The Breakfast Club - Best of 2025 - BEST MOMENTS - Martin, Pastor Jamal Bryant, Pretty Vee, And Men Wearing Hair Pieces Topic

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

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Chief calling. 800-585-1051. We wanna hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Good morning, this is James calling from North Carolina. What's up, James? Get it off your chest, brother. Uh, nothing much.

Good morning, everyone. Jazzy Jess, what's up? What's up, what's up? Yeah, I saw this advertisement on Instagram the other day about these sneakers that give these, they're for men, that gives you three inches of height. They like lifts. And it had me thinking, oh, at first I was like, that's a pretty good idea. But then I thought, isn't that lying? Kind of like, that is so lame.

Why would you want to do that? That's so corny. But then I thought isn't that lion kind of like that is really with those that is so lame Why would you want to do that? That's so corny? Why can't we just be happy with what God gave us? This would if he's like for up and he's sick of it He's still for 11 even in them sneakers and you will look extra dumb you come out them sneakers in front of you Whatever girl you trying to impress Lion the kind of like women with the weave and the push-up balls and all that stuff? Yes.

Yeah, a lot of people use those sneakers. And they say those sneakers actually work. And you can't tell. Like, they look natural. And they even got something else where they put a heel in the sneaker to make you look a little tall as well. Yeah, they look natural till you take them off.

Imagine you meet the girl you're dreaming of talking about you. I met this dude. He's five. He's about 5'9", 5 ten right and tell you take them sneakers off And then she's like what the hell here clown though because I'll wait the push-up bras that is totally different. What are you talking? It's the same thing No, it's the same thing you meet this girl. She got big-ass breast and then she take off a bra

It is no the breast still big date. It's not No, the breasts still big, they just not percate. Yeah, they're just not sitting up. They're just not percating. They're on the floor. You went to take off your shoes and be like 5'5", and I thought she was 5'8", is disrespectful. That is, I agree. Or the same thing, you got beautiful hair,

you think her hair is so beautiful, then she put the wig on the side. The same thing. I don't mind a wig. Yeah, that's what I thought. That's what I thought, same thing. A wig is different, because a wig, it's not like she's trying to pretend

that her hair is actually her hair with a wig. You know it's a wig. You trying to act like you Will Smith with you Carlton. Yeah. What? Now I got a freaking Jazzy Jeffy and throw your ass out. Jesus. Thank you, brother.

He don't order them. He order them all right. He definitely order them. He order every color. Hello, who's this? What's up? This is DJ Rock, aka Mr. Myrtle Beach. What's happening?

Myrtle Beach? What's up, Rock? Get it off your chest. What's happening in the Myrtle, man? I love Myrtle Beach. We're up in Myrtle Beach, man. What's happening, Salome? What's up, Salome?

What's happening? What's happening, brother? I heard this lady call up like a monosaur go try to get you flowers, talk about her hands to me and all that. I said, look here, man. Somebody need to call and let Jess know that she a barbershop legend, for real. A barbershop legend. Your desk, your desk, you fine. Let hands to me and all that. I said, look at me. Somebody to call and let Jess know that she a barbershop legend for real. You're a barbershop legend?

Yeah, Jess, Jess, you fine. Let me tell you what happened, Jess. You remember there was a clip on your Instagram that you did, I think, like, your boyfriend woke you up and was like, who was this on your phone or something like that? And you was like, who was this? Who was this?

You had some red paintings all in in the bed. Look at you, bro. Everybody in the barbers shop was talking about that day So many years ago wasn't it wasn't that like six or seven or eight years ago something everybody came in the Boba shop But man, you see that clip with Jeff. She was laying in the bed a little more for the world cup. Everybody's like, yeah That's the one and then Jamie Foxx comment on that too. Yeah, I remember that You know That was, yeah, that's the one. And then Jamie Foxx commented on that too. Yeah, I remember that. I think she's talking something different. Girl, you know what? He not lying, cause people be in my group chat

and they be like, yo, my bad, Charlamagne. And then it'll be a clip of Jess in some Tooby movie busting it open or something. First of all, excuse me. No, this is not an opportunity. This could have been me. I'm serious. She a group chat legend too.

Everybody in the poppy shop saw that clip, man. It was like, yeah, yo. Since we talking, it hit my group chat too. I had to block everybody. I was like, don't talk like my we talking, it hit my group chat too. I had to block everybody. I was like, don't talk like my sis like that now. And they think saying my bad is gonna be yo, my bad, Charlamagne. Exactly.

They think saying that is cool. Whatever. Whatever. Yo, Jackie. You can just blush it. Just blush it. Thank you, bro. Get it off your chest.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Yo, Shalemane. Dizzy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. We live? Hello, who's this? This Ben, man. How y'all doing? What's up, brother? Get it off your chest.

What's up, brother, Ben? Man, hey, I? This Ben, man. How y'all doing? What's up, brother? Give it up to your chest. What's up, brother, Ben? Man, hey, I called a couple weeks ago. First of all, good morning, y'all. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, these people are just swerving. You know. Hey, you were swerving?

Yeah, no, I was just driving. Turn that yellow ball on. No, these people out here are swerving, but they drive crazy in the morning. But I called a couple, man, I called a couple of weeks ago and I was complaining about my girl and her dog and her dog here. Right. Oh yeah.

Okay. Okay. Now, bad for a couple of weeks later, her mama here for a couple of weeks. All right. Let me start off by saying this, me and my mama, we cool, we ice it. That's my girl. I love her to death. You know, best grandma, everything. But, there's a but coming, pause.

But, me and her finna fall out. But, she is letting these dogs run all around the house. Boy, them dogs, them dogs gonna be the death of you, bro. You gonna let them dogs rip you all the way out. No, I'm gonna be the Well, them dogs, them dogs gonna be the deaf of you, bro. You gonna let them dogs get you all the way up. No, I'm gonna be a deaf of them dogs. They ain't gonna kill me. They ain't gonna get up out of here. Damn.

Yo, I come home from work, soon as I touch my dog, who me and me at the dog? The dog. The dog. The dog. I go in the house, first thing I see is, you know, you got a little tray table or whatever, you know, you pull out for the little kids

to eat on and stuff. It's here all over the little table. I'm looking around now, it's my money all now. I can't say nothing to her. So I'm gonna call and just vent to y'all. I'm gonna talk to y'all just like, I'm gonna say to y'all what I wanna say. Hey lady, I'm about to send you back to Puerto Rico.

Good, me and you cool, but you letting these dogs run around my house. More ladies already told you I don't like this. Like, listen, we cool, I love you, but put these goddamn dogs where they supposed to be at. In there behind the little doggie gate and don't let them come out until I say so. Let them go in the backyard, you go You go and you ain't never coming back. Are they chihuahuas? No, man. It's an American kid and a tootle.

They got a state. You might as well just be at one with the dog, man. You might as well just cuddle the dog, pet the dog, and let the dog be your best friend, bro, at this point. You can always tell your mother-in-law that ice on the way. You can be like, look, man, they not playing. Puerto Rico is a state. They knocking on doors. I only play a state! They knocking on doors.

Why don't they play with that lady? My mother-in-law's a former federal agent. I don't even play with her like that. They don't know the difference. They say to them, they knocking on doors. What are you talking about? They don't know the difference. Ice people don't know the difference.

They knocking on doors. Puerto Rico is part of the US. Tell her just for her own safety, she might need to just go back to Puerto Rico before she get mixed up. I ain't even trying to play with that lady talking about ice with her. She don't even like to see Trump on TV.

Damn! All right, Ben, well good luck, brother. Y'all have a good one, man. All right. 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 NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guide. We are The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Jess is sick, so she's not here. Lauren LaRosa's filling in. And we got a special guest in the building. Come on, man, the living legend himself.

Martin! Martin LaRosa, ladies and gentlemen. How you feeling? Good, great, man. Glad to be here with you guys. This weekend, you're going to be at the Bar Clays and also Atlantic City performance So if you haven't got your tickets get your tickets we actually today

We're giving away front row seats to go to the show So call a 105 right now eight hundred five eight five one oh five one we got don't say nothing in the front row Cuz I might get you Those tickets are yours. How you feeling brother? I'm feeling great man feeling great feeling blessed I feel for all the people are going through tragic stuff in LA, you know with the fires my sister's house burned down Yeah, so, you know we got to start rebuilding, you know, so you live in LA too, right? Was your house affected or no? No, but it was getting close.

It was getting close, yeah. Did they call you immediately, like Martin, house burned down? Yeah, well I was at my ranch back in Virginia and chilling in the snow and all that was going on. I was just, wasn't nothing I could do, but my family that I had in LA was holding it down. Do you reach for your pockets first

or do you wait to see what the insurance gonna do? Both. Both? Both. What's the rebuilding process gonna be like though? Like you guys have to wait a certain amount of time before you can even start like thinking about that? Do they give you a timeline?

