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Speaker 1: breakfast Club. Everyone just kept telling the prepa one word,
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Speaker 1: news and really be tuned in. Man, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to call it. The breakfast Club. It's like brunch.
Speaker 1: NB Yea and Cholomagne. Wake that ass up, get out
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Speaker 1: no Emmy, all right, Good morning us a yo yo
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Speaker 1: Yee peace did the plane? It is Tuesday. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to jump right in there because sometimes Envy is
Speaker 1: here and I don't know it, and then he gets
Speaker 1: mad at me for starting the show. Why is that
Speaker 1: little lady not here? It's International Women's Day? Why is
Speaker 1: that little lady night here this morning? I don't know
Speaker 1: what he's doing, Okay, but happy International Women's Day March
Speaker 1: eighth every single year. Today. Well, this year the theme
Speaker 1: is break the Bias for International Women's Day, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk more about International Women's Day during Front Page News
Speaker 1: anathon March Women's History Month as well. Yes, it is okay,
Speaker 1: so you get a day within your own mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this is an international day, so it's global. Actually
Speaker 1: we're starting in the UK. Okay, so internationally we celebrate
Speaker 1: women today and talk about a lot of different women's issues.
Speaker 1: Also celebrate women. It's not good enough just to say, hey,
Speaker 1: we have a day. You also have to talk about uh,
Speaker 1: you know, different things that need to be done, and
Speaker 1: we need all the allies. So men need to also
Speaker 1: uplift women and make sure we celebrate our accomplishments are achievements,
Speaker 1: but also talk about equality, talk about gender parity, making
Speaker 1: sure we are fundraising for female focused charities, all kinds
Speaker 1: of things. I enjoyed the day a lot more last
Speaker 1: year when we had the day off. Okay, when they
Speaker 1: give all the guys here the day off, that was amazing. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: this year we want some equality that's not equality to
Speaker 1: be got to work too. What would equality be? Equality
Speaker 1: is letting? I mean, how didquality I don't know what
Speaker 1: equality is, to be honest with you, Like, equality to
Speaker 1: me is such a subjective term in a lot of ways, right,
Speaker 1: because you know, when you say you want equality, what
Speaker 1: exactly does that mean when you say equity, that's different, Like, like,
Speaker 1: equity and equality are two different things to me. Now,
Speaker 1: the equity you can actually slice up give to a person.
Speaker 1: Equality is just like, oh, i'm you know, let's let
Speaker 1: gonna treat you like an equal. Well, equity is part
Speaker 1: of equality, it's part of it. I would rather have
Speaker 1: the equity because equality can't be I don't think equality
Speaker 1: can be gauged. I don't think you can quantify your quality. Well,
Speaker 1: it depends. There's a lot of different factors that factor
Speaker 1: into it. So, and yesterday was a very windy day,
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't know if I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people experience this, but I had just gotten
Speaker 1: home and when I tell you, they said it was
Speaker 1: winds in New York about seventy miles an hour. And
Speaker 1: now they're saying in the Northeast as much as one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand people don't have power. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about all of that in front Page News. Also,
Speaker 1: do we have any guest today, I don't know what. Oh,
Speaker 1: we do. We actually have Congresswoman Corey Bush. Congresswoman Corey
Speaker 1: Bush woman International Women's Day. She's a perfect example of
Speaker 1: somebody who is always pushing the envelope and making sure
Speaker 1: that she's heard. So yes, Congressoman Corey Bush will be here,
Speaker 1: also doctor Kim L. Delaney and Yvonne Okay, I'm I
Speaker 1: messed up her last name, Mabnafoy, Mabnafoy. Okay. We'll be
Speaker 1: here this morning. And they have this great series that's
Speaker 1: on Instagram and we'll talk we'll talk all about it.
Speaker 1: But if you haven't had a chance to see it,
Speaker 1: it's Equiano Stories, and it's the second series that they've done.
Speaker 1: The first one is that Story told on Instagram. It
Speaker 1: was like a movie on Instagram. That one was about
Speaker 1: the Holocaust and I think it got like three hundred
Speaker 1: million views. So now this one dates back to before slavery,
Speaker 1: to show what was happening in Africa, how black people
Speaker 1: were thriving, how we were getting our own. Our history
Speaker 1: does not start at slavery, and that's the point of
Speaker 1: Equiano Stories. So we'll talk about that this morning on
Speaker 1: the breakfast Club front page news. Next, Hey, it's the
Speaker 1: breakfast Club. It's International Women's Day DJMV, good morning. You're
Speaker 1: gonna bring us into front page news. No, International Women's Day.
Speaker 1: So he's fallen back to day. That is not what
Speaker 1: it means. What do you mean you supposed to celebrate
Speaker 1: us today? I didn't think I had to go to
Speaker 1: World lead. God seen the flyers and it just had
Speaker 1: all the women from the stations. All was like last year,
Speaker 1: we was off. Last year. All the guys wasn't on
Speaker 1: the radio station. And then Eddie said bring your ass in.
Speaker 1: Eddie didn't have off. Okay, well you don't know what
Speaker 1: he identifies as calling? That be calling people men nowadays?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? We do what we do? Not?
Speaker 1: We do not? His name is Eddie F want what
Speaker 1: that stands for? Let's get into Well, Yes, today is
Speaker 1: International Women's Day, as it is every March eighth, and
Speaker 1: this year's scene is hashtag break the Bias? So what
Speaker 1: does International Women's Day mean? Will imagine a gender equal world?
Speaker 1: This is, according to International Women's Day dot com, a
Speaker 1: role for your bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world where
Speaker 1: difference is valued and celebrated, so together we can forage
Speaker 1: women's equality. So today you will celebrate women's achievement, to
Speaker 1: raise awareness against bias, take action for equality. Uh and
Speaker 1: those are some of the themes for this year. Breaking
Speaker 1: the bias. We should be doing that every single day.
Speaker 1: So some of those things include building workplaces where women
Speaker 1: can thrive. Instead of making women feel less, stand talking
Speaker 1: over them, making them feel like their opinions and values
Speaker 1: don't matter. Make sure women can thrive in your workplace.
Speaker 1: Elevate the visibility of women creatives, improve equality for women
Speaker 1: in tech. We all know there's a problem with equality
Speaker 1: with women in tech. Forage women's empowerment worldwide. Celebrate the
Speaker 1: women who are foraging change and also empowering women's choices.
Speaker 1: In health, there's a lot of men trying to make
Speaker 1: decisions about what should happen with the women's body, So
Speaker 1: let's make sure we do those things. Also, fundraising for
Speaker 1: female focused charities and if you guys want to hit
Speaker 1: us up and let us know. If you're a woman
Speaker 1: and you have a charity that's focused on women, then
Speaker 1: let us know, hit us up. We want to make
Speaker 1: sure that we can support and elevate you. The colors
Speaker 1: that symbolize International Women's Day are purple, green and white.
Speaker 1: And just so you guys know about the history, these
Speaker 1: colors originated from the Women's Social and Political Union in
Speaker 1: the UK back in nineteen oh eight. So it's not
Speaker 1: any particular country, group or organization that is specific to
Speaker 1: celebrate this. No one government, no one charity. But it's
Speaker 1: all about a collection effort to make sure that we
Speaker 1: all care about humans rights. All right, all right, got it,
Speaker 1: got it, all right, and that is your front page news.
Speaker 1: Now get it off you know. Now, let's make sure
Speaker 1: today when you guys are calling in, you are celebrating
Speaker 1: the valuable women in your lives. If women want to
Speaker 1: call in and talk about your accomplishments, we would love
Speaker 1: to hear it this morning. Eight ye eight hundred five
Speaker 1: eight five one o five one, call us up. Happy
Speaker 1: International Women's Day. No clothing, Ye, it's the Women's Club.
Speaker 1: Woke up, Wake up, wakes you're trying to get it
Speaker 1: off your chests. We want to hear from you on
Speaker 1: the breakfas club. Hello this Hey, this is Teresa. I'm
Speaker 1: calling from Washington Heights, Thomas. Sure, good morning, Teresa. I
Speaker 1: wanted to just pound out all the women that I
Speaker 1: work with, all the teachers. You know, we all work
Speaker 1: really hard. We all got master's degree and we're working
Speaker 1: hard to hate the kids. And I wanted to shout
Speaker 1: you off one of the most important jobs that we
Speaker 1: have here. So we appreciate you. Shout out to all
Speaker 1: the women at what school you said, psy type PS
Speaker 1: forty in Washington Heights. You know, for a little while
Speaker 1: I taught in Washington Heights, I wanted to be a teacher.
Speaker 1: Oh amazing and one of the most important jobs. And
Speaker 1: y'all don't get paid like My mom's a school teacher's
Speaker 1: been a school teacher for thirty thirty plus years. The
Speaker 1: most I think she said she ever made was thirty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year. And you know, with all our education,
Speaker 1: if we were in awe making, but we do it
Speaker 1: pretty yeah, and not just education. The fact that we
Speaker 1: trust y'all with our churn. All right, So I was
Speaker 1: a day, but we love you and we appreciate you. PS.
Speaker 1: Forty eight in Washington Heights. Hello, Hello, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1: How are you doing. Blessed Black and Holly? Favorite brother?
Speaker 1: How are your brother? My name is Lauren Bora star Wars.
Speaker 1: I live in Jacksonville, Florida. Okay, I started. I started
Speaker 1: a foundation for man domestic violence. We had a situation
Speaker 1: with my daughter, So I'm blessing all women. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to spread the word. The name of the foundation is
Speaker 1: a Underscore chan K Foundation. H I a NT foundation
Speaker 1: and I'm just trying to spread the word, trying to
Speaker 1: spread along to help and save save other women around.
Speaker 1: So that's all I want to try. White man from women.
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a minority man of a feminine man
Speaker 1: and twenty six years and I'm just trying to help women.
Speaker 1: I respect it. Why do you call yourself a minority man? Well,
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't know. I mean why you black?
Speaker 1: Black man? Yes? Yes, I am say you black? Do
Speaker 1: you mean by a northy man? What kind of what
Speaker 1: kind of man? Jesus? Yes, I'm a fift three year
Speaker 1: old black man fighting for women in the bright. Yes,
Speaker 1: say that's what I'm doing. Brother. We left that and
Speaker 1: we'd love to hear it. So your charity is about
Speaker 1: it's helping women who have experienced domestic violence, and it's
Speaker 1: too high of a proportion of women that have had
Speaker 1: that experience. So we appreciate an a plaud the work
Speaker 1: that you're doing, and we need more men to care
Speaker 1: about that too. Always Hello, who's this height? This is
Speaker 1: curbing out of Houston? What up? Brother? What's going on?
Speaker 1: Good morning? A good morning? How are you? I'm doing fine?
Speaker 1: Good morn morning brother, Good morning, searle man of God,
Speaker 1: peace King? How are you doing? Black man? I'm doing
Speaker 1: all right. I'm going to celebrate my beautiful black queen.
Speaker 1: All right, shout her out? What's her name? I want
Speaker 1: to celebrate its Keller right here, all the youth and
Speaker 1: this my feutiful black queen. You know, to to celebrate
Speaker 1: teen years in July, and I just want to celebrate
Speaker 1: her and thank God for making me the happiest man alive. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love to hear it, the happiest man alive. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what's International Women's Day? What are you doing? All right?
Speaker 1: He's you know, he counts sounds to me like somebody
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Speaker 1: know if he's taking more calls or what. Oh, we
Speaker 1: have to say the number than we tease and then
Speaker 1: we come back all right, eight hundred five A five
Speaker 1: one oh five one. It is March eighth, International Women's Day.
Speaker 1: We are celebrating women all morning on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Call us up and let us know who you want
Speaker 1: to celebrate or if you're a woman and you want
Speaker 1: to celebrate yourself, your pairs, your friends, your family, call
Speaker 1: us up right now is get it off your chest.
Speaker 1: This is your time to get it off your chests,
Speaker 1: whether you're man or blast. So you better have the
Speaker 1: same indutry we want to hear from you on the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey? How are you doing this?
Speaker 1: Rout from watch Hike round foot up Ralph going on.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to time to I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get get you guys for the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: And uh I was thinking about the guy that was
Speaker 1: talking about big coin last week. Okay, uh I was
Speaker 1: just trying to basically state, why is it that we
Speaker 1: always gotta refer to like selling crack or selling drugs
Speaker 1: in order for like, for like us to understand something,
Speaker 1: you know. And I just feel like people go up
Speaker 1: there and always always bring up crack of drugs when
Speaker 1: they're trying to like get get us to understand as
Speaker 1: opposed to, you know, say something positive together to understand.
Speaker 1: You know why. That's a good point, man. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this, uh last week in reference to just
Speaker 1: conversations we have about the Hood, when we talk about
Speaker 1: providing opportunities, we always make it seem like a majority
Speaker 1: of the Hood is in the criminal activity, and that's
Speaker 1: just not the case at all. So I understand what
Speaker 1: you're saying. The world, you know what I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a new world already. I mean, we gotta lift each
Speaker 1: other as opposed to, you know, keep putting a drag
Speaker 1: in each other even in the old world. Though most
Speaker 1: people didn't sell crack, majority of people in the Hood
Speaker 1: to Natchell crack, that's a fact. That's a fact, as
Speaker 1: the majority used it. I'm not gonna say that your
Speaker 1: whole care that's not the case either, But I will
Speaker 1: say though for a lot of people, maybe maybe that
Speaker 1: individual and I don't know that gentleman's history, but maybe
Speaker 1: he didn't tacky, and maybe that's what he compares it too,
Speaker 1: because he knows I can't compare it to selling crack
Speaker 1: because I never sold crack. So maybe for himself, maybe
Speaker 1: that's what he was talking about because maybe he sold
Speaker 1: it before and those the differences. But I feel like
Speaker 1: he did a lot of comparisons, though I don't think
Speaker 1: he just was comparing it to that. He was trying
Speaker 1: to explain in multiple different ways. I get what he's saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with the last call, and we
Speaker 1: all we do that when it comes to the hood.
