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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! podcast. How y'all feeling out there? I feel blessed black and holly favorite happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners What's happening? Good morning? Just hilarious Got me a little tan got a little darker. Oh god three days pregnant don't even know it. Yeah, we not don't play I'm not pregnant. Yo, I'm not so where'd you go? We went to Cancun, Mexico. Are you at the Mexico? Yes, absolutely Yo, listen Why I didn't it's not my home, yo why didn't I know that the pineapples, that's like a little symbol for swingers. Yes. Had no

idea. Huh? I swear I did not know that. What you mean? That's like the logo, so like if you have a pineapple or you wear a pineapple or you have a pineapple. Or your baby suit or your hat or your trunk. I'm just explaining it. He got a head boy. See obviously he know about it. I didn't know so Chris. Somebody tried me before that's why I know. We was getting tried the whole four days we were there and we went to a beautiful resort

it was nice. How many days did he wear the pineapple shorts? He wore them for one day but they knew. They memorized it? Yes. So you wear pineapple shorts just in Mexico? I don't know, no. I think it's all the adult only inclusive resorts.

Oh, so y'all was having an adult only inclusive resort. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you wear pineapples, people think you a swinger. Mm-hmm. Yes, it's swinging. I know, that you were into swinging. You were into. Never knew that.

Doing a deal with the older white couples. Now you're about to have me Google. They was, you know, people do it, it's like a sport. It's like a whole thing. They pay for it, they scout you out at the pool, on the beach, wherever. And they love black couples. And they love black couples. Yes. They said upside down. I'm Mexican. He said, Chris told him like, oh yeah, I'm Mexican and black. They just was like, oh yeah, this is a great special right here. A hybrid. A hybrid. A hybrid.

The best of both worlds. I said, look, I ain't in all that. Happened to me too. I had something very similar, pineapple shorts, bathing suit, because I guess they sell them a lot. Yes, purposely. That happened and I didn't understand why. Right.

And then when I got back home, somebody explained to me, and I said, wow. Why wasn't it just male couples for you though? Oh my God. Oh my God. Is there a reason for though but I'm sexy to everybody I don't write right okay yeah all the pineapple swingers out there you know we gotta get Charlamagne some pineapple shorts I'm glad you had a good time thank you I appreciate that all right now we got some special guests joining us this morning we do do, man. It feels like Atlanta's heavy here this morning. From Real Housewives of Atlanta, we have Paul Sherwill.

You know who's joining us? Ooh. This is the 16th season of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Now, I'm going to send you the first episode. You need to watch it. OK. It's crazy. Really good.

All right. I'm going to watch it. And then also Dr. Jamal Bryan. He's from your side of town. Pastor Jamal Bryan. Absolutely. Pastor Jamal Bryan. He's from Baltimore, Maryland.

That's right. He's doing the 40-day Lent fast of Target. But he in Atlanta right now too, right? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Why do I connect Pastor Jamal with Atlanta? Because is it church? It's congregations in Atlanta, but he's from Baltimore though. Yeah.

But he lived out there, he's been living out there for a while. You don't say church P.U. though? No, no, no, no, no. He don't, everybody don't talk with the you you know I'm saying That's just that's just like two or three maybe generations. Everybody don't you? All right, well, let's get the show cracker did y'all watch Trump last night I did it was long He was supposed to I thought we were supposed to be boycottin No, no, but you know, it's crazy and that he left. I mean he was done

He left he need wait for the Democrats to respond Like it was crazy. Just got out of Dodge And then it was late. It was too late. It was like 11 o'clock. He was talking for a long time It was the longest day of the Union ever So I was like man The longest day of the Union ever. It was 99 minutes I think they said. Yeah All right Well, we'll break that down when we come back with Morgan so don't go anywhere as the Breakfast Club good morning

Morning everybody. It's DJ envy Jess DJ envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news Start off with some quick sports. Congratulations to LeBron. He becomes the first NBA player to score 50,000 combined points. That's regular season and playoffs. So congratulations to him. Oh salute the bra man third best NBA player of all time. Drop on the Coups bombs for him. That would be a big argument. I'm also Kyrie Irving. Kyrie Irving has torn his ACL.

He's going to be out for the remainder of the season. And congratulations to Saquon Barkley. He signed a two year, $41.2 million contract extension with the Eagles. That's a big deal for Kyrie Irvin by the way I mean that you know some people say that could be a career ending injury. Yeah, I say he's 32 years old I think he could he could bounce back, but it's gonna be a long time in the cow The Mavericks only had a two three year window. Yeah, by the way. Yeah Anthony Davis is injured

He's injured and I don't know how clay Thompson's been playing recently. So we'll see well, come on Morgan Good morning DJ envy Charlotte really good and just hilarious. Y'all doing alright. Yes Oh y'all tired cuz y'all stayed up watching that I did it felt like a Western Conference a Basketball game. It was very late. I watched it and then coming off of a plane from vacation. Yes tired You're like I need another vacation. Uh huh. Okay, let me just go in by saying that there's no way I'm going to get to it all, okay? But I'm going to try my best, y'all, all right? So President Trump touted his leadership and plans for the U.S. in the longest address

ever to a joint session of Congress. Trump said since he was sworn in six weeks ago, there has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action. He went on to say his administration has accomplished more in 43 days than others have accomplished in four years or eight years. During his joint address to Congress, he spoke about DEI, immigration, the economy, border security, the budget, tariffs, Doge, the Ukraine-Russian war, energy. And he also slammed the Biden administration, saying he inherited an economic catastrophe

and an inflation nightmare. Let's take a listen to President Trump's comments on the economy. Their policies drove up energy prices, pushed up grocery costs, and drove the necessities of life out of reach for millions and millions of Americans. They've never had anything like it. As president, I'm fighting every day to reverse this damage in make america affordable again what do you guys think about what is the overall hold

speech and his uh... economy you know i mean it's too early to tell mean there's a lot of these he's done a lot of things both i'll just say this storm during his speech he did speak about the budget saying that the gold card will help with the federal budget and overall economy. He said the gold card will be sold for five million dollars. Remember, this is the one that is allowing pathway to citizenship and will allow most

successful job creating people from all over the world to get a path to U.S. citizenship. Trump said the gold card recipients will pay a lot of money and that will help reduce the national debt. He also defended his use of tariffs that went into effect yesterday against Mexico, Canada and China saying there will be more tariffs on April 2nd. Let's take a listen to Trump's comments on tariffs. Tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs. They're about protecting the soul of our country.

Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again and it's happening and it will happen rather quickly. There'll be a little disturbance but we're okay with that. Who said that? Who said, okay, a little disturbance but as a result Trump says that he does love American farmers and the tariffs will help them. Adding he'll place reciprocal tariffs on agricultural products coming into America starting on April 2nd. Now Trump also talked about the Ukraine-Russian war. He said he's working tirelessly speaking to both sides in negotiations to end that conflict. He mentioned that he received a letter from Ukrainian President Zelensky saying that Zelensky is actually willing to negotiate as soon as possible.

So let's take a listen to those comments. It's time to stop this madness. It's time to halt the killing. It's time to end this senseless war. If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides. Earlier today, I received an important letter from President Zelensky of Ukraine. The letter reads Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible. Yep. So, of course, this comes as Trump, he's critical of or criticizes the fact that the US has sent billions of dollars in support to Ukraine's defense. But I'm going to wrap that up for 6 a.m. at 7 a.m.

We can continue and talk a little bit about DEI and some of the drama that happened on the House floor. No, the only thing I kept thinking last night was I really don't know what Democrats do. Like I mean, they clearly lost a long time ago back in November, but just as a party, it's like Republicans and Democrats aren't even playing the same game.

They're not in the same league. Like they aren't speaking the same language. And I don't know what Democrats can do to cut through. I mean, they, they, they, my, my, my other thought was a lot of them honestly shouldn't have shown up if they weren't going to be more disruptive. Like salute to Congressman Al Green. OG got some nuts, you know what I'm saying?

Meanwhile, the rest of them out there holding up signs like they had a silent auction. I just, I just don't know. I don't, I don't know what they do because Trump can stand up there and, you know, say whatever he wants, tell a lot of lies, but nobody cares because if you're a Democrat, you think Republicans are always lying. If you're a Republican, you think Democrats are always lying. So nobody is listening objectively.

But at this point, Americans are just going to have to let things play out. But when the inevitable fumble from Republicans come, I just don't know if Democrats have the team to recover So the team that will always win will be the team that has a game plan Regardless of how terrible that team's policies may be for the American people. I guess was it effective Like everything that was done. Was it effective was Trump last night? No, not Trump the Democrats and everything that they did the silent No, not the silent auction, but holding up the signs. Exactly.

In the lab. I wonder if it was effective, you know? No. All right. Well, we'll talk more next hour. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open.

Again, 800-585-1051. It's the basketball club. It's the basketball club. It's the basketball club. Breakfast Club. 105 1 is the best it's the it's the breakfast club This is your time to get it off your chest Wake up whether you're mad or blessed something get up and get some call up now 800 585 1 0 5 1 We want to hear from you on the breakfast club Hello, who's this? Good morning. Good morning. What's your name, brother?

This is Jason from the DMV. Good morning, DJ Henry Charlamagne and uh, I think Lawrence in today. Jess. Jess Elias is here. What's up? Oh, Jess Elias? Yep, yep. Welcome, welcome back, Jess.

Hope your vacation went well. Thank you, love. It did. Appreciate that. Yeah, I went and talked with y'all last night. Uh, of course it was entertaining. I went to sleep there for about an hour and 40 minutes. Uh, but I think you made some strong points. but the main thing is the nation is still in the vibe

So I think like Charlie instead of a federal situation You made some good points like a little back check that when Social Security numbers are over 240 things like that That's not true. Oh god Yeah, that's just not that good. Yeah, that was hilarious not But uh, and then the Democrats sitting down which was expected It's just as the fire that I'm like, but Trump's shown like a like that strong side of him I think it's what people expect but it's just like you said where you go about it, but it was entertaining The comedy show was good I tell you I tell you what I tell you when Trump got me when I was just like,

damn, when he said, he said, when I got shot at in Butler and God spared my life, he spared my life so I can make America great again. I was like, damn, he might be right. You don't shut up, man. I did, cause I'm just like, I mean, he did get shot at and he did, he did live. Like the bullet just missed him. I mean, he's here, he's clearly did live. Like the bullet just missed him.

I mean, he's clearly here for a reason. I don't know what that reason is. He got me when the little black boy, he said he only had four months to live. And he said he had five years and made the young man a special agent. They should have brushed that little boy's hair though. He didn't have no hair.

He had obviously. Well he had little patches but. Oh, cause he had brain cancer. Yeah, it's a complication. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Brush his hair. You know what, what hello who's this hey this is my baby from Connecticut hey what's up brother get off your chest hey listen I just I got

through two days in a row it's a miracle that is definitely good I just had to call back when I knew that Jeff hilarious was back on the show this morning and I tried to call you and I got to death you were met I'm one of your biggest fans. I will start looking at the all biography But I'm from Bridgeport, Connecticut and I want to welcome you back to the breakfast club and wish you nothing but success Hey bridge boy. Thank you so much. I appreciate that welcome. Have a good day. You too, baby How many times just gonna get welcome back to the Breakfast Club? Jess, Jess, Jess, how many times you gonna get welcome back? She was on vacation, she's gotta leave.

I don't know. Anytime. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up, Amy? This is Dre. Hey, what's up, Dre? Get it off your chest, brother.

