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Episode Date: February 13, 2024

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It's time. The Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club. It's very, very, very, very big. You guys are changing the entire scene in the country of Ohio. Where y'all came from? They might not have the news, but, you know, they're listening to the breakfast

truck. Who the GOAT? Let's go. DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God. Y'all are like a mega force. Breakfast Club, that's how we get our dates fine. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Jess H yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, feeling good good good good good I'm acting like I just ain't running here yeah you just hit it at the buzzer literally at the buzzer here in uh New York City New York City New Jersey area salute everybody that listens to us all around the country but in the New York City New Jersey area uh we had a huge snowstorm that's right huge I don't know how huge it was it was predicted to be huge but you know it just looked kind of regular to me look regular not too crazy they closed schools in New York City some of the schools so if if if you got kids, definitely check and call your school or check the emails or all that other good stuff.

My kids' schools are closed. Yeah, my kids' schools are closed too. Driving in was disgusting. It was horrible. My wife asked me this morning, why are you going in? Why are you just on broadcast from home? And I'm like, you know what? I don't know.

I threw you the layup last night. Didn't you see the layup I threw you? Yeah, but you know, we got guests coming by after the show. We got guests here today. It's Jess's born day. And you know, Jess is just getting started here on The Breakfast Club. So she doesn't have like the setups that we do. You know, we got studios at the house and things of that nature.

So it's just like, yo, why not come in? I tried to throw Charlamagne and Ali last night. I said, hey, Charla. So are you broadcasting from the crib? Because I will, too. And I like being here. I like being in the studio. I enjoy, you know, coming to talk to the people every morning and serve the people of America every morning here on this black mothership we call The Breakfast Club.

That's right. Yeah, yeah. So I'm happy to be here. All right. Well, today we have Kingsley Ben-Adir. Now, I'm sure you don't know who he is. He's an actor that plays Bob Marley in the new One Love flick. Kills it, too, by the way.

A lot of people know who this is. You know why? Why? Because I had a lot of women yesterday hitting me. Talking about Kingsley was up there? Really? Yes, because he played Malcolm X in, I can't remember the name of the movie, something in Miami.

He played One Night in Miami, I believe. One Night in Miami, yeah. He played Malcolm X in that. He played Barack Night in Miami, I believe. One Night in Miami, yeah. He played Malcolm X in that. He played Barack Obama in something. He was in Secret Invasion. He played... I can't remember the villain's name in Secret Invasion. I'm sorry, guys.

I'm 45 years old. I was born in 1907. Yeah, I can't remember everything. We got it. But yeah, a lot of people know who he is. Okay. A lot of women like Kingsley. Okay.

Yes. So he'll be joining us. Happy birthday, Big Jess. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Big Jess. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Big Jess. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Big Jess. Happy birthday, Big Jess.

You're one. You're two. You're three. I mean, add a 30 to that, too. 32-year-old. What's that? Big Jess, happy birthday. Good morning.

Well, we'll let Jess settle in And we got front page news Coming back Tesla and Figaro Be joining us So don't go anywhere It's the Breakfast Club Good morning Wow

I've been listening to Snooze For about a year And some change 17 times a day On this radio Right During the Breakfast Club And Jess O'Leary

Just put me on The Snooze Got me looking at Snooze Different now You never listen to the lyrics? It's the lyrics. She testified about how many people she killed and all that. Yeah, she killed somebody for you and all that.

But I told you, because she has a wonderful disguising voice, like, so people can't, like, understand exactly what she's saying. She's very smart, but she confessed to a lot of crime. Like a baby murderer. Yeah. A baby murderer. Wow. Good morning, everybody.

We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get into some front page news. Just started off. Super Bowl sets TV ratings record with 123.4 million viewers. Yes. No surprise there. Yeah. So the longest Super Bowl game also will go down as the most watched program in television

history. And no surprise there. It went into overtime. You got a dynasty like the Kansas City Chiefs. You got a storied franchise like the San Francisco 49ers. You got Usher at the halftime show.

You got the Taylor Swift stuff swirling around. There's a lot of elements that doesn't surprise me at all that they was the most watched thing in history. That's right. And then you got

the whole Bronx for Ice Spice. The whole Bronx for Ice Spice. No. You're acting like it's legal cable in the Bronx. Definitely. They got flying sticks all that all types of things. Oh, my God. Well, let's jump right into Joel Osteen.

Good morning, DJ Envy. What's up, Jess? Good morning, Charlamagne. And happy birthday to Jess. Thank you, beautiful. Happy birthday, baby. Yeah, let's get into some new details about the Sunday shooting at Joel

Austin's Lakewood Church in Houston. Let's go to NBC News for the report, and I'm going to give you some more information on the other side. Police identified the shooter as 36-year-old Genesee Yvonne Moreno and say she was carrying an AR-15 with the word Palestine written on it. Police said they also found

anti-Semitic writings during a recent search warrant. We have uncovered some items. We do have some anti-Semitic writings that we have uncovered during this process. But like I said, we are 24 hours into it. Investigators say a dispute between Marano and her ex-husband's family, some of whom are Jewish, may be related to the shooting. Now, as he mentioned and as we talked about yesterday, when these shootings happen, you know, there's details constantly unfolding. So that was the latest as far as, you know, what happened with the shooting. But I want to give you some more details on her background, her criminal history, as well as her documented mental illness.

Take a listen to this and Joe Osteen. We also have his history as well as her documented mental illness take a listen to this and joel olstein we also have his statement as well law enforcement records show the shooter had at least six prior arrests since 2005 including unlawful carrying of a weapon which she pleaded guilty to evading arrest and assault on a public official which she pleaded to a lesser charge but ano's neighbor who didn't want to be identified, said she filed a restraining order against her in November. Four years I've been through hell. I have reported this, reported this, reported this, and it's gone on deaf ears. Nobody should have died. Nobody should have been hurt.

This should have been handled years ago. Police adding in 2016, authorities placed moreno under an emergency detention order we do believe that she does have a mental health history that is documented through us and through interviews with family members we're devastated i mean this we've been here 65 years and have somebody shooting in your church but you know we don't understand why these things happen, but we know God's in control Damn so sad Yes, so we'll continue to see again they said no motive has been determined at this point They'll continue to look into it

they're also saying they don't know if they're going to document this as a hate crime or terrorism or How that's going to happen. Also. i haven't seen an update on the little boy that was there remember there was a little boy yeah her son that was her right yeah uh-huh that was with him and he was in critical condition and as of right now this moment because you know things change every hour uh i have not seen uh you know an update on him so hoping uh that he is you know recovers from that as well all right well that is front page news what are we talking next hour test yeah make sure you tap me in tax season is here you may qualify for more money and i want you to know about something that's going to happen on valentine's day if you plan on ordering door dash or if you need an uber or lift at the airport drivers in 10 cities are

saying get somebody else to do it so i'm gonna tell you all about at the top of the hour oh boy all right get it off your chest 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Call us up right now. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlamagne. Envy. What up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.

We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. We live? Hello, who's this? This is Ivan from Charleston, South Carolina. 843, what's happening in the low country this morning? What's up, brother? Hey, what's up?

Get it off your chest. I just wanted to give y'all a call to tell Jess happy birthday. Thank you. And happy birthday to myself. Oh, happy birthday back to you, honey. Oh, yeah, no problem. Yes, blessings to you, brother. No problem.

Blessings to you in the low country this morning. Hello, who's this? Yeah, it's DeAndre. What's up, Dre? Get it off your chest. Yeah, man, I just wanted to say, man, me and my lady, we're expecting our first baby. Oh, congratulations. Are you happy? Yeah, man, I just wanted to say, man, me and my lady, we're expecting our first baby on Valentine's Day.

Oh, congratulations. You sound, are you happy? I mean, yeah, I'm happy, but it's a little nervousness involved with it, too. Oh, yeah, you said your first baby. Oh, yeah. Wow. Is she due tomorrow? Yep, due tomorrow.

Wow. Did you build a crib and all that yet? A lot, baby. Fascinating and all that? Yeah, everything's set up. Just gotta, really just waiting, man, really, for her.

I need you to be more excited than this. I know. He sounds very enthused. He's just nervous. I'm nervous, bro. I'm nervous. But at least you,

you're being honest about it. It's okay. You'll be fine. I like his calmness, though. You know, it's like the calm before the storm.

You stay focused, you know what I mean? Yeah. Because if it happens in the next 24 hours, it's going to be a life-changing experience for you.

You're never going to look at your woman or her vagina to say, Jesus. Who you calling from? a life-changing experience for you. You're never going to look at your woman or her vagina to say, Jesus. Who you calling from? I'm calling from Charlotte. Okay. 704.

Yes, sir. And can I get one more thing off of y'all? Go ahead, brother. I got a friend that runs like a Pelicans out here and he's in danger of losing his store. He had to start a GoFundMe. If anybody can, his GoFundMe is Help Save My Store

it's organized by Shamar and Lassar any help that'll be greatly appreciated alright brother you say you're trying to save the pelicans

save the pelicans yes I guess the organization we save the pelicans it's the birds inflation it's kind of nah it's like

a snow cone store oh okay so not real birds I'm sorry I think all your attention should be on tomorrow. I mean, that's fact, but this is like my best friend, one of my best friends.

He's not worried about the pelicans in his baby. So is it real pelicans? I ain't really worried about the pelicans. No, it's a store. Oh, so you care about the snow cones? I mean, I want to help my homeboy, too, if I can. Yeah, I agree with Jess. Focus on your baby. Yeah, I promise.

Focus on your queen, Kim. They're not real pelicans? No, no, it's the snow cones. That must be the name of the store. Yeah. Pelican Snow Cone Store. So save the cones. I felt for him when he said the pelicans.

I said, oh, man, brother doing good things, saving the birds out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, snow cones don't need no whole store, by the way. All he needs is a little truck or something, a little stand. You don't need a whole store for snow cones. He's so nervous. He worried about the pelicans. They say the pelicans. What? Get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and get something. Call up now.

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Sierra from Indianapolis. Hey, Sierra. Get it off your chest. Well, today is my birthday, and I just want to tell myself happy birthday and shout out to Jess.

Let her know happy birthday as well. Hey, happy birthday to you both. Happy birthday, my Aquarius twin. Thank you. Well, actually, we're triplets. I have a little brother who just turned 21 today. Wow. Wow, y'all birthday on the same day.

That's what's up. Happy birthday, little brother. We are 14 years apart. Let me look up Aquarius traits for women. Damn, you are very difficult to love. Okay, thank you so much, babe. I appreciate you calling in. Loyal.

She learns from her mistakes. Distracted. Friendly. Reluctance to follow rules. Visionary. Wow, Jess. You rule this? Humanitarian.

Creative. Intellectual. She enjoys spontaneity. Independent. Detached. Emotionally reserved. Rebellious. What enjoys spontaneity. Independent. Detached. Emotionally reserved. Rebellious. Social butterfly. Wow.

Aquarius woman traits. Okay. Living in the truth. Alright, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Hello, who's this? Yo, this your boy Captain from Huntsville, Alabama. What's up, Captain? Get off your chest.

Hey, man. Okay. Quick question. Charlemagne. Charlemagne up? Yes, sir. What's up, King? What's up, King?

How you doing, Ms. Jess Larry? Good morning. Good morning. Quick question. Top five comedians. Top five three comedians? Yeah. Which one?

