The Breakfast Club - NeNe Leakes Interview and More
Episode Date: May 14, 2020Today on the show we had NeNe Leakes called in and gave her shady comments about the Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion and we also had legendary soap opera actor Maurice Bernard call in and speak abo...ut his book on mental health and so much more. Also, Charlamagne gave his "Donkey of the Day" to Florida protestors for protesting to reopen the gym. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Had enough of this country?
Ever dreamt about starting your own?
I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this.
It's surprisingly easy.
55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete.
Or maybe not.
No country willingly gives up their territory.
Oh my God.
What is that?
Bullets.
Listen to Escape from Zakistan.
We need help!
That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,
The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more.
After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast
Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into
their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together.
Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions,
but you just don't know what is going to come for you.
Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.
I forgive myself.
It's okay.
Have grace with yourself.
You're trying your best.
And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.
Alicia Keys, like you've never
heard her before. Listen to
On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
I think that y'all came a long way.
I think that y'all have a certain amount of respect for, you know,
what everybody else does, and y'all are just the best at what y'all do.
This platform, the reach y'all have that you've earned,
makes space for somebody like me.
You guys have a direct line to the culture.
Oh, my God, I'm on the radio with Angela Charlamagne and DJ Envy.
Yes, you are.
All I do is read about the Breakfast Club.
Really? Every morning.
That's good.
You guys are trending.
Every, you know, I drag my ass out of bed.
I'm like, uh, what happened at the Breakfast Club today?
Get your ass up.
Good morning, USA! Yo, yo, yo. Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, DJ Envy. Charlamagne Tha God.
Peace to the planet.
It is Tuesday.
Yes, it's Tuesday.
Yes, it is.
Hopefully, you guys are doing okay.
How y'all feeling?
I'd like to go back to sleep this morning.
It's one of those mornings.
Yeah, me too.
I ain't go front, man.
I ain't go front.
I thought about it. I was like, I should take about 10 more minutes. Yeah, me too. I didn't go front, man. One of those mornings. I thought about it.
I was like, I should take about 10 more minutes.
Yeah, I was about to take 10 more.
I said, nah, let me get up.
Let me get up.
I mean, I hit the snooze button again, and it said like eight minutes,
but I got up before the eight minutes was over.
But it is what it is.
Happy to be alive.
Absolutely.
Could have woke up dead.
Could have woke up dead.
But we here.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Guess you
are right. I ain't do much of anything.
You know, yesterday, shout out to DJ
Clue. Me and Clue do a show on IG Live
called the Monday Night Mixtape.
Clue made famous years
ago, and we brought it back, bringing
exclusives and new joints
and all types of records.
Freestyles, Lloyd Banks dropped something yesterday
at Amigos.
Lil Baby,
last night,
Styles P, Cameron,
Jim Jones. It was a great show.
A Nas, Lil Wayne,
a bunch of exclusives. So tune in every Monday night, 10 to 12. It's just
a little fun on quarantine
time, you know? Do y'all do a playlist afterwards?
No, we don't.
And that's because a lot of the records that we have were either taken or not supposed to be played.
So we usually don't put up what we played.
Or even when we play it, we might leave it up for a couple hours and then we delete it.
Y'all still doing that?
Y'all still stealing records from people?
Yes.
Lord have mercy.
Old habits die hard, huh?
Yeah, I guess you're right.
I guess you're right.
Jesus.
Well, let's get the show cracking.
Front page news, what are we talking about?
Well, let's talk about what happened in California at one jail
as people were trying to get coronavirus on purpose.
All right.
And also, NeNe Leakes will be joining us this morning.
We'll kick it with NeNe Leakes.
See you.
Zoom, zoom, zoom.
Uh-huh.
And also, from what soap opera, the gentleman joining us this morning. We'll kick it with NeNe Leakes. See you. Zoom, zoom, zoom. Uh-huh.
And also, from what soap opera the gentleman joining us,
Charlois?
General Hospital.
General Hospital.
Okay.
What's his name?
Matthew Bernard.
Matthew Bernard.
I thought it was Maurice.
Maurice Bernard.
I'm sorry.
Maurice Bernard.
I'm still half-sleepy.
Maurice Bernard.
Maurice Bernard.
Trust me.
Your grandma definitely knows who he is.
When you're sitting at home with your
grandma and you're watching the soaps and she got
General Hospital on, Maurice Bernard
been on General Hospital for a long,
long time. But you know, it is Mental Health Awareness
Month and he is a big
mental health advocate who actually has a
new book out called
Nothing General About
It, How Love and Lithium Saved Me, On and Off General Hospital.
Okay.
We'll talk to Maurice Bernard today.
All right.
Well, 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.
Let's get in some front page news. Where are we starting, Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.
Where are we starting, Yee?
Well, inmates at a Los Angeles County correctional facility
were trying to infect themselves with coronavirus.
They drank from the same cup with the purpose of infecting one another,
which resulted in 21 cases of coronavirus.
So you can see them on surveillance video.
They're around the hot water dispenser,
sipping the water, sniffing out of a common mask.
And people were trying to get coronavirus
because they thought that that would help them
get out of jail earlier.
I get it, but I mean, you know,
I don't know if the reward outweighs the risk
in that situation.
Coronavirus impacts people differently, right?
Yes, right.
Some people might really get it and it might be fatal.
That ain't worth it.
Not at all.
You know what I mean?
Well, now they're also thinking if they could prosecute them criminally
for intentionally spreading the virus.
So it didn't work the way that they thought it would.
All right, Major League Baseball owners are planning to start the season in July
and they have approved a plan that may allow the 2020 season to start on 4th of July weekend.
It was supposed to start on March 26. Of course, it was delayed due to coronavirus.
So now they're saying spring training will begin in early to mid-June. Games will resume, like I said, 4th of July week with without fans, as long as state legislation and health officials allow them to do this.
So they're saying they might have to even cut their pay more
just because obviously they won't have that income coming in from fans.
As far as the NFL, according to Dr. Fauci,
the NFL games could be the perfect storm to spread coronavirus
even if they play without fans in the stands.
So when asked if,
say, four people on a team test positive for coronavirus, he's saying, no, you absolutely
cannot play under those conditions. He said, I think it's feasible that negative testing players
could play to an empty stadium. Is it guaranteed? No way. He said it all depends on the level of
infection in the community. All right. Now, this clip went viral yesterday at a news conference
with Donald Trump having an exchange with one reporter. The reporter is a White House reporter
who is Asian-American. And here's what happened. Why is this a global competition to you if every
day Americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day?
Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world. And maybe that's a question you should ask China.
Don't ask me. Ask China that question, okay?
When you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer.
Yes, behind you, please.
Sir, why are you saying that to me specifically?
I'm telling you, I'm not saying it specifically to anybody.
I'm saying it to anybody that would ask a nasty question like that.
That's not a nasty question.
Please go ahead.
And then he ended the news conference right after that.
Trump just don't care.
He just says whatever he wants to say, whatever he wants to say, he just don't care.
But it doesn't even make sense.
I'm shocked that y'all still shocked.
She was asking why he's saying the U.S. is testing for coronavirus.
What does that have to do with asking China anything?
It doesn't even make sense.
All right.
One thing, they're making that clip go viral,
but Dr. Fauci is testifying today
that reopening the country too early
risks needless suffering and death.
That should be the headline.
All right.
And all but two U.S. states will be partially reopened
by the end of the week.
New York will start reopening in phases
starting on May 15th,
but that's going to be like three different regions.
It's Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, and Mohawk Valley
because they meet the metrics required.
Right, so some regions are ready to go.
But not New York City.
So New York City, some businesses still have to
obviously make some changes
before they are allowed to reopen. So there's a lot of things that still have to happen. some changes before they are allowed to reopen.
So there's a lot of things that still have to happen.
And according to Governor Cuomo, he said New York cases have declined to about where we started.
But New York City schools are on track to open in September, according to the mayor.
Now in South Carolina, fitness centers and pools will open next week.
In Los Angeles County, beaches are going to be reopening tomorrow. In New Orleans, they're reporting that nearly 77% of coronavirus deaths are African Americans.
In Rhode Island, they're saying 44% of coronavirus patients are Latino, even though they only account for about 16% of the state's overall population.
So those are just some of your updates. And once again, Dr. Fauci is testifying to the Senate today that reopening too early risks needless suffering and death.
So he gave you fair warning. Beware.
All right. Well, get it off your chest.
It's 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now.
Maybe you had a bad night, bad morning, or maybe you just want to holler at us.
800-585-1051.
It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.
Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider
this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine.
I own this. It's surprisingly easy there's
55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete everybody's doing it i am king ernest emmanuel
i am the queen of ladonia i'm jackson i king of capraberg i am the supreme leader of the grand
republic of mentonia be part of a great colonial tradition well why can't i trade my own country my
forefathers did that themselves what could go go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory.
I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead.
Oh my God.
What is that?
Bullets.
Bullets.
We need help!
We still have the off-road portion to go.
Listen to Escape from Zakistan.
And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey guys, I'm Kate Max.
You might know me from my popular online series,
The Running Interview Show,
where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more.
After those runs, the conversations keep keep going that's what my podcast
post run high is all about it's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into
their stories their journeys and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together
you know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens.
So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire,
join me every week for Post Run High.
It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all.
It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know
what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt,
learning to trust herself,
and leaning into her dreams.
I think a lot of times we are built to doubt
the possibilities for ourselves.
For self-preservation and protection,
it was literally that step by step.
And so I discovered that
that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small,
determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.
I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best
and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose
with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio
app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hello, who's this? It's James. What's up, bro? Whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.
Hello, who's this?
It's James.
What's up, bro?
Get it off your chest.
Hey, how you doing, Izzy?
Is Charlamagne there?
I'm right here, King.
What's happening?
Hey, how you doing?
I love you, Charla.
Hey, I've been listening to you guys.
I love the way that you've been growing, Shala. Your book has changed my life.
Thank you.
Happy to be a blessing, brother.
Listening to you guys, just being like a total alcoholic and a mental depression
and elevated my life and doing more.
And now I'm an entrepreneur and trying to run my own business.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
This is crazy.
All righty, bro.
Well, congratulations, King.
Congrats, man.
Happy that you're evolving, King.
That's what it's about.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Hey, Charlotte.
Yes, sir.
Can you send me your signed copies of our shift one?
