The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: We Chat With Pete Buttigieg, Talk Kanye and Adidas, Chat With April Ryan

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

Today on The Breakfast Club we chat with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Later during Rumor Report we discuss the latest with Kanye West and Adidas...And lastly, we talk to White House Correspondent April Ryan about her latest bookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.

Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going.

That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q-War.

And we'd like you to join us each week for our show, Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to

police violence and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace and social circle. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other so join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all. Niminy here.

I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me.

Did you know, did you know? 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. Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's up, MV?

What up, Trav? She's late. She's not here yet. What's up, Charlamagne? Peace, sis. How you? I'm doing good. You know what I mean?

You know, Cowboys won again, baby. We out here. We out here. We out here. Trav, what you doing? You know the Giants are 6-1. I just want to let you know that. I don't know if you know that.

And you know who gave you that one loss, baby. That's right. Who gave you that one loss. That's right. Envy, don't you talk to me about anything, Envy. Why? You know, oh, because I'm still out here, you know, waiting on something from you. Because Sean thought I got it, and I haven't said nothing, but I'm still waiting on something.

Oh, I thought you hit because he lost the bet. Yo, get out of here, man. What do you want, Trav? You didn't get the cheeks, Trav? You know, Envy knows he's been ignoring me, but I've been leaving Envy alone. Envy. I've been leaving Envy alone.

Yo, Trav Cheeks, bro, you need to cut this out, man. Trav, what do you want, man? Don't be an ass bettor, bro. Pay up. Definitely an ass bettor. No, no, no. I don't want any money from you. I don't want that what do you want man don't be an ass better bro pay up definitely my ass better no no no i don't i don't want any money from you i don't want any money from you because now you you're done too much for me you know let me in free doing my album and stuff for me i don't want any money he's he's he's still want he's still gonna let you in free no shut up man goodbye hello who's this this is dra Dre. Dre, what up?

Get it off your chest, bro. Yeah, I was listening to your message from the school shooting and Sean asked that question, like, why don't you go to schools, like airports and all that? And it's crazy, man, because these people got this thing,

like, oh, the image, it'll make the school not look safe. And it's like, bro, people go to courthouses and airports that you say every day. You think people say, I'm not going to work because it's not safe? No, they're to courthouses and airports that you say every day. You think people say, I'm not going to work because it's not safe?

No, they're safe in there because they go through the metal detectors. They know that, all right, these people was checked. I wouldn't mind as a parent of my school or my kid's school had metal detectors that had to put their bags through those little machines. Now I know that you took every precaution to make sure the school was safe.

But a lot of people, they don't, what is that? They like to react or whatever it is. They don't put things in motion until something happens. Nope, nope, nope. No prevent defense. And I agree with you, man. Like, it would really, like, decrease my parental paranoia if I knew that my child's school had, like, metal detectors.

And I mean, really, really, like, make them go through it when they come in that school. Check their bags, you know, wand them down, all of that. Yeah, like, listen, I feel safe as a parent. Like, all right, boom, I like that. Now I'm telling my kids these schools, all four years, we not transferring nothing because you guys is making sure nothing happens. Like, most of the people wait till something happens,

then they want to put stuff in place. Like, oh, we sorry for the families being known. This was going to happen in our neighborhood. Man, please, it can happen anytime, anywhere. I the families being known. This is what happened in our neighborhood. Man, please. It can happen anytime, anywhere. I agree, my brother. Well, thank you. Be safe out there.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories,

their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. 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.

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.? 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 Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't Iana tribe 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. Bullets. We need help!

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. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For

self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We're going to discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people to hopefully create better allies.

Think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're black, Asian, white, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable, and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters,

and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself, Ramses Jha, Q Ward, and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, my little creeps. It's your favorite ghost host, Teresa. And guess what? Haunting is back, dropping just in time for spooky season.

Now I know you've probably been wandering the mortal plane, wondering when I'd be back to fill your ears with deliciously unsettling stories. Well, wonder no more, because we've got a ghoulishly good lineup ready for you. Let's just say things get a bit extra.

We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year. It's the one time I'm actually on trend. So grab your pumpkin spice, dust off that Ouija board, just don't call me unless it's urgent,

and tune in for new episodes every week. Remember, the veils are thin, the stories are spooky, and your favorite ghost host is back and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's happening? This is my kid, King. Hey, man, what's happening? Is Charlemagne here today?

Peace, King. I'm right here. What's happening, brother? Charlemagne, what's happening, brother? Listen, let me ask you a couple questions. Okay, number one, I just want to let you know, it is not harder to get a marriage license or a work-girl license in Florida, nor is it harder to do a lot of the things that you actually said on that list.

I don't know what the hell they're talking about, but that's not true. Number two, why y'all didn't get 50% more slack, man, for coming up in there? And he ain't taking care of his kids, man. Like, just giving money ain't enough. Like, y'all got three – you got four girls, though. You know it take more than just money to take care of the kids, though. Y'all should have been a little bit more on him, man. Should have been taking care of his kids.

What are you talking about? That boy is 25 years old, man. He said 25 years old. You know how much money 50 doesn't pay in child support? And if – That's it. But if you're... That's not just enough, though.

Child support ain't enough. Hey, listen, I'm with you, but I'm not defending 50. I'm just listening to what 50 said. 50 said he's been trying to be in his child's life for the longest, but the mother was keeping him away from the child. I don't know if that's true or not. That's what the brother said. If he's going to get sent to court for child support, why not go to court and say, yo,

man, just keep my kid away from me. Bro, but if your son don't want to see you or your son don't want to come to court, if he forgets to come to court for child support, why not go to court and say, yo, man, just keep my kid away from me. I need y'all to go get him. Bro, but if your son don't want to see you or your son don't want to talk to you or allegedly they come to the house and then they don't answer the door and turn off the lights, the man said he didn't try. You know what I mean? But there's two sides to every story. But, you know what I mean?

There's three sides to every story. There's the side of the kid side and the right side, man. I'm just saying, man, we should have stated more on his head. But why are you picking a side? We didn't pick a side. We just let him tell his story. But. But why are you picking a side? We didn't pick a side. We just let him tell his story. But right now, you're picking a side. No, no, no.

I'm not picking a side. I'm merely going off what 50 said. All the things 50 kept saying was that he's spending money. He's spending money. I didn't hear him really go in detail on him trying to spend time. Spend time. I didn't hear those words. Oh, no.

He definitely said that. He definitely said he reached out to him on several occasions. That's right. He said he was chasing him his whole life. He definitely said that. But also, too, I said I didn't say it was easy. I said five things that are more complicated than buying a gun in Florida. And they say a marriage

license is one of them. That's according to CBS News. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning, guys. What's going on? Peace and blessings, man. Hey, Porta Potty guy, what up? Get it off your chest. Good morning, Charlam What's going on? Peace and blessings, man. Hey, Porta Party guy. What up? Get it off your chest. What's up, man? Good morning, Charlamagne. Peace, King.

How are you? I'm blessed, man. Highly favorite, too, man. You know what I mean? Yes, sir. How you doing, sir? I'm doing great. Amazing.

I can't complain, brother. That's good. Can I just give a shout out to one of my friends in Atlanta, man, called JR. He got a podcast called Close Friends Podcast. I just want to shout him out, man. Hey, to y'all, stand up. Okay. All right, brother.

Well, thank you for checking in, man. Hello, who's this? Yes, CJ. I mean, this is Shirley from Connecticut. Hey, Cheryl from Connecticut. Get it off your chest, mama. Yeah, I want to get it off my chest

about all these shootings. Especially, I pray for the families that get captured with the shooting in Missouri. Absolutely. It's crazy. We just had one in Connecticut where they said there was an active shooter on Friday Absolutely. in Missouri that they add security guards, but they're not armed. I think they need to arm security guards for these things. They happen way too much, and they need to put metal detectors in all of this.

It might be an inconvenience, but we're talking about our kids' safety here. I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you a thousand percent. I don't know about armed security. I think armed security outside of the school, metal detectors all throughout the school. You really got to treat these schools like airports, man. They got to be that intense when these kids are going through these doors.

