The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Megan Thee Stallion Says Klay Thompson Was Cheating & Got Cold Feet + Mario Carbone Interview

Episode Date: April 27, 2026

Today on The Breakfast Club, Mario Carbone talks Carbone Beach, Major Food Group, authenticity, and expanding into new cuisines. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to Dana Bash after pressing Rep. Jamie Raskin over Democrats toning down their rhetoric against Trump. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good morning. What an amazing weekend. and hopefully you guys had a great weekend. Salute to everybody that came out to the fourth annual Black Effect podcast festival. Man, had a great time. Man, we had a ball, man. You know, the beautiful thing about the podcast festival is, like, you know, when we first started it, it was all about, like, the entertainment of podcasting, people who used to, you know, just like to experience podcast.

But now it's become like a networking event, right? It's the people who just, who not only like the entertainment of podcasting, but the business of podcasting as well. So, man, we had an amazing time Saturday in Atlanta at Pullman Yards, man. Yes, yeah, I sure did, man. And salute to all the podcasts, everybody that stepped on that stage, had an amazing podcast. And I tried to walk around. I tried to get to the merch area or the village. What do you call it?

The Black Effect Marketplace. I tried to get to the Marketplace. As I started to walk, there was so many people that just wanted to take pictures and have a conversation that I felt like it was creating, like, anybody who walked out there was just creating too much for the people on stage. So I had to kind of go back. They show so much love. So I just want to salute to everybody that came out there. I mean, when I had to say, it was just so positive.

And it's just, it felt like a family reunion. So that's what it feels like every year, family affair, man. Like, you know, and salute to all the podcasters who hit the stage. Of course, drink champs, N-R-E, DJEFN. They bought out Cilo Green and Kay Michelle. Salute to the Don't Call Me White Girl podcast. Mona, Mona came out there. Keep it positive, sweetie.

She had Crystal Renee Hasslett. She had Carisha with her. Jeff Teague and the Club 520 podcast They had Nav Green Reality with the King Carlos King was out there Gritchin' Eggs podcast Deonti Kaub Big Ice Cup cat

Everybody who pulled up Michael Bivens was there just sitting in the crowd Mike Bivens He wanted to see the show That's right Cheryl Lunderwood pulled up Clarissa Shields pulled up

Who else pulled up Duval? Doeval of course dropping the clues bombs below Duval He pulled up He blessed the stage D1 so many different people man I can't

A lot of people We got a long show I remember more people as the show goes off And salute to Dolly Dolly is the one that was running everything I mean Dolly treats me like I'm a child And I love it She had my ox tail and rice and peas

Sitting there ready waiting for me She had my water She had my room Hey oh man y'all treat me great I ain't even going to lie man I felt at home so again What you try to do I think Dolly is the president of the Black Effect

Podcast Network she's the reason that the Black Effect is successful and the other reason I salute Dolly not only do I love her That's my family for real but, you know, she's recovering from cancer. Yes. So it's like literally, like literally fresh out. Yes.

Fresh out of surgeries and everything else. And was out there, you know, holding it down this Saturday, man. So salute to Dolly Bishop. That's right. And also over the weekend, last night, I know Shalaman, I know you didn't get a chance to see it. But I got a chance to see Michael last night. Really? Oh, man.

I brought the whole family out, you know, eight, it was eight seats we took. And, oh, man, it was such an amazing movie. Drop a bomb. over two hours. And when I say I had, I enjoyed from the very beginning to the end, oh man, it's such a great movie. We're going to be talking about it more and more and more. But I mean, oh, my goodness.

I haven't heard anything bad about it from actual people. But, you know, the folks that like to be critics, right? And who always like to have these think pieces with no thought, they got all of these things to say about it. But just everyday people that I know, they love it. Yeah, I mean, and everything that people went, oh, I want to know about the trial. It didn't even happen yet.

Like, you could tell there's going to be a couple of parts to this movie. This ain't just a bohemian racity where it just ends. That was just part one. And it tells you at the end, part one, it tells you his mind frame as a kid and how his father, Joe Jackson, was on him so much. And he was scared of his dad and what he had to do to overcome it. His relationship with his mother, his relationship with his brother, why he wanted to be on his own and staying on his own.

It's so much. We'll get into it more and how much it did. But can we start to show up with some Michael this morning, please? Michael Jackson lives forever That's right Michael Jackson is forever You hear me I know that y'all keep trying to ruin Michael's name

And you know ruins Michael's credibility I don't know what Michael did to piss y'all off But Michael Jackson's gonna live forever Yes he absolutely is Now Mario Carbone will be joining us today We're gonna be kicking it with him in a little bit You know he's the owner of Carbone And if you see all the sauces

And his easy club we'll talk to him But here's Michael Jackson Mee's up next front page news Want to be started something Michael Michael Jackson I can't wait to go see the Michael Jackson movie man And you know what we've been talking about a long time, if you listen to the Breakfast Club?

We're talking about real superstars. You get to see that in the movie. The fact that people were just sitting outside his house for days and hours just to see a glimpse of them. The fact that people are fainting and falling out. You get to see a glimpse of that. Well, let's be clear. Michael Jackson is an anomaly because there's only one Michael Jackson.

Yes. I don't even know what you call Michael. There's superstars and then there's stars. Michael was something else. That's why y'all sound so ridiculous when y'all be like, This person is to do Michael Jackson. No, you're not. No.

Okay? It's like Michael's up there, bro. They say Jesus, Michael, and that's what they say. Jesus and Michael. I don't even know what I'm saying. I'm up there with them too. Okay? Of course Jesus is Jesus.

That's all time. Right. But then there's Michael. Then there's Michael. I'm just saying, then there's Michael. All right. Well, let's get in some front page news. Start off with some quick sports.

Last night, Rockers beat the Lakers 115-96. Celtics beat the 76 is 128-96. Raptors beat the Cavaliers, 93-89, Spurs beat the Trailblazers, 1-14-93 and Saturday night, the Knicks tied up the series with the Hawks. What's up, Mimi?

Good morning, NB, Shalameen. How y'all doing this morning? Good morning. So we start this morning with developing news out of Washington after a shooting scare at the White House Correspondence dinner. Authorities say a gunman carrying multiple weapons

tried to break through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton, where President Trump was attending the event. Now shots were fired as law enforcement moved in. The suspect quickly taken into custody before he could enter that ballroom. And this all unfolding just minutes after dinner began. Witnesses say they heard a loud noise followed by chaos, people ducking, staff running, and security rushing into position.

I spoke with April Ryan, who's been a White House correspondent for several outlets for about 30 years. She was in the room at the time of the shooting. Let's listen to her eyewitness account. Late Saturday night at the White House Correspondence Dinner that there was a shooting. I know that you were in attendance. Can you tell us what you heard, what you saw? It sounded like, and I mean, this has happened in the past that a tray full of many plates had fallen. And we heard this big boom.

And then another came. And it was a series of boom, boom, boom. And I was like, uh-uh. I knew what it was my. A colleague and I immediately went to the floor. After the second or third, boom, boom, it was not normal. It was not what we thought. And apparently, the shooter was above the stairwell.

He was at the top of the stairwell that's right outside the door that we were like maybe three or four tables from. I think some of the people really weren't taking it seriously for whatever reason, if it was alcohol or what. But it was a serious situation. Yeah, a very serious official say the suspect 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen exchanged gunfire with law enforcement outside that ballroom. They say he was carrying multiple weapons, including a handgun, a shotgun, and knives. So I asked April how something like that could happen. Shouldn't there be security measures in place so someone couldn't bring, you know, weapons into that ballroom? And this is what she had to say about that.

You had to have your ticket, show your ticket to come through. and they had a lot of staff dotted around as you went through the magnetometers. That was manned by TSA, believe it or not. And you had to show the ticket before you were able to get through the magnetometer. We stayed in the same hotel, the host hotel that day. And typically, over the years, the hotel and security would work together hand-in-handed, and it would shut down the elevators at a certain time. That was shut down the perimeter so you couldn't move around if a president was there.

This president was there along with the vice. president, along with other prime cabinet secretaries. The elevators were not shut down. Not only were the elevators not shut down, I was able to get into the elevator without using my key card and press buttons and go to any floor. With security so inept and so lax because we've had so many cuts to programs by Doge, did Doge impact it? Because what used to happen at those dinners with prior presidents was not in place this time. That is crazy. That is crazy.

And I do have one question. They said that it was an exchange of, I guess, fire and gunfire between each other. But he didn't get shot, did he? He did not get shot. There was a Secret Service agent that was wearing a bulletproof vest that did get shot, but he was okay. And really quickly, I just wanted to point out that she said that you could go to any elevator. So investigators believe that he checked into that hotel a day or two before the event. And that is how he was able to bring those weapons.

and he didn't have to go through that metal detector or anything. He was already in the hotel. And with security so lax, you could just, you know, come down to the floor where the event was being held. And so that's what they're looking at. They did say initially he got killed, though, right? Didn't they say that? In the very beginning, we talked about that too. There was some miscommunication or misinformation in the beginning.

There's so much happening, so much chaos. They said that, you know, he was shot and killed. But no, he was not shot and killed. He's actually a scheduled to be arraigned later today in the Washington, D.C. area. You know, the next thing. The narrative online is that this was fake, it was staged, you know what I'm saying? And listen, it's quite possible it could be fake. I have no idea what's real anymore.

The reality is we are going to spend the rest of our lives questioning if things are real. But it's also quite possible that the Trump administration has caused so much pain, the people's everyday lives, that folks are fed up and willing to risk it all. Okay, there are plenty of people who want to go out like, what was this guy's name, Luigi, what's it, Luigi Mangione? Yes. Mangione. Yes. There's so many people that would like to go out like his. because they are hurting and they are hurting because of the actions of this government and they want revenge.

So let's not be so quick to say it's fake. Yeah, we take the pain people of feeling off the table. Yeah, but what I will say, this is the secret service, right? A man came in here with all those guns and nobody shot him. He's not dead right now. He fired at them and he's not dead and then not only that, how is he able to get in that hotel? I've been overseas where before I even get to the hotel, they make me go through metal detectives. And there was no president there.

So the fact the president is they're people just walking in. They're not necessarily checking tickets the right way. They were very relaxed. I think what April said is true. I mean, you know, when you make all of these cuts to all of these different organizations, man, you know what I'm saying? Things aren't as tight as they used to be. So, because when I watched the video, dude just ran in. Yes.

Like super. He was fast, too. God damn. He was fast. I was like that. Am I watching this on full speed? Yeah. Yeah.

Like, he ran in crazy. But, yeah, I don't, I'm shocked he didn't shoot no buck. I'm shocked he didn't get in and those shots didn't hit nobody. You said they hit the Secret Service and he had a bulletproof vest on. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what April Hunter is saying. I did ask her about it being fake, but she said to them inside, whether it was staged or it was fake, it was very real in that moment.

What was happening, everyone was terrified. What makes it fake is, you know, everything that you just said in via how the fact that security could be so lax. But also how everybody's messaging on the right immediately was this is why we need. this ballroom. This is why we need the ballroom. It's like this is not why we need gun control. This is not why we need, you know, mental health initiatives in this country, like a ballroom. Yeah, that sounds great. This is where your mind goes immediately. If we had the ballroom, we're going to have to worry about this. So let's build a ballroom. Like what? Just make no sense. All right. All right. Well, coming up at seven, we're going to talk about that 60 minutes interview

that Donald Trump gave right yesterday on Sunday speaking more about this incident. All right. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 8. 585105.1. If you need to vent phone lines are wide open, it's the breakfast club the morning. Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Shalaman. Gizzy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest.

