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Guess what day it is.
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How y'all feel out there?
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Wednesday, middle of the week.
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What's happening out there?
Yes.
LL Cool Bay, how you feel?
I feel great. Okay.
Feeling good. You know.
You alright? Yeah, I feel
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How you feel? I'm great, brother. How you feeling? I feel
blessed, black, and highly favored. I already told you that.
Happy to be here. Blessed, black, and highly favored.
Let's see what the day brings.
Mercedes Monet. She'll be
joining us. She's a pro wrestler. Formerly
known as Sasha Banks. That's right. Used to be with us. She's a pro wrestler. Formerly known as Sasha Banks.
That's right.
Used to be with the WWE. Left the WWE.
Signed the biggest deal for a woman's wrestler ever with AEW.
That's right.
Now she's the champion over there.
And she's black.
Yes.
She's black.
A lot of people like her.
Yeah.
Yeah, so she'll be here with us this morning.
And it's been like a combat sports week this morning, huh?
Yeah, so much sports.
We had Kayla Plant yesterday. Kayla Plant yesterday, yeah. And it's been like a combat sports week this morning, huh? Yes, so much sports. Kayla Plant yesterday.
Kayla Plant yesterday, yeah.
And today, Mercedes Monet.
I wonder how much
we could pay Mercedes Monet
to F up Charlamagne
one good time.
She told me she'd do
a complimentary for me
because she experienced
what I'd be experiencing
so she was like,
girl, I got you.
And then when I sued her
and I got all of y'all
in court and we got it
on tape that y'all
convinced her to do it,
how much money
do you think I'm going to get?
Let's talk about that. To do what? To attack attack me we're talking tickle you why would you throw
that on us why would you ever think that we would have everybody just heard y'all we said tickle so
what you think how much you think i'll get from that we said tickle we said tickle sir no okay
all right well let's get the show cracking front page news morgan will be joining us we'll kick it
with her i'm sure she'll tell us all that's going on i think president biden was did he speak yesterday at the un or is it today i try to avoid
president biden speaking so i you know when i when i see when i hear those words president
biden speaking right i run i go the other way so i don't know i get it i understand why all right
well we'll get into that when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody
it's dj nv jess larry charlemagne the We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess.
And let's get in some front page news.
Good morning, Morgan.
Good morning. Good morning.
How y'all feeling this morning?
Good. How you feeling?
You know, I'm making do. I'm making do.
Making do.
Halfway through the week.
So, you know, we're going to make it do what it do.
But let's get into it.
So, yeah, President Biden, he's telling world leaders some things are more important than staying in power
he made those comments while addressing the united nations general assembly yesterday on
tuesday and what would be his uh final speech to the general assembly let's hear those comments
from biden on deciding to step down i faced a decision whether to seek a second term as president.
It was a difficult decision.
Being president has been the honor of my life.
There's so much more I want to get done.
As much as I love the job,
I love my country more.
It's time for new generation leadership
to take my nation forward.
My fellow leaders, let us never forget.
Some things are more important than staying in power.
Yes, when you're 89 years old, sleep is one of those things that's more important than staying in power.
At what point does he stop talking about that as like a focal point?
Probably never. I mean, because he's got 50 more days left you know and i mean every time
he's probably in front of a microphone he's gonna say something about it and afterwards because this
is part of his legacy especially if she wins if the vice president wins and this is absolutely
part of president biden's legacy he did the alley well yeah he did he did the right thing correct
step down even though we know he got pushed out rightfully so. But he stepped down and, you know, passed the baton.
So Biden went on to tell the U.N. that they must never forget who they represent, the people.
The president also spoke about the rising tensions in the Middle East and how the world has reached an inflection point.
Let's hear Biden's comments on what's happening in the Middle East.
We're also working to bring greater measure of peace and stability to the Middle East.
The world must not flinch from the horrors of October 7th. Any country, any country would have the right and responsibility to ensure that such an attack can never happen again.
I put forward with Qatar and Egypt a ceasefire and hostage deal. It's been endorsed by the UN Security Council.
Now is the time for the parties to finalize its terms, bring the hostages home.
Must also address the rise of violence against innocent Palestinians on the West Bank
and set the conditions for a better future, including a two-state solution.
So Biden called for diplomatic solutions adding
full-scale war in the region is not in anybody's interest this comes as lebanese officials said
more than 500 people including children were killed in israeli attacks in the country on
monday it also uh it's also as the u.s continues uh as president mentioned, to try to broker a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
In a post on X, U.N. Chief Antonio Guterres said Lebanon is at the brink and the world cannot afford for the country to become another Gaza.
Now, Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire days after the deadliest day in Lebanon in almost two decades following those attacks. Israel said it killed a commander of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group
in an airstrike in Beirut on Tuesday.
So those tensions continue to rise, and I will continue to keep you posted on what's going on with that.
Elsewhere in news, prison officials in Missouri say convicted murderer Marcellus Williams has been executed.
Now, I know you guys have been seeing this on your timelines.
If you've been scrolling as of yesterday,
he was put to death by lethal injection
Tuesday evening, shortly after the U.S.
Supreme Court denied his request for a
stay of execution, meaning
that they would, you know, postpone it or basically
not kill the man.
The 55-year-old Williams was found guilty
in 1998 of the stabbing death
of a newspaper reporter, Felicia Gale.
Williams spent more than two decades on Missouri's death row and had proclaimed his innocence until the end.
The prosecutor's office that convicted him and the victim's family were among those who opposed his execution.
Now, in regards to this case, this man was found guilty.
However, there wasn't any physical evidence in regards to that.
So this is quite the situation that people are, you know.
I don't know.
How do you guys feel about that?
I really don't understand when people choose to respect DNA.
Like, if I read correctly, his DNA didn't match, you know,
the DNA found at the scene of the crimes.
But how did they even find him guilty?
Like, shouldn't science say this clearly couldn't be this individual?
She said there was no physical evidence.
That's the DNA.
She meant the DNA.
But nobody's seen him
or anything like that
as well, right?
I don't know about that.
I know the DNA
is considered the physical evidence.
Yeah, that was the main thing
regarding, like you said,
the DNA, that evidence.
I just don't understand
how when people choose
to respect DNA tests,
it's almost like
they pick and choose.
If his DNA didn't match, his DNA didn't match. I think it was like something with, I was trying to pull it tests. Like, it's almost like they pick and choose. Like, if his DNA didn't match,
his DNA didn't match.
I think it was like
something with,
I was trying to pull it up
real quick,
but the DNA was contaminated
at some point
because one of the prosecutors
had, like, went in
and touched some evidence,
like, once it was,
like, something like that.
And that was...
Go ahead.
No, yeah, no.
I was just saying
when those type of things happen,
I mean, death row
should probably be off the table so you know regarding that but you
know yes this is
the justice system so
how can you make such a permanent decision with such
a you know shaky
evidence like if anything just keep
give him a life sentence until he
sorted out but did kill him
like there's no coming back from that once you realize oh well you know
what he was right oh he
was right we made a mistake like no he's dead now it was uh they they let
a juror go because of race and so his attorney filed that they that they um there was bias in
jury selection and then the contamination of the murder weapon prior to the trial
and the victim's family was asking for him not to be um yeah yeah sending him again to his family
man that's horrible absolutely all right all right well in the next hour we'll talk about you know
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good morning good morning good morning good morning what's your name brother my name cliff
man down here in florida man get ready for the hurricane what's up brother hurricane coming uh
yeah it's gonna hit the big bed probably thursday so but we down i'm down here in uh south florida
southwest florida so we're used to this thing so we ain't really panicking right now. Okay, okay, what's happening?
I just wanted to talk about that Marcellus Willis case, man, in my opinion.
Go ahead, brother.
You know, when they say, you know, he stabbed, you know, when he stabbed her 40-some times,
it's like, you know, anybody can tell that's a crime of passion.
And if you look at it, that's why I always tell people, you know, you got to vote for the matter of what judges you have.
You know, when you have those judges in the Supreme Court, when they, you know, I say back to court because something like that, you know, be in our favor.
And he had, you know, he had all the evidence for him and they still ended up doing, you know, doing what they did.
So that's why I say you got to at least, you know, you got to vote.
You know what I mean?
And then judges make a big difference, man, because anybody
looking at that case would have been like, you know,
if it wasn't a crime of passion, they'd place you
with it. So I think, you know, in my opinion,
I think it's somebody that was probably close to it.
Yeah, I get it,
my brother. Well, thank you, brother.
I appreciate it, man. Thanks for letting me talk, man.
Y'all have a good morning.
But it's interesting because they say the fingerprints, the bloody shoe print,
hair, and other evidence that the crime didn't match William, you know, and they said the DNA on the knife belonged to members of the prosecutor's office.
So I guess that's what they say.
It was mishandled.
I'm just wondering how the family feels following the execution.
Oh, horrible.
I'm sure.
Hello.
Who's this?
You got Matt from Springfield.
What's up, brother?
What's up, Mac from Springfield. What's up, brother? What's up, Mac, from Springfield?
What up, what up, man?
I just want to say, just want to shout out to myself for staying positive and a good headspace.
Because, you know, sometimes you can be hard out here, Black Brother.
I love that.
Also, I wanted a book from you, Charlamagne.
I got you, brother.
I'm going to put you on hold.
Eddie going to get your information.
And we're going to send you a copy of my new book, Get Honest to Die Lying, Why Small Talk Sucks.
I like that mentality, though.
Wake up in the morning and say,
I'm going to pat my own self on the back.
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Hello, who's this?
Good morning, Blind Beauty
Hey Blind Beauty, good morning
Good morning, um, Shalina
I am here Blind Beauty, how are you?
Good morning, good, Lauren's here as well Yes, good morning Good morning. Good morning. Charlene. I am here. Blind Beauty. How are you?
Good morning.
Good morning.
Yes.
Good morning.
Good morning.
All right.
Boom.
I was just watching the Casey crew.
Right.
And this topic was very interesting.
So he was talking about he walked into a hotel and found some panties.
Right.
Yes.
Got upset. Showed it to Gia.
I'm thinking about this, and I feel like because there's a negative connotation
or a stereotype that men cheat,
I feel like that's why all the women you ask
would not believe you.
However, people feel like women don't cheat that often.
So I feel like a man would be more likely to believe his woman.
Like, oh, they didn't clean up properly.
For people that don't know, I was in Vegas a week ago.
And when I walked into my hotel room, I was talking to my wife on FaceTime.
And I looked in the corner and I noticed that there was a pink thong in the corner.
Boy, you lucky you was on that phone when you walked through the door.
That's what I said.
I said, if my wife was coming,
flying in a couple of hours later or the next day
and she walked in and seen that,
there's no way in hell
my wife and I could be like,
well, how did that panty get there?
And I can't say,
I don't know.
No, that wouldn't be a thing.
Well, Envy told me the story
and he showed me the picture.
I immediately thought
the panties were Envy's.
He definitely told me that.
That's what he said.
He said, they yours?
I believe that.
No, he said that a thousand percent.
I'm like, that's Envy panties.
But I was talking to my wife about that.
I was like, yo, it's messed up because that could mess up people's
relationships and i told my wife you know if if she had flown in a couple of hours later and seen
it what would she think and she was like oh i would definitely think that was another girl and
you was cheating and i said well why she was like not that i don't trust you not that i don't love
you but she was like how do you explain that nasty Nasty ass freaking maids.
Didn't do their job.
Didn't do their job.
But, you know, I went downstairs.
It's a negative connotation, though.
If you, like you said to Gia, if I walked in and I saw brief and she said, well, I would just say they didn't clean possibly.
