The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Adults Are Living With Roommates Due To The Economy, Listener Calls In To "Get It Off Your Chest", Traditional Chinese Medicine With Dr. Angela Zeng, And More

Episode Date: June 29, 2026

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Good morning. Hi. Good morning. I'm just. Good morning, DJ Envy. Good morning, Sharmine. How do you sound like this? That's our boys. What are you talking about? She sounds suspicious.

No, uh, she, no, she sounds like a boy in real life. Yes, she do. No, this is, this is how I talk. This is Nicole Wallace. I call on my birthday, which is the same birthday as you tell. You heard that? Yeah, she's tripping. You said, not this.

All right. What are you calling from? Sound like a leopard come real quick. Hello. Yeah, I don't do that. I'm calling from Casey Bell. Caseyville, what is it? That's near state, Louis, Missouri.

Okay, how are you this morning? Nicole. Nicole, how are you, Nicole Wallace? Okay, so first thing, Jess, even though you just said I sound like a leprechaun. No, no, no, you gave me... You made a voice dipped. She actually said, let's be on. What she was about to say, Nicole, what happened?

Well, Jess, I just, I wanted to say that my Instagram is Nikki Bockers. N-I-K-E-R-S. And me and my husband was looking for you to come to St. Louis to the Helium. We didn't see you on the schedule. Oh, I actually will be in St. Louis, Missouri pretty soon. I will. You have to check my website. But, yeah, we just finalized the deal.

I don't know if it is the comedy club, you just said. Oh, I don't know if it's the helium, but I will be in St. Louis, Missouri. Okay, well, I mean, just in case, if you want to be nice, you know, You can hit me up on my and say, Nicole, we're going to be here and such and such. And I can show my husband, you know, just make me smile. You know you want some free tickets, Nicole. You know, so cute, Nikki. No, I don't.

No, I don't. I have paid for every show. I do not want no free tickets. I just want her to come. She don't need that kind of help. She don't need that kind of help. Nikki got money. Let her pay.

I love it. Yeah, I do have money. Trust me. I made six figures. So anyway. Talk. Yeah. And you better get the meet and greet ticket down.

Good. Good. That's what we've been trying to do. I swear, every time you couldn't have been trying to do that. You're so cute. I'm looking at your picture right now. Yeah, you're so cute. All right, I got you.

Oh, thank you. Okay, DJ Envy. Yes, ma'am. You said that you were going to try to get your car show in Dallas, but you announced a different city, so did it not work out? Because I was trying to have my sister, Katie Odie, be a vendor. Now, you know what? With Dallas, we couldn't find a venue.

All the venues in Dallas were pretty much booked up for the summer. But we were looking for a venue. We were even trying to work with the Mavericks to see if they could find me a venue. We still look at it. It won't happen this year. But hopefully we'll get in there next year. Just trying to find the right venue because we do it indoor. A lot of people do car shows outside.

We do them inside. So just in case it rains or if there's bad weather, if people bring in their cars, they know it's safe and comfortable. So we're just trying to find the right venue. It'll take a little time. We'll get down there hopefully next year. I put Mercedes-O June morning. Okay.

So if you could. If you could please clear out the DJ Envy Car Show because I'd be emailing it, but it keeps saying that it's full. It's good now. I'm sorry. So many people are registering their cars, but I'll check it today, Mama. Okay.

And if you got some venue ideas, you can send me some venue ideas as well. Like, hey, M.V. You should check this venue. Or, Envy, this is a good venue. I'll look into that too. Oh. You, sit down.

Okay. I'll do that. Okay. Okay, Charlemagne. Yes, ma'am. Now, with Black Privileged Publishing, Are you looking for a specific genre or is it whatever manuscript you read and you find, you know, that you want to publish that? That's exactly it. You know, whatever manuscript I read that I like, we want to publish.

And just people I think is interesting. Like, you know, Arsenio Hall, we put his book out, Jess O'Larias to a deaf to we parent. That's all. This is interesting. Great stories. That's all. From great people. Okay.

So I've been trying for at least two years to get my sister's book. I see's almost epic day in front of you You could just get a feel for her writing And so I'm trying again Because I am persistent And I know that my sister is at the point Where if someone who was established Would reach back and take a chance on her

They will find that her writing really is amazing And I really want to Huh? I'd love to see it. Yeah well I've been trying to get it to you I sent it to the radio station and whoever probably put it in the abyss and I'm just trying to see

you think you can get your hands on her book it's called Izzy's almost epic day we're gonna put you on hold and get you the right address so you can send it don't put her on hold because you're just gonna lie to her and you're not going to leave your address

you and have you just sitting there it's a bunch of mail in there that we haven't gone through that's actually what we should show we should show how much mail that we have because it's so it's crazy it's crazy I'm gonna be honest with you

I stopped I stopped opening mail because I got scared because one day I opened up a letter and it was a letter for Envy and this dude in jail had drew a picture of Envy naked. And he had envy naked on the front and envy necked on the back and that was crazy.

And you got scared? Yes, he had colored it in with like a what color he didn't use yellow. He used like beige. Like that white crayon. Somebody did draw a picture but I wasn't naked. It was crazy. I wasn't crazy. Oh my Lord. Okay. Okay. I just his name.

is Katie Odie. If you could have an assistant or somebody, find the package from Katie Odie. Katie Odie. Okay, we're going to look for it. Thank you so much, Mama. Thank you. Please.

Okay. We appreciate you. Yes. When you were in school, you had a stand-up desk, I can tell. I'm telling you, like, you're definitely a stand-up desk. Yeah, like, you move around too much.

What a stand-up desk mean? When the kids move around too much, they give them a stand-up desk because the kids don't like to sit. It helps them with the anxiety. The ADHD. The ADHD. Like a stand-up desk. Look at you walking around.

I'm stretching. I can't stretch you. They got them in a special needs place. I can't stretch you. I got on scratch. I got to go do my mix. I ain't mess with you. Whatever. Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-105.

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Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-105-1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hello, my name is Akisa, and I want to wish out. Shout out my daughter, a happy birthday today.

What's her name? Pisa, Keisha. Her name is Shaquana. And calling from where? Guess what? Gracious. Happy birthday. Cuanna.

Where you're up? We call it Quana. Say Quana. That's what I call. Happy birthday, Quina. Either way, she can't get an apartment with ease. It's very difficult, right? Listen, listen, her brother birthday is on the fourth.

So I'm a shout out of him a happy birthday. What's his name? Shout out, Jaquavius. His name is Leon, but I call a man. Okay, Leon. Okay. I got to just... Thank you, guys.

No problem. Leon. Yes. They call him. We call the man. And the polls, too. Jesus Christ. Go to another call up.

This man, man. Why are you making it so difficult? Answer the damn phone, man. Good morning. What's your name? All right. My name is Megan. I just wanted to say good morning to DJMV,

Jeff hilarious, and Charlemaine McGub. Good morning, Megan. Thank you. We appreciate what you calling from. Baltimore, Maryland. Marley. Hey, what's up, Shorty? What up, yes? All I wanted to get off my chest this morning was appreciation. Oh, period. Thank you to my family and friends for coming out for my birthday and making it a special one.

So, big shout out to my wife, Simone LaGree Johnson. Hey. To my best friend, Sierra, Ashley and Kimberly, thank you so much because those moments mean nothing without y'all. That's what we are. Happy related birthday, baby. That's what that. Thank you. Also, just, last thing, I'm so proud of you, girl. Keep doing what you doing. You make Baltimore look good.

I know for a fact, Avon's proud of you. I'm proud of you. Just keep doing it. Thank you. I love you. One of my old homeboys. Love you, too. Appreciate that.

Salucah, Baltimore. Baltimore is a very underrated stud capital, too. Damn, first of all, what are you talking about? It is. And you're right, and I also grew up with the Holocaust Witness too. Hey. Like you. Like you.

Like you. They're beautiful. Saloo is a lot. Thank you, Baltimore has a very great stud population. Like some of the coolest studs in the world. And we got those handsome studs. Hello, who's this? Good morning.

This is Christina. Oh, from Newport. Hey, Christina from the 7-57. What's up? I want to tell MV, can you please give my brother June 120 hours of PTO? Oh, you want them to get time off? Damn. Time off?

Yes. Nah. Can't do that. You got to work. He got to work. What? She told her call up and do that. She actually will tell her, yeah, and I am.

