The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club BEST OF -Best Comedians- Marlon Wayans, Kevin Hart and Will Packer + More

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

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Good morning, USA! you listen. actually have him on our Breakfast Club wall. Of course, when Marlon Wayans always comes through. Marlon Wayans is probably one of the funniest dudes to ever come up here and he's always up here. And we can't forget about our guy, Kevin Hart and Will Packer. When Kevin Hart comes up, you never know what to expect. And there is no holes barred when he's in the building. So today's show, we're gonna be kicking it to

Kevin Hart, Will Packer, and Marlon Wayans. So keep it locked, it's The Breakfast Club, good morning. ["Get It Up"] This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051 we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hello, this is James calling from Lumberjohn, North Carolina. Hey James from Carolinas, get it off your chest brother. Yeah, that song IDGF with Chris Brown in it, you know, you gonna give it up or whatever.

Yes, sir. That's a disrespectful song, man. This woman is telling him that she's in a relationship, she's good, he treats her good, the states are good, everything, and he's steady talking about, well, I remember when we used to get down, let's go get a room, come on, let's go.

You know, so disrespectful. How old are you, King? I'm 44. I'll be 45 next month. Okay, so we're in the same age range I'm 46. We've heard more disrespectful songs, bro I mean that's just been the norm in rmb and hip-hop for a long time You know men don't care if you got if the woman that uh, the woman got a good man Do you remember Carl Thomas? I wish oh my god that man He was a stalker The woman got a good man. Do you remember Carl Thomas? I wish oh my god She needed to build a wall around Carl Thomas Carl Thomas needed to be arrested He was talking was talking show us thank you brother, baby I know she regret giving that man. Yeah yeah Hello, who's this?

Hey, I just wanted to call y'all and uh, hey y'all good morning So I'm ain't a guy CJ every that's hilarious. What's happening? Good morning, baby. Appreciate you Hey, I also want to know I got two questions DJ. I mean, uh charlomane the god Yes, I need all your books. I got uh Shook one i'm reading that right now. Okay I got a new book called get honest or die lying why small talk sucks Okay, say less say less and I also want to uh shout out my wife and my kid damn. I thought you was a stud He sounded was a stud.

You sounded like a stud. Oh my god. Ah, Charlamagne! He did. I was the whole time I thought I wanted to. Hey, I listen to y'all every morning. OK. It's my first time calling, and I got straight through.

That's crazy. Well, we appreciate you, King. Hey, hey, hey, but Charlamagne, can you send me a book of stuff? I got you. We gon' I got a pack in here for you. I need that. I need that black privilege. Hold on. Don't hang up. OK. All right. Say less. Say less. All right, DJ, A.B., all right, Charlemagne.

I mean, all right, Jess. All right, babe. It ain't sound like a stud. I'm confused. Was it a stud at the end? Very much. No, it was the same person the whole time. It was the same person the whole time. It did sound, she did sound, I mean he did sound a little steady. Well he and she could have a wife regardless if she's a stud or not. Yeah, I was going to say yeah, wife and kids but, yeah, she ain't never denied. She ain't never denied so she probably was a stud.

Yeah, so she probably is. It's like, oh you got me, they asked for some books. Studs don't know they got a fam. Hello, who's this? Yeah, my name's Official. What's your mama call you? What's your mama call you? What's your mama call you? Nah, my real name is Official Coffee. You can look it up. Official Coffee?

I'm from Florida. North Miami, Florida. I totally understand. Carry on. Alright, well get it off your chest, brother. Alright, I just want to get off my chest. I've been, I got vision impaired in 2020. My rat name is Overthracked. I've been calling all day. I rap name is Ubertrack. I've been calling all day. I'm sorry, I'm very nervous.

I watch Restless Club every day. I listen to it. I can't watch it, I know well. But I just wanna say I'm thriving out here. I just wanna know if I can get a start out. I could get some followers up on Instagram. I'm trying to build my rap career. I'm blind and I'm stuttering because I can't believe that.

I'm talking to y'all right now. Sorry for not saying good morning, D.D. and E. So good, brother. Good morning, Charlamagne the God. Peace, peace. Good morning, Jess Hilarious. Good morning. You all are doing great things and you guys give me motivation because I'm the jack of all trades even though I'm blind,

I still strive and keep going on. I sell organic soap. I don't know if you guys like organic soap. I could have an address to send you guys some free samples. I'm just shocked right now. I'm sorry. I don't know what else to say. I rap. I'm on every platform. My rap name is Uber Thrax.

U-B-E-R. All right. T-H-R-A-X. I'm on every platform. Apple Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, YouTube, Spotify, everything. Now listen. And I also wanna talk about the T-Drips versus Drake. Hey, hey, hey.

Okay, I'ma slow down, I'ma slow down. No, we appreciate you and we appreciate you seeing us and appreciating us But this call is going on way too long, but he's blind. He's excited. He can't see I know but we appreciate you What you want to say about Kendrick Drake real quick 30 seconds or less, all right, man straight up I want to say I understand everybody feel like Kendrick Lamar won the battle He did cuz they not like us but Drake let us know he's a soft ass So all this you said we already knew but Drake said it already, but I respect both of them boys

But come on now Kendrick Lamar won that battle Kendrick Lamar won that battle and it's not even close You can't call somebody soft ass. They say't say I respect both of the boys, right? He already told us that he did not like him young He actually did though we thought and that uh tailor-made freestyle He said that that was gonna be one of Kendrick's angles, but that don't mean it still didn't hit when Kendrick said it He never said I'm a colonizer. You're you're something. He's a colonizer. Yeah Yo, whatever he was like and I. Yeah. He ain't say that. Yo, what if he was like, and just hilarious, you just glowing, like how you know?

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Hey yo, this Orlando from the 757. 757, what's up Orlando, get it off your chest. Man, I just want to give a big shout out to all the truckers, you know what I'm saying? We making it happen this morning. Salute to all the truck drivers, you know what I'm saying? We making it happen this morning. Salute to all the truck drivers out there, man, and all the truck driver wives, like Jess Hilarious.

