Speaker 1: Fifty for cent righteous special year. I love you fifty percent.
Speaker 1: Rae ratchets to sit down. Did you come to the
Speaker 1: most prominent form for you? Wa? Y ass up early
Speaker 1: in the morning, but they tell me it was y'all.
Speaker 1: I say, oh, hell yeah, I'm getting them. Day Jo
Speaker 1: Smaller Ship three People's Choice. I've got you Shomo made people.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you guys are the basket? Did we
Speaker 1: know this? Breakfast club? Good morning usc yo yo yo
Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
Speaker 1: yo Good morning in jul Ye good money. She's hamby Cholomne.
Speaker 1: The guy piece to the planet is Thursday. Yes, it's Thursday,
Speaker 1: Good morning. What's happening? If the weekend here? We can
Speaker 1: say the weekends here? Right? Not yet? We get starts
Speaker 1: on Thursday, I'll be it's a holiday weekend too. It
Speaker 1: is yo June team? Yeah, yeah, yeah, June Team. What
Speaker 1: day is June Team the nineteen? Right? Did that? Saturday? Saturday? Saturday? Okay? Yeah.
Speaker 1: My sister deVie Brown's born day is tomorrow the eighteen
Speaker 1: I know that? Yeah, right? And of course this Sunday
Speaker 1: as Father's Day. How quickly we forget I didn't even
Speaker 1: nobody cares about fathers. I mean, I'm happy to be
Speaker 1: a father though. I mean, that's the that's the joy
Speaker 1: of fatherhood, right, The joy of fatherhood is that we're
Speaker 1: father's That's right. You got beautiful wives, beautiful kids. What
Speaker 1: more could you want? Yeah? Yeah, whatever they do for
Speaker 1: me on Sunday, I'm happy with. You know, we already
Speaker 1: got my father his Father's Day presents. Should I say it?
Speaker 1: It's a good gift too. He listens it, say it
Speaker 1: if you listen. All right, all right, I'll wait till Monday.
Speaker 1: By the way, I love a good sweatshood. I'm old.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I got only see what
Speaker 1: I got on the Puma sweatshoot right now. It's my
Speaker 1: It's what I wear. I like sweitchhoo. But it's a
Speaker 1: good gift. I guarantee everybody here, with all the fathers here,
Speaker 1: would like it. Okay, did you guys up a skateboard
Speaker 1: as a kid? No? I tried to know what about
Speaker 1: You had a pink skateboard? Really? You skaping? You were good?
Speaker 1: What you're doing is coming by help with my son
Speaker 1: learned how to skateboard, because yesterday he asked me, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not teach that good. You got your son a
Speaker 1: pink skateboard. No, I definitely didn't get a pink skateboard.
Speaker 1: He wanted to pick one out. I got him a
Speaker 1: pink one. But I got him. He has a skateboard.
Speaker 1: He wanted it for his birthday last week. Jackson is
Speaker 1: seven sixteen. I'm sure they got skateboarding classes, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know you learned as a kid, we gotta
Speaker 1: go to the class for riding a bike or skateboard.
Speaker 1: And I just got on there and did it. Well,
Speaker 1: your daddy, your daddy had the money. You have to
Speaker 1: pay for the god daddy probably couldn't pay with that
Speaker 1: extra curricular activity. Know I tried yesterday didn't work out
Speaker 1: too what I mean, you know it's I tried to
Speaker 1: show him how to you know, push the backup to
Speaker 1: make it jump and all that. But it was everything
Speaker 1: I met you envy, googled a little Wayne skateboarding and
Speaker 1: learn how to skateboard to teach your son, I guaranteed
Speaker 1: I thought about then. You know, I was playing catch
Speaker 1: with Logan yesterday football. So I just had a good
Speaker 1: day with the kids yesterday. I just I love what
Speaker 1: it's nice out so we can go outside and enjoy
Speaker 1: the weather. Basically, he's saying he tired. I'm tired, and
Speaker 1: they never want to stop. Last started to going tim
Speaker 1: on minutes, Dad, all right, let's tim on minute, hey man.
Speaker 1: That's why sometimes I envy people who had kids in
Speaker 1: their twenties, you know what I mean, because when they forty,
Speaker 1: their kids grown. You know what I mean, it was
Speaker 1: young and vibrant. They had the energy to do all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Now showed the hurt for no reason.
Speaker 1: Me hurt for no reason. It's like, damn, all I
Speaker 1: do was racing. All I say was get on the
Speaker 1: air track and do a car. Well, it happened. They
Speaker 1: get on the trampoline. Let's do it. Oh lord, Daddy,
Speaker 1: don't flip. Daddy takes naps on the trampoline. I'm not
Speaker 1: even lie I take naps on the trampoline. When my
Speaker 1: two youngest asked me to get on the trampoline and
Speaker 1: my five year and two year olds, I get on there,
Speaker 1: I do one jump and then I just lay and
Speaker 1: I say, popcorn me, popcorn me? They jump up all
Speaker 1: around me and pop me up. That's it. Goodness. But
Speaker 1: let's get the show crack. Who's joining us today? Man,
Speaker 1: Today we have one of my South Carolina bredren, my guy,
Speaker 1: Craig Melvin, who is a co host up to the
Speaker 1: Day Show. He put out a book this week called
Speaker 1: Pops Learning to Be a Son and a Father. It
Speaker 1: is an amazing Father's Day gift. If you are looking
Speaker 1: to get your you know, father, something for Father's Day,
Speaker 1: this is the book to get. Craig Melvine Pops Learning
Speaker 1: to Be a Son and a Father. He's the co
Speaker 1: host of the Today Show. Me and him go way back,
Speaker 1: Man to the eight oh three Columbia, South Carolina. So
Speaker 1: we'll be talking to him today, all right in the
Speaker 1: front page news. What we're talking about you, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the NBA playoffs and Kawhi Leonard and Chris Paul
Speaker 1: some issues. All right, we'll get into that next. It's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Come one morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Guee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Let's getting some front page news. The last night, the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks beat Philadelphia one o nine, one oh six.
Speaker 1: Great Game Series three two. The Sixes blew that one.
Speaker 1: The Sixes blew the last two games. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's got to be tough when you meek mill and
Speaker 1: you fly you and Quabo fly out on the PJA
Speaker 1: and you know Quabo's in Philly and you're probably clowning
Speaker 1: them the whole first half, the third quarter, in the
Speaker 1: four quarter they come back and win. Whoa yeah, because
Speaker 1: that turned it off. In the third quarter they were
Speaker 1: down by like I turned Loki on. I turned Loki
Speaker 1: on because I was like, man, this game is lope. Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, well, and congratulations to LaMelo Ball he won
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year, deserving to Congratulations to him. Now
Speaker 1: what else we got you, Well, let's talk about Phoenix
Speaker 1: Suns guard Chris Paul. He's been sidelined and that's because
Speaker 1: he's on the league's COVID nineteen Health and Safety Protocols
Speaker 1: the list, and they did announce that yesterday. They said
Speaker 1: there's a natural concern, and that's basically where it ends.
Speaker 1: The league is trying to do everything they can to
Speaker 1: keep individuals and teams safe, and it's such a natural
Speaker 1: concern for an individual. Now, Jalen Rose has said that
Speaker 1: Chris Paul is vaccinated, and he doesn't anticipate him missing
Speaker 1: more than one game. Unlike Kawa, this one isn't dooming
Speaker 1: gloom for me because they're off this week. He's already
Speaker 1: been vaccinated and I know the word and definitely makes
Speaker 1: you feel like he may not be in the next series.
Speaker 1: I don't anticipate him missing more than one game at
Speaker 1: the most, just based on the dynamics of time and
Speaker 1: how the polar call has worked. I don't see why
Speaker 1: he gotta miss any I mean, they said he's back,
Speaker 1: they said he's vaccinated. Give it to other people of
Speaker 1: the Yeah, but the series don't start to like the
Speaker 1: twentieth might not have to, but doesn't anticipate him missing
Speaker 1: more than one at the most. Yeah, and how many
Speaker 1: days you have to sit down? Usually they say quarantine
Speaker 1: for five days, right, I thought it was Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: three five, it's five. It's five days. They don't play
Speaker 1: till the twentieth, so he should be able to play
Speaker 1: and the twenty third if it goes seven games. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he should be able to play now. When he referenced
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard did miss a game and they
Speaker 1: said he could be out the remainder of the series
Speaker 1: and that's because of a right knee injury. Oh no,
Speaker 1: they say, they say Kawhi has done done because they
Speaker 1: said he got um he gotta have surgery. But you
Speaker 1: know what Lebron said, yes today that you know this,
Speaker 1: that this is the reason why he said he didn't
Speaker 1: want to play. He says, the bodies are the players
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to heal and didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to recuperate. So now this that's why a lot
Speaker 1: of these people are being so injured. He's like, this
Speaker 1: is the most injuries from a superstars in the league
Speaker 1: in a long time, because he was like, the bodies
Speaker 1: just happening healed. I wonder how Lebron would feel if
Speaker 1: his team was still in the playoffs though remember Lebron
Speaker 1: was the one that didn't want to come back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I wonder how he would feel if his team
Speaker 1: was still in the playoffs, because he would hate if
Speaker 1: somebody used that excuse and somebody said, well, the only
Speaker 1: reason the Lakers are winning because all the other stars
Speaker 1: are injured. No, he didn't say that. He just said
Speaker 1: that a lot of the celebrities and the stars are injured.
Speaker 1: That's the game though, I mean, and I agree with him, like,
Speaker 1: you know, they did. They did come back from a
Speaker 1: shortened season, so I'm sure that is, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the main factors for people having a lot of injuries.
Speaker 1: But sometimes that's just a game. That's just the way things.
Speaker 1: Though they also played a shortened season though we just
Speaker 1: said that, That's what I'm saying, So I don't understand
Speaker 1: the argument. What do you mean they had like a
Speaker 1: how long were they out for? Like a month at least?
Speaker 1: Right with the COVID protocol, Right, it was a short season,
Speaker 1: and they sayed more games more times. Remember they were
Speaker 1: in the so they were playing every other No Lebron
Speaker 1: saying they didn't have the same amount of rest hime
Speaker 1: R that they would have between seasons, but they didn't
Speaker 1: play as long, all right. And Congress has passed legislation
Speaker 1: to make Juneteenth a federal holiday for the first time
Speaker 1: in nearly forty years. Congress has moved to establish a
Speaker 1: new national holiday just in time for the anniversary. That's
Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty sixth anniversary of that day,
Speaker 1: which marks the last African American slaves being freed. In
Speaker 1: Texas after the Civil War. All right, So which is
Speaker 1: waiting for Joe Biden to sign that he's supposed to
Speaker 1: sign it today? I mean, you know what, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's cool. I know people was pushing for that,
Speaker 1: but man, it is so much other legislation that black
Speaker 1: people need, Like they always do, these these symbolic gestures
Speaker 1: as opposed to making real tangible change, like what's up
Speaker 1: with the George Floyd Policing Act? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: What's up with voter rights bills? Okay, they're trying to
Speaker 1: take y'all. They're literally taking away black people's right to vote,
Speaker 1: like literally, they're making it like super difficult for to
Speaker 1: even go out there in Captain vote. Where is the
Speaker 1: voting right? The John Lewis voting rights? That like something
Speaker 1: some things that can actually impact us in a real way. Well,
Speaker 1: clearly it doesn't start with just I mean doesn't stop
Speaker 1: with Juneteenth. But this is something celebrate, all right, Maybe
Speaker 1: it does stop with June. Team with these people, shout
Speaker 1: to all the black promoters. They are definitely making Juneteenth
Speaker 1: a weekend really immediately, Hell yeah, Juneteenth parties like crazy.
Speaker 1: Now listen, I was at a recording yesterday for a
Speaker 1: juneteent celebration that's going to be happening, which is black
Speaker 1: historical figure. Y'all gonna disrespect about putting on flies. Okay,
Speaker 1: well the thing I was at Modern day out pfarming
Speaker 1: and she gets performing in the red. I told you
Speaker 1: a man the Seals is hosting, and I don't think
Speaker 1: Jabe Smooth. I think Seals on vacation. I think she's
Speaker 1: on the flyer. So that's the black historical figure they
Speaker 1: put on the right. Get it off your chests eight
Speaker 1: on five eight five, one on five one. If you
Speaker 1: need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club, the Club Power one on
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Speaker 1: All right, and less than three minutes. Get it off
Speaker 1: your chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one.
Speaker 1: If you need to vent, or if you want to
Speaker 1: spread some positivity, call us now. It's the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: Good morning. This is your time to get it off
Speaker 1: your chest. Whether you're mane from you on the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: you got something on your mind? Let hello, who's this year?
Speaker 1: What's up? Trap? Very start please travel. What I'm says
Speaker 1: doing good Listen, I want to talk about that amazing
Speaker 1: version of last night. Don't want to clude bonds for
Speaker 1: e Trena Man, Now that was big. That was big.
Speaker 1: I told y'all, man, Treina got joints. You know. I can't. Hey,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. I was telling the same man
Speaker 1: that I have. I mean, I do, I do. I
Speaker 1: am more a biased because you're from Philly a lot more,
Speaker 1: but I do love Treeta Austin. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I kind of forgot some of the songs that go well.
