The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Mike Epps Apologizes, Donnie Simpson In Studio, Lizzo Says Ozempic Is ERASING Big People + More

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

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jess is on vacation charlemagne the god peace to the planet it's tuesday Hey, good morning how y'all feel out there. I feel blessed black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning. What is happening? Good morning. What's up, bro? How are you feeling? I feel great, you know what I'm saying? And I thought about something, right?

Now, here at the Breakfast Club, there's a lot of moving parts. Correct. Okay? So, you know, you got the talent aspect of it, which is, you know, you and myself, and, you know, Jess hilarious, and, you know, Lauren Lerosis. She comes in with the latest. Right. And then, you know, you got Red running the boards. You got Eddie of the producer.

Correct. You know, Sim works in the best. back. Taylor's still on maternity leave. I thought she was going to be here this week. You know, V-Flow sending out. She just does whatever we need her to do. Sid works in digital. My point with all of that is Brandon, Nick, Nick, Eli,

too many penises. And see, the point, Jess isn't here, Lauren isn't here. Sim is all the way in the back. Taylor's not here. It's just too much testosterone. And, you know, y'all guys talk too filthy for me. It's too much locker room banter, all right, especially with the young boys.

And I don't want to be a part of that. I just want you to know that, okay? I just wanted to throw that out there. Okay. All right. I got young boys sending me stuff and group text. You know what I'm saying?

All right. Who do he said? What's his name? All right, man. I'm just asking. All right. Donnie Simpson is joining me. Yeah, Donnie Simpson.

That legend, the OG, he'll be joining us if you don't know who Donnie Simpson is. That's your fault. Yeah, that is your fault. I ain't got time to teach you. You turn on the breakfast club and learn. If it wasn't for Donnie Simpson shows like the breakfast club and a lot of your favorite radio shows probably wouldn't exist

because he changed a lot when it came to radio, also on television. I think Donnie, Let me see. I was born in 1978. I think Donnie was the first cool black man I saw on TV. When I think about it, like... On VET?

Just on TV, period. I'm talking about just, like, the first cool black man. I'm talking about as far as, like, I guess, from a VJ perspective, so to speak. But he also did radio for years, and he's from Detroit. He did radio from Detroit. He did radio in D.C. for years. But I didn't know anything about that until later, till after the fact. Really?

Yeah, because, I mean, I was the first time I'm on BET. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's like, and I'm not talking about, like, as far as, uh, Celebrity is concerned, like, actors and things like that. I'm talking about, as far as the VJ perspective, I think the first cool, cool black person I saw on television. I know I saw him before you on TV wraps. Absolutely.

Yeah, right. Absolutely. Yeah, video sold was out way before that. Yeah, absolutely, way before that. Yeah, so Donnie Simpson will be joining us this morning. He has a podcast, season two of his podcast. We're going to be talking about all types of history. That's right.

You know what I did yesterday? So if you had... It's so black this morning. I mean, it is extremely dark. It's dark. But anyway, when it comes... I took my kids to get their braces Yeah, because you have to wait

to their, I guess the baby teeth start to grow in and my teeth were effed up as a child. Why don't they? How old are they? 12 and 11. Oh, okay, okay, okay. What? You said babies. I'm thinking about the youngest. No, no, no, no. I got so many of them, 12 and 11.

And I didn't know there's so many options for braces. I didn't know there. Braces indoor. They got ceramic braces. They got metal braces. They got invisible line. Absolutely. I'm like, Jesus. Yeah, I couldn't do it.

I did braces for one weekend. as an adult? Yes A couple years ago Couldn't do it No, no, no So what you do? Took them off

After the weekend Then you do Invisaline? A little bit I sleep with the retainer at night Oh Yeah, okay That's about it All right

Well, let's get the show Cracking All right We got front page News Mimi will be joining us Can we start the show off With some GZ

Oh yeah Please don't play Take you Do that Can we do Can we do uh GZ Hove Oh go crazy

Can we do that See the reason I don't like this Because y'all I don't let hold Cause the song Too long That's why we got to get the Mimi

back there was six minute songs What do you want us to do? Can we get right to Man All right Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning We don't go get the whole verse Hey

I can't handle everything We're trying to pick the songs We can't pick how long they play now Speaking of handling everything man I'm with the dicks yesterday Dixporting Dix Hey, Jabba Bum I went to Dixporting good yesterday

All right man you know what Mimi come on Mimi Never mind I can't you know what I'm not doing this with you Not tell me to see that's what I mean When I say they're not under the women around. Okay, okay, go ahead.

You went to the dicks, go ahead. I went to export and kids yesterday to buy one thing, and ended up buying about five or six things. What you buy? Okay, and that's why I realized I don't like going into retail stores anymore. But what you go? What you go for? I went actually for some drawers.

I like wearing Ethica underwear, and they, um, that was like the closest place that sold them. And then I walked in there, and they had an assortment of Asian Wilson sneakers. I'm not going to lie to you. I was like, Jesus Christ. Yes, they do. They got a whole wall on them outside. I had no idea.

I just went there for some drawers. And then I'm like, yo, y'all, y'all down all these age, Wilson's sneakers? And they had a couple of my size, so I had to get them. Yeah, yes, yeah. I know what dick she went to. All right. Good morning, Mimi. Oh, good.

All right. Good morning, Mee. How are you? Good morning, Mimi. How are you? Nice to see you, Mimi. Good to hear from you this morning, Mimi. We need the divine feminine energy in this room today.

I'm trying to send it through the screen right now. We're going to just sip it, ship it through. All right, y'all. So this morning, we are starting with a major decision at a federal court, one that just wiped out. two major criminal cases brought by the Trump administration. A judge dismissing the charges against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General, Letitia James, after finding that Lindsay Halligan, the prosecutor that was handpicked by President Trump, was never legally

appointed. And the judge, as he simply put it, Halligan missed the deadline. And when that deadline passed, the attorney general loses the power to appoint and it shifts to the district judges. Now, as a result, all of Halligan's actions, including including both indictments were thrown out. Now, the cases were dismissed without prejudice, meaning the Justice Department could technically bring them back with a properly appointed prosecutor. But in James Comey's case, that window has already closed.

And since the indictment was never valid, it didn't pause the statute of limitations. And that deadline has now expired. Prosecutors should not be able to refile, but we will watch what the Trump administration does. But the case against Letitia James, it could be brought again, but that depends on what the white.

House does next. They plan to appeal. Let's listen to what the White House had to say. I know there was a judge who is clearly trying to shield Letitia James and James Comey from receiving accountability. And that's why they took this unprecedented action to throw away the indictments against these two individuals. But the Department of Justice will be appealing very soon. And it is our position that Lindsay Halligan is extremely qualified for this position, but more importantly, was legally appointed to it. So yes. Yeah, first of all these cases being tossed is great news, all right?

Just good to know there are still some checks and balances in this country. We all know both of these cases are politically motivated, part of President Trump's revenge tour. So just good to know, the rule of law still matters to some people. It still matters. So we'll continue to watch that and see what happens as they file that appeal. And as that legal battle plays out, the Pentagon has sparked a new controversy of its own launching an investigation into Democratic Senator Mark Kelly. So the Pentagon confirms that it is investigating Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.

He's a Navy combat pilot or a former Navy combat pilot and a former astronaut for possibly violating military law. Now, officials say the review could even lead to recalling him to active duty for a court martial, something that is almost never done. Now, this all started after Kelly. He appeared in a video with five other Democratic lawmakers. We talked about that last week. Now, in that video, they told active duty troops and intelligence officers that if they were ever given an illegal order, they have the right to refuse it, which is true under military law.

Now, President Trump, he blasted the group calling the message seditious behavior and saying it could be punishable by death. He later walked that back, but continued to accuse them of sedition. Now, a short term, short time later, the Pentagon, it announced that it had received serious allegations of misconduct. about Kelly, and they are now reviewing the if his comments broke military rules. Now, a lot of people are asking why just Senator Mark Kelly, when there were five other Democratic lawmakers who were also in that video, well, he is the only person in that video who is a retired military officer. Now, retired military officers, unlike veterans who simply completed their service, legally

remained under the uniform code of military service. That means they can be recalled to active duty and prosecuted if the pun. Pentagon believes that they violated military law. Now, Kelly, he is responding to this investigation this morning saying that he has honored his oath from the day he entered the Navy through his combat missions for space shuttle flights and public service. He said the president's post calling for him to be arrested or even executed are meant to intimidate him and it will not work.

Yeah, the irony of them investigating Mark Kelly for his comments, but Trump made death threats and nobody cares. Mm-hmm. Trump made deaf threats and like that meeting with Mondani got those out of the headlines in two seconds. Yeah.

And not even just a death threat. He was retweeting people who were calling for them to be hanged. You know what I mean? Like that was just it was basically beneath the office. So we will continue to watch what that looks like. And coming up

the truth behind those early Friday was it Black Friday? Yeah. Coming up the truth behind those early Black Friday deals, what you've been seeing. We'll break down how to save money and the best time to shop. We'll do that in the next hour. All right. Thank you, Mimi.

Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-105.1. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, call us up right now. 800-58-105-105.1 is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray.

Yo, Sala Man, Evie, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor. pool our outdoor pool we want to hear from you on the breakfast club we can get on the phone right now here tell you what it is we live hello who's this yo what up what up dj envy coach david how you doing what's up coach how you feeling i'm good charlemagne what up my god peace king how you doing brother hey oh check this out man i know i know you know you said that uh johnny simpson was

a cool dude that you've seen on tv right yes sir i got you by a couple years man okay Yo, my man, DJ Ralph McDaniels, bud, video music box, you feel me? Well, you see, y'all was in New York. I was in South Carolina. We didn't have Ralph McDaniels in South Carolina. Oh, that's true. But I still think Donnie came before Ralph McDaniels. No, not at all.

You didn't? I don't know. I think they're in the same, they're in the same era. Hmm. Just two different genres. Video Soul debuted in 1981. Yeah, nah, that's, I don't know. Nah, I think that's what before, right?

Yeah, video music box is the same time. Nah, video music box is saved time. I'm telling you. Oh, listen, I'm not debating that. I don't know. But, yeah, I wasn't, you know, video music box, that was, that was tri-state base. I was in South Carolina. Yeah.

It says video music box debuted in 83. 83? Oh, I got that June 26, 1981. Well, what? Well, I looked up video sold. I looked up video music box. Video music by Ralph McDaniels. Oh, so, okay.

Yeah, so video soul came out first. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, two years, but, but, seat ever. Yeah. But I think it was different

because Donnie was national with BET. You know what I'm saying? Donnie Simpson and Sherry Clark. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you, brother, though. Well, yeah,

yeah, gentlemen, have a great holiday, man. Happy, happy Thanksgiving, man. Thank you, my brother. Appreciate you. Hello, who's this? Good morning. It's Hudson.

