The Breakfast Club - Michael Rubin Interview and More

Episode Date: January 30, 2019

1-30-19 - Today on the show we had entrepreneurial beast Michael Rubin stop by where he spoke about Reform Alliance and his friendship with Meek Mill. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to South Carolina man who fakes his kidnapping to extort $130 from his mother and Angela helped some listeners out during "Ask Yee". Moreover, with all of this going on Charlamagne became a new fan of Dream Doll.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Got the cameras, I'm out of here. I agree. What kind of show is this? My son listens to this show. The Breakfast Club. With DJ Envy. The captain of this bitch. With Angela Yee, the only one who can keep these guys in check.

With Charlamagne Tha God. I'm a lovable asshole. And this is The Breakfast Club, bitches! Good morning, cold USA! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Now, what's up? It's The Breakfast Club. I'm Angela Yee, Charlamagne and Envy. I would assume are on their way here, but the weather's kind of bad. I think it's icy out, icy conditions.

This is why. They live in Jersey, in the suburbs. I live in Brooklyn. I didn't have any problems getting here this morning. Everything was fine, so those guys are probably. Oh, here we go. Jesus. Charlamagne's here. I was saying there's probably icy conditions for you and Envy,

and that's one of the things about living in the suburbs. They had salt through my cul-de-sac this morning. Your cul-de-sac? Yeah, so I was cool. I was cool on the way in. Yeah, it's like nothing, there's not even any snow in Brooklyn. It is cold, though. It's very cold.

I don't know what's going on in the rest of America, but I know here in New Jersey, New York, it's supposed to be 6 degrees. Well, guess what? Some places in the Midwest, it's going to be below degrees. Well, guess what? Some places in the Midwest, it's going to be below 70. Well, God bless them. Below 70? Yes. Negative 70. Negative 70? Uh-huh. Negative 70. Oh, yeah, I did read that because they said it's going to be colder in Chicago than it is

in Antarctica. And let me tell you something. Yeah, so relatively speaking, it's not that cold compared to what it could be like. Amen. I was in Detroit over the weekend last weekend, and I was like, I think I have frostbite. But my hands were all numb and everything, and everybody's like, you don't have frostbite. What exactly is frostbite? Is that when your hands turn to ice?

No, they turn black. It goes on cartoons and then break off? They turn black. I was looking at pictures of it this morning, and we're going to talk about it more during Front Page News. Just signs that you're getting frostbite. I just thought, you know, your hands be all numb, but I didn't know your fingers turned black. And I think I read an article yesterday that said like 14 or 15 homeless people

were found dead in Chicago because of the freezing temperatures. Yeah, it's really bad. So they said even the U.S. Postal Service won't be going out in some places because the weather is so terrible. Minnesota could be 70 degrees below the wind chill. Well, make sure you put on your big coat, okay? That's what my wife said to me this morning before I left the house. She said,

you ain't got no coat longer than that? I'm like, what you mean longer? It's not about length, is it? Well, thank God it's not about length. We wouldn't be together. But yes, I have on my big coat this morning. She didn't put your little knees cold. That's what she said. She was like, you don't put on your long coat. I wouldn't even a short coat as long on you.

Just knock it off. I'm layered though. I'm layered. I'm layered. Now we got a special guest today. Co-owner of the Philadelphia 76's. Michael Rubin. Michael Rubin.

He's part of the whole reform initiative with Meek Mill. Okay, if you don't know. Reform Alliance. If you don't know who Michael Rubin is, he's one of the rich white guys

that's around Meek Mill. Okay. Meek Mill said maybe it's to Michael Rubin's Arthur Robert Crafts, he's not Robert Crafts. And he's been a businessman since he was like eight years old. Very interesting story he has. Net worth of a few billion dollars, but you know who's counting his pockets? He's not. You don't even want to talk about that, I bet. But more importantly, it's about the Reform Alliance that he'll be up here discussing among other things this morning.

And how did he even get involved in that? You know, he's going to talk about his aha moment when he realized about the injustices that black people have to face here in America. Yes. Also, you know, we are going to do front page news. And since we're talking about injustices, we're going to talk about Jussie Smollett because this was really sad. This really hurt my heart because I've done several events with him. He's been up here on The Breakfast Club.

We watched him on Empire. Really a great person. And the fact that we live in a country where people still think like this and are this disgusting, we'll discuss that on page news also. Alright, it's the world's most dangerous morning show. It's Wednesday! Guess what day it is?

Guess what day it is? Humpday! Let's start the show. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. It's cold outside.

I just want to tell everybody, give yourself extra time. A lot of schools are opening late. It's nasty out there. I could even speed. My daughter's school got canceled this morning. Canceled, really? Yes, sir. They sent me the text message on the way in.

But I already had her not going today anyway because a bunch of kids at our school got the flu. Like literally like 13 kids are at home because of the flu. So I was like, oh, well, you're staying home the rest of the week. My daughter had the flu and we actually didn't know. We just thought she was sick. She wasn't eating. And we took her to the hospital and they said she actually was coming off of the flu. So we were very lucky.

So it works out for her because she won't be missing a day because they canceled school today anyway. There you go. Well, let's get into some front page news. What are we talking about here? Well, we were talking about the weather. As you said, it is freezing outside. It's extreme weather. If you have a flight, some flights have been canceled.

They said there's about 2,700 flights that were canceled. A lot of them were going in and out of Chicago airports. Even Amtrak's not going to Chicago right now. They're saying the weather is so extreme in Chicago. Now this weather is going to affect so much of our population. 72% of the continental U.S. population will see those temperatures drop below freezing over the next few days.

So that affects a lot of us. We said the weather's so bad, even the U.S. Postal Service is not going to be going out as well. So just make sure you check your flights. I know people are flying to Atlanta. Just make sure. You got a flight. How's your flight?

So far, it's fine. So far, so good. Yeah, so far, so good. I'm leaving today. It's like, what does negative 70 degrees feel like? I don't want to know. With the wind chill factor. And be careful with frostbite.

They said you can get frostbite in just minutes. So in a lot of places, just make sure you are bundled up. Keep your hands bundled up, your feet, your ears, everything. I had a show in Denver and it was negative 50. And you couldn't breathe. Like walking, you couldn't breathe. It felt like your breath was frozen. Every time you tried, it's like it was, I'm not a smoker,

but I would take it as somebody that smoked a lot and just ran up the stairs and really couldn't catch their breath. And that got to be a different level of shrinkage, right? Like, very humbling. I didn't check. I wasn't thinking about my shrinkage. Why is everything about you shrinkage, bro? I'm just saying, I got to be very humbling.

I'm not thinking about my penis when it's that cold. Very humbling. All right, now let's talk about Jussie Smollett. This was released at Star From Empire. And he's openly gay. He also plays a gay character on the show Empire. And according to sources, they're saying that he was going down to get a sandwich from Subway. He was hungry.

And that's when he was brutally attacked. Now, this attack happened by, according to the police department in Chicago, they said that he was going to go out and they were yelling homophobic slurs at him. They recognized him from Empire. They had MAGA hats on. They screamed, this is MAGA country. They had MAGA hats on? Oh no, actually they were wearing ski masks and they said, this is MAGA country. This is what they were screaming at him.

They said, aren't you that? And they yelled out a gay slur. Obviously pre-planned. On Empire. Obviously pre-planned. They were waiting for him, which is so sad. It could have been pre-planned. They put a for him, which is so sad. It could have been pre-planned. He just landed. They put a rope around his neck. Who carries bleach with them?

Like, who walks around with bleach? I don't know. You know what I mean? It's like nobody walks around with bleach. Who walks around with a noose? That's what I'm saying. That's what I said. They was probably waiting on him pre-planned.

But they said he had just landed, though. So he just landed, went to the subway at like 2 in the morning. I don't know. I think they followed him home. I think he was waiting at his house or something. Maybe. They were wearing ski masks. That's so crazy, man.

And, you know, you have been getting all kinds of death threats and letters saying you will die, black gay slur word. And that letter was sent eight days ago

to the Fox Studios in Chicago. Now, here is what Lee Daniels had to say. Jussie, you are my son. You didn't deserve, nor anybody deserves, to have a noose

put around your neck, to have bleach thrown on you, to have a noose put around your neck, to have bleach thrown on you, to be called die, or whatever they said to you. It starts at home, yo. We have to love each other, regardless of what sexual orientation we are. And no racist can come in and do the things that they did to you. Hold your head up, Jesse. It's just another day in America. I'll tell you something, man. 2019,

this story sounds unbelievable, especially being that it's in Chicago. I can't believe that. MAGA country now... If it was in the South, I would say it sounds about right, but hate crimes have been on the rise in most major cities. It just sounds like something you would see in a movie, on a TV show, but sadly, it's not. It's real life. So, I'm sending positive energy to Jesse, and I hope the people who did that to you

get shot. Alright, well, that is your Front Page News, and we'll be talking more about this this you get shot. Alright, well that is your front page news, and we'll be talking more about this this morning and letting you know any details that we might have to give us more information on who these disgusting people were that would do something like this. Shout out to the OG Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey left a message.

Steve Harvey said, we with you, brother, and whatever you want to do, we gonna do. He said, take it how you want to take it. Whatever you want to do, we can do. Talked to my guy Steve, take it how you want to take it. Whatever you want to do, we can do. Talked to my guy, Steve, a couple days ago. My guy. All right. Well, get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. If you're upset, you need to vent, hit us up right now. Maybe you had a bad night. It's too cold this morning. Or you just want to vent a little bit. Phone lines are wide open. The number again is 800-585-1051. Or if you feel blessed, you want to spread some positivity, hit us up now.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. 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? What's up, Envy? What's up, Trav? Hey, Trav. Hey, girl. What's up, boo? How you doing, boo. Hey, girl. What's up, boo? How you doing, boo?

Good. How are you? I'm doing good. Char. Hi, sis. You sound mad at me. What'd I do? Char.

I felt shade just now. That was a little shade. That did feel shady. I'm still not talking to you from last week, Charlamagne, when you called J. Cole. The Tim Duncan of rap. I don't even want to talk about it. I don't even want to talk about it. John Moe, can you please fart on Charlamagne?

Literally. That sounds like sexual harassment, Drama. You better not fart on me. All right? Keep your mind away from me, Drama. All right? Listen, though, man, I just want to just call real quick. Shout out to Jussie Smollett.

Everybody knows the story by now. You know, he was attacked outside a subway by a MAGA hat wearing, homophobic, slurred, spewing white men. Well, we don't know if he was wearing a MAGA hat. Well, no. The guys had on ski masks, according to reports. Wait, so where did the MAGA hat come from? No, they said that he said this is MAGA country.