Speaker 1: We always put things in criminal contexts. Hello, who's this yo,
Speaker 1: It's Jay Jay up lunch. I was just going to
Speaker 1: say good morning for morning Angel. What's going on? So?
Speaker 1: I was just calling to say I bought enough for
Speaker 1: equipment to start my business, to start my LLC for
Speaker 1: my business just by my home two years ago. All
Speaker 1: I want to wish women happy women stay what my wife,
Speaker 1: my mother and my mother and law happy women stay
Speaker 1: and just put some good energy off this morning. Alright,
Speaker 1: all right, we left to hear it. Hello, who's this
Speaker 1: from Atro Detroit? The Nicole let that down? Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning, so mean, good morning dj V Queen. How
Speaker 1: are you? I'm great? Thank you for asking. Um. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to wish my circle I happy International Women's Day.
Speaker 1: We're all veterans and we've all recently started our own business.
Speaker 1: I'm just asking for some positive vibes. Absolutely, what's your business? Um?
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm into beauty and healthcare. UM. I have
Speaker 1: a footmask that helps uh take off the dead skin.
Speaker 1: So I've been working on that. Oh I need that.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. We'll gladly send you a package.
Speaker 1: What's your website? Sell people listening? Because suppoint two for
Speaker 1: International Women's Day? Uh ww dot Victoria Rain r e
Speaker 1: I g N official dot com. All right, Victoria Rain,
Speaker 1: shout out to you in your circle and thank you
Speaker 1: for your service. Thank you? All right? Five five one
Speaker 1: oh five one. Now we got rumors on the way, Yes,
Speaker 1: and let's talk about another amazing women, Zoe Kravitz. She's
Speaker 1: getting rave reviews for her performance as Catwomen. But did
Speaker 1: you know she wanted to be in another movie and
Speaker 1: they said she was too urban? All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This
Speaker 1: is the rumor Report with Angela years but people are
Speaker 1: loving Zoey Kravitz and the Batman. And this was not
Speaker 1: her first time trying to break into this whole universe
Speaker 1: on the big screen. She had told the Observer that
Speaker 1: her attempt to audition for a role in The Dark
Speaker 1: Knight Rises was rejected. She was told she was actually
Speaker 1: too urban for the part. Can you imagine that now?
Speaker 1: During a twenty fifteen interview with Nylon, she said the
Speaker 1: role she was seeking in The Dark Knight Rises with
Speaker 1: a small one and she couldn't even get in the
Speaker 1: room because the film wasn't quote going urban for the role,
Speaker 1: she said at the time, And she said, it was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what does that have to do with anything? I have
Speaker 1: to play the role? Like, Yo, what's up, Batman? What's
Speaker 1: going on with you? So, she said, being a woman
Speaker 1: of color and being an actor and being told at
Speaker 1: that time that I wasn't able to read because of
Speaker 1: the color of my skin and the word urban being
Speaker 1: thrown around like that, that was what was really hard
Speaker 1: about that moment. Yeah, I hate the word urban in
Speaker 1: any context, but especially in that context because he means
Speaker 1: you too much of a sucker to say black. Just say, hey,
Speaker 1: black isn't what we're looking for at this time, right.
Speaker 1: So shout out to her though, because they are saying
Speaker 1: that she's amazing as Catwoman right now in The Batman,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna go see it. Or I don't be supporting DC.
Speaker 1: You stop it, man, I'm a Marvel guy. You can
Speaker 1: watch this this on TV. I know, I was just
Speaker 1: asking you. I don't know how that I might take
Speaker 1: the kids to go see it. I'm like, if there's
Speaker 1: any DC, I'll spending money on this, Batman or the Joker.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, one hundred and twenty eight million dollars
Speaker 1: it made in the first week, So congratulations to them.
Speaker 1: All right. Mary J. Blige and PEPSI have announced the
Speaker 1: Strength of a Woman Festival and Summit. So they're doing
Speaker 1: this in partnership with Live Nation Urban. Let's celebrate that
Speaker 1: for International Women's Day. That festival will take place in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: It's three days devoted to music, comedy, and community building.
Speaker 1: That's going to be happening between May sixth and May eighth.
Speaker 1: That's coming up really soon. I like that. So it's
Speaker 1: an apologetically curated four and buy women. That festival has
Speaker 1: been intentionally scheduled for Mother's Day weekend. Pre sale tickets
Speaker 1: do go live actually today at ten am Eastern. Every
Speaker 1: they announced everybody because I know they got a comedy
Speaker 1: show on Friday and they got a brunch on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And I saw the full music lineup, I think, right yeah,
Speaker 1: so you can actually go. And it's gonna happen at
Speaker 1: the State Farm Arena, and so there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different performance obviously Mary's abliges performing to have all kinds
Speaker 1: of special guests like Shaka Khan, City Girls, Queen Nausea
Speaker 1: and Moore. And there's a gospel Sunday brunch. There's a
Speaker 1: lot going on, probably club from Mary J. Blich. You know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's almost like artists can can curate better
Speaker 1: shows than you know, corporations nowadays, because who's gonna tell
Speaker 1: Mary J. Blige know when she picks up the phone
Speaker 1: and tells you what she's doing, They're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: other artists are gonna show up for her, you know absolutely.
Speaker 1: And everything kicks off at the Gathering Spot, which I love.
Speaker 1: I love the Gathering Spot in Atlanta. So that kicks
Speaker 1: off Saturday, May seventh. But the strength of a woman's summit,
Speaker 1: So shout out to all of them. I see miss
Speaker 1: pat is going to be doing a comedy show. My Girls,
Speaker 1: seven Streeter is gonna be performing. Um it's amazing lineup,
Speaker 1: amazing lineup all right, now, grownish has been renewed for
Speaker 1: season five, So congratulations to them. Uh so, oh grown
Speaker 1: any now you know they can't be in college no more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it in a while. I used to.
Speaker 1: I still love to show what I haven't seen it
Speaker 1: in a while. Well, Season four finality is going to
Speaker 1: be happening in March twenty fourth. That's gonna feature Zoe
Speaker 1: graduating from college. Got you? Okay? That makes sense? Right,
Speaker 1: so Grownish, I guess you always still growing Season five deal. Clearly,
Speaker 1: she'll clearly be out in the world right trying to
Speaker 1: figure it out? Okay. And Lebron is getting into the
Speaker 1: culinary space. He has a new platform. It's called kitch
Speaker 1: KII no ki ttc h Now, kitch is a place
Speaker 1: for foodies to interact and to learn from some of
Speaker 1: the most famous chefs in the world. This makes sense
Speaker 1: because people love watching all those food and cooking shows.
Speaker 1: So he has a really strict diet. He has a
Speaker 1: different routine for preseason, postseason, pregame, and post game. He
Speaker 1: said before competition for me would be like a chicken
Speaker 1: breast and maybe a little pasta. The carbs help because
Speaker 1: you're going out and playing a lot of minutes. But
Speaker 1: a salad and some veggies will have me perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: And before the game, I might have a protein shake
Speaker 1: and some fruit and I'll be ready to go. So
Speaker 1: this is gonna be pretty exciting for him. They said.
Speaker 1: Kitch can be described as the twitch TikTok zoom of
Speaker 1: culinary y'all watch cooking shows not too much, even though
Speaker 1: I can't cook, but I enjoy it. You just be watching.
Speaker 1: I'm trans fact, so I'll be sitting there looking at
Speaker 1: the cookie shows, mouth of water times, I watch um
Speaker 1: exercise programs. I just sit there on account and watch watch.
Speaker 1: I'd be like I should get up and do that.
Speaker 1: And I like the cooking shows that make things that
Speaker 1: we actually would eat, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: about shows where you see people traveling around and eating
Speaker 1: things you would love too, I love those to do.
Speaker 1: The name Guy Ferrara, whatever the hell. I'm surprised he's
Speaker 1: still alive, to be honest with you. Eats a lot
Speaker 1: of crazy stuff. But maybe they just take a couple
Speaker 1: of bites exactly, And there's no way that all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well that is your rumor report. All right.
Speaker 1: Now we got front page news. What we're talking about. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's talk about what was. Well, you know, it is
Speaker 1: International Women's Day, so we'll discuss that some more. But
Speaker 1: also the crazy weather across the northeast. One hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty thousand people, more than one hundred and thirty thousand
Speaker 1: people who don't have power, and that's because of these
Speaker 1: crazy winds. There was crazy last night. Crazy crazy. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that next. It's to breakfast. What you
Speaker 1: look up? What's wrong with you? Man? What Cinternational Women's Day?
Speaker 1: Stop it? Man, seen nothing about the fir crazy. You
Speaker 1: start hearing about wind and blowing and talking about this
Speaker 1: crazy last night. I ain't got nothing to do with
Speaker 1: your six thoughts. Kids. It's breasting. This song offends me.
Speaker 1: I let it, Okay, who I cancel? All right, I'm
Speaker 1: outraged by this record. Okay, you don't have that energy
Speaker 1: because this record is two pro big D. What about
Speaker 1: us average D brothers. We're celebrating International Women's Day. We
Speaker 1: don't want women out there struggling today. Okay, celebrate, let
Speaker 1: them celebrate energy, all right. Lunelle was up here. Luella,
Speaker 1: she an't got time to be having her up. She
Speaker 1: was just trying to make you feel good. She has
Speaker 1: no idea what I'm working with, even though it's not much.
Speaker 1: We all know now, But yeah, you know, nobody wants
Speaker 1: anyone to be offended. But today our International Women's Day,
Speaker 1: I am offended. We are celebrating what about us average
Speaker 1: d humans? You guys can celebrate that on your own day.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's get into front page news or
Speaker 1: you want to start, well, of course, let's start our
Speaker 1: International Women's Day March eighth, every single year. In case
Speaker 1: you don't know what International Women's Day is, it's also
Speaker 1: celebrating and uplifting all of these missions to help forwards
Speaker 1: a gender equal world. We celebrate women's achievements. We also
Speaker 1: support increased visibility for women. We call out inequality, all
Speaker 1: of those things which should be happening every day, by
Speaker 1: the way, but today in particular, we focus on those things.
Speaker 1: Improving equality for women in tech is one of the
Speaker 1: missions this year. You know, if you work in the
Speaker 1: tech space, you don't see a lot of us there.
Speaker 1: Also foraging women's empowerment worldwide, celebrating all the women who
Speaker 1: are forging chains, empowering women's choices in health because a
Speaker 1: lot of men are out here trying to make decisions
Speaker 1: about what we do with our body. So all of
Speaker 1: those different things, building workplaces where women thrive, and this
Speaker 1: is still an ongoing fight for equality. So happy International
Speaker 1: Women's Day and make sure you guys go out there
Speaker 1: and celebrate and do something positive. Okay, All right? Now,
Speaker 1: More than one hundred and thirty thousand people have been
Speaker 1: without power in the Northeast as there were some damaging
Speaker 1: winds that swept through the region. More than sixty five
Speaker 1: million people from the mountains of North Carolina to Cape
Speaker 1: Cod DC, Baltimore, Philly, New York. They were under wind
Speaker 1: advisories overnight. They said there were gusts of up to
Speaker 1: seventy five miles per hour, possible three damage, dangerous road conditions.
Speaker 1: There were three hundred and fifty reports of damaging winds
Speaker 1: late Sunday through Monday night. Also, so they said there
Speaker 1: was hail falling in some areas. Rain was quite heavy
Speaker 1: with this system, saturated the ground and so a lot
Speaker 1: of damage. There were some tornadoes in Iowa. Seven people
Speaker 1: were killed over the weekend, including two children. Dozens of
Speaker 1: homes were impacted, and so all of that going on
Speaker 1: with the weather. It wasn't It was a bit wild
Speaker 1: last night. I've never heard and win like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I kept hearing something like I was like, what
Speaker 1: is that? It was crazy. I've had that trampoline at
Speaker 1: my house for fifteen years and never had no problem
Speaker 1: bolted down. Like when I woke up this morning, it
Speaker 1: was upside down a man. Climate change is real, because
Speaker 1: yesterday it was like, what seventy degrees We're in New York.
Speaker 1: For everybody listening to those around country, it was like
Speaker 1: seventy degrees here in New York. Then now today it's
Speaker 1: like thirty something. Yeah, and with the rain and the weather,
Speaker 1: it feels like eighteen degrees. So all right now. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is expected to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency
Speaker 1: this week that will be the first step toward regulating
Speaker 1: how digital currency is traded. They have raised concerns in
Speaker 1: recent weeks about Russia's use of crypto to evade the
Speaker 1: impact of all the chanctions in response to the invasion
Speaker 1: of Ukraine. So as you know, the ruble, which is
Speaker 1: their their money, has sunk to historic lows and also
Speaker 1: they closed the country stock market. Two people familiar with
Speaker 1: the process said the executive Order on Cryptocurrency was expected
Speaker 1: to be issued, and it had been in the work
Speaker 1: so long before the war, so people were speaking on
Speaker 1: the condition of anonymity to preview the order. It's gonna
Speaker 1: describe what government agencies, including the Treasury Department, need to
Speaker 1: do so that they can develop policies and regulations on
Speaker 1: digital currencies. And they expect that to include a request
Speaker 1: for the State Department to ensure American crypto laws are
Speaker 1: aligned with those of US allies. And also they'll be
Speaker 1: monitoring the stability of the US financial system and studying
Speaker 1: illicit finance concerns. What does that mean? Does that mean
Speaker 1: that a lot of the other a lot of the
Speaker 1: cryptocurrencies are going to fall to the wayside, and it's
Speaker 1: only gonna be one that people focus on now. I
Speaker 1: don't think there ever will be one that people focus on,
Speaker 1: but they just need to regulate it because there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of concerns. You know, it's a global currency,
Speaker 1: and that's what I've been saying for a long time.