I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. We lie! Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Blake. What's up? What's up? Blake, talk to us. Get it off your chest, brother. I'm blessed black. I'm highly savors, man.

I just telling my, celebrating my birthday and Friday. that I couldn't get in on Friday. Hey, happy birthday, bro. Happy birthday, Blake. I want to just, I mean, yeah, I want to just do the, you know, celebrating a birthday today, you know, have my name on there, but I couldn't get it. Okay. Oh.

Well, happy belated birthday, King. There you go. What do you do? You do anything fun this weekend? I went to see the Michael Jackson movie. Oh, how was it? You liked it? Look, if you didn't want to whip Joe Jackson there, as you didn't watch the movie.

Yo, my kids hated Joe Jackson after the movie. Like, it was like, Dad, he's a jerk. Oh, he's a jerk. I mean, they showed the side of him getting Michael and getting the brothers in order and how, fact that they were so scared of him. They showed the evil side of him. When he got burned, he was like, when are he going to be able to get back on the stage? Damn.

Yeah, it was nasty. Yeah, he was, wow. And I wanted to see if I can get a book from you all. I know, Jazz, your book coming out. Tomorrow. Yeah, it comes out. tomorrow. So death do we parent.

I want to see if I can get a book from all of y'all, you know. Okay. All right. We'll put you a hole and we got you. All right. Appreciate it. All right.

Stop lying to people, man. We really got to send these people with these books, man. Just book come out tomorrow until death do we parent, okay? I'm sure we can get them a copy. Absolutely, absolutely. Yo, I heard that Joe Jackson didn't beat them on the movie.

He got to go see. He did. Yeah, I heard somebody put on Instagram. He didn't even beat them. He did. I don't know what they were watching. He did. He probably just heard it from everybody else online.

No, No, they lied. He did. Belt the ass. Damn. Hello. Who's this? Good morning. My breakfast club family.

It's your boy. Lovey from the ball. Lovey. What's up, Lovey? Yeah, I want to say thank you for my breakfasts family. The Black Effect Podcast Festival was a certified. Fli. Thank you, my brother.

And when you announced me when I came in, like Indy said, that caused problems. You had people coming up to me. When a lady came up to me and asked me as a 13-19-8. had part of the meet and greet. I was like, nah, we're not doing that. That's a real meet and greet.

That's a real meet for real. Damn. But shout out to the whole thing. I got to finally meet Taylor in person. I got to meet Mimi. But a shout-up to the whole thing. That was a certified by. My niece,

Bree, was loving God. She wants to shout you out too, Salomey. She said, thank you for taking time and talk to her. Nah, this salute to Bree, man. Thank you for pulling up, Love you. I appreciate this support for real.

Can I ask you a question? How can we watch it live? Like, how can we watch the, um, because I missed the first half hour. I had a little problems at the door, but that's all right. Well, you know, it's crazy. You know, people will be wanting us to scream it. We had offers to scream it this year.

But, you know, Dali was like that. She feels like that takes away from the experience of people who actually want to come, you know. So, you know, who knows. Maybe next year, next year we might. Nah, Lovie. There's your way that we could watch it back, though. You walked in when we were opening the show, Lovie. I think you got, I think you've seen everything.

Yeah, I missed like the first, 10 minutes at all. Okay. Oh, so you missed Gritchin' Eggs podcast. Right, right. They were getting off. Yeah, right.

Okay. Appreciate you. It was definitely a certified vibe. It was like a family union. It was. I can't wait to next year. Envi, when's your car show? We'll be announcing them

probably this week and next week. We got a couple of people on the more. I'll see you in Brooklyn, Jess. Yeah, this Thursday. Yes, sir. Thank you so much. I see you this Thursday. Thank you, Lovie.

Get it off your chest. 800, 585, 105. One. need the event. Hit us up now. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. 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 next. 800-585-1051.

Not just me. I'm with the coach of feeling. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up, DJ, Envi. What's up, Jess? What up? Shablin'allel. Man, you're just your boy, Kev from the Bay area. How y'all doing, man? Yeah, from the Bay. What's up? Okay, Kay. Hey, I got a question for y'all. I'm over here chilling in a hospital with my daughter, so just pray for me.

But I was watching this Trump situation that happened, and I was thinking to myself. Now, he got shot a couple, couple years ago in the ear. Nobody's ever checked on him saying, what does that scar look like in his ear? Has everybody ever checked his ear to see if he really got shot? You know what I'm saying? But they had this attempt today. So I'm just kind of like, you know, get off my chest. Like, is this real?

You know, I'm always saying, like, this stuff is crazy how this guy's always being in a him like a WDBE character, but, you know, yeah, like really zoomed in on his ear and checked on it. I'm like, come on, man. Yeah, I mean, but you know what? That's why I keep saying, like, you know, everybody keeps saying that, uh, it's fake, it's fake.

It might be, you know, but also, too, nobody ever says to themselves, is the Trump administration the drama? Why do these things keep happening to y'all? These things weren't happening to other people. Right. Hello, who's this? Yes. Hi, how are you?

This is Stacy. What's up, Stacey? You're saying on out. Stacey, what's up? Oh, no, I am. I'm very one-out. Okay, so, Charlaman, I'm not mad. I know that you are very busy.

But remember I called last Monday to see if I can do the Black Effect. So I actually rented a car. I actually rented an Airbnb. I got to Atlanta Wednesday and was baking all the way up to Saturday morning. I got to the Black. effect and I wasn't on the list. So they turned me away. There was no way for me to get in contact with you.

I even asked them, can they just, like, get you? And it was like, no. Oh, I thought you was in there. No, I spent over like $1,000 getting ready for it. Now, I'm not broke. So I'm not even wondering about the money part. You understand what I'm saying? and I know that you were just so busy,

but I wasn't even on the list. You know what I'm saying? Mind you, I live in New York. It took me over like 19 hours to drive there because I was like so tired. So like, I love y'all. Hold on. See, this is where the miscommunication came in.

I thought you just wanted to be at the show. You wanted to be a vendor and actually sell your cupcakes. Yeah. Oh, see, that's a different conversation. I thought you just wanted to come to, to the Black and FAC podcast, I didn't know you wanted to be out there hustling your cupcakes. Oh, got it. Okay.

And Stacy, you do know, Stacy, and you know, I love you, Stacy. You do know when you have food at your venue. I know, listen, I'm not mad at y'all. But no, but you do know when you have food at a venue, there's certain permits and things that you have to have before you have the show. You know, we dug it out with you, Stacey, when you come to the car shows, but we're not supposed to. But, you know, you're supposed to have certain permits as a food vendor to make sure that you approve certain things so that we don't get in trouble. And I don't know if you gave them enough time to do that. Yeah, no.

No, I definitely didn't. Remember, I called Monday. It was late. It was late. So, okay. So, no, I knew it was a miscommunication because y'all don't, y'all treat me good. Y'all don't do me like that.

So I knew it was a miscommunication. So you weren't in the event at all? No, they turned me away. Like, when I got there, I said, hey, I'm Stacy. I'm doing cupcakes. So actually the lady let me through at first You understand? But then

I remember you said something about Dolly in the conversation So once they got Dolly on the phone It was like, no, he wasn't approved To be there So like they made me leave Well next year you got to apply to be a vendor There you go

Got it understood Yeah we'll make it happen for you next year Okay Okay got you All right All right you have a good day All right you too Stacey. And it's Atlanta, you know, you pull up

talking about, yo, I got cupcakes for, you know, Charlemagne, like, people would be like, what? So does everybody else. Right to the back door. Get it off your chest. 800585-105-105.1. Now we got the latest with Lauren coming up. Good morning. We do.

So, I'm in love. Hey, L.L. Cool, Bay. Hey, so, okay, over the weekend, the Michael Jackson Biopic came out. I know you went to go see it. The box office numbers are in. Okay? We're going to know.

We're going to really talk about it because a lot of people I feel like I shut up after this weekend. Yes. I think a lot of people were sh- They were just following what they thought they should. The movie was amazing. We'll talk about it. Yes.

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My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day and I was like and dad I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said if it was based solely on talent I wouldn't worry about you which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes but there's so much luck involved. And he's like just give it a shot he goes but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down,

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Talk to me All right guys So the Michael Jackson Biopic had its opening weekend Over this weekend I know I want to go see NV, I know you went to go see it. You guys are still waiting to go,

but it made history. It opened with 97 million in the U.S. and 207 million globally. This is the biggest domestic opening of all time for any biopic. And, I mean, it surpassed Oppenheimer, as well as, you know, when it became the biggest global opening,

it's the biggest global opening for a music biopic after overcoming, you know, some of the critics and some of the things that people had to say. And it actually came in early, it came in with nearly $30 million more than people predicted it would do within this first weekend

now this is just the numbers as of a Sunday so yeah now I mean nobody's to be surprised it's Michael Jackson guys I mean Michael Jackson is the biggest he's always been the biggest I yeah I seem like they try to hate on a little bit with the rotten tomatoes and trying to say that it wasn't as good as it was but

but the rotten tomatoes has two different things it has what the critics thinks and has what the audience the audience had a high score the critics didn't you know I don't I don't care about the critics when it comes to Michael Jackson because Michael Jackson amassed so much power in the music industry that they have been trying to tear this man down ever since. So I expected the critics to have negative things to say about the movie. I was selling envy after seeing the movie. I felt like it's sad that there are certain people or certain generations that will only that only talk about Michael Jackson because of all the negative stuff that you're talking about.

Because when you watch the movie, you're like, yo, not only was he just like the king and so great, but his heart just seems so like. So much for so many people. With so much pressure on him. He stayed in the children's hospital talking to kids, giving gifts, giving toys, giving money. Hold on now. I'm not going to sit in and lie to y'all and act like when Michael Jackson was alive that he didn't get criticism too. Like they used to call him wacko jacko. Of course.

You know, everybody had spoofs and they used to mock Michael Jackson even back then. But I mean, he's still Michael Jackson. Do all of that. Yeah. When they get into a lot of like, you know, they go from like the family situation with a different family device. They do get into the Vidalago. his relationship with his dad kind of when he restructured his life and career

when he became a solo artist and one of the attorneys that they mentioned in the film is actually one of the attorneys currently still working on the estate like when I reach out I was like oh my God like you know so all these years later you know people are close but speaking of people being close Jafar Jackson his nephew that played him amazing job right like I mean when I say he captured the essence

the movements like I went back and rewatch some of the moments and I was like yo it's crazy how he got that downpacked He talked to GQ over the weekend about how this was his first ever acting room. Let's take a listen. I got a call from Graham King. He asked if I ever acted before. I told him no. I've never acted.

I never wanted to. And he's telling me about the story of how he wants to tell Michael's story. And at this time, there was no studio attached. There was no director attached. It was very early on. The script wasn't ready yet. He asked, would you be open to acting? I was like, I need to really think about it before just diving into it.

I don't want to just try it just for fun. So I told him, let me think about it for a couple of days. I didn't really hear back for some time. So I said, you know what? I'm just going to text him a voice note of me speaking as Michael to the best of my ability at that time and also singing a song or two. I sang a Peter Pan song that Michael, he never sang it officially,

but it was more so off the record. And he called me right away and said, I'm getting you a kosher tomorrow. And that was the starting point of when I really started to try out acting. The fact that he never acted And when you see it You'll be so impressed the way he embodied Michael And I know Michael's his family member

So it's a little closer But the way he embodied Michael The dance and the singing The just the mannerisms and what we were able to see Phenomenal job I wonder how much time he spent with Michael When Michael was alive Because I think what DeFar would have been like what

13 when Michael died maybe I was even now He was born in 96 I know that I'm not for sure how old he is now But he talks about in that interview growing up in the house and Encino that they talk a lot about in the movie

and kind of, you know, like, and being around. So yes. And he worked with the choreographers, some choreographers who were actually on tour with Michael Jackson too. So every, it's just,

it's very close. You get a very close feel for, just what was happening at the time because there's a lot of people involved that were involved at the time. You saw the movie this weekend and you went in Atlanta? Yeah, I went in Atlanta.

