The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Joy Reid Interview, Mandii B & WeezyWTF Interview, Kendrick Lamar’s Leaked Clipse Verse + More

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

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Good morning, USA! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, Jazz Hilarious. Wait that ass out. Charlamagne the God. Peace to the planet, it's Tuesday! Good morning, how y'all feel out there?

I feel blessed, black and highly favored, happy to be here. Another day to serve our beautiful listeners. And it is an amazing day today because here in the Tri-State area, New York City, where we broadcast, you know, that's where the black mothership is, live from New York City.

It is the hottest day of the year so far. It could be 100 degrees. 102, I saw. 102 degrees, it's hot. Musty weather, baby, musty weather. Don't get caught slipping. 4 a.m. this morning when I was out it was hot Mm-hmm, it's hot hot hot the summer said y'all wanted me y'all been begging for me. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, she's here

And I'm not complaining. I am happy to do something is here Yeah, yeah, the hottest week of the year so far you probably go all the way into like September cuz it was late I'm cool with that. Yeah, I'm cool with it, too You know remember how late it came yeah,, then he said Thursday gonna be 70 something so you go get it today and tomorrow that's it. Just a little tease. Just make sure you got the right deodorant okay we don't have time for that natural stuff none of that. Put on the right guard. No, natural is best. No it's not not in this heat. Okay, cuz I'm telling you I like natural hair but not natural Jesus and salute to all the dance dads out there like yesterday

Well, this week is the Nationals and if you don't know what the Nationals is It's like the Super Bowl of of dance or you know the World Series So yesterday Brooklyn performed that's why I broadcasted from there yesterday Yesterday she performed, she got on stage at 8.30 a.m. and she won nine things. She won titles, she won first place, she won second place, she won highest score, she won highest score in her division, she won best costume, she won Judge's Star Award,

she won over nine awards, she can even carry it all. Clues bomb, right? Yes, we're dropping the Clues bomb from Manhattan. Little Manhattan. Yeah, Brooklyn, it's Brooklyn, not Manhattan, man. Brooklyn, Brooklyn. Look Brooklyn, when I say she- You know damn well, damn well none of them kids ain't black. Go ahead. You never know what it is. She cleaned up yesterday. I was so proud of her. It's

always fun because usually when you do these dance, anything, competitions or whatever, there's not too many black kids there. Very few minorities. So the fact that she gets up there and shows her ass and It's just amazing. So congratulations to Brooklyn. London performs this afternoon today. So we'll see how she does. Congratulations, Harlem. Congratulations, Harlem. Congratulations, Toronto. Oh my goodness. Toronto! London's today. London. London. You all didn't name them kids after all the cities. I ain't gonna lie. You know it. Oh my goodness. Alright. Well today on the show, Mandy and Weezy, you know it. Oh my goodness, all right, well, today on the show,

Mandy and Wheezy will be joining us. Decisions, decisions, they have a new book, it's called No Holes Barred, and we're gonna be talking to them later. Yes, man, a dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power. It is on my book imprint, Black Privilege Publishing, with Simon and Shustah, and I'm telling you right now, I'm not saying this just because they're on the imprint,

I guarantee you ain't never read no book like this. I bet, I know it's great, I love Wheezy, she's just so smart They do have a science behind Their their sexual exploration that they've done throughout their life and they break it down all in this book So I can't wait to talk to them later this morning. Yep, and also joy joy and read will be joining us Come on, man. Yes, the host of the podcast a joy. She'll be breaking everything down today. What's going on? It's too much going on in the world. Who better than to have up here this morning Joy and Reed to talk about it. Yes. And I'm just telling

you right now, it's usually cold up here. It's hot right now. I know. It's hot in here. The little black blankie ain't coming out of the day. My little blankie ain't coming out. Yeah, it is hot. It's a little warm. It is hot. It's usually chilly. Usually I got to get my little blankie, but I ain't got no blankie this morning. When it's chilly, I gotta grab something to wipe my forehead. It feels good actually. You'll see in a second. All right, well let's get the show cracking.

Morgan will be joining us. Front page news, a lot to break down. Are we going to war? Is Iran chilling? Is Israel chilling? I guess she'll tell us all when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up Morgan? Hey y'all. Hey, so yeah, a lot happened yesterday.

So let's recap that and y'all bear with me. Okay, because like I said, it was a lot. The US confirmed Iran attacked an American airbase in Qatar. There were no casualties in that attack at the Al-Adhaid air base where thousands of troops are stationed. Now Iranian state TV says the country launched the same number of missiles against the base that the US launched against its nuclear facilities over the weekend. And Iran reportedly warned Qatar ahead of the attack, leading many to speculate that the conflict could be coming to an end or that it could be over.

Now Qatar said they also reserve the right to respond to Iran in that attack. Now President Trump called Iran's missile launch against the American airbase a weak response, posting there have been 14 missiles fired, 13 were knocked down, and one was set free because it was headed in a non-threatening direction. Now Trump went on to say he hopes Iran can now proceed with peace and harmony in the region, and the president thanked Iran for giving the US early notice of the attack.

Now shortly after that, President Trump claimed that Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire. Now Trump posted there will be a complete and total ceasefire, adding this is an official end to the 12 day war, and it will be saluted by the world. He went on to say, God bless America, God bless Israel, God bless Iran, the Middle East, and God bless the world. Now, Vice President Vance, he confirmed the news of that ceasefire last night, and he spoke on what's next. Let's take a listen to his comments.

Iran was very close to having a nuclear weapon. Now, Iran is incapable of building a nuclear weapon with the equipment they have because we destroyed it. We have to talk to Iran and, of course, to Israel about what the future holds, because while we have obliterated the Iranian nuclear program, our hope and our expectation is that they're not going to try to rebuild that program.

And I think that's what the president is really trying to figure out here. And he also went on that's what the president is really trying to figure out here. And he also went on to say that the president is also trying to figure out, you know, and make sure that Americans in the Middle East region are safe. Now, meanwhile, like last night in a stark contrast, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, he posted on X that they did not attack anyone. He, he denied the attack. He says, and we do not accept anyone's attack. We will not surrender to anyone's attack. And this is the logic of the Iranian nation.

At the same time, Iran's foreign minister says his country has not agreed to a ceasefire that's been announced by President Trump. Abbas Araki posted on X, as of now, there is no agreement on any ceasefire or C station, a cessation of military operations. However, he said if Israel stops what he called illegal aggression against the Iranian people by early Tuesday morning, which is now surpassed, you know, for them, you know, it's Tuesday after it's headed towards the afternoon now, then Iran had no intention of continuing its response.

Now the foreign minister went on to say that Iran will decide later whether to approve taking in the agreement. Meanwhile, Israel defense forces said sirens were sounding early Tuesday morning in Israel because of missiles launched by Iran. Now Iran is claiming that the terms are excuse me now Israel is claiming the terms of that ceasefire that we claimed was in place. Israel is claiming that the terms of the ceasefire has already been violated. All this while we were sleeping, y'all. In making the initial announcement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the United States for its help in going after Iran's nuclear

facilities and said that the goal going after Iran's nuclear facilities and said that the goal of eliminating Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile threat have been achieved. And just hours later, Israel says Iran fired off missiles that sent civilians scrambling into bomb shelters. So it's giving, you know, I ain't gonna hold you just from my opinion, it's giving somebody line. I don't know what's really going on with this but it appears that

we don't know whether or not the ceasefire is as tried and true as they're putting it. This morning on the Washington Post, because you know they do up to date minute by minute and they just literally a minute ago they said Israel and Iran entered into a shaky ceasefire Tuesday morning bringing an uncertain end to 12 days of fighting that has sparked fears of regional war. And it said, you know, the ceasefire proposal, as you just said, was first announced by President Donald Trump on Monday evening,

and both sides appeared to have accepted a ceasefire and fighting Tuesday morning after a final onslaught of attacks overnight. I mean, that's what The Washington Post has reported, like literally a minute ago, so. Yeah, that's super duper crazy, because I to sleep around 1230 and when I went to sleep at 1230 Anderson Cooper was, you know, he's one of the reporters here at the siren. He was running into a bomb shelter and was like, yeah, the bombs when they usually when they

hit the siren, they have 10 minutes to get to a shelter. So I'm like, is it ceasefire? Is it not ceasefire? Are they good? Do bombs ever come? Initially, when Trump announced it that he said it was going to take some time somewhere between six and 12 hours for that. But that time has now surpassed and here we are. So it's a matter of, you know, we will see. And it's like, we are going to continue just to see what's happening. Because as you said, Israel said Tehran fired another wave of missiles. And that's what sounded desiring across northern Israel.

I gotcha. Yeah. All right. That's right. Right at seven o'clock we'll talk about the congressional response to all of this so stick around for more front-page news. Alright everybody else get it off your chest 800-585-1051. If you need to vent phone lines are wide open again 800-585-1051. Call us up right now it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed.

Call up now. 800-585-1051. Not just me. I'm what the coach will fill it. Hello. Who's this? Hi, Envy. What's up, Trav? Jazz. What's up, Trav? Jazz, what's up, baby? Hey, babe. Shawna Mayne.

Hey, sis, what's happening? I have a bone to pick with you, Shar. What's the problem? So, I'm minding my business, right? I've been hurting bringing idiots in like a couple weeks. So I was catching up on bringing idiots over the weekend. And I hear somebody lying on me on bring your idiots and guess who it was?

Who? You, Charlie Mayne. What'd I lie about? I was accused of picking up a water bottle with my mouth and I don't appreciate it. I saw it. It was, y'all was playing a game. It was some game at Taylor's baby shower.

What was it? You had to pretend y'all was pregnant and put a balloon in y'all stomach and put your hands behind your back and then try To pick up the water bottle with your mouth. It was crazy. I'm sure travel one. No Brandon's great guy. I was like damn Hey envy, can you stop inviting me to the you and your BBC boys?

Stop inviting me to the you and your BBC boys. I don't know what you, I keep getting an email to come to you and your BBC boys. I'd rather not. Wow, what's the big beige? No, damn. It's cool, it's the BBS boys. The BBS is the rims. Yeah, I don't wanna go, Envy.

Stop inviting me. I don't wanna go to the EMPB. You doing what around rims? No, nothing around rims. What are you all doing? It's a car show. What are you all doing? It's a car show.

