The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Pusha T Says Def Jam Tried To Censor Kendrick, Diddy’s Ex-Assistant Cross-Examined — Should Puff Testify? + Candace Parker & Eric Swalwell Interviews

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Candace Parker discusses her ‘Can-Do Mindset,’ WNBA legacy, retirement, relationships, and thoughts on Dr. Umar and Stephen A. Smith. Congressman Eric Swalwell also stops by to talk about party politics, Biden’s decline, and the future of the Democratic Party. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to the head of FEMA for claiming he was ‘unaware the U.S. had a hurricane season.’ Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Blessed, black and highly favored. This is the greatest show on earth. 15 years in running, dropping the clues bomb for us. Dammit, just because. What's happening? Salute to everybody that purchased a puppy. These puppies is kicking my ass. I just want to let you know.

I bet. Usually I would get up at about 4.30, 4.15 this morning. I had to get up at 3.30, won won't walk downstairs and it was a crate full of poop Oh, that was a random shot. I'm just Purchased a puppy because I thought you bought a safe from someplace General that puppy life is different. It is just like and then you got to yes I mean like you got one and I took the dog to the vet and the vet was like, why would you get to? Why why she was like it doesn't make sense. We get one train one and then you get another one right?

I said you just made sense. I wanted sisters. I wanted like together. She was like that was dumb and now I realized what it means That must be black That was white but we should always get somebody to do your dog. We did he did kid Cuddy's dog What oh like I'm gonna be for him seem to get that dog seem to get in line What? Oh, lock him in the bathroom? That dog seemed to get in line, didn't he? Lock him in the bathroom. We never heard from the dog. Oh really?

These two doormen are kicking my ass, but I'm enjoying it though. Just to let you know, you gotta walk each individual dog by himself. Oh, you can't walk them together? No, because she said, want to overpower the other one. So I have to walk one, then bring it back in, and then walk the other one, and then bring it back in. I think she meant that them two dogs will overpower your old ass. That's what she was trying to tell you in a nice way. Maybe that too. Right.

And I called my daughter and my son this morning, I'm like I thought y'all gonna help. Like with the dog. Absolutely not. My son said, Zad, I gotta go to the gym at 12. 12 noon? It's 4 in the morning. That's why he looked the way he do and you looked the way you do. You right. Two shapes.

Right. Drop one of those bombs for the man of the house, Big Logie. Oh my goodness. We used to call him Low Logie, that's Big Logie man. Oh my goodness. And you need to start respecting his authority and calling him Big Logie too, okay? Oh my goodness.

Well let's get the show cracking. Candace Parker will be joining us this morning. Man, she's got a new book, The Can Do Mindset, How to Cultivate Resilience, Follow Your Heart, and Fight for Your Passions, it is out today. That's right. And Candace, you know, three time WNBA champion, twotime Olympic gold medalist, you know, Candace is a big deal. That's right.

And Congressman Eric Swalwell. Swalwell, yes. Will be joining us from... Representing us from California. That's right. So he'll be here to talk to us about all the goings on in the world of politics. Yeah, what's happening. And though we're a perfect balance of righteousness and righteousness on this show, you're going to learn something and you're going to be entertained. That's right. You're gonna learn something and you're gonna be entertained.

That's right. And you're gonna get pissed off. Yes. Okay, we take you to all the range of emotions. Yes. Jesus. Alright. Well let's get this.

No, hush. Because I'm still trying to recover. From what? From Big Chris. Yo, we got a lot of good DMs from the national, I don't know if it's the national, but the Down Syndrome. Oh nice. Different agencies and this and the other. Because they're checking on me? from the national, I don't know if it's the national, but the Down syndrome, the different agencies

and this and the other. They're checking on me? No, they were saying that that was positive, the fact that we let that young man, or I don't know how old he is, let that brother come up here and rap and let him talk to you. Talk to me, did they see the striptease?

Did they see the dance? And nobody cares about you, right? Yeah, they weren't calling to check on me or apologize to me, they it to sell all the positivity By the way big Chris wasn't up here cuz he got down syndrome big Chris was up here cuz he's entertaining Yeah, and big Chris be with Ricky smiley and if you've ever heard Ricky smiley and big Chris together, you know Big Chris is just an entertaining person. Correct. Mm-hmm. You can't just come up here cuz you got down syndrome. No down syndrome no no but all the blogs and all the places that represent a lot of kids that have down syndrome we're very excited the fact that we had big

Chris up here we let him express himself we let him rap and we let him talk and they were just so excited about I enjoyed big I always enjoyed because I was happy to even see that's why Ricky why Ricky brought him up here! Yes. Because last time Ricky was here we were talking about Big Chris. Yeah. That's right. Nice. Yes. Alright.

Yeah, I'm okay though, y'all. You good? Thank you so much. No, okay. Sure. Okay. Alright. Alright, well let's get this show cracking. Front page news when we come back is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news when we come back is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up Morgan? Hey y'all. Hey, how y'all feeling? Good. Okay.

We love to hear that. First off our page, more updates on this attack out of Boulder, Colorado. Now the FBI says Mohammed Sabri Salman planned the attack in Boulder on Sunday for over a year. In court documents, Salman said he researched on YouTube how to make Molotov cocktails. Yeah, he's a husband and a father of five and he allegedly planned or said that he had planned the attack for one year but waited until his daughter graduated to carry it out. Now documents claim he also said he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wish they were all dead. Now, meanwhile, the White House is pointing out the immigration status of

the suspect. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt noted that the Egyptian man overstayed his tourist visa and the Trump administration is taking a look, a hard look at these types of attacks, saying they should never happen. Let's take a listen to White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt. Any individual, especially illegal criminals who engage in acts of terrorism, will be held accountable under this president. This terrorist came into our country under the previous administration, Joe Biden's administration, foolishly gave him a tourist visa and that allowed him to unlawfully remain in our country. She went on to say this person should have been deported a long time ago and of course President

Trump said the attack will not be tolerated in the United States of America and he added that the suspect came in through Biden's quote ridiculous open border policy and he quote must be he must go out under Trump policy. Now Moon while governor Colorado governor Jared Polis he spoke yesterday in Denver saying there doesn't appear to be an extended conspiracy involving the Boulder fire attack suspect and he's confident the suspect will have his day in court. Let's take a listen to Colorado governor Jared Polis in his comments. At this point, we have no reason or information that there was any type of extended conspiracy,

although that investigation continues. I'm confident he'll be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Of course, the suspect Mohammed Sabri Salman, as mentioned before, is accused of using a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails in Sunday's attack Which seriously injured eight people? He's already been charged with a federal hate crime and the 45 as mentioned before as well The 45 year old a Jim Shaman was in the US Legally, let me ask you guys a question when it comes to lotters

I know this is a small part of the problem But the fact that people can actually Google some of these things like Google how to make a cocktail, whatever you call it, or Google how to make a ghost gun or Google how to make a bomb. Certainly be cutting some of these off things off online where people just can't get access to it that fast. Yeah, it's true. And then to your point, as you were saying in previous days about how they're going to moving forward, some students will be vetted on social social media I'm sure that could be a thing as well

it's like what have you been looking up what have you been googling what have you been researching and so maybe that could you know add to essentially that vetting process but yeah you know people who want to kill you people who want to harm you they're gonna find a way and you know this is a sad sad situation and here I don't know how to combat this level of bigotry I don't know how to combat this level of prejudice if I did as a black person I would have made a stop a long time ago just make it a little more difficult though the fact that you can Google how to make a bomb and it'll give you step-by-step yeah but I'm talking about

the bigotry and the prejudice and the racism and anti-semitism that fuels people to do these type of things I don't know how to make that stop like I said if I was was a black person, I would have made this stop a long time ago for us. And this is just who some people in this world are. Sad. It just is. Very sad, very deep rooted.

But I will keep you guys posted as to what happens with that story. That's us, front page news for 6 a.m. at 7 a.m. Stick around, we're still talking about Trump so-called big beautiful bill and We're still on the topic for whatever reason of Joe Biden's mental health decline so we'll talk about that because you know why we're still on that topic because we're on that topic because the Trump administration is Here because of that mental decline and I also want to say this is why whatever you see bigotry or you see prejudice So you see racism or antisemitism of any kind,

you should speak out against it. Because Martin Luther King Jr. said, the injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. That's right, all right. Clock it. Well, thank you, we'll see you next hour, Morgan. All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

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Yes, these men want to be babied. I just got out of a relationship with a guy, and he was saying I wasn't babying him enough. He also wanted me to come in and clean, cook. I also drive a truck. So I was driving a truck from like 13 to 14 hours a day. And he drives a truck as well. But I don't understand why he feels

like he gets to come home, play his PlayStation, while I cook, clean, wash clothes, and still cater to this baby, grown ass man. I'm sorry to say that, but these are the same men that were back in the day, like how my dad and my mom came up or our aunties and uncles came up. They don't want to work. They want to complain.

They want to be baby. They want to be the woman while we have to be the man. What's going on with that? Have you tried to put a finger in his bunkie yet? Whoa. Oh, that's it. That's it? That's how you really test the level of sassiness.

Now you got to, I don't know on a scale of one to Saucy Santana how sassy is he? You know, you got to test it. She didn't say she has it. Has you? I mean, if I had to try it, I'd probably say, probably yeah. I might as well go back and dip and be like, hey, let's get some closure real quick. And you know, come up with a thing and let me just see how that plays out.

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Take us off Bluetooth, too. It's all a main. It's Men's Mental Health Month. It's Men's Mental Health Month. Now, last week, last month was Mental Health Month. This month is Men's Mental health month. It's men's mental health month. Now last week last month was a Mental health month this this month is men's mental health month Yes, sir, why are you playing Chris Brown in the morning? Yeah, but I don't want to be thinking about who's there my residuals at six o'clock in the morning when I'm working How many do you know for work I thought I'm out I'm out and about with y'all in the morning. The first thing I gotta hear is residuals.

But I can only imagine how many brothers wake up in the morning motivated for work and you just stress them out automatically. I'd be feeling the same way. I don't know why we play so much slow music in the morning. People are trying to get up and get active. We tell you all the time, we don't pick the music. We don't pick the music for the show.