Hey, listen, man. I'm going to get this on my... This is more so for Charlamagne, man. Okay. Hey, listen. I notice you come out very strong, right? You're very strong when you think Republicans do something disrespectful. But when the Democrats do something disrespectful, you don't got nothing to say. I think it was very disrespectful, right?

That regardless of how they feel about Trump, when they were celebrating that little boy from Texas, and the police officers and family and people that got killed and everyone was basically, the tension was for them. Nobody stood up. You don't think that was disrespectful? I think Democrats definitely should have applauded that. You can't be so against another party that you don't applaud basic things like that. Yeah, I do think that was...

Yeah, I think it was disrespectful. I don't know if disrespect is the word I would use, but I think that they should have definitely applauded it. They applauded it, but they didn't stand up. Nah, I'm sorry. The camera I watched, they sat right down. They didn't applaud anything, man. No, they applauded that. Cause I remember even when I forgot what Elizabeth Warren was applauding but remember President Trump was like even Pocahontas likes it. Well that's one thing that's the one part of it but the whole collective sat down and did nothing at all because they hear the Trump. But hey you're totally wrong

because you know what's so funny whenever I criticize Democrats Democrats call in sounding like you do and whenever I criticize Republicans Republicans call in sounding like you do. And whenever I criticize Republicans, Republicans call in sounding like you do. And that's why I said, we can never be objective because if a Republican says something, Democrats automatically say it's a lie. If Democrats say something Republicans automatically say it's a lie. Nobody can ever be objective and just call it down the middle. I'm for sure. That's the way you say it. But when you criticize Democrats, you call them stupid because they think Republican is winning and it's getting

away with stuff. That's not criticism That's not criticism. You know, it's the way you say it. You don't listen to me enough then you should listen more Hello who's this this is Marshall what's up brother get off your chest so I watched Watch president Trump last night the thing you said about he was gonna do for the farmers. No matter what he do for the farmers, ain't nobody there to work the farmland. He get rid of all the workers. Y'all gonna have robots.

What he gonna do for them? The robots, Elon's robots gonna be out there in a minute. Un-Gashallah. No robots gonna be out there. Elon's robots, Elon's robots gonna be right there in South Carolina, man. What you talking about? Hey, you might be right though

You but how much the robots will cost the American people to make I have no idea you know, I will get rich He definitely a place you're gonna go to right right through the roof The Dems need some younger blood in they man today. They cowers Man, I'm you not lying. Like I can't even sit here and sit here and tell you that you lying. I literally watched that speech last night and I said to myself, I don't know what Democrats do. I feel like they shouldn't have shown up if they weren't going to be more disruptive. That's all I kept thinking.

I'm like, God dang, they such suckers. They hold up signs like they had a silent auction. Like they don't want nobody to know what they bidding on And then the sign that when Obama was up when Obama was up there The folks who you're lying Joe Wilson that Joe was a ruckus and everything Yeah, Joe wasn't a congressman from South Carolina let loud with Marjorie Taylor green Going at Biden like if you won't be disruptive man. Like them signs, one sign said, I thought it said must stinks, but it said must steals. And then the other one just said false.

They're false. It wasn't liar. And another one said, did you pay your taxes? Something like that. When Congressman Al Green got kicked out, all of them should have started being disruptive and they all should have got kicked out. Like they just don't act like it's a real issue. You understand what I'm saying? They just act like they're mad. Like they don't act like things are as bad as they ever say it is. Like it's just, I don't know.

Well get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got rumors coming up. Yeah, so I know Morgan got into the Trump and the State of the Union and front page news, but we're going to break down the Zeus Network part of it. All right, we'll get to that. Zeus Network?

The State of the Union? Man, nah, it was given Baddie's West last night up in there. All right, we'll get into it when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy, we are The Breakfast

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Talk to me. So did it or did it not get a little ghetto at the state of the union? I think it was ghetto from the time that it started and I know Morgan talked a bit about this, but I wanted to talk about it. She was giving more policy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 100% which is you know, I mean, that's what we do in the front page news, but over here, I wanted to talk about some things that the like

some conversations that sparked from last night. So first, I know I heard you guys talking a little bit about DJ Daniel. He was a 13 year old kid. Yeah, that was given a Secret Service clearance last night during the City of New York address. Let's take a listen to that. Joining us at the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police. His name is DJ Daniel. He is 13 years old and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. But in 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago.

And tonight, DJ, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. I am asking our new Secret Service Director Sean Curran to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service that was a great moment that was dope yeah it was like Rafiki holding up symbols when he first when uh Trump announced it DJ's face was looking like really? He said damn. He said damn. Damn for real. He kept, no he did it a couple of times. He was like the big ol' boy. We saw him. He was excited. He was excited. He was excited. He hugged the agent. He asked the agent can I hug you a little light. He hugged the agent. He was really happy man. When he hugged Sean Kern I thought I was like aww. literally said oh and I'm like I There's no way that anything like this can be made bad at all now effective stunt It was so effective right, but then you had people arguing. Okay. This was this was race baiting This little black boy shouldn't have been used as a prop and I'm like are y'all black. I don't whatever. He's a person of color

No, obviously, so I don't know American His head was nappy. He was not Obviously. So I don't know his exact ethnicity. But when I saw that... His head was nappy. His head was not nappy. No, it wasn't. He was black. You think he was black?

His dad was black. His dad was on the... I don't know if that was his dad, but yeah. Not the dad was. I just don't think Lil' Boy was black. He was black. It was nappy to me. It was patchy, but it wasn't nappy. Whoa. It was...

Very effective stunt. Yes. That's my point. So what I'm saying, the point of me and mention is not only was it a good moment But I think it made people and I think to Trump's like what they were trying to do and he is so good at what he Does and he does it so subtly it made people start arguing about all the wrong stuff I'm like, how are you upset the master? Yeah, how you upset that this little boy? This is one of his dreams He wanted to be a police officer You know what? I mean, but why we call it a stunt like he might have really wanted to do that

That might not have been a stunt because he- It's definitely a stunt. They do it on both sides too. Don't get me wrong. At the Senate or Union address, they do it on both sides. Yeah, a stunt makes it feel like it wasn't coming from the heart. Like it was malicious or something

with some type of different intent. That's right. It was a stunt. You know what he did? For this, for us to be having this conversation right here, it's effective. That's why it's a stunt. Yeah. Whoa. There was a few of those he did for this for us to be having this conversation right here. It's effective. That's why it's not Well, there's a few of those he did yesterday

The trans one was that a stunt which one? It was a good moment that identified as a stunt, okay Well, um, so here's it Here's one of the conversations that I was wanted to get into about this as well It's like y'all are arguing about that, but the real tea here is that if we have a conversation about some of the stuff that Trump has been dismantling, some of the efforts to find cures for cancer and other deadly disorders and diseases is on that list. But you're giving this little boy this badge and you're wanting him to have this full life,

but you're not, you no longer want to help him figure out the reason why he's been able to be here this long, despite what doctors said to him. So I thought that I'm like, wow, that went over people's head. I don't know how, but he did. And then I know we talked a little about the resistance and what people are trying to talk about the resistance and what people should have been doing or whatever. I do want to, you know, it was very subtle. It was only a few of them, but I know Jasmine Crockett walked out yesterday.

Rep Ayanna Presley walked out yesterday and there were a few other reps that walked out. And Jasmine Crockett actually was interviewed about what she would tell Trump last night. Let's take a listen to this. If you could tell Donald Trump anything tonight, what would you tell him? I would tell him the girl is fine and stop being Putin's hoe. Damn. Jesus. I'm right.

Drop on the cruise bar for Jasmine Crockett. I thought that that was a great moment as well too. That was better than the whole Democratic rebuttal that they had that woman. Jesus That was better than the whole Democratic rebuttal they had that woman The group of women that were with Jasmine Crockett that walked out there were like four the five other senators They all had on the good trouble t-shirts as well, too and then Jasmine Crockett did the Trouble t-shirts as well too. And then Jasmine Crocker did the Super Bowl, Kendrick Lamar skit for TikTok. We don't need all that. No, because the two women, they didn't have the rhythm.

There wasn't gonna be, no, that was off. So it was like, you know, I said, Jesus Christ. Y'all, the people, they tried last night. They tried. No, we don't need them. I also, y'all saw the moment where Trump, in the beginning, Trump was talking about Melania working with foster care and in the pants of her and she smiled. That was my first time ever seeing her, seeing her smile. Seeing her smile.

What? I was like, oh my God, I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. Trump went in the beginning Trump was talking about Melania working with foster care and in the pants of her and she smiled. That was my first time ever seeing her.

I was like this is our first my man my man moment like okay. But I wanted to also go into now because Elon Musk was a topic of conversation online last night as well because Trump introduced him as the person that was heading Doge and like all those efforts. But he said before that Elon wasn't that person and court. They say something totally different exactly But yesterday online Elon was viral because he retweeted something that crazy. Yes. It was very crazy. He retweeted Something that Ben Shapiro said about George Floyd Let's take a listen to what Ben Shapiro said if we are issuing pardons There is one person that President Trump should pardon from federal charges forthwith that person person is Derek Chauvin. The inciting event for the BLM riots that caused $2 billion in property damage in the United States and set America's race relations on their worst footing in my lifetime was in fact the railroading of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. The evidence demonstrates Derek Chauvin did not in fact commit murder of George Floyd.

George Floyd was high on fentanyl. He had a significant pre-existing heart condition. George Floyd was saying he could not breathe before he was even out of the car. Derek Chauvin, for large segments of even the tape that was shown, had his knee on George Floyd's shoulder or back, not on his neck. The autopsy of George Floyd showed that he had no damage to his trachea. That probably George Floyd died of excited delirium. And who has been Shapiro for people that don't know? Ben Shapiro is a, he's a, he's a pundit. He's a conservative pundit. He has a big, he's a big platform. People listen to him,

but I want to correct. His own podcast. He writes for the Newsweek, the Ben Shapiro Show, just for people that don't know. He's an attorney that don't know. Ben Shapiro is a big deal. Yes. And I want, go ahead. I want to correct. First of all, George Floyd the autopsy report that came out that he's referring to concluded that George Floyd died from a cardiopulmonary or pulmonary arrest from the knee that was to his neck in the amount of time that it was there not an overdose there was things that came up in the autopsy report that he's referring to but that it was not

determined George Floyd the reason why George Floyd passed away so I did want to correct that but Elon Musk retweeted this and he said, this is something we should consider. And I thought that that too, because that was a huge conversation. During the state of the union, people were online arguing about this. You had Allset chiming in and he was upset as he should be.

He called Elon racist. People were responding to him like driver for Ferrari and not a Tesla then. But again, I'm like that's timing is kind of crazy right it's a distraction it's part of the economy of an engagement through enragement yes he knows that's gonna piss everybody off he knows that's gonna get everybody talking that's a distraction like come on and it's hard to just stare away from because it's like it's like watching baddie's west it's like you don't know why you're so entertained but you're just

watching all this stuff yeah but it was it was crazy yesterday online. So did you read it? Did you reach out the bank run? I did reach out to bank. He has not gotten back to me yet But I did because he represents a lot of the Floyd family members That's why I asked Floyd who's George Floyd's brother So I did reach out to just see if they even care but he didn't responding normally does and maybe he doesn't want to even Give this any more light. I wouldn't be that even give it no energy. Yeah All right for me. All right. Well, that is the room is thank you Jess. Thank you, Lauren All right

When we come back we got front page news and then Portia Williams will be joining us Of course Real Housewives of Atlanta comes back this Sunday season 16 and portions back. So we'll talk to in a little bit It's the breakfast club. Good morning Wake up, you're locked into the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ NVJ Solarius, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. Now congratulations to LeBron James, he becomes the first to score 50,000 combined points

in the NBA regular season end playoff, so congratulations to Bron Bron. I'm LeBron, without LeBron, LeBron James. LeBron James, yep. And also congratulations to Saquon Barkley. He signed a two-year, $41.2 million contract extension. That's that, y'all. You just want me to Super Bowl one.