It's the BBS boys. Where's the going on star? I don't know what's going on. Goodbye. The sugar rim? Oh wait, H.R. No Hey, somebody also say I think Sean stones said that you used to talk about me that you used to like me You used to say some crazy things about me Man told you that when you first came up there eight years ago you talk crazy about gay people No, I did not know that We talk about her own community like right eight years ago I was in it I didn't understand The other day my daughter gets in the car she's like dad all my friends call you a truck the BBC. I'm like what? What does BBC stand for? She goes big black cyber truck. I'm like oh my god. Wow. Yes so yeah. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent

hit us up now it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. If you need to vent hit us up now. It's the breakfast club. Good morning the breakfast club Wake up wake up This is your time to get it off your chest You're mad or blessed we want to hear from you on the breakfast club Hello, who's this? Good morning. This is James. Come on. No, sir. I'm James. What's up, brother? Get it off your chest I wanted to thank you DJ before playing the optimistic by sounds of blackness last week I was gonna play for you

I appreciate that man. That's what also man. Oh the way you went James Evans on that young man feeding tickets You know what it is what I heard that I just seen my son doing the same thing and I was just like I mean I did it too But when you look when you're a little old you realize you get a speeding ticket your insurance goes up insurance is already high You could kill somebody in road ain't no reason to be driving 25 30 miles and over speed limit He was crazy. Well, thank you, brother.

Y'all have a good day. You too, now. You too, man. Hello, who's this? Hello? Hey, what's up, man? Get it off your chest, brother. Okay, how y'all doing?

First of all, how y'all doing? Bless Black and Holly favorite. How are you, sir? Oh, man, I'm fine. I cannot say shout out to my TMG family. Contagious music, contagious film. Go ahead, brother. I want to say to the young black man, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm fine. Can I say shout out to my KMG family, Contagious Music, Contagious Film. Go ahead, bro. I want to say to the young black man, how much money do you have to have before people can openly disrespect you? So how much money do you have to have before what? People can openly disrespect you.

Nobody should be able to disrespect you, regardless of your financial status. Your finances shouldn't mean anything. I don't care if you poor, I don't care if you rich. Like you shouldn't allow nobody to disrespect you regardless of your financial status. Your finances should mean anything I don't care if you poor I don't care if you rich like nobody you shouldn't allow nobody to disrespect you and nobody should be disrespecting anybody based off their financial status Oh, I saw that video I mean I didn't watch the that video. I mean, I didn't watch the video, but I saw the headline. I didn't watch the whole video. Oh, so I'm trying to figure out what's the dollar amount for people to just openly disrespect you, or, you know.

Damn. You know, I get what you're saying. If it hadn't been a regular person, you'd have been mad. But to see somebody like that, y'all don't care. I wonder, I mean, when you say y'all, what you talking about? Like you talked about the people in the room. I mean, from what I saw,

he was just in the room with a bunch of women. Well, you know, he had definitely room, but then you had Sauce Walker, I'm gonna talk about the friend of yours. Who was? Sauce Walker. Sauce Walker. Sauce Walker.

Sauce Walker. Oh, Sauce Walker. I know, that N-word conversation is a... I don't even know if it's as complicated as people make it out to be, but it's just like, you know... I don't think nobody should use the word, personally, including us, but what do I know? I personally don't think nobody should use the word, but I personally think that even if you get a parent to use the word, I'm gonna use it for you. Like in the night, what you gonna do about it?

That's just total disrespect. Now I get what you're saying. I didn't see that. I didn't see the video. I really didn't see the video. I saw the headline, but I'll tell you one thing, man. The main reason I want to stop using the word is cause I use it just like the white man use it.

I'd be like, look at them. How do we get rid of them? How do we get rid of them? You shouldn't be saying that. Right, damn, you go too far. Here's your one **** too. Send us a message. I am a black man. Alright then. There's a difference. Go back and watch Chris Rock, Black People vs N-Words from Bring the Pain Special.

There is a difference and we all know it and none of us like N-Words. That is so messed up. It's the truth. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. What are we talking about? We do. Y'all remember that Kendrick Lamar verse, right? That pushy team. Chains and whips. The clips that made them have to leave or choose to leave Def Jam. Correct. The verse leaked yesterday online. The album doesn't come on till July 11th. Yeah, it's everywhere, but I want you all to listen to it. Let me know what you all think.

We're going to talk about whether this was the verse that should have made them have to part with Jeff, Def Jam or not. Okay. All right. We'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

It's the world's most dangerous morning show. Charlamagne the God, Jess Hilarious, DJ Envy, and it's time for the latest with Lauren. Lauren be coming a straight face. Tell her, tell her! She gets into somebody that knows somebody. She gets to details. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on it.

She say I'm the biggest. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. Alright y'all, so we've talked a lot about this Kendrick Lamar verse from Chains and Whips with the clips and all of the controversy that has stirred up because they had to leave Def Jam because they decided to leave the verse on their album that's coming July 11th.

Like let God sort them out, right? Yesterday, the verse leaked online and I feel so bad for them I want y'all to take a listen to the verse and then we'll get into the conversation around let's take a listen I'm not the candidate to vibe with I don't with the kumbaya all that talent must be god sent I send your ass back to the cosmic The things I seen under my eyelids Kaleidoscope dreams, murder and sirens Let's be clear, hip hop died again Half of my profits may go to Rakim How many choices to let me down?

Or f*** the Westmonts, we right now Therapy showed me how to open up It also showed me how I'm gonna f*** The two-time Gemini with the genocide I'm generous however you want it I'll be the gentle kind Gentle men and gangsters connect The agenda on mine

Move your f**k up outta here This f**k get gentrified Heavy jeans like Genovese I drop your pentagon And show up at your gender reveal And tell him give me mine I son of a b**ch I am the general

Where my gen and juice? Every song in the book of Genesis Let the sonics boom F**ks want the tea on me Well here's the ginger root I generate residuals F**k get off my gen and juice They say I couldn't reach Gen Z What the hell happened there? I explained.

Turn that off. That was crazy. I hate hearing music when it's not presented the way the artist wants us to hear it. Context matters and that sound quality was terrible. And also too, when we got the listen. So first of all, this was at an intimate listening event that they had in Paris and they had one here in New York Which I know that I went to and when you know invite you back. I didn't play drop leak this verse. I Like it they said Lauren don't play it Lauren no

See why they wouldn't want nobody to play it though Also to when you hear in full like I know we've heard chains though, just because of the sound quality. It's terrible. Also too, when you hear it in full, like I know we've heard Chains and Whips because of the LV show that the clips walked in, but when you hear the song in full with the verse, it's just a different feeling. And also, there was just so much conversation around this verse that, you know, this was awaited and I'm sure they wanted to keep it awaited. I don't know how it, like, how you would go to an intimate event like where they were

and post what you're listening to an intimate event like where they were and Post what you're listening to because they tell you not to post it before the Talking you just played the verse on the radio Yes And that's why the angle that's why the audio changes because it's like in order for you to hear the full verse you had Or hear as much as you can Of it you had to go to different iPhone take it there was like there was one angle of Pharrell there was one angle got that day I'm not in Paris. I don't got nothing to do with that. I think that's whack

I think that you should respect people's art and I think that when people invite you into an intimate space to hear their art You know beforehand you should just respect it It's like going to a comedy show when they take your phones and they lock your phone up. They do that for a reason. They should start doing that for these listening events. The sad part is you could tell that the person, I've seen like three recorders that they weren't hiding the phone. Like you can see Pusha and Pharrell and Malice rapping. Like they did it, but it's foul. You didn't have to hide, because even at the one that we went to, like you didn't have to hide your phone, but they were very clear about went to like you didn't have to hide your phone But they were very clear about look

We don't want any of this to come out prior to because like I said We want people to be able to enjoy in its entirety is special to us, you know There's been so many conversations around it. So it was just really unfortunate that this happened yesterday But I started going to therapy therapy taught me how to open up It also taught me how not to give a f Mm-hmm, I can relate and then he said you want the tea on me. Well, here's the ginger root You got some bars in there. He's been on it. Do y'all feel like this verse was worth death gym I'm getting a bunch

The first one it's hard I mean, I don't know why Def Jam would beef about over and that's what I was gonna say. We didn't hear the whole thing. I've heard. Don't, please don't develop an internet brain. Don't do that, please. First of all, before this hit the internet, I heard it in full.

And my opinion is Def Jam should have relaxed and let them do what they did on their label because this would have been great for them. Well, how can you ask us that question? We haven't heard it. Because you heard enough of it. No, we didn't. No? We haven't heard it. Because you heard enough of it. No, we didn't. No, because-

See, that's in their grade. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You heard enough of it. Forget hearing the whole thing. You heard enough of it. That's how the internet thinks. No, and the reason why- And they'll form a whole narrative

and a whole opinion based off just a little bit of something. Well, that was a lot of the verse, I will tell you that. It wasn't. I've heard the full verse. But we haven't. But I'm telling y'all that that was a lot of what you will hear when it comes out. I've been fighting all my life. That's what it sounds like right now. You fighting. Exactly. And if there was

a Drake line on there, you don't think somebody would have posted that? Because that's Def Jem's issue. They thought that it was going to be an issue with Kendrick and Drake. I didn't hear the verse more. It's not worth the drama. I don't know. It's not worth the drama. Now other music news, Cardi B. So she's finally giving us a date for her album. Her sophomore album will come out on September 19th and the name of the album is MI The Drama. Now, yes, it's called MI The Drama. She's been dropping visuals online. She also teased a voiceover with a visual that gives some context to what the album will be about. Let's take a listen. I'm not giving, it's taken. I'm shedding feathers and no more tears. I'm not back, I'm beyond. I'm not your villain, I'm your karma.

The time is here, the time is now. Congratulations, McCarty. Okay. Okay, I can't wait to hear some new music. They said it's selling like crazy already, right? Pre-orders are pretty good. Yeah, I saw that she sold 1.5 million total album units already, but from what I saw in she sold 1.5 million total album units already.

But from what I saw in the tracklist, Up and Wop is on there. Yeah, cause they haven't had a place. Yeah, so I'm sure that contributes to it. Yeah, they haven't had a place, so it gotta go on the album. Yeah, I think there's- Cause she dropped them as singles. There's just so much anticipation too.