Hudson, what's up? Get it off your chest, brother. I just want to know when, like, at 950, when you're wrapping up the show, does administration ever come down and be like, yo, that was gay.

But tomorrow, I need y'all to be just a little jader. First of all, I don't know who does imaginary... I don't know who this imaginary administration is, y'all think, you know, has his hand on this show. But no, that doesn't happen, sir. We made... All right. Let's be honest, though.

Who starts the show was like last night when I went to Dix? Like, that's... First of all, I'll talk about Dix sporting goods. Yeah, yeah. That was ridiculous, okay? That's a little crazy. It was a little A-O. It was a little A-O.

You know what I wanted to know, too, Hudson? Why would they name the store Dix? though. Like, there's people named Dick. Sporting Authority, sporting goods. Richard. The intersection came down and told, we needed a little gayer.

Hey, man, shut up. Everything isn't gay, guys. Now you got me Googling why is Dick Sporting Good called Dick Sporting Good. Thank you, I. Have a good way, man. Have a good morning.

Dick Sporting Goods is named after its founder, Richard Dick Stack. That's his name, man. All right. Well, salute to the... Richard. All right. Get it off your chest.

$800-585-105-10. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Happy holidays. You're listening to the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest.

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Hello, who's this? Hey, man. What's my, Envy? Trabb, if you say anything stupid on this radio this morning, I'm going up on you. Yeah, you already know what I'm calling for a star. You already know since what's happening. Talk that talk, Trap. You already know what's going on.

Talk, Trap. No, it's just us. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Well, I call to say that. We're going to the ball, baby. Hey, five, five and one, baby. Yeah, they're not going to no super bowl. Five, five and one, baby.

We all know. Five and one, baby. Oh, my goodness. Trap. Happy Day's Giving I told him if you talked some stupid stuff I told him you talk stupid stuff I got to hang up on him

Hello who's this Hi this is Nicole Colin Hey Nicole What are you calling from Nicole I'm calling from Springfield Massachusetts Okay Springfield

What's up? Get it off your chest Yeah I just want to shout out My baby daddy Matt in the night He got a nice new song I'll find everybody loves Up platforms

And y'all should take a listen to do with it Your baby daddy's You got us on Bluetooth so we can't hear you. Is your baby daddy in the car with you right now? No, he's right here. Yeah. I respect that. I respect that man that you love him so much

that you call up here supporting his hustle. How old is he? 28. Oh, okay. Put him on the phone. Let him rap. That's not too old to still be pursuing your rap dreams. Do you have a day job, son?

What's up, brother? Do you have a day job? Hey, yeah, I work pathetic, man. Oh, I like that. That's what is. What's your rap name, bro? It's Mackey, Matt. Mackie Mac. I don't know about the name, but I'm going to rock with you from Massachusetts, so he's probably inspired by Marky Mark.

Oh, Mark. Oh, got you, got you. All right, Macie Mac. All right. Tell them where they can find your music, Macie Mac. Man, all platforms. I got the new song called Blinds by Love. It's a thing and a song that puts you in a mindset of the end flow and on Maxwell. Can we hear a little bit? Can we hear a little bit? Um, okay. I'm blacked by love. Oh, I'm no good for you. me I feel my love That's all I'm to do for y'all

All right All right, brother All right I'm listening I can't really tell Much over the phone But I like the fact That you are pursuing

Your dream But you are also Still having a day job That is very important, sir Yes, thank you Thank you Have a good one, bro Yeah man

Keep keep keep working He's bad at my love You probably sound good In the studio though I don't know I don't know But anyway Salute to him Mackie Mac

Get it off your chest It's 800-585-105-1. Now, we got the latest with Lauren coming up. Lauren is not here. Did she sing anything? Yes, Lauren sent me a bunch of stories. Okay. The first hour is going to make us sound real chatty-patti, though.

I'm just going to let you know. What is it? What is it? Real chatty-patti. You know if I need to get my fan. You definitely need your fan. It starts off with Candy speaks about her divorce. Tony Braxton speaks about her silence on Birdman and if they really split.

And offset being accused of trying to set up Stefan Diggs. Yeah, I mean, you don't have to do those That's a choice Right But there she got Lizzo saying that Ozympic is a racing fat people Now you know I'm here for that one now I'm here for that one

We go get the latest with Lauren When we come back It's the breakfast club Good morning Happy holidays Wishing you and your family The very best this holiday season From all of us here at the breakfast club

The Breakfast Club everybody is D-E-J, NV, just hilarious, Shalameen the guy. That's Kalani, right? That's Kalani, for all right. Everybody love that record. They don't love that record. Absolutely.

All right, well, let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fat. Tell her, man. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets to detail. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren La Rosa.

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes she has details, sometimes she has a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest. on the breakfast club Talk to me All right So Lauren is on her birthday vacation But she still sent the rumors and notes in

She says Yes envy and bald Short ugly guy I'm speaking to sources pool side Very on brand Okay twin All right so Okay twin

By the way This is a public service announcement Stop calling people twin if you're ugly Damn Hey just want to throw that out there Damn you're embarrassing yourself All right Well yesterday all over

I guess all over social media It was Offset is being accused Of trying to set up Stefan Diggs All right now this Instagram model That I guess Offset was allegedly talking with Release some text messages That say Offset was trying to set up Stefan Diggs But Lauren spoke to sources

And the source told Lauren that the girl is a girl That Offset currently has beef with About some other things And that these texts are in relation to their back and forth That is completely separate From anything to do with Stefan Diggs that he has nothing to do with setting him up and he wishes them the best.

So she's basically saying that the girl is people are misconstruing the information and it has nothing to do with Stefan Dix. Yeah, you could have left that one from Lauren. She's not going to be here. She ain't here to next Monday. She said, I'm telling what she said, duty stories. Whatever girl, I have.

Listen, do your thing, girl. Put your fan out. Now she says, Candy Burr is formerly of Real Housewives of Atlanta spoke out about filing for divorce last Friday and how hard it's been. She said she was doing Amazon Live shopping experience and said it's been a long time coming

and then she said you should say pause after that envy all right well this is her talking about the divorce I swear she did she said you should say pause after saying long time coming but Candy talks about her divorce from Todd and said it's been a long time coming let's listen to Candy I'm sure y'all saw that I filed for divorce on Friday right now it's it's a pretty crazy time

I'm going to be very honest with you I am up and down obviously going through a divorce is definitely not the easiest thing, you know, sometimes, you know, you're cool, you know what I mean, you're moving, you're mixing, you're moving, and you're hanging out with friends. But then sometimes you have your moments of sadness and me being the tors that I am. I like to keep those moments to myself. And to be clear, yes, I filed Friday, but, you know, this is something that, you know, has been brewing for a while. So all the times you've been seeing me online like, ha, ha, all of that

means nothing. I've been going through it, child. But what I will say is, Todd and I were together But our marriage lasted 11 years. We were together like 14. We got two wonderful, beautiful children. I have no regrets. You know, whenever I hear a woman said they filed for divorce, I always wonder if the man knew it was coming. Because if you're not expecting it,

that has to be a gut punch, right? And I don't know what hurts worse. You know, getting the divorce papers are hearing. It was a long time coming. So, damn, you've been not wanting to be with me. Yeah. And I guess as a man, you should know when things aren't the same in your house. but do you know the difference between

when things aren't the same and you might be trying to figure things out and work things out or when you're just over when the person is fed up, done. But you know what? With men, I would say a lot of times we are delirious. When a woman is done delusional, you mean? Delusional and delirious, I would say. Because sometimes you feel like you can fight

for it back. Like, ah, it's not that bad. I can still this. She's still mine. And then when you get that paperwork like that, oh, my God. Because the vows say, you know, for better or worse, you know, to death be apart. Like, you know, you're supposed to fight for your marriage. I just wonder, you know, when she says it was a long time coming, like... Did he know?

Exactly. Or were they trying to figure things out behind the scenes, but it just couldn't be done. Yeah, well, wish him the best. A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers. But it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught. The answers were there, hidden in plain sight. So why did it take so long to catch him? I'm Josh Zeman, and this is Monster.

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afternoon on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Also, Lizzo says, Ozympic is erasing big people That's how she said it Yep Is there any audio?

No, no, there's no audio But this is what she says She published a personal essay a few days ago On Substack titled Why is everybody losing weight And what do we do Sincerely a person who's lost weight She said she's out here

She's currently weighs over 200 pounds And it's still a proud big girl And she feels as though Plus size women are becoming erased In the age of a weight lost drug Like Ozempic She wants the big girls back all right first of all right that's what ozipic is supposed to do lizzo okay people who don't want to

identify as fat anymore they take these weight loss drugs in order to lose weight okay and at some point in your life your doctor will even say to you that you need to lose weight because obesity causes a lot of health problems okay that higher risk for disease whether it's stroke or high blood pressure or high cholesterol so if people want to use ozipic to lose weight to lower the risk you're getting those diseases, God bless them. And I also want to tell all the fat people out there, you are not your fat, okay? You are not your fat.

Just because you lose the fat doesn't mean you lose who you are. All right? We all have a hidden character inside of us that we can unlock if we lose the weight, right? What does you mean? Fat people aren't being erased. They're just losing the fat. There's nothing wrong with that. Hashtag save all big girls.

Now, she says, so here we are halfway through the decade, where extended sizes are being magically erased from websites. plus size models are no longer getting booked for modeling gigs and all of our big girls are not so big anymore what's wrong with that though we have a lot of work to do

to undo the effects of the ozimic boom first of all how do you know everything is ozimic how do you know people just aren't eating healthier how do you know people aren't just you know working out like why does everything have to be blamed on the weight loss drug what if people have just said you know what I want to make better choices healthier choices

and they're losing weight like what are we talking about I don't know. Being, you know, in a lot of cases, in a lot of cases, not all, being overweight is a choice. So when you start making better lifestyle choices, you start losing the weight. I don't see what the issue here is. And in closing, she said, we're in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they're tired of being judged. No.

I think people are just making their own individual choices because they want to make their own individual choices. Just announced the Lincoln Bryan partnership already. What the hell's going on here? What is this about? I don't know. Save all the big girls, I guess. I don't know. What is this?

And lastly, Tony Braxton speaks on Birdman. Now, Lauren says, you got to get this next one right, envy. You know Birdman don't play about Tony, and he don't play with y'all either. He really don't like y'all. But just play the audio of Tony Braxton talking in relationship. Romance is never dead. It never dies. You have to open yourself up to it.

