The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Ja Rule Claps Back at 50 Cent, Gayle King’s Space Trip, Chris & Karrueche Reunite, Vybz Kartel Gets OVO Chain + Joe Tacopina, Wendy Williams & Mel Robbins Interviews

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Mel Robbins breaks down her ‘Let Them Theory’ and opens up about her career journey, the effects of AI and social media, and mental health. Plus, Charlamagne g...ives ‘Donkey of the Day’ to a suspect charged with terrorism after an arson attack on Governor Shapiro’s residence. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:32 What's happening? That's right. Good morning. Hopefully you had a great weekend. How was your weekend? Oh, my weekend was great. I chill with family. I just, yeah, I didn't do, I didn't work.
Starting point is 00:02:41 You did work? Not all the way. You chilled? Yeah, I chilled. I had a great Yeah. Yeah. I had a very busy weekend I started off our Friday night date night with the wife. I took out to see vibes cartel. Oh, you was in a mix what? What now the barclays which is located in Brooklyn is with a Brooklyn that's play with a Liberty plays It usually takes me about an hour to get there from the crib, right? Friday night took me every bit of two hours in 45
Starting point is 00:03:06 Minutes to get there. It was so many people out there. Was it worth it? It looked like it Well, you know what it is. So, you know, of course it was worth it. I had a great time I don't know every single record but my wife is part Jamaican. So that is her thing So she rocked out the whole night, but when I mean they turn Brooklyn into like Jamaica, Jamaica, they had like the jerk chicken trucks outside of PC and Richard. They had the jerk chicken trucks outside the library. They had the jerk chicken trucks everywhere. You think people in Houston know what the hell you talking about? Could you be a little
Starting point is 00:03:36 bit more descriptive? What part? You don't know what he talking about. I just said Vibes Cartel's concert. They don't know where PC and Richard's is at. They don't know what you just sat and see. Well PC and Richard's is a place that's selling electronics. They don't sell PC and Richard's downtown? I don't know. He don't know. But.C. Richards is at. They don't know what you just got to see. Well P.C. Richards is the place that sells electronics. They don't sell P.C. Richards downtown? I don't know. He don't know.
Starting point is 00:03:48 But they have an electric spot. So they had jerk chicken spots everywhere. So that was amazing. He brought out Buster Rhymes on Friday. He brought out Buju Bantan on Friday. So an amazing show. Great, great, great, great show. And then Saturday, the professional soccer team that plays in New York City that took my son to the game, and he was able
Starting point is 00:04:04 to start the game. You know how in each city you go push a button to start the game, you ring the bell or something like that so he's able to push the button to start the game. So it was a big family fun weekend. So salute the Vibes Cartel and the New York City Football Club for having us. Had a great time, great time this weekend. Salute to everybody I saw in Baltimore man. I was in Baltimore, Maryland all weekend. Jess's hometown for my daughter's cheerleading competition. And right now I'm
Starting point is 00:04:28 wearing a hoodie from Nick's Fish House. Nick's Fish House is a spot I went to in Baltimore. It was that good? You took the merch with you? Well you know what? They showed me a lot of love. Salute to Karlie. You know when you be out of town you might hit people up and ask them where to go or you might go on Google and see where the best restaurants are and I just went on Google and you know, Nick's fish house came up and I just went there just to go eat and The owner there Carly man dropping the clues bombs for Carly. She wasn't even there But when she heard I was there she they showed a lot of love to me and my family So thank you Carly and thank you everybody at Nick Fish House. And they gave me this hoodie to wear. So when people give me merch to wear, you
Starting point is 00:05:07 know what I mean? I want to support. So yeah, I wore it. So salute to Nick's Fish House. Well, today on the show, Mel Robbins will be joining us. Oh my God. I love Mel Robbins. Dropping the clues bombs for Mel Robbins. I just did her podcast last week, the Mel Robbins podcast, one of the number one podcasts in the country. And you know, she has a great book out right now that I've been telling everybody is a must read. If you have not read the LetThem Theory, if you've not listened to the LetThem Theory, you need to. It's described as a life-changing tool that millions of people can't stop talking about. And I guess I'm one of those
Starting point is 00:05:37 millions of people. That's right. So we're gonna kick it, kick it in with Mel Robbins in a little bit. And then we got front page news. Morgan Wood will be joining us. So don't go anywhere.'s the Breakfast Club good morning morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club long La Rosa filling in for Jess you know what else I realized about Baltimore what and I was just was here to talk about this they really do call everybody shorty in Baltimore the guy's even because I never hurt maybe I never pay no attention but when a man call you shorty, that's a little suspect.
Starting point is 00:06:07 O-R-D-Y. Yo, what's up, Uncle Sharla? What up, shorty? What they're even talking about is height. I don't know what they was talking about. They say that like how we just say like, yo. It's just like their thing. Oh, well, similar to Baltimore.
Starting point is 00:06:19 A man should call another man shorty. But they don't say it like shorty, it's like shorty. I don't care. Or actually, sorry. We gotta, I cany. It's like shorty. It's like I don't care or actually Let's get in some front page news now April 19th the NBA playoffs be again I don't know what team you rooting for it looks like Cleveland looks pretty good and so does okay see but I'm going for the Knicks says what it is. All right. What up Morgan? Hey, y'all, what up Sean? What up Lord up, Demi? That's usually what it's, you
Starting point is 00:06:45 know, the Baltimore lady. Demi? Definitely Demi. Demi. And I don't know that you put a T-Y or a D-Y on it. It's usually Sean or Lowell, which is like short for shorty or Lowell. But, you know, I'm not going to get too much into that just because speak more to that later. First up on front page, President Trump is said to be in excellent health following his annual checkup on Friday White House physician Sean Barabella Described Trump's neurological condition as robust in a memo released on Sunday overall It said the 78 year old commander-in-chief was found to be in excellent cognitive and physical health
Starting point is 00:07:19 Barabella noted that Trump is six foot three and weighs 224 pounds he concluded by saying the president is fully fit to execute his duties in office. And the president actually spoke to reporters on Sunday aboard Air Force One. And here's what he had to say in regards to his checkup. Take a listen. The numbers were perfect. And I took a cognitive exam and I would challenge anybody here to meet those marks because I have a perfect mark.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Were you impressed by that? Are you impressed by that? All right. So the president is in good health. So the White House physician says. In other news, Let's Talk Tariffs, a top advisor to President Trump says the administration's tariffs are working. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Peter Navarro pushed back against concerns the White House
Starting point is 00:08:07 didn't have a plan for implementing tariffs, saying they were issued with a specific goal in mind. Let's take a listen to what that goal is. Peter Navarro. So that's what we said, knowing full well, knowing full well that a lot of countries would come right to us and want to bargain. We've got 90 deals in 90 days, possibly pending. Yeah, so we insisted the tariffs are working as designed as and have already pushed many
Starting point is 00:08:34 countries to come to the negotiating table when it comes to the US. Now, Navarro went on to say the Trump administration is working to fix unfair trading practices that keep US goods out of foreign markets. Navarro also insisted relationships, his relationship with Elon Musk is great despite the fact that they have, you know, had that little exchange before where he called Musk or where Musk called him a moron. On the other side of the aisle, Senator Elizabeth Warren says President Trump's tariffs are hurting the U.S. economy. She made those comments on CNN's State of the Union, saying the uncertainty around how the tariffs will be enforced is stopping companies from actually making investments in this country.
Starting point is 00:09:13 Let's take a listen to Senator Elizabeth Warren. Investors will not invest in the United States when Donald Trump is playing red light, green light with tariffs and it's entirely appropriate to have an investigation to make sure that Donald Trump, Donald Trump's family, Donald Trump's inner circle didn't get advanced information and trade on that information. So Warren who serves on the Senate Banking Committee also renewed calls for an investigation
Starting point is 00:09:46 as you heard in the audio into possible insider training saying Trump may have committed a crime by telling allies to buy stocks shortly before announcing the tear of pause and the announcement caused stock prices to improve dramatically after days of losses. Donald Trump cannot commit crimes. He has presidential immunity. All he has to do is say that it was some type of official act. And the Supreme Court will say hey, it wasn't a crime that he committed. Why do we
Starting point is 00:10:12 keep acting like we forgot that he got granted presidential immunity? I don't know. The Supreme Court is seeming to take case by case. So we will see what happens. Morgan, so the tariffs working or not? Because you know, on one side they say they're working, on the other side they say they're not. But you know, said it not but you know numbers or everything are they working? So when it comes to the numbers, I mean prices are up for us right now
Starting point is 00:10:30 But you know that's the whole point is that supposedly these countries are going to be coming to the negotiating table to make sure that trade Is more fair in in the the United States as well as where are these countries are abroad? But the whole thing is Supposedly we're we're not going to know until about 90 days. But then again, he put the 90 day pause. So it's hard to tell, to be honest. You know, we'll see. It's a wait and we'll see type of situation that we're in right now regarding tariffs. And also Morgan, I know you're probably going to talk about it next hour, but you know, the Supreme Court told Donald Trump to do something last week, which is bring the brother back from Maryland and they told the Supreme Court SMD.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Well, well. That's what they said at first, but you know, in true Trump fashion, he has changed his mind and there's an update on that. All right. We'll do that next hour. Everybody else get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, phone lines are wide open. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, phone lines are wide open.
Starting point is 00:11:26 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Wake it up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Chief calling. 800-585-1051.
Starting point is 00:11:40 We wanna hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Go, good.V. What's going on, bro? This is Youssef out of Roselle, New Jersey. What up Youssef? Get it off your chest, brother. Well, just I wanted to call you and just give you some love. You know, I saw you posted the pictures of you and your son at the soccer match and whatever, and you always doing that.
Starting point is 00:11:51 You know, I really love seeing black folks who geek out over their kids. You know, enough of us don't do that. And you know, I myself haven't even seen that. I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just
Starting point is 00:11:59 like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like And you always doing that. I really love seeing Black Bop who geek out over their kids. Enough of us don't do that. And I myself happen to be the father of the three best sons in the world. I feel like every father should feel that way about his sons and his daughters.
Starting point is 00:12:18 I know how Charlamagne always spending time with his daughters, everything they took in. They check it going on you guys never ever Um put your family second, and I love and appreciate that charlomane Yes, sir Fees my brother. How are you fees king? What's the word? I was you know, I was vibing I was I was out there You know, I had my eyes peeled I never saw that my brother, you know, we had a conversation on Friday
Starting point is 00:12:47 About you watching my trailer sir. Oh shoot Mr. Joe money on Me real quick on IG so I can find it Okay, hold on. Thank you right now? Yeah, my Instagram is Cetagod, C-T-H-A-G-O-D. I know, but I follow you, I know, I know what you're, come on, but I tag you like this weekend. And I was just doing a shout out for those
Starting point is 00:13:12 who don't know so I can get some new follows, that's all. Okay, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna tag you right now, but listen, Shelderman, all I wanna do is pitch to one of your people. I know you're too busy, I got a lot going on. When you see it, you know what I'm saying, I'm gonna tag you right now though. But DJ Envy. Yes sir. Bro, I really, really, really want you to know that I really appreciate how you out
Starting point is 00:13:31 there with your kids or whatever, and how you especially showing these young fathers, how you can be having all this going on. At the end of the day, that is your number one job bro, big up on that. Absolutely, have a great time doing it too. Thank you brother. Now one last thing Envy, release Navidad Absolutely, have a great time doing it too. Thank you, brother. One last thing, and we release Navidad. I don't know what that means, sir. You know what that means.
