The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Boosie Badazz Weighs In On 50 Cent & Lil Meech Beef, Kim K. Sued, A$AP Relli Breaks Silence, Angela Bassett Reflects On Oscar loss + More

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

The Breakfast Club Dives Into Boosie Badazz Weighs In On 50 Cent & Lil Meech Beef, Kim K. Sued, A$AP Relli Breaks Silence, Angela Bassett Reflects On Oscar loss. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We definitely have that this morning because Jasmine Crockett will be joining us. What side is she on? I thought she was the righteous. Jasmine is definitely both. Okay. Crockett includes myself with Jasmine Crockett. She joining us. What side is she on? I thought she was the right one. Jasmine is definitely both. Okay. Crockett includes myself with Jasmine Crockett. She'll be joining us later this morning. Yes, of course she's a Congresswoman from Texas.

You know her because she gets it poppin'. She holds nothing back when she's on that floor. Yeah. Recently she got into an argument with... That's not even the most recent thing. What was the most recent? I don't remember, but it wasn't that. But Jasmine's always got something going on.

I mean, Jasmine's a pretty frequent visitor to the breakfast club. That's right. She'll be joining us this morning. And also, we have the CEO of Red Lobster. He's a brother. He's 36 years old. His name is Demola Adamloken.

Yes. I know I said that wrong, but. And it's funny, right? Because sometimes they'll ask us, what's your favorite interview? Or who do you want to interview and you're like? I don't know yeah, you don't be thinking about it. Yeah, but when I saw him on the schedule I was like oh, I absolutely want to talk to that brother. You know he's 36 years old. He's a Nigerian American

He was CEO of a pf Chang turned them around. Yeah, now he's CEO of a red lobster. That's right So yes, a very informative show you will get this morning. He went to Brown to he played football there I remember that yeah Brown, yeah. Ivy League school. Yep, sure did. Alright, well let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Morgan will be joining us.

And don't forget you can get it off your chest if you want to start calling right now. 800-585-1051. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess.

Let's get in some front page news What's up Morgan what's up is this Friday in the Charlemagne and Now before you jump right in Morgan. I just want to say victim when be Yama He will miss the remainder of this season. They said he has a blood clot in his right shoulder So he will miss the remainder of this season NBA basketball That's a big blow especially to the San Antonio Spurs and the league as a whole because you know, he's one of the Rising stars in the NBA. That's right, and they just made that trade for That with Darren Fox from Sacramento

So they was they was gonna be ball. It was about the ball out. Yeah. Yeah, he was diagnosed with vein thrombosis Which is like you said a blood clot initial. Isn't that what Chris Bosh? I have something like that or my trippin What was Chris? I don't know That I believe that has set down some quite a few players Chris Bosh had a Yeah, I'm both just from bro. Just no one process. All right, y'all Let's get into it. So President Trump hosted a reception at the White House honoring Black History Month yesterday. So during the event, Trump claimed he received more votes from Black Americans than any other

Republican president ever, while jokingly asking the crowd if he should run again. Now the ceremony comes as the administration has been cracking down on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, with Trump issuing an executive order last month ending the federal government's DEI programs. Now following that, the that order, the Department of Defense also came out with guidance declaring identity months dead. So there will be no Pride Month, no Black History Month. But Trump was joined on stage by golf legend Tiger Woods as a as well as several prominent black. I thought Tiger Woods stopped being black. I thought Tiger Woods never wanted to be black.

I thought he was Cobblin Asian. Yo, they said if he black, why can't Kamala be black? Listen. Okay. So Tiger Woods was there. Several other black prominent figures were there. Supposedly Kodak black Kodak was there. Kodak was there. Yeah, Kodak.

Kodak been supporting the president. The president pardoned him. I was going to say he pardoned him. So there's that. But let's take a listen to Trump's remarks during the Black History Month ceremony at the White House. Today, we pay tribute to the generations of black legends, champions, warriors and patriots who helped drive our country forward to greatness. And you really are great, great people. What a great, nice group of.

I have some people in front of me every once in a while with all the problems that are caused all over the world and that they're not nice they're not nice but we're making but we're making them nice I can tell you that and we're making them nice rapidly what making nice and making them nice rapidly so during his speech he also spoke about the Garden of Heroes Which is a located along the National Mall Saying the space will be the new home to statues bus plaques and other markers celebrating hero Heroic figures in American history, of course that includes some iconic black figures. Let's hear more from Trump on the Garden of Heroes

the garden will Predominantly feature incredible women like Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, and Coretta Scott King. And I will showcase extraordinary, it will be something very extraordinary. It's going to be producing, we're going to produce some of the most beautiful works of art in the form of a statue for men like Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Jackie Robinson, what a great athlete that was Martin Luther King Jr., Mohammed Ali, he's not a bad athlete, what do you think Mohammed?

Not too bad. And the late Kobe Bryant. People love Kobe Bryant. You guys' thoughts? I don't really have any to be honest with you. Alright, so that's the Black History Month ceremony at the White House. Yeah, so this comes at the same time the White House is marking one month officially since President Trump has been back in office. Officials touted accomplishments in immigration and the economy achieved by Trump since his inauguration.

Let's hear more from White House Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller with more comments about the President's first month in office. Today marks one month of President Trump's return to the Oval Office and there is no denying this administration is off to a historic start. No president comes close to what Donald Trump has achieved over just the last 30 days. He has packed eight years of transformative action restoring this nation, restoring our laws, restoring fairness, restoring economic opportunity, restoring national security.

Restoring is relative depending on who you are, but the National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said, CEO confidence is at its highest. It's been in years. National security advisor Mike Walsh also noted that the U.S. has been in a sea change in its foreign policy since Trump's return to office So what do you guys think? I mean, it's been a month. We've seen a lot There's been a lot of executive orders that have come down a lot of those have also been blocked What do you guys think?

There's been a lot of chaos and a lot of mess over the past month, especially in regards to what doge is doing But you know what you asked us something earlier. You asked us what we thought about His White House what it was was the honoring black history month at the White House and it did just come to me I'm not impressed by any of that symbolism from any president regardless of what party they're from Democrat or Republican like the statues You know in the garden that's cool But I want some I always want something tangible for the black community like like plant some money trees in the black community Plant some money trees in the black community. Plant some money trees in the hood.

That's where my mind is always at when it comes. So when you asked me that, that's why I was just like, I don't think anything of it, because I'm never impressed by symbolism from any party. Just statues, okay? I'm not mad at the statues though. I'm not mad at it, but that ain't, what is that, okay? The reason I say I'm not mad at that

is because if you were ever a child and you got to tour the White House, you've never seen anything that looked like you so the fact that you seen people that look like you in Statues and the fact that they have Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and things that look like you that that reflect where you're from I'm not mad at sure, but I always want something more for the black community. I want something tangible I want something that's really going to improve our condition I hope the black kids get there because he don't like to include us in things you remember He's getting rid of DEI everywhere And you know like I said plants of money trees and I'm not with you plants of money trees in the hood like yeah

Give us something tangible that can actually Improve our condition like I always say I could it it was systemic things that you know put you know Black people in the position that we're in and it's gonna be systemic things that help us to get out So that's where my mind is always at regardless of who's in the White House. All right. And as far as the first 30 days, Jasmine Crockett will be here next hour. And I'm sure she'll break down the first 30 days. That is very true.

All right. Well, thank you, Morgan. All right. See y'all at seven. We'll talk CPAC 2025. All right. Everybody else get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Get it off. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051, we wanna hear from you on The Breakfast Club.

Hello, who's this? Yeah, this is Spike. Spike, what's up? Get it off your chest, brother. Yeah, shout out to you, DJ N.V. The other day You held Drake down it went viral. You was defending Drake the whole time I just want to give my chest Charlamagne and Jess hilarious. I need to cut drinks and slack

Well, Charlamagne you never gonna cut drink no slack, but Jess hilarious. You just got to the radio station You got to cut drinks and slack you do you even? Listen to the album. He was announcing it. He was like, I ain't even listen to it, but you was giving it back. You made no sense. Yeah. I mean, the album is not for me. You know what I'm saying? I've never liked when Drake sang. I've always said that I'm on record. I don't like what Drake sings. No, that's why I can't even you. You've been already, your stance always been like that forever with Drake.

They don't got, it's not even about the battle. But Jess Hilarious, she let Kendrick Lamar change perception on Drake, and that's scary. We don't need nobody to have nobody to change nobody's perception. Well, I want to say this, I wasn't necessarily, I don't have a dog in this fight. But you have an owl. I don't have an owl in this battle either.

You've been holding Drake down. I just like to be fair and to see what the world has done to Drake is crazy. Like, they love him one day and he was the savior one day and the next day they hate him. I'm like, I got this Chanel back today. I don't mind. I don't have no issue with him. You drunk.

But we can't conflate all of this stuff. What you mean? Yeah, she's drunk. I don't even know who she is. That's Lora La Rosa. But listen, we don't need to conflate any of these things. I'm just simply talking about the album I ain't talking about nothing else. This ain't got nothing to do with no feelings But now that we talking about the album make sure y'all play that no kid that song is a baby

That's the boss for the summer that's all I'm trying to say we we going to a different pace for music real up tempo Real Bobby real music to skate to we gonna bring back The sketchy days. Okay, I'm gonna get that record on for you this morning, brother. Appreciate that I'm having a little interesting to see if no kid go go because I thought the record was sitting in sexy red was going Go go and it was like a cultural hit but not a radio Yeah, because you said that but I promise you that summer outside that was the song which one radio you said that but I promise you that summer outside that was the song which one yeah I said it was it was a cultural hit but it's not on the charts there was a big record in the clubs hello who's this what's up Trash hey

Lauren hey how you doing baby yes all today brother y'all today okay okay okay what's up Sorry pieces? Why you sound extra sassy this one? He's a son extra. I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like a bottom this morning. Oh wow Listen, yes, I'm a cultural agent. I see I got like three I got like three before you You ain't gotta take the brexit red set up some hooks though. That's gonna get you right I promise you listen you listen in try really can write somebody about you last night, Trav I swear write. I was telling somebody about you last night Trav. I swear, I have a friend from my label and I was telling him like, yo, cause they were talking about writers.

I was like, I got somebody that can probably make that situation better. Y'all don't know him, but y'all should know me. All right, oh my God, thank you. I swear I was. It's only a matter of time for Trav. I'm not even worried about Trav. It's only a matter of time.

I always appreciate y'all. I'm always looking at you. Appreciate y'all. Bro, did you get bottomed out last night? What happened bro? Like all the bass is gone out of your voice. Like what happened Trav like seriously? I don't know how I sound like how I always I don't call to talk about J Cole this morning. It's Charlamagne. Are you a verse top? Yeah, the reason he said the way he just said Charlamagne just sound different. What about J Cole? He put out a record last night

I ain't listed to it yet though. Yes, it's Carl Cloud. Please drop some bars to y'all. Make sure y'all go listen to some real, the king of rap, the king of rap. Okay, because my boy is rapping again. Like he been rapping and crap again though.

I mean, sure you go listen to my man dropping these bars. But he rapping. Trav, we all got respect for Cole. We got respect for Cole's lyricism, but Kendrick Lamar is the king of rap, and you need to cut it out, and you know that. Now you better cut it, just stop right now.

