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talk to breakfast club is the most powerful popular urban radio show in america live from the black mothership in new york city dj envy charlamagne the god and jess hilarious thank y'all for being cultural leaders man I appreciate what y'all do for the culture. Collectively known as Breakfast Club, bitches. I'm always nervous when I do the Breakfast Club because sometimes you say stuff and it's just gonna get you in trouble. Everybody wake up. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, Where you going? How about that? Where you coming from? Where you going, man? I just wanted to look really, really cute today. Okay. I took my locks out, you know, and then I put on my nice little wig.

Got it revamped. It's the same wig I had on in the rollout. Where you going then? So I call it the rollout wig. You had a mink on when she came in this morning? A mink to the floor? Sure. Red dress, where you going?

I'm going back home after this. You just felt like putting some clothes on. Yes, dressed like this is the Comstar Radio station. Nothing wrong with that. You look good, you feel good. That's right. Yes, I do. You wasn't out last night, right?

I want to make sure. No, I wasn't out last night. I'll make it sure. No. Roman didn't go home. Roman was like, you know what? I'm going to stay up here. I told y'all.

Roman's still up here? Yeah, Roman's still up here. Well,'all rome is still up here yeah rome is still up here well you gotta tell the people who rome is okay i'm sure people that follow jess hilarious know who rome is but rome is uh jess's baby father baby father okay her first baby father the original baby father yeah the og not the original okay and today is national co-parenting day yes okay so he'll be joining us this morning. He will be joining us later this morning. That's right.

To talk about how him and Jess co-parent because I've said it before. I've never seen a co-parenting situation like him and Jess. Like they call each other brother and sister. But it had to get there. It had to get there. It had to get there. That's right. And we're going to talk about how it got there.

Absolutely. And then also Candace Owens will be joining us. Candace Owens will be joining us this morning. I got a lot of calls about Candace Owens. Oh my God, I got a lot of DMs, a lot of hate messages. Now mine was 50-50. It was a lot of people that I was surprised that was really interested in what she had to say. And they said they follow her and they love her.

And then I got a lot of people that, why the hell y'all got her on? I didn't see nothing, but I don't be paying attention to people. People yesterday, people told People, yes you did. People told me, tell Sharla, man, like, it was a lot for him, like, oh, tell Uncle Sharla or Charlene, you know,

they was like saying to tell you, like, you can't bring nobody over here like that, so. Please. They sure did. Yeah, they've been telling

me that for years. I like conversation over confrontation. You know, these people would just be talking about folks, but never talk to them. Yeah, conversation over confrontation. You know, these people would just be talking about folks but never talk to them. Yeah, that's right.

I don't agree with that. Ever. Or the small talk. You don't like the small talk. Nah, nah, nah. I don't do small talk. Speaking of small talk. Y'all talk small,

I talk big. It's a difference. Speaking of small talk. Wow, what's that? What you got coming May 21st? What's going on? Oh, May 21st.

Why we doing the press for him? He didn't catch it. I mean, I did catch it but you got coming May 21st? What's going on? Oh, May 21st. Why we doing the press for him? He didn't catch it. I did catch it, but you know, my third book, yes, Get Honest or Die Lying, Why Small Talk Sucks, does come out May 21st. You can pre-order it now, so thank you. And you're welcome. Yes, you're welcome.

I appreciate that. We don't want to hear about it later. But Candace Owens will be up here. She'll be joining us next hour. Next hour, that is correct. Alright, well let's get the show cracking. Teslin Figueroa will be joining us. We're going to talk to her a minute and what's popping in the news. And then we got worldwide Jess with the mess. That's not what it is.

Jess with the worldwide mess. You know what I meant. Loud and raw. You know what I meant. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What up, Tez? What's going on, DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What up, Tiz? What's going on, DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. Good morning. Well, let's jump right into Trump. Well, Trump is asking his supporters to help him pay for his bond. You know, we talked about it before and kind of joked about it and said, oh, well, the supporters will help him.

So that's basically what he's doing. So yesterday, Donald Trump's campaign called for donations from one million of his backers, warning he could lose his New York properties. Two days after the former president failed to secure the bond to cover four hundred and fifty four million dollar judgment in a civil fraud case. So a message went out to supporters saying, keep your filthy hands off of Trump Tower. This came from a joint fundraising committee that allocates the money it collects to the campaign and a separate political committee that has been helping pay Trump's legal bills. The message was sent by text message and prompts for supporters to donate amounts from $20.24 up to $3,300. Now, Donald Trump is doing this because he claims he cannot get a bond of one bond company to cover his 450 million, 454 million dollar bond. But attorney Letitia James said in all this cap, Trump could break this up and get several different companies to cover the total amount and stop saying you just need one company to do it.

Here's our statement. Take a listen. Based on the false premise that they must obtain a single bond from a single shorty for the entire judgment of $464 million. She suggests simply dividing the bond into smaller chunks among multiple shorties. She calls Trump's bluff on not wanting to do a fire sale to raise money, which the attorney general says forced her office to do the grunt work of liquidating Trump's assets. So this message went out to the Trump supporters again, and it said, so before the day is over, I'm calling one million pro-Trump patriots to chip in and say stop the witch hunt against President Trump.

Now, the deadline is March 25th. That's Monday before the attorney general starts going after his property. All I've learned about America because of Donald trump is that there's no checks and balances there's absolutely no rules in place for people like donald trump and by people i mean white privileged and wealthy because i can't believe we have a president or a person who's running for president with all these criminal charges owes all these money in civil suits and he's able to raise money from his donors you know you can use your campaign money to pay off your bonds and that's okay there is no job in america they would let somebody work if they was facing

the things that donald trump is facing but he gets to uh run to be leader at a free world and it's it's nothing in place to stop him insanity not even just a job yeah there's some place you can't even get an apartment uh you know what happens so so let it let just a job. There's some place you can't even get an apartment. So let alone a job even keeping a roof over your head. So yeah, this is really interesting. And I'm definitely going to stay on top of this. I want to know how many people raise money because I believe they're going to chip in. I really do.

At this point, Donald Trump is a cult leader. He's probably been a cult leader for a few years now, but Maggie is a cult. And the cult is going to hold their guy down. Tez, I was going to ask, is it separate or is he actually using his campaign funds? And is that legal? You can use your campaign funds that you're supposed to be using to... His campaign is the people who issued the donation appeal. But I thought it was a different

like, you know, one was a GoFundMe, one was a this, that, and the other. So he's using his campaign funds for that? Well, it's a political action committee a pack and by the way check out straight shot no chaser on the black fed podcast network i broke down packs i believe two weeks ago so this is a pack um that is set up a political action committee that's set up to help with the funds so it's not directly coming from the same bucket but it's the same people i got you oh there's still some conflict of interest that you know because when you got trump's campaign asking for the donations yes it's the same bucket same people same everything yes this is i guess it's legal

well it is again so kind of it's a fundraising committee the same people two different buckets but it's kind of like if you got the same people in charge doing two different things you know what i'm saying like where's the where's the checks and balances where is the uh the the inappropriateness where is the conflict of interest like we saw with the fannie uh willis case where it's too close to comfort you don't know if you're donating to when you're sending out an email to somebody, you know, they're saying, hey, give me twenty dollars and twenty four cents. You don't know if you're sending it to the campaign. You don't know if you're sending it to the to the bond. You don't know. So there's a lot that goes into that. And the waters are too close to money. Yeah. When you got a fundraising effort led by a joint committee distributing funds to Trump's campaign and a separate political committee covering his legal

expenses. It's the same damn thing. Alright, well that is front page news. What are we talking next hour, Tess? Well, President Biden impeachment hearing went down yesterday. There was a lot of back and forth, a lot of shade thrown. I'm going to talk to you about that. And in California, if you're arrested, they used to put your picture on social media, but now

it's going to be covered up by a Lego head. So I'm going to tell you about that. Alright, we'll get into that next everybody else get it off your chest 800-585-1051 if you need to vent phone lines are wide open it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club this is your time to get it off your chest 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What up, man? It's Knowledge, man. What y'all been up?

Knowledge, what's poppin', bro? How you doing, King? I'm all right, man. Hey, I ain't all right, man. Finally, y'all got Candace on over there. And I like that because everybody

don't think the same. And I read her book. She had some good points. You know what I'm saying? She saying that the black community are accepting her now. I think some people are always accepting her just like we accept black Republicans. You know what I'm saying she's saying it's a black community accepting her now i think some people are always accepting us just like we accept black republicans you know what i'm saying

yeah i'm not i mean i i like you just said everybody uh has an audience you know and and everybody has people that don't like them either so it is what it is i always say everything is a conversation right it is you know we can't get to to a resolution if we can't speak to each other that's right absolutely, one more thing. Charlemagne, on your book rollout, you going to do the same thing you did on Black Trivage and come to Dallas? Hell yeah. I'm going everywhere.

I'm going everywhere on my book tour. My book comes out May 21st. So, like, starting that week, I'll be everywhere. I'm coming to Dallas. I'm going to Austin. I'll be all over the place. All right, man. Don't have no private parties, man.

Come to the people, man. I'm going to be right I'll be all over the place. All right, man. Don't have no private parties, man. Come to the pit. I'm going to be right there in Barnes & Noble. Well, I'm going to pull up on you for real like I did all the other times. Where was I at last time in Dallas? I was at two book stores in Dallas. I know I went to Barnes & Noble. You was at Paul Quinn, too. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I'll definitely be at Paul Quinn. Shoot the Paul Quinn College. I'll definitely be there. One last more thing. One last thing. Man, I need you. I need to talk to your people, man. I'm part of this business, EIG group, with Salesforce, man.

I want you to pull up. Oh, okay. Hold on. Charlamagne don't know what that means. I have no idea. I don't know what he means. I can tell. Hello, who's this?

Good morning, Envy. Good morning, Charlamagne. Courtney from Alabama. What's up, man? What's up, Courtney? What's up with Jess, too? Oh, my bad. Good morning, Jess. Sorry, sorry, sorry. What's up, man? What's up, Courtney? What's up with Jess, too? Oh, my bad. Jess, my bad.

