The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies; Raises Concerns, Megan Thee Stallion's Tour Sells Out Across U.S. + More

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

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I think everybody should go on The Breakfast Club. Yes. We wanna shake it up. They not like us. What the f*** up, Breakfast Club? DJ Envy. The people's choice. The family guy.

Jess Hilarion. My niece is real. And Charlamagne Tha God. Some don't even dare to sell themselves. Yo, I'm loving that energy up there right now. Sometimes you gotta pop out for shows again. Now let's begin. Good morning. Charlamagne Tha God. Peace to the planet. It's Tuesday.

Yes, it's Tuesday. Yes, it is. How y'all feeling? Bless Black and Holly favorite. I'm going to tell you something. I'm about to give up this throne, man. This throne will be hurting my back. Yeah.

Yeah. That's how you feel about your baby, Chow Chow? Absolutely. I'm getting rid of this as soon as I have a baby. After the baby. I got to get one like, well, not like y'all because that's hurt. Does it hurt your back nah cause I got this cushion on it

so I got the cushion that goes on it oh yeah you don't have a cushion I need something that make my hips move around and my back move

and my shoulder move this make me sit too straight I don't like that yeah you remember the girl called up here like when I first started working up here

and she was telling us about ergonomics and she was like those thrones are gonna hurt y'all back she definitely she said that and she was not lying

yeah okay I feel every bit of it in my 45-year-old bones. You hear me? It's all good, though. The sun is out already. I could not believe. Yo, the sun was up and everything at 530. Really?

Yes. What do you mean, really? I was here early. I didn't see the sun. Oh, yeah, driving in, because I usually leave miles at like 515, 525. The sun came up at like 521. Really? I was like, wow.

Yep. Did you watch the games last night, Jess? Absolutely. You're a liar. Why would you just lie like that? For no reason. I mean, just for no reason. They played last night.

Why? They played. Who won? They did. The Knicks won. Okay. You're looking at the paper. I saw you glancing down at it two times.

I did watch the Knicks-Paces game. Minnesota Timberwolves-Nuggets game. Too late for me. Too late. Yeah, I watched both games last night, and I'm feeling it this morning. Yeah, I can't get my six to seven hours of sleep per night if I stay up to watch the Timberwolves Nuggets game. Yeah, nah. That's not happening.

Great games. We'll tell you about it in front page news. And we have Angela Rye joining us this morning. She's knocking out the front page news. Good morning. Good morning. Annie Rye, daughter. Are we starting right now? No, it's just a tease.

And what we talk about when we come back. You got that ready? Or do we need a second? Oh, no, I'm ready. We're going to talk about Donald Trump because why not? And we're also talking about Brittany Griner. Okay. All right. We'll get into all that. And also Tiffany Haddish will be joining us this morning. Yeah, she's got a new book, I Curse You With Joy. That's right. Which is out right now. So she will be joining us this morning. She's got a new book. I curse you with joy.

That's right. Which is out right now. So she'll be joining us. And John Carl will be joining us. He's got a book out called Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party. Okay. All right. Well, let's get to the show.

Cracking Front Page News is next. What we got? Snooze. Here we go. Oh, my God. We started with something other than Snooze by SZA. I changed it. Oh, okay.

I know SZA Snooze was on deck. It's been on deck for the last two years. I changed it. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess and Larry, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club.

Who knew this one little song would change the course of hip-hop? Word. Oh, my gosh. I love it. It's one little record. Word. Well, let's get in some front page news. Angela Rye is here.

Good morning, Ms. Rye. Good morning. It is always a pleasure to be with my dear Breakfast Club family. Good morning, Angela Rye is here. Come on in, Ms. Rye. Good morning. It is always a pleasure to be with my dear Breakfast Club family. Good morning, Angela Rye. We are starting with the positive of something that was really negative at first. Brittany Griner, WNBA All-Star, is of course back. We did not have Brittany for 10 plus months. She was being held in a Russian prison over a weed pen that she forgot was in her suitcase.

You all may have been noticing, but she's interviewing. Her book is out. And so she's interviewing. She did an interview last night with Joy Ann Reid where she talked about being Putin's pawn. Let's take a listen. You wrote a chapter called Putin's pawn. Did you get the immediate sense that once you had Russian lawyers, one of whom you came very close to, did it become clear to you and to them that Putin was going to use you? Oh, yes.

A hundred percent. I mean, the few times that I would get the guards to say something to me when I'm like, where am I going? Am I the only one in the cell? I knew that the American basketball player had to be by themselves. I'm like, well, this is weird. Because normally, you know, you go into the holding tank with everyone else. You're in a cell. You don't have a room to yourself in the beginning.

You're with a lot of people. So I already knew that there was little things going on. And then the check-ins, the top guard was always there. The warden, the deputy top guard was always there the warden the deputy warden was always there so i knew that there was some special treatment let's keep her good for right now you know what's interesting about that i remember when uh people started to make noise about it and folks were saying no don't make noise because they don't want people to know how uh i guess popular she is or quote unquote how valuable she is yes i wonder if they really knew from the beginning i think they did know from the beginning because they she talked about

um also in this interview how there were two different lines for people to go through and she realized she was the one that was going to be getting screened she thought nothing of it i don't know if y'all remember this at the time. She forgot the weed pen was in there. I have a friend who I worked on Capitol Hill with. Her mom forgot she had a gun in her suitcase going through TSA because some folks use their luggage as storage when they're not moving around like that. So I think that this is one of those instances where she talked about forgetting. But she also talked about this experience she had being upon um as a zoo animal it can take and so it strikes me as doubly tragic to feel as you said like the zoo animal when for you other than playing basketball and sports getting you out of that feeling just growing up talk a little bit about that uh

definitely always felt like i was the the outsider you know i i vividly remember it's like sixth seventh grade. You know, someone, another girl literally came up to me, touched my whole chest and was like, see, she's not a girl. Like the voice being a little bit deeper, the height. I was always the spectacle. I was always the, ooh, look how different you are. And I've always felt that. I mean, I am different. When I walk in a room, people notice how different you are. And I've always felt that. I mean, I am different.

When I walk in a room, people notice how different I am. We both traumatized by sex. It took me a little bit, but I embraced it. But that moment being in that prison and how they were treating me, it took me back to that spectacle of my childhood. Well, she's 6'9". She probably was 6'3 and 7th grade. And you think that makes it okay?

No, it don't make it okay but i can understand why she would be considered a spectacle to other kids yeah especially kids you don't you don't see women at a six three in high school in elementary school i don't know the fact that her voice is deep you usually don't see that not to say that it's right it's right but i can say i can understand yeah i appreciate you all both understanding the the trauma that sixth graders probably caused you all. I'm sure. Or probably those who caused it.

Yeah. No. Think about how we got into sixth grade. That's what I'm saying. So imagine if I was six foot four in sixth grade. That has nothing to do with the fact that even from the standpoint of like you're trying to go to sleep, you know how they deprive you of sleep and torture? That's what they were doing to her in Russia.

So she was saying it literally took her back to the trauma of her childhood we all know what that's like we have a traumatic experience and we can hearken right back to it that's what she talked about this is part one of the interview part two airs tonight and we applaud britney for telling her story she's also expecting a baby what's the name of her book her spouse sherelle i do not know it at the top of my head look it up on the internet that's the whole point that is the whole point that is the whole point of the interview but i don't know it right now i was focused more on how compelling this interview was and the fact that we did get her back shout out to don staley by the way who we all love who worked really hard to get britney back coming home is what it's called coming home

yes thank you brother teamwork high five okay too far to reach um also speaking of putin's pond this is day 13 of the trump trial um where is, of course, facing 34 counts for falsifying business records for paying Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal to stay quiet about his alleged affairs and for paying the National Enquirer to catch and kill stories. I don't know if y'all have anything compelling to talk about that, but he also is being threatened with prison time for violating a gag order. He got fined again? Well, he's been threatened that if he continues to violate the gag order, the $1,000 clearly is no deterrent. So he will be facing jail time if he continues. It's not happening. One of the judges even said, I don't want to put you in jail.

Yeah. You're a former president and possibly the future president of the United States of America. Imagine what his supporters would do with that. Yes. They don't want to put him in jail. No, they don't. And he knows that. He'll wipe his ass with them fines. Okay, well, that's what he's doing.

So now he's going to wipe his ass in jail if he keeps it up. Anyway, this is Frontage News, y'all. All right. I just want to remind you, last night, the Knicks won 120-117. They beat the Pacers. And the Timberwolves beat the Nuggets 106-80 if you missed the games last night. All right. Everybody else, get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. Again, 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 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? What up, man?

This is Knowledge, man. How y'all doing? Knowledge born. What's happening, y'all? Peace, Knowledge. What's up? Get it off your chest. Man, I ain't waiting on Charlamagne to drop them two days for Dallas for the book signing,

but he ain't doing it yet. He got to go to his main spots first. Oh, no, I love Dallas, man. Dallas is considered one of my main spots. I'm going to be in Texas, though. Let me look and see where. Let me look it up. I'm going to be in the shop for the summer, so come now. Chicago is one of my next dates. When am I going to be in Texas? I'm going to be

in Texas. Damn, I'm not in Texas. I want to get this off my chest. I normally call and be happy, but man, over the years, it's pretty ground and stuff to get on because you got in trouble for something illegal. It happened to me in America.

You know what happened? Five years probation, couldn't get a corporate job, and we celebrating it. What's the example of my kids? Oh, you can get hurt. Oh, you can do something. It'll be all right.

And we wasted our taxpayers' money. And it ain't nothing to do with it. It's just we spent so much money on this show. I think we just, it could have been real life. But, Nala, you do know people make mistakes. And you see how you got five years probation. She got like 12 years in prison. Hey, I'm going

out of town this summer. You think I'm going to take anything that I can do legally in America? No. He has a point. I can see both sides. Well, she made a mistake, and we all make mistakes. No.

I don't even think it's the time. It's the excessive time. If she would have got probation five years, probation probably a year, it probably would have sat better with people. But 12 years, I think the amount of time they're trying to give her. We can't control their laws.

We can't. We don't control ourselves. More than one thing can be true. Yes, you got to respect the laws of other countries. Yes, we can be happy that Brittany Griner is home. Yes, people can say they feel like, you know, we gave up too much to get Brittany Griner. Yes, people can say, hey, they wish that the military veteran that's still locked up over there should be home as well. Right.

Like, all of those things can be true at one time. That's correct. I don't know why we act like it can only be either or. That's right. Hello, who's this? This like it can only be either or. That's right. Hello, who's this? This is Prince, man. How y'all doing? Prince, where you calling from?

