Speaker 1: You guys, this is histories. What you've done with the show.
Speaker 2: You guys should do a platform that into it.
Speaker 1: It's the world's most dangerous morning show breaks DJ Envy
Speaker 1: every playing by record I made.
Speaker 2: It made you think that you're liking of controversial questions
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Speaker 1: I like that show. Expect this club. This is my
Speaker 1: favorite show.
Speaker 3: Wake that ass up Club is on good Morning in Usa.
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Speaker 5: Charlamagne the God beat to the plane in his Friday.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's Friday, the weekend, it's hill.
Speaker 1: We are here, man another day to serve.
Speaker 2: I feel blessed, black and highly favored, and I am
Speaker 2: extremely grateful. Gratitude is my attitude. And this is our
Speaker 2: last day as a duo. Yes, we had to be
Speaker 2: a duo for the past what a year? Yeah, ab a,
Speaker 2: yeah exactly. All if it's been three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: five days exactly, it's been a value. And then we
Speaker 2: come back from vacation last year.
Speaker 4: About January tenth.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, so it's it's definitely been over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, because Jess Larrs officially joined the Repas Club
Speaker 2: this Monday.
Speaker 4: That's right, February fifth.
Speaker 1: Breakfast club dynasty continues, Baby, that is right.
Speaker 5: That's right, you know, And let me salute to a
Speaker 5: restaurant in New York City called Tatiana's. All right now,
Speaker 5: Tatiana's is a restaurant. Last night was my wife's birthday.
Speaker 5: Yesterday was my wife's birthday, so we went out to
Speaker 5: eat and we went to this restaurant called tatiana.
Speaker 4: The chef his name is kwame Uwachi.
Speaker 5: I know I said his name wrong, but he infuses
Speaker 5: African and Caribbean food together. And when I say, such
Speaker 5: an amazing place, I had such a good time. I've
Speaker 5: been hearing so much about this restaurant. I just haven't
Speaker 5: had a chance to get. I know, sometimes reservations was hard,
Speaker 5: so we finally got a reservation. When I say the
Speaker 5: food was so damn good, I just want to salute him.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of times we don't talk about
Speaker 5: some of our black chefs, but when I say his
Speaker 5: food was amazing, the restaurant was amazing, has such a
Speaker 5: great time, the vibe was wonderful, and I just want.
Speaker 4: To shout him out.
Speaker 5: I know he won Top Chef Season thirteen because I
Speaker 5: I had to do my homework after I went home.
Speaker 4: And he's opening another restaurant in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5: And the restaurant he's opening in restaurant d C is
Speaker 5: a hotel owned by our country's first black woman billionaire.
Speaker 4: Her name is Sheilia Shila john Sheila.
Speaker 5: Johnson owns the hotel and he's actually having a restaurant
Speaker 5: in there as well in d C. So if you
Speaker 5: ever get a chance and you in New York City,
Speaker 5: try to get a reservation for Tatiana.
Speaker 4: Such a good fan. I mean, it was so good.
Speaker 2: What did you bring something for us? You're telling us
Speaker 2: how good it is. People people in Charlton, South Carolina
Speaker 2: were like the tasty. People in Miami, Florida would like
Speaker 2: the tastey. People in Houston, Texas like to take it tasted.
Speaker 2: People in Savannah Jojo would like the tasty. New York
Speaker 2: is the only think about yourself. Everybody, did you bring somebody?
Speaker 5: If they go to d C, they got to try
Speaker 5: that restaurant. It's it's a dope, dope restaurant. It's funny.
Speaker 5: When I was pulling up a couple, they were just leaving.
Speaker 5: They listened to the Breakfast Club every morning sloop to them,
Speaker 5: they from Queens.
Speaker 4: I just want to say salute.
Speaker 5: They was like, Yo, you gotta try this, you gotta
Speaker 5: try that. It was that type of vibe. Everybody was
Speaker 5: just so cool. It just felt like if you've ever
Speaker 5: been to the Motherland, you try some of the when
Speaker 5: you go out there, you try African food. It was
Speaker 5: it tasted just like that part of Africa. I mean
Speaker 5: so many South Africa.
Speaker 4: I mean in so many.
Speaker 2: Parts South Africa, South Africa, South Africa.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, but it was. It was such a dope,
Speaker 5: dope experience. So if you get a chance, definitely checked him.
Speaker 5: You know, I ran into when there last night to
Speaker 5: I seen Michael B. Jordan was in there eating as well.
Speaker 5: I ran into him last night.
Speaker 1: So the white woman.
Speaker 4: No, he was not with a white woman.
Speaker 1: You don't it's not the question.
Speaker 5: He's doing ABCU Classic tonight out in Jersey where he
Speaker 5: brings up.
Speaker 1: You bring no white woman to HBCU cras man, now
Speaker 1: don't you do that?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: No man, Umar's watching. Shut up man.
Speaker 5: He brings all the HBCUs together and they do like
Speaker 5: a big tournament I know Hampton Place Howard, so many
Speaker 5: different schools will play each other.
Speaker 4: It's his way of bringing shining light on some.
Speaker 5: Of the HBCUs. So I'm gonna be DJing the Classic tonight.
Speaker 5: But I did run into him there last night. But anyway,
Speaker 5: let's get the show cracking.
Speaker 2: Yes, Keenan Thompson will be here today. He's got a
Speaker 2: new book, When I Was Your Age, that's his funny
Speaker 2: stories and questionable parenting advice from a professional clown, longest
Speaker 2: running cast member on SNL overall great guy, ken It
Speaker 2: will be here with us this morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna talk to him in a little bit.
Speaker 5: And then also we got front page news that don't move.
Speaker 5: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: What's the point of that?
Speaker 2: Whats like Taylor's first of all, morning everybody, we are
Speaker 2: to Breakfast Club Morning. Taylor's one of our producers, right,
Speaker 2: much older than she likes that.
Speaker 1: She's scared.
Speaker 2: She's just short, all right, but she wants to be
Speaker 2: like these kids. So she's like, send me the deets.
Speaker 2: What the hell of the deets?
Speaker 4: It's details?
Speaker 2: Okay, say details? How why is it so hard to
Speaker 2: say details. We just had this conversation earlier this week. Okay,
Speaker 2: some words don't need to be shorten. It's two syllables, details, beats, details, deats.
Speaker 2: Send me to deets. What a vegetable that's not like beats?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, good morning, Test, good morning. Let's get
Speaker 2: in some front page news.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: The NBA All Star rosters has been released in the
Speaker 5: reserves as well. People are saying that Victim one beyond
Speaker 5: but is not an All Star. But I think he's
Speaker 5: putting up All Star numbers, isn't he.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say he's putting up All Star numbers. He's
Speaker 2: definitely on track to be Rookie of the Year. He
Speaker 2: should be, yeah, the All Star. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's an All Star.
Speaker 5: I don't know him and Lively I think are doing
Speaker 5: great as rookies. But people are saying that he might
Speaker 5: he should have been an All Star.
Speaker 2: But he's average with twin looking at the night averaging
Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty points ten rebounds.
Speaker 4: That's all Star.
Speaker 1: He's not an All Star.
Speaker 4: Twenty points ten rebounds.
Speaker 2: As a rookie. He's not an All Star yet, that's
Speaker 2: an All Star. He's a super solid rookie. He's not
Speaker 2: an all star.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's some people on this list that are
Speaker 4: not averaging twenty ten.
Speaker 1: I doubt that. All right, Well, what up Taz? Who's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 7: DJ and B CHARLAMAGNEA God Peace?
Speaker 4: All right, now we're sitting in the rip that Joe Madison.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yesterday was the first day of Black history, and
Speaker 7: one man for sure that left us a lot of
Speaker 7: black history is the radio host and activist Joe Madison.
Speaker 7: He passed away at seventy four.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 7: He hosted the show on series ex sim called The
Speaker 7: Black Eagle, where he champion human rights and civil rights
Speaker 7: and so over forty year career, he collected a series
Speaker 7: of impressions at accolades and awards, including being inducted into
Speaker 7: the Radio Hall of Fame in twenty nineteen. But one
Speaker 7: of my favorite parts about his career is how he
Speaker 7: was an activists. He climbed the ranks of NAACP, being
Speaker 7: Detroit's youngest chapter leader at age twenty four, to eventually
Speaker 7: becoming the national political director and finally serving on the
Speaker 7: nation's oldest civil rights organization board for fourteen years.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 7: Tributes came in from everyone President Biden. Vice President Harris
Speaker 7: tweeted this. She said that he aligned his platform with
Speaker 7: a purpose, and through his decade long career in radio,
Speaker 7: he championed the fight for quality injustice. Our nation is
Speaker 7: better because of his voice. President Biden also said that along,
Speaker 7: although he's no longer with us, we hope you join
Speaker 7: in the fight to fight for injustice. But what I
Speaker 7: loved about mister Madison, and I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 7: people agree, is he was known for not holding back
Speaker 7: on the radio.
Speaker 8: Take a listening record.
Speaker 1: I'm fine.
Speaker 9: I think you need to work on your attitude.
Speaker 2: You got attitude, and.
Speaker 10: I think you ought to kiss my ass. How's that
Speaker 10: for an attitude. First of all, I don't need you
Speaker 10: telling me what my attitude is. I'm really pissed off
Speaker 10: at what I'm hearing when I see stupid ass people
Speaker 10: who want to be president of the United States. It
Speaker 10: hasn't done a damn thing, can't do anything. Who is xenophobic? Racist?
Speaker 10: But here's my attitude towards you. I'm a grown ass man, brother,
Speaker 10: And if I want to hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 10: you hear me talking, Hey kid, hey, hot?
Speaker 1: Is ass down?
Speaker 10: And by the way, I'm in charge of this show.
Speaker 10: I don't wake up in the morning worrying about what
Speaker 10: you think. Do you understand me?
Speaker 1: Are we clear it all right?
Speaker 10: I don't give a damn about what you think. Are
Speaker 10: you stupid or something? Dad favor Just keep listening.
Speaker 5: That sounds like my dad's. Sounds like every black fall.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 1: My type of radio personality. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know you definitely use this platform to be of service,
Speaker 2: So salute to that.
Speaker 11: Brother.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my grandfather loved mister Madison. You said it sound
Speaker 7: like grandfather.
Speaker 4: My grandpa and Pops kissed.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 7: My grandfather literally passed away watching he was in the
Speaker 7: hospital and watching him on TV at the literally at
Speaker 7: the moment you know that he passed away. So I'm
Speaker 7: sure he has a lot of questions for him now
Speaker 7: that if they have a chance to meet on the
Speaker 7: other side. But yeah, my type of personality. So rest
Speaker 7: in peace to mister Joe Madison. Remember he did that
Speaker 7: hunger strike for seventy four days. He just did a lot.
Speaker 7: Remember I think we talked about it here. We just
Speaker 7: did a lot. As far as his activism, he did
Speaker 7: a lot of marathons and I think it was in
Speaker 7: a Guinness Book World of Records for raising money on air.
Speaker 7: So just you remember that, just a lot. He's just
Speaker 7: done a lot in radio very long time.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I remember he did the hunger strike. He
Speaker 2: did the hunger strike for voting rights rights. So he
Speaker 2: never ate because that never happened.
Speaker 4: Seventy four days. All right, Well that is front page news.
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Next hour?
Speaker 7: Test your next hour? I want to give you a
Speaker 7: update on the how many stops act it did pass?
Speaker 7: And also Ron DeSantis he's sending Florida National Guard to Texas,
Speaker 7: so he's dipping in Texas business and sending I guess uh,
Speaker 7: Florida tax dollars.
Speaker 1: To do it.
Speaker 4: So we'll talk about it.
Speaker 5: I will talk about that next album right now. Everybody,
Speaker 5: Get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five
Speaker 5: one oh five one. If you need divnits a Friday,
Speaker 5: so whatever you need to talk about it, discuss.
Speaker 11: We are here.
Speaker 5: Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Get
Speaker 5: it off your chest. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 5: the breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: It's a day.
Speaker 12: Is your time to get it off your chest, whether
Speaker 12: you're mad or.
Speaker 4: Black, time to get up and get something. Call up
Speaker 4: now eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
Speaker 1: We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this?
Speaker 8: Get your stampa?
Speaker 4: Hey, Debora, good morning. Where you calling from? Hey, Virginia
Speaker 4: seven five to seven? Fab How are you feeling this morning?
Speaker 4: Get it off your chest.
Speaker 13: I'm getting just and the company with stations in the morning.
Speaker 11: Huh.
Speaker 1: I just want to talk to.
Speaker 8: You in the morning.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much. Man. We appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Which one did you which one did you like?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 4: You were talking about goods and rappers.
Speaker 8: They gave a worker five thousand dollars and.
Speaker 13: Then y'all talked about the appreciation of Sovieta workers and
Speaker 13: people that can and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I want to tell you.
Speaker 8: Some books because she loves.
Speaker 2: We'll get your address right now. I send her a
Speaker 2: whole pack. I got a I got some good stuff
Speaker 2: up here. I got to meet a Mallory State of Emergency.
Speaker 2: I got Anita Colepak Shallow Waters, I got Doug Melville
Speaker 2: Invisible General. I'll send her an advanced copy of My
Speaker 2: Black Country by Alice Randall.
Speaker 1: Those are all books off my book in print, Black Privilege, publishing.
Speaker 1: I sent us, sweet, yep, we do that right now,
Speaker 1: We got right, And don't keep don't keep her on
Speaker 1: whole forever either, now like y'all be doing.
Speaker 4: She's a long one. Hello, who's this man be this
Speaker 4: to sign from?
Speaker 6: Good morning?
Speaker 1: Happy Cassan? What up?
Speaker 4: Don't get it off your chest?
Speaker 6: Man envy. I'm tired of these young, able body people
Speaker 6: that's out here begging for money. Yesterday, this is just
Speaker 6: one example. Yesterday, I'm at the gas station. It's this
Speaker 6: guy in the gas station begging for money, talking about
Speaker 6: he's trying to get a room across the street. And
Speaker 6: I'm just like, God, don't do work. And I don't
Speaker 6: think people understand that nobody really wants to work. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's people out here that love their careers or want
Speaker 6: to go to work. But for most of us nine
Speaker 6: to five people, a lot of the time, most of
Speaker 6: the time, probably it's a drag to get up, but
Speaker 6: we forced ourselves to do it to handle our responsibility.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, you know, if you love
Speaker 2: your job, though, it's not work. If you love what
Speaker 2: you do, it's not work. So that's not for every everybody.
Speaker 2: If some people actually do love what they do, like
Speaker 2: we love what we do.