Yep. That makes him the highest paid running back in NFL history. And the Giants just gave that away. Anyway, what's up Morgan? Hey, N.V. You mad about it or no? Yes. Well, he wouldn't have got that money with the Giants because he wouldn't have had the

season he had last year with the New York Giants. So God, you know, works in mysterious ways. Or does God work in mysterious ways? I don't think God is mysterious at all. I think it's quite plain. Mm. Mm. Mm.

Mm. Mm. Well, tell me how plain last night was in this president's joint address. So the conversation does continue regarding President Trump's joint address to Congress. Trump's outed going after diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practice on a federal level. He describes his changes as a common sense revolution. Let's hear those comments from President Trump in regards to D.E.N.I.

We've entered the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government and indeed the private sector and our military. What I have just described is only a small fraction of the common sense revolution that is now because of us sweeping the entire world. Common sense has become a common theme and we will never go back. Ooh, was that a shot thrown? We not going back? Okay.

Anyways, maybe, maybe I'm the only one that heard that, but, um, he then talked about his efforts to end federal funding for schools that allow transgender women to compete in women's sports. Uh, he also, uh, said that he ended by an administration's electric ma- vehicle mandate as well. Um, there was some drama on the House floor. Representative Al Green, he stood up in protest. He was removed for that protest.

Texas Democrat refused to sit down during the speech and was yelling something at Trump before he was escorted out. Now Republicans tried to calm him down or drown him out by yelling, USA, USA. So let's hear House Speaker Mike Johnson's call to order when that whole incident took place. Mr. Green take your seat. Take your seat sir. The members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum. The chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.

Remove this gentleman from the chamber. Hey man, salute the congressman out green. I respect it. I mean, that's the kind of stuff Democrats historically never do. You know, we saw Congressman Joe Wilson do it to Obama back in the day when he yelled you lied. We saw Marjorie Taylor Greene do it to Biden. So I don't mind that kind of disruption. You know, I actually wish that, you know, the Democrats would have been more disruptive.

I didn't know you could kick people out for that though. Oh, yeah, there are all kinds of rules on Capitol Hill. Congressman Green, he later talked to reporters about that incident, saying in his words, no mandate to cut Medicaid. So let's hear from Representative Al Green from his side about what happened in that incident. I have people who are very fearful. These are poor people and they have only Medicaid in their lives when it comes to their health care. And I want him to know that his budget calls for deep cuts in Medicaid. We need to raise the cap on Social Security. There's a possibility that it's going to be hurt.

And we've got to protect Medicare. I believe I agree with to be hurt and we got to protect Medicare. I believe I agree with him 100% he got to protect Medicare but I believe Democrats really dropped the ball there to make more of a statement because you know Al Green is an old man he got a cane he looked like the old dude from New Jack City you know screaming at screaming at Nino Brown like I feel like when he stood up and you know he was disruptive and he made that noise more Democrats you know should have stood up with him because they can't kick everybody out right it's easy to remove one older gentleman than it is to remove a whole bunch of people and I think that they should have you know they should have stood up with them instead of just holding up them signs looking like they had a silent option United we stand the numbers that's a good point um all right so you know what else they should have

did they should have had federal workers who got fired who were MAGA there and they should have let them wear their MAGA apparel and they should have let them stand up and you know be disruptive about losing their jobs. Okay. Next time you know maybe you need to head to Capitol Hill strongly. No. Speaking of the Dems response though Senator Alyssa Slockin she says Americans want change but it has to be done in a responsible way and not recklessly.

They had a response? Yes, the Democrats responded. What time that came on? One o'clock in the morning? I love it. Pretty much. About 1230 for sure, yeah. So the Michigan senator said remarks, excuse me, made remarks while delivering the Democratic

response to President Trump's address to the joint session of Congress. Now, Slotkin said that Trump talked a big game about the economy during his speech, but she urged Americans to read the fine print. She also took aim at Elon Musk and what she called the, quote, mindless firing of critical federal workers. Let's hear more from Alyssa Slotkin. Most Americans share three core beliefs, that the middle class is the engine of our country, that strong national security protects us from harm,

and that our democracy, no matter how messy, is unparalleled and worth fighting for. The mindless firing of people who work to protect our nuclear weapons, keep our planes from crashing, and conduct the research that finds the cure for cancer only to rehire them two days later no CEO in America could do that without being summarily fired. She's not wrong about that but the freshman senator called Trump's

confrontational meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky a spectacle and a bad episode of reality TV that summed up Trump's whole approach to the world. Yeah but you know what that's what they need because I don't even know who heard the Democrats rebuttal. I never even heard of that woman in my life, wasn't they? Her name is Alyssa Slotkin and she is a freshman senator and she said, that's OK. That's how she opened her speech, her response. She's like, it's OK if you don't know who I am.

And she introduced herself. That's not OK. Where's AOC at? Where's Jasmine Crockett? Where's somebody that where's Ayanna Presley? Where's the person that folks are going to actually hear? Jasmine wasn't there. Jasmine Crockett? Where's somebody that, where's Ayanna Presley? Where's the person that folks are going to actually hear? Jasmine wasn't there. Jasmine Crockett was there. Yeah, she was there. She walked out.

She was up there doing TikToks. Yeah, she did the TikToks. She did the little Kendrick thing. Yeah, she walked out. But that's what I mean when I say Democrats don't do anything that cuts through. So, all I can say is, man, Americans have to just let everything play out. Like, you know, in a way you can't react to everything that the Trump administration does. You just got to protect what you can, prevent what you can. And in a way you can't react to everything that the Trump administration does.

You just got to protect what you can, prevent what you can. And they need to be coming up with a plan for the future. Like what is Democrats Project 2028? Now, I was still a little confused. The boycott was we did not want to hear what Trump was doing in the next couple of months. What boycott? I thought it was boycotting Target. Ain't that what Pastor Jamal was here for?

Well, the fact that we did not want to watch, we wasn't supposed to watch that. Oh you're talking about the State of the Union thing that we weren't supposed to watch the State of the Union last night. And Lurine, all of them did. Yes. I think that they were just creating alternative programming. So if you're a person who wants accurate information, if you're a person who, you know, didn't want to sit up there and listen to Trump live for 90 minutes, they were just giving you

alternative programming to get facts. Okay. That's what I believe that was for. All right. I just wasn't sure. All. That's what I believe that was for. All right. I just wasn't sure. All right. So that's your front page news.

I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me on social at Morgan Media and for more news coverage follow at Black Information Network download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com. All right. All right. Well, thank you, Morgan. Now we come back from Real Housewives of Atlanta. Portia Williams will be joining us.

Capital P. So it's no Guobaria? No more? It's done. No more the body. What's your name? Guobaria. Yes. No more Guobaria.

I know he gone, but I didn't know if the last name is gone, it's official, everything is done. So now she back to Williams. Yes. Okay, perfect. And we're gonna talk to her next. So don't move, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy Juscelarius. Charlamagne the guy. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. And we got a special guest in the building. Capital P. Horsha is back.

Horsha Williams, welcome. What's good? How you feeling? I'm feeling good. I was just saying, I love you. Oh, I love you too. Why, is her name Lauren, like your sister? Yes, I love me a good Lauren. Lauren's are special people.

They really are. I was just saying this morning how many I have my assistant is Lauren Lauren. We have another stylist Lauren. It's just Lauren's everywhere. Lauren's everywhere. You look rich. Thank you. You giving glow, giving money. The spirit is giving rich honey. The spirit is giving rich.

Back on Housewives. Yes. Who would have thought? The spirit is getting rich, honey. The spirit is getting rich. Back on Housewives. Yes. Who would've thought? Three years away from the show and now I'm back. It's really exciting to be honest with you. Why now though? Because you get a lot of money for shit.

It's not like you need to be on Real Housewives of Atlanta. God has, you know what, God has really been good to me. Three years away from reality TV. I thought you know somebody getting money. God is good to me. He been good. Really good to me. Okay, in spite of, okay? But no, you know, I have a certain relationship with my fans.

I've been doing a show for 10 years and they're really not fans. I call them supporters because they've been with me through everything, a divorce, giving birth to Pilar on TV, like ups and downs of life. And so, you know know I really felt like at the time it was gonna be great to share my life my happily married life you know but I one thing about me my fans do respect I'm transparent so even though it didn't turn out the story that I wanted to share I still was open what I had let's let's I want to know let's start with the divorce right

open what I had. Let's let's I want to know. Let's start with the divorce, right? Oh, let's do. People automatically assume. Top of the morning. People assumed it was infidelity. But you know, in the first episode you talk about you would go to the airport and you would always get pulled to the side.

And you got to the point you was like, why the hell do we keep getting pulled to the side? Right, right, right. Did you call ICE on Sana? No, no, it doesn't benefit me at all for him to be locked up. Mentally and financially, it doesn't benefit me at all for him to be locked up mentally and financially. It doesn't benefit me. You know, just because you're going through a divorce doesn't mean you hate someone.

I hate actions. I hate lies. I hate a lot of characteristics, but I love the person, you know, and I would never wish harm on anybody. And at the end of the day, I know that he's a tough person. He's a slithering snake. He's going to find his way out of it. I'm sure he'll be fine.

You know, and I pray for him and his family and I hope they all figure it out. So where is it at right now? Because last, the last reports were like he's detained, the existence was denied, like so where is he physically and like what's happening right now? So I only know as much as you guys know and as much as what's online.

As far as I know, they've been posting that he's still being detained, so. In Georgia. I'm not sure, I haven't looked into it that much. I just know I'm trying to finish my divorce and I can't do that if I don't have a person to divorce. We need to be in court. Yeah. Well, you know, he wanted to have our last court date, which was just a couple of weeks ago. A week ago, he asked for it to be in person. I didn't want it to be in person because I knew this whole thing. You know, when I got

enlightened about this whole thing, so you did call us. No, I knew that he already had a peculiar situation with the United States of America. And so it wasn't going to benefit me or him for it to be in person. We had already done a year's worth of the divorce over zoom. So why in person? Why are you fighting for that? Girl, you would have showed up looking just like that too. Who me? Of course. Oh, well you know, you gotta get in that last look. You would have. Now I don't want the divorce.