Starting point is 00:13:50 I don't know what that means. Happy birthday to you too, sir. Oh, Lauren is there, Lauren, what's up, Lauren? Hey, good morning. Good morning, and listen, they be, listen, they be owing you, I don't like that, sis. Don't say. They be dropping you, listen,
Starting point is 00:14:01 listen, your time is your time, and listen, you don't want Mr. Right now, you want Mr. Right. Mm, thank you. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know, I appreciate that, buddy. Show them in.
Starting point is 00:14:14 Yes, sir. All right, Youssef, we gotta go, Youssef. Okay, K Pasta, K Pasta, K Pasta. Appreciate you, Youssef. See, see, see. Baby, why you ain't let me say period? You had to, come on, city girl. He was letting go, he just keep going.
Starting point is 00:14:24 I was trying to hear was he was let him go Hello, who's this? Van blue was something off your chest. Hey, I just wanted to give you a shout out real quick Good morning. Happy Monday, and I just kind of want to touch on those Little too earlier with Donald Trump. I think it's important right now for what he's doing because a lot of people are you know worried about the short-term prices increasing and things like that but you're basically in bed with the enemy and if you ask anybody with common sense if it's okay to be in bed with the enemy most people will tell you no. And the tariffs against all countries are basically
Starting point is 00:15:05 to avoid China from sending their product to those countries to exploit our free trade agreement with those countries. Listen, I hope that the long-term, I hope there is a long-term plan to this and I hope it does work out. I'm not sitting here rooting against it, but you know, when we talk about, you know,
Starting point is 00:15:21 for the moment people having some pain, you do realize those moments can kill people, right? Like people really can't afford to live. Like that's a fact, there's a great, I don't know if y'all watch Black Mirror, but I watched the episode of Black Mirror yesterday that Tracee Ellis Ross is in.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Is that the one that Issa Rae was just into? Well Issa Rae's not in that episode, but it's in the anthology series, but Tracee Ellis Ross is in it, and it's literally an episode about how a person, about how a couple cannot afford to live. That I'm not gonna tell you no more than that but that's literally what it's about some people cannot afford to live and they have to make a choice on whether or not to stay alive or die simply because
Starting point is 00:15:55 they can't afford to live. Well 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. Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlamagne. Evie, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool.
Starting point is 00:16:11 We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. We live? Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Chris. Chris, what up? Get it off your chest.
Starting point is 00:16:19 Man, I want to pick up Vibes Cartel, man. He can't be here. He's not here. He's not here. He's not here. He's not here. He's not here. He's. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Chris. Chris, what up? Get it off your chest.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Man, I want to figure out Vox Cartel, man. He came, did his thing in Brooklyn, man. That was nice, man. I live in Florida, though, but man, I'm Jamaican, and just to see that, that's big for the culture, man. Oh, you didn't go to the show. You just check it in?
Starting point is 00:16:40 Yeah, yeah, yeah, cause that's big, man. You know what I'm saying? I'm Jamaican, and just for the dance hall community, man, that's big. Everybody came together, no incidents, no problems because that's big, man. You know what I'm saying? They're making them just for the dance hall community, man. That's big. You know what I'm saying? Everybody came together, no incidents, no problems. It was a great show.
Starting point is 00:16:50 He's going to be out there soon, I think. Yeah, he's got a Miami concert. Yeah, he got a Miami concert and a Fort Lauderdale concert coming up. So you definitely got to check that. Yeah, yeah, for sure, man. Big up the vibe, man. Actually, it's April, no, May 17th,
Starting point is 00:17:02 he'll be in Sunrise, Florida. Yeah, so definitely check him out. Great show. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning, this is Shay. Hey Shay, get it off your chest. So this is a request for trauma aid. I'm requesting that you stop giving black people
Starting point is 00:17:17 donkey of the day. That's impossible. That would be discrimination. Black donkey today does not discriminate. Exactly, but that's what we do now. We've gotten rid of the EMI practices, so let's stop giving black people donkey of the day. That would be stupid.
Starting point is 00:17:34 Donkey today does not discriminate. Black people get donkey, white people get donkey, Asians get donkey. That's why we do guess what race it is, like no. Yeah, and I feel like it shines a very negative spotlight on black people. We've already got enough negativity on us. Why do we have to spread, well not we, but why do you have to spread the love and give it to different races when there's enough foolery going on amongst other
Starting point is 00:18:01 communities? The fact that you even, here's the thing right right? Are you gonna stop talking about black people, period? When you see a trending topic and is somebody, you know, getting jumped on social media for whatever, are you gonna not chime in? Well, I really don't chime in anyway. Oh, you really don't? No, you have to stop, period. That means that if you want me to stop
Starting point is 00:18:20 giving black people donkey today, then you can't ever speak ill about black people in any way, shape or form, even if they do something stupid. That don't make no sense, right? I don't do it on, no, I don't do that online. Yeah, I don't speak negative about black people. I don't think it's speaking negative to state the obvious. And please don't make Don Quijote a day a race thing, okay?
Starting point is 00:18:42 Don Quijote a day is about giving people the credit they deserve for being stupid. Well, thank you, Shay. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Nicole calling from the 843. Hey, Nicole. What part of the 843 you calling from? I'm from Georgetown,
Starting point is 00:18:54 but I'm leaving most corner, tell me. Hey, what you got? You got a little boo out there? Don't do that, I got a little job out there. Oh, a little job, okay, okay, okay. All right. So good morning, guys. Good morning. Good morning, Andy. Good morning, guys. Good morning.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Good morning, Andy. Good morning, Lauren. Good morning. I want to congratulate you on your book. You've been to John and Kate Plus 8, sophisticated version. I like that for you. She said what? Oh, thank you. You know John and Kate Plus 8, Charlamagne W.A.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Oh, you're talking about Emma. I thought you were talking about Lauren. I was like, huh? The book comes out tomorrow, Real Life, Real Family. But thank you. Have you got you got it yet? Well have you ordered it pre-ordered? I got the other one Okay Congratulations on your podcast. I love you. I like that for you I wanted to mention when you was on College King, and he said you wanted to know why you were so important. And he said it's your time, that's why you're here.
Starting point is 00:19:51 It is your season, I want you to bask in that. Oh, thank you. And you're welcome. Charlamagne, I called a few months ago, I called right before Christmas, and I told you guys that, you know, my mom, my sister, my brother had died over there four months. I forgot to mention that my mom, my sister, my brother had died all within four months. I forgot to mention that I went to therapy
Starting point is 00:20:08 and you were the reason why I went to therapy. Oh, dope. Oh man, that's dope. I'm glad that, are you still in there or you just went for a little bit? The insurance ran out so I'm not in there anymore but I will go back. Well listen, go to mentalwealthalliance.org.
Starting point is 00:20:23 That's my mental health nonprofit. And you know, we have opportunities for you to receive like free therapy and free grief counseling. Okay, I'll do that. Yeah, go to mentalwealthalliance.org. All right, I hope you guys have a great week. You too, sending you nothing but positive energy, love and light.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Get it off your chest, 800-585-1051. Now we got the latest with Lauren coming up. We do, y'all just started some trouble. There's already trouble here, but try to stir the pot. Who? 50 Cent and Ja Rule. Girl, that pot been stirring. That pot been boiling hot.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Y'all reheated it, y'all reheated it for the guests. No we did not, it never cooled off. Anybody that thinks it cools off ain't paying attention, you must be 12. We gonna talk about it. That's like Tom and Jerry, that beef is up forever. Forever. I had to mute my tweets. I tweeted like is this gonna go on forever? I had to mute the tweets. Yes it is. Oh you don't know your history. I do. We'll talk about it. We'll get into it y'all. Save it. Alright we'll get into that.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. She be having the latest on her. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. But what's the latest? On The Breakfast Club. So, Ja Rule and 50 Cent are, well, I would say back and forth, but 50 Cent hasn't fully responded to Ja Rule yet, but he did respond to the fact that Ja Rule was on The Breakfast Club and we had a conversation with him about 50 and a few things. Let's take a listen to Ja Rule on The Breakfast Club.
Starting point is 00:22:07 You know, I see some of the things that he gets involved in. It's spews on something like, I'm like, grow up, my n***a. You know what I'm saying? Like, when I see the things that he does, and you know, he did the earth, the smoke and the murder. I'm like. How do you feel about that?
Starting point is 00:22:20 You saw it. Of course, nobody likes all this goofy s***, but it's goofy s***. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, I'm not, Prem said it best, because I was hot, you know what I'm saying? I was hot, I was ready to go nuclear and shit. You know what I'm saying? So I spoke to Prem anyway, and Prem said,
Starting point is 00:22:34 yo, you know, Ru, he said, here's what you gotta understand about who we are and what we are. He said, we are masters of self-defense. I said, because I'm not, I don I don't want to start trouble to make trouble with people. But if we got to get into it and make it all out, I'll put it to where it goes. I'll take it to the next. No. So that's why I'm like, you know what, that is the best description of what I am and who I am as a man that I could ever think about. Yeah. so after the video started to make the rounds,
Starting point is 00:23:06 50 Cent posted to his Instagram and then deleted it. It was a screenshot of Ja Rule sitting in a seat here at the Breakfast Club and the caption said, "'The Breakfast Club should be ashamed of themselves, asking questions that perpetuate violence. This fool has been getting ready to go what he calls nuclear for 22 years,'
Starting point is 00:23:21 laugh out loud, "'Your man in my runts right now.'" So after this- What is runts? Blunt raps, right? Yeah, it out loud, your man in my runts right now. So after this. What is runts? Blunt raps, right? Yeah, it's like, you know, the YNs be like, smoking on your homie, that. So then Jairo got on Twitter, or X, and decided to respond. He said he had a day off from tour, so he had time,
Starting point is 00:23:40 and then he just started going off. So he told 50 that until 50 does something to the people that shot him, he can't troll no more go hand to your business like a champ He told him the SMD. He called him a the b-word. He said he already ate. He already ate his lunch. So shut up They someone is somebody responded to Ja Rule and said just admit that you watch power Lmao like calling him a fan Ja Rule said had never seen one episode He's solid over where he is. He told 50 from now on his name is boo boo And that's what they used to call because that's what they used to call him on the streets But really was boo boo the fool. He says that 50 cent is from the streets
Starting point is 00:24:15 From Brooklyn you boo boo from Queens He says he coffee decent used car salesman He brought the fact that he used to be used car salesman. He brought up the fact that he used to be a used car salesman. Everything you do is trash. Not one good music, one good album. After that trash, trash TV shows, trash everything. Some of these tweets is not really tweeting. He says that he's going to make...
Starting point is 00:24:42 He just said 50 Cent is garbage, that he's trash. People were responding to that like, now you know that ain't true. You know he didn't have some good music and had some hits. And yeah, so he's just been going off on Twitter. 50 has not responded to this yet, but I'm sure he probably might,
Starting point is 00:24:55 but he did delete that first tweet. I mean, that first Instagram post. It tickles me to watch the new generation, you know, being intrigued by this. Like we've been watching this forever. This is Cowboys versus Redskins. This is Lakers versus Celtics. This is Duke versus North Carolina.
Starting point is 00:25:08 This is the Hatfield versus McCoys. That's what Ja Rule and 50 Cent are. And it'll never end. It's never gonna end. There'll be 99 with canes going at each other. And each other with wheelchairs. Yeah, this will never end. It's a beef that will never end and I understand it.
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Starting point is 00:27:50 For the entire behind the scenes story of Golden State's incredible 10 year run, listen to Dubb Dynasty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ever wonder what it would be like to be mentored by today's top business leaders? My podcast, This Is Working, can help with that. Here's some advice from Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase on standing out from the leadership crowd. Develop your EQ. A lot of people have plenty of brains, but EQ is do you trust me?
