The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Bill Cosby Reacts to Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Passing, Breakfast Club Tribute + Malcolm-Jamal Warner Interview

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

The Breakfast Club honors Malcolm Jamal Warner, who tragically passed away from accidental drowning at age 54. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a Florida mother who left her 2-year-old in a hot car while she watched a Smurfs movie. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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news like you heard yesterday about the tragic passing of Malcolm Jamal Warner, then you know that life is not promised in any way, shape or form. There's just really nothing you can do to duck deaf when it's your time. No, very sad, very sad. Rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner, condolences to his family.

Just, it's just sad because- You think about all the situations that you try to avoid as a person, right? Like, you know, just to prolong this thing called life. Right. But damn, you on family vacation. Right. With your family. Right. Your damn, you on family vacation. Right. With your family.

Right. Your wife and your daughter. Just doing what we all do on vacation. In the water, enjoying the swim, and a current takes you out. Pulls you in. Man, come on man. Pulls you in, man.

Come on man. That's why I always be having these conversations with myself, just about karma and energy. I don't know if I believe in any of that. You live it because I feel like that's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to put out what you want to get back. But I don't know if any of that really is true. Yeah, for TransSense. I don't know either, but you live right regardless because you just want to be a good person.

That's right. The thing with Malcolm Jamal, one, of course we all grew up on him, right? So we've seen him grow through his shows, through the Cosby Show, through Malcolm and Eddie, through all the things that he did. So it almost feels like you have a personal relationship with him. Absolutely. And what makes it even crazier is, you know, I was on my book tour three weeks ago and I just did a podcast.

And we sat down for about, I would say about two hours. And we didn't talk about music, we didn't talk about the industry, all we did was just talking about being a dad and how happy he was being a dad and he was telling about his relationships and that he got married at I think at like 45 years old and he found the one and he was so excited

and just so proud of his family and he'd like to do the little things. He'd like, you know, it's cool when you run into another dad that's like you that cares about all this other stuff. You just care about being a father and showing up and putting the different things. Well that's most good fathers though. Most good fathers care about being a father. Most good fathers don't care about anything else except being there for their sons and

daughters. That is correct. But a lot of people are, they say they're good fathers but they're not. Well they're not good fathers. Exactly. We don't even talk about that. Exactly. If you're not doing those little but they're not. They're not good fathers. Exactly. We don't even talk about that. Exactly.

If you're not doing those little things, you're not a good dad. But we were talking about just, you know, like, you know, going to your dad, your daughter's dance and knowing the dance and you know your daughter's chair and how proud you are when they win. Being a father. It's the most amazing feeling. Actually being a father. And we sat there for two hours and me, Gear, and himself, and we just spoke about it.

It was just amazing conversation. So when I seen that yesterday, it hit very close to home, because I'm like, damn, he wasn't doing nothing. Wow. That's what I'm saying. Like we do all of these things. Doing something crazy.

We do all of these things. He was on vacation. We do all of these things to prolong our life, and all of these things we try to avoid, but literally you just on family vacation with your wife and your daughter, and you know, something like that happens to you. Something that tragic happens to you.

So you know you just can't avoid it. So every single day that you wake up you should really truly thank God for this thing called life because you just never ever ever ever know. That's right well we're going to replay one of our interviews with him when he pulled up on us. You know the first time Malcolm Jamal Warner ever came up here was in 2023. When we relocated to this new studio we called the Black Mothership. It was January of 2023, like the first week of January. We had just got back from vacation. He was the first guest

to bless this new studio. That's right. He was the first guest. So we're going to get that back on and just celebrate his life a little bit. And if you get an opportunity, go to his YouTube page where he has his podcast. You can see some of those dope conversations that he had. Just being a husband and a father, which is crazy. I think the last one that he did was me and Gia, my wife. So definitely check those out. We're gonna get that on this morning.

We got front page news next. Don't go anywhere. It's the get that on this morning. We got front page news next don't go anywhere It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning. Everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club Let's get in some front page news Now some quick sports Chris Paul has agreed to go to the LA Clippers for his last season This would be his 21st NBA season. He's saying after this is rap So he's oh, he's playing for the Clippers for his last season yeah I mean he had a great run with the Clippers that's right way back when so and the clip was a

championship contender so I like to see people that have had great careers that have never won rings at the end of their careers that's what they should be trying to do win a ring I hate when they just be on some team that you know don't have a chance in hell but the Clippers uh they got a shot yeah they got uh Bradley bill now too yeah they got a shot why Leonard what's up Morgan James Harden all right okay okay keep talking it i like that all right hey y'all hey how y'all feeling on the Tuesday good good all right let's get into first on front page uh the former Louisville police officer convicted in relation to the death of Breonna Taylor is being sentenced to 33 months in prison. Brett Hankinson was found guilty of violating Taylor's civil rights when he fired blindly

into her apartment in 2020 during a botched raid. Now his bullets didn't hit anyone and last week the Department of Justice recommended he only receive one day behind bars. Before sentencing, four protesters were arrested outside the courthouse, including Breonna Taylor's aunt, attorney Benjamin Crump, Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, and her boyfriend, Kenny Walker, who was there spoke out outside or spoke outside the courthouse during a press conference following the sentencing. And here's what Breonna Taylor, excuse me, here's what attorney Ben Crump had to say about that sentence. We thank the judge for her attention to detail and for setting the record straight that he

was convicted of depriving Brianna Taylor of her civil rights, Fourth Amendment seizure, and that is a crime that we acknowledge in America that you go to prison for. So he is going to prison and we have to keep watching as to when he is going to go to prison. So Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor's mother and her boyfriend Kenny Walker also spoke outside the courthouse and they talked about whether or not they felt like they received justice. Let's take a listen to their comments. We got a bill like we got something. Yeah, we got something.

I don't think it was. It was a fair sentencing, but it was a start. I'm grateful for the small piece of justice that we got. It's definitely not what I was expecting. And um, Brett Hankinson told me I was going to go to jail for the rest of my life. So I definitely feel some type of something to see him going for, even if it's a little time. Yeah! Come on! There's so much going on in the world that I forgot that trial was even happening.

And I forgot what the cop was on trial for. So less than three years, is that the appropriate sentence? I mean, if they're happy about it, I mean, we should be too, right? I guess, you know, it's certainly a stark contrast from one day. So you know, 33 months goes to show that, you know, some, at least some justice can be served or at least to your point point the family is semi-satisfied. So yeah, so in other news, some civil rights activists are criticizing the release of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination file.

The Trump administration released thousands of pages yesterday. That's not what Discrete's asking for. Discrete's asking for the MSD files. They're not going to deflect. Don't try to distract. That's not what Discrete's asking for. Discrete's asking for the MSD files. I was going to get to that, but yeah, pretty much that's what it is.

The Trump administration released thousands of pages yesterday all related to King's 1968 death. Atlanta's King Center called it ill-timed. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the documents detail the FBI's investigation into the assassination, discussing potential leads and information about the assassin, uh, James Earl Ray's former cellmate and more. What Reverend Al Sharpton called it a desperate attempt to distract the firestorm over Trump, not unsealing files over Jeffrey Epstein's death.

Yeah. Magga did not call. Magga did not call for no MLK Jr. assassination files. That's not what MAGA wants. Listen to your base, Trump. MAGA wants them Epstein files, okay? No, for real, but House Speaker Mike Johnson says there won't be a vote on releasing those files related

to Epstein before lawmakers at least go on break in recess in August. So we will have to wait to see if those files get released following the August recess. Remember I told y'all last week, early last week when all of this first started happening, I was like, you won't see so much flooding of the zone. Meaning there's gonna be so many different news stories that come out that try to distract and deflect from the Mepstein files. And boy, he's been throwing some stuff against the wall, but it ain't nothing sticking because

everybody want to want to see the Mepstein files. People want to know. All right, y'all. So that's your front page news for 6 a.m. at 7. We'll get into what's happening with the... We'll get into more presidential news. We'll get into it. Yeah.

All right. Well, thank you, Morgan. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open again. 800-585-105-1 What up Jess? What's that man? You all greened out right now looking trendy and fly! Love that, thank you. Okay, get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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Hey, good morning, Envy. This is OG Wayne at Los Angeles. Good morning, everybody. Morning, OG Wayne. Why you up so early, man? It's 3.13 out there. 3.13 in the morning. Well, three something in the morning.

Hey Will, you know Charley man. Good morning my man, man. How you doing? Bless Black and Holly's favorite brother. How are you? Yes you are. I'm just calling in. Wait a minute, hold on.

Let me slow my roll. Is my queen just there? I'm here, how you doing? Good morning. Beautiful, I just have to say good morning to you. You know here. How you doing? Good morning. Beautiful. I just have to say good morning to you. You know, you're the queen of the morning. Good morning.

I appreciate that. So, no. But I just want to touch on Malcolm Jamal Warner, you know, a real young brother that was doing it the right way. Yes, sir. And never did let his celebrity go to his head. He always stayed grand. He was just a real man.

And I just want to say to everybody that I'm born in 1954. I'm an old man. You know, thank God. But everybody got to repent for that sin, you know, and be born again in Jesus' name because you just never know, you know, when your time is up.

That's right. And just take care of each other, you know what I'm saying? You know, Charlamagne, you a good dude, got a great family. Ember, you a good dude, great family. Jess, you a beautiful queen, great family. You know, I only want the best for all y'all and y'all family.

And I want the listeners to be blessed also. But just take heed to my little words and thanks for taking my call and love all y'all. Love y'all too, okay? Thank you, brother. Hello, who's this? Yeah, what's going on, Andrew? Good morning. Morning all y'all. Love y'all too, King. Thank you, brother. Thank you, brother. Hello, who's this? Yeah, what's going on?

