The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: AJ Holiday & TamBam Cohost, Ghetto Gastro Interview, Body Shaming In The Workplace and More!

Episode Date: August 3, 2023

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And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, 1974.

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Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, USA! Yes, it's Thursday. We got some special guests joining us this morning. We have the ladies from the We Talk Back podcast, AJ and Tambam. Good morning, ladies. Good morning. Yes, we're in the building. I'm so excited. Yes, honey. How y'all feel?

I feel so good. It's a nice Thursday morning. First day of school. You know what I mean? We Talk Back podcast. You listen to them on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. Mm-hmm. You know?

Yes. Happy to have y'all in here this morning. Happy to be here this morning. That a woman's perspective. Last two days, it's been a lot of sausage in this room. Willie D co-hosted the last couple of days. A lot of sausage. It was me.

It was me envying Willie D. That's right. Yes. That's right. It's a group. How y'all feeling? Early in the morning for y'all? It's very early.

It is. I feel good, though. You feel good? Yeah, I feel real good. All right. Well, I'm half sleepy, but I'm awake a little bit. So for people that don't know

who you guys are, who are y'all, where y'all from, and talk a little bit about the podcast so they know. I'm AJ Holiday from Charleston, South Carolina.

Hey. Hey. The real Charleston yeah we do we talk back podcast a show dedicated to you and you and I'm tan BAM y'all are from Columbia South Carolina Columbia stand up South Carolina everybody stand up yeah we talk back we talk careers, love, all the good things that women would talk about in a hair salon. Okay. So imagine that.

All right. But you're actually a hairdresser, though. I am. Right, right. So if somebody knows what they talk about in a hair salon. Right. She would know. Absolutely.

They be giving a lot of bad advice in the salon now. Good bad advice. What is good bad advice? Bad good advice. Like, you can take it or you don't have to. If your relationship sucks, I'm not going to tell any woman, leave your relationship because that's just not my place.

But I will give you some advice to navigate. To navigate leaving? No, just to navigate your relationship. I'm never going to say leave your man to any woman. Never. Would you? He's beating that ass up. Physically abusive. But outside of that, nothing else. Not even Summer Walker? AJ? He's beating that ass up. Maybe. Physically abusive. Yeah, physically abusive. Physically abusive.

But outside of that, nothing else. Not even Subba Walker? Would y'all tell Subba Walker to leave me? Even though he was just being a good Samaritan and helping a young lady with her groceries? The groceries was that, but, okay. Let me tell you something. So many people send me their videos talking about, is this you? That look like you, girl.

Is that you? First of all, I don't know who you said. Wow, it was you. No, it was not me. Wow, damn, damn. It was in the video. I didn't even think about girl. Is that you? First of all, I don't know who you said. Wow, it was you. No, it was not me. Wow, Tam Bam. It was in the video. I didn't even think about that. That was you.

That was Tam Bam. That's an exclusive. That was not me. All right. All right. All right. Well, wow. That was not me.

That's crazy. In the rumor report, we got more with Tam Bam. From behind, I can see how it looks like me. But it's not me. Your legs are a little now. Your legs are too small. What did you promise the neighbor to record it on the ring camera? That was not me. Y'all a little now. Your legs are too small. What did you promise the neighbor to record it on the ring camera?

That was not me. Y'all may stop playing. Wow. Wow. Tim Bam. Who knew? All right. Well, we got some

special guests joining us in a little bit. Ghetto Gastro. Those are three brothers from the Bronx. Now, listen, I always say the craziest people in America come from

the Bronx and all of Florida, but these three are an exception. Okay? They might be crazy, but they smart. They might be crazy, though. You're right. They just smart crazy.

And they got a line of breakfast products in stores. Not just breakfast products, appliances as well, in Target right now as we speak. That's right. So we're going to kick it with the Ghetto Gastro. And then we got front page news next. Tesla and Figaro will be joining us at Don't Move. It's the Breakfast Club on BET. Hey, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club on BET. Hey, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got our special guest with us from the We Talk Back podcast, AJ and Tam Bam. And let's get in some front page news. Good morning, Tezlyn Figaro. Good morning, DJ Envy. Good morning to my beautiful sisters, AJ and Tam Bam in the building. The finest, all the finest in the building is Charlamagne Tha God.

Peace, Tez. Put me in that finest, too. Thank you. Did you turn your headphones up? Yes. Turn your headphones up, y'all. building the finest all the finest in the building and charlamagne the god peace test put me in that finest too thank you did you turn your headphones up yes turn your headphones up y'all ladies are getting their headphones you see the nick you want to help them right oh not though nick was in there you got it okay okay they're good now all right well let's jump right into it let's talk about these movie extras worried that ai is going to replace them yes what in the clone tyrone is going on with this uh after four weeks of working as a background actor on the disney plus series wandavision alexandria rubicaba was told by the production crew to report to a tractor trailer now dozens of other background workers were told

to go to the same site then one by one they were told to step in front of a series of cameras on metal rigs behind glass they said the actors were told to look this way, look that way, use your scared face, use your surprise face and other physical gestures as their bodies were scanned for about 15 minutes and then their digital replicas were created. The actors said they were never told how or if their digital avatar would be used on screen. If it is used, they may not ever know and they definitely won't see a payment for it. Now, typically she earns about $187 a day as a background actor she did not get permission for the replica she also mentioned concern that uh it may be used in a scene that she doesn't approve of

so uh as we know digital likeness protection is one of the things that the actors are asking for on the strike that's gonna happen regardless. Especially with the extras. You know what I mean? Because they don't want to spend extra money paying the extras. So if they can cut costs somewhere, the actors might get what they're supposed to get and the writers might get what they're supposed to get

but not them extras. Because you think about it, a lot of the time the extras are just either walking by certain scenes or they're walking down the city street or just happen to be in the mall, being in the back somewhere and they're going to scan all of them.

I don't understand why Hollywood studios would want that because I'm the type of person that noticed stuff like that. I'll notice, like, that's the same people that was in that movie. They was just in that scene, you know? There's a movie like that. It's called The Congress. And the main actress, she signs up,

well, her lawyer's suggesting to her to sign her likeness over, essentially. You can get paid this X amount of money. But what we see right now actually happened is a movie came out in 2019 I think, The Congress. Go check it out. But what's scary about that is that it's just movies right now but what if you're an extra in the video for a crime? You know.

What? They put you in a video like it's movies right now but it becomes it can become real life and now they're adding you to some video for a crime and changing your face on somebody else's body but see the thing about this little show i mean like i i definitely see how they can cut costs with the extras but if they go into negotiation on digital likeness it's not going to be digital likeness just for the extras it's digital likeness as well you know for actors you know who also you know may be in the movie so they're not if they do that protection is going to apply to everybody so what i mean you know what's your thought on that what about if they start doing that with co-stars and you know

oh i'm totally against that i mean that's one of the you know i'm part of the wga you know and that's one of the things that's one of the biggest points of contention like i'm totally against you know them being able to use your likeness for perpetuity because when they say perpetuity it's really gonna be perpetuity now because we're gonna be long gone and being movies 30 40 years old exactly but they can do that with our voices here on the radio soon yeah but i'm really surprised that they just haven't uh created people like you know like you look at aj and tan bam just put them together just put them together and it's they don't have to pay AJ or Tam Bam. There's a website called thesepeopledonexist.com.

Check it out because you can keep hitting refresh and it changes the person and they don't really exist. It's coming. And that way you don't have to pay anybody. You don't have to get anybody's likeness. You just put three, four people together. They're features and nobody will ever know it's actually there. I told y'all this much ago about AI. It's coming.

It's going to be a point where you're going to hear, you know, audio that is not the person. You're going to see videos and it's going to be deep fakes and you're going to really think, oh man, Charlamagne said that. And by the time you realize it's not me. It's already said and done. It's already out into the world. Right. You know? Alright.

Well, that is front page news. I lost a couple dollars. Yeah. Right. That's what I say about all my old content now. That's all there. Is there? All there. It's all there. It was all there. It wasn't me.

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Hello, who's this? Hello, this is James. Hey, James, what up? Get it off your chest, bro. Hey, yo, Avery, man. Have you checked out that new documentary on Paramount Plus called Mixtape? I have not. Your big homie Clues on there, man.

Yo, they gonna lay back and talk about all the old mixtapes and whatnot. They mention a lot of DJs. I didn't see them mention DJ Juice or Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry was fire. Damn, Dirty Harry. Yeah, I was going to ask, man, is there any way possible to find

those old tapes that's been converted to CD or something, man? Because I remember Kuminati 2 was off the chain, man. I don't know. Kuminati 2 was off the chain, man. Nah, I don't know who sells mixtapes anymore, but I was actually, it was funny you said that, me and Clue was talking,

and I think we're going to do an actual documentary on mixtapes, and I think we're going to do it the right way. I just think it comes out better when you actually talk to DJs that's actually been through it, lived it, talk to some of the bootleggers that were really important in pushing it and burning it from Burkina to and some of the major stores that sold the mixtapes. I mean, when you talk about mixtapes, there's so many different areas, like you said, from so many different areas, whether it's juice and screw and, you know, Dirty Harry, like you said. And, of course, Clue and Drama and so many different people. I just think it'll come from different eyes and to see what we really

had to deal with and how we were getting exclusives and doing mixes and the origin from it. So I think that, you know, I think me and Clue are going to do it.

