody and you can meet up in person. Yes,
Speaker 1: when this is all over and it's safer, and as
Speaker 1: you can see, places are starting to open up. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor report. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you, miss Yee. Now when we come back, we
Speaker 1: got front page news what we're talking about, Yes, and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about different things that Twitter is
Speaker 1: trying to do right now to make your experience a
Speaker 1: little better. All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping
Speaker 1: locked this to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody's DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Let's getting some front page news. Where we're starting me, Well,
Speaker 1: let's start with a family in Virginia. They found nearly
Speaker 1: a million dollars in cash lying in the middle of
Speaker 1: the road. Let me tell you how amazing this family
Speaker 1: is it seems like they always do the right thing.
Speaker 1: Emily Chance said she was driving with her family Saturday
Speaker 1: and she ran over what she thought was bags of
Speaker 1: trash on the road. Now, if that was you, what
Speaker 1: would you do? I what I was praying for, I
Speaker 1: would keeping blessing bags and trash we had time like
Speaker 1: this money they thought it was. They thought it was
Speaker 1: bags of trash on the road. They did not know
Speaker 1: it was money. So instead of just throwing it to
Speaker 1: the side, they actually put the bags in the back
Speaker 1: of their pickup truck because I guess they wanted to
Speaker 1: dispose of it. It wasn't until they got home that
Speaker 1: they realized that they had gotten a million dollars almost
Speaker 1: And then after that I didn't know it was a million.
Speaker 1: They counted it well, now they knew. Afterward, after they
Speaker 1: returned the money, they actually called local deputies and told
Speaker 1: them about their discovery because they had an address on
Speaker 1: it that said cash ball and then an address and
Speaker 1: it turned out to be almost a million dollars, so
Speaker 1: they gave it all back. So not only did they
Speaker 1: take this trash from the middle of the road and
Speaker 1: take it off the road and bring it somewhere to
Speaker 1: dispose of it. They also found out it was cash
Speaker 1: and then returned it. Guy was testing me out of fail.
Speaker 1: I definitely would have failed. I've seen that bag in
Speaker 1: the middle of the road. Nobody around hout of thought.
Speaker 1: It was a gift, I said, somebody's blessing me to day.
Speaker 1: Where did this money come from? It was the postal
Speaker 1: service was delivering it to the bank or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's what they were saying. Was supposed to be dropped
Speaker 1: off at a bank, but it was from the postal service.
Speaker 1: They got insurance, they had a cash reward. Did they
Speaker 1: get something. I don't know what they got, but they
Speaker 1: said they returned it because it was the right thing
Speaker 1: to do and it didn't belong to us. And you
Speaker 1: don't know it didn't belong you. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that God works in mysterious ways. You never know
Speaker 1: how God is gonna bless you, right, We don't know
Speaker 1: if you were furloughed. We don't know if he was
Speaker 1: laid off. You don't know if you got you know,
Speaker 1: medical bills you need to take care of. You might
Speaker 1: need a surgery if you rain for a blessing, don't
Speaker 1: you ask? You know, I don't question God when you
Speaker 1: get it. Okay, But what would you have done, Charlottage,
Speaker 1: I don't know, To be totally honest with you, I
Speaker 1: don't think I would have took it back immediately, though
Speaker 1: I would have sat down and talking about that one
Speaker 1: for a minute. I would have prayed again. I would
Speaker 1: have said, now, God, if this is supposed to be mine,
Speaker 1: give me a sign, okay, give me a give me
Speaker 1: a sign, please. I wouldn't return that two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to turn that two nd. All right. Twitter is
Speaker 1: testing a feature that would let you decide who's allowed
Speaker 1: to reply to your tweets. I've seen this, so if
Speaker 1: you have a conversation, you can have it so that
Speaker 1: only people that are added at mention can respond, or
Speaker 1: only people that can that follow you can respond, or
Speaker 1: you can leave it open for everybody. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a good feature. I like that because sometimes people
Speaker 1: can be disrespectful, so you can be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to respond. All right, now, let's talk
Speaker 1: about what's opening back up. The Connecticut govern has outlined
Speaker 1: the next phases for reopening that state, so phase two
Speaker 1: of their reopening is slated for June twentieth, more than
Speaker 1: half of California is moving further into reopening. North Carolina
Speaker 1: tomorrow will allow dine in eating. They'll also be opening
Speaker 1: up here in Neil Salon's barbershops, churches, and pools. So yes,
Speaker 1: if you're in North Carolina, you'll be able to do
Speaker 1: that starting tomorrow. Other places in Iowa, the governor announced
Speaker 1: the next wave of reopenings, which is movie theater, zoos, aquariums, museums,
Speaker 1: and wedding reception venues tomorrow. New York will now allow
Speaker 1: religious gatherings of up to ten people starting today. And
Speaker 1: they've also unveiled this plan to address seniors and nursing
Speaker 1: homes during the pandemic. Now, let's talk about in Toronto.
Speaker 1: They're going to be reopening amenities like basketball courts, picnic
Speaker 1: shelters in hundreds of parks and that is going to
Speaker 1: be reopening this week. So they're saying, if we are
Speaker 1: opening up the parks and we're opening up sports facilities,
Speaker 1: then there will be physical distancing rules. Also, you can't
Speaker 1: have organized sports right now, so you're not allowed to.
Speaker 1: You you can play basketball park, it just can't be
Speaker 1: organized like. It can't be like a five on five game.
Speaker 1: You can probably go and shoot around yourself. They put
Speaker 1: the people gonna be like, let's play it three on
Speaker 1: three or four or four or five five. The stories
Speaker 1: I never I hate any of these stories. I feel
Speaker 1: even worse than worse for the goddamn graduates who got
Speaker 1: to graduate virtually or they can play basketball. It makes
Speaker 1: no sense, Like it really makes no sense. You can
Speaker 1: find a way to social distance with everything else, but
Speaker 1: not a graduation, Like it's really stupid. It is, all right,
Speaker 1: well a lot of people are just a laying graduation,
Speaker 1: so it's not like it won't happen at all, right, man,
Speaker 1: if people they having virtual graduations today and play in Georgia,
Speaker 1: they having virtual graduations today, so uh well, anyway, that's
Speaker 1: just some of your updates. How much Georgia point. Definitely
Speaker 1: crazy in Georgia, especially being at Georgia been over for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. They having virtual graduations. For how
Speaker 1: you can't have a day party and you can't have
Speaker 1: parties and then these kids can't graduate. Man, it makes
Speaker 1: no priorities a mess up? Man, would you say, but
Speaker 1: would you feel okay with letting your kids go to graduation? Right?
Speaker 1: Now too. Yeah, absolutely, they just gotta keep you hear it?
Speaker 1: Did you hear everything? You just said everything, because you
Speaker 1: guys have been saying this whole time that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: want your kids going back to school right now, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't want them doing certain things. So that's why I'm asking.
Speaker 1: Just because it's open doesn't mean you're going to do
Speaker 1: it right. It was graduation, graduate away. Yeah, school is
Speaker 1: you gotta go class to class, They gotta clean. This
Speaker 1: is one time thing six feet away. Well you know
Speaker 1: all angles. Yeah, I would let my daughter graduate. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody can wear a mask. You can do it outside
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of different ways according to you
Speaker 1: know CDC guideline on how to socially social distance that
Speaker 1: you could do a properly social distance. Graduation doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how big the school is. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: do it outside. No school got football field and tracks
Speaker 1: and all kinds of stuff. They could do it on.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that is your front page news now.
Speaker 1: When we come back from South Carolina, Bacary Sellers will
Speaker 1: be joining us. Yes, he's got a new book out
Speaker 1: called My Vanishing Country. Um, you know, just detailing the
Speaker 1: story of a young South Carolina kid raised on a
Speaker 1: dirt road and Denmark, South Carolina man, So sloot to
Speaker 1: my guy, Bacard. My Vanishing Country is out right now,
Speaker 1: and he's coming up next. All right, we'll get to
Speaker 1: that next one. Move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
Speaker 1: a special guest on the line right now, Bacary Sellers. Welcome,
Speaker 1: sir man. I'm glad to be back. What's going on, fam?
Speaker 1: Angela Bacari looked like he has got a haircut in
Speaker 1: at least three months it out. Yeah, he's definitely thugging
Speaker 1: it out. I'm looking like a young Denzel is the
Speaker 1: young Marvin gay Guard. Because I'm happy for you, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I'm proud of you. Your
Speaker 1: book is out right now, My Vanishing Country. Great read,
Speaker 1: amazing read. Thank you so much, brother, I'm so excited
Speaker 1: about it. It was a you may know this, but
Speaker 1: I got turned down by nearly thirty publishers for trying
Speaker 1: to write a book about Yeah, I was trying to
Speaker 1: write a political book in the age of Trump, and
Speaker 1: none of the publishers wanted to buy it. I sat
Speaker 1: down with Tracy Sharad and Patrick Bass over at Amistad,
Speaker 1: a HarperCollins imprint and told him my story, and they said,
Speaker 1: you gotta, you gotta write this book, and here here
Speaker 1: it is. So I'm just thankful for everybody out there
Speaker 1: who is in this quarantine period and has a project
Speaker 1: and they've been turned down. Just keep persevering. That happens
Speaker 1: to the best of us. How long I'm sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: how long has he been writing a book? I got
Speaker 1: this done in four to five months. And crazy part
Speaker 1: about it is the book's not really partisan. It's a
Speaker 1: political book. We talk about the systemic injustices the black
Speaker 1: folk lived through, but it doesn't talk about Democrat versus Republican.
Speaker 1: The reason I had to finish it quickly is because
Speaker 1: I'm sure y'all are gonna have a guest this fall.
Speaker 1: The big dog, Barack Obama's book comes out in the fall,
Speaker 1: and so everybody's trying to get their books out now
Speaker 1: so they don't happen, because it'll be over this fall. Over.
Speaker 1: Let's be clear, President Obama is not coming here, Okay,
Speaker 1: President Obama is not stopping by the breath. He's gonna
Speaker 1: do exactly what Michelle did. He gonna send it in
Speaker 1: a nice, pretty box with a card that says thank you, Charlomagne.
Speaker 1: You know that's what that's what task gonna be. I
Speaker 1: thought it was refreshing to see what a positive impact
Speaker 1: your father actually had on your life from a young age. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, my father was shot February eight, nineteen sixty eight,
Speaker 1: in the Orangework massacre. And I tell people it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's rare. I do believe you to be able
Speaker 1: to come downstairs and in the kitchen have your hero
Speaker 1: there all the time, and um, you know, just looking
Speaker 1: back on their struggles, my father was shot. My father
Speaker 1: went to prison not once, but twice. He went to
Speaker 1: prison the first time for refusing to go to Vietnam.
