Speaker 1: Morning shown better know that's the people's choice.
Speaker 2: The Saluto on my life skined brothers out there, it's
Speaker 2: just hilarious.
Speaker 1: That's what the world I ask. Just don't do you
Speaker 1: know what?
Speaker 2: And Charlemagne to talk to everybody come to the breakfast club.
Speaker 3: I call this the hot seating backfist stuff.
Speaker 4: It's like being on Americans from foot.
Speaker 5: Don't feel like my this, Suthers, I never cast to me.
Speaker 2: Every time I go to a revers club, I know
Speaker 2: it's gonna be like the foot man.
Speaker 6: Baby this it's your time to get it off your chest,
Speaker 6: whether you're mad or blessed.
Speaker 1: I hate the way that you walk, the.
Speaker 7: Way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress.
Speaker 4: Everything.
Speaker 2: When he is best, call up next eight hundred and
Speaker 2: five eighty five one five one.
Speaker 8: That's just me.
Speaker 4: I'm with the coach of Philling.
Speaker 2: Hey, Nadan, good morning. Get it off your chest. Where
Speaker 2: you call him from?
Speaker 9: First?
Speaker 5: I'm calling from Dallas, Okay, Dallas?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 5: My book it's called How to Date a Fat Stick
Speaker 5: A Fat Girl Guide to Dating, and I was so
Speaker 5: a great guys. Take it up and read it.
Speaker 2: How the data fact chick?
Speaker 10: Yes, a fat girl?
Speaker 4: Is it a heavy read. Is it thick?
Speaker 11: Like?
Speaker 5: How many pages is it?
Speaker 12: Like?
Speaker 4: How many pages?
Speaker 5: Is It's not that it's not that that's thick. It's
Speaker 5: like one hundred and sixteen pages. But it's one day read.
Speaker 5: But it's a great.
Speaker 3: Story about my about your what my dating life? Oh
Speaker 3: you're a big girl, a dull done. She might not
Speaker 3: be big no more. It might be her past life
Speaker 3: she's writing about.
Speaker 9: It was hard, it was hot.
Speaker 4: For you today.
Speaker 5: No, it's a shastirical look at my dating life because
Speaker 5: it's the things that I went through and the lessons
Speaker 5: that I learned along the way.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'd love to read that I had a I
Speaker 3: had a homegirl who wrote something like that before it
Speaker 3: was called dating Wild Fat Wow.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, it's on Amazon. So it's by Nadine Jones
Speaker 5: with just Me and again How to Date A fact
Speaker 5: a factoridating.
Speaker 4: Okay, what category is it in food? Home? Jesus? What
Speaker 4: is it?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 4: What category?
Speaker 1: It's not how it should be, I'm asking.
Speaker 5: I don't know what category is been, but it's a comedy.
Speaker 5: I think it's terical. So just you know, just type
Speaker 5: it in your finance.
Speaker 4: What's it called?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 5: How to Date?
Speaker 10: A fact chick.
Speaker 6: So for God takes you out to eat, do you
Speaker 6: limit the food that you have so you don't look big?
Speaker 4: You gotta read the book.
Speaker 12: You're right, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: It came up as a cookbook.
Speaker 2: You know it didn't shut up?
Speaker 3: You know, How to Date a fact Chick Background God
Speaker 3: to Dating by Nadine Jones.
Speaker 4: All right, I like the couple. I like that. I
Speaker 4: like that it looks like what do you call that
Speaker 4: a cosmic cosm?
Speaker 5: What do you call that book?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Whatever that is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that composition composition.
Speaker 2: Well you have a go one.
Speaker 4: They did, Thank you you too, good luck? Hello?
Speaker 13: Who's this?
Speaker 5: What's going on?
Speaker 13: Man?
Speaker 5: My name is a super a trucker.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: I'm out of eastern North Carolina.
Speaker 10: Man' truck driver.
Speaker 2: What's up, super truck? How you feeling this morning?
Speaker 13: Man?
Speaker 7: I'm good man.
Speaker 5: I'm out here shifting gid making that black come out
Speaker 5: to fight?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right?
Speaker 2: What you're transporting?
Speaker 7: I do, flat dad, I'm hauling building materials right now?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we'll be safe for the yo.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 5: I just want to know, man, y'all got love for truckers?
Speaker 1: Man, You damn right, I got love for truckers.
Speaker 12: You know I know YouTube?
Speaker 4: Jess.
Speaker 13: Hey, look, I got a song called truck of Love man,
Speaker 13: so y'all get his head. Check it out.
Speaker 5: It's on YouTube.
Speaker 2: You still got love for truckle Jesse?
Speaker 4: He blow that home for his brother.
Speaker 2: I got you all right, man, be safe for them?
Speaker 12: Ro Hello, who's this?
Speaker 13: Yeo? What's something to me?
Speaker 12: What's up?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 13: What's up?
Speaker 12: Jess?
Speaker 4: How y'all doing? What's that baby?
Speaker 8: Good? Good?
Speaker 2: What's going on? Get it off your chest?
Speaker 12: Yo?
Speaker 13: I'm mad at my brother James.
Speaker 4: What's your brother do?
Speaker 7: He's yo?
Speaker 13: He set me up.
Speaker 5: I'm sick last night.
Speaker 13: And not feeling well. I'm a home and he lied
Speaker 13: to his wife telling her that he was hanging out
Speaker 13: with me all night and he wasn't.
Speaker 1: Oh man, thought of the lie.
Speaker 13: He ain't tell me because I was dead to the world.
Speaker 13: And his wife's called my wife asking her was he
Speaker 13: was he with me?
Speaker 1: Oh man?
Speaker 2: What your wife say?
Speaker 12: Yo?
Speaker 13: She blew his fart up, like hell no, you want
Speaker 13: to see the cameras.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 13: She blew him up and he's calling me up. Told
Speaker 13: him by yo, you're supposed to help me up.
Speaker 5: I'm like, Yo, you should have told me first, I
Speaker 5: hate with somebody.
Speaker 1: Make you a part of the lie, but don't tell
Speaker 1: you about the lie, like.
Speaker 13: Damn dow he man, because he said that I'm the
Speaker 13: reason why his wife is putting him out. Now he
Speaker 13: wants to come and stay.
Speaker 5: In my house.
Speaker 6: Hell, you got the reason, and your wife ain't gonn
Speaker 6: let him stay. Your wife's gonna let no cheating the guys.
Speaker 13: I'm shutting him over to you, Envy, if you're not.
Speaker 2: Sitting over to me, I got a couple of dogs
Speaker 2: that will make sure he stay out.
Speaker 8: I hear that everything.
Speaker 13: Every when you throw it another mix tape out.
Speaker 8: Man, come on shop playing, you be rapping.
Speaker 4: You're talking about the DJ.
Speaker 12: Jes to be rapid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna get that in a while.
Speaker 4: Brother.
Speaker 2: You know it ain't gonna happen. Bro Oh, come on, Envy,
Speaker 2: they ain't gonna happen. These all these artists a lot different, man.
Speaker 6: But back then, I would say the artists really respected
Speaker 6: the DJ and really loved the DJ. When next the
Speaker 6: artist was something and they would be happy to do it,
Speaker 6: glad to do it.
Speaker 2: But now and I ain't playing a politics game, brother.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I know what you in red cafe.
Speaker 2: Man shout, all right, brother, you have a good one man.
Speaker 2: All right, brother, get it off your chest.
Speaker 6: Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If
Speaker 6: you need to vent, phone lines a wide open.
Speaker 2: It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. Wake up,
Speaker 2: wake up.
Speaker 4: You're time to get it off your chest.
Speaker 12: Would be a matter of blacks.
Speaker 4: We want to hear from you on the breath of black.
Speaker 10: Good morning.
Speaker 1: This is a drena.
Speaker 10: I'm a little nervous, but I really want people to
Speaker 10: reach out to your friends and family, check on them
Speaker 10: to make sure that they're okay. It's been almost eight
Speaker 10: months since I lost my soulmate to suicide, and when
Speaker 10: he committed suicide, we was on a break but we
Speaker 10: were still very much in communication with each other. But
Speaker 10: I knew something was wrong, and my gut told me
Speaker 10: to go check, but my head said no, don't do it.
Speaker 10: And had I listened to my guts, I would have
Speaker 10: known something was wrong and could have been able to help. Also,
Speaker 10: with women and their children, when you have a man
Speaker 10: that wants to be in the lives of their it's
Speaker 10: you shouldn't use the child as a porn to get
Speaker 10: back because no one has never ever thought he would
Speaker 10: commit to us side because of what was happening with
Speaker 10: his children. So I just want people to just be those.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, yes, ma'am. Well definitely sending you healing in andgy queen.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, absolutely all right, Mama, blessed that.
Speaker 10: You gotta do the same.
Speaker 4: It's very heavy this morning.
Speaker 1: Character you got some money?
Speaker 4: Hello? Who's this?
Speaker 9: Hello?
Speaker 13: This is blind Tommy?
Speaker 4: What's up? Blind?
Speaker 13: I'm mad because I'm because I'm a blind, broke comedian?
Speaker 4: Are you? So you got to pick one?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 3: Which one you mad about? Being blind? Being broke, or
Speaker 3: being a comedian?
Speaker 13: All three?
Speaker 4: Well, you shouldn't learn to see the bright shot.
Speaker 1: People, not just stealing your money.
Speaker 12: I got the better to steal.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 4: I think I think you might be looking at this wrong.
Speaker 4: Were you born blind?
Speaker 5: Look you don't look at I was blind five years ago.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, so well you're newly blind? Damn?
Speaker 2: How'd you get blind?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 5: So funk has gotten my system and they attacked my
Speaker 5: optic nerves.
Speaker 4: Damn? Sorry that bro? Have you have you learned any
Speaker 4: new skills? Have anything? Has anything?
Speaker 12: Else?
Speaker 5: Scrimpened a little bit, but not that too much?
Speaker 4: Got you got you. How can we help you this morning? Brother?
Speaker 4: What can we do for you? Whatever? We'll see what
Speaker 4: we can do, whatever it is.
