The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Mo’Nique Sends Message to Tyler Perry: “Take Accountability,” Fat Joe Praises Gunna’s Album, Target CEO Resigns + Laura Coates Interview

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Laura Coates breaks down the American legal system, weighs in on the Diddy trial, the Tory Lanez case, and addresses the 'Jeopardy!' hosting snub. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a wife who fatally shot her husband after an argument over changing their open marriage agreement. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good morning. Good morning. How are you feeling, Jess? I feel good. Today is my daughter's birthday. Hey, my birthday of Mommy's God. Can y'all believe she's the one already? That was fast.

Well, yeah, it seems fast to me too. Wow, I swear, yep. I'm ain't waiting for nobody. I know, I know, right? So she was born 247 a.m. last year on, you know, August 20th. Why does she wake up at like 1.45 and she stayed woke until 3 o'clock? That's crazy. So she woke up on her birthday.

She went to turn up. Yes, y'all woke up, but only she was crying because she is teething, but still, like, she woke up. What she was thinking about? I wonder who kids remember that? Like, at that age, do they remember being in the womb a year ago? You know what I mean? I don't know, because kids got special abilities, y'all. We don't be knowing.

For real. For real. I believe you. You never see kids look up in the corner and be playing, and you look up. There ain't nothing up there? I thought I was boredom. Hey, yo, no, not his babies. Oh, you mean, as a baby.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all the time. Oh, my God, it's scary, but they got special abilities, y'all. Well, happy birthday tomorrow. I know you're super good, excited for her birthday party this weekend. Absolutely, listen, I did this myself. Me and my party planner. I did this myself. Well, yeah, my party planner.

S.K., that is my girl fake, my Nigerian sister. She does all my events. What? I said Paul Chris don't get credit for nothing. I know he put up a couple of years. us for the birthday. Oh, first of all, no, because she's too young than her to pinata clown.

Wow, I'm sorry. Yeah, don't do that. Not yet. And then you know, Mexicans, that's not really their specialty parties. They don't do that. No. They like two-party, but it's not their

their specialty birthday parties. Mm-mm. All right. Well, let's get the show cracking. I don't know. I can't know. I'm not about something I don't know. We have CNN's chief legal

analyst and anchor of Laura Coats live. Laura Colts will be joining us this morning. Yes, Laura Coats, man. You know, she's a form. I'm a prosecutor. Yes. You know, turned to CNN anchor, moderator.

Yeah, she's an anchor, yeah. But, you know, I enjoy watching Laura Coach live. I enjoy her perspective on things. So it's going to be good to have Laura Coach up here this morning. That's right. Let's get the show crack. And we got front page news, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Let's get in some front page news. Start off with some quick sports. John Wall, NBA player. He retires after 11 seasons. He played most of his career with the Washington Wizards. He was a first pick in the two. 2010 draft out of Kentucky, five-time

All-Star. He averaged 18.7 points, 8.9 assists, and he will be joining Prime Video's NBA coverage, so congratulations to John Wall, man. He ain't played in a couple years, though, right? No, I think he was injured

one year, and yeah. That's when he was going to Dougie all the time, right, to dance. Flex. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, what's up, Morgan? Hey, y'all, hey, how we're feeling on on a hump day, Wednesday? Bless Black and Holly. All right. I love to hear it. So the White House is once again touting hundreds of arrests made during President Trump's crime crackdown in Washington, D.C.

Now, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt highlighted what's been done so far. She says that 52 arrests were made on Monday night alone and alleged an MS-13 gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession was also picked up. Let's take a listen to her comments. President Trump's efforts to make D.C. safe again are working. There have been a total of 465 arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday, August 7th. Thanks to President Trump's leadership in the outstanding work of both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like the one picked up last night will not be allowed on the streets of our nation's capital. So this comes as several Republican-led states have sent hundreds of National Guard troops to D.C. to assist. Now, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has expressed that it doesn't make sense, and she called for the Trump administration to clarify whether the surge in federal troops posted in the nation's capital is meant to reduce crime or increase immigration enforcement. So again, I will keep you guys posted on what's going on with that.

Now, speaking of violence, here's an update on the Brooklyn nightclub shooting that took place over the weekend. Authorities are now saying two of the three people killed in Sunday's nightclub gang-related mass shooting and, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, were shooters themselves. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, this is NYPD Police Commissioner, Jessica Tisch, says 19-year-old Marvin St. Louis and 35-year-old Jamel Childs approached each other before bullets started flying and both were killed. Let's take a listen to her comments. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. So to be clear, two of the three deceased are the shooters involved in the incident. Mr. St. Louis approached Mr. Child and opened fire. Mr. Childs returned fire and two other gunmen immediately joined. We believe that there were

four shooters in total. So 27-year-old Amadu Diallo was also killed. He was an innocent bystander in that incident. Now, police are still looking for two of the other, or looking for two other shooters in that incident. Meanwhile, the number of people shot at the taste of the city lounge has risen to 14 after two more people checked into the hospital with bullet wounds following that incident again. And like I said, police commissioner Jessica Tisch says that detectives are still looking for two of the four shooters. And a quick weather update on Hurricane Aaron, millions of U.S. residents will still fill the impact of the outer bands of Hurricane Aaron, even though the actual storm will not make landfall, or at least it's not projected to at this moment.

The center of Aaron is forecast to move between the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda today and tomorrow with high surf and rip currents expected from Massachusetts to the Carolinas. In fact, I've been seeing a lot of beaches along the coast up here in oceans or here in Maryland and Ocean City. They've shut down the beach. I believe they've done the same along the coast in New York and Jersey. Some residents in the Mid-Atlantic have already evacuated, including along parts of North Carolina's outer banks, which is currently under a coastal flooding threat. And of course, as I mentioned, New York and New Jersey officials are also warning people to

stay out of the water because of dangerous, deadly rip currents. Yep. And the Trump administration is confirming it will conduct a review of the Smithsonian Museums. President Trump posted on Truth Social that the Smithsonian is, quote, out of control. He said there's nothing about brightness and too much about how horrible our country is and how bad slavery was. Trump said he'll have the museums reviewed under the same process done with colleges and universities. He added, this country cannot be woke because woke. is broke.

You know, once again, I said this yesterday. Donald Trump has successfully stopped people from talking about the Epstein files are the economy. You know, between what he's doing in D.C. and his attack on museums, right? You know he's successfully gotten people to stop talking about the

Epstein files in the economy. And you know, it's interesting. At first, he tried to do it through going at black, you know, notable figures, like releasing the MLK files, or saying he wanted to lock Obama up, going at Beyonce, going at Oprah. None of that worked. Oh, IQ. he what?

I said, I'm calling you low IQ. Whatever, he's right. None of that worked, right? But he said, you know what? Forget the, you know, the notable figures. Let's actually go after their neighborhoods, D.C. and their history, the attack on museums, and it'll change the conversation. And guess what?

It's worked. Yeah, it's been about. It's absolutely worked. Yeah. Nobody, people are not talking about the FD. They're not talking about the economy no more. They're talking about, you know, what he said about the Smithsonian and other museums. And they're talking about what's going on in D.C.

Rightfully. So, but the F-teen files in the economy conversation? Vanished. Gone. Out the window. For sure. It still needs to be happening, right? Yes, because that's the thing that bothered him.

And that's the thing that bothered his base. Why would you stop talking about that? All right, child, that's your front page news for 6 a.m. Stick around. At 7, we will talk about what's going on in Texas. It appears that there's a Democratic lawmaker who is being illegally confined, or she's claiming that she's being illegally confined to the Texas Capitol House. Claiming?

No, it's actually happening. No, we'll get to that next. hour. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-105-1. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest. 8-585-105-1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's KP for Mansfield. What's up, K-P? Get it off your chest, brother. Hey, I call off. and play all the time uh charlemagne told me don't call them midges call them little people

but i'm just calling up here to get my mom a special shout out man oh kp you were the you remember kp was the one that was doing the uh the midget fighting now the little man oh i thought you said what's saying your mama's yeah yeah no no my mom my mom ain't no midget we still is doing the little people fight to the stuff but no she told me uh call up here and give her a shout out since i be calling up here and playing up here and playing all the time. That's what's up. Period.

Yes. Happy birthday, mom. Oh, no, it's just a shout-out. I ain't a birthday. No, it's just a shout-out. We haven't been through a lot, you know, the last few years. You know, she lost her, she and lost my auntie and lost my granny the year after that and stuff.

So, you know, she still out here being strong for it. Definitely. I just want to give her a special shout-out. My mom name is Toya Major, and, you know, I'm just letting her know that we love her. Where are you from? Land-Field. Oh, okay. Land-field what?

Ohio. Oh, okay. You don't be listening. No, I thought I knew a toy image. That's why I asked. Oh, my God. Oh, my, well, hey, she's known around Mansfield, so. Now, I didn't ever used to playing Mansfield.

Work. You said your mom got that work. What? What did you say? Got that. He didn't say that. I know we did that. Shout to, man.

I'm calling that here to give him mama. Shout out. Yeah. Shout to Mama, man. It is great, though, because there is somebody riding around listening like, man. Man, I used to. toy out back in. Hey, y'all.

He said that she's known around Mayersville or Lansville. Somebody here. You here. That's you got to think about it. It's crazy. Hello, who's this? Y'all, y'all. Do you hear me? Yeah, what's up? What's your name, brother? This is Rob by the Brooklyn.

Rob by the Brooklyn. What's up, Rob? What's up, Rob? Nah, I just want to say why I'm mad. I'm mad at Jess, really. Why would I do? What happened, Rob? She smoked up all the weeks. Shut up. Shut up. Just last week.

Cofuego, I came in your show, and you curved me on the pick. broke my heart, Jess. I'm married. She didn't take no pictures. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I thought he said you. I thought it was some New York slang. Yeah, I curved you because if I would have took a picture

with you, I wouldn't have to take a picture with everybody, and I wasn't doing meet and greet at salsa con foiego. I told you all that. She had to be to work in the morning. Yeah. That was my chance. I'm sorry. But didn't I say I love you, though?

Yeah, that was the one standing by the problem, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was me. That was the first night that was on Tuesday. I told you, I was like, I'm sorry I can't take him, but I love you. What? About loving him. I love all my fans. I'm playing with me.

You don't even know him. It don't matter. They are the reasons why I'm here, so thank you. Get it off your chest. 800, 585-105-105. What if you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlemagne, Envy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool. I've got an indoor pool. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.

We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. We live! Hello, who's this? Good morning. Good morning. How are you? What's your name?

This is Nicole. Hey, Nicole. I'm from St. Louis, Metro area. Hey, hello. Get it off your chest, Nicole. Yes, yes. Well, I was calling because today is Jess's daughter's birthday, first birthday. Yes.