Good morning, Jess. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Good morning. It's okay. What up, though? I wanted to get off my chest. I think people need to give Candace a little bit of a chance. Like I was just telling the other guy, Ron Fox is right twice a day, and he actually

said pretty interesting stuff on Joe Budden's podcast, so I'm ready to hear what she has to say. There is nobody on this planet that you agree with a hundred percent like nobody i don't care how much you like that so i don't know why even people have that mentality but you know social media or have you thinking that uh uh everybody is hated you can't be hated if you got millions of people listening to you all the time like canis owens though so some people hate it some people like it right right and the girl makes sense i mean she makes sense so i'm ready to hear it.

All right. Well, we're going to chop it up with her next hour. So just keep it live, brother. Bet. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051 if you need to vent. Hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get it off your chest. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and get something. Call up now.

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Good morning. This is Trey calling from 97.9. I'm making Georgia. Hey, Trey. I just want to take a few moments out real quick and acknowledge my precious sister, Miss Jess, on this Women's Month and give her a standing ovation for her altruism she displayed toward Miss Wendy Williams.

That was very classy of her to not kick her while she was down, while everybody else was kicking Ms. Wendy down. As a matter of fact, after Ms. Jess said what she said and exalted Ms. Wendy Williams, the brat came on and said that the lady made a pass at her. You don't kick a person down when they're down. You try to pull them up. And I appreciate that and her taking a

moment out for not being messy, but being a tremendous woman. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Thank you, Trey. Peace and love. And I do agree, you don't kick people when they down,

but it depends who the person is and what they did to you. Okay? Because you might need to keep them down. Because if they get up, they might kill your ass.

Yeah. Satisfactory. Satisfactory. Hello, who's this? Good morning, it's Nikki. Hey, Nikki. Hey, Nikki. Get it off your chest, Nikki.

Good morning, Breakfast Club. Today is my mom's 70th birthday. Hey. Her name is Nova. So I just wanted to shout her out. That is my world. You know, she's an amazing mom, grandmother, wife. So I just wanted to show her some love today.

Happy birthday. Absolutely. Happy birthday, mama. She still fine? wanted to show her some love today. Happy birthday. Absolutely. Happy birthday, mama. She's still fine? First of all. What? Yes. Yes, she is very fine.

Everyone who knows my mom, yes, she's very fine. She got curves and everything. What's her Facebook? He asked you, he asked you like you was going to be like, no.

Like, what? Exactly. Like, come on now. What's her Facebook page? Congratulations, Jen. Thank you, baby. I appreciate it. Mama, she don What's her Facebook page? And congratulations, Jeff. Thank you, baby. I appreciate it. She don't have a Facebook page.

She's 70. She does have Instagram, but she don't have a Facebook page. Oh, she got IG? Okay. All the 70-year-olds be on Facebook. I didn't know she would have IG. Okay. Lord.

Yes, she do. But thank you, y'all. Y'all have a great day. She don't give her IG? No, you don't give her IG. No. No, leave her alone. No.

Oh, my goodness. Have a good one, mama. But thank y'all. You too. Bye-bye. Bye-bye now. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

Now, Jess, with the worldwide mess. Yes. It's coming up. What are we talking about? Yes, we're expounding, unfolding, and breaking down more of the Quiet On Set documentary. Oh, my goodness. Absolutely. Okay.

Nothing about UK today? That's going to be in the third hour. I'm pushing that. It's a lot of juicy news. But, y'all, I get seven minutes per hour to do just with the worldwide mess. So, please bear with me. So, I'll be breaking this stuff down over the course of the weeks. Okay.

All right. All right. And that comes up next. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. All right. All right. And that comes up next. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, Charlamagne has his podcast festival going down in Atlanta. I do. It's Saturday, April 27th. Go get your tickets right now at blackeffect.com slash podcast festival or eventbrite.com. But today is also National Co-Parenting Day. I am very excited about National Co-Parenting Day. I am very excited about

National Co-Parenting Day and not next hour because next hour is Candace Owens. The hour after that Jess is Jess Hilarious is original baby father baby father Rome Rome

will be here to talk about how they co-parent because they have such an interesting co-parenting situation. I don't like original because you're trying to make Chris sounds like

he's not original. He's original in his own little way. You want to see I want to see one. You want to see part two. I don't like original because y'all trying to make Chris sound like he's not original. He's original in his own little way. What do you want to see? I don't want to see one. You want to see part two? I don't know. Not part two. Just Rome and Chris.

That's it. They have their names. Okay, you're right. You're right. Rome. Rome. He is the OG. I like Rome.

He's the OG of Ash. I enjoyed Rome's story. Well, we're going to talk to Rome not next hour, but the following hour. But right now, let's get to Jess with the mess. Her news is real. Yep. News is real.

Lauren Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess. Worldwide mess. To the culture shift. Jose, what's good? On The Breakfast Club. Jess with the culture shift. Jose, what's good? On The Breakfast Club. Just with the Worldwide message.

Okay, so you might want to run a little bit. All right. So the Nickelodeon documentary recap. So Dan Schneider showed signs of inappropriate behavior early in his career. One of his first shows he had. Now Dan Schneider is the writer or producer? He is the producer. He,

he, yeah, he's the showrunner and all of this stuff. Right. Gotcha. All right. Uh, Dan,

don't ask questions. This is a lot already. Let her talk. Thank you. So, um, one of his first shows, he hired a female writer for having friends at,

no, he fired a female writer for having friends at her house over the weekend. He was like famous for getting too personal with the people that worked on the set you know what i mean he was too in their personal lives and amanda binds actually wanted to run away for those who don't know amanda binds y'all should i don't know what's wrong with y'all but she wanted to run away from home because her parents told her that she couldn't date an older boy but dan schneider helped her run away and convinced her to

file for emancipation, but the emancipation didn't go through. Now, emancipation is when you can basically get permission from the state to be free to do whatever you want before you're legal. Right? And that would exclude him from child laws. So he convinced her to do it. He reportedly convinced

a lot of his child actors to get emancipated because it would exempt them from child laws. I'm sorry. Dealing with their parents. Absolutely. The doc shares the names of multiple predators on set. In 2005, there was another case. Ezell Channel, a worker at the Nickelodeon lot in Burbank. He brought a child to the lot, a boy, and was convicted of abusing that child

on the lot. He actually had prior convictions as a sex offender, and Nickelodeon didn't catch it. Jason Michael Handy, Brian Peck, and then Izel Channel. These are three predators who worked at Nickelodeon all in a short amount of time horrible man yeah absolutely uh brian peck was not a writer i know i said he was a writer yesterday but if y'all pay attention to everything i report about this i originally said that he was a dialogue coach on set um so yeah i do apologize one of the child actors kyle sullivan spoke on a surprising friendship that Brian Peck had um for those who don't know a quick google search says John Wayne Gacy who was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped torture and murdered at least 33 young women and I mean young men and boys yep in Norwood

Park Township near Chicago Illinois um that was his, that was actually his pen pal. He actually like was in like kind of like a little bit of love with this guy. Everyone went to Brian's house for a barbecue and his house was a little off. He had a room that was just dedicated to like vintage toys and comic books. I noticed a painting in the room that stuck out to me. It was of a birthday clown holding balloons. And Brian got very excited when I asked him about it. He flipped the thing around and on the back it said, To Brian, I hope you enjoy the painting.

Best wishes, your friend, John Wayne Gacy. It was a self-portrait of serial killer, John Wayne Gacy and Brian. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together.

You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people, you know, follow and admire join me every week for post run high. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to post run high on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So y'all, this is Questlove and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages.

One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone.

The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it.

And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Colvin. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha.

And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We're going to discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people to hopefully create better allies. Think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're Black, Asian, White, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's

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And guess what? Haunting is back, dropping just in time for spooky season. Now I know you've probably been wandering the mortal plane, wondering when I'd be back to fill your ears with deliciously unsettling stories. Well, wonder no more, because we've got a ghoulishly good lineup ready for you. Let's just say things get a bit extra. We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year.

It's the one time I'm actually on trend. So grab your pumpkin spice, dust off that Ouija board. Just don't call me unless it's urgent. And tune in for new episodes every week. Remember, the veils are thin, the stories are spooky, and your favorite ghost host is back and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba. I shook up the world. James Brown said, say it loud. And the kid said, I'm black and I'm proud. Black boxing stars and black music royalty together in the heart of Zaire, Africa. Three days of music and then the boxing event.

What was going on in the world at the time made this fight as important that anything else is going on on the planet. My grandfather laid on the ropes and let George Foreman basically just punch himself out. Welcome to Rumble, the story of a world in transformation. The 60s and prior to that, you couldn't call a person black. And how we arrived at this peak moment. I don't have to be what you want me to be. We all came from the continent of Africa.

Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And actually developed a pen pal relationship with john he kept like this pile of letters and photos from john wayne gacy in his nightstand next to his bed

very very weird yep um and then jason handy was also who the lady also talked about he was also an employee on the set he was a production, a PA on the Nickelodeon set. He was along with kids very often. Yep. He was along with kids very often. He was arrested on multiple charges after the police got an anonymous tip about him. And he had built relationships with child actors who had small roles on shows as extras, promising them future roles. And we have audio from him as well.

Law enforcement had been tipped off about Jason Handy's inappropriate behavior towards children. So in 2003, they searched his home. They find this enormous trove of child pornography. Over 10,000 images of children, including 1,768 images of young girls in erotic poses, 238 images of young girls in sexually explicit poses, and two images of girls engaged in bondage activity. One of the CDs included seven video files of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Lord have mercy.

Yep, they also found his journal, and he admitted to some crazy things. He also wrote about his relationship with a nine-year-old girl who was a guest on the Star Show, Cousin Skeeter. I'm a pedophile, full-blown. I really have been giving in to my desire for little girls these past few weeks. And I even struggle on a day-to-day basis of how I can find a victim to rape if i have to and this was these are all people employed by um dan schneider oh dan schneider yeah we've got nickelodeon but dan schneider he was over top of everybody i haven't watched this documentary and don't plan to because i don't want that in my spirit but i just want to know what happens next is this going to lead to

charges being bought against these individuals have charges already been bought against these yes actually brian peck remember i reported a story about him um um he was a drake's predator drake bell's predator that he spoke about um and he only served 16 months in jail and then uh he went to work for disney they gave him a job at disney so yeah yeah i just want to know what's going to come out of putting all of this out there because if nothing comes of it then they're just exploiting these kids trauma for profit well you see what's happening it seems like more and more these kids are coming out and talking about other people that have been sexually assaulting them and doing these type of things which is what we want because we want to protect these kids and these child

actors well that's what we want if it leads to people actually being arrested and charged yeah yeah but then a lot of people are they have mental illness because their story has never been told i mean so i still think that it's you know of course they should be compensated something happens and then also like these people should be put in jail and all that but just still to know about this you know that's why i'm glad my son don't want to do tv i would never even let him i don't even care like you know what i'm saying stories like this should be told just for both sides of it you know industry is very wicked. All right. Well, that is just with the mess.