They're nasty.
I feel like you would believe her.
I would, but you know what I would do?
I would actually go downstairs to the hotel and say somebody stole something in my room
and I would have them
pull the camera
just so I could see
who's going in and out that room.
Say you believe her,
but like not all the way.
I mean,
because it's,
how can a maid not clean
some underwear off the floor?
But why do men,
because they're not being.
Exactly,
but why do men do that?
If you don't believe her,
just say you don't believe her.
Why would you say you believe her
then go do all that
on the back end?
Like,
what's wrong with you saying
I don't believe you?
Because I had a history,
she hasn't.
Oh yeah, you're right. You better not say that. See, see what wrong with you saying, I don't believe you? Because I had a history. She has. Oh, yeah, you're right.
You better not say that. See, see what I'm saying?
Yep. Well, thank you, Blonde Beauty. Yep.
Yep. Have a good one.
Get it off your chest. But I tell Charlamagne, because I was pissed off. Charlamagne, like, how you know that didn't fall
out your bag? How you know that's not your panties?
I'm like, Jesus Christ. I knew those were his.
You did, because you know his body. You know his size. I mean, I just know him.
You can eye it. I just know him. I know
that he wasn't cheating. That's number one. And so the only logical thing after that is the fact that he wears
panties himself i do not wear panties you didn't know him you wear panties i do not do not listen
to him you didn't know that lauren shut up get it off your chest it don't even go with him 805 85
105 when we have jess your wife putting pressure on you like that they mine
it's not gonna believe the truth no which is i walked in and they were just in here I'm not saying they're yours. What, Laura La Rosa? Listen, your wife putting pressure on you like that, they mine. They mine. They mine.
It's not going to believe the truth.
No.
Which is I walked in and they were just in here.
Nope.
They mine then.
They mine.
They damn sure ain't no other woman.
Nope.
We got Jess with the best with Laura La Rosa.
Um, yeah.
Lauren's phone.
Like, both, yesterday and today,
both of y'all have like thrown me off.
Like, yesterday it was,
or the day before it was the hair thing with him.
Today it's you with panties. I don't know whaties i don't know what tomorrow gonna bring but we are talking about
that's so crazy mv were they lace i don't know the victoria's secret i picked it up with a pen
and looked at it um it's nasty diddy there's a new lawsuit with diddy i think it's like at this
point every other day there's another one all right but we'll talk about that when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj nv just hilarious charlamagne
the guy we are the breakfast club let's get to just with the mess with laura la rosa
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So there's a new Diddy lawsuit.
A woman is claiming that Diddy and a friend viciously raped her at a bad boy record studio in New York and that all of the abuse was recorded on camera.
Now, this woman, her name is Thalia Graves.
She's suing Diddy and she's claiming that she's had suicidal thoughts since all of this.
And the second person that she's saying was involved in this was diddy's head of security uh allegedly a guy named joseph sherman um and she said that this happened back in 2001 now in her lawsuit she claimed she was 25 years old she was dating one of diddy's employees when
he lured her into a meeting with um him and sherman the security guard alone uh then she
claims that she was sequestered um and given a drink and the drink
was late likely laced with a drug that eventually caused her to briefly lose consciousness now she's
also claiming that she woke up to find herself bound and restrained with diddy and the security
guard sherman proceeding to brutally sexually abuse her and violate her mercilessly raping her anally and vaginally.
Now, she's also saying that following this, she thought about killing herself.
She had to get extensive psychological treatment.
And she's also saying that she never reported the incident out of fear of Diddy and fear that, you know,
this could ruin her life because they threatened to do so.
She ever spoke out. She had a press conference yesterday she's being represented um by uh gloria alred and she talked a bit about what she's been experiencing
since um she claims that situation went down the internal pain after being sexually assaulted
has been incredibly deep and hard to put into words It goes beyond just physical harm caused by and during the assault.
It's a pain that reaches into your very core of who you are
and leaving emotional scars that may never fully heal.
Some of the hardest parts of this pain are the shame and the guilt
I have experienced that plays a negative part in my day-to-day ability to function properly,
being blamed, questioned, and threatened has often made me feel worthless, isolated, and sometimes responsible for what happened to me.
Now, another part of this press conference, and we won't play all of the audio or we can if you
guys want to but it's pretty lengthy um another part of the press conference is where you know
they allow the actual media outlets that are there to ask questions and two of the questions that i
thought were interesting was one of the outlets asked about uh the the time frame of of uh this
accuser finding out that the video existed and she's claiming that not only does this video exist but that it's actually been resold as pornography and other different things um so there was a 20-year
time span between when this happened and when she found out about the video but the interesting
thing that this outlet brought up was the fact that that 20-year time span of when she found
out was around the time that a lot of cassie's claims were happening um so they were trying to
tie it into cassie's case in the lawsuit that Cassie filed.
What they were getting at was, is this woman a part of the criminal indictment that we
are watching Diddy go through as well?
And her attorney would not answer the question.
And she said, we had no comment.
And then they asked the second question that kind of lended into that.
They asked if this new accuser had ever testified in front of the grand
jury that indicted diddy and her attorney said we have no comment and she said she would never
comment on something that can be uh used as criminal evidence i thought that was interesting
because it's either saying directly she may be a part of this criminal indictment that we're
watching but it wasn't confirmed or it's saying that they're not opposed to her being a part of
it and they may have evidence that should be not opposed to her being a part of it
and they may have evidence that should be used and now this is a signal to prosecutors like hey
come and talk to us because we have some things that may help you so she's saying it's a video
with diddy on it yeah she said there's a video of diddy in the security guard brutally uh and
viciously you know allegedly raping her and that this and she's performing a very sexual accident
this video is being sent out to people and they'd even found evidence that it had actually been sold as
pornography and and this is the first time we've ever heard any of the women say evidence if they
said it was sold that means they must have evidence that they had to because it's the first
time we hear any of the women claiming that well she's better off pursuing uh something criminal
because i'm actually shocked that the lawyers are doing it in the civil way because they know
there ain't no money there.
Like,
they ain't not spending
no money on civil suits
when you got a criminal case.
But she's saying
maybe they did it already.
Maybe that was part
of the indictment
to get him arrested.
Yeah,
we don't know
if they haven't.
I thought it was interesting
though because the way-
Wouldn't we know
that already though?
Wouldn't that be
in the indictment?
We don't know
all the people
in the indictment yet.
You know what I mean?
We still don't know.
Because I thought
the videotapes
they talked about having were videotapes they talked about having
were videotapes they seized from...
We don't know everything
that they have.
They said they had tapes.
They said they had security footage
and they said they had phones.
We have no idea.
Remember, they've only given us
a little bit of information
and then when he tried
to get the bail,
appeal the bail bonds,
they came out
with more information.
That's what I was saying.
That's why I thought
that those questions
were interesting
and I thought the way
that the attorney answered it
was interesting as well too.
So this is something that we'll have to follow if it does go criminal
i mean she'll just be an additional witness and whatever this indictment is yeah because after
kathy no more civil suits gonna be settled so you better off trying to get a criminal case open
well that civil well is dry but if she wins the civil case then there's no more money though that's
what i'm saying all the money all the money there's no more money well did he if she wins
did he have to sell some homes did he have to sell some homes? Diddy going to have to
sell some...
All that's going to go
to the criminal case.
Well, listen.
We got to leave it up
to a judge and a jury.
When will they unseal
everything in the indictment?
When will they have to say...
Because there has to be
a point where they have
to tell the defense
everything that they have.
I'm not for sure
if there's an actual
deadline for that,
but that's the conversation
they were having
the second arraignment
that Diddy lost.
They were basically trying to figure out when is he going to go into trial?
And remember, they said, well, give us some time because we have more people that have come forward to us and we want to be able to go through all this evidence to submit stuff to discovery.
So we're going to find out. I don't know when I can answer that.
But moving on to something else, D.L. Hughley, we have reported about him coming out and slamming Janet Jackson for not knowing how to answer the question on whether Kamala Harris is black or not.
When she was asked by The Guardian, she actually said, oh, I thought Kamala Harris had a white dad.
That's what I heard.
So he sat down with TMZ.
Shout out to Tawanda, my homegirl, interviewed him.
And he actually doubled down on feeling like Janet Jackson did that on purpose.
Let's take a listen.
For me particularly, I just had to make an apology to the vice president at the DNC because I, too, was trucking in misinformation.
It's easily provable to decide to determine whether her father is black or not.
You could you could you could Google it right now.
Find out there's a reason you don't want to know.
And there's a reason that information or finding something like that, you've never seen that in mainstream or even middle-of-the-road news.
You have to search the furthest reaches of the right-wing Internet to find that.
It's the same place where they tell you Haitians eat dogs.
It's the same place they tell you that Obama wasn't born here.
It's the same place where all the scandals live and all these right-wing conspiracy theories live first one it seemed ironic that a woman who has had family members know now for for a lot of people
they're questioning whether um kamala is black but there are a lot of people questioning whether
jackson's want to be dl is completely wrong when he says you only find those things what he said
in the deep dark crevices on the other side the side that pushed that because i'm not on that side
of twitter and it was all it's all over my timeline that's on mainstream news like all of these all
of those conversations he named the the haitians eating the dogs the uh what was the other thing
you said obama's not being born here all of those things sadly have been centers of debate on cable
news networks because these cable news networks from fox to msnbc to cnn they make these things
the center of debate which I always think is
insane to me I don't know why they make those things the center
of debates but they do so you don't have to
that's not in the deep dark crevices of the internet
I know but the first time we covered this we
talked it to like he's a comedian it could have
been a joke it could have been whatever this time
the way he doubled down he even mentions like remove
comedy from the situation he does
believe that this was something that she did
on purpose Janet
Jackson I was so disappointed by that statement and the reason why is because I feel like with
DL Hughley and I know he watches the show people look at you as a talking head and a figure which
is why TMZ is sitting down and having a conversation so if you feel like it's a it's an issue to see a
black woman push something that you think maliciously is happening why would you be now
a person that is pushing a narrative against janet jackson a black woman against a potential black woman president like if if you
read that interview she only brought it up because she was asked the question you made a mistake you
were giving grace why can't she be giving grace like i was so disappointed to hear him double
down on this i didn't understand the point of why why do that yeah i don't think i don't think janet
did that on purpose i think she's just misinformed like so many people i just think she was and i think when you're misinformed you have
to correct people and honestly that's what i think people are missing in this whole conversation
about janet jackson the fact that misinformation can run so rampant that even somebody like janet
jackson can be got by misinformation so how do you think how do you think so many other americans
feel and if her team hasn't tightened up on anything they didn't they're gonna tighten up on politics this time around it's a learning lesson and y'all gave her
her spankings now let her move on and if you ever been around janet or ever seen janet or ever seen
or watch any documentary around janet she's in her own bubble she's in her own world she doesn't
necessarily connect to the internet and connect to social media i get it just not there's a
responsibility though when you are a person on a platform,
which is why people ask the question,
but she got her spanking letter, move on.
This is not about Janet.
This is about combating misinformation.
So many people in our society,
from political pundits to people on the news
to just regular everyday people
are being bombarded with misinformation all the time.
How do we combat that?
I don't know why we're making this just about Janet Jackson. But from reputable sources as well.
From reputable sources.
Well, people that think are reputable sources.
But you know why people are making this about Janet?
Because it stirs the pot in the conversation.
Like, y'all, we're having such a great conversation right now, and that's why.
So we're going to move on because we're not going to be, you know, some of the people harping on Janet.
We should talk about combating misinformation.
That's what we should be talking about.