Like people really wanna hear what she's gonna put on the album, what she's gonna actually talk about. Cause you think about seven years since Invasion of Privacy, we've heard like features, but Cardi has went through a lot of things in this time So like Charlotte said those are the two records that she dropped in the last what two years So yeah, those are going out and I love this. You hear it. She's still been relevant this whole time Oh, yeah, you know when somebody takes seven years off, you know between dropping an album and seven years off

You don't really hear too much about him. Like she's still been relevant where singles are features and everything that is right, but that is funny though I'm gonna give I'm still give you all these singles Seven years in the making right and I think to As we close I know people were like, how do you how do you do that? Like why would you put the singles on there? But that's not uncommon people do that all the time It just normally doesn't take them as long to release the album before this thing or once the singles come out well before

you were listening to music that's what artists would really do like they would release two three singles first and then release an album like that was they do that now it's just not as much I feel like the rollouts aren't as strong so people don't realize what they're doing but smart ones. It would be like an 8 month rollout like a couple of singles and then you would get the album. Smart artists do that. So that was smart of her. I do feel like Cardi should have dropped in the summer though. Me too. I thought it was gonna be the summer. Especially if you put out a,

your newest record is called Outside. I do think she should have dropped this summer. I thought it was gonna be summer too. I thought- The single's out now. A July release. Cause usually we have like a Summer Girl anthem. It's still glow.

Everything glow. Well I think, I know Outside is, it has that feeling where it could be that I don't know yeah but a whole body of work oh yes the glow I show she will be releasing singles the whole summer all right well that's the latest with Lauren can we play outside now I will get into that next and then we got front page news so don't go anywhere as the Breakfast Club good morning wake up wake up you're locked into the Breakfast Club rocket mortgage is lowering down payments to 1% for eligible home buyers with One Plus.

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Hey, hey, so let's get into the congressional response to the US strikes on Iran and the seemingly ongoing conflict in the Middle East despite there being a so-called ceasefire in place. Now, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says President Trump has broken his promise, the promise he made to stay out of foreign wars. The New York Democrat criticized Trump's decision to launch an attack on Iran

without first getting the approval of Congress, adding they need answers regarding his decision. Let's take a listen to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' comments. The use of military force, which is offensive in nature, must be approved by the House and the Senate. Donald Trump and the administration chose to ignore the Constitution. And so they're going to have to come before Congress. Just like great shoes, great books take you places, through unforgettable love stories, and into conversations with characters you'll never forget.

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All that he didn't, you know, get congressional approval, that's foolishness because plenty of presidents haven't gotten congressional approval. But saying that he broke campaign promises and reminding people that he said no war, that he would end wars, but yet he's starting yet another one using your taxpayer dollars to start another one. That's the right messaging. Yeah, well, Jeffreys said the move goes against the Constitution. He added that while Iran cannot, everyone agrees that Iran essentially cannot have the nuclear weapon, but he says the Trump administration chose to intentionally ignore the aggressive diplomacy that was available. Now, Jeffreys also noted that a

briefing with the gang of eight congressional leaders has not taken place. So again, Congress is looking for that so-called that meeting essentially. I'm kind of confused. Maybe somebody can fill me in. I thought the fact that he made sure Iran didn't have any nuclear bombs was a good thing. I thought that was a good thing. And the fact that even in C5, I thought that was a good thing. So are they mad that he did it or not? I think they're mad that he did it without their approval.

They're upset that he did it without, you know, speaking to them about it, essentially talking to them about it. Because when you talk about conflict and war, Congress is the one that has to make the approval on that. So. Yeah, but that's hypocrisy. Like, you know, like, like, like, like, like I was saying yesterday, presidents don't even do that anymore. The Obama didn't do it. Biden didn't do it. Clinton didn't do it. Like, you know, like I was saying yesterday, presidents don't even do that anymore. The Obama didn't do it. Biden didn't do it. Clinton didn't do it.

Like, like not getting congressional approval has become routine when it comes to stuff like that. Well, meanwhile, a long party lines Republican US representative Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia says president Trump's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear sites feels like a complete bait and switch. So this seems like the Republican Party does appear to be a split on this decision. The Georgia Republican wrote on X that Trump's MAGA agenda promised no more foreign wars, no more regime change and world peace.

She added that only six months in we are back into foreign wars, regime change and World War Three. Although, excuse me, so I know there is no World War III. Let's just be clear about that as of now. So Green went on to say that it feels like a complete bait and switch to the neocons, warmongers and military industrial complex. Of course, hours later, Trump announced that Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire, which appears to be shaky at this moment. And of course, you guys are in New York. So New York remains on high alert. I'm sure DC as well where I am and LA has also been named but New York remains on high alert after Iran launched those missiles at the US air base in Qatar yesterday. Now New York Governor

Kathy Hoco says although there's no credible threat to the state right now, the state is taking all the necessary steps to protect New York from possible retaliation closer to home, saying that, you know, New York is no stranger to this and that they've been here before. So let's take a listen to New York Governor Kathy Hoco's comments. We are a place that has been attacked before. We are the financial capital of the world, the head of the cultural center for our country and indeed the world as well. They have family members in the

Middle East, religious groups, whether it's the Jewish or Muslim communities. We have the largest groups in the state of New York of anywhere in the country and we're going to continue letting them know we'll defend and fight against hate crimes. So she went on to say that all state agencies including the Thruway Authority, the DOT and the MTA airports and utilities are on high alert adding that bridges, tunnels and passenger lines are also being protected. Hoco went on to say that she knows there are people that are scared in New York, particularly those with loved ones in the Middle East and those of the Jewish and Muslim faiths. Patrols have also been boosted at houses of worship because of these conflicts.

Now today- I don't like when they do that though. I understand why Jewish people or Muslims would feel afraid, but we all got a sense of anxiety. We all here in New York City, when them planes crashed into the towers, they didn't care who was in there, what their race was, what their gender was, religion or anything like that so like we all you know have a sense of anxiety but I will say hey man there's nothing

you can do about it you know I give all praise to do to God I believe in God and I mean I think we'll be okay but if not then that's God's will too. That's that's that's your time. I was at the Capitol yesterday in the office and that when the strikes happened and I was like, oh yeah, let me get out of here. And in case you missed it, I think this is very important news before I go. Not relative to all this conflict, but still very, very interesting on the home front, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals to so-called third countries, even if they have no connection to the nation.

Convicted criminals. I did not say anything about migrants, immigrants, just convicted criminals. So places like South Sudan and Venezuela are included on this list, and this puts a hold on a federal judge's ruling that said that those being deported should have a chance to bring claims that they would be at risk for persecution or death if sent to another country. All three liberal judges on the court dissented. So, so when you say convicted criminals, like if I say, say if I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, say it and I commit, I'm asking, I don't know. I'm talking about it's convicted criminals. That's why I'm saying we're not talking about migrants or someone who immigrated here and they did something. He did say home groans are next, didn't he? Let's listen to the president when he speaks.

Okay, because he's not playing. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals. Me out. Oh, I mean, yeah, depending on what you did, depending on the crime. We don't put we don't send them. I don't care. Depending on the crime. If you if you if you could you do a crime?

That's so hate. Let's say you go and you kill seven eight year old rape a child The mass shootings right like the mass shootings the school shootings. I could care less You're dropping. Hey, I could read. Hey, I could care less. You don't care I don't care if you walk into a school and you kill eight seven year old eight year old I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't care less. He don't care. I don't care. If you walk into a school and you kill eight, seven year olds, eight year olds, I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't care where they send you. I hope that that would be a deterrent. I agree.

Hey, they gonna send your stupid ass to El Salvador now. You know what I'm saying? I agree. You don't want, right. But if you don't do it and they say you did it and they send your asses out. Well, that's different. You see what I'm saying?

As long as you got proof of beyond doubt. But you can say that with a bunch of things though. You can say that with the death penalty. You can say that with a bunch of different things. Bro, you got proof without doubt. I'm not mad at you. If you, yeah, it's like- You wanna do a mass murder, you see some say yeah, but you got but you can say that with a bunch of things Oh, you can say that with the death penalty You can say that with a bunch of different things Oh, you got proof without without doubt. I'm not mad at you if you yeah A mass murder. I gotta hear more because it's the first time i'm hearing it this morning I gotta read more on it. Yeah, but just based off what you just said on the face, right? I Depend on what you did. I mean you made about it. No

But you know people do crimes would be mad at it But yeah, like you said you want to kill a bunch of kids. You want to do a mass shooting. You get mad at you. Yeah, let's just hope we don't make any mistakes on this one. But yeah. All right, so that's your front page news on Morgan Wood. You can follow me on socials at Morgan Media Morg and MEDIA. And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com. Thank you all so much. Have a great day.

All right. Now, when we come back. Have a great day. Thank you, Morgan. Now when we come back, the host of the podcast, Decisions, Decisions will be joining us. Their new book, No Holes Bought, is out today. Mandy B and Wheezy will be joining us. So we're gonna kick it with them next. Don't go anywhere, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. If anyone's curious at like really the full scope of it, my comp for this is Chicken Soup Meets Zane. You have the self help version of it. You have the like where I'm holding the mirror up to myself talking about the things that I needed to unlearn. But then we also add the erotic element in it. So we get into details about our sexual experiences

For the book while reading so it's not that Mandy and I wrote the stories together you read one story and one that's kind of On the same theme those broken up into pain. Oops, sorry pleasure pain progression and power to yeah Peace power the peace and power to four P's. The four P's, power of the P. Her birth control alarm went off. It's been going off every morning interview. Oh my God, did you take it? Girl, I'm gonna have to, we're gonna have to cut this.

I get that. But basically- You gotta get a shot? No, it's a birth control pill. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. So basically in the book, what happens is, let's say you're reading pain. It might be a BDSM story,

then it may be a story about an assault. It may be you getting spanked. It might be a BDSM story, then it may be a story about an assault. It may be you getting spanked. It may be heartbreak. So it's pain and pleasure from like every aspect. And it gets real fun to just like jump around. You're like, ooh, it gets sexy. Ooh, it gets dark. I think I've never read a book like this, like Erotic Self-Help. Listen, the BDSM story was a lot. Mandy seemed to, it's weird, right? Because Mandy seemed to enjoy the BDSM.

Her story seemed a little bit more okay. This is what BDSM should be. Yours, Weezy, felt like you really just wanted to get dominated in ways that- Oh, on the leash? The dude that made you sit by the door on your knees and... Oh, that was fine. You know what's funny?