The worldwide mess. That's right. Yeah. Now, when we come back, Tezlyn Figueroa will be joining us. We're going to kick it with Tez and then Candace Owens will be in the building. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What up, Tez? What's going on, DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What up, Tiz? What's going on, DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. Good morning. Now let's jump right into it.

Let's talk about Lego heads in California. Boss. Yeah, this is really interesting, guys. Make sure you go look this up. I just thought this was a really interesting story. In 2021, the state legislature in California passed laws preventing law enforcement from posting mug shots on their social media accounts except in certain situations that's when the department began using emojis to block the faces of suspects seen in arrest photos but they eventually settled on logo

heads lego heads take a listen the murrieta police department getting a lot of attention lately over these social media posts not showing the suspects faces instead covering them up with lego heads at least five years ago we started we began publishing a weekly roundup where we put out booking photographs of arrests that we made during the week those posts specifically would sometimes get a little off track focus more on the physical appearances of the suspects that we posted about versus the story and the good work that our officers were doing at first they started using emojis even Shrek made an appearance in one post so why then use Lego heads a little fun get some attention you know game the the social

media algorithms generate some attraction it likes follow stuff like that plus it's now against the law for law enforcement to post mug shots of suspects in most circumstances the new law has changed the way riverside police do things we such an unserious country did you hear what he said basically they just clout chase literally said they doing it for the grant like why like i'm telling you man we are such an unserious country man everybody and their mama is chasing the algorithm, and it's sad. It is, including the police department. That's sad. Like, why?

Well, their point is that I guess they want people to know, hey, you'll get arrested for this, or you'll get arrested for that. This is the work that we're doing. And so that's just the way, I guess, that's how they're doing their outreach. Oh. And also, I guess the biggest point that wasn't said in the news report, or at least i missed it is that the images of suspects involved in non-violent crimes are prohibited from being shared because i

was like why would they wouldn't want to share you know the faces of murderers and pedophiles non-violent non-violent okay that makes sense like hey maybe you were drunk and this you know maybe you got arrested for it once you know hey you know we'll arrest you and you know it's not a game and kind of use it as a way to promote you know awareness on what they're doing and to keep people you know engaged remember what i used to have i don't know how many states do it but they used to you know like put out mug shots every week of people maybe do stupid stuff and you get a chance to kind of follow some people watch that type of stuff so this is just their way of you know awareness i guess and a lot of people are

innocent until proven guilty yeah you know so it guess and a lot of people are innocent until proven guilty yeah you know so it's like you might you might get a mug shot and you know you probably did not you might not have committed the crime yeah and they said people were focusing on like what people look like what you know how social media is instead of talking about hey this person got arrested for xyz and you need to be aware of this they're talking about oh look at his hair or look at his clothes or look at it so they just said okay we'll just take this part out and just deal you know look at make make the issue the uh the focus and not the person i was gonna ask i know one time they have an app where you can see where all the pedophiles live in your area sometimes you're supposed to oh yeah there's no sign

enough like they don't make you put a sign in your lawn and they do because i haven't seen i've never seen a sign before some states you have to or you'll go to jail for not you know identifying because i haven't seen a sign in a lawn and well that's good i mean i know that's good or that people are not putting signs they're not putting the signs up yeah that's what it is but you can definitely go on uh you can definitely go online and and put in your address and see who is it's actually quite shocking i recommend people do it. You'll be surprised how many people around you may be in that database. Very, very interesting. All right. Well, let's discuss Biden now. Yeah. So fireworks at the House

hearing yesterday for the Biden impeachment inquiry. So if you missed it, I'm going to give you a quick recap on what happened. So Republicans and Democrats called witnesses to support and refute claims that President Biden was involved in his son Hunter Biden's business dealings. Take a listen. Tonight, a fiery inflection point in the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. This is Mr. Bobulinski. This is my time. House Republicans holding a hearing designed to feature Hunter

Biden, who had asked to give public testimony, but declined to appear. Instead, the committee heard from a pair of former Hunter Biden business associates who testified, despite President Biden's denials, he was involved in his son's businesses. He was an active, aware enabler who met with business associates such as myself to further the business. They say Joe Biden participated in person and on speakerphone in meetings and dinners with Hunter's foreign business partners. Hunter's former business associate, Jason Galanis, testifying from prison. The vice president said hello, some pleasantries, and I hope you had safe travels. And Matt said, well, well okay you'd be good to my boy

so democrats said that there was no evidence of a crime they invited les lev partners an ex-associate of rudy giuliani and he said he was hired to dig up dirt on biden business ventures in ukraine take a listen to what he had to say i found precisely zero evidence of the bind's corruption in ukraine in an exclusive interview partners Parnas accused Republicans of being willing accomplices of the Kremlin. They're not getting down to the truth. All they're doing is pushing the same Russian narrative and propaganda. A couple of other things. There was a lot of back and forth yesterday during the hearing. Florida Representative Moskowitz called Republicans bluff. He said he will help the Republicans out and make a motion

right now to go ahead and impeach. He said, if yall gonna do it do it let's get it out the way take a listen to what he had to say why aren't you guys calling for the vote in your committee when when is it going to happen we don't do snap impeachments like you guys we actually do the facts we do oversight according you're never never going to call for it you can predict the future how do you know you guys only have six more months probably in power right until the elections does the constitution put a time limit on oversight? I didn't read that in the Constitution. So if you believe you can't call for the impeachment now,

then what you're admitting is you haven't yet proven that he's committed a high crime and misdemeanor. You haven't proven it yet. Otherwise, you would call for it, I assume. This is a big nothing burger, y'all. What a waste of time. Everybody, both these campaigns just need to get out there on the campaign trail, roll their sleeves up and attempt to energize people. Trump's charge is not going to stop him from running. And this Joe Biden fake impeachment probe ain't going to stop him from running either. Everybody needs to get to work. Yeah. Interesting you said that because that's one the one last clip I want to play where he said they're never going to do this impeachment.

This is all just a big bluff. Take play that last one. And so I just think we should do it today. Let's just call for it. I'll make the motion, Mr. Chairman. I want to help you out. You can second it, right? Like, make the motion to impeach President Biden. Go ahead. It's your turn.

You second it. No, nothing. Okay, we got nothing. So I want to, with my last couple minutes, show the American people that they're never going to impeach Joe Biden. It's never going to happen because they don't have the evidence. Okay, this is a show. It's all fake. They just want to do these hearings. It's not leading to impeachment. They're lying to their base on Newsmax and Fox,

leading these people to believe that they're going to eventually impeach the president. It's not going to happen at all, ever, period. You had Republicans, you had some Republicans say months ago that, you know, they were just looking to do this as get back for the two times that Trump was impeached. So it's like, you'll stop wasting the American people's time. Stop wasting the American people's time. Everybody just get out there on the campaign trail. And, you know, both of these individuals, Trump and Biden, need to go out there and try to win this election the old fashioned way by shaking hands and kissing babies. Better go out there and energize the people and stop these stunts. And knock it on doors and getting it done, because as we talked about yesterday, you have a lot of people that are showing up to the polls just to say, I don't want to deal with either one of you.

And those are people that you need to be concerned about for sure. There's always going to be more people who sit at home. People say that every day. Oh, people, people sit at home all the time. What this threat that we're seeing now is that you have people on both sides, Republicans and Democrats, that are getting out of their bed, putting on their clothes, driving down to the poll just to say, I don't want either one of y'all. Now, those are the ones that you really need to be concerned about.

And people can say, oh, it's not a big deal. It's just 100,000 people. But 100,000 people can make a 1%, 2% difference, you know, especially in a swing state. it's not a big deal it's just a hundred thousand people but a hundred thousand people can make a one percent two percent difference you know especially in a swing state so it makes a big difference we saw that in michigan in 2016 so yep get out there shake hands kiss babies do what you need to do and uh pass out checks or do something do figure out what you're gonna do because this back and forth is just drama and people are over it that's where i'm at i'm part of the exhausted majority i don't give a damn about either party, Democrat or Republican. And I feel like if you're black in this country, you damn

sure shouldn't be beholden to either party. You shouldn't be beholden to Republicans and you shouldn't be beholden to Democrats, period. Or politicians. Politicians, period. I'm strictly voting my interest. Nothing more, nothing less. There you go. Alright, well thank you Tiz. Absolutely. And make sure

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Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. regular story like I was born in New York raised in Stanford there was nothing you know particularly that stood out in my childhood that made me think that I was going to go into politics I feel like I landed into politics kind of accidentally and I say accidentally because it I was I thought I was a liberal my whole life you know I thought I was on the left my whole life and really didn't pay attention to politics in any meaningful way and you know, when Trump was running for office, I didn't want him to be elected.

I was like this, not because I thought he was a racist or a sexist, but just because I thought it was crazy to go from Obama, who had a certain decorum about him, to suddenly this sort of brash New Yorker. But I thought it was weird when all of a sudden the people that liked Trump, you know, everyone thought he was like this iconic symbol of business. He was in rap songs.

Trump was the status flipped on him in one second. I didn't buy the narrative that he was in the media for three, four decades and suddenly you wanted me to believe overnight that he was like Adolf Hitler and a racist. So I just didn't trust the media's narrative about him and so I decided to actually listen to what he said. I still didn't vote for him in 2016, but I decided to actually listen to what he said i still didn't vote for him in 2016 but i wanted to just listen to what he actually said and then when i saw what

he was saying versus how it was being reported i just found it to be extremely dishonest so i started researching more learning more and um and then i got kind of angry like just with the the lies because i do think black amer Americans are intentionally manipulated emotionally by the media and, you know, kind of kept dumb but emotional intentionally by the school system. And I started reading up on like Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, a bunch of black scholars I originally had dismissed as Uncle Tom's. And, you know, irony now is I get calls from Uncle Tom all the time. I got what was coming. But yeah. And then I realized that actually I've always been a conservative.