I really don't know. I really don't know. I gotta ask about Bad Boys. You know, the Bad Boys franchise picked back up right where y'all left off years ago, right? Yeah, and it's pretty amazing because as a kid I grew up on it, right? But now my kids are growing up on it. Mm-hmm So did you expect it to catch so big and how many are y'all gonna do because it's it's not white

It's not like, you know, usually you do a sequel. It's like and then the one after that is like Yeah, nice. It's not wacky keeps going. So how many more y'all gonna do it y'all shooting yet I really don't know you know you know the business is fickle you know I hope to do more you know as long as we'll wants to do them you know with the world and the audience wants them we're doing we like giving you a good work we have a lot of fun with bad boys why I was wondering about the tour like like you got money, you're older now. Why even go back on the grind and do a comedy tour? Because it's where I started. It's my baby. It's my breadwinner. When I don't have nothing

else to do, I can't do movies or TV or whatever, I can always go back to stand up. And my audience is always there for me. I saw a quote you said, the way fighters train, that's how you train when you're getting ready for comedy. How do you get ready for a tour like this after 10 years and getting back on the stage? Is that a different level of training now or is it still the same? No, it's the same. I go to comedy clubs and I work out. I go to the comedy clubs, you know, and I work out. I go to the comedy store and I work out during the week. And I just keep working out, working out till I build up our set and till it's ready to go on the road.

How do you pick and choose what goes into your sets? Because I was watching one of your old sets that you did that you had mentioned, like the Rodney King beatings. But you made it funny in a dark time. Nowadays people are so touchy. So do you stay away from certain stuff? Because now it's like the icon market now. I'm a little cautious about subjects that I choose and everything.

When I was younger I was fearless. I would talk about anything or anybody, but it's a different time. Do you remember the times? Because I always hear these stories and it's to me It's like damn this this really happened when you used to work Telemarketing and you were there with salt and pepper. I guess That says says in robot says a robot How is those experiences and are you ever amazed that all y'all was successful in your own way of going? Well, well see I wasn't there with kid and play. I was there with salt and pepper

Mm-hmm, and I was always clowning, you know joking around at work and everything like on the phone doing what I'm supposed to be doing What did you have to do? I was trying I was trying to crack on salt I was trying to crack on salt and Herbie Lovebug was working there too and I was like Saul you know I'm trying to get with you da da da. She was like Martin I'm with Herbie. I said Herbie's your boyfriend? And I look at Herbie I said Herbie is your girlfriend? She said yeah. I said oh man. So then I just had to leave that alone. So we are selling on the phone that's what I never know Like what was Sears selling? Yes, I mean maintenance maintenance agreement Oh, yeah selling me so do you remember your pitch back then and what you had to do? Well, you know, hello

How are you? Was wondering you just brought a new appliance How is it working for you, you know, in 30 days or 60 days, something could happen to it. Would you like to extend your warranty and all that? And when they said no, did you curse them out? Did you start cracking on them? No, because a lot of them just hang up.

Oh, okay. Somebody come to one of your shows and be like, yo, you called me, like nobody ever, that has never happened? No, no, no. I don't remember that. I was thinking too, you a very physical comedian, right? That's like a lot of what you do involves your facial expressions, how you move.

As you got older, do you believe that impacts your comedy? No, no, I still love being physical. I love it, I love it. You ain't falling all over the floor. No, no, I ain't. I ain't doing it. Somebody gotta help you get back. Show over. Show done.

No, I'm not doing that, but I love still doing some physical comedy. And you said you don't say what you used to say on stage. I remember an episode of Deaf Comedy Jam. I forgot who you was messing with. I feel like it was Ed Lovell, but maybe I'm making this up. But you was saying, you was talking about a girl, he was with a girl, and you was saying you f***ed her. You remember that episode?

Oh, you talking about MC Lyte? What was it, MC Lyte? MC Lyte joke. MC Lyte joke, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that was the joke. Yeah, but that wasn't a true joke. It goes viral all the time. It goes viral all the time.

That wasn't true. That wasn't the truth. I was just messing with her boyfriend. And I was just digging at him. So, you know, I just said it. God damn. I know he had to approach you about that. Did he see you at the show?

He couldn't do nothing. He couldn't with my ass. Yeah, yeah, it was Todd at the time or something. Why did you decide to heat him up like that? Because Ed Lovin' was saying, get him with a joke. That's a hell of a joke that's a hell of a joke to say in front of a ruse to do the ties to do a rap city with them not rap city but you want to be raps god you got you got you got you got

you so has anybody like it mad about that joke no she was real cool okay she's real cool did anybody ever come into you after your show and wanted to fight because like he said you didn't hold anything back Like you didn't care who was in that show you was going at him anybody say you I'm gonna be Martin outside after No, cuz I'm not that dude and I got goon Back then so what's it happening? What happened? And I still got him so if you want to come to the ball today and you get a little upset just know

it goes back to that Alright we got more with Martin when we come back so don't move It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning The Breakfast Club Morning everybody it's DEJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, The Guy We are The Breakfast Club, Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. We're still kicking it with Martin Lawrence. Now in the news, we see that your daughter

got engaged to Eddie Murphy's son. Yeah. That was in the news, congratulations. He's a great kid. I'm a great young man. I don't think she could have found nobody better. Now we have this rule up here, if we're ever out and about.

With somebody that's richer than us. If whoever has the most money has to pay. Have to have you pay the bill. Well Eddie already said I had to pay for it. He said he paid for the last six weddings. You know, cause Eddie got a lot of kids. Right, right, right. You know, he said he paid for the last six.

So he said, nah, this is on you. He said, I said, I don't mind. Damn. So he's still holding you to that. Yeah, he's holding me to that. He's holding me. When they first told you the table's connected, what did you, did you call Eddie and be like, hey man,

you know our children are dating? No, I just, when I talked to him, I said, can you believe it? And he said, no, it's beautiful. As long as they respect each other and love each other, the world too. Nah, nah, nah. I picture you and Will at the door and they coming up and you having that conversation. You never had to have that conversation. Nah. With my daughters, I'm open. I'm the kind of father that gives them room. If the

boyfriends that bring me to meet are disrespectful, then they're going to see another side of me. But if they're nice young men or whatever, I don't do all. They probably already know by the time you meet my dad, you need to be right. Yeah. Because dad don't play around. And my reputation precedes itself. You must've done f***ing people. Somebody said three times, he said, I got the money.

They not even raking nobody to the factor. Jesus Christ. I already thought after the comedy world, like Martin was f***ing money. I thought you wanted to play with Martin. You know, I also wanted to too, but growing up, you know, watching you play Shanae-Nae, watching you in Big Mama's House, I never thought anything of it. I just thought it was funny, but nowadays you hear people say, oh, you know, that's, you got to sell your soul in Hollywood,

and that's humiliation rituals and the Illuminati. What do you think of that? It's bullsh** doing what I do and doing Big Mama and characters like that Shanae Nair or whatever These are strong black women, you know, and I'm a comedian, you know I'm not above playing the character putting on a dress or whatever because I'm in tune with my manhood You know, so I know who I am, so I don't worry about all that. Is that a missed art?

Because we've seen it with you, we've seen it with Eddie, but now it seems like everybody, like he said, is afraid to do that, but... Except for Tyler. He made it right out. Except for Tyler. Yeah, yeah. If you're in tune with your manhood, you shouldn't be worrying about it, you know? If you ain't letting nobody get down on your dress.

What's that about a point where you felt like the industry boxed you in and they just wanted you to be the funny guy and didn't give you like I guess room to grow as an actor? Yeah, because I haven't been offered a lot of dramatic roles. You know, the closest I had to, I got a dramatic role was I had to do it myself was Thinline Between Love and Hate. So that was the closest. And then I wind up recently about two years ago. I did a movie called mind gauge That was total drama no comedy and everything else

So I did about to now they also talk about blue streak the sequel. Yes, you guys are shooting that we're working on it You're working on it. We're writing it. Does it leave off in Mexico or have you figured that out as yet? No, we haven't figured it out yet. Yeah, but if they come get me from Mexico to you know cuz I had the diamond so I'm living high off the hog you know so we'll see what happens. It gotta be a crazy soundtrack too like the first one. Oh yeah. How do you choose what to do a sequel to? Because Blue Screen was good but to me I'm like I'd rather see Life part 2. Like I like to see how y'all want to see life part two because you gotta remember me and Eddie were we were what 90 about time we got out?

No it can be a period piece so it can be based on when y'all first got out when y'all first broke out what did Ray and Claude do what was their life like when they first broke us? Well we went to the baseball game. Yep. That's all we saw. Right. No, y'all got some **** somewhere. You know what I'm saying? Where's that at? Y'all ain't getting introduced to Viagra or something.