I only pick the music for my mix but what would you rather hear brother yo every time you play Kendrick Lamar right early in the morning or any time during yourself during that intro I'd be ready for you to drop some rich boy what should be for rich boy That's the original sample. But like I told you, I don't pick the songs for the actual show. I just do it for my mix. You're a liar. You play the music.

I thought you would have me cut it up to your mix. You would throw it on there, switch it up. I'll be playing Rich Boy. That would be hard. I'll be playing Rich Boy in the mix. They're totally two different tempos. Rich Boy is 81 and Net was 70, but I'll still be playing it. You talk about that intro, that duuuuude. be playing it. He talked about that intro that

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Well, I mean, like, yeah. And then, like, a lot of those, a lot of them listen to us because they on the road. A lot of them on the road right now. Yeah. Salute to all the truck drivers. Hello, who's this? They're giving out equipment.

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it was Russia that sent people to help them solve with their educational system and their health care system and they sent some generals also for their military strategy. And it's because of that that they were able to defeat the Roman invaders or the Poles during around the Berlin Conference. Russia also helped the slaves gain their freedom. How? Because Fred wanted to send soldiers over here to fight with the Confederacy Russia had Russian fleets over here. They were over there was in the Atlantic Ocean by New York and it was in the Pacific Ocean by San Francisco to keep threats were coming over here. I just feel like that is some good information for us to know

Hey, yo get off Russia's. Thank you for the lesson, though. Oh, man. You glazing Russia crazy this morning. Oh, man. Now, man, I'm just a non-bio-incorporated breath. I'm one of the most non-bio-incorporated people that you'll meet. I appreciate the history lesson, but the Russian lady, you were rooting for Ivan Drago to kill Rocky, didn't you? You probably cheer

Creed died Okay, I don't need Vladimir Putin to tell me Jesus was black I knew that already The russia glazen was crazy this morning. Jesus Christ. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. What's up Lauren? Good morning. Now was caught yesterday.

Caught was, it was aggressive. Okay. What do you have on today? It looks like you're like a crazy asylum type of. This is Rick Owens. What? Rick Owens, okay. Yes, it's Rick Owens, like a starter jacket. You look like Gordon Gartrell. Yo, she don't know what a Gordon Gartrell is. I do. Crazy asylum type of oh, we're going what?

Like a start going gotcha You have a student episode of the show with the oh made his own shirt for prom. Yes This is not this is um, this is Rick Owens. Okay, you got Rick Owens at home. I want some Rick Owens. We got Rick Owens at home, damn it. Oh no, baby. I wish this was made in the home. A little pricey. We got the latest coming up. What are we talking about? Yeah, we do. So Pusha T sat down with GQ and spilled all the beans. He said Def Jam tried to censor him. Well, censor kendrick lamar on the clips new album that's crazy he was not going to do it wow so eventually they all right all right okay it's a lot all right we'll get to it next we'll get to it next it's the breakfast logo more the breakfast club

morning everybody it's dj envy just hilarious charlomane the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. But what's the latest? On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. Okay, y'all. So let's get into this Pusha T. Clips conversation. So Pusha T. and his brother, Malice, sat down with GQ and they had a conversation about

everything. Where music is now and the fact that, you know, they had their first album coming out as it's been 15 years. But one of the biggest questions that a lot of people had is why has it taken so long? And according to Pusha T, he says that Def Jam tried to censor Kendrick Lamar's verse on a song that they have on the album. And eventually it turned into a back and forth of censor it, take the song off. And then from there it went to them eventually dropping clips and Pusha T solo and then them moving on.

Well, it hasn't been 15 years because of that. It was 15 years because, you know, the one brother gave up rap at one time and wanted to do Christian rap. Yes. And now they got back together doing rap. But I mean, they dropped the press release over the summer. And over the summer when they dropped the press release, and remember they teased the song at the LV Fashion Show?

People thought that it was going to be like a lot sooner than right now than today. So that's what I'm referring to. But so what happened was when that press release dropped, a lot of people realized that there was no mention of Def Jam, which was a thing because Clips that their whole deal with Def Jam was new. It happened over like the last like year or so. So people was like, what is going on?

And instead, they actually attributed the distribution and the marketing to Jay-Z's rock nation. So in the GQ article, Pusha T talks about, they were really excited. They went to Def Jam, they were proud, they thought that, you know what I mean? Everything was moving, how was it supposed to move? And then Def Jam heard the song Chains and Whips, which is the song that Kendrick Lamar is on, and they weren't going for it. Specifically, there was an attorney with Def Jam, and they are claiming that this attorney

is the person who said, okay, we have to censor the song. And then it was the person who said, well, what if we just remove the song altogether, and then came back and said, okay, let's move away from the clips, let's drop the clips. So Pusha T's like, well, the issue is- Well, you know why they censoring it. I'm sure Def Jam wanted to censor Kendrick because they're in the middle of this lawsuit with Drake. I guarantee you that something to do with that lawsuit.

Yes, so according to Pusha T, the lawyer's name was Steve Gauley, and he says that what he believes is their issue was that you got two of Drake's biggest like arch enemies, right, who were on this song and their UMG is in the middle of their dev gen they're in the middle of this lawsuit so they're like, no, we can't like we don't want any more fire. Let's just sit back and push it. He's like, well, basically that has nothing to do with us.

So yeah, so they're like, well, we'll just drop the clips and then push it. He is like, well, the issue is I'm still here as a solo artist. So if you're going to let clips go, let me go as well too. And it got to the point where that's what they did. So Jeff James should be ashamed of themselves. Okay, record label censoring artists. What happened to my freedom of speech? Russell, Russell Simmons would never, he was president.

Jay Z would never when he was president. Leo Cohen, Leo Cohen would never when he was president. Kevin Liles would never like he was president Leo Coven Leo Cohen would never when he was president Kevin Lyles would never like freedom of speech allow him to say what he wants to say that makes no sense at all. Yeah. Um, I mean, I agree. But and by the way, albums like the clips are the type of albums Def Jam should be putting out.

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and I'll say it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday May 6th where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I call that adult contemporary hip hop like artists that you know are just timeless and classic. Def Jam is supposed to represent a timeless classic label. That's the type of project they

should be 100% behind. Well, that was the origin of Def Jam, the streets represent a timeless classic label. That's the type of project they should be 100% behind. Well, that was the origin of Def Jam, the streets, right? When you see artists like, we can go back from Jay-Z to GZ to the Clips, like that's the origin of Def Jam. That's what built Def Jam. You know what I mean? That's why this is really, really weird. Yeah, I agree.

And I also think too, I think it's certain artists that you can kind of play around with like this. I don't think that it was smart for them to even approach them directly, indirectly, whatever, with something like this as if they're gonna care and they're gonna be quiet about it. It's just bad press for a label that doesn't need it. You know what I mean?

Not right now. Oh yeah, it's just bad press for no reason. Not right now at all. Well, I grabbed one of the photos and for the listeners, please go take a look at the GQ interview because they look so good in their photo shoot. They're all black. I mean, they have a ton of different photos and in the interview, they're actually in a sprinter with the writer of the article, trying to just find food and they're just having a

conversation about music and where music is now. And they've aged very well, not just as artists, but as humans. Like, you know, when you get to a certain age, that's what you look at. I don't care about your designer. I don't care about your cause, your jury. What do you look like? Is your skin clear?

Eyes white? Are you mentally and physically in shape? That's what I like. Yeah, I agree. And they've always been like that. They've always been on their workout regimen. They've always been on their eating good food regimen, and they're all about family.

So that's the main purpose of the clips. Salute to the clips. I also appreciated Malice's perspective when he was talking about how you don't have to address everything. Yes. And how artists feel the need to talk back to their fans. And he was like, you know, you talk about,

you can see people's egos taken over and folks never learn to sit down. And he said, you can rise above that eternally if you are at peace with yourself. They plan out, they plan out, if you don't know them, and you know, hopefully they'll come up here. They plan out everything. They plan out, they plan out, if you don't know them, and you know, hopefully they'll come up here. They plan out everything.

They plan out the next five years of where they wanna be with fashion and music and their investments. They plan out everything. They are very methodical when it comes to the way that they think about things. Yeah, I know. And one of the other things too that,

well first of all, I thought that that was a good take for Malice, because he's the type, he just sits back. He doesn't really get involved in anything whatsoever. But even in this article, he's talking a lot more about he talks about like, he feels like he's watched the engine leave rap where like he left, and he took a step away, he came back and things are exactly where they are. But they also talk about whether this new collaboration with rock nation means we're going to get more Pusha T, Jay-Z music. And Pusha T doesn't confirm anything directly, but he does say we made history a couple times with a smirk talking about their songs that they

have already. I would love to hear a whole verse on the new Clipse album. That would be the cherry on top. I don't need it, but I would love to hear a whole verse. Hope always comes through for them. So I'm assuming that I'm sure you'll get a whole verse on there. I would hope so. Yeah. Yep. Well, make sure you guys go check out that GQ article. That is it for the first time. When did that album come out? Oh, sorry the album comes out July 11th. It's called uh, let God sort them out And right now they have their single you have their single play it right now. Damn it

It's called Aces and Trumpets. I'm sure it's not on in the system. We don't have Aces and Trumpets in? No, we don't have in the system. I need to hear that before the morning. We played it during, didn't we play it during past talks? Yeah, we did. Yeah, so we should have it somewhere in the system. No, Nala got it. No, N don't have it in the system. I need to hear that before the morning goes over. Did we play it during past talks? Yeah, we did. Yeah, so we should have it somewhere in the system. No, Nala got it. No, Nala got it. They only play a thing of it. I'll send it in.

I'll send it over. They'd be like, yo, this nigga a DJ and he ain't got nothing in the cube. It's not my system. You're a liar. I got it in Surroto. You better stop lying. You better stop, because people really think I picked the music up here. You need to stop lying.

They should have had it. The way you glazed the clips this morning and you don't have any music. This is not The way you glaze the clips this morning and you don't have any music clips is my homies, but I Should have reminded Methodical and articulate in the way, baby, that's my But he bought the baby oil in the room. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He just didn't pour it. You know what's so crazy? You show some people some love and all of a sudden you glaze. Nah, nah, nah. I was showing love.

You was glazing. I'm learning bringing the baby oil in the room is obvious. Allegedly that's a crime too. Bringing the baby oil in the room, you are complicit. And V, you better say you didn't do that. What the hell are you talking about? She's been in court. I've been in court.

