1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: I heart Radio, now number one for podcasting, presents Sunday 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Night Podcast. Every Sunday, we played one of the most 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: played and most listened to and most shared podcasts of 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: the week from the two hundred and fifty thousand podcasts 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: available in the free i heart Radio app. Find your 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,959 Speaker 1: next favorite podcast on i heart Radio. This week is 7 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club thirty. Good morning, everybody is DJ Envy, 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the God Tests as well. She've been 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: here the last two days, so you part of reference. Ye. 10 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: We got some special guests joining us today. Test is 11 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: back again and we also have Nadia Hall Green welcome you, 12 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: and of course attorney Ben Crump, who has a new 13 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: documentary called Civil that's out June nineteenth. Well, good morning, guys, 14 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us. Thank you King for 15 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: having us. Now for people that don't know, breakdown what 16 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: is civil, what it's about, and tell us all about it. 17 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: Certainly are Lee. I am always in eye of you, 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: so I say that public, I thank you. I appreciate that. 19 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: Civil is net Lix documentary coming out on June tenth. 20 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: It was directed by the young, brilliant director Nadia Hagren. 21 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: This uh African, Porto Rican, all kind of flavors in 22 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: there also. I mean, she is it. Her vision is 23 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: so incredible. I mean it followed me for eighteen months 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: during a pandemic where we had not heard of George 25 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: Floyd when they started filming. We had heard of Amadar, 26 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: but but hadn't heard of Brianna Taylor at the time. 27 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: And she is capturing all this footage intensely while we're 28 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: dealing with these families and so many other things like banking, 29 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: while black environmental racism, fighting for the black farmers doing 30 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: and she, more than anybody else, just understood the moment. 31 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: This isn't just a documentary for today. This is a 32 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: documentary as Kenya barrass and I who's the producer, created 33 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: Black and said, this is a documentary for our children. 34 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: Yet I'm born. I'm so glad you're here because there 35 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: was a call that we got. I don't know if 36 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: you were here, Envy last week, but somebody called it 37 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: and they were talking about Larry Nassar and how there's 38 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: this lawsuit against the FBI because of Larry Nasar, and 39 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: how they knew about the cases against him but they 40 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: didn't act on it, and somebody called it and they 41 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: were like, well, this is discussing what is money gonna do? 42 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: Why do victims need money if they're truly victims, and 43 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: this is just a money grab. So I know this 44 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: is something that you, as a civil rights attorney, can 45 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: speak to. So I would love for you to talk 46 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: about that when people try to say, oh, they're just 47 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: trying to get some money, or he's just chasing money 48 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: and trying to fatten his wallet. I tried not to 49 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: listen to the hate as much because I understand my mission. 50 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:03,119 Speaker 1: My tad. She's saying, now you gotta go back out 51 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: on crump, I'm like, I don't have the time because 52 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: I'm so focused on the mission. The mission is trying 53 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: to say to people, psychologically and consciously, to American society 54 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: that no, no, we matter, We deserve equal justice. When 55 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: you have a wrong against us, we have a right, 56 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: not only based on the Seventh Amendment of the United 57 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: States Constitution, but just based on common sense. We have 58 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: a right to send the message that you can't do 59 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: this to us and get away with it. I'm representing 60 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: a lot of black and brown people in Los Angeles 61 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: County at McClaren Hall, which was a children's shelter in 62 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: Los Angeles for fifty years, black and brown children were 63 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: being raped and sexually molested in the county just looked 64 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: the other way. It's been all these years, and now 65 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: California because of things that were happening in bart Scouts 66 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: in the Catholic Church said we're gonna give you three years. 