Okay, where is it for you today? Where does it stand like? Today's good. Meaning? Just bring it on. So, okay. Are you married? I am.

Okay. Explain that to us because I, you know what? You were married, then you weren't married. I heard a lot of different rumors. Yes. I heard that I'm getting 100, what is it, the amount? A lot. I heard that, too.

You'll get a big check from a certain performer, but a producer was dropping off a bunch of money. I heard that, too. That big check? A rumored 160 million. The certain performer, that be rapper Birdman. Tony denies those rumors, by the way. The backstory, the two tied the knot and seemingly split just 48 hours later last year. The pair apparently agreed to call off the divorce in.

January. We've been friends forever for 25 years. Romance from friendship. I just want Lauren to know that no matter how many times she takes, you know, Tony Braxton's album cover into the hair salon, your hair is never going to look like hers. That's all you got out of that. That's all I got out. That's all you got out.

You can take that whole album cover, Tony Braxton from the 90s into the hair salon. All you want, your haircut will never look like hers, Lauren Lerosa. Jesus Christ. Have a great vacation. All right. And that is the latest with Laura. Now, when We come back, we got some front page news, and then the legendary icon, Donnie Simpson will be joining us. So don't go anywhere.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Bell Air is back for a final season on Peacock. And in the end, it's all love. Will and Carlton start senior year and the rest of the fam face new chapters of their own. Stream Bell Air now only on Peacock. Good morning, everybody.

It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Sholome guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Last night there was an NFL game. I fell asleep for it. Did you see it, Charlemagne? No, I was watching. You know what I was watching last night? I was watching Syracuse versus

Houston. Syracuse is playing Houston. I think Houston is the number three team in men's college basketball. And Syracuse almost won. They took them no overtime. Barely. Yeah, I wanted to, you know, I wanted to see how good Syracuse was because they were undefeated as well, but they took them to overtime. Wow. That team is pretty impressive.

Now, and Monday Night Football, the 49ers, the pants is 20 to 9. What's up, Mimi? Good morning, Sean Lamang. Good morning. Envy, how y'all doing this morning? Bless Black and highly favored, Mimi. Good morning.

Okay, so we start this hour by saying goodbye to one of the last living witnesses to the Tulsa Race Massacre. So Viola Fort Fletcher, known to so many as Mother Fletcher was the oldest known survivor of the 1921 attack on Tulsa's Greenwood community. She died yesterday at 111 years old. Her family says she passed peacefully with a smile. on her face. Mother Fletcher,

she spent her final years fighting for justice, giving interviews, appearing in court, and retelling the trauma she carried ever since she was seven years old when a white mob

burned down Greenwood, once known as Black Wall Street. In just 16 hours, 35 blocks were destroyed. Thousands of Black residents were detained and hundreds more beaten and killed. Here she is, in her own words,

telling the story of how she carried this for more than a century. Let's listen. The night of the massacre, I was awakened by my family. My parents and five siblings were there. I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home.

I still see black men seeing being shot. Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and seafar. I still see black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day. A country may forget this history, but I cannot.

We had the pleasure of actually meeting her when she actually came on the show and did an interview. Our Uncle Red and Mother Fletcher stopped through here. 111 years old, man. What a life. And it's interesting to me when you have people who live through the history that we read about and we talk about.

And that's why you've got to take advantage of having conversations with those elders while they hear, man. Absolutely. Absolutely. And she was one of only two survivors left. Now her friend and fellow survivor, Leslie Benningfield, Randall. She is the last. Last year on June, in June of 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court, they threw out their lawsuit, which was a major setback in their 100-year fight for reparations. That basically means that their push through the justice system, through the courts, had reached a dead end. Their attorney, though, says she was still fighting, even from her hospital bed, tired, but not ready to leave the work unfinished. So we will continue to, you know, just wish them well in their fight for justice. And as we move on, we're turning to a very different fight happening inside the federal government. So Doge, the Department of Government efficiency, it has shut down eight months early after laying off tens of thousands of federal workers. And now some of those

very jobs that were cut, they are being replaced by AI. Now, one of the agencies that was hit the hardest was the IRS. After cutting more than 12,000 employees this year, from customer service to civil rights to compliance, the IRS is now rolling out Salesforce powered AI tools to pick up the work that people used to do. Now, these agents, they will answer questions, sort through files, and help move the cases along, but they can't make final decisions or process returns on their own, but it is a major shift that's sparking real concern in how the agency is handling its now day-to-day operations. I don't want AI. working at the IRS. I don't need no room for error at the IRS, okay? I need actual humans in there

that we can yell and scream at. I don't need nobody playing with our money. And to just pick up the phone when you have a question about your return or anything that you may have a question about your money. So, yeah, we will see what that looks like, especially when it gets closer to tax season. That's going to be a real headache for so many people. And another headache, right? So if you're planning to ship anything next year, holiday gifts, birthday packages, anything, The Postal Service is warning that prices are going up. So for most packages, you're looking at a bump of about 5 to 8%. That's basically a few extra dollars every time you mail something that includes your everyday options like your priority mail, your priority express mail.

The cheaper, slower services will see the biggest jump. One of the specialty international options, the one that people use to send like books overseas, that's going to go up about 40%. Now, USPS says it needs the extra revenue to upgrade its six. system and to keep delivering mail in packages six days a week. The new prices, though they still need approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission. But if they are cleared, those new prices will kick in January 18th, 2026. They also want to stress that this does not affect the price of a stamp. Regular mail will stay the same, but shipping will cost more, but sending a letter will not.

So everything is going up. And lastly, it is almost Black Friday. and a lot of shoppers, they are trying to figure out what is real and what is hype this year. So Black Friday, y'all, remember it used to be predictable. You woke up at 3 a.m.

You stood in line, you sprinted for your TV. Yep. But those days are now gone. You remember that? We used to watch the videos online of everybody pushing and shoving. Going crazy, yep.

Yep. Well, now the sales start so early that people, a lot of companies, they are rolling out door busters before Halloween. And so shoppers are confused. So all over social media, people are asking the same thing. Is this the real Black Friday or is this a warm up? And it's a fair

question because every retailer is shouting Black Friday weeks in advance. And it's getting hard to tell if the sale is the real sale. So here's what analysts are saying. They're saying the best and the deepest cuts, they usually still show up the week into Black Friday through Cyber Monday. So that would be this week. That's when those electronics, those big ticket home items and holiday gifts will hit their lowest prices. They say, though, if you do see something that you want and it's a genuinely good price, you should probably grab it. But if you are chasing those rock bottom prices, waiting until Black Friday, Cyber Monday

Stretch is usually your best bet. And they also suggest maybe getting a pricing tracking tool that will help you keep track of all the deals to help you find the best prices to save you a few dollars. All right. I should have waited and did some shopping on Friday. You don't want to go out there. It would be too crazy on Friday. And you don't like people?

You will go crazy. Yeah, that's never happened to me before. I went to the Dick Sporting Goods yesterday, and usually I walk into a place and I know exactly what I want, and I get it, and I leave, and I've been so heavy ordering stuff online lately that I haven't been in the store in a while.

But I walked in Dick Sporting Good just to go buy some drawers. But the underwear is nowhere near the sneakers, you see. That is not true. Nah, because the sneakers is all the way in the back. And the only reason I know is I had to buy... And that's what the ethical underwear is right by a fitting room, too. And then when you look at the ethical underwear, the wall is right there full of Asia Wilson sneakers.

I was like, oh, shoot, it was Asia Wilson and Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell, yeah. And I was like, I didn't know, first of all, I didn't know Asia had that many colorways. And then I went and bought two pairs because, you know, that's home team. And I only had one pair of Kobe's there, though, size 10 when I went there the other day. I didn't see the Kobe's got. Yeah, I was looking for Jackson, but, yeah. But that type of stuff doesn't go on Black Friday's sale anyway, right?

No. You probably, right. Yeah, they don't usually discount those shoes and things like that. So, all right, y'all. Well, that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. me at Mimi Brown TV. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, download the free iHeartRadio app or visit BINNews.com. Thank you, Mimi. Thank you, Mimi. Thank you.

All right. Now, when we come back, the legend of OG Donnie Simpson will be joining us. He had his own radio show in D.C. and Detroit for years. You probably know him from Video Soul on BET. And now he has season two of the Donnie Simpson show. We're going to talk to him next. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. We first soprano in the choir, so I got to sit with the girls. You know, next I get to sit with the girls the next year. But people would always come to a record shop and go, you sound like a DJ.

You ought to be a DJ. And it was in one ear out the other, man. I wanted to be a Baptist minister. That was my first goal in life. But one day my mother had a live broadcast. One of the local DJs, Al Perkins, came in. Well, set up his booth out front. They had a portable booth with glass encased.

did his show from there for three hours and so he invited me into the studio to do specials you know you know we got the temptation's greatest hits on sale for $2.99 this hour or whatever and but while I'm in there man I'm sitting there man I'm watching him and he's got his

headphones on man he's jamming to the music man I was like man I could do that I could that's what I want to do right there I mean it's just just light it's just no doubt that's what I wanted to do and within three months

I was on the air I was 15 years old you know in Detroit Detroit was fifth largest market in the country at that time so you know I mean what a blessing to get a start that young and I mean I couldn't even do my whole show live I was on from 8 to midnight

and law stated I couldn't work past 1030 so after school I have to go home I mean go to the station record my last hour and a half then go home have dinner do my homework and go back and go live from 8 to 1030 30 put the tape on and leave what were you talking about at age 15 in Detroit when

this is when what temptations and all those groups and loving singing what were you talking about at 15 in Detroit the temptations the miracles it's four tops I mean yeah was that it's uh 1969 oh yeah 15 in Detroit 69 he was really 30 yeah right but you know I would I've always loved music so I would go into a smoky set right or uh i remember this happened with smoky and stevie i played four or five songs by them they would call on the request line they didn't even have a hotline number just call man i was listening to you baby you know and talk to smoky talk to uh stevie man it was just it was magical detroit at that time that was different air because motown was right there yeah it was right

yeah it was in the heart of it was in the heart of it man you picked the records you play back then man i've always done that always well that was you know that was the norm back then of course now you know, nobody gets that privilege, but my whole career, I'm proud of that. I always had total control of what happened on my show, man. I wouldn't have done it any other way, you know, because, you know, I'm not a bit, it was never a bit-driven show, you know, it was, for me, everything was, it was the music. I was, that was the main focus for me, so I had to have control of it or I wouldn't do it. And how did you get to D.C.?

