The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Casino Bid in Times Square Denied, Cardi Responds to Fan Concerns Over Tour Dates + Matthew McConaughey & The Cast of Reasonable Doubt S3 Interview

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Matthew McConaughey opens up about spirituality, cynicism, shifting from romcoms to dramas, and his love for poems and prayers. Emayatzy Corinealdi, McKinley Freeman, and Joseph Sikora also stop by to talk about Season 3 of Reasonable Doubt and their career journeys. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to ABC. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, USA! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Good morning, I go by the name is Charlemaine de God.

We are happy to be here. Bless Black and highly favored, happy to be here to start about... I don't know what the hell I'm trying to say. this morning. Good morning, Teslin Figaro. How are you? I'm doing well how you. I am blessed black and highly favored, man. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners, man. How are y'all how do y'all feel out there? Teslin Figaro

is here in studio with us today. Envy is off. Jess is off. But guess what? We have an amazing show for you this morning. We have the cast of Reasonable Doubt Season 3. Emma Yachti. Did I pronounce her name right? Emma Yatsi Cornelty. Emma Yatsi Coronadi. McKinley

Freeman and Joseph Sakara will be joining us to talk about Reasonable Doubt season three. And also, there's this up-and-coming poet that I really, really like. I read his book. His book is called Poems and Prayers. Okay? He also put out another book called Greenlights. Y'all might know him.

He goes by the name of Matthew McCona... Maconagher. Maconagher? Maconagher. Matthew McConaugah. I think he does a little acting, too. He's got a movie coming out tomorrow called The Lost Bus. But yeah, we'll be talking... I think McConaughey? I think that's how he pronounced it. Matthew McConaughey.

We'll find out when he gets here. But we'll talk to him this morning as well. And Teslin Figuero has front page news coming up. Absolutely. We're going to talk about Cash Patel in the hot seat for day two. Okay. So, we'll be back in like 30 seconds. It's the breakfast club. I realize I can't do the show when I got shoes on. I need my slides.

My slides in the office, man. It's the world's most dangerous morning to show the Breakfast Club. Shalameen to God, DJ, Envy, Jess Aliris. Neither one of them here today. But Lauren LaRose is here. And we got Teslin Figuero live in studio to do front page news, because Taz is going to be on CNN the night on Abby Phillips show at 10 p.m. So she's in New York City. Good morning, Tasso.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. So happy to be here with the family. Let's get straight into it. Yesterday was day two. What FBI director, Cash Patel, faced criticism in his handling of the Charlie Kirk murder investigation. And they asked him about the Epstein Files. Man, they really got into it, Charlemagne, on this one. But your girl, our girl, Jasmine Crockett, the representative, Jasmine Crockett, of Texas said that Patel should

be fired and was the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI. Representative Crockett made it clear that she had zero confidence in Patel's ability and talked about how he was at a fancy dinner posting inconsistencies. Let's take a listen. You were posted up having some

fancy dinner to the extent that you posted not only once erroneously, you posted twice erroneously as it relates to catching somebody and then you want to go and say, let me take a victory lap because honestly if it wasn't for parents deciding that they were going to turn in their child it seems like y'all wouldn't have got there even though he can he literally

confessed online so i'm i'm confused about what it is that the fbi is doing except for trying to put on a show for the apprentice or whatever you want to call him you know jasmine going to apply pressure every time she was applying pressure like the whole thing went about six minutes so that was just a little bit clip. So if you want to watch more, she went into it. But this part, I'm not going to hold you, y'all. This was kind of hilarious to me. Representative Eric Swalwell, he asked Patel about the Epstein files. Take a listen to this. Director, remembering your oath to tell the truth, did you ever tell Donald Trump his name is in the files? I have never spoken to President Trump about the Epstein files. Did you ever tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name is in

the Epstein files? The Attorney General and I have had numerous discussions about the entirety of the Epstein files and the reviews conducted by our team. Did you tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files? And we have released where President Trump's name is in the attorney. It's a simple question. Did you tell the Attorney General that the president's name is in the Epstein files? During many conversations that the Attorney General and I have had on the matter of Epstein, we have reviewed. The question is simple. Who can be? Did you tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files? Yes or no. Why don't you try spelling it out? Yes or no?

Who's the alphabet? Yes or no? No, ABC. Directors. Sounds like you don't want to tell us. Why do I find that funny? It was funny. You know what though?

When they get on the FBI about the parents helping out define the killer, why is that an issue? Isn't that what law enforcement wants? Don't they want the public that help them find somebody when somebody, when they're looking for somebody? Sure. But the issue was, as she went on to say, you took a victory lap acting like y'all did. You know when they went online like, oh, we got the guy. We got our guy. and Trump also went on Fox News saying we got our guy

and really you didn't get nobody. You know, the parents turned it in. So she would just bring up the point that y'all wasn't doing your job. You was sitting up having dinner. You were saying you had them and you didn't have them in the inconsistency. So just basically pointing out, you know,

how they just didn't do a thorough investigation. She also went into, Charlomaine's great. You brought that up. She also went into, she said, I don't trust you guys because you can't find him. And meanwhile, my colleagues are also getting deaf threats. And then she went on to talk about, we know we talked about this earlier last week

about HBCUs getting a desert. Shout out to my HBCU. We had to shut down that day, by the way, FAMU College of Law. So Jasmine Crockett, Representative Crockett, also asked about that one. Let's play that red. The day after all of this took place, there was domestic terrorism that was taking place at HBCUs. They were targeted. Yet I didn't hear anything from the FBI about what was going on.

And again, black people kept saying, how do we end up in this? Because the numbers are so very clear that white supremacy is a problem. and honestly, I've not heard anything out of you today that makes me believe that you're going to do anything about the white supremacy problem, the one that is leading to children being killed, children being shot, as well as members of their community

as they're working, as they're worshipping in their churches. Yeah, the FBI actually released a statement and said those threats to the HBCUs were a hoax. Well, we wasn't interested in taking no chances. Exactly. You know, it's so interesting because I posted on my Instagram a professor it told a student at UCF

because even though it was still HBCUs there was also a threat of UCF University of Florida which is a majority white institution and said we're going to kill every end in sight and one professor said you should just you know come to class anyway just defy you know the rate and

they're like no we think we're going to just pause you know and just kind of wait I don't know how you determine a hoax is a threat right because in a way all threats are hoaxes until the person actually does something right Especially on a school campus. Absolutely.

So just before we wrap, I just want to reiterate again, Charlemagne, she was really pushing the fact that the guy, the killer, talked about it online. He talked about it in the discord. You know, it was pretty, it was like, why did it take you 33 hours to find him? So that was the point she was making. Got you.

Check that out. At 7 o'clock, we're going to talk about Trump. Donald Trump celebrates Jimmy Kimmel off the air. The internet went crazy about it yesterday. So we'll be talking about that at 7. We'll discuss. We got get it off your chest right now, 1-800-585-105-1

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Okay, talk to us, brother. I called to get off my chest Monday. You and Teslin was talking about the ride share and the lawsuit thing, correct? Yes, sir, yes, sir. Okay, I am a blind man that suffers from that. I have an aide dog, and every time I get that ride share, they have the ability to deny my ride by just looking at me. And I'm blind.

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I am not testing, but this is the thing. I'm new at this right, and I ask my children to help me because I'm a blind man. We're learning as we go and I definitely going to grab that piece that you gave me and play it over for my 19 year old to like

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Who's this? Hey, what's my own, man? This cap, man, from NC. Your name is Cap? Yeah, man, cap. No cop. Nobody believes you. Good morning.

How are you, sir? Hey, listen. Hey, yo, listen to me. No, I believe this. I'm, I really got to get this off my chest, man. Okay. So look. All right, so look, man.

My child's mother picked me up for child support. and, you know, it's kind of crazy because I just co-signed for on a vehicle. What kind of vehicle? A 2022 on the CRV. Okay, okay. I'm saying, I ain't no Kanye West or nothing. It don't matter, bro.

She got some nice wheels to get around. That's all she need. Yeah, but, I mean, she still came around and picked me on child support. Well, clearly she needs a little bit more. Yeah, that's the thing I don't be understanding, though. When a person is actually taking care of their child

and providing for the mother of their child I don't think they should be getting put on child support but for whatever reason the courts don't recognize that what's your communication like like y'all relationship is good I don't know it could be a little bit better I guess okay so does the mediate like the person in the middle with the child support just like does that make it easier is like that a reason why or she just being petty

nah because I own my own business so it's like when I have my child I doubt shout out the cash app when I have my child I got her to get cash apps so it shows that I was sitting there like 20,000 $1,000. Now, I'm all my own little landscaping business and whatnot down here. And she was like, yo, she just sees the invoices for X amount. And she just assumes that she won't, you know, that. But I got to pay people. You know, so I got overhead, expenses, insurance, audits, and all type of stuff. I don't even know about. I feel you. What time you got to be to work this morning? Oh, man. I'm out here working right now, man. Damn, well, I'm glad you at work. You need to get off the phone with us. You vent it. Now you got to get back to work so you can pay that child support, sir. Okay. Live.

Have a great day. Good morning. Who's this? Get it off your chest. Yo, what's up, man? It's Travis out of North Carolina. How are you today, Charley? Travi, what's up, my brother?

How can we help you? I'm chilling. All right, so I'm a singer, and I want to sing Usher with my guitar on live. Do your thing? Hold on. All right. All right. So take it.

Oh, what's up, Lauren? I mean, it's not. It's okay. Chaz is here, too. Good morning. Oh, what's up? Hey, what's up? Hey, what's good.

Good luck tonight. Yeah. you. You've been promoting that, Charlobain. They really... 10 p.m. Abby Phillips, CNN. Oh, you're a check. All right.

Let's check it. How you do? It's been some time, but you know, we got it in mind and in the life. And we didn't make your see girl like you leave you alone. Take a shot of this in the trunk. It's going to be off. Be I've been got way too crowded.

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Yeah Because when you get inside You can't change Your mind with me This sounding fish You got a promise, baby Oh I mean

You sound all right to me But your phone service You know what I'm saying So I can't hear the guitar and you're going in and out. It sounds like you was hitting it, though. Pause. I appreciate it, well, pause, but I appreciate it, man.

Thank you for calling, my brother. Where can they find you if they want to reach out to you? All right, so, bet. On all platforms, it's Travis, T-R-A-A-H-V-I-E. Okay, brother. Thank you for calling, man. Get it off your chest. We do that every morning.

1-800-5-1-0-5-1. That's how you reach us. But now it's time for the learners. Lauren. Yeah, we got a lot to talk about Jay Z and his casino bid. There has been a decision made. Can he bring it to New York? We're going to get into it. We'll talk about it when we come back. It's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club.

The Breakfast Club. Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show the breakfast club. Shalamey and the guy, DJ, Envy, and Jess are on here today. But it's time for the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fast. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets to detail. I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about

everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren La Rosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest.

On the breakfast club. Talk to me. L.L. Cool Bay, Lauren Larosa. Yes, good morning. So we've been talking a lot about Jay-Z and him trying to bring the casino to Times Square in partnership with

Seizers Entertainment and S.L. Green. Well, yesterday, Wednesday, a state board rejected the Times Square casino bid from Jay-Z in Rock Nation and those companies that I mentioned and they had planned and proposed to do this at 1515 Broadway

and you know the community advisory board decided in a 4-2 vote that this wasn't something that was going to happen. Now we do have audio from a meeting that went down yesterday following this decision. Let's take a listen to that.

