WEBVTT - Forever President Barack Obama 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:05.040 Jael and Charlomagne the guy my dad asked up the 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:13.480 breakfast club is R. I'm okay, yookay. I love coming here. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.120 I'm never not gonna come here. You guys are good 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:16.640 to me and lieutnam I was onna good deal for 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.560 a lot of people in hip hop generation. The breakfast 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.160 club is where people get the information on the topics, 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.680 on the artists and everything like that. In that aspect, 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.400 radio is still important. The breakfast club for my name, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:41.159 come up respecting. Good morning Usa yo yo yo yo 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:42.800 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.599 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.559 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.680 yo yo yo yo yo yo. Good morning Angelo. Ye 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.640 damn money, he's any Charlomagne the guy pace to the planet. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:01:01.000 Guess what day it is? Guess what day it is? Ah? Yes, 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.320 and today it is so special. I'm gonna tell you why. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.959 Why is today special? Um? I think next week, on 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.800 the second, it will be ten years that we've been 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.520 doing the breakfast club. Correct for ten years for this 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.080 whole week, the weaker thanks given. We've never ever been 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.360 here alive, no vacation, not one time. We're all somebody. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.600 We're always out of town. It's just the weaker Thanksgiving. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.200 We're always off. So on the eve of this white 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.920 Man's holiday, we decided to come in for one day 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.479 and one day only for a very very very very 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.000 very special occasion, a very special reason. All Right, there's 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:39.360 a book out. It's called A Promised Land, A Promised Land, right, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.080 written by a guy you may know, what's his name. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.759 It's kind of popular. I guess who is he? What's 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.000 his name? I mean, he was the forty fourth president 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.160 of the United States of America. What's his name? Barack? 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:57.520 Who's saying Obama? Barack? Who's saying Obama? Who's that? And 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.520 I guess you could say we were right. We don't 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.040 have all all of that fancy ast technology that Oprah has. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:07.720 The way she can be in our house and way 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.480 and make it look like her in Baracer in the 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.400 same room. Now, we don't have that. So we had 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.520 to get COVID tested and uh, fly down to DC 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.880 and make sure we were probably socially distanced to sit 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.519 and kick it with President Barack Obama. Well, not only 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.560 that they took all our social Security numbers, that the 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.400 full name that's regular protocol though, you know, made sure 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.680 that that's on the list. Yeah, you actually also need that. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:31.639 Don't you need that to get the COVID test? Do 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.160 you what? But I know, no, I didn't need that information. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.040 All that not just social All that information was for 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.440 the Secret Service protocol is to run it make sure 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.320 we have a good money. Yeah. I've been vetted before. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.320 I actually first time I ever got vetted. I didn't 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.560 pass at all. We all been vetted, but you didn't 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.560 pass that one. Yeah, didn't pass that on. But you know, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:54.560 since then, my life has changed. So President Barack Obama 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.560 will be joining us next hour. We're gonna kick it 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.480 with the with the president. Um, that's the only reason 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.760 we have Yeah, that's the only reason we have communication. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.560 I don't even know we were coming in. I was like, wait, 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.440 we have a show tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, I think 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.800 it's only only right. It's only right it's the president. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:11.519 And we sat and chopped it up with him for 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.680 almost an hour. Yeah. Right, So we're also we usually 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.679 you know, play snippets of the interview on the hair 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.119 and then put the whole thing up on YouTube. This morning, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:23.600 we're playing the hole in it. We're playing the hole 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.239 in it in the seven o'clock hour. Yeah, so we'll 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.760 get into all of that. Um, that's it. It's the 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.919 only reason we ha's the only reason we hear anything else. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.920 Y'all got if y'all do who feel free? Yeah? We got, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.120 we got front page. Who's next we'll be talking about you. Well, 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.080 let's talk about who Joe Biden has selected for his cabinet. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.800 And let's also talk about coronavirus. This vaccine is supposed 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.800 to be coming in a couple of weeks, and we'll 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.800 give you some updates on the side effects. All right, 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.520 we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.360 it locked. This to Breakfast Club, Come on morning. Everybody 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.680 is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.480 the breakfast. What's happening the next hour? Yes, Barack Obama. 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.240 President Barack Obama will be joining us, and we're playing 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.600 the interview in full. So no songs in between, no 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.480 commercial breaks. No, it's commercial breaks, not in between. No, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.479 it's fifteen fifteen fifteen. No, you shall forty five minutes 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.880 straight for ya. How y'all finessed that? I don't know. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.560 I just asked them right there I'm like, no commercials. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.880 It was like, nah, we're gonna We're gonna rocket straight. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.320 There was like only a couple of people can do that. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:30.400 There was like, uh, Barack Hove, Beyonce, and Michelle Obama 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.799 the only four people that can get on. Yeah without 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:37.720 playing we can debate all of those. What let's get 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.920 some front page news. I ain't gonna front I don't 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.680 even know who's playing football lamorrow. I don't even know. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.200 I've been chilling at home. Come on, man, Cowboys, redskins? 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.640 You know that? Who cares about those? Exactly? So waste 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.279 of time. There should be social distances away from the NFL. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.120 I went from, all, right, what else we got you? Well, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.239 Joe Biden is building out his cabinets. It's been sucking presidents. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.880 That's our president elect. And there's fifteen executive departments and 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.640 so far. Of course, Kamala Harris, we know his vice president. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.279 Secretary of State is Anthony B. Lincoln. Secretary of Homeland 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.599 Security is Alejandro Mayorkas. And that's a big one because 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.200 he actually is the first Latino and he's also the 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.840 first immigrant to serve in that position. So that's going 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.240 to be a big deal, right, now, because you know, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.320 we've had a lot of issues with immigration in this 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.120 country and doc and all of that, so this could 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:28.880 be something. And he says that he would have never 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.080 seen himself in that position. So he's hoping to help 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.679 out people who are fleeing from persecution and other things, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.880 coming to this country for a better life. All right, Yes, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.800 and Donald Trump is finally seems like allowing this transition 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.880 to happen. Joe Biden had tweeted out, the election is over. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.120 It's time to put aside the partisanship and the rhetoric 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.360 designed to demonize one another. We have to come together. 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.200 So yes, it looks like, begrudgingly, we are going to 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.360 move forward. I just don't see handing this normally. I 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.120 just I just don't see it. I mean, it's relatively 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.640 normal by Trump's Nay, it hasn't been. I don't see 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.400 an ending just just normally. I just don't see it. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.760 I think we're gonna part in mad people, though he parted, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:10.560 may well, you need to start with himself. I don't 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.640 know if he can do that. Dog watching that on 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.240 scene an last thing, don't they don't know if he 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.640 can actually do that. It's never been done before. There's 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.560 nothing in the constitution that says you can't. If I'm 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.440 not mistaken, it doesn't have to be all right, it's 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.559 been locked up first. I have no idea US COVID 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.200 nineteen cases could reach twenty million. They're saying by the 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.400 inauguration day on January twentieth, but by December tenth. They're 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.039 saying that they could start soon after December tenth distributing 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.039 the COVID nineteen vaccine. They are going to start doing 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.800 some testing in pregnant women and children though, so you 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.840 know a lot of people are reluctant to actually take 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.440 this vaccine, but right now they have to show that 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.880 it's safe and make sure that group can take it. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.640 They also said that doctors are saying that the CDC 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.440 should have warned people about the side effects from COVID 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.400 vaccine shots, and they said it will not be a 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.680 walk in the park. So you have to get the 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.760 first shot of the vaccine and then you have to 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.440 come back and get a second shot. Also, it requires 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.960 two doses, and one doctor is worried patients will come 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.320 back won't come back for a second dose because of 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.480 the unpleasant side effects after the first shot. That could 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.160 include symptoms like muscle pains, chills, and headaches, which is 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.080 also symptoms associated with mile COVID nineteen. And they also 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.320 need to make sure people are aware of that. Yeah, 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:21.920 I just think it's whacked that us. You know, you 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.160 hear Governor Cuomo in New York. Can you hear Joe 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:25.880 Biden say that we have to get this to the 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.640 African American community first, because you know, they're the one 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.040 being impacted by it the most. They don't feel like 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.120 that about anything else. They don't feel like that when 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.960 it comes to better education, they don't feel like that 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.400 when it comes to economic equity packages. You know, they 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.360 don't feel like that when it comes to mental healthcare 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.640 resources in our communities. So why aren't such a rush 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.960 to push this vaccine in the hood. How's that? I 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.800 want to though? I thought they were giving it to 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.880 healthcare work there. They given the healthcare workers, and then 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.520 they said the elderly and then everybody else. Governor Cuomo 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.680 and Joe Biden both said, verbatim out of their mouth, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.560 we have to get this to the African American community 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.080 first because it's impacting them the most. Yeah, but I 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.360 know they're given it to healthcare workers. First. That was 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.320 the first step, and then they said elderly. But I mean, 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.400 I'll be honest with you. I'm at a point right 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.000 now where I'm like, yo, it is what it is. Man. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:08.600 If I got to take this vaccine, I'm gonna take 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.560 the vaccine. I missed my mother and my father. I 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.400 can't see him on Thanksgiving. I probably won't see him 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.560 on Christmas. I'm tired, man. I want to see my mama. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.960 Can I cook my mama? Can I get my dad 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.920 a hug? I'll be right behind you. Go, guinea pig, Go, go, 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.000 guinea pig, go, Go get out there, Go do your thing. Baby. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.640 All right, it might make your bid be permanently black, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.920 all right, I might not have to diet no more. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.760 All right. I'm going for it. Man. What if your 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.920 bid turns black but your skin turns gray if you 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.240 take that damn vaccine, that's all right. I won't die, though, 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.600 but as long as I can. You don't know, you know, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.400 it was so many people dying like this has been 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.080 an FWA, and I want to I want to see 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.439 my mom and my pops like I want to spend 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:47.760 time with them. I want to spend time with them 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.920 for Thanksgiving. I don't want to zoom them for Thanksgiving 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.400 as it's well, guess what Thanksgiving us tomorrow. I'm okay. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.240 So somebody pulls upon you to day with a vaccine, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.920 you better not take it, dumb ass. All right, hey, 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.280 I heard you want to see you mom. I'm in 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.960 this need upon you. It might be wrong with you, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.080 it might be arrow with And as far as Joe 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.560 Biden's cabinet, doctor Ruth Simmons needs to be his Secretary 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.000 of Education because we all know the greatest and most 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.720 long lasting form of systemic racism has been in the 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.880 education system. So it's not a black person that's gonna 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.880 be Treasury Secretary Ruth Simmons should be, Uh Secretary of Education, 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.839 Doctor Ruth Simons, Googler. All right, well that is your 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.120 front page news. Get it off your chests. Eight hundred 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.160 five eight five one oh five one. If you need 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.280 to vent, hit us up right now. Yeah, we are live. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.920 Usually we're on vacation right now, but uh, we have 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.720 an interview next hour with somebody you might know, President 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.960 Barack Obama. You know, yes, yeah, we're gonna be kicking 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:43.720 with President Barack Obama. No, breaks uh no commercials uh 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.400 no interruptions with music. We're gonna be talking to him straight. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.400 That has never happened the ten years we've been a paddle, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.560 We've never done that because we always just put pieces 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.520 of regardless of how long an interview is, we always 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.800 just put pieces of it on the air. Put the 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.480 full thing up on YouTube. But you know it's a 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.760 holiday week, man, tomorrow, give me. We are supposed to 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.839 be hitting nowhere, right all right, all right, well it's 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:11.440 the Breakfast Club. Co morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm telling, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.080 I'm telling what you're doing all of year. This is 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.080 your time to get it off your chest, whether you're 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.840 mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five one oh 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.400 five one. We want to hear from you on the 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:28.240 Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Janelle? Ay, Janelle, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.160 get it off your chest. I just want to have 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:35.040 a clue bomb drop for me on my birthday, Saturday, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.079 Happy Birthday. What are you doing this year? Um? Staying 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.439 the house? Just as I just like to see what 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.840 creative things people are doing for their birthday during this 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.280 time because my birthday is coming up too, and I 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.439 don't think I'll be doing much either where. We was 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.680 gonna go to Sloppy Chops, me and my husband. I 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:58.920 love sloppy. Sloppy Chops. They open, we're gonna be takeout. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:04.840 There only doing takeout. They're only doing takeout. Yes, Sloppy 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.720 Chops is a restaurant in Detroit. What up though. They 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.480 serve the most amazing seafood and steaks and food. I 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.720 went there like a week ago, two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.840 BTS just did a giveaway with them yesterday for our 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.719 families and they just gave away free food all day. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.520 There's a bunch of brothers that own that they own 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.600 a couple of another one called Slappy Crabs, I believe. Yeah, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:31.920 downtown Detroit brothers doing that thing. Man. Yeah, yeah. So 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.040 clap it up for Juneil, Clap it up for Happy Birthday. 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.200 Happy birthday. And I'm proud of you guys for the interview. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.440 I'm proud of you guys for everything you guys are doing. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.920 Congratulate lections. God bless you guys, God bless the world. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.880 Let's heel together and let's get this coronavirus under control. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.319 Beautiful Sagittarius, my wife is a Sagittarius. Get it off 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.880 your chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.080 If you need to vent, hit us up. Now. It's 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:05.599 the breakfast club. Come on the breakfast club. This is 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.319 your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.800 man from you on the breakfast club. But you got 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:16.000 something on your mind. Let hello? Who's this? Hey? This 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.360 King Jim and I Man, how y'all doing? What's up? Brother? 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.360 Get off your chest? All right? So um last night 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.360 right huh? I was performing oral sex with my girl 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.840 and all that right, and he's about the combat and 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.360 she farked in my face. Man. That means she was 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.000 doing it. That means she was doing it real good. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.320 I means you got pinks. Yeah, you know what i't. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.720 I ain't got pink cotys. But real quick, hey, Charlotte, man, 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.840 give me a huge favorite. Man, I will not fart 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:45.400 on you. Don't you dare ask me too? No? I 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.360 was wondering if you can send me your book of 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.480 staring man, have a rock Obama sign it for me? 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.800 That would be great. What I don't have it? I 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.680 only have one copy of a Promised Land. Oh I 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.120 only had one. Only he only sent us three copies. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.200 He sent one feature of us. I don't. And I'm 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.040 actually sending the mind to my mom. To be honest 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.960 with you. Somebody stole mine in the in the mail, 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.600 so I had to go buy another one. Oh man, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.560 I was really hoping on that one though, if I 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.559 had it with yours. I got a copy of I 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.000 got a copy of Doctor readA Walker's Book up here. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.520 Oh yeah, hey, I'll take that and for me, and 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.520 I'll send you a copy of mine. And it's not 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.600 like I sold one point seven in the first week 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.280 like Barrock did. I just been doing well in the 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.120 book world though. Yeah, yeah, I know. I actually listen 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.640 to your books. I ain't reading me yet though, but 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.000 you know, listen, I'm gonna get your put you on hold, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.679 and they're gonna get your address're gonna mail it out 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:42.480 to you. Brother. Hold on, stinky, Hello, who's this morning? 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.120 Good morning? Get it off your chests, all right, So 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:50.640 Charlotte May, Yes, good morning to you, Good morning to you, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.440 Good morning. So yesterday my husband was he went up 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.600 for parole. Okay, um, he's been locked up for like 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.880 nineteen years. I actually wrote a last to President Obama 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.120 a few years ago to see if he can maybe 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.400 be parted. So a long story short. My husband goes 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.400 up for parole. They gave him ten more years. Crazy 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.760 why I don't know. I don't know. I didn't ask why. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.680 I didn't care. I said, what's up? You know what 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.440 I'm saying, like you come home or not? He liked 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.200 not again, sending years and I'm like, the boys, shoot 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.040 my friend. That was crazy. I think they need yeah 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.960 out here. I don't take care of kids ten years period. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.880 So he already did nineteen and they gave him another 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.920 ten and didn't tell him why they gave him another ten. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.280 Said they told him his case play was messed up, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.000 something dealing with the case enators. And I'm like, this 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.440 is ridiculous because he committed a crime. But he said 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.840 he said his time, and he kind of al samll, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.040 You're like, I'm struggling to take care of my nine kids, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:52.000 saying my husband in prison. It's crazy. Something had to happen, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.120 if something, he must have did something in prison for 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.160 him to give him another ten years. You know what, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.960 traveler Mary like. Honestly, I don't know. I wasn't able 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.760 to watch his hearing. Normally they can let you watch 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.120 it life stream. I wasn't able to it wasn't air. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.560 So I'm like, that was God. You know what I'm saying, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.720 saying telling me to let me fall back and go 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.640 ahead and let me handle this. I don't know what 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.520 happened in that here. I couldn't tell you. I don't know, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:15.520 but I had to get off my chest. I mean, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.240 christ is just today and it's like this is real. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:25.120 It's real, and I wish I could tell you something 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.160 to help you, but I don't even know what to 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.400 say to you at the time like this, To be honest, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.280 I know, and it's okay, like no one has anything 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.000 to say. It's all because my kids keep giving me 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.400 encouraging words. You know what. I'm trying to be thrown 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.160 him up early. I couldn't even sleep last man, and 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.800 I'm up early, Like what am I about to do 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.320 with my life? Ten more years of being dedicated to 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.360 a man in prison? I love him with death, That's like, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.480 I love him with all my heart. But yeah, you 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.600 can't do you can you can't, you can't. You can't 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.200 do his bid with him, you know, and and you 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.640 know supporting him is one thing, but you can't put 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.200 your life on hold. Damn. I'm cool a lot of 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.360 half stacks. You know what I'm telling forty five. I 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.160 don't had enough sex the last year the rest of 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.600 my life. I'm cool. I'm away from my man to 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.800 come home. I just think it's crazy crazy. We're praying 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.200 for you, absolutely, Mama, Lord at mercy. I wish I 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:11.880 could do something else, but I don't know what else 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.600 to do. Thank you for calling. Good luck and try 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.960 to join the outs. Mama. When when the president comes in, 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.800 tell him Brandon Gord that's my husband's name. I wrote 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.960 him a letter a couple of years ago. We already 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:29.480 did the interview on Monday. Go Mama, Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.880 he's not the president no more. And he's not the president. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.680 You have to reach out the Trump the president. Yeah, 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.400 but that's fright. I'm sorry, thank you, all right, gee, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.880 all right, we'll get it off your chest. Eight hundred 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.600 five eight five, one oh five one. If you need 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.400 to vent, hit us up now. Now we got roomors 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.880 on the way he has and tuck about Grammy nominations. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.760 The Grammy Award nominations are here, and we'll tell you 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.000 what some of the reactions are from who's nominated. All Right, 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.080 we'll get into that next it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:09.160 the first Club. Yeah morning, everybody is DJ d Angela, yee, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.359 Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club, and uh 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.520 invest in fifteen minutes, what's less than fifty President Barack Obama, 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.960 we're gonna be kicking it with President Barack Obama. We 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.560 will summoned, yeah to DC. And you know, it's so interesting. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.920 We're always off this week, like we're never ever here 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.080 the week of this white Man's holiday, you know. But 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.760 since we shot down to DC because we don't have 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.119 the fancy technology that Oprah has the great team, like 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:34.719 we're just all in the same studio. We actually had 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.520 to get COVID tested and go down then socially distance 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.600 and all that good stuff, and that that conversation will 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.320 play back up next hour. Yeah, that's right and less 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.160 than uh fifteen minutes. So let's get to the rooms. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:55.560 Let's talk. The Grammys just got Breakfast Club. Now. We 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.639 said we don't have the technology to do that. What 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.280 Oprah did? We don't even have the technology to get 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:01.880 this thing working right. Years into trade and we don't 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:07.200 know what's going on. Yeah you there, Ye what up? Doe? Okay, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.960 he's not there, all right, So let's talk about the 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.560 Grammy Awards and some of the nominations that came out. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.840 Did you hear Did you see some of these nominations? Uh? Yeah, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.959 I saw some of the fuss on social media yesterday, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:18.960 but you know, it just it just bugs me out 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.000 when I see all these pro black folks really giving 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.680 a damn about the white man's validation. But continue, So 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.639 let's go through some of these nominations. Best Rap Album, 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.119 all right, uh, D Smoke with Black Habits, Alfredo, Freddy Gibson, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.600 The Alchemists, Jay Electronica with a written testimony, King's Disease 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:42.879 NAS and I think it's one more what is it? Um? 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.160 All great projects. I haven't heard D Smoke saluted D Smoke, Um, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.200 I honestly slept on the brother. I definitely haven't heard 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.120 of Black Habits, but all of those other albums, they 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:54.640 deserve to be there. I just feel like a little 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.600 Baby should have been there with my baby definitely should 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.159 have been like Roddy Rich should have been there with 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:00.840 Rich should have been excuse me for me and Antisocial 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.919 And I definitely think m Conway the Machine or been 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.119 in the Butcher should should should have been should have 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.320 been in there too, especially Conway project was phenomenal. It was, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.240 and it's been out long enough way it should have 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.080 been nominated. I agree, But you know I'm not gonna lie. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.520 I love Jay Electronics album. I love a written testimony too. 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.239 I might be one of the few people based off 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.480 the conversations that I'd be happy really Um yeah, a 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.840 lot of people. I think people had two high expectations 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:27.400 for it, only because they've been waiting for a jail 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.679 electronic a project for so long and it had all 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.240 those whole guest appearances. I think people would I thought 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.160 it was dope and they had a very very high 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.600 expenitating for it. I thought it was phenomenal. It got 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.360 washed away, and I don't know why I got washed away. 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:39.840 It was something that happened right during that time. I 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.800 don't know if it was George Floyd or if it 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:43.520 was the pandemic that hit right now, a little bit 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.240 of both. And then the album kind of got washed 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.040 away because they're supposed to go on toys, supposed to 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.440 be a huge announcement. But I really love Jay Electronic 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.160 out based off that category, A Little Baby definitely should 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:54.720 have been there, Like I said, Roddy Richard, one of 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.360 the one of the Grids elder brothers. I think you've 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.399 been here, Conway. But for that category, I get at 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.879 the Nas King Dream personally, yeah, Personal Kings Disease and 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.639 Never Kings Dream of the Kings Disease and NAS has 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.720 never gotten a Grammy, never got Na's never never a Grammy. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.240 So NAS should definitely went out this year best Rap Song, 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:18.000 The Bigger Picture, Little Baby, who else the Box Roddy 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.919 rich laugh now, cry later. I felt like that just 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:25.639 came out, Uh, rock Star the Baby, Roddy rich and Savage, 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.920 Beyonce and Maga A Stallion. I don't know why Savage 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.600 is in the Best Rap Song though, I guess yeah, 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:36.120 guess yeah. They were rapping, but I, um, I think Savage, 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:38.840 You think Savage. I think Savage wins that or the 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:43.200 Bigger Picture. UM, I don't know what the metrics started. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:44.480 I don't be honest with you. I don't care. Like 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.720 it's like, you know, I see everybody getting upset about 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:48.399 the Grammys, and I'm like, YEO, who cares with them? 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.000 Coltur really clueless white people think? You know, if I 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.200 had to pick a song my personal favorite out of 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:57.040 that bunch of probably would be bigger. Picture rock Star 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.760 is a bigger record though rock I'm just like you know, 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:05.600 Savages Savage was huge as Biggs rock Star though. See, 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:07.400 I don't know what. I don't know what the metrics. 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.920 I don't know what the metrics are. I don't know. Well, 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.240 the Weekend tweeted out yesterday the Grammys remain corrupt. You 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.680 owe me my fans in the industry transparent. Yeah, listen, 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.880 the Weekend definitely got robbed because you know, the Grammys. 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:22.520 I don't look for them the hip hop. Look for 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.399 them for hip hop, right, but I definitely look for 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.520 them for I guess the R and B pop stuff. 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.520 The Blinding Lights was the biggest record of yet, right yes, 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.040 well by by whatever metric you can measure, and Heartless 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.480 another big song on the album, really well well album 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:39.280 of the year. They put Taylor Swift post Malone too much. 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.200 God damn man ain't already I like to drop black poomas? 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.760 What black poomas? I don't know? Cold Play? Oh my god, 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:51.720 Jacob call Yeah, that's y h A, I M. I 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.000 don't know what that is. Drum and do a leap? 0:21:54.040 --> 0:22:03.520 Do you this and they got Jenneico and what album 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:08.239 of the year. All right, give the Jaico. Don't know 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.520 nothing else. She's a person of color. Oh my goodness. 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:14.760 All right, well that is your rumor report. We don't 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:17.240 know where he is. Uh, Like we said, Oprah has 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.359 the dope technology where she could look like her and 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:20.840 Barrock are in the same room. We don't even have 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:23.520 enough technology to get Angela then, but we were in 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.800 the same room and President Barack Oba, he definitely we 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:28.160 went down to DC to have the conversation. So that 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:30.400 conversation will be coming on shortly, all right, So keep 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.639 it lockedice to Breakfast Club coming morning. Everybody is DJ 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:37.879 Envy Angela Ye, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast's happening. Listen. 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.840 We're only here, okay, listen next next to some of 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.399 the six Crap Sunday years a Sunday. I believe that 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.159 the Breakfast Club has been on the air and for 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.160 the past ten years, during this week of this white 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:53.240 Man's holiday, we never are here, right right, take vacation 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:55.920 always and where we've been, we've taken vacation all week. 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:58.639 Just Monday we had to fly down the DC. We 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.400 will summoned because the forty fourth president of the United 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:03.440 States of America has a book out called a Promise Lane, 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:05.560 and he wanted to do the breakfast club. Right, Okay, 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:07.399 we don't have the fancy technology that Oprah has. We we 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:10.000 we had to go down there all right, COVID tests, 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:13.639 We socially distanced, and we had a great conversation. The 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:17.680 only reason we're here today is because this conversation is airing. Yeah, 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.720 in a few minutes. Yeah, we all went went down 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:22.399 to a hotel in DC and it was it was 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:24.080 it was dope. I didn't know what to expect, you know. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.479 It's when when he walked in, it felt like he 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:29.960 was one of our brothers, just one of the I 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:32.000 don't want to say, one of the homies, but he 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:36.000 just seems so cool, so relaxed, so inviting. So just 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:37.640 felt like a don't I don't know how to still 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:39.639 a politicians, still a politician, but it felt like a 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:41.480 thing's given dinner way. He was just cool, like on 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:43.560 some cool. I ain't gonna say all that I have 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.040 still a politician, So what does that mean he can't 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:47.919 be cool being a politician. It was definitely cool. I 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:51.560 mess some asses politician that was assholes, you know really yeah, 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:57.479 oh names some names name. I mean, it's it's a 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:01.159 certain level of it's a certain level of full of 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:03.160 you have to be in order to be a politician though, 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.360 because you're always on right, like, you can't always be happy, correct, 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:08.440 you know what I mean? You got to tell people 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:10.600 what he was real about things though, and he was 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:13.680 definitely very transparent in the book, very transparent in the book. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:17.800 All right, so we'll talk to President Barack Obama when 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:21.160 we come back. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:28.280 Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:31.320 and Jula Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:33.359 And this is what we do. Every time you were 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:35.840 talking nice and level. This is how we talk every day, 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:38.760 and it wasn't coming in high and now you are well, 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:40.959 now we are. We have a special guest. He served 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.960 eight years as the forty fourth President of the United States. 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:47.520 Ladies and gentlemen, President Barack Obama. Never heard of him, 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:51.159 never heard of him. You know what I heard of y'all. 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:54.080 And I appreciate you guys having me. It's wonderful to 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:56.560 see you again. Thank you for being in Thank you. Now, 0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:58.200 we don't have much time, so let's get right into 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:01.399 us A promised Land. Why is that the title for 0:25:01.480 --> 0:25:04.960 your book? When I think about America, I think about 0:25:05.119 --> 0:25:08.960 both where we've been, where we might be going. I'm 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:13.360 reminded of doctor King's speech, famous speech he gave shortly 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:17.880 before he got shot, about I might not get there 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:19.840 with you, but I've been at the mountain top and 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.760 I see the promised land, and I think that that 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:27.280 idea that we're not where we need to be, but 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:31.639 we still act on the faith and the belief that 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:35.560 we can get there. That's how I think about America. 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:39.840 That's how I think about my own political journey. That's 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:43.439 not one where it's ever gonna be finished. It's not 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:47.639 one where racism is gone or inequality is gone, but 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:51.159 what we can continually try to do better. That was 0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:54.199 the spirit that I wanted to communicate. You're say in 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:57.200 the prefaith that America's ideals have always been secondary to 0:25:57.320 --> 0:26:00.879 conquest and subjugation, a racial cast instiment, that to pretend 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:02.960 otherwise is to be complicit in a game that was 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:04.960 rigged from the start. So my question is, if the 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:06.960 game is rigged and we know to fight is fixed. 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:09.200 How could black people ever believe in this idea of 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:12.680 America being a promised the land. That's one argument, and 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:18.000 that's how some people feel. And obviously there's evidence of that, slavery, 0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:22.959 Jim Crow, Native Americans being driven from their lands. On 0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:25.760 the other hand, what we also have stories of is 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:34.000 abolition and civil rights movement and folks fighting for their 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:41.840 freedom and generation passing on a legacy of struggle that 0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:44.680 results in something a little bit better. What I try 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:48.879 to do book as a whole is paying an honest 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:52.879 picture about how there's a gap between the myth of 0:26:52.920 --> 0:26:57.160 America and the reality of America. Will never completely close 0:26:57.200 --> 0:27:01.600 that gap, but if we in the effort, if we 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:07.520 stay focused, reach out, then we can get closer to 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:11.440 the ideal. You know, one of the lessons I try 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:15.680 to teach in the book about politics is it's never 0:27:15.760 --> 0:27:19.760 going to be perfect. We live in a big country 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.600 with a lot of different points of view. We've got 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:28.280 hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination that have to 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:33.600 be overcome. We've got, you know, the natural human impulses 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:37.840 that you see around the world, Greed, power, you know, 0:27:37.880 --> 0:27:41.440 folks trying to get over on others. But you also 0:27:41.520 --> 0:27:47.120 see kindness, courage, folks looking out for each other, and 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:52.119 a lot of goodness along with the bad. And in politics, 0:27:52.359 --> 0:27:55.280 the job is not to think that you're ever going 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:59.000 to eliminate all the bad. It can can you empower 0:27:59.080 --> 0:28:05.080 the good to make more kids get a better education, 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:07.879 to make sure that some folks have better healthcare, to 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:11.679 make sure that you know, there's less discrimination, and that 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:15.280 the police are more accountable. And if you if you 0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:18.160 do that and you stick with it. Yeah, the distance 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:20.520 that we've traveled, let's say, just in my lifetime. We 0:28:20.520 --> 0:28:23.720 were talking before we got on the air. I'm fifty nine. 0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:28.480 I don't feel old. And in you know, human history, 0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:30.880 fifty nine years is a blink of the eye. None 0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:33.600 of us would have been sitting here fifty nine years ago. 