Because most people, a lot of people thought you were from D.C. yeah how did you get from dc so you're on radio in detroit you're 15 your radio career starts yeah how does this this young individual get out to washington dc yeah well i got a call one night on the air uh on the request line and this guy it's not a very official voice hello is this donnie simpson i go yeah this is bob hennerberry from nbc in new york and uh we'd like to talk to you about working at one of our stations at our station in washington that's it come on man who the hell is this really because your boys would play tricks like that coin and then they hear you get all official and then they go oh man it's called man

what you doing after the show tonight you know and uh but it was real and uh so i went there to meet with him at first i didn't want to go because it was a disco station and i said no way i would do that but then my oldest brother who's had a very smart business mind i always wish i had his business mind um but he said you you always have to talk whatever the offer is you just you have to Listen. I agree. So I went. They picked me up, took me on an interview at Arlington Cemetery. It's like, is this Washington, D.C. or not? I mean, why is some clandestine at the cemetery? It just was weird. But I ended up going because when I went there, they were playing the enchantment and some stuff other than just disco. And, but, you know, I felt like it was opportunity for me, that it was NBC, that the station I was at in Detroit, we were their biggest station in their chain.

uh that you had opportunity for growth there and they were going to make me rich man i left detroit making 13 000 they were paying me 275 baby what what's the first car you bought but well let me first car first car ever bought it was a 1964 Ford fair lane okay 225 dollars man i burn so much oil man i pull in the gas station tell him fill up the oil and check the gas. But I thought I was rich when I moved there with that money, man. But I was broke as hell, man. I mean, very, because I didn't factor in cost of living from Detroit to D.C.

It was like three times more. And I lost my side hustle because I wasn't popular. So, you know, so I didn't, you know, you're not doing the concerts and all that stuff. I didn't think about all that, man. Man, it was tight for a minute. And for me, man, the moment that I remember. most from that is I had a set of pictures back then you had to get pictures

developed and it was $26 man and I couldn't afford to get them out of the shop and he kept sending me notices man it was the last pictures of my grandfather man and that you know we're going to destroy him you get three months

finally got enough money man it was too late you're gone wow you know so that was always a motivating factor for me it still is man that I don't never want to be in that position again you know but it was that kind of tight for me four minutes i'm sorry go ahead yeah no i said four minute but you know that was 77 when i moved to dc and by night the end of 79 i'd started things just started to really really really really pop a decade ago i was on the trail of one of

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I'm the director of the men's clinic at UCLA Health. And I want to tell you about my new podcast called The Mailroom. And I'm Jordan, the show's producer. And like a lot of guys, I haven't been to the doctor in many years. I'll be asking the questions we probably should be asking, but aren't. Because guys usually don't go to the doctor unless a piece of their face is hanging off or they've broken a bone. Depends which bone. Well, that's true.

Every week, we're breaking down the unique world of men's health, from testosterone and fitness to diets and fertility, and things that happen in the bedroom. You mean sleep? Yeah, something like that, Jordan. We'll talk science without the jargon and get you real answers to the stuff you actually wonder about. It's going to be fun, whether you're 20. 27, 97, or somewhere in between. Men's health is about more than six packs and supplements. It's about energy, confidence, and connection.

We don't just want you to live longer. We want you to live better. So check out the mailroom on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows. What up, y'all? It's your boy, Kevin on stage. I want to tell you about my new podcast called Not My Best Month, where I talk to artists, athletes, entertainers, creators, friends,

People I admire who had massive success about their massive failures. What did they mess up on? What is their heartbreak? And what did they learn from it? I got judged horribly. The judges were like, you're trash. I don't know how you got on the show. Boo, somebody had tomatoes.

I'm kidding. But if they had tomatoes, they would have thrown the tomatoes. Let's be honest. We've all had those moments we'd rather forget. We bumped our head. We made a mistake. The deal fell through. We're embarrassed.

We failed. But this podcast is about. that and how we made it through. So when they sat me down, they were kind of like, we got into the small talk, and they were just like, so what do you got? What? What? What ideas? And I was like, oh, no. What? Check out not my best moment with me, Kevin on stage on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcast.

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In the United States, I mean, 50% of Americans are pre-diabetic. How preventable is type 2? Extremely. Or our in-depth analysis of how incredible mangoes are. Oh, it's hard to explain to the rest of the world that, like, your mangoes are fine because mangoes are incredible, but like, you don't even know. You don't know. You don't know.

It's going to be a fun ride. So tune in. Listen to health stuff on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Big Take podcast from Bloomberg News dives deep into one big global business story every weekday. A shutdown means we don't get the data. but it also means for President Trump that there's no chance of bad news on the labor market. What does a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich, reveal about the economy? Our breakfast foods are consistent consumer staples,

and so they sort of become outsized indicators of inflation. What's behind Elon Musk's trillion dollar payout? There's a sort of concerted effort to message that Musk is coming back. He's putting politics aside. He's left the White House. And what can the PCE tell you that the CPS? CPI can't. CPI tries to measure out-of-pocket costs that consumers are paying for things,

whereas the PCE index that the Fed targets is a little bit broader of a measure. Listen to the big take from Bloomberg News every weekday afternoon on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, we got more with Donnie Simpson. When we come back, don't move, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Donnie Simpson.

Of course, you know him from his own radio show in D.C. and, of course, video sold. Lauren. When you were in it and you were doing what you were doing with Video Soul, did you feel, you felt that all the time, like the support from your people? Oh, without doubt. Well, how did you get to Video Soul? Break that down before you jump into that. Okay.

Well, I was doing radio in Detroit, in D.C. WKYS was my station at that time. It was owned by NBC. they're trying to sweeten a pot for me so they gave me television locally there. I did backup sports. I was a sportscaster for George Michael. I don't know if y'all remember him, but

George Michael did the George Michael's sports machine which is people considered a precursor to ESPN. And so I was George's backup for about three years. But Bob Johnson had seen me doing TV. He knew, of course, of my music interests and love.

And they were starting up this show. called video soul and he wanted to know if i called and just wanted to know if i would uh be interested in doing it and uh at first i wasn't um well because i i've always felt that i was always very careful about what i got involved in because i only have one thing to sell that's image i can't give you 20 rebounds a night you know it's just image and so you have to be very protective of that and i only got involved in things that were top shelf. B.E.T. in its infancy wasn't a very pretty baby.

Wasn't the top shelf, okay. No, it wasn't. It looked like public access TV, you know. So after two days of thinking about it, it came down to this for me, that this is our first black television network. If you have something to offer it, you've got

to do it. Let's go. And I was so glad I did, man. You know, I mean, I had no idea that things would go as far as it did. I honestly only thought that would last eight or nine months because we didn't have the titles for videos that the white artists had. We had like 20 videos. You know, record companies didn't give black artists budgets like that. And so, but man, that thing just blew up, man.

We went from one and we were in one and a half million homes when I first joined it. And when I left, it was numbers like 40. 40 million, you know, and, you know, and then for me it gave me, you know, it put you in every nook and cranny of this country, man. Just, you know, I'm just grateful for that. I'm just so glad that I did that. Did you feel the support at first? And the reason why, from your people, for real, because from the outside looking in,

it does feel like that. But I know a lot of times people celebrate people and things after the fact. Yeah. And being here at the breakfast club and coming from a non-black outlet, I always say that I feel like people don't appreciate the breakfast club the way that they should right now. And it's unfortunate to see because, you know, you've lived this in real time and you had that support. I just think that we, I mean, we do a lot, but I think it would be the conversation around breakfast club amongst us. I just feel like should be different sometimes.

I think I think we, I think breakfast club gets the flowers, but I think on the other hand, I don't think people understand what's happening as it's happening. Yeah. I think haters come with, I mean, you got, you got both. Yeah. Always. You're going to have your support. You're going to have people that got something negative to say. That's just life.

Yeah. I just wonder what it felt like to have the support and, like, how that helped you to further what you were doing. Just show why. Donnie had his. Donnie was out here. He was knocking down all these women, listening to all these, you know. It's married, sir.

It's back in the day, man. Back in the day. Donnie in trouble now. I know you. It was not now. No, bro. Hey, you see that nice smile from on television. Hey, bro, I was old early.

I'm telling you. Seriously, because we were married, me and my wife, man. We were high school sweethearts. Oh, okay. Yeah, married at 19. had our first child one year or two days later I got you got you like I never even lived

the college life the campus life oh wow you know I mean I went to school but man I had a house with a wife and kid at home you know so I never so that's why I was old early man but Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis we always they always say this that that had

everything to do with my success because you had your base set so early man so we're still out you know we're 28 not 29, 30 years old, still trying to look for what you got. You know, you got it, man. You've had it for 10 years at that point. You know, so, yeah, so it was always solid like that for me.

But the support of the people of, man, people have always given me mad love. I'm telling you, that's all I've ever known. And it's just the most consistent thing that I've ever experienced in life, man. Just what my fan base gives me is just amazing, man. Is that why you're still so passionate about radio today? Yeah. Podcasting and people hearing your voice because you've always been connected to the people. Always, always, you know.

And it reminds me, I said this at Frankie's funeral, Frankie Beverly's funeral, because you know how people loved him. I said, you don't get love like that unless you give love like that. You got to give it first. And that's why he gets, and I think that's what people feel for me. You know, I love people, man. I just, I love people, man They've just been good to me

You know, it really has been Beatty gave you a platform That became essential to black culture Yeah But there a moment on video soul Where you felt like this isn't just entertainment We're documenting our coaching in real time No

Not when I was doing it, man You know, it's like to me I think that you know Whatever it is that you do You're just doing it When you're doing it It's a line in Elton John's song Rocket Man

that I love so much when he says in all the science I don't understand it's just my job five days a week a rocket man you know it's like I'm an astronaut people look like wow this is an astronaut man and that's just what I do man that's just my job man you know and and that's where I feel like when you're doing what you do you know now all these years later you look back because people make you look back and see the importance of it and it's mind-blowing because no I didn't have those thoughts when I was going to work that's the difference between this generation now and the previous generation we watched y'all make history y'all didn't know y'all

were making history so now we understand we're in history in real time yeah and y'all are man I mean what y'all doing is amazing man you know I mean the platform that you have the reach that you have you know I never had that in radio video. My show was always local. It did come to me once about syndicating it, but the problem for me was, well, go back to music. I said, well, what happens if I'm on this particular station? I know they're all slow, adult contemporaries, just, you know, it's Kim. And, you know, what happens when I play Tupac? Well, we covered a Tupac song. You can talk about Tupac because everybody knows them, but we'll cover that with Luther long. See you. Have no interest in that. You know, it's the whole experience or it's none. That's what Thea does do what she does.