Speaker 5: But Casana will say people, I won't say, you don't
Speaker 5: know that man. You don't know what that man just
Speaker 5: went through. He might have just lost his job, you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, he might have just fell on hard time.
Speaker 5: So you don't know. You know, it's easy to say
Speaker 5: that these young able body people can just get a job,
Speaker 5: but he might have.
Speaker 4: Just lost a job and now even down to his
Speaker 4: last you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: I agree, and being I'm not saying that that's his
Speaker 6: perity necessarily, it just made me think of this.
Speaker 8: Think of this.
Speaker 6: I but let me tell you this one time I'm
Speaker 6: at the at the station and again not the same
Speaker 6: he won. But so this god, he's begging for money
Speaker 6: here and he's probably jugger than me at the time.
Speaker 6: I'm probably twenty five, he probably forty two.
Speaker 1: Hey, so I'm like, well, my job is hiring.
Speaker 6: I could run and get you a job application because
Speaker 6: I don't say that far from my job, and you
Speaker 6: can put my name on it for a recommendation.
Speaker 8: He kills me.
Speaker 6: No, I'm waiting on my check to come through. He's
Speaker 6: weighing on the disability check he tried to clear and
Speaker 6: I'm just like, Oh, I mean.
Speaker 8: I understand.
Speaker 6: I don't know what the disability is or anything, but
Speaker 6: a lot of these three fout heres just don't want
Speaker 6: to work.
Speaker 11: That's true.
Speaker 1: I mean that that is true.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of jobs out there that they could
Speaker 2: be working, but they choose not to, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. But also a lot of people don't want
Speaker 2: to have to work two in three jobs to make
Speaker 2: into meat either.
Speaker 1: You know, but I understand what you're saying. I agree.
Speaker 1: I can see both sides.
Speaker 5: Get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five
Speaker 5: one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit
Speaker 5: us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 12: Good morning the Breakfast Club. This is your time to
Speaker 12: get it off your chest. Eight hundred five five one
Speaker 12: five one. We want to hear from you on the
Speaker 12: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 9: Hello.
Speaker 11: Who's this?
Speaker 1: Good morning?
Speaker 8: DJ Charlottage, the god of DJ on Jill from Newbird.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's up? Brother?
Speaker 4: Get it off your chest?
Speaker 11: What's going on?
Speaker 8: I just wanted to talk about man envy. Why is
Speaker 8: there so much gatekeeping in the DJ community? Man?
Speaker 1: What you mean?
Speaker 8: Something side? You ask somebody, Hey, where'd you get that
Speaker 8: mixed from? Where's that song? From Where is this from?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 8: Man, I don't know, man, interview sent it to me
Speaker 8: personally something like that, when you know, if you intend
Speaker 8: it to me, you know what I mean, stuff like that. Man,
Speaker 8: it just hurts me, especially in my community. But we
Speaker 8: have little kids. When my little kids teenagers, new birds,
Speaker 8: you know, pretty bad area. With some of these kids,
Speaker 8: they just want to get away. So I try to
Speaker 8: give them, like you know, hard drives and stuff like
Speaker 8: that to keep them off the streets. So they have
Speaker 8: music and things like that for people just want to
Speaker 8: gatekeep with certain music and don't want to help out,
Speaker 8: you know, be the youngest to keep the DJ community going.
Speaker 5: Now, I think the DJ community actually got a lot
Speaker 5: better when I was. When I was coming up, there
Speaker 5: was a lot of people not helping each other, not
Speaker 5: wanting to talk and discuss certain things.
Speaker 4: But I think that's changed a lot.
Speaker 1: What do you need, I.
Speaker 8: Know, just like you know, I mean, just to help
Speaker 8: the young young kids. They don't have all the resources.
Speaker 8: Like like I said, when I was younger, before I
Speaker 8: thought anything of any equipment, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 8: did my research. I was on YouTube. I was trying
Speaker 8: to talk to the DJs, stuff like that I was young,
Speaker 8: but nowadays feel like everybody just want to hold everything
Speaker 8: to themselves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's just the people you're talking to.
Speaker 5: I mean I meant to a lot of DJs and
Speaker 5: helped them out, and you know, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 5: They they put me on in new music. You know,
Speaker 5: I helped them out with whatever they need. So I mean,
Speaker 5: you just talk into the wrong people. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of DJs out there that will support and and and
Speaker 5: help you. Hit me on the DM. So if you
Speaker 5: ever need anything, you know I got your contact and
Speaker 5: you could always hit me as well.
Speaker 4: You know, I support and I love my DJs.
Speaker 2: Salute everybody in Newburgh too. Man got mad love for Newburgh.
Speaker 2: That's the home of partisan Fontaine.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Hello, who's this.
Speaker 13: Hello?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 4: What's your name?
Speaker 11: Oh glad?
Speaker 13: How you doing? I wanted you first to say good morning, morning,
Speaker 13: and I listened to y'all every day. I even remember
Speaker 13: the ten seconds y'all will want to Seattle like ten
Speaker 13: years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, we was on in Seattle for a
Speaker 1: little moment.
Speaker 13: You're right, for like ten seconds, yeah, say.
Speaker 1: About twelve, about twelve, about twelve, But I.
Speaker 13: Was calling I just wanted to raise awareness February and
Speaker 13: part months and today is actually National Wear Red Day,
Speaker 13: and I just wanted to give a shout out. I
Speaker 13: am actually a heart mom. My baby was born with
Speaker 13: a congenital heart defect and he had to spend the
Speaker 13: first three months of his life in the hospital. He
Speaker 13: had four surgeries in five months. But he turns to
Speaker 13: next week and he's doing amazing and I'm so so
Speaker 13: proud of him, but going through that journey, like there's
Speaker 13: so many heart babies. People don't realize one and ten
Speaker 13: babies are impacted by congenital heart disease, and black babies
Speaker 13: are a lot of those ones. So I just want
Speaker 13: to raise the words for that. And yeah, just got
Speaker 13: out to my baby. Happy birthday to my.
Speaker 2: Little happy born. Did little Juju be and thank you too.
Speaker 2: You know, we are we are aware that it is
Speaker 2: a heart aware in this month. You know doctor Joseph Pumer,
Speaker 2: he's a good friend of ours. He has a has
Speaker 2: a facility called Soaring Medical, and you know they do
Speaker 2: heart and heart scam, so you know they do your cardiology,
Speaker 2: cardiovascular disease, all of that.
Speaker 1: Type of stuff.
Speaker 2: So he'll be up here at some point that's right
Speaker 2: this month to talk about it, probably next week.
Speaker 13: I just also want to encourage people if you can,
Speaker 13: like donate to your local children's hospital, you know, the
Speaker 13: Ronald McDonald House charity. When we were in the hospital,
Speaker 13: like it was such a hard time, but they like
Speaker 13: really tried to make usegu meals and Wow cards to
Speaker 13: get gas in the car and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: So I just really encourage people if you.
Speaker 13: Can like donate to so fun the Children's hospital around
Speaker 13: McDonald House, American Heart Association and all those things. And
Speaker 13: I just want to try out my baby Instagram is
Speaker 13: at Drew Kingston and Drew with a J j r.
Speaker 4: U KINKSTI thank you in there.
Speaker 5: I got his whole story on you. And you know what,
Speaker 5: I got so many toys. You know, my kids, I'll
Speaker 5: grow toys and I ain't having no more babies. But
Speaker 5: that's that's a good thing that I could do. With
Speaker 5: the toys, I could definitely give in to the Ronald
Speaker 5: McDonald House and the children's hospital, so that way when
Speaker 5: children do have to go to the hospital, they do
Speaker 5: have toys to play with it and things to do
Speaker 5: while they're in there. I mean, I got puzzles, I
Speaker 5: got books, I got so many toys that's just sitting there.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I definitely will talk to my wife and
Speaker 5: we'll do that this weekend. Thank you, Get it off
Speaker 5: your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
Speaker 5: If you need the vent, you can hit us up
Speaker 5: now when we come back. We got your room of
Speaker 5: report now two R and B kings got into it yesterday.
Speaker 5: We'll tell you all about it. And when I say
Speaker 5: got into it, fist fighting Jesus Christ. All right, we'll
Speaker 5: get to it next. It's the Breakfast Club on morning.
Speaker 5: I hate this place.
Speaker 1: Why I love it here? I hate this place. This
Speaker 1: is all live day as a duo. Baby just hilarious.
Speaker 1: Will be here on Monday. I can't wait. You hear me?
Speaker 4: You may no more na.
Speaker 1: We just had you know, it's better with a three
Speaker 1: of like it's a trio, not a three on. What
Speaker 1: I said?
Speaker 2: Man, let me gelon, man acting like I can't talk,
Speaker 2: and y'all know I can't.
Speaker 4: Morning, everybody, we are to Breakfast Club. Let's get to
Speaker 4: the room.
Speaker 15: Ors.
Speaker 5: Let's start off with Wendy Williams all out of name
Speaker 5: or you gossip been on you chatting.
Speaker 1: Is the rumor report.
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess we're on the breakfast club.
Speaker 1: This is where the tea.
Speaker 7: Spells right right now.
Speaker 5: This is documentary coming out on February twenty fourth. In
Speaker 5: February twenty fifth, the documentary is called where Is Wendy Williams.
Speaker 4: Let's play a little bit of the trailer, please you.
Speaker 11: Put in front of a judge and giving the guardian.
Speaker 11: That's when they took it away from us.
Speaker 7: I have no money, and I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 1: If it happens to me, it could happen to you.
Speaker 4: As her family, we were all sitting on the sidelines
Speaker 4: watching and she was crying out for help.
Speaker 1: Did you drink this whole thing today? Keep it there?
Speaker 7: Okay, keep it there?
Speaker 15: My mom.
Speaker 11: She always talks, gosh, how she wants to work the
Speaker 11: IFL as though she's working off.
Speaker 15: She has people around who are yes people and allowing
Speaker 15: this to continue.
Speaker 9: This is all too much.
Speaker 11: I think she's losing memory.
Speaker 1: Have you guys noticed that? How dare him?
Speaker 7: Anybody could look at her and tell this is not
Speaker 7: just alcohol, There's something more going on.
Speaker 2: I immediately prayed for Wendy after I watched that and
Speaker 2: I don't understand why he got the cam. I' r
Speaker 2: in that woman's face for what Obviously y'all taking advantage
Speaker 2: of the dysfunctioning. Why do you want to document somebody's
Speaker 2: somebody's uh downfall?
Speaker 5: Basically see why she needs the money and she probably
Speaker 5: got paid to do this the documentary. If she says
Speaker 5: she has no money, she's not doing radio, she's not
Speaker 5: doing her TV show?
Speaker 1: Do we know she's getting the money?
Speaker 2: If you hear people in the documentary, I think it
Speaker 2: was her son saying that there's people around her taking
Speaker 2: advantage of her. How do we know she's even getting
Speaker 2: the money? How do we know somebody just didn't go
Speaker 2: do this deal? And you hear somebody else say that
Speaker 2: she's losing memory, So how we know that she even
Speaker 2: knows that she's in the right frame of mind to
Speaker 2: even know what she's doing money getting her If her.
Speaker 4: Family's involved, you would hope she's getting the money right.
Speaker 1: And you would hope.
Speaker 16: So.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I genuinely feel feel compassion for her. I do so
Speaker 2: that you know how I worked with her for three years.
Speaker 2: You know that's how I even ended up in New
Speaker 2: York City. You know from Columbia side. I was doing
Speaker 2: radio on Columbia Sicking Line at the time. People know
Speaker 2: that story, but I'm just saying, it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I genuinely do feel sorry for her. And also because
Speaker 2: the level of miserable that y'all seeing now, a lot
Speaker 2: of us saw that way way, way, way, way way
Speaker 2: way back in the day. It's just clearly gotten worse.
Speaker 2: The only thing I would tell folks is don't laugh
Speaker 2: at Wendy Learn. It's a cautionary tale. And she says
Speaker 2: that in the trailer. She says, if it can happen,
Speaker 2: if it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.
Speaker 4: That's right. How how old is Wendy. She's in the sixties,
Speaker 4: No fifties, I think fifty fifty.
Speaker 2: I about to say, how this temperature, I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: saying that about people age in a high high seventies, seventies,
Speaker 2: I guess hot outside of something.
Speaker 4: But she's not.
Speaker 1: She's fifty nine. She'd be sixty this year.
Speaker 4: I said sixties. He goes, no, hell, no, boy, she's
Speaker 4: fifty nine.
Speaker 1: But I didn't realize it.
Speaker 4: It's not say she's fifty nine.
Speaker 5: She you know, she hopefully she will get a second
Speaker 5: shot at this thing called the music industry, and in
Speaker 5: a entertainment world, why not.
Speaker 1: Know at this point that should be the least of
Speaker 1: anybody's concern.
Speaker 4: Well after she gets to help, if she does need that.
Speaker 2: Her son said it in the doc if you watch
Speaker 2: the whole two in the trailer, her son said she
Speaker 2: talks about wanting to work all the time.
Speaker 1: He says, I think she's worked enough. She needs peace.
Speaker 2: That's what she needs to spend the rest of her
Speaker 2: life trying to do find find peace, not just not
Speaker 2: just with herself, but you know, you know you want
Speaker 2: to you hope for you hope for forgiveness.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, You hope if.
Speaker 2: You've done any wrongs you can make them right for
Speaker 2: in this moment.
Speaker 5: But maybe she can do that in the in the
Speaker 5: samement world. Maybe she can get back to what she
Speaker 5: does because that's what she enjoys. It seems like that
Speaker 5: kept her alive.
Speaker 2: She need to be in front of nobody camera. To me,
Speaker 2: it don't look like she needs to be in front
Speaker 2: of nobody camera. To me, that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 2: And I also just want to tell y'all for all
Speaker 2: of y'all that want to be the next one.
Speaker 11: Dy Williams.
Speaker 2: Just know oftentimes that style of broadcasting does not in
Speaker 2: Well that's just the truth to the matter, that's right.
Speaker 2: You know, Listen, you say what you want. You know
Speaker 2: sometimes that that that energy you puts out, it does
Speaker 2: come come back to you in a lot of ways, right,
Speaker 2: So you know, you just you just gotta know that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, the whole totality of things.
Speaker 2: That's why I like watching you know, the old g's
Speaker 2: that have come before us, because you really get to
Speaker 2: see the whole totality of how things play out. You
Speaker 2: can see the things they did right, you can see
Speaker 2: the things they did wrong. And it's very important to
Speaker 2: know how your plane is gonna land. So many people's
Speaker 2: planes are landing in the wheels are not coming out.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, all.