Top five or top three? Top three. Top three. Cat Williams, Dave Chappelle, Chris Tucker. This is all back in the day oh okay so question is how come there's never a female included in there what why is there never a female included in the top because you said top three you said top five i could have told you another one me but i just top three that's it say happy birthday first of all say happy birthday to me oh i'm sorry happy birthday thank you so much he changed uh i got one woman comedian in my top five who is it

joan river what's that oh joan river if you're doing all the time joan she definitely was funny like really really funny. Well, I say Jess Hilarious, Mona, Don't Call Me White Girl. Shout out to you, girl. And Adele Gibbons. Hey, Adele, yeah. Wow, all the time? Mona and Jess?

Okay. All right, that's what it is. Thank you, brother. Get it off your chest. Like you had a problem with it at first. No, I'm just saying. When somebody's a top five all the time, you think like the older ones. But if you say what's happening now.

Absolutely. Martin Lawrence. Yeah. You named a bunch of old heads too. I did. If you would have said top five, I would have put myself in there. Okay. Get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. We got Jess with the mess coming up. Yes, we do. Justin Bieber was supposed to perform with. Well, he was offered to perform with Usher. Okay. He said, nigga, no. Oh, my God.

No, that is wrong. We'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess Hilarious.

Charlamagne Tha God. Tell me what. I told you he was getting a little sick. I am getting a little sick. He was doing a little cough yesterday. I am getting a little sick. He was getting a little coughed yesterday. I am getting a little sick. Oh, my God. There is something going around.

I don't know if it's COVID, but it's something new that's getting people sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it could be just a little cold. People forgot about colds now. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. It's something going around. It's just germs.

It's just cold. People forget about colds. They forget about flu. They forget about chlamydia. It ain't always COVID, y'all. Okay, come on. Let's get to Jess with theall okay come on let's get all right yeah let's get just with the mess usher marries longtime girlfriend in ve. People exclusively reported that Usher married his longtime girlfriend, Jen, after his Super Bowl halftime show. The marriage certificate shows that Usher's mom was the witness.

The wedding was at the Vegas weddings in Terrace Gazebo or whatever. And then they didn't report it to the world, but a source had said that they confirmed it to their their own little team and their own people or whatever i didn't know that they had two kids together i knew i knew that usher had kids but i didn't even know that he had this longtime girlfriend until like earlier last year so this is actually i didn't know that either yeah i didn't know that and you wouldn't think that with his performances and all of that stuff but it's just entertainment jess okay that's real cute and everything but and look and it's a song on his new album called like he's still saying that he he has a side girl that he messing with y'all need to get down with the album the album gives real tea okay usher gonna always have a side girl somewhere so good luck

jen damn yeah i'm just saying because hey we ain't never known him to be lying yeah we don't even not tell, like, to elaborate on truth, but we know that he'll be lying. It's just entertainment. Okay. That's cute. Okay. More on Usher. Why Justin Bieber didn't participate in Usher's halftime show.

So, fans expected to see Justin Bieber on the stage during Usher's halftime show. A source told Page Six that Usher offered for Justin Bieber to join the performance, but Bieber turned it down, saying that he just wasn't feeling it. They elaborated, there's no bad blood between Usher and Justin, just that Justin wasn't up for it. He wasn't, he just wasn't feeling it. What the hell was Justin Bieber going to do with Usher? Skate? I know, I don't remember them having songs together,

but one of the producers told me they do have songs. No, he was the one that founded Justin Bieber. I know that. I know, I know, but like songs together, collaboratively, I don't remember them having songs. But if that's his artist, that's his artist. That's not technically his artist, he just helped founded Justin Bieber. I know that. I know, I know, but like songs together, collaboratively, I don't remember them having songs. But if that's his artist, that's his artist. That's not technically his artist.

He just helped discover Justin Bieber. Yeah. I don't need you to be in Usher's set just because the man helped discover you. Now, if he came, if Justin came out

roller skating or something, you know, okay, oh, that's Justin Bieber. I thought he was signed to Usher in School of Wrong. I thought they had a company and they did it together. I don't know.

It's just for domestic and the news is real. So it don't have to be real but it is so um we don't know if there was like anything you know going on but I just feel like Justin is just tired wrapped up with music anyway like he's just performing and anything like or anything that has to do with music I just feel like he's tired of he just wants to be left alone with it he was saying this for the past few years so it could be something I just feel like he's tired of it. He just wants to be left alone with it. He was saying this for the past few years. So it could be something deeper. It could be he's depressed.

It could be something that he just don't want to even address or whatever. But like they said, there's no bad blood between him and Usher. Or he's just rich and don't feel like working.

How about that? How about that? You know what I'm saying? Because retirement is not an age, it's an income. And I don't remember the last time he's actually looked happy. The last time that we,

the little bit of times that we've seen him in the last like year and a half. He doesn't look happy. So prayers up for him. I hope he's okay. But Chris Brown reacted to Usher's halftime performance. It was just very subtle. It was real quick. It was just an emoji.

A flame emoji. Some people are speculating about Usher and Chris Brown's relationship what and what it's been like since the rumor since the rumor since he allegedly uh got into an altercation in vegas last year remember they was trying to say oh my god he punched us and um ain't nobody ever confirmed or deny or whatever so uh he posted to a story um on instagram just a flame like okay that was fire. It could have been. It could have been more.

What y'all wanted to do? Put an eggplant in some lips? Why do you have to skip straight to the end? What y'all wanted me to do? A flame emoji and add Usher fire. I would have wanted, I don't know if Usher offered for him to perform with him, but I would have wanted to see

New Flame with Usher and Chris Brown that was like one of the nicest songs or whatever you remember that no I wanted to see some people? No, I didn't. I wanted to see Lovers and Friends. I know, I know. Lovers and Friends would have been fire. That's right. Okay, but Usher can

skate, dance, and all that. I mean, Chris Brown can skate, dance, and all that. So that would have been nice to see. So that's what y'all wanted Chris Brown and Justin Bieber to do.

Y'all wanted them to be skaters in Usher's performance. That's what I'm getting from this. That's what y'all wanted? At least Usher and Chris got songs together.

You know what I'm saying? Okay, okay. But it's okay. Whatever, whatever,'m saying? So, yeah. Okay. But it's okay. Whatever, whatever, whatever. All right. Fans react to Shaq shooting his shot at Ice Spice after the Super Bowl. What?

Right. Shaq posted a picture on his Instagram with Taylor Swift, Ice Spice, and a few other people. And the caption was, and Ice Spice is so damn fine. Thanks, Taylor Swift. Shaq is 51. iSpice is 24. Shaq. Is your country falling apart?

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Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong?

No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We need help!

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I marry science and storytelling to better understand how to navigate the big changes in our lives. It was like a slow nightmare, you know, because every day you think, oh, surely tomorrow I'll be better. And I would dream of being better. At night, I would dream that my face was quote unquote normal or back to the way it was. And I'd dream of being better. At night I would dream that my face was quote unquote normal or back to the way it was and I'd wake up and there'd be no change. I also speak with scientists about how we can be more resilient in the face of change. You can think of the adolescent brain as like this social R&D engine of our culture. That they're something that looks like risky and idiotic to us is maybe their way of creatively trying to solve the problem of having social success and fewer of the things that bring you social failure.

Listen to A Slight Change of Plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba. I shook up the world. James Brown said, say it loud. And the kid said, I'm black and I'm proud. Black boxing stars and black music royalty together in the heart of Zaire, Africa. Three days of music and then the boxing event. What was going on in the world at the time made this fight as important that anything else is going on on the world at the time made this fight as important that anything else is going on on the planet.

My grandfather laid on the ropes and let George Foreman basically just punch himself out. Welcome to Rumble, the story of a world in transformation. The 60s and prior to that, you couldn't call a person black. And how we arrived at this peak moment. I don't have to be what you want me to be. We all came from the continent of Africa. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, the sun, Sharif is also 24 and i just i i just feel like all right shack relax sometimes

like if we're gonna tell shannon sharp to check i mean shannon sharp to chill we gotta tell shannon i agree that's a little it's just a little strange like like come on like you was in this you was in the league for about as long as ice spice has been alive alive. Yeah. And then what you mean, thanks, Taylor Swift? What do you want her to... I don't know. Is he insinuating that he wanted Taylor to put him on with Ice Spice or what? He probably met her in Taylor's suite. Taylor's section?

Yeah, Taylor's suite. That's what he probably should think. Oh, okay, okay. Oh, my gosh. But either way, Ice Spice look like his granddaughter in front of him. No, for real. That could be his granddaughter. Literally the daughter.

That could be your granddaughter, Shaq. That's how you got to look at these things, man. You got to think about that. How old do you say he was? 54. 54-year-old. That can't be his granddaughter, guys. Why not?

He's 30 years older than him. No, he's 51. I'm sorry. Shaq is 51. Why can't he have a 24-year-old granddaughter at 51? No, she just looked like super young in front of him. Granddaughter. Not granddaughter.

Are you crazy? At 24 years? So you don't know no 50-year-old? I don't freaking know. Not granddaughter. Are you crazy? At 24 years old. So you don't know no 50 year old? I don't freaking know. A 50 year old with a 24 year old granddaughter? All I said. I know some 58 year olds with like a 21, 22 year old granddaughter. All I said was the pose made her look like.

I mean, she still pose like North and Blue. Like she, you know what I'm saying? Like she don't never. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With the lowest tongue sticking out the side, half the tongue, you know. By the way, that's not a young grandma.

If you 58 years old, 59 years old. We said 51 with a 24-year-old granddaughter. It's possible. No. No. I'm not the best at math, but if you give me a minute, I can figure this out. While y'all figure that out, we're going to celebrate SZA. You think about it.

We have to get a 21. There you go, 21. Shut up. She's trying to celebrate SZA. If you think about it, if you have a kid at 21, then you go 21. Shut up. We're going to celebrate SZA right now for SOS being the first album by a black woman to spend over a year in the top 10 of Billboard's 200 charts. That is so lit.

She posted this on her Instagram and she said, thank you and happy Black History Month. Okay. So shout out to SZA. She's been getting like really, really good accolades and all that stuff for like the past she's been doing her thing if your daughter

got pregnant at like 13 14 oh you're not gonna let this go it's possible if your daughter got pregnant like 13 14 15 it's possible for you to be 51 54 years old with a 21 year old you're still gonna go with this huh you're still gonna go with this it's a possibility somebody out there do the math for me do the ghetto math for me figure this out okay how can you be a 54 year old granddaddy 51 51 year old granddaddy with a 24 year old granddaughter come on somebody figure it out for me it can happen i just don't know how and that is just thank you jess no problem when we come back we got front page news and then kingsley ben idea will be joining us. Them girls love him. Ladies love this man. Who, Kingsley?

Yeah, Kingsley Ben-Adea. They be like, hey, big head. But it be true. You got a big ass head. You said that. Yeah, you definitely said it like three times. He was all into his head. He was like, man, your head big.

Like, what size is your head? Like, what? What? You asked him what size his head was. That never happened. He ain't even been here yet, Jeff. I'm lying. You know we're here for it.

It's the Breakfast Club. Come on in. You're checking out the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj envy jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club let's get in some front page news what up tez good morning dj evie good morning and happy birthday to jess hilarious and charlamagne the guy now let's jump right into these uh tax refunds yeah before i get to this you know, you love your free burger days. You know, you like to pull up when McDonald's is giving free burgers.

I wanted everybody to know today is National Pancake Day. So IHOP is offering free pancakes today and participating locations from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Now the reason why I'm saying this is because it's also paired with their month-long fundraising campaign to fight food insecurity. So if you go in and get your free stack your three stack make sure you donate a dollar every dollar you donate provides 10 meals for people facing hunger so it's your phone yes you know like to help people with with food that's what they call it now you know help people who are hungry basically oh my god they're gonna be happy he loves him from paying he loves yes so thank you you pulling up today you think you're gonna

pull up i'm gonna take him i'm not three? I'm going to tell my mother to take them. I'm not going there. But I'm going to tell my mother to take them. Imagine Jess standing in line for three pancakes. Like, Ash, no. Hey, a deal is a deal. Yeah, that's right. I don't care what y'all say.

