The Breakfast Club - Best of 2025 - BEST MOMENTS - Will Packer, David Oyelowo, Jess Fix My Mess, Relationship Pet Peeve, Recorded 2025.

Episode Date: April 17, 2025

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The best donkeys, the best interviews, you guys, which are the best callers, and some of the best moments the Breakfast Club has had in the last couple of months. So sit back, relax, enjoy, and have fun. Keep it locked. Red is going to be running the boards. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up.

Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hey, Nadine. Good morning. Get it off your chest. Where you calling from first? I'm calling from Dallas, Texas. Okay Dallas. What's up mama?

I am wrote a book. It's called How to Date a Fat Chick. A Fat Girl's Died to Dating. And I'll be so grateful if you guys kick it up and read it. How to Date a Fat Chick? Yes. A Fat Girl's Died to Dating. Is it a heavy read? Is it thick? Like how many pages is it? Ha ha ha. You're so funny. You're cold on this asking. like how many pages is it? It's one day read, but it's a great story about

About your what my dating life. Oh you a big girl a dog Done she might not be big no more. It might be her past life she's writing about. So it was hard for you to date? No it's a spherical look at my dating life. It's the things that I went through and the lessons that I learned along the way. Okay I'd love to read that. I had a home girl who wrote something like that before. It was called Dating While Fat. Oh wow. Well yeah. It's on Amazon so it's by Nadine Jones with this scene and again how to date a fat girl back to dating. Okay. What category is it in?

Food? Home? Jesus. What is it? Like what category is it in? Home. It's the how to. It should be how to.

I'm asking. I don't know what category it is but it's comedy I think. It's satirical. So just type it in and you think, it's rhetorical. So just type it in, you'll find it. What's it called again? How to date a fat chick. So if a guy takes you out to eat, do you limit the food that you have so you don't look big?

You gotta read the book. You're right, I'm sorry. It came up as a cookbook. No it didn't, shut up. No, I'm lying. No, How to Date a Fat Chick, Bad guide to dating by nadine jones, okay I like the cover. I like that. I like that. It looks like uh, what do you call that a condom? A condom what do you call that book? Uh a notebook. Yeah, whatever that is. Yeah

I like that composition composition. There you go Well, you have a good one nadine. Thank you you too. Good luck. Hello. Who's this? What's going on man? My name is super trucker man. I'm out of Eastern North Carolina man. I'm truck driver. What's up super trucker? How you feeling this morning man? I'm good man I'm out here shipping gears making that black come out the fight. Okay. All right. What you transporting? I do flatbeds I'm hauling building materials right now, okay? We'll be safe on the road. Yo, man. I just want to know man. Y'all got love for truckers man You damn right I got love for truckers. You know me. I know you do that Hey, look, I got a song called trucker love man. So y'all get a chance

Check it out. It's on YouTube. You still got love for truckers. Yes, you know I'm on for us brother. I got you I get a chance check it out. It's on YouTube. You still got love for Chuck and Jesse. You know, he's doing For us brother, I got you Right, man, be safe for them roads brother. Hello. Who's this? Yeah. What's up, baby? What's up, brother? What's up? Just how y'all doing? Good good. What's going on? Get it off your chest. Yo, I'm mad at my brother, James. What's your brother do? He's... Yo, he set me up. I'm sick last night, not feeling well.

I'm at home, and he lied to his wife telling her that he was hanging out with me all night. And he wasn't. Oh, man. He ain't tell you that you were part of the lie. He ain't tell me, because I was dead into the world and his wife called my wife asking her what he wished me. Oh man. And what's your wife say?

Yo she blew his spot up like hell no you wanna see the cameras? Damn. She blew him up and he's calling me up to talk's talking about, yo, you supposed to help me out. I'm like, yo, you should have told me first. I hate when somebody make you a part of the lie, but don't tell you about the lie. Like, damn. Now he mad because he say that I'm the reason

why his wife is putting him out. Now he wants to come and stay at my house. Oh, hell, no. You're not the reason, and your wife ain't gonna let him stay. Your wife ain't gonna let no cheating ass stay at your house. I'm sending him over to you, Envy ain't gonna let him stay your wife. You're gonna let no cheating ass I'm sending them over to you every I got a couple of dogs that'll make sure you stay out

Every every when you throw it another mix tape out man, come on stop playing You're gonna get that in a while brother, you You know, it ain't gonna happen, bro. Ah, come on, Envy. It ain't gonna happen. These artists are a lot different, man. But back then, I would say the artists really respected the DJ and really loved the DJ with. With the mixers.

With the master artists for something, and they would be happy to do it, glad to do it. But now, I ain't playing the politics game, bro. Yeah, I know what you want red cafe man all right get it off your chest 800-585-1051 if you need to vent phone lines are wide open it's the Breakfast Club good morning the Breakfast Club it's your time to get it off your chest wake up whether you're mad or blessed the

the the the the What's up, brother? What's going on with you? Hey, listen, I just want to say God bless you, Charlamagne, and Jeff Hilarious, man, for what you do on a daily basis, man. It's not easy. And you don't get the... I want to give you your flowers while you're here, man. You guys help me every day, man.

You put me in the right direction. You keep me safe. And I just want the positive vibe to come back to you guys on a daily basis man I love y'all man Hey we love you too brother thank you You're welcome Have a good one brother You too Hello who's this?

Yo what's up y'all this Replay from Chicago What up Shotel what up? Fizz Replay what's happening? What up? What up? Man look I gotta give a shout out this morning to Lauren LaRosa Man she been holding me down man she. She been coming with good news, with good facts. Me and her the same age, man. And I just love seeing people my age just go hard. And then, baby girl, keep doing what you're doing, you know? That's what it is.

Thank you. I appreciate that. No doubt. No doubt. She aight. Y'all wanna follow me, man? Yeah. Charlemagne? She aight. Why was I talking to you? She aight. What were you saying, King?

Go ahead, finish. King, go ahead, King. Oh, yeah, man, look, like I said, I'm replaying. Guy want to follow me. I'm on Instagram at ladieslovereplay. Why they call you replay, bro? Man, that's actually the name they gave me. I'm an R&B singer.

And I don't know, one of the guys, he's trying to tell me to replay. I'm like, all right, thanks. I want everybody to replay my song. OK. All right, brother. Have a good one. No doubt, y'all. Put a little more sauce on that, you know what I'm like, all right, thanks. I want everybody to replay my song. Okay. All right, brother. Have a good one. No doubt, y'all.

Put a little more sauce on that, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, you gotta come up with something better. Why they call you replay? I don't know, you know what I mean? Because when I put it down, you know, ladies love it so much, they wanna see it again. Something, you know what I mean? Like, this is something. Facts.

Facts. What did you say? I'm with it. He said facts. Oh, okay, I didn't know. I thought he was telling me something else. Facts. I thought he was telling me he wasn't into women. I didn't know. I'm like, what He said facts. Oh I thought he was telling me he wasn't in the women. I'm like what excuse me. Hello

This is jay matter Jay matter was up right over your chest Jay matter morning, you know I'm stressed. I'm tired of people. He's asking you, you know, are you getting off? What are you gonna get married? And I tell them in a minute, dog, you know? They're always telling you when they're gonna get a new job. And I tell them in a minute, dog, you know? Everyone has their own pace, and they wanna put you to a standard and do things, you know?