Nah, he got to work. That's your, that's your brother. You know he got to work. What I'm just saying, I want to get to see him during the car show. Ma'am. That's infestable. Your brother has kids? She missed up.

What? He got to work. We all got to work. Sorry, ma'am. Oh, God. That is so unfair. It is. Life is unfair, ma'am.

She missed our brother, you know. You can see him next time. We come to Virginia. That's it. You got about an hour. Good hour. And then you got to get back. back to work. This June a real sister? Yes. Oh. Wow. Well, you have a good day and maybe June

can work together. You know what's so sad about this phone call? What's that? June told her to do that. June told her, man, could you please call up Dan and tell Envy to give me some PTO? God damn, that's messed up, man. And you're not even going to take that into consideration. Hell no. That's messed up. You know how things happen when things are rolling, things are rolling. When they're not rolling, we're not rolling. We're happy that is rolling. It could be worse. It could be worse. Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1.

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Just hilarious. Salomey and the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about a story that Mimi did during front-page news about... Mimi Brown. Mimi Brown about pretty much shacking up. This ain't shacking up.

These are just people who are roommates. Yeah, just roommates. They're just trying to get it done because you look at rent. And rent can go anywhere from probably about $2,500 to $4,000 and people can't afford it. So what they're doing is they're renting out rooms where it's like you have your own room, but you're sharing a common space, which is usually the kitchen or the living room and areas like that. But people can't afford it. So you're seeing more and more and more of that. And like you said, also people are like, look.

You know, if the man can afford it, he might be able to have a couple of different girls. If a woman can afford it, have a couple of different dudes. I think that the economy is going really going to force, not forced, but, you know, make people get into more polygamous relationships. I really do. And it might be vice versa. You might have some women that's out here making enough money. And, you know, might have to have these two dudes.

Like, yo, we're going to all be one big, happy family. Yeah, and they're going to have to be all right with it. You just never know. I never had a roommate. You know what I'm saying? I mean, me and my wife have lived together, you know, even, back in the day, but I've never had a roommate. I never had a roommate either.

Well, y'all didn't go to college, but only in college I had a roommate, but outside of college, no, me neither. So what? It don't matter. We ain't ever go to college. How was that two men sharing the same toilet? It was three of them in there. Two cheeks on.

Yeah, it wasn't even just two. I was so hype talking about you went to college. You're sharing the dorm with all this. Tell me, it would, let me spin. Yeah. I don't know what college you went to, but Hampton University was a two-bedroom, two toilet. So we had our own back.

Oh, you had your own. We didn't have to share the cheeks on the same toilet. Remember when we had, remember, remember Dramos, our old board out, Dramos had a roommate and him and the dude were sharing the same toilet? No. He was grown or he was young?

Yeah, he was older. He got so mad when I was like, y'all sharing the same toilet. Y'all putting the same cheeks on this. It's the true, because if you think about it, if he got crabs and then you used the toilet after him, that crab is hanging on to that toilet, just for you.

Nah, man, forget the crab, the ass warm. When you sit on the toilet after another man and you feel that warmth And then what if you get bricked up a little bit while you say? But y'all do that every day at work Never no y'all. Y'all don't know who sit on them toilets before y'all? Nobody sit on my toilet. That is different though.

It's a little bit more intimate when y'all roommates And y'all two men sharing the same toilet, man. What did you say last hour? That's right. Give it a world. Yeah, but if it's your roommate, you kind of know his ass a little bit better than you would know a stranger's ass. No, from real. Like, you know, if you live in a person.

That's how that's how I thought. That's right there. That's why Biggie said, you know, two with no, find yourself in Syria, okay? All right. Let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? This is Will.

This is Will. This is Will. From the Bronx. From the Bronx. Bill is Will. Are you against roommates, Will, or shacking up, or having a bunch of men or even a bunch of women living with you? All right.

Now, I'm going to be honest with you out here, man. If it's, if it's like childhood friends as far as men and we grew up together, then you know we could work some out. But you know Are you a man or woman Don't take that disrespectfully I just I have a court This is a woman

You said it my girl Oh boy Yeah This is a girl I'm a dude Oh Damn I know

You just never know Yeah Oh I know I know it was a dude But I understand What just saying Because You know

Studs Studge be players too Yeah That's what she said You got the voice on I'm sorry yo Nah yeah Don't do me like that

man, come on. But, you know, I ain't against it, man. It's just sometimes when it's with friends, you know, it could be a financial issue that could mess up a relationship, a friendship. You know what I'm saying? Definitely. Thank you.

So I appreciate y'all for getting me through. I just want to shout out Sam View to Bronx and my uncle KT. Get well. All right. All right. Well, 800, 585-105-1. Mimi was from Front Page News, was talking about people are shacking up. They're living with each.

No, stop saying shacking up. Shacking up is something different. Sounds like somebody, grandma. Yeah, me and my wife used to shack up because we was a couple. We weren't married. That's what you called shacking up. These are people who are actually roommates because, you know, financially, they can't afford to rent on their own.

Like, this ain't no shacking up. Ain't no loving going on. Now, I'm trying to get the polygamy question going, but ain't nobody biting on the polygamy. Nobody wants to do that. Yeah. Well, let's open up the phone lines. What are your thoughts? It's the breakfast club.

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Call 800-585-105-1 to join in to the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envi. Jess Salari. Shalema and the Guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Navi just joining us, Mimi, during Front Page News. She was talking about how difficult it out there is out there. homeowners and she said people are having roommates living with each other so let's listen

there's a new housing survey that's raising questions this morning about roommate red flags it says that more adults in their 30s and 40s they're sharing space again because rent is just simply too high so recent data from zillow it shows living alone can cost renters more than 10,000 dollars and so people are splitting it because financially it makes sense but respondents to that survey say that they're facing issues that they thought they left behind in college like dirty dishes stacking up for days boyfriend or girlfriends that are practically moving in without paying bills and late payments that in some cases their credit is being affected because someone on the lease isn't keeping their part of the deal.

Listen, I completely get it. I know that there's a lot of people living that life. You know, I'm sure there's a lot of adults that have to have roommates because of the economy. So, I mean, I understand. Like, you got to do what you got to do until you get back on your feet, man. I don't see the problem with it. But if you got four or five roommates, right? Four or five is crazy.

I don't even know, like, what kind of place are y'all living in that y'all got four or five roommates? What I do? That's how they got afford it. Four or five? do that in New York City. Y'all be surprised how many people

are doing that in New York right now. Does a girl come back to your crib if you got that many roommates? 4 or 5 crazy. No, probably not. Nah, you can't. You shouldn't even want nobody to know you live with 4 or 5 people.

That's right. And them walls too thin. Like them walls too thin. A girl is not going to be able to get loose with 4 or 5 roommates. And God forbid you be gay. You know what? You bring a bottom back to the crib?

Like, that's just too wild, yo. What they say, Joe? It's going to be too much. No, I'm not going now. Hello, who's this? Good news from Nevel. Hey, what's up, brother? Talk to us.

What's your doors? Man, I take this. This stuff is real because I'll hear in Long Island depending on where you're at. You know, it got to cost you 50. No, you got to make 51,000 a year in order to qualify for low-income housing. In order to qualify for low-income housing,

you got to make that. Yes, you got to make at least 51,000. That's crazy. Yeah. So you got a roommate, brother? Yeah, shoot, we got to rent a room. That's the best way to do it. I tell you, that's a lot of people do that.

How many people live in your house that you live in? Pretty much just about three of us. Okay, but it's your career if you just rent the other rooms up? Yeah. Oh, no. Hell no. I'm renting from someone else. Oh, got you got to these.

Do you bring girls back over and stuff like that? No. You got to be respectful of the house. True, true, true. Oh, wow. Okay. You were in a room when you want some cheeks? Hotel.

Hotel, yeah, I said. But see, you spending money on hotels, you know what I mean? When you can be. Because he's too embarrassed to bring a girl back. Yeah, but how about it? Not embarrassed, but you just got to be respectful of the house. Yeah, I don't think that's. There's nothing to be embarrassed about it.

No, no, not to be embarrassed, but that's kicking out more bread. If he already can't afford to live on his own, you're getting hotels for cheeks. I mean, just got a point. You got to upgrade the females. Yeah, but if she got home spots who could go over. over here too. True. How much is your rent, bro?