No doubt. And every man, I just wanna know when we gonna bring that car show down to the 7-5-7. You know what? I got a food truck. I said, when you gonna bring your car show down to the 7-5-7. The 7-5- has been calling a lot.

And I think I'm going to try to do it next year. I'm not sure when. Maybe I can get the Hampton Coliseum to do it. But yeah, everybody from the 757, you know, went to Hampton University. So I got that's my second home down there. So I'm going to try to put a play together to get it down there though. No doubt. We got food trucks.

I think we got the best food truck down there. All right. Well, pull up in New York, New Jersey. You're a truck driver. You know mine is August 17th. Pull up down here. And I'm not just a truck driver, I'm an auto hauler. So you know you need them cars, boo, that's what I do. Say no more.

Say no more. Hit me in the DM. And you in the truck now, blow the horn for us. Baa. Hey, thank you, brother. Be safe out there on the road. All right, fam. Be safe.

Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. It's James calling on the road. All right, fam. Be safe. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. It's James calling from North Carolina. James from North Carolina. What's up? Get it off your chest, brother. Yo, I just wanted to say, man, the Marley family is so musically gifted, man. That YG Marley that gives y'all the thanks. Oh, man, it doesn't matter if I'm in a bad mood.

Whenever I hear that joint, my spirit is immediately uplift up listed man. I mean Man, you know, I am uh, damien brother damien. I used to listen to him all the time, but man Yeah, no, they're all talented rohan damien, of course pops bob like they they are all talented You can just just listen to their music all day long. So yeah, they are a talented family Fertile to oh, yeah I give God the things is called. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, you've got a face. Give John a thing. I gotta go check that up It's like I like it. Yeah, I love that. I love a song giving glory to God. Yeah, it's called praise John the money

Get it off your chest 800 585 105 1 if you need to vent hit us up now is the breakfast club. Good morning. The breakfast club Everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlemagne the guy we are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building the legend Bill Burr, welcome I'm all right. You're right. Yeah, when you hear the word legend, do you just feel old or you feeling? I'm alright! You alright? Yeah.

When you hear the word legend, do you just feel old or do you feel like I'm accomplished? I don't know what I feel. I never feel like I, you know how this business is, you feel like any moment, like whatever you got is gonna go away. So I just, I don't pay attention to that stuff. I obviously like it. No, legend doesn't make me feel old, it makes me feel good. But when somebody's like, ah man, I grew up on your comedy. Yeah, I started listening to you when I was eight

I'm like, oh my god, you see him. They're like, you know divorced God how old am I so? Yeah, I would say that's the type of stuff makes me feel old I want to go back a little bit if you don't mind. I want to know, you know, what got bill burr into comedy traumatic childhood what got Bill Burr into comedy? Traumatic childhood. Sorry, don't bring you on. Nobody happy gets into this stuff. Then the delusions of fame get into your head and then you somehow get into it. No, I mean, I definitely liked it when I was growing up, but I got into it by chance. So I thought like you had to be in Hollywood to get into it. Like I had

no idea there was this huge stand-up scene in Massachusetts. So I thought like you had to be in Hollywood to get into it. Like I had no idea there was this huge stand-up scene in Massachusetts. So I was working in a warehouse and I was working with this guy and he was in to stand up the way I was and he was funny as hell. One night we were we used to used to go over to his house have a couple of beers before we went out you know save some money and he was we were watching stand-up he was going Bill we're funnier than these guys like and you know he goes one one night'm going to take a shot of Jack Daniels and go up on stage. And that's when it stopped being on TV.

And it was next to me and I started thinking like, oh, wait a minute, if he can try it, I can try it. Still took me another five years to figure it out. I started, I started kind of late. Did you ever feel like you had to wear a dress or suck a ****? Did you know it in Hollywood? Jesus Christ. No, and that whole theory is ridiculous.

Yeah. That that's what's going on out there. That there's more pedophiles in Hollywood than there are in plumbing. It's like, it's a problem. Why plumbing? I don't know. Just like regular jobs. They're acting like every pedophile in jail, like created, you know,gin you know Star Wars franchise or something.

No it's like they're like that's what's going on. What's funny is what's going on in Hollywood is going on in most businesses where it's like there's a lot of people working overtime not getting paid, not getting credit and getting pushed down and people at the top taking more and more but the problem with Hollywood is, is those idiots stay in Hollywood and they look at most of the country like flyover states. And then they go on these stupid, you know, award shows and they talk down to them.

That's, everybody is like that. But then they just, they just, you know, the sociopaths get the dumb people wound up. What did Bill Burr wanna be before he became a comedian? You just always wanted to do comedy. I was just failing at everything. What did Bill Burr want to be before he became a comedian? Or you just always wanted to do comedy? Oh, I was just failing at everything. I did horrible in school, so I just felt like hopelessly behind until I started hanging out with people that were into comedy and then somehow I found it.

Then I remember doing that and then I was just like, alright, this is what I'm supposed to do. Because everything else I was doing, I just never felt like this is not it. I don't feel like these people aren't the same kind of weird than I am you know. Did you ever want to quit? Once. No one time I thought I wasn't going to make it. It was the only time I ever thought it. When was this? You bombed? No. No I haven't all the time. That's just part of this stuff. I was doing the uh I'm not gonna say where I was because it's a sad story. We don't bum you out. Okay

So I was doing this this this club that I've just been going to for years and years and years and years and years Every other year I'd go there new hour gonna get him You know, you know, I'm in with the morning radio guys and the same 30 people were showing up So it was after the late show and I was sitting there, you know We can have smoke because you could smoke all three shows, smelled like I fought a fire, my eyes were all burning. And I was just looking at the waitstaff and they were lifers, they had been there before and they were older, a little bit heavier and they were counting up their money and they were smoking their cigarettes and the same amount of people had showed up. And that was the first time I like this thought

went in my head like of like, wait a minute, am I the guy who doesn't make it? Oh my god the panic of that I went back to the comedy condo And I was just laying in bed trying to turn it around and my brain was just no no The other guy's not gonna hit so that was yeah, then I got back to New York And it was better. You know like I came you know after the gig I came back and it's just like the energy I had a couple of good sets Sunday night at the Boston Comedy Club was a huge turning point for me in my career. Probably how I ended up here right now. And that would get me to think positive. And you said you never bombed, right?

