Speaker 1: Good morning us say yo yo yo yo yo yo
Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo.
Speaker 2: Just hilarious, good morning, just hilarious.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: Why are you coming off? I was going to finish it.
Speaker 1: You don't say good morning to yourself, Jess, hilarious. Good morning,
Speaker 1: Charlamagne of God.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Charlamagne of God.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, man, how you doing doing great? Hey,
Speaker 4: she's here, y'all him?
Speaker 2: He is gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's playing golf. He's playing golf. He's on him
Speaker 1: and his wife, Yes they are, they are. How y'all
Speaker 1: feel this morning? I feel blessed, Black and Holly fad
Speaker 1: would happy to be here another day to serve all
Speaker 1: beautiful listeners.
Speaker 3: How the ladies doing? How you doing?
Speaker 5: Jess?
Speaker 6: Oh good? I look good, I feel good.
Speaker 2: And I'm on a billboard.
Speaker 3: In New York. Yes, you are real crazy.
Speaker 1: John O'Brien had his operation Green Socks day yesterday, and
Speaker 1: he put us up on billboards.
Speaker 3: Jes hilarius. She's up there.
Speaker 1: Yes, those a few people up there yesterday. But yes,
Speaker 1: you were on a billboarding Times Square.
Speaker 2: Yes, especially a few people the one I saw.
Speaker 3: It was just me. It flashes, so it was like
Speaker 3: it different people.
Speaker 1: Operation Green Sox as a nationwide initiative aimed at raising
Speaker 1: awareness and promoting financial literacy. If you know what John
Speaker 1: O'Brien does in Operation Hope, then you know how they
Speaker 1: how they get down.
Speaker 3: Lauren, you're finally putting some lotion on.
Speaker 1: Thank God, man dropping for lotion, Lauren being around here
Speaker 1: looking foggy.
Speaker 3: I'm glad.
Speaker 7: Just beat you lotion ten times a day, yes, asked me.
Speaker 7: I said that, like, what's the cue?
Speaker 8: How?
Speaker 2: Five lotions?
Speaker 1: And then yesterday she had the one shoulder out and
Speaker 1: it was just that one shoulder ashy.
Speaker 3: It ain't Nobody said nothing all day.
Speaker 2: And look, even even Curry watched it was like, oh
Speaker 2: you got the little shoulder around.
Speaker 3: She noticed it. That's what she wanted to she wanted
Speaker 3: to say something about it. Listen.
Speaker 1: I did a date night last night, being the wife
Speaker 1: went out. I went to go see uh, Stranger Things
Speaker 1: on Broadway. They all watch s Grange of Things on Netflix.
Speaker 2: I used to watch it.
Speaker 3: I used to watch Change the Man.
Speaker 1: That is the greatest stage play production I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life. I'm just talking about the production aspect
Speaker 1: of it. They did things on that stage I didn't
Speaker 1: think you could do really yes, like like falling out
Speaker 1: the sky in slow motion, like monsters coming from the.
Speaker 3: Ceiling, like a production.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the stage play production was incredible, dropping
Speaker 1: the clues bombs to us.
Speaker 3: Scranging Things on Brodway. They only been doing it for
Speaker 3: two weeks.
Speaker 2: I meant to see that.
Speaker 1: Yes, yesterday was a Rachel Rachel Edwards a born day.
Speaker 1: That's a good friend of mine. So we went to
Speaker 1: go see Scranging Things with my wife and oldes daughter
Speaker 1: loves Scranging Things. But if you are ever in New
Speaker 1: York City, even if you're not a fan of Broadway,
Speaker 1: even if you've never even seen the Scrange of Things play,
Speaker 1: that is something that I mean, the Strange Things show.
Speaker 3: That is something to go watch.
Speaker 2: Yes, I cannot be a fan of Broadway, like people
Speaker 2: don't like I love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well it used to, it.
Speaker 4: Got it got like really entertaining for the youth over
Speaker 4: the years. At first, Broadway used to be really boring
Speaker 4: in my opinion, And then when I saw when I
Speaker 4: got like to be a teenager and I saw.
Speaker 2: Wicked for the first time, then I was like I
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 4: But I think I was just going to see the
Speaker 4: most boring things because we used to go to field trips.
Speaker 2: Go on field trip.
Speaker 3: What's the first thing you remember seeing? You know?
Speaker 2: No, it was like a little slave.
Speaker 3: Place, you see that.
Speaker 9: I never.
Speaker 6: Was in it at the time too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to go see something about some slaves.
Speaker 1: Lauren got to introduce us to all this family she
Speaker 1: got because now her little cousin and Lion King. The
Speaker 1: other day with her her sister.
Speaker 7: First shout out to Mariah Hillard she does dance for
Speaker 7: says that she's on the gen Next tour. And you
Speaker 7: met my aunt, my aunt feelers who got you the
Speaker 7: book and who wanted to see you again at the
Speaker 7: Black Podcast Festival.
Speaker 2: It's her granddaughter. She was her manager.
Speaker 3: Well, everybody doing so good? Why you're so ashy?
Speaker 1: Anyway, Keron Washington, Key Washington will be here joining us
Speaker 1: this morning. She's got a new movie y'all called Shadow
Speaker 1: for us. It's out on May knife and we'll we'll
Speaker 1: be talking to her next hour. But we got Front
Speaker 1: Page News next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: Yes, more Dangerous Morning Show, The Emphis Club, Charlamagne Tha God,
Speaker 3: just hilarious.
Speaker 1: Dj nvy is out, what lay and Lerosa is in
Speaker 1: and it's time for front page news.
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 3: Morgan?
Speaker 6: Tell y'all, Hey, how y'all feeling happy?
Speaker 2: Thursday?
Speaker 6: Girl?
Speaker 3: Plu's black and Holly favored. What's happening all right, y'all?
Speaker 10: So first up on front page, President Trump says, historically,
Speaker 10: black colleges and universities should not be worried about federal
Speaker 10: spending cuts. Y'all know, I had to get into the
Speaker 10: HBCU news right. So Trump called into a News Nation
Speaker 10: town hall event hosted by Chris Cuomo and moderated via
Speaker 10: Bill O'Reilly and Stephen A.
Speaker 6: Smith last night.
Speaker 10: When asked if HBCUs should be concerned about their funding
Speaker 10: considering all of the funding and rollbacks that the Trump
Speaker 10: administration is doing, Trump said he took care of the
Speaker 10: HBCUs and black colleges and that he got them more
Speaker 10: money than they ever dreamt possible.
Speaker 6: Let's take a listen to those comments.
Speaker 11: They were going out of business. They came to me
Speaker 11: about fifty people that headed up, and they came to
Speaker 11: me the first year, and I took care of them.
Speaker 11: I got them more money than they ever dreamt possible.
Speaker 3: And they're in great shape.
Speaker 11: Now when they have long term financing. Nobody did that
Speaker 11: for Donald Trump.
Speaker 10: So under the Trump administration in his first term, he
Speaker 10: did sign a bipartisan bill in twenty nineteen that permanently
Speaker 10: provides more than two hundred and fifty million a year
Speaker 10: to the nation's historically black colleges and universities. If you
Speaker 10: were to, I guess sum that up over the course
Speaker 10: of four years, but again it was just twenty nineteen.
Speaker 10: If you were to sum that up over the course
Speaker 10: of four years, that would equate to one billion dollars.
Speaker 10: Under the Biden administration it was one point three billion
Speaker 10: in funding to HBCUs, whereas under the Obama administration it
Speaker 10: was four billion towards HBCUs.
Speaker 3: Now last week, well.
Speaker 1: If combined combined, there's actually more than seventeen billion in
Speaker 1: federal investments from the Biden Paris administration.
Speaker 6: That's right, that's right, that's right over the Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 10: And then of course last week Trump signed an executive
Speaker 10: order that will ensure or HBCUs get the maximum funding
Speaker 10: they're entitled to. Now, Trump said during the town hall
Speaker 10: that they have a long term financing, and that of
Speaker 10: course nobody else did it but him. Now, Lauren, you
Speaker 10: went to a HBCU delta card. You shout out to
Speaker 10: the hornets. So what do you think of all of
Speaker 10: what he is saying.
Speaker 7: I don't know how much of what is true, but
Speaker 7: I just know whoever's in the president draw office should
Speaker 7: make sure that the funding is going because if it
Speaker 7: wasn't for federal funding, I would not have graduated from
Speaker 7: college at all. So it's very important and that's all
Speaker 7: I know. They need the money a lot.
Speaker 6: Of it too.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it should be a ticket.
Speaker 6: Like it should be.
Speaker 7: If you don't fund HBCUs, we don't support you like
Speaker 7: it is a big ticket.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get no push back from me. You know,
Speaker 1: you see Donald Trump supporting HBCU. The only thing I
Speaker 1: would say is we want more. But you know me
Speaker 1: who wouldn't yep.
Speaker 6: Period period.
Speaker 10: So Trump addressed recent polling on his approval rating as
Speaker 10: saying they were fake polls where Democrats were interviewed. Yeah,
Speaker 10: he said democrat. More Democrats were interviewed than GOP members.
Speaker 10: When asked about making a deal with Tryina, Trump said,
Speaker 10: there is a very good chance, but there will be,
Speaker 10: but it will be on the terms of the US
Speaker 10: and of course he shrugged off concerns about the economy
Speaker 10: and concerns that his policies only benefit the wealthy.
Speaker 6: Trump said, he knows what he.
Speaker 10: Is doing is perfectly and that is perfect, and essentially
Speaker 10: that his economic approach will be better for the middle class.
Speaker 3: Well, you can't, well you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't lie to people because people are gonna feel
Speaker 1: it in their pockets regardless. So you know, you can
Speaker 1: get on television and you know, say that, but if
Speaker 1: people don't feel it in their pockets, they gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna push back. And when people say, you know, when
Speaker 1: people are losing jobs, when people can't afford to pay
Speaker 1: their bills or they can't afford to put food on
Speaker 1: their table, they will push back.
Speaker 3: So you can you can't lie to them about that
Speaker 3: because they feel it.
Speaker 10: Right And speaking of which, the numbers don't lie. So
Speaker 10: the new reports have the US economy heading into uncertain
Speaker 10: waters this summer, as you have been saying, Charlotta Magne,
Speaker 10: the gross domestic product or GDP, which some of the
Speaker 10: value of goods and services produce, fell three point fell
Speaker 10: three percent over las last year. Growth had originally been
Speaker 10: predicted by economists, but outlooks were revised to negative thanks
Speaker 10: to the reaction of President Trump's global tariffs. A separate
Speaker 10: report from payroll processor ADP showed job creation slow to
Speaker 10: sixty two thousand positions last month, about half of what
Speaker 10: economists were expecting. So it does appear that we are
Speaker 10: heading into a recession and things agatting tight.
Speaker 1: And Trump said that this isn't his GDP, this is
Speaker 1: Biden's GDP.
Speaker 3: He did, that's not true.
Speaker 6: That's okay, you about this quarterly.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 3: You are the president of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: The tariffs and other things you have implemented directly have
Speaker 1: impacted America's GDP. You got to own that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You can't keep pointing to blame with
Speaker 1: other people. You are the person that is governing right now.
Speaker 3: This is you.
Speaker 6: Clock is CpG.
Speaker 7: You know how your grandmom be telling you, like keep
Speaker 7: money in the mattress and keep guessing your card. What
Speaker 7: you're supposed to do right now in preparation for the recession,
Speaker 7: Like what's the.
Speaker 3: That's a good stay kit?
Speaker 1: I was I was thinking about, you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: stocking up on things that you would probably need. But
Speaker 1: the reality of the situation is you probably can't afford
Speaker 1: to stock up on things you actually need, Like if
Speaker 1: you know that there's gonna be a recession this summer,
Speaker 1: so you say, hey, you know what, let me stock
Speaker 1: up on you know.
Speaker 3: Let's just say toothpaste.
Speaker 1: You might can't afford to buy three four months of
Speaker 1: two pastes just in case.
Speaker 3: So I don't know. I'm not an e commiss you
Speaker 3: do know we on people can see.
Speaker 2: You, right, yeah, makeup real quick? All right, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I'm in the conversation. We're here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, all right, y'all. That's your front page news
Speaker 6: for six am.
Speaker 10: Stick around at seven we will talk about Vice President
Speaker 10: Kamala Harris. She had her first speech out since losing
Speaker 10: her bid to the White House.
Speaker 4: You know what's crazy, you're ready about that, Lauren, because
Speaker 4: I don't even see his crome purse appear.
Speaker 2: Remember you used to keep money in it. I don't
Speaker 2: even set it in a war.
Speaker 1: You need something, you need something from up? I got
Speaker 1: you right, I got you right here.
Speaker 3: Whatever you need, okay, okay, just checkond for it.
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Speaker 12: Ray right, Ray yo, Charlotte Mann, damfy what up are
Speaker 12: we lying?
Speaker 5: This is your time to get it off your chest.
Speaker 6: I got an indoor pool.
Speaker 5: A pool. We want to hear from you on the
Speaker 5: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 12: Get on the phone right now.
Speaker 3: He'll tell you what it is. We lie, good morning.
Speaker 3: Who's this?
Speaker 9: Good morning? My name is Mark from Florida.
Speaker 3: What part of Florida you calling from? Mark?
Speaker 12: For sure?
Speaker 9: I stay out there and on line, though, but I'm
Speaker 9: gonna trudge. I'm buried right now.
Speaker 3: Oh man, what's going on with you? Get it off
Speaker 3: your chest?
Speaker 9: Man? I just want to fall man. Just first involved
Speaker 9: in one. Everybody on the was out there.
Speaker 12: But we want to Charlotte Man, the dam d Lauren Man?
Speaker 3: Just test?
Speaker 9: Oh okay, that's what that's what's up?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I just wanted.
Speaker 12: To shout out, man, it's a it's a auto.
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Speaker 12: we grow, the more we'll see that everything we need
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Speaker 9: So I just wanted to shout him out.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 5: Everybody have a blessed.
Speaker 1: Day, man, A very very important skill to have because
Speaker 1: you know, if everything comes to a halt this summer
Speaker 1: and them shelves is empty, people.
