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Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all. Niminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone.

The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did

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Teresa, your resident ghost host. And do I have a treat for you. Haunting is crawling out from the shadows, and it's going to be devilishly good. We've got chills, thrills, and stories that'll make you wish the lights stayed on. So join

me, won't you? Let's dive into the eerie unknown together. Sleep tight, if you can. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show, Civic Cipher.

That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence. And we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home workplace and social circle. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for civic cipher on the I heart radio app, Apple podcast,

or wherever you get your podcast. I listen to your show every single day. Breakfast. Goddamn it. The breakfast. With Club. God damn it. The Breakfast Club. With that ass up on the Breakfast Club. Tava. Baby.

You can't say Breakfast Club without the Breakfast Club. You're like this rare air. You got platforms and partners all over the place because your demand is so high. People want to be in business with the Breakfast Club. I don't think white people know how popular you guys are. DJ Envy. Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne Tha God.

You guys really are like the hip-hop early morning, late night talk show. Yeah, I know what y'all talking about. Good morning, USA! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, I feel good okay yep I feel good I'm really really hungry you're just hungry yeah I'm really not rested but I do still feel good you didn't get no sleep last night I did but I was I just kept waking up like I'm at the point

where like my bladder wakes me up like I have to keep waking up to go to the bathroom go pee go pee go pee a lot of pressure I had my appointment

yesterday though and I did everything but I didn't know that you don't find out the day of so 7 to 10 days and then I have to give the email

to my sister because I don't want to know you know we're doing a gender reveal they can look on the sonogram immediately no it's not that

I have to do the nip test you know so they I did it through like my blood so they can be sure because sometimes when you're able to when they reveal the gender

through your sonogram sometimes they're wrong they could be wrong right they're Because sometimes when you're able to, when they reveal the gender through your sonogram, sometimes they're wrong. They could be wrong, right? Yeah, they're wrong. So, yeah. You're right. Through the blood test, it's absolutely positively, yeah. Yeah.

So we're awaiting that. Okay. And what are you manifesting? A girl. Yes. A girl. All day. Okay.

Now, yesterday you ordered a taco. We couldn't get you a taco. There was no taco place open. We looked and we tried. What are you feeding for today? Cheez-Its. Cheez-Its. Who was?

A taco. A taco. For real? Because I never got them. You never got your taco place open. We looked and we tried. What are you feeding for today? Cheese. Who was? A taco. Taco. For real? Because I never got them. You never got your taco. Yeah. We tried yesterday and the place closed. So we'll see if we can get you a taco today.

Taylor got to connect. Didn't Taylor just have tacos? I don't have time. Come on now. Why are you going to do that? Don't do that. Don't do that. I don't want no Jamaican tacos.

That's the regular Mexican way. Oh, you want Mexican tacos? Yeah. Like, yeah. Why you just ain't going to your baby daddy house? It's stupid, stupid. I don't understand. I saw him yesterday.

I mean, why didn't you just go with him? Well, no. He knows where to get him. That's why I couldn't go with him. Oh, my goodness. All right. Well, boxer Andre Ward will be joining us. He has a new book, Killing the Image.

We're going to be kicking it with Andre Ward. Former boxer, retired boxer. One of the greatest boxers to ever step into a boxing ring. Now he's a boxing commentator and author amongst other things. That's right. So we're going to be kicking it with him. And comedian, you might know him, you might not. Pretty funny. Mild.

Mildly funny. Mildly funny. Donald Rawlings will be joining us. Yes, he will be. He's got a Netflix special called A New Day. I'm sure that you've watched it because it debuted at number two on Netflix and it's been in the top ten for the past week.

Have you seen it? He called y'all the breakfast clowns because he damn sure what I'm talking about, man. He called y'all the breakfast clowns, y'all. Yes.

I watched it. I watched it a couple times. I fell asleep the first time. Jesus. I watched it. I watched it a couple times. Okay, all right. Well, let's get the show started. I support Donnell. Yeah, me too yeah me too i go to his shows what's last time you're in a show you

went to show when last time you went to show with he was with dave right yeah i saw him at the north charleston coliseum last year yeah and i was gonna go to the taping of his special but he was taping the same night as joe coy so i figured i'd never been to a joe coy one you were fat i had to go support joe coy i told joe i was gonna come joe was I'd never been to a Joe Coy one. I had to go support Joe Coy. I told Joe I was going to come. Joe was like, you never come to my specials. He'd be giving me hell for it. So I went to his instead.

Is he white? Asian. Oh, okay. Yes. Yeah. Choose anybody else over your own. Well, just when it comes to Donnell. I'll choose anybody over Donnell.

That's what I'm making. Jesus. All right. Well, Front Page News' next Tesla and Figaro will be joining us at the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Good morning, Tess.

Good morning, DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. Peace, Tess. All right. Well, let's jump right into it. Let's start off with Nikki Haley. Yes. So no surprise. She has got out of the race. She suspended her campaign for president. Let's start off with Nikki Haley. Yeah, so no surprise she has got out of the race. She suspended her campaign for president. Let's take a listen. After winning only one state on Super Tuesday, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley bowed out of the presidential race. I am filled with the gratitude for the outpouring of support we've received from all across our great country. But the time has now come to suspend my campaign.

Haley congratulated the now presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, but did not endorse him. I have always been a conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee. But on this question, as she did

on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, quote, never just follow the crowd. Always make up your own mind. Haley's announcement all but confirms a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Trump. It's a rematch. Let's just, it is what it is. This is where the table has been set. It will be Donald Trump versus Joe Biden. The question is, what's going to happen with those Nikki Haley voters? Joe Biden did offer them a place. He said that Donald Trump made it clear he doesn't want Nikki Haley supporters. He said, I want to be clear there is a place for them in my campaign.

Trump did not extend an offer as of yet. He did say that Nikki Haley got trounced uh in the uh Super Tuesday election in record-setting fashion he said despite the fact that Democrats for reasons unknown are allowed to vote in Vermont and various other Republican primaries so he has not uh extended an olive branch as of yet uh to her supporters but this is where we are guys well they're both uh with Donald Trump is crazy for not doing that because they're going to need those people. That's what it's all about in November, energizing those people who don't feel inspired to vote for either candidate because there's not a lot of people that,

there's a whole lot of people who are not inspired by either candidate. They're not inspired by this rematch. So it's up to Biden and Trump to energize those people who don't feel inspired because they probably going to make the difference in November. Trump's style is you're either with me or you're against me.

Bottom line, he said Biden is a disaster to the country and you need to come join the best movement ever in history. That's his way of extending. He's not his style. Donald Trump is considered a threat to democracy. I was watching

John Bolton, I think he was on CNN last night. He's not. Donald Trump is considered a threat to democracy. I was watching. I was watching. What was it? John Bolton. I think he was on CNN last night. He was the former former advisor to Trump for something. I forgot what it was, but he said he ain't voting for either one of them. I'm not voting for Biden or Trump. So, you know, I know there's a lot of people who feel like that.

Yeah. I saw that, too. And he just can't go against his conservative values to vote for Joe Biden. But he certainly can't align with Trump as well. But this is where we are. People are going to have to make a decision. I think it's important that we also talk about local and state races like there's a lot of races that are still happening. So for those who are saying, well, I just can't vote for Biden or Trump, I would hope that you would still think is important for governors, Congress, city council, sheriffs. You know, those those positions are up as well. Those are positions you have to vote in. So it's just it's going to be a tough road ahead.

So Joe Biden will be doing the State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. And they're hoping that he's making the case on why he should be a choice. And John Bolton is the former U.S. national security advisor. Yeah. And you're right about the state of the union. If I was President Biden tonight, I would focus on America. I would really adopt Trump's philosophy about America first. How are you going to provide financial relief for the American people? How are you going to make sure we can keep affordable food on our tables and affordable roofs over our head? Geopolitical politics not going to cut it tonight.

We don't want to hear about more money being sent to other countries. He needs to talk about how he's going to provide financial relief for America. Do you think he should address Trump and make a comparison or leave Trump out of the conversation? I don't think it matters. I think Democrats doing that, focusing on Trump, is pointless. They need to focus on those people who are not inspired to get up off the couch in November. I told you millions of times it's about Republicans who are the crooks this year. It's about Democrats who are the cowards because they don't fight enough.

And it's about the couch. And that's voter apathy. They need to focus on those people on the couch because you ain't changing none of the people that support Trump. Trump's mind. Nope, that's not happening. No, that's for sure. At all. So going after the people who supported Nikki Haley, going after those independents, going after those hypothetical swing voters they're always chasing, that's who they need to focus on. All right. Well, that is

front page news. What are we talking next hour, Tess? We're talking, so New York, now you see M-16s on your subway with the National Guard now patrolling the NYC subway as a new crime initiative that the governor's rolled out. I want to talk about that. I think that's really interesting, guys. I want to talk about that at 7 o'clock to see if they're doing too much or if it makes you feel safer.

Okay. Where the hell you get a whole plate from, Jess Alaris? I made me a salad this morning. Oh. But to the front page news, this is blasphemy. What? It's blasphemy. What? It's blasphemy. She just did it for you.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up.

Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Good morning, good morning, Leonard. This is your little cousin, man.

It's Larry. This is Drew Grant. Son of Thomas Grant. Oh, this sounds like one of my cousins now. What's happening? That's one of your cousins. Your last name McKelvey, too? Listen, my name is A.A. Leonard.

The last time you seen me was in 0405 when you came to Drew Apartment in Harlem. So she passed. Drew Apartment in Harlem? You don't know Drew? I don't know a Drew in Harlem. So his name is not Leonard. His name is not Lenard. His name is Leonard.

My name is Lenard, boy. His name is Lenard. Yes. Drew, you don't have a cousin named Drew? A cousin named Thomas? Tony? South Carolina? Yeah, I got a cousin named Tony. Thomas? Thomas. Yeah, in Kiffield.

Okay. Thomas' wife, Drew. What the hell is going on here? I ain't never been to Drew's apartment, my brother. You went to Drew's apartment and something happened. Yeah, I ain't never been to Drew's apartment in Harlem. Alright. You never been there? Uh-uh. Your cousin said stop lying. His cousin said, like, why you lying, bro?

And then how I know Thomas your cousin. I mean... What happened? Yeah, I got a cousin named Thomas. What happened in that apartment that night? He met all his little cousins in the apartment. I'm not saying I didn't.

I just don't remember. 0405, that was a long time ago, my brother. Yeah, you wrote it down. You wrote it down in your book. I wrote it down in my book. You had a black book. You had a black book.

I ain't talking about being in no apartment in Harlem in my book called Black Privilege. You had a black book? It's called Black Privilege. It's a New York Times bestseller.

Sold millions of copies all over the world. Yo, he just write it. How you want to say he ain't write it? Listen, you got a cousin. Hey, hey, hey, Solomon. You got a cousin named Roostie. Roostie?

Roostie. Yeah, Roostie. They call her Pigeon. She from Carolina. Oh, Roostie. South Carolina. My brother, I'm not going to say I don't. But these names ain't ringing a bell right now, brother.

But Larry, you have a good day, brother. Yeah. Man, he going to call your pops later on. He gonna call your pops later on. Boy, like, get to it. What happened? But y'all parents don't do that to y'all? You know Drew.

You know Pigeon. He be like, man, I don't know these people. But it usually leads to tell us something about the people. They just got a promotion. Yeah, he had the whole family tree. Don't you know? Don't you know? Yeah, I ain't never.

The only place I ever been in Harlem was when our foreign producer, Sasha, used to live in Harlem. I ain't never been to nobody else's house in Harlem that I can remember. Did Amanda live in Harlem? Yes. Amanda still lives in Harlem, right? She does. It was a night in an apartment that he was trying to let you know about. All right.

Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Wake it up. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, peace and blessings, man. Good morning, Breakfast Club. Sean. Sean Stoney. Good morning, brother. Hey, good morning, Sean, man.

Peace, King. How you doing, brother brother I'm blessed man Hey Sean man Yes sir My lady just wanted To let you know bro She had to tell me The black woman

Said hey let Sean man know That I ain't no baby mama To see your wife to feed So I just had to That's called a fiance Have you proposed to her Uh yes Alright so that's your fiance That's nice Yes sir Yes sir Have you proposed to her? Yes. So that's your fiancé?

That's nice. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So she just wanted you to know that, all right? Tell her I appreciate that and I will respect her wishes. Hey, and one thing I got to say about her, too. She a big Cowboys fan like you, man. I told you I'd say she a big back.

She got a small back. She got a small back. That's right. Shout out to the small back. Shout out to the Cowboy fans out back. Nah, she got a small back. She got a small back. I knew that's right. Shout out to the small back. Let's salute all the cowboy fans out there. Oh, my goodness. You know who got the big back, though? Me, man.

Because I'm a man. You know what I mean? So it's funny how T.S. Madison is mad because you said she got a big back. I never said that about T.S. Madison, sir. I never said T.S. Madison had a big back. See how lies get spread? I never said that. You know how it is.

And Trav, please stop thinking about me. All right? Stop talking about me to Taylor. They wondering why ladies get with me because they. That's not. The boy got game, and I'm able to talk. I'm funny. You told me I have sense of humor. That's why ladies like me, man. And I'm able to talk I'm funny You feel me I have

Sense of humor That's why ladies like me man And I work hard out here That's why Trav like you too That is why Trav likes you too That's why Trav got a secret crush on you right now I know he crushing on me But it's okay

I don't like men You know what I mean I respect the fact that he's gay That's cool If you wanna get Every day That's him What

Because he a bottom. You know what I mean? But Sean Stone loves ladies, man. Cheers. Shout out to my love ladies. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know why. Sean Stone loved the ladies, y'all. Thank you. But I don't understand why men that love ladies have to broadcast that. Like, why do you have to tell people that you ain't into men? I don't know.

You know what I'm saying? That's kind of crazy. Ain't nothing wrong with broadcasting it, though. Who you trying to convince? I'm just saying? That's kind of crazy. Ain't nothing wrong with broadcasting it, though. Who you trying to convince? I'm just saying you're just letting people know. I guess. If you can announce you gay, I guess you can announce you straight. Y'all go out your way to be gay on this station.

Y'all really do. Y'all broadcast that. Y'all broadcast that. How much y'all straight? That'll be great for y'all, too. I think if you can announce you gay, you can announce you straight, I guess. Thank you. Yeah.

Hello, who's this? Good morning. Good morning. What's your name, mama? Hey, my name's Olivia. Hey, Olivia. Get it off your chest. I'm calling in from Connecticut.

I wanted to wish my sister a happy birthday. It's her birthday today. She's 22. Okay. And my nephew's birthday was on Lee's day and my daughter's birthday was on Leif's day and my daughter's birthday was on Valentine's day. Happy birthday to everybody. So you're doing a lot of celebrating in the last two weeks.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, so much. Blessings, blessings, blessings. Okay. When Mia's song was on, she mentioned the music video that she wanted to do,

and The Weeknd already did that concept. I don't know what you're talking about, man. What happened now? But just happy birthday to your sister, though. Yeah, happy birthday, Pisces Gang. Y'all just ignored her about what her... I could hear she said something about the Weeknd video. Music suggestion? No.

My phone started going out. Hello, who's this? Hey, I'm from Arizona. Hey, what's up, brother? Get it off your chest. Yeah, I lost my job back in January. It's been tough trying to get back on my feet, trying to make sure I don't lose my house and my car.

And I'm just looking for some prayers that I find a job soon. Okay. Where'd you work? We praying for you, brother. Yeah, I worked at a big finance company. I was an accountant and a financial analyst. And I felt like they bullied me out of my job. And I was treated unfairly.

Are you actively looking for more work? Yeah, I have some interviews. But it just seems like I've been looking for like two months And not getting any offers It happens brother You know what I mean Like you know It's not over It's not finito

You just gotta keep trusting the process Keep trusting the process Keep trusting God brother Yeah My family's been praying Just hopefully something happens So it's getting really tough Something gonna shake my brother

I got faith in you and you got faith in yourself and you should have faith in god trust that something gonna shake we all been there at some point in life thank you yes all right brother we praying for you king okay i'll put my cash app out sure absolutely what y b like cat r a n like nancy s like sam Y-C-R-A-N-S-9-0. Okay. Yes, sir. We praying for you, though, brother. Have a good one, brother.

Good luck. You too. Thank you. You didn't write this one down. I'm going to tell you something. What? I'm not saying that what that man said wasn't true. What?

There's a Cash App voice. I heard it. You heard it, Cash App? I heard it. Because every time we said we were praying for him, he was kind of like ignoring that a little bit. You know what I mean? He was ignoring that a little bit.

You can't want the paper over the press. Okay? You can't want the paper over the press. He wanted both, but he just wanted the paper too. He wanted both, but he wanted that paper. I could hear it in his voice. I could hear it in his voice. But you ain't write it down.

You ain't write... I wasn't moved. No. I'm praying for him, but I just wasn't, my discernment didn't say, you know. Give him some money. Because I'm not saying that, you know, people aren't going through things, but I just think that they hear us do that a lot on the radio and you don't know who's telling the truth a lot of times.

Right. Yeah. My spirit, my spirit didn't, that one didn't. It didn't move you. That one didn't, it was like, you know, just stand down, give me your prayers. Listen, somebody had just said to me, they used to give out a lot of money, a lot of cash apps on a breakfast club.

Why you don't make them do that no more? I was like, I'm not giving out anything but prayers. So I don't know. So yeah, people got used to y'all giving out money. Now we used to do that when people would call. And we still do. If somebody's going through hard times, we pay for their lunch and we pay for their dinner.

We throw a couple dollars in their account to help them out. Word travels. You know people make up stories to get money. And they be like, oh, DJ Envy and Charlamagne, they so nice. They generous.

So if I call and have a good enough story or sad enough story, they will give me some money. And that young man not going through nothing nobody ever hasn't been through. Y'all done been unemployed

and in between jobs. That's not a tragic story. Yeah. Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051 we got just with the mess coming up what we talking about yes tory lanes is finally about to do his first prison interview all right we'll get into that next it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj nv jess hilarious that's some fun jess charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club let's get to Jess with the mess all right so this one pissed me off y'all because I did just tease that Tory

Lanes has the you know he about to sit down for his first interview from prison but it's so simple um i didn't listen to the audio before i wouldn't have reported it um but this is very simple this would say number five oh yo chat by the way free my dog tori man anx tori lane stream It's going to be a Zoom call chat. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country.

I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia.

I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe own country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a racket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead.

Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast.

That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys. you get your podcasts. Post-Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire? Join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. allies. Think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're black, Asian, white, Latinx, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters, and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself, Ramses Jha, Q Ward and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. So, y'all, this is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on

with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids, starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of

Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey y'all, Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records because in order to make historyio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga.

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lane and back to Melrose Place. So listen to Still the Place on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts i'm gonna be in jail and i'm gonna be uh at the warehouse zoom call very very soon why would you speak on it before you even get a date? Like, oh, my gosh. To get everybody excited. Just like my dumb ass. I'm sitting in the bed, slow. Yeah, oh, my God. I'm about to report it.

I was happy as hell. Yep. It's called promotion. I know, right? Crazy. All right. Ryan Garcia shares another update. Yesterday, we reported on Ryan Garcia's recent activity on social media,

hacked messages. He claims everything was happening to him from kidnapping, and he lost access to his money, etc. All of that stuff. Since then, TMZ released another video of Ryan Garcia and the newest video. He addressed his last few social media posts and says how things will go moving forward. Here to announce my return back to Instagram. Over these past couple of days, you guys have seen some pretty intense things.

I understand what they are and i understand what they look like but i'm coming back to announce i'm not going to speak on any other topic other than boxing sports and my fight that's the only thing i'm going to be talking about i'm training for this fight i want everybody to know this fight's still on 420 five weeks of super focus i have pbd helping me in this camp and many other warriors. So I thank you guys for the support and I'll see you guys on 420. You know the problem with all these situations? What? The backdrop of the fight. So being that we know there's a fight on 420, we just can't determine what's real and what's not real.

Like how we just talked about Tory Lanez because we know that was promotion. How do we know that all of this stuff just isn't promo? How do we know it is? How do we know that all of this stuff just isn't promo how do we know it's it is how do we know i mean i'm saying we don't i just i really feel like it has nothing to do all we can do is just give opinions on what we think you know um i don't i don't feel like any of that stuff yesterday you know was had anything to do with the fight i still think he always won the fight i don't think this was the back out of a fight or anything. I really think that he's selling the hell out of this fight right now. If Ryan Garcia is going to fight April 20th against Devin Haney, we're all tuning in.

He's got casuals ready to watch. And by the way, Ryan Garcia always does good pay-per-view numbers as it is. But he definitely got people intrigued to want to see this fight on 420, even casuals. Yeah, well, Devin Haney yesterday said that he feels like Ryan Garcia is playing crazy to promote the fight. See, why you got to be crazy? Why you got to be playing crazy, Devin? He's just acting for attention. He's definitely selling the hell out of this fight. Well, hopefully, what he said gets enough attention in the world.

You know what I'm saying? But until then, we can keep on speaking Jesus' name like he said, why wouldn't we moving on cam newton speaks on recent fight um cam newton appeared on an episode of the big podcast with shaq he spoke on the fight that was caught on camera at his football camp that's what he had to say what you saw was those are grown men those weren't kids that narrative was familiar coaching and it got chippy for me that's not the first time that happens and honestly knowing my world that probably won't be the last i think yeah people see like yeah cam standing on business yeah cam had bobby pins in his head you know those are all funny things but when i look at it it's like man it could have got ugly on both sides because i'm the type of person when i feel triggered i

react i don't think and that's the issue i said the same thing yeah you did you just say that when it happened um i ain't like how shag was like so so what happened at your little football camp first of all shag just because you're bigger than everything don't mean don't be doing all that i ain't when we reference you know accomplishments as little but yeah i i felt like um i would even like to apologize because i kept saying kids kids but they look like kids next to your big ass cam so yeah but they were grown men and um like he said things could have gotten ugly on both sides and um he reacted the wrong way or whatever but that was his first time speaking on it i think it's a a lot a lot of lack of respect right yeah and i see it all the time especially with athletes, with people that do well.

You see it with comedians. Oh, you ain't funny. Or you see it with athletes. Oh, I bust your ass right now. Or you see it all the time where people test these people that show their compliments and don't give them the props. I see it all the time. Because everybody got a smartphone now and everybody got their own little reality show going on. And they think we all are extras and guest stars in their reality show.

That's the smartest thing you ever said, Charlene. Alright, moving on. Gerard Carmichael shares his family's reactions to him being gay. So Gerard Carmichael is releasing a self-titled docuseries. Oh my gosh, y'all. He's releasing a self-titled docuseries on HBO. The show will follow

his life at home and his relationship with his parents. And we have a little snippet of the trailer. Number eight. You don't have number eight there's no wait oh my god all right well i'm reporting the second hour because i got only got a few seconds anyway this is some oh my gosh i did hear you tease that story earlier so i don't know why it's not in there that's crazy i literally edited myself i know jesus all right well. Well, thank you, producers. Thank you so much. You got it now. You got it now,

but now you're about to swirl your finger, so I'll get to it next. When we come back, we got front page news and then X-Boxer Andre Water be joining us. So don't move.

