The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: A$ap Rocky's Attorneys Call Out Juror Pool 'Lack of Black Candidates', Le'Veon Bell Drags Bow Wow After Claiming He's The Biggest Out Of Columbus, Ohio + More

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

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Yes, it's the candle brand is a black owned brand on and they found me on TikTok and sent them up here and I've been meaning to say Jay collections, Jay collections. Yes, Jay collection shop. That's the Jay collection for the candles. They they smell amazing I burnt mine so fast in my house oh yeah that mahogany almost everything that's that mahogany teakwood right there yes yes with Jay collections thank you great yeah got a lot of sleep last night good some uh there flu why you sick

okay with that now no I'm not sick Yesterday I felt like I was getting a cold. Remember I was like, I feel so tired. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I took medicine yesterday and went to bed early, made dinner. Feel better? I feel, I feel night and day. Okay, nobody got time to be sick. I got four kids at the house, one of them was already sick.

I don't bring nothing to y'all, don't bring nothing to me. Don't say nothing, won't be nothing. My kids always coming to sick, man. It's always something with the kids and there's so many of them. It's because they in school though, right? Yeah, it's because they in school. And something with the kids and it's so many of them Yeah, cause they in so many of them. Yeah, so many of them. So now it's not that many Six but only five at the crib and salute everybody. I saw in Brooklyn last night, man I was at the green light bookstore in Brooklyn Oh the good sister Anita Copax put out her second book the wind on her tongue is book two of the daughter of three waters

trilogy and we had a fantastic book signing for her last night book signing in a conversation about the book. Let me tell you hood dudes from Brooklyn something man. You know when you do events right you know if I'm moderating so it can be a mixture of both so you know Anita brings out all the righteous and you bring out the righteous. You know what I'm saying? The whole sisters and you bring out the righteous. You know what I'm saying? Who you bring out? The whole sisters and you bring out the hood. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to say who it was. One of my guys came out and he was dapping me up and he was talking to me and he was like, man, I came out here with this shorty, man.

You know what I'm saying? Yo, this shorty got the audacity to ask me to buy her a book. It's a bookstore. It's Greenlight Bookstore. We're here for Anita Copax, the wind on her tongue. Of course she wants the book. He goes, man, I ain't even sniffed them yet. How much is the book? No, he mean he ain't even sniffed the panties yet.

I know, but how much is the book that you got to sniff first to buy it? The book like $25. $26. But he said it loud. And so one of the sisters was like, I heard that. I said, I wish I didn't. I know that Shea Butter Babies was mad at him. Oh my God. They was in there. She wasn't mad.

They was in there, brown and beautiful. Here he comes. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? Natural hair everywhere. You just being loud talking to your sister. Honey, those are all grown edges. Salute to Brooklyn.

Not the layered on ones. You gotta love Brooklyn. Needless to say, I gave him a free book. Okay, so I hope it worked out for him. I hope we sent some babies last night. I hope it worked out for him. Oh man. My boy, he's a good boy. He's a good boy. edges got a little Brooklyn news to say I gave a free book Man bought the book for him, so I hope it worked out. Oh boy. Yes, you didn't even buy the book $26 you say what? This morning she mad cuz she was texting her group chat like any body but she don't know who it is So I don't want to say who he said shout him out this morning

He was texting her group chat like, and he buy me books. She don't know who it is though, so I don't want to say who it is. He said shout him out this morning? No, I'm not doing that. Don't do it. Don't do it. No. Trying to tell you she in a group chat saying he's intellectual. I wonder if he bought a dinner last night.

There's no way he didn't want to do $26 for the book. She had to eat before she got there. He's got pizza, you get a $1.99 slice. We got food at home. All right, well, Bozema St. John will be joining us this morning. Now if you don't know who Bozema is, she's been up here before. She was an executive at Netflix, she was an executive at Apple, she was an executive at Uber.

Now, she has her own hair brand, Eve by Boz, and you might know her on The Real Housewife of Beverly Hills. She recently lost her home in the LA Fire, her Malibu home. So we'll talk to her about all that, what's going on on The the housewives of Beverly Hills and I believe Ras Baraka is joining us this morning I realize I've been saying his name wrong for the longest. He's running for governor of New Jersey? Yeah he's running for governor of New Jersey so we'll talk to him in a little bit as well but let's get right into it front page news Morgan will be joining us so don't go anywhere it's the Breakfast Club good morning

good morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess and let's get into some front page news. I want to start off with some quick NFL news. Now Jets higher former Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn as the new head coach and he's a brother so congratulations to him. To Aaron Glenn man sorry that you um you know gonna go to the New York Jets They're gonna suck and they're gonna fire you after a year, but you should have came to the cow It's an opportunity to get at least three It's not that back in the congrats to him

It's a back-handed congrats to the NFL and the way they handle black coaches You know when you and they send them to the most terrible franchises and when the franchise is don't do well They ship not after a year How many black coaches got fired after a year this year? Like two right? Two or three? Two or three this year yeah. Well good morning Morgan! Good morning, good morning DJ Envy, Charlamagne the God and Lauren Lourosa. Peace.

Good morning. Good, alright let's get into it. We are watching more develop out west with the LA wildfires or fire officials are giving an update on a new fire burning rapidly through Southern California. The Hughes fire sparked Wednesday morning burning more than 10,000 acres near the Castaic area in a remote area north Los Angeles. LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney spoke about battling the blaze and LA County Sheriff Robert Luna assured residents not to stress about looters.

Let's hear from those officials. The situation remains dynamic and the fire remains a difficult fire to contain, although we are getting the upper hand. So I want to make sure people know that, that if you leave your homes, there will be additional deputies working out there in the neighborhoods to make sure your homes are safe. Yeah, so no structures have been damaged so far with from this particular fire with roughly 4,000 fire personnel assisting. Officials do say winds are driving the spread of the fire with the National Weather Service extending a red flag warning through 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. So

we'll continue to keep you guys posted and continue to keep LA in our prayers in regards to those fires. Yeah, they said rain is gonna be coming this week and that's what they're praying and hoping for, just a little bit of rain. But I wonder when do they- See, little Kim did her rain dance

and that monsoon is on the way. I don't know about a monsoon. You feelin' them? I'm feelin' them. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, I don't know how much rain is coming but they said rain. I was just curious when did the insurance companies start heading over there and start evaluating and start paying those people? What was the thing about people not getting full insurance for the houses or something? That their insurance was dropped beforehand, weeks beforehand.

But yeah, I believe that some of this stuff is already being processed. It really is case byby-case though considering What what your coverage is or you know based on where you're located and things of that nature? So yeah, it is going to be a case-by-case But in case you in case you missed it president Trump He did sit down for his first Oval Office interview in his second term in a conversation with Sean Hannity that aired last night On Fox News. He says many of the issues of the past four years wouldn't have happened had he still been in office. He slammed the Democratic Party calling their policies horrible. Trump is hinting

at changes coming to FEMA saying the agency complicates things. It hasn't done its job over the past four years. States and he suggested that states should take care of their own problems and that FEMA should play a secondary role to states dealing with their own emergencies. Now Trump also believes that most people in California don't want sanctuary cities and he claimed millions of gallons of water is available in Northern California and just needs to be diverted or pumped down to Southern California but right now it's being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Let's hear those comments from Trump's interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News last night.

California's a great example of it. If you actually polled the people, they don't want sanctuary cities, but Gavin Newsom does and these radical left politicians do. And you know, if you asked him why they couldn't even, I watched Gavin Newsom try to answer that question. He was unable to even answer. He looked like an idiot. He was unable to even answer. He looked like an idiot.

He was unable to answer. I asked him one other question. Why is it that you don't want millions of gallons of water a day pouring throughout California? You know, the farmland in California is, they say, the equivalent of Iowa, great land, but it's got no water. Yeah he also alluded or suggested that he would withhold any federal aid from California if they don't pretty much follow what he you know wants him them to follow but he's suggesting that well we will see

what Trump does because we can clearly see that this is going to be one of his first issues that he needs to deal with. So he will address the World Economic Forum remotely today. The annual event is being held in Davos, Switzerland. It'll be his first major speech to global business and political leaders since Monday's inauguration. So here we are, day three, day four. Well, we're well underway into a Trump presidency, so we should start to see some things come about.

But let me let me ask you a quick question before we go to the next hour. I was going to ask, I thought Trump said something like he wanted a state by state. He didn't want to do any more FEMA funding or federal funding. He wanted the states to handle their own funding with their own problems. Is that true? Is that a good thing or bad thing? I wasn't sure. I'm not sure that that's a good thing because what happens is like if you look at a situation like Katrina, how can the state handle themselves? You know, you have to bring in outside. Federal funding.

Yeah, you have to bring in outside aid sometimes to get people back on their feet in certain situations, you know, so I don't want to say I understand. I get, you know, hey, now just asking, it would just he would just give the funding directly to the state of opposed to go another thing. I didn't know if hey now just asking it was like it would just he would just give the funding directly to the State of opposed to go another thing. I didn't know if that was a good or bad thing I was asking I don't think that's a good thing at all I mean, that's just my personal opinion But you know that that's the whole point of having the Fed is to have your back

You know when you when the state can't cover it I guess but you know, we'll see you know It really helped if the rich pay their fair share of taxes that would help too. Yeah well Well, that's your front page news for 6 a.m. at 7 a.m. we'll talk about DEI. All right everybody else get it off your chest 800-585-1051 phone lines are wide open 1-800-585-1051 it's the Breakfast Club good morning. The Breakfast Club. Ray Ray Ray! Yo, Charlamagne. Danzie, 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? Hey, how you doing? This is Cannon. Hey Cannon, what's up? Get it off your chest, Cannon.

Yeah man, look, I'm not really into politics. I'm not really into all this hoopla going on with the government. But what is crazy is, COVID. Remember that, Sam? Turns out they're not giving out vaccines anymore. They're not doing anything regarding that. Turns out it comes to light that it's a scam.

And Biden, before he left office, he parted Fauci. He can't even be brought up on any charges or anything. That is true. But why are you telling us this like we don't know? This is new to me. I don't know. They said get it off your chest. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He got he definitely got pardoned before he left the White House. Yeah, it is crazy that that, you know, all those people that didn't want to take the vaccine in certain states were fired.

They lost their jobs. they lost their income. It's really crazy that now, I think Trump signed something where at least he's giving the military back pay and allowing them to come back. But it is crazy that people lost a lot for not wanting to take a vaccine that wasn't tried and tested.

Yeah, and I don't know what Dr. Fauci is guilty of or not guilty of, but I do know preemptive pardons are not helping him beat any allegations. Any allegations that the YouTube conspiracy theorists have made about Dr. Fauci, giving them a preemptive pardon is not helping them beat the allegations at all. I ain't gonna fart, if I was Joe Biden I'd be scared. Trump said yesterday, you partying with everybody around you, but yourself. That's right. You ain't partying yourself? That's right. I would be scared. That's right.

Well then he might see, he's on his way out, but I don't know. Hello. Who's this? It's London. Hey London. Good morning Good morning. Good morning Peace London. What's the matter London? Why you so upset? Let me tell you why I'm mad Okay, because I feel like the army get everything and us as police officers We out here in the war zone too. We don't get no free college. We don't get no house with no house No, nothing. Hmm. I agree with that. Like I'm only risking my life Oh, wait, where you from? Yeah, how bad we from I'm from New York, but I'm in Connecticut now, Connecticut I sort of military of course

They have ROTC and they have programs where they you know pay for your college if you serve in the military But also usually police officers they usually give you a discount help you on your taxes if you serve in the military. But also, usually police officers, they usually give you a discount, help you on your taxes if you live in certain areas. I know in New York City, if you live in actual boroughs, I don't think they charge you as much taxes when it comes to state tax. So they do give you a little bit. I agree with her though.