All right. Well, when we come come back we got front page news morgan
wood will be giving us some right information and then we're going to be kicking it with pro
wrestler mercedes monet i don't move it's the breakfast club good morning you're checking out
the breakfast club morning everybody is dj envy jess alaris shalameen the guy we are the breakfast
club lauren rosa filling in for jessessa Let's get back to some front page news
Good morning Morgan
Good morning Morgan, good morning y'all
Let's get into it, yeah I'm throwing off too a little bit
But let's get into it
So authorities in Tippie, Arizona
Are investigating, they're saying that
Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign office
Was shot at and damaged overnight
It was one of 18 field offices
In Arizona, police say no one was
inside the campaign office when it happened, but authorities are concerned about safety,
of course, surrounding the election and the assassination attempts with Donald Trump,
political violence mounting. Yes, so authorities are concerned. Now, this comes a week after the
windows were shot out with a pellet or BB gum and just days ahead of her rally in the swing state.
Now, former President Trump, he's talking about his plans for the economy in Savannah, Georgia.
He made those comments on Tuesday. Trump told his supporters he wants to take other countries' jobs.
Let's hear more from former President Trump in Savannah, Georgia.
We'll create millions and millions of jobs,
massively raise wages for American workers
and make the United States into a manufacturing powerhouse
like it used to be many years ago.
100% tariff on every single car coming across the Mexican border.
We want American citizens and we want their plants built here,
not two feet over the border and selling them into our country. We're not doing that. We don't do that anymore.
We don't do that anymore. Trump also said he'll unlock the energy potential in the U.S. by allowing
more drilling and fracking. Meanwhile, reports say Vice President Kamala Harris will talk about
her economic plans during a visit in Pittsburgh today, this afternoon.
So switching gears, but also staying on the topic of political violence, Ryan Ruth, who is the
second assassination attemptee, he has officially been charged with attempted assassination
of a major presidential candidate. CNN reports prosecutors filed the charges Tuesday afternoon.
Ruth allegedly camped outside of Trump's West Palm Beach golf course
for hours armed with a rifle earlier this month.
On Monday, the Justice Department revealed a letter written by Ruth
addressed to the world, which said this was an assassination attempt
on Donald Trump, but I failed you.
Ruth also faces multiple gun- related charges regarding that incident.
Also surrounding those type of incidents, Congress is passing a bill to boost Secret Service protection for presidential candidates.
Remember, we were talking about that, whether or not Trump should have the same level of security, Secret Service security as a sitting president.
Well, Congress is passing a bill to make sure that that happens.
The legislation passed unanimously on Tuesday and now heads to President Biden's desk.
Will he sign it?
The bill will give Donald Trump and Vice President Harris the same level of protection provided to Biden.
Of course, this comes the same month as there was multiple or that comes as there were multiple attempts on Trump's life.
Yeah, I mean, in this particular climate uh I feel like you know they
they should have that level of protection and not just now you know moving forward because
for whatever reason it feels like we're becoming so used to these attempts of political violence
like not just the two attempts on you know President Trump think about how you just
breezed past the fact that Kamala Harris's uh uh campaign office in Arizona just got shot up. That shouldn't just be a normal headline
for us, for America.
So, yeah, they all need that
level of protection. Speaking of level of protection,
who's going to protect the Haitians?
A non-profit is
filing criminal charges against former President
Donald Trump and Senator J.D. Vance,
his VP running mate.
First Amendment attorney Sibode
Chandra said the charges may be warranted.
Let's hear from the lawyer. If a judge honestly and dispassionately reviews the facts and reads
the law on disrupting public services, making false alarms, telecommunications harassment,
then the court will issue arrest warrants.
The charges are supported by probable cause that if you substituted your name or mine or anybody
else's for Trump or Vance, charges would be brought. So the charges stem from claims that
both former President Trump and Senator Vance have made that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating the dogs.
They're eating the dogs, eating the cats, eating the pets.
So the charges, which include making false alarms and committing telecommunications harassment,
were able to be filed due to an Ohio statute which allows private citizens to file criminal charges.
City and county prosecutors are now reviewing the charges to determine if there is
actual probable cause
and they can bring those charges
to the former president
and his VP running mate.
What do you guys think?
Is it that serious?
Why not?
Yes, and I'm about to say
it should always be.
Why not?
Because think about how they put
Haitian people's lives in danger.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, not just in that small town,
but anywhere.
Like, you know, if people think that if they see Haitian migrants and
not just Haitian migrants just Haitians in general right like yes I'm sure you
know I don't want to say violence has increased against Haitians but at least
maybe threats of violence have increased against Haitians and we and we do this
with other communities like you know when when it comes to anti-semitism so
it the same things apply
yeah here absolutely in fact um in springfield ohio there have been multiple bomb threats that
have closed hospitals closed schools down things of that nature and it is impacting um the people
so much so that the uh official elected officials in that town and in the state are basically
telling trump to stay away because even though they're in there are long party lines they are
they are republicans themselves they're telling trump to stay away because uh you know your comments are causing
some trouble in our uh state in our city so but that's your front page news i'm morgan wood you
can follow me on social at morgan media uh for more news coverage make sure you're following
the black information network download the free iheart radio at visit BINnews.com. Thank y'all. Let's get through the week.
All right.
Thank you, Morgan.
Now, when we come back, pro wrestler Mercedes Monet will be joining us.
She's formerly known as Sasha Banks.
She recently signed the biggest record-breaking deal to AEW.
We're going to kick it with her next.
All right?
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
The Breakfast Club.
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Jess Hilarious is on maternity leave, so we have Lauren LaRosa filling in.
And we got a special guest in the building.
Ladies and gentlemen, the CEO, Mercedes Monet.
Welcome.
What's up, champ?
Thanks, guys.
Thanks for having me.
How you feeling?
I'm feeling good.
I'm happy to be here.
I want to start from the beginning.
For people that don't know who you are you are a huge wrestler and how did you
get into the wrestling game what made you say i want to do that uh it's when i was 10 years old
i started watching wrestling on tv and there was like nothing on tv i was scrolling through the
channels and then wb was on i was like whoa what is this this is interesting my mom came in the
room she's like turn this off wrestling's's the devil. Wrestling's so bad.
I went to my brother's room
the next door.
She said,
wrestling's the devil?
It's the devil.
It's so bad.
She's religious?
She's very religious.
Then I went to my brother's room,
finished watching wrestling,
and just instantly a light
just came into my soul.
I was like,
this is going to be
your soul calling.
This is going to be
your soul purpose.
And since I was 10 years old
until now,
here I am at 32,
every single day I was just dreaming about wrestling and being a professional wrestler old till now here I am at 32 every single day was just dreaming
about wrestling and being a professional wrestler and now here I am the greatest women's wrestler
of all time did your brother used to practice his moves on you DDT no no no my brother has
special needs so you couldn't have done that no okay okay okay okay so you originally uh were
born in California yeah and then you moved to to Boston Now, why did y'all move to Boston?
Was it for your brother?
It was for my brother.
My brother has special needs.
And we moved around a lot just to find the right doctors and the right schools for him.
And finally, my mom got a job out in Boston.
There's the Boston accent.
We moved out there.
I started training in MMA when I was 16 years old because there's no professional wrestling school that would train me at the time.
You had to be 18.
You could fight for real then. I was trying to train for real to get me
ready for wrestling. Trained out in Massachusetts for two years and then I turned 18
during pro wrestling school. And then two years later, I got signed by WWE.
How did your mom feel when you started the training? My mom was like, oh God,
why? No. But once I got signed, she became my biggest
fan.
She drove me to all my wrestling shows and to wrestling training.
So deep down, she supported me.
She loved it.
She loved that I had this dream of legit since I was 10.
I told my mom, this is what I was going to do.
This is my goal.
This is my dream.
And I got to go do it.
But once I really made it, that's when she's like my biggest fan.
Pardon my ignorance.
I didn't know there was pro wrestling schools. It's like what? Ric Flair University or something?
There's some professional wrestling schools all over the world.
For actual, like for this type of wrestling?
To be the best, you got to train with the best.
I've traveled all over the world to be the best.
Is it like you get belts there?
You get degrees?
Like what do you get?
No, you don't.
You get belts in the big leagues.
I'm with AEW.
I'm a two-time champion.
No, you just begin training. You learn how to
bump, how to hit the ropes, how to be a performer,
how to cut promos.
Like I said, there's wrestling schools all over the
world. They're in New York. They're in Boston.
They're in England. They're in Australia.
Wrestling is global.
Do these organizations go to these schools to find
talent? They do. They scout them out.
They either scout them out or us as wrestlers we have to book ourselves we have to go out and make a name for
ourselves and be seen um i remember writing to wwe every single week anytime they were in town
for boston i'm like can i be can i please be an extra can i be an extra work can i get a look at
um then they looked at me and then they sent me down to florida for a week tryout and then that's
when i got signed full time.
Wow.
Congrats.
What was your break?
What was your big break that actually got you into wrestling?
I feel like my biggest break was in 2015.
Myself and this wrestler named Bailey.
We had the greatest women's match of all time.
Sports Illustrated said we had the greatest women's match of all time.
And that's really changed the landscape of women's wrestling after that match.
I felt like a lot of people started taking it seriously and really letting people know that women can do it just like the men and more.
And because me and Bailey had that match and the standing ovation, the crowd reaction, the next pay-per-view, me and her got to main event that pay-per-view special because we did so good.
Wow. And how many injuries did you receive you know throughout this whole process and how bad has it been not too many i've had about five
broken noses my ribs broken jesus um dislocated pelvis you said not too many not not too many
um and last year i uh broke my heel which took me out for a whole year
yeah how long did it take before you feel like you made it in wrestling i don't know
maybe maybe no i feel i feel like i made it um like i said 2015 was like that start of that buzz
for women's wrestling and then really 2020 2021 where i main evented wrestlemania being the first
ever black woman to main event a wrestlemania that's when i really felt like i did something
i made it i want to espy off that match um that's when i really felt like i did something i made it
i want to espy off that match um that's another match where fans come to me and be like because
of that match my little girl wants to be a wrestler i can bring my my kids to wrestling
or i enjoy all of this because of your matches you make me feel a certain type of way um so i
feel like maybe really in 2020 2021 is when i really felt like i made it or like i submitted
my legacy and wrestling you take
wrestling with your spouse to a whole nother level like you know you wrestle with your girl or you
have fun you take that to a whole nother level now you can't play with her now you can't play with
you don't play with me don't play with me I'll slam you down I'll put you in a bank statement
I'll make you tap out if you mess with me could you imagine you playing with your girl and all
of a sudden she got you in the illegit arm bar like all right tap out to do that in real life
for real to one of your guys
Not to any of my guys
A couple of fans
When they want to come
A little too close
Yeah
You don't got security
I do have security
I'm about to say
I just got security
So yes
Yeah
I mean and you don't need security
You know to protect
You from people more
So in some cases
To protect people from you
Yeah exactly that
Exactly that
Do guys like approach you
Like wanting you to do
Wrestle moves to them All the time That's so annoying That's so weird Mercedes body slamming Exactly that. Do guys approach you wanting you to do wrestle moves?
All the time.
That's so annoying.
Mercedes body slamming, body slamming.
Because they just want to be really close and snug.
But you got to give them new space.
You got to be like push back.
Hold the championship and we'll stand a little far apart for our picture.
That's it.
What do you think would have been your plan B if you didn't make it as a wrestler?
That's hard.
I never really had a plan B before I was a wrestler.
I was an order taker at a restaurant.
I was a shoes associate.
So I feel like maybe just a manager at a hotel.
I just only saw wrestling for me. That was my A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
My only goal, my only desire.