Speaker 1: It's been wild, wild west. So now that the government
Speaker 1: starts to regulate these things, a lot of people are
Speaker 1: getting overall. People hopefully won't anymore. A lot of people
Speaker 1: lost a lot of money. A lot of people also
Speaker 1: made a lot of money. But they're gonna start regulating,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how to regulate all of them. Though
Speaker 1: they're gonna try. I would think that you would pick
Speaker 1: one like bigcoin is probably the most successful one. You
Speaker 1: probably regulate all the coins and that what's the value
Speaker 1: of them and what their worth is because people put
Speaker 1: money into it, and then there's all these schemes and
Speaker 1: scams and you put your money into it, then you know,
Speaker 1: people take their money out. You you would last to know,
Speaker 1: and you lose your money. So they hopefully they're regulated
Speaker 1: some people, and a lot of those person don't lose.
Speaker 1: Cryptos that pop up that you never heard of, So
Speaker 1: somebody's like pushing a cryptocurrency, then they get some influencers
Speaker 1: to post about it. Then you go ahead and buy
Speaker 1: this new crypto thinking you're getting in at a rock
Speaker 1: bottom price. But that's what I mean. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: regulate all of those. The regulations whill probably handle a Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's illegal. That's like a pump and dump scheme. People
Speaker 1: do that with stocks and they can do that with
Speaker 1: crypto also. But that's what I think they're gonna get
Speaker 1: rid of a lot of those, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like one or two that they really focus on and
Speaker 1: regulation and I'll be the ones that everybody gravitate towards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Ethereum is gonna be around. I think Bigcoin
Speaker 1: will be around, Silano. There's a lot that will still
Speaker 1: there'll be different options in different choices, but they do
Speaker 1: have to make sure. And just seeing what's happening in
Speaker 1: Russia is really showing how people are managed managing to
Speaker 1: evade the sanctions because they're using crypto and so even
Speaker 1: though the Russian money has crumbled, they're still able to
Speaker 1: finance things using cryptocurrency, which is good for people in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: People are sending them crypto so they're able to use it.
Speaker 1: But how do you regulate that? So we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens and we'll see what these sanctions are looking like.
Speaker 1: And that is your front page news all right. Now,
Speaker 1: when we come back, we have Congresswoman Corey Bush joining us.
Speaker 1: We'll talk with her when we come back, so don't move.
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, all the ladies. Some
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Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast Club morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and
Speaker 1: July Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building. You have
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Corey Bush. Welcome, good morning, Thank you for having
Speaker 1: me them winning. How are you. I'm great, glad to
Speaker 1: be here. Absolutely, you know, I like you a lot
Speaker 1: of watch you when you know, pop up on MSNBC
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And I like you because it's
Speaker 1: a member of the Democratic Party. You aren't afraid to
Speaker 1: call out. Yeah, the Democratic Party. Why why is that? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, just even walking in here, you have
Speaker 1: a picture of Michael Brown Junior hanging up in the
Speaker 1: room next door. That's how I got into this was
Speaker 1: just feeling like we were out there on those streets
Speaker 1: of Ferguson for more than four hundred days and it
Speaker 1: was like we were doing all of that work, putting
Speaker 1: our lives on the line every single day. But we
Speaker 1: didn't have we didn't have much inside that can make
Speaker 1: change that needed to happen. Inside that was that was
Speaker 1: fighting for us, like fighting to the point of putting
Speaker 1: their name and reputation on the line. And so I
Speaker 1: didn't want to be in Congress to have a name
Speaker 1: or a title, or to make more money or any
Speaker 1: of that. I don't care about any of that. I
Speaker 1: care that I'm saving lies it's black people dying every
Speaker 1: single day at the hands of police, or whether it's
Speaker 1: healthcare disparities, environmental injustice, so much over and over again.
Speaker 1: And I feel like if we don't address poverty head on,
Speaker 1: if we just do what's comfortable, people will keep dying.
Speaker 1: So I don't have time. My dad's been a politics
Speaker 1: for most of my life, and so I swore I
Speaker 1: would never do it, you know, but it was like,
Speaker 1: how do we get this change? What did you see
Speaker 1: when your dad was in politics that made you say
Speaker 1: I don't want to be involved. He was just like
Speaker 1: always giving himself, so much of himself to every person
Speaker 1: that he met. He was the person that would build
Speaker 1: one person at a time, but so many like criticism
Speaker 1: and scrutiny and the corruption that would come around, and
Speaker 1: I would wonder, like, why do you volunteer to do
Speaker 1: this work? Now? I get it now, understand because I've
Speaker 1: been able to see youth that he helped when they
Speaker 1: were sixteen seventeen, their families that he helped come back
Speaker 1: to him and say, because of what you did, you
Speaker 1: change my life, you know, and so but I just
Speaker 1: didn't want to have any parts of that. I just
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, that can't be my role. You
Speaker 1: got in a storm right now. Yeah. So for most
Speaker 1: people that don't know what is a congresswoman's job? What
Speaker 1: is your job to today? I represent a district within
Speaker 1: the state of Missouri, so it's about roughly seven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand people. Usually m minus is a little
Speaker 1: less than that. And our job is to legislate, to
Speaker 1: to think about what's happening in our communities, what do
Speaker 1: we need, and write bills that would affect change in
Speaker 1: that area. To speak up for the district. So I
Speaker 1: know that Saint Louis is my district is Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: Let me rep my city in my time. Look and
Speaker 1: so Sat. Louis usually number one, a number two for
Speaker 1: homicides fluctuating year after year. Usually we are number one
Speaker 1: for police murder year after year, number one for the
Speaker 1: murder of children. We have all of these environmental issues
Speaker 1: and so much that just attacks the black community. So
Speaker 1: for me and as the congresswoman, I'm looking at how
Speaker 1: do I make sure that I affect those things? Now,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. We've heard people say, and
Speaker 1: Charlemagne you've said this too, that the Democrats suck at
Speaker 1: messaging and so in particular, defund the police always kinds oft,
Speaker 1: always be right. And so I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: what are se messages that you think Democrats need to
Speaker 1: get across so that people are clear on what needs
Speaker 1: to get done. You know, I think that when we
Speaker 1: look at the American Rescue Plan last year, so much
Speaker 1: money and still money is still being allocated, being dispersed,
Speaker 1: but you know, so much came out of the American
Speaker 1: Rescue Plan. In Saint Louis alone, we were able to
Speaker 1: get seven hundred million dollars that we wouldn't have gotten
Speaker 1: had we not had our own office not pushed to
Speaker 1: get money. It's money for housing, it was money for
Speaker 1: you know, because so many people lost homes or needed
Speaker 1: the rental assistance. You know, it was money for healthcare,
Speaker 1: it was money for just going in so many different areas,
Speaker 1: you know. But we gotta message that and say how
Speaker 1: that money actually affected the education system. Money went into schools,
Speaker 1: So we got to talk about that. But we also
Speaker 1: cannot be afraid to talk about what defund the police means.
Speaker 1: You know, we cannot, And that's my issue. It's like
Speaker 1: the anger cannot be Oh, defund the police makes people,
Speaker 1: It pushes people back, it makes people feel a type
Speaker 1: of way. We don't want to say that, you know,
Speaker 1: because the Republicans are coming against us. No, you know,
Speaker 1: if they don't get to tell us what our message is,
Speaker 1: fix the problem. And then I won't have to say,
Speaker 1: defund the police, fix the problem, and I won't have
Speaker 1: to talk about livable wages, fix the problem. And I
Speaker 1: won't have to sit here figuring out how I'm helping
Speaker 1: black women right now. Because even as we're saying, oh,
Speaker 1: these great job numbers came out today, Oh, America added
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy eight thousand more jobs, which is wonderful,
Speaker 1: But for black women. Again, black women, our numbers did
Speaker 1: not get better. Our numbers got worse. Why is it
Speaker 1: that black women are the only ones who's unemployment numbers
Speaker 1: got worse. Our messaging has to target that. Why do
Speaker 1: Democrats always let the right like co opt their slogans
Speaker 1: like the fund the police instead of just simply explaining
Speaker 1: what the fund the police is? To get the slogan this,
Speaker 1: explain what it is it? Why don't they do that? Bypartisanship,
Speaker 1: you know, that's what I hear all the time. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's bypartisanship. We gotta make sure that we don't upset
Speaker 1: them because when they become it, when they come back
Speaker 1: into power, they're going to mistreat us what they already
Speaker 1: mistreat us. They do whatever they want that now, right,
Speaker 1: and they don't care about by partisanship. No, I'm really
Speaker 1: confused on how that works. Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: As the party, we should be able to stand up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what we said, this is what we mean,
Speaker 1: you know, and we take over that narrative. I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask with the sanctions that they put on Russian
Speaker 1: it always seems like they have no money for our community.
Speaker 1: But when it's time to help another nation, they can
Speaker 1: send an ammunition, they can send money, they can send
Speaker 1: all that stuff, so billions of dollars like it's nothing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely ten billion dollar is actually right now I'm looking
Speaker 1: at Okay, while we're talking about all of this that's
Speaker 1: happening in Ukraine and Russia, what else is happening that
Speaker 1: is not being talked about? Because that's how so many
Speaker 1: things send it, rejecting to build a quotified abortion rights. Yeah,
Speaker 1: stuff like that exactly. I haven't three four days ago,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard nobody talking about that. Really. Yeah, everything
Speaker 1: is just being like passed on, you know, even talking
Speaker 1: about how the black asylum seeker is over in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: how they're being treated. You know, we can't get enough
Speaker 1: attention put on that, you know, but everywhere we're seeing
Speaker 1: black and brown people being pushed to the side, no
Speaker 1: matter what part of the world you're in. Can I
Speaker 1: can I comment on your fingernail, your fails a fire?
Speaker 1: But people, you know, oh, you're supposed to change your nails,
Speaker 1: and you're supposed to change your hair and all of
Speaker 1: this who I am And it's because you use your
Speaker 1: hands a last. Yeah, these are still my black history nails.
Speaker 1: You don't want to shout out your nail jack, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? She's still paying for a price
Speaker 1: that's su But should so should the United States be
Speaker 1: sending over money and weapons to Ukraine. I look at
Speaker 1: this two ways. I look at it from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of the person who's on the ground, who has to
Speaker 1: move and get out of there and get out of
Speaker 1: where they are just in case their home is bombed.
Speaker 1: You know. So do we need to make sure that
Speaker 1: humanitarian aid is there? Absolutely, But it should not just
Speaker 1: be us. Other countries should be helping to make sure
Speaker 1: that that is done, because if it was us and
Speaker 1: we needed help someone, we would need someone else to
Speaker 1: help us weapons. You know, I'm anti war, so I'm
Speaker 1: not for that, but I do understand. I keep going
Speaker 1: back to what if it was me? What if it
Speaker 1: was my kids and they had nothing to fight with?
Speaker 1: The thing is for me. Why are we talking about
Speaker 1: sending more weapons and more weapons and we are not
Speaker 1: even talking about a diplomatic solution. What about a cease
Speaker 1: What about really making it clear that we need a ceasefire?
Speaker 1: What about talking to the allies, to those folks that
Speaker 1: do have good relationships with Russia. Why did I bring
Speaker 1: them to the car. Why aren't we talking about Saudi Arabe.
Speaker 1: But why aren't we talking about some of these countries
Speaker 1: that have those relationships, Because I don't want to keep
Speaker 1: thinking about sending sending weapons because weapons hurting. You know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, those weapons will hurt
Speaker 1: innocent people. Do you think that will end up sending
Speaker 1: troops into Ukraine? I thought they did already. They're in
Speaker 1: the neighboring countries. Um, if the President keeps saying not,
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know. But I also don't think that
Speaker 1: this is going to be something that's just going to
Speaker 1: last this year or next year. This is probably going
Speaker 1: to be a decade, you know, or more if we
Speaker 1: don't actually do something. All right, we got more with
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Corey Bush. Don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning, Charlomagne.
Speaker 1: What do you think about mansion and cinema making Biden
Speaker 1: looking so ineffective or the Biden administration just an ineffective period?
Speaker 1: You know, to have these two senators that have been
Speaker 1: able to totally disrupt his agenda like it bothers me
Speaker 1: day to day when I think about the four million
Speaker 1: children that just went back into poverty because that child
Speaker 1: tax credit ended. Joe mansion Kirsten Cinema should not be
Speaker 1: able to make decisions for the entire country for people
Speaker 1: that don't have to live the way that other people
Speaker 1: have to live. They don't have those same issues that
Speaker 1: other people have to face and to make those decisions.
Speaker 1: It's rehensible that they just don't even that nothing happens,
Speaker 1: and so they have no business being in those types
Speaker 1: of positions. If they don't care about regular people, if
Speaker 1: you are so corporate back that all you care about
Speaker 1: is those is those corporate donors, then go go do
Speaker 1: that work. You know, um, I feel like me and
Speaker 1: five of my friends people call the squad. You know,
Speaker 1: we stuck our next out. As much as we want
Speaker 1: the infrastructure money, we absolutely want that money. We want
Speaker 1: to make sure that our roads and bridges and you
Speaker 1: know all of that. We want that money that was
Speaker 1: in there for climaing. But when you say, well we
Speaker 1: can give you this, but oh healthcare, home health workers, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't want to We don't want to deal with that.