And I just wanted to tell her. Happy birthday, and yes, I wanted to give you some well wishes, and, you know, being, my son is only six. That's me, those times go fast, and I know you have another son, but I just wanted to give you some well wishes today. And I hope that, you know, that puts a smile on your face. Yes, girl, I'm choosing it. Yeah, I appreciate you. you're welcome and can just please send you Every Other Christmas by Katie Odie

There are some cute similarities in that book That reminds me of you and your daughter Oh you said what's the name of it It's called Every Other Christmas Every other Christmas Okay thank you Can I send it to you please? She wants to send it to you Can I send it to you?

Absolutely I was just about to get a yes thank you That would be great Oh That's a boy We'll get your address hold on okay You can give you our address She was about to get it Thank you

I love you And then the funny boy Just even fake typed on the computer I heard 1, 2, 3 You know all of them letters And every other Christmas All I heard was

No, relax Until she says you know They said you're saying I was about to Hello, how are you doing? Good morning Hey, what's up, man? Good morning, y'all

Good morning, Jets Good morning, Jarre's, good morning, Uncle Shara Good morning, good morning, buddy Good morning, brother Oh, hello, hold on Happy birthday Oh, can I just say

Happy birthday to... Today's Eddie's birthday, too. Today's this guy's birthday, too. Oh, happy morning. I told me they say birthday and my daughter. Happy birthday, Eddie. Now, I was laughing at the book every other Christmas

because it's about a high racial Latino daughter. Hell no. Oh, okay, man. You're taking your steam, Eddie. Eddie, hold on, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Eddie, I'm sorry. Happy birthday, Eddie. No, you was calling to say something to me.

What you say? I was saying, happy birthday to your daughter and happy birthday to all the other all the other leos and whatnot. That's right. Thank you, Eddie. Of course. For my birthday, if y'all could just, like, follow me on Instagram, and I actually got in to call in about two weeks ago, and I used some of the sound bites to actually make a track. Y'all told me that my name sounded like it was my car is gay.

Oh, yes, y'all remember that? Yeah. What's your last name? Yeah, so my DJ name is Hokage. Oh, okay, yeah, my whole car game. Yeah, we remember that. All right, man. Yes, sir, yeah. So I actually turned that into a track And it came out today If y'all could like Follow you on Instagram

It's spelled H-O-K-A-G-E underscore dubstep I'm telling you right now If it's whack I'm getting it struck down Because you didn't ask for permission To use any of our voices

That's how it's not whack That is so much time Even on his birthday Yes I mean if you like Dubstep then I mean you like it If not then

Hey I'll try better What is dubstep I don't know what that is What is that? It's a dance Raid music Oh like Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

More aggressive and cooler than that now? Okay. More aggressive and cooler. Thank you. And I'm going to check it out. Now, back to what this book said. What did this book say? Every other Christmas, after his parents divorced, a young biracial child spends every other

Christmas celebrating the differing traditions between the African-American and Colombian sides of his family. Y'all are really. Every other Christmas is your black side. The other Christmas is Mexican-s-out. Yeah, so that's what she said. That's why she said Marley and this young person have the similarities. I'm serious. I'm looking at the book right now.

That is very, well, thank you, ma'am. Yes. During the holiday season, he spends with his dad's family in Columbia, and during the other Christmas, he's with his black family. Well, that's together, ma'am, so it's not every other Christmas.

It's every Christmas day together. It's our house every, every time. She's not going on there. Is it like half and half? No, we do Christmas. So it's like, is it platinos and collard greens, emphy's not, it's all, no, no, it's all our culture, my culture.

You're forgetting he's only half Mexican. His mother is the one that's full blown. But... You say that. His father's black. Last time I saw Chris, he was like, where the tacos? But he didn't have an answer, though. Yeah, I don't know why he was actually all the man at.

When we went to the Gen X that, I met like, yo, he was like, yo, what the tacos at, yo? Like, yo, I'm like, why? You got a hammer? I was like, why? He never asked him to get that for a hammer? I'm like, why he need a hammer? Oh, my goodness. You don't get your check.

800-585-105-1. Now, we can. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. What are we talking about? Yes. We're going to talk about Tamar Braxton. She just let us know that she almost died Sunday. She said she woke up in a pool of blood.

That is my sister. Yeah. We're going to talk about it. She's okay now, but we're going to get into what happened. All right. We'll get into that. Next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Salomey and the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Is that Golden Corral? Yes, it is.

It is. We're about to be sleeping. They're coming up here. They know y'all young big backs in the making. Who? I am. Who? She said, I am.

I am. Young lady up here. Let's get to the latest with Lauren there. Lauren becoming a straight fit. Tell her. 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 you have V. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. Oh, it's the least. On the breakfast club. Talk to me.

Ella Colby. Oh, you're supporting black women this morning. Good morning. See, you got yourself on. There you go. She's ridiculous. She was setting yourself up. Pam Braxton says that she almost died

after being found in a pool of blood with several injuries. So she posted this to her Instagram story yesterday. She says, I struggled to write this, but everyone keeps calling me. And honestly, I can't even really talk anymore. I'm so weak. I almost dies.

Sunday I was found in a pool of blood from my friend with a face injury. As the days go by, the worst it is. I fractured my nose, lost some teeth, and my mobility. The way I look at life right now is totally different. As my health is on the men, my mental journey begins. Pray for me for real. I don't even know what happened. You got to tell us a little bit more than that day, Mark.

We all at the age, when we hear stories like that, I need to know exactly what happened to see if we can avoid it. You need to tell us what happened. Was she in her bed when they found her? And then I was like, how did you get injured in your bed? She doesn't saying the only thing she's posted before this and after this her bed she said he found that and

it made it seem like he found in bed she just said I was found in a pool of blood from my friend with a face injury that's all she says I thought it was yeah and there's there's no more like she didn't say anything else was she una edible I don't know I have no idea so this happened over the weekend but she just posted it yesterday yeah maybe it's because she's like you know people she said people were calling her so maybe people are reaching out to her but

she's not like responsive were as responsive as she normally is, so she's letting people know. So that's why she just gets guilty birds of my stone. I'm glad she's okay. I'm definitely glad she's okay, but stories like that just lead to a lot of

unnecessary speculation. So, you know, I mean, I feel like you should release that type of information when you actually have something to tell people. Like more details about it. Like what happened? She probably said, look, if I don't know,

how I'm going to tell y'all? Because earlier, when we were just in the room talking about it, one of our producers was like, her friend did it to her. Like, where do you get that from? How? because people were just like taking it and making their own

stories out. I'm like, what? I'm like, that's not what happened. Yeah, that sentence that one sentence was found in a pool of blood and a face injury by my friend. So she just touched the by my friend and was just like, oh, her friend beat her up because she said she woke up a square. She says she said, I was, none by no scratch. She says from my

friend, but I think she means by my friend. Yeah, like she was found by her friend. Yes, that's what I said. Yes. I mean, look, when Tamar's ready to talk about it, she will. She knows because she, she, she talks to us about things too she's welcome to whatever she wants to do whatever she wants to do what she wants to

but yes people are trying to figure out or just wondering you know what happened and of course happy that she is okay yeah that sounds like a murder scene yeah yes um her healing energy yes how old is Tamar Braxton is she the youngest

let me guess she like 40 she's 48 48 damn okay yeah yeah we all around the same age so it's just like you know you do get to that age sometimes you just be randomly falling And you're like, how did I get here? Randomly falling.

At 40? And end up and fall on what? You're all going to see. A knife? Y'all going to see. I don't mean to laugh at you. I don't want to say I don't randomly fall, but today I'll randomly bust my ass. I'm just going to shut my ass up.

Charlemagne, have you? I was actually laughing at one of my homegirls because we was on vacation. She just randomly fell in the pool. And it was one of them things where, like, you could see her falling. And as she was falling, I could see her thinking, damn, I'm falling. Oh, my God. I hope she could because he just watched her.

Oh, we just watched it in last. I mean, it was hysterical. Jesus. I mean, hysterical. I don't even know how you still got friends. What else you got? So we're going to be out of time a bit. So Monique sat down with T.S. Madison.

T.S. Madison has a podcast, and they talked about a bunch of different things. First of all, did you guys know that T. T.S. Madison was a person who put Lee Daniels and Monique, like, back together? Remember they had the whole reunion? I didn't know. I did not know that. either. But yes, T.S. Madison was the person who made

that phone call and that's why we got to see... Right. Putting the man and woman together. Lee Daniels and Monique. You're a fool. It's our specialty. All right. So then they also talked about Tyler Perry because Monique

had some things that she wanted to say on Tyler Perry after the conversation kind of gave that way. Let's take a listen. One of the biggest entertainers in the world is Tyler Perry. And Tyler Perry told a lie on me. And that lie cost me 12 years of my career and I know that you work for that man but as I told you before and I'm going to say it again until he fixes it I will not stop because that's how the

monster is created we're too afraid, we're too scared, we're too fearful that you're going to take something from me so I'm just not going to say anything I'm saying Tyler Per you will not do this to another as long as I can help it because you told a lie either you'll fix it in life or you'll be dealt with in death but I'm not going to where Oprah I'm not going anywhere where until y'all take accountability and fix it. What does fixing it look like to you? You see what Lee Daniels did? Mm-hmm.

That man walked out on that stage publicly. See, you publicly shamed me. So now you have to publicly fix it. Tyler Perry, you cost my family millions and millions and millions of dollars. So you want a public apology and you want restitution. Yes. I don't know if Tyler Perry are going to be working with T.S. Madison anymore. Well, that ain't T.S. fault, though.

Yeah. I do have a question, because I don't remember. It's been so long. What was the initial problem? I don't remember. You don't go back down there. Let's care what it was. It was.

They lied on her because he said he lied. I just don't remember. I'll explain it to you off air. I think a lot of people know, but basically they got in a little riff behind. He had said that she didn't do some things behind him. I don't tell Monique business the wrong way now. Because I don't remember because she keeps saying it.

Like, it's at a point now where nobody remembers. I don't know. No, people remember. Yes. Go ahead. Tell him, Jess. No, my sweet. baby she loves you from Baltimore I just don't remember I'm asking I wanted to mention though

y'all mentioned T.S. Madison working with Tyler Perry they actually had the conversation because T.S. Madison brought up how she called Monique because she didn't know Tyler Perry but she's friends with Monique and said are you okay with me taking this audition when he said go handle your business nobody could play that role better than you so she went and did it so Monique wasn't being a hater. She spoke great about Tyler Perry giving her that job but she's like when it comes to me and my money you got to make some things right and Tyler Perry is not petty like that he's not going to be mad at T.S. Madison of T.S. Madison interviewed Monique.

Well, good. And that would be silly if he did, because it's like, you're not responsible for what somebody says on your platform. I refuse to accept that. People still get upset, though, all the time. But, like you said, we're not. You shouldn't get upset at T.S. Madison? No, not at all.

