The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: DDG Speaks Out After Split From Halle Bailey, Lawyer for Diddy Accusers Says Hotline for Victims Received 12,000 Calls + More

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

The Breakfast Club Dives Into DDG Speaks Out After Split From Halle Bailey, And Lawyer for Diddy Accusers Says Hotline for Victims Received 12,000 Calls. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm always nervous when I do The Breakfast Club because sometimes you say stuff and it's just going to get you in trouble. Everybody wake up. Good morning, yo. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess Hilarious. Good morning, Lauren. Good morning. Charlamagne Tha God. Peace to the planet. It's Tuesday. So it was Wednesday already, didn't you? I didn't remember what day it was. That's all.

You know, it happens. It's all a blur sometimes. That's right. How you guys feeling out there? Bless Black and Highly Favored. How y'all feeling? Happy to be here. Another day to serve our amazing listeners.

I feel great. Well rested. I went to bed a little early yesterday. Did you? After I got my hair done. Yes. Yeah, you needed it. What? To go to bed or to get my hair done? That was something I went to bed a little early yesterday Did you? After I got my hair done Yes Yeah you needed it What to go to bed

Or you need my hair done Now I'm talking about go to bed Oh yeah I agree with the fact She needed both Okay And I think that You need to start wearing a helmet

Why do you wear a helmet This guy is crazy Why would I wear a helmet Your head needs a different Kind of protection Yo You have to A helmet is crazy

You have to protect the style like the braids. When I was sitting here yesterday with that hat on, you didn't even know what was going on under the hat. I did. You did not. Listen, you had a locks hat on. You was ready for war. You did not.

But look, homecoming, it was hot outside this weekend for homecoming. It was great. Normally, the weather breaks a little bit. It feels like normally like today at homecoming, it was so hot. And I was in leather. My hair was swole. That video you posted last night was amazing. The video where her hair wasn't done and she was about to get it done.

She was like, you know how I... My name is Lauren LaRosa. You wonder how I got here? I laughed. I laughed. I laughed. My hairdresser was so over me. He was like, I'm on my way.

Well, we got some special guests joining us today. I want the hairdresser to call you and say, look, I'm on my way. I'm on my way. You ain't even got to over me. He was like, I'm on my way. Well, we got some special guests joining us today. I want the hairdresser to call you and say, look, I'm on my way. I'm on my way. You ain't even got to call me. Shout out to Dr. Dehairstylist.

I think he's listening right now because he at work and he said, I'm on my way. You be making that man work. He was like, why do you have a hat on? I'm on my way.

Jesus. Oh, gosh. Well, we got some special guests joining us this morning. Who we got? We got Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson from All The Smoke Podcast

that will be joining us. Man, listen, the All The got Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson from All the Smoke podcast. They'll be joining us. Man, listen, the All the Smoke podcast can be heard on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. But today, Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson are celebrating five years of All the Smoke. So they have released a coffee table book, All the Smoke, All the Stars,

All the Stories, No Apologies, on my book imprint, Black Privileged Publishing with Simon and Schuster. That is out today. So all your favorite All the Smoke interviews from Kobe Bryant to Allen Iverson to Kevin Durant to Deion Sanders to Don Staley. They're all in this book and they'll be here to talk about it this morning. That's right.

And also Morris Chestnut and Emiyati Coronaldi. They'll be joining us this morning. Reasonable Doubt Season 2 is on Hulu. Can the studio handle all this handsome? What you mean? Can they handle all this handsome between me and Morris Chestnut? I'm just saying. Okay?

But is it between y'all? No. First of all. I think he's carrying that race on his own, boo. First of all, everybody. Between y'all is crazy. Yeah, between y'all is crazy. Throwing yourself in that is a little insane.

And how you just don't throw me in there. By the way, Morris Chestnut was on Jennifer Hudson's show about a year ago. And he said he gets mistaken for me. He was on Sherri Shepherd's show yesterday. And he said he got mistaken for me, too. Mistaken doesn't mean that it's still included. Do you follow this man's life? A win is a win.

People tag me in these things. A win is a win. There's blind people everywhere. A win is a win. That's the same thing when people get online and be like, because y'all was asking, nobody asked. You can't break my soul. Means nothing to me. There's a lot of blind people out there.

All this pessimism gets reported as porn in my life. Don't even listen to it. Nobody compares you. God. Y'all don't look alike. God. God. Take it up with her.

Okay? All right? She made these factory models. You can call anybody y'all don't look alike. Okay? I'm just letting you know. Just letting you know what the streets say. The streets. The alleys. Okay? Where?

Oh my goodness. Alright. You feel that? No. I don't feel nothing. It's called hate. It means nothing to me though. Nothing to me. Let's get the show cracking. Front page news. Morgan will be joining us. I'm sure she'll break down presidential election, the hurricanes, and more. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. Let's get in some front page news. Now, Monday Night Football. The Chiefs beat the Saints 26-13. Their record is now 5-0. Tonight, the Connecticut Sun takes on the Lynx at 8 p.m. in WNBA.

Now, last night. Game five, by the way. That's the game five. Game five, yep. That's the final game of that series. So whoever wins that goes to the WNBA finals to play the New York Liberty. Now, last night in baseball, the Royals beat the Yankees. They tie the series 1-1.

And the Tigers beat the Guardians. They tie the series 1-1. Good morning, Morgan. Good morning, good morning. That sounds like a lot of fun, unfortunately, right now in front page news. Top of the headlines, we're looking at this hurricane, Hurricane Milton, as it approaches Florida. Now, President Biden is signing an emergency disaster declaration as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida. It'll authorize FEMA and Department of Homeland Security to use their resources for hurricane response.

Now, this is the second major storm in the past month to hit the state after Helene. At last, Checkmilton was a Category 4 hurricane this morning with potential to strengthen to a Cat 5 with maximum winds of 155, 155 miles per hour. And it's forecast to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday. Counties along Florida's west coast have been ordered to evacuate. Over 50 are under a state of emergency. Fortunately, Milton is not expected to have any major impacts. It's not expected to have any major impacts on already battered North Carolina as it continues to deal with the aftermath of Helene.

Now, meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, he says Hurricane Milton is a really, really strong storm that will produce major damage. He says the state is ready to have resources deployed to the expected hit, hardest hit areas. And everyone on Florida's West Coast should be prepared for major impacts. Let's hear from Governor Ron DeSantis out of Florida on Milton. We have made a pre-landfall declaration request from FEMA for support, and the federal government has approved a portion of our request for pre-landfall items, and we expect the remaining parts of our request subsequent to landfall for debris and individual assistance once the storm hits will also be approved.

We have 5,000 National Guardsmen that have been mobilized. We'll have, before the storm hits, another 3,000. We're also deploying major heavy equipment to assist with debris removal. And, of course, National Guard will be a big part of any search and rescue that needs to happen. Yeah, Hurricane Milton is not playing in in any way shape or form as it was category four or five in 2024 with the way climate change and global warming has made these storms stronger it's going to be catastrophic yeah people can't leave they're saying that they're stuck they're saying that the flights are canceled they're saying highways are crazy so people can't

leave so definitely pray for your family members pray for anybody that you know that's going to be affected by it as well yeah so pinellas county uh sheriff bob gualtieri um he says residents business owners and employees with barrier island re-entry permits will have access but as of 7 p.m tonight all access for everyone will be shut down for those barrier islands he also says uh based on the magnitude of milton um they will arrest people who refuse to leave restaurants, bars, businesses that are still open. Not to say it like that, but maybe, you know, that could be a safer place to be. I don't know. Yeah, I see what you're saying.

In prisons, as crazy as it sounds, those jails are good shelter. Yeah, yeah. So recovery efforts. And then switching gears just a little bit to Helene. Recovery efforts are still going on in North Carolina. The death toll has climbed to more than 75 with western parts of the state being hardest hit. Governor Roy Cooper says things are getting better, though. So hopefully this isn't one of those politicized situations.

Governor Roy Cooper, he's a Republican. Hopefully he is getting that resources to his people in North Carolina. Let's hear from Governor Roy Cooper out of North Carolina. There is progress in western North Carolina toward recovery. We're still opening roads. We're still working to reach communities. We still have search and rescue occurring as we speak. But we know, we know the people of North Carolina

and we'll pull together and that the people of Western North Carolina will recover from this storm. Yes, I'll yield the last few comments to you guys. I mean, what's going on with these storms? To your point, Charlemagne is not to be played with. So if you do know someone in those areas, you know, y'all need to get the move on. I spoke to my neighbor yesterday. She's in tampa and they've been told to evacuate as well so wow or my old neighbor yeah i can't believe um i think i

was watching uh i was watching that video yesterday of kamala harris uh who says and ron desantis is refusing to take uh her calls about hurricane khalin hurricane halin and i just can't believe you have politicians who will politicize these natural disasters like mother nature should be the most humbling thing for humans because mother Nature don't care what race you are. They don't. Mother Nature don't care about your sexuality. Mother Nature don't care about your religion. Mother Nature don't care about your political party. And there is nothing you can do but prepare for the worst when one of these storms are coming. So this would be the time where everybody should be coming together. That's right. Absolutely. And if you live in Florida, you need to hold your elected officials, local and state elected officials

accountable for these type of things. But I won't get too much into that. That's your front page news for 6 a.m., 7 a.m. We're going to catch up with the candidates. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051.

Call us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club good morning The Breakfast Club I'm dialing I'm dialing I'm dialing this is your time to get it off your chest whether you're mad or blessed 800-585-1051

we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club hello who's this? This is Lex. Hey, Lex. From New Brunswick. From New Brunswick. What's up, Lex? Good morning, guys.

Good morning. Blessings to you all. How are you guys doing this morning? Good. Black and holly favorite. Oh, I hear you. I hear you. So I'm going to turn this from a negative to a positive.

So I'm going to start with a positive. Okay. I'm going to turn this from a negative to a positive. So I'm going to start with a positive. So I started a new job yesterday for the city of North in finance department. So that was a blessing. That's dope. But I also wanted to express and get some advice. My boyfriend of almost two years ghosted me. What do you mean ghosted you? Ghosted me because of a certain issue we had,

and I'm going to put him on blast because he needs to wake up call. His name's Migs. He's from North, the city of North, Brick City. And because what? Because of someone in a short skirt all of a sudden came and said sweet nothings in his ear? You could pretty much say that.

So you're going to throw away something that I've holded down when you were jobless, but I kept it real with you. I went through the good, the bad, the ugly, and the ugliest with this man. I opened up my heart, my family, everything, and this is how you're going to do me? I'm sorry, what was that, Sherman? I said your legs, too. You opened up your legs. Exactly. I agree, and I'm going to keep it real, and it was good.

It's good. So I'm not going to deny it, but hey, you know what? We're adults. Keep it real. You know what? Did he leave you, or did he just step out on you for a keep it real now you know what did he leave you or did he just step out on you for a second and now you don't want him back no he actually right now currently i don't even know what it is charlotte may to be honest with you he he he doesn't answer the calls he doesn't want to say anything and what so i'm supposed to what wait

so he just bounced there's no reason he just bounces. One day he woke up and he's just out the house? No, another girl. Oh. No, no, no, no. The thing is, is that supposedly the friend is a best friend. And okay, so he was like my best friend wanted to meet me. Okay, what is her name?

Avoided the question question never responded so i i asked them beef straight up what's going on nothing so i pretty much what he hasn't responded anything since friday morning and he and he's the one that encouraged me to actually move forward with getting this job. And I appreciate that. That I appreciate a thousand percent. But when you were down and out, I was there. But when I need your support, even though I don't need a support from a man or anyone because I know who I am and what kind of woman I am.

But wow. Well, you said it's just been since Friday. So, I mean, let's give it a moment. We don't even know if this guy is in trouble. He might be in the hospital. Is he okay? No, no, he's okay. Trust you me.