Speaker 1: Oh children need childcare. Oh no, no, we don't want
Speaker 1: to pay for that, you know, we don't. We don't
Speaker 1: want money for community violence prevention, and we don't want
Speaker 1: to lower prescription drug costs. We don't want to cap
Speaker 1: insulent thirty five dollars. No, we don't need all of that.
Speaker 1: We just need to take her of our rosen bridges.
Speaker 1: I have a problem with that. We stood up when
Speaker 1: the President made the phone call. He made a phone
Speaker 1: call to say and need you all to stand with
Speaker 1: me and go ahead and vote. We have to move forward.
Speaker 1: You know, we need to get the infrastructure package. We
Speaker 1: need to get that deal done today, that vote done.
Speaker 1: I was clear and I said no. I said I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't supporting that. You know, I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: go to Congress. I didn't run the way that I ran.
Speaker 1: You know, after my very first run to get in Congress,
Speaker 1: you know, I suffered a very violent rate three and
Speaker 1: a half weeks later and I still ran. I still
Speaker 1: started running again for four months later. After my second race,
Speaker 1: I was t boned and couldn't walk the last two
Speaker 1: and a half months of my race Alexandra Kano Quartet.
Speaker 1: Another car, a car was revving up and hit me,
Speaker 1: but I still turned around and ran again. And then
Speaker 1: even I had COVID the next time when I was running,
Speaker 1: but I still ran again because I was thinking about
Speaker 1: how do we make sure that these voices end up
Speaker 1: there that can make change, even if it hurts me.
Speaker 1: It was like, how can I turn my back on
Speaker 1: the people now? You know? And it's not that I
Speaker 1: don't respect our president. It's not that at all. But
Speaker 1: I came here to represent the people of my district.
Speaker 1: I do respect that. But you know, sometimes they say,
Speaker 1: you know, staying busy is a trauma response. It keeps
Speaker 1: you from thinking about all the things that you're going through.
Speaker 1: So are you okay after all that stuff that you
Speaker 1: went through? Yeah, I'm you know, I still therapist. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, I have a therapist, um, and I
Speaker 1: do things that help me to get through. So like
Speaker 1: this is a this is a yeah, well, well the
Speaker 1: little things on it, these these run songs. If I'm
Speaker 1: having a moment where I'm starting to feel triggered, then
Speaker 1: you you rub on that and it helps to bring
Speaker 1: you back. Oh yeah, I got all kinds of tricks.
Speaker 1: So you're actively healing, Like I know you got my
Speaker 1: polysantal head. We do all that exactly. Absolutely, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: president do right now to get some of these bills
Speaker 1: passed because some people feel like he's not being aggressive enough. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what I've been talking about with people that I
Speaker 1: work more closely with, one of those people being Senator
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, is just the pullouts, Like what can we
Speaker 1: pull out of that bill back Better Act and to
Speaker 1: at least get some of these things done. So what
Speaker 1: can we do as a standalone bill? So? Can we
Speaker 1: do community violence prevention money? Can we poll that five
Speaker 1: billion dollars out and go ahead and get that money?
Speaker 1: You know? Can we do the childcare? You know? Can
Speaker 1: we make sure that three and four year olds are
Speaker 1: able to go to school and the parents I have
Speaker 1: to pay anything and so some of so just looking
Speaker 1: at how we can do that. You know, we didn't
Speaker 1: get George Floyd justice in policing, but can we do
Speaker 1: something to get ending qualified immunity? You know, I was
Speaker 1: just yesterday I was at a press conference with the
Speaker 1: Joseph family. Andrew Joseph, the third fourteen year old who
Speaker 1: was killed in Tampa, Florida, eight years ago. Eight years
Speaker 1: his family has been fighting for justice for them, for
Speaker 1: their child and accountability actually for their child. But eight
Speaker 1: years and we still don't have We're no close to
Speaker 1: the ending qualified immunity. So those are things that we
Speaker 1: need to be looking at. What we can pull out
Speaker 1: from that bill, from any of the bills that we
Speaker 1: haven't gotten. We don't even have voting rights. Do you
Speaker 1: remember on the campaign trail when Democrats actually cared about
Speaker 1: police reform, when they used to at least talk about it,
Speaker 1: like what happened Joe Biden didn't even mention it in
Speaker 1: the State of the Union. Yeah, you know, the Republicans
Speaker 1: have been able to shape the narrative just so. It's
Speaker 1: to the point of, no matter what you say about
Speaker 1: police reform, it means defunding the police. No matter what
Speaker 1: you say about police reform, it means division. And for us,
Speaker 1: our voice has to be louder on what it actually means.
Speaker 1: And you you don't get to tell us how we
Speaker 1: can react, or how we should or how we should behave,
Speaker 1: or what our anger looks like, or what type of
Speaker 1: policies we should push forward. You don't get to tell
Speaker 1: us that if the problem still persists, Because twenty one
Speaker 1: had the highest number of police killings in the last
Speaker 1: several years. Millions of people were out in the streets
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty fighting with justice and the numbers went up.
Speaker 1: Why is that because we're not doing what we need
Speaker 1: to do to address the problem. And like you said,
Speaker 1: if we would have heard that come across at the
Speaker 1: State of the Union the other night, that would have
Speaker 1: set the stage, set the narrative. It would have said
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year, this is already. Yes,
Speaker 1: they don't even mention it. How have you gotten a
Speaker 1: response from the White House? Because I know you said
Speaker 1: that you criticize your Biden for not even mentioning saving
Speaker 1: black lives at the State of the Union. Have you
Speaker 1: gotten a response from them? No? I have not surprised.
Speaker 1: We haven't. But but but the thing is, our president
Speaker 1: and the administration they know exactly how I feel. In
Speaker 1: my conversations that I've had with the President or the
Speaker 1: Vice President or other parts of other members of the administration.
Speaker 1: I have been very clear from day one. I don't
Speaker 1: believe they were surprised. Demos don't care about black people
Speaker 1: no more. I feel like they know they got us.
Speaker 1: They can our votes a damn their game yaranteed. And
Speaker 1: it's just like our issues and everything else can go
Speaker 1: to the backburn. You know what ends up happening is
Speaker 1: and this is something that at least, this is my opinion.
Speaker 1: When I came to Congress, I was oftentimes told, well, like,
Speaker 1: don't say those things, because we got to make sure
Speaker 1: that we get you know, that we get our more
Speaker 1: moderate democrats reelected, because it's more important that we keep
Speaker 1: these seats than it is that we like really push
Speaker 1: in some areas. And I can understand wanting to keep
Speaker 1: seats because we need the numbers to be able to
Speaker 1: get things done. But you know, we can no longer
Speaker 1: push those communities to the side to be able to
Speaker 1: save seats. We got to do both at the same time.
Speaker 1: You save lives and you figure out how to communicate
Speaker 1: to save seats. But Congress Owen Bush, how has voting
Speaker 1: rates become a far left issue the cornerstone of our democracy?
Speaker 1: How has that become a far left issue? Why is
Speaker 1: that a radical to talk about people having voting rights
Speaker 1: when we look at the history. You know, we had
Speaker 1: to fight to get those rights in the first place.
Speaker 1: You know, it was it was definitely an issue of
Speaker 1: you know, of what white supremacy looks like in this country,
Speaker 1: and white supremacy is not dead. It didn't go anywhere,
Speaker 1: It didn't even have to morph. It is ingrained into
Speaker 1: this society. And so what we're doing is we're pulling
Speaker 1: the threads trying to break that apart. But when we
Speaker 1: have people who get in power and want to hold
Speaker 1: those structures, that's why that's where we get this from.
Speaker 1: We get the rhetoric that says that, you know, if
Speaker 1: we talk about voting rights, then that means that you're
Speaker 1: trying to push a black agenda. You're pushing a black agenda. Well,
Speaker 1: the problem is when black folks and brown folks are
Speaker 1: in our Native community members are the ones that are
Speaker 1: targeted with the voter suppression. That can't continue to be
Speaker 1: the strategy for them. As though right Dems can't always
Speaker 1: energize us to vote by telling us that our right
Speaker 1: to vote is being taken away, at some point they
Speaker 1: should be governing like they want us to go out
Speaker 1: there and vote for them. I want to go vote
Speaker 1: for them because they're actually doing things for us, as
Speaker 1: opposed to scaring me and telling me go vote because
Speaker 1: they're trying to take you right to vote away. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so that's what I'm hoping. I'm hoping that at
Speaker 1: least with these pullouts that we're talking about these standalone
Speaker 1: bills that at least we can bring something home to say, look,
Speaker 1: these are the promises we made, so we have to
Speaker 1: deliver on them. You know, I don't blame people. I
Speaker 1: hear all the time when they say, well, why you know,
Speaker 1: like you told us that if we did this, that
Speaker 1: we would get these things, and now those things didn't happen,
Speaker 1: and so why should I Why should I believe that
Speaker 1: something will change? Now? You know, I get it, I
Speaker 1: absolutely get it. But one thing that I tell them
Speaker 1: is that your vote is not just for that one
Speaker 1: person or that one thing. You know, there are ballot
Speaker 1: initiatives on that same ballot. There are other more local
Speaker 1: people running for office on that same ballot. So I
Speaker 1: make it clear that it's so much more than I
Speaker 1: know that sometimes Congress and the presidency looks like, oh well,
Speaker 1: they don't care about us, but if there are also
Speaker 1: it's a lot of local issues there that we need
Speaker 1: to we have to care about. All Right, we got
Speaker 1: more with Congresswoman Corey Bush. Don't move. It's to breakfast club.
Speaker 1: Good morning morning, everybody, cj Envy angela Ye, Charlomagne, the
Speaker 1: guy we are. The breakfast club was still kicking it
Speaker 1: with Congresswoman Corey Bush Charlomagne. So why should voters vote
Speaker 1: for Democrats in the midterms when Democrats haven't gotten done
Speaker 1: with thee said the Wood thus far. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: the alternative to that is people who are actively working
Speaker 1: against us. But people will say, well, Joe Mansion is
Speaker 1: actively working against us. Yeah, right, but yeah, it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 1: Run somebody against him. Yeah, oh, absolutely, got against him.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. He might as well just go ahead and
Speaker 1: be a Republican. You know, you know, you're one of
Speaker 1: the only ones that say that everybody else be scared
Speaker 1: to death to even say his name, like he's candy Man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, let me tell you from what I've seen
Speaker 1: in my life, if they you know, they messed up
Speaker 1: by not killing me doing Ferguson. So now yeah they yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they missed. And so you know those bullets they hit
Speaker 1: my car, they didn't hit me, they didn't hit my daughter.
Speaker 1: That happened, Well that was another time. But what happened yet?
Speaker 1: So just recently, you know, somebody came up to my
Speaker 1: car door. I was not in the car, was inside
Speaker 1: of my home. Um, someone was in my car that
Speaker 1: came up to the car. The person was like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Um, and they got spooked and they
Speaker 1: turned around and they started shooting and dumped about tim
Speaker 1: bullets into my vehicle. The person didn't get hit. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I came running like what is happening? But yeah,
Speaker 1: so no, we were fine. But I think it was
Speaker 1: just random. They you know, we didn't there was no
Speaker 1: like investigation or anything into that investigation. Police didn't come.
Speaker 1: They didn't. I mean, they came and they took pictures,
Speaker 1: they got they you know, I don't know though, because
Speaker 1: I do live in a lethal toxic environment, you know,
Speaker 1: And we didn't catch anyone. We don't know exactly who
Speaker 1: it was. Um. And it's not the first time I
Speaker 1: happened the place where I live now, I moved from
Speaker 1: the other place that my my car got hit with
Speaker 1: bullets at that place right in front of my home again,
Speaker 1: you know, another time like I like I brought up
Speaker 1: that was doing ferguson though in our car was hit
Speaker 1: with bullets. So you know, I've gone through so much,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm more afraid of what happens to
Speaker 1: our people who don't have any type of help, that
Speaker 1: don't have that are looking for an advocate. When I
Speaker 1: was sleeping out on the street, I didn't know who
Speaker 1: to talk to. I was sleeping on the street with
Speaker 1: my babies in the car. We had had nowhere to go,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know who to talk to. I didn't
Speaker 1: know how to get out of that situation. I remember
Speaker 1: being so hungry that I was only feeding my babies,
Speaker 1: and I would go for days without eating. I don't
Speaker 1: want anyone else to go through those issues. So I'm
Speaker 1: more afraid of not being effective enough to help those
Speaker 1: folks that are going dealing with that than I am
Speaker 1: about some bullets that somebody can shoot at me, than
Speaker 1: I am about somebody hurting me and all of that.
Speaker 1: But I'm smart enough to know I gotta be alive
Speaker 1: in order to do this work. So that's why I
Speaker 1: have security. I know God protecting me, but I still
Speaker 1: sleep on my gap. You know. Look, he gives us wisdom.
Speaker 1: I only got to come to questions. I know you
Speaker 1: gotta go, but I love this tweet. You without Democrats
Speaker 1: trying to out Republican Republicans is not a Winnie scratg
Speaker 1: What that mean? The whole idea that was another part
Speaker 1: of the whole defund the police. It was just that rhetoric,
Speaker 1: and you know, just making sure that they just keep
Speaker 1: drilling those points, but not just defund the police anything
Speaker 1: like if you if we take the Republican talking points,
Speaker 1: or if we allow them to tell us what we
Speaker 1: think or to stop us. You know, when I think
Speaker 1: about the insurrection, when I think about being there that
Speaker 1: day when the insurrection happened, when these folks attacked the capital,
Speaker 1: you know, the next day we were right back at work,
Speaker 1: still working alongside people who were involved. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: have to look at them every single day. I'm in
Speaker 1: coat committees with them, I'm in the halls with them.