And we're in their own pace. Me, I just preserve you, that's why. I didn't know men get that kind of pressure. I didn't know men get that, that's not, that's usually the pressure that's reserved for women. I'm talking about the marriage part No, that's what I'm saying Dog, you know, how old are you me? I'm getting close to that age, you know, 30 is you know, it's that is that point When they ask you, you know when you're gonna get married just be like I'm in the min dog just say something like that

You don't think so? Yeah That's right. That's right. That's right. But that's definitely if you got all the parents to cause all the parents won't grandparents I'm sure so that's what they asked for the parents won't grandparents I'm so guys by certain age if you don't have kids that be like you're not married. They think something's wrong. Oh the parents will go ahead kid That's what I meant. Well, you'll meet Mrs. Right in due time. Mr. or Mrs. I'm sorry, can you say that again?

No. Have a good day, brother. Appreciate you. Have a great day. Yes, sir. All right, brother. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need to vent phone lines or wide open, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well.

We got a special guest in the building. His new book, Who Better Than You? The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big is out now. Ladies and gentlemen, Will Packer. Family, what's going on? What's up? How are you? Bless black and hard of hearing. How you feeling? Healthy Arrogance and Dreamin' Big is out now. Ladies and gentlemen, Will Packer. Family, what's going on? What's up? How are you? How are you feeling?

Bless black and holiday. How you feel? I'm feeling amazing. You know, I'm up here. I'm up here with one of the most incredible platforms in media right now. Interesting time in media, you know. Media ebbs and flows.

We in an ebb right now in the movie business, Charlamagne. Really? I don't know if you know, yeah. Just, you know, coming off the strikes, coming off of COVID, like the movie industry never really recalibrated So there's a lot of folks out there that are hurting right now A lot of folks that aren't working on actors out of work writers and so as a producer

You know, I'm just trying to keep people hired trying to do what I do and create content most people out there They don't realize because there's so much content out there. So many streaming services like all everything out there I can see whatever I want. But actually, the media companies are making a lot less. So it's an interesting time in the business. Who Better Than You is the name of the book. What made you decide to write this? Yo, you know, I have been in the movie game for almost 30 years now.

And I have dealt with some of the biggest names, some of the most impressive, successful people, some of the most toxic, successful people, some of the most toxic, insecure people. And throughout that process, I have gained a set of skills that I wanna share with people about how you can be successful and manifest a more full life. How you can use some of the skills that I've learned

that are transferable to any industry to navigate, be it you want to start a new endeavor, you want to overcome a challenge, you want to pivot in your life. And so I'm telling stories I've never told before, stories from dealing with some of my Hollywood folks, but it's really lessons, right? It's lessons about this is how you deal with people, how you position yourself to succeed, and how you have healthy arrogance. Now to be confused with toxic arrogance, right?

Toxic arrogance walks in a room and says, I'm better than everybody here. I'm gonna win because you're gonna lose. Right, I'm better than you. Healthy arrogance walks in a room and says, okay, number one, I belong in this room, right? The most successful people feel that. They don't feel like, am I supposed to be here with all these important that they don't feel like am I supposed to be here with all

These important people healthy arrogance feels like I'm supposed to be here However, I also have something to add to this room this room is better because I'm in it and I'm gonna get other people to understand how they and I have a commonality in terms of our goal if you can get other people to see the value and what you're going after In terms of our goal if you can get other people to see the value and what you're going after Then you can then get them to roll in the same direction as you and work towards your own goal That's what leadership is getting other people to realize that it's not me against you if I can get you to understand that together We both benefit from working together and accomplishing things that are my goals as well as your goals, your chance for success is increased. You know, when I read about you talk about healthy arrogance, I hear your interviews

about healthy arrogance, it feels like you're saying you just got it's like a sense of worthiness. It's value. It is. It is very much understanding the value to place on yourself, right? You understand, Charlamagne, because you talk about mental health a lot. We all have this drum beat in our head, right? It can be a negative drum beat of I'm not ready, I'm not worthy, I don't have the skills, I'm not prepared.

More and more you tell yourself that, the louder those voices get. But there's a confidence muscle that you can build, that you can grow, by telling yourself the exact opposite, that I am worth, right? That I am prepared. But it's really about assigning value. The thing I say to people is that understand

from the time you are born into to the time you leave this earth you are building your brand. Everything you do right? I mean you can't make mistakes everybody does but every decision you make and everything you do is building your brand and it is telling people what value to assign to you. Whether that's somebody that is looking to invest in you, looking to date you, looking to just hang out with you. You are telling them what your value is. And you have to be healthily arrogant in the way that you force other people to recognize your value.

Bam! Yeah. So if you don't have nobody, does that mean you're not worth nothing? Well, you know, I'm not going to say that. What you mean, like a relationship? Yeah. Well, that just means that you have to be sure that you're surrounding yourself with people that understand your value.

It might mean that you're worth more than people want to give you credit for. It might mean you're single because other people don't recognize your value and you're not willing to compromise for it. You got something to say, Charlie? What? What? Hit dog will holler, won't they? I'm asking the brother a question. Why is Charlamagne's neck sassy? You saw it coming this way though didn't you? The sassiness of the neck caught me off guard. Is that what it is? Are you

whipping your hair back and forth? I was not whipping my hair at all. I was just asking you a question because I like what you're talking about. Okay, alright. Well yes, absolutely. So if somebody happens to be an amazing, beautiful single sister, I don't know the relationship status of everybody here, but let's just say present company. You keep looking over there though, why? You didn't look at Jess while you were looking at Trisha.

You know why I look at her? Because she said you had a sassy neck. So she is immediately the most entertaining person at this table. I want to ask you about imposter syndrome. Yeah. a sassy neck. So she is immediately the most entertaining person at this table. I want to ask you about imposter syndrome. Yeah. And when did that, like when did you get past that? Did you deal with that at all yourself? Absolutely deal with it. Everybody deals with it. Everybody gets to a point where they feel

like, yo, do I belong? Right? Do I deserve to be in the most important spaces? And I've been very, very fortunate to be in some incredible rooms with some people that are, you know, some of the most powerful people from around the world. As I said, what I realized is that when I walk in those rooms, I cannot question if I'm supposed to be there.

I need to realize what is it that I have that nobody else in this room has? And how can I double down on that right so black man african-american filmmaker in Hollywood not a lot of folks at my level in the rooms that I'm in often times it's all white people in those rooms. What I choose to do instead of saying okay I'm the only black person in this room I know they racist I know they look at me a certain way I know they have a negative perception I'm walking in the room and I'm thinking, okay, you know what, I'm bringing something

that nobody else can bring. When I talk about my perspective, when I talk about my audience, when I talk about my community, nobody else can debate me on that. So I'm the only one with that lived experience. Whatever it is in the rooms and the circles that you're in, what's the unique thing that you have,

and then you triple down on that. That will help with that imposter syndrome. The other thing is that you have to understand like you don't have to be somebody that's just born with like an overabundance of confidence. It's something that you can build. But you do have to build it by putting a success with a success with a success, right?

Like just like a volume JG say, check with a check with a check. You gotta build the successes. And sometimes to do that, you gotta come back and not say, okay, my first success has to be so big, right? Just accomplish something. I call it fabricating momentum. I believe that sometimes we get stuck on the first rung.

The very first thing, I'm trying to get started, I don't have any money, I don't know, people don't have a network, that's okay, right? Don't make the first thing you trying to do to climb the mountain, right? That's a lot, that's a momentous task. Make the first thing,'re trying to do to climb the mountain. That's a lot. That's a momentous task. Make the first thing buy the shoes, hiking boots, then buy a rope, then drive by the

mountain and look at it. Well, you know, you've done three things. Get started. Do something that helps to build that confidence. We all need that. All right. We got more with Will Packer when we come back. His new book, Who Better Than You?