Speaker 5: Right, well let's keep it moving. Jack Yes, Jack Queese
Speaker 5: and Trey's songs. It seems like they got into an altercation.
Speaker 5: They're both out in Dubai and uh.
Speaker 4: Jack Queese posted this about an hour ago, a couple
Speaker 4: of hours ago.
Speaker 17: I want the world to know this Chanz Trey songs
Speaker 17: is a period. This is a bro This came in
Speaker 17: the club talking about you, talking about chanced. Then you
Speaker 17: come outside the club and swing on your little brother
Speaker 17: was a Chris Brown a goat you was a.
Speaker 11: Brother bottle that ain't even my you're talking about. That's
Speaker 11: with these the workers you talk about people that came
Speaker 11: with it. Hey man, you chance you.
Speaker 17: And I don't give a if you tell anybody anything
Speaker 17: about what we text.
Speaker 1: You put the message on the bro.
Speaker 11: You can never come around me.
Speaker 2: What is happening? I want to tell y'all something. If
Speaker 2: we got to bleep that much, don't play the damn clip?
Speaker 2: What the hell's wrong with y'all? Those producers in this
Speaker 2: building who put you up to this?
Speaker 1: Well? Call you know what the hell's going on?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 4: Jack Que's and trade songs?
Speaker 1: Oh you know, I.
Speaker 2: Need details, I need every word almost understand what's going
Speaker 2: on nowadays.
Speaker 1: And y'all just gonna bleep that thing.
Speaker 4: Like that, bleep, bleep, bleep bleep.
Speaker 5: Well, jack Quee's and trade songs. In Dubai, they got
Speaker 5: into a fight and altercation. Allegedly they jack Queeze is
Speaker 5: saying Trey Songs ripped out his head during a tussle, and.
Speaker 1: Y'all had to bleep that you had to bleep that
Speaker 1: y'all couldn't play that for me.
Speaker 5: So uh, I just I just hope that these brothers
Speaker 5: understand that they are in Dubai and the laws in
Speaker 5: Dubai are a lot different than the laws in America.
Speaker 5: And I want those brothers to get back here safely.
Speaker 2: No, none of us care, because all of us of
Speaker 2: a certain age couldn't even understand what was going on
Speaker 2: because there was too many bleeps, So we don't even
Speaker 2: care what's happening all right?
Speaker 5: Well, lastly, juvenile, Yeah, this is something else. Juvenile calls
Speaker 5: out the Lovers and Friends festival.
Speaker 4: This is what he said.
Speaker 18: Oh, man, here we go again. Man, these can't say
Speaker 18: lovers and friends. Well, in charge of lovers and friends? Man,
Speaker 18: y'all doing bad business. Man, y'all gonna put my name
Speaker 18: on a flyer. And y'all know y'all ain't sitting in
Speaker 18: a deposit, ain't sitting in no bread or nothing. Keep
Speaker 18: all playing games talking about y'all gonna get bad me.
Speaker 18: Look y'all playing games with the wrong mom.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 11: If y'all gonna book me, y'all not gonna book me.
Speaker 18: Take my name off y'all fly I ain't got no
Speaker 18: problem with that. I could do something else with my time.
Speaker 18: I ain't tripping, but don't put my name on y'all flyers.
Speaker 18: If y'all know y'all ain't paying me no money. That's tough.
Speaker 1: Four bleeps, that's all it was.
Speaker 2: And I understood everything that juvenile said just now, and
Speaker 2: I even know what word was bleeped because of the
Speaker 2: way the context of how he was using it.
Speaker 1: That's how you talk. Okay, stop putting people on flys.
Speaker 2: If you ain't sitting him, they fronting and you ain't
Speaker 2: secured the business, uh the way you're post.
Speaker 1: To that's right period. Now see ye see Paul bleeps.
Speaker 5: Well, Mace recently asked to be removed from the lineup
Speaker 5: The Dream and Mary J. Blos Social confirmed they will
Speaker 5: be not performing. So this is the fourth artist. So
Speaker 5: we'll see lovers and friends gotta get it together.
Speaker 2: Well, they got enough people on that talk, so they
Speaker 2: lose a few, they'll be fine, all.
Speaker 5: Right, And that is your room or report. Now when
Speaker 5: we come back, we got front page news. Testling figure
Speaker 5: will be joining us and Kennon Thompson will be here,
Speaker 5: so don't move it's to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the.
Speaker 5: Same morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlemagne de God. We
Speaker 5: are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.
Speaker 1: What up tears?
Speaker 4: Who's going on?
Speaker 7: Happy Friday? Dj Am, It's charlemagnea God.
Speaker 4: Let's jump right into it. Let's talk Mayor Adams.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we talked about this earlier this week. A lot
Speaker 7: of different opinions about this on the how many stops
Speaker 7: act and I wanted to give you an update on
Speaker 7: that now Mayor Adams v told the bill and the
Speaker 7: latest update is NYC City Council voted in favor of
Speaker 7: over riding the mayor Mayor's veto for two to nine
Speaker 7: take a listen.
Speaker 19: Come July, NYPD officers will be required to log basic
Speaker 19: info about every civilian they stop for low level encounters
Speaker 19: known as level one stop, such as a search for
Speaker 19: a missing person. Council member Usef Salaam said it will
Speaker 19: bring generational change to the justice system. He and four
Speaker 19: other black and Latino men were falsely accused and convicted
Speaker 19: of raping a white jogger in Central Park in nineteen
Speaker 19: eighty nine.
Speaker 9: If these laws were in place in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 9: I'll vote on.
Speaker 19: Of the fifty one council members, forty two voted in
Speaker 19: favor of the bill, saying it will prevent racial profiling.
Speaker 19: A federal monitor overseeing the NYPD stop and frisk tactics
Speaker 19: last year found ninety seven percent of people stopped were
Speaker 19: black or Hispanic.
Speaker 7: Now, opponents say that reporting level one stops, which are
Speaker 7: classified as non criminal encounters, will slow down response time
Speaker 7: and take away from policing on the city streets. Here
Speaker 7: is how Democrats and Republicans voted on the law in
Speaker 7: their opinion. Take a list.
Speaker 19: Several Democrats even voted in favor who had not previously.
Speaker 14: Where people had to reconsider how their experiences are drastically
Speaker 14: different than some of their colleagues of color.
Speaker 19: All the Republicans on the council voted against it.
Speaker 8: You must also acknowledge the small increments and administrative tasks
Speaker 8: that can have cascading effects on our already stretched resources.
Speaker 4: It's asking them to do more while they have less.
Speaker 19: In a statement, the Police Benevolent Association said this will
Speaker 19: contribute to rising nine to one one response times and
Speaker 19: diminish police presence in neighborhoods.
Speaker 7: So Mayor Adams, who's obviously a Democrat, he did not
Speaker 7: support this bill. So this is still you know, up
Speaker 7: to a lot of people have a different lot of
Speaker 7: opinions on this.
Speaker 4: All right, well, let's jump right to ron de Santis.
Speaker 7: No problem, Ronda Santis, he is deploying State and National
Speaker 7: Guard to Texas border. Yesterday he announced he is deploying
Speaker 7: the Florida State Guard to support Texas during his ongoing
Speaker 7: feud with federal officials at Eagle Pass. It is unclear
Speaker 7: what the troops will be doing when they arrive in Texas,
Speaker 7: but the move is the sent troops. That comes after
Speaker 7: Governor Gret Abbott has defied of federal authorities in the
Speaker 7: border community, claiming he's protecting his state from invasion. Here's
Speaker 7: what a little bit of what rond de Santis had
Speaker 7: to say at a fresh conference.
Speaker 16: It has the authority to close this border today if
Speaker 16: he wanted to.
Speaker 1: He lacks the will to get the job done.
Speaker 16: He lacks the capacity to see the problem for what
Speaker 16: it is and to get the job done. And so
Speaker 16: the American people are basically left scrambling, and they're left
Speaker 16: to have to deal with this all.
Speaker 11: On their rows.
Speaker 2: These guys are just better at the political thing than
Speaker 2: Democrats all man like, literally, like, the board is gonna
Speaker 2: be a huge issue come election time. And that's why
Speaker 2: Republicans don't want to work with Democrats to fix it,
Speaker 2: because they don't want the Biden administration to get any
Speaker 2: credit for fixing it. And if I was the Biden administration,
Speaker 2: if I was Democrats right now, and if I was
Speaker 2: also a Republicans who don't rock with Trump, I would
Speaker 2: be letting everybody know the re than the border isn't
Speaker 2: getting fixed.
Speaker 1: It is because of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: He literally told Republicans not to do the deal that
Speaker 2: Biden is laid out.
Speaker 1: He's the shadow president.
Speaker 2: He literally told Republicans not to do the deal, and
Speaker 2: some Republicans are listening.
Speaker 1: That's insane to me. Yeah, well that's how it goes.
Speaker 7: I mean you, it certainly is insane. But again, you
Speaker 7: got to run on something, you know, everybody on the
Speaker 7: campaign has to run on something. They're running on immigration. Uh,
Speaker 7: the Democrats are running on abortion. So he's not going
Speaker 7: to give him those political points to score. Is it wrong?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: But is that how politics campaigns work?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 7: Absolutely had an opportunity to fix the border when they
Speaker 7: had control of the House and Senates. So now you've
Speaker 7: given this this ball for Republicans to run with. In
Speaker 7: twenty five Republican governors, including the Santis, are publicly supporting Abbott.
Speaker 7: But this is going past just support. They're saying, we're
Speaker 7: willing to even put troops on the ground for you.
Speaker 7: I mean, this is just.
Speaker 2: President aren't the truth fighting other federal authorities.
Speaker 7: But they think they think this is important enough to
Speaker 7: send to put some action behind, put someone walk behind
Speaker 7: the talk war. Well, they's say they want to come
Speaker 7: help with the invasion, that's all. But it's it's more
Speaker 7: of a it's just like when they dropped the migrants
Speaker 7: off at V. P. Harris's house. And this is a
Speaker 7: statement they want to let you know, we're willing to
Speaker 7: we're going to come together as governors. We're not just
Speaker 7: going to talk about it, but we're actually going to
Speaker 7: do something about it and make a political statement so
Speaker 7: that they can get into the news and continue to push, uh,
Speaker 7: push the what they believe on immigration, run on that.
Speaker 2: Well after they put it on the floor and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Republicans vote against it. I hope the Democrats
Speaker 2: immediately pivot to let folks know, you know what is
Speaker 2: actually the problem, and the problem is the fact that
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, the shadow president, jumped out there and told
Speaker 2: Republicans don't do the deal.
Speaker 7: Is it really the shadow president? And he making it
Speaker 7: pretty known from.
Speaker 2: He's the shadow president because he's not the official president.
Speaker 2: But he's definitely he's definitely, she's definitely controlling things in
Speaker 2: the GOP. Yep.
Speaker 7: Well, that's why you gotta have something to run on.
Speaker 7: And that's what they're doing on every level. Again, guys,
Speaker 7: it's not just running for president, it's every level, governor,
Speaker 7: state rep state center, you know, all of these, all
Speaker 7: of the g people will be running on immigrations.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't I don't respect any politician who puts, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, politics over the people.
Speaker 1: But that's majority of them.
Speaker 7: Oh exactly, I guess you know what I'm saying, no
Speaker 7: respect for no politicians.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. Yes, that's exactly all right.
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Speaker 5: All right, now, when we come back, Keenan Thompson will
Speaker 5: be joining us, of course, comedian you know for Saturday
Speaker 5: Night Live. And of course he has a new book,
Speaker 5: When I Was Your Age, Life Lessons, funny stories and
Speaker 5: questionable parenting advice from a professional clown.
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk to Keenan when we come back. It's
Speaker 4: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club owning everybody.
Speaker 5: It's dj n V Charlamagne de guy. We are the
Speaker 5: Breakfast Club. You got a but you guess at the building,
Speaker 5: the legendary ken and Thomps. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome man,
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
Speaker 11: Good morning, my brothers. You're feeling it. We're checking in man.
Speaker 11: Happy Black History Month.
Speaker 1: Happy Black History Month. How you feeling thrilled? My brother?
Speaker 1: How you feeling energy? Like great?
Speaker 11: My energy is great, man, Like you know, we're having
Speaker 11: another good season over there. Forty nine about to be
Speaker 11: the fiftieth. It's getting real over there, man, that fiftieth celebration,
Speaker 11: I think it's gonna be big this time. At the
Speaker 11: fortieth it was a lot of people so and you know,
Speaker 11: you got a new book out when I was.
Speaker 1: Your age, I should have brought the book. I wanted
Speaker 1: to hear this, to have it propped up.
Speaker 2: I'm slipping when I was your age, Life lessons, funny stories,
Speaker 2: and questionable parenting advice from a professional clown. First of all,
Speaker 2: what made you want to write a book? Because you
Speaker 2: always have been a very private person.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's the longest title ever. I just felt there
Speaker 11: was time, you know, Like a lot of people, I
Speaker 11: guess in my position, a lot of my heroes have
Speaker 11: written books, you know what I'm saying. You got seven right, two? Yeah,
Speaker 11: working on the third, so h yeah, And people approached me.
Speaker 11: I was just trying to, you know, make sure I
Speaker 11: had enough to talk about. Were like people that actually
Speaker 11: read books, you know, And luckily I worked with a
Speaker 11: great collaborator, DIBs Bear shout Out, you know, and yeah,
Speaker 11: we put together a pretty good book. From what I'm hearing,
Speaker 11: like the people that have read it seem to enjoy it,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying. It's not like three hundred
Speaker 11: pages or nothing, you know, which was kind of strange.
Speaker 11: I'm like, damn, that's my life story, like so like
Speaker 11: you know, but it has definitely been you know, a
Speaker 11: really cool thing to share with the world and you know,
Speaker 11: tell my story to my parents' story and you know, siblings,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying, and like let people, you know,
Speaker 11: kind of know the real me, the origin story kind
Speaker 11: of thing that I don't necessarily get to tell on
Speaker 11: you know, talk shows and stuff like that, because you
Speaker 11: usually want to just talk about the current thing you're
Speaker 11: there to promote or whatever. So yeah, it was a
Speaker 11: cool experience.