Speaker 1: They hop on the elevator like, those folks are around us,
Speaker 1: in their staff, around us all the time, you know,
Speaker 1: And so I listening to the things that they say.
Speaker 1: They talk every no matter what the conversation is about,
Speaker 1: it always goes back to the border and who's trying
Speaker 1: to hurt us at the border, and who are the
Speaker 1: thugs and just all of this kind of craziness. Those
Speaker 1: folks aren't standing up for Those folks don't don't believe
Speaker 1: that it should be equal. Think about folks that gave
Speaker 1: their lives that their blood, sweat and tears. Think about
Speaker 1: what happened during reconstruction. Think about how Black Americans built, built,
Speaker 1: enslaved Africans, and then Black Americans built this country, and
Speaker 1: how we still have We still don't have what we
Speaker 1: should have from there's been no reparations. We can't even
Speaker 1: get equity to talk about equality. We can't even get
Speaker 1: equity to even get to equality. We didn't even hear
Speaker 1: Biden talk about that, like all of those things that
Speaker 1: they used as talking points to real black people in
Speaker 1: the camp Paigture, I didn't him talk about racial equity
Speaker 1: during the State of the Union. Didn't him talk about
Speaker 1: police reform? Nothing? No, And so I talked about it.
Speaker 1: They talked about voting rights real briefly, So I'll talk
Speaker 1: about it. Congresswoman Bush, does it benefit black people to
Speaker 1: be a part of anyone particular party. Let me just
Speaker 1: say this. When my very first run, I ran as
Speaker 1: an independent. I was running as an independent at first,
Speaker 1: and then I had to switch to a Democrat. I
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to go where the legislation was
Speaker 1: that meant the most for my community. But the issue
Speaker 1: is when we look at what has happened over the
Speaker 1: last even a few years since Donald Trump became president.
Speaker 1: The way he ran and what he believed is not
Speaker 1: only in Congress anymore. It's in our secretary it's our
Speaker 1: secretaries of state, it's in our school boards, it's all
Speaker 1: over the place. So now we're at a point a
Speaker 1: place where now we got to make that decision because
Speaker 1: the Republican Party is so much like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of just anti blackness in an anti brown community, anti
Speaker 1: Asian community, anti anti anti so I think looking at
Speaker 1: who is going to care enough about your situation. I
Speaker 1: think right now we're still looking at the Democrats, even
Speaker 1: though it's not great. I'm not even gonna lie it's
Speaker 1: not great. But that's why I'm pushing for help, getting
Speaker 1: more folks that are willing to do that fight. You know,
Speaker 1: that's where we have to be, y'all. Often one thing nowadays,
Speaker 1: our Democrats are really pro black? Are they just tolerant
Speaker 1: of blacks? Yeah? Yeah, that's what it feels like. That
Speaker 1: feels like that's the party that tolerates us. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: can't call him pro black because the actions those well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think what's weaved in there though,
Speaker 1: it's still money. Because I sit with these people all
Speaker 1: the time and they'll talk about like, yeah, Corey, we
Speaker 1: believe that, Yeah, we'll do that, And I say, well,
Speaker 1: why won't you Why won't you support me on this bill?
Speaker 1: Why won't you do this? Well? See, you know I
Speaker 1: you know I can't go against X or I can't.
Speaker 1: So part of it is, you know, yeah, I support
Speaker 1: those things, but because of this money that I took,
Speaker 1: or because of how I ran, you know, those things,
Speaker 1: so that it's a that comes into play. My last question,
Speaker 1: congressmen bulls, how would you define our democracy right now? Oh?
Speaker 1: H it's suffering. Our democracy never was strong in the
Speaker 1: first place. Let's just be it never was strong because
Speaker 1: when you have whole groups of people where there's no
Speaker 1: equity and we're not equal in this country, was never strong.
Speaker 1: But we're in a place now where I feel like
Speaker 1: it's being the little bit that we did have as
Speaker 1: being poured apart, ripped to shreds. And there has been
Speaker 1: this um mobilization happening that we didn't even see, that
Speaker 1: we didn't know about, and so we got to come
Speaker 1: out just as hard if we want, if we want
Speaker 1: to reclaim this democracy, and you know, to the point
Speaker 1: where we actually feel it should be, not just where
Speaker 1: it was, because we got to do better than what
Speaker 1: we had. If we're going to do that, we gotta
Speaker 1: come out harder than we've ever been and we've got
Speaker 1: to do this thing differently than we've ever done it.
Speaker 1: And so I'm looking for more you know, quote unquote
Speaker 1: warriors soldiers that's willing to do that fight, right, Congresswoman
Speaker 1: Corey Bush, we appreciate you for joining us this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Thanks for having and it's the
Speaker 1: breakfast Club. Good morning banding everybody A CJ mv Angela. Ye, God,
Speaker 1: we had a breakfast. Corlet me shout out to Nothing
Speaker 1: makes me feel better than you're speaking to your kids
Speaker 1: in the morning. Shout to my my babies and my wife.
Speaker 1: They just dropped off for school, little Brookie, Chew London
Speaker 1: Jackson and of course Peyton r't Milwaukee. I go that's it.
Speaker 1: It stops there, star Solda. So in school, you know,
Speaker 1: they were asking, um, I guess they're teaching the kids, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, about respecting and standing other. So it's asking,
Speaker 1: you know, Brooklyn, what do you want in life? She said?
Speaker 1: I want love? And respect. That's what I want. So
Speaker 1: I love the fact that the schools are really teaching
Speaker 1: them that. I like that. Okay, maybe happy, maybe happy.
Speaker 1: That's that's all life is about. When you when you're
Speaker 1: a parent, you know, life is about your kids. All
Speaker 1: you want to do is point to your children. When
Speaker 1: you see your children turning into well formed human that
Speaker 1: makes you feel great. Yeah, it gave me a happy
Speaker 1: smile this morning. All right, let's get to the rumors.
Speaker 1: Let's go. It's about is the rumor report? Angela on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. All right, well, let's talk about this
Speaker 1: mansion that's sold in La. It's one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six million dollars. It's LA's biggest mansion, one hundred and
Speaker 1: five thousand square feets. Who purchased that mansion, Well, that
Speaker 1: person has been a revealed church seggy and he is
Speaker 1: the founder of Fashion Nova. One hundred forty four, one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty one million after all fees. That's crazy,
Speaker 1: that is crazy Fashion Noval. But he won bedrooms. That
Speaker 1: house better be nuclear bomb proof. One hundred and five squifte.
Speaker 1: You better have the best one hundred five thousand squift
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do it. Oh listen, God bless him.
Speaker 1: But that's a lot for a house. What does the
Speaker 1: house do? Give me some more? He told the time
Speaker 1: to be able to do more, to live in it.
Speaker 1: He said, the one Bell area is a once in
Speaker 1: a lifetime property that can never be duplicated. There is
Speaker 1: nothing else like it. As a lifelong Angelino and collector,
Speaker 1: a a collector of real estate, I recognize this as
Speaker 1: a rare opportunity that also lets me own a unique
Speaker 1: property that is destined to be a part of Los
Speaker 1: Angeles history. Now, mind you, this house was going for
Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars. That was asking what does I
Speaker 1: guess it got it for a bargain at one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty six million. Is it a spaceship on the weekends?
Speaker 1: Can visit Mars? What does it do? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's a house that just has every amenity that you
Speaker 1: could poss imagine, from bowling alley to movie theater, tennis court,
Speaker 1: basketball courts, there's you name it, numerous bedrooms. He needs
Speaker 1: to have a lot of kids. Boy, I have six
Speaker 1: of my kids would probably will live in a couple
Speaker 1: of rooms. He needs like twelve kids and laws, all
Speaker 1: types of things in there that I mean, congratulations to him.
Speaker 1: I love it. Well, Drake is selling three homes that
Speaker 1: he has in Hidden Hills, California, and he is selling
Speaker 1: those three homes. You can buy them all together, all
Speaker 1: three offered at twenty two point two million dollars. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to get that, you can
Speaker 1: make it happen. We told you earlier that he also
Speaker 1: just bought a new home as well. That's in Los Angeles, proper.
Speaker 1: I'm a biden. Bitcoin people aren't buying mansions with bitcoin.
Speaker 1: Well Drake did with that house is dope too, because
Speaker 1: he purchased a house, any purchased the properties next to him,
Speaker 1: so nobody would live next to him. He has the
Speaker 1: space to put, you know, a gated vicinity around it,
Speaker 1: so nobody could just run upon his property. So it's
Speaker 1: just wild to hear that kind of money being thrown around,
Speaker 1: and like people paying that kind of money for houses
Speaker 1: when we have such a homeless pademic in America. Like
Speaker 1: that's just wild to me, all right. And since we're
Speaker 1: talking about money, Chris Brown is listing his custom two
Speaker 1: thousand and twelve Lamborghini Aventador for three hundred thousand dollars. No,
Speaker 1: he sold already. He sold it to somebody else in
Speaker 1: the person as Motors in Los Angeles is listing it.
Speaker 1: But that is Chris Brown's ex Lambo yep x Lambo.
Speaker 1: I better not hearing none of them people complaining about
Speaker 1: the price of gas. If I see Chris Brown or Draco,
Speaker 1: any of them people complaining about the price of gas.
Speaker 1: With all that money, they're going around gas with takis
Speaker 1: and change three dollars and change that a fact, it's
Speaker 1: five dollars. You got it, all right. And Chris Rock
Speaker 1: and Kevin Hart have anat cohead lighting a comedy tour.
Speaker 1: I love this rock heart can't wait. Only headliners allowed.
Speaker 1: So Kevin Hart posted breaking news excited to announce a
Speaker 1: run of shows with Chris Rock this summer. A pre
Speaker 1: sale starts this Wednesday at ten am with Code Comedy.
Speaker 1: So you can go to Kevin Hartnation dot com and
Speaker 1: you can go ahead and pre order those starting tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He said. Chris has been a mentor of mine forever
Speaker 1: and more importantly a brother and a friend to me
Speaker 1: in this comedy game. I can't wait to make history
Speaker 1: with him and destroy these markets. And then Chris Rock
Speaker 1: also said more dates to come, So if you can
Speaker 1: see the days they have listed. They got Brooklyn, they'll
Speaker 1: be at the Barclays, they got home there on New Jersey,
Speaker 1: they got the Garden, they got New York, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: the Preudential Center and Wanta, New York. And I wonder
Speaker 1: how different will Chris Rock should be with Kevin Then
Speaker 1: it will be on his um Ego Trip show because
Speaker 1: he's going on to the Ego Trip and Kevin Hart's
Speaker 1: going on tour too, right, yea, all right, well that
Speaker 1: is your rumor report. I can't wait to see both
Speaker 1: of those shows, all three of them actually individually. All right,
Speaker 1: usually do Donkey of the Day, but today's women International
Speaker 1: Women's Day, March eighth, every year's International Women's Day. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they have planned. They just told me
Speaker 1: that I wasn't doing Donkey to Day. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know that, right, So we're gonna know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Nobody told me that earlier. So so
Speaker 1: who's who? I don't know, But we're gonna figure out
Speaker 1: when we come back. But hashtag break the bias today
Speaker 1: for International Women's Day, talking International Women's Day. When we
Speaker 1: come back all right, and this the platform is all
Speaker 1: yees right. We want you guys to call in and
Speaker 1: say what you're planning to do to celebrate women today.
Speaker 1: Now we wasn't doing that. Whatever I have to produce
Speaker 1: the show, guys know what's gonna let's let's give for
Speaker 1: International Women's gonna you know, she's gonna you know, and
Speaker 1: she's gonna be able to talk about what she wants
Speaker 1: to talk about, breakdown International Women's Day, talk about how
Speaker 1: hard it was for her to get an industry and
Speaker 1: everything that she went through. Letting me know, y'all ain't
Speaker 1: playing nothing. We didn't sound good. This is not like
Speaker 1: women women organizing playing very much better than this. It
Speaker 1: sounds like a man put this together. Shout the eddie
Speaker 1: to produces breakfast Good morning morning. Everybody is stej MV
Speaker 1: and Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning, International Women's Day. Good morning to all the
Speaker 1: women out there. What's happening. We appreciate you, we respect you,
Speaker 1: and we salute you. Yes, and this year's theme is
Speaker 1: hashtag break the Bias. So we are celebrating women's achievements.
Speaker 1: We're also raising the awareness against biases and taking action
Speaker 1: for equality. So we're celebrating a world where a difference
Speaker 1: is valued and also a world for your biased stereotypes
Speaker 1: and discrimination. You know, we're not there yet, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: all aware of that, right, and so some of the
Speaker 1: things that people are saying, I will forge positive visibility
Speaker 1: of women. I will celebrate women's achievements. I will challenge
Speaker 1: gender stereotype, discrimination and bias. We will call out gendered
Speaker 1: actions or assumptions. I will help forge a gender equal world.
Speaker 1: So those are some of the things for this year
Speaker 1: as we break the bias. We want to make sure
Speaker 1: that we continue to empower women's choices in health as
Speaker 1: it has been being challenged so much frequently, making sure
Speaker 1: women have con troll over decisions about their own bodies.