That is what he had to say. That's some people's pleasure. To be the man said, and this is funny part, y'all. So, you know, while reading the story, it feels sexier, but here's what was going on in my real head. The dude made me turn around. I wasn't allowed to look at him until he was insulting me. So I'm thinking he's gonna walk in the door first. He said no turn around so I'm just sitting there at the front door

I'm like, oh, please don't let this be the super like I don't know what's going on So when he comes in I'm still just facing the window not looking at him. I'm completely blindfolded I'm like hands tied behind my back everything and he's just still back there now He's starting to make a drink and do and I'm like, I'm just everything. And he's just still back there. Now he's starting to make a drink and do s*** and I'm like, I'm just seeing it. My video some chapter was so different. I talk about going to a dungeon three different times. And one time was learning the art of pleasure. Like she was literally teaching a dom how to flog. The next time it was like black ad tech week. And so seven women who

didn't know each other sat in a circle and shared all of their sexual desires, their traumas, strangers. That was corporate hosas. And it was so dope. It was so dope. And then the last time I went with an ex partner, but that chapter to me, especially now living in Atlanta, it's been really interesting to be in the Bible Belt, seeing how different it is. Like in New York, I didn't realize the privilege that we have to live out loud. Our sexual preferences, our identities, however we want to be, we can be in New York. And now moving back to the South, I'm like, oh, especially us,

black and brown people don't have that privilege. A lot of them still go to church on Sundays and have to kind of identify with what the church tells them how they should do and so it's just really dope that over the last 13 years living in New York I got to find my community I got to find lifestyles I got to find people who know that BDSM could be safe like that's why I hate the conversation around the Diddy trial right now because it's muddying what consensual freakiness BDS, all of that can look like and it's just getting a little muddy.

Well, I've been listening to y'all for a long time. It's stuff that happened in the Diddy trial. I ain't never heard y'all talking about it. No, I ain't gonna hold you. Until I read the book and learned another new term for people who love steaming. A book-wookie? There you go.

You didn't know about that one? No. It's so great. And then when I'm saying it, I'm like, oh, Diddy's a bull**** brother. You know what? It is. It is. Now you're splitting it up.

That's not what bull**** is, Lauren. No, no, no, I don't. I'm eating it off of that. But the way Weezy described it, she was like, I love it. I love to see it. I love to see it different. I feel like I'm listening to my dad tell the story. But I don't want people to think that this book is, it is sex, but it all has a purpose to it. Do you know what's crazy?

We had a call with Charlotte, like the amount of time it actually took for us to write this book, you have two people where yes, we agree on so many things, we have different approaches to life. And I think you get to read that in the book, but it was really important to me as liberated women as having the podcast Horrible Decisions for so long. For me, starting the pod at 26 and now being 34 years old, it was really important for me to share like my regret where I had shame. Like where I've learned from my own mistakes that this is not how I want to like receive

love anymore. And so I literally get to where even how like casual sex is different now, I seek intimacy. Like there's so many differences in the ways we have to unlearn how we show up in the bedroom or how we show up with men or women in partnerships. So I just really like that when having the conversation with Charlotte, he was like, nah, y'all got to put like those reflective moments. You have to dig into the mental health of it because sex and navigating dating and relationships is mental health like y'all know these men will have you have you thought all right we got more with Mandy B and

Weezy when we come back it's the Breakfast Club good morning everybody is Dee, Jay, and Vy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club, Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We're still kicking it with Mandy and Weezy from Decisions Decisions. Their new book No Holes Bought is out now. Lauren. I thought that the trigger warning was so responsible of you guys. Because when you watch a podcast, you just never know what you're going to get. You just have to kind of know you guys. But with the book, because you don't see you,

and this trigger warning when you tell people to like prioritize their well-being and consider skipping some sections that they need. I was like, that was it's like a TV show you ever watched like General Hospital and then you in a bad mood or not General Hospital. What's the other one? Grey's Anatomy. Like you just get in a mood there's some shows that get you in a happy mood like I have a comfort show I watched to go to bed. So with this book considering that there's not one story in here. I feel like I could bet my life that a woman doesn't connect to, whether it be assault, whether it be even the confusion and conversation surrounding having someone hurt you that you love so you

look away from it or trauma within figuring out who you are with your sexuality. Like I know that with myself, I have a story about how my mom knew I liked women when I was a kid. But imagine someone reading that and didn't have that, those open arms. My mom definitely was still black mama like, okay, kiss them girls. Who go ahead a baby? Which one of y'all go ahead a baby? Right?

Not everybody gets to experience that. And so where Mandy talks about even some of her pleasures being confusing because of homophobia, like we don't know who we are sometimes while we're on this journey So to be able to make a guidebook essentially felt really good There was something that I've been talking about recently We offer a master class that comes free with the book because y'all know people love free stuff Like they don't get it, but they like what I get else So we was like, okay, we've been pushing people to pre order the book, it's out now. But for this whole first week that the book

is out, we created a masterclass broken into the same pain pleasure progression chapters. So if you're reading about like you read probably in the portion that you're in, like the story about me with women, like I talk about learning how to please a woman as a woman. Does the masterclass teach you the physical things you talk about as well as how to deal with the mental? I take my hands and my fingers. I go, this is how you do it. So explain, explain your three and I'll explain mine three.

So for pain in pain, uh, I'm not sure what I have in pain. I think I don't like getting over navigating coach who basically walks you through every single green flag and red flag you should be seeing and knowing on a date. Because in the book, our dating experiences are f***ed up. That's why I want everybody to know. I'm not telling you that I'm a dating expert. I'm just telling you I dated all these n****s. 400 pages of it. And women. And women. And I larked. And so then I said damn well we can't be preachy because you know people learn with us and through us. So in the course, I sit with her and we learn that. In the next one, I talk all about money

because I'm 34 years old. I've been able to do very well for myself on several businesses, retire my parents. And I feel like everybody always asks me what to do. So I listed out every single thing I've done. I love that chapter because that, we always hear conversations about sugar daddies. And my thing is, look, what are you getting out of this?

Out of this? Yep. And don't get me wrong. You did it right, Weezy. You got the Louis bag. But then I was like, hold on, if the bag is more than the bank account, are we even here? What are we talking about?

Right. So I break down, you know, how to spend your money, whether you got a thousand dollars or $10,000 where to allocate it. And then of course, literally how to eat vagina. But what's cool about it, it has like worksheets attached. And one of my favorite portions of it is the manifestation rituals I do. So there's like five minutes of me telling you how to visualize and manifest. And I learned how to do this for myself. I don't think I'm smarter than any of my friends. I dropped out of college, but somehow there are a lot of people in my life I do better than.

And I really think it's just because I know how to get what I want through just thinking about it. The more that I meet successful people, they all say the same thing. They all say they knew it was coming, they felt it, and I've like truly learned how to visualize. T-Mobile At what point in your lives did y'all understand like your own personal duality? Because there's so much like it's the business person, you're able to have the sexual conversations. When did you really understand that you could do all things and be okay with it? Ooh, it's so funny because I think I'm still trying to navigate that. We were just in Cannes and it's so crazy because I went to this beautiful panel, salon culture

conversations. It was so just wonderful. They had us pull out cards and the card was, how did you know you had this power? What did power look like for you? And for me, it was now finding the purpose. I think I told Sharla this as well. This book, The People We Meet, right before going there, I met a woman who literally came to me and she just started crying. She said, you helped me get through this part of my life. And so we're, yes, we're running a seven figure business here with the podcast, with the book, with all these things. There's meaning behind what we're doing and we're staying here. And so we're, yes, there's sometimes

where I'm like, dang, I overshared. I put too much into this book. I'm like, whoa, you know what, there's power in how we've been able to change people's lives. The vulnerability is power. And so for me, I'm like, we just blend it all in one together. And that's what I think allows us to keep going on. The duality is the brand too. You know, like thinking about the origin of this show, we were corporate girls that started top telling our little sex stories, right? If you watched the first episode of Brilliant Idiots we were ever were ever on I'm gonna sue Mandy called out I think but like oh, yeah, I think I had to call out of work girl

Yeah, like I like our our journey in this is like just so crazy. That was back when I worked mind you I worked at EY. I was a big four accountant Literally going to H&M right here in Times Square, yes, I shop at H&M. That's right, we all do. I got H&M jeans on right now. You know what I mean? You remember H&M did that little monkey, that jungle thing, we didn't remember. I mean, okay. But anyway, I was literally sharing how I would have to go from the club to the store

to get me an outfit to go right into work. And so those were kind of like our beginning stories. We was having fun. We was outside. I used to see Weezy walking down the street in Wall Street with her pantsuit on, looking all corporate. Hey Weezy! Hey!

Yeah, that's Weezy! Yo, it's so crazy to like have an evolution of, you know, when people become little fake famous, like I'm gonna say it, like podcasters, reality stars, they think they can't have a regular job. Ron was really up in their office, like sitting there figuring out what we were gonna talk about for the day. I was sucking the **** out of you. Like boom, but also doing

my report. And I think people think there's only one way and the duality of it made it so fun. So today, even there's been moments where not today, but I'd say halfway through the pod, I even lost myself like, oh, well I was the business woman and now I'm kind of this entertainer. like, who am I? And there's so many evolutions of that too with us as women, like, how do I be this sexual girl but still let someone know that I want love? How can I be seen that way?

I was talking to Karen, who I met with you. Who was Karen, yep. And she said something to me that I found interesting. She goes, it's so funny how now finding love is like exciting for people to watch you because you were the party girl, the fun girl. People think that it doesn't happen. Girl, you was also love a girl.

You had a boyfriend every year. But I had two sides of it. Who wants you? That's what she's saying. Ah, the who wants you, yes. Who wants you? You're the girl who's always out there. You want your stories talking about ah, ah, ah.

Who's going to want you? And she's like, people love hearing this because they don't believe it for themselves. Let me tell you something. Go live your life. Go have fun. Go swipe right. Like, why are we stopping ourselves with this person that doesn't exist? And ladies, unless you want to date the Uber East driver, staying in your house ain't going

to make you meet no man. You got to get outside. God, look. You got to get outside. You gotta get outside. But you know, we're told so much that we have to act this certain way. And I think that's the beauty of this book is like, oh, okay, but maybe they were a little crazy. I don't want to say the word who because we grow. But maybe they were some wild fun girls carefree.

You know, that's how you clean it up back in the day. But you can still get there. And we just don't believe that we don't believe that sexual liberation, sexual exploration can exist while also being respected. And I started to have that conversation with her and yes, like even I thought it wouldn't happen for me. I thought they're not going to be with me for real. Even by saying I like women, what do men think immediately? Three-seven. Three-seven. I mean yeah it's coming but still not in the beginning. I mean y'all have it. Alright we got more with Mandy B and Wheezy when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Good morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We're still kicking it with Mandy and Weezy from Decisions Decisions. Their new book, No Holes, Bard is out right now. Charlamagne? I love that chapter in the book where you talk about how, basically you can't pick your family, right? But your friends are the people you choose. Oh, that was what I said.

