The Breakfast Club - Best of 2024- BEST MOMENTS - Teddy Swims, Sheryl Underwood, Tezlyn Figaro Recorded 2025. Listen For More!

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

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This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed. Call up now, 800-585-1051. Not just me, I'm not just me. I'm the best. I'm the best. I'm the best. I'm the best. I'm the way that you walk, the way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is best. Call up next, 800-585-1051.

Not just me, I'm what the coach will fill it. Tamika, good morning, Tamika. Hey, what's good, DJ Envy? I'm good, how you feeling? I'm good, I'm at work. This is my lunch break. Okay. I was like, let me call up

to see if I can get through. What time is it where you at? I'm is it where you at? I'm in Cali, it's 3.13. And it's lunchtime for you? She work overnight, bruh. She work overnight. Yeah, I work overnight. The best shift, third shift.

If you're having lunch at three in the morning, you a big back, but nevermind. Hell no, I ain't no big back. Right. And she called, cause she wanted to talk to you. Tell them what you want to talk to me about. Yeah, Sharla Mayne. Okay, yeah, Sharla, Charla.

Why you always coming for the studs, bruh? I love studs. We love you too, but shoot, you be giving out the wrong information and all that. Like what? Like what? I mean, what I want? I'm like, I got to get through

because he don't know no real studs. Like tell me what wrong information I be giving out. All I do, I don't really give out no information other than what speed for your vibrator. First of all, first of all, you up here talking about when we put on the strap and the girl be f**king the strap and that's mental illness.

No it's not. That's f**king my d**k. You said that's mental illness? That's what Shaw was saying. Did you hear what she said? She just said, she just said that the girl's **** in her scrap is the girl's ****.

I bought it. I bought it so it's mine. It's not mental illness unless you start moaning. If you start moaning, then you just retarded. No, I mean it looks good, so I can't moan from the visual.

When she's **** in the scrap on and you moaning? Just think about that for a second now. But it look good, it look good. Oh, you mean like- Don't it look good? Yeah, but y'all be moaning like it feel good. Nah, well they getting off because they looking at it.

I'm definitely getting off, I'm definitely getting off. Okay, okay. That's what happened to y'all. Tamika, I think there's only one thing to do. You come up here with your strap on- If you shut up and let Tamika talk, you already, that with your strap Your problem All I'm saying is shout out to all the studs much respect to um young young and made

But she ain't the sort of all studs we gotta stop saying that Yeah, who's the king of studs Queen of studs? To the legend Queen Latifah she exactly she knows that y'all shall identify as when she's probably male presenting Y'all confusing me. All right, I'll take that back That one no, no, no, no, no, I love Queen Latifah I hit that Disrespect the Queen Feminine, I mean we seen her be started out. So that's we do. Okay I gotta go back to work

But I love I'm so proud of you. I'm proud of you Charlotte Charlotte. DJ Envy, get that money. Let's go. What up, bitches? I know her vibrator waterproof. Completely waterproof. Period. Get it over your chest. 800-585-105-18.

Good morning to all the studs. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling. Hey, what you doing man? I'm telling. I'm calling, calling you. This is your time to get it off your chest.

Whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Oh my God, I can't believe I got here. This is my first time calling. Good morning, what's your name, brother? Good morning My name is Randy. I'm from SoCal. Um, I actually I'm actually calling

I'm an aspiring airline pilot and I was wondering if anybody out there, you know Can mentor me and lead me in the right direction on how to become a pilot and just you know Give me words of encouragement. You got to give you info ain't nobody up here know how to fly. You can hit me on my email at RandyCurryC-U-R-R-I-E-9-2-Gmail.com. Hey why not Google or something though like why didn't like I don't why did you decide to call the Breakfast Club? I'm sure there's all types of pilot schools and flying schools that can help you out, bro. Well, well, yeah, there's schools, schools and stuff, but I'm just looking for, you know, a mentor, you know, an African American that's already in the industry that can, you know,

just give me words of encouragement and keep me on the right path. Uh, you know, trying to fly. We'll spread your wings, my brother. You know what? There's a brother out of Atlanta that flies. It was a black brother. And we just get it. There's a black brother out of Atlanta. That really narrows it down. No, no, no, no. I'm looking for his Instagram.

He's pretty popular on social media. Hey, Envy, before I hang up, I actually wanted to talk to you about your car collection. Oh, what's up, brother? I think a while ago you mentioned that you had a MC20 Maserati. I did. What's under the hood of that? The MC20, it actually you had a MC20 Maserati. I did. What's under the hood of that?

The MC20, it actually dropped. It was a Maserati. I don't have it. I was the one with the doors opened up. I don't actually own that anymore. I didn't love that car. But Mel the Traveler. Mel, M-E-L, the Traveler.

He's a brother who flies. He's somebody that you should follow and always talks about flying and giving his license and why it's important for minorities to fly. Mel the Traveler. the traveler m-e-l-t-h-e traveler awesome thank you good morning you guys good morning how's it going brother hello who's this this is jay jones what's up brother get off your chest how you doing dj envy good morning good morning shawloman god good morning good morning jesson jesson larry good morning. Peace, King. Good morning, Justin Hilarious. Good morning, baby. How you doing? I just wanted to get off my chest.

I'm a man at the end of the day, and I don't have no problem admitting my wrongs. That means he cheated. What he said, my man at the end of the day? That means he cheated. Go ahead, bro. I didn't cheat physically, but I was entertaining other women, and I know I'm wrong for that. Where was you entertaining other women at sir? Text.

Oh wow, that's cheating bro. Black men don't cheat bro. You still a little black boy, you still a little immature young man. How'd you get caught? She went through my phone, you know, and she found it. And I know it's gonna take some time if she do take me back, and I'm doing all I do, whatever it takes to get her back. You know what I'm saying?

It depends on what she found. Yeah, what were you saying? You said what now? What were you saying to the person? I was talking to them. I was saying that I did miss her. You know what I'm saying? She's my friend,

but I didn't have no place to stand at. It was an ex? No, it wasn't an ex. It was just a friend that I used to deal with in the past. I had them with no other woman. So it was your ex? No, it wasn't my ex. Y'all just, yeah, that was a friend that you was smashing.

Y'all were smashing at one point. And so that makes her not, that makes her more than a friend, but she wasn't quite a girlfriend. Yeah, years a girlfriend. Yeah you had your girl around this girl saying that she was your friend huh? I can't hear you I'm sorry. You had her around this girl like y'all had just always been friends but y'all were smashing. No no hell no I'm not that damn disrespectful. Okay okay just a little bit disrespectful okay I got you. I feel you. But you hope you learn from this. I'm definitely learning my lesson.

And I'm going from it. And I'm just trying to right my wrongs at the end of the day. How long ago did it happen? It happened Friday. That bitch grew up fast, don't they? It just happened Friday. He grew up from it. He just.

Hey, man, what you realize? What you realize? Something so good is going on for you, man. You get lonely, man. Yeah, you got a long way to go, brother. It's just happy Friday. I sure do. I sure do.

I'm a work in progress, but I'm working, brother. But you gotta start somewhere. You right, you right. That's right. Good luck, brother. If you think your wife, if you think your woman gonna start trusting you after three days, you bugging.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

Jess is out today. Lauren's holding it down. And of course, we got our niece, Nala, here. And we got a special guest in the building, brother Teddy Swims. Hey, man. How you feeling? I'm so honored to be here man, I'm pumped. I'm really really excited dude. We did our album release party last night though so you know again excuse my drinking for a few days. You don't have to excuse yourself for drinking early in the morning. You see that one over there? Let's cheers to your new release and all of your success. She does it every day.

And your baby on the way. From my baby on the way, yeah. Yes. I have one on the way, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you're drinking with a pregnant man this early. Tell us about yourself, Teddy. Man, that's so loaded. I'm from Georgia, from about 30 minutes east of Atlanta

in Conyers, Georgia, Rockdale County. And I like singing songs and I'm a good boy. You have a very soulful voice. Did you grow up in the church? Yeah, so my granddad was a Pentecostal pastor. I didn't grow up singing in a church a lot, but I definitely grew up with a fire and brimstone, for sure, man, with a fear of God.

Yeah, you know what I mean? You're afraid to sin? No, no, not these days. I mean... I'm just talking about like back in the day with like a very religious household. Yeah, yeah, you know, like girls don't get haircuts, you know, girls wear skirts, men wear jeans,

like that kind of thing. It was real kind of tight. And I mean, I'm very fortunate, I guess. I feel like I still subscribe to so many of the principles of, you know, even the police are there. I do love. My my granddad was as I was growing up with my granddad He was he was like we wouldn't even go to restaurants that would have a bar in the restaurant You know and not that he ever had a problem drinking But it was just he stood on his belief so much

The thing that I was always with him was that I didn't subscribe to the idea that like telling people that they're wrong And this is the only way to believe something. I remember he looked at other churches and be like, the only way he believed it was right. I remember the first time I sang at his church, I might've been 17 or 16 or something. And I remember him saying like, you know, I want you to sing at a church bed, but man, all these kids are like breakdancing and carry it on for the Lord. And I was like, yo, Pop, like's broke dance since my mom was a child. You're so, and if they want to break dance for the Lord,

Pop, let them break dance for the Lord. He was very stern, just by the book. If it wasn't in the Bible, then it was a sin. You know what I mean? So were you rebellious? Hell yeah. My mom was worse than I was. I remember getting in trouble for all sorts of shit

and being like, I'm not doing any of that. Cause she thought I was doing all sorts of mess. But she was a pastor's kid. My mother was the... I wanted to, when you talk about rebellious, you started off playing football, all right? So her family was a big football family. So what got you from football to singing?

My dear friend Jesse. You're like a nose guard, I can see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you play. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I'm an offensive guard as well. Oh, wow. I mean, I was just 5'7", wasn't really happening, you know? I was in high school, middle school at the time.

Yeah, but I've been 5'7", since I was in 8th grade. And so they thought I was going to be big, you know? It didn't happen. I started shooting up to six foot two and three and What my ass off the line? So what got you into arts like? My different Jesse who still plays with me. I've known him since I was a little kid His dad was always in bands and stuff So we started trying to experiment and play music and stuff and his his older sister was a musical theater and got us in The musical theater and I just kind of fell in love with singing and I was hooked.