Speaker 1: He went to prison the second time for being an
Speaker 1: outside agitator they deemed him to be. They charged them
Speaker 1: and tried to mean convicted them of rioting. He's the
Speaker 1: first and only one man riot in the history of
Speaker 1: this country. But you know, I tell people that the
Speaker 1: trauma that people of color lived through in this country,
Speaker 1: not only was my father arrested. But you think about
Speaker 1: the fact that my mom had to while her husband
Speaker 1: was in prison, She had to give birth to my sister,
Speaker 1: her oldest child, and then lived with that and carry
Speaker 1: a family. My father had a felony. Imagine having a
Speaker 1: felony in the South during the sixties and seventies, and
Speaker 1: so just living through all of that trauma. And when
Speaker 1: I look at my dad today, I you know, if
Speaker 1: I don't pop like they once did, his should, his
Speaker 1: arm as upright as they once were, and you can
Speaker 1: see the burden that he's had to carry his entire life.
Speaker 1: Henry Smith, Samuel Hammond, and dellan On Middleton would kill
Speaker 1: I'm in arrange word South Carolina and he creay the
Speaker 1: South Carolina. This country only blame my father. And so
Speaker 1: this book is a love story to him. It's a
Speaker 1: love story to the South, it's a love story of
Speaker 1: black women. But it's also a chile lenging story to
Speaker 1: this country to be a more perfect union. You know,
Speaker 1: when we talk about generational trauma, and you know, based
Speaker 1: on what happened to your father in the Orangeburg massacre,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you not hate police officers? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't hate them. I a I have a healthy
Speaker 1: sphere of them. You know, my parents when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, my dad, I think if I'm the Summer's experience.
Speaker 1: We never pulled over on the side of the road
Speaker 1: and at night, ever, you always drove to the next exit.
Speaker 1: You always drove until you know you could find some light.
Speaker 1: My father was always saying that, you know, make sure
Speaker 1: that you listen. We can cite these injustices in the
Speaker 1: court of law because he knew what happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: he knew that for eight seconds law enforcement shot into
Speaker 1: a group of students who were just protesting segregation, and
Speaker 1: eight seconds to change live, eight seconds to kill three
Speaker 1: at wounded twenty eight. And so that's that. Those were
Speaker 1: the lessons that we grew up with. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to grow out of hate. I do have a lot
Speaker 1: of hate in my heart. It's aspirational for me, but
Speaker 1: I'm working on my journey. I'm talking a bit Jake's
Speaker 1: and Tyler Perry and others, and just trying to let
Speaker 1: all of that resentment and hate go because it's hard
Speaker 1: to live and be a father and be a husband
Speaker 1: while you're still out here trying to hate people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know when when we talk about your father, Cleveland Sellers,
Speaker 1: the Armsburg mascot, that was the first time in history
Speaker 1: that police officers face the federal trial for excessive use
Speaker 1: of force, right, Yeah, and they all were found not guilty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we still see that happen so much today. And
Speaker 1: you're an attorney, like, how do we as black people
Speaker 1: ever get justice in the court of law? So, I
Speaker 1: mean at the people ask me what do I want
Speaker 1: out of my life? And I think that the I
Speaker 1: think envy. You get this too. You know, all we
Speaker 1: want is our children to be free. I mean, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I don't want my children
Speaker 1: to have to suffer from injustices because of who they love,
Speaker 1: the color of their skin, or who they pray to.
Speaker 1: And I want them to be free. And we're not
Speaker 1: there yet. I mean, it's it's a it takes more
Speaker 1: of us, more people going it, more black poke on benches,
Speaker 1: on federal benches. That's why this election is so important
Speaker 1: because what Donald Trump has done to federal benches in
Speaker 1: this country is something that people have they don't save
Speaker 1: and it's not their first thought. But he's reformed the
Speaker 1: entire judiciary. You got all these young white boys who
Speaker 1: are sitting on benches with lifetime and appointments, who are
Speaker 1: more conservative and less qualified that you can ever imagine,
Speaker 1: and they're going to dictate how justice has served in
Speaker 1: this country for not just four years, but for decade
Speaker 1: upon decade. And so it takes more more young people
Speaker 1: going into law, more young people going to politics, more
Speaker 1: young people coming into the system to reform the system
Speaker 1: and break it down. I was going to ask you,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you teach your kids? I mean,
Speaker 1: with everything that your dad's been through and you've been through,
Speaker 1: and you kind of want them to live kind of
Speaker 1: a normal life where they're not fearful of policing, you know,
Speaker 1: So what is your explanation and what are you teaching them?
Speaker 1: It's crazy. So I have sixteen month old twins. You
Speaker 1: might hear one or two of them running around here
Speaker 1: at any moment. And then I have a fourteen year
Speaker 1: old daughter. And my fourteen year old daughter she just
Speaker 1: she just started taking her driving class man, so she's
Speaker 1: about to have a permit. So if you're any Carolinas,
Speaker 1: just stuff, if you see her, just just get off
Speaker 1: the road to see it out the way it out.
Speaker 1: The way. Yeah, and I'm about to start to go
Speaker 1: fund me for this insurance. Good God. Putting the children
Speaker 1: on yours goes up easy. But you know, I tell
Speaker 1: them to always be unapologetic about your blackness, standing your truth,
Speaker 1: and always think critically. Try not to let your emotions
Speaker 1: consume you. If you're pulled over and you feel like
Speaker 1: it's an injustice, we will fight that injustice in a
Speaker 1: different venue. What you tell your kids, because you've got
Speaker 1: you got kids out, they're driving and doing all types
Speaker 1: of well, you know what, you know, my dad is
Speaker 1: a retired police officer, So you know the two things
Speaker 1: my dad always taught me was one of the police
Speaker 1: and not your friends. So make sure you understand that
Speaker 1: the police and not your friends. If they're asking you
Speaker 1: questions and they're trying to get information from you, shut up.
Speaker 1: The police, not your friends. And then also, and the
Speaker 1: second thing is kind of what you just said, My
Speaker 1: dad said, you cannot win in the streets. Get home,
Speaker 1: and we can win in the courtroom. We can win
Speaker 1: outside of that. So when you're dealing with police out
Speaker 1: there and there's a prominents a situation, just remember you
Speaker 1: cannot win on those streets. Like it's the it's their game.
Speaker 1: That's true. But you can't win in the courtroom either.
Speaker 1: But at least you're alive in the courtroom, U brother.
Speaker 1: But for everybody, listen and let me just tell y'all
Speaker 1: what you said. What you said is so true. Man,
Speaker 1: they're not your friends. And so I see part too
Speaker 1: many people they're given police there. I know this isn't
Speaker 1: on topic, but giving police their phones, you know, cooperating
Speaker 1: and trying to talk their kind of situations. And let
Speaker 1: me just tell y'all that never worked. All we got
Speaker 1: more with Bacari Sellers. When we come back, don't move.
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club, Good morning, when everybody is DJ
Speaker 1: Envy Angela yee. Charlomagne the guy we are the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club were still kicking with Bacari Sellers. He has a
Speaker 1: new book called My Vanishing Country. Yee o, Karry, what
Speaker 1: would you say one of your kids wanted to go
Speaker 1: into law enforcement? Oh? I would let them do whatever
Speaker 1: they want to do, as long as they were dreaming
Speaker 1: about being the chief of police or the head of
Speaker 1: the FBI. I want my kids to always dream about
Speaker 1: being the best. I want my kids to do anything
Speaker 1: I want them to be change agents. So so whatever
Speaker 1: whatever profession you go in, make sure that you are
Speaker 1: becoming a part of something larger than yourself. You talk
Speaker 1: about your kids about HBCUs. How important are hbc using
Speaker 1: as far as your kids are. Are you gonna kid
Speaker 1: cars that the twins have to go to an HPC
Speaker 1: I tried. I only brought I brought my kids the
Speaker 1: only run regular school, the rest with HBCUs. I went
Speaker 1: to the Spellman's, the Clocks, the Hamptons, the Howards. I
Speaker 1: went to all HBCUs. My daughter's like, now, I want
Speaker 1: to stay close to New York. I want to go
Speaker 1: to college in New York, and there's no HBCUs to
Speaker 1: New York. My kids can go to any college they
Speaker 1: want to go to as long as it's an HBCU.
Speaker 1: That's the same thing my parents told me. Now, I
Speaker 1: want my kids, my my my my stepdaughter, her father's
Speaker 1: Vince Carter, and her mom and my wife went to
Speaker 1: North Carolina. So she's between North Carolina, North Carolina and
Speaker 1: Howard right now. So I got I got a fifty
Speaker 1: percent chance on that when the twins though, the twins
Speaker 1: going down to the AUC, they're gonna go to South
Speaker 1: Carolina State of clapland we're gonna do all of those
Speaker 1: things that I just think that experience and I talk
Speaker 1: about it in the book, and that experience is necessary
Speaker 1: beachause your leadership and not only helps you have dreams
Speaker 1: and understand that you can compete anywhere, um, but I
Speaker 1: think it just gives you this belief and reaffirmation in
Speaker 1: who you are as a black person. One thing that
Speaker 1: immediately stands out I should stand out to people when
Speaker 1: reading your book, My Vanishing Country is the black working
Speaker 1: class in America. Why does it seem like that sector
Speaker 1: of America has been forgotten? Well, I mean when you
Speaker 1: hear and the media does it all the time. Man,
Speaker 1: when you hear about rural America or you hear about
Speaker 1: working class America, everybody makes you think that means white American.
Speaker 1: You know, this is about giving people. This book is
Speaker 1: about giving the black folk a voice. I want people
Speaker 1: to have a sense of pride when they read this book,
Speaker 1: and I want white folks to get a sense of understanding.
Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that Bishop Jake's told
Speaker 1: me when we were having our conversation is that it's
Speaker 1: crazy because you can teach people science. You can teach
Speaker 1: people math, you can teach people English, but you can't
Speaker 1: teach people blackness. And so I want when white folk
Speaker 1: read this book, I want them to get a sense
Speaker 1: of understanding. And I think we'll have a sense of
Speaker 1: pride from reading him. Yeah, that was a good conversation
Speaker 1: with a bishop TV Jakes. I was watching his sermon
Speaker 1: on Sunday. What actually made me go to it? I
Speaker 1: saw it on your IG, but I didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to go to it. But I was watching this
Speaker 1: sermon Sunday. He ran a whole goddamn promo for a
Speaker 1: conversation with you and him. Before you know, I go
Speaker 1: to I end up because you know, I talked about
Speaker 1: this as well. Last year was such a hard year
Speaker 1: for me. Man um in giving birth in January, almost
Speaker 1: lost my wife. She m she bled out, she lost
Speaker 1: seven units of blood. And um, you know, when we
Speaker 1: when I talk about these issues in the book, the
Speaker 1: political overlay is that whether or not you're you know,
Speaker 1: Ellen Sellers, or whether or not you are Serena Williams,
Speaker 1: or you're on medicaid, black women are four times more
Speaker 1: likely to die during childbirths than their white peers, And
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm sitting there and at about five
Speaker 1: twenty eight, totally born. Five thirty three, Sadie's born. By
Speaker 1: ten o'clock, my wife is throwing up, she's she's sweating.
Speaker 1: We pull the sheets back. It's blood everywhere. The nurses
Speaker 1: are moving so slow. I have to call her doctors
Speaker 1: myself on the cell phone. I know them. It's three
Speaker 1: black women, badass black women. They get out of bed,
Speaker 1: they come, They take my wife in a crash part.