And it's like, yo. I think she like, I said that. I think, we probably both said that. We probably both said that. I talk about safety as a devil and an angel. I talk about how I didn't even get to choose my name. You don't get to choose your parents. That's in my introduction.

But who you get to choose are who really stands out as your family. And those people have to love you regardless. Those people that love you regardless of everything, your flaws and everything, that's your people. I think we both probably talked about that because when you have women that are, let's just say, living an alternative lifestyle or have things that they want to talk about with their friends but can't, we both need that safe space. That's an easy story for someone that's living like us, right? Because how many people in our lives are going to accept it?

You really got to go and seek them out. When people ask me things like that, like, oh, well, how do you find or how do you feel better about XYZ? Like, oh, I, how do you find or how do you feel better about XYZ? Like, oh, I go seek out the community. Yeah, I literally was on Instagram one day made a post like I need a really fun girl to hang out with tonight, preferably black. I'll take POC. I'm gonna crazy but I just met up with these girls. Yeah. And I know it sounds, it could sound desperate to some, it could sound silly but that's what I was on. I moved to New York, I was single alone, I wanted fun and you really have to seek your

community. Can't be sitting in the house. A community can come from like my favorite chapter in the book personally comes with a trigger warning. Probably the chapter that I knew had to be in this book was my decision to have an abortion when I was in high school. And so my friend at the time,

my mom couldn't even afford the $500 abortion. My daddy said, figure it out. Don't give it all up, don't tell the whole story. Well, I want them to read into it because I think what's important is my friend who worked at Cold Stone. Came through. Came through with that.

And I think why that chapter is my friend who worked at Coldstone came through with that. And I think why that chapter is my favorite is because that took place in my summer going into my junior year of high school. Do you know, I'd never spoke to my mom or that friend in the 17 years since until writing this book. So I don't like my makeup is done. So I don't want to cry, but it was so emotional to like be like, damn, this was a decision I made. And I didn't even consider what it meant for you two. And so for me having it was very important with the reversal of Roe v Wade happening and we were talking about women losing their autonomy,

but abortion still being shameful. I was like, that was a decision that I'm so happy I made. I'm 34 and don't want children. I just told told Charlotte and in Cannes, I said thank you because this is my baby. This is my legacy. You didn't just tell me, you told the whole room. I told the whole room. You told the whole room. And Eva Longoria now knows I don't want kids. Eva Longoria was there, Malcolm Gladwell was there. Listen, Malcolm Gladwell, my slum. You just shamed everybody who had a child there. I said, yeah, I said, and them kids, I don't want them. Happy that you got them, but I don't want them. Let me tell you, I don't know if anyone else is in a duo for work or business or whatever.

Mandy gets up there. Let me just sit up. We're in the French Riviera. We are. Now, Black Effect is out there, and here are the Black line-ups. It's Charlamagne, Questlove, Malcolm Gladwell, me and Mandy. Yup. Now I don't mean that. You're the razzle dazzle huh?

So, they have us at the end. By the way, let's be very clear. We was the last to speak. They said best for last. They let us speak last. I know you guys may not know who we are. They put us last because y'all are three glass of wine in and we gonna talk about sex. Then Mandy get her ass on.

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for giving me my baby, you my baby daddy. And literally going from that to Weezy's like, and we have this book about, you know what? Eva Longoria, come and help us read our book. No, before that, Weezy goes, I wanted to hear Malcolm Gladwell say, Pussy, but Eva. But, literally.

So Eva's small, Eva is like, Oh my God. Oh my God. Yes. The question was who in the room would you want to read the book? And that's the truth. I really want to hear Malcolm Gladwell say, but he was here. So I guess it'd be her. And then she stands up and I'm like, Oh my God, what's happening? So Weezy and I have had this game when we have guests on our show to pick a page number from the book from zero to 300 pick a number. She picked a little low. I was nervous. She said 15.

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in front of all the things, we have to make yourself cum. We have Eva Longoria giving people over wine in the French Riviera, ways in which masturbation can get you big. In my head I'm like, oh my god, there were so many smarter ones. Why couldn't she get the one about the scales of homosexuality? Like why the f*** you there?

This is how you come. That was a good one though. It might have been D-I-S. Because when Eva started reading she was like, it is relaxing. I forgot what it was. It was like, it is relaxing. It does help me go to sleep at night. I know we're talking about this other book right now, but let me say something.

Eva was so beautiful and charming. Don't do this because I don't already say it. Calm down. I want to start speaking Spanish. You see what she's been doing? She's making the little Spanish black effect. Bitch, they already think I'm Dominican. Oh, you're not?

Hola. No, don't do this, Lauren. Did you just say you're not? She kind of gives it. We're black. First of all, I have a regular negrita. Okay. Mixed with a little leche. So Eva made you start. First of all, I have a regular negrita.

Okay. Mixed with a little leche. But so Eva made you start speaking in tongues? Yeah, we. I mean, see. Well, here's the thing. Mandy and Wheezy are good in any room, you know? And it was interesting to watch the impact

that you had on Eva, because she even went and posted about y'all later. I couldn't believe that. She posted y'all book later and was like pre-ordering. Hold on, not only that, hit the follow, she had some DMs, we friends now. You know, I thought you asked her to do that until you wrote me and said, how do I post this too?

First off, how did she get, hold on, how did she get the pictures? Yeah, I'm like, how does Eva have like camera ready pictures? We ain't get no Dropbox link. You know what felt good about that moment? There's so many rooms we're in where someone knows us or has heard of us. So I don't get to be someone's first impression a lot.

And it felt good to see it again, because I knew the feeling when Mandy and I first came out and people were like, oh my God, these girls are great. Oh my God, I love this. Everybody needs this. To see that from someone like Eva felt good. And I'm not saying this just because the book is on Black privilege publishing. It is.

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Now let's get to the, what? Now I was gonna say, make sure you pull up on Mandy and Weezy tonight at Word Bookstore in Brooklyn, okay? 126 Franklin Street at 7 p.m. All right, well let's get to the latest with Laurie. Laurie be coming with straight face. Tell her, tell her! Man!

She gets into somebody that knows somebody. She gets into details. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes she have a little bit of everything. But what's the latest? On The Breakfast Club.

Talk to me. Portia Williams is being featured in People magazine and if you take a look at the photos which are posted all over People Magazine dot com and their Instagram, she is reenacting the waiting to excel moment where Angela Bassett blows up the car. I thought that was dope. Yes, great reenactment as well. So in this People Magazine sit down, Portia is talking about her divorce. And you know, we broke the story about what the divorce means, what she gets, the fact

that it actually happened, that she won and it happened in her favor. But she goes into more detail. This is her first time speaking out. Let's take a listen to Portia on her divorce. Well, now that my divorce is finalized, yes, I'm finally able to exhale. It comes with mixed feelings. It's probably more of like, it's not like a smooth like, it's like, you know, divorces are so long and drawn out and so ugly, but I'm just glad not to be in the fight anymore.

I'm glad not to battle anymore. I really hope that I can just send love out and be done with like fighting and protecting myself and being in defense mode. I'm just ready to move on and live and I forgive myself and I truly forgive him and I'm done with the animosity and I've also done fantasizing about what it could have been because when you have a marriage like mine that felt so perfect you often fantasize about how perfect it could have been and what you could have done different and I'm okay now with how everything has happened Yes, and she looked good on her birthday you saying that all black baby always looks good Oh my god

Capital P. Yeah, how this plays out in the next season is she gonna do the next season of housewives Is it gonna happen? Is she gonna do the next season of Housewives? Is it gonna happen? Is she back fully? Contracts haven't been, that hasn't been announced yet, but I'm assuming that she will be back, and I'm sure we'll see a play out if she is. What's Simon do?

I know Simon didn't like that interview she did with People Magazine. I know he did something. What did he do? Oh, well, so I did speak to Simon's attorney. Attorney. Of course you did on your mother fairy And how much that fairy cost I'm not for sure. Okay. She was a fairy. Yeah fatty Okay, so she tells me that they are actually planning to challenge this and we talked about this before in my report, right?

But she says that they want to make it clear that although although Porsche is talking about the divorce being finalized they are not actually legally single yet and What the what the attorney told me is that what happens is is because things, you know Worked out in Porsche's favor Porsche decided that of things legally has to now submit an order or has submitted an order to the judge Which is basically like all right put together all the details of what I said you win So remember I talked about the 40k a month submit an order or have submitted an order to the judge, which is basically like, all right, put together all the details of what I said you win. So remember I talked about the 40K a month, the equity on the home and all that,

and then they gave it to the judge. The judge is looking over it, once the judge signs it, Simon via his attorneys plan to challenge that because they don't agree with him having to do a lot of the things that he's being ordered to do. Also challenge like all the things that she won. Yes, not the divorce itself. How do you challenge the divorce?

If somebody don't wanna be with you? Somebody don't wanna be with you. No, the terms of what she wins after the divorce, yes. Because how long were they married? They weren't married that long, right? No, they were not married that long. Let me look that up. And they don't have kids together, right? No, no kids together.

Now I do know though that with this challenge, because we were like, well, why do you wanna challenge? What would that do? Because the judge made it really clear. What they're hoping to do is get this in front of another judge. And if they get this in front of another judge, then they might have the chance,

where he might not be responsible for all the things that we talked about. But Portia, she did talk about the different stages of divorce that you go through. And it made me never want to get divorced. She talked about anger, fighting. I love that you said that. I love that you said that. I love that you said it.

Yes. Because you didn't say, you didn't say it didn't make you not wanna be married and I love that. That means when you get married, you're in it for the long haul and it's a forever thing. Let me grab this book because I might got throw up. What's funny?

What's tea? Nah, I just want you to get married first. What's tea, girl? I do want you to get married first. You gonna pay for my wedding? No. Hey, no I haven't, man. I do have questions. So they were only married. You gonna pay for my wedding? Ignore him man! I do have questions.

Oh shut up. It's not like she have a daughter or father to do that Charlamagne. She asked me because you are her friend. Wow Jess I didn't want to say that. I'm sorry Envy. I'm thinking of coming at you. My god. My dad just posted the show the other day.