No, I didn't say that. You said you have bombed. I don't think you bombed, though. I think that people don't know if they should laugh at what you're saying. You know what I mean? Well, maybe now, but no. No. I don't think you bombed though. I think that people don't know if they should laugh at what you're saying. You know what I mean? Well maybe now, but no, no. Back then you just. I remember bombing so bad one time.

This was a comedy club called Mix Nuts that's now called the Comedy Union. That was the black club, right? So I went down there. It's funny, I started doing those rooms because I used to listen to Richard Pryor. So like his albums were so live that you could like picture the crowd.

So I had this idea of what a crowd looked like. It was weird, I'm white as hell. And that was my idea of what a crowd was. So I ended up doing those rooms along with the white rooms. So I was on stage, bombing so bad, like this right here, silence. And I just remember hearing this woman's voice in the back. She just goes, I ain't laughed yet.

About 10 minutes, bam. And then that was the biggest laugh of the set. Everybody laughed and then they just started talking amongst themselves and I did not, I did not turn it around. It was, and there's something, it's bad enough bombing in front of your own people, but bombing in front of another race of people, knowing that you're taking down a bunch of other white comics with you. Like,

Cause you represent for all white comics. Everybody is just like, I'm white people, I ain't funny, this corny ass motherfuckin' you know, I'm just like, oh man, it's not just me. You know, there are others out there, they're funny, yeah.

It was bad. You liked Richard Pryor. What's your favorite Richard Pryor album? Um, hmm. Maybe Was It Something I Said, the one I Can't Say. The one came out in 82 was Super White? Half of them have the N-word in it.

You're going to get me in trouble after that. That was a set up question at that. I'm lucky I got a good night's sleep. I would have been like, oh, I like that N-word's crazy. I will say I bought his albums because he just looked funny. That was the first one I bought. That N-word's crazy when he was pointing like that. He just looked funny. That's how I bought the first Eddie Murphy. I bought the first one I bought that and was crazy when he was pointing like that just he just looked funny

That's how I bought the first Eddie Murphy up I bought the first Eddie Murphy album because I was like well, he's also black He must be funny and that was the first one we had the rose in his ear I see how that works who you did represent for all white comics because you see one funny black comic. Yeah. Yeah That's how we know that's how it works. It's almost like I found a genre music so I would listen to I Listen to all of his stuff and I just there was something about the way he did it, which I didn't understand it as a kid, but the way he did the way he trashed white people, he got you to listen to him and laugh at yourself where by the time Def Jam came around,

crack eighties and all of that black comedy was, it was like, that was like a different thing. But like what I loved about Richard was you rooted for him. You felt like you knew him, it was really insane. And I think he's the greatest of all time, and I think it's even close. All right, we got more with Bill Burr when we come back, so don't move, it's The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Good morning, we are The Breakfast Club, Envy, Jessy Larry, Charlamagne the God, we're still kicking it with comedian Bill Burr. I got a question. Does cancel culture scare you at all? Does it make you change? You said you see a lot of comedians change their set, change how they talk, change what they talk about.

Uh, well that was something that, like most movements, started with something good, you know, and then was quickly co-opted by people with their own interests and then it just completely lost its way and like- Is it good though? Because, because medians were usually the ones that didn't care about it. Like talk about everything, make you laugh, you know? But if there was people, no, the initial thing that there's these people out there sexually abusing people like that was good to get rid of those people, that wasn't bad, but then all of a sudden it spun into what are you talking about in your act? I kind of like didn't really notice it was happening that I was kind of on stage going like, oh, I just said that what if somebody just takes that clip and does I didn't

realize I was doing that till I did Dave Chappelle was doing COVID shows. And I went there and nobody had a phone and just the freedom of that. Not like I was gonna go up and say something ignorant, but just not having to worry about that when they were really kind of coming for people because I think it's like died down. It weird and I was I was performing at Fenway Park oh that was one of those things that was so big like I don't think I even mentally dealt it with it until like two years after I did it 35 thousand people yeah something like that I felt like it was in Led Zeppelin they had a police escort we drove into the thing yeah that was something so that was

that was a one-time only cuz I like you want to do it again? It's like, no, no, I don't think there's any point to go back. Lot of requests for tickets. Oh, from people. Ah, you know, it wasn't that bad. You know, it was was nerve wracking, though, was my high school reunion also was there. No, just decided to go to the show and that and it's just like, that's just like a weird thing. We're like, when I meet people from high school, you know I had a really cool class so like I'm still the person I was and and so are they it's just I'm doing this weird thing I had to block that out a little bit Right to be like you know all those girls who were afraid to talk to you go back to being like You know little Billy redheaded kid in like ninth grade

That's why I don't like I gotta block this out and do my job. You married right? Yeah. To a black woman if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. How does that happen? How does that happen? How does that happen? I'm saying a white guy from Massachusetts. Well I watched like, you know, I watched different strokes growing up. And I had a crush on Janet Jackson. Hey y'all, I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of therapy for black girls. And I'm thrilled to invite you to our January Jumpstart series for the third year running.

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Courts are not really supposed to play a big role in choosing our elected leaders. That's for the voters to decide. Follow The Big Take podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen. Where'd you meet her? First time I met her. Oh my God, this guy was blocking me so bad that night.

Don't blame him, obviously. No, he was doing it because he was miserable in his own relationship. So like, he saw me, like, and it was like, you know, it was like fireworks. Like, we just like, I've only met two people that had like a vibe like her in my life. Um, and the first one was a dude. He was just, so that wasn't that. Was he a dude? No, he was like, no, just walked in the room, you know, and you just knew the person was coming in room She has that vibe right? Oh, you got it clear that would be clear. But you didn't date the guy. No Black people let go this homophobia. He always got a check

Like what are you doing for the story manicured eyebrows? You always got to check. Like, what are you doing? I'm putting a story. You have manicured eyebrows. Like, I'm going to sit here and act like you're all good over there. Like, you don't swing a leg over the fence every once in a while. No way, man. You got your sandals on and white socks.