Absolutely. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. When we come back, we got rumors. Hopefully, you'll be here. If not, we'll figure something out. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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So, you know, Kanye West is out and about. He's doing podcasts. He's being asked questions. He's still talking? He's still talking. He talks about himself being canceled. What do you think about Baga Chaga dropping you? I ain't losing no money. They never paid me nothing. Basically. still talking he talks about himself being cancelled I think people just try to score points you know saying like Maverick Carter had me go on a show

just to say we took him off the show then I go on drink champs then they take it down the day when I was taken off the Balenciaga site, that was one of the most freeing days, you know? You know, we're about making a product that's $20, the best design in the world, and that's the reason why we have brought the head designer from Balenciaga, Demna, who's a great designer. That's why I brought him to the Gap in the first place,

but they didn't allow that to happen, and that's why I had to get up out of those big corporations so I could get directly to the people. He's full of poo-poo, by the way. Man, please. If y'all think that Kanye West is, if this is some, like, master strategic plan to get away from all of these corporations,

y'all are bugging. Well, he said he's not canceled, but... Okay, so ever since his comments, record label, good music no longer part of Def Jam, got dropped he's not canceled, but... Okay, so ever since his comments, record label Good Music no longer part of Def Jam. He got dropped by his new lawyer. Balenciaga stopped working with him. Vogue cut ties. Dropped by CAA,

which is a prominent Hollywood talent agency. Albums, they say albums by Kanye are down 23% through October 20th. No access to posts on any social media platforms and JPMorgan bank cut ties when they don't want your money no more, bro. You said good music. You said CAA cut him.

You say his banking effort with him. You say no Instagram, no Twitter. And let's be clear, Adidas is on the clock. I'm sure Adidas will be making their announcement any moment now. And they got a lot of pressure because Kanye literally said on Drink Champs he can say anti-Semitic comments and Adidas can't drop him, which is one of the most ego fueled comments I ever heard in my life.

And the fact that they are a German company founded by someone who was in the Nazi party, they can't be a German company, the home of denazification and be in bed with a Nazi like K.K. Kanye and his ex-wife posted this yesterday. She said, Hate speech is never okay or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end. His other family members, ex-family members, I guess, they said that, let me just get this right, there's a whole lot of Kanye-ish. I support my Jewish friends and the Jewish people.

That was from every Kardashian and Jenner in the household. I saw a boo post there too. Yeah. What boo? Akon's brother boo. His ex-manager? Yeah. He said, I support my Jewish friends and the Jewish people spread love. I seen D-Nice post it too, but I didn't see the boo. Man, when Justin Laboy post it,

Kanye gonna pass out. Yeah, he gonna faint. Goodness gracious. Well, it was on a podcast, the Lex Friedman podcast. Lex Friedman, salute to Lex. And they talked about some of the things that Howard Stern said about Kanye, and this was his response. Point, Howard Stern. Nobody wants to kiss your d***, so shut the f*** up. I said, and by the way, I'll antagonize you, Howard Stern.

I used to be a fan of you. Now you're just doing clickbait like everybody else. Now you're just a sad old man, Howard. All right. Now, Howard Stern, this is the first time anyone's said your name in years. Your own family doesn't say your name unless they're calling to get their bills paid. You're going hard. See, that's beautiful right there.

That's much better than calling jewish media call go after individuals he also talks about why you know it's interesting about that kanye kanye sounds like he's talking about himself when he said that like that's how people feel about him they call him when they ask him for money well no they used to be fans and now they think he's just a sad old man who's doing things for clickbait like you antagonize black people for clickbait you antagonize jewish people for clickbait now you got to deal with the consequences of being an anti-black anti-semitic nazi oh he also talks about why people love him people just in general they love me so much i'm like actually a hard guy to really hate for a long period of time it's just because like because

like my huge cock and that's what i noticed i didn't i didn't understand why he showed it to me when we first met but now i understand yeah it's very nice congratulations i've heard of a lot of rumors but i haven't heard don't don't that one i know that sounds nasty i'm just never heard kanye had a big penis why would you hear that why why would you i mean you talked about davidson's penis i never did but you know what now he wants that he wants that he wants that. He wants that energy Pete Davidson getting out here. He want it to be meaty easy. He ain't about to be meaty easy. Now there's meaty peaty. You know,

Tesla and Figaro, Tesla and Figaro coined the term meaty peaty. There's meaty peaty. There ain't about to be no meaty easy. I've never heard anybody say meaty easy.

I wish Kanye loved himself the way people love him. That dude don't love himself. That's why he can't love nobody else. He don't love black people. He don't love Jewish people because he don't love himself. He don't love the't love nobody else. He don't love black people. He don't love Jewish people because he don't love himself. He don't love the skin that he in.

Let me just ask you one question. I'm telling you, that man seeks white validation so freaking much. I told y'all this. I tell y'all this all the time. He seeks white validation so much. Then he turns around and tries to be so pro-black. And then, you know, y'all ride with it. Don't say y'all.

But the reality is he don't love himself himself so he could never love y'all. I told y'all he was a clown months ago. Let me ask you a question. You know, when we see this with artists and we see people say the wrong things, we see people get canceled, we see people, there's a reason. Like, we could point to it. What's his reason? Like, why? I have no idea. If there ever comes up, if there's a handbook

of self-sabotage, this is it. Like, this is it. Like, he did all of this to himself. He decided to put on, you know, the White Lives Matter shirt antagonizing black people, knowing that, you know, that slogan was created

by white supremacist hate groups when black people started to affirm themselves with the term Black Lives Matter. You know, he decided to get on Twitter and say, you know, he's about to go DEFCON 3 on Jewish people.

He decided to go on Drink Champs and, you know, tell those lies about how and say, you know, he's about to go DEFCON 3 on Jewish people. He decided to go on Drink Champs and, you know, tell those lies about how George Floyd, you know, got murdered. You know? So it's just like he made those. Hey, what did he say? Slavery was a choice? The words that are coming out of his mouth were a choice. I don't, you know.

He got to deal with the consequences of those words at this point. He got to deal with the consequences of being an anti-black, anti-Semitic Nazi. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. KK Kanye. Goodness gracious. That's who he is. Jesus Christ.

Now you want to have a big penis. What? That's all you got out of all this? That's all you got out of all this. Pete Davidson's penis was driving him crazy. Now you want to have a big penis. That penis really upset him. I'm telling you.

You're just randomly volunteering an interview. They love me because of my big... All right. Okay. I've never heard that one. All right. All right. Well, we have front page news next.

And Secretary Pete will be joining us this morning. All right. This is awkward. It Pete will be joining us this morning. All right. This is awkward. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Everyone deserves to feel safe and protected at home,

but some communities are more at risk for deaths or injuries in residential fires than others. As a global leader in fire safety, K Kidda believes this issue is cause for alarm. See how Kidda is promoting fire safety in all communities at causeforalarm.org. Morning everybody, it's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. Has anybody spoke to her? Did she finally

quit? Did she finally say, you know what, it's over? I'm not coming in no more? That would be a way to go out. A few months ago, was it The Breakfast Club, as we know it, is finally over? Maybe. Did she finally say F it? She said F it. I didn't get to know her.

I'm tired of all of y'all bull crap. Okay. I don't know. They said she's on her way, but I don't know why she didn't broadcast from the crib. Anyway, let's get into the front page. Come enjoy your last day, G. On the Breakfast Club.

All right, and Monday Night Football! The Chicago Bears beat the Patriots 33-14. All right, now, Tornado Watch. They're saying thunderstorm warnings issued in parts of Texas. They're saying it's about to get nasty. The weather's about to be severe in the state. So they're saying, everybody, please be careful. They're saying this weather's going to be nasty from Dallas to Waco to Austin

to San Antonio to parts of Houston. All right, even here on the East Coast, we've seen, what, rain the last three days straight. From Dallas to Waco to Austin to San Antonio to parts of Houston. Even here on the East Coast, we've seen rain the last three days straight. So the weather's pretty nasty. We've got to send a rest in peace to Leslie Jordan. He died at the age of 67, they said, in a car accident. They said he's best known from Will & Grace. Did you watch that?

No, I never watched Will & Grace. I mean, I'm familiar with it, but I never watched it. Yeah, so. Man, 67 dying in a car accident? Mm-hmm. Jesus Christ. He passed away yesterday. And lastly, I haven't been following this too much, so maybe you could help us out. Now, Florida governor debate between DeSantis and Christ, on Christ, I mean.