Trust you me. He's okay. He's real okay. Dang. She didn't do her research. Well, let's give it a minute. Let's see what happens. Like, you know, let me know what happens by the end of the week.

Call us back at the end of the week and give us an update. And he's listening. He's listening. What's his name? Migs from Newark. Migs from Newark. Y'all call in. What's your name, ma'am, again?

Lex. Migs from Newark. Alexa wants to know what's going on. She wants to know where y'all stand. Are y'all still together? She held you down when you was nothing. Obviously, they're not together anymore.

Obviously, he decided this was too much. If he called you to dare to marry you down, is y'all back together? Yes, they had wrong. We would have to sit down

and really talk and put things out on the table because we just came from Vegas for my birthday last month. No.

Unprotected sex in Vegas? Y'all go together. For real, for real. They went together. Thank you, mama. Alright, guys. Thank you. Have a good day, guys. You've been ghosted before. What would you tell her, Lauren? Whoa. I've been what? No. I've never been ghosted. I don't like when guys do stuff

like that, especially when you're an adult. When you're an adult, just tell the woman what's up and vice versa. Just tell the man what's up. Sometimes guys need a minute. I was about to say, sometimes guys need a minute and I think sometimes, though, especially when you're an adult. When you're an adult, just tell the woman what's up and vice versa. Just tell the man what's up. Sometimes guys need a minute. I was about to say, sometimes guys need a minute and I think sometimes, well, from my own experience,

there's been times where I didn't hear it. Yeah, he probably told her. You had to take a little minute and then come back and have a conversation. He probably told her, but she didn't hear it

or she heard it the way she wanted to hear it. No, she didn't want to hear it. She heard it. She heard it. She didn't want to hear it. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Come on. 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 up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hello, what's going on? It's Aaron. Just get it off my chest.

Aaron, what's up? Get it off your chest, brother. No, I'm talking about the hurricane, Hurricane Milton down here in Florida. I know Morgan was like, it's a Category 4, but it reached the Category 5 last night around like 8 p.m. They said the max winds was like 185 miles per hour, man. So, everybody in Florida, man, y'all be safe, man. Y'all get prepared. Get off the road.

It's gonna be crazy, man. Absolutely. Be safe out there, brother. Especially Tampa. I heard Tampa about to get hit hard. Praying for Tampa, man. It's crazy out here, man. But appreciate it. Y'all stay blessed. Alright, brother. Have a good one. Hello, who's this?

Yo, DJ Envy Charlamagne. Good morning. It's La Rosa. How you doing? Good morning, brother. How are you? Get it off your chest. All right.

Listen, yesterday I was... First off, let me say, Ms. La Rosa, you are doing a great job up there in place of my homegirl, you know, Jess of the Mess. Jess of the Mess., you know, Jess with the mess.

Jess Hilarious. Yesterday, you was talking about your, yeah, Jess Hilarious. You was talking about your exploits with your love of Delaware State. And you mentioned my man, my homie's son, Kid Meech. You know, that name sounds mad familiar. And I was like, yo, who is that? I remember that was my homie's son that's doing his thing

down in Delaware, but he's also in New York. He's out of Queens. I appreciate you shouting him out yesterday. Yeah, for sure. He did a really good job with the crowd. That's great. That's great to know. That's great to know. But you know what? You're definitely doing a great job up here

in Jess Hilarious' place. I hope they have you come up every now and then when she's out. But y'all keep doing your thing, man. I love listening to y'all in the morning. Y'all have a great day. Thank you, brother. You too. Hello, who's this? Yeah, it's Tony from... Yeah. What's up, Tony? I can hear you now. Get it off your chest, Coach. Hello, who's this? Yeah, it's Tony. What's up, Tony? I can hear you now. Get it off your chest, brother. Man, I got a question for Charlamagne, man, to get a question to the vice president.

I work construction. I'm a welder by trade, man. That's what I do. And, you know, when Donald Trump said he wasn't going to take overtime, a lot of people I work with, you know, they like to hear that. You know, we work 70, 80 hours a week. And I wanted him to see about questioning Kamala Harris about how she feel about not taxing overtime. How does she feel about not taxing overtime?

Yeah, because, you know, she said she got a plan to stimulate the middle class. You know, we work a lot of hours. You know, we work these hours and turnarounds. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but, you know, we work these power plants down. We work 80 hours a week, you know, and not taxing our overtime to put another three to four grand a month in our pocket.

Okay. That is a very valid question. And a lot of people I've worked with, and, you know, you always talk about, you know, picking up a trade and being a welder, you know, and a lot of our people, man, that's what we want to hear, how we're going to keep our money in our pockets. That's right. So, I mean, in stimulating the middle class, we are the middle class.

When the construction workers are not working, the economy is bad because nobody's buying nothing, you know. So, I don't know, man. That's going to be a hard one. To go in the voters booth and be like, oh... My family

is voting for Kamala. I'm not a Trump supporter, but it's going to be a hard bargain to not go for that if you want to keep money in your pocket. You know what I'm saying? Well, hopefully we get to ask her that.

If not, she's doing The View today. She's doing Howard Stern's show today. She's doing Stephen Colbert's show today. Maybe one of them is listening to us, and they'll ask that question before one of us get the opportunity to. But how does she feel about not taxing overtime? I think that is a very, very, very valid question,

especially for somebody who has an opportunity economy plan like the vice president that wants to rebuild the middle class. Yeah, because she keeps saying she wants the rich

to pay their fair share. And I always wonder what that means. Does that mean that you're going to start taxing some of those billion dollar corporations that are not being taxed?

That's exactly what it means. That's what she said. Okay. That's exactly what it means. Okay, good. All right. And I ain't mad at that because some of those billion dollar corporations pay zero tax. corporations that are not being taxed. That's exactly what it means. That's what she said. That's exactly what it means. Okay, good. Alright. And I ain't mad at that because some of those billion dollar corporations pay zero tax. I don't know if y'all

saw the 60 Minutes interview. That was her answer verbatim. Like, you know, yes. We do that by taxing the most wealthiest amongst us and those corporations. But I just wonder also how that affects. So if they do tax those billion dollar corporations, do those corporations say, you know what? I'm going to stay in the US or do I go

international with my work where you know labor is cheaper you know they're going to try to get around but I think that can't they create laws where certain things have to stay you can't make somebody stay here I don't think you can that messes up I have no idea but that's what Trump was saying Trump was saying he wants more business to stay here that's why a lot of those corporations got those tax breaks but get it off

your chest 800-585-1051 we got Jess with the mess with Lauren LaRosa coming up. We do. It's Sissy Houston. Whitney Houston's mom passed away yesterday. So we're going to take some time for her and send a tribute out to her. All right. We'll get into that next.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess with Lauren La Rosa. News is real.

Jess Hilarious, Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide mess. On The Breakfast Club. She's a coach and shit. With Lauren, Lauren La Rosa. I'm back.

And I got the match. Talk to me. So we want to take some time to send a rest in peace and some love to the family of Whitney Houston. Her mother, Sissy Houston, was announced last night that she passed away. I spoke with a rep for Sissy Houston who told me that she passed away at 91 years old. She was surrounded by her family in New Jersey, in her New Jersey home. She was under hospice care. She had been dealing with Alzheimer's disease for some time.

I believe I said she was 91 years old. 91, yes. A lot of people know Miss Sissy Houston as the mother of Whitney Houston, but she was also a very, very successful gospel singer, a gospel music legend, two-time Grammy winner. She began singing back in 1938. She collaborated with Beyonce, Luther Vandross. She's some backup for Elvis

Presley, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Dionne Warwick, Jimi Hendrix. She blazed an iconic music trail of her own. I want to take some time to show her some love. What a blessing to live to be 91 years old man i i would love to see 91 years on this planet i want 101 but 91 is a blessing so she lived a very long full life definitely rest in peace and yes condolences to the family now in other news kanye may be on his way to another divorce uh so kanye and his

wife bianca Sensori, there are reports out right now, TMZ, has confirmed a story that their two-year marriage may be ending. So right now, from multiple sources close, Ooh, you don't want to hear this one, huh? Oh, I'm sorry. No love for Ye this morning? No, no, no.

This mean that might be going through, you know. Me and Dr. Umar don't care. Me and Dr. Umar don't give a good goddamn. Let me get to the story before y'all send the lashes over here, okay? So him and Bianca Sensori were married for two years. This is the woman that he got with after leaving Kim Kardashian. Yes. That everybody was like, oh, she looks just like him.

She walks around naked all the time, right? She does. Okay, yeah. But she has been a big part of the family we've seen her out with north and other kids as well now multiple people around this couple tell tmz that they are split right now and that they have been needing to split up for some time there are also reports that bianca took a trip to australia to be with her family since the split and that kanye is playing or yay is planning to uh go to tokyo uh once the divorce happens and be there by himself now he has been seen out over the last

couple months a couple times without her normally they're always together uh there's no word on what prompted the split or who's the one who actually pulled the plug in this so so listen they were really married you would know because you worked at tmz and all that like they really had marriage license and all i never knew they were actually married. From everything that I knew, they were. Yeah, from everything I knew. Well, another interracial relationship bites the dust. Okay? Poor Ye.

Yeah, I mean, it seemed like she kind of helped him. Why not poor Bianca? Yeah, we don't know. Poor Bianca. Poor both of them. The worst is hard on both parties. Kanye seemed like the exhausting one. But once again, me and Dr. Umar don't care.

Oh, man. Now Ye's been going through a lot, so poor Ye. Well, yes. We'll be following that and see what happens. It seems like right now

they're just taking a little break from each other. So we'll see what happens. Yes. So speaking of taking breaks, right now, Holly Bailey and DDG, you guys remember

we reported that DDG came out and made the statement that they were not together right now, that they are family, they're going to, you know, effectively co-parent. Well, since then, he has a podcast called Not an Ordinary Podcast,

and he's actually been speaking out a bit just to clear some things up. So following their breakup, fans began to drag him online. Now, this is not something new. They were already dragging DDG. A lot of fans of Halle, they feel like she's a Disney princess. She shouldn't be with him. So he deals with a lot of fans of of Halle uh they feel like she's a Disney Princess she shouldn't be with him you know so he deals with a lot of that online so he got online to address some things um and he talked about the fact that uh that they are regardless of what always going to be family let's take a listen for a long time people feel like I didn't belong the industry or

the music industry and this and that Especially me being with Halle. She's a superstar. She's the greatest ever. Being around her. I feel like it made a lot of people side eye me. Because they had. You know. She a princess.

So they already had they. Mind set up. About her. And they look at me. And I don't fit that image. But it's cool. It's a reason why. She stay with me.

