The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Porsha Williams Says 'I'm Rooting For Everybody' Amid RHOA Drama Surrounding K Michelle + Cast of 'The Chi' Interview 

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

Today on The Breakfast Club, Cast of 'The CHI' Talks Final Season, Honoring Chicago, Connecting With Their Characters in Real Life. Plus, Charlamagne Gives Trump Donkey Of The Day After $1.8B Taxpayer Fund Is Set For 'Anti-Weaponization'. Listen for more! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Okay, down south, been hot. Okay? Yes. Right. The West Coast been hot. What are you talking about? I mean, Arizona in March, it was 80-90 degrees. You know, last week, the Mets game was canceled because it was in Denver? What is Denver?

The Midwest? I don't know. That we both sound, though. But that's not my point. My point is, I've been to Phoenix, I've been to the Carolinas, I've been to Georgia, hot. Been to Florida.

Hot. It's finally hot here. It's about time, then. Only for two days, because tomorrow's going to be back to 60s. Oh, man. Come on, man. It's Memorial weekend this weekend.

Stop. It's going to be back to 60 degrees. Stop. But anyway. My stomach hurt a little bit this morning, too, because I don't know, something that ate out the refrigerator. You know, you'd be seeing stuff in the refrigerator, and it might have been there for a while,

but, you know, my wife wasn't home and she ain't cooked, so, you know, I ate something bad. The fat back in you just made you eat it. Yeah, I think it was some meat, but it was some turkey meatballs that might have been in there a little too long. And as I was eating them, I could feel the staleness in them,

but I still was eating them. And I don't fart in my clothes, so it's going to be rough this morning. Oh, boy. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. The cast of the shy will be joining us this morning. Oh, yeah. Michael V. Ebb's Cortez-Smith, Amad Ferguson's Aria Premier, or Primer.

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Kevin is ahead as one or two, Alex Herbert. Alex Hibbert. Yeah, so we'll be talking about that. I missed the last, like I said, the last season of the Shai. I don't know what happened with the Shai. Like the first two seasons, I was like all the way in, like dialed in. I loved it. And then it kind of just slipped off a little bit.

Oh, a lot of the cast started to change. You know what I mean? I always liked the young core of Kevin, Papa, and what was my other guy name? I can't remember his name. That's the guy Michael played. But yeah, I always like that core. But yes, I understand what you say. Yeah, but anyway, let's get the show cracking.

Today is Yogadi's birthday. So let's start to mix off with some Yogi. Of course, we have front page news. I know a lot of you are tied if you watched the NBA playoffs last night. Double overtime. We'll explain it when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club the morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Sholameen the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's getting some front page news. Now, NBA finals, conference finals last night. The Spurs beat the 3rd. Thunder 122 to 115 double overtime.

Spurskin win that series, by the way. Yes, they can. And last night, his name is not Sha Shea. He got his MVP award last night. Well, Wimby looked like the MVP last night. Yeah, 24 rebounds. It's crazy. Tonight, the Knicks take on the Cavaliers.

And what? How many points? 42? I think you dropped. 41 points, yeah. So tonight the Cavalers take on the Knicks at 8 p.m. And I've already got messages from Andrew, which is my daughter's fiance. He's from Ohio.

So he's been talking major-ish. and his mother hit me and grandmother hit me talking major is like I'm like I'm like uh okay I'm like all right we're gonna sweep you like we swept the last series but yeah so that happens tonight at 8 what's up Mimi? Good morning envy Josh Alamein

how y'allamaine how y'all doing this morning good good morning so we start this morning with the major development out of Washington so the Trump administration they have now officially launched a nearly $2 billion taxpayer funded program to compensate people who they say were politically targeted by the Biden administration.

So last week we talked about this, yes, when it was just a possibility. But as of Monday afternoon, it is now official. The administration announced the creation of what is being called the anti-weaponization fund. It's nearly $1.8 billion of taxpayer money that people can apply to if they believe they were unfairly investigated or prosecuted during the Biden years. So we're talking groups like the oathkeepers, the proud boys, January 6ers. And again, because we can't stress this enough, this money would come from taxpayer dollars. So let me tell you how we got here. This all stems from President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS after his tax returns were leaked to the media several years ago.

And that IRS contractor, he later went to prison for leaking those records. But instead of continuing the lawsuit in court, the Trump administration has now agreed to settle that case basically with itself by creating this new compensation fund. During a press conference yesterday, a reporter asks why taxpayer dollars should be on the hook for this nearly $1.8 billion fund, and this was the president's answer. Well, it's been very well received, I have to tell you. I know very little about it. I wasn't involved in the whole creation of it and the negotiation. But this is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated. It's anti-weaponization. They've been weaponized. they've been in some cases imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that they didn't have. They've gone bankrupt.

Their lives have been destroyed. And they turned out to be right. I mean, it was a terrible period of time in the history of our country. And they worked on it. I know the Justice Department, it's really been working on it very hard. There's been people that were weaponized and really treated brutally by a system that was so corrupt with corrupt people running it. And they're getting reimbursed for their legal fees. and the other things that they had to suffer.

Wow. Imagine committing corruption on this level within saying something else is corrupt. I don't care what party you represent. This has to piss you off. 1.8 billion of our taxpayer dollars being paid out to insurrectionists. They've already been pardoned.

Shouldn't that be enough? Is freedom not enough? But not only that, you have all that money to pay for those individuals, right? This morning, when I went to the gas station, I had to go to six different gas stations because the gas was over $5 a gallon. That's crazy.

Like, it's ridiculous. Like that money that you just finding that you're making the taxpayers pay could have meant to help the taxpayers that can't afford gas. They can't afford food. That's having a hard time paying for schooling. Like all that could have went somewhere else, but you paid a proud boys? That's wild. So basically also a five-member commission appointed by the Attorney General will oversee the payouts and decide who qualifies. The administration says there's no political requirements to apply for the money. But critics, of course, they say this opens the door for exactly what you're saying, NB, for Trump's

allies, those proud boys, those oathkeepers, January to potentially receive taxpayer funded payouts. And this is also where the controversy is exploding Democrats and government watchdog groups. They are calling this unprecedented, unconstitutional

and corrupt. Nearly 100 House Democrats are already backing legal efforts to stop this. I mean, this should have everybody up in arms. Like President Trump literally told you last week, he doesn't care about Americans financial situation. But now he's using 1.8 billion of your tax dollars

to pay off insurrectionists. People who stormed the capital on January 6th. People, he already pardoned. Like I said before, is freedom not enough? They shouldn't have been pardoned, but they already got freedom. But now on top of that, taxpayers got to break them off money. He's rewarding his allies. Those are his allies. He's rewarding. Hey, you ride with me. I got you.

Here, here. There's some money. His loyalists. His insurrectionists. Yeah, I got you. That's crazy. Insane. Yeah. And a lot of those people who were convicted on January 6 have reoffended. Right? We've heard stories. where they may have been pardoned or their sentence commuted, but we've also known that a lot of them have also gone back to jail and things like that.

So it's like not only do they get out for free, they get paid out as well. So there's a lot behind this. And also really quickly, I want to mention if you ride the Long Island Railroad, the strike is officially over after the MTA and the union leaders, they reached a tentative deal late last night. But if you're heading into work this morning, it's something important to know there will be no regular service. for your commute this morning.

MTA says cruise any time to inspect the tracks, reposition the trains, and get workers back on the job safely. So limited service is expected to begin today around noon with full service returning in time for this afternoon and the evening rush. And Governor Kathy Hockel, she says that the deal includes raises for workers

without raising taxes or train fees. That's good news. You know, you brought up a good point. Just not me earlier about the insurrectionist who'd been re-arrested. There was 33 individuals who were pardoned on January 6 who've been, you know, re-arrested, charged a sentence for other crimes since January 6th. Do we got to pay them to?

Yeah. Like, are they eligible to apply and get our taxpayer dollars? Like, come on, man. Like, people should be, like, outraged about this. Like, I don't care what race you are, what party you are, 1.8 billion of your taxpaying dollars going into those guys? That's right. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear you. All right. Well, coming up at seven, voters are headed to the polls this morning in major primary races across Georgia and Kentucky. It could have a big political implications going forward into November. We're going to break down some of those key races coming up in the next hour. All right. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 885105.1. If you need to vent, call us up right now. Again, 800-585-105.1. If you need to vent, call us up right now is the breakfast club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest. 500 585-105-1. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.

Hello, who's this? Good morning. It's Yvette. How are you? Yvette, good morning. In Yvette. Get it off your chest. Hi. Okay, so this is my vent. This person that sits at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is we know that he's insane. But the fact that he's doing something else that is corrupt and getting payout.

The lawsuits that he has had in his. tenure is unprecedented. It's never happened before. He has gotten richer by lawsuits than anything else. We're paying more for gas, more for grocery, our rights are being denied left and right, and he continues to get away with it. I don't understand this,

and I am a law-abiding citizen, and it's just amazing that we, the public, are not doing more about it. It's unbelievable. Like, this thing with him using $1.8 of our taxpayer, $1.8 billion of our taxpayer, to pay off the insurrectionist, that should have everybody outrage.

I mean, like, we should be flipping tables. Everybody. Everybody. I 100% agree with that. And the fact that it matters that he continues to get away with things is beyond me. I just don't get it. Our public is not that non-intelligent, I'll say,

that he can continue to get away with these things. No one is challenging these things. I don't get it. Well, this James in New York is. but others, our Attorney General in New York, but others are not. And the fact that it's going on and on and on, and this man still has another three-point-something years to be in office.

That's right. Can you imagine where we're going to be in three more months, not even 3.5 years? And you know, the thing that scares me the most about this 1.7 bit of what? Not scared. Scared is the word I would use. What's that? But it incentivizes people to be radicalized

for him because he already pardoned you when you, you know, tried to storm the capital form. Now he's breaking you off with $1.7 billion for storming the capital form. It just incentivizes people to be radicalized for Donald Trump. Absolutely. Hello, who's this?

Hood News out of Roosevelt. Good news out of Roosevelt. What's up, brother? Get it off your chest. I ain't got too much bad to say. I just want to say I'm glad the envy back, you know, in America and everything. I thought some people's like, guys them up and took them back to his car.

country, we wasn't going to hear from you again. This is my country, sir. This is my country, sir. I'm black. It's only a matter of time. I did go to Mexico for a couple days, but no, this is my country. If you say so, if you say so, I'll go what you say. Goodbye, sir. Why you say goodbye to that man?

That's what I was going to say to you if you keep it up. I am from it. Goodbye, sir. Okay. What are you talking about? Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Tisha from Texas. Hey, Tisha from Texas.

What part of Texas? What are we getting? Of Dallas, Texas. Okay. Okay, so I'm calling it to Boo Boo. Is Boo Boo there? Yes, she's here. Boo, I love your book.

It is so good. I downloaded it on the, whatever, out of your book. Yeah. I love it. I love the way you bring us into your life. Thank you, Tisha. I appreciate you. You and my mother, so I wrote that in a book.

That's my nickname. My mother and my father called me Boo Boo Boo Boo. It was Rome said. I'm Boo Boo Boo Boo's boyfriend. You're a clown because it's just boo-bo. But the funny thing is she said, Boo Boo, Jess, I knew. Jess had no idea. Just like, who else called me that?