Hey dad! how are you? Okay. Okay. He listens now, but maybe he need to hear that. But go ahead and answer your question. I mean, ask your question. Salute to your dad. What's his name?

What's his name? Oh my God. Oh my God. This is a tough one. Girl, this is not funny in here. You want a hug? You need a hug? No, I need a shot.

Okay, you need a shot. I do know my dad's name. I got you, because that was not funny. The fact that I even got to say that. Okay, it's eight o' Okay, you need a shot. I do know my dad's name. I got you, because that was not funny. The fact that I even got to say that.

Okay, it's eight o'clock. We got to come home. So that was the question. So the question is, she was only married 15 months, right? Yes, 15 months. They don't have any children with each other. Yes. And she got all of that?

Yeah, she got all of that. Jesus, that's amazing. The amount of time, remember we talked about the 40K per month, he has to pay that for amount of time that they were together. So it's gonna be the 14 to 15 months that he'll be paying her that 40k a month. But so he's challenging a lot of these things. We talked about the fact that he had paid money for the home on his own before they got together, so he feels like he should have some more say so when it comes to the home. We talked about this. Let's talk about this. She's only gonna get the home in 15 months?

I wanna play this last clip of Portia talking about what after getting through the voice looks like for her. It's lonely. I can't connect with other men. You know, it's like people trying to introduce me, but it's just when it's not the same, it's not the same. I'm going to do it different this time. I'm going to be alone until I'm whole.

And then when I'm whole then I will you know open myself back up so I don't make the same mistake again. When you go through a bad enough breakup you're like I don't like nobody. I was sitting there like do I like women enough? Can I get with a woman? Like who can come in and fill this void like but it'll come because what I've decided is that I'm not gonna look for it anymore so not gonna like push myself into dating or anyone or trying to figure out, you know, who do I like, who could it be around? Because this is probably also a part of healing.

Sitting with being alone, sitting with the loss and let myself heal the loss. And I know I'm crying right now, but I feel good every day. Each day I get better. Oh, she's laughing. Okay. But she should look at the bright the bright side. She can still afford Bloomingdale's. Oh my goodness. What if she don't even shop there? What if she is an H&M connoisseur? That is true too. I don't think y'all understand the come up of what Portia

just did. She might be in Bloomingdale's. She could buy Bloomingdale's. I didn't know they were only together 15 months and didn't have any kids together. I said that in my last report. You obviously don't listen to me. You did you, you don't handle kids. Jesus Christ. Yeah, she was awarded 40K months for the duration of their relationship. He's gonna cover the home expenses that she's allowed to stay in for three years

and then she can decide whether she wants to sell it or buy him out of the home. If she sells it, she still gets 50% of the equity on the home. Listen, dependent ain't nothing like a housework. For like 10 days. Hey man, got to see Portia naked for 15 months, dependent ain't nothing like a divorce. A house worth like 10 million. Ain't nothing like a good divorce. Hey man, got the seat portion that I get for 15 months.

We don't feel sorry for him. Mm-mm. And he was happy to be home. I don't feel sorry for him, but shout out to Pete. He's happy to take his name back over there and live life like a nice guabaria. He is so happy. Well, that's it.

Well, that is the latest with Lauren. You all right, Lauren? You holding your head, you cool? Yeah, I'm fine. Happy birthday to Solange Noles. I thought you were about to say it's his birthday. It's my dad. I'm like, it's his birthday. You know your dad's birthday?

No, no, no. You don't know when your dad's birthday is? You know she's making... Alright, donkey today. We'll give you a donkey too. We'll talk. Four after that. You don't even know her dad's birthday. Alright, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Rocket Mortgage is lowering down payments to 1% for eligible home buyers with 1+.

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Don't hear the day right here. The Breakfast Club bitches. You can call me the donkey of the day, but like, I mean no harm. Yes, Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, June 24th. By the way, it is officially cancer season. Drop one of Clues bombs for all of cancer's damage, okay? The greatest, most sensitive time of the year, alright? I feel everything going on out here right now. Okay.

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Me and red got the same born day, but back to the matter at hand. Dog year today for Tuesday, June 24th goes to Christine Marie Spearman. Now we have a lot of conversations about consent. Okay. And what consent between men and women in relationships. Okay. Is all right. And usually whenever we hear these conversations about consent, okay? And what consent between men and women in relationships, okay, is, all right? And usually whenever we hear these conversations

about consent, it's usually about, did a man get consent from a woman to do whatever it is they did? Well, there are examples of women not getting consent, and today is one of those days. See, Kristen is in jail right now, right where she needs to be arrested and booked because she took advantage of a man without his consent.

Let's go to Fox 44 news for the report please. Traditionally, when a couple gets married, both parties say I do. But this 42 year old man in Beverly Hills claims to law enforcement that he didn't know. According to a press release from the Beverly Hills Police Department, the resident reported on June 13th that he had come home to a package on his property left by his ex-girlfriend. The package was a gift bag from Bath and Body Works containing products and a surprise. A picture of his ex-girlfriend, Kristen Spearman, holding what appears to be a marriage license, showing them married and officiated by a local reverend and a copy of the marriage certificate filed with the county clerk's office.

According to the press release, the victim reported that he'd been in a relationship with Spearman and they had decided to obtain marriage licenses on or about June 2nd, 2025. However, after that application and license was issued, the couple got into an argument and the victim told her he no longer wanted to be in a relationship. Police learned that Kristen Spearman convinced a local reverend to perform a marriage ceremony The couple got into an argument and the victim told her he no longer wanted to be in a relationship. Police learned that Kristen Spearman convinced the local reverend to perform a marriage ceremony without the victim even knowing or being present. Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise.

Now I've heard of surprise weddings, but usually the surprise weddings I've heard about are the guests are invited to an event that turns out to be a wedding but I ain't never ever ever heard about a surprised bride or groom okay now you might be surprised about an engagement but finding out you a whole husband through the mail in a bath and body works bag what if this man was committed to some new cheeks okay he's sitting up in his house with his new boo in old bay, you know, sending me marriage certificates in the mail and a bath and body works bag. First of all, I didn't know this was possible.

Okay. Whoever this pastor is who certified this marriage without the groom being present, he needs to have his collar removed. Okay. I'll get him disfellowshipped. I don't know. I grew up Jehovah witness, but whatever happens to pastors when they are proven not to be fit to pastor, that's what needs to happen to this guy. Okay, you know how men say they fear commitment? This man got married without even committing to the idea of commitment first. Okay, Christian,

Christian, Christian, you skipped the proposal, you skipped the ceremony, you skipped the honeymoon and went right to the paperwork? You could have at least let this man pick a damn cake. Wait a minute, Kristen, you could have at least let this man pick you. You didn't get chose, you chose yourself because you selfish. Okay, you weren't thinking about anybody, but you in this situation. Worst kind of human to be in a relationship with the person who believes, who feels, who thinks they know what's best for you. Okay now this poor

man got to spend money on lawyers and I really want to know how this will work. Okay it should be an immediate an immediate annulment. Alright at the least and I pray that whatever divorce laws Texas have don't apply to this sham of a marriage because this man was married without his consent this man was raped at the altar okay call it what it is all right no vows no kiss no consent just surprise baby you're legally mine now okay this wasn't a legal wedding this was fraud with flowers okay getting married without someone's consent is like someone stealing your car then ensuring it in their name but then turning around and asking you for gas money okay i'm just trying to figure out how she was able to get a

marriage license okay we got to make marriage licenses as hard to get as gun licenses in New York and New Jersey are. And the fact that they used to date, this was his ex. If he ever had any doubt that he didn't make the right decision by breaking up with her, that doubt is gone. Okay? His ex, all right? His ex, his ex, his ex. He thought the relationship was over.

She thought it was just getting started. Can you imagine how the lululemon this woman must be to think that this man would get this marriage certificate in the mail in a bath and body works bag and be happy about it? Like he was going to receive this certificate and think to himself, you know what? I do want to spend the rest of my life with this retarded woman. Please give Kristen Marie Spearman the sweet sounds of the day yeehaw ah ah he was leading her on one though? Like you don't think that he was, like, it's a reason. No, no, no, no, no.

You don't go through all of that just because you got let on. Because if he was getting let on then you'd at least be having a conversation with him. She took it upon herself. I didn't even know that was possible. I didn't think so. I didn't either. I didn't either. Why you say it like that? You sound like you did that. I didn't even know I didn't know that was possible. I didn't think I didn't either I didn't either

That's crazy yo Chris wink if you need help Oh, please We both willingly said I do don't play with me like We both willingly said I do, don't play with me like that. Whatever. That's crazy though, I kinda like her. When we come back from the Joy Reed show, Joy Ann Reed will be joining us. She's going to be talking to her necks, she'll be helping out, breaking down everything that's going on. There's a lot going on in the world of politics, a lot going on in the world of just the world.

And Joy Ann Reed will be here to talk about it. That's right, it's The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. We are The Breakfast Club, we got a special guest in the building, Joy Ann Reed. Good morning. Good morning. How are you?

I am wonderful, thank you. Blessed and highly favored. There you go, blessed, black and highly favored. Blessed, black and highly, and moisturized. There you go. Blessed, moisturized, black and highly favored. How about that? There you go. Less moisturized, black and Holly favorite. There you go.

Now that you've stepped away from MSNBC, what's something that you wish more people knew about during the night we came to the show? It's a grind. I mean, it really is. And I did a weekend show, you know, I did a day side show. I had three shows at MSNBC. And the difference between a weekend,

which is like leisurely, like you're just like actually just kind of taking in all that happened, even though Trump makes it challenging because he's doing something stupid every day. But on a nightly show, it's literally a grind. And it was like 15 producers, a total of like 60 people made that show. It looks like we're just on there yapping. No, it's like a grind and it's a huge team to do a cable news show, which is far different

when you're doing something independent. What is the reality of the joy of re-showing MSNBC? Why did it come to an end? Because you know you heard so many different rumors that said the ratings were low, Trump didn't want her there anymore. He probably didn't. What was it? So the thing is that's so interesting and Stephen A. Smith tried to come for me and

say, oh ratings. It's like, yeah, no, that wasn't it. Everybody after the 2024 election, all of cable news went in the toilet. Like everybody's ratings dropped. And we had actually just had a ratings meeting like two weeks before I was fired where they were like, you guys are actually losing, you guys lost less than your competitors and you're actually doing fine. So we were ratings were fine We were doing fine and you know the ratings have not gotten better since I left they've actually gotten so it's not like it wasn't No, I know yeah, so it's not numbers

It wasn't ratings and when I got the call we at first thought it was a rumor We had seen that there was this like puck story That Friday where and and we didn't know what to do with it. We had already done our show. We had wrapped. I was having my cocktail. My executive producer called me and said, look, all of our producers are freaking out over this puck story, so you should see it. And it was like a rumor. We were like, nah, we hadn't heard anything. Nobody had called me. Nobody had said, you did something wrong. You're in trouble. You're on probation. I had gotten nothing. Then I get a text message early the next morning saying, can you talk at noon?