MAGA country, yeah. Oh, got you, got you, got you. Well, I'm just glad Jussie is okay. And, you know, he didn't end up a hashtag. Youedly, yeah. Well, I'm just glad Jussie's okay. And he didn't end up a hashtag. Thank God for that, that he didn't end up another hashtag. He didn't end up dead. They didn't do whatever they were trying to do to him.

And hopefully the people who did that to him get shot. And I'm just reading through the comments on certain blogs, and I just see people divided, whether it was racism or whether it was homophobia. It was a hate crime on a black gay man. That's the only thing you need to know. And just like all my black men and my black women, even with the story

of a black woman who said she got raped on Instagram Live, like, I don't care what your sexuality or your preference is. At this point, if you black,

we just have to protect each other. We got to look out for each other. You're right. Absolutely right. Me personally, I keep, well, not me personally because it's illegal to have it, but you should at least keep mace and a razor on you, something like this at this point because you don't know. These people are crazy, man.

You got to have something on yourself to make sure that you protect it. Trav, can I ask you a question? What's up? What else do you keep on you to b**** off in somebody's face? Stop it. Why do you always have to flirt with Trav? I'm not flirting. I asked Trav a question. What's up? What else do you keep on you to b**** off in somebody's face? Stop it. Why do you always have to flirt with Trav? I'm not flirting. I asked Trav a question.

It's the way you ask things. You took Trav's tasty cakes last time, and now you ask it about what was... I just simply asked him, he got mates, but what else do you have to put in somebody's face? I'm sorry to hear you this morning, Solomon. Goodbye. You keep trying, Trav. All right, Trav. That's my guy. I love Trav. Keep trying, Trav. All right, Trav. That's my guy.

I love Trav. All right. Keep trying, Trav. Don, what up, Don? What's up, CJ? Good morning, Anthony. Good morning. What's up, Charlamagne?

What's up, my brother? Hey, man. Man, it's cold as hell down here in Miami, bro. It's cold in Miami? Yeah, yeah. Let me go check the temperature in Miami to see what y'all call cold. Three days in a row, man. I'm tired? Yeah, yeah. Let me go check the temperature in Miami to see what y'all call cold. Three days in a row, man. I'm tired of this, man.

Let me see what temperature is in Miami. It's 59 degrees in Miami right now. It's 61. The tires are freezing, man. That is not freezing. And the high is 71 today. Beat it, my guy. I can't believe you had a nervous breakdown.

What's wrong with you? I'm sorry. You know what? It's 21 degrees right now in New York. The low't believe you had a nervous breakdown. What's wrong with you? You know what? It's 21 degrees right now in New York. The low going to be 6 degrees today. You talking about cold? 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. It's 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. Jay, what up?

Yo, good morning, man. It's Jay out of Atlanta, man. How y'all doing this morning? What's happening? Envy. Hey. Hey, I just want to say why I'm blessed, man. Super Bowl week down here in Atlanta.

I got a bunch of events planned. It's going to be real live, man. You a party promoter or a scammer? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. My fault. Word. Okay, well, enjoy. You know, the only... The only thing that scares me about Atlanta

is it's going to be so many people in that town. It's going to be so much traffic. I hope every club and every venue is packed, but it's going to be a hard one, man. Pause. Oh, yeah. All the clubs are going to be so much traffic. I hope every club and every venue is packed, but it's going to be a horrible, man. Pause. Yo, yeah. All the clubs

are going to be lit, man. It's going to be cold at night in Atlanta. It's going to be like 20 degrees. Yeah, but today is the last day. It's going to be in the 20s or whatever.

For the rest of the week, it's going to push up to the 50s, so we should have people up this weekend. Yeah, but it's beautiful. It'll be beautiful if it's cold down there

in Atlanta, man, because all them black people are going to have their furs on and their long shirlings. Yeah, it's going to be fly, man. You know what I'm saying? Y'all coming down? Y'all coming down? Nah, hell no.

Me and you will be down there. I'll be there today, actually. All right, I'll see y'all in traffic then, man. Yeah, all right, bro. Emily! Hi, good morning. Happy birthday! Happy birthday, Emily.

It's actually my boyfriend's birthday. I wanted to call in and wish Alex a happy birthday today. Happy birthday, Emily. It's actually my boyfriend's birthday. I wanted to call in and wish Alex a happy birthday today. Happy birthday, Alex. Happy birthday, Alex. I don't know him. You don't know him? We listen to you guys every day on the podcast app, so he'll be listening to this this afternoon. He's going to lose his mind. Alex, thank you for

listening every day, but I still don't know you. Happy birthday, Alex. Alright, thanks, guys. Hope you all stay warm today. Alright, Emily. Can I say why I'm stressed this morning? Why are you stressed? I forgot my phone at home. Good. That's good. But I have to leave and go to Atlanta after I leave here. Let me tell you something. I kind of need my phone. You see this book right here?

It's called Digital Minimalism. Last chapter I read last night was called Spend Time Alone. One of the first practices of spending time alone is leaving your phone at home. I'm not alone. I'm with you guys. Yeah, she needs the value of solitude.

We have solitude deprivation. Sometimes you need to be alone. You don't need to be connected. I'm not alone. What are you talking about? I'm not alone. I'm at work. Well, I'm just saying, practice.

What does that say, Yee? Practice. Practice. Leave your phone at home. Leave your phone at home, then. Yeah, put your phone away. I do a lot. All right, well, put your phone away, too.

Listen, I checked my screen time this week. For Instagram, 35 minutes. Leave your phone at home. I do. I can't leave my phone at home. I got kids. Michelle. DJ Envy, what's up?

What's up, Michelle? Get it off your chest, mama. Okay, I just want to say I'm blessed. I love you guys. I'm so excited to be on the air. But DJ Envy. Yes, ma'am. I am so, so mad want to say I'm blessed. I love you guys. I'm so excited to be on the air. But DJ Envy, I am so, so mad at you. Why? Yesterday, you

totally watched Charlamagne Hanging. Totally. Totally watched what? You left him hanging. How you left me hanging? Uh-oh. Charlamagne, I mean, DJ Envy, you, a whole bunch of podcasts ago, you were saying, oh, I want my daughter, Madison, to be with a black boy. Totally. And then yesterday, you were saying, oh, I want my daughter, man, to be with a black boy.

Totally. And then yesterday, you just totally, totally switched up. No, I never said I wanted my daughter with a black boy on any podcast. First of all, stop saying black boy. Yeah, that's a black young man. Black young man. Okay? I said I want my daughter with anybody that'll treat her happy.

That's what I said. Treat her well. Yeah, treat her well. I didn't say anything about I want her to be with a black man. It was the wrong podcast you're listening to. Wrong Envy. DJ Envy, it was you. I commented with you.

Can you pull up the audio and send it to us? Yeah, he even posted a picture with my daughter going out with a white guy. I know. He didn't leave me hanging, though. That's his opinion. I want my daughter to be happy, too, but I just like black love. I think with the dismantling of the black family in America, I just like to see black husbands, black wives, black kids.

Yeah, we all love black love, but I don't care who my daughter is. No, and I totally agree with you, Charlamagne. Totally agree. But DJ Envy, I just did not feel yesterday. I'm going to pull it up. Pull it up. I'm going to have to call that. Send it to us.

All right. I love y'all. I'm from Detroit. See y'all later. And that podcast you're talking about was on November. That was when my daughter went out with a white young man, and I said I didn't have a problem with it. Why didn't you say white boy?

You said black boy. She said black boy. Oh. Black out with a white young man, and I said I didn't have a problem with it. Why didn't you say white boy? You said black boy. She said black boy. Oh. Black young man, white young man. Initially, y'all said black boy. Can you guys stop? No, we said black young man. I need my phone, because I don't want to hear this.

I'm going to call you. I hope you ain't got your phone. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. Nayee, we got rumors on the way? Yes, we'll be talking about the Wendy Williams show. What is the plan for that show right now?

We'll tell you what star is taking over the duties in the meantime while she's trying to get it together. All right, we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get to these rumors. Let's talk Nick Cannon. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. All right. Well, Nick Cannon, first of all, is going to be taking over Wendy Williams' duties for her show on February 4th, 5th, and 6th. We already told you that Wendy Williams' family has announced that she's recovering from her fractured shoulder. She's been in the hospital as a result of symptoms from her Graves' disease. And the staff does want to get back to work, so everybody's hoping that she's well. They said the mood at the set is good.

They want Wendy to get better, but in the meantime, that's one of the fill-ins. Did she ever say how she fractured her shoulder? No. No. She has not. She hasn't spoken anything better, but in the meantime, that's one of the feelings. Did she ever say how she fractured her shoulder? No. No. She has not. She hasn't spoken anything. She hasn't said anything,

I don't think. Yeah, she's, I mean, you know, it's been, this has been ongoing since she fractured her shoulder in December, and then she was slurring her words on the air. She said it was the painkillers,

and she was taking those painkillers to treat her fracture. That's right, Nick. Well, Nick, you go in there and you wear that turban and scare them white people in the daytime, okay? Well, it's interesting you say that because Nick Cannon has an interview with guest RZA Islam.

Now, RZA Islam is a humanitarian. He's also a soldier under the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. He's an educator, an activist, and they were discussing black men and white women. Now, here is what Nick Cannon had to say about dating white women. White women are looked at as success because in America, we see a white woman. I couldn't have you. My daddy couldn't have you.

My granddaddy couldn't have you. I would get killed even looking at you. People, if they thought I whistled at you, they would murder me. So now, if I play for the NBA, I want them all. And I could afford them all. And I can afford them all. That's what they're thinking. Nick, gotta stop. That's such an old, outdated way of thinking.

That's the zoot suit conk era mentality. That's an 80s mentality. We really gotta stop pushing narratives that have clearly changed in our society. We're so caught up on what was, we're not paying attention to what is. I told y'all before, if you go to blackdemographics.com, 85% of all black men have a black wife and 93% of black women have

black husbands. And if you want to talk about athletes and entertainers, just look at 2019. LeBron got a black wife. Kevin Hart got a second black wife. Jay-Z got a black wife. Chris Paul got a black wife. Denzel Washington got a black wife. Dwyane Wade got a black wife. Michael Dick got a black wife. Let's hear what his guest from the Nation of Islam

had to say in response. The black woman who has been there for us the whole damn time, who was there when we were getting lynched, who was there for us when we were getting whipped

every day, who was there for us to heal our wounds, to give us consolation of mind, to bring us peace and quiet of mind, to help us to get through another day.

If you can give up on a black woman so easily, you don't deserve no other woman because you have demonstrated that you can't give enough love to the number one who needs it the most. Morris Chestnut got a black wife. Will Smith got a black wife. Boris Kojo got a black wife.