Now he also filed that he didn't want you to record in the house. Yes. Yes. So I did. But it was your house? Yes, our house. So I mean, I know he's explained it a thousand different ways online. He has documented our entire divorce on the Simon Show online and then I have the housewives, I suppose. But yeah, there is paperwork in place that would make it a marital property 50-50 split. Outside of that being enforced,

it is a premarital property or whatever. But you know, I am on the other side of this. Like we've been divorcing now through this crisis for a whole year. And you know, I've emotionally, it's caught up with what I had to do. So like emotionally, I feel like I'm ready to be done with it. I'm ready to heal, ready to move on. But you know, here comes a reality show. So here's the part of my life where it gets interesting

I'm done with the divorce, but I had to deal with it all the darkness on camera. It comes right back Yeah, and so now it has to come back. So now I have to be super prayed up. I have to be super Vigilant of who's around me of energies I have to be very protective of my peace at this point because I know what I'm getting into more than any other season right this season could affect me more than any other thing girl this is your season like I mean you've always been like you Kenya Nene candy y'all are the OG girls yeah right now I think we're all excited because you have been away

from the show we know that Kenya eventually exits. Nini's not there. Kandi's not there. So it's like we are looking for you to bring back how it used to feel. So there's so many eyes and people are going to critique it so much. So like what's the daily mantra with filming because these girls are not they're not always going to give you that protected piece that you're talking about. Well, no, because I just met a couple of them. So the show started with B.S.O.

They didn't know me to protect me. It was like, hang on, you stole. I was like, what? So for me, I came back into this kind of feeling brand new. Not going to lie. Three years is a really long time from having cameras in your life on a daily basis. I was looking into the damn camera lens for most of the time.

I was getting stumbling over words. It was like brand new Porsche all over again. And then I just said, you know what? I talked to the producer. So this was collaborative. Me coming back, a big part of me coming back was collaborative. We had conversations, my husband or estranged husband and production about how I wanted to be and how I asked them to be was completely honest.

I asked them, can I break the fourth wall? Fourth wall on reality TV is saying I'm late because I had to film my mom at house because it's a season to sit on my crib. You know what I'm saying? So I told them, I said, listen, the only way I can do this is to just speak my truth and be 100% honest. You can edit what you got to do later. Right. But for me to get through this at this dark time and losing like my person, I have to be as honest as I possibly can. And they agree to that. And I feel like they stuck with that. You know, I got to see the show. But I feel like they stuck to letting me just live authentically.

I saw Dr. Simone Whitmore call you a mean girl. Why she say that about you? Capital P. I don't know. I don't know. I couldn't really understand what she was saying. I think Simone is reaching that straws. I mean, I don't know. I think Simone is full of it, just like that piece of doo-doo she had on her head. Like she just, to me, she on her show, sometimes when you're on reality TV, right, she's an OBGYN. She started on the show and you know, she was a regular person and now on the camera. when you start lacking in story you start lacking as a person Individually you start just reaching and coming at you were on point So she's lacking so when people lack they try to deflect and come to you

Yeah, I didn't get me and girl from the first episode. I got late. You was late. I was late To be late, but again logistics behind the scenes things that you will see and things you don't know. I had to film at my mom's house because you know I couldn't film in my house at the time and she lives out in Duluth baby and that was on a Friday in the rain. So wait, you're talking about filming at your mom's house in the house because I saw online that you so you weren't awarded sole possession of the house. So I was.

But you still can't film there? So I was. So no, here's the thing. I could film. I could do what I want in my house. I could film like a whole point on my house. I can do what I want. Right?

I know I had none in a while. So I just think about it. But okay, so I can do what I want in my house. However, he sent the cease and desist to Bravo. So when he sent that to Bravo, they don't want to play with that. So I needed to get a separate document that said I can film in the house to give to them so they don't have to worry about him harassing them with legal things.

Right. Can he send anything legally being that he's here illegally? Let me Google. I'm not an immigration attorney. I don't know. But if he has an attorney, he can send whatever he wants. I would think everything he sends is null and void. Yeah, but bravo. I'm sure don't want to fight that. Well, let's hope so. All right, we got more with Portia Williams. When we come back, don't move.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here with us as well. We're still kicking it with Portia Williams from Real Housewives of Atlanta. Charlamagne? I want to ask you about this with more thinking because she said, I think she was, if I'm Lauren LaRosa is here with us as well. We're still kicking it with Portia Williams from Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Charlamagne. I wanna ask you about this Simone thing because she said, I think she was, if I'm not mistaken, correct me Lauren, she was saying that Phaedra left her show to come back with you. Yeah, cause they freaking back. So it's like now the reunion of them as a friend,

she was basically saying that- Freaking fracking, over there the check was whack. Like, Housewives- Okay, so that's what happened. Phaedra's pace very well. Cause I was gonna ask you that because Phaedra comes in later in the season. I'm like, was that switched because what?

Did you need the friend or like did this money thing? We always need Phaedra. I don't give a damn. We always need the legends of Real Housewives of Atlanta. There's just certain situations to where we can't have some of them back. But if there was a where there's a will, there's a way. I wanted to have Phaedra back. The cast wanted Phaedra back, and Bravo

wanted her back in her home on Housewives. Now how tight are you and Drew? Drew? You know what, Drew, some people you just realize, okay, you just a little. Is she still an ambassador of Go Naked Hair? Absolutely not. Okay. Go Naked Hair is Portia's hair brand. I can't put my hair on people's head and then they think they're me. Like that's what I can't do. Like that's what we're not going to do.

You don't become Portia by wearing Portia's hair. You need to just enjoy my hair, take it out when it's dirty and put it in back in when it's clean. You know, like you can't just like all that. She is a, she's the okay person. I think for a lot of her friends, I think they love her. I think they trust her. I think if you're not her friend, you shouldn't trust her and you shouldn't be around her.

Okay. So with you saying you shouldn't trust her, you shouldn't be around her. Okay, so with you saying you shouldn't trust her, you shouldn't be around her and she is not wearing go-necked hair anymore, you were not happy about the allegations that she might be in a relationship or whatever with Dennis, your ex. See, this is why I like Breakfast Club. You ask the questions that need to be answered, okay? So here's the thing. On the show, I don't know how it's going to come off again because the show has to sensationalize

things, right? So how good is it for me to be going through a divorce and I'm still jealous about my baby daddy. That's BS, right? So in real life, she actually was trying to film with him behind my back and that's just not cool Come on, I'm gonna show us a bit more housewives. So it's just not cool, right? It felt like a setup for me in some way. So you didn't know Drew was recording with Dennis. You didn't know anything. You didn't know that they were speaking. You didn't know that they were talking. Until that first episode. All the hands in the club.

That's what they said on the episode. I didn't know any of that. So you found out right there in that episode. What's so funny, I saw the episode and she was like, she asked him and I said yes, and she talked to me and I said yes, and I'm like, that's just not true. Like I genuinely didn't know. look at the end of the day I like I told Shemeah if Drew and Dennis want to get together I just hope she can do baby hair for Pilar like I'm happy with Drew. I think she's a great parent

I think if him and her were to get together and you know, they can have a solid relationship That's good, too Just don't screw me where you asked me to come back to be. She had been asking me to come back to Housewives and when I came back, this is what you had waiting on me. This whack storyline that y'all came up with. Oh, so I see what you're saying now. If it was real, you wouldn't have a problem with it.

Of course not. I've never gotten, listen, everybody knows Dennis and I have a great co-parent relationship and it is strictly because his personal life is his personal life and mine is mine. So he didn't say nothing to you at all either. You found out on the show so y'all didn't have no conversation. No he ain't gonna tell me because he could benefit off me finding out on the show. Surprise!

Surprise, surprise! That's what he went on. Do you still love Dennis? Cool. Yes. Yeah. Not like, you know, please don't take that soundbite like that.

I mean, yes, as in that's my daughter's father and I want the absolute best for him. But do you love him like still let him sweat on you? You should have said sling hot dogs. Sweat on me? No, no. No. No.

I can't even, and you know, this has been a period of time, I've been divorcing a year, you know, and a lot of people move fast, even in their divorce time. I just don't see him in that way. I just don't. And I think because it's because of Pilar, you don't play with that. You know, I'm already going through a divorce and she's already, you know, losing someone who she called a stepdad, papa, etc.

I don't want to play with her seeing me and her father be in a relationship and then break up. That's not responsible for me. So the love I have for her just causes me not even to be attracted to him in that way at all because I just don't. We have so many ups and downs. Our relationship can be toxic at times and I just don't want to enter into that space with him.

You have a great relationship parents and co-parents and you have a great relationship. We have a good co-parents from where I am single right now. So we're gonna see how it works out when I get somebody. Is that hard to find somebody though Portia because you are so high profile? No for who? Me? Yeah for you. Because you're high profile, you're on TV, people may not want to be, they may not want their life involved in that.

True. So certain caliber of people. I do tend to attract a lot of opportunists. So yes, the people who probably are opportunists and who are in their own lane doing their own thing and don't want to part of anything I have going on probably tend to skew away from trying to date me. Which is the downside of being a reality star. But I just feel like at the end of the day right now I can't even think about that like I can't even imagine me like being with someone else right now because I still have the energy of my husband around me. So when

that's done I think maybe the atmosphere will be like her king is coming. You said something that was interesting you said that you can't get the energy of Simon off you what makes you get the energy of a person off you? Lauren got saved. Your sister got saved. She could, she could, but you know this divorce, it's going to take some time. It's going to take time. To the public, our relationship was so sensationalized that I don't think they saw it as a real relationship,

but I genuinely did love my husband and I had all kinds of plans. If you have ever been married on a long term relationship, everything you do, you're considering that person. They're a part of it. So everything I'm still doing, I'm having to piece him out of it, you know, and I'm still in our home. I would like to redecorate or do whatever, but I got to still wait to see what's going to happen with that.

He and I, what? Stop talking about Simon this is not true you know what is I don't know it is anything what does it say this can't be real they just I have no idea. Oh, wow. OK, so Lauren, look at that. What is happening? Sorry. I'm just playing. I made that up. That's OK.

Oh my! What? What happened? It's insane. My car's got a puncture. I don't know. I'm scared to a c- So what Charlemagne put together,

and let me tell you, before the interview, he didn't tell none of us, right? I thought it was something with me. We just seen him laughing and giggling, so we knew he was up to something. But he even playing it because he has somebody walk it in. The letter says, yo, what's wrong with you, man?

What's wrong with you, man? That is not funny. What's wrong with you, man? You got scared for a hot second. Because this is, I don't know, this is, this, you know, people online of course they're making jokes like, oh, you know, she called or whatever. This is like a person who I have shared a life with. I don't want nothing to happen to him.

I don't want, I don't even want him deported like at the end of the day. That scared me, I was like. Mr. Mental Health just threw you off, huh? Right! But you just left me like, do you know what huh? What you mean? Ray, you disrupted me. Like, do you know what I'm doing? I don't know what's going on. He even disrupted my peace.

I really thought something happened to somebody, because you look like you were about to cry. Yeah. All right. That's crazy. Back to the show. There was a lot of men that were happy that that happened to him, though. They were? Yes.

Because of how he feel about you. Because they went high. Well, and that's the scary part about being online like going in on a personality that people actually like you don't Know who could have done anything You just don't know we got more with Portia Williams when we come back is the breakfast club good morning Morning, everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club Lauren LaRosa is hanging with us this morning And we're still kicking it with Portia Williams from Real Housewives of Atlanta Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is hanging with us this morning and we're still kicking it with Portia Williams from Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Charlamagne? What happened when y'all shot the upshaws? Cause we had NeNe up here. Yeah. And she said you blocked her from, but you wouldn't do it with her. I was doing this show called The Upshaws and she kind of was like,

she didn't want to do the upshaws with me. She didn't tell me that. She told the production crew and the production told us that you know, is that true? I don't believe it's the truth What's my caddy like where she is happen a little bit like she did that so no It's not that I wouldn't do it with her so I signed on to do the upshod and I had just found so when it happened I had already signed up to do the

show and I really couldn't cancel at that point. So when I got there, I just was sitting in the green room or the waiting area and I just like start breaking down. Then she was in the room next to me. Just hearing her voice broke me down because I just felt you when you're going through the voice, you just feel so alone.

