The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Young Thug Reposts Witness Photo, Damon Wayans’ Family Kisses, Matt Barnes’ Tears Drought, Antonio Brown GoFundMe Drama + Melanie Fiona & John Hope Bryant Interview

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Melanie Fiona talks about embracing new beginnings, saying yes, and motherhood. Plus, John Hope Bryant joins us to discuss the Dream Forward event, Trump tariffs, financial literacy, and economic growth. And in ‘Donkey of the Day,’ Charlamagne calls out a mayor who resigned after ‘accidentally’ texting a lewd video to the city attorney. Listen For More!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's right. I have a show that I do a BET now called BET talks and then I'm here. That's right So I've been like it's a lot. Yes, I'm getting adjusted but I'm asleep tonight It's a lot. Well, yes, the weekend is here. Salute to everybody, you know, me and the wife We have a book, our second book, which is coming out April 15th, which is next Tuesday, not this Tuesday, coming up the following Tuesday. And we've been doing a lot of press, so we've been doing our podcasts, we've been doing interviews,

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Now Melanie Fiona, she has a new EP, Say Yes. We haven't seen her in about what, 13 years? The last time she dropped the project. So we're going to be kicking it with Melanie Fiona. She recently got married, she has a child, so we'll talk to her about that. And then John Hope Bryant will be joining us. You know, he's a financial literacy entrepreneur, he's a businessman, he always talks about generational wealth, but he tells you how to get there.

And we're going to be kicking it with John Hope Bryant. All right, you good? I'm good. It's the most quiet I ever heard you because I mean I just ran in here I'm just like getting adjusted with life Let's get this show cracker. We got front page news. Mr. Breakfast Club. Good morning Larry's Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news I mean the guy we are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news. Good morning Morgan. Good morning y'all. Happy Friday and cheers to the freaking weekend. Yes. All right. So let's get into it. Um, president Trump and the tariffs. Yeah. So he says the tariffs imposed on other countries are having the desired effect and he's now open to negotiations.

He made the comments while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One saying his initial plan is over and now he's watching it just settle in. Let's take a listen to President Trump. As if somebody said that we're going to give you something that's so phenomenal, as long as they're giving us something that's good, every country's called this. That's the beauty of what we do. We put ourselves in the driver's seat. Now I do like the idea of America being the driver,

but Trump said that every country has called asking to cut a trade deal with the US to avoid the tariffs, adding that he's seen an uptick in plans to bring manufacturing plants back to the US. So if that was the plan all along, then it does appear to be working only just 24 to 48 hours later. Yeah, that's what they were saying.

They were saying these tariffs are a short-term plan. It was really done to shake things up and to get people to negotiate a little better. But in return, it's effective. They said the stock market has dropped. They said the Dow dropped 1,600 points, NASDAQ falls 6%. A lot of people that invest in that stock market are losing their ass. But Morgan, I have a question for you.

If what he's doing is working, why are people so upset when he says that he's going to do it? If it works and then he kind of like backs away from it so that like we're not affected as bad. You know what it is, Lauren, that I think that we just don't like change. You know, change is inevitable and change that's too abrupt could be, it's scary. People don't know what's happening. But meanwhile, Europe and China are vowing to respond to President Trump's new tariffs.

U.S. Commerce Secretary, come on Friday, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says countries should instead focus on reevaluating their current trade policies with the U.S. and he's confident that the U.S. will end up on the winning end of any potential tariff war. Let's hear more from U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Stop saying that we can't sell our corn to India. Stop saying that we can't sell our beef anywhere. Just stop treating us so poorly.

You're going to see American production start to rise and finally be fair. Yeah. So Trump on Wednesday, of course, unveiled a list of over 180 countries and territories that were hit with reciprocal tariffs and the news sent markers or markets, excuse me, sliding down in Europe and Asia and the world's biggest economies, valid retaliation. Now in Brussels, the head of the European Commission warned, if you take on one of us, you take on all of us. China's commerce ministry describes the terrorists as unilaterally bullying and said they will

resolutely take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests. And here domestically in the States, as you mentioned, Envy, the stock market is coming off its worst day in nearly five years yesterday. Just one day after President Trump announced his sweeping global global 2020 with investors fearing a global trade war. The Dow Jones industrial average closed 4% lower while the tech heavy Nasdaq dropped 6% retail stocks were hit hard with Nike shares falling more than 14% and let's see if the market can stand to bounce back today as the week ends on what we hope is a strong note. So any thoughts on what's going on there? But let me do ask you this is a strong note. So any thoughts on what's going on there? But let me do ask you this. If they're saying that his the tariffs that he's putting on is could be actually working, do we give him some time? Because you know, the first thing that people said was they were upset it was going to cause you know, everything the cost

of home building, the cost of cars, the cost of goods were going to go up. But now they're saying that these countries are actually coming back and trying to negotiate. So it could have possibly be a good thing, right? Yeah, absolutely. And do we have any choice but to give President Trump time? I mean, he's got four years. He's only two, what, two to three months in his term. And it doesn't seem like we really have much of a choice in terms of giving the man time. But we will see, you know, we'll see what happens. I will add that the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country will impose counter auto tariffs in response to President Trump's announcement, adding

that this he expects that it will impact the world and he also added that the global economy is now fundamentally different than it was just days ago. Carney also said previously that retaliatory tariffs will remain in effect for Canada and he said he doesn't believe Trump will change direction until the pain is felt by Americans due to the tariffs going so hard and being too hard to ignore. So we will see it's one of those only time will tell type of things it seems like. So yeah. Well, I did see Ford post something yesterday, which I thought was very interesting after

all of this. So Ford on the Instagram page posted, Ford who assembles the most vehicles in the US? Ford Motor Company, Ford America, for America. And he started posting all their cars. So I just thought that that was a shot like, Hey, we're building a lot of these cars in America here outside of a lot of these other car companies. So I thought that was a, that was kind of smart though. That was different. Yeah. What's happening with the ads look, but before it, how much of them cars going beat out? No, I'm not going to get too much into that, but that's your front page news for 6 a.m.

Stick around at 7. We will be talking about voting and whether or not a third term is truly viable. We'll get into that. All right. Everybody else get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open again. 800-585-1051.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club This is your time to get it off your chest 800-585-105-1 we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club Hello Hey what's happening in the Met? You sound like you about to slide just now. Yeah, who not home? Nah, man. Late for work, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, me too.

Taking my time, man. I wanted to take... Me too. I took my time this morning too. Yeah, you know what's wrong with that? I'd rather be there than not get there at all, but I'm gonna take my time. That's right. And get the prel pin off. That's right. What's happening though? You know what, man? Just, I'm so tired of hearing about these terrors and Donald Trump.

What a good news coming, man. Shoot, you can make good news this weekend. You ain't got, I mean, listen, here's the thing. We don't got to listen to none of it, even though it's going to affect us anyway. Yep. We can't, you know, ignorance is bliss. You're right. You're right. We need to know what's going on, though, brother.

Yeah, but you can always... Nah, yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. It's going to affect you either way, so you might as well know. You know? Yeah, brother. Yeah, but you can always. Yeah, you right, you right, you right. It's gonna affect you either way, so you might as well know, you know? Yeah, yeah, I appreciate it, bro. Call for it, too. Yes, sir. We appreciate you, brother.

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Yes, sir. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Ron. Ron, what's up? Get it off your chest, brother. Hey, so, Envy, these terrors, man, I wanna get history. So- You said what? I didn't hear what you said, bro.

1828, there was a terrorist. We know that. Hey, so, Envy, these tariffs, man, what a good history. So, you know, 1828, there was a tariff. We know, brother. And then there was a tariff in 1930. Hey, we saw the meme. And then there was another one in 2025. We saw the meme, bro.

We saw the same meme that you saw yesterday going around on social media. Yeah, but the thing is, these tariffs, it's going to be some major effects that's going to happen. So I used to work for Ford, and I'm an actuary now. And I'm also going to school to be a lawyer. And these tariffs, it's going to be bad. People don't think it's going to be bad, but wait 90 days

and see what happens. My brother, can I ask you a question? I'm just asking seriously. Who don't think it's going to be bad? Everybody knows it's going to be bad. Oh, no. No, you a question? I'm just asking seriously. Who don't think it's gonna be bad? Everybody know it's gonna be bad. Oh no, no, no, no, I'm gonna tell you. I grew up, so look, I grew up in Chicago and lived in Indiana, and you know how those people

are in Indiana, man. They something else, man. You try to explain that to a lot of those people there, and they're like, oh no, this is a great thing, it's a great thing, but it's not, because a lot of the manufacturing companies are there Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about You're talking about and doing this and doing that

That is gonna be bad, but you try to tell them and they know And so well, yeah And they, nope, they don't wanna listen. And so, what do you do? What do you do, man? The conversation we was having earlier is they were saying that Donald Trump's saying that the tariffs was kind of like a short-term play to get nations to renegotiate some of the plans

that they actually had now. And he was saying, Morgan was saying in FrontPage News that these nations are allegedly reaching out to Trump to make these deals so it's having the desired effect that he wanted. That's what we said earlier during Front Page News. Well, we'll see. I mean, that's what John O'Brien is gonna be here

talking about this morning, you know, but we'll see. I mean, you know, if you look at history though, and you look at what Tarras has done in the past, it caused, you know, stock market crashes. It caused the beginning of the Great Depression in the 1920s. It caused the collapse of the money supply. So I mean, you know, like John O'Brien has said repeatedly, and I'm sure he'll say again this morning,

you know, the longer it lasts, the worse it's going to be. I was going to say, how long does this have to, like, last for it to get that back? I mean, shoot, it's bad now. Yeah. Stock market's up. Stock market's up. I mean, stock is bad now, and you know,

the price of goods is going to shoot up now. Well, get it off your chest. $800, $585, $105. One of you need to vet, hit us up now. It's it off your chest 800-585-1051 if you need the vet hit us up now it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now and he'll tell you what it is. Hello, who's this? Brittany.

Hey, Brittany. Good morning. Get it off your chest. I just want to say I think Trump is very dumb for imposing his tariffs and thinking that bringing back manufacturing jobs to the United States is a smart idea. Who's actually going to work them when we barely want to work the jobs that are here? Yeah, that manufacturing thing is I don't't see how that's gonna happen when it costs so much to manufacture here in America.

Like, I just don't get it. But she's saying people don't wanna work. That's what she's saying. She's saying people don't wanna work these days. Yeah, but even if they don't wanna work, it just costs too much. It just costs too much to manufacture things here in America. And they don't wanna pay us to get money, so it's not a smart idea. And they definitely not gonna pay a lot of money

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What we talking about? We do, we wanna talk about Young Thug and his probation thing, cause they came to a decision yesterday. Okay, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarion, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. All right.