Speaker 1: And you didn't grow up down south like I used to.
Speaker 1: I've been to so many different training shows growing up
Speaker 1: because Trina was like always an artist that would come
Speaker 1: down to perform in South Carolina. Like, I know women
Speaker 1: that worship Trina. They loved Trainer's music. So I knew
Speaker 1: Trina had joints. I just didn't think that they were.
Speaker 1: They were resonating nationally. So I'm from Virginia. You're telling
Speaker 1: you I'm from the southern origin, ye, Like I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. I thought you was from the top, trave
Speaker 1: I didn't know you from down bottom. But let me
Speaker 1: ask a question I tuned into the battle. Lad Why
Speaker 1: weren't they in the same room because he was in London. Oh,
Speaker 1: he was in London. Trainer was in Miami. But they
Speaker 1: had like during the fift thousand people watching them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they were looking amazing too. On top of all that.
Speaker 1: But all right, hello, who's this? Hey? This is Emmanual, Emmanuel,
Speaker 1: what's up? You know if you're chess. Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: calling to let you guys go. Hey, man, financial literacy
Speaker 1: and we need it. Man. You know, our people don't
Speaker 1: want to learn, so we just want to go. But
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's true anymore. We definitely want
Speaker 1: to learn. Yeah, that's not true. I mean that's not true.
Speaker 1: When you see when I wouldn't say that. I don't
Speaker 1: like to make those broad statements. Yeah, when I when
Speaker 1: you see how popping Wall Street trapp is and earn
Speaker 1: your Lesia and everything envying and season them doing. No,
Speaker 1: people definitely want to learn about financial literacy. Black people
Speaker 1: definitely are all has a strong fan basic they go
Speaker 1: around the country speaking to people. I know every time
Speaker 1: we do it. I had my team Wealth went, I
Speaker 1: had my team Wealth Wednesdays dot Com all the things
Speaker 1: that I do for financial literacy that so many people
Speaker 1: are involved in. I don't have semin all, so we
Speaker 1: got one this Sunday on Father's Day. They always set out.
Speaker 1: So I think people want the knowledge and the knowledge
Speaker 1: all the artists talking about it, from Diddy to Rick
Speaker 1: Row like, No, people are definitely tuned into financial literacy
Speaker 1: right now. Say we don't have the money to invest
Speaker 1: as we should, then that's a different situation, but we
Speaker 1: definitely want the knowledge and the getting the knowledge absolutely
Speaker 1: absolutely right. I think you guys are doing I think
Speaker 1: you guys are doing a great job, and you know,
Speaker 1: putting that out there websites and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yo, you know, we really need it, man.
Speaker 1: I just see it's probably in my neighborhood, in my
Speaker 1: community that I'm seeing it over in here that I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do things as far as like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: you know we from we need to Oh I'm actually
Speaker 1: I'm actually live in Tampa right now. Okay, we're live
Speaker 1: from New York right and Tampa's a booming market now too.
Speaker 1: I love Tampa. Shout the Seventh and Grove. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of black businesses in Tampa. I'm gonna be doing
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff out in Tampa too, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're definitely learning. And even the owners of
Speaker 1: Seventh and Grown, they own a pharmacy. There's people out
Speaker 1: there spending some money and learning, really learning the game
Speaker 1: and teaching. So there are people out there, brother, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of I wanted to say,
Speaker 1: like all the people out here, but all right, you
Speaker 1: guys have a good day. Man, I appreciate this. All right,
Speaker 1: hit it off your chests eight hundred five, ain't five
Speaker 1: one on five one if you need to vet hit
Speaker 1: us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up, wake y'all, as you're
Speaker 1: time to get it off your chest of blast. We
Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello.
Speaker 1: Who's this? Yeah? This is a shell Andy, what's up?
Speaker 1: She'll get it off your chest? He Charlot Mane and
Speaker 1: the leg j good one to y'all. King. Hey, question,
Speaker 1: Charlot Manne, what do you think about Loki? I love
Speaker 1: Loki thus far. I think it's very good and I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's really introducing us to Marvel phase four
Speaker 1: and in a real way, we're getting a real glimpse
Speaker 1: into a Marvel phase for it's gonna look like. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, but my only problem is
Speaker 1: I can't be waiting on everything to get one episode
Speaker 1: of Man, I want to them to just drop the
Speaker 1: whole year. I'm gonna be honest with you. I would
Speaker 1: agree with you, but I kind of like it. I
Speaker 1: like appointment television. I think appointment teller vision of the
Speaker 1: Lost art binge watching is cool. But man, there's nothing
Speaker 1: like you know, every Wednesday looking at having something to
Speaker 1: look forward to. I'm not gonna lie true. Nd Now,
Speaker 1: now one more thing right before I leave, Uh, Charlotte
Speaker 1: May I totally agree with you with this June two thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's the only thing we don't get. Everybody
Speaker 1: going to celebrate hand me and nothing's gonna get a coming. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: we got too many We got too many real real
Speaker 1: issues that need to be handled. Man. But I mean,
Speaker 1: June teenth is cool. I'm happy for you know, people
Speaker 1: that were pushing for that and got it, But now
Speaker 1: it's too many other real issues out there bro that
Speaker 1: we that we need to get pushed appreciate love y'all, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: all right for you too. All right, Hello, who's this
Speaker 1: David Man? I'm on him, man, trying to get it
Speaker 1: on the chin the morning, man, I want to know
Speaker 1: where your child support pails. Gonna get the tent for
Speaker 1: the kids. They shouldn't be concerned as a little tact,
Speaker 1: Brad intended. We've been charge yelling what happened? Now I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not well versed on child support. What happened right? Oh?
Speaker 1: You know to you when we found we get count
Speaker 1: for all the money that we make. So where we're
Speaker 1: gonna get a tech break the dependent? Why dan child
Speaker 1: supporting not taxes up? The money you paying taxes? I
Speaker 1: mean child supporting, man, I don't pay that time for him.
Speaker 1: I ain't getting no chet. Brazy the mom she's getting
Speaker 1: the money, but she had That's crazy, man, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's what's going on. Well, you you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like they should consider that like it's it's an end call.
Speaker 1: You know, we should be getting trying to tech. I
Speaker 1: agree that's coming out. So then what I want to
Speaker 1: get off and change that morning man, Charlot main't ivy man,
Speaker 1: y'all have a thank you King, have a going up,
Speaker 1: get it off your chest. Ain't happy five? Ain't five
Speaker 1: five one? You got rumors on the way, Yes, Nick Cannon,
Speaker 1: Abby day Le Rosa, they have welcomed their twins. But
Speaker 1: tell you what their names are? All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: it to the next It's the breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 1: the breakfast Club. This is the rum of report with
Speaker 1: Angela years well. Congratulations and Nick Cannon and Abbe de
Speaker 1: la Rosa. They have welcomed their twin boys. Now. The
Speaker 1: mom wrote on Instagram June fourteenth, twenty twenty one, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the world Zion Mixo Loodean Cannon and Zillion Air Cannon,
Speaker 1: My world, my twin boys. Dropping a cloth box for
Speaker 1: Nick Cannon's the young lady Mabel Rosa Abide la Rossa.
Speaker 1: Congrats on the two new babies. They named it Zillion now, yeah,
Speaker 1: Zillion is the first name in I guess Air is
Speaker 1: the middle name. Hb Ir. It's actually kind of hard.
Speaker 1: It's creator Zillion Zion, Zill young Zill. That's hard. H.
Speaker 1: So that's the second set of twins he has obviously
Speaker 1: Monroe and Moroccan with Mariah, and then he also has
Speaker 1: two other kids, Golden who's four, and Powerful Queen who
Speaker 1: was six months with his ex Brittany Bell. Altogether that's six.
Speaker 1: Nick is very literal with the name, very literal. Powerful
Speaker 1: or Powerful Queen was Golden h very literal. But you
Speaker 1: know names matter, so why not be literal literal with it? All? Right? Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Eve versus Trina. Last night, the two
Speaker 1: of them went head to head for over twenty rounds.
Speaker 1: They were playing hits from the last twenty years. They're
Speaker 1: actually the I think they're the first hip hop women
Speaker 1: to battle right, definitely rappers. Yeah, and uh, Missy Elliott
Speaker 1: was weighing in because obviously she posted, I want to
Speaker 1: say this. I am humbly grateful because I've been on
Speaker 1: a lot of artists versus and I want to think
Speaker 1: those amazing artists who believed in me as a writer,
Speaker 1: producer or justin artist. I love y'all for all the
Speaker 1: love y'all show me And it was a super friendly
Speaker 1: face off. They showed each other so much respect. Listen
Speaker 1: to this. I wouldn't want to do this to nobody else.
Speaker 1: Did my sister and you've been on each other for
Speaker 1: only twenty years. We always showed love. We always supported
Speaker 1: one another, We always told each other down. I got
Speaker 1: the ultimate respect for you, so always love you. I
Speaker 1: know we excited. This is a this is for all
Speaker 1: the females and pop. It's all queens and the blue.
Speaker 1: When you you hold your proud, you don't never know delas,
Speaker 1: all right, that's what I'm talking about now. Eva's in London,
Speaker 1: and uh Trina when she had lived yep, I don't
Speaker 1: know what club she was, don't she was at a
Speaker 1: club Minami. I don't know if it was lived there,
Speaker 1: all right, So that was pretty dope. And and Trina
Speaker 1: also played some new music. I don't need no receipt.
Speaker 1: I don't need no repeat, I don't need no receipt.
Speaker 1: I don't need no I don't need to change. Heye,
Speaker 1: tell them people change. Hey, I don't need to change.
Speaker 1: Tell the kicker, I'm gonna tright to get some money.
Speaker 1: Hit them all to spend it up all these against
Speaker 1: the window shopping boy, you looking like the froup when
Speaker 1: I stop up in the building, I'm the baddest in
Speaker 1: the club. And I know I got that fire. He
Speaker 1: tried to hit it without a Hey, bring the rose in,
Speaker 1: bring the bros in. When they come through the bills
Speaker 1: to bring the holes in black white, Spanish Asian. You
Speaker 1: ain't welcome to Miami. Let up with the Haitian. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta love Versus man nothing in the coach. He
Speaker 1: gives folks that flowers like Verses because we live in
Speaker 1: this prison of the moment era. Folks tend to only
Speaker 1: remember what's happening right now, and Versus showcases catalogs in
Speaker 1: a way that no other platform does. It takes you
Speaker 1: down memory lane and reminds you why these people are
Speaker 1: who they are. So salute to Trina and Eve Legends
Speaker 1: dropping a post bond for both of them. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: the Bills that Trina was in was the same place
Speaker 1: she recorded Nan and so she said it had a
Speaker 1: special significance for her because that's her. They recorded that
Speaker 1: video her and she did bring out Trick Daddison and
Speaker 1: they had over you said to over three hundred fifty
Speaker 1: thousd people on Instagram hype. Congrats to them. Yeah, very
Speaker 1: enjoyable to see these women on that stage showing each
Speaker 1: other love, looking amazing, and a lot of people forgot
Speaker 1: about all the hits that they had and that they
Speaker 1: were on all right. Now, Michael Jordan caught a dolphin
Speaker 1: earlier and he's doing some three point four million dollar
Speaker 1: fishing tournament in North Carolina. They're competing for that top
Speaker 1: event prize, and they said so far he caught a
Speaker 1: twenty five pound fish to land on the dolphin category
Speaker 1: leaderboard early in the contest. This isn't the first time
Speaker 1: he's done this event. Apparently it's a very well known event.
Speaker 1: Last year they got a four hundred and forty two
Speaker 1: pound blue marlin, the fourth the biggest catch of the day.
Speaker 1: Have y'all ever went fishing? Yeah, yeah, I'm going fishing,
Speaker 1: not like like them, though, they're doing some serious fishing.
Speaker 1: He caught a dolphin, what you say, Yeah, he did
Speaker 1: um And actually, according to a representative, they had to um.
Speaker 1: They had to throw the dolphin back in because the
Speaker 1: wrong speechies and they released it back into the water.
Speaker 1: Dolphins are so cute and so intelligent. That's like kidnapping
Speaker 1: a kid. I don't think he tried to do it
Speaker 1: on purpose. They just put the bait out there, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, as soon as you see
Speaker 1: as a dolphin, you got to make sure that hook
Speaker 1: gets out of that Dolph got to bring that on
Speaker 1: the boat. Absolutely, and it's big money in fishing. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Even in Mexico they do huge fishing
Speaker 1: events and people walk away with like millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Just crazy. You're a real psychopath. You out here hunting dolphins, bro,
Speaker 1: you can't do it all. But listen. I was in
Speaker 1: texting Cake Goos and we went on a fishing boat
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't think I enjoyed it so much.
Speaker 1: I felt bad while they were catching the fish and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of blood everywhere. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I went right back upstairs. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't eat sea food? Right? No?
Speaker 1: All right, well that is your reports. I mean, ANGELI
Speaker 1: just has never lived a life. I mean, no Disney World,
Speaker 1: no seafood. What else did she say this week that
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe she never had done. I might be
Speaker 1: going to Disney World for the first time soon. Well,
Speaker 1: I have some fish when you go shrump or something.