Ain't nothing wrong with that. Three pancakes for free? It'd be no shame waiting in a long line. Would you be getting your little burgers? They'd be tricking you. You get there, then you got to download the app, and you got to order it on the app. It's too much. Just give me my burgers rewards program rewards program i'm sure you gotta do the same with ihop i'm sure you gotta fill something up yeah yeah yeah

well if y'all go in make sure y'all donate a dollar but in more money news uh i wanted folks to know about this because this is important it's tax season uh let's listen to atlanta fox 5 for the report on how you may get a larger refund. Check it out. Last year, we had some big numbers. $3,200 was the average refund from last year. Whether you get the same or more really depends upon how your income did over the last 12 months. If you saw a substantial raise in your paycheck, because a lot of people did, you'll probably get about the same. If your income stayed the same or only went up a little bit, then you actually could expect a higher refund because two things happen. Number one is they adjusted up the standard deduction. They gave you more of those free deductions and every year they adjust the tax tables for inflation so if you're earning more seven percent or so you're going to pay about

the same amount but if your income stayed about the same expect a bigger refund this year tax refunds what are those right what is that what are those right god bless everybody that's getting one i hope it's as big as the super bowl i have no idea what a tax refund is i haven't seen one since before my son but i would say this is a big deal you know the irs is expecting 128.7 million individual tax returns this year you know this is a big deal you know people be all of a sudden you know getting back together with old loves you know waiting on that tax return and trying to get people you know how it go jess yes girl they come around saying they kids and stuff yeah exactly so the family albums and all of that so this is important probably for a lot of our listeners so it will be a difference of about three to four hundred

dollars increase and i want to do the story guys again because inflation you know we talk so much about inflation inflation inflation and so this is one of those way one of the things that they're showing that the irs has recognized that there's. And so this is one of those way, one of the things that they're showing that the IRS has recognized that there's been inflation. And this is kind of a way to make it even for those who are receiving a tax return. Yeah, I have no problem with paying taxes. I have a problem with not knowing where my tax dollars are going. I wish that, you know, we individually could, you know, specifically say where we want our tax money to go. I wanted to go to this initiative. I want it to go to, you know, this community program.

If I knew exactly where my tax dollars were going, I would have no problem paying it. This money just be disappearing. It's like, hey, let me get that. Let me get that. You don't even know who that's going to. No, I'm not with you. I don't want to pay taxes as much.

Yeah. You don't even know where it's going they take a lot I would rather not pay at all being that we're black that should be our form of reparations if you make over a certain amount of money you shouldn't have to pay taxes oh wow

if you're black people you shouldn't have to pay taxes no no no if you make over a certain amount of money you shouldn't have no, no. If you make over a certain amount of money, you shouldn't have to pay taxes. If you don't make a certain amount of money, then you should be getting some form of reparation. You should be actually getting a check. If you make a certain amount of money, you shouldn't have to pay taxes. I'm with you. Charlemagne for president.

Let's go. I'm with you. I'm going. Yeah. That's why I left. And following that type of movement, go on Twitter and hashtag cut the check. So people are actually advocating for that, Charlamagne. It's a great idea.

Maybe they'll listen. Now, some other stuff that people may need to be listening is Uber. Now, this is important because Valentine's Day, a lot of people may be ordering DoorDash. You may be flying in to an airport. And I want to let you know Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash drivers plan to strike on valentine's day to talk about their lower pay and unsafe work conditions ride share drivers united an independent union said that lyft and uber drivers will turn off their apps to protest the significant decrease in pay that they felt in the winter now the justice for app workers coalition which represents more than 100 000

drivers issued a statement that we're sick of working 80 hours a week just to make ends meet, being constantly scared for our safety, and worrying about being deactivated with one click of a button. The group says its members will not be taking rides to and from the airports in 10 cities on Valentine's Day. Here it is. Austin, Chicago, Hartford, Miami, Newark, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, and Tampa. So if you're flying in, you usually take a lift. They say get somebody else to do it.

Now, DoorDash, they haven't said that they're looking at any particular cities, but they are included in this report as well. So if you're ordering food, you might be stuck like Chuck. You need a ride. You better get somebody else. And Uber has downplayed this and said that they tried this protest before. And so they said basically do you drivers because it didn't make a difference with us they pretty much blew it off but yeah they said do you

we don't care what they said we we did all right when y'all tried this last year but lyft did say in an effort to address pay concerns they did promise drivers will receive at least 70 of their money so what you guys think you think everybody should turn off the app or make a bigger statement or what i mean lyft is high as hell like all of that stuff is high like you know what i mean i get around new york because i don't want to drive like i'll pay like 80 to go down the street like what do you mean yeah so this is yeah this is what lyft i do understand they don't get and then i talk to a lot of lift drivers too and they they say no they don't really get a lot of their

money a lot of the everybody says that yep yeah i do notice that so what what they don't do another driver will you know i mean but i do encourage the protest if they feel like they're not making no money but today is the day that people gonna be at home cooking anyway yeah restaurants yeah but sometimes people be ordered but sometimes people be ordered door dash pretending that they made the food you know door that's a big thing on valentine's day though you don't think i was you know i was thinking about i was thinking about do people get snowed in on purpose like me like we always have these convos about getting flued out but when it snows are supposed to be a terrible snowstorm somewhere that you go and get snowed

in on purpose with people yeah yeah i i used to like getting snowed in especially with somebody I like mm-hmm very much what do you do that like you can't get a ride home all the time like oh my god what am I do you know they say no just stay here yeah oh yeah I ain't got hope now sometimes if you ugly you over to my house, they like, oh, no, I'm going to shovel. I'm going to help you get home. I'm going to help you get out of here. Jess actually has a skit. Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash striking? I'm going to drive you. There's still cabs and taxis

out here for sure. I got all-wheel drive. I'll drive you home. Jess, you need to upload that skit. Jess actually has a skit of pretending to be asleep. I saw that skit you did on the show. You tried to sing home, and Jess pretends to be asleep. And then I wake you up like, yeah, what you doing? You got to go.

You got to go now. All right. Well, that is front page news. Thank you, Tiz. All right, peace. Make sure you follow at TeslaFiguro on all social media platforms and subscribe to the Scrape Shot No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network.

All right, now when we come back, Kingsley Ben-Adir will be joining us. He plays Bob Marley in the new flick, One Love. And we're going to chop it up with him when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Thank you, Charlemagne, for not calling the brother dead. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlemagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Man. Kingsley Ben-Adir. Did I say that right? Yes, sir. Yes, he's playing Bob Marley in the new movie, Bob Marley, One Love Story, which comes out Valentine's Day. Welcome. Nice to be here.

Where your locks at? They're gone. They're in a cupboard somewhere. You left them in the movie? They took them off, put them in a box, locked them up. Whoever did that did a great job. Absolutely. Usually you see people with dreadlocks and they look so stupid. The fake dreadlocks?

Morris and Carla, man, they were prepping that from the same time when I started prepping. So it was like Morris is a dread specialist. And, you know, it's not even just the hair he did for me. All them boys who came from Jamaica, they're all Rasta. So he took out their dreads, you know, by hand. And he put them in, like, sacred boxes, stored them. And then re-did their, put new dreads in their hair. What?

To, like, suit the characters from the time. And then when the film was done, he got their dreads and he put them back in. Wow. But for a lot of them, it was really emotional. And they was doing it for Bob because they love Bob and they're all connected to Bob, you know. A lot of them, a lot of the guys who were playing the band members are the children of the actual band members. So they're all rusted and they took out their hair for the film and then they put it back. It was a lot, you know.

What do you mean took the hair out? What do you mean took it out? So Sheldon came with his own dreads. Real, real hair, you know, it was, What do you mean took the hair out? Like, they got it, what do you mean took it out? So, like, Sheldon came with his own dreads. Real,

real hair. Real dreads. Yeah, yeah. And then, Morris took them out. Cut them out. Like,

picked them out and left hair there and then re-put dreads in. Combed them out. And then at the end of the film, he's taken out them dreads and then put their

original dreads back in. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, the whole dreads thing was like that was one of the first conversations i had with ziggy it was like yo authenticity of of how bob speaks you know has to be at the forefront of this so i can't get involved and he was the same you know and and and also the hair i was like it's not i ain't got nothing to do with it but just make sure that if you need to put and and also the hair i was like it's not i ain't got nothing to do with it but just make sure that if you need to put 10 million into the hair then that's what we need to

do absolutely so you know it was um yeah the hair and the hair and the the bob talk was was tough i'm a little slow kingsley how the hell do you put the hair back in i'm taking it out i ain't got a clue it's all it's actually youtube tutorials on how to put some we are not going to say we don't roll back like regular hair because they had they would have to cut it out you have to cut it out and then no back it no no no no so locks you you'd comb them out yeah like you can yeah you comb them out and then you people make the locks that I had last week last week the girl made them without a real hair these are fauxs so these from amazon like 99s okay but you know i didn't know i didn't know that i didn't know it was a thing i met them once their

new hair had been put in so i only knew them with that hair i only realized when i see them after that they had different dreads but yeah it was a whole um i don't know how we found him morris because he's he's like you know he's a one of a kind that was in the industry. He came and then he ended up just taking care of a lot of stuff. He was on set with us every day. I know he's working with Lashana now on all of our work. Well, salute to Morris. The British accent isn't that much different from the Jamaican accent, though, now that I'm hearing you talk right now.

Yeah. Is it because he spent so much time in London? I don't know. I disagree. time i don't know i disagree i feel like i feel like you know the the wind like the black the black community in in in london anyway was you know it's a huge caribbean culture and i feel like a lot of jamaican dialect has seeped into london culture so you know the way we grew up talking was half cockney half jamaican that's kind of what the slang is in the UK. But the patois really for me is a different language.

You know, we could be in here with two guys from Jamaica who have like from somewhere, I don't know. And they could talk for five, ten minutes and we wouldn't have a clue what they're saying. And I found myself in that situation a bunch of times. And I was like, well, this is a whole thing. this is not something where i can just like take nine months and learn jamaican it just was never going to be one of those ones so we had a whole operation in place made by frederick cassidy and so it really it really did you know like there's parts like i had i took months to kind of translate everything bob was saying so they put money and time into this film yeah i was misinterpreting things Bob was saying.

Do you know what I mean? Misinterpreting what? I was misinterpreting things he was saying. I wasn't just not understanding. There was things that I thought I understood, and then actually I get a Jamaican to come around to my house and help me translate, and he's going, no, no, no, he's saying something else.

Give us an example. In our farm where Bob would say this thing when he's saying our farm where, in our farm where, you know. And he's saying, in a form where. So it was just a connecting sentence. But little things like that in the middle of conversations throw you, you know. And like. In a form where.

I mean, in a form where, you know. Yeah. It's just like, it's just an expression that he. And Bob talked the way that Bob talked. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's. I still don't know what that means.

And you said it three times. In a form where. So would it be like from a standpoint of. Exactly. Right. Exactly. And I was like, without Jamaicans, there's no way that I was going to be able to. Understand.