Y'all should get free college and free health care. A whole smidgen. We should. I'm out here fighting the war too. Yeah, the NYPD budget is like $5.8 billion. Like. They could've pulled something for us. I agree with that.

But thank you, London. Thank you, y'all have a good day. You pull me over, let me slide. Got you. All right. Where does all that money go for the New York Police Department budget? 5.8 billion, that's the most in the country.

Like the second, I think the second is LA they get like one point something billion. Remember the NYPD had the dance team? They sure. But you know they use it for drones they use a lot of anti-terrorists they have a lot of officers on the street. I remember they was mad didn't they have like what was the car they had? That nice car it was real mad at the NYPD for it. I don't know I know they use a lot of robots I know there's a lot of drone a lot of anti-terrorist stuff that they have, especially when things happen in the city.

I know that for a fact, but I don't know where all that money's going. But get it off your chest. It was a Porsche? NYPD got a Porsche? Uh, yeah, I'm looking at it. There ain't no reason for no goddamn police officer to have no Porsche. Unless it was repossessed and they got it for free, but then they could at least soul and kept the money, but...

I'mma find it. I remember a day when it went viral it to kept the money but I never seen no I might have been a I yeah get it off your chest 800-585-1051 hit us up right now it's the Breakfast Club good morning the Breakfast Club this is your time to get it off your chest whether you're mad or blessed I hate the way that you walk the way or blessed. I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed. Call up now, 800-585-1051. Not just me, I'm what the coach will fill it.

Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Big O from Birmingham, Alabama. What's up, Big O? Get it off your chest, Big O. Yo, how y'all doing this morning? Bless God. Hey, man, I just want to say that uh I'm just kinda upset with the president

he passed all these legislations but he didn't get rid of that overtime tax. I'm uh I work on power lines and he I mean we make a lot of overtime and I was expecting not to be paying taxes on that. Also I mean he just said that he's

not gonna help California with FEMA, but we, I live in the South where we just had four states hit by a hurricane. So what is he gonna do when those states come into contact with another hurricane? Well, I think he's just upset with California because of Gavin Newsom, because Gavin Newsom, you know, said he was gonna Trump-proof California. So I just think that's, that's, that's a little bit of pettiness right there. I don't know how he feels about the hurricanes in the South. Well, they're gonna happen every year and they're getting worse.

So, I mean, him saying he's not gonna help California, they have to go across the board. And if he gets rid of FEMA, I mean, it's gonna be a big problem because most Southern states are welfare states anyway. Yeah, I was wondering, I do wonder about that. You know, I wonder what the other option is, because you know, he said FEMA is getting in the way

and states should take care of their own. So if FEMA's getting in the way, then you know, what's the other option? I don't think he has a solution to that. But that's all I have, man. Y'all have a great morning. You too, brother. Have a good one. Hello, who's this?

Good morning, this is Jalen. Hey, what's up, Jalen? Get it off your chest, brother. Yeah, sure. Well, before I do that, good morning, DJ N.V. Show me the guy on the roster. You know, I'm working on my job at the IMEETING, um, like your entire company, before a chump came in. And when I listen in, I'm expecting to talk about Talkas and Blacks, you know, one minute. Um, and the workforce, but it was all about trans women. Why are you talking like you're doing the quiet storm on somebody's radio station? Oh my god, the quiet storm.

Like what's up, bro? Come on, I don't even know what you're saying. Last thing you said was you want to send this out to all the trans genders. No, no, no. He said he went to a DEI meeting at his job. Yeah, and it wasn't what I expected. I thought they were talking about the black progress, you know, women in the workforce, meeting at his job that the progress of blacks have kind of been hindered because of LGBT pushing. I wonder what y'all thought about that.

I think Nancy Mace said the same thing, like a lot of things in common between public and Democrats, but the fine print, which you push little things here and there. I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't know nothing. You said transgender, Nancy Mace, Dr. Uma, I don't even, D-E-I, I don't even be a DEI. I don't even know. What do you what is your question? What do you what are you getting up your chest exactly? You're just upset about the meeting

Right, okay, brother. Well you get off your chest. Can you throw into the next record as a scissor record? Just say it next as a scissor record just saying next up is scissor You said that right Quiet storm voice the whole time to the time to introduce a slow song get it off I don't know the lesbians out there who want to sizzle this record is for you sizzle 800 585 105 1 if you need to vet hit us up now You remember about a week ago you were talking about there's mad people that did the COVID scams that got away. In today's paper, seven more people got arrested. I tell you, they still looking at, they still going at those people.

Boy, I didn't told you. Somebody had $44 million. I told you, they still going at those people. Where they arrest them at? Calm down. Why, you know, this is your friend. Lauren, you know, I'm just saying $44 million, you wouldn't have been able to find me. They probably was like somewhere just in Brooklyn chilling. It was seven people.

The PPP loans have a 10-year statute of limitations every single one of y'all who got an illegal PPP loan for a large amount of money y'all going to prison it's only a matter of time crazy like dang like all these people got all this money and I'm out here living righteous hey ball out cuz you going to jail telling you right now it's only a matter of time they got about five more years to get him yeah but you know seven people just got arrested I was just wanted to let you know. And they probably was at the hookah spot.

That's where they grabbed him at. Let me look that up. How many people got arrested for PPP law so far? Jesus Christ. All right, well we got Jess with the mess coming up. What we talking about? We do. We're going to go back to Aset Rocky because his attorneys were upset yesterday.

There's none of black people on the jury that they're trying to select. So we're going to get into it. All right, we'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. We're gonna get into it. All right, we'll get into that next. 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,

Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess, and let's get to Jess with the mess. The news is real, whatever it is. Hilarious, Jessica Robin Moore, Jess don't do no lying. Don't do no lying. Hey! She don't spare nobody.

She don't spare nobody. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide mess. Worldwide Jess, worldwide mess. So A$AP Rocky, Day 2, they are now trying to, yesterday was Day 2, today will be Day 3, today, January 23rd, they are now trying to find the day two, today will be day three today, January 23, they are now trying to find the jury that will, you know, be listening to his case. So the issue yesterday was that out of 106 people that reported for jury selection, only five of the people were black. Now this was an issue that a set Rockies attorney Joe Teca Pina took up with the court. He said that this is not proper. There should be more diverse representation,

especially because of the area that they drew the jewelry from. He says that that area, that pool, there's a 9% black population. So for only five black people, four to five black people to show up or be selected, it's not diverse. And he's pushing back early on that. The judge says, well, look, there's no authority that requires any particular percentage

of ethnicity on a jury. So we hear you, but what are you leaning into here? So wait, when they say jury of your peers, what do they mean exactly? It's supposed to be your neighborhood, people in the same neighborhood, but also your same ethnic background, right? Well yeah, so and-

I never looked into it. I don't know. Yeah, Reverend Al Sharpton actually spoke in this as well, too, because he basically said people, Asa Alraki's friends and family have been in contact with him. He doesn't know all the particulars of the case. But he said the same thing that you said. Like, he's supposed to be judged by his peers.

Right. And it needs to be fair. And that he's going to keep his eye on this case. And he's going to keep calling out things that are not unfair, because already it kind of seems like people are like, hmm, it's just a little weird, it's just a little setup. Black people don't do jury duty. What was the last time you did jury duty?

Don't just throw a generalization out there like that that black people don't do jury duty. Baby, I don't. What was the last time you did? The last time they, I don't wanna talk about on there. Okay, show me. But I haven't done it in a while. I haven't been called in a while,

but you know the reason I'm not able to do it is because I have felonies, so that's why I can't wait to get part of my damn self red Myself no anybody Red said he's never been called We don't we usually don't do jury duty because we don't want to go somewhere and they pay us three hours in The minikins I am black sir, but I don't know

You know in this area they might call a jury of ASAP's peers a DEI jury But I also did when I saw this story yesterday, I said to myself, I know Reverend Ile can multitask but after the few first days of the Trump administration and all the executive orders, we saw Trump sign. I can think of several other things that Reverend Ile should be focusing his attention on. But I think it was more so because his end in line says, I am monitoring this trial and challenging the LA District Attorney to ensure that there's fair representation. I think this was just like a yo, this

is a set Rocky. I don't know if y'all are familiar with him, but don't play with him in his courtroom because he does have allies out here. I think that that's all that sweet was because it was just a simple tweet. But when ASAP arrived to the court, he arrived with his mom and his sister yesterday for day two. And the judge was on his mom's body. Okay. When ASAP's attorney stood up to introduce because he's like, who are the new people in the courtroom? ASAP's attorney is like, oh, this is ASAP's mom and his sister and His attorney is like his mom and his I mean the judge is like his mom and the attorney's like yeah You can't tell who's the mom and who's the sister and the judge said you are beautiful and that is on record

Yes, so black judge I didn't Google the judge to see That question came up in reporting and someone after the court asked one of the reporters there like can't that be looked at as I already unfair and what was mentioned in the conversation was it's not because there was no jury in the actual room when he said it. Okay. So that's what is being said. But yeah, so basically another thing that came up as well to the first day and yesterday They leaned into was the fact that now ASAP Rocky's defense is going to be that the gun that he had was a prop gun

Or starter gun for anybody that is not familiar with what a prop gun or starter gun is. This is a small gun It only can fire blanks Um, so basically it wouldn't have been able to shoot anybody or graze anybody the way that they are alleging that it happened. Now, the prosecution is upset because they're like, to ASAP's attorneys, yo, y'all never told us that this was going to be our defense. This is last minute. We're supposed to know things 30 days in advance so that we can have a chance to prepare and respond to this.

Why is this coming up now? And ASAP's team is like, no, we alluded to it. We said that because of who he is, because home invasions He does different things to secure himself So there was a whole back and forth about that as well too and ASAP team said that they actually had Witnesses who were going to testify that that gun was just a prop gun was there a real bullet that they pulled out of somebody So that's the thing they haven't been able to find any show and when they went when investigators went they didn't find any shell casings It's a consider. This is a daily news and lately, the news is about a big question. How much can one guy change?

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and then went to the hospital? Well Relly brought shell casings. He and his girlfriend went back to the scene to get shell casings and he actually did bring shell casings and turned them into investigators. But what ASAP side is saying that he did have the prop gun and I think they're having to say this because in the video, I took a screenshot of the video, remember you mentioned like there was like something kind of similar to a gun in the video. You do see something in his hand. I took a screenshot of the video remember you mentioned like there was like something kind of similar to a gun in the video you do

See something in his hand. I think he's just trying to explain what that was and they're saying it was a problem And he's saying that he only fired in the air Never directly pointed it at Relly because Relly began to follow him that's according to ASAP it was being alleged by him I got a headache already. I wouldn't report the jury duty for this. See, see, see, see. Now you got a problem. Now you're not going to jury duty. I'm like, listen, listen, listen to my stories. I ain't got time. I want to go to jury duty, but now I'm taking my day off. Nah. Yeah.

I'm going to work today. All right. Well, yeah. Don't have time for one more. All right. Well, thank you for just a minute. You know what's going to happen now, right? What?

