The Breakfast Club - Jordan Belfort ( Wolf of Wall Street ) Interview and More
Episode Date: October 3, 2017Monday 10/3 - Today on the show we had author, motivational speaker, and former stockbroker Jordan Belfort or better known as the "Wolf of Wall Street" came by where he spoke about the art of sales, t...onality and more. After, a discussion sparked in the interview about DJ Envy changing his name back in the day when he was a telemarketer, so he can be more susceptible to society we opened up the phone lines to see what our listeners thought of it. Moreover, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to the gospel group "Mary Mary" because Tina Campbell once said her christian values were compatible with Donald Trump and for Erica Campbell for denying her sister's statement. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It's time.
It's time.
It's time.
Time to wake up.
DJing in Angela Yee
and Charlamagne Tha God.
The Breakfast Club, bitches.
The voice of the culture.
People watch The Breakfast Club for light news and really be tuned in.
It's one of my favorite shows to do.
Just because y'all always keep it 100, y'all keep it real.
They might not watch the news, but they're on Twitter.
They're on Facebook.
They're, you know, they're listening to The Breakfast Club.
Get your ass up.
Good morning, Angela Yee. Hey, good morning, DJ Envy.
Charlamagne Tha God.
Peace to the planet.
It's Tuesday.
You didn't know for a second.
You confused?
No, I got distracted because I looked at the New York Post and the Daily News,
and I'm like, why does the Daily News have a dead body on the front cover?
Why do I want to see a woman laid out with blood all over her from Vegas yesterday?
I guess they're trying to show you reality. I literally got distracted just now when I was opening up the paper.
I'm like, what the hell?
I don't want to see reality.
Yeah, well, it seems like
more people have been,
are dead than we thought.
Yesterday, I believe
we thought it was 59.
It was up to 59
when I went to sleep last night.
Yeah, 59 people killed
and 527 injured, at least.
Geesh.
So far.
Geesh, geesh.
But we are going to have
more information on the shooter
during front page news.
I still don't understand
why any news publication would want to put a dead body on the front page of the paper.
I think we fully understand how terrible this act of terrorism was.
I think we get it.
We don't have to see it like that first thing in the morning.
Jesus Christ, I didn't even have my green tea yet.
Well, good morning.
Yes, good morning.
All right.
Now, a shout to the good people over at Ford.
Yesterday, you and I flew out to Detroit to meet with the people at Ford
and had an amazing meeting and amazing time, so shout to them.
I know some of them listened to us in the morning when they're on their way to work,
so good morning to everybody out in Ford in Detroit.
Yes.
Had a good time out there.
And last night was the, it wasn't a concert,
but the benefit party for Puerto Rico in the city with so many DJs, Self, Camillo, Clue, Puerto Rican Rob, DJ Clark Kent, Scythe Sounds, DJ D-Nice, so many different DJs.
I couldn't make it because by the time we got back from the trip, it was over at midnight and we landed about 11 o'clock.
I thought you was the premier Puerto Rican DJ.
I thought you was the premier Puerto Rican DJ on the bill.
What's wrong with you?
Everybody was Puerto Rican last night. But I thought you was the premier Puerto Rican DJ on the bill. What's wrong with you? Everybody was Puerto Rican last night.
But I thought you was the premier Puerto Rican DJ on the bill.
Everybody was the premier Puerto Rican.
And I'm not Puerto Rican.
Where are you getting this from?
You are definitely Puerto Rican.
I am not Puerto Rican.
Well, it's great that you represented for Puerto Rico.
Everybody did last night.
Everybody was Puerto Rican last night.
But let's get the show cracking.
Today we have an author that's going to be joining us.
Not just an author, a former Wall Street tycoon.
If you've ever seen the movie The Wolf of Wall Street,
the character Leonardo DiCaprio played, Jordan Belfort.
Right.
He'll be here this morning.
He's a New York Times bestseller.
He's got a new book out called The Way of the Wolf.
Yeah, we'll be talking to him about everything that he's done.
You know, I hope everybody's seen Wolf of Wall Street.
Y'all all seen it, right?
Yes, of course.
That was one of my favorite movies.
I loved that movie so much, I tried to buy one of the cars in the movie.
But it was way, way too expensive.
But I just tried.
I was like, wow, this guy's amazing.
That's the first time I've even heard of Quaaludes was Wolf of Wall Street.
Really?
Yes.
And that's when they started talking about Bill Cosby was using Quaaludes.
I was like, whoa.
That's from Wolf of Wall Street.
All right.
Well, let's get the show cracking.
Front page news.
What are we talking about?
We will be talking about Las Vegas.
What we know so far from the investigation, all the
weapons that were found and what
family members have to say about
Steven Paddock. All right. We'll get into all that when we
come back. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Here's Kendrick Lamar. It's humble.
Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy
Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God. We are the
Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page
news.
Now, let's talk about, I didn't see the football game last night,
but Kansas City beat Washington 29-20.
Y'all still watching football?
Nah, I'm protesting. Come on, bro.
I didn't see it.
Jesus Christ.
Definitely protesting.
If you're standing with Kaepernick, you're not standing with Kaepernick.
All right?
If you're a Kansas City Chiefs fan, you're probably not because they 4-0.
If you're a Giants fan, you probably are because their Giants are 0-4.
If you're a Cowboys fan, you're just playing it week by week.
All right.
Well, let's talk about this shooting in Vegas yesterday.
All right.
Well, let's tell you the information that we know.
At least 59 people were killed and 527 were injured in that shooting that started late Sunday night.
Now, police did find at least 19 firearms, explosives, and several thousand rounds of ammunition in Steven Paddock's home.
Then at the hotel at the Mandalay Bay on the 32nd floor in the room that he was in,
police found 23 weapons, which included a handgun and multiple rifles,
and some of them did have scopes on them.
They still don't have a motive for why Steven Paddock, who was a 64-year-old retired accountant,
would do such a thing.
He never faced any notable criminal charges.
And they're just confused as to what could have happened.
Now, his brother, Eric Paddock, gave an interview, and here's what he said.
Not an avid gun guy at all.
The fact that he had those kind of weapons is, where the hell did he get automatic weapons?
He has no military background or anything like that.
He's a guy who lived in a house in Mesquite and drove down and gambled in Las Vegas.
He did stuff.
He ate burritos.
I mean, we say this every time there's some type of mass shooting in America,
but America definitely needs some type of gun control.
But, you know...
And it's not that hard. I mean, you just can't have automatic
weapons. There's no reason a civilian should have
automatic weapons. Why do you need a gun, right?
To protect yourself if you want to go hunting.
There's no reason to let off
30, 40 shots at anybody,
at a deer, at a person, at anything.
Yeah, I mean, that's why America needs some type of
gun control. And instead of praying for the city after
the fact, we need to be praying
for gun control. Now, Stephen Paddock also
had bought multiple firearms in the past.
Investigators believe those firearms were purchased
illegally, but they did say at least
one rifle was altered to function as an automatic weapon.
Now, he fired at the officers through the door of his hotel room and shot a security guard in the leg.
And that's when the SWAT team broke down the door.
But he had already killed himself.
See, this is what I hate.
Just kill yourself from the start.
Before you even decide to hang out the window and shoot into a crowd and kill 50 plus people and injure 200 more,
you could have just deaded all of that and just shot yourself.
Okay?
And furthermore, if you're going to do all that, have a shootout with the police.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, why be a coward once people really pull up on you with the guns?
We don't want them to shoot out the police.
Well, you just shoot through the door and shoot a...
That's it.
We don't want them to shoot a couple of cops.
You just shot 50 people.
They're saying he had no known link to overseas terrorism
or terror groups or anything so far,
where people with knowledge of the case have said that.
Now, Donald Trump did do a five-minute address,
and here's what he said.
It was an act of pure evil.
I want to thank the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and all of the first responders
for their courageous efforts and for helping to save the lives of so many. To have found the
shooter so quickly after the first shots were fired is something for which we will always be
thankful and grateful. Still waiting for him to say it was a terrorist attack. It was definitely a terrorist attack.
I just think that's just so cowardly that
this man had all these weapons. You shoot in the crowd
knowing all these people down there are defenseless
but when the police pull up and they got weapons
you punk out and kill yourself. Yeah, he didn't want to
get caught. He didn't want to go to jail but back to
the gun laws. There should be no
way that they should have that type of guns
and they should do some kind of check yearly
like when you're a police officer and you leave the force,
you have to go through training every year to maintain that you can keep that gun permit that you can carry.
But then again, I wonder if this guy even obtained these weapons through legal means.
They said legal.
They said they were all legal.
They did say the guns were purchased legally.
Well, that's just ridiculous.
That's legal.
And you can buy as many guns as you want.
If you, you know, I have a couple.
You can buy a couple that you can have as many as you want
as a person.
Well, you gotta get flagged then.
You know what I'm saying?
There gotta be some type
of gun audit, all right?
When somebody buys
a certain amount
of automatic weapons,
they should get flagged
by the government
and the government
should pull up on their crib
like,
nigger, what is you
building in this bunker?
Because you care
if I put a lot of money
in the bank.
If I put a lot of money
in the bank,
you flag me.
Exactly.
If I buy a lot of guns,
you should flag my ass too.
I agree with you.
If the IRS see me
on Instagram
stunting a little too hard,
they're going to get the same thing when you buy a certain amount of automatic weapons.
I'm with you.
All right.
My last front page news.
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Hello, who's this?
Hey, what's going on, man?
Hey, my name is Porter.
Hey, what's up?
Hey, I'm...
Get it off your chest, bro.
Hey, man, I've been listening to you guys for a long time.
I'm in the Army, and I just want to call regarding the shooting in Las Vegas.
Go ahead, bro.
Hey, man, so it's not a thing about, like, gun control. It's the fact that, like, if he has an M4, you know, an AR-15,
you know, in the civilian world, it's pretty much basically
you can make it into an automatic weapon.