But I'm like, dang, when she said she read the book, then I connected. Okay, I did put that in the book because that's what my parents call me. But you're in Dallas. How far is that from Plano, Texas? It's not far. It's like about 20, 30 minutes away. It's a suburb. Because next weekend I'll be in Plano, Texas, at the comedy club there.

Next Friday and next Saturday. Okay, well, I need to be there. Okay, so Jess, let me make you remember me. and I know y'all hate when you do this. I'm the one that you gave the ticket to that my friend had didn't give me my ticket. And I met you in Arlington. Yeah, Shane, and you liked my dad. Yeah, and you liked my pants.

Yes, I remember. And I appreciate that. Yeah, I love your book. I'm your biggest fan. And also, congratulations on the voice work of the new Kevin Hart show. Oh, I appreciate that. Yes, Little Cave got an animation series about his life. Well, Kevin Hart, the show is called Little Cave.

I appreciate that. It's on Paramount. You guys are doing it. doing big things for guests. Boo-boo, I love it. My son's 27, though I have no business really reading it, but it's just very good to me.

I love it. I'm glad that you read it, because, I mean, you took something from it and you letting me know how it impacted you. But yes, Mike Drop, Comedy, Plano. I'll be there next Friday and next day. Yes, Mike drop. I know exactly where that is, and hopefully I'll get to see you next week. Yes, you know.

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I'm outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. Hello, who's this? This is Sharad Johnson from Jonesboro. What's up? Sherrod, what's happening, my brother?

Good morning. Chess. Man, nothing much, man. I know it's a lot going on on the world, and what I'm about to say is really stiff, but Kevin Fagy and Marvel need to release that Avengers Doom Day trailer, like the

fool. Like, my God. It's on the way. You know what, though? I don't want to see the Doomsday trailer before I see Spider-Man. Like, I'm cool. Like, let's watch Spider-Man this summer, and then after Spider-Man, we can see Dooms Day in the fall. Like, you know, we've been getting a lot of doomsday information over the last year.

I'm not Doomsday out yet, but I'm just ready to watch the movie. You understand what I'm saying? Man, I get it. I'm just like, man, with what James Gunn is doing at DC, man, we got the Clayface trailer, we got the Supergirl trailer, and we've already got, you know, announcements for the next Superman movie. Like, Marvel just, like, I understand they, you know, in the redesign phase. What's up? None of that stuff hitting, bro. There you go. I was raised saying to I ain't. I can't. By the way, I'm in the James Gunn. James Gunn has me interested in D.C. more than I've ever been DC movies, but it ain't hitting like the Doomsday stuff,

right? It ain't hitting like the Spider-Man trailer, bro. But they got a 10-year run of his hit. Of course, you ain't going to compete with that. But I feel like James Gunn is at a great start for the foundation that he's laid. I agree. I agree. I like what James Gunn has done so far.

And I'm really into the DC TV shows. I'm looking forward to seeing the Lantern. You know, Peacemaker was good. Like, yeah, I'm all in. I'm in. I'm in. I know this is silly, but that. I got that on my chair.

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Talk to me. All right, guys. So, a small little development here in the K-Mchelle. Portia Williams drama, not drama. You still talking about them people? Yes, we are. And I'm going to tell you why.

They said you got it all wrong. They said you got it all wrong yesterday. We're going to talk about it because I didn't get it wrong. They're upset that we didn't talk about something that I think wasn't really significant, but we'll get to it. First, let's talk about the new updates. So, Portia Williams yesterday in the midst of all, the back and forth, right? Like, we talked about the Twitter, back and forth between her and Kay Michelle that went down

because there was a conversation about oysters that then involved or led to some jokes about vagina odor, which Kay Michelle took personal. Now, yesterday, Portia Williams posted this video that she did with the Sherry Shepherd show. And we know that this is pre-recorded, but the timing matters. Let's take a listen to Portia on Sherry Shepherd Show. Now, it was a few weeks ago, the Kate Michelle was here. And when I tell you, I was on the floor because she was throwing shade left and right

a cast member, Drew Sador. D.K. Michelle, you think, did she go too far or not far enough? How do you feel about that? I think they both have jumped off the cliff together. It is up and stuck. But, you know, it get like that sometimes. You're not going to like everybody on the cash. You know, Drew is absolutely amazing star.

Kay Michelle has joined the show and shook it up like she shaked them tables. You know, one thing about it, I think that a lot of people who haven't done reality TV before come on and they're being thirsty. You know, but these girls are being spicy or new girls. They're not thirsty. They're spicy. Yes. Now, this is important because although this was pre-taped because we, You know the Sherry Sheper's not doing any more live interviews.

Portia posted this yesterday amidst all of the drama, right? And the caption said, at the end of the day, the day going in, I always give credit where it's due, even if other strategies to credit me. I'm rooting for everybody to get what they deserve, although some may fall short. Real House of Atlanta is successful, and we are winning.

Now, Portia's... I love how graceful she is, too. Like, she always extends, like, compliments to the women, like whatever's happening on the show. Even if it is big drama, she don't go and run her mouth and be caddy on other shows when she's promoting the show. She can be buried by their flowers.

I think even on the episodes and in the season, even what we talked about yesterday, you see her still trying to do that. But this is her essentially, she's being the bigger person here because she was engaged in the back and forth on Twitter and, you know, if you're watching the show, a lot of them are watching these things in real time

even though they lived it, but they're not getting to see the other people's side. So she's taking the higher role here. And, I mean, I think that that's what the face of a franchise does. So I think that this shows that maybe next episode will see some growth. Now, let's get into the conversation you guys brought up at the beginning of the segment. Right.

So. I'm confused what you just said, how they made up. I didn't hear the makeup part, but go ahead. Portia Williams is extending to Olive's, she's being a bigger person here. Okay. I said that we might have a white flag, and I think that this is the white flag.

Exactly. And the midst of, and the-making up stuff again? No, I'm not making up anything. I'm reading the caption. Okay. In the midst of Kaye Michelle, you know, she's on ex. She, yesterday, she even alleged that Portia was, like, sleeping with one of her exes and telling her business.

Like, there's a lot going on here in real time. That don't sound like a white flag, but go ahead. That was Kay Michelle, Portia Williams, through the white flag. Okay. Now, you brought up the, you said I was telling the story wrong yesterday. No, he didn't just say it. The comments said. Some of the cast members said that as well. Well, I spoke to some people yesterday and we had a very great conversation. They got you right. No, I said. They had to check you to let you know he was doing it wrong.

No, you love to run these narratives. I just like the producers on Verhofferson. I told you last night. I said, hey, I don't watch the show. Just like the producers of Real House of Atlanta. But they're on your ass. So yesterday, so in, so what is happening here is in, Episode 6, which is the episode before the one we talked about yesterday, but it also opens up Episode 7.

Kelly, who is another one in the housewives, she's the one that does the bananas chicken and waffles restaurant. Her and Portia are going back and forth, and she calls Portia's Hot Pocket, chili cheese, Frito Hot Pocket. What's the hot pomm? Yes, they call the Pum Pum's the Hot Pockets, right? I ain't ate breakfast yet, so I'm thinking you're talking about food.

And I heard this morning that you need to relax. You might need to have some ginger. What about did you get from Kay Mischoe? Because Kay Misho first said Hot Pocket on 11 hip-hip years and years ago. Well, so later in episode seven, you hear Portia Williams make these aimless jokes about the oysters, which came a shelter personal. So there are fans that are saying that she was responding to Kelly, but nothing has been cleared up and nobody wants to clear up anything. So we're here. That does nothing to the story.

You get envy? All real housewives fans, just like y'all did yesterday. Join in on the conversation. Get in the comments and let Laura know she told that story. I don't watch the show, so I don't know. Yes. And the reason why they're throwing this back and forth is because, yes, Kelly and Portia do have an issue. But Kelly and Portia's issue is very direct. And I feel like you can kind of interpret it either way. And we said that yesterday. I don't know if that was in the clip. But you can interpret it either way. It was either way. It was either way. It was either way. It was either. But, you know, from everything that I'm gathering, she's taking a high row here. And this is not what she wants to get into.

I'm so confused. All right. Okay. What's confusing. I'm not going to get her right. All right. All right. I'm going to. I'm going to. She's not going to listen. She's going to point at you and say that you is your fault. My fault? No, it's not Envy's fault. Envy just brought up something and we talked about it. Like, I'm one of the fans.

I watched the show. So it's up for interpretation. They say you just watch clips. That's what they said yesterday. You know what's crazy. You'll be like, get out the comments. And then we'll call you about the comments. Well, I looked at the comments because some of the cast members called me and said that you had the story wrong.

And then they told me and then they said you need to go look at your own comments. You know, that's the new thing now. Remember I said that to us last week. Look at your own. comments. Look at the comment. He was wrong with that one. It was like one comment.

It's out for interpretation. And the producers of Real Housewives leave it very open as well, too, which they're known to do. But that was the thing that I said yesterday. If you see that in real time, you're watching it, if you're a portion, you see that they leave it open. Why not just clarify? Why engage in the Twitter back and forth? Because it leaves it up for people to be on either side. K. Michels or Porteous, but we're moving on here.

And it starts up conversation to talk about it like we're doing now, which makes people go watch the show. Engagement. Exactly. Leave a comment if Lauren got it wrong today. Make sure y'all could. Discuss. Not left discuss.

All right. Now moving on, we're going to go to a whole new back and fork that's going down. So you got Jalen Brown

and Stephen A. Smith. Now, this has been going on this back and forth because Jalen Brown gets on Twitch and streams, essentially.

Now, let's take a listen to what the root of the problem here is. Let's take a listen to the... Jalen Brown plays for the Boston Celtics.

Yes, Jalen Brown plays for the Boston Celtics. They played against the 6th of the They lost pretty badly, and Stephen A. Smith is basically saying that Jalen Brown should be quiet. But let's take a listen to the R. To recap, ladies and gentlemen, his eye is because I basically said to him, he should be quiet right now. What I was saying is that the Boston Celtics played in the first round. The most storied franchise in basketball annals, 18 championships the Lakers have 17.

The Boston Celtics, who had never lost a 3-1 lead in the postseason, surrendered a 3-1 lead to the Philadelphia 7th. 76es and ended up losing that series in seven games. In the last two minutes of that game, the Boston Celtics attempted six three-pointers and missed all of them. They were down two. You could have got to the hole. You're Jalen Brown. You average 28.7 points per game this year.

You are not a good player. You are a great player. You are a stud. And him not being able to close the deal. 24 hours later, he was on his Twitch account, calling this his favorite season. How are you calling that your favorite season? Now when I was watching Stephen A. Smith response, I literally heard Charlemagne.

He always says, keep the main thing, the main thing. That's like what I kept hearing. I think that that's what Stephen A. Smith is literally trying to get at. Let's take a listen to some of the comments that Jalen Brown had for Stephen A Smith that even made him respond. Stephen A. Stephen A, Stephen B, Stephen C, my offer still stands. You want me to be quiet and stop streaming. Well, I want you to be quiet and get off these networks because you're not using your platform to do real journey. journalism using your platform to use click bait yeah and I think that this is like you know one of

the new conversations we had it with uh kind of like with rich Paul as well too with people feeling like if you're involved you shouldn't be on platform speaking about things that are happening just because of the business on the inside if you're an active player active player or agent like that I mean everybody has platforms now so this is kind of have a problem with it but you can't be mad when somebody has an opinion on what you did you said that was your favorite season but you lost right so stephen A's myth is like well how is it your favorite season if you didn't win a chip if you didn't take it to the limit, how was this your favorite season?