Translate something. I mean, and the list goes on. I mean, I had hundreds of pages of Bob talk where I'm like, I don't know what. I don't know what he's saying. Would you say that was the most complicated part of the role? Yeah, for sure. Obviously, the music, I'm starting from scratch. But with the music, I was always like,

I just get as far as I can get to. And then you can do things with the camera and there's going to be a lot of support there. But I guess with the patois, there was a moment where I thought, oh, let me see how far I can get with this and then a few months in i was i was emailing tough gonga and we need a lot of help like i'm not going to be able to just come in and willy nilly patois it's not it's not it's not one of them things there and

i'm like just because i've grown up with jamaicans it don't mean anything really like the language you could spend 10 years trying to prep bob and still have a way to go and Bob's coming from he's born in the country grew up in trench town and then traveled so there's the patois but then there's how Bob talked and how Bob talked no one talked like him so yeah it was a journey but there wasn't a day on set where I wasn't surrounded by people who knew so I felt I felt good like we were never going to move on unless it was right so and that was the one thing I felt like I can fully take care of I can't take care of looking exactly like Bob Bob's five seven I'm six two you know there's so many physical differences between us and he's a genius he's a musical genius but his voice and

how he spoke and the authenticity of that as like the whole Cultures in the way that Bob talks and that the way that he speaks has to be reflected There's no there can be no dumbing down of it like there's no whitewashing it you know and then let's let's let's do it how Bob talks and then afterwards when you slot in post-production you can figure Out how much people understand and how much they don't what made you audition for this at first I thought at first I was I thought it must have been a mistake of some sort, you know Just one of them auditions. I'm now I'm mixed So I guess everyone mixed is auditioning for this and I was silly and so I must have passed on it Just thinking it was like a general, you know

Hundreds of us doing it and then it just started coming back that the Marley family were involved, which I didn't know. And then I heard that Ray had done King Richard and I saw an early cut of it. And I was like, oh, if the family are involved then there's nothing to lose, you know. Let me throw something out there and then at least we can have a conversation

if they want, but nothing to lose. And then I auditioned and Ziggy wanted to meet me. So really it was, it was really spending time with the family and understanding that they wanted to do a kind of tribute to their dad, you know. It was really spending time with the family and understanding that they wanted to do a kind of tribute to their dad you know it was a kind of love letter to their dad and they wanted to share with the fans a side to bob that people don't necessarily know which is that he was a human being you know which was that he was a guy who went through a lot and man

struggled and so yeah i think they talk about his revolution a lot but you don't get to see what fueled him being a revolutionary yeah yeah no and that at this time with a film set like he was just going for a lot you know he had the weight of the world on his shoulders and i think yeah it was really the family like the family's involvement and an understanding that authenticity was really most important for them and for the studio and for me. So, you know, I was just being in service to them. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.

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My grandfather laid on the ropes and let George Foreman basically just punch himself out. Welcome to Rumble, the story of a world in transformation. The 60s and prior to that, you couldn't call a person black. And how we arrived at this peak moment. I don't have to be what you want me to be. We all came from the continent of Africa. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We're with Kingsley Ben-Hadad when we right back. They could. Charlamagne. The kids weren't upset about you playing the father? Like, none of them wanted to play the role?

No. They picked you. No. I think Skip auditioned to play the younger Bob, and it didn't work out. It's the thing about casting, you know. So many stories and people's feelings, you know, get hurt and stuff. But when you're on the inside, you're like, oh, it's not the conspiracy that everyone thinks. All Ziggy and that, they don't want to play their dad.

And they're older. They needed to find someone to play Bob between 33 and 36 years old. That's pretty, you know, it can be tricky. And so,

but no, I don't know. Ziggy and the family, they approved it. And so I was like, all right, cool. If yous lot, if yous lot,

if that's what yous lot want, then, you know, I'm here to help. Did you ever want to quit because you said it was difficult with the hair, difficult with the patois? Did you ever say, you know Because you said it was difficult with the hair, difficult with the patois. Did you ever say, you know what, maybe the same for me?

Yeah, I did. At what point? Very close to filming. But then I was like, if I pull out of this, it's not just me. It's all the money that's gone into pre-production. And it's like, if you want to work again, I wouldn't advise doing that. But I did have a moment a couple of weeks before we started i was just like boy it feels like there's a mountain to climb you know and all of the music and and the stems were coming in and songs were changing and i was like yeah just one day at a

time it's just one day at a time and and really really what happened was we got to set and neville garrick's there who's bob's close, close friend, who was with Bob. The whole time Bob was creating Exodus and touring Exodus, Neville was with him, Neville was in the room with Bob, writing down the songs when Bob was composing them. And Neville was on stage, all of them concerts, and Neville was with me every day on set. So I felt like if Neville didn't like something,

he's gonna tell me straight, and he did a lot of times. So I just always felt if something's not right, we've got the time to like stop and figure it out and really it's only this is just a tribute to bob to try and find a little bit of his spirit and his essence i feel like everyone involved knows that you can't copy bob and you can't be bob he's kind of too big in a way so it was just there was an understanding that this is just an interpretation of his vulnerability and his feeling and some of what he might have been going through at that time. And, you know, just to celebrate him a little bit. Let me tell you something. I'm happy that this movie is coming out on Valentine's Day because it's not just a story about Bob.

It's a love story between Bob and Rita, man. Like, that's what I liked about it. How did you feel about that? Yeah, I didn't really know. I mean, that sort of evolved as we were shooting yeah um lashana and i we were working seven months leading up to filming and i guess that's the thing with films you shoot three and a half four hours and then they cut it down to two so all the things that stay in and don't stay in and how they kind of tweak it and and

kind of make it is you know it's over to them after you after you wrap but it's a it's a love story between them and but more that kind of unconditional love is, you know, it's over to them after you rap. But it's a love story between them, but more that kind of unconditional love when you've known someone for that long and you've shared all that experience and the love that is expressed when you're not talking, you know, when there's no words. But yeah, it is that. Well, you went to Bob Marley growing up as a kid. Did you know all the music and know everything about him?

Or was a lot of this you learned as filming? I feel like I learned everything about Bob for the first time. Really felt i felt like i knew him just because i've always known him on the music i don't even know when i i don't even know when i really first heard bob because bob's just always been in the house and notting hill carnival was a big thing growing up and i was getting carnival from when i was like three three four years old but once i started checking in i was like well i really don't know anything about this guy other than that i knew he's half white you know like he's mixed that was it yeah like i didn't really understand like he's really from the ghetto like he really grew up in trench

town and yeah there's a lot of sides to bob um so i said i found out everything for the first time through his friends and through his family i spent a lot of time with people who grew up with bob before he was famous which was some of my most interesting conversations you know lego i spent time with him on orange street and in his studio just talking about the old town but watching them remember bob that watching them remember him with such funness and sadness and love you know it's really just trying to get the information i'm trying to get from them is like what was bob like when he was on his own what was bob like when he was like feeling down like what was bob like when he was having a rough day the idea of him as an icon and all of that that's they're the sound bites everyone wants to tell you they want to tell you all the

fun bits that you've seen and you've seen them in the documentary saying it but trying to understand just like his like like his humanity a little bit. So you can lock into the role. Yeah, just so I can connect him as a human being and not like a hero. Yeah. Like, that's a given. Did you do all of the singing and the songs? I sung everything on set. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was never the plan for me to sing in the film. We were always going to use Bob's stems because people want to listen to Bob. They don't want to listen to me. Right. And no one can sing like Bob. You can't sing like Bob because he's singing from such it's so rough but it's so from here it's actually his commitment to what he's saying that creates that energy as well as his tone and all of those things so you can't really copy it as beautifully as all his sons can sing

no one can actually get his match so And he was an ordained messenger. Like, I feel like he was divinely appointed to be a messenger. That's what his name meant, right? Nest of the messenger. Yeah. And Bob felt like he was in service, you know. He was in service to his majesty, you know. So he's singing for his life in a way, you know.

It's about, yeah, it's about spreading the message. And all of his songs, you know, when you clock all, when I started translating the lyrics of all of his songs you know when you clock all when i started translating the lyrics of all of his songs i was like bro god is really in all of this absolutely all of his music jamming like all of them songs he's talking about god you know it's really fascinating but yeah i sung everything because emotionally speaking in the face if you're not singing i don't think i didn't feel like I could pretend but also that Bob woke up every day and wrote songs I felt was like if I was playing a footballer and I never kicked the ball so I just wanted to learn to just understand what the feeling with the instrument is and the feeling of it you know and then in the room we did some acoustic stuff and Ziggy was

supposed to come and dub it and he left my voice so there's a bit of me singing in the film which was never planned. But I had months of singing lessons, so I'm glad they came to me. I was going to ask you what level of expertise was your voice on before this? Not great. Not great, okay. At least you can admit that. Yeah, no, no, no.

Not great at all. Not great at all. You've got to look after your instrument, man. Those singers, they've got to look after their voices, you know. It's like steaming and all of that stuff. These past couple of couple years you played like different characters though you you played up brock obama malcolm x in one night in miami basketball canon a barbie movie basketball yeah how is that mentally to switch like that i don't

find i don't find the switch in i feel like no yeah for me it's just more it's a it's a preparation thing and then five minutes before action i just need to concentrate and make sure I've done my homework and I know what I'm doing. Do you know what I mean? I don't feel, I think as well, just coming up as a working actor, you have to be ready when you need to be ready. So there's not that luxury of I'm doing this role and now I've got six months to prepare on my own. It's like someone's dropped out. You got two weeks to prep one night Miami so you just have to get ready you know it's like you finish secret invasion on the 12th of March you're starting Barbie on Monday so you just did thank you yeah

yeah I enjoyed that I enjoyed I enjoyed playing that playing that role because the reason why I took it, it wasn't because the writing was great at all. It has nothing to do with the writing. They just sent me two little teaser scenes, one with Samuel at the end and one with Ben Mendelsohn. And I was like, raw, this guy really wants everyone to burn. You know, there's no, I feel like he's gone. In his mind, he's gone.

Power hungry. Power hungry, but also just like he's gone in his mind. He's gone. Like power hungry, power hungry, but also just like, he's only going to feel, I don't think he feels anything other than when he sees other people experiencing the pain that he feels subconsciously or not. So like he only feels alive when I see you in as much pain as I feel in myself. And I was like, I don't, I've never been offered that kind of role so I

just have to take it regardless of what show it is or what it's in but it's fun it's fun to play that because you just got a bag of secrets bag of dark secrets yeah all right well don't move we got more with Kingsley Ben-Adir it's the Breakfast Club good morning DJ Envy Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club we're still kicking it With Kingsley Ben-Adir Charlamagne What about the backlash That comes with being A British actor Getting to play

American icons Like President Obama Like Malcolm X Even playing A Jamaican icon Like Bob Marley People do not like that People feel like

Y'all stealing all the roles From American icons Yeah, yeah, yeah I hear it I feel like When you Each casting Situation is different.

So when it comes to opportunity, the first question is, has everyone had an opportunity to audition? Has everyone who should had an opportunity to put their foot in the door where they get to put them best self forward? And where it just depends on the casting is that each situation is different. So some people can't get their first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth choice. All busy, not available. Seventh choice would be amazing. He's not finishing the job till February. When these films go, when they get that green light,

there's a moment where they're trying to make it now. They're not waiting for anyone. So it really becomes about availability. When they came to me with Bob, I was like, have you been on a worldwide search? Yes, we have go on another one really make sure you know when it came out You said that like make sure it's not me. Well, yeah, because you there's you want to make sure you want to make sure Yeah, exactly. You want to make sure I'm the best person

I'm not I'm not because I've been in that situation before I couldn't get an audition for any of those London things like kid Oh hood or top boy or any of that the casting directors at home they would never see me for that role because they see me like the bridgeton guy whereas i'm like no no no that's how i grew up i just went to a drama school that knocked my accent out of me for eight years and i've just had to try and find it back some bulls**t english institution that told us that we couldn't talk the way that we were supposed to talk i think to talk about this as a whole becomes really difficult i can only talk for the specific examples of the castings that i've been in and i'll tell you straight andre holland dropped out of one night in miami and regina had two weeks to cast it and then there was three of us and then the guy who i was up against he didn't have the experience to hold

the film in the way that I did because of his age. He would have been a 27-year-old Malcolm and it didn't make sense. They did not want to put me in that role. It was just because the film is about to go, they need to get it going, you know? And really, I can talk for Bob and I can talk for that. And that's it.