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What's up, Tess? What's going on, DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. Hey, girl. Let's jump right into it. Let's talk about the subway and all of the crime that's going on in the city. Yeah, I can't wait to get your response on this, guys, with you guys being in New York City. Now you'll see the National Guard armed with M-16 as a part of the new plan to fight subway crime. Let's take a listen. There were M16s, part of the governor's five-part plan announced today aimed at combating subway crime. 750 National Guard soldiers, 250 state troopers and MTA police, and more random bag

checks. To those who are feeling anxious whenever they walk through those turnstiles, we will stop at nothing to keep you safe. Some riders, though, not sure if it'll have the intended effect. Wow, I didn't think it was at the point of National Guard needed. I'm more nervous because I feel like it's more of a threat happening versus just the police. I don't think the National Guard would be a good idea. Concerned. Take Harkening back to 9-11. Feels like a huge overreaction and overreach.

Donna Lieberman is the executive director of the NYCLU. Calling out the National Guard in response to some incidents is not the way to go. Now the governor wants to give the judges more power for repeat offenders by creating a new early warning system for repeat offenders and wants them banned for three years if they've been convicted of a violent crime. Here's what she had to say and what Michael Kemper had to say, who is the chief of transit. We know who they are.

They'll flag the criminal history at the time of arrest so it can be fully considered when decisions regarding charging and bail are made. Why are we arresting people 100 times? And once we make the arrest, why are they back out within a day or two sometimes? So the experts say that involving the National Guard is not sustainable. It's only going to last a few months. So they're saying, you know, what's the point in doing it? It's just making folks anxious. The governor did say the cameras will be on every car by the end of the year and in every conductor booth. And some of the resources will be spent to make the system safer. And Mayor Eric Adams said the overall crime is down. He said double digit decreases in subway crime since February 2024. Some folks say that NYPD should have gotten the $20 million to put

more officers on the subway opposed to, you know, giving it to the national ground. So what do you guys think? Let me give the five point crime plan so we can talk about it. 750 National Guard members, 250 MTA and state police, new cameras, 0.2, 3, 20 million to expand mental health teams for improved coordination and five ban on repeat offenders. Well, you guys think they're doing too much or is this a good thing? Well, I think there's long term solutions and short term solutions. This is a short term temporary solution that may or make things better or it may make things worse. You know, I love number two on here, which is the 20 million dollars to expand mental health teams because I always want to get to the root of the problem. And the root of the problem is, you know, dealing with poverty.

The root of the problem is getting folks proper access to mental health care. That's how you reduce, you know, crime anywhere. When you provide people, you know, resources to put food on their table and a roof over their head and you provide them resources to have proper you know access to mental health care but that's the long-term solution but you know america does not know how to solve problems long term yeah i mean i i will say this though i mean you look at at airplanes and airports right and they say they get about i'm looking right now they said about 1.73 million people fly daily right then you look at the new york city subways and it says about 2.4 million people ride the subway there's no protection for those people on the subway yesterday the the conductor got bashed in the head with a bottle like there's no protection

i don't ride the subways i don't want my kids don't ride the subway it is not safe down there people get cut down there you hear about, people getting pushed onto the track. It's very dangerous, and there's no protection. There's not enough protection for people there. So if you can have protection in the airport and make people go through all types of devices, and there are armed guards at the airport, why not in a place with subway where they have more people than the airports? That's just how I feel.

Yeah, I don't believe they're saying they don't want protection. They just feel like this might be an overreach. Because it's, what, it's 1,000 National Guardsmen they're putting in the subways? 750. And so when you talk about what the National Guard, you know, what they're the job is to respond to domestic emergencies. So the question is, do you think it's necessary to have the National Guard, you know, with M-16s? And keep in mind, the National Guard is not trained to deal with subway incidents. So that's why NYPD is saying more money should be spent on the actual police officers to actually know how to work with folks on the subway who are

accustomed to that type of patrolling. Oh, yeah. And it's 750 National Guard tests, but it's 250 MTA and state police. So it is almost a thousand. Yes, yes, it is. Total overall, yes, but I was speaking to the National Guard. So do you think, Embi, I mean, does that make you feel safer, Jess, looking at somebody with an M16?

Or does it make you anxious? Absolutely. I feel safer. You do? Okay. I do too. I ain't going to say anything. I don't know what to say. If I'm not doing nothing wrong, I feel safer. I know there's somebody I can run to. If somebody tried to bash me over the head or cut me or shoot me or rob me or steal,

I would feel safer. Yeah, walking through the airport, when you walk through JFK airport and all them people with M16s, you, yeah. You feel safe? Yeah, it's not a problem. Absolutely, I ain't doing nothing wrong. Yeah, nothing wrong with it. Some folks say that they don't. They feel it's anxious, they just make them feel anxious, like, you know, what's going on? Are they going to start shooting folks

down? So, but again, this is only this is not a short-term solution. It's just a couple of months so what's the point i guess in having them a couple of months and then and then going back to business as usual but that's what i say when i say you got to have a long-term solution and the long-term solution is dealing with poverty and getting folks proper access to mental health care like that's how you reduce crime anywhere you know what i mean like they're not trying to actually uh solve the problem of of crime in this country they're just finding ways to police it yeah but the sad thing about it is

any place where there's a lot of people whether it's a a football game a basketball game or any type of thing where there's a lot of people a concert they make people go through some type of form of security to protect each other right the subway is the only place where millions of people go and then nobody checks nothing on them well they are doing random bag checks but i know your point you mean like every single person yeah you don't know what anybody got in their bag like you don't know if they got a weapon you don't know if they had a bad day you don't know everything else they check people and you know random subway they don't but random bag checks you know who the random people

they gonna be checking the most is black and brown people you do know that yeah but that's what I said I didn't say anything about random checks that's why you put some type of system out there

where everybody has to walk through some type of security you know once you're inside you're pretty much playing on the same playing field you know alright well thank you Tess

absolutely and make sure you follow at Tesslyn Figueroa on all social media platforms and subscribe to this Great Shot No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network, hosted by Teslin Figueroa. All right, when we come back, boxer Andre Ward,

ex-boxer Andre Ward will be joining us. He has a new book, Killing the Image, a champion's journey of faith, fighting, and forgiveness. One of the greatest boxers of all time, undefeated. Okay? Okay. We'll talk to him next. It the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj nv just hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club

we got a special guest in the building yes indeed boxing legend and icon andre ward ladies and gentlemen welcome yes sir happy to be here how you welcome. Yes, sir. Happy to be here. How you feeling, brother? I'm good, man. Happy to be here. How are you, sir? Man, I'm good, man. I'm juggling, you know, but it's all good. I'm working it out. Well, I hope y'all have read Andre Ward's book already, Killing the Image, A Champion's Journey of Faith, Fighting, and Forgiveness.

You've always been like notoriously, you know, private with your personal life to a certain extent. How did you know now was the time to reveal it all in a book man it's been it's been it's been a few years coming you know i've said it many times you know promoting this book like i'm an 80s baby you know and i was raised to not share my business my family's business you know and it's it's not about this day and age because people overshare that people think that like being private is some weird or you know something some sneaky about you what you hide it's like nah that's a superpower to like keep my business to myself and not and not share it so but as i'm getting in the game and i'm mentoring a lot

of guys you know i'm trying to tell them like bro i understand what you're going through i've been there done that and they're like nah you always been like this and it's like nah bro like i'm telling you i probably did more than you so i started getting discontent and start feeling like man they don't have the full story. And I was talking to my pastor, man, and he was like, Dre, you got to kill the image. And I'm like, what you mean? And he was like, nah, who you are is real, but it's not who you've always been. You can tell that story now.

For people that don't know who Andre Ward is and how you got into boxing, break that down a little bit. What got you into boxing? What made you love boxing? My daddy. My daddy. My first love was baseball. You baseball. I was a pitcher in the shortstop, but I was always competitive, always just competitive. I'm a sore winner and a sore loser. My daddy started telling me about his amateur career. He was at 15 and I was a heavyweight. I'm like, what you mean you boxed? My dad, like I said, he raised me as a single parent. I'm like I'm gonna do it I ain't even think about it and that was like that was the first seed that was sung and my dad being my dad you know and

I talk about this in the book you're like and we're gonna do it we're gonna do it right you're not gonna quit but the first day I walked in that gym man it was love at first sight and I didn't even really understand what that was I just knew the sights and the sounds the speed bag the heavy bag you know the smells of the gym you know you know, hearing people hitting the bag and sparring. I knew I loved it. I knew I loved it. I wasn't very good when we first started. Was he hard on you? Very. But that's why my dad couldn't train me. You know, my dad was, you know, he was all or nothing. You know, I told you to get your bleep bleep hands up, man. What you doing? Move your head. And me, I i was shut down i don't respond to that and shortly after i started we met virgil

my godfather lifelong trainer and in verge had a different finesse about him you know he would he would hey baby try this do this get your hands up now i responded to that so my dad was wise enough to pass me on the birth we don't hear those stories enough uh about single fathers yes raising it's rare hey how did that impact you not have a mother in house you always hear about not having a father now that didn't affect you not have a mother man the good part of it was uh i got i got to see a man get up every day and go to work my father would always say you know i got my struggles and my father he struggled with heroin addiction but he was a functional addict and my mother was a full-blown

addict you know she was in san francisco i'm in the east bay and she's completely in her addiction and my dad would say i don't care what i'm going through i'm not leaving you know so just seeing him get up every day he owned his own business get up every day and go to work he struggled at night he had that monkey on his back when he came home. But that showed me what manhood was about. That gave me a strength about me and a confidence about me not having a mother there that I didn't have that nurturing. I was raised by a bachelor. I didn't have that, that, that, that gentleness, that balance that a young man needs. So now when I get into a relationship, I wonder why I got mistrust and distrust for this young lady,

my wife, Tiffany, that I say I love. I can't seem to trust because the most important woman in my life at the time, she wasn't there. So it took me time, Charlamagne, to start realizing the mother wound. We talk about father wounds, but the mother wound that I had going into adulthood and how that followed me and I didn't realize this until later in life and I had to do a lot of work and you know I'm in a much better place now but not having my mother there it definitely impacted me for sure how did you get over that I mean not having a mom in your life

like you say that sensitive side that nurturing side because you know dads especially in that era is you fall get your ass back you better not cry that was dads back then but you didn't have that other side of mom said well let me let me hug you let me hold you let me make you feel better so how did you get over i mean the first thing is just identifying what it was it took a lot of lumps to get there you know i'm saying because i'm you know i'm not trusting and i'm blaming her i'm not i'm not loving her the way i should and i'm blaming her and it just not I'm not loving her the way I should. And I'm blaming her. And it just took me, you know, really when I crossed over and got out the streets and really settled down and gave my life to God, I started really being able to hear my thoughts and really put the patterns together and then remember the struggles that my dad had. I mean, my dad struggled with this, too. And then getting around, you know,

they say a few good men, my pastor and a couple of good core brothers that i have and just them helping me identify certain things and talking through that stuff and for me when i talk through things with the right person i it's it's cathartic it's it's it's therapeutic like even writing a book like it's a lot of pain you're pulling off old scabs and old wounds but but the end is is good so really just identifying what it was understanding what it was acknowledging it and then allowing the help to help me i wonder how did that uh how you talk about your your wife but i'm talking about this relationship with women period yeah how did that affect you not having a mom how did you look at women like throughout your whole life man like i said it was just distrust and mistrust yeah yeah did it ever come to a point like were your wife

were y'all on the verge of divorce or separation or was she just always very patient and understood from jump what oh no we went at it for sure yeah yeah but you know you got to realize too we started super young like first child we met in high school. First child, 16 years old. Second child, 18 years old. And I'm living with Virg, like I said, my godfather trainer, and his wife. And she mad. We going at it. And Virg just sit us down.