So we talked about Young Thug and the fact that the Fulton County prosecutor's office was asking for his probation to be revoked because he had tweeted about one of the investigators that works with their team. Now I really thought that, I mean, I don't know if I thought that it would go through, but a judge has denied that request. And I was a little bit surprised at the footnote that the judge left. So take a listen to this. The judge says, while the court does not find that the cited social media posts rises to

the level of a violation of the defendant's probation, it may be prudent for the defendant to exercise restraint regarding certain topics. You think? Yeah. He's right. He's leading people alone, dog. Mind your business. He definitely should lead the people alone, but he does have free speech, so he's able

to say what he says, what he wants to say without threatening somebody. So it wasn't necessarily violating his probation, but the judge is being like, be smarter. Yeah, but the only reason why I was a little bit surprised, I didn't think that it would send them back to jail fully, even though that was on the line. I just thought that the judge would come out swinging a little bit stronger, because the woman is saying, my family is being threatened,

their address has been leaked, like all this stuff, the woman that he posted. Because it is like doxing in a way, right? When you post the woman's picture and you post her name, social media gets active, active. Guess what? You do have to take those threats seriously. Yeah. So Thug need to relax, leading people along, man. You saw Fannie Willis said yesterday. Oh, yeah. That was another reason why she basically said that they're trying to make this as gang activity. That's right. And that's why I was like, I don't know what is happening up there in the skies. But when I tell you

that got some angels around him because he keeps teetering that line. And every time it's like, Oh no. And even his attorney yesterday, Brian still had came out and basically said to the court, y'all like stop playing with us. Like jokingly, you shouldn't be trying to send somebody back to jail for something that didn't violate his rights whatsoever. Like it shouldn't even that shouldn't even be a conversation. I was surprised the attorney said that. I'm like, there's no one else see, you know, I kind of saw where Fannie Willis and team were coming from.

Don't get him a reason though. Yeah. Cause they don't need one. Right. Well, in other news, so Damien Wayans sat down with Shannon Sharp for Club Shaysha. And they had an interesting conversation. It was really, to me, I felt like it was more about just, you know, how they, the Williams

Brothers tell such great stories about their life and their growing up. It was a lot of that, but they started having a conversation about, you know, the higher you go up in Hollywood, the less black people you see and how, you know, if you're raising a kid in Hollywood, how that affects them. And now as a parent, like things change. Let's take a listen to that. The more money you make, the less black people you see. Money brings you into a new category. You've moved to a different house in a different neighborhood and you get different friends, your money, the complexion changes.

I like, so I love about like LeBron, you know, he's got, he's got, he got mad and he got Randy and he got Rich. Yeah. At a certain point, they sit you down. Beyonce's father. All right, we got it from here. The Jacksons. All right, Joe.

We got it. We got it from here. You sit back and go, what? Venus's Arena, we got them. If you want them to be successful, you have to kind of let it happen. And then they hit new heights, but you become a liability. I thought that that was pretty interesting. What part? The liability part only because I'm sitting here thinking about it. And I'm like, okay,

with Beyonce story, we know, you know, her dad stepped in, her mom was by her side the full time. The Jackson's as well. So there's so many kids stars who like the parents are right there with them. But I never thought about how like an agent and a manager, a lawyer will look at a parent because it's like there, I'm assuming he's saying liability and from the conversation I took that he was saying liability because it's like, it's not too many of you guys up here and they don't want the parent to get in the way. But most parents deal I think with emotion when it comes to their children, especially when they're doing deals, it's more emotional agents and managers have

no usually have no emotion in it right because it's all about business I would assume. Isn't a lot of that on the artist though like if somebody sits you down and say you know what you know your parent has only got you but so far you know that's up to you to make that choice right that's up to you to say you know what you're right I don't want my parent managing me no more. It depends what your dad or your parent knows. I was about to say, you get what? You're right. I don't want my parents managing me no more. It depends what your dad or your parent knows. I was about to say, you know, you get to a certain point where you might need them people. Do it for a living.

Why not co-manage? You can do that. I mean, you can't come with a... Why could you? You should want somebody protecting you at all times. And you know your parent got your best interests at heart. I think it is for some people, especially back in the times of like, you know, when the Wayans are coming up and the Beyonce, Beyonce was very lucky.

Her dad knew so much. He was a businessman. Her mom was around, but not everybody had that. So the parent might have to step back. I don't know. Just hearing parent liability. We see it with Shanti. Shanti's mom manages her and still manages her to this day. Let me tell you what, I want the kind of money the way I see less people, period. Okay. I don't care what race they are. I don't want to interact with any humans at all. Okay, that's the kind of money I want. I want to live in isolation. Yeah, but your kids don't need friends. Not his kids, he gonna buy robots.

We all gonna have robot kid friends. All our kids friends are gonna be robots in the future. You still want your kids to have friends. You still want them to have some type of normal life based on you know, if I didn't know how normal is subjective You're right normal is whatever your life is Blue Ivy and them day life is normal But I'm sure they got friends She went to go see a what was it what festival was that rolling last she was at rolling allowed with Rihanna Remember that is not her friend, but I'm saying she was there. How do you know that?

She was there with- They're not the same age. No. That's auntie. That's auntie, but that's not her friend. That's not her friend, but I'm saying it because she was there with other people with Rihanna. Other kids.

Yeah, like she has friends. Man, get the kind of money where you can see less people, period. Okay, the less people you see, the better life is. Shawloman kids are gonna be playing with robots. All right. The robots gonna be black or white. I don't care.

The wall's rolling out. I was making sure. Yeah rolling out. What happened? Y'all acting like big circles are important. Your circles should be so small it's almost a dot. I agree with that but in business. You don't have a big circle now. But would you agree? But so yes, I don't have a big circle now but the people that I'm doing business with have expanded and it will if things change and expand as there are no permanent friends our enemies when it comes to business I don't need to be my friend to do business yeah for some people well I'm not doing business with enemies or people I don't like it is what it is I'm happy I'm comfortable and I'm good where I'm at there if I don't like you I'm not doing business with enemies or people. I don't like it is what it is. I'm happy. I'm comfortable and I'm good where I'm at

There if I don't like you, I'm not doing it. I'm good. I don't need that dollar I agree with that but the general sentiment is there are no friends and enemies when it comes to business It's just business at the end of the night. I know that phrase but there's some people I'm not doing business with and I don't Care how much is gonna get me. I'm good. I agree with that happy Well, that's one last part of the conversation I thought was interesting Damian talked about like how they used to be disciplined amongst the brothers and sisters when they would get into it. Let's take a listen.

I read that when you guys would fight, your mom would make you guys kiss. Yep. In the mouth. Huh? I learned how to tongue kiss with Marlon. Everyone would be away. But once you kiss your brother in the the mouth you don't want to do that You don't want to fight no, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll take this we go outside

We'll find a place to finish this but like we didn't like kissing each other but to finish the kissing thing Yeah, like to this day we all kiss. I noticed that hello and goodbye I noticed that because you never know what's gonna happen when they walk out the door Even if I get into an argument and we yelling and screaming. I thought y'all was the only ones who did that. I do that with my family. No, that's why I was laughing. Y'all be up here. Shut up. But I do that with my family. You told this to your family before you leave the house? If they fighting, I make them give each other a hug and a kiss and they never want to fight again. Really? Yes, absolutely. I thought you was a little bit more angry than that. Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith. And it's me, Harley

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And they hate it. Never did that. And they never want to fight again. What about you Red? You never did that one. When my kids are fighting, they fighting like my... Never kiss the man in the mouth for any reason. Logan and Madison when they fight, I make them kiss on the cheek to give them a hug. You were supposed to say me either.

Never kiss the man in the mouth? Yeah, you just laughed. I kissed my pops on his lips before. I love my pops. I kiss my mom on her lips. Cool. Now you know what, I'm gonna fight. Y'all better not fight in here. I'm gonna make y'all kids. If y'all start fighting, I'm gonna make y'all kids.

You better, y'all better relax. See what he's doing? See what he's doing? Listen, you see what he's doing? So hold on. So you kiss Clu in the mouth? No, man. Drop one of Clu's bumps with DJ Clu. What you mean? Don't kiss no man in the mouth. You just admitted the kiss had been on the mouth.

I kissed my pops and my son on the mouth, yes. Those are men. That's my mom, my father, and my son. Envy, at this age, you still kiss your dad in the mouth at this age? Nah, I kiss him on the cheek, but I would. Okay. I'm not wrong, I kiss him on the cheek. It's my pops.

I see Italians do it all the time. Yeah, I kiss my pops on the cheek all the time. But the kiss in the mouth is a little crazy. I used to kiss my son on the mouth until he got to a certain age. Kissing the mouth at 55 is crazy, but we gotta rip up. Now you see why I minded my business when I saw Envy giving the dude mouth to mouth

with his, what's that sister? And they were on the ground I see nobody else around I was I literally minded my business That is a lie You're like 10 to the breakfast club We gotta go. You keep wanna kiss him. We gotta get out of here, y'all. They kissin'. That is the way to go, Eleanor Rosa. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the God. We are the Breakfast Club. Jess is out today. Lauren LaRosa filling in.

And let's get in some front page news. Now, the NCAA Women's Tournament tonight. Texas take on South Carolina Gamecocks at seven. Come on, now. And Connecticut takes on the UCLA Bruins tonight at nine. Let's go, Cox! Yeah, that's what we say in the NBA. Let's go, Coach.

Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Let's go, Coach. Tonight Texas take on South Carolina Gamecocks at 7 come on now and Connecticut takes on the UCLA Bruins tonight at 9 Let's go cocks. Yeah, that's what we say in South Carolina. Go cocks. I'm sure you say that I can see you running around the street

I can see you Wow What? That's my wife's alma mater, okay? We big game cocks over here. Okay, good morning Morgan. Good morning. You're with the cocks too Morgan or no, you're not with the cocks? Um, um, you know, look.

Now it's time to call H.R. Morgan. Why? I'm talking to game cocks. He know you're not from South Carolina. He know you're not from South Carolina. There's no reason for him to say that to you. You might be a game-cocked fan. I don't know.

I'm just asking. Let's get into the front page news, y'all. Let's talk elections and voting. So Arizona's attorney general is suing the federal government over President Trump's executive order on elections. Now Trump's executive order would require people to show proof of citizenship while registering to vote in federal elections. It would also force states to stop accepting mail-in ballots that arrive after election days.

So Arizona Attorney General Chris May said during a Thursday news conference that the state's election laws are protected by the US Constitution. Let's take a listen to Attorney General Mays. I will not allow our legislature's lawmaking ability to be trodden upon by a wannabe king. Our constitution is absolutely clear. The states have the primary responsibility for regulating elections. Under the constitution, the Arizona legislature has the power to regulate elections in our state. So 19 states have now filed a suit against the executive order. And you know, I think this is really interesting because you have a lot of primaries going

on a lot of local elections going on. And then of course, in another four or three or so years, three to four years or so, we'll have another federal election, presidential election. So this comes as more than half of voters predict President Trump will try to serve a third term in the White House. That's according to a new YouGov poll. Over the weekend, Trump said he's not joking about attempting to serve a third term in a call with NBC News.