That's what I was right. Say it depends on the type of one. Oh, no, I ain't telling that. Mm-mm. I ain't putting that out. We don't know you. We don't know you, bro. We're asking you.

What you were asking? Yeah. How much it is? Oh, yeah, yeah. How much it is? A bunch of my coworkers is listening to this. That's right. That's right.

Don't let them mess up your situation, bro. All right, man. Thank you, I. I ain't telling y'all. Ain't nobody on the line with that practice a polygamous lifestyle to save money? None of the women.

I thought we were going to get at least some women to call it. Damn. Because they'd be the first ones with it. Well, what's the moral of the story, sir? Because we don't have that on the line. That's how you know. It ain't that many people out there that's willing to do that. You're right.

The moral of the story to me is nothing. It's just like, you know, people doing what they got to do to survive. I'm not judging nobody. That's right. I think what, you know, that new survey says a lot. It says a lot about where the economy is. And, you know, people are literally doing what they got to do to get by. So I get it.

I understand. Yeah, I just always. worry about the safety issue, right? Because you don't know who you're living with. You don't know, you know, where they came from or what your intentions are. So that's the scary part about it, you know? Got mental illness and all this type of stuff. You just never know.

Be thieving. That's true. Just imagine living with Jess. Imagine living with me. It's like living in paradise, baby. Don't play with me. Don't play with me. The Breakfast Club.

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The bless us with her presence once again. Ladies and gentlemen, Jill Scott is back. Welcome. How you feeling? Thank you. How do you feel, Ms. Jeff? Excited. First album in a decade?

Ten years. That's what I hear. To whom it makes them shine. Yes, sir. By the way, I love the way you release music because it feels like you release music when you feel like you want to, when the spirit moves you. How do you know when is the right time to release music?

Because I have too much. And then it lets me relax. When it's not finished, I keep tweaking, touching, touching, tweaking, finding new flavors, seasonings, musicians, producers. And when it's done, it leaves me alone. And then I can just listen.

And I have so much that I could just listen to. I knew I was done. I was like, okay. Now I can create. I saw you talking about when you took the time off and how intentional you are with just being a mom in that time that you took off. And then explaining to your son about why you got to get back to work

and teaching him that, how has it been now that you're back out on the road and you're doing all these things and getting back into the swing? things. Well, he's 16 now. And I didn't have to explain anything to him. He knew. He was in the studio with me. You know, he's the one that suggested J.I.D. He's the one that suggested Tierra Wack.

You know, he's been a part of the whole process. So you got him working. So he's an A&R. He is. He is an A&R. Absolutely. We'll see what else he can do. Right now he's a scuba diving, cross-country, singing, writing person. All of that. Yeah, thus far.

I'm just watching to see, you know, what I could do. You know, how I can help out with the thing. Does he know how special his mom is and how powerful his mom is? Well, he loves me, you know? Like whether I do well or if I, you know, what I have or don't have, he loves me. You know, we love each other. Yeah, you're special and powerful to him in ways that we would never understand. You his mom.

I love him. I appreciate it. him. I respect him. Try to help him in any dream that he has. And I don't even know what that don't even mean. I don't know. I don't care. As long as he's happy

and he can take care of himself financially that matters to us. I'm straight. Like, he's a good person. He's so funny. He's cool. So I'm glad he suggested J.I.D. I was, we listened to him.

You know, like this is our music and kitchen. This is what Jet and I do when we have time together. And he said, Mom, why don't you call JIT? And I was like, I don't know him, Jet. And he's like, just DM him. And that's what you did? Yeah. And it's like minutes later, he texted back like, what's up, Queen, what you want? And what you want to do? And I was like, huh, well. He said, send it. And within 24 hours, he sent his verse back. And when I tell you, I asked him specifically, I said, I need you paint a picture with words. This is what I require of the emcees that I love and the emcees that I put on my projects. I need you to paint pictures. Less than 24 hours. Bars. You can see

it, you could taste it. He painted. Brilliant. So proud of him and so happy that he's on my project. So what made you put Ab Sol on Old to Nicky? Because I feel like Old to Nicky would have been such a personal record to you that you would want to keep that to yourself. What made you reach out to Ab Soul? Because Nikki Giovanni inspired writers. She inspired poets. And Absol is an ill emce. Absolutely.

He's so thought-provoking. I have to go back and listen again and again. And then I pull out books and, you know, I pick up Wikipedia or whatever, you know, to find out exactly what he's talking about because he's that thoughtful. He's that prolific. He's had quite a life experience. and it represents in his writing deeply. So when I did Old Tenicki,

she's the first poet that I ever found out about at school, black poet, black woman. And it was just awesome to see myself on paper like that. My people, my neighborhood, you know, my love on paper. So when I did Old to Nikki, she had just passed. Absul seemed like the right guy to me I mean no he sounds great on it He does sound great on it

I just wanted to know the meaning Because that's a big compliment for Absol Because we spent a lot of time talking We clicked really easily So we talked about the Celestine prophecy Like within minutes of just talking to each other And moved on from there So yeah

He was the right person for me to choose So you look so happy Like you look so glowing I've been watching your rollout right I've seen you with a DEMU and I seen you doing a lot of press and you just look and feel like a positive vibe. I feel good. I did something that I really wanted to do and it means a lot to me. And I have an opportunity to share it and perform it in front of people that will be looking at me like I look at them.

And I get a chance to travel some more and make some money, you know. But you even like even when I see you do these interviews, you're blushing. It's like it's like you're overly love it. I love it. Even when you got here this morning, you said, what time do you guys get here in the morning, but you were smiling and happy about it. Like, I love it, and I love to see artists like that,

that loved the craft. You can tell when the artist has to do something for money or when an artist has to do something because the label is requiring it or management required. Then you can tell when somebody just loves putting out music. She doesn't do anything because the label wants her to do it. I know, that's what I'm saying.

You can tell the difference. Even your rollout felt like a hug. Like, I saw you, you were from Gillian Wallow, then I saw you on Angie Martinez. Then eventually you started doing, Like you were posting like the letters on your Instagram and kind of explaining the project. And I'm like, this just feels like I'm being ushered into like a whole new like world of things. That was the plan.

Um, I have a new publicist. I think she's absolutely wonderful. Her name was Erica, uh, trucker, Tucker, forgive me. Um, I think she's fantastic. Um, but we had a whole other idea like two days before we started doing the rollout. Two days before I just was like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. we're talking about beautiful people if we're going to put beautiful people out

as an introduction to the album because really that's who I'm calling I'm calling the people that that light up from the inside you know that that love love yeah love love love that are again

financially respectful to their lives make sense okay and so if that's the intention is this is the call out well let me represent the people

that have been so beautiful in helping me with this project you know it's all been organic I met a guy at a party he was like I'm two shorts engineer and I was like I believe you

that record the church gonna be mad at you oh yeah possibly that's like part two of a drusky skit possibly It's a church in the education system too, though, right? Could you mention education in there as well? Yes, and the pharmaceutical. Yes, big pharma.

Yeah. You ain't lied, though. I know. You didn't lie. And even just the choice to go get too short to come on there and describe pimping. The mentality of a pimp. What is it? So we're clear.

I'm not saying anything. I'm not trying to be mean to you. What I want to be mean to somebody for? That's not it. is what it is. Right. This is what it is. And I have a thoroughbred pimp to tell you so.

It feels like, um, like the player's ball. It feels like it's pymphy. It's, uh, faila. It's like revolutionary at the same time. And I was like, yeah, okay, what am I going to talk about? This is what I want to say. I say, preacher, man. What you're trying to do?

Trying to get this money. Is that all you do? When mama ain't got squat But you take that toe When you ain't good for the people I ain't moved Where's the universities Where's all the food for free

People can't pay the bells But you're still riding around In the coop de ville Biggest pimper the year Uh-huh All right we got more with Jill Scott When we come back Don't move is the Breakfast Club good morning

Good morning. I'm hilarious. Charlamagne de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRose is here as well. We're still kicking it with Jill Scott. So if everything's a sign, do you ever see a sign that says, I'm not going in that direction? I'm not going there.