So I think I would only be a professional wrestler in some type of way, you know, or in the wrestling industry.
Did you ever feel like giving up?
Did you always have like the full support of your family?
Was there anybody saying, hey, why don't you go learn a trade?
There's only been maybe twice in my career where I'm like, I don't think I can do this anymore.
Just the pressure, the politics, let alone just the politics and being a woman in this sport.
It's a male dominated sport and a woman of color nonetheless um there was a couple times where i had to look deep down inside
and be like do i really want to do this do i really want to go through this pain every single
day it's not just mental pain it's physical pain that we're putting our bodies through
every single week the travel and then the the bumping getting on the cars driving to the next
towns um but then i just look back into my soul and be like what is your sole purpose what makes you smile what makes your heart
you know flutter what makes you go chase your goals and it's always been professional wrestling
what um you said you worked at a shoe store i did what store did you work with baker's
baker's shoe store yeah so i see like your photos and your photo shoots the stuff that you do for
mona mag is like very like fashion, artsy.
So incorporating your fashion sense and then like what you like about art
and all that stuff into your brain, when did that become a thing?
When did you know you needed to do that?
Right away.
I mean, watching wrestling is larger than life.
You had to watch like the Macho Man.
He had the bright colors, the glasses, the hair.
I knew when I was going to be a professional wrestler,
I wanted to be larger than life because I was such a shy girl growing up.
And then when I got signed, I dyed my hair.
I got the nails.
I got the necklace.
I got the glasses.
And then really I started to tap into myself and being like, OK, it's OK to be beautiful and feel that way and tap into your femininity.
And I love fashion and art and getting to design your own wrestling gears and wear that out every single week.
It's the funnest part of wrestling.
I love being a girl and I love coming up with my costumes and I feel like I have the best
costumes in the game.
All right.
We have more with pro wrestler Mercedes Monet.
When we come back, don't move.
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Now, we're still kicking it with pro wrestler Mercedes Monet.
Now, is it true that Snoop is a relative of yours?
He's my first cousin.
Yes.
Snoop is your first cousin.
When did you find that out?
Did you always know growing up?
I didn't find out until I was maybe like 10 years old.
And my dad's like, Snoop's coming to Iowa, which I where I lived at the time.
He's like, so let's go see him.
Saw him.
I told everybody at school, like Snoop Dogg's my cousin.
And everyone's like, no, he's not.
No, he's not.
Went to the concert and Snoop gave me like a whole box of shirts to give to everybody
at the school the next day.
And I felt like the coolest kid in class.
And then when I was 16, he was hosting WrestleMania.
And I messaged my dad.
I'm like, can you please ask Snoop to bring me to WrestleMania?
Please, please, please.
He brought me to WrestleMania.
And I feel like just from that in, our bond came from wrestling.
Like we just talked about wrestling
We love wrestling and still to this day is one of my biggest fans and supporters first cousin
I mean one of your parents is his my dad is his uncle. Yes. Oh
Gloria Wow Wow your smoke with him. Yes, of course
After a match I'm hoping not before after a match. Yes. It's for my inflammation inspiration. There you go medicinal medicinal yeah yeah um your name used to be Sasha Banks yes and you changed the Mercedes which is
your real name why the name changed because Sasha Banks was such a big entity big brand it was
because I was with um WWE and they own the IP Sasha Banks and um it was time for me to grow and
to be more and to be more like I legit wanted to find myself and it's so hard to be more and to be more. Like, I legit wanted to find myself. And it's so hard to be a different identity
and a different name for 10 years,
having someone call you by a different name
and pretending for you to be this character
that they want you to be.
So for me, I wanted more for women's wrestling.
I wanted more for myself.
And I said, where can I do that?
How can I do that?
And that was jumping the ship and going to AEW.
Where did the Sasha Banks name come from?
It came from WWE. They tell everybody when you name come from? It came from WB.
They tell everybody when you get signed to give up a list of names.
And I gave them Sasha with a different last name and Banks with a different first name.
And they were like, Sasha Banks, here's your name.
Was it never an option for you to be like, I want to own the IP of Sasha Banks?
Or that's just how it goes?
It was never the option.
Not with that company.
No, no, no.
But with AEW, now I own my name and I own my brand. And it's the best it's ever been for myself and my career. It's the best.
Do you ever feel like you was losing yourself in the caricature of Sasha Banks?
Absolutely. Because you have to play her 24-7. Being a wrestler is role-playing online. It's role-playing offline. It's once you're off the flight, you got to be on. It's once I put on that wig, I'm on.
I'm Sasha Banks.
And it's just like, I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not her.
I'm Mercedes.
I'm Mercedes Monet.
And I really felt like it was time to be that and to own that brand.
So what's the difference between, you think, Mercedes Monet and Sasha Banks?
Well, Sasha was a legit boss.
And now Mercedes, she leveled up.
She is the CEO of her own life.
She is the CEO of the women's division own life she is the CEO of the women's division and she is the best of the game she won't let anybody tell her no and with
Sasha Banks I was told what to do I was told what to say I was told where to be and now really I get
to be the CEO of my own life and let people know where I want to be you know why uh I know that
you're a person who's willing to bet on yourself. You don't see people leave the WWE.
No.
To go to a company like AEW.
So I would think it's like the other way around.
Like WWE is like the top of the top, right?
That's usually how it used to be. But now it's not.
Wrestling has become bigger than ever.
And now that there's a second brand like this, like AEW, who's here to disrupt this industry, disrupt the business.
It's been amazing. Next week, we're going to be celebrating five, like AEW, who's here to disrupt this industry, disrupt the business. It's been amazing.
Next week, we're going to be celebrating five years of AEW.
We're beating out WCW, and fans online are getting mad about that every single day.
But it's the best it's ever been, and it's the most talked about that professional wrestling has ever been talked about in this industry of the world.
So it's the best time to be a fan and to be a professional wrestler in the sport.
Why did you leave WWE, though though i left for many different reasons a lot of personal stuff
happened with myself and the chairman at the time and um i didn't like how he talked to me and how
i was you know just talked down to and i was like you know what it's time to legit listen to your
soul and your heart there was a light that came to me one day and I just left WWE. And my guides told me
and I'm guided to being a two-time champion at AEW.
So you see somebody like Vince McMahon.
He's got the sexual abuse suit,
if I'm not mistaken.
I'm not the lawyer.
I don't know.
Someone like that.
But he used to talk to you crazy?
Yeah, a little crazy.
That day he would talk to me a little crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that was enough to be like, I'm out.
It was enough for my source of light to come into my body and be like, you know what?
If you stay, that's not okay.
This is for the rest of your life.
And what are you going to teach your kids?
What are you going to teach just people?
If you're feeling like this from words after being here for 10 years, you got to stand up for yourself.
And that's what I did.
It's the light, the same light that came to me when I was 10 years old being like, this is your that's what i did there's a light the same
light that came to me when i was 10 years old being like this is your sole purpose this is what
you're gonna do another light came to me and be like you you gotta walk away and do something
better for yourself so there was no protection for for you guys for wrestlers for especially
for female wrestlers at all no no but we're changing that every day i'm changing that every
day for women's wrestling yeah so there's no human resources? We went to everybody.
And no, there wasn't.
Where did y'all go after WWE?
You went to Japan, right?
I went to Japan, and I won the IWGP Women's Championship.
Trinity went to TNA and became the knockout champion.
And now here I am as the New Japan Strong Women's Champion.
I've done a lot of things just leaving WWE.
I walked the runways.
I did a movie.
I just really just tapped in finding out who Mercedes really is
because I was Sasha for so long.
Are you going to get to do whatever that collab was supposed to be with Meghna Saeed?
Not right now.
Unfortunately, no.
What was that supposed to be?
Something fun.
Either a tag team match, a wrestling match, something.
But she's wrestling with you?
I would like some.
Either wrestle with me or wrestle against me.
But there was talks of doing something fun with her.
But now she's doing the opening theme song for SmackDown, which is awesome.
But is it because you can't because you were with WWE before and now you're not?
Or is it just like right now, brand-wise, you just don't want to be attached
because she's attached to WWE?
No, just brand-wise,
she did a song with WWE and I'm with AEW,
so I just think we can't do anything together.
But are y'all still homegirls?
Y'all still talk?
She's not my best friend or anything,
but she wants to be my homegirl, absolutely.
We only met a couple of times
and she's really awesome.
You just had your CEO hat on
when you were trying to put that together.
I did.
I was trying to get her on the board.
That's exactly right.
Didn't Sexy Ray do something with AEW
she did something with
AEW
not AEW
NXT
NXT
yeah which is part of WB
wow wrestling
it's so much going on
it's a lot of different
yeah
Jesus
who else would you want to
wrestle in the celebrity world
because I love when I've seen
Floyd do it
I love when I've seen
Shaq do it
who else was it
it was
oh yeah Shaq did it did a great was it? It was a... Oh, yeah, Shaq did it.
A reggaeton artist did it, too, as well.
Did a great job.
Who else would you want to wrestle, if possible?
Ooh.
Russell.
I would love my tag team partner to be Nicki Minaj.
Because I love her.
And who would I want to wrestle?
Hmm.
I might have to wrestle, like, a Kim Kardashian or even just a Beyonce to see if she can even
throw it down.
Oh, my God.
You would wrestle Beyonce?
I would have to wrestle Beyonce.
Uh-uh, girl.
The queen of it all.
You can't wrestle Beyonce.
You'd take her down the wrong way.
I think your career is over.
Yeah, you'd have to take a dive.
Yeah.
Like, you'd have to let her beat you up.
I would let her do that.
Yeah, yeah.
I would let her take the championship, you know?
Now, wrestling is not fake, but it is predetermined, right?
It is a little predetermined.
So, how do y'all figure out, like, do you know if you're going to lose or win the next match?
Or do you just walk into a room and they be like, you're losing today.
Like something like that.
Usually when we get to the show, we have a card and our agent or a coach would be like, well, today this match is going to be this.
And Mercedes is over.
And this is how we want her to win.
Last year when I was supposed to win this New Japan Strong Women's Championship, I got injured and I had to change the match on the fly and make the other girl win so when i say it's predetermined you really don't
know what's going to happen we can get injured we can get concussed and maybe not kicked out
maybe my opponent won't remember the move and it'll be like what's next so yeah it's predetermined
but it's it's so real you never know what's going to happen in that ring how often does
do wrestlers go roll where it's like you know what i'm not losing all the time i feel like really if it's not if they're not mad about losing they're mad about they're not
getting that many uh moves into the match or they want to look the best out of the match they want
to do extra stuff i wrestled people like that who've done a little extra to me that we haven't
talked about i'm just like is there fines for that though like i'm supposed to win i get body
slammed three times but you just say just effing you up in that ring i wish there was more fines
but you just have to give them a seat in the ring and snug them back that's crazy
all right we got more with mercedes monet when we come back of course she's a wrestler from the aew
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charlamagne is aew uh scream going to be screaming on HBO Max?
I don't know.
There's rumors of that.
There's definitely rumors of us joining Discovery and HBO Max, which would be huge.
But I'm not sure if that deal is done yet.
But I hope so for wrestling.
How do you feel about that as opposed to it being on TBS or TNT?
Because, you know, growing up, I grew up in South Carolina.
So that's all I used to watch was TBS and TNT.
Oh, it's still very much going to be on TBS and TNT every single week.
I'm the TBS champion for a reason.
I'm the face of TBS.
It's all the same company.
It's all the same.
I'm still going to be on TBS, so it's not going anywhere.
I'm going to be on TNT and TBS for a very long time.