Good morning. Morning, morning, morning. Charlamagne, good morning. Good morning, King. How you doing, brother? Yes. How are you? I'm good, man.

How are you? Good, good, good. Let's black and holly favored, man. Yeah, respect. Hey, Charlamagne, man, I talked to you before about trying to help us put together a Motor Beach R&B music festival. Yes, sir. Come on, Chalamet, man. You know the South don't hardly get nothing.

You know what I'm saying like that, man. You know, we got the country music fest. That's fire. You know, we got the gospel fest. That's fire. You know, we got the jazz fest coming through. That's fire. But, man, we need something else down here, Chalamet.

Oh, I agree. As far as I understand, as far as I understand, we got the boots on the ground, we ain't getting ready to come through, that's fine. But Salome, man, if we could put together R&B Murder Beach Music Fest, that really put us where we need to be. I know Brenda, but Thune, personally,

I used to cook for her husband and his business partner. I don't know, man, maybe that might get the ball rolling. But man, let's talk about it, you know what I'm partner. I don't know man. Maybe that might get the ball rolling Let's talk about it. You know I'm saying I don't have the bandwidth right now I'm not even gonna lie to you right now, but like that that is definitely something for the future. Yeah Yeah, I'm gonna put you on hold and get your information. Get his information for me Eddie. Yeah that you know what this is crazy Cuz I'm actually gonna bring the um the car show to the Carolinas next year We've been trying to get the problem is you said you want our be made your car. I'm gonna tell you something He was talking about bringing different things

He wants to bring an R&B festival, but he was talking about bringing different things to the city Well, they get a lot of car shows where people can do it. Mine is a little different Yeah, they call it like car shows a big in South Carolina. Yeah, I'm saying we're gonna do one in I think either Charlotte or Columbia we gonna do one in, I think, either Charlotte or Columbia, but we're gonna do one next year. We've been looking for the space, and we just try to do things where people can do things outside of just go to the club,

and something where you can bring families in these carnival rides, and these games for kids, and not just cars where adults are there. Yeah, like the car shows in Columbia, like you gonna have to do it real big, because you know, back in the day, it used to be like, my man Big Mo and Black, they'd bring like, Plies, Boosie. Yeah, now we not bringing artists, we, it the day, it used to be like, my man Big Mo and Black, they'd bring like, Plies, Boozy.

Now we not bringing artists, mine is gonna be family. Mine is family, I want you to bring your kids. Kids five and under free, we gonna do it like that. Kids like Boozy? Kids like Plies? Okay, I don't have no performance. I'm telling you, I'm gonna have three year olds, four year olds, and five year olds.

I'm just telling you, you know what, I'm just saying, South Carolina, their car shows are a big deal. I didn't say they wasn't a big deal. I just said, I'm bringing mine down there. We need more though. That's what? I'm just saying, the South Carolina car shows are a big deal. I didn't say they wasn't a big deal. I just said I'm bringing mine down there. We need more though. That's all I said. I said I'm bringing mine down there.

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I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm doing good morning. Get it off your chest. Good morning. Good morning, y'all. Hey, Charlamagne. Peace, Michelle, how are you? I'm amazing. I'm doing good at all things considered.

So just like you said, not from Jamal Warner, like grew up with us. I'm 50 years old. I just turned 50, July 7th. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday. Happy birthday.

Cancer gang gang. Thank you so much. Yeah, cancellation. I had a tough time sleeping last night. Like when you hit 50 Happy birthday Yeah I had a tough time sleeping last night like when you hit 50 and then you see someone 54 just lose their life so tragically who grew up with you. Well, not literally but you know figuratively Oh my god, you guys I stopped I got out the power and I said let me call them Yeah, man, you know,, you know I'm glad you said something, you said something just now

that's also accurate man. You know a lot of times I see people get on social media and they be like, you know praying for the family of Michael Jamal Warner. When you heard the news, did you really stop and pray? Cause that's what I do when I hear tragic situations. Like I really stop in that moment, and I pray for that brother in that moment.

You know, people be so quick to post and wanna get content up and act like they care, but do you really really care in that moment you know Man. You smile as well. Man. I will, thank you. Love you guys. Love you too. All right, bye bye. Yeah, again, rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner, man. I'm telling you, man, it's the way he went out too. It's like, yo, man, we try so hard to avoid putting ourselves in situations that could be potentially dangerous.

There's nothing that has your guard down more and makes you feel safer than being on vacation with your family, swimming in the water. And that's just the active nature that, you know, you can't control. My God. My God. Not at all. Not at all. And we're gonna get back on our interview with him in the next hour when he stopped. He was the first guest in this new studio. So we're gonna get get that back on and the thing is that he was just a good brother like a good Super solid dude, you know, I mean so we're gonna get that back on in a little bit We got intentional with the way he lived his that's right and we got the latest with Lauren. Yes, we do We're gonna you know continue to pay tribute to Malcolm. Jamal Warner. All right, we'll get to that. It's the breakfast club

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In June of 2024, he decided to launch his podcast, Not All Hood, and he talked a lot about why this podcast was so special to him because it's centered around discussing the lives and experiences of Black Americans, which he was really big on doing and platforming. So I want to, you know, right now, let's take a listen to Malcolm talking about why he was so excited about fatherhood and being a husband. Let's take a listen. I met my wife, I was 45. And I had spent, I spent more of my adult years in long term relationships than not. Okay.

But when I met my wife at 45, I was like, I got it. Everybody said when they say, when you know, you know, and that always sounded, and being in these long-term relationships, that always sounded like a really cool concept. But when I met my wife, I was like, I had, there was, you know, after a couple months, I was like, oh, that's what the You know, I get it But when I think about Had I got married any earlier? I know I definitely would not have been as effective a husband and father as I am now

Yeah, yeah, that was a when we actually did his podcast me and my wife gear We would you know from our book tour, but he was just talking about how much he loved his wife and how much he loved his daughter and how he enjoyed being a father. And that was like the highlight of his life at that time. Yes. You know, doing those events, going to the school and doing the things like that. And that's what we were really sat there for two hours and just discussed that me and my

wife and him just discussed being a father and being a relationship So solid good brother. Yes, and when we talk about I know you guys were talking about earlier when we open the show this morning Just about kind of like some of the circumstances I do want to just fill in some of that of like what happened as well Because we talked about like family you guys were talking about family vacay. My uncle Chris is definitely somebody worth talking about He was the kind of guy that lived in a trailer with an ex-con and a retired stripper, left loaded machine guns laying around, drank a bottle of whiskey a night, claimed he could kill a man with his bare hands, drove a garbage truck for a living, spoke

fluent Spanish with a thick southern accent, and is currently buried in a crypt alongside the founding families of Panama. Listen to the Uncle Chris podcast to hear all about him and a whole lot more. Wild stories about adventure, romance, crime, history, and war intertwine as I share the tall tales and hard truths that have helped me understand Uncle Chris. This collection of stories will make you laugh, it'll make you cry, and if I do my job right,

they'll let you see the world and your place in it in a whole new way. I can't wait to tell you all about Uncle Chris. Listen now to Uncle Chris on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Kelly Harnett spent over a decade in prison

for a murder she says she didn't commit. I'm 100% innocent. While behind bars, she learned the law from scratch. Because oh God, Harnett, jailhouse lawyer. And as she fought for herself, she also became a lifeline for the women locked up alongside her. You're supposed to have faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. So many of these women had lived the same stories. I said, were you a victim of domestic violence?

And she was like, yeah. But maybe Kelly could change the ending. I said, how many people have gotten other incarcerated individuals out of here? I'm going to be the first one to do that. This is the story of Kelly Harnett, a woman who spent 12 years fighting not just for her own freedom, but her girlfriends too. I think I have a mission from God

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In 2020, I had a simple idea. Let's find Reggie. We searched everywhere, but Reggie was gone. In February 2020, Reggie was having a diabetic episode. His mom called 911. Police cuffed him face down. He slipped into a coma and died. I'm like thanking you, but then I see my son's not moving. No headlines, no outrage, just silence. So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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And you'll meet the team behind the scenes at Authram, the Houston lab that takes on the most hopeless cases, to finally solve the unsolvable. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Earlier, Malcolm Jemaw Warner was on a family vacation in Costa Rica with his family when the drowning incident happened. So, people, for sure, y'all talking about sending prayers yesterday. I think I know for me, that was one of the first things I did when I heard the story was pray for his wife and his daughter. And what's also insane is he, he talked a lot about the fact that he waited because he wanted to make sure

that he got it right when he became a dad, became a dad later in life. And there was a moment on his Instagram that he shared was from his daughter's birthday, where he, he had like this sunflower in his in his ear and people were like why you have the sunflower he begin to talk about you know let's take a listen to he talks about his relationship with his daughter a bit more yes I got the flower in my hair today's my daughter's birthday she put the flower there so I'm rocking it this is beautiful day here in Atlanta I just wanted to shout out and just spread some love and some good cheer and

you know life life is out here life right for me and for everybody else but just wanted to remind you as I remind myself that no matter what's going on there's always a reason to smile like if you just take a minute to stop and take stock I guarantee you can find at least one reason to smile. And if for some reason you can't find a reason to smile, then that's probably the best time to be the reason for somebody else to smile. Buy a smile for yourself and be a reason for someone else to smile. That's all I got. Listen to love because it's been a minute. Peace and love and I'll be back soon. Man, blessings to that brother, man. I'm telling you, man, we spend all this time

trying to avoid potential dangerous situations just so we can prolong this thing called life and this brother was just out with his family on vacation doing something we all do when we on vacation swimming and something tragic like that happens, man. Life is not promised to anybody. Yeah.