It's as simple as moving around a couple of springs
inside the trigger bay.
I saw somebody make a 9, an automatic weapon, the other day.
It was like they put something on the 9 that made it, like,
brrrr and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I mean, you can do that, an automatic weapon, the other day. It was like they put something on the 9 that made it like brrrr and all that.
Yeah, I mean, you can do that with AR easily,
but then these gun companies have to make it where you can't alter it that easy
because it's very easy to alter AR.
Yeah, but it's up to the gun company, though, you know.
It's really up to them because, you know, they're just selling the weapons and whatnot.
They're not really looking too much into it, but it's really easy.
I've seen it done before.
And, you know, like I said, you know, it's not a matter of buying automatic weapons.
You cannot really buy automatic weapons without a certain license.
You have to have a certain license, you know, to get automatic weapons.
So it's as easy as just opening a few springs and a trigger bag.
Maybe that's got to be, it's got to be a little more difficult to do that.
Thank you, bro.
Are you telling me to do rigging all, rigged all his guns?
It's not that, it's not that hard.
People say it's just a spring. You put a
spring in it and it makes it automatic. People say it
like it's easy. You can go on YouTube
and find out how to do it.
Hello, who's this? Laquita.
Hey, Laquita. Get it off your chest.
I think that this was all a setup
when it comes down to the shooting.
It's not a setup or a distraction to the
families. My sincere condolences to
them. But this was not an accident.
It was planned for much higher than that young man.
Man, listen, man.
I really wish that all of you YouTube conspiracists and social media conspiracists would stop with that.
If you can't prove it, that's so disrespectful to the families, man.
People are dead.
People aren't waking up this morning.
That's what I don't... So where do y'all get this
information from? How do y'all prove
these things? Y'all call them false flags.
How? It's not a false flag.
It happened. It's real, and it's very real
to the family. But the
timing is what...
The timing of what, though?
What's the timing? The timing
of the shooting, it wasn't an accident. So explain what you mean by Like, what's the timing? The timing of the shooting, it wasn't an accident.
So, explain what you mean by that.
What was the timing?
Everything was just coming to a head, and it still is coming to a head.
What is everything?
Listen, please, baby.
I love y'all to death, but y'all got to stop this.
What is everything?
Let her finish.
What's coming to a head, mama?
All over the world.
All of the disasters.
Everything with the NFL.
Oh, no, no.
God and the NFL and the government are coinciding to ruin the world.
Yeah, God would definitely be on that side, right?
No, God's on his own side.
I don't even subscribe to religion, so that's a totally different subject.
I need you to disconnect from the Internet
and please stop listening to them stupid ass think pieces online. Okay?
Thank you for calling, mama.
Please.
I'm begging you.
And giving your opinion.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Have a nice day.
Jesus Christ, man.
Get it off your chest.
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Hello, who's this?
Hey, I'm here.
Double D.
Hey, Double D.
Get it off your chest, bro.
Double D.
Listen, I just want to shout out to the big rosier comedian that passed away in a wheelchair.
You know, he was a big brother in the comedian game.
You know, I want to shout out to him and his family.
Kind of pissed off that that happened, you know what I'm saying?
But the amount of comedians is dropping off one by one.
I don't know what it is, the stress, what it is.
But, you know, I just want to shout out to him and his family.
Another reason I'm pissed off, overdraft fees.
They got to stop overdraft fees.
Overdraft fees.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They know I'm getting paid to get on Friday.
Why are they taking that money from me?
You know, you can have overdraft protection on your account.
Yeah, but that's extra too.
Yeah, that's extra too.
That's just extra money we ain't got.
But it actually ends up saving you money if you know you always overdraft your account.
Yeah, but you know, sometimes we don't have that money in that account.
We need some extra money, so we go do a delivery.
Hit that 35, and you got to pay that 35.
Well, you got to make sure
you balance your account better.
Angela, you rich
so she don't know.
Her account ain't been
in the red in a long time.
I was broke for a long time
and I never,
because I was very, very sure
that I always balanced
my account
and that's why I never
had overdraft fees.
I was overdrafted
a couple times.
I had $2 in the bank
but I still know.
I'm not trying
to pay those fees.
If it wasn't for overdraft fees,
I couldn't fill my tank up sometimes. Sometimes you know you only got $2 in the bank, but I still know. I'm not trying to pay those fees. If it wasn't for overdraft fees, I couldn't fill my tank up sometimes.
Sometimes you know you only got $2 left on that card, but you got to just fill it up.
Sometimes I didn't have $35.
Go negative $40.
I've been there before.
Hello, who's this?
Hey, this is Jeremy.
Hey, Jeremy, get it off your chest.
Hey, I'm just mad because you go to the gym at 4 a.m., get your mind right before work,
but then people got to be nasty as heck.
They sweating all over the thing, all the machines and the equipment,
not wiping it off, and then old men like to walk around the locker room
with the things out, like, put some gels on.
I feel you.
I think it's disgusting.
People sweat all over the treadmill, and then they just leave it all wet
and walk away.
Yeah, wipe down your gym equipment, man.
I still wipe it down before I go on anyway.
That's a pet peeve of mine, too.
I feel like that about when you walk into a public restroom
and people didn't flush the toilet.
Like, flush the goddamn toilet and wipe the gym equipment down.
They have everything right there for you to wipe it down.
All the time.
And you pay all this money to go to this bougie gym
and people can't got no gym etiquette.
They move your shit without coming through,
without asking if you still working on it. They move your without coming through, without asking if you're still working
on it. They see you super setting
and then they come out of the sauna with a
sauna suit and sweating all over the machines and
then walk off to something else.
You know what else I think is rude? When people come to the gym, stink.
Like they just rolled out of bed
from the night before, no shower, and they stink.
Some of them get stink in the gym though. No, some people stink.
You don't stink unless you stink before you got there.
Your sweat shouldn't smell. Now I'm going to be honest with you. Nah. I'm not worried about how somebody smell in the gym, though. No, some people stink. You don't stink unless you stink before you got there. Your sweat shouldn't smell. Now, I'm going to be honest with you.
No.
I'm not worried about how somebody smell in the gym.
It's the gym.
It's disgusting.
If I have to breathe the air.
It's the gym, though.
Hello, who's this?
Hello?
Hey, who's this?
Hey, this is Carter.
Hey, Carter, get it off your chest.
How you doing, man?
I woke up today mad and I woke up happy at the same time.
Explain.
All right, tell us.
All right, I woke up today
beside a beautiful woman, you feel me?
Inside a beautiful woman.
Okay, we can say that.
We can say that.
All right, that would make sense.
Congratulations.
You should be happy.
Thank you.
And then I go to, you know what I'm saying,
I go open my door.
Guess what I got on my doorstep?
What?
A 30-day notice, G.
Oh, you ain't paying rent?
No, it's not my rent to be paid, you feel me? Whose rent is it? Her rent?
Yeah. Well, you gotta pay that, bro.
So she was doing the 40D challenge all
last week but didn't know what to do for the rent once the first came.
God, tell her.
You feel me? Something goes to it, you feel me?
So you gonna give her a little change? Yeah, help her out, man.
Leave a little change on her nightstand, you know, to help her with the rent?
You said leave $200 on the dresser?
I don't know how much her rent is, but just
leave a little change on the dresser to help her out with her rent.
Are you going to help? Yes or no?
I mean, I wouldn't be a man if I didn't.
There you go. There you go.
I like your style, my brother.
If I could just say I'm a big fan of y'all,
and y'all have a very blessed day, like I will.
You should talk to her about her finances, though,
and see what's going on there.
She don't want to hear that.
She just want the money.
She let it get that far.
She just want the money.
Get it off your chest.
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Yes. Let's talk about OJ Simpson. What was his
first meal when he got out of jail?
Also, we are going to talk about Steven Paddock
some more and what other people have to say about
gun control. Alright. We'll get into
all that when we come back. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast
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Well, OJ Simpson, once he left jail, what was the first meal that he had?
McDonald's.
Oh, meal?
That was the first thing.
Yeah.
I thought you said jail mail.
No. Oh. I said his first meal out of jail.
Oh, goodness gracious.
Go ahead.
All right.
Now, when asked about it,
he said it's better than prison food,
but it's not what it's all cracked out to be.
So that's what he says.
But now that he is out of jail,
Ron Goldman's family is still looking
to collect the money that he owes.
Now, when he was acquitted in 1995 of their murders,
but he was ordered to pay $33.5 million
because of the wrongful death suits, that figure then increased doubly.
Okay, the judgment was renewed to $57 million.
Now, it's a little bit under $70 million.
So now that he's out and he's going to be working, they're trying to get their money from O.J. Simpson.
In 2017, I would never understand the media's fascination with O.J. Simpson.
I mean, I really believe it's the fact that he got away with killing two white people in America
that even white people can't believe it.
Probably that, and, you know, with the papers, people read it, and with the news, people watch it.
That man going to be dead soon, all right?
He's 70 years old now.
Exactly.
All right, Christopher Williams.
We all know Christopher Williams as the R&B singer.
Remember, he was in New Jack City.
Yes, the light-skinned, beige, Negro that Wesley Snipes stabbed in the hand.
And I cheered when he stabbed him in the hand.
Well, he just got arrested and booked for petty theft.
Apparently, he went into a Kohl's in Georgia.
He had a tote bag and he had a baseball cap on
and they said he went to the back of the store
and grabbed some headphones for $99.99
and tried to walk out the store with them.
Then security stopped him
and he said he simply forgot that he threw them in the bag.
Don't nothing age worse than light-skinned men.
Lord have mercy.
I wouldn't say that.
Jesus Christ.
He looks little.
That man is aging like the finest of milks.
You hear me?
Yeah, he's not aging too well.
And his hair, yeah.
Yeah.
Drop one of the Clues bombs for Christopher Williams, though.