Or management, let's not do that because that does not feel right. It's not as easy. It's abrupt. It's harsh. It's a jerk back. And I haven't really, I don't know how to, like, navigate that part yet. But I will get away. I will get away

I've learned that too when the spirit says no when your whole energy says no what are you doing don't talk to this person I remember talking to somebody at a party and I was like why you got COVID

all in my face and I got COVID I was like see girl everything makes so much sense now because you know one of my favorite records on the album is pay you on Tuesday, right? And it's so funny because my niece

had put out a tweet yesterday and she put a few young black and gifted, get away from niggas and b-a-shapp, right? And I just thought that was hilarious. And then I heard pay you on Tuesday, but now I'm like, oh, she's staying away from the poor me energy type. I mean, now that I hear you talk about the book so much, I'm like, oh, that's why she wrote that record.

Part of it. Part of it, yeah. Part of it. And I know I keep saying financial, but I am really over us spending and buying things that we can't afford for who, for what? It's so many things to do, to taste, to see, places to be. Like, I just, I'm, I just don't see how it profits us.

To, you know, I like nice stuff too. I really do. But I buy the stuff that I can afford. And somebody else was like, you could afford. You don't know what I could afford. And you don't know what I want. But you at your wage. I do. I do. I do. I think it's a wise decision. I save properly. I invest. I really want to switch out of this poverty mindset or the lacking mindset of some, you know, my family break away from these things. I'm not interested in doing that anymore. I want to grow and I want to make a whole lot of money, like a whole lot. And I'm going to do great things.

with it. Enjoy it. I already do. Enjoy the money I have. I do dope it on the regular. I really do. It's been so nice. Oh my God.

You know my son went to Tanzania to get his school for certification? Wow. That's amazing. That's so flying. Tanzania is beautiful.

I was like, I've never been. I went to Zanzibar and Tanzania. I've never been, but he has, like, yes. But that's the most important thing, right? when we get to a place where it's like

none of this matters. You just want your kids to be happy. Whatever it takes to be happy. I tell my daughter my son, I don't care what you do. If you want to do nails, if you want to do hair, if you want to do sanitation, as long as you're happy, life is too short. Joyful. Happy is fleeting.

Joyful. Joyful. Look for it. That's an insight as well. To constantly look for the joy. Taste the food. Taste it. Feel the water. It's nice.

And it sparks creativity. But I can't afford to eat that, Jill, and I can't afford to go there to swim in that water. So can you loan me something? Let me give tips out of real quick. I've learned this. If someone wants to borrow something for me, you give them a job.

Word. If they do the job and do the job well, then you're showing me something. I'm going to give you a small reimbursement contract. I'm going to say, $25 a month. Fair? Yes. You don't pay the $25.

I don't know how when it's going to stop. It's going to stop if you're consistent. If you're consistent. If you're not consistent, you never have to worry about me again. You never have to ask me anything again. Because this was a contract. It didn't have any interest. This was respect.

So I enjoy helping people, but I have to see what they want. I have to see what they're doing. wing. I got to see something. You got to show me something. You can't just tell me a dream. Okay. Listen. And you're there for heart-wrenching knockout. The world's biggest stage. And breathtaking triumph. In 2026, FIFA World Cup, the knockout stage. Every match, every moment. Listen on TSN radio.

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Many surprises. Welcome to Sweet 305 where the group chat comes to life. What a f***. It's like a way to say like, Oh, my God, my God, oh my brother. Look, never I've ever had to with nobody.

Except with my kids, my kids, my mom. Oof That's incredible, yeah, the telenovela. You're the only person I know that loves a yellow starburst. It's a woman.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When did you get to that point in your life? Because I saw you talking to Angie Martinez about that, right, and setting these boundaries. But then I also hear you talk a lot about, like, you carry so much for your family for a long time because you were trying to, like, y'all were trying to get out of the situations

that you guys were in. I think that there's like a, sometimes there's like this tug of war of like I'm able to help so I want to help but at the same time I got to set these boundaries when did Jill Scott say I didn't did enough I got to stop this now now something had to happen I turned 50 and the light popped on again yeah that's what happened time creates wisdom you know if you're paying attention if you're not paying attention it just creates age but yeah I've been paying attention and I know that that doesn't make me feel good to watch people do things that are outside of their particular space financial space like going on a cruise okay you're going on a cruise but you didn't pay the mortgage I can't help you with that I can't and the fact that you would ask me to is ridiculous you made a choice.

That is your choice. It wasn't like something happened. Like, you know, the car broke down or, you know, the tuition is behind or it's nothing like that. And even if tuition is behind, how are them grades? How are they doing? What activities are they in? Because it's mine.

And I can share with you as I seem fit and deemed fit. It might seem harsh, but I don't know. It feels right to me. feel better. I don't feel way down by people's stuff. I don't think that's harsh. And also, what about when you give somebody money for mortgage, but then you go see them on a cruise after they

just ask you for money for me? I didn't get invited to the cruise. What is n-h-bloos to you? That's his favorite song. By the way. It's called Pay You on Tuesday. I have a lot of I got a lot of favorite record, but that record was hit for me

yesterday in a real way. I got a lot of favorite record on that album, but that one really It was okay. Music is medicinal. It'll hit you when you need it. So what do you mean by? Like what does it do for you? Man, for me, it just put things in perspective based off what you're saying

because you're saying a lot of that throughout the song as you're singing. But it's also like, I don't want no more n-a-blood. Stop putting your problems on me. I can wake up in the morning and be good. And then by the end of the week, I'm feeling way down. And then when you realize why you're way down, it's because you're trying to help everybody else with day shit. I don't want no more.

It's exhausting. Yes. It's exhausting. I love to inspire. I want people to do better. But if they don't want it, what am I supposed to do? Just keep pouring into an empty well? I can't do it.

The things that you do don't benefit you. So why do I have to? Damn. That's a bar. All right. We got more with Jill Scott. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The DJ's hilarious. Sholomey the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa's here as well. We're still kicking it with Jill Scott. Sholomey? I wonder when you do records like pressure, when you do records like me for,

is that, when you do the actual record, is that when the closure comes, or do you have closure before in order to do the record? I've never thought about it. I don't know if I'm, I'm looking for closure necessarily. I need to say it. Mm-hmm. I need to say it.

It is true. I need to get it out. I think that's how I feel about that. Yeah. And then when I listen to it, it becomes an affirmation for me because I've said it. And I was like, yeah, you said that. Because that's what it is. That's exactly what it is.

Yeah. You ever went too far? I was like, let me take this out. Man, many, many times. Really? Many times. Many times. I typically write the thing before I get into the studio so I can find how it feels when I get in there.

or I already know how I feels. It wasn't something, I don't know if I necessarily went too far. Let me be clear. I just said some shit I probably shouldn't have said. That might be too far, but go ahead. I don't know. It was the right thing.

And when I listened to it, I'm like, yep, that's right. You know, that was real there. But I probably shouldn't have shared it. You went hard on this album. Oh, yeah, I did. Hey, you say you married a bitch. Yeah.

That's like, that's pretty, that's pretty far as I want to know what went down. Can you go farther than that? I mean, that's pretty self-explanatory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think I just needed to get stuff out to, you know, music is healing for the artist as well, supposed to be. What's the moral compass with that? Is it yourself saying now?

Is it your son? Is it your homies? I haven't had that. It didn't come up. Nobody said anything. You know, and my son listens to everything. And we talk about. everything.

Yeah, so it didn't come. Nobody said, hey, you probably shouldn't say that. Nobody did. And I don't know if I would agree or disagree about it. Did you see how everybody's going crazy about squeezing my meat? It's a song called Don't Play. Yeah, right? But I didn't see people going crazy.

Oh, boy, I did. They were like, squeeze my meat. And I was like, she says, squeeze my meat. She was like, screams, Bob, wait. And I was like, I did. They're not used to that from you yet at this point. It's a new generation of people who just be on Twitter. I'm just, I'm just confused.

Maybe you all can help me out here, because I would love to know. I've heard lyrics that. Oh, way worse. Slob on my n-h. Like corn on the cob? They're singing about eating that. Now, Jill? I heard.

Yes, I heard. I heard. I heard. I listen to a lot of music. and because I listen to a lot of music I was just like what exactly is so radical about squeeze my meat?

They're not real Jill Scott fans then but besides being a fan or not like what's radical about that? I just thought I'm missing something. Probably the way you sung it when you sing it with such you know because it sounds amazing so you might be just randomly finding yourself singing it even as a guy.

