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Speaker 1: to the planet. Guess what day it is? Guess what

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Speaker 1: day it is? Good morning, We're back baby, Another Wednesday

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Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club. What's happening? How y'a feel allow that? Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, It's hump day, middle of the week, and

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Speaker 1: our guest host is running a little late. You know, listen,

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Speaker 1: our guest host this morning is La La Anthony again

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Speaker 1: lot lazy. I don't even like to say that day

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Speaker 1: running late because you know, I like, they really work here,

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Speaker 1: that is true. You know you're not getting a check.

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Speaker 1: still get here, you know, maybe do a little makeup,

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Speaker 1: You know, she'll she'll get right in the groove. That's right. Well,

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Speaker 1: we got Steven A. Smith joining us this morning. Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith will be here this morning. He has an amazing

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Speaker 1: new book out. It's called Great Shooter. You know, I love,

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Speaker 1: I love reading, I love books, and Stephen AD's book

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Speaker 1: is really really good for a number of reasons. With

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Speaker 1: the most important reason it's because you don't be talking

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Speaker 1: about his personal life, not at all. You've never really

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Speaker 1: heard Stephen Ai delve into his personal life, and his

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Speaker 1: books Great Shoot, A Memoir of Second Chances and First

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Speaker 1: Takes really really digging into his personal life. I thought

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Speaker 1: he was married for the longest. Nah, he got two

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Speaker 1: baby mamas though, as you found out in the book.

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Speaker 1: Found that out in the book, you got two baby mamas.

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Speaker 1: And you know, he talks about he talks about a

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Speaker 1: relationship that I think that men don't talk about enough,

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Speaker 1: which is the relationships with our fathers, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, especially when some of them weren't the best.

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Speaker 1: And he definitely didn't have the best relationship with his pots.

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Speaker 1: He talks about that a lot in the book. But

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to Stephen A. Smith this morning's Great Shooter,

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Speaker 1: A Memoir of Second Chances of First Takes. He'll be

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Speaker 1: here to discuss that. Absolutely. My dad called me yesterday,

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Speaker 1: He goes, I love you. So my post was listening

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Speaker 1: so if you listened to this morning dad in the morning, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I realized the context of I get what you'a with

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Speaker 1: the discussion he was having yesterday. But man, love you

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Speaker 1: is just a matter of context. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was saying yesterday. You know, an individual

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Speaker 1: you to know, love you son, right, and it felt

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Speaker 1: it's just about context, man. Yeah. You know if you're

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Speaker 1: y'all making love and you say I love you, it's

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Speaker 1: a different contexts. Yeah, you know. You can't even look

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Speaker 1: me in the hodge right now. See, I love you, King,

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Speaker 1: you love me? No, say it to me now? You

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Speaker 1: say it first. I love you, King, I thank you.

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Speaker 1: See what I'm saying, I love you back. See what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, I said, I said I you know, I

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Speaker 1: say I love you more, all right? And that's too

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Speaker 1: much to Okay, it's too much? Why why I love

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Speaker 1: too much? Too much? That's the problem with y'all. Need

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Speaker 1: you gotta humping your back right now because you can't

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Speaker 1: accept love except love. Straighten up and accept my back

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Speaker 1: and straight there you go. Why why are you poking

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Speaker 1: your nipples out? What? Look at nipples? Looking? Why? What

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not doing this with you today. I

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Speaker 1: the show cracking with Lila when you need it. Man,

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Speaker 1: this is too much masculine energy here. It's too much.

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Speaker 1: absolutely all right, we got right now. We gotta tell

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Speaker 1: Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Charlomagne the guy.

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Speaker 1: We are to Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front

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Speaker 1: page news now. Congratulations to Lebron. I think this is

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Speaker 1: They're saying, in the next six or seven games, he

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Speaker 1: careful out there, all right. Now they're saying seventeen million

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Speaker 1: Texas to New York. So they're saying winter storm warning

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Speaker 1: will be hitting today between one and three. They say

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Speaker 1: don't want ten inches though, not right now in January.

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Speaker 1: And why do they always wait and tell you know

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Speaker 1: call her a mother and she well, he's stupid. Now

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Speaker 1: let's let's talk about classified documents all right. Now, they've

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Speaker 1: White House? I did not. Hut. Do you see any

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Speaker 1: the White House? Well, there'd been no reason to have

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Speaker 1: the new must have items for politicians. And what I

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Speaker 1: will never understand is why do politicians weaponize actions that

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Speaker 1: just suggests to me once again that last summer was

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Speaker 1: an overreach. But the kind of double standard that we

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Speaker 1: exactly what undermines public confidence in our justice system. How

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Speaker 1: about all of y'all dirty dirty will stop the mudslinging.

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Speaker 1: It's literally like cheating on your wife, but chad than

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Speaker 1: other men for cheating on their wife knowing you got

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Speaker 1: a couple of side checks your damn self. Okay. And also,

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Speaker 1: if the issue with Trump is obstruction and Trump knowing

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Speaker 1: he didn't even know what was on. Everybody should come

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, the weaponizing actions that all of y'all

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Speaker 1: boy boy, my lad is your front page news. Now

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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Because being

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Speaker 1: it just adds on his legacy, the fact that he's

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Speaker 1: balling right now. He's the greatest old player of all time.

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Speaker 1: You ain't never seen nobody at thirty eight executed at

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Speaker 1: this level. He never seen nobody. That's that's that's that's

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Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. Hey, we've seen Kobe Bryant. We've seen Alan Ivison,

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Speaker 1: We've seen Shaquille O'Neill, we've seen Kevin Garnett. What are

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Speaker 1: Lebron is the top five greatest of all time NBA player,

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Speaker 1: probably top three, But you cannot discount what he's doing

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Speaker 1: He's the greatest old player we've ever seen. We've never

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Speaker 1: morning coach Davis Man, Sean Man, how y'all doing it?

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Speaker 1: What's what's up? My brother? I'm good man, And listen,

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Speaker 1: and you charlot men. You know, you know, dealing with

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Speaker 1: your health man, and getting these calls as can be easy,

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Speaker 1: you know, as as Wendy used to say, a man

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Speaker 1: of a certain age, and you know, I'm definitely just

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Speaker 1: my second call. Not spite that I'm scheduled for in February,

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Speaker 1: you know. But I also, you know, want you to

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Speaker 1: talk about these punts exam too, man, because black men

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Speaker 1: are dying at a hot clip from proper state chancer

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Speaker 1: as well. Yeah. I just got my pro I got

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Speaker 1: my prop state looked at, I got I got the

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Speaker 1: ultrasound thing done. Did that like a week? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's huge, man, you know, because you know, they have

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Speaker 1: the negative connotation of of you know, black men especially

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Speaker 1: not going to a doctor and and and getting that

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Speaker 1: check because of the sexual connotations to it. And that's

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Speaker 1: a bunch of nonsense. Man. You know, you know, you

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Speaker 1: you got to worry about your health and life. Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you something, whether than you you know your sexuality.

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Speaker 1: I got, I got four daughters, king right, I'm forty

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Speaker 1: four years old. I need to live there at least

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Speaker 1: be ninety something years old, close to a hundred. So

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Speaker 1: I let him man look at my butt all day

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Speaker 1: long if if it allows me to do that. Facts.

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Speaker 1: You know, Hey, I got I got one thing to say, man,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you our question. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if y'll know about the young man from Ohio since

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Speaker 1: they read nah, but all right, well, Um, in October,

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Speaker 1: he got into an altercation with a white man and

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Speaker 1: thirteen years old. Nah, let's see that. Yeah, we're looking

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Speaker 1: business you're in. Can't just say like, well, you married

420
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Speaker 1: an athlete or you married a rapper or whatever, so

421
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: you should expect what you should expect it. And then

422
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 1: and then some people go further and say you should

423
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,040
Speaker 1: expect it and you should be okay with it. Now

424
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 1: there's another piece to it. Yeah, like just accept it,

425
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: but be okay with it is a stereotype, right, because

426
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 1: it's not like, you know, not like pastors don't be cheating.

427
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Speaker 1: All people that you don't expect to cheat, they sometimes

428
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Speaker 1: they jump out the window. But that's why you got

429
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Speaker 1: to get you a black man, because black men don't cheat.

430
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about eight o'clock because I have more

431
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Speaker 1: to say, talk about it. We talk about the next hour,

432
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Speaker 1: all right now, don't forget when we come back, Stephen A.

433
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 1: Smith will be joining us a little bit. And we

434
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,199
Speaker 1: got front page. We need to push Stephen back on

435
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: one right now. I need to know what's going on.

436
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 1: I need to say something. Something happened that she like,

437
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 1: you just don't coming here with this now, Well we

438
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,400
Speaker 1: got front page. Who was next? Imagine being killed by

439
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: your dog and not your homie, like, yeah dog. We'll

440
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 1: explain when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club the morning.

441
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Speaker 1: Everybody in stej Envy, Charlomagne the guy. We are the

442
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Speaker 1: breakfast Club. We got our special guest host here morning.

443
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Speaker 1: Let's get in some front page news. Now, let's talk

444
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Speaker 1: US airlines, meaning the airlines in the in America all

445
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 1: right now, because I said us, it's gonna sound like

446
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: I said US air lives. But we're gonna talk about

447
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 1: the top nine airlines. All right, number one, who's number one?

448
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:58,639
Speaker 1: Jet Blue? No way, Delta's number one, Number two was Alaska?

449
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: What number two is Southwest Airline? After damn line? Number four?

450
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: Busting the sky? Southwest Airline? Yes, so I'll tell you

451
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: number nine. Number nine is jet Blue, Jet Blue. I

452
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Speaker 1: actually have a great experience before jet Blue. Number eight Frontier.

453
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Speaker 1: I am almost say member, and I'm very proud of

454
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Speaker 1: that number seven before jet Blue. But from front tier spirit,

455
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: that is a goddamn lie. And that's from the Wall

456
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Speaker 1: Street Journal, well, Wall Street Journal of it. Okay, Southwest

457
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: Airlines is the busting the sky. Okay, you're going in

458
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 1: you play musical chats that rank number three? Sir, there

459
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: ain't no damn way in hell? How is that possible?

460
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: Do that? First class? Do they give you so dead

461
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 1: in water? Last time I checked you? When you get

462
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: on southwe the airlines you pick you on maybe having

463
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Speaker 1: the music playing. When the music stop, everybody got to

464
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: sit down. Literally. That's so that's the airlines. Now, this

465
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 1: is a sad story. So a hunter, I guess he's uh,

466
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what town he is O Kansas, Okay.

467
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Speaker 1: So he's thirty years old. He was driving in this

468
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: truck with his dog, and the dog accidentally I guess

469
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: bumped the rifle or stepped on the rifle and the

470
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: gun went off and killed him. Well, he needed to

471
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Speaker 1: press charges on the dog. Well they can't press charges.

472
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: No if Alec Ballwin is being charged with manslaughter and

473
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: this dog needs to be charged with manslaughter too. We

474
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Speaker 1: cannot live in the country with dogs get better treatment

475
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 1: than humans. Okay, when dogs get killed in this country,

476
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: humans get held accountable for killing those dogs in the

477
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: same rule should apply. I recommend the death penalty. The

478
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Speaker 1: dog needs to get put down. For the dog, he

479
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: didn't grab the trick, bumped into it accidentally, or stepped

480
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Speaker 1: on the track. It was back when the ball when

481
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Speaker 1: did it too? Damn it? He's being charged. Horrible dog. Now.

482
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Speaker 1: In some other sad news, a grandmother held in a

483
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Speaker 1: chokehole by grocery workers after refusing to give him the

484
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Speaker 1: fifty dollars she found. Now she was in a grocery store.

485
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Speaker 1: What stop, funny man, come on, man, stop, She found

486
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Speaker 1: the money and on the ground and everybody, you know,

487
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: when you find money, that's my money, that's my money.

488
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Speaker 1: But if it wasn't the fifty dollars. She refused a

489
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Speaker 1: hand over the money, and she was confronted by the

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Speaker 1: store employees and physically restrained. Come on, man, come on, man,

491
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: with the grandkids that when you need a man, Come

492
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Speaker 1: on man, you can't be doing grandma like that. Now.

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Speaker 1: The three employees that held her down she was sixty five,

494
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,479
Speaker 1: have been fired. Why it took three? Was that my dayes?