Speaker 1: They bring the whole emergency team in, and then my
Speaker 1: wife goes in ICU. They locked the floor down. I'm
Speaker 1: the only person up there, and they give me these
Speaker 1: little bitty bottles with nipples. And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden have to become my children's mom too. And so
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and you know that prayer that you
Speaker 1: it's like, it's like a college prayer, but what it's
Speaker 1: like when you wake up on Saturday morning and you're real,
Speaker 1: real drunk and you don't feel good, and you like,
Speaker 1: dear God, get me out of this. I promise you
Speaker 1: got again. Yeah, I was taking that prayer like, Dear God,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, I'll never do, just bring my wife
Speaker 1: back to the first thirty six hours my wife was
Speaker 1: in ICU and we literally had to take the kids
Speaker 1: down in a little bubble to go see her. And
Speaker 1: then two months later, my daughter was diagnosed with Billy
Speaker 1: area TREESA, which is a rare liver disease, and for
Speaker 1: ninety three days she was on the liver transplant list.
Speaker 1: And so every day you're watching she was really skinny,
Speaker 1: but had this big belly, and she was yellow and
Speaker 1: every time she peeked, it was like this really dark
Speaker 1: yellow color. And every day she's just dying right in
Speaker 1: front of your eyes, and you just hope and you
Speaker 1: get a phone call and get a new deliver before
Speaker 1: your daughter passes away. Ellen's laying in bed and we're
Speaker 1: trying to be strung, and she'll ask a question like
Speaker 1: did God give us Adie just to take her away?
Speaker 1: And so we went through all of that, and that
Speaker 1: said some first, she got to gift of life and
Speaker 1: she's been doing she's thriving, you know it really well
Speaker 1: since and then I saw Bishop Jakes at Tyler Perry's house.
Speaker 1: I was sitting there eating with my good friend Andrew
Speaker 1: Gillam and my friend Charlemagne and Angela. We were hanging
Speaker 1: out and then I saw Bishop Jakeson, ran up to
Speaker 1: him and talk to him and just just him and
Speaker 1: Tyler just cried on the shoulder and then so much
Speaker 1: And since then, you know, they've been there and the
Speaker 1: brothers have been there to kind of lift me up
Speaker 1: and renourish and refill my spirit because sometimes after you
Speaker 1: go through moments like that, as strong as you have
Speaker 1: to be for your family, you need other people to
Speaker 1: be there for you. I talked about that in this book,
Speaker 1: that going through trauma, it's okay to talk to other
Speaker 1: people because if you're not healthy, you can't be healthy
Speaker 1: for those around you. So and thank y'all for the
Speaker 1: operators too. I know that y'all have been there for
Speaker 1: me as well that my family has been going through this.
Speaker 1: So a big things to to you all too, and
Speaker 1: also to man a salute to Ellen. Wasn't the day
Speaker 1: the day that you know your daughter got her kidney?
Speaker 1: The week didn't her father died a week or something
Speaker 1: like that. I get this phone call. I'm inter mediation.
Speaker 1: I got a kid who had a shattered testicle, So
Speaker 1: I'm up there mediating this case. Um, he took a
Speaker 1: he took a lacrosse ball to the yeah wow um,
Speaker 1: And so he had a shatter He had a shattered testicle.
Speaker 1: I get a phone call and it's my niece who
Speaker 1: was living with us. By the way, Man, if y'all
Speaker 1: got any jobs for twenty four year old college graduate.
Speaker 1: If y'all hiring, man, let me not. I need to
Speaker 1: get her out of my house. And so I get
Speaker 1: a phone call and he's just hollering, man, and she's like,
Speaker 1: something's wrong with Ellen, and Ellen, just Yellen in the background.
Speaker 1: They took my father. They took my father. Her father
Speaker 1: was out there doing what he loved best. He was.
Speaker 1: He was on his lamb, he was moving moving blocks
Speaker 1: and boats, getting ready for hunting season, and didn't He
Speaker 1: had a massive heart attack on his tractor. They found
Speaker 1: him literally dead on his tractor the way he wanted
Speaker 1: to go out. Um. So she goes down to Lancas,
Speaker 1: to South Carolina. She's spending time and she calls me
Speaker 1: at like one o'clock. So the heart attack happened in
Speaker 1: the morning. She called me a like one o'clock and
Speaker 1: she's like, Bakar, we gotta go to Duke. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's going on what's wrong. She said, they gotta kid,
Speaker 1: they gotta liver. And then so we're just sitting there
Speaker 1: and we uh, we go to Duke and we get
Speaker 1: the transplant. Her father died on Friday, we get the call.
Speaker 1: We go to Duke the next day, Um, and we
Speaker 1: get the transplant on Monday. I sent Ellen back to
Speaker 1: Lancaster so she can grieve properly with her family. I
Speaker 1: stay with Sadie in the hospital. I take a little
Speaker 1: PJ down the lakes. There's the only private plane to
Speaker 1: fly in the Lancaster County to go to the funeral,
Speaker 1: and I fly right back and um, you know, we
Speaker 1: at the funeral end Reverend Lady Johnson, she sayd that
Speaker 1: her father has to die, had to pass away to
Speaker 1: go up to heavens to get Sadi's liver for you know,
Speaker 1: we so so greatful. Wow, that's amazing. All right, we
Speaker 1: got more Baccari sellers when we come back. Don't move.
Speaker 1: It's to breakfast club. Good morning, bj envy Angela, yee. Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: the guy we all the breakfast club was still kicking
Speaker 1: it with Baccari sellers. Ye, so Bacari, how is it
Speaker 1: for you now to be home with your family. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you know this the best part, man, is
Speaker 1: that one we don't um. People are going through this
Speaker 1: coronavirus and quarantine and they got all these problems. But
Speaker 1: for us, you know, everybody healthy, so we kind of
Speaker 1: always joy. This don't mean I mean, this don't mean
Speaker 1: nothing to us. Well last year, this ain't this is
Speaker 1: this is what it is, and so we're enjoying it, man.
Speaker 1: And I'm able to do everything that's entire book tour
Speaker 1: um from you know, don lemon to I'm able to
Speaker 1: do uh joy am am joy this coming weekend. I'm
Speaker 1: able to do all of these things from right, Trevor
Speaker 1: know it's a dope, dude. I have a great, great
Speaker 1: respect I did uh. I love on zan um. But
Speaker 1: you know this is crazy. I don't know, I y'all
Speaker 1: knew this. But the two best shows to sell books,
Speaker 1: y'all know, the two top shows are to sell books
Speaker 1: in the country Breakfast Club and um Breakfast Club. And yes,
Speaker 1: Trevor right there, So y'all, y'alla in y'alla in rarefied
Speaker 1: air man. That's why I said Barrock's coming, whether or
Speaker 1: not you want them or not, I hope so Michelle
Speaker 1: did send me like a nice gift, like it was like,
Speaker 1: remember how Tyler Perry's invitation was her her book came
Speaker 1: in like a package like that. Well, my book to
Speaker 1: you probably just came in a FedEx envelope. I had
Speaker 1: the advanced copy with the didn't you have a cover
Speaker 1: or nothing? But but I want you to know you
Speaker 1: look at the dope picture us here. It has a
Speaker 1: picture of me from six years old. And then I
Speaker 1: got Charlotte, Hillary and Angela Ry on the back of it. Man,
Speaker 1: So we just I'm happy, man, I'm happy to be
Speaker 1: able to give a voice to tell the story. I
Speaker 1: talked about Charleston and Charleston massacre in the book Um,
Speaker 1: all the trauma that I lived through the successes of
Speaker 1: being the youngest black UM legislator in the country. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I just talk about
Speaker 1: understanding people's trauma. So maybe we can have some compassion
Speaker 1: and empathy and persevere to this thing together. And one
Speaker 1: of my favorite chapters of so, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: chapters of his anxiety is my superpower. Yeah, man, it's
Speaker 1: a black man's superpower. I got this fear of death
Speaker 1: and fear of failure, and so I use as those
Speaker 1: things to push me every single day. Lease irrational series, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm those You know sometimes you get this feeling in
Speaker 1: your chest or you get I call it getting getting
Speaker 1: lost in my head and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I don't want this to happen before I can finish
Speaker 1: succeeding or doing this or making my family. And so
Speaker 1: I just talk. Most black men only think they can
Speaker 1: talk to their barbers, but we got to start talking
Speaker 1: to people who do. So what are your thoughts about
Speaker 1: this upcoming election? What are your predictions on what you
Speaker 1: think is going to happen? Man? I came on the
Speaker 1: show last year, year before last and predicted, well, no,
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen and predicted to Hillary Clinton was gonna
Speaker 1: be president. So I don't know if y'all really know.
Speaker 1: You don't want to give us addition. You don't want
Speaker 1: to protict the opposite. You weren't wrong, though you weren't
Speaker 1: technically wrong popular vote. But she ain't had to work
Speaker 1: extremely hard to get Illy on y'all show. We're working
Speaker 1: extremely hard to get Biden on y'all show. So I
Speaker 1: think that that's necessary. We're gonna make that happen. But
Speaker 1: I think that Joe Biden's gonna win this race. I
Speaker 1: think that it's gonna be extremely close. I think we
Speaker 1: have new swing states like Arizona. I think that we
Speaker 1: gotta there. We gotta do two things. One, I think
Speaker 1: he has to have a black woman on the ticket
Speaker 1: because black people are gonna vote, don't that's my trip.
Speaker 1: Black women are gonna vote. They're gonna vote for him.
Speaker 1: But what you want them to do is not only vote,
Speaker 1: but you want them to make sure that they own
Speaker 1: them phones, that they're getting everybody from the church to vote,
Speaker 1: that they getting their cousins who just come over, who
Speaker 1: they get played for it, who come over to the
Speaker 1: cookout to vote. You want them to actually go out
Speaker 1: and work, because if it's not a black woman on
Speaker 1: that ticket, I'm afraid that they just gonna kind of
Speaker 1: chill out and not do anything. But two, they got
Speaker 1: to talk to black men, and for a long period
Speaker 1: of time, the Democratic Party has not messaged to black men.
Speaker 1: Thirteen said of black men voted for Donald Trump, some
Speaker 1: of it was massogyny, some of it's because we're kind
Speaker 1: of simple, but other the other part was that there
Speaker 1: was no other message in there and at least Donald
Speaker 1: Trump talks the black men. I don't believe that BS.
Speaker 1: Most of y'all don't believe that BS, but there are
Speaker 1: some of our friends do. And if it's the only
Speaker 1: message there that they hear, then there would be more
Speaker 1: receptive And so we have to fill that void with
Speaker 1: a positive message. You can't just go out here and
Speaker 1: tell people that you would not Donald Trump. You got
Speaker 1: to give you some people of reasons to vote for you.
Speaker 1: Why do you think this country's vanishing? Because I see
Speaker 1: it with my eyes. I mean where we grew up
Speaker 1: Moss Corner in Denmark, South Carolina. What used to be
Speaker 1: bubbling economy's upward mobility for people of color are now
Speaker 1: the small towns, the downtowns are now boarded up. Where
Speaker 1: I'm from, you live in a food desert where you
Speaker 1: don't have fresh fruits and vegetables, you don't have access
Speaker 1: to quality care, you're drinking dirty water, you're inhaling unclean air.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's vanishing. And then larger scale, Um, I
Speaker 1: think that what this country has promised us man um.