They're going to send all of us letters for jury duty. Can we do that because we people in the media? Yes, you got to do jury duty. That don't matter. Yep, until they ask that question. Has anybody ever been convicted of a felony? I've never been convicted of a felony. Well, that's your fault.

Okay. Does any of your family members own law enforcement? I hope it's a celebrity. None of my family is law enforcement. Dang. I definitely got that. I pull out my gold card and everything. Do you work with anybody that's close with a felon? That's right. Oh, I work with felons. I'm important yet Well, I know felons. I know a lot of them. All right. Well that is just with

Now when we come back we got front page news and then Bozema st. John will be joining us You know her from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning Wake up wake up your life into morning. Good morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Olaris, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Jess is out sick. Lauren LaRosa holding it down. And let's get into some front page news. Good morning Morgan.

Good morning NV Lauren LaRosa and Charlamagne the Guy. Y'all alright? Yes ma'am. Peace Morgan. Alright you guys know there's been a lot of mixed reaction around Trump's anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion executive order, right? Many say it's a direct attack on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the landmark law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national

origin. So there was a caller, I believe, that mentioned basically the black race, how's that DEI, and also roping in LGBTQIA. All of that ropes into diversity, okay? So in a Black Information Network exclusive, I had the honor of attending a demanding diversity DEI roundtable yesterday at the National Press Club here in Washington, D.C.

And the conversation was the first of many steps in the response to President Trump's rollback of DE&I. I spoke exclusively with National Urban League President and CEO Mark Morial about how the executive order will impact specifically Black people in the workforce, but I'm sure anybody could take away some advice from this. So let's hear from Mark Morial. His executive orders, in my own opinion, are unlawful as an inappropriate and illegal exercise of presidential power, because they seek in effect to overturn the Civil Rights Act, to overturn provisions of

the Constitution which cannot be accomplished by executive action. You are now saying let's build a wall to keep black people, brown people, to keep Asians, indigenous Americans and many other Americans, women and others, from having a fair opportunity to work in the federal government, to be promoted in the federal government, to play in leadership roles all across American life. So we must resist these executive orders. Any thoughts? How do you resist them? That's a great question. Like, like if it's, because it doesn't that make it law, like how do do you resist them? That's a great question.

Like, if it's, because doesn't that make it law? How do you just resist them? What does the resistance look like? It doesn't automatically, just because he issues an executive order does not automatically make it law. And you basically fight fire with fire. You fight it with law. You bring up lawsuits. So the National Council of Negro Women, Shavon R. Lyme Bradley, she spoke on the panel and she did provide some advice on what to do if you are impacted by these changes. And to your point, Lauren, how do you react? Let's hear from Shavon R.

Lyme Bradley. We do not want to underestimate the role of black women in this last election and previous elections. We were over 92% of an entire voting bloc and what I'm telling people is you must connect your power to your civic engagement as well as your consumer engagement. Black communities are a primary base in this country not only for the economy but also to the intellectual prowess of this country. We have been so mired with false content that says there's no merit in our communities. Black women are the most qualified block of educated people in the United States of America and Black women's stand is not only overqualified but ready to activate at all tables.

Well she basically went on to say that you know we should mobilize and we should use those efforts in mobilization to have these type of conversations and figure out what our starting point is. What do you guys think? Well, in regards to the DEI thing, you know, I was just sitting there thinking, you know, why it was so easy for so many corporations to get rid of DEI? Because they wanted to. They never wanted to do it to begin with. Like corporate DEI was always some BS because it was just PR after George Floyd.

Like, you know, if you look at it, the number of black CEOs never increased. The pledges these corporations made to black orgs they didn't deliver on. It was always performative. And that's why they couldn't wait to shut down a lot of these DEI initiatives. As soon as Trump, you know, got back in the white house. And I just think that now is the time for, you know, us as a people to, to, to what she's kind of speaking to us as a people, we got to collectively come up with things that are for us by us. You can't let a group of white people in corporate

America determine what DEI or whatever is going to be in the future look like. So to your point, Revanile Sharpton is actually calling for a boycott of companies who reverse their DEI program. Sharpton added MLK rally in DC. He said that King gave his life, shed blood and died to open America up to everyone regardless of race or sexual preference. Now he said on the National Action Network plans to announce a boycott of at least two companies that have reversed DEI policies within 90 days. Now, if that's something that we can all come to an agreement on, on what the actual two companies are, do you think we will make an impact?

I think we need to come to an agreement on what we want diversity, equity, and inclusion to be for us. I really don't think we can leave it in the hands of corporate America. It should have never been in the hands of corporate America to begin with. How are we going to do that when our leadership numbers are off, our ownership numbers are off? But they're making stuff, they're allegedly making stuff for us, right? In these

companies. So we should be the ones to create it regardless of what our numbers are in this company. Like 10 white people in a room can't tell a company what's good for black people or what's good for women or what's good for... They can't but they do because those 10 white people in the room are normally the executives and unless you're empowered in that room you've been here for X

amount of years you're the one black person in the room and what you're gonna do with that but they should be the other way but you should be you know that's my point we should demand that like those executive the executive should say hey how should this look and we should be bringing it to them like they shouldn't be saying okay is our DEI program once again, that's why it's so easy for them just to take it away. Cause they never wanted to do it to begin with. They didn't want to do it in the first place. I'm not going to say every company didn't want to do it.

But most companies just did it for PR purposes. Well, make sure y'all shop with the companies that stood on 10, you know what I'm saying? Let's switch gears and talk about, you know, these, these J sixers again, house speaker, Mike Johnson. So he says he believes in second chances. He made the comments defending President Trump's pardons of January 6 rioters.

That includes former Proud Boys leader, Enrique Tarrio, David Dempsey, who attacked police officers with pepper spray and flag poles, and Julian Carter, who pepper sprayed officers, including Brian Sicknick, who died the day after January 6th, after the riot. Now, House Speaker Johnson says we need

to move forward. Let's hear more from Speaker Johnson. The president has the pardon and commutation authority. It's his decision. What was made clear all along is that peaceful protests and people who engage in that should never be punished. There was a weaponization of the Justice Department. There was a weaponization of the events. It was a terrible time and a terrible chapter in America's history. Yeah. So I would encourage everyone to go watch the sixth. It's on Amazon Prime.

It's a documentary that follows January 6th, the United States Capitol attack through the perspective of people who were actually there. And it does feature like real live. This is not like reenactment type stuff. It features real footage from that day. And yeah's on Amazon Prime and so check it out so just in case you don't know what happened on the 6th and what it looked like from the perspective of people who were inside the Capitol building check out the 6th on Amazon. I did see one of the people that he pardoned got arrested

again. I did. It was like a day after. Which is crazy. Yeah on separate gun charges. Yeah, something um, something else regarding Yeah, that's yeah, they're being released out of the jail out here in DC and it's it's been quite the show So sure, but yeah, that's your front page news Y'all for more news coverage follow at black information network download the free I heart radio app and visit us at BIN news calm I'm Morgan with thank you you Morgan. Alright now when we come back from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she was our ex-CEO, our marketing officer at Netflix. She worked at Uber, Apple. She has her own brand Yves Vibars, the hair brand and we're going to talk to Bozema St. John when we come back. So don't go anywhere. It's

The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guide, we are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess, and we got a special guest in the building. We have Bozema St. John, welcome back. How are you? Thank you, thank you, I'm doing all right. Good to see you.

Thank you, nice to see you. I'm sending you positive energy and love and light, because you just saw that you lost your house in the LA wildfire. Yes, right. In Malibu. In Malibu. And you said you found out on social media?

Yes. Found out on Twitter. A video. Yikes. Yeah, somebody just driving down PCH and I was like, oh, that's my intersection. Oh, there's no house. Damn. Wow.

Did you get a chance to go back to see whatever was there to rubble if you could find anything? No. I haven't been able to be back yet. So it's like, you know, everybody's just waiting to see when we're allowed to go back and see what is left. Although, you know, there's nothing left. But I think there's still something about the grief process where you just need to see it, just to know yourself that it's totally gone. Did you lose pictures, passports?

Yes, like so many things. When you evacuated, what were you able to grab, if anything? Nothing. Well, first of all, I wasn't even in the country. I was in Zambia. Yeah. Your birthday, right? Yes.

Happy belated. Thank you so much. Happy belated. 22? Yeah, thank you. That's a lie. But it was so scary and overwhelming because all you know is that the fires are coming, you don't know which direction they're going in, and the evacuations happen so quickly

that the people who are in their homes, really, you don't have time to think. I think we've all had that moment where you've been like, oh, if there was something, who would you save, or what would you take? And you make those theories, but in reality, it doesn't work like that There's this panic and for me since I was so far away There was really nothing I could do and who's I gonna send to go get myself? I was gonna do that, you know, so you got to let it burn Did you see online which I thought was was horrible and detasteful people were saying, you know

When rich people or wealthy people were losing their cribs good for them They could get another one and all that, you know And I'm thinking like it doesn't matter if you're wealthy if you're not you're losing Things that care I mean the most you so how did you feel when you see in that like now? You just lost you all your property you lost all your things and then you see this online Well pisses me off because it's like who you think gave me the house right? You know you think that somebody just came here and gave me the house. You don't know that I worked for it So what if you worked for it? Mm-hmm. you should just lose it and it should be alright no of course I'm sad I cry I'm mad it was like yes of course I'm in a better position

because I will be able to replace things I will be able to rebuild but who wants to do that you know we got enough going on I don't want to have to do that too like can I get some peace just want some rest and so it's like it makes me upset when people say stuff like that. You know, me and my wife were talking the other day when we seen all, we were like, you know, what will we grab? Like we try to start setting things up in the house.

And then she's like, well, I gotta go get the photo albums. I gotta get the pictures. I need the memories. And then she was like, but damn, what about the kids' first outfit? You wanna be able to pass that on. And then you're thinking, what about this? How about the kids?

Y'all got 13 of them. You know what? It's just two of y'all. And you're like, you're a girl, all right? How is she dealing with what about this? How about the kids? I got 13 of them. You know what? It's just two of y'all. How's she dealing with all of this? Because she's young and explaining it to her. She's 15 and I think it's a tough time. You're already a teenager with all these emotions going on, but she has friends who've also

lost their houses, so at least she has some community that she can talk to about shared experience. she has some community that she can talk to about shared experience but you know how do you comfort a child who's like well what what if fire comes again you know then what so it's just a tough thing how are you able to show up and do this though because i mean the show must go on right you got your new beauty brand e-bob bars you promoting the reality show but then you got all of this heaviness on you how are you able to even show up and just do what you're doing right now? Well, unfortunately I'm not unused to grief. Yeah.

You know, it's like I've faced a lot of it in my life. And, um, one thing I know for sure is that the sun's going to come up the next day. People are going to keep moving. And if you don't move with it, you'll get left behind, you know? And it's like, look, I think one of the things for me is that, yes, I do want to rebuild, yes, I do want another house. Yes, I do want another house. Yes, I want more things in my life. And how am I going to get it?

Nobody's going to give it to me. That's right. So I got to get up and go do the work myself. And what made you do Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? Why did you jump into that craziness? That's the first thing I said, I was like, why? I was thinking she must be bored. When I saw the announcement, I was like, I didn't think it was boredom.