No, too much. They might not have made it through the experience. They ain't gonna live through it. They want you to die with the Viagra. I'm just saying. Like it could end right when y'all broke out. Right. Well, if somebody puts it together, man, hey hey I told her, I talked to Eddie about it and

Eddie said hey man if somebody could make it make sense, hey we'll do it again. Do you get, I don't want to say frustrated but like having to convince people in Hollywood like you Martin Lawrence. You know what I'm saying? Like having to sit down and pitch things or., that's frustrating. That's frustrating. But it's part of the business, you know, and it's hit or miss, you know, but I have a strong faith in God and he's my agent. It's crazy to me that you still have to pitch things. Just hearing that, it's like, wow. What about a Martin reunion?

Like, I know you guys did the reunion, but like people wanted to see like actual episodes. Like maybe, you know how Sex and the City, but people wanted to see actual episodes. Maybe, you know how Sex and the City, they got back together, they did episodes and then they had a movie. Is there anything on screen from you guys that we're going to ever see? From the Martin show? From the Martin cast, yes. No, Tommy Ford was a big part of what we did.

And him not being there, it's not the same. We caught lightning in a bottle. That won't happen again. Did you typecast yourself with Martin? Meaning like being at the character name with Martin? And they saw how you acted on the show. They expect you to be like that in everyday life? Yes.

All the time? Yeah. Because every time I've been around you, you seem like you're very reserved, laid back. Yeah, I'm nothing like the Martin on TV. Exactly. Wow, I thought that was basically. People do ask me that.

Are you like the Martin on TV? Sometimes I tell them, hell yeah, I'll throw your ass out. You know? But I think that's a lot. Like a lot of times people see you when they think something's wrong, but I'm like, number one, he's older. Number two, how did we ever know that was,

who told us that was him? Right, yeah, no, that was my energy. That was me just projecting, just being big, just giving you a bigger version of Martin and just having fun. Just having fun, but I'm not like that in real life. I'm mature. That's my job.

You don't wanna be on all the time. That gets annoying. People don't take you serious. And is that the reason you had to whip ass? Cause people think they can play with you? Back to whipping ass. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And with the y'all know what it is, so you got a lot of different comedians on there. You got Jess Hilarious, of course, Adele Givens, B. Simone, Chico Bean, DC Young Fly, Dion Cole, just to name a few. How do you pick who you want to be on the road with? Because that's such an honor for a comedian to be on the road with Martin Lawrence.

Because they fire. They fire, man. They're so talented. They're the next ones, the next comedy stars. For me to just have a little piece of helping them out Getting them some exposure or whatever, you know, I'm honored to do that. That's what I'm supposed to do You know in my position and so I love it and I love working with them Well call it 105 right now if you want to sit in the front row 800-585-1051 you have to be in New York. We ain't flying you. We ain't paying for a bus ticket. We just got your tickets. If you're in New York or you can make it to New York,

call the 105 right now, 800-585-1051. You're gonna be at the Barclays tonight. So you get those tickets tonight. Saturday, he's gonna be in Atlantic City. February 8th, Houston. Valentine's Day, he's gonna be in your neck of the woods, South Carolina, Greenville. No, that's not my neck of the woods.

I just see South Carolina, I just do the low country In February 15 Charlotte, North Carolina, so if you haven't got your tickets get your tickets and we appreciate you for joining always Thank y'all for having me man. I'm glad I came in man. It's been a minute. Thank you It's Martin Lawrence. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning Morning everybody is DJ NV Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club if you're just joining us We're talking about men. What do you call frontals? Montels, okay, so when men get frontals I call them Montels. Okay. Yeah, it just takes away, it just takes the femininity out of frontals. Okay, alright.

So you know I got a muntal on, you know, then it sounds better when you say I got a muntal. Male frontal can be a nudity scene too. I just found that out the hard way when I googled it. I googled celebrities with male frontals and it said 41 male celebrity male frontal scenes. It was all penises. Just want to throw that out there so be careful when you type this in. I can't wait to Human Resources checks that computer and they was all penises. Just wanna throw that out there. So be careful when you type this in. I can't wait to Human Resources checks that computer and they're treating mad penises.

Crazy. Crazy. They've seen way worse over the last 15 years. You're right. Touche. So we're asking 800-585-1051, how do you women feel about men wearing hair pieces? Now this comes from Rocco. If you haven't seen, salute to Rocco.

Rocco has a mugshot and in that mugshot, the middle's missing. Rocko is a black man with a receipt in the hairline who decided to go bald. I'm riding with you bro. Okay, justice for Rocko. He needs to sue the police department. Okay? All right, I'm not.

That was cruel and unusual punishment Jessy Larry. That's not right. So how would you feel if your man had a front two hairpiece glued on, you know what I mean? I wouldn't like that. I wouldn't like, I don't have a problem with men doing that. I mean, it's not fair to be like, you know, when women ball, then y'all go get frontals and you know what I'm saying? But if you're a dude, you can't do nothing about it.

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You come in the house and you know we both in the mirror taking it off. Yeah, taking it off, putting it on. Put it on the head. The lace tent. No, you know, no, we can't do that. Hmm. We can't do that Yeah, Rocco shouldn't have had to take his hairpiece off for a mug shot. How do we know he took it off? He probably that is true. That is true. And then he'll look too bothered in it, you know, he did look bothered Yeah, this is what Amanda ain't nobody got that And they were like no tilt your head Ain't nobody got that posture like that. He did it like this. He did. So we couldn't see. So he was trying to put his head up. So we couldn't see him.

And they was like, no, tilt your head. He was fighting till he was like, damn, man. I got to tilt him up during the hit. And he tilted the head, and then we had to see that. You know what I'm saying? I personally think that they made him take the headpiece off. They don't make women do that when they wear wigs.

When you're at the airport, god damn. Just showing us a picture. He should have said that was a medical condition, because it looks like one. No it don't. Yes it do man. Yeah honestly it do. Like I said it just look like his head is deformed.

That's what it looks like. Yes man. That's not right man. Justice for Rocco. And I think it's disgusting that we live in a world where a man has to even wear a head piece. Think about how free George Jefferson used to be. You right.

Bald in the top hair on the sides. Look at that. Rocco look clean in that picture. And he looked 20 years younger. 20 years younger. Okay. Homie the Clown, bald in the top hair on the sides. It used to be a time when men could proudly rock that look, not nowadays because of the

judgment of people like Juscelaris. I'm not judging. Justice for Rocko. I'm not judging. He home, man. There's no more justice he can get, yo. That's it. That mugshot should not be all over the internet

He shouldn't have committed the crimes Crime we would have never known we just by the way. What was the crime? I? He was in the public without a hat on then he gotta go to jail But thank God they didn't do the side picture too because usually they do the front and then the side Today would have been released by now and And it's not just Rocco. There's a Spanish artist. What's the name of the Spanish artist? Justice for Rocco.

Anywell, Anywell. Remember he was performing? Yeah. And it blew off. And it blew off. So yeah. Justice for Rocco, man. That ain't right, man.

Let's go to the phone lines. We got Venus on the line. Venus, good morning. Good morning. Would you mind if your man had a hair piece? No, as long as it looks good and it didn't look like a wig. You'd be fine with it.

Yeah, whatever it took to have it as fine as I can. Now what about at night when you gotta take it off and you gotta put it on a mannequin next to your wig? No, that's crazy. I would probably tease him though. If he wasn't super sensitive about it. See, you would tease him. You call him from that 843, you know damn well

you don't want no man with no headpiece. Yeah man, if he had a, he could just take it off now Charlamagne, he can't take it off, that ain't cool. Right. But he gonna have to take it off, you take your wigs off. Nah, that's the, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, that's the difference between- No, that's different, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a girl, that's a Hey, baby. But listen, but Charlamagne, did you make you take your wig off when you go to jail? Females, boys, not to say I didn't rock up a soul in,

or work it, but they make you take your wig off. Well, Rocco should have said he had a soul in, man. Cause that, there's no need for that thing to come off anytime. But ladies, if you dating a guy with a hair piece, how do y'all go on vacation? Can he swim with it? Nah, hell no.

Well, it depends on the type. There's different types of glues. There's different levels of glues. Cause you go in the water and you got your hair piece be floating. It ain't, no, it is different levels of glue. You gotta get arrogant, tated to your mental. That's it.

That's it. Just ask it. Amber, hello Amber. Hi, this is Amber in San Juan, North Carolina. Good morning. We're talking about men. Would you date a man with a hair piece? Absolutely. Why? Good morning, we're talking about men. Would you date a man with a handpiece?

Why You don't mind it What's the health condition alopecia No, you got cancer. See that's what I'm saying Rocco should have said it was a medical condition or something and this piece cannot come off. That's what he should have said if he said that to me and I was the guy, I'd have like, you already know. No, I would have said, I mean damn, see I don't like to play like that either though,

God damn. I would have played that one. Why, you don't got no more hair left, why? Huh? Why you can't play like that? No, because I don't want to be like, I got cancer, you know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah.