67 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: Anybody who was molested in those things when you were 68 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: seven or eight years old, you have a right to 69 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: come forward. Think about those people. Yeah, the only thing 70 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: you can get his money. You can't go back and 71 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: give them their innocence back. But when you have that 72 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: civil compensation, it makes the county pay, It makes the 73 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: corporations paying those type of things. And like we say 74 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: on the trailer of Civil if anything America understands, it's 75 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: money capitalists, it's capitalism one O one. And when you 76 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: start making people pay, then they change their conduct, or 77 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: you keep going until it becomes financially prohibited for them 78 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: to be able to afford to treat black people and 79 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: brown people like second class citizens. Now let me chime 80 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: in on that though, right quick. Because he gave you 81 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 1: to Martin the which always say I'm Malcolm and he's 82 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: marks before you go, yeah, because you know I'm about 83 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: to go. There's a lot of people don't have the knowledge. Right. 84 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: So sometimes people call here or see articles and they 85 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: say Attorney Benjamin Crump is an ambalance chasing, right. He 86 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: chases just to make money or the fat in his pockets. Right. 87 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: And when Ted came up here, she spoke so eloquently 88 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: about you don't solicit anybody. Yeah, people have to reach 89 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: out to you. And many times people reach out to 90 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: certain other attorneys or other anywhere anybody else and nothing 91 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: gets done, and they don't sit get done two until 92 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: you step on the stage cause a day. So now yea, 93 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: now talkyo, Yeah, I'm a better talk about so yeah. 94 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: So to the dumbbos in the comments, I'm speaking directly 95 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: to them. And again this is not a reflection of 96 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: Attorney Crump. These are my own statements. When people say 97 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: it's not about it's all about the money, first of all, 98 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: that makes no sense. Only five percent of Attorney Crump's 99 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: cases are police brutality, that's number one. Nobody talks about 100 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: one hundred million dollar lawsuits that he's been able to 101 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: get for folks who are alive and well the six 102 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: hundred million dollar lawsuits he's been getting alive and well, 103 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: America or any government has never paid for the value 104 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: of black life. And so I find it amazing that 105 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: the same people in the comments that will sue McDonald's 106 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: for a slip and fall feel that it is not 107 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: It makes no sense if someone takes your life and 108 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: you feel that that family should not deserve compensation for 109 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: their children that's been left behind. What are they supposed 110 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: to exchange Roman noodles like in the pen. The only 111 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: thing we have is the money compensation. But to ignore 112 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: the fact that Attorney Crump pushes for the criminal punishment, 113 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: to ignore the fact that policy actually comes out of 114 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: these cases. When you talk about the bround, the Taylor Law, 115 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: when you talk about the and andre Hill law, when 116 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: you talk about one hundred cities that have now enacted 117 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: police reform since the murder of George Floyd, it has 118 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: been because Attorney Crump and a few others and I'm 119 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: saying a few, just to be generous, have brought these 120 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: cases to light. There are billions of dollars every year 121 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: that are settled based on police brutality. I ask people, 122 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: why is it that your local attorney and your hometown 123 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: never wants to take these cases. Why is it? It's 124 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: not certainly not for a lack of advertisement. Every commercial year, 125 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: every day is if you've been injured in an accident, 126 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: if you've been into accident, So why don't they take 127 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: those cases? Angel? That's the qua I ask people, why 128 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: don't you see them with? The answer is in which 129 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: you point this out in the film. They do not 130 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: want to upset their DA. They don't want to up 131 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: set the governor, they don't want to upset their chief 132 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,119 Speaker 1: of police. They do not want to be black balled 133 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: and send the death threats for pennies. And I'm gonna 134 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: say this and I'll be quiet. When you look at 135 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: these cases that attorney Crump takes or any civil attorney, 136 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: these cases take years, two, three, four or five six years. 137 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,239 Speaker 1: You don't earn a dollar. So I would ask anybody 138 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: in the comments, are you willing to work for forty 139 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: hours a week for three to four years straight? Maybe 140 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: maybe not get compensation at the end. It just makes 141 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: zero sense. It doesn't add up. The MAV doesn't math. 142 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: So when you hear those comments amulance chasing, no, everybody 143 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: say that tells their loved one in the amulance. I'll 144 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: use one story Morrowbirt, a case I worked on in 145 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. The stepfather Monrobert said, do not. I don't 146 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: want being Crump because the family called me first, because 147 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: their son was being dragged off through the media. They 148 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: called me first. He said, I don't want being Crump. 