This is how you want to carry yourself as a wife and as a woman. Dre. And I felt like he was always taking her side. I'm like, why you always taking her side? Nah, he said, listen, I'm trying to help you, man. Sit sit down and stop talking and he would just sit us down and break it down he would open the words i mean this is how you're supposed to carry yourself now look when he go to the gym and this is again we 17 18 years old 19 years old he go to the gym all day don't as soon as he come through the door start yelling at him and telling him what he didn't do you got to give him a chance to unwind take take a shower, eat, and then go talk to him.

So I see her listening. Then he get on me. Man, you need to stop reacting like that, bro. You tripping. It was that type of counseling that we had. That wasn't even like formal counseling, but it was him sitting down. And this is in the middle of him

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How did they know you were the one when it came to boxing? You know, because everybody, I mean, you go to these gyms. Everybody feels like they're the one. Everybody thinks they're the one. you go to these gyms everybody you know everybody thinks they're the one you go to gleason's and everybody's like they the next how did they know that you were the one out of all that what was that something that somebody's seen it didn't start out like that you know like i said i think it just started out something i wanted to do and i went in there and i had to really pay my dues the first couple years like i was getting beat all over the ring because you said the olympics like you were ready for it but it got to a certain point where once i overcame in that gym

after that first year we call it being battle tested once i got battle tested in that gym then it was like all right let's go to the nationals once i won my first national title at 10 years old in 1996 once i did that i think everybody starts saying that man he could be the one and it sound crazy right i'm 10 years old. But I kept winning. And I kept winning. And then we start verging to count on the same. But we got nine years to the Olympics. We got seven years. And I just turned into this prodigy.

And I gave up my whole childhood to do it. So it went from me looking like I might not have it to all of a sudden, he's going to be the one. So at a certain point, it became a foregone conclusion. I'm going to go to the Olympics, win a gold medal, turn pro, win championships, and make a lot of money. That just was the conversation in my home. It sounds crazy, but that's what it was. All right, we got more with Andre Ward when we come back. Don't move.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. This is DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We're still kicking it with boxer, well, retired boxer, Andre Ward. Charlamagne? I want to go back to your parents just for a couple more questions. Were you ever afraid that the disease of addiction would get you? it did get me oh man it did get me and it wasn't a

long time but it was long enough I had a two three year stint where you know some people say generational curses some people say generational patterns they had me and I was already you know dibbling with weed and starting to drink probably 16 years old I mean it really stemmed from this I believe like I said my mother was a was a full-blown addict my daddy was a functional addict once I and starting to drink probably 16 years old. I mean, it really stemmed from this, I believe. Like I said, my mother was a full-blown addict. My daddy was a functional addict. Once I started realizing that my dad was struggling and I no longer was buying the lines,

my dad would go to work all day and he would come home and talk to me and my brother and he would go up in that room. And he would always have the water running. And it'd be like an hour, two hours. And when my daddy came out, his face was flush and he just acting funny, slurring. And I didn't I didn't understand what was going on. Then I started putting putting it together. I found a needle.

I'm questioning him about that. Then I got to the age where I'm like, man, you getting high. Then that bitterness and that resentment and all the anger started to rise up. So what I do is I go to what's familiar to my family, alcohol and drugs. But I'm hiding at this point. started to rise up so what i do is i go to what's familiar to my family alcohol and drugs but i'm hiding at this point when my father dies at 18 years old that was my excuse just to go buck wild and i did let me ask you a question jess and i were talking about this a couple of weeks ago and this is a no judgment zone but i always wanted to know like when you see something

affect your family in a negative way right we i think we were talking about bow wow bow i was talking about he seen mac miller do lean and yeah he passed away from it but then he tried it yeah and i always wanted to know the mind frame of somebody seeing it destroy somebody but saying i'm gonna try it i can overcome it like what's that mind frame because you see what it what it's doing and you see what it does but you still say i'm gonna try it it depends bro you got to realize this force is behind them generational curses. It ain't just natural. It's forces behind it. And them forces follow you generationally.

And you don't have to give in to it. But once you open that door and you say, yeah, I'm going to try this. Now it's on. And I wasn't emotionally, mentally mature enough to be able to make those decisions. All I knew was I was hurting. I'm dealing with depression. I'm dealing with anxiety. And I don't know that that's what it is.

All I know is when I drink something or when I smoke something, I don't feel that way no more. That edge is taking off. Temporarily. But once I got myself together and, you know, I got clean and I kicked all of that stuff, then I started thinking the way you said.'m never gonna touch that again i gotta do something different for my kids but i wasn't at that stage i didn't have that kind of strength and power and it's interesting too because my dad my grandfather harold he was an a functional alcoholic great man but he had a drinking problem my dad vowed I never I never touch a

drink because my dad only told me he loved me when he was when he was drunk and he never did but then he turned to hear him so it's a slippery slope yeah would you say you replaced one addiction with another when you took up boxing I wouldn't say I replaced it I would say man I got free and I would say that I just channeled who I am as a person that drive, that focus toward the right thing. You know, I don't look at boxing like an addiction and I always have tried to, and it's not easy, man. I don't want to sit here and act like it's a, it's an easy thing, but I've always tried to keep that sport in its proper place because I knew it would end one day. And I'm fortunate that God always put me around people who would walk that walk.

My pastor, Napoleon Coughlin, former Raider, he played All-American in college, six years as a professional running back, and he did. He went into ministry and never looked back. I had him to talk to me. Dre, listen, man, this is what you do. It's not who you are. God's got other stuff for you, bro. Hey, enjoy it.

Give it all you got, but it's not going to always be there. So I had people like that in my ear. So when the time came, the impact wasn't as hard. What effect did losing your father have on you? And what was your relationship like? I mean, my dad was my mother and my father for many, many years. That was my everything. And it's had a profound effect.

And I still feel it to this day. Now, the sting isn't as strong. But I have times when I'm with my kids and I just drift off and I'm thinking like, man, my dad could see this right now. He lived long enough to see my first child, Dre Jr., and Tiffany was pregnant with our second child, Malachi, and then he

passed in 2002. I have moments like that. I think about how my career would have been different if my dad was here. I think about me helping my dad and giving back to him and buying him a house or or or just you know just just doing life with him i wish i had my father there to talk about life i got questions man even at even at 40 years old i just turned 40 man i'm still trying to figure it out i think about that stuff all the time

charlamagne it was a devastating loss man devastating loss but um i don't want to ever say i got over it but i've been able to cope with it deal with it and and you know hopefully make him proud with the life that i live because you retired at 33 yeah young yeah he didn't know that right yeah so if your dad was here you would have went would have gone longer you believe so i don't know like my dad loved boxing but he wasn't like my dad was always focused on the man you know like he was always focused on me and my character type of play that he was always big on that so i don't my dad i don't think my dad would have been trying to push me to stay in the sport i think it probably would have been the opposite he might have wanted me to end it a little bit earlier than what i did how did you know it was time then because he was undefeated like he's 13 relatively young in the sport yeah like what sport. How did you know it's time to hang the gloves up?

Man, I started feeling it two, three years before I did it. And I would always ask the other athletes, man, how did you know? And they would all say the same thing. You just going to know. You're going to wake up one day and you don't want to do it. So I started hearing myself, Charlemagne, say that R word. Retired. Three, four years before I would just say stuff.

And I'd be like, bro, you hear what you just said and i and i would i would be aware of that i'm self-aware like yo and you you talking like that but i still had to drive i'm still looking good i'm still sharp and uh went through the lawsuit period with my promoter going through that where you know money going out ain't no money coming in and i'm like look man i'm gonna end this on my turn they trying to starve me out if if i'm gonna go out i going to go out on my own term. My parents are like, no, don't do it. My wife is too premature. Don't do it.

Don't send that letter out you just wrote. And got through that. Had my run with Roc Nation for three years. And it got to the point after the first COVID-led fight, I thought I was done after that. My body was starting to break down. You know, I've had multiple knee surgeries and stuff. And it wasn't boxing related.

It's just all the preparation, all the training. And training and man you just want your freedom back yeah like i'm the type of person that when i do something i really do it like i'm locked in like it's just the way i am i didn't want to be that guy all the time my body's starting to break down my kids were in high school it was like all these mitigating circumstances charlamagne that start adding up you know i'm i'm a numbers cruncher, so I'm crunching the numbers. Like, man, okay, if I get this much on my money every year, and it wasn't, it just like, my pastor's like, bro, you're not going to be able to figure that out. You're going to have to step out on faith. So if you want to walk, you got to walk in faith.

If you're going to stay, you got to stay in faith. So I went and talked to him after Covalet won, and I was like, man, I think I'm done. I haven't been in the gym in three months, and that's not like me not like me i'm like man i have no desire to be in no gym i just fought the dude that they said i wasn't gonna fight and won a close decision everybody's all you lost you this and i said man what am i doing this for and he sat there and i just i just knew he was gonna co-sign what i was saying he sat there he was like i think i can see you doing one more and i'm like yeah but i ain't got the desire.

He said, once you go, that fire will come back. And I remember leaving his office disappointed because every time I talk about retirement, every time I talk about getting my freedom back, somebody always giving me a reason to stay. So it's weird, right? Like I knew I was going to miss it, but I'm also fighting to get out of it. And this is after I did this since I was nine. So people don't do the math you're just 33 but you got to date that back to nine years old and the toll the toll that that

takes mentally physically emotionally the things that i missed the things that i couldn't be a part of and do the pressure that i have on me i hadn't lost a fight since i was 14 years old that's pressure so you get to a point that even though i can do this i don't know if i want to do this went for a cove live the second time and i knew it was time when you say freedom like what do you mean like the simple things like wanting to eat what you want to eat or not having to be on a training regimen like what do you mean when you say freedom boxing consumes you I feel like it has to if you gonna be elite like if I was on this trip right now I would have to be doing a math on was the last time I ran like I eat now I try to eat good for my health but I would have to be doing the math on was the last time i ran like i eat now i try

to eat good for my health but i would have to eat good for performance right where you wait at when hey man you when you coming back all of that kind of stuff i was always on the clock always in application always on the clock and nobody put more pressure on me than me so i was tired of myself i need a break for me because i know how i get with competition i need a break for me i deserve to miss a week or two if i want to miss a week or two that feels good to be able to do that i wouldn't be able to do that if i was active all right well don't move boxer andre ward is still with us it's the breakfast club good morning retired boxer he has a new book out right now charlamagne when did you realize you were turning

generational curses into generational blessings that's a good question man i think when when i start allowing god to get me together when i start my my eyes started to get clear and i started to see things right when i started to learn what it meant to to mourn my father's death didn't know what that meant when i started being honest about where i was and and being honest about my emotions and feelings when i started acknowledging the mother wound and how it was affecting my relationship with tiffany like when i started like that that's i believe that's being a real man when i was able to humble myself and really start acknowledging these things i started sensing that i was i was shifting the paradigm the paradigm was shifting and generationally the curse has to stop with somebody

and I believe that God was using me and my wife to stop a lot of the things that have been in our family generation even poverty certain poverty mentalities and I just believe God was helping me and my wife to break that so self it started with me I got to get me right I can't lead a family I can't lead my wife I can't leave my kids I can't do it unless I'm getting myself together perfect by no means but I'm saying them blatant things and blatant sins

and things that generational things that we're talking about I can't do those things and be the proper leader when it comes to God do you remember the moment or event that caused you to like really strengthen your faith and your belief my father always gave me a foundation in the word it's interesting because i didn't grow up in the church like that but my father had an understanding he would open up the bible said man you got you know i probably gave my life to god probably like 20 times when i was a kid just making sure that it worked you know i'm saying and just young not knowing no better and but I always had a respect and a reverence for God and you know when I started getting notoriety like you know I'm aging myself right now but the newspapers would come to the to the school and they would want to do an article on me

and my brother my dad would be like man you make sure you give God glory and stuff and I didn't really fully understand it I was scared to do it at that time. My brother, he was outspoken. This dude, we're Christian. I'm like, bro, shut up,

bro. Like, man, you always like, I wasn't there. He was there, but that's where it started. And,

but that was my father's faith. And then when I started going through life and then I lost him, I was angry at God. I don't want them to do a church guy. Nothing like you allowed this to happen. I didn't acknowledge that I was already slipping and tripping before my dad died. It was his fault. And every time I would smoke something, every time I would drink something, every time I'd be in a situation, I felt like my conscience was still there.