I just thought, I was like, well, maybe this is going to like lean into like future business. She's so successful already. She's the girl for us girls. Why would she go with them people? Well, you know what's so funny? The idea of being on the show is actually really interesting to me because I do feel like there's no representation for women like me or like us, you know, that it's like, look, the corporate girlies who are ambitious, who are smart, who are loyal and will defend their friends and all of

that, they don't exist in this space. No disrespect to anybody else, but they just don't. And so I'm like, well, I've already represented in so many different spaces, like why not do it here? And also work on a bigger platform and also do things that I want to do in a different way so why not? I guess we always look at you as an executive like I want to run down some of your resume you're the global CMO of Netflix, CMO of Endeavor, CEO, CDO of Uber, head of marketing of Apple Music and iTunes, head of music and entertainment marketing at PepsiCo. Am I missing anything? God's favorite baby.

What would you say the key to all of that success has been and do you prefer being behind the scenes or in front of the camera? Oh that's an interesting, I mean I think the key to success always has been that I truly am myself. You know I think that a lot of people like to say that it's hard to do because when you're in these spaces conformity is what wins. You know you've got to just be like everybody else. You got to wear the gray suit like everybody else. But anybody who has seen my career or seen me walking around has known that like I am a black girl first and foremost.

I represent exactly who I am. I don't try to pretend not to be. And so for me it's like that has been my key to differentiation and what has made me successful. And so now moving out of that space is just another unexpected thing. It was like, look, you read my resume and it sounds great because we brought oh my gosh, you did that and that that. But it's like if you were there with me day to day, and were advising me, you'd see that people never cheered me on even when I made jumps.

Like people never did. So when I left Apple to go to Uber, people were like, why would you do that? Like, why would you leave Apple at the time I went to Uber was like the company was going down in flames. They're like, why would you do that? And I was like, yeah, because first of all, y'all think that I'm getting these jobs as some sort of token. And so what I'm going to show you is actually I'm the greatest marketer alive and that a company that is on its knees, I'm going to help rebuild.

And when I do that, you can't ask me another question. And then it's like, okay, I moved from Uber to Endeavor and then Endeavor to Netflix and Netflix, I joined right at the start of the pandemic and people are like, Oh, why would you do that? Like it's such a big company. Like the spotlight is on it. If you fail, you're going to fail big. And I'm like, yeah, but if I can do that then you again, you can ask me whether or not you

can do this, right? Because now I've done it at four different companies. Who's going to deny me? And then I was inducted into the marketing hall of fame and I was like, yeah, okay, there I'm done, retire. Thank you. Real Housewives franchise is shooting down. So I guess you're there to save the Real House a franchise because that franchise seems like it was going down.

Well, I think that it deserves a reinvention. You know, I think the relationships between women has been really shown poorly in ways that are not helpful. I'm not saying that there's not conflict. There's always conflict. There's conflict in the boardroom. Okay, the fights I had in the boardroom were far scarier than any fight I've had on this damn show. Do you know any of those women? Or were you friends with them? I knew one of them, yeah. Lisa Venipal.

Sutton. Oh. Sutton because just socially. Got you. We know each other that way. All right, we got more with Bosema St. John when we come back. You know her from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Bosema St. John, you know, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Bozema St. John, you know, former marketer executive for Netflix, Uber, Apple, and you know, she's on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills right now.

Charlamagne? You know what comfortable feels like, both? Do I know what comfortable feels like? Have you ever allowed yourself to get comfortable? I don't think in a workspace, no. Yeah, that's what I mean, in a workspace. Yeah, I haven't, no. Why not? I don't know. Because there isn't one. You know, not because I haven't think in a workspace. No, that's what I mean in the workspace. Yeah, I haven't no I don't know Um because there isn't one you know, not because I haven't allowed myself to but because that's just death

You know, it's like if you get too comfortable in the corporate spaces Somebody's gonna come get you You know, and I don't think that there's any Nirvana for black people or especially black women in these spaces And so I'm like, yeah, you always got to watch your back. So I don't think I've ever been comfortable. No, I'm glad you said that too, because I feel the same way. And I think that sometimes when you get too comfortable, you start to play it safe. And then that's when I think all of these industries start to die out.

Yeah, because you've got people who are playing it safe. And my thing is like, you're they probably gonna fire you if you play it safe. You might as well take the risk of something innovative. Yeah, if you get fired doing that Hey, you might as well take the risk to do something innovative. Yeah, yeah. Because if you get fired doing that, at least you feel good about yourself. Well, Sean, I've always said that like, look, when I leave a space,

I want you to know that I was there. Like, I will never leave a space and you were just like, oh, was she even here at all? No, I gotta leave some sort of footprint. And so it's like, how am I gonna do that if not representing for who I am and my community and all of those things. Now look, I recognize the fact that it is a burden to be in these spaces and to be the

one and people always, you know, when something happens to black people, they turn to you and be like, what do you think we should do? And yes, that is annoying. But at the same time, it's like, yeah, well, maybe that's why I'm actually in this room to actually say the things that are hard to say say and the things that they wouldn't know otherwise. And so for me, the comfortability aspect has never really been part of what I have tried to achieve because I know that that's not my destiny.

That's not what I'm meant to do. So are you staying in the room to do that because people think you're leaving the show because of the post that you put up on Instagram. I know. Are you leaving? No, I'm not leaving the show. That's about something else,

but then my house burned down, so then I couldn't even talk about it. Oh, so you was gonna quit something else? You had an announcement come in. Yeah, no, I was thinking about like life changes and things I need to do, not about the show at all. Gotcha. Yeah.

We're proud of you as a community from what you've done, what you've accomplished, but you know, some people might not know the educational background and how you got there. So for people that's in your field, that admire you and want to say, damn, I want to even go a notch of what she did. How did you do it? Right.

What is the education background? Right. Well, I mean, I have my bachelor's degree. You know, I don't have a master's degree. I decided after my bachelor's that I wanted to jump right into work I had the opportunity to go to Spike Lee's advertising agency which is where I got my start you know I think the the difference with how I did it is that I never thought that a job was too small you know for me to actually like say that again because people want I

don't think they heard you in the back and did you get paid at first you didn't get paid But you know the jobs were never too small like I brought my full self to every single job There was never a time where I was just like, you know what when I get into that corner office That's what I'm gonna do. Da da da da da. No, I did that when I was an assistant You know, it's like you can ask by today and he will tell you that like I crushed. In fact, like when I was getting inducted into the Hall of Fame, he did an interview and he said he knew then that he would work for me one day. And that happened when I was at Netflix and he got an overall deal while I was the CMO. You know, and so for me, it's like, look, there's never been a moment in my career where

I felt like I can't wait for the next thing. I brought everything to the job I had. And so even now as I sit here and doing this show and all that, I'm bringing everything, everything I have. It'll because I want to be able to have the next opportunity and the next option and the next opportunity. Do you consider yourself an alpha woman? Absolutely, yes. So with being an alpha woman, how is that in relationships? Do you feel like you have to submit a little bit? Do you feel like you have to fall back a little bit

question to Lauren huh no because you know when it comes to the real house woman you can relate no yeah no my wife watches the show so she's a fan and she loves who you are so she always asked like damn I wonder how is that in a relationship because she's very strong. She had that question, she also wanted to know, did you feel like those friendships on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are real friendships, or do you think it's bull****? Start with the alpha woman. So here's the thing, I can't diminish who I am. It's not possible.

So yes, I want the soft girl life and the whole thing and I can have that too. But at the end of the day, this is who I am. I walk into a room and I demand things. It is my energy and my aura. And so the need for a partner who is not threatened by that or not afraid of that is absolutely necessary. So it's not necessarily about me dimming or getting quieter or being more subservient is that like who's just gonna match my energy.

My mom says every pot has a lid and I feel like now I found a lid. How did you know that Keeley because also to not only is he coming and you're like already this super successful marketing Hall of Famer but now he's having to be introduced on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Right. Got questions. Right. After your late husband as well.

How did you usher him into all that? How did you know he was fit for that job? Right. Well, also, I have to add that I also respect him a great deal. So that has to be at the bottom of it, which is like, that's where we have to start. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. And so the conversation even telling him that, hey, look, I'm on the show, right? I would like you to be on the show, but let's talk about that on whether or not you feel comfortable doing it. And when he said he did, and I was

like, all right, look, you haven't been in the scrutiny like I have. So we're going to have to talk about what that looks like for you. And so to me, it's like, there's a responsibility that I have to him, you know, in being my partner on being on the show, and therefore making sure that he's also protected. So perhaps that's even where the alpha woman shows up is that, like, I feel that, you know, I want to be protected by him, but I also feel responsibility to protect him as well. And as for the relationships on the show, look, I'm the first one to tell you that I really thought that these conversations were played up. You know, I thought it was, oh, you know, they were like, producers just make it up.

You know, people are like, Oh, she talked about you. I was shocked to find out that the relationships are really real. So people get upset about real things, you know, and you really don't know. It's just like life. Like you don't know if somebody's talking about you behind your back, you do not know that. And so you're making assumptions based on the facts that are given to you.

So you might be really nice to somebody, but yet she was over here talking about whatever it is that she wants to talk about you and you didn't even know. And so you see it on screen later and people be like, oh, she should have known she was fake and this and that. You're just like, how would you know that? You'd have to be psychic. You wouldn't know. And so you see it on screen later and people be like, oh, she should have known she was fake and this and that. You're just like, how would you know that? You'd have to be psychic. You wouldn't know. And so I'm, I am continuously learning about the relationships between the women and myself and then also how it appears on camera. Reunions are going to be very interesting. That's all I know.

Could you have a house husband? Like if it was just a guy who wasn't as successful? I don't think so. No, I don't believe so. Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so. He's a nice guy. He looks good. He's putting it down. He cooks it clean. He keeps everything.

I think it's probably more about mindset and ambition than anything else. I'm way too ambitious, I think, to have somebody who would not want to also be ambitious. I also noticed on the show, would not want to also be ambitious. Yeah. I also noticed on the show, they changed a lot on the show. And I watched the show with my wife, that's our little thing. But I noticed on the show when I do watch it, I love seeing them women bow down to you a little bit. Like, they tiptoe around you and you know, like you could tell that they look for your

approval. Do you notice that? Because it's a shift and it's a change. I do think it's a shift because I'm not like them. And so I think anytime somebody new or like a new situation presents itself, they're also going to be a little careful, you know, because you just don't know, you got to test the water, right? Now, if I come back for second season, I think that would be a different situation because now they know.

They know you, right? Right. And they're like, oh, OK, so she's got her opinions. She can stand up for herself and they'll have a different way to interact with me I'm sure that's gonna happen. Alright we got more with Bozema St. John it's the Breakfast Club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club, Lauren LaRosa is filling in for Jess and we're still kicking it with Bozema St. John you know her from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Charlamagne?

How did putting out your book, The Urgent Life, My Story of Love, Loss and Survival, how did that being vulnerable in that book prepare you to be vulnerable on reality TV? Oh, that's a great question. It was so hard to write my memoir. I think what happens is that, you know, as I was saying, with grief,

you know, you just wanna get it behind you. You know, you just, to get it behind you. You want to feel better. You want to feel quote unquote normal. And what happens is that we don't realize that you put away the sadness and the fear and the anger and all those things, but you also put away the happiness and the joy and all the good things that were a part of that because your brain doesn't know how to separate any of those things.

And so in writing the book, I had to go get all of that stuff back. I had to be really honest about how I was feeling in a situation or what was my true feelings about the thing in order to write an honest book. And I didn't feel like anyone would connect with it if I was just writing fiction. And that absolutely prepared me for this particular role because I don't have the need to hold back from my personal life. So much of my life has been about my professional pursuits. And so in writing the book, I was able to talk about love.