I missed my Friday show, so I went back on Sunday before I flew out. How was that theater? It was cool. Everybody was chilling. No, it was packed. Yeah, it was packed. There was some people dressed up,

but it was definitely packed. People would say after debating the movie and all those things. Did you cry? I heard it was very emotional for a lot of people. I didn't cry, but it made me feel like it just makes you want to do better and do more. It makes you understand. You'll ever be Michael Jackson. I just want to throw that out now.

I know that. It means I don't be Michael Jackson. Sometimes you have to remind people you'll never be Michael Jackson. His work ethic, though. Yes. And his work ethic, his no excuse ethic, his intention. Makes you understand some of the things that, you know, they called them wacko jackal like Shalamey said,

because I think a lot of people didn't understand. the things that he did his love with animals and him thinking animals was his friend because he didn't have many friends as a kid and it was a bad down. I think more so what he did his physical appearance. His face too. But there was reasoning for that as well. Yeah, yeah and they talk about it a bit in a little bit, yes, and Jafar was 29. Jafar is 29.

Okay, so he was like, yeah, he was like 12, 13 when Michael died. Last thing before we rap, I know we got a rap. I want to shout out Marcy Rogers. She's a stylist and creative director, Black woman. But she laid, all of the costume and wardrobeing on this film and they did an amazing job at that too like getting everything like really right in it the look and the feel so yeah and I hope

the Jackson estate is working on part two right now they have to be yeah because it ends at part one it ends in 1988 a lot of people think oh the sexual assault should be there the kids should be there it didn't happen yet is this it just ends in 1980 I have told y'all this a million times I don't care

about none of that unless they're going to tell me about how that wasn't true if you're not going to tell me that the FBI I investigated this man for 17 years and didn't find nothing. If y'all not going to really stress the fact that he was found not guilty in a court of law for all of this stuff, if you're not going to tell me all of that and show me all of that, him dancing on the car after the court trial, I don't care. I need to show me how he bought, you know, the Beatles publishing and then owned half of ATV publishing with Sony and owned half of the music industry publishing. If you're not going to show me all of that and show me why he probably was getting attacked.

the way he was attacked because he was so powerful. I don't care. That was a movie that were debating that right there, that point right there too. But like I said, it ended in 88. They got a lot more to go. A lot more to go. And I will say this last thing.

Hold on, didn't they say that at the end of the movie too? Didn't they say? Yes. Part one. His story continues. So I don't understand why everybody was so mad

at the abrupt ending. That's right. People just want to be mad because I was like, of all the things y'all could have been yelling me to be in this film. The stuff that we got to see, they could even went more in depth.

There are so many different movies. And it was two hours long. Listen, it didn't seem like two hours. It was two hours long. And I don't know why Janet Jackson was allegedly mad because I didn't see anything in the movie that would make somebody upset. It played out great to me. Well, she wasn't in it?

By choice. By choice. By choice. All right. Well, we'll open up the phone lines. Did you see the Michael Jackson movie? Michael, did you see it? What were your thoughts?

800-585-105-1. Did you love it? Did you like? Let's discuss. When we come back, we got front-page news. Then we'll take your calls. It's the breakfast club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. main the guy we are the breakfast club let's get in some front page news start off for some quick sports now over the weekend the Knicks tied the series 2 2 hey can I say something about

that um I'm happy for the Knicks you know what I mean not like I care to be honest with you but Saturday night the Knicks played Atlanta in Atlanta and they said that 60% I don't know if this is true but they were 60% of the crowd was all New Yorkers yep y'all had Magic City too messed up bro

Magic City you couldn't even get in Magic City Magic City was sold out on Saturday I didn't like that. That was the only thing I didn't like about my Atlanta experience this weekend. Okay, because you know, we go to Magic City,

we have a good time in Magic City. Magic City was literally sold out. There was nothing available. I mean, yes, I'm happy for Magic City, but I'm mad that I couldn't get in there because all of them goddamn New Yorkers that was in town. It ain't another hot strip club in Atlanta

that you could have went to? Yeah, but Magic City is different. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just a different institution in Atlanta. You know, put it like this. There was other spots we contemplated going, but it wasn't moving me to go.

If it was magic, I'd have been like, all right, we out. Well, the Rockins beat the Lakers 1.15.96. Celtics beat the 76 is 128-96. Rapids beat the Cavaliers, 93-89, and the Spurs beat the Trailblazers is 114. Ninety-three. Why you ain't called Mr. Magic? It didn't matter. It was sold out.

It was nothing they could do. Oh, damn. Damn. That would have been in there with all them damn people? No. I need to be in my private room in the back. Mimi, what's up, Mimi? Good morning, Evie. Hey, Jess. How you doing?

Hey, Bob. What's going on? Sidepart, Bob, giving. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. And so this morning, we're going to continue this hour with President Trump. He's speaking out in a new interview about that shooting scare at the White House Correspondent's Center. So in an interview with 60 minutes, the president said he is trying to watch. He was trying to watch what was happening as the situation unfolded, adding that his hesitation may have slowed secret. service agents down a bit as they tried to move him to safety. Now as agents, they repeatedly told him to get down before escorting him out. But the interview, it spoke a little bit about that, but it also turned very tense when CBS correspondent Nora O'Donnell praised parts of the suspect's manifesto and possibly

revealed a motive. Let's listen to that exchange. The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. he writes this quote administration officials they are targets and he also wrote this i'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes what's your reaction well i was waiting for you to read that because i knew you would because you're you're horrible people you did write that i'm not a rapist i didn't rape anybody oh you think do you think he was referring to you

Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things. I'm not any of those things. Mr. President, these are the gunmen's words. Excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that on 60 minutes. You're a disgrace. What is he defending? If it doesn't apply, let it fly. But clearly something she said, he felt like it applied. Right, but she ain't even make it up. Like she was reading what the guy said. But I love what she said.

You think he was referring to you? She should have actually bought that back. So you think he was referring to you. Yeah. She ain't really saying like she can. She kept on going. She ain't care. A hit dog will holler, right?

So who knows exactly, you know, what the president was, what the, the manifest? Tustle was referring to, clearly it was referring to the Trump administration, and he took that very, very personal. But I wanted to talk a little bit about the suspect. So we know him as 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen. And according to his LinkedIn profile, he studied mechanical engineering and later worked as a tutor after being named Teacher of the Month last year. And again, investigators believe that he traveled from California via train to Washington, D.C. And then during a press conference right after that shooting.

Hold on maybe. He traveled on the plane with all them guns and knives. Yep. That's what they believe that he took a train from Los Angeles to Chicago, then from Chicago to Washington, D.C. There's no metal detects on trains? I don't take the train. Is there no metal detects on trains? I don't take the train even. That is a great question. No. I thought maybe take the train to back to the no, I don't. I don't have driving. Oh, but Envy. Oh, you never took a train to D.C.?

Yeah. I have. See? There ain't no metal detectors. No. I'm just asking. I don't know. I don't know. I don't I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't know, but I didn't know if that train. It should be, but no, it's not on Amtrak. Yeah, well, that may be something that's changing because of this. And during that press conference that they had yesterday, or excuse me, Saturday night, right after that shooting, a reporter asked President Trump,

why does he think that this keeps happening to him? And this was his response. I've studied assassinations. And I must tell you, the most impactful people, the people, the people that do the most, you take a look at the people, Abraham Lincoln, I mean, you go through the people that have, the people that do the most, the people that make the biggest impact, they're the ones that they go after.

They don't go after the ones that don't do much because they like it that way. Just take a look at the names there, the big names. And I hate to say, I'm honored by that, but I've done a lot, we've done a lot. You know, yes, that is the question. Why are you to drama Trump? That is a good question. And why do these things keep happening to you? But he's talking about impact.

Impact doesn't have to be positive. Impact can be negative. That's why I'm telling folks, don't be so quick to say that these situations are fake because there are people out here who have experienced a lot of pain because of the Trump administration. And they're fed up. This administration has caused a lot of pain to people's lives

and folks are fed up and willing to risk it all in a lot of these situations. It doesn't make it right. Let's just say that. That's not right. But, you know, people have fed the F up. Yeah, for sure. And so we will continue watching that. I'm sure that a lot more will come out as the days go on. And lastly, before you book your next flight, there's something you want to hear. So JetBlue, they are facing a lawsuit over claims that it may be using your personal data to change the price of a ticket. So a New York man says the airline, they tracked his information while he was booking a flight. So things like what he was searching for, his personal details, even his payment information, all without his knowledge. And so the lawsuit claims that data that was shared with outside companies, that they're using that in pricing systems to adjust those fares. It's called dynamic surveillance pricing.

So in plain terms, that just means you could be paying more for the same seat based on what the company knows about you. So the complaint argues that passengers shouldn't have to give up their privacy just to buy a ticket and that prices should be the same for all similar seats. And JetBlue is denying that claim saying their ticket prices are not based on. They're based on demand and availability, not your personal data. Mimi, I would tell you this, me and my wife got into a huge argument about this a couple of weeks ago. About, like, because she's going on a trip, and we were booking the tickets. And she was like, don't look it up. Because if you look it up, the price is going to go higher.

You got to look at Tuesday at two in the morning. She had me wake up at Tuesday at two in the morning to look for a goddamn flight. She's right. She's 100% right. The flights are different on different days. That is a fact. I didn't see a change. depending on the time.

Damn. Your science is because you're paying for all of it. That's why. And if you keep searching the same thing over and over again, it does. It feels like it knows that you're looking and the price seems to go up. And people are also saying you should go on incognito mode

so that way they can't see, you know, all your information. That's what she said. Go from a device that you're not signed into or something else. That's what she says. And by the way, I don't even know if that's actually true, but that has always been with. what we've done, like, especially when I was younger. Like, yo, you go on, like, Tuesday at 7 o'clock, the flights be cheaper.

It didn't seem cheaper. She got me up once at Tuesday at 4 in the morning. I'm looking at flights. I'm like, this don't seem no cheaper. It seems to say. Is it a big difference, though? Like, when you do it, Charlotte, is it a, like, I don't know. Mimi, you ever done it and seen a big difference?

I haven't done it on a Tuesday. That's something my mother would say to do, but I do clear my cookies and I do go on incognito mode, and it does, it literally does change. I don't, that might be a thing. Okay. So you can do it in the search bar. I'll show you how to do it, Jess. It's super easy.

All right, y'all, well, that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me. I Mimi for more stories. Follow the Black Information Network. Thank you, Mimi. Thank you. Now, when we come back, let's open up the phone lines.

800-585-105-1. Did you see the MJ movie, Michael? Did you see it? It did, what, 90 million domestic, over 200 million? Hell, no. It did over. 100 domestic. Oh, 100 domestic, over 200 global.

Did you see it? What were your thoughts? I've seen it. I loved it. I bought the whole family. The four-year-old was rocked. I mean, we had such a great time. Let's talk about the micaw movie.

Did you see it? Did you love it? Let's discuss 800-58-105-105-105-1. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's topic time. Call 800-585-105-1 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJNV. just hilarious. Charlemagne Nagar. We are the Breakfast Club if you're just joining us. We're talking about the movie Michael. 800585105-105.1. Did you see it? I seen it last thing when I got back from my crazy weekend from Atlanta in Pittsburgh.