Yeah, I don't want to knock the mixtape off. Tony Touch was the producer on that. Oh, I didn't say that. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. Tony Touch was the producer on that mixtape. But yeah, he's not the first person that told me that there was a lot missed

on that one. Hello, who's this? This is Denisha from Savannah, Georgia, calling in. I just want to give a shout out to all the teachers going back to school today, especially all the first year teachers. School's starting back already? Yeah, Atlanta started, I think, yesterday.

Dang. Or this week. Yeah. Shout out to the teachers. All right, well, shout out to. Dang. Or this week. That is early, right? Yeah. Shout out to the teachers. All right. Well, shout out to the teachers. And the students. They're all going to go back for another month.

Yeah, our kids don't go back until September. But yeah, I think in Atlanta, they started early this week. And it's different areas, different times for different places, which is confusing to me because it's usually after Labor Day. That's what I thought it was usually. Well, it used to be. I hope they got some raises for those teachers this year. No.

Yeah. That would be nice. Across the country. Teachers are criminally underpaid. You know what I mean? Forever. Sadly. Hello, who's this?

Yo, it's Rolo Simmons, man. What's up, you king? Peace, king. What's up, brother? Get off your chest. Hey, man, I just want to clear the air about the background actors. First off, Charlamagne, watch out, man. You said we're getting rid of us, brother? Get off your chest. Hey, man, I just want to clear the air about the background actors. First off, Charlamagne, watch out, man. What you said was get rid of us, brother.

You were encouraged in the studios to get rid of us. I never said that. You got to watch this. I never said that. You're trying to keep it out of work, right? I never said that. Not once did Charlamagne say get rid of the background actors. That's why they need to get rid of you.

Charlamagne. They need to get rid of you. You make it up, though. I'm the type of person that notices when actors are in different scenes when you start saying stuff. Does that mean

I'm on your side, idiot? You're the background actor. My brother, that means I'm on your side. I said, why would the Hollywood studios want that when I'm the type of person

that notices that stuff? I said that, sir. They be wanting to beef so bad. You know what I'm saying? Now you know. Apologize to me right now. Don't apologize, Ken. You might as well just keep going. Apologize to me right now. You heard it wrong. You got to beef so bad. You know what I'm saying? Now you know. Apologize to me right now. Don't apologize, Ken. You might as well just keep going.

Apologize to me right now. You heard it wrong. You got to make it clear. It wasn't clear. Charlamagne, you know a lot of times you're not clear, man. I don't know. I was very clear. I said, why would the Hollywood studios want to do that when I'm the type of person that

notices the extras? He's true. He's not lying. Charlamagne's not clear sometimes. They're not called extras, though, man. They're called background actors. They're the extras. He's true. He's not lying. Charlamagne's not clear sometimes. They're not called extras, man. They're called background actors. They're not extras. Envy, you know what's so funny?

Right before the show started, I said, man, I noticed that some, and I said some, Breakfast Club listeners ain't the brightest. Didn't I say that? Wasn't I just talking about that

before we started? So you talking about Ken? Because I was talking about yesterday with Charlamagne. Charlamagne, you know you're not clear a lot of times, man. Okay.

We just talked about perception over the last few minutes. Okay okay but what was the point of this phone call sir ken ken see ai get it off your chest ain't gotta be ai 585-1051 if you need to hit us up now it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club hey what's up this is ramses job and i go by the name q ward and we'd like you to join us each week for our show civic cipher that's right we're going to discuss social issues especially those that affect black and brown people but in a way that informs and empowers all people to hopefully create better allies think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're black, Asian, white,

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get your podcasts. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's going on? It's John. What's up, brother? Get off your chest.

Hey, I ain't really had nothing to get off my chest. I just want to speak on the AI thing that y'all guys was talking about, man. I don't know if y'all hit the Black Mirrors. But Black Mirrors had an episode called Joan is Awful. That was basically, yeah, yeah, you hit. And that ain't the first time Black Mirrors made an episode that came to fruition. So I just want to hit everybody. What was the episode now, yeah, you hip. And that ain't the first time Black Marathon made an episode that came to fruition.

So I just want to hip everybody. What was the episode now? Joan is awful. And what happened? Joan is awful. It was like a... Well, basically, they took her face and put her in, like, this movie about her own life. But she wasn't the actor in it.

It was like, yeah. Mm. Okay. So they had her doing a whole bunch of stuff that she never even did had her looking crazy and she ended up getting fired from her job and breaking up with her boyfriend and everything i can see all of that happening i already had these conversations with y'all remember i was saying imagine you driving into work and you hear somebody calls you and says hey tan bam aj talking about you and they let you hear

something it ain't even you right and you and you about to see her Bam, AJ talking about you, and they let you hear something that ain't even you. And you about to see her in five minutes. And so you walk into the room, now y'all beefing. Y'all don't even know what y'all talking about. I heard what you said. Hello, who's this? Hey, how you doing? My name is Clarence. I'm out of Orlando,

Florida, and I basically want to give a shout out to my company. It's a black owned business LLC really in short um 360 icons that's 360 icons with a z you can follow us on all platforms 360 icons underscore um and I wanted to get with you as well DJ because I wanted to see if I could um you know come host a car show or two. I got an amazing setup. When you step on my platform, it feels like you're stepping on an all-star red carpet. Maybe y'all could check us out on 360 Icon.

The 360 underscore icon. Okay. On Instagram, Facebook, all platforms. All right. Well, just email me, djmbcarshaw at gmail.com. And you say you the black-owned LLC? Yes, sir, black-owned out of Orlando, Florida. We cover in a lot of areas, and we've been doing real good.

It's been a little bit over a year now. I'm excited, man, so I just wanted to put that word out, you know, let everybody hear it. 360 Icons. That sounds like one of your LLCs. Affordable companies, DJ services, catering services, decorating

services, you name it, we got it all. And we strive for perfection. Okay, brother. Don't that sound like one of them PPP LLCs? Absolutely. I'm proud of those. I guess he do like party things. I got one of those. He said he got 360 booths. He got

all types of touch things for parties. I guess he does party rentals and things like that. Nice. Hopefully. And car shows, too. He does it in car shows. And scamming. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, you can hit us up now.

When we come back, we got to talk more Lizzo. She was in the news like crazy yesterday. We'll get into it next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. That's crazy, Tammy, was the girl in that beach video, man. That's crazy. That's not me.

I don't think that's a compliment, man. Listen, but if somebody wanted to deliver some groceries, they can, but that wasn't me, honestly. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne Tha God, the god dj envy i don't know why envy just got up and walked away when the break started but we have our guest co-host today uh aj and tan bear from the we talk back podcast hey and we're about to talk lizzo in the rumor report rumor has it rumor rumor has it call out a name or you gossiping or you chatting i'm gossiping this is the rumor report i mean I guess we

on The Breakfast Club, this is where the tea spills, right? Yeah, so for people that don't know, when I have to do the Rumor Report, they give me the rumors. So when they give it to me 10 seconds before, and I want to make sure I get the stories correct, especially when we're talking about somebody. Oh, you're complaining about the producers right now. Yes. Oh, got you.

So now we know Lizzo's being sued for sexual harassment and promoting a hostile work environment. Yesterday. You don't ever put the weight shaming on there. That's hostile work environment, I guess. I like the word weight shaming. I just like the headline, Lizzo being accused of weight shaming. There's a lot of comedy in that.

But continue. Well, also yesterday, allegedly, she pressured one dancer to touch a nude performer at an amsterdam club now uh two of the dancers spoke out yesterday i thought they spoke out on tmz but on the sheet has it says uh cbs news oh maybe it's cbs news too i saw him on tmz with uh harvey and charles even though harvey doesn't think we like him but i was watching tmz right well this is what she said yesterday on the news lizzo is the reason that we were that I specifically was pressured to touch a new performer. She singled me out at the club that I didn't want to be at, but was told I couldn't really back out since I already said I was going before I knew what it really was. Once I had time to know Rodriguez.

Also, we figured out what it was and we're like, OK, maybe we should not go. You know, this is a little weird. We went, we stayed in the corner. We talked to each other the whole time. We tried to ignore, you know, what was happening. Lizzo kind of saw me, singled me out. She was kind of going around, like inviting people to touch the nude performers and, you know, started a chant. She was like, oh, Ari, it's your turn to do it. And I was like, no, I'm OK. I had to do it because I couldn't like get out of that situation. So I briefly, you know, touched. You know, this little case is interesting because one important lesson to learn

from this is your employees are not your friends. Correct. Right. And there is things you do with your friends that you don't do with your employees. Because when I'm reading this case, when I'm hearing this story, I'm just hearing typical big girl at the script club behavior big girls in the script club be so much fun so i can see this whole scenario touch her breast touch her breast and if the person doesn't want to do it and you force them to because of the power dynamic or you being their boss and then being an employee that's where the problems happen yeah i totally agree and also i know people are expecting lizzo to say something but when things hit court usually your attorney tells you don't say anything. They tell you to leave it in court.