Yes.
Our producer will get your information.
Hello, who's this?
What's up?
This is Mike.
I'm from Detroit.
Hey, what's up, bro?
Get it off your chest, bro.
Man, you know, 2020 woke up and woke up and still waking up every day to a bad president.
You know what I'm saying?
To the president.
A bad what?
President.
Oh, president.
You're right.
You know, people really do anything for money, and it's really showing what the leader of
our country.
You know, some people just, my name's Muffin, it's like anything. I hear it. I mean, it, and it's really showing what the leader of our country. You know, some people just run their mouth,
and it's like,
here it is.
I mean, it sucks,
and it's sad.
Every day I wake up to it,
it really,
it really, really sucks, man.
It's horrible.
And that's really about it.
Same thing everybody else,
saying you guys have
a good morning,
and I appreciate it.
You too, man.
All right, you have
a good morning, too.
Get it off your chest.
800-585-1051.
If you need to vent, hit us up now.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
The Breakfast Club.
Let's go.
This is your time to get it off your chest.
Whether you're man or flesh.
Stay with your chest.
We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.
So if you got something on your mind, let it out.
Hello?
Hello, who's this?
Why you sound mad, bro?
This is Von Newton from State of Georgia.
Well, hello, Von Newton from State of Georgia.
How are you, sir?
Getting off your chest.
I'm good, but guess what?
What?
Chicken butt.
I just seen a dude coming out my neighbor's house, and she mad.
Damn!
So that could be a family member, maybe?
Ain't no damn family.
Uh-uh.
You are so nosy.
How you know something going on?
Why you snitching, man?
I just got off work.
And I see everything.
Where her husband at?
Where her husband at?
Ain't no 69.
I ain't going to snitch.
Where's her husband?
Do you know her husband?
Yeah, I know her husband.
So where is he?
You don't know what's going on in that household, though.
Maybe he's cool with it.
I know what's going on.
I know what's going on.
I'm from Mars High.
I know what's going on.
Well, mind your damn business, man.
Hello, who's this?
Cleet.
Get it off your chest.
First of all, I just want to say I love y'all.
I love y'all individually, and I love y'all collectively. Y'all are so to say I love y'all. I love y'all individually, and I love y'all collectively.
Y'all are so dope.
I love y'all.
But one thing I got to get off my chest,
am I the only person that thinks Beyonce stole Megan Thee Stallion's whole song called The Remix?
Like, that was a stick-up.
But she took the whole song, and every time you hear it,
all you think about is Beyonce every time.
That bothers me.
Why?
I don't know.
I don't agree with that.
Megan Thee Stallion is so excited. She is happy about it. She got Beyonce. time. That bothers me. Why? I don't know. I don't agree with that. Megan Thee Stallion is so
excited. She's happy about it.
She got Beyonce. They're both from Houston.
Beyonce killed it, but that's still Megan's song.
I mean, she is excited, but
when you hear the song, like,
how much of a trace of
Megan do you hear? Like, everything
sounds like Beyonce. The whole song
sounds like Beyonce. Don't get it
twisted like it's dope. I love it. I love it.
But she stuck up. Like, she stuck
up. She took her whole song. Well, it is
a remix. Sometimes, you know, when you get
a feature on a remix, the feature steals the show.
I mean, remix.
That's like, mix it up a little bit.
Not jacket, Charlotte. Like, she took the
whole song. It does, but you know what,
though? It still makes
the song go up the charts, though,
and it's still
Megan Thee Stallion's song, so.
Number two in the country.
If you think about it,
when LMA,
when old boy did LMA track,
must have them
poured that junk off.
No, this is a remix.
Totally different.
This is a remix, though.
This is an official remix.
This is an official remix.
Totally different.
And this is authorized.
Megan Thee Stallion
knew it was happening.
She put it out.
She's getting credit for it.
Yeah, totally different.
No, I'm not saying, like, I'm not saying because whether somebody knew, whether somebody knew it or not.
The point is, it blew up.
I think, like, I love Megan Thee Stallion as an artist.
Like, I just don't really hear her in the remix no more.
I hear all Beyonce, all Beyonce.
Queen, Queen, have you had breakfast yet?
This is cool.
Have you had breakfast yet this morning?
Because you up comparing Beyonce to Jacquees this morning.
And you making your old Uncle Charlotte head hurt.
Because I ain't have my tea or nothing.
I'm a little cranky.
Have a good morning, Mama.
Get it off your chest.
800-585-1051 if you need to vent.
You can hear this up at any time.
Nayee, we got rumors on the way?
Oh, well, let's talk about Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat and their number one song.
We'll get into that.
We'll tell you what both of the ladies have to say.
All right, we'll get into that next.
Keep it locked.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
The Breakfast Club.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Let's get to the rumors.
Let's talk the Robin Hood benefit concert.
It's about time.
What's going on?
Rumor Report.
Rumor Report.
This is The Rumor Report.
Talk to them.
With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club.
Yes, Robin Hood and iHeartMedia teamed up for Rise Up New York Telethon,
and they raised over $115 million to support New Yorkers
who are most impacted by coronavirus.
Yes, that's a huge number.
That is amazing.
They said in addition to tonight's telethon,
over $44 million of the funds were already raised
through the Robinhood Relief Fund,
and over $1.5 million has been raised through Robinhood's Relief Corps,
including Gwyneth Paltrow, Katie
Couric, and New York sports teams who also launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to engage their network. So
that was a huge deal. Some of the people that appeared last night, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock,
Governor Andrew Cuomo, Aqua Fina, Barbara Streisand, Bette Midler, Bill de Blasio, RZA,
Salt-N-Pepa, Rosie Perez, Robert De Niro, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mariah Carey, Sting, Tina Fey hosted the whole thing.
Robert De Niro opened up the show.
So it was a big deal yesterday.
Wow.
That's amazing.
I didn't hear you mention any New York City iHeartRadio personalities, though.
I think Angie Moore was there, right?
No, that's actually a different Angie Marr.
I think that Angie Marr
is a chef. But did I Heart
use any of its New York radio personalities?
I guess not.
No Elvis Duran? Nope.
I don't expect him to invite us.
I don't expect him to invite us, but no Elvis Duran, at least?
In New York?
I did not see that on there.
Alright, well, congratulations to Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat.
They have their first collab number one
on Billboard's Hot 100.
The Say So remix,
it's the first collaboration between the two of them.
And the hashtag they're using is hashtag
when queens unite.
So here is Doja Cat thanking Nicki Minaj and the Barbs.
So I wanted to say thank you, Nicki, so much.
And thank you, oh my God, to f***ing Barbs.
Holy s***.
I've never in my life seen anything like that ever as far as fan support.
Well, Salute and drop on the Clues bombs for Nicki Minaj
and Doja Cat. That's dope.
That's both of their first number ones on
Billboard. Nicki Minaj
also put on social media, can't thank you
guys enough for going so hard this past week
to help us make history. I saw it all.
You'll never understand how much you uplift me
with the overwhelming love and support you continue
to show. I love you so much, like much so much dear Doja Cat thanks for trusting me with
your baby hope I lived up to your expectations you're so extremely talented and so deserving
of this moment what time are you showing your boobs love Nick because she had a deal and she
was supposed to show her boobs when that happened when it it went to number one. And here's what Doja Cat had to say about that. Oh, my God.
I just realized I have to show my boobs real hard.
I'm just going to be honest with you guys.
I did play you.
I'm not showing my boobs real hard, man.
Well, congratulations, Joan.
What if they take her number one back then?
They can't take it back.
Because she made a promise. She didn't keep her promise. So I want the number one back. Well, it's number one back then? They can't take it back. Because she made a promise.
She didn't keep her promise.
So I want the number one back.
Okay.
Well, it's number one in 30 countries.
Congratulations.
Yes.
All right.
Now, here's a surprise that happened.
Bad Bunny put out a surprise new album over the weekend.
Los Que No Ibanas Salir.
That means the ones that weren't going to be released.
So these are songs that were unfinished tracks. And some of them he just, you know, decided to finish them up and put it
out. Some of reggaeton's biggest names are on that album. A lot of collabs. Don Omar's on there.
Yandel. Nicky Jam is on there. That song was trending over the weekend. Bad Con Nicky.
Here's a little snippet of that. Yeah, it's a nice little all of a sudden switchover.
Dron, what do you think of it?
Because I didn't hear it.
What do you think, Dron?
I love it, man.
It's amazing.
And he gets Nicky Jam rapping like the old Nicky Jam in that song.
So that's why a lot of people were hyped about it.
Ask me why I asked you about that record.
Why'd you ask me
about that record?
Because you're Latino.
Okay.
Oh, you know.
That was a little awkward.
I was just trying to get
my little Donald Trump
on at the press conference.
Ask the Latino in the room
about something Latino,
you know.
That's all.
But you know what's dope
I think about this is that you can listen to music
and not really understand, like, the language, but it can still be dope.
So that is something I would say about that.
I was listening to the album, and I hit Dramos about it.
I was like, do you see this new album?
Yeah, it's a vibe.
And I saw that Bad Girl Nicki was trending, so I was like,
let me listen to this song because it was trending over the weekend.
Did you just say it was a vibe drum?
It's a vibe. You don't have to understand what they're saying. Did you just say it was a vibe drum? It's a vibe.
You don't have to understand what they're saying.
You just feel it.
It's a vibe.
You've been around black people too long.
It's a vibe.
Is that a bad thing?
You know the vibe.
What do you want them to say?
El Vibo?
Like, come on.
El Vibo.
You see, you guys start getting disrespectful.
How we get disrespectful?
I told them it could be a vibe.
It's not El. It gotta be El Vibo. Don't get disrespectful? I told him it could be a vibe. It's not, it ain't gotta be a vibe.
Don't add O to everything and it automatically makes it sadder.
And just think about all the songs that ended up being number one
and you might not even know what they're saying, like Despacito or Duda.
See, Despacito, see.
Oh my God.
Bye.
But it just sounds great.
All right.
Well, I think I'm done.
I'm Angela Yee, and that's your rumor report.
All right.
Well, when we come back, we got front page news.
What are we talking about?
Yes, let's talk about Ahmaud Arbery and what's going on with his case.
All right.
We'll get to that next.
Keep it locked.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Is your country falling apart?
Feeling tired?
Depressed?
A little bit revolutionary?
Consider this. Start your own country.