It's a reason why. We had a child together. It's a reason why she stayed with me it's a reason why we had a child together it's a reason why all of this happened like me and hallie are forever family i will swish cheese your granny over hallie and that's just what it is that's called family i feel like the term baby mama does sound a little ghetto so i like to call it mother of my child the mother of my child is forever protected by me dropping a clue bonds with DDG stay focused young man that's the one thing in the conversation that I believe to be very true to he said don't forget they still family he's still the father that child that's still the mother of his child if you think at some point in life

those two won't be back together you're bugging right and I listen that when I watch the podcast because I don't really know too much about him. I've been to like his label had like a dinner thing for media. And I went there and he was, you know, super, super sweet in person when I met him. But I've always seen the fan trolls online. So when hearing him talk like this, I'm like, man, like that's a great support system for her to have. It's really tough being young in front of people. And y'all have a baby. He seems mature and he seems evolved. Exactly. like it's bigger than just what you know whatever they

might have going on but then he also um got into because a lot of people felt like well he made this announcement because they're both really public figures so maybe he's about to have another girlfriend or she's about to have another boyfriend so he talked he kind of spoke to that as well too let's take a listen like and i'm kind of thinking he might have met somebody already or he's ready to start dating and he's just trying to avoid no let me say that right now y'all i am not dating anyone i don't have a potential girlfriend nor do i even think about that whatsoever i don't plan on getting into another relationship at all unless it's hallie that's the only way i am not finna get a new girlfriend I

don't have the desire I don't want multiple baby mamas I don't want none of that we taking a break like I said I'm finna go pick my son up right after this let me live my life that's none of your business that was another clip when I heard when I saw her that response I was like he's carrying it the right way and I feel like they're going to get back together yeah but they're so young and what a great way to launch your podcast i mean everybody talking about you you know forget going somewhere and giving them the headlines you got your own platform you control your own narrative you know yeah i love that and it's actually good when things like this happen because you get to see who's for you and who's not you know yes so and the podcast has only been going for a month they um 44.2 44.7 subscribers but i mean ddg is really good at this internet

stuff so you know the numbers are there and he's smart about addressing things and i think there's been a lot of conversation online around them too about why is he the one speaking out so much and not her but i think she's always been a person that's been kind of to herself her and her sister i hate when people say stuff like like like why we be we be saying why doesn't this person say anything if you look at their history they never say anything yeah and he seems like he's the one that's willing to you know he's the shield he's gonna jump in front and take all of you know cuz there's backlash it comes when you speak out so yeah so I mean I hope they figure it out I think

they're durable with their kid online and listening to this podcast has made me like him a whole lot more what's the name of the podcast again it's called I said it wrong earlier it's called No Ordinary Podcast

No Ordinary Podcast yes who else who's the young man on there with him I'm not for sure who the young man on there with him is

I know it's a friend of his but I'll get the name okay alright well that is just what the mess with Lauren LaRosa now when we come back we got front page news

and then the real Morris Chestnut will be joining us. What do you mean the real Morris Chestnut? First of all, I've never claimed to be Morris Chestnut. It's just that people in the street say that we look alike. I wasn't talking to you. I just said the real Morris Chestnut. I don't like your little shade.

I didn't say nothing to you. Stop being disrespectful. Hey, dogs, we're hot. I didn't say nothing about you and Morris Chestnut. I just said the real Morris Chestnut. You didn't draw the beard in right here. I didn't draw it. You didn't touch anything.

You got a big chunk missing right here. I didn't touch anything. No, I'm not even joking. It's a big piece missing right here. There's nothing missing. It's the same thing chunk missing. I didn't touch anything. No, I'm not even joking. It's a big piece missing. Right here. There's nothing missing. It's the same as yesterday. Am I lying, Red?

Red, you see it, right? I'm not even joking. It's the same as yesterday. Well, you need to fire your barber because he put a big chunk in your beard. Oh, my goodness. Okay. You a hater. But like I said, the real Morris Chestnut will be joining us in a little bit, so don't

go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Laura LaRosa

filling in for Jess, and let's get in some front page news. Start off with some quick sports and Monday Night Football. The Chiefs beat the Saints 26-13. Now, in WNBA, the Connecticut Sun take on the Minnesota Lynx tonight at 8pm. This is Game 5. And last night, Major League Baseball, my Yankees lost

to the Royals 4-2. They tied the series 1-1. And the Tigers beat the Guardians and that series is tied to 1-1 as well. Good morning, Morgan. Good morning, good morning. You know who else is tied up? Trump and Harris in this race. It seems like they are neck and neck. Well, let me get into this.

BP Harris is again saying she will pay for her economic plan by taxing the rich. Now, while appearing on 60 Minutes, the VP was pressed about how she'll get the money from Congress to invest in small businesses. She claims she has a lot of support to get her tax the rich plan through Congress from congressional leaders. Let's hear more from VP Harris in her 60 Minutes interview. Well, one of the things I'm going to make sure that the richest among us who can afford it pay their fair share in taxes. You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I'm talking about because their constituents know exactly what I'm talking about. So Republican critics point out that the top 1% of income earners in the U.S. earn 26% of all income and pay 46% of all federal income taxes.

Her appearance on CBS News show comes about four weeks until Election Day. Trump has consistently polled better than Harris on the question of economy in terms of his handling. Now, I know you just had a caller not too long ago who asked about taxing overtime. Now, she and former President Trump have said they will not tax tips, and

Harris' plan does include tax breaks on housing and child care as far as overtime. I'm not sure that she has mentioned that just yet. this also comes on monday as vice president harris remembered the victims of the hamas terrorist attack on israel saying the world must never forget october 7th and make sure nothing like the horrors of that day can ever happen again she repeated the pledge and um always to ensure that israel uh does have the right to defend itself. Now, she says she will always work to ensure the safety and security of Jewish people here and around the world. The Democratic presidential candidate also said she'll work to reunite the hostages held in Gaza with their families

and she'll never stop fighting for the release of all hostages. Now, meanwhile, Ohio Senator and Republican VP hopeful J.D. Vance, he was on the National Mall yesterday where he spoke on the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. Now, Vance said the incident was also an attack on the United States. He says he and Trump support Israel, but he is calling out Vice President Harris to secure the release of hostages. So let's hear from J.D. Vance on that. Sadly, many Americans do not know the full truth of the Holocaust, and many Americans do not know the full truth of what really happened on October the 7th.

It is disgraceful that we have an American president and vice president who haven't done a thing. Vice President Harris, our message is bring them home. Use your authority to help bring them home. We believe that the Jewish state has a right to exist and Donald Trump and I will fight for that every single day when we're in the White House. So the Ohio senator said the only way to end the war is to release the hostages. The Republican vice presidential candidate says his ticket with former President Trump supports Israel's right to defend itself. That's what everybody keeps saying and to do what it takes to end the war.

Any thoughts on that? I don't have thoughts on that. I have thoughts on what you were talking about earlier with Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes, though. On her economic plan and the taxing and stuff. Yeah, I think one thing Democrats never stress enough is that since World War II, the economy has historically done better

under Democratic presidents. I think that they need to stress that more. And there are a lot of wealthy people who want to pay more taxes, you know, like Bill Gates, like Bill Gates. You know, he said if he would have paid tens of billions more in taxes, if he designed the U.S. tax system. So he's a person that's saying he wants to pay more taxes. So I think she's right on the money when she says she wants to, you know, tax the wealthy and tax these corporations, you know, to help fund some of these things she wants to do, you for the middle class and and i just thought i thought the 60 minutes convo was solid all together you know it was edited weird and 60 minutes was putting its own narration over her answers i didn't like that i don't want to hear 60 minutes interpretation of their answers i want

to hear their actual answers all right well speaking of uh actual answers let's bring it home to new york another high ranking member of member of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' administration is resigning, and another aide may be next. Now, Mayor Adams tells New York One that Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks is stepping aside. Banks' resignation follows several other top aides to step down. Let's hear from New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Phil Banks' resignation. He reached out to me and stated, Eric, I'm looking to move on and this is a good time to do so. Wow. Yeah. So he said there are reports that that will excuse me, not that he said, but there are reports that Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright

will also be resigning. Both banks and Wright had their phone seized by federal investigators last month before Mayor Adams was charged with federal corruption. The mayor has pleaded not guilty to those charges. And of course, this comes as more heads are rolling from the Mayor Adams administration. Reina Abasova, a longtime Adams staffer, who is, according to the indictment of Mayor Adams, coordinated improper straw donations and luxury travel accommodations for Adams and his campaign.

She's been terminated from her job, Director of Protocol for International Affairs.inated from her job Director of Protocol for International Affairs, from her job As Director of Protocol for International Affairs She had been on leave from that position As she's believed to be cooperating with Federal authorities, in addition, Winnie Greco Who's the Mayor's Director of Asian Affairs

Whose home was recently raided by the FBI, she was also let go, and one more Person, Muhammad Bahi of the Mayor's Community Affairs Unit Is also out, the move comes, of course FBI. She was also let go. And one more person, Muhammad Bahi of the mayor's community affairs unit is also out. The move comes, of course, as New York Governor Kathy Hochul applies pressure for the city to city hall to just clean house. So even as all of this is going on, new U.S. Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffrey says that Mayor Adams should not resign despite his recent indictment on federal corruption charges. He's also supporting saying that Adams is entitled to the presumption of innocence and by and a trial by jury.

But at the same time, Jeffries does says Adams needs to articulate a path forward to ensure the city is continuing to function and run in a manner that meets the needs of everyday New Yorkers. I agree with Hakeem Jeffries. I agree with Hakeem Jeffries. Finally, a Democrat with some n***s. You know what I'm saying? What Hakeem said is exactly how it should be. He's innocent until proven guilty, and he should not resign. He should not resign.

I see everybody jumping ship around him cool. You know what I mean? They falling like pins over there. They falling like flies, yeah. He should not resign. Once again, I've been saying this. When you look at everything that Donald Trump has gone through legally and the fact that he's still able to run for president

and ain't nobody trying to push him out, Mayor Adams should be ten toes down, too. I've been saying that for a long time. That's what we've been saying. He's innocent until proven guilty, right? That's the law, right? Absolutely. There is a mayor's poll that was recently released that says that

69% of New Yorkers surveyed do think that Adams should step aside. But to your point, I mean, innocent until proven guilty. Well, that's because people didn't like Mayor Adams before. You know what I'm saying? So it's not like he was a popular president, I mean, popular mayor in New York City

before so I understand people wanting wanting him to step down and to me this isn't about whether you like him or don't like him as a mayor

it's just about principle that's what it's about for me it's just about principle I think the principle says he shouldn't step down right now

it's the principalities that's it alright yeah alright well that's your front page news I'm Morgan Wood follow me on social at Morgan Media M-O-R-G-Y-N-M-E-D-I-A. And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network.

You can see it spelled out right here. And download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com. Thank y'all. All right. Thank you, Morgan. And now when we come back, Morris Chestnut and Emeyati Coronali will be joining us. Reasonable Doubt Season 2 is streaming on Hulu every Thursday through October 17th. And we're going to talk to them next.

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. Jess is on maternity leave, so Lauren LaRosa's filling in. And we got some special guests in the building.

Yes, indeed. We have Morris Chestnut. He's in. And we got some special guests in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Morris Chestnut. He's here. And we have Emma Yatzee Coronado. Did I say your name right? Well done. I'm practicing on that. I appreciate it.

Wow. I got to start like this. Emma, does Charlamagne look anything like Morris Chestnut? I was just looking. I was just looking. We're here to talk reasonable doubt to him. No, no. I want to start there because he's been talking so much.

He thinks he's more stressed out. Beyond the reasonable doubt. Ask her that and then ask the question. No, no, no. Beyond the reasonable doubt. Emi Asi, does he look anything? I knew this was going to come up. I was prepared for this.

You were prepared. Because I've heard. Squint your eyes a little bit. Now, here's the thing. Cover one eye. Cover both eyes. Both beautiful, chocolate, bald-headed men. I see that resemblance.

You see a resemblance? In that, what I just said. Oh, okay. Okay. You scared me for a second. In the factory model. In what she said. Just the factory.

Not the details. You scared me for a second. In what I said, yes. Now, Morris, does it bother you when this brother over here that looks nothing like you claims that he's you for his birthday? He posts pictures of you

and says it's my birthday. I'm telling you, somebody came to me on the street. That's a lie. No, I wasn't on the street. You're right. I was at a hotel.

I was at the valet. And one of the valets said, that's what he said. He said, yo, you look like Charlemagne? He said, yo, you Charlemagne. I don't know if he was trolling, but he did say that.

You should have fought him, right? You should have fought him. What's the problem? Wasn't it a dimly lit valet area? Did he have glasses? No, he didn't have glasses. But it did happen. It did happen.

It did. Yeah, that didn't go the way y'all thought it would go. But welcome, guys. How are you guys feeling? I'm good to have y'all. Feeling fantastic. Man, what roles excite you nowadays, Mars? Wow.

Because you've been in the game so long. You know what? This role did excite me. Okay. It really did. You know, the one thing I love, first of all, she's incredible. I mean, she's incredible at what she does. Incredible actress.

