The Breakfast Club - Have You Ever Gave It Up To Someone Who Didn't Deserve It

Episode Date: November 29, 2019

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Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Tony. Tony, get it off your chest. Hey, Ashley, man, ain't even nothing negative, man.

I just want to say something positive, man. I appreciate y'all every day. I've been in the Army for 14 years, man, so I only want to go to work every morning at 5 o'clock. But listening to y'all at 6 o'clock, man, keeps me motivated, man, that energy y'all have every day, so I appreciate that. Alright. Thank you, brother. Have a good day, man. Thank you. Hello, who's this? It is Nasty Buck, popping out of

Norfolk, Virginia. Nasty Buck from the 757. What's up, bro? Good morning to you, DJ Enzi, Andrew, and Charlamagne. Good morning. What up, King? Peace. Peace, yeah. I just want to shout out people that lost their vision. I lost my vision last year due to diabetes. So I'm just trying to keep it positive, keep it moving.

Okay. Man, I had a homeboy tell me yesterday he losing vision in one of his eyes. I don't know if it's because of diabetes, but. Yeah, I lost mine due to diabetes. Diabetes, you know, that's the leading cause of people losing their vision. So I'm just trying to show some positivity and all that. Yes, sir. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm glad you're keeping it positive.

Yeah, got to. Appreciate y'all for everything y'all do. I listen to y'all every morning. I was incarcerated last year, so I just listen to y'all every time. Get me through my struggles. All right. All righty, brother. Happy to have you home. All right, you too. Hello, who's this?

Hey, how you doing? This is Will, man. Good morning, Angelique. Good morning, Charlemagne. Good morning. Peace, King. Good morning, Will. What's happening, brother? I just had one thing to say.

Well, I got a couple things. First, Charlemagne. Yes, sir. I heard you're advertising for him, Air Group. Yes, sir. I was wondering, does it make sense for a bald-headed man to advertise hair growth?

Does it make sense? It's not just hair growth, though. That's a good question. That's a great question, bro. It's libido. You know what I'm saying? It's just, you know, being, being,

it's wellness in general, physical wellness in general. The Czech Claire, bro. Yeah. No. I heard that. You heard more than just the bald head on the commercial, though. And I said it on the commercial. I got a bald head. You check clear, bro. Yeah. No. I heard that. You heard more than just a ball head on the commercial, though. And I said it on the commercial.

I got a ball head. You did. You did. You did. And I'm like, what the f***? That don't make no sense. You can't curse, sir. A hair commercial, ball head. Okay, brother. Thank you for calling in. Have a good weekend, man. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up? It's John. What's up, John? Get it off your chest.

How you guys doing this morning? Good. How are you? Good, good, good. I'm great. I'm great. What's up, Char's John. What's up, John? Get it off your chest. How you guys doing this morning? Good. How are you? Good, good, good. I'm great. I'm great. What's up, Charlemagne? What's up, King? I got a bone to pick with you, sir. Talk to me. Talk to me. But it's a compromise, too. So people always call you about being late, alright? Uh-huh. And you said your contract

says you're supposed to be there, what? Six after or something like that? 605. So 605, okay. My punctuality is pet peeve, but I'm gonna let you live with your 605 as long as you come in the door saying yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. If you do that every morning, I don't care what time

you get there. As long as we know who you get. Oh my God. Yes, sir. Don't encourage that. I got you. Thank you, man. That's a great compromise. I'm with that. Oh my goodness. Hello, sir. I got you. All right. Thank you. That's a great compromise. I'm with that. Oh, my goodness. Hello. Who's this? Snackman. Oh, my God.

Snackman, our resident comedian. What's up, Snackman? He's not our resident comedian. He must be doing it at your house. I thought you were locked up, Snackman. Where you been? Good morning, Angela. I wrote a new joke for you.

You don't hear anybody else up here? Y'all be trying to make fun of him. All right. Go ahead, man. We're ready, Snackman. All right, go ahead, man. We're ready, Snack Man. All right. How can you tell when you're in a relationship with a black woman? Oh, boy.

Oh, my God. Okay, Snack Man is not black. I just want to point that out. Go ahead. You see her with her wig off. As if black women are the only women that wear wigs? Yeah, you know what? All races wear wigs.

Shut your dumb ass up. I want to come to your shows one day just to boo the hell out of you. Where your next show at? He hung up on his own. I didn't even have to hang up on him. Damn. I want to come to his show and just heckle the hell out of him. That wasn't a good one.

Boo! Get it off your chest. Boo! Race jokes better be funny. 105. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.

It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe own country. My forefathers did

that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my god. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,

The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're gonna figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay

Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Say it, say it with your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Angel. Angel, what's up? Get it off your chest.

Hey, I'm just fake mad right now because when you guys have humble The Breakfast Club, I can never get through. But, Charlamagne, you need to start getting to work on time, man. I look forward to that. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. That's like my morning coffee, man. What's up?

It's crazy how no matter how many times I tell y'all, my contract stays 605. Y'all just won't believe me. We don't believe you, but please, man. Yeah, we don't. All right. Thank you, brother. Angela Yee.

Yes, sir. Angela Yee, thank you for being on time every single day. Have a blessed day. Okay, thank you. I try my best. I don't be on time every day? Not every time, but you for being on time every single day. Have a blessed day. Okay, thank you. I try my best. I don't be on time every day? Not every time. You do better.

You don't be on time today, though. You better than Sean, man. Hello, who's this? AB. Hey, what's up? Get it off your chest. Hello, good morning, BJ and V, and Angela Yee. Good morning.

Good morning. All right, so a couple years ago, I was living with my ex-boyfriend, and he had a light door in my name. Uh-oh. Yeah. I wanted to move out, but I kept it in just the kind of my heart. I kept it in my name. Of course, he didn't pay the bills. So, now I can't get the lights in my name. So now here, two years later, I ran down to him

and me and his girlfriend had got into an argument over the situation. Reminds you, I was arguing with him but she wanted to jump in. First of all, the reason why he owned me is not because I wouldn't have sex with him while he was with her. So for her to come at me, I'm like,

my girl, you better date me because if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have your boyfriend right now. And you wouldn't have had no lights. Exactly. Thank you. So who paying the light bill now? I don't have, magically, I have lights. I don't know how.

Magically. I can't get it in my name. And it's crazy. They're like, how are you going to do this to me? I just got a child and all that. That's my stuff. I was going to say nice to you and because I want to have sex

because you had a girlfriend. Can I give you some advice? You going to pay for a light bill? No, I'm going to give you some advice. Oh. Okay. He's never going to give you that money back. Nope.

So no matter how much you try to harass him about it, all it's going to do is be stressful for you. So you just have to chalk that up as a loss and figure out how we're going to move on and move forward past this because all you're doing is putting some more stress and burden on yourself. You have to chalk it up and chalk him up as a loss, and he's a loser. Have a good one, Mama. Salem!

Hi. Hi, y'all. Good morning. It's a real warm birthday tomorrow. Hey, fam. Happy birthday. It's a real warm birthday tomorrow. Thank you, guys.

Envy, I know you're like the DJ king, so I wanted to say, can I request a song? It has to be a throwback, because, you know, we do throwbacks this morning on Friday. It is. That's the crazy part. And it's your birthday? What you want to hear? Who? Return of the Mack.

Return of the Mack. I got a homeboy who loves Return of the Mack. Luther Kaz, real life Kaz on Twitter. He loves that song, Return of the Mack. Return of the Mack. I got a homeboy who loves Return of the Mack. Salute their Cavs. Real life Cavs on Twitter. He loves that song, Return of the Mack. I do not know why. Has he ever heard Return of the Strap by Sada Baby? Well, I was going to choose Candy, too, but I was just like, no, let me just do Return of the Mack.

Just like Candy. Those are classic records. Yes. How about I play both of them for you, okay? I'll play Candy and Return of the Mack. You're the best. All right? Thank you, guys.

Okay. Happy birthday, Salem. You said you've been supporting us from the beginning, and I'll get that and return her back. You're the best. All right? Thank you, guys. Okay. Happy birthday, Salem. You said you've been supporting us from the beginning, and I'll get that on for your birthday. Not the beginning, but she's been around a while. She's been around a while. Not the beginning. We've been here for a whole nine, okay?

You guys are the best. You guys have a wonderful weekend. Thank you. Have a great birthday, all right? Bye. Diamond! What's going on, Indy? Hey, you just got discharged from the hospital.

What happened? You good? Well, two weeks got discharged from the hospital. What happened? You good? Well, two weeks ago, I had toe surgery. I had bunion removal, and I've been down and out for two weeks now. I couldn't walk or whatever, and I'm a teacher. I still been working summer school this week. Then last night, I'm trying to help my sister because she just had a baby last week as well. It was crazy.

She had a baby, and I'm trying to help her put together she just had a baby last week as well. It was crazy. She had a baby and I'm trying to help her put together the playpen and bring the car seat to the car so he could go to his first doctor's appointment this morning.

So I pulled the muscles doing that and I took a pain pill from my surgery that the doctor prescribed me and I took it without food so I ended up getting nauseous. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, so I ended up getting nauseous.