Ella Kojo got a black wife. Yeah, I don't know that having a white wife is really a symbol of success. They used to be. Listen, there's a fact. The zoot suit conk era mentality. Yes. But the narrative has totally changed in 2019. All right. And since you brought up LeBron, let's talk about what LeBron has done for Octavia Spencer. They worked on the biopic about Madam C.J. Walker, who is America's first black self-made millionaire.

At the Sundance Film Festival, she was discussing how LeBron actually intervened to help her negotiate her deal for Madam CJ. She said, we need all our male counterparts to be in the fight with us. And he intervened to make sure that she was going to get the pay that she deserved. Absolutely. And, you know, Octavia Spencer has been very vocal about that as well. All right. Now let's talk about JLo. I don't know if you guys have seen how incredible that she looks.

How can you not notice? But I'm going to tell you what she just did because she just did a 10-day no sugar, no carbs diet challenge. So that's why she's extra abs, muscles, and all of that. And she posted a picture, which Diddy liked. And A-Rod had to check him after that. He did? Yeah. You didn't see that?

No. What did he say? Watch yourself, young man. OMG with the hard eyes. Where's J-Lo walking with that crop top on? That was not New York. No, LA, I'm sure. Definitely did? Yeah. You didn't see that? Nah, what'd he say? Watch yourself, young man. OMG with the hard eyes. Where's J-Lo walking with that crop top on? That was not New York City. No, LA, I'm sure.

Definitely not New York City. Definitely not New York City. It's not in Minnesota. It's not in Chicago. It's not in Detroit. All right. So anyway, she tried to actually recruit

a bunch of people to join her in this 10-day no carbs, no sugar challenge. Wait, what did A-Rod say? Did he say, oh my gosh,

heart, heart, heart? What did A-Rod say? He said, yes, he said gosh, heart, heart, heart, what did A-Rod say? He said, yes, he said something like, I'm a lucky guy. Oh yeah, absolutely. That's all you can say. Watch yourself, Diddy.

Yeah, relax, I see you. I think Diddy didn't say nothing but wow with some hard eyes. Don't say wow. He said OMG. OMG, yeah, if Diddy and J-Lo

hadn't have dated, we wouldn't have been looking at it like nothing. Yes, we would have. We would have looked at it regardless. And if I'm A-Rod, I'm looking at it

the same way. Stay in your lane. J-Lo, first of all, we just heard Diddy complaining about being too it regardless. And if I'm A-Rod, I'm looking at it the same way. Stay in your lane. J-Lo, first of all, we just heard Diddy complaining about being too fat to drive in a Rolls Royce Phantom with his shirt off. J-Lo out here with abs. If he wants to get J-Lo's attention, he should do the no sugar, no carbs challenge. Yes, he should. I'm sure he'll do it, too. I'm sure he'll do it.

No sugar, no carbs, no Ciroc for 30 days. We should try that. I'd do that now. No sugar, no carbs? Absolutely. Only thing is, I definitely eat a lot of fruits. Fruit got a lot of sugar. I mean, I do too.

But it's natural sugar. It's natural sugar, right. But you just can't overdo it. All right. So they talked about the side effects too. And they said there's bad breath, leg cramps. According to medical professionals, you got to make sure you eat enough vegetables, drink enough water, and a low-carb diet.

Because if you don't, you won't be able to poo-poo. So anyway, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right. Thank you, Ms. Yee. Now, when we come back, we got front page news. What are we talking about? Yes, we are going to be talking about the weather, of course. Also, I was telling you yesterday about how you can actually do that group FaceTime to call somebody.

And even if they don't pick up, you can hear them and start talking. But we'll tell you what happened now with Apple. Okay, we'll get into that when we come back. Keep it locked. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. I can't stand him, man. He has to be stopped.

Why did our intern just make it rain on me with honey packets? She threw honey at you? Yeah, she just threw a bunch of honey packets at me. But did you like it? I mean, I'm putting it in my tea. There you go. All right. Well, morning, everybody.

We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get into some front page news. Yes, first let's talk about this weather. The weather is awful right now, so you got to be really careful if you're traveling this weekend. There's been over 2,700 flights so far that have been canceled, especially in the Chicago area. They're saying in Chicago Amtrak's not even running,

so you know it's cold. So just make sure you check out what's happening with your flight. They're saying in Minnesota it's going to be negative 70 with the wind chill factor. I read yesterday that 14 homeless people died in Chicago. I'm sure.

I'm sure a lot of people will probably die. It's so cold. It is freezing out there. Right, so officials are warning there could be almost instant frostbite as temperatures in the region

are getting below zero. So just be super careful when you're going out. Make sure you're bundled up. If you don't have to go out, it's a good time to stay in. Put on your big coat. All right.

We know your wife told you that this morning. Told me to put my long coat on. Did she tell you? Yes. I said, it's not about length. But he didn't put it on. She said, I know. I'm married to you.

All right. Now, let's talk about Jussie Smollett. Empire star Jussie Smollett. Now, Chicago police are investigating the attack. Now, they're saying that he did get some type of letters that were mailed to Empire earlier in the week and those were some threats made in the form of a letter

toward him. And now they're investigating what is possibly a hate crime. He was in Chicago early Tuesday walking outside around 2 a.m. and then someone started shouting racial and homophobic slurs at him. That's when two men attacked him. They poured an unknown chemical substance on him, which they possibly say

could be bleach, and wrapped a rope around his neck, according to Jussie Smollett. He told the police, they told the police that there was bleach on him, possibly, and that they yelled out MAGA country and the rope was still around his neck when he was found, according to officials.

He did do a follow-up interview where he confirmed the MAGA country. Some people were saying that didn't happen. He was found? I thought he walked to the hospital. Yeah, they said when they found him, he still had a rope around his neck. There's so many different stories. Yeah, but he did give that statement to the police. He did say that the suspects did yell out MAGA country. Now, authorities do have surveillance images of him inside of the Subway restaurant before the attack,

but they don't have any video of the assailants. He was treated at the hospital. They are taking this investigation very seriously, and they're treating it as a possible hate crime. Question, why do they keep saying possible hate crime? Because they're still investigating. Yeah, but if he said that he got attacked and they yelled gay and racial slurs, isn't that a hate crime? Like, why is it possible? Like, I don't get it.

I mean, I guess it's early. A crime did happen, right? It just happened yesterday, yeah. A crime happened, so. So why is it a possible hate crime? Like, why is it possible? Like, I don't get it. I mean, I guess it's... I mean, the crime did happen, right? Yeah, crime happened, so... Why is it a possible hate crime? If he said that's what it was, that's what it was, right? Now, here is what Lee Daniels had to say. Jesse, you are my son. You didn't deserve, nor anybody deserves, to have a noose put

around your neck, to have bleach thrown on you, to be called die, f***, n***a, or whatever they said to you. It starts at home, yo. We have to love each other, regardless of what sexual orientation we are. And no racist can come in and do the things

that they did to you. Hold your head up, Jesse. It's just another day in America. Listen, man, this sounds like something you would see in a movie, on a TV show, but sadly, it's real life. So, send positive energy to Jesse, and I hope the people who did that to him get shot. And Lee Daniels is right. It does start at home. Because,

you know, yesterday when I was, uh, I dropped my daughter off at cheerleading competition, and I was going on my way to the gym, and I had on some sweatpants and a hoodie and a camouflaged 10 deep jacket. You know, you dress like that to go to the gym. So, I'm in the gym, and I take a sip of water, and it's these two young white kids. Like, young. I'm talking about six or seven. a sip of water and it's these two young white kids, like young.

I'm talking about six or seven, two young white boys. And he goes, I think I see a criminal. Talking about you? Yes. And I'm like, I know I just hear what I think I heard. So he said it again to his little friend. So I said, yo, bro, all black people are not criminals. All right.

Okay. Whoever taught you that is teaching you wrong. And then I gave him a high five. And then he goes, oh, I just got a high five. Wow. So it changed just like that. But it does start at home because somebody is teaching that little boy that. How do they know you steal from Target?

Shut up. Because, I mean, you are a criminal. You do steal from Target. You know what? It'd be your own people. You know, because they were kind of right. It'd be your own people. Think about it.

It'd be your own people. I mean, if you steal, you're a criminal, right? Didn't he say you shoplift? Yes, I do. So you're a criminal. He was right. That young man was right. That's not either here. That young man was right.

That's not either here. He's seen a criminal. That's probably why he knows you. Let's just get a breakfast. There goes that criminal. There goes that criminal. Be your own people. All right.

And just so you know, Apple has disabled group FaceTime. So no more of those Trying to listen How about we disable this group Can we disable this group No you're criminal Let's disable this group How about you stop stealing

You're criminal Alright I'm Angela Yee And that is your front page news Give him a high five I just got a high five For a criminal That's what Bobby said

Alright When we come back When we come back We have co-owner Of the Sixers Michael Rubin Will be joining us We'll kick it with him When we come back Michael Rubin If you don't the Sixers. Michael Rubin will be joining us. We'll kick it with him when we come back. Michael Rubin, if you don't know who that is,

that's one of the rich white guys that be with Meek Mill. Okay, co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers. He's not a criminal. Maybe it's the Michael Rubin's daughter, Robert Kraft. He probably is a criminal. That's probably how he became a billionaire. We'll find out. All right, when we come back, it's the Breakfast Club.

Come on. DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Might be the richest person that's ever been in the room. I think on. DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God, we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Might be the richest person that's ever been in the room. I think so.

I think so. I hope not, actually, for you guys. Why? Why? I want to be the poorest guy that keeps doing better and better. Nah.

The streets say you're a billionaire billionaire. Like a billionaire billionaire. Like a billionaire billionaire. Like a big B. Michael Rubin, first of all. Yeah, Michael Rubin, yeah. Not Net Worth billionaire,

like real life liquid billionaire. Any truth to these rumors? You know, I'll Michael Rubin, yes. Not Net Worth billionaire, like real-life liquid billionaire. Any truth to these rumors? You know, I'll talk about just about anything, but Net Worth is definitely not where I'm going to start. How's that for you? You know I want to start because you're... That's not how I want to make my name is based on... It's not a start, dude.

Yeah. Don't worry, Charlamagne's what we call a bird. He likes to talk about... No, I like success stories. That's all. I love success stories. I like good American success. Yeah, of course.

Let's talk about that, how you started, because your story is really inspiring. So you started out. Could you let him tell the story? I'm going to tell it. No, I'm going to. You started out. I'm giving him the story. He was going to tell the story.

Go ahead. Can you start off your story as a kid, how you got into the ski shopping? Yeah. Well, I can tell you this. I was like a horrible athlete. I was a terrible student. It's like Charlemagne. Yeah.

Which part? The athlete or the student? Both. Got it. Okay. The only thing I was a terrible student. It's like Charlemagne. Yeah. Which part? The athlete or the student? Both. Got it. Okay. The only thing I was good at was business. And I was good at it from the time I was a little kid. So like I literally when I was eight years old, I had like three different businesses. I would go like door to door. It was snowing.