I planted the flag.
I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine.
I own this.
It's surprisingly easy.
There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete.
Everybody's doing it.
I am King Ernest Emmanuel.
I am the Queen of Laudonia.
I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg.
I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia.
Be part of a great colonial tradition.
The Waikana tribe own country.
My forefathers did that themselves.
What could go wrong?
No country willingly gives up their territory.
I was making a rocket with a black powder,
you know, with explosive warhead.
Oh my God.
What is that?
Bullets.
Bullets.
We need help! We still have the off-road
portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape
from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,
The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more.
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Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Let's get in some front page news.
Where are we starting, Yee?
Well, let's start with Ahmaud Arbery
as they are investigating the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.
There's a lot going on right now.
Now, one thing that everybody's focused on also
is whether or not William Roddy Bryan should be charged.
He is a man who actually took the video of Arbery being shot while jogging in his neighborhood.
And Ahmad and Roddy Bryan was on with CNN's Chris Cuomo.
And Chris Cuomo asked him about the whole situation and about the tapes and how the tapes were released and his involvement. Mr. Bryan, I hope you understand that your decision to videotape this may be what makes all the difference in the administration of
justice in this case. Are you aware of that? Yes, sir. If there wasn't a tape, then we wouldn't
know what happened. And how do you feel about that uh i hope that it in the end brings justice
to the family and peace of the family the family he's talking about the mcmichael family i'm sure
he definitely is yeah he's not talking about hold on william roddy bryan is saying that he has
no relationship and does not know the mcmichaels he He says he doesn't know Gregory and Travis McMichael and it's no conspiracy theory
and he's a victim of misinformation.
Here's what his attorney, Kevin Goff,
has to say to Chris Cuomo.
Certain people out there are deliberately putting
all kinds of misinformation out there
to the extent that, however well-intentioned,
that is hindering and hampering
and impeding their investigation.
Like what?
My client being some kind of vigilante, saying that my client was armed,
to suggest that somehow he's in cahoots with whatever's been going on
up on the third floor at the courthouse with the DAs.
While his name may have come up in it, nobody up there, with all due respect,
gives a darn whether he lives or dies. Is your client
one of the people who was trying to help the Arbors?
He was helping that day.
Huh.
He was helping that day. So if he was helping that day,
why wouldn't he return, why wouldn't he turn
that video in, you know,
a couple months ago when the situation
first happened?
And then he was also asked why he didn't call 911.
And according to his attorney,
he was saying that the sirens were audible almost immediately.
So that's what his claims are.
Now, his attorney, Kevin Goff, also told Chris Cuomo
about why William Roddy Bryan is not being more vocal about the facts.
How did you come to be in the car videotaping that day?
Okay, we're not going with it.
You don't want to talk about that either.
All right, so let's do this.
You are afraid of the facts of this case, Counselor White.
With all due respect, I'm not afraid of you, but I respect you.
And I respect you.
You are a brilliant, very capable lawyer, and you are a brilliant,
you are a very good prosecutor.
And my client
is a mechanic with a high school education.
And if you've ever been to the high schools around here,
that's not necessarily saying much.
Give me my
goddamn retainer back.
Give me my goddamn retainer back. You're going to insult me like that?
Give me my goddamn money back.
Okay? I was born yesterday, but I wasn't born
Sunday.
Why do you think that man's stupid?
Just think of it as an alternative. Just because he's a mechanic from Georgia yesterday, but I wasn't born Sunday. Why do you think that man's stupid? Just tell me
I can fix an alternator. Just because he's a mechanic
from Georgia don't mean he's stupid.
He may not know the law.
That's crazy.
That's just crazy.
I'm not paying no goddamn lawyer if they insult me like that.
Me too. I ain't paying them either.
What the hell is wrong with you?
Get on national TV or CNN and tell everybody
that I'm just a goddamn mechanic who don't know nothing.
He ain't the brightest.
What?
He's my attorney.
Is this part of the defense?
Right.
What you saying about the goddamn high schools around here?
You ever been to a high school football game around here?
That's good goddamn entertainment.
What the hell's wrong with you?
Well, we're going to make sure we keep you updated
on what's going on with the Samara Arbery Kings.
Yes.
All right.
Now let's talk about these antibody tests that people are taking and why a positive COVID-19 antibody test really doesn't mean much of anything yet.
So there's a few different factors here.
A, antibodies don't appear overnight.
So the test could give you a false negative if you just don't have them built up yet.
Another thing is that antibody tests have a lot of mistakes. So it could be a false negative, a false positive. You can't really tell. And they're also saying the high demand right now
means that companies are creating these tests without any scientific oversight. They haven't
been reviewed. They haven't been approved. So just because you went and got that test,
it might not mean a thing. So I'm just keeping y'all updated. Envy, you went and got that test It might not mean a thing So I'm just keeping y'all updated
Envy you went and got a test right?
I did yep
And you tested negative?
Negative
So that might not mean anything
Yeah I mean it doesn't mean that I didn't have it
I didn't have it before
It just means that there's no antibodies in my system
Some people the antibodies stay in the system
Some people the antibodies leave the system
They don't know but I don't have any antibodies in my system
Right so it don't really mean anything
And they're saying it could be mistakes. It could
be a false negative, a false positive. So we don't know, you know, what's going on yet now.
They've been saying that for a while, though. Like, you know, even if you have antibodies,
they don't know that if you can catch it again, they've been saying that.
All right. Now, Twitter is also saying they're going to label misleading coronavirus tweets.
So at first they were saying back in March they would remove COVID-19 tweets that could cause a direct risk to people's health or well-being. But now they're using labels and warning messages to provide additional explanations or clarifications in situations where the risks of harm associated with the tweet are less severe, but where people may still be confused or misled by the content.
So they said even for Donald Trump,
they're going to also subject him to those rules.
So if he's saying things that might be misinformation,
they're going to label those tweets.
Twitter, y'all are about a month and a half too late.
Okay, y'all done let all the 5G radiation tweets fly.
Y'all done let all the drink bleach and disinfectant stuff go out.
Like y'all way too late on misinformation about and disinfectant stuff go out like y'all way
too late on misinformation about they catch it up they catch it up it's too late all right and if
you are planning to go to walt disney world they are now accepting reservations starting in july
so if you want to start making your reservations starting july 1st and onward then you can go and
start doing these bookings now now if they open before or after that time, you can also modify your booking as well.
Disney Springs will start a phased reopening on May 20th.
Other areas of Walt Disney World Resort remain closed,
including the theme parks and Disney Resort hotels.
Man, somebody lying.
Okay, I'm looking at America,
and I'm looking at well over a million cases of coronavirus,
80,000 people dead.
Dr. Fauci is supposed to testify today saying,
reopening too early, risk needless suffering and death.
But then everybody else telling us, go to Disney World.
Disney's reopening up.
Sports is about to start happening back again.
Like, what is going on?
Somebody line.
Okay?
Well, for Disney World, like I said,
the reservations start July 1st as of now,
and that could still be modified.
So they're forcing you to make reservations
in order to be able to go.
Yeah, they setting up for that thing to open.
Yeah, they setting up for it to open.
They got the cleaning crews.
They about to start working them rides.
Disney gonna be open by the summertime.
Is Mickey Mouse gonna wear a mask is what I want to know.
I think it's already a mask.
You gotta do that, right?
If you open up Disney, you gotta make Mickey wear a mask. You gotta make Goofy wear a mask. what I want to know. I think it's already a mask. You got to do that, right? If you open up Disney,
if you open up Disney,
you got to make Mickey wear a mask.
You got to make Goofy wear a mask.
Absolutely.
You got to.
Is it Donald or Daffy?
Which one is with Disney?
I don't remember.
Donald.
You got to make all of them wear masks.
Just for the theme.
Oh, my gosh.
All right.
Well, that is your front page news.
All right.
When we come back,
NeNe Leakes will be joining us.
NeNe Leakes.
Is NeNe wearing a mask? joining us. NeNe Leakes.
Is NeNe wearing a mask?
She's at her house,
so she doesn't have to wear a mask.
Oh.
Yeah, but we're going to kick it with NeNe Leakes, of course,
from the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
So don't move.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
The Breakfast Club.
B.J.
M.V.
Angela Yee.
Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
We got a special guest
on the phone lines right now.
We have NeNe Leakes.
Welcome.
Yes, y'all.
Quarantined in Atlanta, Georgia.
Yes.
NeNe just told us we look sad.
NeNe said all of us look sad.
Y'all are looking sad.
NeNe, I was wondering how stressful was it for you
watching the first part of the reunion
For Real Housewives of Atlanta last night
It was a lot
I didn't watch it
I don't like to watch the reunion
It just bothers me, okay
Why are the ladies of Atlanta so catty?
Y'all go at each other crazy
I mean, to the point I'm like
Why? Y'all hate each other that much?
They be coming at me
Honestly Because I am the queen You don't see the crown? to the point I'm like, why? Y'all hate each other that much? They be coming at me, honestly,
because I am the queen.
You don't see the crown?
Okay, I see the turban.
Now, I saw that you said that
after the reunion, you actually went
into therapy just because it was so stressful.
So are you currently in therapy now?
I am currently in therapy.
What I feel about the reunion is
I'm consistently attacked.
And it is, for some people who are looking at it as entertainment for them,
but it's not entertaining for me to be sitting in a seat where people are constantly attacking everything about you.
So that alone is me therapy.
And therapy is only for me after this to center myself and make sure I don't run over
to no one's house and knock
it down and go in there and choke the s*** out of it.
Oh, can you touch on... Well, Nene,
I'm glad you're going to therapy, Nene, because I feel like
everybody needs to go to therapy. I go
once a week, but Candy said
that you only go into therapy
as a damage control tactic.
What's your thoughts on that?
What damage do I need to control?
I didn't do anything.
You guys watched the show.
I sat there.
They said what they said.
I said what I said.
Candy just wants to be number one.
You know, she's never been number one
in anything that she's done.
So coming over here to my house,
she wants to be number one.
This seat is not available yet.
It's available when I give it to her.
