The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Diddy Vows to Return to MSG Stage, BET Hip Hop & Soul Train Awards Suspended + Nigel Sylvester Interview

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Wendell Pierce joins us to talk about his career journey, navigating purpose, and the future of public media, including the NPR and PBS shutdowns. He also shares his thoughts on Trump and CLTC. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a man found guilty of performing genital ultrasounds without a license. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In 1920, a magazine article announced something incredible. Two young girls had photographed real fairies. But even more incredible, that article was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who invented Sherlock Holmes. How did he fall for that? Hoax is a new podcast from me, Dana Schwartz, the host of Noble Blood. And me, Lizzie Logan. Every episode we'll explore one of the most audacious and ambitious tricks in history

and try to answer the question why we believe what we believe. Listen to hoax on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, it's Jay Shetty, and on today's episode of On Purpose, I'm joined by four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka. What I was dealing with at the time, feeling ashamed, going against everything an athlete stood for. ranked as number one in the world in women's singles. It's a four-time grand slam tennis champion, Naomi Osaka. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast. You, the listener, ask the questions. Did George Washington really cut down a cherry? Were J.K. and Marilyn Monroe having an affair? And I? find the answers. I'm so glad you asked me this question. This is such a ridiculous story. You can listen to American History Hotline on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Good morning, USA! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Jess is downstairs. Peace to the planet It's Thursday Good morning How y'all feel out there I feel blessed black And highly favored Happy to be here

Another day to serve our beautiful listeners Good morning What's happening Hey what's going on now Eddie and Jeff Charlomaine got a little delay So if you can fix that Please

What up Charlotte? How's everything? I've had a delay all week You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean This is a show Where it's you know Two people

And then you know Lauren comes in So you know we be talking And sometimes we interrupt each other But they say I've been in interrupting crazy all week long, but it's because I got a delay. Yeah, you got a delay. We've been trying to figure

out, and it usually takes probably like the 8 o'clock out for them to really get it good, which you've been doing it from the same spot every day, so it should have been worked it out. I've been here all week, sir. I've been broadcasting remotely all week long. All right. Okay, all right. Listen, and

I want to tell folks, man, this Saturday in my hometown of Monks Corner South Carolina, I'm doing my 10th annual back-to-school drive and fish fry, okay? So, you know, Every year for the last 10 years, we give away the free backpacks and the school supplies, and we got the food trucks and, you know, the fried fish and, you know, all types of good stuff. And it's all free from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Berkeley High School bus loop in Monk's Corner, South Carolina, this Saturday.

We're doing it in the evening because it'll be hot during the day. So we'll see y'all this Saturday. Now, Jess, who are you fighting today? Jess got on her Vaseline on her face. She got on her sweatsuit and her Tim's like she's going to stomp somebody at. Who are you fighting today? Jess, I've never seen you dress like this. I know.

I'm just so tired, Joe. First of all, Wicked is so long. Oh, you went to see Wicked? I told you done long. Oh, you went to see Wicked? Yes, I did. I took my son and my mother-in-law, and it was really, really dope. Did you get to your time?

Yes, I did. 6.30. Yes. And they do start on time. Right on time. Yes, and yet the intermission is, like, people will be, like, trying to hurry up and go to do Sunday. They hurry, try to get right back. It was good.

It is long. Long as hell, I told you. I was surprised. Ashton liked it because he didn't really like the movie but he liked Broadway. Oh, I'm shocked that Ashton liked it because Aspen would be like, where are Ariana Grande at? Where's Cynthia and Reno?

No, he knew that Cynthia and Ariana was not going to be on Broadway. But it was really dope. Shout out to the other team, the people, everybody. It was a really nice experience. I'm glad he liked it. If he liked it, you should go see Hell's Kitchen, Alicia Keys.

He'll probably like that too. Oh, all right. So you see that? Man. He'll probably, he'll love. Yeah, I see that. He'll like, he'll like, he'll like, he'll like him. No, take him. I think he'd like that, too.

Take him, Michael Jackson. I'm going to take him to see Stranger Things. Oh, he loves Stranger Things. So, yes. Tell, man, take him to go see Scrange the thing. On Broadway, I've never seen a Broadway production like Scrange and things. And I go see a lot of Broadway. That's all in plays and we just said, but go see Stranger Things on Broadway.

That's cool. They're doing stuff on stage. I ain't know you could do on stage. Yeah. Okay. Now you're going to make me go see that. I'm going to see Strangier Things. Man, that is phenomenal.

Phenomenal. Okay. All right. Well, let's get the show Cracking. Nigel Sylvester will be joining us. If you don't know who Nigel Sylvester is, professional BMX rider. He's a brother. He's from Queens. He gets busy on the bike. He has deals with McDonald's. He has deal with Jordan. He has deals with... MTA. MTA. He has deals with Mercedes. So many different people. He's doing a ride out. He's doing money. Yes, he did. And he's releasing a new Jordan. So, yeah, we'll be kicking in with him in a little bit. And then we got front page news. Morgan is here. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess Solaris. Shalameen, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up, Morgan? Hey, y'all, hey, how y'all feeling on a Thursday, Friday? Friday.

What's your? Thursday. I'm, girl, I'm tired. How you doing? I'm all right. Look, I'm doing all right. Well, I know we want to talk about what's going on in, you know, what happened with that Georgia shooting. I'm going into that.

First, let's talk about what's happening in Texas. I'm going to get you caught up with the Dems in that drama. So Texas Governor Greg Abbott is escalating his fight against Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a vote on a Republican congressional redistricting plan. Now, Abbott has filed a lawsuit targeting a lawmaker. He calls the ringleader and is asking the Texas Supreme Court to remove him. Representative Gene Wu defended his actions and accused Abbott of using the law to weaponize and silence people. More than 50 Democratic lawmakers left the state denying the quorum needed to block the plan. The governor asked the court to rule by this afternoon while the state house is set to reconvene again on Friday.

So we will see if they will reach that quorum and those Democrats will return by Friday. But it seems doubtful. Now, Republicans, President Trump, Texas A.G. Kim Paxton and Senator John Cornyn, they are also open to having the FBI assist in getting those Democratic lawmakers to return to Texas. Now, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, he's vowing to protect Texas House Democrats. Speaking yesterday in Illinois State Fairgrounds, Pritzker said, Texas Rangers are welcome to visit the state of Illinois, but they cannot arrest anyone and take them away. Let's hear more from J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. There is no federal law that prevents the legislators from Texas from coming to the state and spending their time here and breaking quorum in the state of Texas. It's important to note that his comments come hours after a bomb threat at a secure hotel in St. Charles forced the evacuation of 400 guests.

The guests also included dozens of Texas House Democrats who left that state to stop Republicans from voting to redraw the map. And that would give them five more pickups opportunities ahead of the 2026 election. Meanwhile, the threats of being kicked out of office are not swaying Texas. Democrats who left the state. This is the fifth quorum break for State Representative Trey Martinez Fisher. Let's hear those comments from him. And I've done two under Governor Abbott, one for six weeks. And we've never heard this desperate tactic before. Donald Trump must really be squeezing him if he's going to come up with a desperate tactic to say that voters can elect us, but one guy can take us out of office. So Martinez Fisher welcomes the lawsuit saying he would love to

depose Governor Abbott so he could ask him about his secret deal. with Elon Musk. Martinez Fischer is in Chicago meeting with fellow Democrats. His colleagues are also in New York and Boston. And speaking of Boston, do we have audio from Senator Carol Alvarado? Well, she spoke out about the issue. Let's take a listen to her comments. We've all heard the term gerrymandering, which was founded here in Massachusetts. This, ladies and gentlemen, is Trump mandering. Donald Trump picked up the phone, called our governor and demanded new maps. And just like that, Texas Republicans sprang into action.

That's Texas State Senator Carol Alvarado. She accused Texas Republicans of doing what is best for the president and not the people. The heated political rhetoric has led to at least one threat against members of the Texas House Democratic caucus who are in Illinois, New York, and Boston, as previously mentioned. And of course, Chairman Gene Wu said in a statement that they are safe, secure, and undetectual. Now, it is unclear when those Democrats might return to Texas, and the redistricting is being pushed, and the redistricting is being pushed by President Trump, of course, again, as I mentioned, who wants those five more GOP-friendly districts drawn ASAP. So I'll continue to follow this story, but that's your 6 a.m. for, that's your front-page news for 6 a.m. And you guys stick around at 7, and we'll talk about what happened in that shooting at the military base in Georgia.

so stick around. Yeah, Ford's Stewart. All right. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-58-1-105-1. If you need to vent, phone lines wide open. Again, 800-58-1-505-1.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wait. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blast.

It's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-10-1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's there? I'm Jonathan calling us in South Carolina Hey Jonathan, what's up? Get it off your chest, brother.

Hey, I was just calling and tell you y'all, y'all, y'all, I do a great job on the show. You know, I enjoy listening to y'all every morning, keep up the good work. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Also, in Salamane, you think it's possible I can get a copy of your first two books? You know what? Will you say you call it from in South Carolina? Columbia.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll mail you a copy. I was going to say if you was in the low country, you could come out to my bookback, my bookback drive. and fish fry this Saturday from 6 to 8, but yeah, I'll get your address and mail your copy. Okay, thank you. All right, brother. Yes, sir. Get his info, Eddie. Hello, who's this?

Courtney. Hey, Courtney, good morning. Get it off your chest. Yeah, I just want to say that I love the breakfast club. This is my first time calling in, like, probably like eight years. Charlemagne, I appreciate you for just being vocal

about mental health. Thank you. And being just all you guys, just everything that you do about trades, I just graduated welding school at 35. Wow, congratulations. What school? Thank you. Well, it was a local Kansas City school, so accredited school.

So I am a certified welder. Congratulations, Mama. Congratulations. A woman who. makes up 11% of the world in population I might add but I was having a really

rough day and I was up I worked 10 hours shifts got off at 1 a.m. Went to sleep for like two hours and I've just been up in my feelings Charlemagne again thank you for expressing how important it is

and take care of your mental health do you have anybody to talk to? I do. Actually, I just got in contact with a therapist, so I got my next appointment tomorrow. There you go. There you go. So, yeah, I'm trying to fix it. It's been a struggle, but I've been maintaining.

So I was up and I attended time. I'm like, I'm calling the Good Breakfast Club today. Because I've been listening for a long time. Charlemagne, DJ Envy, just hilarious. I was going to be pissed if you were not on this if it had been shown. Thank you, babe.

Thank you. And you're welcome. And Lauren Lelopa, you're amazing as well. I was going to tell you, too, when you are up like that, write down all your thoughts so you can have them to share with your therapist on Friday

because, you know, sometimes you be thinking about all these things during the week then when you go sit in your therapist's office, you sometimes draw a blank and don't know where you want to start. So write all of that stuff down, so you'll know what direction you want to go in

when you sit down and spend that money for that hour on Friday. Definitely, because you know what's crazy is, I don't know whoever picked up the phone. They're like, get it off your chest and what you want to say. I'm like, I don't know. Exactly.