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, so now, from then, my stomach was hurting, my back was hurting, my chest started hurting and everything. Diamond, you know what that means? What's that mean? Sit your ass down. That's all.

You're just getting old. Sit your ass down. It's a little, your recovery time is a little slow because you're getting older. That's all. How old are you, Diamond? I'm only 26. Well, sit your young old ass down.

Yeah. I'm gonna sit my ass down. And I got surgery this Wednesday coming up for the other foot. I'm gonna sit down. Oh my goodness, Diamond. Alright, Diamond. Well, I'm in the club this weekend since you out and about. You wanna join me at the club just one last time before your surgery? Hell no. Not with this boot on my foot.

That's right. Pull up in the handicapped parking space. Jump out. Or roll out. Either or. Nah, I ain't doing that. Nah. Alright, darling. Have a good one. Alright. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we got a special guest in the building she's back miss kathy griffin welcome back very excited she got a new movie out hell of a story hell of a story a feature film a docu-comedy yes that's right so bad for you watching it i almost teared a little bit oh my god they were really effing you up. Honey, it's raw.

It is like ugly, no makeup Kathy crying. So the first third is straight up documentary, like iPhone. And then the second two thirds are comedy concert. But it is, you know, there's a little meat on the bone. It's funny. Hopefully you'll laugh more than anything. But it tells the whole Trump story. And the doc part gets me in real time. Do you think this

is it? Like, is this it when it comes to the Trump story, the whole seven-head discussion? Do you think you got it all out? I think I got it all out, but I realize this photo will be with me the rest of my career. Well, let's just tell people what, because a lot of people might not know what you did. What? Everybody knows. She did that for a whole hour

live time. Envy, you're crazy. You sound crazy. We have a zillion the picture. Envy, you're crazy. You sound crazy. We have a zillion new listeners. She just told this story last year on The Breakfast Club. I know, but we have way more stations from there. Just in case. Now I'm going to be at the Academy Awards probably.

I'm going to get a lifetime achievement at least. Well, I do want to say in telling what happened, it is a great story of resilience in your documentary because what it does show is that you story of resilience. Thank you. And your documentary, because what it does show is that you were blacklisted. You had to go overseas. Yeah.

Why was he blacklisted? Tell him why, ye. And promote yourself. It's for taking a picture. I took a very innocent, covered by the First Amendment photo of myself holding a mask of Donald Trump. Hold on.

Trump. Sorry, it's hard for me to vomit when I say that. With. Sorry, it's hard for me to vomit when I say that. With ketchup all over it. And then the Trump folks put it in what I call the Trump wood chipper. Now, I will say when I was making the documentary part, even I didn't know that the photo went global that day. So we get to show how it was in newspapers. That's right.

It was in newspapers in every language. In Chinese, Arabic, French, everywhere. So then they tried to associate me with ISIS, that I had joined ISIS. And I'm sorry to say there are people that believe that to this day, which is very bizarre. Did your mother really think you were in the club? My mother watches something called Fox News. It's a little embarrassing. And, yes, she totally took Sean Hannity's side. And she thought

she was in Club Al-Qaeda? She thought I was in Al-Qaeda. She kept saying that. Why'd you join Al-Qaeda? But I'm actually glad I got that, to put that scene in, because my beloved mother, 99 years old, God love her, has unfortunately fallen into dementia. So I'm actually really glad we got that scene.

Question. Do you really care about being in Hollywood? Like, you make so much money on the road, I would think Question, do you really care about being in Hollywood? Like you make so much money on the road I would think Why do you care about like Hollywood People calling you back Because when you're blacklisted you can't tour You know you're unemployable, you're uninsurable And because of the president and the Department of Justice So never happens

So that's why I really felt I mean look I funded this movie myself I don't know if it's going to get distribution Or if it's going to be seen by tens of people or what, but I think it's an important message to get out there. I agree. Have you guys heard the latest QAnon theory? You know about these people? No. Oh, okay. Well, they flood my timeline. And number one, they think I'm a pedophile and that I do child trafficking with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Okay. You know, like every reasonable, very reasonable. And they also think that JFK Jr. is going to come back from the dead and be the new vice president instead of Mike Pence.

Kathy, why are you giving that any energy? Because the FBI came to my house the day I filmed the special and they did a no knock and they came over, which means bad. Like usually they call if they think it's like kind of a threat they call my attorney if they think it's kind of a bad threat when they just come over without saying we're coming over the day i filmed the comedy part of of the film they came over and they said that i mean remember the the maga bomber the pipe bomber guy stasio sayak so they had captured him and they told me prior that i was already on his kill list but they came over in person

to say, we are here to inform you, Ms. Griffin, that he shared his kill list with like-minded people. And I said, hi, fellas. Oh, by the way, the FBI also never gets my jokes because they've been to my house so much. The FBI has been great. I'm not anti-government. And the FBI comes in and I go like this,

Norm! From Cheers. And they never laugh. They never laugh. They come over all the time? Yes! They're like this, Norm, from Cheers. And they never laugh. They never laugh. They come over all the time? Yes. They're in my house more than my family. And so I'm like, come on in, Joey. Hey, left eye.

And so I said, well, what should I do? And they said, well, it's an open investigation. I go, look, you guys are here. And they read me this letter called A Duty to Warn. And I remember the female agent was shaking the paper, the paper shaky when I'm thinking, okay, and I go, you know, I have a performance tonight.

Am I going to get shot on stage? Which is the way the Trumpers want to kill me the most. They want to shoot me on stage, cut my head off and then put my head up my, you know what? And then shoot me again. Um, they're very direct.

And, um, they said, can you open your mailbox, uh, 10 feet away? I said, I'm five,

three. How long do you think my arms are? Isn't that Miss Incredible? Right? So I want to get one of those grabbers from As Seen on TV, like the old lady has with the grabber, and then MacGyver, like a second one. So I don't know what to do. Every time I open my mailbox, I just go kaboom and hope for the best.

All right, we got more with Kathy Griffin. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

We're still kicking it with Kathy Griffin. Charlamagne? How did you heal from the trauma of all this, though? Did you go to, like, therapy or something? Oh, yeah, therapy. I mean, at one point, I was going three times a week. I was like, what are you doing tomorrow, doctor? I'll be here.

How do you know your therapist is not a Trumper? Oh, I asked him. Okay. Oh, it's like I open with that. I'm like, hi, who'd you vote for? I mean, I just can't even play anymore. And if you didn't vote, then we also have a problem. So you had a lot of therapy?

A lot of therapy. And also, I mean, like, and this is corny, but like, really, thank God for comedy. Thank God for comedy. Because no matter what, I just lived for those shows. And overseas, they just ate it up because the audiences there were like what is going on in your country and so uh it was great doing the shows and that kept me going but it was it was a grind and like i said the airport stuff was scary and there were a lot of incidents in the states too like a guy pulled a knife on me in houston and i was playing like really

beautiful halls like i played carnegie here and radio city and houston i think i played either symphony hall or the opera house and it's on youtube you can see it there's some guy and he's wearing a trump shirt he's waving a knife all over the place and how to get the knife in you gotta he's outside okay okay gotcha yeah your assistant also quit during the tour yes what happened i i it was a rough tour so maybe it was too much for him, but the timing wasn't great. It was like 2 in the morning in Vienna. And so then my boyfriend and tour manager, don't judge, we were on our own. And then there were various means of security, which I don't discuss in detail because that's the first rule of security. But there was a lot. And so you just have to try to think of everything.

It's like you never know where it's coming. I was actually giving a speech at Oxford about the First Amendment. And I didn't go to college. Oxford, can you imagine? And so the driver dude that was taking me from the airport to the hotel, he said, oh, I recognize you from the picture. And I said, well, first of all, let me just apologize for Trump. I'm really sorry. We're working on it.

It's a whole thing with gerrymandering and the electoral call. I'm trying to explain the whole thing. And he goes, well, I'm from Morocco. And I said, oh God, I said, well, sorry about Trump saying, you know, Africa is, you know, what whole countries. And he goes, he didn't say that. He's the best president the world has ever seen. And I go, uh, sir, I don't know where you get your news, but honestly, he said that about Africa. And I go, and he thinks it's a country, not a continent. And then the guy says to me, and I was then with my assistant, and it was pouring down rain, so I'm sorry I couldn't run out and walk to the hotel. And he goes, if we were in Morocco, I would cut your tongue out right now. He said that to you? Oh, yeah.

Was he an Uber driver? Honey, no, he was with Music Express. Okay. And I called the vice president, and I got him fired, but I also filmed it. Wow. I have learned to whip out that phone camera when necessary. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And I called the vice president and I got him fired, but I also filmed it. Wow. I have learned to whip out that phone camera when necessary. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know. I was wondering, how are you and Kris Jenner friends? It seemed like y'all wouldn't get along at all. I have to because she's, you know, killed people. I mean, I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure one time I was driving to Vegas and I saw her with a shovel and a Rolls Royce and I haven't seen Lamar Odom since. Wow. Now, that's all I'm saying. Yeah.