Just hearing her voice just it was just too familiar and you know, I had not talked to her. I didn't know how to face her. I didn't know how to face anybody. So it genuinely wasn't me saying no, I don't work with this person or that person whomever because I agreed to it. I just wasn't capable of doing it that day. Mentally and emotionally, mentally and emotionally, I could not gather myself at all. So when I spoke to them, they were like, you know, I understand you're not

going to be able to act as a housewife today. They ended up letting me go home and then they said, we'll fill you in. We'll fill in your spot with Cynthia. And then after that, in true nanny fashion, she just turned it into something about herself. And it genuinely wasn't about her. It was about me. You know what I'm saying? Her actions of taking Simon's side and hanging out with him, with women, or whatever they were doing, which is fine.

Because in a divorce, you're gonna pick a side. I can't judge if she wanted to go over there. Who knows? She may think he right, and I'm wrong. It is what it is. You said you like seeing the OGs on the show. Would you welcome NeNe back? Yes, I would welcome her back.

I mean, it ain't gonna look like I'm welcoming her back. Let me get this straight. We ain't gonna have a time in the beginning, but I'm for what's good for the show, but I just feel like realistically, as much as we all love NeNe and I mean, Miss Nini, realistically, you just can't sue a network. You cannot say things about Andy Cohen that are that damaging and expect that bridge to

still be standing. So unfortunately, I just don't know if she can cross that and come back. I got one more show question because I know you also are acting to. I got a lifetime situation we want to talk about, but Kenya. So I know she's not going to finish out the season because of what happened with her and Brittany. But they were saying that she could come back potentially season 17. Who said that? I thought that she was only suspended for the rest of the 16. No, I be saying that in real life.

I thought she was only suspended for season 16 and could potentially come back for 17 now. I would hope that's true. I just can't see I'm in 100% agreement with her not being here. I would love for her to be at the reunion. I'm for what's best for the show. And I loved where Kenya was going. She's not that happy with me right now. Why is she not happy with you right now?

I thought y'all were doing better this season. She didn't like when I said that, when I compared her to Brit and I said they were similar and I said they were similar but I meant because they're both fabulous. They're both to me speak their mind like you know she when you don't like somebody you don't want to be compared to them so. Right got you. But whatever girl I got hell I gotta talk about you you a part of the show don't you want to be talked about?

It's kind of crazy though I didn't even think about the reunion Like the fact that she won't even be on the. It's possible. I'm still hopeful. I'm still hopeful. She is. She's still a big part of the show. She's not the show. She didn't make or break the season, but Kenya is a person who I've been doing this with for a very long time. And for once we were possibly about to have a season of not being foes. You know what I'm saying? Phaedra, I have to say when Phaedra came in, she helped to elevate the show as well and keep us where we needed to be because everybody been wanting to see her.

She been gone the whole time. Kandee been gone. Yeah. So, you know, it's people wanting her back. And Kandee has been really upset about how Kenya has been treated by the network. She's been very vocal about that. And then Phaedra coming back. I don't know if Candy's too excited about that as well, too. But yeah, do you feel like the network protects you guys the way that they should? Because that's what Candy's saying. It's

like the network didn't protect one of their stars, which is Kenya. I still work for the network, so I don't share certain sentiments. Okay. Let's be clear. All right. I'm saying that I think Kenya deserves an opportunity and an opportunity can be given to anyone. You can always say no, she can say whatever she wants to say to Britt, the cast, the crew, and whoever and they can say no, but I believe she deserves that opportunity. I ain't say a damn thing about the network. Love the network. Talk about all this money you're getting pampered by Portia. Lifetime.

Go-Neck and Hair. What by Portia. Lifetime. Go naked hair. The lifetime movie. Yeah, it's Detective Ebony Williams in the upcoming Lifetime movie Single Black Female Three the final chapter. Yes. Yes, that was that was big for me. I always want to be in a Lifetime movie. I am obsessed with Lifetime and I am amongst the cast of great women who've been they had

two other movies. This is the third installment the last one and I play detective. I look totally different in this movie I even stopped doing Botox for this movie. I did I was like, you know what? I'm not doing any Botox I want my whole face to move No, you look good, right but in the trail cuz I know when you saw Every freaking line. I got lines in my forehead, I got a crow's feet, I got all of it. Because my role is so different from who I am. Like I'm an alcoholic, I'm a bit of a stalker. I ain't going to say what else I've done in

a movie. But I think it's going to be a good look for me in the acting world because it's totally different from me playing myself and a lot of other things that I've done before. I got one last question. Will a Nigerian man get another shot or do you feel like the stereotype is true and all of them are scammers now? Well I am Nigerian so of course I would date another one. You know I would I would marry another one. I want to love and marry who is gonna be honest and love me. I'm not ready to get married. I'm not rushing into none of that. I mean unless. I'm about to say you say that damn girl.

Unless. By the end of the season, you'd be like, oh poor shit got a new ring. Oh no! You would get married again? I would. I would get married again. Why? Of course. So just because of him, I can't get married again. I can't enjoy the comfort and the security of being, I love being married. I love being called somebody's wife

I love waking up every morning sitting at your feet asking you what you need me to do. Like I I just love that That's in me I'm a southern girl and I think that's probably why Nigerian men and like men of wealth Like me because I am very submissive and I'm very loving and I'm very even though I'm all that I am bossy I can shift that a bit for my man. Do they have to have wealth? You know, I was thinking about that. I was thinking about that and I think if I didn't have a daughter, they don't have to have wealth. They do have to have self. So you need to be self-sufficient. You need to have your own business

about yourself and you need to be able to come in here if I get pregnant and provide for our child. But I do, I like this new conversation of like Dolly Parton, oh, RIP to her husband who just recently died. But I like her relationship. Like they were separated a lot of the time, is in space physically, but they kept their relationship strong. Like I don't feel like I have to live with my husband. Charli Ralph does that too.

Yeah, Charli Ralph. And I loved when she told us that. I don't feel like I have to live with my husband. Charlie Ralph does that too. Yeah, Charlie Ralph. And I loved when she told us that. I don't think it has to be traditional. I feel like my next relationship will not be traditional. I wonder what that means in the between time. It would be a little bit open. Oh, you would do an open relationship? Really?

Not with another female. So you could go and have another man, but he can't have another woman? I haven't found one who's going to allow that. If you know one, let me know. But no, they don't allow that. They don't allow that. I just mean as far as like your tradition of him having to be in the house. I honestly could be in a house with just my baby and be good.

And then we come and visit my husband. So you need a break sometimes. You have enough houses though. I mean, you have enough rooms in your house to be able to do that. So why y'all didn't just do it? Because I also like to be under people. That's why I'm so confused because I'm watching you right now.

I'm like my man my man my man so I'm sitting here like girl. Jesus Christ. Portia ladies and gentlemen Real Housewives of Atlanta comes on this Sunday 8-7 Central with on the Bible and Peacock and we appreciate you for stopping by. Thank you. Portia Williams it's the Breakfast Club. Now, let's get to the rooms On the Breakfast Club the coaches People made it Kim K for kind of sort of joining the free Tory movement.

Yeah, indirectly. So she posted a video and she put a Tory song on it. Yeah, she posted. Tory swaps. I'm not even gonna hold you. Tory Lane's music is good, but that's the argument right now. First, Kim Kardashian posted this video. She's just on the beach in a swimsuit.

She put a Tory Lane song to it. Tory Lane then reposted to his Instagram. So all his fans go over to her Instagram, they're flooding her comments with the umbrellas for the raindrops she bringing these brothers home. She but she's not she didn't say that she didn't lean into it or whatever. So but it caused a conversation because yesterday toy lanes they viewed his album art for his new album that he has coming

The album name is Peterson. So this is the photo in the photo. It is Tory Lanez. He is currently behind bars still even with this photo being released He's currently still behind my eyes in my house so we can see how small he Will he try look a little bit, you know, we spend a little time behind bars. You'll be doing like this door Yes, so the photo it was taken while behind bars the album itself was created while he's behind bars you'd be doing like this. Yes, so the photo it was taken while behind bars the album itself was created while he's behind bars it's being engineered he says by one of his best engineers and he says that this is the first time that the world is ever going to hear music at a high level good music from someone who's behind bars talking about the prison experience in real time and y'all remember we did that story about when they came in and it was a huge fight when he was on the phone but he was rapping.

So it seems like it's going to be a lot more of those type of moments on there as well too. You know with Kim K, people got to learn to separate the art from the artists at this point right? Because if a person has some dope music and they have some dope music before they committed a crime and went to jail, you should still be able to like the music right? That shouldn't be a co-sign of the artist. I haven't stopped listening to anybody who's been convicted.

We know Tory is a straight shooter with the music. Wow. What a term. I'm expecting this album to be just as great as his other work. Jess, so let me tell you about Lauren. Lauren texted me at 5. in the morning, right? Envy, can you reach out to Tori's people? I want to know who took the picture in jail? What was it taken on? What type of device? How many days did it take to take that photo shoot? How many takes? Like how many different photos? Who am I going to ask? How many photos in jail?

They would know. They had to find that information? They would have had to, if there were multiple photos sent, they would have had to make it look like, you know, this looks so artsy. They had to art it up. So they would have known how many photos they did that way. Whoever took the picture was probably a man. He was like, yeah, yeah, you look good, yo. You look good. Flex this way.

Flex this muscle. Turn this way. But it looks like exactly what it is. Like he's in jail. I mean, it ain't too many poses he could've did. But who am I going to ask? Who am I going to ask? You got the yard. You got the, what else? They be doing the same thing. Exactly what it is like he's in jail. I mean it ain't too many You got the yard you got the what else they be doing in there this little TV area I'm assuming where he was on the phone. It's a couple places. He could have posted

He'll be rapping or singing or doing what he do. I think it's gonna be But to your point about being able to support him and like all of that Tory Lane's recently sat down for an interview from behind bars He's doing a lot. He working and he talked about that He talked about people not feeling like and actually choosing not to publicly support him Let's take a listen to this interview All those people were scared They were scared to say how they truly felt because they come to me and we have long hour long Conversations on how we all feel like y y'all, now we know you're innocent

because of them screaming and crying and saying, I can't believe they got you like this. But when it comes to public time, it's like nobody's saying what they really feel. I've even seen people say the opposite of what they feel, the opposite of what they told me because it was benefiting to them at that time, and that's sick to me.

And there's a lot of black people my that like have done fake ass to me and say, hey, XYZ, da da da da da da da da and Aiden Ross, this white boy, he went all against black culture. Like it's not about a culture, this is my brother and I don't care about what y'all talking about. I disagree.

I think everybody, there was a lot of people who wasn't supportive, Tory. And there was a lot of people saying that they supportive Tori There's a lot of people saying that uh, they felt like Tori was innocent not at first There's a lot of people but not supporting Tori not playing his music they banned him for a while at first I feel like Tori had the internet on his side like a mother There were people that were coming for Meg on his side But there were a lot of people who weren't saying things and that's I think who he's referring to and you heard him get a little bit emotional Yeah

So it must be someone people that he thought were close to him before he got like about it on they start Peterson the album The whole album from beginning to end is about his feelings toward this whole situation Yep And that was the father he was on the full sin podcast and what he was referring to when he was mentioning Aiden Ross was because Aiden Ross came on that that and had the free tourie shirt. I remember. Yeah. And it was, you know, it was a big deal because Aiden Ross does have a huge online following.