They said, I guess when it happened, somebody else was taken to the hospital. Was that a family member or that was just a random person? That person hasn't been confirmed as a family member. They're just being listed as a second individual from the reports that I saw. They were injured during the incident. According to the Costa Rican Red Cross,

the second individual was rushed to a local clinic and is in critical condition. Their current condition as of right now is unknown. But yeah, they're I mean, of course, they're doing their investigations trying to figure out more of what happened and all of the things. But Malcolm Jamal Warner was declared, you know, dead at the scene and then this person was taken to the hospital. Wow, man, really pray for that brother, man. Before you run the social media and post about

how this situation makes you feel, take the time to really pray for that brother Malcolm Jamal Warner. Take the time to really pray for that brother's family. I know we feel like we knew Malcolm Jamal Warner because of the roles he played, but that was a man with a real family who knew him in a real way and they are going through it in ways that we don't understand. So take the time to think about them before you think about yourself. And I was thinking about his father, man, because he spoke about his father so much and how much his father, you know, poured into him. And now his father has to bury his child. Yeah. And he actually sat down with Melissa Ford and he talked a

lot about his relationship with his dad and his legacy that he wanted to leave. We have that clip. Let's take a listen. Life. It's's it's fragile and in the blink of an eye, you never know. You never know. So speaking of legacy, what do you hope that your legacy is is going to be? Because I'm 54. I think about that a lot. So it's actually I remember, I remember my mother said to me one time that Mr. Cosby gave you immortality. Facts. That is very true. Right. So I know on one lane, there is there's legacy there. But also because my life, you know, those former years were always about life beyond Cosby. Right? So I feel like, okay, there's that legacy there. But then, because I've had this full life, you know, after that show, there's another lane of legacy that I get to leave and I'm still working through that.

Yes. Rest in peace. You just got to live and be intentional about living. Be intentional about being a good person. Because you want to be a good person. Being a good person doesn't mean bad things won't happen to you. You just hope they won't. But being a good person doesn't mean bad things won't happen to you. You know, you just hope they won't. But being a good person doesn't guarantee that.

So you just got to be a good person for the sake of being a good person. Humanity, that's right. Rest in peace. And again, condolences to that brother's family. That is so sad. Yeah. All right. Well, that is the latest with Lauren.

And about, I would say about 10 minutes, we're going to replay the interview when he came up here. He was the first guest in our new studio. January of 2023. And we're gonna get that back on. He was so appreciative of both interviews. He came up here, of the conversations, and we played his music. He was so excited.

And he just said it just sparked so much conversation, so much talk online, and we're gonna get that back on. So don't go anywhere, front page news is next. It's The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Moody everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are The Breakfast Club.

Let's get back to some Front Page News. Now for quick sports, salute to Chris Paul. He's agreed to deal, I'm not sure what the deal was, but his last deal, because this is the last expected final season, he's gonna be playing with the Clippers so congratulations to Chris Paul he had an amazing career what's up Morgan hey yeah hey so I do want to give a quick weather alert just kind of a heads up that severe weather could cause flash

flooding in the Midwest and on the East Coast this week elsewhere a heat dome could send temperatures soaring into triple digits. The flooding risk is greatest across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. So please take heed to any local alerts that come to your phone and your TVs and things like that through across media. Meanwhile, places like Kansas City and Dallas could see 100 degrees or more. Forecasters say the heat wave may stick around for a while thanks to drought and limited rainfall in places like Kansas and Nebraska.

In other news, the White House is blaming the policies or Biden policies for, excuse me, the White House is blaming the policies of former President Biden for the shooting of an off-duty police patrol officer in New York City, an off duty border patrol officer. Now spokesperson, White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt says Biden's immigration policies allowed for the suspect and illegal immigrants who enter the US and roam free. She added that that's the reason why

President Trump won 2024's election. Let's take a listen to her comments. This tragedy that took place over the weekend at the hands of yet another illegal alien invader who was allowed into our country and released by the Biden administration. This is exactly why President Trump was elected into office with an overwhelming mandate to secure our homeland. So the officer was shot in the face and is expected to survive that incident.

Meanwhile, Border Enforcement Director Tom Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the Border Patrol officer. Now Russo from the Department of Homeland Security calls the Border Patrol officer a hero while New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the goal is to get dangerous people off the streets. Let's take a listen to their comments in part. That's Frank Russo from the department of Homeland Security and New York City mayor Eric Adams.

He did exactly what we ask of all of our officers under the circumstances. He executed our mission, which is to protect the country. Migrant and asylum seekers who are bringing violence and really tarnish the reputation of those who come to this country to pursue the American dream. So the NYPD alleges Miguel Francisco Nunez shot the border patrol officer who returned fire during an apparent botched robbery. Nunez has been wanted for numerous crimes in New York. President Trump says Mora was apprehended at the border for illegally

coming in in 2023 under the Biden administration, but instead of being deported, he was released. Yeah, it's horrible what happened to that officer. And I feel like the climate of the country we live in is what leads, you know, to stuff like that. And it's sad that, you know, that situation is going to be politicized you know for the next few days. Yeah absolutely um well switching gears let's take a listen listen up if you use power stick deodorant and then i'm gonna get up out of here. Nobody use no deodorant have you smelled these

people in the morning? Have you been outside lately? So power stick deodorant users, not calling you losers, but listen up. Over 67,000 cases of roll on deodorant sold nationally have been voluntarily recalled over a manufacturing defect. A report from the FDA says a voluntary recall was initiated by AP DuVell LLC, the manufacturer of power stick deodorants. Now more than 67,000 cases of three different types of antiperspirant are being recalled. The affected products include PowerStick for Her Roll-On Antiperspirant Deodorant Power Powder Fresh, PowerStick Invisible Protection Roll-On Antiperspirant Deodorant Spring Fresh,

and PowerStick Original Nourishing Invisible Protection Roll-On Antiperspirant deodorant spring fresh and power stick original nourishing invisible protection roll on anti-perspirant deodorant and FDA report says the deodorant was recalled for CGMP deviations meaning the manufacturer failed to maintain some sort of good manufacturing current practices in some way so if you use power stick just go ahead and throw it out of the way or take it back to your retailer. And yeah, don't use that because there's a recall underway for that and maybe switch brands. I'm gonna be honest with you. Now is not the time to be recalling deodorant. Okay, we need all the deodorant on the streets that we can.

Too hot for that. No, no, no, no. Yes, yes. Now is not the time to be recalling deodorant. Okay, I don't care if you know what it may be causing people. Okay, if it's causing them not to stink, it's worth it. Oh man. All right. So that's your front page. He said, listen, if that's your front page news, I'm Morgan Wood.

Y'all can follow me on socials at Morgan Media. That's M-O-R-G-Y-N-M-E-D-I-A. And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com. Thank y'all. Have an amazing Tuesday. You too. And I just want to say before we continue on, I just want to say thank you, God.

And the reason I'm saying thank you, I heard this story this morning coming to work about this uncle who threw his niece down the garbage shoot in Staten Island. They don't know the reason why, but he threw his one-year-old niece down the garbage chute and she survived with no issues and no problems. How crazy is that? Like, I don't know how many floors, but through the garbage chute, they had to go rescue her and she was fine. So I just wanted to say that happened in Staten Island. I'm sure it'll be everywhere today, but... God still got a plan for her. That's right. So Jesus, all right. Now when we come back Malcolm Jamal Warner

He passed away rest in peace. He did the first interview in our new studio here, but two years ago 2023 it was January 2023. It was the first week back from a vacation for us And yeah, he was the first guest in this new studio and I mean he is When we sit down and we have these long form conversations, like this is the reason I love long form conversations, you know, because of sadly moments like this, you know, because you get to know people in those long form conversations. And you know, when people pass or when you want to learn more about a person, you tap into those long form conversations.

So I'm happy that a lot of people heard the interview and watched the interview before he passed away. But you know, now that you know, he's gone, we can, you know, pay tribute to him, you know, in a real way by rerunning this interview. And when I seen him a couple of weeks ago, he was so appreciative because he was like, you guys actually played my music. And he was like, people were calling me about the music and he went viral for something he said, I can't remember what he said. There's a lot of things in that conversation that went viral. He went viral for something but he was like, you know, the good thing about it is he said, I can't remember what he said. There was a lot of things in that conversation that went viral.

It went viral for something, but he was like, the good thing about it is, he said he doesn't really care. He didn't care what people said, but he just cared about it opened up conversation. And he was just so happy for that interview. So definitely rest in peace. We're gonna get that interview back on when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club, good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious we move into the new studio, he was our first guest. So let's get into that interview now. It's the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. You know what's interesting? I was thinking about, you know, organically, who was going to be the first guest

in the new Breakfast Club studio. Because to me, that's important. Yes. Because you me that's important. Yes. Because you setting off a new generation, you setting off a new chapter so who would be the first guest. Oh word. Wow. And I'm honored. Legend. We should be honored. Word. Come on man. Grew up on them. Come on man. Ladies and gentlemen Malcolm Jamon Warner. Hey. Welcome. Word. You said first guest and I didn't really register. Oh, I said it before you started.