Speaker 1: Explained the long ass title because it's a lot there.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it's just like I guess I've been
Speaker 11: doing it for so long that I had, you know,
Speaker 11: a lot to kind of display, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: So I have to kind of explain what my position
Speaker 11: is in this world so far in a capturing kind
Speaker 11: of title and kind of tell people like what the
Speaker 11: book is so they want to grab it and read it,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean. And like that's probably why
Speaker 11: the title is it's so lengthy. But you know, it's
Speaker 11: also some comedy there, because yeah, it is so long,
Speaker 11: and yeah, the good wordage of like being a professional
Speaker 11: clown and stuff like that. You know, like I take
Speaker 11: that really seriously, Like I'm an actor you know, so
Speaker 11: like when I'm clowning around, it's usually for higher kind
Speaker 11: of thing, you know, as you can see, like my
Speaker 11: demeanor is pretty pretty level. You say, like I don't
Speaker 11: really even be getting stressed out of my demeanor doesn't
Speaker 11: change much. But yeah, big tourist energy over here, you
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying, and like.
Speaker 1: But you don't seem hard headed though most tourists is,
Speaker 1: I know, hard headed.
Speaker 11: I get stubborn about when I think I'm right, you
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying, But like, no, I'm very good
Speaker 11: with the flow kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Do your kids take you serious? Or they always see
Speaker 4: daddy as the clown and the joke the last.
Speaker 11: I'm the clown, and I'm definitely in their way, you
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying, Like I'm in their way for
Speaker 11: having fun or whatever they want to do. Like you know,
Speaker 11: when they around their friends, they don't want you know,
Speaker 11: old Daddy's around them. You know, so they definitely think
Speaker 11: they're funnier than me, and they probably are, Like they
Speaker 11: definitely like make me laugh. But that's that dynamic. You know,
Speaker 11: you're you could be you know, Michael Jordan's son and
Speaker 11: think that your dad just only plays basketball as opposed
Speaker 11: to being Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you got a chapter title called I'm
Speaker 1: Glad I went broke? When did that happen? You've been
Speaker 1: You've been working since at least nine.
Speaker 11: And foul yeo. Yeah, Like I've been blessed to continue working.
Speaker 11: But y'all had a bad accountant and it came to
Speaker 11: the light around ninety nine, like around two thousand, which
Speaker 11: was really bad timing because that's right when I left
Speaker 11: my consistent gig, you know what I'm saying. So then
Speaker 11: I went into being an adult actor for hire, and
Speaker 11: that is very hit and miss. So there was some
Speaker 11: good jobs, like I did Felicity that was cool. And
Speaker 11: I got to meet jj Abrams when he was young,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying, And that's like a priceless
Speaker 11: kind of a friendship, I would say, just because he's
Speaker 11: grown to be, you know, such a major force in
Speaker 11: the industry. But it was like six months until Love
Speaker 11: Don't Cost a Thing, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 11: was happy to get Loved Don't cast things. My brother Nick's.
Speaker 1: Movie Nick Canny had.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we had a lot in my house, you know
Speaker 11: what I'm saying. I was like at your house. Yeah,
Speaker 11: I was ridding this house that had a bunch of
Speaker 11: space or whatever. But we was young, so it was like, yeah,
Speaker 11: move all the furniture to silences, just you know, throw
Speaker 11: a party and like invite everybody kind of thing back
Speaker 11: in those days. So that was fun. But it was
Speaker 11: still broke, you know what I mean, like just money
Speaker 11: enough for the rent kind of thing. And yeah that
Speaker 11: you know, the account was was dirty and I ended
Speaker 11: up not letting that be the end all, be all
Speaker 11: of what my life is going to be. So I
Speaker 11: just you know, moved back to calaun and continue.
Speaker 1: How much did they account and get you for.
Speaker 11: A million and a half something like that? I mean
Speaker 11: that was you know, my contractual like deal at the
Speaker 11: time or whatever, but for like overall Nick nickelod Yeah,
Speaker 11: for a few years or whatever, and then ye saw
Speaker 11: none of it.
Speaker 2: So you that ain't fun. You walked away from that.
Speaker 2: So you walked away from nickelodeon the overall deal that.
Speaker 11: Was just up, you know what I mean. You didn't
Speaker 11: feel like we wanted to continue, like keen Nick hell
Speaker 11: to college is like we couldn't figure it out basically,
Speaker 11: and we were just like, I think we should just
Speaker 11: go figure out what it looks like for us to
Speaker 11: be adult performers for the world. And it was just
Speaker 11: like reproving grounds as ill as like it was almost
Speaker 11: like starting over, you know, because like everybody wanted to
Speaker 11: treat us like kids or keep us in a category
Speaker 11: or whatever, and we just had to like learn how
Speaker 11: to prove ourselves. And for me, you know, SNL was
Speaker 11: that the biggest bridge, you know, as far as like
Speaker 11: adults taking me seriously as an adult, because we were
Speaker 11: already grown, you know, we was in our twenties, you know,
Speaker 11: so we didn't want to be like thirty years old
Speaker 11: still trying to play a kid on Nickelodeon. And yeah,
Speaker 11: the time end of that was just it was just crazy.
Speaker 11: So it was a couple of years of like, man,
Speaker 11: I don't know about this whole, like you know, one
Speaker 11: job here, one job there, like every few months kind
Speaker 11: of thing, because the bills come, you know what I mean,
Speaker 11: every month, no matter what. Thank god, life goes in
Speaker 11: a cycle. So when I was feeling down, I would
Speaker 11: get a gig and that would like you know, start
Speaker 11: trending upward, and then you know, trending further up from
Speaker 11: a love on cars than the barber shop too, you
Speaker 11: know what I mean. And then Barbershop too, left there
Speaker 11: and like went to audition for AC and out, Like do.
Speaker 4: You remember that when you auditioned and they called you
Speaker 4: back and said you got the bar?
Speaker 11: Do you remember that one? Because it was a long process,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying, Like hanging to New York
Speaker 11: straight from Chicago from shooting barber shop, like feeling great
Speaker 11: or whatever, and then seeing what you up against and
Speaker 11: it was every black comic you could even possibly think of. Right,
Speaker 11: So I had to do stand up at the Stand
Speaker 11: Up New York. I had never done stand up before.
Speaker 11: It was a nightmare. And then I saw Call and
Speaker 11: I hadn't seen him in a while, you know what
Speaker 11: I'm saying, Like at the audition and that was awkward,
Speaker 11: but it was like, you know, good luck, good luck
Speaker 11: or whatever. And then I did three minutes of something
Speaker 11: terrible because I wasn't a stand up comic. I didn't
Speaker 11: know how to address the crowd at all. I think
Speaker 11: I just started with that.
Speaker 4: Was part of the audition. You had to do stand up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you walked up there was like Hi.
Speaker 11: I think I just went right into like al shopping
Speaker 11: or something. Like talking to on a sorts nager, you
Speaker 11: know what I mean, like like a kid in his
Speaker 11: own room, basically like playing in the mirror kind of thing.
Speaker 11: And yeah, it didn't go well, but they saw something
Speaker 11: and I got a call back and they were like,
Speaker 11: all right, we want you to try one more time
Speaker 11: at the Live Factory. I was like more stand up.
Speaker 11: And it was a terrible night for me because the
Speaker 11: other four people were actually stand up, you know what
Speaker 11: I mean, And they were kept JB smooth for ness
Speaker 11: Mitchell you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He Ray.
Speaker 11: It was you know, it was a lineup and they
Speaker 11: was destroying. And then I went up there and did
Speaker 11: my little book and like what.
Speaker 4: Were you were you first? Were you four?
Speaker 1: For you? Second?
Speaker 11: I was last?
Speaker 1: You went after d Ray, JB and Mitchell, Yes, christ.
Speaker 11: Yep and Kyle Groom and like Kyle, Yeah, I think Kyle,
Speaker 11: but I know Kyle was in New York, but I
Speaker 11: think he was in LA two. But I know I
Speaker 11: went last after a bunch of brilliant comics. And I
Speaker 11: was so nervous.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 11: I was drinking out the Saint because that was the
Speaker 11: bathroom and like the bar was over there, so I
Speaker 11: didn't want to like go back and forth, you know
Speaker 11: what I mean, like interrupt or anything like that.
Speaker 1: You really really wanted to kill it, but you couldn't
Speaker 1: get you know.
Speaker 11: But I was so nervous, Like I was just like, man,
Speaker 11: I can't quench my thumb, drinking water, drinking water, New
Speaker 11: York water. Back then, I'm like filling it up with
Speaker 11: the sink water and like still, and I was just
Speaker 11: like crazy nervous.
Speaker 4: But did you get booed?
Speaker 11: I didn't get booed, So that was, you know, definitely
Speaker 11: not a dagger, because if I would have got booed,
Speaker 11: I don't even know if I would have wanted the job,
Speaker 11: because would have felt like I didn't deserve it. But
Speaker 11: then after that, they called the next day, and then
Speaker 11: I think they called on a Saturday, and I was
Speaker 11: in New York on Monday.
Speaker 1: And now you're the longest running cast number.
Speaker 4: All right, we got more with Keenan Thompson when we
Speaker 4: come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: Good morning, everybody, It's DJ NV Charlamagne the guy. We
Speaker 5: are the Breakfast Club. Were still kicking it with Keenan
Speaker 5: Thompson his book When I was Your age Life lessons,
Speaker 5: funny stories, and question of parenting advice from a professional
Speaker 5: clown is out right now, Keenan ten charlomage.
Speaker 1: You're going to go on after fifty.
Speaker 2: I remember when I when I interviewed you on my
Speaker 2: late night show, you said you think you should end it.
Speaker 11: That I mean, I thought it would be a good
Speaker 11: number to stop at it if that was the case,
Speaker 11: But I don't think it is. I think they gonna
Speaker 11: keep it running, you know what I'm saying, Like, it
Speaker 11: doesn't make a difference. If it winds up stopping at
Speaker 11: seventy two, it doesn't really matter. But fifty it just
Speaker 11: felt like such a good package, just like you know,
Speaker 11: here's fifty years.
Speaker 20: Of S and L.
Speaker 11: Time Warner, you know what I mean, Sell that at
Speaker 11: around o'clock or whatever, DVDs, this, that and the other.
Speaker 11: It's just a nice round number. Like if they get
Speaker 11: to a hundred, great, if they get to two hundred,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean, incredible. It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 11: But I've never seen a TV show outside of like
Speaker 11: a game show or a soap opera goal past thirty years,
Speaker 11: you know, twenty, Like that's just crazy. So I didn't
Speaker 11: really know how long it was gonna take it then
Speaker 11: if dude was going to retire, you know after that year.
Speaker 11: Lord Michael, Yeah, it might be you know, it might
Speaker 11: be smart to pause it or something like that. But
Speaker 11: at the same time, Tina can do it. I can
Speaker 11: do it. Yeah, Steve Higgins, There's a lot of people
Speaker 11: that can keep it going. It's just will it have
Speaker 11: the same support, you know, like budget wise kind of thing,
Speaker 11: Like if you slash the budget, it's a completely different show,
Speaker 11: and then that's not fair to whoever's in that chair.
Speaker 11: So it's up to them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: But I from what I'm hearing, I think it's probably
Speaker 11: gonna continue.
Speaker 5: Did you ever feel like you didn't have support of
Speaker 5: the culture of the community, you know, because starting off
Speaker 5: as a new culture, any black comedian that's on Saturday
Speaker 5: Night livedal we.
Speaker 4: Say, oh he's the talking black or he's not that funny.
Speaker 4: It's like the hate comes first. Did you ever feel it?
Speaker 11: Yeah, And anytime I do something that's you know, pushing
Speaker 11: boundaries or anything like that, there's a lot of pushback,
Speaker 11: you know. So I definitely felt like the majority of
Speaker 11: black people weren't like YO, Saturday Night Live, is my show,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean. It just felt like, oh,
Speaker 11: you on that white show, you know what I mean
Speaker 11: when people talk to you about it. But you know,
Speaker 11: I took that and was like, all right, well that's
Speaker 11: how y'all feel. You must not really know, you know,
Speaker 11: kind of the history of the show and who's really
Speaker 11: come out of there, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 11: it's just as much our show as anybody else's kind
Speaker 11: of thing, because you know, we have the biggest start
Speaker 11: probably in movie history, you Murphy coming out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Yeah, I've never heard people say that
Speaker 2: there's token blacks on SNL.
Speaker 1: It just was always there wasn't enough of enough black.
Speaker 11: You know, one at a timing for a while, you know, because.
Speaker 2: The black people they have are black. Yeah, Eddie didn't
Speaker 2: try not to be black. Tracy Mugan didn't try not
Speaker 2: to be black like they went for it.
Speaker 11: I don't think Tracy can help himselfing, you know. But yeah,
Speaker 11: that was part of the conversation that I was talking
Speaker 11: about when it was time to get more black women
Speaker 11: in the show. You know. It's just like my my
Speaker 11: quote that was heavily misquoted or whatever.
Speaker 2: It was just the fact that you know, the pool
Speaker 2: to choose from isn't large. I don't even remember the quote.
Speaker 11: The quote that they say I said was that, you know,
Speaker 11: black women ain't funny, But that's not what I said.
Speaker 1: It was like, that's better though, that's a good.
Speaker 2: One about the person writing the story black women ain't
Speaker 2: FUNDI said black women ain't funny.
Speaker 11: You know. That's basically how they blasted me, like for
Speaker 11: a while. You know, Leslie was mad, like before she
Speaker 11: met me, she was like, let them come over here
Speaker 11: and I'll burn it. First of all, I didn't say that,
Speaker 11: and when we first met, you know, that was clarified
Speaker 11: in two seconds because you know, when you and me,
Speaker 11: you know, I'm not outside the culture like that. You
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying. I don't disrespect my black women
Speaker 11: at all, you know, like because like how would my
Speaker 11: mother look at me, how would my sister look at me?
Speaker 11: My cousins by this? That and my that I'm not
Speaker 11: an idiot, you know what I'm saying. And I'm not
Speaker 11: detached from the world either like that, you know what
Speaker 11: I'm saying. So I would never say something so egregious.
Speaker 11: But my point was, yeah, man, like this it's I'm
Speaker 11: sure there's small, low numbers, you know, in those improv
Speaker 11: houses wherever they might be. So if I'm wrong, let
Speaker 11: me be wrong. But I don't think I am because
Speaker 11: I've been in the business a long time and I
Speaker 11: go to shows a lot, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: and I be looking, you know, and I look back
Speaker 11: on history, like when you watch Chris Farley in his
Speaker 11: Second City Days or whatever, and you look at the
Speaker 11: background and his performance. It was tim medals. It wasn't
Speaker 11: like it was tim medals and as Kevin and there's
Speaker 11: Joe and there's this that, and then they are all
Speaker 11: black and together and only Tim got the shot. It
Speaker 11: was just tim medals there. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: That was it. You know, you got to look towards
Speaker 11: the positive, and the positive is it did open the
Speaker 11: doors for some people, you know, even if it was
Speaker 11: you know, me having to be the scapegold or whatever.