Speaker 1: You never seen Lion King. I saw the play on Broadway.
Speaker 1: My goodness. You shouldn't get your dad nothing for Father's Day.
Speaker 1: He didn't do much. I don't know. He was just there.
Speaker 1: No fish, no Disney World Christ All right, front page news,
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about. I'm glad y'all didn't blame
Speaker 1: my mom for that. All right, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: Biden put in stammen and some key takeaways from this
Speaker 1: meeting in Geneva, US and Russia. We'll get to it.
Speaker 1: Next is to Breakfast Club. God Morning, So Breakfast Club,
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Now, A
Speaker 1: Hawk speaks to Philadelphia. Seventy six is one or nine
Speaker 1: one oh six. I turned the game off when I
Speaker 1: swear Philadelphia was up like twenty points. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: I turned on Loki on is Me Plus. But the
Speaker 1: Hawks did come back to way. They took Joel and
Speaker 1: beat out in the third quarter. I think there was
Speaker 1: like two minutes left. The crown was going crazy. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is over. I wondered didn't meet
Speaker 1: h you know, in quable ride back together. I know
Speaker 1: they rolled to the game together, but I'm sure Miko
Speaker 1: was talking so crazy. I'm sure stree quarters and then
Speaker 1: the Hawks come back and win the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that on the way back. That's
Speaker 1: your own jack h. What else we got you? Well,
Speaker 1: Congress is designating post massacre site as a national memorial.
Speaker 1: As you guys recall, this was in Orlando, Florida, five
Speaker 1: years ago. A gum and killed forty nine people and
Speaker 1: wounded fifty three people there. The Senate voted final congressional
Speaker 1: approval of the bill last week and Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: expected to sign it soon. And that was the deadliest
Speaker 1: deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community in American history. So
Speaker 1: they're making that a national memorial. So it's not open anymore.
Speaker 1: You can just I know, you can go outside and
Speaker 1: they have things that you can sign, but it's not
Speaker 1: you can't go inside and nothing like that anymore. Right closed, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that site right there is just a memorial site. Gotcha?
Speaker 1: They said, it's really important for survivors to know we
Speaker 1: are not going away until the job is done. According
Speaker 1: to Nancy Pelosi, all right, now, let's talk about Joe
Speaker 1: Biden and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, And they actually
Speaker 1: had a little less than four hour meeting, and Joe
Speaker 1: Biden said in a news conference after the meeting the
Speaker 1: tone was good, and he acknowledged that it will take
Speaker 1: time to know whether there will be any significant progress.
Speaker 1: He wasn't confident that he had done anything to change
Speaker 1: Putin's behavior, but he did discuss some of the issues
Speaker 1: with cyber capabilities and the violations from Russia. Whether I
Speaker 1: stopped it from happening it again, he knows, I will
Speaker 1: take action like we did when this last time out.
Speaker 1: What happened was we in fact made it clear that
Speaker 1: we were not going to continue to allow us to
Speaker 1: go on. The end result was we ended up with
Speaker 1: drawing and they went drawing ambassadors, We closed down some
Speaker 1: of their facilities in the United State, Age, etc. He
Speaker 1: knows their consequences. The hypocrisy of the media is hilarious.
Speaker 1: When Biden met with Putin, is it's all good in
Speaker 1: the media. When Trump met with Putin. He got dragged.
Speaker 1: What's the difference. I think this was a this was
Speaker 1: a summit, and so you do still have to meet
Speaker 1: with leaders, but you can't be trying to like cut
Speaker 1: deals and secretly have meetings and set things up. Who
Speaker 1: you know, you got to do. Everything you do is Trump,
Speaker 1: Putin Trump, and Putin was out in the open. He
Speaker 1: got dragged. They said that people were upset that Trump
Speaker 1: didn't confront Putin about Russ's an interference in the election.
Speaker 1: It's just interesting. It's just interesting how one, you know,
Speaker 1: causes an uproar, but the other is just like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's okay. They had a meeting, like well. I think
Speaker 1: there were also a lot of issues with Trump's relationship
Speaker 1: with hut behind the scenes that people didn't know about,
Speaker 1: in certain financial deals that had been made that were
Speaker 1: that they were discussing, and other people that were having
Speaker 1: conversations on the side that weren't out in the open.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see the difference. Okay. And then
Speaker 1: here is what Putin had to say about their meeting.
Speaker 1: I think there were facilities quite the contrary, Army meeting
Speaker 1: took place. Principally speaking, we don't share the same positions
Speaker 1: in many areas. But I think that both of these
Speaker 1: sides showed a willingness to understand one another. It feels
Speaker 1: like nothing really happened, all right, And a heat wave
Speaker 1: has been gripping the West in the United States, and
Speaker 1: people are saying that they're scared this is going to
Speaker 1: be a new hotter normal. In Phoenix, they've had a
Speaker 1: record for the second day in a row when it
Speaker 1: reached one hundred and fifteen degrees yesterday. It's expected to
Speaker 1: hit one hundred and seventeen degrees for the next two days.
Speaker 1: And scientists who studied drought and climate change see that
Speaker 1: people living in the American and West can expect to
Speaker 1: see more of the same in the coming years. Heat
Speaker 1: waves are getting worse because the soil is so dry
Speaker 1: from the region's mega drought, and we could have two, three, four,
Speaker 1: or five of these heat waves before the end of
Speaker 1: the summer. All right. Well, they are asking in California
Speaker 1: to voluntarily conserve pour. They're asking their residence to do
Speaker 1: that for a few hours Thursday evening because they are
Speaker 1: anticipating record breaking heat blankets during the West during this week.
Speaker 1: You can't ask me to conserve power. When it's hot
Speaker 1: as hell, I gotta have the AC. What are we
Speaker 1: talking about? Yeah, I guess they want to make sure
Speaker 1: everyone's power doesn't go out and then no one has
Speaker 1: a c Well, better, get you a good church fan,
Speaker 1: bring back the church fan. I told y'all. Last year
Speaker 1: I ordered me with the last year, maybe it was
Speaker 1: the earlier. This year, I ordered me a bunch of
Speaker 1: church fans. Get you a good church fan, man, get
Speaker 1: old school and get the fan and put it in
Speaker 1: the window. Yeah, okay, let that natural ass circulate through
Speaker 1: your house with that fan. All right, Well, that is
Speaker 1: your front page news and dramas. What's going on in
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico? I heard they have a rolland power out
Speaker 1: of you dramas. Shut up. He's Puerto Rican Roland Roland.
Speaker 1: Blackouts happening over there. And he just said that you
Speaker 1: have no details. They use a private company. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of controversy over the company that they're using. That said,
Speaker 1: they said, I think over three hundred thousand people without power.
Speaker 1: So you got how are you gonna let the Dominican
Speaker 1: in the room no more about what's going on? You
Speaker 1: to give you inside a tradeing information? Yes, we do
Speaker 1: that's why he went to you for Puerto Rican. He
Speaker 1: just gave it. He literally just gave me that. I
Speaker 1: don't know the reason. I don't know when to about
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican issues. They've had shaky The power grid has
Speaker 1: been shaky ever since Hurricane Maria, has never been properly repaired.
Speaker 1: The money has the funds weren't given down there under
Speaker 1: the trumpet, he go dramas. That's what we needed right there.
Speaker 1: All right, you're letting the Dominican in the room have
Speaker 1: more say so on Puerto Rican. Even give me a
Speaker 1: damn chance to answer it, thinking jumping down my throat,
Speaker 1: What do you mean, y'all? Kinky already? All right? Wow, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, who's joining us next? Man? My guy,
Speaker 1: Craig Melvin. Craig Melvin is the co host of the
Speaker 1: Today Show and he's from Columbia, South Carolina the eight
Speaker 1: oh three We go way back. He put out a
Speaker 1: book yesterday on Tuesday, Tuesday called up Pops, Learning to
Speaker 1: Be a Son and a Father, which is a perfect
Speaker 1: Father's Day gift. So let's have some good uh discussions
Speaker 1: about father hooding in this room this morning. Why not
Speaker 1: fathers did this weekend all right, we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: Next is the breakfast Club come oning the Breakfast Club?
Speaker 1: That was Jack Malvin? Come on it man, too good
Speaker 1: to see. I've been a fan fan of the show
Speaker 1: for a long time, but I've been a fan of
Speaker 1: this guy even longer. You know what. I'm for a
Speaker 1: long time away. So tell us well, first of all, Craig,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, of course, he's a news anchor
Speaker 1: for NBC News Today. Now tell him where you started, though, Craig,
Speaker 1: the South, Hey eight O three? What's happening? Wyst? And
Speaker 1: you were at that point? You were at Hot Hot
Speaker 1: one on three point nine the jam? Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: at at the Big Dam. Didn't Hot one with three
Speaker 1: point nine. It wasn't the jam, Craig. It was Hot
Speaker 1: one of three point nine, that's all. What was the
Speaker 1: jam is ninety three jams. And Charleston's right, that's why
Speaker 1: I started tell us some stories about Charlemagne that we
Speaker 1: might not know. Since you guys go down. You don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. No, I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: That short destruction. Not doing that, I will say. I
Speaker 1: will say, um, if you told either one of us
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years ago, that this is where we would be.
Speaker 1: I would have laughed. I can't speak for I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think people kind of knew it because I remember
Speaker 1: we got We were in the South Carolina state newspaper
Speaker 1: in two thousand three or four and they named me
Speaker 1: and you two of the top ten. I think it
Speaker 1: was media Personalities under the age of thirty in Columbia Cycline,
Speaker 1: and they did these profiles and I was actually still
Speaker 1: have my frame and I did I did the Ten
Speaker 1: Commandments of Hip Hop and Craig told a story, but
Speaker 1: I just remember him laying on the grass with a
Speaker 1: puppy look in his face. Story comes out just saying
Speaker 1: it was a story. Had a dog back then in trouble.
Speaker 1: They wanted to take a picture of me and my dog,
Speaker 1: and a picture that they happened to snap at the
Speaker 1: time was But the dog didn't usually lick my face,
Speaker 1: didn't sleep in the band kiss. I'm not a dog kisser.
Speaker 1: I've never kissed. That dog was definitely kissing you. The
Speaker 1: dog may have he may have licked me once and again.
Speaker 1: The photographer just timed it perfectly. But I haven't heard
Speaker 1: the end of it. I have that framed. I should
Speaker 1: have bought it. I'm glad you didn't. I'm glad this
Speaker 1: before social media. Right, Yeah, So we were get out.
Speaker 1: He would get off the air, I would get off
Speaker 1: the eleven o'clock news, and we would hit the club.
Speaker 1: And when you go with him to the strip clubs,
Speaker 1: I've never been we've been to this, I've never. I
Speaker 1: have never. Never. We would go to regular clubs, regular
Speaker 1: night clubs. Thing like that life he led back then,
Speaker 1: that would serve him well now like he gives him
Speaker 1: street crack. That life I led back then. I don't
Speaker 1: need that. I don't need that life. I would this.
Speaker 1: I was with my girl, done that since high school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a fact. That's we used to go to V twelve.
Speaker 1: V twelve used to be off spoties to be V
Speaker 1: twelve in the Vista. Goodness be twelve in the Vista.
Speaker 1: But Craig. One thing I can say about Craig. Craig
Speaker 1: was always focused, you know what I mean? He was
Speaker 1: always mature. Why did you hang out with him? Then?
Speaker 1: I need a street crack. But he had a lot
Speaker 1: more fun than I was. Happing, Like, wherever he was,
Speaker 1: that's where the party was. Yes, I do remember one
Speaker 1: time we was in the VP. Craig is sitting there.
Speaker 1: Craig goes, Oh my god, that man wanna I gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here. Probably that's probably right now, Probably true,
Speaker 1: that is true. We used to have a good time. Well,
Speaker 1: let's sen you know Craig is here, um, because he
Speaker 1: has a new book out that came out Tuesday. It's
Speaker 1: called Pops Pops Learning to Be a Son and Father.
Speaker 1: And the reason I loved this book for a number
Speaker 1: of reasons. I mean, number one, because I know you
Speaker 1: and I just love to hear, you know, backstories of
Speaker 1: people from South Carolina, because you know, we don't we
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of representation, right. But you address
Speaker 1: a relationship that will always be complicated, probably the most
Speaker 1: complicated relationship a man can have, and that's the relationship
Speaker 1: we have with our father. Yes, what made you address
Speaker 1: that topic? Well, a couple of things you know and
Speaker 1: I write about in the book. But two years ago,
Speaker 1: my dad, after you know, forty plus years of heavy
Speaker 1: drinking and gambling addiction and um, he finally decided he
Speaker 1: was going to get some help. He was sixty seven
Speaker 1: years old at the time. And of the things of
Speaker 1: which I'm proud in my life, and there are a lot.
Speaker 1: It's it's top of the list, like my dad deciding
Speaker 1: late in life that he wanted to live better. It's
Speaker 1: it is. It was the most cathartic thing I've ever done. Wow. Um,
Speaker 1: I wanted to give my father his roses while he's
Speaker 1: still alive. So it's a love letter to my dad.