You look like you just came from a steam room. Yeah. See? Camera's revolting. Yeah. Who knows you well? OK. No, I just mean, like, I always paid attention to energy because my energy was terrible

I was like all introverted and blah blah blah blah So I was fascinated with people that were just free. Mm-hmm. So that's what I meant. You got you got you Okay, we're gonna go back to sucking for a show again Guys are one trick pony over here So we go we go to like hang out right no I'm so we're like vibing and everything. And I literally had to say to the dude, he was like a chick, I had to be like,

hey man, sorry I'm not paying attention to you. That's all that f***s, I was just like, you know, I'm hitting it off with him, man. I think it's just going all right, right? So the end of the night comes, the end of the standup show, and he just comes walking up, he goes, so you guys wanna go get something to eat, right?

And he invites her and everybody. Now I'm at this f***ing table, and there was like, you know, 10 other people there, and he's all the way down the end, and's still like yelling down trying to interrupt any of my talking to her. I think I mean so long ago I just remember one point the check came and I didn't have any money so I said I'll put just give me the cash I'll put it on my card he's like oh he's just trying to get the miles like that's like that's how he was doing it right. It was the middle of the dinner right and I finally just look at I just give up right because he won't shut the f**k up and I finally just looked at her, I just give up, right? Cause he won't shut the f**k up.

And I finally just looked at her and I go, can I at least split a cab with you home? So she does that female thing. Why do you want to split a cab with me? I was just thinking, I go, cause I want to kiss you. Why? Yeah. Right.

So she put her head down and smiled. And I was like, I got her. F**k this guy. So I let him do all his bulls**t. Everybody leaves, except for him for him me and who's gonna Become my future wife and he literally goes he goes Nia he goes where do you live? What do you look do you live uptown and she goes yeah? I live a time go all of it, too He goes you want to split a cab he's trying to leave with her and she goes no

I'm riding home with Bill and he's gonna. Oh, no, but I live up. He was so Not gonna say his name she went so and, I'm splitting a cab with Bill. And then he left. I don't talk to him for four days and he calls me up. He's like, hey, what's going on? I'm like, nothing, what's up? He's like, you didn't call me because you thought I was blocking you the other night? I'm like, you were.

He goes, no I wasn't. I'm like, why did you bring it up? So that was the end of that friendship. Well that was crazy because I'm literally still starstruck. Just like, remember when I just walked past the room and I was like, oh, Bill Burr, how you doing? And he was just looking like, hey, what's up? Like not at all like, oh yeah, you know I am that guy. You know, it was just real, real cool. And the first time you made me laugh was um racial drafts The Dave Chappelle

When it came out but I watched it cuz I was a big fan of Chappelle show and then every That was one of the coolest things Yeah, first really cool thing that I ever got on where it was like I got to experience, it was like Beatlemania. I don't know if anything gets that big again with all of this media, but it was like, when everybody brings up, you know, the Rick James one and all of that, I will tell you this, the Law and Order sketch that I was in, the first cut of that,

I think Comedy Central thought was too dark. Oh my God. It was like an Oscar-winning movie. Because it was hilarious and then it was like when the white dude was in prison in the end the way they did it and they cut to Dave laughing on the golf course. It wasn't funny. It was like this is what you've do to us. It was like wow. Suddenly Comedy Central was like, you know, we uh... I think there's a different ending.

They like it. That was another thing too. I remember they used to edit it right up the street from where I was living, and I remember Neil Brennan going to Neil, going, you gotta come see this. And I got to see them, the Rick James sketch before anybody else. And I remember laughing my ass off,

and that just became a point I stopped laughing. And I was just like, this is like, I've never seen anything like this in my life Yes, I was probably the the first kind of still like the queen of coolest things I got to be on him at Charlie Murphy. Yeah, rest his soul. Mm-hmm. Oh man the stories that went with that guy Yeah, he hits. Oh my god his stories bill f***ing bird man. All right joining us. All right. Thank you for having you guys were nice Everybody got me all nervous like you guys Let's not go why you know why You know why?

I listened I listened to one clip and I shut it off after eight seconds you what clip was it? Somebody said something like well, you know, sometimes Sometimes I whatever the hell he was talking about and I just hear you go. Why would you do that? Like oh, it's gonna be this but now I had a good time It's my insecurity. I hope you have me back. I really appreciate what this bill burr. All right. Thank you. It's the breakfast club. Good morning It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

Now if you're just joining us, Charlamagne had a question. It's not me. I told you we was in the control room and I was talking to our team and they asked the question where do all old hoes go? I think it says on TikTok right Sid? There's something happening on TikTok. This is a question that's being asked. Where do old hoes go?

Yeah and I'm realizing that it must be young people asking this question because old folks, we know where the old hoes go. You know what? That could be a good thing because if some of the young hoes want to know what happened when they become older, they want to know where they should be going. Well, the truth of the matter is young hoes just grow up to be old hoes. And what happens to the old hoes is that life happens. They end up having kids, you know, some of them, you know, go to college.

Like we act like just the term ho has such a negative connotation to it. So when you think, oh, I don't know what you think. But hoes are people, too. OK. And they go to college and they get degrees or they go out there So when you think ho, I don't know what you think, but hoes are people too, okay? And they go to college and they get degrees or they go out there and they get good jobs and they live lives. Truth to the matter is, and you don't wanna hear this,

your mama probably was a hoe. But you ain't never had a conversation with her to see what her sex life was like, you know what I mean? Back in the day, mama had a life, grandma had a life. You know what I mean? And I know we gotta be fair and say that men are definitely hoes too, but we know it's a double status.

We only talk about the women right now. So the reality is, hoes are everywhere. Hoes make the world go round. There's hoes that are running Fortune 500 companies, they're in the C-suites, you know what I mean? There's hoes in the church, there's hoes that own the local grocery stores like that. What's up? I hate saying the term hoes, but I would say church, right?

And the reason being is because when you get a little older, you want to kind of repent for all the wholism that you did, right? Good or bad. Yeah, you done gave it to everybody, so now you want to give it to God. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You done gave it up to everybody. Now you got to give it to the Lord. Give it to the God. That's right. That's right. Lord, the only one you ain't gave it up to. Jesus Christ. Mm-hmm.

