Speaker 1: Yo rachetness ratchets to sit down right, should come to
Speaker 1: the most prominent form for you. Wait your ass up
Speaker 1: early in the morning. But they tell me it was y'all.
Speaker 1: I said, hell yeah, I'm getting the world smoos dangerous
Speaker 1: smaller ship three people's choice. Actually, let's I got you
Speaker 1: Jomo made god people who I can't believe you guys
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Speaker 1: Good morning Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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Speaker 1: morning angela ye, good morning, Davy shoo me. The god
Speaker 1: piece to the planet is Tuesday. Yes, it's Tuesday. Good morning,
Speaker 1: it absolutely is. How you fair out there? I feel blessed,
Speaker 1: Black and Holly favorite. What about you? Yes? I feel amazing.
Speaker 1: I feel great. You know, I'm a big fan of Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: where I'm from, where I still live. But what I'm
Speaker 1: about to say will make people never want to move
Speaker 1: to Brooklyn. But this morning was rough. I have to
Speaker 1: first of all, today is one of the worst days
Speaker 1: I had to park like three blocks for my house
Speaker 1: because I got home late last night. There's no parking
Speaker 1: on the street, and it's not like we have driveways.
Speaker 1: You're nervous walking three blocks away from your house and
Speaker 1: you gotta walk to the crier bikes all no, no,
Speaker 1: not a name, Okay, no. But the worst part is
Speaker 1: going in the morning. And I don't be scared of people.
Speaker 1: I'd be scared of rats. And today was garbage pickup day,
Speaker 1: and so that's always a scary time to be walking
Speaker 1: in the dark when no one's outside to your car.
Speaker 1: I'm more scared of that than anything you got pepper sprayed,
Speaker 1: mace or something like that. But the rats for people,
Speaker 1: I just told you when I'm more scared of I'm
Speaker 1: just saying. But I do still love Brooklyn. But I
Speaker 1: know it's not attractive to hear that. But yes, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of rats on the street on garbage pickup day.
Speaker 1: Did y'all see is supposed to snow here in the
Speaker 1: Try State on Wednesday? Y'all see? People in Miami don't care.
Speaker 1: People in Miami, Like, that's why I need to move
Speaker 1: the floor to people in Miami. They have to care.
Speaker 1: The reason I say that it's because of my cars.
Speaker 1: They have to care because of your cars, because of
Speaker 1: your car Showy Cotely, my car show. I got all
Speaker 1: these cars going down, almost missed the truck, so because
Speaker 1: the truck was supposed to pick up on Wednesday. But
Speaker 1: of course we can't get it through these snows. So
Speaker 1: we have to actually start packing them and loading them
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow. I mean, we were carrying like forty
Speaker 1: cars down there for the car show for people kids
Speaker 1: five and under a free so we're trying to put
Speaker 1: on the show. We sold thousands and thousands of tickets
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to cancel because of the snow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and people lost them. My friend from Miami
Speaker 1: staying with me right now. People love snow. They do
Speaker 1: because look, she's from Miami and she doesn't get to
Speaker 1: see snow. So she's like, I hope it snows while
Speaker 1: I'm here because I never get to see that in Miami.
Speaker 1: Snow is like grandkids. Snow is like grandkids. You love them,
Speaker 1: but you can still, you know, go back home. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she'll come up here for a day, but she'll be
Speaker 1: she'll be right back home. Man. You know a song
Speaker 1: we gotta start praying, playing early in the morning. And
Speaker 1: you heard the new Marria J. Blige Good Morning Gorgeous,
Speaker 1: Good Morning. We played it last week. We premiered it here.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, you played the DJ No, you played the
Speaker 1: Djalid record amazing. No, we premiered good Morning Gorgeous. That
Speaker 1: I wasn't here for that. Well, that's what we need
Speaker 1: to I don't remember that. I remember playing the Calid record.
Speaker 1: I remember playing the Calid record amazing. But we need
Speaker 1: to be playing good Morning Gorgeous every morning for the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. That is a great affirmation record.
Speaker 1: We played it every hour on the hour. We just
Speaker 1: played the Calid record in the rumors, but we played
Speaker 1: that every hour on the hour one What day was
Speaker 1: that any Thursday? Friday? Friday? Friday? Was I here Friday? Yeah? Yes,
Speaker 1: Friday was the only day I was here. You weren't
Speaker 1: here Friday? Yeah no, we played every hour one hour. Well,
Speaker 1: we need to keep playing that record then, instead of
Speaker 1: coming here talking about everything that we're doing, we need
Speaker 1: to be we need to be playing that record every morning.
Speaker 1: That is a great morning wake up record. Also, um,
Speaker 1: I think think of the the snow. They also said it's
Speaker 1: gonna stone in Hawaii? Did I hear that? Right? Wow,
Speaker 1: it's gonna snow on her. I didn't know that happened
Speaker 1: this week. I didn't know what happened to either, but
Speaker 1: they said, but it's just weird, doesn't happen? Goodness, gra
Speaker 1: climate change is real? All right? Well, let's get the
Speaker 1: show cracking front page news. What we're talking about? Um, well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Sony. They have fired a PlayStation executive
Speaker 1: and the reason why is disgusting. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that next. Jot it, write it down. So let's
Speaker 1: get to that next. And here he goes. It's Mary J. Blige.
Speaker 1: Good morning God, Yes, there you go. Who breakfast Club
Speaker 1: of morning? Good morning everybody, Charlemagne the guy. We are
Speaker 1: to breakfast club. Let's get some front page news. Great
Speaker 1: record to set your attention to man, set your attention
Speaker 1: to the foot the day man. Now on Monday night football,
Speaker 1: the Patriots beat the Bills fourteen to ten. Now what
Speaker 1: else we got? Easy? Well, let's talk about Sony. They
Speaker 1: fired a PlayStation executive. He was allegedly caught in a
Speaker 1: pedophilious thing. George, how do you say, katopo? George Katopo.
Speaker 1: He is a senior vice president from the team behind
Speaker 1: PlayStation and allegedly he tried to arrange a meeting with
Speaker 1: a fifteen year old boy. According to a video that
Speaker 1: was posted on the YouTube channel People Versus preds Now,
Speaker 1: he's been in PlayStation for more than eight years and
Speaker 1: he most recently serves as senior vice president of Engineering.
Speaker 1: So the way this happened, it's an amateurstic operation and
Speaker 1: they actually try to catch sexual predators who meet victims online.
Speaker 1: So they identified Kotobo as a sixty four year old
Speaker 1: who was trying to arrange a meeting with a fifteen
Speaker 1: year old boy at four thirty am. Allegedly. In the video,
Speaker 1: you can see the cameraman walking down the street toward
Speaker 1: a house that Katopo is wearing a black PlayStation five
Speaker 1: T shirt. He's standing in front of the house. And
Speaker 1: here's what happens. Who you are here to meet tonight, Jeff, Jeff,
Speaker 1: we can have a conversation. I can call the cops. Jeff,
Speaker 1: you want to have Jeff, I got your face on video.
Speaker 1: You come back, you want me to call the cops?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? Everybody, this year old boy to have sex
Speaker 1: with up tonight. The cops will be here soon. It's
Speaker 1: come back ouch now. Seeing That reported that Katupo contacted
Speaker 1: the decoy miner on Grinder that's a dating app for gay,
Speaker 1: by trans and queer people. They exchanged pictures and Katupo
Speaker 1: told the decoy his name was Jeff and then allegedly
Speaker 1: gave his address in order to have sex with the
Speaker 1: alleged fifteen year old boy, according to seeing this review
Speaker 1: of the log, So they actually have posted the conversation
Speaker 1: that they had and it's pretty I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 1: The catch the Catcher Predator clearly isn't as sophisticated as
Speaker 1: it once was with all that scream and Chris Hansen
Speaker 1: used to be way more calm when he used to
Speaker 1: catch the pedophile some cookies. Of course he can get
Speaker 1: arrested for that, right. What would he be charged with?
Speaker 1: Could he be talking about he's a pedophile? Envy? What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? What would he beach? Because I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know what the charge is because you
Speaker 1: know he was caught about to do the act, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? So I don't know what the
Speaker 1: charges are, right well, listen, the thing is that they
Speaker 1: did exchange pictures, right allegedly, and then they have and
Speaker 1: then they have the conversation. The decoy is saying, I'm
Speaker 1: finally fifteen, l ol. I think we talked before. So
Speaker 1: even the idea that you're going to meet with a
Speaker 1: fifteen year old somebody you think is a fifteen year old,
Speaker 1: and then he says, are you really fifteen? And then
Speaker 1: he said, I just turned fifteen two weeks ago? And well,
Speaker 1: what was the charge on the ketchup predator? Because they
Speaker 1: used to get arrested. I mean, there's no charge. You
Speaker 1: can't like, what's the charge? Is the attempt? Is it?
Speaker 1: You know? I'm just curious. I forgot what the actual
Speaker 1: charge to get arrested on the catchup predator? And how
Speaker 1: much time could he get for it? You know? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Then are you like a do you have to register
Speaker 1: as a sex defender after that? Yeah? Absolutely? All right,
Speaker 1: Well that is here and all I know that that's
Speaker 1: also on an extreme abusive power because he has the
Speaker 1: best bait for a kid, Like what kid didn't come
Speaker 1: to the CEO of PlayStations? I don't think he says
Speaker 1: you use that now. He just asked that his name
Speaker 1: is Jeff. That's it Wow. Oh all right, well that
Speaker 1: is front page news. Now get it off your chests
Speaker 1: eight undred five eight five one oh five one. If
Speaker 1: you need to vent phone lines to wide open, hit
Speaker 1: this uping now. And also herschela Ali actor will be
Speaker 1: joining us this morning, so we'll talk to him next hour,
Speaker 1: so don't move. It's to breakfast club for morning. The
Speaker 1: breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up, Wall you're trying to
Speaker 1: get it off your chest. Your man, I'm blast. We
Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the breakfast But hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? Hey, it's part of from Jersey And what's
Speaker 1: going on? Brother? What's up? Bro? Get it off your chests? Brother?
Speaker 1: I got a situation. Hey Jerry, Hey, what's gabel? Listen,
Speaker 1: I gotta situation. I gotta My man was doing Uh,
Speaker 1: my man was doing real bad in the streets. So
Speaker 1: I learned with my house. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He got his life together, he got a job, he's
Speaker 1: making my going to an hour commission, and uh, he
Speaker 1: started messing with drugs. He saw off the wagon. So right,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I don't want to kick him out,
Speaker 1: and like I can't keep an eye on him because
Speaker 1: I'm always working and then I don't want to kick
Speaker 1: him out because I'm leaving in the street that hit
Speaker 1: it don't be in the worst. So me and his
Speaker 1: brother trying to figure out the situation. So like, UM,
Speaker 1: like I don't know what to do, like you got kids,
Speaker 1: got in your house, now you don't his mother, But
Speaker 1: I get him on the weekend, okay, I you know
Speaker 1: I would just be careful with with him around my
Speaker 1: kids if he is a user like that. Um, but yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I mean I started to cut you
Speaker 1: off at me because he got a son too, you know,
Speaker 1: like I don't want to we wanted to say we
Speaker 1: don't this week. We want to say something to his son,
Speaker 1: like we gonna like your your Fox's gonna be away
Speaker 1: for a little bit because I did a son. I
Speaker 1: did a son too, Like I get my son and
Speaker 1: I get his son. Because you know, it's it's a situation.
Speaker 1: You're a good as friend, bro, you're a good friend.