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Starting point is 00:28:59 Ja Rule started posting paperwork calling 50 Cent a rat. Like it was going and going and going and going. I tweeted, I'm like y'all I love both of them. Why can't this just end? Oh, I had to mute my tweet the way the people were like We don't want it to end and it's not gonna I'm like well it not it's another end It's not going in like I said, there'll be 99 and wheelchairs and canes going at each other. It is this another. Yeah Well, I'm from nevermind. I was good. Nevermind. It's not even that none of your business Well, never mind, it doesn't even matter. None of your business.
Starting point is 00:29:25 It's not. It's not. You know? But go watch the interview. All I'm going to say from 50's perspective, when you feel like somebody tried to take everything from you, everything, not just livelihood, everything, yeah, it's not going to ever. It's up forever.
Starting point is 00:29:44 It's never. Well, speaking of going up, Gail King is going to space today. So as long as weather permits today, Gail King will be going up into space at 930 AM. But it's not just Gail King. This is actually the first all-woman crew to lift off in nearly six decades and they'll be going up via Blue Origin, which is owned by Elon Musk. I'm sorry, which is owned by Jeff Bezos. Now in this flight you have Gail King, Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, who is the fiance of
Starting point is 00:30:13 Jeff Bezos, Aisha Bo, Amanda Nguyen, and Karrion Flynn. So they'll be headed up at 930 and there will be a live stream that will be streaming this that I believe that live stream portal opens around like 8am on various places where you can watch them prior to and getting on and taking off and they'll be up there for some time and then they'll come right back down. They'll be out there for a minute or something like that. But then they have to before they go up though it does have to be cleared of course weather and all that stuff so it's all depending but I don't know about y'all but I was thinking
Starting point is 00:30:43 about this today I just asked Charlotte like would y'all, but I was thinking about this today, I just asked Charlotte, like, would y'all ever go to space? Nope. Nah. Before I would have, but now I got six kids, nah. I'm all right. I ain't got no reason to be up there. I would love that, but I've done skydiving,
Starting point is 00:30:56 I've done all types of stupid stuff before, but not now, but the six kids, nah. I saw something yesterday, I was reading this weekend about how they're building like a space hotel that's gonna be for like 400 guests and it's gonna have artificial gravity up there And I'm like I have no reason to be up there. I'm you know I'm cool I like being on islands. I don't need to be in space I need to be in space I think it's just the excitement to say you experience it and to see what it is and they'll actually
Starting point is 00:31:20 Unbuckle and float in the capsule for about four minutes while up there. Oh, so they have that longer than a minute. Well, yeah, I wish them the best of luck praying for them. You can't wait to hear about it? Yeah, we can even show me. Absolutely. I don't need to experience that. Smart people learn from their own mistakes. Wise people learn from the mistakes of others.
Starting point is 00:31:33 Not saying that they're making a mistake. I'm just saying that I can learn and enjoy something watching somebody else do it. I'm fine watching them. Yeah, some people gotta walk and some people gotta sit down and watch. And I'm down to sit down and watch. I'm down to sit down and watch.
Starting point is 00:31:44 I ain't got no business being in space But I wish you the best though I'm not a thrill seeker like that like life is you know hectic enough I've I used to be like I said, I did the skydiving thing. I did zipline over the safari I did so many things It's all crazy because I used to be a flight attendant, but I would never do stuff like that Did all that stupid stuff before I guess and plus I got it. I got I deal with anxiety like I don't used to be a flight attendant, but I would never do stuff like that. It all that stupid stuff No, I guess
Starting point is 00:32:05 Plus I got it. I got I deal with anxiety like I don't need to be scaring myself Yeah, I don't even like going to see horror movies What the hell I'm gonna pay somebody to scare me for people that go on roller coasters for what I will yeah I'm a roller coaster person. I'm a roller coaster person. No! That one jump out of plane was everything all right. I wouldn't do it again, but it was yes free floating in the sky like Superman yeah when hitting you and you just just watching everything was beautiful hey man I saw it again that was all the thrill I needed okay I've got guns pulled on me that's all the thrill I needed. You know what I'm saying? You've been through a lot over there. You don't need no more. I deserve everything I got I deserve it all. Period. You're gonna be right here on the ground to live it and feel it. That's right.
Starting point is 00:32:44 That's right. You're gonna be in space. That ground to live it and feel it. That's right. That's right Alright, you're gonna be in space That is the latest with Laura now when we come back we got front page news and an author Mel Robbins will be joining us So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Laura Rosa is here Let's get in some front page news Now if you're NBA fan the playoffs again April 19th, right? So April 19th, they have the playing tournament and then playoffs are begin. So good luck to the New York Knicks out there All right. What up Morgan? Hey, what's up Al so earlier in the show?
Starting point is 00:33:19 We were talking about President Trump and the Supreme Court, right? So he said he will follow the Supreme Court order to return a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported. Now last Thursday, the high court ruled that the government must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported by accident last month to an El Salvador prison. Now when asked about it on Air Force One on Friday, Trump said he respects the Supreme Court and that if the Supreme Court said bring somebody back that he would do it. Charlemagne. So the State Department says the Maryland man who was wrongfully deported
Starting point is 00:33:50 to El Salvador is quote alive and secure. Officials initially wouldn't give his whereabouts on Saturday but it was revealed that Garcia is being held in an El Salvadorian prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center and later lawyers for Garcia are also asking the judge to hold the Justice Department in contempt for failing to return him to the U.S. So right now, what the judge and what's surrounding this case basically is they are trying to facilitate his return, but they also said that that can't happen, you know, as immediate as the courts would like. I saw that Friday, but 12 hours ago the Trump administration contends it has no duty to
Starting point is 00:34:30 return the illegally deported man to the US. That was literally 12 hours ago in the New York Times. I saw him say that Friday, but 12 hours ago they said something totally different. I was going to say on a long Saturday, this is what he said that the man is alive and secure. I know that the court is, uh, has ruled that he is supposed to provide, um, or the administration, excuse me, and the DOJ is supposed to provide, uh, daily updates to, uh, the court, to the judge in regards to Garcia, uh, how they're facilitating getting him back.
Starting point is 00:35:01 So I should have an update again for you tomorrow. I'm supposed to, based on what the court ruled, but you know, we will see again. We will see with Trump. We will see. Switching gears to Pennsylvania. A man is in custody and will face attempted murder and arson charges following an early morning fire at the Pennsylvania governor's mansion. According to the Pennsylvania state police, firefighters responded to the Harrisburg residents of Shapiro at about 2 a.m. Now Josh Shapiro says his family was home at the time, but were able to escape unharmed. Governor Josh Shapiro also said the violence needs to
Starting point is 00:35:33 stop and this action will not deter him. Let's take a listen to his comments. This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society, and I don't give a damn if it's coming from one particular side or the other. If this individual was trying to deter me from doing my job as your governor rest assured I will find a way to work even harder than I was just yesterday. Yeah salute to Governor Josh Shapiro man great governor great human I hate that happened to him and his family and I don't understand how that happened. Like that's the
Starting point is 00:36:08 governor's mansion. How did he even get on the property? Yeah. How did he even get close enough to the house and even set it on fire? That's scary. Shapiro did say that the, he went on to say that the attack was targeted but a specific motive is not yet known. Pennsylvania State Police, of course, say that the investigation is ongoing, and they believe it was an act of arson. So again, I'll keep you posted as that story develops. Well, you know, keep this in mind, Governor Shapiro, the reason they're targeting you is because you are a threat to loop to Governor Josh Shapiro. Like, you know, and it's a shame that, you know, in 2028, he'd be a prime candidate, but the Democratic brand is so whack that he makes the great ones like Governor
Starting point is 00:36:47 Joshua Perot, you know, it stains them a little bit just because the brand is so wack Yeah, and and you got to fix the security You got to make sure his he's more secure than that. Like you said, he's in the governor's mansion There's no way in hell. They should have got that close. So right they got him about the house, but it shouldn't have been alright All right guys, and I just wanted to touch on this story. There is a story that's been developing. I've been watching this story, but I didn't want to rush to
Starting point is 00:37:09 report on it and just let some of the facts come out. There's been a developing story out of Texas following a stabbing death at a high school track meet. Carmelo Anthony with a K, no relation to the basketball player that I know of, was charged in
Starting point is 00:37:23 a fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalfe at a track meet about two weeks ago at Frisco's ISD's Memorial High School. Now his family announced on Saturday that they had hired a new attorney to represent Anthony. Anthony has no previous criminal history and isn't likely to be considered a flight risk since his family lives in Frisco. Now local activists and spokesperson for Anthony addressed the media to clear up
Starting point is 00:37:45 some rumors that this happened as a result of Matt Caff bullying Anthony and that the two knew each other prior to this incident, which is not true. Let's take a listen to a spokesperson, Dominique Alexander. The disinformation that is going online is hurting this case And it has to stop. It has to stop, y'all. As we know it right now, Austin Metcalfe and Carmela Anthony did not know each other. They did not know each other. Let's stop it. So for the Frisco murder suspect, Carmelo Anthony, he has a bond reduction hearing scheduled for today.
Starting point is 00:38:27 His attorney's plan to ask the court to reduce his bond to $1 million. Now Metcalf was laid to rest over the weekend on Saturday. Let's take a listen to Austin Metcalf, the father, as he talks about his son. He stabbed my son in the heart and killed him. That's the extent of this? That's what it was over. Something so small, so trivial. He was a leader.
Starting point is 00:38:51 He believed in God. He was a great kid. Made me the proudest father in the world. That's horrible, man. Yeah, so of course, I will keep you guys posted as to how this story develops. But again, as mentioned, there is a bond reduction hearing today. And there seems to be quite the support for the suspect. There has been a fundraiser of give send go has raised more than $285,000 in regards to
Starting point is 00:39:21 support for his defense. So gifts and go also has fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny just to give you guys some perspective on that. So, it seems to be those who are supporting the, what's the word I would use, less popular? Or those who, just defense basically, I'll just say. But yeah, so bringing things home to you guys in New York
Starting point is 00:39:41 really quickly to wrap things up. The Central Park Five, also known as the Exonerated Five, got the green light from a federal judge on Thursday to move forward with a defamation lawsuit against President Trump. The five black and one Hispanic men were teenagers when they were arrested in 1989 for assault and rape of a white woman drugging in New York City Park. Trump took out a full page newspaper ad calling for the return of the death penalty following the incident. It of course took years before they were all eventually freed and exonerated and someone
Starting point is 00:40:11 else confessed to the crime and DNA evidence backed that up. That didn't stop Trump from commenting on their case as recently as 2024, even going as far as falsely claiming the victim in the incident had been killed. So these guys are like, yeah, you're not going to do that to me. And they're going to move forward with that case in regards to a defamation lawsuit against President Trump. So we'll see what happens with that as well. But that's your front page news, y'all. Y'all can follow me on socials at Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, follow the Black Information Network at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com.
Starting point is 00:40:46 Happy Monday. Let's make it a great week. Thank you, Morgan. Thank you. All right. Now when we come back, Mel Robbins will be joining us. She has a new book, The Let Em Theory, and we're going to talk to her next. So don't move.
Starting point is 00:40:57 It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are the Breakfast Club, Lauren LaRosa is here as well, and we got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. She's back ladies and gentlemen, Mel Robbins.
Starting point is 00:41:13 Welcome. Hey, it's good to see you. How you feeling? Good morning. I feel great. How are you doing? Bless Black and Holly favorite. This is your first time in this studio.