Let's go to the phone. We got Tatiana on the line Tatiana Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Tatiana how old are you Tatiana? What's up Tatiana, how old are you? Well, I'm 24. Okay. I don't know if you old enough to have this conversation Well, well in this thing you say your grandmother's my grandmother talk about it all the time. Oh, your grandma was a hoe? Retired hoe. He is still, but she plays with her toys now. Damn.

What? How old is she? Yeah, she's 53. But she likes to ask her kids. She likes them 24 or younger. Oh, OK, so she never stopped hoeing. She never stopped. She's still out here.

I bet she's young. I bet she got a young, youthful energy to her, too, at 50-something. She's still, and she's bet she's young. I bet she got a young, youthful energy to her too, at 50 something. She's still, and she's still looking for anybody that's listening. By the way, I want y'all to know 50 something ain't old, but it's coming from a 45 year old man, okay? I said 53, Charlamagne.

53 ain't old. 53 ain't old. So you basically saying- 53. So you trying to say old hoes don't retire. They still hoing. They still out here, man. Sleuthe your grandma. Okay. God bless her.

I hope she hoed until she gotta take her dentures out this ****. What? Hello who's this? Thomas from Brooklyn. Thomas good morning. What's up man? Where do all the old hoes go Thomas? All old hoes go to heaven man.

They cook clean and they do that thing you feel me? Where does mine? Listen here's the other thing. Thomas I love the enthusiasm in your voice because here's the thing that we don't talk about enough. We love hoes. Yup. We do.

We do. Like, you even want the woman you marry, you want your lady to have some hoe in her. Damn right. Damn. So they say lady in the streets. But a freak in the bed. Freak, hoe, whatever you want, darling.

Need a whore in the bed whore? Jesus Christ What's a whole word? Alright W-H-O-R-E Alright Real asshole Word to the city girl

Alright Thank you brother Nicole! Good morning, good morning gentlemen Good morning Nicole Nicole so uh the question is where do the old hoes go? I need to know how old you are first Nicole I am 40 years old

Okay so you you you you you you an old hoe? She ain't gotta be an, Nicole. I am 40 years old. OK, so you're an old hoe? She ain't got to be an old hoe. You don't know if she hoeing or not. Are you an old hoe? Talk to us, Nicole. I am not an old hoe. However, I say I'm very experienced. OK.

Now, gentlemen, my opinion is that old hoes are male and female. I think some of them go on to be very successful individuals that influence the world. That's right. They could be military commanders They can be business owners or they could be radio talk show host. Yes, right. That's right Thank you Nicole from Nicole. Hold on. Where you from Nicole? I'm from Harlem, but I'm living in New Jersey now

Okay, we don't know each other do it. Oh No, but you know, my family is from South Carolina monks corner by no, okay, okay, okay, all right all right Nicole Thank You Nicole Let me ask you a question I think like that little right Charlemagne the right Charlemagne Yeah, like you know me, but you know her family from Monks Corner She's been listening to me for a long or she knows I'm a reform or she knows somebody knows somebody knows about I'm a reform Oh, I'm talking no, but I ain't thing. You think hoeing is hereditary? Is hoeing hereditary?

I think everybody likes sex, you know what I'm saying? And people, everybody likes sex. Who do you know that doesn't like sex? Everybody likes sex, in some way, shape, or form. Asexual though. I don't even know what that is. I don't know either. But somebody said it out the back of the class.

Stop listening to these young kids. Stop listening to these young kids, right? I don't even know what the hell that is. What the hell does that even mean? I don't know. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is April don't even know what the hell that is. What the hell does that even mean? I don't know. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is April. How you doing?

April, good morning. We're asking, where do the old hoes go? So the old hoes retire and go back to the n**** from high school who always loved them. Like, they're going to the good pension. That's where they go. That's a good point. So after you done ran,

after you done ran around and gave it up to everybody, you just go back to old faithful from high school huh pretty much okay thank you April Paula good morning Paula Paula you there hey yes I am hey good morning what are you Paula hi um so the question of the day should be like a family few question but I say they go to church how old are you Paula? I'm 38 38. Okay, so you getting up there They don't know she a hoe. Are you you can do you think you? How many kids you got I got three girls Oh for real how many baby daddy? Oh my god Paula I got you okay to baby. How many baby dad? Be truthful. Paula. I got two. Two, two, two. Okay, two baby daddies.

Mm-hmm. All right, how many boyfriends? Yeah. How many what? How many boyfriends? I got none, I'm married. I've been married for 10 years. Oh, okay, okay, so you married the one of your,

the one of your baby daddies. Baby daddies, yeah, baby daddies. Yep, correct, correct. Okay, good job, good job, good job. Did you tell them about your, like, did you show them your whole facts before y'all got married? Did you show them, like?

No, no, I was actually the unexpected young mom at 20 out of my friend group. But I was the one that like graduated with my D card and all my friends were like, you know, I guess trying to push me to like give love a chance. You're trying to push me to give love a chance because I was too busy out here hoeing. Hell no, no.

No, no. No, no. Thank you, Paula. Jesus Christ. When your friends got to push you to give love a chance, you doing too much out here. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is me from Detroit.

Me from Detroit. We're talking about where do the old hoes go? I'm gonna say about 70% of them go to Facebook. Jesus Christ. Boy, you ain't lying. You are not lying. All the old hoes go to Facebook. Jesus, thank you.

At least about 70%. Because Facebook is the place you go, and then you be seeing all of the girls that you knew that used to be hoes, and you be like, oh, that's what she doing now? What's the moral of the girls that you knew that used to be hoes and you're like, oh that's what she doing now What's the moral of the story Jesus Christ the moral of the story is city girls real assholes coming soon. I can't wait They gonna have the world in shambles October 20th is the date October 20th. Yes, right. No

Next week. Yeah, why what happened the city girls coming out next week? Yes why why? Man, they're about to have to fall in shambles. Real assholes coming out next week? October 20th. Man, come on now. Come on, JT. You sound like an old, you sound like an old right now. I'm happy, I'm excited. You sound excited you got, mmm.