Yeah, no. I don't think that that's the issue either. But this is, I want, in the next hour, because we're... I ain't go lie, though. I'd have been paid Monique just because. Monique will weigh you down, boy. Monique been on their head for how long? 12 years.

That Baltimore's just going to stay on that. That's what I don't even remember. I just know she on their ass, but I just don't remember anymore. Because they happened so long ago. They happened so long ago. I just don't remember. I was going to say she also mentioned two members. She had that recorded conversation of them, Tyler Perry.

That's what she told Shannon Shub. She got the voice message. Tyler Perry was saying he was going to make things right and all the things. So she's waiting for that. That's it. But in wrapping this up, next hour, top of the next hour, we're going to have a conversation about Target because their CEO, Brian Cornell, just stepped down after 11 years.

And this is all in the midst of the company facing, you know, sales dropping and backlash because of the retreat from D.I. You still shop at Target? I do. I have shopped at Target. Yeah. She said, I do. I can't keep up with everything we supposed to boycott. I'm sorry. My mom be reminded me, she'd be like, stop going to targets. But, stop going to targets. I mean, listen. One day you'll support black women. Oh, she absolutely does support me along with the rest of the breakfast club listeners because, y'all, messy vision is going in.

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess hilarious. Shalameen the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's going on, Morgan? All right.

Hey, y'all, hey, in case you missed it in Texas, a Democratic lawmaker says she's being illegally confined after refusing to leave the Texas Capitol until the House reconvenes this morning. This comes after Democrats left Texas for two weeks to protest Republican redistricting plans.

Lawmakers returned on Monday, but State Representative Nicole Collier of Fort Worth refused to sign off on a police escort required to leave the building. She originally said she'll stay in the building until the legislature reconvenes, but is now filing a petition asking a court to allow her to lead. Collier says she's facing illegal restraint by the government. This comes as Texas House Speaker Dustin Burroughs ordered Democrat House members who had arrest warrants issued for them as they broke quorum to agree to specific conditions, including having DPS officers escort them

as to assure that they return to the house the next day. Now, Collier says she will not sign off on that escort, and she was not allowed to leave the chamber. Let's take a listen to her comments. Why would I agree to this? Why do I have to continue to be subject to their control? And so I've had enough, just like the American people have had enough, of the Trump takeover and the harmful policies that they've passed in Congress.

This is just one little petty way of showing that they have the upper hand, but they didn't realize that I'm just as stubborn as they are, and I'm refusing to back down. Yeah, so after the chamber, after being in the chamber for over 30 hours, former Vice President Kamala Harris called Representative Collier, and here's what she had to say in part. You really are inspiring so many people, and I just want you to know that you are among those who history will reveal to have been heroes of this moment. So you just stay strong and do what you are doing.

You have the right instinct. You are talented, and you are principled. Oh, yes, ma'am. Thank you so much. I can't tell you how much this means to me and the community that I represent, that you care. So unfortunately, protesters who gathered at the Texas Capitol building had to be evacuated following a shooting threat that took place yesterday evening. Now, Texas Department of Public Safety says the evacuation was triggered around 6.30 p.m. after someone on social media called on protesters to take action by shooting and killing those at the Capitol who won't let Democrats leave without a police escort. How do you detain somebody without authority?

like isn't that some type of form of kidnapping like you know she didn't commit a crime like you know how do you do that how was that legal um they I'm not sure you know the house speaker and the governor they've issued those orders to basically say that these Democrats need to be arrested when they come back and um you know

now that she's come back she's decided hey you're not going to arrest me either you're not going to take me into any kind of police custody I should be able to leave and go home and so and in an additional protest She's decided, you know, hey, I'm just going to sit here in the state house. So I'm... Now, hold on. Now, if she's sitting...

Maybe I'm confused about the story. I thought she wasn't there willingly. I thought that they were keeping her there. It initially started as her just demanding that I'm... She's not going to leave because she didn't want to sign off on having that police escort. There was a police escort to basically say, hey, if you leave the capital, you know, we want to make sure that you come back and you're not going to flee again. so you need to sign off on a permission slip to have a police escort. Now, she's basically saying, I'm not signing that permission slip.

And they're saying, well, if you leave, we're going to arrest you. And she's saying, well, it's fine. I just won't leave. Yeah. See, I thought she was told she could not leave the capital without risking. Well, now she's demanding because she feels like, you know, hey, I've been here over 30 hours and then some. So now she's, you know, she's filed a petition for that, for sure. Yeah.

That's what her alleging a legal conunding. find it would be the fact that they're not allowing her to leave yeah to leave i thought i thought that they told her you cannot leave the capital without risking arrest yes that is essentially what it is you cannot leave the capital without signing this permission slip or you will be arrested and she is she's not left so that's how i understand it to be what what's taking place in that incident so um let's switch gears to baltimore baltimore mayor brandon scott is sharing a racist voicemail that he received back in july now the caller said scott or he called scott the N-word multiple times and dropped multiple expletives as well.

Now, Mayor Scott said he's really, he really thinks it's time for folks to hear the kind of hatred and vitriol that still exist in the world today. Let's take a listen to some of that call, and it is hard to listen to, and there is some expletives, so just keep that in mind. Yeah, this message is for Brandon Scott, the nair wannabe thug-ass gangster who pretends to be the mayor of Baltimore City, how about you stop making Baltimore

a place for worthless piece of worthless shit nippers like you, who just shoot each other and sell drugs? How about you do your damn job? Yeah, so

Mayor Scott... I was a little too sassy. Yeah. Yeah, you know, yeah, I don't like my racism with all that sass. Too sassy, you know what I mean? Sassy. racism hold on what do you mean i like it i like it straight like you know i'm gonna kill you want to see you know what i mean hardcore rack that was a little too sassy no chasing up he just went straight all you do is shoot each other and sell drugs uh okay okay

mayor scott responded to the call um and went on to say that uh the messages mean that he's doing his job well and he's never going to be afraid of being a loud black man hey baltimore so let's take it to uh baltimore mayor brandon scott response to this racist caller. There's a lot to unpack there, obviously. This isn't the first time I've been called. It won't be the last. In fact, if I go a week without being called the N-word,

an email, text message, direct message, voicemail, whatever, I feel like I'm not doing my job. Because when they do that, they actually are expounding upon what we're supposed to do, making people who think like that idiot on the other line of that phone be uncomfortable, because now we're representing all people in pushing and not being afraid to be a proud black man which i am never going to be afraid to be a proud black man and yes we're making baltimore city better for black people because this is the birthplace of rail line i am investing into neighborhoods like the one that i grew up in that was disinvested in one purpose Lute the man Brandon Scott.

Dropping the footh bomb some man Brandon. Scott has done a fantastic job. Baltimore's violent crime rate is hit an all-time low. And it's because he's actually taking those resources. That's right. He's getting resources, you know, from the governor, Westmore, and putting those resources where they need to be because he's somebody who's from the community,

so he understands what the community actually needs. Both of them are from the community. Yep. That's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me on socials at Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, make sure you're following at Black Information Network, download the free

iHeartRadio app, and visit us at BINNews.com. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now, when we come back, CNN's chief legal analyst and anchor of the Laura Coates live will be joining us. Laura Coates, so don't go anywhere. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's the DJ, NV, Jess O'Lari, and Sholam and McDonough. We are the Breakfast Club. Lon LaRose is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Laura Coats. Welcome. Thank you. Happy to be here.

Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. You wake up, Laura. It's the show going off at midnight, right? I go to bed probably by 2 a.m. Up by 6. Wow. Nice. I have babies.

I call them baby because that's why I have baby weight. So it's 11 and 12 year olds. Okay. Therefore, I'm up with them, getting them ready or trying to. Or, you know, pittling them like an old person, trying to figure out how I start my day. But I can't sleep long any longer. I can't.

It just ended. Is it because your brain is always, is wired to be a part of like the news cycle I'm constantly thinking like last night I think I got an hour and a half asleep because my mind could not you couldn't you can't really come down because you for me I'm always

navigating minefields you all know how it is and so when you're constantly sort of being your own champion then I be trying to educate and inform your mind can't shut off very well and so I'm always battling with how to do my go-to-bed routine I mean I'll do like the bath

I'll watch some golden girls but it still takes some time You take naps at least I do No I can like Naps is what keeps he alive Oh my god If I if you're talking right now

You have an hour I'd be knocked out right now Like I can do that quick I'm like that's right Yes Airplanes I have not seen one of those safety things on the plane

In like years Damn You're asleep before They even do that much I haven't had a pretzel I don't have a pretzel No spray Without ice

Doesn't matter I just I can't have it I can't help it I do it How you turn it off and on with your kids, though? Because, like, sometimes they just want mom. That's just about to chill. We don't go to the beach, whatever.

My kids don't care at all about the work. For me, I'm very intentional because I wanted to be a mom. I really wanted to be a mother. And I wanted to be their mother in particular. And so I have to be present. And really, if you don't sort of leave work, when I'm not working, my mind might be racing. But if I'm with my babies or with my man, that's it. Like, I'm with them.

That's all there is to it. And so they try to come with me a lot, though. try to incorporate my daughter comes every Friday night to the show and becomes my producer she's 11 she's taller than me now my son he plays basketball and so he's always I'm always trying to be with him when he's on the

your daughter is 11 and taller than you on 5 3 and a half okay I was asking her daddy he's 5 4 11 oh wow wow wow my nickname as a kid was baby Huey I'm the tall I'm the tall and ain't even that baby girl

baby hewley So I had to have a strong ego to counteract that because my mom is 4-11, my dad's 5'4, and they're like, how do you get so big? And I'm like, I'm 5'3 and a half. But that half means everything. The half. So as a former federal prosecutor,

how do you balance explaining the law for everyday viewers without losing the complexity of what law is? I think you don't understand something unless you can explain it to a child, right? I mean, there's a phrase. And when I was in trials, and I did a lot of trials, it was never use a $20 word when a quarter word will do, right? You want to talk to people and meet them where they are.

Not because they know less intellectually or they're not as smart, but because you and I would never sit here and say the door was ajar. The door was open? Like, I gave chase. Do you mean you ran somewhere? Because you want people to understand what's happening. And I think there's an elitism with vocabulary where people want to show that they're smart to distance themselves from you,

to make sure you see them above you and that they can no longer participate in the system. And the longer people feel like, well, I don't get it, so therefore I have hands off. Their reflex is, well, I don't care about that. It's rigged. It's a whole game and system. That was the point.

They want people to not participate. They want people not to understand. And we have an elitism about the law that we see right now in real terms are hurting the nation. because the more people are like, politics, I don't get that. What's posse coma what?