You know what I mean? I also think it's too like with the new generation they get it different. ways. Like, I never said it. Yeah, go ahead. Is it that you're saying? I'm sure I will at some point, the end of the spirit of more me and I'll just be coming

around the corner, squeeze my meat. You better never sing that if you were in the bathroom with me, bro. I'm just saying that might can happen, that's all. I think it's the fact that you gotta say squeeze. Like I think they said it was, they was deeming the big ariola music. I heard that too. Yeah. I was like, well, okay.

Yeah, they said, because basically if you don't know what to do with it, don't come over here. That's the conversation. And I think it's just right now in music, you either get stuff like that very straightforward to the point where it's not sensual. And that has always been you to be able to communicate those type of things in a very unique way, right? But there is a new generation of like creators and artists who are listening to this and discovering your ability for the first time.

And they just think it's so powerful and forward. And I'm like, welcome. That's what I'm talking about. People like that. That's what I hate people that. I don't want to catch up with you. Okay? Like, we over here celebrating Jill Scott because of who Joe Scott is what always has been.

I don't have time to explain to you the greatness of Jill Scott. You know, catch up in your own time. Fair enough. They'll get there. Catch up in your own time. Right. I got to explain it. They'll get there.

Life will happen. And then there I'll be your loving 90 with so many stories to tell. So many life experiences to share. So many lessons learned. So much music. My last question When it's all said and done What does peace look like

For Jill Scott And did this album Bring you closer To whatever that is Life is bringing me closer To my piece And My kid

Doing well for himself And my mother Living So comfortably And she's happy My private My personal life is solid.

I love my home. I love my friends. I have beautiful friends, y'all. You would fuck with them. Anybody would. Like, they're so dope. So many levels of it. There's not a lot of them,

but they're powerful. I'm, I'm, you know, you say you're happy, you say it joyful, and people get upset about it. I feel sorry for that,

for you. People are upset about it. you're saying it? People are upset about other people feeling joy and being happy. Yes. They do it all the time. I see it. Yes. Yeah. I don't know what it is. I don't care what it is. It's not my bag to carry. I'm going to let this little light of mine shine. And that light will irritate some demons and others. You see what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I have a force field. I put it on. It goes under my feet above my head. Anytime I think about it or I just put my force field on and I walk through my life. We're superheroes. We can do really anything we want, anything we can imagine.

You just need the power to do it. The power is love. The power is sincere friendships. The power is guidance. My mentor is outside somewhere. Like having that is, is anybody can attain it. Anybody. At any time, in any state of their life, can get all of the things.

My mentor sometimes, life will be a little stressful. She'll come in, swinging, swinging, like boys in the hood, swinging. She'll kick. It's a physical manifestation of a spiritual thing. She's fighting off whatever can't happen. And then she says, woo! And I love that. I want to you know I'm like damn

I'm really like I got everything I asked for I got everything I ask for I'm brave God amen oh my God oh my God everything wow it's okay feel that

that's what I've been feeling all interview I'm like something she there's a feeling here. I just don't know what it is. But I'm so glad that you in this space. You deserve it. You worked hard. Ma'am. For a long time. You've been literally like the Jill Scott my whole life. I'm 34.

I just want you to know what you mean to so many people. Like I hope you know that we really love you and we value you. We appreciate you. And even you putting out new music means so much. Like this is an event. Like, oh my God, Jill Scott putting up putting out new music. Like that matters. A lot of people

that put out music, I can take it leave it. Some people put out music, the world stops for me. That's right. And that is what you're doing. But to whom they make a sir? I'm going to have to take a nap. Ladies and gentlemen, Jill Scott.

The album is out today. Make sure you're making a series out right now. We appreciate you so much. I hope you get that nap. Yeah. Yeah. You get me. That's divine. Go get that nap. You deserve it. Your soul deserves it. Oh, my goodness. Here we go.

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Hey, I'm Hoda Kotby, host of the podcast, Joy 101 with Hoda Kotby. Okay, if you know me, you know this. I'm always searching for inspiration, for support, and useful tools to help maximize joy. So this podcast lets us uncover all of that together. We're going to have these meaningful conversations. with the world's most fascinating people. Like when actress Olivia Munn shared how she overcame fierce health challenges that she never saw coming.

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We just have to find it. Listen to Joy 101 with Hoda Kotby on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My first guest is Harris Hilton, Shakira, Luke and Yerrin, Samira and Gracie. I'm so excited.

On the bouncy bed. You have surprises? Many surprises. Welcome to Sweet 305, where the group chat comes to life. What a f***. It's like a bit. like, oh my name, oh, my

girl, hello, my brother. What are the . Look, never I've ever had to have to be able to have with my my children, my children, I'm saying.

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disgraced real estate attorney, Brian McKenna, He's 62 years old and he's going to prison for up to six years. Why? What do men usually risk it all for? That poom-pum, okay, that kitty, that undercarriage, that cookie, that penis fly trap. Yes, Brian McKenna is being accused of stealing $4.4 million intended for COVID protective gear. Allegedly, the fund a romance with his den girlfriend. Oh, the power of the P-U-S, I can't spell the rest.

Would you like to hear his reaction in the court? Let's listen. I did these crimes and I deserve to go to jail. I don't know what else to say for myself. All right. Mr. McKenna, I understand. I really appreciate you taking full responsibility, but ultimately, sir. Thank you.

All right. Now, there are so many things that discuss me about this story. Number one, you stole all this money from people who needed it, okay? Folks needed that COVID protective gear during COVID, and you just stole it. Okay? Uh, you just stole it. the money for it. A man who didn't need it. Okay, you're a lawyer. You're 62 years old, Brian, so you were in your 50s when you came up with this scam because what? COVID was,

COVID was six years ago? Okay, I don't understand people who literally have the world in their hand. You have worked hard to become an attorney in this country, okay? You more than a lot of people understand the process of life. You understand life is a process, okay? Becoming a lawyer takes at least seven years of full-time higher education in this country, all right? Four years for a bachelor's degree, three years of law school, you have to pass the bar exam they got a baby bar and the big bar. My point is, it's not easy. And nothing in life worth having

ever is, but for some reason, you thought you could cut the line. You thought you could take a $4.4 million dollar shortcut all to impress a woman who already has her own money. He was dating the then-CEO of Aston's group. Her name was

Duney Zeney. Okay, that's according to the New York Post. I don't know. how much she was making, but if she was the CEO of a company, she was touching some paper. So I don't know why you went out of your way, Brian, to impress her. And I don't even like that phrase, fund a romance. You don't fund a romance. Romance happens because of physical attraction, emotional connection, situational factors, okay? Y'all might just match energies, all right?

You like the same things, share the same beliefs. And let's not forget the most important part, reciprocal liking. Okay? like me. I like you. Romance can't be funded. Now you can go buy some pink taco with some money. All right. Go to Nevada pull up in certain counties at a brothel and you can purchase as much as that Harry Potter as you want. But funding a romance? No, no, no, no. I don't even want no romance that's funded because there's no such thing. You can't buy a love fool. Now, Brian was in the courtroom crying his ass off. I want you to hear this again, man. Just listen. I did these crimes.

I deserve to go to jail. I don't know what I was to say for myself. I'm sorry. I understand. I really appreciate you taking full responsibility. But ultimately, sir. All right. Ultimately what? Ultimately what? He is going to jail for six years.

I respect that he's holding himself accountable. Okay, he said he did these crimes. He said he deserves to go to jail. Now, his defense lawyer, Eric Franz, claimed to the court that Brian had run into financial struggles and that he was just trying to help his family with the stolen funds. But assistant DA Jonathan Borrell

alleged that Brian stole the money to spend on himself and his gal pal, Duney Zaneh. Listen, neither one of those are valid reasons. So many people are having financial struggles. And sadly, they don't have the luxury of resorting the crime to get it.

Okay? And you, Brian, were in a privileged position already. Not just a privileged position to get money because you were a lawyer, you know what I'm saying? But also a Manhattan real estate attorney should be able to get his hands on some happy clam.

But no, instead you got to guard your balloon Not for the next six years in somebody's prison Okay, probably get ass warts And for what? The moral of the story is Life is a matter of choices And every choice you make makes you Please give Brian McKenna

The sweetest he The sweet sounds of the hamletones That's what I want I had to think about it Oh the donkey Of the dead The door I started to say

give Brian McKenna a Swedish he-haw. But that sounds like something you can purchase. It sounds like something like a brothel in the bottom. All right. A Swedish he-ha. Don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. The breakfast club.