Speaker 1: Where you from? So where's he gonna where's he going
Speaker 1: when he goes away? He's going to rehab or what's happening? No, Like, well,
Speaker 1: when he go away? I mean, well, we're trying to
Speaker 1: get him to rehab now, and you know he gets defensive,
Speaker 1: like his mother says something to him and then he
Speaker 1: gets defensive. Then he leaves the house and then like
Speaker 1: he'll have him stunts. So when we get like that,
Speaker 1: like you never really know when he's gonna how he
Speaker 1: gonna act like he's working all week. He just lost
Speaker 1: his job. So now I'm like, come on fire, like
Speaker 1: you're in a situation. I can't I can't keep helping
Speaker 1: you what like this? Yeah, because then that kind of
Speaker 1: enables somebody when they know that you're always going to
Speaker 1: help them out. But no, no no, he said, he's moody
Speaker 1: sometimes around his kids. Sometimes the mood when you know
Speaker 1: his mood changes when the day changes. You don't want
Speaker 1: him to have a nasty or bad mood and he
Speaker 1: takes that out on his son or your son. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I would say, try to get him as
Speaker 1: help as possible. I don't even know which way to
Speaker 1: guide you and send you, but it seems like he
Speaker 1: needs help. But I would be very very careful with him,
Speaker 1: you know, in the crib with with the kids. Oh yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that when he when I don't that's that situation that
Speaker 1: I keep away like I don't like your keeper. I
Speaker 1: like to like kind of when we with the son.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, it's always if he with
Speaker 1: his son, I'm with him with like that. But good,
Speaker 1: I brought him to the car sho, I brought him
Speaker 1: to your coho the whole thing. I brought him his
Speaker 1: son and all that. Well, I would now it's a situation,
Speaker 1: I would definitely suggest that you hit up a place
Speaker 1: that that specializes in addiction treatment to get advice from
Speaker 1: them on how you should handle something like this, because
Speaker 1: they can give you the proper resources. You know, It's
Speaker 1: one thing to want to help somebody, it's another thing
Speaker 1: whether you can point them to someplace that they can
Speaker 1: actually tangibly go to get help. Now they saying, I
Speaker 1: think in Jersey you can't. You can't like um, not
Speaker 1: force them, but like leat them in there like that
Speaker 1: You're going somewhere they got they gotta do a big jump. No, absolutely,
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is you can call like the
Speaker 1: National Helpline for Substance Abuse and talk to them and
Speaker 1: they can let you know what are some things that
Speaker 1: you can do in a situation like this to try
Speaker 1: to help, and then you can also say, look, you
Speaker 1: need help. Here's a place that I think I would
Speaker 1: commend for you to go to. And they can also
Speaker 1: give you more ideas and how you can convince somebody
Speaker 1: to go get treatment. Yeah, because if you don't, he's
Speaker 1: gonna end up in one of those uh those abandoned homes,
Speaker 1: you know, doing drugs by himself. And and you don't
Speaker 1: doubt ye getting hotels and getting rooms just to get high.
Speaker 1: Like cool man, it's killing me. It's killing me inside.
Speaker 1: But it's an addiction though, and and a lot of
Speaker 1: times people can't control it, so it is an addiction. Bro.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for you, but I don't even know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. Bro. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm a I'm
Speaker 1: gonna figure it out. But thank you'all for answering um
Speaker 1: congratulally throwing you out eleven years man, Thank you. And
Speaker 1: you can call one eight hundred sixty six to help, Okay.
Speaker 1: That is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration hotline,
Speaker 1: and then they'll refer you to someplace local for you.
Speaker 1: What is beginning, need one hundred and sixty six to help, Yeah,
Speaker 1: one eight hundred and six six to help. Okay, thank you. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a real friend right there. Absolutely, I pick up
Speaker 1: your son. I'll let you stay with me. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what four right. If you have a good friend,
Speaker 1: a real friend, that's what they'll do. And I got
Speaker 1: a bunch of real friends like that. Something happened to me.
Speaker 1: They will be there. Or if I'm out of town,
Speaker 1: they will be there. And that's what you want. Get
Speaker 1: it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one
Speaker 1: on five one. If you need to vent, hit us
Speaker 1: up now. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: This is your time to get it off your chests,
Speaker 1: whether you're mad or blacks. So we better have the
Speaker 1: same endity we want to hear from you on the
Speaker 1: breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Good morning, my comedy buddy
Speaker 1: snack Man, Hey snack Man, what's good? This is our
Speaker 1: local breakfast club comedian. Oh he's your local comedian. But
Speaker 1: go ahead, yah yo, Yeah, I got two jokes for
Speaker 1: your angela. Okay, let's go. I'm not mad about wearing
Speaker 1: a mask because I'm saving a lot of them. And
Speaker 1: begin why doesn't Santa Claus have any children? Why? Because
Speaker 1: he's not real? Because he only comes once a year
Speaker 1: and it's down a chimney, Thank you who? Because number one,
Speaker 1: what if chimney was the woman's name? And number two
Speaker 1: all it takes is one time boo, Hello, who's this? Tasha?
Speaker 1: Tasha from Jersey Tasha, good morning, get it off your chess. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: at first I want to say good morning. Just a
Speaker 1: few things Angela. I love that you're a woman doing
Speaker 1: your things. Dj Envy, I love that you're a family man.
Speaker 1: And Charlomagne, you're a really smart man, like you really are.
Speaker 1: I love listening to you when you get going on
Speaker 1: any of your conversations. I actually agree with almost everything
Speaker 1: you say. But what I do want to get off
Speaker 1: my point is the story you guys were talking about
Speaker 1: with like the pedophile. Like I used to be a CEO,
Speaker 1: so I know he's definitely going to be charged with
Speaker 1: enticon a minor off the bat, and they'll probably hit
Speaker 1: him with something else for exchanging the pictures. But they
Speaker 1: only get like five to six years for simple stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and honestly, I don't think it's fair. I
Speaker 1: think they should get more time because they're going after
Speaker 1: innocent children at the end of the day, and then
Speaker 1: once they get into the prison system, they're still continuing
Speaker 1: their pedophilia. There's still a trade and file because you know,
Speaker 1: they got stuff they're not supposed to, and it's like
Speaker 1: they don't get better, they just get worse and they
Speaker 1: learn the trade better. Let me ask you a questions
Speaker 1: as a CEO. Um, you know once once people know
Speaker 1: there's a pedophile on the yard that they still get
Speaker 1: beat up and stuff. I mean I would say absolutely,
Speaker 1: we don't ask you know, obviously, see it happen. We
Speaker 1: get the aftermasth and um, they have like certain individuals
Speaker 1: that don't walk around they're quite like the Bloody Bandit.
Speaker 1: So they find out that you know you're a pedophile,
Speaker 1: they're gonna take your butt or they're gonna export you, yeah,
Speaker 1: or they're depending on how bad you are, obviously they're
Speaker 1: gonna you know, teach you up. But they do get
Speaker 1: taken care of. Wow. Well yeah, yeah, I mean listen
Speaker 1: that that is something right. I mean, it's clearly something
Speaker 1: off with with with pedophiles. So what kind of what
Speaker 1: kind of treatment does a pedophile get so when they
Speaker 1: come home, they don't make they don't continue to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think certain certain prisons they actually
Speaker 1: have programs geared for the pedophiles to help them get
Speaker 1: the treatment. But certain individuals start to say they actually
Speaker 1: recognize what they're doing, they know that it's wrong, but
Speaker 1: they choose to do it anyway. Right, But some of
Speaker 1: them they don't know because they experienced it when they
Speaker 1: were younger, so they don't know any they don't know
Speaker 1: any better. So it's coming half and half. You have
Speaker 1: the individuals with any crime that know what they're doing,
Speaker 1: it's wrong, what they choose to do it anyway. Then
Speaker 1: you have the ones that are really traumatized on their
Speaker 1: childhood that just need help. All right, Well, thank you information. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we appreciate that. No problem. You guys have a good
Speaker 1: day all ready. Now get it off your chest. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one on five one. We got
Speaker 1: rumors all the way. And let's talk about Jesse's Smallett.
Speaker 1: You know, he took the stand in his criminal trial yesterday,
Speaker 1: and we'll tell you some of the things that he
Speaker 1: is claiming when it comes to whether or not he
Speaker 1: was attacked in an anti gay and racist attack. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that next. 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. Good morning.
Speaker 1: Now let's get to the rumors to talk Dan. This
Speaker 1: is the Rumor Report with angela year well, Damon Dash
Speaker 1: was on Bootleg Cavs and Bootleg Cavs Show, and one
Speaker 1: of the things that he talked about was some of
Speaker 1: the words and phrases that he invented. Now, in case
Speaker 1: you didn't know, when y'all say, paused, Damon Dash invented
Speaker 1: that if it's coming, wife here it embrace it, Paul monetize,
Speaker 1: Oh god, that was called did you invent pause? Yes,
Speaker 1: my crew, the best out, we invented pause for sure.
Speaker 1: There's nobody could ever ever say that I didn't know.
Speaker 1: That's all that came from my block. It's not meant
Speaker 1: to be offensive. It's always been a personal joke with
Speaker 1: my offense and down the whole world doesn't It's like
Speaker 1: I can't even have a personal joke, you know, everyone
Speaker 1: says people would ask me, I'd be like, I would
Speaker 1: never tell them what it meant. Ever, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: you have to figure it out, that's right. It's one
Speaker 1: of the greatest things ever. Yeah, they created it. It's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest things ever. I love it to
Speaker 1: this day. I just will never go out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was that and the in the note you know word,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they definitely created that. Now he talks about
Speaker 1: a lot of other things that he came up with
Speaker 1: an invented and by the way, he also talks about
Speaker 1: having his own band, having his own artists boot camp. Uh.
Speaker 1: He talks about Kanye and jay Z and some of
Speaker 1: their comments. But here are some other phrases and things
Speaker 1: that he invented, pop tags. I made that one up. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm the one that named Hova. I made that up.
Speaker 1: What was the inspiration for the Hova too? Jahova? You know? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't dispute any of that. I mean
Speaker 1: that those are the first The first time I heard
Speaker 1: those phrases was from day so yeah, all right. Now,
Speaker 1: Jesse Smalat took the stand in his criminal trial. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a very risky thing to do because when you
Speaker 1: get cross examined, they are going to put you through it.
Speaker 1: This case is messy. Yes, so he's trying to rebut
Speaker 1: the charges that he staged a fake hate crime and
Speaker 1: lied to the police in Chicago about everything that happened
Speaker 1: in January of twenty nineteen. He was on the stand
Speaker 1: for over five hours, so he denied orchestrating the attack,
Speaker 1: and he said that the brothers who he knew from Empire,
Speaker 1: may have had other motivations at play. One of the
Speaker 1: things that he said was Bola Osandaro, who he calls bond,
Speaker 1: helped him get drugs, also helped him get cocaine. He
Speaker 1: also said they had a sexual relationship and that started
Speaker 1: between the two at a particular Chicago bathhouse. One night
Speaker 1: the two were and he testified they got a private
Speaker 1: room and did more drugs and made out. He also
Speaker 1: says that he and Bola snuck away from his brother
Speaker 1: after the three were at a female strip club together
Speaker 1: and they got a private room again and made out
Speaker 1: and masturbated together. Now, Bolo Osundaro has denied that they
Speaker 1: had a sexual relationship and said he didn't know that
Speaker 1: there was even any sexual tension. And Jesse Smolett also
Speaker 1: talked about the brother Ola. He said he kind of
Speaker 1: creaked me out every time we were around him. He
Speaker 1: didn't speak to me every time we needed to leave.
Speaker 1: He made it seem like we needed to sneak off. Now,
Speaker 1: there was a hate letter that was sent to Jesse
Speaker 1: Smollett and the mail at the Empire Studio and according
Speaker 1: to Jesse Smolette, he said Bola Osundaro approached him about
Speaker 1: becoming his personal security guard, and he said he would
Speaker 1: repeatedly ask him that, but he had a problem with
Speaker 1: the idea of always having a security detail around him.
Speaker 1: So those are some of the things. He also said
Speaker 1: that he didn't give a police detective his cell phone
Speaker 1: when they asked for it because he didn't think that
Speaker 1: the police believed his story. And he also said that
Speaker 1: the Maga hat was a lie. He told police, um,
Speaker 1: you know that that wasn't true, and he said that
Speaker 1: Chicago police his relationship with them started to deteriorate after
Speaker 1: they mentioned the Maga hats because that hat was favored
Speaker 1: by supporters of the president at the time, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So what is he alleged. He's alleging that they were
Speaker 1: disgruntled lovers who flipped out on him. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: he's trying to say maybe that part of the reason
Speaker 1: why they were having any type of interaction with each
Speaker 1: other was because they were lovers, but he didn't say
Speaker 1: he lied and he's lying about the Maga hat there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's admitting that he lied about the Maga hat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was no no Maga hat, so he said. Um.
Speaker 1: He rejected some of what has been reported, including that
Speaker 1: he told police his alleged attackers were wearing Maga hats.
Speaker 1: He said he never told the police that. Oh he
Speaker 1: said he lied on him. Yeah, he's saying he never
Speaker 1: said that, and he said under oath that there was
Speaker 1: no hoax. He said he was driving, smoking a blunt
Speaker 1: and texting with a woman after his MSNBC appearance when
Speaker 1: the Olsen Darrell brothers were in his car. And according
Speaker 1: to the brothers, they say that remember when they said
Speaker 1: that they were going through like a dress rehearsal of
Speaker 1: the hoax. He's saying that's not what happened. They just
Speaker 1: were in his car at that time and he was
Speaker 1: texting and smoking. He also says the night of the attack,
Speaker 1: Bola Olsen Dyral called him about his training and his
Speaker 1: mail plan and they told him to get four eggs.