I was able to talk about things that made me cry and things that hurt me. And so now it's like I can do that more comfortably because I've already done it by writing it How does it feel with you and garcelle like you guys are like the the two black women on the show Right, you already talked about like feeling like you're there to say certain things that people can't say or whatever the case may be Does it make you feel like a token? You don't give the energy that you would just be okay with that But does it make you feel like that do you ever have to be like to producers like no i'm not doing it Oh happening.. All the time. Well, the thing is that like, I don't necessarily have

to tell producers I'm not going to do whatever it is that because they're not really orchestrating anything, you know, but I know that I'm not doing the thing that perhaps would be expected of me to do. Right. You know, it's like I often said that, you know, I wasn't going to come down into the mud. Do you feel the need to like do you and Garcelle, I don't know what your relationship is off camera. Yeah. What is that like? It's a good relationship.

Okay. Do you feel the need to defend her when certain things happen and she like I know she was going through stuff where like they were attacking like her I think it was her son or her kid. Right, right, right. Now, I've already said I was at it publicly that like if somebody says something about my child, I don't know that we'd be we'd be friends today. It was like I don't know that I can get over that. And I have yet to talk to Garcelle about how she got over that, you know, just because

I just felt that like it just crossed such a line. And perhaps she is, you know, more evolved than I am. Maybe she hasn't gotten over it. She's just waiting on her shot. Maybe, maybe she's waiting on her shot. I don't know. That's a good point. But I do think that, you know, for her and I, I hope that what people are seeing is that it's a

possibility to be more than one type of black woman. That like, Arsel is an accomplished actress who has her own life and her own challenges and issues. And the conflicts that she's had with the women don't necessarily have to be my conflicts because I don't have those conflicts with them. I probably have my own. And so why is it that we can only have one? Like I really hate the comments when people are like, oh, okay, Boz is here, now Garcelle

can go. And I'm like, why? Why can't one of white girls go? Like, why does it got to be her? Why are we pitting she and I against each other? So I'm like, no, there can be more of us in these spaces without having to be, oh, there's only one type. And that's it. Um, you had talked about your using a platform for stuff like being able to talk about like

fire boys and I thought it was interesting because you mentioned that you weren't in like a dire situation where it's like you're in pain and you had to you're just planning because you want to have another kid. Yeah, right. Yeah. How you feeling like today? Yeah, I feel really good today. I'm just glad that I was able to talk about that publicly because, you know, I don't know why it is that when we talk about reproductive health, especially for black women, it's like this point of shame. Yeah. You know, it's like, I don't know how many people sent me messages commented on the post, like, friends who were texting me and being like, girl I went through that last year.

I'm like, why did I not know that? You know, it's like there's some strange shame that's associated with it, as if we're not good enough or that we're not whole women because you have fibroids and you've got to get that removed in order to reproduce at all. And so I'm just like, wait, but no, this is a health issue. You know, and it's like, if we take care of that, we take care of ourselves, we will be in a better, in better shape. And I don't know that there's any benefit to hiding any of that.

I think you also brought up a good conversation too, because one of the things you said was like, I'm not getting any younger. So I'm gonna make these plans now. That's right. Have you been having conversations with those same people about, you know, just you're not getting younger, but you do want to have another kid right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And what that looks like for you and how you're planning for that.

Yeah. I mean, Keely and I, of course, talked about it, you know. My daughter and I talked about it because, well, they're the two people who will be impacted. I don't really care about anybody else's opinions. But for me, it was really important to talk about the risks because I did not have easy pregnancies in the past. And so I wanted to make sure that I am in the healthiest place that I can be. And again, thank God that I'm in a

position to have insurance and you know, the access to health care and we know what black maternal health looks like. It is dire. It's like we're dying at a rate faster than everybody. So for me, it's like, look, I wanted to be able to use this show to talk about health, to talk about my reproductive health. And then also, I do think that there is a conversation to be had for the corporate girls who've waited a long time to have their babies. Your baby is 15 years old, right? Yeah, exactly. And you'd start all over again right now.

Yeah, I would. And I think that there's a lot of women who are doing that. You know, it's like, I, like, I look at a majority a lot of women who are doing that. I look at the majority of my friends who are in their mid-40s and a lot of them don't have children yet. Some of them haven't gotten married yet, either because they were focused on their careers and didn't make that commitment, or they didn't find partners who could manage their alphaness, or whatever the reason is, but who want families. And so I'm like, again, there is no shame in that. It's like you can say it out loud that I want a baby or I want a family and then take the

steps to get it. I just think we should remove the shame from it. So yeah, I'm going to be an old ass mom. I'm going to do it. I was going to ask you mentioned marriage. Yeah. And I know that, you know, you've been married before. Now you and Keely together. It seems like I saw your pictures you mentioned marriage. Yeah, and I know that you know, you've been married before Now you and Keely together seems like I saw y'all pictures of your way Is that gonna be is that a conversation for you? All right? Yes, it is a conversation

Well, because I I want to have a family in a nuclear unit That's it. So I want to be married and then have babies. So we've got seen engagement on the show Look check girl. You talk to him. Where's he at? Oh, it's been great. Thank you so much. Well, we appreciate you for joining us so much. And E.E. by Boss. Oh, yes, yes, yes.

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wherever you get your podcasts. This is my legacy. Anything else which allows for you to be fired or suspended from school if your hair isn't straight or whatever, those rules still exist on the books. And figure out, well, how can I celebrate that? How can I encourage us? How can I make sure that, yeah, if I want to wear my hair any kind of way I want, let me do it in the way I want to do it.

And when I looked at the hair extension industry, 80% of the consumer base is black women or women of color. Yet, we don't have any ownership in manufacturing and distribution and innovation. So I'm like, why is a lace white? Like, I could see your lace. Yes, because it's white. Like, why? And look, you could go on YouTube or Google it and you'll find 14 million videos of black

women kitchen chemists who are out here telling you how to lay your lace and make the color like you. And I'm just like, why is that? So I went to China by myself and to the biggest hair show in the world and just walked around and asked questions. And then when I realized it, like, oh wait, hold on, this is actually an industry that's making a lot of money, but we're not anywhere in the seats. I was like, well, I'm gonna do it myself.

I'm gonna get in there. So I built a factory in Ghana. I started manufacturing, and then now I'm selling it. To the world. Wow. So how did they buy some Eve? www.evebybose.com. Evebybose.com.

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Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV, is DJ envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club let's get to just with the mess with Lauren LaRosa just don't do no she don't spare nobody worldwide just worldwide mess on the breakfast club. She's a coach. All righty y'all. So a little Bow Wow and Le'Veon Bell have been going back and forth.

They trying to figure out who's the biggest out of Columbus, Ohio. Right? Where did this conversation come from? So all right, little bad tracking, right? Don't do why. Why they got to be bored? Because of Bow Wow? No, that's just who cares?

Like, lady on bell and Bow Wow going back and forth about who's the biggest from where? They're not even the same industry. Exactly. Okay, now look, so basically Bow Wow was at the Ohio State versus Notre Dame game Monday night and when he was there, he was, you know, you dare your team is doing good. He's excited. Let's take a listen. I'm the biggest to ever come from Columbus.

I probably will be the biggest to ever come out of Columbus. Hey, yo, it sounds like bullsh**, bickering on that. Let's bridge the gap and bring this together and get this crack in the house. Supposed to be come on bro They like have a million dollars for a month sweet for the city I don't see no ain't no Columbus that got that type of money to even host up bit on a national stage Like we're not doing this Columbus will ever forever be my city in my town It's what she do 10 million or 14 million out the city then you bigger than me

and if you don't do that shut up don't talk to me bro. Big Bow Wow not the little one okay he was excited his team was winning he said he did a million for the sweet you know I'm saying he told everybody come back to my restaurant after you from Ohio even if you not from Ohio come back everything is on me. Les Wexner and Denise York are sitting back like, who are these two Negroes? Okay, you know who Les Wexner and Denise York are? Go look on the Forbes list.

Two billionaires from Columbus, Ohio. Okay, Les is worth 7.9, Denise is worth 5.8. Okay, they would like to enter the chat since y'all want to have conversations Leviant Bell don't want to talk to them. He want to talk to Bow Wow because he got online yesterday and he responded to Bow Wow and this is what he had to say. Bow Wow you say you have all this money and what did you do with it bro? What did you do with it? Because you definitely helped the city with it. You ain't opened up a restaurant,

no recreation center, you ain't helped the kids. Like what did you actually definitely help the city with it. You ain't open up a restaurant. No recreation center You ain't help the kids like what did you actually do in the city, bro for you to say? Hey, yeah, I'm the I'm the king of the city like nobody as big as me in the city What'd you do? You ain't do no features with nobody from Columbus and he was a big artist at one point You just damn near one of the biggest arts when you're a little kid, bro And you ain't do no features with no no Columbus artists, bro, bro I didn't have football kids every year when I was in the league.

Bro, I put a million dollar worth of turf in a whole stadium in Columbus, Ohio, bro. In Groveport, the school I went to, bro, a whole million dollar stadium, bro. What have you done? Now, Le'Veon Bell, I like that talk. I can't say that. I can't say that.

What have you done for the community? I'm not saying buy while having. I'm just saying. But if you're gonna talk money, don't talk about your cars and what you buy superficially, what are you actually doing for the community with that money? And I like that kind of talk. We need to have more of that type of flex. Well, it did get to there and we're gonna get to that. So then Leviant went off about basically Bow Wow, not even being bigger than him not being from Ohio. Let's take a listen to that. from a high. Let's take a listen to that. No, you're from Atlanta. You been repping Atlanta literally since I've been hearing your music. I literally didn't even know you were from Columbus. Now look, it's crazy. Ohio State with a national championship or everybody would have tried to jump

on board. Hey, man, I'm from the city. No, you're not. Let's say Columbus. Hey, Columbus, let's say for the time being, for the sake of this argument, Columbus, we accept this guy. By the way, do you think you're bigger than me, bro? Because you need a reality check, real s***. Yeah, you had a nice little rap career, but obviously that's up in the air. That's gone. Rap career done. We know that. I'm probably a big rapper to you right now.

Why would people be playing with Bawaw rap? It's like the minute you try to come from Bawaw, y'all got to play with his music and his rap career. He had a big career. He didn't have a little career. No, Bawaw was a big deal. That's no good. And can we please remind that-

Rap wise, yeah. Also too, I feel like if you didn't know that Bow Wow was from Ohio, because he said in almost every song at one point, that's your fault, not his. Let's take a listen. I understand why he said that, because a lot of people thought Bow Wow was from Atlanta. Even though if you follow Bow Wow, he does say Columbus, but he also raps Atlanta too. Nobody thought Bow Wow raps Atlanta too. He does rap Atlanta because of so-so debt, but who thought Bow Wow was from not from Ohio he always said he was from Ohio. I always thought Bow Wow was from Columbus Ohio. He always said Columbus but he repped Atlanta too though. Yeah but I feel like people just love to play with him and they know what to trigger him too it's always the little rap career you not from here this is the first time though I think I've ever heard somebody tell Bow Wow he's not from Ohio. Bow Wow rep both because he was on growing up Atlanta like Bow Wow is known for Columbus and he's known from Atlanta. I don't like it when people if y'all can't tell I'm a Bow Wow fan.