You have Celtics? That's an honest question. And also Stephen A. Smith was saying the fact that Jason Tatum didn't play majority of the season. So he's really trying to say, is there a rift between y'all? Correct. And it was your favorite season because he wasn't on the court.

Because he wasn't there. You were by yourself. Yes, that's a good question. I don't have a problem with that question. But Jalen Brown, he could say what he wants. He could twitch. He could tweet. He could stream.

But people want it. And Stephen A said that yesterday. We should have played that clip. But he talked about how, you know, do you really want me to start reporting on you? for real, for real. I can talk about what the locker room said about you. I can talk about what the organization may think about you.

I can talk about how Jason Tatum may or may not feel about you. Damn, y'all. Because he said there's a lot of stuff he chooses not to say. Basically, like, I'm a journalist for real. I mean, it's Stephen A. Smith, so we all know. And he also went through like a mashup, two of all the good things in good conversations he's had about. But nobody about me.

Yeah. Think like, oh my God, what do they say about me? What do they think about me? I mean, sadly, it works for both of them, though. We're talking about Jalen Brown's Twitch and we're talking about, well, you're always talking about Stephen Nade. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the latest for the hour.

Oh, speaking of basketball. Happy birthday to Kevin Garnett. So he is 50 years old, y'all, still out here kicking and stuff. But they would have been Malcolm X's born day, too. No, I was going to get to that, but we're not, all right, well, happy birthday. Malcolm X, because he would have been 101. I was looking for a story to plug it in,

but she don't do history. You know, Grace Jones today is Grace Jones' birthday. Yes, she is very much alive. Happy 78th birthday, Grace. Can y'all let me get to it? We still got other segments. What team Kevin going to play for? The Celtics, excuse me?

Yes. That's one of them. That's one of them. All right. Well, mainly. What was the major one? What? Not Maine.

What? That was his main team. That's when he was hot and on fire. Oh, my goodness. When he was playing with Paul Pierce and the other people. Yeah, exactly. I know. I know a lot more on our.

Timberwolves. But all right. Thank you so much. Oh. Now, when we come. Coming back, we got front page news. And then the cast of the shall be joining us as the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess Hilary, Sholomaine the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. Start off with sports last night. Double overtime. The Spurs beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 122 to 115.

It's going to be a great series. And tonight, the cabs take on the next at 8 p.m. at the garden. What's up, Mimi? Mimi. Good morning. How y'allelamine? How y'all doing this morning? Hey, Mimi.

Good morning. So this morning, Georgia voters, they are headed to the polls for one of the biggest election days the state has seen in years. The governor's mansion is open for the first time in eight years. A U.S. Senate seat is also on the ballot and every major statewide office is also up for grabs. A Democratic Senator John Ossoff, he is running for a second term and has no primary challenger, which is leaving that field wide open for him. But the real fight is happening on the Republican side where several big names are battling for the chance to take. take him on in November.

And meanwhile, Georgia's governor race, we just said it's wide open. Governor Brian Kemp, though, he is term limited, meaning Georgia will elect a new governor for the first time in eight years. Now, on the Democratic side, former Atlanta mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, is considered the frontrunner and one of the biggest names in a crowded field. She's laying out what she plans to do for the people of Georgia. If she wins, let's listen to what she had to say. My message has been very simple.

Look at what I've done and look at what I plan to do on behalf of the state of Georgia. We created an affordable housing trust fund in Atlanta that I want to see scale statewide. We created a child savings account for all of our public school kindergartners. I want to see that scale statewide. We want to expand Medicaid in this state. It has to be expanded. Just lastly, you know, polls are a snapshot in time. There have been some that are showing me over.

50% we need 50% plus one to win without a runoff. So we're going to keep taking our case down to the people. I'll tell you one thing. When it comes to name brand recognition, Keisha's killing everybody. I don't even know who the Republican front runner is. Yes. There is a former lieutenant governor, Jeff Duncan. He's also running.

And he broke with President Trump after the 2020 election and formally joined the Democratic Party last year. But you're right. There's a lot of names that people don't know. in this election and if we were going off of name recognition alone that definitely puts her but the polls show her at the top of the ticket right now anyway

for Democrats? For overall? For Democrats? Yeah, for Democrats. Yeah, so what will happen is a Democrat and she hasn't reached that she said that 51% so that there is no runoff and that's very important because in Georgia if you don't reach that 50%

threshold then they will have to do another runoff next month. You know, I think that's amazing what they're doing for those kindergartners being entitled to a bank account. That's dope. That's really, really good. I think every state should do that. Yeah, for sure.

And in Kentucky, another closely watched race is unfolded in Republican Congressman Tom Massey, one of President Trump's biggest critics inside the GOP, is facing a primary challenge backed by President Trump himself. Now, this race has become the most expensive House primary race in U.S. history, more than $34 million spent overall with millions of that coming from outside groups working to take Massey down. So we'll see what happens with that. Donald Trump did endorse the person that he is running against in order to keep Massey

from running. You know, of course, Massey has been very, very vocal with the Epstein files and just, you know, fighting for accountability. And Donald Trump does not want him back in the house for that very reason. So the general election for all of these primary races is set for November 3rd. So we will continue to watch and see what happens. And shifting right now to Virginia where there's a criminal trial underway for a former assistant principal, Dr. Ebony Parker. She is now on trial.

She is accused of ignoring repeated warnings before a six-year-old student brought a loaded gun and shot his first grade teacher back in 2020. Do you guys remember this case? No. There was a little first grader who shot his teacher in the hand back in 2023. Well, there's new testimony giving jurors a clear picture of what teachers say they tried to tell school leaders before the shooting happened. So according to testimony, four teachers, they warned Parker that day that the child may have a gun at school. One of the teachers, they testified personally that they went to the assistant principal on three separate occasions asking for the child to be searched. but according to testimony, Parker refused each time.

And at one point, the teacher told jurors that Parker responded by saying the child's pockets were too small to hide a gun. Another staff member reportedly warned the child may have a weapon in the backpack. And a student allegedly told school staff that they saw the boy pull the gun out on the playground. But still, according to testimony, the child was never searched. And not long after that final warning, a gunshot rang out inside the first grade classroom. the teacher's name was Abby Zirwe. And this is testimony from her civil trial. Let's listen.

Did you hear the shooting? Yes. Okay. Once you heard the shooting, what did you think that was? I knew. Was it gun, she had. And where did you think it had come from? Abby's room.

I see blood on her leg. So I knew she was hit. I wasn't really sure. On this side, I see Jen opened the door. the kids screaming and running out. That's crazy. So I think, like, why, why didn't she just, if everybody knew he had a gun or suspected that he had a gun

and the kids said it, why didn't the teacher just take it out of his backpack? Like, why did we need the principal if we try to save lives? Because he could have killed another student. He could have killed the teacher. Like, if you know that, you get the gun out. And that's a very, very good point. I think what the teachers were saying, that they were trying to follow protocol,

the vice principal, Dr. Ebony Parker, she was trained in this sort of thing. And so they went to her as they were supposed to. She apparently, according to teachers, ignored all of the warnings. And now she is on trial. She's facing eight felony accounts of child abuse and neglect. One tie to each child, prosecutors say, was in danger inside that classroom. She pled not guilty yesterday.

If convicted, though, she could face 40 years in prison. Wow. So, what about the kids' parents? Like, nobody is being blamed for? That's a great question, Jess. So the child's mother, she also went to jail. She was sentenced to prison for child neglect on federal gun charges after investigators say the boy got the gun from her purse. So they did charge the mother as well.

But to charge a teacher or a principal is unprecedented. And they say that it could start, you know, a standard in these school students of who's held responsible when something like this happened. Yeah, that's going to make it difficult for people wanting to be teachers because now you're basically saying if something happened. in that school, you could be found liable for it. Like, you know, she didn't mean for that child, you know, as a six-year-old, you would never expect a six-year-old to have a gun. Yeah, but if it's more than one person coming to you telling you, like, yeah, you know what I mean?

She ignored multiple warnings. Right. Right. It's not, it's not like it was a situation where you saw a kid with a gun. That's totally right. And you didn't act. The principal ignored multiple warnings. I agree with 40 years in prison.

I mean, if you ignore multiple warnings, you got a job to do. Right. And then you say out your mouth, the pockets are too small for a gun to fit in there. It's like you totally neglect. At least call the police. Even if you don't want to intervene, call the police, do something, but you just don't ignore multiple warnings of somebody having a gun. It was negligent, but 40 years is a lot of, that's a lot of time.

That's true. Somebody's dead. Yeah. I know, I get it. No, she's not dead. She got shot. She got shot, yeah. She got shot.

Oh, all right. Well, Mimi, you said the teacher's name was. You didn't say anything. Oh, I'm sorry. Well, the teacher's name had happened to. Yeah, no, but she survived. The teacher did survive. She got paid $10 million from, you know, she sued the city.

She sued the school. And she deserves all of it. Absolutely. And by way, she didn't get 40 years. She's facing up to 40 years. Yes. She's facing up to 40 years. Yeah.

So we don't know what. The trial is expected to last several days. So we'll see what. It's unfortunate. Absolutely. All right, y'all. We will leave it there. That is your front page news.

I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown TV. And make sure to check out my podcast. Front page news. We're going to discuss some more of this on there. This is a very polarizing case. With people just leaning both ways, as you were just saying, NB, you had one opinion and Char you had another opinion. So we'll talk about it.

All right. All right. Thank you, Mimi. Thank you. Now, when we come back, the cast of the Shai will be joining us this morning. It is the eighth and final season of the Shai on the 22nd. And we're going to talk to the cast when we come back. So don't move.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envi. Jess Hilarious. Shalameen de Guy. We are the breakfast. Club, Lauren La Rosa and Mimi Brown

are here. We got some special guests in the building. We got the cast of the shy. You? What's the words? Everybody introduce themselves like y'all a group. Boy, man. Nicholas Ferguson. I'm Michael V. Apps. Cortez Smith. Zaria Eamony Primer. And Alex Rhyber. I feel like we watched y'all

grow up, man. I know. I was so high. Just find out that show is coming up. Oh, my God. Look, so y'all here, eighth season. Shows don't live that long. We saw y'all. y'all were like little little kids when your little ass I was so mad at you I feel like he was my real little brother and how does it feel to like to have like to be doing a final season of this long living show um it feels great just to be able to start this and

end with it and to be able to be a part of something that's bigger than myself and work alongside amazing people and be able to call them family now is just an amazing journey to be a part of. Yeah, it's definitely a surreal moment because you got to think about, like, we from Chicago, so to walk the streets, like, I filmed on some of the parts where I went to school at, you know what I mean? So I was like, bro, I was 24 years old having my first scene around the corner from my high school. I was like, damn, this is crazy, bro. Yeah, the show accurately reflect Chicago to y'all? Yeah, but it's like politically correct, though. It's like, we can't go too indefinite, you know what I mean? They're getting too controversial. We don't want

to put a bad light on us. We already got a stigma on us. Like, we're, we're, like, we're be so dangerous. You know what I mean? Every city got a hood. Do you feel like the show really helped change that narrative? Yeah, it's show Black Love. It's a love, community, family.