Thea doesn't change for nobody. He doesn't care what market it is, what area she's, whatever that, what you get on that breakfast club is what you're getting. I love that, man. That's where it should be. You know, you want the whole experience. This is, you know, what you're presenting. This is who you are. I can't do a moderated version

of me, you know, no. You know, and then plus for me, I felt like the only reason to do it was for money, I was okay, you know, well, two reasons, money, and then for, to further your brand, you know, and it's like, man, B.E.T. gave me that in the way radio could never give it to me. You know, you put me in every nook and cranny of this country. I don't need it for that. I'm just, I'm not going to compromise on me, on who I am. All right, we got more with Donnie Simpson. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. The guy, we are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with the OG, the legend, the icon, Donnie Simpson.

How do you want your legacy taught to the next generation of host, broadcasts, just black creatives? What's the headline of Donnie Simpson's story? He did him. You know, he did his thing. You should do yours. You know, just never trying to be anybody else. I've never met the man I wanted to be. You know, never have, man.

You know, and I've met some great people from Bob Johnson to Michael Dior. I never wanted to be any of them. I'm the only person I ever wanted to be, you know. I remember this guy was out playing golf one day. I was with this older guy, and these kids were in the playground next to the golf course, and I hit my ball over there. And so I'm over there, and this kid is about six, seven years old. And he says, hi, mister, I know you wish you were.

were Tiger Woods I said no I like who I am and and the guy I was playing with said that's just the greatest response I've ever heard to anything I mean without hesitation no I like who I am you know I won't be Tiger you know his money his golf game whatever yeah I love it hit ball like him but you know I just I'm happy with who I am you know I am I always have been you know I'm not perfect we all have faults you know but uh you know even the bad things that have you know the stuff in my closet man whatever it is all of it has made me who i am and i like who i am because even those bad things man that you are tests you know to correct you and to make you you you know who you who god wants

you to be you know and uh so so you know so i i like who i am man what do you tell the next generation of broadcasters, the one that's waking up right now listening to this and say, I want to do this. That if this is what you want to do, first of all, just to know that it's possible, you know, that anything can happen, that it's not some

pipe dream, that it's real. You know, like I used to take my kids with me to everything, man. My kids have been the Neverland Ranch. You know, they knew Michael and Janet and Prince, everybody, you know. And it was for two reasons. It was by design.

One, was that if you meet Michael, then you know that he's human. Two, is that if you know one, then you must know that you could do that too. It's not magic. It's not, you know, whatever it is. I don't care who it is. It's real. I would say that to kids when I spoke in schools that, you know, that I know parents tell you something. Well, let's, you know, I want to be an actor.

I want to be a basketball player. You know, that's such a, oh, yeah, somebody's going to do it. there will be the next denzil washington there will be the next michael jordan it may as well be you why not why not dream big that's what i would say to them just dream big man just don't be afraid of big man i love people with big eyes man you know don't be afraid of big man whatever that big is to you and it doesn't necessarily mean money not everybody keeps score like that you know uh whatever it is man so if this is what you want to do then You can go after it, be relentless, be great, and be you.

I love it. Before we close out, you got to tell us a Michael story before you leave. Michael, Jordan, or Jackson. You just can't say he just went to the Neverland Ranch and just let that go. You didn't hear what he said, though. He said, Jordan or Jackson. That's how funny. Hey, where I am.

He's going to be specific. I was talking about Jackson. I love it. He just can't say I took the kids to Neverland Ranch. They was on rides. I made you to know, my mom. Damn. Biopic coming out.

And speaking of celebrity, that's another person. We'd be trying to say, stop saying somebody is the new Michael Jackson. There is no such thing. No, number one, man. That's right. When I first met him, he was, God, I was 16, so Michael would have been 14, I think. I think that's right, or 13 or something like that. First time I met him, but, man, you know, Michael was just, he's just a special dude, man.

He was, the first time I went to the house, this was before he owned Neverland. This was the Havenhurst house. Man, I couldn't believe they had a little cookout for me there, right? And so when I got there, man, all these people standing out across the street, I thought it was a bus stop. They're just fans. It's like that 24-7, man. 24-7, man. People out there, it was just crazy.

But Michael, Michael was very, very cool as long as a small group, you know. If it gets more than five, six, seven people, he kind of tightens up. You know, he would just be a little uncomfortable in that. But, you know, just me and him or a couple people, he's, you know, kick it. He's just a regular dude, man. You know, but just brilliant, man. And to me, I look at people like him and Eddie, and you don't get to that level of success without being smart. You know, that ain't no accident.

That's not just talent. That's just brains, man. Michael was just, the dude was brilliant. I knew a guy who used to do lighting for him, and he told me, he said, one night, Michael, came to him and said, look, when, you know, we get to this point in this song, I want you to hit me with this particular light, told him what light, which light to hit, and the angle to hit him from. And he said, I'm sitting there, man, I'm like, man, dude, I've been doing this for 30 years, man, told me what to do. He said, but I did it because he's paying me, you know? He said, but it created the exact effect that Michael said that it would. He said, and then I realized he's been doing this for 30 years to. Michael, he was like Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis told me Prince was that Jimmy, Jimmy, says, man, I thought I was a great piano player. I could play. Prince would come in

and show me how to play my instrument. See, I don't care who you were. I'll play you on your instrument. That's Michael Jackson to me, man. He can look at the reverence of which all the dancers looked at him and this is it.

I mean, they're just freaking. These are dancers, professional dancers. When Michael does it, it's just and on top of that he's a singer and a writer and perform it all that but he can do that part too better than anybody man you know that's just

did he have a deep voice for real or is that one yeah man he talked like Barry White no no no no it was light I remember one day we had he had a party here in New York as a matter of fact he had just done a think a show for the UNTF and just a little small party

and so we went and it couldn't have been but 20 people there It was me and my wife Liza Manelli was there Cindy Lauper she had just happened with Girls just want to have fun Jimmy and Terry And just a few more people

But Michael was upstairs It was a two-story townhouse in the hotel And so Finally Michael comes down I've got about 45 minutes And he comes in and he says He's with his bodyguard Chuckie de Bees

And that was his name D-I-B-I-S-E But he looked like the beast Because he's like 6'8 Always wore a top hat If you remember that guy It's very imposing. And Michael walks into the room and he goes, he says,

God, it's so bright in here. Chuckie, stand here. He positioned Chuckie next to a lamp to block out the light in the room. I was like, this is crazy. This is crazy, man. A human light shade. Now, I've seen it all, man. I can't wait to read your book, man.

We love you. Thank you so much for all you done for us, our coach. Thank you. Appreciate you, brother. Thank you, man. Thank you all. Good meeting. And you too. Thank you all for having me, man.

I really appreciate y'all. Plug the show. Season two, the Donnie Simpson show. That's right. Season two of the Donnie Simpson show. That's right, the podcast. Yeah, that's right. Thank you so much again. Thank you, man.

Thank you, man. Thank you, man. Donnie Simpson. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious.

Shalameen the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fan. Tell up, man. She gets him from somebody that knows somebody. She gets to detail. I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about

Everything is. She'd be having the latest on this. Say, out the things. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes she have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest.

On the breakfast club. Talk to me. All right. Now, Lauren is on vacation. She's on her birthday vacation. So she's been sending me the stories. And we're going to start off with Mike Epps. If you follow comedian Mike Epps, yesterday he apologized and did his whole apology on his

Instagram yesterday. Well, first he was on the Jim Jones podcast about a week ago. talking about people that just came home and how we celebrate people that just came home. For black men, all these ganders are running around talking to street, straight trauma. Went through a lot. Been through hell. You get them, them, they're gonna be on the side of the building crying. They hard out.

For our young, for our youth, we have to start targeting and gearing celebrating those journeys. Those are the wrong journeys to celebrate young men. There's no reward for coming home after 30. years you don't get no care package you are a failure get your ass out here and help these kids pay that back forward you see what I'm saying that's the reward

so what do you say wrong I wouldn't say that they're a failure but I think when it comes to celebrating people who come on from jail it depends what they were in prison for you know what I'm saying if you were a political prisoner yeah but he's not wrong about celebrating the people who come on from prison I wouldn't call him

a failure I would just say that they made poor choices and they need to go out there and teach the next generation, how not to make those poor choices. Well, he apologized for saying that yesterday, and this is what he said during his apology. Why? A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers, but it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught.

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I'm the director of the men's clinic at UCLA Health. And I want to tell you about my new podcast called The Mailroom. And I'm Jordan, the show's producer. And like a lot of guys, I haven't been to the doctor in many years. I'll be asking the questions we probably should be asking, but aren't. Because guys usually don't go to the doctor unless a piece of their face is hanging off or they've broken a bone. Depends which bone. Well, that's true. Every week we're breaking down the unique world of men's health, from testosterone and fitness to diets and fertility and things that happen in the bedroom.

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What up, y'all? It's your boy, Kevin on stage. I want to tell you about my new podcast called Not My Best Moment, where I talk to artists, athletes, entertainers, creators, friends, people I admire who had massive success about their massive failures. What did they mess up on? What is their heartbreak? And what did they learn from it? I got judged horribly. The judges were like, you're trash.

I don't know how you got on the show. Boo, somebody had tomatoes. I'm kidding. But if they had tomatoes, they would have thrown the tomatoes. Let's be honest. We've all had those moments we'd rather forget. We bumped our head. We made a mistake.

The deal fell through. We're embarrassed. We failed. But this podcast is about that and how we made it through. So when they sat me down, they were kind of like, we got into the small talk. And they were just like, so what do you got? What ideas? and I was like, oh, no.

What? Check out Not My Best Moment with me, Kevin on stage, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcast. On the podcast Health Stuff, we are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night. Yes, I'm Dr. Priyanka Wally,

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But also what our health says about us and the way we're living. Like our episode where we look at diabetes. In the United States, I mean, 50% of Americans are pre-diabetic. How preventable is type 2? Extremely. Or our in-depth analysis

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I just want to get on here and clarify and clear a few things up. Number one, about the brothers coming home from prison being celebrated. I've always been a part of reform. I got brothers right now from my hometown that I'm trying to help come home. to have been in prison forever. What I was trying to say is we don't want to send kids mixed messages about coming home from prison being celebrated, you know, feeling like you got to go to prison and do 30, 40 years to be celebrated.

I think you guys misunderstood that. Wasn't saying that it was wrong to be celebrated, but we don't want to send a message to the kids saying prison is great that you want to go home, go do 30 years and come home, you know, I don't think that's cool. So I'm sorry if anybody took it the wrong way and got offended. I love my brothers. I've been incarcerated myself. I understand what that he is.

But I might have said it the wrong way, but I mean well. I'm all for reform. And I completely understand what Mike Epps is saying. I completely understand what he's saying. If you have a loved one that went to jail for 20, 30 years and you're happy that person's home, yes, but that is nothing to be celebrated by the masses. Right. You're happy that they come home.