Speaker 1: It's a love letter to fatherhood. It's a story of
Speaker 1: resilience and overcoming addiction. Uh, it's a story of forgiveness
Speaker 1: as well. You know, my dad, even after he got clean,
Speaker 1: we would talk like this and you know, rarely a
Speaker 1: conversation would pass where he didn't talk about the guilt
Speaker 1: that he felt, and he would cry and just talk
Speaker 1: about how how bad he felt about being absent. And
Speaker 1: even when he was present, he was you know, drunk,
Speaker 1: hungover or sleeping. Um. But I wanted him to know
Speaker 1: that we've all forgiven him and and so it's that
Speaker 1: was that was part of it. Did you forgive him
Speaker 1: easier when you had kids? Because we talk about this
Speaker 1: all time, like you're mad at your dad for things
Speaker 1: you don't understand until you start having your own kids.
Speaker 1: Right leaving to my kids, now like, you know, me
Speaker 1: and my kids go to him. I'm sure my kids
Speaker 1: say they hate me at times because you're overprotective, right,
Speaker 1: And my dad, being a retired police office, was over protective.
Speaker 1: But now I'm on like that with my kids, and
Speaker 1: I understand completely why my dad wouldn't let me go
Speaker 1: to certain things and take certain you know, trains, or
Speaker 1: go to this party. So did you feel that when
Speaker 1: you started to have kids and be like, I need
Speaker 1: to patch this up now precisely precisely, you know, here's
Speaker 1: we're hard in our parents. Yeah, but we're hard because
Speaker 1: you know, when you're ten, fifteen, twenty, you don't you
Speaker 1: don't know you had you haven't experienced the world. You
Speaker 1: don't really have perspective. You just know you want to
Speaker 1: go out to this party or you want to go
Speaker 1: see this girl, and you know you want to you
Speaker 1: want to be what teenagers want to be. And it's
Speaker 1: it's not until you get older and you have children
Speaker 1: and you realize that your primary responsibilities to protect them
Speaker 1: from the world. And I but I was hard on
Speaker 1: my dad for for a different reason because back then,
Speaker 1: know the way we view lots of things now, whether
Speaker 1: it's mental health, but with regards to addiction, back then,
Speaker 1: we didn't view addiction as a sickness. You thought he
Speaker 1: was being selfish. Yeah, he can't about than us, right,
Speaker 1: if you really wanted to get the monkey off your back,
Speaker 1: you could. But now knowing what we know, having covered
Speaker 1: so many stories related to addiction, you know, five teen
Speaker 1: years ago, I started to look at it like like
Speaker 1: we look at it now, like a disease and illness.
Speaker 1: So I was hard on my dad for that reason.
Speaker 1: So I was angry and resentful, and you know, it
Speaker 1: just got to a point where I was, you know,
Speaker 1: my firm believer in therapy as well, and my therapist
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago finally after well, I mean
Speaker 1: had been suggesting it for a number of years, but
Speaker 1: suggested that I made peace with it and forgive my father,
Speaker 1: not for my father, but but for me um. And
Speaker 1: so all of that led to this, I too, learned
Speaker 1: to forgive my father in therapy because I realized that
Speaker 1: my father was just doing the best he could, and
Speaker 1: he was working with the tools that he had at
Speaker 1: the time. Yes, you know, when you're dealing with substance
Speaker 1: abusing his own mental health issues, he really did a
Speaker 1: lot for somebody with a lot of those problems, you know.
Speaker 1: And to that point, Charlomagne, my dad and I didn't
Speaker 1: know this until I was writing the book, And the
Speaker 1: first line of the book is my dad was born
Speaker 1: in a federal prison in West Virginia. He didn't even
Speaker 1: know who his dad was until he was almost a teenager.
Speaker 1: So imagine, imagine growing up not knowing who your your
Speaker 1: your dad is, having other kids pick at you. They
Speaker 1: would call him a jail baby and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and having other kids pick at you. It shapes and
Speaker 1: molds you in ways that you don't fully appreciate until
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're much older. So he so he
Speaker 1: grew up that way. And when he found out who
Speaker 1: his dad was, it's not like his dad took an
Speaker 1: active interest. I asked him, and it's in the book.
Speaker 1: I asked him. During the interview with Montenna, said, what's
Speaker 1: the what's the most money you ever wasted without missing
Speaker 1: and beating? My dad said twenty five dollars dollars on
Speaker 1: what he's like, that's how much it cost to put
Speaker 1: my daddy in the ground nineteen eighty six. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was my reaction. And he proceeded to explain how his
Speaker 1: father was a dead beat, like a come back me.
Speaker 1: And so my dad did exponentially better than his fathers.
Speaker 1: And I would say, we're probably doing a little bit
Speaker 1: better than I dad. That's what it is about the
Speaker 1: right well back then, especially like black fathers in the South.
Speaker 1: And man, my dad worked third shift at the post
Speaker 1: office because you make a little little extra money, weekends, holidays,
Speaker 1: no vacations to provide to get us to the middle class, right,
Speaker 1: And I didn't appreciate it and respect it until all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we're forced to provide for children. All Right,
Speaker 1: we have more with Craig Melvin. You probably heard him
Speaker 1: with MSNBC, so don't move. It's to breakfast Club, Good
Speaker 1: morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and ye Charlemagne, the
Speaker 1: guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it
Speaker 1: with Craig Melvin. Charlemagne. You know, you know in the
Speaker 1: book you talk about how you know your father had
Speaker 1: a gambling addiction as well as well as liquor. I
Speaker 1: mean that it's really like mirrors my father, you know.
Speaker 1: But it took a lot of oldgs. Those two things
Speaker 1: took a lot of oldgs in South Carolina down down
Speaker 1: a bad path. Do you think they got caught up
Speaker 1: because it was nothing else to do, right, and especially
Speaker 1: video poker. People don't a lot of folks outside of
Speaker 1: South Carolina don't realize the scourge the video poker was
Speaker 1: back in the eighties and nineties in South Carolina. I
Speaker 1: mean it was a two billion dollars industry and you
Speaker 1: go in and you press some buttons and you're playing
Speaker 1: like poker with a computer. And my dad would go
Speaker 1: in on a Friday and he like, not an exaggeration,
Speaker 1: he blows whole paycheck. I'm playing like video poker for
Speaker 1: six hours. You know, tall boy in one hand, video poker,
Speaker 1: but tall boy, you know the tall boy. And it's
Speaker 1: like what a how many ounces of two? Yeah? Ye
Speaker 1: still nix selling the pup brown pap paper back man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well anyway possible. He would have a couple of tall
Speaker 1: boys and so but no, he and his friends, to
Speaker 1: your point, like that was it wasn't typically just one addiction.
Speaker 1: It was it was booze and gambling, or booze and women,
Speaker 1: or booze and and and my dad you know, but
Speaker 1: to his credit, gave up gambling, gave up drinking. In November,
Speaker 1: he was in the hospital for five days. We thought
Speaker 1: it was COVID. Thankfully it wasn't. He had um bacterial pneumonia.
Speaker 1: Doctor comes and miss melting Um. How much do you smoke?
Speaker 1: That's what he means in a given day? So I'm
Speaker 1: probably down to a packet day. He'd been packet day
Speaker 1: smoker for forty years. Doc says, well, smell here, gonna
Speaker 1: have to have to stop smoking. He said, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: hadn't had a cigarette sense, Wow, will power? Will power?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't necessarily possess. But yeah, no, he's
Speaker 1: giving up all of his vices. You know, it just
Speaker 1: sounds like, you know because when I when I read
Speaker 1: your book, you know, and it's something I knew, but
Speaker 1: just the shrine forces it. The thing about our fatherhood
Speaker 1: is really on the job training, Like do you think
Speaker 1: it's something you can ever truly learn to do? No, No,
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a journey, not a destination. And
Speaker 1: because the kids are different, Like you know, you've got three,
Speaker 1: your three girls, they're all different. My southern daughters are
Speaker 1: very different, and as they get older, they present new challenges.
Speaker 1: I understand. Um, so it's no. I think I have
Speaker 1: found though. Um, and this is something I knew our
Speaker 1: fathers didn't do. You start talking to other fathers, you
Speaker 1: start talking to other dad You realize no one's doing
Speaker 1: it right like, no one, no one, no one's mastered
Speaker 1: us right. Um, But it's I'm a Carson Dally. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, he's part of the Today's Show, and he
Speaker 1: gave me some advice a couple of years ago. It's
Speaker 1: always stayed with me, he said. At some point, you
Speaker 1: realize that everyone's sacrificing something. You know, either you're sacrificing time,
Speaker 1: you're sacrificing money, You're you're sacrificing something. You make peace
Speaker 1: with that and you decide you're gonna focus over You're
Speaker 1: gonna focus on quality over quality. Right. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: miss some stuff. I'm not gonna be some literal league games,
Speaker 1: some soccer games. Maybe I'm missed a recital here there
Speaker 1: because I've got to work. But when we are together,
Speaker 1: I'm present. I'm there, not on not on the cell phone. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna take great trips, great vacations. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make memories. Uh did last And that's that's always something
Speaker 1: to stay with me. What did your father learn about
Speaker 1: you that he didn't know when when when y'all were
Speaker 1: writing this book doing these interviews, I don't think he knew,
Speaker 1: Scratch said, I know he didn't know how angry and
Speaker 1: resentful I was when I was younger, But he also
Speaker 1: didn't know how proud I was of what he has
Speaker 1: overcome and the man he's become. UM. And he didn't
Speaker 1: know that because I didn't tell him that, UM. And
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons I wanted. I wanted him
Speaker 1: to read this, read this book, and it's it's a
Speaker 1: you know, it's a love letter to him. And when
Speaker 1: I went to visit in rehab down in Statesburg, Georgian,
Speaker 1: it gives me this letter. Forty years my father had
Speaker 1: never written me a letter. It gives me, gives me
Speaker 1: a letter, and it's it's it's his story. And he
Speaker 1: had at the beginning of therapy, I guess, decided that
Speaker 1: he needed to explain himself. And he explained all of it,
Speaker 1: how he came to be the man that he was,
Speaker 1: how he came to be the man that he was
Speaker 1: not Um. His father talked, wrote about all of it
Speaker 1: and wanted me to have it, and I keep it
Speaker 1: in the safe. It's one of the one of my
Speaker 1: most treasured possessions. Um. But it's it's it's just it's
Speaker 1: wild to think. And again, you know, part of it
Speaker 1: is on me. But it's wild to think that someone
Speaker 1: in their late sixties, who struggled mightily with the addictions
Speaker 1: that he struggled with, can decide late in life that
Speaker 1: he wants to to to do better and be better
Speaker 1: for his kids and for his grandkids primarily. Like I
Speaker 1: see my dad now with his grandchildren, I'm like, who
Speaker 1: is that man? Like it's riding bikes and out shooting
Speaker 1: hoops with my son, Like it's a it's it's the
Speaker 1: human in spirit. It's something. You know what I love
Speaker 1: about it. I love the fact that he's doing it
Speaker 1: because of what's happening here on earth. A lot of
Speaker 1: people get right at the end of their life because
Speaker 1: of what they think's gonna happen in the after life.
Speaker 1: But he's like, no, I want to get right because
Speaker 1: of what's happening here on earth in this moment. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that is that's a good point. I didn't even
Speaker 1: hadn't really thought about that. But you're right. He talks
Speaker 1: about his faith a little bit in the boat. You know,
Speaker 1: we used to go to church. I mean I grew
Speaker 1: up in the church, and Dad would never go And
Speaker 1: and I asked him. We talked a fair amount about that,
Speaker 1: and he finally had and it made perfect sense when
Speaker 1: he when he explained it. He's never had a great
Speaker 1: deal of patience for hypocrites. And he found in the
Speaker 1: church a lot of the folks who were there on
Speaker 1: Sunday were the same folks that he was drinking with
Speaker 1: or shooting crafts with on Saturday. And a lot of
Speaker 1: the folks who were in the choir or the same
Speaker 1: folks who are, you know, cheating on their wives. Um.
Speaker 1: And he didn't have patience for that, he just and
Speaker 1: so it's I get it. Yeah, I got it. I
Speaker 1: got it. Have you explained it? I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: You know. When I was fifteen, I said, why didn't
Speaker 1: Dad have to go to church three times a week
Speaker 1: like we do? Um? But it's it's uh, I learned
Speaker 1: a lot. You describe your father as a ghost. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a nickname one of my friends gave him.
Speaker 1: I won't, I won't, I won't get I won't say
Speaker 1: her name because we're still friends. But no, because you know,
Speaker 1: when you're growing up kids, you know, parents are showing
Speaker 1: up for events, and my mom was always there. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they're a little too much, but my dad was never there.