I seen it in a theater. I actually went to a theater. Everything was sold out. I went to a theater where I found where they had... Shut up. You're right. I need you to shut up. You're right. You're right. I need you to shut up. You're giving away secrets for no real. You're right. It wasn't back. I'm mad. I'm mad that you found that spot.

Damn, yo. That's how black people be. Like we can never one share nothing with the other black. Because then it didn't get turned out crazy. I've been there before, but no, it was different. But I'm going to shut up. I'm going to shut up. But experience was amazing.

I thought the movie was one of the best movies I've seen. It gave me that nostalgia. It made me happy. It made me tear up a little bit. I think I understood Michael Jackson. I think I got the feeling of his dad and how they were scared of his dad. It also tells how, why Michael, was the way that he was with animals

and why he was the way he was with kids and why he cared about kids and why he cared about different things. He was a big-ass kid, right? Absolutely. It explained his skin discoloration. Even his nose, you know, his infatuation with Peter Pan

and he wanted the nose because he thought his nose was too big and just not feeling wanted and happened and wanted to be a man on his own. So I love the movie. I can't wait for part two and part three. I think I might go back to see the movie again with the kids. Like, we really, really enjoy it.

Never paid decision to Peter Pan nose? Did they talk about him being a Jehovah Witness? No, they didn't talk about him being you're overwitness. Oh, see, I don't like that now. Come on, now. Represent for the witnesses, now. Nah. But there was a lot. But the movie did well. How good did the movie do this weekend, Lauren? The movie,

the movie grossed $97 million in the U.S. and $217 million globally. It's the biggest domestic opening of all time for any biopic as well as the best global opening for a music biopic. Am I saying? I haven't seen the movie. I guess I just would wonder what would people want.

You know, as a person who's been to see the MJ on Broad play MJ the musical. Everybody that I know that has seen the movie, when I hear them talk about it, it sounds like they're talking about the Broadway play. The Broadway play was great. The Broadway play was focused on nothing but

his music and him trying to get ready for this tour. So it showed him creating off the wall and showed him creating thriller and working with Quincy Jones and getting ready for this tour. So, I mean, it sounds like that's what the movie is about. I was just trying to figure out why everybody was so focused on like the BS because to your point, Charlemagne,

if you've seen any other anything storytelling about Michael Jackson. I feel like they hit all the points that we normally see. I just thought that maybe we might get a glimpse deeper into something. Like, there were certain things I wanted them. What would you want deeper, though? That's my question. I wanted them to go more into the skin, the Vidalgo stuff.

He said he had Vidalgo. They were working on treatment. He really didn't know it was getting worse. It was spreading throughout his own body. They showed it. What else did you want? It was a two-hour movie. I just because I just thought that we, you know, with the family being involved,

I thought we were going to get like some of the secrets that, like, we've never heard before. Like, I just thought that there was going to be. a little more of that in it. But I don't know why, like, because there's so much that you get, I just don't understand how that became the focus so fast. Like, that was a lesson for me, too, of how people focus on things just to get people going.

His father beating his ass and making them perform and him seeing things on television and writing. But those are the stories that you knew, though, right? Like, you knew that stuff happened. What I'm saying is, I wanted a big reveal, like something that we didn't know. Yeah, I just, the family doing the movie. And they're so trusted with all his...

Like, Jafar, who played him, read his personal journals to prepare for that. this. So I think that's why we felt so close to Michael Jackson while watching it. So I just didn't know if there were going to be things that like it's like, oh, I've never heard that in his story before in this movie. And I didn't, a lot of it, I didn't feel like was that. Well, the story continues. So they may put something that we don't know in part too. What was you about to say, sure? I was going to say the only narrative that needs to be told about Michael Jackson is how Michael Jackson was one of the most powerful people in the music industry.

Because when he purchased the Beatles catalog and owned a name a publishing, he literally owned damn near half of the music industries publishing. That was way too much power for one artist, especially a black artist, to have. And it's not a coincidence that as soon as he acquired that power, he started getting the attacks that he got as

far as people trying to accuse him of being a, what was it, I don't know what you call it, a child sex offender or whatever the hell it is. And it's crazy how they use those same tactics, you know, towards people today. But if you're not going to show me that aspect, how he acquired that power, then he got a but also the FBI investigated him for 17 years

and found nothing. Yes. But if you're not going to show me that, don't show me nothing about any of those allegations. We didn't get there yet because we're still in 88. Also, the catalog stuff, I wanted to get some more into that. We didn't get to it yet. He didn't get to it yet.

It's 88. We didn't get to it yet. Hello, who's this? Hey, Tisha from Texas. Hey, Tisha from Texas. What did you think about? Oh, my God. Like, I saw the movie.

I even went dressed. I wore the Michael Jackson. pre-monster you know I had that Letterman jacket with the M on that movie

phenomenal amazing that's what's up I mean I cried a little bit because of Michael's heart and how you saw everything and how it unfolded

I was so pissed off at Joe Jackson oh my gosh he beat him a couple of times in the movie so whoever told y'all he didn't think some kids

did it yeah he beat those kids but let me ask you a question I know everybody was mad at Joe Jackson But I also looked at it another side Not to say that Joe Jackson beating him was right But if Joe Jackson didn't grind them kids out

And make them practice Would they be as great? Would Michael be as great without? No, no, they wouldn't be just like Denison's dad He moved them, motivated them in his own way But it's just sad to see Because Michael was so sweet Why did he have to get his butt beat like that? You're right

You're right Oh, but it was good So if anybody's telling you that it's not good Don't listen. Go for yourself. It is a phenomenal film. Your heart will be better from going. I'm with you. Thank you so much. Okay, love you out. Bye.

That's important. Your heart will be better from growing. I think so. Yeah, I believe that. Hello, who's this? You know, this Dean from Detroit. How are you guys? Good morning. Dean, what up? Dean from Detroit. Yes, yes.

Talk to us. You see Michael? Absolutely. I had to see it on the 22nd. I wouldn't have missed it. What were your thoughts, Mom? Very impressed. I'm very impressed. I didn't leave unsatisfied. Of course, you can't jam over 60-something years of information in a two-hour movie. Very impressed with his nephew, very impressed with wardrobe, the whole thing. Directory, yes, I don't have a problem.

Thank you so much. Hello, who's this? What's going on? Maybe this Shahee from Jersey City. Good morning. How y'all doing? Shahee, what's up? Talk to us.

What you think of the movie? All right, shoot. Man, that was my son's 10th birthday, and he was a huge Michael Jackson fan. So he loved it. My children was inspired. I was inspired by it. Everybody did an amazing job. It's something I wanted to share.

I mean, I hope it ain't a spoiler, but that scene with the beat it, when they did the beat it reenactment, I could have swore some of them actors were the same people who was in that video. Yeah, the guy with the glasses. The guy with the glasses, it looked like the same thing. Yes, Dr. Glasses.

Exactly. And the elder, the older dude that was sitting in the chair during that scene, I said, wait a minute. I think that's the same gang members that was in. original video. I said, somebody told me that they showed how Michael Jackson was a Crip. Is that true? Wow.

They do get into some of that stuff. They did. They did get into that a little bit when, you know, when he walked up to the gang members, he said something to them. They said something to him. The guy did a Crip walk in front of him, and it was like a little exchange between them that would make you think that Michael Jackson knew what was up already. Yeah.

Got you. Michael Jackson seen something on TV about the gang members hurting each other and said he wanted to see if he could stop the gang war. So he invited both the Bloods and the Crips to the video, which we all see. And if you watch the Beat It video, there are some real gang members in there. And they start talking about the pop and lock it and how the Crip Dance was and how Michael kind of seen that. So that's the part he's talking about. But 800, hold on.

Listen, the movie goes from 58 to 88, right? So it goes from when he's born to 88. Yes. So we'll get at least two movies because that's like 58 to 88 is he died at 50. Right. That's half of his life already. So we'll get at least two movies. I think so.

It has to be. I mean, it did so well. I think it was so good. I think they should start shooting right now. They might be. They start shooting right now, right now. Yes, right now. All right.

If you're just joining us, we're talking about the Michael movie. Like I said, if you haven't seen it yet, it is two hours long. It doesn't feel like two hours long. It goes by so fast. You really enjoy it. It has to be a part two and part three. It really ended in 1988. And another thing that I love to see was, you know,

Michael during the time when he was putting all these hits in so big, he was still living at home. He was still living at home. Like, still scared of his dad, an adult, number one albums, number one records. Making all his money but still at home with his dad. Had giraffs at his house. Lamas at his house. Damn. Rat, snakes.

Monkeys. All at the house with his mom and dad. He was still living at home. Wow. Yeah, he was a kid. Oh, still a kid at heart. Still a kid at heart. Did he wait?

Did he want to move? Did he want to leave? They wouldn't let him? is that they wouldn't let them or like what? I think the family, the dynamic of the family is portrayed really well. They just were really locked in. And I think it was a comfort, a safe space for him. Yeah.

So if you're just joining us, the movie did how well this weekend? So the movie grossed $97 million in the U.S. and a little over $217 million globally. So it's the biggest domestic opening of all time for any biopic and it is the best global opening for music. As it should

be. That's Michael Jackson. Okay, Michael Jackson been the biggest. There ain't nobody sold more. albums than Michael Jackson. Nobody's been a bigger star than Michael Jackson. Like, this is exactly what his biopic should be doing. And it also talks about his intentions, what he said every day when he woke up, what he said before he recorded in the studio, I am the greatest. I am the goat.

Affirmative. And Jafar said that in those personal journals that he used to study for this, they were actually there. Really? Yeah, like, he would write affirmations to himself all the time. That was like one of the things that was like all the way throughout the journal. And another thing that was amazing before we take some more calls was how intentional Michael Jackson was,

meaning all those ideas were his. Like, you know, because it's musically. Yeah, when you hear all these musicily, you'd be like, somebody wrote that for you. No, like, those were his ideas when he did bad or when he did hail the world. All those were his ideas, which is amazing. And it showed how we got that too.

So it didn't show the collaboration between him and Quincy Jones? It did. It does show. But see, even that, you're saying that because of the conversation of what Quincy added to that music in the shaping of Michael Jackson as a solo artist, right, Charlemagne? Yes. There were people who, the label didn't even want Michael Jackson to use Quincy Jones

because they said Quincy Jones sound was too jazzy. See, but they didn't go deep enough into it. And that's what I mean by there's so many more stories you could tell just within what we saw, because I thought there should have been more about Quincy Jones. But he was there. He was present in the movie. But it wasn't, it didn't go fully into a lot of what they're. Because when I heard an interview say that, you know, Michael had the ideas,

Michael did definitely have ideas, but boy, Quincy bought a lot of ideas to the table as well. Quincy shaped a lot of the sound and the artist that Michael Jackson was, especially on those first two projects. They didn't dive into that too much. Hello, who's this? It was B. It's been from, it's going on Envy to Solomon. What's up, brother?

Talk to us, but what's your thoughts to the movie? In the Bronx. I thought the movie was fire, honestly. Like, I thought, like, if they how to humanize him and they show, like, a different, to him. It was good stuff. They also touched on like why he did certain things to his friend and how his father was.

I thought that was kind of cool that they showed out. However, the pair of what I just added the whiz part into the movie. I thought I wish it would have fired if they would have added that. Oh, the whiz. Not that would have been. Wow. Nah, that would have been. I wasn't in there. Yeah, but the reason why

they say that it wasn't in there, honestly, because like around that time, it was like his little, um, situation with Diana Ross and being Diana Ross had a little spot in there. No, that wasn't Diana. That wasn't Diana Ross? I thought that was Gladys Night.