The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big is out 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. Lonely Roses here with us as well.

We're still kicking in with Will Packer. His new book, Who Better Than You? The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big is out now. Charlamagne. I wanna get to the art of the pivot but first I want to ask you about the chapter that says stay in your lane. Just make it wide. Lean into your thing. How does one avoid being typecasted by leaning into their thing and when do you know the pivot? Yeah. You know the whole point of that chapter is about when you have something that you do really, really well because many times people are afraid of being locked into something that people

will think, that's all I can do. But if you do that thing and you do it really, really well, do not stop. Don't stop. The most successful people have a thing that they do and they do it well, then they use the ability to be successful in a lane to go out and they do it well, then they use the ability to be successful in a lane to go out and do something else. I'm only able to write this book with a major publisher because I've been very successful in a particular medium, right?

Now I'm able to go and do other things. So don't worry about that. Oh, well, I can do so much other stuff. What's the thing you do really well? Do that. Triple down on that. Be the best person in that particular field. And by the way, find your passion within that, right?

Too many times people are telling me, well, I'm not passionate about something. I gotta wait to find my passion and before I go out and work really hard. And I'm telling you, you're building a brand from day one. Work hard today. I didn't have a passion to be a filmmaker. I will admit that. But I was, I did not. That was not my dream growing up

but I found that I was really good at knowing how to hire actors and raise money and self-distribute and Then I found the passion in storytelling later So I found the thing I was really really good at and then I found my passion within it I encourage people to do that. Don't worry about being typecast stay in your lane, but you can make it wide. I'm not trying to pigeonhole you and I'm not trying to limit what you can do but stay in your lane. Too often we are trying to do too much and now you can't be the person that's doing everything the best. That is just not how humans work. What's the thing you do well? Triple down on that. So once you've leaned into your thing and you find that thing there's never a pivot from that thing. It

can be a pivot where you use that thing. You use your ability. You use your brand. You use the fact that you have got credibility in a particular space. You have done the exact same thing. You use the fact that you have credibility in one lane in order to then expand your lane right right? But it should still all be about, this is the thing that I do. That's why I say, stay in your lane, but make your lane wide. Is there ever a time where like you're,

cause I mean, I'm, I remember when you told the story about Kevin, with the last time you guys were here. And now I'm seeing it in context of this book of like, who better than you? And I feel like in that moment, he had the arrogance to be like, I can do both of these. I'm going to be fine and it's all gonna work out but things like that can kind of get pretty tricky because what if it hadn't have

worked out right is there ever a moment where you have to tell somebody who's coming to you for this type of who better than you advice like maybe this is not it for you right now maybe there's someone better than you right now but that doesn't mean later you might not be able to have that who better than you Eric you have to be honest with yourself number one right we live in a world where people think either they are too great or they are too awful. Rudyard Kipling has a poem called If and my favorite stanza in that poem is if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same. That is saying that both triumph and disaster are imposters, neither of them are real, right?

Too many times because we post something on social media, everybody tell you, oh my God, you're the greatest thing ever, so good, or the opposite. They just hating on you, telling you how awful you are. Neither of that is true. You gotta stay even keeled. So the first thing you gotta do is be honest about you and your skill set. It's the only way you gotta do is be honest about you and your skill set.

It's the only way you're gonna get better. Don't worry about external factors. You gotta have a very honest conversation. One of the things I talk about in the book is how we have to make sure, I'm a daily affirmation type of person. You're there encouraging yourself, right? Giving yourself positivity, telling yourself

how you're ready, how you're prepared, what you can do, but also being very, very honest with yourself. I don't care what you tell the world. Don't lie to yourself. Lie to your mom, a lot of your cousin, a lot of your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife. Do not lie to yourself. Be very, very clear about what it is that you do well. Yeah, you know, I want to talk to you about the Packer family model too. If you want to have what others want, you have to do what others don't. Yeah. I see you got your mom with you, did it come from her? I got moms, I got, you know what,

it's something that mom instilled in me, you know, when I was growing up, mom and dad, they took me like Simba and the Lion King and lifted me up and said, you know, whatever the son touches is your son. I encourage my folks with kids, do that. Tell your kids, cause that's when they're the most impressionable,

tell them they can do anything. They told me that and so I was very audacious growing up. With my family, it's me, my wife, we have four children so that's the six-pack. If you want to have what others don't you have to be willing to do what others won't period. That is the mantra. The mantra is that understand whatever it is that you want to do. If anybody else can do it then it's not special. You're not gonna get it, then it's not special. You're not going to get it, right? You're not going to get something that's unique.

You got to be willing to do what others are not to get that thing. And I believe that the more you do hard things, the better you become at hard things. The more hard things you do, the easier hard things become. So don't run from doing hard things. Don't run from doing the things that everybody else says is crazy. That's the only way you're gonna get strength and to build that muscle is by doing those hard things. Why say dream big?

Because your dream has gotta be so big because there's gonna be challenges along the way. It's gotta be so big that it pushes you past those challenges inevitably because if the dream is just a mediocre dream, like man, it'd be kind of cool to do that then when you run into a speed bump that's really hard you're gonna say you know what it ain't worth it I'm cool right but if the dream is so big right I mean so big for color for 8 for kHD like super crazy beyond your wildest dreams big then when you do hit that hard moment, those challenges, you know it's worth it to keep going and keep fighting because the dream is big enough.

Is Will Packer allowed to turn his own book into a movie? Yeah. As long as I'm in it serious? Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm Will Packer. Okay. You know, I could do that. What did you think about doing that? I saw Heather in the background instead.

You know, what Heather say in the background? I don't know, I just saw something. Oh. It was, oh, I was giving a lean a lean like maybe no don't do it right now or something You know what? I'm I've made this book not to turn into a movie or a TV show You never say never cuz you know one of my biggest moves thing like a man Steve Harvey will tell you he never thought of that As a movie never he never wrote it for that I wrote this to give the master mentorship that I didn't have I have people coming to me a lot and saying tell me about your success story

Tell me about your failures. Tell me about what you had to overcome And so when I tell these stories, right and I talk about you know Beyonce turning me down five times or Idris Elba You know almost not walking the carpet at the first Emmys and how you get past that. Like when I tell these stories, I'm doing that so that other people can benefit from it. So I could turn it to a movie, but that's not what I made it for. I literally made this book so that I could influence other folks who are either on their

way up thinking about making a pivot or living a life that they know could be a little more fulfilling. Well, we appreciate you for joining us. We'll pack a new book who better than you to art a healthy arrogance and dreaming big outright. The championship is back in the Bay for the first time in 40 years. On the new limited podcast series, Dub Dynasty, we hear from head coach Steve Kerr on how Steph Curry almost never even joined the Warriors. In fact, I thought we had a draft date deal to end up getting him to Phoenix.

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Now always a pleasure to see you. Go out there and buy this book. Make it a New York Times bestseller I'm a shake you found appreciate you man. Thank you. Thank you all for having me Charlamagne And thank you because you are somebody that you know And I told you this we saw each other at the Democrat National Convention and I told you I had written my first book and I was inspired by your books and by reading your book and just seeing that process in the ground that you put in so you

Never know who's watching and who you're inspiring. So I thank you my brother, thank you for having me. It's Will Packer. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ N.V. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here and we got a special guest

in the building. David Oyelowo was here I did I say right did you did okay? I had to ask you before I appreciate that you did yeah, I see it all the time, but I'm like I don't want to hack it when I try to say No, everyone everyone does but you know that how are you sir? Very good very good. It's great to be here. Absolutely So you got a government cheese happening right now on Apple TV Yeah, so and watching this but also some of the other things that I've seen you play in, can you just first talk about your career and like the roles that you select?