Next week, what? Let's go. I hope they got a record with Sexy Red. Shout out to Carisha and JT. Alright, they're gonna have, oh, they're gonna have the conscious community in shambles. The conscious community is not gonna know what to do with themselves when that real asshole is by the city girls drop you hear me All right, it's the breakfast local morning the breakfast club

Everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club Jess is out today. That's right She's on maternity leave so long the rules And we got some special guests in the building. Ladies and gentlemen, we have Will Packer. That's right. What's happening? And we have Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart. He's here.

He's here. We have one left. Kevin Hart. Is that too loud for you? So Kevin was supposed to be here earlier. Can I tell you the irony of this, right? Kev's hung over right now. But if you read the first chapter in Will Packer's book,

he has a chapter called, We Gonna Die Tonight. This is true. And it's essentially this story. This is what you were worried about, Will. No, no, I'm serious. So last night, you know, we announced it, but I had to leave because I had to do Seth Meyers. And Seth Meyers has a segment called Drinking with Seth. You go to a bar and Seth makes these drinks or whatever and it's like, you know, for hour and a half to two hours,

you're drinking throughout the interview. What could go wrong with that? And, you know, I don't drink anything outside of my tequila at this point in my life. So, you know, anything don't drink anything outside of my tequila at this point in my life. So, you know, anything else, anything else I'm very unfamiliar with and Seth said, let's close it out with your tequila, but let's start it with everything. So he threw it all at me. Like I'm talking with it's Jägermeister and wild turkey.

I mean, we were brown, we were dark. Kevin, you too old to be mixed. You can say no, but. But beauty of good television and it was a good conversation great interview and while we're drinking for good reason behind the answers and we finished it what's the kill it we went through a lot and I just don't remember the back half of the time and that's why I didn't show up to the after party I missed that and this morning at 6am I would have been here bro. Why couldn't you miss the after party after the garden that night so y'all could have just got back to Atlanta. Because we weren't drinking that's why I said why he's being a b**** like we weren't drinking.

Kevin it was our movie. We weren't f****d up like oh man where's my's my jacket? We weren't just out at a show. We got to get back. Biggest movie of our career. All right. Okay. Where's your tampon? And he leaves.

Jesus Christ, Will. He books a show at Madison Square Garden. He tapes a comedy special in the middle of our movie. He booked it, right? And so he left the show in the middle of it, right? Biggest movie from Universal Studios, he leaves. But you know what he does, because this is the evil genius of Kevin Hart. He goes, hey man, I gotta do this show.

It's next week, you know? He tells me a week before, he goes, hey, you know what? You and Tim Storrie, the director, come. He's like, I got the jet, you know what? Bring the wives. So my dumb ass, I'm like, you know what jet, you know what? Bring the wives. Bring the wives. Bring the wives. So my dumb ass, I'm like, you know what? He brought the wives. And you know what he said?

He said, that way you can make sure that we get back on time. Cause I knew we had to shoot the next day. So we were shooting one day, he's gonna go do the show that night and then we had to shoot the next morning on a location we could only get that day. You know what it's called?

He's like, come with me. That's called an alibi. An alibi. So together. Together. Together. Together. Together. He's absolutely me. An alibi. So together. He's absolutely right. An alibi. Well that's a lie.

You don't think I'm a professional cause the director and the producer were with me. So you can't think I'm an asshole. They would be an asshole. Kevin has an amazing show at Madison Square Garden. All the celebs come out afterwards. We had an after party that he did not tell me about. I'm in there with Carmelo Anthony buying bottles going oh we dying tonight we turning up tonight. Why is, wars have power why are we gonna die tonight?

Well we gonna die tonight means we're having a good time. If you're choosing to die over life, how good of a time is that? Last night I didn't say we gonna die tonight I was like oh this is work. When I was in that club and I saw my career flash before my eyes because I realized there was no way we were going to be able to get back in time. I had that moment because I'm sitting there looking at Kev and I realized we're not going to make it. Kev looks at me and he goes, well, we tried. We tried.

That was it. I looked at Kevin Hart and I realized that he had convinced me, the producer and director of the movie, to get on a jet with him so that when Universal called and said why are y'all over budget and not able to finish the movie and they say well Kevin Hart, Will Packer and Tim Story were there so the producer went with them it would be on me I was complicit I realized that was his evil plan all in it. You called him a diabolical rascal spawn of Satan. That's true. And he means that. That's the sad part. That's the sad part. That's the sad part.

He means that. I love him, but that's truer words never spoken, sir. I will ask you and your listeners, what is a life without a great story? It's something that can't be talked about. It's untold. A life without stories is nothing. You need stories, good and the bad.

He's b****'s about a great story By the way, that story did what amplified our relationship and look at where we are now fight night Huh? We're talking about something else that were yet in business and we produced and developed together Do we get here without that moment? No, we do not So why did you still want to be his friend after that after you figured that out? You could have said, you know what, this relationship no longer happens. But you decided to jump back at me. You need to get to the edge. Envy, I'm so afraid that if I leave Kevin Hart's life, he'll just implode. He'll just burn up on the spot. I just don't know what he'd do without me.

I'll be honest with you, it's close to being over with. It's close. Wait, isn't it about you two that work so well because even like just here with you guys in person It's like I could listen to this back and forth all day long like real talk with each other's most frequent collaborators kept on a ton Of movies. I've done a ton of movies TV projects. We haven't worked with anybody else more than we work with each other I'll give you I'll give real this on air and half of it is because I'm still drunk And drunk by the way, I'll put some of on air and half of it is because I'm still drunk and Drunk by the way, I'll do some of the best to kill it in the market Here it comes It's not a commercial, but it's just a time to let people know

When it comes to smooth taste and it comes to elegance Hard work tastes different You gotta understand what and why Grand Cormino is that and has been that Which is why I drink it at the level that I do But it's not not about that right now. It's not about the product. It's about the passion. Let's get to that and we'll toast to that after with Grand Cormino. But I will say this about Will. I don't get to where I got in career or business without the information and relationship of Will Packer. You know what I mean?