That wouldn't have been that far. I would have said the alopecia. I want to see it. Yeah, say alopecia, people always lie about that. I don't know if people care about alopecia like that. Alopecia don't hit hard, it's canceled. But I wouldn't want to play like that. When you put survivor on it and it's different like,

yo, I'm an alopecia survivor. Didn't that make you feel better? I hate y'all. 800, 500, 51, 51. Ladies, would you date a man with a handpiece? Now, Crystal, I tried to click on you crystal and you hung up call back now crystal She says she actually does hair units for men in Detroit call back. Oh, yes, she does right for in Detroit I would love to know how much it cost was the procedure and the glue I would love to know they can say the procedure

It's the install. Yo You installed it like we get our wig units installed you if you're a man Are you taking that route you got to get your money? Sounds crazy comes in a body With the people who get it done all the time A long time ago. Hey, y'all, I've been stopping from some jokes. You ain't never beaten the allegations. You get munchles?

You get munchles? 800-585-1051. Call us up now at The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey, yo. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ N.V. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here.

We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Pastor Jamal Bryant. Welcome, brother. Thank you, sir. Good to be with y'all. How you feeling this morning? Feel great. Let's talk about this, the 40-day fast of Target.

Yes. And this is something that you're trying to put into play, and why? I'm not trying, you are putting into play, but why? Yeah, so people are asking, why did we pick Target when Walmart out of order, McDonald's is out of order, John Deere is out of order, Bank of America is out of order. Amazon.

Amazon is out of order. We wanted to go, the African proverb says if you want to eat an elephant, do one piece at a time. So we picked Target first for several reasons. Number one, Target is headquartered in the same city George Floyd was killed. When George Floyd was killed, Target came out, made an announcement that they're going to invest two billion dollars in the black business. Two billion, drum roll, and it starts December of 2025. When Trump made the announcement January of 2025, they dishonored that commitment. So we

wanted to hold them accountable because when they made the pledge, they had nothing to do with DEI. Secondly, I am embarrassed, Breakfast Club, to say to you, Negro spend $12 million a day in Target. And I don't know any black business that amasses that much money in any singular day. Is it 12 million a day? A day. Number three, Target is on 27 college campuses and not one HBCU. Number four, outside of the federal government, Target is the largest employer of black people. They have 400,000 black people on payroll and don't honor us. So we're given that kind of money, that much human capital and to not honor us, I think is dismally disrespected. And because they're

publicly traded, we wanted to see what will happen in those 40 days that shows the data This is the impact when black people walk away and to share it with those share crops So it will not just be 40 days But every movement has to have a benchmark has got to have a strategy and you got to have some data What are you calling it a fast and not a boycott? Yeah, I called it a fast because this was a call To the black church to become active. Something happened silently that scholars and historians are gonna have to pay attention to. The rise of Black Lives

Matter, Charlemagne, was the very first movement of civil rights for black people that was not birthed out of the church. The very first civil rights movement that happened that didn't have a religious leader at the front and so the black church is going backwards. This is the largest demographic of black people since we've been in America who don't go to church at all, who don't subscribe to organized religion. We're at 28%. The largest amount of black people who self-identify as atheists who say they don't believe in God, don't believe in nothing. So this was a call specifically for black Christians to show the younger generation

our head is not in the sand, we're part of it, but we're aligning it with prayer. That those 40 days is the high holy season for the Christian community. We're praying because this is a spiritual warfare that we're under with JD Vance and Donald Trump. With all of the things that are happening with petitions are important, but if we don't bring a spiritual grounding to it, I think that we're going to miss it. During the Montgomery bus boycott, that last 381 days, what nobody talks about is for 381 days every night they went back to the church for prayer.

So I think that in the movement, you've got to have a faith entity intertwined in it in order for you to move forward What do you say to some of the people that have black products in Target? They say that you know because of this boycott if a boycott happens and people are stopping to go to Target that is gonna Affect their products even more. I know we had the co-founders of Ruckaroots on the Breakfast Club Yeah, I own the lip bar Yeah, and it was saying that if people don't come into the store which Target is their hugest manufacturer, their hugest buyer. So what happens to those products?

Number one, the Litbar and all of those entities understand a new thing out called dropship. You don't have to go in a physical store to help them. Because of that, in Foresight, we partner with the US Black Chamber of Commerce. So every person that goes to targetfast.org, within an hour, I send you a digital directory of 300,000 black businesses across the country. So we don't want those businesses to be adversely impacted. We want people to support them, but do it online. I can support the lip bar and not go into Target to do it. I can go online to do it. And so I think that as innovative and creative people as black people are, let's do it online. We do everything else online.

So let's support them. And the 1000 black vendors who are placed in Target, we're going to prominently place on the website so that you'll be able to find them quickly without any pause. Two things to what you're saying. So the first thing when they were up here, they talked about the inventory and just how much money they have to put ahead to be in these stores that comes out of their own pocket that they will lose out on if people do not, if they're not supporting these companies or whatever.

So even if you're buying it from their website, because they're already in contract for this amount of inventory, a lot of it's a target, they lose out, they don't profit on that now. Yeah, that money has already been spent. A movement comes with inconvenience. It came, that same argument happened

in the Montgomery bus boycott. The question was asked, what do we do for the bus mechanics who are all black? So what they did is they pulled all of those bus mechanics out of Montgomery and set up garages at the churches. What nobody is talking about is four mechanic shops came out of it. So I understand that it's an inconvenience. I know we got to go a different route, but I would then say that's up to Auntie.

As a business principal, let's buy more to cover what is that loss. Companies take losses all the time, but a group of misguided preachers went into Target in Detroit and said, let's just buy black inventory and come out. You're still supporting Target. So I think that we've gotta come away,

even if we gotta raise the price in order to make the balance, let's do it. One of the things that black people do wrong, whenever it is we're supporting black business, we always want a discount. Let's pay full price and support them. Let's not just do it with lip service, but let's do it through the investment. We have more with Pastor Jamal Bryant when we come back. Don't move.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody. It's EJNB Jesselari, Charlamagne the investment. We have more with Pastor Jamal Bryant when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody. It's DJ, NB, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here with us this morning and we're still kicking with Pastor Jamal Bryant. Lauren. The women from Rocker Roots, Ione Jamison and Ellen Sellers talked about how even in

Walmart's majority of their clients tell that they make a large amount of their money off of on those products. They don't have the access to the dot com. So being able to walk in, like it's just different in some of the lower area, rural areas. So being able to walk into a Walmart or a Target helps them as far as inventory and creates access for those people. What about that? But yeah, I think that we've got to ask ourselves what is the principle and is the principle

more important than the profit? You've got a whole lot of churches who have space that is underutilized and underused. The fact that in 2025 we don't have a minority-owned retail space to direct people on says that we got to reevaluate how we do business. So going in the target to buy whatever this product is to say, hey, forget that they don't honor us. Forget that they've disrespected the George Floyd family. Forget that they are only allowing black people on entry level positions. Let's do it for lipstick. I think that we're losing the larger conversation. I want to see the sisters win. I want to see them do overwhelmingly well.

But I think that we got to get into a room and figure out how do we make it more accessible for those in rural areas? I don't think that the answer is to keep shooting ourselves in the foot and then ask for a cast. But will we ever get there pastor? Like, you know, we want to get there, right? Will we ever own our own Target slash Walmart, when we ever own our own car manufacturer, when we ever own our own so we can rely on it,

it just seems like we're far stretched from that. Yeah so one of the things that we're asking for Target to do and for all of the demands that we're asking of Target, please go to targetfast.org. I'm asking Target to partner with 10 HBCUs to show our businesses how to scale up and to go into the retail space. Reverend Sharpton is one of my mentors but in the history of black people we have never marched black people into a white business to say spend money here. So we got to figure out how it is that we really reroute and redirect so that we can create an ecosystem for us to be able to do. I think that is possible, but there's a plan

that has to be a foot in order to make it done. I saw you say that Target have been trying to reach out to you. Yes. But you, I don't wanna talk to no diversity officer. No, you may not have a job next week. Yeah. You reached out during Black History Month. You you I'm gonna talk to no diversity. No, you may not have a job next week You reached out during black history month, I don't know if you're gonna make it to st. Patrick's day I need somebody who got some job security and got some influence to make a decision I think this generation don't want symbolic wins

They want substantive strides and if you just doing there to say we met we talked Audistry credibility is gone. I need somebody who can make a decision and you got to ask envy What's in the mind of a CEO that can lose? $12,000,000 a day and say I'm not me. So the person reached out to you felt had no influence Yeah, not enough influence. Yeah, so you're gonna send the black people out to talk to the black. Black guy go talk to the black guy. Yeah, settle them down. No, I need to talk to the CEO or I need to talk to somebody who was on that board of target or who can really help me understand where you are and if you all are being punked by JD Vance and Trump, tell me that and let's

figure out how we can walk alongside each other. We know that's what it is. Yeah, that's what it is. But tell me that. When you, um, so I know that in talking about meeting, eventually y'all want to have a conversation or there is something scheduled, right? You guys will be meeting June 12th in Minneapolis. That's when their stockholders meeting is.