495
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: My god? I need to see pictures, man, gotta be

496
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: a video or something. I need to see what's happening man. Now,

497
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 1: the store owner has issued an apology to Smith, in

498
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Speaker 1: addition offering to pay bail for her daughter because her

499
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Speaker 1: daughter came up there after and wild out. You think

500
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Speaker 1: that's grandma, that's grandma. Roger store for grandma, And we

501
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: have audio of wonder family members. This beautiful elderly black

502
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: sister who is suffering and fighting caps up. The fight

503
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: over that fifty dollars escalated. At one point Smith was

504
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: put in a chokehold one employee snatched the money from

505
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Speaker 1: her hand. DA Travis Cohen sending back twenty six this

506
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Speaker 1: statement saying they're carefully reviewing the video and witnessed statements

507
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Speaker 1: from the incident, and that the investigation is ongoing. If

508
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Speaker 1: you had extensive video footage of some black people in

509
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Speaker 1: this county choking a white woman the way they choked

510
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Speaker 1: up and beat O what you're calling on going investigation

511
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: when you'll turn around and stop on one of us,

512
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: we all coming and that lack lust the letter that

513
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: you had, mister Da, we're not hearing this because we're

514
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Speaker 1: going based on a Texas fironal code. Come on, man,

515
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: you ain't say they was black and white. Now you

516
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: just read the story. I just read the story. You

517
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Speaker 1: ain't put the racial element into it. You ain't there

518
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Speaker 1: a bunch of white people doing that to an older

519
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: black woman? Now, bro, could you imagine them? No, I

520
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: can't somebody grab your grandma and put in a choked

521
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Speaker 1: Oh I can't. You gotta go beat them up? Well,

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Speaker 1: it ain't hit nothing but no violence. No violence happening

523
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: after that other than them choking grandma. I'll just tell

524
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Speaker 1: you the door that I'm posted to be hearing consequences

525
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: and repercussions happening, and I want to hear you know,

526
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 1: charges being pressed as well. But I still want to

527
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Speaker 1: hear about, you know, some things happening in that story

528
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Speaker 1: to those people that did that the grandma. But violence.

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00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: You choke out somebody grandma, but they need to hold

530
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: down grandma. And grandma was going to they said, grandma

531
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Speaker 1: was going to the store to get ice cream and

532
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: a honeybum for her son. Come on, man, listen, I

533
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: am promoting violence in that situation. You choke out somebody's

534
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: grandmother sixty five years older than three people hold them down,

535
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Speaker 1: and you expect me to come up in and keep

536
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: my cool. No, no, no, no, something I agree not okay,

537
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: I agree? All right, Well that is your front page news.

538
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: Now when we come back, Stephen A. Smith will be

539
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: joining us. He has a new book out called Straight Shooter,

540
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 1: a memoir of second chances in first takes. That's right,

541
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: we'll talk to him next. It's The Breakfast Club. Go Morning,

542
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. I knew that it was. If I

543
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: was going to write a book, there was only one

544
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: way I could go about doing it. Ain't gonna do

545
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: some damn sports book. It's got to be about me,

546
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: who I am, how I think, why I came to be,

547
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: how I am, the way that I think, et cetera.

548
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: I thought I owed that to the audience, and the

549
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: only reason I hesitated once I got left let Go

550
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Speaker 1: by ESPN in two thousand and nine. In two thousand

551
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: and eleven, people were coming to me to write a book,

552
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: and I knew I wanted it to be about, you know,

553
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: my life, et cetera, et cetera. And my mother at

554
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 1: the time, who had just gotten diagnosed with cancer, one

555
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: that she lost in twenty seventeen, got rested soul. She said.

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Speaker 1: She made me swear you will never write this book

557
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: while I'm alive. I understand why after we reading it,

558
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: because I'm sure it had to do with your relationship

559
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: with your father, yes, which I felt like exactly why. Yeah,

560
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: you addressed the topic most men don't discuss enough, and

561
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: that is our relationship with our fathers. How difficult was

562
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: it to explore that topic? It was hard. And the

563
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: reason why it was hard it wasn't the writing process.

564
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: It was the editing process, which y'all all know. You know,

565
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: you write it, but they look at it the editing process,

566
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: and so when they're editing, it's calling upon you to

567
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: revisit and revisit over and over and over again. And

568
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: I didn't wait until the book was finished to like

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Speaker 1: show it to my sisters. I got four older sisters,

570
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: and I didn't wait until the book was finished. When

571
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: I wrote those specific chapters, I sent it to them

572
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,239
Speaker 1: and they didn't talk to me for two weeks. And

573
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: I thought they were originally upset. They weren't upset. They

574
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: were just saying, we had buried these memories a long

575
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: time ago. And they said, and you brought it back up,

576
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: you don't. We ain't knocking you for it, We understand,

577
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: but it just hurt a lot to revisit some of

578
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: those experiences because we had buried them for the longest time,

579
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: and the details that you had they couldn't believe that

580
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: I remembered because I reminded them, and they were like, yeah,

581
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: this happened. That happened. No hero, Yeah, my dad, he wasn't.

582
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: I feel like the things you said about him in

583
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: the book are the things you wanted to say about

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00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: him at his funeral. Yeah, that's accurate. Yeah, I told

585
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: him to his face. I didn't say anything in the

586
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: book that I didn't tell him to his face, So

587
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: let me be clear about that. In twenty eighteen, he

588
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: passed away, fourteen months after my mother passed away. And

589
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: when he passed away, I caught my sister Carmen the

590
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: morning of his funeral and I said, I'm doing the eulogy.

591
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: And Karma was like, God, no, Steve, please please Steve,

592
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: don't do this. Don't do this. She said, what are

593
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: you gonna say? I said, you'll find out when you

594
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: get to the funeral. And she's like, Steve, don't do this.

595
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: What would mommy want? What would mommy want? You know

596
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: what mommy was? Say said, I got it, and I

597
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: was gonna go in and I was gonna literally say

598
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: everything that you see in the book. And and I

599
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: pet supposed. I called past the Arbor. No. Something told

600
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: me to call him. You know, I've been going to

601
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: see CC. I've known Pastor benar for thirty years. And

602
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: so I said, let me call him. And I called

603
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: him and told him what I was feeling. And he

604
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,239
Speaker 1: was like, you right to feel that way. I'm very

605
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: familiar with your story. He said, you're not wrong. He said,

606
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: but the Bible talks about God's grace and God's mercy,

607
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: and he said, and you might want to think about

608
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: that before you decide to speak your truth. And when

609
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: I eulogized my father, I went up on this. I

610
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: went up on the stage after everybody gave all the portables,

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Speaker 1: all of you know, all all the nice things, the

612
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: pleasant geese they had to say about him. And I

613
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: walked up in the first words out of my mouth was,

614
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: that's y'all memories of him, memories of my family. We

615
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: have an entirely different story. And I saw my cousin

616
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: Derek kill over like, oh no, please. And I saw

617
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: my brother and lay was like, oh lord, he's about

618
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: to go in. And I saw neighbors that were in

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00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: the audience that I hadn't seen in years that just

620
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: showed up for my dad's funeral, and they were like,

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00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: literally lip sacred to me, don't do this. And I said,

622
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: my father was not a good man, I said. But

623
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Speaker 1: then I brought up my mother. I said, my mother

624
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: knows nothing about sports. I'm Steve and A I work

625
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: for ESPN. World knows the sports world knows who I am.

626
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: My mother says EPs and whatever it is, I don't know.

627
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: But she didn't even know the letters, I said. But

628
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: she knew what a home run was, she knew what

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Speaker 1: a no hitter was, she knew what a stolen base was,

630
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: and she knew it because of him because she loved

631
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: my father so much that she knew baseball because of him.

632
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: I said, so, there evidently was something very special about

633
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Speaker 1: him to have a woman like my mother. And then

634
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: I talked about a lot of the happy moments that

635
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: he gave us, and then I ended it by saying,

636
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he's still my dad

637
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: and I love him, and I don't think I would

638
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: have gotten to that point if it wasn't for Albornow.

639
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: What made you change your perspective of how to talk

640
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: about him for the book was because you could add

641
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: more context, because I could add the full context. And

642
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: not only that, I owe it. If I'm gonna write it,

643
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: you know, well, then you know they. I didn't know

644
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: it was gonna be like seventy eight to eighty thousand words,

645
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: but I literally wrote ninety thousand words. I wrote the

646
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: book myself, and when a ghostwriting it was me. I

647
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: wrote this book. I did the audio, and when there

648
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: was another voice, it was me, and I just said,

649
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna do this, then I owe it to everybody.

650
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, because of the business that

651
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: I'm in, I imagine talking to you, you or you

652
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: I can see the questions, you know, because I'm experienced

653
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: enough to know what's coming. I know what I would ask,

654
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: I know what I would think about, and I wanted

655
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: to make sure that I left no doubt as to

656
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: where I stood. And you know what I was trying

657
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: to say, and that's what I did. And I have

658
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: a question, even though obviously you know how you felt

659
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: when you were writing the book, because it was your

660
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: thoughts and feelings, was there a sense of like that

661
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: therapeutic element, like you know, and people actually put the

662
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: words on paper and write it down and read it

663
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: and look at it. A lot of authors say like

664
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: it's a form of therapy. It's like I finally got

665
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: it out my head on the paper. Possibly, So I'm not.

666
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not saying that I didn't feel that way,

667
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: but there was a bigger emotion coming from it all.

668
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: I when you know, when my mother passed away, to

669
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: see her in the grave before him, and to see

670
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: her deprived. She was seventy six years old. My mother

671
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: was at a point where let her go on a

672
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: couple of cruises a year and she's in heaven. What

673
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: was unforgivable to me was not paying any bills allowing

674
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: her to work the hours you were supposed to be working,

675
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: to have the obligations you were supposed to have supposed

676
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: to take off. Said you had a conversation with him,

677
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: when you had the conversation before he died, what was

678
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: his reason? Well, this was your years early. I would

679
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: tell you about five years early. We were in my

680
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: dining room. Were in my mother's dining room. He's in

681
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: there and his older brother, my uncle Freddie, was sitting

682
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: next to him. And my father was like, you don't

683
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: know what the hell you're talking about. You don't realize

684
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: what I've done for you. I said, you haven't done

685
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: anything for me, you know. He started arguing with me,

686
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: and my uncle Freddie looked at him and he said,

687
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 1: by Soul that was his middle name, by Soul, and

688
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: he said, shut the up. He said, this is Stephen.

689
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: He's a journalist for a living. You know he knows

690
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: what you what You haven't have not done chapter in verse,

691
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: You have no shot. Just be quiet. And my father

692
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: just sat back and just took it, and I just

693
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: I just left it alone from me. All right. We

694
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: got more with Stephen A Smith when we come back.

695
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: Don't move it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, like everybody's

696
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: dj V. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

697
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: We got our guest hosts La La joining us. Now

698
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: we have Stephen A Smith in the building. Charlemagne, just

699
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: keep ever get in trouble for anything, he said on

700
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: first take, because you talk about the times your first take,

701
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: or can you talk about it the you've got in

702
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: trouble off for a pick, And I'm like, well, Skip

703
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: had crazy opinions too, and the opinions you had weren't

704
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: necessarily like SI. I never recalled Skip getting in trouble

705
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: ever in terms of a suspension or anything like that.

706
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: When I got suspended, I was furious. I did not

707
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: believe I deserved it. I was pissed off to the

708
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: highest degree because I just thought that, you know, it

709
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: was made into something that it wasn't. And so for me,

710
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: whatever my opinions are, I don't mind anybody coming at

711
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: me about that. This is what we feel about what

712
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: you said. It's when they try to branch it out

713
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: and turn it into something that it was not. That's

714
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: what pisses me off. Because what happens is when you

715
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: have Disney, Disney and I'm not knocking Disney for this

716
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: at all. Listen, man, we got stockholders, got shareholders, You

717
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: got people to a piece, and so you got to

718
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: pay attention to everybody. You ain't after black white, hispanic appeal.