Goodbye, Trav. Can you go listen to the song, I'm real sorry. I will, but I still know that that ain't gonna make him the king, okay? Get it off your chest. J Cole, you know, J Cole had an opportunity to be king, but he bowed out. 800.

They don't want that. 585-1051. Hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk.

I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed. Call up now. 8-hundred-585-1051. Not just me. I'm what the Coach of Philly. Hello, who's this? Good morning, y'all.

My name is Will. How y'all doing? What's up, brother? Get it off your chest. I'm just a little upset at Anthony Edwards for talking to Obama like that, man. Like, if y'all really dissect the whole situation, he wasn't playing at all. Obama was really just trying to start a conversation with him, you know what I'm saying? And he took it way left, like.

He did it, man. That's what I when he called the Brown over He's like man y'all talking to this young man like why is he talking to me like a light? That's the first black president bro like I can just But nah Listen Barack is the first black president, but he's still a man and he's a OG half a black man who's also a Hooper. He didn't even take, he wasn't even offended by it. He's a Hooper.

He actually told Anthony at the end of the conversation, that's how you're supposed to feel. Man, go back to the very end when he was telling him goodbye. Anthony Edwards was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like completely disrespectful. He just said he was okay, they Hoopers, they talking trash to each other. But you know why though?

Because Obama littered him. Here's the thing, you know if I'm talking to you right now and I be like, oh I see you got your little car. You know what I'm saying? Oh I see you with your little new sneakers on. Obama hit him with a little. Obama hit him with a little. Young boy.

In my opinion, he was just trying to start a conversation with a young man like, Charlie Mayne, how would you feel if he was your son and your son spoke to the president like it? Like would you be happy if he spoke to him in that kind of way? In that context I would have no problem with it because they talking basketball They talking hoops man Like what we talking about here like Obama was messing with him and Anthony gave him that energy back like I don't see the problem No, I don't see a problem

Okay, okay We agree to disagree man, but I love y'all don't see the problem. No, I don't see a problem Okay, okay This conversation is really silly to me Obama knew what he was doing Obama Obama was like what's up with this guy? Yeah, right. Yeah, I got a little game to him I got your side sneaking in the car. We can go play right now And more than any other words ain't nothing over here little at all. You got yeah. I'm good. No, she's not she's drunk Hello, who's this? Hey? What's up DC get it off your chest brother man? I just been in a in a space not being here everybody saying all this stuff You know the politics and everything and And I think as a black people, man, we ought to just shift our energy through

trying to understand and kind of let stuff play out, man. Because I mean, nobody, let's be honest, nobody is happy with what's going on. And I just, I've been in a space where I'm thinking like, you know, change is always radical and always looks, it always looks real bad in the beginning. But hopefully eventually, you know, it'll all shake out because like, you know, we had President Lyndon B Johnson years ago saying, I'll have those N words, both Democrat for the next 400 years. And now look where we're at with it. And it's like, you know, sometimes we might need to do something different just because like we keep getting the same result with the other party. And I'm not, I'm not advocating for any party, but I'm just saying like, in this instance right instance right now with all this stuff going on I think we got to shift our focus to not being so

crooked and preparing ourselves to work with what we have going on because it's here like we can't change it, ripening and moaning about it and saying everything he does is not going to help us out and I think our country is in a place to where you know you can listen to you can tell who somebody's voting for about what news station they watch or what radio they listen to. There's nobody that's sharing both sides. And I think that's part of the problem

when you just have one side always talking down about one side and the other side, vice versa. So I just believe that if we try to work with what we got going on, we might can see a little more progress. Hey, I hear you, you know what I'm saying? And I don't disagree, but I will say this, man. I don't know what color these federal workers are

that are losing their jobs. When I was in Maryland a couple of weeks ago for my daughter's cheerleading competition, there was black people, white people, Asian people walking up to me telling me how they're losing their job, or they potentially will lose their job. And for me, all I ever want any government official to do

is make sure that the American people got some money in their pocket and to make sure that they feel safe and secure. You can't do that when you don't have a job. So that's all I ever care about. So when I see these people complaining, it don't matter to me what race they are, it don't matter to me what party they are,

these are people who can't feed their families. These are people who can't keep a roof over their head because according to data, 59% of Americans are considered one paycheck away from being broke. When you see these tens of thousands of people losing their jobs, that's what I care about. I want to fix that. I want to slow that down. I don't want that to happen. Once again, regardless of who's in the White House. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got Jess with the Mess coming up. Yes, we do. Angela Bassett is finally speaking out about her viral reaction at the Oscars in

2023. Lauren had a great time last night she came in and she was drunk. Basically, listen Angela Bassett is telling y'all to leave her alone. We talk about Angela Bassett when we come back. She telling y'all to leave her alone. Okay she deserves to be disappointed. It's Friday though. She deserved that Oscar. It's Friday Alright, we blame Nala for this. Nala took you out. We got to have a conversation with nieces, man. Alright, we'll get to... Y'all knew what I was trying to say. Jess with the Mess, when we come back. I really didn't need to be honest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DEJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the Mess. News is real whether it's the Clarence, Jessica Robin Moore, Jess don't do no lying. Tell my face! She don't spare nobody. Roll wide Jess, roll wide Mess. I need the truth.

On the Breakfast Club, she's a coachess with Lauren, Lauren LaRosa. I'm back. And I got the mess. Talk to me. Talk, Drunky. Oh, I thought Amy was going to bring it in or something. I don't know. Okay. So Angela Bassett.

She's drunk as hell. No, I'm not. Just not here. Can you stop saying that? Okay. Angela Bassett. Y'all remember in 2023, we thought, well, now she's going on to win some awards, but we thought that Angela Bassett was going to finally get her Oscar in 2023 for Wakanda.

She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in that lane in the category at the time too was Jamie Lee Curtis, who actually ended up winning the award. And when it was announced, the camera panned to her, to Angela Bassett and her reaction was she was visibly upset. You could tell that she was upset. And normally when this happens, especially with a big name like that, you know the camera's gonna pan to you,

you don't really react any way that can be taken away or made news and it was the complete opposite. So it became such a big story of her reaction, especially because it had been years and years and years of her being invited to the Oscars, her being deserving of an award and not being nominated. So people felt like y'all keep playing in her face. And people were upset about it.

She was upset about it. Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan actually came out and showed her some love right after that happened. Hey auntie, we love you. And that became like a viral moment as well too because people were flooding her Instagram comments. We were all over Twitter News outlets wherever we could say yo, we love Angela Bassett and she deserved that people were saying it now after this She sat down and talked to Oprah after that moment were viral Angela Bassett sat down and talked to Oprah and she said that she was

Gob-smacked like she was basically really caught off guard and disappointed. But now she's opening up, she's talking to Town & Country magazine, she's promoting a show called Zero Days that she's in on Netflix. And in this interview, she tells them, it's a written interview, she tells them that she felt like she wasn't allowed to be disappointed. That people literally wrote articles about her and had so much to say about the fact that she as a human person was visibly disappointed. She should have been allowed to be disappointed in that moment. I love that she said that. and as a human person was visibly disappointed. She should have been allowed to be disappointed in that moment.

I love that she said that, because she kept it all in for so long, kept it really cute and very classy as she always does, but I love to hear her say, I deserve to be able to feel in that moment, and y'all need to leave me alone. Angela Bassett is the woman in the garden. She deserves it all, okay?

And I'm biased when it comes to Angela Bassett, because the reality is she should have won in 1994 for what's love got to do with it. So I personally believe she should win everything everywhere all the time. Not only is she one of the most incredible actresses ever, she's one of the most beautiful creations God has ever designed. Drop on the clues bombs for Angela Bassett. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely right. I mean Hollywood is so fake. What am I supposed to just smile as somebody gets an award that I worked hard for and I think I deserve?

Yes, I can show emotion emotion I could be pissed off that doesn't mean I don't I don't you know feel happy for you yeah I'm pissed off I think sometimes people mistake that for hate I'm not hating on you oh because you won but I damn sure wanted to win at the end the games when teams lose they be having their head down, they be kicking over Gatorade buckets, slamming stuff on the floor. Nobody ever says, damn man, they acting like it's all losers.

No, like nobody wants to lose. Congratulations to you, but I wanted to win. Yeah, and she went on to win other awards and actually ended up getting her Academy Award after that. But she did mention, she said, I love applauding people, but in that moment, she did mention she said, I love applauding people. But in that moment, she talks about that she felt like she put in the hard work to be recognized. And she said, she said, I thought I had put in the work and then she corrected herself.

She said, No, I have put in put in the time put in the good work over time. I didn't think that that was a gift. I thought it was a given. Basically, like, if I'm doing the work, how y'all don't see me type of thing. And I think a lot of people love to act like that doesn't matter. So I love to hear her speak about this, especially at the point that she's at in her career. And she said it was a tough one because, you know, she's really respected amongst her peers, but she felt like the establishment at that time didn't respect her. So salute to Auntie. She well deserves she deserves everything she gets. All they just don't have the taste that they think they have. Because how do you not award

her in? 1994 for what's love got to do it come on one of the most iconic roles ever People look at that and think you know how long I thought that was Tina Turner I was young I know I thought she was actually Tina Turner but at the end of the movie They showed a real Tina, but even when they showed a routine you got to rub your eyes a little bit like oh And at the end of the movie, they showed a real Tina, but even when they showed a real Tina, you gotta rub your eyes a little bit like, oh. Have you ever looked into the night sky

and wondered who or what was flying around up there? We've seen planes, helicopters, hot air balloons and birds, but what if there's something else, something much more ominous that appears under the cover of night, silent, unseen, watching. They may be right above your car late one night as you cruise down the road

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Come on, man. Absolutely. I love that. What you got next? ASAP Relly. So ASAP Relly finally spoke out following being basically proven that, or I don't know. I was going to say basically being proven as a liar, but I can't say that. But what did he speak out and say?

So after ASAP Rocky was found not guilty in the shooting of ASAP Relly, he posted something I was gonna say basically being proven as a liar, but I can't say that. But what did he speak out and say? I mean he was. So after Asap Rocky was found not guilty in the shooting of Asap Relly, he posted something to his IG story. He said, gossiping is a form of entertainment for people who have no meaningful goals or purpose in life. Hate me, bring shame to my name. Say bad things about me.

I don't care. Your existence doesn't add any value in my life. Now in the article. Oh, I know social media went crazy. They were like, gossiping? What about snitching? I know they went crazy. Now I will say in the article. I know social media went crazy. They were like gobsmen. What about snitching? Know they went crazy. Now I will say in the article that pinpointed this they did mention your donkey today that you gave him No, yeah

I'm sure he's seen that I'm sure that that upset him because yes if he he lied on the stand, correct? Yeah, so there was there were things that were debunked on the stand that he had said and I will say as we are wrapping up too That I did reach out to Joe Tacopino who is a SAP's attorney You know I did this before I went out last night and he did tell me that right now they're putting together transcripts because they want to submit it to the people that the Establishments that may be because they do want to push for a perjury They want to make sure that that I feel like anybody that lies on that stand that tries to put somebody away that tries to sue somebody that lies to Gain for themselves should have to face the music

Absolutely positive trying to make that will stop people from lying on the stand Yeah, I mean that's a that's a known thing that perjury is the thing. Yeah, but most people But most people when they do that, there's no consequences for them. Think about it everybody Definitely comes with a perjury. You're under a perjury a lot of people that that purge on the stand. Nothing ever happens I don't know what you're talking about. You sound drunk. I think you talk about the purge the movie or something I think you mean lying about I think you're talking about lying about Allegations period that's what you're talking about. Yes, You get on that stand and you lie and commit perjury, you gonna get in trouble.