Speaker 3: Definitely gonna know how to grow some food.
Speaker 1: Are you worried about it being at you in the
Speaker 1: trucking industry because they're saying that by mid delayed May,
Speaker 1: uh you know, the trucking trucking demand gonna come to
Speaker 1: a halt.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, man, Man.
Speaker 9: I listened to y'all. I'm on the podcast. I heard
Speaker 9: you say that a couple of so back, and uh,
Speaker 9: I'm not to worry about it, man.
Speaker 14: You know, I have.
Speaker 9: Faith in the most I it's times going to provide
Speaker 9: us with me. But it's definitely something.
Speaker 12: That I know will affect the industry man.
Speaker 9: So you know, it's just about just trying to find
Speaker 9: other ways to you know, get to the money and
Speaker 9: you know, keep myself afloat there you other than that,
Speaker 9: you know, I hope everybody just you know, have that
Speaker 9: same idea and in that same way as thinking.
Speaker 3: But there you go.
Speaker 1: All all praisons do the God, my brother, have a
Speaker 1: great day.
Speaker 9: Y'all do the same praises to the most.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, good morning. Who's this? Oh?
Speaker 15: This is dre Hey, Charlamaine and Jess Lauren d J
Speaker 15: and d.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 3: I want to get off.
Speaker 15: I want to invite your guys to you state tong coming.
Speaker 15: This is going to be Michael Bigg's first year of coaching.
Speaker 4: Oh nice, you said Norfolk State and Michael.
Speaker 2: I'm going to the Norfolk State down state game.
Speaker 7: Okay, did you want to go to the homecoming?
Speaker 2: I might haven't announcement so state homecoming was the last
Speaker 2: year too.
Speaker 12: Yes, Charlemagne is just I want you to come.
Speaker 6: This his first year.
Speaker 15: So I'm trying to get everybody out to supporting.
Speaker 2: To come to the Dell State.
Speaker 4: And wait a minute, so when is this game you
Speaker 4: talked about?
Speaker 3: What is the homecoming game?
Speaker 15: You're talking about its October twenty six.
Speaker 2: October twenty six.
Speaker 1: Let me make sure that ain't South Carolina State University homecoming,
Speaker 1: because I promise it is.
Speaker 14: Charagne, I need you to make both.
Speaker 3: I can't lie and promise everybody. You know I didn't
Speaker 3: lie to damn.
Speaker 2: She said, I need right, She said, I need you.
Speaker 3: To make both. I can't lie on the same date.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, and they know I'm lying.
Speaker 1: No, I'm coming. I am going to one of them,
Speaker 1: probably talk Calina State though.
Speaker 13: You.
Speaker 7: I feel like you already told me he was going
Speaker 7: to come to Norfolk Dale State. That was and Jack's
Speaker 7: remember you did too, Yeah, hell yeah, I said, I'm coming.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, shout out to Norfolk State. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that Mike Big has a great season, you know, and
Speaker 1: I hope y'all have an amazing homecoming. Thank you.
Speaker 9: That's not like you ain't gone.
Speaker 7: But I got you what you ca me a lot
Speaker 7: like yeah, yeah, yeah, for shure for show.
Speaker 1: Let me know, tell me you already told me. You
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Speaker 3: How y'all doing Uber Mike? What's up?
Speaker 14: King?
Speaker 9: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 9: Charlomagne? You always are promoting your Black Effects podcast?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Black Effect Podcast Network.
Speaker 9: How can How can I because I have one for
Speaker 9: a few years on Spotify? How do I like unite
Speaker 9: with you talking about right sharing and how to navigate? Uh?
Speaker 9: Like safety situations for drivers?
Speaker 1: Damn you should have been to the Black Effect Podcast Festival.
Speaker 1: You could have pitched your podcast at the Nissan activation.
Speaker 3: Man, they had to pitch your next year.
Speaker 9: I promise, okay, next year for sure. Okay, but I
Speaker 9: just want to help drivers navigate because a lot of
Speaker 9: drops can get killed and how to navigate? You know,
Speaker 9: this is my stepping bee here with over twenty five
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Speaker 1: That's good information. Man, hit up Black Effects DM. We
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Speaker 9: Okay, I'll do that all.
Speaker 3: Right, brother, Good morning? Who's this?
Speaker 14: Good morning?
Speaker 15: This is l l C lt edent tang them.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, lty tangout.
Speaker 7: You'd be having to say that a lot because you
Speaker 7: was ready.
Speaker 15: I do play good morning, just hilarious. Learn the wrestling,
Speaker 15: of course. I mean I wanted to call in because
Speaker 15: this has can. I did the meet and greet with you,
Speaker 15: Charla Man at your podcast in Atlanta, and I gave
Speaker 15: you my script.
Speaker 9: Remember yes what you mean?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: I got a rolls in hall them absolutely and you
Speaker 1: told me that you see tailing it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, yes, but you do remember, Okay. I was
Speaker 15: just following up with that, just wanted to make sure
Speaker 15: you know you still had that. I told you I
Speaker 15: didn't want you to send it black No.
Speaker 1: No, I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet.
Speaker 1: But but but but I haven't. Actually, my good sister
Speaker 1: Dolly took it with her, so I'm gonna get it
Speaker 1: from her this weekend.
Speaker 3: Actually, but I look forward to reading because thank you.
Speaker 15: I thank you for that opportunity as well. I had
Speaker 15: actually emailed Karen because I wanted to see about like
Speaker 15: the process. If you like take meetings or lunches.
Speaker 3: Or anything, I promise you I'll find you. If I
Speaker 3: like it, I'll find you.
Speaker 15: Okay, Well, thank you. Guys.
Speaker 4: Got to have a good day in your eyes, because
Speaker 4: you know you was not about to see Dolly the weekend.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get it coming this weekend.
Speaker 7: Okay, good morning.
Speaker 3: Good morning morning, Yes, how were you? Who is this?
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 14: This is rookie from New Jersey.
Speaker 3: Peace Peace.
Speaker 16: I want to say good morning to jest and laurd.
Speaker 3: You, Charlotte, thank you, we love you too.
Speaker 14: I wanted to I wanted to get off my chest.
Speaker 14: I've seen an orange man on TV last night. He
Speaker 14: came across my screen and the way he was sitting
Speaker 14: there a line and talking about everything.
Speaker 3: Is on by it.
Speaker 1: Nah, he can't he got to hold this when he
Speaker 1: is the President of the United States of America. When
Speaker 1: Joe Biden left office, the GDP was actually pretty good,
Speaker 1: and you know, because of a lot of the things
Speaker 1: that Trump is implemented over the first hundred days, it
Speaker 1: is not anymore.
Speaker 3: So he got he own that he.
Speaker 9: Don't hold nothing. He lied about everything. You know what
Speaker 9: they want to overtalk everybody.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting, Uh, you know, we can't act
Speaker 1: like any of these tariffs and stuff. Was a surprise
Speaker 1: because he said he was going to do this, and
Speaker 1: him and Elon must they all said there was going
Speaker 1: to be a period of economic pain that everybody was
Speaker 1: going to have to go through. I would rather than
Speaker 1: just keep saying that as opposed to you know, now
Speaker 1: trying to put the blame on on Biden.
Speaker 3: That's weird exactly.
Speaker 14: And he needs to bring that manhole from out Salvador
Speaker 14: and bring him home to his family. He knew he
Speaker 14: was wrong what he did. If they did that to
Speaker 14: his family, he be betting over backwards and stuttering over
Speaker 14: his words, trying to get a family hole.
Speaker 2: I thought they was trying to bring him.
Speaker 3: They not.
Speaker 6: He said he wasn't doing it.
Speaker 14: And if he told them, he said, he told them
Speaker 14: he's not bringing that manhole. He could make a pole
Speaker 14: call that.
Speaker 1: He's wanted to, but he's a lot of course, he
Speaker 1: can all right, well you got it you good, I
Speaker 1: got it. Make sure you got it all out. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys, wee you too, Thank you for calling. All right,
Speaker 1: that's get it off your chests. We do that every morning.
Speaker 17: Man.
Speaker 1: Anytime you want to vent, you can call up here
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Speaker 1: and tell us why you blessed, you can do that too,
Speaker 1: every morning on The Breakfast Club. Now we got the
Speaker 1: latest with Lauren coming up next.
Speaker 7: We do so Lisa Hill and Mary J. Blige, the
Speaker 7: five million dollar lawsuit.
Speaker 1: Oh lord, they're still going at I talk to me,
Speaker 1: is still going at Mary.
Speaker 2: Don't give a damn dish.
Speaker 7: Mary's team has not responded to me, but I did
Speaker 7: talk to me yesterday and she she watched the segment
Speaker 7: that we did and she wanted to clear.
Speaker 6: Up some things.
Speaker 7: Okay, So we're gonna get into that first thing in
Speaker 7: the latest.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 1: It's the world's most dangerous morning to show, The Breakfast.
Speaker 5: Club, The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Charlamagne to God, just hilarious, envious out what Lauren Leroe says,
Speaker 1: and it is time for the ladies with Lauren lawn.
Speaker 2: Be coming a straight fast?
Speaker 3: Did she gets them to somebody that knows somebody detail.
Speaker 2: I'm a long girl that knows a little bit about everything.
Speaker 3: She'd be having the latest on.
Speaker 5: The latest with Lauren la Rosa.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have sometimes you have details, sometimes you have
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything.
Speaker 5: It's the latest on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: Talk to me, all right, y'all.
Speaker 7: So I told you that he was going to get
Speaker 7: something straight when it came to this, me to hill In,
Speaker 7: Mary J. Blige, five million dollar LOSSU Ravado?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 7: So I spoke to me to hill In and she
Speaker 7: wanted to make clear Charlemagne. You would ask some questions
Speaker 7: about why five million dollars? And is Vado even making that?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: What I said, was he ever? I said?
Speaker 1: Has he ever made that for camra On when he
Speaker 1: was signed the camera on? Did he ever make that
Speaker 1: for Calid when he was signed with cald What? What
Speaker 1: made them project five million dollars for? All right?
Speaker 4: Well, before y'all get to that, I didn't want to
Speaker 4: say anything yesterday because everybody knew who this name was.
Speaker 2: But who is Vado?
Speaker 4: Because I thought y'all was mistaken Vito's name Forravado. Vito
Speaker 4: was a singer. Don't play with him, put some respect
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 7: But Noo is really a good singer. Yeah, like you
Speaker 7: going viral online, I know that's time. I love you
Speaker 7: the singer and Yo, he gonna tank R and B
Speaker 7: money album and on it.
Speaker 6: You would enjoy him. But when is a rapper from
Speaker 6: New York, you.
Speaker 3: Should have pulled some of his old records.
Speaker 4: Because I didn't know that Merji bliche had artists, and
Speaker 4: I didn't know you that I'll get you a battle song, Okay,
Speaker 4: you could listen to.
Speaker 7: Actually he has one with Mary J. Blige, which is
Speaker 7: we're gonna talk about it, Okay, okay. So according to
Speaker 7: Misa Hill, and she says, when you calculated numbers, Botto
Speaker 7: was writing for two Mary J. Blige albums as well
Speaker 7: as two tours that he was promised that he was
Speaker 7: going to go on with her that are now not
Speaker 7: happening allegedly.
Speaker 2: So Mysa says Mary J.
Speaker 7: Blige removed all of this allegedly and the number the
Speaker 7: five million dollars is not for her from them in
Speaker 7: anticipating album sales and it's not because they were supporting
Speaker 7: her label. It's because he's a super creative writer, vocal
Speaker 7: producer and ghostwriter. And the song, for instance, that he
Speaker 7: has with Mary J. Blige to Still Believe in The
Speaker 7: Still Believe In Love song went ten weeks number one
Speaker 7: on the chart. So basically she's saying that, like there
Speaker 7: were things happening, like he was supposed to be on tour,
Speaker 7: which would have equaled bookings, and he has like writings
Speaker 7: and different things that he's been doing and what was
Speaker 7: doing that he can't do anymore because allegedly Mary Jay
Speaker 7: is like, no, because you didn't come over.
Speaker 6: To the side.
Speaker 1: I appreciate all that information, but I still don't answer
Speaker 1: my questions. Did he ever make five million dollars the Cameron?
Speaker 1: Do you have to make five million dollars with Calum?
Speaker 1: What made him think he could make five million dollars?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: I do agree that if he is stuck in a contract,
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't be in anymore, and Mary is the
Speaker 1: reason for that.
Speaker 3: To marriage she let him out the contract that I
Speaker 3: agree with.
Speaker 7: Yes, and you know me so also wanted to make
Speaker 7: it clear that her and Mary J. Blige and their
Speaker 7: friendship of over thirty years that not end or fall
Speaker 7: out or wherever it is right now because of Vado,
Speaker 7: and she did not follow this lawsuit just because she's
Speaker 7: upset that they're no longer friends. To Charlemagne's point, it
Speaker 7: was about the business, and it was about the contract
Speaker 7: and it wasn't honored. And you know, if it was
Speaker 7: the other way around where he had a contract he
Speaker 7: was supposed to honor with Mary J. Blige or whatever,
Speaker 7: and he did not do that, they could have taken
Speaker 7: legal action as well.
Speaker 2: So you know that she just wanted to clear it.
Speaker 1: Saying, it's no permanent friends and enemies when it comes
Speaker 1: to business, But what.
Speaker 3: If you are already friends.
Speaker 1: It's easy to say that when people you're not really
Speaker 1: dealing with, when you're actually friends with a person.
Speaker 4: Is it, Yeah, it definitely can mess up. It's difficult relationships.
Speaker 4: It's definitely difficult.
Speaker 7: I prefer not to do business with friends with a friend, yeah,
Speaker 7: And if I do do it, I'd rather be like
Speaker 7: stand off, like maybe I'm just like I don't know something,
Speaker 7: because it gets a little tricky. But she also wanted
Speaker 7: to clarify the timeline on when they fell out. She
Speaker 7: says that she said, it's been a year that they
Speaker 7: have not spoken, and again she doesn't really know the
Speaker 7: exact reason why, but there's a ton of different things
Speaker 7: that have happened within that year. She said, Jess, she
Speaker 7: heard you say that you saw them at the strength
Speaker 7: of a woman content in twenty four and she wanted
Speaker 7: to make it clear. She alleges that during that time,
Speaker 7: marriage a Blige wasn't even speaking to her because she released,
Speaker 7: you know, a collaboration.