All of the roles that I know you for are very powerful, very like you tell stories that are like so important to black people. Coming out the gate, you are, is that something you were like, hey, this has to be it for me, this is what I want to do? Or did you just fall into these roles because Like how did it happen? No, thank you for saying that it's very intentional you know, I was incredibly influenced by film and television growing up and I Was aware quite early that the images I was taking in were in some ways

that the images I was taking in were in some ways informing me of what blackness means globally speaking and then I had this incredible moment where having been born and grown up in the UK we moved back to Nigeria for six years from the age of six to 13 and I was suddenly in a country in an environment where I was not a minority. Everything on offer in that society was mine for the taking. And I realized that these images that I was internalizing that often had black people on the periphery or playing what I deemed to be caricatures or stereotypes were insidious, were detrimental to us as a people.

And so having moved back to the UK, becoming an actor, I felt that if I'm not part of the solution, I'm part of the problem. So I've definitely gravitated towards roles and projects that mean that I am trying to change what I saw growing up. I'm trying to widen the aperture and contextualize who and what we are as black people. That's interesting. I wonder how did you know that they were characters and stereotypes if you hadn't been to America to see for yourself?

Because I was living in communities where black people were central to their own lives and I knew that what I was seeing, because it wasn't just America, it was in the UK as well. You know, if, if every time you see a black person, they are on the periphery of the narrative, if so often they are criminalized or marginalized, that was not my experience walking through the earth. And so it was, I felt that's intentional, that's political, that's propaganda in a sense and it's having a detrimental effect on me because there is a disconnect between my lived experience and what I'm internalizing on screen So that's how I knew it was something to become better

You know, it's so interesting right because I have that conversation often because you know when you watch Film and television in the 90s if everything had some type of socially redeeming value right you know what I mean and I always wonder what the hell happened to that it felt like it was intentional yeah put him to stop showing us that and start giving us like the reality television yeah well I can tell you exactly what happened so often why you got you had those films that were bringing context to who we are as black people is because it was largely being framed and made by black people.

What has happened a lot is that our stories, we craft them, we develop them, but at some point you've got to take it to people who have green light power, who are not from our demographic and so therefore you're having to push who we are Through their perception of who we are and it almost always gets eroded watered down or marginalized And and that's what's happening for some reason in the 90s that there were there were producers there were Creatives there were directors who were just doing it all themselves And it was getting celebrated and it was less watered down and that's why I think we had that golden era. Is it ever heavy for you because I remember watching you in the story about Dr. Martin

Luther King and Selma. Yeah, Selma and I know there's a lot because you also have done theatre. You're very serious about what you do so I know that there's a lot of study and like deep study and things of that nature so you're probably doing that for every single role and there's a lot of study and like deep study and things of that nature. So you're probably doing that for every single role. And there's a lot of like just trauma that you take on differently because you get so close to your characters. How does that stick with you? Like in that pressure from outside world too of like these are characters and people that you know, have shaped our world. Yeah. I mean, I try to stay away from the trauma component. what I mostly gravitate towards are aspirational representations of us.

So in playing Dr. King, the gift for me was to see a leader, to see someone who was an icon, but who was a human being as well. And I'm interested in stories where we get to be triumphant, where we get to be someone you would aspire to be no matter what demographic of person you are. More often than not, when you see black people in a historical context, we are browbeaten,

we're broken down, and often we don't, we're not allowed to ascend. You won't catch me in that narrative for me personally. We have got to, for me, be on an upward trajectory in whatever we do. So it's less traumatic, it's more celebratory of who we are without shying away from the challenges we face. Yeah, they never want to show you the slave revolting. Right. Right.

Exactly. Exactly. And for me, you know, that's why I resist slave narratives because it's very hard to find the triumphant in that. The closest I came to that was playing Bas Reeves in this show Low Men Bas Reeves. He starts enslaved but the great thing about being a producer is that you can ensure or be a voice in where the narrative goes. I would not have taken that on if he didn't go from enslavement to empowerment. Staying in enslavement is not something that I want to project to our people because there

are people who enjoy that narrative as a means of keeping us down. You said something interesting. You said in being a producer, you get to kind of like, you know, help to figure out where the character development goes and stuff like that. What part of your career did that become an option for you? Because not all actors have the ability to be on a set and say, hey, I think that we should change this or empower differently because of how my people

will see this. When did that happen first in your career? It happened by accident. It was on Selma. I got the script just as an actor in 2007. Felt a real calling to play that role, but I auditioned for it and the first director said, David Oyelowo is not Dr. King. That was literally the feedback. And it took another seven years before the film came to fruition. But what

I could never had anticipated was that I would go from being an actor who was rejected initially to three directors later because they just kept on not wanting to make that movie because black doesn't travel, the audience is not going to gravitate towards it, whatever the excuses are. They still say that? Well they did back then. Oh yeah, I mean yeah you think this is a film about Dr. King. Tyler Perry. Because they said that they told Tyler Perry black people wouldn't leave the theater to go to the movies. They don't travel beyond certain. I think he meant global.

You meant like global box office, right? Globally, but here as well. The narrative was black people don't want to see black struggle, white people don't want to feel white guilt and things like that. But you know, it wasn't until 2010, Lee Daniels actually came along and was the one who actually cast me in it. Still couldn't get the film made. In the meantime, I did a small film with Ava DuVernay called Middle of Nowhere, small $200,000 movie and I felt she is a genius. Lee had moved on from the project because they wouldn't give him enough money to make it. And I went in and fought very

hard for Ava to be the one to direct it. She rewrote the script, it was brilliant rewrite of the script, still couldn't get it made. I'd done The Butler with Oprah at that time. I invited Oprah on to be a producer on the film. 12 Years a Slave came out and had done well which had broken down this notion of our stories not traveling and so the aggregation of all of those things is what went on to mean Selma got made. What I didn't realize I was doing by bringing on Ava, bringing on Oprah, fighting daily to try and get the thing made was producing. And so I thought, oh okay, well I can do that again for the things

that I believe in and I'm passionate about. And so, you know, that was 10, 11 years ago now and I haven't stopped since. All right, we have more with David O'Yellow O 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.

Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We're still kicking with David O'Yellow O. Lauren? I want to talk about Government Cheese. So the name itself of the series, let's talk about that first, because it's referring to the government cheese program, which is a kind of like an overarching conversation that you guys have throughout the series without really having it all the way. So talk about the, you know, just the choice to title it that and you know, what you hope the hope is that people get just from looking at the title before they even see it. Yeah, I mean government cheese for us was symbolic of what we tend to do as

black people, you know Necessity being the mother of invention. We will take nothing and make it into something and government cheese as people may know is government subsidized food there was powdered eggs as powdered milk as well and With government cheese in particular you talk to people even now, they have this, you know, they go into this place in their heads when they think about those grilled cheese sandwiches or the mac and cheese and they talk about it incredibly fondly because it was, you know, a not particularly nutritious food that people made into a delicacy. And what you have with the Chambers family is that they are this black family in the

valley in the sixties, making something out of nothing. This guy starts the show incarcerated has this epiphany about making a self sharpening drill. It's going to be the means by which his family comes out of the challenging situations they're in. So it's aspirational. You have the character that Simone Misick plays, she's a receptionist, but she wants to be an interior designer. You have our son who's aspiring to be a pole vaulter.