You know it. We met the standard and then some the only one with courage to stand back is the governor and the mayor appointees and everybody else runs and hides. Go run and hide. Because what you did, the benefits you denied this community and this city

and state, you have to live with that history forever. If it was meant to be, it would have been, but I just wonder how does that state board justify not wanting all those hundreds of millions of dollars being invested into that community? Like, who's going to make that kind of investment into Times Square in that community now?

I'm not for sure And I love going to Broadway I go to Broadway plays all the time I take my daughter to Broadway plays But that Broadway audience is very, very old I don't know if Broadway is attracting a younger audience So what's going to happen five years from now What's Times Square going to look like?

I'm not for sure I can tell you that well first of all that audio That was SL The CEO of SL Green Mark Holliday And it was a six-part six-person committee

that he was speaking to that decided to make that vote. Now, I will tell you, people are pretty upset. Like, there are people who are upset that people even wanted this to happen in first place, as we know. But there are people that feel like it should have happened, but there are people who are mad that things like this are happening, that, you know,

this CEO, but then also Des Perez, who is Jay-Z's right-hand, are coming out and making statements about this, stating that, you know, this is something that the community needed. So, we received the statement from Rock Nation CEO, Desiree Perez, and she was responding to the bid being denied, and she said,

thank you to Governor Hocel and Mayor Adams for standing up for NYC. Unfortunately, not every politician has the courage and the foresight to do what's right for their constituents. Like I said, five years from now, what is Times Square going to look like? Who is going to make this kind of investment in the Times Square? When you look at all

the benefits that they were going to provide, all of the dollars that they were going to provide, where's that money going to come from now? Like, what is Times Square going to look like five years from now? And can I say this? Just, just send something Hold on, wait, wait, let him get your mic up. Go ahead. Tell them the Figaro is in here.

Yes. Yeah, I got to say this because we're talking about people being appointed and voting. This is why voting local matters. You know, so we spend a lot of time talking about what's going on with the president, what's going on with Congress. This is what actually makes a difference, guys, local politics. When you talk about six people on the board being able to make this type of decision of billions of dollars, this is how you look into who got appointed? How did they get on the board?

How do you vote them in or out? So just wanted to throw it out there, guys. If you want to make a difference, get involved in the local level. Yeah, and that's a conversation that's been started as well, too. from this is that voting conversation. Now, in other New York City news, we talked yesterday about Cardi B, expecting her baby with Stefan Diggs.

Now, Cardi B is, you know, explaining a bit of how these next couple months are about to look because people are like, look, you're going to have a brand new baby. How is Tour even about to happen? Let's take a listen to Cardi. I'm just here to remind you out that my album comes out. September 19th, it's going to be on all platforms.

And on February 11th, It will be the first day of my tour, Little Miss Drama. I want this shit coming the third floor in the Bronx, and I need to get the fuck on out. I've been waking up at 6 a.m. and going to bed at 2 a.m. I've been going overseas at their fashion shows, at the music videos.

After this, I've run, it's straight to exercising, it's straight to dance classes. When the baby come out, my body will be loose, and straight rehearsals with all my dances. I'm happy. My man is happy. I'm very excited for this chapter in life. And we all a little bit nosy.

But since y'all is in my business, if you team, girl, get this vinyl. This is a pretty and petty vinyl, all right? But if you team boy, you get the imaginary plans version. If y'all don't be the awesome and uncles, support a f*** that got four kids now. You know, you can order a barty album on DoorDash? I told you that.

Oh, you did tell you. You don't listen to nothing. I say up here. I clearly did if I just repeated it. Not only did I tell you, but when I told you, I don't know it like we as the fans caught it early

because I saw it and then I went on DoorDash and it wasn't there anymore and then an announcement came later that night so we was a bit early on the conversation too I think that is part of a phenomenal role

I've thoroughly enjoyed Bardi's rollout but I love the fact that you can order her album on DoorDash because we live in a society nowadays you know you can build it

and they may come but if you do build it you're better off meet them where they are yes but also too that's a part of the so she has a song bodega badie

so and you know she went uptown to the Bronx so Bodega makes a lot of sense for that reason as well too in addition to what you're saying now Ted you would ask me Stefan Diggs what has he had to say because you got to think that they're probably relieved at this point Cardi B posted a photo of them it's like a selfie it looks like he might have took the photo

and her arms wrapped around them and they're happy but Stefan Diggs was asked about the news and here's what he had to say let's take a listen the baby rumors who is that? Oh my person life I told you about that I won't talk to him about my personal life, but I heard about it. Any celebrations that we'll see in the...

That's a great answer. I respect him, you know, not wanting people in his personal life, but when you are initially asked that question, you can't say, who is that? Play it again, Ray. Play it again, Ray. Play it one more time, right? Let's play it one more time. The baby rumors?

Who is that? What do you mean? Who is that? Oh, my personal life? You can't say who is that when somebody asks you about a baby on the way, okay? Any celebrations? I mean... You should know who you should know who you.

you got pregnant. He knows, but he's trying to throw it off. Like, what? I'm just saying, you got to get to that point faster.

I don't want people in my personal life. You definitely should know who you got pregnant. Exactly. She can't have her. No games right now, okay?

I wanted to print out the photo for you to see, of them, yes, when she posted this photo yesterday, I literally, I don't, listen, I breathe the sigh of relief for her

because I can't imagine walking around. But that video of Stefan didgs was prior to him going to practice about the story, start work, so he probably just didn't want to get into all the things. But congratulations to them.

But what about Offset, though, honey? You check, anybody check on Offset? This ain't got nothing to do it Offset. Man. No, no. Don't do that to hurt. Everybody check on? No.

This ain't got nothing to do it. We always do that. Leave Offset alone. Offset is enjoying his life. He's out there on tour and being a young boy. He got a great album out, like Offset doing his thing. This ain't got nothing to do a hurt, though. Well, if it did hurt, I'm pretty sure he's known before we knew.

You know? Yeah. Well, oh well. He. Tessio, messy self. You're ready for front page news. That's what you do.

That's what you do. Well, I'm just wondering. Leave off set alone. It's a fair question. No, it's not. Yes, it is. Every time Cardi is bought up, you don't have to bring up all state.

No, it's not. Listen. Congratulations to Cardi, though. I know they got it in. Was I supposed to say that? Was I supposed to say I know they got it in? That baby maker was nice. We see they got it in.

She got a whole baby. Yes, Lord. Congratulations. We got front page news coming up next with Tedler Figaro. And Matthew, McConaughey will be joining us next hour. Next hour, it's the Breakfast Club.

You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Yep, it's the World Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club. It's time for front page news. Tonight, the Buffalo Bills play the Miami Dolphins at 8.15 p.m. Eastern on Amazon Prime Video. And Jets quarterback, Justin Fields, will be out for week three's game versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers due to a concussion.

Tyrod Taylor will make his first start for the Jets. Red. You a Jets fan. Are you excited about that? I mean, they're going to lose that all the way. Damn. See, I'm a cowboy fan, but I at least every week got a little bit of hope. My Jess fans don't have any hope. Damn. Jesus Christ.

Tesla Figaro is here for Front Page News. Good morning, Tess. Good morning. Charlamina Guide, Lauren Lerosa. We got what we got. Yeah, let's talk about President Trump celebrating Jimmy Kimmel's off the air. He was yanked off the air yesterday, guys. Last minute, staff didn't even know.

They just pulled him off. He is not on the air indefinitely, so that we don't know if he'll be coming back, not coming back, but right now there is no show because they said that he, they didn't like his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Now, on truth, social Donald Trump said that great news for America that the ratings challenge Jimmy Kimmel's show is canceled.

You may be asking Lauren, because I know I did, I wanted to know what did he actually say like it must have been something like so bad. So I went, looked it up like everybody else did. And I'm going to ask y'all if y'all thought it was bad or not, but we're going to take a listen. It was about five minutes, long. He said that

conservatives were trying to score political points off Kirk's death. He joked about how Trump was mourning Kirk's death. He said it was like a four-year-old mourns. Let's take a listen. But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this. I condolences on the loft of your friend,

Charlie of Kirk. May I ask, sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir? I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks that just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House? which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years,

and it's going to be a beauty. Yes. He's at the fourth stage of grief, construction. Demolition. Construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. I mean, for an administration that doesn't like being labeled authoritarian, they damn sure do a lot of authoritarian things.

Would you say this is get back? Well, you know, during the woke era, when everybody was getting canceled and people were getting off shows and people had to come. Do you think this is kind of like, because remember, they said to anybody that complains about free speech and the snowflake. That's what I'm saying? It could be get back, but it's very hypocritical of them if it is. You know what I mean? Because they were a party that was anti-cancel culture. They was the party that was, you know, supposed to be for freedom of speech.

So for them to be doing stuff like this now, even if it is, get back, it's very, very, very hypocritical. Well, Donald Trump did say he was going to be their retribution. He definitely did. So it kind of align. It tracks. It's just interesting to see the FCC chair get on a podcast and just straight up say that, you know, the FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a punishment for what Jimmy Kimmel said. You called it, though, a long time ago.

You said that this was absolutely something was going to happen. And as a result of the comments, this is what I really found just like, wow. You know, they're going to do a one hour special for Charlie Kirk on Friday during Jimmy Kimmel's time slot. So not only they're taking off the air, they said, we're going to. use this hour, you know, on Friday to highlight his work. And they said it's not enough that he's off the air. They also want him to apologize to

the family. They told him you need to break bread. We want a meaningful personal donation. That means we want a real check. This is what the ABC is saying, our Sinclair is saying, that they want him to do before they even consider bringing Jimmy back on the air. Remember we talked about on Monday, we talked about

JD Vann saying that just for everyday regular folks that people need to call people's job, if they see them saying something out of pocket, We talked about that on Monday, so I did reach out to Attorney Sue Ann Robinson with the bankrupt law firm. I wanted to ask, what advice does she have just for everyday people? Because I think people think this is just a celebrity thing, and it's not when you have the Vice President of the United States telling you to fire people who are making comments. And she said that you need to consider if the juice is worth to squeeze. She said, legally, at will, employment states can fire you for any reason.

She said, so keeping it real can absolutely go wrong, and there's no laws to protect you. I thought that was important, Lauren, because a lot of people in the comments kept saying, oh, you can sue. Oh, you can sue. No, First Amendment with private companies does not exist. You have no rights, pretty much. They can decide to do whatever they want to do, so I thought that was important. You know, else is interesting. I know Charlie Kirk, you know, God bless the date.

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Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That's are worth it for us to have our Second Amendment. rights. So I know a lot of Republicans are looking at him like, you know, oh, you know, that's what he, that's what he stood for.

Reality situation is you got to look and say to yourself, is God trying to tell you something. Because Republicans are supposed to be, you know, the party of God as well. If he said that, but then you're watching him have a conversation and as soon as he starts talking about guns, he gets shot.