I thought Diana Ross was the one they said put them on stage for the first time ever. Yeah. That was Gladys Night? I don't know. That didn't give Diane. That actor did not give Diana to me, but Diana was the person that did that. But remember, because of legal

considerations, we don't know what that was. They said that she wouldn't be, her story wouldn't be a part of the morning. I thought all that, I mean, Lauren reported last week that all the Diana's parts were cut from the movie because she didn't want him in there. Oh, wow. Well, there was one part where, you know, when he did his first TV appearance, and it was a lady that brought him out.

And to my knowledge, the world knew that they always say Diana Ross was the first person to put him on television. That lady did not give Diana Ross. But there's a, there's conversation of Gladys Knight being a part of, like, the early makings of, like, Michael Jackson's not makings, but like, you know, helping a platform them as well, too, I guess, because everything got them all the most

I'm not saying y'all wrong. I'm just saying I ain't ever heard this before, though. I always hear of Diana. I ain't never heard about Gladys Night. But, yeah, I'm just telling you all what I'm, would I be reading in reports? Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Rashar. This is Rashar. What's going on?

Rashad, what do you think about Michael? I love the movie, man. It was exciting to just go there and bring my kids, man, to see how Michael Jackson is still impacting kids today, man. For me, watching Michael growing up and seeing some of the things in person to see how Jafar played that movie out, man. And sometimes I'm like, yo, he looked just like Mike. And it's, oh, man, yeah, it was a really good movie, man.

Nothing bad about it, especially to those who follow Michael Jackson and share all the negative things that they said about Mike, just like Charlemagne said. It's good to see how they portrayed him at such a positive light to see how he was about kids and about animals. And when you're different, man, people don't like different. They're afraid of different because of what you can do. So, yeah, man, thank you guys for taking my call, man. And it's an honor to be on a breakfast club The first time I was able to get in To talk about Michael Jackson

I had to give a call. So, you know, thank you guys For taking the time out to, you know, to take my call, man. But yeah, Michael Jackson, awesome movie. Rochelle, how old are your kids? Seven and ten. I won't say this to the parents out there.

If you got a lazy kid, you take him to see that movie And you say, look, you want to be great. You see how much Michael practiced? You see how much work Michael put in? Yes. It'll give kids the encouragement. When I got back home, I was like,

are y'all going to sleep or y'all practice and dance? Like, Dad, we're going to sleep. It gave me a new respect for Michael Jackson. It gave me a new love for his craft. It gave me a new sense of direction for how he was about his music. I'm like, and when they were showing the thriller thing, when they were showing bad, when they did beat it, I was so amazed because I'm like,

you got to remember Mike was an artist. And he had vision. He had creativity. And it just brought such a new. just a new inspiration for me being in music all my life, man. I loved it. I loved it. I loved it.

I loved it. That's incredible. I want my kids to see that work ethic as well, but I also want them to see them beatings from Joe Jackson. I want to be able to say, you see that right there? That's called a beating. I was like that's so ancient now.

And that's what y'all actually need, but you know, we can't do that in this era. It was the time of beings where like, you better not cry after because then you're going to get beat more. I'm like, that's unheard of now. I don't cry. The crazy part about it is they didn't just, Mike didn't get hit one time and keep it moving. No.

He beat his ass and then when he started crying, you better not be crying where Mike ran in the bathroom crying in the bathroom. First of all, you was born in 1970 something just like me. You know exactly what that was, okay? All right. My daddy beat me with an extension cord one time and made me go take a bath afterwards. Oh. Yeah, exactly. That's why you're so troubled.

I ain't trouble. That was, that was, I needed that. I know, I was trying to set the house on fire. Oh my God. Exactly. The punishment met the crime. And it was Gladys Night in the movie. It was Gladys Night movie. She was the first one of POTOMO. They said, I'm looking at it now. They said Gladys actually

discovered the Jackson Five. Oh, wow. I never heard that. She said she helped discover the Jackson Five and recommended them to Motown. I never knew that. And they said Motown PR often gave the credit to Diana, but it was actually Gladys who first told Barry Gordy to check out the Jackson Five. She's played by actress Liv's Simon. She looks like her, though. But I saw her, I was like, she looked like, Lauren. You wanted something revealed?

Gladys Nite's night started. Because I was confused. I'm like, why is it glad? Is it not Diana? But then I remember the stuff was taken out. Hello, who's this? Who? Hey, what's your name?

Clark. Hello? Ma'am? That's a key. Say hi, hi. Hi. Hello. What's your name?

Good morning. Cud. Okay. Did you see the Michael Jackson movie? Yes. Did you like it? Very much, yes Okay

How old are you? Eight Eight and you loved it Okay I just want the record to show that this young man Is being Joe Jackson right now His daddy His daddy is making him do this

Okay you can hear him in the background Coaching him Telling him You call it to that radio Speak Say something Speak Speak

Speak Speak his mom took him. Okay. That young man just want to go to school, man. He just go to school. Goodbye, sir. That's all that young man want to do.

He just wants to be a kid. Can he just be a kid? Does he have to call into the radio station and comment on the topic? You're going to be a star today. At 7.20 in the morning. Say your name. He's going to get the trouble now.

Now he hung up on him. He's going to get a trouble. What's the moral of the story if there is a moral? I don't know. Go see the Michael Jackson movie for yourself. That's right. I can't wait.

I can't wait to go see. I can't wait to go see it. see it either. I'm going to go again. All right. Now, when we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. What are we talking about? Yes, we're going to get into Magdalest D'Dakley and Clay Thompson. Oh, my God. Oh, man. Damn. All right. We'll get into that. Next is the Breakfast Club. One more. Canadian women are looking for more. More to themselves, their businesses,

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Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Let's get to the latest with long. You know, the best thing about movies like the Michael Jackson biopic why these things are important because it just reminds you of how great. people like Michael Jackson were. That's it. And it's a celebration of their lives and their music, man.

It's beautiful. It is. In its community, too, chika-a. All right, let's get to the latest. Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. Source is tough. I'm the homebred that knows a little bit about everything and everything.

The little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you. Take me through that. The latest with Lauren on the breakfast club LL Coobin Talk to me All right y'all So I want to start off this latest

With congratulating The Black Effect family Charlemagne Dolly Pitchip And there's everybody that was a part of the podcast Festival over the weekend I always look forward to it Because you get to see the people That you be talking to all the time

In real life they come out And it's really like family You know so the podcast They hit the stage Grit to Eggs podcast the 520 podcast with Nav Green. Mona, don't call me white girl and her crew, hit the stage as well too with Dominique Morgan,

Crystal Renee Hayslett, talk to Carisha, drink champs, Nory and DJFN, talk to Kay Michelle and Cilo Green. And the people were really locked into the stages this year. Like, they were sitting down. They were seated, okay? Man, let me tell you something. Crystal, Renee Hayslet, drop on the clothes bombs for her.

Superstar. You hear me? Yes. I mean, they was in there with the sweetie merchandise on and the t-shirts. Every time you said her name throughout the day before she even came on stage, they was losing their mind.

There was a line at her booth for like hours. That's so dope. Man. So dope. I saw, shout out to the media that was there, too. I saw Shade Room pick up a lot of the moments. They were there. Essence.

Dwight Thomas was there as well, too. But one of the moments that came out of the drink champs conversation, Charlemagne, I saw you on brilliant idiots talking about whether who Seelow was going to bring with him or not. And he pulled up, you know, not with the rest of goody mind. But he did talk about whether or not they were going to do another project. Let's take a listen. We were talking the other day, for now, it's just indefinitely.

I don't really don't know when, because I won't know what we'll literally have the time and availability to jail and re-gail. You know what I mean, like time is going to pass, different things. But it's just family, it's love, and it's also support. And I think everybody needs ample opportunity to build their own individual endeavors out. You know what I mean? Like, I succeed on their own merit. Especially, and then also when you're in a cycle of a project, it's like I'm in the cycle of holding Nalas Barclay and what I have going on currently. You know what I mean?

So, you know, no telling what could happen. But I got to complete this cycle of making sure as many people know what I have to offer right at the moment, which is Nars Barclay. I'm always done for a new Goodymae project. I wish Naila was here, man. Nilea met Silo because, you know, I don't think she knew Silo was going to be there. And you know how you have like a song that you've been listening to all year? for whatever reason Nila's song this year had been in due time by Cilo

and so when she met Ciloh she was like oh my God she was freaking out oh so whatever signs she feel like God was showing her through that song boy she is confirmed now yeah I didn't even see Naila there I saw Nala came in yeah I saw

and I was looking for it all morning and I finally saw I was so excited so this in attendance though Cheryl Underwood little Duvall did the stage as well Tika Sumter Papuice and Clarit

Now, there was a moment where I know you guys took the stage and y'all were bringing out some of the people that was there just showing love, right? So Clarissa is on stage with Cheryl Underwood. And Cheryl Underwood had no idea that Clarissa is not out here and single. Let's take a listen. Are you single? No, I want Papoose. Okay, hold on. No.

How you don't know that, Cheryl? She got the on you, Cheryl. Wait, wait, wait, but y'all start talking. Papoose I'm saying right now. Respect makes you ask the status. I love Cheryl Underwood, but I have no idea what she was talking about. That's my girl. You know one thing, though,

Clarissa is going to do about Papucus, clear some things up, though. And then I think she realized Clarissa's a boxer that can knock out, that she just started to try to fix things that weren't wrong. Yeah. Oh, Michael Bivens as well, too. I heard you guys shot him out earlier, yeah, and he had an amazing post after. He was in the audience, like, the whole time watching the show. Yeah, so shout out to everybody.

and, you know, just wanted to make sure we highlight that moment. But one of the things that also happened, Mimi Brown of our front page news announced her new podcast and that she's joining the Black Effect family as well. Let's take a listen. Hey, everyone is Mimi Brown, and I am officially joining the Black Effect family with my new podcast, Front Page, with Mimi Brown.

Every day I'm going to be bringing you the fresh headlines from politics, the sports, entertainment, to everything in between. If it's making news, it's going to be on Front Page. So make sure you join in only on Black Effect. Shout out to me. Because people need their daily news fix. You know what I mean? And they don't always catch front page news on breakfast club in real time.

So here you go. And she hosted a panel on AI, right? She did an AI panel. She hosted a panel. Now while we were there, right, because all the things are going on and the podcast festival is happening. While we were at the festival, there was one of the Black Effect social media girls who were backstage. And she came up to me and she was like, I wanted to make sure you saw this because I know y'all like to react in real time. She showed me a post by Meg the Stalyan as we move on.

into the news. Meg Dostyle and it posted online that her and Clay Thompson were donezo. Oh my God. I mean, look, it was a thing that, like, so she posted that Clay Thompson had been leading her on. She says that he brought her around her, he brought her around his whole family,

playing house, then he got cold feet. He says, she says that she was holding him down through all of his horrible mood swings and his treatment towards her during basketball season, and now he doesn't know if he can be monogamous. She says, I need a real break after this one. Bye y'all, right? Damn.

Yeah. So that, of course, started to explode everywhere. And, you know. Yeah, because everybody thought that they were going to make it. That they were going to be, well, whatever make it means. But, you know, we thought that was Meg. We thought that was a longer time. Yeah, Meg's person.

Yeah. She was showing her softer side. This thing, had our golfing. She was cooking for his family. Yeah. All of that. Exactly. It was finally seasoning.