Morning everybody. It's DJ. InVee, Jess hilarious. Sholameen the guy. We are the breakfast club. Longlero is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. The legend.

Syracic the entertainer. Welcome back. Good morning. Good morning. How you feeling? What's up? Good, man. All is well.

Can you complain. Good to see you. Good. Great scene. Jess, what's up? Everybody, man. The first thing Cedric said when he walked in is, you know, today is bring your kids to work. He said, y'all ain't bring your kids.

Oh, no. You didn't see no black kids running out. I see no black kids running out of here with hot Cheetos and everything. It's just tearing up everything. Like, no, no, it was a bunch of little white kids on the elevator, though. I was like, okay. It was like, and they had on their little quarter zips and everybody looked like, they're looking like little business people.

I thought, okay. I was expecting if you got like How many kids I got six I got six Yeah it would have been crowded in here

How do you guys Full? Yeah so that's I got two Okay See that's That's American Right there

Yeah That's a Mexican Well she's gonna change Shut off She might be pregnant right now Yeah that's so true Anyway Black Americans

Anyway Yeah How you feeling though I'm feeling good Man Been in the city chilling man I've been

you know, here doing Broadway, so I've been like here through the blizzards and now the weather's starting to break a little bit. But it changes like from day to day, though. That's what you're killing me. New York was like, and one day you had your little nice little shirt, short sleeve on and by the time the night come.

You need a cut. Put a make on. Yeah, crazy. I mean, scarfed up, barring people clothes. I'm like, let me get that jacket from you. So what got you back in the Broadway? Between all the, you know, the comedy specials, you being on the road, the movies,

what made you say? You know what? Let me sit down for a minute and just focus on Broadway. This was a good transition, man. You know, after doing a sitcom for eight seasons, so, you know, we did the neighborhood. It wrapped up. And eight season, that's a blessing, man. But, you know, I wanted to do something different. I didn't really want to be another TV dad or just kind of go straight to that.

And the opportunity to do Broadway was going to be, you know, just one of these places where you get to try your real acting chops. You're on this stage. Once they's, once the lights come up, you out there, you know, this is, you know, this is the dojo. for real actors. It's where they go to work and get stronger. And so it was a blessing, man. I ran into Debbie Allen last year. I come to see Othello and saw Denzel

and knew he was doing all these August Wilson plays. Just kind of, you know, spoke it into existence, really manifested it. So then I saw Debbie Allen and she called me. And, you know, it was just, it lined up perfectly. The timing from when we were rapping the neighborhood to when they was going to start this was perfect so it's been and it's been great man it's been a great transition I want you

want you to come see it if anybody you know is it's good is it's a musical no no this is August Wilson's Joe Turner's coming gone this ain't no play play play play this is a sacred ground right here yeah August Wilson was a great American African American playwright

great playwright period though but he's got you know shows like fences and Ma Ramey's Black Bottom and all these women and Denzel is as committed to do all of them as a film. So he'll do the plays

and then they'll make a movie out of it. So that's been that's been a blessing but no, it's serious work and then, you know,

Taraji's co-starring and we got Ruben Santiago Hudson and Joshua Boone there's some dope people in his back. When you think about this playwright

coming on, did you feel pressure walking into that legacy or did you walk in like I'm Saturday entertained. I got it. No, man.

I mean, you know, it's one of those things that you know, you definitely don't want to take, you know, for granted, like, you know, just your fame is going to work in this space, right? Because this is, like, sincere Broadway, you know, it's the big time. You're on the floor seats of acting as far as what, you know, what the world sees, right? And so, you know, you got to come in there and hold it down.

And you know that there's other, like, Tony Award winning people into play, including, you know, working for Debbie Allen, you know, she ain't ready to play no games. So it's just, it was the one where I wanted to be prepared. And I came in after doing the neighborhood. So I literally finished the neighborhood on Tuesday and had to be here Sunday. And so I felt like I was behind. Like, you know, actors was kind of off book already. And I'm still in there, like in rehearsals. Like, so I was a little nervous for a while.

But Debbie, she just got me. She was like, look, you good. Just keep working. Keep working. We got the time. Just keep working. You're good. I was like, I, because it is intimidating.

And you do feel like, you know, all these, you know, high-level actors, like being in the scene with Denzel or somebody, you know, you'd be like, what am I going to be able to really hold this down, you know what I'm saying? So, but I trust it, though, you know. How do you get somebody to feel something serious, though, say? As soon as you walk on stage, I might just laugh because it's said. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

It's a deposition. It is. Deposition. You got a disposition. You got a deposition. Yeah, you put you on the deposition. You got a deposition. Let me talk to my lawyer.

Your disposition is just funny when you walk in a room. It's so true though, man, and I think, you know, that kind of happens, too, with the audience, like, you know, right away when they see me, it's this idea that. And, you know, and so Debbie actually encouraged it. So I don't play away from the fact that I make people laugh, but the character is this sincere guy, you know, Seth Holly, He owns a boarding house in 1911.

So all the people are kind of the great migration. People are coming up from the south, coming north. We're in Pittsburgh. And it's about people come and transition and trying to find their life, find their footing, find where they're going. And so I own this boarding house. So I just played them as like one of them, OG, you know, uncle, grandfather. And they're funny, even though they're serious. So once you see me, you guys.

like lock into the role, you'll understand the serious parts and then you'll get, but I kind of did that in Barbershop too. Like it's moments in the barbershop movie where I'm really sincere and you can believe it. And then as opposed to like the moments

where I'm just telling jokes. So this is more of that. It's more like the sincere of the character, but I have an opportunity to be myself and to let people laugh. And I didn't get to do that in the American Buffalo the first time I did Broadway. It was all serious.

It was David Mamman. And I remember my, audience would want to laugh at things that wasn't funny, but they just needed that release because it was me. They were like, that's crazy. You'd be like, I didn't say nothing funny. How's the schedule? Does the schedule, you know?

Because, I mean, you're doing what, eight shows a week? Eight shows a week. You do one Tuesday, two Wednesday, one Thursday, one Friday, two Saturday, one Sunday. So it's a grind. You got one day off. So Monday, Mondays is the only day off and you've got to

try to get it all in, whatever. You know, relaxation, your bills pay, your doctor visits, everything got to happen on that Monday. So you have to rest your voice. Yeah, you got to rest, yeah, because I mean, when you're doing these shows, you know, you do have to project. They have you miced up a little bit. I think it's more and, you know, more modern than it used to be the old way where you had to

like project everywhere, but you are mic'd up, but still is important to let the back of that theater hear your voice, right? And so you can't really count on the microphone. So it is an opportunity. So we do all these little warm-up exercises. and stuff like that to kind of keep yourself where you know where you let people hear you I got a good voice though I got like a natural kind of big big voice so that I just you know I got that St. Louis so sometimes people don't understand what I'm saying I guess yeah you could

have did radio or you could have been in a group with Gerald Alberta somebody oh man written all over your face you don't have to say a word you don't have to say a word Don't happen. All right, we got more with Cedric the entertainer. When we come back, don't move. It's the breakfast club a morning. We just hilarious. Salomey and the guy.

We are the breakfast club. We're still kicking it with Cedric the entertainer. Is it true that Michael Jordan made you quick gamut? No, I just lost money playing with him playing golf one time. You know, but this MJ, like, you know, he'll gamble on anything. So I'm just trying to, you know, be a, um, I'm trying to be, um, I'm trying to, be in the game, you know, just play in the, I bet

$1,000 a hole and lost every hole. You lost every hole? Every hole. Oh, God damn, said. That was crazy. $3,000 is a lesson learned. And he wanted his money? He wanted his money? Because he's a billionaire, so, you know. No, no. You gamble, you got to pay. MJ ain't playing like that.

When you lose a hole, do you be like, ouch? Like, what do you do? Pause, man. Not that type of hole, man. Cut it out. That's wild. You'd be like, out of $1,000? Every hole. Well, you be thinking you're gonna win one of them, you know.

Do you play golf? Mm-hmm. You didn't win nothing? No. But you gotta know, you gotta act your wage too, but you know, and you try to get favors, you like, hey, give me four strokes and so. Give me three fours.