719
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: You have to mass appeal. You want it all. And

720
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: so as a result of that, you have to pay

721
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: attention to everything and everybody. And so when that noises made,

722
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: my boss at the time felt compelled to respond to

723
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: the noise. And when he got suspended forty eight hours earlier,

724
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: he told me I wasn't gonna be suspected, and then

725
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: you know, he turned around selected me. And so for me,

726
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: it was I've learned a lot, I'm a lot better

727
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,439
Speaker 1: and what I try to do. And all of y'all

728
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: can attest to this. At one time or another, We've

729
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: all had private conversations. I whispered something in y'all ear

730
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: about something to watch out for. I'm very, very big

731
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: about these are the mind fields watch out because what

732
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, as a product of corporate America, somebody

733
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: that's been in corporate America for over thirty years, I

734
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: kind of know where the mind feels up. And so

735
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: as a result of that, I might see cats on

736
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: to come up that I think is going to be

737
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: in my position or an even higher position, and I'm saying,

738
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: come in, let me make sure I tip you off

739
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: to this, watch out for this, watch out for this,

740
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: watch out for that, because I want y'all to succeed.

741
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: I don't want y'all to field who the hell wants

742
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: to be successful alone. Oh oh j it shocked me too,

743
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: But he didn't listen. He he walked off the set

744
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: that I ain't coming back until my man comes back

745
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: on because he knew it was wrong too. But I

746
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: was really shocked that he took that position. I certainly

747
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: didn't ask him too, and I'm appreciative of that. Doesn't

748
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: mean I mean we still disagree ninety nine percent of

749
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: the time, but I did appreciate the fact that he

750
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 1: took that position on my behalf. Who are the worst fans?

751
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: Are they cowboy fans fans or the Navy fans? Cowboy fans?

752
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: Nobody's worse. Nobody's worse. But I will tell you I

753
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: would tell the Navy got at you a little bit.

754
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: First of all, let me be very very clear, but

755
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn I want to be very

756
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: very clear about that doesn't phase me. It really really doesn't.

757
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,919
Speaker 1: I'm just after you know, you know me for years.

758
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: I'm just built that way. Rihanna, if she had a problem,

759
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: that would have bothered me, not her fans. I want

760
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: I challenge anybody to tell me one negative thing I

761
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: said about that wonderful performing young lady. Are you excited

762
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: for this halftime show? I don't want to say I'm

763
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: not excited. She's fantastic. That's not where That's not where

764
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: I'm going with this. Where you going, ladies and ladies

765
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. She's a lot of things. She spectacular acts. Yes,

766
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: and congratulations on new mama hood. Yes, I think there's

767
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: one thing she's not Huh, she ain't Beyonce. I no

768
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: nuanced to it. And you just said Rihanna. Let you

769
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: say Rihanna doesn't perform as well. Let me give you

770
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: any time, Let me give you Let me keep on

771
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: the inside. Sherry Shepherd's team. I'm promote my book last Tuesday.

772
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: Sherry Shepherd's team comes up to me and they said,

773
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: since you're here, we want a debate like format. We're

774
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: gonna have fun with it. I said, Okay, we're gonna

775
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: get a problem. I didn't know what they were gonna ask, right,

776
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: But let's show the problem. So I'm expecting your debate, right,

777
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: Rihanna's great, but I'm thinking you got a lot to

778
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: live up to because there's only one Beyonce. Now you agree, fine,

779
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: you disagree? Fine, How we get to the point why

780
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: he got to pit two black women again? Really? Well,

781
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't. I just can't be a fan both.

782
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: But I prefer Beyonce over Rihanna. That's a crime. Now,

783
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: and I didn't know that. In your book you talk

784
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: about learning lessons, yes, and you have gotten in trouble

785
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: for that before. When us Curry against Savantage, that's right,

786
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: listen first of all this yeah, yeah, fair question, la la,

787
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna I'm I didn't know.

788
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yes, yes, let me explain what happened.

789
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 1: So Steph Curry is in Game six of the NBA Finals.

790
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: Lebron and Kyrie are coming. They won Game five after

791
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: Draymond got suspriended, bo getting Ega Dollar got hurt. They

792
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: win Game five. Game six, they coming at Golden State.

793
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: They down twelve with about four minutes left. As Steph

794
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: Curry fouls out. Steph Curry pulls out his mouthpiece tries

795
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: to throw head the official, but missus HiT's a fan

796
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: by accident. Blah blah blah, i Issia Curry goes ballistic.

797
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: What y'all may not have known was that, And I

798
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: love i Usia Curry. I mean, and no problem, no throwing,

799
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: no shade on her whatsoever. I'm just telling what happened.

800
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: Prior to the game, she had tweeted that she was

801
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 1: upset because they were backed up in traffic. Now Jay

802
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: Z and Beyonce were coming to the game, but nobody knew.

803
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: So the Cleveland, the reader and the gunder or whatever

804
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: it was the quickest loan as the reader, they held

805
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: up the traffic. So she was mad about that and

806
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: was talking about how the wives and the family of

807
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: the players were Golden State would be inconvenience. She complained

808
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: something else about the officiating blah blah blah. So crazy,

809
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: but stop so so. So what happened is that she

810
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 1: did that and then she went off after Steph Curry,

811
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: you know, fouled out all of that other stuff. What

812
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: I was, you are representing your man at that particular

813
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: moment in time. Anything that you do, it's not you,

814
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: it's the wife of him, and so because of that

815
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: you have to guard yourself and be careful. But now

816
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: that they've lost too straight and Lebron and the Cabs

817
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: have been given it to them, suddenly stuff is rigged.

818
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: She's an adorable young lady with an incredibly promising future.

819
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: I wish a nothing but love, respect and happiness. But

820
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You just can't do that. And

821
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 1: I'm quite sure somebody got to her, which is why

822
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: she ultimately deleted the tween. My other point that I

823
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: would like to make, which will be deemed somewhat controversial,

824
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: but I don't particularly give it damn. I will present

825
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: in question form rhetorical or otherwise, if that was Savannah

826
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: Lebron's wife, what would we be saying? And I got

827
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: news for you. It is beautiful, as everybody wants to say,

828
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: how ancient Curry is and she is Savannah is something special.

829
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: Skip comes back at me and says, oh, please, you

830
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: know what are you talking about? Blah blah blah blah,

831
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: And I'm jumping in like, wait a minute. You will

832
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: get on Lebron about anything, how all of a sudden,

833
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: this escapes you. You know what I'm saying. So that's

834
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: how the whole Savannah Asia thing came up, because what

835
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: I was saying was, if this with Lebron, you would

836
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: have found an excuse to jump on him. And we

837
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: all know that Savannah, it's phenomenal. So what are you

838
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: talking about? That's all I was saying. If La La

839
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: is in a public position, if you or you are

840
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: in a public situation in the moment and there's a

841
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: tension that some your spouse or your significant other could

842
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: potentially bring to you that could detrimental, that can make

843
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: a detrimental to what you're trying to accomplish, they can't

844
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: get in the way of that. That's all I was

845
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: trying to say. I've been in that position. The thing

846
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: is that also nobody in this room has been married

847
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: to an NBA player before. Day in and day out,

848
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 1: you're hearing about things that are going on, You're getting

849
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: invented to about everything. You have emotions, You act off

850
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: emotions sometimes, so every night you're hearing about this whatever's

851
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: being said, and it's just building up and you get

852
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: protective and then something just set you off and you

853
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: want to say something because you realize your spouse has

854
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: continuously taken the high road. I said earlier, I remember

855
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: a time we talked about it before you came, when

856
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: I think I treated something at Skip Bayliss because I

857
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: was like, yo, enough with the mellow slander every single

858
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: day and he's not saying anything, and I'm just like,

859
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: this is enough because now it's affecting the household, it's

860
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: affecting the mood, it's affects so it becomes a bigger thing.

861
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: That's like somebody got to say something. Now. Is it

862
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 1: a right time and place for those things? Of course,

863
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: But when you care about somebody, when you're protective, and

864
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 1: when you're competitive, we're all competitors and you act off emotion,

865
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: you say things that might not be the right time

866
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: the right place, but at that time you're not thinking

867
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: like that. That's absolutely true. And my point is is

868
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: that I didn't blame how he should curry for anything.

869
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: You know, I was saying in that moment, you can't

870
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: do that. I've never said a word about her prior

871
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: to that, right, and so I said that. And when

872
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: I said that, horror response was you pay two black

873
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: women against each other? And I was like, what how

874
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: we get to that son? Whether or not? Okay? Fine,

875
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 1: I didn't look at it that way, but that's fine.

876
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: If you're saying that I did, okay, well, then now

877
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: I'll correct it. I find out weeks later the sports center,

878
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 1: the six o'clock sports Center, that was supposed to be

879
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: given to me, and it was taken away from me

880
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: because of that. It's gonna be taken away from you

881
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: because Rihanna nothing nothing, and you know something and and

882
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: and and if it ever does fine, because at the

883
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: end of the day, there's a level of authenticity that

884
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: has to come with what we do. I'm gonna be me,

885
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: damn it. That's how I feel. All Right, we got

886
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: molways stephen A. Smith when we come back, don't move.

887
00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, but everybody the guy.

888
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got our guest hosts

889
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: La La joining us. Now we have Stephen A. Smith

890
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: in the building, La La. So do you just feel

891
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: like in your position you really just cannot care what

892
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: anyone thinks about you? Because I feel like people always

893
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: want to say like, I don't care what anybody but

894
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: there is a point that everyone does care and everyone

895
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: has a place where they truly do want to be.

896
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: But I'm not saying I don't care about what people

897
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 1: think in general, La la. I'm saying there are certain

898
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: things we can't care about because we know it's not

899
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: as unfair and as inhumane as people are trying to

900
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: make it out to be. If I sat up there

901
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: and I disrespected Rihanna and I said I don't care,

902
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: that's a problem because she doesn't deserve that. She's home,

903
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 1: she's a new mom, she's a beautiful artist, she's doing

904
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: her things. Most people would dream to have the life

905
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: that she's had. She's earned it. I got nothing but

906
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: mad lover and respect for her. If I said something

907
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: disrespectful like that and I didn't care, that's a problem.

908
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: That's a lack of humanity. I would never do that.

909
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is it's not a crime to say

910
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Beyonce fan. There is only one and

911
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: you about to go on the same stage. She has

912
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: blessed not once, but twice, and there is a standard

913
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: to live up. Yeah, there's nothing wrong. You come on

914
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: first take. I'm sorry, y'all, there's a bar that's been set.

915
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: I've said it. You come on Breakfast Club. There's a

916
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: bar that's been set. Y'all said it. You do what

917
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: the things, all the different things that you're doing with

918
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: power and now being method. I'm seeing you. I'm watching

919
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: what you're doing. You know you continue to assend well, damn,

920
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: everybody can't measure up to you. Now that doesn't mean

921
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: they're whack. It doesn't mean they're not gifted. It means

922
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 1: they're not you. You gotta line, that's all. You gotta

923
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: line of the book that kind of sums that up.

924
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: You say on first take, we capitalize on the kind

925
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: of polarization people supposedly at horror. What's the word I believe?

926
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to remember. I mean, I read it,

927
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: I read it loving times, But I'm in terms of

928
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 1: what like what you're discussing like, it's the kind of

929
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: polarization you know people act like that, don't like but

930
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: what do it? But what I'm saying is this, you

931
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: wake up and you pay attention. We all do it.

932
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: You have a show, you know what's trending, you know

933
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: what's newsworthy, you know what's percolating and as it was,

934
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: and not only that, you know who percolates, and so

935
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: because of that, it determines what subject matter you're going

936
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: to tackle. Because you're not doing the show for you,

937
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: You're doing the show for the audience you're trying to reach.

938
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: And I have an audience that has an expectation as

939
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: it pertains to content, and so when we're talking about

940
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: sports and it's me, there's a level of expectation that

941
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 1: they have as it pertains to the issues I'm willing

942
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: to tackle. I'm mindful and cognizant of that, and I

943
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,720
Speaker 1: operate accordingly. And when somebody questions that, I would remind

944
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: them I've been number one for eleven years, every month,

945
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: every year for eleven years, so evidently I kind of

946
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: have an idea of what people want to see an

947
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: ear all right, now, I know you gotta go. I

948
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: got one more question. It ties into all of this,

949
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: and then no safe that chapter. You know, you talk

950
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: about basically personalities who attack other personalities for things they

951
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: say because you talk about it. I think it was

952
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: the Ray Rice Cans and yes, everybody got upset with

953
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: what you said about that, and I feel the same way.

954
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, if you got a microphone in front

955
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: of you, you're going to say something at some point

956
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: that you're going to get backlash. Four. So I don't

957
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: understand when I see other personalities like calling for other

958
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: personalities to be fired. Yeah, what it is is And

959
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: remember this, all three of y'all here, Remember what I'm

960
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: about to say. When you're winning, they always coming for you, because, unfortunately,

961
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: particularly in this day and age, their definition of winning

962
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: the closest they can get to it is knocking you

963
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: off your perch instead of creating one for their own.