Exactly. Well, thank you for calling on. I mean, I know what I want to say, but I'm honest. I don't, I can't like just get it out. So no, no, you're absolutely right. I just want to say I appreciate you guys. And I don't think you understand.

how much it's just made my day because I've literally been listening since Angelou was on the show. Thank you so much for listening, Mama. We appreciate you. I appreciate you guys because you get me through at least the first

hour of my shift at work, so have a blessed day, okay? Love you. You too. Thank you. Oh, damn. Damn, man. Why you do that? Why do you hand on that? I didn't mean. He said goodbye.

You said goodbye. Goodbye. You Dominican's really acting up Because the Dominican Day parade is on Sunday, bro. Don't do that. Oh, it is. We all said goodbye. Goodbye means goodbye.

I'm sorry, Mama. But you still hung up on her. You heard her in mid-mid talk. She told you that she has trouble getting things out. She said, we appreciate her. She said, thank you. Damn, boy. See?

Just because the Dominican Day parade Sunday, you're showing up. You DJing? No. You DJ? You got to float, don't you? Who floats you on? A, um, a Dominican float is. It's funny.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1. If you need to vent, hit us now. It's the breakfast club. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Darius from D.C. Darius from D.C. What's up? Get it off your chest. Man, yesterday morning, I'm talking about McDonald's, you know, before I go to work and stuff. I see three cars with these full of teenagers,

and these kids are bad as hell. I'm talking about hanging out the window, got throwing shoes at each other car, telling these other cars behind them, what the fuck you're looking? I'm like, what the hell is going on with these teenagers in D.C.? Like, ain't no way in hell. I would let my daughter be out 6 o'clock in the morning

and riding around the car throwing stuff for each other. And I know my parents won't let me do that when I was a kid, man. They got to do somebody's teenagers in D.C. So why didn't you do your civic duty? and write down their license plate number and call the proper authorities. I'm not going to lie, I'm sure I wanted to. I was like, man, something need to happen, man.

These kids need to go jail or some of the parents in the pastime. Hey, hey, hey, come. Call the authorities, cops come when them kids get shot. I mean, his kids being teenagers. Man, just being stupid teenagers. You always be the first person to call the police. Shut.

He just told me why he does that. You ever be frightened for the radio. You wouldn't have seen those kids, man. Envy, if you were to see those kids, you probably caught up all. Like, it was ridiculous. Like, I was embarrassed for, like, my people. Like, I'm black. We all do stupid things when we were teenagers, man. That was bad, man. They all did stupid things when we were

teenagers, man. Envy, shut up. Now, if they were my property, I caught up a 911 one all day. But if they just didn't be out of... No, let them be stupid teenagers on your property, too, Envy. When they, let them do that. No. No, no, no. Let them be stupid. They're just stupid teenagers. Even when they're on your property, Envy. You got to call them.

No. Exactly. We got a police. Good morning, Darius. Appreciate y'all. All right, babe. Hey, yo. Guess what?

If you don't call the police on them, somebody else is. Hello, who's this? Good morning. How are you doing? My name is Eric. What's up, Eric? Get it off your chest. How you guys are you on this month?

Good. Good, good, bro. That sounds like me. Yeah. Uh, first off, I want you, I'm Big Ben, Sean, Maine. I got both for your books, Envy. I got the brother.

Thank you, brother. Been listening to y'all. a year. But I think it's crazy. Everything going on right now. I was watching TV the other day and a commercial came on saying that jobs, the job rate is going up, that income is going up, that inflation is going down. And it's that call Congress and tell him that President Trump's plan is working. And I'm like, who are they lying to? Like, we out here struggling. Like, it's crazy. I mean, but you saw him fire the, uh, the labor, the labor chiefs. last week because the labor chief

reported the actual statistics of, you know, the unemployment rate being high, but he fired them and said that they were wrong. But you cannot lie to the people. You can't pee on people's head and tell them it's raining. People know what they're feeling in the streets? Exactly. We have it.

But I appreciate you guys. I'm trying to get through for years. And one last thing before I go. Envy, I was at your car show a couple years ago. Me and my son take a picture with you. I appreciate it

We couldn't afford to go this year But I was wondering if I could You know get some tickets to bring them this year Yeah, where you're from? Right now I live in PA Yeah, come on, drive on up I got you, bring your son I put you on hold and get you some tickets

All right, I appreciate you All right, brother Yeah, so the car show is August 16th It's from 11 to 5 so Like I said, old school cars, new school cars Kids 5 and under are free So if you want to come, come on out That is next Saturday

get your tickets now and brother just stay on holding I got you all right All right thank you I appreciate it But you know it's so interesting man that's what I was saying A couple weeks ago

You know it's good when you create These spaces of joy Because that's what the car show is Right But just think about that brother That brother just wants to take his son To the car show But simply can't afford to

Right Just think about that You don't think how that frustrates people Yeah I just want to take my son to a car show But can't afford to a car show Just think about that

Yep How much of car show tickets Cause him They started at 1999 I think they're 29ed out now. That's so good. So $40. Yeah.

Essentially. Yeah. Just think about that. I can't afford $40 to go to a car show. And you're going to sit in and try to lie to people and tell them that the economy is good. Man, please. Yeah. Well, that's why we got to keep creating these spaces for us so that we can do affordable things and free things.

And as much as we can for people so they can just take the time. And, you know, instead of having that stress, instead of thinking about all the negative things, just have a little bit of joy. You know what I mean? Whatever it may be, you know? Yeah. So. That's what we love to do.

That's right. Well, get it off your chest. 800585-105.1. We have the latest with Lauren. Yes, we do. Y'all talk about spaces for us. Some of our spaces are going to be changing. The B-T hip-hop awards and Soul Train Awards are suspended.

We're going to get into why and what this means. How do they move forward? All right. I'm moving out the country, yo. We'll get into that next. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Where you go, Mexico?

Shut up. Can you afford to go out the country, though? Yeah, what the hell? Think about how much that whole move Your whole family And you got a Mexican in-laws now Once I be over there It's not they're going to get there

Their own way I'm gonna go on the plane Ladies and Lauren is next The Breakfast Club Morning everybody It's DJ NV Jess Alamoami and the guy

We are the Breakfast Club Let's get to the latest New Lauren y'allon y'allon Becoming a soul childish She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets to detail. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this.

The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On the breakfast club. Talk to me. So Scott Mills sat down from BET, sat down with Gail Mitchell over at Billboard,

and they had a conversation about BET's 45-year legacy. He's the CEO of BT. Yes, CEO BT, yes. And I had a conversation about the legacy of 45 years of BT. Now, within the conversation, they talked about a ton of different things, but one of the major things that came out of this interview was we learned that the

BET Hip-Hipop Awards and the BET Soul Train Awards are going to, or right now are suspended. So, Gail Mitchell asks Scott if he can confirm the chatter, because there have been conversation about two of BT awards shows the Soul Train and the

Hip Hop Awards no longer happening. So he says that, you know, he wouldn't say that it is, you know, not happening. He says that right now, as of right now, they are suspended. But basically what they're trying to figure out at BET is how do they bring or do these award shows in a way where the, it fits where the media landscape is today, because it might not mean that the hip hop awards or the Soul Train Awards have to be on linear TV. But he does say that they are not gone. I know yesterday, you know, I saw a conversation.

around the awards being completely gone and canceled. He says in this article, they are not going, going. They're just trying to find a way to rework it so that it fits where we are now. And when he says that, they had already previously had a conversation about, like, the other ventures that BET has. So whether it's BET Plus or, you know, BET Digital, where do they put the awards show so that they work out better? Now, she follows up this question when asking about the 2025 BET Awards.

Because when this year's BET Awards went down, although the show was amazing, the ratings were a lot lower than they were last year. year. So there have been conversation about the BET Awards being canceled as well, and because of the viewership. So she says viewership dropped almost 50% in a key demographic, which is 18 years old to 49 years old from last year's show. She asked Scott Mills, does he have any concerns about the longevity of the BET Awards? And he says, viewership was down, but the cable ecosystem is smaller, number one, than it was a year ago. And that's just the reality of it. But he also says that a lot of it has to do with the fact

that last year they changed the BET Awards from the Sunday that it's always on to a Monday. Now when that change was announced, people were confused because it's always on that certain Sunday. I think it's like the third Sunday in June. People were confused and people were wondering why. So I did some poking

around yesterday to try and figure out because he didn't answer the question as to why it was moved around. He just said that they were going to bring it back. They're going to take it back to the original Sunday. But the show was good. He gave a big props to Connie Orlando. It said, you know, they did an amazing job this year with the show, but we can't get around what happened.

And from what I was told, the reason why it was moved around was because there was a huge sporting event that was happening at that time that they couldn't work, like they needed certain venues and, you know, they used the J.W. Marriott Hotel and different venues,

and they didn't have access to the things that they needed, so they had to move the day. I was confused about that because I'm like, a show as big as the BT Awards, I thought you would book out the venues you need for years at a time, probably. And what I was told was that, sometimes people do do that but because again the landscape of things are changing every single day

it's hard to predict what will what won't happen a year from now two years from now so salute to scott mills but i don't know why he's complicating this these shows just aren't making no money yeah like that's just all that's just the moral of the story the reality of the situation none of these shows are making the money they need uh to to to be on to be on it's just that simple if these shows were making money and if these shows were profitable these shows it would be no question about none of these awards shows they'd be on Not only that, you know, you look at the hip hop awards. And if you don't have the top five hip hop artists coming to your show

and you're doing a hip hop award show, that kind of hurts as well, right? Whoever your top five award, you know, your top five rappers are. If you don't have Kendrick performing or Drake performing or Future or Travis Scott or whoever the top five is that people say, if they're not at your hip hop award show, it's kind of like, you know what I mean? You want to see that represented. And we've seen it represented. I mean, we've seen Michael Jackson at these awards shows when it was.

time for those wars shows. We've seen Hove. We've seen Dre. We've seen Snoot. We've seen Knows. Like we've seen T.I. We've seen our big celebrities. Envy makes a great point because the reality of the situation is artists treat these awards shows like they're disposable

and they don't come to them but they'll go to all the white award shows. And that's why the white award shows still get the viewership and that's why the white award show still get the sponsorships because they get the eyeballs. If the top artists came to these shows, they would get the eyeballs and they'd still be getting the money. But if you do that for years like they've been, like they've been ignoring

the BET Hip Hop Award and Soul Training Awards for years. If the top artists ignore those shows for years, eventually people stop watching and the money dries up. It's not rocket science, people. Yeah, you want to see your favorite artists. Your favorite artists are not there. The biggest artists are not there performing, you're less likely to watch it. But if I know my

favorite artist, the biggest artist, Kendrick is going to be performing or this one, you're going to watch. But those artists not performing. That will help with the sponsorships. Yeah, and he also talked about, too. Beatty went through a huge round of layoffs recently as well, too. And he talked about you know, just the money being different over the BT has been at this for a very long time

and the money has been different, uh, placing advertisers is different as well too because of the things that you guys are talking about. I think across the industry, we're seeing a lot of this, but I do think we are, we're impacted a lot differently because the fight for money is different for us. Scott Mills talked about that when he was up here on, uh, the breakfast club as well, but yeah, I saw a lot of people upset yesterday and, you know,

kind of like, whoa was us and we need these platforms, but people don't support the other shows. Give the people what they want. People don't support those shows. But you know what's so crazy? They always act upset when something is gone. But when it's here, you defecate on it

every chance you get. When it's on, you trash the award shows when they're on and you say that, you know, the award show is trash and blah, blah, blah. But then when it's gone, you're upset. Yeah, and you know what else? You got to stop treating your culture like it's disposable, but then get mad when it's disposed up.