At some point, don't you say to yourself, damn, maybe God wants us to have a conversation about gun violence? Right. Which is what I find interesting because in the congressional hearings, they're not addressing any of that. So I don't know if they're going to, you know, is this going to be something that Democrats are going to actually use to talk about as the midterms are coming

up? You know, it's certainly a conversation starter. They've been focused on so many other things, but I'm wondering when that conversation is going to come up. But you know, normally when somebody gets shot, they talk about guns and they say you're politicizing and you're talking to, you know, talking about guns at the wrong time. And I think because there's just so much about Charlie Kirk, period,

that just infuriated people. I think people are afraid to have a conversation. But Charlie Kirk was a person that embraced debate, right? So if this man got shot, I think it's a valid point to ask the question, is it worth it? Because Charlie Kirk said it's worth it to have some gun deaths, right? And by the way, I'm not

going to say it's worth it, but he's right. There are going to be some gun deaths when you have, you know, the Second Amendment rights. But is it worth it when it's worth it when it's your own life? That's what you're all, that's what we're all trying to prevent, right? We're trying to prevent as many deaths as possible, and it always hits home when it's, I want to say you.

but of course you're gone but you know it always hits home when it's your family or somebody you love so have that debate is it really worth it like you know

how can we slow down somebody's gun death? And by the way we believe in Second Amendment I'm 100% I'm too a all day yeah all day yeah I'm too A all day

but I'm just I just I think it's worth the debate Charlie Kirk said it's worth it I ask a valid question is it worth it when it's you or somebody that you love and I just think that it's

you're doing him a disservice by at least not having the conversation about gun violence Because if you're, I mean, if I wrote that in the script, you wouldn't believe me. If I wrote the script, this man was giving a speech about gun violence, and then he got shot. Y'all wouldn't believe me. Clearly, God is trying to tell us something, and I think people are missing the message.

Well, on a positive note, because everything's been so dark, I do like to close that something positive. I want to send a shout out to HBCU, North Carolina, A&T, for surpassing their own record. They are the largest HBCU. Shout out to the HBCUs in the building, but they have a little bit over 15,000 students. And so just wanted to show them some love that the folks are still. deal, you know, doing their thing and enrolling in the HBCU. And shout out to my HBCU family, College of Law. Absolutely.

Listen, all I know is tonight at 10 p.m. Abby Phillips. I hope Scott is on there. Everybody want me to sit next to Scott. Everybody's like, please let Scott be on. Tell Scott, I said, what's up. That you don't know what you like? It's always like that, actually. So when we're doing News of the Day commentary,

we never know who it is until maybe a couple hours before, and you don't know the topic. So News of the Day commentary is literally being ready every day, constantly Yes, absolutely. That's actually a very normal thing. Shurfman knows that, though. Absolutely. Listen, I find Scott Jenner's entertaining. So, you know, and Abby does

put together a great panel of voices and I'm glad that she, you know, tapped in and got you on the show. You're so proud. It's like a proud brother. You want to see me crash out. No, I don't want to see you crash out, but Abby is one of the few people who takes the time to put diverse voices on the panel, and she actually puts people

on there who aren't afraid to tell the truth. Well, shut out. to you, you've been advocating for that for a minute. I do want people to know. They think you, they say you're not a nice guy, but you really are. You've been advocating for that for a long time. They just won't put me on CNN, so this is a nice little... I'm not a nice guy.

I'm a gay, bad guy. A gay. Teslin Figaro, the night... And broke. And broke. And broke. Yes, definitely. Definitely broke. No house. Teslin Figaro will be on CNN the night, 10 p.m. Abby Phillips. Tell them what to follow you, Tessling Figaro guys, make sure you always tap

in. I appreciate being there. It's been a nice weekend. Thank you for letting me be here in person. Absolutely. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. Salameen to God, just hilarious. DJ Envy is not here, but Lauren LaRosa is. And, you know, every now and then here on the Breakfast Club,

we like to give up-and-coming talent a shot. And today we have a man who is entering this industry and trying his hand at poetry. He goes by the name of Matthew. Is that, was that Macana? McConaughey. McConaughey. Oh, that's actually.

McCona Hay. Myrines with Loeood and Adon. How are you, man? I'm good, man. Good morning. He's got a new book out, poems and prayers available now. Most folks know you for movies.

They know you for speeches. I don't know if they necessarily know you for poetry. What made you want to put your thoughts in the poems and prayers instead of another book? On the last few years, I started finding myself getting a little bit cynical. I mean, doubt was creeping in on me,

on my own faith, belief, and myself and, you know, mankind. I'm looking at the news. I'm looking at leadership. And I'm going like, huh, all right. Seems a jackpot goes to the winner, no matter if they lie, cheating, steal to get it. Seems a lot of us are kicking the game when it field going.

Someone's moving the goalpost. And, you know, are we ready to say, okay, that's how it is. And I think this doubt crept in on me, I started to say, Well, maybe that's just how it is. That scared me, and then thankfully, it then pissed me all. I said, no, no, no, no. I'm not ready to wave the white flag here and concede and say that's the way things are going. So since I wasn't finding belief in reality and evidence, I said, you know what, I'm going to go to dreams and ideals, poems, prayers, and say, you know, let's not forget that beginner's mind, McConaughey, and let's grab a hold of those ideals and try to make those a reality.

And because, you know, that cynicism, I'd always swore to myself, you know. You're born, you're innocent, then you're naive, then you're skeptical because you learn some things and you're discerning and make some decisions. The next step, though, seems to be when we go over the cliff, to being cynical. Yeah. Doubting people, not giving the benefit of the doubt. You start doing that enough. You know what happens? You look in the mirror. You do the same damn thing with yourself. Absolutely. And so it's an early death. And so that's what I found myself getting so on with the poems and prayers. You said something earlier, he said, you know, people think that they're getting the jackpot here, right?

But you've got a poem in the book called The other day I wrote God a letter. And I feel like that's what you have to do. You have to return back to sauce because the jackpot probably isn't here. But we consider the jackpot. It's immortal. Exactly. It's a talisman or it's something that we bow down to and we're sold it every day as being the chalice. That's right.

Which I think we've got to think longer, further, project further. believe in God or not, I think we've got to do that, you know, because I'm talking about belief for me, I'm working on my belief in God, but I think if anybody believes in their better self, their kids, or if you don't know what to believe in, like say, ask yourself who or what you die for, start there, it's a good spot, probably what you ought to be living more for, you know, double down on that bet. You know, as a believer myself, in God, I'm, I've got a hunch and I'm playing for, you know, trying to cross an immortal, immortal finish line

more than just the ones that are, you can win right here. That's right. Well, is this book, a passion project for you? Because you actually have a movie coming out on Friday, but you're instead promoting a book. Was this a passion project? Yeah. I mean, look, like I said, I wrote it

because I was tired of looking at the evidence and I didn't feel like writing another book like Greenlight, but this would be a sister of Green Lights. Yeah, I wrote it, it came out All of a sudden it was at the same time Hey, that's going to come out You've got a movie coming out Lost Bus the same time

Why don't we parlay that situation Hit the Road Talk about Poins and Prayers Do some shows Which I did my first show last night In Brooklyn And at the same time Talk about the Lost Bus

Did people snap After you did your poem In Brooklyn? I don't think I had any snap Oh wow I didn't get that What did they do when you finished Were they just quiet?

They stood and applauded It was cool It was the first show to get it on its feet. And, yeah, I'm doing a little tour with this. And we did Brooklyn last night. And I go out and I give like an opening, 25-minute sermon, set in the table. Then I invite a musical guest out.

And they're playing scores underneath about 12 of the poems. Last night, John Mon Jovi came out. Going to Nashville today and Lucas Nelson. I don't like that little light flex you did. That's nothing. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

No, he did. That's amazing. No, John Mon Jovi came out, right? We jammed. Going to Nashville. Tonight, Lucas Nelson. A friend of mine's coming out. Go to Tulsa from there.

Zach Bryan is coming out. Go to L.A., John Mayer is coming out. Oh, John Mayor. And then I returned to Austin. Oh, John Mayer. And my hometown, and John Batiste. It's coming with. Up and comers.

Yeah. And they all said, yeah. They all said, yeah. And all I said was, can I get a couple of chords under the reeds, kind of underscore. And we'll see how they go. but last night, John my Joe he did a hell a lot more than put up a couple of chords down.

He wrote some songs. Wow. Yeah, it was neat. I read somewhere, tell me if this is true, at one point in time, because you're big on God now and your faith, you talk a lot about it, but you didn't believe in the God at one point?

I've had my years of not believing. I've had a couple of them that went on for probably two years where I was like, nope, self-reliance is it. I'm responsible for me. I'm not relying on any more fate and forgiveness and all that. I've got to get, I've got,

it's about me. I got to be self-reliant. And I look back, I'm glad I did it. And they were very healthy for me. And when I came back to God, I heard God applaud and going, thank you for having your hands on the wheel. Thank you for having the courage to go. It is on you because I've got too many people relying on fate alone.

And it is a combination. And I don't think that, you know, we self-reliance and faith usually are talking about. We can't, they butt heads. And I don't, my hunch is they don't because that it's both. You know, it's free will. and it's faith and while you know we do something is it already written divinely maybe but do we have something to do with it and do we need to have our hands on the wheel with the choices we make and they are up to us I believe so as well so did you have faith and you lost it and got it back or you never had it and then

no had it strong but then also you know questioning that you know you grow up you know it becomes sometimes it's a ritual you know there's many sermons from my preacher on Sunday that I don't wasn't listening to what he said, but the ritual of getting up on Sunday morning going to church, you know, being reminded and being humbled that you're at most number two today and then prayers before meals. That ritual, you know, you get older, you start to question, well, okay, what did that mean? And I want it to be more than just ingrained in me like getting married. I didn't want to ask Camilla to get married because it's the thing to do. I wanted to wait until I felt like, okay, no, that's a covenant. I want to make with God and

Camilla, we want to go forward, and I'm going to take that adventure forward. So the same thing with faith. I've questioned it along the way, and I love philosophy, and I love science. You know what I mean? And I'm not sure with the Bible what to do with the burning bush, but there's a whole lot of ethics and ways to live and approach life and signpost in it that whether you're agnostic, whether you believe or not, there's a lot of great things to find in that book, as well as the Quran and many other books.

So I've questioned my faith along the way in the existence of God. What brought you back? Was it like a Mel Gibson's and Signs moment? Okay. So one time was quite literal. It was the lightning bolt in the middle of a blue sky summer that I'm like, what cloud did that come from? Where it shook my floor, where Mother Nature God or whatever reminded me, okay, just letting you know. Glad you think it's all on you.

I'm reminding you that you're a little spec right now, you know. The actual lightning bowl? Actual, yeah, I was out in the middle of the desert. I had a microclimate cloud come over this little cabin I was in the desert. This was on Mother's Day. It was 82 degrees at noon. And at 2 p.m., this cloud came over. It rained, it hailed, it snowed on me in a 100-yard circumference.

around the cabin I was at white snow two inches deep and lightning bolts what you felt the snow in real life like you were awake and you felt snow like this happened this is real no and I was completely sober I was saying no no no no I was having my first cup of coffee watching this go down and I then

looked up and as I said walked to the edge it was only around the cabin I was at I went into town nobody I was like and it snowed where it wasn't No, we didn't know what you're talking about. And I'd take a pictures. And I was like, what was it from? I was like, that's today.

Wow. And it was like, it's impossible. That couldn't have happened. I was like, it happened on top of me. And that was right at the time I went out. And again, the lightning bolt at the time when I'm saying, I don't believe. Bam. Wow.

And I went, oh, excuse me. Maybe I need to open myself up here. I hear you. I hear you. You know? And he was saying, just checking in on you. Big boy, you thought you, you think you got it going. I appreciate it.

Don't get too big for your britches. We got a special guest in the building. Mr. Matthew McCona Hay is here talking to his new book, poems and prayers. Lauren LaRosa. What has been like the hardest time that you had to face yourself? Well, the first one that comes with mine, probably be, I don't know, 15 years ago I was doing rom-coms.