We are more than just violent. Like, I feel like a lot of people think Chicago and think just violence and guns and things like that. But it's just show that we have such positivity. I think you can see, like, it's a character for each person. Yeah.

On this show. Like, our ensemble is so, we got so many characters. And I feel like anybody watching can relate to anybody. And I feel like the shy, to your point, Zaria, right? To your point, I feel like it shows how the trauma starts. You know what I mean? Like it shows how the trauma even gets inherited, you know,

in black communities a lot of the time. Yeah, it's all the law and mental. And it also shows how to come up out of it. I like that because a lot of TV and movie just shows the trauma. And that's it and that's where it ends. And you know what it shows? It shows like family. Like we all congregate and come together to get ourselves out of that trauma.

And it really glorified the black woman in our show. Like we need to keep pushing that because it's like we put the stigma on like black women like they're not needed. We, bro, that's our backbone. You know what I mean? We come from a woman. So we got to give more respect to him for sure. Character development is very important in this show because, yo, I remember first seeing his role. I went from hating him to him.

I was like, damn. I love him because how you changed like at first. you was working for Duda and that's what she wanted to do you know, Nook was like, all right, kill, killer, shoot him up, bang, bang, but then you changed the perspective, like the mindset of the business or even with like Bacari.

He wanted to get out now, you know what I mean? It's just wow, like seeing the character development over the seasons, it took turns that I didn't think it would take. Like I thought Nook was going to be killed for sure. For sure, and he made it, isn't? Yeah, you just so wet. That boy playing chess, not checkers, man.

He's picking it out. I don't know how he's going to. he's doing it, but he figured it out. Nuck is so complex, bro, because it showed, like, gangster have feelings, too. You know what I mean? Like, it just shows the product of, like, making a wrong choice in life.

Like, I had so many full circle moments with, with Nuck as well, like, he found out about the son through Sickle Seal. My father died from Sickle Cell, so it was like, it was like, literally it was a full circle moment with that. You know what I mean? Yeah, bro, it was hard working. And I'm, like, I had a scene when I had to walk through the door

and see my son for the first time, I had it in my mind said, like, Damn, what if my father would have had an opportunity to see me for the first time? Because he didn't have a chance to he died right after. You're talking about when you walk in the house? Yeah. I remember that scene. Yeah.

Wow. So after that scene happens, right? And you're also, like, in your real life pulling from that emotion, like, you go home and, like, what is that? I ain't a lot. I was, like, f***ed up a little minute. Because even, like, playing that role and playing the moment when I took dude out, like, I had to walk down a path of what I thought I healed from, but I really didn't. You know what I mean?

Your uncle passed from gun by. And I put my mind that if I was in an opportunity to take the life of the guy that took my uncle away. So it's like to walk and just rip that band-aid off and be like, man, I thought I was here, but I wasn't. Like it took me a little while to get back normal when to come to work and just be a, you know, an actor. I'm glad to hear you say that because a lot of people would think that if you're from Chicago, you're kind of numb to it. Like that's gun violence is sort of the norm. I'm glad to hear you say it's not. It's not.

It's not. It's not. It's not. We know how to mask it because we are taught to be tough. You know, we got to have some type of character with that. But it's like, no, we go home and we sob. That's why a lot of people lean into drugs because they try to cope it and mask what they're going through. And it's like, no, you need to sit down and unpack. It's not healthy and not cool to be like, oh, I can pop this perk or I can sit this lean and get over.

No, you're fighting demons that you're not unpacking. And it starts with the household. It's the foundation. If our foundation ain't right, then we can't be right. And we got to unpack that. It's okay to say you're not okay, especially being a black man. You had to go to therapy, right? For sure.

Yes, and I'm huge on man mental health. Like next month, I got a nonprofit called Cortez-Carras. Every June, we do a man's mental health run and just get everybody together in the neighborhood. And we have a man circle that I, you know, I use from the shy. And then we just come together and just whatever you got on your chest, just get it off, bro. It's a judge reason. I like those man circles. I do, too.

Man, it was dope. I'm mad. That shit couldn't get on there. Man, I couldn't get on that. I used to look forward to it in the show. Like that was when they would like Yeah They would go through their feelings in real life

I mean not in real life Because the characters But I was like that was so genius To put that in It was early Because BT even now has a show that does that And then Kirk Franklin has like Kingsden Right that's kind of the same thing

And I was like That was so far to put in there You should share your real feelings During the worst Yeah well we kind of like Practice before But like being in the men circle It's so fun because off camera

Like we talk amongst each other all the time. So like once we start getting those scenes, I think we were all excited because like we got to be amongst each other because each story is like, you know, it has those different storylines and different characters. Different characters. But those were like moments where it's like us as men,

whether you be young or old, we're coming together on the show and we're expressing ourselves and expressing what we know our character is going through. But it's also fun off cam just being on set those long hours with our big brothers and us just learning game from them and they're hearing us and hearing what we're going. going through and we're just talking. Speaking of Big Brothers, because Jake, your character has evolved so much, right?

You went from being under two brothers to, like, becoming your own man and starting your own business, you know? Talk to us about your development, you know, as the seasons went on. No, that's one of my things I can't wait for y'all to see coming into this new season. You're really going to see Jake stepping more into his middle and putting his foot down. But seeing Jake evolve over the years has been my favorite thing to see him play because you see him go from the normal kid in the hood, following his big brother steps to losing him, to then being adopted and living in a house where he doesn't really feel wanted

or doesn't really want to be there to, oh, my new big brother comes in. So now it's more of a new change I got to get used to. I don't really know him, but it's a big bro. So in a way, I have to accept him. I have to harbor him, you know. So just to see Jake in his final season and finally see him kind of fan at peace and happiness, I can't wait for y'all to see him. You're smashing the first lady.

You know, that's how you know. Hey, I'm so jealous of his character, man. He gets it, you know. He's doing his thing on that. Now, Baccarry, all right, real quick. I keep calling on, yeah. I'm so sorry. Right.

So, how was it acting with your sister, like your actual stuff? How did that come about? Yeah, your twin sister. Well, she owed it to me about five years, but everybody called her 20 years. That's big sisters. Y'all are looked, exactly. Art looked.

What? Shout out to our parents. Gene Strong. But, I mean, I remember being on set. We were filming episode. We was season six. I don't know the episode completely. But I remember just filming and Lena had sent me a DM.

She's like, hey, you know this? Because my sister also is an R&B artist. She's like, you know this girl? So I'm like, I think she's going to get a scene. Like, I'm thinking it's music. I'm like, okay, I text her like, I think your music fin to be on the show. She sent me a voice memo back like, you know, we want to keep growing your art. Like, is y'all cool?

Like, how would she feel coming on the show playing? I'm like, what? Then my sister texted me, because she was on tour at the time with Cash Page in Canada. So she's like, I'm getting a text from Carmen Cuba casting. Like, what is this? I'm like, you're about to be on the show. But it was such an honor. It was a blessing for our legacy, for our bloodline coming from Gary, Indiana.

You see those siblings with Mike, Janet, stuff like that. But we just embraced the moment. And I also got to see my sister grow in another craft. Because we started off when we were young doing plays and stuff like that but she transitioned into music but you saw her over the seasons like really get a knack and a real love for for acting again so it was a blessing and I'm honored that like you know I'm going to live life continue to do my career but always be able to say like I did a show not only a show the longest running black drama with my sister pop it pop it oh gee was on it too

yeah mom's son on it too yeah oh yeah that's what's so far y'all y'all's relationship on the show it really spoke a lot to like you know people be like man they just doing what they got to do. Yeah. I feel like y'all relationship in a dynamic because we loved her, then we didn't, that hurt. Like, you know, it really spoke to two kids having to just figure it out because y'all ain't, y'all didn't have anybody. And we didn't have anybody.

And also, like, with time, us being apart. It's like, you get to see Bacari at first be like, you're sus, but you ain't been here. Like, I've been out here figuring it out myself, living this life by myself, trying to make ends meet for myself. But I'm excited for the new season because, you know, you. you may see that relationship grow. Now, was it introduced to you before that she was going to be like a snake? You know what I'm trying?

No. No, it wasn't. Okay, so that was just something. That was just something. We read the script and she's like, bro, they're going to hate me. Like, they're going to hate me. I was so bad.

Yeah, she dropped the damn on me too. It got me beat up. Kicked out the mouth full of them. Backdo, Brittany. Yeah, back though Britney. She came in trying to take my girl all outside. That's right. She did she did.

She did. I would say trying to. That's the fact right. You get them. Yeah, you did take care of. Yeah. Jake knew it was coming with it, though.

He didn't know you lose them how you get them. That's a fact. So Alex, or Kevin, so right in the show, when you decide to exit the show and you're headed to college and the gaming stuff is happening, what do you think is like the biggest lesson

that kids who are afraid to lead their neighborhoods but need to take that step should learn from your decision to go away to college? I never let your circumstances define you. Kevin went through so much. You know what I mean? And a lot of black boys have the same experience that I do. And a lot of black boys are different.

We're not all the same. We not all play sports. And, you know, due to the music and all that other stuff, we have different goals and different things that we want to achieve. So I think Kevin, in that sense, and me playing that character holds an important part to the culture alone. And that's why I treat them with so much grace And that's why, as well, I departed the way I did

Because it is to show people that, you know, there is a change. You can leave. You can boss up and change your environment regardless of whatever happens in this world, you know? Is Kevin still a gamer in L.A.? Well, that's for the audience to interpret. Okay. You know, all I can say is Kevin is thriving. Okay.

He's doing well. And we're not going to get like a little sneak peek of nothing. That boy is media train. You see that? Yes. You see what I'm saying? But I like what you were saying, though, because like the shy has always done a great job of showing like the streets, but then like showing the emotional vulnerability, right? And how that can exist together.

Why do you still think society acts like toughness and healing can't coexist? I mean, it's just where we intake. That's what they promote when it comes to the music and all that stuff. That's all we see and hearing. That's all the youth is seeing and hearing. So that's why us being young black people that we are right now, we're here to change. that you know what I mean change that whole ecosystem change that whole mindset you know just put on those younger kids I even look at my my nephews and my cousins a different way and talk to

them a different way because I know I have a responsibility that I have to uphold we all do there's a big torch being passed down and we have to do the work and we got to be able to hold it up you know that's a fact yeah but it's like even like even sometimes it's like as a man or a male they expect you to put on that front or it's like you can't have feelings or express or express feel away. You know, like, growing up in a house, there was something that I kind of heard as being a boy you're told to suck it up, deal with it, man it up. It's like, cry. Dang, I can't even feel the way that I just feel down the stairs. You just said this and it hurt me. So it's like, that's kind of a weight that they just throw on us. Like, no, you can't feel like what you have to

put on this front. You can't have, you can't feel your emotion. So that's also another reason why I feel like it's a lot of me and it has been like they can't be vulnerable with each other. Especially, yeah. My bad, I'm going to just add this in, especially being raised by a single parent. Like, like me and you, you know, we just had our mom and, you know, I mom got to be 10 times harder because we go out in these streets we can't be feminine at all we can't be sensitive or nothing we got to you know i mean literally uh go out in the streets and give a 110 and be more tougher than anybody because back at home we got a female that's raising us you know and piggybacking off what you said just that that community i also feel like you know people don't

really have somebody to listen and not just listen to respond like really like listen and take in their feelings and emotions and where they are and the place they are in their life you know zarya i love your your character, Linnae. You know, it's, you're so vulnerable and you're so helpful with Bacari and you give him chance after chance. Where does that come from? Does it, because what you've been through or you see something in him does it remind you of your brother? Like, what is happening there? I think she sympathizes with him because of Jamal. That is her brother. And I have a brother in real life, and you know, girls don't play about their big brother. They big brother don't play about them. And you can see Jamal don't play about me. And even like, I think her seeing Jamal come out of

jail and now like you know he's following God and he's really trying to change his life he gets a regular job he goes and marries Dom play by Lala I feel like she knows that Bacari can do that too and that's why she doesn't give up because she comes from that so she knows what that's like and she knows she's from Chicago so she knows like

this is the system that we've been put in but it's breakable yeah so she's just pushing him to get out of that and you lean on her a lot all the time oh yeah is she fill a void for what Bacari's going through because he really doesn't have anyone? I think she does, but just that selflessness that she carries, you know, like she says,

she thinks that Bacari can make it out and Bacari can change. So I just think that she just put a heart on her sleeve and she take it, you know what I'm saying? But I also do think that there is a void. But I think this season that you're going to be able to see stuff from her point of view as well. Do you think that, do you think your character, do you think Linne ever, sacrifices too much for her barry? Yes, every time. She should have never put them guns in her closet.