Oh, their shareholders meeting. Okay. Yeah. So we are planning on going there. I'm hoping that we have resolved by then. That's what I was getting. Yes. We can't wait till June.

But June 12th and there now is the underground murmur that they don't even want to do an in-person shareholders meeting. They want to do it by Zoom. Because they don't want you guys to show up. Yes. But that's why it's important for you to have the data to show how this has been impacted, how much money you've lost in the stock, and what is at stake. So we wanted to take all of that to the shareholders meeting June 12th.

My last question for you, where are you at now numbers-wise? Because I know you were looking to get 100,000 people by this Wednesday the 5th when it starts and you were at 7th. We are at 110,000 people have come and we did it before we ever got to the breakfast club. So now we got to get to 150. We got to get to 150 because numbers is power. It was important for me to have tangible evidence of how many people are standing behind us that is not just a post.

It's not just likes and shares. But a hundred thousand people I can press a button and send an email to say, hey we outside in Target, hey we in Cincinnati. So that the people at Target know that we mean business that is not just symbolism but there's substance behind it. Well how can people get behind you? Go to TargetFast.org is just one word. There you'll see what is our list of demands. When it is that you sign up for Target Fast, I'm

going to send you a digital directory to those 300,000 businesses and even for those of you who don't go to church or watch online, I'm going to send you a daily prayer devotional so that you can stay focused, no pun intended, so you can stay on target for what it is that we're trying to get done All right. Well, we appreciate you for joining us this morning Target fast org and thank you so much, brother, man. Thank you. And when y'all come to Atlanta, I'm coming through I didn't got a ticket. I'm coming Well, yeah, he came path of Jamal's popped up to my black effect podcast I'm coming this year. I want to come to new Birth man. You gotta come. I want to come one Sunday and check it out. Yeah you gotta come. Absolutely.

There's room at the cross. Hey let me say this to you. Okay. I'm from Baltimore. Do you know the first place I ever had crab? Charleston, South Carolina. Monks corner. Monks corner. Okay. Monks corner AME church. Pastor Jameson? Blake. James Blake. This is back in the 80s. Alright okay. It was the place that I ever had crab. My family's from Georgetown, South Carolina. So we used to come down there every summer. But Baltimore, they still- The first time you had crabs and you from Baltimore? I know. Was they better than Baltimore? They cook them with the beer?

No, never. Never, it's not go too far. I'm just doing trauma bonding with you. No, Baltimore's the home of crab. What, crab ain't no trauma? It's trauma that I had to do it in South Carolina before I had it in Baltimore. South Carolina's amazing for seafood.

It's great. It's amazing. It's great. Just not as good as Baltimore, but it's good. Thank y'all. Pastor Jamal Bryan, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Shalomane, say the game.

Don't get other Shalomane. You are a donkey. Ah! It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkey of the Day does not discriminate. I might not have the song of the day, but I got the Donkey of the Day. So if you ever feel I need to be a Donkey man, hit me with the Diva. Yeah! It's the Breakfast Club, bitch!

Who's Donkey of the Day today? Donkey of the Day goes for a Baltimore man by the name of Kevin Lewis. Kevin is 46 years old, just like I am. But I clearly make better choices than Kevin. You know how sometimes people say, oh think you better than me? The answer is yes. Yes I do because I make better choices. Not judging you for anything you got going on but you asked me a question. Oh you think you better than me? Yes. Hell yes. Because I understand the strongest principle of growth lies in human

choice and I make better choices than you and if you are currently enjoying this thing called freedom well you make better choices than you. And if you are currently enjoying this thing called freedom, well, you make better choices than Kevin as well because he's in jail, currently facing charges for allegedly shooting a 28 year old coworker on the side of I-95 this past Monday morning. Now I know some of y'all right now are either at

or on the way to jobs where you think you can't stand your coworker. You believe you hate this coworker with all your heart and you just might. Okay? Just be better than Kevin. Okay? And the way you continue to be better than Kevin is simply by making the choice not to shoot your co-worker. Let's go to WBAL TV for the report please. Bond denied for 46 year old Kevin Gross. He's facing charges for allegedly shooting a 28 year old co- on the side of I 95 early Monday morning. According to charging documents, the victim called 911 when state police arrived, they found him

walking along the shoulder of 95 with seven gunshot wounds to the arm and torso court documents show he told police he was on his way into work and got a flat tire. So we pulled over on the shoulder of 95 just north of the Howard County line When he got out to inspect the tire his co-worker Kevin gross Pulled up behind him and got out wearing a mask covering his mouth quote gross told him He must have hit a pothole or something But upon inspecting the tire the victim could see the tire had been slashed. Gross then produced a firearm and began firing numerous shots." Charging documents reveal the two were assistant managers at Planet Aid in Elkridge.

Gross had recently been demoted and the victim told police Gross thought he had something to do with that demotion. Kevin, you got the right last name because this was gross. What a diabolical plan. The victim was on his way to work and got a flat tire. He thought he hit a pothole but his tires had been slashed. Oh, I wonder who slashed him. And then when he got out there inspect the tire, Kevin pulled up behind him with a mask and shot him several times. All because he thought his co-worker got him demoted. Both of them were assistant managers at Planet Aid. Now y'all know what Planet Aid is, right? No. they are the organizations that collect the clothing donations. They got the

yellow bins all over the place where you can put the clothes and shoes in. Yeah, they accept clothing donations in 1,700 locations. Okay, in the Elkridge warehouse. You know where Elkridge is right? Yep. They collect 15.5 million pounds of used clothes and shoes annually. Well clearly Kevin wasn't there for the cause so I needed to know what are the perks of being an assistant manager at Planet Aid? So I asked chat GPT how much does an assistant manager at Planet Aid make? I don't know if this is 100% correct but it says the average salary for a manager at Planet Aid might earn between 50,000 and 60,000 annually. Now I need y'all to always keep in mind that my education is limited to

a high school degree from night school. Okay drop on the clues bomb from Berkeley High School in Monaco, South Carolina. But if it's one thing I understand is prison math and by prison math I mean when you have to calculate in your mind whether or not the choice you make is going to be worth you going to prison. Okay now let's do the prison math. All right I'm making 50, 60 grand a year in Baltimore as a 46 year old man. I don't know about y'all, but if I can afford to put some food on my table and have a roof over my head, I'm gonna be happy.

Okay, success is subjective. And if you're a free man, 46 years old, you can come and go as you please. You got a job, you maintaining, that's a good life. If you don't think it's a good life, go to a prison right now and talk to these brothers doing 15, doing 20, doing 25, some of them doing forever and ask them would they trade lives with the free man making 50 to 60 grand as an assistant manager at Planet Aid.

Hell, even if he got demoted, okay, even if he got demoted, the warehouse lead role at Planet Aid earns about $27.39 per hour according to ChatGPT. That's almost 57 grand a year, if you work in 40 hours a week. All I'm saying is, no matter how much I calculate, this prison math, okay, I've done addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. I tried to figure this out multiple ways, and guess what?

It just don't compute, okay? It just doesn't add up. The victim is in critical condition. He got shot seven times. Kevin Gross is charged with attempted first degree murder in Maryland. That's life in prison. First and second degree assault Kevin Gross is also charged with. First degree assault is 25 years in Maryland. Second degree assault is 10 years in Maryland and he got other related charges. Moral of the story is Kevin is spending the rest of his natural born life

in prison. Therefore, the prison math ain't adding up. It's just not worth it. You have to calculate it in your head. You got demoted. You don't even know if this person you shot had anything to do with it. But even if they did,

as soon as you started formulating this plan in your head, just think about it. I'm gonna cut his tires. I'm gonna shoot him a bunch of times. At some point your brain has to say, no, no, no, no, no, this prison math ain't mathin'. This is not a situation that's worth having to eat jail food for the rest of your life.

Or having an inmate treat your boonky like a bowl of cereal. So please let Remy Ma give Kevin Gross the biggest hee haw. Hee haw, hee haw. You stupid mother fucker, you dumb. So, please let Remy Ma give Kevin Gross the biggest he-ha You stupid mother You got demoted take the L How do you get demoted from like a salvation army place? Goodwill place and what could you do wrong? Yeah, I don't know but he didn't even ask no questions He just assumed it was just other this other person and shot him seven times now He's gonna spend the rest of his life in prison for that

No, I don't they don't need to play and you also Mean we can if you want to what you want to play a game He's from Baltimore White people in Baltimore. Yes Come on, no Latinos in Baltimore. No, but something that petty like that like Like you got a point Clothes and store then it's not even like a like a regular clothing store. It's plan B Yeah, like nah, he but always do prison math though

Whenever you about to make a choice that you think won't get you in some type of trouble Especially if this involving any type of crime. This is gonna get you in some type of trouble especially if it's involving any type of crime, just calculate it in your head. Is this worth the time you gonna get for said situation? That's it. Alright, well thank you for that donkey today. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Donkey today is brought to you by the law office of Michael S. Lamisoff.