I'm bringing no baby oil in no rooms. That don't make any sense. Eddie, Eddie, I don't want to be part of no enterprise. I listen to you. OK, let's do this. Let's play an OG Clips record. We got to pull that up now, too. You know, to take along with these old computers.

Damn. All right, we try. It's loaded. Keep talking. We don't have 20 more seconds. 20 more seconds? 20 more seconds to what? The player clips?

Here it is, Jess. Take a look at the picture. Don't they look good? Who birthday is it, Jess? I always The players clips? Who birthday is it? Oh yeah I always thought they had Dave East, happy birthday to Dave East and Jill Biden Jill Biden? Anderson Cooper too, happy birthday

That's a nice little mashup It's very well rounded We still ain't happy We got it now, just pulled it off, here's I'm Good It's a clips classic, it's the'm Good. This is Eclipse Classic. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Front page news is next.

Just glazed. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Nega. We are the Breakfast Club. Now let's get back to some front page news. What's up Morgan? Oh, that's me.

Oh, hey. I'm like, oh, that's me. I usually like when you say hi to me. Good morning. What's up Morgan? Hey girl. I usually like when you say hi to me. Good morning. Hey, appreciate it. We can put it to us. My bad, y'all. So, yeah, as mentioned in the last hour, the topic of former President Joe Biden's mental

health is still a topic for former vice president or excuse me, former President Bill Clinton is defending former President Joe Biden when it comes to claims regarding the decline of his mental health while he was in office and running for reelection. Now, Clinton made the comments speaking to CBS Sunday morning. Let's take a listen to what he had to say about former president Joe Biden's mental health. I thought he was a good president. The only concern I thought he had to deal with was could anybody do that job until they were 86? And we'd had several long talks. I had never seen him and walked away thinking

he can't do this anymore. He was always on top of his brief. I saw President Biden not very long ago and I thought he was in good shape. So what are your thoughts there? Clinton was actually on the show promoting his new book, The First Gentleman. I think Bill Clinton is holding the party line. And we don't need anybody that's continuing to hold the party line to the detriment of the country. Because that's what happened with President Biden.

People held the party line so much to the detriment of the country. Because if President Trump was the threat that everybody said he was going to be, then they should have governed like a threat and they should have been doing things to ensure that threat doesn't get back into power. And running Joe Biden, keeping him in that position, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely didn't ensure that Trump wasn't going to get back in that position of power.

But the sad thing about it is we said it, right? We seen it and we got ish for people saying that that's not true, this, the other that's not happening but we all seen it with our eyes. We ain't never met him I ain't never met the man so you mean to tell me that those of us who never met the man saw it but people that used to see him on the regular didn't see it? Cut it out. Well I think it's just a matter of what you saw and where you might have saw it because I was around and very heavily involved with the Biden administration and covering the vitamin administration. I had been around him during the time where people were saying he was he was on his mental decline. And I will say from a personal perspective that he was just old. It wasn't giving that he wasn't sharp. He just was old and slow moving. That was

just mine. And that was just you know, you know, you know, the that Bill Clinton said in that interview because I watched that whole interview this weekend He said that he said that but then he turned around and said but you know I did question if he could do that job until he was 86. Yes He was saying that anybody could do the job until they were 86 because I know this person who do it I mean, that's what I'm saying. He's the person. He's the guy. Yeah, you can't just say anybody He was the guy that was close to the 86. And nobody was attacking him. I think if you had a family member that had dementia and like, you seen signs from that

Joe Biden had that I seen Gia's mom had, right? I see no same type of signs. So that's worried me. And if you voted me somebody, you have questions. And the fact that I feel like they were lying, you know concerns me a lot Of course that the concern for sure was legitimate But you know whether or not, you know what was going on? But I'm where I'm standing right now is trying to figure out why is it? Why is it still the topic of conversation?

But you're saying it is because we are where we are right now So I think it's a topic conversation because you should learn from history and you know They just put out the book the original sin But based off Bill Clinton's logic, if that's the case, then we should never discuss what any president does after they are no longer president. We shouldn't discuss Barack Obama's legacy. We shouldn't discuss Clinton's legacy.

We shouldn't discuss George Bush's legacy. Based off what Clinton is saying, once a person is out of office, we shouldn't be talking about them no more. Come on, man. This is when Democrats sound ridiculous to us. This is when politicians sound ridiculous to us, because is when politicians sound ridiculous to us because they're so busy trying to hold the party line that they sound foolish. Tell them how you really feel. All right.

Well, moving on. In other news, House Minority Leader, also a Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries is among lawmakers raising alarms over President Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Now, Jeffries was in attendance at a rally in Brooklyn on Sunday alongside New York Governor Kathy Hochul to detail concerns about what will happen if the U.S. Senate passes the act. Let's take a listen to Hakeem Jeffries. You know the GOP tax scam is not one big beautiful bill, it's one big ugly bill that will hurt everyday Americans, hurt everyday New Yorkers, and is designed to

reward their billionaire donors like Elon Musk. So Jeffries also warned and others warned that it would impact federal funding to Medicaid causing many of those to lose health insurance. Now Trump has said that cuts are targeting waste and fraud and abuse and the US Senate is expected to take up the bill this week. They are officially back in session today. Now New York Governor Kathy Hoke will also heavily criticize the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers over a number of issues. She says the Republican led plan to make steep cuts to Medicaid is taking from the poor and giving to the rich and a reversed what's

the I'm sorry a reverse was it not Peter Pan who does who takes from the rich and get to the poor robin robin of brittford thank you and a reverse robin hood type of situation and she says she can't promise that all of her hospitals will stay open in new york so this is going to impact new yorkers if this bill uh... to cut medicaid it becomes law let's take a listen to new york governor kathy hokal this is a level of attack

i'm first was unforeseeable, but it has to be stopped. What they're proposing is basically reverse Robin Hood. They're taking from the poor to give to the rich, and people need to rebel against that. If we lose $3 billion for hospitals, I can't say we're going to be able to keep all of my hospitals open. I cannot say that right now. They have to back off. So Hoco also went on to say that it's hard to protect people from disease if COVID vaccines are no longer being recommended for healthy children and pregnant women, as just stated by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

And she also says she'll stand up for immigrant rights when testifying at a House Oversight Committee in about a week. So as I mentioned, that big beautiful bill is now being taken up in the Senate. After the Senate vote, House lawmakers will have a chance to approve changes to the bill. And like I said before, Congress is officially back in session today. So I will keep you posted as to what happens with that. I had one more story. I'm not going to get too much into it I'll just say that updates and improvements at Newark New Jersey's Newark Liberty Airport are underway and it does appear that things are moving in a positive direction per

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy who was there this earlier this week. So it looks like one of the runways has been that was shut down for maintenance has reopened. So it looks like things are moving in a positive direction for Newark Liberty Airport. But that's pretty much it. That's your front page news. Follow me on socials at Morgan Media and for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network download the free iHeart radio app and visit us at BINnews.com. Thank y'all. Alrighty. Thank you, Morgan. All right. When we come back three time WNBA champion, two time Olympic gold medalist, and she has a new book, The Can Do Mindset.

Candace Parker will be joining us and we're going to talk to her next. So don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

Yes indeed. The legend Candace Parker. Welcome. Thanks for having me y'all. How you feeling this morning? Nice being in the room. Goodness. Man, nice having you. You know you're one of those people, like you know people always say like, who would you ever want to interview? And you'd really be like, I don't know, because you can't really think of nobody. But then when you see you on the schedule, you're like, oh, shit, Candace Parker. I'd love to have a conversation with Candace Parker.

I appreciate it. I really enjoyed your book, The Can-Do Mindset, How to Cultivate Resilience, Follow Your Heart, and Fight for Your Passions. Can you break down why you called it The Can-Do Mindset? Yeah, growing up, nickname Can, short for Candace, you know that, but my mom, I grew up with two older brothers,

eight and 11 years older than me. And fast forward, my oldest brother played 10 years professionally, played alongside LeBron for years. My middle brother became a doctor. And so I just saw these enormous role models that were doing so many great things. And I think sometimes I doubted myself. And so my mom, from the time I was little,

two, three years old, she'd always see the doubt in my eye and she always be like can do and it just became My mantra and it became my voice in my head and I mean it took me through high school knocking down game-winning free throws to shoot even now and so then it became an acronym for community authenticity navigating negativity Loving the dash which is the journey in between, and seizing and creating opportunity. Well, congratulations on August 25th, your jersey will be retired, well deserved.

How does that feel? To go back home to Chicago, I grew up in Naperville, and I grew up a Chicago Bulls fan. I mean, they won six championships in the 90s when I was living there, and so it became synonymous with winning. So to go back and play basketball in front of the people that first saw me pick up a ball

and then to win a championship in front of the people that first saw me play basketball, I don't think, I mean, that was super special. I couldn't have written it any better. And I think first you dream of a championship being up in the rafters and second you dream of your jersey as well. I think it was in the authenticity section of the second you dream of your But honestly, I think that the more visibility you get the more scrutiny you're gonna get

I mean, that's just nature as women. I think society always tries to put you in a box So as athletes we fit outside that box. You're either too muscular. You're not competitive enough But then when you show competitive nature, it's not ladylike. So whatever you do as a woman, I feel like until we break that mold in society where it's like okay for us to be fierce competitors, I think you're always going to have a different narrative. And so yeah, I look at it like it's competitive and it's two people going at it and sometimes I think it's overblown. Sometimes I think that you're making a basketball play and then there's 15 angles from different cameras that try to make it something it's not. So I don't know.

I'm just excited where women's sports is in general right now because people are talking about it. People know the names. People are following the brands and a lot of it has to do with the visibility of it. Women's sports has always been there. It's just a matter of people tuning in and paying attention and I think organizations, broadcasters, all that, giving it a chance to succeed.

Not putting it head to head up against NFL. Not putting it head to head up against finals or MLB or whatever and so I think now we're seeing more women's basketball and because of that, I think that's why it's grown. The reason I ask that, because I watch a lot of women's basketball and I've been watching Angel since college so since even that Caitlin incident I've seen her

and Aaliyah Thomas have a little kerfuffle like she's always getting into it with somebody but it's not the same reaction from people it's just but to me it's just like women out there playing ball they're being competitive. And I think ball players know that but now you're getting the casual fans that don't understand that type of basketball so I think it's a competitive nature. Now are there things that cross the line? Yes. Are there comments and you know discussions behind things that cross the line? 100% and I think you know we have to get that under control but to me I think half the time it's more competitive than anything. But there's rivalry as well. I remember Reggie Miller with the choke sign.