And then after the court is done, then you could worry about your court of public opinion. But they always tell you to make sure that your court concerns are the most important. And I'm dealing with the same thing because I'm being sued as well. And I can't say anything because my attorney tells me I can't say anything into the court case. Trying to make somebody touch something? No. Trying to make somebody eat a banana? No.

What you was doing? No. Out of tailpipes? No. I heard about this. I heard what was happening. Yeah. He said you were selling rotten bananas and saying it was fresh.

That's what he was trying to say. Whatever you want to call it. That's why he got that rash. It's not a rash. It's actually a birthmark. I had it since i was born ma'am but no but people don't understand that no the general public does not understand that no when you are being sued if any good attorney will tell you don't say anything

because anything that you can say good or bad can be used against you they can you know mess with your words or whatever it may be so you're always told not to say anything until your court case is over and then when your court case is over i'm gonna run around naked with the court case stamped to my ass tell everybody i'm not gonna let you do that but charlamagne you said a word force this is these are grown women right they made a choice but when it's a power dynamic though but it's still not forced she still has a mind of her own as a grown woman and no is a complete statement no girl no eat bananas bananas are great yo you need to go work for lizzo you can be lizzo's friend and employee but you know what though this is why the case is interesting too because you know we talked about this a little yesterday we live in a world where men have lost everything for way less yes so it's gonna be

interesting to see how these folks handle lizzo will she be extended grace and if so how come that grace isn't extended to others particularly men right you know what i mean like she's been a mascot for wokeness since she's been out. Right. She checks off so many boxes. She's a face for body positivity because of her size.

She's a woman. She's black. And now she's deemed toxic. So I can't wait to see how corporate America reacts. I think women get to skate a lot. Yeah, she gonna be in a Chiquita. Banana commercial in a couple weeks. Yeah, when you think about...

No, just stop it. You're so stupid. You're sick. Now, also, we're talking about Busta Rhy now you know everybody wanted to know what you know what inspired buster's weight loss journey and did you know that it was a post-sex asthma attack which was interesting yeah he was having sex with his now ex-wife and uh he was having a hard time breathing so she uh so he got up and walked out of the bedroom so she wouldn't panic seeing me trying to keep myself calm. And because of that asthma attack,

he started to figure out he had to get in the gym and start losing weight. Yeah, because all that stomach on your chest, especially laying down, that's why people who snore a lot don't look at me. Hey, salute to Busser Buss, man. And you know, the thing about Busser, when he's going through something like that,

you probably don't know if he's just doing ad-libs or if he's really like going through something because he's always making noises. Right. You know what I mean? He's always making like noises. So you wouldn't know if he's really going through something. But he said his ex-wife at the time, she was like, yo, this is not who I fell in love with. She didn't know what happened outside, but she was like, she was looking at my body and

the weight. She was like, you got, you got to gotta lose this weight this breathing is scaring me when i met you you was like a muscle head but you were slim you was cut you had your ish right i need you to get back to who i fell in love with and you know i want you to be healthy now what if lizzo was talking to one of her workers like that would that be considered i'm serious would that be considered a hostile work environment that sound like positive words to me. You were just big when you started working here. You can't say that. You can't be bigger than me.

How dare you? I hate y'all. And that is your rumor report. Now, when we come back, we got front page news with Teslin Figaro. So don't move. We got, of course, AJ and Tam Bam here. They're from the We Talk Back podcast.

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Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the breakfast club we have the ladies of we talk back podcast aj and tam bam and let's get in some front page news welcome back tesla yes good morning dj envy good morning aj and tam bam double fine double fine and charlamagne the god the finest of them all thank you tess i don't like that tess you just missed the finest but i don't need to hate no need to hate sir now let's talk about these uh this woman that escaped the kidnapper's cell in oregon oh man this is a wild story a woman

who was abducted from seattle escaped a cinder block cell in a man's garage in oregon and now authorities are looking for more potential victims across multiple states. Let's listen to the police and how they described how she was able to escape. And I'll give you some more information on the other side. On the day in question, our investigators had made contact with the victim. And what happened was, is we learned that she was from Seattle, Washington, and that she had been abducted up there. She had been, the suspect had transported her down to Klamath Falls, Oregon, which is probably about a seven-hour drive from Seattle, give or take.

And during that time, she was also sexually assaulted. Also during that time, she was taken to a residence in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where there was a makeshift cell, if you will. And he had actually locked her in there for a couple hours at least until she realized that she needed to get out of that residence because her life was in danger. And she took the substantial steps to force her way out of that cell. And then she ran out into public, flagged down the first vehicle she could find. And then she was taken to safety then 911 was called and then when we respond to help her did they get the guy right yes they did

uh 29 year old nagasi zoo berry he posed as an undercover police officer that's how he abducted her and he was arrested and federally charged with interstate kidnapping which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted now authorities say that he's been linked to several sexual assaults in at least four more states so they're searching for potential victims possibly including california washington oregon colorado utah florida new york new jersey alabama new vat nevada and what i just wanted to add on what i just found so amazing about the story um she banged against the door she bloodied her hands uh until she was managed to open it like she broke the door off ripped a metal screen off of it crawled out she had a lot of lacerations on her knuckles from punching you

know the bricks then she retrieved his gun that belonged to him and escaped and jumped over a fence and flagged down the driver so this is a hell of a story i wonder are they gonna make a movie out of this right absolutely god bless that sister so he wasn't part of no like large human trafficking ring and then he was just doing this for his own individual sick we don't know um you know right now they just have him and they're thinking that it may be more to it um because you know how she was picked up apparently this is allegedly um she must have been a prostitute is what they're saying I don't want to say that for certain but that's what they're you know reporting here is alleged and so apparently he pretended to be arresting her so this is again when we talk

about people who you know we talked about the missing cases you know obviously what happened with Carly Russell these are the type of cases where women go missing because you know, obviously what happened with Carly Russell. These are the type of cases where women go missing because, you know, whatever it is that they're doing that they just don't get found. You know, people who are living this type of lifestyle are still human beings and still people. So the only reason why we know about this is because she escaped. What

anybody would have reported her missing is what I'm asking. You know, if something, you know, if she didn't escape. Nah, probably not because they probably used to her being gone for, you know if it's something you know if if she didn't escape no probably not because she they probably used to her being gone for you know days right yeah yeah right damn now let's talk about uh burnout low pay and politics are driving away teachers yeah you guys um talked about teachers uh during i get it off your chest and i just happen to have a teacher story uh state reports show that teachers are leaving jobs in growing numbers.

The turnover in some cases is highest among teachers of color. The reasons the teachers are leaving are due to stress from pandemic era burnout, low pay, as you guys mentioned earlier, and the intrusion of politics in the classroom. But the burdens can be heavier in schools with high poverty communities, which obviously have higher numbers of teachers of color.

Now, Philadelphia City, with one of the highest concentrations of black residents in the U.S., communities which obviously have higher numbers of teachers of color now philadelphia city with one of the highest concentrations of black residents in the u.s say that the black teachers have been sliding down two decades ago it was about one-third last fall it fell to below 23 nationally 80 of american public school teachers are white even though the majority of students are not white and researchers say that teachers who reflect the race of their students is important to provide students with role models who have insight into their culture and life experience. So it's also I want to make a point that black and Hispanic teachers are more likely to be uncertified or teaching in an underfunded district. And that all plays a part into, you know, teachers getting out of this profession. And before I toss it to you guys,

we just had a really great conversation about this school choice versus public schools with Dr. Steve Perry, who you guys know, and Gary Chambers, our guy Gary Chambers. And they had a heated debate on my show about this, and we pointed out all of these issues. So this is a real thing. Salute to Dr. Steve Perry, man.

Only thing I got to say is pay our educators. My mother was a public school teacher for 30 plus years in the Berkeley County school system in South Carolina. So, you know, you have to have a love for teaching and a love for kids to do that job. But sadly, you can't eat no love, man. You know what I mean? You got to pay these teachers. Why do you teachers get paid so low? Like my mom said, the most she ever made was like $30,000 at one point.

That's crazy. You know? You need to catch a Rico charge for that, man. You know what I'm saying? If they selling a little dope on the side, I used to be mad at them. Stop it. Stop it. I'm just saying.

All right. Selling Adderall to the kids. The doctor's slinging it. Why not? I'm telling you. No, that's awful. That is awful. No, what's awful is that a teacher

would have to resort to that. You wouldn't have sympathy for a teacher if you found like, oh my God. There's been some teachers come up with only fans. The students are bad too. Like these middle school

and high school, I can imagine elementary school students. They're definitely bad. But it's hard to deal with these kids. I've seen videos of the students jumping on the teacher. Yep. Adults are bad.

We're getting beat up for $30,000. That's the thing. We put children on a pedestal. These children have half the life experiences of adults. And we think they're supposed to be better than us. When I was in middle school, I would not talk to my teacher the way these kids are talking. Yeah, it's awful. They don't have respect.