Speaker 1: Also forging women's empowerment worldwide. This is not just something
Speaker 1: in the United States. This is a global movement. Building
Speaker 1: workplaces where women thrive. You know, you can create a
Speaker 1: better environment for women who are your co workers. Uh,
Speaker 1: so make sure you do that. Elevating visibility of women
Speaker 1: creatives and improving equality for women in tech. We all
Speaker 1: know tech is the future, so we have to make
Speaker 1: sure that there are more women involved in that space.
Speaker 1: All right, so happy International Women's Day. Yes, and let
Speaker 1: me let me shout out to a couple of women,
Speaker 1: if you don't mind. Let me shout out, of course,
Speaker 1: to my wife, who is the love of my life,
Speaker 1: one of the CEOs of my life. She is the
Speaker 1: CEO of your life. And my daughter as well, who's
Speaker 1: who's another CEO of my life? In my BFF and
Speaker 1: my painting the ass I love my little daughter. My
Speaker 1: wife is my mother? Oh yeah, all right, my daughter
Speaker 1: runs these teams. My mother as well, who is the
Speaker 1: teacher and the nurturer and the warrior. She's when that
Speaker 1: worries all the time. Let me shout out to THEA Mitcham,
Speaker 1: that's our boss up here. Snoot to her, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to THEA six things moving here, And I
Speaker 1: want to shout out to our bentons. Who is I
Speaker 1: thought this was my break? No, I'm sorry, I was
Speaker 1: just shouting out a couple of women. His patriarchy. I
Speaker 1: just saw him just straight up co op everything that
Speaker 1: you was just saying. This took it from you, That's
Speaker 1: what I saw, shouting up women in my life the song.
Speaker 1: But yes, and I think for so many of us.
Speaker 1: Our mothers are the main person who we learned so
Speaker 1: much from at an early age. Shout to my mom
Speaker 1: who works hard to this day. Okay, and she won't stop.
Speaker 1: She works seven days a week, So shout out to
Speaker 1: my mom's celast and tropically daddies won't stop because of
Speaker 1: puff Daddy. But never more. I mean, I hear so
Speaker 1: many stories. Stop cutting off, that's your problem, you're rude.
Speaker 1: I hear so many stories about women who work two
Speaker 1: or three jobs just to make sure that there's food
Speaker 1: on the table. Also come home and take care of
Speaker 1: the household. So shout out to you. We love and
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Okay. And yeah, just a lot of women.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm surrounded by women all the time.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the ladies of lip Service too. And
Speaker 1: that show was started really just to celebrate women and
Speaker 1: also make sure that we had a space that was safe,
Speaker 1: but we could talk about anything we wanted to when
Speaker 1: it came to relationships, when it came to sex. There's
Speaker 1: so many different taboos and restrictions when it comes to
Speaker 1: women discussing things about ourselves. So I find that show
Speaker 1: to be really empowering and so just so much going
Speaker 1: on and we want to hear your stories as well.
Speaker 1: And actually coming up, we have two amazing women who
Speaker 1: will be joining us for International Women's Day. We have
Speaker 1: Kim Delaney. She's the director of Education and Programs at
Speaker 1: the DuSable Museum of African American History from Chicago. Also
Speaker 1: Vanne and Benefo. She's a filmmaker, a cultural consultant and historian.
Speaker 1: And they're here to talk about Equiano Stories. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have seen this, but it's
Speaker 1: basically a movie that's on Instagram. This is the second
Speaker 1: of the series that they're doing, these Steelo Stories, and
Speaker 1: so it's an award winning film studio. And basically what
Speaker 1: they're doing is they're telling a story that's based on
Speaker 1: truth about a young boy named Equiano who was kidnapped
Speaker 1: and enslaved in West Africa in seventeen fifty six. But
Speaker 1: it shows what his life was like before he was kidnapped,
Speaker 1: before he was enslaved, and you get to actually watch
Speaker 1: him tell his story through social media on Instagram. And
Speaker 1: so it's great for kids to be able to relate
Speaker 1: to these stories today. It's really it's hard to watch
Speaker 1: at certain parts but I do feel like it's really educational.
Speaker 1: So when you watch these stories on Instagram, you can
Speaker 1: follow Equiano dot stories and see everything. But it's over
Speaker 1: four hundred people were on the cast in making this
Speaker 1: and it's a multimillion dollar production, but it's done in
Speaker 1: a really special way on Instagram. So I want to
Speaker 1: celebrate these women and they're here to talk about Equianna Stories.
Speaker 1: Coming up next on The Breakfast Club. Good Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We have some special guests joining us today.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear this. We have doctor Kim
Speaker 1: Delaney and we have Yvonne were welcome, guys. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for having us, Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1: Now tell us we're talking about these Acquiana squian Stories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been watching it and it's it's pretty dope. How
Speaker 1: you guys have been putting it out there and creating creative.
Speaker 1: So for people that don't know, explain what these are.
Speaker 1: Aquiana Stories is part of a series of movies we're
Speaker 1: trying to make um stellar stories. So Stello Stories, the
Speaker 1: first series is a series of ten remarkable young people
Speaker 1: throughout history. So we're trying to get the history to
Speaker 1: the people. And our main target our young people, and
Speaker 1: this is the best place to get them is where
Speaker 1: they are, which is social media. That's why we tried that.
Speaker 1: We're trying this new genre of um, you know, boy
Speaker 1: with the phone, girl with the phone kind of storytelling,
Speaker 1: so that we removed that idea of a director, so
Speaker 1: you know, it's as if they're talking to you one
Speaker 1: to one. So we believe that's the easiest way to
Speaker 1: get to people and get people to learn without realizing
Speaker 1: their learning. And this idea come about because it's fascinating
Speaker 1: to me watching these Instagram stories that are really educating
Speaker 1: you but also entertaining you. So whose idea was they
Speaker 1: tell me how this whole thing happened. Um, well that
Speaker 1: was before I joined Stellar Stories because I'm an executive there.
Speaker 1: But from what the founders said, like they've been doing
Speaker 1: research thinking of ways to you know, break that chain off.
Speaker 1: If you don't read a book, you don't learn history.
Speaker 1: So I think from research and then finding out what's
Speaker 1: out there and you know kind of you know, thinking
Speaker 1: of out of the box ways to you know, make
Speaker 1: movies accessible to everyone. So that's how you know, it
Speaker 1: just came about. And then with the first film. The
Speaker 1: first film was Ever Stories, which is a story about
Speaker 1: a young girl if a Heyman, who lived during the Holocaust,
Speaker 1: and you know, we turned her diary into a movie.
Speaker 1: So for each one we make, we perfect our craft.
Speaker 1: And how long is the movie? It's eighteen minutes in
Speaker 1: total for Equano movies. Why do you put it on?
Speaker 1: I've seen it and I love the love the stories
Speaker 1: that I was watching, But why on the story because
Speaker 1: in the story, after twenty four hours it disappears. For Instagram,
Speaker 1: it doesn't disappear. Yeah, so you can set in such
Speaker 1: a way that it's there. It's like underneath, you know,
Speaker 1: underneath you end understory. Yes, so it's it's there. That's
Speaker 1: why we chose that, and we also have it on
Speaker 1: We're about to launch it tomorrow on TikTok as well,
Speaker 1: because um one of Kim's people said, oh, why why
Speaker 1: isn't it our TikTok? That's why the kids. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: what we do our Stellar Stellar Stories, we try to
Speaker 1: be reactive and we're not stuck to one kind of
Speaker 1: technology or platform where the people are. We go there
Speaker 1: now you know everything is of course, it's course right,
Speaker 1: And although you guys are doing such a great thing,
Speaker 1: it has to be paid for somehows a way. Usually
Speaker 1: when you sell it to a you know, TV show
Speaker 1: or something like that, it's commercials that pay the bills.
Speaker 1: So how were you guys, you know, getting moneys at
Speaker 1: donations to make sure that you guys can continue to
Speaker 1: tape and travel and do all those things. It's been funded. Um, Like,
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do is we're trying to get
Speaker 1: our name out there because we're not Disney, but we're
Speaker 1: trying to get to Disney levels. Okay, so the only
Speaker 1: way what we're trying to do is to get our
Speaker 1: name out there and then we start, you know from now.
Speaker 1: We're not commercializing it because i'm first and foremost. You know,
Speaker 1: the first one was a holocaust, second one about enslavement,
Speaker 1: which are very sensitive topics. So we're not commercializing that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funded by a philanthropist, Yeah, philanthropist. It's a multimillion
Speaker 1: dollar project. It's a dream come true for Disavo and
Speaker 1: for myself. I'm a retired professor of African American studies.
Speaker 1: This particular story It's a story that I learned in
Speaker 1: familet and then taught in familet. So when it came
Speaker 1: to us to partner and consult on it, it was
Speaker 1: like a dream come true, especially on somebody else dollar.
Speaker 1: That's what I told them. This is the best project
Speaker 1: I ever worked on, because somebody else is paying for
Speaker 1: me to live my dream and teach African American studies
Speaker 1: to the world. So this is a true story. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the story of Equiano. Yeah. So Equiano was
Speaker 1: a child in West Africa, right in Nigeria and Ebo Land,
Speaker 1: and he was born in seventeen forty five. In seventeen
Speaker 1: fifty six, he got kidnapped in the slavery. But what's
Speaker 1: so beautiful about this story. It was different about this
Speaker 1: story is that normally the story starts in slavery. The
Speaker 1: power of this story and why I'm on the project
Speaker 1: is because when we tell our own stories, we start
Speaker 1: with humanity. Right. So he told his own story. He
Speaker 1: was the first person to write his own slave narrative. Right.
Speaker 1: The difference in his narrative and other narratives you see
Speaker 1: is that he begins it in Africa. We see the
Speaker 1: love of his family, we see culturally specific things. And
Speaker 1: in all the years that I taught African American studies,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I loved most about the story. That
Speaker 1: it started with his family, and that's what we wanted
Speaker 1: to tease out. So this our particular telling of this
Speaker 1: story starts at age eleven and it ends at age eleven.
Speaker 1: It's just that eleven year old period of him. As
Speaker 1: Ivonne said, all of the stories Cello are attempting to
Speaker 1: tell with this particular project, They've committed to ten stories,
Speaker 1: all told through the eyes of children. So we're passing
Speaker 1: the mic to kids to tell their own stories. Ava
Speaker 1: told our own stories and now at Rihanna telling his
Speaker 1: own story. Now you get to see him with his
Speaker 1: mom at home having fun, but his friends, Donson and
Speaker 1: most of we also want to you tough today to
Speaker 1: relate to, you know, people that lived before so that
Speaker 1: they can't say, oh, they really lived normal lives, so
Speaker 1: I can't relate to that, you know, hanging out with friends,
Speaker 1: going on sleep of us and he's actually talking like
Speaker 1: he's doing his Instagram stories like I do today. But
Speaker 1: you get to see it all play out. And it
Speaker 1: was hard because I knew what was going to happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, when they're like, do not talk to those people,
Speaker 1: he told you, don't talk to those people, and yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, man, you know though, that's the hard part,
Speaker 1: but the powerful part is at the end we tell
Speaker 1: how he was successful. So he was able to save
Speaker 1: enough money to buy his own freedom, right, and then
Speaker 1: he did today what we would call crowdfunding, where he
Speaker 1: went to people and gap money and self published his
Speaker 1: own book. To be popular, book had to do two runs.
Speaker 1: His book did nine. And then he used that that
Speaker 1: power that he garnered to help end slavery, which England
Speaker 1: was had the highest slave trade industry at the time.
Speaker 1: He used the power that he got from self publishing,
Speaker 1: crowd finding his book to help enslavery. All right, when
Speaker 1: we come back, we have more with doctor Kim Dulaney
Speaker 1: and Ivan Benee for when we come back, it's the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, Good morning. Well, where can people watch just
Speaker 1: so we can let them know how to find it? Okay,
Speaker 1: so for them, right, the full movie right now is
Speaker 1: on Instagram and it's um the handle is Equiano dot Stories,
Speaker 1: equi A and oh dot Stories. And like I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: it's going to be We're going to start releasing it
Speaker 1: on TikTok and they've agreed to put us on the
Speaker 1: Discover page. So that's the you know, where's everything's trending,
Speaker 1: where everything's happening and they're expanding. Yes, there their black Twitter.
Speaker 1: You know it was black Twitter month because and not Twitter,
Speaker 1: black TikTok. But they saw the project and so believe
Speaker 1: in the project that they're extending that. Right. It is
Speaker 1: amazing when I tell you just the story that you told,
Speaker 1: and like you said, I mean, I knew that what
Speaker 1: was about to happen, but I didn't know it was
Speaker 1: a real story. I love the way that it started.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he was resilient overcame. Like
Speaker 1: you said, it is like something to be proud of.
Speaker 1: Thank you. You know. The other thing when the when
Speaker 1: the story was told, it's so funny to me that
Speaker 1: like when he's saying, are they going to eat us?
Speaker 1: Remember when he said so when I was teaching, when
Speaker 1: I first came across the story, you see all these
Speaker 1: horrific slave movies or slave stories that we had to read, right,
Speaker 1: and then I came across this story where he's saying,
Speaker 1: I didn't understand these people like we always washed our
Speaker 1: hands before we eat and then so it was funny
Speaker 1: to me that in a way he to not be
Speaker 1: in disrespectful, but he's staying, look, we're not the savage.
Speaker 1: I washed our hand before that. Y'all doing bad stuff
Speaker 1: to each other. I'm wondering, like, y'all gonna eat us?
Speaker 1: What's up? You know? I you know how kids talk,
Speaker 1: They just you know, say what they feel. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: can I just put in that during the filming of
Speaker 1: this movie, Um, we were four hundred custom crew. Wow,
Speaker 1: from all walks of life. And at every point of
Speaker 1: this the shooting of this film, everyone cried at some point.