Speaker 5: But how could a book deal man work for you?
Speaker 4: You want a book deal?
Speaker 3: I'm be honest with you. I'm interested in the story.
Speaker 3: I can't sit there and act like I wouldn't want
Speaker 3: to hear more of the story.
Speaker 1: What if he's talking about broil books?
Speaker 3: You want to write this morning and get get my
Speaker 3: guys information. I'm interested in hearing the story. I want
Speaker 3: to see if that might might be a story there.
Speaker 4: You never know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, hold on, tom, okay, all right, hold on time,
Speaker 2: get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five
Speaker 2: one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit
Speaker 2: us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, The
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club, Good morning.
Speaker 6: Everybody's DJ n V Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: Lorn La Roads are filling in for just this morning,
Speaker 6: and if you're just joining us, will open up the
Speaker 6: phone lines.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Uncle's
Speaker 2: being unk this morning?
Speaker 4: How am I being uncle? I'm just letting y'all know
Speaker 4: that the Mega millions is now five dollars, y'all. I
Speaker 4: can't be the only.
Speaker 3: Person in America that cares about this, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I've been playing my numbers for years. I
Speaker 3: mean since Powerball came to South Carolina, you know, back
Speaker 3: in the early two thousands, right, I remember when Powerball used.
Speaker 4: To be a dollar, and then Mega Millions came around.
Speaker 3: I don't know if Mega millions was a dollar off
Speaker 3: it was two dollars, all I knows, been two dollars
Speaker 3: for years. So I go in the store and I
Speaker 3: play five Powerball five Mega millions.
Speaker 4: That's usually twenty dollars. Okay, that's usually twenty dollars. That
Speaker 4: is a fair price to pay for a hope and
Speaker 4: a dream.
Speaker 3: I went in there the other day and I said,
Speaker 3: let me get five Powerball five Mega man.
Speaker 4: She said that'll be thirty five dollars. I said thirty
Speaker 4: five dollars.
Speaker 13: Why?
Speaker 3: I said, I only want ten tickets. She said, Mega
Speaker 3: million is now five dollars.
Speaker 4: I said, what. I can't even afford to wish Now,
Speaker 4: I can't even afford the hope.
Speaker 3: They say, you play the Mega millions in the Powerball
Speaker 3: because hey, you never know.
Speaker 4: I can't even afford to never know.
Speaker 6: Well, let's open up the phone lines eight hundred five
Speaker 6: eighty five, one oh five one. I don't gamble like that.
Speaker 6: I don't gambling casinos. I only play the Mega ball
Speaker 6: or the powerball or whate man.
Speaker 4: If the mega millions in the powerball came. I mean,
Speaker 4: the Mega ball is what y'all used to do at
Speaker 4: Diddy parties ao an extra trick, extracurric activity at the
Speaker 4: Diddy party. A mega ball I don't really like.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while when it gets close to
Speaker 2: a billion, and I'll play, but I'm not on it
Speaker 2: like that. What about you, Lauren?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: Never right, let's don't believe in yourselves. Yeah, I believe
Speaker 3: in myself. I'm the type of person that will look
Speaker 3: at the Mega million's number or the powerball number and
Speaker 3: see that it's like one and whatever, hundreds of millions
Speaker 3: of people winning.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'll be that one person.
Speaker 6: I always feel like it's an older person that I
Speaker 6: always feel like they living in a place that I've
Speaker 6: never heard of.
Speaker 12: Well that's what I always said.
Speaker 2: I think that ticket from a gas station, Well.
Speaker 3: Guess what, I always get them from the gas station,
Speaker 3: and I am becoming as much older person.
Speaker 4: I'll be forty seven. This shit, when am I eligible
Speaker 4: to win sixty? Hello? Who's this.
Speaker 2: Chyne? What's up to talk to us?
Speaker 8: I played a Mega Millions powerball lotto every single day.
Speaker 8: The first time I walked in and I saw that
Speaker 8: Mega Millions was five dollars, I almost dropped to the floor.
Speaker 7: I play every single day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now now that is five dollars.
Speaker 8: You're not gonna play as much, which they're still gonna
Speaker 8: get their money, but then you're not gonna be able
Speaker 8: to make as much money because you can't play as
Speaker 8: many tickets.
Speaker 4: As you used to. Certain you don't happen much hope.
Speaker 7: You can't afford hope anymore.
Speaker 4: Which is crazy. Can't even afford hope?
Speaker 2: Have you ever won, sir?
Speaker 7: I have?
Speaker 8: I've won twenty five hundred, I've won one hundred, I've
Speaker 8: won thousands I want multiple times.
Speaker 7: But now it's like they're taking away those chances for you.
Speaker 12: To be able to win.
Speaker 7: That's right, And it looks like I can only afford
Speaker 7: a couple of tickets.
Speaker 4: The most I've ever won is one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: I always win like two dollars four dollars, and I'm
Speaker 3: grateful for that because you know, it's baby steps that
Speaker 3: lets me know I'm getting closer.
Speaker 4: Jack one.
Speaker 8: That's totally It's fun to go in there and then
Speaker 8: to say, okay, I want maybe I play.
Speaker 7: Four dollars, but I get my full dollars back. Now
Speaker 7: I played ten dollars and it's like I only win
Speaker 7: four dollars. I lost six dollars. So now you know
Speaker 7: like I'm struggling now, like you know, I'm in a hole.
Speaker 7: Before I never felt like I was in a hole.
Speaker 7: Now I feel like I'm in a hole every time
Speaker 7: I play.
Speaker 3: And this brother is absolutely right, because I'm only going
Speaker 3: to spend twenty dollars I'm gonna buy. I'm gonna still
Speaker 3: buy my my five Powerball, but now I got to
Speaker 3: reduce my Mega millions the only two tickets, so that's
Speaker 3: decreasing my chances of winning mega millions.
Speaker 12: Hello, who's this?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 5: How you doing? My name is Staincy Adams like the shoes.
Speaker 2: Stams like the shoe.
Speaker 12: What's up?
Speaker 4: Brother? Talk to us?
Speaker 5: Okay, so listen, everybody who knows me knows that I'm
Speaker 5: a lottery crackhead, so I can't think go to twenty
Speaker 5: dollars a cicket. I'm playing. No, I'm like Charla Mane.
Speaker 5: No no, no, no, no, I'm dead period.
Speaker 13: I am just yo.
Speaker 5: I listened to y'all every morning. I start my day
Speaker 5: at like four am. I got my own cupcake business, Yo, Charlemagne,
Speaker 5: I cannot believe I'm on the phone with y'all.
Speaker 7: But Yo, when I heard.
Speaker 5: About the lottery, my crackhead saying oh, I'm sorry, my crackhead,
Speaker 5: I came out. I'm like, yo, I got a call.
Speaker 5: I am on the breakfast club.
Speaker 7: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: No, yes, no, so Charlemagne, I actually won a lot actually,
Speaker 5: like I never win like the Big pop Ball or
Speaker 5: like the Mega millions. But I played like the pick
Speaker 5: three to pick four three dollars. Okay, So the most
Speaker 5: happen one was one thousand.
Speaker 2: And eight okay. And how much you think he's been week?
Speaker 5: Oh no, oh, it's crazy. Like I said, I'm a crackhead.
Speaker 2: How old spend like?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 5: Probably about I feel like thirty dollars a day, but
Speaker 5: just the week, I feel like thirty.
Speaker 2: Dollars thirty dollars a day, which is what five days
Speaker 2: week you spend.
Speaker 4: He's an entrepreneurial. He got his own cupcakes?
Speaker 5: Yeah right, I got my own, so I'll make that money. Yo,
Speaker 5: I want to bring you off some cupcakes.
Speaker 4: Flight my really inst we need to see what's what's
Speaker 4: your instagram?
Speaker 5: Okay, got it?
Speaker 13: Okay, got it?
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Speaker 5: m o us Underscore cupcakes.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Stacy Eddie put Stacey on whole.
Speaker 3: Get his information. Let Stacey bring his cupcakes up here.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, man, this mega millions things. It's a
Speaker 3: travesty that's.
Speaker 4: Going on in our communities right now. Five dollars a
Speaker 4: ticket is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: It went from two dollars to five dollars with no
Speaker 3: wanting at least I wasn't paying no attention.
Speaker 2: Some of y'all need to call that number. It wasn't
Speaker 2: one eight hundred gambler. If you have a problem, please
Speaker 2: call this number.
Speaker 6: That man spends seven thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars
Speaker 6: a year and he only won a thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but multiple years.
Speaker 3: What reality is? What if that's his vice? Like you know,
Speaker 3: like what if you don't spend? What if he don't
Speaker 3: buy nothing else? What if he don't buy like cars
Speaker 3: or you know, spend his What if that's what he
Speaker 3: wants to spend his money on?
Speaker 6: One hundred gamble I think that's number. What's the number
Speaker 6: one final for US? Eight hundred and five eighty five,
Speaker 6: one oh five? What if he's just joining us? Unk
Speaker 6: was so destraught this morning Charlamagne walked in. He didn't
Speaker 6: know powerball tickets to the price went the powerball. The
Speaker 6: Mega millions is five dollars, man, not the powerball. Okay,
Speaker 6: all right, and.
Speaker 1: It's one It is one hundred gamblers operated by the
Speaker 1: National com I'm.
Speaker 3: Not a gambling I don't gamble. I don't do I
Speaker 3: don't do the prize picks, the DraftKings, I don't do.
Speaker 4: I don't gamble. I don't gamble at casinos.
Speaker 3: I'm talking telling you my gambling is limited to Mega
Speaker 3: millions and powerball tickets every day every week.
Speaker 4: That's what star him.
Speaker 6: I don't gamble, I don't go casinos, but I just.
Speaker 4: Gamble on lottery. Will you talking to your kids about
Speaker 4: the all this? Do you say you're playing your numbers?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 1: You are so country?
Speaker 4: What's wrong with that's wrong? Being country? You eat fab back. No,
Speaker 4: hell no, no poke poke on more.