He debated Christ? Damn, Jesus had to go? Hold on. Y'all got Jesus running for governor of Florida? Y'all need it. I know Jesus' body run De DeSantis, in a bit. Christ? And now here's some of the debate.

Chris who? Charlie Chris. I'm looking to put out the pastor as Charlie Chris. Yeah, well, Ron, we know you love to bully people. And the little name calling you just exchanged, I can take it. But you shouldn't do it when children are stand behind you at a press conference and they're wearing a mask but apparently that's your nature and that's too bad now they went back and forth about abortion

about the hurricane response uh the state's ongoing culture wars uh rise of republicans future and a host of others others they also talk about stolen land it actually if you look around the country they do have programs unfortunately well they will take a student look at their race okay you're white you're an oppressor if you're black you're oppressed and think about what that does to a six or seven year old kid that's wrong you're seeing that you have people that are teaching and actually his running mate has said this in the past, that teaching the United States was built on stolen land.

That is inappropriate for our schools. It's not true. It's the truth. What? It's not inappropriate. It's the truth. Matty also talked about race theory. He talks about not teaching about the history of our country that might offend some people in our schools. We ought to teach facts in our schools. There's an old expression, Ron.

Those who don't know history may be condemned to repeat it. Usually people use that in reference to the Holocaust. It could just as easily be referenced to slavery in our country. It happened. It's a fact. We shouldn't have a whitewash approach to educating our children. How are they going to do well in life if they don't even know our own history? And we're not going to teach people to hate each other in our schools. I don't have hate in my heart.

And I don't think we need to be doing that in our schools. I just don't understand how Florida does it. How Florida says, you know what? The past is too hurtful. We're just not going to go over the past and explain what really happened in this country. It's not just Florida. It's a lot of different places doing that. That's wild.

The reality of the situation is... Because it hurt somebody's feelings to know the truth? Yeah. That's where it's all. The reality of the situation is Ron DeSantis is still going to win and become governor of Florida again. I think I saw a poll yesterday that shows Hispanic voters in Florida favored DeSantis for governor, like 51 percent to 44 percent or something like that. My goodness, that's crazy. All right.

Well, that is your front page news. Now, when we come back, Secretary Pete will be joining us. That's right. He'll be here. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. I like Secretary Pete, man, because Secretary Pete is the only person from the Biden administration who consistently and constantly comes to the Breakfast Club even when it's not an election year. Whenever he's in New York City, he pulls up to the Breakfast Club. Nobody else in the Biden administration does that.

As diverse as the Biden administration is, none of the black people from the Biden administration come up here as constantly and consistently as Secretary Pete. Nobody came after they won. No, that's not true. Kamala Harris didn't come after she won. Oh, she came on. She came on your show? My TV show.

Your TV show. No, let me see. Marsha Fudge was up here. Who else came? Cedric Richmond when he was there. I don't remember who else. All right. Well, we're going to talk to Secretary.

Oh, no. The Secretary of Education. Yes. His name slips my mind right now. Great. Yeah. Yeah. What a great show this is.

I was going to say Miguel. Huh? Miguel Pagona? Cardona. Miguel. Huh? Cardona. Yeah.

I thought I kept thinking of Carbone, but I'm like, that's a restaurant. Miguel Cardona. Yes. It's a great show with all the, but I'm like, that's the restaurant. Miguel Cardona. Yes. Great show with all the facts. All right. We're going to talk to Secretary Pete when we come back. Facts, I said. Who cares about facts?

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. He's a friend to the room., Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. He's a friend to the room.

He's been up here several times. Listen, I say it all the time. He's the only person from the Democratic Party who comes during the offseason. When it's not an election year, even though it is an election year. But when it's not an election year, Secretary Pete comes. That's right. Well, Secretary Pete, thank you for joining us this morning. Thanks for having me on.

How are you, man? Pretty good. It's good to be in New York. Absolutely. I mean, this is a really exciting time for the work we're doing. Well, how do you like your position since you started? How has it been for you? Stressful, non-stressful?

Have you grown more gray hair? Tell us about it. Definitely more gray. I mean, what I say is it's the best time, but also one of the toughest times for transportation. It's the best time because we're making investments that we haven't been able to do in my lifetime, the funding that's in the infrastructure package. The other side of the coin is we've actually been through more disruptions to the transportation system in the last couple of years than at any time, with the partial exception of 9-11, than any time since World War II.

We've had container shipping issues. We've had cancellations and delays in our airports. We've had a number of disruptions, everything from trucking and supply chains to passenger travel. But we've been working through those, and the causes of those are mostly temporary. Most of it has something to do with the pandemic. So as we're tackling those issues, the investments that we're making, the repairs that we're making, the improvements that we're making to the transportation system, that's permanent. So I love the job. It's been almost a year since the infrastructure law passed, right? That's right. Yeah, I signed it in November.

So what have the updates been? So one year in, we've been standing up all of the different programs that it created and starting to move the money out. Something like $100 billion already moving in order to fix roads fix bridges airports we were just in orlando we're improving the airport there we're just in detroit we announced a project there we're putting 100 million in to help detroit take i-375 which cuts right through it they destroyed a couple of neighborhoods when they built it and it's just like a gash. It just kind of slices those mostly black neighborhoods apart from downtown. We're going to lift it up and turn it into a boulevard and use it to reconnect the community.

We're doing a project in the Inland Empire, Fontana, California, part of the region that doesn't get as much attention as L.A. You got kids who have to walk basically on a highway. There's this road that has no gutter, no curb, no sidewalk. And in order to get to high school, they're competing with cars and trucks. And we're funding an improvement that's going to fix that. We're doing the elimination of railroad crossings, literally hundreds and hundreds of projects. So getting those underway has been the work of the last year. It's a five-year bill.

So the bill the president signed has five years of funding. We're just through year one. And it's really, I mean, it's still the very beginning of a lot of what we're working on. But we're starting to see the results. Now, Secretary Pete, another issue always is this, right? Making sure that black-owned businesses also have access to getting some of those contracts to get this work done. So where are we with that? Because I know that's something that's been needing improvement yeah so a lot of a lot of work to do here a lot of progress that

we've made the first part is the contracts that we directly control out of the Department of Transportation so we set a goal for SDB small disadvantaged businesses of 20% there's a more ambitious goal than we've been able to set before and so far we're beating that goal. But I have to say for every dollar that we contract out of the department directly, there's about $10 that go out indirectly. In other words, we fund a transit agency like the MTA or a state department of transportation or a city that's rebuilding a bridge or an airport. And then they do the actual contracts. So we're working with them to make sure that they are inviting more businesses to the table that haven't had a seat before black owned businesses have enormous potential right now to do all kinds of work not just uh

if they're directly involved in construction and engineering but if you're involved in let's say accounting serving one of the companies that is doing the construction right there's opportunity there too so we're actually in the middle right now of a process of redoing the policy for dbe disadvantaged business enterprises where there's a history of discrimination and we have legal authority to pay particular attention to creating opportunity there you can go online i know this the website regulations.gov probably does not sound like what a lot of people are excited to check out on Monday morning, but there is a chance right now through the end of this month to weigh in if you're involved with a black-owned business or any kind of MBE or DBE. And you've had an experience of trouble getting certified, a problem getting a seat at the table, or you have a success story to share about how public work maybe being part of a construction project help you build your business now is a great time to enter public comments about your experience through regulations gov on our DBE rule because that will be part of what we use to make decisions about

how to update the rule bottom line nobody has a better track record of creating jobs and opportunity for people who have been left out in the past, including women in construction, including black building trades workers, than businesses who are owned by people who've been left out of the past. And I'm really excited about what we can do, but it's not going to happen on its own. That's why we're putting a lot of effort and emphasis on it. And I think we're going to have a lot of results. I just sat down with the National Association of Black Women in Construction. They have incredible success stories about how they've created opportunity, but also about what it's like trying to get a seat at the table.