964
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: It's inevitable. And it's just like when he used to

965
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: call me donkey of the day and all of this

966
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: other stuff that people expected me to have a problem

967
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: with him when I first met you. What did I say?

968
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: Had no problem with him? Whatsoever? You say, because he

969
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: didn't attack me. He attacked what I felt about a

970
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: particular issue. I know the difference. They wanted to create

971
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: that divide. You're not creating that because I'm going to

972
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: root for y'all and I want y'all a root for me,

973
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: and I'm a root for a whole bunch of brothers

974
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: and sisters to make it. But in the same breath,

975
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: you have to be real and authentic about what's going

976
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: on in the moment that it's going on, and do

977
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: what you can to enlighten folks. If you feel you

978
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: have an enlightening point of view, that's what you do.

979
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: And you let the tips tore where they make. People

980
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: who don't win are real good about doing what you describe.

981
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: Let them keep doing it because it reminds you that

982
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: you a winner. Otherwise they wouldn't be talking about you.

983
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: I learned a lot from you, and I feel like

984
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:37,479
Speaker 1: it's vice versa. I do want to say this because

985
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: I was really sitting here thinking about what we were

986
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: talking about earlier, and I want to say this. You know,

987
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: it is important. Everyone can have an opinion and who

988
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: you like better, who is your opinion. But I will

989
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: say this as a black woman, Let's acknowledge and celebrate

990
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: the fact that we have two amazing, talented black women

991
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: who were able to do the halftime show at the

992
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,280
Speaker 1: super Bowl outside of sports bands and players. The majority

993
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: of people I know, that's the reason they watched the

994
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: super Bowl, not for who's playing. They're watching for that

995
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: halftime show. So let's acknowledge an uplift and applaud the

996
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 1: fact that on such a huge forum you had Beyonce

997
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: and now you have Rihanna as a black woman. I'm

998
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: proud of that. That's something that makes me proud. That

999
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: doesn't take away from your opinion on who you like

1000
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: more or whatever whatever, But at that moment, for me,

1001
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: it's about uplifting the fact that we need to celebrate that. Well,

1002
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 1: let me say, well, let me end up by saying this.

1003
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 1: I completely agree with that one thousand percent. And what

1004
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: you're saying and what you would prefer is entirely different

1005
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: than someone throwing out an accusation that my sentiment was

1006
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: making it a divide between two black women. That's a difference.

1007
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: You're just simply saying they're both great, let's celebrate them,

1008
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: no problem, no problem, whatsoever. That's entirely different than and

1009
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: understanding that they're both the reason that majority people are

1010
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: even watching. That's right. You guys are watching for the

1011
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 1: sports aspect, and majority people are watching, right. But what

1012
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: happens is is that when we question people's intent because

1013
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: they express something differently, what happens is then you didn't

1014
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: lose those faults. Those folks that they like that because

1015
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, here they go with this, and I'm

1016
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: like No, At the end of the day, Rihanna is phenomenal,

1017
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: and she's got her own army or navy as they

1018
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: sat Beyonce, it's got her crew. They're both fantastic, they

1019
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: both sell out stadiums and arenas. They're both making gobs

1020
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: and gobs of money, and they've earned it. Okay, much

1021
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 1: love and respect to you. Ain't no doubt about it.

1022
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: I'm root for I ain't rooting against her. I'm just

1023
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: a Beyonce fan. I think with these microphones, uh, you know,

1024
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: and it's something that we would debate to the end

1025
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: of time. Intention versus impact, Yes, because it's a lot

1026
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: of times my intention wasn't to offend. But then somebody

1027
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 1: like a lot gotta be like, nah, you offend, you offended.

1028
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: You know, you impacted that person in a negative way.

1029
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 1: Right in those moments. You just gotta follogiy to keep

1030
00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: it moving. Yeah, you know, I understand, we gotta go,

1031
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: which is which is what I did. But let me

1032
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: be very clear, people don't like your apology all that.

1033
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: First of all, Leslie Jones on Comedy sent you lady so,

1034
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 1: and she's supposed to that's what she does. I wasn't

1035
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: offended by it at all, right, because she's great. Bro,

1036
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: it's they struggling. But I'm fifty five. It ain't like

1037
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: I'm thirty five walking around. I'm fifty five. You know what,

1038
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: if you got it, you know, I might visit. I

1039
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: might hit. Then I got something I might visit here

1040
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: cluff for man, because you know I you know, I

1041
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: don't think I'm god Zilla, but ain't the most attractive

1042
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: dude the world. But if my headline moved forward, I

1043
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: might have a might there might be hopeful me. I

1044
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: got some manala rice water drops for you. Okay, work

1045
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: it better work better. Let me task right now, because

1046
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1054
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Speaker 1: we have the option to go to you when we

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Speaker 1: I can't do it. I can't do It's the breakfasting, y'all.

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Speaker 1: on Breakfast Club you two page, very shortly. I wasn't

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Speaker 1: letting up at all, not at all at all. I

1068
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Speaker 1: don't play with a lot. All right, Well, let's get

1069
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Speaker 1: to the rumors. Throw my hat name or you gossip

1070
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Speaker 1: and you chatting the rumor report. I mean, I guess

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Speaker 1: we're on the breakast Club. This is where the tea

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Speaker 1: I was on Club Sha, the podcast hosted by Shannon

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Speaker 1: Shop recently talking about his parenting skills because he has

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Speaker 1: received a lot of criticism on his son, King Harris,

1076
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Speaker 1: and he said, we all got badass kids. Whatever he's

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Speaker 1: going through, I love him through it and I can't

1078
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Speaker 1: say he a great kid enough. But the media don't

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Speaker 1: talk enough about the good point basis. And you know,

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Speaker 1: when we're young, we kind of talk about things based

1081
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Speaker 1: on how we think they should be right rather than

1082
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Speaker 1: acknowledging them for how we know they are right. And

1083
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Speaker 1: I just try and you know, walking through to get

1084
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Speaker 1: better every day though, right, I would like to shed

1085
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:40,280
Speaker 1: light on the fact we all got bad as keys.

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Speaker 1: They can see like I'm the only one who got

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Speaker 1: bad key. We all go through your feelings here. If

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Speaker 1: you ain't got no bad a kids, you got one,

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Speaker 1: and you got lucky. You hit me. Anybody with three

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Speaker 1: or more mult you got one that you don't know

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Speaker 1: what to hear? You gonna do? You feel me? Ye,

1092
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Speaker 1: He's right. You can't take all the responsibility for your kids. Actually,

1093
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Speaker 1: you can be the best parent in the world, give

1094
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Speaker 1: them all the resources, all the tools, but they're still

1095
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and live life and be their

1096
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Speaker 1: own people. They all gonna make stupid decisions like we

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00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: all did. We all did made decisions that we like, damn,

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Speaker 1: I wish I didn't do that as a kid. It's

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Speaker 1: the true, it's very true. But the issue is that

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Speaker 1: when there is a kid making bad decisions or whatever,

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00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: a lot of times people just automatically placed all the

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Speaker 1: blame on a parents or just assume that because the

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00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: kid made bad decisions, that means the parents not involved

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00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,879
Speaker 1: or the parents not you know, checking in or participating.

1105
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: But it's just not always the case. Like and that

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Speaker 1: the screechs don't have in the Lord the world right

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Speaker 1: like the world as kids friends. Absolutely, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: So um Cheryl Lee, Ralph, Chris Stapleton, and baby Face

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Speaker 1: are performing at the twenty twenty three Super Bowl the

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Speaker 1: pre show. So the NFL announced on Tuesday that Sharlee

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Speaker 1: Ralph will perform lift Every Voice and sing in the

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Speaker 1: pre show. Is that on TV's I Tell Boss I

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Speaker 1: Think So, an R and B crooner. Baby Face will

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Speaker 1: also perform with the rendition of America the Beautiful. So

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Speaker 1: that's in addition to see Rihanna performing at the halftime show.

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Speaker 1: And like I was saying, just eapen as most people

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00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,760
Speaker 1: that I know are watching the super Bowl for this stuff.

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Speaker 1: They want to watch the halftime show. They want to

1119
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Speaker 1: watch the pre show, see who's performing, and get it,

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Speaker 1: get into it. You said something during Steven as a

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Speaker 1: should celebrate the fact that, you know, we've had Beyonce

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Speaker 1: RAJ Blige was there last year too. It's unbelievable, and

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's what we should be talking about

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Speaker 1: and being excited about and showing up for them and

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Speaker 1: loving on them and supporting them. I mean, there was

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Speaker 1: like that as a black woman woman empowerment. It's just

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Speaker 1: so powerful to turn on TV and see that, see

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Speaker 1: those images. It's so inspiring and it's necessary, and I

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00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,399
Speaker 1: think that's what should be celebrated and talked about more

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Speaker 1: than fact. Oh, I like this one better than this one,

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00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 1: or I think that. I mean, everyone's the time as

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Speaker 1: their opinion, but even when there's opinions, it's a time

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Speaker 1: and place for everything. I do think Mary J. Blode

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Speaker 1: needs our own set, though we can have that discussion.

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Speaker 1: I think get headline her own super Bowl halftime show.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see that absolutely agreed. All right, well

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Speaker 1: that is your rumor report, Charlemagne whore you giveing that

1141
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Speaker 1: a woman named Carmela Mains to come to the front

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Speaker 1: you are a donkey. The Florida man at tapped and

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Speaker 1: much money. Florida man is arrested after definitely says he

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Speaker 1: rigged the door to his home and an attempt to

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Speaker 1: electric kate his present whites. Police arrested in Orlando man

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Speaker 1: for talking a Famina breakfast club bitchy Donkey of the

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Speaker 1: day when Scharlam hain't a god. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: y'all keeping letting him get you elected? Donkey. The day

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Speaker 1: for Wednesday, January twenty fifth goes to Carmela and mains

1165
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: of Clearwater, Florida. Now what did your uncle Sharla always

1166
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: tell you about the great state of Florida? Saying with me,

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Speaker 1: the craziest people in America come from the Bronx and

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Speaker 1: all of Florida, and today is no exception. See Carmela

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00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: was taken into custody Wednesday and Clearwater, Florida after she

1170
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Speaker 1: failed to show up the court the face shoplifting charges.

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Speaker 1: Now why no, no, not why wow? She was being

1172
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: processed at the county jail. A body scanning revealed an

1173
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 1: anomaly in her genital area. I don't even know why

1174
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: I'm using big words like anomaly for no reason. They

1175
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: found something odd in her genitals. I know what you're thinking.

1176
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: Was it the penis? All right? It can be a

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00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: little confusing when someone tells you they are a woman,

1178
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, but that's actually just what they identify at it.

1179
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: Then when you get down there, whoa, you're staring at

1180
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: a whole play of frank and beans. But no, it

1181
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: wasn't a penis, Okay, It was a pipe, right, Not

1182
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: the kind of pipe that produces baby batter to procreate

1183
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: more life, but the kind of pipe that people put

1184
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: crack in and smoke it. You heard me, correct, crack

1185
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: fried cocaine rocks. This woman had a glass crack pipe

1186
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: in her vagina. Okay, yes, When officials conducted the script

1187
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: search of the suspect, they found a glass crack pipe

1188
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: protruding from the woman's poem. Poem, Carmela then removed the

1189
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 1: crack pipe from her vagina and intentionally threw it on

1190
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Speaker 1: the ground and stepped on it and an effort to

1191
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: destroy the evidence. Mind you, she did all of this

1192
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: in front of the officers who had just discovered said

1193
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Speaker 1: evidence on her. But that's not why she's getting dunkey

1194
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: are today. It could be, but it's not. It's part

1195
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:53,560
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1196
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: it's because of her excuse as to why there was

1197
00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: a whole crack pipe in her vagina. Carmela's said that

1198
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: the crack pipe wasn't a crack pipe, but it was

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Speaker 1: it was consistent with a pipe commonly used to smoke

1201
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 1: crack cocaine, and it had burnt markings all over it. Okay,

1202
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: if she was really thinking, she could have said, the

1203
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: burnt markings came from that new screen and gone a

1204
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: red that's going around, Okay, don't just burn humans. But nope,

1205
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: she said that the crack pipe she got caught with.