Speaker 6: Folk play eight hundred five eight five on five oner.
Speaker 6: You just drawed like this morning, call us up. It's
Speaker 6: the breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: Good morning, warning.
Speaker 6: Everybody is the j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the God,
Speaker 6: we are the breakfast Club. We got a special guest
Speaker 6: in the building. Yes, indeed, Jordan Klepper, welcome, Thanks for
Speaker 6: having me. How you feeling I feel real good.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I love the way you came in here already. Because
Speaker 6: I was joking, I was like, you what six four?
Speaker 6: And then Charla, I was like, really you?
Speaker 2: Then you said Charlomage must be around six to one
Speaker 2: and say.
Speaker 4: That's live one.
Speaker 14: I said five one, five five one, right, I was
Speaker 14: being generous my in my head, I was like, I'll
Speaker 14: make a joke about four six, but I'll give him
Speaker 14: a little bit more.
Speaker 9: I said five to one.
Speaker 12: What did you say you were?
Speaker 4: Charlamne's I live five six?
Speaker 3: You are no five six, actually five to seven, but
Speaker 3: I just say five six to make people feel comfortable.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, whatever reason I say five to seven,
Speaker 4: they argue with me, So I just say five six.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and even though you said five six, I'm arguing
Speaker 9: with you right now?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 14: Is that include at the brim? If you put the
Speaker 14: brim away up, you're including the brim.
Speaker 4: Right. But see, that's what I thought with you. I'm
Speaker 4: like with the hair, you might be six. I was
Speaker 4: thinking like six one.
Speaker 9: That is fair the hair. The hair gives me an
Speaker 9: extra couple of inches five six.
Speaker 4: With heels, well, you wear heels, all of you when
Speaker 4: you actually wear them.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm six five?
Speaker 9: Okay, I mean I broke my sessamoid bone.
Speaker 4: Have you heard of it?
Speaker 14: It's I didn't either. It's called it's the knee calf
Speaker 14: of the toe. Wow, I got I got another. Let
Speaker 14: me tell you if you want old man stories right now,
Speaker 14: I broke my sesamie bone by standing on.
Speaker 4: It for two I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 9: It's it's really I broke about my standing. I'm just
Speaker 9: I'm that old now. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and me see, that's a big deal for you
Speaker 3: because you are, you know, probably one of the best
Speaker 3: field journalists.
Speaker 9: Out here, if not the best, the best, one hundred
Speaker 9: percent the best. I'll take it, I do.
Speaker 3: And you have the new one of fingers fingers, fingers
Speaker 3: the post, fingers the post maggot the next generation that
Speaker 3: have to affect you.
Speaker 14: It does, Yeah, no, I I mean literally, if you
Speaker 14: watch the special right now, you will see I'm only
Speaker 14: shot from like the halfway up, and if anything gets awry,
Speaker 14: like I can't move or get away from people broke
Speaker 14: during the special. You can't do that when you run
Speaker 14: the Magna crowd. No, no offense to the Maga crowd.
Speaker 14: But they're also slow movers too, so you know I can.
Speaker 14: I can usually out maneuver them. I can use my
Speaker 14: privilege to lord it over them, or I use the
Speaker 14: four security guards to get between me and them if
Speaker 14: things get hairy.
Speaker 4: I enjoyed the special.
Speaker 3: It's you talking to the younger I guess generation of
Speaker 3: Magna because fifteen percent of what.
Speaker 14: Young men, Yeah, young men shifted right this election, and
Speaker 14: there was a shift. There was a shift right from
Speaker 14: the entire youth generation. Like women shifted right, but men
Speaker 14: especially moved into the Maga camp. And so we were
Speaker 14: We're curious, why, like what was it about that. It
Speaker 14: doesn't it doesn't feel like the cool thing on a
Speaker 14: campus to believe in, you know, anti abortion, reproductive rights
Speaker 14: or you know, essentially it's the anti hippie movement, but
Speaker 14: there was a movement, so like, let's get there, Let's
Speaker 14: go to a turn points event, Let's go to a
Speaker 14: UFC fight, let's like talk to some of these kids.
Speaker 3: I watched it and when I finished, I was like,
Speaker 3: I still didn't hear a logical reason.
Speaker 4: It just felt like vibes.
Speaker 14: I think, yeah, I think it still is vibes. The
Speaker 14: large question was like, is there an ideology behind this shift?
Speaker 14: And I think the answer is no. I don't think
Speaker 14: you have a lot of kids who have conservative ideals,
Speaker 14: So there's some religion comes in or whatever those ideals are,
Speaker 14: but I think mostly they see people finding success on
Speaker 14: TikTok and the social media space being conservative and that
Speaker 14: gives them an identity. They see it as a little
Speaker 14: bit punk, that gives it an identity. So I think
Speaker 14: like they're moving towards vibes, which I think for the
Speaker 14: left they can get those vibes back, but they're just
Speaker 14: not engaging with that generation.
Speaker 6: Jordan and I would have to ask why why did
Speaker 6: you want to waste your time and talk to Maga
Speaker 6: younger young.
Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's a good exercise. I
Speaker 4: think more people should do that.
Speaker 6: The reason I say that is because you're not going
Speaker 6: to get the answers you'd like, probably and you're probably
Speaker 6: gonna get threatened a lot.
Speaker 14: Sure, Yes, I mean the first a health insurance. My
Speaker 14: job is to be able to talk to other people.
Speaker 14: And if I don't do my job, I don't have
Speaker 14: health insurance and I have week bothes. So we've established
Speaker 14: that for this six foot nine frame, I need that
Speaker 14: health insurance.
Speaker 9: But I think what I like about it. I mean,
Speaker 9: I'm lucky I get to go out there.
Speaker 14: I'm not a journalist, I'm a comedian, so I get
Speaker 14: to push, I get to ask follow ups. I get
Speaker 14: to cavort and try to find something that reveals. Right, Like,
Speaker 14: my job out there isn't to convince people of one
Speaker 14: way or the other. I think my job is to
Speaker 14: find something that is revealing. Like for this special, we
Speaker 14: talk to a kid. And I always find it fascinating
Speaker 14: to go to a campus and just see, like what
Speaker 14: actually is happening. CNN will tell you one thing, but
Speaker 14: until you go to Texas A and M and talk
Speaker 14: to a kid, do you actually understand what it is?
Speaker 14: Like we talked to a kid about like why he
Speaker 14: was obsessed with Charlie Kirk. Why he was he was
Speaker 14: going to a Charlie Kirk event. What is it about
Speaker 14: this this guy? And he literally articulated, like I have
Speaker 14: a hard time with my words. I like to listen
Speaker 14: to what he says. I like to memorize it, and
Speaker 14: then I have his words and his idea is and
Speaker 14: it's like it's comedic in the special, but I think
Speaker 14: above that, it's it's just revealing, Like when you're like,
Speaker 14: why do these people, why are they drawn to this?
Speaker 9: It's like that kid set it right there.
Speaker 14: He didn't even know that he's being somewhat comical that
Speaker 14: you're just memorizing ideas so you can regurgitate it.
Speaker 9: But it's very human.
Speaker 14: He was like, he feels lost without that. So for me,
Speaker 14: it's always always compelling to go where the story is
Speaker 14: and to talk to folks about it.
Speaker 6: I was gonna ask that not a threatening part? Yeah,
Speaker 6: how many times have you've been threatened? Whether it's calls,
Speaker 6: people in person, emails, texts.
Speaker 14: I mean that happens a lot, the emails, the calls.
Speaker 14: There's been threats on family members, which would ain't is
Speaker 14: not super fun. I think out in the field, ten
Speaker 14: years ago. I'm not going out there.
Speaker 9: With security guards.
Speaker 14: You know, you can go out there as a comedian
Speaker 14: talk about politics and not be afraid of getting punched.
Speaker 14: But Trump era comes in, people get more upset. Upset
Speaker 14: Trump says like, you're you're a patriot, fight back. These
Speaker 14: are the enemy of the people. And it was during
Speaker 14: his first first run for president that like, we went
Speaker 14: to a school board meeting and are having a conversation
Speaker 14: and I get bum rushed by somebody who's just mad
Speaker 14: that we.
Speaker 9: Have a camera there.
Speaker 14: And since then we keep adding security guards. I was
Speaker 14: there on January sixth and that got Harry. We got
Speaker 14: a security guard. They got pushed, there's flash bangs going off.
Speaker 14: They're like, we can't stand here. We need to get
Speaker 14: on a train. Like it's sort of the new reality.
Speaker 14: And most people I talked to are great. They want
Speaker 14: to talk, they are they want to be on TV,
Speaker 14: they want to engage. But you have it now where
Speaker 14: people have been weaponized by the most powerful men on
Speaker 14: the planet and who says like you can do something,
Speaker 14: you should fight back. These are the bad guys, and
Speaker 14: all it takes is a couple of bad ideas for
Speaker 14: those guys to to feel themselves and go after you.
Speaker 2: What's the crazy experience you that that you've had so far?
Speaker 14: I mean, Jay six was pretty wild. I was up
Speaker 14: there for Jay six. I was working on J six,
Speaker 14: all right, Charla Mane.
Speaker 4: I was working there. I was out there. I was
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 11: You know what.
Speaker 14: The funniest moment on Jay six outside of the hole
Speaker 14: trying to overthrow the government and you know, crapping on
Speaker 14: Nancy Pelosi's desk. Outside of that, I'm literally interviewing people.
Speaker 14: And we've been there before, and we knew sort of like,
Speaker 14: we don't want to get trapped on the onslaught, so
Speaker 14: let's stay outside of where everybody is. Quite frankly, really,
Speaker 14: where's the one place nobody is congregating? And it was
Speaker 14: outside of the African American History Museum. Nobody was going there.
Speaker 14: So we were like, we will meet up here and
Speaker 14: then we'll go and find people to interview.
Speaker 9: We start walking. We find this guy swinging a pitchfork
Speaker 9: and I go up to the man. I start talking
Speaker 9: to this man.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's the guy.