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:39.360 We couldn't imagine, you know, you guys having your own 0:28:39.360 --> 0:28:43.400 show that you control and that you produce. And I 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:45.840 couldn't imagine being a former president and having a best 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:48.600 selling book that just wasn't in the cards. And that 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:52.560 was just you know, in my lifetime. And so we 0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:56.960 can imagine if we keep working that maybe our kids, 0:28:56.960 --> 0:29:00.520 certainly our grandkids, if we do it right, they're going 0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:03.920 to be that much more ahead of the game now. 0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:07.719 But you know, one thing we always have to remember 0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:10.360 is history doesn't just go forward, it can go backwards too, 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:14.640 and if we're not vigilant, things can get worse. President Obama, 0:29:14.680 --> 0:29:17.320 I wanted to ask you something about revend Jeremiah Right 0:29:17.840 --> 0:29:20.120 from in your book, because you've addressed it, Michelle Obama 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:23.000 has addressed it. Do you think that in today's climate, 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.760 the comments and the speeches that Jeremiah Right gave would 0:29:25.800 --> 0:29:27.840 still be looked at the same way where you would 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:31.120 have had to distance it yourself from him today. Yeah, 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:34.840 you know, it's Look, it's an interesting thing. As I 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:37.479 write about in the book. You know, Reverend Right as 0:29:37.480 --> 0:29:43.920 an example of somebody who supremely gifted Preacher Trinity United 0:29:44.000 --> 0:29:48.440 Church of Christ on South Side Chicago had amazing ministry 0:29:48.560 --> 0:29:54.240 still does. I was very close to a lot of 0:29:54.240 --> 0:29:57.520 people in that congregation as well as Reverend Right. In 0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:00.920 national politics, if you can take out a bunch of 0:30:00.960 --> 0:30:07.600 sound bites that say Goddamn America, even if the context 0:30:07.640 --> 0:30:10.680 of it is prophetic and biblical, and he's trying to 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:17.600 describe how somebody might feel he wasn't promoting the notion 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:21.480 that God was damning America. He was making the point 0:30:21.560 --> 0:30:25.200 that if you looked at slavery and discrimination, you could 0:30:25.200 --> 0:30:28.840 see the conclusion of people feeling that there was not 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:32.680 an alignment with Christian values and America. But if you'd 0:30:32.680 --> 0:30:35.840 see it a two minute sound bite trying to explain 0:30:35.920 --> 0:30:41.160 that is too complicated. In my campaign, I had to 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:48.640 constantly manage the fact that truths that black folks experience 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:51.160 on a day to day basis are not going to 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:53.560 be the same as the truths that the country as 0:30:53.600 --> 0:30:57.560 a whole experience. But if you want to operate at 0:30:57.600 --> 0:30:59.360 the highest level of politics, you have to be able 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:04.480 to communicate and translate for the country as a whole. 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:10.240 And there were times where I was surprised by the 0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:15.040 reaction of folks, generally white voters, to certain things that 0:31:15.080 --> 0:31:20.440 to me didn't seem like it was something they should 0:31:20.440 --> 0:31:24.960 be surprised or upset about. And I suspect attitudes would 0:31:24.960 --> 0:31:26.920 probably be a little bit different now. And I give 0:31:27.280 --> 0:31:29.280 to give one example that I use in the book, 0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:34.560 when Professor Skip Gates gets arrested in his own house. 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:39.160 I write about the fact that in a press conference 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:40.960 I'm asked about it and I said, well, you know, 0:31:41.080 --> 0:31:45.640 I think the police probably acted stupidly and arresting you know, 0:31:46.720 --> 0:31:50.720 sixty year old professor who's got a lame leg in 0:31:50.800 --> 0:31:54.680 his own house after he shown them ideas. Even if 0:31:54.680 --> 0:31:56.959 he cussed out the police, all they have to do 0:31:57.000 --> 0:32:04.480 is just leave right and was treated with all kinds 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:10.080 of controversy, And my polling with white voters dropped drastically 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:13.440 because the notion is somehow I was insulting the police. 0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:17.120 I think today, in light of everything that's happened and 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:20.280 part of what happened this summer terms of raising awareness 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:24.880 of potential bias in the criminal justice system, I suspect 0:32:24.920 --> 0:32:31.280 that that would not have seemed as much of a 0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:34.280 controversial statement as it was viewed at the time, even 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:36.600 though at the time I didn't think it was particularly controversial. 0:32:36.800 --> 0:32:39.160 You talk about that in a Good Fight chapter Henry 0:32:39.200 --> 0:32:42.800 Lewis gets Gate situation, but you also say that wouldn't 0:32:42.800 --> 0:32:45.400 have happened to a white person in the same situation. 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:47.560 But at the same time you say you wish you 0:32:47.640 --> 0:32:51.360 had have said that then, which you didn't. So we 0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:53.040 bite our tongue in situations like that, who were trying 0:32:53.080 --> 0:32:56.120 to protect one of the things that you that I 0:32:56.160 --> 0:33:00.000 try to communicate in this book is what's the best 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:10.400 way to expand folks understanding right where where do you 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:19.160 see teachable moments? And there have been times where, for example, 0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:27.120 the tragedy in Charleston, when Pickney and others who are 0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:30.400 praying and invited a young white man into pray with them, 0:33:30.440 --> 0:33:33.480 he then shoots them. He's obviously his head's been filled 0:33:33.560 --> 0:33:40.400 up with racist ideology. That was a teachable moment where 0:33:40.440 --> 0:33:44.320 I could say some things that I might not have 0:33:44.320 --> 0:33:52.120 said in another context, you know. And part of what 0:33:52.360 --> 0:33:54.360 I also try to describe in the book is the 0:33:54.400 --> 0:34:00.760 fact that the prophetic voice that you have if you 0:34:00.800 --> 0:34:03.680 are a civil rights leader, if you're a Malcolm, if 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:06.400 you're a Martin, is not going to be the same 0:34:06.520 --> 0:34:10.879 voice as if you're a politician, Because politicians, the whole 0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:13.319 thing is, I've got to figure out how do I 0:34:13.400 --> 0:34:16.960 get this white senator from this conservative state to maybe 0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:24.560 support this bill. That's different from me teaching as a 0:34:24.600 --> 0:34:29.319 civil rights leader or a movement leader, and each each 0:34:29.360 --> 0:34:32.760 of us have different roles to play in that process. 0:34:33.200 --> 0:34:39.760 And you know, I think that you know, as as 0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:43.439 as one of my I think staff people I write 0:34:43.440 --> 0:34:46.440 about in the book, when I'm running, he says, you know, 0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:50.160 white folks, they notice you don't look like the other 0:34:52.160 --> 0:34:55.919 forty two folks that have been president. They're noticing this 0:34:56.000 --> 0:35:00.279 is already a radical break for them. And you know, 0:35:00.360 --> 0:35:03.960 in the same way that Jackie Robinson, there were times 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:10.160 where if he hadn't been the first, he would have 0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:13.799 whooped on somebody who's coming in, sliding with spikes at 0:35:13.880 --> 0:35:19.919 him or otherwise trying to injure him. But he recognized, 0:35:19.920 --> 0:35:27.560 all right, there's some things that right now I'm gonna 0:35:27.800 --> 0:35:34.000 be more diplomatic about that. Maybe the next African American 0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:37.120 president will not have to be I think those are 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:39.320 the kinds of things that you're constantly having a measure 0:35:39.960 --> 0:35:44.680 and make decisions about. One thing I love about the book, 0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:47.440 President Obama, is you talk about your relationship with your wife, 0:35:48.239 --> 0:35:50.400 and you talk about how your wife is the boss 0:35:50.400 --> 0:35:53.279 and you're scared of him. You also talk about how 0:35:53.320 --> 0:35:56.000 every decision has to be approved by your wife. You know, 0:35:56.239 --> 0:35:58.800 one thing that I love about the book is everybody 0:35:58.840 --> 0:36:02.560 talks about relationships and sometimes things seem perfect, but in 0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:04.320 your book you show that things aren't perfect. You know, 0:36:04.320 --> 0:36:06.879 I've been married in nineteen years. So when you talk 0:36:06.920 --> 0:36:09.040 about your wife and you talk about how hard it 0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:10.880 was and how she didn't want you to run, how 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:13.200 bad did it get in the household? Did it ever 0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:14.640 get to the point where it was like, you know what, 0:36:14.800 --> 0:36:16.680 maybe this is not going to work for us? Or 0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:18.800 is that never an option when it came to a relationship. 0:36:19.800 --> 0:36:24.480 I think I think there were times where certainly she 0:36:25.239 --> 0:36:32.120 thought this wasn't gonna work. Michelle is somebody who has 0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:36.560 a different temperament than me, and I think she'd admit 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:38.239 that she has more of a temper than I does 0:36:38.719 --> 0:36:44.000 than I do. I think she can get more pessimistic 0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:46.960 sometimes about things than I can. I tend to be 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:51.319 pretty even killed. Yeah, I we'll figure this out kind 0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:53.879 of approach. But as I write about in the book, 0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:58.439 sometimes that's that itself is frustrating to your partner. Right 0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:01.200 if you're all like, hey, honey, relax, why are you 0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:06.439 getting so excited about stuff? You know? Then she'll be like, oh, 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:09.279 you're just not listening to me at all, Right, And 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:11.920 I know I listened to you. I'm I'm just saying, 0:37:12.400 --> 0:37:15.319 you know, it's not so bad. Well, what do you 0:37:15.320 --> 0:37:17.560 think I'm overreacting? Is that what you're saying, all right, 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:20.919 and then you I mean, you're in that pattern. So 0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:24.920 there's no doubt that there were periods, there were episodes 0:37:26.080 --> 0:37:34.040 where she was questioning whether the life that I had 0:37:34.120 --> 0:37:38.480 charted for us was compatible with what she wanted out 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:41.959 of life. You know, she you know, Michelle once told 0:37:41.960 --> 0:37:44.920 me something that I think summed it up pretty well. 0:37:45.120 --> 0:37:48.160 She said, I have organized my life not to have 0:37:48.280 --> 0:37:52.440 a lot of mess in my life, and politics, by definition, 0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:57.080 brings mess into our household. You've got people that I 0:37:57.080 --> 0:38:01.640 would never associate with otherwise who now suddenly are talking 0:38:01.680 --> 0:38:07.840 about us or you know, have impact on our well being, 0:38:08.800 --> 0:38:12.239 and I don't. That's not what I want. And I 0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:17.680 understood that. And the sacrifice she made is one that 0:38:18.120 --> 0:38:20.600 you know, I've had to work off, you know, the 0:38:20.760 --> 0:38:28.960 like I I've been. My debt has been it's almost 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:30.759 like a payday loan, you know, it just keeps on. 0:38:31.640 --> 0:38:33.759 The interest was high. How did you get over it? 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:36.719 Was it therapy? Was it friends? Was it reverence? Was 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:40.040 it church? Was it prayer? When the terms were over? Well? 0:38:40.320 --> 0:38:42.840 I think all of the above. Yeah. Michelle talked to 0:38:43.040 --> 0:38:45.440 right writes about the fact that we went to counseling 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:49.040 pre presidency, and that was when the kids were small. 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:52.160 And I think anybody who's had small kids, you know, 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:54.759 that's always a strain. You know, as much joy as 0:38:54.800 --> 0:39:00.160 they bring, there is that tension, especially if both uh 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:07.160 bouses are working right. Um. And during the White House. Look, 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:08.640 I give a lot of credit to my mother in 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:14.960 law because Miss Marian, you know, she would Michelle be hot. 0:39:15.280 --> 0:39:18.239 You know, she'd go upstairs. My mother in law was 0:39:18.360 --> 0:39:21.960 living on the in the suite and on the third floor, 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:24.560 and Michelle to go up there. And I'm pretty sure 0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:28.200 she talked Michelle down a couple of times. UM. Friends, 0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:34.480 one thing we Michelle and I both tell younger couples, 0:39:34.960 --> 0:39:39.560 you know, who are going through rough patches. Um. I 0:39:39.600 --> 0:39:42.960 think we were pretty good about the fact that even 0:39:43.080 --> 0:39:50.160 when things were tough, we never lost basic respect for 0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:54.920 the other person. We never thought that that person was 0:39:54.920 --> 0:39:58.239 a bad person. We never sent things that would make 0:39:58.280 --> 0:40:01.640 it seem as if, oh, you just completely disrespect me. 0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:07.719 It was more, look, I love you, Barrock, but you 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:11.799 know this is driving me crazy, or you know how 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:15.279 much I respect you, but so so. I think that 0:40:15.480 --> 0:40:19.920 is part of what kept us able to sort this out. 0:40:19.920 --> 0:40:25.040 Because we never doubted each other's intentions. And the basic 0:40:25.120 --> 0:40:28.640 fact that you know, my view of Michelle is she 0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:32.600 is a remarkable woman, even you know, if she driving 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:36.240 me crazy sometimes, I never thought that there was anybody 0:40:36.280 --> 0:40:40.759 who I would rather be with, No being that you're 0:40:40.800 --> 0:40:43.879 so even killed, right, did you ever take your frustrations 0:40:43.920 --> 0:40:46.759 from work home? And did you ever do anything like 0:40:46.800 --> 0:40:48.560 punch a wall or what did you do when you 0:40:48.600 --> 0:40:53.120 got mad? You know? I had there were times where 0:40:53.160 --> 0:40:55.160 I would have a potty mouth in the Oval office, 0:40:55.960 --> 0:40:59.920 but we heard some of that, which I appreciate it 0:41:01.000 --> 0:41:02.839 because well, I mean, I think it's I think it's 0:41:03.040 --> 0:41:07.080 important to be honest, because part of what I try 0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:11.600 to describe in the book is the White House, you know, 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:15.319 and the presidency. Look, you're the leader of the free world. 