Not only that, our teachers back then would probably put hands on us. Well, they could back then. They could. But AJ ain't right, though, because I was having a conversation recently with somebody and I was telling him about opening up a daycare in my hometown of Moncks Corner, because Moncks Corner's growing so much. And the person said to me, no, because

I don't want to deal with the parents. She said, I don't want to deal with these kids' parents. She was like, the parents are ridiculous. Yep, I subbed for seventh grade, and you got to walk in letting them know it's on site. Like you have to deal with a totally different, you know, letting them know, hey, y'all touching me. We're making national news. We're picking up chalkboards, chairs,

whatever, you know, once you get it straight, you know, because I'm normally subbing in schools that don't have the help that they need. I subbed one time for about six months because they had had a fight with the teacher. So I was the next one in line and I had to come in day one saying hey, I'm telling you right now, you touch me, it's going down. So once you do that, then they fall in love with you. Then you know you're able to kind of get the job done, but

it is very hard to deal with these students. But again, you have to have the love for it and being paid well helps you have the love for it a little bit more. Alright, well that is front page news. Now when when we come back let's open up the phone lines 800-585-1051 yeah aj and tambam was touched by this story yeah this story this costco employee now this costco employee says that her manager body shamed her over her work attire so we're asking 800-585-1051 is this a regular thing women go through that your body shape makes your attire. So we're asking 800-585-1051. Is this a regular thing women go through? That your

body shape makes your attire look inappropriate? Of course, because our culture, our women are more thicker usually. Exactly. Black women, black girls just look that different. We look different in our clothes. So the white girls can wear leggings to school. Oftentimes, black girls can't.

Right, we be getting in trouble. So what is the question? Is this a regular thing that women go through? Alright, let's talk about it. 800-585-1051. We've been in trouble. What is the question? It's just a regular thing that women go through. All right. Let's talk about it. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Th in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just join us, we're talking about an incident that we've seen happen at Costco. I guess a lady was body shamed because of the way that she looked in the tire and her co-workers might not have looked the same way. All right.

Now, we're asking 800-585-1051 we're just talking about our culture and the fact that you know usually our women are more thicker black women is what you're saying so uh is this a regular thing women go through that your body shape makes your attire look inappropriate we got aj and tan bam from the we talk back podcast in here answer the question ladies absolutely man we've been going through that our whole lives for real in a real way i think um women of other ethnicities get away with a lot more i think black women and girls are over sexualized from a very young age so it is a real thing and a lot of the disrespect comes from other women now. So I dealt with that

in a corporate setting. You know, my clothes might look a little better on me. It may not be inappropriate. But, and this is coming from other women though.

Black women in particular. Bigger black women. When you were walking in this morning, I saw the sanitation workers losing their mind. They looking good, girl. Early in the morning in New York. But that's just jealousy, though, right?

The other women, the women, they see you come into a corporate workplace, you might have on the same dress that they have on, the same outfit that they have on, but because of your body shape, they probably just feel jealous.

Or intimidated. Yeah, you know, another producer of ours said she used to deal with that in school. So I guess it was a uniform that she had to wear. And she said that, you know, when she she was younger she was a lot thinner up top and bigger on the bottom and when she wore the uniform that the other girls didn't have a problem but one

teacher pulled her to the side i was like you can't wear that and she was like this is the uniform i can't wear anything else where they actually took her to the principal she said thank god the principal was black and was like no this is her body she can do it and she was like the white teacher made a big fuss about it like there's boys in there there's boys principal was black and was like no, this is her body She can do it and she was like the white teacher made a big fuss about it like this boys in there this boys edition But she was like this is my body type. I teach ain't got no ass. That's just jealousy the white teacher ain't got no hips That's just jealousy and her husband probably over that on Whatever the porn site sites W's

You know women are made very conscious of their body from very young I remember my mom would tell me a story When I was little And they'd be like She's too big to be in a pamper still What? You need to take her out of pamper She's like

That ain't no pamper She ain't got no pamper That ain't got nothing to do With body size man What are you talking about Women are made conscious Of their bodies From little girls

You made conscious Of your body How old were you? Nine No maybe nine maybe six you used to wear a pimp on nine I was not in a pimp I was not in a pimp

I just looked like I had one on that was a pimp not a pimp oh okay I get what you're saying now I was wearing I get what you're saying I thought you were saying

you were in a pimp or not but you're saying that it looked like you had a pimp on it looked like I had a pimp on they was like oh she's Bob Squarepants we had a homeboy like y'all know dre what dre we used to call dre dirty diaper

i remember that i didn't used to call him that way one of the partners used to call him that no i never used to call him that well i do feel like when someone says that to a woman, they're just acknowledging how they see them. So they're sexualizing and objectifying them. Very young. Ashley, good morning. Good morning. How you feeling?

You went through something similar? I did it myself, but my daughter did. Talk to us. What happened? So it was her eighth grade graduation in middle school, and she had on a fitted dress. You know, one of those stretchy but fitted dresses. Yep. And she's thicker, and there was girls in there, mind you,

with their cleavage hanging out, their ass and their body open, their seatbelt. But they made her call me to bring her a sweater to put around her waist because her butt was too big. That's crazy. She was so embarrassed that all these kids seeing her get escorted to the front door and they literally made her stand there with escorts until I got there

to put a sweater around her waist so that her fur didn't show. That's got to be some form of discrimination. It is. Thick girl discrimination. It's clapper discrimination. Clapper? Why clapper discrimination clapper why clapper because you're clapping around the schoolyard hello nisha good morning good morning now nisha you dealt with this too yes um actually since i

was in like middle school i guess um we had school so it would be like put your fingertips to your side your fingertips go longer than your shorts if your shorts too short what is that what she said or you would go to

six inches above your fingertips but the white girls did because they didn't have hips or you know everything that's black girl pants

it would be mostly the black girls that got them you kind of get used to it at the time but it's not right she said you kind of get used to it but what it's not right she said it's not right I mean as black people you get used to it But it's not right She said you kind of get used to it But what?

It's not right She said it's not right I mean as black people You get used to all types of forms Of discrimination You know what I mean Hello who's this? Good morning this is Jen

Good morning guys Good morning Now talk to us You're a manager right? Yes I am Alright now don't tell us what job We don't want you to lose your job But tell us what's going on

Yeah so that body shaming Is not supposed to be done, especially not by a manager. I mean, we have enough employees, other things they have to work about coming to work, and it's insane how they insist on stuff. If that's their body, that's their body. I don't know if that manager took the HR training classes, but she definitely has a lawsuit. Absolutely. I do wonder if the Costco employee said

it was the manager that was body shaming. It probably was another woman manager. Probably. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, 800-585-1051.

We're talking about being body shamed in the workplace. Does this happen to you? I get body shamed here all the time. You know what I'm saying? Just because I'm the

thickest person up here. I get body shamed from Envy. I get body shamed from Taylor because she's a hater. You know what I'm saying? Just because I'm the thickest person up here. I get body shame from Envy. I get body shame from Taylor because she's a hater. You know what I'm saying? And it's actually starting to get to me. Why are you dressed like that? Whoa.

Skinny jeans on at the workplace. I don't have skinny jeans on. There's a uniform. Clapping all over the building. Damn. Don't tell him that. Don't tell him that. Don't tell him that.

The problem is he think he thick, right? But he's not thick, right? He makes up his own nickname. Taylor can't help it. Because Stassie's snacky. right? He makes up his own nickname. Taylor can't help it. Taylor couldn't wait to come in here. She can't even hit a bully. Taylor couldn't wait to come in here. Now, Taylor, why don't you talk to the mic, please?

Just talk to the mic. Are you jealous of Charlamagne's thickness? Absolutely not. Let's be very clear that he started mentioning that because he's jealous of me. So why do you always... He started saying you thick because of me. Why do you want to do side-by-side comparisons all the time and I don't be trying to test me she like let's drop down and get our eagle on right now

what's wrong with you though. Huh? You do it, though. I had something to prove. You got your real life. I had something to prove. 800-585-1051. Is this happening? Let's talk about it. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Let's talk about it. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast the breakfast club now if you're just joining us we're talking about women being body shame 800-585-1051 now of course we got some special guest hosts from the we talk bad podcast aj and tam bam and we were talking about the situations working at a place where other women might not have the same body as you and you know they don't look as good as you but because you got body and shapes and curves that you know manages and sometimes the boss thinks that you just say call it what it is man these women be hating okay they be seeing these black women come through and you know they be of a certain shape and stature and they just be hating that's really

what it boils down to that's it let's go to the phone lines got a lot of people on the line hello who's this good morning this is christina hey lines. Got a lot of people on the line. Hello, who's this? Good morning, this is Christina. Hey, Christina. Now, this happened at your job the past 15 years? Yeah, actually twice. I forgot. When I was enjoying the Army, you know, they have very strict standards.

And I had to lose five pounds to be sworn in. And I'm very hippie and I've been naturally like that and then after I had kids, it enhanced it.

So the past 15 years at my job, within the first five years, they changed the dress code where we could wear leggings and things like that that shows off our shape. Anything I wear,

it's gonna be tight and it's gonna show off. So what did you wear? Around my wear, it's gonna be tight and it's gonna show off. So what did you, what did you weigh? Around my hip, it's about 52 inches. Okay. Around my, my butt.

Yes, honey. How tall are you? Oh, you dragging a wagon. 5'3". Oh, 5'3"? Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely dragging a wagon.