Starting point is 00:41:21 Yes. You were here in 2021 when you had the high five theory. Yes, yes. But now millions of books later, number were here in 2021 when you had a high five theory. Yes, yes. But now millions of books later, number one podcast in the world right now. A round of applause. A round of applause, yes. Not bad for a 56 year old woman, you know. Man, it really feels like you've truly arrived.
Starting point is 00:41:37 What do you think, you know, the success, what's made all this new success happen? Well, you know, it's not new success. What's made all this new success happen? Well, you know, it's not new success. Like what you're seeing is the result of 15 years of just boring, grueling, daily reps. Like that's what nobody wants to understand is that you can be successful, you can achieve anything you want.
Starting point is 00:41:58 You just have to be patient. You have to get up out of bed every single day and put one foot in front of the other. You gotta be willing to do the things you don't feel like doing in the dark when nobody's watching and when you think that it's not gonna happen for you. That is what it's about.
Starting point is 00:42:12 It's about just consistent, small moves, being patient. I mean, there were so many times where I was just like, am I ever gonna get out of that? Is anyone ever gonna notice? Like, am I ever gonna get invited to the Breakfast Club? Like when is somebody going to notice? I'm sure this wasn't your spot that you wanted. Well no but seriously like you kind of sit there because I mean every one of us have had those moments whether you're putting out music or you're starting a YouTube channel or
Starting point is 00:42:38 you started a business and it's so easy to look around at what everybody else is doing and think that you're losing some race in life. The real game is with yourself. Can you keep going? Can you say to yourself, and this is kinda how I would keep myself going in those moments, I would say, I refuse to believe that this is how the story ends. I believe that at some point,
Starting point is 00:42:59 all of this work is going to pay off. I don't have to know how, I have to believe that it will. And if it hasn't yet, it's not meant to yet. There's some lesson, there's something I'm being held for that I don't know what it is, but if I choose to believe in this moment that things are going to get better, that things are going to turn out for me, that all this hard work is going to pay off, that trying to be a better person is going to pay off, at some point I will look back on my life and say oh, that's why it didn't happen then. Oh, that's why it took longer
Starting point is 00:43:29 Oh, that's why either you weren't ready or God the universe was holding you for a different moment And so, you know a lot of people ask me. What is this moment about? I think it's about 15 years of ridiculously hard work becoming a better person. I think it's about 15 years of ridiculously hard work becoming a better person. I think it's about 15 years of just chipping away at getting out of debt and doing better in my marriage and being a better mother and getting control of my emotions and my mental health, chipping away at building a business. And I truly believe that I was being held for this moment. Like this 1000% is my legacy.
Starting point is 00:44:05 Well let me ask you a question, Mel. You talk about the reps. Yep. For you it worked out and successful and great. What about that person that is just not good, right? That rapper that is not good, like he's trying. That podcast person that is doing a podcast that is just not good, and everybody thinks they're good.
Starting point is 00:44:23 Good to anybody. Yeah, well I don't,, I don't believe that. But when do you stop? Because you're a 60-year-old rapper? Like, you know what I mean? Maybe. Why can't there be a 90-year-old one? See, maybe what the rapping is for is maybe it's not
Starting point is 00:44:36 about rapping. Maybe there is something that you're doing when you are rapping and nobody's coming that is teaching you a lesson about patience. Maybe what it's that is teaching you a lesson about patience. Maybe what it's doing is teaching you to believe in yourself when nobody else does. And every time that you show up and nobody's there, every time you post a video on your YouTube channel that only your uncle and your son are subscribed to, every time you post, you're basically saying, you know what, screw the
Starting point is 00:45:05 world, I believe in myself, I'm doing this for myself. And so for me when you give the example of like the person who's a rapper is just terrible, just there's lots of people out there doing stuff, they're just terrible. What I love is that they felt called to do something. I don't care if they felt called to do it because they wanted to make more money. I mean hell, I was working five, six jobs back you know 15 years ago when we were $800,000 in debt because I needed because they wanted to make more money. I mean, hell, I was working five, six jobs back 15 years ago when we were $800,000 in debt because I needed groceries on the table,
Starting point is 00:45:30 I needed gas in the tank, and so motivation to be safe and to make money or because of your ambition, that's a beautiful thing. But at some point you're gonna go, I'm not that good at this. But I believe, and this is what I think is super cool about life, absolutely every experience that you have in life is leading you somewhere and teaching you something and I'm gonna one of the reasons why I Share so much about what I've learned and the mistakes that I've made
Starting point is 00:45:55 I'm like the villain in every book is Because I'm stubborn like it takes a sledgehammer From the universe for me to wake the hell up and stop doing something. Like I literally get so into my groove, whether it's drinking too much or taking my stress out on my kids or being a jealous, insecure friend, that things have to backfire for me to wake up and go,
Starting point is 00:46:16 well, guess I better try something different. But I wanna just set it up about the book, man. There's some books that I believe are must-reads in life. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins has been added to that must-read list. My wife got it for me a few weeks ago, and the book is just essentially about how you have to stop wasting your life
Starting point is 00:46:32 on things that you can't control. When did you get to that revolution? Oh my God, it was 54. I had slung learner. Yeah, and the funny thing is, is I'm married to the chillest dude on the planet. I mean, I'm married to a man who is not only Buddhist He is a death doula and like when you want to talk about like a person
Starting point is 00:46:52 Yeah, that can just sit in stillness I'm like a tornado of emotion and so I've always wanted to let things go I've always wanted to not care what people think I've never known how and see when you're stressed or you're easily offended like I used to be or you have a lot going on, it is very hard to not get wrapped up in what other people are thinking and doing. It's very hard to not let what your kids are going through
Starting point is 00:47:18 stress you out. And so, you know, I've been trying to do this forever. I mean, this is not a new idea. The serenity prayer is the let them theory. In fact, you know, I sat down with Dr. Martin Luther King III and his wife, Andrea, and they both said we write about it in the let them theory. They both reflect on the fact that this concept that you have to give up control in order to gain control, that your power is in your response, that this is part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, because your response is what dictates who you are. It's not what's happening out there, it's how you respond to it with your thoughts and your actions and how you process your own emotions.
Starting point is 00:48:01 And so I did not know this until I was 54 years old. And you know, for me personally, the power of these two words, because let them, we've all said, let them in our lives a bazillion times. I mean, there's a, there's a sermon circulating that's 20 years old, T.D. Jakes, doing this let them sermon. So this is a concept that has been around since the beginning of time. And that's why this has resonated. I'm not teaching you something new I'm reminding you of what you already know to be true. And I'm handing you this tool so you can snap out of this crap where we're constantly worked up about what other people are doing to take our power back. We got more with author Mel Robbins when we come back so don't move. It's the
Starting point is 00:48:38 Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. are the breakfast club Lauren la roses here as well. We're still kicking it with Mel Robbins Lauren you um you talk about managing other people a lot and I've never heard the term put like that but you use it to basically talk about how we're we're so what you're talking about right now we're worried about other people but also too I think it's expectations of other people that we're trying to we're making decisions based around that a lot when did you realize the this whole scale of like managing other people and
Starting point is 00:49:09 Learning win the clock out of that job of trying to do that Well, so what is gonna happen is this so when you start using the let them theory and it's so easy to use The next time you're stressed out or annoyed or frustrated and it's always with other people just say let them That's how you use it Let them and you're gonna immediately feel peaceful your mom's in a bad mood. Let her be in a bad mood. Some old friend of yours is talking, let him talk trash. Why? You're not allowing it. When you say, let them, you are reminding yourself, there's one thing in life I can't control. It's what other people say, do, believe, feel. And it's not my job to. So when you start saying let them, and you detach yourself from the responsibility of
Starting point is 00:49:48 having to manage somebody else, something interesting happens. You realize, oh my god, I've lived my life in reverse. I actually live my life giving time and energy trying to manage what other people think. I have kept myself in a major or in a relationship or in a situation because I'm afraid to disappoint my parents or my friends. I mean, how many people keep drinking or like keep going out at night when what they really want to do is launch a business. And so they don't take the weekends to work on the things that they want to work on because
Starting point is 00:50:20 they feel like they don't want to disappoint their friends or people going to talk about them. That's you giving power to other people. Another way that we give power to other people is we get so focused on the headlines that we gaslight ourselves into believing that you have no power. It's complete garbage. Of course you have power. And so when you start saying let them, it's sort of this revelation where you're like, oh my God, I spend so much time and energy worrying about other people.
Starting point is 00:50:46 I spent so much time and energy letting them stress me out. But is there a level of like when that becomes easier versus harder? Because when you were just talking, I thought about Michelle Obama. Yes. In the podcast, one of the podcasts she did this week, she was talking about how she realized she was doing a lot for other people not thinking about herself and started making decisions for herself. So she's going places she wants to go and do things she wants to do. People don't like that.
Starting point is 00:51:05 And they think she's divorced because of it. But it's like she's Michelle Obama so it's hard for her to like the noise is so it's a lot louder for her. Well of course but whether or not you pay attention to that is within your control. Whether or not you look at your phone, and we're all guilty of it, whether you are Michelle Obama or you're just going into your middle school, whether or not you give attention to the gossip,
Starting point is 00:51:32 you look for the gossip, you mainline it, that is within your control. If you say, I can never, ever, ever stop somebody from lying about me, from making up stuff about me, from saying whatever they're gonna say. So why on earth would I spend any time in energy managing it? That's right.
Starting point is 00:51:50 And then you go let me, this is the second part of the theory, why don't you say let them. Let them think negative thoughts. Let them make up all kinds of crap because if you know you're not getting divorced, what do you care about these idiots saying? What do I tell you all the time? Let me remind myself that I know the truth
Starting point is 00:52:03 and when you know the truth about who you are, you don't think about other people. When you live your life in a way that makes you proud, you don't think about other people. Mel, I tell them this all the time. You told me to read her book. And I already had the book, because I think Eddie had given it to us a minute ago.
Starting point is 00:52:19 I was like, all right, I got the book. And for the moment? You got it, it will change your damn, I'm telling you, it will change your life because. But you But you have to get to that stage. Yes. Because it took me a while to get to that stage. It took you a while to get to that stage. He think he was born that way and I don't think that that's true. No one is born that way. I used to be a social worker. So I've never truly cared. Right. But then even when I started to care, I realized things like the serenity prayer, little simple things that you saw sitting
Starting point is 00:52:42 in your grandmother's house, you realize that is absolutely the truth. God granted me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference. And the easiest way to let go of what you can't control is just realizing you never had control to begin with. And here's another thing that's really important, this is why you're gonna love it, is that what'll start to happen when you say let them is it's not that you're allowing people to do bad things. They're already doing bad things. You're recognizing that it's not your job to manage other people because this is a book that's about power and control and peace. Then you say, let me remind myself how I respond to things actually is where my power is. So do I give this any time and energy or not? Do I double down on just living my life
Starting point is 00:53:25 in a way that makes me proud of myself, which is where your power is. And the thing that also changed me dramatically is I couldn't believe how much stress I felt and how I was bracing all the time. And when you start to say let them and you release that kind of obligation to make other people happy or to make everybody know that you're not divorced or that everything's
Starting point is 00:53:51 okay or like just let them think whatever they want to think and live your life in a way that makes you proud, you're going to get all this time and energy back. And what I love about this is when you're less stressed and when you're not bracing all the time because you know your boss is Narcissistic so why on earth would you walk into work? Assuming that today is gonna be anything other than what it already has always been let them be who they are I love the managing stress chapter and in that chapter you say you can't control how other adults behave and stressing about it Diminishes your power. You'll never reach the full potential of your life if you continue to allow stupid things
Starting point is 00:54:28 or rule people to drain your life force. Can you explain that? Yes, yes. So the two most important resources that you have in life, time, energy. That's what you got. How you spend your time, where you put your energy, it actually determines your experience of life. And that's why I say if you have this experience right now
Starting point is 00:54:45 where you're exhausted and overwhelmed and nervous and you're not like feeling like you can ever have time for yourself or your goals just aren't clicking, you're not the problem. The problem is all this time and energy, you spend dealing with other people. And so let them is a boundary that you draw where you start to recognize, okay,
Starting point is 00:55:03 I'm gonna let other people think and feel and do and have their opinions, and I'm gonna let them be disappointed, I'm gonna let them misunderstand me, and I'm going to let me really take that time and energy back and pour it into working on myself and staying in my piece. And what I've found is that when I'm less stressed, which I am because I'm not allowing stupid stuff or other people to stress me out,
Starting point is 00:55:30 I'm actually a better person. I make more money because I can use my brain instead of being in fight or flight. I don't like vomit on my kids, my emotions. Like I used to be the kind of person that would come in after work and be yelling at everybody or mad at the dog for crying out loud. And then I'd be like, I'm sorry, it was a bad day at work, stressful day at work. What did the dogs say back? They kind of do this and then they come back and they're really nice because they literally dogs don't punish you for that. And it's so sad that I used to leave the worst of me for the people I cared about the most and then blame it on
Starting point is 00:56:06 The stress of the day that by the way when you use the let them theory you have Control over whether or not this stuff gets to you. Let me add let me do it I have a question. Yeah in chapter 5 you say let them think bad thoughts about you Right. The question with that is when a lot of people sometimes especially on social media, right? Yep. Nobody fact checks anymore. But that could affect your reputation. That could affect your business.