You know, we haven't been having a conversation about, too, with this whole CBS thing and the skydance Merger and all that is VT. In 1920, a magazine article announced something incredible. Two young girls had photographed real fairies. But even more extraordinary than the magazine article's claim was the identity of the man who wrote the article, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who wrote Sherlock Holmes. Yes, the man who invented literature's most brilliant detective was fooled by two girls

into thinking fairies were real. How did they do it? And why does it seem like so many smart people keep falling for outlandish tricks? These are the questions we explore in hoax, a new podcast from me, Dana Schwartz, the host of Noble Blood. And me, Lizzie Logan.

Every episode will explore one of the most audacious and ambitious tricks in history, from the fake Shakespeare's to balloon boys, and try to answer the question of why we believe what we believe. Listen to hoax on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Stuff You Should Know guys have made their own summer playlist of their must listen podcasts on movies. It's me, Josh, and I'd like to welcome you to the Stuff You Should Know summer movie playlists.

What Screams Summer? More than a nice, darkened, air-conditioned theater, and a great movie playing right in front of you. Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films, even movies that change filmmaking and many more listen to the stuff you should know summer movie playlist on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts hey everyone it's j setty and on today's episode of on purpose i'm joined by four-time grand slam champion naomi osaka what i was dealing with at the time feeling a shame going against everything an athlete stood for after i pulled out of the french open i flew ranked as number one in the world and women's sing

A four-time Grand Slam tennis champion, Naomi Osaka. We would be constantly on the tennis court, and I would watch other kids go to summer vacation. And I would always think, dang, like, I kind of want to be someone else. What was the feeling like when you won your first Grand Slam at the U.S. Open? When I was growing up, I had dreams of playing Serena in my first Grand Slam final. It felt like a dream came true. I was just reading comments of people saying that I didn't deserve to win.

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. American history is full of wise people. What women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is gory. Those founding fathers were gossipy AF, and they love to cut each other down. I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history, and I find the answers, including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer. Hamilton pauses, and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said. It would have been harder to fake it.

than to do it listen to american history hotline on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts being over there and a lot of their content is going to be heavily impacted too if what we see is happening is actually happening with things being uh censored they uh in in the article gail mitchell mitchell acts scott mills about that and he he says that he's not going to speak to uh potential corporate outcomes uh because you know he's just going to basically like steadfast and stay focused. But how do you not be so scared and so nervous if you're BET under all of this censorship that we're seeing over SDBS

and Paramount and all the places? Like, BET isn't not no live programs? No, but they have. BET not doing nothing that need to be sensitive? Who on BET is saying, who on BET is making a stand or saying anything that's going to show? Maybe not day, no, maybe not daily, but like when voting time happens. Sisters?

Oh, sisters is going to Real? No. When BET does like their voter programs And like the go get out and vote Like they do take times When they do certain things

Where they are shooting back And they're running content That's in support Not in support of Donald Trump They might not get as vulgar But they do do their small things To try and like push BET senses theirself

And sometimes in ways that they shouldn't I mean People were so excited to see Chris Brown Do Michael Jackson They sent to him The thing that they censored themselves. And they do bad censorship, too. You'd be watching V-E-T and they'd be like, Mother Friar, Friar, Fring, Fring, Fring, Fring, Fring.

Like, what? Mother Friar and a Freak footer. He's like, what the hell just happened? Well, however they bring those shows back, and there's no timeline yet, but however they bring no shows back, please tune in. If the money ain't there, the shows ain't going to be there. It's really just that simple. If they can't get the sponsorships and get the money to be there to show, not going to be there. That's all. But, you know, like

what NV said earlier, it's true. If you get the best artist in the game to start showing up to these shows, more eyeballs will be on these shows. These shows will go viral more. You figure out the digital component, and, you know, the sponsorships will come back. Maybe. That's right. Right now, the money's dried up. And that is the latest with Lauren.

All right? Now, when we come back, we got front page news. More going to be joining us. And then BMX professional rider, Nigel Syvesta will be joining us. And we'll kick with him 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

Morning everybody is DJ NV, Jess Hilarious Charlemagne de Guy We are the Breakfast Club Let's get back in some front page news What's up Morgan? What's up? Is that okay Some five soldiers

Fort Stewart in Georgia are recovering after being shot Wednesday morning That's according to Brigadier General John Lubis who also identified the shooter As Sergeant Cornelius Radford Now Radford was stationed at the base and has not been in combat. Brigadier General John Lubis gave details on the shooting at Fort Stewart.

Let's take a listen to his comments. This morning, shortly before 11 o'clock, an active duty soldier assigned to Fort Stewart, Georgia, shot and wounded five of his fellow soldiers here on Fort Stewart. Thankfully, all are in stable condition and all are expected to recover. Sergeant Radford has been interviewed by the Army Criminal Investigation Division. and is currently in pre-trial confinement awaiting a charging decision by the office of the special trial counsel. So as mentioned, Radford was stationed at the base but had not been in combat. Now, Lubis says Radford was subdued by fellow soldiers and is under arrest.

He is believed to have used his own personal handgun in the shooting, not an army-issued weapon. And, of course, the investigation into the shooting continues. Meanwhile, President Trump called Radford a horrible person. and he smoked more about the shooting at Forest Stewart in Georgia from the White House on Wednesday. Let's take a listen to Trump's remarks regarding that shooting. The shooter is now in custody and the Army Criminal Investigation Division is on site to ensure that the perpetrator of this atrocity, which is exactly what it is, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The entire nation is praying for the victims and their families and hopefully they'll fully recover.

we can put this chapter behind, but we're not going to forget what happened. I'm going to take very good care of this person that did this horrible person. Yeah, so unfortunate. It's interesting. He said, we're going to put this chapter behind us, but that's

exactly what it is. I wouldn't even call it a chapter. It's just another paragraph within a chapter of a never-ending book, right? Because there's nothing that's going to be done to prevent any of these mass shootings in the future. There's not going to be no gun legislation. There's and funding for mental health resources.

So what do you do? But on this case, like, what do you do? Like, you know, he was, he's military. I mean, he was his own personal handgun, but it's like, you know, what do you do to stop a lot of this? Because is it mental health? Is it therapy? Is it registered something?

Because you would expect him to be okay because he would expect him to be okay. But investigators are not calling it terroristic as of yet. But there has been some speculation around him dealing with racism at that base. But again, that's just. speculation at this point. So again, the investigation is ongoing. But to your point, what can you do? And I don't know how long he's been in the military. I don't know if that, you know, if he was a combat soldier or not, but we do know that a lot of those veterans deal with mental

health issues. I thought that right. I don't think he was a combat soldier. I don't think he was deployed. Oh, okay. I think I read that. He did not. So it wasn't like he was, you know, receiving, you know, that he was getting flashbacks or anything like that. It's just, you know, you just don't know. You know, when people snap, they snap. But yeah, I guess it's getting to the reason of happening, you know, to figuring out before it happens, you know, I don't know. To your point, though, envy, sometimes that can also be, you know, mentally challenging for people to have, to be training for combat, to be training for all of these, you know, high stakes type situations and then to never actually use that training, that can, you know, probably play

on your mental health as well. But, you know, I'm not going to get ahead of the investigation and speculate too much, but yeah, we will continue. But clip, but clearly he did. I'm not justifying it In any way, I'm just saying, you know, people deal with things differently. Yeah. Meanwhile, in international affairs, a meeting with President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian President Zelensky, could happen next week. That's according to multiple reports. Now, the New York Times reports that he plans to meet with Putin first and then with both of the leaders together. Trump spoke of his plans to meet with them when talking to European leaders on Wednesday after his special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, held a meeting with Putin in Moscow.

Trump said Steve Wetkoff had good talks with Putin in Russia this week, and when he was asked if there was a breakthrough, here's what Trump had to say. I don't call it a breakthrough. I mean, we've been working on this a long time. There are thousands of young people dying, mostly soldiers, but also, you know, missiles being hit into Kiev and other places. Yes, so Trump has been pushing to end the fighting between the two countries, Russia and Ukraine, and has grown increasingly frustrated with what he calls Putin's in action toward any sort of ceasefire deal. Now, he gave Russia until Friday, that's tomorrow, to agree to a ceasefire or he would place sanctions against them. So we'll see what happens regarding the ceasefire deadline tomorrow on Friday. What Trump needs to do is call Dana White and let Dana White come in and Zelensky and Putin run the fade right there. Because the reality of the situation is the beef is between the two governments, right? But then, you know, all of the, you know, civilians of these countries get caught up in the middle of these guys' war.

let them run the fade right there and you know whoever wins that's who wins the war game it's over after that but you know what too oh you know how they do the slap the slap contest when he slapped each other's face just three times it's just it's over after that they could have to do that too i got Putin in that I got Putin in the slap contest I got yeah I got Zelensky in a straight-up fade I got Zelensky he trained he looks like he gets busy and Putin looks like a little old they look like you slap one time he brings wrong Bro, Putin Russell's best, bro. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. I forgot about that.

But I thought he was a little sick, but okay. All right. I don't have a slap contest, just straight up standing there, and you got to wind up. I got Putin. But in a fade, I got Zelisky. Okay. All right, child, before I go, my last story, more Americans are falling behind on their bills. This seems to be a trend for today's show.

More Americans are falling behinds on their bills because of student loan payments. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's quarterly report on household debt and credit report released this week shows that about 4.4% of U.S. accounts were delinquent in the second quarter. That's up from 4.3% in the first quarter and 3.2% in the second quarter of last year. So the numbers are trending upward. The report says the rise in late bills is being driven largely by the return of student loan payments after a nearly five-year pause. Of course, that took place during the pandemic.

and by delinquent loans being reported to collection agencies again. So total debt among U.S. households also rose in the second quarter by about 1%. So to your point, the people are struggling, and it doesn't seem like there's any ease as of coming anytime soon. So that's your front page news. Y'all can check me out. Follow me on socials. I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me at Morgan Media.

And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free IHeartRadio app and visit us at B.I. news.com. Thank y'all. Thank y'all. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Good one. When we come back, we got BMX, professional BMX rider Nigel Sylvester. He's some queens, big queens, and he's coming to talk

about some of the things that he's doing. He has a deal with McDonald's, a deal with the MTA, deal with Mercedes, deal with Team Jordan, and we're going to talk to him next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious.

Shalameenig. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Rosa is here as well and we got a special guest in the building pro BMX biker athlete. Brothers from Queens, Nigel Sylvester, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome. Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Big Queens. Big Queens in a building. How are you feeling? Incredible. Incredible. God welcome me this morning so it feels great.

There you go. When we get brothers like you I like to start from the beginning of how, right? Right. So you're from Laurelton Queens. Yes, sir. Which is north side, which is the same side of Queens. I'm from from Queens Village. and growing up in Queens we all rode bikes, right? But we didn't ride to the caliber

that you rode for. We rode to go to the park, we rode to go to the store, the bodega, to go to the white castles, to go to Wendy. We rode for all those places, right? We had to dives the Brooklyn kids from trying to steal our bikes all the time.