She's number two. be number one is just this seat is not available yet it's available when i give it to her she's
number two when did you and candy end up being so not for each other because i don't even know how
that necessarily happened it's like people take sides i don't understand how y'all got into that
space candy and i have never had an issue we had our little issue years ago we let it go so i did
this youtube show i have a youtube channel i'm sorry
and i spoke on there about uh a situation that never involved her i never called her name imagine
looking at a video and saying she's talking about me so basically that's what she did she looked at
my video where there was no names called and she said she's talking about me and she just ran with
it now i did what these girls say
that you should do if you and that person are cool why can't you call them up right so i said sure
i'm gonna call candy on the side send candy some text messages she started firing back at me in the
text message candy this is not about you he continued to do it i text her days later text
her again and so her candy it's not about you. She continues.
So from that, she just, I knew she just wanted some smoke with me. She's been boring for a while
now. And so, you know, what better way to have somebody to call your name candy than to put it
in line with Nene Lee. Now, Kenya says that she believes that you're on an apology tour right now.
She believes that, you know, you weren't on many episodes this season, and that's the reason
why you're on this apology tour
to get more screen time. Is that
true? I started this show.
I've had all the screen time, okay?
And that's a fact. I've been here since the very
first day they rolled their camera.
So I've had all the screen time I need. And
for Miss Kenya Skinmore,
if I was on six episodes,
my check would be bigger than hers.
So she should shut all the way up.
Okay?
What'd you call her?
Kenya what?
Kenya Moore.
Bad skin.
Now, what I did do, I did apologize.
What's wrong with apologizing?
Okay?
So at first they want you to apologize, right?
Then when you do apologize, you're on an apology tour.
It's been made fun of.
What do you want from me?
Now, Nene, every time I think that you and Kenya are about to be in a better space,
somehow it goes left.
Like I saw you guys, you know, I saw you apologize to her on the show,
and she was apologizing to you, and it felt like, you know, she was going.
She did not apologize to me.
I don't know what she thought.
Okay, you couldn't get her to apologize. Right.
And it feels like every time y'all are about to get into a better space, somehow things just go left.
And I did have sympathy for the fact that she was going through what she was going through with her husband
and having a baby and being emotional and upset.
And you did seem to have some sympathy for that as well.
Do you think there is any way y'all will ever resolve things,
or it's just F her forever?
I don't see us ever resolving anything.
Listen, when you're on a show like this,
there are several different personalities, right?
There are six girls.
Everybody needs to play their position and ride in their lane.
The problem is people want to cross over into your lane.
This is my lane.
You can't get over here.
Stay over there.
Now, if the show didn't want me here, then the show would take me off.
So I'm here, and I'm here for a reason.
Skinya Moore needs to ride in her lane.
You said Skinya?
Did you say Skinya?
She said Skinya.
Skinya Moore.
Skin.
Stop being disrespectful, Nene.
Now, Nene, listen, right?
Don't tell me to be disrespectful.
Don't be disrespectful.
These girls have said the most nastiest things about me.
So they deserve a diss every now and then.
Skin.
That's true.
I saw somebody talking about you.
I saw Claudia Jordan.
She had Vivica Fox on.
And they implied that you have a drug habit, Nene.
That was really f***ed up.
I have never done any drugs.
I've never even smoked a cigarette in my life, okay?
So I've had family members,
I speak about this on the show,
that's been on drugs before.
I've never been on drugs.
Now, I've been on plenty of vodka,
but I ain't never been on no drugs before.
I will never do drugs, okay?
So for somebody to go so low and insinuate something like that
to defame your character is really effed up.
And I thought me and Vivico was cool.
Is she on f***ing drugs?
Don't ever put me in that category, okay?
Now, people believe that you can give it but maybe not take it.
They said that during the taping, you closed your laptop,
and they said that was because they were getting on you too much.
Why did you close your laptop and walk away?
They weren't getting on me too much.
What they were doing was not being fair.
It's one thing about being able to stand in the line of fire
and everybody shooting you, they would accept it.
But if the game isn't fair, why am I standing here letting you guys shoot?
Listen, I'm just one person.
I must be a badass bitch for
four or five girls to come against me at one
time. Now I'm going to shoot every last one of them.
Trust me to believe that. But it wasn't
fair. And then they were talking about
things like, you're talking about Wendy
Williams. We've been quarantined.
Okay? When Wendy and I had a disagreement
that has nothing to do with the Real Housewives
of Atlanta. But if you want to
discuss it, okay, I'm fine with discussing it,
but let's discuss the s*** that happened with you since we've been in quarantine.
Candy's restaurant been shut up, so why didn't we talk about that?
So all I was asking that it be fair.
Now, what they did that made me close my laptop was first I had to go pee, okay?
So I get up to go pee.
I look at my phone, and they say the thirsty Yvonna girl is going to be coming on. I look down
and say, this is some bullshit.
I said, y'all can have a reunion.
So let them finish the reunion.
I'm not in that many episodes. They talking
about me the whole time. My thing
is, bring Yvonna from
Snakegate, right? If you're going to bring her, bring
her. But why don't you bring the cookie lady?
Why don't you bring Mark Daly
who's had all these problems with Kenya? Why don't you bring Mark Daly, who's had all these problems with Kenya?
Why don't you bring Dennis, who's had issues with Portia?
Why are you guys focused on me?
Let's bring up everybody's shit.
Don't just bring up mine.
So that's why I left.
It looked like Portia had your back, though, which was surprising.
Portia seemed like she had your back.
I got this.
We took a break, and I called Portia on the phone.
I said, when we get back home, you just take a break.
You done had my back, and I got yours now.
Like, she totally had my back.
All right, we have more with NeNe Leakes.
When we come back, don't move.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
EJ, Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
We're kicking it with NeNe Leakes.
Yee.
I want to talk about you and Cynthia as well.
Let's do some more positive things
because you and Cynthia also had a moment where you guys on the series actually mended your relationship as well.
So do you feel like with you and Kenya, because she clearly, I mean, with you inside, with you and Portia, clearly you guys had a special relationship and she looks up to you.
And also with you and Cynthia, are those relationships stronger now? Do you think they'll ever be the same than what they were before,
or have things changed?
Now, where Cynthia is concerned, you know, my issue with her is
I was friends with her for almost 10 years, right?
So if you see someone saying some s*** about the person,
even though me and you ain't cool like we used to be,
I was friends with you for 10 years,
you can speak up and be like, that girl is not like that.
So I lose respect when she's just sitting over there chilling like,
oh, like she knows that that's not who I am.
The least she could do is speak up and be like,
that girl is not like that, you know?
And then Kenya said a couple things at the reunion
that I know she got from Cynthia.
So right there, I wasn't really feeling none of that.
Are you going to go to her wedding?
I don't know, honey. I want her to have a great wedding, so it's probably best I don't really feeling none of that. Are you going to go to her wedding? I don't know, honey.
I want her to have a great wedding, so it's probably best I don't be there.
Because any time I enter anything, they act like it's my fault.
If I ask for an extra Coca-Cola, it's my fault.
So literally, if I go to her wedding, I have to bring my own food and my own drink.
You think they're going to poison you, NeNe?
Yes, child.
They'll be asking me that I eat two pieces of chicken instead of one.
NeNe, let me tell you something. Nini? Yes, child. They'll be asking me that I eat two pieces of chicken instead of one. Nini,
let me tell you something. I'm glad you
closed your laptop during this show because
y'all look stupid as f***.
Y'all look crazy screaming at each other
through Zoom. Y'all look crazy
as hell.
Are you serious?
Are you really glad I closed my laptop?
Yes.
Y'all look crazy yelling at each other through goddamn Are you serious? Are you really glad I closed my last time? Yes. Because DJ really just said.
Y'all look crazy yelling at each other through goddamn. It was very.
Did you see it, Charlamagne?
Like, it's very entertaining.
Like, when Portia said the evil, it looks like your breasts are social distancing from each other.
Like, they go in crazy.
Like, it's so.
Yeah, I was definitely watching that last night.
I'm like, I'm like, this is like, I'm glad y'all was apart because they would have started fighting.
They call Nene look like an episode from White Chicks.
Like, they go hard.
Oh, they got that from, what's his name?
The Wayan Brothers.
She can't even be original, honey.
Come with something else.
I'm a brown girl all the way through, honey.
What the wig on?
They're going to put on another one when I get off with y'all.
Okay?
I saw you say that you wrote down
all your reads, though, Nene.
That's right. Why you wrote down all your
reads? I am elderly
and menopausal, and I
have no memory. So everything
got re-read down.
You didn't want to forget. I saw you
tell Eva she was licking
bottoms, and they had to mute you after that.
You said what? Licking bottoms? To stay on top, honey. Yeah, licking bottoms, and they had to mute you after that. You said what? Licking bottoms?
To stay on top, honey.
Yeah, licking bottoms out in L.A. to stay on top.
You mean ass?
Is Eva coming back to the show?
I don't know, honey.
She's boring.
I don't see the purpose of her.
Yeah, talk about her finances, but she did buy a new house, right?
Finally, she probably got one of the ones you had done refurbished.
Damn.
NeNe, what's wrong with eating ass, NeNe? I commend anybody who's buying a house.
That's all you got out of this, Charlamagne? What's wrong with eating ass?
Yes, I want to know why she ass-eating
shame. Why are you shaming people who eat ass, NeNe?
Charlamagne, you ain't never
had your ass eaten before.
I don't think you can lick all the ass you want to lick,
but the problem is, don't be shooting over here, man.
You don't want to get shot back now.
The last time you was on top was top model.
That's where we know you from, and that was the last time we heard of you.
Okay, now you don't trickle down over here to Atlanta while you was out in L.A.
You were licking bottoms to try to be and stay on top.
I'm just saying, that's what the word is, girl.
Y'all been licking all these people.
Now, Nene, are you coming back? I mean,
the fact that you gotta
see somebody so you don't knock on Kenya's door
and strangle her. The fact that you gotta
close the laptop because you tired of these women.
Are you coming back? Is this messing up
your mental space?
It is messing up my mental space.
The only way I see
myself coming back is that I'm treated
the proper way.
Uh, I feel like it's very unfair and I feel like production has a lot to do with that.
I feel like production see what's happening and they can easily say, you know, it ain't fair.
Let's switch this up.
Let's it consistently attacking Nene is ridiculous to me at this point.
If that's all that we're doing, then why am I on the show?
You know, every time I sit on the show, as these girls say, you're not in every episode.
I'm not in every episode. So isn't there something else to be talking about instead of just consistently talking about Nene?
What do you guys do?
And then they like to do interviews and say, she's not in every episode.
She's not doing that.
I am the show, honey.