What do you feel about Raw going from three hours to two hours?
I think that sucks for the wrestlers just if you lose a
whole hour that's a whole opportunity of performing in front of a live audience and in front of
millions watching at home but i think just the move to netflix is so huge for them that they're
going to gain so much more opportunities in so many different other ways so does having that one
less hour really make a difference for a wrestler. Would you think adding an hour to your show would add or take away?
You'd be tired.
Yeah, we did it during COVID.
It was a lot during COVID.
I think it'd be right.
I think for performers, it's great, just like I said,
to get more opportunity, and especially for women as well.
Like, we're only given five to eight minutes,
so it's like we need that extra hour.
We need that time.
Tell a story yeah i read
that you were the highest paid woman in pro wrestling correct i hope so okay i think i would
like to think so i don't know other people's bank accounts but i like that title do you feel like
your pay is based on your value in the company or do you feel like you should be making more money
like you feel like there should be more money allotted to you and just other women oh i definitely
want to make more money absolutely i guess i'm asking you do you think you're getting what you deserve right
now i i am i am and it's so i don't even want to say it's crazy it's just it's beautifully
deserved and earned and it's something that i worked so hard for for such a long time yeah
um and it's something that i want women to work for it's like i finally got something that as
women we're like no you can't even see those numbers you can't even talk about those numbers you came and walk into the room and even ask
for a raise or it asked for a bonus or anything so to get what I feel like I
deserve plus I feel like I deserve so much more and I'm going to get that it's
so amazing I just give I think that gives people a chance to dream more that
they can make more to if they put in the hard work what do you think what are
some ways that AEW can close the gap with WWE?
I was looking at Forbes and they had these five ways that AEW can close the gap with WWE.
What do you think?
I don't know what it means to close the gap.
I feel like it's always going to be a weird competition,
but it's just AEW's only been around for five years.
WWE has been around for 30 plus.
I don't know what kind of gap you can close with that. It's such a big gap of who's been around for five years. WWE has been around for 30 plus. I don't know what kind of gap you can close with that.
Such a big gap of who's been around for so long.
I think just AEW just has to keep on being its own brand and being AEW and being where the best wrestle.
That's our slogan.
And that's where legit the greatest wrestlers are signed there.
The best performers are signed there.
And you get to see that every week on TBS and TNT.
We have the greatest performers from all over the world.
And I think that's just what makes us different.
I don't think there's any gap that we have to close.
I think we just have to keep on standing out and being our own brand.
As a force and force said, embrace being an underdog and an alternative to WWE.
Assign top talents who will make a difference.
There you go.
Balance the incredible in-ring action with quality storylines
utilize the talented aew roster to the fullest and continue spotlighting the women's division
they're doing that they're doing that every single day so if anybody's in the new york area make sure
you guys come out tonight for for aew grand slam so that's right happens at 8 p.m on tbs of course
um i was a question i know you are the
highest paid woman in pro wrestling right yeah if me and lauren want to give you just a couple of
dollars uh-huh to hit charlamagne to knock him out how much would you charge us oh you don't do
community write-offs i don't can i just get a bag each what do you what do you want me to do to him
tap him out no i want him to fill it for like at least a month after a month. That's easy I just said tap out is going to talk. What do you do to him?
You know there's a villain in the story. I know this time. Yeah, you should recommend it to somebody in this room
I'm not gonna say why he's angry you know how many are about letting their hairline go i'll teach you a couple moves you don't have to pay me for that i'll teach you
thank you because you felt it you see what i'll be going i felt that yes well we appreciate you
for joining us tonight 8 p.m on tbs grand slam dynamite and then grand slam collision comes on
saturday 8 p.m on tnt what's the difference between dynamite and collision um dynamite is
every wednesday on tbs and collisionision is every Saturday on TNT.
How often do you wrestle?
Do you wrestle every week?
I pretty much defend my championship every month.
I don't wrestle every week.
I got to look cute.
It's different here in AEW.
I got to sit next to my chairman, my EVPs, and I got to look beautiful.
I got to defend these championships at the pay-per-views,
but I'm always looking good on Dynamite every wednesday because i am the face of tps would you ever go back to wwe if they
offered you like the right bag and they said hey we're gonna give you back your we're gonna let
you have your real name we'll give you back the rights to sasha banks after the way that aew has
been treating me yeah i don't know i don't think so i feel like i have the best relationship with
um aew right now and it's legit i'm living I feel like I have the best relationship with AEW right now.
And it's legit.
I'm living my dreams.
And it's the best place I've ever been mentally and physically. And to be able to have new dreams after being in the industry for 14 years, it's the best feeling in the world.
So AEW is my home right now.
Dope.
And how is dating life for you?
How do men approach you?
Are they nervous?
Are they scared?
Right now, I'm not dating
because I'm so busy.
And I, yeah, I would assume so
they're nervous and scared.
Like, you wouldn't do dating apps, right?
No, no way.
How do you, if you were to date,
how do you meet people?
She needs advice.
Yeah, she needs advice.
She just got on Christian Mingle.
She needs advice, Mercedes.
I am not on Christian Mingle.
I'm asking you that because guys.
I'm not dating anybody.
I don't know.
I can't give you any advice.
Guys be into, like, wrestling and stuff. So they would know, like, instantly, like, who you anybody. I don't know. I can't give you any advice. Guys be into wrestling and stuff,
so they would know instantly who you are.
I don't know if I want a wrestling fan.
Mercedes, you're not dating because you don't want to.
Right, yes.
She's not dating because she doesn't have a choice.
Mercedes, see why I need...
After this?
Are my nails too long to put them on?
No, those are perfect.
Okay, all right.
It's perfect.
Okay.
Scratch him, top of mouth.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the CEO, Mercedes Monet.
Thank you for joining us so much.
Thanks for having me.
It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Come on like that.
You made me nervous.
That's your dumb ass.
You're not used to seeing black men happy.
That's your problem.
As a white Dominican.
I'm not a white Dominican.
As a white Dominican.
I'm so confused.
As a white Dominican.
As a white Dominican, you're not used to seeing black men happy.
No.
What kind of statement is that?
Because it wasn't a smile.
It was like a smirk smile.
I'm always happy. Like the evil genius. Like always happy. What kind of statement is that? Because it wasn't a smile. It was like a smirk smile. I'm always happy.
Like the evil genius.
Life is amazing.
Life is amazing.
It is what it should be.
Find something to laugh at.
All right.
I look in here.
I look at your beard, and I chuckle every single time.
Right, Lauren?
Don't agree with him.
Don't you do it.
Don't you do it.
Because you know what's coming next.
I'm out of this.
All right.
Just with the mess we're long ago, so let's go. I got nothing to do with this Don't you do it. Because you know what's coming next. I'm out of this. All right. Jess with the mess with Lauren LaRosa.
Let's go.
Let's go.
The news is real.
Weathers and flames.
Jessica Robin Moore.
Jess don't do no lying.
Don't do no lying.
She don't spare nobody.
She don't spare nobody.
Worldwide Jess.
Worldwide mess.
On The Breakfast Club.
She's a coach of shoes.
With Lauren.
Lauren LaRosa.
I'm back.
And I got the match.
Talk to me.
So we have a Breakfast Club exclusive.
Shout out to our producer, Taylor Made It.
Never heard of her.
Why you always hating?
See, that's what I said.
The next story that I'm exclusively break up here
is how he really hates and doesn't see black women.
That's my number one op, first of all.
I'm sure black women are your op. No, Taylor's my number one op. We know.
A hairdresser's your number one op. How about that?
A curling iron is your number one op.
And you drop a bomb for him, huh? Yeah, they playing with you.
I hear being violent, putting them type of things on me.
You like being things putting violently on you
and so yeah it's right um so anyway taylor made it she attended an event last night in brooklyn
uh isa ray held an event called uh via ray presents via ray is isa ray's sparkling wine
company um so isa does this thing where she sits down with in conversation and you know you drink
wine and it's like cute she brings out friends she brought out a comedian little rel law roach erica alexander last night
but last night she also addressed the amanda sales stuff which i have never heard isa publicly speak
about so i want us to take a listen uh the first thing they got into uh was just in general and
she doesn't say her name in this clip but i'm going to come back in and tell you why we know she's talking about me in the sales um just in general people that isa
would not work with again person that i would never work with again i mean anybody who's
yeah that's fair i've had great experiences uh with everybody i've worked with though so for
the most part like i'm always grateful when people come back so taylor recorded that yeah
and what was so dope about that go ahead i thought that you couldn't have phones in that event they
didn't say she couldn't have a phone people were on they were reposting people on the insta story
so don't do that to tell them okay that was illegally taped like what is it that you want
to make it harder on the
black woman that work with you what's going on you know now i see why you used to work at tmd
because you're just a liar you're like are you a liar you're just a liar who likes the sensational
if you go to the headline is that if you go to the vr instagram well taylor made it as a black
woman who had the news knowledge enough to know that this was something that people would want
to hear because we've never heard isa ray in response to men to sales and in that clip like i said she's
black when we just don't like light-skinned men that's a fact i thought he loved you though
he loves me the way he'd be here rubbing and touching the story okay let's get back let's
get back let's focus so um in that clip she says people have gotten on podcasts and talked about
me right so
the crowd goes crazy because the last person that we've seen get on a podcast and talk about isa ray
in a in a way was amanda seals now let's take a listen to the clip of amanda seals on shannon
sharp's show uh talking about isa ray i got a call from isa and she called me and said um hey i heard
what happened this weekend um i just want you to know I have nothing to do with it.
Would you be willing to talk to Vanessa?
So I've never talked about this publicly because it has always been incredibly important to me to protect Issa.
Because I know that Issa is doing something within this business that so few people get to do.
And it's not something I desire to do.
However, there's just been enough instances at this point where I should have been protected by isa and i wasn't and one of my biggest problems that we have discussed several times in this interview
is that i i think people are going to show up for me the way i show up for them and now it's at a
point where my protecting of isa has become turned on to me and something that people are using
against me there's a whole narrative that is completely false that people keep spinning they
keep saying
you know that i'm this mean girl on this set that i that i uh that i harmed these people on this set
how can i be a mean girl on a set that ain't my set now people did take that whole whatever
happened on that insecure set and they did turn it on amanda sales and i think a big part of that
is because people have a lot of people feel like in that situation, Amanda had to be the problem because you don't hear a lot of people speak ill of Issa.
And also there weren't too many other issues that came off of that set.
And it's right.
Amanda Sills has the right to defend herself and say that is not true.
But then she goes on to say some other things and talk about the Emmys party, which has always been an issue where Amanda Seals got kicked out of a black Emmys party and it was low-key felt like she was throwing
it and saying it was Issa's fault because Issa's publicist was at the hem
of this so Issa Rae also addressed this let's take a listen to Issa Rae addressing this
You know what's crazy about that whole Emmys thing is that I wasn't even there. I was in New York and I found out the next morning like everybody else.
Did you or did you not force her?
Because she used the word force.
She used the word force.
I watched it.
I think that.
I wanted two adults to, you know, have a conversation and mend a relationship.
Two adults who didn't like each other.
And it didn't work out and we got back to work.
And in that conversation, so they go from the emmys party but they also are talking about the phone call that isa called amanda says and said hey i think you should get on the phone with my
publicist y'all need to work this out and this was after the emmys party um now let's take a
listen to amanda seals explaining how she felt the phone call went so i take the call hi amanda this
is vanessa i just want you to know that,
so none of this has anything to do with Issa.
That's the first thing she says.
None of this has anything to do with Issa.
So I just want you to know that,
but I do want you to understand
that it was me who kicked you out the party.