Well, he should get in trouble. All right, well that was Jess with the Mess, you all right? Yeah, I'm good. Count backwards from 10. Five, four, three, two, one. She said 10, she's not even thinking of you anymore. Try that one, huh? Six, five, four, three, two, one.

All right, well we come back, we got front page news. And the Jasmine Crockett congressman from Texas will be joining us We'll talk to her next don't go anywhere. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. You're checking out the breakfast club Morning, everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious. Charlamagne the guy We are the breakfast club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess and let's get in some front page news He will miss the remainder of the season. He has a blood clot in his right shoulder. So he will miss that. And also Milwaukee Bucks Bobby Portis, he was suspended 25 games for violating the NBA's

anti-drug policy. All right. What up Morgan? All right y'all. So a federal judge says President Trump's mass firings of government employees can continue for now. Multiple labor unions recently filed a lawsuit trying to block the administration's layoffs of thousands of probationary employees. Well, on Thursday, a judge denied that bid saying the federal court was not the appropriate avenue for their lawsuit.

So they can file the lawsuit is just not with the feeds. Despite the denial, the judge did indicate that he was sympathetic to the union saying many of Trump's executive orders caused disruption and even chaos in widespread quarters of American society. Switching gears to the conservative political action conference, also known as CPAC 2025, that's underway. Vice president, JD Vance, he spoke and he talked about president Trump's efforts to slash federal spending and at the political conference that bills itself as the most influential gathering

of conservatives in the world. Now Vance also spoke about Trump's efforts to end the war in Ukraine with Russia. Let's hear more from Vice President Vance at CPAC 2025. I think all of us are sitting around and asking what the hell are we doing with the American people's money for the last four years? Let's, what the hell are we doing with the American people's money for the last four years? Let's turn off the spigot and spend the American people's tax money on the American people's priority. And that's of course been a big focus in the administration too. He wants the killing to stop.

He wants to bring lasting peace to Europe. He doesn't just want to stop it now and have the war restart a month from now. He wants to bring lasting peace to Europe. So Vance also talked about Trump's immigration policy, saying drug traffickers free ride in this country is over with Trump back in office. This year's gathering is expected to be a celebration of President Trump's MAGA movement after Republicans sweeping victory in November. Trump is also scheduled to speak at the conference on Saturday. Other speakers expected to grace the stage are House Speaker Mike Johnson,

Senators Ted Cruz, Rick Scott, and Borders are Tom Homan. Speaking of which, Ukrainian President Zelensky says he did have a productive meeting with President Trump's envoy to Russia and Ukraine. In a post on Exe, Zelensky said he is grateful to the United States for all the assistance and bipartisan support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people now earlier this week US officials met with Russia to discuss the end of its war with Ukraine and Zelensky's meeting with Keith Kellogg came a day after he called Trump He and Trump went back and forth over those talks now Trump called Zelensky a dictator without elections while Ukrainian leader

Zelensky said Trump is living in this disinformation bubble. So the drama kind of continues but we're going to ease back a little bit and be PC politically correct. Bringing things to New York, Governor Kathy Hockel is deciding not to remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office but she is putting limits on his power. Now Hockel said she's troubled by the allegations against the mayor. She is proposing legislation to create a special inspector general to manage the city's affairs and give the city council speaker, comptroller and public advocate independent authority to take legal action against the federal government. Let's hear more from New York Governor Kathy Hockel. Not just the initial indictment, but also the more recent allegation of a quid pro quo

with the Trump administration. The state inspector general will be able to direct the New York City Department of Investigations, and the mayor will only be able to move the Department of Investigations commissioner with the approval of the state inspector general. The Trump administration has said it's already trying to use the legal jeopardy facing our mayor as leverage to squeeze and punish our city. The president's already trying to weaken our public transit system. She talking about the congestion price and she's still mad about that. So Hoco believes that the will of the voters preclude her power to remove him. She says she wants to expand

funding to the state comptroller for city oversight. So she's going to limit those, the powers that be for mayor Eric that's crazy that's that's like yeah you're not grounded but you can't leave the house that's pretty much what they're saying like yeah you're not gonna take you out but we're gonna watch what you do and limit what you can do so he's so basically he doesn't have full control as mayor no he does not no no that would not be the case so you might as well take him out if he can't do everything he's supposed to be doing as a man, you might as well just

take him out. This might be something because they're trying to push him to just resign. Yeah, I was going to say, it sounds like it could be a push to resign or they push him out to resign, to your point Lauren. Absolutely. And just switching gears to another story out of New York, very sad. Six upstate New York corrections officers are now facing murder charges in the death of an inmate caught on body cam. Now the six officers charged with murder and three others accused of manslaughter for not stopping the December attack where

they were arraigned after a special prosecutor unsealed the charges on Thursday. Now Robert Brooks was the inmate. He was killed during a vicious attack inside the Marcy Correctional Facility. The state released body cam video around that the time of the special prosecutor was appointed. It appears to show officers restraining, kicking and beating Brooks and more. All of the officers had bail set at $100,000 or less. This is a developing story, so I will continue to keep you guys posted on this. But very, very, you know, very sad. Let's continue to say his name, Robert Brooks.

That's your front page news. Happy Friday, y'all. I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me on social at Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network, download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com. Thank you. Thank you, Morgan. Now when we come back, Jasmine Crockett will be joining us. She's the congresswoman from Texas. And we're going to talk to her next. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. One of the best messages in the Democratic Party. That's right. We have a woman, Jasmine Crockett.

Welcome back. Good morning. Wake up. Welcome back. Good morning. Good morning. Now wake up. Wake up. I am. I'm so tired. You be waking up and you be clapping back. You better wake up again. I do. I do. But we don't have any hearings this early. I just want to be clear. Nothing starts before 10 o'clock. How are you first and foremost? How you feeling? I'm over it. It's only been, what, has it been 30 days yet? I think it has. This fool is driving me crazy. Do you eat, sleep, and shit this though? Like do you mean, like, do you never like, just turn off, turn the TV off, like everything?

Like, you know what, I don't wanna think about it, I don't wanna do nothing. So, as much as I don't wanna think about it, I definitely stop watching the news as much as I used to. But people are like DMing me, they're sending me emails, we're constantly getting phone calls, so no, I don't turn off. Is there anything good that this administration has done so far?

Anything that you can say, well at least that's a good thing? Huh? Okay. Not nothing. I saw Bernie Sanders post yesterday about he likes what Trump is attempting to do with the Pentagon by auditing them and stuff like that. Attempting. Let's see it happen.

Here's the reality. I serve on the Oversight Committee. That's see it happen. Here's the reality. I serve on the oversight committee. That's where all the drama typically happens. And we've had Department of Defense come before us a number of times. The vast majority of the waste, fraud and abuse that we have in this country is Department of Defense. You can Google and find out that at some point in time we were spending like $1,000 per toilet or something. So like that's where we see these inflated costs. That's where we have a lot of contractors. That's where they play a lot of games. That's where Eli gets the vast majority of his money is out of defense. And when they come before us and we asked them about their audit, they haven't had a clean audit in the last six times we've asked for an audit. So the fact that they're going to start with people that are getting $6 a day to eat, or they want to go after the little old lady that's just trying to get her little health care and they believe that that's what the savings is, that's not where the savings is,

nor is it going after career civil servants and saying, oh, let me take your coins, let me take your job. Because when we add up, even if we fired everybody that works for the federal government, it's only maybe four or five percent of our budget, but over or approximately 50% of our discretionary budget is defense and they can't pass an audit. So why we didn't start there where Elon has decided that he was going to get two new contracts just in two weeks, one for $400 million to Tesla, another for a little over $300 million to SpaceX. I don't know why we didn't start there,

but it seems like we could find a lot of ways fraud and abuse, because again, they've not been able to pass an audit. School me on this too, right? Bill Clinton did the national partnership for reinventing government. He essentially, Elon's saying he's essentially doing the same thing Bill Clinton did

as far as like, you know, making the government smaller, more efficient. What do you say to that? What's the difference between what Clinton did in the 90s and what he's doing now? So there's a lot that's different, but I do wanna start with, because I actually looked at the numbers.

We really were kinda big. We actually had more people working in the federal government when Bill Clinton was in office initially than we have now. You know what the difference is? The country's just a little bit bigger, right? So chances are you would need more. And we're talking about the people that are delivering your mail. You're talking about the people because all y'all about to start calling us, I ain't got my tax refund check, okay? So like firing the IRS, we're talking about, you know, the people that do FAA, so the planes don't fall out the sky, right? So we have a lot more going

on. And we literally don't even have as many people as we had working when he came in. So we were a little kind of bloated when it came down to it. But also, all presidents should have advisors. And that's essentially what he had was an advisor. What they have said is that Elon is the one that cut off the spigot of money. Like this is after money was appropriated and then he's like, Oh, no, no, no, you can't get that money. And now people are dying in other countries because USAID has stopped. And I want to be clear about something. You can shut down USAID if you want to, but that has to be done congressionally. Okay, that's number one. Number two, USAID is less than 1% of our budget. So they over here talking about something, oh, they handing out condoms and they doing

this and all this kind of stuff. It's literally less than 1% of our budget because they don't want you to pay attention to the over 99% of the budget. Where yes, I would say most of the waste fraud and abuse is actually still at the hands of somebody like Elon Musk like these bootleg trucks that he decided that he was going to sell the federal government I think maybe at a hundred thousand dollars I don't know what the price is per truck or whatever but he's selling these trucks at the same time that he's getting rid of all the people that was that were conducting investigations over him about Tesla, investigations about SpaceX.

He got rid of all those people. And even in that interview that Trump just did, he's like asked by Fox News of all places, right? He's asked, well, you know, who's going to oversee Elon and make sure his conflicts are good? He's like, Oh, Elon is. Elon is going to oversee Elon and make sure his conflicts are good. He's like, oh, Elon is. Elon gonna go over to Elon. I'm like, wait a minute now.

I mean, because I got a whole body of people that's over me. I don't just get to decide what is right and wrong. And honestly, I'm not allowed to take any money. I have to live a very poor life right now, right? And you could be getting paid. I could be getting paid. I've made more money before. I will make more money after.

But right now, I am living not in the overflow. No, I mean No, no, no, I and I had to shut them down because first they said that I had a husband no Husband y'all first they said I had a husband and they said that I was paying him half a million dollars to keep me safe. And people were like, he should be doing that for free. And I was like, I don't know if y'all mix up the black girls. Or if y'all just think every black girl that comes to Congress brings a husband who has to live off. That's not what it is. Okay. No husband, never been married, never been engaged. All right. That's number one.

So then they said, well, she's worth $9 million and she's got all these homes. Let me tell you something. When I first got to Congress about two weeks in, there was a case that I had been working for seven years. It was a civil rights case, one of my last two civil rights cases. I still got one pending.

So just so y'all know, if I got to resign, I'm gonna resign. But nevertheless, it goes to trial. I'm unable to participate because I'm not supposed to be but I'm in this wind down period. It actually hits for about $22 million. So ethics says you can't collect your attorney's fee on that at all. Now mind you, I worked this case before I ever ran for Congress, right? So like that gives you an idea of how far they go. When it comes to the, no, but here's the deal. I would have resigned and I will resign. No, I'm not finna play with my money.