Uptown Records legend.
Okay. Look at him back in bombs for Christopher Williams, though. Uptown Records legend. Okay.
Look at him back in the day.
What a change.
Yeah, but the girls looking at that old picture,
that's the one they show them on Throwback Thursday.
This is who I slept with, girl.
I don't know who this new guy in that mugshot is.
Just as a funny story,
one time I was at a music convention somewhere,
and Christopher Williams was there,
and I was like, oh, look, there goes Christopher Williams.
But people kept calling him Al B. Shore,
and he still was responding. Oh, he was, oh, look, there goes Christopher Williams. But people kept calling him Al B. Shore. And he still was responding.
Oh, he was. Like, he was Al B. Shore.
Because it was only two light skin that was prominent at that time.
It was Al B. Shore and Christopher Williams.
But this was way after.
This was like some convention.
Still after?
Oh, my goodness.
They were like, oh, look, it's Al B. Shore.
Why was he at a music convention any time in this era?
I don't know.
He was there.
He was sitting.
He was by himself walking around.
We're dropping the clues bombs for Al B. Quentin Twins, Uptown Records legends.
That's why Uptown Records needs a movie, man.
They definitely do. They need a movie.
Alright, rest in peace to Tom Petty.
Now, if you don't know who Tom Petty is, he is a
big rock star in the United States.
He was only 66 years old when he
died of a heart attack. He suffered cardiac
arrest and was found unconscious.
You probably know this song, Free Fallin'.
This is one of his biggest songs.
Oh yeah, I know this song.
Yes, he started the group The Heartbreakers back in the mid-70s.
He also had a super group called The Traveling Wheelbearers
and he had that group with Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison,
George Harrison from The Beatles, and Jeff Lynne.
So, rest in peace to him.
He also had an autobiography that came out in,
no, it was actually a biography in 2015
and he talked about the struggles that he
had with depression. He said he was in therapy for
six years trying to deal with
depression. He said it's a funny disease because
it takes you a long time to really come to terms
with the fact that you're sick, medically
sick. You're not just going, you're not
just suddenly going out of your mind.
He's going to be depressed in the afterlife too because he picked a terrible
day to die. He died yesterday.
Nobody, I mean, I'm not going to say nobody cared
because his family and friends cared.
But, you know, he probably didn't get the send-off he deserved.
Right, well, a lot of people that were big fans of Tom Petty.
It's like James Brown dying on Christmas.
I love James Brown, but he died on Christmas.
So Christmas takes precedent over that.
All right, well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report.
All right, Miss Yee.
And I thought he was saying free-balling that whole time, too. I just want to throw All right, Miss Yee. And I thought he was saying free-balling that whole time, too.
I just want to throw that out there.
No, it's free-balling.
That's what you thought?
All these years, I thought he was saying free-balling.
You did not think that.
You changed those words yourself.
I thought it was about guys walking around in jeans with no drawers on.
Let me hear it.
Let me hear it.
Listen.
Free-balling.
Shut up, man.
Come on, now.
You can't tell me you didn't think he was saying free-balling.
Nobody said that.
No, he didn't say no free-balling.
I thought he was saying free-balling all the time. He didn't say no free-balling. All right. I'm, he didn't say no free ball. I thought he was saying free ball all the time.
He didn't say no free ball.
All right.
I'm going to close my mouth with Tom Petty.
We got front page news.
I ain't up to that Tom Petty.
Don't move.
It's the Breakfast Club.
Come on.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are the Breakfast Club.
Let's get in some front page news.
Now, I didn't watch football last night, but if you did or if your team played last night,
Kansas City beat Washington 29-20.
Kansas City is 4-0, so I'm sure none of their fans
are staying to a Kaepernick because they're having a great season.
But if you're an on-foot Giants fan,
you're probably staying to a Kaepernick.
Might as well boycott.
Now, you know Fox Sports said they're not going to air
the national anthem before NFL games anymore.
I heard Fox, period.
Fox, period.
Fox wasn't going to air them at all.
Yeah, Fox Sports said they're not going to air them.
Fox Sports is a totally different network.
You mean like Fox in general?
She about to be Fox Sports.
Yeah, Fox Sports.
Yeah, Fox Sports.
I don't think football games come on Fox Sports.
They do.
I think they do.
Fox Sports is with Jason Whitlock and Colin Coward and all that.
I thought they did.
They come on Fox.
On Fox, maybe Fox, yeah.
All right, well, let's talk about the Las Vegas shooting.
Yeah, so I'll give you guys some information.
It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
At least 59 people were killed and 527 people were injured in that shooting.
Now, according to the police, Stephen Paddock was at the 32nd floor in a hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
Police did recover 23 weapons there,
which included a handgun and multiple rifles.
Some of them had scopes on them.
They also found several pounds of ammonium nitrate,
which is a material used to make explosives in his car.
They said at his home they found 19 firearms,
explosives, and several thousand rounds of ammunition
and some electronic devices as well.
He was a 64-year-old retired accountant.
He never had any notable criminal charges,
and they still don't understand what this was about.
They do believe that he acted alone as of now.
Police did go and confront him at his hotel room.
He did fire at the officers through the door.
He shot a security guard in the leg,
and that's when the SWAT team broke down the door,
but Steven Paddock had already killed himself. What a coward. He shot a security guard in the leg. And that's when the SWAT team broke down the door.
But Steven Paddock had already killed himself.
What a coward.
He should have killed himself before he shot those 50-plus people and injured 200 more.
That's what he should have did.
Now here's his brother, Eric Paddock, speaking on Steven.
Not an avid gun guy at all.
The fact that he had those kind of weapons is, where the hell did he get automatic weapons?
He has no military background or anything like that.
He's a guy who lived in a house in Mesquite and drove down and gambled in Las Vegas.
He did stuff. He ate burritos.
That's why we got to stop.
I'm not going to say stop because it is a great thing
when we pray for the city after the fact,
but we need to be praying for gun control before the fact.
Gun control, yeah.
We need to do something with gun control.
Like you said, anybody can buy a shotgun or an AR
and then, you know,
with a little switch
of anything,
I think as they do
something with the spring
and it becomes
an automatic weapon
and we got to make sure
we can stop that
because there's no reason
he should have been able
to spray 30, 40, 50 rounds
in a crowd like that.
And what a sucker.
You spray all those
defenseless people
that are down there
just enjoying that concert
but when the police
come in to bust your ass
and they got the guns and they
really want that action, you kill yourself.
If you wanted a war, that was your
war right there. I did read somewhere
that his father actually was on the FBI's
most wanted list for robbing
banks or something like that.
Anybody see that story? No.
But they said they have no idea. He was
not, he didn't, no
flags or nothing. They said he never even got a parking ticket. He was not eating no flags or nothing.
They said he never even got a parking ticket.
He was just, they say, a good person.
No, he wasn't a good person.
That's what they said. He clearly wasn't a good person.
A good person.
We would not have the narrative of Steven, what's his name?
Paddock.
Paddock or Paddock.
Steven Paddock, whatever his name.
We would not have the narrative of him being a good person.
There's nothing good about a person who kills 50 plus people and then injures 200 more.
No, that's not happening.
I'm with you.
All right. Well, Donald Trump is supposed to be heading out to Vegas tomorrow. And here's what
he had to say. He gave a five minute address. It was an act of pure evil. I want to thank the Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and all of the first responders for their courageous efforts
and for helping to save the lives of so many.
To have found the shooter so quickly after the first shots were fired
is something for which we will always be thankful and grateful.
It's an act of terrorism.
Steven Paddock is a son of a bitch, okay?
That's what Donald Trump should have said, right?
And if you're going to call it the nation's deadliest attack since 9-11,
then call it what it is,
a terrorist attack.
9-11 was a terrorist attack, right?
This was a terrorist attack too.
Simple.
All right, well,
I'm Angela Yee
and that's your Front Page News.
All right, when we come back,
we're going to kick it
with author Jordan Belfort.
Yes, if that name
sounds familiar.
He's the Wolf of Wall Street.
Yeah, I'm sure you saw
Wolf of Wall Street.
You saw the character
that Leonardo DiCaprio played.
That is Mr. Jordan Belfort.
He has a book called
The Way of the Wolf. And we're going to kick it with him when we come back. So don't move. It's The Leonardo DiCaprio played. That is Mr. Jordan Belfort. He has a book called The Way of the Wolf.
We're going to kick it with him when we come back. So don't move.
It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Hey everybody, it's DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.
We got a special guest in the building,
Jordan Belfort. You might know his
character from Wolf of Wall Street. Good morning.
Welcome. This is who Leonardo DiCaprio
played in The Wolf of Wall Street. Right.
Leo is way more better looking than you.
Only my mother says not.
Everyone says, but my mother thinks that's so.
Well, you have a new book out, Way of the Wolf.
Yeah.
And it's about straight line selling, and you're saying that all sales are the same.
Yeah, well, I've been teaching the straight line system for since 1988, believe it or not.
It was 30 years.
And this is in the movie.
You know, in the last half of the movie, there's a lot of stuff about the straight line with the TV commercials.
That's what I taught all these kids back in it.
It allowed them to make so much money.
And I've been teaching it around the world for the last 10 years.
It's a really powerful system.
It can help you basically sell anything to anyone.
And it's also not just for salespeople.
It's for any person because, you know, sales is life. Basically, you're always trying to sell
yourself, get your ideas across to people. So it's a very powerful book. So The Way to the Wolf is
basically the straight line system. What exactly is straight line selling? Straight line selling
is basically a methodology that allows people who aren't natural-born salespeople, which is 99.9% of the world, right?
It gives you a way to approach a sale that a natural-born salesman.
See, when I sell, it's so second nature to me that when I walk into a sales encounter,
everyone's the same to me because I know exactly what I'm going to do.
I'm going to take control of the conversation.
I'm going to do a couple of things in certain order.