But you took a different route. So start what you growing up in Queens and how you got into BMX biking and taking it serious. I mean, just like you said, right, like we grew up riding bikes in that capacity to get from point to point B, for me it was like during that point to point B

I was like I want to jump off this curve or I want to pop a willie or like I was curious in that way and that just man it took me down a route of like okay like how far can I take this right like how many steps can I jump down I want to grind this bench over here and once I started to discover

that you can do it professionally I was like oh this is what I want to do I was sold after that but what got you into that because growing up in Queens you know sometimes we idolize basketball players because we see them Right. We see Mark Jackson from Queens, Stevenson, and all these other people. We see rappers run DMC, Tribe Corps, Quest, 50, and whoever it was.

We've seen them, DJs, Jam Master Jay, Clue, myself. But what got you in to say, you know what, I can do this professionally? What was, what were you watching that says, I want to do this? I've seen it on TV, right? I've seen X games on TV, seeing guys like Dave Miller and Matt Hoffman and Ryan Nyquist, and these guys were flying through the air. They had their helmets on and their chest protectors. all the stickers on their bikes, and it was super cool to me.

I was just intrigued. I was like, damn, that looks dope. And, of course, like, I would see, like, basketball players on TV and rapists, as you mentioned, and that was dope to me as well, you know what I mean? But it was something about bike rider and that. It just clicked for me. It was different. How old were you when you really started taking it serious?

I was, like, 12 years old. Yeah. And I just always have a big imagination as well, right? Like, I'm just living on my imagination still. But even then, I was like, man, like, it's something about this bike that. that I'm thinking about different things that I want to do and I'm going outside

and trying it in real time, right? Just figuring it out. Like, I would take, like, a old tire and a board and make a ramp and, like, go back 30, 40 feet and just pedal as fast as I can hit that ramp and fly through the air.

And it was something about that feeling of flying through the air that became, like, it was just like adrenaline rush for me and I felt in love with it. You built a, like, you would build a ramp. Hell yeah, building ramps.

Yeah. I'm going to, like, Sinclair's park and the school and I'm grinding on like marble ledges and whatnot and anything I could find I could jump on with my bike, I would do it. Now, you're also from Caribbean descent.

Yeah. So what did your Caribbean parents say when you say, Ma, I want to ride bikes and the bikes that you're talking about are not the bikes from TSS TAR. Yeah, and those type of stores. You had professional bike with professional pegs. Them bikes were a lot of money back then.

So how did that work? Man, like my mom, she didn't really like to watch me ride. like any mom she was like I don't want you to see you hurt yourself like I'm afraid for you and things of that nature but um the thing that she did that I applaud her for that she gave me the freedom to go out and try

you know what I mean like she may have not wanted to watch me do it because she was afraid of me like hurt with myself but she let me go out in the neighborhood and do my thing and let me hang out with other kids who rode bikes and whatnot so that like that was what that was and when I turned pro like she didn't really understand it at first but it took her a minute

But once she got it, she was like, okay, cool, and it was in full support of it. So shout out to Mama Sylvester. You've been working with Nike for over a decade now, right? Yeah. It's been how long? It's been over 15 years now. How old were you when you started working with them? I was 18.

So, yeah, it's crazy. Was that before you were pro? It was right after. Okay, got you. Because I was going to ask, because when you were a kid, I saw an interview you did. You talked about when you were a kid, Nike, was just sending you stuff. And I was wondering, like, at what point, because, you know, social media is, it's not new, but, like, people understand how to use social media in your lane.

You're, like, you're one of the people that I think people look at because we don't really know too much about black BMX bike riders. How did you know to, like, do what you do to attract the brands that young? For sure. So BMX has, like, a proper industry, right? Like, there's a way to turn pro. Like, in that way, it's pretty much, like, it's either you ride contests and sponsors would see you, like, at these contests.

Or you can be a free rider, which is, like, creating content, I would say would be the equivalent. and like putting that content out into the world. And I took like the free ride route where like I didn't ride in contests, didn't care for that. Those concerts never really came to like New York City and things of nature. Unconventional way to turn pro-po. Extremely.

Extremely. Extremely. And I was actually on a tour. We went down to North Carolina to meet Dave Mira, who was the dude, not dude, but the athlete, the legend that gave me my first shot to like to turn pro. And when I, and when I met him, he just took a liking to me and at this point in time

I would compare Dave Merritt he's like that Michael Jordan of BMX riding you know I mean so we were down there met him he's like yo I'm starting this brand I want to sign you to the brand what's the name of the brand

the brand is called Miracle Bikes so he ended up signing me to the brand maybe four months after meeting him and while I was on that trip I met a gentleman by the name of Mark Losey Mark Losey would end up going on to be the team manager of the Nike BMX program so shortly after

signing with Dave mirror, Mark Losey was like, cool, like I'm at Nike now. I'm going to sign you. So I literally signed, I turned pro and signed to Miracle bikes and Nike all within the year of turning 18. Was there any pressure for yourself? Because I know growing up, even watching television in the X games, there wasn't too many black people doing it. Right. So now you are kind of the black guy that does it. Is there any pressure knowing that all these kids are looking up to you because you're the one that looks like me. You're the one that looks like. You're the one that looks like my brother you're the one that came from the place that I came is there any pressure with that no because there were black BMX athletes on a professional level before me you know and a lot

have come after me um I'm just doing my thing honestly I don't feel any pressure for me it's a fraud pressure for that for me is more I put the pressure on myself to be the best that's what it matters to me at this point like I'm here for a reason and I want to leave a mark that will stand the test of time you were probably one of the first that really mixed the culture together right because usually when you see a bmx biker you'd be like that's not me i like like i like that doesn't represent me yeah or if you see somebody be like ah he doesn't wear what i wear but you were totally different right like you you were the i don't want to say the hip-hop bmx biker but you were the hip-hop biker like you were the one who's like you're the one's like

you're like me listen to the music i listen to so explain that a little bit in that breakdown i mean i think it's similar to what you just said right like we grew up not too far from one another so that was the environment you know i mean like i'm watching like my older brothers what not come through a block and rimmed up maximus and lexuses and whatnot and like i'm watching music videos on tv and i'm going to the colisean block to go shop to go buy jerseys and warm-ups and fitted hats i'll come from that so when i turn pro even just like bmx rider in general i naturally mix those two things together because it's just that's just who i was that's been I never was, but who I am.

You know what I mean? So that's why it looks like, that's why it comes across like that, and it comes across real. It's not, like, forced or I'm not living outside of myself with doing something that's not me. We're still kicking it with professional BMX rider, Nigel Sylvester. Was it difficult for you because during that time, it was a lot of BMXs were so crossover, right?

They were so Arakhran-Fitch, but you weren't. So was it difficult to get deals and difficult to get placements and places you need to be because you weren't like the rest of them? I definitely felt friction at times, and especially within the industry, right? At a certain point in time, and she was like, oh, like, you're trying to be a rapper. Like, you're too hip-hop for us. And I was like, what are you talking about?

Like, this is who I am. So I think it took them a minute to get that. But what's also interesting, though, it was like, for me coming up, I'm watching BMX videos, and guys are using rap songs and things that nature in these songs. Again, like, they were black BMX riders or riders of color way before me. right, I just took it to another level, right? When you see me in a music video where ASAT Ferg and people are just like, whoa, that's different.

But at the same time, like, Ferg rode in BMX bikes, you know what I mean? Like, we're cool. Hell yeah, Ferg rode bikes. Frege was in one of my first videos back, I think it was like 2008 or 2009 or something like that before he's even started rapping. I know, but you could tell his fashion, too. He dresses a lot like, yeah, I mean, like, it's just part of what we do, right? Like, just because you ride bikes doesn't mean how we're not into other things.

it means that that doesn't mean that we're confined to one space. Right. I mean, like, nah, like, it's just part of what we do. Growing up in the hood, like, you ride bikes, you know what I mean? And that's good is you make it look relatable, though, because, I mean, you make it more relatable because although bikers do more than just ride bikes, to some kids, some kids may think that's like a category where it's like, you know, not, like, like, for instance, NASCAR. You don't see a lot of black NASCAR drivers, you know what I mean?

So, to your point, like, what you do, you make it look more accessible. and more relatable to like somebody growing up in Queens now or Brooklyn or whatever. Right. And that's super important to me though, right? Like I want kids from those neighborhoods to know that they can do this too. You know what I mean? Like why not? You know, like just because you're from a certain neighborhood or from a certain environment

or a certain situation doesn't mean that you have to be confined to only doing certain things. You know, so like. Like rapping or playing basketball. That's not the only two hours. We can do way more. Yeah. We can do way, way more.

Talk about a little bit about brand trust. because one of the things I thought was interesting like in your packaging because Nike is very particular with their brand but they let you do the bike over the Nike and I know that you also had that on a shoe

like one of your first shoes you did with Jordan right yeah I love it how cool it looks yeah but it's fine it's fire right and even so like if y'all I was really researching yesterday

because I think what you do is so far but if you look closely there's like a distorted text on this right Nike don't play about their branding how was it for you was it your idea say, hey, can we do the Nike as bike?

And were they just down? Or did they come to you with that? No, so what I did my first AJ1, my first collaboration with Jordan Brand was in 2017. And that's when the idea sparked. I remember I was sitting in like the energy design room looking at one of the reference shoes that we were using. I'm looking at the label just like this. I'm like, man, it would be so cool if we just turn the end to a B.

And at that point in time, we were like, no way they'll let us do it. So we just sat on the idea. and this is when I was still signed to the Nike side of the business. I signed to the Jordan Brin side of the business in 2021. And the first shoe I worked on when I signed to the Jordan Brin side of the business, it was a Friends and Family Shoe. It was a Nike Airship, which is the first shoe that MJ Word and came into the league before the AJ won.

And because it was a Friends and Family shoe, I was like, yo, maybe they'll let us do it now. So we did it. And then once we posted it online, it went crazy. I think it was because of the concept made so much sense. right like people have watched me on my bike in the air or my entire career right so when you take something like that and then you you bring it together with bike air and it's like oh just make so much sense that that's why it just took off um and now like all the shoes that I'm doing to have

bike air on it's right do you like resellers reselling your sneakers and I because some of it like the brick by bricks it was like World War II out here you got to know it was crazy it went stupid. Almost impossible to find. You like that or no, because how do you benefit from resellers? That's part of the culture. That's a part of the culture.

You know, like, the fact that people want to pay two, three, four times over, like, the retail price for the shoe, it just says that I mean, like, they love the product. They relate to the story. It has equity in it.

You know what I mean? The resale game is a whole industry, you know what I mean? Like, people feed themselves and feed their families off of that game. So shout out to the resellers, man. Do y'all thing. I also riding, when I was a kid riding, we didn't have helmets, right? We didn't wear helmets, right? So what was the

worst injury that you got riding and what happened? I was going to ask this question, man. I think people look at BMX and it's like, man, it's like the most dangerous thing. It can be. It can be. One trip, one missa. It's just as dangerous as any

other sport, right? Think about a running back, coming through the line is Ray Lewis right there, ready to... But at least he got some padding. Yeah, there's something, there's rules and regulations. And you know when to expect it. But the bike riding is like, it could not happen, but it could also happen insanely. I watched Nigel's do something the other day and I'm like, no disrespect. Nigel is getting up there in age.