I'm calling from Orlando, Florida. What's up, Prince? Get it off your chest. I just want to say, if Indiana going to beat the Knicks, they're going to have to beat the referees, too, because those last couple calls were very, very suspect. They were, but Jalen Brunson showed out last night. He's been showing out the last five games. You were, but Jalen Brunson showed out last night. He's been showing out the last five games.

You got to stop Jalen Brunson. And the refs have been messing up, damn near every game during this series. So you can't just blame them. Oh, they got to beat the refs too. No, they made some bad calls. But my next one. And Jalen Brunson played hard. Josh Hart played hard.

Yeah, you're right. The refs have been a suspect in a lot of these series but that pick last night that call on that legal pick or whatever they call legal screen that was yeah that was crazy i just want to say that was crazy because they even replayed and they said it was not a kickball that was that was different but they even replayed the illegal screen i mean in that in that part of the game it wasn't that egregious. I don't think they should have called it. I just want to say, we as black people, we need a movement to come together

because all this foolishness is going on in the world. And with this political landscape and the coming election and all this, all these rappers beefing, we need to be focused on how we can come together, stop the violence, and just do something, man. You know, to change the direction of our culture.

All right, brother. Thank you. Yep. We got to make up our mind about this rap beef, too, though. What you mean? It's either we want the rap beef because it's fun

and good for hip-hop. That's why I say more than one thing can be true all the time. There's people out there that think it's fun and good for hip-hop, and there's people say more than one thing can be true all the time. There's people out there that think it's fun and good for hip-hop, and there's people out there that feel like it could lead to violence. And, you know, we got to stop this and focus on other things.

Like, you know, to each his own, I guess. Do I think that this will lead to violence? No. Do I think that they have the kind of rhetoric that could lead to violence? Yes, but I don't think it will. I don't think so either. Yeah. But 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. 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? This is Henry from LIDCT, man. I just want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Henry from L-I-D-C-T, man. I just want to say I love y'all.

Bless. Good morning. Just so beautiful. I can't wait for that baby to drop. You name him Henry. Or her. Henry? I just want to give a birthday shout out to my brother Jeremiah and my man PK. They're universal twins. They share the same birthday, but I love y'all boys, man.

They prosperous. And yo, Charlemagne, I need a hat, yo. I don't know if we've got any, but I can send you a copy of my new book, Get Honest or Die Lying. Hey, Les, sign it, please.

I got you. Hold on, I'm putting them all. Email him a book today. He's on line three. Hello, who's, please. I got you. Hold on, I'm going to put him on hold. Email him a book today. He's on line three. Hello, who's this? It's Janae. Hey, Janae, come on. Get it off your chest, Janae.

I really feel like this Kendrick and Drake beat was about to be the most historic moment in hip hop that we've witnessed. And the fans, social media, really ruined this beef real fast. Talk to me. Talk to me more. Let me hear.

Expound on that. It really made these artists get out of pocket and start acting like they normally don't. And Kendrick getting real emotional, kind of spirally. Drake really not moving like he should. Like, it just really, it really made the beef really nasty. Because the court of public opinion cannot look at these things objectively. Well, I'm going to tell you something. I don't give a damn about the court

of public opinion. I enjoyed it. I think it was the greatest rap feud of all time. I think that Drake and Kendrick both delivered with the music. I don't see the problem. I agree. I love the fact that they gave us the music. I love the fact that they came back so fast. I love the fact that it just gave people something to talk about for the last couple of days.

Now, I mean, you could decide who you thought it was the winner. Some people thought it was Kendrick. Some people thought it was Drake. But I think hip-hop really won. I mean, the amount of music we got, I just hope those brothers didn't take it too far where they want to hurt each other. They did. You call me a pedophile. You say I'm a woman beater.

You say my wife is pregnant, had a baby by my man. Yeah, you took it too far. You ain't going to never see them on stage in the future holding each other's hands up. I remember how Nas and Jay came out and they did the whole I declare peace thing. That's not happening. No? No. Hell no.

I never thought Jay and Thing would do it, though, either. Nah. I never thought Jay and Nas was totally different. I never thought I would see Jeezy and Gucci on stage together. I never thought I would see Jeezy and Gucci. I mean together. I never thought I would see Jeezy and Gucci. I mean, yeah, you're right. With the Jeezy and Gucci thing, you're right. But are they cool?

No, I wouldn't say that they're cool, but I think they can... Get some money and do the verses, but they not cool. They could be on the same tour. They was still throwing crazy shots. But at one time, they could even be on the same stage with each other. By the way, that was 20 plus years later, too. At least, I think it was at least 20. So we got about 19 more years then?

We got about 19 more years before you see something like that. But I thoroughly enjoyed this battle. But stands are going to be stands, too. I think the problem with hip-hop is that it's not like sports. So you can't say who won. Everybody just wants to go with who their preference is. Whether it's Drake or Kendrick. When it's a sport, it's a score.

Yeah. You know? But these fans are crazy, because at one time when I said I thought Kendrick was winning, then I was a Kendrick guzzler. Then when I said I think Drake got it, then I was a Drake guzzler. I don't even know.

I mean, you are a Drake guzzler, though. How am I a Drake guzzler? Because beige people stick together. Beige lives matter. I get it. No, we don't. Yes, you do. I'll tell you who I thought won.

Who do you think won? I have no horse in this fight. Who do you think won? I told you. I thought it. No, we don't. Yes, you do. I'll tell you who I thought won. I have no horse in this fight. So who do you think won? I told you. I thought it was Kendrick until I heard Drake say he fed him the lines. I thought that was basketball. And you're stupid to believe that he fed that. The fact that you even still believe in that is crazy to me.

Maybe. That makes no sense. Maybe. If I fed Kendrick those lines, if you watched that Family Matters video, Drake documented everything. Why wouldn't you record yourself showing that you're feeding Kendrick the lines? If you watched that Family Matters video, Drake documented everything. Why wouldn't you record yourself showing that you feeding Kendrick the lines? Maybe there's more. It's not more. Maybe there's more.

Maybe there's more. No. Who do you think won? I don't think anybody wins. I don't think anybody wins. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got Jess with the mess coming up.

What are we talking about? Yes, the protesters was headed for the Met Gala last night. Did they make it? Well, I guess we'll find out when we come back. Yeah, we will find out. All right, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Where the hell is Jess at? Good morning. Listen, I want to tell y'all, too, my new book, Get Honest or Die Lying, Why Small Talk Sucks, comes out May 21st, man.

So go to whysmalltalksucks.com to see where I'm going to be at in the next couple of weeks as far as pulling up to bookstores in your city. That's right. All right. Well, let's get to Jess with the mess. Your news is real, brother. Jess Lines, Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying.

Don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jets. Worldwide Mets. On The Breakfast Club. She's a coach of shit. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to settle it all.

Okay, so two months ago I reported on the death of John Barrett, who was a former Boeing quality control manager. He became one of the many whistleblowers who warned us about all the dangers of the Boeing's production standard. He was found with a gunshot wound that determined to be self-inflicted, but now another whistleblower died after a short illness. We got the news report. A second Boeing whistleblower, now dead after experiencing a short illness. We got the news report. A second Boeing whistleblower now dead after experiencing a brief illness. This comes after Joshua Dean expressed concerns

over manufacturing issues with the company's 737 MAX planes. The 45-year-old died Tuesday after an agonizing two weeks in critical condition, rather. His aunt tells the Seattle Times Dean started having trouble breathing. He was intubated, got got pneumonia and then mursa before he died doctors were considering amputating his hands and feet but he was too weak for surgery dean used to work as a quality inspector for spirit aero systems a boeing supplier he was fired in april 2023 he said it was in retaliation for flagging safety concerns regarding the 737 max plane okay two whistleblowers randomly end up dead don't make it so obvious guys all right well you got to remember slow down space them out or something there's 110 billion dollar company so i'm sure yeah whatever

it takes to make sure that their company and their stock because the stock shot down i think a couple of months ago so whatever it takes to get that stock back to where it needs to be listen we're not accusing nobody. Not at all. All we're saying is don't make things so obvious. Yeah. All right? Space them apart.

And of course, there are conversations about that, whether their devs are suspicious or just a coincidence. I mean, if somebody randomly just gets sick two weeks ago and all of a sudden can't, just stops being able to breathe the way they used to. Can't even. And can't speak on the stand. Yeah. Yeah. Can't even get surgery. It's too weak. It's a hell of a coincidence,'t can't just stops being able to breathe the way they used to can't even can't speak on the stand yeah yeah can't even get surgery you too weak it's a hell of a coincidence guys i just want to throw that it's a hell of a coinkydink yep yep yep and the attorneys for both joshua and john hope that their deaths don't scare away the at least 10 more whistleblowers

who want the company to be oh they swallowed them whistles yeah yeah no swallows gone but praise up to their families uh moving on that gala recap last night was the 2024 mac gala in new york city was one of the biggest nights in fashion as usual the stars were in attendance but some of my favorite looks personally were damson idris he was so clean from head to toe who lord not damson idris oh do you know what it is? Now go ahead. Damson Idris. There you go. But it's Idris, yo.

Like, you gotta stand like you from over there when he found him. Damson Idris. I was like, who the hell is that? It's not Idris. It's Idris. I knew who you were talking about, so I wasn't tripping.

You was joking. Nah. Okay. Lord Noss X. I loved it. I loved it. He killed his little outfit. Were you a naked?

No, he was not. He was fully clothed. Okay. And he had the little Cisco haircut going on, the platinum. It was nice to me. He looked nice. Nicki Minaj, she understood the assignment. Willow and Jaden Smith killed this

side by side. Kim Kardashian, I liked her outfit. Mindy Kaling, I liked her outfit too. Her presentation was nice. Let me ask you a question before you jump in. They said Kim Kardashian's waist was too small. Did you see that? They said it was... it was yeah i mean hasn't it always been okay you know but the outfit was very form-fitting i liked it she killed it she just look a little boneless in the waist that's all yeah she definitely i mean i feel like she always look like that yeah

like you know when she wear those like that girl will not breathe on purpose to look like that you know so it is what it is suffocate for style i'm telling you katie perry um was one of my favorite looks also but she actually really wasn't there people uh reported that pictures of katie perry at the met gala was ai hilarious i know but but she would have killed it if she was there so ai katie perry killed it definitely um and rihanna also reportedly missed the met gala because she's fighting the flu so um healing energy over there i saw body body look good too body b claudie b okay yeah yeah yep i saw her too yeah uh protesters crashed the event the uh pvps which is uh the pro-palestine

protesters i just said pvps because that's very long um they attempted to storm the met gala the protest started around 4 p at Columbia University and New York University with a planned meet up at Hunter College at 5pm before marching towards the Met police had barricades set up about a block away some protesters were able to get past the police but were eventually stopped and

arrested the Met Gala itself had more security than usual and the event remained safe the Met Gala security was waiting on Kanye and Diddy to try to crash the party. You stupid. But how did Met Gala security better than these universities? I know.