Speaker 1: So he went to Walgreens to get eggs and that's
Speaker 1: when he was attacked. All I know is you know personally,
Speaker 1: whatever you know happens in this situation. I don't think
Speaker 1: Jesse deserves no three years in prison. I think that's
Speaker 1: what he's facing, right, three is in prison. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like no given probation of something. All he did was
Speaker 1: lie to the police. Well he's saying he didn't lie,
Speaker 1: so oh well yeah, okay, you're right, but even at
Speaker 1: the at the worst, at the worst, you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's a completely innocent or if he is guilty, Hinges
Speaker 1: lied to thee three years in prison, yeah, don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's enough evidence to say that he did
Speaker 1: it though, Like it's my word verse their word, Like
Speaker 1: there's not enough. There's no evidence that said that this
Speaker 1: was a hoax. Right, they don't have no no text,
Speaker 1: they don't have nothing to just their words versus Justesse's words, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so he's back on the stand today. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's enough to convict him if there's no evidence.
Speaker 1: It's just I didn't I can't believe this went to trial. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but all right, well that is your rumor report. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you, miss ye. Now we got front page news
Speaker 1: coming up. What we're talking about, Yes, we'll give you
Speaker 1: the latest. I'm what's going on with us? I'm a
Speaker 1: crime variant, all right, and next hour also, mahischela Ali
Speaker 1: will be joining us. You know him from Moonlight in
Speaker 1: Green Book. He's in the new movie Swan Song. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to him next time. He'll be playing Blade
Speaker 1: in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. All right. So front page
Speaker 1: news is next to the breakfast Club. Go morning, So
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Speaker 1: to breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now.
Speaker 1: Monday night football, Patriots beat the Bills fourteen to ten.
Speaker 1: Patriots ain't doing that bad the shit they't nine and
Speaker 1: four Buffalo Bills the seven to five? Now, what else
Speaker 1: we got? Easy? Instagram will now tell users when to
Speaker 1: take a break from using the app. So they launched
Speaker 1: their take a break tool today that will encourage you
Speaker 1: just to spend some time away from the platform after
Speaker 1: they've been scrolling for a certain period. So now you
Speaker 1: can turn on the feature in your settings and you
Speaker 1: can select if you want to be alerted after using
Speaker 1: the platform for ten minutes, twenty minutes, or thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: Then you'll get a full screen alert telling you to
Speaker 1: close out of the app, suggest that you take a
Speaker 1: deep breath, write something down, check out to do list,
Speaker 1: or listen to a song. That's great. So if you
Speaker 1: pay attention to yeah, no, no, that's great. All right, Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the latest on the Amicron variant. The
Speaker 1: US is reevaluating travel bands on a daily basis. This
Speaker 1: is important right now because I know the holidays are
Speaker 1: upon us and people are making plans. It's making it
Speaker 1: hard to even decide like where to go or what
Speaker 1: to do because you don't know where we'll be at
Speaker 1: that time. But doctor Anthony Fauci is saying that a
Speaker 1: US travel ban on South Africa and several other African
Speaker 1: countries is being re evaluated every day. He said the
Speaker 1: US was aware of the heart tip. The bands have
Speaker 1: placed on the countries, but he said the band was
Speaker 1: put in place when the US was in the dark
Speaker 1: and just learning about a surge in cases in South
Speaker 1: Africa due to the amicron variant, and added that the
Speaker 1: band was meant to provide time to assess the situation.
Speaker 1: So they did bar entry the travelers from South Africa,
Speaker 1: Botswana's and Babwe, Malawi. But the variant has now been
Speaker 1: identified in dozens of countries in several US states as well,
Speaker 1: So now there's new travel restrictions because of this variant
Speaker 1: in the UK, Australia, Japan, Brazil, can to India, Russia,
Speaker 1: and they're getting more and more information about cases. So
Speaker 1: if it's in all these places, that they're going to
Speaker 1: band travel for all these places as well, because we
Speaker 1: already told you starting in South Africa, right, well, we
Speaker 1: already told you starting yesterday, you have to have tested
Speaker 1: negative within twenty four hours. It used to be within
Speaker 1: three days, right and now it's within twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: So they've made that rule already. So Joe Biden also
Speaker 1: announced previously that there's new measures that are aimed at
Speaker 1: curbing the pandemic. All inbound international travelers have to be
Speaker 1: required to test within one day of departure for the
Speaker 1: United States and all flights departing after today. Yeah, starting
Speaker 1: today must have buy buy a new CDC testing order
Speaker 1: which was posted, So that's going to apply to everyone, Okay,
Speaker 1: and documentation of having recovered from COVID in the past
Speaker 1: ninety days it's also accepted. And I'm really confused with
Speaker 1: this because they're saying, no, morochrome might not be as
Speaker 1: they might not have as much damage to people as
Speaker 1: the delta variant or the regular areat right, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's not going so crazy over this variant. Well, they're
Speaker 1: saying it's more contagious, is what it looks like. So
Speaker 1: it might not be as damaging, but it could be
Speaker 1: more contagious. But again, it's still too early to know
Speaker 1: everything because it's a new variant, got so things come
Speaker 1: up all the time, so they're keeping an eye on it, right,
Speaker 1: all right, And taking viagra can cut your risk of
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's by up to sixty nine percent. Really, what a
Speaker 1: crazy percentage number to go with your viagra. But yes,
Speaker 1: so if you take viagra, according to research, it can
Speaker 1: slash your risk of Alzheimer's by two thirds, So you
Speaker 1: should take Viagra more. I mean, it's just the study.
Speaker 1: They did analyze data on seven point two million US adults,
Speaker 1: and they found that regular users had a sixty nine
Speaker 1: percent lower chance of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's over the
Speaker 1: next six years. You just gotta walk around with a
Speaker 1: third leg in your pants all day long if you're
Speaker 1: Nick Cannon. But I don't know everybody won't have that.
Speaker 1: Because you saw Nick Cannon went viral? Did you just
Speaker 1: go m no, yes you did. You didn't just go
Speaker 1: that wasn't before Nick Cannon? What's wrong with you? Man?
Speaker 1: So random? I say, Nick Cannon? You said no, I didn't.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that is your front Pace news. My goodness?
Speaker 1: All right? Now how do you pronounce Herschela Ali will
Speaker 1: be joining us. He's an actor, of course. He won
Speaker 1: an Oscar for his role in Moonlight in Green Book.
Speaker 1: He's in a new flick is called swan Song and
Speaker 1: premiers in theaters on Friday, December seventeen. He's an amazing actor,
Speaker 1: and you know Swansong is his first and leading role.
Speaker 1: You would think that in Green Book he was the
Speaker 1: lead in that movie, but he actually won the Oscar
Speaker 1: for Best Supporting Actor and in Moonlight, but everybody thought
Speaker 1: he was the lead. Okay, so I'm gonna kick with
Speaker 1: We're gonna kick it with Mirschela Ali when we come back,
Speaker 1: so don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne
Speaker 1: the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. We got a
Speaker 1: special guest in the building, indeed, Herchela Ali. Welcome, Robam, Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. How you feel. I'm good? I'm good,
Speaker 1: first time Goode's good? Today? Life is good? Man? How
Speaker 1: y'all doing? Blessed Black and Holly favorite brother? So let's
Speaker 1: get into it. Of course we're here to talk about
Speaker 1: swan Song first and foremost. And if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: did you produce this movie? Also, I'm one of the
Speaker 1: producers only Yeah, okay, So what you're you to this movie?
Speaker 1: In particular the dilemma I think the story is is
Speaker 1: really unique. Did I read correctly that this is your
Speaker 1: first leading role? First, that's nuts to me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I never thought that this, always
Speaker 1: thought you Yeah. Yeah. And also, first, it's been twenty
Speaker 1: years twenty one years. Yeah, and you did when oscars
Speaker 1: already I'm want to talk about support. How does that change?
Speaker 1: Some people would say, oh, these awards don't matter and
Speaker 1: say things like that. But winning an oscar, right, how
Speaker 1: did that change your trajectory? Or did it? Did it
Speaker 1: not matter to you? Did it change things? Oh? It
Speaker 1: definitely matter. Did it change things? You suddenly get more opportunity.
Speaker 1: Quantity doesn't always equal quality, though, you still have to
Speaker 1: sift through it all to make sure that you are
Speaker 1: are locking in on the opportunity that feels right for you.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that process though, of getting to the
Speaker 1: leading man status and everything about you says leading man, right,
Speaker 1: how do you humble yourself to I guess, play your
Speaker 1: position until you get to this point. So the sports
Speaker 1: analogy is, you know, you might be seventh eighth man
Speaker 1: on the bench, but you believe that you have the
Speaker 1: capacity to start, you know, And so I think what
Speaker 1: you try to do is every time you're playing, you
Speaker 1: just try to show up and do your job and
Speaker 1: try to prove that you are worthy of more minutes.
Speaker 1: So you just got to kind of keep doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing, keep your head down, do the best work
Speaker 1: you can do, try to keep growing and try not
Speaker 1: to repeat. You want to try to diversify, you know,
Speaker 1: so you might take something smaller just because it's so
Speaker 1: different from the last thing you did, because then the
Speaker 1: goal becomes about showing your range as an actor, so
Speaker 1: that eventually, when that right thing pops, people are just
Speaker 1: constantly seeing you in a different light. That's kind of
Speaker 1: been my approach to try to be patient and also
Speaker 1: just understand that as long as I'm doing my best work,
Speaker 1: that unfold in God's time. Did you ever make the
Speaker 1: wrong pick? Like, damn, I should have did this movie
Speaker 1: or that movie was great. I could have had an opportunity,
Speaker 1: but I didn't go that route. Did you ever make
Speaker 1: that mistake? It's you make that decision, you know. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that they are mistakes because I've grown.
Speaker 1: I've grown from every opportunity, and now I think that
Speaker 1: every role that you get, there's a reason why you
Speaker 1: got that role. That's that's my approach to it, because
Speaker 1: I've learned something from each role that I got it
Speaker 1: for a reason and it impacted me for a reason,
Speaker 1: and so as long as you're learning, it's less about
Speaker 1: making the right choice or the wrong choice. But it's
Speaker 1: more about can you look at your growth as a
Speaker 1: result of having just done this experience? What did you
Speaker 1: learn from green book? I think like stepping into it,
Speaker 1: especially coming off a moon, like I was looking to
Speaker 1: do something that felt really unique. And so when I
Speaker 1: look at somebody who was empowered enough in nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: one nineteen sixty two to hire a white man to
Speaker 1: drive him through the South, that I interpret that as
Speaker 1: almost somebody like flipping off the South, so to speak,
Speaker 1: like he had his own little ways of bucking the system.
Speaker 1: So when I looked at like his education, his experiences,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is somebody that I hadn't quite
Speaker 1: seen before. So that right there, I wanted to challenge myself. No, no,
Speaker 1: because I don't regret the work I did, and I
Speaker 1: don't regret regret what attracted me to it and why
Speaker 1: I did it. Now, in every situation, things get complicated
Speaker 1: at time, and so if anything, I think walking out
Speaker 1: of it you learn more about like what is due diligence.
Speaker 1: Going into a project, like you could do your due diligence,
Speaker 1: you ask some questions, Well, this is what I need,
Speaker 1: this is you know that I don't need, but then
Speaker 1: later on you kind of learned as things revealed. You're like,
Speaker 1: oh man, there's an extra set of questions that I
Speaker 1: could have asked. But you just also don't know what
Speaker 1: you don't know. And so that's just part of the
Speaker 1: experiences of growing and moving from being someone who is
Speaker 1: most often supporting something to almost in something, and that
Speaker 1: leap is a real leap, and so their awareness and
Speaker 1: all the details of that and how much of your
Speaker 1: life changes and the expectations and the responsibilities and all that.
Speaker 1: It's you learning too. You know, you're learning on the fly,
Speaker 1: and especially once you're working with like these big corporations
Speaker 1: and you're like, whoa, I don't agree with this trailer.
Speaker 1: This shouldn't be in it. It's out of context, and
Speaker 1: they go it tested. Well, You're like, what can you
Speaker 1: say to that? And so that's often the experience artists
Speaker 1: find themselves in, and you navigated, you learn from it,
Speaker 1: and you try to move on. And especially what happens
Speaker 1: is when you have studios and production companies, they're faceless, right,
Speaker 1: And so once that film comes out and it may
Speaker 1: do well in one part of a demographic and another
Speaker 1: part of the country, is not feeling it, especially as
Speaker 1: actors of color, you walk out kind of carrying that
Speaker 1: bag if you made all those choices or decisions when
Speaker 1: the faceless companies kind of like they own the next
Speaker 1: rollout for their next gig. So I learned a lot
Speaker 1: from it. Does that make you feel like you want
Speaker 1: to have more control as far as that's what maybe
Speaker 1: want to produce? I mean, it's not what made me
Speaker 1: want to produce, but it's something that added to the
Speaker 1: fuel behind behind wanting to produce because so often you're
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, and I'm sure you could talk to
Speaker 1: a healthy group of actors of color, because it's not
Speaker 1: just black actors, but where you find yourself where there
Speaker 1: isn't a black voice in the producerial role. So what
Speaker 1: happens is actors have to start saying like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: a problem with this scene. Can we try it this way?