Yeah, but now, okay, I got it. You are the first guest in our new studio. Ladies and gentlemen, some of you all know him as Steele Huxtable, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome! Word, thank you. Now, you're from Jersey City. For most people that don't know, how did you get your start in show business? Because we heard that you were a rapper at first, you were in a rap group, almost signed

by Def Jam at the time. Any truth to that? That was after Cosby though, right? Yeah, that was after Cosby. So how did you get your start with show business? I was doing basically community theater. My mother was always looking for me to, looking for things for me to do outside of going to school and coming home and hanging out. So like I played

basketball and that was my thing. I thought I was gonna be a basketball player and then one season, one year basketball season was over, my mother's friends suggested this community theater and I asked if I wanted to go so I went down, auditioned, got in and found myself doing theater and just absolutely loved it so like at nine years old I was like oh this is this is what I want to do and what it was it was really it was the the first curtain call like the first play I did was called Alice is that you and it was basically a takeoff of of the Wiz like Dorothy gets the odds and everybody thinks she's Alice from Alice

and Wonderland. Right? And I played the Tin Man and I just remember the first opening night coming out for Curtain Call, coming out and people clapping and standing up. And I'm like nine years old and I'm like, yo, I can get into this. People stand up and clap for you. Yeah, I like this. How did you book Cosby?

What was that process like? That's funny. So when my agent first submitted me, they were looking for a 6'2", 15 year old. Jesus. They was all good ready for the NBA. It was clear. Well, because Ennis was 15 and was 6'2". Who was Ennis? Mr. Cosby's son. Oh, okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. So, in the original, dude, like in the original script, like there was this, this running joke, like, you know, Theo would, you know, get in trouble with something and Cliff would be like, Theo, stand up. And Theo stands up and he's towering over Cliff and Cliff would be like, Theo, sit down. Okay. So they were trying to get that. They couldn't find that kid. Okay. And she submitted me, they didn't want to see me and at the last minute

She resubmitted me because they couldn't find the guy and they were doing network callbacks This crazy because was Good Friday 84. I auditioned at 630 on Friday afternoon and the network callbacks were that Monday So they were already flying in somebody from Chicago flying in somebody somebody from New York. So I was literally the last person they saw. And when I went in for the network callbacks, I went in and I did the audition like, you know, you see, you know, I was watching different strokes and whatnot. So you see kids being smart Alex and talking back to the parents and rolling their eyes. So I was doing the scene like that. And in the room is, you know, network, you know, producers, studio, and I'm killing in the room. Everybody's like, I'm hitting all the all the beats and everybody's laughing and I'm killing and I

finish and everybody's like, cool, except Mr. Cosby. And he's looking at me and he's like, would you really talk to your father like that? And I said, no, he said, well, I don't want to see that on the show. So you go back out and you give me something else and come back later. Because it was the network callbacks, everybody was there. So they had auditioned everybody for other parts. And finally I came back in and gave them a 180 degree turn. Well, clearly he saw something in you, though.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they gave me a shot to come back and redo it and that's how I booked it You know what's interesting about what you said earlier? You said that you was in theater at nine years old so people see these gifted young actors on shows like Cosby back in the day, and we don't realize the background because Nowadays it feels like it's no point of entry to you know get on these TV shows or social media or social media becomes the answer. You actually went and were perfecting your craft before you got to that point.

Yeah, and I still do. Every couple years I'll do theater, even when I was on Cosby. I always go back to theater because that is the foundation. So I always say theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. But theater is really, that's the shit right there. Have you ever just sat back and reflected on what you and the Cosby Show meant to black people in really the world from 84 to 92?

Yeah, yeah. It's something that we still talk about, right? So- What do you say we the characters? No, I'm saying we like worldwide. The culture. Yeah, because it's had an indelible, irreversible effect on the culture.

So it's something I'm very proud, like no matter what, I'm very proud to have been a part of that and part of that, just to have that kind of, I guess, influence, if you will. And when I was younger, it was always, I was always trying to escape this role model title because I was like, oh, Malcolm is a role model. And my thing was always, we always equate perfection with role model. So I never wanted the pressure of being, you know, being seen as flawless, because I just, I didn't want that. Like, that wasn't me. So I used to kind of, kind of shy away from that title. And now that I'm older, not that I want to be considered a role model, but I do understand

having the platform, I understand having the ear of young people. Fortunately, I'm still at a place where I'm still relevant enough where you know what I say can still have influence on people always listen to you because of that time sure yeah yeah yeah and that's something I take seriously so I was I was really fortunate because we shot Cosby here in New York and you know, during the 80s man. Y'all didn't show the other side of Brooklyn. That wasn't Brooklyn in the 80s.

That was actually, no, so we shot in Brooklyn, then we shot in Queens, but that stoop, that front stoop was actually in the Village. In the Village, yeah. That was moving Brooklyn. Right by the old station. Yeah. Rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner. We're getting back on an interview when he was a movie. Right by the old station. Yeah. Rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner. We're getting back on an interview when he was up here.

Very sad condolences to his family. It's the Breakfast Club. Did you look at Bill Cosby as a father figure? Because you around him so much. You did so much acting. Right. And I mean, you were a good actor, but it was believable. It seems like you admired him as a father when I would watch the show or even see behind

the scenes of the show or whatever. Well, maybe I was doing theater. I was perfecting my craft at 90s. That's a great job. All right. No, because my father has always been an integral part of my life. So I have a father. Ms. Cosby was obviously someone I worked with, someone I respected, but Ennis was also a close friend of mine, so he was also like Ennis' dad. So it wasn't, I mean I would definitely say he was a mentor, because he schooled me on a lot of things, but the, I love the father-son relationship between Cliff and Theo, but that

wasn't our relationship. But we're mad cool, but it wasn't that wasn't our relationship. We were mad cool but it wasn't the father figure. As a mentor did he school you on to contracts and negotiations because that thing is still on now. Do you still get paid and was everything taken care of the right way or is it you're a new actor you got got? Yeah we got. I won't say we got got. That's not fair. That's completely unfair to say we got got. But I will say this. So yeah, so we get residuals, right?

But the thing that people don't necessarily understand about residuals is every time an episode repeats, you get a percentage of what your original paycheck was. And that show has repeated forever. Correct. your original paycheck was. And that show has repeated forever. Correct. So let's say, to put things in perspective, about 10, 12 years ago, I remember getting an episode check for $64.

That's how the residual check can be a quarter sometimes. Yeah, like at some point, sending the check out costs more than what the check is. Correct. At some point the sending the check out costs more than what the check is correct. So for a period of time though That lump sum was a nice padding but then after a while, you know, once it just keeps airing It's not a whole lot but when you have Points when you've got back in that's when you're forever making money because when they syndicate the show

However, many times they syndicated you have a piece of the show so you're getting that kind of money we didn't get ownership we had no no back in we didn't know about back end and even if we did we didn't have any leverage to negotiate that time I want I want to ask you know out of all your episodes I asked Charlamagne so my most memorable Cosby show is of course the Gordon-Cotrall season one episode Out of all your episodes, I'll ask Charlamagne. So my most memorable Cosby show is of course the Gordon Cantrell. Season one episode eight. Denise! It's over, isn't it?

What is this? Is this my shirt? Is this the shirt I paid $30 for? Is this the shirt they are supposed to think is important for trail? Do you like it? Ask me the question again. You don't like it? I hate it. Look at it.

It's the ugliest shirt I've ever seen. I think we've seen the one episode. Of course the airing. The airing. Dance Mania. I did the same thing when I got my airing. So what was your favorite? All of those, but I think that at the top of this would be the pilot when Theo was getting D's in school and they did the whole Monopoly money thing and you know, Theo gives this

whole... That was the earring, yeah, that was the earring. And you know, Theo gives this speech, you know, like, you know, dad, I just want to be regular people. Like I don't want to be a doctor like you. I don't want to be a lawyer like, like mom. I just want to be regular people. Instead of acting disappointed because I'm not like you, maybe you can just accept who I am and love me anyway, because I'm your son. You know what? You get D's and everything. And so for me that was significant because it set the tone for the show like any other

show at that point the music would have started, the father and son would have hugged, but he you know he went left with that and I just love that because that set the tone that this was going to be a different kind of show. Gotcha. We're going to talk to you about other stuff other than Cosby, I just want to, as a fan I got to get some. No doubt. Yeah, you let the night that call first time here. We gotta go. No doubt. They're all good.

Did you have a Keep the Gordon Gar-Trail shirt? I did not. I think it's in the Smithsonian if I'm not mistaken. It should be. It should be. That was a classic. That was definitely one of our most fun and for me most memorable episodes. Did you ever get approached about doing a Gordon Gar-Trail cloven line? Not from Jamal Warner's Gordon Garth rail cloven line Malcolm Jamal warns Gordon? I'm surprised I have not but I see there's a Gordon Garth trail like t-shirt line out. Yeah. Yeah

How much of this show was a free free done and how much was actually written like were you allowed to go off script? Because some of that stuff just seemed like y'all were going we had to often go off script because it so it takes It typically takes five days to do a sitcom We were doing we got down to like three and a half days and you know most of those Storylines came from mr. Kisbe's monologue, right? So we were a very under rehearsed show So when it was time to tape the show a very under rehearsed show. So when it was time to tape the show, oftentimes, you know, if Mr. Crosby had like a monologue

or something, he wouldn't know the monologue. So he'd like, he'd go left. And the fun part for us was when he went left, we had to go left with him. So, you know, for me it was great cause like, oh, this is theater. Now we just, you know, we, you know, you follow, you follow the leader, you follow the followers,

we call it. So, you know, and I love seeing those moments with him and him and Olivia are cool but like those moments with him and Keisha you know because at the time you know Keisha was four so she didn't know how to read so she had to know she had to remember what to say how to say it and when to say it and the wind was always based on the line before so she's doing scenes with Mr. Cos the when was always based on the line before. So she's doing scenes with Mr. Cosby and she's waiting for her line and he's just talking and they would just make it was just really cool to watch her and if you go back you could

just see her little brain processing how to maneuver through you know what's happening. So those stuff was written you know there was stuff that had to be kind of off book because we were following him And Felicia was the best at that you look at those episodes. Rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner We're getting back on an interview when he was up here very sad condolences to his family It's the Breakfast Club I was gonna ask you you never got caught up in in the drug world or alcohol because Studio 54 like what is back then was No, I could be around it, but it just wasn't, that wasn't me. I mean, you know, my father

named me after Malcolm X and Ahmad Jamal. My father was not playing. So that's why I say, like before the fame, my foundation was so solid that I could be around all that stuff and not have to participate in that. So to be able to enjoy everything that being famous had to offer without being a knucklehead. And again, being in New York is different from growing up on television in LA. Because in LA, your best friend is on the same lot on stage next door.