You have this other son of ours who is completely obsessed with Native American culture. Everyone is looking beyond where they are from an aspirational point of view and in many ways government cheese is sort of symbolic. What's the equivalent of government cheese in the UK? As a British man did you understand what that was? Yes, I mean we don't have exactly the same thing but I remember you know you got bottles of milk that everyone got you know that would get dropped at your house every morning and that was something that was across the nation. Super rich people were not getting that necessarily, but it

was, you know, lower income families. So that's the closest that we got in terms of that situation. But the thing I know from living in the UK, living in Nigeria and Africa, living here is that wherever you go, the resilience of black people in terms of you know making something out of nothing is just something that feels pretty universal. You've had other roles that have highlighted black life in the 60s, what about government cheese felt different from those other projects? This is the amount of joy on display and just the relatability I think. You know our experience is very specific, especially in the 60s as it pertains to civil rights

and black struggle. But with this family, they are dealing not only with economic challenges, but marital challenges. And they are raising kids and just trying to make ends meet. And I think all of those things are what make it fresh and familiar at the same time you know you've seen black people in the 60s but never quite like this never quite in this place and never this family you know they're kind of out there but you know I have four kids myself and you know

it's weird it's not until you go to a restaurant four kids myself and, you know, it's weird. It's not until you go to a restaurant and you see people looking at you finding you realize how weird and quirky your own family is because you're just being super loud and people are keying into your conversation. So I think we're probably all a bit more quirky and weird than we care to admit. Well this series is definitely a lot more like light and fun and, you know, even though it takes on like some serious undertones. But I was reading this article that you did

with Men's Health Magazine, and you were talking about going out into Wyoming on a ranch with your kids. When I saw the article, I was like, this is a random interview for him to have right now. And then I was reading, and I was like, I get it, because you put yourself in the light of a person who has had to learn again to just relax, and just be fun, and just a person because you know you're studying your acting you're working and there's clauses where you can't go Out and do stuff like that, which makes a lot of sense

Yeah, but those moments with your kids where you're just they're seeing you as like a human or it's like dad is fun Dad can do these things. How does that reignite you and you get back on these sets? You know you take on these characters like the one in Government Cheese. I'm so glad you brought that up because, you know, everything I'm saying is hard work. You know, when I make a show, probably in the past to an unhealthy degree, I feel like it's a political act. I feel like it's not just about me going to work and taking on a story. I'm bringing my people with me.

And you could argue that there are elements of that that are unhealthy. And so to smell the roses while you're on the journey, to continue to intentionally enjoy your family, enjoy your marriage, enjoy your home, has been something that I've tried to afford myself more and more as I've got deeper into my career, especially as there are now more wins on the board. There are really significant things I've done that are absolutely in line with what I set

out to do. The temptation is to just be like, okay, what's next? What's next? What's next? I have four kids, three boys and a girl. I have a wife who I deeply love. And, you know, that is just as important. And a life well lived is not really about what you did. It's how you made people feel. And the thing says that, well, there you go. And you're right. And I want the people closest to me to feel like I was present, to feel like I didn't just say I loved them, but my actions demonstrated

that as well. And I think that's time. That's just constantly demonstrating to the people you love that you value being in their presence. And so that is that I'm working on it. I'm not going to tell you that I'm all the way way there but that's definitely an intention I'm trying to bring more into my life. Is that what you meant when you said in the article that you came back a different dad? Yeah I came back a different dad. Wow you guys really do your research you really read that article. Whoever was that pitched that that was so smart because and looking you up, everything else, okay, okay, go on. I didn't even know she pitched that.

Well, you don't just end up in Men's Health magazine. Oh, I thought you meant pitched it to us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, okay, got you, got you, got you, got you. If you had gave me that story, I would have ran it up too. But no, when I saw that, I was like, it was so genius because I think your reputation as an actor is so like, it's very like stern and you know silent and serious right and

then I see this article about you doing all the stuff on Wyoming with your kids I'm like wait hold on what? He be having fun? So it made me go read it. But that's what I guess yeah when you said you came back a different dad I guess you just realized like I can't just be so much into my work I still gotta be Pops. But but also you know know I was a really rambunctious kid I would throw myself all over the place I was one of three boys and then I had my own kids and I got super like wrapping them in cotton wool like oh careful careful don't do that oh no no you know and then we went on this

trip where we're horse riding and ATVing and we're shooting arrows and bike riding And I just really just let myself go probably a bit too much because I went flying over the handlebars of the ATV at one point but you know I Do that when I'm playing a role because it's like throw yourself into the role do whatever the role requires But for my kids to see me having fun in that way was an eye-opener for them. And I came back differently because I was like, you know what, I am almost playing a role for my kids

in order for them to be safe. But they also need to see dad letting loose and having fun because then they'll hopefully take the right kind of risks, not just careless risks. And it was a shift in the dynamic and it was something I actually didn't want to go on particularly. My wife won it in a raffle, this trip to this dude ranch and then sent us all out and I'm so grateful that we did it and we've done so many more things like that since then because it was hugely beneficial for our family.

We have more with David O'Yelowo when we come back it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club, Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We're still kicking it with David O'Yellowo, Charlamagne. Did you have any reservations about playing MLK because you are a British actor and you know there's always that thing of why all of the British actors playing the roles of American icons? No, because of the way it came in. You know when I read the script in 2007, I had never been thinking of myself as Dr. King.

You know but I'm a Christian, I was in a time of praying and fasting and I felt God tell me you are going to play this role. And then the way it came about eventually, which is that, you know, I can safely say pretty much no one worked as hard to get that film made as I did. And I would probably say no one else was quite as influential in getting that film made between bringing on Ava, between bringing on Oprah, between all the work done behind the scenes to try and get the film made. So for me, I just found it unacceptable that the only American who had a holiday named after him in the 20th century who happens to be a black man had not had a film made about him yet. I wasn't

feeling like I have to be the one to make it, but this was already 50 years after his assassination. Why do we not have the movie? And I'm a big believer in if not me, then who? And so I was never really thinking I'm British, it should be someone else. And the reality is that when Lee Daniels was casting for it, he met everyone. Like I saw the list of some of the people he met. I was like, oh my Lord, I cannot believe I'm going up against my heroes to even dare think I'm going to be the one to play this. But I eventually got the role. And so for me, it's a question of, okay, now I've been given the opportunity.

It's less about whether or not I should play it. It's more about how well I do it. And that is going to be at the end of the the day the thing that I want people to judge and so I never really thought about it in that way because at the end of the day I have no interest in playing myself on the screen. I'm always gonna be gravitating towards the most extreme challenge in terms of playing someone who's not necessarily me. Do you ever, do you have your production companies, Yoruba, Saxon? Yeah, Yoruba Saxon.

Did I say that right? Yoruba Saxon. So I know that you and your wife co-run that production company and I'm sure a lot of the stories that you guys tell are very close to the heart as far as like black stories, just by your passion here. Do you get backlash at all because you're not married to a black woman doing that and how do you deal with that if so?