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It makes sense for you to have a devotional, a book full of affirmations, because all you do is send us devotional affirmations every day. Yes, so it makes sense. So it's completely on brand for you. On brand. Yeah, and you know what I love about it,

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But it was more of like, okay, let's separate from what I know that I'm familiar with. Doing the skits, on the table, entertaining, checking the social media, checking the DMs, engagements. So like, girl, you just have this book deal and you need to get to it. Like, so I was really in my closet. I had to separate, just sacrifice the social media, take that away for a little bit and get locked in my closet and just start writing. And I would just throw in little snippets on social media to see how people's going

to react. And it just became a book. And I just had to literally write, write, write each day. You know, shout out to Nikki, shout out to Frankie, like just for helping me because I still wanted to add like the comedic side and, you know, wanted you know Charlemagne like yourself, Axiaboya quotes like what makes you guys a tour, trying to put it all together and not just be your typical devotional, because everyone is not religious and everyone doesn't understand, you know. Spirituality.

Yeah, so and I believe in Jesus Christ, so you know I didn't want to dump that down either, I needed to throw him in there. But it's for everyone, it's a unisex book. It's for the women as well. And I just wanted to really like tap into the other side outside of being funny for sure. So much. Why this for your first book though? Because Davonna is a person that wears many hats. You are not just funny. You do so many other things. Why not? A memoir. For the first book. Yeah. A memoir. Like you said, why?

Too young for first book. Yeah, a memoir, like you said. Why to vote for that book? Yeah, and I just, no, no, not even, all right, well not even a memoir, but like who you are, like your layers of who you are, because a lot of people don't know you are Devonna XL. Who you say, who you are in the book, I ain't trying to spoil it, you do, but you do say in the book,

I'ma save who I am for the next book. Okay, why is that not the first one? I just, for me, I just feel like, I just have so much work. Yeah. Okay. Why is that not the first one? I just, for me, I just feel like I just have so much work to do. Yeah. Like that's not even there yet. Like I just need to like do some so much more. I'm just not there yet.

And I feel like let's put something out where the people could appreciate, you know, and I was like this devotion. Someone told me I had an interview. They were like, okay, well, we just be like the funny be like this is just the book is so serious. I was like, girl, you haven't even got the book. The book, not even I am. Right. You know, like I want to give you guys a part of me. And if this is what I have to do, I'm going to be still. I remember when I had, we had COVID and I reached out to Sharla when

I was like, oh, Sharla, I'm overthinking. We ain't got to work. Sharla said to be still. I hated when Sharla told me that. I was like, be still. I hate the word still because I get to think, I get to be in my head. But that's one of the things that's to answer your question in the beginning. Like I had to be still and I hated it because I was like, be still. I hate the word still because I get to think, I get to be in my head. But that's one of the things that's the answer to your question in the beginning, like I had to be still and I hated it. Because I was like, this has to be written and the only person that's gonna write it is me and whoever else we hire to help me put it all together.

So I mean, I just wanted to put a devotional out because I'm like, it's just necessary. Like you said, it's on brand. And I just want people to hear my story. Everything that I've been through, delay has never denied you. I talk about Hollywood in here. Just don't change, you know, and just keep going. And, you know, don't be afraid to walk alone. The relationships

I have, friendships and people I've, you know, dated, like how you just don't have to walk alone in your pain. You need, God will send help. He will send angels. I talked about in the beginning when I was so hungry in college, I had no money. I had no food. In Missed A Day, and shout out to, you, uh, San Augusto University. Hello, North Carolina He helped me gave me fifty dollars and laid on his heart. God said you didn't eat and here's here's money I just talked about all the prophetic me. Yeah, that's in here that brought me to this day So I just hope it I know it's gonna help us So you feel me the mission is I don't look at the numbers

I look at like who am I touching in this season and if that's what it is, we're gonna rock out Yeah, I wanted to ask now your mother's a pastor, correct? Yes, she is This into you so talk about growing up with your mother being a pastor and you still doing the funny skits and the outlandish skits And but you still are so close to your your faith Yeah, um, my mom like again her mission is to do what she has to do a minute thing it but the ministry But it's a thing we we're doing ministry, okay? We're healing, like laughter is healing.

Outside of what we do is a gift. What Jess does on stage, I can't do what she do. That's up there 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 45, I'm gonna be like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, can we do some magic tricks on them? But that's what you do. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. Can we do some, I wanna do some magic tricks, y'all. You want to see it? Like, that's me. You know, like, get it?

That is me. Like, can we do something? Come on now, like, let me put the pink robe back on. Like, that's just, like, I commend them for being in their purpose and walking in their purpose and being the legend that she is. Me, on the other hand, I'm like, I'm going to jump on some tables. I'm going to be a personality, these characters that I have, and there's no judging, like just walk in your gift.

And when God steers you some other way, go do that too. But right now in this season, I'm just doing both. I'm balancing it all. I mean, people may take it serious, may not. You know, and some people, you know, may not take it serious, like, okay, should we trust in this character that has been doing this stuff for years? Now she's writing a book, I don't believe it. So that's why everybody face I'm posting every day about it. I ain't on the table right now. I'm gonna just let

y'all see what's going on because respect this avenue. You know, we were doing a lot but respect this calling until I decided to say, all right, we it's been five months now, let me get back to what I'm doing and still carry with it because it's my brand. But my mom, she loves me, she doesn't judge. She's like, if this is what you're doing, just don't do nothing that's gonna take you away from God. That's it, that's all. She not that type of mother for sure.

And you sold out your first show last year when you did Charon. Oh, Charon the Bike Yacht. Charon the Bike Yacht. That was very different. You was in Atlanta at the, where was you at? What was the name of the building? Center Stage.

Center Stage. Yeah, we was there Yeah, you sold that out Hurry, she ain't never say Sharon sell out Sharon on the Bacchus And that's the thing and we put her on the road too. You're like, you know, we we added more characters I was actually she said put her on the road like it's not her Like we're gonna put her on the road We gonna put Sharon on the road, you know this year so I'm excited about that

I was just trying to just make get this book going but Sharon deserves a stage, more people to see her. In New York, for sure, this is the pit of Panayale, Jamaican people, so I wanna bring her out here. But yeah, I wasn't afraid. My mom came up, she seen me whining, she seen me talk about people, she seen me up there carrying on, so yeah, we just wanna walk into that.

You know what's interesting about that? You talked about Jess and her gift of being able to do stand-up. Stage plays have been around forever. You know what's interesting about that, you talked about Jess and her gift of being able to do standup. Like you know, stage plays have been around forever. You know what I mean? There's people that have made multi-millions of dollars off stage plays. Of course we know the Tyler Perry's,

the David Talbert, I think. Yes, David Talbert, I think. Yeah. But that's a lane that a lot of people, especially your generation, aren't in. You could easily be producing stage plays. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And everyone tells me that.

I just got a text. I think it, shout out to Tory Layz. I know you, you feel me? Shout out, free. Shout out, free. Free, free, free. That was pretty good. Tory Layz, he DM'd me the other day

and was just like, yo, you could be producing plays. Like, you're a dresser. And I'd be like, how you know? You're supposed to be, you know? But. You're like, yo, you feel me? Megan Thee Stallion just unfollowed you too, man. Well, she wasn't following me.

From the jump. Oh, okay. She wasn't following me from the jump. You trying to start something? You know what I'm saying? Baldi. Baldi. Oh.

She wasn't following me, but I love Meg. And you know, I love Meg, but I'm just telling you what he told me. Right, right, right. Shout out to him, like, hey, like, I think you should do that. And of course, Charlotte told me too. I brought the idea to him, like, yo, I wanna do this. And of course, Charlotte told me to, I brought the idea to him like, yo, I want to do this,

I want to do these plays, you know, I want to get my characters involved. But my thing is, is like, I sent him out the devotion. I said, look, thank you so much for that advice, but we gonna, we act on it. We're gonna act on it. But I just, I just want to make sure everything is right. And someone told me, just do it. I think I'd just be scared of people just like, are you all gonna show? Like, you all gonna come out and support me?

And that's how I was at Sharon. I was like,'all gonna buy a ticket like, you know what it is And I was so nervous that day, but you know faith and faith can't coexist So that's why just I went at it and just did it. All right, we got more with pretty V when we come back Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. Everybody is DJ envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy We are the Breakfast Club. We We still kicking in with pretty V Jess Now with all the long list of everything that you've been doing. Yeah also received your honorary doctor Humanitarianism, yeah, I say that word right humanitarianism last year. They was on your ass Jess said it should be a certificate. I knew it was coming.