Speaker 1: But the promises that, by the way, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: My book came out on Malcolm X's birthday. But the
Speaker 1: the things that Malcolm X and mart Luther King Junior,
Speaker 1: and my father and SOCII car Mincaele and Maryon Burry
Speaker 1: and Julian Vaughn all pushed this country, those promises, they
Speaker 1: pushed this country to fulfill. I feel like in this
Speaker 1: era that we're living in now, those things are those
Speaker 1: things are further away from attaining than they ever were,
Speaker 1: And so I wanted to highlight that and make sure
Speaker 1: that we knew what the challenge was before us. Absolutely well,
Speaker 1: we vanishing countries out right now, man, make sure you
Speaker 1: go get it Amazon. Uh did you it's own audible too, right, yeah, audible,
Speaker 1: but you know that audible don't really count to US
Speaker 1: Times best Sellers list man, So let's let's go get
Speaker 1: the Hard Time please, right. No, they got an audio book.
Speaker 1: They gott not audible, but they have an audio book.
Speaker 1: If you buy an audio book, they have a whole
Speaker 1: other list for that on the New York Time. So
Speaker 1: you can make that want. I want to make that one,
Speaker 1: but let me tell you, let me tell y'all real quick, well,
Speaker 1: I want to make the New York Times best sellers
Speaker 1: list man, but not just to put it in my
Speaker 1: Twitter baio. But it's going there. But not just for that,
Speaker 1: but when if young black authors like myself an opportunity
Speaker 1: to write, um, we have to do well so that
Speaker 1: other people have an opportunity to Charlemagne didn't fell, if
Speaker 1: Mark lamont Hill didn't do well, and Westmore didn't do well,
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't have my chance. And so it took me.
Speaker 1: It still took me thirty times to get a book deal.
Speaker 1: And so what I'm saying is I need this book
Speaker 1: to do well. We need this book to do well
Speaker 1: so that other people of color can tell their stories too.
Speaker 1: It's definitely going into Twitter bio if it happens, but
Speaker 1: I want to open up doors for other people that way.
Speaker 1: With Angela Ye writes her best selling book, We Gut
Speaker 1: It and we get together, absolutely country and give your love,
Speaker 1: to give our love to your family for us too
Speaker 1: as well. Thank you so much. I means like keep
Speaker 1: us in your prayers. Thank you all. All right, it's
Speaker 1: Bakari sellers, It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning listen, it's
Speaker 1: the Report. Yes, so the barbs are coming at Lisa
Speaker 1: Ray and Claudia Jordan and I'm not sure if they're
Speaker 1: really going at Vivica Fox. But this is all because
Speaker 1: of some comments that were made on there on Claudia
Speaker 1: Show on Fox Soul. Now, this all started because of
Speaker 1: the conversation that Usher had was Swizz where he was
Speaker 1: talking about a possible battle between Little Kim and Nicki Minaj,
Speaker 1: and Usher said that that didn't seem right because Nicki
Speaker 1: Minaj was a product of Little Kim. So here is
Speaker 1: what they discussed as far as those comments. And I
Speaker 1: don't know why the fans are getting so angry at
Speaker 1: what Usher said. Usher did not slam Nicki Minaj by
Speaker 1: saying that that is not a dish to her, but
Speaker 1: it is a fact. Little Kim came up way before
Speaker 1: her in a crew of all fellas, and she made
Speaker 1: that popular. So when we get held them together, queens
Speaker 1: and say that we are acknowledging fat, all of us
Speaker 1: are acknowledging in fact him came before Nicki Minaj. And
Speaker 1: so Nicky, just take a seat. You don't have to
Speaker 1: sit down for long, but just take a bow, just
Speaker 1: like Beyonce I said, bow down, bitches. I still don't
Speaker 1: see what the problem is. Nicki Minaj is a product
Speaker 1: a little Kim and that doesn't take away from Nicki's
Speaker 1: great And it's just like Kobe Bryant is a product
Speaker 1: of Michael Jordan, Like, what's what's the problem. I think
Speaker 1: they didn't like how Lisa Ray said for her Nicki
Speaker 1: Minaj to take a seat and just take a bow.
Speaker 1: So that's yeah, she did say that. Yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily just that conversation. So yes, And now the Barbes
Speaker 1: are going crazy, and Claudia said, wow, now the Barbes
Speaker 1: have gone too far, threatening to beat her my sixty
Speaker 1: nine year old mother and now harassing my fifteen year
Speaker 1: old niece. At the end of the day, what will
Speaker 1: this accomplish But keep your comma bad and you get
Speaker 1: brought up on charges. We stay protected, know this, And
Speaker 1: then she put hashtag over a talk show combo. Then
Speaker 1: she also said that the Barbs are brainless and soulless. Listen,
Speaker 1: you can't go ahead. First of all, Claudia didn't even
Speaker 1: really say anything. I love the fact that Claudia Jordan said,
Speaker 1: you could be bought upon charges. That's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Just hire the FBI. They have people that can track
Speaker 1: down those folks. You know what I'm saying, who make
Speaker 1: those crazy ass comments to you on social media? Those
Speaker 1: death threats, if they leak in your address, if they
Speaker 1: threatening to kill you, that's all illegal. It just takes
Speaker 1: a little time and a little energy to get it done.
Speaker 1: But if they threatening your mom and niece and posting
Speaker 1: your address, it's worth get one of them locked up. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that yes, this isn't how Nicki Minas
Speaker 1: wants to be represented by her fans. Especially you know,
Speaker 1: at a time like this, you want to be more positive.
Speaker 1: If you want to be someone's fan and go hard
Speaker 1: for them, keep it positive, say positive things. If you
Speaker 1: have an issue with what somebody said, you can address
Speaker 1: them about it, but you don't have to threaten someone's
Speaker 1: mom or their niece put their FI on their ass.
Speaker 1: Barbs behind bars should be the hashtag. Okay, let's get
Speaker 1: some of them goddamn bobs locked the hell up, all right,
Speaker 1: and let's talk about versus battles because I am so
Speaker 1: excited I did for this Memorial Day event. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be Bounty Killer versus Beanie Man. I will be watching
Speaker 1: that on the big screen. I was praying for one
Speaker 1: of these dancehall or reggae ones and this is it.
Speaker 1: So this event is gonna be amazing and I'll definitely
Speaker 1: be watching that Saturday starting at apm Eastern me too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my drinks ready. And BT Awards they
Speaker 1: will be virtual this year, and so that's the format
Speaker 1: the annual awards show will move forward. It's gonna be Sunday,
Speaker 1: June twenty eighth. Usually they have this three day event
Speaker 1: that leads up to it with the BT experience. That's
Speaker 1: not gonna move forward as scheduled. So the rest of it, though,
Speaker 1: the actual awards will be virtual. And what's whack? That
Speaker 1: is the first year that BT is gonna be on CBS,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So the first year that
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on CBS is gonna be virtual. I
Speaker 1: don't like their virtual award shows. I'm overall virtual everything.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate the zoom presenters and zoom performances.
Speaker 1: I'm done with all of that. But it's just wacking.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be on TBS this year and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be virtual. There's nothing you can do about that. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it doesn't. Yeah, I'm sure that people appreciate the
Speaker 1: content as well, and people. I'm sure I can come
Speaker 1: up with creative ways to perform from home as we've
Speaker 1: been seeing happen, So people will do their best. Maybe
Speaker 1: they'll have a verses during that too, all right, Russell Simmons,
Speaker 1: The sexual assault accusers that are saying that he assaulted
Speaker 1: them are doing interviews now because you know that that movie,
Speaker 1: that documentary on the Record comes out on HBO Matt
Speaker 1: on May twenty seventh and tells the stories of three
Speaker 1: women who alleged that he preyed on them while he
Speaker 1: was overseeing Deaf Jam recordings, And now they have also
Speaker 1: done exclusive interviews in this week's issue of People magazine.
Speaker 1: So the women that you can see on their Drew Dixon,
Speaker 1: a female employee who worked as director of A and
Speaker 1: R A Deaf Jam. You can also see still Lie
Speaker 1: Abrahams and she was a former Deaf Jam executive assistant.
Speaker 1: And Sherry Scher, who also was an early hip hop artist. Now,
Speaker 1: Russell Simmons has continued to say that he apologized for
Speaker 1: thoughtlessness in his relationships with women and even inappropriate conduct,
Speaker 1: but denies all accusations of rape. So he is denying
Speaker 1: that he did not respond when people reached out for comment.
Speaker 1: But there's a whole profile on these women and interviews
Speaker 1: that are out this week in People magazine and Timmy Rivera.
Speaker 1: She has done an interview and she's talking about how
Speaker 1: she does have a regret, and that regret is having
Speaker 1: light bo suction done. Here's what she had to say.
Speaker 1: I've gotten lightpo in my stomach, which I never should
Speaker 1: have done. It was the worst decision I've ever made.
Speaker 1: The reason why I feel as though, because first of all,
Speaker 1: I didn't need it. You know what the bomber is,
Speaker 1: cottle that little I'm gonna suck this pouch out, and
Speaker 1: by me doing that, I feel like the fat deposit
Speaker 1: in other places. And I've always been, you know, bottom heavy,
Speaker 1: so now I'm actual bottom heavy. And people like, oh,
Speaker 1: you got your ass done. I'm like, girl, if I
Speaker 1: could suck this shout, I would, all right. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing, man. Sometimes when you get certain procedures done,
Speaker 1: you don't think about how it might affect the rest
Speaker 1: of your body or the upkeeper of it. So that
Speaker 1: was very honest of her. And you know, she did
Speaker 1: get a breast reduction, and now she said the LiPo
Speaker 1: is the one thing that she does regrets. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm Antela yee and that is your rumor report. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Missy Charlemagne. Yes, sir, who are giving that down?
Speaker 1: K two? You know we need Armando Junior her Nandez.
Speaker 1: He is the alleged shooter of Westgate Mall in Arizona.
Speaker 1: He needs to come to the front of the congregation.
Speaker 1: We need to have a word with him. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that next keeping lock this to breakfast club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, It's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm
Speaker 1: a Democrat, so being Donkey of the Day a little
Speaker 1: bit of a mill But like other day now, I've
Speaker 1: been called a lot of my twenty three years, but
Speaker 1: Donkey of the Day is a new wife. Donkey to
Speaker 1: Day for Thursday, May twenty first goes to a young
Speaker 1: twenty year old man named Armando Junior her Nandez. Hey,
Speaker 1: he is the alleged shooter of Westgate Mall in Arizona. Now,
Speaker 1: if you haven't heard, Armando posted a series of posts
Speaker 1: on Snapchat that said, well he said he would be
Speaker 1: the shooter of the Westgate Mall. Let's go to KPNX
Speaker 1: News twelve NBC for the report. Police at least three
Speaker 1: people have been shot after a suspected gunman opened fire
Speaker 1: at Glendale's Westgate Entertainment District. Glendale police believed that a
Speaker 1: lone man with a gun walked into the shopping complex
Speaker 1: and started shooting, possibly recording himself on several social media platforms.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're working to confirm the validity of those videos.