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Speaker 1: You know it was a sex toy. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you something, Carmella. You might could have got that lie

1208
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Speaker 1: off if you wouldn't have put it in your vagina.

1209
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Speaker 1: I repeat, you might could have got that lie off

1210
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Speaker 1: if you didn't put the crack pipe in your poom poom.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to try to convince people a crack

1212
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Speaker 1: pipe is a sex toy, then guess where you gotta

1213
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Speaker 1: put the crack pipe in the crack of your ass? Okay,

1214
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Speaker 1: all right, listen, man, it's a lot of people who

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Speaker 1: Why did I use that one? Why did I highlight

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Speaker 1: a crack pipe is made of glass. It's time to

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Speaker 1: I recommend the crack pipe to anyone. It's smoking bomb.

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Speaker 1: That's how you make a crack pipe a sex toy, Carmela,

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Speaker 1: not the way you did it. Please give Carmela means

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Speaker 1: the sweet sounds of the Hamletones. Oh no you are

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Speaker 1: Ye Now tell me a lot, Liza, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to crackpipe after that review? Come on now, no interest

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01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: in that or but plugs. But that's just my personal preference. Whatever, whatever,

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Speaker 1: Float what about you in don't play game? No, I

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01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 1: don't want to play. I want to play game. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be honest, man, this woman is on crack and

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Speaker 1: she's from Florida. I don't know what she is when

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Speaker 1: I look at her muck shot. Let's play a game. Okay,

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01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: here we got clay game of Yes, what race? All right? First,

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01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:17,479
Speaker 1: Carmela and mains of claid Water, Florida. She got caught

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01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: with a crack pipe in her vagina, and she told

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01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 1: officers it was a sex toy. Lot lazy, guess what

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01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: race she is? What makes you think that? Fla leavy?

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01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 1: This is just what I think. Sticking to it, did

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01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 1: I win the money? Where Carmela and mains of claar Water, Florida,

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01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: got caught with a crack pipe in her vagina, told

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Speaker 1: officers it was a sex toy. Yes, what race she is?

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Speaker 1: It's a tough one. Okay, See because my black people,

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01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: they they like the high stuff, they like the maneuver.

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01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: They don't master the black thing. Knock it off. It's

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01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: not just a black thing. Everybody got asses in vaginas,

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01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: were not everybody. Everybody got to ask every Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: m hmm, I'm gonna go with white. Okay, what the reason?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, She's just a feeling some white crackheadish stuff. Well,

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Speaker 1: La La, and both of you are right. She definitely

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Speaker 1: a crackhead tell why. I was a little confused, right,

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01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: what she looks like a crackhead? What do you mean, Well,

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01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 1: she don't look like a woman. You know what, Let's

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01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 1: keep it moving, you crack man. I can't believe that.

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Speaker 1: The vagina and this one. All right, thank you for

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01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: the day. Next, come on whom right, you guys got

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01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: a vagina? Come on, come on, whosa boom side. Okay,

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01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 1: all right, Now, this morning Lila came up here and

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01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: she she was on fire. I don't know why. Yeah,

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01:04:57,920 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 1: she came in at six o'clock this morning, was on

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01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 1: five Like, I have something I want to talk today

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01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: on asshole marriage. Yes, so do we pose the question first?

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01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: I was talking about I feel like currently marriage is

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01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: not a goal for people. I don't hear people who

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01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 1: aren't married saying like I want to get married. You

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01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 1: just start hearing it less and less like before that

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01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 1: was a goal, like before social media and just the

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01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 1: way people interact Now, I'm not in conversations with people

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01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: who are talking about like I can't wait to meet

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01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: someone and get married. Now people say, yeah, I want

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01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: to meet somebody, be in a relationship, you know, have

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01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: this bond, But I don't need the marriage piece to

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01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 1: feel like it's successful. And most not saying all be

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01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: careful with my words. Most married people that I know

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01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 1: are miserable. They're not happy and don't want to be married.

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01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 1: They would prefer to be single. And what's happening is

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01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 1: people look at the stats and they say, oh, well,

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01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 1: divorce rates are going down, But the issue is less

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01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 1: people are getting married. People don't want to get married.

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01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 1: At the first thing people gonna think is a lot

1304
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 1: being a lot of weddings. Stop looking at all the

1305
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:07,880
Speaker 1: weddings you've been in over the last few years. They're

1306
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: gonna look at your friend circle that's married, and they're

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01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 1: gonna be like it is saying that day all miserable. No,

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01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm because you're just talking about

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01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: I'm saying in general, in general, well in general, I

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01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: don't talk to people in general who are just like marriage, Yeah,

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01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: love my marriage. Yeah. It's just you guys are a

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01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: small minority. And what I'm saying is people who are

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01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: not married hear me out. I don't hear them talking

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01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 1: as marriage, looking at marriage as a goalie married. But

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01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 1: the reason I want to talk about it because I

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01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,439
Speaker 1: want to get a better understanding of why. And also

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01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 1: people are starting to feel like marriage is really just

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01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: a business agreement between two people. It's like, I don't

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01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 1: need that. I'd rather meet somebody, you know, have love,

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01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 1: have loyalty, but I don't need the marriage party. Right now,

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01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: people are going to also say, lil feels that way

1322
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 1: because just got and that's okay. Yeah, yeah, let's let's

1323
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:02,919
Speaker 1: talk about it. When we come back. We'll take some calls.

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01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 1: Is marriage still a goal? Eight hundred five eight five

1325
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: one oh five one, Let's talk about it? Call us

1326
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: up right now. Let's be respectful in our opinions. People, Okay,

1327
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Speaker 1: respectful conversation. All right, that's the Breakfast Club. Go morning,

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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. It's topic times. The phone called eight

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Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one oh five. Want to join

1330
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 1: in to the discussion with the breakfast club, talk about it.

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Speaker 1: I want to go. Everybody is dj n V Charlomagne

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Speaker 1: the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have our

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Speaker 1: guest host La La here, who came in this morning

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Speaker 1: on fire gave me with an f marriage T shirt

1335
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: on right, say that I just I'm a person that

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01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: I like to get an understanding. I want to know

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01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: why is it like that? People just throwing the why.

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01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 1: They're like, what, why does it feel like marriage is

1339
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,040
Speaker 1: not a goal for people in this day and age

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01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 1: with social media, people aren't even dating like that. People

1341
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 1: are saying, I pulled up statistics. People are saying dating

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01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 1: is not even a priority anymore. They have other things

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01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: they would rather do than date or meeting people, you know,

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01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:10,960
Speaker 1: in the traditional way. So people are saying, because of that,

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01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: we have no interest in getting married, or you wouldn't

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01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: get married again. I wouldn't get married again, but I

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01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: was married, so at least, like I say, I did it,

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01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 1: and you know, it didn't work out the way I

1349
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 1: had planned, but it's not something I would want to

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01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 1: do again, but I did it. So I'm telling about

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01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:27,760
Speaker 1: people who are saying they have no interest in ever

1352
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 1: doing it or wanting to do it. It's not like

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01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 1: a goal of people. And even people that are in relationships,

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01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: a lot of them are not saying like the goal

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Speaker 1: for our relationship is to get married. It's like the

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01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:41,439
Speaker 1: goal is to be together, have a dope relationship, you know,

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01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: and be companions forever. But people are not feeling like

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01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:49,400
Speaker 1: the measure of success in relationships is like getting married.

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01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: So do you feel like not getting married is the

1360
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: easy way out meeting when you first get married, and

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01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: let's say you and Melo or me and Gil or

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01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: Charlemagne and his wife. When I have problems, you're married,

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01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: y'all have to work through it. It's not like you

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01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 1: can say I'm out on one. Y'all have to work

1365
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:05,720
Speaker 1: through it. You're married, so there's gonna be good times.

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01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 1: But if you're not married and somebody gets on your nerves,

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01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:10,720
Speaker 1: you could just be like, you know what, I don't

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01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: want to deal with them out, So it doesn't make

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01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 1: the relationship as strong because there's nothing binding to you,

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01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 1: because it's almost like could be out when I want

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01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 1: to be out right. But for a lot of people,

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01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: they'll say that the reason that they don't just want

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01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,679
Speaker 1: to be out is because it's a business agreement. There's

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01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: paperwork between the two of you. So if I get

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01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: out now, I gotta deal with splitting assets or an

1376
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 1: everything like that, or dealing with lawyers and paperwork, and

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01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 1: people don't want to do that. So it's like, is

1378
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 1: it a union of love and like Charlottage, just a

1379
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 1: tell death to us part? Or is it a piece

1380
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 1: of paper that's binding two people. I always say marriage

1381
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:42,320
Speaker 1: is really easy to get in and really hard to

1382
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 1: get out. It's it's hard to get out, and people

1383
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 1: don't really understand that when you're dealing with lawyers and

1384
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,240
Speaker 1: what you have to pay and things like that, it's

1385
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:50,680
Speaker 1: really hard to get out. I wonder if this is

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01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: more of a product of us being just connected because

1387
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: of technology and social media, Like folks don't have real

1388
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: connections anymore, and they aren't making real connections anymore, you

1389
01:09:58,360 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I wonder if this is

1390
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 1: just a by product of that, like people not being

1391
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: able to establish real connections anymore. So there is no

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01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: there is no goal to be married, because there's no

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01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:10,600
Speaker 1: goal to even make a real connection. But it was

1394
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:12,320
Speaker 1: always a goal because my parents are married, right and

1395
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 1: they're still married to the day, fifty sixty years married,

1396
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But for me, it's like, yeah, every marriage,

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01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: we have our problems, right that, we get into argument,

1398
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: you get into fights. It takes communication, it takes work.

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01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 1: But the happiest days of my life is being married.

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01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: My wife comes home today and I'm excited, like I'm happy,

1401
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: she's happy, like we can't wait to see each other

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01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 1: because I did. It's it's you know, laying next to

1403
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: my wife, but it's also I met it at fifteen.

1404
01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 1: That's there wasn't nothing. It was nothing. I had glasses,

1405
01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 1: embraces and act he was a nerd, Then you're a nerd.

1406
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: Now she loved that nerd the whole way through yescause

1407
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 1: I'm not a nerd. Now I get what you're saying.

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01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: I love being married. I've been blocked to be the

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01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: same personal twenty five years. So that's my best friend.

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01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 1: I was able to marry my best friend. But that's

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01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: when I go back to we were able to establish

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01:10:57,280 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: a real connection in a time where you weren't dealing

1413
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:03,559
Speaker 1: with social media and the way people people even talking

1414
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: to each other anymore. It's DMS, it's it's apps, it's

1415
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 1: all these other things. But that connection of like talking

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01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 1: to someone again, that's not happening anymore. So what I'm

1417
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 1: saying is this conversation that you guys just share me

1418
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: about both of your marriages. I'm saying people are hearing

1419
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 1: that less and less and less and marriage. Imagine young

1420
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:25,719
Speaker 1: people dating are saying dating is no longer priority because

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01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,280
Speaker 1: they have better things to do. But if people getting

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01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 1: married because they're actually best friends, like they really are

1423
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 1: friends or is it she looked good, he looked good.

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01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:36,760
Speaker 1: Let's taking the time to connect with someone enough to

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01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,559
Speaker 1: call them their best friend. So what a couple of goals?

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01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 1: Then would everybody be online and they'd be like a couple,

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01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 1: a couple of goals? And who this person's a couple

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01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 1: of goals? One olds? What did that mean? They don't

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01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 1: want to be booed up. Well, here's the thing, Like,

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01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,240
Speaker 1: obviously Sierra is one of my best friends and she

1431
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 1: has an incredible marriage, and Russell's an incredible guy in

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01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 1: an incredible relationship. I will just say that to me,

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01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,160
Speaker 1: I'm happy that I'm able to see that because that's

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01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:02,560
Speaker 1: not the norm of what I see. That's not the

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01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: normal of what I see. So I'm happy that I'm

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01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:07,040
Speaker 1: able to have that example, to still have that hope

1437
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 1: that that kind of love and connection really does exist.