I do it the same way every time.
So what this book does, it breaks down a sale and gives you essentially a formula to do precisely that.
And it's so easy to learn.
The reason is because the kids I taught back in the day, they were kids, right?
They weren't all that smart.
They had to be sort of paid by numbers easy.
And what happened was after, you guys know my story, right?
I went wild and got in some trouble.
And then many years later, I started teaching it around the world.
It worked in every industry and made people rich.
Why do you think the guys you were selling to weren't that smart?
When I say smart, number one, they didn't do well in school.
They didn't have aspirations that were like they weren't, you know, really money hungry.
They were pretty mediocre.
I think so.
Some of them, you know, I didn't grow up.
I grew up in a poor family myself.
I didn't grow up with money, right? And I think a lot of the kids were the same. They grew up in like, you know, I didn't grow up. I grew up in a poor family myself. I didn't grow up with money, right?
And I think a lot of the kids were the same.
They grew up in like, you know, middle, low, middle class neighborhoods.
And they never were told by their parents they were capable of greatness, capable of achieving whatever they wanted, right?
And they came into my company.
And then I taught them the skill, the straight line system to change them.
And it made them more powerful, allowed them to really go out there and become very wealthy.
Can we do something fun right now?
Yeah, sure.
Okay, because I read the part where you talk about tonality in the book and selling.
Now, Envy used to be a salesperson.
He would call people up cold, right, on the phone.
What is it called?
Telemarketing.
Telemarketing.
I would like for Envy to practice that on you, and then you tell him how you would do it.
Sure.
Hey, Mr. Belfort, how's it going?
This is Sean from Pelco Fuel.
How are you doing this evening?
He sounds good so far. He's upbeat, positive, right? Yeah, I see how you're doing. See, he sounded like Sure. Hey, Mr. Belfort, how's it going? This is Sean from Pelco Fuel. How are you doing this evening? He sounds good so far.
He's upbeat, positive, right?
Yeah, I see how you're doing.
See, he sounds like he was my friend.
Sounds like a nice guy.
I used to make a lot of money.
The only thing that I would change in that, okay,
is I would tip it,
and depending on what you're selling,
is I wouldn't call someone Mr.
I'd say, hey, Jordan, how you doing?
I'd call someone by their first name
because typically-
Familiarity.
Familiarity.
Well, also, a lot of times
you don't actually get the person on the phone
that you want to speak,
depending on what you're selling, right?
You get this.
So when you say, hi, Mr. Belfort, they know you're a salesman.
If I say, hey, is Jordan there?
Then they'll think.
Sounds more personable.
Is it his friend maybe or something?
So you get through the second thing.
I keep going.
But so far, your voice was good and your tonality was perfect.
Okay.
Start over again and do it the right way.
Hey, Jordan, how's it going?
This is Sean from Pelco Fuel.
Hope your day's going great.
Okay, now watch.
Now watch how good this guy is, okay? Notice he said? This is Sean from Pelco Fuel. Hope your day's going great. Okay, now watch. Now watch how good this guy is, okay?
Notice he said, hey, Jordan from Pelco Fuel.
Notice how he raised his voice up.
Pelco Fuel is a declaration.
Hi, that's a sentence, not a question.
You phrased it as if it was a question.
Hey, Pelco Fuel, like, right?
You know me.
You know me.
That's what he said.
So that's, he's got naturally great tonality.
So if 100 people would say that, only one, he's that one that would actually use the right tonality.
Well, that comes from being a DJ, and he's been doing radio for 15 years.
No, no.
But I've been selling marketing for four years.
Yeah, but forget that.
I want to hear this tale.
You read advertising every day.
But notice how, like, he raised his voice about, like, Pelco.
So you're like, am I supposed to know this guy?
So you start listening.
Very good.
Home eating oil is going up right now, and I got a great deal for you.
I can save you money, close to $200 a year on home eating fuel.
Now you sound like a salesman.
Well, what I would do is I would sort of tell a bit more of a story first.
So if you have 60 seconds, I want to share an idea with you.
You got a minute?
They're like, yeah, sure, why not?
Right.
Because then you sound like you feel like a...
If you were women, I would say, I had a baby in the background.
I'm sure you're saving for college right now.
I'm sure you're a child.
A little bit of humor is always good as well.
And he's paying attention to detail.
Yeah, but I think one of the keys here, listen, obviously you have great tonality, right?
And instincts are correct.
One of the things also is I would have a script.
You want to know exactly.
You always want to have a script.
Say, if you tell a mocking, you want to know exactly what you're going to say before you say it.
Because when you know what you're going to say, then you can really focus on, A, your own tonality,
and, B, what the person is saying back to you.
So you can focus on their response.
And by how they speak, you can tell what their level of certainty is, how interested they are, and so forth.
Then I would say, I don't want to sell you anything.
I don't need your credit card info.
We're not that type of company.
If you have 60 seconds, we'll be in your area next week.
I'd just love to chop it up with you for a couple.
That's called the no big deal.
There's no big deal.
When you use those tonalities, this is really what the straight line is about.
It's actually a subject, just a chapter on tonality.
We talk about mastering the art of tonality.
Bingo, right.
So he's got them naturally.
And when you have those, so I'm guessing that you outperformed almost anybody that you were selling next to, right? Absolutely. Of course you did, right? Because when someone
has those tonalities, it just radically improves your results. So what this book does is it
actually breaks those tonalities down. And here's the thing. Every one of you has used these
tonalities at a certain point in your life. You've all spoken like, so it's no big deal,
or you've asked a question, but you don't do it at the right time when you're selling so the idea is once you learn how to apply it to
a sale it's just dramatic you become an expert very quickly all right we got more with jordan
belfort when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning kicking it with
jordan belfort charlamagne you do encourage people in the book to use their persuasion tactics
ethically ethically of course I made the mistake of not
always using them ethically. And here's the thing.
The straight line system, if you read
this book, it's really powerful stuff it is.
And you can misuse it.
And I caution people not to do
that because I made that mistake.
That's why you went to jail. Yeah, I went to jail.
I had to start over and thankfully
I was able to rebuild, but many people
don't. It's a death blow to rebuild. But many people don't.
It's a death blow to them.
And I really, and this system is so powerful that I want to make sure that you use it the right way.
Listen, success and ethics are not mutually exclusive.
You can do both.
You can do it right.
As you guys said, you earn the trust of your people, right?
And you do well.
You can do both.
They're not one or the other. What makes your persuasion tactics legal now and more ethical now as opposed to when you went to jail back in the day.
Well, the persuasion system itself is never good or bad.
In other words, you take the straight line system, right, the way of the wolf, and you use that system to do good things, meaning to help people get things they need, to buy things they should be buying.
That's ethical.
If you take that system to use it just to make yourself money say i'm going to sell anything to anybody i don't care
whether they need it or not i'm going to manipulate them i'll overpower them with my logic and reason
and emotion that's not it have you ever ran anybody that you persuaded in the wrong way
not ethically oh you know maybe once once here and there and they but mostly will laugh about
it pretty much right now yeah well yeah Well, yeah. At least for me,
I can't say. But again, I don't want to minimize
it. Some people lost money. That sucks. I wish
I'd never done that. That never happened.
But I'm a big believer in that. You can't change
the past. Everyone here has made
mistakes. We all make mistakes, right?
It's what you do afterwards.
Do you live in your mistake?
Do you want to dwell on your mistake and be paralyzed
by that? Or do you learn from that and you grow and become stronger?
When you're out there giving seminars, you know, do you still have girls that let you sniff coke off their asses?
That's only in the washroom.
You know, I'm sober for a long time now, you know, but as I always say, you know, people say, would you do it all again?
I say, well, you know, I would change some things, but I wouldn't change the cocaine hookers.
Not, but listen, I'm, you know, I got to be honest.
I'm 55 now, right?
I got a woman in my life.
I love my wife, right?
And your heart can't take it anymore.
I'm pre-disaster.
I already got it out of my system.
She knows I'm not going to go out and do it again.
So would I do it again?
No.
But, you know, what that was, it represents a life that i had and then that was part of me it's a platform i can
help other people so but i would change the stuff that caused that hurt other people for sure but
self-destructive behavior hey you know that was my life you know and it was it was fun at the time i
won't deny that you know chapter three the first four seconds you say that you have the first four
seconds of an encounter to make an impression like Like, for instance, when we just did this exercise, when he did the telemarketing, right?
Instantly, in those first couple of seconds, when he opens up his mouth to speak, I get an image of what he's like.
Is he sharp?
Is he on the ball?
Or is he, hello, Mr. Balfour?
And you're like, oh, my God.
Why is this person?
Right?
We, as humans, our parents told us not to judge books by their covers.
But they did, and so do we.
It's human nature. But, you know, that's the first thing. their covers, but they did, and so do we.
It's human nature.
But, you know, that's the first thing.
You know, my real name is Rishon, so I always took the R off because it's too ethnic, so I just say Sean.
Oh, this guy, too ethnic. Yes, it is.
Rishon, you're automatically going black.
Who cares if they know you're black?
No, because in Long Island back in the day, most white people would rather talk to white people.
Ask them crackers.
What were you selling, by the way, back in the day?
Home heating fuel.
Home heating fuel.
Oh, my God, you disgust me sometimes.
No, but that's what I did.
Jesus Christ.
This was 1994.
Yes, hi, this is Sean Casey from Home Heating, and that's how I sold.
I never had to meet him.
They talked on the phone.
Do you think that would make a difference?
What?
What he was saying, taking the rah off of his name.
Like Sean.
He would call himself Sean instead.
You know, listen.
Was there a period in time when you were like, okay, if he was one of your clients.
No, you couldn't do that.
In the brokerage business, you had to use your real name because it's legal.
There's legal ramifications for changing it.
You had to legally change it.
If you want to use a phony name, you had to change it legally.