Speaker 1: Glendale Police have the suspect in custody. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: police want everyone to know that this is not an
Speaker 1: active shooter situation. However, the area is closed off until
Speaker 1: further notice. You see why I had to say a
Speaker 1: ledge shooter because they haven't validated the video yet. How
Speaker 1: much more validation do you need? Okay? When a guy
Speaker 1: looks at the camera and says I Am going to
Speaker 1: be the shooter, then proceeds to shoot people on camera, like,
Speaker 1: what are we trying to confirm here? People? I am
Speaker 1: fully aware and this is a different era we live in.
Speaker 1: People want at tension for every damn thing. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: they can have an audience, and they will take the
Speaker 1: opportunity to be in front of an audience every chance
Speaker 1: they get. Apparently, everything including mass shootings is performative nowadays. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't watch this video. There's absolutely no part of
Speaker 1: me that wants to see people get shot in real life.
Speaker 1: This ain't a movie, dog, okay, And I'm cool on
Speaker 1: witnessing things like that. But I did listen to the
Speaker 1: audio of Armando talking leading up to the shooting. And
Speaker 1: I'm playing this because I want you to hear how
Speaker 1: gleeful this young man sounds to do what it is
Speaker 1: he's about to do. Listen, I'm gonna be the shooter
Speaker 1: of Westgate, so let's get this done. He sounds like
Speaker 1: he's going to try out a new Hamburger everybody's been
Speaker 1: raving about. Okay, Like like, this shouldn't sound like a
Speaker 1: routine thing for him to do, Okay. I'm reading the
Speaker 1: article on the Daily News describing the video, and it
Speaker 1: says he flashed his beer can and showed his guns
Speaker 1: in the backseat of his car, and he said, let's
Speaker 1: get this done. Like, young man, you're not going to work, okay,
Speaker 1: You're not about to mow a lawn or go tear
Speaker 1: down the frame of a house. Let's get this done.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you're an essential delivery driver who got a
Speaker 1: long day ahead of him delivering packages the people, and
Speaker 1: you just want to get it done. Let's get this done, okay.
Speaker 1: You are attempting to give yourself a pep talk to
Speaker 1: go do a mass shooting. I'm just confused. Now. Almando
Speaker 1: went on to shoot three people. As of right now,
Speaker 1: one of the people injured is in critical condition. Two
Speaker 1: others were expected to survive following the shooting. Thank god
Speaker 1: for that. Okay. Now, in the video, the Daily Mail reports,
Speaker 1: this guy stood over one of his victims, a young lady,
Speaker 1: and said society is bullsh Okay. The woman pleads, I
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with that. You already got me, dude.
Speaker 1: Let me let me hear that for a second. Let
Speaker 1: me hear that little clip. You know. Man, Situations like
Speaker 1: this is why I've been social distancing from large crowds
Speaker 1: for a long time. This is another reason to stay quarantine.
Speaker 1: You would think that during this quarantine people would have
Speaker 1: started to appreciate life more, but nope, not on mindo.
Speaker 1: And I'm lying to you if I said I don't
Speaker 1: feel empathy for him, Okay, I feel empathy for his
Speaker 1: nut ass because I maintain anyone who is in that
Speaker 1: much pain that they would want to go out and
Speaker 1: hurt other people like that. They are clearly a really
Speaker 1: hurt individual themselves. Okay, he's twenty years old and clearly
Speaker 1: dealing with a lot of trauma. And when you don't
Speaker 1: deal with your own traumas, you traumatize others. Now, in
Speaker 1: the perfect world, I have two wishes. One, I wish
Speaker 1: this young man would have received helpful whatever is you know,
Speaker 1: clearly going on with him, and there's clearly some psychological
Speaker 1: issues there. But this world isn't perfect. Okay. If it was,
Speaker 1: that man will be sitting with a psychiatrist or being
Speaker 1: someone's facility, receiving the type of treatment he needs, maybe
Speaker 1: being put on the type of medication he needs to
Speaker 1: prevent things like this from happening. That's my first wish.
Speaker 1: My second wish whenever I hear things like this is
Speaker 1: I really wish these folks who think society is BS,
Speaker 1: these folks who don't like it here, who don't want
Speaker 1: to be here anymore, I really wish they understood that
Speaker 1: is a personal problem. And if they don't want to
Speaker 1: be here anymore, don't go taking other people out. Take
Speaker 1: yourself out. You're the one that doesn't want to be
Speaker 1: here anymore. That woman you had on the ground telling
Speaker 1: her society is BS. What does what does she have
Speaker 1: to do with the way you feel? Okay, she may
Speaker 1: feel like minus the BS, life is great, So who
Speaker 1: are you to take that from her? Don't take that
Speaker 1: anger out on others. If you must take it out
Speaker 1: on yourself. I personally believe as long as you are breathing,
Speaker 1: you can reform your life in some way. You can
Speaker 1: salvage what's left for your life. But I would much
Speaker 1: rather you harm yourself before you go harm a bunch
Speaker 1: of innocent people. Okay, Ormando is now in custody, and
Speaker 1: I guess you got to look at the bright side.
Speaker 1: There's a bright side. No, no, there's no guess, yes,
Speaker 1: there is a bright side. Kid had an off fifteen.
Speaker 1: It could be a lot more people dead right now, Okay,
Speaker 1: a lot more people hurt, all right, Clearly there's no
Speaker 1: there's nobody dead as a right now. Person in critical condition,
Speaker 1: you know, to an engine and you know it could
Speaker 1: be way worse. It could be families actually grieving this morning.
Speaker 1: But by the grace of God, it's not okay, And
Speaker 1: we have to be very mindful of each other at
Speaker 1: a moment like this, during this global pandemic, we all
Speaker 1: have to be very mindful of each other. Okay. Everybody
Speaker 1: is going through things. Everybody is at the end of
Speaker 1: their rope, and the only thing we need to know
Speaker 1: at this present moment in time is be kind. Okay,
Speaker 1: be kind whenever possible, and always remember it is always
Speaker 1: possible to be kind. Please give Ormando Junior Hernandez the
Speaker 1: biggest He are very sad situation man, all right, very
Speaker 1: very very sad that that that a young person would
Speaker 1: snap like that. All right. Up next is ask ye
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Speaker 1: Everybody is dj Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We
Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. It's time to ask yee Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? Jesse hey, Jesse, question for you. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I have an ex who like crazy and he y.
Speaker 1: I broke up with him with December and I came
Speaker 1: home and I don't he's like trying to reach out
Speaker 1: to my friends, my family, like he never was interested
Speaker 1: in meeting them, but now he's like making new social
Speaker 1: media pages. And then now he's found my new boyfriend.
Speaker 1: He's a stalker. Day yeah, and yesterday day like exchange
Speaker 1: a lot of words and I don't even know the
Speaker 1: whole conversation that they had. But my new boyfriend's acting
Speaker 1: funny like he hasn't said I one, send it to me.
Speaker 1: I cook for him, jews say thank you. He didn't
Speaker 1: say anything or he ate you want to please? He
Speaker 1: turned to between us and everything, So I don't know,
Speaker 1: like what happened, Like should I leave him and just
Speaker 1: say for me it because I don't know. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: never a fan of letting x's come between me and
Speaker 1: my new relationship, so I think what you need to
Speaker 1: do is let your new current boyfriend no. Look, I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened, but we're in a relationship. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to be able to talk to each other about anything.
Speaker 1: So I want you to let me know what is
Speaker 1: bothering you. Please do not let this outside person to
Speaker 1: exactly what he intended to do, and his intention was
Speaker 1: for us to break up and not get along. I
Speaker 1: do not communicate with him. You don't communicate with him,
Speaker 1: right I Right now he's still on my phone bill,
Speaker 1: like he's on my contract. So right now I'm trying
Speaker 1: to contact him to let him know, you know, the
Speaker 1: phone dudes, dude, and then during girl, you first of all,
Speaker 1: can't you you gotta get him off your phone? This crazy? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like this is the last month. So it's like after
Speaker 1: this month, like he can get off my plan, like
Speaker 1: the contract is up. So I'm like, okay, good, it's
Speaker 1: only one month, but it's like it's been two other
Speaker 1: months that I had to, you know, get collect the
Speaker 1: money from him to pay the phone bill. And he
Speaker 1: was like to me out, but it's like you didn't
Speaker 1: want me when I was there, Like this is type
Speaker 1: of dude that would tell you to leave, And then
Speaker 1: when you packed up, he was like no, it's like
Speaker 1: this happened for like months in a month's out when
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not dealing with his mental stress, like
Speaker 1: I like my peace and it so here's my peaceful either,
Speaker 1: Like I have to deal with it, you know, coming
Speaker 1: into my new situation, I'm like, what the hell? I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do? Well, Jesse. Part of this
Speaker 1: is the fact that you really did not completely cut
Speaker 1: off your ex. So I do feel like you have
Speaker 1: to take responsibility for that, because are there things that
Speaker 1: you are hiding from your current boyfriend that your X
Speaker 1: could have thrown in his face. It's like, Okay, my
Speaker 1: ex seen him a video, you know, and that Climba
Speaker 1: threw him off, and it was like the second time. Look,
Speaker 1: I didn't see the video part my current boyfriend. He
Speaker 1: sent me a screen shot and my ex sent me
Speaker 1: a screen shot too, but they never sent me the
Speaker 1: whole message. So I don't know. Look, I'm gonna saying this,
Speaker 1: I have what was this like an X rated video? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta understand, of course your current boyfriend feels the way,
Speaker 1: and you need to be sympathetic towards that, but you
Speaker 1: will never cut this X off completely. So first of all,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to see their girlfriend having sex with anybody,
Speaker 1: and I think that is completely disrespectful that your ex
Speaker 1: did that, and that that was me, I would have
Speaker 1: definitely went and did something legally with him. And if
Speaker 1: that means I got to get a restraining order, if
Speaker 1: that means that I have to do a police report,
Speaker 1: because he cannot be distributing these things that you did
Speaker 1: in private to people publicly. Next thing, you know, he
Speaker 1: might post that online. That's what I'm thinking, like I'm
Speaker 1: over here losing or you better nip that in the bud.
Speaker 1: First things. First, cut off this ex loser boyfriend of yours,
Speaker 1: stop communicating with him, Take legal actions so that he's
Speaker 1: not able to post this of you that he knows
Speaker 1: that there will be criminal charges against him if he
Speaker 1: does try to do that. Let your new boyfriend know
Speaker 1: that you mean business, right because right now he's thinking
Speaker 1: that you still have feelings for your ex. Now he
Speaker 1: don't seen y'all having sex, even though I'm sure he
Speaker 1: didn't want to have to see that, and he knows
Speaker 1: you haven't completely cut him off, right, So handle your
Speaker 1: business so that you can actually be in a new relationship.
Speaker 1: You have all these loose ends, but take care of yourself,
Speaker 1: like make sure that he's not able to do these
Speaker 1: things that will really hurt you because that's what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do. And somebody who had feelings for you
Speaker 1: would never do that. You know, he was gonna violate me.