He said, there are methods which you could do it. Now Republicans have largely shrugged off Trump's comments about a third term as a joke. Meanwhile, nearly seven in ten survey respondents said Trump shouldn't be allowed to seek another term, but you know it seems to be a conversation, an ongoing conversation, even though the 22nd Amendment and the 12th Amendment pretty much make it null and void. So I'm curious to know what Trump's quote methods. No I'm not. I'm not curious about any of this. We have to stop talking about this. Like, it's normal. It's unconstitutional to even speak like this. And if he wants to do something like this, it's unconstitutional.

So if we're if you don't like being called a fascist and you don't like, you know, people saying this is authoritarian rule, then stop doing and saying things that fascists and authoritarian leaders would do and say. But don't you want to be like, you want to know what's happening. So like what she's saying is like, you just want to know what you got to know what you up against. No.

You know what I'm saying? Don't suppress her. We shouldn't be acting like this is normal. We shouldn't be talking to people like this is normal. Like, hey, Trump's saying he wants to run for a third term. No, that's unconstitutional. That is literally the pure definition of fascism, just speaking like that like it's normal. But don't you need to know that it is that in order to be like, this is not normal?

Not if you're not gonna do nothing about it. Who asked the question? Who asked the press question? Like, hey, are you running a third term? Like, who even asked that question? Like, why was that even a question? He's mentioned it. He's been joking about it. Well, you know, that's what they're saying. He's you keep joking about it. And he's like, it's not a joke. But to envy his point, the reporter that's talking to Trump when they're doing that, why aren't you saying Trump, don't

you know, that's unconstitutional? Don't you know, that's fascism? Don't you know, that's what authoritarian leaders do? You don't ask, ask him the question like it's normal. But Trump, are you really thinking about running for a third term? You know, what happens after that? And that's the problem with the media in 2025. Hey, look, hey, when you get in and you have access,

or when you don't, I'm just gonna say, you're gonna try to ask what you wanna ask, but let me not get too much into that. This last story is for anyone who travels. This is domestic, this is stateside, this is if you fly, period, okay? So if you want to get on a flight or you want to find yourself on a flight at all and it's just stateside, you need to listen up. You have just over a month before the TSA's deadline to have a real ID license

kicked in. I believe it's May 7th. TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein says Americans will need to have a real ID compliant driver's license to take domestic and international flights. And she said it's best to get ahead of the deadline again, May 7th. Let's take a listen to TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein. They do not have a real ID license. We need them to bring another form of acceptable ID such as a passport, global entry card, something of that nature. We have the list of other acceptable IDs on the TSA website at TSA.gov. Or maybe there's a wedding, or

maybe there's a funeral, or maybe there's a job interview in another state. And so again, like insurance, you don't need it till you need it. So you want to do it, get your real ID, travel like a pro. I'm going to ask you just a stupid a stupid question right and maybe it's just me What is a real ID right now? I know I don't have one right because I'm looking at my license right now This is not not for real ID purposes, but I just got my license. So what do I got to do different now? What's the difference take it back to the MVA or excuse me MVA will be what we call it here in Maryland Oh, yeah, the DMV take it back to the DMV We're not take it back, but go back to the DMV

and ask them for a Real ID compliant issued license. So TSA officials say New Yorkers with enhanced licenses don't have to worry about making the switch since it's already a Real ID. And they'll know if they have it on, if there's a flag in the corner. So meantime, DMVs across New York will start extending hours and some in

New Jersey will offer mobile events. That could be for you, Envy. You could just pull up to one of those mobile events. But here, what I will say here in Maryland, they've been pushing this for years. And what I understand is that some supposedly something like 80 to 90% of Marylanders are already compliant with this and they make it easy for us that when you go renew, the new ID is going to be real ID compliant. So I'm just saying that to people that if you want to get on a flight real quick, it ain't going to be real quick if you don't have a real ID, if you're not real ID. I'm just curious, what's the difference between the real ID, they're both licenses, so what's

the difference? Is there a barcode in the back? What's the difference? The Real ID has a different, I don't know if it's different, but it has certain security standards that are specific to the Real ID that's not for the regular driver's license. I don't know what's the difference, but. I've looked it up, but it's so hard to type.

Yeah, it is. Yeah, specific standards that verify the identity and is required for accessing certain federal facilities and boarding domestic flights. So yo, what DMV can get me in and out real quick? You know what I'm saying? Shout out to all the DMVs in Jersey. Jersey, what's up? Somebody hit me up, you know, Miss Barbara out there

in Montclair, how are you? Okay, would love to get in and out real quick. Real quick. And the other thing that I'm seeing too, that just came up, you wanna make sure that you have one because it can also further help you with voting. It's one of those things that basically say, you are who you are.

So as voting becomes and elections become a thing and we see that's becoming a thing, you might wanna go ahead and get real ID compliant. That's your front page news, y'all. Follow me on socials at Morgan Media and for more news coverage follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at pinnews.com. Happy Friday, have a great weekend. See you later Morgan. Later Morgan. Peace Morgan. Alright everybody else when we come back, Melanie Fiona will

be joining us. She has a new EP Say Yes out today and we're going to talk to Melanie Fiona. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. Melanie Fiona, welcome. Hello.

How are you feeling? Long time no see. Man, I'm so happy back. Why is it so cold? I know. I'm always cold in here. Why don't you tell me? No, not in here. I'm out happy back. Why is it so cold? I know No, not in here. I'm in your streets. Yes 70 80 degrees a couple days ago. Why can we keep that same energy? You're not used to the cold weather no more No, no, no, I'm in California. Okay, my Canadian blood is his it's going it's not no It's never gone, but the Caribbean blood is living. She's thriving

How has it been for a woman from Toronto living in LA during the Kendrick Lamar era? Geez, it starts right up. Wow. Wow. Wow. Welcome. How's that been? It's active. It's active. Okay. You know, I'm very Canadian in LA.

That's my position. You're very Canadian, okay. Yep. I like that. Well, how are you doing? We haven't seen from you in a long time. How was everything? You know what? Life is blessed. I feel very blessed to be here again talking about new music, motherhood.

It's a full scope journey for me. Like I said, I'm just blessed to have gas in the tank, still have creativity, to still have opportunity, and I'm just doing everything that I love to do. So I'm happy. I'm grateful. Congratulations. You got married recently. I did. I still think four years ago was recently, or five years ago. So it is. It is recently.

And we've been together for like, you know, 13 years now. So it's 12. I don't know. Don't quote me a long time, but you know, it's getting married. Except we did it in the pandemic. And that was really just a testament to making it happen. However you gotta make it happen. We had planned a huge wedding, just decided, you know what, we're just gonna walk down, get this done. And it was really one of the best decisions we made. You know, it's only interesting, people always talk about during the pandemic

how folks got divorced because they realized that they didn't really like taking significant others and they had to spend so much time with them. But then there's the other side too, like your story. Yeah, we did realize in that year, we were like, I really do like you. I mean, we'd already had a kid realize in that year, we were like, I really do like you. I mean, we'd already had a kid at that point, but we were like, I really like you, like let's do this.

It actually made us closer. And then actually at the end of 2023, we had a ceremony in our backyard just for our family, because we didn't have any family when we did it. So that was really special too. We had my dad walk me down the aisle, I got to wear the dress I never wore. So it was special.

And I think that that's kind of what the last few years of my life has taught me, is that you just got to make the moments. We don't know if tomorrow's promised, so you got to say yes today. And is that what the scope of say yes is about? Yes, absolutely. So as the journey of life goes, I think a lot of people talk about saying no a lot. We say no how to set boundaries. I had to do a lot of that in my life throughout my career.

And I think that everything remarkable that I've really learned that I've seen that I can do has come on the other side of saying yes. You know, saying yes to overcoming fear, saying yes to the love and the life that you want and desire, saying yes to the people who show up for you and say, how can I be down? How can I help?

But obviously with discernment, that takes work. So I just want people to hear Say Yes as a musical project but also to have affirmative language in their life. Say yes, say yes to you, say yes to whatever it is that you want and go for it. D'Shaunda Rhimes' book influenced this? You know, it's so funny, the year of Yes, I was reading it, yeah.

Wow. Absolutely, yeah. Cool. 13 years off the grid. Yep. What you been doing for 13 years last time we seen, I mean off the grid. Life and? Off the grid, off the grid. You know, but you know what, I wasn't off the grid. Like you've been doing for 13 years last time we seen, I mean off the grid, off the grid, off the grid. You know, but you know what, I wasn't off the grid. I really wasn't, I really wasn't. I was outside in different ways. I was making a life as well as a living.

I continue to do shows. I am a part of a podcast now called The Momma's Den. It's a motherhood podcast, a collective. I just started developing motherhood community and initiatives. You know, I decided to expand my wingspan and just really step into everything I could possibly do with my voice all while figuring out how I wanted to continue to do music. You know, the industry is one siloed experience of this. And you know, after everything that I had went through, the peak of success, enjoying that,

having difficulties with my voice, like just all these things, it really made me ask myself, how do I wanna live and create for the rest of my life? And so that took some shifting, that took some refocusing, that took some severing conversations and relationships and just going independent, you know, and really just figuring out how I want to live my life.

And so you need experience. You need to love and learn and live and make new music and get inspiration for all of that. So I think a lot of people, especially in the music industry, we live in this space or in entertainment where you feel like there's this clock ticking on you, you know, this clock ticking. The only clock I'm on is God's clock. If I'm alive and I have another opportunity, I will show up when I am called to show up and when I have something to say, when I have something to offer and I feel like I'm in that space now. And so my mantra for myself and for anyone out there is take your time, it's yours to take. Like we don't, we don't

work on anybody else's clock. So, you know, I just feel grateful that is take your time, it's yours to take. Like we don't work on anybody else's clock. So you know, I just feel grateful that in all that time I've still been able to reach the fans, continue to build community, continue to build fan base. And like I said, just have more products and creativity to put out. So you know, 13 years to still have people checking for you is a blessing because some people, nobody's calling for them, you know, and God bless those people because they don't know how they're going to work or what else they can do. So in that space, I figured out what else I can do and what else I can create. You had sat down and did an interview with BET where you were talking about the sanity of moms

and us feeling like we don't have the safe space to be able to say things like, I don't feel like mommy in today and things like that. Because we'll feel bad for it. Do you feel that you have that you're in that safe space today? Yes, yeah. And I think it took having a second child. I never thought I was gonna have a second child, but again, God's plan, and you know, a little bit of reckless behavior

during the pandemic. But you know, it really, it was me allowing myself the permission to understand that it's gonna be okay and that I'm doing a great job and I love my children. And also the thing that I always want to encourage women who are mothers in any capacity of their lives is your children need to see you being you. You know, how many of us have seen our moms be like, my mom was so self-sacrificing, she's

miserable, she got back pain and stress and high blood pressure because she was so self-sacrificing for everyone else. There's no reward for that. You have to pour into yourself. And so that whole empty cup analogy and metaphor, it's a real thing. We pour as women, we are nurturers. We are nurturing the earth, we are nurturing our offices, we are nurturing our children, our partners. We have to create space and demand that we have space to pour into

ourselves. It's the only way we could show up. And that's why it's very important for you know kids even us at our age get to know your parents like to have conversations with them and learn who they were before they were your parents. Yes absolutely you know it's interesting because somebody asked me about this the other day they're like how do you feel your perspective has changed making music now versus making music before? You know, before Children, I was singing heartbreak love songs and people love me for that. And you know, my kids now they listen to these songs, they don't really have the context,

but they're going to understand the journey of who their mother was as a woman. And they're going to hear these songs on Say Yes and know that these songs are a reflection of transformative, affirmative love. And they they're gonna understand that they're a part of that and so I do think it's important that your children know who you are this generation that we all cloak and dagger and secrets and traumas like that's done no you can't do that for our children anymore we didn't do ourselves no fave was keeping secrets no no no no and our children deserve to know who we are so that they have permission to be who they can be in their lives. And understand that it's

not a straight line and there's no perfect, you know, you just do your best. All right, we have more with Melanie Fiona when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ N.V. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Melanie Fiona. Now you're independent artists, right? You're no longer with UMG or rock nation. No, why did you decide to go independent? You know, that's just like the trajectory of life I had the opportunity to and I took it, you know, it wasn't a bad situation No, shout out to Steve Rifkin and SRC records You know