0:41:15.400 --> 0:41:18.799 Is the most powerful office owner. But it's also a job, 0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:23.919 and the West Wing is also an office, and you're 0:41:23.920 --> 0:41:27.800 going to have some of the same frustrations and mistakes 0:41:27.880 --> 0:41:34.319 and doubts and mishaps as in any office, in any job, 0:41:35.440 --> 0:41:37.520 which also means sometimes you don't cuss a little bit 0:41:37.560 --> 0:41:44.000 because because stuff's frustrating. Um, working out was important, you know, 0:41:44.080 --> 0:41:49.239 we get those workouts in sometimes, uh, you know, dear 0:41:49.360 --> 0:41:52.800 friend of ours who who was also a trainer, Cornell McClellan, 0:41:52.920 --> 0:41:58.560 we would get the boxing gloves out and didn't seem 0:41:58.600 --> 0:42:00.719 too fullness. A lot of old people in the White House. 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:02.359 You can't just say, let's play a pickup game. Those 0:42:02.400 --> 0:42:06.200 guys pass out now. I had my weekend game though 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:08.719 with Reggie love Right who you know on Reggie at 0:42:08.719 --> 0:42:12.000 that time was you know, probably he just turned thirty. 0:42:12.160 --> 0:42:14.560 He wasn't posting up Joe Biden, and so no, we 0:42:14.920 --> 0:42:17.439 could we couldn't play. We couldn't play in the White House. 0:42:17.520 --> 0:42:19.799 We had a we had a regular game. Reggie had 0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:24.600 his crew and so we had regular basketball games. You 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:27.960 know a lot of times though, you know, you would 0:42:27.960 --> 0:42:31.719 just try to take the long view in dealing with frustrations. 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:34.719 If Mitch McConnell and the Republicans were blocking something for 0:42:34.760 --> 0:42:40.920 no reason, if they were playing games that actually had 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:43.160 real consequences in terms of people being able to get 0:42:43.160 --> 0:42:47.600 healthcare or be able to get some relief from unemployment 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:50.520 or what have you. You know, you just had to 0:42:50.560 --> 0:42:55.680 remind yourself that you were in a long term contest 0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:57.759 and there were going to be ups and downs. At 0:42:57.760 --> 0:43:00.839 any given time, but that if you kept your eye 0:43:00.880 --> 0:43:03.680 on the ball, that you know, sooner or later you 0:43:03.680 --> 0:43:06.279 can prepare. You know. In the Yes we Can chapter, 0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:09.080 you discuss how you were frustrated with the constant need 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:12.360 to soften for white folks benefit the blunt truths about 0:43:12.400 --> 0:43:14.360 racing this country. Do you still feel the need to 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:17.879 do that after the last four years? We wouldness? Well, 0:43:17.920 --> 0:43:24.840 I think we're all a little bit more open and aware. 0:43:25.520 --> 0:43:29.920 And one of the things that I was really inspired 0:43:29.960 --> 0:43:33.919 by in the wake of tragedy was the response after 0:43:34.040 --> 0:43:41.280 George Floyd's murder, because what you saw was not only 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:45.520 people of all walks of life out there protesting. It 0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:49.560 wasn't just black folks, But when you looked at the polling, 0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:55.799 you actually saw that by a significant number, many more 0:43:55.920 --> 0:43:59.160 white Americans were willing to acknowledge problems in the criminal 0:43:59.239 --> 0:44:01.880 justice system race. Why do we have to wait on 0:44:01.920 --> 0:44:04.680 them though? Well? Speak to speak our truth to power. 0:44:05.280 --> 0:44:09.640 You know, what this comes down to is how do 0:44:09.680 --> 0:44:13.160 you build coalitions to actually get stuff done? Because the 0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:18.080 truth of the matter is is that in very few 0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:22.920 places are African Americans the majority of the vote. You know, 0:44:23.080 --> 0:44:27.560 it's just simple math, right, so right where we're sitting 0:44:27.640 --> 0:44:31.920 right now in Washington, DC, that would be the case. 0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:39.759 But there are not a lot of states, and they're 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:44.600 a handful of cities where just the black vote delivers 0:44:44.640 --> 0:44:48.160 the power then to actually bring about concrete change. So 0:44:48.200 --> 0:44:50.560 as a consequence, then you've got to pay attention to 0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:55.719 how other folks are feeling. That may be frustrating sometimes, 0:44:55.760 --> 0:44:59.800 And as I said, that's not the job of everybody. 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:03.440 The job of a writer like a James Baldwin or 0:45:03.480 --> 0:45:11.320 a Tanahasi Coates, the job of a preacher, the job 0:45:11.520 --> 0:45:16.920 of an activist. When I was a community organizer, I'm 0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:19.759 thinking differently about what I'm communicating because I'm trying to 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:27.080 mobilize a particular segment of my community. Right But when 0:45:27.120 --> 0:45:31.920 we are talking about politics at the particularly at the 0:45:32.000 --> 0:45:35.879 state or federal levels, well, you need to be able 0:45:35.920 --> 0:45:39.239 to persuade some white folks who are not going to 0:45:39.280 --> 0:45:42.239 think like you. And you may want to say things 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:45.600 exactly the way you want to say it, but they 0:45:45.600 --> 0:45:48.480 may not hear it. And if you don't hear if 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:50.040 they don't hear it, then it's not going to help you. 0:45:51.239 --> 0:45:54.920 I mean, listen, listen. One thing that I think is 0:45:55.480 --> 0:46:02.000 absolutely important to recognize is that even people who are 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:10.839 not in any way consciously anti black, they don't want 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:14.920 to be seen as the bad person. They're always going 0:46:15.000 --> 0:46:18.960 to be a little defensive. That's human nature. In the 0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:21.920 same way, by the way that you know, and you know, 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:24.560 you may be able to relate to this more as 0:46:24.600 --> 0:46:29.400 a man, like you know, if women start talking to 0:46:29.600 --> 0:46:34.520 men about their issues, a lot of men will get 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:39.359 very defensive, very quickly and say, you know that's not me. 0:46:39.680 --> 0:46:43.239 You know, I treat my woman good, or you know, 0:46:43.320 --> 0:46:47.320 I'm not the problem, or et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, 0:46:48.600 --> 0:46:53.239 and or if they're smart, they will listen and make adjustments. Yes, 0:46:53.320 --> 0:46:54.960 but the woman has to be allowed to be able 0:46:54.960 --> 0:46:59.200 to speak their truth to power, of course. But you know, listen, 0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:00.960 part of the book you talk about that, That's what 0:47:01.000 --> 0:47:03.040 I was going to ask you next, right, you talk 0:47:03.040 --> 0:47:05.600 about the women on your team and them having issues 0:47:05.840 --> 0:47:09.000 with men interrupting them constantly and taking their ideas and 0:47:09.040 --> 0:47:11.279 making it their own. And as a matter of fact, 0:47:11.280 --> 0:47:13.680 that was happening, they were feeling so intimidated by it 0:47:13.880 --> 0:47:16.360 that they didn't even want to speak anymore. And sometimes 0:47:16.400 --> 0:47:18.839 because of that, and that was something that you guys 0:47:18.840 --> 0:47:20.480 had to adjust. And I feel like that's something that 0:47:20.520 --> 0:47:23.200 happens in the workplace all the time to this day. 0:47:23.239 --> 0:47:27.200 So absolutely part of what had to happen was the 0:47:27.320 --> 0:47:31.439 women had to bring it to me. Then we all 0:47:31.480 --> 0:47:33.720 had to talk about it. I had to get educated 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:35.279 on what was happening, because a lot of times this 0:47:35.360 --> 0:47:37.440 wasn't happening in front of me. As I said, the 0:47:37.520 --> 0:47:39.200 guys would be on their best behavior a lot of 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:41.560 times in front of me, but in meetings where I 0:47:41.600 --> 0:47:44.960 wasn't in suddenly you had some of these macho attitudes 0:47:44.960 --> 0:47:47.960 coming up. My point is that as we think about 0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:51.040 social change, whether we're talking about race, whether we're talking 0:47:51.080 --> 0:47:54.920 about gender, whether we're talking about sexual orientation, you know, 0:47:55.160 --> 0:47:59.080 this stuff is deep in everybody, right. We all have 0:47:59.200 --> 0:48:01.479 all these attitudes that have been built up over time, 0:48:01.560 --> 0:48:03.440 what we learned from our parents, what we learned from 0:48:03.440 --> 0:48:09.560 our communities, our neighborhoods. And there are times where the 0:48:09.600 --> 0:48:11.399 best thing to do is just be blunt and say 0:48:11.520 --> 0:48:15.480 you know what you know you are being racist or 0:48:15.520 --> 0:48:18.520 you are being sexist. There are times where the better 0:48:18.560 --> 0:48:21.600 thing to do is listen, I understand you know, you've 0:48:21.640 --> 0:48:25.520 got your own issues and this is you know, I 0:48:25.560 --> 0:48:28.360 think you mean well, but let me tell you, like 0:48:28.440 --> 0:48:32.839 how this is interpreted by me, right, and in each 0:48:32.840 --> 0:48:36.200 of those situations, and there's no formula, right, You're trying 0:48:36.239 --> 0:48:38.399 to figure it out at any given time. How can 0:48:38.440 --> 0:48:42.160 I get other people to see my reality in a 0:48:42.239 --> 0:48:46.719 way that leads them to change their behavior, leads them 0:48:46.760 --> 0:48:53.040 to support changes in laws and institutions. And you know, 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:57.719 but as as you quoted, that's frustrating, right, you' not 0:48:57.920 --> 0:49:01.040 you'd you'd prefer not having to do this at all. 0:49:01.440 --> 0:49:03.920 You know, I'm not the first person to write about 0:49:03.920 --> 0:49:09.120 the fact that it is sometimes exhausting to feel as 0:49:09.120 --> 0:49:13.880 if you got to educate folks about just being treated 0:49:15.320 --> 0:49:22.120 normally unfairly. Right, I prefer not having that legacy that 0:49:22.200 --> 0:49:24.320 we have to deal with with reading this book and 0:49:24.640 --> 0:49:28.000 all that you did for every community, including our own community. 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:31.960 How do you take it when you hear, especially African 0:49:31.960 --> 0:49:34.800 Americans minorities say that, you know, they feel that President 0:49:34.840 --> 0:49:38.080 but Rock didn't do enough for minorities, didn't do enough 0:49:38.080 --> 0:49:40.760 for black people people. You know, what are your thoughts 0:49:40.760 --> 0:49:46.640 on that? I understand it because when I got elected 0:49:46.760 --> 0:49:51.080 there was so much excitement and hope. And I also 0:49:52.160 --> 0:49:58.960 think that we generally view the presidency as almost like 0:49:59.000 --> 0:50:02.920 a monarchy in the sense of, well, once the presidents there, 0:50:02.920 --> 0:50:04.919 he can just do whatever it needs to get done. 0:50:04.920 --> 0:50:06.359 And if he's not doing it, then it must be 0:50:06.360 --> 0:50:08.279 because he didn't want to do it. Well, we see 0:50:08.320 --> 0:50:09.920 what Trump soo, so he does what he wants to do. 0:50:09.920 --> 0:50:15.279 So people listening right because he breaks laws and or 0:50:15.560 --> 0:50:20.160 or disregards the Constitution. But I think that anybody who 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:24.799 goes into public life they need to understand that, yeah, 0:50:24.800 --> 0:50:26.880 you're going to get criticized because that's just the nature 0:50:26.880 --> 0:50:28.720 of it. If you don't want that, then you shouldn't 0:50:28.840 --> 0:50:32.839 be in that business. The good news for me was 0:50:32.880 --> 0:50:35.239 that I was very confident in what I had done 0:50:35.320 --> 0:50:40.319 for black folks because I had the statistics to prove it. Right. So, 0:50:40.960 --> 0:50:46.719 by the time I left office, you had seen three 0:50:46.760 --> 0:50:49.280 million African Americans have healthcare that didn't have it before. 0:50:49.880 --> 0:50:55.440 You had seen the incarceration rate, the number of black 0:50:56.280 --> 0:51:00.600 folks in prison drop for the first time in years. 0:51:01.200 --> 0:51:06.040 You had seen the juvenile correction system thirty percent fewer 0:51:06.080 --> 0:51:15.759 people in there. You had seen black poverty dropped to 0:51:15.800 --> 0:51:20.320 its lowest level since nineteen sixty eight. You had seen 0:51:20.920 --> 0:51:26.560 black businesses rise, you had seen black income go up. 0:51:27.440 --> 0:51:30.360 So I could just look at the data and I 0:51:30.400 --> 0:51:35.880 could say millions of black folks were better off at 0:51:35.920 --> 0:51:37.840 the time I left office than when I came in. 0:51:39.120 --> 0:51:47.400 And you know what I have to accept, and I 0:51:47.440 --> 0:51:50.600 think what any president has to accept is the fact that, Okay, 0:51:50.760 --> 0:51:54.040 so I got twenty million people healthcare, but there's still 0:51:54.040 --> 0:51:58.960 ten million out there who don't have healthcare because Republicans 0:51:58.960 --> 0:52:00.719 blocked me from doing everything I wanted to do with 0:52:00.960 --> 0:52:06.360 Obamacare because some states didn't, you know, accept Medicaid dollars 0:52:06.360 --> 0:52:08.359 even though it wasn't going to cass them a dime, 0:52:08.480 --> 0:52:12.680 just because they wanted to oppose me. So if you 0:52:12.719 --> 0:52:14.960 were black and you're one of those ten million who 0:52:15.040 --> 0:52:18.000 didn't get healthcare because they were living in a state 0:52:18.080 --> 0:52:23.279 that didn't accept the money we were giving them, I 0:52:23.320 --> 0:52:26.400 can understand why they would be upset. How come things 0:52:26.440 --> 0:52:29.719 didn't change. I think people want to know, like, what 0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:33.000 did you do specifically for black people? Not the rising 0:52:33.040 --> 0:52:35.319 tide lifts all boats types of rhetoric, because we all 0:52:35.360 --> 0:52:36.960 know black people's boat got to hold in it so 0:52:37.000 --> 0:52:38.680 the systemic things that were done to black people to 0:52:38.719 --> 0:52:41.480 put us in these positions need specific systemic things to 0:52:41.520 --> 0:52:44.040 get us out. So well, but what I'm doing, what 0:52:44.480 --> 0:52:48.680 I'm saying, travel Mayne, is black property dropped faster than 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:54.000 everybody else. Black incomes went up more than a lot 0:52:54.040 --> 0:52:57.840 of other folks. So you know, the issue is sometimes 0:52:57.840 --> 0:53:00.920 we just didn't go around advertising that because once again, 0:53:02.760 --> 0:53:06.920 the goal here is to build coalitions where everybody is 0:53:07.360 --> 0:53:09.560 getting something so that they all feel like they've got 0:53:09.560 --> 0:53:13.640 a stake in it. But a lot of my policies 0:53:13.680 --> 0:53:19.759 were targeted towards people most in need. Those folks are 0:53:19.840 --> 0:53:24.360 disproportionately African American. Now, there are some things that for example, 0:53:25.360 --> 0:53:29.680 US having a civil Rights division in the Justice Department 0:53:29.719 --> 0:53:35.520 that actually took seriously civil rights and imposed consent decrees 0:53:35.520 --> 0:53:41.960 on places like Ferguson, and change sentencing guidelines so that 0:53:42.280 --> 0:53:46.960 we didn't max out on sentencing for all non violent 0:53:47.040 --> 0:53:50.879 drug offenses, but change the incentives so that prosecutors were 0:53:50.960 --> 0:53:53.120 judged not by how long of a sentence you got, 0:53:53.160 --> 0:53:54.920 but did you get a proportional sentence? Was it a 0:53:54.920 --> 0:54:01.279 fair sentence? Those kinds of changes that we made, that's 0:54:01.320 --> 0:54:05.440 why I say, there's a reason why the federal prison 0:54:05.480 --> 0:54:08.920 population dropped, by the way, at the same time the 0:54:08.920 --> 0:54:11.720 crime also dropped, right, So we were able to show 0:54:12.320 --> 0:54:16.960 that you can have a smart strategy in terms of 0:54:17.320 --> 0:54:24.080 reducing crime without expanding incarceration. But the truth of the 0:54:24.120 --> 0:54:28.560 matter is shell them in. At the end of the day, 0:54:28.840 --> 0:54:33.000 there is no way in eight years to make up 0:54:33.040 --> 0:54:39.160 for two hundred years. Absolutely, And the question is constantly, 0:54:39.280 --> 0:54:43.080 how are you going to you know, the way I've 0:54:43.120 --> 0:54:46.560 been describing it, because because it's very much how I 0:54:47.000 --> 0:54:50.880 understand the presidency. Now, You're like a relay runner. You 0:54:50.920 --> 0:54:55.200 know you're getting the baton from somebody else, and all 0:54:55.239 --> 0:54:57.439 you can do is run your stage of the race, 0:54:58.320 --> 0:55:00.120 and then you pass it on the next person. And 0:55:00.239 --> 0:55:04.520 on either side, both who you got to hit from 0:55:04.560 --> 0:55:08.440 and who you're passing it too, they may not have 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:11.920 the same priorities that you do. You know, you're you 0:55:12.000 --> 0:55:14.400 know that you're not going to get everything done that 0:55:14.440 --> 0:55:16.920 you need to get done. But what you got to 0:55:16.920 --> 0:55:20.319 do is do your best to get as much done 0:55:20.320 --> 0:55:22.359 as possible, and I think that's what we did. Would 0:55:22.360 --> 0:55:24.719 you say that your intention with this book was to 0:55:24.840 --> 0:55:27.600 explain to people also how difficult it was for you 0:55:27.640 --> 0:55:29.840 to get things passed and for people to see what 0:55:29.920 --> 0:55:32.160 you did do, because, like you said in the book, 0:55:32.200 --> 0:55:34.080 a lot of times, it's not your policies and what 0:55:34.160 --> 0:55:36.440 you do, it's more what you say and the feeling 0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:38.480 that people have, and that's what they pay attention to. 0:55:38.600 --> 0:55:42.960 So absolutely, look, let's take something like, you know, the 0:55:44.560 --> 0:55:48.600 Recovery Act. So I walk in the day I walk in, 0:55:48.640 --> 0:55:51.240 we're losing eight hundred thousand jobs a month. The economy 0:55:51.320 --> 0:55:54.320 is actually contracting faster than it did during the Great Depression. 0:55:56.120 --> 0:55:59.200 And six months later the economy was grown again and 0:56:00.480 --> 0:56:04.160 we had kind of stopped the free fall. But if 0:56:04.200 --> 0:56:06.120 you're somebody who had lost your job at that point 0:56:06.200 --> 0:56:10.239 or lost your house, you're not feeling good. And we 0:56:10.239 --> 0:56:13.320 couldn't go around saying look what a patting ourselves on 0:56:13.360 --> 0:56:15.200 the back, saying look at what a great job we did, 0:56:15.239 --> 0:56:18.680 because people are still hurting out there. I hope if 0:56:18.680 --> 0:56:23.040 somebody reads this they come to recognize if we want 0:56:23.080 --> 0:56:28.280 to bring about systemic change, there are a whole bunch 0:56:28.280 --> 0:56:31.799 of different pressure points that we have to apply. It's 0:56:31.840 --> 0:56:35.200 not just the presidency. So I write extensively about the 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:38.560 fact that I have a lot of power as president. 