You know, I mean, I'm not, I can't prove she's killed. No. I get along with her because, you know, for 10 years, I just called them dirty whores. And then they were mad at me, and finally they just came around and they were like, oh, my God, you're, like, kidding. I go, yeah. I went there for Christmas Eve.

Really? Can you believe it? I walk in, the first one I see is Pabst, right, Kanye? And so I call him Pabst because, you know because he thinks he's Pablo Picasso. Just play along. So he has Pablo on his sleeves. And you know, they used to be my next-door neighbors, which was, during the whole Trump thing, my next-door neighbors being Kim and Kanye was delicious. You can't write it. And so, yeah, I went there for Christmas Eve and it was fantastic and it was like a super crazy mix of people, which I'm all about.

And it was, I mean, that proves anything. Did they make you feel welcomed? Yes. And you said Kris Jenner gave you great advice. She gave me the best advice. She goes, apologize and get over it. And then she, you know, she was like hanging there. And she actually came over for dinner the night of the photo.

And that was like, honestly, just a coincidence. Were the cameras there? No. Okay. But I, exactly. Oh God, more crying. No, she was actually just a coincidence. Were the cameras there? No. Okay. But I... It would have been great on an episode. Oh, God. More crying.

No, she was actually counting her money. I was like, Chris, pay attention. And then printing some as well. She's got a printing machine. But no, they actually, you know, they are the least of my worries. Like, once you've had the entire White House and Department of Justice come after you, the Kardashians are the least of my worries. White work.

I even went up to the makeup one, Francine. What's her name? What's her name? What's her name? Kylie? Yeah, yeah, Kylie. And Francine. I can't keep track of all of them.

I'm busy with the main three. I can't deal with Francine and Candle. Anyway, so I even made up with those two. And Francine's a billionaire with a B. Did you know that?

Her name is Kylie. Kylie, I'm sorry. How do you get Francine out of college? I can't remember their names. I'm focused on Khloe and Kourtney, although I don't know what Kourtney does. All right, well, we appreciate you for joining us.

Oh, I love you guys. Thank you so much. It's Kathy Griffin. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed?

A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete.

Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I create my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong?

No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go.

Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after

a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself, and leaning into

her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

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We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, we're talking about valuing your vagina. That's right. Now, this comes from April Jones, we're talking about valuing your vagina. That's right. Now, this comes from April Jones who's on Love & Hip Hop Hollywood and this is what she said. But I'm not opposed to f***ing him. Is that what you mean to say?

I mean, I'm not. S***, the b***h needs some d*** and I'd rather give it to a person that's my friend as opposed to someone who's just a guy that I'm knowing. He's deserving of the p***y. Let's just be really honest.

If I decide to give it to him one day, I would be proud of that because I have given guys my vagina that don't deserve it. So we're asking one day, I would be proud of that because I have given guys my vagina that don't deserve it. So we're asking... Oh, I gotta start it the right way. We forgot, yes. Let's do it the right way. It's Friday, so you know what that means! It's Freaky, Freaky, Freaky Friday!

Now let's go right to the phone lines. 800-585-1051. We're asking, ladies, have you ever gave your vagina to somebody who didn't deserve it? Let's talk about this mismanagement of the poom poom. Randy. Yes.

Okay. You gave your vagina away to somebody who didn't deserve it? Randy, you a grown ass man. We're not talking to fellas right now. Why do you think I'm the one who just hung up on him? Yes, we're talking about this. Y'all are doing the most talking though. Tashari.

Hello. Hey, you gave your vagina to somebody who didn't deserve it? Yes. Oh my God. I gave it to this guy, and I ended up having a whole kid with him. A whole kid, not a half. I love the kid. I love my sons to death.

However, I just regret that I got to deal with this man for the rest of my life. Now, at what point did you realize you was mismanaging your vagina? What happened? When I gave birth to the kid and I turned around and looked at him, I was like, ****.

So it was nothing that **** did? It was just the way he looked? What's so bad? You know what? It's just the whole aura. I wish the aura was there when it originally happened. It was just once the kid

came into the world, it was a whole new person. I was so disgusted. He's a bum. Oh my God, tell me about it. You gotta stay with that bum for 18 years? That's right. But you know what? When you bless, no bum shall prosper.

That's right. Yeah, don't call him a bum now, because he wasn't no bum when you was letting him hit raw. Alright? Oh, right, right. That one night. Everything was great that one night. That one night. That night was perfect. Yeah, okay. Lashay.

Hello. Hey, we're talking about mismanaging your vagina. You ever gave your vagina to somebody who didn't deserve it? Of course. You know the nights when you in the club and you with your girls and you see that dude with the fine hands and he buying drinks and stuff. You know what I'm saying? He's looking good. He's smelling good

and everything. And even when the lights come on, you're like, know what I'm saying? He's looking good. He's smelling good and everything. And even when the lights come on, you're like, okay, I'm riding with him. Isn't that bad? He's not bad in the morning. He ain't got no car. He ain't got no job. He ain't doing nothing. Got a bunch of kids he don't take care of. I think every girl done been there before.

How was you riding with him with no car? The train. He was in my car, of course. So he was riding with you. And you was driving drunk. Yeah, of course. I'm like, oh, yeah, you riding with me? Let's go.

You know, when you drunk, everything on you. Let me ask you a question. You said you turn the lights on and you look good. So how many times have you turned the lights on and the person didn't look too good? Oh, oh, that happens every once in a while. You know, when you're attractive, you don't really attract too many ugly people. But it happens once every once in a while. You know what, dog?

The reason I'm not mad at you is because you hear guys all the time talk about, oh, I was drunk, man. That's why I slept with her, yada, yada, yada. I didn't know that happens to women, too. What? Hell yeah. Are you crazy? Why do you think he was buying her drinks?

Okay, and they're spilling all their cash to make you feel all good, all booed up with you in the club, especially if you're just getting over an ex. Oh, yeah, he getting some. I wish you would tell me that you mismanaged your vagina just because I'm ugly. All right? I would tell you. You better have some money if you ugly.

Well, guess what? You can't un-f*** him. You hear that? You hear me? Do you hear me? You can't un-f*** me. All right. God, you're taking it so personal.

What's happened to you before? 800-585-105. Well, we're asking, have you ever, you know what? When we come back, I want you to tell a story, Yee, of your friend that wouldn't let

Charlamagne upstairs. First of all, we don't have to tell this story because black men don't cheat and I am no longer that guy anymore. No need to rehash that tale. You know what I'm saying?

I'm sure a lot of people have regrets for old face Charlamagne. Listen, you might be right. But guess what? What was I doing? That was mismanagement

But guess what? You can't un-f*** me Alright 805-85-1051 Ladies, have you ever gave your vagina to somebody who didn't deserve it? And let's not act like having sex with a New York Times best-selling author isn't a great thing You wasn't that before But you can say that now

Old face, Charlamagne They're like, what was I thinking? Like that one time you left blood on my mattress up here. I don't know why y'all bringing all this stuff up on a Friday. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, sir. Dr. Oz. Feel blessed today. Lucky to be here. What up, Doc?

Just a day? You don't feel blessed every day? Every day, but especially around you. Just the energy. There's an animal-like charisma coming from you, emanating from you. Well, thank you, Doc. He's very kinky this morning, Doc. I'm sliding over to him now.

I appreciate that. What are you going to do with these allergies? I saw you were having some allergy problems. Oh, my goodness. I don't usually get them that bad. Right, me neither. But I looked in the U.S. Weather Service, and literally the tree pollen map is a bullseye on this area.

And so I did two things. First, I started using neti pot. Wash your sinuses out. You know that Aladdin-like lamp? You put the water in the right nostril, comes out the left nostril. Make sure it's clean water. I never tried that. It is really effective for allergies.

And the other thing is washing your hair. Really? Because pollen sticks to your hair. Charlamagne, no worries over there. Yeah, Charlamagne. I was like, wow. Wow. I know how my allergies are acting up.

But you know what I'm thinking about? You put hairspray, especially, it sticks everything together. So the pollen gets stuck to the hair. You lie down at night, all that pollen is basing in your face. And you wake up in the morning with swollen eyes, your runny nose. So those are the things, if you can do them. Now, when you sat down, you said you wanted to talk about CBD. And that was good because, like, I was going to ask you about CBD

because I've been on CBD for about three, four months now. And why are you taking it? I like it for my anxiety, and it makes me sleep. So I take the syrup, I take the gummies, and I take the drops that you put under your tongue. And I like the cream on my joints. Is it good for you? Is the CBD oil good? So we did a big investigation on CBD oils.

Here's my personal belief. It's not been proven, but I do believe it has wonderful medicinal benefits. But, and there's a big but here. But? We got 13 products. 10 of them did not have what they said was in it. Really? Five of them had nothing.

So it's not really regulated yet. Not regulated at all. Either the industry needs to do it or the government needs to do it. But there are a lot of people, Charlamagne, who are going to listen to you right now, go out and buy a CBD product, and they're going to have a miserable result. Pay a lot of money with no benefit. Why? Because they bought fake stuff.