We still want action with him regardless. There's still things that's gonna make the press push it a little more. You said we hit Nick Fran. By the way, I'm sorry man. I'm sorry about what happened. I know. Yeah. It's okay though.

Can I see you say maybe Nick Fran? Listen, I'm a Bulls fan so you know where we're at. Oh, you're the bad guy. Y'all been a bad guy. Y'all been a can cool. But listen, what is the saying if you're not first you're last? So technically, no, it's like we weren't even in the playoffs, so it's okay. I want to ask, you dominated the WNBA broadcaster, mom, author.

Which was the most difficult journey? Motherhood is a journey that is the greatest gift, gives you the most rewarding feeling, but it's also the hardest job that you can have. You think you have it figured out and then you have another kid, or you think you have it figured out and there's another stage of life. I have a 16-year-old daughter, a three-year-old son, and a one-year-old son. And they are all different. And they have all taught me so many different lessons. And I'm just super grateful for not only what I'm able to bring to the table and what I teach them, but the lessons they've taught me.

Like they have humbled me so many times. They have checked me so many times. They have made me look myself in the mirror and ask myself, am I doing what I'm asking them to do? And so I think motherhood is one of those things where I'm just so grateful for it. I'm so grateful for my daughter and us being able to kind of go through my career and grow up together and fumble and bump and live across the water

and all of those things. And then I'm super grateful to be able to now take a moment with my sons and be able to have a different type of perspective in motherhood and parenthood. What part of your personality do you think was misunderstood the most during your playing career? And this book helped you to, I guess, reclaim the night. What's so crazy to me is I think when you're going through

just trying to figure stuff out, you're just trying to figure shit out. That's what you're trying to do. But you're going through life trying to mask it. And for so many parts of my life, during some of my greatest triumphs, winning championships, winning MVPs, I was going through struggles behind the scenes within motherhood and

balancing that within relationships, within, you know, trying to figure out how to be authentic in who I am. And I think the person that I became in that process and who I was for my teammates wasn't always great. It wasn't always who I was. And so I think through writing this book, it has helped me better understand who I want to be, who I commit to be, but also like giving myself grace through those moments. Because I think sometimes we show up and we feel like we have to be this at work, but we're still not ourselves. And the people around us know that. And then they start treating us like those people that we aren't. And then it just snowballs out of control so I think who I am people may have had a

different idea you know what I mean and I wasn't always proud of the way that I treated my teammates or how I showed up to work every day but sometimes when you're just trying to show up and you're trying to make it you know that's the best that you can do so I think I kind of like went through that and processed that in writing this book. What was the most difficult thing you had to write in the book though? The one difficult thing you was like you thought about maybe I should take out or you cried or it was that hard. It's really difficult to tell stories that need to be told that aren't

going to paint certain people in a positive light and I think I struggle with that because I like to take the blame. I like to take the onus on myself. In games and losses and miss shots and whatever, I like to say that I've always had a part in whatever happens. And so writing this, it's trying to figure out how do you tell these stories,

and how do you tell it where it's your story to tell? Whereas you're not telling somebody else's story, because I was very conscious of that. So just kind of talking about like my parents divorce and talking about leaving the sparks, the LA sparks and deciding to go to Chicago. Talking about my wife and then also like near and dear to my heart like Coach Summit. My coach in college passed away in 2016 and kind of navigating that and what to share, what's intimate that I need

to keep with myself to myself and what can I share and would I have her blessing in sharing. We're still kicking it with Candace Parker, Charlamagne. Has your greatness ever made you feel isolated? Like people only saw Candace Parker the player but not Candace Parker the person? You know what's so crazy? You know in basketball there's like a finite time, right? The ball is going to eventually stop bouncing. You know Father Tom, I mean LeBron in basketball, there's like a finite time. Right, the ball is gonna eventually stop bouncing. You know, father time.

I mean, LeBron has kind of proven that's not the case, but for most of us. But it's like, your identity becomes the game. Like you keep the main thing, the main thing. That's been my gift my whole life. Basketball has been the main thing. I gave up prom, like left prom to go to basketball, lived abroad to play basketball.

But it's like when you retire, your identity of the who and the what is separated. And you realize like the people that really saw you for who you are versus what you did. And so I think that was the biggest struggle for me is like, everybody has that morning that death after you retire. I mean, I love basketball. It was my first love. And so I think, yeah, like separating my identity from that. And I was very conscious of trying to show people like I am a history buff. I love to travel. I'm a foodie. I love wine, tequila connoisseur, like all of those things. I'm so much more than just basketball. And so having that separation, I know it's like huge for athletes. It is a struggle, like talking to people that have retired

and have gone and walked that path, because it is it is a death a little bit. Jealousy. Who helped you grieve? My family, honestly, my wife. I'll say my brother as well. My oldest brother went through this and he seamlessly transitioned. I planned the transition ahead of time. You know, I started commentating, gosh, way back in 2015, 2016. I started transitioning, I started doing more business

and paying attention and wanting to be at the table and in meetings and things like that. So the transition occurred before it officially, the ball officially stopped bouncing. But boy, there were days where I'd wake up and it's just like, you miss that feeling of walking in and 18,000 people are screaming your name and like the feeling of like your family's identity is that. Like they plan their summers around when my games were or trips or you know. You've been doing it since a kid though. You've been doing it since and it's

crazy because you realize although I don't like attention, that's not what I play basketball for, it's an event. You go play, everybody watches you play. It is the attention your parents give you. It is, and then afterwards, everybody's like, where are we going to eat? You go eat, then it's like, you know, and it's like you don't realize how much of that is a part of your life.

And so for me, I think that was the hardest thing, but like I said, I have my family, we had my son last year, and he just was like, he had the ability to make me stop I think that was the hardest thing. But like I said, I have my family. We had my son last year, and he just was like, he had the ability to make me stop and realize that's where I was supposed to be. I've always been 15 million different places. And so I think honestly, my son Hart made me

really appreciate retirement, because I got to enjoy all the little things. Jealous is not the right word, but do you ever get jealous or feel a way when you look at the way WNBA players are treated now than when you guys played? I just remember like two, three years ago, I was on a plane flying from Atlanta and there were some players from the Atlanta team. They were on the back of the plane and they couldn't get first class seats and they were

riding and they were struggling and they even said, talk about this on the radio. now when you see them, they start to fly private and they start to make a little more money. They start to make endorsements. Do you ever feel a way like, damn, you got to feel a little bit of that. Like I don't want them to have to go through what we went through, but I also know that Cheryl Miller, who never got to step foot in the WNBA, didn't want me to not have a league to play in. Do you know what I mean? And so I think like, yes, sometimes would it have made, would I have scored more points if we had a private flight waiting for, would I have made more, would I have made more like

school performances if I could get back the night of the game and been able to sleep and rest and recover, would I probably had a lot fewer injuries? 100%. But I feel like I'm proud because I know my name will be mentioned in the conversation of those that made it possible today. Like made the things possible today. I remember flying commercial in premium plus in a middle seat next to Sylvia Fowles going to play them in the game five of the WNBA finals. We like wrestled over the armrests.

I won, but like they won the game, but I won the armrest battle. And I remember thinking like this isn't how it's supposed to be. But now on the other side, I want to I want ownership. Like I want to own a team. Like I want to be a part of that in making it better as well. So I can't count another woman's pocket. I don't want to. I've done one myself and the ability to take care

of my family and have all the opportunities I have today because of the Cheryl Millers and the Nancy Liebermans and Shemekel Hostgals and all those that came before me. Do you think the world has truly reckoned with how different your career would be if you were a man with the exact same talent? I talk about it a lot. McDonald's All-American 2004. Dwight Howard and myself, we were the number one players. I was women's, he was men's. And I actually, there's a blurb in the book where him and I went to prom when I was in high school and our trajectories were so different after that

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st, and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Before games, because the school can't even pay for my meal because it was illegal at the time. And so in the book I talk about kind of like, I was really upset because yes, he's 6'10, big, strong, but he had this league laid out that

was already growing that had already been through the growing pains of what I was about to go through and then I just was like my left hand is better than his and so I was mad because I was like you know he has this league to go develop and use his name and image and likeness and I have to wait four years go abroad and and compete in a league that was, geez, 20 years young. Wow, wow. Another part of the book I love, it was interesting to read about how you came to grow

to love your wife, right? And it had me thinking, because you did it like that, so it had me thinking, what else about yourself did you realize, this just isn't me? What's so interesting is I think I've spent my entire life standing out and somehow in that process,

sometimes I did things just to stand out and not really listen to myself and who I wanted to be. And that's kind of opposite of what I've always tried to live by. And for a long time I it took my daughter really being like are you happy you know for me to really look myself in the mirror and say am I just going through the motions I always grew up envisioning myself with a Prince Charming always I never in a

million years when I do those little trashy magazine things I would always talk about Prince Charming and it's crazy because sometimes life hands you In a million years, when I do those little trashy magazine things, I would always talk about Prince Charming. It's crazy because sometimes life hands you things and packages that you least anticipated coming in. And that's what happened with my wife. I mean, she's my best friend and she's been there through the ups and downs. And I think it was about her and I both being like, wait a minute, are we allowing other

people's judgments to dictate the next 30 or 40 years? Like I'm gonna allow my Instagram followers to really determine who I say good morning to and who I say good night to every single night. And I had to take a step back because I really don't care what people think, but then I really did.

And so it was kind of just like that evaluation and looking myself in the mirror. When did you realize? When I didn't fight it. I would say we were at a museum. I'm a big nerd. I love all types of museums. And it was her mind.

It was her knowledge and just her ability to carry a conversation. And my brother said something when her and I got married. My brother said something that really stuck out to me. And he said, Candice needs somebody that's strong enough to put her in her place, but soft enough where she feels vulnerable and an ability to like kind of like lay her head on her shoulder and be that vulnerable person. And when I realized I was doing that, you know, she would say stuff and I wouldn't have any response.