0:56:38.680 --> 0:56:42.000 I'm the most powerful person as president, but I still 0:56:42.040 --> 0:56:46.480 need a Congress. I still need to make sure that 0:56:46.520 --> 0:56:48.839 we have a majority in the House of Representatives, because 0:56:48.880 --> 0:56:51.080 if I don't, I can't get any a single law 0:56:51.120 --> 0:56:54.799 passed if I want to change something on criminal justice reform, 0:56:54.840 --> 0:56:59.080 it turns out that the federal government isn't actually in 0:56:59.160 --> 0:57:01.840 charge of most criminal in the law. Most criminal laws 0:57:01.840 --> 0:57:05.840 made at the state level and determined by state prosecutors, 0:57:06.719 --> 0:57:09.600 most police departments, the federal government has nothing to do with. 0:57:09.960 --> 0:57:13.359 That's determined by the mayor in that city. Whether they're 0:57:13.400 --> 0:57:17.640 prosecuted when they do something wrong, that's up to the 0:57:17.680 --> 0:57:22.760 state's attorney or disc attorney in that area. So when 0:57:22.800 --> 0:57:26.680 we think about politics, it is a mistake for us 0:57:26.720 --> 0:57:30.560 to say, Okay, once i'm I voted for president, I'm done, 0:57:31.000 --> 0:57:33.680 and I hope people don't repeat that mistake with Biden 0:57:34.120 --> 0:57:37.960 and Kamala Harris. Right now, we've got two seats in 0:57:37.960 --> 0:57:41.400 Georgia coming up. If the Republicans win those two seats, 0:57:41.880 --> 0:57:44.560 then Joe Biden and Kamala Harrist will not be able 0:57:44.600 --> 0:57:48.200 to get any law passed that Mitch McConnell and the 0:57:48.240 --> 0:57:50.160 Republicans aren't willing to go along with Well, you got 0:57:50.160 --> 0:57:52.880 to do a better job of letting people know, Hey, 0:57:52.920 --> 0:57:55.200 I wanted to do a lot more for people, especially 0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:57.680 black people, but I couldn't because Mitch McConnell was blocking 0:57:57.720 --> 0:57:59.320 me every chance you got. Well, that's why I wrote 0:57:59.320 --> 0:58:02.200 the book. That's why whatever everybody gonna read, that's all 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:08.160 I'm saying. Well, you know, all these interviews I hear 0:58:08.240 --> 0:58:11.680 some people listen to you about Georgia where Warnock, I 0:58:11.720 --> 0:58:14.600 see they're giving him issues about his alliance with Jeremiah Rights, 0:58:14.680 --> 0:58:16.440 the same kind of stuff. Did you tell him he 0:58:16.440 --> 0:58:20.320 should step back and denounce him? At this point? We look, 0:58:20.840 --> 0:58:23.800 first of all, it is a losing game at this 0:58:23.840 --> 0:58:29.920 stage to just go chasing crazy commentary. H There's some 0:58:29.960 --> 0:58:34.360 things you have to answer aggressively, but you can't obsess 0:58:34.440 --> 0:58:39.920 over it. Warnock is doing a great job. If I'm him, 0:58:40.040 --> 0:58:43.040 I'm going to be emphasizing what am I positively going 0:58:43.120 --> 0:58:45.920 to do on behalf of the people of Georgia that 0:58:45.920 --> 0:58:50.520 that as opposed to just trying to play defense against 0:58:51.280 --> 0:58:54.840 a bunch of crazy stuff that's coming out there. But 0:58:54.840 --> 0:59:00.200 but listen, it's hard winning in Georgia, just like it's 0:59:00.200 --> 0:59:05.760 hard winning in Iowa. It's like it's hard in a 0:59:05.960 --> 0:59:08.800 lot of the country. And one thing I think that 0:59:09.760 --> 0:59:13.800 I hope the book also reminds us of Yeah, those 0:59:13.840 --> 0:59:20.080 of us who live in DC or New York or LA. 0:59:21.000 --> 0:59:27.280 You know, sometimes we do not have a a good 0:59:27.360 --> 0:59:32.160 enough sense of how big this country is and how 0:59:32.200 --> 0:59:35.920 a lot of folks do not accept at all things 0:59:36.000 --> 0:59:40.240 that we who are living in urban metropolitan areas just 0:59:40.320 --> 0:59:43.040 take for granted. From South Carolina, I don't know, Yeah, 0:59:43.280 --> 0:59:44.840 I mean it's you know, you go, there are a 0:59:44.840 --> 0:59:47.840 big chance of the country, even in our own communities, right, 0:59:48.280 --> 0:59:53.040 I mean, so I deeply believe that people should be 0:59:53.080 --> 0:59:58.720 treated equally under the law, regardless of sexual orientation. I 0:59:58.840 --> 1:00:01.320 was shocked you talked about that a book, but we all, 1:00:01.560 --> 1:00:04.280 you know, I mean, I think they're big chunks of 1:00:04.360 --> 1:00:09.800 our community where that's still controversial. People were surprised about 1:00:11.120 --> 1:00:14.960 a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump, but 1:00:15.280 --> 1:00:20.240 there's a lot of evangelical Hispanics who you know, the 1:00:20.280 --> 1:00:27.120 fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans or puts detainees, 1:00:27.640 --> 1:00:32.680 you know, undocumented workers in cages. They think that's less 1:00:32.680 --> 1:00:36.640 important than the fact that, you know, he supports their 1:00:36.760 --> 1:00:40.280 views on you know, gay marriage or abortion. Right. It's 1:00:40.280 --> 1:00:43.160 hard to believe when you say this, But then you 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:45.600 look at the way the government is ran. Right you 1:00:45.880 --> 1:00:48.520 talk about, for instance, you look at these big businesses 1:00:48.560 --> 1:00:50.560 and you look at their taxes, and they don't pay 1:00:50.600 --> 1:00:53.080 taxes at all. And then you look at somebody who 1:00:53.240 --> 1:00:55.880 is just getting by paying as much tax as possible. 1:00:56.360 --> 1:00:59.000 And you look at, for instance, the Pandemic task Force 1:00:59.040 --> 1:01:01.120 that you created, and you see Trump coming office and 1:01:01.160 --> 1:01:03.080 he shuts that down. And then you think to yourself, damn, 1:01:03.320 --> 1:01:05.200 if that task force was still around, with so many 1:01:05.200 --> 1:01:08.280 people have been dead, been killed, would we be able 1:01:08.320 --> 1:01:12.440 to save lives? We would have saved some lives. Here's 1:01:12.480 --> 1:01:18.400 one simple statistic. Canada, right right next door. Their death 1:01:18.480 --> 1:01:23.040 rate is forty percent of what ours is per capita. 1:01:23.320 --> 1:01:27.720 I don't you know. So for every one hundred Americans 1:01:27.720 --> 1:01:31.760 that have died, only forty Canadians have died. And that's 1:01:31.880 --> 1:01:36.720 just a matter of their government making better decisions. So 1:01:37.800 --> 1:01:40.880 the question, though, is is that you still had seventy 1:01:40.960 --> 1:01:45.120 billion people voting for a government that I would say 1:01:45.120 --> 1:01:53.040 objectively has failed miserably in handling this basic looking after 1:01:53.520 --> 1:01:57.320 the American people and keeping him safe. Why is that, Well, 1:01:58.000 --> 1:02:01.720 part of it is because, uh, you know, it turns 1:02:01.720 --> 1:02:04.360 out politics is not just about policy. It's not just 1:02:04.440 --> 1:02:07.960 about numbers. It's about the stories that are that are 1:02:07.960 --> 1:02:12.120 being told. And the story that they're hearing from Fox 1:02:12.200 --> 1:02:16.680 News and Rush Limbaugh and you know, in some cases 1:02:16.680 --> 1:02:21.840 inside their churches is that Democrats don't believe in Christmas, 1:02:21.880 --> 1:02:27.600 and you know, you only care about minorities and black 1:02:27.600 --> 1:02:30.840 folks and are trying to take your stuff and trying 1:02:30.840 --> 1:02:33.640 to take your guns away, and right there's a whole 1:02:33.760 --> 1:02:39.240 story that's being told to them, and people end up 1:02:39.280 --> 1:02:42.240 feeling as if, you know, what, we are under attack 1:02:42.640 --> 1:02:46.480 that you know, what's always interesting to me is the 1:02:46.520 --> 1:02:53.600 degree to which we've created, you've seen created in Republican politics, 1:02:54.200 --> 1:02:57.800 this sense that you know, white males are victims, like 1:02:57.800 --> 1:03:00.880 they're the ones who are like under attack, which obviously 1:03:01.000 --> 1:03:07.120 doesn't jibe with both history and data and economics. But 1:03:07.680 --> 1:03:10.640 that's a sincere belief, you know, that's been internalized. That's 1:03:10.640 --> 1:03:13.480 a story that's being told, and how you unwind that 1:03:13.760 --> 1:03:17.440 is going to be not something that is done right away. 1:03:17.560 --> 1:03:19.240 It's going to take some time. But we heard some 1:03:19.320 --> 1:03:22.200 rumors in this book how different because you know, when 1:03:22.200 --> 1:03:24.080 I hear that, I'm like and it feels like we're 1:03:24.120 --> 1:03:26.760 catering to white racists all the time. So I wonder 1:03:26.800 --> 1:03:29.200 how different would the dem strategy be if we lived 1:03:29.200 --> 1:03:32.920 in a one man, one vote society with no electoral college. Oh, 1:03:32.960 --> 1:03:35.520 I think that would help. Let's take a simple example 1:03:35.600 --> 1:03:40.520 like the Senate. So Wyoming, which has about half a 1:03:40.560 --> 1:03:45.040 million people, has the same number of senators as California 1:03:45.240 --> 1:03:50.520 with thirty three million people. Right, So what that means 1:03:50.600 --> 1:03:56.000 is is that the US Senate is hugely skewed towards 1:03:56.320 --> 1:04:03.960 some of these lower population, you know, more rural, much 1:04:04.000 --> 1:04:09.840 wider states than the big coastal states. And that's a 1:04:10.520 --> 1:04:14.560 that's a big difference in terms of getting stuff done. 1:04:16.520 --> 1:04:22.880 So so the bottom line is is that our democracy 1:04:22.960 --> 1:04:28.280 is imperfect. Changing that is going to take a lot 1:04:28.360 --> 1:04:30.360 of effort because you've got to get over the hump, 1:04:30.640 --> 1:04:34.560 even even just to secure our voting rights. One of 1:04:34.600 --> 1:04:40.240 the things that you know is still at stake at 1:04:40.240 --> 1:04:45.120 Georgia is if we controlled the Senate, then it is 1:04:45.160 --> 1:04:51.800 at least theoretically possible to pass a voting rights bill 1:04:53.120 --> 1:04:57.880 that stops some of this voter suppression and intimidation that 1:04:57.920 --> 1:05:01.800 you're still seeing around the country that Republicans have been 1:05:01.800 --> 1:05:04.840 pretty blatant about just saying, look, we just we're trying 1:05:04.880 --> 1:05:09.120 to prevent them promoting, but getting to the electoral college, 1:05:09.160 --> 1:05:12.960 getting to the way that the the US Senators skewed 1:05:13.160 --> 1:05:17.320 that would require us also potentially admitting Washington, DC, and 1:05:17.360 --> 1:05:21.560 Puerto Rico in as states so that you know, which 1:05:21.560 --> 1:05:24.640 has its own politics. Um, you know, it would mean 1:05:26.280 --> 1:05:33.880 having states change how they do their electoral counts. I 1:05:33.880 --> 1:05:36.960 think the Constitution is outdated. Three, they got to get 1:05:37.000 --> 1:05:39.680 rid of that language. The way that this diverse the 1:05:39.720 --> 1:05:42.080 country is those people weren't at the table when they 1:05:42.120 --> 1:05:44.320 wrote the constitution. You're a constitutional lawyer, you got we 1:05:44.360 --> 1:05:47.360 gotta get Well, there is a way to change it. 1:05:47.360 --> 1:05:52.400 It's called amending the Constitution. The problem is that in 1:05:52.520 --> 1:05:56.320 order to do that, we have to have such an 1:05:56.360 --> 1:06:02.000 increase in awareness and active So there's a mechanism to 1:06:02.400 --> 1:06:05.960 amend the Constitution, but you just have to get everybody 1:06:06.200 --> 1:06:10.640 involved and focused in it. And this is part of 1:06:10.680 --> 1:06:13.960 the reason. You know, folks have been teasing me about 1:06:14.000 --> 1:06:16.680 how you know, man, that's a long book, and you know, 1:06:16.960 --> 1:06:20.800 Michelle's was so much shorter. And you know, there were 1:06:20.840 --> 1:06:24.240 times where I was tempted to, you know, let me 1:06:24.280 --> 1:06:26.960 just leave out this explanation or that explanation, because folks, 1:06:27.080 --> 1:06:30.800 you know, they're not gonna necessarily want to read all that. 1:06:31.440 --> 1:06:33.600 But part of what I wanted to do was just say, man, 1:06:34.320 --> 1:06:37.640 this is the stuff that we've got to know if 1:06:37.680 --> 1:06:40.120 we really want to change stuff, Like you have to 1:06:40.160 --> 1:06:44.760 know about the filibuster in the Senate. Right, So this 1:06:44.800 --> 1:06:46.880 is a rule that wasn't even in the Constitution. This 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:51.920 is just a rule that the Senate adopted that says 1:06:52.840 --> 1:06:55.320 you have to have sixty votes to pass legislation, you 1:06:55.320 --> 1:06:59.880 have to have a supermajority. That even more empowers those 1:07:00.040 --> 1:07:02.400 little states, right because now they don't even need they 1:07:02.400 --> 1:07:07.480 don't even need fifty Senate votes, They just need a 1:07:08.920 --> 1:07:14.040 forty one to basically block anything from getting through the Senate. 1:07:14.040 --> 1:07:16.000 That's what happened to me in my first two years 1:07:16.280 --> 1:07:19.600 was I was having to get to sixty votes on everything, 1:07:20.400 --> 1:07:23.280 which meant that the number of Senators that were basically 1:07:23.320 --> 1:07:27.120 representing twenty five percent of the country had a veto 1:07:27.160 --> 1:07:30.000 power over anything we want to try to get done. 1:07:31.800 --> 1:07:35.240 But most people don't know that. You know, if if 1:07:35.440 --> 1:07:39.320 you try to explain to the average you brother in 1:07:39.360 --> 1:07:43.720 the barbershop man, that filibuster, I just I just thought 1:07:43.720 --> 1:07:45.840 it when people talked for a long time. Yeah. Well, 1:07:46.120 --> 1:07:51.800 but but that thing is which, by the way, had 1:07:51.840 --> 1:07:54.240 its roots. You know. The thing that it was most 1:07:54.320 --> 1:07:58.880 used for was to block civil rights legislation and and 1:07:59.040 --> 1:08:03.919 anti lynch legislation, and that thing is still operating. We 1:08:04.000 --> 1:08:08.040 have to know how that stuff works in order for 1:08:08.160 --> 1:08:10.720 us if we really want the kind of changes you're 1:08:10.720 --> 1:08:14.600 talking about, where taking away some of these barriers to 1:08:14.720 --> 1:08:19.280 everybody having their voice heard in the government. President Obama 1:08:19.360 --> 1:08:23.920 has to go guys, so and listen. Congratulations. Eight hundred 1:08:23.960 --> 1:08:25.840 ninety thousand sold in the first day, which is breaking 1:08:25.920 --> 1:08:27.840 all kinds of records. So it just shows the power 1:08:28.200 --> 1:08:30.800 that you still have. You got a little name out here. 1:08:30.880 --> 1:08:33.519 First of all, I think it's because it was packaged 1:08:33.520 --> 1:08:38.160 with Michelle's book, so you know, and uh, but I 1:08:38.160 --> 1:08:42.120 appreciate you guys. You know, you talked about black folks 1:08:42.320 --> 1:08:47.280 and how they talked about or thought about my presidency. 1:08:48.720 --> 1:08:52.519 I will say, even at our lowest point, the amount 1:08:52.560 --> 1:08:57.599 of loyalty and folks having our back, knowing you know 1:08:57.680 --> 1:09:04.320 that we were going through some challenges. Um, the prayer 1:09:04.400 --> 1:09:09.559 that we got, the you know, the blessings we received 1:09:09.600 --> 1:09:13.120 from our own um that that is as much as anything, 1:09:13.840 --> 1:09:16.840 what helped sustain us. It is something we never took 1:09:16.840 --> 1:09:19.000 for granted and we were always grateful. So so what 1:09:19.320 --> 1:09:22.040 one last question, what do democrats old black people specifically 1:09:22.200 --> 1:09:24.960 do you think, especially after what we just did in 1:09:25.000 --> 1:09:29.560 this past election. Well, I look, I think that Democrats 1:09:30.520 --> 1:09:37.080 and Republicans and America old black folks the same thing 1:09:37.120 --> 1:09:40.920 that all people are, which is justice and fairness. The 1:09:41.040 --> 1:09:45.360 differences is that for black folks that justice has been 1:09:45.720 --> 1:09:50.360 deferred and denied for too long, or it's been half 1:09:51.120 --> 1:09:56.599 baked and in insufficient. We've never done a full reckoning 1:09:57.960 --> 1:10:05.719 of what was part of the essential history and building 1:10:05.720 --> 1:10:13.320 of this country. And I think in concrete terms, you know, 1:10:13.400 --> 1:10:16.800 I don't want to overstate what Joe and Kamala are 1:10:16.800 --> 1:10:20.559 going to be able to accomplish in this congressional environment 1:10:20.680 --> 1:10:23.680 with that much resistance, because they're going to be in 1:10:23.720 --> 1:10:27.519 a position that was even that's probably even tougher than 1:10:27.680 --> 1:10:30.080 the one that I came in. But what I can 1:10:30.200 --> 1:10:35.639 say is, I think at the very minimum, everything they 1:10:35.680 --> 1:10:40.519 put forward, from jobs programs to small business loans, to 1:10:41.680 --> 1:10:46.800 education to college debt issues, that they have to be 1:10:46.920 --> 1:10:53.320 mindful that the African American community put faith in them 1:10:53.880 --> 1:11:00.479 to hear them and to understand what ordinary folks are 1:11:00.479 --> 1:11:03.920 going through every day, working hard, trying to make it 1:11:04.640 --> 1:11:06.920 and that and that they shouldn't be making a decision 1:11:06.960 --> 1:11:09.920 without knowing, all right, this is going to have an 1:11:09.960 --> 1:11:14.920 impact on some of those struggles to make make people 1:11:16.080 --> 1:11:19.960 and their families a little more secure, a little bit better. 1:11:20.080 --> 1:11:23.439 It's not going to make things perfect. But if if 1:11:23.800 --> 1:11:27.080 at the end of Joe Biden's presidency and Commons presidency, 1:11:27.120 --> 1:11:28.960 he too can say what I was able to say, 1:11:29.360 --> 1:11:32.479 which is people's lives are better. You know, at the 1:11:32.520 --> 1:11:34.640 end of the day, that's what you expect out of politicians. 1:11:34.880 --> 1:11:37.160 They're a morally correct way to do what Trump did, 1:11:37.720 --> 1:11:40.680 which is as far as like you know, catering to 1:11:40.760 --> 1:11:43.080 his base, you know, doing what he felt was best 1:11:43.120 --> 1:11:45.439 for his folks. They are morally correct way to do 1:11:45.479 --> 1:11:48.519 that get more votes. I mean, the truth of the 1:11:48.560 --> 1:11:50.840 matter has actually Trump hasn't gotten a lot. He's torn 1:11:50.960 --> 1:11:54.439 some stuff down, he hasn't. There's no law that he's 1:11:54.479 --> 1:11:58.519 passed that is transformative in this country. He passed the 1:11:58.600 --> 1:12:01.759 tax cut to give away some more money to rich folks, 1:12:01.800 --> 1:12:06.080 which probably has been doing that for years. But you 1:12:06.560 --> 1:12:09.720 can't name a piece of legislation that he's done that 1:12:09.880 --> 1:12:13.040 has actually changed the country, even for his own constituencies. 1:12:13.960 --> 1:12:16.400 So it's always easier to tear down than build up. 1:12:17.600 --> 1:12:23.200 Building up that requires votes, And that's why I do not. 1:12:25.040 --> 1:12:27.400 I will come on this show every time if I 1:12:27.439 --> 1:12:32.600 hear folks say voting doesn't matter. Yeah, voting will not. 1:12:33.240 --> 1:12:35.800 It's not like winning the lottery. You don't you don't 1:12:35.880 --> 1:12:40.479 vote and then suddenly everything is great. Voting is more 1:12:40.600 --> 1:12:47.839 like you know, washing your car or iron in your clothes. 