Speaker 9: That's the guy. I mean, we got to make TV here,
Speaker 9: you know. And that guy's got a pitchfork. He's he's
Speaker 9: throwing it around.
Speaker 4: Wait, and nobody was outside the African Americans. You know
Speaker 4: where are we gonna go?
Speaker 9: Yeah, African American Museum. Do you want to engage with
Speaker 9: American sins of the past?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 9: No, let's take a crap on the desk of the Capitol.
Speaker 4: What do you say?
Speaker 14: So we're talking to this guy swinging a pitchfork and
Speaker 14: he's ran to about revolution and another man comes up.
Speaker 14: He sees the camera and he just starts he's just swearing,
Speaker 14: He's just obscenity man, and he's yelling so loud that
Speaker 14: pitchfork man stops the interview. He shushes him, and then
Speaker 14: he says, this man doesn't speak for me, which then
Speaker 14: leaves me grateful to the more level headed man swinging
Speaker 14: up his fork and he makes eye contact with me
Speaker 14: and he rolls his eyes as if to say, like,
Speaker 14: can you believe this happen?
Speaker 11: Guy?
Speaker 9: And it's like, oh, yeah, that's it. Like even this
Speaker 9: guy is like these guys are too crazy for me.
Speaker 9: Can we just have a conversation?
Speaker 14: And you're like, right, we can actually find a little
Speaker 14: bit of common ground if there is that crazier person there.
Speaker 3: And we got my man Jordan Klepper from The Daily Show. Here, yo,
Speaker 3: refresh my memory. I don't what the hell was happening
Speaker 3: on January sixth, before the insurrection.
Speaker 4: What was everybody there for?
Speaker 9: Well, they were there to certify the vote.
Speaker 14: But Trump then preempts it by having a huge rally
Speaker 14: at eleven o'clock, and so everybody comes out. Rudy Giuliani's there,
Speaker 14: and so everybody comes to watch the giant Trump speech,
Speaker 14: but everybody leaves halfway through, not everybody. Half the folks
Speaker 14: leave halfway through to god start moving towards the Capitol,
Speaker 14: which then we saw, we saw the Proud Boys march
Speaker 14: on the Capitol. I mean, it was a it was
Speaker 14: a wild day. It was not a surprise though, as
Speaker 14: a cable comedy show, like, we knew to be at
Speaker 14: the Capitol. We were right there when they pushed in,
Speaker 14: because we're like, this is where everybody's going. This is
Speaker 14: where they said they're going. There's going to be something
Speaker 14: to happen here. We didn't expect them to get inside,
Speaker 14: but we knew they'd be there for the sake of content,
Speaker 14: for the sake of clicks. Did you think to yourself, Hey,
Speaker 14: we should go in with them luckily, like my inherent
Speaker 14: fear got in the way there. I think it was
Speaker 14: it was confusing, that's what the rules were. I think
Speaker 14: even at the at the time there was a small
Speaker 14: fence that got pushed in. And even as you're seeing
Speaker 14: this and you're watching this, and it's again it's it's
Speaker 14: half tragic, like this is the Capitol, this is the
Speaker 14: seat of American governance, and I see all these people
Speaker 14: acting like generals going in there, and it's also completely absurd.
Speaker 14: I saw I interviewed literally an old man on a
Speaker 14: segway trying to go up the hill while it's happening.
Speaker 14: But I'm assuming they can't get in right. You're like,
Speaker 14: they're going to get stopped at some point point there,
Speaker 14: but the people just kept coming and literally our security
Speaker 14: guards at one point were just like, we're hearing explosions.
Speaker 9: This is an uncontrolled situation. It's time to get know.
Speaker 3: People that the Daily Show and you said it a
Speaker 3: little while ago. Everybody in the Daily Show always says
Speaker 3: something that I totally disagree with. Y'all say that you're
Speaker 3: not journalists. Y'all all comedian when reality is y'all probably
Speaker 3: some of the best journalists out because you do things
Speaker 3: like go and talk to the other side when other
Speaker 3: folks really don't ran. So when do you have an
Speaker 3: interview people that these ra Well, first of all, you
Speaker 3: think it's fair for y'all to be able to say
Speaker 3: y'all not journalists.
Speaker 9: It's definitely a dodge. So yeah, thanks for calling it out,
Speaker 9: you know.
Speaker 14: I mean, I think I say that in that the
Speaker 14: stories we get on the Daily Show are stories that
Speaker 14: are brought to us by journalists putting in the work,
Speaker 14: and so that I respect and they work by the
Speaker 14: code of journalism.
Speaker 4: I think what we have we take it very seriously.
Speaker 14: I don't see myself as a journalist, but I take
Speaker 14: going out and bringing.
Speaker 9: Back what we see to the show very seriously.
Speaker 14: But I do want an audience to understand the bias
Speaker 14: that we have towards comedy and that we're making a
Speaker 14: show with that point of view. But I think all
Speaker 14: news has a bias, and I do think like in
Speaker 14: modern journalism, I don't think it should be a bunch
Speaker 14: of comedians going out there bringing the stories back. Far
Speaker 14: from it, But I do think they could probably loosen
Speaker 14: up some of the rules in the ways in which
Speaker 14: they engage with people, because sometimes you see people engaging
Speaker 14: with the old school rules of journalism, not pushing people
Speaker 14: past their conspiracies or their BS, or they're they're weighing
Speaker 14: both sides where you're like, no, that that's BS.
Speaker 9: You need to call that out.
Speaker 14: You need to use some other way to knock that
Speaker 14: person off their talking points so they can reveal something
Speaker 14: truthful there. And I think as comedians we have that ability,
Speaker 14: and at its best it works that way, but we're
Speaker 14: working in conjunction with journalists who are actually bringing the
Speaker 14: story back so that we can have some commentary on comedy.
Speaker 4: Is disarming, it is that's the thing that a lot
Speaker 4: of the journalists don't.
Speaker 9: Have one percent.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And at its best, it cuts to the quick
Speaker 14: faster than trying to argue with somebody else.
Speaker 3: You know, when you do something like The Maggot and
Speaker 3: Next Generation, do you have a lead to rally thinking damn,
Speaker 3: maybe I'm the one who.
Speaker 14: Doesn't get it, you know, I mean, I think I
Speaker 14: always leave it with a little bit more empathy towards
Speaker 14: the folks that I'm talking with, because for every you know,
Speaker 14: every five minutes on camera, there's two minutes off camera
Speaker 14: where you're talking about something that's not political, and you
Speaker 14: connect with them and they're interesting, they're compelling. You find
Speaker 14: music that you both care about or something, and I
Speaker 14: think like that that softens what you think about the
Speaker 14: people and the interactions that you have with those people.
Speaker 14: I think I usually feel pretty steadfast in my opinions.
Speaker 14: That being said, I do think, like no, nobody has
Speaker 14: the certainty that they pretend to have on camera at
Speaker 14: these rallies. Like no, there's a lot of complexity to
Speaker 14: many many issues, but nobody has the guts or the
Speaker 14: vulnerability to be open about it, usually in front of
Speaker 14: the camera.
Speaker 2: Now, you said you want to bring peace in harmony?
Speaker 9: God did I say that?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 7: Is that true?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 9: Boy? What did I say? I want to bring peace
Speaker 9: in harmony?
Speaker 6: He said, you want to bring peace in harmony? But
Speaker 6: how was that when every time a maga meamber comes
Speaker 6: you give them a little joke, just a little.
Speaker 12: Bit, you know what.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I try to deliver peace through the lovely delivery
Speaker 14: mechanism of.
Speaker 4: A joke.
Speaker 14: I you know, I'd there to be some peace and harmony,
Speaker 14: But it is a constant balance of you know, I
Speaker 14: want to empathize, I don't want to just be mean
Speaker 14: out there when I talk to other people. But also
Speaker 14: it's I think life is pretty serious right now, and
Speaker 14: I think when I go to some of these MAGA events,
Speaker 14: you see Donald Trump playing to the masses in a
Speaker 14: way that emboldens him to do pretty cruel.
Speaker 9: Things, and so I don't mind pushing back hard in
Speaker 9: that direction.
Speaker 14: But I often think the people I talk to I
Speaker 14: have sympathy for because I think they're being weaponized by
Speaker 14: other people who are trying to manipulate them.
Speaker 9: So that's that's where my empathy tends a lie.
Speaker 3: Do you have a struggle with where Satie ends and
Speaker 3: responsibility begins?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think like that activist conversation is
Speaker 9: a tough one. I don't don't I don't love the hat.
Speaker 14: I do think like John is somebody who always says, like,
Speaker 14: you know, this is not activist, we're comedians, And I
Speaker 14: think like, in some ways that is that is a
Speaker 14: safety net, but you also sort of need that to
Speaker 14: like not approach work every day to think of like
Speaker 14: what am I trying to change in the world.
Speaker 9: Like I understand where that comes from.
Speaker 14: But it's like the job of the show is to
Speaker 14: find comedy to follow, like your passions, the things you
Speaker 14: care about, where you seebs call it out, but also
Speaker 14: like find a way to make it funny and interesting
Speaker 14: and reformat it. I think that is the job you
Speaker 14: get in tough territory when you're like, I need to
Speaker 14: I need to be an activist in that moment.
Speaker 9: I don't think that is the place.
Speaker 14: But I think you have to be honest with your
Speaker 14: desire to be a part of that conversation, but also
Speaker 14: be honest with what your skill set is and what
Speaker 14: your platform is.
Speaker 12: Have you ever spoke with.
Speaker 6: Somebody where you actually change their mind by the things
Speaker 6: that you said and he understood what you were saying.
Speaker 14: No, okay, I do tell a story, though it doesn't
Speaker 14: happen in front of the camera. People don't change their
Speaker 14: minds in front of the camera, but off camera gets close.
Speaker 14: I was heckled at a rally by a man who
Speaker 14: was dressed in a bricksuit, a suit that looked like
Speaker 14: Trump's Wall of bespoke suit in a hand of our mustache.
Speaker 14: He's known as a bricksuit guy. Trump brings him up
Speaker 14: on stage at lots of his rallies. He's famous there.