And at first, some of my friends were like, hold on, who is she? You know what I mean? Because that's not normally what happens. And then the same thing where I would confess things that were bothering me or have issues and be comfortable enough to share. I think that's what I noticed. We're still kicking it with Candice Parker,

ex-WNBA player, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and her new book, The Can Do Mindset, is out right now, Charlamagne. Did the people in your life know how difficult it was for you to keep, I guess, her a secret? Because I mean, in the book, you, I mean, I got frustrated when you was talking about how you wanted to tell your brother,

but you didn't tell your brother. I'm like, just tell him, he loves you, you know? But did they know, or are they gonna read this book and realize for the first time, like damn, I didn't know it was that serious? I've been on the other side of it, where I've been the person that has been like, everybody knows, just say it, just tell him.

But I think everybody comes to grips with it at a different time. I know we live in a world that has Pride Month and has all of these things, but it is scary because you are put in another category. You know, I'm already in two. So now I'm gonna be put in a third and with someone that isn't black, she's Russian and white.

And so, I mean, I think it's one of those things where it's like, what am I getting myself into? And I know my family's gonna love me. My brother was amazing throughout the entire process My family was great, but my wife's parents didn't talk to her for almost a year you know like we had family members that we have separated ourselves from because in In front with my family and with my kids This is the standard like this is how we're gonna be treated and so we couldn't go through this process ourselves and help others go through it. So we had to do it ourselves, be okay with it, be strong enough, and then go forward

with it. You can't rush it. The sexuality part was one aspect of it, but you also talked about the race aspect of it. You really cared what Dr. Umar thought that much? No, but it's a different dynamic when you walk it. You know what I mean? Like, first of all, like, even with our kids, it's like, you know, they have a black mom

and a white mom and, you know, it's like navigating the race element and the conversations we've grown up in two completely different countries. So having those conversations, like, she's not coming from a place of understanding through experience. And so like even so, we're confident and we're cool within our household. But it's like you don't understand the other noise that could mess that up, if that makes sense. Have there ever been a time where you dimmed your light to make others feel comfortable, especially in rooms full of men? 100%. You know, it's so funny. I was sitting on the shop and it was with Draymond Green, Bronn was there, Mav was there, and they were like, you know, people don't understand what it's

like to be a black man and be the only one in the meeting. And I was looking around like, what? Y'all really just said that, like, read the room, you know what I mean? So I think sometimes you have to pick your battles a little bit. As a teammate, my job is to make those around me better. So same thing when you're sitting at these tables. Like the point isn't to make people feel stupid or feel small. The point is to make them understand the need for different voices at the table.

And I would say diversity of thought. I've sat at so many tables and been the only. I'm comfortable but I'm tired of being the only. When I went into TNT as the the only female on that set a lot of people think hey I want you you know you you trying to be one of the guys like no I'm trying to be one of the players that's it So treat me as such the way I see the game is way different than Shaq Shaq throw the ball down low Barbecue chicken Shaq other people have to do moves. We can't just watch it again We just can't yes But like the way he played was just so dominant that he doesn't understand that people have to do stuff to score

He's like just throw it down there and score and it's like cat can't do that He's not do you know what I mean? I'm not, I'm not saying, but cat can't do that. D Wade and I can't, we can't do that. We have to do moves and use the mental aspect and element of it. But I feel like the value that is brought to the table, if you had 15 shacks, what at, you know, as analysts, but he brings value to the equation because he was so dominant and it gives you a bird's-eye view of like Dominance and so I just think anytime you have different people at the table You're gonna bring different perspectives like why not and so it just drives me crazy. I watch first take I like Stephen A Smith He's super knowledgeable about the game

But like the people that comment under my posts about how I'm a woman I never played the NBA and I should shut the f up and whoa But they are like Stephen A Smith has the Bible for the NBA and it's like he hasn't played either But it's just because you know, he's a man and so I just am continuing to fight that stigma I'm open for the challenge. I'm up for it grew up with two older brothers. All we did was make fun of each other. So I'm game. I can speak that language, but it's just having the opportunity

to like separate myself. Like don't like me as an analyst, but don't not like me because I'm a woman. That's my thing. Is there a WNBA teammate you didn't appreciate in the moment, but now you realize that person was vital to your growth? That's a really, really, really great question.

I would say I appreciated her in the moment, but I don't think I appreciated her enough in the moment. I would say definitely Delisha Milton Jones. I think she's someone that was in the league for such a long time. She had such an amazing career, longevity, won championships with the sparks, played different roles, played key roles, came off the bit. Like she did it all. And so I think she genuinely wanted me to succeed. And you know, I was a rookie when she was there

and you know, we got in some brawls alongside. She beat me up in practice, coming off screens, and it was like all that was tough love, because she loved me. And you know, you talk about a lot of things in the book, but what's something you haven't forgiven yourself for yet, even if nobody else knows about it? I would say I struggled for a long time in the closing seconds of games mentally. Wow. I did because the results didn't work out

for me. I talk about that a lot in this book about how naive I was my rookie year we lost by a last second shot. Nine years later I was still losing by last second shots and I felt myself in those moments tense up when prior I would relish in those moments. Like I would be, I'd want the ball and I would find myself shying away from those moments because I had conceded to the fact that it was just not going to work out. And it took my brother, it took me finally realizing how to relinquish results and just live in the process. The dash, right, enjoying the journey. It took a Kobe Bryant text message to me

that was like, it's better the hard way. You don't die with bullets in the chamber, right? Like you go down shooting. It was that text message and just the support from my family and friends that allowed me to win the championship. And it came down to the closing moments. And in those moments, I just played.

And it could have not worked out. It could have worked out. But I just, since that time, when I lose, I'm not in bed for four or five days. Like I'm gonna commit to the process. I'm gonna commit to the grind. I'm gonna honestly try to stay at that, like even keeled mentality.

And that's in life as well. And I wholeheartedly believe things will work out the way that they need to. All right. Candice Parker, ladies and gentlemen. Can Do Mindset out work out the way that they need to. All right. Candace Parker. Candace Parker. Ladies and gentlemen. Candace Parker.

Can Do Mindset out right now. Go get it. Thank you so much. We appreciate you. I appreciate you. All right. When the season starts back up, check in on us. Come on up here.

We'd love to talk to you. Say less. And WAAB is seasoned up right now, so come talk to us. It's Candace Parker. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Didn't the trucker tell you to stop playing that record so much and you didn't have the new Clips record record this is disgusting first of all I have to say

this again I do not pick the records that play on the morning I only play the records in the mix so that's in my Serato my Serato is not connected to this right now you do a mix 9 o'clock I do a mix really I'm telling you this guy's playing with me yeah because you are DJ everybody think you're responsible for every just song we play during the show They sent me clips record nine times this morning because he said It plays after this thing let's play after what latest will are oh my goodness You get something girl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on it.

The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. I was going to say, dang, Envy, you ain't got my intro either? Dang. Talk on me. I say dang it, you ain't got my intro either.

So yesterday in court witnessed Mia who was the former personal assistant of Diddy that alleged that she was raped three times, she talked about in court, but more than three times and that she was like physically assaulted at work and all of these things was on the stand. Brian Steele, Young Thug's attorney was doing her cross, which is where, you know, he's questioning her from Diddy's side of it, right? Complete pit bull. When I tell you, he went at her, like straight at her.

He called her, you know, sexual assault claims, a Me Too money grab. He told her she was a liar while on the stand, to the point where the judge had to stop the back and forth questioning and they had to have a sidebar conversation. They came back and was like, listen, the way that you are having a conversation with her, it is it's hostile. Like it's too much. Way too aggressive.

Yeah. And your tone and it's humiliating and it like they the judge gave him a talking to he came back and still was on his best BS though. Like I'm not going to lie. Like I say, a hundred percent everything was being objective, but he still kept going. And it looked like it helped or hurt. At first I thought it was hurting because she's up there talking about she can't remember certain things when it comes to her sexual assault or she doesn't know why she kept reaching

back out to Diddy via text and different things after she was no longer an employee with him. And after she received a settlement, after they decided to go split ways as an employee because of mental health. Like she was blaming a lot of things on mental health, not blaming, but she was referring to her mental health and her conditions and not really understanding herself why she was still in such a hold.

And I'm like, yo, he's being so aggressive. But then I'm watching it and I'm like, wait, if all you got is like her account of things, because there's no text messages or no emails, there's no anything written where she's telling a friend about the alleged events, not even just sexual assault, but like having to get on a boat and paddle away from Diddy and in the water at one point. Last week, she talked about that, like having to get on it wasn't a boat. She said it was like a what's those little boards like a new paddleboard. She said she had to get on a paddleboard at one point to get away from him doing like one of his like alleged like crazy partyism. And then the Prince party incident, the alleged incident when Diddy came out and was trying

to drag her and Cassie back into the party because he was mad she was there. Brian Steele was like, so all of these things happen, right? These big events, there's no photo, there's no video and you used to document everything for Diddy. You didn't text a friend, you never emailed anybody, there's nothing written in solid. And I'm like, okay, so now you just got to hang on what she's saying. And it's like, do you believe her or not? But she's very timid.

And Brian Steele was like, nope, that's a lie. Nope, that's a lie. And I'm like, well, if I'm a juror, now you got to believe him or her. And he is bringing these things around full circle. So I think, not even think, I have a friend that was actually in the court because I was in the overflow room in the actual court where you could see the jurors who said that the jurors were reacting to the questioning, the line of questioning, like openly reacting. They would, you know, when she couldn't answer certain questions, it's like, okay, wait,

like they're not saying it, but you can see in facial inspections and things like that, that they were like, oh wow, okay, what's happening? Because that's how we all felt in the overflow room, like, wow, Brian still is destroying her right now. So I thought it was kind of effective. But up next on the stand stand you have a video expert who's gonna talk about that video from the Intercontinental Hotel because Diddy's team is saying that that video was like sped up.