Speaker 1: Because that could be problematic, And so that inherently becomes
Speaker 1: part of your job as an actor, though you will
Speaker 1: not be credited as a producer, but you're producing because
Speaker 1: you begin to start trying to protect the film and
Speaker 1: think about all these things that can impact the film
Speaker 1: and impact you as an artist. So in getting the
Speaker 1: producer at it. Often you're already doing that work anyway.
Speaker 1: So I've appreciated being able to move into that space
Speaker 1: because now there's a legit seat at the table. It's
Speaker 1: not like you're standing behind the people sitting at the
Speaker 1: table and being like, hey, can you fix this part
Speaker 1: because that could be problematic or this is actually what
Speaker 1: we need to go for here can you do that?
Speaker 1: And they may or may not listen to you that
Speaker 1: if you're producing and you're the face of it, it's
Speaker 1: a way to protect yourself and the story. Now Herschel
Speaker 1: to break down the movie Swan song, What is it about?
Speaker 1: The film is about a man who is dealing with
Speaker 1: a terminal illness and he is presented with an opportunity
Speaker 1: to clone himself. And so this is the not too
Speaker 1: distant future, so it's say it's like twenty forty. Part
Speaker 1: of it is that he just can't tell his family.
Speaker 1: And the reason he can't tell his family is because
Speaker 1: this process is new, so there's almost still in this
Speaker 1: semi testing phase of it. It's not like openly permitted yet.
Speaker 1: So with that said, considering that you have somebody who
Speaker 1: is relatively young, meaning the character on playing and the
Speaker 1: child who is like ten years old. You have somebody
Speaker 1: who's looking like feeling like they're dying before their time.
Speaker 1: The advantage that the clone has is that he has
Speaker 1: all the awareness that the original has, Like he has
Speaker 1: all the same memories, all the same he's him, No,
Speaker 1: he's him, he's him, but he just doesn't have the
Speaker 1: illness right. And so there's this thing where you feel
Speaker 1: like the clone is really about to take advantage of
Speaker 1: having this new opportunity at life. And so I feel
Speaker 1: like we all have that character's name is Jack the Clone.
Speaker 1: I think we all have a Jack Inness. We all
Speaker 1: have a higher potential, we all have our best self.
Speaker 1: So the work becomes about what do we have to
Speaker 1: do to manifest our best selves? Like how do we
Speaker 1: take stock and take inventory? Do we need a death sentence?
Speaker 1: Do you need the ticking clock that you're totally aware
Speaker 1: of to begin to like look at some of the
Speaker 1: changes you need to make in a lot in your
Speaker 1: own life. Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne, the guy we are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club is still kicking it with Reharcheal Ali.
Speaker 1: Of course you want to ask for his roles in
Speaker 1: Moonlighting Green book. He has a new flick Swan song.
Speaker 1: You ever get a sucking character, though, because it's like
Speaker 1: you do different characters, Yeah, from all aspects and players
Speaker 1: and all different people. Do you ever get stuck in
Speaker 1: the thing and can't get out? Um? And how do
Speaker 1: you get out of it? You know what I will say,
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever get stuck in character. But
Speaker 1: what I do think is I think you. I think
Speaker 1: there's things to take with you from each character. I
Speaker 1: think there's lessons to take with you, just like there's
Speaker 1: lessons to take from each relationship or each job. And
Speaker 1: so I try to take the things that impact me
Speaker 1: in a positive way from these from these characters. But
Speaker 1: each character comes with a certain degree of toxicity too, right,
Speaker 1: because you're living in somebody else's problems for twelve to
Speaker 1: eighteen hours a day, And so for me, there's a
Speaker 1: time in which I kind of need post shooting to
Speaker 1: sort of like almost mourn the character, like to kind
Speaker 1: of get it out of me, because you get in
Speaker 1: the rhythm and you get eat. I can't even eat
Speaker 1: sitting down. It's hard for me to eat sitting down
Speaker 1: because I'm just so used to rushing all the time.
Speaker 1: And you quick change and then you're back on set
Speaker 1: real quick and at a certain point you're like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this is not normal. Let me bring it down. I
Speaker 1: gotta let go of the stresses of this character that
Speaker 1: I've been living with for four months and begin to
Speaker 1: embrace my own again and kind of let that go.
Speaker 1: So it just it takes time to shake it, like
Speaker 1: I just feel it. Like I remember shooting Rock Rock
Speaker 1: Sanne Rock Sane No, but I had nightmares like the
Speaker 1: last week of shooting and that with that character, like
Speaker 1: for real, I've never had it like that before. And
Speaker 1: so there's a thing where your body doesn't necessarily know
Speaker 1: the difference from the messages you're telling it. And that's
Speaker 1: why you have to be so conscious of what what
Speaker 1: you're listening to, what you're taking in. I remember listening
Speaker 1: to the radio it's like twelve. I would turn the
Speaker 1: radio on at night and one time my mom came
Speaker 1: in and she was like, no, turn that off. You
Speaker 1: can't listen to it. I was like, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Like you know, She's like, no, there's messages
Speaker 1: that you need to be conscious of what you're listening to.
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to screw you. Guys up for people listening.
Speaker 1: But like, there's messages you need to be conscious of.
Speaker 1: And it's like if it's playing and you hear it
Speaker 1: and you know it, that's one thing. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: takes time to shake. I want to go back to
Speaker 1: something you said in regardless of Swan songs, does that
Speaker 1: movie change your perception of death and life? You know what?
Speaker 1: I think it encourages me to to live a little fooler.
Speaker 1: I think it encourages me to put my foot on
Speaker 1: the gas of it. I think it really encourages me
Speaker 1: to try to be as present as possible with my
Speaker 1: friends and loved ones right now. My grandfather told me
Speaker 1: years ago, he said, tell people how you feel right now,
Speaker 1: like and he you know, he started, he got teared
Speaker 1: up a little bit and he was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know where this was coming from. And he was like,
Speaker 1: I just want you to to know I love you, and
Speaker 1: you know, and that always stuck with me. I was
Speaker 1: about fifteen years old, and leading up to this, it
Speaker 1: just makes me think, like, you know, if there's something
Speaker 1: I want to do, there's something there I want to try,
Speaker 1: if there's a change I want to make. There's one
Speaker 1: thing in like thinking about it and kind of road
Speaker 1: mapping it out through your head. But there's another thing
Speaker 1: in like a very New York thing, just go. And
Speaker 1: I think that for me is the message, you know,
Speaker 1: because I just want to make sure that I stay
Speaker 1: in motion, you know. And I think if we keep
Speaker 1: like marching forward, that's all we got because you know,
Speaker 1: all of our numbers are going to be called like
Speaker 1: a really safe space too, where we're comfortable with the
Speaker 1: routine of what we're doing in our lives. We know
Speaker 1: we have this steady paycheck and you're like scared to
Speaker 1: go out and take a risk doing something else. So
Speaker 1: did you ever have that experience in your career. I've
Speaker 1: had that experience most of the time. And that's a muscle,
Speaker 1: the reaction to that. When I start feeling comfortable, I
Speaker 1: found myself reacting in ways where that voice gets louder
Speaker 1: and you could kind of work to or it, but
Speaker 1: eventually you need to react. So when I was on
Speaker 1: a House of Cards, which is a huge show, it
Speaker 1: was after the beginning is I don't know, I was
Speaker 1: season three and I started asking to get off the show,
Speaker 1: and I had friends and family going like, are you crazy?
Speaker 1: This thing is huge, like why you want to get
Speaker 1: off the show? And I was concerned with getting comfortable
Speaker 1: and finding myself as how I interpreted just another dude
Speaker 1: on the show, and so it was important for me
Speaker 1: to move on, to keep building towards what I saw
Speaker 1: for myself, which was Swan song. You know what I
Speaker 1: mean in a way of like I want to move up,
Speaker 1: and I just didn't want to be on somebody's show,
Speaker 1: always supporting other people's narrative. So Chao came to me
Speaker 1: doing Luke Cage and he was like, yo, you want
Speaker 1: to do this show? And I was like, I just
Speaker 1: got off a House of cards. He was like, he's
Speaker 1: gonna die. I was like, cool. I was the only
Speaker 1: reason I did it though, because they're gonna kill it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done it otherwise, Wow, I just got
Speaker 1: off of the show. Well, I didn't want to get stuck.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be on another show for it.
Speaker 1: I've already done, like I came into it and Crossing
Speaker 1: Jordan two thousand and one. I did my first year there.
Speaker 1: I got fired after one year or whatever, but everyone
Speaker 1: else was on there for seven years and I watched
Speaker 1: it happen. It was the best thing that could have
Speaker 1: happened to me. Honestly, I would ended up on like
Speaker 1: the forty four hundred and asked for a three year deal,
Speaker 1: so that was gonna be short, and everyone else was
Speaker 1: in six year deal. So I always was trying to
Speaker 1: make sure that I couldn't get too comfortable, because, especially
Speaker 1: as an actor, you don't want to get stuck as
Speaker 1: one thing, like because that is death or an actor
Speaker 1: to only but I hear you, and that's that was
Speaker 1: a real concern. And for me, it's always been about
Speaker 1: trying to diversify and make sure that I wasn't repeating
Speaker 1: or playing the same character, and making sure that I'm
Speaker 1: always pushing myself. Otherwise, for me, if I don't feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: then I know I'm not growing. And so if something
Speaker 1: feels like it's starting to get easy, as much as like,
Speaker 1: I love when things get easy, but at the same
Speaker 1: time you're like yeah, and then I get unhappy in
Speaker 1: a real way. And so I already know that about myself,
Speaker 1: so I kind of have to keep pushing myself and
Speaker 1: figuring out, all right, how am I gonna take on
Speaker 1: something that scares me a bit. There's there's plenty there's
Speaker 1: plenty to work out. There's so much about that that
Speaker 1: is that is challenging, just in general that you know,
Speaker 1: I got my hands full, and even in doing it
Speaker 1: and then wanting to do other stuff, I don't want
Speaker 1: to just be bladed like that is one character. And honestly,
Speaker 1: as huge as that is, is huge as the Marvel
Speaker 1: cinematic universes and all of that is amazing. All these
Speaker 1: characters are important to me equally. That's all. You say
Speaker 1: that you were losing sleep over your voice over role
Speaker 1: in the Eternals, and I'm like, why your voice is amazing? No, well,
Speaker 1: I'm talking character though, and so, and all I meant
Speaker 1: by that was if you're doing vocal work for something
Speaker 1: your months away from filming, you're still putting together all
Speaker 1: those things in your head. You're like body starting to change,
Speaker 1: which is gonna change your voice? You don't know if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go with something a little deeper. You don't
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna so suddenly when someone's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we need you to voice something, You're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: was coming to that in its natural order. And so
Speaker 1: it's just something that felt premature, because otherwise you would
Speaker 1: never do that. You talk about doing radio, got that
Speaker 1: quiet stone voice, but like to hear that. But no, no,
Speaker 1: no radio. But I respect I respect it, I respect it.
Speaker 1: All right. We have more with rehearsal Ali when we
Speaker 1: come back, don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne, the guy we
Speaker 1: are to Breakfast Club is still kicking it with rehearsal Ali.
Speaker 1: Of course you want to Oscar for his roles and
Speaker 1: moon Lay Green Book. He has a new flick swan song.
Speaker 1: Where were you an artist? At one point? I'm still
Speaker 1: an artist though I make beats. I was on Hieroglyphics
Speaker 1: Imperium the label, and doing some stuff before that. So
Speaker 1: I've always been involved in in music in some way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. You know, if you grow up in
Speaker 1: the era, can't separate yourself. You love doing Roxan roxand
Speaker 1: because of that, you know, are you kidding me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I had the ute Phone records or some of my
Speaker 1: early records like Utfo, Houdini, Fat Boys, like all those
Speaker 1: whore I was doing yeah like no, like yeah, like no.
Speaker 1: And my dad was a New Yorker, so I was out.