I don't get it. Never mind, whatever. Then you don't check in and you're not actually maintaining the system and you become a part of your own demise. And so for me, it was easy to make sure that, look, if I want to understand something, I have to really distill it down

so that I can explain it in a two-minute elevator in a 30-second clip down the street, wherever I am to my kids, because they're also who's watching me. And when I was during the whole COVID, during the pandemic, I had a studio in my home. And I remember I was covering the George Floyd murder trial, which I'm clear, not the George Floyd trial.

That's Derek Chauvin trial, the George Floyd murder trial. And my kids were on the floor, literally, because it was homeschool. Don't get me started. They're sitting there watching me, explain something. And the why, the why was always the hardest question. I could explain the Constitution. I can recite amendments

I can explain the different case law but the hardest question to answer especially when you have your babies looking at you why? You know who taught me that? Larry King. Really? Larry King said God bless the dead Larry King said he said Charlemagne the toughest question you can ask a person is why?

Why? Because people really don't ever think about the why usually they have their talking points or they have their things that they've been taught but they've never actually thought about the why of something. And it makes you think ahead in the future and explain the past simultaneously because the why requires you explain the way it was how you've let it be and also how you could change it. Because in that one three letter word, you're being challenged.

It's almost like the one question is why did you let that happen or why is it still that way or why haven't we changed it? And you have to think about all those things. And, you know, one of the things I love my job, what I'm doing, is because for me, I would have talked anyway, right? I would have a real desire to democratize information because I can't stand elitism and I can't stand people feeling like they don't have a voice because someone took it away. But that why question, man, when it comes to my kids, like my son the other day asked me a question about why the National Guard was there. He were driving by. Why? and why there?

I thought this is going to take a lot to unload. But, you know, I try not to shy away from my kids when they ask a question because when they're asking it, they're ready to receive the information. Even though sometimes you know, it breaks my heart. I think of my kid's childhood, whether

this is right or wrong, you guys. I think of it like a museum, right? And there are museum floors and wings and I'm navigating one area. I'm okay, it's time to go to this wing. And all of a sudden something happens and I'm on the third floor trying to explain

the exhibit in front of me trying to make sure they realize what to do or what not to do and I'm not always prepared in those moments and so I just try to be very confessional about what I do and do not know and try to find answers. So what is the why it's the why the National Guard today? Because I'm sure there's

a letter of a law. Letter of a law, letter of the law answer. Yeah. But what's the why? Well, the why they're saying they're there is because of the crime rate in D.C. and the only way they believe they can change it is to have the presence of the National Guard to try to deter crime or to supplement what the cops are doing. What the other reason is legally is that they have the ability to do so in Washington, D.C.

It's not a, it's not a state. It's not a territory. And the president of the United States has a lot, a lot, a lot of power there. So much so that other governors and other hitch are thinking themselves, well, how can we stop it from stepping our own states? But the reality is he has power to do so for a certain amount of time, 30 days. if there is an emergency situation, they can do it. He wants to delay it or prolong it longer than that.

But the reason they're probably having it in reality is because politically it is advantageous to show that you are tough on crime. And Democrats have a very difficult road ahead trying to, on the one hand, explain the problems of a police state and the presence of the National Guard, a la civil rights era with people coming into your towns

and also using data to say, I don't know, I don't know how you feel but here's a number. Does this number make you feel better? Here's a number, right? This is better. And they're trying to capitalize on that as Republicans. We're still kicking in with CNN's chief legal analyst and anchor of Laura

Coats live Laura Coats. Lauren. When you look at trials like, you did a lot of coverage on a ditty trial? Yeah. So did you says. Yeah. Thanks for having me. But from the beginning, right? You were there were times where you did make predictions or just like follow the story as it went. Was there any time where you flat out were like

this is ridiculous. They're overcharging him and you wanted to say that but couldn't. I did say it and I could but you're right to question the ability to be as vocal and as forthright

putting in an anchor position. When I was just being a contributor I had a different role because then I could be a little bit more flexible I'm still very honest and candid but I have to moderate a conversation where I can't answer every question that I'm asking other people

so sometimes I agree with the person who's answering it I don't agree at the person's answering and I try to say that but one thing that was really bothering me

about that trial in particular is and you can set aside frankly all the backstory of violence that's hard to even say because there's a huge

backstory of violence there and y'all broke the video we broke the video but they didn't charge that and I think what happened in that case is it's that prosecutorial discretion

that is very difficult to navigate on the one hand just because you can do something should you So one of the issues of having that case is that is that the new standard

to bring RICO for that type of case? Were there other matters to bring or other cases to bring other charges? And should we have caught it much sooner? Why was the original case brought? Why were the violence cases not brought sooner? And what messages that send in the long run

to victims that you try to bring in and tell them, because it's a grind. I want you to testify. It's worth it. Please, you're arguing not as for yourself but the next person down the line doesn't want to be victimized. You try to convince that person to come forward.

Well, now you wonder if a very public trial and the person comes forward and tells the most intimate, horrific details of their life, how much harder is it now for the process to come back and say, no, no, forget what you saw. You should still go forward because it will still matter theoretically in the end. Which is a harder case. And so even if that person doesn't want to go forward, there's a callousness you have to have that says, well, I'm not here for you. I'm thinking about the next person who does not want it to be them. You were an assistant U.S. Attorney, when you saw that, because remember they made a big

deal about it being all white women that were prosecuting, did you feel like race played a card? I think that race had a very big part in the assessment of this trial and the court public opinion because people thought why this particular person

is it because this is a black man who's achieved a certain level of income. it is the hearkening back to the highfalutin Negro syndrome that they would try to put on. The Man Act use in terms of how that was looked at, remember that was the case involving, you know, Jack Johnson, who was a boxer, who was convicted of it for having had the audacity to date a white woman who happened to also be a prostitute at one time and then married somebody else as well. So I wonder if that was a part of how people perceived it. but there is always going to be with the messenger for a jury how condescending you might appear, how judgmental you might come across. And there were certainly elements where I found myself wondering, watching the jury and watching the presentation of evidence, how did that read? For example, when someone would say something like, he took the damn and rubbed it on his nipples.

Right. As an example, yes. Out of all the things, that came to mind. But, you know, or that might be a comment. And the person was saying, well, who would ever do that? do that. That's just, and just very sort of disgusted by it. Now, you could be disgusted by it. Maybe it's your thing as

well. The problem is, in this jury, they weren't asked that question. I don't know in this jury of 12 or how many people, how many of you might get off on that. Or how many of you might feel as though, well, you shouldn't be in my bedroom, so don't judge that. Why are we here about that? And so you always run the risk of coming

across as, you know, whether actually, as a black prosecutor or not, as a Karen, as somebody who knows better than you is going to elevated to the authorities. Wow. You think they got it right? The jury? You know, based on the presentation of evidence,

there was no other result. I was surprised that so many people who weren't inside the courtroom every day and weren't watching it and maybe we're reading. Trinstein. I thought there's no way he can't be because of Rico. And I thought, well, based on what's been presented,

you are making people connect so many dots. And Rico's complex, you guys, right? You got a bridge all these gaps and when they didn't call people like the right hand men and women of Diddy I wondered if the jurors thought well I've heard a lot about

these people. Why have I not seeing any of them? Why are they the one man regal? Yeah, why is that? And the thing is technically one person for conspiracy is enough. But again back to your question about how fairness operates and how the law, people have so many

questions about how can that be and is that fair? And in a way we all become through the 13th juror and we have our minds going all right in the grand scheme of things why are you so focused on this why this right or wrong that's their question

so what he was charged with right do you think he should have got a bond or do you think that he should still be sitting there now because when they did research they said anybody with this type of charge usually gets slap on arrest community service a weekend in jail but it seems like for day charges

I ain't heard no community service for no fed charge Well, for prostitution. You mean to leave, pay it to, until you sentence in October, right? So normally, if it's a very violent crime, you were held until your sentence because the expectation is you're going to be sentenced. So why not just don't get used to being out. But it wasn't violent. Right. When he was charged me.

And that's important to point you raised because the conviction was not a crime of violence. It didn't even require coercion like, say, sex trafficking did. But because the lawyers argued as a given, yeah, he was violent. You didn't charge him with that. The judge said, well, this could qualify under the umbrella of the types of matters that are violent by your own admission, counsel. Even though he wasn't charged. Even though he wasn't charged.

Now, why there's a fairness issue here is because they tell the jury at the beginning, the attorney's arguments and they're not evidence. You cannot consider what the attorney says, right? But the judge did. The judge considered the fact he said, well, he's, yes, he was violent. yes that happened in the hotel lobby or the hotel hallway that absolutely happened but he can he can actually look at those things to hold the person longer although i do wonder if in holding him now it makes the judge appear that much more objectively harsh therefore when he sentences

if it's less than what the prosecution wants you can't accuse him of going light and soft on ditty Right. What do you think he's going to get as a former federal prosecutor? I would be surprised if it went beyond two or three years with one year being credited to him time, his time already in. The reason for that is although you have 10 years per charge, normally you wouldn't run those consecutively. Like where it's, you know, back to back up to 20 because the nature of the crime. And because he's a first time convicted offender in this context, sentencing guidelines have kind of a chart that says, you know, this crime gives you this point, this other conviction gives you this. point and now I have a little category now you're over here and you're in this range.

The judge can still say less or more, but it would be in line with other cases if it was in the lower end. The prosecution though, they want their bone and their dogs about it because they have to be for the reasons of going forward and thinking we put these resources in. We feel that he's violent and that there should have been longer and more. So they're going to go hard. But the judge, I think, will be in his right judicial mind. if he's in the same range that Diddy has based on not being a prior offender. We're still kicking in with CNN's chief legal analyst and anchor of Laura Coates live, Laura Coates. You were a federal prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Bush and Obama administration.

What I wanted to ask you is, you know, we hear people say things like Donald Trump is taking us back. He's, you know, all these executive orders have repealed these rights and he's taking us back to this time of it. People will come up here and ask, like, what year we think we live in? I'm like, we're in 2025. Like, but I want to ask you simply to the people that are listening, what rights are being scripted away from us right now? Number one, voting. Okay. Voting, it's almost like you think about your health.

If your health fails, nothing else matters. You know, if voting goes away, almost nothing else you want to argue about is important enough to counteract that. Because if you don't have a say, then you cannot speak. week later in a way that's actually going to fall in the right ears. And voting does that. And so the rolling back of rights, when I was in the Civil Rights Division in the voting section, we still had Section 5, which is the formula you use to determine whether an area of the country that traditionally violated civil rights laws or had skewed voting rights and laws that

impacted black people, period, there's a formula you'd use to figure out whether that person, that jurisdiction was qualified to have to ask for permission for any change they wanted to make. When I was there, I was still there. That's gone. The formula's gone because the Supreme Court said, it's outdated. You know, we're in this sort of a post-racial world. We've had a black president now, so the same rules don't apply.