You have a witness Jane Doe who's also going to speak to some allegations as well. But at this point again, I really think that it's time for Diddy's team to like the government, the rest Diddy's team to come up and bring their witnesses on. Cause- Do we know who Diddy's witnesses are? No, and I've been trying to figure that out. Who, how, who's going to get on that stand? Because that-

They said if Diddy's going to get on the stand? They have not said- He should. I think Diddy should get on the stand and Diddy should be the defense's number one witness. Diddy should get on the stand and basically throw himself at diversity of the court. He should be as, he should just be honest about everything that has happened in his life

from day one. They should basically just lay out a bio for Diddy from the time he lost his father to losing his best friends like Wolf and Biggie and Kim Porter and Andre. I just lay it all, I just lay out a story of trauma and sadness and how he turned to drugs and alcohol and everything. He should just get on the stand and just lay it all out. Just lay it, just throw yourself on the mercy of the court. Well, face down ass up. I knew that was coming out. I was like, come on, bring it on. Well, lay it all. Well spread him and just

yes I'm not even joking he should be spread he should be the star witness for the defense and he should just go out there and just throw himself on the mercy of the court. Talk about all the tragedy all the trauma he's been through how he had to turn to drugs and alcohol and everything else and he was wild. Well um he's going to do something because they bring in so much difference. Homegirl brought up R. Kelly. She said she had a- R. Kelly? I saw that.

I saw something. It was crazy. After talking about, you know, because she alleged she had been raped and all these things and Brian Steele's like, wait, but all these years later you're texting Diddy talking about you had a dream about R. Kelly that she was in an elevator and that he saved you from R. Kelly allegedly. Why would you text someone who you're saying raped you about saving you from another person in this like, I mean, never even meet you.

I saved you from me. It was a dream. Yeah, it was a dream. It was a dream. But there are psychologists who've been breaking us down and said that's like, you know, that can be like her innermost thoughts. And I don't know. It's a lot. But real quick as we wrap

up, I know we got the Clips record now. Yes, I always have the Clips record. I always have the Clips record. Yeah, I had to double check. We talked about earlier in the last hour, the latest, the Clips sat down with GQ Magazine and talked about a ton of different things. We didn't mention the Kanye stuff that they spoke about and Pusha T seemed really heart broken in the article talking about splitting ways with Kanye and where they are now and saying that they good. It ain't there for him no more. You don't even look at Kanye as a man.

But I say all that to say please go read that article and now we have the music. I always had the Clips record. It was in my Serato. Just wasn't in the station's computer. Could you shut up and play it so we can have time to hear it before Donkey and the Day? No. Before we do, we got to tease Donkey. Who you giving your donkey to before after the hour?

We need the acting head of FEMA to come to the front of the congregation We'd like to have a word with him not play the new clips now We're gonna play top of the hour and then we'll play it and then donkey. Okay, breakfast local morning. Yeah That clips album can't come quick enough man, I reckon so disgusting now my god, I just want to go pretend to sell some dope right now Right now Jesus that record is so tough. I wrote that too by the way, okay, Pat The donkey of the day is something to go home. Is it a read? He gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it. You need to know.

You need to tell them. I am. You have the voice. Tell them. Tell them. It's time for donkey of the day. It's a read, but you're so good at it. He's trying to be a fake ass Charlamagne.

There's only one Charlamagne in the world. Damn Charlamagne, who you give a ducky of the day to, man? That is crazy how the clips make you just want to get dressed up and go sell some coke. You want to put on a nice three-piece tailored suit and just find some cocaine to sell. What's wrong with you, man? Don't get a date for Tuesday, June 3rd. Go to the acting head of FEMA, David Richardson. What is FEMA? The Federal Emergency Management Agency, their primary goal? What are they here for?

It's to coordinate the federal government's response to disasters and emergencies, both natural and manmade. What is a natural disaster? Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, any catastrophic event caused by natural force, okay? Tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis. any catastrophic event caused by natural force okay tornadoes volcanic eruptions tsunamis there are multiple natural disasters that we can all point to now David Richardson was recently appointed acting administrator of FEMA and he has no prior experience managing natural disasters by the way I don't

care what anyone says people being in leadership roles like this with no prior experience are way worse than what you call a DEI hire. You can't tell me DEI hires have no qualifications but then turn around and hire people with no qualifications. Now why is David Richardson getting donkey today? Envy, have you ever heard of hurricane season? Yes, of course. Jess Hilarious, have you ever heard of hurricane season?

Absolutely. Of course you have. It started on June 1st and ends November 30th. If I am from Moncks Corner, South Carolina, I lived through Hurricane Hugo 1989. I was 11 or 12 years old, so I know all about a hurricane season. Well, if I know about hurricane seasons and Envy and Jess know about hurricane seasons, why doesn't the acting head of FEMA, David Richardson? What are you talking about Uncle Sharla? Well,

let's go to CBS News for the report please. Multiple sources say staff at FEMA were left surprised when the agency's new acting head said he didn't know the U.S. had a hurricane season. David Richardson reportedly made the comments during a briefing Monday. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson says it was made in jest, but some staffers are concerned since Richardson has no prior experience managing natural disasters. The acting administrator for FEMA just found out that America has a hurricane season. Wait until he finds out that water is wet and the sky is blue. Can you imagine if the head of NASA said out loud, wait, we go to space?

These are the same people rebelling against DEI because the people they feel are hired through DEI are unqualified. They don't believe your identity should be the reason you get hired for a job. And I agree. But that should also apply to old white males as well because dammit from Pete Hegseth to David Richardson, we just keep getting examples of mediocre unqualified white males, okay? David Richardson, the acting head of FEMA

just found out this country has a hurricane season. That's like the surgeon general saying, wait, people have organs? Yes, there are some seasons we just know. Pumpkin spice lattes in the fall, egg dog and coquito during the holidays. Hurricanes now, okay? This isn't some random guy on YouTube.

This isn't a podcaster. This isn't some essay standing outside a Home Depot. This is the head of FEMA. Okay, this man is supposed to be the one warning us to brace for impact, not asking, wait, we have a hurricane season? We are doomed, doomed, doomed, doomed, I tell you. You know what else David Richardson did in this meeting?

According to CNN, he announced that FEMA will not release an updated disaster plan for this hurricane season as previously promised. Instead, FEMA will largely default back to its operating procedure from last year. Though the agency enters this hurricane season in turmoil with a dramatically smaller workforce, what could go wrong? Just our luck, it will be the worst hurricane season in years.

I pray not. I pray pray pray not. With some life lessons, we must learn the hard way. And oh, this big, beautiful country we call America is gonna learn now. I can see Maggie in the comments right now saying, "'Charlomene, you idiot, he was joking.'" Well, as I just said, he is considering reverting FEMA

back to last year's hurricane plan and cutting back on training. So the only joke here will probably be the agency's preparation for a natural disaster. Okay, they are really just planning to recycle last year's plan. FEMA officials' hurricane training this year consisted of control plus C, control plus V. Okay?

America, I am completely flabbergasted. As long as David Richardson is the head of FEMA, FEMA should stand for Forget Every Major Alert. Don't even worry about the category 4 that might be brewing in the Atlantic. Let it sneak up on us. Okay? FEMA should stand for Forget Expectations. Make assumptions.

Since David Richardson just assumed that we didn't have a hurricane season. America, if the head of FEMA doesn't know we have a hurricane season, we are doomed. Okay? Way before Avengers Doomsday gets here. I'd read a quote once, and the quote was, when you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you. I must say I disagree. Okay?

Certain positions, certain jobs, you just have to simply be qualified for. You have to be simply qualified to do and if you don't know that there is a hurricane season then you are not qualified. Please give the acting head of FEMA David Richardson the biggest he-huh. God forbid. I hope we don't have a natural disaster in this country anytime soon because if we do, y'all gonna realize that FEMA stands for Fix Everything My Ass. Okay? Damn. What?

Fix Everything My Ass. You wanna be FEMA now, don't you? Nope. Now you wanna be FEMA. When I put it like that, you wanna be FEMA. You please tell me your ass broke, Charlamagne. What is he talking about? I'm gonna try, I'm gonna do my best to fix it. What is wrong with you? When I put it like that you want to be female you please tell me your ass broke Pride shut up

You you be quiet You be quiet and be pride alright, thank you for celebrating for that donkey of the day Yes, let me reset for a second reset reset. Happy birthday to my daughter. She's 12 years old today She's on her way to school. So happy birthday. Happy birthday Happy birthday Happy birthday in Dominican, right? Is it uh, feliz cumpleaños? No, no, no Yes

Yes, no, that's a merry Christmas, ain't it? Oh, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. Congressman Eric Swalwell. Welcome. Hey, thanks for having me on. How you feeling today? The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.

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Yeah. But you were raised, your parents were Republican. Yeah. So you were Republican at one point. Yeah. What made you switch sides, so to speak? They would tell you, they would blame college. I was the first to

go to college. And so they're like, oh, he got brainwashed by those college liberal professors. But no, the truth is, my dad was a cop. My mom worked a number of odd jobs, made wedding cakes, did ceramics, ran like a very large, probably unlicensed daycare facility with me and my little brothers. And I was the first one to be able to kind of get out. And when I left the town I grew up in was called Dublin, everyone around us called it scrublin. I started to realize that I think very much resented that it felt like there were like two

paths of opportunity in America, like certainly in my community, which was like if your parents knew someone, or they had like means or they had connections Like you could go and try and be anything and if they didn't then you had to like work your ass off Probably twice as hard as anyone else. Mm-hmm. And so I started looking at like different political parties and I thought well Democrats believe in kind of a free market approach which is like when we're at our best, I think, that if you work hard, no matter who you are, you should do better and dream bigger.

And Republicans, I saw, was like a free-for-all approach. But yeah, my parents are still Republicans today. I have three little brothers. They don't talk about it that much, but I'm pretty sure I know who they voted for. And I married a girl from southern Indiana who grew up in the same town as the Pence's. Her mom was the Pence family dentist

until she retired last year. So I have to go on Fox News if anyone in my family is gonna see me on TV. Was it a particular moment or a situation that made you be like, I don't lean towards conservative anymore? It was in the Bush presidency, seeing a lot of people that I grew up with go off, you know, to a rock

and feeling like it was bullsh**, like what they were being told and that it was really more just a power grab and an oil grab. And it wasn't about the reasons that they were being told. I think that was kind of that completed for me the transformation, but it was really more about opportunity. Because as I said, like I grew up in a very like working class home, and the towns that

were around us were very wealthy. And so because I played competitive soccer, I got to see in our town didn't have a competitive soccer team. So I played in like the wealthier towns teams. And I got to see see what the richer kids thought of the poor kids by playing on their teams. And honestly, it was a little bit of just like resenting that they were able to take shortcuts

and people who worked hard, they had to do it twice as hard. And I thought, well, one party actually thinks if we all have about the same opportunity and then you're defined by how hard you work, not by who you know. And I thought the Democratic Party embodied that more than the Republican Party. You think we'll ever get back to centrist politics ever again?