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01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 1: But that's not the normal. That's good because what she's

1439
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: saying is true because the normal what we see is

1440
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 1: the guy cheating and then the woman expected to always

1441
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:22,680
Speaker 1: be there. You know what I mean? Think about like this,

1442
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:24,680
Speaker 1: if you take care of your wife or your girl,

1443
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:26,639
Speaker 1: and you do too much. They call your sin. You're sucker,

1444
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: You're doing too much. You you this with But that's

1445
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 1: your queen. Aren't you supposed to take care of your

1446
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: best friend, your queen, your girl, you love your I'm

1447
01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:35,559
Speaker 1: supposed to get flowers. Aren't you supposed to do? That's

1448
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 1: what my dad show me. That's my dad to my mom. Yeah,

1449
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying again, it goes back in this

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01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: day and age. That's not how it's looked at. The

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01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: last question before we go to the phone, mind, what

1452
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 1: do you tell your son about marriage? It's a It's

1453
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 1: an interesting and sometimes difficult conversation because we're all products

1454
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 1: of what we saw growing up. So unfortunately, my son

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01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 1: saw a failed marriage. He does still see two people

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01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 1: that genuinely love and care about each other and are

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01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:04,479
Speaker 1: amazing parents to him, and we work collectively as a unit.

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01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: But he did see a broken marriage. So I don't

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01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: expect him to view marriage as this incredible thing because

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01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:13,800
Speaker 1: I saw my parents not be married anymore. That's his

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01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: view on it. So I have to tell him, like,

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01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:17,720
Speaker 1: that's not you. You can meet someone and love them

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01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 1: and fall in love and want to get married and

1464
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:22,680
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing. And that's like my mom got you.

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01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 1: I don't like that failed marriage talk, though. I don't

1466
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:27,680
Speaker 1: think that the marriage failed just because two people you know,

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01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: grew apart or whatever. You know, they don't mean it

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01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 1: you failed. Did that. We did it, and we did

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01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 1: it for a long time. If I'm saying I was

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01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 1: when when it was good, it was good. That's right. Hello,

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01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:44,120
Speaker 1: who's this bad morning? Vanessa? He La. We're saying this

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01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: marriage still a goal, Vanessa. Marriage is still very much

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01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:52,759
Speaker 1: the goal of mine. How do you I'm thirty sick? Okay,

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01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:55,280
Speaker 1: all right, okay, so what you waiting on? Are you dating?

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01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: You got a man I was looking? Um, I am

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01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 1: date with a perfect Okay? I think about me is

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01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 1: I'm a very confident Um. I'm very tall, but I'm beautiful,

1478
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: so like my standards are high. Everybody says sometimes I

1479
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,800
Speaker 1: need to lower my standards. I refuse you than anybody short,

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01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: that's disrespectful. My assistant is six three, and I tell

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01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 1: her the same thing. I'm like, you're not gonna find

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01:14:24,200 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 1: somebody taller like the it's not as many people have

1483
01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 1: you seen? Your assistance bangs me? Sades A very pretty girl,

1484
01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: somebody needs to draw them bangs back like blind. But

1485
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: the thing about it is is like I have friends

1486
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 1: and like friends who are married, friends who are single,

1487
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: and we all talk um and I've really listened to them,

1488
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,720
Speaker 1: my married friends, about like their marriage and stuff like that.

1489
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: Sometimes it does turn me off when I hear things

1490
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: about men cheating, women cheating, and I'm just like, what

1491
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:59,599
Speaker 1: is the purpose. But then I'm feel like very very

1492
01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: hope fool that. You know. I don't think every like

1493
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 1: Charle Mayne say all men, all black men don't cheat.

1494
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 1: I don't think all black men do cheat. But I

1495
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 1: do think at some point in time men have cheated

1496
01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 1: at one point time. They're live. Queen God, God is

1497
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 1: telling me to tell you this right now, I just

1498
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: got this dollar. Boy God, your blessing is five foot five.

1499
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:24,639
Speaker 1: Your blessing is five in your blessing Because you want

1500
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: to keep your head to the sky, you should be optimistic,

1501
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: but you gotta look down a little bit both right, Like,

1502
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:32,800
Speaker 1: don't block man, I also wear hell. I don't care.

1503
01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: I know You're blessing is five. That's my time. You

1504
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:40,840
Speaker 1: look happy. You'll look happy. That's what you look like. Happy.

1505
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 1: But that's don't block it, blessing. I tell my sister

1506
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:45,559
Speaker 1: at the same time, and let me ask you a question.

1507
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:47,200
Speaker 1: Do people do this here all the time? They come

1508
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:48,960
Speaker 1: up to you and act like they're playing basketball? Post

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01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:55,960
Speaker 1: you up, Yes, I do play basketball. I'm not telling

1510
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:57,680
Speaker 1: a man like I played basketball. He's like, oh I can,

1511
01:15:57,760 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 1: I can school you on the court, and I'm like,

1512
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. You do you know

1513
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,639
Speaker 1: that doing? Do you know Jesus probably was five five

1514
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,760
Speaker 1: because the average height of men around that time with

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01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: five point five. Scholars have said this, y'all are missing

1516
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: y'all blessings not dating short men. I agree with you, okay,

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01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:18,080
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Five a five one oh five one?

1518
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: Is marriage still a goal? It's the breakfast Club. Good morning.

1519
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: Can we get into a little marry and math please? Yeah,

1520
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 1: let's get into that. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning.

1521
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: Call me to the breakfast Club time five one morning.

1522
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: Everybody is dj n V Charlemagne the guy. We are

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01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:48,479
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We got our special guest hosts Lilla

1524
01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 1: joining us today and she was talking about marriage and

1525
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:53,800
Speaker 1: we're asking is marriage still a goal? And lie for

1526
01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:56,360
Speaker 1: herself said no, you don't want to get married because

1527
01:16:56,360 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: I've done it already. I've done it already. I've checked

1528
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 1: it off the list. I've done already of good. While

1529
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: it was good, it's ultimately you know, didn't work out,

1530
01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:04,840
Speaker 1: and I don't need to revisit that. It's like I

1531
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:06,560
Speaker 1: told that last call a lot, you might need to

1532
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: just try again with short men. You know what I mean?

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01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:14,120
Speaker 1: If my blessing comes in, I size five five? Hello,

1534
01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:17,639
Speaker 1: who's this? What's talk this? Jersey? What's up? Broll? Talk

1535
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 1: to us? What's going on? It's Lola, good morning? Are

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01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 1: you doing well? Marriage? And I got married six months ago.

1537
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 1: I love him. I wouldn't had changed nothing ever, Like

1538
01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 1: it's just a beautiful thing. I wanted to get married.

1539
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:38,840
Speaker 1: I quote him my wife for for years and we

1540
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: finally got to not and it's beautiful. Man. But you

1541
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 1: gotta want to be married. You gotta want to put

1542
01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:46,599
Speaker 1: it in the work. You know, this, this is a word.

1543
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:48,640
Speaker 1: This is another job. You have to want to do it.

1544
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:51,360
Speaker 1: That's real, do it, you know, if you don't want

1545
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:54,520
Speaker 1: to do it, you know, most people stay single or more. Instagram.

1546
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:59,280
Speaker 1: You know I'm with you. Hello, who's this? This is

1547
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:05,800
Speaker 1: Ebony from whom he's in Connecticut. How are you guys? Hey? Um,

1548
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: I personally feel like it has to do everything with

1549
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 1: music and who people are listening to now. A lot

1550
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:16,000
Speaker 1: of the music out now is portraying a lot of

1551
01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:20,599
Speaker 1: no love. Uh, get a whole bunch of holes. Um,

1552
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:23,639
Speaker 1: It's it's just a whole lot of talk about no love,

1553
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: even though people are actually looking for love. Like nobody

1554
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:30,640
Speaker 1: wants to be alone. Everybody wants to have somebody, but

1555
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 1: everyone's going to get numerous as people instead of just

1556
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:37,240
Speaker 1: one and settling. But but does not want to be alone.

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01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: Me and you have to be married. You can get

1558
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: a dog boyfriend. That's true. That's true, you can. But

1559
01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:47,120
Speaker 1: the what I'm saying is that the view of music

1560
01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:50,400
Speaker 1: now is what is making people feel like they don't

1561
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 1: want to go and actually find love, fall in love,

1562
01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:58,599
Speaker 1: and then allow themselves to settle down. But I also

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01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: would say this, you know, growing up on how Oldie So,

1564
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: growing up you heard music the same way. You know,

1565
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:05,760
Speaker 1: you could go back to jay Z, whether it was

1566
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: Big Pimping a Girls, Girls Girls, or some of those

1567
01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 1: other songs that we grew up to as well, was

1568
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:12,000
Speaker 1: kind of the same thing. R and B has changed

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01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: a lot, but we grew up the songs like that

1570
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,880
Speaker 1: as well. That's true, that is true, But I think

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01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 1: it's a lot like um. The music videos are just

1572
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 1: a little bit more graphical now, and I guess people

1573
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 1: are able to express themselves a lot. I agree with that,

1574
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,360
Speaker 1: and I think there was more of a balance back then.

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01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: It was of a little bit of both. Now it's

1576
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:32,680
Speaker 1: it's not so much of that. I agree, even in

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01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 1: R and B. Hello, who's this Hi? This is Michelle, Michelle, Michelle,

1578
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:40,559
Speaker 1: what are you calling from Jersey? Okay? Talk to us.

1579
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:44,680
Speaker 1: I definitely believe that marriage, in the sense that we

1580
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: have been indoctrinated to believe in, might be played out

1581
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 1: not necessarily a goal. I think you have to understand

1582
01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: what people you married as, because a lot of people

1583
01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 1: don't think that it takes standing in front of a judge,

1584
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 1: a preacher, or signing pay that you pay the state

1585
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 1: bore to be married. Marriage is largely about commitment, because honestly,

1586
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:07,640
Speaker 1: if it takes a piece of paper for you to

1587
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 1: be faithful to me, I don't know if I want

1588
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: you anywhere. You don't need a ring to be my wife?

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01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:18,639
Speaker 1: Won't I say truly. Yeah, that's y'all. Even for the Bible, sumpers.

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01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 1: If you look at in the Bible and the Old Testament,

1591
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: all it took for marriage was sex and a commitment. Well,

1592
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: that's what the commitment was, what made the difference between

1593
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 1: your wife and your concubine. You're right, but you know

1594
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 1: the problem with the Bible dump was somebody putting there

1595
01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:37,400
Speaker 1: that you can't have sex before marriage. So a lot

1596
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:40,160
Speaker 1: of people started getting married. I don't think anybody put

1597
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:42,519
Speaker 1: in there that you can have sex before marriage. People

1598
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:44,960
Speaker 1: really got to read their Bible because that's not in

1599
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: the Bible. That's the thing that man has begun to

1600
01:20:49,160 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 1: doubt because sex is the marriage. Actually, so all of

1601
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 1: this about shafting, all of this about for anication. If

1602
01:20:57,240 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 1: you really understand the transmitteration of the word for an,

1603
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: if you are a real he Drew Greek scholar, and

1604
01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 1: you go and look into the meaning of these words,

1605
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:13,160
Speaker 1: Fornication is not about sex. Fornication is idolatry, idolizing other gods.

1606
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 1: So you telling me that everybody that we've had sex with,

1607
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 1: we've been married, No, not if you didn't make a

1608
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:22,640
Speaker 1: commitment to be with that person. Remember there is a

1609
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:26,560
Speaker 1: clear delineation you have to make that commitment. You have

1610
01:21:26,720 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 1: to decide, because honestly, marriage is a contract between people.

1611
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:34,439
Speaker 1: But whether that requires a signature from somebody at the

1612
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: state and a license where you're literally paying to be

1613
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: committed to someone, I think that's really the question. Yeah,

1614
01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:44,639
Speaker 1: I say your point on that part. Yeah, on that part.

1615
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 1: That's why the new the Lebron James version of the

1616
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 1: Bible said I don't let him hold You got very

1617
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: clear about not being committed to people. The story of

1618
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:56,800
Speaker 1: the story, the moral of the story to me is

1619
01:21:56,880 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 1: that times have definitely changed. It actually said me a

1620
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:04,640
Speaker 1: little bit that that's not the goal anymore for a

1621
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: lot of people. But we're living in a new day

1622
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 1: and age, a new way of meeting people, a new

1623
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,760
Speaker 1: way of socializing, a new way of communicating with each other.

1624
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 1: And I do feel like you can have an amazing

1625
01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 1: commitment with somebody without necessarily that piece of paper that

1626
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:20,599
Speaker 1: binds you to that. But you did catch the bouquet

1627
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:23,240
Speaker 1: at the last weather you at she catch the bouquet everywhere.