I was hooked. Singing has changed my life. I wasn't good always but I fell in love with it. I remember telling my mom that I was going to not do football anymore and I was going to sing and she was so, so hurt. I brought out all my memorabilia like, I can't believe you do this to us when we play football. I remember my first little, we did this show called damn Yankees I did like two lines in it I think and after I got done I come off stage and she was like I'm so

sorry baby this is where you belong really you're a star you know I did like two lines you know what you mean by you weren't always good at it like how do you you sound amazing so bad we were so bad at it you know he was in a group oh no just me and my buddy Jesse He still plays guitar rights and he plays guitar my band still and we as we were learning and trying to build bands together And do it as kids, you know, we just were really bad, you know, we suck like it We're just not good. I like you couldn't still find actually on YouTube It's a senior in high school

My first band, Heroic Bear, is still on YouTube, our first little EP. And I was in like a metalcore band at the time. And so you could still hear me like screaming away and like singing. If you want to hear it. Pull it up, you know the routine. If you hear it, dude, you're going to be like, OK, yeah,

you got good. Did you get lessons or did you practice? Or how did you get so good? Well, I think I was so lucky. I mean, I was in theater, you know, and I had a lot of good friends and they were singing. But I think the biggest thing was growing up in the, like when the YouTube era was first kind of starting,

you know, and if I had questions or if I wanted to know how to sing, there was always a live version of singer singing, you know? So like I could watch like live videos of how, how are they moving their throat? How are they moving their jaws? How are they? Oh, God. Yo, that was crazy. I could dissect it videos of how are they moving their throat, how are they moving their jaws, how are they. Oh, God. Yo, that was crazy.

And I could dissect it, you know? I could just sit there and watch YouTube videos and see people singing live, you know? Like singing, Craig David singing, and credit recovery, I would pull up a YouTube proxy and just have it behind the video and just listen to Craig David, just, I'm walking away, chosen one.

I could listen to live videos and watch them play, you know, and sing and it was like... Do you think you like saw somebody like Craig David and like mimicked him and that's how you found your voice? Oh totally, yeah, yeah. Some of the best man, some of the best that ever did it. Marvin Gaye watching, Otis Redding man, listening to Al Green, you know. I mean I just fell in love with the instrument and I was like I want to know how to access that. And then you started doing these covers, right?

And you started covering songs and then you did one cover that started shooting up crazy. So talk about that a little bit. I think Shania Twain, still the one was the one that really kind of went crazy for us. You know, I love my mama and my mama loved Shania Twain when I was coming up. I love Shania Twain too. That was a real life-changing one for us Our first one we started out with was because June 25th of 2019 was the first time I'd never even expected doing covers You know online and we had found like the stems of rock with you online Michael Jackson

Yeah, and so it was it was ten years right after he passed It was his 10 year anniversary and so I was like we should, we should just do Rock With You by Michael Jackson just to pay homage to him. And for the, you know, and then we uploaded it and it started doing well. And I was like, man, we should just keep this, I guess, this cover train kind of going.

So we kept on for, you know, the next few months. And I think the beautiful thing about starting with Rock With You, it started getting, you know, like I said, the first day we woke up, we had like 10,000 views and it was so life changing for us. We're like, boys, we're getting hammered. This is sick. And it was such a weird thing because once it hit like this critical mass of like maybe 500,000 views, I think people were looking at it, seeing the way I look and then seeing the Rock With You, you know, and saying Rock With You by

Michael Jackson and me and I'm looking like an absolute redneck and saying like, either this is hilarious or this is actually really good. And I think for our benefit it was kind of both, you know, because just the fact that I was singing that song but doing it well was kind of funny and surprisingly good. Now Teddy, why have you tried everything with therapy? Well, I've tried therapy now sir, so you know even as we're getting ready to have a kid, me and my girls have been doing even couples therapy which has been so wonderful and making sure we're coming in and having this child in the most healed, safest environment possible.

But I think, I think naming the album that was, was kind of to have that conversation and with myself to get myself to go. I think there's just like been in generations past and even still there's this like connotation on therapy that we're like, we're not allowed to go to that or we're not allowed to share our feelings or emotions Yeah, you know and and I just it's been life-changing for me And I did have even this in my brain that I was like I'm not crazy I don't need that you know I had this for so long that I was like I know myself I don't need nobody to tell me what's wrong with me

You know and I feel like once I got it to it It was so much different than I thought it would be to. And I feel like there was something beautiful about having that first album and not trying it and being in a place of turmoil and heartbreak with somebody that was made me feel like my feelings were invalid or not allowed to have. And, and having this part two coming out and being this thing of I've tried therapy, I'm back in love, I'm having a child, I'm got some level of success in this and you know on the back of heartbreak It does get better on the other side. Yeah All right. We got more with Teddy swims when we come back don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning

the Breakfast Club Morning everybody we are the Breakfast Club Teddy swims is here Charlamagne Can I can we talk about some of this music on this new album? Sure. I'd love to you Um, not your man is a very vulnerable record. Thank you, sir. Have you ever really felt like you gave everything to a woman and it wasn't enough? Yeah, hell yeah, man.

I think it was important to start this one out like that because I'd have wrote this forever. I was in a place with somebody where my, I don't know, it's hard, I don't want to talk about her in a way that, because now as I've grown and healed and moved on, it's, I, I thank her for, for what we went through, you know? I'm grateful for that time and space that we had together. I was at a place, yeah, where I felt like I was given everything and my feelings and my, I was, was not validated or it was not enough or I was crazy or feeling this way

or I was abusive situation. I don't, I don't want to, I don't want to say it. Emotionally abusive? Oh, both, man oh both man physically and she was she was just not good she was not a good person and I won the best for her but yeah it was a very tough thing to try to try to heal somebody try to make space for someone to heal try to give somebody everything you would think you would think if you had a if you had a passion I'll just make it like this you had a passion in your life and you had somebody in your life that says,

you can quit your job and just focus on your passion, I'll take care of the rest, you got it. And you don't do anything with your life, but you just eat Zad X all day and lay around and blame somebody for your shortcomings when you had the opportunity to follow your dream, somebody that would support you in your dreams. You'd be so surprised to see if somebody had the opportunity

to follow their dreams, and they had everything taken care of, how many people would be like, if everything's taken care of, I'm not going to do anymore. And you can't you can't put ambition and drive into somebody. You can't heal nobody. You can't save nobody. And I started to go on that tangent. But from that situation, do you feel like you no longer enable?

Because it's like, though you want to do something out of love to better somebody sometimes it's to their own detriment. Yeah I think I think I yeah I think it's an it was an enabling at the end of the day you know I was doing something to help someone become but I think at the end of the day I was enabling somebody to do nothing and if that was inside of them I was enabling that and I think it's a common pattern you know but yes I'm trying to heal and learn to see somebody for who they are and not who I want them to be or think they should be. I can tell you got a big heart, but people will take advantage of that. Hell yeah.

And I'm so grateful to be, I don't want to say I'm grateful to be taken advantage of that. I'm grateful to be available. Everybody's going to use you, but don't let people misuse you. Amen. Yeah. I have a last question for you. I was reading this interview you talked about, your girlfriend's black and you talked about like when you

guys are in the south you get like looks from people and like it bothers you because love should be loved but you're about to bring a baby into the world you're so positive she seems so amazing but the world is not always like that like how do you defeat that because you're really a really nice person like it breaks my heart. I mean you know I hate how much she's go throughs. So her dad's black and her mom's white. She tells me stuff all the time about like, you know, how she felt not white enough or not black enough and how much her like world and her life has been such a, I guess like

juxtaposition in both sides, you know, feeling like she wasn't quite accepted by either side, you know? And so this is not a story. I won't, I won't tell you her story because she's better at saying it than I will. I'll never tell you her story, but I see how like, how beautiful she is and how, I guess how like elegant she navigates

being who she is. You know, she's the most incredible human being I've ever met, man. I got a good counselor for y'all to talk to. Okay, I would love that, yeah. Dr. Umar Johnson, like he- Oh my God. You don't want to talk to him, understand I would love that, yeah. Dr. Umar Johnson. Oh my God.

You don't wanna talk to him? No. Come back this way, focus over here. Speaking of black and white, the song with Money Loan. Yes, sir. That title's a little on the nose, don't you think? Yeah, yeah.

I think that the point of it was kind of to the core of love in itself is black and white. Like it's a black and white issue. Love is love and not love is not love and loving, whether it's a person of a different color, shape, size, sexuality, same sex, whatever it is. I think that the thing was trying to say that no matter what, we could come from different worlds. It's a true, I guess story, kind of is the basis of it. We come from different places, we come from different cultures, we have different things. When you're in love, man, love is love and that should be enough.

And that's really, there ain't nothing great about that, man. It's just love. Love is love, baby. I love that record and it's a good stamp because you know money long Recently went viral for saying she's not writing soulful songs for white artists. Did you see that? I did not Oh, I'm glad I got that one before she says When did she do that song was that long did you do that a while ago? Yeah, we did it It's gotta be a few months ago now

but their friend Jeff Katie and Mickey echo was a part of it with us too. We started working on it and I remember Jeff Kitty has been working with Money for long years and years and he's like, man, should we see if Mornie wants to do this song with us? I was like, yeah, we'd kind of like to do a record like this, we would kind of need that. I would be so stoked that she'd be willing to because I knew what I kind of like to do a record like this, we would kind of need that, you know, I would be so stoked that she'd be willing to because I knew what I kind of wanted to say. But also, I can't say that, you know, without having money helped me say that, you know,

but also without like relying too much. I think I needed to, we needed to say that together. And so I'm just grateful she took that opportunity to say, I see what you're trying to say. I'll have you say that, you know? And said it with me. And I think I'm so grateful for her, because Monty's just a legend, man. What a bad, bad ass man. Now you also said you wanted to meet one

of your musical idols, was Stevie Wonder. Yeah. Did you ever get an opportunity to meet him? Yeah, you know, we haven't met in person, but I- He's faith-thumping. Yeah, yeah. And I got a chance to do a record with him, too. So I think he's going to put out on his next record. I hope so. I hope it's gonna come out. I'm really excited

It's a good record. It's called politic player and Yeah, which is such an honor to be on our Steve on the record. But yeah, he did FaceTime I'll tell you about it's so funny man. He he FaceTime. He hold the camera up himself. Yeah, and here's the thing It's just thing he is actually blind. Yo, and here's the thing. He is actually blind, y'all. This is true life. He was blind. Daddy.