Like y'all tripping, cause I worked on that case for seven years. It was against a very small city that literally can't pay it. Now if for some reason they go find the coins, then absolutely, I'm resigning, forcing a special election and I'll win, right? But I do have another one that is pending and it's pending against the city of Dallas

and the officer in that case actually played guilty. If the city of Dallas does pay up, you heard it here first, I am resigning and it will be a seven figure payday for me because as an attorney, yeah, we do have cases that hit for millions of dollars. It's not really that odd. The thing is that I've always been a bleeding heart liberal. I have. So I was doing more criminal defense than anything.

I wasn't really doing a lot of the big million dollar cases unless I was helping out the homies. I've got plenty of cases where I've gone into court, helped homies get seven figure results, but that never was me. I just wanted to be comfortable and now I got to deal with Congress. You said you can resign and then run again, you said? Yeah, yeah. I'm going to collect my change.

Resign and get that money never again. Yeah. All right. We have more with Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jus Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Jasmine Crockett. Now do you think what Trump is doing now is to throw people off? It's the, well, we're possibly going to give you guys $5,000. As a distraction. We're possibly going to take the congestion prices, say hello to the king. You think he's doing those things to say, you know what, all this rest of that stuff, these people won't even check me because I'm doing, they think I'm doing this.

That's exactly right. He knows that they're not going to check him, right? Like, I mean, you can go back and play the clips of him talking about how he loves the uneducated, right? If he would ever run for president, he would run as a Republican. Like and we know, like this isn't me trying to throw shade, these are just the facts. When you look at who's voting for who, the less educated folk, and when I say educated, I'm not even talking about formal education. I'm talking about people that literally don't want to read and enlighten themselves

on facts. Those are the people that typically vote for the Republicans in this one of the reasons that we have to stop writing in theses as Democrats, right? Like we want to give you every single little detail that we can find so that you can have all the information. But the reality is that the average person that is going out there and voting, they're not paying attention to that. And we fail to realize how selfish people are. People go out and they vote in their own self-interest. And so you had all these racists that showed up and decided that they were going to vote for the other races because they thought, hey, we are all the same.

But the reality is that he is a rich racist. And so when he decided that he was going to look out for somebody, it was only going to be other rich white guys, not the rest of y'all. So as you're losing your job, as you're losing your Medicaid, as you're losing your farm, you're feeling away because you're like, wait a minute, you were supposed to go after the others, not come after us. And now they're saying, oh, well, we'll give you a $5,000 check. I don't see it happening right now. That is not a part of the budget that they have proposed. That is for sure.

So they just had a markup. So this is the first that they're ever talking about this. The budget that they proposed where they went through a 13 hour markup just the other day proposed getting rid of Medicare. So I mean, theoretically, they should have the money if you decide that people won't have health care in this country, which costs a little bit more than $5,000 a person, but the reality is that they're not gonna do that.

Why do people still talk like Donald Trump is campaigning as opposed to like he's actually here right now in the flesh doing what it is that he's doing? Like they still talk like, they talk like they can stop this. Like I saw the governor of Illinois, JB, what's his name? Pritzker. Yes, he was talking, but I'm like,

yo, that should have been said four years ago. Yeah. The things that he was saying. Like, why are they talking like he's still campaigning? I'm gonna say this. I think that there's two things. I think that, again, Democrats are so cerebral that we were like, of course,

nobody's gonna vote for him again. They'll remember the dead bodies that were piling up in freezer trucks in New York. They'll remember that he was selling people to inject bleach. They'll remember that they were losing their jobs. They did not know if their family members were going to live or die. They will remember. We thought people would remember.

And then we started to realize way too late that a lot of people forgot. All they remembered, it was almost like our brains would not remember the bad. All they remembered was things like a $1,200 check, but they didn't remember how they got it, right? They didn't remember Pelosi. They didn't remember the Democrats were controlling the House at the time.

They didn't remember that part of the story. And so- Well, that's because Democrats suck at messaging and marketing. Well, we're still working. But I will say the other part of this, though though about Pritzker is that I think what we're trying to do is at least make sure that people wake up because there are things that we can do.

I don't accept defeat. I mean, if I accepted defeat, here's the reality. I wouldn't be sitting here before you. My ancestors never accepted defeat, so I won't either. Did he win? Absolutely. Are we defeated? Absolutely not. And so right now, the House- Concede the election. Don't concede the Constitution. Absolutely. I like that. Look at you. Look at you with your little white sheet. Take it.

Okay, there we go. So here's the deal. We know that the House is only a three member difference. Three members going to the Democratic side means that we control the House and we start slowing things down. We have three seats that are about to be up. We have two seats that are up right now. We have another one that will be up in New York. And so I'm telling people put all your energy into these three seats because I can't wait two years. Like I'm tired of him already. So we need an opportunity to start stopping him. So I do want governors like Pritzker to give people this belief and this hope. And I want people to like Pritzker to give people this belief and this hope. And I want people to go out and say, you know what, I don't have very much

money, but I think that it's worthwhile for me to give my $10 to these people that are running in Florida to give money to whoever is going to ultimately run here in New York. I think it's worth my time to show up and actually knock on some doors and talk to people and listen to people and ask them, why did you vote for Trump? And Trump would still be your president. But don't you want this to slow down a little bit? Don't you want somebody to say, hey, wait a minute, we think that it's important that Social Security still exists.

And the only thing that will stand between you and your Social Security is potentially having a Democratic House. And it doesn't mean you're a Democrat, but it does Social Security is potentially having a Democratic House. And it doesn't mean you're a Democrat, but it does mean that you believe in a Democratic Republic. And so I want us to work these three seats right now, because one of the elections, Florida, will take place on April 1st. So those are the guardrails that are in place to protect, you know, people like the federal workers from what Elon Musk and Donald Trump are currently doing.

Well, as it relates to that part, the guardrails are the courts. That's the only thing that we have standing right now. And I'm concerned that ultimately the high court belongs to him. So I know he's trying to get those cases up to the Supreme Court, again, get them to dismantle the constitution a bit, dismantle laws a little bit, but the fact that they push back on TikTok of all things, like just forget the subject matter. But ultimately, in a nine to zero decision, when it came down to TikTok, they said, oh,

never mind, like, no, you can't do that. That was signed into law, whether you like it or not, it was signed into law and you can't just unilaterally overturn that. So I think that we may have a little help from them when it comes down to things like once Congress appropriates something, you can't do anything about it. Now, here's the thing, it'll never make it to the Supreme Court in time, because this last funding bill runs out on March 14. We won't get to the

Supreme Court by March 14 to get a decision, but we potentially will have a new budget and that budget should be done because he does have a Trump trifecta. It should be done in the image of what it is that they want to deliver. So we'll see if they can get it done. I don't know. I think we're shutting down on March 14th. On March 14th?

You think the government's going to shut down? Yeah. I mean, the last time we shut down was under Trump. We shut down, I think, at least two times in the longest shutdown we've ever had in the history of this country came under Trump. And right now they have a slimmer majority than they had when I was in the 118th session. So right now they can only lose one vote. One Republican vote can vote against it.

So if all Democrats show up and vote against it, which we should, they can only lose one. Right now, I don't see how they get it passed. But we'll see. They can get it passed the Senate. I don't see how they get it passed the House. All right, we have more with Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking in with Jasmine Crockett. Well, child, what is on your shirt right there? I was ready to say I love the hoodie.

What is on your shirt? Break down what's on your shirt, child. Yes, yes, yes. So we dropped the child collection. The child collection. After Nancy Maze acted like she wanted to take me outside. She wanted five minutes with you. What was going through your mind when she asked you, I'd like to take me outside. So she wanted five minutes with you. She knows I'm on when she actually said, I'd like to take this outside.

You know, she graduated from the military school. I don't want the man. Military. Yes. She was the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, which is an army. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

So D.E.I. Helped her. Just F.Y.I. OK, because it didn't exist. And there were people that did not want a woman in the institution, but her father actually taught at the institution. And so she wanted to be just like her dad. And so they sued, they went to the courts so that she could get in as a woman. And now she is the very same woman that wants to do like

a bunch of the same immigrants to somehow get over here Get their citizenship and then they like forget everybody else coming behind me She is the same and so she claims that she's been a champion for women and that's why she's against trans people But she forgets that she benefited from diversity equity and inclusion like most white women because white women are the vast majority of the beneficiaries of DEI policies, but that's all they should, but when she said, let's take it outside, you know, I really want to be like, let's go.

Now, I knew that I couldn't, because again, they would have been trying to expel me. And if the tables were turned, if I had said that to her, oh, the Karen would have been calling everybody to come through and come grab me and they would have had me on the floor for an expulsion for trying to incite violence against another member of Congress, literally in a committee hearing. But instead they said, well, maybe she meant go outside for coffee.

I do be thinking that though. They did. That's what they said. They said, well, maybe she may go outside for coffee. Did they really say that? I do be thinking that though. They did. That's what they said. I be thinking that these people are so old and so culturally clueless that they don't understand. No, no, no, no, no, no. He was laughing when he did it.

Even the way she said it. No, he didn't. Even when you did your bad Bill Bush body, the guy was like, what? Whatever. Yeah, it's the same guy. It's the same guy. Even you saying child, Nancy was like, I'm not a child. I am not a child.

Right? I'm not a child. I'm not a child. No, I do think that she is culturally unaware, even though she's always bragging about how many black people she represents in her district in South Carolina. Black people in South Carolina, wake up! Get with her. We went to high school together.

That's y'all homie. You said. I mean, who is this? No, well she's, anyway, I'm not gonna cut. You said she needed to be around the economy down there. She does. Because South Carolina about to catch it. Just like all these other states, all of them, they're about to catch it the hardest.

Like you think you're quote unquote owning the libs. But guess what? New York has money. OK. Guess what? California has money. Right. The ones that broke and need the the money that New York and California pay into is you little red states down south, the vast majority of y'all. Y'all are the ones that are broke and y'all are the ones that are constantly bleeding population as well. Right?

Like we know that these small states, like people are moving to the big cities, which tend to be in the bluer states where there are more opportunities. So but Nancy, you know, she now wants to take it outside because they going through all of that. No, she she just wants to try to elevate her name and her status. So she's allegedly talking about running for governor in 2026. Don't do it. Don't do it.

South Carolina. But if you look into her, like she says so much staff that has resigned. She is consistently being accused of all types of inappropriateness when it comes to like sex stuff in general. So beyond her, well, I'll just say that in committee, right, in that same hearing, she was talking about quote-unquote chicks with penises. Yeah, so she was doing like all that kind of stuff so she constantly like throws the word around in committee and that kind of thing but she's also been accused of talking to staff about her sex life and making them uncomfortable and so she's had staff resign alleging that she is very inappropriate. She did just say she was a victim of rape and sexual abuse on the house floor.