1628
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: A lot of best wide receiver in the game they

1629
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: throw it right at my face. I can do. It's

1630
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 1: coming right towards me. Well, if you decide to do

1631
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 1: it again, lot, just know, short men make better husbands.

1632
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: These are statistical facts. Okay, you can google it. All right.

1633
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 1: We make up and with them what we lack in stature.

1634
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: Short guys make better partners, okay. And if you marry one,

1635
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:46,439
Speaker 1: your relationship is more likely to last. And you can

1636
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:48,000
Speaker 1: carry on your back if you need to walk around.

1637
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: I'm not even making this up. The research it seems

1638
01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 1: short of men make more faithful partners. A survey done

1639
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 1: by Ashley Madison, which is the dating type for marry people. Yes,

1640
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,840
Speaker 1: it says taller men are twice more likely to cheat

1641
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: than the ones whose height is less than five peaked

1642
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:11,639
Speaker 1: in inches. Your blessing ladies is five foot six? All right,

1643
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: five five? And you know what else? Think about when

1644
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,479
Speaker 1: you're tall. When you're tall, you see everything correct. When

1645
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:22,000
Speaker 1: you shot the women, I cann't see my eye. I

1646
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 1: can't believe there's a stat that does that. Wow't you

1647
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:27,640
Speaker 1: a short man, blessing ladies? All right? Well, thank you?

1648
01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:29,679
Speaker 1: All right? Well, we got rumors coming up talking about

1649
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:34,160
Speaker 1: kim Ka. You staying, I'm out of here. It's the

1650
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 1: breakfast club. Good morning, the breakfast club morning. Everybody is

1651
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 1: dj NV Charlomagne the God. We are the breakfast clubbing

1652
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 1: at our guest hosts in the building. A la la.

1653
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: Now let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Kim Kardashian

1654
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: from my hat, sit from name? Or you gossiping or

1655
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 1: you chatting? Is the rumor report? I mean, I guess

1656
01:23:58,360 --> 01:23:59,639
Speaker 1: we're on the breakfast club. This is where the tea

1657
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 1: spells right now, on the breakfast club. Now it looks

1658
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:06,559
Speaker 1: like Pete Davison removed all his tattoos that he dedicated

1659
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: to his ex Kim kardashing Now you know, Pete Davison

1660
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 1: is twenty nine years old and he got a bunch

1661
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 1: of tattoos on his body. Uh, I guess saying that

1662
01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:18,840
Speaker 1: my girl is a lawyer, and a couple of other tattoos.

1663
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:21,599
Speaker 1: He even he got one that says k N SCP,

1664
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:25,599
Speaker 1: which people believe it's for Kim's four kids North Saint

1665
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:30,040
Speaker 1: Chicago in PSALM. So he got him all removed. God damn.

1666
01:24:30,080 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: But what kind of witchcraft kardashis doing? The pe What

1667
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: you mean? Yo? You look, you know what kind of witchcraft?

1668
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:38,920
Speaker 1: You must have? Have more people to be having them

1669
01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 1: get tattoos like that and not married. God damn. But

1670
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:44,680
Speaker 1: you know, Pete, my little bro. I love Pete, but

1671
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 1: not only hard. But the kid's names that's not yours. Whoa, whoa, whoa?

1672
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:54,080
Speaker 1: What kind of voodoo is in that? Vaginado is in that?

1673
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,599
Speaker 1: I don't know? All right, now, I didn't hear y'all.

1674
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:01,439
Speaker 1: He's in the bathroom. Break now. Kanye West was spotted

1675
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: dying with his new I guess wife because they're saying

1676
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:08,200
Speaker 1: that it got married, but the thing was was the

1677
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: daughter North was with them. I don't like that either, man,

1678
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:13,720
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, I mean the same way we say

1679
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:16,040
Speaker 1: that about women when we see you know, you know,

1680
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:18,840
Speaker 1: men that they just started getting with around the kids.

1681
01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:21,639
Speaker 1: It's the same thing for the guys. I agree, you don't,

1682
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think you. I don't know, but

1683
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 1: I would just assume just you don't know that young

1684
01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:29,720
Speaker 1: time like, man, Yeah, make sure that that person's going

1685
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 1: to stay around. Yeah, man, yeah, yeah, I think. But

1686
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:37,560
Speaker 1: let me mind my business. Yeah. Now, lastly, um, this

1687
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: is a story people are mad at Aretha Franklin. That's

1688
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: not real. It's not real. No, that's not a real story. No,

1689
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:47,960
Speaker 1: that's a parody account. Trust me, I was already I

1690
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 1: was ready to go in on day when I saw

1691
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: that story. Okay, but it's not real, it's not real,

1692
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 1: it's a satire, it's a parody. Or let me just

1693
01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 1: tell the people what's not a real story that our

1694
01:25:57,680 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: producers up here gave to me. They said, a wreath,

1695
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:04,240
Speaker 1: this uh Franklin song a natural Woman was offensive by

1696
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:08,479
Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community. But we got to be very careful

1697
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:11,320
Speaker 1: in regard to things like that simply because those are

1698
01:26:11,360 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 1: the type of stories that people put out there just

1699
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 1: to cause divisiveness amongst communities, you know what I mean.

1700
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 1: Like you know, cointel pro is real, you know, especially

1701
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:21,640
Speaker 1: in this day and age of the Internet. So you know,

1702
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:23,559
Speaker 1: you got to be very careful when you see stuff

1703
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: like that. You know, not because anybody's afraid of the

1704
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:29,439
Speaker 1: LGBTQ community community in any way, because you know, folks

1705
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:32,840
Speaker 1: know they will raise holy hell, you know, and they

1706
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 1: will try to get you canceled. But the reality is

1707
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:37,720
Speaker 1: those stories just cause divisiveness, you know what I mean.

1708
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,639
Speaker 1: So you really got to like double check and triple

1709
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:43,160
Speaker 1: check you know, before you go out there and see

1710
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 1: if situations like that is real. But I saw mad

1711
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:48,679
Speaker 1: people from the LGBTQ community, you know, denouncing that story,

1712
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: like my man David Johnson. Luke to David Johns. David Johns,

1713
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:53,360
Speaker 1: he's one of the people who said the same thing

1714
01:26:53,360 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He was like, ye, these stories are made

1715
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:58,720
Speaker 1: to cause divisiveness, you know amongst us. We actually should play, David,

1716
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 1: Let's put let's play with David said about that story. Okay,

1717
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:03,439
Speaker 1: let's play right now. I really want people to put

1718
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:06,479
Speaker 1: some respect on quitt Aretha's name and to stop using

1719
01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 1: lgbt Q y A plus folk as weapons of mass

1720
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 1: distractions the activists in question in the story that was

1721
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:15,400
Speaker 1: sent to me so many times. It's a parody account

1722
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: that was started in January of this year by organization

1723
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: in Norway for folks that have questions about things impacting

1724
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:26,599
Speaker 1: the trans community that are translated, organizations that do that work,

1725
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 1: because what this does play on is some of the

1726
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: worst fears about conversations to ensure that we can all

1727
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 1: be free and have access to the rights and privileges

1728
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 1: that so many people take for granted. Let's stop this,

1729
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: good people, Let's spread positive messages that actually learned to

1730
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:45,360
Speaker 1: look for sources and citations. Yep, he's absolutely right. Oh

1731
01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:47,439
Speaker 1: and let me put some respect on David's name. Man

1732
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: if doctor David Jay Johns. Okay, doctor David J. Johns. Man,

1733
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:55,280
Speaker 1: there you go glue to my god, David John all right,

1734
01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:57,760
Speaker 1: and that is your room of report. Now, we got

1735
01:27:57,880 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: to send a happy birthday to Alicia Keys. Today is

1736
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:03,479
Speaker 1: Alicia keys Is birthday. She's forty three years old. So

1737
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna get on a couple of Alicia Keys joint

1738
01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:07,880
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1739
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1747
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We got our guest host with us La La.

1748
01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:38,640
Speaker 1: She's been guests hosting yesterday and today. Hopefully we can

1749
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:39,960
Speaker 1: get it for a couple of days. But she's looking

1750
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:42,280
Speaker 1: at like this four o'clock in the morning. NBA, ain't it.

1751
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 1: She's writ in Brooklyn. Maybe may know, maybe you know

1752
01:28:45,400 --> 01:28:47,120
Speaker 1: what it is. Once you get up and get going,

1753
01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:49,439
Speaker 1: then I have all the energy. It's just the initial

1754
01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 1: like the initial like yes, that makes it makes it hard.

1755
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:57,040
Speaker 1: And Lola has somebody very special joining us this morning. Yes,

1756
01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:00,160
Speaker 1: you know, I'm so honored to welcome Commissioner Low. It's

1757
01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:03,200
Speaker 1: Molina here to the Breakfast Club. And you know, Commissioner

1758
01:29:03,240 --> 01:29:05,439
Speaker 1: Marina is a huge part of the reason why I'm

1759
01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:08,200
Speaker 1: able to go to Rikers with my initiative through sixty

1760
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 1: and do the work that I do. And I just

1761
01:29:10,040 --> 01:29:12,800
Speaker 1: wanted him to come and talk about Rikers and some

1762
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:16,640
Speaker 1: of the incredible changes he's making there and just just

1763
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:19,439
Speaker 1: chop it up a little bit. Welcome, Welcome, good morning,

1764
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:21,720
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Yes, I'm so happy for

1765
01:29:21,800 --> 01:29:24,120
Speaker 1: you to be here. So, Commissioner Millina, I just wanted

1766
01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 1: to ask you, and we've talked about it before, but

1767
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:29,680
Speaker 1: like you're you're so passionate about what you do, You're

1768
01:29:29,720 --> 01:29:33,400
Speaker 1: so passionate about changing the narrative of Riker's Island, and

1769
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:35,640
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask you, like, where does that

1770
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 1: passion and that heart that you have come from? Because

1771
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 1: it motivates me, It wakes me up every day and

1772
01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:44,120
Speaker 1: gives me that extra push to do what I do.

1773
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:46,080
Speaker 1: You know, I'm learning so much from you, Like where

1774
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:49,200
Speaker 1: does that passion and commitment come from? Well, for me,

1775
01:29:49,320 --> 01:29:51,439
Speaker 1: it comes from just my lived experience. You know, I've

1776
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 1: had very close family members that have been incaustulating on

1777
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:57,720
Speaker 1: Rikers Island. I'm back when we had adolescence and that

1778
01:29:57,920 --> 01:30:02,200
Speaker 1: impacted my parents marriage, It impacted our family unit, and

1779
01:30:02,479 --> 01:30:05,160
Speaker 1: I had opportunities growing up. You know, I grew up

1780
01:30:05,160 --> 01:30:06,680
Speaker 1: with both my mom and died in my life. A

1781
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:09,639
Speaker 1: lot of kids don't have that, though we did have struggles.

1782
01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 1: And when I think people that look like us are

1783
01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: blessed with opportunities to manage agencies where you're dealing with

1784
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:19,320
Speaker 1: the majority of individuals are black and brown, that's just

1785
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:22,560
Speaker 1: the reality of the criminal justice in America, then I

1786
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:24,760
Speaker 1: have an obligation. People that look like us have an

1787
01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:27,519
Speaker 1: obligation to really make a difference so that our lived

1788
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 1: experiences are within the policies and operations of how we

1789
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:34,520
Speaker 1: manage and really care for that population. Absolutely and Commissioner.

1790
01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:36,960
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, like, how do you

1791
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:39,840
Speaker 1: keep that passion and stay with that passion? One every

1792
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:43,240
Speaker 1: day it's you're getting, you know, criticized about something or

1793
01:30:43,320 --> 01:30:46,599
Speaker 1: everything is just a negative narrative is constantly being put out,

1794
01:30:46,640 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm the one constantly screaming from like the

1795
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:52,799
Speaker 1: mountaintops like look what's happening, Like there's so many amazing

1796
01:30:52,880 --> 01:30:55,599
Speaker 1: things happening at Rikers that you never hear about. There's

1797
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 1: so many lives being changed, so many incredible programs, and

1798
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 1: so many things that you are doing. Like how do

1799
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 1: you deal with that? Because you gotta beat I just

1800
01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:05,920
Speaker 1: have a strong backbone for that kind of thing. Sure,

1801
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean for me, human beings are worth it, right,

1802
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:12,200
Speaker 1: I think for the people that are justice involved, for

1803
01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:14,400
Speaker 1: the men and women that work there. You know, we

1804
01:31:14,520 --> 01:31:18,280
Speaker 1: are a majority agency black and brown, forty four percent women.