And I was a go-to guy in rom-coms. And I enjoyed them. But in my real life, I'd met Camilla fall in love with her. She was now pregnant with our first child. And then if you've got kids, you know, that's a real vital time. Life's, life's, you know. And as a man, I don't think there's any time, a man's more masculine than with the birth of a first child.

Or the heart, head, body, and loins are more aligned than ever. So my life was very vital. My work felt like, oh, I could get up and go do that tomorrow morning. It's easy. Nothing wrong with that, but I was looking for my work to challenge, boy could that be as maybe as exciting and as vital as my life is and mind you i did look in the mirror and say be damn glad mcconi that you feel like your life is more vital than your work not the other way around but can we get find some work that can be as vital as my life so i wanted to do dramas

that's where the work i wanted to do hollywood says no sir stay in your lane said i'll take a pay cut they said no don't care stay in your lane so i said all right i can't do what i want to do i'm going to stop doing what i've been doing so went to texas with Camilla, he's pregnant. We said, stepping out, told my agent, no more rom-com, da-da-da-da-da. I said, okay. And I remember Camilla and I saying,

you don't know how long you're going to go without work. This could be a drive spell for a while. Where the money at, man? I might have just wrote myself a one-way ticket out of Hollywood. Right? Right. All right. We got real money. I hear you. And I'm going, I hear you. Plus, I got accomplished stuff for my own significance.

And what am I going to do? I ain't going to go down and, you know, start making chimes for a living, you know. So I'm out of the amount of rom-coms. I'm not on the beach anymore, shirtless, which kind of looked like I was in a rom-com in real life as well, right? And I got nothing coming in. My age and it's like, man, I hadn't heard your name in five months, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Damn. Yeah.

So now we get into 12 months. We're a year no work. I'm starting to think maybe I did write myself a one-way ticket out of Hollywood. Maybe I need to look for a new vocation. Maybe I'm going to go back to law school, become a lawyer. I become a teacher. 18 months go by. Check this out.

I think you'll know because I don't know what I'm talking about when I say this. This rom-com action script comes in. $8 million offer. I read it. I said, no, thank you. They come back. $10 million offer. I said no thank you.

They come back, $12 million offer. I said, no, thank you. They come back, $14.5 million offer. I said, let me read that thing again. So I opened it up. Same script as Amy and Malabra, but it was better. I could see myself making this work. Did your wife know you were turning it down?

Yeah, yeah. She knew everything. Yeah, she knew. Oh, she thought she was bugging. Now, my brothers thought I was bugging. My brothers were like, what is your major malfunction, little brother? But I had made the decision. And Camilla and I made the decision that was non-negotiable.

I wasn't going back. Anyway, I read it again. It was better, but I ultimately said no thing. And I think that sent a signal after 8 months of being out of Hollywood. Oh, oh, McConaughey ain't bluffing. You know what I mean? I don't know what he's doing, but he's playing offense. He's turned down 14-5.

That's not a receding move to do that. He's up to something. So you parlay that declining 14-5, along with 18 months, which turns to 20 months out of Hollywood, out of rom-coms, not in the theater, not in your living room. All of a sudden, well, you know who'd be a novel, kind of interesting, new, good idea for this? drama, Gilder Joe, or Mudd or Lincoln lawyer.

Dallas Spires Club, true detective, Al-Qaeda. But only because I unbranded, because I was gone. I had to go get anonymous, you know what I mean? Yeah, what type of prayers were you saying during that time? Because that's a lot of money. No, I needed to, trust me, that the old bottle on the shelf started looking better earlier and earlier in the day, too.

You know, I was, I lost a lot of money. my work. Man's got a work for significance and I didn't have it. You got depressed? No, I didn't get depressed. I didn't get depressed because, thankfully, I got a newborn. And the only thing I ever wanted to be, know I've ever wanted to be in life is father. So anytime I focused on our son Levi as a newborn and a new life brought in, that really kept my compass grounded. It was to look long days, you know, without achieving some of my own stuff. But I had that as an anchor man that's such an incredible story because i you know when i think about you going from rom-com to an oscar winning dramatic actor i always wondered what was the pivot or how did you know

it was time to pivot and just to know it wasn't an intentional decision to want to be taking serious was that's that's powerful that was it and i had to step out and it was it was 20 months total that i was out and trust me like i said i did think that i just i think i wrote myself a one-way ticket out of holly what did that teach you about the power of intention that there's certain like that decision to do that, that came, that hit me at 4 a.m., you know, that the fact that I wasn't feeling alive in my work, the fact that it was paling in comparison to how wonderfully dramatic my life was, that was clear to me that that's what I needed to make a change. It was a non-negotiable.

So once those, again, once those truths hit, as we were talking about earlier, and you go, I know that's true for me in my soul, but now I'm going to re-engage with the masses and slowly that onion can get peeled and you start to go, well, I'll come. Maybe I could, you know, I didn't. It's very clear. I was like, no, this is, I'm not going back on the idea. If that, if nothing would have come at 20 months, I was not going to go back and do what I had done. I'd be doing something different. If nothing had come since then, I would be doing something different in my life right now. I was not going to go back. So the idea that of not flinching once you made a decision, and you can out endure a situation. And you can also seem to find after a while, like after

kind of 15 months of nothing from going out of my mind, all of a sudden, kind of start to get a little honor and charge and filled up with like the endurance of it. It's almost like, okay, the longer this goes, I got to hunt the reward on the other side getting bigger with every day I'm going through this penance drought. I got a feeling that there's a bigger reward over there. I'm in this for the long game. And, you know, thankfully, say it all came back around. I didn't have anything to do that besides being out of Hollywood, but the offers came in for the work I wanted to do.

But making a decision, being clear on it, and then saying, as I, I know this and projecting ahead, it's like COVID, all right? I think we did, my family did pretty good in COVID. And one of the things I think was, when it came, we sat down, I told the he said, plan on this being this way for 10 years. What? Damn. So think it's going to be longer.

And then when it's over in four years, you're like, oh, shit, I was rolling. I could have handled more. Yeah. Right? So I was thinking it could be worse than it was going to be. I was thinking that I may be in a drought and not get any offers for five years. And hell, I'm going to have to find something else too. Well, luckily it comes in two years and work came.

You know, that's Psalm 4610. Be still and know that I am God. Like sometimes you just got to be still. And hold it. That's right. And hold it. Sometimes you change by staying the same, and the world does this. And it comes right back to the baseline that you're on going, oh, you're brand new.

And you're like, no, I've been right here. That's right. I just held. You know what I mean? Yeah. We've got a special guest in the building. His name is Mr. Matthew McConaughey. He's got a new book, poems, and a new movie out tomorrow called The Lost Bus.

Just hilarious, you got a question? When you transitioned into drama, Matthew McConaughey, have any, did any of your roles alter your perception of reality? Did any of my roles alter my perception of reality? I will say this. I kind of flipped the script. Remember earlier I was saying my life was so vital? My work was paling. The work got so vital that all of a sudden I was like I had a little moment, you know,

I was like, oh, my life's not as vital as my work. Oh, fiction. Playing these other characters that are written, kind of getting off to them. More than I'm getting off being me in the documentary that is my life. That scared me a little bit too, which is why I started writing and why I wrote green lights and when I'm writing points. I've been challenging myself for the last six years going, all right, you know, you go act. You're doing someone else's script, written by somebody else, directed by someone else, lens in a camera by someone else, and edited by someone else.

That's four filters from your raw expression. So I was like, let's get rid of some filters here. And who are you in life, McConaughey, in this documentary where action has been called the day you were born and cuts are going to be called the day you leave this life? What are you doing live in this live show where hands of time are recording it? And that's what I've been in the last six years kind of challenging myself. So I go to a book.

Now, there is one filter with the book because it's a written word. Yeah. The performance, right? There's no filter. That's direct to the audience. So it was one filter, but I wanted to see if the written word and I could tell some personal stories that could be entertaining that people could see themselves in and go and then go look in the mirror and go, you did that.

Good job, McCona Hay, or, you know, here's where you could have made it even more true or better. And I wanted to need that. So that's sort of a phase I'm in now where I'm still doing work, went made Lost Bus, made another one called Arrivals of M's Eye. And I tell you, I went back to, you know, it's been six years since I've acted in a roll. One, forgot how much I enjoyed it. And two, forgot how much it feels like a vacation. because it's a singular focus.

And I've been compartmentalizing more the last six years, taking on more different things, checking out leadership roles, writing books, family, etc. But the singular focus of going to act and going, I'm obsessed and all I, I revere this craft enough to be obsessed with my man, this character, and every idle moment I've got, I've got work I can do to tell more of the truth on this character.

And I give myself three months to do that. That sort of blinders. Yeah. And I think for my wife that when I go out the door every morning, she's got the kid and says, don't look over your shoulder, go conquer. I got the, big, big help. But I'm able to just singly focus when I go back. And I missed it.

It felt like a vacation. Why didn't the Yellowstone spinoff happen? So we talked about it, Taylor and I. It just never came to. It never saw a script. I wanted to see, you know, what the idea was good. It just never got to script form. So Taylor and I continue to talk about what might be the best way to work together.

So you were, you were attached to it? Like, it was actually going to happen? I remember that I was the wrong. Well, I mean, I was, it came out, I'm always curious about this because it came out my attachment, which I would never signed anything. It wasn't any real attachment. It's just Taylor and I creatively talking about it. It could be a good idea, right?

But it was interesting because it came out in the news, in the trades, about the same time Costor's leaving. So I don't know if it was publicly put out there to sort of counterbalance. We got the exit of our guy, Koster, who was. all known, so let's make sure it looks like we've got somebody else coming in that we can be excited about. So there was never a contract or anything. It was just he and I, he and I talking about it. And what about this Barbie sequel? Are you really going to be in the Barbie sequel? Man, I don't know. Someone came up with that other day. I hear people just, I think American

Ferrer just like, who's in Lost Bus with me, I think she mentioned it on some talk show going you could be the King of Kins and someone goes, King of Kins. I can put a font to that. Hey, Let's put a picture up. All of a sudden, I'm on some of the show. Yesterday, I'm on some show, and I'm there in a white suit to King, Kins. That's as real as that is. Would you do it?

I don't know. It sounds like it could be fun. It'd be good for the kids. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I didn't realize they told us to wrap five minutes ago. So my last question, if you could go back and talk to the version of yourself that first said, all right, all right, all right.

Yeah. What would you tell that person? Daisy confused, 1990. First scene I was ever in a movie. Okay. and tell you where it's from. I wasn't even supposed to work that night. I'd never acted before.

I'd never been on screen. All right? So all of a sudden, I'm in this car getting a lavalier mic put on me, and the scene is I'm going to try to pick up this red-headed intellectual who's played by Marissa Ravisi, and she's got nerds in the car, and I'm Wooderson who's hanging out at school, man, and I'm older, but I still like the high school girl. So pull up and pick her up. Nothing's written.

I'm going to improvise this. Well, as I'm getting the mic put on me, I'm starting to get a little nervous. Make sure you're acting with that line, because they'll take that out of context and put that on the internet. That's Wooderson. And everything I'm about to say. Remember us actors talking the first person from our characters? There's plenty of times, plenty of times through the day you could record what I'm saying

and put me in jail. And I'm going, no, I'm speaking through the PLB of someone else. Right, right, right. So Wooderson was a guy who was hanging out at the high schools. He was out, and he has the line. There's a great line that written around there. You're like, man, you got to quit, you know, got to cut that out, Worcison. He says, no, that's what I love about those high school girls, man.