I mean, she's incredible. But the whole production, so the production starts, you know, with Onyx Collective. And we have, you know have black female executives there. And then, of course, Kerry Washington's company is producing. Simpson Street. Simpson Street's producing it. Top Notch there. Rahma Mohammed, black female showrunner.

All the scripts were on time. I'd never gotten scripts on a show like that this early. I would get a script. We would be on the second day of an episode and get a script for the next episode. That normally never happens. So everything was top-notch. Then working with her and the cast. This role did excite me.

Now, for people that don't know, what is Reasonable Doubt about? Because you're on season two. So if they don't know, what is it about? Break it down. You know, it's about this high-powered you know black female attorney you know who's about her business you know she handles all of her business when she's when she's in the office when she's in court you know but she's trying to juggle it you know she's a mother she's a wife and sometimes you know some of the balls drop out of the air you know what i mean she she fails at times she makes

questionable um decisions makes mistakes at times you know but it mean she she fails at times she makes questionable um decisions makes mistakes at times you know but it's about this woman it's about this marriage this black marriage you know we get to see them trying to figure it out we get to see them making mistakes we get to see them you know really living their life in this way that we don't often get to see on television along with the the courtroom drama of it all you know, we get to see her really in her element because the show is loosely based on Sean Hawley. Oh, that's true. Yes.

She's a very high-powered defense attorney in L.A., you know, and so we have all of those elements. It's a good blend of the courtroom drama with the character-driven kind of piece. When you say handle that business in court, is that all the place you handle the business? I mean, she does what she got to do. Anywhere. Anywhere. Everywhere.

Did you sit with Sean at all? Did what? Did you spend any time with Sean? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Before we started filming, she invited me to her home and we sat and we talked for hours. I got to really pick her brain about how she chooses the cases that she decides to take on because that's the thing. We really,

I think, nailed that in the show with the kinds of cases that jacks chooses to accept can sometimes cause issue with her friends or her family you know why are you not defending black women why did you choose to defend this this man and that's what sean is about you know and that's something that i admired and wanted to know a little bit more about what goes into her selecting the kind of cases that she chooses to represent is it hard to leave your character on set is it hard um no no i i've learned how to just make the separation i've learned how to make the separation and especially with someone like jacks you know she she has a lot going on you know so i'm faithful to just leave that there and go home to normalcy you know i wanted to ask actors like when you have to play a traumatic scene, right? Like when Ricky gets killed in Boys in the Hood,

being that they play that so much on TV, does that trigger you when you see it? Like, do you feel like... That doesn't trigger me. One thing that did trigger me, when I did the first Best Man, it was the first time that I had to be such an emotional, especially when I did the wedding scene, I was crying.

And I had to be in an emotional space for so long. That triggered me for just even thinking about it for at least five to seven years. What about when y'all did the TV show? See, I had already, you know, as an actor, I had grown and I kind of let some stuff. You know, as actors, we use our trauma and our pain to get there.

So I, you know, I kind of worked on our pain to get there so i you know i kind of worked on that but it triggered me for a long time on the first best man did you ever get tired of it because boys in the hood was so long ago did you ever realize how impactful that was going to be when you when you shot it i didn't i didn't i had no clue because when i when i i mean i was a lead in the movie that nobody knew who i was. And no one knew who Cuba was. You know, people knew who Ice Cube was. Angela wasn't Angela. Nia wasn't Nia.

I mean, everybody was, you know, just popping off. So I didn't think it was going to be that big, no. That's interesting what you said about the best man, because to be in a role when the TV show came, where in that iteration of it, you know, your wife was deceased. Yes. You had to tap into that emotion of it you know your wife was deceased yes you had to tap into that emotion of being a man who lost their wife how did you leave that at home well so it's uh

oh leave that on the set right yeah yeah so it's um okay so the so that was the first best man i had that so the second best man was tough because she was battling cancer and I had to do a lot of emotional scenes then. So I've just learned to manage kind of those emotions. I've learned to deal with some of that trauma in a different way now. And actually, acting is pretty much therapeutic because you're able to release certain things. And so over the years, that's what's happened. Were you a fan of Reasonable Doubt season one? Yeah, I was. Because I literally,

I was on a, I played in a Saturday basketball game and one of the guys there, he was like, yo, he said, normally after we play, you know, we talk about stupid stuff,

dude stuff in the gym or whatever and then he just said, hey, you guys seen the show Reasonable Doubt? And I knew about the show because I knew Ealy was on and I knew Emi Asi was on

but I hadn't seen it yet. He was like, man, it was just so odd to hear him say that on the court. You know what I'm saying? And so he said, you got to check it out. And so, yeah, so before I did the show, I was definitely a fan because I watched it because he told me to.

And what was harder for you? Because Jax is different season one versus season two. What was the harder draw for you as an actress, like pulling from the experiences? Was it harder for season one or harder for season two for you? I think I would definitely say season two just because of, you know, she's showing a lot more vulnerability as a result of what happened in season one. Yes.

You know, so that just, it required, just like Morris was saying, you know, I got to pull from some of those places, you know, that kind of thing. So it was more of a challenge in that way. You know, I had to decide to open myself up. All right, we got more with Morris Chestnut and Emiyati when we come back to 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 Morris Chestnut and Emiyati Coronaldi. Of course, Reasonable Doubt Season 2

is on Hulu everywhere. Now, Emma, you started off in soap operas. Most people never leave that soap opera world but you did so so break down the soap opera world and what got you in the soap opera first i want to know how you got into acting because you're a military child yeah usually that means you're traveling all over the place your parents are heavy into education what got you into acting from the start it was something that i always loved I always loved but I didn't know that it could be a choice to be a career you know um and for a long time it was just fun just a just a hobby

and I thought that I had it planned out I was going to go to law school I was going to be a lawyer um my father wanted me to go to the military um but I said okay I think I'm going to be a lawyer but in high school I had a girlfriend who also wanted to be a lawyer. And we had our whole plan. It was going to be Corneldy and Sweeney Incorporated. There you go. You know, but I realized, thankfully, before graduation, OK, no, I don't really want to be a lawyer. I'm not trying to go to law school.

Like, she was taking it serious. Fill out these SATs. I'm like, I'm not doing all that. Is she a lawyer now? She's a lawyer now. She's a lawyer now. So we went in the right path. I realized, no, I think I just, I like the drama.

I like the suits and, you know, all of that in the courtroom. And so that's the moment when I knew and I kind of started pursuing it at that point. And this was in, I graduated high school in Jersey. My last two years were out there in Kansas. I was all over the place. And then went back to Jersey and really started studying and back and forth up here to New York, all my off, off, off Broadway classes and all of that. And then that was it. That was it. And my first role was that that role in Young and the Restless. And that was because that was my mom's show. And she said to her, you know, that was me making it.

You made it when you were on her soap opera. She says, you've got to get on Young and the Restless and tell Victor I said hi. Tell Victor I said hi. And so the bittersweet moment about that for me is because my mom passed before that happened, before she got to see.

And so as soon as I got on the set, I said, Victor, I just got to tell you, my mom just loves you. So, and that was a small, that was a really small role. And I think that's how I, the reason why I didn't get caught up in it

and staying there because it was a small role, but it was truly one of the most meaningful ones to me to this day because of that. Oh wow. That's so aligned for you. Your first scene Morris is a sex scene. Right.

Do you ever have to tell these studios not to objectify you? We heard Mephiman once say he always pushed back against his sex symbol status. Do you ever have to tell these studios I know I'm Morris Chestnut. You can't be a stunt double bro. We heard Mephiman once say he always pushed back against his sex symbol status. Do you ever have to tell these studios, like, look, I know I'm Morris Chestnut. You can't be a stunt double, bro. You can't be a stunt double.

Don't objectify me. We would know the difference. How do you ever feel like you're being objectified, maybe, is a better question. I don't see it that way. You know, it's almost like, because people sometimes ask me, they say, do you get mad when people call you ricky all the time when people see me on the street and honestly the one thing about me is i have never ever forgotten where i come from right and and when i was an actor just starting out trying to get an agent just trying to get a part just say oh just please somebody cast me i just want to be seen i want to be known so i can get more work and so it just so happens that that role that I was dying to get to be able to get more work was a role that it was a it was a it was a blessing that it's still relevant and people still refer to it to this very day.

So now, just because people say Ricky almost every day, I'm not going to turn around and say, oh, man, I hate when people me ricky because i was so i would desire it so much so to your question about um you know studios i don't think they objectify me i think that um i've been in the business a long time and the the younger morris would not have imagined that he would be here to this very single day after all these years. So I'm just blessed and I'm very appreciative of the fact that they still want to cast me because in our industry, no one really retires from our industry. Our industry retires us. The phone stops ringing.

So as long as the phone's still ringing, I'm going to keep picking up and I appreciate it. But it's one thing to be a great actor, which you are, but it's another to be considered a heartthrob, right? It's only like a kind of like it's like Denzel, Morris, who else fits in that lane like historically. Omar Epps was there.

Michael B. Jordan. Michael B. Jordan. Yeah, he was there. What's his name? From Queen Sugar. Dark Skin, Queen Sugar. Boris Kojo. Kofi. He's there.? From Queen Sugar. Dark Skin, Queen Sugar. Boris Kojo. Kofi. Calm down, Lauren.

Where we at right now? But I think, honestly, y'all level of, it's like maybe two or three that are the go-tos. It's mainly you, though. You do get a lot of the posts and stuff online.

A lot of them come from Charlamagne's Instagram. Shut up. I think the answer to that question is um for me i don't i don't focus on it because you know it's it's this is the type of industry that's you know there's there's gonna be somebody else tomorrow there's gonna be somebody else the next day so i just focus honestly i just try to focus on doing the best job i can as an actor with each job and if that comes with it i'm appreciative of it if that's what people say i'm appreciative of that but i don't i don't focus on that i just have to focus on the work because that's going to keep me here longer than being a you know if people consider sex symbol the real

morris chestnut was the sexiest man alive in 2015 the reason i gotta say that is because sometimes he puts his face there and acts like i've never done that but if you wanted tonut was the sexiest man alive in 2015. The reason I got to say that is because sometimes he puts his face there and acts like... I've never done that. If you wanted to call him the sexiest man alive, that's fine. If you want to use me to do that, that's fine. I've never done that. I was going to ask... That was wild, right?

That was wild. Are we here? What's going on? I was going to ask, how does your wife deal with it all? You know, with women hollering when y'all out and the comments. How does she handle it? Well, I mean, my wife is a star in our family, for sure. I mean, she's the one that, I mean, she's a star in the family.

And I'm a homebody. I'm home all the time. And honestly, the older I've gotten, you know, I mean, she's just not even, she's not stressed by it. She's not even, she's just not, she's not really interested in industry. She's,

it's like, we've been together a long, long time. And so, you know, she knows what it is. You know,

I'm not going nowhere. Hopefully she's not going anywhere, but she's cool with it. And what about your kids? Um, that's a good, that's an interesting question.

We've never really had the conversation about it my son has made has made comments about it does he have jokes no no he doesn't he doesn't he doesn't he doesn't have jokes he doesn't have jokes about it um what are the comments that he's making to you well so that's a good question um we have we have my son and my son's 26 years old right now. No, he just turned 27. And we just basically have a lot of father son conversations. And my conversations are more geared toward preparing him for life and trying to get him to see the world from different perspectives.

Yes. Primarily from a from a business perspective a young man who's going to be taking care of a family perspective and he'll make comments just in terms of uh when i'm trying to explain certain things to him how things go in life he he feels sometimes he'll make a comment like well you haven't had to deal with such and such because such and such you such and such, you know, but you know, and I keep having to tell him,

I keep having to remind him that, um, you know, I, I, you know, I slept in a room with my brother till we went to college and we couldn't even open the door.