Do you think that people really would think that?
Like if somebody called and said, Rashawn automatically.
Sadly, he's right.
Absolutely.
Sadly, he's right.
It's a sad thing.
Of course you would agree with that
You're a white man
No no no
I'm not gonna lie to anybody
The point
No but this is not about
Black and white
If I'm
If you're calling
If you always
How can you say it's not about
Black and white
But you said that he changed his name
I'll tell you why
Cause it's not
Cause we're talking about
Likeability
Meaning
If I'm
If I'm selling to people
Who are black
Then being black Would be an actual advantage.
Absolutely.
If I'm Asian, I want to be like Asian.
It's not race.
It's like to like.
That sounds very prejudiced, sir.
No, no, no.
Yes, it does.
No, no, no.
If you're a white man and a black guy calls you
and you automatically feel like,
I don't like him because he's black.
No, no, no.
It's about, no, there's a human.
It's the truth, bro.
No, no, no.
Number one, listen, listen.
It's a sad reality to some point, okay?
I'm the least prejudiced person in the world, by the way. I grew up in a household. But yeah, there's a lot reality to some point okay I'm the least prejudiced
person in the world by the way I grew up a lot of prejudice white people but no
not you know but black people to there's a black but it's not about black and no
no it's not about black and white it's about like versus like any like so I'm
in China they don't want to hear a white American accent they want to hear a
Chinese accent knows they want to people want to speak to the same accent.
It's about human nature.
It's not about skin color or ethnicity.
But I call Delta, and I know it's a black person.
We have a different conversation.
What's up, my G?
What's going on, yo?
It's a different conversation.
I understand everything that y'all are saying,
but what you said about how some people are just naturally closed off.
Like if I call somebody and I feel like I have to change my name
and I have to be less black to appease you,
I don't want to do business with you.
It's whoever you're calling.
A woman calling a woman
has a better shot than a man calling.
It's always like versus like
because people just associate based on similarities.
Now, by the way,
after those first couple of seconds,
you're judged based on who you are.
Absolutely.
Okay, not on your name.
Okay, but the point is,
what he's saying is,
I'm not going to lie to you guys,
there is this human nature,
and it's not about skin color,
it's about just like versus like.
Man, woman, black, white, you know,
age doesn't matter.
So that's my point.
I'm not in the appeasing white people.
But listen, how often do you watch Wolf of Wall Street?
In the beginning, I watched it a bunch of times.
I don't watch it anymore,
because, you know, I've seen it so many times.
I've lived it.
Sometimes I've lived it, but sometimes I'm like, oh, my God.
It's a little embarrassing.
You know when you see yourself or you hear yourself?
On Quaaludes.
Yeah.
So, listen, it's a great movie.
I didn't even know what Quaaludes were until I saw Wolf of Wall Street.
When I realized that was Bill Cosby's drug of choice, I was like, wow.
Those, oh, man, they were really good.
Thank God they're illegal. By the way, wow. Those, they were really good. I gotta say, thank God they're illegal.
By the way,
they look terrible
judging by how.
Thank God
they're not around anymore.
And anyone who's like
my age will say,
oh,
they would give you
this euphoric feeling,
you know.
But then you see
what you look like
to other people.
But when you're doing them,
you're like,
I think I look perfect.
So they're like
Ecstasy and Molly kind of?
No, it's not.
No, because
it's not like that.
It's more like, imagine, okay, imagine like taking 10 beers and boiling them,
distilling them down to like one, like, you know, this, like a thimbleful,
and injecting it in your main line, and all of a sudden you're like buzzing.
It's like this unbelievable euphoric buzz that you get, and it starts,
like I always say, I always explain to Leo, right?
Because Leo's never done drugs. I explain, they really
are sleeping pills, right? So what,
and from there you do coke to wake back up, and this is
what I was doing. So you're like,
up or down?
Sold, we'll try it.
I'm sober for 20 years
right now, so I would never go back to that life,
but that was what was happening. Did you ever give a woman
a quaalude with the intentions of having sex
with her? When I was 15
years old, it was a really funny story. Never like
really, but we had this, my friend
and I, we were 15, we were virgins still, you know, like
we should, because this backwoods, we should give someone a
quaalude. We tried to crush one up, we never did it though.
We thought about it though. You thought about raping a girl.
It was a good thought, I was a virgin, yeah.
Goodness gracious, but we appreciate you for joining us, man.
Great book though, I read this a couple months ago and it was a galley, it was a great read. Way of the Wolf, yeah. Goodness gracious. Well, we appreciate you for joining us, man. Great book, though. I read this a couple months ago, and it was a galley.
It was a great read.
Way of the Wolf, you know?
Don't buy it.
Appreciate you for joining us.
Thank you for stopping through and sharing your knowledge.
My pleasure, guys.
Thanks.
You guys are awesome.
Breakfast Club, Jordan Belfort.
The Breakfast Club.
This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee.
Rumor has it.
On The Breakfast Club.
Well, Geraldo Rivera showed up to Puerto Rico and was talking to the mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz,
who, by the way, I'm sure you've seen Donald Trump has criticized on Twitter.
And here's what he had to say when he asked her about not seeing anyone physically die in Puerto Rico.
But are people dying? I've been traveling around. I don't see people dying.
I spoke to the doctors. They saw 53 patients and they had a septic, a person who was septic, but nobody dying.
I wonder.
Well, dying is a continuum. If you don't get fed for seven, eight days in your child, you are dying.
If you have 11 people like we took out of a nursing home, severely dehydrated, you are dying.
All right.
Now, the official death toll in Puerto Rico is at 16, but they do expect those numbers to rise as rescue workers are trying to distribute those basic supplies and families have to live for weeks or months without power.
Another thing the mayor of San Juan had to say was that FEMA is telling people to register online and they don't have power.
So how are they supposed to go online and register for anything?
Well, after the interview, Geraldo Rivera had this to say about the mayor. That's part one of my interview with the mayor, who, as you heard, still claims people are dying,
although the death count is 16, has been 16 since the storm.
I couldn't find no one dying,
and she was highly critical of President Trump.
What is he talking about?
So is he saying that no? I don't get what he's saying.
So he's trying to say while he was there for those few days,
he didn't see anyone die, so no one's dying.
Her point is that it's a continuum
of things because there's no power
because there's issues with the hospital. She's saying
more people could die. There's people
that are struggling right now and dying is like
I'm not dead. I am dying because
I'm starving. I don't have water.
I'm dehydrated.
I can't get to the hospital. I don't have power.
So 16 people have died. So it's still a state
of emergency. She's been really critical of Donald Trump not responding in a timely fashion.
Yeah, 16 people have died and more people are dying.
And she's trying to prevent them from actually being dead.
Correct.
And he's saying, I didn't see anyone die.
I didn't see anyone die.
While I was here.
How are you arguing over that?
Let's just get the help that they need.
All right.
Tamar Braxton has fired her stylist.
And that is because her stylist made her feel like she shouldn't wear an outfit from Forever 21.
Now, she said the stylist today tried to make me feel less than because he didn't agree that I should wear Forever 21.
Well, I fired him because no one should make you feel less than because you have on a $40 outfit.
How awful.
So my clothes make me never be confident in whatever you have, wear are and choose to be or afford.
You better walk in confidence no matter what shape, size or financial situation.
You are amazing and don't let anyone bully you into spending what you have or not.
It doesn't make you any less fabulous.
Don't forever 21 shame.
Don't Charlotte Ruth shame.
Don't rainbow shame.
Don't fashion Nova shame.
Damn it.
Zara.
Yes.
Zara is kind of expensive.
I know.
I had a Zara shirt on yesterday,
but I actually stole it from MTV's wardrobe.
Well, I didn't steal it,
but I just didn't give it back.
That's stealing.
No, it's not.
It was mine.
Taking something that's not yours
and not giving it back.
They gave it to me to wear for a show.
To borrow.
No, they didn't say that.
You got to make that clear.
You got to make that clear.
They put it on my back,
so I kept it on.
All right.
Well, yeah,
so she's going to wear whatever she wants. And you know what?
If it looks cute, it looks cute. Just because something's expensive
doesn't make it look good, and just because something's
cheap doesn't mean it's not cute.
Alright, Jimmy Kimmel had some things to say
about politicians and gun control
after the unfortunate,
tragic situation in Vegas.
Here's what he had to say. In 1980,
we had a big fire at the MGL Hotel
in Las Vegas. It was horrible, right?
I mean, 85 people died.
You could see the fire.
I mean, I was 13 years old.
I'll never forget a man jumped out the window.
It was a terrible thing to see.
And then a few months later, there was another fire at the Hilton, and five people died.
So you know what they did?
They changed the laws, and it hasn't happened again.
Why would we approach this differently?
It's a public safety issue.
So his whole issue is you see everything that's going on.
We're losing police officers, children, mothers, all of that.
And why don't we change these gun laws?
I mean, that's common sense.
Common sense.
That's what I keep saying.
Like, it's cool to pray for the city that these mass shootings happen in after the fact.
But, no, we need to be praying for gun control.
All right.
And here's what D.L. Hughley had to say about gun control as well.
It's easier in America to buy 10 assault weapons than two packs of Sudafed.
You know what?
The most dangerous thing in America is other Americans.
More Americans have died at the hands of other Americans than have died in all the wars we ever fought for.
ISIS ain't got s**t on us.
One man shot almost 600 people.
That weapon did exactly what it was supposed to do,
and that man had the right to have those weapons.
So nothing went wrong except he killed a bunch of people.
All right.
So it's not the guns' problem.
It's the people with the guns, and we need to make sure it's not as, yeah.
That's common sense, too, though.
Guns are inanimate objects, you know what I mean?
Guns are just like anything else.
In the right hands, they can be used for good.
In the wrong hands, they can be used for bad.
But everybody wants to know, what can we do to change things?
And that's really what it's all about right now.