I get older. They stay the same age. You didn't have to double down. We got it. I bring up that line because people know that was Wooderson. So I'm sitting there nervous about this first scene. Starting to get, you know, a little anxious. And I'm like, who's my man?

Who's Wooderson? Going through my head. Who's my guy? I go, well, Wooderson, man, loves it, love my car. I said, boom, I met him in 70 Shevel, there's one. I said, Wooderson, Wooderson loves rock and roll. I said, boom, I got Ted Nudget Strangle holding the eight track. There's two.

I said, Wooderson loves to get high. I said, ooh, Slater's riding shotgun. He's always got a doobie rolled up. All of a sudden, I hear action. And as I hear action, I look up, put it in drive. And as I pull out to go do the fourth thing that Wooderson likes, he likes ladies. Yes. I say the three things, an affirmation for the three things that I do have.

All right, all right, all right. Those were three affirmations. And that actually was based off of a live Doors concert. And Jim Morrison barks at the crowd, all right, all right, all right, all right. And I'd listened to it. I heard that four months earlier. And for whatever reason, my version of it three times came out that night. So what would you tell that version of yourself?

Hey, you may think this is going to be a hobby where you got to have a fun weekend acting in Austin, Texas one summer in your life. Well, guess what, buddy? this is going to be more than a hobby it's going to be a career and you're going to end up loving it wow Matthew McConaughey I'm sorry I'm sorry

real quick did you improv your role in oh my god the Leonardo the California Wall Street was that improv all of that well not all of it no but quite a bit was I mean you know people ask about the chest beating

oh huh all right that's something I'll do before scenes and I've done many times before It's a relaxation technique. You know, get out of head. It's getting the rhythm. Yes. Let's get the blood flowing.

And it's good because the whole crew's going, what was he doing? What's he doing? And it's nice to put myself in an underdog position so I can fight out of it, right? And then I was doing that before the scene. Yell action, I'd stop. We'd do the scene.

We do the scene five times. We got it. Moving on. Great. Nailed it. Moving on. All of a sudden, Leonardo raises his hand. It says, hey, Marty, hang on a second.

He goes, what's that thing you're doing before? And I told it when I just told you. He goes, what if you did that in the scene? Next take is what you see on film. I love it. I love it. Wow. It's Matthew McConaughey.

Poems and prayers. Great conversation with you, brother. Absolutely. Poems and prayers is out right now, man. Thank you for coming, brother. I appreciate it. Yes, sir. And the lost bus is in theaters Friday.

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Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts That comes out tomorrow called The Lost Bus Thank you Matthew McCona here for joining us Now it's time for the latest with Lauren Lauren becoming a straight face She gets them from somebody that knows somebody

She gets to detail I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything She'd be having the latest on the best. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On the breakfast club. Talk to me. Well, guys, in really sad news, Ben and Jerry's, Jerry has quit Ben and Jerry's.

Yes, so here's some background information. So a couple days ago, Jerry Greenfield, who was co-founded Ben and Jerry's, decided to resign from the company. Now, this comes 47 years after founding the company. He wrote a letter explaining his decision to resign. So his departure basically follows months of him trying to advocate for the right for Ben and Jerry's company in an independent board that they had to be able to give to different organizations, civil rights organizations and things that are tied to different political organizations as well. And y'all know Ben and Jerry's... They get busy when it comes to activism. So busy, right?

Like, they go so hard. And they've been doing this before it was a trend for corporations to do so. So basically now, because they have new people at the hymn of the company, they've been, according to his letter, he feels like they've been silenced and everything that they're trying to do is being blocked. And he says that he can no longer go on this way. He says he created the company in hopes of campaigning for peace, justice, and human rights and making it more than just the ice cream company. However, those ideas were being silenced and sideline by those empowering. now. Now, Chance the rapper is speaking out on their behalf. So Chance the

rapper caught one of this and he posted to X. Ben and Jerry's is the only major company I know of that is repeatedly lobbied for Black American reparations. Two older men with access who have no incentive other than justice are now being punished in silence for their unwavering support of Palestine. I'm not heart

broken galvanized. We continue to fight the good fight. You can't even... So what that means for the ice cream? The ice cream going to be going? No, they're still going to do the company, but it's just... Because I don't care about ice cream. I'm lactose intolerant, but I do respect their activism. You've never. I have. Oh. That's how I know I'm like those intolerant. Duh. Some people find out that before they

try it too. Huh? Some people find out before they try it. You test for things. Like you don't have to try ice cream to know you like toast and tolerant. I tried I tried the ice cream and got bubble guts and I get it every time. That's how I know. But my point is I respect their activism. Not going to miss their ice cream, but yes.

Yeah. With our girl, Erica Alexander. Hold on, Tesson Figaro's head. What do you say that? Oh, a shout out to Eric Alexander. Remember, they partner with her on the big payback when she was talking about reparations. Oh, yes. Jerry partnered with her and they did a campaign.

So they've done a lot with reparations. So shout out to Chance for bringing it up. Yeah, I think it's, I know we were talking about, you know, Kimmel earlier, but I think it's a sad day when you see companies who actually want to do things and we out here yelling about the companies that don't feel like they got a step. People feel like they got to step away from what they've built, you know, in order to be able to do what their heart tells them they should be. I kind of feel like he's walking away from the fight, though.

Like, nobody ever said any of this was going to be easy. Yeah, but you know There's other ways to fight He's a philanthropist at heart He just happened to co-found this with his childhood friend And then you know Because they had a passion for making ice cream So you know as a philanthropist

He'll go on and do other things He just can't do it through the company Because he's not in as much power as he was before Yeah, I wonder why not just start another company on the side And do it that way Why did it have to be through Ben and Jerry's? I don't know I don't know the end and else

Well, yeah He can, I don't know I don't know He was using Ben & Jersers as a foundation because it was the platform, but I'm sure he'll go on to do other things. Now, in other news, so Aisha Curry, you guys, there's been a conversation for some time. You laughing at this test? Yes.

You saw it? Yes. All right. So now, there's been a conversation for some time, and, you know, I'm not married, I'm at all. So, Charlemagne, you let me know if this is like a thing. And I think Aisha Curry gets it kind of, she gets harder than a lot of other people because of who Steph Curry is. So Aisha Curry has sat down for some interviews Just over Steph Curry's career

And they've always said that basically she needed to be quiet She talks too much She recently sat down with call her daddy And she talked about her relationship with Steph Curry And the origins of the relationship And you know similar to what Michelle Obama against People were saying that she was embarrassing him Now in the interview

She talked specifically about how they met And when they met if he was her type Do we have the audio? I didn't know that he was going to end up playing basketball. Like, I, he said he wanted to be a high school basketball coach. Like, I thought I, I thought I was going to be like the girl out there getting it. So I didn't know.

And so it just, like, it was weird. And sports fans are so different than, like, maybe entertainment world fans. And oftentimes it's, like, very ruthless. And so I think I wasn't expecting that. Yeah. Now, there was a lot of reactions to this, including, like, you know, TikTokers and you know talking heads

but there was a guy who made a TikTok and basically he said that because she's saying she thought she was going to be a woman out there working for herself she might as well go ahead and be a rapper go ahead and go become Glorilla now Killer Mike commented on this

and he was just laughing at the video to be honest I don't think that he meant any harm but he commented and said she said she wanted to go be or he said that she said she wanted to go be glow laughing at the TikToker man Steph doesn't deserve the embarrassment for real for real God bless him

Steph Curry responded to Killer Mike and said nah not you Mike I'm cool staying silent and letting these other clowns have their moment and you're the worst and then he says to the TikToker and you're the worst of them but you better than that Killer Mike stay in your lane and let God keep blessing me like he is we're good over here so he took issue with Killer Mike laughing at the post but I will say it's was the post funny it was very funny okay we have the do you want to hear it take a listen to the TikToker we don't have it

we do have it I just listen to it everybody went to Vegas sidehard music festival this weekend we have it I'm gonna tell him to put it so that he can play it but basically he's saying that like I just said that she

we have it we just don't have it for the people to hear no we do it's not I literally just listen to it well can I say this on behalf of our brother killer Mike he did not

I talked to him about it yesterday Lauren actually so I had a conversation about this yes about this and he said he meant nothing by it And he also said that he reached out to step and said, hey, brother, I mean nothing by it. I respect you greatly.

It was also people in the comment saying, Mike need to stay in his business, lane. He need to worry about getting his own wife. Let's be clear. His name is a wife. You don't know big shake. You're right. Right. One of my favorite people.

One of my favorite people. So he didn't mean nothing by it. He was just laughing at the TikToker like you said. So he didn't mean anything about it. I think though it's when Killer Mike comments, it amplifies it. If stuff doesn't want to amplify. But to be fair, there have been so many. other people who are not just regular people online that have come out and had conversations about

they love putting killer my stuff online though i told them i said you know they're going to be putting your comments on line let's take the mic though kill the mike his voice is huge yes that's what and that's what step curry is saying let's take a listen to the ticotker iisha curry is putting in maximum effort to let the world know that she is struggling with trying not to cheat on her husband and because she can just smell an opportunity to embarrass this man Because she gets on every interview telling everybody about just how frustrated she is with his success, how frustrated she is that women desire him, how much she wished it was her being lusted after by people who don't give a fuck about her, how desperately she wants to get attention from other men, how lockdown she feels with the kids. Every interview she goes on, she unwarrantedly forces us to listen to her vent about her

not wanting to be with her husband. She wants to go be. I've heard enough. I'm really, maybe I don't listen to enough. Ayesha Curry interviews because I didn't get that from anything. Anytime, that's what I was saying by Charlemagne, you let me know. Anytime a woman talks about her man

and the man is someone of stature, you get told that you are doing something wrong. Michelle Obama got dragged for telling the story about not liking President Obama for 10 years or having an issue with him during their marriage. Well, they need to be like Stefan Diggins and tell people stay out their goddamn personal life. Whenever they get asked about their man, when I issue get asked about Steph and when Michelle get asked about Obama, stay out my damn personal life. Okay, you bought me here to talk about me, right?

You bought me here to interview me. Now, if you bought me here to have a secondhand interview about my husband, I'm not doing that right now. Because if you know your words are going to be twisted up, why even, you know, Bring it up. Tell them don't bring my husband up. If I don't bring them up, you don't bring them up. How about that? How about that? We got to wrap up. I feel different.

Her life is being the wife of Steph Curry and making home. You know what I mean? Like, that's her life. Is that her life, though? Her life meaning it's a huge part of her life. She does other things. We know she cooks. She does a lot of things, but it's a big part of her life. You can't get around that. I'm just confused on the last clip when she said, I wasn't expecting all those women. Like, what?

You didn't hear it when she was saying she wasn't expect, she doesn't expect the women to be throwing themselves at the NBA? She might not expect it to this level To this level was what I'm saying To this level Come on now The NB, come on Let's talk about it We got donkey in the day

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Donkey of the Day. The Breakfast Club, bitches. Now, I've been called a lot of my 23 years that Donkey of the Day is a new one. Yes, Donkey of the Day for Thursday, September 18th, goes to ABC. Now, if you haven't heard, ABC announced that is pulling Jimmy Kimmel live off air indefinitely.

This comes after threats from the chairman of the FCC to the stations that carry the show and supposed backlash to comments Jimmy Kimmel made this week about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Now, I'm going to be honest with you. I didn't even hear anything about these comments until yesterday when they suspended Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely.