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and Dana Plato. So we overlapped their journey. So I always felt like, well, we got no excuse. You learned from that. Yeah, like we're seeing like, you know, like you hear about stuff in throughout history, but this was happening right now. I'm looking at top bridges. So there was really no excuse for us to wall out like that. But again, I also say, because we lived in New York and not LA, we weren't hanging around other Hollywood kids.

When we were shooting in Brooklyn, the NBC studios on Avenue M and East 14th Street, they didn't have a commissary. So at lunch, we had to go out into the neighborhood and get whatever we were going to eat. We moved to Kaufman Astoria, their commissary was whack. So we went out into the neighborhood and got what we could get our lunch so it was just a very different experience that we had being able to grow up in New York rather than grow up in television in Hollywood. You said something earlier and I wanted to ask you about and you were saying that when you were promoting your jazz album a lot of these outlets were saying

that the only way that you could come up here is if you ask a question If you answer a question about Bill Cosby How were you able to navigate all those questions because although you have your own stuff going on you're doing plays you're acting you're doing Movies sitcoms, you know, you have your music but you almost kind of want to be like I get it But this is what I'm here for. So how did you navigate through all that without you know going down those those lanes? what I'm here for. So how did you navigate through all that without you know going down those lanes? By turning the, you know by whatever the question is answering it you know the best way I could like I'm- So they want to know did you see him do this? What about this?

Yeah and the reality is I'm not in the position like whatever it is you're trying to ask I don't know. I was when I was a kid and a kid. And again, I you know, that was that was in this his dad, you know, so I am not in a position to defend him at all. And there's no need for me to try to throw him under the bus, because the rest of the world is doing that. And you know, like, like, you know, the real s*** is I know what everybody else knows. And everybody else knows what the press has told them. So I don't really have, um, I don't really have a real ground to stand on to speak on it as much as anybody else does. You know, so...

And you might be biased because you didn't, you saw a whole different side of him that none of us are privy to Yeah, yes, and and and I saw a I saw a very human side of it like what everybody else is like, you know, he's America's famous, you know favorite dad and you know, they they as People do with celebrities, you know, they put us on a pedestal and again that's why as a kid I don't want to be considered a role model and be perfect because that's not me but that's what we do to people so while everyone is you know rah rah rah I'm like he's a man he's got he's got his own got his own fault and whatever faults I saw though it wasn't that I you know like mm-hmm I saw a man mm-hmm absolutely so it's a different it's a

different experience for me than it is for everybody else I've always loved how black your name is man and finding out that you named after Michael Jackson you said with me at Blue Jamal? Amar Jamal. Amar Jamal. Okay I'm not familiar with Amar Jamal. He's a renowned jazz pianist but Got you. But he's a, if you could be a jazz pianist and be militant as fuck, that's a Majumal. All right, all right, all right. Yeah. I was gonna ask, before you get up outta here,

would you mind doing a poem? Okay, this piece is a Santay Sana. A badigani comrade. What, you still on that freedom word well you don't mean this poetry we still be on that weed and that birthing inspirational couplets and breed them that I spit cat should he them that words can't break my bones but if you cut me homes I bleed bleed them. F*** it. Atonement for the masses of hardasses and heads that tread on civil liberties in the

most uncivilized of fashion is said to be dead. Can we afford to be dumb for free? See, that's the question I'm asking as I beg for an ounce of truth amongst the aloof surrounding me. My vices are proof that these demons keep hounding me. Reality keeps pounding me, almost astounding me into this strange hypocrisy. You see, I preach the same hope that I'm losing daily like my religion. Peep how deep I bear my soul. I stand on the precipice of this crossroads. It's like I

want to give my life to the cause, but which one? Ignorance is running so ridiculously rampant. I can't tell if I'm hating or merely debating just for fun But I do know my heart heaves heavy upon hearing the fluttering hum of the feeble footsteps of fear stamping out the ferocious flames of our dogged desire and Determination to outpace the perilous prophecy our captors have programmed to be our faith, and thus our fate. I know my soul, soul, rise with anxiety aches. Lies no longer need disguise when they start looking like the truth.

Like how do we ignore cries of ill-guided youths spitting dope bars of self-hate over beets that bang harder than strange fruit hangs? Meanwhile her breasts hang and her booty bangs harder than the gun claps of rival gangs fighting over territory they don't even own. And in magic cities everywhere she feeds her babies based on her ability to shake what her mama gave her because her pops was too busy breaking in his disappearing act to save her from these mean streets that eat the meek in one swallow.

Lies no longer need disguise when the truth is viewed as hollow through the eyes that need it most. We, descendants of stolen legacies, children of ancestors who cannot be broken, birthers and bearers of a culture that has been repeatedly robbed and ransacked to feed the spiritually famine like a black woman's bosom. We who become a pre-existing condition simply because we pre-exist. We who realize we are worthy.

We are the guardians. We are the gardeners. We are the soil. We are the toil. We are the protectors of our seeds who need to be protected, who need to see true love and black excellence redirected, not through fame and fortune, but redirected through character and deed. And indeed, it is those who stand on the front line, fighting for the minds of our young black and gifted.

It is you who are an inspiration to me because you are the revolution we do not see on TV. Asante Sana. Nice. Ladies and gentlemen, Malcolm Jamor Warner. Thanks for having me. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Thank you, brother. You got it. Thank you. You know what I just thought about? What? Fathers doing father things and you know passing away tragically hit so different. The first one we heard was Kobe. Yes. With his daughter. And I remember being in Atlantic City on that Sunday with my daughter at her cheer competition

and just thinking to myself, just a man getting up in the morning to go do something, his daughter's extracurricular activity and end up passing away with his daughter. And it's the same thing with Malcolm Jamal Warner. You're on vacation with your family, you're being a father, and something tragic happens. Something tragic happens. My God. Yeah, but you can't live life scared.

You still gotta go on, but it is tragic, you know? Yeah, it just shows you that you can't control it. You know, like no matter what you put out into the world, accidents just do happen. Yeah. Death is just a just do happen. Yeah. Yeah, my mom. Death is just a part of life. Yeah, my wife told me yesterday,

get your dumb ass off that city bike. I rode the city bike yesterday up there. I have no helmet on and we riding in them. They electric bikes, they fast. My wife was like, what's wrong with you? Right. First of all, she should never let your dumb ass leave the house without a helmet, okay?

We shouldn't even let you be in here without a helmet. Jesus. Shut up. We shouldn't. Shut up. Let's get to the latest. Little red riri. This could be coming a straight day. Tell her, tell her.

She gets into somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on this. She say I'm the biggest. The largest. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details,

sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest. on fatherhood and continuing to honor Malcolm Jamal Warner, one of the most dynamic father son duos that we saw on TV was Bill Cosby and Malcolm Jamal Warner. Now Bill Cosby has actually broke his silence and spoke out about the passing of Malcolm.'t know about his swimming. I don't know what came and got him, but I do know that he is an honest person and that media, I hope, will show the respect for him. Period. He was speaking to Bill Cosby was speaking to Frankie Darcell from WDS in that interview. And I saw. Are we sure that was Bill Cosby? According to

Frankie Darcell from WDS. But he there was. It might have been Godfrey. Are we sure? We're positive. Oh my God. That was Bill. But Bill said, you know, he looked at him as like he felt like he lost another son when when you know, when he passed away when Malcolm passed away because his son passed away when he was younger. Yes. Yep. And there was also a story that Bill Cosby's rep did with TMZ where he kind of echoed some

of the sentiments that he shared with Frankie Darcell. But he also talked about, you know, the fact that he had spoken to Malcolm about three months ago, Malcolm was really excited about something new that he had written and he was just on this whole conquest to save the world through his art. But I did want to warm up the moment a bit because I think a lot of people right now are just remembering how good the Cosby Show family moments made you feel. Absolutely. And I think that's why most, like our caller said this morning, you feel like you know

Malcolm personally because of that show. So we have a clip from one of the episodes in the show from the Cosby show. Let's take a listen. You're a doctor and mom's a lawyer. And you're both successful in everything. And that's great. But maybe I was born to be a regular person

and have a regular life. If you weren't a doctor, I wouldn't love you less because you're my dad. And so instead of acting disappointed because I'm not like you, maybe you can just accept who I am and love me anyway because I'm your son. Theo, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. You know when you get D's and everything. That sound like my pops, man.

That sound like my pops. Yes, oh my God. That was one of my favorite episodes. That was one of my favorite Theo moments, you know, amongst others. But like, that is who I grew up on. That's what I like. You know, I love to hear that. That show grew up on. That's what I like. I love to hear that. That show was so influential. When I did the podcast a couple of weeks ago,

we were joking about it. He realized the influence of that show because so many people come up to him. And not just that show, of course, the different world as well. He was like, because people just lived that moment. At the time, that's all we really seen on television. Wasn't that much on television.