And how do you tell? It's hard. Right. I get mine from a pharmacy. The ones that we've tested were sold in pharmacies. Look, Charlamagne, it may work for some of those things. It probably doesn't help all of them equally well. Maybe it helps joint pain a lot, anxiety a lot, but not quite so good for sleep.

And that's so beneficial for intestines or whatever. So people just start to shotgun it. And then they start to find their own little path. You might also think it's helping you mentally. Exactly. So you're like, okay, I feel better now. But it worries me a lot when 10 out of 13 specimens were fake. Wow.

Because that means most people are going to have a bad experience. And it's expensive. What's fake in it? They don't put CBD in it. There was literally no CBD in five of the products. None. Zero. And four of them had so little. It wouldn't even do anything. Exactly. What are the good CBD brands?

I use Green Roads. I don't even know which brands are good or not. I've never looked at it. But I think the CBD industry ought to get together and create some kind of a certification process. They don't do it themselves. Don't let the government do it. Do it yourself. Say, we're going to stamp on this thing CBD real or something.

Make something, US CBD, or something that everyone can trust. But in the meantime, go for big companies. The bigger the company, the more likely they're going to be giving you real stuff because they're going to be going out of business otherwise. Yeah, I never thought about it. I just assumed it was good because it was in the pharmacy.

No, not at all. That's one of the problems we're running into. You know, we have so much misinformation about things because of moral hangups. That's one of the problems we're having with hallucinogens and magic mushrooms. Magic mushrooms. Psilocybin, yeah. You may not remember this, but Bill Wilson, who's the guy who started Alcoholics Anonymous. Actually, how did he stop drinking? Because there was no Alcoholics Anonymous for him.

And he started it. He stopped drinking because he had this mystical experience, probably through hallucination, where he realized what the truth was. And that got him to realize that alcohol wasn't his path. He tried to get LSD into the AA program through the 50s. Even into the 60s, he was trying to do it. Why? Because he realized that for some people,

if they weren't going to be able to meditate their way to peace, inner peace, there was maybe a hack, a one-time deal where you could take LSD just one time, have a new view of the world, and reset yourself. Let's think about this. What is addiction? Addiction happens because you create a fence

around yourself to protect you, right? You build these little walls, and you don't realize until it's too late there's actually a cage. Then when the world doesn't react the way you want it to react, you panic. You get depressed. You start resorting to drugs. That's what PTSD is. PTSD is you have this triggered event that just locks you into a spot where you're all handcuffed. You can't move.

So how do you free yourself from that? Well, there's some different tactics. One of them is meditation, prayer, but if you can't get there, and that's hard to do sometimes for some people because it's so stuck, there are medications. Some of the most important medications are actually hallucinogens, LSD, psilocybin, magic mushroom, ayahuasca. And this is not, I'm not talking about raving in concerts. That's the worst way to do this stuff. This is not for recreational use, which is why I don't like

what they're doing in Colorado. I think we ought to, however, free doctors to take care of patients. Have you ever tried any hallucinogens? I haven't,

but I'll tell you why. I don't have a problem that I think it would help. I don't smoke. I don't drink. But listen, if I was a smoker, I would think about it.

And the data from the most recent study, 80% of people who are smokers, they stop smoking after trying, with a doctor, one I would think about it. The data from the most recent study, 80% of people who are smokers, they stop smoking after trying with a doctor one of these hallucinogens and two-thirds still weren't smoking after a year. These are huge success rates.

It was one time. Same for alcoholism, same for PTSD, even depression may be the most important data because people kill themselves for depression. And if you can reset, like, you know how you turn your computer on and off if it locks up? That's basically what this is doing. What the f*** is the word?

That's what they do? Reset you? Hallucinogen resets you. It allows you to see a world that you never realized existed. I did try mushrooms before. Y'all know that. What was it like? It was a nice experience. But my thought is this,

right? Because I've always heard to take any hallucinogens. If you're not in a good frame of mind, if you're depressed, it actually makes it even worse because the hallucinations that you have are kind of a reflection of what's going on in your mind. So I've always been told like not to take it if you're feeling that way. Well, the, the, the doctors that I've spoken to on this topic say it needs to be guided. So you take the pill, you lie down, you have to have this person make you feel safe. Sometimes a journey is not

a happy journey because what you're going through is not happy. But if you feel safe, at least you're not scared during the unhappy journey. I did it so long ago, but I would never go out and do it. We were in the Poconos, actually. Me and my friends. And we were in the house, and we weren't going anywhere, so I felt safe,

and it was a good experience. And how did it change you afterwards at all? I felt very clear-headed afterwards. Really? And I wished while I was on it that I would have been able to write certain things down, because it does make you have a lot of different types of thoughts, but I just wasn't able to do that. Before you

did the topic, so apparently, I don't know this for a fact, but apocryphally, Steve Jobs, creator of the iPhone, Apple, would take micro doses of LSD every day

and then walk around meditating to the LSD he'd just taken. And then he would write the ideas down. Right. That's how he got the smartphone. All right, we got more

with Dr. Oz. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

We're still kicking it with Dr. Oz. Maybe I'm from a different place, right? Like, I see people who, when a kid don't act right, oh, he has ADHD. You know, if something's going wrong, oh, they have this type of problem. If something's going wrong in their life, oh, they have mental illness.

And it feels like people are using this as an excuse, and it feels like it's a trend. It's a fad. And a lot of people that are affected by it are not getting help. And a lot of people are just using it as an excuse.

I think it's a wonderfully wise insight. People crutch off these things. Some folks have problems that appropriately need to be treated. A lot of times people are worried that big illnesses are being ignored. But there is a bit of a victim mentality. And I'll take, I'll say I'm ADHD. Well, maybe you are, right? But it doesn't really

matter. It's quite, what are you going to do with it? So if I give you a medication for ADHD because you needed to get past the day, I get that, but don't crutch on that. And certainly don't believe you have to take that to get through your life. You should be able to figure out coping tactics because your whole life is about the challenges in it. Oh, see, that's what I think the problem was with the hood when we were growing up. We didn't learn any coping tactics because when people came with these, you know, ailments,

people said, oh, get over it. Oh, there's nothing wrong with you. So the cycle never got broken. That's right. So it just kept the hood f***ed up. That's why I think we need social emotional learning in schools. It's so funny you say that. I was at a...

A good friend of mine's daughter graduated. Timmy Shriver. He owns... That's my guy! You know Timmy? That's my man! I love Timmy. So Timmy Shriver's mother started Special Olympics.

He runs Special Olympics. He was John F. Kennedy's nephew, right? His mother was John F. Kennedy's brother. We teach kids how to do math in school. Yeah, learn math. You gotta learn math. And if you're gonna be good at life, you gotta know how to do a little bit of math.

But if you can't cope, if you don't have emotional coping skills, I think you're speaking to, which is why Health Corps and other groups like that Tim's on the advisory board, by the way, of Health Corps for that very reason. I don't know how to get people to realize this. It is the biggest disservice we do to our youth. And I go to schools all over the country and

it makes me want to cry when I see them unable to do the coping skills that my coaches taught me in sports. I didn't learn it in English class. I learned it on the football field. Or you can learn it playing music. Or you can learn it in a fashion show. You can learn it in many places. If you're in the hood, you don't learn it at all. Exactly.

Even learning how to treat each other, how to interact with each other. None. Do you think they should change some of the curriculum in schools now? Yes. I feel like they make us take so many different math classes, and a lot of times we don't use any of that stuff once we graduate. We have an 1830s agrarian system of education. It was built in a different country, basically, right?

Our nation. But in 1830, kids had to go out back to the farm in the summertime. We had different tactics that they had to learn. It was very rote. All the kids were together

in the same class. Look, we can be better than this. We need to reform education, not by throwing more money at it, but by focusing on things that make a difference for the ability of these kids to succeed. That's what's always kept

our country successful, is that we didn't straightjacket our youth. Now, should we wash our chicken or not? No, definitely not. Don't wash your chicken? I wash my chicken. I'm not going to wash my chicken. So why do you wash chicken? To get the bacteria off it, right? Clean it, yeah.

So when you wash your chicken, you spray the salmonella all over the kitchen. Everywhere. It just splatters everywhere. Then you put the chicken into the oven and the heat from the oven would have killed that salmonella anyway. But it's all in the sink and we wash it without washing it. It doesn't always go in the sink. People wash their salad in their sink.

When you splatter the water on the chicken, it goes outside the sink sometimes. It's been looked at. That's one of the problems. That makes sense. And you touch the chicken then. You touch chicken with your hands. But you have to touch it anyway. Well, we take our chicken. I use it with, you know, I grab it with two fingers, but you can use prongs as well. Throw it in the oven and let the oven sterilize the chicken.

Really? Yes. Then you don't have it in your hands, touching the salad, on the rest of the counter, your face, your mouth by mistake. But what if you're like, okay, so say you take it out and you have to bread it, you have to put breadcrumbs on it, flour and all of that. It's all fried now. Right, okay. But you could also put that

in the oven as well. We don't have any of that thing. We don't do that in my household. But so, any type of preparation that you have to do, though, is still going to get, you know, the salmonella.