Them students didn't get nowhere near the Met Gala. Not even close. Well, they're already on the campus of the college. Yeah, but the college campus and the police couldn't even get them off campus. Met Gala, they wasn't nowhere near the Met Gala. Well, I mean, it's different when you

start inside something. Like, if you start there already, it's different than trying to get inside. Yeah. Meg Thee Stallion dropped a new freestyle. She flipped Gucci's

2010 song, I Think I coldest. Tell a chick let it go cause I'm frozen. Ask him what I got on he don't know it. Ziggins ain't had no tape before COVID. I can tell by her wit that she trolling. When I look at my DM Naomi. Catwalks get

doctor like Naomi. The way I play Ziggins I need me a Tony. Good brain graduated top of my percentile. Take it out the chat. I ain't trying to be a pen pal.

Meanwhile. And she always eats. We know that she is phenomenal at her freestyles. Although I reported yesterday that some of her tickets

are going as low as $24, which was a fact. She also has $200 tickets, $300 tickets, and even more in some other cities. And she also did sell out some venues. United Center in Chicago,

Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, MSG in New York is already sold out. Wells Fargo Center in Philly, CFG Arena in my city, Baltimore, and State Farm Arena in Atlanta and a lot of others. So what you don't know the day before, you find out the next day. That's right, because I asked the question yesterday. I said, is Megan Thee Stallion an arena artist? Clearly, we got our answer because like Jessica said, she sold out 13 arena artist. Yep. Clearly, we got our answer because like Jess just said, she sold out 13 arena stops and I think I read over 240,000 tickets.

Yes. Across North America and Europe. So, yeah. If you're selling out arenas, you're an arena artist. Yes, yes.

Absolutely. I don't think people should be hating on them $24 tickets. Please take them because I'm about to buy Chris Brown tickets for $400.

$400? $400 because he400? $400. Because he not hitting me back like boy. But when you want something, you hit me up. Has he ever hit you? What? Has he ever hit you? Yes, he has hit me.

What did he say? What did he be wanting? First of all, mind your business. You put it out there. Ain't nobody even knew. But this was back when we was messing with each other. But now we not. What?

What do you mean messing with each other? What is you talking about? They be hating like crazy. Listen, we got to wrap this up. No, we asking questions. You do you mean messing with each other? What is you talking about? They be hating like crazy. Listen, we got to wrap this up. No, we asking questions. You love you a Chris now. We got front page news coming up, y'all. Where's Angela? Angela Ra will be joining us next for front page news.

And then Tiffany Haddish will be in the building. What? Nothing. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on. Come on, we got to make this for you. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club, good morning. Come on, we got to make this cool. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Angela Rye is here. Angela Rye is here. Morning, Ms. Rye. All right, y'all. Here we go.

So Columbia University has canceled their university-wide commencement ceremony on May 15th and instead is having a smaller or several smaller scale school-based graduation um and this is after weeks of anti-war protests um and counter protests on campus uh while a lot of private universities have codes of conduct that align with the constitutional right to protest the threats and consequences for students who have engaged in these protests include suspension at some institutions of higher learning. So there is some nuance here, but there are some parents, I think especially black parents, who see this issue as very black and white. Let's roll the clip.

Now, as parents, how do you feel about these protests on campus? Sarah, we'll start with you. Are we rolling? Now, I'm all for free speech, but I don't understand what they think they're accomplishing, and that's really putting a strain on me and my daughter's relationship. Well, I think it's just great, you know? It's wonderful. Nothing makes me prouder than young people using their voices to fight for what they believe in. Alphonse, your daughter must feel so supported when she's out there.

What's that now? When whose daughter is out there? At the protest. you bugging uh alexis vanessa roberts better have her butt in class let me find out she in one of them damn tents instead of the dorm room that i pay for i thought you were in favor of the student protest brother man i am supportive of y'all's kids protesting not my kids your guys in that damn that damn class while guys are your ass exactly so even though that's an snl skit i know we're all laughing because either we have that parent or we know a parent just like that it's speaking of we are that parent or you are that parent so can we tell your story tell your story your truth i mean yesterday was my daughter's last

uh class uh so she's supposed to graduate in uh another week or so and we don't know if she's So, Henry, tell your story. Tell your truth. I mean, yesterday was my daughter's last class. So she's supposed to graduate in another week or so. And we don't know if she's going to actually have a graduation because they're saying that they might cancel a graduation. And the sad thing about it is she didn't have a full graduation for high school because of COVID. So she didn't get to experience what she should have experienced because of COVID. And now she might not be able to experience her graduating college because of what's going on with all these these protests, which is sad and similar to what, you know, the SNL skit is. Yeah, I'm support. Yeah. Free speech. Absolutely. Positively. But there's a lot of students that work hard that want to graduate. There's a lot of students that that put themselves through college.

There's a lot of parents that that work very hard to make sure that they can pay for school and they want to see their child walk across that stage. And I might not have that opportunity. So I might have to create a stage in the backyard just to see my daughter walk across. But I want to see my daughter walk across. I want to hear them yell her name. And the grandparents and my parents and myself and my wife, you know, scream. Madison, whatever it may be. But we might not get that opportunity. Do a little dance to some pop and circumstance.

There you go. That's right. I love that. And it's so important, again, hold the space for that nuance. Because there are a lot of people who may listen to this show every morning who are like yeah there are kids in gaza who aren't going to experience graduation because they won't live to see that graduation so i know it's hard to hold both i totally understand what you're saying but one thing why do we even got to compare though no well i'm not i'm that's why i said nuance it's

it's not comparison at all what i'm actually saying is we have to hold space for the humanity of both. Right. I'm empathizing with what envy is saying, but one thing I know about you, if anybody's likely to build a stage in the backyard, it will be you. And that's an amazing opportunity for you. So shout out to your daughter.

And we certainly hope to see her walk across the stage. I hope so. And speaking of our ability to fulfill the American dream, there's a recent report by Investopedia that estimates to fulfill the American dream. It would cost three point four million dollars over a lifetime. There are a lot of folks who can't afford that right now based on what they say is the average two point three million. And what's a lifetime? Well, I know. and isn't it changing every single day like one of the things that i thought was fascinating in this report is

it says the lifetime cost the highest cost on here is health insurance yeah at 934 000 plus dollars we were supposed to have passed whole legislation to make this hell of a lot easier so i'm actually shocked that that is the number one cost on this report. The next is mortgage. It talks about the cost of raising two kids, lifetime car costs, pet costs. They even put the funeral costs. You're still paying when you die. That's right.

So, you know, we have a hell of a bridge to close, a gap to bridge. And I think this report is shedding some light on that. So we hope the kids can cross the stage and they can pay for the lifetime that lies ahead. We know that this life is not easy or cheap.

And this American Dream report tells us that a lot of folks will be living a nightmare because there's a big gap. And that's why I keep telling people most folks in America can't see past their bills.

Y'all be getting mad at people for not caring about what's going on all over the world. Very hard to do that when I can't see past their bills y'all be getting mad at people for not caring about what's going on all over the world very hard to do that when i can't even uh you know focus on putting food on my table or keeping the roof over my head right here but not only that what she said you know one of the most important things and i know we're seeing it a lot more because we're getting a little older a lot of our friends and the people that we know a little older than us are dying dying because they can't go they can't go to the doctor. They don't have health coverage.

They can't pay for an ambulance. They can't pay for an emergency room. So what a lot of people do is they just take a little aspirin and say, oh, it'll be okay. And by the time they figure out what's wrong, it could have been prevented. They don't even have health insurance to go cover a physical. Just going to get a regular yearly annual physical. You know, the other thing that's coming up for me, I'm 44 now. So one of the things that's coming up for me i'm 44 now so one of the things

that's coming up for me is our shut up our parents are getting older and one of the things that we're not really set up to do i think especially in black and brown communities is being able to caretake for our elder parents you're right you end up in a position where you can't continue to earn for the american towards the american dream because you have to take time off to support your parents thank god that's not my lot but a lot of my friends are taking their parents to doctor's appointments and occupational therapy and physical therapy so that they're good that's another big part of this and i will say this if you can and i know it's something that people don't like to think about but you should also think about and i know this is gonna sound crazy is to make sure you take care

of your funeral so you don't leave that cost with your kids or your family when you do pass when my wife's mother passed away you know we had to pay for the funeral but what it made me think was I paid for it's gonna sound crazy I paid for my own funeral yeah and my wife's funeral so that when we passed that's something my kids don't have to worry about I paid for my cast I paid for that already so if something ever happens is just pull it out the safe and look where it is so my kids

that's one thing my kids don't have to worry about you know and I don't want a go fund me for that like please I don't want a go fund me please please please

if you put a go fund me up for me you better not I'm definitely starting one hopefully I don't have to do that you know cause you know we get to live long

healthy lives boy but if not I'm putting one out just to do it this man was lying the whole time he was here. Anyway. All the generational wealth talk. Jess, the other thing they don't cover in some of these breakdowns,

well, they do. They say cost of two baby deliveries. We know that you are with child. Glowing and beautiful. Thank you. But there are also so many challenges that exist around child care and all of that. Like even getting on lists and access

to child care services is costly and difficult. Yeah, it is. So I'm not looking forward to that. That's it. Yes, full stop. Okay. Well, we are hopeful that everything will be fine and there will be no complications, no challenges and no extra costs.

No extra costs. Yeah, that's the main thing but college speaking of cost cost forty two thousand dollars as well on the low end we know for some colleges that could be a year yeah she ain't gonna go what i'm manifesting the daughter she ain't gonna go there she's not gonna go she's gonna do radio okay okay she's like there's another way to fulfill the american dream i ain't doing a college nope okay well that's what it is so shout out to jess way to fulfill the American dream. I ain't going to college, nope. Okay. Well, that's what it is. So shout out to Jess's baby, Fulfill the American Dream, by going through radio just like you and whatever else you want to do. So that's it.

That's it for Front Page News. And listen, make sure you subscribe and download to the Native Land Podcast hosted by Angela Rye, Tiffany Cross, and Andrew Gillum on the Reason Choice Media iHeartRadio Podcast Network. That's right. You've been a good team player today. They drop new episodes every Thursday. Right?

Yes, every Thursday. And you'll be joining us later this week too to sit with Miss Marilyn Mosley. Yes. Yes. Hey.

Miss Marilyn Mosley will be joining us later this week. Okay. All right. Now when we come back comedian Tiffany Haddish will be joining us

an actress. So we're going to talk to Tiffany when we come back. She's got a new book I Cur Curse You With Joy, out today. That's right. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes. The good sister. Tiffany Haddish is back. Welcome.