It was so tight in the room. We have bunk beds. We put the bunk bed down. We couldn't even open the door. So I didn't, I didn't, I wasn't born into this, you know?

And so there's a lot of discipline and hard work so that has uh and a blessing you know from god but discipline hard work that has me where i am today all right we got more with morris chestnut and emiati cornaudi when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj nv just hilarious charlamagne the. We are The Breakfast Club. Laura La Rosa filling in for Jess. And we're still kicking it with Emeyati Cornaudi and Morris Chestnut. Of course, Reasonable Doubt Season 2 is on Hulu now. Charlamagne?

What did y'all two learn from each other on set? Oh, well, I would say I definitely learned, you know, when they asked me how I felt about Morris coming onto the show. Number one, I was just excited. I mean, it's Morris the Chestnut. You know, I mean, when they asked me how I felt about Morris coming onto the show, number one, I was just excited. I mean, it's Morris the chestnut. I mean, it's true. You know, just it's just he brings a level of professionalism and and ease, but yet very just approachable and and and kind and giving you know what I mean in a way that you just may not expect for someone who's been in the business for so long for someone who knows that they have this particular status you know what I mean but but he didn't have any

of that you know so I definitely just appreciated and respected that you know about you and I appreciate so the one thing you know on a set the the number one on the call sheet is the heartbeat of the set. The set goes how the number one goes. If the number one is not feeling good today, the set's not going to have a good day. If the number one is not a good person, it's not a set that you want to be on. She is literally one of the best number ones that I've ever worked with. She she I mean, this is so hard because when you're when you're when you come to a set to a set you know we have the scenes we have our lines and we and we have to worry about our

character and she knew everybody's name on the set everybody's name and i i've been on set i've been on set right now for six months i still only know probably about seven names out of like 100 people and that was just so impressive to me and um and it was really she was really inspiring to me just to see how she was doing that. And she made me mad one day because I always like to be, when they call us to set, I like to be the first one there. And she beat me one time. I was like, oh, I can't have that. I cannot have her beat me to set because I got to be there.

Yeah, I can't have that. So she's just in everything that she does. And she, with all of that, you know, she had her daughter there. She's taking care of her daughter. She has, you know, she's carrying the load on this show. She did it so gracefully, eloquently, and just an incredible actress. So I just have a huge, she's inspiring. Now, is there somebody, you talked about number ones.

Is there somebody that you say, no matter how much they pay you, without saying names, that you just won't do a movie with them because they just don't act right? Oh, um, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Oh, yeah, I have one. I have one.

You know, yeah, he doesn't. I'm not sure if he's I don't think he's done anything too much lately. But, yeah, it's yeah, it can be really, really, really bad set. It's just not a good it's not a working. It's not a free working environment to be an artist when you have everyone walking on eggshells and this person just dictates the whole mood just of the of the set and it just makes it so challenging not even to just do your job just to even be there because we spend 12 13 hours a day it's like a family you know you spend more time on a set than you do your family so yeah so let me ask you i have a question for you i had heard erica alexander talk about how

when black women play strong roles on tv it boxes them in it's like a good thing because your representation but it can be a bad thing because it boxes you into this like you always have that power you always have to be tough and rough do you think about that when you're picking roles i know because jacks is becoming a household now household name now like people love the show do you think about that do you think how that will affect you has that been you know something that you and your team have talked about you know i i understand what she's saying about that because that is you know it's it's almost can even be a stigma even that's placed upon us as black women but it's not something that i think about because there's an element of it that

is true it's there we are strong we've had to be strong for so long for so many reasons so you know it's not something that I feel like I have to lead with or something that I have to be cognizant of yeah um because I don't it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't bother me in that way you know what I mean um and so I think I do choose roles not necessarily if I see a role and it says okay she's a strong woman

or what have you you know I know I'm going to put my own spin on it and I may not feel like she's strong in the way that they think she's strong

you know what I mean so I can make a different interpretation interpretation on it got you well I know y'all got it because I got a my final question

other than when I'm around, Mars, do you ever walk in the room and say, I'm the most handsome man in the world? Oh, my gosh. No, no. I never say that.

You did say that one day when we were... He did? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. No, I would never say that.

Now, you were in the Family Feud video, right? Jay-Z's Family Feud? Yes. How were you casted for that? Are you, right? Jay-Z's Family Feud? Yes. How were you casted for that? Are you cool with the fam, or how did that happen? Ava. Ava, because Ava directed it.

Ava DuVernay. Mm-hmm, Ava DuVernay. I think that's how we met. We met at Ava's house. Ava's house. Yes. Yeah, we did. Were you more obsessed than that when you were there?

Be honest. Not even close. I didn't. I didn't. You thought he was the help. You thought he was the help. I didn't. You thought he was the help I didn't he thought he was the help

I was like what five years ago five six years ago yeah something like that we were watching a movie or something no the fight the fight

Mayweather that's what it was that's what it was but yeah that's how that came about when Ava was the director gotcha well we appreciate

I know you guys got to run I want to say something to you guys I really appreciate what you guys are doing for the culture I mean I see the guests you guys have on i see the topics that you guys talk about

um and i appreciate what you guys doing because especially now in our community you talk about therapy a lot i love that you guys bring up uh current topic current event topics politics and so you guys are i was really excited to come back because i've been here before but i was really excited to come back because i appreciate you here before, but I was really excited to come back because I appreciate you guys, what you guys are doing for the culture. So thank you guys. Thank you very much. Reasonable Doubt Season 2 is out now on Hulu. Ladies and gentlemen, it's The Breakfast Club.

It's Morris Chestnut and Emma Yatzee Coronaldi. Thank you so much. Thank you for having us. It's The Breakfast Club. Come on. The Hada experience in this room needs to be studied. Lauren. Yes.

Got an opp over there named Taylor. Yes. Opp over there named Lauren. Opp over there named Rashawn opps everywhere man when the real Morris shows up there's no comparison

so when the Bentley pulls up next to the Chrysler 300 Chrysler's generous first of all when I come I'm gonna come in here looking ashy

you be lotion down six times a day when Morris came in here you was looking ashy you know what I'm gonna come in here tomorrow with a fresh Baldy okay

you know what I'm gonna put some I'm gonna put some of that Just For Men in my bed too just to show y'all. Why you ain't prepared for a Morris game? Somebody said they do look like brothers.

You know always the one brother that's fine and the other brother that's ugly. Yeah, you know when you be like do you got a brother? And then you be disappointed when he bring the Charlemagne? No, none of this bother me whatsoever.

Okay? And one thing you can never do is break my soul. All right. Okay. Morning everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Look at that opp over there. Salute to Morris never do is break muscle. Morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Salute to Morris Chestnut for just leaving

and Emiyati. They look nothing like Charlamagne. What the hell did you just say? I said salute to Morris Chestnut and Emiyati for joining us this morning. Oh, salute to Emiyati. I thought he was saying fine in Asian or something. You called him fine in Chinese. Salute to Morris Chestnut for being emmy

yati what the hell is he talking about what's wrong with you man yo yesterday hold on hold on i gotta tell this story we were sitting in the room after morris chestnut and emmy yati left and envy just for no reason everything was quiet we were just in here minding up his office and he goes they both look good he's like what yeah am i lying oh no i did because it came out of nowhere like you were sitting and pondering they both not because the brother more is just that is 55 years old envy and she's like 45 46 and i'm like they look great for that like you look like you ponder like you just sit and ponder. Bricked up is wild. Bricked up is wild. You was over there bricked up.

Bricked up is wild. I was just saying they look good for their age. No, bro. You was over there YSL Woody. You talking about y'all. They both look good. I didn't say that. That's what you said, bro.

I heard it. YSL Woody, yo. The brother is 55 years old. The sister's like 45. I was like, they look good for their age. We need a dictionary for 2024. What you mean? You older than her.

I said they look good. I can't say somebody look good. He's 55. You really just wanted to say Morris because that's what she was looking at but you added her in because

you didn't want us to get on you. Now we talking. But during the interview y'all, if y'all listen to the interview, me and Emma Yachty, we were sitting here like

do we even exist in this room? Y'all were, you were. It's okay. Let's get to Jess with the mess along the ropes please. News is real.

We're just guys. Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess. Worldwide mess. On The Breakfast Club. She's a coach of shit.

With Lauren, Lauren LaRosa. I'm back. And I got the mess. Talk to me. So Glorilla has announced her features For her upcoming album Her debut album, Glorious Now this album has 15 tracks

And yesterday she posted some photos So I'm so excited for her So she has Lotto on this project That's dope She has Sexy Rib Big Sexy on this project I love Sexy and Glow together Money Long big sexy on this project I love sexy

and glow together Money Long will be on the project as well Kiara Sheard am I saying her last name right Sheard

yes Sheard Kiara Sheard will be on no I just always say Sheard I say it wrong always will be on this project

as well Chandler Moore will be on this project as well they all on the same song by the way megan nastalian i love a visual boss man d-low will be on this project t-pain t-pain friday friday yep yep yep kirk franklin y'all kirk franklin she got her kirk

franklin feature kirk franklin kieraara Sheard And what's the other gospel brother You just named? Chandler Moore Chandler Moore They're all in the same song It was called Rain Down Now listen A year ago about

Glorilla was on the carpet At the Grammys And Kirk Franklin Was interviewing her Let's take a listen So are you asking for Like a Like a

Like a song collab? Is that what you're trying to say? Of course! What? I'm not gonna throw that at her Is that what you're trying to say? Yes! Yes! I am so happy for her. Gloria, hallelujah. I am so happy for her. And I know the music is going to be great.

But she, Glorilla, ever since she's come out, she's been the person I think all of us just root for. You just want everything to work out for her. First of all, she's very dope as a rapper. And all I'm going to tell you is Glorilla album is top tier. Now, you're talking to a person who listens to a lot of Glorilla and a lot of people put out a lot of music right before their so-called debut album drops. Yes. And it's just regular. No.

Glorilla definitely elevated her art on Glorious. And that's all I'm going to say. I'm excited. Salute to Glow. I'm excited to hear it. Now, in other news uh diddy news we why we haven't done diddy in like what like two days we did did it yesterday with his mom dang it's i ain't never did diddy see that's how people get indicted right there i

ain't never did diddy a day in my goddamn life now if you want to admit that you did diddy news no you'll be hearing what you want to hear yeah he over there so nervous don't worry. Don't worry, Charlotte. This one's for you. Because they're talking about the people that may pop out in some of these little tape tapes. That ain't going to do anything. I can say that without a shadow of a doubt.

So Tony Busby, who is the attorney that is representing the over 120 people that did that big press conference, he did an interview with Law and Crime. And Law and Crime is that team that network that like shows all the cases live in the court and he told them that 12 000 people called the hotline that they set up uh for diddy for diddy accusers within 24 hours of course they did because you put it on the internet and people want to check they're gonna say anything they possibly can say to get a check not even that people playing i'm not saying that there's not real accusers and there's not real but there's a lot of people playing but there's probably more people playing. I'm not saying that there's not real accusers and there's not real. But there's a lot of people playing. But there's probably more people playing. That's what I said last week.

So listen, TMZ did an interview with them and they got into this as well because they want to know how do you vet all of this? I say, listen, and you were there in the room or you participated or you watched it happen and didn't say anything or you helped cover it up. In my view, you have a problem. As we file each one of these cases, we're going to make an effort to resolve them on the front end. But failing that, we're going to file public lawsuits and pursue these cases aggressively. So who will be named, when they will be named, all that will come out in due course. All of these individuals and entities, in my view, have exposure here. Are we talking about celebrities on the level of Diddy? I would expect so, yes. But there are also people who want to jump on the gravy train and want to make money.