Speaker 1: I'm from California, from the Bay Area, but my dad
Speaker 1: had moved to New York when I was when I
Speaker 1: was three, and so I was coming out here and
Speaker 1: growing up and getting a taste in New York for
Speaker 1: the summer, and then I would go back to the
Speaker 1: Bay and I was like, I couldn't explain it. So
Speaker 1: what about Roxan Roxand how was that for you? Doing
Speaker 1: that and having that musical background Roxand was was both
Speaker 1: a dream a nightmare. And what I mean is that
Speaker 1: the playing this character cross who is you know, violent,
Speaker 1: you know, hitting her like we we all know the story.
Speaker 1: It was honored to be a service of her truth.
Speaker 1: I gotta be the bad guy, but she's gonna win
Speaker 1: in the end in some way, right, so you gotta
Speaker 1: give over to that. And that's the only thing that
Speaker 1: really gave me peace about it. So to do something
Speaker 1: to help tell an icon story and her in particular,
Speaker 1: was a great thing to be able to do, especially
Speaker 1: having a real relationship to the music and being aware
Speaker 1: at that time as a kid growing up. But what
Speaker 1: was hard was like the actual like physical act of it.
Speaker 1: And you know, you gotta go there, you gotta push
Speaker 1: yourself and then you gotta do it like take after
Speaker 1: take after take, So you like pretending to beat somebody
Speaker 1: up and strangling them and acting like crazy for six
Speaker 1: hours of the day like that, don't just go away.
Speaker 1: You gotta shake that off. Do you question yourself an
Speaker 1: acting nowadays when you're doing that, Because I was talking
Speaker 1: to Megan Good recently and she was saying how when
Speaker 1: she does sex act, she thinks people look at it
Speaker 1: and think that's how she really gets down. In this
Speaker 1: era of cancel culture, people be like, oh, he must
Speaker 1: really do that to women. Look how he does it
Speaker 1: so well. You know, I try not to think about
Speaker 1: it that way. I'm always a little surprised when people
Speaker 1: I feel like Danny Glover had stayed impacted by his
Speaker 1: part in Color Purple. I'm serious, like I felt like
Speaker 1: that there's not a sweeter man on the planet. But
Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes people play roles so well that
Speaker 1: it's hard for folks to get that thing out of
Speaker 1: their head and they do associate you with that character.
Speaker 1: So it's something to be to be really mindful of.
Speaker 1: But like a career as a mosaic, right, Like, there's
Speaker 1: all these tiles in it each role you play, and
Speaker 1: when you step away you step back from it, there's
Speaker 1: a picture, right you look at Denzel. Denzel's career and
Speaker 1: there's all these characters in there. There's characters that are
Speaker 1: icons and heroes as characters that are normal people. He's
Speaker 1: got a villain up in there. You know. When you
Speaker 1: step away, you go, oh, you see the spine of
Speaker 1: his work, you see the picture of his work, and
Speaker 1: you get a sense of his essence as a person.
Speaker 1: But you're not gonna hopefully you don't judge him by
Speaker 1: one character he played, Like, really, well, when did you
Speaker 1: start to realize the power of intention? M That's a
Speaker 1: good question, man, that's a good question. You know what
Speaker 1: I would probably say a little over twenty years ago
Speaker 1: when I converted to Islam, Like one of the things
Speaker 1: that you do is you state your intention before you pray.
Speaker 1: So I intend to make my fudgered prayer like my
Speaker 1: morning prayer whatever. And then it kind of led to
Speaker 1: me thinking more about like the importance of writing things down,
Speaker 1: Like I know, I remember one time I wrote down
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe like two thousand and six or
Speaker 1: seven or something like that. I wrote down these goals
Speaker 1: that I wanted to do. I want the book a pilot,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this that another I wrote
Speaker 1: them down. I kept it in my wallet. I remember
Speaker 1: I pulled it out some time later and I like, wow,
Speaker 1: all these things happen. And also growing up with my grandmother, well,
Speaker 1: being around my grandmother a lot, she was always like
Speaker 1: filling my head with certain things. Tell yourself, you have
Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars. She's been telling me that since
Speaker 1: I was a little kid. Like I was like, that's
Speaker 1: a crazy amount of money. But okay, you know, and
Speaker 1: you start telling your things yourself things, and so I was.
Speaker 1: I've gotten messages as as a little kid about like
Speaker 1: being conscious of what you think and what you tell yourself,
Speaker 1: and to to don't be afraid to state your intention
Speaker 1: because it will help you. It'll kind of be like
Speaker 1: when behind your back ever reason, I have to because
Speaker 1: everything just hearing you talk, it feels like everything you
Speaker 1: do is intentional, not everything. But I try. I try
Speaker 1: to be intentional. I do try. You know, how did
Speaker 1: you feel when Wesley Snipe said you'll you'll do a
Speaker 1: great job in Blade Man? Humbled and so encouraged by that,
Speaker 1: because then you have to say that, like you know
Speaker 1: what nobody really asking him for him to come out
Speaker 1: and say that, you know, somebody I look up to
Speaker 1: so much. I sincerely appreciated that, so thank you brother.
Speaker 1: Has there been any talks about because you know, we
Speaker 1: got the multiverse and more, have there been any talks about,
Speaker 1: you know, him reprising. I can't talk about I can't
Speaker 1: even really, you know, they put the hush that's pretty
Speaker 1: good at the questions. Yeah, I can't even. I can't even.
Speaker 1: I really can't really talk about anything. But how much
Speaker 1: pressure to do? I'm learning it's a lot of pressure. Man,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. But other people have done it and
Speaker 1: survived and succeeded, So you know, I'm just gonna try
Speaker 1: to set myself up to do to it the absolute
Speaker 1: best work I could do. What's the next thing for
Speaker 1: you that you're scared of to accomplish that You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get too comfortable, like we've been
Speaker 1: talking about not getting too comfortable in the space, and
Speaker 1: so you have to figure out, Okay, now I want
Speaker 1: to do this that I've never done before direct and
Speaker 1: you know, God willing not have happened at some point.
Speaker 1: Is there something on the table now? I mean I've
Speaker 1: had a couple of things pop up, but it's been
Speaker 1: I've said no because of just knowing what is on
Speaker 1: my acting slate and how I kind of have to do.
Speaker 1: Even if I'm doing multiple things, I have to do
Speaker 1: one thing at a time. So maybe I got something
Speaker 1: else on the calendar on that day, but I can't
Speaker 1: be doing the thing I'm doing and prepping for the
Speaker 1: other thing. I'm just I'm not really good at that
Speaker 1: will be your dream role? You'd like to tell m
Speaker 1: sty Oh, you know what that was? Marvin Gaye for
Speaker 1: me for a long time, I can't. I can't say
Speaker 1: what it would be now. I think, you know, there's
Speaker 1: other people out there that are right for that, but
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I honestly, I would have to
Speaker 1: say that I'm kind of living it in the way
Speaker 1: of like just getting the play this character in a
Speaker 1: Swan song, even just the range and like just what
Speaker 1: it asked of me, just playing even two characters, like
Speaker 1: it was all pretty challenging, but in a positive way.
Speaker 1: How far away do you think we are from cloning people?
Speaker 1: You think there's some clones out there? It would be Hey,
Speaker 1: the real meat might be at home, right You know,
Speaker 1: we always like I wish I had a clone. You
Speaker 1: might be in London press. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know who who who knows, but it's but doing
Speaker 1: this make you feel like in twenty years it's nice
Speaker 1: for real. Half of course, when the watch that can
Speaker 1: reproduce now cloone sheep, who knows? Yeah, yeah, I'm they
Speaker 1: working on it. Somebody looked all them dudes up there
Speaker 1: flying to space. I'm sure they're trying to hang out
Speaker 1: on a little bit earlier too. So just come one
Speaker 1: song the seven seventeenth in theaters on on a Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus, and we appreciate you for joining us, Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me. Good to see yo. We're gonna play
Speaker 1: one of your beats that you produce back in the day.
Speaker 1: Herschela Ala, the hell is herschel He's looking at your
Speaker 1: skin complexion, chocolate, that's what yourschel. My real name, my
Speaker 1: birth name is my HERSCHELI hashpots. It's in the Bible Isaiah,
Speaker 1: chapter eight, verse one and three. It's the longest name.
Speaker 1: You just called this man Hershey's bro. You know it's
Speaker 1: all good. They called me that grow growing up. I
Speaker 1: got I got called hershey a couple of times. Man
Speaker 1: I was like, no, can't, we can't do that. Get
Speaker 1: to that Herchela at least the Breakfast Club. It's about
Speaker 1: this Angela the breakfast Club. Well, Jack Queens went viral,
Speaker 1: and that is for singing the national anthem at the
Speaker 1: Lakers game. And people enjoyed this. Listen to it or
Speaker 1: the ram pot twee we're so good shraming and the
Speaker 1: Rockets recol What do you think that's pretty good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he said, my first time singing the national anthem
Speaker 1: at the Staples Center, r Cobe shout out the whole
Speaker 1: Lakers squad and then he said, la was legendary. One
Speaker 1: of them times I'll never forget. You know they always
Speaker 1: talk about. They said that Fergie had the worst national
Speaker 1: anthem rendition the NBA All Star Game back in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people were you know it was
Speaker 1: it was pretty bad, but oh my goodness, but that's
Speaker 1: entertaining if you had the game laughing. I remember the
Speaker 1: play is laughing. What she did. Remember that her husband
Speaker 1: was mad. He said that Jamond Green old her an
Speaker 1: apology because he was laughing. Everybody was laughing though, and
Speaker 1: you know, they made it into a children's book, that
Speaker 1: horrible singer. Yeah, the furg American national anthem. I don't
Speaker 1: matter if they get paid, Okay, Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: don't know if she did, but I guess they would
Speaker 1: have to get clearance from her in order for that
Speaker 1: to happen. Absolutely, yes, but shout out to him all right? Um? Now,
Speaker 1: Punked and Dish MANTLD has been set for a season
Speaker 1: two premieres at oh Coup. So there were two of
Speaker 1: the unscripted Quibby originals that were renewed for a second season.
Speaker 1: While Quimby existed, that was definitely a quick bite. Quimby
Speaker 1: came and went, but Punked was hosted by Chance the
Speaker 1: Rapper was renewed in June of twenty twenty, so their
Speaker 1: second season role premiere on Friday. Some of the guests
Speaker 1: include Tiffany Hattish, Little Nas, x Odell Beckham Junior, Tiana Taylor,
Speaker 1: Miguel Carucci, Kate Upton. Here here's what it sounds like
Speaker 1: from the trailer. Oh, I think my water just broke. Tiffany,
Speaker 1: don't want nothing to do with that wrecking ball just
Speaker 1: falling on my coffee? Are you kitty drop it? I'm
Speaker 1: definitely remember having a bait. I always love punk man.
Speaker 1: I love the Pump with Jady Kiss was a funny
Speaker 1: one with Kanye West was another funny, funny one. I
Speaker 1: love Pump. Yeah, I feel like they could punk you easily.
Speaker 1: Definitely catch me. I do absolutely. You will get cursed
Speaker 1: out in a minute. To set that up, sir. Your
Speaker 1: cars didn't arrive at the car show. I will be
Speaker 1: a good one. That will be a good one. And
Speaker 1: I had my calls on, oh my goodness, don't play
Speaker 1: with me, do not play with me. We have to wait,
Speaker 1: make sure they get there first, and then do that.
Speaker 1: Don't play with me. Okay. And by the way, since
Speaker 1: we just mentioned Miguel saying that he called off his
Speaker 1: divorce from his wife, they actually were spotted having a
Speaker 1: romantic dinner a few weeks ago after they had broken up,
Speaker 1: and so it looks like that two of them are
Speaker 1: back on again. So happy to see that they hopefully
Speaker 1: worked it out. Yeah, that's that's a great thing. I
Speaker 1: love to see love like that. And you know, they've
Speaker 1: been together a long time, so sometimes you get in
Speaker 1: the arguments things go a little too far. And seventeen
Speaker 1: years they've been together, you got to reset. Me and
Speaker 1: a wife been together twenty seven years, so sometimes you
Speaker 1: gotta reset. I can't take this guy out. I'm sure
Speaker 1: she does that all the time. All right. And Nick Cannon,
Speaker 1: we were talking about how Nick Cannon was trending, and
Speaker 1: then when you went to find out why he was trending,
Speaker 1: it was because of the suit that he had on
Speaker 1: that was kind of tight, and I guess you could
Speaker 1: see his print. And we talked about this earlier, and
Speaker 1: they found that regular users had a sixty nine percent
Speaker 1: lower chance of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's over the next
Speaker 1: six years. You just gotta walk around with a third
Speaker 1: leg in your pants all day long if you're Nick Cannon.
Speaker 1: But I don't know everybody won't have that. Because you
Speaker 1: saw Nick Cannon, did you just go yes, she did?