No matter what you do, there's no incremental benefit of watching the chicken. Really? If you wash it, you're not killing salmonella with water, believe it or not. Black people mad right now. Yeah, I ain't going to lie.

I know you told me not to curse, but that's when white people ****, doctor. We got to wash the chicken, doctor. Come on. No. There's no benefit, please. What you said makes perfect sense, though. It doesn't make sense. That's what they've been saying in all the articles.

I still got to wash my chicken, though. Save some lives here. Come on now. No more. Listen, make that our anthem for the summer. No more washing chicken. Put it in the oven. Let the still gotta wash my chicken though. No, save some lives here. Come on now. No more washing. Listen, make that our anthem for the summer. No more washing chicken. Put it in the oven. Let the oven do the work for you.

I've been washing chicken my whole life and I've never had salmonella. I know. You wouldn't have had it anyway. You're wasting all that time washing chicken. What about washing your legs?

Well, let me ask you. How do you wash your bottom? That's a more important question. My ass? Yeah. I got two different rags. I got one rag for the body and then I got a rag

just for my private. No, but I'm talking about when you go to the bathroom day in and day out like you go to the bathroom in the next couple of hours you poop you're going to see me how do you clean your bottom front to back this is your kinky though this is good okay now that's all right now just cool quickly go like this purse your lips whoa that's what that's what your ass looks like right there how do you know because biologically do you you want to get a shuttle band? I'm doing, Dr. Oz. I don't know.

That just made me feel uncomfortable. That kind of looks like his ass. Do it again. That's his ass. That's his ass, Dr. Oz. Go ahead, Dr. Oz. You've seen it too. If I were to biopsy the skin around the lips, it's the exact same, exact as your ass has.

Oh. Really? Yeah. So this tissue looks the same as the tissue down below. If I were to get stuff on my lips, would I take sandpaper, toilet paper, and go like this? No. No. You wash with water.

So you don't wash your ass? With water. I always do. But not soap? Not soap. You don't wash your mouth with your lips with salt. If I spilled some of your grape juice, by the way, on my lips, I wipe it with the water. I wipe it like this.

Well, what's cleaner, your mouth or your ass? You know, interestingly, they both have tons of germs. And the mouth has anaerobic germs, which are the ones without... They're both a problem. Because I would think I put more stuff in my mouth on a daily basis. You sure do. Yeah, we know. You sure do.

But you know what I mean, right? I think people will be using moist wipes. I take toilet paper, I spit on it to moisten it, or use a sink. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Some freaky shit you guys are on about this morning. You spit on toilet paper and wipe your ass? Yes. Because that way it's not bad.

Why don't you use a wet wipe? Wet wipe's okay, too, but wet wipes mess up the sewer system. I went over to Brooklyn. I put it in the garbage, not in the toilet. I don't flush it. Do that. Yeah, you're not supposed to put wet wipes in the toilet. You spit on toilet paper and wipe your ass?

Yes. And so take it, fold it up, spit on there, and then you wipe your bottom, and then that's a moist wipe, basically, on your bottom. Throw that in the toilet because it dissolves perfectly. Is it still wet tissue? Yeah, then you got toilet paper and stuff in your ass. Well, no, you want

high-quality toilet paper, please. High-quality. High-quality spit. You need your mama's spit. You know your mama's spit that can clean off everything off your face? You need your mama's spit to You know your mama's spit that can clean off everything off your face? You need your mama's spit to wipe your ass. All right, don't move. We got more with Dr. Oz when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Dr. Oz is here. Yee. Now, what are your thoughts on Alabama and these anti-abortion laws that they're passing in Alabama, or that they've passed? I'm really worried about it. I'll tell you,

I've taken care of a lot of women who've had issues around childbirth. The problem with the law as it stands now, I think the law was really only passed to generate a Supreme Court challenge, but most women don't know they're pregnant. It's two weeks past your last period when you have to decide by.

I have people on the show all the time who never know they were pregnant, even when they were delivering. 50% of women don't know they're pregnant when they're pregnant. So you're asking women to decide almost instantaneously if they're pregnant or not. And it's also banned in cases of incest and rape. So I don't quite

get it as a doctor. And the other thing is this whole thing about heart beating. I mean, there are electrical changes at six weeks, but the heart's not beating. If you were to say, starting from when we can hear the heart, like when the heart's really doing something, that would be different.

That's not six weeks though. Right. So if you can define life by a beating heart, then make it a beating heart. And what really concerns me is I feel like it's banning safe abortions because women, if they're determined to do something,

it just won't be done safely. So if you're determined to get an abortion, which has happened in the past, it'll be done in a dangerous way and it could actually kill you. As a doctor, just putting my doctor hat on, it's big time concern because I went to medical school in Philadelphia and I saw women who'd had coat hanger events. I mean, they're really traumatic events that happened when they were younger before Roe versus Wade. And many of them were harmed for life, emotionally discarding anyway. At a personal level, I wouldn't want anyone in my family to have an abortion, but I don't want to interfere with everyone else's stuff because it's hard enough to get through life as it is. And I think the rule that most Americans seem to support is if the child

was viable outside the womb, then you don't want to kill that child. If the child was not going to be able to survive outside the mom, then the mom runs the show. This is a hard issue for everybody because I get it, but just being logical about it, if you think that the moment of conception you've got a life, then why would you even wait six weeks?

Then an in vitro fertilized egg is still a life. Then you would have to get rid of everything, like Plan B. Everything goes away. Plan B would be considered criminal under some of these laws. I mean, as a doctor, they said that they're going to lock doctors up if they perform these abortions. How did that make you feel?

And would you still perform? Because some doctors say, I'm still going to do it regardless in Alabama. I think your primary responsibility is to your patient. And the reason they say they're going to lock doctors up is because people don't want to say they're going to lock the moms up. Because no one wants that. Do you think this abortion ban could be self-preservation for the white race? Because white people are dying more than they are giving birth,

and non-white women aren't having babies. No, I think that's, again, another effort to stimulate people to fight instead of dealing with the real issue. Everybody's trying to get their summer body. Yes, look, we have our drink fresh juice here that I did and that I think has been really good for people to drink all natural, organic

juices, no sugar added. I'm having the beet gingerade. Yes. And I support, beet is one of the best ways of building red cells. So I already feel energized. And ginger helps with the nausea because sometimes Charlamagne can nauseate me.

Yes, he can. But not today. He does great right before you work out, too. You got to watch him when he tries to nauseate you. You made us sick talking about spitting

on your ass. I know. That was weird. Did he turn you on because you went right back to that? What's the healthiest way to lose weight for the summer?

Huge studies came out looking at this. Actually, the U.S. government helped support this. They took this group of people, 31-year-old healthy people, and they put them on one of two programs. And they put them in basically a lockdown area so they could only eat what they were given.

By the way, they both had the same numbers of fats, carbohydrates, everything, proteins. Half of them got it from whole food. They came out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it. And the other half got it through healthy processed food like baked potato chips and fiber sticks. So again, same basic

macronutrients but half got it from whole foods, the other half got it from processed things like soy isolates but the exact same nutrient content. The group that got it from whole foods lost 500 calories a day. They weren't hungry. The group that got it from Whole Foods lost 500 calories a day. They weren't hungry. The group that got it from the processed foods, they ate 500 calories more because they were hungrier even though they ate the same number of calories as the other guys.

And what it reminds us is our body, for hundreds of thousands of years, has gotten used to eating real food. And so when we try to process the food, even if we're making healthy processed foods, it doesn't quite work. You can't trick your hormones. So the reason skinny people get skinny, the reason you lose weight fast, you're not hungry. And why aren't you hungry? Because you ate whole food. So eat whole food, but low carb version of it. So real protein, real fats, but not animal fats, but vegetable fats primarily.

And the best way to do that is primarily be vegan. I eat what's called a pegan diet. So it's vegan with a lot of meat. Oh my gosh. That's not nowhere near vegan. Not a lot, but you think about it. I did a study on the show. We had 20 popular diets.

The two most popular ones were vegan and paleo. Right. The problem with vegan is you get lonely because no one wants to be around you because you can't eat at any of the good places. And then paleo is you're only eating meat. So we made the pegan diet. We had millions of downloads.

Free, by the way. Everyone can download it on DrRoz.com. But the pegan diet is vegan food with a little bit of the protein meat swapped out for meat or other sources. What about stuff like Beyond Burgers, Impossible Burgers, all of these? I love them. Me too. They're great.

And so many places are selling them now. Yeah, well, listen, you can get vegetable-based foods. It's better for the planet. Listen, everyone worries about the gas emissions and coal plants. What's destroying our economy in many ways is the way we eat so much meat. So I don't mind a little bit of meat, high quality, but make it the side dish. Make it the accoutrement. Don't make it your

big slab because animal farming is going to create environmental issues that we're all going to have to cope with. So again, don't get rid of all of it. Just temper it a bit. Yeah, I read those Beyond Burgers. I think I read this this weekend and they're not good for you because you don't know what's in them. And they say they're going to start genetically modifying

Beyond Burgers now. Well, there's something called Memphis Meats that make them from cells. But that's the future. We're making that from cheeses and eggs. You're going to be able

to make synthetic versions of these proteins that taste like... They're not just mimicking meat. They actually taste just like the meat. But you don't have to grow meat with a cow eating grain.