149 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: I don't want none of that coming down because he's 150 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: an ultra conservative Tulsa, Oklahoma, ultra conservatis black man, but conservative. 151 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: But once his son got started getting dragged in the media, 152 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: then it was can you call a turn the Crump 153 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: because nobody was willing to stand and change the narrative. 154 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: The narrative that has changed in the media affects the jury, 155 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: it affects how they make those decisions. And so now 156 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: seven years later, they're passing the Monroe Bird Law. And 157 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: that's the stuff that people don't keep up with us. 158 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: The free I Heart Radio app has over two hundred 159 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand podcasts to explode. Yes, this is the 160 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club thirty part of Sunday Night podcast on iHeartRadio. 161 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: We're still kicking It with Attorney Benjamin Crump, Teslin Figuo 162 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: and Nadia whole green that discourage you at all, Like, 163 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: no matter what, you out there to do good right. 164 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: And then so when you got people and people that 165 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: look like you that you're fighting for and they go 166 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: at you, does that discourage you at all? Ivy, I 167 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: try to be a student of history. Thirdgood marsh has 168 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: my personal hero Martin, then Malcolm. These are the MLA people. 169 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: Don't understand that they were hated mostly by black people. 170 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: You know, we have this revision this history that everybody 171 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: loved them, but when they were at their peak, they 172 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: were the most hated people in America by both white 173 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: and black people. And so I always try to remember 174 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: that and say, God, I know what mission you put 175 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: on my shoulders, and I'm going to use these blessings, 176 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: these influences to try to affect a better world for 177 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: our children. And I'm never discouraged by anything. As we 178 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: said in the family, don't be a spectator. If you 179 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: feel you can do something, get in the arena. The 180 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: easiest thing in the world to do is to sit 181 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: at home and be a critic and don't do anything else. 182 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: The hero is the person who puts themselves out there, 183 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: risk their reputation, their family, safety, and even their life, 184 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: and say this is about more than just me. We 185 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,839 Speaker 1: have these banking while black cases where we have recovered millions, 186 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars for black people over two 187 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: hundred millions of beings. Let's put the number out there 188 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: so they can in the comments. And it's so astonishing 189 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: to me, Envy and Angie, that people would say, Oh, 190 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: it's just about the money. What do you think banks 191 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: and corporations are doing things for. Are they doing it 192 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: just for charity? Are they doing it just because they 193 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 1: had nothing better to do. No, they're doing it for 194 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: the money. And so when we take on Whales Fargo, 195 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: who we are currently fighting now because they were denying 196 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: black people mortgages during a pandemic where the government had 197 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: gave an opportunity, and I digress. I gotta say this, 198 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: y'all absolutely doing the pandemic because they were worried about 199 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: the economy. The government gave historic incentives to decrease the 200 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: interest rate for home loans lord than they had been 201 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: in seventy five years. Y'all understand for poor people in 202 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: middle class people, the quickest way to gain wealth and 203 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: equity is to be able to purchase a home and 204 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: pass something more to your children and their children. That's 205 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: how you get wealth accumulated. Well, even with all of this, 206 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: Where's Fargo? Where's the nine Black people? White people were 207 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: getting incredible incentives to increase their wealth by saying you 208 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: got a two percent interest rate, you might save a 209 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: million to two million dollars just because you were able 210 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: to refinance. They said, no the black people. And so 211 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: now I can where about the Negroes in the comments? 212 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: So I can go say no, where's Fargo? You probably 213 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: stop black people from getting a billion dollars in equity. 