Speaker 2: Of her own.
Speaker 3: What's trying to relax.
Speaker 4: It's so much going on, and I didn't realize that
Speaker 4: she would talk directly to me while all this is happening,
Speaker 4: peopuld be listening.
Speaker 2: I think she just wants to clear things up because
Speaker 2: even though you.
Speaker 4: Realize that they weren't they literally set on the panel together.
Speaker 4: But you know what, we don't know what's happening, right.
Speaker 4: That's just another example you don't know what people are
Speaker 4: really going through behind closed doors.
Speaker 2: Because I swear like it seemed.
Speaker 4: Like everything was fine, Like they were in the same rooms,
Speaker 4: we were behind stage together, and no, Mary not supposed
Speaker 4: to be like, oh I don't like that bitch, and
Speaker 4: you know me isposed don't like you know it wasn't
Speaker 4: given that energy. And these are two women that know
Speaker 4: how to govern themselves with or without drama, you know.
Speaker 3: But I tell you who don't give a damn about
Speaker 3: none of this Mary Jane.
Speaker 1: Okay, you do that video that you sent me yesterday
Speaker 1: with Mary and.
Speaker 3: Just like sing the damn songs I can get about here.
Speaker 3: If you think Mary care about any of this.
Speaker 7: Crazy Ryan got nothing from the side I've been trying, y'all,
Speaker 7: is Jane.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think that's what I said.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, let's see with that Jay Sam. I can't
Speaker 7: believe we don't know the sh Yeah, I know. I
Speaker 7: never thought about it.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I never heard nobody ask that before. What
Speaker 4: is the j because you know how weezy f he
Speaker 4: always he changed the FS for something different every song.
Speaker 4: Mary Jane so perfect.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that is the update there. But yeah, the lawsuit
Speaker 7: is still ongoing. But she didn't want to clear up
Speaker 7: those few things. Basically, she says, stop playing with you know,
Speaker 7: artists and creative charlagage because you don't know what's in
Speaker 7: their pockets.
Speaker 3: I know it's not, but that's why I'm asking the question.
Speaker 1: But you know what, you know what That's why the
Speaker 1: bottom Did the guy say anything yet? No, this is
Speaker 1: nothing personal. The bottle Bittle has always been a cool,
Speaker 1: solid individual. I'm just from business perspective. When I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about the business, I think about Cam, I think about Caln.
Speaker 3: Did he ever make Cam five million dollars? Did he
Speaker 3: ever make Callum five million dollars?
Speaker 13: So?
Speaker 1: What would you know make them feel like? What would
Speaker 1: why would they project that he could make them?
Speaker 5: For me?
Speaker 3: I'm just asking, That's why I'm asking asking questions.
Speaker 2: Well, do we have a song, because I'm going to
Speaker 2: identify bottle Mary J.
Speaker 6: Blige song that bottle is on.
Speaker 3: I may have heard it.
Speaker 4: You hear something you don't even know. You don't put
Speaker 4: the name to the face.
Speaker 3: And that's why it sucks to be an artist.
Speaker 1: You've been mentioning a bottle for the last three days,
Speaker 1: but not one goddamn record.
Speaker 3: Play yeah, and they hae no record?
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: Let me see you. Well, we don't have nothing.
Speaker 3: Just sitting here.
Speaker 6: I didn't mean to do that. Shuts me out. You
Speaker 6: want me to scratch scratch too?
Speaker 3: I just sitting here.
Speaker 2: Come on, get with it.
Speaker 1: We got front page news coming up next with Morgan
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Speaker 1: what's happening? Can I do two NBA playoff scores first?
Speaker 3: Morgan? Okay, that's last night.
Speaker 1: The Rockets beat the Warriors one thirty one to one
Speaker 1: sixteen and the Los Angeles Lakers Timberwolves in five. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves beat the Los Angeles Lakers in five games.
Speaker 1: Yesterday Lebron James and Lucas sitting they ass at home,
Speaker 1: and I'm laughing my ass off because I don't know
Speaker 1: if this.
Speaker 3: Was real or now.
Speaker 1: But there was a picture of Ronnie James and he
Speaker 1: posted missing the beach, and Anthony Edwards Leftacama and said,
Speaker 1: I'm about to I'm gonna send you and your daddy
Speaker 1: home there early he did Timberwolves in five.
Speaker 3: Okay, that is out. Well, we got Morgan all right, y'all.
Speaker 10: So former Vice President Kamala Harris is criticizing President Trump's
Speaker 10: tariff policies. In her first major public remarks since leaving
Speaker 10: the White House now, Harris delivered a keynote address at
Speaker 10: a gala for Emerged America in San Francisco, California, yesterday,
Speaker 10: where she said people are describing the recent months as
Speaker 10: absolute chaos. She spoke about current leadership, the current administration,
Speaker 10: and said that the country belongs to we the people,
Speaker 10: not those in power. Let's take a listen to former
Speaker 10: Vice President Kamala Harris's comments at Emerged American.
Speaker 18: The American people deserve leaders who make their lives better
Speaker 18: and make our country stronger. But sadly, we have seen
Speaker 18: quite the opposite over these past few months.
Speaker 6: This country is ours.
Speaker 18: It doesn't belong to whoever.
Speaker 6: Is in the White House.
Speaker 18: It belongs to you, It belongs to us, It belongs
Speaker 18: to we the people.
Speaker 1: She's absolutely right, absolutely right. But when the media doesn't care,
Speaker 1: they don't care. Because I wasn't home yesterday, so I
Speaker 1: didn't see any cable news. But was that speech ad anywhere?
Speaker 1: I think, I don't believe that I see it on
Speaker 1: social media.
Speaker 3: I see it on cable news.
Speaker 2: Her first bee since I was like, oh, what did.
Speaker 3: I remember you telling us it was gonna happen. Morgan, Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: no it was not.
Speaker 10: It was not televised, but so yeah, I did have
Speaker 10: to go looking for it. So what you're saying is
Speaker 10: that that's something that more people should have saw, more
Speaker 10: people should have heard when the.
Speaker 1: Media don't care, they don't care because I did not
Speaker 1: see that speech nowhere, and it sounded like it was
Speaker 1: a good speech.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna watch it in full later.
Speaker 10: So yeah, the former VP, she did say that the
Speaker 10: tariffs that Trump has imposed are clearly inviting a recession,
Speaker 10: referring to what she now calls the greatest man made
Speaker 10: economic crisis in modern presidential history. Now elsewhere or meanwhile,
Speaker 10: on Capitol Hill, yesterday I was out there. Democratic lawmakers
Speaker 10: gathered for remarks on the steps of the US Capitol
Speaker 10: for an event that marked Trump's one hundred days of
Speaker 10: what they call chaos.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 10: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke alongside House Minority Leader
Speaker 10: King Jeffries. Georgia Senator Rafael Warnock, Delaware Senator Lisa Rochester,
Speaker 10: and others also spoke. Let's take a listen to Georgia
Speaker 10: Senator Rafael Warnock's comments.
Speaker 17: This is the worst first one hundred days that this
Speaker 17: country is seen in a very very long time. And
Speaker 17: so know that as we fight on the inside, we
Speaker 17: need you to fight on the outside, and we will
Speaker 17: prove once again that this is the United States of America.
Speaker 17: And at the end of the day, it's the people
Speaker 17: who have the last word.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So, Delaware Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester, who is only one
Speaker 10: of two black senators, Okay, real quick, just you know,
Speaker 10: plugs that real quick in the Senate.
Speaker 6: And the other one is here in Maryland. Hey, hey,
Speaker 6: also Brooks.
Speaker 10: So Lisa, Delaware Senator Lisa bent Rochester said that she
Speaker 10: has a message for Republicans across the aisle, and here's
Speaker 10: what she had to say in her comments on the steps.
Speaker 2: When I first came in, the word was unprecedented.
Speaker 13: But now the words are uncertain, chaotic, confused, and corrupt.
Speaker 3: Those are the words. And so to our colleagues on.
Speaker 13: The other side of the aisle, I say, on this
Speaker 13: one hundred and first day, there is an adage the
Speaker 13: truth shall set you free, the truth shall shut you free.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so what do you guys think the first one
Speaker 10: hundred days? It seems like the country is still divided
Speaker 10: more divided than ever. And is it more of the
Speaker 10: same as you're seeing from Dems or do you actually
Speaker 10: see that there is some there is some galvanizing, there's
Speaker 10: some fight there.
Speaker 6: What do you think, Chug May No, I.
Speaker 1: Still don't see no galvanizing and I still don't see
Speaker 1: no fight. But the reality also is, man, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have time for division. And the reason we
Speaker 1: don't have time for division right now is because this
Speaker 1: is America. Regardless of who's in the White House, everything
Speaker 1: that's happening, Uh, you know, everything that's happening in regard
Speaker 1: to this administration is going to impact all American people.
Speaker 1: When the shelves are empty, it don't matter if you
Speaker 1: Democrat are Republican. You know, when people are losing their
Speaker 1: jobs and the economy is bad, it don't matter if
Speaker 1: you Democrat are Republican.
Speaker 3: Everybody is going to suffer. So you know, y'all can
Speaker 3: sit there and keep you.
Speaker 1: No pointing the finger and saying, oh are you Democrat Republican?
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, if everybody broke,
Speaker 1: that's going that's what's really gonna matter.
Speaker 7: You know who kind of just said that about one
Speaker 7: hundred days Nelly what Nelly said. He just said he
Speaker 7: looking at the glasses half full. He's trying to stay positive.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of I don't even know why you
Speaker 3: bought Nelly into the conversation.
Speaker 2: Because I saw it this morning and I was like,
Speaker 2: it's luten.
Speaker 1: Nelly, But I have no idea because he has no
Speaker 1: idea what Nelly was on Fox News.
Speaker 7: He gave a comment to Fox News and he said
Speaker 7: he's looking at the glasses half fool because that's the
Speaker 7: type of guy he is, and he's staying positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you really don't have no choice.
Speaker 1: You really don't have no choice but to remain optimistic.
Speaker 1: But you still got to deal with the reality of life,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And the reality of life
Speaker 1: is I don't care what your political party is when
Speaker 1: your economy's back period.
Speaker 10: All right, Well, let me just get into my last
Speaker 10: story real quick. Elon Musk may be stepping away from
Speaker 10: the Trump administration. There's no official announcement that he made,
Speaker 10: but yesterday during the cabinet meeting, he did indicate that
Speaker 10: it was an honor to serve. He tout it finding
Speaker 10: one hundred sixty billion dollars of government waste and predicted
Speaker 10: more accomplishments for the White House moving forward. Also keeping
Speaker 10: in mind that he is just a special government employee,
Speaker 10: so his days are numbered anyway, he was only allotted
Speaker 10: one hundred and thirty days. Now, Trump told Musk it's
Speaker 10: unfair that he's been treated the way that he has,
Speaker 10: and must responded, well, they do like to burn my cars,
Speaker 10: which is not great. And that's a reference to the
Speaker 10: ongoing acts of vandalism involving Tesla vehicles.
Speaker 6: Of course, he has s did to take.
Speaker 10: Quite a loss as being involved with this administration through Tesla,
Speaker 10: not so much the used ones.
Speaker 6: But you know, this is not a good look.
Speaker 1: So if you did find all his money in ways,
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do with the money? Remember remember remember
Speaker 1: when they was touting those five thousand dollars stimulus checks
Speaker 1: they was going to give the people if they found
Speaker 1: more ways, So what's up?
Speaker 10: I believe that all of this is going to go
Speaker 10: into the efforts of that supposed Well, this is what
Speaker 10: they're saying, at least, this is what Dems are saying,
Speaker 10: is that these tax breaks and all this money that
Speaker 10: you know, he's supposedly finding, it's going to be lying
Speaker 10: in the pockets of his billionaire buddies, or at least
Speaker 10: that's what the Dems are.
Speaker 3: I want to say something about the media again.
Speaker 1: Media has not been mentioning Elon Musk like that in
Speaker 1: recent weeks. Elon Musk, you know, hasn't even been seeking
Speaker 1: media like that. You haven't really seen them tweets. He
Speaker 1: was making all that noise with Doge earlier, and then
Speaker 1: it started impacting his business.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, his pocket and now.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, that's right, that's right. Now, he didn't win,
Speaker 3: thought he was exempt. Thought was that's right?
Speaker 6: Oh you thought I was fooling you? Okay, anyways, sorry,
Speaker 6: all right, y'all. That's your front face News.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Morgan now, thank you.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: When we come back the Icon Living, Carrie Washington will
Speaker 1: be joining us. She's got a new movie out called
Speaker 1: Shadow Force. It will be in Thetis Made Knife and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to her next on the World's
Speaker 1: Most Dangerous Morning Show.
Speaker 3: To Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 19: Warning everybody you see J n V, Jesse Larris, the
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Speaker 3: We got a special guest in the building, the Icon
Speaker 3: living Kerry Washington here. How are you kidding?
Speaker 9: Good?
Speaker 6: I'm happy to be here. Always good when I'm.
Speaker 9: With you all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's your energy like this morning?
Speaker 20: I feel good, I feel centered, I feel grateful. Yeah,
Speaker 20: I'm curious.
Speaker 3: Do you have an attention this morning? When you will go?
Speaker 20: I didn't state an intention when I woke up this morning,
Speaker 20: but I woke up with a lot of gratitude.
Speaker 3: Amazing, Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 6: What's the gratitude for?
Speaker 13: You know?