I would get five kids to work for me. I'd literally sell the snow shoveling. I love those kids, by the way. I was hustling. Did you shovel the snow or you had them shovel it and you were in charge? No, I tell you I was a terrible athlete already. You don't have to be an athlete to shovel snow. I wasn't strong. I would have had a heart attack even at that age.

You had no muscle endurance. I didn't have enough muscle endurance. I was weak. But I'll tell you what, I could sell those doors really quickly. It snowed and we could do thousands of dollars in business as an eight-year-old and I had all the kids working for me. It was very efficient. And where Where were you from Pennsylvania? Yeah Okay. Yeah, so every winner you would cake up when it snowed

I went to a ski camp one year and I came back and this is really how the real business started I learned how to tune skis and a friend of mine said like hey you love business It's really the only thing you're good at you love skiing once you start a little ski tuning shop in your parents basement I did that when I was 12. And then by the time I was 14, I actually opened my first real retail ski store. It was about 10 minutes

from my parents' house. At 12? At 14 years old. Yeah, I started in my basement at 12. By the way, when I was 13, I did $25,000 in my parents' basement. Damn.

No overhead. No overhead. Made 15 grand. Did you pay taxes? That's a great question. Hold on. Let me great question. Hold on. Let me say this. Hold on.

Let me say this. On the grounds that it could incriminate me, and I don't know, I'm not going to answer that question. I thought from seven years and earlier they couldn't really do that. I don't think so, but still, me, they may come after me, and I really don't know. It was, I mean, I hate to admit it, I'm 46 now, so it was like 33 years ago. So when I was 14, I opened my first ski shop and being a 14 year old owning a ski shop You get a lot of media attention

So that helped drive the business and I did like a hundred twenty five thousand dollars in business and made a nice profit And then I got a little bit cocky by the time I was 16 I had a bigger ski shop and at the end of the season didn't snow. So I was literally 16 years old I had two hundred thousand000 in bills. I had $120,000 in inventory. A brand new car. That's the story. I've always come out of late. I actually did buy a Porsche as a 15-year-old, even though I wasn't allowed

to drive it yet. Jesus Christ, you got a lot of in Pennsylvania then. I mean... With a Porsche. I need a couple drinks before we start talking about that. Hold on. I got it perfect. When were you going to school? So I had the ski shop. So now I'm literally basically bankrupt.

And in the spring of when I was 16 years old, I literally got sued probably 100 times. They sued a 14-year-old? They never knew how old I was. I was 16 at this point. Yeah, 16 years old. So what the hell were you getting sued for? I owed $200,000 to like 150 vendors. And each of the vendors would sue me because I didn't have the money to pay the bills.

So now I think I'm going bankrupt. And I hire a bankruptcy lawyer. And the bankruptcy lawyer is going through this whole conversation. He says, by the way, how old are you? I'm actually 16. He says, well, that's the best news I've ever heard because you're not allowed to owe money at 16. And so I ended up getting very lucky. It's the first time I ever went to my parents to borrow money

and I went to my dad and said, hey, I can get out of this bankruptcy problem. I need to borrow $38,000, which was a ton of money. $38,000? $38,000, ton of money. And my dad's like, look, it's a ton of money, but if you agree to go to college, I'll lend you the money. Two weeks later, I find another ski shop that went bankrupt.

$200,000 of inventory that got sold for $13,000 at an auction. So I bought the ski shop. I bought all the inventory for $13,000. I said, Dad, great idea. I just bought this $200,000 of inventory for $13,000. He looks at me and says, there is no chance I'm giving you another penny. You got yourself into this mess. Go figure it out.

At 16? At 16. Wow. So I started going to all my neighbors. And I found a neighbor who said, I'll lend you the $13,000 because you're going to make a lot of money from this. What area is this where a neighbor just lent you $13,000?

This is great. This is great. He says, I want $1,000 a week interest. Holy cow. Three weeks later, I sold maybe a quarter of the inventory and paid back all the money plus the $3,000 interest.

Wow. And what that giant failure did was it taught me into a brand new business. By the time I was 21 years old, I was the largest wholesaler of close-up footwear in the world, doing $100 million, making $10 million a year. Damn. And I tell you this story because I saw death in its eyes as a 16-year-old, thought I was going bankrupt,

and then that got me into the close-up business, and I became the biggest close-up seller of footwear in the world. Were you born into money? I grew up in a very middle-class family. I mean, the house that my parents bought that they lived in my entire life was a $42,000 house, so it's a very middle-class family. But if you just join us, we are talking with co-owner of the 76s, Michael Rubin. Now, tell us about this GSI Commerce.

What company was that? Because you started that company. Tell us about that and how you did that. Yeah, so after I nearly went bankrupt and I built this pretty big business buying and selling excess footwear, that led me to basically, I then had a couple of footwear brands in my early 20s.

And then the internet thing came in 1998. I knew nothing about it. And we were a public company. We had about a $200 million value of the company. And there was one person who was an analyst who actually followed our company. He called me and said, hey, Michael, what are you doing about this internet thing? So I did what any entrepreneur would do. I started calling the big accounts from my existing business. I called Mitchell Modell at Modell's. I called the Sports Authority. I called Dick's Sporting Goods. And I

called all the big sporting goods retailers. I said, what are you guys doing about this internet thing? They said, you know, we think it's a really good opportunity, but we have no idea how to approach it. Like you're young. If you have some internet solution, bring it to me. And so I basically, having no experience, I basically started GSI Commerce and I went and I got the five biggest sporting goods retailers to give me all of their e-commerce rights over long-term deals. And that's how we started GSI Commerce, which then, over time, we started to work with lots of other retailers. So it became the biggest infrastructure for big retailers and big brands to run their e-commerce business. And it became a pretty big company.

I sold it in 2011 to eBay. It was a public company. They bought it for $2.4 billion. So that's how you made your first initial huge, huge money, I guess? Yeah, absolutely. Now let's talk about the 76ers. How did you become co-owner of the 76ers? How did you do that after

you sold GSI? We sold GSI to eBay in spring of 2011 and Josh Harris and Dave Blitzer put a deal together to buy the team at the same period of time. Coincidentally, the owner of the Sixers, Ed Snyder, was a terrific individual who started the Flyers and was responsible for the Sixers. He was my next-door neighbor.

So he sold the team to Josh Harris and David Blitzer, and they were looking for strategic partners that could really kind of add some value to the business. Bring the 76ers back. And for me, my primary business then and today is still Fanatics, which is the largest retail in the world of licensed sports merchandise. So I've been in business with the NBA from 2000, you know, really from 99 for my old company. So I knew David Stern and Adam Silver really well.

And the truth, the real story was I called David Stern. I said, hey, you know, I met Josh Harris and David Blitzer. You know, I'm thinking about, you know, kind of doing this with them. We're having this conversation. What do you think? And David said to me, you're the only one I know. If there's ever an issue, I know to call you. So I want you involved with this. And that's

how I got involved with the Sixers. It was a combination of Josh and David putting the deal together and David Stern telling me he thought it was a good idea for me to do it. We have more with Mike Rubin when we come back. Co-owner of the Philly 76ers. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have co-owner of the 76ers, Michael Rubin, in the building. How did you meet Meek Mill, first of all? How did you and Meek Mill establish this relationship? So we were at the All-Star Game maybe five years ago. And my daughter at that point was a fan of Nicky, and he and Nicky were sitting next to us.

Who's Nicky? Nicky Minaj. Oh, yeah. I feel the same way, by the way. My fault. So my daughter was just talking to Nicky, and Meek's like, you know, in his way, he's like, who are you?

I'm like, you know, or he's like, oh, you're the Sixers guy. No, no, no, no, no. I'm like, who are you? I'm like, you know, I'm like, he's like, oh, you're the, the Sixers guy. No, no, no, no, no. And I'm like, who are you? And he said, and then within a second, what I loved about me from the moment I met him,

he just started peppering me with business questions. Like, hey, if I want to do this, how would you do that? And if I want to just do this in sports and if I want to put this deal together, in a lot of ways,

he was a similar version of me from a completely different environment. And so he started coming to a lot of our games after we became friendly. And one night, maybe we'd hung out at the games maybe 10 times. And we were at halftime. And I'll remember this for the rest of my life. I said, hey, I'm going with some friends to the Bregada afterwards. Do you want to come?

He said, I'm not allowed. I'm like, do you need permission from your mom? It was literally a sense of, yeah. I said, do you need permission from your mom? I was joking. I was being a wise ass. I'm like, yeah. He's like, no, I'm like, do you need permission from your mom? I said, do you need permission from your mom? I was joking. I was being a wise ass. He's like, no, I'm on probation. I'm like, how's this probation thing work?

I'm not allowed to leave. I'll get arrested. I'm like, what'd you do again? Going back five years ago, he's like, I was charged for pointing a gun. He's like, Michael, if a black person points a gun at multiple cops, they're dead. Period. End of story. And so, you know, they said we were becoming more and more friendly. You know, by the time November 6th of 2017 happened, he'd become one of my 5, 10 closest friends.

So going back to 2017, first he had these two really minor incidents, the pop in the wheelie and the break up the fight in the airport. And so I started to make my own phone calls to find out, is everything he's telling me true? All I was hearing was everyone loves him, but he's got this crazy judge. The first thing I kept getting back, he's done everything he's been asked from a probation perspective. You know, he's well-liked. He's a good guy. Yeah, he's a little bit on wrap time sometimes, but this is a good guy. You know, he's doing lots of charitable things i couldn't hear anything bad about him so now the judge sets a probation hearing he's like michael i'm really nervous about this i'm like do you want me to come he's like you know what i don't want to put you out again like you know but if you have the time yes please if you have

time i don't want to put you out there but so i went down i remember this was probably the moment i remember most of my entire, nothing more than this moment. So I go in the courtroom and now it's supposed to, I think, start at either one or two o'clock. And like 45 minutes later, the judge isn't there. So now I'm like, okay, what is going on? Like, hold on. We had a time. She's not here.

What's going on? She comes in and I watch the probation officer get up. And the probation officer gets up and says like, you know, we've watched Robert Williams develop. He's done everything we ask. We think he's a model probationer. We recommend no sentence. Then the DA gets up. District attorney from Philadelphia recommend no sentence. Now we're like three hours into this thing.