214 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 1: So guess what being Crump gonna do. I don't care 215 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: what you say. I'm going to get those black people 216 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: that billion dollars. But now let's talk to you, because 217 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: this is a spicy room if you haven't, so, let's 218 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: talk about you. You directing this, and what made you 219 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: want to do this film? Like most of us, I 220 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: was sitting home during that time when everything was happening 221 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: in America, the pandemic, George Floyd's murdered, and I'm like, 222 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: I'm a filmmaker. I need to be out there doing something. 223 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: And then I get a call from Kenya Barris and 224 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: He's like, I've been working on something with Ben Crump. 225 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: We want to make a documentary. Do you want to 226 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: get involved? So grab the camera. Just got on the 227 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: role with Ben, and I just knew that this was 228 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: a moment to document history and what was happening in America. 229 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: And you also showed Bankrump's family, his mom. Now, why 230 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: was that important in framing this story? One thing I 231 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: thought was so special when I met Attorney Crump was 232 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,359 Speaker 1: just who he is as a person, as an individual, 233 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: his values, you know, at the highest standard at where 234 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: that came from. Was that hard for you to expose 235 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: that part of your life, because that's not something you 236 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: ever do. It's very hard to expose your personal life. 237 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: I will say this. My mom was here at the 238 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: Tribeca Film Festival premiere and we grew up in the projects. 239 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: My mother raised me and my two brothers and her 240 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: baby brother, working two jobs, I mean, doing everything for us. 241 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: And it was so beautiful for my mother to see 242 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: what she did. I mean, it's standing ovation. And then 243 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: out of Times Square they got Netflix really has invested 244 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: in this movie and they have a Billboy eighty foot 245 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: off the ground on forty second and Broadway, and for 246 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: my mom Mo to say we started in the projects 247 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: and that we're here. I mean, it's just a testament 248 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: to a strong black woman absolutely saying I won't let 249 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: this world destroy my children. And so my mom and 250 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: my wife, my daughter, everybody in this film, they just 251 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: kept it rare kep it too. How does your family 252 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: deal with it? Because it's it's you know, it's like 253 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: anything else. Yeah, I mean, if you could just take 254 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: all the negativity, it is all good, but it bleeds 255 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: into your wife, it bleeds into your kids, and then 256 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: you know, a test was talking the other day about 257 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: the death threats. Yeah, how does your family deal with it? 258 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: How are they okay? It's hard. Obviously as adults we 259 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: understand what we're doing. My nine year old daughter watch 260 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: the film for the first time yesterday and she said, Daddy, 261 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: you got a death threat and she was very concerned 262 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: about it. And so we had that conversation about baby, 263 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: Dad is out here fighting for you to have a 264 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: better world, and sometimes people don't want to see our 265 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: black children have an equal opportunity at life. We have 266 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: to fight for our rights. We can never take stuff 267 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: for granted. And she was like, but you didn't do 268 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: anything wrong. I said, baby, I know that, and you 269 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: will learn that some people feel that they're superior to 270 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: us because the color of their skin. And that's always 271 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: a difficult conversation to have with young people because they 272 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: want to see the best in the world. She was 273 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: asking me questions, Man, she is terrified by these school shootings. 274 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: Your children that have to deal with that trauma. What happens, dad, 275 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: if it happens in our school, you know. So we 276 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: talk about those things. I think about how my wife, 277 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: my brothers, everybody in their minds, they are prepared that 278 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: it could happen. And we have to protect your family 279 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: when you're on the road so much. I mean, they're 280 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: constantly checking on them and everything. And that's the other 281 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: side that Tas was talking about. My law partners, Now, 282 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: we don't make that much money doing police brutality. We 283 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: make our money from doing mass tours, saying class action work, 284 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: stuff that you know is going up against these corporate titans. 