Speaker 2: So I can't be mad at it. How much longer
Speaker 2: than I can be, But this point, God got a plan.
Speaker 2: How much longer does Keenan want to do F n L.
Speaker 11: I mean, I don't know. That question continues to vary,
Speaker 11: you know, like it all kind of starts depending on
Speaker 11: like what the kids want to do and where the
Speaker 11: kids want to be, Like how much more time can
Speaker 11: I spend with them if possible? And also like are
Speaker 11: people getting tired of my moves? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: Like are people getting tired of seeing me on the
Speaker 11: show all the time? And stuff like that. So it
Speaker 11: also is a long schedule and takes up most of
Speaker 11: the year kind of things, So you know, it might
Speaker 11: be time for like to make room for other opportunities
Speaker 11: at the same time, but I want to see that
Speaker 11: fiftieth at least.
Speaker 4: You know, when you watch things that happen, do you
Speaker 4: have an opinion or as in, do you care? Or
Speaker 4: is it? The first thing is sketch? Right, So Shannon
Speaker 4: sharp Catwilliams right, he's going crazy. Are you thinking, oh,
Speaker 4: this is a sketch. This I'm gonna break it down?
Speaker 4: Or are you thinking, damn, why's he going?
Speaker 11: There?
Speaker 4: So many people?
Speaker 11: Well, some things are obviously going to be a sketch,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying, Like as soon as I
Speaker 11: saw it, I'm like, oh, yeah, like this is definitely
Speaker 11: going to be a sketch, only because like Cat Williams
Speaker 11: is a good impression, you know what I mean, Shannon
Speaker 11: Sharp is a good impression, and this is definitely a
Speaker 11: moment that everybody has seen, right, so it's gonna be like,
Speaker 11: you know, whoever's first to get the sketch up basically
Speaker 11: at that point. There's a lot of nighttime shows that
Speaker 11: could have done it, you know what I mean, or whatever,
Speaker 11: But when we do it, it's on a different level
Speaker 11: because like our departments are crazy, like our whig department
Speaker 11: at Wardrobe, you know what I mean, our sets, like
Speaker 11: the audio whole team, you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 11: like the whole team is like on super duper point
Speaker 11: because they've been doing it for forever and they take
Speaker 11: it here as they love it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11: It's a family, like a generational kind of family that
Speaker 11: worked there. So yeah, when I saw that, I was like,
Speaker 11: we're doing this for sure. I wish we weren't on
Speaker 11: break and everybody was texting like I know y'all about
Speaker 11: to do this this weekend. I'm like, man, we off
Speaker 11: for another week and a half, bro, And everyone like,
Speaker 11: oh my god, we gotta wait. But shout out the
Speaker 11: eggo man, you know what I mean? She was get
Speaker 11: in like, yeah, they destroyed it, and I was eating
Speaker 11: it up because I was it was entertaining, Like the
Speaker 11: first time I watched it, I was like, oh, snap,
Speaker 11: you know he said, spilling everything, you know, and I
Speaker 11: was enjoying it that way. And then of course elders
Speaker 11: started chiming in, and like when Dave chimed in, like
Speaker 11: why you're painting us with such a you know, why
Speaker 11: you're painting dirty, ugly pictures of us or whatever, It's like,
Speaker 11: all right, I gotta calm down, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: Like take that into mind, the fact that the bigger
Speaker 11: pictures we are supposed to be pushing uphill together kind
Speaker 11: of thing. And it was like, all right, well maybe
Speaker 11: we shouldn't be lashing out or throwing each other under
Speaker 11: the bus or whatever. But at first I was like, oh,
Speaker 11: I love this.
Speaker 2: You know, as a comedian, is that something you would
Speaker 2: want to get mentioned in? Would you want to say
Speaker 2: your name?
Speaker 6: Nah?
Speaker 11: I don't want to be in. I don't want to
Speaker 11: be and nobody driving at all, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: Especially like you know, the top that they were discussing,
Speaker 11: I'm like, I could be on the wrong side of
Speaker 11: this at any given moment if they want to mentioned me.
Speaker 11: But my perspective on that, in my mind doesn't have
Speaker 11: me on the wrong side of it.
Speaker 1: But people have their opinion. You might be a plant
Speaker 1: to somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, how you go from good Burger toes and
Speaker 2: L and be there for twenty years?
Speaker 11: You know, Like that's that's his opinion on that, And
Speaker 11: it's dismissive unfortunately of you know, like Kevin's been showing
Speaker 11: up to work all this time, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: It's not like even if he was like planning and
Speaker 11: being like, all right, here's a movie for you, he
Speaker 11: had to still do that movie. He had to show
Speaker 11: up to this, you know what I mean, and like.
Speaker 1: Don't just diet it. Even if he was planning like
Speaker 1: he was planning, if he.
Speaker 11: Was just given an opportunity that does come as easy
Speaker 11: to others say it like that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: He still had to take it and run with it,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean, and do all the stand
Speaker 11: up and do all the other TV shows, movies and this,
Speaker 11: that and the other, and like continue his track of professionalists.
Speaker 11: So like industry plants unfortunately dismisses the work ethic of
Speaker 11: an individual.
Speaker 2: I you know what I'm saying, And I want to
Speaker 2: shout out to two black men who first put Kevin
Speaker 2: in movies, Damon that Ash and Russ Park. Two black
Speaker 2: men put Kevin in his first project, is that So Playing?
Speaker 1: Before So Playing, it was.
Speaker 2: So and sty and Russ Park put him in something too,
Speaker 2: but I can'tnot even know the name of it.
Speaker 1: But they were the first two people to put.
Speaker 11: Him out the damn shout out to Rust That's right, yeah, man,
Speaker 11: like anybody that's giving you a leg up in this business,
Speaker 11: like shout them out the whole time.
Speaker 4: You know all we got more with Keenan Thompson when
Speaker 4: we come back. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: Good morning, everybody, c n B Charlamagne God we are
Speaker 5: the Breakfast Club is still kicking it with Keenan Thompson.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Do you make a phone call when you're about to
Speaker 5: do a skit or do something about somebody, you know,
Speaker 5: something happened to somebody that you ef.
Speaker 3: You should you don't. I just take it like you
Speaker 3: got those calls before, like bro oh.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Steve Harvey didn't love it, you know it at first?
Speaker 11: You just ain't watch yourself you know, because watch you know,
Speaker 11: he's a grown man from the streets of Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is.
Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying. He is just a big guy,
Speaker 11: you know, and like he comes from like the knuckle
Speaker 11: up generation where you had to and get it in
Speaker 11: the cold, working at factories or whatever. He did, you know.
Speaker 11: But yeah, at first he was like, hey, little rerun
Speaker 11: watch yourself.
Speaker 1: All right, you know, so he called you.
Speaker 4: You ran into it.
Speaker 11: I would he would say it on his show, He
Speaker 11: would say it on the radio and stuff like that.
Speaker 11: So I would like eventually like call in and be like,
Speaker 11: hey man, you good. Once we did like an interview
Speaker 11: or something like that, But whenever I would speak to him,
Speaker 11: it was always love, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 11: I just think, you know, he had to like make
Speaker 11: his stamps kind of known for his audience play with
Speaker 11: blah blah blah. But you know, Steve's also been another
Speaker 11: mentor because we were on his show back in the day.
Speaker 11: He gave me a lot of game basically about just
Speaker 11: growing up and not treating the business so young just
Speaker 11: because you young. You know, there's a lot of like
Speaker 11: adults out here that's working really hard, that's got like
Speaker 11: real problems when they go home, or like, you know,
Speaker 11: life is serious enough so you can't just be playing
Speaker 11: all the time.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 2: Basically, how's fatherhood change? Because you've got a change to
Speaker 2: call everything I need to know about life. I learned
Speaker 2: from my girls. I got four girls, you got two. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how does father change?
Speaker 11: I mean it really like showed me life outside of
Speaker 11: my own personal perspective as far as how I approach
Speaker 11: the day, you know what I mean, and living for
Speaker 11: others kind of thing, which was like very different. You know,
Speaker 11: like when you're in a relationship, it's different, like you're
Speaker 11: still both grown individuals, so you expect the other individuals
Speaker 11: to like be able to take care of you know,
Speaker 11: certain basics or whatever because they grow. But with a child,
Speaker 11: it's like, no, they need you for everything, you know
Speaker 11: what I'm saying. In their first few years or the
Speaker 11: first decade, or you know, even for the rest of
Speaker 11: their life whatever it is. They need you in such
Speaker 11: a way that it's like it never turns off. And
Speaker 11: I had never really experienced that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 11: where it's like you have to be aware of and
Speaker 11: know what's going on with your kids, Like on a
Speaker 11: twenty four hour basis, you know, three sixty five. It's
Speaker 11: not like you could take a week off just because
Speaker 11: it's Christmas.
Speaker 1: And what did you learn? What have you learned from
Speaker 1: your girls patients?
Speaker 11: Definitely a lot of patients emotion like being able to
Speaker 11: like just embrace having emotional moments, you know what I mean,
Speaker 11: Because when we were growing up, it was either suck
Speaker 11: it up, take a lap, do this, or any other
Speaker 11: kind of thing, and never really like sit in what's
Speaker 11: really bothering you kind of thing, shake it off, you
Speaker 11: know what I mean. Like we had all those kind
Speaker 11: of like sayings from coaches and things like that, or
Speaker 11: you know, just growing up as a man, you know,
Speaker 11: like you know, be a man, suck it up kind
Speaker 11: of thing, and you would hear that. But they taught
Speaker 11: me like it's okay to you know, feel these feelings
Speaker 11: kind of thing and like understand what may be causing
Speaker 11: them and kind of work through it. But also like
Speaker 11: the perspective of a child, because we go around like
Speaker 11: you know, kind of looking and not really seeing the world,
Speaker 11: maybe just because we're seeing it at our height, you
Speaker 11: know what I mean. When you're smaller, you know, you
Speaker 11: see probably a bigger picture and stuff like that kind
Speaker 11: of stopping smell of roses kind of kind of vibe. Basically,
Speaker 11: who's your biggest critic? Myself? Yep, because I'm I'm the
Speaker 11: one that sees it all. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: Like some people watch things and they just enjoyed surface level,
Speaker 11: but I'm watching, like all snap my shoes and tied,
Speaker 11: or you know, like my hair and I need a haircut.
Speaker 2: You still got a hairline, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That's all the black men can ask. You got a headline?
Speaker 1: God, bless you, God bless Oh my god.
Speaker 2: You and kel just reconnected too, but well not just
Speaker 2: reconnect what y'all did a good burger too?
Speaker 11: Yeah, man, shout out to my brother Man.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if to say how did y'all
Speaker 2: get back on good turns? Because I don't know if
Speaker 2: y'all was ever on bad turns?
Speaker 11: No, I don't think, I mean, but at the same time,
Speaker 11: you know, hearsay and stuff like that can push it
Speaker 11: in that direction if you don't get like the real
Speaker 11: answer from the individual. And since there was a period
Speaker 11: where we weren't really in that much communication, if you know,
Speaker 11: there were probably innglands of that kind of energy or whatever.
Speaker 11: But once we actually did speak on the phone because
Speaker 11: we were doing a good Burger sketch on the Tonight
Speaker 11: Show or whatever, you know, and we hadn't spoken in years,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying, and we knew we had
Speaker 11: to like at least talk before we go perform to
Speaker 11: each other. It was a two second reconciliation, you know
Speaker 11: what I mean. It was like time had never gone by. Basically,
Speaker 11: it felt like such a blessing to me and I
Speaker 11: feel like to him as well, you know, to have
Speaker 11: each other back and eat each other's lives, you know
Speaker 11: what I mean, because we do work so well together,
Speaker 11: and we had established, you know what I mean, something
Speaker 11: so beloved that it would be a crime to kind
Speaker 11: of just let it go into the wind just because
Speaker 11: you know, we wanted, you know, individual career identities kind
Speaker 11: of thing. You know, we didn't always want to be
Speaker 11: just Keenan and kel. Like my name is Keenan Thompson
Speaker 11: and his name is cal Mitchell, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: And like not a lot of people were willing to
Speaker 11: recognize that at the time. So that's kind of like
Speaker 11: where that drift apart started happening, and then you know,
Speaker 11: as life does, you know, like different experiences are happening,
Speaker 11: so it just takes you. And then the next thing,
Speaker 11: you look up and we haven't spoken in seven years
Speaker 11: or something crazy like that or ten or whatever. It
Speaker 11: was so for us to reconcile and do the Good
Speaker 11: Burger sketch that was six seven years ago something like that.
Speaker 11: That was really really nice, and then that.
Speaker 1: Was sparked a Good Burger too.
Speaker 11: That's kind of sparked like, yo, I think we need
Speaker 11: to do this, and they were gonna do a cartoon,
Speaker 11: and it was like, I think you should do the
Speaker 11: movie first and then do the cartoon. Like everybody's been
Speaker 11: kind of asking for a sequel since the first one
Speaker 11: kind of thing. It's like, if you're going to get
Speaker 11: back into that world, you might as well do the second,
Speaker 11: especially if we hear you know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 11: we're young enough to like still do it with a
Speaker 11: passion and this, that and the other and try to
Speaker 11: make a good movie. So you know, luckily we were
Speaker 11: able to like put it together and like get it
Speaker 11: Green Lid shot it in Rhode Island, like thanks to
Speaker 11: artists for artists, and like my business partner, you know,
Speaker 11: Johnny Ryan, who's from there, and like.
Speaker 1: That's your production company.
Speaker 11: Yeah, got a bunch of like you know whatever tax
Speaker 11: credits to make the budget make sense. And it was
Speaker 11: good for me because it was right up the street,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean, and my girls were in
Speaker 11: school till late June or something like that, so they
Speaker 11: were able to take the train up on the weekend,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean, as opposed to like having
Speaker 11: to shoot it in the middle of nowhere or something
Speaker 11: like that. So it all became, you know, a good
Speaker 11: positive thing. And then we actually made something that people enjoyed,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying. And then it broke records.
Speaker 2: You know, they u this Paramounts plus his most watched
Speaker 2: original film ever.
Speaker 11: Ever several weeks in number one, this, that, and the other.