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Starting point is 01:00:05 Well, so here, this is a very tricky question because you're talking about the PR and the media swirl. PR is a little bit different. In personal, like I think it's really important to understand who you are, whether you're dealing with rumors at a middle school, or you're dealing with rumors in your community, or you've got somebody in your family trash talking you. In order to repair your reputation,
Starting point is 01:00:28 it is better to show than to tell, in my opinion. You prove the truth based on how you show up in life, not based on the words that come out of your mouth. And if there is somebody spreading things about you, the best way to handle it is to go directly to that person and to ask them about it. Because those kind of people, the people that gossip about you ultimately end up crumbling anyway.
Starting point is 01:00:50 Because it always catches up with them. All right, we got more with Mel Robbins when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ N.V. Juscelarius. Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Mel Robbins. Her new book, The Let Em Theory is out right now. Charlamagne? You know, you were in the book, you talk about how you felt paralyzed by imposter syndrome, especially when you were teaching the five second rule.
Starting point is 01:01:14 I wonder what's changed since then. Like, what gives you the confidence and authority now to feel like you can go out here and teach the Let Him Theory? That's a great, great question. So, you know how, well first of all, imposter syndrome is deeply misunderstood. So imposter syndrome does not mean that you don't belong in the room you're in. Imposter syndrome means you actually want to be in the room you're in and there's skills or there's experience that you need to gain in order to dominate in that role. Imposter syndrome is actually not self-doubt, it's ambition. And so... Explain that a bit, it's ambition. And so. Explain that a bit,
Starting point is 01:01:46 cause it's always been said the other way. Yeah. And so if you really think about it, if you walk into a room and you don't feel imposter syndrome, it's cause you don't wanna be in that room. You don't care what people think about you in that room. If you walk into a room
Starting point is 01:02:00 and you feel a sense of imposter syndrome, it's because you care about what people think about you in that room. It means your ambition wants you to succeed in that room. Oh, like, push to stay sharp. Correct. Because you're trying to, okay. And also like, hey, I want to actually succeed around people like this, which means what
Starting point is 01:02:18 are the skills I need. And what I started to understand, and I think it explains a lot about why I am who I am, is that we're all the same. Everybody is dealing with the same stuff. Yes, it's easier if you have more money and more resources, but at the end of the day, everybody's got a family member that they're worried about. Everybody has ambition they're not tapping into. Everybody has things that they want to pursue in their life and they're kind of letting
Starting point is 01:02:41 themselves down a little bit. Everybody struggles with a little bit of uncertainty and anxiety at times. Everybody has hopes and dreams and feels a little discouraged and overwhelmed. And when you start at a baseline that people would love to thrive and people thrive when they can. And if they can't, I believe it's because they're discouraged or there's some skill building or some experience or, you know, some mentorship that's missing, that's it. But that you're built to thrive. And so when you really start at that baseline,
Starting point is 01:03:09 like, you know, I make it a practice, by the way. This is one thing that'll change your life. When you go into a public bathroom, two things. I always leave the space better than when I found it. I always- You clean up public bathrooms? It depends now, Mel. No, no, no, literally, like, I literally literally that's why I don't go into that stall but
Starting point is 01:03:29 No, just hear me out let them I gotta let I got it because if somebody like destroys especially women if somebody destroys A cps all over it and then they leave that is a human being that is so disconnected From the interconnection of the human experience. You are leaving that for another person and so making sure that you don't leave your mess for another person, making sure that you just kind of wipe down the counter and then here's the second thing, if there is a human being cleaning that bathroom, please look in the AI and say thank you. All the time. Thank you. Like that right there is a simple thing that will make you start to shake out of that woe
Starting point is 01:04:08 is me or that stress or that overwhelm. Let them know you appreciate and see what they're doing because it changes who you are. And then you start to see all day long that there are like, you know, I can't look at you because I'm gonna cry. People are just walking around disconnected. And the power of starting to be the one that wakes people up, hey, you know, I always get an elder, hey, how's everybody doing? It's shocking how we have gotten so far away from that sense of community. And there's actually research around this.
Starting point is 01:04:43 They call it either weak ties. I call them warm connections. Those people that you see in the building every day that you say hello to. The person that's walking the dog, that you know the name of the dog in your neighborhood. These relationships matter because they make you feel human again. When you feel the impact from what you're doing
Starting point is 01:05:01 with your book and the Let Them Theory, like you just got emotional, not even just about your impact, but just talking about just change in the world. How does it make you feel? Like do you take a moment just of gratitude and be like, because I saw all the tattoos in the book. And I was like, that's so fire.
Starting point is 01:05:14 It's hard to make people like actually believe something that's not tangible. One of the things that, you know, for me, I spent so many years like hating myself and feeling like I was a really bad person. When you get stuck in life, it's easy to think you're the only one. I'm just literally on a mission to share whatever I can share and give people access, just like you guys give people access to incredible thinkers and experts and resources. You know, your work is reaching some way halfway around the world
Starting point is 01:05:49 that doesn't even have a toilet in their house. And how incredible is that? And if I can save anybody the headaches and the heartaches that I cause myself or the people that I care about because I didn't know any better. I didn't know what the problem was. I didn't know how to change myself. I didn't know how to push through the emotion. That is a life well lived. Why did you hate yourself though? Because you can't do anything about what you don't know. Oh my God, we don't have time.
Starting point is 01:06:11 I literally like from the amount of cheating I did when I was little to the undiagnosed anxiety or the undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD and how that created tremendous anxiety to the way that childhood trauma impacted me that I didn't even realize was impacting me. Like it's just chronic. I just did not think I was a bad person and there's a lot of people walking around that have a hundred times more negative thoughts than they do positive ones. And a lot of people develop a habit of being very self-critical. It's never enough. Like you're never gonna make it. Like, you're always so stupid.
Starting point is 01:06:46 Why did you do that? Either because that's how they were talked to when they were little, or because it's this, like, almost protective thing that if you beat yourself up first, you're gonna catch it before other people do. And I got to a point, and this is an important thing, the only thing you need to make your life better is one decision.
Starting point is 01:07:03 How I'm living my life right now and how it feels no longer works for me. That's all you need to know. If you can have the courage to say that to yourself, you now have tipped the first domino. Because you've made a decision that you want to change how your life feels. You made a decision that you want to change how it feels up here. And for me as a mom, like your kids absorb the way that you treat yourself. And so having two daughters that I started noticing, my God, why are these beautiful young women picking themselves apart?
Starting point is 01:07:30 Well, because I do. Why are they so hard on them? Because I was so hard on myself. That's how they learn it. And so I don't want them to do that to themselves. And the thing I was going to share that's made a huge difference for me is that I keep the impact front and center. And so we send an email out five days a week there's a person on our team whose job is to assemble all of the things that people are saying all over the
Starting point is 01:07:53 world about the books and the podcast not about Mel but about what you learned and I'll tell you every day there's 20 to 30 of them and just the other day there was a person who talked about how he was a stepdad and the relationship ended and those stepkids were his life. And he didn't want to be here anymore. And somebody started to share the podcast with him and he would go and take a walk every morning and listen to the podcast. And it started to give him a sense of hope.
Starting point is 01:08:23 And now he uses the let them theory. This is a person that actually works in like a police operations control center. Never in a million years would I think this is somebody that's listening to the Mel Robbins podcast or listening to this kind of conversation. But it goes to prove that everybody wants to do well. Everybody wants to thrive. And you know when you're not doing well. You know when you're not thriving. The problem for most of us is just kind of feeling like I don't think this could change and the fact is of course it can change. If you've ever been happy in your life you can be happy again. If you've ever been proud of yourself you can be proud of yourself again. If you've ever
Starting point is 01:08:59 forgiven somebody else you can learn to forgive yourself. And you know also God doesn't call to qualify. he qualifies to call it and you've been called Mel Robbins. I feel that. I love you man. I love you too. Wow. That's right well we appreciate you for joining us.
Starting point is 01:09:11 Thank you Mel. Thank you. All right well it's Mel Robbins, it's the Breakfast Club good morning. Yes it's the world's most dangerous morning show the Breakfast Club. Salute to Mel Robbins for pulling up and it's time for the latest with Lauren.
Starting point is 01:09:22 Lauren becoming a straight face. Tell us, man! She gets into somebody that knows somebody. She gets to details. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on it. That's sound the things. The latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Starting point is 01:09:36 Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. So Coachella went down, and I will say, I feel like it was quiet around Coachella this year even though it's a big music festival but there were certain moments that definitely picked up.
Starting point is 01:09:52 Cardi B performed, Missy Elliott actually made her Coachella debut, this is her first time at Coachella and she came out as a full transformer and then she shed the transformer skin and she performed and people just watching fans react because I don't know if they've never seen a Missy Elliott video or performance that I don't think that they didn't know how she was coming. She said she never seen that level of creativity. Yo, it was crazy. Yeah, she's been preparing this set since November 2024.
Starting point is 01:10:20 She said when she revealed that she would be there, that she was going to be doing something out of this world, which is very on brand for missy So she performed as well then you had Meg the stallion that also performed doesn't it feel good to see creative folks young people Huh people that actually care about their craft over and above they care about this stage performers. They online calling her transformer Mr. Media Elliot now It over and above when I say her set was fire it was fire from start to finish but also Meg Thee Stallion had a really good set too and she brought out Sierra she brought out Victoria Monet but then she surprised
Starting point is 01:10:55 the crowd when she brought out Queen Latifah. The key is not to be hot for the moment the key is to be timeless. That's the moral of the story. The key is to be classic. When you classic you live forever. Now the theme behind Meg Thee Stallion's stage was girl power. So as I mentioned, she brought out Victoria Monet, Ciara did, you know, they had a duet performance and she did goodies. It was a great, especially because Meg Thee Stallion really dances. So her, Victoria Monet, Ciara, they got busy on stage. But there were also some moments off the stage at this year's Coachella as well too. Chris Brown was topic of conversation all weekend because there was video of him hanging out with Tiana Taylor in discussion with Tiana Taylor and video of him and Karucci having a laugh. So people
Starting point is 01:11:39 were like, oh wait, he's good with all these people. So why are we still upset? People all, you got to learn to mind your business. If people have moved on, we should too. I know you ain't talking. It's my job to mind the business and talk about the business. Yours too, sir. Not really.