You can grow meat in a test tube. But what is it, though? That's not even plant-based if they're doing that. No, you're putting the exact same things that animals would eat into the meat. And that's why it tastes just like it. And it actually is literally the chemical structure is identical to the meat you get from a cow. And that's good for you? It looks so similar that it's hard to say that it's bad for you.

But some of these other burgers are just plant-based alternatives to it. But I wouldn't be harsh on these, Charlamagne. We're going to have to find alternatives to the way we're eating right now. And people love their meat. I like eating meat. So we're going to have to give people... Charlamagne loves meat. Yes, he does like meat. So... Pagan diet.

Pagan. Pagan. Pagan. You know what a Pagan stands close to? Pagan. Well, yes, of course. You're about a Pagan. Pagan. Pagan. You know what Pagan stands close to? What? Pagan. Well, yes, of course. You're about a Pagan diet? No.

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Wipe your butt, spit on the toilet paper, and wipe. And the pegging diet is healthy. Oh, my goodness. It's the Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary?

Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it.

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No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan.

And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun.

Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments.

Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before.

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This don't be a donkey, because right now you want some real donkeys. It's time for donkey of the day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, because right now you want some real donkeys. It's time for Donkey of the Day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, man, hit me with the heel. Did she get donkey in the name, please tell me. I have become donkey

of the day. It's a practice club, bitches. Yeah, donkey of the day goes to a 31-year-old man named Benicis Porto. Now, Benicis is an Uber Eats delivery guy who's making a delivery in Hackensack, New Jersey. Drop on the clues, Bones, for Hackensack, New Jersey. All right?

Benicis delivered a bag of food to a 23-year-old customer, and the customer noticed the bag was unstable. Has that happened to anybody in here before? No. Would you eat some food from Uber Eats if the bag was unstable? Probably. You still would? Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm hungry. It depends. Did it look like it was

accidentally unstable when you picked it up? Or was it rummaged through? Was the food all sealed up inside? Well, let's see what you think after you hear this story. The woman, she felt like, y'all, she didn't want to eat the food because the bag was unstable, so she rushed over to the Ford Explorer that Porto was driving to question

him about the open bag, and then this happened. This 31-year-old Uber Eats delivery driver is charged with lewdness after a customer says she caught the driver, Vinicius Porto, pleasuring himself outside her Hackensack home. The 23-year-old woman says that Porto delivered an unstable bag, which she found odd, so she

went out to ask him about it. As she approached his car, that's when she saw him. Police say she recorded the incident before he left the neighborhood. Police were able to identify him from the video, and he was arrested. First of all, let me give KYWCBS3 the credit they deserve for that news story. Also, I want to say by pleasuring himself, they meant masturbation, right? Yes.

That sounds pleasurable. Wow. I would love to know what she ordered to eat. What if it was jerk chicken? The irony, right? Well, Vanessa's Porto. That's a good one. Vanessa's Porto, after delivering an open bag of food, went back to the car and saw a young man applying the old handbrake.

Clearly, this 23-year-old woman looked amazing because he took a mental picture and couldn't even wait until he got home to badge his witness. Now, I am so glad this young woman didn't need her food because any man that would churn his butter at 4.45 p.m. in a Ford Explorer in the middle of New Jersey, broad daylight, definitely would eat some of her food before he dropped it off. Even if he just took a fry. The thought

of him taking the sausage hostage and touching your food. Now, I must say, this young lady is quick because she pulled out her phone and shot a video of Porto trying to make stomach pancakes before he sped off. And cops tracked down this guy. He's a resident in Newark, and they slapped him with a summons of lewdness.

On a brighter note, Benicis is starting a new company called Uber Beats. All right. So if you're into watching men play the skin flute, he will come to your house and choke the Cyclops and do a little dishonorable discharge. And all he asks is that you give him a five-star Uber spanking. I mean ranking, alright? Please give Vinicius Porto whatever the hell his masturbator's name is. Give him the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's.

Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey. Of the day. Yee-haw. Yee-haw. Ain't nobody going to be shaking Vinicius, whatever it is, Vinicius Porto's hand in Hackensack for a long time.

Which is kind of wild. I hope he got fired. It's kind of wild you wouldn't shake his hand, because you got to think all men masturbate, right? Yes. Yeah. So, it's like everybody's hand that you dap up has masturbated. So, why wouldn't you dap up Vanessa's portal?

Just because you know he masturbates? Well, where did he wash it? You should wash your hands after. That's true. Right after? I would think. There's no hand sanitizer in the world can clean that up, bro. And I'm sure he had more deliveries right after that, too.

Probably. Jesus. That's nasty. God bless him. All right, Charlamagne, thank you for that donkey of the day. Yes, sir. All right, we got more coming up next. We're The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne, the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, sir. Yes. My brother, Bill Bellamy. Yes. The man who Bill Bellamy. Yes.

The man who refuses to age. I'm just staying stuck at 32. Everybody call me the black vampire. You vegan or something? No, I eat everything. No, no. I'm like, I just had a pork sandwich. No, I'm just kidding.

No, but I eat healthy. I eat healthy. I work out tremendously. And I'm always laughing. So that take half the stress out. That's a fact. You're tremendously, and I'm always laughing. So that takes half the stress out. That's a fact. You're always laughing. I'm always laughing.

I don't take life too serious, unless it's a real issue. But for the most part, I'm having fun. So that'll keep 20 years right off you right there. Just laugh. See, that's why you look good. You let it roll off. Yeah, I laugh too much. I laugh at things I shouldn't be laughing at.

Hey, man, let me tell you something, man. I'm with you. Now, let's start from the beginning. A lot of people don't know. Bill Bellamy, he's done a lot in this industry. Yes, I have. Let's start from the beginning. How long has your career been?

Yeah, because he was a VJ at first. Yeah, I was a VJ, yeah. So I was doing stand-up, right? Originally from Newark. I'm originally from Newark, New Jersey. Brick City was good. I was doing stand-up here in the city. And Tracy Jordan from MTV, she was City was good. I was doing stand-up here in the city, and Tracy Jordan from MTV,

she was a talent scout and talent relations person, saw me, and she was like, you're a really funny kid. Do you like music? Because I work for MTV. I didn't even have MTV in my neighborhood, because MTV wasn't everywhere. So I was like, I thought she was lying.

I was like, what, MTV? MTV, I heard about it. She was like, here's my card. Call me, because I want to give you an on-air audition. So I was like, I thought she was lying. I was like, what MTV MTV? I heard about it. She was like, here's my car. Call me. Cause I'm going to give you like an on air audition. So I was like, Oh wow. I ain't had no managers. So I had my man call. I was like, yo, act like you're my manager and see if this chick pick up the phone. She picked up the phone. I was like, Oh, so case in point, I get the audition and next thing you know, I'm on TV. But what people don't realize is was before that happened, my career happened like it was like a one-two punch.

So I'm doing comedy. I get Def Jam. So I take my Def Jam. So just imagine, I tape Def Jam in December, right? It airs in January, and then I'm on MTV in March. Oh, you did Def Jam before? Yeah, I taped it with an air like boom, boom. So to everybody, I was like, yo,

Bill Bellamy blew up. But it was just the timing of everything. So I went from being a funny comedian where everybody just knew my one joke. They didn't even know my name. People did not know my name. They was like, yo, you my man that do the car joke. Yo, Ralph Bellamy, yo. Oh, yes, my man, Ralph Bellamy. And then

when I went to MTV, because every day I said, yo, this is Bill Bellamy. This is Bill Bellamy. So no one ever called me just Bill. It was like, yo, that's Bill Bellamy. Gotcha. You see what I'm saying? So then I got on MTV. That just changed my life because MTV at that time was what YouTube and social media is today.

Right. So, like, for me, because this is why I thought about I got to do a book because most people don't know how connected I am to everyone's success, especially in the music business. You know what I'm saying? Like Puff.

You know what I'm saying? Me and Puff go all the way back. I remember when Puff, like this was crazy, when Puff was hanging out, he was giving out Bad Boy t-shirts.

He just got his big deal. We was all coming up together, right? So he's like DJing, he's hustling his bad boy stuff, he got the street team. Next thing I know, he went from Puff to Puff Daddy to Diddy to Boom Boom Pow. You know, Jay-Z, when he first came out, he had to get on MTV to blow up. So me and Jay is out in Aspen, he's like, yo, we the only black dudes out here. I'm like, I know. Because I was doing stuff that black people

wasn't seeing on TV. I was going places and interviewing everybody that was coming up in the game. And you would go platinum. Like, literally you could go, you could be a new artist and get on MTV and you just launched. That's how powerful it was at that time. You know what I'm saying?

So when Pac got out of jail, I got to interview. You know, when Snoop's first album, I'm right there. Right. I'm right there in Jimmy Iovine's office listening to the entire album with Dr. Dre. So I was just like, I got to do a book because these stories and interesting parts of the music business, I think people will be bugging because it'll never go back to that. What made you leave the music? Because you were so successful.