I'm saying, people say it. People, there's a conspiracy that he's not. You see him pick up the mic that fell? Look, look, I'm telling you. I'm telling you, I was on the phone with this. I was facetiming this man, and he said, he had turned his, he had put the camera around. He said, this is my son over here.

And then he said, I'm over here, daddy. He's pulled over here, and he said, this is my son over here, and then he said, I'm over here, daddy, he's pulled over here, and he said, and this is my niece, and then he had his phone facing her, and for the next 10 minutes of the conversation, I'll look as far as you are, I looked at his niece. And not him at all. And he was holding the camera like,

he was holding it like he thought I was seeing him. And I did not have the heart to, he was sitting there. Confirmation that Stevie Wonder is blind. She was sitting there texting on her phone. I didn't have the heart to say, hey, I can't see you back. But you know, my dumb ass, man,

my dumb ass, the reason he called me, because I was in Tokyo, right? I was in Tokyo and I had found my favorite album of all time, best album ever, songs in a key of life. I found a CD of it, it was a Tokyo version of it, like the Japanese version of it. And my dumb ass texted him a picture of it.

Oh my goodness. Like an idiot, like he was gonna see it, right? Did he reply? That's what I found, bro. That's what I found, bro. What did he say? He just FaceTimed me. So I was like, and my dumbass too was like,

did you give him a text? So I was like, he's never, he didn't see it, bro. I don't think so. So I just, just to put all those things to rest. For you to be the person that shut down the rumors is crazy. All these years, black people been trying to figure this out and you are the one that solved the problem. I just know, I was looking at his knees for about 15 minutes.

Well there you have it. Teddy Swims y'all. We appreciate you for joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club and Jess is going to try to help Lauren LaRosa with her love life a little bit. Yeah. Now you had some recommendations of some guys that she could possibly be dating. Breakfast Club and Jess is gonna try to help Laura LaRosa with her love life a little bit. Yeah.

Now you had some recommendations of some guys that she could possibly be dating. I did. I did. I'm just gonna run through them quickly again. 53 year old gentleman, a millionaire. He loves to just shower you. He travels a lot. He wants more kids.

He wants to remarry. Deep lover kind of guy. But he wants you to be a housewife and I know you say you'd be outside, you know, but what would make you stay in a millionaire man who ain't ever really home anyway, you know? Oh, he never home with me. No, he travels to work. He travels a lot. He going out with me.

And I'm not traveling with him? He's not a millionaire for nothing. But I can't travel with him? You can, but he wants you to be a housewife and he's a bit controlling. Those were the disadvantages. Now you got this other 35 year old man. He's an overseas athlete. He wants commitment. He's a Christian God fearing guy, understands values. He goes out of his way to make sure that you are, that you know you're safe and you're loved by him, but he don't believe in marriage and he don't want kids

and you want both of those things. So I can't travel with. Oh, yeah. You, you, you may be able to in the beginning, but he, if he wants you to be a housewife, he wants you at home. He wants somebody that's going to make his home a home. He wants to remarry you. He wants to keep you on tuck. I'm just not a keep on tuck person. You can do your show from the house.

Yeah, but like then what after that? Like I'm just sitting at home like this. He said, you ain't never got to ever come back in the studio. You can do this from home. He done worked something out with our hardware the studio you can do this from home. He don't work something out Look my wife need to be home like she need to work be able to work from the house It's but I'm there by myself. It's no dinner party 35 year old on my kids or marriage and is he like set on that or can that be?

We'll give you a chance to think about it because we got a lot of people on the phone, Lyle. Now I'm gonna step back. I'm gonna let Jess figure out who's good for you. Yeah, because you done told them, I don't want somebody don't need to have a job and they can be in jail. Hello, who's this?

Who's this? This is Triana. Oh hey, Triana, how you feeling this morning? I'm good. What are you calling for man? I'm trying to shoot my shot at Lauren. Oh you're trying to shoot your shot at Lauren. Okay. Lauren said come one come all. Now are you a stud? What's up Lauren? Hey what's up how are you? You like girls? No. I can change your mind. I can change your mind just one day. Whoa! Change your mind!

What you doing that one day? I'm curious. I'm gonna take you on a date, I'm gonna give you a few drinks. Okay. We gonna talk and then we gonna go to my house. Now are you a stud? That sounds kinda like real. Yeah.

That kinda sounds like real. It doesn't sound like real. I ain't no stud, I ain't no stud, I'm a woman. I like boys and girls. I just got out of probably like a year ago. What's your Instagram? Let me see what you look like. Why does it even matter? Because I'm curious. T R A P P. Hold on. Let me make sure. Don't try to make it private. Don't try to delete photos. C-R-A-P-P. I'm not deleting nothing. This is a new Instagram. So T-R-A-P. D-O-G. D-O-G? T-R-G.

Just spell it. What is it? I mean, not spell it. Just say it. Trap God. Oh, you be trapping? Trap God. Trio with two A's and a P. So T-R-I-A-N-A-A.

Okay. So Trap God. Trio. T-R-A-P. G-O-D. T-R-I-A-P. Trio does not have a T-R-I-A-N-A-P. Okay.

So T-R-A-P. T-R-A-P. T-R-A-P. T-R-I-A-N-A-A. Okay, so trap god, Triana. T-R-A-P, G-O-D, T-R-I-A. What she look like? Triana does not look anything like what I thought she would look like. What she look like? Triana is giving, hey bestie. Okay. Uh-uh.

But she don't want you as a bestie. No girl, I felt like if Lauren would do a woman, it would have to be a stud. No, no, she don't need no damn stud. Damn. But Triana, you hold on, I'm voting for you. Hold on, all right? No, no, she don't need no damn stud. Damn. But Triana, you hold on. I'm voting for you.

Hold on, alright? No, I'm voting for you. What? That's my vote. Triana is a pretty chocolate girl. That's my vote. I know, that's right, Triana. I'm not voting Triana.

The body is giving. I'm not voting any girl. I look at Triana and I'm like, yes, bestie, like, take a drink. Let's go drink. Yeah, let's go. Maybe that's what you need. Sit your ass down. Hello, who's this?

Hello, this is Eric. Oh, okay, Eric, what's up? Hey, all right, boy. What are you calling from, Eric? Houston, Texas. Houston, Texas. Okay, brother, go ahead, man. Shoot your shot at Lauren.

Yeah, what's going on? How you doing? I've been hearing a lot about you. I don't know too much, but you know, I'm at work right now, so you gotta bear with me. Look at her face. I wasn't expecting to get through. What do you do, sir?

Yes. Oh, I'm a CDL driver. Oh, okay. Do you have kids? Yes, I do. How old are you? I mean, I look my, I'm 52. When you look at me, you wouldn't even think that.

A lot of people believe I'm in my 30s, but. Oh, so you was 30. Yeah, I'm a damn. Okay. Have you ever, have you ever been married before? Right, right. I've been divorced just one time. It's kind of funny, that story, too. I've been with her for over like 20 years and then when we? Right, right, I've been divorced. Just one time.

It's kind of funny that story to her. I've been with her for over like 20 years and then when we got married, she, like a year later, she divorced me. It's crazy. It's another story though. Mm, mm, okay. Have you ever dealt with a woman with different wigs?

Mm, here we go. Have you ever dealt with a woman with what? With different wigs, sir. Different wigs. Wigs? Yeah, wigs. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I gotta be teasing her about that man. As long as you know. Yeah. Yeah. That's funny. That keeps me going. But yeah, Solomon gives you a hard time with that. But yeah, it doesn't long as it looks good. Long

as they look like a rat on top of your head or something like that. It's all good. So far he has a good job. He has a child. He's been divorced. He knows how to treat a woman. Very calming, voice and soothing. Yes. It's the last. This is the last. Very close to my mom too. You know, you know, sometimes we bumped heads, but that's my mom though. That's like my first girlfriend. So it is what it is. Okay. All right. How would you deal with an argument if you and Lauren were disagreeing on something and she got a little rowdy because she's younger, she's younger, she's not in her 50s and she got a little spice to her, how would you handle that?

Well, when you have a disagreement there's always a conclusion and sometimes if you don't come on one sometimes you gotta agree to disagree But at least you move forward learn from that, you know You get into it everybody people at work people at you know home even your own kids But you just gotta learn how to you know, just work it out That's the best thing I can say you can't just everything not gonna go the way you want it to go But you know, we try to work it out for the best long as you see what's ahead. Okay. Do you have all your teeth? Of course and it's all mine Pause pause pause. How's the D game? You know ladies asking that Because you kind of old I don't make sure it still works if you're gonna do oh, man, bro

I'm not over you look at me I want to make sure my sister's happy. I just I'm gonna put you on hold. I'm voting for the girl still I'm voting for the guy WDAS that's we gonna call five eight five one. Oh five one to breakfast club. Good morning the breakfast club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Char Hilarious, Charlamagne Nogai, we are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. Cheryl Underwood, ladies and gentlemen.

Hey baby. Listen, okay, where we start? Wherever you want to Ms. Underwood. Why you come so hot? Well listen, because I got to, you know, because I'm old school, I got to sell these tickets mix and mingle. You know, we out there street walking to eat tickets. Absolutely. I need Joe. I got to, you know, because I'm old school, I got to sell these tickets mix and mingle. You know, we out there street walking to eat tickets. I need jokes.

I got to ask y'all a question. Black female comedians, are we hitting or do we got to struggle for it now? Jess, what you thinking? We ain't got to struggle for it. Well then why we ain't got no radio shows that we do ourselves, sitcoms that we do ourselves, podcasts that we do ourselves, and movies that we do ourselves. Back in the old days, you know, Simply Marvelous, everybody was doing, Laurier Hay, everybody. It seemed like now something has taken the place of what we used to get. It used to be we was

the Marla Gid, we walk in, throw that joke up, hit Sherman Hemsley, and walk out. Now we don't even get that, right? I got a reason. I think, because I saw you on club Shae Shae talking about the radio portion I think for whatever reason radio didn't look sexy to a generation Mm-hmm, but it wasn't a lot of people who went and pursued it So, you know, you got your Dee Dee McGuire's but Dee Dee's been around. Dee Dee's been around since she was back then. But she's a radio person. That's right. That's right. But if but if DL okay DL Steve Ricky Then why is it not me just not saying we don't want to work here

because I've been trying to get a job here. Let me talk to y'all about y'all. I've been trying to get a job here. You know I keep coming up here and y'all keep moving the location on me. I think I'm trying to find a place. Right there right there. Listen, like we used to be together.