Starting point is 01:11:53 You talking as well. Okay, you finished? Are you done? I'm listening. Well, the moment with Teyana Taylor sparked interest in conversation because there was the whole back and forth member and they said that that was the reason why him and Usher got into it and all those things and I
Starting point is 01:12:06 think in the video when you see it you could tell the brother and sisterly like back and forth and banter that they have and then of course in the video with Karuchi you know he's you know formally dated her there's been some accusations there as well too they're laughing joking having a good time and now the people are flooding Karuchi's comments talking about girl go get your man back it's funny that we think we know these people, because these are the moments that we see them. They might have been talked. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:29 You know what I'm saying? They might have been communicated. This is just the moments that we see, but we see these brief moments ever so often and swear we know these people. 100%. I think people do that. I mean, there's celebrities,
Starting point is 01:12:40 you ain't gonna see every moment, but I do think it's something like this. The conversation, you know they've been online arguing about uh people being able or not being able to move on and all that good stuff but I will say the festival did look good this year and everybody up was there look good as well too because tiana taylor baby she eats every year at the festival you saw tiana taylor this year i'm gonna show you her let me show you tt in the all black with the stomach out she never comes to play dropping a clues bomb for Teyana Taylor.
Starting point is 01:13:05 Yes. That's the homie. Teyana Taylor still be lying about not working out? I ain't asked her. I don't know what she do, but baby when I get the money sign me up. She do got the genetics though. Miss Nikki. Oh my God.
Starting point is 01:13:16 She get that from Miss Nikki. Yes. Drop on the clues bomb from Miss Nikki. Teyana Taylor is amazing. Yeah, so that's your recap of Coachella. Okay. Well, thank you Lauren. You're welcome.
Starting point is 01:13:26 Four after the hour we got Donkey today and I need Cody Palmer of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him. It's the Breakfast Club. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Some Donkey today just saw themselves. I've been watching you Charlamagne. I was ready for you.
Starting point is 01:13:37 I never heard of Donkey the other day. What is it? Say it again Charlamagne. I was ready for you. I never heard of Donky the other day. What is it? Say it again Charlamagne. Yes, you are a donkey. Everything that Charlamagne is saying is true. Yes, Donky today for Monday April 14th goes to 38 year old Cody Palmer of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Now, if you haven't heard Cody is the suspect who's been arrested and charged with terrorism because of an arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence over the weekend as Josh Shapiro's and his family slept. Now, Governor Josh Shapiro is Jewish and
Starting point is 01:14:22 this incident happened on the first night of Passover. I don't know if this incident was a Jewish thing or a Democrat thing, but let's go to 6ABC Philadelphia for the report, please. Governor Josh Shapiro described himself as emotional, but not fearful outside the governor's residence in Harrisburg Sunday afternoon. This after state police say 38 year old Cody Balmer of Harrisburg set the state dining room on fire overnight. the state. The investigation is underway. The 38 year old Cody bomber of
Starting point is 01:14:47 Harrisburg set the state dining room on fire overnight. New video shows the destruction where Shapiro and his family celebrated Passover just hours before on Saturday night. This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society.
Starting point is 01:15:02 And I don't give a damn if it's coming from one particular side or the other, and it has to stop. Police say it's clear Bomber had a plan and moved quickly. They say he was inside the home less than a minute and used homemade devices. What sources describe to ABC News as a Molotov cocktail. Sources tell ABC News Bomber is a mechanic who expressed disdain for Democrats primarily related to financial issues. They're also not ruling out Shapiro's Jewish faith as a motivating factor.
Starting point is 01:15:28 Now I'm not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary, but when somebody asked me, do I think this was a Jewish thing or a Democrat thing, I'm gonna say a combination of both. Okay, when you look at the timing of the incident, first day of Passover and the fact Governor Shapiro is a high profile Jewish man, if you are anti-Semitic and you looking to make a statement,
Starting point is 01:15:46 you looking to make a splash, he's your guy. But what I want us to pay attention to is how America has gone completely backwards. In a lot of ways, I don't even know if we've gone backwards or if a lot of these racist cancer cells were just laying dormant in the body of America. They were just in hibernation, okay? And they were just in a hibernation like state and now they've been coaxed out of their slumber
Starting point is 01:16:08 because of the current political climate in this country. Don't get me wrong, it's always existed, okay? But man, what happened to Governor Shapiro and his family could happen to anybody who is a member of a marginalized group in 2025. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best. An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and this was a complete injustice. And those words couldn't be more fitting because one of the first times I heard about something like this happening was when it happened to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 30th 1956. Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife and child were inside when his home was
Starting point is 01:16:41 firebombed. All praises due to God, neither of them were harmed, okay? Malcolm X, February 14th, 1965, his house was firebombed. He had his wife and four daughters in the house. By the way, to all the simple-minded digital D-heads out there, I am not comparing Governor Shapiro to Dr. MLK Jr. and Malcolm X. I'm just telling you that when you hear certain stories,
Starting point is 01:17:01 when you see certain images, especially horrific things like somebody firebombing your house, setting your house on fire while you're in there with your family. If you have any type of empathy, it sticks with you. And you say to yourself, I pray that never happens to me and my family. And you thought that those things were just things of the past. But no, when you see them still happening to folks in 2025, it's just a reminder that potentially it could happen to you.
Starting point is 01:17:28 Now. I don't know how Cody got this close to the governor's mansion. I mean, it's the damn governor's mansion. There should never be a breach of security there, but I'm starting to believe when it comes to guarding elected officials, Pennsylvania has the worst security ever. I mean, that's what Donald Trump almost got clipped. And now a 38 year old kid can jump the governor's mansion. He's not a kid what am I saying?
Starting point is 01:17:47 And now a 38 year old man can jump the governor's mansion and actually start a fire with with homemade devices and get away before he's ultimately caught? Now Cody Bomber's mother said that Cody suffers from mental illness and he was off his medication. Listen you know I overstand. Okay mental health issues are serious and require compassion but that doesn't excuse actions that endanger lives and threaten public safety. Okay, he can get all the help he needs in somebody's prison. Okay, because we have to make examples of people like this. I also feel like discrimination is a form of mental illness. They hate someone because of what their race is, their religion is,
Starting point is 01:18:23 their gender is, their sexuality is. If you hate people because of what they are, you are mentally ill and I don't want to see anyone being attacked or being the target of potential violence because of what they are. Okay their race, their faith, their political party. Do we not understand that diversity is what truly makes America great? And by the way if you don't like somebody's politics, well get into politics yourself and challenge them. Okay, or support the politicians you like and help them defeat the politicians you don't.
Starting point is 01:18:53 That's how things are done in a civilized country. But unfortunately, this country has always lied to itself about being civilized. Please give Cody Palmer of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the biggest see-haw. Sad. Yes, very sad. Now we had Mel Robbins here last hour, Lauren LaRosa. Great convo. Did you learn anything? I did. How long ago did I tell you to read the Letham Theory? I got the book you told me about probably two months ago. What, was it that long? A month ago. It was a minute ago. Just in conversation you were like, you need to read the LetThem Theory.
Starting point is 01:19:28 Yes, I am recommending this book to everybody and you know what I would like to do right now? I would like to open up the phone lines and talk to people who have already applied the LetThem Theory to their life. I want to know how they're applying the let them theory to their life and uh Yeah, that's it. How how into what yes how into what have you applied to let them theory to your life? What do you think you need to apply that in your life Lauren? This is new levels new devils this there's a lot of critiques that happen when people think that they can just you know You put your art out there
Starting point is 01:20:03 Okay And I'm having to cry quiet noise and just let people feel how they feel and do what they do, cause I know what I do and what I do well. That's what I'm having to apply to let them, and with you, I'll be having to let you a lot because I'm gonna smack you if not, you know? You know, you need to start telling the people the truth.
Starting point is 01:20:21 What's the truth? How much you love me. I do love you. Okay. But I be having to let you, we have to let people we love all the time, ask your wife, cause I'm sure she be wanting to smack you too. You gonna stop making the people think I'm not a nice person.
Starting point is 01:20:33 I tell people all the time you're nice, they just don't believe them. You know what you need to do? That's good. Let them. That's right. That's right. And that's exactly what I let them do.
Starting point is 01:20:41 Okay. 1-800-585-1051, call us right now. Tell us how you are applying Mel Robbins, the let them do. Okay, 1-800-585-1051. Call us right now. Tell us how you are applying Mel Robbins' Delectim Theory to your life. It's The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most into the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne the God, Lauren LaRosa, DJ Envy and Jess Hilarious are out today. And we're talking Mel Robbins, the let them theory, you know Mel was here last hour.
Starting point is 01:21:17 That wasn't her first time on The Breakfast Club either. She came on The Breakfast Club back in 2021 when she was promoting. Yes, the high five rule. When you wake up in the morning, you promoting. Yeah, it's the high five rule. When you wake up in the morning, you give yourself a high five in the mirror every morning. But we're talking Mel Robbins, the let them theory, Lauren LaRosa. High five habit. High five habit, there you go.
Starting point is 01:21:36 Lauren LaRosa, how are you using the let them theory in your life? Letting people just have their opinions about me. And that's a lot of opinions now, you know? Especially sitting up here with y'all. You've been doing this for a long time. Every day. But you get numb to it. And you realize you do have to use the let them theory when it comes to that,
Starting point is 01:21:52 because we are public servants and we're getting on this radio every day and we're doing a service for the public and the public is allowed to have their opinions about it. And I also think too, what you realize when you look into the let them theory is that you can't control how people feel. Nope. Like if you take everything that someone says about you and try to create like here's a guideline of what I should be doing you could do all of that and they can still feel that way. So you got to just know what your goal is and level up or
Starting point is 01:22:17 sit still depending on what you want to do because you can't control none of that. Why do we forget things that like we learned in our grandma house when we was kids? Because life hits you. Like the serenity prayer, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference you know when you absolutely positively will relinquish all control when you realize you don't have any we don't control nothing all we do is wake up in the morning, pray, do our affirmations and go out into the world and we are a subject to in the morning, pray, do our affirmations and go out into the world
Starting point is 01:22:45 and we are a subject to whatever the world brings us that day. Easier said than done for a lot of people. Well, you better do it. Let's go to the phone lines. Who's this? It's Free. Free, what's happening my brother?
Starting point is 01:22:56 What's going on man? How are you applying the let them theory to your life, King? Well, first of all, I didn't even know that it was called the let them theory. I just, about three years all, I didn't even know that it was called the left in theory. I just about three years ago I mean, let's just keep it gangster about 37 35 years of my life I was just a complete piece of you know, you know saying all that selling drugs, you know, wildest. Yep Craziest everything that comes with it dead friends and the da da da and about three years ago
Starting point is 01:23:22 I met this this woman, man, this queen, my beautiful black queen, shout out to you, baby. I'm a white boy, you know what I'm saying. But, and she just, she helped me let everything go from family members of my dead friends that I was helping that I can't help no more,
Starting point is 01:23:42 from people from your back and your past that you say you never let you'll never let go you know till death you know I'm saying padded it's all that you know and I just had to figure out that I can do nothing for it and if I don't move forward I'm going to continue living on this demon time I mean my girlfriend before my wife was a stripper excuse my language. Damn! It was a lot of language. So you say you're a white man who met a black woman and the black woman changed your life
Starting point is 01:24:10 totally? Nah, dog, I've been f**king with black chicks my whole life, man. You know what I'm saying? But, but, this one. It's not person so much. Okay, yes, this one changed your life. Yeah, I mean she just, you know, and I guess since I was looking, since listening to you this morning, I now I know this is called the, you know,
Starting point is 01:24:28 the athletic go-through, you know, I just had to let everything from my past go. And now I have peaceful nights, no more nightmares. You know what I'm saying? It's just a whole change of life in three years. I got a beautiful new six week old baby. Congrats. I got two beautiful step sons that are in my world.