I'm like, his body ain't going here. I got scared. You got a helmet, no knee pads. No, I mean, I don't go with the fit. This is the new Jen that we like just dropped a couple minutes ago. Yeah, and this is like probably mid to you, but I'm was like, whoa. My knees hurt washing me.

So what was the worst, the worst injury? Um, I broke my wrist on my 19th birthday. Like, that was terrible for me. It was my first major injury. Um, and from then it's just like bruises, you know what I mean? Like my shins are all jacked up. Um, again, I've been doing this for so long. Like any athlete, you get to that point where it's like, man, you, of course you can

experience injury. It's part of the game. Right. Um, and to your point, but also like, yes, you, like, you know to expect that you're gonna get hit when you're playing football it's the same thing like but you like you're like trying not to but the same thing with bike riding right like you're trying to land every single trick you're not trying to hurt yourself right and it's a it's a true art form right like you don't just go out and just jump off or something like you work your way up to that right so

if you're trying to go jump down 10 stairs you're gonna try two first master that then you go to four six so forth and so on um and it's everything is very thoughtful right like it's not just like i'm wake up today and you try like this thing i never tried before no like you it's calculated right it's all calculated and by and for me personally being as calculated as i am i have i guess like limited the amount of injuries i and of course by like the grace of god but you still enjoy nato do you still enjoy ride of it because i love it when you wake up in the morning you can be like i could take the Ferrari i can take the me back or i can take this bike so do you still enjoy it like now i'm going to take the bike

I love it, man. I got the bike in the back of the wagon right now. You know what I mean? We'll do some tricks in Times Square. Yeah, you just pull up some times and get busy. You know it's a big-ass staircase in that, Times Square. You're going to go to jump down and just got you out there with the TikToks in the way. Right.

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The Stuff You Should Know guys have made their own summer playlist of their must listen podcasts on movies. It's me, Josh, and I'd like to welcome you to the Stuff You Should Know Summer movie playlist. What Screams Summer? More than a nice, darkened, air-conditioned theater, and a great movie playing right in front of you. Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films, even movies that change filmmaking, and many more.

Listen to the stuff you should know summer movie playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey, everyone, it's Jay Shetty, and on today's episode of On Purpose, I'm joined by four-time Grand Slam champion, Naomi Osaka. What I was dealing with at the time, feeling a shame, going against everything an athlete stood for. After I pulled out of the French Open, I flew.

Ranked as number one in the world in women's singles. A four-time grand slam tennis champ, Naomi Osaka. We would be constantly on the tennis court, and I would watch other kids go to summer vacation. And I would always think, dang, like, I kind of want to be someone else. What was the feeling like when you won your first Grand Slam at the U.S. Open? When I was growing up, I had dreams of playing Serena in my first Grand Slam final. It felt like a dream came true. I was just reading comments with people saying that I didn't deserve to win.

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. American history is full of wise people. What women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is gory. Those founding fathers were gossipy AF, and they love to cut each other down. I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history, and I find the answers, including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer. Hamilton pauses, and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Suss. Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said. It would have been harder to fake it than

to do it. Listen to American History Hotline on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I love it, man. I still enjoy going to the skate park. I still love being out there, finding spots challenging myself in that way like it's still my truest form of self-expression is BMX riding you know we're still kicking it with professional BMX rider Nigel Sevesta what would you tell that that younger kid right now that that's watching you that wants to get into BMX biking his parents probably be like that's not a real job you get a real job what would you tell that younger kid right now I would tell them to show your parents my

Instagram and show that it is a real thing um also man just do what you you love honestly bro like that's I live by that still you know what I mean like I'm living out my imagination I'm creating I stay curious and I think that allows me to come with these ideas and and I work super hard to get these things out into the world so that younger kid man just do what you love just work hard I know it sounds cliche but it's so true like feel all you got to sit in here right now because of that right like you love what you do and you dedicate yourself to it really even watching you like to watch you like to watch you and it Instagram all the time to see you up here now.

Even when you guys announced it, I was like, that's super dope for you. So congrats to that. So just lock in and stay focused. Now, the sneaker, the new sneaker's there to release. Yeah. It would come out on the 16th. Yep. Now, break these sneakers down.

So the fours of Jordan Falls, of course, sold out crazy. Brick by brick was, I guess, your mentality if you had to do this brick by brick. Yeah, to build this thing, brick by brick, man. Now, explain the new collab. These are the AJ1 low, better with times. and it's modeled, well, this is the second iteration of my first AJ one. We did the same exact shoe in a high top

and it was a cream color way. You see like the distress marks here basically tell the story of how my sneakers get distressed when I'm out riding with them. So my bike has no brakes on them. It's crazy. So I used my sneakers to stop. I literally just noticed that the front of it

is already, is like, distressed, but it looks like a design. Exactly. It decides too. And each shoe is hand distressed. so no two shoes has the same distress marks or no like no one has the same pair in a sense damn that's but yeah it just tells the story of like things getting better with time you know like when you dedicate yourself when you stay focused on something like it gets better with time right when like

your favorite pair of jeans or your favorite vintage t-shirt or a vintage car you know i mean like those things get better with time and i really want to tap into that i feel i'm at this place in my life right now I've dedicated so much time to bike riding, so much energy to it and it's only gotten better for me and I feel like we all have that thing that has gotten better with time. Even about your shoe that you got now,

the AJ one, man, you say how you use your shoe to stop yourself because you know, there's no brakes right? Shoes have come a long way. Like you actually have like a distressed shoe. I used to what my son asked for messing up with head ones.

And he had bricks on his bike And he would still stop So it's so dope that you're doing that Like that's dope because Yo kids shoes are expensive Especially for your boys' men Like when all your feet grow big At a faster pace

And I ain't about to be So I'm gonna buy some distressed ass shoes For my son so he ain't got to That's actually a good That's actually a good thought though Right because like we kind of taught To not mesh your sneakers And now we're selling sneakers that come to stress

Yes you should have me do a commercial I'm going to keep that in mind. I'll be keep that in mind. It's also interesting, too, because the first one we did that came distressed, it was one of the first shoes, I think it was the first shoe that Jordan Brand ever done that has come pre-dressed. So that also, like, set off a wave of a lot of distressed shoes coming after it. How did you partner with MTA?

How did debt come about? That's big to me. We all grew up on the RTA, man. You probably fucking up the subway train. Exactly. We got to get this guy with us. Yes. You're the ambassador for the MTA's ride inside.

That's crazy. Like, that's dope. Yo, who's some good? They hit my line. It was like, we're trying to do something. I love it. No, but no, like that, the current campaign that's running with the MTA, it's meaningful. There are a lot of kids that are getting hurt because they're subway surfing, and it's super dangerous.

Over 4th of July, we've seen some unfortunate things happen. And so when NTA approached me, so listen, we're facing this issue, we'd love to partner with you to combat this issue. It's like 100% I believe in it. And we launched the campaign, what, like two months ago already? A month ago? About two months ago. Ride it alive and stay inside.

I like that. Yeah, right. I stay alive. So, no, it's dope. And for me, so I grew up taking a train from Queens to the city to go ride like the Brooklyn Banks and meet with my friends. So now I have the opportunity to partner with the MTA on a very, you know, on a very, positive initiative man it means a lot to me what was the biggest obstacle you

faced throughout your whole career with everything that you did right what was the biggest obstacle the biggest problem i think i'm still facing that it's just educating people on what bmx is you know and continuing to set like set the stage for it and like open the door per se you know there's still a lot of people who don't know what it is or don't respect it in the way that it should be so um again it's just educating people on what bmx is and like showing the world like how powerful the bicycle is. You know, I always say the bicycle

is the most accessible motor transportation in the world. Anywhere you go in the world, you'll see someone riding a bicycle. You can't go outside without seeing it. I think there's so much power to unlock and that's the mission I'm on right now. And do you consider yourself an athlete? 100%.

Some people feel like an athlete is a basketball player. But they haven't seen some of the s'all be doing. Right. Because that's actually athletic. No, I can't do it. Most people can't. I mean, listen, like, there's so much training that, like, goes into it. And I was having a conversation yesterday.

I was doing this interview. I was like, like, in my younger days, I didn't consider myself an athlete, like, prior to going pro. But once I went pro, I got also signed to Gatorade, like, shortly after going pro. And they have a sports science institution in Chicago where, like, they'll bring athletes in and, like, pretty much test, like, your reaction, your stamina, all of the things. And I went there. and I spent the whole day there doing these different tests, right? Like, again, they had me on a treadmill,

they had these tubes coming out, like, whatever. And my results was like, man, like, your body is working just as hard as a basketball player or a football player. Like, you're doing, like, you're on the same level as that. And that's when it hit me. I was like, oh, no, yeah, like, I'm legit an athlete. Yeah.

Yeah, like, my, like, vehicle is different. I mean, my body operates in a different way, but I'm 100% an athlete. First and foremost There you have it, man Make sure you pick up his sneaker That comes out on the 16th And tell him about Go ride again this weekend

Listen, go ride 2025 is happening this weekend We're here in New York, Miami and Mexico City Go on my Instagram At Nigra Sylvester For all the details People got a register or they can just pull up

They can pull up and register When you get there Just sign a little waiver And we're going to ride out And have really good time You're starting in New York this weekend Start in New York this weekend One borough

I'm in Manhattan Manhattan. We're going to do 15 miles and then we jump on the jet. I'm going to go down to Miami. But no, y'all not jumping on a jet with them. No, no, no, no, no. They're not jumping on a jet with him. I'm not coming to the jet.

I got to get on a jet. I'm not going to get on a jet. I'm not going to be a bikey bike. Trying to jump on a jet with you. You should still come out. Her hair will fly right off, Nigel. Her hair will be in Queens. And she's trying to get the man.

Stop playing with her. It's okay because he starts sweating. We don't want to talk about what starts flying. Oh, man. Y, y'all's shooting in here. This is, this is. Let me not catch his straight. I know, right.

Nigel, ladies and gentlemen, make sure you follow him and go on and ride and we appreciate you. And I love the fact you to represent the borough all the time. Big Queens.

Shout out to Big Queens. Queens get the mother. Thank you. Nigel Sylvester. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV.

Jess hilarious. Shalameen the guy. We are the breakfast club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fat She gets him from somebody that knows somebody She gets the details I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything

She'd be having the latest on this The latest with Lauren La Rosa Sometimes you have facts Sometimes you have details Sometimes you have a little bit everything What's the latest? On the breakfast club Talk to me

All right y'all so Diddy We've been I guess wondering What he was going to do once release Whenever that happens And now we have an answer to it because his attorney, Mark Agnifilio, sat down for an interview and talked about Diddy's plans to return to music? Let's take a listen. What is it that Sean Combs wants people to know?

He wants people to know that I think that he has reflected on the blessings that he's been given, on the imperfections that I think he sees in himself. I think he's someone who is always going to strive to do something, you know, exceptional and probably demanding and challenging. but I think the most demanding and challenging thing in front of him right now is to get back with his kids and get back with his mother and the people who love him and miss him. So he's talked to you about getting back into music if he's released? No, no, honestly he has not. Okay.