I had the opportunity to make an exit to change the trajectory of my life and I I took it. And again, even that had its issues, going independent, and even that had its learning curves. But, you know, now in this space, this project, I partnered with a Canadian label, you know, some friends from back home who were like, yo, what do you want to do? And I was like, I want to put out some new music. And they were like, bet, we'll help you, you know? And even in that space with a little bit of help, it's still a lot on me. So I'm still driving this ship.

I'm still steering how I want it to feel and look like and having the long existing relationships of people that you have history with and coming back to see them. So I don't feel like I'm starting from scratch. I'm just starting again. Right. And it feels good. Like it feels free. And also, I think for me, creatively, I'm not trying to chase who I was.

I've already done that It kills me exists for him exists wrong side of a love song fool for you. They already exist They've already amounted the success. I want to be and create new art that it has its own light and own life So, you know, it's um, it's good, you know people Artists we're everybody's like, you know get to the artists are the bag like, get to the, artists are the bag. You're the bag. So you have value. Once you know that, people come to you

and they wanna help and they wanna collaborate with you. But it definitely takes a team. And so I'm rebuilding my team. It's been, as I expand in the motherhood space, in different ways to use my voice, that team will continue to expand. It's a lot of responsibility. And I got two kids now.

So it's way more responsibility. But again, it's blessed stress as I call it. We're all stressed about something, at least be stressed about what you love doing. Do you ever feel guilty, have those guilty thoughts that you're not spending enough time with your children because now you're delving back into music and you have all your podcasts and everything else. Do you still feel yourself struggling in areas

where you can improve or you want to improve? You know what I mean? Definitely. I'm getting ready to go on tour. This is the first time I'm going on tour with two kids and since having both. How old are they? Three and nine. I got two at Olden House. You really do? Nine and three having both. How old are they? Three and nine. And... I got two at Olded House.

You really do? Nine and three, yeah. Wow, you like that jump, you like that space in between? Yeah, I actually got three, six, and nine, and then a 16 year old. That could take me one more time. Yeah, like I really am kind of bracing myself for that. What that's gonna be like to be away from my children

for three weeks. I mean, they'll probably pop out and say hi on a couple of shows, but you know, they have school now, and that's a big part of them out here, gonna go do television tomorrow. Your husband will be so effed up, he gonna be calling you every morning, where's the shoes at?

Where the socks at? No, actually, he's really good, and we have help right now, we have family with us who know how we kind of run our house. So we've kind of had to enlist that help. But I think that that's one way that I kind of give myself permission and I try to quiet the guilt down. I think guilt is a thing that naturally comes up, but you have to work actively to say,

that's not really real. Like my kids are actually taken care of. I'm actually out here doing what I need to do. They're cared for, they're loved. And it's temporary. Everything is temporary. Like, my parents are immigrants. I think about my parents leaving my brother in Guyana to come and immigrate to Canada,

to set their life up, to bring their children and their family up to Canada. And how devastating that must have been to be like, we don't know if it's going to work. We don't know what's going to happen, but I have to leave my child in a different country and reestablish my life. You know? So I always use that as a guiding light for me every time I think about guilt and every time I think about what's possible. Cause we all, we made it, we all made it and we were doing all right what

Did you beat your husband? How did you meet? Oh? Maybe looking for I've been married 24 years absolutely six kids Thank you very much. I don't know what he talking about. He wants to be based so bad Y'all still messy oh my gosh He wants to be based so bad. Oh, just messy. Y'all still messy. Oh my gosh.

Y'all think he's still doing this? Y'all still messy. Why you still doing this? No, he's just crazy. He's like, where you meet your husband? No, because she talks about- I need one. Love.

He's asking the thoughtful questions. I love this question. Thank you very much for asking. So, there's a funny story is we actually used to work in the same studio right next to each other and didn't even know for years. And one day he used to be a songwriter, now he's a manager and an executive, he's a partner at a media company.

He's doing very well, I'm very proud of him. But at that time he was a songwriter and I was working on my second project and the first time we met, this guy from my team was like, hey, these guys next door wanna play you a song. And she stepped next door and goes, so I walked inside, that was the first time we met, but we were both in different relationships.

And then cut to like a few years later, we're both out of relationships, and we're in a writing trip, we're like on a writing camp. And we ended up on an island together. Writing camp for what artist, if you don't mind. It was just like a creative, you write for, you just write. And then you place the songs, whatever, and it was my first writing camp.

And I didn't even know him, we took the same flight, we got off the flight, and we saw each other, and it was like first writing camp. And I didn't even know him. We took the same flight, we got off the flight, and we saw each other and it was like, oh hey, I know you, I know you. But instantly we were just like really familiar. And that's how it started. We just met on this island and I was like, this is like, I don't know, this is really weird.

And I had actually gotten out of a relationship like a year and a half before. I was doing my dating thing, being outside. And I remember right before I went on that trip, I said to my friend at the time before I was doing my dating thing, being outside, and I remember right before I went on that trip, I said to my friend at the time, I was like, I think I'm ready to meet someone for real, for real. Like I think I'm ready to like venture

into a serious relationship again. And I went on that trip and we met, and then we came back to New York and we kind of started dating. We dated for almost a year, like kind of figuring it out, and then we broke up. Well, I thought it was gonna be a good story for me. It's a brilliant story.

It's a brilliant story. No, you know what the thing is, I always say this, because I always used to say, I was like, no U-turns. Like at that point in my life, I was like, I've already done the, you know how it's gonna work out when you spin the block. If you have this turnaround, it usually don't work. So what I always do, what I said was,

is like I just kept going and he met me where I was at. So yeah, cause I wasn't looking back. I was like, if you are my person, we will align. I don't have to pull back and you don't have to, like you're gonna meet me where I'm at. And I had done a lot of work at that time so I wasn't willing to compromise the amount of self work I had done.

I knew the love that I deserved, I knew the love that I wanted. I felt like we could have it, but again, you gotta say yes to overcoming some of those things. So why'd y'all break up? You know, at that time, we, I don't, I'll say this, we both gotten out of long relationships, and I had done the work to figure out how to move on from that, and I don't think that he had at the time, we, I'll say this, we both gotten out of long relationships and I had done the work to figure out

how to move on from that. And I don't think that he had at the time, he had never given himself permission to be single, he'd never enjoyed that part. And so I think when he met me, I think it was a moment where he was kinda like, whoa, I think I just met the person I'ma be with for the rest of my life, like am I ready for that?

Yeah, I need to be the man that she deserves. For sure, and I respected him for that. And when we parted ways, it was in love. Like that was one of the most beautiful breakups I think I'd ever had because we saw each other for who we were as individuals. And I was just like, whatever work you need to do for yourself has nothing to do with me.

And I actually don't even want to be the catalyst for it. So I'm gonna remove myself so that you have the space to go and do and be what you wanna do and be without my influence or me planting seeds. And so I know that if you show back up, you showed up because you wanna be here. You showed up because this is where you know you're supposed to be, not because I've been planting

the seed of hope, like hey, I'm still here. No, I started dating someone else. Like we really started. Oh hell no, he called the lady immediately after that he got the therapist online what hey yeah but he did that work he did that work and and when he showed back up it was on like whatever reservations that I had thought about spinning the block or getting back together with an ex they were just gone I was like I'm choosing to do this with you absolutely let's get into a joint off the EP what you want to to hear? Oh, we're going to do make me feel featuring LaRussell. Summer Bob. Okay. My guy, LaRussell love the Russell. Let's get into it right now. It's

the breakfast club. Good morning. Everybody is DJ envy. Jess, Larry, Charlamagne, the guy we are the breakfast club. We're still kicking it with Melanie Fiona. Jess. So what was the moment that it was? Okay, he's ready. Like what was it or did you just feel was it? I just I just knew he came back We didn't talk for six months. I'm like a no-contact kind of person. Mm-hmm, right text you. Hey big head I told him I said don't call me. I said don't call me about the weather. Yeah, I said don't ask me how I'm doing I'll be fine, but I was like when you call me have something to say grand rising No, you know he just hit me and he was like, you know, hey

I was just you know calling to see how you were doing. I was like, I told you I'm doing good You know, I'm doing good. Tough cookie. Yeah. Yeah. I had to. And then finally he hit me. I was in LA and you know, he was like, he's like, Hey, will you have dinner with me? And I was like, no. And he's, no, I was, I was really trying to, I was really trying to. And a friend of mine was like, she was like, you love this person. Why don't you just go have dinner with them? Like he wants to see you. And so I went and we had dinner and you know, he was like, hey, like I was just hoping he was living in out of state at the time. He was living in Florida and I was living in California.

And he was like, you know, he's like, I was wondering if you know, you, you come out and like just, you know, hang out with me. And I was like, no, I was like, I'm not, I'm not coming out. He's like, okay, well then I'm coming back to LA. And so then he came out to LA and this, this is like my favorite part of the story because I was like, don't do this. Like, don't do this. If you're not ready, like for real, like I'm not playing. So then after he's like, I'm coming to LA and he's like, I will be here for three days. And he's like, if you will see me, he was like, this is where I'll

be. And I was like, I'll let you know. And I didn't. And then I called him 30 minutes before and I was like, I'm pulling up in 30 minutes. He's like, I'm here. So he really posted up. And when I went there, this was at a hotel. He was at a hotel in LA. And I, but I was really, I really was like, let me see if you're really about that action. But like, I wasn't making it difficult for him.