So therefore, Congress, think of a new formula. And while you take your sweet time, everything goes astray. Well, that was the entryway point of why everything else is starting to fail in terms of section two, which is the race-based and gerrymandering aspects of it. So that's the number one thing that's

that people are rolling back. The voting. the voting number two um don't sleep on the fourth amendment reasonable search and seizures and stops anytime you hear about a police brutality case of a driver or someone in their home or wherever it is talking about the fourth amendment what right the officer has to stop you question you touch you arrest you all those things the more power you give officers without having to substantiate that power based on probable cause or the Constitution, the more you live in a place where that goes away.

So, for example, with the National Guard or the FBI that's president in Washington, D.C., where I am, the question is whether they're going to abide by the same principles under the Fourth Amendment. The standard right now is it's only unreasonable if a reasonable officer would feel it's unreasonable. Not whether you think it's reasonable, Not whether you or you or you, whether a reasonable officer would think so, which incentivizes people to say, well, I'm not going to call out my fellow officer because it could come back to haunt me.

So I'm going to have sort of a, yes, reasonable, kick him in the head. I mean, I can see why that could happen. Shot him accidentally. Oh, well, you know, I can see why that would happen. And they become the reasonable standard. So that's what the cops know. There's already that issue. Now you add the national guard.

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FBI, who they don't do average traffic stops. They're not even equipped to do that kind of work. They're also not necessarily used to adhering to the same standards because the nature of their work is so much more of an emergency that they have to be a little bit more aggressive at times, they say. So now trying to balance all that out means that the more accepted it becomes that law enforcement has power

the less you have to say wait I have my rights you can't do that to me more it becomes laughed at so I think those are two areas to me that are the most problematic I got the two but one question I could put in the one

so when you didn't get jeopardy right you kept your response to how you felt very diplomatic but a lot of people feel like you weren't in the thought even though he said you should be because you were a black woman.

Did you feel like it was a race thing of the reason why you weren't even considered as like in the guest hosting slatter just called in even try out? I thought it was bullshit that I wasn't asked to try out. I thought it was something that was the machinations behind the scenes

where people decide who their heroes and celebrities ought to be and merit didn't matter. And that's how I honestly feel about it. I feel like, I mean, so whether it was, It's a race. I don't know as much it was a race thing

as much as it wasn't a you thing. Now, who I am is a black woman. So if it's me, then it was that. I was always very resentful of it. And I still am because I think it'd be much easier to have a job where the answers are already in front of me, like on Jeopardy, anything else.

But as I see how they say, everyone's journey is their journey. For me, I was honored that he was specific. He was kind when I reached out to thank him. I was grateful to have a chance to get to know him a little bit during that but the fact that it wasn't Alex Trebek's call who'd replace him told me

I have to examine power differently right and I have to examine who really is in control very differently and in many ways I'm happy that it happened because I approach all my negotiations and business dealings that if my name's on something it belongs to me

and that includes the agency to do with it what I want and if I had gotten it just because someone's oh I think it'd be her it's great be her I might not have approached it the same way and I still feel some kind of way about it before he died said that she's one of the people

that should be considered but you never even got to see her be considered but I was told when I was told when I spoke to maybe I'm telling too much information when I did try to fight for it they said well maybe a particular person who name I can't even recall he's that irrelevant

to me now. I can't I can't I can't I honestly care for his name. I don't remember I care for his name but I remember he was like but you know what if you ever you can be my assistant on a podcast. No it's a research on a podcast I was like I'll be your assistant to research on the podcast who do you think you're talking to

not me what game show did Alex see you host any I hadn't he watched me on CNN wow and he also I did radio I did serious XM for a long time and so he was a radio guy himself when he started out And so he said that he respected the work that I did And the mind and thought it would be a beautiful match Wow

That was really cool Did that help in how you navigated? Because people started having a conversation about you and Caitlin Collins When people felt like you were shorted in that situation With getting a full-time anchor roll Well, I had the anchor roll You may have the 9 o'clock hours, you mean, okay You know, I think people have a tendency to always ask

you know and why her and not this person and they assume that there is beef but I really I believe that I am I'm where I'm supposed to be in this moment and let everyone climb the way they want to climb

let people enjoy the fruits of their labor because I enjoy mine but the work is so far from being done so I think you know where I am and where I'll end up are two different things. My last question, you know, you're a mother,

you're a wife, you know, former prosecutor, you're on CNN. When do you have time to be this fun ratchet lawyer coach I keep hearing about it? Everybody that I know that hung out with you and kicked it with you, they got, they see something else.

That's crazy. He got you up here to call out your ratchet. I know. I'm just saying, especially I saw people come back from the Vignet and they were like, Yo, Laura Coast, though. Ractivity is crazy. I hope I'm the same person, but you have to be talking about the Constitution here.

But I mean, really, I make time for fun. I make time for love and joy because in the end. I started a whole interview, but that's what I, well, I, you know, what happened was, right? I'm on. Grathing, no, you know what? I got to be who I can be. And I want there to be a through line. You know, the best advice I ever got was from Steve Harvey. who said to me, you know, Laura, I am the same person no matter where you see me, period.

And I hope that that's me just might be a little bit different outfit, different hair, different ponytail, different heel color, different lipstick, different eyeliner. But I'm the same person. It's just that I would never want to try to be who I was not, but every circumstance is not called for my ratchettist. Some really do. And sometimes I'm like, oh, you think this is not. Oh, let me take my earrings off a second. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Hold on one second.

I'm not the one or the two. Lower Coates. I love it. Thank you, guys. Thanks for joining us. And don't be a stranger, man. Like, there's things that we can, you know, talk about. Thank you.

I thank you. I appreciate that. You said something earlier. You talked about armchair attorneys, and I feel like we have a lot of those. And I don't know if people are becoming more legally literate or getting worse than understanding the Constitution and our rights. So we need people like.

Well, I appreciate that. And I'm honored to be here, and I respect you all so much. Thank you for letting me come. Thank you so much. Laura Colts. It's the breakfast girl. Good morning. I like Laura Colts, man.

That's your people's. That's your guy. First of all, you need to think about what I just said. Listen, because I said I like Laura Coates and goes, that's your people. No, she was so. I know that, but you just listen. But everybody heard you blow your nose. Yeah, everybody heard you blow your nose.

Gouse, gals. All right. Let's get to the latest for Laura. Lauren becoming a straight fat. Tell up. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody She gets the details

I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything else She'd be having the latest on this The latest with Lauren La Rosa Sometimes you have facts Sometimes you have details Sometimes you have a little bit of everything

Well it's the latest On the breakfast club Talk to me LL Coube Hey good morning So Target CEO His name is Brian Cornell He is stepping down

After 11 years So this story is currently breaking So this is in the midst of all of the, like they've been reporting that sales have been dropping, and of course they've been having a lot of backlash because they roll back some of their DEI initiatives. You still shopped out of here. I'm getting out of here.

I have shopped at Target recently. I'm sorry. You're not sorry, Mom. I am. No, you're not, because you wouldn't do it again. This departure was widely expected according to CNN. And CNN is also reporting that people feel like someone from outside of the

company should come in and step in as a CEO because they'll have a better grasp on, you just what's happening in the world and why Target has been affected by its customers and like all the things but there is a C-O he's been at the company for 20 years he'll be replacing Cornell

on February 1st, 2026 Do we know why he's leaving? Is it because everything that's going on? Does he have another job or is it just his time? Do we know? I bet you it is. This just says that he is stepping down and that the story is still breaking and that his departure was widely expected but I can look into it more for you. You say man I ain't got time

for these niggas. Be boycotting outside of the school all the time, man. And they can't even do what, you know, a lot of these companies doing situations like this go out and hire, you know,

a minority. They try. They're going to look crazy. Did they try to hire Kai and do some things? Do you listen? Why would they hire Kats tonight to be the CEO at all? Oh,

you mean, but I thought you meant higher. I thought you meant higher people to it's people to take people to them. And then when I talk to him crazy, you know what I thought you meant that's your people, y'all. That's your people, y'all.

That's your people. He is my people, so what? Where Logan at the slagin? slam in you when you need him. Going back to school? Continue on. What else, Lord?

Hey! Logan ain't slam you enough this summer. Maybe he slammed you too much. Ah, but I'll come over there and slam you. Mm-mm. I bet you won't. Mm-mm. He want to.

Well, yes. So that is happening, but no. Take that. Whoa. What? Then he just come out of nowhere. Go ahead. He just came out of nowhere.

You didn't know him. You didn't realize that you're doing that little thing with your mom was going to make him through. Go ahead. Continue. He just never stops That pause, dang Oh my god

The brofants up here Be so cute And so crazy Y'all don't pay his in detail And be sipping his Starbucks And then he goes He jumps and goes Oh, then he just came out of nowhere

He's scared You know He's strained He's scraping He's scared and shrieving It's actually scraping Daddy Continue on Laura

Well, in other news Speaking of bros So Fat Joe and Jada kiss Sat there on their podcast Joe and Jada Yes And they had a conversation About snitches in hip hop

Because Fat Joe said he actually loved Gunn's album Let's take a listen My thing is now You got some guys That are the hottest guys in the game Rance Like I get a phone call for somebody

He says, yo man you got to check this album out. And I get on the plane. I listen to this album. This album was so good. I was so guilty of this shit. I listened to this album. I said,

shit. They knew he talking about guns. Throw the flag. Coe said we wasn't missing their names like that. You just said all of that. All I said the album was fire. There's a million racks out there. You just said you liked it.

You just said you enjoyed it. And then said, nah. No, I'm not saying that. What I am saying. You just said. So where it is? You don't get any more in hip-hop? You can rap?

No, I'm asking. You can't rat. But what if you do? You got the number one album? And Gunn ain't right. He just said the gun in the car wasn't his and there's only one other person in the car with it. What?

You broke my heart. Is it good out? The album is good album. The album is good. I mean, personally, I could care less, you know, about Gunna being a rat or whatever they say. Like, your music is music. Most people don't care. It don't matter.

Like, if you throw on a bar. A bop, a bop going bop, okay? I can care less what he did in the courtroom. By the way, I understand the people who do care. Right. But I'm just the regular consumer. I could care less. Most of these kids, though.

Have you listened to the album? No, I have not. I have. You should. It is a great album. I've been on that jit. I haven't got the gun of yet. Well, when you get there, you're going to enjoy it.