One thing he said, he said, he said, he's going to be back in Madison Square Garden. He said that. He did. He said to me, he's going to be back in Madison Square Garden. Doing what? I guess being on stage. I think that was so dumb for his attorney to say that. I agree. It's like he's not home yet

He's not out He still has to face sentencing You know The part where he said Yeah The part where he said Yeah He wants to get out

He wants to be with his kids He wants to reflect on his imperfections That's great But now All of that is great Back in the garden Like what? What are you talking about?

Like what are you talking Like you should even be In my opinion You should even be doing an interview Until his sentences Like you don't want anything To reflect this judge or anything Because the judge has TV

Ladies and gentlemen Like the judge has For iPhones and Instagram as well They're not supposed to be influenced by that Every conversation should be about Every conversation should be about rehabilitation Every conversation should be about healing Every conversation should be about

You know reflecting about the things that you did That were wrong That's it Nothing more and nothing less We shouldn't be hearing about nothing else His attorney didn't have to take that interview His attorney could have said No comment we're going to wait to after sentence

And you don't want And like you said Yeah the judge is not supposed to be influenced by anything out there but people are. People are not perfect, so they are. So why give him anything to feel away about? Well, shout out to Jerica Duncan,

who was the journalist that Mark Agnifilio sat down with over at CPS Mornings. That was my girl, I met her at court. She gathered him. That doing what, said everything that needed to be said. I'll tell you one thing. Top dog law would never. Top dog law would know they place they would never do what Mark Agnifilio just did. Mm-hmm.

Well, speaking of music being therapy Offset sat down for an interview. He, you know, is releasing a new project and he sat down with the Joe Budden podcast and talked about music being his therapy and some of the things to come. Now, in this interview, of course, he had a conversation about Cardi B

and some of the things that we've been seeing play out. So they talked about how he plans to approach the music that he has coming and whether or not we can expect him to throw some shots, Cardi's way. Let's take a listen to that. It's therapy. I ain't doing that on the album like,

I ain't the shots like like I ain't doing that I might like speak on like life situations but like I'm not doing that I told myself that ain't that ain't the way to do it like you know what I mean there's too much involved with family

kids like that's gonna be lame 10 years from now that's a fact that's a fact great answer he's definitely right yes the question that they asked him directly was what can will you

what will we be hearing from you now Now, I will say, though, Offset does take some time in this interview to big himself up a bit. And he talks about outside, the record that Cardi B dropped because obviously Cardi B threw some shots at him in that song. Now, let's take a listen to Offset on the outside record. I actually know about the song for the song come out, like, prior to the bull's happening. It's everything be a time and thing. But that record been done for, like, I know about the record. I know the record.

So we're done It's not like a thing It looked like high look That made it seem like The record was done before And it's not actually this record That is just a record That she's done before

He did get into saying That it's a time and thing Yes that there are things Were done before But I feel like things had to be changed Yeah absolutely It's too much direct Yeah

Too many direct shots thrown Like of course The beat was probably done And she had whole other verses Or whatever But she definitely probably Yeah because she mentioned The locker room right

Yeah Yeah all of that yes now I will say though in this conversation as well when I was talking about picking himself up also talked about like just what it's like watching women that leave him in general or that he decides out to be with whatever however they went how that works for them after let's take a listen to that if someone cheats up or down which one hurts more my truth I ain't never met none that I left went up so I don't know how to experience Tom him withy Jones

I think that was the dumbest question that anybody could ask. Why, you don't believe in cheating up? I just, what the hell does that mean, Long? That means when you leave a person, you go find somebody that you deem better than the person that you left. Not someone that the person that you left could be like, oh, you ain't doing nothing over there. Like, somebody that's doing better, whatever you deem better as the person you were with. So how is it cheating? Would you mean to cheat up or cheat down?

Like, I don't understand. And sometimes it's not even cheating. It's just like when you leave a person, do you date up or date down? Okay. That's not when he asks, do you cheat up or cheat down? Like, it's just, I don't know, it's just goofy. But it may be a thing, but it's just stupid. Like, who is, I don't know, who asked that?

And how is Offset Post to answer that? Yeah, like, what answer is it? Of course nobody. Of course I don't think nobody better than me. Right, right. And I would have said, I'm Hemetty, too, if I was him, you know what I mean? Like, he bigged up itself as he's supposed to, but I just, I don't know. The question was just weird to me.

It's stupid. God, yeah, I mean, especially because. who's going to admit to the cheating. Yeah, well, yeah, I cheat up or, you know, because I cheat down, you know, because I don't want my girl to feel. I was like, what the, what? Well, I thought Elsaid handled this interview pretty well.

I thought he addressed the things that people wanted to know pretty well. I thought he kept it respectful, and I thought that he did what y'all said. He was, you know, made himself the biggest as he feels. I like how he answered the question about not throwing shots. His kids are involved. The family is involved. I think that's dope.

That's good. I mean, because we've seen them publicly feuding. but he's fell back a lot you know what I mean and he's promoting his music and the music is fire I think that's the main thing and that's what I told him

put out a dope record and that record he put out his fire he did that the record is watching what his body's doing what his body's doing right now I'm not sure what it was on the trucks we played every morning but

he said go look at the numbers in the interview and it is fire as well he did talk about that interview too like just putting J. J.O.J.D. J.D. Oh, I thought it was Jid Now, Cardi B, not direct response, but

I do want to say real quick, real quick while we're on this, I still want the label to do more for offset in that record. Okay, and I guess, you know, we're about to see like the rollout. I guess we're about to see the rollout and stuff now because I see him popping up doing interviews. But, you know, yes, I want more behind offset because he deserves it because that record bodies is dope. Yeah, I saw him do the, like it took over in Times Square as well.

but I do feel like the song should be bigger like it is a really It's a really It's a lot of like a month and a half or something like that Yeah about a month and a half Yeah, about a month and a half

It's getting there All right Well that is the latest with Laura So Just Fix My Mess is coming up In a little bit So if you have relationship issues Or you want to talk to her

Because she's a lot tired today 8005851051051 For Just Fixed my message Shalamey don't hear today Man For after the hour I want a man named Ruda Saunders to come to the front of the congregation

and I'm telling you right now, Envy, he's the reason I don't want to play with you no more, okay? I've been told you to stop playing, but here's the reason we will discuss. All right, and let's get into Allstate's record right now. This one is featuring it is body's top of the hour. Let's get that on. Wake up. Wake up.

You're like to enter into the breakfast club. Some donkey the days just saw themselves. I haven't watched me, Charler, man. I was ready for you. I never heard of a donkey. I never heard of a donkey. the other day. What is it? Say it again, Charlemagne. I'm a donkey. Yes, you

are a don't. I'll show you how to add a donkey. Everything Charlemagne is true. Is it? Is it really? Donkey of the day for Thursday, August 7th, goes to a former University of Cincinnati Medical Center doctor named Rudell

Saunders. Let me be the first to tell you that there's some freaky-ass fellas on this planet. Okay, now I have gotten on this radio on my podcast over the years and pretended to be a freak, especially in my younger days, okay, when I was getting my hip-hop,

how it's turning on. But there's a difference between talk and actions. And that's why you have to stop playing and pretending because some people on this planet are really about that freak life, okay? All right? That freak life we'd be playing about.

There's some people out here that are really about it, about it. And envy, it stops the day. Okay, I told you two years ago that I was establishing a don't play gay bill, but you have not honored that. But today, we need to stop, because I'm telling you, just like there is booty warriors like Fleece Johnson on this planet, there is people like Rudel Sanders.

Now, Rudel Sanders was found guilty on two counts of practicing medicine without a license. What type of medicine was this man practicing? Well, he was luring men to his apartment to perform fake ultrasounds on their genitals. What? Let's go to WLWT News for the report, please. A former UC Medical Center doctor convicted on felony charges of practicing medicine without a license, a judge issuing his decision on Rudall Saunders this morning. Investigators say Saunders lured several men to the bedroom of his Cincinnati apartment to perform ultrasounds.

Investigators also say he secretly videotaped most of these encounters. Saunders was a resident at UC Medical Center but was not allowed to do ultrasounds outside of the hospital or do them on his own. earlier this year he was acquitted on misdemeanor charges of voyeurism and sexual imposition so he was a real doctor yes he was a medical trainee

I mean this but clearly this man has been playing doctor since the age of three you know kids play doctor because they're curious about their bodies curious about other people's bodies some kids really have a fascination with medical professionals so pretending to be a doctor is a normal part of childhood development but this man Rudell

never stop playing and I know you're saying yourself, why would people go to a man's apartment to get ultrasounds on their private parts? I'll tell you why. Money. M-O-N-E-Y. Okay, cream, mula, Fetty, all right? Doctors visits are

expensive. Affordable health care as a luxury. A lot of people don't have in desperate times called for desperate measures and people like Rudeau were taking advantage of that poor and disenfranchised penis. Now, what I don't understand is why Rudeau was risking at all like this. This

man was a doctor. He had a real career. He could have just taken the proper steps to get the clinical privileges to practice on his own, and he could have been peeking at all the peckers he wanted to. Okay? I just don't understand people like Rudell because if you want to see a ball-headed giggle stick, there is apps for that. If you

want to Chuck Dickens to call your own, there is plenty of men available out here, okay? Because this is what this was. Rudel wasn't performing ultrasounds. He was auditioning for a dateline episode. Rudell is what I call an extra horny human. Okay, he fiends for franks and beans.

All right, he wants to be able to lift Thor's Hammer. He wants Magic Mike's Magic Stick! Now, an African-American, that's a doctor with his own practice, that's black excellence. But Rudel didn't have a clinic. He had a Craigslist ad with delusions of Graves Anatomy, and that's black embarrassment. And what bothers me about all this, it was completely pointless. One didn't have to do with the other. Okay, Rudell, you are.

already worked in a hospital, okay, under a training license. So you should have just kept training. Then you wouldn't have had to pretend to be a licensed doctor. You would have eventually been one. You spent time and energy on social media trying to convince victims you needed to complete training hours when you could have actually been spending time and energy actually completing your training hours, okay? You too busy trying to do fake exams when you could have been doing real ones.

But now your medical trainee license has been. revoked and all you had to do was focus and get a boyfriend that likes to play doctor with you. This isn't complicated. All you had to do was focus, study, okay? Having a medical trainee license is a stepping stone to become a fully licensed position, okay? But you decided to skip steps because you want to smoke on a penis pack so bad. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. And if you take shortcuts, you get cut short. This is yet another example. Please give

Rudell Saunders, the sweet signs of the hamiltones. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw. And it's harder to become a

doctor. Huh? you're going to play game no I already told you the game I told you what I told you what it was in there listen and by the way I don't even like you saying that after this donkey I just did because I don't know what type of games you want to play freaky ass boy

but listen gay is he but also but also it is harder to become a doctor than it is to get some penis okay so you already he was already halfway

you know past completing the hard part He was already a medical trainee. He just had to take a couple more steps, you know, to get his actual license. He'd have been good. That's crazy. All right. I'm not playing with you. What's wrong with you, man?