I just didn't know it. And economically speaking, of course, the conservative arguments make the most sense. Does that bother you that people call you an Uncle Tom? No, not at all. First off, because if they read the book, Uncle Tom was the hero. But also because I get it. You know, how can I fault people for something that I would have engaged in for the majority of my life? I thought the same thing about black conservatives. Like I thought it was this betrayal, but I never actually get it. You know, how can I fault people for something that I would have engaged in for the majority of my life? I thought the same thing about black conservatives.

Like I thought it was this betrayal, but I never actually understood it. It was just an emotional response. And I think that kind of is if you come out of the public school system, I can't imagine how you could be a black conservative when just the way that they even tell us our our own history is just not true. You know, do you think uh that's true with most people though like you know like when you when you think of a trump or just anybody you're you're fine with them but then you learn like their politics or you learn what they believe spiritually and then you're like oh you're turned off from it yeah and i don't even think it's necessarily the politics i really do think the media plays the biggest part in it because Trump, as far as I

know, Trump's been maybe he used to be a Democrat, but he's been a Republican, a conservative for a long time. I mean, we know he had to have been a conservative in terms of economics. You know, he's he's wealthy. So you'd be hard pressed to find someone that's wealthy and, you know, advocating for Marxist beliefs. But yeah, I just feel like it's it's more about the media wants power. The media has a vested interest in things politically, and they like to make us think that we're having this open conversation and we're learning the truth about people. But these are just hatchet smear jobs, libeling people, and I think deluding a ton of people to turn against their own best interests. Now, you said something earlier. You said that you wanted to listen to what Trump had to say.

You said in 2016, you still didn't vote for him. So looking at the country now, right? Of course, there's Trump, there's Biden. Who do you think is better for our community? Obviously, well, first and foremost, just for everybody, you should have a president that's, you know, not mentally deteriorating like Biden is. I mean, he's in full mental deterioration.

It's crazy to pretend anything else that's happening right now. It's scary, first and foremost, because we have real enemies out there. And you have a person that can't lead. You know, he can't remember what he ate for breakfast. He's saying things. And the amount of times that he keeps talking about his dead son as if he's alive, it's very alarming.

And I don't say that with any ill will in my heart either, because he's showing signs of when my grandfather, who passed a couple of years ago, his mind started diminishing. And you start to see those early signs of dementia, the way he walks, his gait, the way that he's falling, that this is crazy. Everyone should be outraged, whether you're on the left or the right. But in terms of the better candidate for black Americans, I asked people the question, how were you living under Trump? The person that they told you was going to put us back into chains and we were all going to be slaves again. How was the economy under Trump and how are you doing today? And every time you ask that question, everyone knows that they was the economy under Trump and how are you doing today? And every time you ask that question, everyone knows that they were living better under Trump because he was deregulating the environment and people were just living better under Trump.

And he is, in my opinion, a better president because at least he's telling you the truth and he's telling you what he actually thinks. You know, one of the things that I hated the most about him when he first came down the escalator, I was like, oh, he's way too brash. You know, Obama sounds way more polite. But I asked the question, do you want to be politely lied to or have somebody that's at least telling you what they think about you in no uncertain terms? So, you know, I like Trump for a ton of reasons. And for me, it was always about the economic arguments. And I knew that he was going to be a better candidate for black Americans because of that, especially, you know, build the wall sounded so wild.

Right. Back in 2016, it sounded wild. It sounds anophobic. And I was saying, if these illegals get into the inner city communities, the first people that are going to be harmed are going to be black Americans. People people actually were mad at you. Right. When you got into the conversation with T.I. at the Revolt Music Conference. Right. And you were saying that and people didn't understand it. But it seems like people are understanding what you were trying to say back then yeah and i am so happy to have those moments because like i i think ti is a trash person you know i'll say

that a thousand times over because first and foremost i had spoken to ti prior to that event like ti was the only person on stage that i actually knew um and because for the same reasons i met you kanye had put us in touch we had talked and i know that ti thinks more conservatively so he was literally putting on a show and so it just makes me wonder especially with all the stuff that like came out in the diddy lawsuit like who's controlling ti because that was wild he was literally putting on a show like he didn't know me on stage like he was surprised i was saying the stuff he was way more level-headed and rational when we were on the phone and i just i still look back on the moment. I'm like, what was he doing? It was just, it was

like a circus act up there. And he was doing something that I thought was harmful because we were actually having a great discussion. And yet he created a little moment and that was all the media ran with, despite the fact we were on that stage for hours. They ran with that moment and I was really upset about it, but you're right. I was talking a lot about illegal immigration and saying something that we need to pay attention to because eventually the black vote's not going to matter something that they were that they worked so hard for is not going to matter they get enough illegals in what are we at 10 million under Biden and they're doing it intentionally like it's going to be the same thing that they did to black Americans in the 60s um what Lyndon

Baines Johnson's did when he established welfarism in the Great Society Act they want to get these people in offer them handouts and turn them into economic slaves that will continue to vote for Democrats because they're getting free handouts. And it's incredibly racist, first and foremost, but because Black Americans are still, a lot of Black Americans, I should

say, are still living under this deception that Lyndon Baines Johnson was a good president, even though he wasn't a vowed racist. I mean, he hated black people. I mean, so many. Hey, guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs and more.

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us as the N word. I'll have those N words voting Democrat for the next 200 years. And this man is being held as a hero because he had to sign the Civil Rights Act, essentially with a figurative gun to his head because the country was on fire. You know, JFK had just died and there were riots in the streets protesting because of racism. And he did not want to sign it, but he did. And with the other hand, he signed the Great Society Act and incentivized welfarism and, you know, programs to incentivize not marrying black men. You know, to think that we had government agents knocking on the door, going into the homes of black women and being like, there better not be a man that lives here. We're just here to check to make sure if you want this check, dad can't be home.

Every other ill that black America is facing today is because we've removed fathers from the home. So I'm like a big, you know, I use my platform to talk about men a lot and the need for male leadership. Everything that is so harmful. This, you know, me too. False feminism. All of this crap. It's anti-man and it's anti-man for a reason because a society cannot survive without strong men. A household cannot survive without strong men. We need strong men to lead homes.

And so the fracturing of the black family, I think, was the test. Like, you know, we were the mice in the experiment. Like, let's see how that goes. And now they're kind of doing that writ large. And I just, I hate feminism so much. I can't even tell you because what it's about is it's just an attack on men. All right, we got more with Candace Owens when we come back. Don't move.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Candace Owens. Charlamagne? You said no government anywhere

has a right to commit a genocide, ever. There is no justification for genocide. Yeah, that is going to age so well. Genocide is always wrong. It is, guys.ocide is always wrong. It is, guys. It is always wrong. And it doesn't matter. At any point in human history,

any person that is advocating for genocide is always in the wrong. And when I wrote that tweet, I was referring to Brian Mast, who was a congressman. He got up and he literally said in Congress that there's no such thing as an innocent Palestinian. And I was like, that is genocidal right as soon as you say an entire group of people are all evil you are now

laying the groundwork to justify a genocide and that to me was wild so i spoke up against it now with the uh the politicians right how are people better under trump though like what are some things that you can point to well i mean I mean, like I said, common sense. Everybody was living better under Trump. But just in terms of the environment for people that were entrepreneurial, definitively one of the first things he did was he started slashing regulations, like slashing these barriers that prevent people who want to go into business from starting a business because they learned that there's all of these government agencies that are,

you've got to get this in place, you've got to get this in place, you have to get this license. That's government agencies that are actually standing between you and starting a company. And so on his very first day, he was just cutting regulations left and right, saying throw this one out, throw this one out, throw this one out, which freed up the markets. At the end of the day, what I am is I'm a free market capitalist.

Free the markets. Allow people to compete fairly. Stop allowing the government to stop people or de-incentivize them from creating new jobs. I'll give you an example. A cousin of mine wanted to start a food truck. Great. Awesome. Love for you to do that. And he looked into how many certifications and barriers there were before he could actually start the food truck. That is the government growing powerful. Essentially, you have to have money or you have to know somebody to play the game for you to be able to start from nothing

and make something of yourself. Economic mobility is really what it's about. So, I mean, that was one of the things that I loved the most about Trump is that he was very sensible. He has a very good business head. He understands the business environment. And every person should want to,

you know, should be aspiring not to, to work for a bunch of people that don't have your best interests, but to be able to, but so many of his businesses have failed. Yeah. But even failing is a part of the entrepreneur things that I've tried to do have failed. Right.

And I don't ever let that be a barrier. Like I think that there's always this psychological mindset of people that are, are fearful to fail. That's the best way for things to happen because you learn so much in failure and people always want to point to and mock somebody for failing like oh she tried to do this and then she got well at least she tried yeah right what are you doing and everybody has losses yeah and you learn from them you grow from those losses you know and and that's enough yeah that's the thing that really bothers me too is like that

that psychological conditioning of like well what's the point in trying because you might fail it's like no you should try and you might fail and then you'll learn the next time you try you might make something of yourself i want to go back to something you said earlier because i know a lot of people will hear you say well candace you're speaking a lot about you know the black family but then you married a white man for me personally i never thought of my husband as a race this is very interesting to me that see people go she's she's married to a white man i look at my kids kids. I'm not like, oh, my kids are mixed. I married the person that it made the most sense for me to marry. I have a mind that is just, you know, if you even knew half the things

that I'm thinking about, the stuff that I'm reading, just go, go, go, go, go all the time. It's difficult for me to find, it was difficult for me to find a partner that was a challenge to me. You know, the challenge that I needed, whether you want to say an academic challenge, whatever it is, with my same interests. It just was. What you will know, a lot of times people think that when people come together, it's because of how they look. Actually, I actually read this in a Thomas Sowell book, or maybe it was a Shelby Steele book. People tend to marry their IQ, which is interesting. You think like if you see two black people together, oh, it's because they are two black people. But actually, they are probably better matched based marry their IQ, which is interesting. You think like if you see two black people together,

oh, it's because they are two black people, but actually they are probably better matched based on their IQ. You know, I fell in love with my husband just because I think he is one of the most brilliant people ever. You know, I love him very much. The stuff that we talk about,

I'm like, there is no other person that I could have married. We have three beautiful children who are growing up in an environment that I am just so happy that I was able to, you know, what every parent wants to give your children better than you had, you know. And that's all I can say. I'm just the luckiest person in the entire world. Have you ever dated a black man before?

Yeah. Yeah. I dated black men, which is another thing that I always find really funny because the media tries to portray me as someone who only liked white guys. Actually, if you want to be honest, I started off on a really strong Asian kick in my life. Oh my gosh. I thought I was going to marry an Asian man. That's funny. I did.