Speaker 14: He trold me at a rally he live streamed during
Speaker 14: our interviews to try to get people not to talk
Speaker 14: to us.
Speaker 9: He was paying the ass.
Speaker 14: We get snowed in and all of us have to
Speaker 14: fly out the next day after this rally on different flights,
Speaker 14: and I show up at the Green Bay Airport, very
Speaker 14: tiny airport alone. There's a three and a half hour delay,
Speaker 14: and bricksuit guy is there, and he's not in the
Speaker 14: brick suit. He's wearing a Maga hat. He's got two
Speaker 14: extra hats on his case, but no bricksuit civilian clothes.
Speaker 14: And he's like, do you want to talk? And of
Speaker 14: course I don't want to talk. But we're there at
Speaker 14: an airport for three and a half hours, and we
Speaker 14: get into it, and I don't change his mind. He
Speaker 14: doesn't change my mind. But he is remarkably open about
Speaker 14: the things he's unsure about with Donald Trump. He's unsure
Speaker 14: he wishes Donald Trump didn't go on and on about
Speaker 14: the twenty twenty election being stolen, which is a huge
Speaker 14: thing to show any kind of weakness, Like I don't
Speaker 14: believe Trump was honest about that. In the Maga movement,
Speaker 14: you can't say that in front the camera. He says
Speaker 14: that to me off camera. He talks about like where
Speaker 14: he comes from and frankly he comes He's like a
Speaker 14: libertarian guy who likes to troll people online. You'd like
Speaker 14: to think that the handlebar mussage guy who dresses and
Speaker 14: bespoke brick suits is an idiot, not an idiot. Smart
Speaker 14: guy feels like a history buff, like the kind of
Speaker 14: person who has too many like World War two books,
Speaker 14: but a smart guy has his own topics.
Speaker 9: Like we literally we laugh.
Speaker 14: Somebody recognizes me as we're talking and asks for a
Speaker 14: selfie and he takes the photo, which is like this,
Speaker 14: he's open to all.
Speaker 4: Of this stuff.
Speaker 14: We talk all the way up until I get on
Speaker 14: the plane and I'm in an exit row and the
Speaker 14: woman who takes the ticket asks if I'm willing to
Speaker 14: accept the responsibilities being an exit row. I say yes,
Speaker 14: and then I turned to him and I was like,
Speaker 14: I hope this freaks you out, man, and he laughs,
Speaker 14: and I'm like, that's it right there, Like you're not
Speaker 14: intimidated by me. I'm not so offended that I made
Speaker 14: a joke.
Speaker 4: You laugh.
Speaker 14: It's humor, it's disarming, and it's for most of the
Speaker 14: people who I'm friends with. Even who I disagree with,
Speaker 14: you find things you can laugh at. And that happens
Speaker 14: all off camera. And I'm not entering that conversation to
Speaker 14: try to change his mind. That's not gonna happen. But
Speaker 14: I'm entering it with like an amount of uncertainty of like,
Speaker 14: here's the thing that I'm unsure about what the Left says,
Speaker 14: or or here's things that I think are okay about
Speaker 14: what Trump does, and he's like, here's things that I
Speaker 14: doubt about what Trump does.
Speaker 9: Like, oh, there's there's the human behind that, even.
Speaker 14: In the caricature of a guy from the Daily Show
Speaker 14: mixed with the caricature of a person from the Trump universe,
Speaker 14: Like they can talk, they can meet somewhere of an understanding,
Speaker 14: and usually it's it's freaking away from those cameras in
Speaker 14: a Green Bay airport.
Speaker 3: It is Memorial Day, so we're not here saluted all
Speaker 3: our veterans out there, But we do have some new
Speaker 3: conversations for you that you haven't heard yet. My man
Speaker 3: Jordan Klepper, he's got a new special out, Jordan Klepper
Speaker 3: fingers the Post Maga, and we're gonna talk to him
Speaker 3: all about it right here on the breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: I remember they had.
Speaker 3: When you had your late night show, didn't they have
Speaker 3: you playing a character of a like a conservative right wing.
Speaker 14: I was playing like an Alex Jones style right wing character.
Speaker 14: And so that that was And at that time too,
Speaker 14: it was like Info Wars was so huge and big
Speaker 14: and the conspiracy mindset, which thankfully is gone completely away,
Speaker 14: we don't see it anymore. But that that was me
Speaker 14: playing a caricature to find humor in in going over
Speaker 14: the top, quite frankly, as comedy has evolved and the
Speaker 14: politics situation has evolved so much over the last ten years, Like,
Speaker 14: I think that's still a space to play in. There's
Speaker 14: still humor to be found, but I think audiences are
Speaker 14: like so tired of extreme caricatures. You have one in
Speaker 14: the White House that like, I think they're connecting more
Speaker 14: with comedians on a more authentic level. And so that's
Speaker 14: sort of in some ways where the finger the pull
Speaker 14: stuff has come out of. Trevor was big on that.
Speaker 14: He was just like, go out there, you're not playing
Speaker 14: a parody of a journalist. You're yourself, bringing your wits
Speaker 14: about you and your opinions. Find humor in that, but
Speaker 14: don't lean on the character.
Speaker 3: Also, people are dumb, but they don't believe you. Sure,
Speaker 3: I didn't know you were playing the character, you know what?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Had we had at the opposition, We had Carter Page,
Speaker 14: who was a foreign advisor to Donald Trump, and it
Speaker 14: was the center of the news cycle at one point
Speaker 14: because people were wondering he was if he was a
Speaker 14: Russian asset because Russia had manipulated him in the past.
Speaker 14: He was working for the Trump administration, and he reached
Speaker 14: out to our show and took a meeting at our
Speaker 14: show because he wanted to work on our show as
Speaker 14: someone He didn't see it as a satire. He saw
Speaker 14: it as an opportunity, which which was hard for us
Speaker 14: to swallow.
Speaker 3: Where do you think satire fits into today's media landscape?
Speaker 4: But people numb to it are addicted? Are they still
Speaker 4: reachable to the understanding thing?
Speaker 14: I mean, I think what has shifted so much is
Speaker 14: like the formatting of it all right. I think like
Speaker 14: satire is all about context, and that's hard if you're
Speaker 14: taking in seven second chunks on like TikTok. I think
Speaker 14: it's easier if you have a thirty minute chunk, If
Speaker 14: you have an eight minute rant. I think people are
Speaker 14: drawn to comedy.
Speaker 9: In many ways. It is like the language of I mean,
Speaker 9: it's a language of humor, but I think like it's
Speaker 9: the quickest way to get to to a truth. So
Speaker 9: I do think. I think satire is in a boom.
Speaker 14: I think people are drawn, but I think but that
Speaker 14: being said, the social media landscape has shifted the ways
Speaker 14: in which we consume all this stuff, and that has
Speaker 14: kind of like it is made for long form capabilities,
Speaker 14: long podcasts, and I think that has shipped a word
Speaker 14: comedy lies and short form as well.
Speaker 9: Which is more about those soundbites.
Speaker 6: Now, speaking of the future of MAGA, what do you
Speaker 6: think the future of MAGA is gonna look like, especially
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 14: Oh boy, I think that I think Trump is such
Speaker 14: a singular character that they think it can be passed
Speaker 14: on and that we have seen no proof of that yet.
Speaker 14: Donald Trump has been famous his whole life. I mean,
Speaker 14: you know, he's reference to rap songs when I was
Speaker 14: coming up in a way that was like he is
Speaker 14: equated with wealth, and I think that is nobody else
Speaker 14: has that, and so I think they're going to try
Speaker 14: to pass it off. Maybe that's to trade events maybe
Speaker 14: it's to somebody who's even farther right, But right now
Speaker 14: it's still a cult of personality that he's going to
Speaker 14: try to build around him. We'll see if that baton
Speaker 14: goes anywhere else.
Speaker 3: It's interesting when people say that, though, because to me,
Speaker 3: it's not even about the individual of Donald Trump. There's
Speaker 3: clearly a whole system that is perfectly okay with him
Speaker 3: doing everything that he's doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that is what scares me.
Speaker 3: It's the system, Yeah, that is allowing him to exist
Speaker 3: because they will allow somebody else to exist in that
Speaker 3: same way.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they've attached the system, and there's people behind it
Speaker 14: who have gotten good at understanding how to use Donald Trump.
Speaker 14: I think this Project twenty twenty five the world of
Speaker 14: Steve Bannon's like, like, Okay, he's going to come in here.
Speaker 14: He's a singular character in his ability to charm half
Speaker 14: a nation, forty percent of a nation. I think that
Speaker 14: is hard to pass off. But I think you have
Speaker 14: a conservative movement who has sort of lost any desire
Speaker 14: to make a moral argument and just found a way
Speaker 14: in which to attach attach their wants to somebody.
Speaker 9: Who will just bulldoze all the way through.
Speaker 14: Who is about I mean, the Trump doctrine is he
Speaker 14: likes to make deals and he wants whatever is good
Speaker 14: for him. Yes, and if they can attach conservative things
Speaker 14: onto the things that are deals and good for him,
Speaker 14: that make him look successful and popular, then they will
Speaker 14: ride that.
Speaker 9: And he has no problem riding that.
Speaker 3: What's the moment? I like a couple more questions, what's
Speaker 3: a moment that actually made you emotional?
Speaker 4: Why doing one? Are you man? On the screen segment?
Speaker 14: I mean, it's not to get dark about it all,
Speaker 14: but like we covered news day in and day out,
Speaker 14: and when I was hosting the show specifically like mass shootings,
Speaker 14: like you're like, oh, how do you find humor in it?
Speaker 9: We find humor.