I just got to make sure that when I'm going in for something, that my thing is who who have you seen why are you coming to me you know and i think the family came to me because our first conversation was about the emotional vulnerability of bob that's it that's it no mimicry no impersonation no trying to like be him or copy him this is a this is a this is a love letter to your father so i'm gonna try and tap into his feeling a little bit and that's it just a little bit of his essence and i'm done it's okay to say you good it's okay to say i'm better than everybody else it's okay to say i get these roles because

i'm a great i don't think that's true i don't think that's true okay i like i don't think that's true i just don't i don't i don't well at least I don't see it like that. Because you're only as good as the work you put in on the day. You're two seconds away from being really, really bad if you switch off. And that's the way that I go at everything is starting again. You know, it's not like I went into Barbie with the same energy I went into Bob because it's about the work and it's about the craft. That's just me. Maybe I need to chill out a little bit.

No, you seem to be a critic of yourself. You seem to be even hard on yourself about things. Do you ever give yourself bad reviews? Yeah. No, I'm learning to be much kinder. Okay. Because you can just get tiring for yourself. Yeah.

I know I feel like it's the work and it's the experience. For me, it's about the experience of the shoot. The experience of making Bob was two years getting to know him with his friends and family. Before filming. Yeah. And even up until now, just spending time with the people who love him and knew him. Well, you did the work. Yeah. So like, what a joy, you know, like regardless of the film and whatever happens with it.

For me, that's two years of my life that's my life with them you know and i'll cherish that two years for me as well with work it's as much about the experience as well it's like when i see that secret invasion thing i was like yo this is 10 days with samuel jackson on set i'm taking the job just for that because i just want to be around him for 10 days you know and it was ended up being three four months and then i get to learn from him what did he teach you what was the lesson that he taught you pro and like great cursor too fantastic loves cursing and funny and funny but when he's on the floor when we started doing some of those scenes when he gets excited and wants to turn it on it becomes really exciting because you're like sam can do it you know he's one of the greats I don't know I don't know how to summarize or word what I got from him

but I was definitely like you know I really really enjoyed being around him and Ben Mendelsohn as well those two were the reasons why I took the job I was like I'm definitely gonna be able to learn Sam from these guys you know and Sam's very kind like very very kind he's got so much time for like young people around he has a heightened awareness of like I kind he's got so much time for like young people around he has a heightened awareness of like i mean he's been famous for how long man he can't go anywhere but he still makes the time for everyone and he said sam likes to do one take or two takes you know one and done sometimes i need eight or nine and he's there he's there you take as much time as you need i'm right

here and it'd be on his feet every time and i love that because a lot of actors will go back to their trailer they go home and they'll get their stand in to come in and act with you sam did not leave me once very patient yeah so i really appreciated that and uh just funny funny did um did ziggy really remember a lot of stuff because he was young then like like the scene i'm thinking about in particular was the shooting that happened the drive-by he remembered that yeah ziggy's got memories yeah ziggy's got memories and that bit at the airport at the end somehow when his dad come back i didn't understand that ziggy made it to the airport and no one knew how he got there at like nine years old he heard his dad was coming

and he found himself like running in the crowd running in the crowd and no one knows how he got there he can't remember how he got there but he was there so i was about getting that moment in but no that really happened like bob bob saw him in the yeah yeah yeah i believe so that's why a lot of my conversations with neville and with tyrone and with lego like the guys who are bob's age who remembering him like i I would remember my pal, you know, they were really, the stories about Bob's personality,

and his feeling around the time, you know, all my information came through them, as it related to that, you read all the books, and then it's like, there's nothing you can find in these books, really,

apart from timelines, you know, but Lego, and Lenny Dredd, there's a guy called lenny dread who came over from saint kitts when he was like 16 17 and he camped outside bob's mom's house in miami because he had a vision that he wanted to work for bob one day so he just went and stayed outside the house for weeks and bob was on tour and then bob came back one day and he told bob that he had a

dream that he wanted to work for a man still works in the house today. Wow. And I spent three hours with him in Bob's mom's house and he took me into, you know, Bob's room at the time. It's where they would have had all family birthdays and everything like that. And I had a four-hour conversation with him where he was telling me, like, what Bob was like and his energy and I'd be wanting and then, those were the things that I think I absorbed in some way,

you know, from those guys. Yeah, Lenny Dredd and Desi and Lego was great. What about when Bob was dealing with, you know, the cancer that ultimately took his life in the movie? It's played in like a really nonchalant way. Yo, you is telling the movie. It's a real biopic. People don't know the story of death, though.

What are you talking about? Bob Ali's the icon. But some people don't know the story of death. No, you don't know the story of death the icon. Everybody know him around the world. No, you don't know the story. And if I don't know the story, I don't. I don't know much. It's Bob Marley.

Come on. Yeah, I don't think that. I don't give too much away because everybody knows that. But no, the movie is really good, man. I think you did a great job as Bob. I don't have anything to reference it to. You know what I mean?

Because I didn't grow up in the era of Bob Marley. Yeah, no, no. I feel like there's an essence you captured for sure thank you bro I appreciate it absolutely I appreciate it everybody go out and check it out it comes out this Valentine's Day a perfect Valentine's Day thing it is it's a love story man between Rita and Bob it really it really is Kingsley we appreciate you for joining us I'm so nice to be here man I'm a big fan this show. I've been watching you a lot on YouTube all the time, so I'm happy to be here. Thank you, bro. Thank you, guys. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Nice. All right, well, let's get to Just The Mess. Mike Epps and Shannon Sharp. All right, so during a recent interview, well, no, during a recent stand-up, Mike Epps told some jokes about Shannon Sharp, claiming that he asked Mike to be on Club Shea Shea. Play number one.

That sh** Shannon Sharp called me trying to do an interview. I said, no, my dear, I ain't doing no interview. So you can sit across from me and look at my **** and sit down. I thought he was going to attack Kat. That **** there. So, yeah. Shannon Sharp reacted to the footage of the stand up on an episode of Nightcap.

Say my name again and I'm going to release the DMs because you're lying. You said I reached out to you to come on club Shay Shay and you a mofo lot now when I see you Yeah, I'll see you Now Mike I've shared a video in response to Shannon shops reaction Now I know

Shay Shay, I don't know what growing it, got a Dave, Dave, Shay Shay, but I know this grown man is not mad at me. So many people talk crazy about you. They was on Saturday Night Live talking about you, imitating you. But this just plays to, like, the fact, remember you just told me last week, yo, you know, comedians lie. That's what, you know, they lie.

Yeah, they exaggerate. Yeah, they exaggerate. Yeah, yeah. But don't just lie on people. That's what, you know, they lie. They exaggerate. Yeah, they exaggerate. Yeah, yeah. But don't just lie on people. Because remember, I told you I had a problem with a comedian lying on me. You know what I'm saying? On a show. You know what I'm saying?

I just... What did Mike lie about, Donnie? What was the lie? That he asked him to be on the show. Like, he said that Shannon Sharpe had asked him to be on the show. Okay. But if we've been following this, you know what I'm saying? We've been...

I mean, when Cat Williams sat down with Shannon Sharp, Mike Epps, he wanted attention from that. You know what I mean? Number four, this is what he said first. I did get a little jealous, man. Cat broke the internet and didn't say my name. Good or bad. I need to press two.

Say something about me in there, man. Say something bad about me. I don't care. I got a special coming out. I need to press. You know? And even though, you know, he say everything like he joking, he was dead ass serious.

He did. He wanted some attention on it. And then other things that he just been saying. So, of course, he takes to the stage because Mike Mike puts everything on the stage, as a comedian should. But he just lied. People just got a problem with you lying on their name. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed?

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care less about all the gay things he said so that's been a rumor for the longest time whatever yo he called he called that nigga madea you know what i mean he said yo i ain't gonna sit up on that couch he said I just don't understand What are all these Grown ass people doing Like I don't need A Shea Shea versus Day Day versus

Like and you know If you're in And that's the energy Shannon gonna have to expect When you having Those kind of conversations Yeah When you having

Those kind of Conversations And it's stirring up This kind of controversy And you giving your input A little bit In some of these conversations Oh yeah People gonna start Coming at you Yeah people gonna clap back That in some of these conversations, people are going to start coming at you.

People are going to clap back. That's just the game. I understand that. And they didn't hear what you said, but keep it moving. Yeah, okay. Well, that's good. I mean, but last night,

late last night, Shannon Sharp, he did take to X, which is what formerly known as Twitter, and he said that they actually had a conversation and that they're going to have a deeper conversation because they're expected to see each other at All Star Week or whatever.

Yep, yep, yep. So that's coming up soon. What Mike Epps is probably still pissed about is Shannon Sharpe didn't say alright, just come on my show and let's talk about it. Damn. He did all that still and get on the show. But they're going to have a conversation about it. And I'm glad they spoke because it was going

a little too far. It was. It was no more. Mike Epps said, I don't fight no more. If you know what I mean, I don't fight no more. It was going to go there.

It's too much. Yeah, it was too much. And All-Star's in Indianapolis. It's in Indianapolis. And that's what Mike said. Yes. Mike done built a whole block there.

King of that place. First of all, but why everybody acting like they 19? We grown, man. and that's why i shout out the uh ocho single man he he definitely ocho was on there like trying to calm it down he was like little scrappy dude like yeah yeah i don't know where you're going with this but i'm with you like he was he was being he's trying to make it funny he was trying to make it funny

and trying to calm shannon down but shannon was dead ass serious he was not with none of that you know what i mean listen man Our bones hurt when it rains. When you get to a certain age. Okay? They don't need to be having any issues whatsoever. Especially the big ones. Them big men. That's what I'm telling you.

And I think a lot of this has to do with social media. It's like being in high school. It's like you and a person might be having a conversation. Somebody go, oh! Oh, you're going to let them talk to you like that? And that's the comments. They the commentators. Exactly.

Exactly. And not for nothing, Unc is pretty big. I ain't fighting Unc even. He is. No, I'm not. I don't care how old you are. I'm not. But like Mike said, ain't no way. The conversation shouldn't even have got there. It shouldn't have.

But you gotta understand, when you're in a limelight like that, you have a podcast as big as that. People gonna talk about you. But people still shouldn't lie. That's my thing too. Tyrese blames breakup with Zelly on songs about his ex Tyrese is promoting his album Beautiful Pain which he was up here a couple months ago promoting and um what I found interesting was on a Super Bowl night he had posted this uh this trailer that he has um and I think like he made it himself but he had posted it and um that was the first mistake by the way my lawyers my managers everybody's pissed i just released

my double album today but it's only available for 10 hours 50 cent cab williams kanye forgive me i use you for clickbait watch the trailer i actually got married to do it for the rest of my life. One day I woke up. Okay, so that's just a little snippet of the trailer. But he posted it and then he deleted it. I would have deleted it too. Yeah, but I think what it was is what he said. My team, everybody's mad at me for posting it.