And I get what he's saying. We should celebrate other things as well. We should celebrate when people graduate college, when they become an attorney or when they grad med school, whatever that means. Get a great job. Yes, absolutely. But then he was on a breakfast club.

I don't know if you remember, but he was talking about food stamps and the fact that he didn't love the fact that people were on food stamps. I'm actually glad they cutting some of these ns off food stamps because some of us need to not be on food stamps because it's a trickle-down effect. You get the food stamps, then you go buy the food that give you cancer. Then you eat the food to give you.

you're cancer, then you're sad, you're walking around here, upset, you're diet. Now, I'm going to tell you some honest kind of truth. Your diet then sent a lot of n'b to prison. They're going to take all this and put it on Fox News. Yeah. And it's going to say, Mike F says you

don't need to be on food. You think so. And you're going to go viral, and they're going to call you Maga Mike. You got to finish it, don't, damn. Well, that was, that was conflating two different things, though. He's right about the diet, Right? When you eat bad foods, you know, it leads to all types of other things. But I have no problem with people receiving food aid.

Well, he apologized for saying that, you know, people shouldn't be on food stamps. And about the food stamp thing. The food stamp thing was misunderstood, too. What I was saying is that we need to break the cycle of being on food stamps. There's three generations of people that have been on food stamps. Of grandmother, mother, and daughter, that's crazy. We got to do better. We can't think that we can't think that we.

need assistance. I know there's some people out there that need assistance. That's well, fine, and understood, but there's people out there taking advantage of the system that's not good. So just want to apologize if I offended anybody. You know, I love y'all, man, and keep on doing the right thing. Peace. You got to break the cycle of poverty. You got to break the cycle of, you know, people not having financial resources. That's right. That's the conversation. That's right. And lastly, Ice-T, you know, his role on SVU was cut back a little bit. bit. And he explains why you won't see him on SVU as much. It's just basically business. They brought Kelly back.

And at the end of the day, they couldn't really keep both of us on full time far as budget-wise. So they said, okay, what, ICE will have you come in and out this year. And that way we could bring everybody wanted Kelly back. And we've got new cops and stuff like that. But I'm not leaving the show. I'm more concerned with going to season 28. So this year, they said, ICE, we're going to work you a little. Unless everything was cool with me. I understood.

I said that you're getting rid of me. They said, no way. We can't imagine law and order without you. I've been on this show for 27 years. I'm not going to say nothing negative about this show. They've taken care of me for so long. So I just want to get to season 28. What has happened, though, is giving me more time.

So I've got a chance to do other projects, other things. I've worked on music. So don't worry about me. We're about earthquakes. I'll be okay. So, you know, I'm a hustler. You give me some free time. I find a free dime.

You understand what I'm saying? 27 years is crazy. So I used ice team, man. You know what he said? That was so ill and all of that, though. He said, I ain't going to never say nothing bad about them. Been in for 27 years. They treated me great.

Absolutely. And that's real. That's right. You've been able to play for 27 years, made hundreds of millions of dollars, and you're going to have something negative to say? Nothing at all. I'm good. All right.

Well, that's the latest with Lauren. And Lauren wanted me to say, let Captain Save a skin tone know that I get Tony, brandy and monica compliments all day you can never be more as chestnut his leg your leg swing when you sit la Rosa got crackhead arms damn okay so she shouldn't talk about legs arms

no limbs damn don't even bring attention to your little limbs all right well donkey today's coming up we're giving your donkey too four after the hour man we need a young man named Danon Array to come to the front of the congregation he's been arrested for two counts of indecent exposure damn we'll discuss all right we'll get to that next

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What the hell is? What more do you need you talking? Some donkey today's just saw themselves. Salomeg, give it to him. Breakfast club all day. Give it to him. Oh, man, Salamane. Who you giving a donkey to do tonight?

Well, Rob, 49. Donkey here today for Tuesday, November 25th. Damn, Thanksgiving in a couple of days, huh? Tuesday, November 25th. Donkey the day for Tuesday, November 25th, goes to a 30-year-old Iowa man named Danan Ari. Let me start off by telling you all that Danan has been charged with two counts of indecent exposure. Okay, what is indecent exposure? Indecent exposure is the deliberate act of exposing one's genitals in a public place

that is likely to cause offense or alarm to others. You can't be pulling out your pee-pee in public people, okay? You can't pull out your weenie at Walgreens. Your pecker can't be pulled out in a pigler-wiggly through, not pull your Johnson out in the Jersey mics. It's a damn shame I have to be the one to tell you these things, but apparently that is the society we live in, okay?

According to a criminal complaint, Danon, who is the big-ass age of 30, 30 years old, okay? 30, Steph Curry's number. That is not a little number. He should know better, but apparently he doesn't. According to this criminal complaint, drivers saw Danan standing at the back of his car

as he exposed his genitals, the oncoming drivers. Okay? This man, Danon, was shifting gears and he wasn't even in a car. I bet you can't wait to know what highway he was on, right, Envy? Nope. For two days in a row on two different interstates, the first incident, he

was out there at 7.30 a.m. Morning shift on I-80 near Oxford and Iowa. The second incident was reported around 330 p.m. afternoon shift on Interstate 380 near North Liberty. Unceasing the trials of snake and traffic is

insanity. Okay, but that's the world we live in, all right? Now, what concerns me about this situation is this young man told sheriff's deputies that he was fulfilling an excitement that was currently missing in his blah life those are his words he said he was fulfilling an excitement that was currently missing in his blah life so you needed excitement in your life so you decided to present the meat stick on the interstate you needed excitement in your life so you decided to whip out the one-eyed monster in traffic all right guys It's time to decriminalize sex work.

All right. Make prostitution legal. This man was simply feeling frisky. He was a little hot and bothered. He could use a hug that turns into sex right now. What do you mean you needed excitement in your life, young man? By excitement, you mean you needed cheeks. He wanted cheeks.

He wanted that penis snuggy, that bearded clam, that baby cannon. Listen, young men, you full of testosterone. Find a young woman to call your wife and enjoy life. All right. Don't tell me you needed excitement when people are looking for excitement. Okay, they change environments. All right. That's what normal people do when they're looking for excitement.

They just go change environments, work from a new spot each week, go on a microadventure. Take different routes, the familiar places, okay? Add a little color to your home environment. That's what you do when you're looking for excitement. When you're horny, though, you want that meat muffin. That's what DeNon wanted. Sex, S-E-X, all right? talking about he needed excitement no you need a girlfriend all right people who want excitement set challenges every month they go do some long distance running a 30 day boxing challenge add spontaneous adventures to your calendar go to a new restaurant okay a random comedy show there's a lot of ways to bring excitement to a blah life but no no no denon you are not being honest with yourself you were horny okay a growing

gobbling, a lus lizard. All right, that was you, Danon. And if you were ever wondering what purpose of P. Diddy Freakoff served, look no further than Sir Horny a lot, Denon awry. Please give this young man the sweet sounds of the hamletones. Oh, now you are the donkey

of the day. You are the donkey. Of the day. And be over there texting ferociously. I am not. You are biciously moving your thumbs. Lauren. Searching Danon, awry.

Lauren is actually texting me from the beach. That's who's texting me. The hell is Lauren texting you from the beach from? For this next topic right here. Thank you for that donkey today. She just sent me a bunch of middle fingers too. Oh, let's see. She's texting you too.

You put okay, okay, okay. You're funny today. No limbs was good. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey. day. Yes, ma'am. So what Lauren was just texting me, she was saying that Martha Stewart

was recently on the Today Show and she was talking about Thanksgiving and she started an argument yesterday on social media about the time that dinner should be served. Let's listen. Okay, next up is a viewer Jane from New Hampshire. She has a question that a lot of What is the best time

to serve Thanksgiving dinner? I think it should be around 2 o'clock in the afternoon. People are hungry and they're starting to circle the kitchen. That's true. You know, You have a bunch of guests, and you don't want to wait until nighttime. You can eat and then watch the big games, you know, and then have more drinks and have fun. I love that.

And eat dessert later. Why are we so hungry on Thanksgiving? Like any other day, you know, you have your breakfast and you might have lunch and then you have dinner at regular times. But how come on Thanksgiving you just be hungry so early? Because it's all types of food. You smell of food. It's just not regular food. But I'm not mad at the 2 o'clock.

I'm going to tell you why. When I used to go to Thanksgiving at Grandma's house, right? Dinner was about 5 o'clock, right? And the whole family would have to drive there from different places of the country to get to Grandma's house. So we had dinner at 5. But when I started doing Thanksgiving at my house, I did it at 2 o'clock. Really, because I get tired early. So after 2 o'clock, you have breakfast and you can sit back, you play Spage, you watch the football game, you can relax.

You can go back for more or you can pass out. And you don't want people in your house all times at night. You know what I'm saying? Exactly. Because by the time, the first game over, All right, y'all. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say, good night.

First game come on. Well, I'll say the afternoon game. The afternoon game come on like 4, 4.30. After the afternoon game, y'all ain't staying for the late. Yeah, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock is time. It's good night. Y'all get home safe. I ain't mad at her 23.

I'm not mad at 2 o'clock. Because 5 o'clock is late because that means that 5 we're starting to eat. That means you're going to get dessert about 8, 9. Then you're going to want to talk. Then there's always the family member that's drinking. And you're going to get high. But that's going to be constant throughout the day. That's through the day.

Yeah. And then you've got to clean up. That means y'all not leaving to 1112. Yeah, anybody got time. Yeah, 2.3 o'clock is a good time. Early afternoon. That's early afternoon. That's mid afternoon.

What is mid afternoon? Early afternoon is like 12. 12. Yeah, mid afternoon, 2, 3 o'clock, I ain't mad at that again. Let's discuss. What's the perfect time for the start serving Thanksgiving dinner? 800-5-85-105-1. Thanksgiving is two days away.

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It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Salomey Nagy. We are the Breast. Breakfast Club, if you're just joining us. We were talking about something that Martha Stewart was talking about on, oh, Good Day, New York. She was talking, oh, the Today Show.

Yes. One of them shows about somebody did. One of them shows in the morning. She was talking about when you actually eat dinner, eat breakfast, eat dinner on Thanksgiving. I said 2 o'clock is perfect. To me, that's great. That's in the middle. You get everybody out the crib early.