285 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: This police brutality. Civil rights work. It's something you do 286 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: because you care. Nobody does civil rights work to get rich. 287 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: It's the least profitable division in my law firm. I 288 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: pray so much that we can close down the police 289 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: brutality the vision of the ben Crump law firm, because 290 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: then that would mean tray Vine will get to live 291 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: because somebody then profile him. Amad Aubrey. I mean all 292 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: these young black people in the film now he has 293 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: a part in, a fifteen year old, eighteen year old, 294 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: in a nineteen year old in a week's time, all 295 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: get killed by the police, completely unjustified. But if we 296 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: can somehow have them look at our children like they 297 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: look at their children, then our children would get to live. 298 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: And that's what I pray for, man, That's what I'm fighting. 299 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: I've made enough money. I'm gonna be okay. My law 300 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: firm would rather I just stopped doing the civil rights 301 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: They like you did enough Crump. We can make money 302 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: a lot easier and more of it if you would 303 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: just quit doing the civil rights work. But I'm like, 304 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: then I would be selling out my soul. Now. It's 305 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: about fighting for our children, man. I Heeart Radio for 306 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 1: podcast Discovery. This is the breakfast Club theory. We go 307 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: your chance to hear the biggest trending podcast each week 308 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 1: from the free i Heeart Radio app. Still kicking it 309 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: with Attorney Benjamin Krump, Teslain Figuro, and Laddia Holgrin. So 310 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. Now, Ladia is the director, 311 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 1: what's the biggest taket way you get out of this documentary? 312 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: What I hope envy is that when people watch this 313 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: film they have a much deeper, nuanced understanding of what 314 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: life is like in our communities than they ever have before, 315 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: and that they understand the work that Attorney Crump does. 316 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: You know something we spoke about earlier, just this idea 317 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: that civil law and criminal law are actually two different things, 318 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: and we were surprised in this film when we showed 319 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: it to people and they didn't understand it. So just 320 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 1: to give people a basic understanding of how the law 321 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: works as well. So it's an educational tool, but it's 322 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: really to bring people in a show behind the scenes 323 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: of what these cases are really like other outside of 324 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 1: the press conferences and the new cycle tells you when 325 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: to cris anybody else anything else the world. I just 326 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: think I'll just echo you know, the world. It is 327 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: important that people understand civil law and criminal law because 328 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: the prosecutors, I think intentionally sometimes lose these cases. We 329 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: have never lost a police brutality the case, but people 330 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: sometimes can't distinguish the two, and so I think not 331 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: it does a good job or reminding people of what 332 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: we should have learned in seventh grade Civics class, that 333 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: the government is the only people can prosecute you and 334 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: put you in jail. And then the Seventh Amendment says, 335 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: if you've had a wrong that you believe as big 336 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: put upon you, you have a right to sue them, 337 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: and if the jury agrees with you, you are entitled 338 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 1: to compensation. And the law has some reason for that, 339 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: because they don't want people trying to solve their disputes 340 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: in the street by shooting and killing one another. No, no, 341 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: you come to the court in law, and if a 342 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: Jared agrees, then the only thing we can give you 343 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: is monitory damage. That's the accountability. That is the accountability. 344 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: Before a text gives her final word, I do want 345 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: to say that I know you've been inspired by Thirdgood Marshall, 346 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: and you speak on it all the time. But I 347 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: feel like after seeing this, kids will being inspired by you, 348 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: and that's the thing that will make the next generation 349 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: want to become active, become attorneys, become civil rights attorneys, 350 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: and make sure that they do what's right. Absolutely, we 351 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: appreciate you. Thank you. I'll dropped the sick for the 352 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: positivity encouraging me to be I will say this, and 353 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: I talked about this in my last Breakfast Club interview 354 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: on my Push the Line training that's coming up politics 355 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: until something happens, I want to give a quick shout 356 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: out to texts six six eight sixty six push the 357 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: Line to six six eight six six. What is that about? 