I hope so. I mean, I was also, you know, I came of age when Bill Clinton was president and I thought, you know, he was very good at trying to find like what's possible. And I see myself as wanting to do this job, you job, to solve problems and be in the solutions business. And today it feels very like just zero sum, like whoever wins the other side says that this is it. And that actually goes back, you had the search and destroy under Bill Clinton,

when they wanted to do anything over a sex scandal to destroy the guy. And then George Bush comes in and I I would say Democrats are probably guilty of saying like, this is the most existential threat to our country, you know, we're going to lose our country if George Bush is reelected. And then Obama comes in and you get like this birtherism bullsh**. And then when the real threat came in Donald Trump, I think most Americans were like, okay, that's just what you guys say.

Every time. That's just what you say. So when the real threat was there we probably didn't appreciate it. I want to ask, what do you think the biggest thing the Democrats got wrong in the last election? Immigration and public safety. 40% of my constituents were born outside the United States. It's probably one of the largest like groups of immigrant communities you'll find in America. And we also happen to be today, because we've embraced immigration, one of the wealthiest districts now in America. And we also happen to be today, because we've embraced immigration, one of the wealthiest districts now in America. So there's a straight line between having

people who left everything, showed resilience, created something, and like the wealth they can create in their community, right? So when you have like legal immigration channels, there's no end. But the American people, they're not going to let you solve the workforce crisis in agriculture, in hospitality, in restaurants, food and beverage. They're not going to let you attack that until they see security at the border. And the perception that the border was out of control and the reality that the border was out of control

was a problem. So I think if we had just doubled down and said, yeah, we want border security, if people are going to make asylum claims, we're going to put resources there to adjudicate those claims as quickly as possible. But if it's seen that all you have to do is just come to the United States or like cross an insecure border and then you can have access to resources, people aren't going to want to hear your plan to have a million people come here and work on the jobs that really

need to be filled. And so I think we just weren't seen strong enough on that issue. And then on law and order, I think we rightfully fought for criminal justice reform, rightfully, but we were too too much identified as like a defund the police party. And I think you can have both people want safety in their community. They also don't want the wrong person going to jail or people going to jail for petty, but they want to feel safe in the community and we weren't perceived as a party that was gonna keep you safe.

I think Democrats miss people though because when you talk about home ownership and small businesses, that's literally a middle class thing. Like you know how hard it is to be able to afford a home? Like some people I'm talking about are just folks who want to find an apartment that's not $3,000 a month. You know, they just want to have a couple of meals

on their table throughout the day for their kids. Like this, that, like we never speak to that. It feels like we always talk to the middle class and above that, but we never talk to who's lord. But I want us to be aspirational. And I think a weakness of the Democratic Party is, my parents would tell you, when people told them that as Republicans they were voting against their interests,

because we lived in 13 different houses. I went to 11 different schools before I graduated high school. And people would say, well, you're Republican and you're voting for Republicans. The Democrats are the ones that are gonna protect people in your economic class. And my parents, my mom would say,

my interest is not being poor. And so she saw the Republican Party as talking to her as, we are aspirational for you. And I think Democrats at our best, yes, I want us to have more inventory in housing so that the cost of housing comes down. And in California Frankly a lot of the laws in California get in the way of

Builders and developers bringing more inventory, you know on stock so that you can have more affordable housing. Yes I want that for people just basic housing. Yes that that is a need but I want people to aspire For owner for ownership because I think think when you own a piece of America, that fulfills the American promise that if you work hard, you can own something. And for most Americans, the greatest source of wealth is their home.

But more and more Americans, especially my generation, homeownership is out of reach. Believe it or not, I'm still paying off student loan debt. I've got about $80,000 in student loan debt today. And many people like me who chased that dream of being the first to go to college, they're just in the quicksand of student loan debt. And they think that the American promise is bull.

Because they don't own a piece of it. So I want us to be more aspirational, put more housing in America so that you increase the inventory and you increase the ability of people, as I said, to have skin in the ownership game. But how do we get those poor and disenfranchised people to even get to a mindset of aspirational? Because right now they're just trying to survive. Yeah, it starts in school and it's going to get worse with AI.

So what we're seeing right now with AI is that you're going to have people who learn the skills of AI and they will do better for themselves because they know it, and then you're gonna have a whole generation of people who never even had it in their classroom. We still have Congressman Eric Swalwell in the building. Now I wanted to ask, we look at Donald Trump, and Donald Trump has been signing executive orders

pardoning his people, his core, to the people in the public, it looks like he looks out for his own. The Democrats don't look like they look out for their own. Talk about that a little bit because somebody who sees that says, well, why am I messing with a Biden where Biden wouldn't pardon his best friend? He would pardon his son. Wouldn't pardon his best friend.

Would Donald Trump pardon anybody that rides for him? He'd definitely pardon a lot of his best friends. Yeah. He wouldn't pardon Marilyn Monroe either. I think the issue is Democrats are weak with power. Say it again. Democrats are weak when we have power. So we had the White House, the House, and the Senate.

And not a mom in America would say that her kid was safer at school. So I have three little kids, my two oldest. They do mass shooter drills. They're eight and they're six. Mom do as well. And so they would look at Democrats and say, wait, we gave you that.

Holy trinity. White House, Senate, House, and y'all couldn't pass background checks or an assault weapons ban. And you let what, like the filibuster get in the way of it. So if Democrats, and Republicans, by the way, they will lean in with thin power and pass unpopular positions. So if we were as strong with power to pass popular positions, imagine how people would perceive us. Almost 80% of gun-owning Republicans believe in background checks and we couldn't even get that done. So I think the next president and the next Democratic majority has to flex when we have power. I was reading the Wall Street Journal

yesterday and they asked the question about David Hogg. We had David Hogg a couple of weeks ago. And the question was, is David Hogg Democrats worst nightmare or their savior? I'm on David's board and I was on his board when he founded it. I've known him since Parkland because that's the issue I care the most about. Look, David's not wrong that the question is not, are you far left or center left? It's will you bring old tactics or new tactics?

And if you're not up to bring new tactics to take on what's happening, then these times are revealing who should lead and who should leave. I agree. Why should we ever trust the Democratic Party after they lied to us so long about President Biden? And I'm big on this because I just read the original sentence. I'm just like, I don't see. I think that Democrats have tried every strategy except for two things, honesty and courage.

Yeah. Well, there's a lot of people who are courageous right now in the Democratic Party. Our bread and butter issue, our dance with the one that brought you is health care. People have always trusted us on healthcare. That's our issue from President Johnson to President Obama to when Donald Trump tried to take it away. That's how we won the house in 2018. And now this reconciliation bill is gonna take 14 million people off their healthcare.

We're not only gonna protect healthcare, because I think protecting healthcare is not enough. We need to invest in cures. And these motherfuckers are firing cancer doctors. So we have a real clean Contrast we're for cures. They're for cancer, right? Like that's like that's why you should trust us because 40% of Americans are gonna get a phone call from a doctor to say I'm sorry you have cancer And so you're gonna if it doesn't come to you It's gonna come to someone you know

and so you want the party that believes in your healthcare and that you have a right to fight it and not go broke. And I think we have a chance to do that. Do you think, well, I know Democrats do have a messaging problem because it's almost like Democrats love facts and figures, but Republicans talk to people's gut, their emotion. When will y'all learn to hit back emotionally? We think messaging is winning a Harvard Law School mood court competition. And I think messaging is winning a gut check at the bar or the bus stop. And so it means just speaking plainly. And when you see the other side elect a 34 count

Felon you should probably see yourself as liberated to just say what you believe and not be so polished and Scripted and try and project what you think a politician should sound like because people can call bull and they're calling bull And so I hope what you're seeing now is more and more my colleagues Liberated can it produce some cringe moments? Yes. But the other part of this is to always be on. Cause if you're not always on, you're going to get defined. And, and this happened to us in the last election on issues that we

weren't talking about that much, but they would define and exaggerate. And then we found ourselves on defense because we were too scripted. We were too cautious. Is there anything Democrats can do to stop the GOP mega vote? Yes. Continue to go to Republican districts and put pressure on them. I'm getting 700 to 1,000 people in these districts when I go and do town halls. And that downward pressure, we only need to flip three of them in the House if it comes back again.

Same thing in the Senate. And we have Senate seats that we did not think were in play that are going to be in play. Not just North Carolina, but also Florida, Iowa. I mean, look at the Senator of Iowa. Two weeks ago, you would not have said that Iowa was going to be a threat. And then the Senator of Iowa went out and said, well, who cares if we're cutting Medicaid? We're all going to die anyway. So like going to those states, doing these town halls, bringing out not just Democrats, but Republicans and independents, that works. And it's also an organizing tool, a muscle for us, to exercise so that we're ready to flex it

at the midterms next November. Is your Democrats who support this bill be shamed? No Democrats who support this bill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no one do not support this bill. Is this, this is the same bill that Chuck Schumer said he wanted to support, right? No, no, no. That was a spending bill.