I wasn't completely gone. But I would think, man, you're not supposed to be doing this and verge used to tell me and i'll talk about this in the book verge was not only a boxing trainer but he worked in the probation department at juvenile hall for 25 years and verge had and has a gift for young men he can look at you and say something make you laugh but also get at you at the same time and he used to sit there in the kitchen man in in uh in east oakland man where we lived and he would say he's like brother you ain't gonna get god ain't gonna let you get away with nothing and this is when i'm in the thick of it and i would get mad and be like man why you hating on me man i'm just trying to do my thing and live my life you say look man i hear you

but i'm telling you god ain't gonna let you get away with nothing and sure enough i'll be in a car full of dudes you come here i couldn't get away with nothing i could do a little bit but every time i try to step it up so those things were starting to chip away at me and i knew even though i'm still doing i knew like man this ain't gonna last long i'm not gonna have a long career in the streets i'm just not so it was that kind of stuff charlamagne when i'm in the thick of my situation and i'm rejecting him he's still running after me. And it wasn't to the point to where life was really happening. I had another child and stuff just started piling up. I had to look up and have a conversation with God, man.

I was off some ecstasy. And I talk about this in the beginning of the book. And my heart racing. And I knew I was going to die. I just knew it. And it took that Charlemagne for me to get through my anger, get through my frustration.

When the pressure hit, I knew where to go. And I looked up and had a conversation with God and essentially made a deal with him. Man, you let me live. I'm done. I'm tired.

I'm sorry. And I had to and I made it through that obviously and that was the start of my journey did it happen overnight no but i started softening my heart i started being open to god again i started being i started listening to verge a little bit more you know the window was closing for the olympics i'm probably two years out at this point and it was little by little man but slowly but surely man when i saw god supernaturally take the desire and the taste for alcohol drugs and everything else from me some people may have to

go to a program and i don't knock that everybody got their different stuff but when i saw that happen i was like man this stuff is real when i started to develop my own faith in my own relationship and i started to sense and feel god speaking to me and helping me and it wasn't just my father's faith no more that was that was that was a memorial I'll never forget that I'll never forget that and then giving me the power is to sustain me all these years in a sport like boxing being a young father and and a young husband like man I'm not that good like without a relationship with God and having that power working in my life. Oh, y'all gonna be reading about me on the bottom of the ticker. For sure.

In my mind, one part of my mind says, oh, you would have held it together. You would have been fine. But the other part of me saying you're not that good. So that's the imposter syndrome. Yeah. So it's it's all the process that got me to his feet. And then everything that ensued after i've seen too much charlamagne and i've experienced too much to go back i i just had personal experience where

it's like dude and i'm not the kind of person that can just read a rule book and then try to follow it like i need to feel something tangible something that's real i felt that and i feel that to this day what made you start going to like seek therapy and things of that nature because a lot of people that's very spiritual they say oh god is enough what made you realize i needed something else well i got great counselors at my church i chose to go that route because i wanted a godly perspective with it you know i don't knock anybody else you got to know what's good for you right um but then it just kind of naturally happened i wasn't like all right i'm gonna make a conscious decision i just started talking to

my pastor and him being who he is a wise man he like well tell me about that and i'm i'm all of a sudden in a counseling session and didn't even realize that i was in a counseling session but i knew i felt better after talking about it and then him tell well man you may want to think about that man man i see i know you're going through that right now but god's gonna see you through and he had vision beyond what i was going through that kind of stuff stimulated me gave me hope it gave me the ability to believe that man i can i can do this this husband thing i could be a father man i could i could be in this career still represent god and and not be weird obnoxious about it but just live the life in front of i can do this so it just kind of happened charlamagne it

wasn't really a conscious decision but i knew I felt better when I did it. I knew I felt lighter. I knew it gave me hope. And I do it to this day. When I feel that pressure hit, yeah, I have my relationship with God. But I got a core group of brothers that I call. I got a few people at my church I can put past. I need to holler at you.

What's up? What's going on? Come to the house. I need that. So I just begin to see the value of it over time. I just reported a story about Ryan Garcia and everything that he's going through now um we were having a conversation earlier about should they call his fight because he seems to be you know just going through so many things and just you know and and publicly we're seeing it you know what I mean like how what would you what

do you have to say to speak to that or he's in a tough spot right now because he got this fight coming up and you do not have time for self care or you got to prepare for war. So it's, it's, it's, it's, this stuff is coming at a bad time and it didn't just come to stuff. It's probably been going on and it's just showing itself. Now.

I don't know about the social media stuff and if that stuff is him. Cause he did put out a video saying that he didn't have access to his stuff. Yeah. But the things that I've heard him say it seems odd it seems off i'm not trying to minimize or marginalize what he seems to be going through but you know his father was like oh he's just trolling the wrong way i've heard him say things about trolling so i don't believe it's just trolling but you you know he's got a lot of followers he's got a big following you wonder like man is this some of this stuff yeah but i think my gut is saying that it's real and it's just he's no longer uh able to to to hide it or keep it behind the scenes uh he's in a real tough

spot right now because of this fight but i think and i don't know if he should cancel the fight or if he's only be able to get through a training training camp it's a lot you you pushing your body past the limit two three times a day that's a lot when do you have time to focus on yourself you don't and he's not so it is it's really sad to see and it's really concerning to see because young kid with a lot a lot of money big following but it's clearly something going on on the back of the book you have what if i die why did you have that question? That was the moment that I was telling y'all about where I felt like I was going to overdose. Yeah, that was the moment.

And for me being hard-headed at that time in my life, that's what it took, unfortunately. But it's a moment I'll never forget. This is a human interest story, man. This is about a young man who had a dream, who almost lost it all, and gave his life to God, and has just been trying to walk this thing out and do life, but just do it better than my family members did it, and hopefully my kids will do it better than I did it. That's right.

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the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts now we can get back into a jerrod carmichael he is um setting to put out his own docuseries on hbo now his parents do not support him being gay. At one point, his mother tries to pray his gay away. This will debut March 29th, y'all. We have a little snippet of the trailer. I have a boyfriend now. When I came out, y'all reacted like someone died. It hurt my feelings.

Mom basically said I was going to hell. I didn't write the Bible. I don't think anybody's being hard on you. I think people are calling you to do better. And Lord, I come to you, Gerard and I, take the desire from my son to be with a male. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Amen. I love you. Yeah. This has to be discussed on camera. Yes, I bring in cameras. And yes, that's my way. And yes, I'm afraid to have these conversations without them. Let's just blow this

fly open. How many specials does Gerard Carmichael gonna do about being gay? I love Gerard. That's my guy. Every docu-series, every special,

it's like, it's almost like he's coming out again for the first time. Would you pray with your mom if your mom tried to pray the gay away with you? Would you sit down

and be like, alright, mom, let's pray the gay away? I think the respect that he has for his mom, be like, all right, Ma, let's pray the gay away? I think the respect that he has for his mom, I think that he just, yeah, it's tough. But something that I just don't like that she said in her prayer, she was like, God, we come to you, Gerard and I. Gerard didn't come to him. Gerard already knows what's going on with him.

He's just showing respect to his mother. You know what I'm saying? But his dad, I think what's more interesting about this docuseries or whatever is that it sheds the light on his parents not supporting him in that you know what i mean um this is the first time right the first docuseries he did this was even before his special the special was called uh i forgot what the special was called but the first docuseries he did with hbo he told them and it was like they didn't even care it was just like nonchalant about it they probably thought he was joking yeah and and by the way it was like they didn't even care it was just like nonchalant about the probably thought he was joking yeah and by the way it felt like the public didn't even care nobody said anything about we talked about it when he came up

here right and then when he did the special when he said it in the special everybody's like oh draw call Michael comes out but I'm like he said that before so I guess this is a continuation of it maybe you need to do them closer together you like sequels that are coming out two three four years apart it's still alive though he's still trying to figure out he's still having these conversations with his family yeah and you can tell that he's very close with his parents so it may affect him that they react in that way but the first time going back to like you said when they told him and when he told them

and they didn't really care maybe that was the way they did it on camera because his dad is like do we got to do this on camera he was like yeah this is the way that i want to be. So maybe behind the scenes, they're treating him a different way. Like they're just totally like undermining him, who he is, who he prefers to be. That could be dangerous too. Yeah. And that's why he wants it to be on camera. Just stop paying for everything, Gerard. They can't accept you.

Right, right, right. If they can't accept who you are and your lifestyle, then stop paying for everything. Is he paying for everything? Gerard? I don't know. What are you doing? His parents might have their own. I'm sure, yes. I'm sure Gerard does very well for himself. His family paying for everything? Is he paying for everything? Gerard? I don't know. What are you doing? His parents might have their own. I'm sure, yes.

I'm sure Gerard does very well for himself. His family's in North Carolina. Yes. And he loves his family. So, of course, he takes care of them. But if you don't love my lifestyle, I bet y'all stop paying for everything. You know what I'm saying?

Rathaniel. That was the name of the special. But it's very deadly. I don't want to say deadly, but it could be odd when you have older parents and you put them on camera and you start talking

because sometimes, like my parents use words. Yeah, there's no filter. There's no filter. but it could be odd when you have older parents and you put them on camera and you start talking. No filter. There's no filter. Y'all want to hear some good 90s gay slurs? Let me put my daddy up on the air. He don't even mean them in the way y'all mean them. That's why I hope he don't listen to Breakfast Club. Who?

You're listening right now. It's Lutha Cowboy out there in Kentville. What's happening? What happened to your cowboys, Pop? Remember he told me to shut up? Yeah, I can tell you right now now i can hear him in my head tell that beige i'm like shut up i don't know why my son is up there acting gay every day why do you act gay son what is what is wrong with you why are you putting up this act anyway drake bell opens up about sexual abuse a A few weeks ago, I reported an upcoming docuseries called Quiet on Set, the Dark Side of Kids TV. It's an ID channel documentary that will reveal the unsafe work environment for child actors who work with Dan Snyder.