Yeah. Grandma's house should be 5 o'clock. And we was there all day, all night. I think between 2, 3, 4, any one of those numbers you can miss. I asked the question earlier. I was like, damn, why you be so hungry on Thanksgiving? Salute to the homie, Miko Grimes. Miko said, most people don't cook the night before,

so you wake up hungry and no breakfast either. So by 1 p.m., people start getting dizzy. I don't move like that. Personally, I'm going to wake up and keep my same routine. I'm going to eat my too hard bowl of egg and my goddamn oatmeal in the morning. And, you know, because I need those different meals to burn fat. So by the time Thanksgiving come out,

and plus you don't want an OD on Thanksgiving dinner either. Yeah, I usually, Thanksgiving is when this time my call, crib, I usually got to get up, I have my little tea, and then it's straightening up the house. Whatever's left to do is always the outdoor-ish. My wife made me do is clean this up and make sure this is good and she does the indoors. Who the hell outdoors during Thanksgiving? Make sure the house look nice if there's whatever it may be. It makes sure, well, it used to be walking the dogs. You said outdoors. I'm like, who the hell is outdoors? No, like cleaning up the outside. So when people pull in, it looks nice and everything. So that's usually what I do. Yeah, 2 p.m., 3 p.m.,

I'm cool on any of those moments. But I'm going to tell you all something, man. I was born in 1900 and 78 at my tender age of 47 I just don't like things giving food like I used to I like I like yams okay and I like dressing not no goddamn stuffing if you tell me that you made some stuffing I don't want nothing but you tell me you got some dressing now I'm gonna eat some dressing now with some gravy on top now the chat said my fiance said dinner starts at noon no but then he goes there they're white yeah well you're a little different that's ridiculous yeah noon is too early all right is Puerto Rican he said that his his uh his wife is white and then They started at one.

They started at one. But he said what he does, he go to that side of the family at one. And then he goes to the Puerto Rican side at like 7 o'clock at night. Go eat the trash food first. Damn. Damn. I get with Redd said he go eat the trash food first, fake eat.

He didn't say that. And then go to Puerto Rican side to get that good, good, okay? He didn't say that. Don't get that man in trouble. Hello, who's this? Mimi. What's up, Mimi? Hi, what's up.

What time do y'all start eating Thanksgiving, Mama? So I, in my household, it's just me and my husband. And I like to do five, six o'clock, but my mom, her house, it's like nine or ten. That's 11. That's too late. I know. She'd be cooking too much stuff and people coming over too late. But yeah, nine, ten, eleven, it's crazy.

Yeah, nine, ten, eleven is nuts. Ain't nobody eating no goddamn yams and dressing in turkey for breakfast. And you know what when is that late? They be eating it. And then they leave at mom at the house at like six o'clock, five o'clock in morning. That's crazy. No, we're not doing that. No, three, four o'clock, man.

Three, four o'clock is a good time. Yeah, no, we used to go to Grandma's house. Thank you, Mama. We used to go to Grandma's house. I used to dress the kids up in pajamas because it was so late. And then she lived in Brooklyn, Starry City. So we wanted to get out of there early anyway. We didn't want to be in Brooklyn that late.

Yeah. We wanted to get in and out. Let's go to another line. Hello, who's this? This is Shine from Austin. Hey, what's up? Now, what time do you start serving Thanksgiving dinner? All right.

I feel like Thanksgiving dinner should be served around four. My family might kill me for saying it because I never get a done around four, but I'm going with 4 p.m. I think that's a great time. 4 p.m. is cool. Between 3 and 4, I think I'm going to go. Yeah, 4 is cool. I like, I like, I ain't a lot. I like 2.30. Between 2.30, we start eating. I like that. We pray at 2.30, start eating. We're good to go. Hello.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Who's this? Hey, Paulina. Paulina, good morning. What time do you start your Thanksgiving feast? All right, don't judge us, but sometimes eight, nine o'clock. That's too late. Damn.

What are you calling from? So last year, oh, Knoxville, Tennessee. Why so late? But, okay, so Africans are always late, no matter what. Like, no, they don't got no sense of time management. I said, let's make sure we get them by 6.6.30, like, the latest. But, nope, we got there, like, 9 o'clock, we started eating. Now, when you say Africans, do you mean from Ghana?

No, Senegal. Oh, Senegal? Okay, I know people from Ghana be late, too. What do y'all cook? What's the dish? The dishes? We make parakey, brisket, oxtails, matching cheese.

We don't really eat, like, cornbread. We just mix it up. There's a lot of lobstails. Yeah. I don't know why. Rice, fry, biscuits, corn, bread. No greens. We don't really like greens.

No, yes. stuff, but we just, it's like an actual buffet. Somebody on the chat said they're calling Homeland Security on you because 8-9 is too late. That is too late. I'm going to tell you something. No, I'm a U.S. citizen, boo. How about that?

I'm going to tell you something else, but I'm realizing. I've been having a lot of conversations with friends and family over the last couple weeks. A lot of people fed up with Thanksgiving food. Like, a lot of people just be making their own things. Like, you know what I mean? We stop. Like, nobody eats turkey in my house.

I like turkey. I like smothered turkey wings. If you fry the turkey, I might like, like it a little bit, you know what I'm saying? That Cajun turkey, that Popeye's got to be looking good. Somebody, I think I was talking to Angela Rye yesterday. She said she's getting a jerk turkey, like stuff like that. But if you got to do all that to the turkey, that's how you know turkey, be trash.

Turkey want to be chicken so bad. 800-585-105-1. What time do you start eating and serving Thanksgiving dinner? Let's discuss it's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious.

Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. If you're just joining us, we're talking about Martha Stewart. But she was talking about what time she serves Thanksgiving dinner. People were mad. This is what she had to say. Okay. Next up is a viewer, Jane, from New Hampshire.

She has a question that a lot of... Hi, Arthur. What is the best time to serve Thanksgiving dinner? Oh, I think it should be around 2 o'clock in the afternoon. People are hungry, and they're starting to circle the kitchen. That's true. You know, if you have a bunch of guests and you don't want to wait until nighttime, you can eat and then watch the big games, you know, and then have...

have more drinks and have fun. I love that. And eat dessert later. So we open up the phone lines, 800-585-105.1. Hello, who's this? Hello, Quela. How y'all doing this morning? What's up, Mama.

She said her name is what? Kayla. Oh, Kayla. Quela. Quaila. I thought she said Quailoo. I was like, what the hell? Quaila.

It's actually not Quaila, but, yeah. Guess what race? All right, now, question. What time you start? You get deported with a name like that, okay? I so detain you with a name like that. I'm telling you. right now.

That's a pretty good night. I actually thought it was really elegant. It is. It is. I rock with you, La Quayla. Well, let me, let me, it's L-A, capital, Q? A capital Q. I know it.

I know it. I know, I got, I'm R-A-A-Captal-S. I know exactly where your mom was going. But let's talk about it. What time do you start serving Thanksgiving dinner? Okay, I'm thinking around 3.30, 3.45-ish. I think 2 o'clock is way too early, especially for my black people. So, yeah, I'm going to go about, I think.

think about 3.30, 3.45 is perfect time, and everybody should be there no later than 345. We can get started eating. I agree with you. And I'm going to tell you why else that is a great time nowadays because of the whole day life savings time thing. It'd be dark by 5 o'clock. 5 o'clock. It'd be pitch black. It'd be pitch black. It'd be pitch black by 5 o'clock. Four is good. Thank you, Mama. Yeah, 330, 345. All right, thank you. Hello, who's this? Bye, Kenya. So what time are you serving on Thanksgiving dinner?

Four o'clock. Four o'clock? Yes. All the main people that's doing most of the cooking, we usually get together maybe about an hour or so earlier and to get everything warmed up and set up near by four. By five o'clock, we're eating. Everybody started coming in at like four.

That's a great time. And then, you know, I don't know if people will realize that, you know, remember they call it supper, right? Supper or dinner is the evening. the peak time for that evening meal is between 5 and 7. So that's really when you're supposed to be having dinner anyway. So if you start at like 4 on Thanksgiving, you're great. You're right there.

I'm telling you, 2 is good. 2.30 is good for me. You start at 2.30 and then you eat. You play your spades or your games. You play charades and all that with the kids. And then you eat again. And goodbye. Hello, who's this?

Hi. My name is Ney. Hey, talk to us. What time do you start serving Thanksgiving dinner? Two o'clock, I think two o'clock is very reasonable Because if I tell my family 6 o'clock They're not coming to 8 That's true

And then they don't want to leave until midnight Because they've been drinking Two o'clock is kind of Earl Can I ask you a question respectfully? How big is your back? What? How big is my back? Why?

Does she sound like she got a big back? What do you mean? That was asking, I just thought. That was rude. Is this show my name? No. He said no. You know it ain't envy.

You know what ain't envy. So who else you think it is? First of all, Charlemagne, you're like one of my favorites. I'd be taking up for you all the time. And I'm from Detroit and you know, like, everybody's dogging you here for real. But I'd be like, y'all better get up off, Sholam. That's right. Get them up off me, baby.

They always say they can't stand you. I'd be like, why? I'm like you my face. That's right. Get them up off me, baby. You clear the room. Offensive line. I'm running behind you, baby.

I'm behind you. But to ask you your question, no, I do not have a. big back. But I do like to eat. Yeah, I just heard something. That's all. I ain't say you had a big back, but I heard some like big back tendencies.

You know what I mean? Thank you, mom. Oh, okay. All right. All right. You get a pass. The chat said you don't sound big back.

They said just a little clump. They said, the chat say you sound just a little plump. No. Y'all, I mean, oh, my God. We love you. I don't think so. Okay.

You have a good one. I love you. I love you back. He just messed up a whole thing. You see, she's at the feet. Hey, somebody on the chat said, that back do sound wide. The chat is crazy.

Somebody said, that throat is heavy. Damn it, man. I'm just saying, y'all heard what I heard. Don't act like y'all ain't hear that. You sounded like she was about to start rapping Rick and Ross lyrics at any moment. Okay? I was about to hear, huh. Oh, my gosh.

What's the moral of the story, man? What's the ball? The ball of the story is it gets dark around 4.35 o'clock on the East Coast because of daylight savings time, right? and supper time is from five to seven. I think, you know, three to four is perfect time to eat Thanksgiving dinner. All right. All right.

Well, when we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. Lauren ain't texted me what to say yet, so y'all going to find out when I find out. All right, don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I'll tell y'all something. Then watch the Charlemagne dance to this.

Let me tell y'all something. I want y'all to remember this for the rest of the week. What's that? All you ugly people out there, all right? All you cosmetically challenged people, stop walking up on 4. talking about what's up twin right if you ugly if you cosmetically challenged

do not be walking up on people talking about what's up twin and you wonder why the person ain't say nothing back it's going to be a lot of that over the Thanksgiving holidays people not seeing people for a while and pulling up to their house about what's up twin and you ain't going to hear nothing back you know why because they think you ugly stop disrespecting people morning

everybody we are the breakfast club what's up nala now let's stop through for a little bit what's up fellas it was two penises in the morning because it was no Don't talk to my niece. No, I'm talking to you. I'm just telling you. I'm glad that you're here

because it was getting disgusting. And now I got to do this, Lauren, the latest with Lauren, and it just felt chatty-patic. So I'm glad you're here. Okay, yes, I got your back. Let's get to the latest for Lola. Loran becoming a straight fat.