It led to a great conversation though, because uh Bow Wow and Leveon Bell both posted a screenshot of them on FaceTime and it sparked conversation between the two. Um, the caption of the of the face of the screenshot says had a great talk. It's amazing what a little communication can do. Big plans in the future to bring to the city together. Nothing but respect. Yeah. That's what I like. That's why I like the conversation Le'Veon Bell was having. Like what are you doing for the community? Like what have you done? That's what I like to hear. You know some Simone Biles is from Columbus, Ohio. I didn't know that. Lado was born in Columbus, Ohio. Simone Biles is from Columbus? Yep. Le'Veon and Bowie. None of y'all bigger Simone. Let's start like okay. I know I said Les Wexner and Denise York. That's true. Money wise, but ain't none of

y'all biggest among boss. Just want y'all to know that. I didn't know that either. You sure about that? Oh yeah. Looked at the website. You don't even know where you from. So I should ask you, you won't claim Dominican for nothing. I am black. I was he said black people don't do we said well You could be either or so you gonna go twice. Look at that wish you were where is Simone Biles from morning Columbus, Ohio? Thank you. Yeah, how long she live there? Oh, hey, that's a good point She's a good question. I cuz you know, I don't know the answer to that question. Oh, oh no. Yeah, I don't know I don't know. They know she was from there, but shout out to Columbus, Ohio Simone grew up in Texas though

No High school, I don't know if you really count as a from somewhere going back to my original Bow easy respect bow number we do Don't play with bow wow, okay, don't know about you play with big bow easy Okay, respect my number. We do we do All right, you got some else I'm old enough to remember watching bow wow on our senior hall in real time. Oh, yes 78 I remember bow wow on our senior hall with Snoop Dogg in real time. You know, you know, I respect He did the social Def Day, right? Yes.

Bow Wow and B2K were my first music concert in Delaware. I won the tickets on the radio and when I went there I cried. That was a Millennium Tour? Yes, I loved them so much. That wasn't called a Millennium Tour back then, was it? I think it was a Scream. Scream Tour. It was something, but we had the Airbrush shirts, I went with my cousins. I cried. It was a whole thing.

But just for the record stop arguing about hoods that you know you don't own no property in. Stop arguing about hoods that you don't invest no money in. How you know they don't own no property or nothing like that? I'm not saying they don't. Yes. That's the facts. Alright. Well, Charlamagne, who you giving that donkey to? Four after the hour we need somebody to come to the front of the congregation. His name is Nicholas Sabo and not just him his wife

Because ladies y'all can learn something from this donkey of the day And that's something is if you can order something off goddamn uber eats our instacart You need to let the whole house know before somebody gets shot. We'll discuss. I'm with you. Mr. Breakfast Club. Good morning You're checking out the Breakfast Club I'm with you. Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. You're trying to be a fake ass Charlamagne. Some donkey today just saw themselves. I've been watching you, Charlamagne. I was ready for you.

I've never heard of donkey the other day. What is it? Say it again, Charlamagne. Yes, you are a donkey. Everything that Charlamagne's saying is true. Yes, dog here today for Thursday, January 23rd goes to a 43 year old man named Nicholas Sabo, but his wife has to share some of this he-haul with him too, because his wife put him in a position

that many men get put in, and I'll explain after I tell you what happened. See, Nicholas was arrested on a charge of recklessly endangering another person because he shot somebody on his property. Now you know I'm 2A all day, okay? 2A all day. I believe a black man owning a legal firearm

in this country is a form of self care, okay? I think that every family should own at least two firearms. Then everyone in the house, man, woman, and child who is old enough should know how to shoot take your family to the range because hey you never know so with that said why is Nicholas and his wife getting the biggest he hawk because Nicholas shot someone on his property well let's go to w nep abc 16 for the report please a man faces charges after allegedly shooting a delivery driver in lakawanna county police say Nicholas Sabo shot at a man delivering

groceries to his home in Newton Township on Saturday. Investigators say the driver was at the correct address and Sabo's wife placed the order. The driver was taken to the hospital is is expected to be okay. Sabo is charged with reckless endangerment. Only in America can delivering a bag of kale turn into an action movie standoff. Okay, drop the tropic and orange juice are out. Listen to me ladies, this is the wife's fault. When you order from OOBEACH, DoorDash, Instacart, whatever it is, always tell your husband. Okay, my brothers, I don't know how y'all anxiety is set up, but I got everything in my house. Door birds, security cameras, all types of very sensitive alarm systems.

I got the whole property under surveillance. And it's bad enough ladies that you all use Amazon every damn day between Amazon, FedEx, UPS. There is always some stranger on the property, but the difference between them, they usually be in a truck. So you know what it is. When you ordering food and groceries,

they come in nondescript cars. You looking at the camera like, who is that? How many times have you turned to your wife and kids said, turn to your wife and kids and said, did y'all order something? All the time. All the damn time okay and until you hear them say yes then you just got to assume the apps is on your property okay that's why I can understand what Nicholas Say what was thinking ladies kids when you order food on any of these apps or groceries you

know please tell the man in the house okay but this is where the wife really gets the brunt of this he hard a wife is the one who ordered the groceries but the wife is also the one who received the alert from the home security camera that movement had been detected near the garage and she thought someone was trying to break in to a utility trailer on their property now listen I'm glad that Nicholas has a partner that's just as paranoid as him. But come on, Miss Lady, you can't forget that you ordered an Instacart at a time like this. Right.

Okay. Do you not understand everyone is on edge and everyone at this moment is preset to wish a mother eff a wood. Okay. Everybody is in wishing mother eff a wood mode. Okay. We are in a constant state of fight, flight or fire in these United States of anxiety and Nicholas chose to fire because you gotta understand when the

alarm goes off and then someone in your house especially your wife says she thinks someone is trying to break into something when you go to grab your pistol and go outside you already thinking it's showtime okay you not dare to negotiate with this supposed intruder because you already believe it's showtime. Okay you not there to negotiate with this supposed intruder because you already believe they up to no good and you don't know what their intentions are. Yes you can be so paranoid your anxiety can get the best of you so much that you can turn two-day shipping into a two-minute shooting. Alright poor Instacart driver just came over to deliver packages and

almost ended up a pack all because he was trying to figure out if the eggs go on the porch or the front steps there was no verbal confrontation or nothing just fire shot him in the lake okay the wife ordered the groceries the husband ordered the chaos all because it was poor communication on the delivery instructions you have to read to find print when you're ordering things okay you can give people special instructions on where to take and leave things. Poor guy just trying to make an honest living delivering Instacart and get shot. Alright he ran back to his vehicle where his wife and child was waiting for him. He drove off and called 911. That man could have been murdered. He could have

woke up dead somewhere today simply because of miscommunication and Nicholas has been charged with recklessly endangering another person and he could face more charges all because his wife simply forgot. Maybe we need security alerts that remind us like movement detected, danger or just dinner. What do you even say to your husband after this? Please give Nicholas Sabo and his wife the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day.

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Did y'all order food? They should tell you first. Did y'all order Uber Eats? All day. And then when they say no, then I can know. I can get in action. I'm like, is your Uber Eats here? OK, that's your guy.

Like, yeah, because I'm nervous. If nobody had got hurt though, that one-liner that you said, it would have been good. You said the wife ordered the groceries, the husband ordered the chaos. If nobody got hurt, that would have been like a, the wife ordered the groceries the husband ordered the chaos if nobody got hurt that would have been like a that was cute no the chaos is somebody hurt I know what I'm saying if nobody got hurt it just would have been cute it's like I think it was cute regardless he didn't die okay little leg something about the my man well nevermind oh that turns you on I was like I wrote that down I'm like

your gun oh he got a gun girl, he just shot the instacart driver Like you said, they're becoming a nondescriptive cause all dark tits. No, that's right All right. Well, thank you for that donkey I wonder what the husband was thinking though when he went outside and he just saw this person with a handful of groceries You still got to shoot right? Yeah, but that's nothing he had groceries like what you but you never know because people be pulling up with deliveries and then push their Way into your house I never heard them and that probably looks strange if your wife is like you

I think somebody trying to break in the utility trailer then you go outside and he's standing there with avocados and spring water And you like oh my god what the hell? Avocados and spring water. I'm just saying. Mountain Valley? Maybe I'm glad he's okay though. Now if he had an eggplant you wouldn't have shot right? You just nasty If he had an eggplant you'd have asked him for a bite wouldn't you? Right. Ooh. You just nasty. All right. If you'd have had an eggplant, you'd have asked him for a bite, wouldn't you?

Thank you for the donkey today. That is to stare in that silence, y'all be. If you saw him with an eggplant, you'd be going, man, can I have it? I'll eat it raw. What? You wouldn't even chop it up or nothing. When we come back,

Roz Barack will be joining us. The mayor of New York. Definitely the mayor. Amy is the best eater. Watch your mouth. Roz Barack, when we come back, he's running The mayor of New York. Definitely the mayor. Watch your mouth! Raj Baraka when we come back, he's running for governor of New Jersey. Hey, calling somebody an eggplant eater is nasty. Okay.

That's my best eggplant eater right there. What? The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. we got a special guest in the building. Governor Baraka! Hey. Let's call him, let's be clear.

The mayor of Newark, he's running for governor ladies and gentlemen, Ross Baraka. Welcome brother. Thank you, thank you, glad to be here. So you're gonna put your hat in this race and what makes you want to run for governor? I already did, I think it's time man, I mean we have a very short window, I don't think we get an opportunity to do this anymore, there's a crowded field think it's time man. I mean we have a very short window. I don't think we get an opportunity to do this anymore There's a crowded feel it's opportunity for African-american kid from the city of Newark

To make New Jersey live up to its democratic values to build a broad-based coalition to really respond To the issues we deal with in the city every day that I think are statewide issues. This was of housing unemployment safety The affordability of the state being too expensive for most folks in New Jersey. We deal with those things. Every problem New Jersey got, we got it twice in Newark. But whatever we grappling with, the state is doing it.

And if we're mitigating those problems in Newark, we can certainly do it in the state. And if the state is better, Newark is better. So what are some things you'll be able to do as governor that you aren't right now capable of doing in the myth? Help build more affordable housing across the state of New Jersey which makes it easier for folks like folks in Newark who are trying to get in housing. So we started 20% affordability in all development in the city. The state followed suit and did the same thing.

So now it's not 100 people on the waiting list, it's 5,000 people on the waiting list because New Jersey is in it and now we can't discriminate against where you come from across the state which means we need you come from across the state. Which means we need more affordable housing in the state. We need workforce housing. We can do that, right? We can help reduce the violence not just in Newark but also Camden and Trenton, right? New Jersey City and places like that to begin to create an environment in the city or in a state that is conducive to business, conducive to growth, helping families grow and be safe. We can do that. We can bring more business to the state of New Jersey. We've brought them to Newark.

We can bring them to the state. You know, I think we're uniquely qualified. Most of these other folks that are running have never done, have no receipts of doing anything except for being in the Democratic Party. To them, I mean, that gives them the privilege. The party picks them and puts them in front of people and say, this is who you're supposed to vote for.

I'm tired of that, you know? We gotta mix it up. Yeah, I love Newark, man. And you know know you've done some amazing things in Newark Mayor Baraka one thing I want to talk about is Newark they experienced a 60% decrease in violent crime and a lot of times you know they say that in cities but you don't see it. And Newark compared to where Newark was a decade ago, you can see that Newark is a lot safer than it was. Not saying it's perfect, but it's a lot safer than it was.