Right there. They start packing us up. Listen, because I've been trying to get a job. When you got a job, I was like, oh, maybe I should lose a couple of pounds or something, put some nails on or something. I had to take my nails off because they was killing me. And fungus ain't for punks.

Okay, listen. That's your ringtone. You better check to make sure nobody answers your phone door. Oh, no, listen. Okay. I know what that means. If they don't quit walking across my stuff because that's what make the battery run out, go to bed.

And then they ain't even us. If it was us, you could be up all night long But when there's other races of people take your ass to bed and stop messing my battery up, okay? What was I talking about you took about people doing radio women? Yeah women not being in the position I want to do ready out. You know I call doc all the time doc doc look out for me I'm not on CBS no more. We gotta keep working I would I would do a pop what would I what would I want to talk about? Well, I know what I want to talk about. What would you recommend? Cuz you know, you be making that money too. You be man

Listen, I need to write a book. I need to matter of fact. I need to just do the Charlemagne to God Story. Okay. So wait a minute now Hold on what we're gonna talk about because you know and then it's the thing but it is when you do a podcast You got to really think about what is it that people want to hear from Cheryl? What you think when you see me like soon as you came in you looked at me it was like what's going on? No, you look like a damn that's how you come to work in the morning Thank you kind of work and sexy but ready to you know if I need to in the Right You gonna get smoked back with the perfect Breadfruit Club, that's right.

Cause we gonna hit you in the morning. That is a good question you asked cause when Jess first started her podcast, Carefully Reckless, she was talking about pop coaching and stuff and then it turned into you talking about yourself. Yeah, it turned into Jess Fix My Method. And then Jess Fix My Method. Cause what I went into it with thinking,

I'm gonna talk about what I wanna talk about, but no, a podcast, they don't really see you. We got a lot of people that shoot their podcasts, but I was just doing audio, you and cuz I'm already video visually everywhere else So I'm like now I'm gonna just lead us to audio but I with the mistake I made was like, alright They want to hear what they hear online. No, we want to hear something different We can go online if you want to hear what you talk about online So that's right. Give us advice on stuff. Yes. Your storytelling is amazing all your experiences

You're you always been an open book just so we going through the same things. How did you get through? How can you help us get through it? That's when it changed from me being just with the mess on my podcast to me just fix my mess. Now, you know, people call up. Yeah, I can fix people's mess here every Thursday. You know, they call up. They have situations at work. They have in, you know, turmoil in every relationship. That's right. That's right. Friendships, family stuff like that. And I will fix it. Well, since you fixing things, I need you to find me a man. And this is where we going. You go to every Red Lobster in the history of mankind

because it's a brother that run Red Lobster. That's right. We have a business. OK, so what's up with him? What's up with him? We got his contact. And he actually is single, I believe. He young.

He's young. He's in his 30s. I think he's 30. I do that. Y'all saw me in club Stray Stray go 35, 95. What you trying to do? 35, 95. 35, 95.

You ain't never had sex with no 95. Listen to a 95-year-old man. 35 95 what you trying to do? 95 To a 95 year old man, I'm a young tinderoni to a 95 But to a 35 year old man, I could teach him things plus I need my privacy You know, I want somebody live right. Plus, I need my privacy. I want somebody to live right next door or in another state. Just call me a night, check on me, see if I'm still alive. Oh, you don't want to live with nobody? No, I don't think that's a good idea in the beginning.

Well, I don't believe in shackin'. I never believed in that. I don't live in no man, because you don't know the day at an hour the master returns. And I don't like sex out of wedlock. Wait a minute, what that mean? You think the man's just going to die? You don't want to be with him? No, you just don't know when out of wedlock. Wait a minute, what that mean? You dated a night master? You think the man's just gonna die? You don't wanna be with him? No, but you just don't know when Jesus is coming back.

Oh, so he's judging, you're shacking up. Right, I'm living with a dude, and I think the Lord be looking down on my life, you know, be like, man, I'm just about to give her all these blessings, you know what I'm saying? To give her all this money and everything. She ain't ready.

But you've been having all this pre-marital sex? No, that's when I get caught slipping. Now listen, sometimes I get caught slipping. I get caught slipping. Now listen, sometimes I get caught slipping. I get caught slipping. You know, fair exchange ain't no robbery. You take me out to eat, I need to do something for it. You know what I'm saying? I need an arm-off, some tides or something.

You know, cause a lot of women out there, yeah, I did what I did, shut up. You need to do something for this man. He done took you out, you know, ate well and everything. He don't just like you and you up and kick, kick, kick, no. So you trick a little bit, Sharon? No, I wouldn't say I trick a little bit. I just say fair exchange ain't no robbery. You know what I'm saying? He don't just like you and you up and kick kick kick kick kick. No. So you trick a little bit, Sharon.

No, I wouldn't say I trick a little bit. I just say fair exchange ain't no robbery. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to talk to you and I'm going to tell you what I can do, what I can't do. I'm going to tell you if you want something that I don't know how to do, I'll call Jess. Jess, you want to jump in there? Do I want to be tagged in and then? Yeah, tagged in because of things I can't do.

I'm over here making sandwiches. I'm engaged so I can't, I wouldn't have done that. Listen, you know, I'm engaged so I can't I would have done this See I need to do your joint so you can tell me how did you get engaged because I tell it And black but he's black first, but you said Mexican first so you know what that means. She said Mexican first. Yes. She said Mexican first. Are you what? Yes, Kishore. That's his wig sitting right next to him. I identify as what I need to identify as in the morning. Oh you and the pronouns. Yes he is. See that's how we lost. You can't be in everything. Black people are not doing all of that. We get frustrated. That's when we call you straight your name. We're not against your rights and everything.

But we can't be thinking about all this stuff and everything. Because people gotta stop walking on the back side of our movement, then go to get their thing, and then they pulling it from everybody. See, that's what I want to talk about. I got questions, I want to ask questions, but also I want to do relationship I want when you get called in some me and Shannon used to kick it, you know, we just kick it out And you know, I was trying to get it. Did they used to call him? Shaysay back then? No, I didn't know who that was when I heard Shaysay. I was like, bro, you know

Just take it, take it, take it. You can take it, take it. Go to sleep, go to sleep. What the hell? Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep. So back when y'all used to talk, okay, so you saw that live or whatever, right? That took you down. I was running up in all kind of sports, baseball, soccer, Olympics, football, hockey.

I was running up in all kind of sports because I'm the different girl. I'm the girl that a dude get with and go, you know, I never thought I would like shut it up. Shut it up. Take it. Go to sleep. So you got, you got the Mexicans and black, the Mexican black, because I mess with that too. Gateway to legal immigration right through here. I mess with all that. Colombia, Cuba, Mexican, El Salvadorian. You know El Salvadorian is really black. You know, because they be trying to say who ain't coming and now he done picked up everybody. But you voted, you voted, you singing, you voted. But you didn't think he was going to flip the script over you. Anybody hustle hard like Donald Trump was hustling hard and did what he did. But we knew it.

We knew it. So I would want to talk about everything. Yo Sheryl, we're every day talking about everything. Sheryl with the podcast, Shay Shay, Jess Hilarious, we don't need sex, it's every politics, sex, everything. That's right, and I love the Lord. Alright, we have more with Sheryl Underwood when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious,

Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Sheryl Underwood. Hey, you look good tooilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. We're still kicking it with Cheryl Underwood. Charlamagne? Hey, you look good too, Cheryl. You look what? About 110. I was like 250. I was wilding, baby.

I ain't no that. I was wilding. You didn't notice when she was 250? But remember when we had a table. Because we had a table. And you know, I was coming out last. And I was wilding to the table, right? You know what I'm saying?

I was crossed between Biggie and Tracy Morgan right so I was like No for real, for real, wait a minute, wait, was I here, was y'all on this show that I said I look like Lil Yachty and everybody No Yes, yes No you see I thought it but I never said it No, I think I said it I thought I said it, I said it cause I thought it but I never said it. No, I think I said it. I thought I said it. Because I said it.

Because I saw the pictures. Man, I ain't never seen it until just now. No, because remember Lil Yachty did this thing in the video. And I said, oh, and then there's a picture and somebody put them side by side. And I took it, I claimed it. If you got a good line on me, I'll take that line. But if it ain't a good line, you might get tapped. You might get tapped. These little sharp knuckles and that I lost 110

pounds. I got a good black doctor too. Dr. Zuri Morrell. You got to check him out. So you had surgery to lose the weight? No. No. I was going to have it because that is what was recommended. And then when I went to get the, I did the psychological test because you got to go through a lot of testing before you get to surgery. And then I went to get the I was getting my colonoscopy. So I said, well, you might as well do the endoscopy because the equipment goes down your throat like, okay, never mind. I'm about to go in a whole nother tangent.

But when I went to do that my colorectal doctor, Dr. Zuri Morrell, brother of I see the Sinai Morehouse man said, why are you doing this? And so he started to read my record and he said, try this first. So then he put me on Sac-Cynda first and then I went to Wegovi and everything changed. And we monitor all of my vitals and my blood work and everything. And that's what you got to do. But this can be done. The other thing that can be done, we need to be buying up property that people don't

want and changing neighborhoods and putting healthy stuff next to stuff we love. And then we need to put small clinics in every neighborhood. You don't have to go to the hospital far away just to come down and get your blood pressure checked. You need to be able to walk. In the old days, we used to walk places. We need to bring that back. We who have money, access, and power need to use that money, access, and power because now they'll give us

something, somebody else will start using it, and then they'll take it away. You ain't hurting me. Why did the talk get canceled? You want my personal opinion? I don't know because you know that's above my pay grade. I'm asking Sharon. Right, you want my opinion? Yes, yes, yes. Well, I think we had the Dream Team Five. The Dream Team Five was Julie Chen Moonves, Aisha Tyler, Sharon Osborne, and Sarah Gilbert created the show, brought us to CBS, and then here I come. That's the Dream Team Five. Eve came just as good.