She also did that with a lot of protections. So people don't know that if you go on the house floor, you can pretty much say anything, and people can't sue you. It's the debate clause. What do you mean they can't sue you? Speech and debate. Speech and debate clause means that when you are

in the chamber and you're on the floor, and you say certain things, I can say something defamatory and I can't be sued. So the theory is this is that she decided now that she's getting ready for this gubernatorial, she decided to kind of head off some potential bad headlines by going on onto the house floor and accusing not one not two but three men of sexually abusing her and recording it and drugging her. So the thought is that maybe there's a sex tape that's about to come out and so if she went on the floor they can't do anything about it. Now she's not filed

charges against any of them she just just went on the floor, made these accusations, but did not go and file a case against anybody. Now if she files a case against somebody and she's found to be lying, that is a crime. But she could go on the floor and accuse. Have you ever looked into the night sky and wondered who or what was flying around up there. We've seen planes, helicopters, hot air balloons, and birds. But what if there's something else, something much more ominous that appears under the cover of night, silent, unseen, watching?

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I met Santi at a luau party in October. I'm Santi. Damien. Oh, it was bizarre. The guy just disappeared one day. Santi has been missing ever since. The hookup. What is that?

I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now? Like, no matter how hard I try, all roads lead to... The hookup. You think it's causing people to turn aggro? I'm gonna rip your arms off and use them to- Yeah, that's a word for it. This is such terrible representation, I'm so sorry.

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Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse, into your favorite shows. stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians to tell them a buckwild tale from across history and time. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Zoe Chow. Titanic. Charles Manson. Alcatraz. Asada Shakur. The sketchy guy named Steve. It's giving funny true crime. I love storytelling and I love you so I can't wait. Listen and subscribe to Greatest Escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I happen to believe all women Jasmine. I ain't never said that. Oh, okay. I was another one. Okay. You confused with somebody else.

I ain't never said that. Okay. Is it true that somebody else that works with another sitting member, they called in and said that they had bet, they was betting on a fight. Oh yeah, they wanted to see a fight. Who was that? What was that?

I don't know who it was. But we have Capitol police. Yo, shut up man. We have Capitol police following up on that because they called during working hours on a house phone and they were so smart that they didn't realize that all calls made on house phones are recorded. So it is recorded.

We know which member's office it came from. It was a Republican out of Texas whose office it came from. They were trying to bet on the Yeah, so they call my office and was like yeah, this is what we want to see blah blah blah blah blah We trying to place a bit some random staffer call my office I can see why they would want to see it. But this is what I'm saying, right? Do you think that Congress could get more done if y'all actually did throw hands every now and then? No. No, just real quick.

Real quick, 30 seconds, then y'all get it out, go back. No. We don't want you fighting. No. We don't want you fighting. I do want to ask you this, because I know you got to go, why don't Democrats sit down, Chuck Schumer

and Hakeem Jeffries? They all represent an old way of doing things that don't work anymore. People like yourself, AOC, y'all know how to communicate, y'all know how to message. Why don't they let y'all be front tracing in the party? What are they holding on to? I know their positions, but forget the position. If they're not connecting with people, why are they the ones that are out front but not y'all?

I mean, there's just a lot that we could be doing and I'm hoping that we get a lot more aggressive and decide every single day. Like this is just what it is. Like I told my staff, I'm like, y'all had it good last term. I know y'all thought y'all didn't, but I'm like, we actually now have to work 10 times harder than we did before, because we've got to make sure people understand how bad these policies are and what's happening. If we don't communicate it in real time, then we're doomed. That was the problem. Even when we were trying to get the White House back is that we did not communicate

in real time the good things we were doing. Now they're like, Oh, wait a minute, those wait a minute. So the overdraft fees, that was Joe Biden, they reduced it. So it wasn't more than $5 per overdraft. And now the Republicans have filed a bill saying, you know what, we want those overdraft fees to go back up. Because again, they're looking out for the rich people, not the people who is struggling who has overdraft fees.

Is it the rich people? Or is the people living check to check? So the people that kept saying, Oh, no, he's for the middle class. No, he's not. And they tried to convince you that the Democrats had done nothing, but they had they had consistently done things for the middle class. It's just that, and so when even when Democrats are like, Oh, we're not the party of the middle class anymore. Yes, we are. Our policies are clear because overdraft fees, that's not for rich people. But now it is about to be for rich people.

You know why? Because again, we're seeing a government that wants to prey on those that are struggling so that others at the top can benefit to some ridiculous amount of money. And that's what we're about to go through. So I'm just like, listen, if you were broke and thought he was your guy, well, God bless you. All right. I can't Jeffries can never talk like that.

I just want you to know that. All right. I just wanted Chuck Schumer can never speak the way he just wants. Leave our people alone. I want you to know that. Thank you, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. We appreciate it. We appreciate your service. I appreciate y'all.

Thank you so much. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Jess with the Mess is up next. Let's get to Jess with the Mess. Oh, good. What's the news? The news is real, whether it's the Cullarians, Jessica Robin Moore, Jess don't do no lying. She don't spill nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide mess. Come on, you can speak.

On the Breakfast Club the coacheship Alrighty also for anybody that was wondering how the Big Meach Welcome Home concert cancellation situation really went down from inside we have the answers. Boosie to the rescue. Let's take a listen. Oh, we was asking the people, even the people at the arena and he was like some federal people came in here with letters.

What? Like, like shut this down. Like it was some what? Yeah, that was the one of the workers say like they came in here right before that. They said they came in soundcheck and shut it down. So this was this some last-minute power Whatever that happened to the with this the arena was open. Everything was open bro. Like it was going down Was that on black TV? Yes

Yep. Now I think that that makes it even worse in it Honestly makes me want to figure out what who these federal people and what is the situation? I'm known I don't know but I know that the son of Sam law and I'm not saying this is part of it But the son of Sam laws you can't profit off of a crime that you did what crimes what crime, huh? We can't profit off of I guess your name or the crimes or anything telling a story of that you did I don't know. I was thinking maybe They thought that there was the capacity was gonna be too crazy and you know, like higher marshals can come in or whatever But that's not federal. I was told they sold 900 tickets

14,000 oh, yeah, the building holds 14,000 people. That's what I was told. I was told it was a ticket thing Well, Busey also talked about just the way that little meach has been carrying a whole situation And I will say little meach was out and about and there was a video of him chopping it up with Rick Ross at Floyd Mayweather's party in Miami recently. Let's take a listen to what Boosie had to say about how Lil Meach is carrying this whole situation. Lil Meach, I ain't like his response. It seems like he got a genuine kind of love for 50 on his response. But you know, my response, they say, **** you, ****. ****, let's go to war, ****. **** you. I don't know what Meach was on something. That's mys, f**k you, n****s. F**k you, let's go to war, n****s, f**k you. I don't know what, Meacham's on something. That's my pa, n****s.

I don't give a f**k. My son, n****s, you ain't gonna go against this grand. He basically feels like he's leaning into 50 too much, but I mean, now that this video is out of him and Rick Ross, I don't think that that's the case whatsoever. So, now we know. I am gonna try and figure out more information about that though, like what was that situation?

Like who were these federal people that Boosie's saying? About the show at the concert. Yeah, with the concert for the Big Meach welcome home concert. So Boosie was saying that Little Meach should have just rolled with Big Meach. Yeah. Yeah, that's his dad. That's a little more complicated than that though. I get it. Is it?

Yeah, I get it. I mean, I understand, but you know, he does have a relationship with 50 as well. That's his father. But it's still business. You're growing. You're two adults. Like Lil Meach is an adult. Big Meach is an adult. 50 Cent is an adult. Lil Meach has his own relationship with 50. He's getting caught up in the crosshairs or whatever. You know Big Meach 50 and Ross got going on. I thought little me just respond to 50 was Valid your dad name is cowboy right? Yeah cowboy get into something you going neutrally trying figure. No

Meach looked at 50 as a father figure remember little Mitch was down for so many times so many years And 50 helped him out rehab allegedly and got him a deal So I think he might have looked at him as a father figure I get it I hear you know about 50 but that's his dad sure but there should still be a conversation There still shouldn't just be a yo from what I remember in the text text like oh, what's going on? What's what's happening here, right? But 50 had already went zero to 100 at that point so now you got to pick a side and I'm that's my dad be a yo from what I remember in the what comes with it. Your dad made a decision. Here we are. Do you have a conversation with your father and say, damn pops, did you even think about this? You know that 50 and Ross got an issue and 50 did a lot for us. You do have that conversation, but you got to roll with your pops. Like when it comes

to like you, now you stepping over the line, you sending texts like, Hey, I don't think it's that easy. I'm not sending up no smoke flares. I'm standing on my side. Not in that situation. I know it seems like that to some people, but I don't think it's that easy Not in that situation, I know it seems like that to some people but I don't think it's that easy not in that situation Well, and I know it wasn't that easy for low beach It can't it's not that easy, but it's your dad though. Like I don't I don't know not in that situation Not when your dad been down for what 20 years What's he girl? What's happening? Me that face go ahead Indy Cohen. What's going on?

What you about to start? Nothing. I'm a momma. Don't you start that dad stuff. Don't you start. I'm not. You see what he's going on? I'm not.

What's happening? You good? No. As a matter of fact, I'm going to text you. All right. Don't text me. Nothing. You're blocked.

I'm going to text you and then you tell me what you think about the text. My phone is disconnected. All right. Anyway, in other news, Kim Kardashian is being sued because she posted the wrong guy when she was trying to help get an inmate freed from death row. Y'all know how she'd be like posting and making these like entertainment stories public or these stories public about these different people bringing light to situations. She posted the wrong guy.

So according to a new lawsuit obtained by TMZ, and if you are out there, I'll let you record this as well too. You saw my text. My phone's disconnected. Kim is being sued by Ivan Kintu, a project manager from New York who Kim identified as a man awaiting the death penalty in Texas in a Texas prison cell. So she posted a photo of Ivan Kintu on her social media back in February and she was trying to bring awareness to the case as I mentioned, but it was the wrong guy.

And she was trying to bring awareness to the case, as I mentioned, but it was the wrong guy. So she subjected him to public embarrassment, shame, hatred, ridicule, disgrace, contempt, and aversion. So now he is suing her for liable. What? How you sue somebody for liable? I never heard that. And slander over the mix up.

Basically he's saying like, you posted this, you made people think that I was, what are y'all, hold on, what is the text? What did my dad say with me? I did not say that. That's what you text me. Oh, I did, okay. You posted this you made people think that I was what are y'all? Hold on? What is the test? What did my dad side with me? I did not say that that's what you text me. Oh, I did. Okay. I'm just ask the question Yes, my dad would side with me What's going on girl? Honestly, he might want to see you about something cuz you be you be up here acting real crazy He from the Carolinas to

Well, hopefully yes come see me because then you can come be up here acting real crazy. He from the Carolinas too. Not south though, not from the Carolinas. Well, hopefully, yes, come see me because then you can come see me. Okay, because last time, from what I was told, that didn't work out too right. He was going to say, was it the last time? You on fire today! You know what, let me stop. I know that's right. I texted you, you bought it to the radio.

Let's keep going. You set yourself up for that one, I just want to let you know that. Pretty V was on the show. Hey, Pretty V. I texted you, you bought it to the radio. Let's keep going. You set yourself up for that one, I just want to let you know that. Pretty V was on the show. Hey, Pretty V. Speaking of people with, you know, great families. Pretty V was on the show and she said some things that got people on her.