Hey, boo. Hi. How you feeling? I'm feeling fantastic. How are you feeling? Bless Black and Holly Phillips. You look good. Yes you do. I feel good. There you go.

New book, I Curse You With Joy. Talk to me about that. It's funny everybody's calling it I Curse You With Joy, but I call it, it's at the top of the page. If you look at the front page, it says Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy. Gotcha. I need to say that, but you can say I curse you with joy. You've been saying that since I've known you, you always do that. Like curse

people with joy. Yeah, because there's a lot of unhappy people. And I mean, if you look at the internet, you can see it's a lot of like, it's a lot of hate and anger and sadness out there. And I could like, you know, combat that with the same thing. Or I could say, you know what? Look, I'll curse you with some joy

because you obviously are not happy. So I'm sharing some stories in this book. It's a series of essays, if you will. And then I'm sharing some dark things about my existence and how I find the bright side of it. You know? What got you to the point to write the book?

Was it a particular comment? Was it something that somebody said or you just was all of the above? No, I to the point to write the book? Was it a particular comment? Was it something that somebody said or you just was all of the above? No, I had always wanted to do that because the first book, Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn, that first one, I had edited down. I had took a lot of stuff out because it was too long. I don't like super long, but I don't like them too long. Personally, if I'm not going to read it, why would I expect somebody else to read it? Right. So I took a lot out so on this next book uh i curse you with joy all the stuff that i had took

out the first book i put in this book plus more of the journey of being this you know shot out of a canon star i guess you would say and it's been it's been an interesting journey you guys have known me since the beginning of the journey. You guys have seen the whole ups and downs and all of that. I'm like, this is the craziest roller coaster. And nobody gives you a manual on how to be famous. Nobody gives you a manual on how to handle certain things. And you have to figure it out. And it is hard.

It is very hard. But I'm having fun doing it. What was the most difficult part? You said figuring it out. The most difficult part was not rolling up on somebody and whooping their ass. That's right. Because I'm from the 1900s and we'll show up to your mama house

and beat your ass. That's what it is, like the good old days. Oh, you talking shit? Okay, I'm going to come over there and beat you up. When my period come on and I got some time, I will call people. I will make a phone call. Is it true that you were actually, I guess you found an app that you could actually find out where these people live or find their number? Yeah, yeah. You can find people.

You know, I used to be married to a private investigator. So I know how to get in your business if I want to. Right. And so when the lady in the red dress show up, I become a little evil. And I'll be having time sometimes. Sometimes I have time so then i decide to take that time to to invest in people that like to talk you know and i'll and i'll put your business out there not like docs you or nothing like that but you know um i'll call

you or i'll make uh comments on your page and you won't know it's me but i'll make comments about you know police records and so when you call these internet trolls you call saying this is tiffany haddish yeah yeah i'll be like uh is this blah blah blah and they'll be like yep i'll be like this tiffany haddish they'll be like wait no what no no this is tiffany haddish i saw first of all i want to say i know you love me because you spent three hours making a video the video was three hours so i know you spent at least six editing it and all of that like searching for pictures and finally like thank you yeah i appreciate you or um you know i see your whole youtube page is about me so i just wanted to say thank you and i wanted to let you know that i'm about to monetize your videos uh because you know

you use some of my content in there. So, I'm going to need to get paid, too. That's right. And they'd be like, you crazy. Ain't no way this is you. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy.

I have endometriosis. And so, I'm telling you, I'm using it. Yeah. I'm using it. I'm using it. I'm using the energy towards something positive. Yeah. So, I just wanted to let you know, hi.

Yeah. I know you love me. Was writing your book therapeutic for you, though? any way i don't know i've been therapy so long i i don't know i don't know if it was therapeutic i felt like it was more so informative for others like it was my way of sharing for others uh some parts are a little cathartic or whatever but for me it was more so i want people to know they're not the only person going through what they're going through like and just because somebody's famous doesn't mean they're not a regular human being and that there's not like bad days there's sometimes it's more bad days than good especially like i don't know dealing with the losing my grandma really kind of just threw me for a loop i feel like my soul was like look we're gonna have we don't have too many losses at this point so we're gonna have to sit down and deal with it and if you don't sit down

and deal with it i'm gonna i'm gonna make you do things that's gonna have to make you sit down and deal with it so with the daddy issues chapter hard that was the hardest one that was the hard that was the hardest one because i realized like man this it's hard not having a dad and then like when i met my dad it was like i was a little girl all over again and like i remember everything about him you know even though i was three years old the last time i saw him i remember how he smelled i remember what he sounded like just hearing his voice my whole soul lit up like nobody sound like my daddy nobody could be my daddy and so um but there was years i was trying to find my dad like you know through other men and through whatever i was doing stupid i was done and there's a lot of us out here like that

but you can you can pull past all that and grow and be successful you're about to make me cry is it true that women do women really look for that in men? Like, do they look for somebody that's like their daddy? I don't know. I don't know what other women are looking for. I know what I was looking for. I was looking for,

I was looking for, like, safety. I wanted to feel safe. I wanted to feel like no fear. For so many years, growing up, it was like, every day was scary. You know, I was be scared every day. So then to decide, like, I'm not going to be scared no more.

And I'm going to find somebody that's going to do this with me and protect me and love on me and hold me. Like, take care of me and kiss on me and tell me I'm doing good. But it's hard to find. Also, I'm a little difficult. I'm sweet, though. How do you mean you're difficult? I want to do what i want to do okay because i never that that's part of i think not growing up with the father is like i know how to take orders and i know how to get things done if you ask me to do something i'm gonna get it done for you but i'm gonna do it on my time when i feel like it and if a man's like

i need you to call me when you leave out of it i want you to be here at this time whatever uh if you're not if I'm not getting a paycheck I'm gonna show up when I feel like it I'm gonna be at your house when I feel like coming to your house you know that's I think that's been the biggest uh issue is like I don't want to feel like I got an answer to this man so you've never had that type of relationship yet where you would be like okay I'm gonna let this man lead like no one has ever shown you that they are worth that i let men lead all the time i let them lead but um that don't mean i'm gonna follow all the way you don't like the direction especially if you don't like the direction i'm gonna let you lead it and start saying like this is not going this don't feel safe i'm not gonna be like you know what i'm saying like i need to feel safe

i need to feel like this is where i'm gonna be like spiritually i need to feel safe emotionally i need to feel safe physically i need to feel safe financially i need to feel safe and i and i don't need to be feeling like i'm being used if i feel any type of way i'm being used or manipulated in some kind of way uh what like no and if you using me tell me you using me so i could use you to like oh i can help you use me better i'm here to be used we all are here to be used for some purpose something right but tell me what you're using me for and i might help you get it done better don't don't sneak it don't do it sneakily like think i'm stupid because i'm not i might be i might be setting you up to get used me don't Use me, don't misuse me. Yeah, use me, don't abuse me.

All right, we got more with Tiffany Haddish when we come back. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Alaris, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Tiffany Haddish. Now, it says you haven't been drinking in seven months. Has it been seven months? No, no, no, no. I haven't had sex since October. Oh, since October. That's seven months. Oh, that's haven't had sex since october oh that's seven months oh that's what it says so i've been drank since november 20 when was the 23rd when was

thanksgiving 23rd yeah yeah how is it affecting your comedy you know sometimes when you look at comedians or even rappers actors sometimes that's that's what they use because they're used to it they drink and they do a show so that fact that you haven't drank it doesn't make your show is it easier is it more difficult are you seeing clearer um i see everything more clear for sure and um but i don't really drink before shows i would probably drink during that like while i'm on stage i'm gonna have a drink while i'm on stage but like before no uh i didn't smoke no weed before none of that not before the show but maybe by the second or third show of the night I'm probably

I'm probably lit as shit Because I started drinking On the first show Yeah But I notice now Like by the If there's more than Two shows in the night

By the end of that second show I'm sleepy You tired I'm so tired I'm so sleepy I just want to go to bed Like I want to go to bed At 10 o'clock

9.30 And you know But comedy happens at night And then I've been getting up super early in the morning working out so I make sure I get my afternoon nap if I don't get no nap in the afternoon I'm pretty much the rest of the evening but I feel like my comedy is I've been listening to it because I record every set I've been recording every set for the last like five years through my phones and my recording devices and i was listening to like before my grandma died

how much joy was in my voice and then like after my grandma died like i don't know i'm about to like maybe uh when jesus died it was uh before jesus death bc yeah bg bg before grandma i don't know but bg ag yeah bg ag yeah anyways i just noticed there's a big difference in like people like oh you you said you look good you feeling good like you your energy's good and i do feel good and i am happy for the most part but i feel like there's this huge grief hanging over me like i just feel like grief that's normal yeah do you write on that yeah i write on that yeah i talk i talk about it on stage, how I deal with my grief. Some days it be so heavy, I'm like, oh, I got to do something for granny today.

And I'll put a picture of her up in the backyard. I put on some music and I do rhythmic dance from gymnastics with ribbons and stuff. And I dance around in my backyard. I hope nobody ever sees. It's just for my grandma and God. What do you think got you more focused? No d*** or no alcohol? No d***. Because I was drinking and wasn't

getting no d***. Okay. Seems like you're thinking about something now. Yeah, I was looking. Your eyes did wander. I just had a flash of some d*** in my head. A flash of some. And I'm just like, mmm. It's mediums. mediums my face did you stop smoking weed

no i'm back smoking weed i started back smoking weed after my court date okay mediums i'm not i'm not gonna drink no more i probably will never drink alcohol again until like i'm engaged to get married just so he could see like my full crazy. Yeah, like there's like no restriction. I feel like though I have more restrictions. I was like, I was way too nice. I feel like when I would be drinking, I'd be way too nice.

Way too accommodating. Probably way too loud because alcohol make you deaf. So, and I think I'm a little meaner now. I'm quick to tell people no now. I don't think that's me you just said boundaries yeah boundaries i feel like boundaries is mean though it can't be i know i'm protecting it yeah i'm protecting it now have you and monique had a conversation since she was on a club station no we have not had no conversation um we barely ever had a conversation

ever i've you know tried to talk to her here and there or whatever but no we haven't had no conversation i slid in her dm so she got my number if she checked oh you just sent her your number i sent her a statement yeah and here's my number too and here's my number if you want to talk about it yeah what do you do what do you think of that whole the whole state of black comedy since the top of the year it's like since kat williams did that interview it feel like everybody just been kind of at each other. Like, it's almost like you go to Club Shea Shea just to get at other comedians. Yeah, I don't know about that.

Godfrey didn't go at other comedians. No, no, Godfrey didn't. Rel didn't go at other comedians. Rel did a little bit. Just a little bit, maybe. Yeah, Rel did a little bit.