Speaker 1: That's where he was on violent. He's from New York
Speaker 1: and you know I'm from South Carolina, so all that
Speaker 1: up North stuffs. Don't go with me. Look, I can't
Speaker 1: deal with it, all right, but don't saying no games, girl.
Speaker 1: Don't wait till he does something even worse next right,
Speaker 1: thank you? You know I don't care handle your business,
Speaker 1: and I know we're so hesitant to reach out to
Speaker 1: the authorities, and like, oh, I don't want to know.
Speaker 1: I was about to curse, but no, you have to
Speaker 1: do it. I've had to do it before. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now you do not want to wait
Speaker 1: for something even worse where you could be in some
Speaker 1: type of danger, where something could be spread about you.
Speaker 1: You don't want that. He don't care about you. He's
Speaker 1: trying to hurt you. Now it's time for you to
Speaker 1: let him know. I'm not playing with you either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's a cycle past. He takes me after that,
Speaker 1: and he told me I'll come back home so we
Speaker 1: can have kids and I'll walk do not entertain him,
Speaker 1: and you do not entertain him. Cut him out of
Speaker 1: your life period. There should be no reason for you to.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't even block him over everything. Now he's to the
Speaker 1: point where he's emailing me off for different emails like, y'all,
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to do. Well, good, that's evidence,
Speaker 1: thank you, right, be like, yeah, keep emailing me, that's evidence.
Speaker 1: Keep on creating these new email addresses, that's evidence. Cut
Speaker 1: off his phone. You got his phone under your phone,
Speaker 1: veil cut it off? Great, Well, thank you. I need today.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. But the first time police report, Yeah, do
Speaker 1: that today immediately. Yeah, I'm about to do that right now.
Speaker 1: If I hand out, all right, I'm gonna check back
Speaker 1: in with you, all right, thank you. Put on a
Speaker 1: hole so you can get a number please, yes, eight
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Speaker 1: is the breakfast club? Good morning? Been broken so many times,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to believe. I'm gonna say it's mom,
Speaker 1: it's my thought. I went my heart on my sleeve
Speaker 1: because the best out for my heart on nice, hard
Speaker 1: on nice, because I can't bathe I'm gonna put my
Speaker 1: heart on nice, hard on nice, getting the best of
Speaker 1: me while litting a sell with I came, I thought
Speaker 1: slopped in my head, told him I don't know how
Speaker 1: you get down with them clowns, but I'm a soldier,
Speaker 1: no my color to stand. I had way too much
Speaker 1: regression that built over the years from my upbanded adolescents
Speaker 1: see ill, don't be locked backstaffed and heart broking. I
Speaker 1: wanted to cry, but I was too afraid of open bringing.
Speaker 1: One day I find a piece of my bottle ocean.
Speaker 1: I started all my time coming in crimes to get
Speaker 1: closer while my nana house. I played the couch, staring
Speaker 1: at us, seeing, trying not to a gate in my feelings,
Speaker 1: thinking of a way y'all can't make these minds, Maybe
Speaker 1: that I'll take this pain away and care up all
Speaker 1: these rainy day hard being broken so many times, I
Speaker 1: don't know what to believe. Lave imma, ain't it's my fault.
Speaker 1: It's my fault. I wear my heart on my street
Speaker 1: because the best out from my heart on nice, hard
Speaker 1: on nice, because I can't breathe, I can't. I'm for
Speaker 1: my heart on nice, hard on nice skin, the best
Speaker 1: of me. Stop in my back so much, got ready
Speaker 1: to see at the trauma run up. Ain't hand no guy,
Speaker 1: and it's so I had to let my mama do it.
Speaker 1: It's something happening to me. Just know my brothers ain't doors.
Speaker 1: Just know the oppstite doors. But them chances right now
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Speaker 1: how to top down. Can't do that. Then shy town
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Speaker 1: but I can't slide around so faking so snaked out
Speaker 1: that kid for a half a town. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: always around mother, because you turned me out. I was
Speaker 1: in that water with them shots not then broke so
Speaker 1: many times. I don't know what you believe. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it's my fault. It's my fault. I wear my
Speaker 1: heart on my sleeve. I think it's the best off
Speaker 1: of my heart on nice heart on nice because I
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Speaker 1: there's some real advice with anthela Ye, it's ask Ye wanting.
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We
Speaker 1: are the breakfast club. We're in the middle of ask ye. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? My name is Shaky, Hey, sh what's your
Speaker 1: question for you? I've been I'm the only one working
Speaker 1: in my household. And Um, I have a boyfriend of
Speaker 1: seven years and he's not working, and he hasn't worked
Speaker 1: the whole time we've been together. So I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out if I should say, if I should say
Speaker 1: in the relationship or shot just let him go? So
Speaker 1: he hasn't worked for seventy years? Why is that? Um?
Speaker 1: Does he has his own business and he wants to
Speaker 1: do that? Okay, so he does work. He has his
Speaker 1: own business. He just doesn't have a traditional nine to five. Yes, Now,
Speaker 1: why would you say he doesn't work if he has
Speaker 1: his own business? Does he is? He is working? Out?
Speaker 1: Is he making money? No? What is his business? I'm
Speaker 1: just curious, Um, I really don't know. So for seven years,
Speaker 1: you've been with a guy who hasn't made any money
Speaker 1: and has a business, but you don't know what he does? Right?
Speaker 1: What made you stay so long? Um? I kind of
Speaker 1: love him? Okay, so you love him? How do you
Speaker 1: not know what he does? Though? Wouldn't you be wanting
Speaker 1: to be supportive of such a business to do? Right? Uh?
Speaker 1: He has different businesses. Um, he does marketing and different ventures.
Speaker 1: But camera sounds like a scam of mama. I just
Speaker 1: want to say, I feel like, just from the tone
Speaker 1: of this conversation already, that you seem very negative and
Speaker 1: that you put him down. It seems like a first
Speaker 1: you told us he doesn't work and it hasn't worked
Speaker 1: in seven years, but he does, he has his own business.
Speaker 1: Then you told us you don't know what he does,
Speaker 1: but now you're telling us what he does. And then
Speaker 1: you also said you kind of love him. So it
Speaker 1: feels like you have an issue with being supportive or
Speaker 1: opening up to him and also letting him lean on
Speaker 1: you when he needs things. Well, I mean I've been
Speaker 1: leaned on the whole time financially, right, But you do
Speaker 1: still love him? Yes? What do you need in order
Speaker 1: for you to want to stay with him? There's way
Speaker 1: out the pros and cons? Like, what would you need
Speaker 1: to happen for you to feel like money, I would
Speaker 1: need the financial support, okay, and that can be stressful.
Speaker 1: And listen, I get it. You stuck it through for
Speaker 1: seven years and you're tired of being the one that
Speaker 1: has to financially hold things down. You want to be
Speaker 1: taken care of, you want to go on vacation, You
Speaker 1: want somebody to at least pull their own weight right right,
Speaker 1: And I know that can be stressful because finances the
Speaker 1: number one reason that couples argue. So what does he
Speaker 1: say when you tell him I need you to do
Speaker 1: something that actually brings something to the table and make
Speaker 1: some money. He wants me to support him in his business,
Speaker 1: which you have been and you guys live together. That
Speaker 1: is great, okay. So maybe what you need to do
Speaker 1: is stop enabling him by being supportive of him all
Speaker 1: the time financially. And maybe y'all do need to get
Speaker 1: your own places so that he is forced to be
Speaker 1: in a position where he has to earn money and
Speaker 1: take care of himself because that might only benefit him
Speaker 1: in the meantime. Maybe it's not a full breakup, but
Speaker 1: maybe it's more of I'm tired of having to financially
Speaker 1: be the person that handles everything. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: take care of myself, spoil myself, and let you get
Speaker 1: yourself on track, and then I think you can see
Speaker 1: what he does from there, okay, because I do think
Speaker 1: seven years is a long time to stick it through.
Speaker 1: You still love him him, but I can understand the
Speaker 1: bitterness of having to feel like I have to pay
Speaker 1: for everything. I have to support you in everything. You're
Speaker 1: not pulling your weight around here financially, and if that
Speaker 1: is something that bothers you, I can't see that just
Speaker 1: going away. And sometimes we do enable people by always
Speaker 1: making sure the bills are paid, and then they feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can continue to do what I need to do.
Speaker 1: But you guys aren't married, right, No, okay, good So
Speaker 1: because y'all are not married, I don't think that you're
Speaker 1: obligated to live with him. And if he takes your
Speaker 1: relationship seriously and he knows what he needs to do
Speaker 1: to make things work, then he will step up and
Speaker 1: do that. I agree. Okay, all right, Well, good luck.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll work it out. Thank you. It's on
Speaker 1: him now. You did your part. Yeah, all right, thank you, mama,
Speaker 1: thank you. She's not much for words. Huh she called
Speaker 1: you and they want to answer? All right, right, five
Speaker 1: five one, five one. You got rumors on the way. Yes,
Speaker 1: an anonymous NFL player is suing United Airlines. Find out why.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is the Ruble Report
Speaker 1: with Angela bas Yes, he is preferring to stay anonymous,
Speaker 1: but he says he was sexually assaulted on a United
Speaker 1: Airlines plane, and he says flight attendants didn't do anything
Speaker 1: to stop it, so now he's suing. So what he
Speaker 1: says is, yes, a woman sexually harassed, assaulted, abuse, and
Speaker 1: violated him during a flight. It was a red eye
Speaker 1: flight from lax to New Jersey. He said it was
Speaker 1: a nightmare. He said he took his place in a
Speaker 1: middle seat. A woman sat in the window seat next
Speaker 1: to him, and immediately, he said he was harassed over
Speaker 1: the safety mask that he was wearing. He says the
Speaker 1: woman hit and elbowed him and demanded that he moved seats,
Speaker 1: and that's when he said the woman was taking pills.
Speaker 1: They believed that she was under the influence. He got
Speaker 1: up to tell the flight attendants about the harassment, and
Speaker 1: they did nothing about it. According to this lawsuit, the
Speaker 1: NFL player says woman then started groping and massaging his
Speaker 1: knees and thighs. He said that they got up to
Speaker 1: inform flight attendants, but still they did nothing, and then
Speaker 1: the woman began to intensify her sexual assault, grabbing and
Speaker 1: groping his squads and then stroking her hand across his
Speaker 1: lap towards the inside of his leg near his genitals.
Speaker 1: He said he immediately got up. He pleaded with the
Speaker 1: flight attendant to get her to stop, and the United
Speaker 1: employee did nothing more than issue a verbal warning to
Speaker 1: the woman. That's when the NFL player says the woman
Speaker 1: grabbed his penis and a ripped off his face mask,
Speaker 1: causing him to jump away and run toward flight attendants.
Speaker 1: Wow King He was with another NFL player, and that's
Speaker 1: when the second player says, the woman slid over into
Speaker 1: the middle seat after he got up and started sexually
Speaker 1: assaulting him as well. So what they ended up doing
Speaker 1: was moving the woman to another row without passengers, and
Speaker 1: both the players were given one hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: vouchers for their troubles. But now they went to sue.