Speaker 20: I feel like this is going to sound so cliche,
Speaker 20: but I'm very aware lately. Maybe I'm trying to cultivate
Speaker 20: more awareness lately that as much as things are challenging
Speaker 20: in the world, Like I feel like the circumstances in
Speaker 20: the world are tough at the moment for a lot
Speaker 20: of people, but also two things can be true. There's
Speaker 20: so much of my life that is truly answered prayers,
Speaker 20: Like I know when I wake up that the career
Speaker 20: I have, my marriage, my children, my health, that like
Speaker 20: I am living, I'm walking in prayers answered it.
Speaker 1: This is a time for I mean, it always never
Speaker 1: a time, but I want people to return back to
Speaker 1: God in this moment. I really because if you are
Speaker 1: a person of faith and you got to believe, everything
Speaker 1: truly does happen for a greater good, right, or at
Speaker 1: least for some reason that we may not understand.
Speaker 6: I do believe that I do. I think that.
Speaker 20: I try to remember though, also that that faith is
Speaker 20: not just about being like handing your power over that.
Speaker 20: For me, faith is about listening for God's will, which
Speaker 20: is also pointing me in the right direction toward action.
Speaker 20: Right Like faith is not just about like sitting back
Speaker 20: and saying like other people will do or somebody else
Speaker 20: will provide.
Speaker 6: It's also about like, how can you use me today?
Speaker 3: Lord?
Speaker 13: Right?
Speaker 20: How can I be of service today? How can I
Speaker 20: show up? Because faith isn't just about being inactive, It's
Speaker 20: about like really stepping into your purpose. You're calling your
Speaker 20: responsibility action?
Speaker 3: Is that your word for this season? Since you're in shadow?
Speaker 3: For I do you know?
Speaker 6: It's funny?
Speaker 20: I feel like the last time I was here may
Speaker 20: have been to talk about my memoir Thicker than Water,
Speaker 20: And it was when I was writing Thicker than Water,
Speaker 20: I was making this movie, and so there was like
Speaker 20: an awareness of a strength that was growing in my life,
Speaker 20: like an emotional strength, a spiritual strength.
Speaker 6: With my family.
Speaker 20: And I feel like the film allowed me to put
Speaker 20: that in my body, like in my cells, to be like,
Speaker 20: what does fierceness really look like feel like on me?
Speaker 6: Not that I know that.
Speaker 7: Thinking about back to that conversation, I can I've seen
Speaker 7: a movie, so I can kind of see what you're
Speaker 7: talking about. Yeah, but did you ever think that you'll
Speaker 7: be taking on because this is your first action film,
Speaker 7: you'd be taking on action in your career in a
Speaker 7: role like this.
Speaker 20: So, I mean, I'm just gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 20: I did an action film twenty years ago. I was
Speaker 20: Angelina Julie's best friend and mister Missus Smith and I
Speaker 20: got to like climb that mountain with Angelina and shoot
Speaker 20: some guns, and I was like.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 6: I loved it.
Speaker 2: Oh, so you loved it. But I never had a chance.
Speaker 20: Yeah until I then, I like, my career kind of
Speaker 20: took a different turn, and I was doing drama and
Speaker 20: TV and movies and comedy, but I'd never had a
Speaker 20: chance to do action again, and I really wanted to,
Speaker 20: so my production company, Simpson Street. When Scandal ended, I
Speaker 20: was like, we need to find a great action film,
Speaker 20: and when I read this one, I was like, this
Speaker 20: is it because I feel like my favorite action films
Speaker 20: are the ones where you know why the explosions are
Speaker 20: happening right where you care about the characters, where there
Speaker 20: are real emotional stakes, and so I felt like to
Speaker 20: have a big This film is like a crazy, big ass,
Speaker 20: splashy action adventure.
Speaker 6: But at its heart, it's about love.
Speaker 20: It's about family, It's about the sacrifices you make for
Speaker 20: the people that you love the most. It's about what
Speaker 20: it means to be a parent, and I think most
Speaker 20: parents know what it feels like to be like I
Speaker 20: would go to the ends of the earth to protect
Speaker 20: this child.
Speaker 6: But if you are a trained mercenary.
Speaker 7: Like my character and they kill people for a living,
Speaker 7: what does that look like to really do whatever it
Speaker 7: takes to protect your little black boy Joy? Yea, what
Speaker 7: was the training at this point in your career for
Speaker 7: this action film versus that first action film.
Speaker 20: I don't even remember for the training for that one,
Speaker 20: And you know, maybe because I'm older or just it
Speaker 20: was so new for me.
Speaker 6: But this was intense.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 20: I mean there was a lot of just weightlifting and
Speaker 20: pilates even just to get in shape to be able
Speaker 20: to learn the choreography. And then there was stunt training
Speaker 20: and weapons training because we're not just shooting guns where
Speaker 20: loading guns, were cleaning guns, where there was the fight choreography.
Speaker 20: I mean it was hours and hours of training.
Speaker 3: Is you know a bus your gun before? No?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, I mean I had done a little bit,
Speaker 20: but I really and on all different kinds of guns
Speaker 20: and I'm a really good shot.
Speaker 3: Did to make you want to own one?
Speaker 20: It didn't make me want to own one, but it
Speaker 20: made me grateful that I could use it if I
Speaker 20: needed to.
Speaker 2: Definitely, Yeah, was that ever challenging? What part of it
Speaker 2: was ever challenging?
Speaker 20: The shooting was not challenging. Weirdly, it was weird like
Speaker 20: that it came. I mean, I have a one of
Speaker 20: our targets that I'm framing for my office that I
Speaker 20: got like a bullet in each eye, like crazy. I
Speaker 20: don't know why I'm such a good shot, but I'm
Speaker 20: I'm not complaining. I think the physical, like learning the
Speaker 20: martial arts, especially because a a lot of my fights.
Speaker 6: Were with people much bigger than me.
Speaker 20: So to learn how to fight Omarci, who plays my
Speaker 20: husband in the film, who's the actor of many of
Speaker 20: You may love him from Lupin or Lupin if you're
Speaker 20: saying it the French way, but he's so much taller
Speaker 20: than me, and so to figure out, like what is
Speaker 20: my fight approach to be able to take him on
Speaker 20: was fun.
Speaker 1: Hard, I'll be honest with you, sounds very tiring, like
Speaker 1: what would the recovery process likes.
Speaker 7: A press while you're yeah at all, But I loved it.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's it was.
Speaker 20: It was useful to have a husband at the you know,
Speaker 20: my husband who was a former professional athlete, to be
Speaker 20: able to kind of help me through some of that.
Speaker 6: But I love that.
Speaker 20: I love challenging myself physically, and I love working out.
Speaker 20: I love getting into the body of the character. So
Speaker 20: it was exhausting, but I.
Speaker 6: Also felt, I don't know, I was really proud.
Speaker 20: That when my kids would get up on a Saturday morning,
Speaker 20: they would come downstairs and see mommy like with the
Speaker 20: boxing gloves on, kicking ass and the driveway with my trainer,
Speaker 20: Like there was something really exciting about that.
Speaker 3: The role, like this help you to express your shadow
Speaker 3: side war.
Speaker 6: I think so.
Speaker 20: I definitely like i've I think my go to personality.
Speaker 20: I'm much more of a lover than a fighter. I'm
Speaker 20: not a person who likes to argue. I'm not really combative.
Speaker 6: I'm not.
Speaker 20: I'm not avoidant, but I'm definitely not an aggressive person.
Speaker 20: So this did help me tap into a level of
Speaker 20: anger and aggression and courage more than anything.
Speaker 3: Ooh, courage. That's by courage.
Speaker 20: Because I think when you put yourself in situations where
Speaker 20: you can get hurt, it requires you to face those
Speaker 20: fears and you know the It's funny. I was talking
Speaker 20: to Omar because he's French and our word courage comes
Speaker 20: from the French word kul, which means heart. So it's
Speaker 20: really about like having a strong heart, a capacity to
Speaker 20: challenge your heart.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because I was thinking about something earlier, like
Speaker 1: what do you think your characters have taught you that
Speaker 1: no human being our real life ever.
Speaker 20: I mean, I'm lucky because every time I play a character,
Speaker 20: I get to learn her greatest lessons. So it's almost
Speaker 20: like reincarnation in this lifetime, like I get to learn
Speaker 20: what she learns and then fold it into my life
Speaker 20: to move forward. A lot of times, what characters remind me,
Speaker 20: they remind me to be grateful, you know, Like for
Speaker 20: this film in Shadow Force, it's really about what it
Speaker 20: takes to protect the people you love from the systems
Speaker 20: that want to cause you harm, which I think is
Speaker 20: very relevant right now. But this couple, they used to
Speaker 20: be part of this spy unit. You know, they were
Speaker 20: trained killers together, they broke the rules, they fell in love.
Speaker 6: I got pregnant.
Speaker 20: So now we have to go on the run to
Speaker 20: protect our kid from the very unit that we used
Speaker 20: to be a part of, the Shadow Force unit. So
Speaker 20: for me, the film is about, like, when there are
Speaker 20: systems that don't want you to have freedom and love
Speaker 20: and joy, what do you do to fight those systems?
Speaker 20: And I think that's a great lesson to be reminded
Speaker 20: of right now. It's a great question for all of
Speaker 20: us to be asking ourselves right now. You know, Like
Speaker 20: I too, as a mom, want to protect my black
Speaker 20: boy joy. I want my son to hold onto his
Speaker 20: joy in the face of a world that may not
Speaker 20: be invested in his liberty and strength. And so that
Speaker 20: for the film, the film was a great reminder.
Speaker 6: Also these two mercenaries. You know, they have to separate.
Speaker 20: I kind of back off from the family to try
Speaker 20: to protect them from Afar, and Omar plays the dad.
Speaker 6: It's this beautiful.
Speaker 20: It's such a perfect date movie because the action is
Speaker 20: beast but Omar also plays He's doing the primary parenting
Speaker 20: of the dad, and that image of a black father
Speaker 20: who's so like locked in and present is so beautiful
Speaker 20: in a film. But part of what they learn is
Speaker 20: about partnership. Like, if you're lucky enough to have a
Speaker 20: partner in parenting, you are so much stronger when you
Speaker 20: lean into that partnership. And in that partner could be
Speaker 20: your spouse, it could be your sister, it could be
Speaker 20: your mother, it could be your stepdad, it could be
Speaker 20: whoever is part of that village. But leaning into that
Speaker 20: partnership in parenting.
Speaker 6: Is also a gift.
Speaker 20: So I think I walked away from the film so
Speaker 20: grateful for my partner, for my kids, for our safety,
Speaker 20: for our willingness to fight for our joy no matter
Speaker 20: what's happening in the world.
Speaker 19: Hi, we got more with Kerry Washington when we come back,
Speaker 19: don't move.
Speaker 3: It's to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 19: Good morning, everybody, It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarius, Charlamagne, the
Speaker 19: Guy we Are the Breakfast Club. Lauren la Roast is
Speaker 19: here as well. Was still kicking it with Carrie Washington.
Speaker 7: Lauren the first scene that stood out to me where
Speaker 7: I was like, I think this is what I'm feeling.
Speaker 7: I'm feeling like she's fighting the fact that like this
Speaker 7: is a good man and he loves your son and
Speaker 7: you as much as you think he does.
Speaker 3: Just let him do it.
Speaker 7: Oh, you got it, girl. Y'all were at the gun
Speaker 7: range and.
Speaker 2: Don't don't give no damn more.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, yeah, y'all and y'all y'all had the back
Speaker 7: and forth there, yeah, and you left and his shot
Speaker 7: was perfect, and I was like, man, it talked about
Speaker 7: a lot about how men have to sacrifice in family
Speaker 7: and relationship versus how women have to do it and how.
Speaker 12: We feel it.
Speaker 20: Yes, and now we come together because you really kind
Speaker 20: of twisted the gender norms in this film where the
Speaker 20: woman is out there working protecting from Afar, trying to
Speaker 20: you know, not just bring home the bacon, like bring
Speaker 20: home the dead bodies to protect this family. But he's
Speaker 20: even though he's badass and strong, he's also like the
Speaker 20: more sensitive parents.
Speaker 6: He's like really present.
Speaker 20: I was talking to my girlfriends, like, to me, there
Speaker 20: is nothing sexier than watching a man be a good dad.
Speaker 6: It is just like so beautiful.
Speaker 20: So I just love that we're kind of playing in
Speaker 20: those gender norms and asking people to challenge your idea
Speaker 20: of even what family looks like today.
Speaker 7: Did that cause any conversations for you at home with
Speaker 7: your family of like, Okay, here are some things that
Speaker 7: you know I want to I don't know, let you do.
Speaker 7: Let you I'm gonna I'm gonna lean and allow you
Speaker 7: to do. Because that was like the biggest thing is.
Speaker 20: Like, yeah, I don't know that the film caused me
Speaker 20: to have those conversations in my marriage. But I think
Speaker 20: one of the reasons why the film really resonated for
Speaker 20: me is because I do really understand the value of
Speaker 20: the partnership that I can and I really do have.
Speaker 20: You know, I love parenting with my husband. You know,
Speaker 20: I love our marriage and I love how we are
Speaker 20: a team with these kids, and both are really important.
Speaker 20: Like to cultivate the time to just be a couple
Speaker 20: and then to cultivate the time to pour into the
Speaker 20: family too.
Speaker 6: All of that is just so important.
Speaker 20: So when I read the script, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 20: this just feels so good to see black love portrayed
Speaker 20: in this way black power like they are so badass,
Speaker 20: but also to see black love sort of explored in
Speaker 20: this way.
Speaker 1: You play so many different roles, like when you go home,
Speaker 1: how do you remain rooted?
Speaker 3: And who Carrie Washington is.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I have rituals that I do at the end
Speaker 20: of the day, like a lot of times, you know,
Speaker 20: a lot of times I'll play a character, for example,
Speaker 20: who's married to somebody else, right, And so for me,
Speaker 20: when I take off my wedding ring and put it
Speaker 20: back on at the beginning of the end of the day,
Speaker 20: that's a small ritual.
Speaker 6: That grounds me and who I am.
Speaker 20: So it's such a big part of who I am
Speaker 20: and how I walk in the world. And I just
Speaker 20: I have like ways that I close out the day
Speaker 20: because in the beginning of my career I used to
Speaker 20: try to live in these characters all day long. But
Speaker 20: when you get married and have kids, You're like, I
Speaker 20: don't need to go home and be sharing my shadow
Speaker 20: self with people that don't.