Starting point is 01:24:48 Okay, well thank you for calling my brother. I don't know if that was the let them there. I think what he was trying to say is, is that once he, whatever was bothering him from his past, maybe whatever, he had to learn to let them, or let that just be. Well yeah, detachment is part of the let them thing. Because her, Emel's story was like that.
Starting point is 01:25:05 Like when she decided to detach from everything she thought she failed from, she was able to level up and be successful. That's true. Good morning. Who's this? Good morning. This is Kimberly.
Starting point is 01:25:14 Hey, Kimberly. How are you? I'm OK and yourself, guys? Bless Black and Holly favorite. We're talking about Mel Robbins' electric theory this morning. And we're asking people, how have you applied electric theory to your life? Easy. Change the number and cut them all off. Delectin Theory this morning and we're You know what I do? Change my number and cut them off. Damn, did you wait until he turned 18 on the dot? Yeah, he even got mad with me
Starting point is 01:25:48 because I didn't call him for his 18th birthday. Listen man, when you pray to God to take negativity out your life, he not swinging at spirits, he's swinging at people and things that are the embodiment of that negativity. And sometimes it should close family. And it's so true because I end up don't have my two,
Starting point is 01:26:06 I lost my mother after I lost my mother. I don't talk to my two brothers. Now my son, so. Damn. Okay, well have a great day. You too as well. Charlamagne. She says, okay, well have a great day.
Starting point is 01:26:20 What I'm supposed to say to her? She lost her, she ain't got nobody. Just have a great day. But she made a choice. It's not like she said she made the choice to cut them off. I'm not a great day. What I'm supposed to say to her? She lost her heart, she ain't got nobody. Just have a great day. But she made a choice. It's not like she said she made the choice to cut them off. I'm not even, it's not like they died or something. I went to prison, like she made a choice. And so you know what?
Starting point is 01:26:33 I got a letter. People are really moving variables in our life. Like you don't have to have certain people in your life. And every, the first two callers is all about people. And you can just totally just not deal with those people. Because as I, I've been saying this my whole life, when you pray to God to take negativity out your life, he's not gonna be swinging at things,
Starting point is 01:26:53 he's gonna be swinging at people. God, there's a man in this room that won't leave my wig alone. Please remove all the evil. You need to remove the wig. If you remove the wig, you remove the evil. God, please, I feel. That is where the evil lies. So it's a trickery that you spoke about in the Bible. I you remove the wing, you remove the evil. That is where the evil lies.
Starting point is 01:27:05 So it's a trickery that you spoke about in the Bible. I feel it every day. Please remove the demons and the spirits. Call us right now 1-800-585-1051. Tell us how the left-wing theory has been applied to about it. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne the God Lauren LaRosa is here. Jess Hilaria.
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Starting point is 01:31:01 and the real lessons that have shaped them. Listen on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is DJ Envy out right now. Well, we're talking Mel Robbins, the LetThem Theory. You know, Mel was here last hour with us. And if you don't know what the LetThem Theory is, it is a mindset tool that encourages you to stop trying to control or change others thoughts and behaviors instead you focus on your own peace and well-being by accepting that others are
Starting point is 01:31:29 free to make their own choices Mel Robbins put it in a book called the let them theory it came out at the end of December it sold I think damn near 4 million copies in 18 weeks and you know people are either applying the let them theory to their life are realizing they've already applied it but now they have the language to know what to call it. So let's go to the phone lines. Good morning who's this? This is Crystal. Peace Crystal how are you? I'm Bless how are you King? Bless black and highly favored we talking the let them theory this morning how have you applied the let them theory to your life Crystal? Well I have applied the let them theory to my life to survive being an entrepreneur.
Starting point is 01:32:08 I just quit my job in healthcare to focus on like being a serial entrepreneur. I went from songwriter to screenwriter. And, you know, there's a lot of discouraging things out here, but I let them doubt me. I let them do things for the internet try to make it seem like they're doing things and they're not I try to let all my haters you know let them turn down because nothing they do it's gonna prosper anyway that's right and I just try to stay proud um you know I have other businesses too but it's interesting because the more you, more people let you down,
Starting point is 01:32:46 you know, because people will tell you, oh I can do this for you, I got you, the more I become that for myself. So I have to literally figure out what I'm not getting and do it for myself because everybody who surrounds you are in their own world and it feels like they don't really care. Like people don't serve anymore. People don't wanna serve you as an assistant. They wanna be the star. So it's like, even if I get an assistant,
Starting point is 01:33:14 they're probably not gonna be loyal, because everybody's so focused on themselves. So I just let everybody around me do them and I wake up in the morning and I give myself a plan and I try to just stick to the plan and talk to myself throughout the day, you know, just saying F them. Man, you are absolutely right. You know, I want to tell you something about social media.
Starting point is 01:33:33 The reason you should absolutely let people talk about you on social media and you know, I talked about this when I was on Mel's podcast, Mel Robbins podcast, the algorithm don't know the difference. So you got a bunch of people that might be online talking bad about you but then you'll have some people that are supporting you as well and all the algorithm knows that your name is being mentioned that's it so it works for you anyway it's to your benefit anyway right um while we're on the top of the books and you love books can we get like a book list from you because I'm trying to
Starting point is 01:34:04 buy a bunch of books that are healthy for mental health And all that so I just want to ask you that So I'm in my book Yes, I'm trying to go to social media first thing every morning now So as a part of my new entrepreneur life in screenwriting and film, I'm trying to be myself with good things well, I'm gonna recommend you two books right now. Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday and The Unapologetic Guide,
Starting point is 01:34:30 The Black Mental Health by Dr. Rita Walker. Got it. Ooh, thank you. Yes, ma'am. All right, y'all. Peace. Thank you so much for y'all love and y'all goodness. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:34:40 Let's take one more, Rhett. Let's take one more. Let's take one more. Good morning, who's this? April. Peace, April, how are you? Hi, how are you? Where you calling from?
Starting point is 01:34:48 I'm from Atlanta. ATL, we gonna be in Atlanta on April 26th for the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival, so go get your tickets if you haven't gotten them already. Sarah J. Gravich will be on that stage doing her Woman Evolved podcast live, okay? But we're here to talk about Mel Robbins and the let them theory right now. How have you applied it to your life?
Starting point is 01:35:08 So I haven't read the book, but I did hear one of her podcasts. So I became familiar with the let them theory and applying that for myself. A lot of people I feel have slept on me and you know, just kind of treat me a certain type of way. And I let them by continuing to be myself, showing up with love and light. And they eventually some of them have turned around and seen the deep down that I'm just moving the way that I am. And that's how I so they kind of change their perspective by just me being myself. I let them have their feelings and whatever for whatever reason and I'm just letting them be them and I'm continuing to move the way that I do.
Starting point is 01:35:54 That's all you can do. Have a great day. You as well. Thank y'all. And that's literally what the let them theory is. It's literally a mindset tool that encourages you to stop trying to control or change other people's thoughts and behaviors That's it. You can't can't you can you cannot control other people? I tell y'all all the time we wake up every single day and all we're trying to do is avoid
Starting point is 01:36:17 Crazy and that crazy usually comes in the form of other people. I thought you about saying it usually comes from Florida It does though! But we love Florida. We like going to Miami. We like going to Disney World. We know so it's still the same thing. But listen, go out there and get Mel Robbins' Elective Theory. She don't need me to promote her book. This book is, you know, selling like crack in the 80s. But it is a fantastic read and it's one of those books that I'm recommending to everybody. You really are. You told me about it way before Ivan and she was coming up here.
Starting point is 01:36:48 Because sometimes we forget, to me you just need these simple reminders. Like I always tell, we talk about the serenity prayer all the time, right? And we know what the serenity prayer is, but sometimes we forget that and we just need to be reminded that we're not in control of anything.
Starting point is 01:37:02 So just let people be who they are. You think we getting better because you yell at us all the time. Us, me, Jess let people be who they are. You think we getting better? Cause you yell at us all the time, us, me, Jess, all the producers up here, you think we getting better? No, that's why I'm gonna keep yelling at y'all. I'm gonna knock on, hmm. You just like to yell, talk about tough people, I'm not a mean person.
Starting point is 01:37:16 You really just old and be yelling like. I've told you that I think you got better. Okay. Jess needs work. Envy definitely needs work. It's still a little bit. He's gonna be alone. Why do you have Envy in it?
Starting point is 01:37:30 I'm just saying it. Y'all care a little bit too much about the opinions of other people, that's all. Okay. That's all. You know, me and my agents, we gonna be chilling. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. We do.
Starting point is 01:37:41 What you got? Vibes Crotel, he made history. He did it, The big return back to New York after 20 years. There's some big moments including the fact that Drake gifted him this like OVO chain is one of two only him and him him and Drake have it and I got all the details about everything how long it took to make it. I got all the details. So hold on it's only two chains? Chain yeah so it's well tell me tell me when we come back. Yes. It's the latest with Lauren when we come back at the Breakfast Club.
Starting point is 01:38:05 The Breakfast Club. That's right, it is the Breakfast Club, the world's most dangerous morning show, and now it's time for the latest with Lauren, LaRosa. Lauren be coming with straight facts. Tell her, tell her! Man! She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.
Starting point is 01:38:18 She gets the details. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on it. Say I'm the biggest. The knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on the latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. What we got, LL Cool Bay.
Starting point is 01:38:36 Vibes Cartel World Boss. He returned to New York and he did his big U.S. return. So this was his first US headlining show in over 20 years. So there were some pretty big moments out of the show. So he came out to his remix that he did to Akon's Locked Up, which of course was very monumental after everything that he's been through. And the crowd just embraced him crazy. Billboard actually is calling this show like the opening night alone because you you know it was sold out crazy, right? They're calling this show one of the most memorable nights of live music in the Burroughs storied history.
Starting point is 01:39:12 I mean, listen, people worship Bob Scartell. And you know, after meeting him, I can understand why people enjoy him the way that he does. I was telling people that all weekend, like he is very personal. He's super funny. Like he I see the star and a lot of times it's hard to pick one that was certain artists. Let's take a listen to him in the ACOM moment when he walked out on stage. I think Jamaicans should narrate everything.
Starting point is 01:39:32 I'm not gonna lie, I thought about that the other day, I was at some airport and they had a Jamaican narrating, calling people, you know what I'm saying? The gate. Oh my God, that was so amazing. Now bonding, gate now bonding gate three gate tree I'll try your Jamaican narrate everything well also throughout the night he brought out some different people of course a little Kim hit the stage one of the nights neo Shinseya fab spice of course he can't
Starting point is 01:40:01 come and not bring the dance hall queen Spice. He performed Summertime, Clocks, Fever, the Brooklyn Anthem. When he did the Brooklyn Anthem, he actually put on a Brooklyn-X jersey, but he had it on backwards. He had to like fix the jersey or whatever. But he also did his song Mama, and he brought his mom out when he did it. He goes down on one knee. It was just a good moment, you know, because the song talks about everything they've been
Starting point is 01:40:23 through and what they don't have to go through no more. And she's caressing him and they're in front of all these people. But there was a moment during the show where he got so emotional, he couldn't finish the song. He was performing his song God is the greatest and he broke down. Let's take a listen. But God, the Lord is around us and the blessings are around us. I may not kill you like me, but this I'm gonna show you love. Oh, God, you're so great. I mean, can you imagine?