And that's got to be a big slice of what you're getting. You know, you get 3,200 calls and that turns into 100 some odd clients. I think you see the process that we're involved in. We're doing a lot of vetting, a lot of due diligence. What's the process? What's the vetting process? If I was to say say does he have that much staff to do that much vetting like 3200 people calling thousands of people calling i'll try and find out and figure that out that's a lot i would love to know what the vetting will come back i'll try and figure that

out um but yeah let's let the record show he said if he was at the parties you had a problem i told y'all i told y'all this two weeks ago and if you ever was around any of this you know you probably have a problem there's only one person in this room who's been to a diddy party it's not me i've been i've been but i don't know about none of that crazy stuff the ones i was at was just a regular day party i don't know subpoena la rosa subpoena can we it's over wrap it up it's time to go You want to finish You was going to say Something else about The Diddy situation I was just going to say

I had some more numbers They said In a 10 day period They got 3200 calls And then after the press conference They received the 12,000 calls That's crazy How do you get that

Exactly Come on man We can't be this stupid As a society Once again I'm sure that there's Real alleged victims And there's real

Alleged accusers Right Well no There's real accusers And alleged victims and there's real alleged accusers, right? Well, no, there's real accusers and alleged victims. That's the proper wording. But if you do a press conference and you tell everybody that there's a 1-800-DIDI-RAPE-ME hotline, you're going to have people calling the hotline playing. Yes. How do you vet that? There's people calling and I'm sure taping themselves to see if they got through.

Did you try to call? No. Did you? No. Why would I call? I was just making see if they got through. Did you try to call? No. Did you? No. Why would I call? I was just making sure Charlotte was all right. I didn't call.

You good? Let's get to the donkey today. Who you giving your donkey to this morning? Four after the hour, we need Marjorie Taylor Greene to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with her. All right. We'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. You're checking out The Breakfast Club. This is America. There is no question that there are problems. club good morning you're checking out the breakfast club this is america there is no question that there are problems in this country between police and community yes you are a donkey the latest on that police killing of a black man now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage and yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacist violence is and always has been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white.

To the breakfast club, bitches! Alright, Charmaine, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Donkey of the day for Tuesday, October 8th goes to the ble blonde bad-built butch bodied congresswoman from Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene yes the mayonnaise is heavy with this one Oh a human jar of Hellman's is upon us it's safe to say Marjorie Taylor Greene is about as loony as a Batman villain right I mean she would be a platinum member at Arkham Asylum correct well today Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting the credit she deserves for being stupid because she just refuses to deal with reality. OK, in this case, we

all have seen the devastation Hurricane Alina has caused over 200 confirmed deaths, destruction of homes, damage to infrastructure, severe flooding. It's just all bad. And what I don't understand is politicians who will politicize these natural disasters. Some things should be bigger than politics. I saw the vice president kamala harris say ron desantis won't even take her calls in regards to hurricane helene and i just don't understand that the same way i don't understand what marjorie taylor green is saying see mother nature should be the most humbling thing for humans okay until extraterrestrials come because mother nature doesn't care what race you are she don't care about your sexuality your religion your political party mother nature is one of the few things that

should bring people together it's one of the few things that should make us realize in the grand scheme of things we are tripping focusing on our differences instead of focusing on what we have in common because in those moments when a category four a category five hurricane is about to impact your town you all have one thing in common and that thing is survival that's it nothing more nothing less and when you are busy trying to survive uh mother nature the last thing you want to hear is someone like marjorie taylor green peddling conspiracy theories about why what is happening is happening and that's exactly what marjorie taylor green did let's go to abc 10 report, please. And tonight we're looking into a story getting a lot of buzz in the last 24 hours.

It claims Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is implying Democrats caused Hurricane Helene to harm Republicans. And folks, this one is true. Last night, Greene wrote on X, quote, yes, they can control the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it cannot be done. While she didn't say exactly who they are, the post came just hours after Greene posted this map showing the political lean of the areas impacted by the hurricane. And as you can see, there is definitely more red than blue.

Greene has pushed many conspiracy theories in the past, including some which have been called antisemitic marjorie taylor green says she doesn't believe in climate change but if you tell her the weather is controlled by the illuminati then all of a sudden she's a meteorologist who knows they control the weather who the hell is day that is always the question okay is it the day dj khaled used to talk about is it the day the lgbt to talk about? Is it the day the LGBTQ community talks about? You know, that confusing pronoun stuff. Who is they?

Okay, Marjorie, if you're going to make a claim like this, at least say who they is. Real conspiracy theorists say names like harp. Okay, if you would have said harp controls the weather, tinfoil hat Twitter would have crowned you queen. Maybe they still did because of these comments. I don't know. But the reason Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting donkier today is because when you make claims like this it throws a middle finger to science not just science it throws a middle finger to reliable sources of information okay leads people to believe in folks foolish feelings as opposed

to actual facts and what should really piss us off is when marjorie taylor green spews rhetoric like this it distracts from real conversations we should be having about a climate change and B, how to prepare for these natural disasters. Do you understand how difficult it is to get people to care about the truth nowadays? We are in an era where facts don't change most people's opinions because most people don't use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their facts. So when a congresswoman like Marjorie taylor green starts throwing around nut ass conspiracy theories

like they control the weather you're just misinforming the public and your constituents but you are also just simply undermining real science and we will never ever solve the problem of climate change if we can't even admit that climate change is real and the news has to stop giving stuff like this oxygen because it spreads the foolishness more than it suppresses it. I let you hear ABC 10 earlier. Let's listen to MSNBC now. The death toll from Hurricane Helene is now more than 200 people, 220 people, while hundreds of others remain unaccounted for. Such tragic figures didn't stop some of the extreme members of the Republican Party from gaslighting the American public about the cause of the storm, with Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeting, and I quote, yes, they control the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone

to lie and say it can't be done. So Marie who are they who are the they you are referring to exactly democrats jewish space lasers who knows you can't just report this stuff you have to shoot it down with actual information and facts stomp it out can't just report it and leave it there gotta ask more than just who is day okay this is why people are skeptical about scientific truths and this is why no matter how hard america tries we will never be able to solve real problems climate change deniers flat-earth fools we shouldn't talk to none of them after 5 p.m and you shouldn't be talking to any of them for free ever okay uh now i have some flat earth fools in my life that i love but i'm not taking on no new friends that are flat earth fools are climate change deniers nope

uh you need to really reevaluate your life if you and marjorie taylor green are on the same page about some of this stuff okay marjorie taylor green thinks climate change is a hoax she's a person that will deny science because she probably believes the sun just runs on vibes okay but the good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it please let kathy griffin give marjorie taylor green the biggest hee-haw please give this giant jar of mayo the biggest hee-haw you believe in a flat earth? No, I'm not a flat earther. Okay. I have one in my life, though. Okay.

Who is it? My brother. Oh. The youngest child is always the most special. How do you feel about that when he says these things? I love him, regardless. Okay. But.

Do you tell him that there's actually people that have been in space and have seen? I stopped telling him stuff a long time ago. Do you tell him that there's so many things that you can see from earth, like the moon and like the sun, and you can see that those are spheres? But you don't tell him those things? But you know people are delirious. Like this guy really thinks he looks like Morris Chestnut. It's the same as the flat ear. You think your beard is real.

You try to convince us every day that that's your real beard color. So what you saying? So? And you tried to go in and color that little hole in during one of the breaks. I did not touch it at all. I did not move. I did not go anywhere. Yes, you did. Yes, you did not move i did not go anywhere yes you did yes you're a liar yes you are a liar you dirty liar where's my where's that drop where's the drop you don't have that drop anymore

thank you for that dog in the day liar what am i lying about now when we come back you went your classroom size how big was it? Very small. Like the bus, very small bus. I was in the school class for a little second because I had failed a standardized test. Just for like one time. Everything about you screams giving patience. I was in remedial English one time. I was, I was. I ain't going to sit here and lie about it.

I was definitely in remedial English at one point. I was so scared because those are the kids I used to tease. Not supposed to tease them kids. I know. I was young. You going to judge me for what I did when I was 17? Yes. Come the kids I used to tease. Not supposed to tease them kids. I know. I was young. You going to judge me for what I did when I was 17? Yes. Come on now.

Everybody else does. I know. That's terrible. Gosh. All right. When we come back, Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson will be joining us. All the Smoke Podcast. Yes, man.

Those brothers will be here. Please listen to the All the Smoke Podcast. It's on the Black Effect iHeartRadio Podcast Network, and so many of you do. And today, they are celebrating five years of All the Smoke, and they've dropped a new coffee table book called All the Smoke, All the Stars, All the Stories, No Apologies. It's out right now on my book in print,

Black Privilege Publishing. Simon & Schuster came out today, so they'll be here to talk about that. Yep, and we'll talk to them next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Wake that ass up. In morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj envy just hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club

just is on maternity leave so laura rosa is filling in and we got some special guests in the building that's right we got matt barnes and steven jackson welcome fellas how y'all feeling good good tired but good tired but good collectively known as the all the smoke That's right. We got Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson. Welcome, fellas. What's up, family? How y'all feeling? Good. Good. Tired, but good. Tired, but good. Collectively known as the All the Smoke podcast. That's right. Their new coffee table book is out right now, All the Smoke.

Man, you know, I always say, like, I know that there's a lot of athletes who do podcasts and stuff now. I don't know anybody before y'all. I feel like y'all started that whole wave. So to see y'all be the first with a coffee table book, man, that makes so much sense to me. It's been a journey. I mean, our five-year anniversary is tomorrow. If you would have told me five years later we'd have a coffee table book,

a whole production company, and people working underneath us, I would have been like, you're full of shit. I didn't even know what a podcast was at the time. So we are blessed to come together and find lightning in a bottle and thankful for the opportunities and obviously being able to partner with you and your company and be able to get this done was dope. How did this happen? A lot of people don't know that, bro.

Shout out to you. A lot of our success, you know, a lot of stuff that we have going on. You brought our way and you thought about us even with Black Effect. So we appreciate you. A lot of people don't know that. So we got to give you props, too. I love my brothers. How did this come about, though?

This for a podcast. Like, I we got to give you props, too. I love my brothers. How did this come about, though? This for a podcast. I know y'all was partners. Together? Yeah. I think Jack retired maybe one or two years before me, and we both got out, and we were doing ESPN and Fox and getting positive feedback, and people said we needed to do something together. And we were at my house in the Bay one time smoking, and I'm just like, you want to do

a podcast? And he's like, sure, what is it? I was like, I don't really really know but i think we can drink and smoke because we were working esp in a fox you know you got to kind of walk that line so it was just a little bit more to our comfort zone and he said yeah so i started doing the homework and and we landed here we landed at showtime yeah kamala was your most recent we did joe kim noah after her but yeah kamala was yeah a big boy for us and how was that i know you're a little reluctant a little bit at first.

Oh, no. You know that. I called him. I talked to him about it. Me and Matt, we went at it for a couple days about it. You didn't want to do it at first? Nah, because I really don't want to get in politics. I don't even want to be involved.

And a lot of people that support me don't get involved. You know what I'm saying? I look at it the same way I look at it. But as a friend and as a brother to him you know anything that that that he asks me to do something you know nine out of ten times i'm loyal to a fault you know i'm saying even if it's something i don't want to do but i know it's beneficial for uh our company i know it's been and i see after after i did the interview i see now i have a lot of women in my life i have eight aunts uh six daughters you know so i would look to them after i did the interview i'm glad i did it now because they all look at her and they look up to her and inspire to

be great like her so I'm glad I did you know when he said he didn't want it first of all I told my that stack have I ever led you wrong in a business decision or life and he said no but you know when he said he didn't want to get involved with the politics I told him you know I don't think that was his choice because once he did that george floyd thing he put a smack dab in the middle of the biggest leading one of the biggest protests this world has ever seen so a lot of things come with that a lot of good a lot of bad but a lot of things come with that and i think that he implanted himself in the middle and i

always will respect his opinion but i just thought this could be an opportunity for he has a very loyal following and it could have been a you know it was it was an opportunity for him to you know get some stuff on his chest or ask straight to the face you know ask her straight to the face those questions so i'm glad he decided to come around it took him a minute like literally let me tell you bro until she came in the room jack wasn't oh wow right until so so she came in the room and then she took us away from the group and and took us on a walk throughout the house and started showing us this dope black art and sculptures. And Jack was still tough.

