The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Charlamagne Calls Out Toxic Singles On Valentine's Day

Episode Date: February 14, 2024

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Some donkey today just saw themselves. I've been watching, Charlamagne. I was ready for you. Hey, donkey. Hey, donkey. I'm a donkey. I never heard of donkey other day. What is it? I'm a donkey. Say it again, Charlamagne. I'm a donkey.

Yes. You are a donkey. Wow. Wow. What's his name? It's Charlamagne. Charlamagne. Yes, it is. Donkey of the Day for Wednesday, February 14th is you.

Okay? If the puma fits, you're going to wear it today. See, Valentine's Day, the day that is for the loving you, the day that is for you and your lover. Okay? Salute to everyone out there who has a Valentine. Drop on the clues, moms, for you. All right? How do you feel about Valentine's Day?

13% of people say it's their favorite holiday. 6% of people say they hate it. 5% say it's the most depressing day of the year. 4% say they are more into Singles Awareness Day. 10% of people say they are single and loving it. 9% of people buy candy and flowers for themselves on Valentine's Day. That's self-love. I respect it.

Okay. 23% of single women would rather spend Valentine's Day with their pet than their romantic partner. Only 7% of men say the same. 49% of Americans treat their pets on Valentine's. Treat their pets to what? All right, we got to watch those people because they might be taking doggy style literally. I'm reading you all these stats because God really put a word on my heart this morning and I must deliver.

Did you know, Jess Hilarious, that Valentine's Day is less popular among men than women? 13% of men say Valentine's Day is their favorite holiday. 8% of men absolutely hate it. Meanwhile, 13% of women claim Valentine's Day is their favorite holiday compared to just 5% who hate it. Women enjoy the single life more than men do. Only 9% of women are single and actively searching for a boyfriend compared to 13% of men who say they are single and want a girlfriend. I want to talk to y'all today. And I want you to know that what I'm about to say is coming from a place of love. Okay. It's rooted in love. If you've been listening to the breakfast

club for years, then you know, historically on Valentine's Day, I have given donkey to people who don't have nobody. And it's not that I was shaming people for not having nobody. Plenty of people don't have nobody and they're happy. Okay, it's by choice. The people I would give donkey of the day to is the folks who didn't have nobody and would try to downplay those of us that do. Don't buy humbug on Valentine's Day because you single. Don't be the grinch that stole valentine's day you mad because at some point in your life you fell in love with somebody and then found out they pronounced valentine's valentine's and now you mad okay now you mad all right all you mad at everybody who got a boo you mad at the 85 percent of women that will be purchasing valentine day cards you mad at the

73 percent of flowers that will be purchased by men today sit your heart-shaped candy hating ass down and let me talk to you because i have a word that you may not want to hear but it's going to change your life god told me to tell you that the reason you don't have a valentine the reason you don't have a significant other a husband a wife a life partner whatever you want to call it the reason you don't have any of those things is simply because you're a terrible toxic person okay all right it is valentine for you to acknowledge that there is a problem and the problem is you okay as is the case with most problems the first step is acknowledging that your behavior is harmful to people. See, we so accustomed to directing our attention outward that it's hard to go inward and admit we the problem.

OK, men, women, they, folks got all these reasons why they single. All right. Not finding the right person, chasing the wrong person, choosing the wrong partners. Have you ever stopped to think that you're not the right person, that you were the wrong partner? Huh? You're the wrong partner somebody chose. See, so many of us have done zero work on ourselves. We're not going to no therapy. We haven't even thought about going on a journey of healing. We have all this unhealed trauma, all this baggage, and God is protecting people from you. Oh, they don't want to hear this this morning, okay? They don't want to hear what I'm telling them on Valentine's Day, okay?