Like when it came to producing and when it came to development or it came to packaging, Will Packer is the guy that was the definition of what that was. So from the early days of Think Like A Man, he was the producer that came to me and said, hey, I got this thing, I wanna do this thing, and I think you're the guy.

And those are words. Words without action are just that. He put action behind the words. Everything he said he would do, he did. He got the people. He wrangled the directors, the actors, the actresses, the producer, partners, writers, et cetera. He configured a way to formulate and activate

and I was like, god damn man, like how do you do that? And he taught me, Will taught me how to do it and as I progressed, I never forgot who he was and what he was. So our relationship today is based off of never forget. Like you don't forget the real side of success attached to just care. He gave a fuck about me then,

he gives more fuck about me now, in return I double down on my level of giving about him So I don't want to win if I can't figure out a way to win with my brother So the commitment that we made was hey man, let's figure out a way to continue Although cav you're doing and you have but how do we still do and I love the fact that we still are and we're committed to figuring out more ways to do more and And we're committed to figuring out more ways to do more and what you're seeing today It is a definition of what we want people to follow through with like we are no eagles We are help your brother so he can help you we are that and I think it's the best story in Hollywood

If people were more privy to how deep and like in depth it actually is facts, right? Yeah, we got more with Kevin Hart and will pack up when we come back. Don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning and like in depth it actually is. Facts. Right? Real time. Alright we got more with Kevin Hart and Will Packer. When we come back, don't move, it's the Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Lauren's filling in for Jess,

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Effective enough. And I think, you know, when you look at the Ice Cube and Kevin Hart of it all, the middle common denominator, packer and alright guys let's do this but let's make it and cube come in and like there's always a through line of connectivity and that person has to be willing to go above and beyond. fight night is the definition of going above and beyond. alright kev i got this idea. the idea came after i was supposed to do uptown saturday night. uptown saturday night was going to be me and chadwick Boseman. Rest in peace to the legend himself.

I had no idea. Well, I don't want to do this anymore. I can't do that without Chadwick. That project is dead to me. Will had the actual rights to the original story, the true story. So Will came to me. I said, Will, I can't do a comedy because of this. Can it be serious?

Can we do it in a way to where it's like a lot deeper, raw, real? He said Kevin absolutely. Hey, the podcast was, points me to the podcast that he was a part of, that understood, etc. This is like real information now, real knowledge. Will, I'm going to f*** with it because it's you, but let's make sure that we try to go above and beyond to package it correctly. How do we do a premium cultural piece of IP that has the bandwidth to live forever? You can't do that without big stars.

To get big stars you need real relationships. So the leverage of understanding that we both shared and that we had at the top of get the studio's commitment, get the studio the back and support, then go get the talent, I got to be honest with you, my guy was a big part of all of that conversation. And I followed the lead of most, and I think where we were collaborative was dope. And the outcome was amazing talent,

configuration, and now an example of what the business should follow through with. That part is true, I will tell you that. Kev has definitely reached a part in his career, a moment in his career where, you know, you've had success and it's like, how do you grow? How do you work with people that you respect? And how do you build a machine that then empowers others? It's interesting, Charlamagne, you talked about like the world of Fight Night. Fight Night is really about a group of hustlers, dreamers, entrepreneurs who were trying to take Atlanta and turn it into something. This is back in 1970, right? Martin Luther King had just been shot a couple years earlier.

Atlanta was seen as a small country town that had a couple of civil rights folks. People didn't know if it was going to be the next Charlotte or Birmingham and I'm never on those cities, but it definitely wasn't looked at on the of like a global superpower or New York, Chicago, LA you know it was Atlanta and it was not respected but you had a group of folks which is not unlike how Black Hollywood is right now where you got a group of dreamers trying to figure out how do we work together now of course in Fight Night you got you know a character who's Kevin's character he's a hustler he's going yo give me a shot, give me a chance.

I can just turn Atlanta into something great. Chicken Man. Chicken Man. Weirdly, Sam Jackson, who plays the big gangster, the black godfather, in the show, he actually has also got a dream too, right? Even though he's a big gangster, he's running the black mafia,

his dream is saying, you know what? The white man's been holding me down for a very long time. If y'all give me a shot and an opportunity, I can take over Atlanta. I can turn Atlanta into a black mecca Oddly even though like Kevin Sam's characters are at odds for most of the series the reality is that they have the same kind of a dream That's kind of how it is right now in terms of like folks like us in Hollywood in real life Who are all trying to work together? Is it true that Samuel L. Jackson was really there in Atlanta during that time? Right there dog. He was at Morehouse. Yeah, Sam owed his ****. Sam might hear this.

I remember we were on a call with Sam at the start of it when Sam said like, yo he liked it, he would do it. We were on a call, we going through the material, seeing what Sam said about the character. And Sam was like, yeah man, y'all gotta change a lot of this **** because more happened then. I think we got the story, you know, because we, you know, the podcast and everything, we got the real information you know, because we you know the podcast and everything we got the real information

He was like, mother f*** I was there He definitely did What do you mean by that? Mother f*** that happened Like Sam is, he's very adamant about telling you where he was, what he knows So the story of Fight Night got better. It got so much better as we went on How do you manage all these big ass personalities, bro? Kevin Hart, Roger P. Henson, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Hiel. How do you do it?

That is the hardest part of the job as a producer. You know what I mean? And in real talk, it's awesome when you got somebody like Kev who gets it, who understands at the end of the day where the bigger picture is. But a lot of time, I don't care if it's Hollywood, music, stock market, whatever it is. Can you say, you say, Kev, I'm not gonna talk to him.

Can you talk to them foremen, is what you said. How much do you argue with Kev though? Cause he seems like he's a lot. Whoa, bro, let me tell you something. I'm the least problem that you ever have in any work environment. That's true. I'm unproblematic.

He's unproblematic. I mean, the challenge with Kevin is that he will overdo things, right? He will do things like have a show at Madison Square Garden at the same time that we have a big scene in our movie. Now he's definitely, that's the one. He's not, he's not a moderation guy. You know what I mean? That's part of the challenge. So that's why I'm here on the breakfast club. He eating this, this turkey sandwich trying to get some grease in his gut. It didn't burn you. You should at least let it cool a little bit.