Like, it was like, no, his mother really, really made it a point that she was like, oh, Megan can cook. Yeah. His father, yes. Well, he loved her. So when that happened, I called Meg's team. From what we saw? Yes. When that happened, I called Meg's team and I'm like, what's going on?

They didn't even like, we didn't even have a conversation. They just sent me the statement right away. And Meg made a further statement basically confirming that she ended the relationship. She said that trust, fidelity, and respect are non-negotiable for her. And when those are compromised, there's no real path forward. So she's taking this time to prioritize herself and move forward with peace and clarity. So, yeah. And I know she did her Mulan Rouge on Broadway that night.

and there was video going viral of her, like just being real emotional. Of course. Of course. She gave him her whole, turn your damn phone down. I mean, I'm sorry.

Yes. Y'all don't even care about that's going in. Jesus, yeah. It doesn't have nothing to do and make feelings, you know. I mean, it has everything to do it make feelings.

Your comment was silly. But this is why every woman needs male homeboys. Why? Because I would have told her from the beginning not to get too open over somebody like Claytops.

Why? Because he's like big name NBA artist. Just a baller. Like, he's a baller. I don't know. I mean, I get what you're saying, but like, because. Yeah.

They both have history. I'm not saying that they don't. I'm just saying my advice to her would have been, you know, hey, you know, just don't get your nose a little too open, you know, unless he shows you otherwise because he is an NBA player, you know, he's still outside, okay? By the way, they're not married. They didn't have kids. Right. Right. They weren't, they weren't even together long.

Like, I understand. I understand her feelings might be hurt, but it's just like, like, you know. why are we acting like they was married for 20 years? I think it's because it's the first time that I felt like it was the first time I saw her actually really submit to a situation. She had had other relationships, but this kind of felt like maybe she kind of like locked it down a bit differently. And if she was pulling up different. And honestly, his persona, you know, gives off the opposite or what he shows us gives off the idea.

Y'all don't know. What persona? Y'all don't know this, man? Not at all. People look at him as like the cookie cutter. for what he compared to nobody know nobody on the internet. Like they just know what you see.

And you know what we see. We really can't see nothing from Clay, yeah, but that's what I'm saying. He was pulling up the pickup from the airport. No, I mean, before this relationship. I mean, we did. But she posted this, not him. But none of, we don't know.

We don't know what Clay was. Clay's a splash brother, so we don't know. And the Splash brother. Flash brother go both ways, baby. He might hear Splash brother on and off the court. But sometimes you think you can, But you know how some baller's business be out there. Like we know who's the, okay, all right, this niggins be all right, by this thing

is, okay. No, you know. Passed around, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, we do see some. Some people have, some athletes, like, come on, what we talk about. Clay Quay, Coyne. I don't know some. Name them.

Name them. No, we don't know. Just athletes who are known for just being out here. We got, step on digs. We got, like, come on, we got, it's athletes that we know that's out here. Like, you name one, but you're still proving my point. Like, this is the conversation. I would have with any woman

dating one of them type of guys. I'd be like, yo, remember, he's an athlete. So he's outside. You know, if he ain't making no real commitment to you, then you probably shouldn't make no real commitment to him. Yeah. That's why you got to have male homeboys around. I understand. I'm still over here trying to think about him.

I'm like, yo, it's niggas that be out there that everybody know. And then there's some people that's to their self. Clay was one of the people that I felt like was to itself. I ain't really even starting knowing nothing about him until Megan popped out with him. Yeah, but there's some athletes. But some athletes do things where you know they're going to get seen when Tristan and all that got caught he was in clubs step on dix goes out you don't know what clay does at all that's the same like he'd be in the

he's a silent sniper from what she right clay clay clay's dated a few people silent we though i mean no i don't know none of them yeah we've heard of okay Megan might have been the loudest but we've heard of yeah that's just what it is still a silent sniper well all i'm simply saying is this why you got to have male home boys around man just to let you know like yo you don't get your nose too open over these athletes and these rappers, mostly industry type, to be honest with you. Because if they're not making no real

commitment to you, don't make no real commitment to them. God, damn. That is the latest. Every night on Broadway, Brooklyn, Rooy. Find out you getting tea, don't have to go to work at the same time as a crazy combination. It hurts. Gosh. So, did he cheat, though?

That's what she's alleging. She's alleging. She's alleging that. She's a... Because the post I saw he said he didn't want to be monogamous, which I think is a fair conversation to have a question. Right. I mean, yeah, especially if you honest about it and you're telling somebody that, but I

saw, like, little sworings of somebody named Lex, a basketball, a WMBA player. She had to come out and cleared up and said she has nothing to do with this situation. She's focused on her new season. But the first word that Meg said in her original post was cheating. That's so she alleges that was what was going on. And then he said, I feel like we're spending too much time on a way too much. A couple that wasn't married,

didn't have no kids, weren't in a long-term relationship. And that we don't know the ends and out of. Exactly. All right. Well, that is the latest for Lauren. Yes. Well, it's girl stuff. Yeah, girl stuff. Yeah, we're invested. Yeah, absolutely.

For no reason. Solomon, who you give me your dog, too? That's your problem. Always getting invested in people. Y'all shouldn't be so invested in people. Y'all shouldn't be so invested in stuff that you like, too. Like aliens and all of that stuff. That's cool.

Yes, because that stuff matters. Okay. All right. Yes. I like Megan. And speaking of something that matters, Dana Bash. Okay, she needs to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with her police. All right.

We'll get to that next. So don't go anywhere. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. I made it. America. There is no question that there are problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey.

The latest on that police killing of a black man. Now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage. And yesterday it was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacist violence is, it always has been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is. Right? The breakfast club, bitchy.

All right, Shornene. Please tell me why was I your donkey of the day? Yes, donkey of the day. For Monday, April 27th, goes to Dana Bash of CNN. Let the record show that I was watching the Sunday morning news yesterday, and I caught this in real time. Okay, state of the union was on. And Dana Bass was having a conversation with Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland,

and they were talking about the shooting that happened at the White House correspondent's dinner Saturday night. And Dana Bass asked Jamie Raskin. If he and other Democrats should reconsider heated inflammatory language towards President Trump. Let's listen. And you have, as many of your fellow Democrats, have used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you think twice about that when something like this happens? What rhetoric do you have in mind?

Just talking about some of the fact that he, you know, is terrible for this country and so on and so forth. I understand that that's your Democratic right. But overall. Yeah. Do you have a responsibility? I have no personal problem with Donald Trump at all. I mean, I talk about the policies of this administration, the authoritarianism like we saw on display in Minneapolis, where two of our citizens were gunned down in the streets simply for exercising their First Amendment rights. I'm talking about policies. I don't personalize it. And I certainly have never called the press the enemy of the people. His policies are terrible for this country. As soon as I heard Dana Batch say that, I text my guy, one of my home. I texted him at 937 yesterday morning.

I was looking at the text. And I said, Dana Bash on CNN, just as Jamie Raskin, if him and other Democrats were toned down their violent rhetoric towards Trump. My homeboy replied to me, this is the greatest gas lighting of all time. Stuff like this is why Trump buys these networks, good investment. Now, clarification, Trump didn't buy the network. But what my homie was referring to is the purchase of CNN by Skydance. Okay. Skydance is owned by David and Larry Ellison.

who are allies of Trump and David Ellison has assured Trump administration officials that he will be making sweeping changes to CNN's programming. Do you remember when Pete Hex-F said, and I quote, the sooner David Ellison by CNN, the better. Do we have that? With every passing hour, we know and we know they know that the military capabilities of their evil regime are crumbling. They can barely communicate, let alone coordinate. Our response, no mercy for our enemies. yet some in this crew, in the press, just can't stop. People look up at the TV and they see banners, they see headlines. I used to be in that business.

And I know that everything is written intentionally. For example, more fake news from CNN reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz. Patently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do, hold the straight hostage. CNN doesn't think we thought of that. It's a fundamentally unsurious report. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.

Why did he say that? He said that because he knows that as soon as it was announced that Skydance was acquiring CNN, that everybody at CNN was going to fall in line. And for the most part, it's true. Okay, like Dana Bash did this weekend. Because the fact, whenever something like this happens, to Donald Trump, whenever there is an assassination attempt, whenever there is some type of political violence that happens at, you know,

one of these events, people always say, so are we going to tone down the violent rhetoric towards Trump? Stop it. Like, I'm sick of that narrative. I need every single media personality to direct that energy and that question towards one person and one person only, and that person is President Donald J. Trump. At what point do people simply say, hey, Trump, is clear that you're the drama. Okay, how quick we forget.

Just last month, Donald Trump got on true social and said Robert Mueller just died good. I'm glad he's dead. He no longer can hurt innocent people. President Trump, do you not realize there are people out there who feel the same way about you? That's why you don't wish death on people.

That's why you don't say things like, I'm glad a person is dead. Whatever God got planned for a person is between them and God, there's no need to speak that kind of negativity over anybody's life because you end up speaking it over. yours now I know a lot of people think that this political violence that happens toward towards Trump is fake I see that narrative online a lot and look it's quite possible that

it is fake I have no idea what's real anymore between AI and bots on social media we are going to spend the rest of our lives questioning if things are real or not but it's quite possible that the Trump administration has caused so much pain to people's everyday lives that folks are fed up and willing to risk it all okay not saying it's right but that is probably the reality of where we are in our society right now. Okay, so not only does someone like Trump need to tone down the violent rhetoric, he needs to reverse costs on a lot of these policies, okay, that have hurt people. Because organizations like Doge didn't do anything because the American people paint.

Okay, those led to about 300,000 federal workers and contractors being fired. You have hundreds of thousands of black women economically sidelined. I've seen numbers ranging from 300 to 600,000. Okay, they've lost their jobs because of federal job cuts, D-EI rollbacks, and all of this has happened since Trump has been back in office. Okay, the people that can't afford health care, people can't afford groceries. Donald Trump said, and I quote, a whole civilization is going to die tonight. Never to be bought back again.

Think about all the people who are unjustly deported because of Donald Trump's immigration policies. All I'm simply saying is, and quote me on this, that Trump administration has caused so much pain to people's everyday lives that some folks are fed up and willing to risk it all. Okay, there are people who are hurting because of the actions of this administration and they want revenge. Not saying it's right. Just simply saying that is where we are as a society right now. Okay, Dana Bash, CNN, those are the conversations you should be having, not questioning Democrats on whether or not they should tone down the violent rhetoric because the reality is the violent rhetoric, the violent actions aren't coming from them.

Okay, it's coming from the tippy top. The president himself is the drama. and everyone, especially the media, needs to stop acting like he's not. Please give Dana Bash the biggest he-ho. If you want to know why the corruption of this administration, the lawlessness gets normalized, look no further than situations like this.

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir. Now, when we come back, we have Mario Carbone joining us. He's the owner of Carbone. He owns a bunch of restaurants, a six or seven restaurants. And we're going to be talking to him next. All right, so don't move.

It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Shalameen de Guy. We are the breakfast club. LaRosa is here as well.

And we got a special guest in the building. He's back, ladies gentlemen. Mario Carbone. Welcome. Good, morning. How are you? How are you? Good, good, good.

So just name some of the restaurants you have. I can't keep up anymore. Just name some of them. Carbone, Teresee, the Grill, Lobster Club, Zizi's member club, Parm. I mean, those are the ones. that you have multiples of. We got a New Mexican place called Chateau.

We just opened a place in Cartagena, all the Grand Grill. When does Mario Cobone start doing Mexican food? Well, you know, I have a love for that cuisine and it's actually a really complex cuisine.