I was just really being firm on my boundaries. Did you get fly when you pulled up? You know I did. Yeah. You know, cause if it's the last time you're gonna see somebody you gotta leave a letter of impression. But it wasn't, it really wasn't. And, and you know, the things that he said,

it was just the most genuine. I just knew Spirit was like, we're aligned here. And I knew that it was, it was the right decision aligned here and I knew that it was It was the right decision for me. I knew that I was and that's you know, even on the EP I wrote this song called I choose you because I think that choice is the greatest thing we have and when we exercise it in Empowerment it can be so beautiful. And so for me, I was like, alright, I'm gonna choose to say yes to this You're choosing me and I'm choosing you and we are going to do this together. We know where we've come from, we know what we've been through.

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wherever you get your podcasts. This is about him. He chose to say yes. Listen, let me tell you something. That moment of us finding out I was pregnant, again, I didn't think that wasn't the plan, but it was God's plan. And when I really happened, like as soon as we got pregnant and then we had our son, I literally was just like,

oh, this is why. Like, of course we have a beautiful love and life and connection and I really do feel like that is my person. But when we had our son, I literally was like, oh, this. This little spirit needed us to get our together so that he could be here. There's so much that I'm hearing in what you say number one the power of intention Absolutely, because you don't your home girl. I need to find my person The set boundaries find peace for peace feet the set boundaries find peace part is very important

Yeah, and you know just people doing the work and what's for you won't escape you it's oh It's it's there for you time and time again, you just have to trust the process. You really do, you have to be willing to journey and pay attention and learn and allow yourself to be a student of life, like truly. In all the work that I feel like I've done on myself, I'm still learning, I'm still being tested. These kids come along and test you,

they show you parts of yourself that you didn't even know that you still needed to work on. In marriage, even at this time, right now, still being tested. These kids come along It's an evolution always but the intention, the power of intention is everything. You cannot do anything without intention. Yeah. But the setting boundaries part though, just the fact that you were firm in your nose, I want you to expand on that. Why is that important? You know, I think for a lot of my life I was a people pleaser and I think for a lot of my life I felt like I had to be nice and I had to get along and I had to go with the

flow and not rock the boat and I really realized that you get more by people knowing that you know who you are and that you can't be swayed on that and I think that No is we hear it a complete sentence, you know, and you don't have to be rude about anything like no, thank you Yeah, you know what not at this moment. I appreciate that but no, thank you. I'll pass Like there's so many ways, you know, that doesn't align with me right now There's so many ways we can say no that still empower us and you if you don't want to feel offensive But the setting boundaries is everything because again, I think because of the boundaries that I've set for myself in my life I can now freely say yes and feel like I'm doing it from wisdom, from experience, from divine protection. I feel like the universe responds when you operate

at a high frequency and so I know that I've done the work. You cannot get to that free space of saying yes by just being like, I'ma just say yes to everybody. That's people-pleasing tendencies. The say yes from a point of empowerment comes from setting those boundaries. So they go hand in hand. Another thing that you've talked about,

this conversation that I would love to just expound on, because somebody was up here, I forgot who it was, and they were just saying how work life balance does not exist. Like there's no such thing. It's a lie that we tell ourselves. You're gonna give your energy to your family, and that's gonna be that.

You're gonna give your energy to your work, and that's gonna be that. Like you said earlier, it's not gonna be 50-50, it might be 90-10. Can you just expound on that a little bit? Yeah, they say something that I've heard many people say is you can have it all, you just can't have it all at the same time. And so, you know, I think for the well-being of ourselves, we have to give ourselves grace

to be able to just be like, I want to show up 100% in everything. But all you got to do is show up 100% where you're at in that moment. If that's cooking dinner, that's what I'm doing today. I'm cooking dinner. I'm doing that. Multitasking is this thing that they've told us, you know, like it's not actually real. We're not supposed to be able to multitask. Like the only thing we really can do is like talk and look at the same time, walk maybe and talk, you know, in order to be present and really great at something, you really do have to give it your full attention. Parenting, marriage, all of these things. So you can only do that in certain times of your day.

I don't know how many hours Beyonce has, because they say she's got more than 24 hours because she'll be getting it done. But in my 24 hour day, I just do the best I can in the moment. Right now, I'm not checking on my kids. I can't, I'm here. So you just have to give yourself the grace

to just say, like I said, sometimes it's 90, sometimes it's 10. Just do the best every day. 100%. And if you're 100%- See? We don't know. She do have little lips, but she is smiling. Once I zoomed all the way in, Melanie- She does. About how you focus your game. That's why people stare at that picture forever. That's right. And I had no idea that she was really smiling. So- What is she looking at? What is she? Is she stoic? Is she happy? Is she sad? We don't know. What are her eyes

say? Her eyes say that she is sad. We don't even know if that's a woman. We don't. And that's the thing. There's so much conversation about the moment. Yeah. All right. We appreciate you for joining us. Thank you. Don't be a 13 year stranger. Never. I won't be. I won't be. I really won't be. New York always has a special place in my heart. So I'm just happy to be back here. Thank you. And I got to turn into your podcast girl. I really won't be. New York always has a special place in my heart. So I'm just happy to be back here. Thank you. And I got to turn into your podcast girl. I'm dealing with some mommy stuff.

Let's have you on it. Next time you're in LA, please come through. We can talk about all the things. Thank you. And it is a safe space. Absolutely. All right. At the Breakfast Club is Melanie Fionia.

All right. Well, let's get to the latest with Laurie. Lauren will be coming straight back. Tell her, tell her. She gets into somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. She'll be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she has facts, sometimes she has details, sometimes she has a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest.

On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. So Jason Wilson was on All the Smoke with Matt Barnes and Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen Jackson. Oh, yes. Sorry. I wrote down Stephen A.

No, Stephen Jackson. All the Smoke podcast. You can listen to the All the Smoke podcast on the Black Effect Eye Heart Radio podcast. Yes. Friends of the Room. Now, they talked about the power of men crying. Let's take a listen. You spoke to the power of crying and I kind you know, kind of briefly shared my story of going

up by racial black dead, Italian mom, drugs, abuse, alcohol, violence, losing my mom at 27th. It'll be 18 years this November and I haven't cried like I'm starting to feel it now, you know, and I feel like I'm almost pouring from an empty cup and you know through my actions I literally just lost my family. I wasn't there emotionally. I wasn't empathetic So my question is like how do you cry if you don't say I don't know how to cry because I've cried before but I haven't cried in probably 30 years. You're guarded. You have to change your perspective of what crying is It's really is a sign of you being human and until we get to the place where we can release it that's when you always feel this rage this

anger never feeling settled you gotta smoke some weed you gotta get something to drink you need to call that girl. Like when is enough is enough. Peace is not the absence of chaos trials tests adversity is having a calm heart in the midst of those things. Dropping the clues, monster Jason Wilson. I love that black man right there. You hear me? Mm-hmm. It was a great conversation. Y'all should go watch the conversation. It was a great conversation. I'm gonna send it to, I've already sent it to a few people that I think should watch it. But now he mentioned, Matt Barnes mentioned losing

his family and when he started talking. So a while back, maybe like a month or two back, his then fiance, Anantah Sims, I believe that's how I say her name, sorry if it's incorrect. She seemingly accused, not even seemingly, she accused Matt Barnes of cheating with eight different women back in January. She went on Instagram and was like, she posted this post and it was like, dang Matt, eight different women. And then she came back out and was like talking about who the different women were and stuff like that. But then it was all taken down and we heard nothing about it. And then now this clip surfaces, so people are like, oh shoot, so that really did happen. You know, they have kids together, she had just welcomed their baby boy.

So people were trying to figure it out. He just, you know, answered a lot of like the the speculation but it triggered her So she posted in response to this if you're going to talk publicly about our personal business Tell the whole story don't post have truths about me in our past relationship became sympathy from the masses I'm in the trenches doing the hard work making sure all of our kids are okay You made no effort to emotionally support all of our children through this traumatic transition that you caused But you're willing to be vulnerable for strangers on the grand for profit. Please keep my name out of your mouth. Since I've left, I said nothing about you and you know there's so

much I can say about the man you truly were to me. If you don't have respect for me, at least have respect for our children who follow you and see your posts. Your posts are triggering for the kids and I while we're in the midst of healing and rebuilding our lives. We're the ones who we're the ones who reaped all of the damage you caused by your constant selfish toxic choices. You didn't consider our kids in your actions before. So please our lives. We're the ones who reaped all of the damage you caused by your constant selfish toxic choices. You didn't consider our kids in your actions before, so please try to consider them now. If you want to do some good, please don't speak about me. Go get consistent therapy and most importantly, start building a relationship with God. Peace and blessings.

I mean, her feelings are valid. I don't know if it's fair for her to say that, you know, are implied at what Matt is doing as performative because he said it on his podcast and context matters, right? Like Jason Wilson, he really does have that effect on people. If you've ever read his book, Battle Cry, or Cry Like A Man, or his new book, The Man In The Moment Demands, Jason has that impact on people.

And if you read those books, maybe Matt felt like that was a safe space for him to have that conversation and be vulnerable. Like if you wanna be vulnerable with somebody, it should be with somebody like a Jason Wilson. Yeah, but she might feel also that they never dealt with their problems and to hear it online could be triggering to them.

But also, like you said, he's being vulnerable. He's saying he lost his family. He's saying maybe he needs to cry. So it's a tough space because if I wanna talk about my feelings, I wanna talk about my feelings, I want to talk about my feelings, but I don't want to affect you. I'm sure he didn't want to trigger her. I'm sure that wasn't his intention,

but you know, they were just having normal conversation. Yeah, and I mean, from what I heard from that clip, I haven't listed the whole conversation yet. I will this weekend. It sounds like he was feeling like he needed to take accountability in that moment. It sounds like it was some things that he had been thinking about for a while.

And once again, he felt like he was in a safe space to share that with somebody like Jason Wilson. Yeah, I think that when you watch it you'll realize like the lead-up to the conversation Jason Wilson talks about his wife and like a time where he had mentioned... He wasn't perfect. Yeah, and he said that it was one point where like they were in the kitchen and he said to his wife like dang I really want to spend time more time with our son and his wife responded and said I wish you would want to spend more time with me like you want to spend with your son and in that moment He had to take accountability for how absent he was without even kind of like consciously thinking about it

And I think you know as the conversation went along because that was a very beginning This is kind of like midpoint it made me like I think he he he identified He saw his stuff because he said that he had been cold in a lot of the situations like he mentioned Because of the things he went through. You have to know who Jason Wilson is. Jason has been up here on Breakfast Club a bunch of times. He comes to my Mental Wealth Explore every year. I've read his books.

If you know who he is, you would know why Matt felt like that was a safe space to have that conversation. I can also understand though her feeling a little triggered by, hey, there's this whole picture of us. We just had the happy family and then boom, all these women and all these different things that she's alleging. But also this might be the start and hopefully that could open up to that conversation if they both need to have that conversation.