Speaker 1: What did you lie? I didn't know. I said I
Speaker 1: was on purpose. I was a reaction. I wasn't talking
Speaker 1: about Nick Cannon. Well, Damon Dash would say, paulse all right,
Speaker 1: And QC Sports has announced the launch of their no
Speaker 1: full service basketball division, so congratulations to them. They also
Speaker 1: have announced Derek Powell as global head of Basketball. He
Speaker 1: has twenty two years of NBA insight negotiation and agency experience.
Speaker 1: That's what you got to do when you venture into something,
Speaker 1: you gotta get somebody on the team that actually has
Speaker 1: been doing that for quite some time. Correct, So congratulations
Speaker 1: to them for a QC Sports. And Travis Scott wants
Speaker 1: the Astro World lawsuit dismissed and he doesn't believe that
Speaker 1: he should be tied to litigation when it comes to
Speaker 1: the tragedy that happened, So he's asking a judge to
Speaker 1: get rid of one of the lawsuits against him. Now,
Speaker 1: he just filed legal documents denying the claims against him
Speaker 1: by a guy named jesse Garcia. Jesse Garcia says he
Speaker 1: was in the crowd at the festival, and he's saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, as it pertains to himself, his company, and
Speaker 1: his foundation, Cactus Jack. He's doing a general denial. That's
Speaker 1: a legal term in civil suits that allows when to
Speaker 1: submit one blanket response to all of the allegations against them.
Speaker 1: So he wants to make it clear that the deaths
Speaker 1: and injuries are not his responsibility, and he wants the
Speaker 1: judge to toss the suit against him and his entities.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. Yeah, I don't think the
Speaker 1: judge is going to drop that, but I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily believe he should be accountable. You know, he's performing,
Speaker 1: he's an artist there. He didn't hire the security, pay
Speaker 1: for the venue and all that other stuff. I don't
Speaker 1: think he should be liable for all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in court. It's gonna be a court
Speaker 1: for a long time. Right. He said he was unaware
Speaker 1: of what was going on that night, So that's what
Speaker 1: he's saying. He didn't realize that's what's happening. And you
Speaker 1: can tell because it was one incident where somebody did
Speaker 1: pass out. He stopped, he made short, security got the
Speaker 1: mountain and he continued perform. And he didn't know that
Speaker 1: people were passing out and dying. I'm sure if he
Speaker 1: had known that, he would have stopped it. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's an artist. I'm sure sometimes people pass out a
Speaker 1: lot when they when they're performing. All right, well that
Speaker 1: is your rumor reports. All right, thank you miss yet.
Speaker 1: Now when we come back, Charlemagne got donkey today, so
Speaker 1: don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: your morning's will never be the same. It's here, the
Speaker 1: most star studded black western ever made the Heart of
Speaker 1: day Fall, directed by James Samuel, alongside a killer soundtrack
Speaker 1: that features original songs by jay Z, Kid Cutty and Moore.
Speaker 1: Watch now on Netflix and stream the soundtrack now on
Speaker 1: all platforms. This don't be a dusty because right now
Speaker 1: you want some real It's time for Donkey of the Day.
Speaker 1: So if we ever feel I need to be a
Speaker 1: dust man, get it with the hero. Did she get
Speaker 1: the lease? I had become Donkey of the Day practice club?
Speaker 1: Bitches Donkey to Day for Tuesday December seventh goes to
Speaker 1: the CEO or Better dot Com Visual Guard. That's his name,
Speaker 1: Visual garg. Now what is better dot Com? Well? Better
Speaker 1: dot Com is a mortgage company that launched in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and they are a director lender providing online mortgage financing.
Speaker 1: But fall at doesn't matter what service the company provides
Speaker 1: for the people, because what it did two which people,
Speaker 1: was a complete disservice. See. I'm a proud forty three
Speaker 1: year old man, Okay, I love every bit of my age,
Speaker 1: every minute, every second. So I'm a bit more old
Speaker 1: schools than most, So some of this new stuff. I
Speaker 1: just can't get jiggie with. Okay, see I just said
Speaker 1: get jiggi with. I did that on purpose. People, Relax,
Speaker 1: But what do ceo of Better dot Com did? I
Speaker 1: just can't get with. Let's go to CBS two New
Speaker 1: York for the report police. It was a mass zoom
Speaker 1: call where employees logged on and learned they were being
Speaker 1: fired weeks before Christmas. In a video that has gone viral,
Speaker 1: you hear Vishal Garg, the CEO of Better dot Com,
Speaker 1: giving the bad news. For some, it's reminiscent of the
Speaker 1: movie Up in the Air starring George Clooney, where firing
Speaker 1: people in person instead of via teleconference was part of
Speaker 1: the plotline. This was real life, though, for some nine
Speaker 1: hundred employees of the digital mortgage lender, which has offices
Speaker 1: in Oakland, California. Now, look, I'm old school, and I
Speaker 1: also could be projecting right now, because I've been fired
Speaker 1: like seven times in my life. Four times from radio,
Speaker 1: once from Taco Bell, once from a cloven store called
Speaker 1: Demo in the mall, once from a factory called Industrial
Speaker 1: Acoustics Company. So that's seven times I've been fired in
Speaker 1: my life, and every single time I've gotten fired except
Speaker 1: one I got fired face to face. See, I respect
Speaker 1: when you look somebody in the eye and tell them
Speaker 1: you are moving in another direction. Okay, the one time
Speaker 1: I didn't get fired face to face was because my
Speaker 1: black ass chose radio slute to Ze ninety three jams
Speaker 1: and Charleston, South Carolina. I chose radio over Demo and
Speaker 1: north Ford's mall and I just simply, you know, didn't
Speaker 1: go in. So my manager at the time, Nikki, she
Speaker 1: did what she had to do. Salute the Nikki dropping
Speaker 1: on the cluees bombs for Nikki. I appreciate you, queen.
Speaker 1: Now radio is even better. They don't just fire you,
Speaker 1: they have hr escort you out. That's why I never
Speaker 1: keep anything in any office at a radio station I
Speaker 1: work at to this day. At the breakfast club, I
Speaker 1: don't have no damn office. I mean there is one
Speaker 1: back there, you know, for us, but I don't use
Speaker 1: it because, hey, you just never know. I'm traumatized. So
Speaker 1: I'm saying all that to say that visual guard is
Speaker 1: a coward. Now, maybe in this era that we live in,
Speaker 1: folks get fired all the time via zoom. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, Maybe they still following some type of cold
Speaker 1: with protocol. But if you have to fire people, call
Speaker 1: them in the office and do it one at a time. Okay,
Speaker 1: getting fired shouldn't be no damn group project. Even when
Speaker 1: it was mass layoffs in two thousand and eight, I
Speaker 1: believe we still got called in the office individually, at
Speaker 1: least I did. Okay. Granted it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty of us getting fired and not nine hundred, But damn,
Speaker 1: you're gonna fire nine hundred people before the holidays, and
Speaker 1: didn't say HR will send you an email detailing benefits
Speaker 1: in severance. Wow. Now Ivicial has been involved in this
Speaker 1: type of scandal before. In fact, this is the second
Speaker 1: time in his career he's fired employees like this. In fact,
Speaker 1: he said the last time he did it, he cried, listen,
Speaker 1: and I do not want to do this. The last
Speaker 1: time I did it, I cried. This time, I hope
Speaker 1: to be stronger. But we are laying off about fifteen
Speaker 1: percent of the company. If you're on this call, you
Speaker 1: are part of the unlucky group, you dude, being laid off.
Speaker 1: That's right, f you, dude. And this wasn't even his
Speaker 1: first controversy. He once sent an email to his staff
Speaker 1: saying you are too damn slow. You are a bunch
Speaker 1: of dumb dolphins, So stop it, stop it, stop it
Speaker 1: right now. You are embarrassing me in quote. First of all, Visual,
Speaker 1: how dare you insult dolphins in this way. I can't
Speaker 1: speak for your staff. I don't know your staff, but
Speaker 1: dumb dolphins is an oxymoron. Dolphins are one of the
Speaker 1: smartest animals in the world. Dolphins are notoriously talented mimics.
Speaker 1: They are quick learners. They demonstrate self awareness, problem solving, empathy, innovation,
Speaker 1: teaching skills, grief, joy, and playfulness. Dolphins. Okay, you are
Speaker 1: bugging if you think dolphins are dumb. I don't know
Speaker 1: your staff, but I know dolphins. So if you're calling
Speaker 1: dolphins dumb, then Visual, you might really be the one
Speaker 1: who lacks intelligence. We already know you lack emotional intelligence
Speaker 1: by the way you fired your nine hundred employees. Does
Speaker 1: everything have to be dig nowadays? That's my question? Why
Speaker 1: does everything have to be so impersonal? Give me the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that walk of shame with HR out
Speaker 1: of the building, Give me that opportunity to curse you
Speaker 1: out in person. How can I tell someone. When one
Speaker 1: door closes, another one opens. If I didn't even get
Speaker 1: the chance to walk out the first door, what do
Speaker 1: we say now when somebody gets fired, or when you
Speaker 1: lose a job, or what do you say when one
Speaker 1: zoom meeting ends another one begins? Come on, man, technology
Speaker 1: is really making the world impersonal. The impersonal Internet has
Speaker 1: really replaced the human touch. Maybe this is the new wave.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I don't like it. Please give
Speaker 1: Visual Guard, CEO of better dot Com, the biggest he had.
Speaker 1: In fact, let remy ma give him the biggest he
Speaker 1: har he ha he ha, you stupid motherfar are you dumb?
Speaker 1: I thank you for that. Donkey of the day. Now,
Speaker 1: when we come back, Ralph McDaniel's uncle Ralph will be
Speaker 1: joining us. He's the hosting creator of Video Music Box,
Speaker 1: one of the first shows to play hip hop videos.
Speaker 1: All right, that's probably where a lot of these other
Speaker 1: places got the idea from. So we're gonnakick it with
Speaker 1: Uncle Ralph when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club. Your morning's
Speaker 1: will never be the same morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building, Uncle Ralph,
Speaker 1: Ralph McDaniel. Let's say, hey, good to be here, Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm honored right now. Congratulations, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the documentary on Video Music Box. Yeah. I watched
Speaker 1: it yesterday. I was I was hungover, so I was
Speaker 1: laying on the couch and I just turned it on.
Speaker 1: Oh good. Thoroughly enjoyed it, enjoyed its staples here in
Speaker 1: the Try State area. I remember it was video music
Speaker 1: back and it was New York hat. Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're showing your age now with New York. I have
Speaker 1: cable right if I wanted to see videos the only
Speaker 1: place back then you really could see it if you
Speaker 1: caught one of those shows thirty one, Yes Town thirty one.
Speaker 1: And you know, look, this has been something that we've
Speaker 1: been wanting to do. I've been working on this project
Speaker 1: for ten years. So we went to a bunch of
Speaker 1: hoops to get to showtime and master appeal, and then
Speaker 1: Naas came in and said, I want to get this right.
Speaker 1: And I almost cried when he said that, because I
Speaker 1: was like, what are you talking about, bro? How do
Speaker 1: you go through all that footage. Yeah, because you have
Speaker 1: a lot of footage. Now, if you don't know video
Speaker 1: music boxes, it's a video show that started off playing
Speaker 1: hip hop videos when nobody else would it was it
Speaker 1: wasn't on cable, so it was Channel thirty one, one
Speaker 1: of the high channels, and after school we'd all run
Speaker 1: home to go watch it. Yes, but you have footage
Speaker 1: of years. Man, how did you go through the footage
Speaker 1: to decide what you're gonna put in this documentary? Because
Speaker 1: the documentary was what ninety minutes? Ninety minutes? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: could have went to me for three hours and it
Speaker 1: would have been interesting. But you know, showtime was like easy,
Speaker 1: take it, easy path. So but you know, we filled
Speaker 1: up that ninety minutes with so much stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: so many interviews were left on the editing floor. M
Speaker 1: it was difficult to to really shave it all down
Speaker 1: to ninety minutes. But you know, you got the eighties
Speaker 1: and the nineties. I said, the nineties are super important.
Speaker 1: Let's make sure that we got the nineties and makes
Speaker 1: make sure we got them more of that than the
Speaker 1: eighties because there's a lot more people around from the nineties.
Speaker 1: So let's touch on that. And I liked the nineties
Speaker 1: era myself a perspective, such a such a full circle
Speaker 1: moment for you to you didna this first video? Yes?