Have you watched it?
On the fun side of things, you have a new single out now.
Are they going to talk about
your music on the show? What's happening with that?
Come and get this, honey. I think they played a clip of it yesterday, right?
They played a little clip of it. Yes, they did.
They did talk about it a little bit yesterday
on the reunion. And as far
as I know, you know, these
girls have all said decent things.
They've all been supportive of the song.
What if Kandi wanted to do a song
with you and produce something?
Would you be okay with that?
No, it would not be okay.
Don't act like Kandi can't write hits, NeNe, now.
Kandi writes some hits.
I'm not dissing her.
I just don't think the work relationship would be proper.
I mean, we work together already.
So I wouldn't want to.
Honestly, this is not dissing Kandi.
This is to everyone in this group.
I work with them on the show, and I would not work with them outside of the show on anything.
Everyone?
Everyone.
What about Marlo?
Not even Marlo?
Everyone.
I will not do business with anyone on this show.
Unfortunately, I cannot.
And that's just how it is.
Now, hold on, Nina.
You guys were talking about starting a wine thing together, though.
I remember seeing that and you were excited about all of you coming together and doing a wine.
I was, but that didn't work out either, baby.
You see I'm still sitting here about doing no wine.
Marlo said you don't ride for her as hard as you should, NeNe.
Why you don't ride for Marlo?
Really?
I can't believe Marlo said that.
I ride for Marlo.
You know, I think it's actually kind of reversed a little bit.
Wait a minute.
Where did you get this from, Charlamagne?
Cite your sources.
Charlamagne be making some stuff up sometimes.
Marlo said, your ass don't always ride for me like that, though.
You'll clown me around, even them.
You ride for me, but you will kiki with them.
That's what she said, Nene.
Where did you get that from?
Cite your sources.
You know what?
I have my own personal conversations with Marlo.
Marlo and I are friends.
I can ride.
I got a lot of people on my back.
I can't carry everybody.
Listen, child.
You got a big back, NeNe.
Yes, you can.
No, my back is not that big.
Do you see it?
I can carry all of y'all.
I can only carry myself and maybe one other person, which I carry my family.
I can't carry everybody.
Anybody that's standing up for me, I'm standing up for them.
That's how I go.
That's how it works.
I'm a real chick.
Have you ever spoke after that whole thing?
Have you, Wendy, ever spoke after that whole back and forth thing?
I was going to bring that up.
Yep.
No, you know what?
We did not.
We have not spoken since then.
Unfortunately, I have definitely reached out to her, going by the rules that all these people love to say, call or text or something.
I've called her several times and I've texted her several times.
Even on yesterday, I texted her Happy Mother's Day with no response.
Dini, I told you last time you was here, I asked you a simple question.
How can you be friends with Wendy Williams?
She's going to always do that to you if you are friends with her.
That's just how she is.
She can't even help it.
I understand.
I understand, and I get it.
But I'm just being the friend that I am.
Do you think you was wrong for calling her on FaceTime like that?
No.
Yeah, I don't think so either.
Simple answer.
No, I think we're friends.
We're friends. And I've called her before on FaceTime, and don't think so either. Simple answer. No, I think we're friends. We're friends.
And I've called her before on FaceTime, and I always let her know.
So it's not like I called her and said, oh, my God, you know,
and just started saying some stuff,
and she started talking without knowing people were in the background.
I said, I'm on FaceTime.
I mean, I'm on Instagram Live.
And so I was trying to call her to promote her show,
which I've done before, and she did it.
I said, you're going to start something new tomorrow.
Tell them what you're doing tomorrow.
And then she was talking, and suddenly I know her.
It felt like somebody might have texted her.
And then suddenly she hung up the phone.
Then she started saying, Bravo, that or not, you know, film.
Then I'm like, Bravo?
We're 14.
What the hell Bravo is?
And she shitted on Real Housewives of Atlanta, though.
She basically was like, it's like
bottom feeding type
sh** is what she called it.
We make several seven figures,
honey, okay? So we're the bottom
feeders. That's those other shows.
Not this show.
Watch your
so-called friends, Nene. That's all
I'm going to tell you when it comes to Wendy. Watch your so-called
friends, okay? Listen, I get it'm going to tell you when it comes to Wendy. Watch your so-called friends, okay?
Listen, I get it, Charlamagne.
I get it.
We don't talk.
I get it.
All right, we got more with Nene Leakes.
When we come back, don't move.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
We're kicking it with Nene Leakes.
Yee.
So, Nene, what about you and Greg?
That's another thing that's been a big topic this whole season.
And obviously, we discussed it on lip service and everything.
And people were saying that you guys have an open relationship.
How did that affect things with you and Greg?
People weighing in on what's going on with y'all.
No effect.
No effect at all.
Greg is right here.
There's nothing to affect.
You know, when you're in a marriage or in a relationship with someone, you have to know what you have, and you guys have to be strong.
So Greg and I are on television,
so we realize that people are going to say things about us.
You know, he's with a woman, I'm with a man.
It's always that.
And I think people always say things like that because Greg is older than me, so they think I'm talking to me.
Now, I flirt.
Greg says in his face that Nene is a flirt.
At the end of the day, Greg is my husband.
Period.
Okay?
And I don't know what these people want from us.
We're together every day.
I rock his ring.
We live in the same house together.
He sleeps in this bed.
What do you want?
Absolutely.
How is quarantine life right now with your husband?
I think Greg and I have gotten closer since quarantine, honestly.
You know, I've heard a lot of people saying things about there's going to be a divorce rate higher.
I travel an awful lot, so I'm not with Greg as much in the house.
And so us being in the house together, I think it's really brought us closer.
They say Cynthia Bailey's getting replaced by Phaedra Parks.
How do you feel about that?
That's interesting.
That would probably be a decent move.
You know, I'm not saying that Cynthia should
go off the show. I'm just saying, considering
you viewers and everything that's
happening, so many people have been wanting to
see Phaedra come back because
one of the things is she had an issue with
Kandi. As soon as Kandi
had a real issue, instead of making up a
fake one with Mimi, your real issue
Kandi is with Phaedra. The real issue, Candy, is with Fajah.
The moment they said that, Fajah, she was just like,
I'm going to quit the show.
No, don't quit.
Uh-uh.
I know you ain't closing your laptop.
Let Fajah come on over here and say what she got to say.
Yeah.
So if they've been changing out a little bit,
I think they do need to make a move, though.
Honestly, I think it needs to be a really big shakeup.
Whether I'm here or not, it needs to be a big shakeup. I think two people need to go a move, though. Honestly, I think it needs to be a really big shakeup. Whether I'm here or not, it needs
to be a big shakeup. I think two people need
to go. What two people should go?
What two people that you would get rid of?
No, I ain't gonna say, because both of y'all, you little
nasty tails. I already know.
I already know who she'll say.
Who are the two people? Kenya?
Kenya and Kandi?
First of all, I have never
said Kenya should leave the show. I've never said Kendi should leave the show.
I've always said Kendi should be on the show. She's good
for the show. Whether I like her or not,
she's controversial. She's crazy.
She's the craziest person. I know that girl ain't got no sense.
She's perfect for the show. She'll do things
and say things that nobody else would do or say.
She needs to be here. Okay?
Even I won't say anything.
Okay. There you go.
I didn't say K needs to go either.
I said Candy is Atlanta.
Candy is Atlanta.
As far as celebrity, she's 285 and I'm 20.
That's it.
All right.
Okay, this is my last question for real,
because this is going to really bother me if I don't ask you this.
What's that?
Who told you that Eva ate their ass?
You can't just be making stuff up like that.
Who told you that Eva ate their ass? Because you can't just be making stuff up like that. Who told you that, Nene?
What a hilarity.
Who told you that, Nene?
You got that from somewhere.
You didn't just make that one up.
That's very specific.
Listen, I'm not just trying to defame anybody's character,
but the streets are talking.
The streets?
The streets are talking.
My goodness.
Introduce your record, NeNe.
Introduce your record.
Come on, let's get into it.
Where they're celebrating, the streets saying.
What do the streets say?
Oh, boy.
And you already defamed her character
because you said she's just out here eating random ass.
At least if you tell us who it is,
we might can understand why she did it.
She didn't say it like that.
She just said licking bottoms to get to the top.
This is good, Yee.
Let them go, Yee.
This is good, Yee.
Let them go.
Let them go, Yee.
And she said bottoms.
A couple people told her that.
Eva, we're going to need a response from you, Eva.
I need to know.
I need to know, man.
I don't believe this.
I don't believe that you're out here eating random ass, Eva.
I don't believe it.
Oh, my goodness.
That is hilarious.
Listen, they said it.
The tree said it.
I said it.
The tree said that you got that said it. I said it.
The streets said that you got that licking bottom to stay on top.
I'm not lying.
That's what the streets said, man.
They said she got that licking bottom.
You are crazy.
Lord have mercy.
Let's get into the single now.
I'm going to assume she doesn't want Eva back.
Can we play the single?
I want to DJ in the houses, honey.
All right.
Okay, so Eva's one of the people you don't want back.
All right, we got it.
Well, introduce the record, NeNe.
We want to hear the record.
Introduce the record.
Joe May got me on my thing.
You know what I'm saying?
He's going to be brushing his beard and talking about the street.
Call your therapist, NeNe.
As soon as you get off this Zoom, you call your therapist.
You need a session.
I'm calling my therapist, NeNe. My therapist is the best this Zoom, you call your therapist. You need a session. I'm calling my therapist, Charlemagne.
My therapist is the best.
Okay, you guys.
Let me introduce to you my very first off.
Lady Luck.
Did you like it, Charlemagne, first?
I got to get in y'all's head first.
What did you like?
I didn't hear it.
I'm about to hear it for the first time.
You didn't hear it?
You didn't hear it?
It's been very viral.
No, I haven't heard it yet.
Charlemagne, okay, you know what I need you to do.
I need you to listen to the song.
When I came on the last time, you did all your good homework.
And now you didn't do this?
Why you didn't do that?
He didn't do the challenge, Nene.
He got to do the challenge.
The challenge?
I didn't see the challenge.
The challenge is, Charlamagne.
No, you know what?
That boy asked me the craziest question ever.
That's crazy.
No, I don't know if I heard the record or not.
I think I did, though.
I didn't like it when I heard it, though.
What?
I'm going.
No, I didn't hear the whole thing.