Because there's been a pattern in the past where you kind of had to already be in the business, already be connected, already be doing business with units of government to feel like you were in the know about what the next opportunity was going to be. So we're trying to make that more transparent. So I don't have any illusions about the work ahead, but I think we're going to be really proud of the opportunities we create if we stay very focused on it. I saw you in Philly. How do you do that, though? The conversation was about how do you diversify federal contracts with black and brown people. So how do you go about doing that? So the first thing that we did just when we were there was talk about some of the challenges they

face. So for example, access to capital. If you're trying to get started or you haven't had these kind of big business opportunities, just being able to get capital funding or cash flow, right? If you're a giant multinational corporation and one of your vendors takes two, three, four months to pay, or one of your customers, then you can absorb that. If you're a small business and a lot of these businesses are starting out or businesses that are just trying to break their way in, they need prompt payment, right? Stuff like that. So we're talking about those direct issues that can be an obstacle. But also we've got to have conversations with the prime contractors that are bringing on a lot of these black owned businesses

as subs about how to be more inclusive and how to get some of these subs to be in a position where someday they can be the primes. We're talking to a lot of state leaders. I was at a convening Friday in Florida with all of the state departments of transportation and their heads saying that we're counting on you to create more of these opportunities. So there's a lot of different pieces of it, but there's a lot of things that we're doing in parallel, including this DBE role that I was just mentioning, that we hope there's a lot of different pieces of it But there's a lot of things that we're doing in parallel including this DVR all that That I was just mentioning that we hope there's a lot of public input on because then we can actually update the the formal processes around contracting the way the directories are built just even the expectation of the requirement that you check to see if there are any

New minority owned businesses that could be doing the work that you're about to open a contract for before you sign the contract. We got more with Secretary Pete when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. JNV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Secretary Pete, you know, with the airlines. I mean, it's been horrendous. It's been horrible. People have been missing, you know, birthdays and weddings and funerals and families. What are we going to do to fix that? It has gotten better though. I know this has gotten better over the past couple of months. It's still bad. And the prices are really high.

Like she said, prices are high. So what are we doing to fix that? Are they fining the airlines? Right. So it did get better, but it was tough over the summer. We got big holiday seasons coming up that are going to test whether these improvements are going to hold. There's three sets of things we're doing. First, fines. So airlines are required to do things like offer you a refund if your flight gets canceled. And a lot of the airlines were slow to do that or they didn't do it at all. So we're subjecting them to fines because we enforce that rule that you got to get a refund. That's part one. Part two though, is the rules themselves need to be tougher. So that's another thing that we have in the process right now. It takes a while. It's a very ponderous legal process. You got to go through a lot of

comment periods, but we've got that open right now on things like raising the floor of how long of a delay counts as a serious enough delay that the airline's got to give you a refund. And then the third part that has really helped is it's just transparency. So we set up a website that makes clear which airlines will do what when you get stuck with a delay, for example. Will they give you a voucher for a free meal? Will they book you on another flight? Will they book you on another flight even if it's only on another airline that there's a free flight? Things like that. I wrote a letter to the CEOs of the airlines, said, look, in a week or two, we're going to put this website up.

So now would be a good time to- Fix your problem. Yeah. Now would be a good time to up your game. And they did. We went in two weeks from zero out of the top 10 airlines to nine out of the top 10 airlines that will offer you, at least offer you food or hotel or something like that. So you can check it out on our website, transportation.gov.

It's a passenger dashboard just to give you the information so you can make a decision when you're thinking about buying a ticket. Because you don't even know what to ask for sometimes. Well, that's the thing. You don't know it exists. You know what I learned? When my bags get delayed coming out, if it takes more than 20 minutes, you get mileage credit.

But you have to go in and ask for it, right? Yeah, you have to ask for it. And you have to know that. That's the worst airlines that doesn't follow any any of this protocol let's not give nothing back so uh i'd invite you to check the dashboard i don't want to pick winners and losers here but it's really interesting you know we got a little green check marks little red x's on who does what uh look some airlines have decided uh we're gonna offer less customer service and we're gonna be really cheap right and as long as everybody knows that going into it that's fine but. But what we can't have happen is, first of all, we have to have a floor

where I don't care how cheap the ticket is. There are certain things you can do to a passenger, like leave them completely stuck and not offer a refund. But also as you're making those choices, we've got to make sure it's transparent. We've got to make sure it's clear. And we have more work coming up on things like these fees, these little extra fees that aren't part of the airfare, but you wind up paying for them. And that's part of the cost of traveling on a certain airline. They've got to be upfront about that. Well, what was causing these flight cancellations and delays over the summer? Do we know? So yeah, like a lot of things in our economy, part of it had to do with staffing, hiring, being able to find people. What's frustrating about that,

I think for a lot of us is we put billions of dollars into saving the airline industry. And one of the conditions was you can't fire people if you're taking this federal money. Now, they lived up to that, but they let a lot of people go into early retirement, including pilots that are hard to replace. It takes a very long time to qualify a pilot. So when the demand came back, and we're glad it did. I mean, it's a good sign for our economy that so many people want to fly, but it came back faster than they were prepared for. And our message is we're glad it did I mean it's a good thing it's a good sign for our economy that so many people want to fly but it came back faster than they were prepared for and our message is you've got to be we're glad that demand is back you got to be prepared to service the tickets that you're selling you're

collecting money on this that's right another thing that we've talked about is scheduling realistic scheduling so if you know that you don't aren't gonna have the staff on this route don't schedule as many flights and that's gotten better and that's one of the reasons we aren't seeing the cancellation rates. Like you said, but the prices are so expensive now. Prices are through the roof. So that's inflation. So how do we combat inflation now?

Because people are not making as much. I'm paying so much for flights now. I'm like, this is ridiculous. Well, this gets to the bigger story, right? Of all the different things where prices are high. And part of it is that the costs are higher. I get that. I mean, obviously obviously one of the

biggest expenses for an airline is fuel right correct but that's not enough to explain all of you look at the price of oil and the price we're actually paying at the pump and the spread between those two things is higher than it used to be and so we also have to have a conversation about a lot of corporate profits that are getting fatter on the margin there and that's a big part of what's happening across the economy that we need to talk about when it comes to inflation because we've got some friends in congress for example on the other side of the aisle who love talking about inflation but refuse to offer any solution can you still call those people friends i'm being polite yeah it's Yeah, it's a lot of fascism

in there right now. Can you call those people friends when they're a threat to democracy? Look, I think we need to call something what it is. And when somebody is threatening democracy, we need to call that out. I know that there are a lot of people definitely in Congress, in the Republican Party, who are horrified by what's happened to their own party. Why they don't speak out? Because they're afraid. Oh, because they don't? Because they're afraid. Because they don't vote like they're afraid. Right. And so, you know, my job as a

policymaker is to sit down and work with them on anything where they're willing to do the right thing, which they did on infrastructure, for example. We had, you know, a lot of Republican senators and a handful of Republican House members come over and vote with Democrats and work with the president on that.

What are the solutions to regulating these corporations' pockets getting fatter while everybody's paying more and not combating inflation? Yeah, well, on something like energy, the president put forward an idea called use it or lose it, which is basically if you're sitting on these permits or these leases, but you're not doing anything to produce energy, then at a certain point, you don't get to keep sitting on it. That didn't go very far, largely because it was blocked by the allies that the big oil companies have in the House and the Senate. We've got to have more, again, more transparency about the practices of some of these companies. And we got to keep working toward a tax code that's fairer when it comes to these things. We think that the best thing we can do for inflation is create breathing room for people, right?

That's why we cared so much about cutting the cost of prescription drugs $35 insulin We could have had that and student loan debt absolutely right that creates some Breathing room when you're facing these higher prices on groceries gas you name it even on for gas itself, right? It's one of the reasons why we're pushing to make electric vehicles cheaper. I'm not saying everybody can go get an EV tomorrow, but part of how we can give people alternatives is to make sure everybody can afford an EV. Some of the people who are beating us up over EVs being too expensive voted no on a bill that would have made them cheaper, that did make them cheaper. So we've got to look at who actually has ideas and proposals to create that breathing room.