It's really interesting when you get into like the cookbooks of going all the way back to the Aztecs. But I thought I could take sort of the idea of carbon and apply it to Mexican food

and try to get a similar result and do sort of this fun, fine dining, Mexican restaurant. And we had an amazing space to that, and there's no Mexican food in Miami, so we did it in Miami. I went to the Lofta Club the other night. A couple weeks ago, you know, I was there with a Cheryl McIssick, Daniel.

That food was incredible. And I didn't know you have anything to do it until somebody said it. One of the waiters was like, you know, this is one of Mario Carbone spots. And I'm like, really? Yeah, because we were upstairs at the grill and the pool so that we run that whole building, all the food and beverage there. So we did a Japanese restaurant downstairs. Wow.

You know, people always talk about... A pasta boy. Man. You said a lobster pasta? What? You know, people always talk about how difficult the restaurant industry is. But for you, it doesn't seem like it's a problem. So what differs you from all these other people that do it? Because a lot of people are not successful.

You see restaurants come, go, and with you, you're still rock and rolling. It's difficult for us, too. I mean, it's a really hard industry. There's no doubt about that. You know, I think maybe what separates us is the product, first of all. I think we put out a great product. We care a lot about it. We put a lot of time and attention into it.

We spent a huge amount of time on the details of these things. I mean, the way we build them, the stories that we're telling. You know, it's not something that you can, you can replicate from ordering on your couch. Like, that thing that we give you has nothing to do with the food being delivered to you. So we don't compete in that space. Like, you have to come to us for an experience. It's a night out. It's theater.

And I think that that's where we don't have to deal with the competition of, I don't feel like going out today. I'm just going to order. You can't just order my experience. That's a good point, right? Because Carbone, to me, feels like it's selling nostalgia and luxury at the same time. Are you preserving, like, Italian-American culture or reinventing it for a new audience? Oh, I think of Carbone as a functioning museum. Like, we are, you know, with every passing generation of Italian-Americans,

you become one less generation removed from Italy, right? So you become further assimilated into just being Americans, which is the thesis. That's the point. but for Carbone to kind of leave something in a very specific period which for us is mid-century late 1950s Italian-American which is that it's that first generation of Italian-Americans that were born in the U.S. Their parents were probably Italians. They speak English first. It's Michael not Vito, right? Corleone. Michael struggles speaking Italian but he's an American. His dad's born there. That's the generation that Carbone is. Italian American and to be obsessive about the details, I feel like if I'm if I'm if I'm if I'm so obsessive about the details what I'm what I'm actually leaving behind is this functioning museum for 200 people a night to go to and see what 1958 Thompson Street

Italian American was like. Like that's my kind of gift of the culture. I'm glad you said that because some people will say I've heard people say carbone represents the gentrification of Italian food. Do you do you do you think great food should be? be exclusive or accessible, you think? Exclusivity is a product of scarcity, right? So if you've built something that more people want than you have, you have something that's by nature exclusive. So it all really just goes back to the product.

Like, how good is your product? And if your product is great or exceptional, well, then you're probably going to wind up with a scarcity model where there's a lot of demand for it and you don't have a lot to give to it. So now it looks like it's exclusive or it looks like I've, I've manipulated exclusivity when it's just really a product of we do a damn good job, you know? Like, and that's just kind of what it is. I didn't, I didn't create this, this exclusivity where it's like, oh, it's hard to get into.

It's hard to get into it because I only have 80 seats. Like that's just what it is. Do you get any flack for, like, you know, you said you step into the Asian cuisine. You step into the Mexican cuisine. Her husband's Mexican, by the way. So he's up. He's black and Mexican. Thank you, Mario.

But do you get any flack for, for, you know, Asian cuisine. stepping outside of the quote unquote Italian genre? Not when you do it with respect. I think you do it with respect. You go in, you learn, you put great care into it. It's not a concept. It's real. We study it.

We try to put it out in a really beautiful, respectful way. And I think that if we do that and use the talent of my team, my team can make anything. You know, like here's the task. We're going to make, here's the story. Usually I tell them a story. Here's the story of what we're going to build here and start to build the narrative around that. And then as soon as you know, as soon as you have a story, then you can say, okay, well, that doesn't fit the story. That doesn't make sense.

Let's keep it back here. And that's how we kind of build these things. Are you, you say your team, but are you also hiring people that are authentic to the space as well to like really great Mexican chefs? So like, does that change when you open up the different restaurants? It's not something that I'm seeking out. I don't need it, right? I don't need to like, if I'm saying I'm going to go open a Mexican restaurant, The next task is, okay, go find a great Mexican chef.

The next task is meet with my core chef team. Go get all the cookbooks we think we need. Go do all the research we think we need to do. Start putting pen to paper. And then from pen to paper, it's, you know, pan to fire. Okay, let's start cooking these things. Then let's be really honest with each other. Is that good?

Is that good enough? And start to chip away at the process. It takes a really long time to build these things. Why, why, though? Like, why Mexican? Like, you pointed the market on Italian. Well, I thought that we could do it really well. There's one particular restaurant of Mexico City that I love.

I thought it was unique to how they did it. And I hadn't seen anything else in the market like that. A space in Miami came available that was a great space, but I had already opened my core restaurants there. But I didn't want to pass up on the space. I wanted to take the space. I didn't know what to put in it. And I keep notes on these things of, like, you know,

potential ideas, projects and there was nothing like it certainly in Miami but I really don't think there's anything like it in the country outside of Mexico City so I wanted to take a shot at it and you know swing for the fences you know earlier you was talking about just having 80 seats in your restaurants right everybody knows it's hard to get a reservation in one of your spots how do you make sure the hype never outweighs the actual food the product by not letting the fact that the outcome of whether it's going to be busy tonight affect how we go about making it. It's going to be busy tonight. Okay. Let's not take for granted the fact that they're

coming and just rest on our laurels because we got here from putting out something great. No one knew us at some point. No one knew us. So how did we get busy? We got busy by doing a great job of what we do, making great food, taking care of people, being hospitable, taking care of our regulars, making sure they can get back. All the things that got us here. Now the only way the empire falls is if we start to believe in the fact that they're just going to come automatically. That's real. You know, and I notice, were you ever nervous for putting your sauce in the jar, pause? You know, why?

I'm not a pause. I'm going to tell you why. Because I am, pause, the BJ's king, right? That's why I do all my shopping. You're a BJ king, yo. I do my shopping at BJ. Wait, so start over. I do my shopping at BJ's, and one of my happy moments is when I get your products of BJs, right?

Pause. And the reason is, you get so many of them, you get to try it, and I can make my own spicy rigatoni at the crib. Does that make you nervous because you're putting your sauce in the jar and giving people an ability to... What? You're giving people the ability to... This sounds crazy, to use your sauce without going to your restaurant.

Pause, pause, pause. What made me nervous in the beginning was, could we make something that was on par with what we do with the restaurants? It wasn't that I was selling, you know, $9 jars of tomato sauce and how was that going to affect the brand, the restaurant brand. I wasn't really worried about that. My fear was in bulk, in mass, when we're making this thing in a giant factory, can we actually make something that's just as good as the one we make on Thompson Street?

That was the challenge. That was the thing that kept me up. But it wasn't a dilution of the brand. That never really worried me. At what point does expansion risk diluting what made it special? When you lose sight of why you're popular enough to expand. Why is your brand in demand? It is all going to go back to the product.

It is always going to go back to the product. The second, it's not good enough anymore, or someone's putting in a greater effort, or your time is up, however that is seen. like then expansion becomes a reach. I agree with that because the scariest part is once you have the mass audience and then people start coming and they're like, eh, this is over hype. So you've got to keep the product top tier at all times.

And the decisions you're making. That's right. How you expand. What did you choose to expand into? Does that make sense? I'm a fan of your product. Does that make sense that expansion you just did? Is it in line with your brand ethos?

Because I know your brand. I'm a fan. I know the brand. That was a weird move you did there. Like, oh, that's city, that's odd. That's a cash grab. Like, that's, like, what are you doing here? Those sort of things that we have conversations about.

That's where, you know, expansion can also, you know, trip you up. I saw the collaboration you're doing with Seth Brogan. Yeah. So is it actually THC inside of any of the sauces that you're making? No. Okay, because it was a 420 release and they leaned on that. And I'm like, so is this a, like a. That's brand, obviously, all things, 420.

But the pottery company is where the collaboration came in. So he was making Italian potty. Got you. Okay. So we did a pottery collaboration with the sauce that kind of got branded with Seth's brand. But the content of the jars is the same. It was really just a collaboration with the Italian pottery that he was making. Oh, I thought it was like anything. THC infused?

No. No, that's not my game. Okay. No, I got you. But I do want to ask you, this is not at all related to food. You have a pinky ring, Frank Sinatra Quincy Jones pinky ring that you went to extreme heights to get. Yeah.

There's 12 of these in the world. I mean, I don't know how many are still in existence. I'm not sure if Quincy's buried with his, but Mrs. Sinatra, it's a bit of a long story, but he's worn this ring. He wore this ring his whole life. This is the Sinatra family crest. And at some point,

he had broken his pinky, the story that I was told, he broke his pinky finger in a fight scene and a movie, and the ring didn't fit anymore. So he wanted to remake it, because the knuckle had gotten messed up. So he wanted to remake it, and it was at the point in his life where his kids were getting older and he decided i'm gonna actually instead of making one i'm actually gonna make 12 and i'm gonna give them to the closest

people in my life so the kids all got one quincy jones got one um and then this one actually went to tony bennett so tony bennett got one because they were friends but also because tony opened the frank sinatra school of the arts in the bronx um and that was something that the sonatra family was very moved by yeah so he got a ring and then when tony passed away there was an auction of his life's possessions and in the auction was this ring. How much did you pay for that ring, Mario? Ain't that much tomato sauce in the world. I put my hand up when the auction started and I wasn't going to put it down until it was

over. Wow. I would have paid a good amount of money for it, but I would have paid a lot more for it. Wow. To me, it's a Holy Grail. Yeah, for sure. Does anybody in his family approach you about that? I'm friends with the family and his daughter, Tina and I are pretty close and she's pretty

happy that it's in good hands and that, you know, she's, He has hers on. I still have mine on. That's what's that. Speaking of celebrities, who was this person that Fat Joe name dropped that got him seated before LeBron James? In Gabiano?

But that was Gabiano. That wasn't my place. Oh, I thought he said it was called Bono. No, no, no. This is back when Bron played him. I mean, the story's outrageous. Bronn playing in Miami, waiting for a table seems crazy.

That's what you're insane. That seems crazy. But that was that ill Gabiano. That's what I was going to make sure you know it. Right. Because he was with me when he told the story. I think that's why you Oh, got you, got you, got you, got you.

We appreciate you for joining us this morning. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for bringing some food this morning as well. Can't get me. Can you get me? I'll be cooking and those be helping me. I'll be my boyfriend went to Italy recently

and he loves pasta. That's the closest I can get. Was that the same boyfriend who took you to the Oh my God? I was at Teresa with a girl with a friend. Oh, yeah, well you were dabbling it. Oh, why? She had a different diet.

Oh, can we please get it? I don't know. That's what it was. Oh, Carbone Beach. Tell us about Carbone Beach. Oh. Fifth year of Carbone Beach. It's an event that's in line with a Formula One, which is next weekend.

Formula One, Miami, May 1st through 3rd. And it's basically an old school supper club, right? It's dinner and a show the way kind of, you know, the old Copa would have been. It's like five or six hundred people on a tent in the beach in Miami right on the sand. Wow. And, you know, we always have a, you know, big purpose. performer every night. It always changes.