My first boyfriend was Japanese. My second boyfriend was Korean. I just really loved Asian men. It was weird. That's funny. Yeah. I was like, in San Francisco, Connecticut,

there was an Asian population in San Francisco? Yeah. Well, I mean, there's Asian population everywhere. I don't know. Was there a higher one in San Francisco? No, I think I just pursued Asian men. I don't know. I just liked Asian guys. Yeahisco no i think i just pursued asian i don't know i just liked asian guys yeah and it's always fetishizes asian men oh my gosh stop painting the headlines what is wrong with you now you accused ti of performing

earlier but you know you're you're you got a platform too so do you find yourself performing i'm genuine so there's never going to be a person that comes onto my show or a person that i've talked to that is going to be like the canace then flipped up, you know, when the cameras were on and started saying things that she didn't say to me privately. That's what I mean about a performance. Why did you do that? You and I had spoken on the phone multiple times. I know what you think. I know that you're, you, you veer conservative. So what was that? Actually, what was that? No, for me, I actually say what I believe, you know, I actually believe the things that I'm saying. And people just find that to be incredulous. How could a black person not be a

Democrat? How could she not honor Lyndon Baines Johnson's dream to have, you know, those N words voting Democrat for the next 200 years? Because I learned my history properly after I left school, you know, because now I see that the people that I thought were my saviors are actually about racists. And what they really wanted to do was just to recreate the slave plantation. And when I see people like T.I., it gets me angry. It does. People should be angry. People should now be questioning full stop, especially after the lawsuit.

Like, what's real and what's not? Who's being blackmailed? You know, who maybe, you know, is being controlled by certain people? What do you mean? What's up? You guys have definitely covered it, right? Absolutely. It's crazy. You know, is being controlled by certain people. What do you mean? What's up? You guys have definitely covered it, right? Absolutely. It's crazy.

You know, it suggests that he was the Jeffrey Epstein of Hollywood, that there's a blackmail ring, that people are being given drugs. They're doing things while they're drugged. And then those people are controlled, right? Because if you're a rapper and your brand is hardcore and I have a video of you kissing a guy and i'm like i'll release it unless you say or do or take this position that's a blackmail ring right so t.i wasn't in it oh no he wasn't i'm just saying that the diddy lawsuit kind of led me to ask some

larger questions about okay because i have been feeling like in my heart that something weird's going on with black media you know i'm like what what is this trash that we're trying to sell as good music this is not this isn't black culture i hate that black people even call it black culture because that's like no vultures came in and took black culture turned it into something else like i said i've said it many times i grew up listening to lauren hill stop trying to tell me this is black culture like i grew up in my grandfather's house listening to the temptation stop trying to tell me this is black culture it's not this is why people are monolithic i mean you're like even you you're an example of that no i'm not saying we're a monolith i'm just saying that black people create magic when they want to okay there's no singer that is better than a black singer if you

want to go tit for tat give me the best you know white singer versus the best black singer like we have unbelievable talent right so if you're going to tell me that what we are now making mainstream is the filth that I hear today, I'm going to start asking questions about who's condoning this. All right, well, don't move. We got more with Candace Owens

when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We're still kicking it with Candace Owens. Charlamagne?

Why do you believe that Hollywood was created by the CIA? Well, before we say Hollywood was created by the CIA, I guess I should clarify. Because, you know, first off, you guys do know the Pentagon has a budget for film. There's a whole department in the Pentagon. I know that. That's a fact. There you go.

That's all you need to know. There's an entire department in the Pentagon. They get involved with films. And they get involved with films for the purpose of propaganda. They always have. I should have said Pentagon instead of CIA. Tons of them. I should show you the list. You the purpose of propaganda. They always have. I should have said Pentagon instead of CIA. Tons of them.

I should show you the list. You should pull it up. It's wild. Yeah, Pentagon Department for Hollywood. Tons of them. Even Transformers. Even Transformers.

Like, you know, because they're concerned about certain narratives. They get involved with like World War films. Like, how are we telling a story about history? Usually it's because

we're lying about what we did or trying not to make Americans aware of the crimes against humanity that we commit overseas the Pentagon has funded some films, Black Hawk Down Red Dawn, GoldenEye the more you know, so now you understand your experience

in theaters is what your government wants you to think they want you to think that this is how things happen and it's usually not at all how things have actually happened six of the best movies made would help from the Department of Defense this is military.com I shouldn't have said CIA, I should have just said the government um but gun yeah red dawn apollo 13 it's all about iron man oh my god i didn't know that was on the list

what iron man no that's her limit right there she was like you know what now it's crazy what is the what is the point of that just control yeah Now it's crazy. What is the point of that? Just control? Yeah. Propaganda. It's crazy. You grow up in school and you think propaganda belongs to the East or something. Propaganda is the name of the game of our government. They, again, never want you to look into the crimes that they are committing. So they're constantly trying to sell themselves as the good guys.

They did the most. They rescued and saved the world. They've never done anything bad overseas. If you are living and you believe that the american government hasn't committed crimes against humanity you just you had to wake up from the propaganda you just got it you got out you got to learn real history not what was taught to you in a textbook that's all just propaganda you know we've done horrific things you mentioned kanye put you on the phone with ti and some other people what's your relationship with kanye because i know one time y'all were going to do a business with each other

and that just fizzled out yeah you know you know, I was under so much pressure. It was actually insane to say horrific things about Kanye when all that stuff started going down. Was it two years ago now? And the truth is, is my relationship with Kanye began long before I ever met Kanye. I really do credit creation of like my spirit and my character with listening to his music. And having the courage to step out of the bounds of what people say that you are allowed to be like his song power i played that so many times when i got into politics just realizing that i was going to take a lot of bullets people were going to say a lot of things about me but really the power is within me to just not care that is why i think that a lot of people

don't understand like what kanye means i think to the black community and that's why the media couldn't take them down because the media didn't create Kanye. That's the truth. They didn't create him. And so I will forever defend what Kanye has meant to so many people who grew up on his music and listened to his music, like just knowing that you can, that you have it within yourself and you have the power within yourself to be something. You know, he's obviously still creating music,

still loved very much. Do I agree with everything that Kanye does? No. I don't even think kanye agrees all the stuff that kanye does he performs a lot yeah he performs a lot he throws you under the bus when he when he needs to though me yeah it feels like about me it just feels like he's quick to distance himself from you at certain points you know i think that a lot of the way the like what do you mean by that i guess i think about one moment in particular when uh

everybody got mad at him it was i don't know if it was you it's something you designed it was the blexit shirts or something and you said he designed them and he was like no i didn't yeah so i think that actually time has been good with that situation because i couldn't say a lot and people thought that i was like lying like canis lied first off i never said that kanye designed the t-shirts ever i said that he designed designed the logo and Kanye did design the logo. He had helped us have photos of it. But at that time, Kanye was going through a lot personally

and I just didn't think, I just decided that I was just going to be the bigger person. I could have clarified it in the media, but I just allowed everyone to call me a liar because like I said, I'm a fiercely loyal person and because I knew of a lot of stuff that was going on personally with him,

I just didn't want to add to the avalanche, you know, of people criticizing him. But again, I never had said that Kanye designed the t-shirts, but he did help us with the logo. What is Candace Owens' definition of black excellence? That's a very good question. You know, I think black excellence would just be excellence, period. Because I always try to say the reason why we should remove ourselves from saying white excellence, black excellence, is because I've realized that there's been a power in people trying to segregate our minds in that way.

You know, excellence to me, I think, is independence. I think it starts with independence of thought, right? Like actually challenging yourself and challenging your beliefs and constantly reexamining them, not thinking that you have it figured out. But I think that once we achieve higher education levels, and I'm talking about black people in mathematics, black literacy rate jumping to what it should be, which should be 100% if we're being honest, if you're sending somebody through the public education system,

then we will start to see necessarily black people achieving more in our society. So I just personally think that we should be focusing on the black literacy rates, full stop, and also creating our own companies, you know what I mean? And not having our voices controlled. We have a few questions for you, just a few. Where are the questions coming from?

These are black quiz questions. Oh, cool. We can get our own questions. She's like, where are these questions coming from, sir? I'm like, are we on Twitter or where are we at? So where did MLK deliver his famous I Have a Dream speech? Oh, in Washington, D.C.? Yes.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Jess. How many fights did Will Smith get into before his mom got scared? Oh, good question. Candace, come on. Hold on. West Philadelphia, born and raised. On the playground is where I spend most of my days.

Okay. Chilling out, maxing, relaxing, all cool and all, shooting some b-ball outside of the school. When a couple of guys, they were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood. days chilling out max and relaxing all cool and all shooting some b-ball outside the school when a couple of guys they were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood i got in one little fight y'all didn't think she knew that one y'all didn't think she knew that one it was just one it was when it was a little one yeah no you can't see you can't sing the whole song they'd be like it was a little bit but that's how you would do it if you were in school it was a little scuffle his mom got scared

yeah his mom was overreacting yeah his mom was overreacting which of the following is Maya Angelou's first body of work which of the following

I'll let you guess I wasn't gonna give you multiple which of the following means you gotta give us some examples still I rise no

I don't know I don't know I know why the caged bird sings the first one? That was a tough one. Yeah. Yeah.

My favorite. I was just giving you my favorite. My favorite one. It's still my favorite. It's my favorite Maya Angelou poem. Okay. Finish this lyric. Temporary layoffs.

Good times. Easy credit ripoffs. Good time. Scratching and surviving. Good times. You know what? That's before my time. Okay.

Yeah. Good answer. Yeah. That's before my time okay good answer yeah that is before my time that's a little bit right before Jess is only 32 yeah I know

but how did were you watching that I was you were I never watched it I was I feel like I watched every other show

except Good Times yeah alright yeah but that's Good Times would have been the 80s yeah I was born in 92

but I watched it with my grandmother who watched me all the time so I watched it with my grandmother. I did not watch it. So I watched almost all of the other ones. Not that one. Okay. Okay, you two for two. I knew it was Good Times, but I didn't know the...

Got you. This is an easy one. Who's the first black woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice? The first black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice. Black woman. Is it now? Just now? Yes.

It's her. She literally just got in there, and I cannot i cannot you just give me a first letter um see look at you her name is a little tricky i was about to tell you her name is a little tricky wait how do you actually say that though Kentucky She has a tricky first name Finish this response God is good

Amen I thought you were going to say God is great God is great I'm going to do you Shalameen God is good All the you for the full name. God is great. No. I'm going to do you, Shalameen. Shalameen, God is good. All the time.