Okay.
So I just want you to know
that the reason I kicked you out the party
is because I don't like you.
Okay.
Well, that's all I need to know.
There's nothing else for us to talk about
and I hang up.
She calls me back immediately. Why do you hang up? I said, because there's nothing else for us to talk about and I hang up she calls me back immediately why do you hang up I said because there's nothing else for us to talk
about she says don't you want to know why I don't like you no I don't because it's none of my
business I've never done anything to you and for you to put me in harm's way off of literally
nothing means that I don't need to talk to you about why you don't like me you need to talk to
your therapist about why you don't like me and I hung up the phone so Amanda feels like in that situation
Issa should have stepped in a bit more and been like we all got to work together we all here
it's my publicist you're basically my employee on set I got to make this right and from what it
sounds like Issa is saying on this stage for the first time publicly is y'all are two grown women
I wanted y'all to figure that out i did my duty by putting
y'all on the phone i thought that you guys would figure it out from there and at least we will be
able to move forward to be cordial enough to to whatever um and she said she wasn't even at the
party so she had nothing to do with her being thrown out of that party lauren are you finished
stirring up issues between black women have you had enough this morning of stoking the flames oh
we going there because the way you sitting here here and you don't even start the pot.
I think you sitting here is like pottery.
I'm sitting there watching you cook and I can't believe the dish you making.
You create the pot.
I can't believe this recipe that you just made this morning.
If I took the recipe, it was out of your book, baby.
Because the way you sitting here all day long.
Are you finished?
Oh, I'm done.
I am so done.
Look at my eyes. I am done. I am so done. Look in my eyes.
I am done.
I'm giving you that.
Don't play with me in this store.
So wait a minute.
So why doesn't a publicist
like Amanda Sears?
Nobody knows?
Here you go, girl.
I'm just asking.
Here you go with your spoon.
I'm just asking.
Here you go with your spoon.
I don't even know.
I'm asking.
Let me stir this pot.
Let me see what you're cooking, Lauren.
Let me taste this, Lauren.
I don't even know.
Let me ask you what I can add.
I'm not. I'm just asking a Lauren. I don't even know. Let me ask you what I can add. I'm not.
I'm just asking a question.
I'm not saying.
Goya.
There's so much.
Why Goya?
I'm not Dominican.
That's you off.
I'm not.
That's you off.
I know I'm not Dominican.
Okay.
All I'm going to say is,
I don't even know
if that's relevant to this
because the point
in this whole thing was,
what I would hope is,
is at this point,
since people have now heard
from Issa,
and Issa's basically saying,
her intentions weren't ill.
Like, she wasn't trying to, she didn't throw someone out of a party.
She wasn't trying to put someone on the phone and basically back them into a corner.
That we can move forward now.
Let this whole thing rest.
And whatever went down, went down.
And maybe they don't get along.
Maybe they're not cordial.
It's cool.
We're going to move on.
That was the point.
Sir, talk a lot.
You got something to say?
It was resting.
Okay.
You decided to be a crib keeper.
And dig it all up. say? It was resting. Okay. You decided to be a cryptkeeper. Dig it all up.
I guess it was perfectly.
I thought it was perfectly rested to me.
All right.
Well, thank you for Jess with the mess with Longarosa.
You better not repost this clip either.
I'm not.
It's far away from this.
I do not want no parts of this.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Who are you giving your donkey to, sir?
For after the hour, we need somebody named Chris Todd to come to the front of the congregation.
Chris Todd is the person who published the alleged Kim Porter book.
We'll discuss.
All right, we'll get to that next.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
You're checking out The Breakfast Club.
I was born a donkey.
It's the donkey of the day.
Look at these donkeys.
What the f*** is that dance? For the donkey of the day. don't hear today for wednesday september 25th goes to chris todd chris todd is the man
behind the publication of a book called kim's Lost Words, A Journey for Justice from the Other Side.
It is a 59-page book that, as of yesterday, was number one on Amazon.
It was self-published on September 6th, but ever since Diddy was arrested,
sales have gone through the roof.
Now, the book makes allegations about Kim Porter's relationship with Diddy,
says things like Diddy was begging for a pagan.
He wanted to be pagan.
Shut up. I'm trying to be... Shut up.
I'm trying to be a serious journalist. I'm sorry.
That's your problem.
I'm sorry.
I'm trying to be a serious journalist.
You ain't nothing as serious a journalist
about nothing over there that's serious.
Let me get back.
I'm not listening to you.
Let me get back.
Let me woosah, woosah.
Channel it from your inner thick thighs.
Begging from the pagan, go.
Come on.
Now, the book makes allegations
about Kim Porter's relationship with Diddy.
It says things like Diddy was begging for a pagan.
He wanted to be penetrated.
I don't know how that helps to move the story forward, but it's there.
Okay, what are some other things in this book, Lauren LaRosa?
The book also alleges that Diddy had extravagant sex parties with high-profile celebrities,
including Oscar winners, that Diddy allegedly recorded himself in very compromising situations
including an encounter with an 18 year old male pop star who went on to become a household name
it also alleges that he was physically violent to kim porter it also alleges that kim porter had to
uh make copies of certain tapes as insurance because she thought things would be used against
her these are all alleged in this book damn now the way chris todd got this book according to him this is what he told rolling stone he said two people
allegedly close to combs and kim contacted him about the book after claiming to have the late
actress and models hard drive which he said he didn't question he claimed they said they had her
flash drive i didn't ask too many questions about how they got it or where did it come from and that
right there is the problem that is the problem i have okay that right there is exactly what's wrong with this era people get
information and don't ask any questions about it he said he didn't ask about how they got it or
where did it come from okay it's salacious it's shocking and it will generate what money and
attention that's all folks care about nowadays. We have all these conversations about combating misinformation
We wouldn't have to combat misinformation if people simply had some integrity because I don't care how juicy a story is
I don't care how controversial a story is first things first. You have to make sure it's true
You have to at least attempt to do some fact-checking. Okay cite some sources. I was born in
1978 I'm old enough to remember when we knew the difference between tabloid gossip and actual factual news and information.
Those days are over. And the reason Chris Todd is getting donkey of the day is because he also told Rolling Stone magazine,
if somebody put my feet to the fire and they said life or death, is that book real?
I have to say, I don't know, but it's real enough to me.
Sometimes you have to just put it out there. What do you mean is real enough to me?
Who are you? F your feelings. Let's deal with the facts.
Just because you believe something doesn't make it true.
And on the flip side, just because you don't believe something, it doesn't make it false.
By the way, you're listening to someone who would see the headlines as a kid.
Like I had Bigfoot's love child. You know, you be in the the line at the grocery store with your mom and you see the tabloid
and i had bigfoot's love child i will see those headlines and want to hear more but that don't
mean i believed it that is not how this generation works though if they see it on social media if
they see it on the website it doesn't matter what the source is it doesn't matter where it came from
who's saying it if they want to believe they will, because nobody cares about the truth when the lie is more entertaining.
Chris Todd goes on to tell Rolling Stone, maybe not 100 percent of the book is true, but maybe 80 percent is.
What he said, that is, he said that is to get those people to come forward and either corroborate or deny the claims.
And that helps me as an investigator to know the truth.
Chris Todd, what the F are you even talking about?
OK, don't try to make this some moral righteous release as if you're putting this book out because you want people to corroborate or deny claims.
A real real investigator would take this book.
And if there's something to be investigated, if there are leads to be be had then they would go and collect real evidence to build their case chris you're just trying to make money
off a hot topic knock it off and you don't care about who you hurt in the process and this ain't
about diddy okay this is not about diddy at all this is about the legacy of kim porter i didn't
know kim porter sat next door once at a dave chappelle comedy show one of her best friends
is one of my favorite people on the planet marbet brittle drop on the clues bar for marbet brittle but i do know that if i was kim and i was resting in peace
if there was some words that i allegedly left behind i would want them to be my words
okay why because i got young kids who have to read this stuff can you imagine how traumatic
that must be for the babies the fact that the kids had to release a statement can you read some of
the statement lauren the statement says claims that our mom wrote a book are simply untrue our lives
were shattered when we lost our mother she was our world and nothing has been the same since she
passed we are deeply saddened that the world has made a spectacle of what has been the most tragic
event of our lives our mother should be remembered for her beautiful strong kind and loving for the
beautiful strong kind and loving woman she was her memory should not be tainted by horrific uh conspiracy theories yeah i mean people believe
everything they read on the internet except the truth and i'm not even mad at people that are
misinformed i'm more upset about the people who willfully misinformed them chris todd said himself
i don't know if this is real yet he still put it into the world with no regard to kim porter's
legacy no regard to how
this will impact the kids all he could think about was capitalizing off the current news cycle
concerning diddy and he's not the only one i am all for exposing the truth but you have to know
it's the truth and the thing i've learned about the truth in my life is that the lies are always
loud the truth is always quiet and it was like that before social media but social media now
just amplifies the lies even louder according to people magazine kim porter's family is pursuing
legal options uh her lawyer calls the memoir fake and shameless i hope they sue even if you don't
get anything because there might not be anything to get sometimes you just have to make examples
out of people most of the time folks you know uh don't sue it's because it costs money. It costs time to sue. And you spend all this money and all this time and don't get
nothing back. But every now and then you just have to prove a point. And that's what I want
everyone to understand. Can you afford to lie? Can you afford to not have something be actual
and factual? I know YouTube and these podcasts make you feel like you can say whatever you want.
But please always remember, free speech is not free.
And there is a cost for every single word you utter.
And if you can't afford to lie, please shut the F up forever.
Please let Remy Ma give Chris Todd the biggest hee-haw.
Hee-haw, hee-haw.
You stupid mother f***er.
You dumb.
That's sad.
It is sad.
Very sad.
All right.
Well, thank you for that donkey today.
There's only like, there's only one thing I would want to believe in this book.
What is that, sir?
I don't want to say it.
What is that?
I mean, it's nothing.
What is that?
It's just, you know, it's just a little rhyme.
What's that?
Begging for a pay.
That's all you care about.
Brad, you've been going off with the sound effects.
First of all, don't look at that.
And you're going to look around like you didn't.
You led him right to it.
You look so surprised.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Like you didn't know it was coming your way.
I had no idea.
Let me hold my Palo Santo. Pleaseesus all right all right let's like that at 4 a.m next time y'all he's been off all day i don't know
what's going on all right well thank you for that dog here today now let's open up the phone lines
all right you want to be pegged now begging for the pegging you you don't like the people who
beg you you want them to just it's just a text message conversation. Where you at with the eyes?
Begging for it is crazy.
Regardless of who's begging for it.
Just begging for it?
Please beg me?
God damn.
Can we save that audio?
Do you have that audio?
Thank you.
All right.
Now, when we come back, let's open up the phone lines.
What you gonna do with that?
Pleading for beggars?
You taking that home?
What you doing with that?
Yes.
Let's woosah.
Let's woosah out of this. Let's woosah out of this.
Y'all are crazy.
Let's woosah out of this.
All right.
Let's open up the phone lines.
800-585-1051.
Have you ever begged for a pagan?
What we about to do?
What we about to do?
I thought you was asking Envy that.
And I'm like, why you keep getting on this radio and telling people personal business?
Don't nobody want to be all in your bedroom?
Let's woosah this.
I was in Vegas.
Whoa!
Envy. Envy Oh! Indy.
Indy.
Now you know.
Oh!
Now you know.
Tell us more, Peggy Bundy.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, ladies and gentlemen.
But no, seriously, 800-585-1051.