Speaker 14: But like when you are when it's your responsibility, late
Speaker 14: Night has shifted into a place where people come to
Speaker 14: it to feel like a connection to what has happened
Speaker 14: during the days. And we have such a mass shooting
Speaker 14: epidemic in this country, and especially when I was hosting
Speaker 14: a show where like what happened today, Well, the big
Speaker 14: news is there was another terrible shooting in a school
Speaker 14: and we had people come on and I've covered like
Speaker 14: the gun movement with specials and in the past as well,
Speaker 14: And I've talked to parents and I've talked to students
Speaker 14: who are affected by all of this, and it's such
Speaker 14: it's such emblematic of what is which is what is
Speaker 14: wrong with our country, Like most people just want safe,
Speaker 14: basic guidelines to try to stop us, and there's such
Speaker 14: inaction on a federal level that it's constantly infuriating. And
Speaker 14: so as that keeps happening and continues to happen, like
Speaker 14: it's it's it's it's so heartbreaking. Also as someone who
Speaker 14: has a kid who's in school right now, it's so
Speaker 14: scary to think of that happening to parents. And beyond that,
Speaker 14: it's so infuriating because it's like the system is broken
Speaker 14: when you have people who scream out from the rafters.
Speaker 14: Eighty percent of people are like, we just need basic
Speaker 14: stuff to try to help kids in schools, and yet
Speaker 14: you have like a system of government that can't respond
Speaker 14: to that like that.
Speaker 9: Always, it always pisses me off.
Speaker 3: What's your dream field piece that you haven't gotten to
Speaker 3: do yet, Barbados, Send me to a nice place, a
Speaker 3: nice place on a beach.
Speaker 14: I'm in Pennsylvania all the time, and Trump rallies in
Speaker 14: the heat, fighting with people about whether JFK Junior is
Speaker 14: still alive, and so like, send me to someplace beautiful,
Speaker 14: give me a puff piece.
Speaker 4: So how do you decompress after a day of absorbing
Speaker 4: conspiracy theory? The ninety degree heats.
Speaker 14: You know what it's it's it's booze. Booze helps real quick.
Speaker 14: It's booze the NBA and being a dad, I think
Speaker 14: that helps out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, them how they can see this special.
Speaker 14: They can check it out a Paramount Plus or YouTube.
Speaker 14: It's up on both those places right now.
Speaker 6: That's right, Fingers the Pulse Maga the next Generation on
Speaker 6: The Daily's YouTube. Jordan Klepper Late Shows YouTube, Thank you
Speaker 6: so much for joining us, Thanks for having us us.
Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club is Jordan Clepper.
Speaker 4: Got to say something you may not agree with doesn't
Speaker 4: mean I'm doing Who's getting that donky?
Speaker 2: That donkey that don't don't don't don't don't.
Speaker 4: Dunk the other day right there, the Breakfast Club pitcher.
Speaker 12: You can call me the donkey of the day, but
Speaker 12: I mean no harm.
Speaker 3: Don't Here today goes to a Baltimore man by the
Speaker 3: name of Kevin Gross. Kevin is forty six years old,
Speaker 3: just like I am, but I clearly make better choices
Speaker 3: than Kevin. You know how sometimes people say, oh, you
Speaker 3: think you better than me? The answer is yes, yes,
Speaker 3: I do, because I make better choices. Not judging you
Speaker 3: for anything you got going on, But you asked me
Speaker 3: a question, Oh you think you better than me? Yes,
Speaker 3: hell yes, because I understand the strongest principle of growth
Speaker 3: lies in human choice, and I make better choices than you.
Speaker 3: And if you are currently enjoying this thing called freedom, well, oh,
Speaker 3: you make better choices than Kevin as well, because he's
Speaker 3: in jail, currently facing charges for allegedly shooting a twenty
Speaker 3: eight year old coal worker on the side of I
Speaker 3: ninety five this past Monday morning. I know some of
Speaker 3: y'all right now are either at or on the way
Speaker 3: to jobs where you think you can't stand your coworker.
Speaker 3: You believe you hate this co worker with all your heart,
Speaker 3: and you just might, okay, just be better than Kevin.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: And the way you continue to be better than Kevin
Speaker 3: is simply by making the choice not to shoot your
Speaker 3: co worker. Let's go to WBALTV for the report police.
Speaker 15: Bond denied for forty six year old Kevin Gross he's
Speaker 15: facing charges for allegedly shooting a twenty eight year old
Speaker 15: coworker on the side of I ninety five early Monday morning.
Speaker 15: According to charging documents, the victim called nine to one one.
Speaker 15: When state police arrived, they found him walking along the
Speaker 15: shoulder of ninety five with seven gunshot wounds to the
Speaker 15: arm and torso. Court documents show he told police he
Speaker 15: was on his way into work and got a flat tire,
Speaker 15: so we pulled off on the shoulder of ninety five,
Speaker 15: just north of the Howard County line. When he got
Speaker 15: out to inspect the tire, his coworker, Kevin Gross, pulled
Speaker 15: up behind him and got out, wearing a mask covering
Speaker 15: his mouth.
Speaker 9: Quote.
Speaker 15: Gross told him he must have hit a pothole or something,
Speaker 15: but upon inspecting the tire, the victim could see the
Speaker 15: tire had been slashed. Gross then produced a firearm and
Speaker 15: began firing numerous shots.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 15: Charging documents reveal the two were assistant managers that planted
Speaker 15: aid in Elkridge. Gross had recently been demoted, and the
Speaker 15: victim told police Gross thought he had something to do
Speaker 15: with that demotion.
Speaker 3: Kevin, you got the right last name, because this was Gross.
Speaker 3: What a diabolical plan. The victim was on his way
Speaker 3: to work and got a flash tire. He thought he
Speaker 3: hit a pothole, but his tires had been slashed. Oh,
Speaker 3: I wondered who slashed him? And then when he got
Speaker 3: out to inspect the tire, Kevin pulled up behind him
Speaker 3: with a mask and shot him several times, all because
Speaker 3: he thought his coworker got him demoted. Both of them
Speaker 3: were assistant managers at Planet AID. Now y'all know what
Speaker 3: Planet eight is, right?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Not data organizations that collect the clothing donations. They got
Speaker 3: the yellow bins all over the place you can put
Speaker 3: the clothes and shoes in.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they accept clothing donations in seventeen hundred locations. Okay,
Speaker 3: in the Elkridge warehouse.
Speaker 4: You know where Elkridge is, right, yep?
Speaker 3: They collect fifteen point five million pounds of used clothes
Speaker 3: and shoes annually. Well, clearly Kevin wasn't there for the car.
Speaker 3: So I needed to know what are the perks of
Speaker 3: being an assistant manager at Planet AID? So I asked
Speaker 3: chat GPT how much does an assistant manager at Planet
Speaker 3: AID make? I don't know if this is one hundred
Speaker 3: percent correct, but it says the average salary for a
Speaker 3: manager at Planet Aid might earn between fifty thousand and
Speaker 3: sixty thousand annually. Now I need y'all to always keep
Speaker 3: in mind that my education is limited to a high
Speaker 3: school degree from night school. Okay, dropping the clues bump
Speaker 3: for Berkeley High School right than most content South Carolina.
Speaker 3: But if it's one thing I understand is prison math.
Speaker 3: And by prison math, I mean when you have to
Speaker 3: calculate in your mind whether or not the choice you
Speaker 3: make is going to be worth you going to prison. Okay,
Speaker 3: now let's do the prison math.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 3: I'm making fifty sixty grand a year in Baltimore, has
Speaker 3: a forty six year od oh man.
Speaker 4: I don't know about y'all, but if I can.
Speaker 3: Afford to put some food on my table and have
Speaker 3: a roof over my head, I'm gonna be happy.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Success is subjective, and if you're a freeman forty six
Speaker 3: years old, you can come and go as you please.
Speaker 4: You got a job you maintaining. That's a good life.
Speaker 3: If you don't think it's a good life, go to
Speaker 3: a prison right now and talk to these brothers doing fifteen,
Speaker 3: doing twenty, doing twenty five, some of them doing forever,
Speaker 3: and ask them when they trade lives with the freeman
Speaker 3: making fifty to sixty grand as an assistant manager at
Speaker 3: Planet eight. Hell, even if he got demoted, okay, even
Speaker 3: if he got demoted. The warehouse lead role at Planet
Speaker 3: aid earns about twenty seven thirty nine per hour. According
Speaker 3: to chat GPT, that's almost fifty seven grand a year
Speaker 3: if you work in forty hours a week. All I'm
Speaker 3: saying is, no matter how much I calculate this prison math, Okay,
Speaker 3: I've done addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.
Speaker 4: I tried to.
Speaker 3: Figure this out multiple ways, and guess what, it just
Speaker 3: don't compute. Okay, it just nothing that up. The victim
Speaker 3: is in critical condition. He got seven times, got seven times.
Speaker 3: Kevin Gross is charged with attempted first degree murder in Maryland.
Speaker 3: That's life in prison, first and second degree assault. Kevin
Speaker 3: Gross is also charged with first degree of sold It's
Speaker 3: twenty five years in Maryland, second degree of sold it's
Speaker 3: ten years in Maryland.
Speaker 4: And he got other related charges.
Speaker 3: Moral of the story is Kevin is spending the rest
Speaker 3: of his natural born life in prison.
Speaker 4: Therefore the prison math ain't adding up. It's just not
Speaker 4: worth it. You have to calculate it in your head.
Speaker 4: You got demoted. You don't even know if this person
Speaker 4: you shot had anything to.
Speaker 3: Do with it, but even if they did, as soon
Speaker 3: as you started formulating this plan in your head, just
Speaker 3: think about it. I'm gonna cut his tires, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: shoot him a bunch of times. At some point your
Speaker 3: brain has to say no, no, no, no no, This
Speaker 3: prison math ain't mathing. This is not a situation that's
Speaker 3: worth having to eat jail food for the rest of
Speaker 3: your life or having an inmate treat your bunkie like
Speaker 3: a bowl of cereal. So please let remy ma give
Speaker 3: Kevin Gross the biggest he hulled.
Speaker 4: You stupid mother? Are you dumb? You got demoted? Take
Speaker 4: the l How do you get demoted from?
Speaker 1: Like a Salvation Army?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 9: A good will place?
Speaker 2: And what could you do wrong?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 3: But he didn't even ask no questions. He just assumed
Speaker 3: it was this other this other person and shot him
Speaker 3: seven times. Now he's gonna spend the rest of his.