And the judge is literally berating the probation officer. She's screaming at the probation officer. Why? I'm seeing this all firsthand. She's like, you don't know what you're talking about. I've been involved with this case for 10 years. You've only been involved for a short period of time. You don't know what I'm seeing this all firsthand. So you don't know you're talking about I've been involved with this case for ten years You you know, you know, you've only been about for sure pretty time. You don't know what I've been through I'm like, oh I want to do is take my phone out and record it Mm-hmm So now we're three hours into this thing

They take an intermission and we walk to the bathroom and I said like like I was sorry I said to the lawyers right before I'm like, I like I'm assuming everything's fine Like everybody said he should be good. Probation officer and DA both recommended a sentence. The DA said no sentence. The lawyer said, here's the good news. In the history of anything they knew, they've never heard of someone where the judge goes against the probation officer and the DA. They were aligned. So we go to the bathroom like, yo, bro, there's no problem.

You're completely good. There's nothing to worry about. We're going to go to dinner after this. And I walk back in. There's like five cops walking in. So she sits down. First thing she says, I'm sentencing you. Two to walked back in, there's like five cops walking in. So she sits down. First thing she says, I'm sentencing you two to four years to stay in prison. And I literally, I look at Meek and he always wants to be Mr. Tough Guy. His eyes turn pink. You know, there's tears coming

out of his eyes. I have tears coming out of my eyes. And I looked at him, I'm like, I will not stop until you're out of prison and she's off the bench. Wow. And, and by the way, and Jay-Z basically called into this exactly the same thing, like, we're doing this together. Like, I will not stop until he's out of prison. Yep, if you just joined us, we're talking with Michael Rubin, co-owner of the 76ers. Continue, Charlamagne. What was your initial

thought when that happened? My initial thought was that this was a completely crazy judge. My original thing was we started saying, okay, let's look at this judge. So I said, right away, there's something the matter with this judge. This judge is wrong.

This judge is wrong. So we started making a lot of donations to people that were hiring investigators. And now everything I thought was true. We found out that the judge had over 30 individual lawsuits that she had sued people individually. People that she was saying,

I'm a judge, you can't do this, or get out of the apartment that I own, or I'm going to, you know, I'll have you evicted because I'm a judge. We actually found a police officer, current police officer, who was doing construction for her. And I'm surprised the story hasn't come out more. She kept changing what she wanted. And ultimately, the police officer said,

I'm no longer going to, like, you keep changing what you want. I'm not doing it anymore. So she fires the cop from doing the work. She then reports him for breaking into her house and stealing his tools. She then tells someone in her house that she hid the tools off-site. She then was so dumb, she sent an email to the person in writing saying, when you testify, here's what I want you to say. And then we got the computer and got all the information.

So why does she still understand? Because the criminal justice system is broken, and she shouldn't be. And by the way, I don't believe she will be in a year from now. The behavior she's got away with, any of us, including me, would be in prison or jail. Did she try to sue you? I wish she would, because if she did, we could take a discovery from her. She's threatened to sue me multiple times, but she doesn't have the courage to, because she knows the second she sues me that she's going to have 100 lawyers getting discovery from her. Is she's threatened to sue me multiple times, but she doesn't have the courage because she knows the second she sues me that she's going to have 100 lawyers getting

discovery from her. Is she still presiding over me? Michael Money Long. I would love her to sue me. That would be, that would give me great honor. I would, I'd be excited about that. Is she still presiding over Meek's case? I'll fast forward and come back to this in a second. So, so by the way, I did tell you the greatest story of all, Hershey Park. She goes to a legal convention at Hershey Park and in the middle of the night, she wakes up. And apparently, someone's name tag had fallen in the bed. It happened hundreds of times, according to Hershey Park. She said that she had severe trauma from the name tag that was in the bed.

And that she sued Hershey Park because she said PDST. PDST. Whatever, yeah. I can't get my accuracy right. And literally, Hershey Park had never been sued. It had happened hundreds of times. But she said, basically, I'm a judge. And so if you don't pay me, then I'm going to sue you.

And they ended up selling it with her. And by the way, just last year, she got in a car accident. And in her most recent lawsuit, which she filed after all this stuff happened with Meek, which if I were her, I'd be like, I'm not filing a lawsuit when I know there's a bunch of people coming after me. Everybody's watching you. Right. And she said, literally, she couldn't do her job. So it's like, decide, like me. Everybody's watching you. Right. And she said literally she couldn't do her job. So it's like, decide, like, you've either had so much damage from this car accident that you can't do your job and she should have been off the case.

Or you haven't had the damage and you can do your job. But you can't have had tremendous mental damage and also you can do your job at the same time. So originally, I was so totally focused on her improper behavior. Me kept saying to me, I know what you saw is bothering you so much. It's driving you crazy. But I didn't point the gun. I'm telling you, I didn't point the gun. He said to me one day, he's like, get the original gun.

He's like, I promise you, you can prove I didn't point the gun. So I left there and I called him. We got to go back and interview all the original cops. The first cop that got interviewed said, oh, yeah, it was one of the two arresting officers. He never pointed the gun. He was just trying to get rid of it and run away. I'm like, can we get an affidavit?

They're like, yeah, we're drawing an affidavit up right now. Then we find out, wait a second, the whole unit was dirty. The arresting officer, this guy Reggie Graham, was so dirty, he was listed as a cop too dirty to testify. And that was like a secret document that it wasn't. A secret document. They didn't tell us the entire time Meek was going through all these issues. Now it takes us another three months to get him out. All right, we got more with the co-owner of the 76's,

Michael Rubin, in the building. So 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 have co-owner of the 76's, Michael Rubin, in the building.

Charlamagne? How did it change the way you view systemic racism in America? Completely. I was oblivious. I had no clue. And it wasn't because I didn't care. Like, I have so many, I've got the most diverse group of friends of anyone on the planet, but it's just like, I just didn't see it. Like, I was in my own world. Until it affects somebody really close

to you, you probably don't have any idea. Like, you didn't even realize he couldn't travel out of state. None of it made sense, but it didn't hit me until being in that courtroom that day. You know why you're rare? Hold on, hold on. How did you get him out, though? Because you never told how he finally got out.

Well, it was a combination. Well, it was a combination of it was proven that she was a bad and dirty judge. It was proven that he didn't do what he was originally charged of. Then, because we're doing all this work, the Philadelphia Inquirer, give them credit, they discovered their original wrestling officer was on a list that was too dirty to testify. So now you're like, you have one affidavit saying he didn't commit the crime from the other arresting officer. And now Meek, Meek's arresting officer, is on a list that's been on for like 10 years. He should have been out the same day.

And here's the craziest thing of all. His charges should have been dropped. Here's the craziest thing of all. He's still on probation. He's still not over. This guy's got five years left of all. He's still on probation. It's still not over. This guy's got five years left of probation. That's the thing that literally, it makes my like, it makes me so mad.

That's what I mean when I say the charges should have been dropped. Yeah. I got a lot of questions. Like, there's a lot of injustices that happen in this country. Like, that could have shown you systemic racism exists. Why Meek's case in particular? Because I'm sure that you would see these black men get killed at the hands of the police. Because it wasn't, let me, it's completely different if it's one of your closest friends.

If you told me right now that your friend was sick and you needed to do something, I'd send a check. Because that's what I've always done. I've been a check sender. Well, you know, since you asked, Michael. I got you. I got you. But all kidding aside, when someone comes to me with a problem, it's generally like in 99% of the cases, you send a check to help. When you watch one of your closest friends

get royally f***ed over, and you know he can't do anything about it. You have no choice. What did you used to think when you would hear about those cases on the news where an unarmed black man was killed at the hands of the police? What did you think? I didn't think about it. That's the honest answer. I didn't think about it.

I'm in my own world, man. I'm building a multi-billion dollar business. I'm involved with the Sixers. I didn't think about it. It wasn't I didn't think. It's just like I'm in my own world, man. I'm building a multi-billion dollar business. Like I'm involved with the Sixers. I've got a daughter who, you know, needs me less and less in her mind these days, but needs me. So, you know, like I'm focused on my own world. It's like you got blinders on. You know why I respect you, though? It's not the person that doesn't know who the problem is.

It's the person who knows but doesn't care. So it's like now that you know, you're using your privilege to combat a lot of these prejudices you're seeing. Yep, if you just joined us, we're talking with Michael Rubin, co-owner of the 76ers. Continue, Charlamagne. What kind of pushback do you get because of your allegiance with Meek, but also going so hard? Because prison reform is big business.

So a lot of people might think you're messing up their money. In the beginning, everyone was against what we were. Like, I had so many people call me in the beginning and say, like, don't get involved with this. It's going to be bad for your reputation. I'm like, I don't care. Right. And what's bad for your reputation about fighting an unjust system?

I think people are stepping on people's. I mean, listen, I think you're right. But you're stepping on people's money. Private prison is a big business, and you're one of those big business guys. So there's got to be calls behind the scenes like, Mike, come on. I didn't get those calls at all. The calls that I did get was the people who believed

the media that you talked about. Is this not a good guy? But I knew him so well. I knew he was a guy to back. Now, what's your Kevin Hart story? You said you had a great Kevin Hart story. Well, Kevin Hart.

So he comes to... So we were the Sixers in the playoffs. It's closeout night. We're playing the Miami Heats. Game five. Kevin is in Philly. Kevin says,

hey, I want to go see Meek. And they spend a couple hours together. So we're finishing up and Meek says, I'm never getting out of this place. Philly. Kevin says, hey, I want to go see Meek. And they spent a couple hours together. So we're finishing up. And Meek says, I'm never getting out of this place. I said, you know, bro, maybe we can get out tonight. He's like, Michael, stop saying that. I'm never getting out of here.

I said, bro, maybe we're going to be at our game tonight. He says, that is never happening. So now it's two o'clock. We leave. I go back to my office. It's now four o'clock. People come running to my office. The Supreme Court just ordered his release.

I can't even get in touch with him. It's not like I can call him. Like I told you. Right. And so I call Kevin. Kevin was like, it was all me. It was all me. I got him out.

But anyway, we go. And what's become a legendary story now, I was just going to drive and go pick him up. And he'd always said to me, like, I keep having this dream. You land in the helicopter and you pick me up in prison. And this guy's like, you got to pick him up in the he'd always said to me, like, I keep having this dream that you land in the helicopter and you pick me up in prison. And this guy's like, you got to pick him up in the heli. You got to pick him up in the heli. Literally 10 minutes later, we're at the prison.