Like, I like this. And then he saw this one piece of art he liked and she talked about it and she had moved on. And I kept following. He went and touched the art and looked at it. I was like, oh, she might be getting to him. And then he showed she showed this dope ass chandelier. And then once she showed the chandelier and explained it and the jack started smiles like all right she got him so we were straight so it took a minute to warm up does she know that you didn't want to do

it she hasn't yeah she had a little bit i think she had somebody show him how to uh handed her did y'all smoke before i got there i did of course i'm tired now yeah it was too presidential to be able to try to sneak it in and get one off. And we was representing a lot of people, so we didn't want to get in trouble. But, yeah, definitely, we pre-gamed. You know, that was one of them smoke showers, you know. The shower, yeah, yeah. It got the steam, so don't mess with the hotel.

It smelled like it. You know, y'all had the last conversation with Kobe Bryant, the last interview with Kobe Bryant. And I always wondered, was that the last time either one of y'all actually spoke to him before he passed? That was the first and last time I spoke to him since we played against each other. Wow. I know, Matt, y'all had a relationship.

Yeah, we would see each other a little bit more because he was coaching Gigi and I was coaching the Twins. So we had talked maybe one time after that, and then he had sent some shoes literally the week. I think he passed on a Sunday. He sent shoes that previous monday to the twins and their whole team so they had just got fresh kobe so um we had spoken then obviously like i said he sent some shoes the week of the actual the past so it was it was tough man what stands

out from that conversation i mean you have it y'all have it in the all the smoke coffee table book but what stands out from that conversation just from that day um we had a conversation in his office before we actually got on camera and he was really adamant about this next 20 years then and and for the world to be prepared for what he was doing in business he was just finishing writing one of the children novels he was working on and he's just like fellas like i don't want people to remember me for my last 20 years i want them to remember me for my next 20 years you know he had the fund and had won emmys and doing all kinds of stuff in the business space and obviously really saw when i got to see him coach Gigi and just,

he didn't always, never showed a ton of joy, but you can just tell he loved it. I mean, he had these little girls running the triangle offense, which takes grown men a long time to learn. He had these girls practicing four or five days a week, three hours a day. The thing about Kobe was he didn't take nothing light when it came to basketball.

So these were little young girls, but they were running the Lakers offense to a T. He was like a drill sergeant with it, but you could tell he loved it. You know, all those little girls loved him and looked up to him. And just the passion behind that was beautiful to see. For me, I think meeting him as a teenager and seeing him grow into the icon he was, I just admired that. You know, with so many players and basketball players you come across doing AAU

and traveling, you know, coming up as a teenager, you see so many people and basketball players you come across doing AAU and traveling, coming up as a teenager, you see so many people that's supposed to be great that don't live up to it. He lived up to it and exceeded it. To be able to sit there to talk to him after our careers and go through the memories before he passed, that meant everything to me.

What do you think about the Lakers now? We see Bronny play the last two games and people are on Bronny's ass. That's beautiful. I showed him the picture when we got in the car. That's the dopest picture ever when he helping his dad up. That's the dopest. Whoever hating, die.

Yeah. I mean, I think if anyone deserves this opportunity to play with his son, I think it's him. You know what I mean? And the fact that that whole thing was orchestrated for him to get to the Lakers is amazing. And I had a moment this past summer because my twins are 15 now, so I take them to play against grown men.

And I remember one time me and the twins were on the same team playing, and we was hooping. I'm just like, man, this is so dope. I couldn't imagine this on the highest level. So to me, I mean, the kid was a 55th pick. Normally the 55th pick doesn't even make it. So all these crazy expectations for him earlier, ridiculous, like allow him to develop.

But, you know, we don't live in a world where development is allowed especially on the highest level so i think from a father-son aspect is incredible but you know the lakers are one of those teams where you got to produce what have you done for me lately and they haven't necessarily done that so it's going to be interesting you know scrutinize your i think we were talking about that earlier do you think that bronnie will actually have the chance to develop or you feel like people are going to pigeonhole him so much that it might i think he has even more of a chance to develop because his father's there. Like that's the motivation to have and he's seen what it takes to be great. So all that is in him already and now he's in the facilities where you have everything here to be great. I think he has everything he

needs and I think he's definitely going to blossom over. And I also think too, I mean I don't think you look at Bronny in the same light as you look at LeBron. That's what I said. People try to, though. People try. I just think he's going to be a very solid role player. I mean, he's got a high IQ, plays defense, can make the right play, can shoot the ball. So I just think he needed a little bit more time to develop, and now he's developing on the biggest stage. But I think, you know, two, three, four years,

he's going to be a very solid rotational player. All right, we got more with Steven Jackson and Matt Barnes from the All the Smoke podcast. When we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren La Rosa is filling in for Jess, and we're still kicking it with Steven Jackson and Matt Barnes from the All the Smoke podcast. Charlamagne? What was the process of putting this book together? Like, how did y'all choose which conversations to put in there that how dylan obviously yeah you and the company and then dylan just understanding you know where we the caliber of guests we had in

the different topics we spoke on you know again there's a ton of people in this space now as far as sports but i don't look as if it's competition i think everyone had their own journey their own voice and their own experiences and i think we still think with all the conversations we had, our conversation is still different from everybody else's. So just important, you know, family, mental health, everything that comes along in this journey. And, you know, we've been able to transition from not just a sports show to just kind of a more of a culturally relevant show. You know, we're talking to the Kevins and the Ws and the jadas and the jamies and and the vp so i just think you know high level conversations with high level people and you know being able to be celebrated with that i mean if

i'm not mistaken we're the first podcast with the coffee table book man so i think it's it's it's a tremendous opportunity we're very thankful for it and and hope that everyone checks it out how did how did you guys know it was time to you talk a lot about transition that it was time to transition in and like lean into like okay the podcast the merch like just the business side of things like was that a switch it probably was planned but when did you know like okay it's time to jump the fence now um man the reason why i left the nba the the the first year of a three-year deal um i happened to win a championship with golden state and i wouldn't get a chance after you got playing i State and I wasn't getting a chance to see I wasn't getting a chance to see my kids you know what I mean

it was kind of a perfect storm we won a championship and I was ready to move so I was just kind of excited and I think sometimes why athletes have a hard time transitioning because they don't get to leave on their own accord most of the time it's injuries or a reputation

or just teams don't want to f*** no more. But, you know, I was someone that just, you know, I was in the midst of a contract and I'm just like, man, you know, this is the blessing we won. I'm missing so much time with my sons. I'm a father first. So, you know, that was my transitioning reason. And then once I transitioned, I'm like, damn, what's next?

You know, I had invested well and, you know, had some things moving, but I knew I still needed to find something to do and you know media came knocking for both of us you know we kind of ran with it so i mean jack is the kind of guy that you know he he trusts very few so if you're in his trust circle he's going to listen to you and when i pitched him my idea he trusted me to run with it and make it happen and you know that's what i was able to do i want to ask some basketball questions before y'all get up out of here. Klay Thompson, what do you think about him leaving the Warriors?

Do you think it was time for him to go? I think it's a breath of fresh air for him. Some guys need that during their career. You've played at a certain spot for so long. It's a bad feeling to the body. I ain't won the last couple years. A lot of times they're going to try to find somebody to blame it on.

It fell on Klay. Which is unfortunate because he's the reason why they have a big part why they have all those championships over there but this is how professional sports goes yeah this is how it goes and i think it's great for him because he's landed in the spot where he can do what he do best with two of the best one-on-one players ever in uh kairi and luca he can spot up and shoot jumpers so i think i think it's a great great situation for him because i've been in a situation where I was somewhere and I needed to go to a different team to

flourish and be a better player when I came to Golden State. That's kind of the same for him. Is Klay a Hooper or a scorer? Klay is a Hooper. He plays on both ends. WNBA. What are your thoughts this year? What a new excitement, new life. Sometimes I ain't go front. It feels better than the NBA.

What's your thoughts on WNBA? I think the women's game is pure, man. You know what I'm saying? They've all played the right way. It's refreshing to watch. It's good to see them start to get their money and get the attention that they deserve. I'm a hooper, so I'm all for anybody that's hooping, that's putting in that work, you know what I'm saying, that's grinded all these years to get to the top.

I'm happy that they're getting it just due. I think the growth of the game is tremendous. The fact that we're talking about it and seeing it on ESPN and all the highlights, and we're doing a piece that I'm excited about on Andrew Reese and Kathan Clark and just their dynamic that they brought to the game and the vehicle of new fans they brought.

And you've heard kind of some of the good and the bad that have come with that. Angel spoke out on just the negativity and the racism that have come from some fans and kind of using them but is that normal though because you know it seems like that's normal in the league i'm sure that you guys have been called a million more names absolutely absolutely you're getting to a fight utah boston you played in indiana man utah yeah i just got in trouble in indiana man. Like what you talking about? Utah. Yeah. I had just gotten in trouble in Indiana.

That's back when you still had the space between your teeth. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I do have a cardboard cutout under the goal with me in a jail suit. Oh, shoot. It was funny, too. We was all laughing. We signed it for him and all.

Yeah, but I think the growth of the game is tremendous. I think it's going to continue to grow. It's got new eyeballs and new sponsorship and new money. uh you know we just want to continue to celebrate them there was a um video last year in november that went viral of you and derrick fisher coaching the twins together that was a really that video was like i think the world was like oh wow yeah you know the world yeah i was down like hold up jack what Jack, what's happening? I was, I remember 2015 and everything before that, right? What was it like getting to that point where now we on the court? It's important to do it, but what was that like?

People don't understand that me and Fish squashed that shit the summer after it happened. Like, that happened at the beginning of one season, and then the next summer, once I found out he was around and the twins cared about him, like, we squashed it. Because it wasn't about my ex and I no more. It was about trying to raise these young men. So, Fish has been in the boys's life for almost half their life you know what I mean so we've always been and I was real enough to sit down and have a conversation with him like bro I'm still playing so you're gonna see my kids more than me I need you to teach them the ropes right while I'm not around so to me you know once I got over and once we talked about

how I didn't agree with the move and it could have went a different way like it wasn't about saving that it was about harvesting and we got to raise two young black men. So, I mean, I think he's done a great job. I tip my hat to him all the time. I mean, he's their second dad, and, you know, I coach him in the summer during AAU, and he coaches them during high school. So, I mean, when people see us, they still kind of trip out, but, like, our beef was for a season. It wasn't even that long.

Love that for y'all. Yeah. It's easy to squash beef when you win the fight. What? How you feeling? Seattle tried to start it back up. You see how he tried to start it back up? Don't even ask.

It's not about that 90 miles. It's all time. Go get the merch. Go get the merch. All the smoke. Matt Ball, Steven Jackson, we appreciate you guys. Y'all got some shows, right?

Live show today. Yep. Yeah. Philly with a million dollars worth of game and a really special guest coming through with them, man. So we're excited to be on the East Coast.

Jim Jones, Davies, all of them said they was pulling up, so I'm looking to see how it goes. Is it going to be AI in Philly? How'd you know? We're going to see. Is that real? We're going to see. That's what's happening?

That's probably my favorite. I don't come to Philly for that. The AI all the smoke conversation is probably my favorite AI conversation. Mine too. Yeah, that conversation is in the all the smoke coffee table book which is out right now all the stars all the stories no apologies go get it that's right

it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club listen make sure you go out there and grab the good brothers Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson new coffee table book all the smoke all the stories all the all smoke. All the stories. All the stars. All the stories.

No apologies. Available wherever you buy books today. That's right. And let's get to Jess with the mess with Lauren La Rosa. News is real. We're in the glorious Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. Don't do no lying.