358 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: It is about getting in the fight. What people should 359 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: get from this documentary at the end is being Crump says, 360 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: get into the arena. I know who I am, and 361 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: I know whose I am, and what does that really mean. 362 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: You've got three ways to get involved. Now. You can 363 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: just be in the comments, or you can get involved 364 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: on the criminal side, to push for the folks get arrested, 365 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: to push to end qualified immunity, like what happened in 366 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: New York City, by the way, like what happened in Colorado, 367 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: by the way. You can talk about making sure folks 368 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: get arrested. You can talk about the protest side. You 369 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: can talk about the punitive damage aside, which is what 370 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: attorney Crump does. Or you can talk about the policy, 371 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: which is what I talk about, which is one over 372 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: one hundred cities have passed some level of police reform 373 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: that nobody talks about. We still have to push on 374 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: the federal level for the George Floyd Justin Police and Act, 375 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: but over one hundred cities have made some difference. The 376 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: bottom line is you have every opportunity to be involved. 377 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 1: My logo push the line and has each person pushing 378 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,719 Speaker 1: one pushing the p to you, the S and the H. 379 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: Nobody's paying attention to what's going on beside them. There's 380 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: a child on the side that is watching with their 381 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 1: fists up, watching what it is that we're doing. So 382 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: you can push or you can talk. In the Bible, 383 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 1: whether you are believing, I'm only talking to the believers, 384 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: it says that at the end, you know, we talk 385 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: about who's the goat, who's the goat, who's the goat, 386 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: Who's the greatest of all time? We love throwing that 387 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: around in hip hop, but in the end, there is 388 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: going to become a time where the goat would be 389 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: separated from the sheep. What is the sheep? People say, 390 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,880 Speaker 1: the sheep is who follows and who does what man does. 391 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: But in the Word of God. It says that the 392 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: sheep is about the shepherd's business. So you are either 393 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: going to be about for the least of these? Are 394 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: you gonna be one of the goat that are not 395 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: here to serve those who have been in prison, to 396 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: serve those who have been disenfranchised, to serve those who 397 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: have been marginalized. And when it's time to make that accountability. 398 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: And if I'm wrong that I don't have nothing to 399 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: worry about. If I just disappear into existence, fine, But 400 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: what if I'm right? Dj envy. If I'm right, there's 401 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 1: going to be the question what did you do? And 402 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: the answer won't be Well, I was in the DM 403 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: I told being he should do this. I told tell 404 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 1: what did you do for the least of these? You've 405 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 1: been challenged right now to do something one of those 406 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: three four things. Don't worry about what's been doing, get 407 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: the arena and get your squaw bone. It's plenty of 408 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: people that's talking from the stands. We talked about that Friday, 409 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: everybody at the game. But guess what, we don't all 410 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: play the same position. I've never once seen Lebron James 411 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: turn around to the stand and say what y'all think 412 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 1: I should do? Should I go? This? Attorney Crumb got 413 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 1: a focus on playing the game, and then you got 414 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: people like me that's on the sideline, on the bench 415 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 1: cheering them on. Let's go, let's go, let's go off 416 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: a cheerlead. All through school. My job was to say 417 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: let's go, but to also challenge at the same time, saying, 418 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: turn Crump, I don't really like that. I'm not feeling that, 419 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: but I'm on the court in the game. So if 420 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: you just understands talking, you just understands talking, Let's start 421 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: walking and let's be about our business. Here you go. 422 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: Civil is out this Sunday, Tuesday, June teh, June teenth. 423 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: Definitely check it out and we appreciate you guys for 424 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: joining us tag Civil and Twitter. There's only one phone 425 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: call that when they called, we always come to work 426 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 1: and open up, and that's when an attorney Benjamin Crump calls. 