Yeah, he actually, he just posted that he hit number one on Billboard's R&B and hip hop. Or he's number one Billboard, R&B and hip hop album. Nice. tweet or Instagram posted him to congratulate him so people don't care I saw that he was voting something like people's favorite or something on like a poll that Billboard has too he's selling our concerts selling our shows is he is still sound the tough this is called the last one because this is reportedly the last album

that he has to do under the YSL situation got you I'm listening to jid and Marco Plus Michael Plus got this album called Marco Plus versus the underworld that's very tough very tough there's so much music catch up on you I'm still on clips album I'm still that's a good place to be good place to be as well Joe and Jada kids are a liar as though drop on a clue to me and Jada and you know what I was saying

about Joe and Jada's podcast I actually told Joe this like they're such OG veterans who had so much success in hip hop they can tell you whatever they want they have to they have the cachet to be able to discuss hip hop any way they want to because of their status

and they do and that's exactly why you tune in they say what they want to say They, they, they platinum, they've broken other artists. Like every single angle of the game they have, you know, had success in. So they can talk about hip hop in any way shape, of form. And whether you agree or disagree, you got to respect their opinion because of who they are. They have problems with their labels.

Yeah, they've been through every aspect. Every, every aspect. Absolutely. They started up funny. Yo, Joe, the way Joey tell a story. The way Jada can just be reacting to him, too, is just, like, the perfect, like, folks in the balance. I love their dynamic. them like that's how Joe is

he don't be trying to be funny he just funny and that's how Jada kisses like that is them he'd be dead serious telling these stories Joe he'd be sounding like he'd be lying but it'd be real yeah he was on this episode looking for turkey wings they found our turkey chops they found it was a whole thing

they were looking for like this one place and they found it for him but yeah their episodes be all over the place but you'd be so tuned in and I can understand why Joe would feel that way about Gunnar's album because of Joe's background correct right but most of y'all ain't in the street and never been in the street So you can get, it shouldn't matter whether or not, you know,

snitch or not. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, that is the latest with Lauren. Shalerman, we're giving that donkey, too. Man, four after the hour, man. We need to talk about why some open marriages need to stay closed. We'll discuss.

All right. We'll get to that next. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Don't be a donkey. Because right now you want some real donkey. Tell us, man. It's time for donkey of the day.

So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey man, hit it with the hero. Did she get donkey in the day, please, tell you? Absolutely. I have become donkey. of the day. At the breakfast club, bitch. Mm-hmm.

Man, don't here today for Wednesday, August 20th. Let me make sure. Yes, it is Wednesday, August 20th. Dog here today for Wednesday, August 20th, goes to a 55-year-old Georgia woman named Cheryl Cole. Now, Cheryl was convicted Monday of murder and aggravated assault and the death of her husband. Yep.

Oh, Cheryl was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after she smoked her husband. Okay, her husband name is Luther, Luke Cole, the 3rd. And he was shot and killed after his wife drank four or five angry orchard hard ciders. I never heard of that brand until this morning. Not a good way to get introduced because I don't really drink like that anymore. But when I do, it will never be angry orchard hard cider. Now, Cheryl told the police she was just trying to protect herself,

told the police she thought her husband was an intruder and claimed she didn't realize she shot her husband until he reportedly said, Cheryl, you shot me. Well, that story was a lie. Would you like to know what happened for real? Okay, let me read you the headline. Everybody pay attention. Woman shot husband dead after he wanted to add new rules to their open marriage. I repeat, woman shot husband dead after he wanted to add new rules to their open marriage.

Now, that's the headline. And I know when you heard that headline, you immediately blame the man. You immediately think, look at him being greedy, already got an open marriage, but wanted more. No, it was actually her. See, investigators discovered that they was having issues in their marriage. Okay, a series of text messages they discovered showed the couple beefing over their open marriage. Cheryl Cole asked her husband for permission to see another man later that week. That's respectful in an open marriage.

I would just assume those are the rules. We can see other people, but just let me know what's going on. Let's just be honest with each other. But then the husband asked her, does she also plan to see a second man the same day? To which the wife replied, L-O-L. The victim Luther Luke Cole, who is now dead, reportedly said her response turned his stomach. Of course it did. Okay, I mean, I know we got an open marriage, but you don't have to be a whole whore about it, okay?

I mean, how much vagina do you have to give? Okay, I'm still your husband, so I need a piece. Okay, you got another dude who's getting a piece, and now you handing out slices to someone else? Where there's no pie left for me? Okay, you're just out here acting like your poom-pum is bottomless, like men can enjoy unlimited refills of that 55-year-old snatch, not dementia, okay? No one woman should have all those UTIs. Yes, multiple sexual partners can increase the risk of developing urinary tract infections,

and you just out here bringing that cloudy and foul-smelling urine in the house? Yes, your husband has every right to feel sick to his stomach, okay? I know we got an open marriage, but don't run out now. Okay, how many people are you going to let truels? Travel through our love tunnel. By the way, this is the plot of many a Twa movie. Okay, let me tell you something. For anyone who wants to engage and having their marriage open are slightly ajar,

watch a Twa movie first. Okay, they're on Tubi, all right? Fine early 2000s viewing, and all the Twa movies explored the consequences of a married couple's decision to engage in a threesome, and there was always some dangerous or nut-ass complication that would happen. Envy, you told me that your favorite episode was when the college student turned into a male prostitute and he fell in love with another male escort and you said

that episode really made you think what did it make you think about lies I didn't say that I never seen that guys no I said lies lies lies the moral of the story is when you married just leave Pandora's box and your marriage closed what's the point of being married if you're going

to leave your marriage open at all times like a Waffle House okay Cheryl said she suggested they end their open marriage because it was causing issues you think but he reportedly wanted to keep it going with more ground rules. Yes, a two penis minimum. Okay, mine and your little

boyfriend. Okay, but now you want us to be the locks and bring in a third member. Your vagina will not be a group project as long as we're married, ma'am. And then the police report says that Luther got even more upset when he found out his wife was talking about their issues with a friend. My God, we already got an open

marriage and you telling the world how that Poon Pum is on a world tour? She claims she shot her husband in self-defense. She reportedly said he came storming and the room and tried dragging her out of bed and when he left the room she grabbed the gun fired a warning shot which she said made him angry before pulling

the trigger the second time she said she was just trying to hit the wall behind the TV so it would scare him off and make him leave but she actually shot and killed him he's dead now okay all because she was out there sharing her lady bitch like a buffet at Golden Corral and by the way even though buffets are labeled all you can eat

they will impose restrictions if your eating behavior is deemed excessive or disruptive to other customers. Cheryl, your excessive sexual behavior was disruptive to your husband. Okay, it was excessive. All right, he said something, and now he's dead, and you are doing life behind

bars. Let me be the first to tell you, okay? Or maybe the second after the judge, you deserve. Please give Cheryl Cole the biggest he-ho. Yo, that's crazy. Insane. You shot him and killed him. all because he just simply didn't want you to be out there with two guys.

Uh-uh. That had to come from somewhere else. It sounds a little deeper. You wouldn't. Like, come on, we already have an open marriage. Okay, now I changed the rules and you shoot and kill me. Because you're being greedy. You're running out.

You're running out. I know greed is evil, and that can lead to a lot of different crazy consequences, even murder, but come on. This had to be deeply rooted in other problems that they were having. You want to play a game? You want to play a game? Yeah, let's play a game. Let's play a game.

Let's play a game. Let's play a game of Guess what race it is! All right. Cheryl Cole was convicted of murder and aggravated assault in the death of her husband. She shot her husband because he wanted to change rules in their open marriage.

DJ Envy. Yes what race he is! This is a tough one, but it's not tough, right? Why? Cheryl and Luther feel like black names. Uh-huh. But this situation seems white. I'm going white.

Okay, okay. Just hilarious. Cheryl Cole was convicted Monday of murder and aggravated assault and the death of her husband. She shot him because he wanted to change the rules of their open marriage. And please pay attention to the fact that I said she drank four or five angry orchard hard ciders. Oh, wow. Just hilarious. Guess what?

Racist. Angry orchid white all over. Now, Luther might be black. They could have had. Luther might have been black. It could have been a biracial. I mean, you know, and so racial. marriage, right?

Let me pull in a picture. Luther was black. Cheryl was white. It's white all the way. Mm-hmm. I don't think Luther was white. White all the way? White all the way?

DJ Envy and Jess O'Laris. You both are absolutely correct! Cheryl Cohen, Luther are absolutely Caucasian. Okay. Capital right, white. All right. January 6th, Insurrection White. All right.

Oh my goodness. All right. Dukson Hazard White. Both. House of the White. Look at them girls with the day to dox. Oh, my goodness. Thank you for that don't care today.

Now, let's open up the phone lines. 800585-105.1. We're asking, what's the craziest thing you've been sent to HR for? Has somebody sent an HR complaint against you? Now, this story comes from this lady who sent her a file the HR complaint against one of her coworkers because her coworker was getting married and she did not get invited. Oh, please. So what she did was saying it's an exclusive and it was creating a hostile work environment and she went to HR.

So we're asking, what's the most ridiculous reason someone reported you to HR? I can't relate. Contra to popular belief, I am a stellar, stellar employee. Not yet. What you mean, not just? Because I'm taking you to HR, so. I can't wait. Well, when I tell you the stories that I'm going to tell.

You've been doing radio way too long and you've been so reckless for almost your whole career. You've never been to say HR. You're lying. On the microphone is different than off the microphone. You can flirt with me. Even on the microphone. Oh, I'm going to HR soon. I touched you?

Yes, you have. You can't test somebody to HR because you gay and he gay too. Let me hold this little yellow Ernie doll up. And you tell me where Bert touched you. You don't know it. 800585-105.1. We're talking to HR complaints. Call us now.

It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Pull out your phone. Call in right now. Call in right now. Add your opinion to the breakfast club topic. Break it down. 800-585-105-1.

The Breakfast Club. I'm calling my folks It's topic time Call 8505851 to join in to the discussion with the breakfast club Morning everybody It's DJ NVJNV Jess Hilarious Sholomane the guy We are the breakfast club

Now if you're just joining us We're asking have you ever had a HR complaint file against you Now this story comes from a woman Who didn't invite a co-worker to her wedding So her co-worker said that she was being exclusive in creating a hostile work environment for not inviting her. So we're asking...

800585105.151. Have you ever been filed a complaint at HR? No, I've never been sent to HR. You never had a real job, though. Wow. Hold on. This time about this. I definitely did it. You're just your first real job? Wow. No, it's... Wow, yeah, this is my first real corporate job. But don't play

with me like that. Actually, this is a corporate job? Yes, this is corporate job. Didn't know that. You worked in fast food before, though. Yes, I worked in a fast food. Is your department in the fast food spots? Yes. Oh, sorry. Because I worked at one of the biggest McDonald's.

Oh, okay. Yes, yes. And I got five for stealing. Don't quote me on that. But no, seriously. I've never been sent to HR, and I never sent nobody to HR, right? There are times that I feel like I probably should have ended up at HR, but I didn't.

What? Huh? Yeah. What about you, Shalame? If I was to go, all of us was going. What? No. I've never been, I've never, I've never, I've never been saying.