You were the black guy that did all the hip-hop stuff. And that's so wild to think of. When you think about MTV, you think about Fab Five Freddy, you think about Sway, you even think about Ed Lover. I don't ever put you in that mix, but you were right there.

I was right there, but see, the thing was, the difference between Fab, Fab would be like a senior. I came in as a freshman, right? So Fab, Fab, Freddie, he was like the originator or the culture on MTV, right? And then you had Dr. Dre and Ed Lover, right? And they had-

Yo MTV Raps. Yo MTV Raps. But see, I was MTV Jams. So MTV Jams was like a hybrid of everything that they was doing, but then also pop. So it was black and white. It was black and white. So I had the white artists. I had Babyface.

Then I turned around and I had Collective Soul. Then I turned around. So if you was pop, you was on Jams. And that was what was dope because then a kid like Usher could just go from, you know, a gold to diamond. Because now the white kids is going crazy. They got to get it. They got to have it. MTV deems you a success when you're on there, right?

So we do an interview. It was to your benefit as a new artist like for us to come on your show because right now your show has the pulse of the culture. And y'all don't care. Y'all do everything. You know what I mean? What I like about this show is you guys, you're topical

and you're not just stuck to music. You do everything. That's why I feel the show has such a great audience because there's something for everybody. I think what I was trying to do with MTV was I was trying to blow my people up. Period. I wanted you to win. I'm like, we out here.

When Will Smith did his first big movie Independence Day, he was with me right there. Yo, I'm about to people up. Period. I wanted you to win. I'm like, dog, we out here. You know what I'm saying? When Will Smith did his first big movie, Independence Day, he was with me. Right there. Yo, I'm about to blow up. I'm like, I see it. You got a spaceship. They ain't never seen a brother. You know what I'm saying? So why did you leave the MTV? Because you were doing it so well. Yeah.

I wanted to be a movie star. I didn't want to just be a music guy. What I did was I started with, I did Dre and Ed's movie, which was Who's the Man? Just a little cameo. Remember, there was a bunch of hip-hop people in that one.

That was my taste. I was like, yo, I kind of like this movie thing. I want to remake that. Yeah, wasn't that a fun movie? It was cameos for days. Hilarious. Oh my God. Charlie Mack, hurry up. Charlie Mack! Got to shout out Charlie Mack. Yeah, Charlie Mack. Charlie Mack, Charlie Mack.

Got to shout out Charlie Mack. And then I did Love Jones. And so now I'm like, yo, man, this is like kind of fly, you know, doing movies. And then I did How to Be a Player. Then I was like, you know what? That was the one.

Those are classic. I am really going to do this movie thing. Yeah, How to Be a Player is a classic. Yeah, it's just one of those movies that I'll just love and everybody to this day still talk about it. How'd that come about? Was that straight from MTV?

Russell was like, you're handsome, you're charismatic. I think this will be a fabulous movie for you to launch your career. You're fantastic on MTV, but I want to make you a movie star. And that's boom. So you produced it. Def Jam produced that. Yeah, that was a Def Jam movie, and Island Pictures. Did that ruin you in real life? Did women really think you was it Def Jam produced that yeah that was Def Jam movie and Island Pictures yeah did that ruin you

in real life did women really think you was a player oh yeah yeah there you go he probably was back then

but I was but not like to the like people think like literally like I was but not like that like if you see my movie

I ain't even wash up I was like yo I'm nasty like if you watch the movie I just be leaving chick's house I don't even wash my hands nothing I'm like yo, I'm nasty. Like, if you watch the movie, I'd just be leaving Chick's house. I don't even wash my hands. I'm like, yo, I ain't even, you know, nothing.

I'm like, yo, I was wild. And I had like seven chicks in a day. That's a lot. You know? Yeah, you was doing too much. I was doing too much. Right? That was way too much. But in real life, it was interesting what I learned from doing movies is when you do a role that people gravitate to

they think that's really you like like like when I was in Love Jones people didn't like me for about about a year I was like I was just playing like that was in the script just was like yo no you really dirty like that are you gonna do Lorenz Tate like that you're supposed to be his man and I was like yo that's the road it's not like Bill the regular guy, you know. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with comedian, VJ, actor, Bill Bellamy, Yee. So I see you have a daughter who just turned 16.

Yo, I want to give you a shout out. First of all, DJ Envy, I never told him this. First of all, this is my man. You're the only dude that really made me look like, I should have had you never see how many kids you got i love it like like yo you like got the real family like i got two and i tapped out but i mean you got you got a dick dick dick dick dick like they like they go in sizes like i'm like yo who does that yo i'm like maybe and then y'all do the cute outfits i'd be like yo i, I should have had three more, though. Why'd you tap out?

I got scared, bro. Because I'm not really, no, I just, I was just good. I got my girl, I got my son, and I was like, good. Like, I didn't even think about it. Like, and when I see this dude, I be like, yo, another daughter or son could be cool. So what you waiting on? I'm not doing it now. Why?

The gap is ridiculous. His gap is ridiculous. No, it's not. His daughter's 16. 16. My daughter's 17. My daughter's 17 and my youngest is two.

How do you do it? You take your d*** out, you put it in a vagina, you pump a few times. And don't get out. And don't f*** it up. Stay in there. Just put your elbows up.

You have any kids? I have three. So you good? Yeah. None. None. Do you have any kids? I have three. So you good? None. What you waiting on? I don't know. I've never tried to get pregnant. I've always tried not to.

You always trying. You scared. You kick it. Get off me. She kicking you in your chest. You ain't gonna do that. What did you do with it? One baby, baby. This is a fertile with it? Well, maybe, maybe.

This is a fertile. It's coming. Anyway, I got it. Can I tell y'all something real quick? And I just want to ask you because I've been thinking about this. Because y'all talk about topical stuff. Are these new straws messing with y'all? I hate them.

I hate them. These cardboard straws. I hate them. Because they get all flimsy after a little while. I hate them. It's weird. I hate them. It's just weird, bro.

They're trying to keep us from littering, but that make me want to throw it on the ground. It gets soggy, too. Man, I went to the movies, man. And you know in the movies, you're watching a movie and you let it sit in there too long, and that thing collapses, bro. Like a flaccid penis. Oh!

What? I don't know about that, but it's like a cardboard box. Yeah, you know he always go left. I'm like, man. It happens. The worst. Is that all you can think of? I mean, that's the, of all the millions of, you know, like a weak, a weak d*** in your mouth.

What is wrong with Charlamagne? I'm just making sure you pay attention. How you get this job, bro? He said the straw breaks down like a flaccid penis. Like a flaccid penis in your mouth? But listen though, be honest. Isn't it like a flaccid penis? a flaccid penis in your mouth But listen though Be honest Isn't it like a flaccid penis No it's not

How would he know I don't know that I know what it tastes like I know what it feels It feels like you have What You know what it tastes like No no no

I said I know what it feels like When you have that That cardboard straw Don't it seem like a box Like you You ever Like you never You ever cut up a box you ever cut up a box

after you done got something? It tastes like what the box would taste like. Like the box if you just had a box in your mouth. How poor was you in Newark, bro? You ain't never had a box? No. I mean, I eat

but not that kind of box. Is the shack your cousin? Yeah, man. Everybody didn't have money at first, bro. You know what I'm saying? We came from something, man. Cats was eating boxes. This shit wasn't Shaq's cousin. Shaq made the NBA when he was like, 920, man.

He act like Shaq was rich when he was little. It was the same. He had the same money I had. None. We was talking about all this f***ing. Did you have a trademark booty call? No. Oh, man. They still use that to this day.

Yo, I heard it. I literally heard it on a TV show yesterday. Damn. People use booty call like it just came from them. They don't know where it came from. They don't even know where it came from. Like, I see it's always a reference in a movie or a TV show. And I'm like, yo, but who was thinking of that in 92?

Right. 1992. Did you know that you were going to be, you know, renovating homes? Did you know that? No. See? If you would have started that in 92, you know how many more homes you have right now? What's wrong with you, Evie?

Why didn't you have the fourth sign? I don't know, Bill. How did you come up with that term? Do you remember the first time you used it? I remember exactly how I came up with the joke. It was because at the time, Mike Tyson had went to jail. He was in Indiana, and this girl went to his hotel room. So I read the article.

That's how a lot of jokes come from reading. So I read a lot. And I was like, yo, that is crazy as hell. She went to his room like three in the morning and she was like, I don't know why I'm up there. I'm like, that's crazy. Everybody know what that is. So my roommate at the time, I was like, yo, that ain't nothing but a booty call.

He was like, yo, B, what is that you just said? I said, that's a booty call. Everybody know what it is i ran to the uptown that night right let me show you how god worked so i shoot over to the city i go to harlem i'm up at uptown and that night everybody was there it was a bunch of good comics and i was supposed to go on they kept putting me last right so charlie barnett went on that night and charlie killed like like i don't know if you've ever been to Uptown back in the day. When you're killing, they stomp the ground like this.