You know, so to me, once you get away from your dream team combination, do people really care? And are we really talking about something? You don't have to argue politics. I think the view does an amazing job with what they do. But we can't be that. Some people don't want to pick a side. Sometimes you don't want to argue all the time. But also I think we got to understand it is no longer visionary in entertainment. It is now corporation

in entertainment. If you are not cost efficient, you will not stay on. And if you're not generating revenue, you will not stay on. And I think once we lost the components that made us great, then we had to understand that it ain't your season no more. And Beyond the Gates, I believe it was something that I was told from other sources. Kristoff St. John when he was alive, he was trying to put this together years ago. It's been in development for years. It's their time. It's their opportunity.

People should support it. People should watch it and keep it on the air because at the end of the day We all need the jobs now what I like to do another talk show Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely I found that I have the skill and I like doing it But I'd like to do something a little bit different where I can talk about everything with everybody Yeah, you know and I just got a couple of questions, you know So what you joke earlier you joked right on by Sharon Osborne and I clocked it,

but I'm going to bring it on back. Real talk. That's why I told you when I walked in, what I say, you asked me, did she ask me anything? Because you asked me anything is how I answer it. Okay. Okay. Wait a minute. We are, we are like now, like how is your relationship now? How is it? Listen, I wasn't mad. I'm I'll tell y'all because I, anybody asked me, I'll tell y'all, because anybody ask me, I'll tell y'all. And I trust y'all. Remember when they were- No, you're talking to millions of people. It ain't just us.

It's us in here. I just want you to know. This family, there's millions of people. Come get the Mix and Mixer tour tickets. Hit me up on Instagram. I need to sell out everything. Tacoma, Washington, got to sell that out. Tacoma, Tacoma Company Club,

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this, right? You can state your point, but you ain't riding on her like that. Well, he was riding, then there was a co-sign. The co-sign called Black Twitter, Black social media. Undefeated to this day, right? So they was dragging and a lot of people don't like that heat, right? When I got in trouble, I had to go to the Black community. I'm sorry, I was wrong. But then I found out I got caught up in something that I think God was telling me something bigger is coming.

You better prepare yourself for what's coming. So on that day in that time period, being dragged, then you want to come back in and say, I got something I want to say. Well, there was discussion about, we're going to ask you some questions back. When people go, right, right, cool, cool, ask me anything. And then when it get heated, and then you want to jump funky on somebody. Well, this day, I believe that God said, did I not tell you servant that something is coming. Sit down. Why? Because if I had come out of a bag on her, if I had been the Sheryl Underwood from the past that you know me, who the f*** you talking to?

My last name is what? I would have been a reflection on you. So just don't get the opportunity because black females don't know how to control themselves But you got to know how and when to check somebody and on that day The blessing from God was for me to sit there and when somebody say what we got to do sure because remember I was Moderating which is the leadership position. I liked being the anchor right Julie Chen Moonves was the moderator I like being an anchor right she tee it up for me I take it down and we go to break I slam dunk it and we go to break if I ain't got none I well now if I got a give her the signal ain't got nothing. That's a relationship

Yeah, but if somebody's jumping on you sometime you got to let them flame out. I love her. I love every woman and man that I've worked with. But when something like that happened, I think the blessing from God was, look how Cheryl has matured. Look what Cheryl did not do on CBS when a black man is running it. We've got to understand we represent each other. Yeah, I could have lit her up. and for that moment Everybody would have been happy until they're not so I think I did what I should have done Which was sit there and let you keep talking let you keep talking now was I hurt? Come on, Jess, you know me who the fuck you talking to I want to go to break

I did do you who you talking to but then I was like shut it up Cheryl shut it up Go home make a vodka tonic ask God to take this heat off your back She apologized but then she went on stage stage still show and said she regretted apologizing and actually said Absolutely and see to me I would say this Everybody wants to know my feeling I want to know what was your reaction To one minute you apologize the next minute you not one minute you further you minute you apologize, the next minute you're not. One minute you fuzz, and the next minute you're not. One minute you're making little comments about somebody in leadership, but you're not.

Or people are coming out with their information that they've witnessed. So wait a minute, Cheryl might not be the villain. See what happens is when you get power, even power on the level that we got it, now you become a threat, right? But we don't want to wield our power where you can't work. We need you to survive. So when people look back and go, Sheryl, do you regret it? No. Who would have thought Sheryl Underwood from Def Comedy Jam, BET Comedy View, would be on the number one network, the red state, the square business network that do all the police procedurals would be on a talk show. That's why sometimes you got to

know to play your position. We have more with Cheryl Underwood when we come back is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody it's EJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking with Cheryl Underwood. Charlamagne? So you have other women blocking you? Yeah, and I have a strident personality as well. You know, I walk in a boss. Yeah. Because when you're a female comic, you are the boss. You are everything.

So I walk in, Cheryl, can you do it? No, I cannot. Read this right here. Just like when I did, what was the movie that Lisa Ray, Jamie Foxx, Players Club. Yeah. Okay, so they called me because in my past I was doing the little sexual interpretive dance on the side. Okay, you were the stripper, Cheryl? No, the part that Adele took. Yeah, okay, so they called me because in my past I was doing a little sexual interpretive dance No the part that Adele took you know I guess I'm too short to be dying

That wouldn't have been a good movie at all. Yeah, I would have walked out on the bootleg What was your stripper name? I don't have no super night this one was you know know I'm from Chicago, right? You know Cheryl Scrippin. Right. There it is. You know I grew up in Chicago, so I was going to UIC. They had an ad in the paper where you was going. It was a minute ago. It was an ad in the paper. That's right.

Damn. It was lingerie modeling. It was lingerie modeling and it was where you come out with the lingerie. It was in a tavern, Family Den. It was in a tavern on Stony Island and you come out with the lingerie on. Nah, but I know it's old. Yeah, for real.

It was a tavern. And I'm not a great heel walker so I came out and everything and I got it on. Damn, you had everything against you. Everything was against me. Everything. And God let you know what you With a gun smoke listen Festus You better come on rifle man check on a big foe roots when we start

Trying to get the money right cuz I'm trying to go to college, right? So I come out, but God let you know what you ain't supposed to do, right? So I come out and I know I'm not good at this, but them other girls, they doing it. They stripping because they buy the lingerie and then you're supposed to strip it off, right? But I'm not good, I'm garbage at this, right?

So I start telling jokes and acting crazy and falling out. On the stage? No, you have to walk around the tavern and do the buy-it. So them hood dudes, you know hood dudes like, oh, you crazy, you crazy. You need to go home. You need to go home. So they start paying me for that. And that's how they were like, listen, you funny and you smart. And then that's when I started having affinity for the street dude. And I talked for the street dude, I hang out with the street

dudes, you know, and street dudes have backed me up in life. So like you say, I didn't have to fight for myself because the street dude was always willing to step up. I creep on the low, you know, I go through three hotels at one time. Listen, meet me in the lobby at this one, we're gonna get in the cab, we're gonna go down to this one, but we're not gonna stay. We're gonna go out the back, then I want you to go around the corner. Now you have to drive another car.

I don't want everybody knowing my business. So people were trying to say I was. But they were saying that I was. And I thought I was. But it's worth all that though. Who is talking to you? Tell them it is. It's all right.

I mean, I know I'll tell the truth now. Before we, before you, Sheryl, let me take you out to dinner. First I tell you it's garbage. Below the waist, garbage. I ain't got to move. Above the neck, fire. You'll be late for work. You'll be late for work. You Above the neck, fire. You'll be late for work.

You'll be late for work. You'll be mad, you'll be mad. You'll be like, what day is it? And my kidney is gone? And my tooth, my wisdom, you took my wisdom tooth out? I'll put you down, I'll put you down. I'll make you call me, I'll make you call me. And I don't need a full face of makeup.

I know when I did a good job, when they don't care whether I got a wig or makeup on, I just need to see you. I bet you call me. I make you call me. And I don't need a full face of makeup. I know when I did a good job, when they don't care whether I got a wig or makeup on, I just need to see you. I bet you do. I bet you do. I know what I'm doing. But fair exchange ain't no robbery now. I'll tell you the truth.

You want this, it's not good. You have to find somebody good. I'm at the top. I'm not at the bow. And see, I would hang out with girl, cause she say she looking for somebody. But she's gonna have a hard time. Why you say that?

Successful women are gonna have a hard time because some men think we don't need you. I need you. I need you. You can work at the gas station and I need you. Why? Because I know I'm getting honey buns, I'm gonna get barbecue chips and a full tank of gas. I was right saying that.

And then I'm gonna motivate you to buy the gas station you work in. And then I'm gonna motivate you to buy more gas stations. That's right. If that's what you want to do. Now if you cool working at the gas station, I'm gonna make sure your shirt is fresh and iron. Nate, because your real name is Nathaniel. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready.

I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. I'm gonna make sure your shirt is ready. Give me some sugar. Now go work at the gas station. I'm gonna scoop around, get me a tank of gas.

I need that 91 octane, baby. And I'll see you later. No, oh boy, oh boy, what's his name? What's his name? He's in all the commercials now. Big dude, big dude. Yeah! Listen, everybody was blowing my phone.

Juuski trying to hit. I was like, where he at? I was like, where he at? I was like, where he at? What are like where he at? I'm where at? What you trying to do? Cause he always looking for love. He mentioned it up here. He said he wanted to holla.

Everybody was calling me going, Juicy said he wanted to hit. I said, well call him, tell him what's up. I'm in this city. I don't know how to do all that. Who the hell be DMing me from your page all the damn time? Oh that'd be me. Wait a minute. But did you look at- On Instagram. Wait, but wait a minute. Let me tell you what happened. Remember I said, is this still you? Yes. I'm secretive. Is this still you? She wanted to make sure, like, uh-uh. I'm not saying nothing to you. Shana

May, I need to come on your show. I am Shana May. You can tell Shana, oh, she think, yo, she act like you got a different number of subscribers. She act like she was still with you. Did it still work? Did you pay? Yes! I'm going to connect you and Drewski. Okay, but listen, what y'all need to do, we need to meet up somewhere, y'all need to film it.

See, it's documented and that thing. Then I need to give that kiss goodnight. I like to kiss. I don't really like to do nothing now. You know me and Flay, he had scored me to the BET Comedy Awards. You did Flava Flav? Yeah, he had scored me. And he was like, you know, he thought he was just doing it, you know, being dashing and

everything. But then when I did my set, the one that LL Cool J performed on way back in that day, when I had my little makeover, my outside makeover, and one of the Wayans brothers had me in the corner, he was rapping to the beat. I said, you know this is Sheryl Underwood, right? And he was like, Sheryl! I was like, yeah man, you still trying to holler? You know what I'm saying?