1:12:48.000 --> 1:12:52.599 It's part of the thing you do to make stuff work, 1:12:53.640 --> 1:12:57.160 and it's part of your responsibility and as part of 1:12:57.200 --> 1:13:00.200 all of our responsibility, just to make sure that we 1:13:00.200 --> 1:13:02.639 don't see chaos of the sort that we've just seen 1:13:02.680 --> 1:13:05.439 over the last four years. All right, guys, well, we 1:13:05.479 --> 1:13:09.080 appreciate you for joining us. President Barack Obama, thank you, sir, 1:13:09.280 --> 1:13:11.960 Thank you so much. Thank you so much happy and relaxed. Now, 1:13:12.520 --> 1:13:21.280 you know, I feel pretty good. Happy Thanksgiving everybody all morning. 1:13:21.320 --> 1:13:24.880 Everybody is DJ Envy and Julia Yee, Charlomagne, the guy, 1:13:24.960 --> 1:13:27.160 we all the breakfast club. Good morning. Now. Usually I 1:13:27.200 --> 1:13:29.160 do donkey to day right here, but I'm not even 1:13:29.160 --> 1:13:30.840 supposed to be here today. The only reason I'm here 1:13:31.000 --> 1:13:33.080 because you know of what you just heard. You know, 1:13:33.400 --> 1:13:35.080 we had to go down to DC on Monday and 1:13:35.640 --> 1:13:38.840 kick it with Foux Fox. Okay, President Barack Obama. So 1:13:40.280 --> 1:13:43.160 that conversation and as we have been saying, that book 1:13:43.280 --> 1:13:45.679 is seven hundred pages if I'm playing. But I read 1:13:45.720 --> 1:13:49.240 the whole book and it did explain. It did explain 1:13:49.479 --> 1:13:51.280 a lot, you know, just a lot of things that 1:13:51.320 --> 1:13:53.040 Barack Obama was trying to do when he was in 1:13:53.120 --> 1:13:55.880 the White House. You're trying to Turkey. You're trying to Turkey. 1:13:55.920 --> 1:13:57.920 I gotta reset you. It sound like you're trying to Turkey. 1:13:58.000 --> 1:13:59.840 I shouldn't do that in the house. Body, you gotta 1:14:00.120 --> 1:14:03.760 recent deep in well even Brooklyn or in the back 1:14:04.520 --> 1:14:07.479 and dump it. Then. Yeah, but the book was over 1:14:07.560 --> 1:14:10.599 seven hundred pages. I started reading the book and then 1:14:11.200 --> 1:14:12.920 I mean it was so long. I had to buy 1:14:12.920 --> 1:14:17.240 the audio. Well, I have a technique, right. My technique 1:14:17.280 --> 1:14:19.439 is I read when I'm at home, when I'm in 1:14:19.479 --> 1:14:21.400 the car, listen to the audible. But I'm gonna tell 1:14:21.400 --> 1:14:23.559 you another technique that I do. I put the speed 1:14:23.640 --> 1:14:25.599 to one point four and I'm at home. I did 1:14:25.640 --> 1:14:28.400 that too, and I read the book as well as 1:14:28.479 --> 1:14:33.200 listen to the person, uh recite the book right, And 1:14:33.200 --> 1:14:36.479 it was twenty nine hours long of him reciting the 1:14:36.479 --> 1:14:40.439 book sped up. I think it was like twenty seven. 1:14:40.479 --> 1:14:45.360 I don't remember. I absorbed me when I'm reading. Yo, 1:14:45.439 --> 1:14:48.000 you frying a turkey on the radio. Y'all know thanks 1:14:48.040 --> 1:14:51.439 Giving as tomorrow, But you have to reset the whole kay, 1:14:51.600 --> 1:14:54.920 the whole thing. Yeah, but yeah, it was so people ask, 1:14:55.000 --> 1:14:57.000 you know, how was the room? How many Secret service 1:14:57.040 --> 1:15:00.760 people were there? Was Michelle Obama there? Well, it was 1:15:01.120 --> 1:15:03.479 in the one of the ballrooms of the hotel, the 1:15:03.600 --> 1:15:07.160 Kennedy ball Room. Shout to Crystal, who was the person 1:15:08.080 --> 1:15:12.040 Crystal and made sure everything came together with Stephanie to 1:15:12.160 --> 1:15:14.920 Stepan as well. It wasn't It wasn't too many people there. 1:15:14.960 --> 1:15:16.639 I think it may have been maybe two three people 1:15:16.680 --> 1:15:20.400 from his staff. I see, maybe two secret service people. Uh, 1:15:20.439 --> 1:15:22.920 and it was just him. He came in, happy, smiling, 1:15:23.080 --> 1:15:27.200 sat down, He was very polite. He was joking smell cigarettes, 1:15:27.600 --> 1:15:34.280 not making that I'm making all of that didn't But 1:15:34.320 --> 1:15:36.080 if you read the book, you know he was one 1:15:36.120 --> 1:15:38.479 point he was smoking ten cigarettes today. Yeah, until he 1:15:38.520 --> 1:15:40.920 got on the niggotine gumbo. Yeah, go by the book. 1:15:41.000 --> 1:15:43.240 But even even I know behind the scenes when he 1:15:43.280 --> 1:15:44.800 was leaving. I asked him because in the book, when 1:15:44.840 --> 1:15:46.240 you read the book, I'll tell you a little bit. 1:15:46.479 --> 1:15:49.240 They here saying that Republicans were making so many rumors 1:15:49.320 --> 1:15:51.400 up about him. They said that one he wasn't born 1:15:51.439 --> 1:15:53.680 here in the US. Know that. Another one that he 1:15:53.800 --> 1:15:55.960 was a drug deal it's a good one. And the 1:15:56.040 --> 1:15:58.879 last one is that he was a gay male prostitute. 1:15:58.960 --> 1:16:02.519 And you couldn't wait there. And he asked behind the scenes, 1:16:03.880 --> 1:16:05.400 which says a lot. But what does it say that 1:16:06.439 --> 1:16:08.439 exactly if he was over we haven't even we have 1:16:08.439 --> 1:16:09.800 a clipp of it. When I when I did ask, 1:16:10.400 --> 1:16:25.960 but what then if he said, damn, it's not true, 1:16:27.240 --> 1:16:29.000 and he was so disappointed. I didn't say he had 1:16:29.000 --> 1:16:32.400 a handful of money. He was your rules right upstairs, right, 1:16:35.720 --> 1:16:38.200 But he was a good sport. He was laughing. He 1:16:38.320 --> 1:16:40.679 was like, sho, I did it was funny, said Helen, 1:16:40.720 --> 1:16:42.760 finding for they at all. But you know, he was 1:16:42.760 --> 1:16:44.879 a good guy. It was he didn't take anything personal. 1:16:44.960 --> 1:16:47.240 And hopefully we'll get to speak with him again and 1:16:47.240 --> 1:16:49.040 maybe interview him again. Oh, it's a part two of 1:16:49.160 --> 1:16:51.400 the book coming up. Yeah, you know, because it's a 1:16:51.479 --> 1:16:54.639 promised land only covers the first four years, correct, So 1:16:54.720 --> 1:16:56.320 I'm not gonna tell you how it ends, but you 1:16:56.320 --> 1:16:58.320 know it only covers the first four years, right, And 1:16:58.520 --> 1:16:59.880 we want to take your phone calls. I mean, you 1:17:00.160 --> 1:17:01.960 heard what forty five minutes I don't long a thane 1:17:02.680 --> 1:17:06.120 forty eight minutes of President Barack Obama with the Breakfast Club. 1:17:06.120 --> 1:17:10.640 What are your thoughts? Eight hundred five one? We sure have. 1:17:10.760 --> 1:17:13.800 We've come a long way, slot to everybody else with us. 1:17:13.800 --> 1:17:16.639 In the beginning, when I was on this radio talking 1:17:16.680 --> 1:17:21.040 about sucking far to other people's butts, vaginas, thank God 1:17:21.080 --> 1:17:23.599 for growth and evolutions, sniffing people's chairs, Yeah, we were 1:17:23.600 --> 1:17:27.360 pretty bad. Yeah, but we changed, all right, No, we grew. 1:17:28.240 --> 1:17:33.960 It's a difference. Okay, see what I'm saying? What what? 1:17:33.960 --> 1:17:35.679 What's on your mind? That's on your mind. I would 1:17:35.720 --> 1:17:38.280 putting up the phone up all you want to open 1:17:38.320 --> 1:17:42.320 this morning. We just said we grew up. We just 1:17:42.320 --> 1:17:46.240 said we did, and you're going back. We did eight 1:17:46.280 --> 1:17:49.240 hundred five eight five one five one is the Breakfast 1:17:49.240 --> 1:17:58.640 Cloud Morning, the Breakfast Club. It's topic time on the 1:17:58.760 --> 1:18:02.760 phone called eight hundred five eight five one oh five. 1:18:02.840 --> 1:18:04.960 Want to join it to the discussion with the Breakfast Club. 1:18:05.280 --> 1:18:10.040 Talk about it morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, 1:18:10.120 --> 1:18:13.240 Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. Now if 1:18:13.240 --> 1:18:17.000 you're just joining us, please joining us. Forty eight minute 1:18:17.000 --> 1:18:20.400 interview we did with President back Obama. Now listen. It's 1:18:20.479 --> 1:18:22.640 very important to note. And on December sixth, it to 1:18:22.760 --> 1:18:25.280 be ten years of the Breakfast Club. Next Sunday, next Sunday. 1:18:25.479 --> 1:18:28.519 We're never here during the week of this White Man's holiday, 1:18:28.560 --> 1:18:30.599 which is Thanksgiving, We're never here. We haven't been here 1:18:30.600 --> 1:18:33.280 in ten years. We only came in today because we 1:18:33.360 --> 1:18:36.400 had this conversation with President Barack Obama on Monday that 1:18:36.520 --> 1:18:39.760 we aired this morning. Yep, what's your thoughts? Shout out 1:18:39.760 --> 1:18:41.240 to my mama, My mama is the first time my 1:18:41.280 --> 1:18:42.960 mama don't usually text me this early in the morning 1:18:43.000 --> 1:18:45.320 unless there's a problem or situation. My Mama said, I 1:18:45.360 --> 1:18:47.640 just listened to the interview and I'm very proud of you. 1:18:48.240 --> 1:18:50.960 It was great. My aunt v texting me this morning 1:18:51.000 --> 1:18:52.840 as well, so thank you. She hid the question that 1:18:52.880 --> 1:18:56.000 you asked him about being a gaymeel prostitute. What you 1:18:56.080 --> 1:18:58.600 might not have heard that part because that part. But 1:18:58.760 --> 1:19:01.479 let's not remind Let's go to the phonelines. Hello, who's 1:19:01.520 --> 1:19:04.559 this this? De Sean Sulk y'all, what's up? The show 1:19:04.680 --> 1:19:08.120 was going on? What's happening? King? But what did you 1:19:08.120 --> 1:19:10.160 think of the interview? Bro? So? I thought it was great, 1:19:10.240 --> 1:19:12.040 I really did. I learned a lot of things that 1:19:12.080 --> 1:19:14.400 I didn't even learn in high school. And I'm definitely 1:19:14.400 --> 1:19:17.919 about to go grab the book because it's all about education. 1:19:18.439 --> 1:19:20.599 You know, they're not teaching the things that he's saying, 1:19:20.600 --> 1:19:22.240 and then the things that he's written in the book, 1:19:22.560 --> 1:19:25.200 they're not teaching us. So that's the only way that 1:19:25.240 --> 1:19:28.959 anybody is ever gonna learn any of this stuff self education, 1:19:29.280 --> 1:19:32.320 and they're learning from someone who've been through these things 1:19:32.360 --> 1:19:36.320 and going through the things and stuff like that. I agree, 1:19:36.439 --> 1:19:39.679 Thank you, brother. Hello, who's this This? Is TSA, what's 1:19:39.720 --> 1:19:42.479 going on? Djay Vy, what's up? T shat, good morning, 1:19:42.520 --> 1:19:47.040 Happy happy things given happy white Man's holiday T shirt him. 1:19:48.800 --> 1:19:51.400 We're trying to get you back. So what did you think? 1:19:51.439 --> 1:19:54.200 What were your thoughts on an interview? I think at first, 1:19:54.240 --> 1:19:58.000 I want to like, you know, President Obama for taking 1:19:58.040 --> 1:20:00.880 the time out forty eight minutes. You quite some time 1:20:00.960 --> 1:20:04.599 for a man, you know, if his stature and they 1:20:04.760 --> 1:20:07.720 just kind of like educating people and Sharlo Man, you know, 1:20:07.840 --> 1:20:11.400 I appreciate you for asking serious questions. You know, sometimes 1:20:11.479 --> 1:20:14.280 you get like a little flex sometimes, but I think 1:20:14.360 --> 1:20:16.439 you kind of like put the gas to them a 1:20:16.520 --> 1:20:19.840 little bit and forced to, you know, answer questions that 1:20:20.000 --> 1:20:22.760 the black people wanted to hear. I think it's unfortunate 1:20:23.200 --> 1:20:26.240 that black people sometimes we don't really educate ourselves. We 1:20:26.360 --> 1:20:29.280 just go with what it said and we follow it 1:20:29.400 --> 1:20:31.200 and then we spread it and a lot of times 1:20:31.240 --> 1:20:35.080 it takes. But you know, I think that Obama could 1:20:35.080 --> 1:20:37.200 only do so much, like you said, and I think 1:20:37.280 --> 1:20:40.479 that what he did do was just enough, and we 1:20:40.560 --> 1:20:43.840 need to also give him, you know, praise. I appreciate 1:20:44.000 --> 1:20:47.360 him shouting out, you know, God and saying, you know, 1:20:48.120 --> 1:20:50.680 his prayers, just what really got him through. You know, 1:20:50.840 --> 1:20:54.519 I really really appreciate President Obama, appreciate both of you guys. 1:20:54.640 --> 1:20:58.160 Have a safe holidays and you know, just love on 1:20:58.240 --> 1:21:01.760 your family more. Thank you. So we appreciate you so much. 1:21:01.800 --> 1:21:05.679 To Shi, thank you. Hello. Who's this? Rico? Rico? Rico? 1:21:06.400 --> 1:21:12.439 Woke up? Rilla? Rico Gorilla? Oh woke up Rella? Hashtag 1:21:12.520 --> 1:21:15.280 it's me again. I was onna want y'all last week. Okay, well, 1:21:15.320 --> 1:21:19.080 what do you think about the Barack Obama interview? Weren't memorable? Rico? Yeah, 1:21:19.160 --> 1:21:24.680 I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Charlotte man be quietma hearing him. Um, 1:21:24.920 --> 1:21:26.840 I just want to say, real quick, my dad met 1:21:27.000 --> 1:21:29.679 Barack when he was running for senator and he asked 1:21:29.720 --> 1:21:34.439 for He asked my dad for a newport. Anyway, I'm 1:21:34.479 --> 1:21:39.479 talking about so you got so. I just wanted to say, 1:21:39.520 --> 1:21:41.559 I listen to y'all every day, man, y'all really really 1:21:41.720 --> 1:21:44.880 upgrading every day, y'all getting better. When I heard him 1:21:44.960 --> 1:21:46.560 on the radio and I turned my car on, I 1:21:46.680 --> 1:21:48.920 was just like, damn, I can't move. I was like, 1:21:49.120 --> 1:21:51.000 you know, I didn't get out of the car. I 1:21:51.080 --> 1:21:53.280 sat there the whole time to listen to it. I 1:21:53.360 --> 1:21:55.719 don't know. Man, you guys are doing great. Thank you, brother. 1:21:55.800 --> 1:21:57.640 I can't wait to hear. Yeah. I can't wait for 1:21:57.760 --> 1:21:59.880 y'all edited and put it on YouTube so I can 1:22:00.040 --> 1:22:02.240 share it. Oh, we're not adding it right now, that's 1:22:02.240 --> 1:22:04.320 all you mean? Like the clip? Yeah, we post clips 1:22:04.360 --> 1:22:08.880 on social media. No, grandpa eighty two years old and 1:22:09.040 --> 1:22:13.760 they listened to you guys. Appreciate that. Y man, I'm 1:22:13.760 --> 1:22:16.519 gonna get your grandaddy from blue tooth for Christmas. Man. Yeah, 1:22:16.640 --> 1:22:22.120 follow me. Uh, it's old understory five bro bro brot 1:22:22.200 --> 1:22:24.800 the man shot out. Click, y'all a brother, love you back. 1:22:25.720 --> 1:22:29.000 Let him give his let me so Patty. Let the 1:22:29.080 --> 1:22:31.479 man shout out of people. I'm not Patty. Eight hundred 1:22:31.600 --> 1:22:34.599 five eight five one on five one. We just played 1:22:34.640 --> 1:22:37.639 our interview with President Barack Obama forty eight minutes long. 1:22:37.720 --> 1:22:39.519 What were your thoughts? Call us up. It's the Breakfast Club, 1:22:39.560 --> 1:22:50.759 come morning. Call me and your opinions to the breakfast 1:22:50.800 --> 1:22:54.240 club topic. Come on. Eight hundred five eight five one 1:22:54.439 --> 1:23:00.120 five one wanted everybody iss d j Envy Angela, yee all. 1:23:00.160 --> 1:23:02.479 I mean the guy we are the Breakfast Club now 1:23:02.479 --> 1:23:05.920 if he just joined us, we're talking about our interview 1:23:06.000 --> 1:23:10.200 with President Barack Obama. It just aired forty eight minutes. Yeah, man, 1:23:10.200 --> 1:23:12.080 I mean we took we took time out of our 1:23:12.120 --> 1:23:15.080 busy schedules, you know, to sit down with a fan. 1:23:15.400 --> 1:23:16.800 You know what I mean, to sit down with a 1:23:17.080 --> 1:23:18.720 man who's a fan of the breakfast Club. You know 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:23.000 what I'm saying. This is listen, this is a giving season, right, 1:23:23.000 --> 1:23:25.639 we gotta do some sheriff of y'allt stopped for Hello, 1:23:25.680 --> 1:23:28.760 who's this all? This air from Gjersey City? What's up? 1:23:28.800 --> 1:23:33.599 What's up? Interview with President Barack Obama? Brou Look, I'm 1:23:33.640 --> 1:23:37.240 coming back from Walmart. Right, I'm parking the car. I 1:23:37.400 --> 1:23:40.639 turned on the radio real quick. It's it's Obama. I'm 1:23:40.680 --> 1:23:43.000 like what and you know when the fire play when 1:23:43.040 --> 1:23:45.400 I'm like, all right, yo. I loved it, man, I 1:23:45.520 --> 1:23:47.560 loved it. Bro. It was so educational. I think we 1:23:47.640 --> 1:23:50.400 need more of that, Like the part on the Senate, 1:23:51.040 --> 1:23:53.360 like you know, you don't like in us where I 1:23:53.439 --> 1:23:55.519 live at in Jersey City, to turnout is always so 1:23:55.640 --> 1:23:58.439 big during the presidential election and then nobody comes out 1:23:58.479 --> 1:24:01.759 and vote. No other talk. So it was so important. 1:24:01.760 --> 1:24:04.280 And then Angela Anglo you was so sweet when you 1:24:04.320 --> 1:24:08.040 was when you interjected with the violence against women in 1:24:08.080 --> 1:24:10.920 the world place where you know the professional environment, that 1:24:11.040 --> 1:24:14.120 was so sweet. Obama was like, um, the guys, it 1:24:14.240 --> 1:24:16.240 was pretty much all right under my radar. And then 1:24:16.240 --> 1:24:18.559 when I stepped away, you got the macheesing my attitude. 1:24:18.640 --> 1:24:22.280 We have dice so much. I just appreciated that interview. 1:24:22.320 --> 1:24:24.360 Bro I really did it. Thank you King, Thank you, 1:24:24.439 --> 1:24:30.720 brother peace Broe. Hello, who's this? Iwer room ending? I 1:24:30.920 --> 1:24:34.760 us room end? What's happening? Good morning? Good one? I 1:24:34.880 --> 1:24:39.679 love you, guys, good morning, we love you. Was happening? Hey, 1:24:39.880 --> 1:24:41.960 Uncle Charlotte. I got seven uncles, and you are by 1:24:42.000 --> 1:24:44.679 far my best uncle, my favorite. I appreciate that, Thank 1:24:44.680 --> 1:24:49.320 you very much. Hey, so about about Obama. So I'm 1:24:49.320 --> 1:24:51.439 a black woman of human resources. Right, so when I'm 1:24:51.439 --> 1:24:54.320 at work, I gotta turn it down. My family knows 1:24:54.479 --> 1:24:56.519 when I'm at work, they make me turn it off. Right, 1:24:56.680 --> 1:24:58.680 So I got my my word voice, and then I 1:24:58.760 --> 1:25:00.640 got I'm at work on my eas at home. I'm 1:25:00.680 --> 1:25:04.680 isshaw like. I thoroughly enjoyed the interview. Y'all. Y'all are 1:25:04.680 --> 1:25:06.400 the most dangerous breast of something more in the show, 1:25:06.439 --> 1:25:09.000 we get it, but I wanted a little bit more Berry. 1:25:12.600 --> 1:25:14.640 I know he's got a legacy to uphold. I get that, 1:25:14.760 --> 1:25:16.360 but I kind of wanted a little bit more Berry, 1:25:17.120 --> 1:25:20.599 more human side I did. I felt like he stuck 1:25:20.680 --> 1:25:22.879 with the Obama he you know, he was still professional, 1:25:22.920 --> 1:25:25.439 he did everything right. We will always lost him, but 1:25:25.560 --> 1:25:26.960 I just wanted a little bit more. I wanted to 1:25:27.000 --> 1:25:28.479 know him a little bit more personally. I'm gonna be 1:25:28.520 --> 1:25:31.080 honest with you. I think that's who he is, like 1:25:31.200 --> 1:25:33.599 even if you read his book. Don't get me wrong, 1:25:33.720 --> 1:25:36.000 Like he smokes or he used to smoke. He drinks, 1:25:36.080 --> 1:25:39.679 you know, he curses, But I think for the most part, 1:25:39.760 --> 1:25:42.439 that's who he is. He's like he's that kind of person, 1:25:42.560 --> 1:25:45.120 like he shows up in the world in that way, 1:25:45.439 --> 1:25:47.439 you know, always get thing to say, the right things, 1:25:48.160 --> 1:25:50.080 moving the right way. I mean, come on, he's a 1:25:50.120 --> 1:25:53.400 black man high road. Yeah, he's a black man who 1:25:53.439 --> 1:26:00.680 didn't have no scandal. Think about that. Right. Well, I'm 1:26:00.760 --> 1:26:02.760 getting his book. I haven't gotten it, but I'm with you, guys. 1:26:02.800 --> 1:26:05.800 I think now I'm getting an audio. Yes, thank you 1:26:05.880 --> 1:26:08.120 so much, mamma, thank you. I have a good day, 1:26:08.800 --> 1:26:11.680 all right. Well, the full interview you can check out 1:26:11.720 --> 1:26:14.200 on the Breakfast Club YouTube. Right right now, We'll be 1:26:14.320 --> 1:26:18.200 playing clips on our personal social media, so you can 1:26:18.240 --> 1:26:20.439 definitely check those out, but definitely check out the full interview. Man, 1:26:20.479 --> 1:26:22.200 I think that's a great way to in the year. 1:26:24.960 --> 1:26:27.600 You actually, I mean listen, honestly, I got a lot 1:26:27.640 --> 1:26:29.880 of vacation days. I don't have to come back after 1:26:29.920 --> 1:26:33.920 this week. You know what I'm saying. I'm just saying. 