Speaker 6: Deserve that or need that. So I try to.
Speaker 20: Really create containers you know, some of that has to
Speaker 20: do with the hair and the makeup. When I take
Speaker 20: off the costume, I just try to leave what needs
Speaker 20: to be left there. It's not always perfect. There's you know,
Speaker 20: I'm a person who thinks a lot about the work
Speaker 20: even when I'm not at work. But I do try
Speaker 20: to make sure that I'm as present as I can
Speaker 20: be with my family because they deserve that.
Speaker 3: Have you ever bought a home and called you?
Speaker 5: You mane?
Speaker 3: Their own name?
Speaker 2: Characters?
Speaker 3: The characters now, yes, Olivia.
Speaker 4: No, no, okay no no no.
Speaker 1: I feel like I got to say gradulations to you too,
Speaker 1: because the six Triple Late received the Congressional Medal.
Speaker 3: Yes, honor.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like the Netflix series, Nicole Avon
Speaker 1: and Tyler Perry, I feel like that amplified that story.
Speaker 2: That was our goal.
Speaker 20: You know, when when Tyler and Nicole came to me
Speaker 20: with that project.
Speaker 6: It was so clear to us that this story.
Speaker 20: Needed to be told because these women needed to be celebrated,
Speaker 20: and that the most important thing was that we made
Speaker 20: a movie that really resonated with people so that no
Speaker 20: one would ever forget these women existed and what they did,
Speaker 20: the sacrifices they made for this country and the courage
Speaker 20: they had to do what they did. So the fact
Speaker 20: that it like broke records, it was Tyler's biggest film
Speaker 20: ever on Netflix, that fifty million people watched it in
Speaker 20: the first few months, Like it was just an insane
Speaker 20: success for the platform. And I'm really proud of that
Speaker 20: because what that says to me is that at a
Speaker 20: time when our history is so under attack, that that
Speaker 20: is a story that cannot be taken away from us,
Speaker 20: and that we understand our role to do good and
Speaker 20: to make the world a better place, and that that
Speaker 20: has been a part of the history of this country forever.
Speaker 1: That feels psychologically to see the same administration has taken
Speaker 1: so much from us to also reward the six triple late.
Speaker 20: I don't know if it was this administration that made
Speaker 20: that decision or if it happened prior to I just
Speaker 20: ought to speak at yeah, yeah, yeah, But I would
Speaker 20: just say, whoever gives them their flowers, they deserve their flowers.
Speaker 20: It doesn't make me say that the other decisions they're
Speaker 20: making are okay, right, Like they don't get a pass
Speaker 20: because they've done this one thing. These women deserve to
Speaker 20: be honored and celebrated despite whoever is in power at
Speaker 20: any time, and.
Speaker 7: Then the NAACP Image of work moments. But thank you
Speaker 7: to Tyler Perry. Congratulations, I'll Standing Actress in a Motion
Speaker 7: Picture for us, and.
Speaker 20: Then we also won Best Picture, which was so proud
Speaker 20: as an executive producer of that film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the movie was perfectly cast. It to oh my god,
Speaker 1: all those girls.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 20: As a producer, I was really proud to be introducing
Speaker 20: all of that young talent, all those incredible young black
Speaker 20: actresses to the world.
Speaker 6: They were so.
Speaker 20: Amazing and in shadow force too. I mean Jalil As
Speaker 20: a producer, when we audition Omar and I auditioned Julia,
Speaker 20: who plays our son in the film, I mean, he
Speaker 20: like steals the movie. He's so adorable and lovable and
Speaker 20: he has to be right because every explosion, every kick,
Speaker 20: every punch is for him, so you have to fall
Speaker 20: in love with him, and he's so good. And then
Speaker 20: method Man's in the film to find Joy. We were
Speaker 20: lucky we got her before her fancy Oscar. But the
Speaker 20: cast is incredible. It's stacked.
Speaker 2: I love Yeah, Graduat.
Speaker 7: I wanted to ask you when the NAACP Image of
Speaker 7: word moment happened where you think Tyler Perry again, and
Speaker 7: then he posted online talking about how that brought him
Speaker 7: to tears. Y'all talked after. I'm sure was it an
Speaker 7: emotional conversation.
Speaker 20: It was because again, like we don't you know, we
Speaker 20: had just made this film to give flowers to eight
Speaker 20: hundred and fifty two women in heaven and three who
Speaker 20: were still with us, to honor their sacrifice and their service.
Speaker 20: And he was like, I'm so grateful that you take
Speaker 20: that you took the time to give me my flowers
Speaker 20: now right, we can't wait for people to go to
Speaker 20: say how great they are. We need to let people
Speaker 20: know in the real And I didn't. I just didn't
Speaker 20: know that I had thanked him twice.
Speaker 2: Going throughause, I blacked out.
Speaker 20: I really really did not think I was gonna win.
Speaker 20: Like I told Nandi to stay home, like you gotta
Speaker 20: come to this baby, Like I knew. I knew that
Speaker 20: Cynthia Rivo was winning that award or she was nominated
Speaker 20: for an Oscar. I'm such a crazy, wicked fan, like
Speaker 20: I voted for Cynthia, so it was amazing. I really
Speaker 20: was shocked, Like like Beyonce Album of the year, shocked,
Speaker 20: like just couldn't believe that that had happened. Yeah, and
Speaker 20: then when I got up on stage, I blacked out,
Speaker 20: so I didn't remember having said him And the idea
Speaker 20: when I was walking off stage that I may not
Speaker 20: have said his name was so devastating to me.
Speaker 6: I just blew up the whole show.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that level of gratitude, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because I feel like a lot of people who don't
Speaker 1: do that. Why was that so important for you to
Speaker 1: do in that moment? Like I have to make sure
Speaker 1: I think that.
Speaker 20: I think because Tyler's been such a support for me
Speaker 20: throughout my career. Like at a time earlier in my
Speaker 20: career where I was like I'm done acting, I don't
Speaker 20: think I want to do this anymore, he called me
Speaker 20: to be in for Colored Girls Beautiful film, and I
Speaker 20: got to work with so many of my heroes, Whoopi
Speaker 20: Goldberg and Felicia Rashad and Loretta Devine and Janet Jackson
Speaker 20: and Anica Noni Rose a young Tessa Thompson. Like he's
Speaker 20: been there for me even when I've struggled, like in
Speaker 20: my career with Paparazzi and fame. He's provided safe spaces
Speaker 20: for me. He's a confidant, he's an advisor, he's a
Speaker 20: real friend. And to come to me with this role,
Speaker 20: I just thought this was an extraordinary gift to be
Speaker 20: able to play Captain Charity Adams, a woman who was
Speaker 20: so inspiring and so heroic. It really felt like the
Speaker 20: gift of a lifetime to be asked to step into
Speaker 20: this process with him and co produce with him.
Speaker 2: So I want.
Speaker 6: I just it was. I couldn't imagine not thinking him.
Speaker 19: Hi, we got more with Kerry Washington when we come back,
Speaker 19: don't move. It's to Breakfast Club, Good Morning.
Speaker 5: Wanting everybody.
Speaker 19: It's theej Envy, Jesse, Larius Charlomagne, the guy we are
Speaker 19: to Breakfast Club. Lorn La Ross here as well, was
Speaker 19: still kicking it with Kerrie Washington Charlomagne.
Speaker 1: But what are the biggest lessons you've learned as a
Speaker 1: producer as opposed to things you learned as a as
Speaker 1: a fad actor.
Speaker 6: I guess the thing I love most about producing is
Speaker 6: when you're.
Speaker 20: An actor, you really are sitting around waiting for somebody
Speaker 20: else to give you an opportunity to do what you
Speaker 20: love to do right, Like you're like, please, somebody hire me,
Speaker 20: somebody invite me to your party, Like I just want
Speaker 20: to play, I want to hang out.
Speaker 6: I want a seat at the table.
Speaker 20: But when you're a producer, it's that thing of like
Speaker 20: if you don't have a seat at the table, build
Speaker 20: your own table. Like I get to build my own
Speaker 20: table now, and because it's my table, it's the table
Speaker 20: I know I want to be at and I do
Speaker 20: not build a table for one. So to have a
Speaker 20: table where I know thousands of people are getting to
Speaker 20: work and to pursue excellence and chase their dreams because
Speaker 20: of what we're doing at Simpson Street, that's such a gift.
Speaker 20: So I think as a producer again, it's really about
Speaker 20: like how can I be of service, not just to
Speaker 20: find the projects that I want to do and tell
Speaker 20: the stories I want to tell for me, but also like,
Speaker 20: I'm so proud of our show Reasonable Doubt, which we're
Speaker 20: shooting in Atlanta right now, season.
Speaker 2: Three, Desperate Housewives, Yeah I make Yeah, So.
Speaker 20: We're really like we are creating lots of opportunities not
Speaker 20: just for me but for other people, and that I
Speaker 20: love to be of service.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask how do you pick what
Speaker 2: you get involved in or choose to do.
Speaker 7: Because the Desperate Housewives spin off, it's like twenty years later. Yeah,
Speaker 7: were you a fan of the show or like, how what's.
Speaker 20: The fact I love the show. I'm a huge fan
Speaker 20: of the show and that showrunner Mark Cherry. I just
Speaker 20: I thought it's just a great time. Like some of
Speaker 20: the issues of that show, the idea of like living
Speaker 20: a life of perfection where everything looks good, but underneath
Speaker 20: there are secrets and desires and complexities that we're not
Speaker 20: talking about. Like that still resonates. So I thought this
Speaker 20: was a good time to to think about how would
Speaker 20: that show exist now? Who would be in that cul
Speaker 20: de sac now? Because it looks different now than it
Speaker 20: did twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: I see people were not happy about that, though I
Speaker 1: saw some backlash. It was like, we don't want a
Speaker 1: new cast. I think they're trying to say we don't
Speaker 1: want to adversity. I think that's what it really says.
Speaker 7: I was thinking, I mean, some black neighbors, we'll see,
Speaker 7: we'll see.
Speaker 3: How do you even when you hear stuff like that,
Speaker 3: does it deter you in any way?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 3: Is that a project? I want to touch.
Speaker 20: I'm open to feedback. I think it's important to have
Speaker 20: your ear open to criticism. But I try to only
Speaker 20: give real power to people who are in the game
Speaker 20: right like I don't. I don't really take criticism to
Speaker 20: heart from people who I don't admire and respect.
Speaker 7: Dang, you you're from outside.
Speaker 20: I have to like you and like how you're living
Speaker 20: and right you're doing and what you're creating to feel
Speaker 20: like you have a say on what I do.
Speaker 6: But I'm very open. I'm a very collaborative person. I'm
Speaker 6: very open to feedback.
Speaker 20: I love getting like I love directors who challenge me,
Speaker 20: who make me be better, who ask tough questions.
Speaker 6: You just have to be careful with your energy and
Speaker 6: not give it to haters.
Speaker 3: So just the random folks on social media you like whatever,
Speaker 3: No I mean you.
Speaker 6: I again, I think you have to stay aware.
Speaker 20: I think anytime you just dismiss human beings is that's
Speaker 20: not healthy because everybody matters. Everybody's a child of God,
Speaker 20: People's voices matter, people count. But you just have to
Speaker 20: For me, as I'm weighing input, I have to make
Speaker 20: sure that I don't give my power away.
Speaker 1: Question when when you were doing scandal, right, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: scandal seemed very absurd.
Speaker 3: You think about the government.
Speaker 1: When you look at the government now, you like, what
Speaker 1: like shann couldn't even it's wild.
Speaker 3: What would do right now if she was part of
Speaker 3: his government.
Speaker 20: Which I don't think she would be part of this government.
Speaker 20: I don't think she would have you know, she wouldn't
Speaker 20: serve this administration.
Speaker 3: Even to be a spool who sat by the door
Speaker 3: like the that's.
Speaker 20: An interesting twist. Maybe Shonda would write that kind of version.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't. I really this administration is.
Speaker 20: Beyond what I can wrap my head around right now,
Speaker 20: and so I'm really really trying to pivot my focus
Speaker 20: on most days to how each of us can show
Speaker 20: up to participate in this process in ways that really matters,
Speaker 20: because I think we got here because too many people
Speaker 20: feel like they don't matter, like their voices didn't matter.
Speaker 20: I think if more people understood the power of their vote,
Speaker 20: we wouldn't be where we are.
Speaker 1: When did you first realize people were watching you not
Speaker 1: just as an actress, but as an as a leader.
Speaker 6: Oh that's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 20: I think I've always been a little bit of a
Speaker 20: you know, I started my activism work when I was
Speaker 20: a teenager. So I've always been a person who's kind
Speaker 20: of been an artist but also tried to be of service.
Speaker 6: But I don't know.
Speaker 8: I don't, I don't.
Speaker 6: I mean, even as you said it, I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: I guess people do think of me as a leader,
Speaker 6: but I don't. That's not first in my mind. I
Speaker 6: don't think about it in those terms. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Interesting, I would say, even politically like people they I
Speaker 7: don't know your character of course because of you know,
Speaker 7: living Pope, but even politically like people look to you
Speaker 7: to see like who you're talking about, why you're talking about,
Speaker 7: on what you're doing, what you're not doing. You got
Speaker 7: off an X at one point, I did, Yeah you
Speaker 7: took a break. I saw you post that as well.
Speaker 7: Are you back now?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, right no.
Speaker 7: But it's a synonymous with Olivia popeen who you know
Speaker 7: what I mean? The whole Scan show and.
Speaker 6: That was Twitter.
Speaker 20: Yeah, that was an ex. Twitter was made our show.
Speaker 20: Part of what it was the culture on Twitter and
Speaker 20: black Twitter. But X is a different place now. The
Speaker 20: neighborhood has changed. I don't want to live there. I'm
Speaker 20: not in that neighborhood anymore. I don't agree with the leadership.
Speaker 20: You want to talk about leadership like, I don't agree
Speaker 20: with the leadership there. I don't agree with how the
Speaker 20: conversations are happening.