Because prices are going up here. Prices are going up around the world, by the way. It's not like this is a U.S. thing. Now, there are a lot of signs, you know, that many of the analysts, the banks predict that it's going to go down. But we're not comfortable with that until it happens. That's why we're pushing to create a little more space, a little more room, and lower the cost. People are basing on everything from health care to housing to transportation. I will not move. We got more with Secretary Pete when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

E.J. Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Secretary Pete. Charlamagne. Is the pressure mounting for you in regards to 2024? Because I know you said you didn't want to do anything else in government other than this. But the Democrats have a very weak bench. And I see how you move. You'll come to places like the Breakfast Club, you'll go to Fox News. You're talking to

a big swath of the American public. So is it growing louder for Secretary Pete to run in 2024 as president? I mean, look, I already have a job and we already have a president. So the best thing i i can do is support this president that i really believe in in the agenda and the vision that the administration has and as long as he trusts me to do this work on transportation

uh try to deliver on that i mean look every job i've had and i'm not trying to be cute about the i know there's a lot of political uh chatter that goes on but every job i've had especially in public life the best thing you can do is just try to be good at that job. And then whatever you want to do next, you're going to be better off if you deliver. And delivering, you know, to our earlier conversation is hard as hell, but also incredibly rewarding when you're working on stuff like that. Are you concerned with more celebrities coming up as being president that doesn't necessarily know politics, that really doesn't know what they're doing? We have another situation like a Donald Trump. Yeah, we're seeing a lot of this, right?

I think there's something to be said for outsider energy. I came into national politics as an outsider, a different kind of outsider. I was involved in policy as a mayor, but I was not part of Washington. And I don't think you have to be a Washington lifer to be effective but I do think you have to care about public policy. I mean you see some people now who just don't seem like they care and I think... Kanye's running in 2024

I don't know if you know but... God, okay, great Why not? Look, in the end I think what people most want to know is what do you care about and who do you care about question when you do interviews right and you're not allowed to talk about things like the midterms how does that help democrats in the midterms i think the good policy is good politics like if we're doing things that make sense and we can explain it then people will appreciate that

and in that way there's no difference or there's not a lot of difference between coming out on a campaign trail and saying, I think you should vote for this person, which is not what I'm doing today. And what I am doing today, which is saying, here's what we're working on as an administration. Here are the policies we think are good. Some folks voted for it. Some folks voted against it. And this is what we believe in. It's odd, but it's there for a very good reason, right? I mean, the reason we have these rules is so that you don't go out using the powers of the federal government and push a political outcome on people. So I respect it. Shouldn't you, though?

Isn't that the whole point? I can go put on a different hat later when my flight wasn't paid for by the taxpayer and talk about politics. Okay. I think it's okay to have those things be separate. I think the important thing, though, is that I don't ever want to say something in one context that I would be embarrassed to have repeated in another context. So it's also just really important that we're consistent and we're clear about what we care about and what we believe in. Do you feel like Democrats are rising to the urgency at the moment? Because we know there's a real threat to democracy and like the midterms are right around the corner,

but it doesn't seem like there's a sense of urgency coming from the Democratic Party about it. I think we have a sense of urgency. I think that sometimes something can be so big that it's hard to make it out, and you actually have to break it down into something smaller, if that makes sense. So what I mean by that is that the stakes for our country right now, in terms of our own democracy, in terms of our future, in terms of our standing in the world, they're so enormous that if you try to talk about it that way all day, climate too, it's so exhausting that I think it can actually shut

people down a little bit. Not on the right. Right wing media does it all day. And they say that democracy is about to be over, but they blame Democrats. That's true. And one of the things that I think is really important is that facts still have to matter. We have to make sure that there's actually such thing as true and false. And you look at what happened last January. You look at what's happening right now with people denying the legitimacy of elections that actually happened. Where part of how democracy works is when you lose, you admit it. I've lost. Losing sucks.

But part of your job is to acknowledge that reality because the whole idea of democracy is rules and policy choices that we all have to live by and that means we all live by things we don't always agree that's the whole that's the whole concept right but i don't think there's any confusion about what's at stake. I do think there's a need to connect all these big picture questions to very concrete things. And I think actually right-wing media sometimes is a little better about that. I have a TV in my office where I've got, it's kind of splits into four quadrants and I can see the three big cable networks and I'm usually watching one broadcast. And every time I glance up at it, what you see on Fox is more of a story from a specific place that is meant to make you angry about this big picture fear, real or imagined. And it just puts you in a different state of mind.

Whereas we, I think on my side of the aisle, tend to prefer to talk in terms of the concepts, the ideas. Right. And I do think there's some work to do there. But that's part of what I love about my job because there's nothing abstract about saying Joe Biden signed this bill and you're getting a better airport. Or if you like this new subway stop that's coming to your neighborhood, it's there because Democrats with a few Republicans helping out in Congress, in the House and in the Senate voted on this bill, sent it to the president's desk and he signed it and my department implemented it.

This is happening in your life. This isn't like some conceptual debate about conservatism or free market. This is like, we're fixing this problem. And I see the number one issue is the economy when it comes to the elections coming up. And so we can see who's voting for and against people to have more money in their pocket. Well, that's the thing. I mean, let's look at the choice. And again, I'm saying this not election-wise, but legislation-wise.

Look at the choices that are being made. Right? So the last administration, their number one economic policy was tax cuts for rich people. And they did it. It's one of the promises they kept. They didn't keep a lot of promises. They didn't drain the swamp. They didn't even build the wall promises. They didn't drain the swamp. They didn't even build

the wall, but they kept two promises. And those two promises represent two things they really care about. They kept their promise to cut taxes for the rich, and they kept their promise to take away the right to choose. And what we're doing is working to keep promises. And I know there's some unfinished business in terms of promises that we've made, but we promised to get an infrastructure bill done, and we've done we've promised to act in ways that would reduce child poverty we've done it the president promised to get people back to work after we lost millions of jobs more people are working in the private sector now than at any point in American

history so I guess you could say both administrations back-to-back have come in with a set of promises. People should think about which promises are kept. Like you said, Democrats are terrible at messaging. I mean, you didn't say that verbatim, but you essentially said Democrats are terrible at messaging. We think in ways that we've got to work a little harder.

They suck at messaging. It's okay, Secretary Pete. That's what you're working on. It's okay to say that. Look, I hear you. I hear you. Alright, well he does have to go, but thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. And thank you for always stopping through.

It's a pleasure. Good to be with you. Secretary Pete, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Charlamagne and I, hey, welcome back, E. Hey, good to be here. We thought you quit.

Yeah, we didn't know. We didn't know. We thought it was, you know, The Breakfast Club, we know it is officially over. We thought that you just called it in today. No, I'm early for my show, which is going to start at 10 a.m. Okay. That makes sense. I get it.

We were just talking about you. That makes sense. And I guess it's official now. Adidas did terminate the contract, right? It took them long enough. I mean, they didn't release no statement during all this. They didn't sever ties. Well, Jesus Christ,

you hit your rumor report drop first. No, I'm just saying, we just did a whole ye thing, but we didn't mention that because it just happened. Oh, I thought you guys did that.

No, we didn't do that story. No. I said it would probably be happening any moment now, but it definitely happened seconds after that. Seconds after you said it. Okay, my bad.

I thought you talked about it. I wasn't here. I've been here. No. But anyway, let's get to the rumors. Seconds after you said it. Okay, my bad. I thought you had talked about it. I wasn't here. I've been here. No. But anyway, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Lil Bang. Lil who? Lil Bang.

What's going on? With Angelina Jolie. I'm going back home. On The Breakfast Club. So listen up. Lil Baby. Lil Baby. Well, Lil Baby is on the Big Facts podcast.

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Your ish is huge, brother. Holy ish. Man, humans are the funniest people, man. So, NLE Chap, first and foremost, I love myself and I'm comfortable enough in my skin to show the beauty God blessed me with. Secondly, I love all, so I don't mind attracting both genders, but most importantly, my sexual preference is women.

Please stop trying to make me something I am not. Well, when you put your penis online for everybody to see. And then when I say everybody, I mean everybody. So men, women, whatever you identify as, the print is online.

They can comment on it, right? Have you ever sent someone a message like that? I don't have that kind of penis to be sending no messages. No, I didn't say about yours. I said, have you ever sent someone... He's definitely sent me

a message like that before. Have you ever told somebody else that you know? Yes, he has. Oh, no, no, no. I definitely have. No, no yours. I said, have you ever sent someone a... He's definitely sent me a message like that before. Have you ever told somebody else, like, no? You know it? Yes. Oh, no, no, no. I definitely have. No, no.