They used to stomp the ground. So, he killing this. I'm like, oh, my. So, Kevin Brown came up to me. He was like, yo, B-Man, I'm going to ask you a favor. Can you come back next week? And I'm like, oh, come on, man. I've been waiting.

I'm like, come on. My car probably gone. I double parked. I'm like, yo, bro, I came all the way from Jersey. I got a new joint. I got to drop this joint, man. Just let me go on tonight. I ain't going to come back next week.

He said, you going to follow Charlie Burnett? I said, yeah, I got it. I got something. So what I did was I started with my closer because I knew my closer was a banger. What was your closer back then? I don't remember. I just knew it was a banger. So was your closer back then? I don't remember. I just knew it was a banger, so I started. I worked backwards.

Because he killed it. So I was like, oh, shit, I got to start. I got to start with my closer. Keep that energy going. Keep that energy. So I started my closer, and I threw the booty call. Like, I did two or three jokes. I had them, and I threw a booty call, and the place exploded.

I said, oh! Russell Simmons was in there that night. That's what's crazy. Had I not went on, HBO was in there. That was the night I got Def Jam. Wow. And so, case in point, I do the joke. Everybody's going crazy.

Russell runs around the back. He's like, yo, what's that booty call thing you just did? I want you to do that on my new show. These are my HBO executives, and we're going to do this thing. We're bringing this vibe to television. That's how I got deafened. Wow.

So if I would have just went home, it would have never happened. Wow. Is that not crazy? That's nuts. Thank you for reminding me. Wow.

Well, Bill Bellamy is going to be at Carolina this week. Thank you, man. Tonight, 7.30, 10 p.m. and Saturday, 7.30, 10 p.m. And write that book, man. I'm doing the book. Done. Right here on, 10 p.m. And Saturday, 7.30, 10 p.m. And write that book, man. I'm doing the book.

Done. Right here on The Breakfast Club. You heard it's going down. Bam. All right. Well, it's The Breakfast Club. It's Bill Bellamy. Yes, sir.

All right, so let's talk about Double Down. Now, first of all, I just want to say I've seen them around and known them for quite some time. And I know you guys as powerhouses in this industry, right? Behind the scenes. I've done some work with you also. And I was excited to see that you guys are coming out with a book. So let's talk about Double Down and what it actually means. Because it is physically like doubling down as in blackjack or, you know, playing cards.

Exactly. It totally is. We first, we wrote the book because we wanted to democratize success for people that look like us. And that was kind of the main focus when we actually sat down to do it. When you think of doubling down, it's about surveying your professional and creative landscape. And then really figuring out a place where you have an opportunity with a calculable advantage. And then going all in. So it's going all in on the edge that you got.

All right, so let's talk about how different you two are. Because even though you guys are twins and grew up, uh, grew up doing similar things, like you talk about flipping these guest sweatshirts when you were in school, in Catholic school. So talk about that and that kind of idea that you had where you saw a space that you felt like you could make some money. And then that's when you took a risk and said, we're going to invest our money and flip these guest sweatshirts. Yeah. So we basically saw space in the market for girls to want what we wanted. At age 14. Yes.

You guys are from Brooklyn, huh? Yeah. Sounds like it. Go ahead. You know, we had to get our hustle on. That's what I said. And you guys said yes, so I knew it was Brooklyn. Yeah.

Because we were rocking it. So that was when Guess was in style. And we went to Catholic school, so there was Dress Down Day. What school? Bishop Carney. Bishop Carney. And we went to Catholic school, so there was Dress Down Day. What school? Bishop Kearney. Bishop Kearney. In Bensonhurst. Yep, yep, yep.

So on Dress Down Day, you brought it. So we were like, what if we can sell Guess sweatshirts to the girls? And there was a store on the Upper West Side in the city that was selling it for discounted prices. So we were like, let's pool together our birthday money and holiday money and put together like $400 or $500 and buy a bunch of sweatshirts. Were they definitely real? They were real. They were legit. And then we ended up

wearing it to school. We had the rest in our backpacks and everyone was like, oh my God, we love that one. We love that one. We were like, we want one for you and you and you. And then we sold it. And then we started doing that a couple of seasons we did that for. Yeah, we did it for about two or three seasons. Now, you guys also discussed the different ways that you can be successful, right?

You can be an entrepreneur, start your own company, or you could work within a system. And so that's where the difference came in for both of you. Yeah, and I think when you look, the book is based on our eight principles, but it shows that you can define your own level of success. So Antoinette took a path where she's more of an intrapreneur, and then I'm more of an entrepreneur where I start businesses to drive change, and she steers companies to really drive change. In the book, you both say to work backwards from where you want to end up.

What do you mean by that? A lot of it is to manifest it, right? So we talk a lot about it's not about wishful thinking it's about listful thinking we write lists for everything so we think once we put it on paper we see our trajectory and we hold ourselves accountable so when I was 21 coming right out of college I said I want to be a producer and I wanted Emmy by the time I was 35 so no matter how many long hours I had to work, late nights, weekends, I've been on four, I was on four canceled shows.

I never gave up because I had my eye on the prize and that prize was getting that Emmy. And then by the time I was 32, I had won two. And you realize all that's part of the process. Yeah. It's all part of the process. And I think we're all about being legendary, not temporary. There you go. So, and you have to not let the status quo kind of beat you up and tell you how you're supposed to do things.

You have to find that. Now, you guys have always also had a sense of style throughout your entire career. Do you think that plays a part in how people perceive you? How important is that when people come in and, you know, we don't want to focus on how we judge somebody based on how they're dressed or their appearance, but what are your thoughts on that? I think fashion is huge. Some people may say

it's frivolous and don't get caught up in that. Fashion is your armor, so that's the first thing people see as soon as they see you and it's an extension of who you are and your brand. One of my first job, Monta Williams Show, I got that because when I went in for an informational interview,

they didn't have any positions at the time. And as I was leaving the informational interview, the EP had a full glass window to her office. She saw me and she came out. She was like, where's your dress from? I love it. So I started a 10 minute conversation with the EP. Two weeks later, there was a

PA had quit, and who was top of mind? Me. Right. And it was because we started that conversation over the close, and I stood out and ended up getting that job. Who raised y'all? Mother, father, father, mother? Our mom. So single mom. She came to the States from Jamaica when she was 18,

and we always say we were raised kind of by committee. She was the youngest of eight, so all of our aunts were in our business. Our grandmother raised us, our four aunts raised us as well. And we like to say our mom was audacity in heels and a Swiss army knife. So everything that came up, she found a solution for. And I feel like we picked up on a lot of those traits growing up too. And then our Monica was the first boss lady we saw. She was not only an entrepreneur, but she owned a construction company. So back then, not only for an immigrant to come here and start a business, but a construction company. So I think their influence on us and their immigrant mentality basically pushed us to want even more for ourselves.

Yeah, because I think their drive and desire for us to succeed was unmatched. It was like the only way you guys can go is up. And we truly, truly believe that. They made us feel like we were superheroes. Like we could do whatever we wanted. And the funny thing... I think it made it

easier because it was the two of us. So we had each other for support. That's why so much of the book is about building your tribe and focusing on deliberate cultivation and not passive accumulation. Because you're surrounded by amazing people, but all friends and people aren't created equally. So how do you sift through that and find people that are your gravity, but also your elevation? And we've been able to do that for each other. So we wanted to basically codify what does that mean for you to be able to do it or you to be able to do it. So your father wasn't around?

He was around until we were in and out. So they got divorced when we were five. And then we would see him on weekends and maybe a summer vacation there. Then he got remarried and kind of didn't remember us. Got a whole new family. Yep. And then our mom had to figure out how to pay our high school tuition, how to get us to dance class. That's the thing.

She wanted to give us such a better life. She sacrificed so much for us. But the funny thing is they believe so much in the status quo when our whole book is about challenging the status quo. But they were such victims of the status quo because they thought education was the most important thing to them.

That's what they told us back in the day. Because no one could take that away from you. So their version of the American dream was doctor, lawyer, or engineer. And we were like, we don't want to do any of those things. So their version of the American dream was doctor, lawyer or engineer. And we were like, we don't want to do any of those things. So we trick them. When we graduated from Skidmore, they were like, OK, now you got to go to grad school because you need to get your secondary degree. And we were like, OK, we'll work for two years and then we'll go back to school.

So then I looked at Antoinette and I was like, we have two years to figure this thing out. How are we going to carve a path that they are happy about and feel confident that we'll be successful at. And then they let us, they left us alone. They let us rock after that. Ladies, thank you so much. Now what's next for you ladies and

how can people get in touch with you if they want to get in touch with you and follow you and all that? The website is DoubleDownbook.com. And I'm on Instagram, Trisha002. And I'm net underscore Clark, N-E-T-T-E underscore C-L-A-R-K-E. I love how y'all finish y'all sentences. It's like Jadakiss and Stiles. Finishing each other's bars.

And it's a great book for anybody that is interested in business. People who are just trying to figure it out in their life. What do I want to do next? It's very inspirational. For me, there's a lot of things that I've been trying to figure out about what's next, so it was good to help me focus on that. So I appreciate it. Double down.

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