Not to my face. I'm sure there are plenty of people who feel some kind of way about that, but we called it Yoruba Saxon because, you know, I'm from the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. She's Anglo-Saxon. And so, you know, our company is a demonstration of the fact that we are more alike than we are different as human beings, generally speaking, you know, in making government cheese. Yes, it's a black family. But my hope and

my bet is that everyone is going to see their family in that family because of the relatable themes and components that we've woven into it. And so, you know, I'm, I'm incredibly proud of my family. I fell in love with my wife when gosh, when we met when we were teenagers or we got married when she was 20, I was 22, and everything we have we built together. So, you know, for me, sometimes the accusation, you know, in marrying a white woman is, you know, they say things like, there's self loathing in there, or what's the other one, or that she's a trophy or something like that. We were so poor when we started out, there couldn't be less trophy or if it tried. But you know, I am an incredibly proud black man, African, Christian husband, father. There are so many things that I am

on top of my demographic and who I'm married to and those are all reflected in the work that I and we do. You and your wife should be thinking about producing a biopic on a great man named Dr. Umar Johnson. He's an activist here in America, a scholar. Oh wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just think about that. No, no, no.

Just look into it, look into it. Oh really? Look into it, listen, look into it. Oh really? Just look here, no. Listen, don't listen to her. I'm gonna keep looking at you. He's about to get me in trouble. Your wife and you don't listen to her. I'm going to keep looking at you. He's about to get me in trouble.

Was I about to become a meme just then? Is that what was about to happen? A meme, there's a whole chant. Trust me, they'll love you for that. Was there ever a role that you were pitched that you morally said to yourself, I can't do this? Well, what tends to happen is the minute you play a civil rights leader, you get every civil rights leader who's ever lived. So I definitely said no to those.

The minute you play a groundbreaking character, there's a whole genre called the first black man who, you know, I get a lot of first black man who, which I'm not interested in. What's the craziest thing you say? You don't even know a black man did that. I want to say that there have been like windscreen wipers, the guy who invented the paperclip, the guy who like, like it's, it's, it's ridiculous. It gets as ridiculous as that.

And people will come to you like full of passion. The other one you want to really avoid is when someone goes, man, I got this script. It's by my dad and he he the first person who had a car wash in Alabama and all that kind of stuff and I just like I don't know how to tell you that that is not a movie I'm just I'm just so sorry but that's not gonna be my next but I got your next project Accent go in and out is crazy Like because it happens a lot of a lot to me

So so yeah, those are the ones who avoid as well. Absolutely. Oh you mentioned so casually multiple times Oprah Oh, I just just very casually I read another story about when you invited her to the Othello opening night and she had to sit on them hard benches and she never let you live that down. She just never stopped talking about how, child, those benches. But she came to Coriolanus, which I just did in London and they had cushion seats. So, you know, we are beyond the bad benches now. But yeah, and they were very tough benches to watch three hours of Shakespeare. So, so she fair point, but I'm glad that we've broken the deadlock.

She showed up a lot for you though. It sounds like just in what I'm hearing you say, like what, what's that relationship in like, cause you know, Oprah ain't coming out the house for everybody. She is not, she's not. Um, yeah, you know, we met during The Butler together and I remember being stood at a party at Lee Daniel's house that he was renting in New Orleans when we were shooting that film. And it was at a time when I just felt very isolated.

I felt very alone. I'd moved here with my family. If I'm totally honest, I felt like there were other actors who saw me as a threat in a way that confused me because I was like, I'm just, you know, I'd come out of theater in the UK. It's an environment where it's all about, you know, about the work and working together. And there were people who were like, you know, that coming here to take our jobs thing was a real thing I was feeling. And I just remember still being stood in a

corner at this party and Oprah came up to me said you okay I said you know what you know I'm really glad to have gotten this movie but it's just I don't know if you've ever felt this just like your own community is is resisting you which is what I'm feeling at all and got that baby about black man they be well the first whatever you said earlier, the first ever. Yeah, I know. And so exactly your reaction there is was her reaction. She was like, baby.

And she talked about how Sydney Poitier was the one who took her under his wing and said, no, you're not crazy. This is a real thing. It's something that is unfortunately part of ascending in our community and he mentored her. And she literally said to me, I am going to do for you what he did for me. And she has never abated on that.

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One of those companies is Walmart. Now, if you read my first book, Black Privilege, and you know the joy Walmart brought me as a child, because when you grow up in the country like I did, salute the monks, corner South Carolina, drop on the clues bumps for most corner South Carolina. When you grow up in the country or rural area the 24-hour Walmart is everything okay that's what we would go late at night because there

was nothing else to do yes the good old days walking the holy grounds of Walmart this was way back in the day when the only thing they were rolling back is prices but a lot of people have called for a boycott of these companies in particular Target but Ashley Cross has decided that she is staging a one-woman boycott of Walmart. Yes, in fact, Ashley is not going to be shopping at Walmart. Period. No Walmart in the country. None of them. Ever again. Okay. Do you have that kind of commitment to your boycott? Can you vow to never shop in an establishment ever again? Or a Scott paper towel being 10.68 for 12 rolls too great a deal to pass up? Well if it is, then you can always do what Ashley did because it's guaranteed Ashley will never step foot

in any Walmart ever again. And I lied. It's not because she's boycotting Walmart. It's actually because Walmart is boycotting her. What do you mean Uncle Sharla? Walmart is boycotting her. Well, let's go to News Channel 3 for the report please. Ashley Cross charged with criminal trespass and theft of merchandise is according to the police report, a well-known shoplifter at this Walmart on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Whitehaven. So well-known to Walmart that Cross is on an authorization

of agency list, meaning she's banned from any Walmart location in the United States. The Elvis Presley Boulevard store is where Cross and another suspect were arrested February 10th. Cross was seen using a device to scan her items for $1 at a self-checkout machine. Ashley Cross remains in jail on a $7,500 bond. She is due back in court February 19th. The suspect with Cross received a misdemeanor citation for

theft of property. Oh she already went to court I wonder what happened. Listen I used to shoplift up until 2016 okay that's when I stopped shoplifting but I didn't you know feel like I was stealing because I didn't. Nine years ago? You had a little money nine years ago. Are you still stealing? I don't feel like I was stealing because I didn't. Nine years ago? About nine years ago. You had a little money nine years ago. Are you still stealing? I don't know. But I didn't feel like it was stealing because I didn't try to hide anything. I would walk in and take what I want and just walk out.

You only get caught when you look suspicious. Plus I never really stole anything but magazines. When I was young, like Black and Mild's, 12 Packs of Bud Light, random stuff like that. But Ashley is clearly a kleptomaniac and she's good because she was using a barcode from an old watch battery to scan all her items for just $1 to self-check out. I stan a creative thief, okay?

Y'all still stealing like Flintstones, Ashley out here like a Jetson with it. Or maybe this is the normal way to shoplift now. I don't steal anymore so I wouldn't know. But Ashley stole 11 packs of ramen noodles, women's boots, a pair of jeans, and a t-shirt, all totaling $137.34. Now this woman was clearly stealing essentials, okay?