Stop. What? You ever thought about working for Lizzo? See, you should have. Listen, have a good one, mama. I'm sorry. You like bananas, my for Lizzo? See, here, shut up. Listen.

Goodbye. Have a good one, mama. I'm sorry. You like bananas? I'm sorry. You like bananas, my son? I'm sorry. Goodbye. What's wrong with you, man?

What's up? I was just asking. Y'all harassing the victim. Yo, what is happening? Hello, who's this? Hello. Good morning, Mr. Club. This is Lauren.

Hey, Lauren. Good morning. Good morning. Has that happened to you? You know, the fact that you probably got more curves and shape and it's been a problem for you at your work spot? Yes. I mean, it's hard as a black woman to have a natural body part

and it just being over-sexualized, like, in people's minds when it's not. If y'all remember the home depot girl that was going around the internet oh yeah she wasn't even yeah she wasn't even wearing nothing anywhere inappropriate but people were harassing her so it's hard for black women because we always being over sexualized for no reason we wear our natural hair it used to be called nappy yeah so it's hard being a black woman in workspaces y'all remember the news reporter i think her name was like demetria demetria oh yeah beautiful but it was all the white women calling and complaining or putting messages online about her body shape and she looked very good in her clothes. Yeah, what's Demetria's last name?

It started with an O. I can't remember. It's like Abalor. O-B-I-L-O-R or something like that. I know Demetria. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Kelly.

Hey, Kelly. Good morning. How old are you, Kelly? I'm 32. Oh, okay. Now, you said this happened to you before, Mama? Oh, heck yeah.

What happened? So, being Puerto Rican in like a white-dominant area, I was a fucking kid. I was in gymnastics and different types of sports, and I would literally, like, have to tape my thigh so that the wood wouldn't bust out, you know, or be too big for my tights or whatever. Oh, my butt was too big. And then, like, it was really hard in gymnastics. I would always get made fun of because all these girls were so skinny. And I'm sitting here in a

wheel car, and obviously I have the biggest figure, and everyone's just there. It just wasn't the thing back then. How do you take your feet? You had to take your thigh. Like a compression. Like a compression. Oh, compression. Yeah, I would take that tape. And then probably make my pants smaller on me

that's hard what did your parents say did your parents know you had to do that um so my mom found out when i was around 16 and she told me like she's like you know self-worth and you know everything is within or outwards um but you know as i got older like having a body became a thing right well thank you i'm so sorry you had to deal with that mama no thank you so much and good morning guys this is awesome thank you good morning morning what i'm hearing man it boils down to just the sexualizing and objectifying of of black women and you know women that are thicker and just jealousy and envy of black women and women that are thick that's right because if i'm following the dress code mind your business

right right so we don't know if the costco worker was white or black though this is our experiences that's right i think she was black i think she was black yeah yeah now i've never seen anybody take their thighs to make it look smaller but i know i've seen girls tape under their butt cheek can i say that tape under they butt cheek But you Don't you want to be small at all ain't they is she trying to compress it now now the big butt is cool yeah everybody this person at costco is probably just having a problem with that manager in particular yeah she got a person that's a young lady right there oh yeah she thinks she fine on the leggings now okay so it just depends so you know in charleston they have the port so a lot of times they complain about women wearing because women are now working out there they complain about

them wearing leggings to work i feel like you should wear cargo pants you should wear like a thicker material if you in an environment like that yeah but leggings amongst mostly men out there we have to consider those things as women no men have to consider those things why do women have to change their attire like the men need to change their mindset. Like focus on your job. You're not very physical. Get deported. I agree with you, but what if it's hard for them to focus? Well, then they need to change their focus. That's not the ladies' fault.

Put on your leggings. It's 110 degrees out there. Yeah, and by the way, ain't no man complaining about you wearing no leggings. But they ain't washing them leggings. That's why we call them wolf pants, boy. Wolf pants. That's right. You wear them all day long, and when you take them off, woof.

All right. That over just hit you. All right. Well, keep it locked. When we come back, we got your rumor report. We got to talk about Lizzo. About 18 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, Lizzo actually left a statement. We'll get that statement.

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Jealousy in here be so real. We got our guest co-host from the We Talk Back podcast, AJ and Tan Bam. What are you talking about? I ain't talking about nothing. I'm just over here being me, Charlotte Stallion. You know how I sit.

You saw that thing sit. What? Did you call yourself? Don't worry about it. Uncle Stallion. See? There go another one. Charlotte Stallion. Uncle Snacky, Uncle Stallion. Y'all really have to stop this because he's starting to believe it, right? He thinks he's Morris Chestnut. He thinks he's Uncle Snacky. He's more like

Snail, uh, Stale Snacky. He's more like Snail Snacky. Now he's going to be talking, I'm Charlotte Stallion. Taylor, you keeping notes for all of this? When we file our lawsuit? We? We filed back. We filed back. All right, I got something for you.

Keep it up. All right, well, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Lizzo some more rumor has it rumor has it call out her name or you gossiping or you chatty patty

I don't gossiping this is the rumor report I mean I guess we on the breakfast club this is where the tea spills right? alright now we were talking Lizzo

earlier and people were saying that Beyonce skipped Lizzo's name on purpose. She was performing. Malarkey. Because she's at her Renaissance tour.

Hogwash. There's a part of the show where she mentions all her beautiful women's names. Baloney. And Lizzo was one of them. And this is from the concert. All right, she said, Badu, Badu, Badu, Badu. What y'all be forgetting is that Erykah Badu is a good witch. All right, drop on the clues bombs for Erykah Badu.

So remember earlier that day, Erykah Badu had said that Beyonce was taking her style or something, right? She said she was flattered, yeah. So the reason she said her name four times is because Erykah Badu did like this. She just waved her fingers at her. Yeah, shut up. That's why she said Erykah Badu name four times. Yeah, so people were saying that she didn't say Lizzo's name

because of what's going on with Lizzo. But Beyonce's mom said she also didn't say her own sister's name, y'all. Y'all should really stop. Yes, because she goes, she usually goes Badu, Lizzo, Kelly Rowland. That's right.

She didn't say Kelly Rowland either. No, that's what she said. The internet going internet just like niggas going nigg. That's right. There's usually niggas niggas on the net niggas net well lizzo released a statement lizzo i released a statement about 30 minutes ago she says uh these last few days have been gut-wrenching difficult and overwhelmingly disappointing my work ethic morals and respectfulness have been questioned my character has been criticized

usually i choose not to respond to false allegations, but these are as unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous not to be addressed. And she goes on about, uh, seven paragraphs about it. And then she ends with, I'm hurt,

but I will not let the good work I've done in this world be overshadowed by this. I want to thank everyone who has reached out and support to lift me up during this difficult time. She just talks about everything that's been going through and the charges that she has and she basically says it's not true. But she don't even have charges. Like this is a, what are they trying to do?

A civil suit, right? It's still a civil suit. Charges civilly. So what is the outcome? The case, she fights back and the case gets dismissed? Or she has to settle out of court. Or she has to settle out, but I'm sure she'll probably fight this us i'm sure they probably missed the settlement part because i'm sure that they tried to get the settlement first you know that's that's that's the shakedown that happens in all of these cases they probably sent the letter to lizzo's team and said if y'all

don't do such and such we're going to come out with this story and lizzo probably rightfully so said go ahead then you know put the story out there. And we'll fight in court. So they probably passed the settlement phase. Absolutely. I wouldn't give them that. Well, demand letter. I mean, they still could settle regardless. But I'm sure Lizzo was like, no, let's go.

They already put it out. What's there to say now? Right. You know, now let's deal with it in court. Now, CISCO. What if they send him a truckload of bananas? That's what I was about to say. Send him a case of bananas and be done with it.

That'd be crazy. Good potassium in with it. That'd be crazy. Good potassium in your life. That'd be crazy. Now, let's talk about Sisqó. Now, Sisqó was doing an interview with Vlad TV and talked about these rumors about him dating Beyoncé. Here's the thing. Me and Beyoncé never, like, dated.

Right. But we were just friends when we were younger because we were on a lot of the same tours because we came out around the same time i believe it came out in 97 and we came out 96 so we were friends i know i like knew her dad and her mom and sister and stuff all i know is when elevated gate happened uh solange posted a picture of us right right i got you i got you i'll just leave it at that like what what happened then she like promptly erased it erased the next day so there's some kids that are a certain age that would never believe cisco and beyonce were friends you know what i'm saying because y'all disrespectful and y'all don't remember the

level that cisco was on you know what i'm saying? He's still Cisco. Don't get me wrong. But at one point, Cisco was the biggest R&B artist out. That thing's so scandalous. Come on, man. I don't think I ever heard his voice before until just now. I know. It's giving him a little. Really? Or just regular talking, you mean?

Yeah. His speaking voice. Cisco is a whole legend. Y'all can deal with Cisco if y'all want to. Cisco is a whole legend. No, absolutely. Yes. All right.

Well, that is your rumor report. Now, Charlamagne. Yes, sir. Who are you giving that donkey to? Man, four after the hour. Let's talk prison bays, man. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes, you know what?