I still. I got we got written up once because of envy. It was all envy for it was. I promise you it was my boy. What you do? It's when we first started at breakfast club way way back in the day 2010, 2011. Slued our guy Cadillac Jack. He was the program

director here at the time and Envy told us that we could go the lunch and we didn't have to be to the meeting on time because we had a breakfast club and we ate lunch walking to the meeting like 20, 30 minutes later and what did you say when we walked into meeting it? The party don't start

until we walk in. Oh, wow. He thought he was hosting a party. He thought he was doing. I'm Hunter, host of hunting for answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday

as I share bite-sized stories of missing and murdered black women and girls in America. There are several ways we can all do better at protecting black women. My contribution is shining a light

on our missing sisters and amplifying their disregarded stories. Stories like Tamika Anderson. As she drove toward Galvest, she was in contact with several people, talking on the phone as she made her way to what should have been a routine transaction. But Tamika never bought the car,

and she never returned home that day. One podcast, one mission, save our girls. Join the searches, we explore the chilling cases of missing and murdered black women and girls. Listen to hunting for answers every weekday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I don't write songs. God write songs. I take dictation.

I didn't even know you've been a pastor for over 10 years. I think culture is any space that you live in that develops you. On a recent episode of Culture Raises Us podcast, I sat down with Warren Campbell, Grammy-winning producer, pastor, and music executive to talk about the beats, the business, and the legacy behind some of the biggest names in gospel R&B. and hip-hop. This is like watching Michael Jackson talk about Thurley before it happened. Was there a particular moment where you realize just how instrumental music culture was

to shaping all of our global ecosystem? I was eight years old and the Motown 25 special came on. And all the great Motown artists, Marvin, Stevie Wonder, Temptations, Diana Raw. From Mary Mary to Jennifer Hudson, we get into the soul of the music and the purpose that drives it. Listen to Culture Raises us on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Kurt Brown-Oller. And I am Scotty Landis, and we host Bananas, the Weird News Podcasts with wonderful guests like Whitney Cummings. And tackle the truly tough questions.

Why is cool mom an insult, but mom is fine? No. I always say, Kurt, it's a fun dad. Fun dad and cool mom. That's cool for me. We also dig into important life stuff. Like, why our last names would make the worst hyphen ever? My last name is Cummings.

I have sympathy for nobody. Yeah, mine's brown-olar, but with an H. So it looks like brown-holler. Okay, that's, okay, yours might be worse. We can never get married. Yeah. Listen to this episode with Whitney Cummings and check out new episodes of bananas every Tuesday on the exactly right network.

Listen to bananas on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney, and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all, childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more, and found the shrimp to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on a street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house, unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal

guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. We walked in and said, The party don't start until we walk in. Really? So you always did what y'all wanted up here.

No, that's not true. We got written up that day. He definitely got ridden up. Crazy. All right. Well, let's go to the phone line. We got Ace on the line. Ace, good morning.

Good morning, man. Ace, what you got written up for? Yo, I got written up because I drew this picture of this fat dude that I used to work with. But it wasn't like no crazy disrespectful picture. And it's kind of crazy. It was like a, it was a fat stick figure, bro. Hilarious.

How do you draw a fat stick figure? Yeah, but that's what made it funny. Hilarious. A fat stick figure. Hilarious. The weird part is he made copies of it and then passed it around to everybody in the plant so I could get fired. Did everybody laugh?

Did you get fired? You know, listen, the age. child lady, the boss, the actual supervisor. Everybody thought this shit was hilarious, but it was, like, it was just, it was just like, yo, like, I couldn't believe.

I saw it was funny, but it wasn't supposed to be no, all right, well, let me, let me get this dude fire. Like, I drew it to him. But listen, tell me some of the nicknames y'all have for him. I know y'all have some fire nicknames, man. Oh, he got the best one. They called, you know

those, the hooker, sneak? Yes. What? Yes. Yes, the Hokas. Okay. Let me look them up. Be nice.

They go for your feet. Yeah, they're like orthoped. Oh, the shoes. Just running shoes. You see the running shoes? Yes. I'm looking at them now. The hoax shoes.

But I think that's what made them upset because I drew the hoax sneakers on the on the stick. Yo, what job do you have where you can sit there and draw? Oh. What kind of job is we work, bro? Yo. hilarious I'm about to do that I don't even work there no more so you did get fired

stop pressuring the young man oh how did you make how did you make the stick figure fat like did you bowl the sticks like how did you draw a big ass sir oh I'm gonna draw somebody in here right now give me a point

and I bet y'all know who I'm drawing and I'm looking for a pen time about no no who's this hey Janice good morning what did you get to what did they file playing against you at H.R. 4.

Little DeVol got me in trouble. What happened? Tell us more. No. I'm a network market. I'll stop up to you, NB, because I always did your car show to help around this business. On the course of stage that weekend, got me a hundred grand

ring for a hit a goal, got back Monday morning, pull up in the rentals. Little DeVole was playing, smile, chick, smile, chick. I had issues with her. She told her to follow her to be. I think of a bad I'm happy I'm a wick for my

happiness in A song So you were singing Smile bitch Smile bitch They thought about somebody else Damn Thank you Janice Oh my God

Yo But see that's when That's whoever she was talking to Was culturally clueless Correct Culturally incompetent Because she should have known That was a song

But even if that was a song You still could have been using That song to taunt her Smile Bitch You could have been Yeah But come on

I ain't She ain't the one singing it. She just put it on. If you're just joining us, we open up the phone lines, 800-585-105-1. We're asking, have you ever got an HR complaint? Now, this comes from a lady who is getting married. She didn't invite her coworker and her coworker went to HR.

I said it was being exclusive and creating a hostile environment. Wait, no, we're not talking about that enough. That is very petty. That's actually stupid. I've never heard of that. It's a wedding. Like, it's my personal wedding. I don't have to invite none of my employees to the wedding.

But see, but you see how personal. workers beginning? Because, like, how did you feel a way that, remember, some people up here was upset that they didn't get invited to my baby shower? Some of those people are not here anymore. But I'm just saying, they got upset that they weren't invited to my baby shower and I'm like, damn, I mean, we're

cool, you know, but that's like a little too personal for me. I have family members that wasn't even invited to my baby shower. So I just think that's an issue. Like, you took that person to HR? HR shouldn't have been able to file that. That sounds crazy. Yeah. Hello, who's this? This is Dera from

Detroit. Darrell from Detroit. What up, Doe? What up, Doug? What up, Ann? What up, Chalbain? What's that, baby? What they filed a complaint against you for?

All right, so it was actually a valid reason. I was sleep on a job at a kid detention center, but it's third shift, and everybody takes a nap on third shift. That's a hundred. Damn. Right. Only problem was I got into it with the supervisor's cousin, and the next week, they're like, we got you on camera sleep.

Like, even the supervisor's cousin, he was sleeping on the control. People came and get to the building because he sleep, supervisor come, you know, hit him, wake him up and stuff. Like, come on, man, you got to, you know, stay woke a little bit. Well, you know what you're supposed to do. And that's a regular thing.

In a situation like that, you're supposed to be like G, G, money and blow the whole joint. So if they're taking you down, everybody got to go down. You got to tell them everybody that was sleeping. Charlemagne, everybody got sent to a different ship. I promise you. That's what I'm talking about. What Jewish said is this man?

One of the thing. One of the thing. I think you and I might actually be related. My grandmother was Alice Lucille McKelvie, born in Seneca, South Carolina. Oh, wow. Is that your grandmother, Sheldon? I have a conversation with you. That was not my grandmother, but my last name is McKelvey. I mean, like, might be a great under something. I don't know.

I'm going to put your hole because he might have some money for you. I'm going to put your home. You should go down to the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. you can go down there and look at your whole genealogy. They have an activation where you can go look at your whole genealogy and trace back, basically your whole family tree. Hello, who's this? This is A. Shown Devo Comedy.

Hey, A.S.m. Devo Comedy. What you got sent to H.R. for? Okay, so I worked at a hospital. I used to be an administrative assistant at a very specific hospital. And so the doctors was moving to a different hospital, and all of them, seven of the assistants had to move during the day. And enough to me, one of the nurses admin, she didn't want to move her death. So she went to HR, before I even knew it, I never had a conversation with her anything. We never got into it.

She went to HR and told them that I threatened her, gave her the middle finger and was like, F her, I ain't got time for this, you're going to move your desk, and then I told her that I'm going to come back and shoot her before a desk. HR called me to the office, and they had both departments sitting there, And they were like, yeah, we're here because of your actions towards another admin. And because I have a big personality, it's real easy to think that I said I'll shoot bitch, but that ain't the truth. That ain't got nothing to do to the big personality. Don't blame that on a big personality.

Okay, that's just being violent. But I wasn't. I didn't even know we had beef. And so because of that, they were like, I thought I bust got laughing when I figured out what I was there for. And they just said, well, we're just going to keep this on record just in case y'all ever get into it in the future. But she lied. We never even had a company. Can I ask you a question?

You said she was going to shoot them. What did she tell the truth about? Be honest now. She's not true for nothing. You did give it a middle finger. You gave it a middle finger. I did not give her a minute. I mean, I've been talking to the girl like she was a weirdo.

We didn't even have any problems. She just made up the whole story? The whole story. She made up the whole story because she didn't want to move her dead. It wasn't a big deal to be. To be honest, I didn't want to be by the doctor. So I used to come to work late all the time. Thank you, Mama.

The crazy. thinking about it. We've been doing radio for a long time. Yeah. Could you imagine if we went to H.R. for some of the things that happened to us early on and out of here? By the way, first of all, I'm going to tell you what I say behind the scenes all the time. The reason I am the way I am, because if I ever get rid of up to H.R., I want it to be funny. I want

y'all to read what he said and what he did. It's not funny. And die laughing. Okay. I can't wait for him to report me. I'm going to report you. He has so many things to report about you, though. I'm just making a file. Let me just go. You thought did he freak off trial was funny. Let me.

Oh, my God. I'll be in the bathroom using the urinal. He'd be whispered behind me. Like, I cannot wait. How does he get behind you in all? I'm thinking about a stall. That never happened. That never happened.

You know what I like to do, though? Sometimes me and him be in the bathroom, if somebody else be like in a stall, he'll walk in and he'd be like, there you go. And I won't say nothing. So the person in the star thing is talking to him. Say? Talking to him.

You know what I do? The wilder thing I saw in the bathroom, though. I walked in one time, man, and this dude was doing the number two. He just yelled out of his name. No. For no reason. And he said, Rishon. That's he's lying.

Yeah, he's really lying. He was just in there going crazy on the toilet. And he just goes, Rishon. And I didn't say nothing. Yeah, he's lying. All right. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. We're going to do anywhere.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey, I just want everybody to know that Lauren LaRosa just told us that she's on a 30-day alcohol fast. She did. So she won't be drinking. She said she started on Sunday. Correct.