Speaker 1: When you started playing video poker, there was a place
Speaker 1: called Tom's Party Shop where he would usually play with
Speaker 1: about a mile away from the house. If you were
Speaker 1: coming to Columbia High School on the school bus, you
Speaker 1: you could always see what was happening in Tom's Party
Speaker 1: Shop direct. My dad drove a nineteen seventy three penty
Speaker 1: A Clamans. He was the only person in America probably
Speaker 1: driving a bright green nineteen seventy three Lamons in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety two, and so anytime someone saw the car, they
Speaker 1: knew it was my dad. So people kids would be
Speaker 1: coming on the school bus or driving to school and
Speaker 1: they see, you know, at six thirty or seven in
Speaker 1: the morning, there's my dad playing video poker, drinking his
Speaker 1: tall boys the Timas party shop. And so one of
Speaker 1: my friends one morning it was like, hey, I saw
Speaker 1: you pops up Tom's Party Shop. He's like a ghost,
Speaker 1: like you know, sometimes you're see him real fast and
Speaker 1: he's gone blah, blah, man, it's like, I've never seen
Speaker 1: your dad's face. And she was right, she's telling the truth.
Speaker 1: But she nicknamed the ghost, and it was a nickname
Speaker 1: that stayed and it came to represent later in life
Speaker 1: kind of who he was to me, kind of there physically,
Speaker 1: but not really there emotionally or mentally or any other
Speaker 1: way for that matter. All Right, we don't move from NBC.
Speaker 1: We have Craig Melvin joining us today as the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning morning, everybody is cj Envy Angela yee. Charlomagne
Speaker 1: the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking
Speaker 1: it with Craig Melvin and Charlomagne. One thing, even reading
Speaker 1: your book, and I realized with father's it's like, that's
Speaker 1: what you want from your father, right, Like you want
Speaker 1: that emotion Like I feel like, for for my life,
Speaker 1: all I got was disciplined, yes from my dad, not
Speaker 1: real motion, not real love. Yes. Did you do you
Speaker 1: feel like you're getting that now from him? Now? Okay?
Speaker 1: But to your earlier point, Charlemagne, I mean, that's we
Speaker 1: got that because that's what they knew. They didn't They
Speaker 1: weren't capable, they were not capable of being the kind
Speaker 1: of dads that we wanted him to be, that we
Speaker 1: that we needed them to be. They just didn't have
Speaker 1: They didn't have the tools in the toolbox. Um. But
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that until later in life. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: so it's I Yes, I get that now from my dad. Now.
Speaker 1: You know, he'll FaceTime at two in the afternoon. He's retired.
Speaker 1: He'll FaceTime between the afternoon. It's like, oh, what's going
Speaker 1: on with either I'm I'm I'm at work, pops, I
Speaker 1: can't you know. But I always answer the call. And
Speaker 1: he and one thing I love about my dad unlike
Speaker 1: my mother, who I love. Uh that's a separate book.
Speaker 1: But um, he never keeps you on the phone too long.
Speaker 1: Like it's always it's three, three minutes, maybe four minutes.
Speaker 1: If it's something serious, that's it. So that's why I
Speaker 1: can talk to him every day. Mom calls, you know,
Speaker 1: it's forty minutes. You there's no you can't wrap. So
Speaker 1: but he calls. It just checks in, uh and always
Speaker 1: ends with I love you. I love you, man, I
Speaker 1: love you. I was twenty maybe college graduation before I
Speaker 1: heard my dad say I love you. I never heard
Speaker 1: of the kid no evil no, really, then it's you
Speaker 1: know hugs. Oh man, there was no no hugs like
Speaker 1: it was. You start hugging like you're going, what's going
Speaker 1: on with you? Really? No? No, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no demonstrations of affection. No, that's not that was not Again.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it goes back to cultural
Speaker 1: and generational. But no, my dad, now you know, every
Speaker 1: time you see him, he's hugging and I mean it's sister,
Speaker 1: it's lu and anyone's capable of it. That's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons I wanted to write the book like it's
Speaker 1: and it's also about you know, a lot of times
Speaker 1: in our families you have people who struggle with things.
Speaker 1: You write them off. Sometimes you do it consciously, sometimes
Speaker 1: you do it, you know, subconsciously, but you you you
Speaker 1: you write them off. You kind of put them in
Speaker 1: a corner. That's just who they are, that's who they're
Speaker 1: gonna be. You never so deal with them. Uh. And
Speaker 1: we did that with my dad for twenty years off
Speaker 1: and on. Uh. And that's that was time that we
Speaker 1: probably could have could have had back. But you know,
Speaker 1: by the way I watched the show and listen to it,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize how therapeutic it was. And this is
Speaker 1: this is U conversation. I probably have a good long
Speaker 1: phone conversations. You could charge people to come in here
Speaker 1: and against the law, but yeah, this is just what
Speaker 1: was it like to like really interview your father? And
Speaker 1: reason I asked that because having real vulnerable conversations with
Speaker 1: your dad, no matter how old you are, it's so difficult,
Speaker 1: Like it's conversations I don't want to have with my
Speaker 1: pops right now that I still haven't even you know,
Speaker 1: got the courage to have yet. So how how was
Speaker 1: it having that real, vulnerable, honest conversation one of one
Speaker 1: of the highlights of my life. And that's what's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great gift for my kids and grandchildren and
Speaker 1: great kids one day. Because we've got like hours of
Speaker 1: these recordings of me doing what you're doing right now,
Speaker 1: just asking questions. And I had a couple of times
Speaker 1: I had to remember I was a journalist and take
Speaker 1: off my son hat I had to work up to
Speaker 1: the serious stuff. It became apparent after about the first
Speaker 1: hour he wanted to talk like he had been waiting
Speaker 1: for years on some of these questions about his relationship
Speaker 1: with his wife with my mother, how that came to be.
Speaker 1: Like there's, for instance, I wrote about in the book,
Speaker 1: there's this picture of me at their wedding reception. I
Speaker 1: was born in seventy nine, they got married in eighty two,
Speaker 1: and I'm at the wedding reception. I mean a little
Speaker 1: blue suit. I've always seen this picture. While I was like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, it's part of the big day. I asked
Speaker 1: my dad about the wedding reception. Of course, the interviews
Speaker 1: like wedding reception. We didn't have a wedding reception. I
Speaker 1: was like, no, no, I've seen these pictures. I was there.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, no, no, that was an a wedding reception,
Speaker 1: and proceeds to explain how on their wedding day, my
Speaker 1: mom wanted a traditional wedding. He didn't want to have
Speaker 1: anything to do with that, and his cousin had to
Speaker 1: convince him to go to the party that she threw
Speaker 1: after like a week or two after they got married
Speaker 1: at the courthouse. I know any of that. Four to
Speaker 1: two years old. I never knew my parents origin story
Speaker 1: and saying, you know it in my mind. You know,
Speaker 1: in our minds we create these stories and then you
Speaker 1: start talking to Dad, and it's like, oh, I wanted
Speaker 1: you to dig a little deep on how your your
Speaker 1: relationship with your father affected your relationship with women. And
Speaker 1: the reason I say that because my father, you know,
Speaker 1: infidelity all throughout the match. I remember even approaching my
Speaker 1: pops one time about cheating on my mom and him
Speaker 1: saying to me, you only got one woman one day,
Speaker 1: you go understand. So it's just like that's a real mindful.
Speaker 1: So you go from either saying yourself, Okay, I gotta
Speaker 1: have multiple women because that's what Pop saying. I gotta
Speaker 1: be the exact opposite of my pops because I don't
Speaker 1: want to, you know, ruin my family the way my
Speaker 1: pop's ruined his. So I just wanted, you know, did
Speaker 1: it he didn't have any impact? It did. And that
Speaker 1: was actually one of the reasons I started therapy with
Speaker 1: my twenties was because I was I found myself incapable
Speaker 1: of having meaningful, substantive relationships, and I started to start
Speaker 1: talking to a therapist and she quickly helped me realize
Speaker 1: that one of the major reasons was because, you know,
Speaker 1: my father. For a variety of reasons, a lot of
Speaker 1: which related to the to the addiction. He didn't treat
Speaker 1: my mother very well. But again it goes back to
Speaker 1: what we were talking about, like he didn't know, he
Speaker 1: didn't know how to be a good husband. He didn't see,
Speaker 1: you know, he had three siblings. My grandma was you know,
Speaker 1: at one point in her life, was running liquor, running numbers,
Speaker 1: you know, did a couple stints in prison for it.
Speaker 1: And so that's that's what he saw growing up. And
Speaker 1: so he didn't see his mother treated well. He consequently
Speaker 1: didn't treat you know, my mother very well. I saw
Speaker 1: that growing up, and I just came to understand that
Speaker 1: that's you know, that was the dynamic between husband and wife.
Speaker 1: So that should be the dynamic between you know, boyfriend
Speaker 1: and girlfriend. Um so I probably owe a number of
Speaker 1: women from my my twenties, maybe early thirties an apology. Uh,
Speaker 1: what did you what did you fall to say about
Speaker 1: your relationship when you decided to settle down and get married.
Speaker 1: I remember vividly on my wedding day when you look
Speaker 1: to your dad for some from some siege wisdom, you know,
Speaker 1: doing your time. I remember being in the bathroom and
Speaker 1: and I said, I think I maybe even tea him
Speaker 1: up for it. And I remember him saying vividly, listen,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't do divorce. That was it. That
Speaker 1: was that was I was. That was um No, but
Speaker 1: that's one thing about dad, Like, even before I got married,
Speaker 1: there were a couple of young ladies that I dated
Speaker 1: seriously and he always remember one you please don't okay, okay,
Speaker 1: h thank you, don't do that vy, don't look over there,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. But he always took to him
Speaker 1: like he was always far nicer uh to my girlfriends
Speaker 1: than me, and far nicer than my mother was. Um
Speaker 1: so no, but it's but you again, when you when
Speaker 1: you know better, you do better. Um and and we
Speaker 1: know better and thank God for it. Think about how
Speaker 1: well adjusted our children are going to be. It'll be
Speaker 1: Father's Day this weekend. So how would you define yourself
Speaker 1: as a father, mister Melvine? Oh, ain't y'all are good
Speaker 1: at this question asking thing? I sometimes forget it's and
Speaker 1: it's also not always fun to be on the other
Speaker 1: side either, tell you that much conversation. Yeah, but still questions, Um,
Speaker 1: how would I That's a good question, Charlot. Let me
Speaker 1: let me think, let me let me actually stop and
Speaker 1: think about my answer before, I just how would I
Speaker 1: describe myself as a father? Permissive? Perhaps too much so
Speaker 1: sometimes um fun I get my kids young, so I
Speaker 1: can you know, we we've a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of rolling around the floor, a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of wrestling with my son. I'd also like to think
Speaker 1: Charlemagne has a dad. I listen a lot. I engage
Speaker 1: them in substantive conversations every day, like to to force
Speaker 1: them to think. And I don't want to be my
Speaker 1: kid's best friend. I have no interest in that. Nothing
Speaker 1: good comes from that. Um. But I do want them
Speaker 1: to think that I should be the first call or
Speaker 1: text um when something's wrong or if if if if
Speaker 1: someone has hurt them or they're scared, or if they're
Speaker 1: word I want I want to have that kind of
Speaker 1: relationship with my children, um that we didn't have where
Speaker 1: they can come to me first and not go out
Speaker 1: into the world first. UM. So that's I think that's
Speaker 1: the that's the at least that's the kind of dad
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be. Some days I'm better out than others,
Speaker 1: you know, I answer you yeah, And I actually think
Speaker 1: you know the definition will change. You know, It's true,
Speaker 1: it's gonna change. You got young kids, it's gonna change.
Speaker 1: And they're getting the team. It's gonna you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna constantly change, it's gonna constantly evolve.
Speaker 1: So and my dad always say fun, firm and fair.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's that's that. That's what you said. He says,
Speaker 1: I'm fun dad, I'm firm, but I'm fair. But I'm fair,
Speaker 1: and that's what I try to be on my kids.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great book. So go get my
Speaker 1: man Craig Melbourne's book, Pops Learning to Be a Son
Speaker 1: and a Father. It is the perfect Father's Day gift.
Speaker 1: This should be. And everybody's about to say Father's Day stockings.
Speaker 1: It's no father days. There should be though, there should
Speaker 1: be Father's Day stock so we should start that. That's right.
Speaker 1: It's a great Father's Day gift for the weekend. Man,
Speaker 1: go get that. And what was the dog's name that
Speaker 1: kissed you in your trouble? God dressed it. So it's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your morning's
Speaker 1: will never be the same. All right, Well, let's get
Speaker 1: to the room. It's it's the Breakfast Club, Good morning.
Speaker 1: Let's talk big soldier it's about report. This is the
Speaker 1: report Angela on the Breakfast Club. Well, Soldier Boy tell
Speaker 1: them had issues with Charlotmagne. And this is all from
Speaker 1: the Meghos interview when they were talking about the Mount
Speaker 1: Rushmore of Atlanta and NBA suggested that Soldier Boys should
Speaker 1: be on there. And here's what happened. What us, I
Speaker 1: don't care, hold on what else? What we got? You
Speaker 1: gotta put a little John on it. Crunk snapped. That's
Speaker 1: all John, and he's still getting money right, yeah? And
Speaker 1: d Soldier Boy on, no, start it, don't start, don't
Speaker 1: you start it. I'm gonna be honest. I had no ideas.