I mean, no, no. You told a guy your issue's huge. No. You just said you definitely have. I thought you said a message about a man trying you, and you had to let them know, like, nah, I don't get down like that. Yes, I have.

No one said all that. I don't know what y'all was talking about. He did know. But yes, I've had a man... I've had a couple men try me. I had to let them know, like, nah. I can see why you might think that, but you know, that's just the radio, buddy. That's just the radio. Just playing around a little bit.

All right. Okay. All right. Young boy never broke again has signed a deal with Motown. You know, he's no longer on Atlantic. And so he has a joint venture with Motown and his Never Broke Again has signed a deal with Motown. You know he's no longer on Atlantic, and so he has a joint venture with Motown and his Never Broke Again collective. He said, I felt like I had a responsibility to my artists

to make sure to find the right partner for my label. I'm looking forward to working with Ethiopia, Keno, and Motown Records. So congrats to him. Dropping the clues about Ethiopia, that's a big gig. I don't know how Atlantic let that get away. Jesus Christ, Kaiser. Kaiser?

Isn't Kaiser the president of black music over there? Yes, he is. How you let NBA Youngboy get away, Kaiser? I don't know. I heard they offered him $60 million, too. Maybe that was the reason. He wasn't happy with the situation. I heard Atlantic offered him $60 million.

I mean, he makes a ton of money. He's very low maintenance as far as when it comes to having to pay for things for him. So he's always putting out music. Hard, hardworking young man. All right. Tyler, the creator has been cast as Jesus in Netflix's Big Mouth season six. It's an adult animated series returning for a sixth season on Friday, October 28th.

Friday. Yeah. It's Friday, October 28th. Friday, yeah. Is Friday, October 28th? Yes. All right. So, yeah, congratulations to him. And it's cute if you see the character, the animation of him. And let's talk about Halloween, okay?

So, iSpice has reacted to the Halloween costume of her. I don't know if you guys saw that there is a Halloween costume of her. She said, you guys went them, well, she posted a picture of her. I don't know if you guys saw that there is a Halloween costume of her. She said you guys went them well she posted a picture of it and did you guys see the picture of her Halloween costume? Yes. It's cute. With the wig and everything. That's real?

With the costume? Yeah. I saw one of Eric Adams too that said he's a party promoter that don't do nothing. No that one was fake. No it says Ice Spice on it. I don't think that's real, yeah. Nah, this is outrageous. It says Ice Spice. I saw one just like that for Eric Adams. Exactly like that. I saw

a Sada Baby one that said Detroit Rapper. That's what I'm saying. I don't think those are real. I mean, it really has her name on it. You think they just photoshopped it? Photoshopped it. People can make those things up. I don't think that's real. I mean, I think it makes sense. I can see people wanting to wear that costume. Look at this one from Eric Adams.

That look real as hell. And it got the spirit thing on there, the spirit thing. It says, club promoter includes nothing helpful. Adult size costume. Sounds like a Republican made that post and photoshopped it. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. Or a New Yorker.

A Republican or a New Yorker who's not happy with the job Eric Adams is doing. Sheesh. All right. Everything ain't about party. Sometimes it's about people in the city not happy. There's a lot of people in the city not happy. There's not. I mean, I don't think anybody's going to be happy with everything.

Right? Come on, girls. Ever? No, I'm just saying. I think nobody's ever completely happy with any politician. Oh, that's a fact. Especially if it's a local position like mayor. The smallest thing can piss you off like a pothole.

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The breakfast club, bitches Alright, Charlene, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? also very proud that my wife is white the breakfast club bitches all right sean lean please tell me why was i your donkey of the day donkey of the day for tuesday october 25th goes to florida governor ron desantis uh last night ron desantis was debating with charlie chris the democratic challenger for governor in florida and when it got to one of his least favorite subjects critical race theory he decided to end his debate on a low vibrational note. He said that teaching that the U.S. was built on stolen land is inappropriate and not true. All the Native Americans are looking at the radio saying, huh, excuse me, say what?

Would you like to hear it? Here we go. Actually, if you look around the country, they do have programs, unfortunately. Well, they will take a student, look at their race, say, okay, you're white, you're an oppressor. If you're black, you're oppressed. And think about what that does to a six or seven year old kid. That's wrong. You're seeing that you have people that are teaching. And actually his running mate has said this in the past that teaching the United States

was built on stolen land. That is inappropriate for our schools. It's not true. I will never understand why any lie is ever referred to as little and white. Okay, white men like Ron DeSantis don't tell little lies. They tell the biggest, boldest lies that America has ever seen. Even if you don't want to, read a book. All right, do your Googles. I learned land was stolen from Native Americans in elementary school, which is exactly what they are trying to keep kids in elementary school from learning that.

All right. They are literally trying to revise history right before our eyes. This is like K.K. Kanye saying that that devil Derek Chauvin's knee wasn't on the cop's neck like that. As if we don't have eyes, we saw it. OK, it's one thing for people to do what they have always done with the story of native americans uh you know in regards to native american dispossession and that's just to sweep it under the rug all right don't talk about it hope native americans don't talk about it but the lie and say it never happened come on man put a record between 1776 and the present the united states has seized about 1.5 billion acres from north America's native people. Some researchers have found that Native Americans have lost 99 percent of their historical lands in America. Maybe Ron DeSantis doesn't think it was stolen because it was done through legislation and treaties.

But the treaties were reneged upon. OK. And the legislation resulted in Native Americans losing ownership and control of two thirds of their reservation lands. Now you got Native Americans trying to buy back land that was stolen from them. Can you imagine that? Buying back what was stolen from you? Tribes trying to buy back their land on the open market, even though it was theirs? Hey, Ron DeSantis, if the land wasn't stolen, how come Native Americans have been running with the land back slogan? And Congress passed legislation to restore ownership of 19,000 acres of the National Bison Range in Montana to a couple of tribes whose names I can't pronounce. I think the Salish and Kutai not tribes.

Listen, listen, man. The truth is important. OK. And the truth is the truth, regardless of who believes it. And a lie is a lie, regardless of who believes it. We need truth in America. Truth telling is essential for authentic communication to occur. And that's why we can't get nowhere in this country, because everyone is so busy lying. So we spend all this time arguing about what's a lie so we can never actually get to the truth of the matter.

And the truth of the matter in this situation is land was stolen from Native Americans. Simple as that. And guess what, America? We will never heal what we are not willing to reveal. Alright? Please let Chelsea Handler give Ron DeSantis the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw! Hee-haw! That is way too much Dan Mayonnaise.

Let Kathy Griffin get in on that too, man. Please give this giant jar of mayo the biggest hee-haw. Okay. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Now, when we come back, April Ryan will be joining us. Oh, okay. She got a new book out.

Yeah, she has a new book out. It's called Black Women Will Save the World, an anthem. Yep. So we're going to talk to her when we come back, all right? It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey.

Power 105.1. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, April Ryan. Good morning.

Good morning, Charlamagne. How are you? I am blessed black and highly favored. How you feeling? I'm blessed black and highly favored as well. There you go. Yes. Good to see you.

You too. Black Women Will Save the World. The title is self-explanatory. Yes and no. But you didn't add the last part, an anthem. We're going to sing it over and over again. Okay. An anthem.

Black Women Will Save the World, an anthem. An anthem. Okay. Yeah, to keep it going. Because what happens is people forget moments. And when we forget a moment, we lose out. And at the end of the day, black women are rising in number as head of household, rising in number as the breadwinner in a household. And with that said, we are taking care of everyone, everything and not taking care of ourselves and not being heralded as a champion, as a shero.

And we are that. I know those stats got to be flawed, though. And the reason I say those stats are flawed is because they've always been the head of household. They've always been the breadwinners. I mean, I think about it. But it's rising in number. Right. Okay.