Speaker 11: So like it was all very positive and it was
Speaker 11: positive for our company because it was like we making
Speaker 11: history too. Took the first Paramount movie, the Rhode Island
Speaker 11: kind of thing, you know what I mean, So it
Speaker 11: was just like all, you know, all around really good
Speaker 11: and then also setting up as the you know, the
Speaker 11: Kenan and Killed world continues to grow. Now you know
Speaker 11: what I'm saying, because we know we can go work
Speaker 11: on this project. You know, if he got a project,
Speaker 11: he can go do it. If I got a project,
Speaker 11: I can go do it. But if we come together
Speaker 11: and do something, we know it's going to be like
Speaker 11: pretty dynamic. So that that's a beautiful thing, you know,
Speaker 11: because we laid a lot of track work early as
Speaker 11: opposed to like having to figure it out middle age.
Speaker 1: The cartoon's happening, I don't know.
Speaker 11: I think there's an opportunity to do even the third
Speaker 11: one before we do the cartoon, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: Just because the second one did so well, you can
Speaker 11: continue that world and keep on keep on getting it,
Speaker 11: you know, absolutely.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, we appreciate you brother and Thompson Man.
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Speaker 1: That's right man.
Speaker 2: Salute to the good brother Keenan Thompson for pulling up.
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Speaker 1: That's right. He has a new book out right now,
Speaker 1: come on, man, you supposed tell me the name of it.
Speaker 5: I know it is when I was your age, Life lessons,
Speaker 5: funny stories and questionable parenting.
Speaker 4: Advice from a professional class.
Speaker 1: That's right. Good brother, Keenan Thompson is man one of
Speaker 1: the good guys. He don't bother nobody. He stay out
Speaker 1: the way, you know.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: You can go watch the full interview on a Breakfast
Speaker 2: Club YouTube page right now. How long is it like
Speaker 2: forty five minutes? Yeah, the hope of full interview is
Speaker 2: like forty five minutes. If you know Keenan, he don't
Speaker 2: like to talk.
Speaker 11: That's right.
Speaker 2: Get forty five minutes out of keen Okay, he ain't
Speaker 2: doing no sketches, all right, is a good thing. That's right,
Speaker 2: because so go check it out. Well, good morning everybody again,
Speaker 2: we are to Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors.
Speaker 2: Let's talk justin Timberlake.
Speaker 1: Or you've gossip been chatting? Is the rumor report?
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess we're on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: This is where the tea spells right right now, justin
Speaker 4: Timberlake was trending, he was performing, and uh, he retracted
Speaker 4: his apology, and people believe that a retraction was from
Speaker 4: both Britney Spears and Britney Spears. Right, it was a
Speaker 4: Jena Jackson, it was Britney Spears. They were saying it
Speaker 4: was yeah, Britney Spears. Let's say what he said.
Speaker 11: I'd like to say this opportunity to apologize.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, people were mad at him saying that, well he apologized.
Speaker 4: They were saying, it was Janna Jackson and Britney Spears.
Speaker 1: What did the kids say? And by the kids, I
Speaker 1: mean gays. We don't care about that old tea.
Speaker 2: That tea is what from the two thousand, We don't
Speaker 2: care about that old he don't care about him. But
Speaker 2: apologizing to Brittany cause you apologize recently after right right
Speaker 2: before she.
Speaker 1: Is nobody cares.
Speaker 2: I mean, by the way, the only people that care
Speaker 2: in that situation is the person that he should be
Speaker 2: apologizing to.
Speaker 1: So send her a DM, sir, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Anything else to do, anything else you're doing in the
Speaker 2: public that just seems like a publicity stunt. All right,
Speaker 2: It's only got a record out. They need to put
Speaker 2: a record out of them. Yeah, It's like anytime I
Speaker 2: see people doing stuff like that around projects, it feels
Speaker 2: like they're just trying to promote that project. So if
Speaker 2: it's a real apology, you send it directly to that person.
Speaker 2: And you should have sent that in nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 2: or two thousand or whatever this all happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm just telling you because that's what they told me
Speaker 4: that people care about. I don't even know.
Speaker 2: Justin tip, like I knew, what did the kids say?
Speaker 5: We don't care about that old right now, Tiffany Hattish's too,
Speaker 5: mister me. The duy charges have been dropped after she
Speaker 5: appeared in the Los Angeles court yesterday, she accepted a
Speaker 5: plea deal of reckless driving.
Speaker 4: In California, she.
Speaker 5: Agreed to a simple vehicle cod violation and not driving
Speaker 5: under the influence.
Speaker 4: That charge was dismissed.
Speaker 2: That's good drunk driving his wack, you know, so, I'm
Speaker 2: sure Tiffany will learned from this now.
Speaker 5: Danny Lay was arrested for DUI hitting run in Miami.
Speaker 5: She was reportedly seen speeding and swerving. Police found an
Speaker 5: empty bottle of vodka. She's reportedly been sentenced to five
Speaker 5: years of probation. Her victim also filed a civil lawsuit
Speaker 5: against her, but the status of that suit is still pending.
Speaker 2: Damn drunk driving is I'm sure Danny Lay will learn
Speaker 2: from that too, and if not, somebody will yep.
Speaker 5: And lastly, people showed a lot of concern for NBA
Speaker 5: young boy. He posted a picture yesterday. He was laying
Speaker 5: on the floor. He had looks like a cup of
Speaker 5: suser or a styrofoam cup filled with ice, and he
Speaker 5: had a bunch of pills laying on the floor. People
Speaker 5: were very concerned and hoping that he wasn't, you know,
Speaker 5: using drugs or he had substance abuse problems, and was
Speaker 5: hoping if he did have a problem.
Speaker 4: He was going to rehab to fix that. Prim did
Speaker 4: you see the picture?
Speaker 2: I did see the picture, and I'm starting to realize
Speaker 2: how slow people are. Clearly somebody took that picture. Clearly
Speaker 2: he didn't. It wasn't a selfie, I mean, but clearly
Speaker 2: he allowed somebody to take the picture and had a
Speaker 2: caption and everything.
Speaker 1: What was the caption caption?
Speaker 4: Woo had.
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: He said, That's why I don't pick up the phone,
Speaker 2: win a ring. He's clearly promoting something, y'all. Come on, man,
Speaker 2: clearly it's a video. He's doing something he didn't just
Speaker 2: that's not like it's not like somebody a snuck and
Speaker 2: took a picture of him, or snuck and took a
Speaker 2: video of him in that position.
Speaker 1: That is clearly curated. Y'all, come on home, man, what
Speaker 1: are we doing?
Speaker 4: I'm just telling you what what what you want me
Speaker 4: to do it? Look, this is my last day, that's right, Jeff,
Speaker 4: with the matter. Monday is my last day with job.
Speaker 1: This is our last day. Is a duo.
Speaker 10: Yeh.
Speaker 2: We did a whole toy just as a duo. We
Speaker 2: did a whole toy just as a duo. Okay, So
Speaker 2: but the band is back together. Some Monday ain't good
Speaker 2: new member and I'm tired of doing this and that
Speaker 2: is okay that.
Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you that that picture that's clearly curious.
Speaker 1: I know what it was, but I'm just.
Speaker 2: Saying when people I saw people saying that yesterday, always
Speaker 2: showing concern, I'm thinking that you know, somebody caught him
Speaker 2: in a compromising notion or a snug video or something.
Speaker 2: He took that picture. I had somebody take it posted
Speaker 2: it with a nice caption. He's good promoting something. Come
Speaker 2: on stop, man, didn't we just get you all for
Speaker 2: the past three weeks? Didn't we just do it? You
Speaker 2: know what, I'm gonna keep doing it because y'all stupid.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of just the white man.
Speaker 4: They're not playing with me. Just better be here Monday.
Speaker 4: You're not playing with me. Just better Just you listen,
Speaker 4: you better be here on Monday. I ain't playing with y'all.
Speaker 4: Ain't doing them no more.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you took the tag off?
Speaker 11: What of your pieces of gloves?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: This is old sung with you.
Speaker 4: You don't take the tag off your clothes.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm asking boy.
Speaker 2: If you don't stop telling all my sneakers, okay, I
Speaker 2: don't keep nothing. If you see me with something nice on,
Speaker 2: you know it's going back, all right.
Speaker 1: That's why I tied.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: I told you about that. Your ass up.
Speaker 1: Get in trouble.
Speaker 4: Good on a time that is a rumor report. He
Speaker 4: even that donkey too.
Speaker 2: Man, Man, for after the hour, we need a man
Speaker 2: from Virginia named Buzzing Bear.
Speaker 1: I think that that's how you pronounced.
Speaker 4: It definitely sound right.
Speaker 1: This man man have dealt.
Speaker 2: With something that all of us deal with on a
Speaker 2: daily basis, while a lot of us deal with on
Speaker 2: a daily basis. But the way he reacted to it
Speaker 2: got him donkey today. We'll discuss all.
Speaker 4: Right, we'll get to that nextus to break What music
Speaker 4: are you playing?
Speaker 1: What music was that? I have no idea? What was that?
Speaker 11: What is that?
Speaker 1: What's going on? It's who oh?
Speaker 4: Jay Carter?
Speaker 1: Who is Jake Carter?
Speaker 4: A young artist?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Donkey's next to the.
Speaker 12: Breakfast cloak about the breakfast club. Your mornings will never
Speaker 12: be the same.
Speaker 1: It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkey said the
Speaker 1: day as Shua May.
Speaker 7: I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the day is
Speaker 7: a little bit of a mixed que So.
Speaker 4: Like a Donkey.
Speaker 1: Of the day, practice club, bitch you Now.
Speaker 21: I've been called a lot of my twenty three years.
Speaker 19: That Donkey of the day is a new.
Speaker 1: White Yes, Donkey of to Day.
Speaker 2: For Friday, February, second, second day of Black History Month,
Speaker 2: goes to a former Wait the music at Eddie can't okay?
Speaker 1: Now we're talking.
Speaker 2: Goes to a former target worker from Virginia named bazen Bear,
Speaker 2: I think that's his name, who has been sentenced to
Speaker 2: a whole century in prison, one hundred years.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Why judges be playing with people like that, Like, what
Speaker 2: is the point? Just sentence me to forever? Okay, just
Speaker 2: sentence me to for all of eternity. Matter of fact,
Speaker 2: just let me ask the judge a question, Judge, am
Speaker 2: I ever getting out?
Speaker 1: And the judge can simply say no, period.
Speaker 2: Okay, anything sounds better than one hundred years. My brain
Speaker 2: can't even process that. But judge gives you one hundred years,
Speaker 2: you should automatically be granted permission to run and swan
Speaker 2: dive over the desk at that judge.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's when you're supposed to make those kinds of leaps.
Speaker 2: But once again, as I tell y'all every other day,
Speaker 2: life is about choices.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Destiny is not a matter of chance. It's a matter
Speaker 2: of a choice. And bozen Burr made a very poor choice. Now,
Speaker 2: today's donkey of the Day is a teachable moment because
Speaker 2: so many people have been faced with the challenge that
Speaker 2: Bizin was faced with. So many people every day who
Speaker 2: listened to the breakfast club have had to deal with
Speaker 2: what Bizin has had to deal with.
Speaker 1: Okay, but I bet you handled it better than he did.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about, uncle Chaoh well, let's go
Speaker 2: to A seven's ABC seven News, ABC seven News on
Speaker 2: your Side for the report.
Speaker 22: Please knew it for a judge's sentence seeing an Alexandria
Speaker 22: man to one hundred years in prison after he killed
Speaker 22: his coworker in a target parking lot in Bailey's Crossroads.
Speaker 22: Back in twenty twenty one, twenty five year old bos
Speaker 22: And Barry killed Hernan Levia. During the trial, prosecutors argue
Speaker 22: that Barry planned the murder after his coworker took his
Speaker 22: lunch from the office fridge. Days later, Barry attacked the
Speaker 22: victim and stabbed him several times after their work shift.
Speaker 22: Barry plead guilty to first degree murder in October.
Speaker 2: Lunch, bro, you killed someone because they stole your lunch
Speaker 2: out of the fridge at work, because they stole your
Speaker 2: food out of the refrigerator. I understand sometime life is
Speaker 2: about principle, Okay, I get it. He thought you were soft.
Speaker 2: You had to show him otherwise. But now what you
Speaker 2: killed someone over lunch? Only to go to prison and
Speaker 2: end up being someone snack. And you're gonna be somebody snack, okay,
Speaker 2: the same way the man you killed, Eh your lunch,
Speaker 2: trust and believe someone is gonna eat your ass the
Speaker 2: exact same way, and you're gonna return to favor because
Speaker 2: what else do you have to do over the next
Speaker 2: one hundred years? And he's only twenty five, little young tender, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. People are sick out here, all right.
Speaker 2: Folks need psychiatric help. So many people that are walking
Speaker 2: amongst us need to be under somebody's care. They need
Speaker 2: to be medicated. I don't know what this man was
Speaker 2: dealing with. I don't know what he was going through
Speaker 2: or whatever it was. This situation puts them more over
Speaker 2: the edge.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: You don't just go zero to sixty over a sandwich,
Speaker 2: all right. This must have been a meal his grandmother
Speaker 2: or mother cook, and he bought the leftovers with him
Speaker 2: to work. This had to be some sort of comfort
Speaker 2: food like this food had to have some sentimental value, okay.
Speaker 2: He had to be something that this man was looking
Speaker 2: forward to. And you had the audacity to steal it,
Speaker 2: eat it and then just come back to work like
Speaker 2: it's all good called the man to snap. Okay, I
Speaker 2: can't believe I have to say this, but I don't
Speaker 2: care how discruntled you are. There is not a chicken
Speaker 2: salad anywhere on this planet that's good enough to take
Speaker 2: somebody's life and get a century in prison. I don't
Speaker 2: even know if he was eating chicken salad, but wouldn't
Speaker 2: it be ironic if he did all of this for
Speaker 2: a toss salad only to end up in prison tossing
Speaker 2: salads for the next one hundred years. Listen to me, though, Man,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of things that's interesting to me about
Speaker 2: this story, but one that stands out is he thought
Speaker 2: about this when you read the report, He thought about this.
Speaker 2: It's a premeditated murder. He didn't look in the fridge
Speaker 2: and see his lunch was stolen. He went home and said, well,
Speaker 2: he didn't just look in the fridge and see his
Speaker 2: lunch was stolen, and then you know, confront the man
Speaker 2: right there. He went home and said he spent the
Speaker 2: next few days plotting his revenge.
Speaker 1: Think about that.
Speaker 2: He went home for three days and plotted his revenge.
Speaker 2: And this is why I thinks like meditation is so important,
Speaker 2: breathing exercises, having someone to talk to you mean to
Speaker 2: tell me. Over the course of three days, he couldn't
Speaker 2: let go of the fact that his tuna.
Speaker 1: Sandwich got stolen.