Speaker 1: It didn't working on it. They cried walking on it.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter whether you were the snake catch up
Speaker 1: because we had snake catches. The village was built in
Speaker 1: the middle of a forest, so every morning the snake
Speaker 1: catches will come around and check for snakes and things
Speaker 1: like that. I wouldn't want that job. No, no, maybe
Speaker 1: let me add to that. In Chicago, Yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: would be like, help, you know, turn the camera off,
Speaker 1: give me a minute, you know, because it's too much.
Speaker 1: It was too much at time when we have to
Speaker 1: dig in and find a way to explain it. But
Speaker 1: we don't want you know, trauma point and re injury people.
Speaker 1: So how but we got to absorb it and then
Speaker 1: find a way to release it, you know, in a
Speaker 1: way that's respectable. But the Somber Museum in Chicago, we
Speaker 1: have a brand new exhibit that accompanies it. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: We have um pieces from our own collections. Uh. Danny
Speaker 1: Dunson is a curative of that, and Brenda and Martin
Speaker 1: built that. It's absolutely awesome. So uh, if people are
Speaker 1: in Chicago, come to Chicago, stop by and see that.
Speaker 1: It's a whole exhibits. It has what looks like a
Speaker 1: phone on the wall and shows parts of the movie
Speaker 1: on the wall in there with the artifacts that are
Speaker 1: placed in there. Um, the film is best field on
Speaker 1: the phone on the cell phone because that way you
Speaker 1: get the real power of the filming of the phone.
Speaker 1: Filias if you're in there with Brian, I'm experiencing wall,
Speaker 1: what's he's experiencing and we want to watch the whole
Speaker 1: thing at once. But it's hard to put your phone
Speaker 1: down right right. But it is true that you can,
Speaker 1: like if you have other things to do, you can
Speaker 1: do that and you can you can see that. Listen.
Speaker 1: Also his voice is it means the voice that echoes.
Speaker 1: So we want to thank you all today for passing
Speaker 1: the mic and giving us space, and you all are
Speaker 1: now helping with us to have this voice that called.
Speaker 1: All these years later again he wrote the book and
Speaker 1: published in seventeen eighty nine, and all these years later
Speaker 1: hear this story so relevant. You off like another movie
Speaker 1: out of this. Well, we can't say, but somebody had
Speaker 1: somebody an option to do. Somebody very famous, Will Smith
Speaker 1: made the trailer for us. The trailer for the movie
Speaker 1: for Us. Colin Kaepernick has commented. Offset commented that was
Speaker 1: dope to me. I'll say, yeah, that's cool. Who else
Speaker 1: we look at the result of this that the film?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, yeah, we sort of it's working on
Speaker 1: the film. Yeah. And somebody say it'd be cool to
Speaker 1: tell this whole story. So I heard that right away,
Speaker 1: like somebody is about to make this. Stello, Stellar Stories
Speaker 1: and the Solba Museum work together on that. We're very
Speaker 1: proud of it, and again we appreciate your a's amazing.
Speaker 1: We think y'all for flying into share this with this
Speaker 1: so we can share it with our audience. Thank you,
Speaker 1: mister Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is the rumor report
Speaker 1: with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. All right, well,
Speaker 1: Nas has been named in the lawsuit. And that's all
Speaker 1: because he posted a picture. It was Na's tupacketing redman
Speaker 1: outside a club Amazon in nineteen ninety three, and that
Speaker 1: picture was from noted photographer Al Perreira and he posted
Speaker 1: that without permission or licensing the work. Here that picture
Speaker 1: to his personal Instagram. Yeah, I mean I heard Snoop
Speaker 1: talk about it yesterday. We have Snoops audio, so Snoop
Speaker 1: was upset about it. And think about it like this.
Speaker 1: You take a picture, somebody takes a picture of you,
Speaker 1: that's your likeness, that's your face. Post your own picture.
Speaker 1: That's an old hustle thal that they got me for
Speaker 1: that like years ago, Like I posted a picture somebody
Speaker 1: took on my Instagram page on or maybe it was
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club that posted it. Whoever posted it, they definitely
Speaker 1: hit up on Instagram. Yeah. Yeah, this is where not
Speaker 1: supposed to the picture on Instagram didn't get and he's
Speaker 1: in the picture he didn't get. Now you don't get
Speaker 1: paid for it, paid for now paid No, No, it's
Speaker 1: just on Instagram. And now even like when I heard
Speaker 1: post stuff, they won't post any pictures that they haven't
Speaker 1: either license to use or they don't have exclusive use
Speaker 1: for it, probably because when they hit me, yeah, and
Speaker 1: they had to pay for that. But it's not just them,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot like they can't post anything.
Speaker 1: It's an old hustle photographer has been doing. They got
Speaker 1: to stop that, you know. But it's it's hard because
Speaker 1: they can have a picture of you, you don't have
Speaker 1: to sign anything, and they own that picture of you
Speaker 1: and then they can do whatever they want with it.
Speaker 1: And this same photographer is the same one who sued uh.
Speaker 1: I think it was Kylie and Kendall Jenner for using
Speaker 1: photographs he took of Tupac and Biggie as part of
Speaker 1: a clothing line. Now you can't do that, you know,
Speaker 1: which I understand, but I also feel like that should
Speaker 1: more go to the family too. All right now, Keisha
Speaker 1: Cole is on tv ones Uncensored, and one story she's
Speaker 1: talking about is actually being good friends with Eve, but
Speaker 1: Eve stopped hanging out with her. Here's what happened. It
Speaker 1: took a long time to learn to not put my
Speaker 1: hands on people. It was a thing that happened with
Speaker 1: Eve that you know, we're walking out and somebody grabbed
Speaker 1: her bag or something like that, and you know, I
Speaker 1: just kind of turned around to slap the girl. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, girl, what are you doing? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like period, like back up? You know, and
Speaker 1: Eve is really pissed off about that, like we stopped
Speaker 1: hanging out. Like she was like I can't hang with Keisha,
Speaker 1: Like she can't be slapping people. I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: I slap somebody for you the post, but I just,
Speaker 1: you know, I should have left that to security. Somebody
Speaker 1: couns paid for that, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: think we all learned that though. Hey man, I appreciate
Speaker 1: all my friends that are willing to put hands on
Speaker 1: people from me. All right, male and female. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out later. No, No, that was early on.
Speaker 1: Now that doesn't work like that. We'll figure it out
Speaker 1: because guess what, even if it's your security, you're still
Speaker 1: gonna get held liable. Regardless if it's your security and
Speaker 1: you walking and somebody does you something, just because security
Speaker 1: puts hands on the person, don't make you anymore or
Speaker 1: Less liecurity, trying to de escalate the problem most times.
Speaker 1: But you know, we all had that one friend that
Speaker 1: a swing first and usually get you in trouble. Got
Speaker 1: me in trouble many times in this era. Somebody reaching
Speaker 1: for a pocketbook, that's my pocketbook, and in this ere
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're trying to rob me or not.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to de escalate. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: you in your face, slow things down. You better not
Speaker 1: get snatching that and you run off. Used to ask
Speaker 1: my person soon. All right, Now, let's talk about Skip
Speaker 1: Bayless versus Nina and Russell Westbrook. Now, Skip Bayless and
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook clearly don't have the best relationship. Now, Skip
Speaker 1: Bayless was talking about the time when he actually had
Speaker 1: to hire security to go back to his own hometown.
Speaker 1: As we rolled toward those finals, death threats from thunder
Speaker 1: fans in my hometown of Oklahoma City, real live, hardcore
Speaker 1: death threats, I thought, legitimate death threats, but I passed
Speaker 1: them along to ESP and security, who came back to me. Yep,
Speaker 1: legit need to be taken seriously. So as we are
Speaker 1: about to venture to Oklahoma City, my hometown, they had
Speaker 1: to hire me a bodyguard. A bodyguard. Now, Russell Westbrook's wife,
Speaker 1: Nina Westbrook is saying that she and her family have
Speaker 1: been subjected to death wishes. She said, if you're a
Speaker 1: public figure, you have to be responsible for the type
Speaker 1: of example you set. Unfortunately, you must keep in mind
Speaker 1: the consequences of your behavior. When I'm being harrassed on
Speaker 1: a daily basis over basketball games and I'm having obscenities
Speaker 1: and death wishes from me and my family sent my
Speaker 1: way because you're expressing your quote truth. It's hard for
Speaker 1: me to get on board with that. And that's all
Speaker 1: because Skip Bayliss always has a lot to say about
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook. And here's a compilation of some of those things. Well,
Speaker 1: you're stuck with Russell Westbridge. We are Skip. What you
Speaker 1: want me to do about that? I could we just
Speaker 1: display the magnitude of the ten turnovers by running through
Speaker 1: them quickly. This is Russell Westbrook on display last night,
Speaker 1: turning the basket. That's just crazy. Bron James still has
Speaker 1: one big fly in his soup, one big fly. And
Speaker 1: I first guess this. I don't think you can overcome
Speaker 1: Russell west Brick. He is completely out of control, and
Speaker 1: of course he west bricked the free throw. I'm a
Speaker 1: man that he called him a big ass fly and
Speaker 1: somebody's soup. But you know, I get what Russell was
Speaker 1: saying about his last name. He's very upset about that,
Speaker 1: but that's how fans are. They love you when you're bawling.
Speaker 1: They slandering you when you're down. And the only thing
Speaker 1: that changes the name west Brick is if Russell Westbrooks
Speaker 1: starts bawling. Well, Russell Westbrook's wife, Nina Westbrook, goes on
Speaker 1: and say, I don't do the things I do to
Speaker 1: receive attention to get clicks of a show. This is
Speaker 1: not a game to me. Basketball a game is a game.
Speaker 1: This is my life, my children's lives, in my family's life.
Speaker 1: Shaming anyone for any reason is never the answer. And
Speaker 1: my hope is that the amazing and talented players that
Speaker 1: come after him don't have to be subjected to this
Speaker 1: type of shaming, name calling, in public scrutiny for playing
Speaker 1: the game that they love. And Russell Westbrook also spoke
Speaker 1: about this in a press conference. Here's what he has
Speaker 1: to say about his wife. You know, one hundred percent
Speaker 1: stand behind my wife. And she's feeling because, um, it's
Speaker 1: not just about this year. Um. Right now, she's reached
Speaker 1: a point. Um, and my family has reached a point
Speaker 1: to where it's really weighing on them. Um. And it's
Speaker 1: very unfortunate just for me personally, because um, this is
Speaker 1: just a game. The moment it becomes where you you know,
Speaker 1: my name is getting shamed, um, it becomes an issue.
Speaker 1: The only reason the name is getting shamed though, it
Speaker 1: is because of Russell Westbrook's play. The only thing that's
Speaker 1: going to change this is your play on the court.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna stop fans from slandering you when they're
Speaker 1: upset that you're not bawling for their for their team.
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happen. Everybody gets you think you think,
Speaker 1: let me getting into the beginning of time, Like every
Speaker 1: player in every sport gets slanted like this when they're
Speaker 1: not performing. So the only thing that's gonna change that
Speaker 1: as your play. All right, Well, that is your room
Speaker 1: of report my International Women's Day. I can't and my
Speaker 1: room of report late, but go ahead, all right, well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. That is your Room of Report,
Speaker 1: presented by me Angela Ye on International Women's day and
Speaker 1: be disrespect you. That's why I'm good to have friends
Speaker 1: that have flapped somebody for you see. And when we
Speaker 1: come back after the NIX series, Castle will be joining us.
Speaker 1: She's a crime fighting journalist out of LA She's gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about some of the gangs within the police department,
Speaker 1: deputy gang, deputy gangs. It's the breakfast club, good morning,
Speaker 1: police gangs, police gang, deputy gang. They have names. They
Speaker 1: have all kinds of names. We've got the Executioners for one,
Speaker 1: the Caveman, the Vikings, Tasmanian Devils, Cowboys, pirates, there's a
Speaker 1: ton man. That's got to be a dangerous, dangerous job
Speaker 1: for you. They gotta hate you, oh, one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: they hate man. I mean a matter of fact. Just
Speaker 1: on Monday night, Sheriff of Los Angeles County died an
Speaker 1: hour long radio show where he just spent an hour
Speaker 1: bashing me and threatening me. That's not the first time
Speaker 1: that happened. He actually threatened to post my home address
Speaker 1: on sheriff. Yes, that is crazy. It's it's crazy. And
Speaker 1: so did people support this sheriff initially? Yes, Initially he
Speaker 1: campaigned as a progressive and he was able to get
Speaker 1: the support of the Los Angeles County Democrats. But once
Speaker 1: he got into power, he's started doing all kinds of frankly,
Speaker 1: really bad things. We've seen an increase of deputies killing
Speaker 1: civilians since our sheriff has been elected, as well as
Speaker 1: an increase of deaths inside the jails. And our sheriff
Speaker 1: he really thinks that this is okay. He said twice
Speaker 1: now that every police shooting across the United States is justified.
Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody asked why when he said that to
Speaker 1: what was his reasoning, Well, he doesn't really give a reason.
Speaker 1: He's very much of the belief that the police are
Speaker 1: just justified in anything they do, whether that's shooting an
Speaker 1: unarmed black man thirty three times like they did Frederick Holder,
Speaker 1: or sitting by while someone like Gilanni Lovett overdoses in
Speaker 1: a solitary cell in jail. And you know series, And
Speaker 1: just to bring it back to how series actually came up,
Speaker 1: we were talking about one of our listeners called in
Speaker 1: about Fedwick Holder and it was a case that we
Speaker 1: hadn't even heard about, which is a shame because there's
Speaker 1: so many things that happened that go under the radar,
Speaker 1: because there's so many things that happen, and I don't
Speaker 1: want us to ever get numb to what goes on.