Your relationships don't work because you haven't. It is time to identify your toxic traits. And once you identify your toxic traits, it is important to take responsibility for your actions and make a commitment to change. It's that unhealed trauma that you haven't dealt with that got you absolutely refusing to go on a first date the cheesecake factory apple beast olive garden the movies coffee dates ice cream dates a bar just for drinks you remember that stupid ass list when they surveyed every single hurt human in america and they didn't want to go

anywhere on a first date you know why that? Because those people aren't happy with themselves. One of the main symptoms of unresolved trauma is lack of trust and difficulty opening up to other people. The reason you don't want to go anywhere is because it scares you to death to have to sit with somebody and have a conversation. You're afraid you're going to get found out. You are afraid you're going to have to look someone in the eyes. And when they look you in the eyes, they're're gonna see something you don't want them to see don't try to act you know like buffalo wild wings red lobster waffle house and sporting events did something to you no no no this is on you this is why they say your trauma may not be your fault but healing your trauma is absolutely

your responsibility because in life we attract what we are and if you're not about nothing you're not gonna attract nothing now let's not focus on just the trauma of it all right now let's just focus on the fact you might just be a horrible person okay i don't know why you horrible some of y'all just not good people some of y'all just have piss poor character and a strong indicator of piss poor character is how someone behaves when they are shown to be wrong about something folks who always deflect or blame others or change the subject or last out. That's just a display. Okay. That's just a display of an absence of a personal responsibility, which is definitely a sign of being less than a good person. So when you talk to yourself about being alone on Valentine's day, don't go blaming other

people. Okay. Stop acting like there's no good partners out there because if you see the world that way, I promise it's you. Some of y'all too self-centered. Okay. And there's nothing wrong with putting your needs first. Self-care, putting yourself first is crucial because you can't help nobody if you need to help yourself. But if you're always thinking about yourself and your own needs and you never consider the feelings of other people, then you might have some issues you need to address. If you neglect the needs of the people you are closest to, such as your children and other family members and friends, then why oh why would you get blessed with a Valentine or a Valentine? OK, donkey of the day today is you. It's your fault. You the reason this is happening to you. Terrible men get with terrible women And have terrible relationships Fix your Please let Remy Ma give all a single

Because they are terrible humans The biggest hee haw Hee haw You stupid mother f***er It's you I hope you got security today You're going to get punched in the head again He's going to get slapped as crazy

He don't even know who he work with You don't know all the single people you work with i was talking to all of them i was subbing all of them i see all the producers single they probably pissed off at you right now well they need to look in the mirror damn i'm not talking i'm not saying i'm talking to them you just said you were talking to them i said that yeah you did damn well accountability is something that people should take now. I remember being in a relationship. I was being in relationships.

I was one of those people. I wasn't a good person for a long time, but I also didn't know who I was and what I wanted. This is when I was young. I was dating older guys. I was just dating for the money. Didn't dating up for the money. I was getting whatever I could for me and my son. Believe that.

Lights was off. What's up? $1,000. Yeah yeah like all that everything and then i was with i had relationships one relationship with a good guy cheated on him all that so i i definitely damn you understand what i'm talking about i do understand i was once a bad person that's right let's let's look at the phone you're a good person and you're blessed i'm gonna tell you something just to realize i heard just saying a meeting the other day i don't even know why she volunteered this information. She was like, I've been quit hauling.

I'm like, what? First of all. You did say that. I was like, what? She did. Why did she tell the executive that? It was like, I don't know why she. Don't ever say I just be blurting out stuff like that.

You did. No, we was talking about my journey. I was like, at the beginning. Yeah, I was on. the beginning, yeah, I was on, you know, but then I stopped. Because I grew into who I was. I evolved. There you go.

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The Breakfast Club. Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory.

Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello?

And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all. Niminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast

for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, 1974. George Foreman was champion of the

world. Ali was smart and he was handsome. The story behind The Rumble in the Jungle is like a Hollywood movie. But that is only half the story. There's also James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba. All the biggest black artists on the planet. Together in Africa.

It was a big deal. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez was found off the coast of Florida. And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba? Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home, and he wanted to take his son with him. Or stay with his relatives in Miami? Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.