And sure enough, we pick him up. We fly to the game. He goes in. He's literally, as everyone knows, I mean, this guy's in his prison clothes, running down into, you know, through the tunnel, into the locker room, high-fiving everyone. Someone comes and shaves him, brings them some clothes, and then we win the game, and we're on to the next round of playoffs. What's the Kev story? The Kev story is him being

in prison when Meek is saying, I'm never getting out of here. And Kev is like, have a good attitude. He was part of the whole conversation. It was because of him. Now, before you leave, you've got to tell us about Reform. What initiatives is Reform Alliance launching or planning to launch? Yeah, so Reform, you know, obviously the idea came from everything that we've talked about today

and certainly beyond over needed. We're going to focus 100% on probation and parole. And the reason is there's 6.7 million people in the criminal justice system today. Four and a half million are on probation and parole. Okay, so it's two thirds of the system, but it's the part of the system that people really haven't focused on. And if you think about it, it's what stalked Meek's entire life. And so we want to really fix the probation and parole laws and rules. So we're going to go state by state and work to get laws that make sense. And look, like Jay-Z said at our

press conference last week, and like I've said a hundred times, and Meek said, there are a lot of people that belong in prison, but you know, you need the crime and the time to kind of fit each other. And to me, I think of the four and a half million people on probation and parole, I think you could cut that number in half and have communities equally safe. We want to get a million people out of the criminal justice system in the next five years. So I went out, we raised 50 million bucks to start. That's probably as big as a commitment as you could ever have. I said, hey, I'm writing a big check into this.

Then, you know, Meek agreed right away. Then our next calls were to Jay-Z and Robert, the same moment we started talking about this, they said, yeah, we're in. So now you're starting with Jay-Z, Robert Kraft, Meek Mill, and Michael Rubin. So now we said, okay, who are the other people that could really help us? And we ended up with incredible parties. We have Robert Smith, he's the richest African-American person in the world. Clara Tsai, who just bought the Brooklyn Nets. We have Dan Loeb, who's one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world. Mike Novogratz.

And Mike and Dan, what makes them really special, they've spent a lot of energy on criminal justice reform. So we want to get their expertise into this. So we've got $50 million. We hired Van Jones, our CEO. He's dedicated his life to these issues. And we couldn't be any more committed. I would love to. I mean, you probably can't answer this question because you're not Robert Kraft, but I would love to know how Robert Kraft is pro-Trump when a lot of the policies Jeff Sessions has implemented

are directly fighting against what y'all are fighting for. Yeah, so here's what I can say to you. I may not always agree with Robert. Robert may not always agree with me. He and Trump may not always agree on stuff, but what I can tell you this is for this issue, for reform, it's a bipartisan issue, and what I can tell you this is for this issue, for reform, it's a bipartisan issue. And I got to tell you something, Trump, and I'm not a Trump guy at all, but Trump was a huge advocate to help to get the First Step Act done, which has been the biggest step forward in criminal justice reform history, kind of in our generation. So I got to tell you something, I think Trump actually cares about this issue.

How can regular people get involved, all of us? The first thing is to educate people. The biggest thing is there's so many people that were like me. Until November 6th happened, I had no clue of this issue. I was completely clueless. And so I think being on your show, talking about this today, is the biggest thing. We've got to tell the story about how many people

are unfairly caught in the criminal justice system. And you can always use this outlet. Well, you know, I'm excited to be here. I didn't know a lot about the show before. Meek tells me how much he loves it. I saw you had Kevin on recently, but I gotta tell you something. The biggest thing we need to do is spread the word. We gotta educate people. That is the number one thing we gotta do. Now, about

my sick cousin. Anyway, we appreciate you. We got your sick cousin. We appreciate you for joining us and let you know we have this outlet anytime you need it. So, we're here for you and we're here to help people as well. So, we're gonna come back and talk about those laws we need to get changed because that's one of the biggest things

we need to do because it's going to be state by state, law by law, convincing people to help us. And the 76ers, good luck this season. My Knicks ain't going to be there. So good luck to your 76ers. Thank you.

Well, the Nets will be there. There you go. No, it's all sixes all the time. I don't want to hear about these Nets. Shout out to our Brooklyn Nets, baby. All right. Well, it's Michael Rubin. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. All right, well, let's get to these rumors.

Let's talk Tory Lanez. Listen up. It's just in. All the gossip. Gossip. The rumor report. Gossip. Gossip.

With Angela Yee. It's the rumor report. The Breakfast Club. Well, yesterday we played this snippet of Tory Lanez. He is in a beef with Don Q. He did a diss song called Don Queen, and somehow Dream Doll's name got caught up in it. And here's what he said.

Now, relax, okay? Why are you talking about Dream Doll, I up for free. And now you walk around like somehow you got one up on me. Now relax, okay? Why are you talking about Dream Doll? Well, I love the fact that she clapped back. She did her own diss song. Clap back? Y'all. Dream came with all the artillery and wet the whole block up. I'm not gonna lie, I was impressed.

Everybody got hit. I love the Dream Doll diss track. It's called On Your Head. I put that life in my inventory. Had a meat in my box. Eating my ass. And tried to suck my feet through my socks. This track is called On Your Head. Listen. Get it dreamed up. to my mother again. Only again I ever fucked that one of the threesome with another. Ah! Listen. Get it, Dream Doll.

Drop one of the coupons for Dream Doll, damn it. We're not done. Get another snippet from Dream Doll. Yeah. I put that loose in your lab in your house. You finally got a tour

with Drizzy. Now keep it out of your mouth. You've been begging for attention. Begging for a lynching. You mad, I post a comment to say it in my mention. I was next to your rain to come and get you.

Had the wooden Jesus piece, master splinting. And the worst part is I used to dig this. You was wearing off brands. I had to drip this. You was wearing off brands. I had to drip you. You couldn't even dress. Canadian bum.

I wish I didn't say that. Oh, now you involved. You didn't hit an ad-lib? You didn't hit an ad-lib? No, I couldn't even dress. Canadian bum. We shouldn't say that. Oh, now you involved. You didn't hit an ad-lib? You didn't hit an ad-lib? No, I didn't hit an ad-lib. Drop on the clothes box, Dream Doll. God damn it. You was fronting on Dream Doll yesterday.

I was not fronting on Dream Doll. You said that sales artist? Oh. I wasn't thinking about Dream Doll. Oh, yeah, okay. Well, now you are. Dream Doll bodied Tori Lace. That's right.

Get it, Dream Doll. You want to talk about you? He never texted me. Okay. He never texted me. Yesterday he said, yo, did you hear Dream Doll? She bodied it. First of all, don't say I never text you. That's right. Get it, Dream Doll. You want to talk about you? He never texts me. Okay. He never texts me. Yesterday he said, yo, did you hear Dream Doll? She bodied it. First of all, don't say I never text you.

That's not true. Okay. Not about no damn music. I don't never want to have Beijing between my legs. That's all I know. You left Beijing all between my legs. She thought it was her period. No, she didn't say that.

Yeah, she did. She ain't got no Dream Doll. Carter Scray and that Tory Lanez diss. She did. Got a little graze. Came back with a nuclear bomb. Drop one of Cluey's bombs from Dream Doll. Oh, get a dream doll.

I don't even know. I don't know how Tory Lanez can respond. That right there might make his new headline receiver. All right. Another person that went at Tory Lanez is my son. How did my son get this? Who mentioned my son? His song is called If He Dies, He Dies.

Damn it, Mercy. Damn it. You ain't no street nigger. You ain't never ride around with no heat nigger. You ain't never take no bricks to go meet niggers. You a R&B melody on the beat nigger. A sweet nigger young nigger with an old face. Sad.

You ain't comfortable in your own space. You came in the game hating on Drake. Jealous because he was the man in your home base. Now you on tour with him you did all that just to do a song with him he can rap but

what the fuck is wrong with him he getting his noise whack y'all just gonna go along with him here's the thing about expectation

my song was just somebody pissed him off my song was like I'm joking maybe cause they both from the Bronx but listen here's the thing

about expectation ah maybe Don Q and my son are rappers we know they rap better than Tory Tory can rap but the reason we look at Tory But listen, here's the thing about expectation. Ah, maybe. Don Q and My Son are rappers. We know they rap better than Tory. Tory can rap. Tory can rap.

But the reason we look at Tory and we get excited when he puts out rap records is because we really don't have an expectation, right? No, he can rap. So when I hear Myce do that, I'm like, okay, Myce, you're supposed to rap better than Tory. But Dream Doll, though. Drop one of Clues Bomb for Dream Doll. Dream Doll. Let me hear that Beijing Between the Legs line one more time where she said, I thought it was my period, but it was ache from your hair. She didn't say that.

I put the loose stretcher lab in your house. You finally got a tour with Drizzy. Now keep it out of your mouth. You've been begging for attention, begging for a lynching. You mad, I post a comment to say it in my mention. I put that bass up in your ear. Your brain will come and get you again. Had the wooden Jesus piece, master splinting again.

And the worst part is I used to dig this again. You was wearing off-brands, I had to drip this again. I was a man of glory, had a meat in my box. Eating my ass, I tried to suck my feet through my sock. Don't ever say my name on the record, you trying to get props. Cause the day I feel disrespected, I make you my opps. I put that piece of shit on your head in the bed. Up and down, round and round, had Beijing all in my legs.

And I swore to my mother again. Only again I ever fucked up one of the threesome with another. Maybe that's what it's into. I just heard something disgusting in there. But what part did you hear that was disgusting? She said he tried to suck her feet through her socks. What kind of animal are you, Tori? My God, Tori.

Jesus Christ. No one's ever done that. All right. Well, there you have it. Can we get that song on in the mix, Envy? Goodness gracious, Dream Doll. Maybe some Dream Doll. Talk to me nice.

That's stupid. All I got is the dirty. We got to clean it. Well, clean it. You ever try to suck your feet through your socks? Yeah. You just tried to suck your feet through your socks? I just wanted to see how it felt.

That's stupid. Is that autofillatio? What's wrong with you? All right, I'm Anthony, and that is your rumor reporter. You're a maniac if you try to suck feet through socks. You're a weirdo. He was trying to suck her feet, not his own feet. I know that, but you're still a maniac if you try to suck feet through the socks.

You tried it. Who are you giving your donkey to? He don't even know. He's off to... He doesn't know what's going on. He's thinking about sucking feet through socks. Come on, who are you giving that your donkey to? He don't even know. He's off to... He don't know what's going on. He's been thinking about sucking feet through socks. Come on. Who you giving that damn donkey to?

Oh, this kid from South Carolina named Emmanuel Franklin. He needs to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him. I thought you wanted to give it to Tory Lanez for that. Can we ask people if they've ever sucked feet through socks? Is that a thing? I don't know. I would never eat somebody's socks.

Those socks are walking around the floors. Where is Bond? It's gross. I guess if you eat ass. You did say you eat ass. Some of you eat ass every other day. All right, God. Those socks are walking around the floors. The floor is blonde. It's gross. I guess if you eat ass. You did say you eat ass. Some of you eat ass every other day. All right, God. Donkey of the Day is up next.

Come on. Your ass isn't on the floor. The floor is so dirty. What are you? You're going to scrub the ground? What? Goodbye. Goodbye.