427 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you on vacation, pandemic, if none 428 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: of the worker, if Angela's out, I'm out, Charlomi out, 429 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,719 Speaker 1: you get hit. Yeah, we love you. King, y'all are 430 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 1: the voice for our people. Thank you, Thank you so much. 431 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's the Redfish Club. 432 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: Good morning. I wanted to say I Heart Radio for 433 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: podcast Discovery. This is the Breakfast Club thirty Yeah we go. 434 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 1: Your chance to hear the biggest trending podcast each week 435 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: from the free I Heart Radio at Charlot, Maine. Say 436 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: the game. Don't get out the shape man you are you, 437 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: It's time to day. Donkey today does not discriminate. I 438 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: might not have the song of today, but I got 439 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: the donkey that So if you ever kill I need 440 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: to be a donkey man. Give it with you. Breakfast 441 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: Club bitches today Today smooth and bunby man. Donkey to 442 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: Dave goes to sixty eight year old Shield of Downey 443 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,239 Speaker 1: of Memphis, Tennessee. Sleute to everybody who listens to us 444 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 1: on K ninety seven and Memphis dropping a clothes bomb 445 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: from K ninety seven and Memphis in the sea. We 446 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: appreciate you. Now. How do you like your coffee? Common 447 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: question a lot of people get asked. I've never been 448 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: a coffee drinker. My wife is not my thing. I 449 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: prefer a good ginger tea with some honey as a 450 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: pick me up in the morning. Are my Carviva sports 451 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: drinker one of the two. I'm actually sitting here to 452 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: siding which one I want right now. But I respect 453 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 1: all coffee drinkers. Okay, A lot of y'all heard me 454 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 1: ask how do you like your coffee? And you answered, 455 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: I like it black, straight black, no cream with sugar. 456 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: Some of y'all want cream and sugar. Some of y'all 457 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: like a dark rose. Some of y'all like a half 458 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: calf water down because it makes you too jittery. Little 459 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: oat milk really okay. Some of y'all like a little lighter, 460 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,959 Speaker 1: blonde rose. Some of y'all don't like to taste at 461 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: all because it's too bit of Some folks like putting 462 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: a little salt in their coffee. Have you heard of that? 463 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: She eat? Nope, put a little salt in their coffee 464 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: because it blocks the bitterness. All right. There's a lot 465 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,439 Speaker 1: of ways to drink coffee. Personally, I don't dig it 466 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: because I don't like the tasting. Someone not liking to 467 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: taste of coffee is why sheland Downy is in jail today. See, 468 00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: she had an eighty one year old husband, and her 469 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: husband even got into an argument with her over the 470 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: taste of his coffee. Now, Angelie, you have a coffee business, right, yes, 471 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: Coffee uplifts people. Coffee uplifts people. This is a story 472 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: of coffee upsetting people. Okay, if someone doesn't like the 473 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: taste of their coffee, ye, how do you handle it? 474 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: Try to get them a new one? Simple? Right? Yeah? 475 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: I would think if someone didn't like the taste of 476 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: the coffee, you would simply fix them another cup. When 477 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: you're married, you would probably tell said person fix your 478 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: own damn coffee. Then. Okay, if you don't like the 479 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 1: way y'all made it, well, Sheila didn't either. Let's go 480 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,680 Speaker 1: to Fox thirteen for the report. Police, Well, it started 481 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: over the taste of coffee. But now one man is 482 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: dead and his wife has been charged with his murder. 483 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: Police say Sheila down and stabbed her husband to death 484 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: yesterday at a home on Renwood Street, not before the 485 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: victim died. Police say he told them that the two 486 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: got in an argument over the taste of his coffee. 487 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: He says, down they got angry and try to drink bleach. 488 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: That's when he tried to stop her. She grabbed a 489 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: knife and then stabbed him multiple times. Police say that 490 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: Downey originally drove away from the scene, but it was 491 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: arrusted when she returned, the best part of waking up 492 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: my ass? Okay, imagine getting killed because you didn't say that. Okay, 493 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: my ass, y'all know what I meant at that. You 494 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: know they say the best part of waking up it's 495 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: folders in your cup. I said, the best part of 496 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: waking up my ass. Y'all know what I meant, wake up? 497 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 1: Wake up? As I was saying, okay, imagine getting killed 498 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 1: because you didn't like to tast of your coffee. Okay? 499 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: And what if that coffee you was drinking was death wish? 500 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 1: Do y'all carry that brandy? Death? Which coffee company? Right? 