We'll talk about it. Four after the hour. There's a young man named Sean Kendrick who decided to stay in prison. He liked it that much that he was like, you're not leaving? I don't know what he liked, but we're going to talk. We can explore all theories and options when we come back. All right. Well like I don't know what he liked but we gonna talk we can explore all theories and options when we come back

alright well I wanna hear Sisqo's song so he's gonna pull it up right now yeah let's throw it back for a little bit to that

you don't mind yeah you got it here we go it's the breakfast club good morning I was donkey of the day. Baby. Damn, the hee-haw, get it? It's time for donkey of the day. I ain't trying to be donkey of the day no more.

They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm not making these people do these things. Called donkey of the day, and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Charlamagne, who got the donkey of the day today? Well, Jeff's hilarious. Donkey of the day for Thursday, August 3rd goes to a 21-year-old Mississippi man named Sean Kendrick Huffman.

His first name is crazy. His first name looks like the last line on an eye chart. Why do people waste letters? Why name me something where most of the letters are going to be silent? This man's name is Sean Kendrick, but it's spelled S-H-U-N-E K-N-D R-h-u-n-e-k-n-d-r-i-c-k shouldn't it be s-h-u-n-k-e-n-d-r-i-c-k

whatever listen i need everyone to listen to this story closely because this story is a prime example of why patience is a virtue people see kendrick was 21 years old uh he's doing seven years well he was doing seven years in the miss Correctional Facility for aggravated assault. So that means he's been locked up since he was a juvenile, right? That means he's been locked up since he was like 13, 14. He clearly must have had a public defender because no juvenile should get seven years for aggravated assault. But either way, this young man did his time and he was scheduled to be released in December of 2022. And needless to say, that didn't happen.

Why didn't it happen? Let's go to WAPT 16 ABC News for the report, please. An inmate who had only a few months left to serve before escaping from prison is now looking at decades behind bars. Shaquendrick Huffman is the person that you see on your screen. The 21-year-old escaped the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl August 25th of last year. He was serving the last four months of a seven-year sentence for aggravated assault. Investigators said that Huffman broke into a nearby home and held the homeowner at gunpoint for hours.

Authorities said Huffman stole a vehicle from the home and at some point rammed a law enforcement vehicle at a roadblock before running away. Huffman is sentenced to 60 years for two counts of kidnapping. He'll serve 40 of those years of the sentence with 20 suspended. Jesus. That's wild. He's an idiot. So Kendrick, you did seven years in prison. He was four months away from coming home and you decided to break out. And once you got out, you broke into a nearby home, held three people at gunpoint for hours, and you decided to break out and once you got out you broke into a nearby home held three people at gunpoint for hours and you stole a car from one of those hostages before before you crashed it then you fled on foot and then you was found hiding in a trash can just two miles away from the prison now i know we have conversations about these kids lacking

patience but this is ridiculous he was four months away from being able to live in any trash can you wanted to if you wanted to come home and identify as Oscar the Grouch, you could have done that legally. But no, four months from being released and you ended up escaping from jail and then committing a series of crimes that got you 40 years. I know what the hell happened. Sean Kendrick got a boo. I have a theory, yeah. Sean Kendrick has a prison bay. All right.

That prison bay was pressuring him. Oh, you're just going to leave me in here? Okay, I gave you cigarettes. I gave you honey buns. We used to be in this cell, cheek to cheek. Okay? And you're just going to leave me? You were free, Sean Kendrick.

All right? You served seven years just to wait until the last four months to act up? There's only one logical reason that I could think of that would make a man want to stay in, and that's love. The man is penis matized all right somebody's Indiana bones got him open all right this is like the movie life in reverse instead of coming up with a plan to get out Kendrick was coming up with a plan to stay in because he loves the taste of frankston beans okay him and his locked up lover had an

argument big ray said I gave you the best seven years of my life. How many rolls of toilet paper have I sacrificed for you? And you're just going to leave me? The thought of freedom and vagina should have motivated this man to be on his best behavior for four months. But instead, the fear of losing his husband motivated him to get caught so he could stay in prison. He didn't want to leave, man. Too hard to adjust to this new world. He got to come home and pick a pronoun he don't even know what that is and the thought of doing all that without his bae he couldn't handle it you know I mean all

partners want is their significant other to show their commitment to them but there's no bigger sign that you're committed than adding 40 years to a seven-year sentence and what 20 year old or 21 year old Shun Kendrick is gonna realize is that at 21 no D is good enough to make that kind of commitment. Right, AJ and Tammy? I agree. You know what I'm saying? Run.

You and that man not even going to be together in five years. But you still going to have to do all that 40. All because he fell in love with one-eyed Pete. A wise man once said, that penis will do that to you man oh please give shun kendrick huffman the biggest hee haw sad man but what if he was just a he was a kid when he went in what is he institutionalized and afraid of society as a grown man i believe that that's what i'm saying he probably scared of the world.

It's too hard to adjust. You got to come home. You got to, you know, learn it. Well, he could have learned to trade. That's why they should teach. That's why correctional facilities should be actual correctional facilities. Let this man learn to trade. Let this man get, you know, some proper education in there

so he can come home and be a productive citizen. Yeah, they don't do any real- life rehabilitation in prison, especially in America. We have the most people in prison in this country. They call them correctional facilities, but they're not correcting nothing. Not when the judge is on the prisons. Sekindra, you want to play a game?

No, I do not want to play a game. Alright. This man's name is spelled S-H-U-N-E-K-N-D-R-I-C-K. You want to play a game? We do not need to play a game. It's Mississippi. You want to play a game with a racist? It's Mississippi.

His name is Shun Kendrick. We do not need to play a game. You sure? You really want to play this game, huh? All right. I guess it's time to play a game of Guess What Race It Is! Okay. All right.

21-year-old Mississippi man named Shaquindrick Huffman had seven years in prison, only had four months left, broke out, held people at hostage, ended up getting 40. Guess What Race It Is!

Bam, bam. Mexican. Bye, Rachel. You know what, though? I can see why you would say that though. Working hard. AJ, what do you say? Bi-racial, he's mixed. Okay, okay. I like those.

Okay. Envy, Kendrick Huffman, 21 year old Mississippi man, broke out of the prison, only had four months left on a seven year sentence, held a pupil hostage, ended up getting 40. Guess what? Racist! Thinking white. a seven-year sentence, held a pupil hostage, ended up getting 40. Guess what race he is? I'm thinking white. I shake it off. I shake it off. All right. Okay. Beige. All right.

What is he? Well, we have to play the game fair. Okay. I don't know what race he is. You don't know what race he is? Nobody knows. Hold on. I think our producer Is telling me something Oh boy

Our producer's Texting me something Hold on What is he Hold on I'm gonna tell you right now It's coming The Kendrick sounds white

It's coming It's coming Whoa it's coming Just hold up a thumb If I think If I think If I think Just hold up a thumb

Oh you text me It ain't come through Eddie Oh okay Eddie got an android Oh Eddie just text me and said He's a nigger oh

oh Eddie with the strong ER no so he's not black actually he's a nigger he's a nigger he's a nigger

I was wrong you were wrong too that's not a rave powerful nigger Dre at work alright alright thank you for that

talking of the day I'm trying not to say that word but this was for research purposes our producer sent it he sent that's what he said oh wow Eddie yes Kendrick you sound white to me All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. I'm trying not to say that word, but this is for research purposes. Research purposes. He said that's what he said. Oh, wow, Eddie. Yes.

Kendrick, you sound white to me. I don't know why. But anyway. All right. When we come back, the brothers from Ghetto Gastro will be joining us. They're from the Bronx. Chefs. They're brothers that have their own products out online. Breakfast products.

They have their own appliances. And we're going to talk to these brothers when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning and peace, BET. BET, peace. The Breakfast Club. Good morning and peace, BET. BET, peace. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building. We have the Ghetto Gastro Collective. Welcome, fellas. Yes, indeed. John Gray, Pierre Serraro, and Lester Walker. Welcome. Peace, indeed.

Good morning. These brothers got their own pastries. I don't want to say Pop-Tarts because Pop-Tarts are Pop-Tarts. These are ghetto gastro. Pop-Tarts. Pop-Tarts. Black-owned pastries. There you go.

Pop-Tart is an opt-art. We got the Bob-Tarts. They call them the ops. Yeah. Tell us what the ghetto gastro collective is. Well, it's a culinary collective born and bred in the Bronx, and we're storytellers, and we use food to tell our stories. So doing experiences, creating products, appliances, just really wanting to highlight the culture.

I see that book everywhere, The Ghetto Gastro Black Power Kitchen. What is a black power kitchen? This is a manifesto to the Bronx. And a black power kitchen is when you take back your liberation, you take back your freedom by feeding the needy, by feeding the people, freeing the Bronx. And the Black Power Kitchen is when you take back your liberation, you take back your freedom by feeding the needy, by feeding the people, freeing the people. Yeah, it's food for thought,

you know? Food, knowledge, it's all a form of power. So we feel like the liberation lies within the soil and we take it from the soil to the oil.