Because usually I don't look, but I got the best. Dale McDonough, best glam man. Three Emmys to my one. So anyway, I was trying to get myself together, and I be texting people, and I don't know if people really like me, right? You gotta figure out, do you really like me? Because I'm not gonna throw it out there if you don't like me.

And if you like me, then let's go out. Now if you wanna film it, film it. So me and Flav get together, I do my set, then he's like, well come to the after party. I said, no, I'm going home, go to bed. He said, no, come to the after party, we have to go to, this dude was getting drinks, everything, he was chivalrous, everything.

So I was like, okay, it's time for me to go, you know. I said, good night, and he was like, good night. And so he moved in for the movie, now come to after we have this dude getting drinks everything shivers everything so I was like okay it's time for me to go you know I said good night and he was like good night and so he moved in for the movie and I said I you buying them drinks about a lot of drinks and I'm still standing okay and we kiss good night and I was like what

the hell. We said favorite trade exchange what you say? Fair exchange ain't a robbery. Fair exchange ain't a robbery. You trying to holler You trying to holler at me? But he was dashing. For me, you get me on dashing, handsome, a man. Right? I like a baby DeVos, but people think, why would you mess with Flay? Right? He was dashing.

He was handsome. And I felt it was an appropriate good night kiss. It don't mean we gonna be together. Because you may not like me. You might just have a feeling. You know what I'm saying? If you got the feeling, what you want to do after this There you go, don't you get scared?

I'm putting the pressure on don't be scared We don't have to come back here and y'all gonna have to let the cameraman follow us You know cuz that we hit the red lobster in Times Square and Tear them apart. There ain't gonna be no more crab legs Better do something other than red lobster No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no other than red lobster. No, no, no, we trying to help the brother. We trying to help the brother. I want to make the red lobster, if you go to my Instagram page, I've been going to red lobsters

with people all over the country with dudes. If you want to date me, I'm in the city and there's a red lobster. I'd like to go on Thursday night, cause I need to get some sleep, due to promotion on Friday. But I want to go into the red lobster, cause we gotta bring that back as the poppin' spot. We gotta help this brother. We gotta talk to the brother over at lobster because we got to bring that back as the popping spot Yeah, we got to help this brother. We got to talk to the brother over the lows We get the brother that's running lows. We talked to you if you are on the list. We need to talk to you

Sure, I'm not wrong. That's right. That's right. Okay, so when I'm coming back when I come back You want to listen I I'm trying to take a position. Oh, I just try to get in cuz I Try to do that I just try to get in because I need another job. Try to do that. Well, no, I don't get down like that. I don't get down. And you don't train your replacement. I got jokes about that, too.

Somebody walk up to you, teach me how to run a coffee machine. That's a coffee machine. Mm. I thought that was a vending machine. I ain't never seen it. You want me to do what? Mix and mingle, come and enjoy. Mix and mingle, come.

Get your tickets. It's the Breakfast Club. It's Cheryl of the Village. You're checking out the Breakfast Club! Your execution on the Donkey of the Day is something to behold. Is it a read? They gave me Donkey of the Day and I deserve it. You don't need to know, do you? You need to tell them.

I am! Because you have the voice. Tell them. It's time for Donkey of the Day. It's a read, but you're so good at it. You're trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne. You're the only one Charlemagne in the world. Damn Charlamagne. Who you give the dustier of the day to? Damn. The donkey of the day goes to Monjay. I think that's his name Monjay. Monjay D.

James Wooden. Okay he's 25 years old and hails from the great state of Kentucky. Drop on the clues bombs for everyone who listens to us on Real 93.1 in Louisville, Kentucky. Thank you for your support. Now we all love fast food. We eat it for different reasons. The number one reason is we're hungry. Okay. It's convenient. It provides comfort, full disclosure. You know, I'm a fast food franchise owner. Salute to Crystal. Drop on the clues bombs for Crystal. But another fast food restaurant I grew up on is Wendy's. And that's why this story made me laugh because I understood both parties involved. Okay, when I was a kid, I would drive my grandmother Rosalie into town Okay, she would run her errands in most corner of South Carolina and when errands was done

She would always want to go to Wendy's and when we got to Wendy's she would stress to me When we was going through the drive-thru that she wanted her fries hot, okay I can literally hear her right now telling me not tell him you want the fries hot. She would stress hot. And that's a common sentiment amongst anyone who orders French fries. You want them fresh, you want them hot, but those Wendy's hot fries hit different. Even though I think in 2025 crystal fries are better, but those Wendy's hot fries slap and Monjay was angry over the temperature,

his fry temperature of his fries. Now whenjay was angry over the temperature of his fries. Now when you're angry over the temperature of your fries, you simply say, hey, these fries are cold. I would like them hot. Most fast food restaurants will oblige. But when it's 1041 p.m. at night in Kentucky, apparently handling things civilly is not an option. See, Monjay and a group of people he was with

allegedly started arguing in the drive-through over the cold fries, and then the suspect in his squad went into Wendy's because they wanted action. What happened next? Let's go to ABC 11 on your side for the report please. A man was arrested today in connection to a shooting at a Wendy's restaurant, one police believe started over cold french fries. LMPD says Monja James Wooten turned himself in for the January 6 shooting. According to his arrest citation, he was with two other people in that Wendy's drive-through on Dixie Highway. James Wooten and the other suspects allegedly got into a fight with the worker over

cold french fries. Louisville police released these photos from the scene. Three suspects got out of the drive-through and then came inside the restaurant where James Wooten allegedly fired at the Wendy's worker. She was hit and taken to the hospital where she's expected to survive. James Wooten is right now being held on a bond of $50,000. Round of applause for that Wendy's employee. Okay. In the immortal words of Ray Kwon the chef, you got guns, we got guns too. okay? And in the words of the almighty Bo Hagen, F that, you buck, we buck back. See, Monjay, you learned a valuable lesson. And that lesson is simply never judge a book by its cover.

You thought homie was sweet because, you know, they weren't in there thugging, okay? You thought that you was gonna go in that Wendy's and bully that person because they worked at Wendy's. You saw them black pants, that red shirt, that black apron with the Wendy's logo on it, and you thought this was gonna be a breeze. And then that Wendy's employee showed you

that the beef really is fresh, never frozen. Okay, you went for hot fries and ended up getting a hot fire. This is why I be telling folks go to therapy though, okay? You have to go do the work on yourself because this is simply not proper conflict resolution. Okay, if your fries are not hot, there is absolutely zero reason to argue

with the fast food employee and you damn sure don't need to go into Wendy's and lick a shot. What is the point? How many times do I have to get on this radio and tell folks before they react, do some jail math in your head. Simple calculations.

Can I afford to do what it is I'm about to do? Because the cost can sometimes be too high. You might lose your life, you might lose your freedom, and who wants to die or go to jail forever over that new mushroom bacon cheeseburger at Wendy's? Okay, Monjay is being held right now with a bail set at $50,000, and he's being charged with assault.

I'm sure it's gonna end up being an assault with a deadly weapon. That's 20 years, okay, in Kentucky, sir. 20 years in prison because you wanted your fries hot and didn't know how to properly communicate that to a Wendy's employee. Now, you about to go to prison. Let me tell you something.

You about to go to prison. And when they find out what you in there for, they gonna give that fresh meat a nickname okay I promise you they gonna call you young baconator in prison all right that's right you gonna go into prison single but after a few months somebody gonna order a double and when the word gets out that you like it hot somebody gonna order a triple that's a lot of meat and I don't even want to tell you what that vanilla frosty is like in prison

but it's hot just the way you like it please give Monjay D James Wooden the biggest he hug crazy world this is a very crazy world the frosty was crazy work that vanilla frosty gonna be nasty It's gonna be warm. That was crazy words gonna be warm. Oh That's right. And they come with a straw, too Right, thank you for that donkey today the Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club, Lola Rosa is here as well, and we got a special guest in the building, the Hood Whisperer, Tess Lee! Yes!

Family, I'm not a special guest, Breakfast Club family. Tess Lee Figueroa is here, good morning Tess! Good morning, good morning, good morning. How you feeling? I'm feeling good. Congratulations, I saw that you officially got accepted into FAMU Law School. Yes! Congratulations.

Can we drop a clue? Absolutely. Of course. Good morning. Good morning. How you feeling? I'm feeling good. Congratulations. I saw that you officially got accepted into FAMU Law School. Yes. Can we drop a clue? Absolutely. Can we drop a clue?

Yes. Thank you. I'm glad you're saying that. Yes, I'm very excited. FAMU HBCU, very, very important. My daughter, shout out to my daughter, Jada, she actually got into Prairie View. Okay. So she'll be going on scholarship and mom

will be taking advantage of my emptiness situation and going to law school. I love it. What made you decide to, because you already got two degrees, right? Yes. What made you want to go get a third? I've always wanted to get my law degree.

Even though I've worked with attorney Crump as a senior public policy advisor, as you know, for the last 10 years, just wasn't able to do it. Having a daughter, running a business, 300 employees in Atlanta, hustling, working. Your first year of law school is really like a hazing. You really have to be able to focus.

I've always had to worry about getting money. So I wanna say thank you to you for the Black Effect Podcast Network, because without that, knowing that I can at least have some type of income coming in, that's really a lot of why it's made possible. So, I'm happy for that. Your critics could never. Period.

That's really, really important. It's not like I'm wealthy or anything like that, but one of the things with law school, it took me over a decade to finish my bachelor's. I had to stop, start, stop, start, stop, start because of money. Do I got to work full-time? Do I have to be a teacher? Subtitude? All those different things. So to really finish the law school program, you need a job. And how do you do that in still study? So I am part time because I'm still Chief Political Correspondent at Revolt News and managing editor over there. But now I can kind of breathe and you know, I got some income coming in. so shout out to Charlie. Will you actually go to class and

school there or will you do online? I know you always ask about online. Yes no I will be in class in Orlando Florida going back to Orlando finishing up some which is a full circle for me. I had to leave when due to a health care reform and I lost my business so no it's actually Monday through Thursday and then I'll be going to Atlanta to record on Friday. Political science, law degree, so when you finish all of that, you're just gonna apply it to what you're already doing? Do you have a new area you want to venture into? No, I will still always be in civil rights. No doubt about that, but criminal defense.