Now, Mike Tyson, Kid Racket, Chainsmokers, the Oakland Raiders,
they've all donated to the Las Vegas Victims Fund,
it's a GoFundMe page that was set up by the Clark County Commission chair,
and that is to help the victims of the horrific Las Vegas shooting.
And the sad part is, I mean, we can do gun control, and that's a start,
but like I tell y'all every day, we are living in a world where we just have to avoid crazy.
But it's almost impossible.
It's impossible.
Every day of our lives, we wake up, it's just a matter of if we're going to survive,
somebody else is crazy.
Because I know what I'm going to do today, but I
don't know what everybody else is going to do.
I worry about our cameraman in this room
every single day.
White dude named Steve always
seem like he about to snap.
Steve's pretty cool to me. Steve's my friend.
Steve, just remember those times I answered your phone when you needed
somebody to talk to, okay?
Alright?
Alright, that's your rumor report.
I'm Angela Yee.
You my hitter.
You my hitter.
I'm your hitter?
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right, Steve.
All right.
Now, Solomon,
donkey of the day,
who you giving your donkey to?
Donkey of the day
is going to the gospel group,
Mary Mary.
We need them to come
to the front of the congregation,
literally,
and we'd like to have a word
with them, okay?
All right. We'll do it when we come back. the congregation, literally. And we'd like to have a word with them, okay? All right.
We'll do it when we come back.
Keep it locked.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
I was born a donkey.
It's the donkey of the day.
Donkey, donkey, donkey.
Born to do that.
It's time for the donkey of the day.
That's pretty funny.
Charlamagne the devil?
Possibly.
The Breakfast Club.
Yes, Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, October 3rd,
goes to the gospel group Mary Mary.
Tina and Erica Campbell, now correct me if I'm wrong,
but Mary Mary may be the first group to use auto-tune on a gospel record.
Only other person I can think of who put auto-tune on a gospel record was Future.
When he made God bless and all the trap.
So drop one of Clues bombs mary mary because they did they did get god's gospel in rotation now the reason mary mary is getting donkey of the day is because tina gave an interview with
the root magazine where she was asked about an open letter she wrote earlier this year encouraging
the masses to pray for then president-elect donelect Donald Trump. Now, if you know anything about your Uncle Charlotte,
and you know I'm all about prayer, I am a prayer warrior.
I pray a lot for myself, for my family, for my friends.
And if you want to pray for me, please do.
I can use all the help I can get.
But I don't waste God's time,
especially when it comes to people with the character of our celebrity in chief,
Donald J. Trump, okay?
I feel as if when you pray for...
Turn that down in my ears, please. I feel as if when you pray for, turn that down on my ears, please.
I feel as if when you pray for really evil people, God is just going to send those prayers
to his fan folder.
Okay.
It's also not good to pray for really evil people because you truly don't know what is
the lesson that God is teaching that person.
And oftentimes God is ignoring evil people because once you choose to submit your will
to Satan and not God, God is out.
He got things to do.
So I'm not asking my God to pray for someone when it's clear that the person I'm praying for has already made his spiritual choice in life.
And he picked Satan for 300 Alex.
Now, Tina Campbell told The Root, I had a perspective.
I had a feeling.
And I put it out there.
I know there's some people who don't agree.
I do not agree with a lot of decisions that this man makes.
Speaking of Trump, and I made that very clear in my statement.
I was faced with two presidential candidates
that I really did not approve of,
Campbell elaborated,
and so I had to find something,
a commonality with one of them
that would make me feel like if I have to vote,
I should utilize my right to vote
since I don't prefer either of them.
What can I find that would make me vote?
And some of Donald Trump's views on Christianity
honestly is what caused me to vote for him.
End quote.
Okay, Tina, God told me to tell you that there's so much wrong with that statement.
Number one, stop trying to find something in common with evil people.
It is perfectly okay if you and an evil person have nothing in common.
And furthermore, if you find yourself having something in common with an evil person, then you might want to check yourself. Now, what else is interesting about this situation is that the thing you found you had in common
with President Trump is his faith, his spirituality.
You said his views on Christianity is what caused you to vote for him.
What are Trump's views on Christianity?
Because he pulled up to a black church or two during the campaign?
Does that make him a Christian?
Tina, listen, standing in the middle of a garage don't make you a car,
and Donald Trump attending a black church doesn't make
him a Christian. I'm not going to get all preachy on
this radio this morning, but if you Google Christian
values, there's about 10 values that come up
and I'm going to name a few of these values
of being a Christian and you tell me
if any of this sounds like Donald Trump.
Number one, worship
only God. Nope.
Because Donald Trump worships wealth, fame,
power, status, and Vladimir Putin.
So I digate we starting off wrong.
Number two, respect all people.
You know that whole love your neighbors, you love yourself thing?
I don't believe that applies to Trump.
Would you like to hear some other Christian values that don't apply to Trump?
Okay, being humble.
Being honest.
What do any of these words that start with the letter H have to do with the Donald?
I've heard people say he needs to be humble.
He needs to be honest.
But never that Trump is those things.
Another Christian value, practice what you preach.
Don't be a hypocrite.
Live a moral life.
None of these Christian values seem to apply to our president.
So, Tina, I would love to know what views does Trump have on Christianity that made you gravitate towards him?
Now, baller alert.
Drop on the clues bombs for baller alert.
They posted this story about Tina Campbell and the other Mary.
And Mary.
Mary.
Mary.
It's another Mary, right?
Yeah.
Her name's Erica, though.
Erica.
Her sister sent a comment to baller alert saying, not what she said at all.
In capital letters.
Just read her letter for yourself.
She wrote it at the very beginning of his presidency.
And she was hoping for the best.
Google Tina's letter. She said nothing about his Christianity. Read it for yourself. She wrote it at the very beginning of his presidency, and she was hoping for the best. Google Tina's letter.
She said nothing about his Christianity. Read it for yourself.
Poor Erica didn't get the memo. She didn't
read the article in The Root. And that statement
secured you donkey of the day, Erica, because
it's right there on TheRoot.com for all
to see. It says clear as day,
and some of Donald Trump's views on Christianity
honestly is what caused me to vote
for him. Erica, it's right there in print for you to see.
You need to practice what you preach
and read your sister's letter for yourself, okay?
I totally understand you having your sister's back,
and it's okay to have her back
and acknowledge that she's wrong at the same damn time.
Mary, Mary, I'm disappointed in y'all both.
Both of y'all need to open your Bibles
and turn to Psalm 4610, which says,
Be still and know that I am God.
I know y'all ending y'all reality show, and that's good because y'all need to open your bibles and turn to psalm 46 10 which says be still and know that i am god i know y'all ending y'all reality show and that's good because y'all need some time to yourselves
to just be still and disconnect from this secular world and really reconnect with your spirit
because tina's saying she likes some of trump's views on christianity erica ignoring the facts
of what her sister said and telling bold-faced lies. All of that is more Trump-like than Christ-like. So I need y'all to be still and know God.
I need y'all to go home, get behind closed doors, hit the floor,
get on your knees and pray to the God in you, not to Trump in you.
Please give Mary Mary the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's, please.
You are the donkey of the day.
You are the donkey of the day.
Yee-haw.
Mary, Mary, why you bugging?
All right.
Thank you for that donkey today.
Now, when we come back, we were talking behind the scenes.
But it wasn't really behind the scenes.
We were talking on air as well, but Jordan Belfort stopped through,
and we were talking about when I used to work at a telemarketing firm
out in Long Island, this is what we were talking about.
But, you know, that's the first thing.
You know, my real name is Rashawn, so I always took the rah off
because it's too ethnic, so I just say Sean.
Do you think that people really would think that?
Like if somebody called
and said Rashawn automatically?
Sadly, he's right.
Absolutely.
Sadly, he's right.
It's a sad thing.
This is not about black and white
because we're talking
about likability,
meaning if I'm selling
to people who are black,
then being black
would be an actual advantage.
Absolutely.
If I'm Asian,
I want to be like Asian.
It's not race.
It's like to like.
That sounds very prejudiced, sir.
Yeah, I want y'all
to go watch that full interview on Breakfast Club's YouTube page.
Because we had a lively discussion in here.
Very lively.
And I'm not into compromising with crack-ass crackers.
Okay?
If you don't like me because I'm black, that's your problem.
It's not a matter about compromising with crack-ass crackers or white people or anybody else.
It's a matter about doing a job and being smart at doing your job.
I was a 15-year-old kid that worked in Long Island at a telemarketing
firm with 10 other white kids. I was the only black
kid. And we sold Target audience
home eating fuel to 40-plus
white men. And you was ashamed of your name.
It had nothing to do with ashamed of my name.
I also...
People judge you in the first four seconds
of a conversation when you do telemarketing.
If you're a salesperson, you would know that.
I've done telemarketing, sir. So to get yourself in the door... And you know what I used to say my name was when I used to do telemarketing. If you're a salesperson, you would know that. I've done telemarketing, sir.
So to get yourself in the door, the first thing you do...
And you know what I used to say my name was when I did telemarketing?
Charlemagne.
The first thing you...
Well, that's not your name.
Your name is Leonard.
That's not even your name.
That's not even your name, so you pulled nothing right anyway.
Would you buy from a Charlemagne?
Do you guys mind if I say something real quick?
I was just going to say that I also think that when you're younger
and it's your first job and something like that,
and you do something like that,
a lot of that has to do with how
we're programmed.
Why are y'all making excuses for the racist?
It's not a matter about making excuses.
Can I at least finish what I was going to say?
I was going to say that it is
something that has to deal with people's
prejudices and I do believe that people have
done that. Clearly, like I have a
good friend, her first job, her name is Dania.
She had to change her name on her resume to Dana
because no one was calling her back. But once she changed
her name on her resume, all of a sudden
all the same places that she sent her resume to
were calling her back. It's wrong.