So you got to live to those Gordon Gattrelle moments and when he got his airing moments and you know all that stuff, like you lived through it. Gordon Gattrelle was actually a staff person, a staff member of their show who became a writer and producer. Really? I didn't know that either.

Really good fact. Didn't know that. I met Malcolm Jamal Warner, like when I used to live in LA, like five years ago, he was so cool. Cool to see that. I met Malcolm Jamal Warner like when I used to live in LA like five years ago. He was so cool. Cool as ever. So cool.

Really cool. And I, and of course, of course I was like Theo just called him Theo and he just looked like uh and I was like I know I'm like I grew up on you know and then you know went on to watch his other projects and everything but he was just so cool. Stopped took a picture with me, was talking to me and it was it was amazing. It was he was just like a regular person. Great brother. I saw a clip last night that Malcolm Jamal Warner said

he didn't want to be known as Malcolm Jamal Warner, the actor he wanted to be known as Malcolm Jamal Warner, the man, and I agree, because I do not like seeing people say RIP Theo. Like Malcolm Jamal Warner was a real person, a real man, a real human with a real family. Theo was a character., a real man, a real human with a real family. Theo was a character. Yeah.

Absolutely. Some people just know him as, you know, as Theo will never forget, you know, that role that he played. He served in our houses, basically. You said I was inspired through, you know, he was doing a lot of work through his podcasts, talking about being a dad, talking about being a being a man You know through his work on camera as deal people became doctors HBCU students fathers You know women wanted to be wives and be Claire Huck like all these things Yeah, you just talk about impact like you know that's where you leave it out with him

That's the way we missed man rest in peace And he also spoke about why he didn't want his kids why he didn't want his daughter and his wife in The limelight why I never put the name out he didn't want them to be he didn't want the industry to take over He the limelight, why he never put their name out. He didn't want them to be, he didn't want the industry to take over. He wanted to add something to himself. So definitely rest in peace, Malcolm Jamal Warner and condolences to his family. Horrible, man.

I mean, just like I said, just out doing regular daddy stuff. You just out with your family on vacation and something tragic like this happens. And we gonna open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Let's just talk. Yeah.

Let's just talk. We'd love to know what's on your mind. 800-585-1051. And we got donkey today, who you give your donkey to? Man, four after the hour, there was a young woman in Florida named Trappura Marrix. She needs to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with her, please.

Try what? Ask what race it is. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what? I don't know. Guess what race it is. Guess what? What race it is. Race it is. You see, you are just, that's terrible. I didn't even guess. What race is it?

I didn't guess yet. What race is it, Lauren? We'll get to it later. Don't we gotta wrap up? Try her, Marriott. What race is it, Lauren? I don't know. Yeah, of course.

Inclusive, that's what race it is. Inclusive? It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Some donkey today just saw themselves. I've been watching you, Charlamagne. I was ready for you. I never heard of donkey the other day. What is it?

Say it again, Charlamagne. Yeah. You are a donkey. Everything that Charlamagne the same is true. Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, July 22nd goes to an 18-year-old young lady named Trippura Marriacs. I think I'm pronouncing that right. Now, Trippura is from Florida. And what does your Uncle Sharla always say about the great state of Florida?

The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida and today is no exception, okay? Tripeura is charged with felony child neglect for allegedly leaving her two-year-old daughter unattended in a 2002 Cadillac Escalade. Now, I'm reading this story and it says this young lady left her two-year-old daughter locked up in a hot car with a heat index of 107 degrees.

Now I could stop donkeying today right here. I could let the hee haw fly right now and you all would completely understand because there's absolutely never a reason to leave your two-year-old daughter, two-year-old child period unattended in a car. Ever. The temperature don't even matter. I don't care if the weather was perfect outside. You don't leave your two-year-old unattended anywhere, but there is a reason.

Okay. There is a reason that TriPura left her daughter unattended in this car. Please remember that just because there is a reason, it doesn't mean it was a good one. Okay. I can't think of what would be a good reason to do what she did, but I know for sure this ain't it. Okay. Would you like to know what happened? Let me read this from Law and Crime. Okay Law and Crime. A Florida teenager is accused of leaving her two-year-old daughter locked up in a hot car with a heat index of 107 degrees while the young woman watched the new Smurfs movie at a movie theater with her own siblings. Okay, she locked the kid in the car because she went to see the Smurfs movie with her brother and sister. And while they were watching

the movie, the child kept crying loudly and caused a disturbance. So she decided to take the kid out to the lobby and eventually locked the kid in the escalator. She even admitted to the cops that she had done this a few times before. Cops said she had a real nonchalant attitude about it. It wasn't a big deal. Okay, they had to break the window. Like, you know, people were passing by, saw the little girl in distress. So they had to break the window to get the young girl out.

What do they call it? They had to break the driver's side window. Yes, she said she was visibly distressed. The child had a flushed red appearance, was sweating profusely and was crying in distress. That's what the cops allege. She left her two-year-old daughter unattended in a hot car so she could go watch the Smurfs movie with her own siblings.

This is why kids shouldn't have kids. She's 18, her daughter is two, so she got pregnant at like 15. We as a society should really be against that. And these are the reasons why 15 and 16 you should be focused on getting your permit and your license not focused on getting prenatal care. Okay, a 16 year old should be worried about semesters, not trimesters. And this is the reason why she's not even and this is the reason why because she's not even cognitively prepared to raise a child. She's 18, okay, she's still a goddamn child herself. And you know what kids hate?

Responsibility. And you know what's the biggest responsibility in the world? Kids, okay. Kids are the most significant responsibility a person can have. If you actually care enough to raise your kids, if you actually care enough to be in your kid's life,

then there is no greater obligation. All their basic needs, food, clothing, needs food clothing shelter healthcare education and ensuring their welfare and safety. TriPura did you hear the last part ensuring their welfare and safety. You treated your two-year-old the way you wouldn't even treat your phone. You are 18 you would lose your mind if you left your even treat your phone. Okay? You are 18, you would lose your mind if you left your phone unattended anywhere. Okay? You would never leave your phone unattended,

but you got no problem leaving your child unattended to go see the Smurfs movie with your siblings. I bet all your siblings was your age or younger too. Okay? A bunch of kids and you trying to raise one because there's no way people with you don't be like, well, where's the baby? Oh, I just left him in the car

and y'all just continue watching the movie all together, one big happy family. By the way, I took my daughters to see the Smurfs last weekend. I don't remember it being that fire. Okay, not fire enough to put your child in the car unattended because you might miss something. All right, hell, I fell asleep

because there was questions about the Smurfs that I never asked myself as a child. But as an adult, I'm like, damn. Okay, number one, and this is coming from the most unhealed parts of my psyche. Where the hoes at? Okay, I mean, there is no ladies in Smurfs Village. Okay, Smurfette the only one and she was made of clay?

So who were the Smurfs reproducing with? There's a Papa Smurf with no Mama Smurf? Now we understand why one Smurf so grouchy because he ain't getting no cheeks. And I did some research and by research I googled why are there no female Smurfs? And it said natural born Smurfs are predominantly male and female Smurfs are created through magic. Huh? Magic? So this leads me to one conclusion. And that conclusion is that the Smurfs are all butt babies. Okay? Papa Smurf be airing out clumsy, brainy, vanity, and handy shooting their clubs up, getting them pregnant, and they be having butt babies. Now keep in mind, I'm slightly retarded. Listen. Okay? Okay. You're listening

to a retarded person here. All right? So it was brought to my attention that the Stork delivers Smurfs. All right? I don't know if y'all have seen that in the cartoon. The Stork brings the babies. So if that's the case, that explains how the babies get here. But it still means that Smurf Village and the village here in New York are the gayest villages in the world. I'm saying all that to say I was asleep within the first 20 minutes of the Smurf movie. Once I ate my popcorn and my peanut M&Ms, I was out and I woke up in time to see the

Smurfs defeat Gargamel, but I wasn't impressed. I'm shocked that you love the Smurfs that much, Topora. Kids listen to me. Let Trapara be a lesson to you all. You want to be out here popping that poom poom at a young age. You get pregnant, keep the baby. You don't have a life anymore. Your primary responsibility is that child alright if you don't want that responsibility then keep your mother freaking legs closed. Please let

Remy Ma give Try Pure Amerix the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, Hee-haw, you stupid motherf***** are you dumb. That's crazy I don't understand why the baby couldn't go in the movies with her if it was a kids movie. She was there, but then she started crying and causing a disturbance, so she took the baby out. It's not funny, but people are stupid. Our people are so stupid. They're not stupid, they're retarded.

And this is why we gotta keep using that word and don't ever retire that word, because there is no other way to explain people like this. What race was she? You wanna play a game? No, I don't. She was blue, she was a smurf. Smurf, all right.

She was a smurf, you wanna play a game? No, I don't. She was blue, she was a smurf. A smurf. A smurf, yeah. She was a smurf, you wanna play a game? No, I don't actually. And then the girl smurfs. They ain't no girl smurf but one. That's not, there's one, one, one. Smurfette. That's another woman smurf, there's another girl smurf. There's another girl smurf, yes there is.

I just know smurfette. No, no, no. That ain't no girl. I'm not messing with you. Alright. It's Day Smurf? Don't get a date. Day Smurf is crazy. 800-585-1051.

We're going to take your calls. Of course, we were talking about the passing of Malcolm Jamal Warner. We're just going to open up the phone lines and talk to you. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're opening up the phone lines.