1805
01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:22,719
Speaker 1: That is a big, big compared to other law enforcement

1806
01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:25,960
Speaker 1: agencies in our country. So the work is worth it.

1807
01:31:26,720 --> 01:31:28,519
Speaker 1: And the people that we're fighting for, those that are

1808
01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:31,960
Speaker 1: incarcerated and those that are working their contract providers, volunteers

1809
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 1: like yourself. We really need a holistic approach to really

1810
01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 1: solving America's criminal justice issue, and for too long, I

1811
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:43,040
Speaker 1: think as a country, we've done just enough to make

1812
01:31:43,120 --> 01:31:45,439
Speaker 1: people seem like we're doing a lot, and we just

1813
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:48,600
Speaker 1: keep individuals just in a state of mediocrity and in

1814
01:31:48,640 --> 01:31:50,680
Speaker 1: a state of poverty, right, and we really need to

1815
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 1: make a difference and really disrupt how we manage criminal

1816
01:31:54,040 --> 01:31:55,920
Speaker 1: justice in this country. What's the biggest things that you

1817
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:58,559
Speaker 1: face your biggest obstacles. I mean, I've had family members

1818
01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:01,840
Speaker 1: that rikers and and everybody that ever gets locked up

1819
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:04,320
Speaker 1: in New York City, the biggest thing is they want

1820
01:32:04,320 --> 01:32:06,360
Speaker 1: to get bailed out before taking a trip over the richet.

1821
01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 1: So what is the biggest thing that you face in

1822
01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:11,639
Speaker 1: the biggest obstacle. Well, I think there were a number

1823
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:14,160
Speaker 1: of big obstacles when we came in in January. First,

1824
01:32:14,240 --> 01:32:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a staff in crisis. We're a

1825
01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:18,320
Speaker 1: significant number of staff were and coming to work right.

1826
01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:21,280
Speaker 1: We stopped programming, and I think we mere dealing with

1827
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:27,200
Speaker 1: a vulnerable population. Correction of correction officers were a lot

1828
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:28,720
Speaker 1: we're out at the beginning of the year, and that

1829
01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:30,720
Speaker 1: was an ongoing thing in a lot of part of

1830
01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:32,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. So we needed to get a staff

1831
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:35,400
Speaker 1: back to work, but we needed to also recognize that

1832
01:32:35,439 --> 01:32:37,840
Speaker 1: we didn't have an organizational health strategy to support the

1833
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 1: staff that's dealing with a very challenging population, while at

1834
01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:45,000
Speaker 1: the same time during a pandemic, they also shut down programming.

1835
01:32:45,040 --> 01:32:47,120
Speaker 1: And I think when you're dealing with people that are

1836
01:32:47,200 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 1: in custody, whether it's patients in a hospital, you need

1837
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:53,400
Speaker 1: all of the ecosystem to still continue to work in

1838
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:56,439
Speaker 1: order for that to happen. So our biggest challenge really

1839
01:32:56,520 --> 01:33:00,439
Speaker 1: has been the mismanagement and really the dismantle or really

1840
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:03,160
Speaker 1: of a core part of the criminal justice system in

1841
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:06,679
Speaker 1: the city. When you think about corrections, the corrections department

1842
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:09,200
Speaker 1: spends the most times with those that are justice involved.

1843
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:11,439
Speaker 1: If you get when you get arrested by the police,

1844
01:33:11,479 --> 01:33:13,400
Speaker 1: you may not see that police officer unless you go

1845
01:33:13,439 --> 01:33:16,160
Speaker 1: to trial. And then in many cases, defendants are not

1846
01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:19,960
Speaker 1: really engaging consistently either with the prosecutor or even with

1847
01:33:20,040 --> 01:33:22,240
Speaker 1: their own defense attorneys. Right they go to court every time,

1848
01:33:22,280 --> 01:33:24,679
Speaker 1: there may be a new defense attorney that's managing their case,

1849
01:33:25,120 --> 01:33:28,760
Speaker 1: So we have a time to try to engage with

1850
01:33:28,840 --> 01:33:31,559
Speaker 1: the individual to deal with the root drivers of why

1851
01:33:31,600 --> 01:33:34,360
Speaker 1: they are justice involved. And I think that's very, very

1852
01:33:34,360 --> 01:33:36,639
Speaker 1: important work that has to be done. So I think

1853
01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 1: there's a number of complex challenges. We've come a long

1854
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:40,800
Speaker 1: way over the last year, but we have a long

1855
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:42,519
Speaker 1: way to go. You know, you're a commissioner of the

1856
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:46,920
Speaker 1: Department of Corrections and they call these institutions correctional facilities, right,

1857
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:50,560
Speaker 1: but what is actually being done the correct You know,

1858
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 1: these prisoners, like a lot of times they get thrown

1859
01:33:53,120 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 1: in jail, they don't get any resources, you know, they

1860
01:33:55,439 --> 01:33:57,840
Speaker 1: don't learn any trades that when they get out they

1861
01:33:57,840 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 1: can actually you know, be productive in society. They're not

1862
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:02,679
Speaker 1: getting great education, the food is terrible, to their health

1863
01:34:02,760 --> 01:34:05,400
Speaker 1: isn't you know, being benefited. So what is actually being

1864
01:34:05,479 --> 01:34:08,040
Speaker 1: done the correct President, Sure, that's a great question, and

1865
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:10,680
Speaker 1: I think the mayor talks about this all the time.

1866
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:13,559
Speaker 1: But solving these upstream problems. So we have to understand

1867
01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:16,479
Speaker 1: that a lot of people that are injustice involved are

1868
01:34:16,600 --> 01:34:18,840
Speaker 1: there because of a lack of a nationwide public health

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Speaker 1: strategy to deal with issues like mental illness, substance abuse, ediction.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that's co occurring, and you have both. I think

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Speaker 1: when you look at corrections, you have to understand that

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Speaker 1: there's two parts of it. New York City Department of

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Speaker 1: Corrections is a jail. So it's a temporary detention place

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Speaker 1: and that's what it's meant for. Now. That doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that we don't have a responsibility and try to improve

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Speaker 1: people's outcomes. So we do not determine who comes to us,

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Speaker 1: but we have an obligation as an organization to try

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Speaker 1: to improve their outcomes. Now, in many cases, we're dealing

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Speaker 1: with individuals that we're offering educational opportunities, access to healthcare

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Speaker 1: and treatment that they didn't have in their own communities

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, trying to deal with Voca National Training.

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Speaker 1: But because their time with us is so temporary, the

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Speaker 1: level of engagement that you have it at jail, while important,

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Speaker 1: is not the same time of long term engagement that

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Speaker 1: you may have an a state prison. Okay, you know

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Speaker 1: our last question. You know I think about jail right.

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Speaker 1: Jail should be humane, but not necessarily nice because it's

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Speaker 1: jail right, So I want to ask you, on a

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Speaker 1: scale of one to four seasons, what do you think

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Speaker 1: the conditions of like a jail should be. So, I

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Speaker 1: think jail at its core has to be on a

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Speaker 1: foundation of humanity and managing individuals. Right, You're still dealing

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Speaker 1: and dealing with human beings, right, especially for those that

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Speaker 1: are young adults. Their brain is still going through brain development,

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Speaker 1: and you want to take all of the drivers into

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Speaker 1: consideration why somebody's justice involved. So yeah, you want to

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Speaker 1: be a humane but understand that again, we don't have

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Speaker 1: a role in punishment, right. We have a role in

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Speaker 1: making sure that we're providing a state and secure environment

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Speaker 1: so for programs can be successful for those that want

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Speaker 1: to engage in programming to deal with their issue. We

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Speaker 1: remind ourselves at the jail level that those they have

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Speaker 1: not been convicted, so they still presumed innocent, and that

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Speaker 1: adds a certain layer of making sure that we're empathetic

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Speaker 1: to that. But remind ourselves our job is not to

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Speaker 1: punish people. Our job is to provide a custodial service

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Speaker 1: of those that the court has deaned need to be

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Speaker 1: within the care and control of the government versus being

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Speaker 1: out in public. All right, thank you for joining us,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, you're so happy, happy to have

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Speaker 1: you here today, and thank you for opening up the

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Speaker 1: doors and allowing me to come in and do my

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Speaker 1: work and fulfill my passions. It's incredible what you do

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Speaker 1: and you're such an amazing leader for all of us.

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Speaker 1: So thank you. Film. The name of the program law

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Speaker 1: for you. So my program is three sixty. Hey, my

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Speaker 1: three sixty crew, your shout out is coming soon, so

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Speaker 1: get ready, get ready, get around the radio. It's coming soon,

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Speaker 1: the three sixty Initiative. I'll talk a little bit about

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Speaker 1: it when I shout out the whole crew. All right,

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Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast Club Positive Notes up next. Thank you, commissioner,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Want to everybody is dj n V Charlemagne

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Speaker 1: the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. We got our

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Speaker 1: guest hosts for today, La la. Yeah. So my initiative

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Speaker 1: at Rikers Island is called the three sixty Initiative, and

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Speaker 1: it's made up of some incredible young men who are

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Speaker 1: really really committed to doing a three sixty in their

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Speaker 1: life and changing their lives around and just being incredible,

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Speaker 1: you know, members of the community upon release and those

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Speaker 1: that have to continue on to their journey and serve

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Speaker 1: some time just changing how they're thinking to just be

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Speaker 1: productive while incarcerated as well. So I got some shout outs.

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Speaker 1: I got a shout out my family double Les DEGs

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Speaker 1: Noe Yadi, Mo Diggs, Benny les Rondo Jr. Dre was

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Speaker 1: up to the whole crew and all of this can't

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Speaker 1: be possible without Big White DC pastor T Brittany podcasts

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Speaker 1: be definitely for holding us down in the staff there

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Speaker 1: who have just been so incredible and helping us every

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Speaker 1: step of the way. I just want to show them

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Speaker 1: some love. You always just here so many negative things,

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Speaker 1: and there's so many people that work in Rikers that

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Speaker 1: are just so passionate about what they do and just

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Speaker 1: have such amazing hearts and really do want to make

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Speaker 1: a change. And I think some of those people that

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Speaker 1: I know should be acknowledged. So shout out too, obviously

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Molina, who were going to talk to Miss Torres Tavares,

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Speaker 1: con Curry, Madard, holds us down, Miss King Cadero, Emily

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Speaker 1: T and Cove. I couldn't do the work I'm doing

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Speaker 1: without this amazing group of people. And if I missed anyone,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but this crew right here really helps me

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Speaker 1: do what I do. But shout out to the young

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Speaker 1: men in my initiative. I love them so much and

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Speaker 1: when you see the changes that are taking place in

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Speaker 1: this group, it gives you chills. People just need an opportunity,

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Speaker 1: people just need resources, and some people just need somebody

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Speaker 1: to lean on, somebody to tell them I got you,

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Speaker 1: I love you. You'll be surprised, like how many people

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Speaker 1: just don't have things that some of us take for

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Speaker 1: granted every day. And I'm just proud of my crew.

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Speaker 1: They're leaders in their housing units, they're they're going to

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Speaker 1: be leaders in the community, and I'm really proud of

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Speaker 1: the work that they're doing. Now do you say I

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Speaker 1: love you to them? I just love you. I say

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Speaker 1: I love I love you. Yeah, it means a lot. Yeah, right, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you, and you got a positive No, Charlemaine, I do, man,

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Speaker 1: I've really been thinking about that before you do the

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Speaker 1: positive note. Okay, you gotta schedule us to come to

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Speaker 1: Rikers one time. Absolutely. I don't know Charlemagne's but I'm

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Speaker 1: sure he would, but they'd be dope. We know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. We could broadcast out of there one time. Wow. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the Christian is coming right, Tell me

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Speaker 1: to pull up somewhere. Got be dope, yeah, be awesome?

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Speaker 1: All right? Note Yeah, the positive note, man, I've been

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Speaker 1: thinking about that. Tall sister who called him, who wants

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Speaker 1: to be married but doesn't want to date show men,

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Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, telling her her blessing is five five.

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Speaker 1: And with that said, the positive note, it's simple. Don't

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Speaker 1: miss out on blessings just because they aren't packaged the

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Speaker 1: way you are expecting. Breakface Club, you don't finish for y'all,

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Speaker 1: dumb