Because her feelings are valid and what she said is true. We all need therapy and we all need God. 100%. I believe in therapy and God. Well, switching gears, you did this story for Dunkie today. Chris Lewis, the guy who left his kids in the car while he was at the job interview slash not job interview, the back and forth that's happening right now. Well, I had actually reached out to GoFundMe because Antonio Brown created a-

You reached out to GoFundMe? Yes, because- Jesus. Now, let me tell you. So, Antonio Brown created a GoFundMe. He's like, I want to raise money for this family because from what he had been told by Chris Lewis's girlfriend, they were homeless. It was a job interview, whatever, whatever.

There's a police report that came out that said the complete opposite, that debunked that, right? So then AB had to come out and say he was still working on figuring out if this was real or not. He had said in previous posts, if it wasn't real, everybody would be refunded. And I just felt like, okay, because there's so much,

we don't know speculation back and forth. What don't we know, though? We know he wasn't on a job interview. He's posting as if he's gonna figure out some more information. The police already put out the whole report. The baby mama has spoken, the 10-year-old child has spoken. There are people who still believe

that this man should have some sympathy. There are people that feel like he shouldn't. I just wanted to see where GoFundMe set at because I feel like if you give if you've given money and it's this confusing, I want my money right now, but I gotta wait until it's dispersed. So I want to figure out how that was going to work. But what they said to me was that the fundraiser at this point is it returned it it remains within their terms of service. So basically, they have to like go with whatever the trust and the safety of those terms of service is and then once

They get to a final decision like they're trying to figure it out as well, too Then yes funds will be refunded But I thought that because of all the debunking all the things that came out people would start getting refunds right now But I'm looking at and the go from you still here. You can still donate that eighty three thousand dollars over eighty three thousand dollars So maybe you should talk to the baby mama. He said he spoke to a girlfriend He should talk to the mother of the child. The mother of the child who said in the police report she has told him to stop leaving these kids unattended multiple times.

Yeah. Well, also too, GoFundMe said that they do have a policy where like you can go and request your refund and get your money now. I just thought like a mass disperse was going to happen and AB did mention that too. He said, you know, he said he's still gathering additional information. Get the money to the baby mama. Get the money to the baby mama because if you know those kids are being left unattended by the baby's father. Give the money to the baby mother. Maybe she can get some. Let the baby mother have the mom. Not Chris.

Absolutely. Let the baby mother of the three kids who got left unattended, let them get the money. Maybe she can put them in daycare or whatever she needs to be when. Whatever she needs to do. Yeah, absolutely. Give it to the mother of those three children. But I think you have to make sure that's approved by the people donating money because they donated money for a particular reason, but I think you have to make sure that's fine to do as well. Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

I'm not for sure how that works, but I can ask. But yeah, just wanted to give that little update there that they're still here and go from me said at this point, they're not doing anything wrong. And by the way, if the father is irresponsible with the kids you think he's gonna be responsible with money. What are we talking about y'all? $83,000. Y'all be having so much sympathy for niggas niggas but whatever. Alright. You forgot where you came from. You forgot the juice the kids did get through your mouth.

Yo shut up man! We're giving you a donkey too man. Why would you get on air and say that? You better stop. Who gonna fight you man? I really hope. Nobody said that. You said it.

You better stop with them rumors. We'll play the clip back later. Let's go. No I didn't. You said you kissed somebody in the mouth. Some man. I said my pops. Oh I thought you were Clu Son.

Oh I'm sorry. My bad. God damn it. My fault. He just, he made you, he suned you and made you gay in 10 seconds. Mayor Tom Ross of North Dakota needs to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please. Clu don't like when you play with his name.

Well, you need to stop playing with Clu's name. Man, it's the Breakfast Cloak of Morning. I just wanted to know how you came up with the donkey of the day. Tell her! Tell her! Because you're mean. I am not! What did I do? I made donkey of the day. There's a bunch of donkeys out here in this street. That is why Charlemagne is here.

We live a life where we bite our tongue based off who we made a thing. We never will say it. You don't give a damn, don't throw it home. Hey! Give it to him! Give it to him! On The Breakfast Club. In the words of Charlemagne the guy, he's a donkey. He ain't my f***ing horse. On the Breakfast Club.

Well Buster Rhymes, Donkey of the Day for Friday April 4th goes to Tom Ross. Tom Ross is the mayor of North Dakota City. And before we continue I need you to know it's Friday. So you know what that means, right Envy? It's Freaky Freaky Freaky Friday! The reason I'm telling you this is because Tom Ross is fam. And by fam, I mean a freaky ass male.

Okay, I want all the beautiful working class people out there listening to my voice to think about what do you usually do on your lunch break? Okay, most folks go get something to eat, right? Most folks try to get a quick nap. In more recent years, I've heard people say they even take the time to meditate, do some breath work, but some people like to do something that starts

with an M and has three syllables, but it's not meditate. It's masturbate. I can see people doing it for stress reduction, and that's why as I've gotten older, I don't be shaking everybody hand Okay, I give pounds because folks be out here going, you know on call of duty solo missions on their lunch breaks and coming back In the workplace like that's just mayonnaise from a tuna sandwich on their thumb. And that's the story With Tim Ross. Okay, would you like to hear more? Yes. Let's go to KX News for the report, please

like to hear more. Yes. Let's go to KX News for the report please. Minot Mayor Tom Ross has now resigned. This comes after an internal investigation was conducted after Minot City Attorney Stephanie Stahlheim submitted a sexual harassment complaint. KX News obtained the full investigative report. The report states on the morning of January 14th, Ross called Stahlheim to inform her that an officer with Minot police had died. 11 minutes after that phone call, the report states that she received a text message from Ross with a video attached to it. Ross then called Stalheim asking her not to watch the video and simply delete it, saying it was intended for Ross' girlfriend. The report says she was under distress after hearing of the officer's passing, then being told by the mayor to delete a message just 11 minutes later. She was being consoled by other colleagues and Stahlheim then tried to delete the video but accidentally

hit play. It was a sexually explicit video of Ross. Ross has since resigned as mayor just after 3 o'clock this afternoon. Now Tom put out a statement and he said, I do take responsibility for this mistake as if anyone else could take responsibility. As if it was anyone else's fault. It's your penis, your hand. Nobody was buffing your browser, but you.

Okay, you open that self care app yourself. You swiped right solo. Who else could take responsibility, Tom? What else I found funny was when he said, I tried to immediately correct it and was unable. What does that even mean? You can't unjerk yourself. Do you mean you tried to unsend the picture but the person you sent it to didn't have an iPhone? Is that what that was? Oh damn. What do you mean you tried to correct it but was unable? You were engaging and gentlemanly jousting. Okay by the way

nothing wrong with that but it's a time and a place for everything and on your lunch break isn't the place nor the time. And what makes this story extra funny is he sent it to Stephanie Stahlheim, who's a city attorney. You just heard the news report and she told investigators she had just spoken to Ross about a police officer's passing. Okay. Just minutes before she received a video of the mayor doing the five finger shuffle.

She told the mayor that a police officer had just transitioned, had just passed away. And he responded by sending a video of him making the bald man cry yogurt. Can you imagine? Okay, I told you about an officer passing away and you send me a video of you making tartar sauce rainbows. I prayed Tom didn't, you know, hang up with her

and tell her I'm gonna send you something to lift your spirits or send you something to put things in perspective. You searching for a Maya Angelou video and end up sending the video of you Hulk smashing your slum. Today's Maya Angelou's birthday. I was wondering why you brought her into this.

She was on my spirit. I think it's her birthday, right? Yes. Okay, now for the record, Tom didn't mean to blow the horn and send the video of him making Pearl Jam to Stephanie. You heard the news report.

He meant to send something sexy to his girlfriend, but mistakes happen and he sent the video of him making some beef stroking off to the wrong person. Okay, Stephanie filed an official harassment complaint as she should have. She asked for a formal apology from the mayor, which she got she requested that he consider resigning which he did. Listen man this is why I just believe some things just have to be done the old-fashioned way and things that you do in your bedroom in the privacy of your own residence should stay there. Everything isn't for digital consumption. Everything isn't you know to share on smartphones.

Do we even call private parts private anymore? We should get back to that. Do we have to record and share every single damn thing nowadays, especially intimate moments like that? I don't know who needs to hear this today, but your phone is not a safe space. Never has been, never will be, especially if you got social media, a safe space. Never has been, never will be, especially if you got social media a safe space. Last time I checked was a place where you can be yourself without fear of judgment or punishment. Can't find that place on your

phone? A safe space is a place where you can be alone, you know, if you want. Not when you seek in comfort and validation from social media. A safe space is populated with things that can make you happy and satisfied. You not finding none of that on your phone. So why would you share some of your most intimate moments with this device? Please give Mayor Tom Ross of North Dakota the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yeehaw. You're hitting folders, not a safe space?

I don't think so. I don't know why we're so comfortable with our smartphones. I really don't. Even the app that looks like a calculator that's really not a calculator? I don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know. What you don't know? Is that fair? Oh God.

Is what fair? Is that fair? Is what fair Dominican? If I'm playing with my one-eyed snake, right? Little pocket pinball. And I send it to my wife. Yeah. And instead of typing Gia, I type Sharla.

By accident. And you get it. Now I get fired? I didn't mean to send it to you. It wasn't my intention to send it to you. I made a mistake and Because you get it you're gonna go to human resources and now I gotta resign Because you see me playing with my one-eyed snake by accident

Is this you putting this on public record for a reason what's going on here? I I don't know if that's it's not like he did it on purpose. It's not like I said I'm gonna send Charlamagne my one my one-eyed Willie and you know he didn't we got my instrumental in You know what I want to hear right now my one eye Willie and you know he didn't. We got my instrumental in there man. You all got my song? You know what I wanna hear right now right? You know what I want right? It's not. You know what I want.

Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom. You got that in there man. Is that really? I'm sick of this. Is that really? I'm sick of this. He didn't do it on purpose. So the man loses his, he could have been a great mayor.

He wanted to send something sexy to his girlfriend. I'm sure you sent something sexy to your boyfriend right? Period. Now let's say you sent it's a Charlamagne back Oh, what? Turn it up we go off and all that now Charlamagne sees that I'm going on this ride alone. Can you get fired? I'm going on this ride along I'm going on one house. We need one person

One person you got that one house. You's one person you need to call. You go to that one house you got a good van for. Yeah, I'm gonna. Bro. Hey, you know what I started this morning, all jokes aside, all jokes aside, I was behind a car, right? And I'm looking and people just kept getting out this car. It was a Hyundai Odyssey.

All jokes aside, it was about, it was about 10, I don't know what they were. Did you call ICE? No, but it was about 10 Mexicans or something. I was literally, and they just kept getting out. I was like, y'all thought this only happened in movies? Yo, shut up, man. I thought this only happened at Amby's house.

But all jokes aside, all jokes aside, we need to detain you for a little bit. Just a little bit. You know what? Just a little bit. A little razzle dazzle. I don't understand what anything that you say anymore. All right.