And I was fired immediately. There was no warning. And I asked, well, what's the, nothing. They were just like, oh, we just want to make some changes. They never said why. So I've had to live in the room or mill with everybody else. So you still don't really know? No.

Do you feel like, because you were brought in at the height of 2020 with the election, when the firing happened, was there any feeling of you were used as a voice just during that time, and then they wanted to step away? No, I think, you know, just myself, I think about the things that were making management uncomfortable, that I can tell you were, you know, stated to me. And the two things that I think made and I don't think it's just management there. I think that in the cable news world and the news world in general, these two topics make management uncomfortable in the media in general. One of them is Trump, because Trump is suing everybody. I mean, he's literally threatening people to the point where 60 Minutes is shook, where ABC News is shook.

You know, he's verbally threatened Comcast by name, named Brian Roberts by name. And all of these are businesses that want to do business that need the FCC's approval. They actually have to have the federal government's approval to do mergers, acquisitions. He can't hurt them. The broadcast, you can get your license taken away. He can pull your license, they can't do it to cable because FCC doesn't regulate cable when you have broadcast partners.

And you see the fact that NBC broadcast was physically separated from MSNBC, that feels protective, right? We got to protect our broadcast assets, which the FCC can. So it's like everyone is trying to navigate this really deranged man who is so emotional and he behaves so emotionally that if he's mad at you in one moment, he may stop your mergers just because he feels like it, like he bombed Iran. He's just like, I'm pissed off. So they're all, I think they're activating out of a sense of we don't want to poke the

bear too much. And, you know, and I'm not the only person that was doing it. There are lots of people at MSNBC that was kind of our brand. We were the resistance, right? And we're sincere about it. We weren't making it up all of us in prime. We were serious about what we were saying. So I think that was one piece. I think the other piece is Gaza. And you just can't get away from the fact that talking about Gaza in a way that humanizes Palestinians is not the usual way that cable news operates or that any news in this country operates. For whatever reason, that topic makes people uncomfortable.

And it doesn't make regular folks uncomfortable because I think the majority of Americans agree that what's happening there is not just a genocide, but is unconscionable for us to participate in. I think most Americans believe that, agree with that. But there was a discomfort with that topic that I saw in the policing of my social media, in requests to not like certain things on social media.

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I definitely think that's a thing in American media. All right, we have more with Joyanne Reid when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's DJ NV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the God. We are the breakfast club. We're still kicking it with Joy Ann Reed. Jess. What would you say to people that are, because we know, we just saw him say, you know, we bombed Iran, right? What would you say to the people that's like,

oh, this was gonna happen anyway, you know? Because I've been seeing it a lot, right? Like people saying like, this was gonna happen anyway, this was gonna, it just happened now, you know what I mean? But they were saying. This was going to happen anyway. This was going to, it just happened now. You know what I mean? But they were saying that this was inevitable to go around. This was going to happen. What I would say to those people is you have to remember that Bibi Netanyahu

was essentially prime minister for life in Israel. And he has been prime minister off and on since the nineties. And he has attempted using the exact same arguments to get Bill Clinton to go to war with Iran. Bill Clinton is so pro-Israel that when he was free and clear and had survived impeachment, he pardoned a guy called Mark Rich, got himself nearly indicted for doing it. Mark Rich, who a former Israeli prime minister asked him to pardon. This guy was the world's biggest tax cheat.

He was such a big tax cheat, he was on the FBI's most wanted list with Osama bin Laden. He pardoned that guy whose main accusation against him is that he traded arms with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis when Iran had taken our hostages. He traded arms with them. That guy. That's how pro-Israel Bill Clinton was. He wouldn't do it. George W. Bush, totally pro-Israel. He bombed Iraq for no reason. Iraq had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction, nothing to do with 9-11. He still went to war against them, but wouldn't do Iran. What Bibi wanted was us to do a war against Iran and Iraq at the same time, because Iran's Shiite majority now controls Iraq.

And he knew that would happen. He wouldn't do it. Go on to, um, Joe Biden. There's never been a more pro Israel person in the White House than Joe Biden. Obama too. Oh, but well, Obama and B didn't, couldn't stand each other. So I think he knew he couldn't get, he couldn't get Obama to do it. But Obama gave, uh, Israeli military the most money that they've ever received. Most money they've ever had.

He did all the policy, stopped the UN, our UN ambassador from, you know, they would veto any kind of, one time they actually abstained, which actually, weirdly enough, in geopolitical terms is like a huge earthquake, right, for him to have let us abstain when Israel was being condemned by the UN. But yeah, Obama, he wouldn't do it. And then you get to Trump first term. They've got like, um, homages to him in Israel. They love him so much. Right?

So in his first term, he wouldn't do it because he was surrounded by normal people. Then you get to Joe Biden, who literally has allowed Israel to commit genocide with our money in full view of the entire world, with the condemnation of the UN on the table and with Bibi Netanyahu unable to travel to multiple countries because he's a war criminal. Joe Biden was like, he's my friend. He can do what he wants. He literally was letting them annex the West Bank in our face.

Joe Biden literally would not stop them from dropping 2000 pound bombs on hospitals, schools, mosques. He didn't care. He took UNRWA and essentially illegalized the only aid agency that feeds Palestinian kids and let them bomb the food kitchen guys. He was like, you want to bomb Jose Andres and kill a bunch of his people? I'm not going to do anything. During the war on Gaza, multiple American Palestinians were killed. And this is on top of Shireen Abu Agla. This was an American dual citizen, American journalist killed.

He didn't care. Okay. So Joe Biden, wholly in the whatever Israel wants, you can have it. He didn't do it. The only person who would have done this, the only person who sucker enough to get to get talked into starting a war with Iran In my lifetime is this guy. I wonder why because I remember when it was that book that came out It was Trump's piece to Abraham Accords and the reshaping of the Middle East. Yeah, and the author was like Trump said to the former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

Like literally that was his exact quote. How did that change? Like what happened? And literally, can I tell you, I want to say three weeks ago, the Quincy Institute, treat a parcy, the Quincy Institute was posting on his sub stack that Trump might be in place to actually make a deal. Because remember, Obama did this Iran nuclear deal where he got Iran to agree to not enrich, to create nuclear weapons, but to only enrich to power their country, right, for power. And Trump was so mad about the black guy doing that, that he literally negated the deal, tore it up, and Iran started enriching again.

They still were not creating a nuclear weapon. None of our intelligence services believed they were creating a nuclear weapon. None of our intelligence services believed they were creating a nuclear weapon. They were just enriching because of course they have a right to enrich. They are their own country. Then Biden comes in. Biden does not put the deal back in place.

So this non-enrichment deal has been gone all through the Biden term. For whatever reason, Biden did not try to revive the nuclear deal. All of a sudden, Trump goes from talking to Iran. He was having talks with Iranists apparently, trying to come to a deal, willing to screw Bibi Netanyahu, leave him to the side and do a deal, to suddenly being like, not just we bomb their facilities

but regime change? Overnight he starts talking about regime change. What is happening? What change? He said he was going to give it two weeks. He gave it 24 hours. I would love to know how Bibi Netanyahu got Donald Trump to change 20 years of his belief system in 24 hours. What should we as Americans be concerned about? I mean, I would be concerned because Iran really does control some of the most lethal proxy terrorist groups in the world. And just to be clear again, Iran did not start this war. Iran did not attack Israel and they did not attack us.

And people are like, for the first time, the US has struck Iran wrong. The United States is responsible for what Iran is. We did that. If you fly in a Dulles airport, it's named after, I think it was John Foster Dulles, but there was two Dulleses. There was one Dulles that Eisenhower made the CIA director and the other Dulles was made secretary of state. And their mission throughout the 50s and the early 1960s was to topple any government that didn't obey, any non-Western government that didn't obey.

In Iran, in 1957, the United States overthrew violently their democratically elected president, Mossadegh. And Mossadegh says, I need to audit the oil company that we now today call BP, because BP was exploiting the oil under Iran, which is one of the most oil-rich countries on earth. And BP was controlling it. And he and Mossadegh said, my people,, the Iranian people need to be benefiting financially from this. So we want to audit y'all. The British were like, you can't audit us. And he was like, I'm gonna do it anyway. And they said no. And he said, fine, I'm a nationalized Iran's oil. Iran's

oil belongs to Iran. And the United States and Great Britain overthrew him and elevated this Shah of Iran, which is like a king in Iran, a Persian sort of king who had been a, you know, kind of like the British king, not a lot of power. Suddenly we turned him into a dictator who then was a dictator over the people of Iran for 26 years. Brutal. Grabbing people off the streets, which will sound familiar now, throwing them in prison without trials, which should sound familiar to us, a full

ass dictator we put on top of Iran. And that dictator stayed in place as punishment for the people of Iran wanting their own money and wanting control over their own oil. And that dictator was overthrown in 1978, 1979, by young students who got together and did a revolution and put in place what we have now. And they were religiously motivated but at first they didn't say that they were going to suppress women's rights. Because Iran was like a normal country, you know, they had nightclubs and normal. But this version of Iran that was created under Khomeini, under Ayatollah Khomeini, it started out as a student

movement that was overthrowing a dictator we put on top of them. So we attacked them before. We created this monster. So if I'm Iran, and again, no love for that regime, horrible to women, treat women horribly, won't let women out of their homes, they're imprisoned in their hijabs,

they're imprisoned, they can't go to school, they're horrible. But the reason their people are rallying around them is they're like, these people can't come in here again. They keep switching our regimes whenever they don't like what we're doing. And now Israel attacked them. And now we're joining them. Of course they want nukes. If I'm Iran, I want nukes.