So anybody, if you ever see her out in the next 30 days with any type of alcohol, please record it and send to me the same way y'all doing. Y'all see her out with a guy. I already know it's a lie. Out with my man. It's a lie. I have two different videos. I, my man. One, please don't play.

Okay. You are talking about my special fast for my man. Can we please get into the latest? All right. Thank you. and we all get some of somebody that knows somebody She gets to be a little bit about everything She'd be having the latest on this

The latest with Lauren La Rosa Sometimes you have facts Sometimes you have details Sometimes you have a little bit of everything Well it's the latest On the breakfast club Talk to me Talk to me

Well guys Life Jennings has released a song In response to money long Are you sure it is in life It is Life Jennings Life and not Jaheim. It is like Are you positive? I am so positive.

Okay, it's making sure. Is it a diss record? I don't know if it's a diss. It's R&B. It ain't no rap, is it? Let's take a listen to it, and I'll explain the background. Let's take a listen to Life Jennings song.

Is this hate that s'hick again? The smell of your trauma. It's all over your brother. Okay. I think it's living I think I'm doing a little respect then let me see

the twin that you're dead Mm-hmm Hey girl Where have you been Nobody knows you Like I do You try

I'm trying to do I can't deny I didn't have to try it You're up all the breath You're lying Dyeye Telling something But I can't make out

None of the lyrics Did he say the smell of your trauma That's what it sounded like he said In the beginning He might have I know He might up I did hear her say something about

He said I'm on the pen Telling somebody that trauma Has an odor is hilarious Crazy I did hear smell Yeah well So Money Long had commented Back on the Breakfast Club

Instagram Because remember we were seeing and she didn't put LOL or nothing so we didn't know she was playing. So she said that they just said on threads and TikTok that millennials need to stop putting LOL at the end of every sentence, we can't win. Then she went over to the Shade Room and she commented on the Shade Room and she apologized. She said, hey, man, if I hurt your feelings, that's valid, I can take that and apologize. Definitely didn't mean it as a joke or no disrespect.

This is getting blown way out of proportion, which is what I said to you in my direct message. I can't tell you how I feel at all. Again, no disrespect. I apologize. I'm done with it now. I've addressed it. You directly and publicly, have a nice day. so he reposted a comment of hers where she commented and said you wasn't hating don't lie

um and he said so you leave this message doubling down on your post after you said it was a joke calling a grown man a hating ass inward is wild work even as a joke i've never been that man but what i've been is humble enough to hold on to high regard uh for those who've come before me and celebrate them good news is you came a long way bad news is you came the wrong way j cole i'm about to show you what i mean and then he said jay cole that was a jay cole like a reference that one line then he says

I'm gonna just let my pen talk I got a jokey joke too so then he dropped that song although when she was in his comments or whatever right she did leave an emoji like a laughing emoji

so we told her that she should start laughing and laughing and she did and he posted that but like she was playing I don't think she doubled down on the serious comment what she said she was also playing about

but she did she kind of trying to lighten the mood up and he was, he already was in, he had already recorded that. Yeah, yeah, he was already right. I just like when artists reply with music, I don't need all them tweets and social media posts. I like the fact that life came with some record.

I like that. I can't wait until we can actually hear the actual words. Where did you get that version from? It was posted on his Instagram. Okay. I don't even know what he said to smelly or trauma. That's all you want. Tell somebody they trauma stank.

Shut up. Well, some people just don't play like that because that's what it was. Just going through the whole, the whole moral story. Everybody don't play like that because he's exactly. He's a grown man. He's grown-ass man. He said, man, I don't even like what you said.

Like, that's wild work. Everybody don't play like that. Well, and other back and forths, this interview was actually posted to Fox 5 Atlanta a few days ago. But when I discovered it, no one had picked it up. So I wanted to make sure we talked about this because we've been talking a lot about Lela Ali and Clarissa Shields. So Lila Ali was talking to Fox 5 Atlanta about her new cooking show. And then they asked her about what's going on with her and Clarissa. Let's listen to Lela Ali on fighting Clarissa Shields.

Is there any chance you would be? back in the ring addressing some of this with Clarissa Shields so oh please don't say her name because when you do she just pops up no no no it's actually a funny question and it all came about because I said on one of the biggest nights on Netflix we saw we had a women's boxing historic event and I hosted co-hosted and I said that if someone offered me 15 to 20 million dollars I would think about it right and then of course the person that you mentioned just inserted herself into the conversation and right now I'm so focused on this and everything that I'm doing I'm a mom I'm a wife I got a lot going on but the world will know my

answer to whether or not you know where I stand with boxing very soon oh so she hasn't completely shut the door no she has not no she has not no there's one other clip because we were talking about the age thing and they asked her specifically about you know the Mike tyson jake paul fight and how that can like the parallel between it let's take listen to that one I think what's amazing is um and why i even said i would think about it is because there isn't any other woman i've been out of the ring almost 20 years and all i had to do was say i'll think right and i'm actually getting multiple multi-million dollar offers right 15 million and up so i was like wow imagine if i came back to boxing how i could break that ceiling for women and raise the bar for

them yet again just like i did the first time i was boxing because there's not going to be Anytime soon, another woman that can even ask for that type of money and actually receive it, you know, and get multiple offers. So when you talk about legacy, that could definitely be a part of my legacy. But then again, there's so much I'd have to consider, right, to prepare for something like that. So she's actually thinking about it. Exactly. Yep. And a lot of people thought that she was not or she was not trying to have this fight.

She's thinking about it. Well, we know it needs to have it next. Clarissa Shields, freestyle over cannabis, second round. Notting by Pappoose. Calling Layla Ali out. Let's go. It seemed like they're doing the same thing, though, right? Because according to the fire inside, which is Clarissa Schill's movie,

she had did something as well, right? Like for women, try to set a precedent that women gets more money. A certain amount of money, right? To go fight, do these big fights like that. So, I mean, they all in all, doing the same thing, want the same thing for women's boxing. I think it's good for the sport. And I would like to see that fight.

I'm going on there. I'm going to that one. All right. Well, that is the latest with Lauren. Before you all get out of here, I want to thank the Breakfast Club. listeners for going to messy vision eyewear.com and helping me sell out a lot of my collections, the ones that I'm wearing right now, the shades, which are blue light, and you can also

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All right. Well, definitely get your sunglasses and they're not that expensive. So don't think they're a couple hundred dollars. They are not. They are affordable. Yes. Now the people's choice mixes up next. It's the breakfast club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. J. Salarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. So we got to salute Laura Coates for joining us this morning. Man, salute to Laura Coach.

If you don't watch Laura Coach live on CNN at 11 p.m. You need to every night. And I just like hearing Laura talk. Like Laura, you know, she has a lot to offer because she's a former prosecutor. And she can break legal things down in a very simple way. Simplistic way. You know, salute to Laura. I like her.

She taught me a few things. So I love when women can educate other women. That's right. But we got a salute to Golden Corral. Come on now. In the Bronx, East Choumont Avenue in the Bronx, they came. They supply food today. Not only did they supply food.

They had an omelette station where they can actually cook the omelis. They bought some frozen drawings. drinks. So they had a full spread. I'll always tell y'all the craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes.

Is that true? Sometimes. Sometimes. Tell them who we're talking to. Narupa. Narupa. So we're family owned and operated. I'm the big sister.

I have my little sisters here and my brother here. Love it. What's their names? Nadia, Dave, and Priya. So why they did that to you? Nerupa? What's that mean?

I'm just playing. I don't know. My mom was a teacher. We're from Guyana originally. My parents were. And that was her favorite student. Okay. What did your mom teach?

My mom was an English teacher. She was at preschool. Okay. And how did y'all decide to start opening up going to crowds? So we come from the restaurant industry. We grew up in the industry. Our dad is with sizzlers since the 70s. Wow.

So we, this is what we, it's in our blood. Gotcha. Now, tell the truth, those rolls are yeast, right? Yes. And y'all give those to people. So when people would put their yeast, eat the yeast row and then drink a little bit, it expands in their stomach so they don't eat so much. That's always been a rumor.

False. False. Then I want you to eat everything. False. That's not true. It has yeast in it, though. But we make thousands of those rolls from scratch every week. We have a full bakery.

Our biscuits are made from scratch. Wow. We brought you a good sampling of what Golden Carl has to offer for our breakfast buffet. We know you're a fan Charlemagne. I love Golden Corral. So we hope you guys enjoy. We also have one of the first Golden Corral is to have alcohol in the country. So we have frozen drinks.

We have mimoses. We have sangria. So he gets turned up in the Bronx. That's right. So listen. I want to ask, is there a limit to amount somebody can actually eat? No. There isn't.

It's an all-you-can-eat buffet, but we do have a time limit of an hour and a half. So they got to eat that an hour and a half? Yeah. But we only enforce that when we are at peak times. We have 279 seats. We can accommodate large parties. But compared to other golden crows, we're on the smaller side. So that's why we enforce that policy.

Have you ever seen like a really big person walking and all they all go, oh, go? Oh, my God. Are you having to go boxes? We do. It's a separate charge. It's a separate charge. It's weighed by the pound for anything you take to go. A way by the pound.

So to dine in for breakfast. lunch, it's $13.99 per person. For dinner, it's only $2,99 per person. We're really known for our dinner buffet. You have steaks, cooked to order. We have right now a wing promotion, all you can eat wings. The flats? The Flats? It's like the whole wings?

We have both. We know you like the whole wings, right? Yes, we like the and I like flats too. Yeah, we have that. So, it really is the best value in New York City. I think going to grow out the best buffet in the country. I'm not saying that because y'all hear you hear me talk about it all time. I agree.

Because I grew up on a round. Ryan's, but then we started eating that Golden Crown. I'm like, Golden Crowd shuts Ryan's down. Show them made the ride of us since day one. That's right. Yes. That's a fact. That's dope.

All right. Well, thank you for joining us. You can definitely check them out at Tremont Avenue in the Bronx. Now, Sheldon, you got a positive note. Hold on, he whispered another shout out. Oh, follow us at Bronx, Golden Crawl and Instagram. Yep. I actually just tagged you.

Oh, dope. Yeah, that's dope. And mind you, their banana pudding, crazy. The honey chicken wings, even crazier. I may ask you a question. We're supposed to be going to the gym today. You ate all. that before we go to the gym. Well, that's why I do that, envy. So I can burn the calories.

I don't have nothing to burn if I go. See, that's what the yeast rolls do. So I do have some passes for you guys to come try us out with your family. I'm going to leave him right here for you. She gave me two. She had no. She don't know I got six kids, but that's you got six kids. Here's my cell phone number. Bring your full family. Hey, that's what I'm talking. Thank you very much. Queens. Queens. You got a positive note, sir. Yes. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Okay. Have a great day. Let's call, bidsies. Do you on finish or y'all done?

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