And I don't even think he had to apologize. Or he realized it's Super Bowl Sunday and nobody cares yeah nobody cared you know what i mean but like even his team his team gotta care about him so they just was probably like yo take that down nobody like no come on but um it did still reach blogs the next day he reposted it or whatever or you know probably sent it to bugs either way but it's out there now apparently his girlfriend left him because she's sick of him always talking about uh his ex samantha you know um but it may be a publicity stunt i mean maybe did y'all post come on jess it may be did y'all support your brother no no he's my brother but i i'm sorry i can't keep posting everything somebody asked me to post i mean i won't be just hilarious

he's a cousin it'll be what he's a cousin he ain't cousin yeah he's a cousin yeah he's a cousin yeah he's a cousin he was a brother one time he was my second cousin he's a cousin he's not even the first cousin now he's second cousin so he might be my boyfriend cousin you're right yeah he's a primo so yeah that's that's cool but yeah i yeah it may be a publicity style i don't think the girl is going anywhere um but this is all to download Beautiful Pain, which is a great album, y'all, so y'all need to download it.

Tyrese, you need to call me and let me put together your publicity stunts. I could put together way better marketing than that. Okay, number one, there was no reason for you to put that out on Super Bowl Sunday.

Nope. You got the Super Bowl. You got Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Usher, Beyonce drop music and a fire commercial, Taylor Swift,

then Tyrese. One of those things does not belong. Damn. That's all I'm saying. And then he apologized drop music and a fire commercial taylor swift then tyrese one of those things is not below and then he apologized the 50 cent kanye was why he apologized well it was because in the beginning of the trailer the video to grab people's attention yeah he uh put up his middle finger like you know f y'all you know i mean like just for clickbait like oh so he apologized but i don't think they saw it or was worried about it anyway. So it's okay. Is Beautiful Pain out? I believe so.

Well, congratulations to Tyrese on finally pushing out his Beautiful Pain album. Tyrese.tv, go there now. Let me see if I'm reading this verbatim. Hold on. This is a DM he sent me. I never asked. Please post this on your IG and on your IG story. Why are you reading it? Congratulations to Tyrese on finally pushing out his Beautiful Pain album.

Tyrese.tv, go there now. He wrote that for you? Yeah. He sent you that? Don't ask like he didn't send it to you too, Jess. Oh my God, stop. That's just what I'm going to show off. Bye.

Did y'all post it? No. Are we shouting him out? Your magazine sent it to you? He definitely sent it to me. He don't like you no more. He don't like me no more. He didn't send it to me.

I wouldn't have sent it to you neither. I didn't get that one. You should play his record. Did did he send a record he took me out the group chat no let's do that he said he don't like him he said i don't like um people that act like they like me for the cameras but they really don't like me behind closed doors so he said i don't know like i don't deal with envy no more i don't blame him. He's Latino. Tito. Yeah, that's why y'all should be cool again. Shut up, man. All right. You think Lamega

is going to play his music? You think the Spanish station is going to play anything off Beautiful Play? Well, Telemundo might play his trailer. Oh, I like that.

I like that. Why you call him Tito? Tyrese, send us a record so we can play it, man. You stupid. Tito, send us a record so we can play it. Tito Gibson, that us a record Tito Gibson that's what he called it That is just with the mess

Now when we come back Charlamagne who you giving your donkey to Man 4 after the hour we need Nina Denson To come to the front of the congregation She is a principal at Washington Elementary School In California And humans going human we'll talk Alright we'll get to that next it's the Breakfast Club Good morning. Wake up. Wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club.

I was donkey up the day. Made it. Bam, the hee-haw again. It's time for donkey up the day. I ain't trying to be donkey today no more. They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm not making these people do these things. I called donkey up the day, and it really caught me off guard.

Damn, Solomon. Who got the donkey of the day and it really caught me off guard damn solomon who got the donkey of the day today well donkey of the day for tuesday february 13th jess hilarious is born day goes to a principal at washington elementary school named nina denson now nina has been put on a leave of absence and rightfully so because humans just be human and man uh there is no doubt in my mind god looks at us sometimes as defective product because i just be human and man uh there's no doubt in my mind god looks at us sometimes as defective product because i just don't understand why folks be doing what they doing now nina is the principal the principal not a teacher not a guidance counselor the principal of the whole damn school the person with the highest authority in the whole damn school

and she was pretending to shoot kids and announcing they were dead during an active shooter lockdown drill i can't make this kind of stuff up let's go to ktla5 for the report please children and parents upset by what the school principal did during a lockdown drill she proceeded to walk around the campus and pretend to shoot people she saw using finger movements and banging on the window um from what I heard, one of the students was told, boom, you're dead. Children as young as four years old witnessed the ordeal, including Jennifer Chavez's first grade son. The one shocking, surprising thing he said as a six-year-old was, I'm just really glad none of my friends died. Now the principal at the school, Dr. Nina Denson,

has been put on leave. The superintendent confirmed to KTLA that the drill did happen yesterday. And then staff members say the principal made an announcement that seven children were dead. Oh my God. Can you imagine the trauma these children potentially could go through of just thinking, oh my God, my friend was killed or I was shot and told I died. It was very upsetting my god in an era when america is averaging like two mass shootings a day dr nina denson thought this was a good idea uh i just you know try to hear things from both sides at certain points in my life uh and it's la so maybe nina denson is a method actor maybe she needs to get all the way

in character even though it's just a lockdown drill. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe she had her own personal Tubi movie going on in her head. So, you know, in a lot of Tubi movies, they can't afford prop guns. So she was using her fingers like Beyonce does when she's in her country zone. Like people, you know, I just don't understand how brains work anymore. OK, you're the principal of a school, Nina. If you had teachers in your school doing the lesson plans in this way you would fire them all I repeat if you had teachers in your school doing lesson plans in this way you would fire them all imagine a chemistry teacher playing old Jeezy records to teach kids how to mix chemicals

okay kids when you are manually mixing flakes with the soda what do you get when Jeezy consumes uh drinks and smokes what concentrated chemical does he mix with his arm and hammer that just wouldn't work that wouldn't work it wouldn't work no that's like me a teacher showing Sukiyama OnlyFans page to teach some sex aid oh yeah I like that I like what it's like referencing Kanye West okay to write up lesson plans around the Holocaust. Oh, my God. That's like you and Shannon show up teaching a speech class. Excuse me? What's your list?

Oh, that was a good one. That was a good one. I like that one. I know the S's be... That was a good one. I like that one. Excuse me? Sorry, guys.

What else you got, Jeff? That's like Webby. That's like Webby teaching kids how to be a healthcare professional. Oh, now, that's a good one. Because remember when Webby was on Breakfast Club back in the day and then we asked how he felt about health care in America? I don't really think nobody care, man. They say that's how the Obamacare works.

Yes, because I asked him, what do you think about Obamacare? And he said, I don't think nobody care. They say that's how the Obama care works. Honestly, a fantastic answer. Because none of these elected officials truly care. The moral of the story is you can save yourself a lot of embarrassment by simply thinking before you act. Is this too hard a concept for humans to grasp in 2024? Think before you act.

Think twice before you speak. And if that's too difficult then maybe just maybe the human experiment is a wrap and it's time to let ai take over at this rate they smarted in us anyway so we really don't have a choice please give nina denson the sweet of the day you are the donkey of the day yee haw I think me and Shannon Sharp

would make a great teachers for speech classes because both of us get paid to talk say it again you think y'all make a good teachers for speech class. Hold on. Students would really love

our speech class. Okay. We get paid to talk. Yeah, I understand. Not to spit on everybody. There'd be some stinky kids leaving that class. Stinky kids, you stupid.

Oh, man. What? I have a question. Oh, my God. When y'all did fire drills and drills at the school, nobody ever took it serious, right? Y'all just ran out the class. Nobody ever cared. We was playing.

We was playing everything, right? Yeah. So now the principal makes it like, I don't want to say like a game, but like a game. So the kids really makes it like, I don't want to say like a game, but like a game so the kids really take it serious. So they understand that if there's an active shooter, what to do. I'll tell you the problem with that. The problem with that is that. Because nobody takes a fire drill series.

Everybody, ah, yeah, just what I, just what I. But now if you actually make it seem like there is an active shooter, now the kids know what to look for, what to see. Well, here's the problem with that. Especially with it going on so much. You're playing, right? You're playing and you're not bringing the kids know what to look for what to see well here's the problem with that especially with it going on so much you're playing right you're playing and you're not bringing the kids in on the joke so your joke makes the trauma real because you're joking but to these kids it's real trauma because these kids really think there's an active shooter these kids really think their friends died you can't just remove that trauma from the kids once they find out it's not it was fake with a pointy finger gun it don't matter you told these kids that they were their friends were dead so let me ask so

somebody told you that somebody you love was dead right now and let you hold on to that for 15 20 minutes that trauma that you would experience in that 15 20 minutes wouldn't be real and you think it's just going to automatically go away and disappear after they tell you it's fake you'll be you'll be relieved but you'll still feel that trauma hey drill guys this is a drill yeah this is a drill we know drama is real the drill it no he didn't they didn't hold on what are you saying now didn't they say it was a drill i get what drill means fake yes but i don't think these kids were in on it because he told the kids that their friends were dead and they believed it from the pointy finger gun pow you're dead pow you're dead and then a little boy did say i'm just glad that none of my friends died. Yeah, because they were really dead.

Yeah, but so to his point, he was saying that the fire alarm, like, they didn't really die. Like, they're not really on. They know they're not really on fire. If this would have been a real situation, seven kids would have died. That's why you got to take it serious. Maybe I'm confused. I thought the kids weren't in on it. I thought the kids weren't in on it. Maybe I'm kids weren't in on it maybe i'm confused here that's why it had to be

did they when when the teacher said pow did they like uh like did they you know do a faint i get what you're saying i'm just saying that nobody takes these drills serious. Anyway, yeah. The only way to make people take them serious is to not tell them that it's a drill. Okay. So when you hit a fire drill when you were in school, nobody ever takes it serious. Ah, fire drill, all right. Hey, what I'm just playing.

Yeah, nobody takes it serious. They don't take it serious because they're being told it's a drill. Because they usually know it's a fire drill. They're like, 1125 today, fire drill. That's what I'm saying. If you don't tell people it's a fire drill or you don't tell them it Because they're being told Because they usually know It's a fire drill Like 1125 today Fire drill That's what I'm saying If you don't tell people It's a fire drill

Or you don't tell them It's an active shooter drill That's the only way To make them take it serious Yeah Because that would That would actually be fun If it's a drill

And you know that The principal The only drill that's fun Is the tip drill bro Oh my god What would you want to see Do the tip drill Who's here

Your lips dry as out i know man as much as i spit that's what i'm saying i don't know laser true people with lisps got are they allowed to have dry lips not at all not as much all right well that is the donkey of the day now when we come back today is jess's birthday it's snowing in new york new jersey and we're asking who does jess want to be uh no that Jersey and we're asking who does Jess want to be no that's not the question who does Jess want to be that's not the question no that's not the question

the question I was talking about earlier I was saying do women pretend to you know like do women go over guys houses and pretend to be stuck there because they know it's about to be snow like you know we always hear these conversations about girls getting flued out but when they know it's about to be snow. Like, you know, we always hear these conversations about girls getting flewed out,

but when you know it's about to be a snowstorm, right, and you might end up stuck somewhere, do you go to a guy's house to get snowed in on purpose? So is this a thing? Is this a thing? Do you make sure that, oh, it's going to snow today, it's going to be a nasty rainstorm, it's going to be a twist, it's going to be a hurricane,

whatever it may be. I want to go get snowed in on purpose. Exactly. Is that a thing? Snowed in on purpose by accident. Yeah, that's a thing. 585-1051. Have you done that before, Jess? Yes, I've definitely got snowed

in. I've gone to somebody's house when I know that it's supposed to be like six to eight inches the next day. What about that night, though? You know what I'm saying? You heard that? You heard that? They got excited. Yeah, like I'm a little eight inches, you know. Let's open up the phone lines.