Speaker 1: And then for him to be executive producing this with
Speaker 1: with Massive hill Man, how did that feel? Um Naas
Speaker 1: came in and I looked at him and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, this is something that I think
Speaker 1: you're going to enjoy. And originally he was the executive producer,
Speaker 1: he wasn't the director, and then he's somewhere in the
Speaker 1: middle set now I'm going to direct this and I
Speaker 1: want to get this right, Ralph, and and I just was,
Speaker 1: you know, it was, you know, like I did. It
Speaker 1: ain't hard to tell. The first single off of Illmatic,
Speaker 1: I directed that, and this thing called it ePK was
Speaker 1: really the thing that really broke Nahs in New York
Speaker 1: because it was like an interview with all the producers
Speaker 1: and all the people that were involved. I went to
Speaker 1: his house hung out in Queensbridge. It was just like
Speaker 1: a little short documentary that I did from Nah. So
Speaker 1: now he's doing, you know, my thing, and I'm like bugging.
Speaker 1: I'm like wow, like this is the god Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: one of those things. It's like, Yo, you never know
Speaker 1: who's gonna be who. That's why you should show everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody love, key key. You know. We see people all
Speaker 1: the time that come up, and I always show people
Speaker 1: respect because I don't know, first of all, because I'm
Speaker 1: from the street and I understand respect the street, you know,
Speaker 1: because we got to go out there in these in
Speaker 1: these blocks all the time, you know, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: we don't want no problems out here, so I never
Speaker 1: know who's who, and let's continue to respect him. And
Speaker 1: I think that people say, man, you be out here,
Speaker 1: you know, you on the av and you in this place,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you don't got no bodyguards. They'd be
Speaker 1: looking around, like where do I'm like, I'm good, what's up.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask that you ever got into any
Speaker 1: any any problems because like with Fat Joe said on
Speaker 1: the documentary, yeah, you know, I'm on my block and
Speaker 1: they say video music box, the party down the block.
Speaker 1: And you were in the Bronx, You went in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: you went to la you went to Ye, you went
Speaker 1: to the hood, you on Jamaica Avenue, you you were
Speaker 1: in the hoods. Did you ever have a prom at all, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we probably did. But my man Beasts, Yeah
Speaker 1: you highlighted them in the day. Yeah, But Beasts is
Speaker 1: not like my security. He was my friend, you know,
Speaker 1: like we weren't like you know people. He did security
Speaker 1: for all these other people like that. You know, he
Speaker 1: became known for white cleft and everything. And he's known.
Speaker 1: He's in the Shots movie and everybody knows him for
Speaker 1: shot Is because he blows up the whole place is
Speaker 1: he's acting, right. But but Beasts was official, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, he's official cat, you know. And and so
Speaker 1: we kept guys like that. They just hung around it.
Speaker 1: I tell you tell people list a lot of not Beasts,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the other guys that worked with us.
Speaker 1: All had come home from jail. They needed an opportunity.
Speaker 1: And I said, loo, I'm gonna give you all the
Speaker 1: opportunity to work with me, but you can't screw it up,
Speaker 1: you know. And most of those guys took it and
Speaker 1: ran with it and did the right thing. Now, Video
Speaker 1: Music Box was really just in the Tri State area,
Speaker 1: but people knew about it from all over. Why do
Speaker 1: you think it never ended up going national? Well, in
Speaker 1: the dock, I said that I went to MTV and
Speaker 1: there was this concert called The Fresh Fresh and I
Speaker 1: went there and I was like, I saw a mixture
Speaker 1: of everybody, so white people, black people, Asian people. I said, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is happening right now. And I went to MTV
Speaker 1: and they were like, no, Middle America's not ready for this, Ralph,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not happening right now. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's a tour, it's going out. I got the videotapes,
Speaker 1: take a look at it. And they were like, no,
Speaker 1: you don't need to pull out the tapes. It's okay.
Speaker 1: We already know what we're gonna do. And then two
Speaker 1: years later they did you know, MTV raps and you know,
Speaker 1: and people thought, oh, you got me tight right now.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't tight then. I was gonna type the
Speaker 1: first time because I knew that it was happening already
Speaker 1: and they could have had to jump on it. So
Speaker 1: my whole career, I've been a little bit early. You
Speaker 1: know how that is. Sometimes you're a little bit early,
Speaker 1: so you don't really take it and go like, oh man,
Speaker 1: y'are trying to jerk me. I didn't take it like that.
Speaker 1: I just said it was early and then that was it,
Speaker 1: you know, and then what happens after that and people
Speaker 1: do what they do, and when MTV comes out, I
Speaker 1: mean your MTV Raps comes out, and Rap City and
Speaker 1: whatever else was out there. You know, it all kind
Speaker 1: of feels like video music Box to people. But you know,
Speaker 1: whatever it was gonna be was what it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Was there have any network that came to you and
Speaker 1: wanted to do it once? Remember there was this show
Speaker 1: called um Man, My Girl, D Bonds, uh pump it Up?
Speaker 1: So they asked me to do that, but they wanted
Speaker 1: me to stop doing Video Music Box. And I could
Speaker 1: tell that at the time, Fox was not really serious
Speaker 1: about this hip hop thing, and I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna stop what I'm doing and commit to y'all.
Speaker 1: And then, you know, six months later, Org, no, it's
Speaker 1: not working, and then I'm stuck, you know, So I
Speaker 1: said no. I said, I'm going to continue to do
Speaker 1: my little local show. Why what's the problem, y'all? This
Speaker 1: is a national program you don't want me to do
Speaker 1: And they were like, no, you can't do that. And
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, I was, I can't do that,
Speaker 1: and M and D Bonds did it and um, and
Speaker 1: so we yeah, that's what happened. How did you get paid?
Speaker 1: Original from video music box? Because there was no commercial,
Speaker 1: but you would travel, you go for borrow to borrow,
Speaker 1: you in city to city, club to clubs. You had expenses,
Speaker 1: So how did you get paid? How was you making money?
Speaker 1: That's why we started giving parties, you know, and I
Speaker 1: fat Joe says, Yo, that's what DJ's do. You know,
Speaker 1: we don't get paid a lot of money, and we
Speaker 1: do whatever we do to have events and do things,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's what we did. You know, we
Speaker 1: were sitting the club and watch a promoter at give
Speaker 1: giving us like three hundred dollars to show up and
Speaker 1: he walking away with you know, twenty five thousand and
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars in his pocket in the club, you know,
Speaker 1: And I was like, that don't make sense because everybody
Speaker 1: came here for us, So we're gonna start doing that,
Speaker 1: and um, and that's what we did. Me my man, Sam,
Speaker 1: Crazy Sam. All these dudes were like, you know, we
Speaker 1: was doing three or four parties in the night, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, just walking away with the money and
Speaker 1: going okay, we're good. Yeah, you're explaining the ductor you
Speaker 1: never actually made money off the show, No, no, because
Speaker 1: it was at first it was on a PBS channel
Speaker 1: and so it was non commercial, which was great really
Speaker 1: because it gave us the opportunity to educate where you know,
Speaker 1: you can't really do that in commercial world, like you know,
Speaker 1: no time for that. We got a round commercials, bro.
Speaker 1: We ain't trying to help the community, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: we we wanted to do a lot of that and
Speaker 1: we did do that in the show. So it was
Speaker 1: a balance of both and that's how we got through. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, being on that station, we got more with
Speaker 1: Uncle Ralph, Ralph McDaniels when we come back. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's the creator a video music box. It's the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club The Morning, The Morning, everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee. Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking
Speaker 1: it with Uncle Ralph Charlomagne. You know, you got the
Speaker 1: video of of Bigger Nas freestyle and you know Jay
Speaker 1: and Big in the club all great, But what is
Speaker 1: your most prized piece of footage? M hm, that's a
Speaker 1: good question. Um. I think for me, Um, it's probably
Speaker 1: Big and Jay when they did the My Birthday because
Speaker 1: that was really kind of like out of the blue,
Speaker 1: and Jay came and was hosting it and they and
Speaker 1: they were both at the early stages of their career.
Speaker 1: Was like beginning of Rockefeller and the Big you know,
Speaker 1: beginning of Big, you know at Bad Boy and and
Speaker 1: they just in the place was crowded. You know, this
Speaker 1: is when people got dressed up and they danced at
Speaker 1: clubs and remember that, and you know, it was just
Speaker 1: one of those nights where you were like, couldn't call
Speaker 1: that any better than that. That was that was a
Speaker 1: beautiful night. You know, it was like everybody, your peers
Speaker 1: were there, you know, just you know, one of those
Speaker 1: one of those shows that was just it was perfect.
Speaker 1: But you didn't realize that those two individuals would become
Speaker 1: these mythical yeah, you know, beings that they are now
Speaker 1: right right. You always say, you know, people always ask me,
Speaker 1: what if Big was alive, what would that be like
Speaker 1: between him and Jay and Nas, Like what would that
Speaker 1: you know, what would that look like? And I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, like I mean Nas, you know is you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm a fan of like, you know, poets and
Speaker 1: you know, and Nas is that that kind of spiritual
Speaker 1: kind of thing. You know. That's how when he started
Speaker 1: doing my thing, I was like, this is a spiritual dude. Man,
Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna be in a good place, you know.
Speaker 1: I see. I used. All I was saying to to
Speaker 1: was we gotta have that hip hop soul. Bro. No,
Speaker 1: you know, because I watched documentaries and I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is mad generic right now. We noticed everybody. If people
Speaker 1: notice all this information, we don't need to go through this.
Speaker 1: Let's get into different stories. And that's what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do with this. And he was like, got it,
Speaker 1: and he just started working and making sure that the
Speaker 1: direction took the right direction because we know, yeah it
Speaker 1: was the Bronx, and we know there was dances, and
Speaker 1: we know graffiti. We know that already. We there's more
Speaker 1: stories to us than that. You know. To me, the
Speaker 1: soul comes from your footage, yes, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like your footage throughout gives it that warmth, makes it
Speaker 1: you know classic. Yeah, yeah, nah, I mean, And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm super happy that you know that we still have
Speaker 1: the footage because I thought about that too when you
Speaker 1: whenever you showed the room. I'm always thinking about what
Speaker 1: if he'd lost all of that the way Rizzly lost
Speaker 1: all that, right, Yeah, yeah, rizz you know, loss so
Speaker 1: many of his masters. But you know, we've been in
Speaker 1: the last One thing about the pandemic is it got
Speaker 1: me to be around and really work on digitizing all
Speaker 1: this content. So I just was like, yo, I gotta
Speaker 1: get this done. And we started in a nonprofit, the
Speaker 1: Video Music Box Collection, and we started raising money for it,
Speaker 1: and you know, and people started, you know, giving us
Speaker 1: a couple of dollars. We're still raising money for I
Speaker 1: still need money for people, give me some money. But
Speaker 1: we that is what helped us get to the point
Speaker 1: where we have. You know, you can look at this
Speaker 1: content and be like, wow, it's pretty clear. You know
Speaker 1: thirty years ago. You know, you remember the DVD day
Speaker 1: all of that. You know, there's guys out there that
Speaker 1: can have content that is super important. Man restore it,
Speaker 1: take care of it. Our history, hip hop history is important.
Speaker 1: History is black history is important. But you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: our stuff just gets pushed to the side. There's been
Speaker 1: so many masters and visuals that have been lost over
Speaker 1: the years, and it's like, wait a minute, somebody just
Speaker 1: threw that away because they didn't think it was important, Like, well,
Speaker 1: who did that? You know happens all the time? Part two?
Speaker 1: Since you said you do have a lot of footage
Speaker 1: that you weren't even able to use for this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I told um showtime, like yo, we could do two,
Speaker 1: three more you know, and some other stories that we
Speaker 1: got in the books. So that's on the plate for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. I would like to see artists talk
Speaker 1: about those moments more, like I want to just hear
Speaker 1: nas go more in death on the Big Thing because
Speaker 1: he said something and the doctor I didn't know. He
Speaker 1: was like, yo, him and Big with us to start
Speaker 1: a crew right called the good Fellas. And I was like,
Speaker 1: well then what didn't him and Jay weren't they gonna
Speaker 1: start the commission? Big and Jay? So I'm like, right,
Speaker 1: what what did that have look like? You know? I
Speaker 1: would like to hit the artists see those videos and
Speaker 1: those moments and how they remember. The crazy thing about
Speaker 1: that moment is that in that night was like method
Speaker 1: Man was there j birthday party? Jones? Well, miss Jones
Speaker 1: says that it wasn't a birthday party, it was an
Speaker 1: album released party, but I'm pretty sure it was a birthday,
Speaker 1: but I don't know much, but um yeah, anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: Common was there. You know, there were so many artists
Speaker 1: that were just getting ready to come up, you know,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, I look at the
Speaker 1: footage and you know, now sucks about it was a
Speaker 1: fight behind him, there was, you know, and we knew
Speaker 1: it was coming like one of those parties with somebody
Speaker 1: gonna fight and this. You know, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: too much energy. You know. You ever see of looking
Speaker 1: at all the footage, you ever see people in the crowd,
Speaker 1: You'd be like, look at that artist, now they're a
Speaker 1: huge rapper. Look at this person. You ever see some
Speaker 1: of those Yeah, you know. I had that conversation with
Speaker 1: Jay Cole because he went to Saint John's University and
Speaker 1: was a fan of Video Music Box when he was
Speaker 1: at Saint John. And Jay Cole was like, man, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I came to your parties, I came to
Speaker 1: your offense. I know who you are, you know, and
Speaker 1: this was a young guy and I was like, I
Speaker 1: knew who was music. I was familiar with him, and
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I appreciate you man, You're coming
Speaker 1: up the same thing with Asap Rocky. You know, He's like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta call my mom. I'm standing next to Raph
Speaker 1: McDaniels right now, you know. And and asap Ferg I
Speaker 1: knew his dad, you know. So I see these people
Speaker 1: in in in the in the at their young stage
Speaker 1: and now to watch like I did this interview with Fergan,
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, bro, you're doing some amazing thing.