A certificate, Sissy. Now, I know you are proud of that. I'm extremely proud of you. You went to college in real life anyway. You got a real degree, you know what I mean? But not taking anything away from your honorary doctorate degree. But did that moment when people were coming for you, or the backlash that you received from it,

did that take away from the enjoyment? Did that take away from the fact that it was a victory? I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, or the backlash that you received from it, did that take away from the enjoyment? Did that take away from the fact that it was a victory for you? That was still a victory that you received? It did, but it didn't. Okay. Because like I said, I wasn't the only one who received it.

My mother received it that day. My brother received it that day. And I feel like there's a process. It wasn't like, yo, what up? Can we honor you? You gonna get your doctors? No, I had to like, for the whole moment out, I had to get in this class and do work. I had to just do the whole thing before I got it. So I think it was that that moment dragged

out for the longest. I was like, why are we still talking about the doctors? I never told you I was getting a white coat. I didn't say Charlotte come to the graduation and just be here at five and if you bring your wife and kids like I didn't say that I said I got something that the community respect and honored and I was feeling great about it. Like all these great people got it. Usher, Missy, Michael Jackson, I guess because I'm not in that caliber. It doesn't matter. And she's on a girl and she's doing a skits and like we're not taking it seriously. Like, oh, they're just giving out this title to everybody. Whatever. I was like, whatever. I got it. They, they seen me, they acknowledged

me, they gave me my flowers. They shouldn't change the name. I shouldn't be a certificate just, but at the end of the day it is what it is. You know, I got it and I stood on it and I know my friends were happy. I know you guys. I definitely was happy. I was just like, let's get it. Let's go. You know, so it's just for the next person, you know, like they may call you

and say, Jess, we want you to be in honorary Delta. I'm like, I'm all for it. I love that for you. Yeah, a doctor's as well. You know what all that pink and green is? Excuse me. And she might be an AK. You never know.

Yeah, AK may call her. And we like jazz. Do you not know I did a whole video for you when you got this position for And she might be AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AKM, AK baby, I'm like, okay, we're just at you know But again things had to come in and fill in for you But this is your seat so as a person as a pretty V a B Simone adjust it as a Drew ski a Marco These are accolades that we're like what we're getting Like and I'm just happy that I got it and I'm happy that it's on my house stood it up and I'm happy I got one from South Carolina State,

Jess getting one from Baltimore City Community College. First of all, oh my God, what? No, I'm not getting anything from Baltimore City Community College. No, they didn't send nothing here. They tweeted. They don't even have Twitter. It's a community college.

Don't do them like that. They don't got no damn Twitter. She said she wanted to give you honorary doctorate. You didn't hear that? No, and if Jess get that from the community college, we lit. You know what's so great? He had to look that up. He had to look that up. He is such a clown.

See, I told you he looked that up. Anyway, you said earlier that you know you talk about people you've dated in the book and stuff too. Yeah, I ain't say no names. You know what I'm saying? Ain't no names in the book? Ain't no names in the book and stuff too. Yeah, I ain't say no names. Oh, you ain't say no names in the book? Ain't no names in the book. Ain't no names in the book, okay. I actually called to make sure I could throw a little slobbering in here.

But other than that, yeah. Where's the love life now? Since you don't always work on yourself and you had a hundred days to change and to think newly. Yeah. Where's the dating status today? Single and not ready to mingle. We is focused.

We is getting to it. I mean, we are on a mission right now To just focus on a pretty victory focus on all the great things whatever I put down on picking back up in the season I feel like like I'm just growing Spiritually more like I'm asking God to cover my heart be open to new collection connections But cover my heart cover my borderlines Yeah of my eargates like I'm just really in changes just having fun. Like the skits, the comedic side, and I'm running what Charlotte told me. It's like, yo, you're all purpose entertaining.

I'm running with that, doing everything I could possibly do. Whatever I put down, I'm picking back up. So right now I'm single, you know, I hear whoever like, you feel me, like Miami, like Miami Dolphins, Eagles, what they do, like whoever. You know, dentists, entrepreneurs, where y'all at. Bus drivers. What's up?

What? What? What? Whatever out here, you know we work in, single. I'm just vibing out. I wanna ask both of y'all something, you and Jess, right? Cause in day 19, you talk about following God's instructions, right?

So I wanna ask you, how do you know what instructions are God's instructions and what's not? And I wonder about that in regards to relationships. Like does God say you know what that's who you should be dating or that's who you should be dealing with? Absolutely. I feel like God sent me a man after his own heart. You know me and Chris we pray together. That's my partner. This is the first time I've been in a relationship where I actually feel like we're doing the spiritual growing together. You know what I mean? Like in other relationships we're doing the spiritual growing together. You know what I mean? Like, and other relationships, I'm not saying that I was dating atheists, you know, but I would initiate the praying. I would initiate, yo, let's, let's read together. Let's, you know, when, you know, you sent me two of these,

right? He took one and he's like, yo, I didn't know she was doing the daily devotion. I said, yeah, well, she sends me. He said, I know she was turning into a book. And, you know, he started reading it. Like he he he's very very Spiritual he's a Christian God-faring man And yeah, I do feel like God has spoken to to me and told me this is this is the last person that she won't be with This is the last and final relationship. This is the one this is what I was preparing you for you I do I do believe that wholeheartedly. Yes, I believe that for you. So what about you? Yeah, God told is this is God told you look I don't want you dealing with nobody right now? See God is not the author

of confusion so whenever it gets a little rocky for me I know that's not him. I've been in spaces where it's been confusion, manipulation, I talk about that conniving, just controlling and that is not of God. Now God will put you in a situation for you to learn it's a lesson like a warning does come for destruction. I mean, I couldn't get what that means. Like it comes for destruction. So I think in this season, God is saying be still and be patient because you have tapped into different relationships, whether it wasn't good for you. You have tapped into different friendships that held you back. So I think in this season, he is telling me to be still and wait on him. Seek he first the kingdom

of God. I keep hearing that every time somebody called me, they're like, oh, you were in my spirit and this dropped in it, Matthew, you need to read it. So I'm like, okay, what am I doing that is moving too quick and not bringing God along? So and waiting on his answer. So that's why I said in the beginning, I'm just waiting on that soft whisper to move. So in this space that I'm in, I'm like, if it ain't of him, and if I ain't and if we ain't doing what we need to do, I don't want you. I don't care how much money you got, I don't care if you got the G Unit chain on, I don't care if the jibows is to the ground, I don't care if the Timbs is flapping, I don't want it. Yeah, if it's not f***ing you.

You wanna be your c***s with the sound of the chain? Yeah, the G Unit chain, the jibows, the jibows. Alright, we got more with Pretty V when we come back is the Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club is still kicking in with pretty V So question what's the most important chapter in this book to you? Um the most if you wanted one person say I wanted you to read this one chapter because I think this chapter is whatever. Yeah, I love you.

I love you. And why? Um, because I, we don't hear that enough. Yeah. The household I grew up in, my mother said it, but my dad was very slim to none. You know, Caribbean man, very hard, very like straightforward. You don't hear it as much. And then when you do, it's like,

I have to say it. All right, dad, did you hear me? I said, I love you. I love you too. My father showed he loved us for sure. But it wasn't like I want you to tell me that because the trips and the gifts and the Christmas stuff and expect to school clothes. That's cool. I need to tell you who I fell in love with and they broke my heart. You know, I need you to understand like that I'm hurting right now and I don't need to tell you who I fell in love with and they broke my heart. You know, I need you to understand like that I'm hurting right now and I don't need to call my mentors in the industry to ask for advice, I wanna call you first. So I Love You is my favorite day of the book.

I don't know what day that is, but that's one of them points, because we don't hear it, I didn't hear it. How has that changed you as a person? Do you say I love you to everybody now because you missed that, you didn't get that like you wanted? I do say I love you to a lot of people, but I also, I think my heart is warm to people.

It's like more open because my father was very close. Gotcha. Yeah, like again, it was just all about making sure you're dependent, you're this, you become a lawyer, you become a realist. He didn't care about the comedy. He was just like, that ain't gonna, like whatever. Until I showed him that I could turn funny into money.

Until I showed him that I could do these things about my first home and and help the family You know as much as I can but I love you was not he didn't say that as much You know, where's the relationship with your dad now? Um, we're good. We locked in like that's my daddy Like, you know, it's just I could be in a Caribbean. He's everything's hard Like it's just like I books make sure you're in there, make sure you become who you're supposed to be. Don't do this, don't do that. But like me and my dad's like my best friend. Have you had those talks with him?

We had a moment one day in Miami and we was back and forth. Then like, I was like in his space and like, you need to respect that. So he texted me and my dad, my dad don't even know, I don't even know how he know how to text. I was like, is it my little brother doing this for you?