Angela played a snippet of it in Runaway Report.
We played a snippet of it, yeah.
I didn't like what I heard, though.
What you had heard?
I don't remember. It was just like a snippet of it. I don't like what I heard, though. What you had heard? I don't remember.
It was just like a snippet of it.
I don't remember.
I need you to come do cocktails and conversation with me, Chalamet.
You is a hot man.
I'm coming.
I want to come with quarantine over, though.
I need to look you in your eye.
You should come over here and quarantine with me.
You're going to love it.
See how beautiful and fabulous it is here?
It does look nice.
You got some nice feng shui going on.
If y'all don't, if you don't
intro this record.
I am DJ. I'm about to move into one of your houses, baby.
Okay? Okay?
DJ is in your house, buddy.
I'll be watching you. I'm learning about real estate.
I'll be watching you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Are you going to introduce the record?
Yeah, go there, y'all. Okay, let me introduce to you
my first single,
Come Get This Honey!
Now, give me your Twitter, Nene, because I want
everybody to tell, I want them to
at you about what they think about the record
so you can see what people think
about it in real time.
Nene Leakes.
Nene Leakes. NeNe Leakes.
And on Instagram.
NeNe Leakes.
Okay.
Well, thank you, NeNe, for joining us.
And it don't matter if I don't like the song.
I like you, NeNe.
Yes, I like you too, but you must like the song.
Don't you play with me.
We're going to get the song on now.
It's The Breakfast Club, Good Morning. Come on and get this. It's this thing on now. It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Come on and get this.
Is this thing on?
Honey, come on and get this.
Hey, my...
It's time.
She's spilling the tea.
This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club.
Yes, so Diddy posted a toast that he made to Andre Jarrell,
a speech that he gave earlier in the year after winning the Industry icon award at a pre-Grammys gala.
And one person that he definitely highlighted was Andre Harrell.
Here is part of that speech.
I want to take the time to thank Andre for being a big brother, for believing in me.
I'm only standing up here because you gave me the chance. As a black
man, you took me underneath your wing. He was patient with me. You taught me and you talked to
me. You taught me about the game. You believed in me. Even to today, you still teach me. And I call
you my big brother. But tonight, I got to tell you the truth that I told you my father died when I was two and a half.
Andre, you've been my father for the last
like 30 years, B.
In the caption, Diddy wrote, I honestly still can't
believe it. I've got to give myself the reality
of this in doses because I can't
even handle this. I hope to God that you are all
blessed to have someone in your life that loves you
and believes in you like this man
believed in me. I'm going to miss him so much.
I can't even imagine life without Dre.
God bless Gianni, O'Neal McKnight, and the rest of the family.
So sad, man.
Dropping the clues bombs for Diddy, man.
The beauty of that is Diddy gave him a tribute
when Andre was alive to hear it and feel it.
That's why it's important to tell your brothers and sisters
you love them, value them, and appreciate them, man.
Don't be afraid to celebrate people.
Don't worry about people who say, oh, you kissing their ass,
or you D-riding.
No, celebrate your folks at all times.
Yes, and Diddy's always been very vocal about what Andre Harrell
has done for him in his career.
Always.
And they've continued to work together, so we know what that is.
All right, now, Tekashi69, his address has leaked again,
so he's going to have to allegedly move yet again.
All right.
So we told you about this before.
He was at first in Long Island and a fan spotted him from her window on his balcony taking pictures.
So he had to leave and relocate to another residence in the Hamptons.
And they said he was spotted yet again.
Listen to this.
Oh, six nine.
Oh, six nine. Let me use, bruh bruh. Oh, f*** 6ix9ine.
Let me use your bathroom.
I got to piss.
Yeah, you can't have all these fancy cars and be on the run and be outside taking pictures on the balcony and all of that.
Of course people are going to see you.
At least this rented crib is gated, at least.
So at least he doesn't have to worry about people ringing his doorbell.
It has a little more protection.
But like you said, you can't have all those colorful, fancy cars and be under protection.
Like you can't hide with cars.
In plain sight.
And blue cars and yellow cars and rainbow cars.
Like it doesn't make any sense.
All right.
Now Dave has been renewed for a second season on FX.
It's their highest ranked comedy series ever.
So congratulations to them.
Great show, man.
They said the viewership was growing week to week.
And so it just was amazing for them.
They had an average of 5.32 million
and growing total viewers to date.
Hilarious.
I've watched that season twice.
Dave is very, very, very funny.
It's my kind of humor.
So I'm glad it's coming back.
Speaking of humor, let's get ready for a versus comedy battle.
And that battle looks like it could be between Afion Crockett and Kevin Hart.
Now the two of them are roasting each other on social media.
Listen to this.
What are you doing, Afion?
I'm eating asparagus, yams, and some steak bites.
Steak bites.
It's not a steak. Steak bites. Not a steak.
Steak bites.
From the sound of your conversation, you're eating steak bites with your dirty-ass hands.
You f***ing hands.
Hey, so you were an avid hand washer?
I'm an OCD with my hand washing.
Before this, like every time I saw you, especially, like if I ever shook your hand,
I made sure that I washed my hands a thousand times.
Wait a minute.
What the does that mean?
Because you look like a piece of shit.
And then Kevin Hart posted, man, Afion Crockett had me in effing tears yesterday.
My brother, Swizz, hit me and told me that this is a move that he wanted to make.
I didn't get it at first, but brother, I now see the light calling you ASAP, Swizz.
Let's get to work, champ.
You're a genius.
So it's just them roasting each other?
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.
You know what's funny?
Shout out to my girl, Tasha.
Her birthday was over the weekend.
She had a Zoom birthday party.
She works at BET.
And one of the questions they did ask,
because we played games for her birthday,
they were talking about what comedy versus battle
would you want to see?
So I guess that's something they've been planning to do anyway.
So we had a whole discussion on who we would want to see
in versus as far as comedians.
Yeah, but this generation is so sensitive
and they get offended by every little thing.
Like if you really did roast in the way we did back in the day,
could they handle it without getting upset?
Yeah, I think so.
I think so.
I think you can still be funny but not offended.
Nobody's going to cross that line.
Nobody's going to cross that line.
Yeah, right.
Them OG comedians,
those guys definitely will.
You get Cat Williams
and Mike Epps
and Kevin Hart
and Avion Crockett
and Lil Duval
and all them going at each other.
Yes, they will.
Donnell,
well, Donnell's not a real comedian,
but you know.
Get them going at each other
and see what happens.
He's hilarious. All right, I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor not a real comedian, but you know. Get them going at each other and see what happens. He's hilarious.
All right, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report.
All right, thank you, Miss Yee.
Now, Charlamagne, who you giving that donkey to?
You know, I really need these protesters in Florida
to come to the front of the congregation.
We'd like to have a word with them.
I feel like, you know, when you protest,
protests should definitely be about one cause,
and you can't contradict the cause
on your own. But we'll talk about it.
Alright, we'll get to that next. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast
Club. Good morning.
A.N.V. Angela Yee.
Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
We have a special guest on the line.
Maurice Bernard. This is a goddamn legend.
Alright now. Maurice Bernard, a.k.a.
Sonny Carinthos
from General Hospital. Charlemagne was very excited.
Now break down who he is, Charlemagne, and where people might know him from.
He's from General Hospital.
He plays Sonny Carinthos.
He's been doing that since the 90s.
How long have you been on there?
Since the 90s at least, right?
27 years, man.
God damn.
So if you was at your grandma's house or your mama's house and they liked the soaps,
I promise you, you know who Sonny Carinthos is.
Even if you don't watch the show, you know who Sonny Correntos is.
But he's got a book out now called Nothing General About It,
How Love and Lithium Saved Me, On and Off General Hospital.
And I love that title because it lets me know you're speaking to something
that's near and dear to my heart, which is being mentally healthy.
Yes, I know that.
I was diagnosed with bipolar 21.
I was put in a mental institution. and that was hell on earth, man.
It was very difficult.
But I escaped from the mental institution and survived.
Like really escaped?
Like broke out?
Yes, he did.
I had hard shoes that I wore in there, so I knew I had to get tennis shoes.
So I traded my leather jacket that I had for tennis shoes,
and the first time they let me out for a walk, I kept running, never looked back.
Cops were after me and everything.
Wow.
Wow.
Why didn't they arrest you?
Clearly they could have found you over the years.
Well, no, you know what? Wow. Why didn't they arrest you? Clearly they could have found you over the years. They didn't.
Well, no, you know what?
Once I got home, the doctor said to my mom,
if he wants to go home that bad, as long as you're all right with him,
violent-wise, he can stay home.
And so I stayed home.
Wow.
Now you talk about this in your book,
how you had a lot of red flags early on
to let you know that there was something wrong.
But I'm sure that like your mental health
wasn't something that you were even thinking about
because you were having hallucinations,
you were having anger issues and anger problems.
How difficult was the decision for your parents
to finally say that you had to go to a mental institution
to get some help?
I remember one night telling my dad that I thought,
let me just say one thing,
the exorcist destroyed me.
I saw the exorcist at 13 years old.
Yes.
You must have thought you were possessed.
Well, what happened was
that one night I woke up
and I went to my dad
and I said that I was the exorcist.
And I had like a crucifix
and I said I was going to bend it in half.
And then I hear that my mom on the phone
and I'm thinking,
well, who's she talking to? She better not be
calling the cops. And my dad said, no, no, she's calling the doctors. So the doorbell rings
and it's the cops. And my mom said that I looked at her like the biggest betrayal in the world,
but the cops couldn't do anything because then I become normal.
So the cops left, and the next morning, my mom and dad brought me to the hospital.
What age was this?
I was 21.
You were 21.
When did they start putting you on medication?
Wow.
Wow.
When did they start putting you on medication?
Because I know, you know, a lot of people don't just jump the medication.
You know, I go to therapy myself. I have never had putting you on medication? Because I know, you know, a lot of people don't just jump to medication. You know, I go to therapy myself.
I have never had to be on medication.
But when did they decide you needed to be on medication?
Well, in the men's institution, that's all I was on was medication.
And the problem in there is if I didn't take my medication,
they would throw you in a seclusion room that had four walls
and you were tied down to a bed.
Damn.
That was hard.
How did you find the proper dosage, though?
Because a lot of people talk about that with their medication,
too. You know, you can take too much and it can
have effects on you. How did you
know the proper dosage?