In earlier promos, they never revealed which child actor experienced the sexual abuse. But in the latest round of promo, Drake Bell comes forward. Drake Bell is from like all that. The Amanda show. And he later later became known for his own Nickelodeon show, Drake and Josh. Drake will be speaking on being sexually abused by Brian Peck. Brian Peck was a dialogue coach for Nickelodeon in 2004. He was convicted of sexual abuse and sexual abuse charges in order to register as a sex offender. Now, in 2003, he was arrested on 11 charges related to sexual abuse allegations

involving an anonymous minor. And people seem to think that that anonymous minor is Drake, Drake Bell. And then what's interesting is in 2004, Peck pleaded no contest to oral copulation with a minor under 16 and performing a lewd act with a 14 or 15 year old last month cast the cast members from boy meets world which is one of my favorite shows spoke about supporting brian peck during his trial now he has showed up to court with a lot of stars with him you know to support him right and they have a podcast or whatever and then they he had kicked it to them like he was innocent and when him right and they have a podcast or whatever and then they he had kicked

it to them like he was innocent and when they came and they saw the case unfold they was like nah this man is not innocent so they they actually went on the podcast and talked about how ashamed that they were that they even decided to support him and um and the kid the victim's mother turned and said look at all the famous people you brought with you um And it doesn't change what you did to my kid. I just sat there wanting to die. That was what the victim's mom said. When's that coming up? The documentary is set to air March 17th, and it will air on Max.

So I'm watching that. I'm interested in that, too, just because I want to see how an institution like Nickelodeon, as big as it was, didn't have proper protections in place for kids. The whole network is centered around kids and child stars. So how is there not a system in place to protect these children? And Drake Bell is not the only one. And then what's crazy on the Quiet on the Set trailer, it's producers on there acting like they don't know what's going on. It wasn't somebody on one of our shows, was it? quiet on the set trailer it's producers on there acting like they don't know what's going it was somebody it wasn't it wasn't somebody on one of our shows was it and the lady behind the camera

was like yes it was and they they sitting there i'm talking they acting just like the Nickelodeon kids back in the day like and acting they ass off like they don't know what the documentary is about sir what you thought this was yeah oh no maybe they didn't know what was happening to the kids is what they were trying to say I don't know I haven't seen it but well we'll see

March 17th what's going on that's just what the mess for the second hour thank you Jess Charlamagne who we giving that

down man four after the hour I need a news anchor named Corey Stark from St. Louis to come to the front of the congregation but we're going to use

this as a teachable moment or a moment to bring some much needed change we'll discuss when we come back all right we'll get to that next is the breakfast club go on you're checking out the breakfast club some donkey today's just saw themselves i've been watching charlotte man i was ready for you i never heard of donkey other day. What is it? Say it again, Charlamagne. Yes, you are a donkey.

Everything that Charlamagne is saying is true. Donkey of the Day for Thursday, March 7th. Today's the 7th, right? Yes, Thursday, March 7th. Goes to St. Louis news station KMOB and one of their anchors, Corey Stark. Now, I'm going to give this man donkey of the day for what he did. OK, because to be making this mistake in 2024 is insanity. But we're going to have to have a family discussion, too, because I'm sick of you hypocritical, contradicting ass colored folks not being consistent.

All right. We have to be the change we want to see in the world. And I'm going to get to that in one second. Now, KMOV has been forced to issue an apology. Corey Stark has been forced to issue an apology cory stark has been forced to issue after issue an apology after he said this american dream but tonight colored homeowners are sounding the alarm when it comes to undervalued home appraisals play it one more time right american dream but tonight colored homeowners are sounding the alarm when it comes to undervalued home appraisals okay cory said tonight colored homeowners are sounding the alarm when it comes to undervalued home appraisals. OK, Corey said tonight colored homeowners are sounding the alarm when it comes to undervalued home appraisals. And the coloreds lost their minds about it.

Now, first of all, the fact that the word colored is distracting from the actual point of the story Corey was trying to tell is hilarious to me. OK, and the story he was trying to tell is that black people were sounding the alarm on undervalued home appraisals okay the impact of racial bias on home appraisals is something that needs to be discussed and amplified but folks aren't talking about that right now because they're too busy being upset over the use of the word colored this is us distracting us okay we complain about our issues not being spoken about in the media but when they are we have found a way to deflect to something else now like i say kmov and cory stark are getting the biggest hee-haw because this is just a stupid mistake to make in 2024 all right we have seen enough examples of white people using the word colored to know this wasn't going in well whoever put that in the prompter is an idiot cory stark

repeating it is an idiot all right cory said the word should have never come out of his mouth and he blamed it on a change to the teleprompter. He said the phrase initially was homeowners of color, but it was later changed. Now, the National Association of Black Journalists said they were appalled and disappointed by its use. They released a statement where they said colored is an offensive term due to its usage during segregation in the u.s and the jim crow era it has fallen out of use due to its negative connotation remember that line okay the term colored has fallen out of use due to its negative connotation the nabj continued by saying it is upsetting that such a slur would make it to the air the term is outdated offensive and racist i

need us to remember all of this language, all of this rhetoric, okay? The NJAB said KMOV are, oh yeah, the NJAB said they are concerned that KMOV, that nobody in the newsroom caught this error, and they question their editorial process when it comes to cultural awareness. Yes, because St. Louis is 43% black,

and the city is no stranger to racial strife. We would hope kmov would be more sensitive to how it covers the black community i agree with all of that okay other communities don't let play don't let people play with them uh when it comes to racial slurs and we shouldn't let people play with us either now cory stark did issue an apology he said uh kmov is meeting with community members as we strive to do better every day. The words should have never come out of my mouth, and it does not reflect who I am or what First Alert 4 represents, end quote. Now, this is where it gets a little confusing for me. You know I'm not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary, nor am I the strongest Avenger, so bear with me.

I'm always open to learning, so school me if I'm wrong here. here but john bowman who was the st louis county president for the national association for the advancement of colored people colored people says he contacted kmov right after the broadcast because the word colored is triggering for the black community the president for the naacp of st louis the national association for the advancement of colored people says the word colored is triggering for the black community. Nobody will say nothing with me. Strange. I've said this before.

OK, I've said this before. But if the National Association of Black Journalists says colored is an offensive term due to its usage during segregation in the U.S. in the Jim Crow era, and they said it's fallen out of use due to its negative connotation. And they said it's fallen out of use due to its negative connotation and they said it's outdated offensive and racist with all that said don't you think it's time for the NAACP to make a name change huh absolutely imagine the president of the NAACP in St. Louis making a call to KMOV saying hello this is John Bowman from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and I think the word colored is triggering for the black community.

That sounds stupid. I know sometimes these crackers just want to be like, nigga, please. Okay. All right. I agree with everything the NABJ said about the word colored. I agree with what John Bowman said about the word colored. But I also think we look like devil damn fools saying we are offended by this word when the NAACP is right there using the word so how was Corey Stark or any other other supposed to say the full name of the NAACP

the National Association for the Advancement of C-Word People like what are we doing okay black people shouldn't we practice what we preach I'm one of those people who believe whatever I demand from you I must first demand to myself so I'm gonna need you coloreds to figure this out oh my god okay at least before next black history month all right because when you don't practice what you preach all i can hear is hypocrisy please let chelsea handle it give kmov and cory stark the biggest hee-haw hee-haw hee-haw that is way too much dan maynays all right now why don't you coloreds be on social media arguing with me y'all talk amongst yourselves and figure that out that is crazy how you gonna give somebody and Mayonnaise. for an NAACP with two of them. That's good. For the BMF film, right? I ain't going to be

until they change it. They're not changing it. I'm not colored. Jesus Christ. But it does make, they should change it, right? No, you are certainly right. It's very confusing.

I can see how the guy calls me, yeah, you call him, you're like, yeah, it's the advancement of colored people. I'm offended by the word colored, but you're calling from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? Come on, y'all.

Come on now. Let's use some common sense here, guys. Come on now. But you know, that's how people feel about the N-word, too, though. You know that. There ain't no organizations with the N-word in them, okay? Well, yeah. There ain't no organizations.

You know, how can people be upset with people using it? Ain't no organizations. That's all slang and people be upset with people using it? Ain't no organizations. And it's all slang and slurs. It's all slang and slurs. And I'm not saying they're wrong either. I'm just saying there's a difference between slang and slurs and having an organization called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I agree with everything that they said about the word, you know, being offensive due to its usage during segregation in the U.S. and the Jim Crow era. And the NABJ said it's fallen out of use due to its negative connotation.

They said it's outdated, offensive, and racist. If the president of the NAACP in St. Louis says the word is triggering and offensive, then somebody needs to change the name of the NAACP. And I do feel like, okay, so I get what you're saying, Envy, but I don't think that that's a good metaphor i mean a good uh we know what you mean yeah exactly no we'll say what i mean thank you a good example um i think like the the football team like the washington redskins okay they had to change that they are now the washington commanders right i think that's kind of like what that is and i do

agree they had to change that name there's no other group of people that use a slur as an a term of endearment though you you never see a bunch of white people like hey what's up my crack like you don't see that you do you okay sometimes sometimes they be doing that slang and slurs yeah we're talking about a real organization right that has existed for years now with us a hard er now no no oh my god i know what you mean thank you thank you oh okay like trigger but yeah yeah got you yeah yeah you know what when we come back don now rollins will be joining us thank you for that donkey just like a colored He's just dumb. He's just dumb. I'm all colored. Ain't nobody saying colored. What?

Oh, my goodness. Don L. Rawlings, comedian. When we come back, so don't move, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ, MV, Jess, and Larry. Charlamagne, the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We have a special guest in the building. There's a Netflix special that's out right now. You're familiar with the old written law. Love your friend and his unwritten companion. Hate your enemy.

I'm challenging that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run of the meal center does that. That's Donald Rollins. In a word, what I'm saying is grow up. Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Rollins. Hi, Donald. I love you. I love gentlemen, Donna Rawlings. Hi, Donna. I love you.

I love you, too. Why didn't you read the scripture you texted me the other day? Because you texted me Matthew 5-5. Read it out, Charlemagne. Happy are the mild-tempered since they will inherit the earth. That's Matthew 5-5. Welcome. Welcome.

How you feeling, brother? I feel very mild. In fact, I'm going to tell you, this is how mild I feel. I've looked at the careers of a lot of people, right? Yes. And some of those people that are super hot, that aren't that mild, they're not doing the same thing that the mild performers. Are you talking about Corey Holcomb? I don't use names.

I'm not talking about anybody. I mean, we could get to it. I mean, it's not. Listen, I had a conversation with a very close friend of mine, and they said they what i was doing the breakfast club right and they said donnell don't do it this is what that person said don't do what they just don't do what i'm not used to seeing you like this they said don't do what they're gonna try to do i know you always say don't do it and the reason why they said here's the thing you could say i'm giving light to somebody that doesn't deserve light i'm giving energy and pumping to somebody that doesn't deserve light.

I'm giving energy and pumping up something that doesn't have to be pumped up. Now, we could talk about the situation. I see that sinister, nasty light skin looked at you having. Sinister, nasty light skin. You look very light. You look very light. Lighter than normal, son. Damn.

You look like Latisha. Like light, light, light. Like a white man the thing is i know it's your business as a fake journalist as a media personality you have to get to the bottom of this you have to get to what people talk about in the streets i don't want to do that but we can't no i want to talk about your special done let's talk about my special and you wait wait what's special a new day no what platform netflix not on the youtube not a podcast continue i'm just saying there's levels to this

that's what we do are you still in the top 10 i'm still in the top 10 that's what we call for people don't understand that they're looking for clicks this is called this business of it's called charting okay now there are a lot of shows on netflix and here's when the world not just a podcast sees you when you chart but my special dropped on the 27th the next day it was charted at number two congrats now no no no no no let's talk about it um don't try to congratulate i don't need that i just said congratulations i don't want your congratulations i want to talk about the facts. I have a respectful question. Before that, I have to answer his question first.

Yes. The special dropped. I didn't ask a question. You were getting there. Okay. It charted number two. Yes. And it held on to number two for three days.