These are reasonable things to steal. Ramen noodles, boots, clothes. I understand. In America, I'm gonna tell you something you don't wanna hear. There's gonna be a lot more of this why because during America's inflation crisis Walmart was the spot okay you can get good deals all types of essentials but on yesterday Walmart said things are about to get slow because consumers are

growing increasingly frustrated with inflation and they're concerned about President Trump's tariffs basically folks been broke and if people keep losing their jobs they will be broker. And if you are the reason, okay, people are losing their jobs, like Elon Musk and Donald Trump are, in regards to federal workers, and you're putting tariffs on items,

not only do I not have a job, things are gonna be even more expensive. So what am I gonna resort to doing? I'll tell you what people will resort to doing, trying to survive. And trying to survive can look like a number of things and Sometimes one of those things is shoplifting. I'm not making excuses for Ashley I'm just telling America what didn't what the inevitable is when you don't take care of the least of us

nevertheless Ashley crosses on Walmart's authorization of agency lists which prohibits her from entering any Walmart store across the country. I didn't know such a list existed, but Ashley is on it and she is currently, well, I don't even know if currently, but she was being held on a $7,500 bond. Probably still in there. She's probably still in there because if she ain't had $134 to get these items from Walmart, you damn sure ain't got the $7,500 bond all the 10% of $750 to get out but Some donkey today's just sell themselves. Please give Ashley cross the sweet sounds of the day ye are the

Alright. You know, it's just, you feel bad for her. Nah, you don't feel bad for her. She's a repeat offender. She could've got a job. Or maybe the first offense put something on her record and she couldn't get the job. That is true too. But she stole from there a lot. Why wouldn't you switch it up? Alright this gonna sound bad, but no. You ever be in some checkout and be feeling like, I shouldn't have to pay for this stuff. Like some of this stuff is old to me.

Like maybe she felt like that. No, I don't feel that way. Never felt like some of this stuff is old to me I mean, maybe she felt like that. No And that's what happens when you still wiggle when you still wiggle, you know Yeah, you so lucky you was still in when your face was two different colors I'm on camera in 2016, that's not me. Okay? That is not me. It's not the same person. The Breakfast Club. You need to beat your co-worker's ass. Ex about me. Your co-worker need to beat your ass. Call it up. Tell her to knock, baby. It's Dr. Jess and I'm here to fix your mess.

Fix your mess. It's getting very much messy. Let me fix it. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Jess Fix My Mess. Hello, who's this? Anonymous.

Okay, anonymous. What's your question for Jess? Long story short, I cheated on my fiance and I found a GPS tracker in my car recently and I don't know what to do. Stop cheating. That's what you got to stop doing because that's why. How long you've been cheating? He's obviously been on to you for a while.

How long? Yeah, he found out. I told him I came clean, but we're trying to work on things. Trying to work on things. Trying to work on things. So you recently found the tracker after admitting that you were a cheater. Yes, correct. Okay, so that tells me that he does not believe you. You know, he still does not trust that you are done cheating. Are you done with cheating? No.

Right. And you are questioning why you have a goddamn GPS tracker in your car and you're not done cheating. So why did you come clean? I don't know what to do with the relationship. Oh you want to know. Baby, you got to get up out of there. If you want to live your life and you know you still feel like you got some other things that you're you know. You don't want to cheat on the person do you?

You know what I mean? I don't want to cheat on the person do you you know what I mean I don't know because you're obviously you're not happy you're cheating for a reason and he's not happy either I still love him though I do and that's how it works you always love the person that you cheat on you know I mean you love them but it's something that he's lacking that you can't get there right gotcha something that he's that that you can't get there, right? Gotcha. Something that he's not doing that you really, really wish that he would do. And although you don't wanna leave him,

you still find, you know, you still looking for something else and you're finding it out in the streets and that's still not good. Are you married or this is just your boyfriend? We're engaged and we bought a house together eight years ago, so. Y'all ain't making it down that aisle girl.

I know you love him, but damn, you ain't even married and you doing you cheating. I think you should just say I think you should just revoke that whole engagement. Go and live your life. How are you? The ring already. How are you? You 46. Yeah.

We'll be playing around. OK. OK. She need to be Neal's fifth girlfriend. That's only playing around. Okay. Okay. She need to be Neo's fifth girlfriend. That's what it sounds like. She need to be... You into the Polly situation.

I think that's what you need. You need somebody who's going to be comfortable with you doing these things. I know he already bought the ring. I understand. But would this be better that he found out after you married him or right now? I think it makes more sense that he found out now and I think that you just need to look in the mirror and just be honest with yourself. Marriage is not for you, especially not a committed marriage.

It's not for you right now. I'm not saying forever, but that ain't something that's for you right now. You know, you gotta give him the choice. You know what I mean? Right now you're not really giving him a choice. You know, you wanna lead him on and he marry you and you know you're still gonna cheat. I love your honesty. You're like, no, I ain't finished cheating yet.

But you can't walk down the aisle. You know, I love it. I love it. Well I talked for a reason. Like I'm not trying to f*** her. I mean, excuse me. Yeah. Yeah, I want real advice.

So just like I have to tell my therapist everything, he can't help me if I lie or if I help withhold. Yeah, and that sets you apart from everybody else. People be calling up here lying to me, leaving out parts of the story. I applaud your honesty, but you cannot get married. And you have to tell him that. You're not ready for marriage. But I'm the one that wants to get married and he doesn't I mean he he's the one that's Holding back. I mean, obviously he gave me a ring which indicates he would want to marry me But he could also just be leading me on lead you on and together ten years

You can't get married that the advice is still the same. I know you want to get married, but you're not ready. I'm telling you, this ain't about him no more. It's about you. You're not ready to get married. You're not because you're not finished playing the field. You know what I mean? And that's totally fine, but you got to do that single, you know, you, he already got trust issues. You found a GPS tracker. That is scary. It's scary as hell. But what's also, but what's also scary is being engaged to somebody that keeps cheating. It's crazy and it's scary knowing that I have to track my woman because I'm afraid that she ain't gonna never stop cheating. I know she's doing something and

we ain't even make it down the aisle yet. So yes, while marriage is something that you want, that's a little further down the line for you bull. Thank you You welcome babe. Good luck mama. Just fix my man I'm saying and you wanted amble rose to stop the slut walk Okay, I want her to stop you she wanted to stop because her you ladies need something to do I didn't want to stop. I just felt like it was complete contradictory why she stopped I didn't want her to stop, I just felt like it was complete contradictory why she stopped. 800-585-1051, Just Fix My Mess is The Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are The Breakfast Club.

We're in the middle of Just Fix My Mess, we have Cher on the line, right? Sherry. Oh Sherry, I'm sorry, take us off Bluetooth for speaker. Sherry, Sherry. I said Sherry! Why you yelling at that lady man? She yelling at me! Damn! Sherry, what's sorry, take us off Bluetooth for speaker. Sherry, Sherry. I said Sherry. Why you yelling at that lady, man? She yelling at me. Damn.

Sherry, what's your question for Jess? I said Sherry. I got breakfast, Clive. Look, envy, I'm a fan, stop. What's good, good morning, morning, Clive? Good morning, what's up, bitch? Shot o'clock. You sound drunk.

Definitely shot o'clock. Really? It's five o'clock somewhere, y'all. All right, Jess, so I want you to fix my messy. What's up, baby? What you got? All right, I got this ex, right? Now, we were together for like two years, and then we were still together physically for two years after we had broke up. But in those two years we broke up, he was with another person, living with her, engaged

to her. I don't care about that. I trained that meat myself, you feel me? So it was kind of hard for me to leave that alone. living with her, engaged to her, I don't care about that. I trained that meat myself, you feel me? So it was kind of hard for me to leave that alone. So whatever we woke up for, you know, trying to train somebody else from scratch is kind of hard, but I attempted and when I attempted,

they was just terrible back to back. And I'm like, I'm not kissing all these frogs till I get a prince, you feel me? Like some of them is just coked. And so I just want to know what I should do girl because you know that that meat is forever mine or should I let this girl have her fiance like they're gonna be married and all that you feel me I know I know but this is the thing because it I think I want to tell you to go ahead and pursue him because that should actually train

that meat and all of that I get that but if he's about to walk down the aisle with another shorty and he just, you know, at this point he's just using you for the convenience of sex. See it's not using when I'm the one initiating. I hit him up like I know y'all got whatever y'all got going on, but you busy today? Cause I need something real quick. You feel me? But I'm going to know like. Well, I don't think you got anything to even worry about. Cause once shorty get a, you know, get a whiff of this She ain't walking down the aisle. So you gonna have him

Believe it or not. You know, that's the thing. I don't never want him back Want that and that's why I let him have this fiance because you know, let that girl deal with the headache I just feel me. I just want to know should I keep doing that? Should I be abstinent? You feel me? Like what should I do? Just no, I don the meat, Jess. It's so much meat out here. I think you train one dog, you can train another one. Yes, that's the thing, sis. It is. And when I tried it, it was terrible. Yeah, let her have that.