She's a goofy. I need a help, man. I'm glad the cops in and find it. It's not like, it's love, but it's like dumb and love. And it is. She didn't put some guns in the closet before. Like, yeah. Have you took a charge though?

I took the charge too. You did take a charge? They had me in the stolen car on prom. That's right. You took one? I wanted to, but I did. I was about taking it. I was about taking it.

getting the charge doing something you could get a charge for. Right. It's just as bad. No, shut up. Answer that question, Jess. First of all, no. Have you ever done something you could have got charged? For one. I'm about the nix and I was with.

They were in the criminal. Allegedly, huh? Allegedly, right. But that's why I love our relationship so much because that is like the hood love story that like so many girls, like you find a good girl and meets the bad boy and you just want to save him so bad.

It's like, girl, let him. Hey, pretty women love them. Yeah, that's true. They love them. He told me the stash is. guns girl one of them got a switch on it what guy show deals with grief a lot right what role you think on hill grief plays and how people just move through relationships in their community um I think it's it's a lot of perspectives I feel like you can look at a lot of ways like when my character you saw him

literally take someone's life because of grief and because how he felt You know, Kooky was, he was the person in the neighborhood. Like, you know, he may not come from that walk of life, but like, we know him. We respect him. Like, he all limits. You know what I'm saying? But obviously you see wrong place, wrong time, a story that we all know in our communities, and you see him die.

But you also see me come, you know, seasons later. Right, because we forget that you, well, the gangsters have to keep reminding you, like myself. We have to keep reminding you. Like, I ain't runny. But, you know, you've done so much good. And we showed that you were just so lost in the community that you're finding your way. And you don't want to be that guy. You just want to survive.

But that community that I talked about, you see shot. He didn't give up on you. Yeah, he didn't give up on me. You see Professor Gardner, all these different characters, that community where I'm able to express myself. I'm able to express my emotions. And I'm also able to get corrected because of the foundation and the seeds that they planted. So now I'm hearing it out of love instead of like, you know, because you know we got. positive figures in our life

and sometimes we might not listen because we don't know how to receive but I just feel like over time you saw his heart softened to just receive and listen but grief can make you do crate like you see me coming off the gate grief had me I'm blowing

for sure for sure grief made you do some stuff too like you know what I mean like when you thought you lost your brother but you know he came back right that's right and you let in your house you know what I mean

he just came back and they want to to do with them. I wonder how that impact y'all in real life because, like you said, y'all are from Chicago, so I'm sure y'all have all dealt with different traumas, right?

But then you got to go be on a show when you still got to play about trauma. Like, when do you ever get to really disconnect? You really don't know. That's life, though. That's life and art. Yeah, that's why I say you always

got to prioritize your mental health because with this job, you got to relive a lot of traumatic moments to better your performance on screen. So it's like if you already making sure your mental health is straight on the day. day to day, I really feel like you would be able to maneuver through it.

Facts and keeping God first, man. God is real, bro. God is real. Manifestation is real and God is real, man. Keep God first and just take time and ground yourself and stay grounded, bro. You know what I mean? And just go silent. Turn your phone off.

Turn the TV off. You know what I mean? Just sit in your thoughts and unpack the things that you went through because, man, that's a fucking turn you crazy though, for real. Deshais is definitely a very emotionally triggering show. Yeah. Do y'all have a most emotional season? I'm going to tell you all what it is for me, and I ain't even on the show.

Okay, so when Keisha was kidnapped in the year three, yeah, season three, yes. That was so like it hit home. I've never been kidnapped, but, you know, friends and family, and it just happens to young black girls all too often, right? And so much so, don't nobody look. Don't nobody cares to look, you know what I mean? and that's when I seen

Kevin's character like it was like he was bothered he was going through it but he wasn't handling it like you would think he would but that's when I saw like character development for you I'm like oh no he really he

he going off in his mind about it like he wasn't giving up he's just not expressing it exactly like you know you would see somebody else do it like was that like what was the most emotional season for y'all emotional season for me was actually season two.

It was a lot of pressure brought on to me. I mean, I was working with phenomenal actors at the time too as well, Jason Mitchell and all of that. And those scenes that we had to go through. You know, I have my father in my life, but just even thinking about him not being there. You know, that kind of made me, like, feel the type of way. And we had to portray that story. And he was going through so much in that time, too, as well, which I didn't know. So in that scene where you see us doing the haircut, that was real emotions.

both of us feeling things you know coming off the set and having a yo let's debrief together let's cry let's be brothers together and just you know

basking this moment away from the cast the crew and everything like that and we had multiple moments like that in season two and then season three when I had to kind of like pick up that mantle

and it continued with those harsh you know topics that we were talking about I just had to you know suck it up a lot of the best artists they have to suffer

to put out the best work Michelle man you got to because acting you displaying realness. You know what I mean? Like you have to be authentic when it. And season three, to piggyback on that, like, I had a cousin name, Hira Coles, man.

She got kidnapped about 2018, and she still haven't showed up. No trace of her. She was pregnant. She was a mail carrier, if y'all ever heard about that happened in Chicago. And we don't talk about her no more. So it's a shout out to her to just like, let's figure out something. Let's try to find her or try to like at least act like we care. because it was just a hot topic on Facebook.

They talked about a little bit and it just disappeared. Yeah. But even Nook's character, when Keisha disappeared, went through a lot. Yeah, yeah, he did, though. Was that drawn from your cousin, maybe, missing your cousin? Not at that, not at that moment because season three was just like, it was so fresh for me. I was just, like, so excited to be, you know, a part of something. You got to think about being an actor and entrepreneur, we get told know a lot.

So once we get that, yes, we just like, I just want to be, the best. I want to do the best thing I can do just to stay here and maintain. I didn't really start tapping until my full potential until like the end of five. Season five and then six when they really gave me a call and said you're going to be in it.

I was working a job. I was on a cherry pick at this warehouse. I ain't know shit about that but I'm just like I'm just not going to be broken. I got that call and said like hey you're about to be on the whole season six. I said oh yeah took that little vest off. I said that's over with him.

I'm going. Alex, when Jason's character no longer was on the show and you moved on in different seasons, right? Because emotionally you guys had that tie together, was it hard for you to kind of have that person that you leaned on on set? Because we watched y'all build such a relationship on

camera. I mean, of course, it's always hard losing a cast member. It was confusing at the time. Everything happened so quickly and during the downtime. You know, but everything happens for a reason. And plus, I had amazing people surrounded by me too as well like Jacob Ladamore

I mean yeah Ronnie who played Natara Natara yeah I'm most of me but Entate and I just had amazing people surrounded by me as well to guide me too and then even developing we had Jason

coming you know Jason Weaver and all of those other people just help me and navigate it and I'm a person I soak up the game I'm always asking questions always observing always looking around I mean that's why I don't really talk much. Like, I'm an observer. Well, y'all really embody your characters.

I'm just sitting here like. I know y'all. I really feel like I know y'all, but I don't even know y'all in real life. But you guys, you did such a great job. Thank you. Thank you. Keep growing, man. It's the cast of the shot.

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The latest with Arnold knows. On the breakfast club. L.L. Coulbair, talk to me. So this was announced in the Harvard Gazette a few days ago, but it's kind of just being picked up, but I feel like it's not being picked up enough. Beyonce, and we've heard this before, where her. courses are being used at colleges. But it's now being used at Harvard to teach

history and government. So there's an adjunct teacher. Her name is Aisha Roy. And she works at Harvard Kennedy School. And she's teaching students through digital technology about government services. So she went to the Cowboy Carter Tour. And she was like, okay, this tour is amazing.

They teach you about the erasure of black people from country music. But she's like, no, it's a bigger conversation. Let's talk about how Beyonce is leaning into the erasure of black people from government and policy. So She created this curriculum that is now being taught. And they get into things like, you know, the U.S. social safety net. So like SNAP benefits, Medicaid.

They talk about structure erasure. So like them taking like different history out of different courses, removing black people from government. So they're using Beyonce's name to get more kids from enrolling class? But they're using the actual, yes, but they're using the actual music to do it. So like there's an example in the article where they talk about in one of the classes, they were playing a song Protector. you guys remember that song about motherhood and all the things

and they use it to invoke emotion but then they bring in black practitioners, former secretaries of health and things of that nature to talk about why it's important to have black people or people of color in those roles

when it comes to different communities because they're trying to build up a whole new genre or a whole new generation of policy makers through this Beyonce course. And they're trying to make it more likable for the kids

I think it's more appealing to the kids 100%. 100%. Yeah I think it's appealing too but I think it's also like just seeing the importance of it through somebody who is on a bigger stage talking about it.

Because it biology? Basically. Okay. But this has been happening. Yeah, I've heard about these. They use it for marketing courses all the time, fashion courses, stuff like that as well. I understand the marketing because when an artist does a rollout,

it could be marketing, it could be what they're doing. But when they take an album and they totally make it seem like something else or it just seems like they're using her name to get more kids than rolling class. I mean, I think music and stuff like that is subjective, right? And you could take what you on. from it. Like the song Mother where she talks about the importance of like her child and raising

up her next generation and who they'll be and stuff like that. You can't flip it. You know, whatever. Would that be a parenthood course or something? It can't, obviously it can be whatever you want to go on. I never heard Beyonce say anything about snap benefits, but that's all. Yeah, me, but but, but you know what she did with that. I'm a survivor. I'm trying to make it. That's just me by stuff. Yes. I understand. But, you know, ultimately is to, to appeal to, to, you know, the kids more. Yeah. And that's fine. Whatever, get them to learn what they need to learn.