How did you do that? Well, we created an ecosystem, Office of Violence Prevention, Crime Recovery, Brick City Peace Collective. In essence, we brought in community-based organizations to partner with the police. The police started doing really intelligence-based policing, but we brought ruckus on to kind of identify what crime was happening there, what violence was happening there.

For example, they told us all the bodegas in the city where violence happened in a hundred feet of and gave us some data point that said if we turned the lights on in this area, it would reduce violent crime by 34% if we put lights on in this area. So we did those things, right? We put community people in those communities to do a high risk intervention, deal with folks that were trying to retaliate, kids that are getting out of jail, meeting them immediately. Like, yo, we need you to get involved in this and do this, give them an opportunity.

And we have a, I want to thank New Direction, One Hood, organizations like that, that work with us in the city, that do do very very dangerous work in these communities Trying to reduce the temperature like they say reduce the temperature. I was gonna ask Congestion pricing what's your yeah, yeah, you take on congestion price. It doesn't help. Does it hurt? How does it affect especially New Jersey? What's rich bureaucrats fighting with each other about things that working people? Have no knowledge of the reality if I think the objective is right, that obviously the environment and congestion is a problem. I think going at it this way is an issue.

And that's usually what the problem is in the state house and in governments because most of the people making these decisions make decisions based on a small frame of reference, on a small circle. And they're not bringing people in, regular working folks in to weigh in on what they're trying to do. You're not bringing the fire guy in who lives in the outer boroughs,

who got to work in Manhattan every single day that's gonna have to pay that. You're not working class people in New Jersey who have to drive here to go to work, who don't make a whole lot of money. You're hitting them over the head again and again and again. You're driving people away from the party, driving them away from government, they're becoming more cynical because they think that these guys are making decisions that are hurting

them. They don't care about all of the big issues you're talking about because you're hurting my pockets. I don't got no money as it is. I ain't gonna take more of my money. This doesn't make sense. So we have to figure it out. Now they say, oh, we need to do reverse congestion.

I heard about that. I was gonna ask you about that. Yeah. I think it's ridiculous, right? I think these are just political people throwing volleys at each other in the newspaper trying to get video and in airtime You know trying to get earned media about this stuff The reality is none of that is gonna fix the problem like if you want to deal with congestion you want to deal with the issues people have and you need to get on the ground and talk to folks about how to really solve this problem. And if you're raising money for MTA

off the backs of working class people, I think that's wrong. And we need to figure out how to do that in a better way. Like, it doesn't hurt working class folks. I want you to expound on that, because that's a problem that I feel like just Democrats have is with their messaging. But you say, you got something that you say,

you say politicians can't make policy for people they can't see. they can't solve problems they don't know exists and I say that all the time in regards to politicians because they talk about people they never talked to so how can politicians do a better job of it they got to get out of there go to the barber shop the beauty parlor the thrift store the lounge the bar they got to talk to folks way at you know right now people are picking people for people, and surrogates are running out,

convincing people to vote for you, and you're not going in front of people talking, having conversations with them. That's the real problem. You don't know these people. You don't know the parent that has an eight-year-old, seven-year-old, and a four-year-old, gotta go to work, leave them home at the house,

try to get the neighbors to check on them, because she can't afford childcare. And then the child finds a gun and shoots himself, leave them home at the house, try to get the neighbors to check on them because she can't afford childcare. That's right. Right, and then, you know, the child finds a gun and shoots himself and everybody talking bad about her, but not about the economy that's the richest in the world that doesn't allow folks to find childcare that they can afford.

So now she has to make a decision, right? Or the fact that I can't pay my rent because I'm buying Christmas gifts and I wait for my income tax to come in so I can level up on my rent, but I want to buy Christmas gifts. I don't know these people. I don't have conversations with these people. So the policies I make are not going to address them. For example, New Jersey fighting over a policy

for 500, for seniors that make $500,000 to give them tax breaks. You know, my grandmother is in a nursing home trying to figure out how to pay the nursing home, how to pay medicine, right? How to do all the very specific things. You don't got a home here and a home in Hamptons and a home in Florida. But we don't see these people so you can't make policy for them. So those people get pissed off. And the problem is those are majority of the people.

That's right. And for you somebody that is with the people, right? Even when something like the congestive pricing happens with the tolls and stuff, when people are talking to you, how do you, what are you instantly trying to do to help them? Because a lot of people I know that are in Jersey, especially us that aren't from there and we moved there thinking it was better for us to commute, we're like, damn, we might as well move into New York now. But then that goes against what you're trying to do with bringing people to Jersey and getting these companies to invest in it. How do you start to solve that problem before us leaving Jersey becomes a problem?

I think what the governor is trying to do is he's still keeping it in court, trying to raise the issue of it so it can be reversed. I mean, he went as far as wrote a letter to Donald Trump. I don't know how far this is going to go, but ultimately we have to keep it on people's mind and continue to have the discussion about it to see if we can repeal it in some way. We can't just allow it to sit like that. Or the MTA or somebody else has to figure out how to compensate people or give them an opportunity to reduce what it's going to cost the burden to go back and forth to the city who are forced to go there,

not just going there because they're trying to go shopping. Right. All right. We got more with Razz Barack when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy We are the Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. We're still kicking him with Ross Baraka now Did you go to inauguration? No, you did not go You actually put out a statement talking about Trump's first day. Yeah Yeah, I went there. I mean it was crazy. I mean all the things he did

I mean said he was gonna do so. I mean it's crazy. He attacked birthright citizenship, got rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion, fired everybody, got rid of the Office of Violence Prevention. I went to the website, it's gone. All of the things that we need to continue to do what we're doing in the state of New Jersey and Newark, he just attacked and got rid of, pardoned all of those people straight out, white supremacists, dangerous folks that he let loose. I don't know why anybody in their right mind thought that he wouldn't do any of these things, but he did it, right?

And people tell you who they are, like they said, believe them. Another thing I love that you've done in Newark is the homelessness program, because you've helped to cut Newark's homelessness in half. What have y'all gotten right that a lot of people around the country haven't? Well, we have street teams, and our street teams, we just expanded it to 24 hours a

day because they do so good you know and the state just witnessed the uptick 24% this year, I mean the end of last year and we got a little uptick too but because we have reduced it 57% we still down. You know our street teams go out there through Path Home, we talk to folks, we get them off the street and we're being more creative about like we created housing out of Containers right we took the containers shipping containers and we built housing out of shipping containers which was successful to us We just went to the housing authority took 200 of their units that they weren't using that was abandoned and we're investing in fixing Those up so we could use them as transitional homes for folks that are off the streets.

So we have flexes to put people when we pull them off the corners. And we're just very, very, very deliberate and intentional throughout street team about that, about that work. Talk about the Path Home Initiative. See, you be speeding through stuff there, Barack, because you do actually,

you're one of the elected officials, I can actually say, yo, that guy out there, he does the work. He does the work, absolutely. And you can see it reflected in the city What is the path home? Path home is like we say housing first So we talk to people on the street until they comfortable coming with us to go places

So they know our street team know most of the homeless people in Newark by name where they live at so forth and so on What street they on what corner they in what tent they under so they continue to talk to them, right? And then we have a cell phone thing you text PATH HOME 85511 to PATH HOME to that and the guys that go out there and engage these folks, right? And make sure and that's just not regular people, you know, you have drug counselors there, you have psychiatrists there, you have social workers there, you have regular street team folks there so it's a whole team of people that go out and bring mobile units to the folks where

they are and begin to try to convince them and pull them into housing. And sometimes they don't come right away, but the first, you know, we keep going, keep going, keep going. It was the lady told a story that it took the folks three or four times to talk to her before she said, I'm going, you know, but she finally went and she gave a testimony how it turned her, changed her life around because they kept being persistent about hey we coming here we go again you know some food we just not giving you food we try to give you help support get you off the

street a lot of people come and give out food and it makes them feel good for that moment but the person need more than food right right they need a house they need treatment they need counseling we try to bring all of that to the folks and bring them into housing when we can. All we have to do is keep building housing so people can come in to have a place to go. There's no place for us to put them. Then the street teams, they become useless.

Now when you become governor, because we're gonna put that in the air, what's the first thing you wanna do for the people of New Jersey? What's your first attack? I think we need to get the budget in order first. I think it's out of control, and we need to, one, cut spending, cut costs,

make the wealthy pay their fair share. That's number one. We need to invest in the economy by building housing next to transit all over the state. We need to put thousands of people to work, turn it into a public works project, same way we did the last service line. Put thousands of people to work in the economy,

get the building trades to give us a price for affordable housing and tell them they can make up on the volume, what they're going to miss out on, what we reduce in the price. Build 10,000, 15,000 units up front, right? Consider this is a daily news podcast and lately the news is about a big question. How much can one guy change? They want change. What will change look like for energy? Drill, baby drill.

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The Latino population or business community represents 20 percent of the workforce in New Jersey. That's on their own merit. That's without any investment, without any support from the state. We got to put money in those communities and watch those communities grow, hire people. You hire more people, we have to pay them less unemployment, we give them opportunity to get homes, they can pay taxes, and then you'll be crying less about the taxes you pay

because they'll be helping you pay them, right? Invest in those communities ASAP, and that's what we do in the first 100 days. Well, how will Lionsgate impact New York? And how will Netflix impact just Jersey as a whole? Like both of them? Well Lionsgate will help a community, a neighborhood that's been distressed

for a very, very long time. And when they come there, the airport is already building a stop there, by there so people can get on the train to get to the airport. So that's gonna be awesome. And because those studios are there, obviously they're gonna be retailed, that's gonna pop up there. Because people have to eat, they need to do these things, they wanna get their the airport, so that's gonna be awesome. And because those studios are there, obviously they're gonna be retailed,

that's gonna pop up there, because people have to eat, they need to do these things, they wanna get their hair done, they wanna do whatever. So they're gonna, obviously the retail is gonna grow there, and it's gonna do something about the housing market as well, because the housing authority is already talking about investing in the housing in that community. So I see a shot in the arm happening

for the economy in that area, and obviously obviously the state that region is gonna benefit from it Once you put the train stop there, you know, people could get on the air train from there It's gonna create incredible opportunity for that neighborhood and for the Elizabeth and all of the cities that are attached to it in that reason What about the cannabis industry? Because you know, we opened up a hashed or a in Newark myself and Ray Kwan the chef Yeah, sorry sellers. What about the cannabis in this? I it's a, I mean, we gotta do better in New Jersey, let me say that. You know, I just think the bureaucracy is too much and the cost of cannabis, putting it together in New Jersey

is higher than places like Pennsylvania and other places like that. That we have to work out those price, lower that stuff, make it competitive in our state and cut a lot of the red tape so more of these things can happen faster than is happening now and Lean into to making sure that black and brown and underrepresented communities who were victimized

Have a bigger portion of what's happening here that we have to do this deliberately like New Jersey is they want to do the right Thing that is afraid to do it out loud. You know, I mean, so you got a whole bunch of people that you say, oh Black people are suffering they'll raise their hand. I agree with that. They say, oh, we should do something about it, their hands don't go up. Where? Absolutely. You know, so that's really what the difference is. So we have to lean into like, look,

we know this is the problem, you agree with it, we need to fix it. We can't charge this amount of money, there has to be carve outs for certain people in certain communities, and we have to grow it faster than what is happening, I just think it's taking too long. Well, come see us at Hashtoria 799, broad Street in Newark. I need you to have the Chief of Police just do a little sweep in front of the store though. There's a lot of entrepreneurs

be out there. You know what I'm saying? We had a discussion about that. I'm gonna drop a dime on them. There's a lot of entrepreneurs be out there. Our customers pull up and they be trying to get their own sales on. You gonna drop a dime on them? Smooth down the block man. See you know what Telford did with the people that be outside his store? He dropped Telfort bags off so that he could increase their revenue. Maybe you should talk to those brothers and see what they're trying to do and how Hashdoria can help.