Back to back. Let her have that. That's her headache now. And I think, like I said, you're done. All you want is the meat. That's fine. Some things just run its course. You need to leave him alone. Let him be married. Let him figure it out. That you want is to meet. That's fine. Some things just run its course. You need to leave him alone.

Let him be married. Let him figure it out. That ain't for him either because obviously if he's still willingly cheating on his fiancee, ain't he walked out an hour yet? That's something that he's going to keep doing. You ain't even got to be a casualty of that. I know you initiating and all that but would you want your man, your fiance to do the same thing to you?

I don't. Exactly. And when it's going to come a time time where somebody's gonna put a ring on your finger Miss ma'am, cuz if you train and meet and all that, yes So I want you to leave that alone just where you think she from I say Brooklyn she definitely from New York I don't even know the DeBarros or whatever, but she definitely from New York. What you think? I smell Brooklyn, but I'm sorry. I Smell Brooklyn, but I think it's the Bronx Good luck and training that D

That's right says You gotta stop repeating things just cuz you hear people I just like it What I said good luck with trading the D she never say she trained a dish That's right, sis. Hey, John. Yo, you gotta stop repeating things just because you hear people saying it. I just like it. It's funny as hell. What? I said, good luck with trading the D. She ain't never say she trained the D. She said, I trained that meat. But you ain't hear him ad-libbing you in the background. He said, I trained that meat.

You trained that D. I did not say that. Yes, you did. I did not say that. You wanna be with the girl so bad. She said, thank me. I saved you? Yes.

Goodbye, Sherry. Thank you, boo. Yo, Sherry, Sherry drunk as sh**. Too smart. Oh my gosh. All right, this is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us during Get It Off Your your chest a gentleman Called in and said he was having a problem with his relationship and this was bothering him. So let's listen I just want to get this up and say I can't say this to my girl. So I'm gonna just say it to y'all Oh, I hate my girl dogs. Okay. I don't know how okay to all the people out there I don't know how y'all deal with dogs running all around your house

And dogs get everywhere, but this about to make me say hey, I can't do this no more Bro, I had a dream about poisoning them dogs last night Did you and your wife have a conversation and tell her how you feel? Yeah, we had one few months ago and that turned into a big old argument So I ain't trying to go there no more. So we're asking 800-585-1051 what's your relationship pet peeve? Let's start with you Jess. All right um when you don't have no father and your mother is way too involved in your business because then it leaks over into our business um when he want to take you on a date but asks you where you want to go. You see, if you wanna take me on a date,

plan the date. I don't like a nigga that be like, well where you go, like plan the date, learn me. You know what I like, if you know I like to eat steak, where you gonna take me? Not outback, but where you gonna take me? You know what I'm saying? I don't like that.

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do that. You are hard to please though, Jess. You don't like nothing. Charlayne, you don't eat nothing. So it's kind of hard to go anywhere and enjoy myself, okay? Okay. With you. But no, no, it's about the dad. Like it starts with the dad.

If your dad not already, like not in your life, that puts you closer to your mother. Then your mother feel like she's dating you so she gotta be in your Relationships I would none of it. Okay, but no no, I'm not talking about Chris not so about you, babe I mean I don't have these problems now. Okay. Well mine is is lateness. My wife is always late I'm talking to you gear like you said you was over I'm talking to you My wife is always late like okay to the point where I have to lie about the time So if you have a party at 9, I gotta tell the parties at 8 and we still go get that 9 30 10 o'clock

It is what it is But the problem the problem I have is she be late. And then when I'm downstairs watching the TV, waiting on me, she's like, come on, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. Now I'm waiting on you, now I'm waiting on you. That's how it goes. I hate that. That's how it goes. So you always on time. Oh yeah, I'm always on time.

So you're not black. What's your name? Damn. What's your name? Uh, not answering the phone. You know, my wife and I have different phone habits. Like my phone is usually on me or near me, so I'm quick to answer if I want to answer for the person but she doesn't literally walk around with her phone on her but my thing is that's cool when

everybody is home like when I'm home and all the kids home none of us need to really be near our phones even the parents know the house phone and stuff like that but when everybody isn't home keep your phone on you because you never know what I'm calling and why I'm calling so keep your phone on you so not answering the phone that's my pet peeve. well, let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? Yes, sir. Good morning, brother.

It's J.A. from Indy. J.A. from Indy. What's up, brother? What's your pet peeve in a relationship? It's two of them, man. One of them is a woman that doesn't have a relationship. Hate to sound corny, but a relationship with God. And the second one's going to sound kind of vain.

And I can't stand a woman that don't work out. She got to be active Okay Well, you don't sound just just for the record you don't sound corny wanting a woman that has a relationship with God That's not corny at all. Yeah, that's a good that's a good one Yeah, but it sounds cliche though. It sounds cliche to say but like it's so imperative that you have a relationship But just as important I need her active because I can't be looking halfway deep unless she a big body Ah, you don't want no big backs. All right.

No big backs. All right, thank you, J.A. God damn. What if she see that? She need to be praying to God to lose that weight. Yeah. You don't believe in God. Tied in together.

You know what I'm saying? Hello, who's this? Maya. Hey, Maya. Good morning. What's a pet peeve in a relationship for you? I've been with my husband for 10 years today and he flabbers and snores really bad.

Ooh baby. And I'm a light sleeper, like I can hear a pin drop. Like he literally holds me up from sleeping sometimes. Like he comes to bed like two, three o'clock in the morning most of the time, cause he's out playing the game. But once he comes to bed, it's like I can't, I can't go back to sleep. Damn.

Why the hell either one of y'all ain't got no jobs, y'all gotta get up at one in the morning. Why he get to go to bed at three o'clock in the morning? What's up? Baby, we do. We work opposite schedules because our kids aren't in daycare. Okay, so what's the schedule? So he likes, I'm baby.

Got you, okay. I feel bad, you know, because snoring is a lot of times you can't fix that. That's like a medical problem. He don't do that on purpose. Man listen, I ain't never seen nobody snore laying on their belly. Like this is crazy. Dang. You don't nudge him, you know push him so he wake up a little bit? That's what I do.

All night I'm kicking, I'm hitting, I'm like shut the **** up. And she said slobber too, you'll probably stank. Pillows probably stank. Damn, yeah. Why don't you get some like earplugs or something? Word. We got five kids together and all five of them kids slobber. It's crazy.

Oh yeah, you gotta lead that family, baby. You gotta lead the whole family. Psych, psych, no, no, no, I'm joking, boo. Thank you, mama. For better or for worse though, boo, you said it, so. That's right. My Lord. 800-585-1051, we're asking, what's a pet peeve

in your relationship? Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, you got a positive note?

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