It's very, very important to me. My main thing that I advocate for is the criminalization of Black men in particular and black folks and we need more criminal defense lawyers what attorney Crump does is important We need more civil rights attorneys, but I think I can be a beast at that defense table I think so too, but we got a lot to talk about a lot to discuss of course Where do you want to go? I see you got your laptop out I got my laptop What do you call it? Your notes? Your points? Well, no, I came to talk to you guys about Push the Line.

I've talked to you about it many, many times. My training program, Politics Until Something Happens, it's a nonpartisan political training. We did it in 2022, you remember, had 300 people that came from all over the country. I was overwhelmed to see how many people came in. They sat with me for 12 hours in the rain, waiting in the rain at 7 a.m. And so people have asked Teslin bring the program online. And so I finally got it online.

It's a five course program. I'm the trainer. I saved masters in education, not to stunt, cause you know, I'm the hood whisperer, but it's important that you know that because I actually built the curriculum. And so there's a lot of folks that build courses but may not know the technicalities of building a curriculum, having objectives and meeting those. So course one is called We Are Soldiers and what that is is talking about the roles and responsibilities

for candidates, campaign workers, organizers and activists. A lot of people don't understand roles and responsibilities and the difference between those two. And I'll just kind of give an example. You and I talk about it all the time. The difference between candidates and activists. An elected official actually serves the constituents. So you'll hear a lot of people online, why is such and such black candidate talking about immigration?

Why are they talking about this? Why are they not talking about black folks? Well, they are, but you got to understand that candidate in Congress is representing 200,000 people, 150,000 people, and that job literally says to advocate for your constituents. So they have to take care of everybody. So that's why people was pissed when they said, Oh, VP Harris said, I'm not going to only do stuff with black people. I feel it. I understand what they meant. But what she was basically trying to say is you have to represent everybody, which is why I would not be a good candidate. It's really important that you know where you fit. I wouldn't be a good candidate unless I'm in South Fulton,

which is Atlanta outside of Atlanta, Georgia, 98% black city commissioner. So I can talk about black issues. But if you're in Congress, you're running for president, you're talking about everybody. That's literally a part of their job. An activist, and this is where people get confused, an activist is the one that is pushing the candidate. That is saying, hey, what about me, what about me? So if that's reparations activists, immigration activists,

health care activists, your job is to literally put pressure on the elected official. The elected official has to sit around and say, okay, I got to take care of a little bit of this, this, this, this squeaky oil, what they say squeaky oil, what's the wheel? The squeaky wheel gets the oil. So your job is to push. However, because candidates, and this is where I criticize them, candidates elected officials don't work with activists the way that they should because you want to be at all.

You want to be the candidate, you want to be the activist, you want to be the organizer. Are they scared to work with the activists because they think they'll get backlash? Right, or they want to be on this microphone. You have over 400 people in Congress. How many do you see on the microphone? A handful.

So you have your Jasmine Crockett's. You have, like- Nancy Mace. Yeah, so you have, but technically they're the elected official. Technically, they shouldn't have to be on the microphone being the activists. Because what happens is, if Jasmine Crockett is talking about all the different things, immigration, I tell people, lay off on being upset with her talking about immigration. She's in Texas. She must talk about immigration. So you have black people lying, why is she talking about immigration? Because she represents people, you know, in Texas. So when you have her having to be the activist, because there's not leadership in the

Democrat Party that's loud, or there's not activists on the ground that are loud enough, or they're not coordinating with those activists, and when I say coordinate, I mean give them money so that they can crash out on your behalf then now you have a candidate trying to do it all. So what happens when she runs for office? When I looked at her Ballotpedia I think it was a hundred something thousand that voted in a general election. So when I look at that and I see 50,000 people in the primary that can move you out your seat that's what happened to Representative Bowman, Jamal Bowman. When you are being the activist

and he's talking about Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza and damn they're half of your district is Orthodox Jews they actually have the power to put you in and put you out not the podcast not the national media so when you're not coordinating with your activists, say, hey, go run this play, run this offense, and let me do this and you do that, that's how you see a lot of the issues. And you set up false expectations for the elected official. And then the organizer is very different than the activist.

A lot of people think that's the same, it's not the same. Organizing is actually getting people in the room like we did at the town hall a couple of weeks ago. I had in Atlanta 150 people standing outside in the rain. That's organizing. Screaming and yelling is one thing, but getting a hundred thousand people to go to the polls to say we are voting no commitment, that is actually organizing, which is why Tameka always says I'm an organizer first. So when you understand these roles and responsibilities, now you can know

your role, which is push the line. My logo has a person pushing the P, the U, the S, the H. Everybody at this table has a role. If you know your role and then we know how to work together, now we can move forward on an agenda. All right. We got more with Teslin Figaro. When we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlam don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Larose is here as well. We're still kicking it with Teslin Figaro Lauren.

With politics today though, like when I look at like Trump, I feel like he, you know, he doesn't stay within any lines of any of the things that you just said. Do you feel like there's, it's changed now because he's changed the way that politicians move and what they say and what they stand for like he he pushes whatever he wants to say and he's successful at it. So how do you kind of counter what he's doing and kind of make it where the people that you're raising up on either side are just as strong voice wise is what we see him do. Yeah, it's not about really countering it.

So one of the one of the modules that I have is it's called it's not about we it's about me. If you are already strategizing to be against somebody and not doing your role, like you always say, just stay consistent. Don't compete with anybody. Do your role. Push the line is not about trying to focus on Trump or focus on what Republican parties are doing because Trump never focused on you.

He never focused on the Democrat party. So when people set that up to say, I know it felt good when they say, Oh, Barack Obama, he's everybody's president. Actually, you're really the president of the people that vote you in. I know people don't want to hear that, but it's really catering to who votes you in, who puts you in. That's just like my household. I'm catering to my man. I'm not catering to what your man say or what somebody else man say. So Trump has done, and they hate it when I say this, because they say he don't, he don't, he didn't do a good job. He's a liar. No, I'm not saying I like it. I'm telling you how it is. It's a difference between how it is and how you want it to be. He is only talking to his base. Even though he know good and damn well, he

cannot dismantle the Department of Education because Congress is going to have to do it. He don't give a damn about that. He signed an executive order saying, let's dismantle it. We beg for those things. You remember Charlemagne, like, why don't y'all just do an executive order for the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act? But everybody's so smart in the damn crap. That's not how it works. You got to go through Congress.

People want to know you at least fighting. You at least in the ring. You willing to sock somebody in the eye. You willing to take, you willing to fight for my love. You know what they say, every night you willing to fight for my love. You know what they say, every night I gotta fight for my love. I think it's a combination of both though, because Donald Trump did, you know,

he did call them the woke left, and he did say that the Democrats are the enemy from within, but he didn't just run a campaign of Democrats are bad, Democrats are bad, Democrats are bad. He actually said, these are the things I want to do for my constituents as well. I think Democrats just run a whole Trump is bad campaign, but they don't ever tell the constituents exactly what it is they want to do for them.

Right. And they also don't teach constituents how to do it. They're terrible with training, which is why I started this training program. Also, Trump is an organizer and an activist and a candidate and a marketer and an entertainer. He makes everything a spectacle. He makes everything a big deal. He always knows how to play to the camera. All of the things that the Democrats feel they're too good to do. And so I'm just going to tell you like straight up, oh no, don't do that.

That's not president. He doesn't give a damn. And so when you, he's been campaigning for the last eight years. That's right. A rally. He's campaigning now. Yeah, he's campaigning now. We said that he's literally campaigning. When you have a rally

every month, every other month, that's actually organizing, getting people in the room. They pop out crazy. They pop out crazy. So he's been doing that the whole time. It's hard to catch up with that. It's hard to catch up when you've been talking. It's not a matter of how many people you have. Conservatives are the majority of this country. So it's not about who's the biggest. It's about who's the strongest. That's why I like to use LA gangbanger for those who grew up in the 90s. Bloods were always the smallest, but they also were the most powerful. How did Inglewood survive with Crips all around it?

Why because they knew how to push the line which by the way, that's what blood say push the line Crips say press the line So when you're able to take a small group Organize consistent message message message conservatives have the best and again don't come from me in a car I'll give there y'all come in comments or not They have the digital discipline that you do not have on the left. You do not have that on the left Conservatives listen to podcasts or what? They listen to a.m. Talk radio We talked about this before all the way in the work and our commute Messaging messaging messaging right they go in their job. They listen to a podcast

70% of podcast listeners are white which is why why we're doing that black effect is so important So then they had work messaging messaging messing bad bad bad enemy enemy enemy enemy then they go home and they watch Fox News Then they get in the comments. I try to teach people how to be the comment caucus I talk about that too. They they stay on it like we stay on it with shade room They stay on it non-stop look at the interview that I did here with Vivian Ramassami is a perfect example. Then people still commenting on that. They know how to message over and over and over even if it's wrong. And so you don't see that on the left. And so I don't give them his left or right. I want to see it more in our communities. Know how to message. Same way y'all follow

gossip, same way y'all followed it if we have that same type of Organizing which by the way is course to call the ambition of a rider It's talking about community coalition building how to be the common caucus how to make sure you click and like how to get the engagement You have to be very strategic in this and if you're not we don't get anywhere So I agree with that. I also think that um, that's why I was somebody when you see somebody scoring points You just got to keep feeding them the ball. Republicans did that with Trump. Once they saw that Trump is the guy that the media gravitates towards and this is who people are listening to,

that's the guy. And I think Democrats don't do enough of that. If it's AOC, give her the ball. If it's Jasmine Crockett, give her the ball. If it's Bernie Sanders, give them the ball. Those are the people that folks are gravitating towards right now. You just had a rally in LA, I think with like 30 something thousand people. That's what I'm saying. Like if that's the people folks are gravitating towards, that's who needs to be getting the ball. Right now. My criticism, well not criticism, my pushback with that with Bernie Sanders is because working on this campaign 2015, they did great getting people to the rally but you couldn't

get them to the polls. So it's great to stand up there and say, Hey y'all, this is bull****. But if you're not giving people the tools, which again, this is why this training is so important. If you're just saying get involved in your community, a lot of people literally don't know how they literally need a step-by-step guide. Democrats should be running a play. You should see commercials just as much as they ran y'all commercials. Every 15 years, it should be who want to run, who want to run, who want to run,

who want to work on a campaign, who want to work on a campaign. Constant. Y'all raise $100 million in 90 days. Where's $100 million to actually train people? Just so we clear, nothing is back, people pay for the course, but nothing is backing me. It's not a Republican, it's not a Democrat, it's not any of that. Why are they not using that money to train you how to run for local office. You have midterms next year. Then you need to train people how to actually work on the campaign. There's a lack of infrastructure. One of the reasons Rashida Tlaib was seven, four, five, six black people that ran against Rashida Tlaib in Detroit. They had to hire a friend of mine from Kansas City to run the campaign because

of the lack of infrastructure of knowing how to run a campaign, how to be a volunteer coordinator, how to be a campaign manager, how to be a campaign manager, how to be a comms director. So they don't build up the infrastructure, which means you don't have a bench. It's not just getting a good candidate. You also need your organizers, you need your campaign workers.