1:26:34.720 --> 1:26:38.080 I'm just shaying. But no, that was feeling froggy jumped. 1:26:38.160 --> 1:26:41.040 Let's do it. Listen. All jokes aside. It was a 1:26:41.120 --> 1:26:44.800 great conversation. I really enjoyed sitting sitting down with the 1:26:44.880 --> 1:26:47.599 forty fourth president of the United States of America, President 1:26:48.000 --> 1:26:49.800 Barack Obama, and I just feel like that was a 1:26:50.520 --> 1:26:52.719 culmination of everything that we've been doing in the past 1:26:52.760 --> 1:26:55.640 couple of years as far as like having these conversations 1:26:55.680 --> 1:26:57.519 with correct these politicians. You know what I'm saying, I 1:26:57.560 --> 1:27:00.639 think black political culture is some then that I want 1:27:00.680 --> 1:27:02.800 to I want to continue to push even when it's 1:27:02.800 --> 1:27:05.120 not an election cycle. You know, everybody gets excited when 1:27:05.160 --> 1:27:07.800 it's you know, the presidential election, but what about the 1:27:07.880 --> 1:27:09.880 mid terms, what about local elections? I just think that's 1:27:09.920 --> 1:27:13.560 something we have to add to our repertoire. Absolutely, And 1:27:13.640 --> 1:27:16.000 another thing we keep on on saying is also making 1:27:16.040 --> 1:27:18.200 sure that you know that just because you voted, it's 1:27:18.240 --> 1:27:20.600 not over. After that, you still have work to do 1:27:20.760 --> 1:27:23.240 and you have to hold politicians accountable. It's not that 1:27:23.360 --> 1:27:25.439 you just expect them to hand you things. You have 1:27:25.560 --> 1:27:28.840 to be part of that process. But absolutely, Well, y'all 1:27:28.880 --> 1:27:30.320 want to do rumors when we come back. Were you'all 1:27:30.320 --> 1:27:32.599 ready to get about what you want to do now? 1:27:33.000 --> 1:27:35.479 I'm whatever. We can leave right now if you want listen. 1:27:35.520 --> 1:27:37.560 I think we should talk about Dave Chappelle and his 1:27:37.720 --> 1:27:40.320 Unforgiven that he just put up. I think we need 1:27:40.400 --> 1:27:43.040 to discuss that too. Is along with this after this 1:27:43.120 --> 1:27:46.599 interview a we'll do that when we come back. Leave 1:27:46.680 --> 1:27:48.320 right after that, right after the mix. Sorry, so don't move. 1:27:48.560 --> 1:27:55.400 It's a breakfast Clocal morning, a breakfast club. It's about 1:28:00.240 --> 1:28:04.439 is the rumor report Angela Yee on the breakfast club? 1:28:05.200 --> 1:28:08.360 All right, Well, Dave Chappelle posted another I don't know 1:28:08.400 --> 1:28:10.320 if you would call it a stand up, but it's 1:28:10.360 --> 1:28:13.800 called Unforgiven and it's about twenty minutes long, and he 1:28:13.920 --> 1:28:17.800 talks about the Chappelle show being on Netflix, but he 1:28:17.920 --> 1:28:19.840 wasn't getting any money from it, you know, he said 1:28:19.880 --> 1:28:22.519 that previously. Well, here's what he had to say. I 1:28:22.680 --> 1:28:25.800 like working for Netflix because when all those bad things 1:28:25.960 --> 1:28:29.400 happened to me, that company didn't even exist. And when 1:28:29.439 --> 1:28:32.920 I found out they were streaming Chappelle's show, I was furious. 1:28:33.479 --> 1:28:35.600 So you know what I did. I called them and 1:28:35.680 --> 1:28:39.080 I told them that this makes me feel bad. And 1:28:39.120 --> 1:28:41.439 do you want to know what they did? They agreed 1:28:42.120 --> 1:28:44.960 that they would take it off their platform just so 1:28:45.080 --> 1:28:48.719 I could feel better. That's why I put Well, Netflix 1:28:48.800 --> 1:28:50.040 was smart to do that because they don't want to 1:28:50.080 --> 1:28:52.360 ruin any future business with Dave Chappelle. Absolutely, so that 1:28:52.400 --> 1:28:54.640 was a smart move, very smart move. Yeah, they're in 1:28:54.680 --> 1:28:58.080 business with him now, so I was. And it's interesting 1:28:58.160 --> 1:28:59.800 how he said that he approached them about it and 1:29:00.040 --> 1:29:01.640 how that happened, and he wants to make sure other 1:29:01.680 --> 1:29:04.000 people aren't watching it. You know, it's a it's a 1:29:04.280 --> 1:29:06.200 weird thing because you want people to watch the show 1:29:06.800 --> 1:29:09.000 and appreciate it, but not when you're not getting money 1:29:09.080 --> 1:29:11.800 from it. Well, you know, he asked the question and 1:29:12.000 --> 1:29:15.120 unforgiving that I thought was a very fair question. He said, 1:29:15.160 --> 1:29:18.200 you know, what they're doing is legal because he did 1:29:18.280 --> 1:29:22.080 sign the contract. What is it right? That's that's that's 1:29:22.200 --> 1:29:24.360 that's a great question. All right, here's what he had 1:29:24.400 --> 1:29:27.000 to say about the boycott. I called my agent, I said, 1:29:27.120 --> 1:29:29.240 is there anything I can do about this show? And 1:29:29.439 --> 1:29:32.960 he said, no, he wants something done, right. I guess 1:29:33.040 --> 1:29:35.639 you got to do it yourself. So I'm not going 1:29:35.720 --> 1:29:38.920 to the agents, coming to my real boss. I'm coming 1:29:38.960 --> 1:29:42.240 to you. I'm begging you, if you ever liked me, 1:29:42.760 --> 1:29:45.080 if you ever think there was anything worthwhile about me, 1:29:45.200 --> 1:29:48.880 I'm begging you, please don't watch that show. I'm not 1:29:48.960 --> 1:29:53.360 asking the boycott any network, boycott me, boycott Chapelle's show. 1:29:53.800 --> 1:29:56.880 Do not watch it, and let's stay paying me. And 1:29:57.000 --> 1:29:58.880 you know what, use It's interesting. It does play on 1:29:59.000 --> 1:30:02.240 other things besides Netflix. You know, it's on HBO Max 1:30:02.680 --> 1:30:04.920 and they are still streaming the show right now, and 1:30:05.560 --> 1:30:08.840 it's been on Comedy Central. It's been playing, so you know. 1:30:08.960 --> 1:30:10.560 Another thing he said that stood out to me is 1:30:10.600 --> 1:30:12.720 when he compared it to a three card Molly, and 1:30:12.800 --> 1:30:15.360 he said, you know, he realized he couldn't win at 1:30:15.360 --> 1:30:16.960 three card Molly because all of the people he thought 1:30:17.040 --> 1:30:19.760 was just innocent. Bystanders were all in on it. And 1:30:20.000 --> 1:30:24.080 three Card mon that was three card Molly. I don't 1:30:24.080 --> 1:30:26.880 know he's taking trugs whatever whatever they did rob people 1:30:26.880 --> 1:30:29.559 in New York. But that's something very important to look 1:30:29.600 --> 1:30:31.280 out for. You got to make sure that your lawyer, 1:30:31.439 --> 1:30:33.599 your agents, your management, you got to make sure they 1:30:33.640 --> 1:30:35.840 all aren't ko who twit each other? Correct? You know 1:30:35.840 --> 1:30:38.519 what I mean? Yep? All right? And in good news, 1:30:38.560 --> 1:30:41.040 it's like Jeremiah has been taken off of a ventilator 1:30:41.120 --> 1:30:43.559 and he's starting to recover. So that's a positive thing. 1:30:43.720 --> 1:30:46.560 That's great. Yes, So let's hope that everything with that 1:30:46.680 --> 1:30:49.639 turns out okay. And now let's talk about hit maker 1:30:49.760 --> 1:30:52.280 ak a young burg. Now, he was on Drink Champs 1:30:52.520 --> 1:30:55.000 and he had some things to say about Notoria from 1:30:55.640 --> 1:30:58.519 Power and from three LW and a past relationship that 1:30:58.640 --> 1:31:01.519 he says that they had that she said has never happened. Well, 1:31:01.600 --> 1:31:03.760 when he was on lip Service, here's what he had 1:31:03.800 --> 1:31:06.880 to say to apologize to NATORI and myself I would 1:31:06.880 --> 1:31:09.080 say too, we didn't like that interview you just did. 1:31:09.479 --> 1:31:10.960 I think you could tell a story, but you don't 1:31:11.000 --> 1:31:12.960 have to say who it is. After I did it, 1:31:13.080 --> 1:31:15.720 I literally hit norriy like yo, I don't want this out. 1:31:16.000 --> 1:31:17.720 I don't want to come out. Please edit it. I 1:31:17.800 --> 1:31:20.840 will pay for whatever will go on. I felt bad 1:31:20.880 --> 1:31:22.840 about the fact. You know what I'm saying after the fact, 1:31:22.880 --> 1:31:25.280 but I mean, you know it is my truth, like 1:31:25.400 --> 1:31:27.479 you know what I'm saying. But I didn't. I adn't 1:31:27.520 --> 1:31:28.880 want it to come out like that, and I knew 1:31:28.920 --> 1:31:30.800 they was gonna clip it up and make it like 1:31:30.920 --> 1:31:32.840 a thing like that. My asks them out too, but 1:31:32.920 --> 1:31:35.639 they did it anymore. And I apologize once again to her. 1:31:35.840 --> 1:31:38.240 I wish it never came out, and I'm sorry about 1:31:38.280 --> 1:31:40.000 it for real. He said he asked Nora to take 1:31:40.040 --> 1:31:42.599 that out, right, Yeah, he did say that, he asked 1:31:42.640 --> 1:31:44.920 Nora to take it out. And actually Nori said he 1:31:44.960 --> 1:31:46.720 wants to talk about that too, because I guess he 1:31:46.840 --> 1:31:49.519 has his own side. After this interview came out, everybody 1:31:49.600 --> 1:31:52.400 hit me up. We should call LORI. Yeah, he asked 1:31:53.160 --> 1:31:57.439 for that to happen, So he did apologize to Natory, 1:31:57.560 --> 1:31:59.439 but it should have never happened. And I said, as 1:31:59.439 --> 1:32:01.080 I said before, are in the breakfast club. We didn't 1:32:01.080 --> 1:32:04.280 play the actual clip because it is disappointing to hear that. 1:32:04.520 --> 1:32:08.200 So there's Notori except his apology. I don't know if 1:32:08.240 --> 1:32:11.000 he's directly apologized to her, but I think she thought 1:32:11.000 --> 1:32:13.680 it was whack and she said that she has never 1:32:13.760 --> 1:32:17.439 slept with him. Oh so he lied, that's what she's saying. Yes, 1:32:17.600 --> 1:32:19.000 you said you don't want to play the clip because 1:32:19.040 --> 1:32:21.960 it was because why, I just thought it was extremely offensive. 1:32:23.240 --> 1:32:25.640 You should call Lorian. All right, Well, that is your 1:32:25.800 --> 1:32:28.120 room of report. I'm Angela Yee. All right, thank you, 1:32:28.200 --> 1:32:30.720 miss Yee. All right, now when we come back. We 1:32:30.840 --> 1:32:32.840 got the People's Choice mix. Get your request in eight 1:32:32.960 --> 1:32:35.000 hundred and five A five one oh five one. Y'all 1:32:35.000 --> 1:32:37.920 want to call LORI. We got time. We called Nori. 1:32:38.280 --> 1:32:40.040 After the mix, we call Nori. Try to get Norion. 1:32:40.120 --> 1:32:42.840 Save noriences. So don't move. It's to breakfast club. Good morning, 1:32:43.560 --> 1:32:47.639 Breakfast Club. Your morning's will never be the same. Living 1:32:47.720 --> 1:32:49.840 large means living with the confidence that you're still living 1:32:49.880 --> 1:32:52.479 your best life inside and outside in the bedroom, but 1:32:52.560 --> 1:32:54.719 when it's time to take it to the bedroom. Magnum 1:32:54.800 --> 1:32:57.599 large size condoms with the choice for maximum comfort, pleasure, 1:32:57.640 --> 1:33:01.280 and of course protection, Live large, expect the best. Magnum 1:33:01.360 --> 1:33:06.840 large size condoms. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela yee, 1:33:06.960 --> 1:33:10.320 Charlomagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club again. Thank 1:33:10.360 --> 1:33:13.920 you to Crystal. Thank you Crystal Carson. Salute to Stephanie Young. 1:33:14.400 --> 1:33:20.400 You know my partners. Um Yeah, Conresident Barack Obama for 1:33:20.800 --> 1:33:23.439 President Barack Obama, and thank us man, you know what 1:33:23.479 --> 1:33:26.200 I'm saying. Thank the goddamn Breakfast Club. Thank dj Envy, 1:33:26.280 --> 1:33:29.080 Angelie and Charlomagne the God for putting themselves in a 1:33:29.160 --> 1:33:33.679 position in ten years to where the forty four president 1:33:33.680 --> 1:33:35.360 of the United States of America felt like this is 1:33:35.400 --> 1:33:37.599 the place he needed to come correct to talk about 1:33:37.760 --> 1:33:42.080 a promised land. Okay, you need to give ourselves from 1:33:42.080 --> 1:33:44.240 credit as well. But you know, thank you to Crystal 1:33:44.320 --> 1:33:47.960 Carson and Stephanie Young for connecting those dots and yes, 1:33:48.200 --> 1:33:51.160 making it happen. Thank you the President of Barack Obama. Yeah, 1:33:51.200 --> 1:33:53.160 he was. He was like two three minutes late. We 1:33:53.200 --> 1:33:55.680 almost decided not to do the interview because he was 1:33:55.720 --> 1:33:59.000 running a little late. I was happy. I was happy 1:33:59.000 --> 1:34:04.559 he was on CP time because he's black. Oh felt good. Now. 1:34:04.640 --> 1:34:06.640 His schedule was jam packed though. He was doing a 1:34:06.720 --> 1:34:08.920 lot of different things, so I know stuff went over. 1:34:09.040 --> 1:34:11.519 We went over, Yeah, we definitely went over. So it 1:34:11.640 --> 1:34:13.320 was it was just a great interview. So shout to 1:34:13.600 --> 1:34:17.160 again his whole team and the president, President of Barack Oba. 1:34:17.280 --> 1:34:19.400 A great way to um, you know, celebrate ten years. 1:34:19.400 --> 1:34:21.280 It'll be ten years on December six with this old 1:34:21.320 --> 1:34:24.920 Breakfast Club. Yep. You know what I'm saying. We've grown 1:34:24.960 --> 1:34:28.479 and we've evolved a lot. You know, from our very 1:34:28.560 --> 1:34:31.000 first guests being Ray J to today and if you're 1:34:31.040 --> 1:34:33.920 in President of Barack Obama, life being good. Isn't God good? God, 1:34:33.960 --> 1:34:35.960 it's so great. But you got to be open to 1:34:36.040 --> 1:34:37.960 growth and evolution. Or you know what I'm saying. People 1:34:38.120 --> 1:34:41.280 limit themself because they boxed themselves. And you know, you 1:34:41.320 --> 1:34:43.599 can't be afraid to grow, you can't be afraid of evall. Yep, 1:34:44.000 --> 1:34:45.960 you're right, you're right, they're all right. Well when we 1:34:46.040 --> 1:34:48.400 come back positive note do moves to Breakfast Club. Good morning, 1:34:48.400 --> 1:34:52.479 the morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela, Yee, Charlemagne the guy. 1:34:52.520 --> 1:34:55.519 We are the Breakfast Club. Don't forget this. Saturday is 1:34:55.600 --> 1:34:58.639 my virtual car show, all right, something I put together 1:34:58.760 --> 1:35:02.559 myself where you can use your iPhone, your iPad, your droids, 1:35:02.560 --> 1:35:05.200 your computer to check out. You know, close to one 1:35:05.280 --> 1:35:08.639 hundred cars, the exotic cause cars from the nineties era, 1:35:09.520 --> 1:35:13.120 regular cars, hyper cars, exclusive cars, all different things. You 1:35:13.160 --> 1:35:16.280 can go inside the cars. You can see every aspect 1:35:16.320 --> 1:35:19.760 of the car, and then there's short videos about the car, 1:35:19.880 --> 1:35:22.400 whether it's me talking to the celebrity or me talking 1:35:22.439 --> 1:35:24.280 to the owner of the car, or me just explaining 1:35:24.280 --> 1:35:27.719 in the car car show is it's it's amazing. So definitely, 1:35:27.920 --> 1:35:29.720 um check it out. If you want more information, you 1:35:29.800 --> 1:35:31.679 could click the link in my bio. I need glasses 1:35:31.760 --> 1:35:33.160 or something, Nope, you can do it all from your phone. 1:35:33.200 --> 1:35:34.640 You don't need glasses and nothing like that. You can 1:35:34.680 --> 1:35:37.160 do it all in like look through it through the phone. 1:35:37.320 --> 1:35:38.880 You mean, yeah, Like so with your phone you can 1:35:38.920 --> 1:35:40.759 go through the phone and you can move the phone 1:35:40.760 --> 1:35:42.240 and go to parts of the car, so you can 1:35:42.280 --> 1:35:44.719 get in the car. You can see the staring wheel, 1:35:44.840 --> 1:35:47.320 you can come back out place the video and everybody 1:35:47.400 --> 1:35:49.599 talking about you walk in through the virtual video. Two. Yes, 1:35:50.360 --> 1:35:54.240 so what happens? I tell you here? It goes ahead? 1:35:56.439 --> 1:35:58.439 He said, it's easy to get inside the car. Correct 1:35:58.880 --> 1:36:03.360 inquiry mind one to get inside DJV on this rotual app, 1:36:04.120 --> 1:36:06.639 you guys, I thought we just had an elevated day. 1:36:07.680 --> 1:36:11.280 This guy, and listen after that car show, don't forget that. 1:36:11.479 --> 1:36:17.280 Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Junior Fighters definitely happening. Yes, yeah, 1:36:17.360 --> 1:36:19.519 there's a great weekend. Mike Tys and Roy Jones fight. 1:36:19.760 --> 1:36:22.920 I think it's the twenty fifth year anniversary of Mary J. 1:36:23.040 --> 1:36:25.000 Blige My Life. The reason I know that is because 1:36:25.479 --> 1:36:27.920 My Life came out on my wife's born day, and 1:36:28.000 --> 1:36:29.880 it's my wife's born day this weekend. So okay, yeah, 1:36:29.920 --> 1:36:33.360 it's great. Hey, listen to man while everybody's at home. 1:36:33.439 --> 1:36:37.599 Taking advantage of Black Friday sales, Please pre order Tamika 1:36:37.680 --> 1:36:41.519 Mallory's upcoming book. It's titled State of Emergency. It's available 1:36:41.560 --> 1:36:45.400 wherever you pre order books right now. Okay, support our sister. 1:36:45.479 --> 1:36:47.880 Our sisters always on the front lines fighting for us, 1:36:48.200 --> 1:36:52.160 so you know, now is your turn to assist her. 1:36:52.280 --> 1:36:53.720 You know people are always asking how can I help 1:36:53.760 --> 1:36:56.000 and tell freedom? Well, this is one way. God damn it. 1:36:56.240 --> 1:36:59.320 All right, go out there and support m Tamica Mallory 1:36:59.360 --> 1:37:01.479 and her new books, State of Emergency. It comes out 1:37:01.640 --> 1:37:04.640 made eleventh, but it's available for pre order right now 1:37:04.960 --> 1:37:07.080 everywhere you buy a book. So, um, make sure you 1:37:07.439 --> 1:37:09.360 grab a copy of that. It's called State of Emergency, 1:37:09.479 --> 1:37:12.679 right they Oh sue my man, mister Todd too. Man, Hey, 1:37:12.960 --> 1:37:16.200 mister Todd, I'm going to meet mister Todd later the 1:37:16.280 --> 1:37:19.160 day to pick up some Sweeperotato pies. Ain't nobody's people. 1:37:19.160 --> 1:37:20.760 Tato pid is better than mister Todd. The only person 1:37:20.800 --> 1:37:23.519 sweeper tato pie who remotely comes close is my grandma, 1:37:23.600 --> 1:37:26.840 God blessed the dad and my mother in law. Mister 1:37:26.880 --> 1:37:29.200 todds people take. The pies are phenomenal, and I'm going 1:37:29.240 --> 1:37:30.400 to pick up a couple of the day for the 1:37:30.479 --> 1:37:32.720 morrow Tooths. My man, mister Todd, you go ahead with 1:37:32.800 --> 1:37:35.280 that sweet potato pie all right? Oh I'm gonna get something. 1:37:35.320 --> 1:37:37.800 Would you like us? Slight? You know I'm saying he 1:37:37.960 --> 1:37:40.439 was on a positive note. Man. The positive note is 1:37:40.479 --> 1:37:44.720 simply this man. Um, you confront all you want, but 1:37:44.840 --> 1:37:47.640 the universe responds to the real you, not who you 1:37:47.720 --> 1:37:51.040 pretend to be. Breakface club you finish, or y'all dumb