800-585-1051. Let's discuss. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Enfantrett 585-1051. Ladies, is this a thing where you know it's going to be a storm, whether it's rain, a hurricane, tornado, whatever it may be, to make sure that you are stuck at your man's house? Because I thought about it, right? Because, you know, they always talk about girls getting flued out. But I'm like, damn, do girls ever want to get snowed in? Like when you know it's a snowstorm, you go over to the guy's house

because you know you're going to get stuck? Is that a thing, Jess? Yes, it is a thing. But you know what? I got a thing because I remember this one year I get snowed in like when you know it's a snowstorm absolutely you go over the guy's house because you know you're gonna get stuck is that a thing jess yes it is a thing but you know what i gotta think because i remember this one year i got snowed in over somebody's house then it started being annoying and i really saw who they really were and i was like you know what i want to go home but then it was like six inches outside and i was like dang how many inches was in the house though that's that's neither here there i'm just wondering was it worth being there it was but then but then it's like after that that, it's like, ah, I don't want to leave now. Because, like, now we're not doing nothing. It sounds like you want his number.

No, I'm just saying. You just got to know. You got to know. You just got to know. Why do you got to know? You just got to know. Is it worth it? You know what I mean?

It's annoying, but is it good? Is that so? Yeah, but that was the only thing that was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then, you know,, but is it good? Is that so? Yeah, but that was the only thing that was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then, you know, other times it was good. But, like, that one time I was like, oh, my God. I wish the snow melt.

Hello, who's this? Kiana. Hey, Kiana. Turn your radio down, mama. It's now. I just wanted to say, Jess, happy birthday, as we are birthday plans. And yes, I have started with someone unintentionally. Oh, so it was unintentional. Two days.

Yes. How many days? Two days. Two days. Because I'm from up north, Chicago, so we get lake effect. Oh, wow. And it ended up being like almost a flood of snow. How was it, though?

So you didn't know the weather forecast? Didn't pay attention to it. Got off work and just went and did something. Don't believe this. She's a woman that is committed to her life. You knew what you were doing.

No, it is the truth. Because with less space to know like where I'm from, I'm from Michigan City. It can come like, well, it'll be on the news like one or two inches

and then it turns into a whole downpour and everything just go left from there. So why you didn't want to be snowed in with him? It was supposed to be a 50-week. Do what you do and go home. I feel you.

That's it. I feel you. I understand. All right. Thank you, Kiana. Hello. Who's this? Kiara.

Hey, Kiara. Good morning. Good morning. Now, we're talking about being snowed in at somebody's house. That happen to you? Yes. Talk to us. I went there on purpose. I went there on purpose.

You went there on purpose. Okay. And was it worth it? How long were you snowed in? Like two days. Damn. How many inches was outside? We had a snowstorm.

It was like 16 inches. 16? Dang. Where you from? Detroit. How many inches was in the house? Well, nine. Dang.

She had a field day for 48 hours. I know a little I don't know. Dang it. Oh, shit. I failed it for 48 hours. I know I'm a little wall. It was coming down. Damn it. Sorry for you, Mike. Happy birthday, Jess. Thank you, baby. All right.

800. Women are slick, boy. Why? The fact that they acting like they didn't know the forecast. Like, they don't have TV. Like, they don't have radio. Like, they don't have internet. Y'all knew those snowstorms was coming.

Y'all knew exactly what y'all was doing. Yeah. And y'all still committed to y'all lives yeah all these months of years later boy women something else she said she went there on purpose yo my thing is is your country falling apart feeling tired depressed a little bit revolutionary consider this start your own country i planted the flag i just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel.

I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I create my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory.

I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh, my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullet holes, yeah. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go.

Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, y'all? This is Questlove,

and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right.

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I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was called a moment. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. or wherever you get your podcasts. Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic

happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire? Join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist who studies human behavior. On my podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, I marry science and storytelling to better understand how to navigate the big changes in our lives. It was like a slow nightmare, you know, because every day you think, oh, surely tomorrow I'll be better. And I would dream of being better.

At night I would dream that my face was quote unquote normal or back to the way it was. And I'd wake up and there'd be no change. I also speak with scientists about how we can be more resilient in the face of change. You can think of the adolescent brain as like the social R&D engine of our culture, that they're something that looks like risky and idiotic to us. It's maybe their way of creatively trying to solve the problem of having social success and fewer of the things that bring you social failure. Listen to A Slight Change of Plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba.

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The 60s and prior to that, you couldn't call a person black. And how we arrived at this peak moment. I don't have to be what you want me to be. We all came from the continent of Africa. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. He could be like, are you staying? After she got that nine inches, because what if you wanted to spread that nine throughout a couple people? Damn. Oh my god. 800-585-1051. We're talking about, there's a snowstorm in the New York, New Jersey area, and we're talking

about being snowed in, New York, New Jersey area, and we're talking about being snowed in or tornado, hurricanes. Ladies, have you ever made it your business to go to your man's house so you'd be stuck? That's the question. Let's talk about it. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Call, call, call, call. Tell her, tell her.

Made it. Just for some conversation. If y'all talking about it, you know we talking about it. It's topicic Time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. All right, we got somebody on the line. His name is Chris, and he said he wants to be snowed in with you. No, there's only one Chris that can be snowed in with Jess.

Hello, who's this? Hello? Well, hello? Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, Jessica. It's your man. I wanted to call and say happy birthday.

Thank you. I know it's a special day for you. I can't wait to see you. I'm so proud of you. I love that you're standing divine all the time. Oh, it's Chris. It's Chris. And you're such an amazing woman.

I can't wait to see you later. And then I'm so excited for our little bundle of joy as well, baby. Little bundle of what? Little what? little bundle of joy as well, baby. Little bundle of what? Little what? Little bundle of joy. You're pregnant? We don't got to act clueless now. Yay!

Jess Hilarious is pregnant! Yes, he pregnant! Chris, congratulations, my brother. I definitely appreciate it. Congratulations, my brother. Jess Hilarious is pregnant. That's right. Yes.

Yes, I am. How many months? I am pregnant. That's right. Yes. Yes, I am. How many months? Can we ask? Yes, I am three months. So I'm 13 weeks, y'all. 13 weeks? Wow. Thank you, baby.

I love you. I love you too, baby. Chris, Chris, you know what would be an amazing Valentine's Day gift? What? Let me know. An engagement ring. What's wrong with you? Shut up.

An engagement ring would be an amazing Valentine's gift Chris You don't know what That man's doing Don't worry Okay Say less Stop playing with my Latino Be safe out there Chris

Congratulations again brother Yes sir Appreciate you I love you baby Love you too I see you tonight baby Love you too baby Alright man

Bye You really got snowed in Huh Jess? Period Wow No ain't no period Ain't no period Ain't no period

For the next six months Ain't no period She more like got plowed In Jesus Christ Congratulations Jess Thank you That's why you been in here All tired

Y'all can get off YouTube Okay Leaving comments About Jess in there high Jess in there drunk Jess in there tired Nope No Jess just pregnant She is pregnant Okay You drunk. Jess in there tired. No. Jess is just pregnant.

She is pregnant. Jess was zooted her first week. I'm like, no, I did not get high and come in here zooted on my first week. No. She was just in here throwing up every damn moment. A couple times. A couple times. I said, oh my gosh. She's pregnant. I told him, I said, don't act like you didn't know that.

You're about to go. You're ready to go toobie. Ready to go full toobie. He act better than you. Don't say, what's up with Jess Lurie? He said, don't act like you didn't know that. You're about to go, ready to go toobie. Yeah, but ready to go full toobie. He act better than you. Don't say, what's up with Justin Larry? He said, huh? Stop it. Now I'm going to forget

that dumb stuff. I swear. What's up with Justin Larry? I don't know. We're trying to figure it out. Like I'm not his little sister. Like what? Jesus.

Now she a stranger. Now she a stranger. Yeah, your acting was horrible. I want to tell you about me. Your acting was horrible. I want to tell you about it. Your acting was bad. Tooby, Tooby, Tooby. It got the job done. It did.

It did. All right. When we come back, we got Jess with the mess. What are we talking about? I'm pregnant. You're saying all right. No, we are. All right.

We're talking about me being pregnant, but we also talking about some other stuff too. Okay. That's it. That's it? Yeah. All right. Well, Jess Hilarious is pregnant. Congratulations, sis.

I'm so happy for you. This is baby number two. Yes. it? Yeah. All right. Well, Jess Hilarious is pregnant. Congratulations, sis. I'm so happy for you. This is baby number two. Yes. This is amazing. All right. Jess with the message up next. The Breakfast Club. Stop the beat.

Don't stop the beat. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess Hilarious, plus one. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. And I'm not the plus one.

If you're just joining us, our good sister Jess Hilarious has announced that she is pregnant! I didn't announce it. My baby daddy announced it. Chris, salute to Chris. So it's not just her born day. She is pregnant. That's right. With a little bundle of joy, as Chris said.

How are you feeling? I feel good. I feel... I feel good. I'm just trying to figure out what to eat and what not to eat right now. But like, are you craving anything? No, I actually don't. No, I'm not. I'm not craving anything. But things that I was like, and I don't like no more.

Like what? Oh, my God. Now, ladies, I don't like candy no more. I don't like oranges. I don't like fruit. But fruit is really good for you. But I don't like it anymore. It makes me nauseous.

Oranges, apples, all of that stuff. I can't. I'm just glad we don't got to pretend you're not pregnant for the next six months. I couldn't do this. I know. Pretending for a couple of weeks for a rollout is totally different. Right, right. I can't do that.

Okay. I know. And your acting skills were trash, by the way. Very much. They worked. They worked. And they said, you pregnant? Yeah, like trying to play stupid.

My acting skills were top level. I just wanted you guys to know that. They were. But let? Yeah, like trying to play stupid. Back to skills were top level. I just want to let you guys know that. They were. They were, yes. But let's get to Jess with the mess. Let's go. This is real. This is real.

Jess the lion. Jess the robin. Jess the lion. Jess the robin. Jess the lion. Jess is going to bring you numbers. Jess with the mess. Jess with the mess.

On the Breakfast Club. I know they know the distance. Keep it a secret. Lars the Pippen and Marcus Jordan break up alright so I mean that's not really a big surprise

to a lot of people as I was reading in the comments Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan have reportedly broken up fans noticed that Larsa removed

all the evidence of their relationship from her Instagram page and then a source confirmed to page 6 that they are not together tension between them is allegedly the reason that

they broke up the source claimed the tension stems from michael jordan publicly denouncing their relationship oh dang y'all single y'all straight up blocked it yeah they also claimed that tension in michael's and scotty's relationship took a toll on marcus and lars's relationship oh so they blaming it on michael and scotty yeah they never had a toll on Marcus and Lars' relationship. Oh, so they blaming it on Michael and Scottie. Yeah, first of all. They didn't have a good relationship. Y'all ain't got the history Michael and Scottie got either, by the way. They already knew that, though, before they got together.

They were already aware of that. Michael and Scottie got rings. Y'all have none. They ain't got none. Not now. You know what I'm saying? Cut it out. She's probably working poor Marcus to death.