When she said it, I was like, ooh, they're going to be mad about that. Let's take notice of what she said when she was up here. Stage plays have been around forever. You know what I mean? There's people that have made multi-millions of dollars off stage plays. Of course, we know the Tyler Perry's the David Tower. Yes, David Tower, but that's a lane that a lot of people especially your generation aren't in you could easily be producing stage Yeah, sorry lays. I know you feel me. Um

He DM me and was just like yo you could be producing plays like you're I'm just telling you what he told me right shout out to him I know people got mad at that didn't they oh well they was oh they was in the comments it was like oh this was such a great interview she didn't pray for the people and then she said shout out to her lanes free and mind you pretty be a such a positive person is that how you throw any type of negativity her way, but it did happen. She had to respond to it as well, let's take a listen to that. Someone said they lost me with the Tory Lanez thing.

I'm like, I'm just telling y'all the advice that I got from him about producing my own show. Like, I could talk about that if I want. You can't go nowhere and say free Tory Lanez and not expect to get that much. That's what it was. Yeah, it was a freak, but she backed up, you saw she backed away from the freak.

Like I think she caught it in real time Yeah That's why you don't be yelling free people cuz you don't know if they're supposed to be there or not She up here yelling a lot of things you don't need to be yelling I didn't know I texted it okay you farted to the record Tell them but now you gotta tell because people are confused No they don't no they don't He lining you up you don't have to tell us. Mm-hmm. You should because no you don't know They know my dad is probably listening. Hey dad. Love you

Why you keep doing that be so sassy Charlamagne if for the listeners You can't see this Charlamagne his sassy necker up here just rolling and rolling and rolling and you and your dad's good money Right me and my dad are great. Me and my dad are great. My last time spoke to him you see I Don't even know why Me and my dad are great. Me and my dad are great. The last time I spoke to him. You see? I don't even know why y'all do this. My dad just... This is crazy. I haven't done... I've done none of this.

Okay, this is him. I was trying to back you up. You are a father. Envy, you are a father. I'm sorry. We don't have the prayer. There's a Friday, man. Yo, who you giving your dog to, man? Boy, after the hour, there's a woman named Ashley Cross from Memphis. She's a gay father.

She's a gay father. She's a gay father. She's a gay father. She's a gay father. She's a gay father. She's a gay father. She's a gay father. She's a gay father. It's a Friday, man Yo, we give it a dog you too man. Oh for after the hour. There's a woman named Ashley cross from Memphis salute to Memphis She's boycottin Walmart

Okay, we'll discuss for after the hour Maybe I'm not boycottin her. We'll figure it out. All right, we'll get to that next Do we have any Kirk Franklin cuz we need some some positivity in this we can always play Regina Bella you wanna call in the fire, but I know it ain't in there. Yeah, I'm always Don't know y'all hurting he don't want to hear him all right But he ain't got nothing on Regina Bell God is good Regina Bell God is good is the greatest disrecked Satan has ever received my god envy is over here smiling What's on the play? We ain't got stop.

We got some... what's a good curve trick song? I wish we had God is Good. Don't worry about it though. You heathens. That's why you don't got nothing. Play Cal if God did. That's the closest we gonna get. Y'all didn't know there ain't no God in this damn radio station. Played it... Y'all are fathers. Man, if y'all don't go to break... Go to break. Press whatever you got, brad. Stop listening to me. Wake up.

Wake up. You're locked into the breakfast club. Your execution on the donkey of the day is something to behold. Is it a read? Is it a read? He gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it. You don't need to know.

You need to tell them. I am. You have the voice. Tell them. Tell them. It's time for donkey of the day. It's a read, but you're so good at it. You're trying to be a fake ass Charlamagne.

You're the only one Charlamagne to go. Damn Charlamagne, who you give a donkey of the day to now? Well, Sexy Red, Donkey of the Day for Friday, February 21st goes to Ashley Cross. Ashley is a 37-year-old African American woman from Memphis, Tennessee. Okay? Sleuth to everyone who listens to us on K97 in Memphis. Now, I'm sure that you all are aware by now there's a lot of companies that rolled back

their diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. One of those companies is Walmart. Now, if you read my first book, Black Privilege, and you know the joy Walmart brought me as a child because when you grow up in the country like I did, salute to Monk's Corner, South Carolina. Drop on the clues for Monk's Corner, South Carolina. When you grow up in the country like I did, salute the monks corner South Carolina, drop on the clues bombs for most corners South Carolina. When you grow up in the country or rural area, the 24-hour Walmart is everything. Okay, that's where we would go late at night because

there was nothing else to do. Yes, the good old days walking the holy grounds of Walmart. This was way back in the day when the only thing they were rolling back is prices. But a lot of people have called for a boycott of these companies, in particular Target, but Ashley Cross has decided that she is staging a one-woman boycott of Walmart. Yes, in fact, Ashley is not gonna be shopping at Walmart. Period. No Walmart in the country. None of them, ever again.

Okay, do you have that kind of commitment to your boycott? Can you vow to never shop in an establishment ever again? Or a Scott paper towel being 1068 for 12 rolls too great a deal to pass up? Well, if it is, then you can always do what Ashley did because it's guaranteed Ashley will never step foot in any Walmart ever again. And I lied. It's not because she's boycotting Walmart. It's actually because Walmart is boycotting her.

What do you mean, Uncle Sharla? Walmart is boycotting her. Well, let's Uncle Sharla? Walmart is boycotting her. Well, let's go to News Channel 3 for the report please. Ashley Cross charged with criminal trespass and theft of merchandise is, according to the police report, a well-known shoplifter at this Walmart on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Whitehaven. So well-known to Walmart that Cross is on an authorization of agency list, meaning she's banned from any Walmart location in the United States.

The Elvis Presley Boulevard store is where Cross and another suspect were arrested February 10th. Cross was seen using a device to scan her items for $1 at a self-checkout machine. Ashley Cross remains in jail on a $7,500 bond. She is due back in court February 19th. The suspect with Cross received a misdemeanor citation for theft of property. Oh, she already went to court.

I wonder what happened. Listen, I used to shoplift up until 2016, okay? That's when I stopped shoplifting. But I didn't, you know, feel like I was stealing because I didn't- Nine years ago? Yeah, about nine years ago. You had a little money nine years ago. Are you still stealing? I don't feel like I was stealing because I didn't. Nine years ago? About nine years ago. You had a little money nine years ago. Are you still stealing?

I don't know. But I didn't feel like it was stealing because I didn't try to hide anything. I would walk in and take what I want and just walk out. You only get caught when you look suspicious. Plus I never really stole anything but magazines. When I was young, like Black and Mild's, 12 Packs of Bud Light, random stuff like that.

But Ashley is clearly a kleptomaniac and she's good because she was using a barcode from an old watch battery to scan all her items for just one dollar to self-check out. I stan a creative thief, okay? Y'all still stealing like Flintstones. Ashley out here like a Jetson with it. Or maybe this is the normal way to shoplift now. I don't steal anymore so I wouldn't know. But Ashley stole 11 packs of ramen noodles, women's boots, a pair of jeans, and a T-shirt all totaling $137.34. Now this woman was clearly stealing essentials, okay?

These are reasonable things to steal. Ramen noodles, boots, clothes. I understand. In America, I'm gonna tell you something you don't wanna hear. There's gonna be a lot more of this. Why? Because during America's inflation crisis,

Walmart was the spot, okay? You can get good deals, all types of essentials, but on yesterday, Walmart said things are about to get slow because consumers are growing increasingly frustrated with inflation and they're concerned about President Trump's tariffs. Basically, folks been broke and if people keep losing their jobs they will be broker and if you are the reason okay people are losing their jobs like Elon

Musk and Donald Trump are in regards to federal workers and you putting tariffs on items not only do I not have a job things are going to be even more expensive so what am I going to resort to doing? I'll tell you what people will resort to doing trying I'll tell you what Ashley crosses on Walmart's authorization of agency lists which prohibits her from entering any Walmart store across the country I didn't know such a list existed, but Ashley is on it and she is currently well I don't know if currently but she was being held on a $7,500 bond probably still in there She probably still in there because if you had $134 to get these items from Walmart you damn sure ain't got the $7,500 bond all the 10% of

$750 to get out but Some donkey today's just sell themselves. Please give Ashley cross the sweetgy of the day, yee haw. Alright. You know, it's just, you feel bad for her. Nah, you don't feel bad for her. She's a repeat offender. She could have got a job. Or maybe the first offense put something on her record and she couldn't get the job.

That is true, too But she stole from there a lot Why wouldn't you switch it up? All right, this gonna sound bad, but no you ever You ever be in so check out and be feeling like I'm Have to pay for this stuff like some of this stuff is old to me. I know she felt like that And that's what happens when you still wiggle I shouldn't have to pay for this stuff. Like some of this stuff is old to me. Like maybe she felt like that. No, I don't feel that way. I don't feel like that. And that's what happens when you still wiggle. When you still wiggle, you know what I'm saying?

You, huh? You get like what? What happened? What are you doing? You snoring. Yeah, you so lucky you was still in when your face was two different colors. Cause they wouldn't have recognized you from either side.

That is true, that is very true. If I'm on camera in 2016, that's not me. That's not true. That's not me. It's not the same person. All right. Well that is Donkey of the Day. Now when we come back the CEO of Red Lobster will be joining us. Mr. Mola Adama Loken. This brother is 36 years old. He's the CEO already lobster. This brother was up here suited up He used to be the CEO of PFC Went to Brown now woman up here Shoot they shot We was having a- That's the catch.

We was having a conversation back there about- Y'all look for artists, athletes, musicians. You let any little come up here, y'all lose it. Any little. Hold on, wait. Let me tell y'all. Any baby. There was a white woman in here, a white woman in here, and I was trying to see if he was

with her. I couldn't figure it out, or if it was just a publicist. She works for Red Lobster. We didn't know. But don't tell us what we wasn't doing But don't worry about us. Y'all did not shoot your shot You should have shot your shot Wasn't all flashy no, we love that again you let a white woman be the number one beneficiary

We love you know young men thriving. Don't worry about us. Oh You be the number one beneficiary of DEI? We love, you know, young men thriving. Don't worry about us. Oh, you got the number? T definitely did the number. Definitely did not. We'll talk to him when we come back. No, I didn't. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building You waiting to get your ass kicked. Let's go Okay, come to punch I almost got it. How do you pronounce the last name? Adam O'Lakin. Adam O'Lakin.

You were very close, man. That's a good effort. So it's crazy, Demola, we interview a lot of people, and people always ask, you know, who do you want to interview? And I never know the answer, but then I see certain people on the schedule, and I'm like, damn, I would like to talk to this guy.

And when I saw your name on the schedule, I was like, CEO of Red Lobster? Yes, I'd like to talk to him. Yep. It's a pleasure to be here. You guys are doing amazing things. It's gonna be awesome. Well, let's start from the beginning. How did you get into food? Because you just weren't the CEO of Red Lobster, you were CEO of P.F. Chang. So how did you get just start into this restaurant business? You're only 36. Yeah, I was gonna say you look young.