Just a little bit. I don't know. I feel like that's something we do in the club. Like, if you got some beef with somebody, you like, tell them to their face.

I mean, I know I have. I've definitely gone up tell them to their face i mean i know i have i've definitely gone up to people in their face and said i don't like you you know or what you did was up i ain't feeling that like i haven't had to do it too often because there's not too many people that like really get on my nerves like that just a few people i mean that's comedy like you're supposed to it's a little challenge but i i don't know about doing it in front of the world like that i don't know about doing it in front of the world like that. I don't know about all that. I don't know about that.

It seemed like there was a brunch this weekend. I think a Netflix brunch this weekend. Oh, yeah. That was fun. You were there? Yeah, I was there. It seemed like everybody that was beefing with each other were all in the same room. Yeah, but you know what was crazy?

You know what was crazy? We was outside. Okay, so we wasn't in the same room. We was outside. And everybody was there. And Cat was there. cat was there and he was looking very interesting he had his mask on his white mask very interesting very shiny and it was super cool and he's talking to everybody moving around moving around the room and stuff talking

to everybody and then as soon as kevin got there nobody could find cat i don't know where cat went but then he did perform live But it was like 1 In the afternoon? Yeah the brunch started at 12 And then I think Kevin got there like 1 1.30 and then Kat was gone Did you speak to Kat? No

I smiled and waved You cursed him with joy? He looked at me I don't think he recognized me Because I had a wig on So I don't think he realized it was me. That's what I'm telling myself. Or he just was like, I ain't with her right now.

She can talk crazy to me. But that's fine, though. Yeah. Everybody put their boundaries up. I'd rather y'all not speak than see each other in public and be cursed names. I wouldn't. First of all, I love me some cat. Me and cat ain't got no beef.

I mean, he do like saying my name. And I think it's because My name garnishes clicks For some reason Especially if you say Like one negative thing Around my name Everybody's clicking on Like oh f***

What she do now What she do now What she do now So like And I think he knows that He's a genius So he's like Okay what's gonna get me the clicks

What's gonna get the You know He just randomly Will say my name And don't say s*** else Just Tiffany Haddish And laugh after me

And then let me tell you about this he's like i'm the one that put her on she was in school dance with me and i'm like i never said that you that that you didn't put me on or that you did but nick cannon did put me in school dance for that road not cap williams but we did kill that together like we did that together and that was awesome and it's like a viral moment online and i love cat i sent him a script and he's like oh we gotta we gotta work on that writing on this script okay let's work on it who do you want to write like whatever like let's make happen let's make a movie like i love him i think he's super talented it is strange when people try you do get on my nerves sometimes

it is strange when people act like you didn't come up like everybody else. Like, you was in the comedy clubs. You busted your ass. You did all of that. Yeah. I mean, Cap put me out the club at the Hollywood Park Casino. I was underage. And he was doing the Hollywood Park Casino every week.

And I was too young to be in there. And he put me out. He'd be like, you ain't got no idea. You can't be in here. And he would put me out. And then finally, I was old enough and he let me perform and then he commenced to roast me for probably 20 minutes after I got off stage. And I felt so proud.

I was like, God, Williams is talking about me. I was so happy. He was roasting you back then? He was roasting me back then. He was roasting me back then. He roasted the s*** out of me. I'm like, do you remember this? He's like, no, Tiffany Haddish,

I do not remember this. I showed him a picture. He was like, oh, that was your skinny ass? So I feel honored. You know, it's funny because some people don't even,

like I remember them, but they don't remember me. They like, no, we just met the other day. I'm like, no, we met back in 2001 at this place. And they're like, no. And then I show them a picture and they're like, no, we just met the other day. I'm like, no, we met back in 2001 at this place. And they're like, no.

And then I show them a picture and they're like, oh, you were kind of mean. But now you're nice. So I'm cool. All right. We got more with Tiffany Haddish when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Tiffany Haddish. Uh-huh. A lot going on. Drake, Kendrick, what's your talk? Gotta ask you. What's your talk? She was close drake kendrick what's your talk gotta ask you what's your talk she was close to the car but then you jewish too i am so you got

i'm a jewish business woman and i'm about what's entertaining and if i'm going with the entertainment factor of it all kendrick is killing that ass like i am very entertained he got all the good punch lines drake got good punch lines and all that too and i i just want to give drake you doing a good job i'm proud of you because you know he's sensitive he went off on me before in your dms no not in my dms in my face he's he told me he told me he told me, he told me, I didn't like that. That hurt my feelings. What did you say about it? I said, I'm sorry.

I will not talk about that no more. Although I did tell you I was going to talk about that. And he said it hurt his feelings. And I said, okay, I'm sorry. What did you talk about? I talked about how his daddy, I told him I wasn't going to talk about it no more, but I'm going to talk about it. His daddy be trying to holler. His daddy be trying to holler at you. Yeah, his daddy be trying to holler. His daddy be trying to holler at you.

Yeah, his daddy be trying to holler. He don't like that. I said, I'd much rather be your baby mama than your stepmama. He ain't like that. He don't want to do that. I like his dad, but not like that. Yeah. But why would it hurt his feelings that his daddy tried to holler at you?

Because I talked about it on stage. Oh, got you, got you, got you. I talked about it. There was a lot of people that knew that then, since you talked about it on stage oh I talked about it there was a lot of people that knew that then since you talked about it on stage and it got back to them his daddy's interesting you on a date with his daddy?

no I'm not going on a date with his daddy I see him at different events and stuff he be at Jewish stuff and all that his daddy be around I don't know if he looking for for his next jewish background but he'd be outside so um but as far as the beef goes uh the rap battle i'm loving it i'm here for it i think i'm so proud of kendrick i'm so proud of him like uh he's killing it and he's like in the lab just bringing it in the punch lines are

there like he's killing it i'm proud of him and i'm proud of drake too okay he has an airplane it's a great battle airplane now i think it's a little they they getting a little they going a little below the belt but they wait they're going yeah. They going, yeah, it's deep. Yeah. But it's like a real rap battle. You know what I'm saying? Like we get it at a safer.

Yeah. We ain't had one of these in a long time. Yeah. A real good one. Yeah. Feel like I'm back on the school bus.

Yeah. What happened? Where was you at? Outside joke appearance? What is that? Yeah, yeah. So I was at the,

Netflix is not a joke. Netflix is not a joke. I was at a show. Okay. Outside for Netflix. It said you went on a rant about college protests. Yeah, I went off because people were saying, you know, they were saying what they were saying. And it was like, you got to support the colleges.

And I'm like, I don't want to support people tearing up a school. I don't think that's the way to go about it. If you want stuff like this to stop happening, if you're protesting the genocide that's going on and you want that to stop happening, I think there's some better ways to go about making it stop happening. Blocking people from going to class

is not going to be the thing. I don't think that's going to be the thing because that's what the Nazis did. They blocked the Jews. They blocked the Jehovah Witnesses. They killed a lot of people. They didn't just kill Jews. They were killing everybody that was not like them.

They were blocking them from getting their education, blocking them from being able to have a living. They were hurting them. To me, if you really want to make change, you really want to be changed you want to make change you really want to be effective you really want this to stop then start learning get get yourself educated and get in there and change the laws change how we how get become get in nato or whatever the international whatever you got to be on senate all that like change the laws change how we move that's what i would do that's what if you really wanted to change like be effective and get involved in government so you don't disagree with the protest you just disagree with how they protest how they protesting is not i don't i

don't agree with how they protesting yeah protest yes protest yes if you think that's going to make a change yeah if you think it's going to make a difference you're going it's going to make people pay attention yeah but the way y'all going about it i don't think that's right i don't think you spray painting the library is gonna really make anything change i know it's been spray painting the library for years and they just shut the library down that's all they did like so no i don't think that's the way to go about it i think the way to go about it is to get into legislation, to show up to your congressman's office, show up to your senator's office, show up, sit outside

their office and protest. Put the pressure on them. Doing it at the schools ain't putting no pressure on them. They're just like, oh, they're up there at the school cutting up, whatever. And we, as a 20-something-year-old, do you invigorate it, teenager? Yeah, that's protests.

It's been happening every decade. It's always happened. Women was out there burning a bras, but y'all out here angry about, you know, what's going on over there in Gaza and this genocide when they about to make pass laws over our bodies, women's bodies.

We ain't going to be able to have no choice in what we do. And like, Roby Wade already overturned. Yeah. Like yeah like hello we need to be paying attention the distraction is real like you're not gonna it's gonna be handmaid's tale out here when you start really read reading all the legislation read everything like it's about to be handmaid's tale out here you about to be like it's gonna be crazy like you voluntarily want to be pregnant yeah yeah that's a voluntary thing like but there's gonna be situations where it's gonna be involuntary like i mean if you read the legislations and i'm not i might not be articulating this the best but i'm concerned i'm concerned for our future and i'm concerned when our youth are all their knowledge is coming from

tiktok and instagram and they not really like doing the real research and really reading they're just taking some some bloggers word for it it's like no go look this up go to the go look up these legislations like there's no doubt there's a there is a genocide happening there's no doubt about that but like that's not the only one that's happening right now so if we're gonna be protesting genocide if we're against genocide we need to be against all the genocides not just the lighter genocide all the like the black the the brown everybody everybody we're not it don't need to just be from the river to this you need to be like uh recycle these cell phones and stop killing the congolese

like but don't get me started. I'm sorry. Okay. Anyways, I Curse You With Joy is out today. Get it on audio or a physical book, hard copy,

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that's coming for you. So, yeah. Love you too. Well, there you have it. The book is out right now make sure you pick it up it's the breakfast club it's Tiffany Haddish morning everybody it's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club what's happening let's get to Jess with the mess Worldwide Jets don't do no lying. She don't spell nobody. Worldwide Jets, Worldwide Magic. On The Breakfast Club. She's a coach of shoes.

She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to settle it on. Okay, so 26-year-old declared brain dead after drowning. We can go straight to the report. The Louisiana Tech University graduate was hanging out with friends at a lakefront restaurant back on April 14th when one of his friends allegedly pushed him into the water. Now, KSLA exclusively obtained new information today from the Union Parish Sheriff's Office. Law enforcement released the call sheet report from the near-drowning incident.

And tonight, Chris is still in the hospital, but according to family, he's doing much better and is officially off life support. Okay, so a little bit more detail. So he is a young black man and he was the only black one. All of his friends are white.