Yeah, we call it our Bible. It's the basic instructions before leaving Earth. So it's a combination of food, art, storytelling, black history, black joy, all in one little artifact right there that you can get everywhere books are sold. Black Power Kitchen. And what's the Crux GG Kitchen Appliance Collection? Well, we brought the toast with the most. Oh, okay.

So we got the toasters as well. So we have the kitchen appliances we did a collaboration with our friends with our partners at crux their new york-based brand shout out to shea hung and the team over there made by gather and we this is our fourth iteration of products we first dropped in williams sonoma we still have products over there um but it the line of appliances range from toasters, coffee maker, air fryers, and a waffle maker as well. We also got the pots and pans and stainless steel cookware, carbon blue steel cookware. Yeah, so basically just throw your oven out in your house and just cop every Coach Gigi appliance you can. Put us on your counter, put us in your cabinet, you know.

See, I got everything, appliances, products. We got to feed the streets. Yeah. And when you talk about the market with target man when you talk about cooking a lot of people don't know that you know your cookware is very important so so break that down because a lot of people have some some peeling cookware some horrible cookware don't know why their meals don't be tasting right or looking right well you know well you gotta start you gotta start with a good appliance first and foremost well our appliances

definitely have you know they're updated with the technology definitely our air fryer is definitely the fastest most crisp turbo boost technology on the air fryers our toaster ovens as well our waffle makers are non-stick so you don't have to deal with a lot of cleanup and a lot of mess and especially if you're using our products like the ghetto gastro pancake and waffle mix and the waffle makers they just seamlessly work all together all in one so it's just you know we make it easy it gets easy in the kitchen there's a pancake waffle mix syrup waffle maker there's a lot of storytelling that goes behind kitchen equipment as well like when you think of your cast iron pan that your great grandmother passed down your grandmother passes down your mother you know a season that's been seasoned for decades you know so we wanted to actually be able to tell that story as well.

So we have a cast iron pan that we have with Crux as well, a wok. We think of storytelling aspects with everything that we put out. How did y'all link up with Target? That's not no play-play partnership right there. Oh, no, no, no. We ain't come to play, man. We came to spray. So Target, you know, we initially linked with them through the Crux partnership that we launched a year and a half two years ago and then we had initially started building on the innovation

pipeline for products because for us with ghetto gastro we started doing exclusive like events with like old mars you got the ap apple and stuff like that but people don't that's not really touching the people so when we hit target we were able to really like that's the stuff that our grandmoms was like yo our friends is talking about it at church. Like we see you. So really being able to make it accessible and inclusive with a capital I versus exclusive with a capital E. That's why I just wanted to bring this stuff to the people, meet them where they are. For a long time, people didn't understand what Ghetto Gastro was.

It was because even today, it's just still an idea that we constantly build upon but you know putting out the book gave something some that people can hold and look at read you know us i feel like it's black people we're very visual people so in the book we have a lot of art from uh some very luminary um black artists interviews from the likes of Emery Douglas, the chairman of the Black Panther Party. We got A$AP Ferg in there. You know, yeah, so. Alright, when we come back,

we got more with the brothers from Ghetto Gastro, so don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We still kicking it with the brothers from Ghetto Gastro. You can pick up their products right now at target and appliances now why plant-based well for plant for plant-based for us is really about teaching and bringing our community back into like the places where we originated as well right we think about our community the black community how

much we put into the culture and everybody's on like this vegan these plant-based vibes but our ancestors have been eating this way since the beginning of time really you know so for us we want to introduce new ways and new flavors for our community things that are also things that are familiar as well so i mean and show people that plants can be delicious i think john probably got some more yeah no and i was just gonna say growing up in the bronx you know north bronx especially carb city gun hill road a lot of jama, West Indians, so the Itow cuisine and the Rastafarians, it's like, same thing. Like, you see, shout out to Hailey Bieber and all of them, but you see Hailey Bieber, like, talking about Seamoss, but we've been doing Seamoss. Like, I used to wake up to Seamoss and wheatgrass, you know what I mean?

Like, knock a cough out before going to school. So, just really, like, taking control of our stories and and like we said taking the power back will people be able to tell it's plant-based by the taste or what did y'all do to like eliminate the that plant-based taste the first key for us is always just to make the most delicious thing because it's like we have a jerk chicken we call it twerk chicken we have a jerk chicken recipe in the book so it's not like we only eat plants, but you just want to move a plant forward. So you have a balanced diet and you manage your glucose levels. But for us, it's about flavor first because nobody cares about what story you're telling if the flavor's not right.

You know what I'm saying? So for us, that's the first key to success. That's the first pillar. Is it tough selling the idea of organic and plant-based food to the hood? I think we'll find out right now because our product's just launched in Target stores nationwide. Run it up. Run it up. This is the point.

Everybody talks about getting on the shelves at Target, but for us, it's really about now we have to move those units and show up for our community and show up for each other. Support black-owned entrepreneurs, black-owned businesses, and move these units. But we'll see. Honestly, hopefully it's not hard to sell delicious and nutritious pastries to our community and food offerings to them, but we'll find out. How difficult was it to get that shelf space? Everybody says who gets the shelf space is always where they put you on the shelves as well.

It's a grind. And we at high level, high level. So it's like we have really good, really good placement. But Target, they really rock with us. They believe in us. And it's a great partnership. And for us, it makes sense because, you know, when people feel fancy, they say Target. So for us, it's like we can hit the mass distribution but still maintain a certain level of sexy.

Y'all got a new Audible series too, right? The Cut with Ghetto Gastro? In the Cut with Ghetto Gastro. Yes, indeed. What can people learn from that? They can learn about the chopped cheeses. You can learn with sea moss, the benefits of sea moss, how we've been using it for centuries. You can learn about hood Chinese food.

You know, you can learn because you think about hood Chinese food and the stories behind that can learn. Yeah, because you think about hood Chinese food and the stories behind that. It's like, that's the first time I ever had seafood. Right.

Like, my dad is allergic to seafood, so we never cooked it in the crib. So my only seafood recollection was shrimp fried rice. Right. Which is wild,

but crab sticks. Not even made with real crab, but they're just delicious. You know, you know, you can learn all type of things like that as well. Yeah.

The audio series, and like kind of what Les was saying, we kind of extend on some of the subject matter that's in our book, Black Power Kitchen. And in the cut, we talk about different aspects of like pizza. No pizza spots. Piedaguas and stuff in the summer in New York. Just different parts of our life and our community that have made us who we are. And it's a little bit of food as well so we in the kitchen we're cooking so we're talking about the foods and how they've impacted us and our communities around us and also putting some of those flavors together as well so it's a it's an audio a little asmr a little flavor in your ear some of those vibes that's dope and what's

what's what's next for ghetto gastro uh man the focus is blowing target out the doors this is like getting on shelf is step one of like a thousand steps. But we plan to keep doing this because the goal is to really nourish the world so they can eat better and live better lives. So this is the first step. And we got more to come, more media. Hopefully we collaborate. You know what I'm saying? It would only make sense, right?

Breakfast Club and Ghetto Gastro. Breakfast Club and the Breakfast Thugs. It feels right. It feels right. It feels right. You know, so, yeah, that's the vibes, you know, just like to keep feeding the people. And it's in Target right now, so they can go to Target right now and get it. Nationwide. Nationwide.

Online, 1,900 doors everywhere. Run it up. Target, you know how we play. Run, don't walk, man. Run it up. Run up. Yeah, yeah. We're going to get it. Tell them where to find y'all man

find us at ghetto gastro everywhere ghetto gastro dot com at ghetto gastro on instagram tiktok there's so many

social media youtube everywhere everywhere everything is ghetto gastro I'm chef P I'm ghetto gray John Gray

aka ghetto gray chef Lester Walker on the gram alright well we appreciate you brothers I'm Chef P. I'm Ghetto Gray. John Gray, a.k.a. Ghetto Gray. Chef Lester Walker. All right. Well, we appreciate you, brothers, from Ghetto Castro. Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning. Thank y'all. The Breakfast Club.

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not sure from the reaction I just heard in the room that is a good question I just asked you a question I wasn't I was just posing questions to our listeners

is there a reward for people that you know still OPPV that's all I'm just trying to see I'm nervous huh what you say we are the breakfast club we have the the ladies from the That's all I'm just trying to see I'm nervous Huh?

What you say? We are the Breakfast Club We have the ladies From the We Talk Back podcast AJ and Tam Bam here Yeah Got light over there? Yeah we don't have no

PPPs over here I don't think Alright let's get to the rumors Let's talk to What did we do yesterday? Living Black Let's talk to What did we do yesterday? Live in Black Let's talk it Rumor has it Rumor

Rumor has it Call out a name Or you gossiping Or you chatty Alright I'm gossiping This is the rumor report I mean I guess We on the breakfast club

This is where the tea spills Right? Right Now last night Was our Live in Black event We celebrated 50th Anniversary of hip hop It was hosted by

Our very own Jess Hilarious Salute to Jess Jess Hilarious Drop on the clues our very own Jess Hilarious. Salute to Jess Hilarious. Drop on the clues, boss, for Jess Hilarious. Our good sister did a phenomenal job hosting that event. She sure did. Performances by Usher, Miguel, Glorilla, Coco Jones, and more.