We're sending a rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner. We played his interview up here when he was on the Breakfast Club a couple of years ago as well. We're just opening up the phone lines. He meant a lot to us. He's been there a couple of times. His first time he he came January 2023. He was the first guest in our new studio,

but then he came last year because he launched a podcast called, I think it's called, Nah. Not All Hood. Yeah, Nah, Not All Hood. Nah, yeah, Not All Hood, yeah. Which I got the pleasure to be on, actually a couple of weeks ago, which is crazy. When me and my wife was on our book tour,

we got a chance to sit down with him for about over an hour and then we talked a lot mostly about just raising kids and being a husband. So we just opened up the phone lines. Just want to take your calls. We got Malcolm on the line. Malcolm, good morning. Hey, good morning. How you feeling brother? Talk to us.

I'm good. I just heard the whole tribute that we pay out there for Malcolm. Let me say good morning to everybody first. Good morning, son of a bitch. Peace, King. I'm married to everybody. Good morning. But yeah, I'm named pay y'all a bit for Malcolm Jamal. Let me say good morning to everybody first. Good morning, Charlamagne. Peace, King. I'm married to everybody. Good morning.

But yeah, I'm named after Brian. I was born in 85. Wow. And they have a name for me when I was born. He happened to be in my city. I'm from Panama City, Peach, Florida. And he was having to be in the city like signing autographs or something.

They were like, what's your name on Malcolm Jamal? And that's who I'm named after. So your name is Malcolm Jamal? Malcolm Jamal and I'm named after. So your name is Malcolm Jamal? Malcolm Jamal and my last name. Can I say my last name? Yeah. Oh, it's Malcolm Jamal McGriff. I'm on a swimming pool contract there in South Florida.

So if you look at my logo, it's like the, kind of like the Jumpman logo and it's MJ Pool. And people used to always ask, like what MJ stand for, Michael Jordan? And I'm like, no, I'm Malcolm Jamal. So people like, oh, some people call me D.O. and all that. So you're named after Malcolm X and jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal as well,

because that's who Michael Jamal wanted was named after. Yeah, I just heard that Ahmad Jamal and I wrote the name down. I want to look him up and listen to some of his music. Yes, sir. Well, thank you for calling in, brother. Oh yeah, thank you all, I appreciate it. Yes, sir.

Hello, who's this? Hey, how you guys doing?, brother. Oh yeah, thank you. I appreciate it. Yes, sir. Hello, who's this? Hey, how you guys doing? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm at the Tuesday Breakfast Club. It's Keena, Klon from Crown Heights. Peace, Keena.

Keena, talk to us. Hey ladies, hey Jess. Hey baby. Lauren, Envy, Charlamagne. Good morning. You know, so crazy, real quick, when you say hey ladies, I don't know who you talking about in this room.

I just want you to know that that could be me that could be envy You always playing around all of a cut about leave me alone leave leave my cousin every alone Oh, thank you. I want to call in and just give sentiments about you know, Malcolm Jamal Warner and you know everyone sentiment kind Warner and you know everyone's sentiments kind of saying that he felt like family and he definitely did feel like a family member just you know growing up watching the Cosby show and everything and really it's hitting home for me because I just came off of a family vacation from Dominica where I'm from so shout out to you Envy who might be my cousin

That's that's not it's not a Spanish album is Caribbean Dominica is one of the French islands in the western Caribbean. It is a black country Charlemagne I think my dad also and my dad owns some land out there. I gotta go check my dad was so money my is No, and he definitely needs to come out there with me because one thing about Dominica It is a very small island and everybody is definitely related and everybody is definitely related. So, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody didn't ask me. They sit there laughing, but they don't know. They don't know. That ain't why we laughing.

We laughing at something totally different. Casey is the last name, so if you know any Casys out there. Casey is the last name, so if you know any Casey out there. I'm a LeBlanc, so if your dad knows any LeBlanc, and LeBlanc is definitely a prominent name because the main highway in Dominica is the Edward Oliver LeBlanc Highway. So my family is, you know, a little bit of aristocraties. So I'm definitely going to ask about Casey for sure.

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And as she fought for herself, she also became a lifeline for the women locked up alongside her. You're supposed to have faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. So many of these women had lived the same stories. I said, were you a victim of domestic violence? And she was like, yeah. But maybe Kelly could change the ending. I said, how many people have gotten other incarcerated individuals out of here? I'm going to be the first one to do that.

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get your podcasts. Peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner. It's just really sad hearing how he passed just doing something so normal on vacation with his family. So that's why I said it kind of stay close to home for me because we literally just the reason for our family reunion was because we experienced so much loss in the past five years from dealing with my parents during COVID, you know, my cousin. So we finally just like, you know what, this is the right time to give each other our flowers while we're still here. So it's just really unfortunate to hear that he passed just, you know, on vacation with family doing something normal and fun, you know, very tragic. So there's something normal and fun.

I condone with this for that. You absolutely have. Thank you. Because for real, I mean, we go on vacation and literally when I was in Dominica, I was in the river, you know, just like on the rocks and off and hanging off a cliff and things, common trees. And you just never realized how something so, you know, just normal, something that you do every day, like your habitat can literally just take a turn

for the worse, like mother nature, you know, nature. It's just unfortunate, so. Well, thank you so much for checking in. Thank you for calling. And you better not start calling yourself French. Okay? You can't be Dominican and then start claiming French. Don't you dare.

Next thing you know, if you'll be on a flyer for a French party, it'll be, I can see, I know you, bro. Don't do it. What are y'all talking about? You so funny. How funny? Yeah.

Yes, you are gay. You was so happy when, you were so happy when that girl called you her cousin, you are gay. You were so happy when, ha! You were so happy when that girl called you her cousin and you found out she was from Dominica, like, all right, what is it? I've been through that. I been telling y'all, y'all don't be listening.

Did you talk about my father got land over there? God, get out of there! No, that's bullshit! My father's father passed away, and they said that he always had land, but he just never went to see it, so I'm always just curious. Oh my goodness.

800-585-1051. We're talking Malcolm Jamal Warner. What's up, Breakfast Club? J.A. Hello. Good morning. He's J.A. So, what's up crew? Morning. So, I just wanted to be brief and intentional. I remember where I was when Kobe passed away. It made me hit reset on some of the things I was doing in my life and then with the passing of Malcolm Jamalon Warner you know his family was the first family I saw in my neighborhood on TV you name it coming from a single family home so I hope men take this and put this in perspective because I see so much of Theo and my son some of the mistakes he's making some of the things

he's trying to figure out be intentional reason I said I did something last week I went on a trip with my brothers hadn't spent any time with them in probably 13, 15 years. We went on a week long trip. And if I come back, I'm like, men have to be more intentional with their time because as they memorialize the outcome, what's your story going to be? So it just puts it in perspective where as a man, we should be getting our priorities together. We should be taking care of our family and most importantly, living our lives because

I don't want anybody to be afraid to take chances, but you just gotta go out and you never know what time is yours, but be intentional with your time as a man. So that's what I got. Man, you absolutely right, J.A., because you know, Kobe and Malcolm hit different because these are two brothers who didn't get shot,

they didn't overdose, they didn't even die of natural causes. They were just living and living with their families. You know, Kobe was out with his daughter doing her extracurricular activity, basketball. Malcolm was on vacation with his family just swimming. And you know, they both met these tragic demises. So yeah, those two just hit different because that can happen to any of us. That's right. Hello, who's this?

What's going on? It's your boy Beardy. Hear me? Call out on Batrude for example. What's up, brother? Talk to us. What's Who's this? What's going on? It's your boy Beardy. Hear me calling on a bad root, Louie Zander. What's up, brother? Talk to us. What's up, King? Man, look, I wasn't blessed to see you all, man. Much, much blessed to see the whole Brekker Club.

And I pray for you guys, Miss Mila Faith, man. Thank you, brother. But look, check this out. Thank you, King. Appreciate you. Anytime. Here's my thing, man. Right now, today was just a mountain tomorrow morning, lost in man. Feel like, feel like I lost a cousin, man. Like and man feel like like I lost a cousin and like I really feel like I lost a

cousin somebody I personally know even though I don't get it personally going you feel what I'm coming from here's my take right here everybody should do the best they can to put out the most positive vibes so they can make sure that they leave behind the best legacy that they can to make their family proud and look back on to where like okay hey I'm not embarrassed I'm not just another with all our humans which is true but I don't think that we're guaranteed in this world is death so make sure you do the best you can leave behind the best we can all positive eyes every chance you can and what's blessing to y'all once again it's your boy fear to hear me out of battle is Louis Allen and what's the moral of the story?

Ain't no moral we just open the phone. You know it was it was interesting what he said because you know whenever I hear situations like this I start thinking about karma right and they say karma in essence is the concept that actions have consequences which I believe and what you put out into the world will eventually return to you, whether good or bad. That part I'm never too sure about, but I do feel like situations like this are just a reminder to be mindful of our actions and their impact, because that's all you can think about

when a person goes, right? All you hear right now is how good of a person Malcolm Jamal Warner was. All you hear about is the impact that he had on people through his art, and not just his art, man. The thing that I love is when I hear people that say they worked with him and they met him and how good of a person he was,

because that's the energy I felt when I was around him a couple of times. So that's really truly all we can be responsible for. You can't say to yourself, I'm gonna do good things and I'm gonna expect good things to always happen to me and bad things will never happen to me because I do good things. No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not the way. That's not the way this world this world works man Like you just said the accidents do happen sadly

He was a good brother and he was proud to be a father and he was proud to be a husband He was a proud to be something positive in the culture and you know I think I have my time with the brother just sitting down and talking to him So definitely rest in peace when we come back We got the latest with Lauren. So don't go anywhere. It's the breakfast local morning the Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren So we talked about Stephen Colbert and the late show cancellation and in his first show back on air since that cancellation announcement, he addressed some things with Donald Trump because Donald Trump after the cancellation announcement happened came out on Truth Social

and said I absolutely love that Colbert got fired his talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel's next has even less talent than Colbert. Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show. So Stephen Colbert, like any you know, great talk show host said, I'm gonna address this right here on my platform. Let's take a listen to Stephen Colbert on Trump. On Friday, Donald Trump posted I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.