I was born a donkey. It's the donkey of the day. It's the donkey of the day. 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 Wednesday, January 30th,

goes to a 19-year-old man in Sumter, South Carolina, named Emmanuel Franklin. Dropping the clues bombs for my home state, South Carolina. 803-864-843 all day. Now, South Carolina, I need y'all to simmer down. All right, this is the second donkey of the day. South Carolina has gotten in the last four or five days, we're getting a little Florida-ish.

Okay, now everybody relax. All right, Emanuel is 19 years old, and we have to understand that in this era, scamming is at an all-time high. Everybody's scamming and stealing, and you can't trust nobody. It's disgusting. Everybody got a GoFundMe account.

Everybody got a life threat, an emergency. Everybody trying to get you to donate to their cash app because it's somebody sick that they know. Are they sick? Like, you really don't know

who to trust out here. Not your friends, not your family, not the lady you buy Starbucks from every morning. It's nasty in these streets. All for the love of the dollar. And Emmanuel is one of those scammers, okay?

Emmanuel needed money so bad that he decided to scam the one person who would probably be there for him no matter what. Who is that? Who is that in your life? Your mother. Exactly. Your mom, your mother, your old earth,

the vagina from which you came. Let's go to WLTX 19 CBS for the report, please. Deputies have arrested this man because they say he blackmailed his own mother. He is 19-year-old Emmanuel Franklin. Now, deputies say on January 22nd, Franklin calls his mother to believe that he would be killed by kidnappers if she did not pay $130 by putting money inside a mailbox. Franklin reportedly later told officers that he made up this story to get $130 from his mom. He is currently being charged with blackmail. $130.

When I was 19, I could think of so many different things that I could have done to get $130. Number one, get a job. Okay, I've worked at temp services, Taco Bell. I did telemarketing. I worked at warehouses, flower gardens. I knew how to make a little change, okay? I've collected cans to take them to recycling bins.

I've cut grass. And when all else fails, you can always sell crack or a little weed. I'm not encouraging that! I'm simply saying it's a lot of ways to make money that don't include stealing or scamming from your own mother! Okay? Emmanuel, this is crackhead behavior. I don't know if you smoke crack or do any kind of

narcotic, but this is definitely the behavior of someone who likes to smoke fried cocaine. You know that's all crack is, fried cocaine. Black people love to fry things, and that's how crack was invented, but that has nothing to do with this story. Your mother is more than likely the one person who loves you unconditionally on this planet. No matter what you're going through as a man, your mother will always be there for you. You can be a stone cold killer in jail for shooting up a church,

and your mother will still pray for you. All right. Still answer your calls from prison. Still come see your lame ass. Because that's just how a mother loves her child. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in this world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly. All that stands in its path. That's Agatha Christie, by the way. Drop on the clues bombs's Agatha Christie, by the way. Drop on the Clues bombs for Agatha Christie. And for you to pray on that love, for you to pray on your mother's love, Emmanuel, stressing your mama out,

raising her blood pressure, pretending to be kidnapped and held for ransom for $130, I guarantee you, if you would have simply asked your mom for that money and had a legit reason for it, she would have given it to you, even if she didn't really have it to give. And you know your mama don't got it. She's probably getting snap benefits every month to feed your

little ass. And now you're scamming her out of $130, money that goes towards shelter to keep your little grown ass warm because you are a little grown ass because you're 19. Now you're in jail charged with blackmail. And if you needed $130 for whatever reason, then I know you don't have no money for bail. I know you don't have no money for a lawyer. So you're just going to be in there stuck, property of South Carolina, crying your ass off every night and the only person who's going to answer your phone calls and be there to pray for you and encourage you to be strong in spite of is the same woman that you tried to scam and steal from. My brothers always love your mother because you will never get another. Emmanuel Franklin, Franklin, you're only 19, so you can still bounce back from this. But in the meantime, give Emmanuel Franklin the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's, please.

Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yeehaw. All right. Thank you for that donkey today, Charlamagne. Yes, we got to stop getting scammed by people. I actually retweeted somebody's GoFundMe yesterday thinking it was real. Then I went and looked at their page because I felt bad.

The whole family was homeless. Yeah. And for the past two years, all they've been doing, their whole page is them asking for money for a GoFundMe. Where are they tweeting from? For like two years. From their own account,

but I was like, oh, it's so sad. So you just seen it and it was retweeted. Yeah. So then I un-retweeted it. So they got smartphones. What?

Oh. So they can pay their smartphone bill every month. Yes. Yeah, but it was like for the past two years, the whole timeline

was them adding celebrities. Like, please contribute to this GoFundMe, please. Well, I was like, oh. You gave up your smartphone, maybe got you a little flip phone. And then you started taking that money for your smartphone bill every month and putting it into a little pot. Just saying, after two years, you have a nice little something to do something with. Well, the GoFundMe had zero dollars contributed.

I really looked at it. Zero dollars for two years. So you were the only one. Trying to get this GoFundMe. I'm going to be honest with you. I need looked. Zero dollars for two years. So you were the only one. I'm going to be honest with you. I need a little more information about this one. I need a little bit more information. They added you too because I looked to see everybody.

All they did was hit up celebrities. You're the only one that retweeted, huh? I felt bad. Oh, my goodness. It was like a picture of the whole family. You retweet, but you ain't putting no money in that GoFundMe. I went to go look at it, and then I was like, let me look at this account. And then I said, oh, okay. They've been doing this for two years, just

adding celebrities. They have nothing else on the timeline but that. Alright, well, thank you for that, Donkey. Today, up next, ask Yee. 800-585-1051. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, call Yee right now. She'll help ya! So call her now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Angela Yee right now. She'll help you. So call her now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. It's time for Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? It's Sativa. Hey, mama. What's your question for Yee?

My little brother is in California. He's by himself. He don't got no family. I think he's gangbanging. I keep trying to talk to him about it, but he seems like he's just distancing himself from me. I just don't really know how to approach the situation.

I don't want my little brother to end up on a t-shirt. Right. I think what you need to do is have you gone out there to see him, to see what's going on? I haven't gone out there to see him. My dad lives out there, but he got remarried. He got a new wife and, like, basically just kind of left him to fend for himself.

He was living in his car at one point, like, didn't have nowhere to live. Maybe you need to fly your brother in to see you. I tried to ask him if he wants to do that. He just keeps saying, like, no, I got this producing thing I'm doing out here. I'm not gangbanging. I'm not throwing up gang signs, nothing like that. And, like, he gets mad at me, and I just, I really just don't want my little brother to end up on a T-shirt.

My husband just had to bury his little brother last year because he was doing the same thing. I know, and it's so hard because you can't control what he's doing when he's not there. I think no matter what, you got to figure out, because I couldn't imagine when my brother, you know, I'd be concerned about him, too. I think what you need to do is fly him in, get him to come see you for whatever reason you have to make up to get him to do that. So he can spend some time there with you.

And let him know how much you care. And let him know that he could talk to you about anything and that you're not going to judge him and that you're his sister. You care about him. You love him. I'm not judging you about whatever it is that you're doing. I just want to talk to you. I want us to have these open, honest conversations. You care about him. You love him. I'm not judging you about whatever it is that you're doing. I just want to talk to you. I want us to have these open, honest conversations and bring him to you,

even if you have to go get him. Right, exactly. Okay. All right. Well, good luck. Thank you so much. Ask Yee, 805-85-1051. If you need relationship advice,

call Yee right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee. Hello, who's this?

Hi, this is LJ. LJ, what's your question for Yee? All right. I just need, like, advice. Just kind of, I guess, help me lean towards a decision or not. The whole situation is I met my girlfriend, like, summer 2017. And we were together for, like, five or six months before I figured out or she told me the whole entire situation with her children were staying, you know, with her parents. So she moved her children back in with her and I come over a while, a little bit, and she broke down situation to me because I know she works out of state.

Like the way where I live and where we met, she't work here but she has a house here so she had her kids come stay and asked me if I could you know be with her children and watch her children while she's in and out of town wow and that's been going on for like eight to nine months now now how do you feel about that I mean how many kids is it uh it? It's three kids. Do you see yourself marrying this woman? We're never getting married. I was trying to get married a couple of years ago. It didn't work out. I told myself I'm never getting married again. And she agrees. She doesn't want to get married. Is she the one? I have deep feelings for her. And, you know, we've established this relationship. And over her kids, everything's pretty good.

I love her. I really do. It's just I don't know because, you know, I'm getting slack from my family, too, because I took. Like, I only have a semester left before I graduate, and I took this whole, like, I haven't been back to school in two semesters because I'm busy with work and watching her kids. Whoa. You know, so my family, like, really giving me a lot of slack behind that. They say I'm getting big things down, do nothing with family anymore, and I was really family-oriented,

so it's been kind of weighing on me pretty heavy lately. Okay, and how do you feel about it? Because if you had no problem with it, we wouldn't be having this discussion, but clearly it is something that's been weighing on you because I don't understand why you're the only person that can watch her kids for her. She does have family.

That's a big responsibility to put on you. Her family lives in another state and she went through this whole thing with her family trying to take her kids from her because they felt like she wasn't providing enough because she works so much. Yeah, and that's a lie because clearly they're kind of right. She does work a lot, and now this responsibility has fallen on you, which is a huge one.

And it does seem a little selfish and unfair to you. Yeah, and mostly I feel like it's kind of unfair to the kids because we'd like her. Yeah, they want to be with their mom. I don't want to have a relationship with those kids. And if I leave, I don't really know how that's going to affect them. Right, and at some point she's going to have to figure out how to change her life so that she can be more in her kid's life. What is she doing

to make those moves? You know, as adults, we go through college and stuff and we start chasing our careers and that's basically what she's on right now. She's like chasing her career, which is a good career. I can't like down for that. It's like if she wasn't making no money She's, like, changing her career, which is a good career. I can't, like, down for that. It's like if she wasn't making no money or nothing like that, it would be different.

But it's like... Well, you know, kids are a priority. True. Does it make you feel differently? Because, listen, I understand chasing your career. But when you have kids, sometimes your priorities have to shift. I mean, they definitely do. She might have to do something where she either moves or she's going to have to figure out how

she can simultaneously do both and make sure that her kids are well cared for. But I don't think that whole responsibility should fall on you. Yeah, and it's been like, it hasn't been discussed. Well, you need to discuss it. It's been brought up and I just feel like if it

all boils down to it, I just see myself just leaving the whole situation in period. I just want to say this. I don't want you to make sacrifices in your life, in your career, for somebody you don't even know you're going to end up with. Like you said, you're about to graduate from school. There's things you want to do. And you're actually making more of a sacrifice than she is

because you're not doing what you want to do so you can watch her kids. So you might have to let her know, look, I'm not available at this time at this time this time and this time you're going to have to let me know how are you going to work this out so that you can be there for your own kids stop saying yes every time and you guys have to have a serious discussion and see if there's some way that she can rectify the situation and if this is nothing that can be done if you don't want to make that sacrifice you know i think um those are huge decisions that you have to make. But at least let her know. You can't just be angry about it and not tell her.