Why are you so quiet? You're mouthwatering? Yeah, you see. I ain't playing with him no more. What's wrong? All right. But thank you for that donkey of the day, sir. And be hungry.

That's what's wrong. Mouthwatering after that start. I'm not messing with you out. Mouthwatering, booty hole throbbing. Oh, my. What is your whole post aiding over there? What is wrong with you? Ray, you better be careful.

Easy, bud. What is wrong with you? Crazy, yo. Up next, just fix my mess. 800-585-105-1. Just Fix My Mess is next. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club.

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Fix it. Just going to fix your mess because my advice is real. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess hilarious. Salameenigai. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Just Fix My Mess.

Hello. Who's this? Adel. Hey, Adel. What's your question for Jess? So I have a question. How do you do with a big father that cheated on you but can't leave you alone? Leave him alone.

Yeah, he can't be alone. He's got multiple emails. No, no, no. Is it that, do you really want to be? left alone? You can't stop answering for real? You know it ain't hard to stay away from somebody. You know that. Whether a kid is involved or not.

I get it. You know what I mean? You're tired of them, but you ain't that tired because you ain't really trying to. You know how to cut a g-off if you want to cut them up. You know what I mean? So how you cut them off? Girl, I wish my book was out right now. Anyway, listen, you just got to leave it alone.

You have to. Well, it's going to be. hard if you still don't. All right, look, I'm asking your question. Don't lie to me. You still having sex with him? You're anonymous. No. No, we started having sex like two months ago. Oh, I? So you still have a sex with me? But we were together. We were together for seven years.

Okay, so y'all got history. So it's hard for you to walk away, huh? Yes. It's hard for you to walk away, even though you just told me he got multiple females. Yes. What about it? What about him makes it hard? It can't just be seven years because he don't give a damn about the seven years. In 1920, a magazine article announced something incredible. Two young girls had photographed real fairies.

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Hey, everyone, it's Jay Chetty, and on today's episode of On Purpose, I'm joined by four-time Grand Slam champion, Naomi Osaka. What I was dealing with at the time, feeling a shame, going against everything an athlete stood for. After I pulled out of the French Open, I flew. Ranked as number one in the world in women's singles. A four-time Grand Slam tennis champion, Naomi Osaka. We would be constantly on the tennis court,

and I would watch other kids go to summer vacation. And I would always think, dang, like, I kind of want to be someone else. What was the feeling like when you won your first Grand Slam at the U.S. Open? When I was growing up, I had dreams of playing Serena in my first Grand Slam final. It felt like a dream came true. I was just reading comments with people saying that I didn't. deserve to win. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. American history is full of wise people. What women said something like, you know,

99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is gory. Those founding fathers were gossipy AF, and they love to cut each other down. I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history, and I find the answers, including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer. Hamilton pauses, and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said. It would have been harder to fake it than to do it. Listen to American History Hotline on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I don't know. I think it's like the, I honestly don't know. Maybe I just love him. He's your comfort zone. He's your safety net. He'll always come if you call. Same with you. Yeah, yeah.

So, you know, you feel like you're obligated to that. He don't feel like he got an obligation to you or he wouldn't have other women, you know what I mean? But it's what you allow because you never really left. You know what I mean? Y'all just don't have the title anymore. You just his baby lover that ain't going to never go away. You don't want to be that.

You know what I mean? I guarantee you. I guarantee you that that's how he looks at you because he knows that you know that he got multiple women. But if you ain't really doing that about it, and ultimately the only thing to do about it to get over it is to leave him alone completely cut him off. I'm talking about don't even be there unless it's about the child.

Don't be there to listen to him. Don't let him in at all. That's how you pretend. yourself and ain't about protect him is he going to go and get it somewhere else but if you make it convenient enough for him to come in whenever he wants as he please he's going to keep doing that that's the

pattern that you created it ain't him as you right I just got to cut it off you just got to cut it off babe got to be strong I did it you can do it we all do it okay I'm gonna cut it all yeah and be open to dating oh wait a minute be open

to dating up you got a date up I heard that's like a new thing Yeah, not down, because I was listening to Lauren on the radio. She said, you can't date down. I say he'd be dating down. He's messing all straight. Exactly. And you want to go behind the d'-hast?

Well, oh, no, damn. Yeah, that ain't got more than me. They don't have more to me. Exactly, because you're up. You don't want to be up. You don't want to be up in the middle of a whole bunch of downs. You know what I mean? Yes, exactly.

And he's just dealing with a bunch of strays. Exactly. So I mean, he's down there, too. You're above that. You need to go ahead. Yes, and thank you for answering my calls, Mr. Girl. No problem, boo. Check in with me.

Let me know what's going on. Thank you. No problem. We're in the middle of Jess Fix My Mess. Hello, who's this? Hey, Monique. What's your question for Jess? So I left my 9 or 5 that I was working for the last almost 15 years to start my own business.

My son was kind of struggling in school, so I needed something like a little more flexible. make my own average, you know, that type of thing. So I started my own child care business. Okay. So that's what I do. I got licensed.

I did all the paperwork, took all the steps. And here we are two years later, but enrollment has been so low. And my first mind tells me, like, I need to go back to work. Like, I really get, when business owners say,

like, the first year is the hardest. Yeah. Like, it is. Like, that's, is the truth so like now I'm like do I just wait this out like do I just go harder for my business or do I give up and go back work which I really don't want to do but my bills still got to be paid absolutely you got to think about what's the best for you first of all salute to you even wanting to be in child care administration because we all need that so

many women so many dads so many moms you know they need child care for their children so they can work so salute to you for even wanting to delve into that field Um, now are you taking vouchers? Are you doing, like, how do you, how do they pay you? You can pay for the state? It's just regular pay right now. Okay. So in Georgia, you have to, for me to get, like, payments from the state, I have to go

through, like, this whole process. Yeah. Like, it takes a long time. Yeah. So, like, I apply, but I'm still, like, in the process. So I haven't been approved. Yeah. Right.

So many things, so many things you got to go through to even get. approved. You got to qualify for this permit, that permit, and everything like that. My mom has been in child care administration for the past three days. I know. That's why I was like, let me call this. Maybe she's keep people in fact. Yeah. See, I want to say it's a good thing that you're not

taking vouchers because, you know, a lot of people are suffering for that. You know, my mom being, yeah, I've heard it. Yeah, they cut vouchers and, you know, everything going on with the government right now is like they're in a bad spot. All of, you know, the state. People will get paid by the state and the city and everything like that.

I think you should go back to work, to be honest with you. I don't think you should totally give up on the idea of having your own preschool or, you know, child care, you know, administration. I think you should, um, or daycare. I think you should go back to work to fund your business. You know, you can do that part time since it's slow right now. Enrollment is slow. Right. And then a lot, not a lot of moms have jobs.

Not a lot of dads have jobs. People getting laid off. right losing their jobs so they really can't afford child care and they don't need it because they at home you know what I mean looking for right exactly they get their money back up to put their kid in daycare you know what I mean so um I think you should totally invest in your job but I mean in your career but and how you do that is sometimes you got to go back to your job to fuel your career you get what I mean yeah I've been thinking like I probably have to do something part time yes like even if I still keep this

and just, you know, grind and do something, like, in the evening time. But, like, because I don't want to completely give it up. You know, like, it was a lot of hard work trying to get myself up and going, you know. Trust me, I know. You don't want to throw it all the way. Trust me, it is definitely worth it. People ain't going to ever stop having kids. So there will be a need for your services for the rest of everybody's life.

Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah, don't give up for that. Okay, well, I appreciate it. No problem. I'm going to just figure out a different plan. I got to figure something. than I because it's more you still got to be paid.

Absolutely. You'll be okay. Just get you a good job, you know, go back to your job if you got to. And then, like I said, stack your money to invest back into your preschool or your daycare center. They'll start coming. Well, I love y'all. I love you. And we got Fields.

See, I love you too. Fields wants to ask you a question. Hey, what's up, man? What's up? Why do our coworkers want to snitch on people so bad? I have no idea. I keep asking one of my coworkers why do they do that all the time. Right. I don't know. I just wanted to get what you think about it.

I think you should stop doing shit in front of that coworker. Right. Stop doing stuff. I don't care if he say he's your friend. I don't care if he say he's your brother. I don't care if he say he like you. He wanted me. You know what I mean? Y'all got anything extra going on. It don't matter.

Stop. Just leave him alone. He need to just be strictly your coworker. And that is it because you can't trust everybody you work with. Because they low-key be envy-envy in you or whatever. I got a question for Envy. Me and my girl is going to be in New York. I'm from Newcastle, PA. You got us on some tickets.

He ain't give a damn about nothing. I just said. Nothing is you said. That nix said, yo, do you have any tickets? We're going to be in New York that weekend, man. Oh, what you coming to New York for? The Kill Tony Show. Oh, the Kill Tony Show.

Okay, yeah. So the car show is next Saturday, August 16th. And if you want to go, is you and your girl? Yeah, me and my girl. I got you. I'm going to put you on hold to get you tickets. Don't be playing, man. No, I'm going to put you home.

He can't be playing around. You got kids and no kids? No, they ain't coming. They got school. Football game at school. Okay. All right. Leave your kids at home and come to the car show.

I ain't mad at you. August 16 next Saturday. And hold on. I got you, all right? All right, man. Man, that I ain't even need his mess fix. He wanted to get some damn tickets, but he missed get it off your chest.

So you're going to try act like he had a probably probably ain't got no damn job. Tomo, yo, how you feel about coworkers snitching on you? I'm not mad because it was just an opportunity to me to talk about my car show. That's happening next Saturday, 12 to 5, Get your tickets if you haven't got it. If you do have kids, kids are five and under are free. Yes.

Now, I'm going to interrupt. Yeah, people's choice mix. Hey, y'all come to my show, Salsa Confuego, August 12 and 13th. Get your ticket. All right. Just Fix My Mess. 800, 585-105.1. We got the latest with Lauren coming up is the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. J. Salariamen Nagu. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight back.

Tell her, she gets into somebody that knows somebody. She gets to detail. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren Lerosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest.

On the breakfast club. Talk to me. Tiana Taylor announced that she's going to have to take a step away from her album rollout, the Escape Room. It's still coming out on August 22nd. But she's taking a step away because she's, She says that she needs to get emergency vocal surgery after finding a non-cancerous growth on one of her cords. So she posted to her Instagram yesterday, and she says she's been quietly dealing with some vocal challenges for a while now.

And after a lot of back and forth with her doctors, she's been told that she needs a surgery immediately. Then she talks about them finding the non-cancerous growth on one of her cords. And she says it's been messing with her voice and causing her real discomfort. She's thankful that they caught it and that is treatable, but it does mean that she has to pause and give herself time to fully. Hill. So she's going to take a step back from some things and she mentions that she was supposed to do Michelle Obama's podcast and she won't be able to do that and it breaks her heart because

you know she loves to show up and for work and she says that she's poured so much of herself into this chapter of her life especially the escape room, which will still be dropping on the 22nd. So there's no worries about the drop but you know she says it's the most personal body of work she's ever created and the timing

of everything right now is not lost on her. She was just getting ready to finally share all of this with us and then life handed her own unexpected escape room, one that she didn't ask for, but she says now, you know, she has to find her way out with patience, rest and faith. The moment hurts.