Starting point is 01:41:14 Right. You know, you've been in prison for 13 years, thinking that you're never gonna see, you know, the freedom again. Right. And then you actually get freed, of course. Absolutely. You get free and you sell out two back-to-back shows at the barclays center 19 000 people is what that stadium holds come on man um cardi b was also on attendance uh dj envy went with his wife gia um now you know who also
Starting point is 01:41:35 was there in tears safari safari was there in tears he said you know vibes is his his hero seeing him on stage in that big return made him emotional. Why would you make me laugh? It was a really emotional moment for Safaree. But yeah, so shout out to vibes. I don't have a problem with that. I saw people killing Safaree for that, but yo, Safaree has always shown
Starting point is 01:41:56 and expressed his love for vibes cartel. So why you laugh? Because I was thinking about something that happened last week when vibes was here. I know you. Exactly. I know you. So that's what I was laughing at. I think you, I don't know week when Bob's was here. I know exactly So that's what I was laughing at I think you want to share Okay, so another moment that happened vibes Crotell was gifted these OVO chains from Drake They were like a surprise special gift from vibes to Drake now
Starting point is 01:42:20 I spoke to Alex Moss's team Alex Moss is the jeweler who created these chains with Drake and from what I'm told it took seven months to make. Drake came up with the idea and brought it to Alex to bring it to life because he wanted to give Vibe's a big welcome home gift. Drake was involved in the process of customizing the jewelry from the beginning. Alex Moss and his team work with Drake a lot so he trusts Alex's creative vision and his taste when it comes to taking the lead. Why would Vibees want an owl?
Starting point is 01:42:46 Vibes is a huge supporter of Drake. He backed him in the Kendrick Lamar. They talked a lot about Drake. What that got to do with the owl though? But continue. It's like, you know what I mean. Continue so I can keep hating. So it's a 14 karat yellow gold.
Starting point is 01:42:58 They have some camo on it and printed in diamonds because diamonds because you know the whole vibes in general. What else? There's so many details Drake really took the time on this. There's only two created. There's one for vibes cartel and one for Drake himself. Drake actually. What? Yup.
Starting point is 01:43:17 Now why is vibes the only other person with that type of owl? What about chumps? What about 40? And party? And preem? And Baka? They would like a new owl it's something special for the world boss Wow don't do that why can't they
Starting point is 01:43:31 have an owl nobody else has they probably do you all in their owl business you want one boo no I don't okay why just him and Drake okay I'm trying to figure this out like what's the connection he's a huge icon that he looks up to but yeah so it was a good gift I tried to get the pricing but they ain't doing all that they said it's priceless so shout out to Drake on that gift because that was super viral and it's a great owl. Now as we wrap up can I do one of the clips that we have really quick I also wanted to answer the question a lot of you guys are trying to figure out why Joe Takapino who is now representing Wendy on the personal
Starting point is 01:44:03 attorney side was denied the ability to go to dinner with Wendy. I feel like some people thought that this was a retaliation thing from her conservatorship. Well, Joe Takapina called in to talk to us exclusively today to explain it. Let's take a listen. There may have been a motivating factor to Sabrina Morrissey canceling that dinner, which could have included the fact that I was there. Because the last thing they want to do, guys, is see me inside that courtroom. I am not going to be gentle about how Wendy's being treated. As far as that dinner, Wendy, myself, and Alex were supposed to have dinner that night. At the last minute, literally, as Wendy was rested and ready to leave her room, she was
Starting point is 01:44:42 told she couldn't go by Sabrina Morse because Alex was testifying the next day at a hearing. So therefore she couldn't see Wendy in person that night. So if the whole point was they couldn't get together the night before her testimony, as if somehow Wendy would influence Alex's testimony, which is ridiculous, it wouldn't really make sense to cancel that dinner because they could have just been on the phone. While I don't know if they knew I was going to be at that dinner, it just seems highly coincidental.
Starting point is 01:45:10 Baby, they got Wendy in a choke hold over there, don't they? They're trying to show her something. We also, real quick, we also asked them too about the money because we were trying to figure out, you know, Wendy's been saying that Sabrina uses her money to hire these high powered attorneys and blah, blah, blah, blah. So I was like, well, wait, so Sabrina's letting her pay you because if they don't want you there, they ain't going to let the money flow. And he said that that has Sabrina's not paying him.
Starting point is 01:45:33 Wendy's family is actually, you know, and him are taking care of that. But he didn't want to go into it. He said that that's something between him and the family. He's not worried about the money right now. He's just trying to make sure Wendy's straight. I'm sure we'll hear more on the latest with Lauren podcast. Oh, period. You know, some of these clips is going right on over there. And I told y'all in today's episode that we would have Joe call in.
Starting point is 01:45:51 So I hope you guys have enjoyed the bounce between the two platforms. And we do got some more exclusive clips from our conversation with Joe Tecapina that will be on tomorrow morning's episode of the latest with Lauren LaRosa, the podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the latest with Lauren LaRosa on the Black Effect, I Heart Radio podcast network. And speaking latest with Laura LaRosa on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. And speaking of that, we have the third annual Black Effect podcast festival
Starting point is 01:46:09 happening Saturday, April 26th in Atlanta at Pullman Yards. Go get your tickets at blackeffect.com slash podcast festival. Some of your favorite podcasts are gonna be on that stage. Tankin J. Valentine will be on there with the R&B Money podcast. Sarah Jake Roberts will be on there with the Women Evolved podcast podcast plus a whole lot more.
Starting point is 01:46:26 So go to blackeffect.com slash podcast festival to get your tickets and the people's choice mix with DJ Envy is up next. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne the God, Lauren LaRosa, DJ Envy is gone. He had to go out doing some book trapping and Jess's son's born day is today. Ashton, right? Yeah Ashton. It's today I think. Yeah Ashton turns 13 today. So happy born day to Ashton. I'm sure Jess is doing a lot of great things for
Starting point is 01:46:56 him down in Baltimore and salute to Baltimore. I was in Baltimore all weekend for my daughter's cheerleading tournament man. Had a great time in Baltimore. I want to salute Carly at Nick's Fish House, man. Carly, thank you for the love that you showed me and my wife at Nick's Fish House this past weekend. You see I'm rocking the Nick's Fish House merchandise. Big merch. Big merch.
Starting point is 01:47:18 Oh, I like the back of that. Yes. That's fire. They asked me if I wanted a hoodie. I'm like, hell yeah. You know, because I show love to people who show love to me. So Carly, thank you for the love this weekend. Thank you for the merch and just the hospitality y'all showed us at Nick's Fish House.
Starting point is 01:47:33 You got something going on? DR, I mean, we got a lot going on. The podcast is here. Please continue to download it on everywhere you get podcast audio, the iHeart app. You can also now watch it. It is a delayed watch. It'll be on my body. But I like that though.
Starting point is 01:47:46 Every day after the audio. So 24 hours after the audio, you can watch it. But I do post clips the day of on my social media. You post the video 24 hours after the audio? In full, but I post social media clips day of. We're working on it, because at first it was 48. So, you know. It should be day of.
Starting point is 01:48:02 We're working on it. But what are you going to the DR for? I'm going to dr Because it is the HBCU black alumni weekend And you know whenever something lit in his HBCU they bring me out to have a good time going for a BBL I'm like, come on. I don't even have enough weight on my body. Some things happen like that You know people you know, you're getting a little love out here in these streets and all of a sudden now you wanna have plastic surgery Like yo chill
Starting point is 01:48:23 No, you don't have to do that at all. You don't need to do all that. Now I gotta get a BBL? No I'm not going to. You don't have to do that at all. You don't have to tell me cause I'm not going there for that. Just making sure. Okay. Okay I heard you say in initials, I wasn't paying attention. It was HBCU. Yes, not BBL.
Starting point is 01:48:32 Okay, got you, got you, got you. Please, I know you ain't graduated from nowhere. Cause what are you even talking about? I didn't, that's right. HBCU Black Alumni Weekend, May 22nd through the 27th. I will be there, memorialdaygetaway.com. Let them know at checkout. You can select who referred you.
Starting point is 01:48:44 Lauren LaRosa referred you and come out, have a good time with me, bring your friends. It's gonna be good. All right, so yes, go check that out. Join Lauren LaRosa Memorial Day weekend in the DR. When we come back, we got the positive note. It's the Breakfast Club. Yep, it's the World Most Dangerous Morning Show,
Starting point is 01:48:58 The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne to God, Lauren LaRosa, DJ Envy. He's out doing some book trapping. His new book comes out tomorrow, Real Life, him and his wife Gia Casey so you'll see them out and about doing APR thing what did he say he was gonna do? I believe like Good Day New York or something like that. Good Day New York, Good Morning America. Uh huh they've been doing some podcasts I know they did uh I don't know if I can say which one they did. They did some podcasts too, like some sit downs. All right, well you'll see them out and about. And Jess Hilarious, Ashton's, her son, his born day of the day, he turns 13,
Starting point is 01:49:30 so happy born day to Ashton, man. And we gotta thank the Mighty Mel Robbins for pulling up her new book, The Let Them Theory, is available everywhere you buy books now. It's sold damn near four million copies in 18 weeks. That's power. Do you know how crazy that is? That's power. You know how crazy that is? That's power.
Starting point is 01:49:46 That is like, that is so, like, people have to go get a book or go and find it and pay for it and download it. That's like having to go buy a CD. Yes. So salute to Mel Robbins. I actually did her podcast, it came out last week. I did it back in March, but it came out last week, man.
Starting point is 01:50:02 So, you know, go check me out on the Mel Robbins podcast and make sure you go check out Mel Robbins on the Breakfast Club, whether it's the Breakfast Club podcast or Breakfast Club YouTube page, available right now, actually. And my positive note is a quote from Mel Robbins. Mel Robbins once said,
Starting point is 01:50:17 "'Start before you're ready. "'Don't prepare, begin. "'You are one decision away "'from a completely different life "'and your feelings don't matter. "' The only thing that matters is what you do. Have a blessed day. Breakfast club bitches. You want to finish or you're done?
Starting point is 01:50:32 The championship is back in the Bay for the first time in 40 years. On the new limited podcast series, Dub Dynasty, we hear from head coach Steve Kerr on how Steph Curry almost never even joined the Warriors. In fact, I thought we had a draft date deal to end up getting him to Phoenix. For the entire behind the scenes story of Golden State's incredible 10 year run, listen to Dubb dynasty on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith. And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith. That's my daughter, wherever you get your kid.
Starting point is 01:51:25 Could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out. It's a work in progress. Listen to Beardless, it's me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The number one hit podcast,
Starting point is 01:51:36 The Girlfriends is back with something new, The Girlfriends Spotlight, where each week you'll hear women share their stories of triumph over adversity. You'll meet June, who founded an all-female rock band in the 1960s. I might as well have said, we're going to walk on the moon. But she showed them who's boss. They would rush up and say, not bad for chicks.
Starting point is 01:51:59 Come and join our girl gang. Listen to The Girlfriend Spotlight on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. ["Princess of South Beach"] From the producers who brought you Princess of South Beach comes a new podcast, The Set Up. The Set Up follows a lonely museum curator, but when the perfect man walks into his life,
Starting point is 01:52:24 Well, I guess I'm saying I like you. into his life, he actually is too good to be true.

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