Speaker 2: His homemade pizza peanut butter jelly sandwich got took and
Speaker 2: he couldn't shake that off. This man had severe anger
Speaker 2: issues that he never got the help for, and that
Speaker 2: is the moral of the story. Anger resembles fire, and
Speaker 2: like the fire, if you keep feeding it, it will
Speaker 2: get stronger and harm you. If you stop feeding anger
Speaker 2: with your attention, it will fade away.
Speaker 1: Three days, this man held this for three days. Not
Speaker 1: one of those days did he have lunch.
Speaker 2: One lunch after the lunch that got stolen him that
Speaker 2: lunch goes on.
Speaker 1: He was moving like he only had one lunch to live.
Speaker 1: And that's not how lunch works.
Speaker 2: Listen, we must be willing to let go of the
Speaker 2: lunch we planned so as to have the lunch that
Speaker 2: is waiting for.
Speaker 1: Us, not you basing, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: The lunch that is waiting for you right now is
Speaker 2: two mixed grain sandwiches, one roast beef relish and salad
Speaker 2: our tomato mayo and salad. One egg mayonnaise in salad,
Speaker 2: and one serving a fresh fruit. That's what's waiting for
Speaker 2: you for the next hundred years. Dinner gonna go crazy, though,
Speaker 2: One maybe two blue vein sausages. Okay, that beef whistle
Speaker 2: you gotta blow on because it may be too hot. Okay,
Speaker 2: you don't even want to see that custard launcher for dessert. Okay,
Speaker 2: please give Bazen Bear the biggest he hull.
Speaker 1: Crazy world are we living in, y'all? I gotta hear
Speaker 1: both sides. You mean you got to hit both sides?
Speaker 1: What's the other side?
Speaker 2: There's never a reason you need to kill a man
Speaker 2: over getting your lunch stolen at work, and then you're
Speaker 2: doing one hundred years.
Speaker 1: What's the other side.
Speaker 4: Let's take it out of the situation for a second.
Speaker 5: Right, we got sixty seconds, right, Let's just take it
Speaker 5: out of this this side for a second.
Speaker 4: Let's say what side let's side to make no sense.
Speaker 4: Let's take it away from this situation.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Let's say my name is.
Speaker 1: Rashaan, Right, your name is Rashawan, you stupid idiot.
Speaker 5: I'm five foot four. Let's say I'm small of being paid,
Speaker 5: being picked on my whole life I go to work,
Speaker 5: I get a sandwich that my mama maybe my only
Speaker 5: sandwich because maybe I can't afford it.
Speaker 4: Right, So this is my sound.
Speaker 2: You're trying to justify this man, justify anything to.
Speaker 1: You know you need to do.
Speaker 2: Put a meat popsticle in your mouth right now and
Speaker 2: shut up. There's no way you're going justine. I'm not justifying,
Speaker 2: but I'm just saying he's been bullied.
Speaker 5: Right now. This guy takes sandwich. This guy, I'm not saying.
Speaker 5: This is the situation. This guy picks on Rashawn takes
Speaker 5: my rashawn sandwich. Now I come to work. I see
Speaker 5: this guy every day. He's laughing at me. I can't
Speaker 5: beat him physically, so I do something stupid.
Speaker 1: Nick.
Speaker 2: Put your one eyed yogat slinger in this guy's mouth
Speaker 2: and shut him up. Okay, the hell is he talking.
Speaker 1: About over there? Huh? Jesus christ Man, shut up.
Speaker 4: I want to play with nothing one eye all right,
Speaker 4: shut up, Jesus yo slinger. All right, you're disgusted.
Speaker 5: Disgust Why am I discussing all these terms? You got
Speaker 5: these terms in the back of your something, all right, well,
Speaker 5: thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Back of something. You want to put my tonsil tickle back.
Speaker 4: He just mess myself a bunch of these.
Speaker 1: He's just ready to fire off.
Speaker 11: This guy here.
Speaker 4: All right, when we come back back, say something. I
Speaker 4: know you got one way, I know you got one weight.
Speaker 4: When we come back, Doctor Joseph Poom will be joining
Speaker 4: us all right now. He is the founder and president
Speaker 4: of Soeign Medical.
Speaker 5: Now this month is Heart Awareness month, and we're gonna
Speaker 5: be talking him about things with what we should be
Speaker 5: doing to make sure our heart is running the right way,
Speaker 5: our heart is running safe and that we can live
Speaker 5: a lot longer.
Speaker 2: See that's what anxiety does, do you right, It plays
Speaker 2: tricks on you. So you know the end of last year,
Speaker 2: what's no nothing, the last year, the end of the
Speaker 2: year before that was the year before that, twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, doctor Puma does.
Speaker 4: Yes, and we're gonna talk to him when we come back.
Speaker 11: All right.
Speaker 4: This to Breakfast Level.
Speaker 1: Morning, the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: Morning.
Speaker 5: Everybody is DJ Envy Charlamagne the guy. We are the
Speaker 5: Breakfast Club. We got a special guest.
Speaker 2: In the building, Doctor Joseph Pumer is hell Doctor Puma.
Speaker 9: Welcome, Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 1: Now, you know, doctor Puma's been here before.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, but it's very important to know that
Speaker 2: February is American Heart Month, correct, yes, as well as
Speaker 2: Black History Month.
Speaker 1: Of course that's right. But that's why we have him
Speaker 1: here today to talk about all things heart health.
Speaker 5: Now, for people that don't know or didn't hear when
Speaker 5: you were here previously, tell people.
Speaker 1: What you do.
Speaker 20: I'm a cardiologist. I'm the founder of Soren Medical, which
Speaker 20: is the largest independent cardiology practice in New York City.
Speaker 20: My goals are to democratize healthcare objectively. We won an
Speaker 20: award four quarters in a row for the number one
Speaker 20: heart scan in America, the highest quality imaging.
Speaker 9: We're insurance based.
Speaker 20: We take care of everybody that comes through our doors,
Speaker 20: whether they're a billionaire or they're undomiciled. Our goal is
Speaker 20: to be part of the communities that we work in
Speaker 20: and to try and educate and help people live a long.
Speaker 1: Could you tell people what the sore and heart scan
Speaker 1: is at the boom.
Speaker 20: So when we image the heart, we're basically using a camera.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 20: The sore and heart scan uses the fastest camera available
Speaker 20: in the world. It's a cat scan. It's the only
Speaker 20: one of its kind in New York City dedicated to
Speaker 20: evaluating heart disease. In a three to four minute scan,
Speaker 20: we're able to see the arteries in the heart, see
Speaker 20: if there's any blockage, to see if there's any plaque
Speaker 20: build up of beginning of blockage calcification. We can see
Speaker 20: the heart chambers, the major arteries in the body, the AORDA,
Speaker 20: pulmonary arteries. In addition, we get a limited view of
Speaker 20: the lungs and other structures. But it's the most accurate scan.
Speaker 20: It takes three four minutes. It's eliminated the need for
Speaker 20: having stress testing, and more importantly, it's eliminated the need
Speaker 20: and this is all pure reviewed published data. Eliminated the
Speaker 20: need by almost half for having invasive heart catheterizations where
Speaker 20: you have to go on the hospital and we have
Speaker 20: to put catheters in. So a simple test. Charlotmagne, I
Speaker 20: think you're right. You've been a big promoter of mental health,
Speaker 20: and you know about half the people that come to
Speaker 20: cardiologists have symptoms that sound like it's from their heart,
Speaker 20: but it's often just from anxiety and stress, and so
Speaker 20: often that one simple scan, if it's completely normals like yours,
Speaker 20: dj Envy was perfectly normal could put your mind at
Speaker 20: ease and allow you to get on with your life
Speaker 20: without worry.
Speaker 5: Now, you did my scan a couple of months ago,
Speaker 5: and I was very nervous. I guess nervous about finding
Speaker 5: out right. I think that's what most people like it.
Speaker 5: Most people don't want to find out if something is wrong.
Speaker 1: Shoot, I do when it comes to the heart, because
Speaker 1: tell them about that. We don't make a duck. Yeah.
Speaker 20: So again, just from the standpoint of understanding heart disease better,
Speaker 20: a third of people who have heart attacks never even
Speaker 20: knew they had heart disease before they had them. A
Speaker 20: third of people who have heart attacks die the day
Speaker 20: they have their heart attack.
Speaker 9: So it's not pleasant. So some of this is silent.
Speaker 20: It grows as time goes on, right, especially if you
Speaker 20: have risk factors high blood pressure, diabetes, smoke, you're overweight,
Speaker 20: your sedentary, if you have high cholesterol, or a family
Speaker 20: history of heart disease. Okay, these are all the things
Speaker 20: that as time goes on, the body changes and you're
Speaker 20: building up plaque and blockage in the arteries. But once
Speaker 20: you have the test, even if you have a severe blockage,
Speaker 20: we can easily treat it. Nine out of ten times,
Speaker 20: if a blockage is severe, the flow is limited through
Speaker 20: the artery, and we have some objective approaches to figuring
Speaker 20: that out. Nine out of ten times we can treat
Speaker 20: it with a stent, which is an outpatient procedure. Unfortunately,
Speaker 20: one in ten times you might need open heart surgery.
Speaker 9: But it's proven you'll live longer, so just show up.
Speaker 20: It's simple things as a community, as physicians, we can
Speaker 20: do screenings, for instance, in the local churches, barber shops,
Speaker 20: you know, anywhere, really schools, and once you know, once
Speaker 20: you have that information DJ Envy, then it's just a
Speaker 20: matter of finding a doctor or a healthcare provider that
Speaker 20: you have faith in, that you trust, and working with
Speaker 20: them to control get on the right medicines and monitor
Speaker 20: and control your blood pressure or your cholesterol, your diabetes.
Speaker 2: What I find interesting is that young black people are
Speaker 2: living with diseas is more common at old the ages.
Speaker 2: They're living with these diseases that should be that are
Speaker 2: usually more common at old the ages.
Speaker 20: That's scary, that's exactly right in the black community compared
Speaker 20: to the white community. If the rate of high blood
Speaker 20: pressure in Blacks between thirty five and forty nine is
Speaker 20: fifty percent higher wow than whites.
Speaker 11: The rate of.
Speaker 20: Diabetes is forty percent higher. And if you have these
Speaker 20: chronic diseases earlier, they're more likely over time to cause complications,
Speaker 20: to have problems, to cause heart attack and stroke. And
Speaker 20: even at sixty five heart disease, Blacks are fifty percent
Speaker 20: more likely to die of heart disease than whites. So
Speaker 20: these are chronic problems that can cause devastating acute complications,
Speaker 20: and so finding it early and treating it and following
Speaker 20: with the doctor. From a physician standpoint, it's our job
Speaker 20: to make it easy. Our job to listen. It's our
Speaker 20: job to build a relationship. It's our job to make
Speaker 20: sure when you have a test, for instance, you get
Speaker 20: the results of the test, and when you explain to
Speaker 20: you you know clearly in language you can understand what
Speaker 20: the implications are and how best to treat it.
Speaker 18: All.
Speaker 5: We got more with doctor Puma. When we come back,
Speaker 5: don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning Morning. Everybody
Speaker 5: is dj n V Charlamagne the Guide. We are the
Speaker 5: Breakfast Club. We have doctor Pumer here. Now it's Black
Speaker 5: History Month, but it's also American Heart Month. In February
Speaker 5: we're talking to him about healthy heart awareness. I was
Speaker 5: going to ask if you just you know, go over
Speaker 5: some of the stuff. So what are you looking for
Speaker 5: when you're actually doing the skin of the heart. Now,
Speaker 5: is it easy to detect plaque? And like you know,
Speaker 5: where somebody does have plaque or somebody does have a problem,
Speaker 5: you can actually fix the problem right then and there
Speaker 5: correct in most cases.
Speaker 20: In most cases in New York State, we still have
Speaker 20: to bring it to the hospital to do it. Although,
Speaker 20: as you reflect, we have an ambulatory surgical center in
Speaker 20: Lower Manhattan and we can fix lots of problems there,
Speaker 20: but we're not allowed to go into the heart yet,
Speaker 20: so we still have to do it in the hospital.
Speaker 20: But if we see a Widow macrollsion, we'll get you
Speaker 20: in the hospital same day or next morning. But the
Speaker 20: images we get we get two things. We get images
Speaker 20: of the arteries as if we did a catheterization, so
Speaker 20: we can see blockage.
Speaker 9: And then we do a what's called a heartflow.
Speaker 20: It's a company in California that has this amazing artificial
Speaker 20: intelligence software that can give us an objective assessment of
Speaker 20: flow in the artery, and we have some cut points
Speaker 20: that tell us if it's significant or not, any of
Speaker 20: the plaques and that they.
Speaker 2: As American heart muff. What should people be doing right now?
Speaker 20: Doctor pum So, get your blood pressure check, get blood tests,
Speaker 20: check your sugar levels.
Speaker 9: Okay, go see your doctor. If you don't want to
Speaker 9: do that, or you can't do that, let's start getting healthy.
Speaker 9: Get off the couch. You don't need to train for
Speaker 9: the marathon.
Speaker 20: How about we just get off the couch, or you know,
Speaker 20: on the way home from work before you go in,
Speaker 20: take a brisk.
Speaker 9: Walk around the block. You know, in a few weeks,
Speaker 9: try two walks, you know, two blocks. Just start getting active.
Speaker 20: But I think that you know, February is a great
Speaker 20: month because it's a great reset month. We think about it,
Speaker 20: we talk about it, and hopefully it encourages people to
Speaker 20: take charge of their health.
Speaker 4: I have one last question, signs of a heart attack.
Speaker 4: What are the typical signs of a heart attack?
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's that's actually a great question, and that's the
Speaker 20: reason why so many people with anxiety come in.
Speaker 9: So the typical signs of a heart attack.
Speaker 20: If you're watching George Clooney and er, let's say, you know,
Speaker 20: is you get tightness pressure like a crushing sensation in
Speaker 20: your chest. We call it chest pain, but most people
Speaker 20: say it's not really a pain. Okay, it's a crushing
Speaker 20: pressure in your chest. You get short of breath. You
Speaker 20: can get diaphraretic, which means cold, clammy, and sweaty. The
Speaker 20: symptoms often radiate to the left arm, associated with numbness.
Speaker 9: We're not really sure why that occurs.
Speaker 20: The problem is in women and in diabetic they get
Speaker 20: atypical symptoms. But I just describe are the typical symptoms.
Speaker 20: So I'd expect a man like yourself to have those symptoms.