She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess. Worldwide jest. Worldwide mess. On The Breakfast Club. She's a culture shift. With Lauren La Rosa. I'm back. And I got the mess.

Talk to me. Fat Joe has a new show on Starz. It's called Fat Joe Talks. And it's produced very, very well. Have you guys watched it yet? I've seen some of the parts with Method Man. I've seen some of the clips.

If you have Amazon Prime, you can get stars through Amazon Prime as well, too. Oh, so it debuted already? Yes. Oh, I didn't know that. First episode. Yesterday, I watched the episode.

It's with Method Man. It's with two people. I only saw the Method Man part, though. He sat down with Method Man. They talked about a lot. They go back to Staten Island. They upcoming like of the of their relationship and how like back in the day you couldn't like show emotion and you know just all that good stuff you know how fat joe is with telling stories and being animated so it's a really good watch but they

get into a conversation that um method man has had publicly um just about like depression and his upbringing so he starts talking about just his life and just some of the things that he's went through. And I think in that moment, he realizes just, you know, how tough stuff was for him at one point. And they talk about the fact that he's actually putting together a book right now.

Let's take a listen. You get a thought about, damn, I wonder what this person's doing. Act on it. Call them. See how they doing. Find some way to get in contact with them. It never hurts. You have no idea how much that could mean to them because you

know I go through these bouts with certain shit do you still go through that yeah the question really goes away you know I went through depression after my sister died pun died my grandfather same time two years straight going to therapist it could be a sunny day, this s*** dark outside. Was it an aggressive type of depression? No, I went through it. I was sleeping in the bathtub with no water running. Looking up at the ceiling.

And I went to a therapist and it took me two years of beating myself up. And so I tell people, you could be in a gang, you could be in anything. Somebody trying to kill you, just move to another state.

Move to another state, yeah. You could be in anything. Somebody trying to kill you. Just move to another state. Move to another state. Yeah. Yeah. Right? Yeah. When you fighting your own brain, it's with you all the time. I love hearing brothers have those conversations because the only way to eradicate the stigma around mental health is for everybody to tell their story.

So I'm glad that they sharing their stories with each other. And the sad thing about it is like somebody like Met The Man and Fat Joe is like, you know, they're celebrities, they're stars. So people don't see that side of it they just want to see the turning on wu-tang all the time but you know everybody goes through something so salute to methaman and joey craig and they're the go-to people in their families who does the go-to person go to when they need somebody to talk to so and methaman actually talked about that too he talked about how you know um because fat joe was saying that

you know sometimes he regrets a lot of just different things that he's done or just you know like just kind of some of the grief that he feels like he's caused other people like his parents or like whoever because of the different things he was doing as he was coming up and having to learn and he asked method man like you know do you regret anything and met the man says you know i wonder sometimes if my parents have regrets because he talked about his mom being a very young mom we have that second clip about the book. Actually, I'm working on a book. And the funny thing that happened was this girl that I had the meeting with, the writer. Actually, I grew up with her sister in Long Island. She know my life. And there were so many

things that she didn't realize until I told her, like even the family I was staying with. She thought that was my family. It wasn't. I was actually homeless, and they took me in, kind of. You know what I mean? I was in them street streets. When I tell you I was out in the street,

I was out in the street. We talking five, six years old, coming home after dark. Police had to come get me, kind of. Yeah. Used to drive my mother crazy, brother. I'd be wondering if my parents got killed. But the book will explain. And he talks about how on this side of things about the man um because his mom went

through so much she was a young mom three kids no real help she had a rough life and she did the best she could so he said he just talks about how he tries to make everything so good for her now because of so much that she went through but it was a really great conversation produced very well too the visuals are really good and it's not not just dog they talk about him making records like the what would notorious be IG Talks about a lot of the stuff that he's does this not Encompassing conversation, that's right By the way to me those conversations aren't dark You know I'm saying those conversations aren't dark because they are leading people to the light because if you don't deal with your trauma your trauma

Will ultimately deal with you so when you hear brothers having those conversations But then they're also talking about going to therapy and being on those healing journeys those aren't dark conversations to me those actually conversations feel like and the great thing about those conversations is you know fat joe said he was in therapy for two years fat joe makes it his business to check up on everybody that he loves they talked about that and i love fat joe for that it doesn't matter what it is it's not he doesn't ask for anything he calls the people that he loves around him not just his well family his family and friends just to say yo how you doing how is your family are you

okay do you need anything i love you and joe calls me frequently just to make sure i'm okay and my head is okay so joey crack i love you just saying like um and back in the times when they were coming up y'all be in a club and like you see somebody you want to say what's up you want to be happy to see them you couldn't even be happy to see them you just had to everything had to be suppressed

so he said that they make it a point now you don't check in on your people Envy left out the fact that Joe be sending him that why rewind the time what is it why fight the time when you can rewind the time

that beard darkened Joe actually hasn't sent me that but I'm sure he will send it to me now what up said that's a you know in real life right he did he walked into me the DNC he touched my grave and he said why fight the time when you can rewind fat Joe Charlemagne at the DNC that's right man fat Joe having conversations about mental health like yep I'm proud of y'all well my fourth annual Mental health expo

Is this Saturday I heard At the Marriott Marquis Times Square From 11am to 4pm Early I bring some of the Best therapists

Some of the best psychiatrists Brief counselors Spiritual leaders And it's a free event Open to all ages Envy said early Yeah you should be there early But now you said

You got something Later in the night So you should go early No no no It's during the day My brother's baby shower My brother What time

I have to be there By like 11 12 to set up Yesterday he said Three o'clock No, no, no. I went. So you should go early. No, no, no. It's during the day. My brother's baby shower. My brother. What time? I have to be there by like 11, 12 to set up. Yesterday he said 3 o'clock. Somebody got to bring the baby to the family. What'd you say? Nothing. He said somebody got to have a baby. No, I did not. I said salute to her brother on his baby shower.

That is not. I almost. Did you? Whoa. Okay, J.D. Benz. Okay, J.D. Benz. Okay, J.D. Benz. Yeah. Uh-huh.

You be firing real heavy from over there. You gonna run out of ammo and when you do, baby. Are you crazy? And when you do, baby. When I run out of ammo. Stop throwing bottles. You gonna be over there scrambling. You know what I'm gonna do?

Never. Suit the black rob. Uh-huh. You give me too much great material. Yesterday, Lauren told us that Safari was her cousin. Safari's really from Delaware. That's Delaware. never sued the black rob you give me too much great material yesterday Lauren told us that Safaree was her cousin Safaree is really

from Delaware and that she be designing Safaree's best jean jacket jean vest we looked it up on chat all this is true

okay then she tried to randomly randomly in the group chat for whatever reason she was just like y'all lucky I'm on

the phone my man me and envy ignored her because we knew that was a lie. So anybody I wasn't on the phone with, now they just don't feel like...

That's what you said in the text. Well, stop lying. You ain't got no man. But that is just what you said to Lauren LaRosa. Yo, honestly...

Oh, and I didn't even tell you. I did tell you. What? Yesterday, I'm leaving. Oh, the lady in Walgreens. Oh, a woman walks up to me and she goes, you leave Lauren LaRosa alone because I'm in the same struggle. I'm 37 and I'm single and it's hard out here.

Man. Same struggle. I tried not to laugh, but boy, I was doubled over in the street. Excuse me, Miss Lady. I appreciate that. Thank you for running down on him. But by 37, my boat is going to be docked. And I'm going to be looking out at the water with my family.

Okay? I'm so sorry. Put it in the air. I'm sorry. It's over. It's over. Don't talk to me about God, you heater. All right.

When we come back, we got the People's Choice Mix. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We got the People's Choice Mix. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is filling in for Jess. And let me salute to my wife.

Today was the day 31 years ago that I asked her out. I asked her on a date. 31 years ago today. What y'all doing? What we doing today? Yeah. We got the kids today. One got dance, one got soccer, and one got basketball. But after, you basketball but after you know we have a nice little at least you remember that date yeah so

31 years i asked her when i went to uh we were in high school together and i asked her out and she said yes and that's been my girl ever since 31 years look at that 31 years what you jealous you jealous i'm not jealous jealous do you do the 10-year orgasm anniversary too because you wrote about in your book i'm just asking having an anniversary when she put away the rose is crazy oh wow actually salute to my book which is a us today and it's a national bestseller real life real love if you get a chance make sure you go out and get it you know charlamagne actually wrote something on the back of the book he says envy and gear have built something really special amazing

and with the right amount of discipline respect and love you can build something similar thank you charlamagne let me write a chapter for the next one i see that oh what what page is the uh page where you talk about how you couldn't is there a footnote like do you give definitions of like orgasm rose that was a good way to sell a book

I'm gonna be honest with you I ain't gonna tell you who else wrote stuff on the back you can check it out for yourself alright when we come

back Sean Combs let me see what he did for real yes that's why I put it down like that let me see

Sean Combs for DJ Evian and Gia Casey it's not just about having a beautiful family. It's about the work it takes to keep that family together. Sean Diddy Combs, rapper, record producer, and frequent freak offer. Yo, get out of here. That's what it says on the back of the book. Man, yo. No, it doesn't.

Okay. It does not say that. This is a very eclectic list. Yes. Who else on there? R. Kelly? DJ Clue. Envy and Gear had a strong bond from the beginning.

Not as strong as me and Envy's, but they are the perfect example of soulmates who were meant to be. Okay. That was crazy. That was crazy. He didn't say that. Hey, what did you say, Franklin?

What did he say? Gia and Envy make you wonder what we all can build if we start with the right foundation. Okay. Rick Kirk Franklin. Kirk Franklin ain't on here. Oh, yeah, he is. Thank God that he brings from the ashes build if we start with the right foundation okay re kirk franklin kirk franklin ain't on here oh yeah yeah thank god that he brings from the ashes authentic huh thank god that he brings from the

ashes authentic ambassadors of love like nb and gear that's great yeah that's beautiful so if you get a chance pick up real life real love that was our first book which is a national best uh seller we got another one coming out next year as well real life real family Real Family. But Real Life, Real Love is still out there. 31 years with my bae. There you go. All right. When we come back, positive notice to Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Laura La Rosa filling in for Jess. We got to salute Morris Chestnut and Emayati Koronavdi for joining us this morning. That's right. Make sure you check out Reasonable Doubt Season 2.

It premieres on Hulu. It's out now. It's out now? It's out now, yeah. It's out now. It's out now. An episode comes out every Thursday. Okay, through October 17th. Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson for joining us as well. Man, salute to Matt Barnes and Stephen

Jackson. First of all, make sure you subscribe to their podcast, All The Smoke Podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio Podcast Network. Fantastic podcast it is. And make sure you go pick up their new coffee table book. If you're a fan of the podcast, even if you're not a fan of the podcast, but you're a fan of sports and culture, you should go get All the Smoke, All the Stars, All the Stories, No Apologies.

It's available everywhere you buy books now. A lot of their classic interviews from Kobe Bryant. You know, they did the last ever interview with Kobe Bryant. Magic Johnson, Kevin Durant, Allen Iverson, Steph Curry. A lot of different people. So go get it right now. It's available everywhere you buy books today. All right.

Laura, how you doing with your man? I see you all blushing this morning. Wait, huh? Huh? Look at that. He's confused. All right. Well, you got a positive note,lamagne i do man um i really want to just tell y'all that a lot of y'all be having bad days simply because you don't

hop out the bed and turn your swag on i'm serious you know sometimes you have to take a look in the mirror and say what's up like wake up after you say your prayers wake up in the morning and just tell yourself how much you love yourself how much you value yourself and how much you appreciate yourself you do that when you validate yourself you won't spend your whole day seeking validation from a bunch of digital d-heads on social media who don't matter no way so have a blessed day breakfast club bitches you don't finish or y'all done