I thought it was a cool way to do it. But, okay, moving on. Speaking of Motherhood, yesterday, Lotto confirmed that she has welcomed her baby in a 21 Savage's baby. Congratulations to them. Now, she also finally shows us 21 Savage in this vlog. So let's take a listen to Lotto. I was already thinking about naming my album, Big Mama. I found out about you.

and it just, everything fell into place. And it's so crazy because I thought this was going to hinder me. Like, I was worried about making this album sober and being tired and just exhausted as my body went through all these changes. 37 weeks today, basically full term. And it's any day now. I'm so ready to meet my baby. I'm never going to leave when my baby gets here. Like, I needed million dollars to show

Because I don't want to leave out This would probably be the last video I make I'm going Go go go go go go go Go go go go Go Go Congratulations Whenever I hear about a black woman

delivering a baby Healthily I'm always happy Because of the way The maternal death free Black maternal they're set up in this country Congratulations to Lato She was literally crying in the video

but she's the first time mom too she is there like she's never going to leave that baby. That's all that. You know, all mothers say that. I'm never leaving the house. I'm never leaving this baby. Until they start talking and turn into a lowland and still join you and you never see it coming. But yes. Well, yeah, her album, Big Mama, drops on 529. She's saying it's her retirement hour, but I think she's playing

with us. I don't think that's happening, but she's been rolling out blogs and music through this pregnancy journey. So congratulations to Lado on 21. Now, as we wrap the hour, so this news was breaking today I saw. So there's guy who was arrested for smuggling cocaine and he used Kim

Kardashian Skim's underwear line to do it. I know that's right. Yeah, so they're the man named Jacob John Conkel and he's going to spend 13 years and six months behind bars because he was attempting to smuggle over $9 million in cocaine. Now this happened over in the Netherlands. The way that he

did it, he had this truck, right? He drove this truck onto a ferry. On the truck there were 28 pallets of Skim's clothing so that's 90 packages containing about 2.2 pounds of cocaine. When he got on the ferry, the ferry was x-rayed. So he was caught up by police over in the Netherlands as he was heading into exit

as he was trying to cross the border. And border patrol officers arrested him. And in the beginning, he denied any knowledge of the drugs. And then he confessed he pled guilty to smuggling a cocaine in exchange for only $5,300. What? He'll be. Well, he will be. He's going to. He's recently, you know, this is all happening now. But he admitted that. He was

smuggling $9 million. I was coke for $5,300. Yeah, he said that it was in exchange for $5,300. He pled guilty to drug trafficking. Oh, it sounds like Skins has a new color to me. Cogane white. Cocaine white. Easy.

They probably were giving them $5,300 to transfer it over the, you know, the ferry. A whole time. X-ray. That's why. The whole boat got x-rayed. All right. Yeah, and I see an update here that he is facing 13 years and six months in prison. Okay.

So you can get coke with the scams. All right. That's the latest. Thank you, Martin. I don't know. Oh, okay. Shall a man. Who do you give me your dog into, man?

Listen, if you're a taxpaying citizen, as you should be, you should be concerned about this next story. And I want you all to get on the phone lines now, 1,800-585-1051, because if you haven't heard, there has been a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump's allies. And it is we the people who have to pay for it. So President Donald J. Trump needs to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him. And then we're going to open up the phone lines to see what the people think about this situation. Okay. All right.

We'll get to that next. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now out? He's fired. He's fired.

Please step up to the congregation. Yes, you are a doubt. Love style. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapers. He's a jackass.

Yes, don't you today? For Tuesday, May 19th, goes to President Donald J. Trump. Listen, my name is Leonard McKelvey, commonly known as Charlamagne de God. I am an American citizen, and I reserve the right to criticize every elected official in this country. Okay, Democrat, our Republican, because we have the right to. And when you see blatant corruption happening in this country at our expense, you got to ring the alarm about it. Okay, see, I don't know if you heard, but the Justice Department on yesterday announced the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump's allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration. Let's go to ABC 8 News for the report, please.

New this afternoon, the Justice Department just announced the creation of a new anti-weaponization fund. It's paid for by taxpayers and worth well over $1.7 billion. Lord have mercy. Fund will compensate Americans who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration. President Trump accused the IRS of leaking his 2019 tax returns, but agreed to drop a $10 billion lawsuit in exchange for an apology and creating this fund. Some Republicans and Democrats are expressing concern. It's an utterly lawless plan that is being forwarded. And if our Republican colleagues have any respect for the Constitution and the powers of Congress, they will move to block it.

That's action that Congress needs to take. I don't think you can do that. You can't just take a billion or $10 billion, unilaterally with the executive branch. The Attorney General will appoint a five-person commission to run the fund. According to ABC News, while President Trump won't receive any money, so the rioters charged with storming the capital could qualify for payments. Basically, the president is able to pay his supporters from a government agency he controls

with taxpayer money. If you are a Trump supporter who feels like you are politically targeted by the justice system, you can submit a claim. It doesn't matter if it was from the Russia collusion investigation to the nearly 1,600 people who committed an insurrection

in this country, you might be entitled to compensation. And the compensation is coming from we, the taxpayers. Does this apply to the 33 people who participated in the capital riots who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted, but got re-arrested, got charged, got convicted for new crimes? Are they eligible

to get some of our money. Okay, it's bad enough. They got pardoned for trying to overthrow the results of an election, but now we got to pay them, even though they got pardoned and some of them committed new crimes? America, I don't care what your race is. I don't care what your party is. There is no way on God's green earth that we can be okay with this.

I know America loves a good scam. Okay, this country was built on pyramid schemes. All right, we live in an era where folks will get on a podcast and convince you to reinit, refinance your house to buy crypto. but using taxpayer dollars to create a $1.7 billion fund for your political allies. Do you understand how insane that sounds? Okay, Americans out here arguing over student loan forgiveness and Medicaid cuts, affordable housing, and whether teachers deserve raises,

but we got to sit back and watch Trump and his friends rob us of money that should be used for us. Okay, taxpayer dollars should be used for Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and National Defense. and keeping your local community running. Okay, that's what taxpayer dollars are supposed to be for. People out here getting denied food assistance. Veterans who fought for this country are fighting for health care. Public school teachers are doing go-fundies for pencils. And other basic supplies, you've got libraries closing because it cuts the federal budgets,

but you are using billions of dollars and taxpayer money. Money that should be used to fund essential services at the federal, state, and local levels for a political reimbursement. program. Let's be clear. President Trump is just paying his goons. This is incentive for his goons to do his bidding again if he needs them to. Okay, you get a

pardon and cash in your pocket. What they're going to storm next? Voting boosts in the midterms, perhaps. This is why people hate government. You're taking money from people struggling to pay rent, buy groceries, and survive inflation, which is surged under the Trump administration, by the way.

Okay, it's at its highest level in three years. You are taking taxpayer dollars and redirecting it to people who are connected to political power. This is why people get cynical about politics because the rules always seem different depending on who you are and who you're aligned with. And when you have a president like Donald J. Trump who doesn't even pretend to care.

Okay, that's what we have in the White House right now. A president like Donald J. Trump who doesn't even pretend to care. Do you remember last week when President Trump said, and I quote, I don't think about Americans' financial situations? I don't think about anybody. think about one thing we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

That's what he said in regards to the Iran war. He told you he doesn't care about your financial situation. He was on Fox News with Brett Baer and he doubled down. Let's listen. You can imagine Democrats and political pundits. The people get it. Jumped all over this statement that you made the other day. You were asked when you were leaving.

What extent are in motivating you to make this get it? Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters without talking about Iran, They can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about American financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

That's all. That's right. That's a perfect statement. I'd make it again. You can imagine how many people stop the soundbite at. I don't think about America's financial situation. So what's your response to that framework? It's very simple.

When people hear me say it, everybody agrees. short-term pain. It's going to be short-term pain. But the pain is much less than people thought. Two things can be true. Iran doesn't need to have a nuclear weapon, but you as the president of the United States of America have to care about Americans' financial situation. That's the whole point of being a president. I would think that a president can multitask, okay? Especially a president that told you he was going to fix the economy on day one. He told you that he won the election based off one word groceries, but he never cared if you actually could afford any. Okay, actions will always speak louder than words. Actions will always tell you what politicians value more than rhetoric does. And everyone's sitting around waiting for this golden age to happen. It's not. Okay, not for you anyway.

For him and his family, his allies? Oh, they're getting fat while you starve. Okay? And that's why our taxpayer dollars going to this weaponization fund to compensate his allies should piss you off. Okay, you should be outraged. You should actually be in the street. protesting against this. Okay, not only is it corrupt, it is a blatant

slapping the face to the economic hardships you folks are facing. Trump told you he don't care what you're going through financially. All right, he's not even acting like he sees what you're going through. All right, he's not even detached from people's economic

struggles. He just doesn't care. He's pushing for financial windfalls for his allies, his family, not you. And we wonder why people get radicalized in this country. This is how Batman becomes Batman. Okay, this is how Dead Devil becomes Dead Devil.

This is the vigilante origin story, people. Play Tupac, please. You have to be logical. You know, if I know in this hotel room, they have food every day, and I'm knocked on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see, like, they'm throwing salami all over the...

I mean, just like throwing food around, where they're telling me there's no food in here. You know what I'm saying? every day I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in you know what I'm saying we are hungry please let us in we are hungry please let us say after about a week that song is going to change the we hungry we need some food after two three weeks it's like you know give me on the food and racking out of door and after year and you're just like you know what I'm saying I'm picking the lock coming through the door blasting you know what I'm saying it's like you hungry you reach

your level you don't want anymore we asked 10 years ago we was asking with the Panthers we was asking with them, you know, with civil rights movement, we was asking. You know, now those people that were asking, they're all dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're going to do? It's just common sense. Okay, if you're the president of the United States and you openly sound unconcerned about

people's financial pay while using taxpayer dollars for political priorities, don't be shocked when Americans start wondering who government is really working for and then proceed to tear this government apart. Please give Donald J. Trump the biggest he all.

I don't care what race you are. I don't care what your party affiliation is. There's no way this situation don't piss you off. There's no way this situation don't outrage you. It's just impossible, okay? And let's discuss. Please open up the phone lines. 800585105105.1.

How do you feel? Donald Trump launches a compensation fund. $1.7 billion fund for his political allies. Pretty much. Meanwhile, people out here are getting denied food assistance. you know, you drive by veterans on the street holding signs all the time. They can't get nothing.

They don't have no housing. They don't have no health care. Let's discuss. I told you, public school teachers are literally having Go fund for basic supplies. What are we talking about? Let's discuss 800-585-105-1 is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

It's topic time. Call 800-585-105-1 to join in to the discussion with the breakfast. Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ NVV. Just hilarious. Sholomaine Nagai. We are the Breakfast Club.

If you're just joining us, Solomon gave Donkey of the day to Donald Trump. Yes, Donald Trump, because he started a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate his allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration. And guess who has to pay for it? Us, the taxpayer.

This is our taxpayer dollars going to people who committed an insurrection in this country. Some of these people, 33 of them, in fact, were pardoned or had their sentences commuted, but then they got re-arrested. That's great. And charged and convicted with new crimes. So are they eligible for this $1.8 billion? I'm sure they are.

But like you said, this is a tax-funded program. This is compensation fund. And we talk about everything that Americans need. We talk about the prices of gas. We talk about the prices of food. We talk about teachers out there having GoFunds me to get pencils and books and things like that. Basic supply. Taxpay dollars should be used for Social Security,

Medicare and Medicaid, you know what I mean, to keep our local communities running, not to pay a bunch of insurrectionists, bro. Hello, who's this? Hello, my name is Tracy. Hey, Tracy, good morning and talk to us, Tracy. Hi, y'all, brand-lizing. I was calling to say that we should all stop paying taxes.