Speaker 4: Life in prison for that.
Speaker 2: They don't need to play and you.
Speaker 4: Also, I mean, we can if you want.
Speaker 9: To what you want to play a game.
Speaker 4: He's from Baltimore.
Speaker 6: White people in Baltimore, yore in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: No, but something that patty like.
Speaker 4: That, like like you got a point, got a point
Speaker 4: clothing store.
Speaker 1: Then it's not even like a in a like a
Speaker 1: regular clothing store.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like nah, always do prison math though, whenever you're
Speaker 3: about to make a choice that you think we're gonna
Speaker 3: get you in some type of trouble, especially if it's
Speaker 3: involving any type of crime, just just calculated in your head.
Speaker 3: Is this worth the time you're gonna get for such situation?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you for that donkey. Today morning,
Speaker 2: everybody at j n V. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne and the God.
Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 6: then welcome.
Speaker 12: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: How you doing you?
Speaker 11: I'm doing great. I'm having an amazing time in New York.
Speaker 11: Just sold out the SLBs the other night and so
Speaker 11: now I'm in the best of the Breakfast So this
Speaker 11: is a big deal for you guys. You just lost
Speaker 11: the tour right, Yes, that's on tour currently. I'm doing
Speaker 11: ten states and were sold out everywhere. That's the congratulations,
Speaker 11: super plessed, thank you, thank you. And the album is
Speaker 11: called I'm Sae. I'm pronouncing this right, A Losa, Yes,
Speaker 11: I Losa is my name has known in my village,
Speaker 11: so a Lusa.
Speaker 12: Why are you topless?
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have no shirt on most of the time?
Speaker 12: Yeah, showing usually, but I had to. Yes, I'm sure
Speaker 12: you know I'm back. Yeah.
Speaker 11: But being topless is freedom. Being topless is audacity. And
Speaker 11: in this place of my career and where I'm at
Speaker 11: right now, I need that audacity to.
Speaker 4: Be with me every day? Is that really audacity to
Speaker 4: be topless? If you are around with no pants on?
Speaker 11: You know, when you get home, Like if you're a girl,
Speaker 11: when you get home, the first thing you do is
Speaker 11: you and hook your bra. Yeah, and that's part of
Speaker 11: the freedom I'm talking about being topless. What do you
Speaker 11: identify a black mind?
Speaker 12: An analogy?
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, you know, but.
Speaker 3: That's a different because when I get it, when women
Speaker 3: get home and they take that bro off, the what about.
Speaker 12: You like when you get home and.
Speaker 4: Your mind.
Speaker 11: If you're in a sunny place and a humid place
Speaker 11: and you take off your shirt, it's freedom, man.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, and basketball shows no draws so much.
Speaker 12: You pushing this draws agenda, not an agenda the name. Yes,
Speaker 12: shut out my neighbors. U ganda for that, my next neighbor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, now you did rap I was gonna say you
Speaker 6: did rap raidar the other day. Yes, I did, and
Speaker 6: you came with something different that I don't think any
Speaker 6: rap raid guest has ever done.
Speaker 2: Yes, you came with a chicken.
Speaker 12: Yeah, came the chicken.
Speaker 11: I would have come with the chicken here, but there's
Speaker 11: too many rules and you guys are really on the
Speaker 11: top floor, so I wasn't able to smuggle my mascot
Speaker 11: into the building.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 11: Yeah, a chicken is my cultural total. Like the animal
Speaker 11: that represents my culture is a rooster. And it's because
Speaker 11: a rooster is a timekeeper, rusa is a care givers,
Speaker 11: is a security for your homessa, is many things, including
Speaker 11: a good meal.
Speaker 12: So that's why I woke around with That's why I
Speaker 12: woke around with where did you.
Speaker 11: Get this chicken from? Where did you get the chicken from?
Speaker 11: I know, I didn't know the animal laws in New York.
Speaker 11: I had to drive all the way to Pennsylvania. Like
Speaker 11: the queens, they wouldn't sell it to me in Queens.
Speaker 11: Nobody would give me a live chicken in New York
Speaker 11: because it's against the law. So I had to go
Speaker 11: all the way to Pennsylvania, cross state lines to look
Speaker 11: for the chicken.
Speaker 3: But yeah, what I think is about the wording, because
Speaker 3: you know in America, I don't know, you don't If
Speaker 3: you'll say so, you have to say, I want to
Speaker 3: bring my.
Speaker 12: Yah and my and I was stroking my leg.
Speaker 11: You say you.
Speaker 12: Give the chicken, I give, I give, I give my
Speaker 12: to my driver and he took it to an animal
Speaker 12: like home, animal shelter, so he's alive.
Speaker 1: This is a freedom album basically, Yeah, this is a looser.
Speaker 11: Previously, in my other life, I was in a band.
Speaker 11: I was in a boy band and the band was
Speaker 11: called Sauti Soul. My Sauti So and so he voices
Speaker 11: of the Sun.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 11: So I was in a boy band. And this is
Speaker 11: my second lease of life. So now I'm a solo artist.
Speaker 11: I've been a solo artist for two years now and
Speaker 11: everything's looking up. I'm at the breakfast club.
Speaker 12: Mama, I made it nice.
Speaker 1: Why the Saudis Soul takes such a long hiatus? For
Speaker 1: music your last the.
Speaker 4: Last twenty years.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we're like new additions from Kenya. Yeah, boys to me.
Speaker 11: We met in high school, so we've been together twenty years,
Speaker 11: twenty beautiful years, the best years of my life.
Speaker 4: What made you just want to go solo on now?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Just trying something new, you know, after doing something for
Speaker 11: a long time. I think it was time for us
Speaker 11: to try and see what the other side looks like.
Speaker 11: And it's been beautiful so far. I think we needed
Speaker 11: this break so that our next season will be just
Speaker 11: as glorious, even better.
Speaker 1: And what is the other Saudi Soulos done?
Speaker 12: They're making music, they're doing interesting things.
Speaker 11: My brother Pulicup just launched his guitar Jaire, which is
Speaker 11: an amazing guitar.
Speaker 12: Chimano is on tour, Savara is putting out music as well.
Speaker 11: So we're all busy and we're all working together, like
Speaker 11: we're all writing for one another. We're all producing for
Speaker 11: one another, friends or great friends.
Speaker 4: Amazing.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Why do you think East African music hasn't seen a surge?
Speaker 3: And I guess mainstream the way artists from the Western Yeah.
Speaker 11: Well, there's many aspects to it, including the fact that
Speaker 11: it's just never been funded. Any music that you hear
Speaker 11: in the West is marketing dollars spend to get that
Speaker 11: music there. So for a long time, its tablica hasn't
Speaker 11: had that limelight. Also, our numbers in the diaspora don't
Speaker 11: come anywhere close to Nigeria. So the dominant culture in
Speaker 11: the dasport is going to be Nigeria. But the next
Speaker 11: logical sound to listen to after you've gone northeast, west
Speaker 11: and the northwest and south is east and so here
Speaker 11: we are, you know, we're taking the stairs or we're
Speaker 11: getting here anywhere, No is it.
Speaker 6: I've noticed with international artists they always want to win
Speaker 6: in the US. Why is that so important?
Speaker 11: Because when you win in the US, the reward is
Speaker 11: too high. Being the biggest artist in Kenya is now
Speaker 11: we're close being the biggest artist in the US. When
Speaker 11: you win in the US, you winning the world. So
Speaker 11: for a long time this market has dominated the world
Speaker 11: like that. Also, you guys have the structures, you have
Speaker 11: the venues, the ticketmasters and all these you know, all
Speaker 11: of these infrastructure mixed music what it is in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 11: so you're thought leaders, your global leaders.
Speaker 4: Why not remember when your love for music first hit you.
Speaker 12: Yes, I was like maybe five or six.
Speaker 11: I was watching with Maley song Ion Lion Zion, and
Speaker 11: that's the first time I was like, wow, what is this? Like,
Speaker 11: I feel like doing this thing. And I've been doing
Speaker 11: it since I'm thirty seven now, guys, I've been singing thirty.
Speaker 4: One years yeah, wow, so six years old.
Speaker 12: Since I was six.
Speaker 11: Yeah, And I joined the choir in church and I
Speaker 11: always say the church is the best artist development program
Speaker 11: in the world because that's where all the great musicians,
Speaker 11: especially for black music come from.
Speaker 4: How was it in Kenya?
Speaker 3: Because you know, you know, you hear stories people from
Speaker 3: Nayer their parents like, no, you're not going to go
Speaker 3: into music. You're not going to entertainment. You're gonna be
Speaker 3: a doctor. You know, Like like in Kenyu, when you
Speaker 3: said you want to do music, how was it?
Speaker 11: My mum said, as long as you finished school, as
Speaker 11: long as you finish college, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 11: And music has been a kind master to me. Music
Speaker 11: paid me through college. Like I put it my first thing,
Speaker 11: go with Southeast Oil, my band when I was a freshman,
Speaker 11: and just like that, my life changed. I had to
Speaker 11: finish school, but I started to be a journalist, so
Speaker 11: I'd probably be working here.
Speaker 2: I did communications, And did you know that moment where
Speaker 2: you knew you were going to make it.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, this is this is what I was here
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 11: I told also my cousin when I was six, that
Speaker 11: I'm going to be a superstar, and she laughed it off.
Speaker 11: But I remind her to this day that this is
Speaker 11: written like I always knew that this is what I'm.
Speaker 12: Going to do.
Speaker 11: Yeah, even though sometimes life pushed me in directions where
Speaker 11: I wasn't in my direct journey, Like for example, like
Speaker 11: when I studied communications, it wasn't me studying music. But
Speaker 11: it came back now to make sense, you know, like
Speaker 11: my auditory skills are different. I understand how to interview,
Speaker 11: how to There's just things I learned in UNI that
Speaker 11: are very vital for me right now.
Speaker 3: And back then you was just like I think I'm
Speaker 3: training to be on the other side of the microphone.
Speaker 3: But then you're artist, You've got it.