God, damn, say, oh, gee, please. Yeah, yes. That was great. Please, oh, gee. That was just a great. Yeah, man. This is gone, man. Man, you realize how,

Darren you trip off how golf's down actually You had to watch. Hey, give you that stick out the bag. Hey, worry. How many strokes you got in this way? I'm gonna get it in the hole. Hey, man. I keep losing my balls, boy.

Bam, like a lot. That's a lot. I didn't realize. You didn't even notice that until being a favorite being. No, man, that's pretty stuff, man. Everybody's going to be playing golf. Like, whoa, buddy. That's a lot, man.

You know, it's funny because you just, You talk about the money you're not making with Broadway. But I don't know if we understand what you just did with the neighborhood. No. Eight seasons. Right. 156 episodes. I think the last episode is next month, right?

Yeah, the last episodes will come on next month. Yeah. I think the last few. And, man, it was, that's a blessing because, you know, like I did, we did five seasons on Steve Harvey, five seasons on Soul Man. And then eight on the neighborhood. Respect to all of those sitcoms, this is a little different. No, this is.

It's CBS. No, that's a, yeah. You're going to be a syndication forever, say. And it's one of those things that, you know, we had a great time doing the show. I mean, you know, of course, Tashina Arnold, legendary. Every show she's been on being crazy. Max Greenfield, amazing, Beth Bear. The whole cast was just dope.

And we enjoyed each other so much, man. So it was one of those shows you really didn't want to see come to an end. But, you know, you all. so get it too. Like, sometimes it's just like, all right, cool. But we felt like we could have told more stories forever. Like, you know, had a great writing staff.

I thought that was supposed to be a playing spin-off, no? We had two. That didn't work. We did. We spent off with Tracy Morgan. We had to show Crutch that was going to be on Paramount Plus. We shot eight of those with Tracy as the New York version of my character. Like, it was dope with his adult kids moved back home.

And then we had, we shot one. with the boys, my two sons, where they had their own life and they decided not to go forward with it. And so it was one of those things that we did like, you know, really economically, you know, it was like trying to do something for a budget because it was doing that time when CBS was up for sale and it was all that, you know, lawsuits and the president was suing them. It was crazy, man. So, you know, they just didn't, they were really nervous about moving forward on anything

like that, you know, where it was going to cost them money. so it was one of them kind of situations where the politics of it I feel like hurt that but this show should have had the spinoff like when you think about a show that's successful in eight years they should it should have been at least another show that ran for a while and we tried a couple of different versions but it never worked so like big bang theory yeah they're young children and they're doing something after young cheldon like you know so there's a couple of them that kind of spin like that but you know it's been the the The execs over on the CBS side been great, man.

We've been having, you know, we went to talk trying to figure out something else to do. You know, I want to ask you, like, you're a comedian, right? And there's certain things. I know comedians want to check off their list. Having a hit sitcom is one of them. Yeah, man. When you look at the neighborhood, you say yourself, you say to yourself, man, I did that. Oh, for show, man, definitely.

And, you know, I was able to executive produce it and being, you know, and be in control. Like, I was able to, like, be in control of the show. Like, I can say what happened and what didn't go and all these kind of things. and part of casting and all that. So I definitely feel like, you know, we checked that box, you know, and really feel great about the show, like how it represents, you know,

definitely a lot of aunties. And, you know, I mean, it's captured more and more because it's like, what's that, traditional television? Yeah, linear. Yeah, it don't get quite, like, I didn't feel it like when it was on, like you'd get that love, like, back, say, with Fresh Prince and everything.

These were the only shows you watch. But now we kind of got, like, you know, we got, like, and streaming and all these things that the neighborhood felt like, man, it's popular, but it didn't feel like when you walk out, you get that crazy love. But now, in syndication, it is. It's crazy because when I did the view yesterday the other day, they mentioned the neighborhood and the crowd screamed.

It just caught me off guard because, like, you know, when I walk around, you know, it's a degree of, like, you know, everybody's been knowing me for their whole life. Like, and so I realized, like, you know, it's a degree of, like, you know, Man, I've been around a long time, but it's that idea of the show being so popular. That is a different kind of, you know, I guess that ear that you hear when people are like, oh, man, no, that's one of my favorite shows. I like that. So I'm glad that, you know, that syndication kind of got it to more people's homes

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Charlemagne Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking with Cedric, the entertainer. He's starring in Joe Turner's Come and Gone Broadway play, Charlemagne. I said, you did it right, man. Yeah. Whole career, you just done everything the right way. Yeah, man, just keep it simple.

You know, I really, I really, feel blessed by that part of it, man. They just really just kind of stay steady, stay grinding, you know, stay humble, and just go get it. Like, I don't even worry about like the ups and downs of it, you know, because you'll have moments in your career

where you up, you know, and it's super up. But then, you know, but in general, I like to entertain people and I like, you know, so I was looking out there, I was like, man, I got a book too. And I was looking at it because y'all got all, everybody's books. I was like, now I ain't come up here for my book, though. I think it was like a year ago. I don't think I

came to promote my book. So I was like, man, I need to get my book in y'all library, man. Like, everybody's book was out there. But, you know, like all the things you get to do in this life and this career has been, being super blessed, man. So I like it. I like that, you know, I like that spirit of that being, you know, we, we've talked about this one time. We used to get a little more controversial than I am, but in general, a good dude, like good people. I like, I like, let me not put myself too close. I'm like, let me not put myself too close. Like, yeah, like, he said, nah, no, no, no.

Like, when you, when you do it, like, just, like, events and stuff, you know, you got like, Charlamagne, a little solid dude, man. Like, you know, but then you realized, like, you would look online, they would be like, people be mad at him, man. I'm like, man, that's all the man. I'm like, man, what do?

I was like, I was like, you did come up here for your book, though. They did? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it ain't in the library. Well, I love seeing comedians. I see more and more comedians working with each other.

We'll get it up here. It's probably, it's probably. I've seen it recently. It's probably. I was going to say I love to see comedians working with each other. I feel like there's a shift where at one time it was like everybody was going at each other, but now I see more and more comedians getting together going out on the road. Do you notice that as well?

Yeah, man. I mean, I really like that too, man. Because when I come from, that's where it really what it was. Like we all like just kind of rocked together. Of course, you know, Kings of Comedy is one of the more kind of famous. versions of that. But even like right after Def Jam, when Dev Jam first blew,

that's how we went out and got bigger. Like everybody was on these big tours and you could mix and match and people. And I did it with Comic View. After I host a Comic View, we used to do a tour and put everybody out there and we just go and have fun. And it's great to see

comics just out there working together and having a good time. And so it's a lot of like a lot of love in general. Like, you know, you have one or two, like, you know, gunfights in the, in the comedy business or whatever, but I don't even think they be, you know, it's just, it's just the sign of the times, I think, you know, where people just be won clicks and they just say wild stuff. And then, you know, you see somebody in person, they be, hey, man. Yeah. Right.

Is that Kings of Comedy, too? Are they doing a Kings of Comedy Two? And can you do a Kings of Comedy, too? We are talking about it. You know, you know, it's, you know, I taught to Steve and DL the other day. We all, we had to offer it. And so now we're just trying to figure out if that's going to make sense and why, you know, how, why, how we do it right now. You know, big, a hole to feel, though, Bernie.

Yeah, well, you know, we definitely going to do something with Bernie in there. I don't know how exactly we're going to figure it out, but we're not leaving Bernie out of it. We already talked to the family and stuff on how we're going to make sure that that you're a part of this situation, too. and then, you know, it's a lot of, you know, it may be that idea like how you put somebody on next. There's a lot of like these guys out here that's like hiding. You'd be like, all, cool, how we pass that torch and say, what's next, right?

You know what I'm saying? And maybe do it like that with, you know, us doing like smaller sets and, you know, I don't know. We're going to figure it out, but we like the idea of knowing that it was such a big brand and we all out here still doing it. And, you know, we might as well, might as well have some fun.

with it. Who do you see? This is my last question. Who do you see out here now that reminds you of you? Man. I got somebody in, man, but I want to know if you do what you do.

More like me, I don't know. I mean, he actually can call his own lane more than anything, but I probably would say L'Rell like his, but he ain't kind of been his own thing for a long time now, but like he was in that space.