We should all go exempt on our paycheck, everybody, and then they would have to listen to us if nobody is paying the taxes, what they're going to do. They're going to put you in jail. I was going to say I said that a few months ago. I would love to do that. He said. He was like, we're going to go to jail.

Yeah, they'll put you in jail, yeah, which is, which is, But everybody, if everybody stop, it ain't enough jails. Like, if everybody stopped, man. Because that's what I said, but then y'all looked at me like I was dumb. Yeah. Yeah, she's not done. You're not dumb.

You're not going to do it. Holy shit. Everybody did it. They can't put everybody in jail. No, I mean, there needs to be some type of general strike on something. I don't know what that would be. Like, who's going to stop, stop them? Like, I don't know.

Hello, who's this? Yeah, what up, Doug? What up, Doug? What's your name, brother? What up? This Deontay, man. Peace Deonti. What's up, man? You was writing, though.

He is, he just paying his goons. So when he tried to go for this third term, they could be there and wait on them. But also, when he got enough, he said, want to make America great again. He wanted to make a white Americans great again. I was like taking all the black jobs for the federal government. He's doing all this, uh, gerrymandering stuff. But we can't just look at Trump. We've got to look at the Supreme Court, the people that passed these laws too.

All these people got to be held accountable for the stuff that he's doing, bro. It ain't just him, though. It's the people that support him, too, that's enabling his actions for him to even be the person he is today. I agree with you 100%, but I would like to say this. I don't even think he care about white America. He cares about the rich. And I don't even think he cares about the rich. He cares about him and his people in particular.

That's right. You know how many white people out here hurting financially as well? He cares about his lawyers. His people are going to ride with him, yes. But that's why he's telling them it's going to hurt for a little bit because he's putting them in position to get more money. But let me ask you this, though. You know, y'all pay millions in taxes.

I work a 9-to-5 little tax or whatever. How do you feel when you got to go pay your millions? And that's what's going to. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down, money. I don't know what you're talking about. What are you doing here? You got to pay millions in taxes, Solomon.

What are you doing? You just got a $200 million tax. No, yo, yo, yo, we love you, peace, King. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Man, we salute you, brother. I agree with almost everything he said. About 60% of that was not accurate. Jesus Christ, my God.

But 800, 585-105-1, but he's right. We have to pay taxes. And it's crazy paying taxes knowing that part of your money is going to this compensation fund that he created for him and his people. Listen, man. That's wild. Like I said earlier, when you got people out here being denied food assistance, when you got veterans out here who can't afford health care,

I mean, so many people can't afford health care. My mother was a public school teacher in South Carolina for well over 40 plus years. Okay, when you got public school teachers, you got to have go fund meets for basic supplies for students, but then you see our taxpayer dollars going to insurrectionists

who tried to overthrow the results of an election, that should just piss you off. I don't want my money going towards that. 800-585-105-1. Sholomey gave Donald Trump donkey today, and that's because Donald Trump launched his compensation fund with nearly $1.8 billion and his taxpayer-funded

for his loyalist. If he's just joining us, Donald, Shardaman gave Donald Trump donkey of the day. That's because he launched his compensation fund. It's nearly $1.8 billion. It's taxpayer funded. And you gave him donkey because of what, Charlotte? Because, man, $1.8 billion fund.

Yes. Going to compensate his allies who claimed they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration. And it's our taxpayer dollars that are being used to fund that. Like, man, when you got people out here with student loan debt and Medicaid is being cut, you know, housing isn't affordable.

You know what I'm saying? Teachers can't get raises. You just saw the TSA don't be knowing when they're going to get paid. But we got to sit back and watch Trump and his friends rob us of money that should be being used for us. I wonder how do people feel who voted for Trump, right? Who voted for Trump twice? I wonder how they feel.

Do they feel like it's a slap in the face? Like, hey, how do they feel? Because they're super. A lot of his base, too, are hurt. Hurting. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Keisha from Brooklyn. Kisha from Brooklyn.

Talk to us. Good morning. So I'm not shocked by anything Trump does. This is not a shocker. They let a kid in the White House. I am very much convinced his favorite color is the number six. Everything he's doing, Pamela already said he did it, that he was going to do. He kidnapped the president, prophesated they oil, started a war to avoid jail time. Like Charlemagne said, he said he didn't care about anything regarding America. He just cares about the nuclear bomb that our rhyme they have. So it's not a shocker. I just spoke. going forward during the midterm, the way everybody showed up for those AP watches, that's how the polls are, crowded with a line. Because this hikes are happening for people to take voting very serious. This means it's a child. He does not care.

You know, like a two-year-old with a silver tooth in their mouth, that's what he gets. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Mama. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's going on? Good morning, breakfast cup.

What's your name, brother? Good morning. Good morning. Talk to us. What's your thoughts? Okay, so first off, Charlie May I read the book. Thank you for that book, and it's great. Thank you, sir.

My thoughts on it is this. I'm a veteran. I'm 53 years old. I agree with Charlemagne on what he said about the teacher situation, the veterans who don't have homes, care, anything like that. The average veteran pays if you're not getting retirement is $4,500 a month. If you have kids under the age of 18, you get an extra $300 per child. So with me, I only was able to do 18 years because they kicked me out because, you know, hey, you're medically done, mentally gone.

We can't do anything with you. You hear you flag having our day. But I don't see how people don't understand what they're looking at every day on what this man is doing. Everything he said he was going to do, he did the total opposite. Yeah. But people believe in them, oh, you're maga in this and maga that. And it's funny because I'm like, okay, the same people that said all this, you know, Now this man is ripping your pocket, and you still send it in a fear like,

what are we going to do now? He's taking this from it. He's taking them. But you put him in office. Right. Well, they made it look like a culture war. They made it look like a culture war. So if I get on the radio and criticize him, then people will be like, oh, you're just a Democratic shell.

Oh, you're just a tool for the left. But if I criticize Democrats, then they'd be like, oh, you MAGA. You help Donald Trump get in the office. It's just like, no, I should just be an American citizen who should be able to call balls and strikes. When something is right is right. When something is wrong, it's wrong. And this is wrong.

Well, like you said, but it depends on you're saying that. If somebody else said, nobody's going to have a problem with it. But when you said, Salomon, somebody's going to have a problem with it. Or if I said, somebody's got a problem with it. But they start to realize you're the ones who's really being hurt. I'm not going to say, you know, what race or whatever, but you're the ones who are really being hurt. We have struggled. We know what struggle is.

So we know how to put money to the side if you have it because we know what's coming. They don't do that. So you're sitting here telling people, well, I don't care about that. there financial situation. It's just a small thing for right now. But now you're giving money to people who are insurated. I don't understand that. You can even want to come on, man.

And nobody is, I wonder how long this is going to take for somebody snap and say, you know what, we need to get this dude out of office. But it doesn't seem like nobody's going to push that issue because they're scared up. Right. You're right, my brother. That's my thing. Like, teachers deserve way more than what they are getting.

My grandmother was a, um, teacher, and this is back in 40s, 15, and 60. But I see how teachers are being just pushed to the side. There's a lot of kids that deal with in one room. 30 kids in the room, but you're paying

them $35,000 a year. Right. Thank you. My mother, my mother told me the most she ever made is a public school teaching in South Carolina was $30,000. And she had five kids. Wow. You know what I'm saying? So

think about that. It was five of us. Listen, man, if they came to me right now and said they had a $1.8 billion fund to compensate veterans, I wouldn't even care. I'd like, please, let's make it more. If they told me that they had a $1.8 billion fund that compensate teachers, I have no problem with my taxpayer dollars going to that. But to compensate President Donald Trump's allies. Compensation fund yet makes no sense at all. Who claimed they were unfairly targeted? No.

And let's be clear, I said it during donkey today and I'm going to say it again. President Trump is just paying off his goons. This is incentive for his goals. to do his bidding again if he needs them too. You get a pardon and cash in your pocket. That's crazy. Oh, man, I need y'all to storm the midterms. Come November.

You know what I'm just saying. Like, that's what that seems like to me. All right. Well, when we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. So don't go anywhere. It's the breakfast. Get rewarded just for shopping with Simon Plus. Don't miss Memorial Day sales at Simon Premium Outlets and Mills.

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Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, new? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it.

We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down?

Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letter help make you funnier. This week, my guest, S&L's Mikey Day

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, good morning. The Black Effect Podcast Festival once again returned to Atlanta for another celebration of Black Voices, Culture, Storytelling, and Community. The festival also hosted the Black Marketplace presented by Shopify, where Black-owned entrepreneurs set up shop to promote and sell their products. Hey y'all, it's up. It's Lauren LaRosa, and I am here at the Black Marketplace,

powered by Shopify during the Black Effect Podcast Festival, and I am here with my new girlfriend, Jasmine Foster, and her amazing business, Be Rooding. I spent 10 years in corporate retail, heads down, making other people's dreams come true. and out every single day I get to pour back into black women and the products that we serve and I love doing this. I love journals. Yes. And I love the fact that I see us on your journal.

All of us on here, right? Girl, this is me. Talk to me about your journal that how you need to choose the artwork that goes on. So we know that black women are not the monolith. We want to make sure that we have journals and planners and puzzles that represent you. When I came over here and I saw your marketplace setup, I was like, maybe puzzles could be a thing. Right? As a new puzzle girlie.

Okay. Namaste would be the one that you want to go with. The thing about puzzles, I'm a burgo. So my brain is always constantly doing the most, right? I'm not a burgo, but my mind too. Like, literally. So we need puzzles to calm us down. Two hours to pour back into your,

I know you got two hours to pour back into yourself. Your market is niche to black women. For me and who we serve, we are clear that black women is our goal and our purpose. Why did you choose Shopify as a platform to grow your business? I started by bringing up $4,000 until we were broke up here, okay? Shopify makes it so easy for you for day one not to hire a developer.

You don't have to have a U.I or U.S. person. I was able to myself to build my first website in a way that if I would use another platform, it would cost me so much more money to do so. What's one thing that you've been able to do and grow and scale with your business that would have been impossible without Shopify? I mean, I think one amazing that they have is the connectivity to shop pay. And so our customers are able to check out like three times faster. That matters.

And so you are able to have a higher conversion rate, lower abandoning. carts and I think we've made able to scale faster because we're able to get our customers to check out much quicker. But on top of that, we like to host community events, focus groups, so that we're constantly tapped into our community, asking them what they want, where they're looking for us and everything that we have behind us is because our community tools that they needed. How does Shopify help you stay aligned with those community values? Our highest visited page is our About Us section because people want to know, who am I? Why did I start this brand? Yes. Consumers are shopping their values, and so we're able to story tell that and share that with

our community in a way that makes them feel comfortable to come shop at beer at it. I love that. Shout out to Shopify for helping make that possible, turning ideas into businesses and businesses into something that can actually last. How you walk out the bathroom screaming? You know what I'm saying? Like you feeling 10 pounds white? Like a pleasuring scream too.

I ain't mad at it, but damn. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. We are the breakfast club. Let's get to the latest one long. Because you just walked up to the next door. I'm becoming a straight fit. She gets into 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. That's the same. The latest with Lauren La Rosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have detail, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the looters.