He spent more than 10 minutes submerged underwater. He was hanging out with some of his white friends at a lakefront in louisiana when one of them pushed him into the water knowing that he couldn't swim um in a video of the incident you can see a woman trying to save him but she was unsuccessful shortly a man after uh shortly after a man who was eating at a nearby restaurant he saw and heard the commotion and he went to rescue him his friends originally lied and said that he fell into the water but one of his white female friends admit to pushing him in and considered it horseplay um his friends looked on as he struggled for 10 minutes and it took two strangers to help him like i just said and uh when he arrived to the hospital he was

declared brain dead and the rest of his organs were starting to fail earlier this week he was on life support um and his lungs were operating at 20 capacity but in the last day or so he was taking off life support and even though he like the poor like the report said is making major improvements he still can't speak that's horrible that don't even make sense it don't even make sense they push him in the water they said they were horse playing yep obviously he couldn't swim because he was under there for 10 minutes so nobody jumped in to go get him? No.

One girl said she tried with all the other males on there that could have helped him out. And they had to wait for somebody else. That was another woman. That was another stranger. Or another stranger. Who had tried and was unsuccessful. He was probably too heavy. So they heard the commotion.

And then from hearing the commotion, they saved him. So them other kids on the boat didn't try to save him? No. None of his friends. And lied about it at first. I wonder what the percentage of black people who can't swim is now because i'm back back in the day it used to be high it used to be like almost 60 i wonder what it is now in 2024 now you're right yeah and i tell everybody with kids i mean this has nothing to do with this but when you have kids

and babies teach them how to swim early if you can whether it's the ymca they have cheap classes or you take them to wherever you can teach your kids how to swim early so if they're ever in a situation they can at least hold themselves up until they can get some help but shouldn't those um those kids be shouldn't they be charged with something absolutely yes yeah you know whether it was horseplay or not you know something bad still happened yep um and and then the girl admitted yeah and she admitted it after a while like yeah i did push him in but i was just playing but so i'm gonna keep up with that story to see if they are arrested or but any type of consequence um giovante davis and devon haney get into a heated

argument in miami so tank and devon haney was outside the fountain blue um in miami when they got into a heated argument and a few days ago Javante was interviewed by a journalist and talked about backing up Ryan Garcia in his last fight and just not believing that Ryan was on performance enhancing drugs and this is what he said to journalists you know why I'm backing Ryan because a lot of boxers going at him which when we fought we made it cool to go at Ryan like that. Bryan is not somebody that keeps the competition. And, why didn't, it took 30, 72 hours for the test to come back, right? It came back after the fight, yeah.

Right. So why didn't it come out that Tuesday, or that week that, they waited until the Canelo fight to push that. Then, once they pushed that, Devin was on ESPN that night promoting that. It's all in... I'm telling you. What about your thoughts on that? I've been watching Javante lately, and I saw him on Million Dollars Worth a Game. He got a speech coach or something.

Because what happened to Javante's T.U.s? What do you mean? He don't say T.U.s no more. He say T.U.s. No, it's just T.U.s. It's not like y'all... It used to beavante's T.U.s? What do you mean? He don't say T.U.s no more. He say T.U.s. No, it's just T.U.s. It's not like y'all. It used to be heavy Baltimore. Okay.

Well, maybe he did get a speech. I don't like that. You don't like that he can't say T.U.s? No, I don't like A.I. Javante Davis. I want the clone. I want the real thing going T.U.s. They almost need an A.I. for what he said to journalists. I was over there like, ooh, Jesus, what are you saying?

But, you know, don't play with my brother that's that's the baltimore brother right there and if he needed the speech therapy obviously because he did um then no he didn't yes he did perfectly fine oh we did to me oh but i like the baltimore accent though all right well sometimes i guess i guess the speech therapist had to work on certain ears to. Eaves, something eaves. Yeah, you know, to help him out. Okay. All right. So, yeah, but the video really wasn't that serious.

They wasn't letting Javante get to Devin. Devin was hanging out the car, and he was, you know, both of their teams were, like, around each other. And they had on scully hats in Miami in May. So that was just an observation that I saw. I was like, Jesus, they not hot? Pointless to get a speech therapist if you're going to wear a scully hats in Miami in May. So that was just an observation that I saw. I was like, Jesus, they not hot? Pointless to get a speech therapist if you're going to wear a scully hat in Miami.

First of all, don't do that. Don't do that. But either way, and he's expected to fight coming up. Yep. Javante, right? Yes, he's fighting Frank Martin. Who y'all got? Tank.

Tank. Absolutely. I'm glad y'all said that. That's my guy. I had another story, but it's not going to make it. So we're going to swirl your little finger. No. Yeah, I'm sorry.

We have to end that. That is just with the mess. Now, Charlamagne, who you giving that down? You know, there's a Catholic priest named Lawrence Kozak who needs to come to the front of the congregation because he stole some booty. We'll talk about it for after the hour. We'll get to it next. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Wake up. Wake up. You're locked into The Breakfast Club. Your execution on the donkey of the day is something to behold. Is it a read? He gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it. You need to know.

Well, you need to tell them. I am. You have the voice. Tell them. Tell them. Tell them. It's time for Donkey of the Day. It's a read, but you're so good at it.

You're trying to be a fake-ass Charlemagne. There's only one Charlemagne in the world. Damn, Charlemagne. Who you give the Donkey of the Day to? Well, Sexy Red. Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, May 7th, goes to a Catholic priest named Lawrence Kozak. Lawrence is accused of stealing booty

from a church in Pennsylvania. Now, let the record show, when I say this Catholic priest stole booty, seventh goes to a catholic priest named lawrence kozak lawrence is accused of stealing booty from a church in pennsylvania now let the record show when i say this catholic priest stole booty i'm not talking about little kids i'm talking money yes this man stole more than 40 grand in expenses over three years and some of the money was used to buy cell phone games cell phone video games you know i'm a stern believer that it's not a stereotype if it's true. And this story is not going to do anything to defy the stereotype that Catholic priests are pedophiles and child abusers. Especially when we dive more into why this particular Catholic priest was stealing money. Let's go to WRAL for the report, please.

A Pennsylvania Catholic priest is accused of stealing parish funds to play games like Candy Crush. Lawrence Kozak is charged with theft and related crimes. Authorities say he racked up tens of thousands of dollars in expenses over three years and used some of that cash to play cell phone games like Pokemon Go. The archdiocese has placed Kozak on administrative leave. These poor people, man, they come to the Catholic church, you know, giving tithes and offerings, giving tithes offerings tithic tithes and offerings okay giving their 10 to the lord and here go the pastor uh stealing money because he wants to play wizard of oz slots and candy crush saga and cash frenzy and mario kart or in pokemon go i hate to be you know uh the one to break the news to you but this man this man might have been buying

apps fast man okay there's just no way that a catholic priest steals 40 000 from the church and a large part of it is going to these apps that are largely aimed at kids now i'm not one of these people who buys into every stereotype i know that there's a lot of prejudice against the catholic church because there are some people who believe that catholic priests everywhere are pedophiles and child abusers we know that this is not the case. Every Catholic priest is not the same. So if I say, what's the difference between Woody from Toy Story and a priest, and someone replies, only one of them goes limp when a child walks in, walks in the room, that does not apply to all priests, okay?

Do you understand? But it could apply to Lawrence Kozak. I don't want to get distracted, though. This man used the church's money that he stole over forty thousand dollars on apps the thing that bothers me the most about this is that you are taking advantage of people's need to believe taking advantage of a person's you know need to believe that's also a form of abuse all right these people are sowing a seed they are showing gratitude for all that god has given they want to return to god a portion of what they have received and a lot of people do this hoping that it will also come back

to them because they need it people say when you tithe it brings you closer to god so you taking advantage of people's need to believe they're hard-earned money that they could be spending on food medical bills housing child care but you taking these folks you know uh money so you can buy candy crushing pokemon go pokemon go i think you got all these apps because you want to poke a kid but i don't want to reinforce stereotypes because all catholic priests should not be judged by the bad actions of a few like if i ask what's the difference between acne and a Catholic priest, if someone responds to all Catholic priests, that just wouldn't be right.

Now, let's just say Lawrence wasn't reinforcing negative stereotypes of Catholic priests, and he was one of the many people who are addicted to these cell phone apps. I truly believe game purchases is an epidemic as big as crack or opioids. They get you hooked by giving you something free but the catch is they make you wait like every hour to refresh but then they'll offer you a quicker way

to get whatever you know uh whatever you need replenished you just gotta pay monopoly go gives you 10 dice every hour or you can get 100 dice for 9.99 which one are you gonna ultimately choose if you want to play monopoly go it's kind of like man remember back in the day and it still might happen now like when the new iphone comes out and then they ask you if you want an update on your old phone and then when you update it it don't quite work the same that just happened to me see what i'm saying my long clock will not work now you see what i'm saying so now you forced to go buy a new phone yeah that's how they get you speaking of getting you i just really want people to understand that i am not on this radio saying all catholic priests abuse kids i'm just saying it's suspicious that

this guy was using the church's money to have all these apps for kids on his phone if i ask kendrick lamar why do catholic priests like playing the violin and kendrick replies because they get to finger a minor that a minor that has nothing to do with all Catholic priests. OK, now Father Kozak was arrested on April 25th and faces felony theft charges. And he earned that. Father Kozak. Have you ever wondered why Catholic priests call themselves father? Because it's too suspicious for kids to call him daddy. But that has nothing to do with all of them just

some please let remy ma give laurence kozak the biggest hee-haw hee-haw hee-haw you stupid mother are you dumb well that's it that's it it's just a parade okay i don't know what's the words like charlemagne or the priest i didn't do anything i was telling the story no i'm not in time on reference to the keys i'm talking about the way that you just slaughtered a lot of other priestesses no priestesses i said i said some priestesses is the word some i spoke priestesses i didn't say i didn't say all. I said some.

I know the last little bit I'm going to listen to this, it's going to be like, oh, uh-uh. Well, if it don't apply, let it fly. All right. Okay? Yes, sir. If it don't fit, you must have quit. Huh?

All right. Thank you for that donkey today. Now, when we come back, John Carr will be joining us. Where's John Carr from? John Carr is from ABC. He's on this week ABC, but he also has a new book out called Tired of Winning Donald Trump in the End of the Grand Ole Party. Yep, we're going to get with John Carr when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club.

Come on. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We've got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Jonathan Karl. Welcome. Thank you.

Thank you. How's it going? How are you feeling? I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great. It's great to be here. Tell the people who Jonathan Karl is if they don't know. I'm the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News. I covered the White House for more than a decade as the chief White House correspondent, including all of Obama's second term, all of Donald Trump's term. I've written three books on that guy, on Trump, and I'm the co-host of this week.

And how did you get into politics? For people that don't know, describe that story. You know, I got to tell you, I mean, ever since I was like a little kid, I was in fifth grade. I was like grabbing for the New York Times, sports section first, which was pretty lame at the times, and then the op-ed page to read the op-eds.