Speaker 1: He's building furniture and cars and okay, you know, like
Speaker 1: that's what we did this for for that to happen.
Speaker 1: I saw j D. I saw j D and some
Speaker 1: footage with Udini on the duck. I use that footage
Speaker 1: all the time too, yet paid every time I use
Speaker 1: your footage. Yes, how do you want Video Music Box
Speaker 1: to be remembered? The whole idea of this you're watching
Speaker 1: Video Music Box film was to not be forgotten because
Speaker 1: I could easily see how our history is forgotten and
Speaker 1: the importance of us just giving an artist a little
Speaker 1: bit of a break, a little bit of three minutes
Speaker 1: of a of a music video or a shout out
Speaker 1: is what catapulted all of these artists that we now
Speaker 1: know and love into stardom. And you know, making a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of money, and I was like, we can't
Speaker 1: let that go. You know, my daughter is to produce
Speaker 1: on it. And I said, Kim, you know, we gotta
Speaker 1: keep this legacy everybody, not just me. You know, we
Speaker 1: just gotta keep out like we don't do that, you know,
Speaker 1: Black folks, you know, you know, all these other names
Speaker 1: are on buildings or whatever. They're important. We need to
Speaker 1: get our names on buildings. We have so many street
Speaker 1: names being changed. Now. That's the process of starting to
Speaker 1: do that, you know, getting name changing in community so
Speaker 1: that we see a name or we see a statue
Speaker 1: that we can relate to us. And that's what this
Speaker 1: is part of the same concept. And they're certain people
Speaker 1: whenever they call you should always pick up that phone
Speaker 1: and say, yes, what do you need me for? And
Speaker 1: you're one of those people. Ralph McDaniel Solf. He's going
Speaker 1: to put that out there too. Yes, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Uncle Ralph, Uncle Ralph, we appreciate you for
Speaker 1: Make sure y'all go watch that documentary on Showtime. It's
Speaker 1: on Showtime on demand right now. You're watching Video Music Box.
Speaker 1: It's Uncle Ralph, Ralph McDaniels, It's the Breakfast Club. Good
Speaker 1: morning the Breakfast Club holding. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlomne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the room as let's talk Ye. This is the
Speaker 1: rumor report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. So
Speaker 1: Drake has withdrawn his Grammy nominations. He has gotten two
Speaker 1: nominations for the twenty twenty two Grammys, and that was
Speaker 1: for Best Rap Album for Certified Love a Boy and
Speaker 1: for Best Rap Performance for A Way Too Sexy. Now,
Speaker 1: we're not sure why that decision was made, but they're
Speaker 1: going to remove it from the Grammy website in an update.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what happened here, but you know,
Speaker 1: remember The Weekend didn't get any Grammy nominations last year,
Speaker 1: and so he criticized the Grammys for that. I know
Speaker 1: they have a good relationship, and so Drake had made
Speaker 1: a statement at the time. He said, I think we
Speaker 1: should stop allowing ourselves to be shocked every year by
Speaker 1: the disconnect between impactful music and these awards and just
Speaker 1: accept that what once was the highest form of recognition
Speaker 1: may no longer matter to the artists that exists now
Speaker 1: and the ones that come after that and he said,
Speaker 1: this is a great time to start something new that
Speaker 1: we can build up over town and pass on to
Speaker 1: the generations to come. I think he cares about the Grammys.
Speaker 1: I mean, he made a great album in Drake is Spitting.
Speaker 1: If you listen to a lot of Drake's wraps and
Speaker 1: what he's rhyming and his features, that boy will fire.
Speaker 1: You don't care all right now. Pete Davidson and Machine
Speaker 1: Gun Kelly, I know you enjoyed this. They did a
Speaker 1: live stream and they were doing a photo shoot wearing
Speaker 1: their Calvin Klein briefs and so the two of them
Speaker 1: kind of stripped down to their underwear for this campaign
Speaker 1: and they did like a little fake, funny, spicy photo shoot.
Speaker 1: They took turns posing on the couch and then there
Speaker 1: was one scene where Pete Davidson is on the cow
Speaker 1: test Machine Gun Kelly is pouring popcorn into his mouth.
Speaker 1: It was weird, but did they pause. Here's what it
Speaker 1: was sounding like. I don't know, this is what I
Speaker 1: was kind of picturing. Nice stuff by the way, Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I would have put an extra like two
Speaker 1: socks in there and just always got to fuck up
Speaker 1: or get a sweet in between her going yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: you can't let go cold, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I'm freezing right now. How Yeah, I am a
Speaker 1: grower for sure. I'm not really a growl or a
Speaker 1: shower for sure. It's actually a scientific wonder. That's okay,
Speaker 1: We'll just get a new agents. Just having fun, man,
Speaker 1: that's all it is. They just having fun. And Calvin
Speaker 1: Klein did year a photo of the two of them
Speaker 1: at the camera, so I guess it's a campaign for
Speaker 1: Calvin Klein. It worked, yeah, And Calvin Clean, please stop
Speaker 1: calling me. I don't like I don't want to do it,
Speaker 1: you know. I know you guys offer me a lot
Speaker 1: to you know, be underway a model. I don't want
Speaker 1: to do it. I just don't. Is it that Calvin
Speaker 1: or is it the Calvin who works at McDonald's. No,
Speaker 1: Calvin klean to me a lot, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to do it. I don't want to show if my
Speaker 1: body like that. We don't want you to do it either,
Speaker 1: all right. And Virgil, they did on a Virgil Ablow
Speaker 1: in his hometown. There was a memorial and there were
Speaker 1: a lot of people that participated to pay their respects
Speaker 1: to the family. Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Kanye Tyler, the Creator,
Speaker 1: Drake Kid, Cutty, Frank Ocean Asap Rocky. And so this
Speaker 1: was all in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art yesterday.
Speaker 1: And so here is his sister, Edwina Abelow. And here's
Speaker 1: what you had to say. As Virgil once said in
Speaker 1: a slat show, there's no woman. Life is short. And
Speaker 1: then you can't waste even the day subscribing to what
Speaker 1: people think you should do. Virgil was the permanent mark
Speaker 1: on the world in which we will never forget. Your
Speaker 1: legacy will continue to flourish in the eyes of woe
Speaker 1: and great. I'm forever grateful for you. Wrist fell, my
Speaker 1: sweet and gentle again. Arrest in peace to Virgil. He
Speaker 1: was only forty one years old when he passed away
Speaker 1: from cancer. It was a private battle that he did
Speaker 1: not disclose publicly. Only his closest friends were aware of it. Alright,
Speaker 1: in this comedy festival, this sounds like something amazing. To
Speaker 1: go to Netflix is a joke. Now, this festival was
Speaker 1: supposed to happen last year, but because of the pandemic
Speaker 1: that it didn't happen. But now it is going to happen,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be April twenty ninth to May eighth
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two. So we know some of the
Speaker 1: people who would be on that stage. Dave Chappelle, okay,
Speaker 1: Amy Schumer, Tina Fey, Yeah, Wanda Psykes, Jerry Seinfeld, David
Speaker 1: let Himan, Chris Rock Ali Wang. Wow. Yes, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be huge, and so I think that would be something
Speaker 1: really fun to go to. This is in La Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to be there. So in addition,
Speaker 1: there's going to be Dion Cole as he's un sorry,
Speaker 1: Chelsea Handler, Kevin Hart, some of our favorites, Pete Davidson
Speaker 1: will be there, Ellen DeGeneres, Whill performing. It's what they're
Speaker 1: calling kind of the Coachella of comedy, but not saying
Speaker 1: the name Coachella because yeah, no, they're not doing that,
Speaker 1: all right. So yeah, so that sounds like something really
Speaker 1: dope to go to. So that is Netflix is a
Speaker 1: Netflix does have a lot of the best comedy specials
Speaker 1: on there too, Yes they do. All right, Well that
Speaker 1: is your rumor reports, all right, thank you, missy, And
Speaker 1: I don't forget my call shows like four or five
Speaker 1: days or that fight celebrity calls from people like Kalid
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Speaker 1: got a twenty twenty two. Um it didn't make the cut. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got your call. Next year in New York. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna take your car to Miami. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so we got and that was a nice letdown. That's
Speaker 1: a nice way that you let me down. Your next year,
Speaker 1: your my car don't need to be at theme. I'm
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Speaker 1: you know, we just don't have an available this is
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Speaker 1: call showing five days, get your tickets, kids five and
Speaker 1: under a free and I can't wait to see you
Speaker 1: this Sunday in Miami. All right, this meet out y'all
Speaker 1: heard it, I did not, all right, Well, the People's
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Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club Now.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Mahierschela Ali for joining us this morning. Yes,
Speaker 1: amazing actor, so I'm excited for him to actually direct
Speaker 1: his first feature film coming up next. And also Ralph
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Speaker 1: I grew up on that and I love this documentary.
Speaker 1: If you get a chance school check it out. It's
Speaker 1: on showtime, right Uncle Ralph. I run into him all
Speaker 1: the time. He'd always been like super cool and humble,
Speaker 1: so I can see why people will always be open
Speaker 1: to want to talk to him. Absolutely show him his respect,
Speaker 1: all right, and now when we come back. We got
Speaker 1: the positive notes, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne
Speaker 1: the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. I'm super duper excited.
Speaker 1: I think we got like four or five more days
Speaker 1: to my car show in Miami. We had to run
Speaker 1: an audible. It's supposed to snow in New York, so
Speaker 1: I have to get the cars out of here so
Speaker 1: I can get them to the car show. We got
Speaker 1: about thirty forty cars heading out to Miami, so all
Speaker 1: day today I'll be driving the cars to the trucks
Speaker 1: and getting them loaded because we just gotta get these
Speaker 1: cars out of here. I don't want no problems with snow.
Speaker 1: I don't want no accidents. You know, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of valuable cars and a lot of people's cars
Speaker 1: on these trucks, so we're gonna get these cars out today.
Speaker 1: If you haven't got your tickets to the car show,
Speaker 1: get your tickets. Celebrity cars from Calid It's gonna have
Speaker 1: some cars in the show. Yo Gotti, floor Rider, Trina,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade, Nikki Jams, just to name a few. So
Speaker 1: get your tickets if you haven't got them already. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I want to shout out to tam La Payne.
Speaker 1: Her son, Casey Goodson, was killed by a police officer.
Speaker 1: She hit me up. She said, she's probably going to
Speaker 1: be at your car show. So yeah, and we've had
Speaker 1: her on the Breakfast Club before. But she's still trying
Speaker 1: to get justice for her son. And so there's been
Speaker 1: some more news lately. The cop who did kill her
Speaker 1: son is actually being indicted, So I think that's important
Speaker 1: information and we'll be following that case very closely. He
Speaker 1: was going to subway walking up to his house and
Speaker 1: hadn't done anything wrong. And so finally the Ohio deputy
Speaker 1: has been charged with murder in the case of Casey
Speaker 1: Goodson Jr. And she's been fighting for this for quite
Speaker 1: some time right now, so there's no body camera, no
Speaker 1: dash cam footage. Everything that happened is still largely unexplained,
Speaker 1: and so they were fighting just to even have this
Speaker 1: case heard. So I'm happy to say that at least
Speaker 1: that's happening. You know, so far he had a sandwich
Speaker 1: in his hand, not a gun, and there you have it.
Speaker 1: So we'll keep you guys updated on that though it's
Speaker 1: been a really tough year for her, So shout out
Speaker 1: to Toma Lapaine. All right, well you got a positive note. Yes,
Speaker 1: and this comes from Arthur mel Robbins who's been on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club before. She said, you don't let go
Speaker 1: of a bad relationship because you stopped caring about them.
Speaker 1: You let go because you finally start caring about yourself.
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