I finally met
this doctor who saved my life, man. His name is Dr. Nunon.
And nobody could tell me what was wrong with me ever. I was like, can you just... And he sat me
down and listened to me. He listened to me. At the end, he said, you're manic depressive,
and I'm going to put you on lithium. And I said, thank God that now I know what I have.
But that wasn't, that wasn't, after that got real hard. Why? Well, depression hit, starts coming in.
So it was very difficult. After all that, how did you get into acting? Like that's, it seems so,
you know, it's just, well, you know, before I had my first breakdown,
I had just gotten into acting.
And I think the pressure of trying to be an actor in my hometown
who kind of ridiculed me in a way,
they didn't think I would ever be anything,
that's what, you know, got me to have a nervous breakdown.
But then I kept pursuing acting afterwards.
And thank God it worked out, man.
Because if it didn't work out, it would have been a tough road for me.
Maurice, now you were told to hide the fact that you were bipolar
and that you were dealing with these issues.
Do you think that you really wouldn't have gotten any dealing with these issues. Do you think that
you really wouldn't have gotten any work if you would have been honest about that?
I don't think maybe not completely, but the person who said it to me scared me enough
that I didn't want to talk about being mentally ill. And then one day I did talk about it in a
little soap magazine. And I got a letter from a boy who said that by reading what I had written
helped him cope with his brother who took a gun and killed himself.
Wow.
And I said after that, I don't care.
I'm talking about mental health forever,
and I've been talking about it for 30 years.
That's great.
Yeah, I find it very therapeutic, like even just talking
about my own experiences.
You know what I mean? Like, of course, we go to therapy
every week and that's good as well, but when you finally
when you're not fronting about it and you're just being
open about it, I find that that helps
you to stay mentally healthy too.
Yes. How'd you get over your
anxiety? Yeah, I'm not going to say I'm over
it, but I know how to deal with it a little bit better.
You know what I mean? Breathing exercises, meditation, you know, keeping, you know,
sometimes I'll take my shoes off and go walk outside barefoot in the grass, you know, just to ground myself.
And just, you know, I think for me, it's always been about the irrational fears.
Rational fears don't bother me, meaning like I can get on the radio and talk to millions of people
or walk out on the stage and talk to a whole crowd, but I can be sitting in the house
and hear the wind blow crazy on the house and think the whole house is about to blow away. So
it's, it's like that. But can you ever get over any, any of those things though? You know,
bipolar wise, I haven't had a breakdown in 27 years. That's great. I'm cool with that. I'm cool with that.
Depression,
maybe five,
six years.
Anxiety,
as we speak,
I'm going through stuff.
So I have to fake it here to make it,
you know what I mean?
Is it because of the coronavirus?
Yeah,
I think that's a,
that's part,
I think that's a big part of it. It,
you know, that heightens everything.
And it's hard for me to sleep.
And then I get scared that I can't sleep.
It's a whole thing.
How does your family help you with it, too?
Because I see your wife in the background.
How does your family help you with dealing with that?
Bro, your wife's topless in the background.
I don't know if you know that.
You know what?
Here's what my wife does.
If I'm going through a panic attack or any kind of thing like that,
her voice is calm.
It calms me.
All she has to say is,
honey, you're fine.
And I start feeling better.
That's what she does.
And she's done it our whole life, over 30 years.
Wow.
All right, we have more with Maurice Bernard from General Hospital.
When we come back, don't move.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Howdy, it's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
We're still kicking it with Maurice Bernard from General Hospital,
a soap opera.
Charlamagne?
I saw you post on Instagram that you never imagined you could write
a book. Why is that? Why did you think you never
could write a book? Because I barely
graduated. I copied my way
through high school and barely graduated.
I never imagined that I
could write a book. I just
don't, you know, I don't, I'm not
educated or anything like that.
So, but you know what?
I can.
You got a story.
So when you got a story, you just tell your story.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
Was it therapeutic for you?
You know, when I did the audio book, that was real therapeutic.
I mean, by the last two chapters, I was like crying like crazy.
Because I've dealt with a lot of death in my life.
And a lot of death where I wasn't able to say bye to anybody.
Wow.
So this coronavirus stuff is really a trigger because people are dying and they're dying alone.
And you can't go to the funeral.
So this is really a trigger for you probably.
Yeah, it's not good.
I just don't watch TV.
That's difficult to do, yeah.
Now, Maurice, another thing to take into consideration is how, you know,
your mental wellness has affected the people around you, your family members,
your wife in particular, who went through a lot while you were going through what you were going through.
And so what have the conversations been like as far as writing this book?
Has it been eye-opening?
What did Paula have to say about the things that she went through and helped you with along the way? conversation's been like as far as writing this book has it been eye-opening what did paula have
to say about the things that she went through and helped you with along the way you know dealing
with a lot of of your running around and hoping that you would eventually but not knowing that
you would come around and even propose to her what are some of the things that you found out
from the people that are in your life who are important to you? Well, as far as my wife, you know, there's no
denying that I was, early on, I was carousing quite a bit, and she didn't have to stay with me.
She moved in with me at 17 years old. She moved in with my mom and dad, but, you know, our love just
grew. It grew and grew and grew, and I'm not saying that I was in love from the beginning.
It wasn't like that.
It was just a slow, a gradual grow.
And if I had not been with her, my life would be in shambles.
I got to tell you that.
Maurice, define carousing.
That sounds like a little fancy word for having your d*** in the dirt.
What is carousing. That sounds like a little fancy word for having your d*** in the dirt. What is carousing?
Well, when she moved in with me, I wasn't ready to settle down.
So I had a...
I should go over there and talk to her.
You look behind your back.
Making sure she don't have a weapon.
You got to whisper through this part.
Let's move on.
We can move on.
Don't worry about that.
I don't want to get you in no trouble.
Goodness gracious.
What is it like for you when you go out in the public?
Because you've literally been on people's TVs every day for a long time.
Grandma swarmed you in the grocery store and aunties.
How does that work?
It works in two ways.
In L.A., nobody cares.
They don't care about it.
But in New York, Sonny's the mayor.
I mean, it's like, Sonny, everywhere I go, it's fantastic, man.
That's what I love about New York.
I would think down south, too.
That's why I grew up in South Carolina.
Yeah, too. That's why I grew up in South Carolina.
Yeah, completely.
There's clearly a lot of job security in the soap opera world, right? Because once you land those jobs, it's like you're on there forever.
Is that the plan?
Yeah.
Once you get popular, you're golden.
27 years for me has been good.
Is it possible to move on to other roles after that, though?
Like, could you go do something in a film?
Yeah.
In the last two years, I've done quite a bit.
I played John Gotti in a TV movie.
I worked in a movie with Mickey Rourke, a horror movie, Nightmare Cinema.
And I also worked with Equal Standard with Ice-T, and that was a cool film.
You know, so I've done enough outside of the soap.
But you know what, man?
There's no job like soap opera.
Really?
There's no job like soap opera.
Because you only work a few months, right?
No, we work all the way through.
Okay.
We have three weeks off, two weeks on, another week off,
and it works like that Mike my wife is telling
me to tell you that Stephen A's at my buddy and not forget to mention Stephen
A's how you and Stephen A got cool because he tweeted out that he was a big fan of
the show and so I tweeted him and then we became you know kind of cool and then
he came on my show he He had me on his show.
And then I got him on GH.
And let me tell you something about Stephen A.
That dude can act.
Really?
And I'm not just saying that.
He can act.
Wow.
You know what's not easy?
And I learned this from reading your book, memorizing 20 pages of lines.
You said you had to memorize all of those lines to do the soap opera.
People don't realize, like, that's not easy.
I don't even know how you can train your lines to do the soap opera. People don't realize, like, that's not easy.
I don't even know how you can train your mind to do something like that.
And, you know, not only that, I've had to memorize 30, 40 pages.
And we do things in one take, one or two takes.
Wow.
What's this special acting technique I keep hearing about that you use to play Sonny?
Well, I'm a method actor.
I was taught the method. And what that is,
is I use everything in my own life
into the acting.
What the hell is happening in your real life
that you can use that to play Sonny?
Who have you ordered a hit on?
Well, it ain't the mob stuff, obviously.
Well, don't incriminate yourself.
Yeah, right.
But it's a lot of, like, right now he's going,
his father is dying of Alzheimer's,
so I have to think of my own dad and things like that.
So it's very tough.
Other than lithium, what do you do to stay mentally healthy?
I work out, try to work out, you know, try to eat good.
I've been trying to meditate to get through this anxiety.
I'm a boxer.
I've been boxing for over 25 years.
Really?
That helps, yeah.
And what are you doing now to hold you while you're in quarantine
and you're at the house?
What are you doing differently?
What are you watching now?
Right now it's raining, so there's really nothing to do.
But when it's not raining, I have goats, I have alpacas, I have animals.
And that kind of gives me some kind of calmness.
You said you have goats?
Yeah, man.
Buddy the Goat, he's a big Instagram star.
Really?
I didn't know that.
Yeah, he's fantastic, man.
I love goat, by the way.
I love to eat them.
I like to eat them too, but I won't eat goat.
Oh, my gosh.
Do you bring Buddy in the house?
No, no, no, I don't bring him in the house.
Okay, just asking.
I don't do that.
I just go out and hang with him out there.
Omari, salute to you, man.
This book is very important.
It's called Nothing General About It,
How Love and Lithium Saved Me
On and Off General Hospital. I want everybody
to go out there to Amazon, purchase
it. You said you did your own audio book, so I'm sure
it's available on Audible, so they can download
that right now.
Maurice, thank you for checking in.
Alright, thank you very much. It's been great.
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Gossip.
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Well, Evander Holyfield was on TMZ,
and they asked him about potentially a part three of fighting Mike Tyson.
Now, Evander Holyfield had put on social media,
are you ready?
The moment you've all been waiting for.
The champ is back.
I'd like to announce that I will be making a comeback to the ring.
I'm training to promote a charity that's very close to me.
Our Unite for Our Fight campaign aims to fill the void the pandemic has created
on access to resources our youth needs for emotional development and education.
Listen to Evander Holyfield.
You know, it wouldn't bother me to do so,
because, you know, I did it for 12, 13 years for free.
And, you know, I'm always thinking that
the person who takes care of themselves well,
they're the one that tends to last,
even though I'm four years older than him.