My mom and my stepfather went out to South Dakota at about that time, and we went to Mount Rushmore, and they ended up doing a project. And by the way, neither one of them went to college. My stepfather had been a cab driver. He was running a factory in Stanford, Connecticut. We went out there.

We ended up moving to South Dakota. And they went on this project to interview all the people that worked on Mount Rushmore. There were 300 and some people, most of them minors, who built that freaking sculpture, that mountain. And that was like journalism. I missed a lot of school. I ended up going to school in a town with 350 people out there for a couple years.

So I think that was the beginning. I never really looked back. Who was better for business, Obama or Trump? We're just talking about the business. Nothing else, just the business of what you do. Who was better for it? Okay, so being at that White House for the transition, and by the way,

I was in the Oval Office the one and only time that Barack Obama and Donald Trump met, and that was on November 10th of 2016. Two days after Trump won, Obama invited him in. Seeing the two of them,

we've never had two more different presidents, of course, in American history together. The one time I saw Donald Trump in a room where he was not in charge. Obama was the president, and it was Obama's meeting. Obama invited me and the other press in for the little photo op at the end. Obama made the first comment, invited Trump to speak, and Trump almost seemed humble for a moment. He even said some nice things about Obama. It lasted for about 36 hours.

Still kept on saying some nice things about how well he was welcomed by Mrs. O and, you know, the president. But in terms of who's better for business, let me answer it this way. With the advance of that, from that moment on, the interest in what was going on at the white house was completely off the charts so is that good i mean i guess it's good because the ratings are high is it good for the country uh you know that's a whole entirely different question it's unprecedented right because i mean it was the executive producer celebrity apprentice a notorious 80s 90s celebrity becomes president of the united states of america yeah yeah yeah. I mean, and it was a show. I mean, that's why my first book I wrote was Front Row at the Trump Show.

And this is what it was. And he cared. He tracked the ratings. He beat up on the critics. You know, he programmed. He was the executive producer. That's why he went through so many communications directors and press secretaries and all that. Because he was the chief of staff.

He was the spokesperson. He was the executive producer. He was the director. And every day he was thinking, how can I get more attention? You know, one thing, you know, the Twitter thing was obviously something that defined the Trump years. But he would do this little parlor trick sometimes. He would get people coming to the dining room off the Oval Office where he most of his time had a big tv he said watch this and he would tweet and then count the minutes until the tweet was on the cable to the cables wow really but that's the other thing

too he's also probably yeah probably the first president that had the full benefit of social media like social media in its fullest form as we see it now he had full advantage of that food since 2016 do you know how many times oh the obama campaign tweeted in 2008 no once it wasn't it was it was a new thing they tried it out it was like and obama made a lot of use of social media to be sure but trump would do another thing which is he had this guy dan scavino um who was actually he had he had been his caddy uh you know and he met him met him at one of his golf courses and been with him. The guy that's been with him the longest outside of his family in that White House. And, you know, another thing Trump would do, he'd have someone, I witnessed this myself.

You know, you come into the Oval Office and you see how we're doing. He's like, Dan dan what's the number and then dan would come out from his little office right outside and tell him the number of twitter facebook instagram followers he had the combined number he was tracking that by the minute you think biden could beat trump and if you do feel that way what does he have to do to make sure he has the support of the people out there i i actually think that biden is probablyrunner, even though it doesn't look like that in the polls right now. Why do you feel that way? Trump has, and I document this in my, I had a book out a few months ago. Tired of winning.

Tired of winning. And I kind of go through, Trump does a great job of convincing everybody that he is the biggest, the most powerful, the greatest winner of all time. He's actually been a tremendous loser in politics. He's won one election, and that was 2016. And he led the Republicans on a series of losses. And primarily, you can track the losses. Almost all the major defeats can be tracked to something Trump did. Either he was the one that basically chose the candidate,

he meddled, you know, inserted himself in a way that was not active so he doesn't have a good electoral track record at all now he did just run through the republican nomination in what turned out to be a very weak field most of the candidates he was running against didn't even want to like criticize him until it was way too late except for chris christie yeah chris christie who um had one fundamental flaw christie had is he was the guy that basically helped Trump win in 2016. So I think that Trump comes into this election with far more negatives than he had in 2016 when he won, and certainly than in 2020 when he lost. The whole experience of what happened through January 6th, and then what he did after he left the White House.

And this is what I spent, and i spent a lot of time documenting i mean this this does not look like a former president of the united states let alone somebody that has a chance of coming back you know he wallowed in these conspiracy theories for for more than two years uh that he had won the election and he actually believed that he could be put back into the white house before the next election he believed that he could be put back into the White House before the next election. He believed that the world would see what had really happened in 2020 and Biden would be basically evicted and they would put him back in. Dinner with Kanye and Nick Fuentes, you know, white supremacist, a week after he announces his campaign, selling NFTs, you know, these digital trading. He looked like a guy just trying to make some money off the whole thing. So now he's leading in the polls.

And he is. He's consistently leading in the polls. And most importantly, in the polls of the battleground states. But I truly think that most Americans have kind of checked out. And, you know, for all that intense focus on what I was doing when I was the White House correspondent that I felt at the Trump White House. Who's paying attention to what's going on in the Biden White House? You know, in the public at large. All right. We got more with John Carl when we come back.

His book, Tired of Winning Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party. He's here and we'll talk some more when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's E.J. Envy. Jess Hilarious.

Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with John Carl, of course, from ABC and his book, Tired of Winning. Donald Trump and the end of the grand old party. He's here. Now, I got a question. What do you think about the effects of some of the celebrities like Stephen A. Smith saying that he's relatable because of his arrest or him sitting down with people like Kanye West and all these other artists that are going for him? Do you think that is a big influence to help him out, or do you think it'll hurt him?

You know, I don't think Kanye particularly helped him. I thought it was, that whole episode was so bizarre. He still sells millions of records. He still sells out shows. He just had a number one record. So I know people hate him. They say they hate him,

but somebody's supporting him. Yeah, and it's interesting because that dinner, which, and what did Kanye say afterwards? That he was offering Trump to be his vice president? But he brings Nick Fuentes. This is a guy who

is like, you know, most people didn't know him until they saw the stories about this. But this guy is like an actual white supremacist. I mean, that's his brand. And Kanye has a thing for Adolf Hitler, which is really strange. So Trump gets, you know, everybody condemns this meeting. Trump to this day has not criticized either of them. And hasn't said, like, maybe I shouldn't have done that.

Or if I, you know, or I did it, I'll meet with anybody, but I don't believe in what they believe in. He hasn't done, he hasn't, not a hint of criticism. So he clearly senses that this is good. I think the other thing that he's done is he is afraid of alienating anybody who he sees as his supporter, even if they're totally off the deep end. He didn't get around to condemning David Duke until, by the way, after the Louisiana primary in 2016. I mean, only after it really became... There's a crazy story that I talk about in Front Row on the Trump Show

about how Reince Priebus and Chris Christie and all these people that were around him were basically like just pleading with him and begging him to just disavow the endorsement of David Duke because David Duke had endorsed him. And Trump didn't want to do it. Didn't want to do it. Finally, he got browbeaten into doing it. By the way, that's the stuff that he's not going to get browbeaten into doing anymore. No, that's normalizing that. Yeah. But why did the grand old party come to an end?

Well, I think you alluded to it when we started this conversation. I think that the Republican Party is the Trump Party now. I mean, there are elements and there are, you know, little bits and pieces of the old party out there. I mean, look at this debate over Ukraine. They have this big debate on whether or not we're going to support Ukraine, continue to support Ukraine in the war uh against russia and it passed overwhelmingly eventually you know when when the republicans finally agreed to have the vote overwhelming in the house overwhelmingly in the

senate but in the house a majority of republicans voted against it i mean this is the party of reagan not anymore it's the party of trump and go to bed for the future of the republican party well i think the republican party has a real challenge once, you know, I mean, when Trump is gone, I think that he's done such a good job of basically decimating what was there before. I think that they've got some real definitional problems. What do they stand for? What does Make America Great Again mean?

Because if you look, do you remember what the Republican platform was in 2020? Make America great again. Yeah, there was no platform except for that statement. There was no platform. Usually, like, I mean, I've been covering conventions where you have all the detail, what we stand for in domestic policy, foreign policy, you know, the cultural issues, nothing. It was just like Trump's make America great again plan. So, you know, what do they stand for

when he's gone? Now, look, the Democrats have huge problems and you see, I mean, the fact that we see more Hispanic voters than we've seen voting Republican and reflected in the polls supporting more black voters.

It's still, you know, Democrats dominate both groups, but the fact that they're losing, the fact that Democrats are losing supports among blacks and Latinos to Donald Trump is a sign that Democrats have some problems too. When you talk about what a Trump White House will look like if he gets back in the White House, can you talk to that? Can you speak to Project 25? Yeah, so this is really important and I don't think people understand. This is something that I think people have to understand before they go and vote. When Trump comes back in, if he comes back in, the first test for anybody in a position of authority and power is going to be loyalty to

Donald Trump. I spent a lot of time reporting and documenting the work of a guy named Johnny McEntee, who was the guy that carried Trump's bags. He was actually one of the first guys I met on the Trump campaign in 2015. He had been like a very junior. He was a kid. He was just out of UConn. He'd been a college quarterback. He came to volunteer for the Trump campaign right after Trump announced the first time around

and ended up carrying his bags for much of his presidency. He came back in 2020. He'd been briefly thrown out of the White House, by the way, because he had issues related to his gambling that were flagged by the FBI. So John Kelly, Trump's chief of staff, fired him. After Kelly was gone, McAtee came back and was put in charge of presidential personnel, basically the HR department for the whole executive branch of the US government. And he went about, in the beginning of 2020 2020 to try to do a series of loyalty tests interviews he sent his people out most mostly his buddies like like these are kids in their 20s he was 30 years old at the time um to interview from cabinet secretaries on down testing their support

of donald trump and he engineered the biggest thing he engineered was the firing of the secretary of defense right after the election esper remember esper was the one that opposed the use of the use of the insurrection act to bring active duty troops into american cities uh during the george floyd protests fired top four people at the pentagon fired replaced by people devoted to donald trump so now mcentee is part of this thing called Project 2025, which is to create a list of who can serve in the next Trump White House. And

you're not going to have people... Trump brought in some people of real stature. General Mattis, General Kelly, his White House counsel, Don McGahn, later White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, later Bill Barr, people that had served in previous administrations or were top military figures

who ended up standing up to Trump and refusing his demands to break the law, essentially. Those people and people like them will not be back. It'll be people that Johnny McEntee and his group have decided are truly loyal to the king. And what type of threat to democracy do you think that poses? Well, look, I'm sure... Do you think it's overstated when people say that that he's a threat to democracy? I don't think it's overstated because he actually

tried to bring down a presidential election so he's he has done that but I think that the underappreciated is you heard the Supreme Court arguments on this idea of immunity and by the, when Trump talks about immunity, and he talks about it a lot in his campaign rallies, he's not talking about acts tied to his official duties. He's talking about immunity. He's talking about shooting on Fifth Avenue because of immunity. That's right. So you have somebody who is making the case that the president is above the law,

who is running to be president again. I think that raises real questions about what does the rule of law mean? You know, there is a theory, the unitary theory of the executive branch, that is put forward by some serious legal, you know, constitutional scholars, that basically says that the president is the law. The way Nixon put it, you remember in his interview with David Frost after he had resigned, it's not illegal if the president does it. I mean, there's a whole theory that goes along with that.