Speaker 1: That's right, take your power back, King. You don't have
Speaker 1: to be anonymous. Tell your story. Okay. Nobody takes men
Speaker 1: serious when we make these kind of complaints. This double
Speaker 1: standing must stop. Tell your story and don't be ashamed.
Speaker 1: Women can be predators too, Okay. I've seen many a
Speaker 1: man molested on a flight. That happens. That happens to
Speaker 1: Whax all the time. If Wax sitch next to one
Speaker 1: of these older white women, oh my god, just like
Speaker 1: who gives her permission to just touch on people like that?
Speaker 1: They do it all the time. I've seen this a
Speaker 1: million times. Attendant didn't move the woman immediately, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't understand what they took for both of them to
Speaker 1: get sexually assaulted, for them to finally make no why
Speaker 1: she got off the plane. Yeah, because nobody takes men
Speaker 1: serious when we make these kind of complaints and situation.
Speaker 1: Because if it would have been a guy on the
Speaker 1: girl had landed that plane immediately, yes, harassed the woman,
Speaker 1: sexually harassed the woman, they would have landed that plane.
Speaker 1: And if he complained like that they should have landed
Speaker 1: that plane, he should he should definitely sue. And I'm
Speaker 1: monitoring Okay. Now, lebrand Usain Bolt and more stars are
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Speaker 1: Tracy Ellis Ross has released official music video for Love Myself.
Speaker 1: That's her first single off the High Note soundtrack. As
Speaker 1: you know, she is in that movie starring as a
Speaker 1: recording artist Grace Davis. And here is what that song
Speaker 1: sounds like. I'm a stranger if I don't recognize myself,
Speaker 1: trying to fix up something real, keep my head down,
Speaker 1: maybe my phone down, if everybody likes me. She debuted
Speaker 1: this song last week and a lot of people did
Speaker 1: comment on that, so that's dope to hear Tracy Ellis
Speaker 1: Ros singing. She said she had always kind of shied
Speaker 1: away from it. When you're Diana Ross's daughter, I can
Speaker 1: see how that can be intimidating, all right, routine. Clarin
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Speaker 1: as Megan the Stallion Savage is on top of the
Speaker 1: R and B and Hip Hop Airplay chart. That song
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Speaker 1: she's tied in fourth place with eight number ones on
Speaker 1: the overall list. Drake is number one with twenty six
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Speaker 1: and R Kelly have eight a piece, so congratulations to her.
Speaker 1: So Ice Cube says that mister Rogers one sued him
Speaker 1: for his nineteen ninety song against his fairy Tale. You know,
Speaker 1: he was celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of his America's most
Speaker 1: wanted album. With the digital listening party, he did a
Speaker 1: whole track by track playback and that's one of the
Speaker 1: things he talked about was the song against his fairy Tale.
Speaker 1: So that sample can't be found anymore because it's from
Speaker 1: Mister Rodgers children's show. But here's what he said, it's
Speaker 1: a trip because off this song. Mister Rogers sued us.
Speaker 1: He was mad because we had we had the mister
Speaker 1: Rogers theme at the beginning of the show, It's a
Speaker 1: Wonderful Day and neighborhood and all that, and pursued us
Speaker 1: and was getting like five Center Records. Two. We took
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Speaker 1: We kind of knew that that was specially when you
Speaker 1: hear Bigel it inspired you. Always having that hip hop energy.
Speaker 1: He's a lumitis lyricist. With the rhythm of his raps,
Speaker 1: it is so funky, so intoxicating. He's a piller. You
Speaker 1: have to study him. You have to study as Woody
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Speaker 1: album back in nineteen ninety five. All right, I'm Angela
Speaker 1: Yee and that is your rumor report. All right, well,
Speaker 1: thank you to see when we come back. Happy birthday
Speaker 1: to Notorious Big. Of course, we got to start the
Speaker 1: mix off with some big revolt. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Everybody else the People's Choice mixes up next, it's the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have
Speaker 1: a special guest in the building. Now. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you introduce some I know. We have Michelle ac
Speaker 1: and Stacy. I just want to say, well, I'll let
Speaker 1: you guys. Well, you guys know Stacy who does Wealth
Speaker 1: Wednesday with us every month. Also Michelle Gaston Williams, and
Speaker 1: you know her as the author of Clem, which is
Speaker 1: the book that we have right here. But also you'll
Speaker 1: be talking to us about all the different companies that
Speaker 1: you've led and information that you've gotten as a C
Speaker 1: suite what would you call it, a executive c suite
Speaker 1: executive change agent, impact seeker. Right, And we're gonna learn
Speaker 1: a lot from you this morning about finding our voice,
Speaker 1: speaking out and how we can actually become the forces
Speaker 1: that we're meant to be in business. And also a
Speaker 1: C is here with us and a C Eggleston Bracy right,
Speaker 1: got it beautiful, And we know you for a leading
Speaker 1: Una Leaver in North America, which is a huge corporation.
Speaker 1: We've worked with Una Leaver a lot thanks to shame
Speaker 1: moister also, but also Uni leaver o owns a lot
Speaker 1: of other companies too. Yeah, yep, a lot of beauty brands, Dove, Trust,
Speaker 1: tom Acts. I have about two dozen brands that I manage.
Speaker 1: So when you're in the shower and you see the
Speaker 1: little Uni Leaver logo, you know what that's all about.
Speaker 1: We make seven generation, we wipe down, disinfect. This isn't
Speaker 1: about your personal needs. So there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that we can actually relate to your book, Michelle, that
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about with our own personal experiences. Right, absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right. So, Stacy, I know you're up here all
Speaker 1: the time for Wealth Wednesday, but we don't know your
Speaker 1: story and how you got that. Yes, the financial coach
Speaker 1: and expert who you are today? It was interesting. M
Speaker 1: I'm glad we're all here talking with women of color
Speaker 1: about how to get to those high level positions, and
Speaker 1: it's a very different road for us. My career started
Speaker 1: on Wall Street and I was lucky my first job,
Speaker 1: I got a really big break in terms of I
Speaker 1: was assistant to a cash manager and what his job
Speaker 1: was to manage the company's money. It was about one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars a day, but another company was trying
Speaker 1: to take us over. I was young, but he still
Speaker 1: thought I knew his job best, so he gave me
Speaker 1: that responsibility. So I did that job for many years,
Speaker 1: which was great, but then Wall Street wasn't clicking for me.
Speaker 1: I knew finance. I've written since I think I came
Speaker 1: out of the womb, so I wanted it to go
Speaker 1: into financial journalism. So I literally called the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal with that story and they bought it and I
Speaker 1: started working there as a writer. I moved into their
Speaker 1: TV department became a producer, so far, things had been
Speaker 1: easy enough that I hadn't had to face my internal demons,
Speaker 1: so to speak, that we're going to hamper my career.
Speaker 1: Because the rubber really hit the road for me when
Speaker 1: I moved from that producer role to wanting to be
Speaker 1: in front of the camera and to move into network
Speaker 1: level business news. You encounter some one that a lot
Speaker 1: of us have heard of, Roger Ales, And I think
Speaker 1: the first thing he ever said to me kind of
Speaker 1: defined a lot of what happened to me. He looked
Speaker 1: at me and he said, I'm going to close my
Speaker 1: eyes and I'm going to imagine what someone who's good
Speaker 1: with money looks like. Now I'm going to open my eyes.
Speaker 1: It didn't look like you. Wow. So I very defiantly
Speaker 1: told him that he was going to have to change
Speaker 1: his definition of what a business news reporter looked like.
Speaker 1: And I went to war and I got you know,
Speaker 1: I just got myself to a level. I got jobs
Speaker 1: at CBS, and one thing that I would run into
Speaker 1: there is I did great being a reporter and business
Speaker 1: correspondent for the national shows. But those networks make a
Speaker 1: lot of their money off the affiliates and the Southern
Speaker 1: and a lot of Midwestern affiliates just wouldn't air me.
Speaker 1: So they would come to CBS and say, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not airing her business segment. So they were like
Speaker 1: Roger Al's, Yeah, they couldn't. You know, it's not even
Speaker 1: like I can go to HR and complain. They just couldn't.
Speaker 1: So I had to find more interesting story. I had
Speaker 1: to find different angles on stories. We're here, we have
Speaker 1: to be twice as better. I had to be ten
Speaker 1: times as good. And I was able to keep myself
Speaker 1: at a level I worked, you know, CNN, PBS, the
Speaker 1: Today's Show. I got into all those places, but it
Speaker 1: was very clear to me. It wasn't clear to me
Speaker 1: actually what a toll that was taken on my self
Speaker 1: esteem and my self confidence. So it's really just believing
Speaker 1: in yourself and you're you're gonna evolve no matter what's
Speaker 1: going on in your mind, and just staying true to
Speaker 1: that and finding what you're passionate about and it does happen,
Speaker 1: all right. Wow, See, we didn't know all of that
Speaker 1: about your journey to get here, and Michelle, we read, well,
Speaker 1: I read somewhat about your journey. We got the book
Speaker 1: this morning, so I was trying to go through it
Speaker 1: as fast as I could. But you have a book
Speaker 1: out Climb, and you talk about your own journey and
Speaker 1: how you got to where you got to and how
Speaker 1: much harder it is for black not just women, but
Speaker 1: black women have an even tougher time, Yes, breaking into
Speaker 1: businesses and running businesses and fortune five hundred companies, and
Speaker 1: you address all of that. So let's talk about your journey. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: So I started my career in marketing many years ago
Speaker 1: and in the consumer goods industry, and I determined early
Speaker 1: on this just wasn't for me. I just didn't feel gratified.
Speaker 1: So I left that company worked for another organization where
Speaker 1: I was able to rotate to different functions within that company,
Speaker 1: So from procurement to finance, to marketing and you name it.
Speaker 1: And my last rotation was in human resources and strategic planning.
Speaker 1: So I've been a diversity practitioner in four different industries,
Speaker 1: from financial services to consumer goods, professional services. I was
Speaker 1: even an entrepreneur for a short period of time. Why
Speaker 1: is diversity important in corporations and why was the work
Speaker 1: that you did so important? Yeah, any organization worth salt,
Speaker 1: in my view, would need to have a diversity equity
Speaker 1: and inclusion strategy of some sorts if they want to
Speaker 1: stay in business. Because what we're talking about is this
Speaker 1: is a business imperative. This is just not the right
Speaker 1: thing to do or the nice thing to do. There's
Speaker 1: an implication organizations that don't embrace diversity strategy because you're
Speaker 1: talking about innovation and creativity and leveraging the workforce and
Speaker 1: maximizing and utilizing all the skills and uniqueness that individuals
Speaker 1: of difference bring to the table. So this is a
Speaker 1: business strategy. This is no longer about just human capital
Speaker 1: and people. So in my view, any organization that wants
Speaker 1: to stay in business needs to embrace diversity and inclusion.