And, you know, I wouldn't be no problem.
Have you talked to him or have your team talked to him?
Have there been any conversations yet?
My manager, my manager, yeah, they've been talking and all that.
Now we've seen Mike Tyson training and he's talking about an exhibition match.
We want to see a part three of Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson.
I don't know if it's like a three-round exhibition match,
yeah, that's a good matchup.
Evander Holyfield's like, what, 57, 58 years old?
And Mike Tyson should only be fighting people his age.
I see folks getting gassed off those videos
that Mike Tyson posts on Instagram,
and they're like,
Mike Tyson could beat any heavyweight today.
Y'all clearly don't watch boxing.
Okay, Mike Tyson is 53 years old,
and those videos are like 30 seconds, okay?
To be in that ring for 3-4
rounds with a Tyson Fury
or a Deontay Wilder
or Anthony Joshua. Come on,
man. Mike would get hurt.
I think they're joking. They know Mike can't go
I don't think they're joking. I think they just don't know boxing.
I think
I see too many people very adamant. Mike,
you can beat any heavyweight now. No,
you don't watch boxing. Stop it. Yeah, I don't know.
People think that somebody 20 years older than them can possibly beat them.
But, you know.
That's somebody who has never boxed or even did a round in their life.
Exactly.
Mike, those videos are like 30 seconds apiece.
Like, those rounds are like three minutes.
You know what I mean?
That's a big difference.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
Now, Timbaland, in the meantime, since we're talking about health and training, he talked to BET Body of Work about becoming healthier and losing weight about his
body image, about self-confidence, his whole journey. Here's what he said. My relationship
with my body has been terrible. Now it's great. And the reason I say terrible, because you can
hide behind other things to master terrible. And for me, I think I hid behind money, the fame.
I always had confidence, but when I get by myself,
I remember I had this ex-girlfriend,
I told her, my breasts can't be big as your breasts.
And she felt bad.
I said, but me, it was like mentally it just came out.
Like my thoughts are so loud in my head that it just birded out.
He's absolutely right.
Your breast can't be bigger than your woman's breast.
And when you look down and all you see is stomach
and not your penis and your feet, something is wrong.
Nothing wrong with being healthier.
All right, now Scooter Braun,
he's talking about some things that he learned from public backlash.
He did an interview with British GQ,
and he said that he had considered
running for public office at one point.
Could you see Scooter Braun as the
governor of California or something
like that? Well, it's not
going to happen. He said, recently
I was attacked very publicly by someone
I don't know, someone who refused to have a conversation
with me and I wish that person
nothing but the best and hope that one day a dialogue
is had because I think it all could have been avoided with proper dialogue. But what it did
teach me was that if my children were teenagers, if they were a little bit older, this could have
been very hard for them. And I don't know if I'm comfortable being in public office, knowing the
amount of ridicule and exposure you get. And I don't know if I want to put my children through
that. So right now I'm trying to do the best I can from the private sector. So of course it feels like he's talking about Taylor Swift. But what's the
difference between being a politician and being a star manager like he is? Like everybody knows
he manages Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber. But what I think he was saying is that he didn't anticipate
something like that happening just from him, you know, being on his own in the background, being a manager. And that was something that thrust him into the spotlight. And he didn't anticipate something like that happening just from him, you know, being on his own in the background, being
a manager, and that was something that thrust him
into the spotlight, and he doesn't want to have that for
his kids in the future, so
he'd rather just play the background. They're going to have that regardless.
They're school-to-bronze kids.
Yeah, but I think that feud
with Taylor Swift was something he didn't anticipate.
Like, it wasn't because of his managing
Ariana Grande or managing Justin Bieber.
It was because of the purchase that he made that included her publishing.
And that wasn't something that he thought was going to happen.
And he's a celebrity.
He's something like a celebrity.
People know who he is.
Because if some random person with a Bosch Taylor Swift catalog, it wouldn't have been that.
But the fact that Scooter Braun, Justin and Ariana's manager, that's where the smoke comes.
And he was connected to Kanye.
He was Kanye's manager at that time too.
But I think when you are in politics, you are on the front lines every day,
like in the news, doing press conferences.
You're really putting yourself out there for people to weigh in.
He's just going to do it, guys.
He's not a celebrity.
He's a manager.
Like he's not doing being a manager to be a celebrity.
He's more in the background.
He doesn't have to do interviews.
He doesn't have to do any of those things. Right. That's not something that's required a celebrity. He's more in the background. He doesn't have to do interviews. He doesn't have to do any of those things.
Right.
That's not something that's required.
Like you can be more in the background.
Listen, when you see Scooter Braun on Dave, okay,
don't tell me about Scooter wanting to be in the background.
All right.
Scooter likes the attention.
Come on.
But I don't see him in the news every day talking.
I mean, I do think it's different if you're the governor.
I know we spend a lot of time on School of Brawn,
and he ain't want to be in the public light.
Yeah, I do think it's different.
He's not like Governor Cuomo.
You see him every day talking right now.
You know, I think it's a little different.
All right, now Future, it turns out,
is the father of Eliza Raines' baby girl.
You know, this has been an ongoing battle for Future,
and now the DNA tests have proven that he is 99%
likely the father of that toddler so that is according to Eliza Raines attorney he said his
client feels vindicated after he had accused her of lying in the case and at times denied being the
baby's father so at least she can now put that to rest he had filed a federal civil defamation
case against her alleging that she humiliated him
when she spoke out about their relationship
and claimed that she harassed him on social media.
The judge did order that they had to attend mediation
in that case.
He also filed a domestic violence case against her
and accused her of stalking him.
But the judge did throw that out.
Now, after this happened,
Future did take to social media and said,
keep it pushing, teach these hoes
how to keep their business off the Internet.
So that was seemingly his response to that.
All right.
How many kids Preacher got now?
I think he got like six.
I know on Mother's Day, he posted a little something to all of them.
And I know Masika had something to say, like, make sure you include her in these Mother's Day.
She said, go ahead and send that happy belated Mother's Day tweet sent to the fleet.
And he responded to her, you know me in real life, find someone else to comment on.
Future need to start wearing condoms.
You can't have the mask on and the condom off, God damn it.
Okay, put the condom on too.
And Cameron says that paid in full two conversations might be a reality.
Maybe that part two is coming.
Here's what he had to say when he was on Instagram Live with Pandora.
A couple hours ago, something we talked about pertaining paid in full two.
I don't want to say 100% yes,
but we're definitely in the talks about doing something similar to paid in full one.
I'm excited about that.
How can they make a paid in full two?
Wasn't it loosely based on a true story?
Yeah, but it still continues on and is loosely based.
And there's things that happened after that, I'm sure.
Mitch died.
Right.
Rico snitched.
Correct.
And then he came home, right?
I don't know.
I guess Ace lived happily ever after.
They're going to come home in 2020 in the middle of the social media era and pick up where they left off?
Then he come home like five years ago
Seven years ago, I believe
Who?
Well, look, we don't know what these conversations are
We don't know what's gonna happen
But they're in talks
I would love to know the plot
Pay the Ball is a classic, though
Classic movie
It is a classic
And shout out to Cameron
He, uh, yesterday during the Monday Night Mixtape
I played a joint last night
It was crazy
Cameron featuring Wale
Dope record
Dope, dope, dope
Yeah, shout out to Cameron.
He's amazing at double dutch, too.
Good for him.
Alright, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your
rumor report. Alright, thank you,
Miss Yee. Now, up next to People's Choice
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Breakfast Club. Now, we got to
shout to NeNe Leakes for joining us this morning.
NeNe, her messy ass.
I don't think there's two more parts.
I think there's two more
parts for the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion,
so there's a lot more coming.
She wants you to come to her crib. She wants you to
come to the crib and watch it with her, Charlamagne.
Y'all can be messy together.
Nah.
But you know,
I like Nene cool, though.
You know, Nene is just,
she's just Nene.
She Nene League.
She don't care.
She's not in character.
You know, that's who she is.
You either hate her
or you love her.
There you go.
She would have been
a good talk show host, though.
I could see being stressed out
for doing the reunion
and doing that show
and having to go back and forth,
that does seem stressful. I ain't gonna lie.
They look stupid as hell
screaming at each other on that goddamn Zoom,
though. Even if it wasn't Zoom, man,
those are older women
arguing about stupid stuff.
They just look stupid.
She would have been a damn
good daytime talk show
host. She still got time.
Yeah, she still can be.
She still can do it.
Well, she had her opportunity, but she got shut down by Wendy Williams and Calvin Hunter.
And she can get that opportunity again.
Maybe, maybe not.
All right.
There's so many different platforms you could go to.
And Maurice Bernard from General Hospital.
General Hospital.
Charlamagne was so excited about this.
I ain't gonna front.
I like to bring different guests to the Breakfast Club
because I like to touch a little bit of all audiences.
And General Hospital has been on for a long goddamn time.
And Maurice Bernard been on there for a long time.
And he's a mental health advocate.
And his new book is out right now.
And it's just talking about his struggles with his mental health issues and how, you know, lithium saves his life.
OK, so I want to I want to shout out somebody that DM me.
He had a question. He said, Dear Miss Angela, is it possible to love two women equally?
And how do I make that choice? What definitive question would you ask to figure it out?
And I posted it on my social media and now he responded and said
thank you for entertaining the question.
I come to the conclusion it's impossible
to love two women at the same time and the
mature thing would be to make the choice I feel is
right in my heart. And he asked me to please
shout out Shelly Dorsey from Chicago,
the world's most perfect woman.
Thank you.
So I guess he's made a choice already
in the span of this morning.
All right.
Well, when we come back, we got the positive note.
Don't move.
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Good morning.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
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Good morning.
And listen, I want to say happy born day to my homegirl, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly Bishop.
Okay, Dolly, my baby.
Today is her born day. That's my partner right there. Salutegirl Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly Bishop, okay? Dolly, my baby. Today is her born day.
That's my partner right there.
Salute to Dolly.
Now, Charlamagne, you got a positive note?
I do, man.
You know, our producer Dan asked a good question, too,
when talking about Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield fighting.
He was like, wouldn't head injuries be traumatic at their age?
Yes, they would be,
but I'm sure that they would wear helmets
or something like that.
At 50-something years old,
I don't think they would just go in there
with the gloves on and no helmets.
I think they would definitely wear helmets.
But the positive note is simply this.
They always say time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself.
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