It went to number four for a couple of days. It went to number seven. I'm not really sure even if it's charting right now, but to have a Netflix special to come out out as many programs that are on netflix just to get recognized in a top 10 it's a big joint amazing it's a big deal and it's the reason why i support any comic that want to follow my lead and be mild you should do it absolutely that's what i'm saying and to address that here's my thing all right we'll see i don't want to get into it i don't want to get into it because i don't want to get into it because I don't want to be messing. Well, don't. No, but I... No, no, I got to say this. Keep getting into it. It's in your face.

You sinister. I don't understand this, Dono. Your face should be like... That's the type of... I don't get this, Dono. You've always been such a mild-mannered comic. What is setting you off about this situation? The thing that's setting me off about the situation is being called mild.

I'm going to tell you why. It's the same issue I had with you. For a person that... What the heck am I doing this? I'm bringing you back in when I want to. I'm going to pray you why It's the same issue I had with you For a person What the heck I got to do with this I'm bringing you back in When I want to I'm going to pray for you Dear father

Help this Alright The point I'm making What was the point Can you keep me on track Jess What was the point I was making The point is you were making

Why you don't like To be called a minor The reason why I said the issue I had with you And I said okay Just keep on trying To create the narrative

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so listen to still the place on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts as i said to begin let me say this let me talk to a comedian yeah you know the n-word for us not funny and corny as much success as you've had and not noted you've dealt with naysayers and everything and you could brush it off your numbers don't lie it's still something personal about somebody saying that and you want to say you i know i'm not and the reason why i'm gonna say that and i'll address this. First off, you got to ask who's judging me. Who is saying you, Mal? Right. And that person is not on a level of what I've done. When you're talking about what your mouth's saying, resume.

If you're not on a level, it's not even fair for you to make an assessment of what you think my career is. Because I can do the resumes. And this is what, I can do the resumes. You can say the resume. I know you saw scorpion balls. I know. I'm going to deliver you some. You know what I'm saying?

It's like, okay, who's judging me? And then when somebody's judging me, you're making a critique of me. What are you doing? What are you doing to your career? But sit back, trying to shit on a mother. And I take offense to anybody saying that funny. Cause I know after 30 years, that's not what the streets are saying. I've never said you're not funny.

I'm not talking about you. He was always about you. He made a reference to the streets are saying. I've never said you're not funny. I'm not talking about you. He was. It's always about you. It's always about you. He made a reference to something she was saying. Isn't that the sign of a narcissist? Yes. Always bringing it back to you. It's not about you.

But did you open up for me? Me. Okay. This interview is me. That's right. Donnell Robbins. A new day, a new dawn, and I'm feeling good. But you opened up for him that night, right?

At Laugh Factory? What? What? Oh, no. I didn't. Okay. I think it's very petty for comedians to try to be critics of comedians when you're in the same field. Nobody does that.

And I know the question is, well, what's up with all this comedy beef or whatever? And it's unfortunate. Who got that question? I had that question. There's an elephant in the room. Absolutely. And we asked every other comedian that comes up here that question. And I an elephant in the room. Absolutely. And we ask every other comedian that comes up here that question. And I was going to get to that.

How do you feel about the comedy beef and the climate that it's in? Let's take away a n***a with a podcast who talks about everybody to get attention. It's a good question. I'll answer it this way. It's two. You got to do it. With the OG comics. White comics, black comics, whatever.

The thing is, in our community, we feel like it only could be one black person on top at one time. Nobody wants to share the stage. They feel like Hollywood picks this person, but everybody can win. Everybody wants to be Batman, but it's going to be more Robbins than anything. We're not supportive of each other.

Very, very selfish, very competitive, but not the point of everybody though. We see what I'm not talking to you I'm sorry I'm talking to a comedian do you want to do comedy oh sir you can start like we did we do open mics no sir I know you have a platform you think you could do anything do we interrupt cars like this sorry imagine me interfering when you're talking about one of your pro-fans car shots. I said sorry. Continue.

All right. But anyway, oh my goodness. The question is, we're very, very, very, very hateful. Yeah. And as bad as the climate has been in comedy, this is the common denominator with everybody that's been a subject of discussion from Shay Shay interview. All these names that came up. The one thing that's common with everybody is that we all started from nothing there's not a story of anybody's name is going up that didn't come from

one family house you know i'm saying nothing everybody everybody they talk about had a dream and they turn their dream into reality so my thing if you want to be critical of that then use that same criticism and talk about the come up talk about the people that have done it and let people know that this is something that you can focus on and you can do it you can be good at it and you make it successful the only thing right now in our in our in our comedy community is that people are trying to sell controversy now yeah they don't want to sell jokes anymore because they know what moves the needle every Every podcast platform, I did a whole media run, and everybody,

as soon as I walked in, they wanted a controversy. I heard so-and-so. About that, yep. They went, oh, I heard this because they know that our society, we gravitate toward negativity more than anything.

That's why you look at news, the news, whatever, New York news, you look at it, a person was murdered in Brooklyn, a person was murdered in Bronx because we gravitate toward negative stuff it's unfortunate where we ever get where we have these positive stories never

because that don't move the dial so you got people out here trying to move a dial with podcast whatever and the way i'm trying to move a dial is by what i'm doing i don't have to talk about it i'm not cocky about my netflix special i've been doing this for 32 years and anybody you know you know my history anybody you know my history anybody they know my history i put the work in so when you try to discredit that i'm going to defend that all right we got more with donnell rawlings when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning yeah we're still kicking it with donnell rawlings his special a new day is out right now can i ask you a real question no when you got into the mile i said no when you got into the the mild

disagreement why didn't you leave the first time? Why you kept leaving and coming back and leaving and coming back and leaving and coming back? First off, that day, I closed three shows. My name called, went up there, destroyed the show. But also know that I had to make an announcement about my special. And I wanted to say something that was real. So I had the crowd up here. I could have said good night.

I took it down and I explained what this special meant to me had the crowd up here. I could have said goodnight. I took it down and I explained what this special meant to me, how it got here. And it was a very hard film. If you listen to that video, you could tell people it was ride with me.

I didn't have to, I ain't got to get on standing up right there. I made my point and I knew I was going to use this. So I thought they was giving me the light. I'm like,

I'm the last one. I went over my time not knowing that anybody else was on the show. I thought you was closing. I thought I was closing. But they were trying to get you off the stage for the headline. I'm like, I'm the last one. I went over my time not knowing that anybody else was on the show. You thought you was closing. I thought I was closing. But they were trying to get you off the stage for the headline. No, they wasn't.

Well, no, Corey was headlining, right? So, get off the stage. You went over your time a little bit and you went off the stage. I went over my time. Yeah. So, I'm leaving. Good night. Good night.

And then they said, we got one more guest coming up from the 3030 podcast or whatever number it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And they said blah blah blah and i was like oh i want to listen to this yeah and the reason why i want to listen to it i had already wanted to talk to this guy why i'm gonna tell you why because i was fed up and like a lot of comedians fed up with the antics of why everything that comes out your mouth has to be

negative and people i want to have a conversation not just for me but for the comedy community why is it that you always have to talk about people and nobody asked you but why you let it bother you because you know we've been in those rooms you know i've seen you in a small venue and i've seen you in huge venues i've seen david's why did i let what bother me but why are you letting what he said bother you? Because you know what it is. You know you fucking don't care. You don't know I'm sensitive? I'm sensitive.

Oh, okay. And then even with you, you know, outside of being sensitive, this is a person that always does this shit. Like, all the time. You know what I'm saying? It's the same thing. And the only way that you can actually ever get to him to talk to him is if you pop up on him. Because even in my experience, I mean, I'm talking about this person has talked about me years and years and years,

tried to apologize to another comedian. Nah, don't send me D-Rate to apologize to me. I want you to apologize to me as a mother because of the shit you said about my son. Then I had to call you. I'm talking about block my number out to call you. And you answer the phone like, who this? You know what I'm saying? And then you apologize.

And then I would have never made those those uh comments about you had i knew you were a comedian well what the f what that got to do with me being uh so he has apologized you before he has on the phone and then later it's a no different story it's it you get on that mic again on on the show whatever on your podcast show which is like the only thing you have you know what i'm saying and and you talk about me again. You talk about me again. You talk about... So he cannot leave our names

and the names of the greats and the name of the people that he cannot beat on a Netflix, on anything else, in any other realm out of his mouth. He can't do that.

So that's all he has is that mic and that door and in that cold corner. Right. You know. Without anybody being able to respond. Right. Without having an opinion of anybody and here's the thing whether you know it or not it was so many comedians that called me and said thank you and going back to your question is that i look at the question i listen yes he asked questions back to your point is that um him

like i'm a good friend people want to say all this shit. Well, even with that, it was like, when I had a special or Dave Chappelle put them on. What you don't know is Netflix had already agreed to do a special with me produced by Dave or not. But so what if Dave did put you on?

So what? You his man. No, but I'm saying I'm answering like dumb questions. You know what I'm saying? And this is what people don't understand. And this is where

the loyalty comes in. Dave ain't just handing out specials. That's the point I'm this is what people don't understand. And this is where the loyalty comes in. They ain't just handing out specials. They're giving them people that are very deserving of them. That's the point I'm making, but people don't understand that. Any success somebody get with hard work, whatever, they wouldn't say you had to do so and so. So you dismissing work ethics? You dismissing going hard? No.

You dismissing God? I don't think nobody is. I just think you take it. People see the blind. I'm not saying you. No, I'm not saying you. I'm just saying. But it just makes sense.

It's like if I wanted to do a podcast, right? Why wouldn't I go to Charlemagne who has his own podcast, right? That's my guy. And he's going to hopefully look out the best interest. Even when I was doing my book, I called Charlemagne and said, yo, these are the terms for the book. What do you think? He's done it before. Well, can I ask a question?

Could you and Corey ever get on the same page? I think him and Jess's situation is different because talking about somebody's child is nothing. I will say this. He was, for me, I respected him. You know, everybody don't agree

with his style of comedy and I've said this to people before. Again, I don't want to talk about it because here's the thing. I make a conversation. It's been 17 minutes

and you're talking about it. I know, I know. Alright, because somebody told me not to do it. Y'all had a mild disagreement. That's what it was. No, we didn't have.

Have y'all spoke? No, I really i don't really but then you have to understand something too this man doesn't respect his own family you know he's some point it's like there's no making up with a person like this there is no trying to understand to sit down like that type of person needs healing and therapy of his own so i think that's why i said the prayer the thing is there is no reason to for me to do it i've already started with limited contact yeah always started with a mutual respect but if you lose respect for me i lose respect for you and even when i said what i said on stage not one time did i berate him not one time did i say anything bad about his comedy not one time to say anything about his family now one time i say anything bad about him i explain to what i am and i know that there's nobody going to believe that i'm a mild comment there's nobody going to believe that i'm not so you think and here's another you know there's a lot of people that don't know what you're even

talking about right now that's what i'm saying like why you got this you have a great special called a new day it's on netflix right now make it a new day, Donnell. Here's the thing. Donnell, make it a new day. This conversation wasn't specific to one person. It was a conversation about this industry and how people move. And like you said, it's a new day. It's a new dawn. It's a new life for me.

And I'm feeling good. Donnell Rawlings, Netflix special. It's still charting on Netflix and I want to say I appreciate this time. It was good to see you. And congratulations. It's always good to see you. Donnell. I want to say congratulations.

Thank you. That's crazy. I really appreciate you. I really appreciate you. I support you. I want everybody to get along. I want you and Corey to make up. I want Corey and Jeff to get on the same page. Look, you can keep talking that quick. Corey, don't ever say nothing about Corey over here to me. You already know what he's doing.