Speaker 20: But women in diabetics can get atypical symptoms. They can
Speaker 20: feel fatigued, they can feel a little short of breath,
Speaker 20: they might feel indigestion like symptoms. People who have sharp
Speaker 20: chest pain chest pain that increases when they take a
Speaker 20: deep breath. Chest pain that occurs, you know, when they
Speaker 20: do a particular motion, go to pick up a box
Speaker 20: or reach for something.
Speaker 9: That's almost always not from your heart. That's almost always musculoskeleton.
Speaker 9: But let's go back to anxiety.
Speaker 20: When you're anxious, your heart rate goes up, you hyperventilate,
Speaker 20: you can get tightness in your chest.
Speaker 9: It becomes hard to breathe, and you can get.
Speaker 20: Numbness in your arm, so it could be exactly the same.
Speaker 20: The point is you're not alone out there. There's people
Speaker 20: to help you.
Speaker 18: Go.
Speaker 20: Seek attention, take charge your health, get the answer you
Speaker 20: need so you can rid yourself of some of this anxiety.
Speaker 9: That doesn't mean the anxiety will go away.
Speaker 20: You might still have anxiety and panic attack, but at
Speaker 20: least now you'll have the information to know I'm not
Speaker 20: having a heart attack.
Speaker 1: That's right, and that takes that That alone takes away
Speaker 1: some of the anxiety and discription. Give me your information,
Speaker 1: doctor Pum.
Speaker 20: Tell me to find you soign medical andy dot com.
Speaker 20: You can find us there, and we accept everyone and anyone,
Speaker 20: regardless of your insurance status or ability to pay.
Speaker 9: We're here for the communities that we served. Thank you
Speaker 9: all for having me here. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you, doctor Puma. We appreciate you
Speaker 4: for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
Speaker 11: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Speaker 5: Everybody is DJ n V Charlamagne de God. We are
Speaker 5: the Breakfast Club. It's time for past the oaks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, DJ.
Speaker 21: Big Nyla, Hi, guys, happy Friday.
Speaker 2: You're doing a lot of sniffling over there for somebody
Speaker 2: who ain't had no COVID tests.
Speaker 21: I haven't sniffled, not one sniffling.
Speaker 1: The whole time. You sound stuffy. Are you taking care
Speaker 1: of yourself in Atlanta?
Speaker 21: No, I'm pretty exhausted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you've been well, you've been. I saw you
Speaker 1: in Philly last night.
Speaker 14: I was in Philly last night with the girls from
Speaker 14: Reason to Be Shady, just just zelling Robin.
Speaker 21: I really like them.
Speaker 2: Reason Shady can listen to reasonably shady podcasts on the
Speaker 2: Black Fag Guy, her radio podcast network.
Speaker 14: They popping, Yeah, and their live show is very, very entertaining. Yeah, yep,
Speaker 14: of course City.
Speaker 21: Winery and then I had my live event in l A.
Speaker 21: Pretty much sold.
Speaker 2: Out your Certified Vibe, which is basically Past the Dogs Live. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 2: I saw a lot of people there. I saw Rahap
Speaker 2: City there.
Speaker 1: Who else is there?
Speaker 14: Raps City pulled up Dustin Conrad pulled the Sabrina Claudia.
Speaker 21: Like these are just you know, casual artists.
Speaker 14: But even like I started handing the mic around for
Speaker 14: people can sing, like during an intermission. There's a lot
Speaker 14: of dope singers that can actually sing that I'm now
Speaker 14: tapping in with sop La was great.
Speaker 1: You know that a club you had it? That was
Speaker 1: the Peppermink Club.
Speaker 2: I think that's where Nipsey had his Victory Lap album
Speaker 2: release party. When I when I when I when they
Speaker 2: saw you out there, somebody said that to me. So
Speaker 2: that place means a lot, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 14: I love that, yes man. Yeah, nah, I'm exhausted though.
Speaker 14: This was It was a good week, but it was
Speaker 14: a lot.
Speaker 4: You're going back to landa next week.
Speaker 11: How are you doing?
Speaker 21: No, No, I'm still there.
Speaker 2: It was his Grammy celebration, that's what at the Pepperminker.
Speaker 2: All these pictures with him and jay Z and all
Speaker 2: of that, that's what that was.
Speaker 21: Yes, yes, yeah, they have a great aesthetic.
Speaker 14: But we're gonna be back in Brooklyn on February sixteenth,
Speaker 14: R and B night for Valentine's Day to make you
Speaker 14: guys tap in.
Speaker 21: All right, let's get into some new music today.
Speaker 14: I want to start with since it's that Mexican Oti's
Speaker 14: birthday and I'm a big fan of him.
Speaker 21: He finally did a record with the Baby. You know,
Speaker 21: people think that they kind of wrap.
Speaker 1: But like why do you call him that Mexican Mexican?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 1: I thought she was like, this is that Mexican OT's birthday?
Speaker 21: No, that's his name.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the border crisis?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 1: Hey, Mexican Ot is so hard dropping the clues bomb
Speaker 1: for Mexican Ot. I'm just playing. I know who that's
Speaker 1: t let and Ot is dope. He gets like really dope,
Speaker 1: really dope.
Speaker 21: Great flow. Next, speaking of great flows, j T ha
Speaker 21: just dropped a single.
Speaker 14: I know they were talking about how they were having
Speaker 14: problems releasing music, so I'm just glad to see she's
Speaker 14: back outside.
Speaker 21: Her new song is called Sideways.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now I love when you coming here with some rappers.
Speaker 2: Now she got the video for it too, JT. J
Speaker 2: T can snap all right, j T gets busy and
Speaker 2: j T don't want to do nothing but rap. By
Speaker 2: the way, I don't think y'all realized that j T
Speaker 2: ain't with none of the other stuff. JT wants to rap.
Speaker 2: She won't be in that studio rapping, so salute to
Speaker 2: j T.
Speaker 14: Yeah, she's always had a strong pin always, but last
Speaker 14: but not at least, I'm gonna go with my brother
Speaker 14: Ruben Vincent.
Speaker 21: Now this record is actually unreleased, but he's year enough
Speaker 21: to drop a.
Speaker 1: Yet you bought three for three gets busy?
Speaker 14: Wait wait, wait, Before we get into it, I just
Speaker 14: want to say it's like an Afro hip hop blend,
Speaker 14: which I think is unique and very true to him,
Speaker 14: because you know, he's like berying.
Speaker 2: Ilus for Ruben Vincent. Man Charlotte, Charlotte Carolina. Yeah, Charlotte Noe.
Speaker 2: Carolina's on the seven o four NYLA Picks and Rappers today.
Speaker 11: I like that.
Speaker 1: Nylan Mexicano, t J T, Ruben Vincent.
Speaker 21: Okay, okay, Yeah, it's a good week. It's a good week.
Speaker 4: You guys like it.
Speaker 14: Make sure you guys hap into the playlist, all right,
Speaker 14: it's certified Vibe Live Playlist.
Speaker 21: Makes you guys tune in. You can follow me on
Speaker 21: Instagram at n Y l A S Y M O
Speaker 21: N E E E. Stay updated with everything. We just
Speaker 21: talked about.
Speaker 1: What you got in Atlanta?
Speaker 21: Two more?
Speaker 1: Damn hurry all right, come on, hurry up, you over
Speaker 1: down there getting sick.
Speaker 21: I don't think this was from Atlanta. I really think
Speaker 21: this is from La Damn.
Speaker 5: Well, we appreciate you, Na, and again let me shout
Speaker 5: out to before we get to the mix, I want
Speaker 5: to shout out to Kwame Watchie. I know I said
Speaker 5: his name wrong. While he owns the restaurant in New
Speaker 5: York City, his last name is oh n w u
Speaker 5: A c h I h. He has a restaurant called Tatiana.
Speaker 5: It's they infuse African and West Indian food really really dope.
Speaker 5: It's at Lincoln Center and I had a great time
Speaker 5: last night. I took my wife there for her birthday.
Speaker 5: I just it was just really dope.
Speaker 4: If you love African food or West Indian food, the
Speaker 4: way they infuse.
Speaker 5: It, whether it's oh, Lincoln is a huts of yards, right, No,
Speaker 5: Lincoln cent is like Ony seventieth.
Speaker 14: I heard prist riser is a one dollar sign, two
Speaker 14: dollars signs, or three dollars sign.
Speaker 4: I played with Miamis. I don't know what dollar sign
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, but it was.
Speaker 4: It was a great time. I had a lovely time
Speaker 4: last night.
Speaker 5: I want to salute to them and his staff and
Speaker 5: the fact that he's a brother and owns his own
Speaker 5: restaurant in New York City, which is really really dope.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to salute to him and his staff
Speaker 5: We had a great time last night for her birthday.
Speaker 4: All right, now let's get to the mix. We throw
Speaker 4: it back eight hundred and five eighty five, one oh
Speaker 4: five one.
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: Good morning morning. Everybody's DJ NV Charlamagne the Guy. We
Speaker 4: are the Breakfast Club. It's Black History Month for we
Speaker 4: do with Charlamagne Man SLEWT to my guy Beat.
Speaker 2: You know, be Dot host the podcast on the Black
Speaker 2: Fact iHeart Radio podcast network.
Speaker 1: In the podcast is called I didn't know. Maybe you
Speaker 1: didn't either.
Speaker 2: It's only as a specialty podcast that we only do
Speaker 2: during Black History Month. So every day during Black History Month,
Speaker 2: b Dot gives you some Black history that you may
Speaker 2: not have known. And today he's going to tell you
Speaker 2: about one of the first HBCUs that was originally a prison,
Speaker 2: Virginia Union University.
Speaker 1: Let's discuss be out here.
Speaker 15: And being a product of Winston Salem State University. I
Speaker 15: thought I was very familiar with Virginia Union University. I mean,
Speaker 15: we play the Panthers in football, basketball, all the sports.
Speaker 15: Highly competitive. I mean you can almost say there are
Speaker 15: are rivals. But what I didn't know was that Virginia
Speaker 15: Union went from incarcerating black folks to educating black folks sorta.
Speaker 15: To understand how Virginia Union was founded, you got to
Speaker 15: know who Robert Lumpkin and Mary are. See in the
Speaker 15: eighteen thirties, Robert Lumpkin he purchased Mary when she was
Speaker 15: a child. By the time she was thirteen, she had
Speaker 15: given birth to Rob's first child, and then she messed
Speaker 15: around and gave him Foma. Robert Lumpkin was twenty seven
Speaker 15: years older than Mary. That mean when she was thirteen
Speaker 15: having his first child, oh, Rob were forty. In eighteen
Speaker 15: forty four, Rob bought a jail called Lumpkin's Jail. They
Speaker 15: said it was one of the seven most cruel prisons
Speaker 15: in the South. They gave it a nickname, the Devil's
Speaker 15: half Acre. In eighteen sixty six, Rob died. See by
Speaker 15: then Mary and her kids were living in Philadelphia. They
Speaker 15: relocated there during the Civil War. But in his will,
Speaker 15: Rob left to jail to Mary. But she ain't wanting
Speaker 15: to do with that prison. So along came an abolitionist minister.
Speaker 15: His name was Nathaniel Cover, and he was looking for
Speaker 15: a space to start a seminary for formerly enslaved individuals.
Speaker 1: And Mary very gladly leased him to land.
Speaker 15: See, the northern teachers of that time, they found it
Speaker 15: necessary not just to educate the former enslaved individuals, but
Speaker 15: the white folks in the South that hadn't been educated
Speaker 15: to the same degree as the white folks in the
Speaker 15: North as well.
Speaker 1: Now this is all post Civil War.
Speaker 15: So once Clove gets a hold of the Devil's half Acre,
Speaker 15: his workers going there and tear up all the sales.
Speaker 15: They take the bars off, and they turn the sales
Speaker 15: into classrooms. There they started teaching black kids and birthed
Speaker 15: Richmond Theological Schools of Freedmen. It even got a new nickname,
Speaker 15: from the Devil's half Acre to God's half Acre. The
Speaker 15: Richmond Theological School of Freedman became the first institution of
Speaker 15: higher education for black folks in Virginia. In nineteen thirty two,
Speaker 15: they merged with the first College of African American Women
Speaker 15: in Virginia and became one of the first established HBCUs
Speaker 15: Virginia Union University.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 5: No, All right, that's dope, you know, just fun fact.
Speaker 5: You know, Virginia Union was the only HBCU. They gave
Speaker 5: me a full ride a scholarship for full Rock.
Speaker 21: So why you ain't going there.
Speaker 5: Because Hampton looked so much better. I'm want to go
Speaker 5: to Hampton University. My parents were upset out of too,
Speaker 5: because Virginia Union was gonna give me everything.
Speaker 4: But we had to pay for Hampton.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I think you should have your life turned out.
Speaker 4: I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I think I think I did that.
Speaker 5: Shout out to all HBCUs. You'll tell them where they
Speaker 5: can hit the rest of the sholdmen.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can listen to the you can listen to
Speaker 2: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. On The Black Effect,
Speaker 2: iHeart radio podcast network be Dot puts out episodes over
Speaker 2: the weekend, so there will be new episodes tomorrow and Sunday.
Speaker 5: Like I said, every day during Black History Month. All right,
Speaker 5: all right, when we come back, positive notice to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: Good morning morning everybody you see j Envy, Charlamagne de God,
Speaker 5: we all the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: Noledge is still hear you.
Speaker 1: I am Drake Man, Black and Holly famous.
Speaker 4: Because it's the last day of the duo.
Speaker 1: I am not sad, I am expreme.
Speaker 4: They're talking about it all days.
Speaker 1: That's right, they're talking about it. I can't wait for
Speaker 1: Just Hilarious to get here on Monday.
Speaker 21: I don't think they is going to change it all.
Speaker 1: The Last Day Duo, the.
Speaker 2: Good Sister Just Hilarious will be starting on Monday, so
Speaker 2: you'll be getting your just with the mess that you're
Speaker 2: getting your ass just next week, Just Hilarious fixfacially.
Speaker 1: Joined the Breakfast Club. What I said, I don't know
Speaker 1: what you said, but it just fixed my messag. Yes,
Speaker 1: just fix my mess.
Speaker 2: And also make sure you check out the Carefully Reckless
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Speaker 1: That is Just Hilarius's podcast.
Speaker 2: If you want just to fix your mess and you
Speaker 2: can't get through to the Breakfast Club, you can send
Speaker 2: in your emails or call into the podcast. That's right, Yes,
Speaker 2: but I don't know the numbers, so Jesus you gotta
Speaker 2: as it.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: The positive note is simply this man, as you get older,
Speaker 2: you will understand more and more that it's not about
Speaker 2: what you look like or what you own. It's all
Speaker 2: about the person you become. Y'all have a great weekend
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 11: You don't finish for y'all done