Speaker 1: I had no idea soldiers from Atlanta. When I think
Speaker 1: of Soldier Boy, I think in the anody dude, I
Speaker 1: think of the Internet. I'm serious and my mind Soldier
Speaker 1: Boy was born online. Well, dun't get him started again
Speaker 1: because he definitely went off playing with me, Charlotta Magne
Speaker 1: the God Breakfast Club. Could you talk about him? Not
Speaker 1: from Nigga my phone? No? What the do you think
Speaker 1: I shot crank that at? What do you think I
Speaker 1: went to school that? What do you think I grew
Speaker 1: up at? What the do you think I was jumping
Speaker 1: to martail that West play? You don't made me call
Speaker 1: my mother, MoMA, bro be glad, I can't find my
Speaker 1: phone moment. If you watch it on your phone and
Speaker 1: listen to me, bro don't never play with my motherfucking
Speaker 1: ain't God, God damn for the West Side zone went
Speaker 1: so swrong. That's a problem. We can see that my mama, dracole.
Speaker 1: God damn it. Don't let him call his mind wizard phone.
Speaker 1: You want your phone, soldier, God damn right, soldier point
Speaker 1: he even played enough what had a lot of things
Speaker 1: go down in Atlanta said we want to make sure
Speaker 1: we get to that because he has a lot of memories.
Speaker 1: You can't do that, not on public gas platform with
Speaker 1: millions of folks seeing it. We're gonna dress this. Y'all
Speaker 1: want me to come up to the breakfast club? Cool?
Speaker 1: I beat up? You know it's our little this little
Speaker 1: I losharler man. Don't get it twisted. They ain't no smoke.
Speaker 1: It ain't nothing like that. I losh aller man. I
Speaker 1: love as y'all love these if ivery, I salute you.
Speaker 1: And because you're the one who said soldier doesn't need
Speaker 1: to be on the Mount Rushmore. Y'all know what I
Speaker 1: did for your pop. I don't know why they played
Speaker 1: on my name. I don't give I got my money
Speaker 1: in the don't I told them Soldier, they don't be
Speaker 1: listening to me. Soldier told them the blogs are hell too.
Speaker 1: They literally played the clip of Soldier boys w w
Speaker 1: E promo curssing me out and whatever, but didn't play
Speaker 1: the part of him saying he loves me and love
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. I love Big Draco too. Okay, when
Speaker 1: Soldier come to New York, I'm gonna take him to
Speaker 1: go do some meditation, teach him some breathing exercises so
Speaker 1: he can calm down. Even though I love when he's
Speaker 1: turned up. Now play some more pay. I do love
Speaker 1: when Big Draco is turned up. Well. He also had
Speaker 1: some messes with hit Maker because Okaymaker was in the
Speaker 1: comments section and he was putting the laughing emojis, and
Speaker 1: you know you can't do that at a BA serious topic.
Speaker 1: Young bird, you is a bitch boy. Go get your
Speaker 1: chain back then I'll take your chain. A long time ago.
Speaker 1: That transform a chain. You won't ever get it back
Speaker 1: when you always getting robbed and punched and beat up,
Speaker 1: and you don't never be on the nope comments on
Speaker 1: the academics post leaven Nope, laughing emotives. You lame, stick
Speaker 1: the stealing beats. You don't make beats for real, stick
Speaker 1: and get to make the beats for you, and you
Speaker 1: sell them to other artists and act like you made it.
Speaker 1: Big Drake, it was so dip. You want the clues
Speaker 1: Bob's Big Drake. You know what I love about Big
Speaker 1: Drake over. I like when he starts off just regularly,
Speaker 1: and then it just goes up and up and up
Speaker 1: and uhing nothing nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing nothing. Where's my phone?
Speaker 1: Sold you on your phone? He might have another. I
Speaker 1: can't do it right right, nobody, nobody can do it
Speaker 1: like Big d Okay, and by the way, Soldier Boddy
Speaker 1: know exactly what he's doing. There's nobody better at that
Speaker 1: internet thing. Then sold your boy. Tell him okay, so
Speaker 1: he got he got two songs out right now and
Speaker 1: make him clap. You got the Rick Mordy record, both
Speaker 1: buzzing crazy and he's doing he's he's he's pushing those records.
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it. Scared who you well, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't not be scared of Big Draco as long as
Speaker 1: you know, Holy y'all should be afraid of Big Drake.
Speaker 1: Come on, I said, put him on the Mount Russell.
Speaker 1: Big Draco should put fear in all y'all goddamn hearts. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Soon as you speak, you see, soon as
Speaker 1: you speak, Soldier bore name, everybody like yo, Calm down, now,
Speaker 1: let's not do that. Let's not do that. Let's not
Speaker 1: go there. Okay with Big Draco. Big Draco be up
Speaker 1: here soon. He'll be up here soon. I'm sure now
Speaker 1: he'll be up here soon. All right, Well that was
Speaker 1: your U report. That was funny. What do you go
Speaker 1: after that? Who are giving your dog into? Uh? Four
Speaker 1: after the hour? We need a young lady named Alexis
Speaker 1: Tally from Florida to come to the front of the congregation.
Speaker 1: We would like to have a world with her. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get it to that next. You can't do it
Speaker 1: like so, no, I tried, man. It's the breakfast cleble
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Speaker 1: for Florida Madder. The craziest people in America come from
Speaker 1: the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey.
Speaker 1: The Florida man at tapped and ATM for a very
Speaker 1: strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man
Speaker 1: is arrested after definitely says he rigged the board to
Speaker 1: his home and an attempt to electric hid his part
Speaker 1: at White Police arrested in Orlando man for talking a
Speaker 1: Flamila to Breakfast Club Bitchy Donkey of the Day with
Speaker 1: Sharlom Haine, A guy I don't know why y'all keeping
Speaker 1: him get you elected? Well, don't you? To day for Thursday,
Speaker 1: June seventeenth, goes to a twenty three year old Florida
Speaker 1: woman named Alexis Tally. Now, what did your uncle Sharla
Speaker 1: always say about the great state of Florida? Say it
Speaker 1: with me. The craziest people in America come from the
Speaker 1: Bronx and all of Florida. It is what it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: I love Florida. But one of my favorite things to
Speaker 1: do when I'm in Florida's turn on the local news.
Speaker 1: High levels of entertainment people. Okay, I can't believe it's free.
Speaker 1: I was in Miami last weekend just watching the local
Speaker 1: news and laughing and shaking my head. Very hard to
Speaker 1: avoid the crazy that exist in Florida. You know, every
Speaker 1: day of our lives, we wake up and we attempt
Speaker 1: to avoid crazy. It's hard to avoid crazy in Florida.
Speaker 1: It's like a full time job to avoid crazy in Florida.
Speaker 1: Because in Florida, you don't have to find crazy. Crazy
Speaker 1: will find you. And that's exactly what happened in this
Speaker 1: situation involving the sister Alexus Tally now Alexis Tally was
Speaker 1: arrested for domestic battery after putting hands on her girlfriend. Now,
Speaker 1: the other day, I told y'all on this radio, how
Speaker 1: I had a dream. No, let me rephrase. I had
Speaker 1: a nightmare that I was cheating on my wife, and
Speaker 1: in the nightmare, I felt the guilt, so I stopped.
Speaker 1: And then when I woke up the next morning, my
Speaker 1: wife said to me that she had a dream that
Speaker 1: I cheated on her and she woke up wanting to
Speaker 1: ff me up. When you got a soul tied with
Speaker 1: a person, y'all are really connected SYNCD up like your
Speaker 1: smartphone with a bluetooth. That's me and my wife. Well,
Speaker 1: my wife said she felt like she wanted to ff
Speaker 1: me up because of her dream. Alexis Tally actually fed
Speaker 1: her girlfriend up because of the dream. Okay, because of
Speaker 1: the dream her girlfriend was having. Oh how I wish
Speaker 1: there was a news report for this one, but allow
Speaker 1: me to read you the details off the smoking gun.
Speaker 1: Police responded the calls from a neighbor who said they
Speaker 1: could hear a fight taking place. When authorities arrived at
Speaker 1: the scene, the twenty one year old victim said she
Speaker 1: was awoken after Alexis Tally claimed to hear her sleep
Speaker 1: talking about an X. I'm not making this up. Okay.
Speaker 1: If you're thinking, what the f please think what the
Speaker 1: Florida Alexis Tally started beating on her girlfriend and her
Speaker 1: sleep because she thought she heard her girlfriend sleep talking
Speaker 1: about an X. A call to the arrest report, Alexis
Speaker 1: started punching the victim in the face after waking her,
Speaker 1: and cops noted that she had a visible swelling to
Speaker 1: the right side of her face. Now, when they say
Speaker 1: Alexis woke her up, was it what the punch are before?
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna shoot Alexis a little bell that slang.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not giving her no money towards
Speaker 1: the bell. I'm just talking about a hypothetical about the situation.
Speaker 1: I'm almost positive that if I mentioned another woman that
Speaker 1: I was involved with while I was in a deep slumber,
Speaker 1: I too would get punched in the face. What about you, envy,
Speaker 1: I concur not justifying what alex did, just saying that
Speaker 1: as Florida as this sounds, this might garner the same
Speaker 1: reaction in any state. I mean, my wife woke up
Speaker 1: wanting to f me up because of a dream she
Speaker 1: had that I was doing something. Imagine, and she would
Speaker 1: have woke up to me calling out the name of
Speaker 1: some other woman I dealt with, my god, jee. This
Speaker 1: is why hot gritz used to get thrown on brothers
Speaker 1: in the sixties and seventies. Okay, yeah, Granddaddy got a
Speaker 1: scar right now on his back from that hot grits
Speaker 1: because he too was saying somebody else's name in his sleep. Okay.
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali once said, if you even dream of beating me,
Speaker 1: you'd better wake up and apologize. Same rules apply with
Speaker 1: your significant other. Okay, just change beating the cheating. If
Speaker 1: you even dream of cheating on your girl, you better
Speaker 1: wake up and apologize now. Alexis was arrested for domestic
Speaker 1: battery and has maintained that their argument was only verbal,
Speaker 1: verbal rather than physical. She told the officers. She told
Speaker 1: the officers that the mark on her girlfriend's face was
Speaker 1: from a previous fight. That's not funny. It's not funny.
Speaker 1: But it's Florida. It's Florida, Okay, she told the police.
Speaker 1: Not the fight that was reported to the police. That
Speaker 1: was last week. It was from another fight. Its basically
Speaker 1: been the officer of That mark on her face wasn't
Speaker 1: from when I beat her this time. That was from
Speaker 1: the last time we fought. Boy, don't have anything else here, okay,
Speaker 1: Please give Alexis Tally the sweet sound of the hamiltones.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you are dokee o the day, oh the day. Ye.
Speaker 1: How would you react if you heard your manum saying
Speaker 1: the name of an X in his sleep? Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a tough one. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I would do. We'd have a conversation. Okay, we'd have
Speaker 1: a conversation. It might not go well, we might not
Speaker 1: talk for a couple of weeks. You don't think we
Speaker 1: will resort to violence, though, you're not. I'm not a
Speaker 1: violent person. Yeah, you know. I don't believe in putting
Speaker 1: my hands on people. Kay, I think we should play
Speaker 1: a game. You think we should play a game? I'm curious?
Speaker 1: Really really? Yes? Okay, what was the name? What was
Speaker 1: the name of the X? I need to know? Say
Speaker 1: the name of the X? They say the name of
Speaker 1: the right? Well, okay, since anydy wants to play, I
Speaker 1: guess it's time for a game of guess why what race? Alright,
Speaker 1: what's the clues now? Alexis Tally. Alexis from Florida, Florida.
Speaker 1: She was sleep they both will sleep with her girlfriend
Speaker 1: and her girlfriend was sleep talking and said the name
Speaker 1: of her exo. Alexis swung on her Guess what race?
Speaker 1: She isnt? Go Latina? Damn it? Man? Okay, okay, ANGELI
Speaker 1: said Latina? Why are you say Latina? Angelie? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just felt like it. Okay, Okay, dj Enva. Alexis
Speaker 1: Tally from Florida. Okay. She was with her girlfriend. Her
Speaker 1: girlfriend was talking in her sleep, and her girlfriend said
Speaker 1: a ex's name, alleged Lisa Alexis got up and swung
Speaker 1: on her. Joss, what race she is? All right? The
Speaker 1: name Alexis makes me feel black. But I'm going Puerto Rican,
Speaker 1: dare you. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't
Speaker 1: know what Alexis Sally is. I'm looking play game. Don't
Speaker 1: know what she looked like. And he asked to play.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let me see, let me see. I'm
Speaker 1: just always down for the game. It's just a good
Speaker 1: guessing game. She might be Portoici might be, but then
Speaker 1: she might be black. She might be she makes she
Speaker 1: might be happy. It looks like you, Daniel, Well, it's
Speaker 1: Alexis Sally black. She looked Puerto Rican. What she looked like,
Speaker 1: definitely Puerto Rican. Sometimes you can't look at a person Intel.
Speaker 1: You can't look at a person Intel, you definitely can't.