Can we go to CBS News for the report, please? ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel's late night show indefinitely over comments that he made on his show Monday night about Charlie Kirk's death. We get some new lows over the weekend with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score. political points from it. The suspension comes after Nextar announced that its ABC affiliates would preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live. Nextar called the comments, quote, offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse. A spokesperson for ABC said, quote, Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely. Today, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr blasted Kimmel's remarks and said the

FCC has quote remedies it could look at next star currently has a major merger before the trump administration for its proposed acquisition of tegna jimmy kimmel has not commented now if i'm understanding this right people are upset because he's implying that the shooter was maga understandable i haven't seen anywhere where the guy identifies his maga but to me that should be neither head nor there what's the difference between jimmy kimmo saying the shooter was maga and all those folks on the right assuming the killer tyler robinson was a raging left lunatic okay it's the same exact energy and exactly why partisan politics have no place in an institution like the FCC because if someone on the right gets on uh fox dudes or any of these conservative

platforms and blames the left before the shooter is even caught the FCC says nothing okay they were talking heads on all the news platforms blaming the left and nobody said anything but Jimmy Kimmel comes out, makes the statement he makes about the murderer being one of them, and I put one of them in air quotes, and ABC suspends them? ABC is taking out a page of Paramount's book and just kissing the ring. Okay, I know Next Star Media Group owns a bunch of ABC affiliates, and they are in the middle of a $6.2 billion merger with media company Tegna, and they will need the FCC's approval of the merger.

It's the same exact play as SkyDancing Paramount. I know all of this is going on, but could you at least, try to make it a little less obvious? I mean, FCC chairman, Brendan Carl, was on Benny Johnson's podcast, and he literally threatened federal action against ABC affiliates who carried the show. Listen. They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.

And we can get into some ways that we've been trying to reinvigorate the public interest and some changes that we've seen. But frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. You know, for an administration that doesn't like being labeled authoritarian, they damn sure do a lot of authoritarian things. Okay, serious question. Y'all are saying you're doing this in defense of Charlie Kirk. Do you really believe Charlie Kirk, who went on college campuses all the time debating people of all walks of life?

that was his thing to do you really believe he would support you canceling people for exercising their free speech of course he wouldn't but you all aren't doing this because you're supporting charlie kirk you are using the death of charlie kirk to push your own political agendas it's actually disgusting okay if you cared about charlie kirk for real and you were the christians you claim to be and i put christians in their quotes too okay if you were the christians you claim to be you would be looking at the signs God is trying to show you. And the signs God is trying to show you is having real discussions about gun violence, real discussions about common sense gun reform in this country. I said this last week and I will say it again. I am 2A all day, but I'm also for

common sense gun reform. Charlie Kirk said, and these are his words, a certain amount of gun deaths are worth it to have the right to bear arms. I ask a simple question. In the name of the debate Charlie Kirk championed, is it worth it when the gun deaf is you? Is it worth it when the gun deaf is someone you love? Maga, conservatives, why are you avoiding that conversation? Why are you avoiding that debate? Okay, Charlie Kirk got murdered while he was discussing gun violence. If that's not a sign from a higher power that maybe we should be having a conversation about gun violence and common sense gun reform, then I don't know what is. Okay, Maga, I am disappointed in you. okay when did y'all become such snowflakes all right you were the anti-cancel culture party the party of free speech okay you hated the woke left and now y'all the party that needs some sleep okay how do you not recognize your own hypocrisy in this situation salute to my guy andrew shouts he posted something this morning i totally agree with he said the left will say fascism is wrong unless you kill one of our political opponents then we'll celebrate it the right will say

cancel coach here is wrong unless you cancel the shows of our political opponents then we'll celebrate it that is absolutely accurate of where we are as a country and as my guy ted ryan used to always say you uh you have a right you have a left but most of us are in the exhausted majority okay we tired okay we are tired of the partisan politics because while dims and republicans in positions of power in government do petty little things like this to each other people suffer and networks like ABC I don't understand how you expect to get taken serious when you bend the knee to an authoritarian strategy you already paid trump 15 million because of the defamation suit he filed against uh george stepha stuffophilus why you've been out of the name stephenapha you know what I'm talking about just you know what I'm talking about okay snuffalofficus now you're suspending jimmy kimmel indefinitely because he made comments about Charlie Kirk. When you know the real reason you suspended him

is because you need the FCC to approve this merger between Next Star Media Group and Tegna? Listen, man, people who aren't proponents of free speech don't want a dialogue, they want a dictatorship of their own ideas. But the way I'm watching all these media companies and institutions bowed down

to the Trump administration, I'm convinced America just wants a dictatorship, period. Please let Remmy Ma give ABC the biggest he-ha. Hi-hah, he-ha, you stupid motherfucker, are you dumb? Lord have mercy. What are we doing next? You said we was going to talk about Aisha and Steph Curry some more. What are we doing?

What's happening? Huh? Aisha and Steph Curry? Yes. So tell me the story again. Okay, so Aisha Curry was on Call Her Daddy Podcast. She's talking about her life. And then she goes into talking about what she thought her life.

life would be she was career oriented she was a go get yes let's take a listen how did being in the spotlight impact your relationship in the early days because you guys didn't know how to handle it parts of it have afforded me doors to be open i in the beginning hated it so much i like did not sign up for that i also always thought like i didn't know that he was going to end up playing basketball like i he said he wanted to be a high school basketball coach like i thought i i thought i thought I was going to be, like, the girl out there getting it. So I didn't know. Now, this interview was from a month ago,

but it came back up again because, you know, people have been doing reactions to it and Killer Mike commented on it. It's that one line. What? I thought I was going to be the girl out there getting it. What's wrong with that? When she said getting it, what she mean? Getting money?

No, she meant having a career. I know, but you know how it sound. In reaction, yeah. Don't stop, get it, get it. looking back at it but that's why you know the TikToker was like well she trying to be

go roller girl go drop a go drop an album yeah she met her career though yeah she had comments and laughing and then Steph Curry got upset now I think she gets a lot of unfair criticism so I wanted to know do people feel like she needs to

I guess stop talking about her husband how was she going to do that by just shutting the hell up not doing interviews you don't have to we have one more audio too we do what's the other audio I just didn't think it was going to a thing. I thought we would be friends. Yeah. Did you ever have anything in high school at all? It was legit just friends.

No, just friends. Just friends. Yeah. I get what you're saying. I'm like, you never saw him as something. But I'm like, when you look back, is there any memory that you're like, maybe there was something or no? No. Damn. We'll come back and talk about it. Y'all ain't played me that far. You change your mind now. See, I don't like when y'all give me just a little bit of information. Now we go. We're going to come back. Now we got unpack it. Okay. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Daddy, call them my

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And we're talking about this conversation Aisha Curry had on call her daddy. podcast. Lauren bought this to our attention this morning and the latest. What happened, Lauren? So Aisha was on Call Her Daddy Podcast and she made some comments about what she thought her life would be like because Steph Curry wasn't supposed to be this big basketball star. Let's take a listen to that.

I didn't know that he was going to end up playing basketball. Like I, he said he wanted to be a high school basketball coach. Like I thought I thought I was going to be like the girl out there getting it. So I didn't know. And so it just, like, it was weird. And sports fans are so different than, like, maybe entertainment world fans. And oftentimes it's, like, very ruthless. And so I think I wasn't expecting that.

And people are upset. They're mad about it. They feel like she needs to be quiet and stop talking about her husband. Well, you know, first of all, Aisha doesn't deserve any disrespect for her feelings, okay? Because she was asked the question. And, you know, I get it. She was asked the question. But the way the Internet works, you know, when you express things like that publicly,

you will get a whole lot of public responses. But I understand what she's saying. Aishi was asked, how did his career impact her? And she gave her honest answer. That's how it impacted her. I totally understand what she's saying because there's one thing that we're not talking about in this situation.

Steph Curry is one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Was he always good like that, though? Like from high school? He was good, but he wasn't the greatest NBA shooter of all time. He literally changed the game of basketball. Revolution at the game basketball. Everybody started playing like him. It's a difference between being just the NBA player

and being Steph Curry. So I can only imagine what her life is like having to deal with these hoes. He's coming down to the hose. You know, for real. Yeah, it's the hose. And then also she said she wanted, she thought she was going to be that girl. She thought she was going to have the career.

But a lot of women, just everyday women, Charlemagne, that got Mary Young, because after I went back and looked, let me just kind of look and make sure I'm having the right, putting it in the right, context. She got married young. She's had a family young and she just never had a chance to really have a career. And now everything she's doing is centered around her husband. So it sounds like it might be a little bit not resentment in a way like mad at my husband, but like who am I as a person? But even if she had the career in the life, like Michelle Obama had the career had the life. And she also talks about how strenuous being first lady was and having a... Yeah, but Michelle Obama also went to an Ivy League school. She was a whole attorney. She had a career. But, but I, Ms. Curry didn't do all the things. So she missing. that. I'm making the parallel of like whether you did all the things or you didn't, women

sometimes just have a feeling of I don't like this right now. And it's okay. Why is it wrong for women to say right now I don't like this or I didn't like this or I'm not feeling this right now? Why do women get dragged for that? Is what I don't understand. I don't have kids yet. So maybe I'm missing something here, but I just don't feel like it's warranted for people to drag

Aisha Kurt or even Michelle Obama. Are you in the college too though? Yeah, but she did. But she thought, you're right. She shouldn't be dragged, but I do want to make the point though when you've given, I was married 15 years, both of my close friend been married over 25 years. What I'm saying is there is a craving, a desire to want to be your own person. So even though Michelle Obama, which I hear what you're saying, you're right in that, Michelle Obama still was an attorney. She still had her own lane. She went to school.

She made, you know, had her own little thing where Aisha sounds like she's saying, I never got that opportunity. I never got a chance to be an individual at all. And it just sounds like she's being honest about that's something I would have loved to do. She said flat out. I thought I was going to be the girl. You were supposed to be a high school basketball coach. I understand what Ted is saying. And some people will say to them, damn, we wouldn't even know you if it wasn't for Steph Curry.

We wouldn't know you if it wasn't for Barack Obama. But she wanted to be known for being her own. But by the way, even if you weren't married to them, we still wouldn't know you because you got, you were married. Well, maybe she would have known her because she would have been something big. Maybe she should have been a rapper, Glorilla. I said the guy Eisha Curry was a sociology major, and if she wasn't married to Steph Curry, she wouldn't have ended up on the Caller Daddy podcast.

I doubt it, because she wouldn't have went in that direction of celebrity and entertainment. You understand? Maybe she had a hoax show. I don't think, I feel like she would, her argument isn't like I wanted to be here, but on my own terms. She just wanted to be doing something. Like, she just wants a something.

Did she say that and call her daddy? I didn't hear that point. What I'm, because what she said was the attention is not what she didn't really know She did say flat out, though. I thought I was going to be that girl. You were supposed to be a high school basketball coach, making $30,000 at best. You can be that girl and not be super famous and end up on call her daddy. You could just be successful or whatever it is that she wanted to do.

I don't think she was chasing her own fame. It sounded to me she just wasn't expecting all these horse. Okay. She wasn't expecting all these horses and all of this, all of this that comes with being married to the, to probably to me, top three greatest basketball player of all time. Exactly, because the whole level is different. It's a different whole level.

But it's still holes, though. It's a different whole level. See, y'all don't understand this. See, Aisian needs to be somewhere where she could discuss this whole level. It's the whole level. See, Barack ain't got them holes like that now. Hello? Good morning.