Really, I started by waiting tables when I was young, when I was in high school. And you're from? I'm from, I'm Nigerian originally, but I went to high school in Maryland. Nice, nice. So I was, yeah, I was doing the waiter slash runner thing in high school, but in this current track, you know, I started working in finance when I was in college. So I started interning at Goldman Sachs when I was 19, so 17 years ago. So I got my first internship at Goldman. I was at Brown playing football and worked at Goldman for four years and then worked at a private equity firm called TPG and then went to business school and then worked at a hedge fund here in New York. The

reason I got into restaurants because I did a restaurant deal. We bought P.F. Chang's in 2019. Who was we? I worked for John Paulson who's a Famous billionaire investor in New York is a firm is called Paulson and Company So I was working at a hedge fund and we do a lot of things the hedge funds big It's you know billions of dollars and we do a lot of different things But one of the things that we did that I suggested was to buy PF Chang's it was up for sale So I pitched it to the firm they agreed but it was I led the deal. This is 2019 now. So it was up for sale. You know, I thought it was an interesting thing. Good brand, great,

great history, great product. I thought we could do a lot of new things with it. We could add delivery, we could remodel the restaurants, we could we can make it more interesting, make it make it more relevant, cooler. And it was all going pretty well. And then COVID hit right in 2020. So my big restaurant deal, you know, we put hundreds of millions of dollars into it and it went south during COVID like everything else did. So how did you get to Red Lobster? Red Lobster, so the PF Change deal went well and it won me some plaudits in the industry

because it was difficult and we made it happen. And then after that I connected with the folks who had lent money to Red Lobster before the company went bankrupt. So they were in line to own it coming out of bankruptcy. There's a group called Fortress. And so they asked me first to consult, to provide advice. Like you know, you just spent four years running a business that was in distress, similar to

this. You know, what do you think of this situation? So I was advising them at first and then it turned into They asked me to come run it basically I presented a plan They were like we like your plan, please come execute it for us, right? So so I took over a CEO coming out of bankruptcy in September. That's what we've been doing You know when I first heard that story I was on the radio acting like I knew what I was talking about and I was just like I know Exactly what red lobster should be doing. Yeah, and I felt felt like Red Lobster should scale down from being a fine dining establishment and

be more like Chipotle. Like you could go in there and you can get your lobster and shrimp pasta right from the bar or whatever the items is, just right there from the bar. Just make it like a smaller, more Chipotle like establishment as opposed to a fine dining restaurant. Well, your point about being able to get food conveniently is an important one. There should be options and there should be ways where you get things you need quickly. For example, our delivery business that should feel fast casualish where you put in an order it comes quickly etc. The way the company's set up has a cost structure that you can run it like Chipotle.

For example, our restaurants they're nine ten thousand square feet Chipotle's are fifteen hundred square feet maybe two thousand max.,500 square feet, maybe 2,000 max. So you have a real estate footprint that you couldn't run on Chipotle revenue per unit, right? You have to do more. The food we serve, we serve lobster and crab. You can't sell that at Chipotle price points because you pay too much for those products.

So there's structural differences in the businesses that would prevent that. But that said, some of the things she probably is good at, you can be better at, right? Like delivery, digital, you know, speed of service. Those are things that people care about and definitely you can learn from. So hold on. Remember I started off by saying acting like I knew what I was talking about. I just said I knew. I said acting like I knew what I was talking about. So how do you see Red Lobster now? Right?

Well, so the thing is you have to lean into what made it successful in the first place, right? Like what do people love about Red Lobster? There's a reason it is what it is. The biscuits. Biscuits, for sure. Well, the biscuits, and I also think a lot of us from where we grew up, that was, you know, we went for graduation.

We went for celebratory type of things. That was the reward, like. Yeah, the feeling. It felt like five star fine dining. It felt like five star. There you go. Until you started making. That's it. But until all these other restaurants started popping up exactly now, you know people look down on red lobster when it comes to celebratory

They'll go to you know a pf change. They'll go to a towel They'll go to an expensive steakhouse because they don't look at red lobster as that But you know, it's good but you know, so how do you change that way of thinking I think that's our way. I wouldn't put beer change in there. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no.

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No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no Red Lobster in Springfield, Illinois when I used to live there when I was nine or 10. And I remember that. So I think a lot of people have these memories.

After church on Sundays, important dinners, graduation, et cetera. Now you can get these products in different places, but we're still the only company at scale that serves lobster and crab. And by the way, lobster and crab are wild caught products. You can't farm raise them. So they catch them on boats.

We buy 25% of the lobster that's caught on boats in North America. We buy a quarter of it. We buy a quarter of the crab that's caught. By virtue of our size and scale, we can get the best product, which we do. So the lobster you get at Red Lobster is as good as lobster you'll get anywhere.

But people don't know that. No, not at all. And so there's a communication aspect to it that needs to let people know this is the best product you can get for lobster for crab. That's number one. Number two, you need to give people a reason. You know, you mentioned Chipotle. If we're not going to be price of Chipotle, then we need to offer something that Chipotle doesn't offer. And what that is, is called service and hospitality. Like you need to come in, you need to feel like you're welcome. You need to feel like you're a guest. You need to be taken care

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or wherever you get your podcasts. So that's what we, you know, we did that. And so this needs something similar and we're working on that. That takes a bit of time. You have to design it, you have to scope it, you have to test it, you have to prove the results, then you have to raise the money, then you have to go. So that takes time.

What you can do now is improve service. We launched something we're calling Red Carpet Hospitality. We launched that a couple weeks ago. If you go and ask a server in Red Lobster about it, they'll tell you about it. Red stands for Recognize, Engage, and Delight. When people walk in, you need to recognize them. As soon as they walk in, there should be somebody smiling at the toast stand to greet them.

You see somebody, you're within 10 feet of them, you recognize them. Within four feet, you speak to them. We call it the 10-4 rule. You make sure that when people need to go to the bathroom, you walk them there. You don't point to the bathroom. You escort them. You make sure that you're connecting with them. You're talking with them. You're asking questions. So we're training these behavioral patterns. That's something you can do today, right? And then trying to highlight the quality of the food and introduce some new things like the lobster rolls that are fun, that are interesting. So food and service and then the third point for

sure is ambiance. We fix the things we can fix quickly like the music is better. If you go to a Red Lobster now you'll notice the music is better and you'll notice there's small things like we put the market prices on the lobster, we put the liners on the tables. There's small things you can do now but comprehensively there needs to be a remodel right and that's that's something that we'll do in the future. All right We have more with the CEO of Red Lobster the Mola Adam Loken when we come back is the Breakfast Club good morning Morning, everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club We're still kicking it with the CEO of Red Lobster the Mola Adam Loken Jess There was a list that women had put together right of places that they don't want to be taken on the first day

Red Lobster was number 11. 11. Yes, it was number 11. So what did you, would you say that Ray Lobster is a valid place for a first date? I mean lobster on a first date. Can you beat that? Lobster on a first date. You want to share some Maine lobster, twin lobster tails, rock lobster Maine lobster. No, that's right.

Okay. All right. All right. But also on that list it was P.F. Chang's and Cheesecake Factory. Everything was on that list. I think these are chain restaurants and there's something about like chain versus independent. Now if you make the chain experience feel like an independent, like each restaurant's its own and they have like a culture and a personality, then it doesn't feel like a chain

restaurant. Yeah. And there's restaurants that do that really well and we're working to become that. But look, if you go on a date and have some cheddar bay biscuits, some lobster tails, some bear-eyed crab, people are going to have a great time. Did y'all stop the endless shrimp promotion? Yeah, that's done. So no more endless shrimp.

Jesus. How dare you. Y'all are messed up now. By the way, that was a dumb promotion but don't promise people endless shrimp because y'all never give endless shrimp way that was a dumb that's that's more sensible. What's sensible? Because you guys, I'm gonna tell you what people will do. Go in there with four people, one person order endless shrimp and they just keep bringing mad shrimp for the table. That's that's insensible. I mean, look, I mean these promotions, people do promotions like this. Olive Garden does an endless positive promotion. Like people do these things. Lies. Holding this endless stuff is a lie. They will put a cap on your fat ass.

But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, All this endless stuff is a lie. They will put a cap on your fat ass But pots are different because it fills you up so fast. Shirts you can just keep. And it's cheap Yeah, and it's cheap so they can do that. You just need to the math needs to make sense I'm looking at the lobster fest menu right now. I ain't gonna lie. I might go to Red Lobster this weekend I'm not even gonna drive. I might take photos. I'm like I never took my kids to Red Lobster Never? Never. And I'm like yo man like me and the wife let's take the kids to Red Lobster just to see what they feel. We'll set it up for you. No, I'm not gonna tell you where I'm going, but I'm gonna tell you. Hey, hey, hey.

Right. I know exactly which one I'm going to, too. I know which one you're going to, too. But that one look a little beat up, though. It look a lot beat up. It look a lot beat up. But I'm gonna tell you something. That's why I was just asking that question.

They don't look. I pass it every morning. And in my mind, you know, you just thinking, nostalgia. I'm like, damn, yo, back in the day when I was young that had been perfect the hotel right there the red lobster right there You go right to red lobster It's still perfect my man That's a motel But think about when you were 17 18 that had been perfect

Right Well think about when Beyonce said it in the song What did that do? When he eat me good I take his ass to song. What did that do? Oh, yes. When he eat me good, I take his ass, he ready to lobster. What did that do for the song? And why did y'all capitalize on that? Yes.

I was in here. Oh, my man said that was before me. That was before my time. It's not too late though, right? Because it's not too late for that. Even when Riley mentioned it on the boondocks. The Kelsey brothers did something with us. So yeah, I mean, part of the game

is to take advantage of cultural moments. Like when something happens in the culture, it's like you want to be on it So that that's um that we weren't very good at in the past and we need to get better at for sure Did you even talk to him about that? Like did anybody reach out to be honest? I don't know I can't speak to that. Yeah, I was here. But for example flavor flavor We did for a flame to save the you know, I wanted to save red lobster Did you know we did a promotion with them? So there's it's it's important for sure and Save Red Lobster, you know, we did a promotion with them. So it's important for sure.

And yeah, I mean, look, now Kelsey Bellas reach out, we respond the same day, right? So we're engaging and it's important. How has the weaponization of DEI impacted you, if at all? Do people say, oh, he's a DEI hire? No, I've just been so successful throughout my life, I don't get that. I aim to excel at everything I do and there's very little evidence of me

not excelling at anything that I've tried to do. From football to Brown to Goldman to TBG to Harvard to Paulson, there's no real L's on the, not to say I won't fail at anything, I have failed at plenty. I was like, let's go talk to them coaches. Well. He's not as good as he thought he was.

She wants to know my 40 yard dash. There's a record out there somewhere. That's funny. Somebody at Brown like, I used to bust his ass when he was talking about dick. That's a fair point. But you know, and I'm not saying that to Brad, but I'm just saying you can build a habit of excellence and that's how you'll be viewed, right? And so I think anybody can achieve, you just have to build these habits. So it's really more motivation to people who are listening.

What's your involvement with HBCU? What's Red Lobster doing with HBCU? Yeah, look, I mean before that, Darden, the founder of Red Lobster, Bill Darden, who Darden Company is named after, that's Olive Garden, Texas Longhorn, etc. So he's an important restaurateur in American history. The first restaurant that he opened was Red Lobster and that from the very beginning had a really good relationship with the black American community. This is in 68 so at the very end of the Civil Rights Movement. But from the very beginning

black people were welcome to eat there, welcome to work there and that was a stance that he took from the very beginning. So it's always had a good relationship with black America from the start. You mentioned Beyonce, you mentioned Flavor Flav, it's always had a position in culture. I'm just acknowledging it and speaking to it and doing more for that to try to build that. So HBCUs, we did Band of the Year, right? Where we went to watch the bands perform. Band Mu won, Miles won for the junior division, and we gave the awards out, we sponsored it, Red Lobster lobster and you know millions of dollars went to Scholarships and things like that. So we're gonna do more, you know, that's a start but it's a it's important community

It's one that has been connected to the brand for a long time and it's a good place to Spend time and spend money on our behalf. All right. Well, we appreciate you for joining us and bringing us some biscuits Yeah, enjoy. Thank you so much. Whatever we can do to help man, I mean I want to see you succeed. If people like you succeed then that just means more success for the rest of us. I appreciate that. Visit your local at Red Lobster. You guys send feedback and we'll keep improving. I'm going this weekend. Well there you have it. It's Demola, Adam Loken. Yes, you nailed it.