And then, I don't know, man. Like, this is kind of like, just like dib and dab and do a little bit of everything. Like, I don't know who you're there. But me, just on a straight comedy level, Chico B. Oh, Chico, man. I see, I see you, I see, I don't know why I just, y'all,

like that could be your son or something. Chico, Chico, how do you do that? I love this last clip he got away, he's doing the Oakland dudes up there. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, Chico, yeah, he'd be, he'd be swagged up. Yep, you know, he, yeah. I love all them dudes, though, man.

They're my guys, man, like, all Carlos, D.C. Youngfly, all them guys. and Clayton, all them. You know, them guys, it's fun, man. And they all, they all, like, just tight comedians and good at what they do. But, yeah, Chico, Chico is definitely fired with it, man, and a lot of fun. We did some shows together. Yeah, he's cool, dude.

Yeah. I like a lot of these guys, man. I like, I like the kid Mojo Brooks, too. I like him a lot. I like Ronnie Jordan. I like a lot of these guys. They make me laugh. Oh, Ronnie.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ronnie is stupid. Yeah. No, no, no, no. He, you know, yeah, and then, yeah, so, man, it's been fun, but, you know, in there. Ronnie, a good actor, too.

You ever see him in gas station pills? He's hilarious. Man, it's a show called. It's a show called I got a story to tell on Tooby. Okay. And he played a gas station attendant that's selling gas station pills. Oh, my God, man. That's so funny.

Ronnie is hilarious. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he did, it was funny because he did this corporate event, not too long ago I was at. It knew it was hard, like the audience was hard. for him, but Ronnie was just, like, steady. So, you know, for comedians, you know, when a comic just, like, drive through it, we, you know, I'm dying over there.

I'm like, man, because he's just driving through. He's like, I ain't true. You know, y'all. Like, y'all, you know, I understand. But I'm like, rah, rah, rah. He's just murdering. I'm like, man, I said, well, you crazy, man. Because that's where the comic is.

Like, sometimes it just ain't going to be your room, but you just like, look, I ain't thinking about y'all, man. This joke funny. All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, Sederk the Entertainment, you can check him on Broadway. Joe Turner's come and gone. I'm coming to see it.

Yeah, yeah, definitely. All right. Well, we appreciate you for joining us, brother. Thank you, man. Thank you, man. Sedric the entertainer. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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She is the founder of Carviva beverages, a plant-based wellness beverage company rooted in traditional Chinese medicine and nutrition. Dr. Angela Zangis here. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. It's such a great honor and I follow you. show for a few years already.

Love all your topics, but it's so cool. It's still. Thank you. Yeah. Now, you are the founder of Carviva beverages. Tell us what that is. Oh, yeah. Carviva. I found this line, well, it's basically we've been on the market for

nine years now. But I started building a plan since 10 years ago. But the idea started much longer farther beyond 10 years, I would say, you know, it's, I mean, God bless us. that we've been on the market for 10 years because, you know, many of the small beverage brands,

they don't even make through the first year. I grew up in a family with deep-reusing traditional Chinese medicine. So since I was a little, I was just fascinated by, I would say, not just this powerful ancient healing arts, but also the living philosophy I was taught from my grandparents and, of course, my parents. and of course my parents as well. I think there's a lot of misunderstanding on TCM, traditional Chinese medicine.

Well, don't get me wrong. It's very complex. Most of the books are written in this ancient language. It's even hard for a Chinese, modern Chinese, to understand what it's talking about. So I think it's perfectly fine. Most of people from other culture don't understand what exactly is yeah.

People just think about some strange herbs and some soups, some remedies. Maybe it's going to make me feel better. And it was never regarded as a mainstream medical science. What is it though? It's like just natural stuff, right? It's all natural. It's all natural. But look at this.

Natural medicine is not limit to East Asian countries. You can find it in anywhere. Native Americans, for example, we use a ronial berry in our detox juice. That's been used for centrist by Native Americans, not just a medicinal food. They use it for healing. And then the modern science, clinical study,

hundreds of them show this amazing berry cure many diseases, including diabetic complications, even cancer. That's just how powerful nature of the disease. nature plants, modern nature, offering us. I'm sure pharmaceutical companies hate TCM. You said it so well. I think I also like to look into the history of food culture,

especially natural medicine's culture. So the general concern is, if you look at the modern medicine, it was involved from kind of like this holistic, medicine. Many of the compounds we use nowadays days are still coming from plants. Something naturally exists. But eventually what we have been doing is we study them and then we purify them. And then we realize we actually can make them more potent, just like the gLP one. Yeah. People think, oh, it's a wonder drug for weight loss. But it's naturally exist. It was first studied. in a very special species of lizard.

And then scientists got... Really? Yeah. Yeah. It was from lizard. And scientists got really curious. They started to try to understand what does this compound do. And then pharmaceutical company got excited about it.

And then they purify it. And they started to synthesize it. And then, of course, with chemical engineers made it much more, like they call it, the half-life much longer because the native compound, they don't survive in your body. It's not like they're going to be potent for such a long time. Wow. Yeah. So they diluted with a bunch of different other chemicals to give you side effects,

like where you start? Well, not really. What they did is they modified the native compound. So the half-life become much longer, much stable. Okay. So the native compound probably only acting for a few minutes or so, for example. But the chemicals now we're using in the market that can last for more than the day, much longer time. Yeah.

And it's much more potent. That's why people have side effects, especially lots of users. When they first started a drug, maybe they got too excited. And they want to see fast results. They jump onto the higher dose too quickly. And that's not pretty. How long is the shelf life for CarViva? It's a year, and most people ask me, how did you make it?

Very simple. Traditional remedy, we actually don't use co-press juice. Lots of people ask me, is this a co-press juice? And I always have to say, I have nothing against co-press juice. It's just a different way. This is we follow the traditional way, philosophy of making remedies. So the first thing, you probably were at it. hurt, you know, this East Asian people don't like cold drinks. We don't like cold food.

I didn't know. I didn't know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because the belief is raw food and cold drinks damage your digestive cheat. So it's really simple. Your body needs to use the energy to warm up the food and raw food is just harder to digest because, you know, for example, if you eat, of course, I hope nobody eating raw meat because that can be really dangerous. What about sushi? Suci? Suci, great question. Susi, yeah.

I have to say I love Susie, but I'm always a little bit scared of raw fish because I'm always worried about, you know, potential pesticide contamination because you just don't know. You know, unless you're really, yeah, if you go to Japan, maybe go to a high-end sushi restaurant, then that's cool. But, you know, but the good thing is most of the sushi that prepare here, I would think they use some kind of preservatives. Yeah. Just for example, bean sprouts, I use tons of sprouts in my juice.

The reason is, well, think about this. Sprouse is the baby plants. That's the most nutrient dense phase. Both of plants is packed with minerals, proteins, natural antioxidants, fibers. And most of the sprouts are naturally sugar-free. If you want sugar-free, food, go with the sprouts. But the problem is sprouts is very high. water content. So the FDA actually requires the sprouts

grower. When you ship out the fresh sprouts, you need to put preservatives inside as required. So I don't know I'm not a sushi chef. I don't deal with that business. So I would think they have something to preserve the raw. But speaking of raw plants, the reason traditional Chinese medicine is against that, especially for women. because we believe women is more young in nature. Men on the other hand is more young in nature, right?

So for us, we need to do more care to preserve this digestive chi, which is the foundation for healthy reproductive health. And we believe to have a healthy reproductive system is the foundation of maintain your youth and longevity, especially important for women. So that's why we kind of like to cook everything. How did they find CarViva? Where do they find it at?

Yeah, so it depends on where you live. If you're in the East Region, you can easily find us. Otherwise, you can always find us online, Carviva.com. You can find us at Amazon, Walmart Marketplace, TikTok shop. I don't understand why one of these beverage companies, whether it's Coca-Cola, a Pepsi or somebody, doesn't just say, hey, you know what? We need to have some more healthier options. So let's just do a strategic partnership with CarViva. They should.

I think eventually the industry will change. It's already changing. It's already changing. I think still food scientists are trained as chemists. So not as nutritionists, not as a chef, I'm sure. So maybe one day that will change. But I already see the movement around the grounds up. is people like you

and like myself demanding better food. Yes, man. Real food. Absolutely. It's Dr. Angela Zing, founder of Carveva beverages. Thank you for coming.

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