And I just want to tell y'all, Charlamagne's an ass. Why? So, for people that don't know, when we were introducing Usher, we came up with the three things we were going to say, right? Justin was going to say he's a legend. I was supposed to say he's an icon. And Shawn Mendes was supposed to say, what were we supposed to say?

I don't remember. He's a walking what? Oh, a walking memorial. A walking memorial, right? A walking memorial. So, that's what we said. I bet. Let's go team on three.

One, two, three, team. So, we go up there. So, Justin was like, he's an icon. So, I'm supposed to say legend, right? He cuts me bet. Let's go team on three. One, two, three, team. So we go up there. So Jess was like, he's an icon. So I'm supposed to say legend, right? He cuts me off. He's a legend. So now I'm supposed to say his line. I don't remember his line.

So I said that line too? Yo. What you found, man? So you didn't get to say anything? No, I just studied because I didn't know what I was supposed to say because I knew what I was supposed to say, but he's an ass. But anyway. David Ruffin, man.

Nobody came to see you, Otis. Just called me last night laughing about that. I forgot all about it. Yeah, you did that, you ass. But anyway, Living Black was last night. Besides that, they had appearances from Warren G, Roddy Ricch, Lola Brooke. And then Charlamagne got the chance to talk best hip-hop or most important hip-hop albums of all time well actually I was talking to uh Elliot Connie we have a clip or something yeah we do ultimately

when we look back at these two albums we're going to say to ourselves these are the two most important hip-hop albums of all time and that was Jay-Z uh 444 and Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morales and the Big Step was right and I'm hearing these lyrics and I was just like man I wonder what how Elliot would translate some of these lyrics as a as a psychotherapist. Because when we think about where hip hop has been the last 50 years, this is where hip hop is and where it's going. Wow. It's going to be amazing. So these bars that you absolutely start with Jay-Z in the song Kill Jay-Z. He says, and you know better. And word, I word i know you do but you got to do better you owe it to blue you had no father you had the armor but you got a daughter gotta get softer the first

thing i think about when i hear that is accountability i think i think very often when we talk about the origin of our problems we use that as an excuse or at least an explanation for our current behavior yeah man i was talking to elliot connie who's a psychotherapist and the reason i do think uh mr morale and the big step was by kendrick and 444 by jay the two most important hip-hop albums of all time is because of the content they're talking about you know going to therapy doing the work on yourself as men you know what i mean being a better father being a better husband they're talking about issues with with their fathers and how that affects us as men they talk about killing the ego right like in the

future you know people gonna look back and realize like oh man that's the those are the those are the albums that got me started on my healing journey that's right now yesterday I got a chance to speak with HBCU students so we all we all got a opportunity to decide what we wanted to work with and Charlamagne of course wanted to talk these hip hop albums and mental health. And for me, it's always, you know, financial literacy or definitely HBCU, because, of course, I graduated from Hampton University. So I got a chance to sit down with some HBCU students that were in the communications major and try to just encourage them. And we were able to offer them something.

My major was business, but I wanted to do radio. And I was a DJ and I spent the years of grinding and doing parties and leaving at four o'clock in the morning, sleeping at the radio station with no pillow on the floor, waking up and doing radio, learning radio, and loving radio. But this is not part of the script, but I would love for you guys to come to New York City and sit in on a breakfast club for a day.

So you can sit next to me and that crazy ass guy you know the craziest guy with the bullhead shorts oh yes call him my husband charlamagne yeah so you guys are invited to sit behind the scenes with us and you can check out everything from filming to teasing to us doing interviews to us being on tv on bet and everything that's involved with the breakfast club so if you guys would like we would like to have y'all as our guest on the breakfast club. All right. Consider it accepted. OK, that was my least favorite part of living black. But I will say what? What?

You're a hater. Shout out to those HBCU students. I know a lot of HBCU students have communications majors. They want to get a radio. They don't know where to start. So Charlamagne and myself will have will host those individuals up here and be able to see behind the scenes how it works and hopefully encourage them more to stay in communications. Yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed living black yesterday as a person who doesn't listen to radio. Shut up. Don't say that. As a person who doesn't listen to radio, I thoroughly enjoyed living black. It sounded great. And I want to hear more big events like that on the radio. It sounded like a live event on the radio from the performances

to the conversations i thoroughly enjoyed it yeah absolutely all right now uh steph curry he's in a rap video now now can we can we play it again so i'm gonna say his his name wrong i call him toby toby no we go did i say right no but i know who you're talking about you know i'm talking about so he has a new video a new single called little fish big pond and in the first bars it's like uh curry steph curry rapping so he's rapping like being steph curry but steph curry's in the video rapping people are talking about i thought it was pretty dope so oh so that was toby rapping that wasn't steph that was toby rapping got you but he's rapping as he is steph curry oh yeah i like him i like toby i know exactly what you're talking about Cause that didn't sound secular

I would think that Steph Curry would be Making some type of Oh no he wouldn't be Making secular music He'd be making some type Of Christian music Well I wasn't secular

I was just talking about That sounded secular That's what I said I thought you said So wait Steph Curry is in the video Being rapping Or no

No I'm confused It's Toby's rapping But Steph's lip syncing it right Yes Oh okay Yes yes yes, yes.

And that is your rumor report. I didn't get into Method Man. He was on Men's Health Magazine. He was just talking about it was the hip hop, his life issue. He talks about battling depression. He also talks about that he's not a sex symbol. He said he's not a sex symbol. He said, you don't put those words together, sex and symbol.

What's the symbol? I'm not doing anything. So what is the symbol? But you ladies feel differently? Yes, he's very much a sex symbol very sexy yes yeah i mean speaking from experience of being a sex symbol it's one of those things where you know you don't choose all right and that is your rumor report. All right. When you look at Charlamagne, do you think Uncle Snacky or Stale Snacky? They don't look at me and know.

No, I've known him way too long to even look at him. I've known Ashley for 23 years. I'm sorry for you. I love about 21. He's my OG homies right here. What are you talking about? I'd be highly offended when I see people try and play you like you don't, couldn't look like Morris Chestnut. See what I'm saying? Very recently. Yeah, I be wanting to fight for him.

For the first couple of times. The delusion is real. Let me look from this way. Anybody beat up? Rhonda Ayers. It's Rhonda Ayers. Every ball-headed black dude. I see it on the ears. You do not look like Morris Chestnut, bro.

Jennifer Hudson's just out here hating. You see? You know what happened? She ended up hating. Now she with Common. You know how that's going. You know what's going on. You get that hate out your heart.

And that is your rumor report. So when you started hating, you ended up with Common. People's Choice mixes up next. 800-585-1051. Got to remind you, my car show is August 26th, 27th in New York City. We're finally coming back home in the Tri-State area. It's a two-day show, so no matter if you need to go on Saturday or Sunday, it's going to be a lot of fun.

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And I just got to salute again. I live in black last night. It was a great experience. Performances from Miguel Usher. Charlemagne had a great conversation. I had a great conversation

about HBCUs. It was a lot going on. So I just want to say salute to everybody that checked it out. And you can go to our YouTube page or Facebook channel if you missed it.

It was hosted by the good sister, Jess Hilarious. I sat with Elliot Connie, who's a psychotherapist. It was a phenomenal event. And y'all dropped a new episode today, right? Yeah, no, yeah. Today's Thursday. Yeah, I'm out this morning. Y'all go tune in. Yeah, We Talk Back podcast

drops every Thursday on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. What's this week's episode about? What y'all addressing? So Tam says I'm a serial monogamist. One man at a time no it's nothing wrong with it I mean she's just like goes from relationship and then she's in another room full-fledged relationship anyway I just like one person at a time I don't like the traditional deep it's just modern-day dating around I don't like the traditional modern day dating around.

I don't agree with that. What? I ain't never seen you with no whole bunch of boyfriends. No, not a whole bunch of boyfriends. It's just like she'll be with someone and very locked in

and then be with someone else and very locked in. Very locked in. I think you're making this up, Tammy. Me too. Y'all tune in and we talk back. On your iHeartRadio app. You're making this up.

I'm not. Well, tell them how they can listen. Yeah, tune in every Thursday on iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts at. And I'm sorry for you that you've known this guy 23 years. I don't know how you do it.

A long time, man. We met when I did radio at Hot 98.9 in Charleston, a station that no longer exists. We had a promotion called Crush the Haters and the Nas Navigator. This is when Nas'

I Am album came out. Hit Me Now came out. And we all took a stretch navigator to go see Nas at the House of Blues in Miami. A stretch navigator.

Myrtle Beach. What's it? Miami. It definitely wasn't Miami. That's a long ass ride. It was definitely Myrtle Beach. Yeah, It was definitely Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I was 25 minutes from the house. All right.

It was definitely Myrtle Beach. All right. When we come back, positive notice to Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, we have the ladies from the We Talk Back podcast with us, AJ and Tam Bam.

And tomorrow, they're going to be joining us as well for Freaky Freaky Friday. And you got a Freaky Freaky Friday question already. I do. now we have the ladies from the We Talk Back podcast with us AJ and Tam Bam and tomorrow they're going to be joining us as well for Freaky Freaky Friday and you got a Freaky Freaky Friday question already I do give them a little hint

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