Brought to you by Talk Dog Law. On the breakfast table. Talk to me. Talk to me. All right, y'all. So shout out to Young Miami, Carisha. You guys know she has that song that's rolling right now,

Spin That. Well, she did the Spin That Gas giveaway over the weekend, which I thought was fire. She posted it yesterday, though, like a recap video. And what she did was she allowed people to pull up to certain gas stations, first come first serve, and she was filling up people's tanks. Yeah, like the weight of the gas prices and things are set up right now. The people were there.

I saw some local news reports that people were so appreciative of being able to do that. But then she turned around and went over to Walmart and also covered, you know, people's groceries and different things that they were buying, you moms that were there that needed help as well too. Yeah, she was, she was, I know the Carisha for that. Yeah, it was 25 pre-selected moms. They were surprised with a $200 Walmart shopping spree.

So yeah. You'd be surprised how far that go with people. Oh, yes. $200 is a good amount of groceries. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and that was in collaboration with Nana's House Behavioral Health and Miami Gardens and a councilman. And she does, it's an organization

that she has called Carisha Gives and Carisha cares. We'll drop on a clues, That's amazing. Yes. Now in other moves, shift news, shifting gears a bit.

Why you curse like that? I said shifting. Shift. I didn't say anything. Why you were so scared? Because you looked up and I'm like, look and you should we know. I know we got to dump.

I don't curse on the podcast. That was crazy. The latest with Lauren La Rosa, by the way. So in other news, shifting gears a bit. So Clarissa Shields over the weekend, you guys know the-

she slapped the shift out of somebody. You just scared me. Stop, man. Stop. Both y'all stop. Don't you all. Stop right now. Stop right now.

Enough of the games. Continue on. So Clarissa Clarissa Shields was at the Rhonda Rousey and Gina Carrano fight. Shout out to Rhonda Rousey by the way 17 seconds that was done But she was there

Damn, she knocked Shudy on a 17 seconds She made her tap out She did Yeah I mean I knock out Yeah tap out It was crazy too It was like once you to be Yeah

Hey Rhonda She came up here and she told us what she was going to And she did it exactly So while Clarissa was there A fighter Alicia Baumgarner Was also there as well too and the two had an exchange of words and yes, Clarissa slapped

Alicia Baumgartner who is threatening, you know, to take legal action but late last night, MVP promotions actually posted that they are banning Clarissa from all of their events. Really? I don't agree with that, but... So they say MVP, and she had just started building her relationship with them, MVP maintains a strict

zero tolerance policy for hostile, threatening, or aggressive behavior toward fighters, staff, media, or guest. MVP does not condone or tolerate or accept Clarissa Shields behavior in that setting and it reflects poorly on MVP in women's sports which we have worked tirelessly to uplift. Effective immediately Clarissa is banned from all MVP events until

further notice. There's a time and place for fire attention and banter but to physically attack a fellow athlete while there are guests inside a private, why they are our guests inside of a private VIP area is unacceptable. In those sports, that happens though. In combat sports, you know, these combat fighters, they see each other

in person and it does get very, very, very chippy. Sometimes it leaves, blows being thrown, people getting slapped. What was the last fight we saw that when it was Devin Haney, them crew? Who they was banging with? Oh, and the rang? That was the far.

He was up here. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was his dad. That was his dad that got caught up. That's what you talk about? I don't remember. My point is that happens at those type of events. But when it does happen, do those other athletes get banned as well?

Or is it just like, I don't know. To me, it would seem as bad. It just seemed like they were going back and forth. It just seemed. You know what got the audio? They said that there was no audio in the video. Like you, there's a video you can see. They said that they said that,

well, we do have audio of the slap, but they said they don't know if it's worth playing, but since you guys want to hear it, let's hear it. Yeah, that sounded like I heard. Oh, that was another one. There was another audio clip that was better than that. What you heard, you heard the lead up. It was a different angle, yeah, it was a longer clip.

So would she get on her face or something? Like, I mean, she didn't, she ain't smack her for nothing. Yeah, well, I mean, they exchanged words. This is like a known. She talked about Alicia Baumgartner when she was up here well and I know Alicia was trying to come up here as well too after Clarissa left the show because she wanted to clear some things that she said that Clarissa was saying about her so they have a back and she told Clarissa I whip your ass right now.

And that's what I'm saying. Right. Who has you going to whip? Right. But you bought. Damn. So I mean I see what MVP is doing but I agree with you, Charlamy. I think they back and I do understand what MVP is doing because you want to make sure that when

boxes or anybody comes to the fight that day keep their hands to themselves regardless of the chatter but it seems like this happens all the time. Yeah. ring. Right. Not outside the ring. That's on both sides. You're boxing the ring. Like if you're a fighter, you come there, you want to be safe. You don't want to feel like you can. It has to be some kind of consequences. But if this happens all the time and nobody has ever got banned, that's unfair. So MVP is Jake Paul's. Yes. And Clarissa was talking about when she was here too, that she began building a relationship with them because she liked what they were doing in women's sports. So yeah. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, sure. Oh, no, I just want to tell you all, man,

that this is mental health awareness month, right? And, you know, every year, I am blessed to do an event called the Mental Wealth Expo. And I just want to tell you all right now that on Saturday, October 10th, 2006, the Mental Wealth Expo is coming back to Newark, New Jersey. Okay. It will be at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, Inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Event Center. You know, we're going to have an inspiring lineup of programming and conversations

and a lot of special guests to be announced. I'm just letting y'all know early just because. And I want y'all to know that this year, is focused on nothing but solutions. Like, you know, we have these conversations about eradicating the stigma and, you know, raising awareness around people with mental health issues,

but this year is literally just all about solutions, resources, and tools for change. So if you're interested in attending, you can save the date and RSVP now at Mental Wealthexpo.com. Mentalwealthexpo.com. I think a lot of people are looking for solutions in that arena right now.

That's right. And 1010 is actually a world Health Day, so we're doing it on World Mental Health Day this year. So dope. That's right. Congratulations. I can never come. Happy birthday to your guy to y'all.

He is 45. You ain't have to say that right there. You act like it's all about you. It's so loud. Because I always want to go to the Expo and like experience it and I'm trying to figure out therapy and he always does it at homecoming. And I trust the people he brings. But yeah, that's it.

Happy birthday also to Sam Smith. He gets, because I, Charlotte, don't talk. You're right. You're right. Happy birthday to Sam Smith. He's 34, y'all. All right. All right, y'all. That's the latest for the hour. Brought you by Top Dog Law. Any accident, Big or Small, called Top Dog Law. All right. When we come back, we got the mix that don't move. It's the breakfast club. Come morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious.

Shalameen the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Sluke to the cast of the Shire for joining us this morning. Yes, indeed. Season 8. The final season happens on the 22nd of this month. So, salute to Lina, man. I think it's so dope. Lena created a show based around her city that ended up being the longest running drama. I think black drama period or something like that. I forgot what the actual record is. Eight seasons is a long time.

For her to be from Chicago and create something about your city, that could have went bad. You know what I mean? People in the city might not have liked it. You know what I mean? But they like it and it's been around for a long time. So salute to Lena. Absolutely. And also this weekend, and you're going to be in Rhode Island, right?

I'm going to be in East Providence, Rhode Island at the Comedy Connection, guys. so get your tickets for that. This Friday we got two shows. This Saturday we got two shows as well. And then I also have a book signing event Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. at Riff, Raff and Bar. So make sure you pull up with your book. You'll get it signed.

We'll have a fireside chat talking about motherhood, fatherhood, all things, co-parenting. And I'll be doing meet and greet at the shows both nights, Friday and Saturday at the Comedy Connection. I love Rhode Island. You do? Rhode Island is one of the most underrated food places. Maybe it's not underrated because they got a, what's the culinary school that's there. I can't remember right now.

But they have some great restaurants in Rhode Island. Really? Yes, man. I like this spot called Irregardless Biscuit. Oh, that's what's what you told me about? I didn't know that was in Providence. And there's another, there's an African restaurant called Afro Man, what's the spot called?

Afro Leak, I think it's called. Okay. I'll send it to you. Had no idea. Yeah, that's what's up. Because I only know one person from Rhode Island. That's Claudia Jordan. I did not know. I thought I called this one out there. Afrique D-D. lounge. Okay. Afrique the lounge.

Afrike the lounge. Mm-hmm. That's a problem. Is you sure it's just a freaky lounge is not... You're not a little African over there. You know what? They got good food. I mean, amazing food actually. Okay.

Now, Jess has a fact. Yeah. These always don't go the way that she wants them to go, but let's let's hear it this one. Oh, this one is one I'm going to be sure will blow some hair on your head. Listen, let me show you. I don't have any. Mine is very late. I said to throw some hair on your head. Oh. Did y'all know? Did you know?

Did we know. That the character's Shrek was inspired by a real human being. His name was Morris Tilly. Yes. He was a Frenchman. He was a pro wrestler. He was born in 1903. Now, this is back in the back in the dizzle. But this was, he was inspired.

Shrek was inspired by a real human being who had a crazy looking head just like Shrek, just like an ogre. But he was a human being. See, people don't know the origin behind Shrek. But it also was a picture book. A picture book. That came on the 90s. You know what it was called?

What was it called? Shrek. Yeah, it was called Shrek. It was a guy named William, William Stig who made a picture book. That's not where they got Shrek from. They got Shrek. The original Shrek.

Google some more. And you'll see. Google some more. And you won't see what I'm talking about. Well, this is the 19-100. You're right about the other, you're actually, you're right about Maurice DeLay.

Yes. You're right about Maurice DeLay, but it also, it was a picture book, a nice book that came out in the 90s and it was actually called Shrek. Let me ask you a question. Maybe I'm more. wrong, but I thought at the end of the movie they showed the guy.

I could be wrong. I don't remember. Well, after the credits and stuff? Yeah, I thought so. No. But I thought it was. That's another movie that's you're talking about. I thought it was Shrek.

It is. But I thought everybody knew that. Even my kids know that. Even my four-year-old knows that. But it's okay. Whatever. Would you get the information from? What do you mean?

No, she's not. She's right about. I know. I'm just asking what you get it from. I'm reading. It's a book about Morris Tilley. I'm reading a lot of French books, you know, because I'm an author now. I'd be reading books.

all that. So that was in one of the books that I read. But the book, the movie was from a children's book. Yes. Called Shrek by William Styg. It wasn't just some movie that somebody made up. It made it based off the picture book. So that means the picture book was based off of Maurice Talley? No. I don't think that's the way that worked. Yeah. Either way, I was right. Thank you. And y'all learned something and y'all are welcome. you know what you should do you should do something more on your culture like Mexican culture like because those are things we don't know much about African American culture totally skipping over that you know what Shrek means what you know what it means no no fear terror oh yeah yeah yeah a little bit that wasn't the premise that was on the forward okay okay what it

mean and all of that it's where they got it from and it was inspired by a real person well it was inspired by a picture book in the 90s all right now You know what you should really look up. The most popular food is no longer Italian food. It is. Mexican food. Come on, man. Stop.

Stop representing for your... You're not one of us no more. You know what? You know what? Fill us on that fact tomorrow. All right. Tomorrow. All right.

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And guess what? We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We get to ask other people to do podcasts. We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but, you know.

Tired and sick. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite, unhumored me with Robert Myrtle and Friends, me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with

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