And that's what essentially Trump is putting out there. So I worry. There was a big question that I explored after January 6th about what would have happened if Mike Pence had done what Trump wanted. Yeah. And what Trump really wanted, by the way, was Pence to just throw out those electoral votes and declare him president.

He didn't have the power to do that, though, right? Absolutely not. Okay. But who had the power to stop him? This is a mind-blowing thing. And by the way, the law has been changed now, to be clarified. But who had the power to stop him? Some people say, well, the Supreme Court would have stopped him.

Well, first of all, it's not clear at all that the Supreme Court has any jurisdiction over the rules of Congress in counting electoral votes. But, so let's say the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court in what army? I mean, there was, I talked to, you know, Judge Luddig, who testified in the January 6th Committee. I talked to him about it, and he said, look, this would have plunged us

into the greatest constitutional crisis that we have ever seen, because it is, Pence did not have the power to do that, but basically, it's unclear if anybody had the power to stop him. Wow. Well, his book is out right now, Tired of Winning. You can definitely pick that up.

Donald Trump and the End of the Granol Party. Hey, thank you. Jonathan Karl, ladies and gentlemen. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess. News is real, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

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On The Breakfast Club. She's a culture shift. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. Whoopi Goldberg recalls cocaine addiction. Whoopi Goldberg's new memoir, Bits and Pieces, My Mother, My Brother, and Me comes out today. But one part of the book that is really circulating already is her addiction to cocaine. She spoke on how Hollywood and New York

redefined the meaning of recreational drug use in the 80s. She wrote, I was invited to parties where I was greeted at the door with a bowl of Coilus from which I could pick what I wanted. Lines of cocaine were laid across tables and bathroom counters for the taking. Damn, them parties was lit back in the

time. It's no different than what these kids doing now with the molly and the ecstasy and all them drugs they doing. That was the drugs of the time. But you not greeted with no bull. Now I been, ain't nobody ever opened the door for me with no bull. Like what you want? You going to the wrong parties.

Shrink, shrooms, or weed. I know. They got parties with shrooms. They be hearing about parties with shrooms. They got shrooms on the table and stuff like that. Shrooms, edibles. Edibles and stuff like that. Pre-rolls.

I got both. Three, four more months. All right. So, she felt like she could handle cocaine because she didn't feel like it was dangerous

because of how accessible it was. She was good for about a year until she felt like cocaine started kicking her ass. It started to impact how she showed up for work and caused her to hallucinate. She said,

the moment that made her get help was when she was doing cocaine in a closet at an upscale hotel. A housekeeper came and opened the closet. She saw Whoopi hallucinate she said the moment that made her get help was when she was doing cocaine in a closet at an upscale hotel a housekeeper came and opened the closet she saw whoopi and started screaming whoopi jumped up and started explaining to her that it was her room she saw her reflection in the mirror and she had cocaine smeared all over her face from that moment she decided to quit cold turkey she said i knew i'd have to change out my friends and turn down invitations but i could do that i didn't want to die cocaine was it was plant-based you know i mean

this is back in the day you know before they used to put all the rihanna makeup in it you know what i'm saying so when they started adding the fenty to it that's when it became really really dangerous when they started cutting the cocaine with all types of other stuff that's when it became really really dangerous but there was a time when cocaine was really really pure organic while she was in the closet though if there was her hotel room yeah but you know when you want that coke when you want that plant-based coke exactly no you don't know whoopi said she was coming up here for her book man yeah i know it came out today this will definitely make people read it though this is this is actually great and it just and it comes out today so get it if yeah well so get it all right um moving on dj flat uh dj vlad

criticized for argument with college professor uh so we got into it with a princeton professor after she asked him not to speak on the drake and kendrick beef his tweet was simply kendrick kendrick's not like us needed a better mix it takes away from the song now um i was told that dj vlad was a producer so i don't see why he couldn't make this opinion about couldn't have this opinion about the song she responded to him and said you are white this is a black folk affair um so he he responded to her and said wait so a professor at princeton is telling me that a white person shouldn't be allowed to voice their opinion about hip-hop Is that how you interact with your students?

She came back and said, what I'm saying is that you put your opinion in a discussion that's not needed. This conversation is and should censor black people, not you. She said, Vlad said, don't try to change your words now. I'll be reaching out to Princeton about this on Monday. So she said, semester's over and my contract has been completed. But thanks for trying to bully me out of a job for censoring black people because you got your feelings hurt very retaliatory huh nice tactic um the professor says she found it funny that vlad chose her to respond to out of all people well i mean you kind of asked for it um vlad said i responded to you because

all the other responses are from trolls and fake accounts you may want to think about getting a burner account like all the other bigots do that's how they keep from getting fired lol ate her up Jesus he definitely did and later on he shared another tweet clarifying that he never actually planned to file a complaint against her he says she trolled

me and I trolled back but he feels like their argument led to a bigger conversation about race relations and he plans to bring it up in his future interviews um here's the thing social media is the place where people can express their opinions vlad said what he said and that comment had nothing to do with race all vlad said was the song needed a better mix yeah you know i mean there's nothing wrong with that comment and then the sister said what she said but now that sister has to deal with the consequences

of whatever Vlad chooses to do if he chooses to you know file a formal complaint or whatever and Vlad has to deal with the consequences of filing the complaint

on the sister because social media is going to be mad at so everybody got the right to their opinion yeah he said he wasn't actually going to do it though

he probably was just trying like you said troll her back but I like I said I just feel like some things just shouldn't be turned into race. I think it was just like, you know. And then some people would argue that Drake is half white and Jewish, by the way. So why can't Vlad have an opinion about the competitor's beat?

That's all he said. When he was talking about a mix. But the funny thing is, Vlad is a DJ, though, right? He used producer so vlad knows a bad mix when he hears one no but he was a real dj like doing parties and clubs and mixtapes and he's from the west coast so he when he heard it he probably was like and by the way when you walk into a recording studio you know who the people mixing your music most of the time are white white engineers you know what i mean it was just an honest critique of his own it was his own opinion i i just yeah i thought that whole exchange was very very strange because i don't know why a professor from princeton would react

in in the way a regular twitter nigga would yeah like you know what i mean he just said he didn't like the mix that's what he said he didn't like that wasn't the thing to bring like this record because it is i didn't like you just said i didn't like the mix i didn't like the mix that wasn't a thing to bring like this record because it is i didn't like you just said i didn't like the mix i didn't like the mix that had that that was not something to bring race into and and and by the way vlad like i said you got to deal with the consequences of whatever however vlad chooses to react and vlad has to deal with the consequences of reacting in that way because he'll he'll complain to columbia university and she complained to twitter and twitter gonna get on vlad just like columbia University or some university might get on her. That's all.

The only difference is Vlad owns his own stuff, so he's not going to get fired. That's very true. She might get suspended. That is very true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of people attacking him, like Mark Lamont Hill and all that. He went back at Mark Lamont. Like, how many jobs you was fired from again?

No, man. He did. Jesus Christ. He did. Stop. So Mark didn't say anything else. Salute to No, man. He did. Stop. He did. Yeah. So Mark didn't say anything else. Salute to Mark, man. Alright.

Well, that is Jess with the mess. Alright. When we come back, we got the People's Choice Mix. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Salute to Tiffany Haddish for joining us this morning.

That's right. Make sure you go pick up her new book, I Curse You With Joy, available everywhere you buy books now. You sitting over there looking sick.

Because I'm trying not to get sick. Well, go ahead and throw up. We all know you pregnant. Morning sickness comes with it. Well, I got to throw up after I finish my job.

No. That's a trooper. Yes. I'm hanging in there. And John Carl for joining us this morning. That's right. John Carl, he's got a new book out too called Tired of Winning Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Ole Party. Yes, that John Carl that you watch on This Week ABC every weekend.

That's who joined us this morning as well. All right. I like this type of show. These are the type of shows I like. The perfect balance of ratchetedness and righteousness. We had Angela Rye here doing front page news. Yes. She's a breath of fresh air.

Shout out to Ms. Rye. Nice. And when we come back, we got the positive notice, The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

It's time to get up out of here. I want to salute to the New York Knicks again. Great game. I mean, the NBA series has been amazing. I mean, it goes salute to the New York Knicks again. Great game. I mean, the NBA series has been amazing. I mean, it's getting it goes down to the wire each and every night. And the Knicks are scrappy. So, salute to the New York Knicks. I was thinking last night, I said, man,

the Knicks are like one scorer and one healthy Julius Randle away from like maybe winning a championship. I agree. I mean, yeah, I don't know if they could contend with too many teams in the West, but maybe. Like, literally, I'm talking about a scorer, though.

When I say scorer, I mean a Kevin Durant-level scorer and then a healthy Julius Randle. But you got a Jalen Brunson, a healthy Julius Randle, and like a scorer that can get them buckets anytime, Knicks would be a problem. They've been saying Paul George, that he's been in the rumor mill.

Somebody else has been in the rumor mill, I've seen, too. As long as you don't got to give up too much to give up. I think Paul George will be a problem. They've been saying Paul George, that he's been in the rumor mill. Somebody else has been in the rumor mill, I've seen too. As long as you don't gotta give up too much to give up. I think Paul George might be a free agent.

He might be a free agent. Is he? I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't think Spider Mitchell, I don't think Mitchell ain't leaving

in Cleveland. All right, well, it's time to get up out of here. We got a positive note? Yes, I want to make sure to tell people

to pre-order my new book, Get Honest to Die Lying, Why Small Talk Sucks, available May 21st, man. You can go to whysmalltalksucks.com to see what cities I'm going to be in starting on May 21st, man. So I'll see you out on the road. And the positive note is simply this. I don't know who needs to hear this, okay? But it is time. Listen to me, man. God really wants me to tell you this. It is time to delete Uber Eats from your phone

because that's the reason your stomach big now. Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club, bitches! Y'all finished or y'all done?