Tell her, man. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren La Rosa. Sometimes she has facts. Sometimes she has details.

Sometimes she has a little. bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On the breakfast club. Talk to me. Nobody thinks about the origins of these dances, though. Like, why did y'all just sit around and start deciding that we're going to look hungry and make that a dance? That's TikTok.

Yeah. All right. Well, Lauren is writing these because she's on the beach right now. Boyd as hell. And she actually just got on a flight. And the first story we're talking about is Christian Combs. Now, Christian Combs is saying, Ditty is coming home. And this is what he said.

How's your dad during the holidays? How's your dad holding up? Is he holding up right? There's a lot, there's a lot of talking on the way home. Is he gonna be on the way home? Do you get the part in in the new year? I'll see. Things close.

Are you guys doing anything special for the holidays to like, you know, in honor of dad? You're gonna pay the Diddy Free Drive. The whole Christmas, whole Thanksgiving. That's right. He come home, no, man. Just watch out. He might come home. No. So do you know something?

Like, is the president gonna say something? You never know. Is he in contact with the administration? Do you know? I mean, does he even tell us? tell us and hope? Stay tuned. He's going to be on soon.

All right. Hey, thank you, brother. All right, man. Good luck. We know that, though. The release date is 2028. No, that's not soon. That is. I mean, it's two years from now. It's sooner than most. That's not home. If you're saying 2058, you'd rather

say 2028. He's making it sound like he's coming home for the holiday. Yes, that's what he sounded like. They're coming home in the next couple of weeks. Now, uh... Take me through there. Take me through there. Now, Lauren did ask the question. She said, envy tell Shalame. Oh, God. Tell her leave me alone and worry about being bored on the beach? She said somebody just asked

her if Diddy is home and you know you like to give out food and do food drives, is it okay if Diddy helps you hand out me? Oh, wow. Let me tell you something about Laura Rosa. Laura Rosa is out of the country. Bored is hell, clearly. Okay, if you have the country with somebody. But that was a good one.

But his thing. To be on the, this beach is giving her some good ammo. I love it. If you out the country with somebody, shouldn't you be focused on who you out of the country with having a good time? Why are you putting her on blast about who she and where she at and what she I didn't say where she had. I mean, it's obviously out of the country.

She posted about it online. Okay, but. Clearly, she bored, though. Anyways. Hating her company. Now, Chaunty Billips was, he pleaded not guilty on Monday the charges that he came up off and rigged poker games, taking millions of dollars from friends, people in the industry, and more. His bond was set for $5 million, and Chanty had put up his Colorado home as, Colorado home as collateral.

So he's saying not guilty. Damn. That's a big bond. I have faith in the Billups. Yeah, that's because you're a lot. His last name is Billups. Yes. But you don't know if that man guilty or not, so you should relax.

I have faith. That's a big bond. I mean, he had to put up a half a million, but they know he got it too, though. So that's probably why they made the bond. Well, he put up the crib. Yeah, he had to put up the crib. So if you put up the crib, I don't think he had to put up money. He just put up his crib is collateral.

That's what I just said. That's still a lot, though. It is. I mean, for the bond to be $5 million, 10% is a half million dollars for even you'd have to put up your house. That's a, you know, that's not no play-play-play bond. All right. Well, also, Larry Ellison, they're saying that his family is bidding to buy the license of Warner Brothers and Discovery. So that means that he would possibly have the Rush Hour movie and the Rush Hour franchise.

And Donald Trump spoke about it. He said he's pushing for homie Larry Ellison to bring back the Rush Hour franchise. And he wants to bring it back with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. I don't know why this is a story, but that's what Donald Trump wants. He wants to see Rush Out. Maybe that's his favorite movie. I don't know. Donald Trump, President Trump, there's so many other things that you could be doing.

There's so many other things that you can be focused on. Okay, I don't give a damn about what he thinks in regards to a rush hour for. Would he be directing this? Like, what's his involvement? Why does he want that? Would Jackie Chan get deported in Russia all for? I'm going to Trump administration? I'm just asking.

Maybe that's what he wants to do. Maybe he'd ride to L.A., and then all of a sudden, ice comes down. Nobody got time for that. No, like, relax. Okay? Message. That's all we got. That's all Laura sent me.

I want to know who was high and hungry and came up with that dance, though. What's the name of the dance? To take me through that day? What's the take me through that? Wouldn't everybody be eating? There's two days. dances that's not they're not eat well they they are eating that that's the eating yeah you're eating oh okay but I thought what's this one I think it came about because somebody was high in the club

high and drunk in the club they home boy next to them was eating and they kept trying to get something right so that's the stir part like you and the person kept moving if they was dancing and you're not doing it right huh the way you're not doing it right so where the wham in a circle come from and what is a wham that's the but oh lord that's why I thought it was yams because when I heard the wham, the butt, and you take me through there. Wham smell like a stink. Don't wams sound like it stink? No, it don't. You call a stink butter, wham.

A butt you actually want to eat, you call it some yams. Like, I'm about to say, it's like yams. It's just a playoff. No, it's not. Yes, it is. You ain't go eat wham on Thanksgiving. You want yams on your plate. I don't know. I don't know. You never know. Who might want what? All right. Well, that is the latest for Lauren. Now, also, we got

to announce. What is going on with you? Listen. Ladies and gentlemen, listen, salute to our station in Atlanta, our sister station in Atlanta, right? They're jingle ball. We already told you. They have Jermaine Dupree and friends. They have Little John and friends. Nellie's performing. Yes. And a host of others, right? Yes. Now, they just added,

they just added, Boss Mandilo. Wow. Okay. Dropping the clues balls for Boss Man Delo. All right. Also, they just added Belly Gang Cush. Oh, wow. So Belly Gang Cush will be added to it as well. So if you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. I'm actually flying out to Atlanta for the Jingle Ball.

It's almost sold out some tickets available. And they actually gave me tickets to give away in the mix. So you can get on the phone lines right now, 800585-105-1. If you want to go to our Jingle Ball show in Atlanta. You got to get your way there. We got you in the door, but you got to get your way in. You got to get your stay.

But we got you tickets. That's actually a good generational show. What you mean? That's a good family affair because it's something for the unks and the aunties, right? And then it's something for the new generation as well. That's right. Yeah, I do like that line up.

So, again, it's Big X to plug performing. Kalani, Mariah the Scientist, Molly, Nelly, Little John and Friends, Jermaine Dupri and Friends, Boss Man Delo, and now Belliang. Oh, they ate with that. Yeah, so. I just hope that you let the old daughters go on a little early. That's not going to happen.

The Anxanatis can get up. No, Jemine Dupri and little John got clothes. What do you mean? Legacy X. Legacy. That would just be rude. No, no, no. Clothes ain't what it used to be.

People used to love the clothes. You don't need the clothes no more. Because you want to go home early. Yeah, you're speaking for yourself. Girl, put that yam in a circle. Oh, my goodness. Throw the yam. Oh, throw that wham in the world.

Whatever the hell y'all be doing. Maybe he needs to leave early. Let's let him get back. Get to his stuff early. Again, 800585-105-1. If you want to go to Jingle Ball, Atlanta, 96.1 to be our sister station. The show is Thursday the 18th. So if you want to see Big Extra Plug, Germain DePri and Friends, Kalani,

Lou John and Friends, Mariah, Mariah, Nelly. December 18th. That's a day before Jake Paul dies. What? Because he fights Anthony Joshua on the 19th. Yo, and Kalani's been having the number one record.

For a long time. Fold it. That's a great lineup. That's right. When is it? The 18th December. You going? I would like to.

Hello. I heart. Hi. Ask Louis V. Y'all need a DJ. Another one? An opener? Legacy.

Legacy. I'm not DJ. I'm hosting. Oh, oh. Excuse me. All right. Well, that's the breakfast club. Good morning.

We got tickets. and it makes it. Keep the left. Let's go. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Bell Air is back for a final season on Peacock. And in the end, it's all love. Will and Carlton start senior year and the rest of the fan face new chapters of their own.

Stream Bell Air now only on Peacop. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV, Just Hilarious. Charlemagne de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to Donnie Simpson for joining us this morning. Man, the legendary Donnie Simpson, man. I don't know what to tell y'all kids. You know, I'm

We've grown, okay? I was born in 1978. We grew up off Donnie Simpson in video. So the first cool black man I saw on TV that wasn't like an actor or anything like that, just to, you know, just the dope dude. Yeah. You know, and inspired us all in some way, shape, or form. Yeah, and I mean, all the things that he's accomplished,

and like I said, if it wasn't for him pushing the limits, a lot of your favorite radio shows wouldn't be here. So salute to Donnie Simpson. And that's the other thing, too. He showed you that, you know, you can do so much, you know, more other than radio, right? But radio was always the foundation. And Donnie Simpson was one of the first people I saw

doing that, you know, doing radio in Detroit and then, you know, being the host of video, so salute to that brother, man. All right. Now, when we come back, we got the positive note, it's the breakfast club. Good morning. Everybody is DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalameen the guy. We are the breakfast club.

Salute to everybody in Alabama. I'm going to be in Alabama tomorrow. It's the Alabama. I got to get the name of it. The Alabama University Turkey Day Music Festival. It's an R&B concert. So John B, Drew Hill, I'll be hosting. I'll be providing R&B sounds.

So it's going to be a lot of fun. And then I'm shooting right back home for Thanksgiving. So I can't wait to see you guys tomorrow. It's the Turkey Day Classic. So if you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. We can have a lot of fun. We're going to be having a good time in Alabama, all right? And listen, I want to salute my niece, Chris Kailen down there in the 843,

Chaltern, South Carolina. She is having her second live podcast experience this Friday at the Magnolia Room in Charlton, Carolina, West Ashley, to be exact, 720 Magnolia Road, okay? And she's having her second live annual, her second live podcast experience with Cartier Brown, AJ from the We Talk Back podcast, and I will be there as well. So we'll see you this Friday, 720 Magnolia Road, Charleston, South Carolina. The Magnolia Room. See you on Friday, May.

And salute to Ashley of Care Wright. She's turning 40 today. So salute to Ashley, happy birthday. And you got a positive note? I do have a positive note, man. Since it is the week of Thanksgiving, it is the week of giving thanks. I want y'all to develop an attitude of gratitude. And give thanks for everything that happens to you,

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