I was in Vegas a couple of weeks ago, and when I walked into my hotel room, I was on
FaceTime with my wife, and I noticed in a corner. You walked into your host's room. What? I walked into my hotel room, I was on FaceTime with my wife. You walked into your host's room?
What?
I walked into my hotel room.
I was on FaceTime with my wife.
And I noticed there was something pink in the corner.
When I went to look at what was pink, it was a pair of panties.
So I'm asking.
I had my wife on the phone and I was talking.
I was like, you know, if you had flown in after me for whatever reason and walked in the room and seen these panties there
and I said, I don't know how they got there,
would you believe me? And she said, absolutely
not. Nope, I would have walked to Vegas to
stop you. So, we're opening up the phone lines.
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They were boxing, she knew you'd be lying.
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If you walked
into your spouse's room,
your boyfriend, your girlfriend's room, your boyfriend, your girlfriend's room.
Your they.
Your they friend.
Your they friend's room.
Be inclusive.
All right.
If you walked into whoever's room, your they, your he, your she's room, and you found some panties there, and when they got there, you said that you don't know how they got there, would you believe them?
That is the question.
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Why do you look so confused charlamagne i don't
i am so as soon as this happened i called charlamagne i bet you did why you called him
first i said look what was in my room he said what that fell out your bag that looked like
damn bag that looked like the color you'd wear because your man always know what underwears
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I was actually talking about this on my podcast that came out yesterday.
I was in Vegas a couple of weeks ago.
And when I walked into my room, there was a pair of pink panties laying on the floor.
Now, I was very upset.
I went and complained and the reason
i was upset is if my wife came in the flight after me or you know the next day and walked
into the room and seen that there how would i explain that the room wasn't cleaned well enough
and there was some panties there i asked my wife i said well would you believe me if i tell you that
i don't know how they got there and she said hell no she was like i love you i trust you she was
like but that has to be explained and there's no way to explain that.
Yes, it is.
And I understood what?
The truth.
Because, I mean, at the end of the day, all you could do in that situation was tell her the truth.
And I think that, you know, one thing about the truth, you can tell when somebody is being sincere.
You can tell when somebody is being authentic.
I think it's just like the energy that we all have, a sixth sense, a spidey sense.
You know when somebody's BSing you and you know when somebody's telling you you the truth i think she would have known that you were telling the truth and
if i said i don't know how they got there because i wouldn't know how they got there but that's the
reality i walked in and these panties were just sitting here so would your wife have believed you
if she came and saw them you said i don't know i think she would because i think she knows me well
and i think women well you wouldn't know long because you're not in a relationship but i think
when you women women understand right like like Envy you know
your woman knows when you was lying right even when you
didn't give her no reason
she just women just have a sixth sense
about when they being lied to or when they being
played with they also
have that woman's intuition when they know you
doing the right thing when they know you moving
correctly so I believe that my
my woman would have believed me if I
would have been like I have no idea.
I think she knows me well enough.
But some stuff is just like.
Yeah, you can't explain it like this.
The irony.
There's no reason.
Like, nah.
Just because I don't have a boyfriend now doesn't mean I've never had one.
You just like to think that.
The irony of the situation would have been very insane, especially if you have a history of doing whatever.
Regardless of where you are.
It just would have been like, well, how the hell?
The history is the reason
why she should believe you
because she saw the change in you.
That is true, too.
She know you ain't been moving that way
in a long, long, long, long time.
Why would you go back now?
You're right,
but to explain a random pair of panties
in a room after the room has been cleaned.
And she, yo, you, listen.
Where's that phrase?
I can't explain my lying eyes
or whatever that thing is
like you see it
then it's like
you're 53 years old
I'm not 53
I'm nowhere near 53
she would know
she would know
with the history
that you have
the last thing
you would do
is do that in Vegas
like that's like
some old
that's rookie stuff
like Vegas bro
I mean we've seen
people do some
rookie stuff in Vegas
and have to come out
and talk about it
but they be on drugs.
Kevin Hart was on drugs.
And they ain't on drugs.
No, I'm talking about when Kevin Hart got his little situation.
I would have thought he was a little older and too advanced.
Drugs and alcohol.
Well, let's go to the phone lines.
Would you trust your man first and foremost?
If you had a man, would you trust him?
I wouldn't.
We would have had to be on FaceTime and walking in that room.
When you flew in and you see that thing
you gotta explain this
and if he said I don't know how they got there
what would you say?
so did they just magically appear?
did God just place them here because he wanted me to be there?
and can I say something else?
there was no reason for you to bring that man up
just so I can
I ain't even gonna go back to it
Lauren is our sister
I mean just for no reason.
Why would you say that?
It's the only example of Vegas and stupidity that I have.
Why?
What's up with you and bringing up old stuff this morning?
You want to stir up stuff between East and Amanda.
Now you're bringing up those situations.
Why, Lauren?
What do you have against the black man this morning?
We are not going to sit here and have this conversation.
Why do you hate black people this morning?
One thing as a black woman
that we always try to do is protect y'all little
circle head jelly bean face.
You love white men.
Having.
You love white men.
And when we do that, we get this.
You used to worship Travis Kelsey.
You sat in this room.
Cala Plant was in here yesterday.
And you was in here drooling.
We decided to talk about Issa and Amanda Seals.
And you were head over heels about those clips.
That's not true.
You love white men with beards.
I know there's cameras in this room.
A white man with a beard?
You know what else I wouldn't believe?
A white man with a beard is your kryptonite.
Never believe a black man who likes Palo Santos.
A white man with a beard makes you feel brain straight.
Hello, who's this?
Nice, that flip phone.
This is Megan.
Megan, good morning.
Okay, what's good?
Now, Megan, you walk into your man's hotel room.
You see some panties on the floor.
You ask him how he got there.
He say he doesn't know.
You want to know what I'm saying?
Yes, ma'am.
Okay.
I don't wear underwear.
So where the hell are these coming from?
So best believe I'm going to break everything in that hotel room and he's going to have to pay for it.
But he told you he didn't know.
He didn't know.
Oh, he said he didn't know? Okay,
so it just magically popped out
of thin air? It did!
Oh, so if it did,
he should have counted
his f***ing dots
and T's and crossed his eyes
and all them things and made
sure he walked in that room
and there was no panties.
But, Megan, I don't know if you heard the story. I walked in and there was panties there. I walked in that room and there was no panties. But, but, but, Megan, I don't know if you heard the story.
I walked in and there was panties there.
Like, I, I walked into a room.
Like, I checked in.
And if I just put my bag down and went to the casino and my wife came in after, how do you explain that?
Because I really didn't do anything.
I really can't explain how it got there.
I think they fell out of Envy's bag.
They did not fall out of my bag.
You better get on your knees.
You better ask the front concierge.
Hey, you better explain this to my wife because I'm about to get murdered.
That's what I wilded out.
I went downstairs.
I wilded out.
And I even asked the manager, who was a woman.
I said, what would you do if you walked into a room and you seen that?
And she said, I would get a divorce with my husband.
I said, exactly.
And I said, well, what can I get?
And it was like free food.
So I just took the free food. I mean mean what was they supposed to give i don't
know because the room was already comp so i was like i had i think you gave you something to eat
you put something in your mouth when you went down there to complain don't shut up man the things you
fixate on me and i swear i will say it's a good place that you're at in your marriage though that
your wife wouldn't even think twice about that like that's where i didn't say she wouldn't think
twice i'm just saying that if you've been with somebody long enough,
you just know when they lying
and you know when they telling the truth.
All right.
Well, we'll take some more calls
when we come back.
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Lauren LaRosa's filling in for Jess.
If you're just joining us, I was in Vegas a couple of weeks ago.
And when I walked into my room, I was on FaceTime with my wife.
And I noticed in the corner there was some pink panties.
So I just asked my wife if she had came a couple of hours after me or the next day and seen that there.
What would she think?
She was like, I trust you.
I love you.
She was like, but we would have to get down to the bottom of it because that's weird.
There's no way that some panties just pop up in your room like that just doesn't happen.
Well, they didn't clean the room properly.
Correct.
Yeah.
All women's reaction.
You heard the caller.
She said exactly what I said. so what was it magic like it's how do you it's the no
explanation that would bother you you know we didn't ask her though does she have a man
why does that matter just because you don't have one down i mean you ain't never been through
nothing she says you don't wear panties she says you don't wear panties you're right hello who's
this good morning good morning it's big lou from h H-Town. Big Lou from H-Town.
So you walk in the room, man, and some panties in the room.
You know what I'm saying?
How would you feel about them falling out your back?
Shut up, man, Louis.
Go ahead, man.
What would you think, Louis?
So, what would my wife think?
Yes, sir.
If she saw them, yeah, yeah.
She's not going to believe that they were just already there.
Or even she may think I staged them to get a reaction out of her.
Whoa.
But I got a quick question for Andy though.
Yes sir. And don't lie
about it even though I know you don't lie.
I know what you about to ask too.
You smelled them. I know you smelled them.
Let's see if they had been worn.
Louis, I did
not smell them. Oh my god.
Come on man. Come on
bro. I don't know what kinky stuff you were into
but I did not smell it.
You picked them up, though.
That was going to be the very first thing we would do to be like, yo.
I wanted to do one of the housekeeper chicks take these off.
Yo.
Not me.
I wouldn't touch them.
I did get a pin with my wife on face.
I wanted to see what size they were.
I'm not moving the evidence.
I'm not touching it.
I'm not contaminating the evidence.
Okay, I don't want my DNA
nowhere near those panties.
You're not as dumb as you look.
Shut up, Lauren.
Hello, who's this?
I'm not as dumb as your braids look.
Hey, hey.
Hey, it's Kylisa.
Hey, Kylisa, good morning.
Good morning, good morning, y'all.
Hey, so what would you do
if you went into a hotel room,
you seen some panties there,
you asked your man where it came from,
he said, I don't know.
Well, one, I know how my husband move
and his facial expressions,
but to eliminate anything,
I would go to the front desk,
pay 0.0001% of what PDD has paid,
and get the security cameras for that floor.
And you know what?
That's what i would
have did if my wife would have came and those panties would have been there even if she believed
me that she didn't that that maybe they didn't clean i'm still proving us all right we're gonna
get this camera look look that's me by myself well look i stopped at the vending machine i got i got
something to drink i went in the room by myself hey look i went out i can't we know our panty
color we know our panty color because some of our panty color. Because some of us have.
So we're using nude, black, you know, cream,
something that's going to actually fit.
Pink, you know, got a couple, but ain't nothing, you know.
And she know the brand that she normally shop too.
Right?
Well, thank you.
How tall are you?
What does that say?
5'5".
Okay.
How much you weigh?
198.
So you inside lost. You can tell by the size.
Yeah, looking at it.
A 5 or S, she can go in it.
That's why I said speak for yourself, ma'am.
He also made this face up here, too, when you said your weight.
No, I didn't.
I just thought.
He can say that, but one thing for sure, two things for sure.
You look at me, a lot of people, I can't believe you're 198
because it could be in the hips and the thighs, baby.
Okay?
I'm not doing this.
So you got to know how to measure.
He know.
He a big time on the suit.
You know, if you're 198, you know the weight is in the thighs.
Let me tell you something, Queen.
You know you got big thighs in the booty.
Queen, I love a woman built like a fire cabinet.
You hear me?
Oh, my goodness.
Have a good one.
All I'm simply
saying is why would you tell that lady all i'm all i'm simply saying is uh if you if you trust
your partner you'll believe them but i i do i agree with what mb said i would probably go get
the security camera footage too because when you have when you have done so much work on yourself
that's right and you've done so much work you, in your relationship and you just want to prove to your woman that you are really who you say you are.