All right. True. I understand. I just think the worst case scenario of the situation is her, like, losing her job or having to move back, you know, home with her parents or something like that. I mean, maybe she needs to move closer to her job. I wouldn't want her children to have to go there because she moves. She changes locations like every three or four months. Yeah.

I mean, look, when you have kids, you got to adapt your life to your kids, period. Where's the dad? I don't know. She told me his name one time. He denied her the youngest two. He said something like the oldest, only the oldest is hers, but they were married for five years. So I feel like he's just an a**hole, period. Right. Well, look, it sounds like a messy situation.

I just don't want you to look back later and be like, damn, I took care of this woman's kids. I didn't even take care of my own life. All right. Well, you're a good man. So, you know, follow your heart. If this is the love of your life, you guys got to work it out. Okay. All right. He's like the nanny and the man.

Alright. ASCII 805-85-1051. We got rumors on the way, Yee? Yes, and what would you do to make sure that you're successful at your job? Well, we'll tell you about Andy King from the Fyre Festival yet again, and now he's gone viral.

Listen to what he has to say as an update. Alright, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey. Nobody going to say nothing back? Hey. Okay.

B. Woo. C. A. D. You like the D, huh? You were quick to say that D, huh? Okay, guys.

All right, all right. Grow up. Everybody simmer down. All right. Jesus. Morning, we are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk the Super Bowl.

This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it. On The Breakfast Club. So listen up. So Maroon 5 is not going to be doing the pre-show press conference. It's officially off. Or the halftime show press conference. It's been a tradition for years.

Justin Timberlake did it. Lady Gaga did it. Prince, you know, actually played his guitar during it. So right now they're not going to do it. They said they're going to let the show do the talking. So Maroon 5, Travis Scott, that's what's going to happen. All right? So we shall see.

I wonder if they're going to make a statement. Because with all the pressure from social media and all the backlash that they've been getting, are they going to make a statement at the halftime show? We'll see. I would hope so. You know, because there's a lot of people watching to see what's going to go down.

A lot of people watching and a lot of people not watching. You know what's interesting? Justin Timberlake took a knee last year, but nobody paid no attention. They just thought it was a dance move. Did he? Yes. Oh. Alright, so now let's talk about J. Cole and Meek Mill. They're going to perform at the All-Star Game.

FYI. Meek Mill is going to open up the night and J. Cole is going to perform during halftime. Alright. What song is J. Cole going to perform during halftime at the NBA All-Star Game? He's going to do a few songs. He's not just going to do one. I'm trying to think of what records that J. Cole going to perform during halftime at the NBA All-Star Game? He's going to do a few songs. He's not just going to do one. I'm trying to think of what records that J. Cole has right now. It's got to be the early ones.

A little up-tempo enough to be it. Yeah, it'd have to be like the early joints. He could do KOD also. At the NBA All-Star Game? He could do his verse on The Star is Born. Yeah, he'd be fine. That's up-tempo. J. Cole got a lot of hits.

All right, now there's also a Soulja Boy mural in San Antonio. I know you guys have seen this. Shout out to San Antonio because we're on there in the mornings. Hey. Dropping the clues bombs for San Antonio, damn it. Colton Valentine has already done a mural that says Drake where he's wearing the Gucci headband. So shout out to them.

All right, now let's discuss this Fyre Festival. Yeah, we still on the San Antonio. We said we weren't. We just started. I see Charlamagne looking like that. He's looking for the station. I was not! I dropped one of the clues. San Antonio's our latest market. I know, the way you were looking at us, let me double check. We good. Listen,

do you realize you'd be on the radio when you'd be talking? You do know we on air live, right? My God! I've been trying to get out to San Antonio for the longest because I've never been there. Me too. And you know, I do Diamonds Direct in San Antonio, so I gotta make sure I go there and get my diamonds because Valentine's Day is coming up. What the hell is Diamonds

Direct? It's a store where you can buy all your diamonds and all your jewelry and everything. You ain't got a jeweler here in New York? Listen. Y'all getting money. No, I don't have a jeweler. No. Alright, now let's talk about Fyre Festival. Now, Andy King, who was a producer of the Fyre Festival, and he was also on Fyre,

the greatest party that never happened on Netflix. He has become viral after that entire documentary. Here's what he said on that documentary that made people be like, this guy really cares about his job. You got good penis. What? No, that's not the clip.

I don't know what that was. Now, just to set it up. What are y'all doing here? I don't know what that was. Charlamagne just yelled out. I don't know what's going on. I don't know why this show is so good. I'm confused.

I have no idea why this show is so good. Charlamagne just screamed out. But what happened was there was some water stuck in customs. It was going to cost $175,000 that they did not have to get that water out of customs. And here's what happened. That penis will do that to you, man. This has to stop. What is going on here?

Everybody needs to grow up in this room. I'm sorry. I don't know what's going on. What is happening here? You're kinky, Sean. Could you play the Fyre Festival clip from Andy, please? You're kinky. Billy called and said, Andy, we need you to take one big thing for the team.

You're our wonderful gay leader, and we need you to go down. Will you suck to fix this water problem? And I literally drove home, took a shower. I drank some mouthwash. I'm like, oh, my gosh, I'm really. And I got into my car to drive across the island to take one for the team. I just want you to know that out of context, this clip sounds like he's just trying to unclog a pipe. I just told you what just happened.

I said it was $175 to get the stuff out of customs, the water out of customs, which they didn't have. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But just out of context, it sounds like he's going to unclog a pipe. Well, out of context, you screaming certain things out is weird, too. I don't even, you know what. All right, well, here's what Andy King has to say, what's happened to him since this documentary has aired. His penis is huge, isn't it?

What is going on? Who are you talking to? I mean, you just can't spit stuff out. You know what, forget it. Yeah, don't spit it out. Don't spit it out. I get taken out of context enough on social media. I don't need to get taken out of context on my radio show.

These are the things that you say. I did not say that in that way. Yes, you did. Oh, God. Are we going to play what happened? I just don't want to be necessarily known as the **** up king of the world. I'm blown away with the response of the documentary. Completely blown away.

I'm now a noun, a verb, an adjective. When someone reached out last weekend and said, you're trending. And I'm like, I don't even know what trending means. People are talking about you. I'm like, oh, gosh. And then yesterday someone sang, yeah, you're a meme. I'm like, what's a meme?

They're like, no, Andy, it's a meme. And they're creating ads about you. Andy, what's wrong with being known as the blowjob king of the world? He was blown away. You can't say that. That's why we bleeped it out on the audio. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, you just can't spit stuff out, man. Andy, what's wrong with being known as the BJ king of the world?

He said he was blown away. Like, think about it. You think about Corinne Superbad Steffan. She made a career of being known as a woman who gave good fellatio. So what is wrong with Andy being known as the BJ king of the world? Well, first of all, we don't know if he's good at it. That is true. Okay. You don't want to be king. You don't want to get a crown if you don't you know of the world. Well, first of all, we don't know if he's good at it. That is true. Okay, yeah, you don't want to be king.

You don't want to get a crown if you don't, you know, ain't. Anyway, moving on, that is your rumor report. Charlamagne, you just yelling out random things during the rumor report. You don't want to pass out no unfair crowns. You yelling out random things during the rumor report really just put it. I didn't say nothing. You did. You know we're on camera.

Hey, that little devilish six-inch penis, get that away from me. What size do you want? Y'all are so immature. Oh, we immature. You ruined my whole rumor report. Oh, oh, oh. All right, well, thank you for that rumor report, Yee. Yes, thank you too, Charlamagne.

I really want y'all to grow up. Drop on the clues box for 98.5 to beat in San Antonio. There you go. That's what we were looking for. 98.5 to beat in San Antonio. Yes. I don't know why y'all kept picking us up. You got a birthday shout-out, Yee. Itall kept picking us up. You got a birthday shout out.

It might be the last day. Huh? You got a birthday shout out to do. A birthday shout out? Oh my goodness. Oh! Oh my goodness.

I thought we were filming this and sending it. Oh my goodness. Happy early 25th birthday to Duje at Penn State. We want to let you know that your mama loves you a lot and your mama,

Sandra Dean, works up here with us at Revolt and The Breakfast Club as well. Sorry, Sandra Dean. He's 25 years old. Happy early 25th birthday.

Wagwan! Wagwan, brethren. Yes, he is Jamaican, but we do not need y'all to do that, okay? You're destroying the patois. Wagwan! Blah! All right, Revolt, we'll see you guys tomorrow. What was that?

That was blow, blow, blow. Everybody else, let's get to this mix. Blow, blow, blow. See what's up? Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Ye else, let's get to this mix. Blow, blow, blow. See what's up? Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, shout to Michael Rubin, co-owner of the 76ers, for joining us.

Billionaire, too. Yeah, salute to Mike Rubin, man. Good dude. I thought he was a very interesting story. I thought that him admitting that he had no idea what was going on amongst other communities is a very honest answer. Because, you know, like Doughboy said in Boys in the Hood, they don't know, don't show, or don't give a damn about what's going on in the hood.

But it's about once you do know, what are you going to do? Absolutely. I mean, I think we're all victims of that. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in other communities that we don't know about. Yes. Like when Vic Mensa came up and talked about what, you know, the things that he seen when he was overseas. We just honestly didn't know. Yeah, or just the love of mayonnaise.

We don't know why people love mayonnaise. You said what? We don't know why white people love mayonnaise. You know what I'm saying? But they do. You know, everything's about buttholes and mayonnaise with you. Oh my God, stop it. Everything.

But I understand that not really caring as much about things as we should until it affects you personally. Like knowing somebody who has multiple sclerosis, it wasn't something that I even was aware of as much until one of my friends was really struggling from it. And we went out to eat and it took her like literally 20 minutes to walk from the car into the restaurant. And I was like, wow, this is something I really want to get involved in just because you see it affect somebody that you care about directly. Absolutely. Alright. When we come back, we got your positive note. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. And V. Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. Now, Charlamagne. Yes, my positive note of the day is coming from this great book that I'm reading right now called Digital Minimalism, Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport. It's not out yet. It comes out February 5th.

But I was reading this chapter last night called Spend Time Alone. And he talks about this thing called solitude deprivation, which is a state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds. So I just want to tell everybody, man, it's okay to be alone. It's okay to be in solitude. Sometimes you need to be by yourself. You need to disconnect from everything.

And sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. And sometimes in the middle of nowhere is where you find yourself. Breakfast club, bitches! You all finished or you all done? Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine.

I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets.

Listen to Escape from Zakistan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-A-Stan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or, 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.