Speaker 11: I watually if you're finishing school to clock out something
Speaker 11: in life, say that I have a degree, but I
Speaker 11: wasn't very passionate about it.
Speaker 12: What communications Okay, communicated that communicated journy.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to be clear.
Speaker 3: It is Memorial Day, so we're not here, but we
Speaker 3: do have some conversations that you haven't heard. You know,
Speaker 3: we all are fans of Afro beats and you know
Speaker 3: all of the sounds that are coming out of the
Speaker 3: continent right now. So I want to introduce you to
Speaker 3: somebody you may or you may not know. His name
Speaker 3: is bing Okay Been is an artist from Kenya, an
Speaker 3: Afro pop musician, and we're going to talk to him
Speaker 3: because he's currently on tour here in the States and
Speaker 3: we're going to talk to him right now.
Speaker 4: I saw something where it was saying you the Grammys
Speaker 4: was donating some money to Kenya.
Speaker 12: That was physical.
Speaker 11: So the Grammys are doing an Africa Grammys, you know,
Speaker 11: like some week the Latin Grammys. So there's been talk
Speaker 11: about Africa doing a Grammys, and Kenya had put in
Speaker 11: a bid to be the host for the Grammy three
Speaker 11: point eight million something like that, and the bid the
Speaker 11: whole I think the news came out at a very
Speaker 11: bad time because at that time economically and even now,
Speaker 11: we're not doing so well as a country. So at
Speaker 11: people in eight million dollars spent on the Grammys feels
Speaker 11: like an impulse spent people. Yeah, it's like the grammar
Speaker 11: bring in will be quadruple at I'm sure you know
Speaker 11: a lot not a lot of people have the insights
Speaker 11: of the music business to understand the value of the
Speaker 11: Grammy is coming to Kenya like that, you know. But
Speaker 11: so the people were just up in arms because they
Speaker 11: felt like there's many more ways to spend the three
Speaker 11: point five million dollars.
Speaker 4: Why did you agree with it?
Speaker 11: Because I'm an artist and understand what it's going to
Speaker 11: do for my constituency, for my people, Like this is
Speaker 11: future future, you know, investments for the artists who are coming.
Speaker 11: You know, they're going to thank us one day for
Speaker 11: hosting the Grammars in Kenya. So I think it's not
Speaker 11: a bad thing. Maybe the communication behind it should have
Speaker 11: been better. Maybe they should have been told about the financial.
Speaker 1: Degree in communications.
Speaker 11: Yes, I agree, I agree, Yes, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 11: Maybe just the communication only should have been better. Yeah,
Speaker 11: they should have said what NBA said about the profit
Speaker 11: and what we stand to gain as a country and
Speaker 11: this and this and this, and many people would have
Speaker 11: been like, okay, we see it.
Speaker 6: I mean the visitation. Yeah, hotels restaurants, foods, tourism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's just so much that.
Speaker 11: You get the development programs for the different facets of
Speaker 11: the music industry that the Grammy comes with as well, right, Yeah,
Speaker 11: you know, the Grammy is like a good artist development
Speaker 11: program as well, second to charge.
Speaker 12: So yeah, it would be nice if they came through. Yeah,
Speaker 12: I'm still hoping they do.
Speaker 3: Does that put a lot of pressure on you, knowing
Speaker 3: that Kenya is a country that isn't doing that well financially,
Speaker 3: but you may be doing that in.
Speaker 11: Most Yes, it puts pressure on me to make art
Speaker 11: that speaks to those people and tells their story to
Speaker 11: the world. Like I want people to see the pain
Speaker 11: and the struggle in my art. I want them to
Speaker 11: listen to the lyrics and I want them to I
Speaker 11: want the lyrics to take them to places in Kenya
Speaker 11: that they've never been to, and I want the human
Speaker 11: experience to connect. So right now, we're not going to
Speaker 11: a very easy time. Our government has no opposition. The
Speaker 11: opposition is the youth. And for the last year so
Speaker 11: there's been so many abductions. There's been so many There's
Speaker 11: been freedom of expression, but not freedom after expression. And
Speaker 11: I just think it's important for us to know that,
Speaker 11: for the leaders to know that. I have more faith
Speaker 11: in the children who are coming than their leadership in
Speaker 11: terms of the power they used to oppress. I don't
Speaker 11: have any fear to the current regime. I have more
Speaker 11: faith in the kids, and I think the kids are going.
Speaker 4: To save us.
Speaker 2: You feel comfortable living there?
Speaker 11: I feel comfortable living in Kenya. Yeah, I would say
Speaker 11: to a large extent, Kenye is a beautiful country. Yeah,
Speaker 11: there's many experiences you can get, and we're generally very
Speaker 11: peaceful people. But the recent times have been very tough economically.
Speaker 11: But we're not a basket case. Yeah, we're proper people.
Speaker 11: Kenyans are fighters, Africans are fighters, and the people of
Speaker 11: Africa will keep the lights on the people of can
Speaker 11: you keep the lights on?
Speaker 12: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is one of your favorite songs from the Albumchi?
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a tribute to you. Yes, I really to you.
Speaker 12: She's married, it's okay, and most the money, but.
Speaker 4: He's also African, so we can have more than one wife.
Speaker 4: No he can't. You can't let me to maxtitution that
Speaker 4: you don't have more baby.
Speaker 1: Every African I thought that was in certain villages why
Speaker 1: are you doing it?
Speaker 11: You know, some things just I found in this world,
Speaker 11: and there's such complex issues that I can't really address
Speaker 11: right now in the best first club.
Speaker 12: But I'm not doing it, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Because Cheeky deserves all of you and all of me
Speaker 4: only me her.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yes, so you wouldn't want another wife.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying that. Let me rephrase. You try to
Speaker 4: get let me refrase that. I know you are happily married.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, Yeah, African tradition, in a lot of countries,
Speaker 3: you are allowed to have another wife.
Speaker 12: Constitution, you're allowed. I want another wife. No I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 12: not now, No, I.
Speaker 9: Don't because trouble.
Speaker 1: Just because that's you know, culturally like y'all can do,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you always want that, right.
Speaker 11: So I come from a polygamous family. My dad has
Speaker 11: ten kids from six different women. I am the last ten.
Speaker 12: I am the last gentleman.
Speaker 11: You've been in trouble, I know, but just informally you
Speaker 11: one would argue that. Yeah, so formally he's been married
Speaker 11: to Yeah, my mother is the last of the ten.
Speaker 11: All know about each other.
Speaker 12: They all know about each other. When he bought a
Speaker 12: spoon for our house. He bought a spoon for the
Speaker 12: other house.
Speaker 11: You know, like, if you guys really understand how polygamy works,
Speaker 11: maybe it's not going to be a very touchy subject.
Speaker 11: I think just when you listen from the West and
Speaker 11: how people speak about it, it's just really given the
Speaker 11: vibe that it's unfair, but it's everything has everything to
Speaker 11: do with society and has a that you were set
Speaker 11: up back then. It may not work now, I agree,
Speaker 11: but back then it had everything to do with community
Speaker 11: and looking out for one another.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 11: In some cases a guy was polydimous because maybe his
Speaker 11: first wife couldn't get kids, you see, and she'd be like,
Speaker 11: let me bring a helper to see how we can
Speaker 11: do this. Also, the more kids you had, the more
Speaker 11: labor you had, because we were farmers, we were heads men,
Speaker 11: and so the more children you had, the more people
Speaker 11: you had to make create wealth with.
Speaker 12: So that was the structure.
Speaker 3: Then ask one more random question, Yeah, would what would
Speaker 3: Africa look like if all the countries were unified?
Speaker 11: I asked myself that question all the time. I ask myself,
Speaker 11: what did Africa looked like if you weren't colonized? Because
Speaker 11: you know, naturally we have never really been people who
Speaker 11: go out to conquer and convert. We've always been and
Speaker 11: that's why it was very easy to colonize us because
Speaker 11: we were easy to you know, of course, and we
Speaker 11: didn't know the games that the other party was playing.
Speaker 11: So I think I United Africa is an Africa that's
Speaker 11: living to his potential. It's peaceful. There's some leaders right
Speaker 11: now in the continent who are showing what Africa could
Speaker 11: do united. I know if you guys have heard about
Speaker 11: triality from Vulcino Fosso, Yeah, and he's been able to
Speaker 11: unite the countries on his region. They've been able to
Speaker 11: kick out France and he's taking care of yeah, and
Speaker 11: he's taking care of people. And I see that to
Speaker 11: be the future of the continent. And when we unite,
Speaker 11: we will be unstoppable in all the beautiful ways.
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Speaker 11: want to welcome all of you guys to Kenya. If
Speaker 11: you guys ever land in Kenya, NV, I know you
Speaker 11: come there often.
Speaker 12: So tell them off. I got to get back there,
Speaker 12: tell them about it, tell them place.
Speaker 4: Being your right by Dan Ball right, yeah, I want
Speaker 4: to lash it. Well.
Speaker 3: The year before last time with the Tanzania Days a
Speaker 3: Ball and they was like, you gotta go to Kenya's
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So I'm welcome with you guys. Absolutely love to
Speaker 12: see you guys down.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, appreciate you. Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: Good morning morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, just hilarious charlamage
Speaker 6: and the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time
Speaker 6: for positive note what we got.
Speaker 3: But it's really simple, man. For everybody out there that's
Speaker 3: always on social media, you know, trying to curate the
Speaker 3: perfect image, putting a filter on everything. I just want
Speaker 3: to tell y'all y'all be so worried about image. You
Speaker 3: need to clean up your spirit. Okay, some of y'all
Speaker 3: need to clean up your spirit. Go through some damn
Speaker 3: work on yourself. I'm not out here, you know, pushing
Speaker 3: for therapy just because y'all need to go out here
Speaker 3: and find a therapist.
Speaker 4: Y'all need to find a spiritual leader.
Speaker 3: Y'all need to just really clean up your spirit, because
Speaker 3: your spirit is disgusting and nasty.
Speaker 4: Have a blessed day, breakfast club you don't finish for
Speaker 4: y'all done,