Speaker 1: All right, pointless game wanted to play? Thought you knew
Speaker 1: the answer. We'll find out on social media later. I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'm sure somebody all right, thank you for that
Speaker 1: dog to day up next ask ye eight hundred five
Speaker 1: eight five one oh five one. If you need relationship advice,
Speaker 1: any type of advice, call ye now. It's the breakfast
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Speaker 1: need real advice? Call up nown for asking morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is dj Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. It's time for asking Ye. Hello, who's
Speaker 1: this helloing from Miami? Hey, what's your question for you? Okay, Angela?
Speaker 1: I need because Okay, so my home girl and I
Speaker 1: have been investing for like ten years, right, her and
Speaker 1: her boyfriends have been together for around that same time,
Speaker 1: like ten years. Now, tell me why her boyfriend started
Speaker 1: messaging me like what person? At first, like innocent, like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna count him. So he asked me like all
Speaker 1: kind of like money investing, all kind of things like that,
Speaker 1: which is fine, But then I started getting instead of soul,
Speaker 1: what are you doing tonight? So? How are you like
Speaker 1: getting more personal and I shut it down like I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: you ain't talk to me like that. Did you ever
Speaker 1: tell your friend too? Okay? So I told her right,
Speaker 1: but I used to held the whole story. I was
Speaker 1: just like, hey, you know, he's a messaging me. But
Speaker 1: it's the fact that it's like, dang, I should go
Speaker 1: her everything like him trying to link up himself. You
Speaker 1: should tell her? Ain't that your friend? Wait? But now
Speaker 1: it's getting even worse because out of nowhere, his best
Speaker 1: friend started messaging me like, oh, you should pull up
Speaker 1: on us, like we never see you no more? Your
Speaker 1: written and I just feel like his best friend is
Speaker 1: trying to get me and my best friends boyfriend together.
Speaker 1: His best friend is trying to get oh okay, so
Speaker 1: they're trying to hook it up because he likes you. Listen,
Speaker 1: this is your best friend. That's how I feel like.
Speaker 1: That comes before everything. I don't even know why this
Speaker 1: is a question for you. Do you like him or something?
Speaker 1: I think I do like you. Oh girl, I'm really
Speaker 1: calling because I'm in a position where I'm like, listen,
Speaker 1: let me just lay it all out on the table. Hey, no,
Speaker 1: you're my friend, I say, But I know right from all, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's off limits. If that's your best friends man, and
Speaker 1: he's messaging you and saying inappropriate things and trying to
Speaker 1: link up, and other people are now involved, that's all
Speaker 1: gonna come out. Number one. Number two, you should not
Speaker 1: be attracted to your best friends man. Would you be
Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice your relationship with your best friend? Not
Speaker 1: at all? Like, that's why I told her half the story.
Speaker 1: But I feel horrible because now I'm like, I should
Speaker 1: have told her everything from the zoom. Yeah, I imagine
Speaker 1: she'd go through. Imagine she'd go through his phone and
Speaker 1: see those messages that you didn't tell her about. Lord,
Speaker 1: I go, but I don't know why I like him now,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like he and I have so much
Speaker 1: of a collection, and I'm just like, I should not
Speaker 1: be telling let me tell you something he ain't and
Speaker 1: neither are you right now? Don't pull me that for you.
Speaker 1: I'm just keeping it real. How would you feel if
Speaker 1: it was the other way around? Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: you know this, like there's no kind of loyalty. You
Speaker 1: don't come and trust Listen. I would hate to have
Speaker 1: to question my best friend like this, and you Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I just I feel like I needed to get cursed
Speaker 1: out and yeah, you're moving real questionable. So you gotta
Speaker 1: look at yourself and be like, is this the person
Speaker 1: who I am? Right? Is this the best friend who
Speaker 1: I am? Oh? But some guy who ain't that's probably
Speaker 1: trying to kick it to mad the chicks too. Don't think,
Speaker 1: don't think. Don't think you the only one. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Okay, you I got it now. It's like
Speaker 1: in my head, I got it, all right, do the
Speaker 1: right thing, all right? Ask ye eight, don't drink five
Speaker 1: eight five one on five one. If you need relationship advice,
Speaker 1: here now it's the breakfast club. I'm gonna keep there's
Speaker 1: some real advice with angels. Ask ye. I want to
Speaker 1: get everybody you stj Envy and Jela Yee, Charlomagne, the
Speaker 1: guy we are the breakfast club with in the middle
Speaker 1: of ask yee. Hello, who's this? Maya's Bossbury. I'm from
Speaker 1: Houston Takes. Hey, what's your question for you? Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm twenty three years old. I'm very successful. I'm a teacher,
Speaker 1: but I'm having a hard time, you know, finding a
Speaker 1: significant other. I don't know if they're intimidated by me
Speaker 1: because I'm successful, but I'm having a hard time. All right,
Speaker 1: So what are you what are you doing to try
Speaker 1: to actually find somebody that you want to be with? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm like on dating apps, but they're not really accurate
Speaker 1: all the time because some man, these guys don't really
Speaker 1: have jobs there with their moms. So what dating apps
Speaker 1: are you want? There's this one on Facebook, and there's
Speaker 1: one like called bumble, and then there's pins. I don't
Speaker 1: want a lot, all right, Yeah, I enjoy Bumbo and
Speaker 1: I enjoy Facebook. I actually use bumbo is And I
Speaker 1: want to say a couple of things. Do you go
Speaker 1: out in person to ever meet people? As well? Um,
Speaker 1: not lately because it doesn't really like nobody wants to
Speaker 1: go on a date. But you don't have to go
Speaker 1: on a date. But do you go out, like, do
Speaker 1: you have friends who you go out with sometimes in
Speaker 1: a casual environment and group settings? Do your friends know
Speaker 1: you're looking? Are they trying to hook you up with
Speaker 1: some of their friends? Yeah? They know. I have had
Speaker 1: a friend trying to feel with someone before. Because sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to be open to things, like you have
Speaker 1: to be out there. You have to start conversations with people.
Speaker 1: You have to be in places where it's a social atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Sometimes even just going out and taking a class and
Speaker 1: something that interests you. In moving out of your comfort zone.
Speaker 1: I think it's really important when it comes to dating.
Speaker 1: A lot of times we get comfortable with just swiping
Speaker 1: and we're not out there living our life. And sometimes
Speaker 1: when you take some classes, or you go certain places,
Speaker 1: or you do certain things, you meet people who have
Speaker 1: similar interest too. So like what would you say, a
Speaker 1: good meet a good guy. I think if you go
Speaker 1: to like certain like mixers, if there's any events that
Speaker 1: you can go to, or some type of after work
Speaker 1: social activities, things like that are really good. I try
Speaker 1: to make sure that I speak to people wherever I go,
Speaker 1: like if I'm at home depot, if I'm in the
Speaker 1: Apple store. You know, just be friendly. And sometimes just
Speaker 1: even having that type of persona brings more energy to you. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I always trying to like to be like to let
Speaker 1: them come to me. But it's not even about being thirsty,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That's the issue, Like you
Speaker 1: don't have to look at everybody as your potential mate.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just have to go out and enjoy meeting
Speaker 1: people and knowing people. They could be a friend, you
Speaker 1: could never see them again. But you don't have to
Speaker 1: put so much pressure on yourself to find your significant other.
Speaker 1: What you're trying to do is meet people who could
Speaker 1: play some type of part in your life or maybe
Speaker 1: just you know, have a nice social interaction. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be is that person going to be
Speaker 1: the one? Right? Well, I'll try to thank you who.
Speaker 1: I love ya, you guys, So it's amazing every morning.
Speaker 1: You guys are awesome. All right. I feel good about
Speaker 1: it done, and I'm happy for you that you are
Speaker 1: such a self sufficient person. But I do feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we have to get out of our
Speaker 1: own way. Sometimes it's also the energy that we're putting
Speaker 1: out there. So just go out there, don't put so
Speaker 1: much pressure on yourself. You're still really young and you
Speaker 1: have time and things can change in one day. You
Speaker 1: never know what can happen. So yeah, shout out to
Speaker 1: all the young bosses. I just bought a house and
Speaker 1: I'm getting my man. Yeah, all right, and don't let
Speaker 1: nobody use your credit okay, right, okay, all right, thank
Speaker 1: you mama? All right, ask ye eight hundred five eighty five,
Speaker 1: one oh five one. Now you got rumors on the way, Yes,
Speaker 1: and I can't I wait to see this documentary. There's
Speaker 1: a new documentary out and this is about an artist
Speaker 1: who actually threw cocaine on the desk, snorted it, jumped
Speaker 1: on top of the desk, took out his penis and
Speaker 1: shoved it in the presidents of the label's face. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you who it is what, all right, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that next. It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning, the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club's team. This is the Rumor Report with Angela
Speaker 1: Yee on the Breakfast Club. All right. Well, this new
Speaker 1: documentary that's coming looks like it's going to be amazing
Speaker 1: and it is about Rick James, is revealed by his
Speaker 1: former manager Kerry Gordy. It's a new documentary called Bitching,
Speaker 1: The Sound and Fury of Rick James and premiere Tuesday
Speaker 1: night at the Tribeca Film Festival. It is available to
Speaker 1: stream on Trybeck at home starting now. You gotta pay
Speaker 1: for it, but it'll be on showtime later on in
Speaker 1: September just at FYI if you want to wait for that.
Speaker 1: But it sounds too amazing, I might have to pay
Speaker 1: for this one and watch it and not wait till
Speaker 1: September third on Showtime. But some of the things that
Speaker 1: is revealed in the documentary, they said that actually Rick
Speaker 1: James really helped Lionel Richie's career and the reason why
Speaker 1: this happened is because Rick James was frustrated by disappointing
Speaker 1: sales for his album Throwing Down that came out in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two and the tour, so he went into
Speaker 1: the office of then Motown president Jay Lasker. He was
Speaker 1: delivering his next album, and he started to pour coke
Speaker 1: onto the desk. He snorted it, jumped on top of
Speaker 1: the desk, took out his penis and shoved it in
Speaker 1: Lasker's face while yelling, sell my goddamn record. You know
Speaker 1: what's crazy? That story sounds nuts until you say it's
Speaker 1: Rick James. And when you tease it earlier, I was
Speaker 1: like what. But when you say it's Rick James, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: de ventures are Rick James. That's Rick James. Now. Just
Speaker 1: so you know this, Kerry Gordy is the eldest son
Speaker 1: of Barry Gordy who founded Motown, so he's the person
Speaker 1: who's announcing all of this and kind of making sure
Speaker 1: that we get all of these amazing stories. There's one
Speaker 1: surprise that comes early in the movie. It's revealed that
Speaker 1: in the beginning of his music career, he fled to
Speaker 1: Toronto to a escape the navy, and he went by
Speaker 1: the name of Ricky Matthews. So he was an abandon
Speaker 1: with Neil Young back then in the sixties band until
Speaker 1: their manager actually dimed him out for deserting it and
Speaker 1: he ended up in trouble for that. Now here's the
Speaker 1: trailer for that documentary. He found Parliament, Bootsie, all these people.
Speaker 1: They were kind of looking at Rick sideways because he
Speaker 1: had learned how to craft pop with funk, and so
Speaker 1: he hit the big time faster than they did. Rick
Speaker 1: was the smartest one out of all of us. He
Speaker 1: sold a lot of records. People came to the concerts,
Speaker 1: and you know, he used to talk about, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sello more records, and y'all, I think George took offense
Speaker 1: a little bit, but all was fair and funk and
Speaker 1: war man. He sounds like a character. And if you
Speaker 1: hear some of these stories, and you know, that's what
Speaker 1: made Lionel Richie as big as he did because the
Speaker 1: label decided to push Lionel Richie after Rick James did
Speaker 1: that stump with the cocaine and taking out his penis.
Speaker 1: They said the president was just like O Richie. That's
Speaker 1: all he said when he left the office. In other words,
Speaker 1: that's who we're going to be concerned about now. They
Speaker 1: also said that even though he was a very freaky guy,
Speaker 1: he had his own limits. His sexual exploit to him.
Speaker 1: More you do that to that person, let me watch,
Speaker 1: I want to orchestrate. According to his ex wife, he
Speaker 1: wasn't personally involved. He was not that kind of super freak.
Speaker 1: He didn't let people touch him. He wasn't like in
Speaker 1: the Orgy. He would watch the Origin. He's a director. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more like that. Yeah. By the way, Showtime be getting
Speaker 1: all the great docs from all of the black legends.
Speaker 1: You know, they got as Teddy pendagrass. They got a
Speaker 1: degregory documentary coming as well too. So flew to Showtime.
Speaker 1: All right. Now, Wendy Williams is talking about the Foxy
Speaker 1: Brown book, and she's spilling some tea that we don't
Speaker 1: know is really true. Now, my girl kime out. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I was writing Foxy Brown's memoir and can't wait to
Speaker 1: read it. Yes, that memoir is coming out in December.
Speaker 1: Here is what Wendy Williams said. I remember when Foxy
Speaker 1: and jay Z had um I'll be okay. Foxy was
Speaker 1: the star of that. Jay Z was standing in the
Speaker 1: corner ringing his hands, talking about okay, all right, what
Speaker 1: do I do next? And then you know this was
Speaker 1: allegedly a romantical thing. It's it's all right, I'll say alleged,
Speaker 1: but we know, we know, yeah she hit it before.
Speaker 1: Beyonce aged you can't yeah, oh she added the allegedly.