And I think now we would never do something like that.
But I think when you're 15,
16, 17,
years old, it's unfortunate
home eating fueled to a 40-year-old
white man. It's unfortunate that we believe that that's what we have to do in order to get our foot in the door.
It is unfortunate, but you have to do it.
No, you don't have to do it.
You do not have to compromise with these racist, prejudiced people.
If you call somebody and you tell them your name and they don't want to buy from you because your name sounds too ethnic, they are prejudiced.
So F them.
Screw them.
Period.
But if Envy's trying to hit his numbers.
If I'm trying to get a job and trying to get paid at the age of 15 to pay for a car.
Let's see what you think.
To pay for my bills.
Call us up.
Yes, my name is Sean at the age of 15 when I'm trying to sell to a 40-year-old person
Call us up 1-800-585-1051.
It's a heated discussion.
What do you think?
585-1051.
Well, I'm not into compromising for these racist ass, bigoted, crack ass crackers.
I ain't dancing.
If you choose to dance, cool.
God bless you.
Well, you can do that at the age of 37.
I'm sure at the age of 15 it was a little different.
At the age of 15 I wasn't.
I definitely was much more militant.
You used to pray to newbie and white queens all the time.
You changed when you get little bits.
Yes, you did.
You had a different mindset five years ago.
All right, guys, come on.
Let's take some calls.
We'll go take the phone calls when we come back.
It's not about y'all.
It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
It's the truth.
The Breakfast Club.
That was Bruno Mars.
That's what I like.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are the Breakfast Club.
Now, Jordan Belfort was here this morning, and this is the conversation we had.
But, you know, that's the first thing.
You know, my real name is Rishon.
So I always took the R off because it's too ethnic.
So I just say Sean.
Do you think that people really would think that? Like if somebody called and said Rishon, so I always take the R off because it's too ethnic, so I just say Sean. Do you think that people really would think
that? Like if somebody called and said Rishon automatically?
Sadly, he's right. Absolutely.
Sadly, he's right, and it's a sad thing.
This is not about black and white, because we're talking
about likability, meaning if
I'm selling to people who are black,
then being black would be an actual advantage.
Absolutely. If I'm Asian, I want to be like
Asian. It's not race. It's like
to like. That sounds very prejudiced, sir.
Now, what do you think?
800-585-1051.
Absolutely not.
I am not into compromising to racists,
to bigots, to prejudiced people.
If you are a telemarketer
and you call somebody's house
and as soon as they hear your name,
they feel like they don't want to buy from you
because they think you're black
or they think you're some minority,
F them.
Why are we compromising for them?
Why are we compromising the racist, prejudiced,
bigoted people? I think the bigger
picture is how do we feel about ourselves
and teaching our kids so that
when they grow up to be proud of who you are
and to not have to compromise.
But that is something that people do have to learn.
It's not a compromise. It's a matter of
being smart in my opinion. If you're selling to a
40 year old white man, you want to make them feel comfortable if you're selling something.
Same way, if I walk into a shop and there's a brother in there selling things, I'm going to walk to the brother first because I feel like he understands me more than anybody else in there.
The same way, if I call a customer service and somebody who answers the phone is somebody that doesn't speak my language or I can't understand them, I hang up.
So you want to make a 40-something-year-old white man feel comfortable in their prejudice? At the age of 15,
if I'm trying to sell something to them, yes,
I want them to make them feel comfortable. So even though they're wrong,
even though they're wrong because they're prejudiced,
and they're the bigot, and they're the racist, you want to
make them feel comfortable? At the age of 14, I'm trying
to sell... You sound like
the slave that wants to keep Matthew's feet warm.
You want to lay him in the
Matthew's bed to keep his feet warm?
It's a salesperson that's selling things.
That's a salesperson you want to get in the door.
I'm not meeting that person face-to-face.
I'm on the phone.
I'm getting a salesperson in that door, and I do whatever I have to do to get that salesperson in that door at the age of 14.
I'm not compromising to these crack-ass crackers.
They prejudice is their problem.
Hello, who's this?
Hey, what's going on?
This is Hakeem.
I'm Brockton.
Hakeem, good morning.
What do you think?
Hakeem, don't you call up here and tell me
you changed your name to Hawk.
Nah, but let me tell you, I can definitely side with Envy
because, yo, I remember recently
just trying to get an apartment. It was so difficult.
I was calling, calling, leaving messages,
leaving messages, calling. Nobody's calling me back.
So I finally had a friend of mine, a white girl
named Stacey, call the same apartment back.
Got a message, got a call back
the same day to set up an appointment to go look at the apartment
and everything.
I'm like, I just called that place.
I just left the message.
Let me ask you a question.
It is a sad reality.
Like, my best friend, Santi, she was getting an Airbnb,
and she actually submitted a request for the Airbnb,
and they told her it wasn't available,
and then she had her husband, who's white,
do the same thing, and they responded
and gave him the Airbnb.
Well, Hakeem, let me ask you a question.
I pray that you did not still go down there
and fill out that application
because you shouldn't even want to stay in a place like that.
Nah, nah.
After that, I figured, you know what I mean,
it is what it was.
I would never want to live underneath somebody
that was judging me based off my name.
There you go.
And I wouldn't want to sell to them either.
I did a lot of call sales, too.
And when you tell people your name, you almost can feel the vibe change over the phone, too.
Especially when you've got an ethnic name like Hakeem or Rashaun or something like that.
So I definitely understand.
It plays a big part in what people judge you before they even get a chance to meet you.
It's crazy.
And that's their problem, not yours.
We need to stop victim blaming and acting like that's our problem.
Hello, who's this?
Good morning, this is Billie.
Hey, Billie, good morning.
What do you think about what happened with Jordan Belford as far as changing your name
and not being as ethnic to sell things like I did selling telemarketing?
So I think that as a parent of a three-year-old and just making the decision to name my son
three years ago, it's important what you name your child.
Not only because one day they have to learn how to spell it. And if it's 12 letters
long, it's a little bit harder to spell it than if it's shorter, but also because no matter what
you say, you are judged on your name that is on your resume. And so for me, it was, it took a long
time for me to be comfortable with my name because people always made fun of my name because my name
is Billy. And I tried to go with my middle name, and it just didn't stick.
And so even to this day, people still don't understand what I'm saying
when I say my name is Billy.
But I think that parents have to be cognizant of the fact of
if you're naming your child an ethnic name or a really long-spelled name,
that your child is going to have to grow up with that one day,
and they're going to have to deal with the repercussions. Billy, you do know regardless of what you name your child is going to have to grow up with that one day and they're going to have to deal with the repercussions.
Billy, you do know, regardless of what you
name your child, your child's still going to be
black, or still going to be American,
or still going to be Spanish, or still going to be
Jewish, and he can't run from that.
She can't run from that. So what are you talking about?
And I'm not saying that they should.
They're going to be misjudged before he walks in that door.
They're going to be judged
when they walk in the door, regardless, because it's not about the name.
It's about that person's prejudice towards whatever that person is.
And I'm not saying that they should hide their ethnicity.
I'm multiracial.
I have many, many things in my background.
And my husband is 100% Native American.
And when we walk in the door, my skin is darker than his.
And when we walk in the door, we're judged because my skin is darker than him.
I look the part of being Native American.
And he doesn't typically, you know, people don't think that he's Native American, but he's 100%.
He has his Native American travel card.
And so no matter what you do, you're going to be judged.
But as a parent, I want to, as much as I
can do to help lessen that
judgment, I'm going to do it.
And I always tell people, be careful what you make your email
address and all of that when you send out emails
looking for things. Don't have some crazy
email address when you send out things
to people because they judge you based off of that.
All I hear is a bunch of people who got the white man
got them shook.
But the email has nothing to do with being white.
I'm just talking about an email address that just sounds crazy.
800-585-1051.
We were talking to Jordan Belford this morning,
and we had this conversation about changing names and being more, I guess,
what's the name, likable in the presence of different people.
No, it's not about being likable, because if they don't like your black ass,
they prejudiced.
800-585-1051.
They're not going to like you because you say your name is Michael michael 105 call us now it's the breakfast club good morning yo
goddy morning everybody it's dj nv angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club
now this morning we were talking to jordan belford and we were having a conversation about
jordan belford is the wolf of wall street wolf of wall street right he has a book what's the name
of his book the way the wolf the Wolf. The Way of the Wolf.
He talks about being a great salesperson.
And we were talking about when I was a teen and I was selling telemarketing, how I changed my name from Rashawn to Sean to get more sales.
You were compromising to them crackers.
I wasn't compromising to anybody because nobody ever met me.
Nobody was trying to hit those numbers.
And I was hitting my numbers because I was using the name as Sean and I was speaking
more proper and it got me in the door.
And we're taking your calls.
800-585-1051.
What do you think about it?
Hello, who's this?
This is Jasmine.
Hey, Jasmine.
How y'all doing?
I was calling to answer that question about the name.
Go ahead.
Okay, I'm completely with you, Evie.
I work in corporate America.
I name my kids names that you don't even know what gender they are or what my daughter.
I name her Logan because I don't want you to know what gender she is when she goes and
put in the application.
That's Emerson's name.
That's funny.
That's my son's name.
You guys read the same book.
I don't want a Roshonda working for a fee.
Sorry, Roshonda.
Like, come on now.
You know Roshonda's still black regardless, right?
The issue is not the name.
The issue is the person's prejudice.
That's true.
So, but it ain't no joke. Y'all keep compromising with these white people.
I'm not walking
in no door. I'm setting it up for sales
people to walk in the door.
All I'm creating is go-sees so somebody
can get in that door. Nobody ever meets me. They don't know
if I'm white, black, Asian, if I'm gay
or what I am. They don't know and they don't need to know that.
And they don't need to know that.
This is very sad. You can't run from what you are.
Hello, who's this?