It's rising in number. And, you know, you got when you have, and that's saying a lot about the structure of the black family now. You've got a mother who's the head of household. And then what do you do? If she's by herself and she's got kids, sometimes we bring the kids along to help us fill in the gaps. And that goes into an issue that I talk about in the book for black girls, adultification,

you know, and you know, we make a lot of our children become more mature than they need to be. They lose out. And it's so interesting. A friend of mine who's in the book, Frederica Newton, the widow of Huey P. Newton, head of Black Panther Party, she said, you know, some kids are given fairy tales, others are nightmares. And I think all children should have fairy tales. And these are numbers that prove it because I believe in the book it's black girls are 11 times more likely to be suspended. Yes. Than white girls in school and nine times more likely to be arrested.

Yes. And that is the adultification of these young girls. Adultification that way and so many other ways. And it's just at this point we have to nurture not only ourselves, but and the community. But we have to figure out how to help navigate what this world is giving to our young black girls who are future. We're going to be the next hero, next generation of heroes. Men are being honest with themselves. You got to say that the women have been the CEOs of our lives forever. You got to say that from women have been the CEOs of our lives forever. You got to say that. Yeah, CEO of the home.

How about that? From the grandmother to the mother. You have to say that. Men are our covering, and I still say that, you know. But we are strong in the home. A lot of times, we're the decision makers. We are, for the most part, having your back. You know, not just some of us, you know, take care of the dinner.

Some of us take care of the wash. But we got your back and so many other ways. We have a hard time at work. But who's there a lot of times for us is we are taking care of the home, taking care of you, taking care of the boss at work, then going to church and figuring out, you know, being the usher or, you know, the choir member or the deaconess and then going to the PTA. I mean, it's so many things we have to jaconess, and then going to the PTA. I mean, it's so many things we have to juggle, and yet we don't get our flowers. And I think a lot of times we're also taught to kind of, you know, endure, like you said, a lot of things.

Yeah. Especially in the workplace. Oh, yes. And I love you. I love your move. I love your entrepreneurship. I love your business mind. You are not staying in a place that, OK, I'm stay here. You're moving higher. You're looking for higher. And unfortunately, a lot of black women don't have that that sisterhood to say, let's push it further because they don't see people who look like you and I in the workspace. A lot of us are alone and cannot talk to other women. And I believe in community and sisterhood so we can bring forward that move. Be another Angela Yee.

Come on now. Now, let's talk about you and your space that you occupy when we talk about being the only black woman. Just so people have some history on who April Ryan is. I'm the only black woman. I'm the longest serving black female journalist in the White House. White House. Ever. White House correspondent, right journalist in the White House. White House. Ever. White House correspondent, right?

Yeah, White House correspondent. Especially when you're focusing on black issues. It's a hard road. And people want to isolate you. They want to call you the angry black woman. Do I look angry, Charlamagne? No. Thank you.

I'm happy. But if you are. I'm pleasant. If you are angry, do you have every right to be? No, I'm not going to fall into that angry black woman's stereotype because people want to say when you bring up issues of a community that's underserved with the highest numbers of negatives and every category. We should be angry. But they want to label you as that instead of saying, no, no, no. Let's take a look at the stats.

They want to divert attention from the real issue and blame me when i have nothing to do with that i'm trying to ask questions to get answers for community that is hurting that's right and i just happen to be along the way a black woman asking those questions you've had those moments oh yeah what are some what are some adversities you faced as the white house correspondent some advers adversities? Yeah. You saw it. Yeah. Being told to sit down. Sit down.

Trump told me, sit down. Sean Spicer said, stop shaking your head. Yeah, he wouldn't take your question because he was shaking your head. Yeah, that was crazy. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who's running for governor of Arkansas, told me my question was stupid. And, you know, been targeted by Fox News. threats just for asking questions of the black community, a community that they didn't want to deal with. So and you know this, you know, the black community has issues, period. And then at the White House, everything comes to the White House from Water Peace and everything in between. And in between all of that is the black community who still

is trying to figure out, why is my water not safe to drink? Not just in Jackson, but in Flint still. You know, policing issues, you know, Ahmaud Aubrey, George Floyd, you know, we, and then what about our economy? You know, we

are, we, when the gas prices were slashed a couple of months ago, and the president opened up the strategic oil reserve, allowing for millions of barrels to be released a day, guess what? Black folks didn't see that

price lowering, because we were having price gouging in our community. You know, you could go across the street and see a $5 and something gallon of gas. And across the street, it would be $4 when in other parts of America, it was $3 and something. You got to look on Gas Buddy. And that's how you're really. How about that?

That app. I love that. Or cheap gas or whatever. Yeah. Let me tell you. Yes, I get it. What do you think about the treatment of VP Kamala Harris then in relation to this book

Black Women Will Save the World and Anthem? What do I think about the treatment in the media and just by people in general speaking about her? Well, number one, being a black woman, people are hypersensitive about that. And some of the things that were coming out

about her or about her staff were just unheard of it was just a lot of gossip and chatter and it was ugly because she was a black woman okay no matter what you think of her she is the first black woman to be in that position she moved and I talk about this in the book she moved Joe Biden forward she pushed him to move forward on matters of race did she though when she okay you don't remember that debate you don't remember I remember that but it was like after she did that when she called him out on the bus and it was like after that it was like almost like she got a phone call to like dial that back and she kind of did a lot since well let me but let me say this and i talk about this in the book it was a lot of

it was a tense time it was a huge moment that i witnessed at the naacp presidential forum debate when all the candidates were there and she wouldn't get out of her her van to come and talk with all the other candidates she didn't come out and meet with Joe Biden. There was a tension there. And Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic on stage with me saying, you know my heart, you know my heart. He was hurting by it. And then backstage, he was like, you know my heart, you know my heart. Kamala Harris was not seen backstage.

It was so tense. There was a come to Jesus moment somewhere. There was a road to Damascus moment or something for Joe Biden, because I never thought the way he felt that pain that those two would come together for this moment. So something happened. There was a coming together. But what happened was George Floyd. Right. This was a transformational moment. And then you had Amy Klobuchar saying you need to have a black woman as your running mate. And he had a list to include Stacey Abrams, Susan Rice, Karen Bass, so many others. I want to give all the sisters the credit to that. Did that op-ed for the USA Today to Angela Rye and Sonny and all. Yeah. Let's give them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Most definitely.

And that pressure, it took pressure from all sides to make that happen. and Sonny and all. Let's give them, yeah, yeah. Most definitely. And that pressure, it took pressure from all sides to make that happen. And you know, Sonny and Angela, they took a hit for that. They took a hit, and Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross, they took a hit for that.

From the party, from the other Democrats. From the Democratic Party. For standing up, pushing for what was right. What was right. When you stand up and speak the obvious, you get ridiculed. You get pushed back.

It's terrible. You have black women, Karine Jean-Pierre, black women in spaces and places that we've never occupied. And that's just governmental. Let's talk about CEOs. Let's talk about the moves upward. And this is a moment no one has said anything about. And I said, you know, I got to market because if you don't market and say, wait a minute, this is a moment in history. We lose the advances.

Black women have taken a lot from a lot of different people, a lot of different groups. And now it's time to say we're here and we're not rolling it back. We got more with Aprilil ryan when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club on this tuesday we're still kicking it with april ryan charlamagne oh as a journalist you know uh there's all these conversations about freedom of speech i don't think people really truly understand the First Amendment. Because you're free to say whatever you want.

But there are consequences behind it. You can get sued for defamation and libel. If you say something that someone doesn't like, it could be consequences. Did you see George Floyd's family, Sue and Kanye, Alex Jones? Well, no, the baby's mother for $250 million. That child has lost her father.

That child is dealing with a lot. You know, yeah, people are supporting her, but she doesn't have her daddy. And she will always remember. She will always see that horrific image of her father. I don't know if people are looking for attention, but we have a responsibility. It's not okay. We have a responsibility it's not okay we have a responsibility as journalists um tucker carlson shouldn't have done what he did having him on that show and he was sitting there smug and watching he loved it because he was like oh this is ratings that's all

he was thinking in his mind because kanye was giving him everything he wanted he knew kanye wasn't well i saw uh chris cuomo bring up the issue you know I take my anti-depression medicine I don't know what you can do for Kanye but what I know is I rather not talk about him and I'd rather not amplify the ignorance of his message how should we look at the role of journalism and how it impacts politics especially right now because I don't feel like there's a lot of journalism out there are you reading the griot are you reading my pieces do you read my stuff dr charlemagne no we got a newsletter you know what see he's so high and lofty go to the griot.com and look at the politics section the april ryan drop down it'll inform checking it out please a lot of people have platforms now who aren't necessarily

journalists yes and that's the unfortunate piece But you know a lot of people have platforms now who aren't necessarily journalists. Yes. And that's the unfortunate piece because we have a lot of citizen journalists out here who give a lot of opinion without facts and that's part of the problem why we are so uninformed and we're not believing what we're

seeing because so many people are talking things that are just not true giving us information that's skewed. The onus is now on the reader, the listener or the watcher to figure out what is opinion versus fact. The line is blurred. And then you've got a lot of people out here who are just pushing things out to make themselves, to make a name, to be on the breakfast club or to just push a narrative that's not true.