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Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello? Hey, how are you? Hey, good morning. This is Didi. Good. How are y'all doing? Peace, Deity. How are you? We're talking about Aizu, Curry. What you think?

So I feel like we need more contact. The clip that y'all played is pretty messy. Will she ask the question, when did she realize that, you know, they would be in a relationship? Because I feel like it's perfectly fine to not have any feelings for somebody in high school. I agree. Yeah.

So you're asking me for more contacts right now, or are you just saying we should? Well, I mean, I haven't seen the whole interview, but. Is there a part, you know, more to it? Well, sis, I don't know. Let me ask you, do you think it's the holes, based on, this is just what I want to know. Do you think women, do you think a woman, she's more concerned about, hey, these holes, or her career? Have you ever, have you been married? Let me ask you.

I actually haven't married and divorced, but. Okay. I feel like it's more her career, honestly. Okay, explain it to Charleney how the career, how leaving that career aside can bother a woman. It can because I guess you feel like you're in a, in a man's shop. and then with him being a celebrity, it's even harder. I think it's different when it's something when that's your husband. You're not in that man's shadow.

You're by that man's side. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And if there is no, there is no him and me, there's an us. Yeah, but you still, I feel like what I always hear in marriages is, there's still an identity that you have by his side. And sometimes. Yeah, that's my wife.

And I'm your husband. We are a unit. That's the curries. But you don't feel like Steph Curry in that situation overshadows Aisha. No, I don't look at it like that Because that's his wife I look at them as a unit But I know that Steph Curry is a ball player

Aisha ain't out there with a jersey on with him You know what I'm saying I look at Aisha and Steph as a unit More than I look at Stefan Dremont as one And they've been teammates for 15 years That's my personal opinion 1,8005-1501-105-1 Call up right now

Aeji Curry was on the caller Daddy podcast expressing her feelings About how she feels How she felt in the early stages of their marriage and people had an opinion about it. Can we listen to some Aisha's comments? I didn't know that he was going to end up playing basketball.

Like, I, he said he wanted to be a high school basketball coach. Like, I thought I thought I was going to be like the girl out there getting it. So I didn't know. And so it just, like, it was weird. And sports fans are so different than, like, maybe entertainment world fans. And oftentimes it's, like, very ruthless. And so I think I wasn't expecting that. All right, 1-800-5-105-1.

Let's go to the phones. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. What's happening, my brother? Who is? This is Byron Anthony, Atlanta. What's up, Charlemagne?

Peace, Byron. What did you think? Ayesha Curry's comments, man. I'm going to keep it all the way up with you, bro. How are you not see the trajectory in me? Am I supposed to be your boo-thing or what? Now, I'm not saying she's not supposed to feel how she's supposed to feel. But how you not, me being a man, how you not see that?

Well, she's... I mean, it's one of those things like now we got to... I feel like I've got to have a conversation. because I'm hurt. It's really being a vulnerable and being in a vulnerable space with you. Come on, man. But he told her, like, they talked about dreams, and she said that, you know, he was playing and, you know,

but she just didn't, she didn't expect it to be all of this because he said he wanted to be a coach. I think y'all all missing this. Right. Y'all missing it. And I'm going to tell you why you're missing this. Forget basketball. Aisha saw him and said, that's my man, that's who I want to be with. Right.

Forget basketball. Right. Because if we're being totally honest, out of high school, Steph Curry was an under-reational. recruited recruit. Like, he wasn't the wrong. Like, what are we talking about? Come on now, when he was in college, he put up normal show, man. Yes, but coming out of high school, he had limited scholarship prospects.

That's why he ended up at Davidson. David, yep, Davidson. What you're talking about? Like, come on, you mad at Aisha, because Aisha didn't see the potential. Mad recruits didn't see the potential either. Aisha saw the potential in him as a man. That's more important to meet in basketball. She said that. She said she was trying to figure out she even wanted to have kids and do this whole thing.

And then she met him and she saw, yeah, she saw the potential. She didn't sign up for that. That's the bottom line. She didn't sign up. So this brother's saying you should have saw the potential. Basically, she said he's looking at him as Steph Curry right now and saying how didn't I should see that. But what Charlotte is saying is that it wasn't about basketball. That's my man.

Yeah. My man, my man, my man. As Lauren likes to say when she's talking about her two booze. Good morning. Good morning. Hey, good morning. Hey, good morning. Yes.

Good morning. Good morning. How are you doing? Hey, Fidel. How are you, man? We're talking about this Aisha Curry situation. What you think? Yeah.

Well, first I agree, I think of Lauren's, Like, anytime you're married to semi with a higher stature, it comes off as she's jealous. But I don't like how it discourages people like Aisha from being open, because we as listeners like, and people are open. And be honest, a lot of people have similar thoughts. They just don't share it. So when you're criticizing her, it's going to prevent future talks to be more clothes off. Kind of like you're saying, just mind your business now.

But we like them. She's open about how she feels because that's a true feeling that most people feel. and I agree with Steph with a, so the Mike shouldn't have done that I mean, you know, he has a lot of a store of power or statute for him to say that because it's kind of a level thing. But, I mean, I should

just be honest. I agree. I don't think it comes off as jealous either. I just think that, you know, a lot of people be wanting women to shut the hell up and so-called know their place. You know what I mean? But if you ask me how I feel, I'm going to tell you. If you ask how she felt in the early days of her relationship, she has every right to say that. And she

also talked about how, like, you know, Even just with social media opinions, she would get so much scrutiny just about small things. And, like, men don't get that the same. So she was learning the deal with all of that in real time. You've got to be fair to in on this then, Lauren, because you don't have to interview. You don't have to make a statement on every single thing. So if this is a real challenge for her, Lauren, then, I mean, maybe she should fall back from the interviews. But she's saying just in life.

She shouldn't be scrutinized. I don't want to be clear about that. But we all know that when you put it out there is what, Charlemagne, the consequences come with it. That's why I don't talk about my personal business. because I know if I put my purse on business out there people are going to have something to say and I don't feel like it's none of your damn business so we got to be fair about this as well

I agree yeah it's the world's most dangerous morning show the breakfast club, lively discussion now it's time for the latest with Lauren Lauren becoming a straight fact she gets them from somebody that knows somebody she gets the detail I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything

she'd be having the latest on this the latest with Lauren La Rosa 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 Kai Senat sat down with Jennifer Hudson,

and he, you know, streaming, of course, the whole thing on his account, his Twitch account. So they talk about a ton of different things, and she, you know, selling him how her son loves him and all the things. But she asked him about LeBron coming on the stream and cutting his dreads.

Let's take a listen to what Kai says. And what's this about LeBron James is cutting your hair? Yes. So. I set a goal for myself to reach a million subs. We just crossed the halfway mark. If we reach a million subs, LeBron James himself would be coming and cut my hair.

I've had my hair since, locked up since 2019, but I've been growing my hair since, like, 2015. What I'm excited about most about cutting my hair low-key is because one day I want to direct and act in my own movies and shows. I'm what's going to ask you that question? So obviously I stream, and I think it's going to be something I do forever, but I have these trailers that I do. And I've been doing them to practice, like, me directing and acting.

A lot of the ideas that have in my trailers, I'm part of the process. And I just practice, like, me acting on it. So I do one day want to have my own production and do my own movies and shows. And then when I cut my hair, I'll be able to play so many different types of roles. I don't think y'all realize how intelligent that young man, Kyson, that is. Because I guarantee you the role is already lined up. And he's going to hit a million subs. And he's going to have LeBron come cut his hair.

and then he's just going seamlessly transition into what's already lined up for him. It's just, it's, it, I love it, man. Let me tell you. So when I was watching day one, a Mafia thine, and he announced that he would be cutting his dress if he hit the, the supper amount, right? I was like, oh, that's cool.

It's fun. It's something for LeBron and James, dude, LeBron James will come on and do, and, you know, Kai is just being Kai. When I heard this, I said, oh, this is a rollout. It's a rollout. A lot of Jennifer Hudson just told us what's about to happen next.

I don't even know if the people called it, But yes. Of course they caught it. I don't know. It might have went over some people's heads. He is so smart. I also think that. Kai thinking five years into the future,

which everybody should always tell people thinking five year intervals. Whatever you want to be doing five years from now, you've got to start doing this day. Yes. And I also think, too, because you know, Jennifer Hudson, she does like the tunnel walk and all the things.

They let Kai lead this content, as they should have. But like, he's put this out. We grabbed this from his stream. The tunnel walk was his stream. She hasn't posted this yet, which I think is very smart. A lot of the shows should be following suit, doing what she's doing. He's introducing her to a new audience.

But he then went back to his house. He's still on stream because he's on stream 24 hours and they're, you know, talking about the interview. And Kevin Hart actually shot him a text after the interview. Let's take a listen to that. So I hate Kevin. Look on shit. Stop just like your homeless on television, idiot. If you are trying to be a star, you need to practice looking like a fucking star.

If you ever wear a crox on TV again, I'm going to swing on you. Like, why? you on my d'it at your grown age. Kevin, you are over the age of 35. But he's not over the age of five foot. So stop. And it's correct. He could probably beat you in a fight.

That's good advice from Kevin. But, yo, let Kai be himself. Kai is doing what he wants to do at his age. He's dressing his age. Let him be him. I wouldn't want to see Kai on Jennifer Hudson in a suit right now. That would look crazy. I'm like, why are you conform into Jennifer Hudson?

Not a suit. I mean, yeah, suit would be. He wore suit to be a T. It's a worst. y'all. But it's not like he doesn't wear suits but I'm just saying I want to see Kai being himself. I sent you the tunnel walk, Kai's tunnel walk, take a look at it. Yeah, but

you wear slides. Oh, absolutely. But he pulled up, he had the crocs in sport mode. I think at least having it like put on a sneak. No, if that's what he felt like wearing and he wants to be himself, do that, you know why? Because he got the Jennifer Hutchins show being himself. Exactly. Exactly. And the Jennifer Hudson show posted

the tunnel walk and they said, so they did post that part of it and they said chat at Kai Sinai Cooked, leaning into, you know, the whole like chat thing or whatever um but in other news so you know nick cannon he was just here he has the show we play in spades where he sits down he plays cards and whatever so he had a juvenile mini fresh on the show and they talked about uh back that can i say the a word yes you can say ass oh sorry they talked about back that ass up and how iconic it was and what remixes to the song would look like let's take a listen what artists would you like to do a remix of your song and which

song. They remixing your stuff right now. I want Shibuzzi to remix back that ass up. Whoa. You're a country version of it. That is crazy. I've been requesting. You did tip song, the tip.

The tipsy Joe, the bartender's on. Come on, bro. Do back. Yo, Shabuzzi doing back that ass. I want to hear it like that. Yeah, yeah. That'd go crazy. Go ahead.