And it's just kind of a big, elaborate dinner, supper club. It's fun. It's sexy. People dress up. It's a real night out. It's a beautiful thing. What is that? May 1st and 3rd.

Yeah. Yes. I'm actually in Florida next the whole weekend. So I need to see what's going on. He needs to be quiet. So, yes, May 1st time in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which is right down the street from Miami. And that's a three, that's a whole three-day thing. I'm trying to come.

Maria. Me and my husband we want to be right there on the beach, understand? Only celebrities. Nice. So, like I said, that's right. That was crazy. So I want to come. That's okay with you. Yeah, that's great.

Cheryl, my publicist my publicist here is going to be in contact with you. Okay, good. Well, thank you. It's Mario Carbone. Mr. Baptist Globe. Experience Megan Maroney live on her only

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My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day. And I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you. Which is really sweet. Yeah.

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of you know the cat just hang in there yeah it would not be right it wouldn't be that there's a lot of luck yeah listen to thanks dad on the iHeart radio app Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

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Well, it's the latest. Walk to you by Top Dog Law on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me. All righty, guys. So I want to, you know, just conchew. I congratulate and mention, because I know we had Cedric the entertainer here last week. Yes. The opening of the play, the Ham and Taraji star in, Joe Turner's come and going.

The opening night went down over the weekend as well too. Yes, here in New York, everybody popped out. You know, Tyler Perry, I saw L.O. Coo-J. as well. Even Marcel. The people were there, Megan, not Megastat, but Megan Good and Jonathan Majors as well, too. So congratulations to them and having such a big successful opening night on Broadway. And that play is now live for you guys to go and watch. Now shifting gears, but still kind of talking about New York.

So there was something that DJ Vlad posted. And it's about Nikki Minaj and Kenneth Petty, who is her husband. But let's get into the conversation. So he says, according to the Sex Offender Registry, Kenneth Petty, Nikki Minnage's husband is now living here in New York instead of the Hidden Hills mansion that Nicky owns over in L.A. and Vlad is saying that he is hearing that they might not be together because of some issues of alleged like infidelity in a relationship

but Vlad is saying that he hasn't confirmed that but it would be the greatest back fumble of all time I did look up the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that you're able to kind of see the registry and it is listed as a local address local to here in New York but I don't know where the change happened because he was originally supposed to be listed in L.A.

As a 2020, remember he got in trouble because Kenneth Petty wasn't registered in California. So I don't know if any of that is true. I haven't confirmed that either. What type of house? Is it? Is it a huge house? Big house? Small house? I just saw an address, but according to Vlad, it's a tiny 800-square-foot home. That is, you know, look, I don't want to put the address out there.

Of course not. Yeah, but yeah. So if there is anything there, you know, maybe we may get some update. I'll keep you guys posting. The reason I asked what size the house was because I know she travels back and forth, so maybe it's just a house that she lives while she's here. Well, Vlad is reporting that it is not something that would be big enough to suit for a Nicki Minaj. But again, that's nothing I've confirmed.

So maybe there's something there that we can find out. And other relationship news, Chris Brown, Jess. Yes. What is going on? Chris Brown welcomed his fourth child, seemingly. And he's also telling haters to shut up about him and Usher's tour. So Chris Brown, you know Jada, Chris Brown's girlfriend, who was going through with Diamond, his ex-girlfriend. And while they were going back and forth, Diamond had told Jayden.

Jada, be quiet and worry about the baby you got on the way, right? And we didn't know for sure if Jada was pregnant. It was rumored. They were at Fashion Week. The baby hits here. She posted a photo of like a maternity shoot. And then there was a swipe through of the baby in her hands. Now, she doesn't mention anything about Chris Brown in the post.

But Chris Brown is in the comments. He's like, Torres Gang. His mom was also in the comments saying, congratulations. He's perfect. Sending love always. And Chris Brown was going back and forth with somebody in the comments who was saying, like, where's Chris Brown and why is he not in these posts? So congratulations.

Chris Breezy. This baby number four. This baby number three, right? No, he's already. Four. But he did say on 1111, 11, 11, angel numbers that he tried to have more, more, more, more kids. Y'all said three babies trying to make room for some old.

So he wanted to have a lot of kids. And he was telling people over the weekend, too, to shut up about him and Usher's tour. Yeah, what was that about? I guess he had saw, you know, he said he was scrolling down his, his TikTok feeds. And there was a bunch of rage bait of people talking about if you're a woman, why you shouldn't go out and support. a Chris Brown tour, but he was like, you know,

he's seeing fellas having a conversation about their girls being stolen, which he understands. I'm saying that conversation, but the other one I don't, I've never seen that. He's on the negative side. It's going to be sold out. Tickets are going to be through the roof because you're going to have to buy after. And I can't wait. I want to see how

they're going to put the show together because Chris is such a dancer and flying through the venue and ushers a bit of a different type of dancer. He's skaters and all that. But you know what? It might give like a circus, yo, if they do like the circus theme no for real, like the Universal

Soul Circus theme, because they both are so acrobatic, yo. You know what I mean? And I think, and what if they do it like Brandy and Monica? Remember when we went to the boys' mind tour? Yes. Back and forth. It was back and forth. That's what I'm saying. That way it feels like their both headlining, right? Yeah. Yes.

Oh, yeah. Well, we'll, we're going to go. So we'll keep you guys posted on that. Now, shifting gears a bit. Congratulations to Chris Sean Rock. Yes. Yes. Yeah, Chris Sean Rock. She fought in her first fight against Linif, Zion, and Chester. And she won during the main event of this ex-Rumble championship. It's the Road to Redemption card.

She trained with Dravante Tank Davis' coach Calvin Ford. And I saw Clarissa Shields. Congratulations, it was a feel-good story for me because I got to see Chrishine Rock have her pro debut. Chrison been through so much, and we got to see it up close and personal. And to see her go through everything that she went through with her ex-guy. the baby, baddies, family, to see her actually come out on the other side and win and put her fighting skills to use to actually have like some dedication.

Her praise God, like that was very moving to me. And I'm happy that I can be one of her inspirations. And she caught me a lot when she first decided to even start. And I was telling her like whenever she want to come and train, I'm open to it. And now I teach her what I know. And she did really, really good. and I'm just happy for her, you know what I mean? I'm happy for Chrishaw too.

So am I. Yeah. Yo, did you see, did you see any clips tournament? I saw the video where she, the first round when she dropped her. I saw that. Yeah, it's a first fight. I think it's good. The girl that she fought, was it her first fight as well?

No. No. She's like a, like she did this. Oh, really? Yeah, but I, um, I was. That's why I ain't know what it was going to give, but Chrison has been really serious on this spot. She posted a video. Training and stuff.

Like, apparently about a month or so ago where she was breaking down, but she was just talking about how she's pressure to change her life, but she's taking it so serious. She was talking about how hard the dieting is, the training. And, you know, it's by the, she was, you know, by the grace of God that she's getting through it because it's just different. But it takes a lot of

dedication. Yeah, it takes a lot of dedication to be able to take that anger that we've seen the last couple of years in all these shows and using it to make a business in a more professional way. I love that. Absolutely. And getting paid for what she do. You know what I mean? When she can do best and that's fight.

Yes. And that is the latest for the Hours brought to you by Top Dog Law. Any accident big or small? Call Top Dog Law. Yeah, again, before we get to the mix, I just want to salute to everybody I've seen this week. And Thursday, I was at the Giants draft party, at the DJ that. And Saturday, Friday and Saturday, I was out in Pittsburgh. Salute to everybody I seen in Pittsburgh. Had an amazing time in Pittsburgh.

I ran into Maya out there. I seen Boosey badass. I seen Jeez-y. They were all performing out there. I love Pittsburgh. It was like 30, 40,000 people there for the draft. So it was just a... We're working.

I know. On planes left for real. And then, of course, the Black Effect Podcast Festival was just dope, man. I got to see so many people. It's like a huge family reunion. So salute to everybody that I've seen outdoor. Oh, and heavy birthday, Corrata Scott King. She would have been 99.

Today. Her birthday. Yeah. Yeah. She would have been 99. All right. All right. All right.

All right. All right. All right. All right. Let's get to the mix. J.N.V. Jess Hilaris. Sholomey and the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

Salute to everybody that I see out and about. Of course, Thursday, I did the Giants draft. Friday. Saturday. I was in Pittsburgh. I seen Maya. I seen Bousie. I was on a flight with Bousie and Gizi. I seen Dr. Cheyenne Bryant. She was out there.

We had a great time over the weekend. But my family reunion, I ain't going to front. It was the Black Effect Podcast Festival. Oh, my guys. I had such an amazing time. Yeah, man. We had a ball Saturday in Atlanta at Pullman Yards for the Black Effect Podcast Festival. I want to salute

Drink Champs podcast, Nori and DJEFN. Thank you for the flywers, man. They gave me and Dolly the black effect flowers that they'd be given out on the show. So thank you for that. They had C.Lo and Kay Michelle on the show. I ain't seen Kay Michelle in so long. I had to give Kay Michelle a big hug and say, What's up, Scrange of Danger? You know?

So salute to Kay Michelle. Salute to Crystal Renee Hayeslett. She had Carisha, Young Miami on her podcast. Keep it positive, sweetie. Carlos King had Stormy Steel on with his reality with the King podcast. Mona, salute to Mona. She had Dominique Morgan on for her, call me white girl podcast club 520 have my man nav green and the grits and eggs

podcast had my guy Derek Falcone so it was a great event man Cheryl Underwood pulled up papoose and Clarissa shield pulled up Michael Bivens pulled up little Duval pulled up just a lot of people just came and uh you know it was just showing love so man thank you to everybody d1 d1 pulled up so salute to everybody who came out man I can't wait to do it again next yeah absolutely that's what's up and also shout out to Rutgers university and at the Black Writers Weekend, everybody came out and they showed love. We had a live fireside chat about my book till death do we parent

which is out tomorrow. It was so dope. I met a lot of black creators, a lot of black authors and, you know, I took home a big-ass box of books too. Everybody bought books and they bought my book and, you know, yeah, it was asking me questions about

co-parenting and got deep, like really, really got deep on guidance on what they should do. I had I did like a live, just fix my message. segment on the topic of co-parenting and blending families and things like that. So, yeah, this Thursday I'll be doing the same thing at the Powerhouse Bookstores in Dumbo. That's Brooklyn, New York, at 7 p.m. from 7 to 9 p.m. And T. Whitlow from the Fox.

She's a Fox News anchor. She'll be moderating the conversation. So get your tickets for that at Jess Hilary's official.com. Because Jess's book drops tomorrow. Tell Jeff, do we parent, okay? It'll be in bookstores. everywhere tomorrow. I don't think people understand that, you know, this book is about

co-parenting. Like, if you're a person who is co-parenting with your baby father or baby mother, you know, Jess is telling her experience and how she was able to do it with her baby daddy Rome. So it's a very interesting read, man, and I can't wait for people to pick it up tomorrow. Same. Thank you.

Salute to Mario Carbone for joining us this morning. He's the co-founder of Carbone Beach, what they're doing out in Miami. He has so many different restaurants. So salute to Carbone for joining us this morning. Yes, sure. You got a positive note?

I do, man. And, you know, since Michael Jackson is the talk of the town right now, a movie made over $200 plus million globally, I was looking at all these different Michael Jackson quotes. And I'm going to be honest. I don't even know if Michael Jackson said any of these things, okay? But they're attributed to him, and I think that they're great. Michael Jackson once said, allegedly, if you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can

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