And all the time. God is good. That's right. Where's that from? Church. Jesus Christ, Candace. Church.

God is good all the time. We're actually, but why do you say all the time back? Where's that from? Black church. God is good all the time. Black church. Everybody said it.

No, I definitely didn't get that one. No, I guess I didn't go to enough black churches growing up. Candace, what's the correct amount of raisins to add to a potato salad?

Zero. Okay. Absolutely zero. It's actually offensive. That was almost a racist question. That is the wildest thing I've ever seen. You know she got a little Caribbean in her. You just don't put raisins in the salad.

Well, Candace, it was a pleasure. Yes, it was. I believe in conversation over confrontation. Thank you, guys. I think that, you know, nowadays people just be wanting to talk to people just to have a moment and be angry. Yeah.

And it's like, yo, have a conversation with a person, let a person put their ideas out there and let people decide how they feel about sitting. Yeah. And the biggest thing that I want to say is like, please stop putting raisins in potato salad. That's all you got. That's all you want to say. That's it. Ladies and gentlemen. No, I'm kidding say is like please stop putting raisins in potato salad Thank you guys so much for having me I really appreciate this I'll come back anytime. All right. Well, let's Candace on slady Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning

Even know what you need to tell them. I am. You have the voice. 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 Charlemagne. There's only one Charlemagne to go.

Damn Charlemagne, who you give the donkey of the day to now? Well, donkey of the day for Thursday, March 21st, goes to an elementary school named Connemara Township. Connemara Township is in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and they recently had to apologize for an assignment brought home by a 5th grade student last week. Would you like to hear what that assignment was? Let's go to ABC7

News for the report, please. Connemara Township parents Kenneth and Sharon Poole tell us their daughter brought home an assignment last week instructing students to pretend to be a white master looking to buy a slave. So we got an assignment in our daughter's schoolwork folder. Basically it was like a colored in worksheet that indicated that it was titled auctions winnings to the highest bidder and it was an assignment wherein the fifth graders were supposed to portray slave masters and identify you know what qualifications they wanted in their slaves.

The pools say the assignment asked the students to draw and describe the living quarters as well as various scenarios that would occur on a plantation. They say their daughter lost points when she wrote she would treat the slaves nicely. In a statement to 6 News, the superintendent of Connell Township Elementary School says the assignment... Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,

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Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. from this. Reporting Somerset County, Bailey Wojcik, 6 News. Let the record show that the pools are white and it warms my cold heart to see that they were disgusted about this. I mean, you know, listen, the notion that all white people are racist is asinine, but every now and then we have to be reminded that all white people aren't created equal. Equal. Okay, but that reminder goes out the window when you think to yourself, there was a fifth grade teacher out there who thought to themselves that it was okay to have an assignment where the fifth graders were supposed to portray slave masters and identify what qualifications they wanted in their slave also how many kids completed this assignment how many parents sat at home with their kids and when their kids said mommy daddy what qualifications should i want in the slave

the parents helped them with it jesus can you imagine let's not get it twisted though many of the enslaved were skilled laborers and those skills were a vital part of the american economy you have to think a lot of them arrived here with a wide range of traditional african crafts so you had something that did weaving wood carving pottery making you had somebody enslaved that was skilled in rice cultivation they had you know many a skill but the fact that a little fifth grader potentially could be sitting around the table discussing with his parents the qualifications they are looking for in a slave in 2024 jesus i wish it bothers even more that the pools that they contacted the teacher and principal but they said that the school officials were initially unwilling to even remove the assignment or apologize in fact in a statement

to six news the superintendent of conan mart township school district says the assignment was intended to help students to comprehend slavery, but a different approach should have been taken. Yeah, how about the approach to freedom? The approach to emancipation? There would never be an assignment in a school where someone said, hey, we wanted to help students comprehend the Holocaust,

so we decided to do an assignment that taught students how to be Nazis. Huh? Wouldn't happen. Wouldn't be tolerated. Teachers, superintendents, principals, janitors, all the pencil sharpeners in the classroom would be gone if that happened. Not to mention we in an era where these kids might grow up and be canceled for an assignment they

participated in when they was 10. And these kids don't know no better. And the adults clearly don't know any better. You're just simply teaching white supremacy and why. This is why the whole notion of waiting for races to die isn't going to work. Because I read a quote once and that quote is real. It said white supremacy is not a shark.

It is the water. Please give Connemara Township in Somerset, Pennsylvania, the biggest. Now, today is National Co-Parenting Day. It is. And, you know, Jess, Jess Alaris' baby father, Rome. That's right. Him and Jess have one of the best co-parenting situations I've ever seen. But it took a while to get there.

It took a while for them to get there. Right. It took a while for them to get there. And so when we come back, they will be here. That's right. To discuss how they co-parent. How it started, how they got to a place where they can co-parent in the best way. And we'll ask them a will be here. That's right. To discuss how they co-parent. How they started, how they got to a place where they can co-parent in the best way. And we'll ask them a bunch of questions.

That's right. We'll do that when we come back. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarion, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Because today is National Co-Parenting Day. So we had to bring in a man who I feel like him and Jess have one of the best co-parenting relationships I've ever seen. That's right. Rome is here. Rome is here. What's up, Rome?

I got him shoveled already, Rome. Close your ears. Wow. Just saying. I want to know who gave Rome some liquor this morning. And I was like, I didn't give it to him. I just told him where the bar was. You said help yourself.

Help yourself. Yeah, that's fine. And you said it was apple juice. And so I was about to take a sip, and I was like, uh-uh. No, you was not. You already knew it wasn't apple juice. I just ain't think you was going to pick the cup up. Okay.

You and Jess have the best co-parenting situation I've ever witnessed. How did y'all get to this point, Rome? She thinks she my mother first and foremost. Oh, my God. But it took time. I felt like when you take the feelings out of it and you realize that

the child is the most important part of the relationship, because it's still a relationship whether y'all intimate or not. You can do magical things. Magical things. And I think that me being a dad that I was and that I am still today, I wanted that. I felt like if we wasn we wasn't gonna be together there was no need for us to beef we've created over time whereas now she's my best friend she's she's my safe space I feel like you

know I can vent to her because sometimes all the time I need it but I feel like when I was pouring into these other women they would use it against me. Whereas though now, now that she's pregnant, I don't really call her and say certain things because I know she's going through certain things mentally now. So Jess is always in my safe space though. So it's like she's always been a person that I go to. I call, give me advice. Some advice I don't take. But just to hear her give it to me.

Just to know that she care. Because I don't really have nobody. How did y'all meet? How did you meet Jess, and how did y'all start dating back then? Like, where did you see it? When was it like, oh, this is somebody I want? So, it's crazy because we grew up in the same. He's starting to smile.

He's starting to smile. He's going back. No, because my mom, when my mom was alive, my mom died when I was 10. When my mom was alive, we went to the same church. My mom died. My father, like, really took me away from everybody. So now it was like, fast forward, I'm like 17. It's Facebook.

And she came across my timeline. And I was like, okay. So I did a dot, dot, dot. And I put a basketball emoji. Oh, you thought she was a WNBA player? No. No, shut up, man. Little Junior Varsity?

No. He's playing with you. No,. Just shut up, man. Little junior boss of these? Nah. Nah. She played with you. Nah, she bid on it, too. Okay. I think I was like, I'm just coming to get my ball, coming to get what's mine, something like that. Yeah, I said, what the f*** is this?

Why the basketball room? I need to know. I seen it somewhere. What, loving basketball? No, I seen somebody do that. Like, I don't know where I seen it. You got to understand this one. You put a basketball in the messages.

This is 11 years, 12 years ago. So I'm like, I don't know. I did it because I thought it was corny, but I thought it was, you know. But it worked. It got attention. What did you think just when you saw the basketball? I just said, what the fuck is this? Okay.

I just typed it back, and he was like, he said, it was my ball. It's my ball, and I'm coming to get it. Or something like that. I'm coming to get what's mine. And I was like, oh, okay. What's up? i already knew what that was giving what it was it wasn't about okay what's up but it worked though it worked it worked so y'all started talking where was your first date what was your first when you started first talking what was your honest man jessica did a lot i'm gonna say this before a lot of these young guys became Jody I was Jody our first date big date I'm gonna say it was six flags okay okay all right not doing it big

but before that we did a lot of other things but after that it was we did a lot like she introduced me to a lot actually we both was the same age but she helped make me become got me to becoming a man yeah coming to man and then um yeah then boom now jess always says that you are you are overprotective make sure she was good correct but she always said you can't fight oh my god no she never seen me fight oh i never had to we we fought i got that from she didn't say that. Of course I'm not going to fight her, bro. Oh, it's crazy,

because I just got a picture from the window you busted mine. She busted your window without your cover? Man, no, one window with her fist. What? What happened? Oh, you can't be her then. If she could break a window from her fist out, I wouldn't even try to fight that.

What happened, Rome? Rome had to take a sip thinking about that. That's triggering to him. What happened? What happened? You want to know a sip thinking about that. That's triggering to him. What happened? What happened? You want to know the real story? Yeah, of course.

All right. My step, like, Jessica pull up. Mind you, we ain't together. Jessica pulls up. I had a girl in the house. So my brother, like, comes to the top of the steps,

like, Rome, Jessica at the door. I'm like, all right, here I come. The nigga don't even wait for me to come. He let her in. He let her in.

Oh, boy. Mind you, I walked right past him and his friends with the girl. That's a good end. I'm down the steps. But what did I see when I walked down the steps, Jerome? You didn't see. So initially,

try to massage this story. At Ashton, I had a portable rocking bassinet. We, I could put it in the trunk, send it to her, bring it back. Ashton was in a portable rocking joint.

Me and the girl was on the bed. I had on basketball shorts. She had on her uniform pants. She's going to say she's been saying this forever. She was in the military? She was a CO. She was a CO. She was a CO.