Alright, there we go. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ, MV, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. It's Friday, so it's time for Pass the Aux. DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, I'm not doing this. How are you feeling last week? You were sick. Are you all right now? Oh my god I'm feeling so much better. I was so ghetto man. My Valentine's Day was a cannot Was a sure she was sick for somebody stood you up or you just like really sick. No, I was really sick Okay, why would somebody stand me up cuz he Think we just I don't know

Material period I am looking at the material her wig been crooked all week Because she pulled up on me last night ladies night at st. So I appreciate you coming I had a great time I hope you did too. I love you. We're jumping into we are gonna get into this Do it like you record by an artist named and a via the front. He sampled that josslyn record, right? Do it like you record by artist name and a via he sampled that josslyn record, right? You mean stevie wonder that's stevie wonder too, but that's how i just Because he's really a bird he just he cosplays intellectual but he's a bird Okay, but that's dope so that's what answer that was I got it from Stevie Wonder come on stop playing all right all right the next record I was a good one. You got two more. Let's see what you do. Okay. We go of course

I got to do this new cold joint. It's called clouds. It's hard. That's dope. He's spitting love it You can be angry about that child me. What he's so silent. Why you look like that? That's no I'm not even saying nothing I'm just sitting here minding my business What are you so silent? Why you look like that? That's dope. I'm not even saying nothing I'm just sitting here minding my business You know feedback after we play the record yeah, yeah, but see I know that's your favorite artist And I'm mad at you right now, so I'm gonna be quiet just to piss you off It's actually better off that you're mad at me We know Cole can rap.

Okay. I can't even think of too many times I've heard a record from Cole and been like, that's wack. No, he's pissed. I love that. So y'all coming to Dreamville Fest, right? I just have to make sure. No. I told you, I'm gonna come this year for the last one. I told you I'm gonna go with you. Okay, cool.

Is Cole gonna be there? I thought he said last year was his last one. Yeah, he's gonna be here. Stop playing, man. I said this is the last one. Okay. All right, because I'm short on time, I'm gonna keep it pushing. I got this new Cole, Cole Jones taste record that I really like. Hey Stop playing, man. They said this is the last one. All right. Because I'm short on time, I'm going to keep it pushing. I got this new Coco Jones taste record that I really like. Hey, Coco. That's dope.

Yeah, she flipped the Britney Spears but made it slower and sensual. And then my very last one, this came out on Valentine's Day but I was sick but I'm a big fan of- Drake! No. Oh, you're not going to play no Drake? I mean, obviously, yes, Drake dropped too but he gets enough tension. And it ain't that good, right? She was going to play my son.

What you thinkin' out man from a woman's perspective? I always say I'm tired of Drake complaining about women on records. It's like an R&B project but it's not Love songs. There ain't like one song on there. Tiffany with the Chanel and the, I don't wanna hear it. Like I wanna hear Love. I wanna hear something. Real R&B.

So but speaking of real R&B let's get into it. Mariba just dropped an album. Mariba's one of my favorites. She's a part of the Spillage Village. And my favorite song on her project is called Hawk. You said it's R&B? Mm-hmm. See, what is R&B anymore?

You were upset at Drake for not sounding like R&B, but that's not the typical R&B sound. That don't sound like R&B to me. That sound like bootleg Doja Cat. But I love it though. Bootleg Doja Cat is crazy. I think that's the only record on there where she had like a verse

She's not a rapper at all. Oh, yeah, she sound like she's doing like a No, she's not she doing a doge cat impersonation. No, no, no, she's like a singer, but she's like, uh, she's more Classical. Well, you should have introduced her singing first. She does R&B and R&B doesn't have box anymore I could see where you going with that little bit of poppy rap R&B doesn't have those box anymore. I can see where you're going with that. A little bit of poppy rap is sheer. But Boop-Lag sounds like it wasn't good.

She sounded cool. Great value? Y'all are being disrespectful. No, I'm not trying to disrespect her. I'm just saying that's how it sounded. Whenever you sound like a second-rate version of anybody, that's what I'm gonna say. But Mariba really doesn't sound like anybody.

She's- Right there, she sounded like- Well, you gotta listen to the tape. She's very- Well, you're the person playing the music that's what you presented oh yeah take it off if I take it off and he's used once you see the meat meal brains is really up for you don't play hold up wait a minute but you know what over there plotting man come to my Battle of the Beats tonight if you guys are in Brooklyn or what?

Going back outside again tonight? Yes you're going back outside again tonight. You look like she's dying from rough now. I'm going back outside again tonight. Charlotte just can you cut him right? Battle of the Beats. Battle of the Beats in Brooklyn. We got Battle of the Beats tonight in Brooklyn. If you guys are available, pull up. I got DJ Diamond Cutz pulling up to be a guest. Diamond Cutz, shout out to Diamond Cutz. Shout out to Diamond Cutz. Dizzy Banko, he produced Don't Play With It. I got Elu, who produced a bunch of things for Ice Spice.

And then I also got Daffy Ora, who produces things for Leia, Jack Carlo. So it's like a producer competition or something? Yeah, so they play their beats, best producer wins, we got some prizes. Oh, that's fire. So if you're an artist, you definitely should go out there. You might find your next big record. Absolutely.

I don't know, what y'all over there doing? There's so much whispering going on. What's happening over there? No! It's a Drake record about to play. You see how I felt on Valentine's Day? I guarantee you. Are y'all serious?

Yeah, watch. You see and you are you gonna learn Sometime and listen to um they over there plotting on you about to play Drake cuz of what you said and you telling me that They think of me watch this watch watch watch Yeah, don't play no other record. I don't play anyone. How can they follow you make sure y'all follow me in a gram at Naila Simone that's NY LA s y mo in EEE and just for the record record I'm not a Drake hater but I do realize that if you give criticism or say you don't like something it's like you're a hater and it's like girl it has ragged us. That is true but I am a certified Drake hater. We know.

And before we get to the people's choice mix let's get into a record that she had on her playlist and was about to play this morning and then decided not to. No cause they told me that we were throwing time. I told you this was the one! This is Drake. No kill. That wig is holding off the deal. People's Choice Mix is next. It's the Breakfast Club, y'all. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are the Breakfast Club,

Lorna Rosa filling in for Jess. It's Black History Month, what we doing? You know every day during Black History Month my guy B.Dot puts out an episode of I Didn't Know Maybe You Didn't Either on the Black Effect I Heart Radio podcast network and today he's going to talk about the comparison of Winston-Salem State University and FAMU highlighting their history, impact, and academic excellence. Let's discuss. I didn't know, maybe you didn't. I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

OK, buckle your seat belts and let's take a road trip through black excellence. First stop, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Winston-Salem State University, founded in 1892 by Simon G. Atkins. You know how bold you got to be the founder of university in 1892 by Simon G. Atkins. You know how bold you gotta be to found a university in 1892? That man said segregation.

Jim Crow, ain't nobody got time for that. So he started Slater Industrial Academy, which is now Winston-Salem State University. Back then you were learning brick laying and cooking. Today, you might be in a nursing lab, putting IVs and mannequins, or recording your podcasts in one of the only Adobe labs on an HBCU campus.

Simon G. Ack is probably looking down at WSSU like that single mom be looking at them kids opening them Christmas presents on Christmas morning. And don't let me talk about the legends who walked through those doors of Winston-Salem State University. You ever heard of Louis Farrakhan? A WSU grad. You ever been watching Wildin' Out and seen Chico Bean? Yeah, Bean and Ram too. The name of our band is the Red Sea of Sound. Our cheerleaders, oh you may have seen them on the ground. Stomp and Shake Excellence. We're talking about Powerhouse of Red and White and

around 2007, Siobhan Estrada pretty much revolutionized the version of stomp and shake that we see today, but that's a whole nother episode. One of the most notable chants at Winston-Salem State University is Chuda Baka, Chuda Baka, Chuda Baka Spit. If you ain't a ram, then you ain't. We try to keep it PG for the children and the elderly that want to sing along. That's good old SU. Now let's head down I-95 to Tallahassee, Florida and visit Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, better known as FAMU.

They got a chant too. It's usually led by Loose Kid. He'll say, I represent. And all the rattlers say, Florida, agricultural and mechanical, university, October 3rd, 1887. What? Exactly. Fam U was founded October 3rd, 1887. Now Tallahassee, Florida has seven huge hills.

And the part of Florida they gave fam was the highest hill but it was filled with rattlesnakes. So the state of Florida was like, y'all gonna have 15 acres and two mules. Good luck. So what did fam U do? Turned it into one of the top HBCUs in the country. They embraced those rattlesnakes

and became the fam U rattlers. And if you meet any rattler, they'll let you know that they're from the highest of seven hills. That's right. FAMU sits at the highest point in Tallahassee, Florida. Even Florida State got to look up at the rattlers and they hate that. FAMU is so iconic, it makes you want to enroll just for homecoming. No cap.

I experienced it last year and don't let the Marching 100 touch the field. Have you ever seen them perform? The band might do as much work as the football team on Saturdays and FAMU has some of the dopest alumni in the game. Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, FAMU grad. What about the movie director Will Packer? He a rattler and he even got a performing arts amphitheater right on campus. So whether it's Winston-Salem State University, with the motto, Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve, in the heart of North Carolina, or FAMU,

with the motto, Excellence is Caring, down there in the Sunshine State, these schools are more than just campuses. They're launching pads for greatness, and they're two of my favorites. Okay, bye. I didn't know. All right, well happy Black History Month, guys.

That's right, and salute to my guy B.Dot. Make sure you subscribe to I Didn't Know. Maybe you didn't either on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network available everywhere you listen to podcasts. All right, when we come back, we got the positive note. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning, everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Naga, we are the Breakfast Club,

Leroy LaRosa filling in for Jess. We gotta salute Jasmine Crockett, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett for stopping through. Man always a pleasure when Jasmine pulls up man. The reason I like Jasmine so much is because she's just able to communicate and message and that is a problem that the Democrats have. They should be leaning on Jasmine Crockett for her messaging. They should be leaning on AOC for her messaging. Whatever they trying to tell people, they need to tell them first so they can translate and then bring it to the masses.

And also salute to the CEO of Red Lobster, Demola Adam Loken. I know I said his name wrong, but he's the CEO of Red Lobster. You know, and once again, like I told him during the interview, he's one of those people that folks always ask, it's like, what's your favorite interview? Or, you know, who do you want to interview? And I never know who we want to interview. Like it's never a thing. Like I'm never sitting around thinking like, the only person I ever wanted to interview

was Judy Blume. Okay. Like wanted to, like that's my whole life. But when I saw his name on the schedule, I'm like, that's somebody I wanted to talk to. I'm glad we got to have that conversation Yes. All right. Well, you got a positive note? I do My positive note is simple. I want everybody out there to remember this successful people have a sense of gratitude Unsuccessful people have a sense of entitlement. Have a nice day

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