Speaker 1: But like you said, he was an unarmed black man
Speaker 1: on the highway. He was shot thirty three times. They
Speaker 1: shot at him thirty three times. He was hit seventeen
Speaker 1: times by gunfire. He was shot almost that point blank
Speaker 1: range with an assault rifle. There are pictures of his
Speaker 1: autopsy that you can see, and they have actually shot
Speaker 1: his mouth off. The deputies that did this to him
Speaker 1: are still on patrol. They have not been disciplined at all.
Speaker 1: And that's the case in so many of these shootings.
Speaker 1: Just this year. It's only March, right, the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department has already killed four civilians this year.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask what got you into this?
Speaker 1: Was it something that was affected your family or were
Speaker 1: you tied to seeing something with television? What got you
Speaker 1: working so hard on this? Well, I grew up in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I've always known about sheriff's gangs growing up.
Speaker 1: I would hear it from my friends, my teachers, my mom.
Speaker 1: They would always tell me, YO, be careful because these
Speaker 1: police out here are in gangs. Watch out for the
Speaker 1: white ones with the bald heads. Those are probably Vikings.
Speaker 1: And it was something that always interested me. And I've
Speaker 1: always been a bit of a nerde you know. I
Speaker 1: go to the library. I love to read books, so yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, so I'd always be going and trying to
Speaker 1: find out who these gangs are, what are they doing,
Speaker 1: and what do they want? But there really wasn't anything there.
Speaker 1: There weren't too many newspaper articles, and there definitely wasn't
Speaker 1: any books. So fast forward to twenty twenty. I was
Speaker 1: working at a local radio station and I was out
Speaker 1: in the streets covering the protest that had erupted and
Speaker 1: respond to the murder of George Floyd. And while doing
Speaker 1: my job, I was actually shot with a less lethal
Speaker 1: munition by a police officer. Really yeah, rubber bullet straight
Speaker 1: on my arm and the resulting injuries. I fell down
Speaker 1: and hurt myself pretty bad and I had to be
Speaker 1: on bedrest for six months. I couldn't get up, I
Speaker 1: couldn't walk, I was in a cast on crushes. But
Speaker 1: I didn't want to just sit back and rest because
Speaker 1: we were in a moment, and I think we're still
Speaker 1: very much in this moment. I wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: that I was doing something to contribute and to raise awareness.
Speaker 1: So I thought to myself, you know what, I should
Speaker 1: start researching those deputy gangs. A couple of days after
Speaker 1: I got shot, an eighteen year old by the name
Speaker 1: of Andres Guardado was killed by two alleged deputy gang
Speaker 1: members in the gang called the Executioners, And it came
Speaker 1: out pretty quickly that the two deputies that shot him
Speaker 1: were alleged gang members trying to get into the gang,
Speaker 1: because that's how you get in. You get in by
Speaker 1: killing a civilian. So a cop gets into a gang,
Speaker 1: a cap gang allegedly by killing a billion that's correct. Wow,
Speaker 1: this is so interesting to me because people already look
Speaker 1: at the police as a gang like in general, right,
Speaker 1: but to note that there's subsidiaries inside of the police force.
Speaker 1: What do the actual police say about this when y'all
Speaker 1: bring this to the police's attention and you say there's
Speaker 1: deputy gangs, what did they say? Well, the sheriff of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles County, he said multiple times that I made
Speaker 1: this all up just to get rich. I have not
Speaker 1: gotten rich off of this. If anything, this has put
Speaker 1: a target on my back. Yeah, and the benefit right,
Speaker 1: really for you personally, No, I mean that's that's I mean,
Speaker 1: Eric Alexander, you come highly recommended. You know. She was like,
Speaker 1: you gotta have Shariso on the show. But she was
Speaker 1: saying because they want to increase the profile, because you
Speaker 1: haven't become a target. I have. Yes, the sheriff has
Speaker 1: spoken about me multiple times in many press conferences. They
Speaker 1: also attempted to arrest me at a press conference that
Speaker 1: I attended. Um just two weeks after I finished publishing
Speaker 1: the series detailing the Deputy Gangs, I went to a
Speaker 1: press conference hosted by the Sheriff's apartment and I was
Speaker 1: there probably for ten minutes, and I was surrounded by sheriffs.
Speaker 1: They tried to drag me behind the Hall of Justice
Speaker 1: and I don't know what what what was the charge? Well,
Speaker 1: they didn't say nothing. Do you think that the more
Speaker 1: you put your face I did, the safer and I'm
Speaker 1: putting safer and quotated to safer, you become I think so,
Speaker 1: I think keeping the profile high and you know, letting
Speaker 1: them know that I'm going to keep talking about this.
Speaker 1: Nothing is gonna shut me up. We'll keep me safe.
Speaker 1: Now for people who want to read about this you did?
Speaker 1: Is it a five part? Fifteen part? It's long, but
Speaker 1: it's worth the read, and it just goes to show
Speaker 1: that this has been going on for so long. These
Speaker 1: deputy gangs have been around in Los Angeles for at
Speaker 1: least fifty years, and I'm the first person to chronicle
Speaker 1: this history. This is stuff that they don't want you
Speaker 1: to know, but this is stuff that everyone in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and even outside of Los Angeles you need to know,
Speaker 1: because these deputy gangs, they don't play. We're still talking
Speaker 1: with Cerre's Castle. She's a crown fighting journalist out of
Speaker 1: LA She's telling us about the games inside the police
Speaker 1: department and we'll talk to him when we come back.
Speaker 1: Is the Breakfast Club, Good morning morning, everybody is DJ
Speaker 1: Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy We are to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We're still talking with Sas Castle. She's a crime fighting
Speaker 1: journalist and we were just asking her about how difficult
Speaker 1: it was to talk to members about the police gang. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do people want to talk on the record? Were
Speaker 1: they willing to do that or were they very nervous
Speaker 1: off the record? Yeah, So I got a couple of
Speaker 1: deputies that spoke to me off the record or on
Speaker 1: deep background. But for the most part, yeah, they are.
Speaker 1: Most of them are really scared to go on the
Speaker 1: record because they get threatened. They get death threats about
Speaker 1: other police officers, other police officers that want to speak
Speaker 1: out about what these deputy gangs are doing and the
Speaker 1: control that they have in the department. They get targeted too.
Speaker 1: One of my sources had a headless rat placed on
Speaker 1: his car. Yeah, Now, what's the what proofed do you have?
Speaker 1: Charis that these deputy gangs exist? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Are you when you make claims that they kill a
Speaker 1: civilian to get into the game as a big claim?
Speaker 1: So what proof do you do you have? Well, I've
Speaker 1: got photos of hundreds of tattoos that these deputy gang
Speaker 1: members have. They're all numbered, they have different designs, and
Speaker 1: as their police career goes on and they hurt or
Speaker 1: kill more civilians, you can see in the photos how
Speaker 1: the tattoo changes. Maybe a bullet is added to the
Speaker 1: chamber of a gun that the skeleton of the executioner
Speaker 1: is holding. Also, there's a lot of litigation, right, That's
Speaker 1: how I found out all this stuff. Los Angeles County
Speaker 1: actually tracks every case that is brought to the county
Speaker 1: that mentions deputy gangs. So, for example, Undress Guardato his
Speaker 1: family brought a claim saying, yo, your deputy gangs, you know,
Speaker 1: killed our son, and the county actually tracks that. They
Speaker 1: have a spreadsheet of all these cases. It's like sixty
Speaker 1: so they know that this is happening, but no meaningful
Speaker 1: action or policy change has been made. But they have
Speaker 1: been lost. Tamataz this quest about one hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: and that doesn't come out of the sheriff's department either.
Speaker 1: That comes from taxpayers. Right, So they're just white gangs
Speaker 1: or the black gangs or the Mexican or the Latino
Speaker 1: or like or is it just primary white gangs? So
Speaker 1: all of the gangs have white supremacist themes and underleanings.
Speaker 1: Definitely they are. There are some only Latino gangs. For
Speaker 1: the most part, they do not allow black people to join.
Speaker 1: They do not allow women to join. There are some
Speaker 1: exceptions and what they'll do if you're black, Um, maybe
Speaker 1: they'll change the tattoo a little bit. For example, the Vikings,
Speaker 1: they had a Viking tattoo, but if you were black,
Speaker 1: instead of two horns, pointing up on the helmet, they
Speaker 1: would have one horn pointing down. Not really sure what
Speaker 1: that means, but there you go. The La County Sheriff
Speaker 1: Alex Villa in the wave. Yes, he's facing calls for
Speaker 1: impeachment from community organizations. Yes, what are the reasons? Well, well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't think anything is wrong with this. He has
Speaker 1: said both that deputy gangs don't exist, and he also
Speaker 1: says that he's the only person that has done anything
Speaker 1: about deputy gangs. Which one is it? Exactly? So that's
Speaker 1: that's it can't be the only reason they're impeaching them though, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's a big braason. Okay, okay, um, you know
Speaker 1: he has not He supports deputies that you know, kill people,
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned at the top, we've seen a
Speaker 1: huge increase in civilians that are killed. Um, and he
Speaker 1: is fine with that. He supports these deputies. He doesn't
Speaker 1: discipline them, He allows them to continue to be on
Speaker 1: the street. If they do impeach to sheriff, who do
Speaker 1: you think is qualified to replace him and clean up
Speaker 1: such a corrupt system. I don't even know if that's
Speaker 1: a fire everybody. I don't know. If I don't know
Speaker 1: if that system can ever be cleaned up, I think
Speaker 1: it needs to be dismantled with. I don't people always
Speaker 1: say there's good cops, right, and there's just a few
Speaker 1: bad apples. But even with quote good cops, can you
Speaker 1: even exist within that system? No? Not in this system.
Speaker 1: I mean I've talked to a few good cops and
Speaker 1: they've been pushed out because they tried to do the
Speaker 1: right thing. There somebody you think could replace them. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the interesting thing. We are in an election year
Speaker 1: this year in Los Angeles. We do have several candidates running.
Speaker 1: Interesting point is that more than half of the candidates
Speaker 1: that have entered the field are also affiliated with deputy gangs. Y,
Speaker 1: how do you get an internal investigation going? Because that's
Speaker 1: never happened either. You said it has not. No, it's
Speaker 1: And that's a great question. Angela Maxine Waters has sent
Speaker 1: multiple letters to the Department of Justice requesting a federal
Speaker 1: probe into this. We haven't heard anything back yet. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm steady hoping that the Fed show up because an emergency.
Speaker 1: It is an emergency. People are dying out here in
Speaker 1: incredibly violent ways. The Feds could have internal gangs. You
Speaker 1: know what, I mean like, yeah, I mean that's a
Speaker 1: good point. The Feds did come and investigate the riff's
Speaker 1: apartment in twenty thirteen, I believe, and that actually resulted
Speaker 1: in our then sheriff and under sheriff, who is the
Speaker 1: number two going to federal prison? Who had back? Who
Speaker 1: who's the one that supports you and make sure that
Speaker 1: you're okay and at LA while you're running around and
Speaker 1: you're doing what's right. I have a great community, m
Speaker 1: Maxie Waters. I don't know if that was part of yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Maxie Waters is a great supporter. Ye gang. I'm not affiliated,
Speaker 1: but I have a good community. Um. You know, the
Speaker 1: families that have unfortunately lost loved ones at the hands
Speaker 1: of these deputy gangs are really great to me. They're
Speaker 1: really thankful that I'm out here telling their stories. Um.
Speaker 1: I also want to shout out my girlfriend. She takes
Speaker 1: great care of me and she's been my rock through
Speaker 1: all of this. And yeah, I mean I really couldn't
Speaker 1: do it without the community trusting me and you know,
Speaker 1: supporting me through this because it is tough. Now, how
Speaker 1: can people support you and make sure that they support
Speaker 1: what you're doing or even help if they can't yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you asking. I would want everyone to check
Speaker 1: out the series. It's available at lasdgangs dot com. We
Speaker 1: also have a database on there where you can actually
Speaker 1: look up and see all of the police, all of
Speaker 1: the sheriff's deputies. I should say that I have identified
Speaker 1: that are either full fledged members in these gangs or associates.
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter, I'm at series Castle,
Speaker 1: I'm on Instagram, at your majesty. I would also implore
Speaker 1: all of the listeners to learn about qualified immunity because
Speaker 1: exactly that's what makes it so that when a police
Speaker 1: officer kills your loved one, they aren't responsible, you can't
Speaker 1: personally sue them or get you know, damages. And we
Speaker 1: also have to do something about the police officer Bill
Speaker 1: of Rights that makes it so when a police officer
Speaker 1: does something that could be your crime, they get to
Speaker 1: review all the evidence with the union representative and a
Speaker 1: lawyer while they're at work, and if the charges aren't
Speaker 1: filed in a year, they get to walk free. Yeah. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: them actually take all this information. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: be doing a podcast on iHeartRadio called Traditional Violence. It's
Speaker 1: going to be all about these deputy gangs and going
Speaker 1: into a lot more detail. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us. Appreciate you, our friendly neighborhood crime fighting journalists.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And anything you need from us,
Speaker 1: you know, always let us know. If they're stories that
Speaker 1: you need us to get out there, that you need
Speaker 1: us to link to, that you need us to mention
Speaker 1: in front page news, you know we're here for it.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Thank you all right, Well, Suri's castlest
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Now, ye you've got a positive note. Yes,
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