Hey, you was fresh. He has 69 gods. He don't want nobody to have no consequences for what they ask. He made a mistake! Sure. People can't make mistakes. You gotta.

And you know what he decided to do when he made his mistake? He decided to resign. Cause she asked him to. She was like, you should resign. Give me an apology and you should resign. He felt like that was the right thing to do. He felt something else, huh? You keep talking like. Don't tell him to. She was like, you should resign. Give me an apology and you should resign. He felt like that was the right thing to do. He felt something else, huh?

You keep talking, like, Don't tell him that. All right, Cory Booker, like, relax. He actually said, Cory Booker. You keep going. You can't wait to see that. All right. Don't give a day.

Up next. I just wanted to say, he actually said, the decision I made falls in line with all my work on behalf of the city of Minot or whatever it's called. I put my heart and soul into this community. So he decided that was the honorable thing to do. I respect it. Yeah, because he put that heart and soul into all the places.

He needs to relax. John Hope Bryant, when we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on in. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DEJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy, we are the Breakfast Club.

We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. We have John Hope Bryan. Welcome back brother. I'm glad to be here. How you feeling? I'm blessed. If John Hope Bryan is here, that means that there's some good things going on in the world.

First of all, you came here in gifts. Or bad. Or bad, yeah, or bad. But at least the things that are bad, you can explain. Especially when it comes to some financial stuff. Rainbows only follow storms You cannot have a rainbow without a storm first Scientific fact actually well let's let's let's jump right into that

I was actually thinking about you the other day with all the tariffs that that Trump is putting on the country and you know People are looking to purchase their first homes or all that what would you advise people to do right because they're saying with the tariffs They're saying the price of materials are gonna go up in price. They're saying The price of cars and the parts are going to be shooting up. What would you advise people to do if they're looking for home ownership at this point in their life? Ignore the noise. This is just noise. Just like DEI was a distraction. Why are we arguing over DEI? We're fifth on the list. Why are we the poster child for DEI? Right? But they wanted us to be the poster child. Somebody did. somebody wanted black people to be, because that triggers racial overtones and all that other kind of stuff.

It's not even our fight. This is not our fight. This is somebody else's problem at the moment. This is like hitting, if you want to get in a fight, this is like hitting your face on my fist. If you want to fight, that's what this is. The biggest economy on the planet, America, we're 25% of the global economy. We're 40% of global wealth in the world.

We're big ballers. Out of 8 billion people, it's only 350 million people, but we lead the whole world. But 70% of the economy, it's not rich people, it's not big business. It's you and me paying for car notes and mortgages. And it was the car service that brought me here. It's a breakfast that we had this morning. So this economy can't succeed without us succeeding, first of all. So this party ultimately will pivot back to what's going to drive the economy because this is a capitalist democracy. Big C, little D. It's a free enterprise. So I tell people ignore the noise. Big C, little d. It's a free enterprise democracy. So I tell people

ignore the noise. This stuff, if it's not working, Washington's going to have to pivot. There's a strategy in Washington. I was with the Secretary of the Treasury a couple days ago who I actually like. I think he's actually a decent guy. Please break that down because I didn't even know the strategy either. I don't understand it. Well, no. No, I didn't say I understood it. Oh, okay. You're going too far.

Okay, okay. I said, first of all, I said I like him and he and I are going to work together on financial literacy. We're not going to agree on everything. I was with him for an hour. I didn't address this issue because his boss has already made up his mind and I know I didn't want to put him in an uncomfortable situation, ask him questions that he can't answer.

This has to play itself out. I mean, the country is having one big colonic, right? So it's going to take as long as it'll take. I don't think it's gonna take very long. You and I talked about this. And either he's right or he's not. The only way tariffs work, and I could break down what a tariff is by the way, because most people don't understand it. The only way a tariff works is if it's short-term and it's tied to you negotiating something from whoever you're trying to extract something from another country. If it's your long-term strategy in a country that has consumer spending, it's a disaster. Because it's a tax on you and me.

I'm getting ahead of myself. So you think this is a short-term? What is a tariff, first of all? A tariff, and as simple as I can describe it, is a tax on American businesses and American consumers. So this concept of, I hit me, you're a China, you're Russia, you're wherever, India. Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith.

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less attractive. We find Indian goods less attractive because what costs a dollar now costs a dollar? $1.80. So maybe we say, oh, I don't want any more of that. But the import, the American business pays the tax at the duty station. And what is that importer going to do? What is a big company going to do

when they get hit with higher prices and they're no fault of their own? They increase their rates. It's common sense. This is a radical movement of common sense. They pass that on to you and me. So our prices of everything is going to go up unless in a month he changes mine again,

which he's apt to do, and says I was just kidding. Now let me go one step further and tell you how this is the only way this could have worked. If he's saying he wants to promote domestic production, he wants to bring everything back home. Fair argument. Although American manufacturing, you're very good, American manufacturing as a manufacturing hub of old school manufacturing ended in the 1970s. That's why there's more poor whites in America than poor anybody else, because they had a high school education hustle

and the jobs they were doing walked away. In 1940, 1950, Detroit was the richest city in the world. For automotive. In the world, richer than Paris. Automotive. In the world. In the world! Richer than Paris. Richer than the L.A.s. Now it's one of the poorest.

Because the business plan for manufacturing walked away from America. It went to places that were cheaper. Now we can be a manufacturing center today, but it's going to be high-tech manufacturing. It's going to be artificial intelligence and robotics, which you need education for. Back to the story. The only way this would have worked is if the president said, you know, a year before you elected, get all the bankers together, get all the Fortune 500 companies together, and look you guys, I'm going to be president in a year.

Just believe me, what I need you to do, go to your boards, go to your governance committees at the boards, go to your bankers who allocate capital, go to Wall Street, tell them I'm coming and tell them to put capital aside for manufacturing at home. Also, because I'm gonna have tariffs, also, I need you to go to Staten Island, I need you to go to Snell towns in Cleveland, I need you to go to Detroit, wherever,

and cut deals for land. I'm just breaking this down. Right. And get the cities to support you, and by the way, you're gonna need, you're gonna need AI, you're gonna need a bunch of energy to fuel these AI factories You need to get some you know electricity and water things generated

I'm gonna give you here because it's gonna be tens of billions of dollars in investment and know that I'm committed to this My whole president is a new America and the CEOs go. Okay, we're with you. We want to bring this back By the way, what's it? What's what's in it for us? And he has these economic models that shows blah blah blah over a period of time This is gonna be short-term pain long-term game. Okay, none of that happen. Look, I'm not for or against I'm just saying I like math doesn't have an opinion I'm just saying my friend Stevie Wonder can see this none of this is going to work Long-term because there is no planning and that's what I wanted to talk about

Like I love the conversation you were having, but I wanna put some boots on the ground with it. When you talk about these working class people, the average everyday person living check to check, just trying to pay their rent, just trying to buy groceries. What should they do in regards to these tariffs? Like, can you tell, you know, you telling everybody else

just to be cool and silence the noise, they don't have that luxury. Oh no, this is our time. You can't fall from the floor. Black folks, we've been, and brown folks, we've been doing so much with so little for so long, we can almost do anything with nothing. I mean, a crisis for us is Tuesday.

That's right. I mean, we wake up in crisis. This is actually our asset and our problem. Before now, it was just our problem. I wrote my last book, Financial Literacy for All, which by the way, thanks for helping me launch, it's still number one a year later in business finance. Not black, just black history or something, it's business finance in the world. But two books before

was a book called The Memo. And in The Memo, I said basically there's something that is what we don't know that we don't know. No one gave us a memo on how the economy works. And I said there's three types of people. There's a surviving mindset, there's a thriving mindset, there's a winning building mindset. Wealthy people talk about their ideas, poor people talk about other people. So if you have a surviving mindset that the glass is half empty, not half full. It's the same glass.

But whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can't, you're right. You're right. All right, we got more with John Hope Bryant when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. Good morning everybody, it's EJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club.

We're still kicking with John Hope Bryant. Now, what are you doing this weekend again? Dream Forward, which you're involved in. And I would love to have all of you involved in, by the way, because you're all voices for this generation. This is a meeting between Republicans and Democrats. We have Senator Raphael Warnock, who is a fifth chap pastor of Ebenezer Church and a Democratic senator.

We have Mick Mulvaney, former chief of staff for Trump. We have the black pope, Bishop T.D. Jakes. We have the man who was on the balcony with Dr. King, Ambassador Andrew Young. We have Dr. King's daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King. She's a great person. We've got... Our brother Killer Mike.

Killer Mike, T.I. It is an amazing lineup. I just talked to Dr. Ben Chavis this morning. He there's a hundred delegates founding delegates of Mark Morial the National Urban League Everybody who you think of or may or may not have known known about who is at the top of the mark They're going to be there In fact the we just now yesterday, the drop in the mic keynote to walk out the stage is Sam Altman, who is the Steve Jobs of this generation. That's AI. So it is a way to honor Dr. King, not by just marching in the streets, but cutting business

deals in the suites. It is continuing his unfinished work of the Poor People's Campaign. It is his last book, Where Do We Go From Here? It's answering that with a dream forward. And there's no complaining. There's no politics. There's no whining. There's no talking about politicians. This is about us moving forward for two hours, a positive plan. And people will be able to download the business plans we wrote. And you can have it. You can talk about it at the kitchen table, you can mark it up, change it. But this is full transparency. We wrote a plan. Typically this happens behind closed doors.

We've written these plans and they'll be available to everybody. People can register at operational.org and actually listen to the global town hall. Roland Martin is going to be streaming it. You guys are going to be there. We've got, I think, the Associated Press is going to be there. We have all the networks. We have moderators part of it. We've tried to be as inclusive as we can. We got a video yesterday from the new chairman of the Senate Bank Committee, Tim Scott, brother.

And that's this week at what time? It's 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Today. Yeah. And it's noon to 2 Central Standard Time. Dr. King, Time today Yeah, and it's noon to 2 Central Standard Time Dr. King by the way was assassinated April 4th 1968 at 6 p.m. Central Time. That's the exact time He actually had a pillow fight right before he was assassinated. He had just relaxed and he knew he was gonna be

He knew he was gonna be killed the night before There's the only time he ever collapsed on stage. He gave a speech called the mountaintop. I've been to the mountaintop. I've seen the mountaintop. I may not get there with you. He knew it. And he collapsed in Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson's arms and others. And the next day, Andrew Young tells me they had this incredible pillow fight in the hotel, we'll be at the Lorraine Hotel by the way, I will today. And he just thought it was eerie that Dr. King was so light. And he walked on that balcony and the world changed.