She wanted to give us everything, the full vision, but she says, you know, please know that I put my whole heart into this music, the film the rollout, and when I return, it'll be even more fire, more purpose, and the best version of me. Absolutely, man. You got to think about it. You know, she had full movies that she did.

That girl had been working. She had four movies that's dropping. All of them didn't even drop yet. while working on an album, then her performance, and then, you know, all this while still battling her own, you know, personal issues, right, with the divorce and everything, and then, you know, still trying to find a medium, you know what I mean?

Yes. But then be there full-time mom for her parents. I mean, full-time mom for her. Her babies, right? So that's a lot. That's a lot, man. She was supposed to come up here as well. So I know her album comes out the 22nd.

So we will support it and keep pushing it. And although she won't be able to speak into interviews, we'll be pushing for you. And I'll tell you one thing Every movie I've seen in the last few weeks Because I've been to the movies a lot I went to go see Fantastic 4 I went to see Superman

I went to go see the Smurfs That one battle after another trailer Played before Damn there all of those films The one of the movie with her and Leonada DiCaprio And Regina Hall Yep

And Sean Penn That's right That comes out in September Yeah so she TTI been working So we send the TTI healing energy Always Absolutely

And I'm waiting for that biopic You know she's doing Dionne Warwick's Biopic So that's dope as well. But you can, I see, like, she's been doing press a lot, right? And it is, like, when she talked, it's like she is straining a little bit. Like, I know her voice has always been raspy.

Yes. Right. But sometimes, like, you can see it more recently that it is, it does look like maybe a little bit more painful for her to, you know, talk. She did, to your point, I'm thinking of it. I was watching a complex sit down that she did recently in preparation for her coming here. And I thought maybe she had just been performing or something the night before because her voice was strained. It was strange. Yeah, but she got through the interview, though.

So, yeah, I'm glad she's taking a time for herself, you know, because, you don't want to put extra stress on that. She usually curses me out every couple of months, so she has a curse me out recently, so maybe that's part of this. Well, she won't be cursing you out for the next couple of months. That's right. You know what's so crazy? What's so crazy is if Tiana Taylor does that Dionne Warwick role right,

like that could be like Jamie Fox and Raymo. Absolutely. Because visually, man, if you go look at a young Dionne Warwick, She earned Tiana in favor a lot. Yeah, crazy. Same nostrils. Yo, you know what you should do, NV? Since she always cuss you out,

and does she get the surgery? Cuss her out for three months. So she can't cut her out back. So she can't even say nothing. Oh, that's so crazy. We should do that. She coached all the thing you've got to get on your chest, man. Just call Tiana up and just get it off your chest.

Tiana the type to learn sign language because of that's back out in sign language. Baby, your text's going to be long and full. Now, to y'all to type to FaceTime you and just mean mugging you. You answer her face time, she doesn't even say nothing, she'd just be mean mugging you. That's right. Yes. Well, in other news,

so Asia Wilson, I want to say to a quick congratulations to her. Last night, there was a victory over Golden State, and she actually achieved, so she's been achieving a lot of career goals over her career. She is very consistent. She's a legend.

Best WMBA players in it. but she achieved 500 blocks in addition to the 5,000 points that she achieved back in June. So this now makes her the fastest player in the WNBA history to reach both the 5,000 points and the 500

blocks. So I just wanted to send a congratulations to her just a big accomplishment on top of all the other thing. Drop one of the clues bombs for Asia Wilson, damn it. Yeah. Columbia, South Carolina's own, big Asia Wilson, okay, legendary South Carolina Gamecock right there. Okay, one of the great, the face of the W&A

NBA, one of the greatest WNBA players ever, one of the greatest basketball players ever, okay? Salute to Asia Wilson. Yes. Congratulations. Yes, congratulations. And other sports news, we have a, real quick, it's like a semi, you know, we were talking about Clarissa Shields

and Layla Lee. Lali posted a video online yesterday and people think that this is a response to Clarissa. Let me know what you guys think. Let's listen to it. Now, to answer the question that I know many of you who are poking around waiting for me to give you an answer, the answer is yes I am going to answer your question when I'm good and ready to do it because you know what

nobody calls shots on me I do things when and how and where I like to do them I love you guys yeah so she didn't really say much but people took that because it's the first thing that she's kind of said that may be a response to Clarissa in the fight but we still don't have really a real update on that. Wow. I'm sure she just want to make sure the money is real. I was thinking the same thing.

She's doing her research to make sure that's all. That's all? That's what I want to make sure. That's it. Before I jump out the window, I want to make sure that money's there. Right, because that little boardroom video that Clarissa, Papoose and all of the other white men did, she got a check

and see if the 20, just because y'all did that video don't mean that y'all got the $20 million for her, so she need to see that. 15? Yeah. Oh, 15 million? All right, cool. I mean, she posted the video like,

We got the money. We got the money. You know, but she need to see the money. Right. Make sure the deal is done right. That's right. And by the way, I'm not opposed to that fight. I see people, you know,

Laila Ali got to get in fighting shape. But after watching Manny Pacquiao, you know, at what, 46, 47, after watching Mike Tyson last year against Jake Paul, I'm not against it. We've seen Floyd fighting his 40s. So, yeah, as long as she gets back in fighting shape, she might be. We might not even know, but she might be trained. I'm not against the fight. Yeah

But who you got I got Clarissa I'm gonna still go Clarissa I'm gonna still go Clarissa Yeah I'm gonna still go Clarissa All right But yeah I'm here I'm here to watch it

Okay That's the latest with Lauren No I was gonna say Cleversa had tweeted something too But it's not direct So I don't know if this was response to the video But it's pretty time She said thank God I'm a part of a generation

Where we actually fight each other The last generation just ducked each other Never got the biggest women's fights Wow Yeah that was that's little shot. Jesus Christ. Listen, real quick, y'all, it's a new feature on

Instagram, right, that allows people to see your location. I was getting all types of DMs from fans like, hey, I know where you at. And I'm like, damn, you know, so it's a new feature. And I think that's messed up. Did they put the feature on Instagram, right? So when you open it up, it just automatically shows your location.

But you can go and take it off. You can go and turn it off completely. So if you, you know, getting, if you don't want to get found and know where you want people to know where you're at. Just go in the app and turn it off, man. Because I've been looking at people with locations, and I was able to see Charlemagne is at the booty bar, man.

Broadcasting live. Yeah, she found Charleston. Yeah, she found him this morning. Man, I didn't even know they had gay clubs down in Charleston. Yeah, she found him this morning. First of all. Speaking of Charleston, South Carolina, I want to salute.

Speaking of gay clubs. Talking about he doing the giveaway. At a gay bar? I mean, how much you're giving away? How much is it of you to go around? You're going to give it away? Let's talk about that fish. Okay, Shalom.

No, I do. I want to salute Hyman's Seafood in Charleston, South Carolina, downtown Charleston. Salute to my people's over there. I got my own table in there, right? You can sit at it. It says, Charlemagne, the God, ate here. So salute to Eli and Victor and all my folks over at Hyman's seafood and downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Amazing seafood they have at Hyman's, man.

I've been going there for years. Hi, man. Oh, right. Yeah. Show them go, I ate here, boy. I got my table at my hand, man. Somebody should get that tattoo on that lower back. Yeah, always remember when, if you ever see Envy, Lauren and Justin there spitting their food.

Yeah, why you're never, never, ever. That's why all your victims got, Charlotte me ate here on that lower back, me. Give them, give them some of that good, good clam chowder and they, um, Clam Chowder. I'm never going to high men. Especially Envy. Okay. All right.

People's choice mixes up next. Is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake up. You're like to enter the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious.

Sholomey and the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. And salute to Nigel, Sylvester, for joining us this morning. Of course, he's a professional BMX rider. He's signed with Jordan, McDonald's, MTA, Mercedes. So congratulations to him and all his success. he released a new sneaker and he's doing a ride along this weekend so salute to him he's from no queens my borough of queen so salute to him and also don't forget this weekend i'm in houston

salute to houston i'm gonna be at the jungle this sat uh this saturday and sunday kirby and chapman i'm doing their day party so i can't wait to see h town i love houston man i love houston's food i just in total like they come out and support so yeah salute to the h town i'll see y'all this weekend yo and then next week i'm gonna be at Salsa Can Fuego in the Bronx. Yo, why I made the video yesterday and everybody was saying that Brooklyn don't go to the Bronx, yo.

I don't, what's up with the boroughs, yo? I ain't go front. Nobody really goes to the Bronx. That's crazy. The Bronx is just different. But then I've seen in the comments everybody was like, man, there's more people from Brooklyn

that move here than anywhere else because y'all being all gentrified and all that. That's true. It was a whole war, man. We're not going to Bronx. I tell y'all all the time that craziest people in America

come from where? The Bronx and all the floor. But luckily there's enough people in the Bronx to fill up Casa Canfuego. Salsa Canvuego, yo. Salsa Canfuego. August 12 and 13. Get your tickets at SalsaConfuego.com.

I'm going to be there with my guy, Desi Alexander. Shout out to Rob Stapleton, man. I love Rob. I see y'all next week. Next week's going to be a fun week. Of course, Jess is going to be a Salsa Canfuego Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm gonna be pulling up on one of those days

I don't know which one day and I'm not gonna say which one because Bronx is crazy BX is crazy Right and they're from Queens So it might be a whole different thing That's right Just have me a hook in a table and I'm good And then of course Saturday is my car show

On the 16th in Jersey So it's a lot going on next week Can't wait to see you guys And Shalaman you got a positive note I do but I want to tell everybody too man Mounts Corner South Carolina My hometown this Saturday From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

I'm doing my 10th annual Back to School driving fish fry at Berkeley High School, the Berkeley High School bus loop. We're going to have the free backpacks, the free school supplies. We're going to have the food trucks pull up. We got my pops is out there frying fish and everything is free. So, and by the way, don't come out there, you know, trying to get no free food, okay? Come out there with your kids, get your backpacks, get your school supplies.

Then you can get all of the free food, okay? But yes, we see y'all this Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. My 10th annual back to school drive and fish fry at the Berkeley High School. bus loop in Monk's Corner, South Carolina. And the positive note is simply this. Keeping your house clean is a form of spiritual protection. I repeat, keeping your house clean is a form of spiritual protection. And that's why the devil's so busy in your life because your house dirty.

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More than a nice, darkened, air-conditioned theater, and a great movie playing right in front of you. Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films, even movies that change filmmaking, and many more. Listen to the Stuff You Should Know Summer Movie playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. In 1920, a magazine article announced something incredible. Two young girls had photographed real fairies. But even more incredible, that article was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who invented Sherlock Holmes. How did he fall for that?

Hoax is a new podcast for me, Dana Schwartz, the host of Noble Blood. And me, Lizzie Logan. Every episode, we'll explore one of the most audacious and ambitious tricks in history and try to answer the question why we believe what we believe. Listen to hoax on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone, it's Jay Shetty, and on today's episode of On Purpose, I'm joined by four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka. What I was dealing with at the time, feeling ashamed, going against everything an athlete stood for.

Ranked as number one in the world in women's singles. It's a four-time grand slam tennis champ, Naomi Osaka. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.