You know how I feel. Well, Donnell, we appreciate you for joining us. Love you. It's a new dawn. Donnell, make sure you check out his special. It's a new life for me, yeah. All right, it's The Breakfast Club. And I'm feeling good

It's Donnell Rollins Ba-da, ba-da, ba-ba-ba The Breakfast Club Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess O'Leary, Shalom A. Negaia We are the Breakfast Club, good morning! Let's get to Jess with the Mess Jess O'Leary, Jess O'Leary, Jess O'Leary, Jess O'Leary Jess is gonna bring you numbers get to just with the mess okay it's not much going on in the world today but it's a lot going on in the world today um camorra lee simmons shades usher visiting Russell Simmons in Bali amid sexual assault allegations.

She said, y'all some wild boys. Girls, shut up. If you know something, say something. If you don't, that's it. Be quiet. Merge obliges in love. Oh, when it comes. She said, when you believe it, it comes to you.

That's what's up. All right. Juice WRLD's girlfriend, Ally Lottie Allegedly sells his clothes On OnlyFans Bitch what That's the one she allegedly Put out their sex tape to On OnlyFans Allegedly went

After he passed Not you selling his clothes Why not just give him The goodwill or something Or something Or give him to his mother She might need the money She might need the money

Oh my god Y'all not getting no money In these days And by the way When you do When you do good deeds Good things come back to you. So, you know, sow a seed.

You know, taking those clothes and giving them the goodwill, that's sowing a seed. What? That ain't going to help with her rent money, though. Yes, it will. Sow a seed. You don't have no faith in nothing. If she call up and give her cash out, I'm pretty sure one of y'all got something in. Yes.

Christina Mackey confirms breakup with Rick Ross. Girl, we told you. We told you it was your trial. Do you have to announce a breakup if you was only with a person for two seconds? She was announcing everything else. She was making the hamburger helper and tacos and all that stuff that my son can make.

She was sure. She was sure about it. Your son can make them, but you ain't had them in two days. What? You ain't had your tacos in two days. I know. That's envy fault. I found her tacos, Baba Sheehan. No, Taco Bell.

Child, please. Uh-oh, uh-oh. This is a crazy headline right here. Is SZA coming to Fortnite? Crazy. Anyway,

Nelly says he was part of the most competitive era of hip-hop. He sat down on a recent episode of The Shop and he spoke on the era of hip-hop. He sat down on a recent episode of The Shop, and he spoke on the era of hip-hop. He was creating music and how competitive it was. Nelly, coming from the loo, did you ever have chip on your shoulder? Because everything was L.A., New York.

We always talk about that with the Midwest, man. Goddamn right. Yeah? Goddamn right. But you got to understand, my era of music was the toughest era in hip-hop ever. Ever. When I put out songs, I had to go against DMX, Jay-Z, Eminem, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Luda. All of us are fighting for one spot.

So from 99 to like 2008, 10, it's the hardest era ever. Damn. I agree with that. Yeah, that's a lot of people. It was a lot of heavy hitters. A lot of people selling records. Yeah, that was...

I got to hear more context. If he's talking about selling records, yeah, I can see that. He's talking about selling records. He's talking about Grammy Awards. Because think about... He ain't talking about rap, though. Listen.

That's what I'm saying. Listen, I swear. He ain't talking about lyrics. I know DJ Envy. He got a different mindset when it comes to music. He is an expert on music. that's what i'm saying i swear i was with you i know d i know dj mv you know he got different um you know mindset when it comes to music he is like an expert on music but i ain't never like back in those days because i was listening to everybody he named and i never thought of nelly when those when those rappers that came up like dmx selling records artists as far as like who was the biggest artist nelly was was that guy. Yeah, yeah.

But like lyrics, I would think of, you know. Nah, nah, he was talking about selling records. Remember even that line Jay said, only people selling units and pimp juice and us. Nelly is a great songwriter though. Oh yeah? Yeah, I just don't think of him as a, I've never thought of him as a lyricist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Okay. Well, CBS announced his first black soap opera in 35 years so CBS partnered with the NAACP the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People yes they sure did those colors they partnered up with CBS and um they developed the first daytime soaps with mainly black cast since 1989. The name of the show will be called The Gates. It's a lot of gates. It will follow the life of a wealthy black family. Okay.

The show will be written by Emmy-winning daytime veteran Michael or Michelle Valjean. Y'all know y'all can't do that. It's crazy. Michelle Valjean. It's crazy how there's never been a black soap opera, yet soap opera seems so black. But they said since 89, but I can't even remember one before 89. What was the black soap opera? I never remember.

I don't remember. I grew up going to my grandma's house. Like, Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, stuff like that. That wasn't black, though. All my children. No, no, no. It wasn't black. So it's never been a black one, right?

Yeah, I don't know what he's saying. That's what I said. No, but she said since 1989. That's what the paper said. That's what the paper said. But I can't remember one. I don't remember. I don't either. don't know what he's saying that's what i said no but she said since 1989 but i can't remember one i don't remember i don't either but you know what i thought tyler perry that's what he was doing he do black soap operas like what is the oval what is what is uh the half and the half knots like that but it's on every day though right i thought so every day there's no there's no been no black show that's been on every day like that no i can't remember one either well we about to see it it's gonna be

called the gates y'all and um it's what i don't know if i'm messing up her name but michelle valjean or whoever she is the writer on the black the bold and the beautiful oh they said it was called generations i don't remember that so i've heard of it even generations of black soap opera it came on two o'clock in the morning. When everybody was asleep. So, the last time a broadcaster launched a new soap opera was in 1999. NBC's Passions. Oh, God. That's what they said.

Passions? I just Googled Generations. You don't know anything about that? There's mad white people on this. What the hell is black about Generations? There's only three black people. I don't see nothing. Four. I see one. Well. I see one.

Well, I see two now. John L. Allen and Christian St. John. They ain't no all black soap operas. There's more white people in there than black people. Exactly. Why would y'all say that? People just be lying. Well, it's considered a black soap opera.

Why? I don't know. Well, it doesn't have an air date or anything, but we should look forward to this. Oh, it was the first soap opera to feature a black family from its inception but that's not a black soap opera

yeah that's not that don't make it a black soap opera nope but I don't care Tyler Pryde with the half and the half knives and the ovals

that should be considered a soap opera you know he's been doing this Tyler Pryde got a little bit of everything under his belt so that's amazing

okay congratulations CBS and NAACP color people, the national association for the advancement of colored people. Okay. All right. Never mind the fact that, uh, John Bowman from St.

Louis, St. Louis president of NAACP said that the word colored is triggering for the black community. All right. Well, thank you for the Jess with the mess. You're welcome.

All right. Now, when we come back, we got the mix, the People's Choice mix. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out The Breakfast Club. It's Women's History Month, and we're celebrating the most influential women in history. Check out this phenomenal... Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. It's Women's History Month, and who are we repping today, Jess? We are repping Jane Elliott. I want to honor her. She is an internationally known teacher, lecturer, and diversity trainer. She's most known for her response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Jane Elliott created a controversial experiment. It's called the Blue eyes brown eyes exercise this now famous exercise

labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their skin and exposes them to the experience of being a minority i also have audio from her when she was doing it in one of her classes this is in her earlier years of um teaching and this is i think this was the very very very first one of our students was showed uh behavior of a karen play it right you're doing it again persecuted her for standing up doing it again persecuted him for standing up the only change that ever happens is when people stand out and i am so bad martin luther Jr. was shot. Are you in any physical danger here? Emmett Till was hanged by his neck after he was beaten almost to death simply because he's made a statement to a white woman.

You've made your point. You're right. Thank you very much. What is my point that I've made? That you can't make generalizations about any place because there's racism everywhere. That's right. Uh-uh. You don't come back in here until you because there's racism everywhere. That's right. Uh-uh. You don't come back in here until you've apologized to every person in this room. Because you just exercised a freedom that none of these people of color have. Because there's no place in this country where they aren't going to be exposed to racism.

I'm sorry. And my Latinos, every person of color. There is racism in this country. Bullshit! You're going to apologize for what you just did I will not apologize because it's not a matter of race that ain't gonna hurt her

go ahead Jane Elliott I love her and I've always loved to see her lessons and all that type of stuff this is actually you can find this on YouTube or wherever she is still alive and I think she's 77. 77, yeah.

Yes, so I honor you today, Ms. Jane Elliott. And I appreciate all that you have done for us, because she's always been for the colors. All right. When we come back, we got the positive notice to Breakfast Club. Good morning. And that was another phenomenal woman in history. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. It's time to get up out of here. Charlamagne, you got a positive note? Yes, I want to tell people, make sure you go get tickets for the second annual Black Effect Podcast Festival, which will be happening April 27th in Atlanta, Georgia at Pullman Yards. Man, we got some great podcasts on the stage. Wallow and Gilly. Jess Hilarious with Carefully Reckless. She'll be there fixing your mess.

Horrible Decisions. Poor Minds Podcast. Debbie Brown with Deeply Well. Black Tech Green Money with Will Lucas. And the Ball Alert Show will all be on that stage. So we will see you Saturday, April 27th in Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia. Make sure you go get your tickets right now. BlackEffect.com slash podcast festival.

Or go get your tickets on Eventbrite. And Jess, you know what I was looking at? What? I was looking at your upcoming shows on your website. Absolutely. You're going to be in Miami on the 9th this weekend. Yep, I'll be hosting that festival. Why you ain't tell Jersey you're going to be at the Stress Factory Comedy Club?

Because those shows are already almost sold out. Oh. Jesus Christ. I know what I'm doing. I don't know. I'm just like, damn, you got shows in Jersey. I'm going to say, all right, y'all. What part of Jersey? I'm going to be in Jersey.

New Brunswick. Disgusting Factory. Yep. New Brunswick, New Jersey. Then I have dates coming up. What's the dates? March 29th and 30th. Friday and Saturday.

One show on Friday. A show at 7 o'clock. A show at 9.30. Saturday, a show at 7 o'clock. Show at 9.30. Saturday a show at 7 o'clock. A show at 9.30. My kids got a dance competition there so I'll be there. In New Brunswick, New Jersey? In New Brunswick. Alright, cool. Now that you said something, now they're

going to have me add more shows. That's the whole point. You're pregnant. You can't do that. Oh, Jesus Christ. That's the whole point of me not saying anything because those shows are all just tickets away from being sold out. Now they're going to be like, oh, snap. Jess, you're going to be here.

And they're going to make me. My fans make me air shows. Well, New Jersey is in your backyard now. It sure is. All right. So, y'all, I probably more than likely will be airing shows. It don't have Sunday on it? No, it just says Friday and Saturday.

All right. So, more than likely, I'm going to be tied that Monday because I'm going to air probably two shows Sunday. Thank you very much. Thank you, Charlamagne. And I have upcoming dates in Connecticut, Bridgeport, Connecticut as well at the Stress Factory. Those tickets are not on sale yet. But once I get the dates, I will let y'all know.

Yes, but this weekend I'll be in Miami for the Jazz in the Gardens Music Festival at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens this year for its 17th annual edition. Y'all will be hosting day one, me and Ricky Smiley, y'all. And we got Kirk Franklin and Fantasia and Maxwell and some other people out there. Okay. I just want y'all to know somebody just handed her that and she read it. Stop playing with my sister like she can't read. They won't be able to know. You stupid.

Thank you, Randy. But leave us on a positive note. Positive note today comes from Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. I love Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. Rest in peace to him. He says, when you judge another, you do not define them. You define yourself. Have a blessed day. Oh, I love that.

Okay. I love that. No, that wasn't new. But you see, the new ones, the ones that we never heard before always come from somebody else. So yeah, you should always get all your quotes from everybody else. Thank you. Breakfast Club, bitches! You all finished or y'all done?

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