Because the only thing that keeps me safe from Israel and the United States is nukes. If I'm Iran, I want nukes. Because the only thing that keeps me safe from Israel and the United States is nukes. We need to stop. One thing Trump did have right for a hot minute is that we do need to stop being in everybody's business. Why is Marjorie Taylor Greene right on that? And no Democrats are saying that. How bad if we make an argument, can we stay out

of the world's business for a minute? When he's not taking his own advice. And now he's not taking his own advice. Which should be the messaging to me from everybody. One would think. The Joy Reid Show. Make sure you subscribe to it right now. And where can they follow you Joy?

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I would love to come back. Please, please. I appreciate Yeah. Thank you for coming to teach today. Don't be a stranger. I would love to come back I appreciate you. Thank y'all. She was quoting them Dragon Ball Z names up to last year I love it. I'm so proud of you. Thank you. It's Joyann Reed. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club Morning everybody it's EJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren be coming with straight facts. Tell her, tell her! Man, she gets in from somebody that knows somebody.

She gets the details. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on this. She sound the biggest. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes she have a little bit of everything. But what's the latest? On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. So today is the last day of testimony in Diddy's trial.

Both the prosecutors and the defense are set to rest their case today. People have been asking the whole time, will Diddy take the stand? Diddy will not take the stand because the defense, Diddy's legal team does not plan to call any witnesses to the stand. Is that a good thing or bad thing? Because I know you'd be reaching out sometimes. The fact that they don't have a witness to put on the stand, is that them feeling like we don't have it or is it them like, ah, the prosecution didn't do its job, we got this? From what I was told, it is a good theory to believe that the defense feels as though they don't have anything to prove because the

Prosecution has not done a good job of proving what they're alleging was done I feel like nothing the prosecution put together a compelling case, especially in the beginning I just don't know if jurors will look at Diddy as a criminal or just a violent freak See, but that's the conversation right now and people are having the conversation of you know was just was this just bedroom policing or were You know the crimes that they're alleging he committed, you know Something that he came together or thought of in his mind and executed in this like mass Enterprise takeover the way that this whole thing has been presented even if it's bedroom policing There was definitely some police brutality that was going

veteran policing, there was definitely some police brutality that was going on. Because what can he say? He know these escorts did come, they did have sex with Cassie. Yes they did and he took it and rubbed it on his nipple. So they did come, right? And they did have sex with Cassie, right? Because she said it. But how do you fight that? Do you say I wasn't paying for that and it just happened?

There's also audio of like voice notes, like they played a voice note in court of Diddy saying that he wanted to fly and wanted to escort, but what the defense is going to lean on from- I didn't fly you in for sex, I just flew you into a cutoff. Your time and you know, to be in the vibes of everything and if in that time that you're here, you know, we as consensual adults choose to get into whatever sexual activity, that is so separate than what you were brought here for.

So that's, I'm sure what they're going to lean on. And that's what's being reported. And that's what, you know, again, I've been told that all these theories that people are sourcing are not bad theories to believe in how they're going to go. And the reason why people are beginning to talk theory is because once the closing arguments come, that's all you have left to do is like now you're trying to drive home what your theory is, like what you want the jurors to remember last. So if they both rest today, when will they be, when will a juror get-

The defense is not resting today. Yeah, she said they might probably both. Potentially they can rest today because they're not presenting any witnesses. What they're going to do is, and what they have been doing is they've entered in different evidence. So like for instance, there's been like additional freak off video shown. They're going to do text messages. Yesterday in court, they're playing audio recordings.

And what they're trying to show is everything was consensual. So will the closing remarks be today or probably tomorrow? No, no, no. The closing remarks, depending on where the defense gets today, right? So if the defense rests today, they'll have to figure out that scheduling. But if they don't rest today, they'll have Wednesday and the closing remarks will be Thursday with the prosecution in the defense. But if they close today, like if they rest today, yes, closing remarks will then start.

So Diddy might be out for 4th of July or he might be in jail for 4th of July. What are you talking about? I don't even move like that. I don't know. But you said it would happen before 4th of July. But you still have to let the jury deliberate. Then there is a verdict. But you said it has to happen.

The judge wants it to happen before 4th of July. He wants it to. But if there's more time needed, you have to give the jury what they need. And also there's still steps after the jury says guilty, not guilty, there's different, you gotta go. There's like processes of things before he just was like, Hey, I'm here. Envy trying to throw a party for this nigga.

What you gotta want? I am not. What's the DJ? I am not. I am so confused. You had Lauren on the stand just now. Like you was in the fix. You said.

You said. You took a deposit. Did you take a deposit or something? No, I'm not no damn Serac boy. I do, understand just now. Like you was in defense like damn. You said, you took a deposit. Did you take a deposit or something? No, I'm not no damn Sarac boy. I do, yes you are. And you better stop lying. I said anymore. I feel like the Diddy trial is gonna end in a hung jury.

If not a hung jury, I don't see him getting convicted on all counts. But don't listen to me. I don't think he'll get convicted. I think it's gonna be, I don't think he'll get convicted at all. I don't think it's not gonna be not guilty. I don't believe that. I definitely don't think you'll get convicted. I think it's gonna be, I don't think you'll get convicted at all. I don't think it's not gonna be not guilty. I don't believe that.

I definitely don't believe that. I think so. No. I think so. No. You're not trying to put some money on it? Hung jury, he won't get convicted on all counts, but it ain't gonna be not guilty.

I think hung jury are not guilty. All across the board. No way. I think the biggest thing is, for the jurors, it's like- What's the punisher? According to the testimony. The biggest thing. Yo, this is such an unserious place for it to be so serious.

Did you see the other guy talking that talk? The other guy was talking crazy. He was talking spicy. Which one? He was crazy, didn't the punisher? What? He was talking crazy. He was like, my...

You know what I'm saying? Was that the Annihilator? Who is it? I don't know what his name is. He was like, my meat, three times the size of Puffy's meat. You saw the interview? I saw the interview. I saw the interview.

I saw the interview. I saw the interview. I saw the interview. I saw the interview. I saw the interview. I who is it? I don't know what his name is He was like my my meat three times the size of Biggie's of Puffy's meat You saw the interview you saw that on the interview never mind biggie Yeah, I know you did you right? I know you did you be tuned in I know you so I know interview you talk about Okay, so I think the biggest thing here is like a lot of people feel like this isn't the case that they thought it would Be I think people expect it to hear. Yeah, just a lot more like I mean the stuff that you heard was Aggregious and it was crazy. But I think people just I don't know they expected to hear more. I disagree

He must have forgot that fast man, you don't remember the first couple of days and all the things that came out I know of the things but for some reason people were still feeling like, yo, the government wasted our time, our money. And TMZ is actually reporting that they have it from a good source. And I've told that this is not a bad theory to lean into either, that in the closing arguments, the defense might even bring up the fact that the HSI agents, the Homeland Security Investigators that have been on the stand, that was one of the last witnesses actually, they wasted their time when HSI Homeland Security should be worried about you know the current possible war and things like that. Why you here when there's a

war going on? We don't even know what was on them tapes that they found. We didn't get to see anything. Exactly. So how can we say that was a waste of time? The jurors know though. Yeah the jurors know. I think the prosecution put together a compelling case. Like I said, especially in the beginning I just don't know if jurors will look at him as a criminal or just you know, a violent father freak. Yeah Well, this is you spoke to Rolling Stone Charlamagne and Became out yesterday you is about being able to say what you want to say. Well the feature is about a lot of different things. They were just talking about like, you know, my career and the businesses that I have now and they were asking me some cultural things that are happening now.

Yes, they did ask about whether, you know, Diddy... His involvement with Diddy? Not the involvement, but more so in the vein of him being able to say how he feels and be truthful about things, which is what his career has been based on. They talked to him about whether the theory that this is this whole Diddy thing is just a whole big conspiracy to take down a wealthy black man. And I thought you made a really good point of like that conspiracy is there because we have seen black men be taken down.

But we got to separate accountability in certain situations from black men who've actually been targeted by the government for certain things. I mean, of course, we know things like coin tell pro exists. We know what J Edgar Hoover's whole motives was. We know that that that conspiracy is rooted in something real. But some people just got bad habits. You know what I mean? Like, y'all ain't the Black Panthers. Y'all not the nation of Islam. You're not Martin Luther King Jr. Like, no, you just got bad habits and you like baby oil and pink cocaine. Yeah.

And semen on your nipple. And semen on your nipple. Seriously, some people just got bad habits. This ain't got nothing to do with no conspiracy theory. That everybody always wants to say something is a shakedown. If you don't give them nothing to shake, they can't shake nothing. Yeah.

It was a good article. Make sure you all check that out in Rolling Stone, the feature. Yeah, it was really good. It wasn't just about Diddy either. You talked about Kai Sanat and the streamers and just how things have changed over time. Why did you leave it there? You should have left it there. Because we were talking about Diddy either. You talked about Kai Sanat and the streamers and just how things have changed over time. Why did you leave it there? You should have left it there.

Because we were talking about Diddy and I thought his take was really good because ain't nobody going to say that out loud. That was a good segue. Great. Alright. Yo, this nigga, Shalameh is funny, yo. He is funny. And you just never know. But yes, go check it out in Rolling Stone magazine right now. I think it's on digital now, but the print will be out in a couple weeks All right. Well, that is the latest with Lauren All right when we come back We got the people's choice mix and got to remind you guys

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Let me tell you something, man. It is a dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power. And I promise you, if you a man, you're gonna read this book and you're gonna keep putting it down. Okay? Cause it is a lot, all right? And especially if you got daughters.

But the thing I like about it, and I told Mandy and Weezy this before, and I said it when they was here, they explore their shadow sides out loud. Like the things that you might only talk about with yourself or the things you might only talk about with your therapist. Like those deepest, darkest fantasies and desires. They live that out loud.

They've done that on their podcast Decisions Decisions when it was horrible decisions and now they put that in this book, No Holes Barred. So make sure you go out there and get that and go check them out tonight at Word in Brooklyn. Okay, at 7 p.m. Nice, and then also this weekend, your girl, Jess Hilarious and your guy, Desi Alexander, will be in Virginia Beach at the Funny Bone Comedy Club. We got two shows on Friday, two shows on Saturday.

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You know, my daughters have the finals or the nationals which is kind of like the World Series or Super Bowl of dance competition Salute Brooklyn Brooklyn dance yesterday. She won nine awards She danced she had two solos so she came first and second with her solo so yes she she killed it she won nine awards yesterday and she won Miss title so she really really killed it I'm so proud of her and London dancers today so we'll see what London is able to pull out today but congratulations to both of them and salute to all dance dads I know everybody has nationals this week so salute to all the dads out there it's

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