That was a spending bill, yeah. And that's gonna come back up in September. I hope we learned our lesson from what happened in March. Gotcha We should not be helping these guys get well Because as I said, they're firing cancer doctors. That's what when you fund their government You're funding a government that is firing cancer. Are they really cutting Medicaid? Yes, they say they're not I mean they say a lot of s*** that they're actually doing. I mean we don't reach the bills. Yeah. Yeah. No No, they're really cutting it's really in it if they want to cut Medicaid. Yes, it will kick 14 million people off Medicaid Wow, 14 million people. Wow Congressman Eric's fall. Well, thank you so much. Yeah, my pleasure this morning and don't be a stranger. I'll be back

All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. on the breakfast club. Talk to me. Well, in case anybody was wondering, Vanessa Bryant is not pregnant. So Vanessa Bryant had to go to her Insta story and post to clear up rumors. There have been things I guess spreading online. I didn't even see the rumors. I just saw I guess spreading online. I didn't even see the rumors. I just saw her post about it. Yeah, and I was actually confused because I saw

the insta story in real time when she posted it on her insta story. I'm like, why is she posting that she doesn't like it threw me off. But yeah, so she posted the meme of Rihanna where Rihanna is like swimming and she has the goggles on and she has a little finger up and the caption of the meme said me protecting my peace not pregnant and having a fun all summer and then she posted another meme another Rihanna meme that says I'm not mean I'm just not the one so there was enough going around online that I assumed that she had to tell people that she is not pregnant please leave that lady alone. But Kobe passed away in 2020 right? Yes. So if she's dating or she's

seeing somebody that's her business that's nobody business for her and her family. Exactly. Please leave her alone regardless of what she is doing. She should not have to say anything about anything at all. Like she, yes. Well she really didn't have to. She didn't have to but I think it bothered her enough that she felt like she did. Especially because she's so protective over like Kobe's legacy and all these things. Of course. Yeah and her daughters and it's just. By the way your algorithm is not the world. Just because people are tweeting you something or sending you stuff don't mean that everybody saw it.

Because that's the first time I'm hearing any of this. But it probably bothered her. Yeah, it probably bothered her. I figured it bothered her because she does not normally address things of that nature. But it bothered me to see her have to even speak on it. But yes. So is she just getting big or something?

That's also the most insulting thing too when people say that you're pregnant and you're not pregnant. You know, you might be bloated because you're pregnant or you might get it a little way, like who can, you know? People just be like, you're pregnant. And then the Rihanna means, because Rihanna is pregnant currently, that's probably what, you know people just live online and just speculate, speculate

stuff. You do gotta be careful of that though because you know sometimes even like, you know I hear things up here cuz Taylor pregnant She eight months people like yo you big as a house. I know and the person who said it is big as a house Yeah, no no no that's not true. Okay. What's not true? He always bring in house stuff outside I told Taylor she looks amazing this morning. She's glowing. She is. But I did hear the other comment.

We was like, Whoa, why would you say that? What? Oh, you heard it? Yes. It was crazy. Oh, that actually happened? Yeah, it actually happened. It did actually happen this morning.

I made that up. I was wondering why you didn't say to a pregnant woman, yeah, you picked the house. Yeah. Who said it? We're not saying to a pregnant woman. Yeah, you picked the house. Yeah. Who said it? We're not going to get into it. But if I- I'm not in the house. Me and-

Place! We are. We had already bigged her up before all that happened because she did look so glowy. Gals are right! Okay. Tell them it's beautiful. Okay, in other news, the short king reign might be over. Never.

Why, Bushola? What happened? So this story's a couple days old, but people were still arguing about it, so I figured let's jump on into the argument. So Tinder, the dating app, now has a feature, it's a hype feature, to help people date more intentionally. So a spokesperson for Tinder came out

and talked about the fact that they, you know, they wanna help their users be more intentional, especially navigating the algorithm on these dating apps because a lot of times no matter who you're responding to, what your preferences are, it's taking you to people that you don't want to date. You don't know the height. You don't. A lot of short men on Tinder.

Go ahead. Break it down. Well, yeah. So if you have a platinum level of Tinder, which costs $39.99 a month, you will get the option to select different heights that you want to date or not want to date. There's different levels on Tinder? So you can get a better crop? Yes. So $39.99 you get better access to better people?

That's wild. You just get more preferences. So you already can do in your discovery area. And I actually made a Tinder account because I was trying to see what this was like. Sure you did. I just made it five seconds ago. Sure. Because they actually saw many different preferences. They gave you, they asked me from a man or a woman,

I select woman, they gave me like 10 different options of woman, then they give you- Oh, okay, so that's where you going now? No, they asked me, am I a man or a woman? Oh, I thought you said your preference and you said woman. Be quiet, okay, because we gonna get to you and your height of people.

So then they give you the selection of height. How tall is your daddy? They can give you So then it goes from height to any height so you can have taller or shorter But you know people are saying that this whole height thing and putting this preference in is heightism and height supremacy and I looked up heightism did you know that is a thing? No but continue, I'm gonna let you cook. Heightism is the prejudice or discrimination against someone on the basis of their height I did not know that these were real things but the people are upset at Tinder. It's a short man can't get no dates. This is what all the short kings out there here's the the thing my brothers, when you a short king just understand you live longer than taller people.

So all you gotta do is wait it out cause the tall people die. Right? Is that what you're doing? Wait it out. Shorter people live two to five years longer. All you gotta do is wait it out. So you go all right, wait till 88 to find somebody.

That's it, just wait it out. Don't let Charlotte play with you. You can't hide it out though. What you about to say? What you about to say? What you about to say? No, I just- Dispute that. Dispute that. So you can look it up and realize that it's a scientific fact

that short people live longer than taller people. That's crazy. Oh wow, because I saw people get arthritis quicker. I was looking up the amount of short men who get denied on dating apps. And according to a study in 2014, 49% of women's dating ads specified that they were looking for men taller than them.

Another study indicated that men between 5'2 and 5'4 have fewer sexual partners suggesting a correlation between height and dating outcomes. I saw a little man so depressed all the time. The women with wigs get denied on wigs. It got a wig. And I'm not even saying that. And Lauren, I definitely saw you reading with your finger. Thank you. I told y'all there your finger. You did.

You just think she was that guy. Yeah, you know, there's nothing wrong with that. Whoa. All right. What? Charlamagne. No, I just asked chat. Gbt.

I said, I asked the women with bad ways get denied on dating apps and said, while wearing a wig shouldn't be a determining factor in dating app success, a badly styled or poorly maintained wig could potentially negatively impact someone's dating profile. Continue on. Glad all your wig didn't been left your head. Okay, so the iHeart Media Awards were announced today for, I'm sorry, the iHeart Radio Music Festival lineup was announced today. Let's cheer bomb something for that.

Cheer bomb? Cheer or bomb. You know anything about this? No. I know about it. We know anything about this? No. I know about it. I have all the details right here. So this is taking place on September 19th and 20th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

So this is a two day festival that is gonna be hosted by Ryan Seacrest and it will include performances by Brian Adams, Ed Sheeran, Glorilla, Jelly Roll, Lil Wayne, Ella Kuja, Mariah Carey, Maroon 5, The Offspring, and Tim McGraw. That is a fantastic lineup. We got four. That is a fantastic lineup.

We got four. We got four from our culture. Yeah, I mean, there's gonna be a... We got more than four. We got Glowrilla. Give me Glowrilla. LL. I'm talking about, yes, LL.

Lil Wayne. But I'm talking about, give me Jelly Roll, Ed Sheeran. Yeah. I'm all in. And I like Tim McGraw. Who else you say? Tim McGraw, Jelly Roll, Ed Sheeran. I'm all in. And I like Tim McGraw. Who else you say? Tim McGraw, Jelly Roll, Ed Sheeran, Glorilla, Brian Adams, Justice, Lil Wayne,

some of these people I don't know. Mariah Carey, Maroon 5. That's gonna be dope. Yes. Why is it Justice for Lil Wayne? No, Justice is a person. Oh. Justice is an artist. Yeah, Justice is an artist. I don't know. I think she said why is it Justice for Lil Wayne? No, Justice is a person. Oh Just as an artist. Yeah, just as an artist. I don't know Yes, and performances will again be streamed live on Hulu for the fans watching at home

And yeah tickets are also available to general public on AXS.com beginning June 13th. Okay. All right. I might go to that. I don't know how I'm feeling September, but I feel like I might go to that. You didn't go last year.

You didn't go last year. I don't even remember. Yes, in Vegas. No, you didn't go last year. Y'all went one year. I think I went by myself last year. The year before that we went. I really, I'm gonna be honest with you.

I have, I really don't remember. He is the king of flaking. Like, let's go. Flaking? I really I'm beyond I have I really is the king of flaking like yeah Because you know he just might not come if you really want to go He set up some time. I don't want to go and I reserved the right and did not show up if I don't want to show up Oh, yeah, they said you were two years ago. You didn't go last year last year with my myself He was two years ago. Did y'all go two years ago? Was it that was a black party? Oh, okay

Well for those of you guys who decide you don't want to go in person in Vegas and get actual tickets like you know A Charlamagne the I heart radio music festival does like I said We'll have a live stream available on Hulu for all the fans that want to watch at home. Alright. That is the latest with Lauren. Pennsylvania. Yeah right. Tonongo.

You probably won't even watch it either. Glorilla Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll, LL. Tim McGraw, Justice, Wayne. I need to see Justice. Alright well it's the Breakfast Club let's get to the mix. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarion, and we're here to show you how we do the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the mix. You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now Jess, it's time to rep a gay a day. Tell her! Make up bitches, today is right. We're your rainbows, it's gay outside. LGBTQ, LGBTQ, LGBTQ, LGBTQ, LGBTQ, LGBTQ, LGBTQ, LGBTQ, LGBTQ,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know y'all wondering who made that lovely intro. Listen, shout out to Taylor, but she not gay. The person who actually, the voice that you hear is gay. Shout out to Flava P Fever. I will be honoring Flava P Fever today. She is a dope ass chef, artist, and comedian, and also a rapper out of East Atlanta, and she is responsible for that.

I saw that June 1st on the beginning of Pride, yo. I woke up and the first thing I did was go on Instagram, and I saw that video and she made that. She also got other music as well. She goes by Chef Flavor P, that's her artist name, she has a song called Mega Star. Last year I know that I honored a lot of like gay celebrities or whatever right, but there's good regular gays out there too and she is one of the good regular gays.

So shout out to Flavor P Fever Okay, here flavor pee. All right, and it is pride month So salute to everybody out there the LGBTQ plus community salute to Candice Parker for joining us this morning Yeah, Candice Parker's book is in stores right now It's called the can-do mindset how to cultivate Cultivate Resilience, Follow Your Heart and Fight Your Passions. Very interesting story, man. Very, very interesting story.

I thoroughly enjoyed Candace Falker's book. And also Congressman Eric Swalwell for joining us this morning. Yes, man. Listen, I like having the Democrats up here on just Republicans, politicians period because I'd be wanting to know what the hell's going on in the government, you know? And sometimes when they can just not worry about representing their party and just explain things to us, I am all for that. So salute to Congressman Eric Swalwell.

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