Okay. I was going to say it's been all these years later and there isn't a remix of back that that ass up that you put into. You don't really need it. you can't just remix anything right okay back that ass up is a negro spiritual and if subuzi is even going to attempt

to do that you need to have a count in a coach a council of culture okay it got to be a council of culture that here's the remix before he even touches the mass okay if you're even going to attempt to touch a Negro spiritual like that well Shibuzi saw the clip and as of yesterday he let us know

that he is going to attempt he said done with a check mark meaning he's going to try to get in there and do some things and I have reached out I'm trying to figure out if that means he's actually in the studio, if he saw the clip because the clip is like a day old and he's already recorded something, what that means. But what I thought the internet would do is, because they've been doing these mashups of different songs forever,

especially Back That ass up. I thought the internet would go and put Shabuzi on the Back That Sub beat so we can kind of get the synergy. And when I went and looked, all I found was Morgan Wallin. They did a mashup. They did a mashup of Morgan Wallin's neon star, which he calls the Country Boy Lola Bowling. buy over, back that ass

up. Lawrence would be trying to make people mad and hear for no time that's a real disrespect for the Lord close the point is

it certain things you don't touch it I didn't do it okay it was a mashup created by a DJ and there's certain things

you don't touch you don't touch Stevie one the happy birthday song you don't touch Regina Bell God is good

you don't touch crime bob knuck if you even though people have okay you don't touch juvenile back that ass

up you don't touch what's going on Marvin Gay those are Negro spirituals man DJ Chad Chad Wildman

said He, you know, his little match-up thing. Neon Star. You're triggering, Charlemagne. He triggers me all day long, okay? So if I get one off, I can pull one little trigger. Hey, what you say? You know what rhymes the trigger?

You know what rhymes the trigger? Nigger. And that's what Morgan Wallet said. So whenever I had, when you were playing that, that's all I could hit over and over and over and over again. You're right. Tusha, you got it. That is the latest.

Yes. Coming up, we have the people's choice mix. That's when envy is going to act like he's been here the whole time and he hasn't, he's gone for the rest of the week. But I would tell y'all to call in and request something, but that'd be a lie. What's the point of me lying to you? The song's already in there.

You are, me and... It's don't even make no sense. So much hope. So much joy. It's the breakfast club. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Yeah, it's the World More Dangerous Morning Show The Breakfast Club.

Salamein the God, Jess Hilarious. DJ Envy is not in today, but Lauren La Rosa is, and we got some special guests in the building. The cast of Season 3 of Reasonable Doubt. Yes. How are y'all feeling? Man.

Fantastic. Joseph Sikara, McKinley Freeman, and I always mess the name, Mike. Amayatze. Emma Yatsi. Emma Yatsi.

Girl, he was messing up. You know he got a little list. How are y'all feeling this morning? We feel like fantastic. It's nice to be here. Season two of a scripted show is a very hard task. Season three. Yeah.

Of a scripted show is a very hard task. How does it feel? Man, it's good to be working. I'll tell you that. And also be working with such amazing collaborative people like Emmie Yati Joseph, Carrie Washington, Larry, it's been a blessing. So hopefully the fans love it because we definitely put the time in, you know what I mean.

Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun. And so to get to do it three times, you know, and to feel that love from the audience and everything. And then, you know, meet additional just people who come on the show and bring great energy, you know, it's been cool. But to you your point, there is difficult to get a third season, especially today, and I think

that that speaks to the written word, and that's that's Rahamah. When have you not worked? When did the last time you've right? Right. Right. When is the last time you've not worked? I've been super lucky and grateful in the Tommy role. But legitimately, Charlemagne, we were just talking about that, that it's like, it's, I was, I started, we started the journey when I was 37.

I'm 49 right now, so it's like 12 years. Wow. Not damn that 49 is old, but you just don't look 49, but damn, I wouldn't have guessed. This year of 49. Jeez. Talk about how long you've been working, especially in that role, power, right? How hard is it when you go into other sets for people? people not to just see Tommy

all the time. It's funny I think that the power show is so pigeonholed in a lot of ways that like when I was on Ozark people had no idea like the crossover audience wasn't there. However on this, this is going to be the one where Tommy plays the lawyer, which is fine with me

too because it's so well written that Ramallah Muhammad does such an amazing job at making a 360 degree character that it's regardless of how you feel about Bill Sterling, my character on Season 3 Reasonable It's a different character and it's a real human being. Because she writes real human beings in real situations.

This is only the second time in my career where I joined a cast where I was a fan of the show. I came from Michael Ely. I stayed for Emiazzi. It's like she's a brilliant. She is everything that a number one on a call sheet should be. She's ultra-prepared. She's ultra-kind. And you can't put anything in front of her.

She can't tackle and conquer. So it's been amazing and I learned a lot of being around her. You know what? I wish people at my job would hype me up like that. up like that. That is amazing. See what he just did that show me? Well, she's always on set,

I'm sure, every day. She doesn't miss him a lot of days. Oh, man. Oh, sorry. Oh, that's right. You know, he loves you. He loves you. You said something interesting, though.

You said that, you know, when you did Ozark, there wasn't a lot of crossover there. So I wondered, does that hinder you from getting certain roles because they feel like, oh, that's Joe that people might think this is a, you know, power franchise, spinoff.

I don't even think about that I feel like my job as an actor I don't think about that and getting more and more into producing those are some of the factors I mean I think you're spot on Charlotte I mean thinking that people are people love to categorize stuff

because it makes it easy one thing I've learned in this business is that nobody likes to work hard and everybody likes things that are easy so I feel like to break out of the shell you have to do both of those things you have to do things that are difficult and you have to want to work

so that's all I want to all I do is I try to progress and keep working no does working on a lost in a show challenge y'all views of like the legal system? Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, because for one, I've just learned a lot more about law. You know, as each season has gone on, you know, you learn a lot more.

And again, the writing, it makes you kind of dive into that. You know, but just the system as a whole, you know, each season brings a new case. And with the new case, you have different challenges and, you know, how the law is working with you or against you and those kinds of things, you know. So it really does highlight that. And that's one of my favorite things about the show is that it makes people talk. about it makes people talk about you know the justice system and why it's working or why it's not and that's again one of the one of the benefits of the show it's not just this simple

legal drama you know you have this woman who's a lawyer there's so many more layers to it and oddly like over the course of shooting the last few seasons there's always been something interesting happening legally so there's always something in the world where we're like they come together yeah so season two and season three so definitely you know shed a light on that topic for sure yeah to the last so the last season before this one, you end on like a high. You bring your friend home and all the things. And then this season

opens and it's like you want more drama. Yes. But you also end the last season with a lot of drama. Yeah. You know, you don't understand. We as women. I was about to ask you. Oh, you know. We want to have it all. I think Jacks as a character, she is

a woman who does thrive in a lot of ways on the adrenaline of things not going the way they're supposed to go. She likes the mess of all of that In her professional life Yes You know but when it does bleed over into the personal

That's where things get a little tricky But she's been missing that You know from the last season She did get a girlfriend off and everything And now she's just you know Everyone's pleading out There's nothing really happening She likes to be in that courtroom

You know so I can understand that You know at work you want a little You want to feel like you were Doing your best And for Jax she's at her best When she's in that courtroom Standing right in front of someone and letting them know how they're not,

she's going to win this case. So that's where she wants to be. She lives in that space. I've had conversations with my friends because of reasonable doubt, just about how, like, as women at work or black women at work, we always feel the need to, like,

be the, like, successor in the room or we're figuring it out. Or how does your role and what you do, going into this new season and all this new drama speak to you, that, like that, I need the mess because I need something to figure out so I can look like I'm accomplishing

or really accomplish. Well, see, I think it's almost the opposite. I don't know if I would say that I feel like Jacks needs the mess to feel like she's doing something. I think there's more so she's already feeling like she's not valued at her job. You know what I mean? So she knows that she can get in

these rooms and obliterate anyone who's in front of her, you know? And she really fights for the people, the clients that she believes in. So I think she wants to have more of those opportunities to do that. And when we open up in season three, that's not where she is. You know, everyone is pleading

out. She's kind of more so just in her office. and that kind of thing. So she wants to have a bit more of the excitement so that she can make money for the firm, be her best, you know, show everyone what she's capable of, because again, that's why she's a partner. You know, her name is on that building.

So she's not at her best, just, you know, helping clients plead out in that kind of way. McKinnell, is it true that you started off in corporate America, right? Yeah, absolutely. So you got into the industry late? That's, well, yeah, I got into late.

I got a bachelor's degree in finance and MBA in marketing and information technology. So I was working for like a Fortune 5 company traveling around the world, building marketing programs, sales programs for stuff. And then I just started modeling and got bored. And then that was kind of the introduction to it all. And then just kind of like Joseph was saying, I'm a bit of a student to everything, whether it's jujitsu, acting, whatever.

So I knew that there was a lot that I didn't know. And I just took it as an opportunity to kind of learn and see where it could go. But it's very much about, for me, it's like a lifestyle being present. Like what is it that I can do today to get me closer to tomorrow, which will get me closer to my destiny? But, yeah, but also not being afraid to pivot, you know. Can you speak to that? Because it's like, you know, you accomplished so much, right?

I don't know if I've accomplished so much. I mean, from an educational perspective, definitely, right? But what is it in you? What's that nagging feeling that's like, no, you should be doing something else. You should be doing this. I think there's a voice on the inside. There's a thing that it's like, there's a point where you can check all the boxes and things could be going right, but there's still something missing.

And I think the voice of the, the whisper of something missing is louder than the screams of the things that you have. So for me, the opportunity is to kind of dive in there to see where it could go. Because to me, the biggest thing is, Martin Luther King said the two greatest words, the two most powerful words in the English language are too late. So, like, I don't want to get to the end and be like, damn, I wish I would have tried. So I'm going to leave it all on the table wherever it is,

whether it's acting, business, whatever. But, yeah, the willingness to be free and to see where the waves go. That's where I'm at. Well, listen, it's the cast of Reasonable Doubt, Season 3, premieres September 18th. I want to say, I did something for a reason. Oh, yes, Jess is the only here on the radio. Oh!

I'm paying attention to the case, you know what I'm saying? I love that. I'm the voice that pay attention to the case. That's so flat. Listen out for me. Okay, y'all got to make sure you got to tune there. Period. Yes, period. Thank you. Thank you to the cast of Reasonable Doubt. Make sure you check out Reasonable Doubt Season 3 and premieres today on Hulu.

Tesla and Figuero, thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you for having me. She's live in studio because she's in New York because tonight she'll be on Abby Phillips on CNN at 10 p.m. I cannot wait to watch. I will be up watching Abby Phillips. I mean, I watch Abby all the time. I watch a lot of the clips too, but most of the time

I try to be in bed by 9, 9.30. When I am staying up tonight to watch Teslin Figuero on Abby Phillips on CNN, it's your first time on CNN, right? First time on CNN on Fox News all the time, but first time on CNN. And it's interesting because we've always had these conversations. I remember one time me and Taz was on Van Jones podcast and I'm like, Van, y'all need to have Taz on CNN.

You did. So, you know, Abby had the balls to do it. And I salute Abby because Abby brings a lot of people on there who don't necessarily be on these mainscreen platforms. You know, Anna from the Young Turks is on there a lot. And so I just appreciate Abby for doing that. That's dope. Yeah, shout out to her.

Thank you so much for your support. And thank you so much, Lauren. And it's been great hanging out with you guys all week. So thank you so much. I'm more excited about hanging out with you guys all week, more so on CNN. Well, I'm excited about CNN. And make sure you download Tesla Figaro's podcast The Scray Shot No Chaser Podcasts on the Black Effect Podcast Network

And also salute to Matthew McCona Hay for joining us this morning His new book, Poems and Prays is out right now And he's got a new movie The Lost Bus Which you'll be out in theaters tomorrow And then on Apple TV on October 3rd Now the positive note is simply this Anyone who stops learning is old Okay, I don't care whether you're 20 or 80

If you stay learning that's what keeps you young. That's a great quote from Henry Ford, and I truly believe that y'all have a great day as the Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club, bitches! Do you don't finish or y'all done? Ah, come on.

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