Or this is from your heart. And he was like, is it my little brother doing this for you or this is from your heart? And he was like, we just have to work on communication. That's the first time he understood my side and I understood his side. You know, so yeah. How did you pick who you wanted to do your, to help with devotionals? The impact that you guys put on my life.

I mean, before like I knew what rap was, Sharla was just like, yo, this show would be great for you. You know, the advice that I've gotten over the years from him, like keep going. You know, I've text Sharla, like, love you. Keep going. Ah, ah, you to be keep. Keep striving. It's just the impact. Jess, I watched her growth. I'm inspired by her walk again, because I can't do what she does.

I think it's inspiring to me. Issa, you know, taking a chance on me to be a part of her show and still speaking to me after the fact like checking up On me and you know she was gonna be one of my moderators You know for the book tour but her scheduling for people I'm saying people who to come out they wait to do things like this Is a pinch me moment for me. You know, I don't take this for granted like everything to me is like pure genuine I love it and Shaq for giving me the best advice every time I will respond in the blogs Shaq will hit me like literally Two minutes after you know, I had to call you like,

yo, tell Shaq, don't block me. I know. Like what's going on? Yeah. So I think for me, it's more of like him giving me the best advice. Don't respond. You're a queen. You don't come off your throne for them people. And I didn't understand because I want to explain so much. And he's like, no, we're not doing that. And Duval, like that's just my dog.

Kiara Sheer helped me when I was in my head during COVID. She gave me her aunt's counselor, therapist, so I could talk to her. So shout out to Kiara Sheer. I was really in a bad place in 2020 and she was just like, look at the Bible. Everybody in there had committed suicide, overthinking, you had this in the Bible.

You're not the only one walking through this space V. Keep your head up and I'm gonna give you my auntie's counselor so you can talk to them because I was afraid of it Like I was like I'm a church girl like all you gotta do is pray and then you'll be alright But no you actually need somebody and I put you in that space in 2020 I'm just the the the kovat, you know, and I had kovat and kovat hit me mentally. It didn't hit me physically I was just in my head a lot the brain fog Overthinking stuff like just doing the most. And I kept

calling my mom, I think I need to go talk to somebody. And she was like, it's COVID. Like it was bad. 2020 was bad. Everyone was passing away at that time. And I just didn't know how, I didn't know how to center myself. And I think in that season, it's like getting your word, like God's pulling on you with some things. He wants to talk to you spiritually. And that's when I reached out to Kiki and she was just like, you know, I'm gonna tell you right now to keep going, but you know, I'm gonna tell you right now to keep going But you know, this is gonna happen but getting your word and I'm gonna give you my auntie's, you know counsel So you can talk to her so everyone plays a part of my life in the Victoria Tish Campbell

Like just everybody in here. So be Simone like everyone's in this book. Let's end on this You say if you're starving you'll eat anything If you're starving you will eat anything it's, it's just plain and simple. You know, again, you got to wait and be patient. Like, like I just said, if the opportunity come for me to do something that's off brand, and I want it and I feel like I'm not doing anything in the moment, and I feel like I need the money, or if I feel like I, I want to be at a place just to show the people I'm working, I'll do

anything. Down the line, it starts tenting things and tinting the brand and making you look crazy when you should just wait. Be patient in this season and just wait. That's the thing. Opportunities have come to me to do certain things and I've said no, no, no. And I know I needed the money. I know I needed to do certain things. I know I wanted to put it towards a share on shore, just my craft.

But if I would have said yes, I'm just doing anything just to do it.. I know I wanted to put it towards a Sharon Shaw or just my craft. But if I would have said yes, I'm just doing anything just to do it. I'm not waiting on the process. That's what I just said. And I think day two, there's a process before the promise. And the thing about it is we'll just go through, try to go straight through that promise and it ain't doing nothing. It's just, you just did it just cause to seem to show your fans and your followers that

you moving and you working. I'm out here with da da da but they got you doing all these roles. I remember a producer hit me today and said, yo I want you to be a stud and be like a lesbian stud in one of my movies and I was like, you straight? Like I don't want to do that. I'm bigger than that. Like you know like no shade.

Like I don't want to put like, you ever make your stomach out like y'all straight? Like I'm good. Like I don't want to do that. ever make your stomach out like, y'all straight, like I'm good, like I don't wanna do that. Did you tell him I would do that? Why you ain't call Sissy? Why you ain't call Sissy? Crazy. Why you ain't call your Sissy Jess?

No Jess, like you wanna do this role for me right? Go, go, go. You wanna be a bitch? What's up, y'all? Wanna be a stud? Jess would've killed me. You already know, you already know I ain't get stud on these b****s.

I get stud on them. A lesbian, she a little, she a little butchie. A pregnant? And she like wife beat on, picking the hair. What? I'm like I don't wanna do that. But I didn't wanna do that. You're a fowl, you ain't passed out.

Well the book is out now, The Pretty Victory, and I think it's only right we leave with a prayer. Yes, a pretty prayer, that's close. A pretty prayer. What a pretty prayer book. Is it like a long prayer, are we getting- It's up to you. It's up to you, it's up to you.

Because you just got pressed, so it's up to you. Close your eyes and you go. Okay, period. Father God, we just thank you so much for today, little God. We thank you that you are so worthy. We just thank you that you are so massive. We thank you that you are so powerful, little God. Father God, I wanna say thank you so much for what you're doing

And what you're about to do little God in these last and evil days little God the scene in the unseen the hurt and unheard little God father. God. We thank you for all the doors that you're opening but all the doors that you are closing little God I thank you for every soul who's around this table little God just little God keep her in perfect peace little God Let us know that she's seen little God. Let us know that she's heard little God every cry that she's cried little God I said you hear her touched down on her heart little God purge her into her greatness little God is so much know that she's heard, Logot. Every cry that she's cried, Logot, I ask that you hear her. Touch down on her heart, Logot. Purge her into her greatness, Logot. It's so much things that she wants to do, Logot, in this season, Logot. So give it to her, Logot. Give her the witty inventions, Logot, to do it, Logot.

Bless Envy, Logot. Keep him going, Logot. Allow her to be the best father he knows how to be, Logot. Let him quiet the noise, Logot. Whatever he may be dealing with that we may not know in his secret place, Logot. We just ask that you cover him under the blood, Logot. His kids, Logot. Father, God, do a round

of protection over his kids, even his wife. Many opportunities will fall with his family. Bless Shalem, keep him in perfect peace. Anxiety, anything that he may be thinking about, overthinking, anything that he may be feeling like on the days that he may not express. Father God, we just want to say thank you. Keep him. Father God, we just ask that you catapult Shalemane's career to higher heights. It's never too late to do it. Father God, we just want to say thank you, Lord God. Keep him, Lord God. Father God, we just ask that you catapult Charlamagne's career, Lord God, to higher heights, Lord God. It's never too late, Lord God, to do it, Lord God. Father God, whatever he's writing down in his journal,

Lord God, whatever he's thinking about, Lord God, him and his wife shall do, Lord God. Even his kids will eat off of those benefits, Lord God. And Father God, the generations to come and to come and every soul that's a part of Breakfast Club's team, Lord God, bless them now and forevermore. In Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen. Amen, amen.

There we have it. See how intentional she is when she prays. That's right. It's pretty V. The pretty V the pretty victory. It's the breakfast club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now you got a positive note. I do but I want to tell people first of all man make sure you go get your tickets for

the third annual black effect podcast Festival happening Saturday, April 26th at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia. Yes, it is year three of an unforgettable day of live podcasts, inspiring conversations, and cultural celebration, podcast coaches celebration. Okay, it's hosted by Mandy and Wheezy of Decisions Decisions. We got the Trap Nerds podcast there for the gamers.

Good Moms, Bad Choices is gonna be there. Carrie Champion's gonna be there with her Naked podcast tank and jay valentine will be there doing the rmb money podcast live And sarah jakes roberts will be there doing the woman of all podcasts live So go get your tickets right now at black effect.com Festival, okay saturday april 26 third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival Atlanta can't wait to see you there and the positive note is simply this and this is something that I live by it's a quote that I love the content of your character is your choice day by day what you choose what you think and what you

do is who you become have a great day Breakfast Club bitches! You gonna finish or y'all done? Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith. And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith. That's my daughter, man, who my wife has always said is just a beardless, d***less version of me. And that's the name of our podcast,

Beardless, D***less Me. I'm the old one. I'm the young one. And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? Lotta cussing, lot of bad language. It's for adults only. Or listen to it with your kid.

Could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out. It's a work in progress. Listen to Beardless, S***less Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm ready to fight. Oh, this is fighting words. Okay, I'll put the hammer back.

Hi, I'm George M. Johnson, a bestselling author with the second most banned book in America. Now more than ever, we need to use our voices to fight back. Part of the power of Black queer creativity is the fact that we got us, you know? We are the greatest culture makers in world history. Listen to Fighting Words on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to Fighting Words on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention.

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