You want that?
You're not going to let some random panties in a hotel room mess up that?
Nope.
I'm going to the camera.
Let's go now.
We're getting this camera.
Matter of fact, my wife watching it right here with us.
Hello, who's this?
Yo, this is Akul.
Akul, what's up, brother?
You walked into your man and found some panties somewhere, bro?
Man, what?
Bro, look, I know this is not cap.
This is the truth.
Okay.
So I flew into Vegas to meet up with a young lady who was at the Cosmopolitan, right?
I can't make this up.
There's no cap.
I go, I sit on the back on the balcony, and it's super windy.
If you know about the Cosmopolopolitan way up high, super windy.
Bro, I'm sitting down just chilling, waiting for it to go out.
And out of nowhere, the wind blows a joint right towards my feet from the hotel next to me, from the hotel room.
So I'm looking down at the joint.
I'm like, wow.
Then right behind the joint comes a condom packet and it blows right next to my feet.
The first thing I'm thinking is, had I got here later and seen that right here on the balcony,
I would have swore somebody got it in before I got there.
So I believe the fact that, yeah, sometimes just some crazy stuff just happens
and you can't make certain things up.
And this is not a cap.
And I love baby braids.
They look really good today.
I'm watching your live on TikTok. Thank you. baby braids. They look really good today. I'm watching your life
Well, baby, all right the little baby over here
Merry Christmas is crazy. Merry Christmas is insane.
First of all,
you do look like a little Santa-ish now.
Now you say,
thank you, brother.
It's all love.
It's all love.
The other thing
I'm thinking is,
like,
these people are nasty
at these hotel rooms, huh?
Yeah.
How you miss
a big pair of panties?
Well, yeah.
You don't wipe down
your hotel room
when you go into it?
No,
because I expect
that to be their job.
I mean, I wipe down the toilets, but I'm not wiping down everything.
The next time y'all go to a hotel, get disinfectant wipes and wipe down,
and you'll see.
They move it fast.
There's a lot of people.
No.
The same way you think airplanes are clean, too?
Well, the reality is, no, you're right.
But the reality is the hotels, like, you know, you get to these hotels
and you can't check in at a certain time.
I like when I get to a hotel and they be like, the room isn't ready yet.
Because that means that they're doing a thorough cleaning, which I would expect them to do.
You know what I mean?
But it was a major weekend, though, that weekend, right?
It was a fight weekend.
Yeah, so they probably were just overwhelmed a lot happening.
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So Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson are going to sit down with VP Kamala Harris and have a conversation on All the Smoke podcast.
Okay.
That's dope.
Yes, this was announced by Kayla Gardner.
Kayla Gardner is a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News out of Washington, D.C. And her tweet read,
VP Kamala Harris participated earlier today in a taped interview with All the Smoke,
hosted by retired NBA players Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson,
per a campaign official.
So we'll wait for that to come out.
But, I mean, people were criticizing her for not doing interviews,
and she's doing them.
I know people wanted her to kind of sit down with people that are more,
I would say, like, tagged to the culture and can have some real conversations with her, and it seems like she's making an. I know people want her to kind of sit down with people that are more, I would say, like, tagged to the culture
and can have some
real conversations with her
and it seems like
she's making an effort
to do that.
Yes,
I can't wait to see her
on All the Smoke
because styles make fights
and it's easy for politicians
to go in environments
where they know
they are going to be
asked certain questions.
They can prepare for those
and that's where you get
a lot of scripted,
rehearsed answers.
Matt and Steven's approach
isn't going to be,
you know,
like that.
It's not going to be
something she's used to.
So it'll force her to move
off script more. Yeah, real people, real
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out through black privilege publishing simon and schuster my book imprint when we reprint this book
you might put that in there yeah can i hold some money you got money you got a lot going on over
there friend no i'm god god is good i am a blessing okay i am blessed and i like being a blessing i
was about to say god blesses you to be a blessing so let me know if you need my cash app um now brett farve uh he for your hair i definitely
will but throw some dollars but he just told me don't bother him with trivial things
if you want to take on that you you definitely be my guest yeah you was talking out loud. I'm sorry. Never mind. Continue on. Continue on. Heathen. Brett Favre.
So Brett Favre, he sat down and he was, okay.
He made a revelation that it kind of stopped the world a bit yesterday.
I'd rather let him say it.
He came out and talked about something that he's going through health-wise.
Let's take a listen.
Sadly, I also lost an investment in a company that i believed was developing a breakthrough
concussion drug i thought would help others and i'm sure you'll understand why it's too late for
me because i've recently been diagnosed with parkinson's this is also a cause dear to my heart
recently the doctor running the company pleaded guilty to taking tanf money for his own use
so the retired nfl quarterback uh was was at a congressional committee meeting on Tuesday.
And the reason why he is even there
is because a company that he made an investment in,
which he talked about,
is being taken to task right now
because there was fraud, alleged fraud that happened,
even though he's not being criminally charged with anything
when it comes to welfare funds.
So he's there talking about everything he's experienced with that so that there can be
more protection around welfare funds.
But what he's saying, because specifically the organization that he was working with
or the company he thought he was working with was doing some sort of like testing and development
when it comes to concussion treatments.
And, you know, he's played like over 200 games.
I think it's like 299 games.
He played for 20 years. Yeah. So he's a big proponent of it and of course i was
near and dear to his heart so he invested in his company thinking that you know they were doing
good things and then he found out things weren't what i guess what he thought that they were and
on top of all of that he wanted people to understand that his investment was his investment
and his involvement had nothing to do with scandal or anything like that now we know it's because he himself he's dealt with concussions but now he's dealing with parkinson's and there's
he hasn't talked about you know if he knows what led to his parkinson's and a lot of people to this
day will tell you that research doesn't really answer that question either but there are findings
that will tell you that concussions can lead to parkinson's yes and brett farb is a person who has
i remember once he said that he had thousands of concussions in his NFL career.
Yeah.
Because he was talking about, it's like, I forgot what it's called, but it's like a different symptom of concussion.
Like, you know what a concussion is, but then it's something else where you see stars and ringing.
Yes.
He said he felt that thousands of times.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Boosie, and I love how we getting through these in the third hour.
Well, first of all, let me just say, sending him some love and some great energy
because that's a lot to deal with,
a medical condition that can develop.
So I'm wishing the best for Brett Favre.
He still stole, allegedly.
Allegedly, and he did return.
But you're so quick to give grace to the white man.
I'm quick to give grace to anybody
going through a medical condition.
I don't play by that.
Just ignore him.
I want to say, though,
because you said he stole.
I didn't say that.
You started to say that.
And I stopped myself.
He has repaid over a million dollars
in speaking fees
funded by the welfare program.
And I got to put that out there.
How much did he allegedly steal though?
You tell me.
It was millions.
It was more than he gave back.
Continue.
I will.
I think it was 90 million.
Moving on to T.I. and Boosie.
So T.I. and Boosie
were at their kids' music video shoot,
and there was a moment that was caught on camera where they stopped them
to ask them about why they have to act like they have guns
and different stuff in the videos,
which I think is ironic coming from T.I. and Boosie,
but let's take a listen.
What is it about to go on, man?
It's not illegal to have guns.
Well, in the manner in which you portraying it in the lifestyle,
this shit don't look legitimate, sir.
Because I'm not supporting the whole, I'm not supporting the whole thing.
Can't do it.
I'm not.
What kind of parent don't support their kids and them goddamn slap, run, pop in it?
And then got a gun in your book there.
Those motherf***ing 12 pull up and they say, hey, hey, who do you belong to?
Who raised your hand?
Nobody got to raise their hand.
Well, when you got drugs, it ain't your lady.
It ain't your lady.
I don't know that. When y'all got drugs, it ain't like... I don't know, though.
When y'all got drugs around,
those legal guns,
it's not a possession of a firearm
and commission of a crime, sir.
That is a felony.
This ain't...
This ain't free.
You come out of college.
I can't believe this, man.
What happened to some mother...
I don't make no motherf...
You got girls out here.
Why you talking about being in love, man?
I love that, though.
Me, too, because it's like...
They're being dads.
They're being parents.
They're being dads.
They're speaking from their own experience.
And you can hear T.I.'s son not listening.
But he ain't giving up.
That's his son.
You know what I mean?
He ain't giving up on him.
And you're doing exactly what he's supposed to be doing as a father.
Absolutely.
And when you know better, you do better.
And when you see people say things like,
well, y'all had guns in y'all videos and this and that.
We see how I ended up.
Exactly.
I don't want you to make the same mistakes that I made.
I did that so you don't have to go through that.
That's why there was one part of the video where they said,
you got drugs and you got guns.
This is this type of charge and that type of charge.
That's because they've been through it
and they don't want their kids to go through the same thing.
Duh.
Dropping the clues bombs with T.I. and Boosie.
That's what they should have done as parents.
He said somebody grab the book bag and say, who gunned it is who raising their hand that's a lesson in
do you even know who's standing next to you when something go down that's right i just want to be
accurate brett fob uh still owes mississippi over seven hundred thousand dollars in misspent
welfare money and i i don't know why i'm just putting this together he said that he had parkinson's
at while he was testifying at the welfare fraud hearing. What a way to distract.
And yeah.
What a way to distract.
Because you know all of the.
The boy the white man is so good.
All of the headlines was about the Parkinson and not the.
I had to dig deep.
He is so good.
Because I was like why is Brett Favre even like.
Because he wasn't criminal.
He was testifying at the house welfare reform hearing.
Yeah.
And he just got everybody talking about him and feeling sorry for him.
All right.
All right.
Sending him healing energy
and all of this and that.
He still has Parkinson's.
Okay, guys.
Oh, you don't even believe the Parkinson's.
That's just what's the mess with Lawn LaRosa.
Just a good way to deflect.
Happy birthday, T.I.
We're going to get some T.I. joints in the mix.
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filling in for jess we gotta salute mercedes monet pro wrestler for joining us this morning
yes salute to mercedes monet man um she's a big deal people like mercedes monet i just respect
the fact that she walked away from the wwe because people don't walk away from the wwe
right they really don't that's right we'll salute to mercedes mo and nay all right and when we come
back we got the positive.
No, I want to tell you all to make sure you go register to attend my fourth annual Mental Wealth Expo happening October 12th, Saturday, October 12th from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
At the Marriott Marquis here in Times Square, New York City.
We got some of the best therapists and psychiatrists and spiritual leaders that are going to be there. Dr. Alfie Breland Noble, Elliot Connie, Dr. Cheyenne Bryant, Dr. Jay Barnett,
Dr. Rita Walker, just to name a few.
Dr. Topeka Sam will be there.
Dr. Judith Joseph.
Shanti Daz will be there.
Salute to the good sister, Shanti Daz, man.
So make sure you're there, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tyrese will be there in conversation with the good brother Jason Wilson.
My good sister Angela Rye will be there.
Shaka Sanko will be there.
Wallo will be there.
Just a whole host of people, man.
It is a day of mental health and healing education.
Saturday, October 12th, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at the Marriott Marquee in Times Square, New York City.
It is a free event open to all ages.
Just go to mentalwealthexpo.com for more information.
All right.
When we come back, we got the positive note.
It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Good morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Jess Larry, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are the Breakfast Club.
Laura La Rosa filling in for Jess.
Now it's time to get up out of here.
Charlamagne, you got a positive note?
Yes, I do, man.
And I just want to encourage you, everybody that's on the healing journey, stay on your healing journey.
Heal.
All right?
Continue to heal so you can see that attention is not love attachment is not connection and bare minimum
is not effort breakfast club bitches you're finished or y'all done