I do talk to them. They try to get me weed. We own the dispensary. You ain't got to give me nothing. Well, when is election? When can people make sure they donate to what they need to make sure they support you and your site and everything. Absolutely. Ras4Governor.com, that's us.

June 10th is the primary in New Jersey. The general election is in November, first Tuesday in November, but the primary is June 10th. You can donate, you can get on the website, volunteer, ask questions, do whatever it is that you need to do it, feel comfortable doing. Absolutely. Right. Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Definitely make sure you go out and support Mayor Ross Baraka.

He will be the next Governor of New Jersey. We're going to put that in the air. And thank you so much, brother. What's the website again? Yeah, yeah. RAS4Governor, the number four. RAS4Governor. Alright, it's Ross Baraka.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess let's get to Jess with the mess. The news is real whether it's the Hilarious, Jessica Robin Moore, Jess don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. World wide Jess, worldwide mess.

On the Breakfast Club she's a coach and she's with Lauren, Lauren LaRosa. on the breakfast club. The coaches. All right, y'all. So we talked about my wife star Natalie did not. Oh, and remember we were saying that she was missing. Well, there is an update, according to TMZ, who says that they spoke to her mother, Denise Fuqua. Natalie is not missing anymore. According to TMZ who says that they spoke to her mother Denise Fuqua

Natalie is not missing anymore. She has been found safe and sound Although allegedly her identification all of her identification cards have been stolen So she is at the time of the report earlier this morning. She was still in Vegas Her family's just happy that they found her they still don't know what happened to her and what all of them missing the flights And all that good bad stuff, but all that stuff was about. But right now their priority is just to get her home. So they're going to get her home. They'll figure out all that stuff. And the issue is that she doesn't have that identification, but an airline will work with you if you can identify yourself another way. So, you know,

happy that she was found and she should be able to make it home. Another quick update, Wendy Williams. So after we did the interview with Wendy Williams here on The Breakfast Club, there was a lot that happened following it. A lot of good things are happening. On the GoFundMe, for anyone who has visited the GoFundMe, donated to GoFundMe, first of all, I know Wendy's family can say thank you for that.

There has been over $37,000 raised and their goal is 50K. Wendy says thank you for that. Yes, Wendy says thank you for that. Yes, Wendy says thank you for that, yes. And this GoFundMe is in support of Wendy Williams' fight for her independence. Now, there was an update posted to the GoFundMe on the 21st of January that says, we will officially be retaining the law firm

of Swartz and Greenberg Atlas to represent Alex Finney. Alex Finney is Wendy's niece who also joined us here on the show when Wendy was here or Wendy called in to petition the court to address all issues pertaining to Wendy Williams guardianship. These lead attorneys who I'm told are very high profile attorneys, Jason Atlas and Brett Newsomebaum,

they're in the early stages from what I'm being told of being retained and that retainer, a 20K retainer which is listed here on the GoFundMe, the GoFundMe will be used for that and People may have these yeah for attorney fees. Well, why does Alex need an attorney? Whatever whatever but you have to have you know people that are also able to help Wendy speak and navigate different things as you figure Out what life is gonna be like if she is released from this, you know I mean this conservatorship situation not if or when she is released. Yes when she is released

You still want to have some proper care, you know, Wendy has a whole life Not if. Or when. When. When she is released. Yes. When she is released. You still want to have some proper care. You know, Wendy has a whole life she has to now plan. You know, financial stuff, living stuff. And Alex has been by her side. So bringing the attorneys in will help them navigate all that. Just make sure that Alex has the support that she needs as a person speaking for Wendy.

Now, I thought that this was funny. Also too, in the update, Wendy gave her own update. From Wendy to her fans. She said, today is January 21st. I have a pink Versace robe and Victoria's Secret black bra on and I am watching botched but my body is hidden and holding with my red lipstick because it's winter still here in this luxury prison. Keep all of you updated. I just think that's Wendy Wendy and the Versace robe, the Victoria's

Secret the red lip very much Wendy. So yeah, Wendy is saying thank you guys for all of the support and there will be more updates there soon and we'll make sure that we keep you guys locked right here on the breakfast club. So make sure you guys put tuning on in. Okay. Absolutely. What about the legislation? Legislation?

Yes. Thank you for that reminder. So another movement that has happened, um, the day when we were in here, we talked a lot about needing to get, uh, lawmakers involved, right? Because Wendy Williams and a lot of things that she's facing, we learned that she's not the only one going through it. So there's actually a lawmaker that came out and basically said, I'm sorry, there's a senator. So Senator Anthony Palumbo, a New York state senator, told TMZ following our interview that he is reintroducing a piece of legislation

that will help to change guardianship laws regarding family visitation in the state. Now according to him, there's something called Carolyn's law, and it will allow families to visit loved ones by filing a motion with the court. Now the guardian once this is filed would have 10 days to show the court if the person that is trying to visit displays any inappropriate conduct and if not they can visit. So it basically wouldn't be just up to the guardian to say oh well we need to keep you safe from A, B, C, and D and these people are not safe you can't see them. It would actually be like the family can say hey we're safe we should be able to

go and visit and the court would be in the middle of it. So there's a you know checks and balances that would be in the conversation. Yeah the law is actually designed to ensure family members have a legal path to visit a loved one under guardianship. Yes, yep, exactly. So that's great news to hear. And he says that he's actually been following

Wendy's case for some years now, and that her being locked up in the apartment is tragic. And he goes on to say that even if, like, this is not what he's saying is happening, but he said, even if Wendy's memory was failing because the guardianship is trying to alleged she has dementia, she should still be allowed to be with her family

instead of forcibly separating her from them. So he wanted to make that clear. So that, all good stuff. And now, I mean, that's good because that's a law that's going to apply to everybody. Yes, yep. And like I said, there were so many people that were calling, I got DMs on Instagram,

just people that were like, yo, we've been through this. Going through the same thing in Philadelphia. Yeah, and they don't have Wendy's, you know what I mean? Like, Wendy has a lot of friends and places, but they don't have that, so this can help people, that this is gonna be a trickle down effect. That's right. Thank you, Breakfast Club.

Thank you, you're welcome. Thank you, Wendy, you know, Wendy, first and foremost, because she spoke out. No, it could have been really bad for her. She could have been retarded. Spoke out where? On the Breakfast Club. Thank you, Breakfast Club.

Say you're welcome. You're welcome. Say you're welcome, Lauren. Wait, but we are Breakfast Club. That's right. Just go, just go. Oh, you're welcome. Okay, all right.

In other news, the Oscar nominations are happening literally right now as, or an announcement. It's happening right now as we are speaking. This is being announced on Good Morning America. Now some of the nominations just to point out real quick and again this is developing so if there's anything else to talk about we'll be back tomorrow with that. Actress in a lead role nomination Cynthia Arrevo for Wicked. Ariana Grande was also nominated.

This is her first nomination. I've got to look up exactly what she was nominated for, but first nomination in relation to Wicked as well too, for an Oscar, Actor in a Lead Role, Coleman Domingo. And then we also have other awards. The I Heart Media Awards have also been announced. The nominations and special award recipients for its annual I Heart Music Awards

that will be taking place on March 17th at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. That's a podcast award you mean? It's the music awards already? iHeart Radio Music Awards. Oh wow. I'm reading. Wow. It's here in front of me.

Wow, she talking to you crazy. It's crazy. Real quick, song of the year for the iHeart Awards, Tipsy by Shibuzy, Agoura Hills, Doja Cat, Artist of the Year, Doja Cat, Kendrick Lamar? Jelly Roll, Kend Doja Cat, Artist of the Year, Doja Cat, Jelly Roll, Kendrick Lamar, Artist of the Year, SZA, Taylor Swift. These award things are happening right now y'all. She going fast. It's moving fast. It's live. Hip-hop Artist of the Year, Drake, Kendrick Lamar is also in there. Chris Brown, R&B Artist of the Year, okay, I Heart, Chris Brown, Muni Long, SZA,

R&B Artist of the Year, SZA, I think SZA got't the artist of the year SZA I think says it got money long money long. I'm sorry. All right. Well that is just with the mess with Laura La Rosa Now let's get to the people's choice mix hit us up with your request. It's the breakfast club. Good morning You're checking out the breakfast club morning. Everybody is dj envy. Jess hilarious. Charlamagne the guy We are the breakfast club Laura La Rosa filling in for Jess and I know some of these Nominations are still coming in. Yeah, I wanted to make sure I mentioned Ariana Grande I told you this is her first Oscar nomination. She is Nominated for best supporting actress and wicked wicked is doing her and Cynthia Rivo a lot of justice How many times Cynthia was nominated Cynthia? I don't know they both killed it again. This is rolling out So I don't know the exact number of the amount of times but she was nominated as

well too all right it was good I fell asleep not seeing it it was long but you know because you know oh and I was in there with my kids and it was really for them I tried to watch it but every time I woke up it was good no I was off a Friday it was a Friday afternoon. Why would you go Friday after work? You gotta do Saturday. I took a nap and woke up and it was I still watched it was still good. Every time I woke up it was hitting. You know what every time I woke up it was hitting. Fridays after work y'all still got a parent. Y'all be hired. A parent all the time. 24-7. I don't want to put you know the the car before the horse, but you know Oh, yeah the car before the horse, but you know first first maybe you'll get a man and then you'll God don't like ugly

I don't know Do not appreciate ugly men Wow, okay Wow, okay. First of all, I love a smetian. Okay. Wow Do the heck out of you what a universe is opened up for you like wait No, no, no, but the problem is those normally be the ones that one that would be quiet They'd be in the background. They'd be chilling. It'd be like 30 girls Now I'm outside your mom house cuz why you being weird to me you want a baby or not? What? Why you want me to be cheated on and cheated on so bad? You're complicating this.

Do you want the baby or not? I want happiness, love, and my child and my family and that's what I'm going to have. Thank you Envy. Your time will come. I'm going to let you speak at the wedding, not devil over there. That's the most cliché thing that you can say. Your time will come. Okay.

We're praying for you. Dinner with Jay-Z or 500,000 bucks. Alright when we come back positive notice the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now it's time to get up out of here. Charlamagne, you got a positive note? I do. I want to thank everybody first of all who came out to Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn last night for Anita Kopax. You know, her second book, The Wind on Her Tongue, came out yesterday.

It's book two of The Daughter of Three Waters trilogy. It's available everywhere you buy books now. Man, we had a great conversation at Greenlight Books last night. And Brooklyn talking The Wind on Her Tongue with Anita Copax. So make sure you go and get that. And I wanna tell everybody out there,

this is a great quote. It comes from my man Ryan Holiday, man. You know I love all of Ryan Holiday's books books and this comes from ego is the enemy Ryan Holliday says your potential the absolute best you're capable of that's the metric to measure yourself against your standards are okay your standards winning is not enough people can get lucky and win people can even be a holes in win anyone can win but not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.

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