Speaker 6: It's not okay.
Speaker 20: It's not as safe a place as it used to be,
Speaker 20: and it was never entirely safe, but now it's like
Speaker 20: the wild West, and there's a lot of misinformation, and
Speaker 20: so I don't want to be at that party.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you use the word safe because you don't
Speaker 1: seem to play it safe, but you have this like
Speaker 1: huge career. A lot of people in Hollywood want to
Speaker 1: play it safe because they don't want to impact, you know,
Speaker 1: their career.
Speaker 3: Why do you take that? I guess risk is the work.
Speaker 20: It's interesting because I even at my company, when we
Speaker 20: talk about culture within the company at Simpson Street, we
Speaker 20: often don't say, like we want to make sure this
Speaker 20: is a safe space. We try to say, we want
Speaker 20: to make sure this is a brave space, because it's
Speaker 20: not about safety. It's about truth and having the courage,
Speaker 20: being brave to say the things that need to be
Speaker 20: said so that you can move everybody forward. Safe is
Speaker 20: about like tiptoeing eggshells, working around people. It's like, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 20: be real, Let's tell the truth, Let's be kind. But
Speaker 20: I think clear is kind.
Speaker 3: What was there a brave story you want to tell
Speaker 3: right now?
Speaker 1: Especially being like I said, they keep they're taking a
Speaker 1: lot of things from it. So I feel like art
Speaker 1: is going to be the only way to educate and inform.
Speaker 20: I was just at the Brooklyn Artists Ball last night
Speaker 20: at the Brooklyn Museum and they were honoring Darren Walker,
Speaker 20: who's an incredible leader, and he was saying that artists
Speaker 20: hold such important meaning in the culture right now because
Speaker 20: artists are like a mirror.
Speaker 6: Up to society.
Speaker 20: I'm really proud of Shadow for us. I really I
Speaker 20: love this film. I feel like theaters are back, Like
Speaker 20: I'm so excited about Sinners. I'm obsessed with that film
Speaker 20: is so beautiful. I feel like this is another like
Speaker 20: really exciting film to see in theaters because the locations
Speaker 20: are gorgeous and it's not a lot of cgi Like
Speaker 20: this is real people doing real stunts, putting our bodies
Speaker 20: at risk. I'm excited to be in community with people
Speaker 20: telling stories about the power of black family and black love.
Speaker 20: And black parenting and black kids and and commit unity,
Speaker 20: you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then I'm starting a series Simpsons.
Speaker 20: Treet is producing a new series for Apple called Imperfect
Speaker 20: Women that we start in a couple of weeks. We're
Speaker 20: filming in LA So I'm really excited about that project
Speaker 20: to us with Lizzie Moss from Handmaid's Tale, and that's
Speaker 20: also really about like truth, you know.
Speaker 2: And booked and busy trying. I love that.
Speaker 20: And I'm excited that we're shooting in LA you know,
Speaker 20: because we need that after the fires. There's we really
Speaker 20: need for more production to be happening in Los Angeles.
Speaker 20: So I just finished doing a film there and now
Speaker 20: we're starting this series.
Speaker 1: Are you reprising your role as Alicia Masters? And fantastic film.
Speaker 6: I haven't been invited to.
Speaker 2: Manifestation, but you can put that out there.
Speaker 6: I do want to do more action films.
Speaker 20: I really feel like doing Shadow Force was so fun,
Speaker 20: and I think it's exciting to work in that way,
Speaker 20: to be to take on strength, not just intellectually and
Speaker 20: emotionally and spiritually, but physically.
Speaker 3: Got well. Thank you, Queen Carry Washington.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure when you pull up Shadow Forces in theaters.
Speaker 6: On May Night. All the badass.
Speaker 1: Okay, Mother's Day weekend, that is the that's that's what
Speaker 1: you need to take your mother to go see Shadow Force.
Speaker 3: Carrie, thank you for joining.
Speaker 6: Us, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Just a pleasure to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Yes, my son, Yes, yes, it's the world's most dangerous
Speaker 1: morning to show the Breakfast Club charlamagnea god, just hilarious,
Speaker 1: envious out But Lauren La Rosas and I got to
Speaker 1: shoot salute my guy, Abby the sandwich specialist from Newark,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. He's up here providing us a breakfast sandwiches
Speaker 1: this morning. Man, I told you about the good ass
Speaker 1: salmon burger I had, Yes you did. Yes, so Abby
Speaker 1: came up here.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to sank my team into one of
Speaker 2: them sandwiches.
Speaker 3: Okay, So Lauren Herry, what the latest we can eat?
Speaker 2: I got you.
Speaker 3: Lauren be coming a straight fast. She gets them from
Speaker 3: somebody that knows somebody get the detail.
Speaker 2: I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything.
Speaker 1: She'd be having the latest on you.
Speaker 5: The latest with Lauren La Rosa fact.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we have detailed, sometimes you have a little bit.
Speaker 5: Every time. Leader on the Breakfast Clubs talk to me.
Speaker 7: So last night the twenty second NBA season ended, Lebron
Speaker 7: James and Lakers took a loss to the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3: Three tonight.
Speaker 1: Lakers, Shakers, Breakers, Takers tem.
Speaker 7: Well this morning at following that game, hashtag he is
Speaker 7: forty has been trending.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 7: This has been trending because that is Lebron James's age,
Speaker 7: and every time the NBA season ends, Lebron James talks
Speaker 7: about what his future is going to look like. This
Speaker 7: time around, he said last night that he is undecided
Speaker 7: when it comes to retirement or not. So people are
Speaker 7: just going back and forth about whether he should retire
Speaker 7: because I know he said before that he was just
Speaker 7: waiting to be able to play a year or a
Speaker 7: season with his son. Now he's been able to play
Speaker 7: lebrony and people are like, hey, I think he you know,
Speaker 7: maybe he should sit down. He's still looking good, but
Speaker 7: maybe he shouldn't. People are going back and forth, Charlotte,
Speaker 7: what you think?
Speaker 3: What I mean? I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean Lebron can still play. I mean for me,
Speaker 1: it's put it like this, I'm forty six years old.
Speaker 1: I've been watching Lebron play what twenty one to twenty
Speaker 1: two seasons. Now I've seen more. I've seen more of
Speaker 1: what I saw yesterday. Like you know, I guess heartbreak
Speaker 1: than I have him at the top. And it's not
Speaker 1: fair to say, because you know, I watched Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: for thirteen years. Half of that he won championships. I
Speaker 1: watched Maggic Johnson for thirteen years. Half of that he
Speaker 1: was winning championships. Lebron has played.
Speaker 3: Much, much, much, much, much much longer.
Speaker 1: But I've seen him lose a lot, and I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of people eat on his watch. Still, you know,
Speaker 1: top five greatest NBA player of all time, but I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of people eat on his watch.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what he still has to prove
Speaker 3: at this point.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's still trying to chase that because he doesn't
Speaker 1: like that kind of conversation. Maybe he's still trying to
Speaker 1: chase some of those people I just named. But I
Speaker 1: don't think he has anything to prove. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't sit here and say he should retire because
Speaker 1: his game. Don't say that at all.
Speaker 7: A lot of the articles last night it out and
Speaker 7: I think some of these injuries are common just with
Speaker 7: the game. But a lot of them pointed out last
Speaker 7: night that he was limping out of the Crypto arena.
Speaker 7: His left leg was swollen from a needy leede collision.
Speaker 1: Here you wake up limping for no goddamn reason, okay,
Speaker 1: and have to run up and down the corn.
Speaker 4: Like French or something stretching. I've seen it, crazy Yilli.
Speaker 4: Even Charlamune coming in this money every morning, be like.
Speaker 2: I came out, Yes, he'd be doing that.
Speaker 4: I thought it was because he was on a spectrum
Speaker 4: and didn't tell us. Thought it was a little remedia
Speaker 4: at first.
Speaker 2: But no, it's literally is about to be fifty that's true.
Speaker 7: Well, if if Lebron James does opt into his option,
Speaker 7: which he has to do by June twenty ninth, or
Speaker 7: he becomes a free agent, he can return to the
Speaker 7: Lakers for twenty six and it'll be worth fifty two
Speaker 7: point six million dollars.
Speaker 1: If he does play for another year, I personally would
Speaker 1: like to see him going back to Cleveland for his
Speaker 1: last year and have his victory lap tour. And Cleveland
Speaker 1: got a really good team, so you know, you never know,
Speaker 1: like Cleveland got a really great team, right, like the
Speaker 1: know that I don't know if they don't win the
Speaker 1: championship this year, maybe somebody like Lebron can go there
Speaker 1: and help get them over the top. And it's easy
Speaker 1: to He'll be a free agency, they won't have to
Speaker 1: lose anything. So who knows well.
Speaker 7: In other sports news really quick so we can get
Speaker 7: to those salmon sandwiches. The Atlanta Falcons and their defensive
Speaker 7: coordinator Jeff Albridge have been fined following that print call
Speaker 7: that Jeff Albridge's son did to Shadoor Sanders over the
Speaker 7: NFL draft.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to jeff Arbridge apologizing.
Speaker 8: First of all, I like to publicly apologize to Shadar
Speaker 8: and the Sanders family for what occurred. Second of all,
Speaker 8: I want to publicly apologize to mister Blank, Terry Foutino,
Speaker 8: Ran Morris, and the entire Falcons organization. My actions, my
Speaker 8: actions have not protected confidential data, were inexcusable. My son's
Speaker 8: actions were absolutely inexcusable, and for that we are both
Speaker 8: deeply sorry. The NFL has taken action and I fully
Speaker 8: respect the punishment. We take full responsibility my son and myself,
Speaker 8: and we will not be appealing to find in any
Speaker 8: way going forward. I promised my son and I will
Speaker 8: work hard to demonstrate we are better than this. Again,
Speaker 8: I'm deeply sorry for our actions.
Speaker 3: You should have your son up to apologizing too.
Speaker 1: And furthermore, I'm taking money out all these accounts whatever
Speaker 1: I didn't save it up to him, trust funds and everything.
Speaker 1: This coming out your money, son, Okay, this quarter million,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay for this.
Speaker 7: So the Falcons will find two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
Speaker 7: while Jeff Albridge will have to pay one hundred thousand
Speaker 7: dollars in an edition for failing to prevent the disclosure
Speaker 7: of confidential information that was distributed to the club and
Speaker 7: advance of the NFL draft because that number his son
Speaker 7: was able to obtain because of those confidential documents. Now, question, Jess,
Speaker 7: what does a three hundred and fifty thousand dollars behind
Speaker 7: within look like in your household? Because my mom I
Speaker 7: would have been up there apologizing. She would have pulled
Speaker 7: me by my like you that.
Speaker 2: I would have to be a slave for the rest
Speaker 2: of my life.
Speaker 3: Pretty much.
Speaker 2: Yes, my mom is not paying that for me.
Speaker 4: My dad would not pay that for me, Like if
Speaker 4: it was my fault, that's such a big bill, Like
Speaker 4: that accumulates in the house, and it's my fault. I'm
Speaker 4: working the rest of my life to pay that and
Speaker 4: swoppens every day and I'm thirty three, But.
Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm not even joking, Like whatever trust fund
Speaker 1: he has put up for that little boy, that money
Speaker 1: should come out of that. It's like like whatever money
Speaker 1: he got put away for that little boy, if that
Speaker 1: little boy got money in his savings account, checking account,
Speaker 1: all of that got to come out to go to
Speaker 1: this fine. You got you a nice little car that
Speaker 1: you was driving, You're gonna have to sell that to
Speaker 1: anything you got valuable you got to get rid of
Speaker 1: until his dad.
Speaker 5: Is paid off.
Speaker 7: Daddy had a couple of dollars, so you know he
Speaker 7: was driving something nice. You know, you know he was
Speaker 7: not no more. Well, that is the latest, and make
Speaker 7: sure you got to check out the podcast The Latest
Speaker 7: with Learn the Rosa. Me and Brandon who's been sitting
Speaker 7: on the podcast, and we had a spirited discussion about
Speaker 7: this because you know, brand is into sports and some things.
Speaker 7: So make sure y'all check out the conversation over there.
Speaker 7: The Latest Woolen the Rosa. Anywhere you listen to your podcast.
Speaker 2: Heavy birthday to Victoria money and why am w Melly?
Speaker 3: So none of them were Mexican.
Speaker 4: No they're not. I'm just saying they're black. They like us,
Speaker 4: one is in jail, one is not.
Speaker 1: They like thee Yeah. Yeah, you know, we don't say
Speaker 1: happy birthday like we should. A birthday is Laura home
Speaker 1: girl birthday?
Speaker 3: Do birthday? Okay.
Speaker 2: I've heard her.
Speaker 4: Talk about Drew a couple of times, like we like
Speaker 4: Drew up here in front of the room.
Speaker 1: Maybe, well, today is also made for us the first
Speaker 1: day of mental health away in this month. So we
Speaker 1: need a young woman named Akisha Johnson to come to
Speaker 1: the front of the congregation.
Speaker 3: We would like to have a word with her. You'll see, okay,
Speaker 3: because that.
Speaker 2: Is yeah, that is messed up. Okay.
Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: If you're like into the breakfast Club and.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to know how you came up with them,
Speaker 9: don't hear.
Speaker 13: The name, because you mean.
Speaker 3: You get a bunch of donkeys.
Speaker 6: That is what Charlemagne.
Speaker 1: Because we live a life where we write are tongue
Speaker 1: based off who we may have seen, he never say anything.
Speaker 5: On the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 17: In the word of charlemagnea god he's a donkey.
Speaker 3: Cow man, Charlamagne, you've given donkey a day.
Speaker 5: To who now?
Speaker 1: Yes, donkey today for Thursday, May first is going to
Speaker 1: a thirty five year old Kentucky woman named Makisha Johnson.
Speaker 1: Now today is made first. And do you know what
Speaker 1: today is?
Speaker 3: It's the first day of Mental Health Awareness Month.
Speaker 1: Okay, drop on the clues, bumps for mental health away
Speaker 1: as we This month is dedicated to raising awareness, promoting education,
Speaker 1: and providing resources to support those struggling with mental health challenges.