And what nobody knows is later on the FBI told Ambassador Young the instructions for the shooter was if you miss the dreamer kill the strategist that's Andrew Young so he hasn't been able to sleep for all these years the guy who created the Ozzie and at Harriettville for black people in the world Atlanta Georgia is the only international city in the south a hundred and fifty billion dollar economy the same size as Singapore by the way so we proven we can build a world economy the guy who did that brought the Olympics to Atlanta, the only

mayor ever mentored by Dr. King, can't sleep. So we owe him a debt, we owe all the heroes and sheroes and leaders who came before us a debt, we owe those who are trying to fight for our civil rights now a debt, to carry on this work and not just be about me but to be about we. You can't just be selfish anymore. We have got to be about all of us and this is our time. If you want to be a part of history, you want to feel like your life really mattered, it's right now in my opinion. And there are answers to these questions.

I mean there's nothing that we talked about this morning that's rocket science. How do they tune in again? Onune in clean forward at the virtual town hall on financial inclusion. And what's the website again? You can tune in at OperationHope.org where you can register at OperationHope.org and it'll stream. And hopefully the Breakfast Club, I Heart by the way is covering it, Black Information Network is covering it. We have many, many, many platforms.

Again, Roland Martin's going to be covering it. We have many, many media platforms. Again, Roland Martin is going to be covering it. We have our own stream. If you get lost, just go to OperationHope.org and there will be instructions there. Or just follow Charlemagne. He'll be with us. I'll lead you there. But this is no time to be... I understand stress and I understand this is serious. But unless you're just going to give up, throw your hands up, you might as well be positive about it. I can't guarantee you that being positive is gonna make you succeed.

But I absolutely guarantee you that being negative is gonna make you fail. Absolutely. And these folks want you to give up, by the way. They want you to throw your hands up. That's why they did all this stuff in the first 60 days was to flood the system, overwhelm you, you throw your hands up and you give up. No, no, we're not gonna give up. We're gonna double now. And we're gonna be a North Star. What I want at this meeting is civility. I want us to

be civil. I want us to be elegant. I want us to be intelligent. I want us to be thoughtful. Emory University's already signed up to work on the plan. They were so impressed with what we're doing. Their economics department said this is a great plan. We, along with Clark Atlanta University Business School, will work to build this out for six months between now and the Hope Global Forum in December where we have another version of the plan and everybody gets to participate in that everybody but the hundred delegates will get to participate and help to shape the plan.

So what's going to be announced at the meeting is the framework of the business plan. I talked a little bit about that today. I mentioned there's 750 billion available just for black. This is the black American plan through credit score increases. We can do that ourselves. I'm doing that at Operation Hope. Increasing increasing credit score is 50 to 100 points. By the way, don't pay anybody to raise your credits that you don't need that. We do it for free. You can be a homeowner.

44% of black people own a home compared to 75% of our white counterparts. The number one way you build wealth in America is home ownership. Well today, it's going to be a financial inclusion dream forward as a virtual town hall and we appreciate you for joining us brother. Always my brother. Thank you so much. I love you guys. And make sure you subscribe to John O'Brien's podcast the money and wealth podcast on the black effect I heart radio podcast network. You can get information like this by the way time and we appreciate you for joining operation

Hope thank you John. It's John. Hope Brian. It's the breakfast club. Good morning the breakfast club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlam, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Now, Lord Narosa is in for Jess, so let's get to Pastor Aux. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,ah? What's up, guys? Nailah Simone, Big Nailah, Certified Viber. Good morning. What's up, guys? Happy Friday. Oh, I'm sorry.

I like that shirt, too, man. Thank you. We're selling them today at Vibe Check. We're doing a Vibe Check in Riley, Fort Dreville. Okay. A little North Carolina takeover. I'm super excited. Where's it at?

Oh, you can't see? Yeah, you got an RSVP. It's like private list only. Where your RSVP at? I'm at the North Carolina Takeover. I'm super excited. Where's it at? Oh, you can't see?

Yeah, you got an RSVP. It's like private list only. Where your RSVP at? I'm at the North Carolina Takeover. I'm super excited. Where is it at? Oh, you can't say? Yeah, you got an RSVP. It's like private list only. Where your RSVP at? Certify a vibe dot com. All right. Yeah, tight guest list though.

So I don't know. But let's get into the music. I want to start off with Babyface E. He got this song with Mellow Bucks called Tweakers. Mm, that's that club. Lot of tequila tanked up on, sweaty. You know, girl, throw that arm up and start doing this and that thing right there start jiggling Not the ham hock

Not the man ham hock What age is this girl? People don't be sweating in the club no more 33 and from Delaware Jesus, that was all dope I didn't think you would like the record, Lori. I'm like what am I gonna like this one? That was, yeah No ham hock though No, not at no, no. No, no, no, no.

He already knows. Don't play with me. All right, the next record is this girl from the DMV. Her name is Serena. She actually performed at my last concert that I do last month, the All Ladies one. And she's also a Two Lost Artist, but when I saw her perform, I was really impressed.

But my favorite record that she performed was called What You Didn't Know. She reminds me of Victoria Monáe. Yeah, Victoria Monáe. Purr. That's a compliment. Yes. When I saw her live, she really reminded me of Tyla, but she's Haitian. I can hear that.

She's given Haitian Tyla, but she's from the DMV. Okay. Shout out to the DMV. You said Purr just now. What is that? New slang? That's like period. You're identifying with the cat? I mean, kinda, but... He just wanna be... He just wanna say Pur like you like the cat he just want to be he's once a person into what the youngins are doing like clocky okay okay

don't wait when you say when you were talking about kissing clue in the mouth earlier I should have said her clocky per I'm gonna clock it too. Clock it, perv. You just gonna lie on me on that? I'm gonna sue you, I'm gonna sue you. I'm going into retail soon. Nah, I'm gonna sue you. I'm gonna sue you.

All right, the last record is gonna go to Ivory Scott who just dropped the R&B project last Friday. Definitely tap in with him. Phenomenal songwriter, but also a really dope R&B artist. My favorite record on there is called Control It. I like that. Put NLE Choppa on the remix, it can be a semen retention anthem. Oh man all right I wasn't expecting that. No. I don't want that but that is Tink. You love Tink. Tink is on there. Oh that was Tink? Oh okay. I love Tink. Yes I know. So if

you guys like those records make sure you guys tune into the Certified Vibe playlist it's on CertifiedVibe.com or you can follow me on Instagram click the link in bio. Will you be vlogging a lot of content from Dreamville Fest? All weekend long I'm so excited. Don't lie Naila, Naila like to go do things secretly and don't be showing nobody. She'll record it and then like won't. But she's been a lot better at like doing her daily stuff. But that's why she's a dope old soul though because she enjoys the moment. Oh yeah. I, I do I okay ready to go home this she'd be ready to go home Yeah, I'm always ready, but I will say I am actually gonna vlog this I'm not sure if I'm gonna vlog it on the story thing Lawrence, right?

I record it and I just keep it for myself. I just feel like not everything's for everybody Yes, but your generation likes to see that type of content and you in the mix Naila Allegedly you a certified viper I know but I can tell you that over and over. Yeah, and it's the last Dreamville Fest, allegedly. You a certified viber. I know, but I want people to see what I want them to see. Show people the vibe. Fine. So that you pick and choose what clips you put in.

Fine. I'm going to vlog it. I am going to vlog it. But I'm excited because I've been to every single Dreamville Fest. I started off as a fan to working it to now throwing my own event there. So that feels like a full circle. I'll be there Sunday morning with me and June flying out Sunday morning. Sunday morning? Oh my god! You're like J. Cole performing Sunday. I know but it's a two day event. You going there and then coming back? Yes that's how lights work. When you see me this weekend in Fayetteville, right Riley blow him a kiss with guys. All these guys blowing me a kiss. My first thought was Dan

you can't even go to no after party. Yeah, the party. Because you got to come back to go to work. Yes, I'm going to go to concert and come back. Why you only want to see that? You don't want to see Wayne and Juvie and the hot boys? As a father, when you deal with this, have dance competition, you have to be a dad. All right. I ain't never going to Fatherhood. All right. Salute.

Yeah, but now I'll be there Sunday morning. Okay, cool. Sunday morning. All right. Big Nile, y'all. That's right certified viber. All right now when we come back We got the people's choice mix and we don't keep it all R&B this morning. It's the breakfast club. Good morning You're checking out the breakfast club Good morning everybody is DJ and the Jess hilarious. Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club La Llorosa fill it in for Jess and we got a salute to our John Hope Bryant for joining us this morning. Man salute to John Hope Bryant. Today we are doing the Dream Forward virtual town hall on financial inclusion with John Hope Bryant. It is live from the

National Civil Rights Museum and if you go to operationhope.org slash dream forward, you can watch operationhope.org slash dream forward. Okay, it starts at 1 p.m. today. John will be live from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, but we'll be on that. I'm actually gonna be on a panel at 2 20 for part two of the dream forward event. Where do we go from here?

From the streets to Wall Street, redefining wealth for all. And it'll be myself along with Nicole Pullen Ross, who's the head of Sports and Entertainment Solutions at Golden Saks and my guy TI. And it's moderated by Jabari Young, the editor of Forbes BLK. So make sure you get on operationhope.org slash Dream Forward

today to watch the virtual town hall on financial inclusion at 1pm. Alright well. Oh Melanie Fiona too. And also salute to Melanie Fiona for joining us. Yes salute to Melanie Fiona man her new EP Say Yes is out today and her tour begins on April 27th. So salute to Melanie man.

Alright when we come back we got the positive notice to Breakfast Club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, when we come back, we got the positive notice to Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. And it's time to get up out of here. Yeah, man, I want to tell everybody too, thank you. You know, we are a couple of weeks away

from the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. Lauren, you ain't tell me you was going to be at the podcast festival? I do. I didn't know I could announce. I didn't know if it was all done. I mean, that's what they told me yesterday. I mean, I am gonna be there and you're moderating a panel. But yes, I am moderating a panel. I don't even know all the information yet, but I will be moderating a panel. You're moderating a panel on mental health. Yes. Yes. I did. I know that it was mental health, but I will be moderating the panel.

I will be there and people have been asking me will I be there cuz I didn't make it last year So I'm excited. This is my first time. It's a great event, man Um, you know, we got some great people that's gonna be there to shit Carrie champion It's gonna be doing her naked podcast live from there Tankin J Valentine will be doing their R&B money podcast live from there and Sarah Jakes Roberts We'll be doing her woman ofolved podcast live from the third annual Black Effect podcast festival. So go get your tickets this weekend,

blackeffect.com slash podcast festival. Go get your tickets and we'll see you Saturday, April 26th at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia. Now, the positive note is this, today is Maya Angelou's born day. How old would Maya have been today? Do we know? She would be 97 years old today.

She would be 97. Now today. She would be 97. Now actually, I'm gonna tell you why that's important. A lot of times we be saying she, a person would have been an age that they would not have been. She potentially could have been 97 still. Sometimes we be like, such and such would have been 132.

No, they wouldn't have. Okay, with 97 she would have been. But one of my favorite quotes from Maya Angelou, and this is the positive note, if you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it change your attitude that is just a reminder to shift your mindset when you can't control a situation remember that this weekend and have a great weekend.

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