Remember she said she had sex seven times a night or something crazy? Tell me more, girl. Tell me more, girl. Tell me more, girl. Tell me more about what's going on in them people's bedroom. Tell me, Roshanna. Yes, the tea is hot. Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

Roshanna. That is so cute, though. The different source, a different source said that their breakup had nothing to do with family issues and that it was just a result of personal growth that was it but look she had uh posted something on her instagram and twitter that said um when you break up with somebody do your friends unfollow them too i thought that was i think i think that was funny i think we can come back to that that's that's i mean because i agree with that yeah y'all unfollow him unfollow him and even your family your mom still want to call somebody's son and it ain't work out all that no no so i agree with that you should unfollow them especially if i broke up with them

callie and keisha cole exchanged words over love sample so callie released a new single called bozo that samples love by keisha cole when keisha cole heard it she shared a tweet about her song being sampled without permission but she never put any names on it, though, because this was around the same time where Kanye was saying that people were denying his request to use samples as well. He just said, I don't think it's OK to samples people music without it being cleared. Stealing people's hard work isn't OK ever. So many people have asked a sample love. I should have cheated having sent and i never said yes yet uh when fans connected that she was referring to cali's song they started to comment on the situation and come

for cali keisha tweeted that her problem was not with cali and that people shouldn't attack cali so she said no it's not about baby girl that's not her fault don't go in on her young black women don't need to be torn down so don't do that for real for real i love the fr fr for real for real but when calie posted a tweet of her own it sparked up a back and forth between her and keisha she said bozo was cleared been cleared like okay little girl chill but keisha came back and said like i said i never cleared it and like i said i don't think it's your fault love you wish you all the best in your career right so then call yo, these young girls,

these so funny and disrespectful at the same time. She said, Keisha, let's not act like a song can be distributed on every single major platform without it being cleared by you or your team. Your side dropped the ball. Thanks for, thanks for the wishes. Same to you,

my love. Hashtag Bozo. Now, this is the original. Classic. Yeah. Always. And then,

um, number one is Kellyie's song that's not hard i actually do like it it's a nice skating song it's a nice song yeah and usually when these when these kids i'm calling them kids because they're young you know but you know obviously they they love and respect the music but usually when they do samples it ends up being trash but this one is actually um that's just my opinion. This one is actually okay. I do like it But like two different energies because Keisha is actually about love and kind of about having a good time Fun yeah, this is fun. And this you know what I'm saying?

So I do think it's a banger hope that they can come to some type of under so did they clear the record or not? Yeah, we had to clear the record. Well, they had to I mean Kelly claimed that it was clear But Keisha said she didn't she didn't do it So I mean, I don't know if she's the only one that owns it or if she don't own it or not. But she said a lot of people have asked and she hasn't cleared any record of hers yet to be sampled. Clearly, she's not the only owner. If the record can be cleared without her. Or maybe she doesn't own it.

Or maybe she doesn't own it. That's another thing. And that's why Keisha was saying it's not her fault. You know what I mean? So, maybe we'll get more updates on this or information on this. But Kanye West made $19 dollars from super bowl ad uh kanye reportedly since spent seven million on a uh on getting a commercial slot during the super bowl um we have audio for that hey y'all this is jay and it's my commercial and since we spent all the money on the commercial spot we actually didn't spend

anybody on the actual commercial but the idea is i want you to go to yeezy.com y-e-e-z-y.com and i'm gonna write it at the bottom of the screen and i got okay so i i didn't see this that's actually brilliant but i yeah that is brilliant very brilliant especially yeah especially for his social platform i mean uh but he played for us he paid for the slot and reports are showing that the investment paid off because congay reportedly made more than 19 million in sales and i think was also interesting that everything on his uh site was 20 and everybody paying attention to usher and Beyonce and Ice Spice and Taylor Swift. And we missed out on the big Yeezy sale. Yeah, I didn't see the ad during the Super Bowl.

I can't front that. That was great marketing from Kanye. Great concept. You know, we spent all the money on the commercials. We don't have money for the production budget. Great concept. But only Kanye could do that, though. Artists have to know who they are

and have to know what their brand is. And Kanye's brand is borderline homeless. So that makes that makes sense less is less less is more and yeah and what he also did too is there were people because he was selling those uh sock themed majiggies like 200 so now he did something where if you bought it for 200 i think he's going to send you your money back i believe yeah yeah yeah yeah and uh the site has the yeezy paws that they had uh yeah the yeezy paws the sock shoes clothes Yeezy pods, the sock shoes, clothes, Vultures merch, all of that for $20. I'm so mad I missed out on that. But you're going to wear them socks?

Huh? Huh? You're going to wear them socks, them sock shoes? Yeah, I will, but I'm going to put a shoe on. It's just stockings. But I'm going to put a shoe on with it, too. But I will wear those. If they was $20, yeah.

It's just the same thing ballerinas wear. It's the stockings with the little slippers at the bottom you got a pair no no no but i've seen them yeah yeah i'm still putting the shoe i'm gonna put an ugg on with them or something but and what kanye should have done a shout out tyree's beautiful pain album how come he ain't do that how come he ain't put tyree's because tyree said fm no happy birthday to you oh my god and Oh my God, and it's my favorite. Boom, boom. What I want to do. When I push it. Happy birthday, dear Jeff. Do the Stevie Wonder version.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. They all on beat because I'm not even with my headphones on. They ain't got no headphones on. I'm sorry, guys. Happy birthday, Jess.

Yes, like I said. They on. They on. They on. What is that cake? What did the cake say on the front? Make a wish. Make a wish. Make a wish.

The cake is on fire. What the hell happened here, man? What the hell happened? What is wrong with you? Y'all better blow that out. The cake is on fire itself. The cake is not supposed to do that. Y'all see, I don't know nothing about these newfangled cakes they got.

They got a cake in here that if you set it on fire, when you set it on fire, it burns one picture. And then when it burns that picture, underneath it is another picture. I love it. I didn't know anything about that. Is that supposed to happen? I don't want no fried cake now. Are you going to make a wish?

Talk into the microphone, Jess. Yeah, sorry. I forgot I was at work. Yeah, so. Yeah, I didn't know what was supposed to happen. I thought she was setting my cake on fire. I'm like, don't ever set my cake on fire. So it burns one picture, and then underneath it is another picture.

Yes, and it's a collage of pictures of my best outfits on here. Okay. Oh, my goodness. Thank y'all so much. Happy birthday, Jess. Happy birthday. And she announced she's pregnant today. That's right.

Oh, and these flowers are for my boyfriend, Chris. Those are for Chris? Let me read the card. Yes, thank you. Can I read the card first? Hey, love me the card. What's wrong with you? People's Choice mixes up next it's the breakfast club good morning you're checking out the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj envy jess hilarious charlamagne the god is black history month what we doing listen man uh salute to my god b dot you know every day during black

history month we put out a uh a podcast called i didn't know maybe you didn't either on the black effect i heart radio podcast network and have you Know, Maybe You Didn't Either on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. And have you ever wondered why they always teach us about the same historical figures during Black History Month? I don't know the answer to that, but I know today B-Dot is going to tell you about a legendary Black History Month figure that I share a born day with, June 29th, the great Stokely Carmichael, a controversial yet charismatic civil rights leader who deserves way more recognition.

BDOT, take it away. I told my 11-year-old daughter, I said, Ryan, you know, for Black History Month, they always teach you about the same black folks. George Washington Carver, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King. They never teach you about folks like Stokely Carmichael. And she said, who is Stokely Carmichael? Stokely Carmichael. And she said, Who is Stokely Carmichael? Stokely Carmichael. He looked like young Dolph mixed with Gerard Carmichael,

the very controversial and charismatic young civil rights leader. He pretty much popularized the phrase black power. He wasn't the first to say it, but he did popularize it. He was born in Trinidad in 1941. His family moved to the Bronx when he was young. And he went to Howard University.

And as a freshman, he was a Freedom Rider. And Freedom Riders pretty much were black and white activists who signed up to take trips down to the South on the weekends to get their asses beat by racist whites with the optimism of equality and opportunity. He graduated from Howard in 1964. And by 1966, at the age of 24, he was the chairman of the SNCC. He replaced John Lewis. And we all know John Lewis. Again, the SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, the SNCC. That organization was formed in the Deep South again to organize African-American voters.

But over time, Stokes got tired of the old-head civil rights activists compromising with President Johnson and other white authorities. By the 27th time he was arrested, he said he was done with the nonviolent approach. He told a group of marchers in Greenwood, Mississippi, This is the 27th time I've been arrested, and I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we're going to stop them white men from whipping us is to take over. We've been saying freedom for six years and ain't got nothing. What we're going to start saying now is black power. That was a phrase that MLK deemed unfortunate and would ask Stokely repeatedly to stop using it.

He wouldn't. In 1966 to 67, he did a tour of colleges, giving militant speeches to black minds. Black leather jacket, Afro, swagged out. He left the SNCC in 1967. He did a brief stint with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense Before setting up shop in 1969 In Guinea West Africa

Joining the All African People's Revolutionary Party When he returned to the states To tour colleges in 1971 Black folks that came to him screamed Kill the pigs Were disappointed as hell He had changed He changed his name to Kwame Ture

And that was to recognize his two primary political mentors. In 1998, Stokely Carmichael, or Kwame Ture, lost his battle to cancer at his home in Africa. So whenever you see or hear the phrase black power, oh, he wasn't the first person to say it. But Stokely Carmichael not only popularized it, but he turned it into a movement. And I didn't know.

Maybe you didn't either. I salute the B-Dot. Salute to my guy B-Dot, man. And make sure you subscribe to the I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Need It podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. Every day during Black History Month, we put out a new episode. So go check that out. All right. When we come back, we got the positive notice.

The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess Hj envy just hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club again happy birthday jess and congrats on the baby if you haven't heard she is pregnant so she's pregnant today is her born day jess is having a day tomorrow is valentine's day i'm sure chris is making his way to new york to get snowed in. To get snowed in, you know. I hope you got a coat. I do. I got, yes, my sister bought me a white fur. Okay.

Yes, the same fur that Usher had on last night when he got married. I wore it two nights ago. Yes. Does Chris have a coat? Chris, I'm sure he does. Okay. Why you want to know? Why?

I'm just making sure. Let him know it's cold up here and it's snowing. He know. You know Mexicans really don't be getting that cold. Whoa. You are stupid. Damn. Leave us on a positive note.

Well, first of all, I want to say, hee-haw! Okay, I think today is a great day to tell you about my black country, okay? My black country is the next book coming out on my book imprint, Black Privilege Publishing. It is written by the great Alice Randall, and it is a journey through country music's black past, present, and future. Since Beyonce is going to have you all walking around here in stirrups and cowboy hats and riding horses and square dancing by March, this is a great time to get up on all the history of black people in country music. So it comes out April 9th, 2024, but you can pre-order now wherever you buy books. Okay, My Black Country by Alice Randall. 2024 but you can pre-order now wherever you buy books okay my black country by alice randall now

the positive note is simply this don't let people who are not going anywhere take you with them i repeat don't let people who are not going anywhere take you with them have a blessed day breakfast club bitches you're finished or y'all done had enough of this country ever dreamt about starting your own i planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not.

No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets.

How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello? And what if your past itself was the secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child. These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop.

Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or.B. King, Miriam Akiba. All the biggest black artists on the planet. Together in Africa. It was a big deal. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha.

And I go by the name QWAR. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show, Civic Cipher. That's right. you get your podcast. in your home, workplace, and social circle. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.