Speaker 1: But when do we get to the point where we say,
Speaker 1: part of my language, before those companies, what's role with
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that we own. It's like
Speaker 1: we always rely on something else instead of doing it ourselves,
Speaker 1: you know what. I have struggled with that point as
Speaker 1: well so much and one of the businesses. So I
Speaker 1: think it's really important that when you invest in businesses,
Speaker 1: it's not just about marketing to us, it's about doing
Speaker 1: something back for us. So of all the businesses that
Speaker 1: I've run, I've tried to do that. One of them
Speaker 1: is Shame Moisture. What we do is we make sure
Speaker 1: we are investing in women of color entrepreneurs to have
Speaker 1: their own business. Another one of the brands that I
Speaker 1: run is Dove. We are the founding member of the
Speaker 1: Crown Coalition, and Crown is creating a respectful, open world
Speaker 1: for natural hair. So we are actively supporting and advocating
Speaker 1: for change of laws to help us. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: let's dive more into this though, right because, and we'll
Speaker 1: use Michelle your book as kind of the center of
Speaker 1: everything they were talking about. One thing that I thought
Speaker 1: was interesting you talked about was motherhood and womanhood, right,
Speaker 1: not being synonymous with each other. So I would like
Speaker 1: for you to expand on that because I do feel
Speaker 1: like people are always like, for myself, I don't have children,
Speaker 1: I'm not married, but it always becomes an issue, oh well,
Speaker 1: you don't have any kids, so you don't know what
Speaker 1: it feels like to be this or you're not a
Speaker 1: real woman until you have kids. And that was something
Speaker 1: that you experience absolutely, and I still experience it to
Speaker 1: the stay and I'm over fifty now, so so I
Speaker 1: am a working executive. I am married, but I don't
Speaker 1: have children, and that comes with judgment. So and in
Speaker 1: my view, motherhood does not constitute womanhood. You know, I
Speaker 1: made a decision a long time ago that children were
Speaker 1: not in my future. It was a contract that I
Speaker 1: made with my husband when we were dating, you know,
Speaker 1: he was my then fiance. It's not for everyone, and
Speaker 1: so I talk about the judgment that comes with that.
Speaker 1: I got enough kids for all y'all, How did you?
Speaker 1: How do you both stand up to that? You know?
Speaker 1: And for myself, it's like I put it off for
Speaker 1: a long time because I'm working and that was a
Speaker 1: priority for me. And so now if I wanted to
Speaker 1: try to do it, it's late, but I still can
Speaker 1: if I choose to do that. But I also feel
Speaker 1: like I'm very confident and happy in the place that
Speaker 1: I am in life. But just because you're in a
Speaker 1: relationship doesn't mean that your whole, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I think people think that in order for you
Speaker 1: to be whole, you have to be married, and I
Speaker 1: don't think that's necessarily true. Now, Acy, let's talk about
Speaker 1: you for a second and mentorship. So we talk about
Speaker 1: the importance of mentors. Have you had mentors to get
Speaker 1: to where you got to at UNIM I have. I
Speaker 1: have had tons of mentors, and I even like, I
Speaker 1: think beyond mentors, mentors or people you get insight from,
Speaker 1: they kind of show you the ropes. But I really
Speaker 1: benefited from sponsors, who are people that have said, I
Speaker 1: want you in this job and I'm going to make
Speaker 1: it happen. So one of my first big jobs a
Speaker 1: company that I worked for and retired from after twenty
Speaker 1: five years, the big job was to be a general
Speaker 1: manager and there had never been a black woman as
Speaker 1: a general manager. One of my sponsors said, before I
Speaker 1: was a general manager, maybe three or four years before Acy,
Speaker 1: I think you're talented and I want you to be
Speaker 1: one of my general managers. So before you do that,
Speaker 1: I want you to go do this one job. And
Speaker 1: sure enough, three or four years later, she plucked me
Speaker 1: even before I thought I was ready. You know, before
Speaker 1: I was ready, I was the marketing director for CoverGirl
Speaker 1: and running a bunch of makeup brands, having a blast,
Speaker 1: and she plucked me to be a general manager in
Speaker 1: another business. And I thought, I love what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready, And she was like Missy I said,
Speaker 1: this is for you. So I've had mentors, but really
Speaker 1: what's made a difference from me are sponsors who believed
Speaker 1: in me when no one else necessarily would pull up
Speaker 1: a black woman for a big role, and because she
Speaker 1: believed in me, it carried so much weight and helped
Speaker 1: me be success be successful. Studies have shown that women
Speaker 1: and or people of color are typically over mentored and
Speaker 1: under sponsored. So AC is absolutely correct. We we don't
Speaker 1: need mentors. We need individuals in the room who can
Speaker 1: make decisions, who are influential, who are powerful, who can
Speaker 1: make it happen for us. Now, and have you ever
Speaker 1: had a sponsor? I haven't had a mentor. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever had a No, I haven't had a
Speaker 1: mental or sponsor. Well you never had. Well, DJ Clue
Speaker 1: was kind of your mentor, who wasn't my mentor. He
Speaker 1: just kind of just told me about DJ. But he
Speaker 1: didn't guy me and show me this is DJA. That's
Speaker 1: what he basically said. He was like a DJ and
Speaker 1: he you know, but I didn't have a mentor. Um,
Speaker 1: I kind of figured it out on my own. Um. Luckily,
Speaker 1: I'm one of those hard workers, and I definitely didn't
Speaker 1: have a sponsor in real estate. I have a mentor
Speaker 1: now that that shows me and guides me when it
Speaker 1: comes to things. But when it came to this industry,
Speaker 1: nobody mentored me. Do we need to be more proactive
Speaker 1: and asking for mentorship or sponsorship or are we supposed
Speaker 1: to be approaching people and saying, hey, I really sponsorship
Speaker 1: is hard, and you know Michelle my dear for Michelle
Speaker 1: is an expert on this and what she does. But
Speaker 1: you have to find out what works for you. I
Speaker 1: find that for me, you have to earn it, but
Speaker 1: you need the exposure to earn it because we're not
Speaker 1: always in the room. And so I've found I've gotten
Speaker 1: sponsors from people who I've worked directly for, so they
Speaker 1: know me and so they feel confident that I can
Speaker 1: do the next job. At the same time, if we
Speaker 1: just leave it to chads, it may not happen. So
Speaker 1: some companies have official programs where they have sponsorship and
Speaker 1: mentor programs that cultivate relationships so someone can structurally get
Speaker 1: to know you and put you in a position. The
Speaker 1: other thing I would say is I believe we have
Speaker 1: an obligation to be sponsors and mentors because we have
Speaker 1: to create critical masks. So it starts that there are
Speaker 1: a few of us, but we have to bring people
Speaker 1: along and be committed to putting them. You know, other
Speaker 1: women of color or other women or other people of
Speaker 1: color and big important jobs. So you could mentor someone else,
Speaker 1: Oh I do, I definitely I have. I have a
Speaker 1: bunch of people that I mentor young DJs and and
Speaker 1: actually have this. Uh. Her name is Mercedes Walker. She
Speaker 1: was actually a basketball coach and um, she was a
Speaker 1: coach member when me and Chris Rock got into it.
Speaker 1: She was the other coach on the other team. His
Speaker 1: daughter and my daughter go to compete in school. So
Speaker 1: I was coaching. Um, you know, we was talking and
Speaker 1: we became good friends. And I just seen just how
Speaker 1: much intellect she had, how smart she was, the things
Speaker 1: that she did, and I've seen something that she was
Speaker 1: doing and I think she could take it to a
Speaker 1: bigger place if she had, if she to help. So
Speaker 1: I brought her into my company. And I guess you
Speaker 1: could call her a sponsor because I pay her, but
Speaker 1: that's a sponsorsor. And I brought her into my company
Speaker 1: and what she's been able to do for my company
Speaker 1: in the last like four months has been like just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about negotiating salaries, because that is something that
Speaker 1: I always stressed that black women need to do more.
Speaker 1: A lot of times we get offered you know what
Speaker 1: our pay is going to be, and we just accept
Speaker 1: it and we say, okay, well accept the offer, or
Speaker 1: we don't go in and negotiate for a raise. So
Speaker 1: what's some advice that you can give when it comes
Speaker 1: to that, Because that's something that I personally have had
Speaker 1: to experience and do. I would strongly encourage everyone to
Speaker 1: go into these conversations well informed. Do your homework beforehand.
Speaker 1: There's glassdoor dot com and other websites and resources out
Speaker 1: there that can give you the range in terms of
Speaker 1: the industry and the work that you're going to be doing.
Speaker 1: I'd also say talk to someone in human resources. I
Speaker 1: have friends in my ecosystem who I will call to say,
Speaker 1: this is the the offer that I I just received.
Speaker 1: What do you think? This is where mentors and sponsors
Speaker 1: come into play, because I will run things by them
Speaker 1: as well. And then lastly, it's not just about dollars
Speaker 1: and cents. It's the full package. So when you're negotiating
Speaker 1: the deal. There are other things that you can also
Speaker 1: look for, like you know, French benefits, you know, paid
Speaker 1: time off, working from home. I mean, so all of
Speaker 1: those things that don't necessarily have a value associated to them,
Speaker 1: they do have value in terms of the overarching and
Speaker 1: more comprehensive you know position that you're If you would
Speaker 1: discuss salaries with each other, it happens in the workplace,
Speaker 1: at least in mind. Often. I think we should. I
Speaker 1: think we should. I think it's used against us because
Speaker 1: we don't. There's a few things in addition to what
Speaker 1: Michelle said that I would ask always be willing to
Speaker 1: walk away. Yeah, and so that's one of the things
Speaker 1: that holds power over us is you know, I have
Speaker 1: my mother in the back of my head saying, you know,
Speaker 1: you better be grateful for that good right, right, So
Speaker 1: you don't want to risk that job, but being willing
Speaker 1: to walk away will help you know your worth and
Speaker 1: get paid for your worth. And then the other thing
Speaker 1: is not make it taboo because the work place will say,
Speaker 1: don't talk about salary and these are all the rules.
Speaker 1: But people that don't look like us are talking and
Speaker 1: they are more informed, and so we've got to break
Speaker 1: the taboo because we think sometimes it says something about us,
Speaker 1: we might be bragging. I think we need to move
Speaker 1: past that and establish a circle, just as Michelle is saying,
Speaker 1: of the right resources so that we can calibrate and
Speaker 1: were you know, the stats show that we are paid
Speaker 1: what sixty four cents on the dollar, so and so
Speaker 1: it's it's bad. So when we start talking, we get
Speaker 1: informed like, oh really, so I do think we should
Speaker 1: talk right. Well, I appreciate that you guys so much
Speaker 1: for coming to you ladies History Month because this was amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how can they get in touch with you guys if
Speaker 1: they want to get in touch with you guys. I'm
Speaker 1: on Instagram at e Bracing, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Michelle Gadston
Speaker 1: Williams Instagram, Stacy Tisdale eleven twenty. Thank you, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for having you ladies do so much and
Speaker 1: I know this would be helpful and inspiration. Are there's
Speaker 1: so many people who are watching and listening. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we got the positive note, don't move. It's
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Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: good morning now you guys have a great day today. Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: you've got a positive note, yes, sir. Sometimes the people
Speaker 1: around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to.
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