And it's a sad time. I mean, the greatness of social media, the greatness of technology is everything. But when you have people abusing it, because it's so open,

we have anyone jumping on. Yeah, people be like, I read it on Twitter. It's true. Do you agree with CNN moving away from opinion-based commentary to more,

what they say, they want fact-based news? I think it's a good idea because we are so, as you guys just pointed out, we are so confused about what's what. I think a lot of news organizations,

I think there's a moment for opinion. I do. I do believe there's a moment for opinion, but I I think there's a moment for opinion. I do. I do believe there's a moment for opinion, but I also believe there's a moment for fact. But we have to differentiate between the two. And there's going to be a lot of people getting in trouble because I'm telling you, Miss Ryan, they do not know the difference. I was literally having a discussion yesterday with somebody about the whole George Floyd, Kanye thing. And it was like, well, why is he getting sued for his perspective? I'm like, it don't matter what your perspective is when something has already been established as a

fact he has a large platform and and what he says speaks volumes to a larger and broader community that wants to downplay and change the narrative and the impact of that that's what it is the impact it's not the fact that he's just Kanye. The impact of what you're saying is devastating. And who you're giving it to. And where you're getting it from. You're just repeating white supremacist rhetoric. The same rhetoric that they used to try to get this guy

off. He's repeating it from Candace Owens, his new best friend. A documentary that I would never watch. You think it's important to watch things that you don't agree with? Yes, it's important that I see what watch. You think it's important to watch things? No, no. Yes, it's important that I see what's out there so I can be informed like coming here. You know, who knew we were going to talk about him? But, you know, but I haven't watched her documentary.

I don't want to watch her documentary because I already know the basis of it. I've talked to people in George Floyd's family. I've talked to people in George Floyd's family. I've talked to people in the community. I've talked to people who were there when it happened. I've talked to Keith Ellison, the state attorney general. I don't need to hear Candace Owens. You think people like attention from being a contrarian and saying things that especially as is it attention or are you being paid well does it is there a benefit and a payoff for you

you know i mean if you are this juxtaposed to your own community that you went into and asked for help from the naacp for something that happened to you many years ago and then you go polar opposite you wonder why I mean it's more than attention it's got to be more than attention April Ryan you know like Bishop T.D. Jakes told you I hope that you are celebrating

myself and I love that you came in here and you gave me just lifted me up. And I want to make sure we do the same thing for you. Thank you, sister. Black women will save the world and anthem. Thank you. This is April Ryan.

It's The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Pow. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is The Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee. Well, Adidas has officially ended their partnership with Kanye. With immediate effect, they released a statement today saying they do not tolerate anti-Semitism and any other sort of hate speech. And his recent comments were unacceptable, hateful, and dangerous.

Adidas said they violated the company's values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness. Now sales and productions of those Yeezy branded products have stopped, as well as payments to Kanye and his companies. They're going to take a $246 million hit to their fourth quarter sales because of this. They've been partners since 2013. That's when Adidas signed that deal and got Kanye away from Nike. And in 2016, they expanded their relationship with Kanye,

saying it was the most significant partnership ever created between a non-athlete and an athletic brand. But after he wore those White Lives Matter t-shirts in public, they actually had the partnership under review. And they said that is a hate slogan used by white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Then when Kanye said, I can say anti-Semitic-ish and Adidas cannot drop me on drink champs, that's when they said, guess again, my friend. That's one of the most ego-fueled comments I ever heard in my life. Like, if you think that German company founded by someone who was in the Nazi party was going to hold on to you after that, then the levels of narcissist you are can't be defined. You can't be a German company to home a denazification and be in bed with a Nazi. We already told you Balenciaga cut ties, Vogue magazine publicly cut

ties. His talent agency, CAA, dropped him as a client. The production company, MRC, that was doing a documentary on him, said they are shelving that documentary. Shares of Adidas fell after this news about 5%. No. In Frankfurt, yeah. They said that yesterday, though. See, I hate when people, and it's not you, but I saw somebody else say that. What?

Yesterday, well, actually four days ago they were saying how Adidas dropped 10%. Then yesterday they had dropped as well, but it didn't have nothing to do with Kanye. Well, I don't know what it has to do with, but I mean, and maybe it does. No, it didn't. I read it, but I can't brief it over the radio that fast, but it wasn't nothing to do with Kanye.

It was something to do with something going on in China. Well, anyway, and I'm sure that today we'll see sales drop as well. You might see them shoot up. I mean, a $246 million hit is a huge hit for Adidas to take in the fourth quarter. Yeah, Christmas time. Regardless of whether the effects of that is going to make the shares drop. All I know is this is one of the biggest L's a black man ever took in business,

and it's all self-inflicted. This is self-sabotage at its finest. All of this literally happened for no reason. Just a series of poor choices, all rooted in bigotry, anti-black, anti-Semitic bigotry. And I pray that this is the wake up call Kanye West needs to literally go get some healing. That brother is hurting and hurt people, hurt people,

but that's not an excuse because he has access to every single resource available to get some healing. And I pray he gets it because he's really moving like a person who doesn't plan to be here much longer. All right. Now let's talk about Blac Chyna. She's threatening legal action against Ava Louise, who is a TikTok star, who has accused Blac Chyna of trying to kidnap and sex traffic her. Now, Ava Louise, by the way, according to this letter that Blac Chyna's attorney, J.D. Sanchez, has sent out as a cease and desist. They also said that Ava Louise has made false, extreme and outrageous statements about Black China in public and rips her for displaying a pattern of menacing and outrageous conduct on social media.

Previously, Ava Louise is the person who admitted to making false statements about Kanye West hooking up with Jeffree Star, the makeup guru and YouTuber. So here is what Ava Louise was saying about Blac Chyna that's causing this lawsuit. For six hours, Chyna held me hostage. She drank an entire bottle of Casamigos in front of me. She wouldn't let me be alone. Every time she had to use the bathroom, she would make me go into the bathroom with her. She took shits in front of me. She forced me to take a wet towel and wipe off all of my makeup. She kept telling me that I had to stay until 10 a.m. because that's when Dream was

going to be out of the home and she was going to go crazy on me at 10 a.m. She kept saying things like that. At about 9 45 a.m.m. China FaceTimed some woman named Donna who told me she was in the escorting industry on FaceTime and Told me that I was good product All right Like I said black China is refuting these claims and allegations and has a cease and desist and is threatening now to sue Those are serious allegations to put out about somebody. All right.

Now, Ashanti, Ja Rule and Fab are going to be headlining the I Love R&B Festival that is taking place on Saturday, May 27th in Long Beach, California. Some of the biggest stars will also be performing during that festival. Maya, Pleasure P, Nivea, Rough Ends, Marcus Houston, 702, Lil Flip and more. Chingy's going to be there as well. Ashanti also announced her new single, Falling For You, which is coming out on Friday. Now Mariah Carey is going

to be performing a special holiday tour in two cities. You know she always has some of the best holiday time music that gets you in the mood. So you can check her out in New York and Toronto. And she said, come celebrate Christmas with me this December. A little excited to be back on stage

and get festive with everybody. Tickets are available to the public on Friday as well. All right, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Rumor Reports. Yeah, and just to be clear, like, you know, because I saw this yesterday, Adidas stock has been dropping over the past few days,

though it was not immediately clear if the decline was directly linked to West's controversy because they were trying to say that the stock was plummeting because they refused to cut ties with Kanye West over anti- Semitism. So it's not because they released

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