Speaker 1: I was like, you cannot just say that, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't not alleged you was dead and you saw off
Speaker 1: for yourself. If not, you got to say allegedly, because
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's definitely not all of its defamation.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely how liable for that because it's not
Speaker 1: true about Foxy Brown's hair loss, because she started talking
Speaker 1: hearing loss, because she started talking about how she wants
Speaker 1: her to um, how how she's going to figure out
Speaker 1: how to do an audio version of the memoir. That's
Speaker 1: not cool. Oh my god, I can't wait to read
Speaker 1: the book. Though, because I'm sure Foxy got a great
Speaker 1: story and she got the legendary Kimmel Sorry right and
Speaker 1: if with her two for her oh Man. Randomly, when
Speaker 1: I was at Carolines that night where Wendy and Miss
Speaker 1: Jones are there, Chemosario was with me also that night,
Speaker 1: coy ran into her. All right now. Paris Jackson was
Speaker 1: on Red Table Talk and she did sit down an
Speaker 1: interview with just Willow Smith and she was talking about
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. She was talking about her
Speaker 1: past attempts to end her own life and what helped
Speaker 1: her break out of that mentality, and the two of
Speaker 1: them just really had a really great, in depth conversation.
Speaker 1: She talked about her PTSD from paparazzi, experienced audio hallucinations
Speaker 1: sometimes with Chemera clicks and severe paranoia, and have been
Speaker 1: going to therapy for a lot of things, but that
Speaker 1: included and I've started I'll hear like a trash bag
Speaker 1: rustling and I like flinch and panic. Is that from
Speaker 1: the paparazzi? Yeah, I think it's just like just standard PTSD.
Speaker 1: That's awful. She also talked about her field suicide attempts.
Speaker 1: Here's what she said, Well, do you feel regret when
Speaker 1: they try and attempt suicide, like a last minute regret.
Speaker 1: There have been times where I did and times when
Speaker 1: I didn't, where I was upset that it didn't work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I can't say, like several years later that like
Speaker 1: I'm really grateful that it didn't. Lord definitely sending healing
Speaker 1: Paris jack Absolutely. She said every day people told her
Speaker 1: to kill herself. What do you mean? And social media? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. In addition to that, she talked about how
Speaker 1: she feels like her dad, Michael Jackson, would be proud.
Speaker 1: I just feel like you've done such a beautiful and
Speaker 1: graceful job of doing your own thing. Because kids like
Speaker 1: us do we feel like we have to live up
Speaker 1: to this certain standard. I feel like it's still probably
Speaker 1: there somewhere in the back of my head. But the
Speaker 1: louder thing that competes is that I feel like my
Speaker 1: dad would be proud. Yeah, I'm sure you wouldn't be.
Speaker 1: Thank God for therapy. I hope that she's, you know,
Speaker 1: doing the work to get a handle on all of
Speaker 1: that type of all that trauma she's dealing with. Well,
Speaker 1: at the end of this Paris Jackson and Billis Smith
Speaker 1: actually went to the studio and did some music together.
Speaker 1: You saw they talked about they said, let's go do
Speaker 1: some music. Should we just go to the studio, And
Speaker 1: then they were pictures of them together in the studio.
Speaker 1: But she did say the music does help her, all right,
Speaker 1: And that is your rumor report, all right. Shout out
Speaker 1: to revolt everybody else to mixes up next. Today is
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar's birthday, so let's get on legend, the leader
Speaker 1: of the New School last decade. So we'll get on
Speaker 1: some Kendrick. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club,
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line
Speaker 1: this morning, a couple of brothers. We have Thomas George Junior.
Speaker 1: He's the chairman of the board for one hundred Black
Speaker 1: men of America Incorporated. And also we have oldest threat
Speaker 1: joining us this morning. Good morning, guys, Good morning. How's everything.
Speaker 1: That's mamas, it's a wonderful sunny day here in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 1: No complaints now for people that don't know what is
Speaker 1: the organization? One hundred Black Men of America, and y'all
Speaker 1: got way more than a hundred Black men. So let's
Speaker 1: bread around and let's break down the name of what
Speaker 1: your brothers do for the community. Well, we have thousands
Speaker 1: of members. We actually got our start our first chapter
Speaker 1: in New York nineteen sixty three, founded by the late
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson, the late mayor David Dinkins Edison Wingate. But
Speaker 1: the key is they came together in sixty three dealing
Speaker 1: with some of the same missus we're dealing with today,
Speaker 1: and it was dealing with public safety. And at that
Speaker 1: time sixty three, black police officers could not arrest white
Speaker 1: citizens unless they had a white police officer with them.
Speaker 1: And on this particular day at sixty three, one of
Speaker 1: our brothers was at the scene of the crime arrested
Speaker 1: the white citizen. And there was the level or the department,
Speaker 1: and so all of these men came together. They changed
Speaker 1: the paradigm in the Public Safety Department in New York.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the year, the question was
Speaker 1: what we stayed together? They said yes. So the next
Speaker 1: courtion was what shall we call ourselves? And David Dinkins said,
Speaker 1: we'll call ourselves who we are? One hundred black men.
Speaker 1: That gave rise to one hundred Black men incorporated in
Speaker 1: New York. And in nineteen eighty six, with nine chapters,
Speaker 1: we came together and created one hundred Black Men of America.
Speaker 1: Today we have one hundred and three chapters. We're in Africa, England,
Speaker 1: the Caribbean Islands, over one hundred and twenty five thousand
Speaker 1: young people that are mentoring program at about eight thousand
Speaker 1: members who make a difference. And so what we do
Speaker 1: is our whole motto is what they see is what
Speaker 1: they'll be. And we're real men given real time, and
Speaker 1: of course we have what is for for the future.
Speaker 1: Everything we do must fit in those four categories education, mentoring,
Speaker 1: health and wellness, and economic empowerment with an overlay of
Speaker 1: leadership development. And the organization is moving and we are
Speaker 1: really real men who are investing the time all over.
Speaker 1: We got everybody from professional athletes, retired to athletes, corporate execs,
Speaker 1: you know, Kim Chernald, all of these people have been
Speaker 1: a part of this great organization making a difference. So
Speaker 1: what's the overall theme this year's conference. Well, the thing
Speaker 1: for this year's conference, oldis why don't you just lay
Speaker 1: that on this year's time to act. We didn't come
Speaker 1: to see you here. It's time to act, adapt again,
Speaker 1: challenge and triumph. And that basically is that we can't
Speaker 1: be sitting on the sidelines. Those who have not been
Speaker 1: to sit on the sideline and just watch what's going on.
Speaker 1: They've got to be engaged, got to be inbobed. We
Speaker 1: got to fight to win. And then of course we've
Speaker 1: got to challenge those issues, even as we did when
Speaker 1: the previous president wanted to divide this name and the
Speaker 1: issue of racism, we were right there dealing with it then.
Speaker 1: And the last thing that is that whole issue on
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and with this challenge, is that we cannot
Speaker 1: continue to spread the myths. I got my second vaccine
Speaker 1: shot four months ago, fights and no side effects. But
Speaker 1: if you've had almost six hundred thousand people to die
Speaker 1: from this virus, why would you be afraid of maybe
Speaker 1: two days of discomfort if you have two days understanding
Speaker 1: because you're black. And that's the other myth black people
Speaker 1: don't get. Don't get COVID nineteen. Look at how many
Speaker 1: of our people have died. We've been leading the number
Speaker 1: of deaths in this nation a lot because of precondition.
Speaker 1: But the key for us is that we've got to
Speaker 1: step up. We got to stand up and we got
Speaker 1: to act. Just as we also have to deal with
Speaker 1: the whole political arena while we are in the impartisan.
Speaker 1: If you look at the efforts that took place and
Speaker 1: right here in Georgia, the one hundred was engaged with
Speaker 1: the Divine Nine, engaged with NACP and everybody, and we
Speaker 1: delivered like never before on the elections for the first
Speaker 1: African American US Senator. And of course we made the
Speaker 1: cat the decisive of votes that helped us to get
Speaker 1: this country back on track. I was gonna ask, you know,
Speaker 1: the conference is virtual, why is it still virtual? Now?
Speaker 1: The world's over? Back up now? And then you are
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and Atlanta has been open for a long time.
Speaker 1: Now people are still dying, and so dj MB to
Speaker 1: say it's over, you know, for example, here in Georgia,
Speaker 1: we've only had forty of our population to get the vaccine.
Speaker 1: And I hear black folks talking about why I prayed
Speaker 1: to God, God's gonna protect me. I said, God sent
Speaker 1: you the vaccine, why don't you go ahead and take it.
Speaker 1: People are still being infected, people are still dying. Black
Speaker 1: folks still having the big parties with three and four
Speaker 1: and five hundred people in them with no mask on
Speaker 1: and not taking the vaccine. And all of my children
Speaker 1: have had the vaccine. Three of my grandchildren have had it,
Speaker 1: and my others are about to get it now that
Speaker 1: they've lured the age. So the reality is not over yet.
Speaker 1: And so we're gonna error on the car being cautious.
Speaker 1: Were expect to be back next year, but until we do,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go virtual. This last time. We decided in
Speaker 1: March we would not do it in person because you know,
Speaker 1: some of our members are older, and so we're working
Speaker 1: to get people to get the vaccine. But next year
Speaker 1: we'll be ready, but we're not gonna rush to kill
Speaker 1: anybody infect anybody with us happening. You laying down that
Speaker 1: great entertainment On Friday last year, we had over eleven
Speaker 1: thousand on line with us for the conference and we're
Speaker 1: going to try and meet or exceed that this year.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is we'd rather be safe and
Speaker 1: we'll get back together when we get this totally under control.
Speaker 1: How did they sign up? My brother? You can go
Speaker 1: one hundred black Man dot org. Designer for the conference
Speaker 1: one hundred blackman dot org and there's a landing page
Speaker 1: to the conference. As chairman Deutsch, Mitchell will be partying
Speaker 1: with DJ Eavy on Friday night, so forward to that.
Speaker 1: And it's free. And you know, freedom isn't free, but
Speaker 1: this conference is free. But we appreciate you brothers for
Speaker 1: joining in and keep doing the work. And anytime you
Speaker 1: need us, just give us a ring. We're here for you, brothers,
Speaker 1: and look we're looking far to having you in as
Speaker 1: part of the one hundred family and that's coming very soon.
Speaker 1: But thank you for all that you do. Thank go
Speaker 1: for of you for the Breakfast Club. And tell Angela
Speaker 1: you know, thank you. There we go all right, well,
Speaker 1: appreciate you brothers, and we'll see you this weekend. It's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, brothers. Thank you so much, guys,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you now Charlemagne ain't positive, no, brother. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, man, you know, um, I want to
Speaker 1: salute my man Craig Melviourne for coming today. Craig Melvine
Speaker 1: has a book out right now called Pops Learning to
Speaker 1: Be a Son and a Father that came out on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so you know, go grab it. That the co host
Speaker 1: of the Today Show, Craig Melvine. It's a great father
Speaker 1: as they give and I got a salute. You know.
Speaker 1: The Megos once again. You know, we had them on
Speaker 1: yesterday and if you saw you know the video on
Speaker 1: YouTube or heard it on the radio, you saw that
Speaker 1: we celebrated them. You know what I mean. They've been
Speaker 1: the most impactful rap group for the past decade. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people ate off the Megos flow. So
Speaker 1: we just wanted to celebrate Quevo takeoff and offset. So
Speaker 1: we had a whole set up here for them. You know.
Speaker 1: We had the balloons and the balloons with courtesy of
Speaker 1: Blond Saloon in New York City. We had food. Food
Speaker 1: came from Melbourne's restaurant in Harlem. We had flowers from
Speaker 1: the Flower Puff and Elizabeth, New Jersey. We had a
Speaker 1: cake from Doc's Cake shop in Brooklyn. We had marijuana
Speaker 1: courtesy of my man Whax with with with whose Whax,
Speaker 1: And we had tequila from Casca Dragona. Salute to my my,
Speaker 1: my partner Teal at Casca Dragona's Tequila. Thank you all
Speaker 1: for providing providing us with the necessary tools the properly
Speaker 1: celebrate the me goals. Yes, and y'all know I'm in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: This is my first time in Nashville. But we are
Speaker 1: doing the National Museum of African American Music gala. You know,
Speaker 1: it's the grand opening, and so tonight they're gonna be
Speaker 1: actually celebrating Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, and the
Speaker 1: Fisk Jubilee Singers. It's the museum seventh Annual Celebration of
Speaker 1: Legends benefit concert that is happening tonight and I'm hosting.
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to be here. Everybody keeps telling
Speaker 1: me I gotta get out here and eat in Nashville
Speaker 1: and how amazing it is. So I'm gonna explore a
Speaker 1: little bit today before the gala. All right, now, Scheloman,
Speaker 1: you got a positive note, Yes, I do. And it's simple.
Speaker 1: It goes back to what I was saying about celebrating
Speaker 1: the me goals. Man, celebrate the success of buzzes as
Speaker 1: you would want others to celebrate yours. Because what goes
Speaker 1: around absolutely positively comes around. Breakfast Club, y'all finish for
Speaker 1: y'alld up.