How how how dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go f*** yourself. I love when they cancel their shows, shows taken off and they take to their shows platform to let people have it. Like Joanne Reed did the same thing. I love when they do that. Well, he also talked about, because a lot of people were having conversations and Trump

mentioned ratings and then CBS came out and said this was a financial decision. Right. Colbert got into that too. Let's take a listen. CBS, our network, CBS, who I want to reiterate have always been great partners, put out a statement saying a very, you know, very nice things about me and about the show. And thank you to them for that. They clarified that the cancellation was purely a financial decision.

But how could it purely be a financial decision if the Late Show is number one in ratings? A lot of folks are asking that question, mainly my staff's parents and spouses. Well, over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous Yes. So he got right to the things as he should. And the full monologue is available on their YouTube channel as well. He makes fun of almost everything that has been said about this cancellation. Yeah, and it's really that simple for everybody saying that, you know, the Colbert cancellation wasn't political and it was just financial. Every single late night show is having financial issues.

Since COVID, late night ad revenue has been damn near cut in half and every other show has done things to cut back on cost. Jimmy Kimmel doesn't work in the summer. Jimmy Fallon only does four days a week. Seth Meyers cut his band. There ain't even a temp to do anything with Colbert. And out of all the late night shows on regular TV, you get rid of the highest rated show. You just get, you just get rid of it. And you think the same president who just told folks in DC if you don't change the name back to Redskins I'm not approving the new stadium you don't think he would do that to CBS knowing Paramount needs him to approve the merger between Skydance and Paramount come on come on come on now come on now

well yeah Steve should be good though you know them text messages that text you about like a job and he made a joke about, you know those text messages that text you about like a job and hiring? He made a joke about getting one of those text messages too so he said he's going to figure it out. Don't worry about him. He got 10 more months. It'll be on till next May. He's going to live his best life.

It's probably going to be some of the best late night we've seen in a long time over the next 10 months. I agree. Drake. Well speaking of other shows, Kirk Franklin has his show, Dinn of Kings. He was speaking about it. Yes, I love the show as well. So he sat down with Tyler Perry, Derek Hayes and GZ for another conversation in a new episode. And they talked about a lot of different things. Tyler Perry, I'm sorry, before we get to Tyler Perry, Kirk Franklin

opened up about some of the mistakes he made in business early on. Let's take a listen. 23 what what what album was that the first record record the first why we sing why we sing you you didn't or you Still don't know I Just started to own my publishing guess what song was my first song only was that taking it to the king And my party's Her so you kidding me so from my 20s to my 40s I owned none of my publishing now of course You know if I got my songwriters part what but I didn't get what is the most important part, that IP part, right? That copyright. Can y'all imagine from, that's the reason why we sing all the way to Take Me To, all those big, huge songs. The rebirth, like those albums that led up to the one that Take Me to the King was on that's crazy Crazy thing is most artists like that though most artists don't know they publish the label by it early on gives them a little

Advance and they're happy with that advance at the time and then when they start selling records They're like, oh, how come I get no no nothing in the mail. There's no checks coming in They got us at the end try to fight and buy back. I see the video What was they eating? Cuz it sound like his mouth was watering like he couldn't even talk better. I forget what was on the menu this episode But they it's a no the chef makes it live like makes it while they're talking and brings it out Jeezy I know they eat good Derek is he a pinky cold a floody be vegan. It's her husband. He owns a cheese stick brand. He's like a big

He's filling cheese steaks You know, it's like I think like 15 of them. Yeah, I think they're also in the franchise right now too in Orlando Atlanta Yeah, good brother They was eating with the taste was still in Kirk's mouth. He couldn't barely talk He was cooking so that's the chef plating. No, no, it's the chef Yeah, and actually they were standing up they hadn't even gotten like fully seated They were just like standing up So maybe that was like hors d'oeuvres or something that he was eating cuz they standing up in that clip and then they go Tyler

Perry's like go sit let's go sit down then they sit down and continue the conversation but As we wrap up Tyler Perry said let's go sit down cuz they had I don't care like this is my podcast No, cuz the conversation was getting so good just off the rip I mean you got these Tyler Perry GZ all these people in the room. They start talking Tyler Perry brought up a point I mean, he talked about a lot GZ, all these people in the room, they start talking. Tyler Perry brought up a point. He talked about a lot. He talked about firing family members, but he talked about budgets

and how people criticize his work, not understanding. Let's take a listen to that. Have you ever felt like the underdog? Are you kidding me? Even now, still the underdog. I'm still fighting for budgets. My white counterparts in this business, get all of these, they can get 10 times, 20 times.

I have a friend of mine, gotten $27 million an episode to write television. What I'm barely getting for what and they're complaining about giving me for so the way they justified is simply this is like okay. Well your audience is this and you're only going to reach this. So this is what this is worth to us and that's been my whole struggle. But I've never been a person that sat around arguing about it trying to figure it out. Okay. So so what I would do is say okay fine. You only want to give me this, but I have to hold on to ownership. I got a lot of flack because people are just like, oh, the quality of work,

the quality of the work. And it's always back vote to make me go with it. Just shut your mouth because you don't understand what you're saying. The quality of work based on the amount of money I was able to get is phenomenal. But if I could ever get what my counterparts get, I show you something. That's the crazy thing. I never complained about his quality. The quality is his production is always like cameras and all of that. I don't I don't know. I never hear.

I don't know. I hear people complain about it's hot all the time, but the quality ain't never been in question. What are they complaining about? Like writers, the writers, writers and of course the stories. Storylines. Like back to back, you know the stories, how they, how he make black people look, that's always been the talk. But I ain't never hear nobody complain about no quality.

I mean in the plays when he used to have Medea Mike laying on the floor. But it's a play. But I don't be knowing what's real and what's not real though, because I be seeing some people post until I actually watch it myself. Because I saw something the other day and they was like, they had somebody yelling cut while the show was on. I'm like, that's not real. I'm like, this can't be real. No, no, no, no.

I think it was, but that's the thing. That stuff don't usually happen. That's like to be stuff that I see everyone too. Cut! That's funny. Maybe that was a mistake, but I've seen something about his quality. Not more recently,

there was continuity conversations to about like But I mean at this point like Tyler Perry's doing what he's doing at a major level so I understand what he's saying But I don't even hear people complain about the wigs no more Because at first it was the wigs. Yes, but he said Lauren took that energy. I didn't say that. Oh, I did not hear him say that. I couldn't hear him say that. I thought he said it.

That is the latest riddle. I never said it. That never happened. And Lauren's wig. Don't make me feel, no, I do not know who that is. I didn't even say that. John and Mary. Not as soon as I did.

I didn't say that. People's Choice Mix is up next. She's hearing things. Don't go anywhere, cause she hear behind the wig. It's the Breakfast Club of Morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning everybody. It's DJ NB Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. Now Jess, where you at this weekend? I'm in Arlington, Texas y'all. So I'm calling the Dallas area. I'm calling the Fort Worth area. Y'all make sure y'all get y'all tickets for the shows that we got this weekend. We got two on Friday. We got three on Saturday.

I just added a matinee because I won't be doing shows Sunday. So get your tickets if you're not in the area. I'm going to be doing a show on Friday. I'm going to be doing a show on Saturday. I'm going to be doing a show on Friday. I'm going to be doing a show on Saturday. I'm going to be we got this weekend. We got two on Friday, we got three on Saturday. I just added a matinee because I won't be doing shows Sunday. So get your tickets if you have not yet. Jaxhilariousofficial.com meet me at the Improv. And then next week Jacksonville Florida your girl was coming to the city so make sure you

get your tickets. Meet me at the Comedy Zone. Love you guys. Can't wait to see you. All right and also got to remind you guys August 16th My car show hits New Jersey if you missed the one in, Virginia, you got a chance kids five and under a free I want you to bring your whole family out. It's a day of just family fun. It's affordable. Can't wait to see you guys I mean we got old cars new cars salute to the BBS boys exotics

We got rides and games for the kids salute to monster energy They bring the BMX bikes and do tricks and exhibitions all day long. So, Brick, come on out. We got food trucks, bars for the adults. Can't wait to see you guys, all right? Again, we gotta send our rest in peace to Malcolm Jamor Warner, a good brother. He passed away, condolences to his family.

Just horrible. Yeah. Very horrible, man. And you know, like I've been saying all morning, it just hits different when you see somebody out there just doing everything right, you know, and he was just being a father on family vacation, you know, with his wife, with his daughter,

and you know, this tragic accident happened, man. So, you know, you just can't escape it, you can't duck death. When it's your time, it's your time. But boy, it do feel like we be getting cheated sometimes. Absolutely. Yeah. So, rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner man life well lived though. That's right life well lived man Very very very fulfilling life. He lived. That's right. Well before we continue on we got to give somebody a thousand dollars Hopefully this just cheers up the mood a little bit. Yeah

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