Hey, my name's Mercedes. I'm calling from
Virginia. How are y'all doing this morning?
Hey, Mercedes. What's your comment?
Hey, I named my daughter. We're Filipino.
And I named my daughter a Filipino
name, Janiel. And I think about
I regret it sometimes because I'm
just thinking she's going to have a hard time getting a job
in the future.
What's her name? Jan job in the future. Right. Because of that name. Oh, my God.
What's her name?
Janiel.
Janiel.
Okay.
And it's spelled J-H-E-N-N-E-I-L, and I'm sitting there thinking, like, oh, man.
So I think about it a lot.
I do.
But, I mean, hopefully her thing will be different in, like, 10 years when she starts applying for jobs.
Right.
Yeah.
Thank you, Mama.
No, it's unfortunate that people feel like,
and the fact of the matter is,
people don't get callbacks based on their name.
It's unfortunate.
But that's not that person's problem.
That is the problem of the prejudiced person
who's not calling them back.
And guess what?
It don't matter what you name your child,
they cannot run from what they are.
Hello, who's this?
This is Nicole.
Hey, Nicole.
You sound depressed.
No, I'm at work. Okay, what's this? the hyphen or the accent mark, so it automatically knocks your name out. So if you take that out,
then the system would recognize it as a regular word,
and then you'll get a callback.
So Beyonce would have to take the hyphen out of her name
to get a callback?
No, not technically, but yeah,
she would get more callbacks if she took out the hyphen, yeah.
Because that's what happens to my daughter.
So y'all ain't calling Beyonce back?
Well, I guess people are speaking from their own experiences.
Hello, who's this?
Sohail. Solio. What's your comment experiences. Hello, who's this? Sohail.
Solio.
What's your comment?
I'm Persian.
My name's Sohail.
And yeah, I 100% agree.
It's difficult.
Like, it's not easy.
I've had supervisors and bosses tell me my name's too hard.
But I mean, I just make it work.
You know what I mean?
But Charlamagne.
Is this Charlamagne?
Yes.
Hey, bro.
Why do you get so defensive?
You got a pretty big platform, bro. Why do you get so defensive? You got a pretty big platform, bro.
Like, you can really help the youth, the community,
and you just keep knocking white people, dog.
Like, it's not even.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not knocking white people.
I'm knocking racist, bigoted, prejudiced white people.
Not all white people.
Now, if you want to lump yourself in with them crack-ass crackers,
go right ahead, because I'm not doing that. I'm very specific
in who I'm talking to. You're specific
in it, but you keep making those comments.
All that does is cause a divide, dude.
What comments am I making? I'm going to always
denounce racism. I'm going to always talk down
on racists. I'm going to always talk down on
prejudiced people. Once again...
Calling someone a cracker
isn't racist? When you laughed
the other day... I'm going to quote a white person.
Seth Rogen tweeted this out yesterday.
Seth Rogen.
You know who Seth Rogen is, right?
Yeah.
Seth Rogen said, if you are a white person who gets mad at being called a cracker,
then you are indeed a mother effing cracker.
A white man tweeted that yesterday, sir.
All right.
So that's very cool.
But what I'm saying is, I'm from the Bay, bro.
I'm listening to you guys because I'm in is I'm from the Bay, bro. I listen to you guys.
I'm in Miami right now just helping out for work.
But when I hear this s*** about you laughing at the SNL thing that they call Donald Trump a cracker, right?
You're like, oh, more power to him.
That gets a clue.
Let me ask you a question.
You don't think Donald Trump is a crack-ass cracker?
Because a crack-ass cracker is a racist, bigoted, prejudiced person.
You don't think Donald Trump is that?
You're missing the point, bro.
Oh, I'm missing the point.
Okay.
Yeah, 100%.
I'm just saying, man.
If you want to continue to lump yourself in with the Trumps of the world, go right ahead, my brother.
But, my man, you have a big platform.
I think you should kind of use it.
I think you just do it for shits and giggles.
But you should use it to get the message across a little bit better. The message is
racist, bigoted, prejudiced white people
are cracker ass crackers and
white devils. That is the message. I don't know
how much more clear you want me to be.
Thank you, Solio, for calling. What's the moral
of the story? The moral of the story is
the white man got you shook. I can't believe y'all out here
compromising to these crackers. We making excuses
for they prejudice and they bigotry
and to me, that's being a sucker. Be proud of who you
are. Be proud of what your name is.
I don't think the white man got aimed by a shit butt.
Alright, we got rumors on the way, Yee? Yes, 21 Savage.
Can he get a job with that name?
Alright, well, we're going to be talking about 21 Savage at the
Slut Walk. No, he can't get a job with that name.
Alright, rumors on the way. It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning. The Breakfast Club.
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy Angela
Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.
Drop one of Clues Bomb for Cardi B. Bodak Yellow
is the number one song in the country for the second
week in a row. It beat out Rockstar?
Yeah, she's number
one again this week. Wow. Rockstar was number one
streaming, I think, just as far as streaming
goes. God bless Cardi. She does things her way
with no compromise, and her true authentic self is winning.
Well, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk 21 Savage.
It's about
time. What's going on?
Rumor report. Rumor report.
This is the rumor report.
With Angela Yee
on The Breakfast Club.
Well, I guess 21 Savage has been getting
a lot of flack for being at the slut walk
with his woman, Amber Rose. He was holding a sign that said, I'm 21 Savage has been getting a lot of flack for being at the slut walk with his woman, Amber Rose.
He was holding a sign that said, I'm a hoe, too.
And she had on her Captain Save-A-Ho cape.
So what?
And here's what he had to say about people going in on him.
Get off my d***.
Get off your b***h d***, too.
Yeah, get off my b***h d***, too.
This slut walk was fun as a m***.
All right.
And then here's what Amber Rose had to say about
everybody saying that he is
I guess no longer a savage.
How the **** is my man
not a savage anymore?
Do y'all want him to pistol with me?
Beat me up?
Shoot up the slut walk? Like, what the **** do y'all want?
Listen, man, some of y'all get on
IG and say what you're gonna do
for the poom poom, but y'all not really about that life.
21 out here showing what he would really do for the poom poom in real life.
So stop hating.
That man's in love.
The only thing that's funny is that his facial expressions be so stoic all the time.
Like he reveals.
He's serious about not being a ho too.
But that's what, the pictures just look funny because of that.
Like he don't be having no expression ever.
Drop on the clues,, Bob, the 21 Savage.
I saw the video for his Nothing New song yesterday.
It's not out yet, but I saw it yesterday.
Like, Amber Rose be smiling,
happy. He just looks like
I'm here. Serious all the time.
All the time. We gotta start talking about Amber Rose
and her transformative box, too, by the way.
It's not quite Badoo level, but come on.
If Amber Rose can turn 21 Savage into a feminist,
we got to start putting her in that conversation.
All right. Lupita Nyong'o could be starring in a reboot of Charlie's Angels.
They're doing that reboot, and she is in early talks to sign on for that.
And Kristen Stewart from Twilight is also being eyed for that as well.
So they haven't revealed who the third person will be,
but they're saying that Janelle Monáe is a top choice as well.
So that could be good.
I would definitely go see that.
Janelle Monáe is a future
Hollywood star.
Janelle Monáe, by the way,
did an incredible job in,
what was the movie?
Hidden Figures?
Yeah, Hidden Figures.
Oh my God.
So great.
I've seen it twice on a plane.
Janelle is a future Hollywood star.
He killed it.
She's absolutely up next.
All right, Justin Bieber,
he wants to rent a house
in Beverly Hills, but nobody will rent to him.
Nobody in that neighborhood because of his reputation for trashing every mansion.
He's offering up to $100,000 a month, but everybody's like, nah, he's been staying at a hotel in Beverly Hills right now because, you know, he hasn't been able to get anything.
So right now he's just living in hotels.
I wonder why he wouldn't buy a crib out there.
He's out there enough. Yeah, and you know
he already had a house there, so I don't know
why he doesn't just buy one. Maybe he's not sure where he wants
to end up. Because sometimes buying is not
a great idea if you're only going to be there for a short
period of time. You don't know where you're going to go.
Alright, Dana White is saying the UFC
will donate $1 million in order to
help out the victims of the
Vegas shooting, the victims who were affected. Here's what he had to say. What we're going to do is we're going to donate $1 million in order to help out the victims of the Vegas shooting, the victims who were affected.
Here's what he had to say.
What we're going to do is we're going to donate $1 million to the people, the families, and the people who are affected by this.
And, you know, it's still too early, so we'll see what pops up over the next week.
But we're going to cut that money up and donate to a bunch of different things that have to do with the tragedy or we'll just give the whole million and one lump sum to, you know,
the thing that everybody else is donating to.
I know the NFL put up some money too.
Yeah, sadly, it's a lot of funerals to pay for.
Right, it's a lot going on.
That money will definitely have to be utilized.
All right, and for all you Real Housewives of Atlanta fans,
it looks like there's all kinds of drama going on.
Portia, they're saying, has been kicked off of the girls trip because she tried to attack Marlo Hampton.
Portia fighting still?
Yeah.
They're saying that she didn't touch Marlo, but security broke it up quickly enough and she got sent home early.
So they're in Barcelona.
And Kenya Moore was supposed to go to Barcelona and she didn't end up going.
The problem is that she's supposed to be filming scenes with her husband, Mark Daly, but he's not down for that.
So she's kind of trying to stall it.
So they actually yanked her invite and you get paid per episode.
So there's some episodes she's going to miss out on
because she didn't get to go on that trip to Barcelona.
Do you get a bonus if you fight on Real Housewives of Atlanta?
No.
You got to be.
They're supposed to kick you off.
Yeah, you're actually not supposed to physically touch anyone.
Yeah, they say that, but then they still air it.
So technically that makes me believe that they got to give some kind of bonus for fighting on those shows.
All right.
Well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Rumor Reports.
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