Speaker 1: And that is what we are doing today with this donkey.
Speaker 1: We are raising awareness to those struggling with mental health issues.
Speaker 1: Because Makeisha is clearly struggling with mental health issues. Okay,
Speaker 1: she was a patient at a Kentucky hospital and she
Speaker 1: did something that a lot of people think about doing
Speaker 1: when the process at the hospital is taking too long.
Speaker 3: What do you mean, Uncle Sharlah.
Speaker 1: She did something that a lot of people think about
Speaker 1: doing when the process at the hospital is taking too long.
Speaker 3: Well, let's go to WDR you for the report. Please.
Speaker 21: A woman is under arrest in Louisville after reportedly choking
Speaker 21: and assaulting a U OFFL hospital nurse. Court records saying
Speaker 21: nurse was making her roalm Saturday afternoon, when thirty five
Speaker 21: year old Miikeisha Johnson allegedly attacked her.
Speaker 6: Plase Say.
Speaker 21: Footage of the incident shows Johnson choking the nurse, then
Speaker 21: slamming her to the ground, where she reportedly began hitting
Speaker 21: the nurse in the face.
Speaker 6: Officer Say.
Speaker 21: Johnson claims she was angry at the staff were taking
Speaker 21: too long to discharge her. Johnson was charged with assault
Speaker 21: of a healthcare provider, wanting endangerment and menacing.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. When you're ready to go, you're ready
Speaker 3: to go. Okay.
Speaker 1: We have all been part of the discharge process from
Speaker 1: the hospital in some way, shape or form, whether you've
Speaker 1: been the patient or whether you've been waiting with somebody.
Speaker 1: And yes, the hospital does drag their feet sometime. Okay,
Speaker 1: it is a hurry up and wait situation. Nothing is
Speaker 1: worse when you have to unexpectedly go to the hospital,
Speaker 1: like you know, you got to go to the eall
Speaker 1: like something that right with you, or the kids got
Speaker 1: a bone out of side gets so you gotta up
Speaker 1: and leave the house and you didn't plan to.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you be so.
Speaker 1: Ready to leave the hospital once they tell you nothing
Speaker 1: wrong or they fix what is wrong, but the hospital
Speaker 1: do be taken forever. But just because you think about
Speaker 1: choking somebody doesn't give you the right to do it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Escially, when this nurse wasn't doing anything but her job.
Speaker 1: Nurses out here working long hours, they're underpaid, they're stressed,
Speaker 1: and they always put their own health ever risk just
Speaker 1: to take care of our sick asses.
Speaker 3: Okay, they do not deserve to be attacked on the job,
Speaker 3: full stop.
Speaker 1: But also, if you're trying to speed up the process, Makisha,
Speaker 1: the quickest way to slow things down is by physically
Speaker 1: attacking the nurse. Okay, you're definitely not going home now,
Speaker 1: You're going to jail now. I'm not here to make
Speaker 1: excuses for her violences. Okay, what she did was wrong,
Speaker 1: but we have to know something was off with her mentally, right.
Speaker 1: You gotta know that there is a lot of things
Speaker 1: that are going to push people to the breaking point.
Speaker 1: In this day and time that we live in. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of things that are gonna make
Speaker 1: people snap. And it's because folks like Mekeisha are walking
Speaker 1: around with undiagnosed mental illnesses. Okay, a lot of folks
Speaker 1: out here underpression and they don't got no tools, no resources,
Speaker 1: no coping skills. They're not going to no therapy, they
Speaker 1: don't have no emotional outlets. They just have frustration and
Speaker 1: nowhere healthy to put it, and they end up projecting
Speaker 1: on people the way that Makisha projected onto this nurse.
Speaker 1: And that's not an individual problem. Okay, that just doesn't
Speaker 1: stand with Makisha, that's a societal problem. We don't take
Speaker 1: mental health seriously. We tell people just to man up
Speaker 1: or suck it up or you know, get it.
Speaker 6: What, suck it up?
Speaker 1: You know you were best eat because I could have
Speaker 1: tied all of that in with Kanye too, but I
Speaker 1: didn't because he's somebody else that we know is deal
Speaker 1: with mental health issues and people be telling him to
Speaker 1: suck it up. He did it literally, But we tell
Speaker 1: people to man up and get over it or just
Speaker 1: deal with it. Meanwhile, people out here exploding over little things, okay,
Speaker 1: and others have to pay the price like that poor nurse.
Speaker 3: So we need to get people help, get them therapy.
Speaker 1: I personally don't believe this young woman, Makisha Johnson needs
Speaker 1: to be in handcuffs but she does deserve to get
Speaker 1: the credit today for being stupid, so give her the
Speaker 1: biggest he huh. Yes, yo, this man said suck it
Speaker 1: up and people exploding over little things?
Speaker 4: Rightness was so much gay intention? Oh my god, guys,
Speaker 4: no album.
Speaker 3: But no, it is mental health aware.
Speaker 1: Thisess wants to let's, you know, pay attention to what
Speaker 1: with mental health awareness is all about? Okay, there are
Speaker 1: people out here struggling with all types of mental health
Speaker 1: challenges that they don't know what to do with. So
Speaker 1: let this be the month that you know, we should
Speaker 1: do it all the time, but we should alway be
Speaker 1: raising awareness and promoting mental health education and providing resources
Speaker 1: to people who need it.
Speaker 6: They gonna do that? Kane empathy?
Speaker 3: Am I gonna get empathy? Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: The reason I gave mckeisy Johnson donkey to day is
Speaker 1: because she's thirty five years old. At some point, you know,
Speaker 1: you know you shouldn't know better about it. You know
Speaker 1: you're not responsible for your trauma, but you are responsible
Speaker 1: for your healing.
Speaker 4: I mean, I hear you just because what I think
Speaker 4: you said something crazy. It's Samon Berger.
Speaker 3: Is trying to tell you dropping the bombs.
Speaker 4: For this banana put is banana putting.
Speaker 1: The banana banana put a duel out there abduling, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: out there everything.
Speaker 3: Is trying to tell you everything.
Speaker 4: Have me the sand sandwich I got, the one with
Speaker 4: cheese is some special sauce. I'm trying to tell you
Speaker 4: right out there in Newark, y'all.
Speaker 1: I was in Newark last week and I went to
Speaker 1: ay the Samewich specialist, and my guy Duel. I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: y'all gotta taste this, because y'all think I'll just be
Speaker 1: capping when I'd be telling you how amazing things.
Speaker 7: This is the guy who had caught up here and
Speaker 7: was like, you said you just gonna come to my
Speaker 7: spot and didn't come, and then you went that, oh, yes,
Speaker 7: that is.
Speaker 3: A fire trying to mean that Sam Burger hitting right. No, No,
Speaker 3: it's hits.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm saying, you's certainly right, Lauren. I told him
Speaker 1: put one to the side for you.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I want some banana put into. Well that's gone, it
Speaker 2: is you have too big mac.
Speaker 7: Listen the banana put in going up to it's no
Speaker 7: more banana put it.
Speaker 2: There's no more. Oh, he said, he got me don't
Speaker 2: worry about it. Don't worry about that. Just get a sandwich.
Speaker 8: Lauren.
Speaker 3: We got just fixed my mess coming up.
Speaker 1: It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 11: Come everybody, you know while we get till Baby it's.
Speaker 3: Real kill me help.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm all up in your mess. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna fix it, mix it, fix it, fix it, just
Speaker 2: gonna fix your mess because my advice is real.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning to show, The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Charlamagne to Godess hilarious. Nbia is out the day,
Speaker 1: but Lauren Lerosa is in. But it don't even matter
Speaker 1: because right now it's time for just fix my mess. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what Jess fixes people's mess. If you listen
Speaker 1: to her Carefully Reckless podcast. That's what she does on
Speaker 1: the Carefully Reckless podcast every week, and she does it
Speaker 1: here on The Breakfast Club every Thursday.
Speaker 2: Is well, hello, who's this?
Speaker 3: What's your question?
Speaker 22: All right?
Speaker 16: So my question is try to make it sure them
Speaker 16: guys for all those two years or whatever, and when
Speaker 16: I'm here, you know they were stopping for I want
Speaker 16: to talking and now it's like over from being a
Speaker 16: street guy a man job. So it's like I'm just
Speaker 16: picking up and LaBelle kinda. So my question is how
Speaker 16: long do you think.
Speaker 9: For a man while he's broke?
Speaker 4: You said, all right, so how you asked because you
Speaker 4: kind of went out a little bit, you said, how
Speaker 4: long should you take care of a man?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 2: Why he's broke?
Speaker 16: Yeah? How long you think? Like you should be done
Speaker 16: for a minion while he's see.
Speaker 4: That's that goes on the situation basically, like that's bye,
Speaker 4: that's whatever. The circumstances are, like you can't just put
Speaker 4: because I can't tell you when you should stop putting
Speaker 4: the bill for everything like this? He what does he
Speaker 4: want to do? Do you see him trying to get
Speaker 4: the job? Is he trying to make money some type
Speaker 4: of way? Is he trying to you know, launch a
Speaker 4: business or you know even a podcast something?
Speaker 2: What is he trying to do? Does he show you
Speaker 2: any So he's starting.
Speaker 16: A clothing line, but it's like it ain't really like
Speaker 16: growing good right now?
Speaker 2: So the closes trash is what you're saying, like he
Speaker 2: ain't really.
Speaker 3: Have to It's not you wouldn't you wouldn't.
Speaker 4: It's writing you this.
Speaker 15: I wear the promotion because I have a nice body,
Speaker 15: So I wear the promotion.
Speaker 2: I get him some time wearing.
Speaker 13: You.
Speaker 4: You only wearing it because you know you're standing behind
Speaker 4: your man like you know that's support and you want
Speaker 4: him to make the money. But you gotta be real
Speaker 4: with you something, because the clothes gotta be trash because.
Speaker 2: You are still footing the bill for a lot of things.
Speaker 4: You're taking care of him, so obviously somebody ain't buying
Speaker 4: the stuff off Jody.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. He's not able to.
Speaker 3: Not to do it.
Speaker 16: But y'all just stop.
Speaker 6: Get a nine to five.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, that's the thing everybody see.
Speaker 4: Social media makes it look easy for people to start
Speaker 4: their own businesses and things like that, but that that
Speaker 4: comes with the mindset. You need to have a mindset
Speaker 4: of a sale. First of all, you know how to
Speaker 4: be patient enough to take ls. You need to know
Speaker 4: how to run a business.
Speaker 3: You need to know. You know what I'm saying, you got.
Speaker 2: It's just certain things that.
Speaker 3: People financially before you started.
Speaker 4: Busing exactly exactly, because you need money to make money,
Speaker 4: especially when you have your own business. So he needs
Speaker 4: a damn job like he needs to work for somebody
Speaker 4: else before he can work for himself, right, yeah.
Speaker 13: So.
Speaker 9: Answer the question.
Speaker 1: You know it already sounds like you're tired, babes, So
Speaker 1: go ahead and throwing that tail, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and take a break from the relationship it ain't and
Speaker 1: like it ain't like a you know, a forever breakup,
Speaker 1: you know, because you love him.
Speaker 2: I feel like you love him.
Speaker 4: You're just tired and you're drained, and y'all not married,
Speaker 4: so you don't need to be there. You don't have
Speaker 4: any kids together, right, No, all.
Speaker 16: Right, let's take a break.
Speaker 9: That's to you where you need to be here and
Speaker 9: where I need.
Speaker 1: To be here, Yeah, because we both to do right now. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm not financially obligated to you.
Speaker 4: You're not married, Like I don't have to take care
Speaker 4: of you while you make it well, you know, while
Speaker 4: you get yourself together. If he wanted to go from
Speaker 4: ghost to James sat Patrick, he got to do it
Speaker 4: like a certain way, and that is not involving your money,
Speaker 4: because you need your money for your stuff, for your life.
Speaker 4: So take, yeah, take a break, let him figure itself out,
Speaker 4: and then y'all can reconvene when he get it together.
Speaker 16: All right, thank you, So don't belie my name now
Speaker 16: because maybe he can hear it.
Speaker 2: No, we wasn't bleeding it out anyway.
Speaker 3: I love you. That was just fix my mess.
Speaker 1: Make sure you listen to the Carefully Reckless podcast on
Speaker 1: The Black Effect. iHeart Radio podcast network. If you need
Speaker 1: more help getting your mess fixed, because just be fixing
Speaker 1: mess every Wednesday on her podcast.
Speaker 2: In the mornings. Look at him, he was about to
Speaker 2: not even know.
Speaker 3: But yes, Wenesday.
Speaker 4: Mornings, I fixed the mess on the eye Hard app
Speaker 4: under the Black Effect podcast, right, and then also on
Speaker 4: Thursday's Live if you call in, I can fix your
Speaker 4: mess on Breakfast.
Speaker 1: Club, that's right, So more just fix my mess when
Speaker 1: we come back. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: That's about me.
Speaker 2: For relationship problems, that's about me. If you need to
Speaker 2: beat your coworker's ass at about me.
Speaker 3: If your coworker need to beat.
Speaker 4: Your ass, call it up than you got to, Jess,
Speaker 4: and I'm here to fix your mess.
Speaker 3: Fix your mess.
Speaker 2: It's giving very much messy. Let me fix that.
Speaker 1: You asked me to walk more Dangerous Morning show to
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club Charlamagne to God jefs hilarious. DJ NBIA's out,
Speaker 1: but Laura Lerosas and we are here doing just fix
Speaker 1: my mess on this fine Thursday.
Speaker 3: Jess, good morning.
Speaker 2: What's your question?
Speaker 14: Was wrong? Yes?
Speaker 9: I would like to ask how to keep negativity people
Speaker 9: out your life and just keep your peace?
Speaker 2: Just it's simple, you know.
Speaker 4: Well I can't say it because it's easier said than done,
Speaker 4: but I keep negative people out of my life just.
Speaker 2: Not answering the phone. I don't go around people.