But yeah, so that'll be coming out. That's supposed to his out that album. Peterson is going to drop Friday. So once we listen, we'll be back because I'm sure there's some things on up in there. I definitely understand what you mean, though, when he say, you know, people will tell you one thing in private and then go against you publicly man I've had to me so many times like with all my previous controversies or whatever a person will be like Oh, I knew you're not wrong. You stood up for us and everything and then like but I can't support you

You know publicly, you know cuz it then it's gonna mess up. How do you respond to that? Cuz they I'm working with them. So what do you say in response to that black the person you clowned out your clown for life, but I said I feel like I have a spy the clown. They're actually a You know, I call them how I see Happens a lot to everybody right cuz nobody I've we seen it with Jay when Jay was just going to his stuff We see it all the time with celebrities and people want to get out the way They don't want none of that nut nothing on them. They just want to be comfortable his stuff. We see it all the time with celebrities and people wanna get out the way. They don't want nothing on them. They just wanna be comfortable and clean

and we see it all the time. I told Tory ended up in jail, but the court of public opinion seemed like they was way more against Meg than they was against Tory. I felt like they gave Meg hell. I stayed. Tory did go to jails. But the court of public opinion, he won in the court of public opinion.

For sure, I think there are people right now still arguing that and that's why when she did that move to Have certain things restrained again remember she asked for the order while he was still locked up people came out again and were like What's wrong with you? Why are you doing this that man's locked up? And I was like whoa like you know she's over here. She's saying she's a victim But yeah, I just want to tell you that the source that you wanted me to reach out to said he'll get all the info He just woke up. He said up he said he said it was uh he says I just hit him trying to see who he who took it and when it got edited but yeah they will have vinyl and CDs for this album

so it'll be make do music from behind and yeah well I've also asked some questions about any clearance to see how to get because remember he got rated as well too so we'll have more on that cuz I you know to your point there are in the whole situation about my question There's a method to my madness y'all we will answer those questions for you guys shortly right here on the breakfast club I hate to see No 430 this morning, but that's cuz last night I fell asleep watching the state of the union. I would have called you last night, but it was, I was trying to figure out Trump. He had me in the days a little bit. Oh my, you want me to reach out to somebody that early? That's disrespectful.

You say good morning. They know you start work early. All right. All right. Well, that is, that is the rumors. Thank you. All right. Now, Charlamagne, who you giving that donkey to? I need the Democrats coming in front of the congregation. We like to have a word with them. All of them. As a party, staff, and mother effing crew. Come on. Even the ones holding up the sign? Definitely the pickleball paddle polishes. We need to talk to them.

Even the ladies in the pink? I don't even know what you're talking about. See, dang, you ain't know that. The word pink as a resistance thing as well to some of the Democrats, but go ahead. I ain't even know. All right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning.

You're checking out the Breakfast Club. This is America. Alright, we'll get to that next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. This is a miracle. There is no question that there are problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey. The latest on that police killing of a black man. Now the new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage. Man, you have to say it was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacist violence is and always

has been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. To the breakfast club, bitches. All right, Charlene, please tell me why was I your donkey of the day? Donkey of the day for Wednesday, March 5th goes to the Democrats. All of them as a party, staff and mother effing crew. For the way they left Congressman Al Green out there on an island unto himself. First of all, salute to Congressman Al Green. Drop on the clues button for Congressman Al Green. You got some Dutch OG.

Okay, if you didn't watch the State of the union last night, then you miss 77 year old Congressman Al Green stand up and disrupt President Donald Trump's speech. Now, as I was watching the state of the union, the only thing I kept thinking was, I really don't know what Democrats do. Okay. Trump is a force of nature. All right. You can't stop them.

You can only hope to contain them. And that energy has been projected on the whole Republican party. And regardless of how you feel about their policies, regardless of how you how we know okay their policies are going to ruin the American economy, guaranteed they just come off strong Democrats come off as weak okay and Democrats are never able to properly articulate the threat they say Republicans are okay they go to the extremes all right we've heard all the greatest hits. Threat to democracy, fascist, constitutional crisis. And even if these things are true, Democrats never quite act like it. And last night was more of the same.

That's why once again I want to salute Congressman Al Green for standing up and attempting to call a thing a thing. If Trump is as bad as Democrats say he is, then somebody in the Democratic party has to act like it. Somebody has to throw a middle finger to tradition. Somebody has to throw a middle finger to the norms and do something different. You got to try something different.

Michelle Obama said, when they go low, we go high. Well, that is an old play from an old playbook. In 2025, when they go low, you got to take it to the floor with them. You got to scrub the mother f**king ground. And Congressman Al Green took a page out of the Republican playbook. He did what Republican congressmen from South Carolina, Joe Wilson did when he, when he yelled, uh, you lied at Obama.

Let's listen. The reforms, the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegal. It's not true. I feel so light now in retrospect, right? And let's not forget Marjorie Taylor Greene disrupting President Biden at his State of the Union speech. It's not about him. It's not about me.

I'd be a winner. Not really. I... Lincoln, Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. Biden spun that well. So listen, I know right-wing media is going to spin it like Congressman Al Green and Democrats would be in petty. Well, they learn from the best.

Okay? Would you like to hear how Congressman Al Green got down last night? Well, let's go to Sky News Australia for the report, please. Mr. Green, take your seat. Take your seat, sir. Take your seat. Democrat Representative Al Green was dramatically kicked out of the chamber after disrupting Donald Trump's joint address to Congress tonight. ... members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum.

The chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. Remove this gentleman from the chamber. Green showed no remorse for his disruption, saying it was worth being kicked out to make his point. It is the best way to get on the cross to a person who uses his instability, who uses his instability against our stability. I'm willing to suffer whatever punishment is available to me. I didn't say to anyone don't punish me.

I've said I'll accept the punishment. But it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president's desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. And I'm also working on my articles of impeachment. This president is unfit. He should not hold the office. 34 felony convictions, two times impeached.

Drop out of clues, Bob. I agree. I have no problem with what the OG did there, but here's my issue. Old men for council, young men for war. Where was the young warriors? Okay. Even if you didn't want to set it off like Congressman Al Green did, you got to stand with him when he does. Okay. You got to walk out with him in protest. When they kicked him out. Al Green is 77. He out there with a cane. Okay, looking like the old man in New Jack City. Rest in peace to Bill Cobbs. Remember when the old man was telling Nino Brown, he going to hell? That's how Congressman Al Green looked. But where was the rest of the Democrats? Huh? Y'all left Captain America to fight the black order by himself. Imagine if those portals opened up in Avengers Endgame,

but instead of coming out to fight, the rest of the Avengers just sat there and watched, watched Captain America get embarrassed. That's what Democrats did to Congressman Al Green last night. And it made an already weak party look weaker. Okay. House Speaker Mike Johnson called for the house sergeant at arms to remove Al Green from the chamber. Democrats, y'all should have walked out with him. I mean, look, I don't know what else it is for them to do. They are just a lost party. No real fight whatsoever. It's like Republicans and Democrats aren't even playing the same game.

They're not in the same league. They're not shooting at the same basket. They aren't even speaking the same language. And I don't know what Democrats do to cut through because when they have moments to make a statement like last night, they fumble. Now I know all the other, all the older Democrats, okay. The Congressman Clyburn's of the world and Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the ones that go along to get along like Hakeem Jeffries.

I know they're going to follow protocol and show up to the state of the union, but the younger ones, you all honestly shouldn't have shown up if you weren't going to be more disruptive. Okay. Paul Algreen, He dropped his nuts. Okay. Maybe he thought if I set it off, folks will follow suit, but no y'all out there holding up signs like it's a silent auction.

Okay. Matter of fact, they weren't even signs. They were pickleball paddles. Okay. Democrats were out there looking like a bunch of pickleball paddle polishes. Okay. They, this, they really were looking like they wanted to challenge Trump and the Republican party to a friendly game of pickleball paddle polishers. Okay. They, they really were looking like they wanted to challenge Trump and the Republican party to a friendly game of pickleball.

When diplomacy fails, perhaps a friendly pickleball match on the house floor can settle the score. No! Look, man, we're in strange times. Okay. Because Trump can stand up there and tell a lot of lies, but nobody cares. Because if you're a Democrat, you think Republicans are always lying Because if you're a Democrat, you think Republicans are always lying. If you are Republican, you think Democrats are always lying.

So nobody is listening objectively. Okay, but at this point, it's not about policy, sadly. It's about optics. And I don't know how Democrats can change the optics without a massive overhaul of the whole party. Okay, America, we are just gonna have to let things play out but when the inevitable fumble from Republicans come and it will because the economy is only gonna get worse guaranteed okay people will not be able to afford their basic needs guaranteed. It's been 11 recessions

in this country since World War II okay 10 have been under Republican presidents we more than likely will be headed towards another one. So Republicans are going to fumble. I just believe that when they do, Democrats don't have the team to recover the ball because Congressman Al Green had the ball last night and you damn sure didn't have the team to block for him. Please give the Democratic Party the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day.

Yeehaw. Let's look at the congressman algorithm once again, man. Absolutely. Question. Why did you use Australia news team I have no idea ask our producers I'm just curious why you use the Australian news time talking about American stuff I did so many people covering that just why did you do that I mean I don't care either way. I thought it was a good report.

I'm just curious why Australia didn't... Our producer's texting me now to tell me why he used it. We don't do good news reports in America. We... Trump would be mad. He said, keep it American. You were just gonna go in and use it in Australia when we got all these dudes. Cash, Channel 2, 4, 5, 7, 9...

That's why we're trying to get them to podcast this sunshine right now. Eddie said cause they had the best 9. That's why he's trying to get them podcasted sunshine right now. Eddie said because they had the best report. That's what he said. Luke the Sky News. They're going to put a tariff on him. All right. Thank you for that donkey of the day.

Now when we come back, Dr. Pastor Jamal Bryant will be joining us. That's right. He wants to do a 40-day lit fast of Target. And we'll talk to him when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning the breakfast club Morning everybody is the JNV Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club. Laura La Rosa is here We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. You have passage and more Brian. Welcome brother. Thank you, sir

Good to be with you. How you feeling this morning? Bill great. Let's talk about this, the 40-day fast of Target. And this is something that you're trying to put into play and why? I'm not trying, you are putting it into play, why? So people are asking why do we pick Target when Walmart is out of order, McDonald's is out of order, John Deere is out of order, Bank of America is out of order, Amazon is out of order, Bank of America's out of order, Amazon is out of order. We wanted to go, the African proverb says if you want to eat an elephant, do one piece at a time.

So we picked Target first for several reasons. Number one, Target is headquartered in the same city George Floyd was killed. When George Floyd was killed, Target came out, made an announcement that they're going to invest $2 billion in the black business. $2 billion, drum roll, and it starts December of 2025. When Trump made the announcement January of 2025, they dishonored that commitment. So we wanted to hold them accountable because when they made the pledge, they had nothing to do with DEI. Secondly, I am embarrassed, Breakfast Club, to say to you, Negroes spend $12 million a

day in Target. And I don't know any black business that amasses that much money in any singular day. Is it 12 million a day? A day! Number three, Target is on 27 college campuses and not one HBCU. Number four, outside of the federal government, Target is the largest employer of black people. They have 400,000 black people on payroll and don't honor us. So we're given that kind of money, that much human capital and to not honor us I think is dismally disrespected and because they're publicly traded we wanted to see what will happen in those

40 days that shows the data. This is the impact when black people walk away and to share it with those share crops. So it will not just be 40 days, but every movement has to have a benchmark, it's got to have a strategy and you got to have some data. Why are you calling it a fast and not a boycott? Yeah, I called it a fast because this was a call to the black church to become active. Something happened silently that scholars and historians are going to have to pay attention to. The rise of Black Lives Matter, Charlemagne, was the very first movement of civil rights for black people that was not birthed out of the church. The very first civil rights movement that happened that didn't have a religious leader at the front. And so the black church is going backwards.