501 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: Death wish? Coffee company? Better? Hoping prayed this man wasn't 502 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: drinking their brand, because Lord ha mercy, that would be 503 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: terrible promotion. Listen, one thing for sure, Two things was certain. 504 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: I would never let anyone who bleach fixed my coffee, 505 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: because if she can stand in the taste the bleach, 506 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: then clearly her taste budget is a questionable. But the 507 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: reality is she was probably drinking the bleach because she 508 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: wanted to kill herself, and when that didn't work, she 509 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: got pushed to kill her husband. Look, man, let's be 510 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: clear about something, because we do this all the time 511 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: and regards the humans. This woman, Sheila, didn't kill her 512 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: husband over nor damn coffee. Okay. When you get to 513 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: the point where you kill someone over a cup of coffee, 514 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: you reached your tipping point in life, and with that 515 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: person a long time ago. And folgers had absolutely nothing 516 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 1: to do with it, all right. This woman was clearly 517 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: in pain. This woman was clearly hurting over something. This 518 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: is why I tell y'all constantly invest in your mental wealth, 519 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: all right, deal with your emotional health fixed with in 520 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: your head, okay, and in your heart. All right. Your 521 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: body is your temple. Your body is your house. And 522 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: if you don't deal with what's in your mental will house, 523 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,439 Speaker 1: you can possibly possibly end up killing someone because of 524 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: maxwell house. All right. What's interesting about this is Sheila 525 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,400 Speaker 1: probably could have used a cup of coffee your damn self, 526 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: all right. A lot of folks anxiety goes to the roof. 527 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: They don't get their coffee in the morning. All right. 528 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: My wife doesn't like to do anything, and she will 529 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,199 Speaker 1: have an attitude until she gets a cup of coffee. 530 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: And there has been some research that shows coffee and 531 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: caffeine may decrease anxiety symptoms, so Sheila probably needed a 532 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: couple of Seattle's Best to take the edge off. All right. 533 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: No matter how strong a person is, they always have 534 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: a breaking point. And Sheila clearly reached her breaking point. 535 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: And she will have to get the healing she needs 536 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: in a state sponsor facility for the rest of her life. 537 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: And I would like to note that this situation completely mixed. 538 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: The quote a bad day with coffee is better than 539 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: a good day without it null and void. A bad 540 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: day with coffee is better than a good day without it. 541 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: That quote is nulling void, and that is complete bs. 542 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: Sheila's husband had a bad day. He got stabbed multiple 543 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: times and later died with his coffee. I'm just here 544 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: to make observations people, Okay, everybody in line that Starbucks 545 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: duncan and yee spot coffee upflips, people, carry on. Please 546 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: let him Mark give Sheila Downey the biggest see huh 547 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: he uh, you stupid mother? Are you dumb? We still 548 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: want to know what the best part of waking your 549 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: ass up its? How do you wake as the best 550 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: part of waking up my ass? All right, I don't 551 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: even know why that sounds like that. But y'all know 552 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: what I mean. You know what somebody says like such 553 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: and such my ass. No, I don't know why. No, 554 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: nobody's such and such as my ass. I don't know what. 555 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna gaf like me. You're not gonna gafl 556 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: like me this morn I'm not gonna happen. I'm not 557 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: gonna what's gonna ask. You're not gonna do it. I'm 558 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: not gonna let you do it. I'm not gonna let 559 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: you do it. I'm not gonna let you gaff like 560 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 1: me this morning. Nope, got therapy to day. I'm gonna 561 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: do it. That should be a good hashtag, all right, 562 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: everybody hashtags. Part of waking up my asste means favorite 563 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: number waking up in No ass, that's not what I'll say. 564 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: We didn't even say that. That's what it means to say. 565 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: If you just said that under your breath, I heard you, 566 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: and everybody heard you. Rewind the tape you just said that. Nope, 567 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: you can't. Nobody can't get you. Don't play gay Bill. Well, 568 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: we brought into this studio this week. What did that 569 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: guy tell you? George as soon as I get the 570 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: Honorable Don o' rollands to notorize that there will be 571 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: no more playing of Gay in this room anymore. 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