This is a correctional officer. We're seeing a military person. No, she's a correctional officer. Okay. So, like, she's sitting. She's facing me, but her legs is like, you know how that go. Jessica come down and say, she's going to say, oh, we was naked like you know how that go Jessica come down she gonna say oh we was naked

we was not naked if we was naked it would have been happening I don't get naked and sit up no she had a shirt on oh my gosh

she's never gonna tell the truth anyway she banged the girl you beat up the girl no she didn't beat up she banged her and I picked her up and walked up the stairs and threw her outside

you could never lift me no you never no y'all see what I'm saying she never wants to she never wants to admit the truth so hold on And I picked her up and walked up the stairs and threw her outside. Rom, you could never lift me. No, you never. Y'all see what I'm saying? She never wants to admit the truth. So hold on, Theo couldn't fight? No, I ain't. No. I don't know if she could fight or not, but I hit her one time and then she got up and

then she put on her uniform and went and left. Went upstairs and she left. The truth is, I promise y'all, I wish it was iPhones and cameras. You started fighting. No. I didn't fight you. And then my son was not in no portable nothing. He was on the floor on a blanket, and the cat was looking at him like he wanted to eat him.

She's a bull face. My basement had cement under the carpet, so I wouldn't even lay on the floor. Y'all been arguing about this for 11 years. Yes, because he is lying. Because she never wanted to tell the truth. She was drunk out of her mind, and I'm trying to figure out why the whole thing is about First of all, I was just getting off of work. Just getting off of work.

You're a goddamn liar. I had a job you didn't. You're a goddamn liar. You did not just get off work. You was fired at that time. So please. No, I got fired right after that. I was working at McDonald's.

That's when I was stealing. I was the rightest to overnight. This is so much ghetto love. I love it. And then if I was drinking, okay, I was drinking on the job, but I was at work. So, and then I came to get my son. No, you did not come get your son because it was my weekend.

You didn't get him until Monday from daycare. Why would you come? No, you was coming to be nosy. I didn't have to come to be nosy. She had a passenger with her. If you come in and get your son, I'm coming to be, yeah. She, I wouldn't have had to go

to the day with me. I knew somebody was going to get my son. I should have told your ass go home. What? 11 years, you still don home. What? 11 years, you still don't like her? 11 years old, man. That's my dog.

How did you break the window? Man, she hit that shit with her hand. So you walked out seeing this car and punched her? No. I threw her ass out.

I shut the door. You never drove. You was not that strong. You did not throw me nowhere. I'm going to tell you how I feel. I had you and it was steps. You jazzy Jeff though.

Yeah, that. Right there. He could never ever, even right now, could not do that so why you hit the window though why you hit the car because she needed i was just really really mad because he wouldn't give me my son she's lying give me my son you called the police i didn't call the police i never called the police

where i'm from the jail is right there. Right around the corner. You can walk. It's two minutes. They heard the commotion. They walked to us. I don't know how they came. He called the police on me.

And then when the police came, I just sat in my car. I was mad. I was like, no, I can't move here to get my son. Nicole did tell me, yo, come on, let's pull off. He's not giving you the baby. He's not giving you the baby. I was like, all right, cool. But I was mad, so I let's pull off he's not giving you the baby he's not giving you the baby i was like all right cool but i was mad so i didn't pull off police paddy wagon pulled up and got out and you

was like she right there she right there she ain't pulled off yet how was i trying to get you how did i try to get you locked up when i'm the same one called trying to bail you out with no money i don't know why you ever thought you could build somebody out with no money. I ain't sleep that night. You trying to get out. You put her in jail to try to bail out? Mr. Chet is out. You ever went through a woman phone? Of course.

Could you eat after that? Yes. You could? Well, I couldn't. I'm comparing that to when she went to jail, I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. You know? You was sick.

I was sick. I didn't want her in jail. Why the fuck would I call the police? Yeah. All right, we got more with Rome. If you don't know who Rome is, of course, that's Jess Hilarious' baby daddy. And today is National Co-Parenting Day. And we're having a conversation with Rome.

So don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlemagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Rome. That is Jess' baby daddy.

Today is National Co-Parenting Day. And they are excellent co-parenters. Charlemagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Rome. That is Jess's baby daddy. Today is National Co-Parenting Day, and they are excellent co-parenters, and we're having a great conversation. Charlemagne? So now, when you hear this story, and you say to yourself, why are they there on National Co-Parenting Day? Because they are like the best of friends now. They call each other, Jess calls you her brother. How do you feel about that?

How did y'all get there? Do you look at her like your sister? You said mama. I was going to say, what you said, you her brother. How do you feel about that? How did y'all get there? Do you look at her like your sister? You said mama. I was going to say, what you said, you created it. She's like my mother. Like, when we out of town and shit, she's like my mother. I ain't going to disclose too much, but she thinks she my mother. No, I just know.

She likes to control. Like, she know how I am, though. Like, me, I'm a loner. I think part of that controlling part is, like, she cares. And sometimes, especially when I'm under the influence, I've done dumbass shit. I think part of that controlling part is like she cares and sometimes especially when I'm under the influence I've done dumbass so as good as you know that you can admit that I don't know if you're just assisting the back mm-hmm like you know everybody know but I hold myself accountable that mind you know I ain't

gonna say I learned from one mistake so I didn't did a dumbass over and over again but I think in that aspect. That's when the mother. The mother with the V. Come in. But the brother. How calling me brother and sister. Like honestly without the child.

It's there. It's seen. Like cameras on cameras off. Like you can't fake this or make this shit up. Oh yeah. Rome started that. Rome started calling me sis first. And then I started calling him bro.

I you know. I'm like yeah. We do have like a sibling dynamic in some way. You know, he still confides in my mom. He like, my mom is our mother. Like, it's not, it ain't nothing crazy. It's nothing intimate. Like, seriously, I always say this. People be like, yeah, right. I can literally walk past this.

And I don't do this. I can walk past this man naked. And he this but i'm saying i can walk past this man naked and he does they be like girl what like i'm talking about seriously like how do y'all deal with each other's spouses or each other's boyfriend and girlfriend like how do you deal with his girl and how do you deal with now wrong she told us you had 17 baby mamas five five okay i never told you he had no time i thought you said like everybody always try to times two and shit. It's cool though.

It's cool. I get it. I say five. But this was the friction part. Now we got over that but the friction part was I'm out of my business. I don't get in her shit.

But the friction part was her getting into mine. But she's still a woman. I'm still a man. Yeah. So women tend to do that and this is not no shame to women.

I don't mean no disrespect by saying it but I think women tend to do that especially a woman that care about you what was she said sometimes you make bad decisions and she's there as your sister to make sure you're good correct regardless if it's life relationship or whatever correct she said that on there with me personally i never really like i talked to her about certain things but i never really like my family to get into no intimate situation. Yeah. Because guess what?

Y'all can feel a way about this person however y'all want, whether it's negative or good. If I'm going to deal with this person, I'm going to deal with her. Like, the female can smack shit out me yesterday. Mm-mm. I might get over it and fuck them up. Mm-mm. But it's like, that's why I always, that's how i was always able to distinguish the two like when jessica with her man when she come to me like i don't know like i ain't never pillow talking or

sneak dissing or nothing like i don't really care for like it ain't nothing to have that i don't if you put it in that sense but when she come to me with a man i tell her i ain't right but both of y'all gotta care though because you're gonna want to know who around your son she's gonna want to know i never did though Yeah, I never so in the beginning stage. Yeah, don't have my son. All right I do out of that so now it's I trust my child mom enough to she won't bring no Around my child. I don't say oh don't have that's never been a problem. What has been a problem was Envy me except for my last dog

Yeah My dog Chris Chris, okay envy me except for my last dog yeah my dog that's my dog who's the dog my dog chris chris okay my dog it's my dog i ain't gonna hold you i think he's the i think like me honestly me and jess man like i think it's been times where a woman didn't like me and her situation but guess what bye yeah more so and yeah it'll be more so on his end because it's much more of them um but the thing is yeah the thing is like i don't like when i because i even tell him when he doing wrong too like yo don't treat her like that this is now how how how you going introduce me to her now now i done got to know her you know and whether she had a kid or not, most of the time is the ones that have the kids. But it's like, yo, you got to do right or just be single.

Like, don't keep hurting women in the process of trying to find what you're looking for. I mean, I know that's all a part of dating, but when you have kids, it's different, you know. And then he'll be like, oh, that's why I don't like you to be getting into it. You know? And then I don't like, he attracts a lot of toxic women too. Like abusive relationships where women will put their hands on them. I'm like, what? Yeah. All right. You know, but he don't, he's like, nah, but I might be f***ing with her tomorrow.

What? She just blacked your eye. What are you talking about? You know what I'm saying? Like, no, we not doing it. But. Claire, I never had a black eye. Okay.

Well, she bust your nose. Whatever. Women have put their hands on you. And you be all right with it. And that's why she's my dog. Like, I think she's the only one, really, honestly, the one that get the f*** under my skin. Like, a certain wordplay she use.

And I don't care what tone she use it in. But to say that, it's like, I was really never taught how to love. When I moved my dad, I moved my dad and my stepmom, which is my mom now. Me and my mom have a great relationship. That's my stepmom. And my dad was married, but my dad was cheating. Same.

Like, my dad was cheating, bro. My dad showing me dick. Bro, like, I'm thinking cool. So, like, even when I started dealing with women and stuff like that, multiple women and all that, my dad was like, yeah, son. Absolutely. And I'm thinking it's cool. Because that's what you're being taught. That's what I'm seeing.

That's what I'm being taught. And every man in my life that I looked at as a role model to me was the same way. Same. So it's like like what you expect but the good thing is now is like i'm old enough now and mind you i ain't perfect now i'm i'm seeing it i'm trying to you know change it but i've never was taught to love properly so and i never my trust issues is up from my dad because i'm seeing what he's doing right but i'm saying when it's done to him his reactions like damn on you

We just doing this how you gonna get mad? Right, so it's like every relationship. I've went into I had exploration date me I put a treat on myself. I said she gonna get she gonna get I'm get what I'm getting I'm gone So I've never really gave a woman the Commitment not even commitment, but I've never given the woman a chance to really love me. But even with the kids? Like, even having kids with other women?

Nah, I haven't. And this is, like I said, no disrespect to my children. Moms, a lot of my children came out of vulnerability. Explain. Expound on that. And I'm explaining that. So, I will meet a woman who I may feel like she's what I need. Another safe place or whatever the case may be.

But I'm already vulnerable from a previous relationship. I have a child. Knowing I don't want to be with this woman, but I feel like I'm forced to be with her because it's a child. And I've done that, you know, multiple times. You needed a therapist, not another baby model. Correct. Yeah.