This is the largest demographic of black people since we've been in America, who don't go to church at all, who don't subscribe to organized religion. We're at 28%. The largest amount of black people who self-identify as atheists, who say they don't believe in God don't believe in nothing so this was a call specifically for black Christians to show the younger

generation our head is not in the sand we're a part of it but we're aligning it with prayer that those 40 days is the high holy season for the Christian community we're praying because this is a spiritual warfare that we're under with JD Vance and Donald Trump. With all of the things that are happening with these executive orders, marching is good, protesting is necessary, petitions are important. But if we don't bring a spiritual grounding to it, I think that we're going to miss it. During the Montgomery bus boycott, lasts 381 days what nobody talks about Is for 381 days every night they went back to the church for prayer

So I think that in the movement you've got to have a faith entity intertwined in it in order for you to move forward What do you say to some of the people that have black products in Target that they say that you know? Because of this boycott if a boycott happens and people are stopping to go to Target, that they say that because of this boycott, if a boycott happens and people are stopping to go to Target, that it's gonna affect their products even more. I know we had the co-founders of Ruckaroots on the Breakfast Club. We had the founder of the Lit Bar.

And they were saying that if people don't come into the store, which Target is their hugest manufacturer, their hugest buyer, so what happens to those products? Number one, the Lit Bar and all of those entities understand a new thing out called drop ship. You don't have to go in a physical store to help them. Because of that in foresight, we partner with the US Black Chamber of Commerce. So every person that goes to targetfast.org within an hour, I send you a digital directory of 300,000 black businesses across the country.

So we don't want those businesses to be adversely impacted. We want people to support them but do it online. I can support the lip bar and not go into Target to do it. I can go online to do it. And so I think that as innovative and creative people as black people are, let's do it, I can go online to do it. And so I think that as innovative and creative people, as black people are, let's do it online. We do everything else online. So let's support them.

And the 1000 black vendors who are placed in Target, we're going to prominently place on the website so that you'll be able to find them quickly without any pause. Two things to what you're saying. So the first thing when they were up here they talked about the inventory and just how much money they have to put ahead to be in these stores that comes out of their own pocket that they will lose out on if people do not, if they're not supporting these like companies or whatever. So even if you're buying it from their website because they already in contract for this amount of inventory with allotted to Target they lose out on it, they don't profit on

that now. Yes, that money has already been spent. A movement comes with inconvenience. It came that same argument happened in the Montgomery bus boycott. The question was asked what do we do for the bus mechanics who are all black? So what they did is they pulled all of those bus mechanics out of Montgomery and set up garages at the churches. What nobody is talking about is four mechanic shops came out of it. So I understand that it's an inconvenience. I know we gotta go a different route,

but I would then say, that's up the ante. As a business principle, let's buy more to cover what is that loss. Companies take losses all the time, but a group of misguided preachers went into Target in Detroit and said let's just buy black inventory and come out. You're still supporting Target. So I think that we've got to come away even if we got to raise the price in order to make the balance let's do it. One of the things that black people do wrong

whenever it is we're supporting black business we always want a discount. Let's pay full price and support them. Let's not just do it with lip service but let's do it through the investment. We have more with Pastor Jamal Bryant when we come back don't move it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ N.V. Jessalaria, Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa is here with us this morning and we're still kicking with pastor Jamal Bryant Lauren. The women from Rocker Roots, Ione Jamison and

Ellen Sellers talked about how even in Walmart's majority of their clients tell that they make a large amount of their money off of on those products they don't have the access to the dot-com so being able to walk in like it's just different in some of the lower area, rural areas. So being able to walk into a Walmart or a Target helps them as far as inventory and creates access for those people. What about that? But yeah, I think that we've got to ask ourselves what is the principle and is the principle more important than the profit? You've got a whole lot of churches who have space that is underutilized and underused. The fact that in 2025 we don't have a minority-owned retail space to direct people on says that we got to

reevaluate how we do business. So going into Target to buy whatever this product is to say hey forget that they to say, hey, forget that they don't honor us. Forget that they've disrespected the George Floyd family. Forget that they are only allowing black people on entry level positions. Let's do it for lipstick. I think that we're losing the larger conversation. I want to see the sisters win.

I want to see them do overwhelmingly well. But I think that we got to get into a room and figure out how do we make it more accessible for those in rural areas. I don't think that the answer is to keep shooting ourselves in the foot and then ask for a cast. Well will we ever get there pastor? We want to get there right? Will we ever own our own Target slash Walmart? Will we ever own our own car manufacturer?

Will we ever own our own so we, will we ever own our own so we can rely on it. It just seems like we're far stretched from that. Yeah, so one of the things that we're asking for Target to do and for all of the demands that we're asking of Target, please go to Targetfast.org. I'm asking Target to partner with 10 HBCUs to show our businesses how to scale up and to go into the retail space. Reverend Sharpton is one of my mentors, but in the history of black people, we have never

marched black people into a white business to say spend money here. So we got to figure out how it is that we really reroute and redirect so that we can create an ecosystem for us to be able to do. I think that is possible, but there's a plan that has to be a foot in order to make it done. I saw you say that Target has been trying to reach out to you. Yes.

But you, I'm not talking to a diversity officer. No, you may not have a job next week. You reached out during Black History Month. I don't know if you're going to make it to St. Patrick's Day. I need somebody who got some job security and got some influence to make a decision. I think this generation don't want symbolic wins. They want substantive strides. And if you're just doing there to say we met, we talked, all the street credibility is gone. I need somebody who can make a decision. And you gotta ask Envy what's in the mind of a CEO that can lose 12

million dollars a day and say I'm not me. So the person who reached out to you felt had no influence. Yeah not enough influence. Got you. Yeah so you're gonna send the black people out to talk to the black guy. Black guy go talk to the black guy. Yeah, yeah. Settle them down. Got you. Yeah no no no no no. I need to talk to the CEO black people out to talk to the black guy. Black guy go talk to the black guy. Yeah, settle them down. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. I need to talk to the CEO or I need to talk to somebody who was on that board of target or who can really help me understand where you are. And if you all are being punked by JD Vance and Trump, tell me that and let's figure out how we can walk alongside each other.

Well, we know that's what it is. Yeah, that's what it is. But tell me that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. out how we can walk alongside each other. Well we know that's what it is. Yeah that's what it is, but tell me that. When you um, so I know that in talking about meeting eventually y'all want to have a conversation or there is something scheduled right? You guys will be meeting June 12th in Minneapolis? That's when their stockholders meeting is.

Oh their shareholders meeting, okay. Yeah so we are planning on going there. I'm hoping that we have resolved by then. That's what I was getting. Yes. We can't wait till June. But June 12th and there now is the underground murmur that they don't even want to do an in-person shareholder meeting. They want to do it by Zoom.

They don't want you guys to show up. Yeah. Yes. But that's why it's important for you to have the data to show how this has been impacted, how much money you've lost in the stock and what is at stake. So we wanted to take all of that to the shareholders meeting June 12th. My last question for you, where are you at now numbers wise? Because I know you were looking to get a hundred thousand people by this Wednesday the 5th when it starts. We are at 110,000 people have come and we did it before we ever got to the Breakfast Club. So now y'all we got to get to 150.

We got to get to 150 because numbers is power. It was important for me to have a tangible evidence of how many people are standing behind us. That is not just a post. It's not just likes and shares, but a hundred thousand people I can press a button to send an email to say hey we outside in Target, hey we in Cincinnati so that the people at Target know that we mean business that is not just symbolism but there's substance behind it. How can people get behind you?

Go to TargetFast.org is just one word there you'll see what is our list of demands when it is that you sign up for Target Fast. I'm going to send you a digital directory to those 300,000 businesses and even for those of you who don't go to church or watch online, I'm going to send you a daily prayer devotional so that you can stay focused, no pun intended, so you can stay on Target for what it is that we're trying to get done. All right. Well, we appreciate you for joining us this morning. Again, Jamal, that's targetfast.org. Thank you so much, brother. Man, thank you.

And when y'all come to Atlanta, I'm coming through. I ain't even got a ticket, I'm coming. Oh, you know Charlebee, too. Well, yeah, he came, Pastor Jamal popped up to my Black Effect podcast festival. I'm coming this year. I wanna come to New Birth, man. You gotta come.

I wanna come one Sunday and check it out. Yeah, you gotta come. Absolutely. It's Rue MentaCross. Hey, let me say this to you. Okay. I'm from Baltimore Do you know the first place I ever had Cray up Charleston South Carolina Monks Corner Monks Corner? Okay Monks Corner AME Church Blake James Blake this back in the 80s. All right. Okay, is the first place I ever had credit my famous from Georgetown, South Carolina Okay, so we used to come down there every summer but Baltimore

Never does not go too far South Carolina. So we used to come down there every summer. But Baltimore they still- The first time you had crabs and you from Baltimore? I know. Was they better than Baltimore? No, never. Never. They cook them with the beer? Never. It's not going too far. I'm just doing trauma bonding with you all the time. No, Baltimore is the home of crab. Crab ain't no trauma.

It's trauma that I had to do it in South Carolina before I headed in Baltimore. South Carolina is amazing for seafood. It's great. It's amazing. It's great. It. Just not as good as Baltimore, but it's good. Thank you all. Pastor Jamal Bryan, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Thank you. The Breakfast Club. The Coacheship. With Lauren, Lauren LaRosa.

I'm back. And I got the magic. Talk to me. So one of my favorite comedians, Damon Waynes, I love the whole family he sat down with Big Boy and he said something very interesting. So he talked about not getting back on stage and doing stand-up. He doesn't plan to do that anytime soon Let's take a listen. Do you see Damon Wayans getting back on stage? No, not man. You are a master comedian, bro I appreciate that and when I was doing and loved it, it's just the audience too dumb right now

My stand-up ain't fodder for someone to you know to pick apart. It's like, here's the joke. You don't like it, don't laugh, keep it moving. Now they think they have some say. And everybody's super offended. Right. Well, they're being programmed to be offended because they're really not. Like when I was doing stand up and I was in the club, people were laughing. It's just now it's different.

You have to have a conversation because if you go on stage and go, man I hate, as soon as you say hate everybody's little hairs bristle up and they ready to boo. But if you go, man I don't understand. It's a conversation. He's right. I just thought it was so crazy because I mean I think with him being like you know he's doing this show with his son and he's moving around so much right now To see them on stage. I would be anybody's gonna that's gonna sell out anywhere Well, I just so y'all can go there and be offended like he said man. You and you think pieces with no thought I wouldn't be offended that Dave Chappelle tries to break that mold all the time

But people always say they offended and they always have a problem with him. But like he said Yeah, but my shows, they crazy. Like they, I don't bleep nothing out. I don't act like I, basically if you buy a ticket and you are that type of person, you will be offended at my shows. You know what I mean? Because there's certain things that you can't talk about

online that you can talk about on stage. I'm from Baltimore, I've been I've been the same raw Comic that I've been you know It's just that I learned very quickly that the stage it was the same thing that translate on into you know Laughs on the stage is not it don't play well online. You know people better than that just show them Yeah, yeah, but they they they don't laugh and they laugh the next joke They keep it moving just like he said but now It's different it is different But I don't think that no waynes could ever live up to their full capacity that they did when he first came out these days

I see some big backs get offended at your show, but I think that's only cuz I was there Around that whole time Yeah, they know they wasn't at my show protesting, but Charlamagne just sitting in the audience triggered a bunch of big people who was there because yeah, and I went online, I told her how it was. He was the one that I pointed them out and everything. I didn't call y'all big backs, y'all buy my tickets all the time. Y'all are good people.