And that's where my criticism is of Bernie Sanders and anybody that's doing a rally. You're not training these people. You're getting them upset, but for what? All right, we got more with Teslin Figaro when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Hey everybody, it's me, JNV, Jess Hilarion, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well. We're still kicking it with Teslin Figaro. I was going to ask you, you know, a lot of times Democrats get buttthurt a lot when you ask them when you push back on a lot of the things that they say Why do you think that is it almost feels like? They are upset when we question the things that we should be able to question There's a lot of ego in Politics, which is one of the things again that we teach

That I teach you the thing to remove your ego out the way, meaning not about me, not about what's about me. They know it all. I'm just going to be straight up honest with you. They know it all. They know it all, but seem to not know how to win consistently. You have people who are highly educated in what they do. Again, I'm not anti-education. I love degrees.

The more the better. But they just refuse, many of them, not all, but refuse to really connect to the concrete. I go by concrete roots, not mud, because mud is too soft for me. I got this shit out of concrete. Not a manager, not agent, not my family was in this, not somebody put me on. So they can't have those conversations

and they don't know how to get the play, get a ball to the people that can have the conversation. But you know why? Cause they want to be on microphone, NB. It's just like a rapper. Like they have to be the one on the microphone. Instead of saying, you know what? Such and such know how to talk to this group.

Let me give them the play. Yeah, I don't want to see Hakeem Jeffries. Yeah. I don't want to see AOC. I want to see Jasmine. I want to see those people. That's really the problem. But then there's also people

that they can't connect to as well. Why are you not connecting to the streets in California? Well governor news to who to me don't have a shot in hell on the national level but still very good pushing this message I know some homies right now in LA that would organize right now Who's never voted who's never because of what he did with the gang enhancement what he's done with health care You hear a lot of bad about California, but healthcare. What do you call the streets though? Because I mean, Bernie and LC did just have

36,000 people in that. Well, they still not, there's still a demographic, people that are not involved at all. People that don't give a damn about none of this. Bernie Sanders' demographic, and I'm just gonna be honest, the progressive demographic, the Rainbow Coalition, is white liberals, pretty much, white progressives. There's still a lack of talking to those

that have completely given up, completely disenfranchised. Obviously, and also with Coachella, the average ticket was $700, $800. Well, no, that wasn't Coachella. Bernie came out of Coachella, but they had a whole other event. He did Coachella, though, too, though. Yeah, he came out to Coachella,

but they had a whole other event. Working on that campaign, I'm just gonna be straight up with you. You know, I'm very clear about my position with Bernie Sanders He is talking to a very progressive white ran

Movement to me and even if you're Hispanic is still white Adjacent is still less just as long as everybody as long as we get everybody who make money out the way as long as everybody Make $15 an hour all will be well. He struggles with dealing with race. I'm saying it as his former racial justice director. Also, everybody ain't mad at rich people, Charlamagne. Some people really trying to get the bag. So those conversations, I know what they mean with the elite, the top. Yeah, I think the fighting oligarchy tour is a good message, but I think it's a hippo, well, it's not a hypocritical message from Bernie Sanders and AOC, but from majority of the Democratic Party is a hypocritical message

because they all taking money from the billionaires in the corporate lobbyists. Well, who don't know who the oligarchy is? What? How do you say it? Fighting oligarchy. Oh, look, I don't know what the hell you're talking about. I mean, they don't. When people talk about neoliberal, they don't know what you're talking about. So there's different messages that people need to have to engage.

And I think the Democrat Party 10 is too big. It's too big. Oh, I agree with that. It needs to be broken down. Everybody's not going to relate to Bernie Sanders. Everybody's not going to relate to engage. And I think the Democrat Party 10 is too big. It's too big. It needs to be broken down. Everybody's not gonna relate to Bernie Sanders. Everybody's not gonna relate to AOC. Everybody's not gonna relate to Jasmine Crockett. Everybody's not gonna relate to me. So that's why everybody should be doing a lot.

Like Killer Mike said, if everybody does a little, nobody gotta do a lot. That's right. And again, local, state. We gotta stop this fascination with federal. We really, really do. All of your powers, is your city commissioner, your mayor. They are managing billion dollar budgets. Look at Atlanta, the black Mecca.

The mayor get to decide who's going to get this grant, who's going to get this funding. How do we keep this program going? How do we keep the after school program going? Okay, if y'all don't want to do it, we're going to figure it out. It's the local. I think it's because the local government, even though when you get old enough to understand that, the local government is not like the glistening glamour isn't it? Right, they want the sexiness. I feel like when Keshia Lance Bottoms was mayor in Atlanta, the bottom was mayor in Atlanta, she did a good job of like, you knew who she was even if you didn't live in Atlanta. Like

you cared about what she was doing, even if you didn't live there, like she was a talking point, but a lot of local government people don't do that. Like you don't just- Well, they don't need to do it. It's called actually serving your constituents. See, so again, this is where I go back to these politicians, I appreciate what they're doing. Don't get me wrong, because we need the voices because you don't see it damn sure not coming

from the Democrat party. But Keisha need to be worrying about Keisha's constituents. All of this, I'm trying to be a national spokesperson and all of that. That's how you get, you end up crashing out. That's why, that's how you get out of office. That's how you get your constituents seeing you at the grocery store. They're seeing you at church. They don't care about you trying to be no voice for everybody else. They're concerned with, are you taking care of these a hundred thousand people in your district or 200,000 people in your district?

It's not about you can't get Keisha in and you can't get her out. You have zero power. So she can get on these podcast mics if they want to, but at the end of the day, they don't vote for you. So either you want to be an elected official or do you want to be a podcaster? I agree, but I think sometimes it's not your fault. Like in Keisha's case, I don't think it was her fault. She just happened to be a black

woman who was the mayor of Atlanta so like all the rappers were talking about her. What was the slogan? Atlanta got a man named Keisha like it was a thing. Yeah I'm not blaming her. I'm definitely not blaming her I'm just I'm using that name for any local politician. I just pointed to her because she's the only

person I just think about it like locally in Delaware like you would know because like you said you see them you hear them but outside of it whether it's Delaware, Philly, wherever, you don't just know of these people. And I think a lot of it is because even if they're not at the microphones, I don't know, it's just local level is not glamorized. You know that? Bustle up.

Right. Sometimes it's scandal like Marion Barry. Like you didn't, you know. But guess what? They could never get him out. I encourage people to go watch the nine lives of Marion Barry. Scandal or not, they could not get him out. You know why they couldn't get him out?

My dad was a rehabber, Maren Berry. Because he was doing the work. He was doing the work. When you do the work, like shout out to Eric Mays, my friend, rest in peace. Shout out to every, y'all seen Eric Mays, because when you're doing the work, people know about you, but you cannot get Eric Mays out of office for nothing because he took care of his district. This is a district conversation. Even Congress is still a district. It's still a local conversation. So when you get out on these microphones and you're because I've seen it happen in real time and you're trying to please all of these different, different constituents that can't vote for you because

I want to say what this what they want me to say. I want to say what they want me to say. Okay, the people that's actually voting for you are the ones that make that make the decision. So you don't hear about it, Lauren, because they're doing their job. But those candidates should also stop trying to be seen all the time, which I think is important. I'm saying that I wish they would work more with activists and fund those activists Because they're crashing out literally they can't get jobs. They can't go Transition anywhere fund those activists to run that play for you so that you can actually be in office to vote Cory Bush Jamal Bowman, they're no longer in Congress. They can't vote for nothing Because when they were pushing those issues, which is important,

but the district said otherwise. So you got the money to say, yeah, push, push, push, push, push. But your district said, no, we're going to do something different. So now you don't even have an ally that can actually vote, you know, to make a difference. And so that's what I mean. Well, Tez, we appreciate you joining us. Tezlin Figaro. How can they get information on the course? Tazlynfigaro.com, T-E-Z-L-Y-N-F-I-G-A-R-O.

Soon as you go to the website, the course pops up. You got a Southwest flight to catch? I got Southwest. Y'all gonna stop talking about Southwest. Shut up, it's a Southwest. What time the flight leave? Yeah, it leaves at three o'clock. Shut up, it's a Southwest.

You see we got new plugs? No, I ain't never been in there to see that. I posted yesterday. I posted yesterday. Oh, I did see that in your story. You got plugs. I thought that was AI. I thought to see that. I posted yesterday. I posted yesterday. Oh, I did see that in your story. Okay, okay. I thought that was AI. I thought that was AI.

Shut up, the sandwich. And shout out to one of your biggest followers, Lovey. I'm sure Lovey's excited. Oh my God, yes, he is so supportive. Oh, he'll love that you shouted about. He's so supportive. He really, really is. And subscribe to the Straight Shot No Chase podcast.

There you go. And congratulations, Lauren. Thank you, thank you. On your podcast and congratulations on everything you guys are doing. They called me Judy Winslow because I left and I never said goodbye to the people in the audience that supported me. Because they wasn't a goodbye.

Yeah, but they was used to seeing me. It wasn't a goodbye. But I do want to say that shout out to everybody that supported me on Front Page News. We're still family, we're still here. Wasn't no drama. People waiting on tea. Wasn't no tea, wasn't no drama, wasn't no anything. I'm doing great things, but I love you guys,

and I just wanted to say, give everybody a proper good night. There you go, it's Teslan Figaro, it's The Breakfast Club, good morning. You're checking out The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Now, you got a positive note? I do, but I wanna tell people, first of all, man,

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