But at the time of need, at the time of vulnerability, you know, women can be masked up. But I never really knew how to be alone. I feel like I gotta have somebody laying next to me. Because even before my mom died, my mom used to sleep naked. This is a back then thing. How old were you when your mother passed?

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If you don't know who Rome is, of course, that's Jess Hilarious' baby daddy. And today is National Co-Parenting Day, and we're having a conversation with Rome. So don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Rome. That is Jess's baby daddy. Today is National Co-Parenting Day, and they are excellent co-parenters, and we're having a great conversation. Charlamagne? How did y'all—that's the most—I don't want to say most important, but one of the most important things.

How did y'all realize we don't have feelings for each other no more? Like, how did that just go away? Like, y'all have—y'all love each other, but not other but not in that way i got my answer you want to go first you can go first for sure because i'm still thinking when i stopped caring about who she dealt with oh when i wouldn't even like i wouldn't even care like how did that take oh three years so like my action was like three yeah it was still like really um yeah it was like three years but at that but honestly that three years like i had called a big check so it was like you know i was almost half a million so it was like the pain that i had whatever the case may be i would

i would pay i would like just block it out but other than that like you ain't try to stunt on her a little bit no i never I never stunt. No, I never. No, I never. I'm waiting for that. I never intentionally stunted on her. I never did that. Never. I did everything she possibly could ask me to do.

And she said on one of these shows, something about a BGE bill. And I'm going to address that. I never wanted to address that. That was on our show. That was on Co-Parents and Ann Reckless. I'm going to address that now. What bill? That's an electric bill, right? So, I'm going to explain it. I never wanted to address it. That was on our show. That was on Co-Parents and Airwrapers. I'm going to address that now. What bill? That's an electric bill, right? So, I'm going to explain it.

Her lights got cut off. Mm-hmm. Right. You just got a $500,000 check and you like that? Listen, no, it wasn't right then and there, but it's over time.

Because, mind you, because, like, mind you, a lot of my plays, she helped me get a lot on the back end. But in the time, like, I helped her, whatever the case may be,

I didn't know she was moving with a man. I didn't move with a man. Well, she moved man in with her. Yeah, after. Yeah, alright,

okay. So he had you in the dark too? No. No, this was before I met him. I don't get in her business, so I don't know that he not there. So boom,

here's my logic, and I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say to her after I explain it. My logic was, alright, man is in the house. Boom.

B.J. E. get cut off. So she's like, well, Rome. I'm like, well, I'll take my son with me. But that wasn't me talking. That was the girlfriend I had talking. Oh, shit. You ain't tell me that. I never told you that because as a woman, you ain't trying to hear that. And as a man, and you being me, I don't want to hear that.

So I didn't want to tell you that because I'd have felt less of a man unball your fist just so yeah so but not enough to understand if somebody else is smacking the cheeks you pay so listen so the girlfriend was like living in that house so the girlfriend was like don't talk about no house so listen now go ahead so the girlfriend was like i took a certain amount of money out of the bank. I did. She was with me. She like, why are you giving it to Jessica? I'm like, because she need it. And she like, oh, that's why I'm here, because of your money. I never said the reason. I never said the reason.

Yeah. Yeah. I never said the reason, though. She was like, what exactly do she need? Because I know you ain't giving her no, she don't need a bag or nothing like that. I'm like, no, it's something else. She like, well, don't she got a living with her and mind you I'm drinking at the time you're thinking the same thing I'm like you weren't even thinking that till she said it I wasn't thinking that but I'm drinking and I'm like you know what you're right why you ain't

asked Jess though crazy all right you didn't pick the phone say Jess what's up with you because I was a young emotional boy who had just ran into a bunch of money and a bunch of bitches f***ing with that. I'm hurt. I'm hurt, young man. I got a lot of money. Everybody done f***ed me over. I got some money. I'm doing the f***ing one. I'm making myself happy. And that's how I'm f***ing broke. Everybody except me

f***ed you over. Except her. So that was what I was like. And granted, right now, today, I'm going to say I truly, sincerely apologize. What? For not taking care of you the way I should have. And I'm going to take my glasses off.

Yeah. Because for a long time, that shit hurt me. And it's like, I never, ever, ever, especially you, I never, ever, ever ever ever meant to do that to you and it's like now that's why I even I work so hard today and just try to even just give you something but in due time let's come back I you know I didn't made that back when broke again made it back rent broke again but my biggest downfall the commons denominator was alcohol and women mm-hmm them two problems never allowed me to really reach my full potential.

Even when I seen it a couple years ago. You seen it. 2019, when I was single, when I went and moved back by myself, I ran that up. Flourish. But, there'd be women holding me back, man. Ran into somebody. I'm someone you don't. I felt that was my duty.

But because i had certain people in my in my ear that i thought had their best interests in me but when that bag ran out they left yeah i'm sorry i'm not a sorry person i apologize okay i appreciate that and but listen i was not i was talking to an he**hole. He moved in months after. You think a a**hole was going to move into a doghouse? You think I wanted a a**hole to see how I was living? No. And when you say, I asked you like, yo, can you just get my lights on?

I'll pay you back. That's when I was scamming and doing all that s**t. That s**t got slow too. So I'm like, all right. You was like, no, I'd take my son. Nobody's taking my kid. Not even his father. Like as long as Ash wasn't scared of the dark, we was good.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I still had candles. We was playing. We was doing all that. We would stay outside. That turned you up a notch. Until it got dark, and then we would go in the house. And he never asked me why the lights ain't coming on.

It don't matter. So as long as he was good, I was good. I just wanted to be able to, you know what I'm saying? And just be like Yo get my life back All for me And you should have But guess what That made you a demon

And when I say demon I say it in the best way That turns you up And I gotta tell Teach my kids Especially my oldest boy My 11 year old Bro like I don't want you

To have to go through Something bad To learn a lesson I don't think everybody Should have to go through Something bad To learn a lesson But in your case

I feel like Yeah That put that battery In your back You know When that lesson but in your case I feel like yeah I put that battery in your back and no when that battery came in your back you ain't you ain't treat me no way no it took still a minute for us to create that bond yeah but y'all have it now and I think y'all both should give each other some grace because y'all was dumb yeah correct yeah and I always was a hurt young man so right but I love this story because it shows the foundation in how y'all are now. Yeah. And how y'all treat each other now.

You know, I don't know you, but the way she talks about you on the radio, and like you said, she is a mother. She protects you. She holds you down. I just love to see it. Yeah. No, sometimes I be telling her to stop talking about Rome like that. He always do.

But it's like. You're like, why you be talking about Rome? But I get it. She don't mean no harm by it. No, she don't. Like I said, man, I wish a lot of other people would take from us. And that's why this gotta be on TV. That's why y'all writing the book.

Yeah. Book coming. Everything coming. Book coming. Everything coming, man. There you have it. What do you think the most important thing, because I want y'all to save a lot of this, but what's the most important thing it takes to co-parent?

If y'all just leave it on that, because it's national co-parenting day yo i think i started off um communication like a lot of people be scared to hurt each other feelings and a lot of people be afraid to have uncomfortable conversations whether it's about kids um unhashed differences yeah whatever like one day me and Rome just literally met up and we just talked about everything that he felt like I did him wrong in certain situations and then he felt like I would always try because he says I'm controlling

a lot and I do take that you know what I'm saying yeah I own that I do like I was trying to control how he parents sometimes like how he would raise Ash and all of that type of stuff. We just put everything on the table and just was like, all right, you're moving forward because it's really about Ash. And that's really when we, after that, it was like no looking back.

It's like, all right, whatever. Cool. Piece of cake. I'm sure it's a discussion that will continue on, not even just amongst Jess and Rome, but just amongst anybody out there dealing with co-parenting issues. But I think Rome is talking to a lot of different issues that a lot of us men

go through, you know what I mean? So I'm happy that you was vulnerable this morning, Rome. That's right. Thank you. And their book is coming soon, via Black Privilege Publishing. Love you, y'all. Simon & Schuster. Love you more, sis. Alright, well it's Rome. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake up. Wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake up. Wake up.

You're locked into the Breakfast Club. Who won the world? Girls. It's Women's History Month, and we're celebrating the most influential women in history. Check out this phenomenal woman. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club.

Now, each and every day, Jess represents a woman for Women's History Month, Charlamagne, and I think it's only right that we represent our sister, Jess Hilarion. Don't try to get on her good side now. I'm always on her good side. What do you mean? Thank you. Yes, you are. It's been a rough morning for Jess.

But just to hear and, you know, working with Jess the last couple of months, you really understand where she came from and how she really grinded. You know, stories of her working at McDonald's and living in an apartment with no lights and having candles and having to keep her son outside until the lights went off and continue to strive and continue to struggle but continually producing content and being a self

made woman and made herself hot and to the place where she's at now and being able to do shows and and comedy festivals and headline shows and sellout shows and of course be the third co-host of this breakfast club where you actually absolutely positively took it to another level i just want to say we appreciate you jess thank you we love you jess and we ride for you jess and of course you know you've had backlash and problems but you fought them you've overcome and we appreciate you thank you so much just know I love her my love is through actions okay who told

me a love language is different shut up I love her all the time right on air off like more probably more off air than anything but hey we know we joke with jess up here a lot but jess is is very strong minded she handles her own she comes up with amazing ideas and and skits and i can't wait to see the next 10 years of what jess is going to do thank you um and i just want to check just if you need a dj on any of your shows you know i'll be there but all right good thank you i will i will think of you but we love you jess love y'all too and when we come back we got the positive notice to Breakfast Club. Good morning.

And that was another phenomenal woman in history. Morning, everybody. It's DJ and Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Charlamagne, you got a positive note? Yes, the positive note is simply this, man. The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection

of the state of your mind. Breakfast club, bitches! Y'all finished or y'all done? Hey, y'all. Niminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove,

The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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

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Sleep tight, if you can. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, 1974. George Foreman was champion of the world. Ali was smart and he was handsome. The story behind The Rumble in the Jungle is like a Hollywood movie. But that is only half the story. There's also James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba.

All the biggest black artists on the planet. Together in Africa. It was a big deal. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. I'm Madison Packer, a pro hockey veteran going on my 10th season in New York. And I'm Anya Packer, a former pro hockey player and now a full Madison Packers stan.

Anya and I met through hockey and now we're married and moms to two awesome toddlers, ages two and four. And we're excited about our new podcast, Moms Who Puck, which talks about everything from pro hockey

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