Speaker 4: You gotta surround yourself with, you know, positive vibes. I'm
Speaker 4: assuming because I'm positive for the most part. Ain't nothing
Speaker 4: wrong with a little negativity every now and then because
Speaker 4: everything can't be all peaches and sunshine and everything like that,
Speaker 4: and that builds character.
Speaker 2: Negativity kind of builds character a little bit.
Speaker 4: But yeah, just don't answer the phone. Just don't talk
Speaker 4: to people.
Speaker 2: Is it your friends, your friends, your family?
Speaker 11: Like?
Speaker 8: Who is it?
Speaker 6: Friends?
Speaker 9: And family? People that I thought that was really close to,
Speaker 9: that I trust that have been around for a long time,
Speaker 9: and they just did some disrespectful things to me over
Speaker 9: the weekend.
Speaker 3: So I don't know how to make it.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So that's what happened.
Speaker 4: All right, okay, so now we're being more specific. That
Speaker 4: was real broad how you just came out like that.
Speaker 4: All right, cool, but yeah, you you set that boundary, like, nah,
Speaker 4: I'm not allowing this in my life. This is not
Speaker 4: that you have to really really know what you won't take,
Speaker 4: because if you tolerate something, people are only going to
Speaker 4: keep doing, you know, displaying the same behavior. Like you
Speaker 4: have to you have to let people know you're serious
Speaker 4: about it. You don't got to talk to them people, friends, family, whatever,
Speaker 4: I don't care if they.
Speaker 2: All your blood.
Speaker 4: A lot of times, nah, a lot of times you
Speaker 4: gotta separate yourself and isolate yourself from family and friends
Speaker 4: as well so they understand on all right, Yeah, I
Speaker 4: may have done something that she didn't like or I made.
Speaker 2: Her feel uncomfortable in some type of way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, separates yourself, don't askwer the phone, don't go around
Speaker 4: these people. They they're not deserving of your time and
Speaker 4: certainly that they're not worth you draining your energy for them,
Speaker 4: like no.
Speaker 9: True, that's it.
Speaker 4: And then if they want to know, why tell them,
Speaker 4: tell them you're disrespectful.
Speaker 9: You hurt me.
Speaker 2: I don't like that. That's not in my ministry, So
Speaker 2: boom by, that's it, Thank you so much, No problem.
Speaker 1: That was just fix my mess. Make sure you listen
Speaker 1: every Thursday Live. Okay, if you want to get your
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Speaker 1: And every Wednesday on the Carefully Reckless podcast, she does
Speaker 1: the same thing. Now it's time for the Latest with Lauren. Lauren,
Speaker 1: what you got coming up there is?
Speaker 2: Did y'all know that Kim kardash She remember the people
Speaker 2: that robed TRN Paris. Yes, they like over sixty and.
Speaker 6: One of them was like death.
Speaker 3: Oh my, they didn't know what they was doing.
Speaker 6: We're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, It's the Breakfast Love the Breakfast Club. Hey,
Speaker 3: it's the World was Dangerous Morning Breakfast Club to go
Speaker 3: jazz Larious. Lauren is in got a lot going on
Speaker 3: up here this morning. It's time for the Latest with Lauren.
Speaker 5: Lauren be coming with straight fast.
Speaker 3: She gets him somebody that knows somebody detail.
Speaker 2: I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Speaker 3: She'd be having the Latest on the.
Speaker 5: Latest with Lauren la Rossa.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have fact, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
Speaker 1: have a little bit of everything.
Speaker 5: It's the latest on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7: So Kim Kardat she and one of the Paris robbers
Speaker 7: is a deaf man who is actually being accused as
Speaker 7: the ring leader in that robbery where she was tired
Speaker 7: up in Paris and it took all of her jewelry.
Speaker 2: They actually acute, I mean they.
Speaker 7: Targeted her for ten million dollars in jewelry at the time,
Speaker 7: and it was a whole big thing. So this man
Speaker 7: is a sixty year old man. He is known as
Speaker 7: Old He's known as old Omar, and he what it's
Speaker 7: a part of a whole like old gang of people.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 7: So he's known as old Omar, and he was asked
Speaker 7: a bunch of questions in court via handwritten notes because
Speaker 7: he is death in mute and he.
Speaker 3: Going around robbing people. That's the worst person to get
Speaker 3: robbed by.
Speaker 1: I'm following all your directions and you're still waving the
Speaker 1: gun to me, threatening me even more. He's pistol with
Speaker 1: me because you can't hear me saying I comply said.
Speaker 6: Listen.
Speaker 2: He's a part of a big gang called the Grandpa Robbers.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 7: Now, he had to read questions from a typed transcript
Speaker 7: and His responses were projected on screen in the courtroom,
Speaker 7: where he denied that he was the leader of the gang. Now,
Speaker 7: Omar did admit that he was a part of the
Speaker 7: gang that broke into Kim Kardashian's hotel room during Paris
Speaker 7: Fashion Week back in twenty sixteen, but he says, I
Speaker 7: was not the leader of this group. The Grandpa robbers
Speaker 7: got another person to head and it is not me,
Speaker 7: But he did confess to Tying came up and then
Speaker 7: she was Then she was held at gunpoint and bound
Speaker 7: with plastic ties and duct tape and left in the
Speaker 7: bathroom as they took the ten million dollars worth of jewelry,
Speaker 7: which they dropped something on the way out as they
Speaker 7: were on the getting away on them bikes.
Speaker 2: Well the way they what did they drop?
Speaker 7: No, they dropped the piece of the jewelry. I can
Speaker 7: find exactly what jewelry was. And Omar's DNA was actually
Speaker 7: found on the plastic ties. Uh in video and phone
Speaker 7: data placed him at the scene.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a letter somewhere asking Omar to
Speaker 1: participate in his robbery because he can't hear, so somebody
Speaker 1: had to write, Hey, we're going to Rob Kim k
Speaker 1: to night you down, check yes, check.
Speaker 7: No, like what, Well, they actually dropped one of the
Speaker 7: twenty four thousand out a necklace on the way out,
Speaker 7: like whyever trying to get away?
Speaker 2: But yeah, when I saw that headline, I was like,
Speaker 2: wait what he had to make sure it was real
Speaker 2: and it wasn't yet. I used a joke and he
Speaker 2: tied her up. Yes, I don't know, and it's like that.
Speaker 4: And it also says a lot about Kim Kim need
Speaker 4: to getting some fighting classes or something because I'm.
Speaker 5: Beating the deaf nits aask over sixty.
Speaker 2: His named old Omar.
Speaker 3: I mean he still got the old man scriffon just
Speaker 3: because he can't hit on me and he can't fight.
Speaker 3: And he had a gun. Yeah, got that point.
Speaker 10: Yeah she was.
Speaker 7: She was at a gunpoint. And they're supposed to be
Speaker 7: like notorious Roberts, so they do this. One of them
Speaker 7: passed away actually before the trial started. Well, I mean,
Speaker 7: you know, if I know I'm going to brother for
Speaker 7: the rest of my life, I want to And are.
Speaker 2: They doing this because they are old and they're on
Speaker 2: their way out. I don't know their intention?
Speaker 7: And you know what I mean, if they feel like
Speaker 7: this is the purpose in life or if it's just
Speaker 7: because they own narrow.
Speaker 1: Kind of death.
Speaker 2: Yes, I want to get to this before we have
Speaker 2: to wrap.
Speaker 3: So Nick Cannon.
Speaker 2: Today an episode aired of Ray.
Speaker 3: If it got to do with the music I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Nick Cannon was on Tea Time with Raven and Miranda.
Speaker 3: Which is uh, Bottle Washing Canyon, the Bottle Washington Canyon.
Speaker 7: She found out who Brottle is and just won't leave
Speaker 7: him alone because all right. So Nick Cannon was on
Speaker 7: Raven Simon's podcast right with her and her wife Miranda,
Speaker 7: and he act revealed that he has a ten million
Speaker 7: dollar policy on his testicles.
Speaker 3: He says, I'm going deaf.
Speaker 7: The Father twelve said that he took out a pricing
Speaker 7: insurance policy on his testicles back in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 7: and he he we have just take a listen.
Speaker 2: So you took out a ten million dollar insurance policy
Speaker 2: on your well.
Speaker 3: See that's the thing.
Speaker 22: I personally, someone else took the insurance policy out on them.
Speaker 22: Funny enough, I mean it started off like, yo, this
Speaker 22: would be a good joke, but we really went through
Speaker 22: with it.
Speaker 3: Doctor Squatch who was like they're known for like you know,
Speaker 3: manscaping and all that stuff.
Speaker 22: They were like, yo, a lot of celebrity women are
Speaker 22: ensuring their legs in case something goes wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were like, well, what's your most valuable asset?
Speaker 3: My box?
Speaker 22: And you know, I got the insurance policy in my office.
Speaker 22: It's like it's it's legit.
Speaker 6: Yep, each ball it's five million.
Speaker 4: The ball clowned them, all right, So look anyway, going
Speaker 4: back to old ass Omar, look right, my thing is
Speaker 4: if is this listen, is it still considered like snitching
Speaker 4: if he can't tell, because like what if he want
Speaker 4: to tell on niggas but he can't because he can't talk.
Speaker 3: He just doing this.
Speaker 2: He wanted to tell where you can see. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to tell y'all what was going on.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to tell y'all.
Speaker 1: Right, and it's a plane take off, yo.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to know.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, because I don't got time for Nick's testical.
Speaker 3: And like I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I went death during that whole story. We got the
Speaker 1: People's Mixed. Thank you Lauren for the latest. We got
Speaker 1: the People's Choice Mixed coming up next. NB hasn't been
Speaker 1: here all morning, but you gonna hear him talking for
Speaker 1: the next twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: So stupid. It's the World's most Dangerous morning show, the
Speaker 3: Breafast Club.
Speaker 5: You're checking out the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's the world the most dangerous morning to show,
Speaker 3: the Breafast Club. Charlamagnea god, just hilarious.
Speaker 1: Envy was off today. He was doing some book trapping.
Speaker 1: You know, his new book, Real Life, Real Family is
Speaker 1: out with his wife, Gia Casey.
Speaker 3: So he's running around. I don't know if he's still
Speaker 3: in Atlanta or not. He's still in.
Speaker 2: Atlanta, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know he's running around doing some book trapping.
Speaker 1: But Laura la Ross has been here all morning. Where
Speaker 1: you at this weekend, Jess.
Speaker 4: I'm not anywhere this weekend. But next weekend I'm in
Speaker 4: Detroit for the Mother's Day Show. I got three shows
Speaker 4: in one day next Saturday, that is May tenth. Get
Speaker 4: your tickets at just Sollarri's official dot com. The tickets
Speaker 4: are almost sold out. We got an eleven a m
Speaker 4: Brunch or early evening show at seven and then a
Speaker 4: nine to thirty show, and I will be doing meet
Speaker 4: and greet after the late night show at nine thirty.
Speaker 4: So make sure you get your tickets Detroit. What up though,
Speaker 4: O can't wait to see.
Speaker 7: Y'all on seventeenth, Atlantic City, right, and yeah, because I'm
Speaker 7: getting my mom coming from Mother's Day.
Speaker 6: But it's a weekend.
Speaker 2: Oh you bringing mama?
Speaker 7: She's been talking about she thought she missed it. Remember, Yeah,
Speaker 7: you've been talking about when to go to Jessic show someone.
Speaker 3: I know your mama had a couple of booths out
Speaker 3: in Atlantic City, bag.
Speaker 2: And Marandma had boos here in New York.
Speaker 3: Daddy or granddaddy, Oh, big bottle, it was another.
Speaker 4: She was more of a big o guf May seventh safe.
Speaker 4: I will be out in Atlantic City, New Jersey. So
Speaker 4: get your tickets for that, y'all.
Speaker 3: You gotta salute the beautiful Carry Washington for pulling up. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: she got a new movie.
Speaker 2: Coming out right, Yes, Shadow Force.
Speaker 3: Yes it'll be made knife Mother's Day weekend. I love Yes.
Speaker 4: I love that her and Viola Davis are both starring
Speaker 4: in an action film at the same time. It kind
Speaker 4: of gives you the feel of like the How To
Speaker 4: get Away with Murder and Scandal like Universe or something
Speaker 4: like that. Yeah, so I really really love it. Love
Speaker 4: seeing black women whom we ain't really ever see doing
Speaker 4: action before doing action and.
Speaker 7: It was they're good too, Like it's not like where
Speaker 7: you can tell us it's stunt double or like yeah,
Speaker 7: it's actually good the shot.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's so interesting about Shonda Rhimes and
Speaker 1: Biola Davis. They both had hit shows on network television.
Speaker 1: But a lot of times when you talk to a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, black people, especially black women, when
Speaker 1: they've had those hit shows on network TV, they don't
Speaker 1: go on to have like huge success in you anywhere.
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of times, like especially when
Speaker 1: you talk to a lot of them from the nineties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had.
Speaker 1: Those big roles, but you didn't really see them do
Speaker 1: anything much after that, Like they didn't even get offered anything.
Speaker 1: So the fact that you know, uh, Carrie and Viola
Speaker 1: still get a lot of work is a testament to them.
Speaker 3: But also you know, just I don't know, have time changed,
Speaker 3: Like what happened?
Speaker 2: Have time changed? You were here then and you don't
Speaker 2: he has been here.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 2: Are still here.
Speaker 1: We don't know, man, it's so stupid. What is the
Speaker 1: positive old people have time change that? But it's not
Speaker 1: that I'm asking y'all. I'm just asking.
Speaker 2: Myself person when you accept time.
Speaker 3: Changed that, but you tell us you was here, nigga,
Speaker 3: the old time, Oh the positive. Notice simply this, authenticity
Speaker 3: and integrity always win.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: People either accept you or they don't. You keep people
Speaker 1: in your life who align with the truth for your
Speaker 1: being or they don't. Nothing is lost when you remain honest.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Authenticity filters your life for you. You keep the ones
Speaker 1: who are aligned and release the ones who aren't.
Speaker 2: Have a great day, breakfast, club, bitchess you don't finish
Speaker 2: for y'all.
Speaker 5: Done,