And then the club, that club had a two-wing basket minimum. So it was crazy in there that night. It's not with two drinks. Oh, not for that night. Because the abundance of big backs that was in the bell. He's so stupid, yo. But nah, he had New Jersey big people pissed off, though. But super serve your audience, that's all. If people don't like it, don't listen.

But if people that do like it, feed those folks, that's all. Like he said, the audience too dumb he damn right yeah too dumb and then the new trend is being offended and sensitive about something so it's like nah he could never get back on stage because he's not the type of comic that you can water down right he's not the type of comic that's going to change and that's what I would be excited about but I didn't get the other side of it but he did talk about like just where comedy is today and the time that he chose the exit Let's take a listen to that too. Do you feel like you got in and so called out at the right time? Oh, it's the best time when I was coming up

There was Arsenio Hall Robert Townsend my brother Keenan Eddie Murphy John Witherspoon Paul Mooney Oh, you know every great and everybody was different Everybody had a different voice and a different take even on the same joke. Now I watch comedy and it's the same take on the same joke. There are some people out there that are funny, genuinely funny, but for the most part I'm not impressed. It doesn't make me want to get up there. Because it's safe. A lot of comics plan is safe, you know, and comedy ain't supposed to be safe. It's supposed to be limitless. You see the same thing? You see the same thing? People sounding the same? Yeah, absolutely. Talking about the same thing, the same topics over and over.

People scared to really dive into like the breakdown of jokes because they scared of hurting somebody's feelings. They scared of being recorded because somebody material end up online. That's that's grounds for you to be canceled and criticized and everything too. Even Marlon, like his little brother, Marlon Wayans. Like he did his, I don't think Marlon gonna ever stop doing comedy, but people saw his special and tried to murder him because he has a child that's trans, you know what I mean? And he jokes about it. And his daughter know, well, I don't know what the sex is now, but if you're Marlon

Wayans son or daughter, you already know what's up. You know what I what the sex is now, but if you Marlon Wayne son or daughter you already know What's up? You know what I mean? So it's like and the jokes by flying our house We talked about that. Yes, yeah, you know, but people like trying to cancel them and you know, like, you know What is that that caught the the suit? It's a lawsuit with somebody feel offended. They can Suit some Yeah, people are trying to, I don't know, you the one that knew all of that, but people were trying to write Netflix for a day.

They wanted to get his special off of there because he was offending other trans people. I don't have that much time in my day. Talking about his own child. You know the last time David Williams probably got canceled was up here on the Brexit Club. We had a conversation about that. We probably, that's probably the reason

why he don't wanna do it no more. No, we don't have nothing to do with stand-up. What did he say? Nope. I chose not to include that. No, don't do that. Why you want to rehash that? See that you're part of the problem. I said I chose not to include it. You brought it up. I chose not to include it. But I'm not telling people what he got canceled for. I wasn't going to tell them. I was letting her know I chose not to include it so that we wouldn't have to talk about it. I wouldn't let you play that. I wouldn't let you play that. Man, everybody gonna go back. I can't wait know I chose not to include it so that we wouldn't have to talk about it. I wouldn't let you play that. Man, everybody gonna go back. I can't wait to go on YouTube to look at this.

That's how many people brought it up. Crazy. Nope. It's gone. It doesn't exist. What happened with Travis Scott? Real quick. We got some time. Yeah, so Travis Scott was at the WWE. He put some pause on somebody. What happened? Yeah, what was it? It was called The WWE. He put some pause on some might what?

Yeah, what was it? It was called the chamber. Where's my? Hold on. Okay, so Travis Scott, he, so WWE star Cody Rhodes, Travis Scott, The Rock and John Cena were all in a ring with him. That happened over the weekend.

That happened Saturday. Tons of people there, Drake, I think, there was a ton, tons of celebrity there. But basically there was a video that went viral from their little skit that they did because you have John Cena holding Cody Rhodes down. He's getting with him. Then you got The Rock slapping him

with this custom belt that Travis Scott made. And then Travis Scott holds Cody Rhodes, I'm sorry, and slaps him. But the way he slaps him, even I feel like John Cena and The Rock kind of pause a little bit It was fake like what you? He brought the Y in energy It was kind of crazy, but I couldn't tell if Cody Rose was actually like her not because again

Listen to this now there are reports that he's supposed to address this on Friday that he suffered a black eye and a busted Ear drum as a result of the slack like he went to it happens sometimes the only person who ain't a real wrestler Train them or something like prior to that they probably he probably didn't expect the trap it Travis a slap him like that I mean he didn't have it. He was he was pinned down He he rose didn't have a choice, but I feel like in that moment even with me I don't watch WWE but I was like I think that was a little too far. That's not what happened in rehearsal. Y'all didn't feel like that when y'all watch the video? This is a prime example of what we're talking about I'm gonna tell you why because if you always tune it's always the people who don't tune into something on the regular who come in and then all

of a sudden get offended. So if you've always watching Damon Wayne, he's like, Oh, he's funny as hell. But then it came a stranger. They ain't never watched. And that one joke will offend same thing with this wrestling thing, right? If you watch wrestling all the time, you used to this type of stuff, but she's just, I don't watch wrestling, but now she watched wrestling one time. I was offended. I was offended. I was like, yo, like that was a, that was crazy. You didn't feel like that when you watch it. No. Right right did you feel like that when you watch it I've seen people hit with folding chairs and wrestling Jack Manson

Well, that is the room your path out of you see the hell in the south Who was who cactus Jack fought that time when he felt it? Okay, I can't remember I've seen all right stuff and all that too. Let's get to the mix With uh, who was who cactus jack fought that time when he fell through the cage? I can't remember I've seen the little cage stuff and all that too. Now. Let's get to the mix the people choice mix Get your request in now. It's the breakfast club. Come on You're checking out the breakfast club Everybody is d e j n v jess hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast club and welcome back jess What's up, man? You know j Jess was in Mexico and it's always interesting How did the Mexicans treat you in America treat an American now?

They treat me great to be honest, you know what I mean? But I was having a conversation with a man a lot of them are hurt about what's happening They don't like that Gulf of America being changed, you know, they don't like that. They feel like the whole deportation thing. They don't like that. But they wait till we get crazy ass drunk and then want to hit me with that. They ain't even asked Chris. Like they asked me. Chris the Mexican. Yeah, he half Mexican though. Like he still got a black side. Y'all can ask him that too. Like they, and he's sitting over there with them like, yeah, babe, that's great. I told him that's crazy. Like they wanted to. We was taking shots, right.

And so we cool, whatever. Some of them might sneak and take shots. They ain't really supposed to be drinking like that, but they taking shots. And he's like, man, everything is changing. The Gulf of America is I mean, the Gulf of Mexico is not the Gulf of America. I mean, it's not the Gulf of Mexico anymore. And then they asked that I vote for Trump. And I'm like, man, your people's voting for him.

There's a lot of Mexicans that voted for that n***a too. Don't be over here talking to me about this. We saw your recap. Can we play Justin's recap? They saw it too. That's why I ain't going back over there now. I'm so happy you chose Mexico for vacation. It's just too bad now that Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America now. Everything changing makes us really sad, you know? Your president, Donald Trump, sent all of my friends and all of my cousins home. They go there to make a better life and now they're back here, stuck. Maybe you vote for him?

Buenas noches, ****. I always wanted to go to America to see the Statue of Liberty. Be strong. Yes, I'm very strong. I mean, I don't know. I... Or maybe I want to go to the super bowl to see they're not like us and now it's changed to golf of america it's still no it's still no no it's not no it's not

and you you know that what if one day you can't come here to vacation together let's let's just have a shot i ain't gonna lie yo that scared me for them to be like what if one day you can't come over here to turn up what if we stop accepting y'all in our country What if we start treating y'all the way y'all treat us? That's probably gonna happen. I'm like, yeah, he started scaring me. I'm glad we were home the next day because I'm like damn, you know I get it, but it's like yo a lot of your people voted for this man, too Like a lot of them matter of fact some of them that he sent home voted for him probably so well No, cuz you can't vote if you

Right, you gotta be a legal resident But I mean I don't have nothing to do with that you just want to eat you to kill it. I just wanted to turn up. He was serious yo but he did say the one dude that was that was obviously me doing a voiceover but that came from a real conversation the guy was like yo I always wanted to go see the Statue of Liberty he said that and he was like and the Super Bowl Kendrick was at the Super Bowl And we wanted to see the not like us and we and I was like if y'all got TV, you know Just watch it. I don't know what I don't know what you want me say Jesus. Damn. Well, we glad you back We glad you made it back. I'm glad I'm thinking about not going back now. Y'all that whole n***a scared sh** out of me

Does Chris speak? Does Chris speak Spanish? No, no Not at all. So I'm't know what they were saying. So I'm sitting over there mad, I'm like, yo, you use your Mexican superpowers. How you wanna be Mexican in America, but when we get over here, you African American? Like, you don't just pick your side like that. You both at all times.

Like, that was pissing me off. He left me out there hanging. He wanted to be with his cousin. Stupid. All right, when we come back positive, notice the Breakfast Club good morning. Hey everybody, it's E.J., N.J., Jess Hilarious, Char come back positive though, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey everybody, it's EJ, NJ, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. Now you got a positive note? I do, but I want to tell people first of all, man, make sure you go get your tickets for the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival happening Saturday, April 26th at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia. Yes, it is year three of an unforgettable day of live podcasts, inspiring conversations and cultural celebration podcast coaches celebration. Okay, it's hosted by Mandy and Weezy of decisions decisions. We got the trap nerds

podcast there for the gamers. Good Moms Bad Choices is going to be there. Carrie champions gonna be there with her naked sports podcast tank and Jay Valentine will be there doing the R&B money podcast live and Sarah Jakes Roberts will be there doing the Woman Evolved Podcast live. So go get your tickets right now at blackeffect.com slash podcast festival. Okay. Saturday, April 26, third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival Atlanta. Can't wait to see you there. And don't forget y'all your girl Jess Hilarious will be in Atlanta next week. I'm not doing

shows on the weekend. I'm gonna be there during the week next Wednesday and Thursday that's March 12th and 13th. I will be at Atlanta Comedy Theater for the pop-up shows. I got four of them. We got two on the 12th that's on Wednesday and then we got two on Thursday. I'll be broadcasting from Atlanta so y'all still gonna hear me on the radio in the morning. Come see me at night. Get your tickets at JessHilariousOfficial.com or showclicks.com. I'll see you next week Atlanta. And the positive note is simply this, stop reacting to everything, okay?

Becoming less reactive is a huge part of growth and a huge part of decreasing your stress, okay? If you let everything get you worked up, you're damaging your mind, body, and spirit. So stop reacting to everything. Have a blessed day. Breakfast club bitches! You all finished or y'all done?

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