Come on, animal. This is what I need. Yeah. This is it. That's what Hollywood does so much. This is why I can't take him seriously. Listen, he does a phenomenal job as Chicken Man, but I can't take him serious in dramas because it just always seems like he's trying to make you laugh.

It always jokes. It always jokes. But can I tell you something, real talk, Chicken Man is his best work yet. I'm telling you, look at what he's doing with his eyes, and you know a lot of people, you know, it's known that comedians, they pull from pain, right, and that's how they deflect and that's where a lot of the comedy comes from, Kevin, no exception. But the reality is that when he said, we got to do this as a drama, that was a big risk because people say, all right, fight night, Kevin Hart's starting it, let's go, I'm ready

to laugh, like you said, Charlamagne. But the reality is that this is serious. Now you have moments of levity, but the tone, make no mistake is dramatic. Like it goes there. You challenge yourself to do things outside of this comedy. Say, I just don't want this comedic role. I want this serious role. Do you challenge yourself or do you just take roles that come?

None of it is a challenge. By the way, I'm developing the things that I do. Nothing is coming to me. I'm developing the things that I do. Nothing is coming to me. I'm creating the things. Or I'm a part of the process of how it gets to the final stages. I'm at that point. But I have no desire for the star of Kevin Hart to get bigger.

That's so gone and done with. I'm more about the success of others, the success of the entity, the success of the brand, and more importantly, the success of what we represent and what we can look back and say we did. That's bigger now than a conversation of myself. I did it, I'm done. What else am I gonna do at this point?

All right, we got more with Kevin Hart and Will Packer when we come back as The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa's filling in for Jess and we're still kicking it with Kevin Hart and Will Packer, Charlamagne. Was it hard to find someone to play Muhammad Ali and did you ever consider Will Smith? Very challenging right and I think that

you got to understand obviously that's an icon he's been portrayed before for us it was about finding a newcomer that wouldn't pull you out because these other characters you didn't know nobody knew chicken man Kevin Hart's character or or Vivian to write his character or Frank Moulton, you know Sam's character But you know everybody knows Muhammad Ali So I think to have somebody in that role who you had some familiarity with and who you associated with something else Would have pulled you out and we really wanted to immerse you even with these big stars We really wanted to take you to a time period right for the years ago and really drop

you in and be as authentic as possible and we've paid a lot of attention to the detail and the nuances to try to get this thing right well boy did we choose right yeah man this cast and by the way not just the big names that you know like this oh Dexter Darnes Dexter Darnes you're gonna be hearing a lot from him there's some young gunners in this cast that you're gonna be hearing that I Predict you're gonna look back and go yo Remember when so-and-so went toe-to-toe with with Kevin Hart and Sam Jackson Yes, Melvin Gregg, Miles Bullock, Senkwa Walls, Chloe Bailey does her thing. Yep, Lloyd Harvey jumps in

I think you have the future of Hollywood Yeah, my wife said that I don't think that's Loie because she looked so different. She played Leila Hathaway. No, Lola Solana. Lola Solana. Lola Solana. I think you're seeing an amazing example of baton passing.

You're looking at people that are established, have been established for so long, and Sam and Taraji and Terrence and Don and then you also have the second tear of talent that is a valuable piece of this puzzle where they're toe to toe with the big names and you don't blink an eye. You understand why everybody is there and you respect the talent on screen and you still respect the story. You're never taken outside of the story.

So for that younger generation that we were able to onboard, it's a great example of what we want to do. We want to be the example for the next generation, the bridge. We want to be the example for global success for, or the new star that popped on. If we're part of those stories, then how dope is that? That's the biggest side of the conversation of one. Teresa, Celeste, Jaylen Hall, these are names you're gonna know.

I have a question. I was late here, I'll be late. Go ahead, Lauren. Monique and Lee Daniels just did the deliverance. Are we ever gonna see a reconciliation with you and her? Because she- I don't have a problem with that. I know that there's no problem.

Is there a reconcile? No, but she has said that, I know when she was on Club Shashey, and they talked about it and she was talking about the phone call that happened from your team or whatever. Right. Is there ever going to be a conversation that we hear you talk about where you all two have another conversation about that and move forward? I'll challenge your question with a better question. Go ahead. You've been doing this for a long time.

Ever hear me talk about anyone? Do you ever hear anything bad come from me? No, there's no problem between me and Monique. There never will be. There's no problem between me and anybody else. There's nothing to reconcile. There's no problem. So all these problems that have been attached

to Kevin Hart, they're one sided. I don't have a problem with anybody. I agree with that. I'm very unproblematic. It takes two people, right, to have a conflict. That's what it has to be. It's not a thing. Social media has fucked us up to the point of what you hear is what you're forced to

believe. Got you. You do not understand, like, the common ground for truth is always a conversation. And if there ever is a conversation, you're not forward-facing in a public statement, ever. I didn't say anything about what I did from Onika, my gestures. You never would have heard it. It's a one-sided version or reason for. And by the way, I didn't overbuttal to it.

I stand on the side of I'm unproblematic. And if me and Moe want to do or could do or would do, we will. But that's a me and Moe thing. This new thing that people are like, let me tell you something, world. Yeah. That's a very, like, that's a very, I wanna be honest, I'm 45 years old. I'm 45 years old, and by the way, team or not, it's not hard to find me.

Like, you know what, my schedule is online. So she hasn't hit you since all of this stuff. Me and Monique have had conversations, and those are me and Monique's conversations. There you go. Before and after. That's called adulting. There you go.

I don't, unadult. So all of these new ways of conversation and finger pointing, it's very easy. But you know what, that's what I like about the movie Fight Night, right? Cause it seems like they show each character in the movie as a hero in their own story, but a villain in somebody

else's. So you see those. It's a duality. It's a super complicated narrative, which are my favorite kinds because you're protagonists, right? You're quote unquote heroes are very gray and are very flawed, like in real life. And your antagonists are people that you root for. Those are my favorite kinds of narratives.

I love that because we all know the world is not black and white, right? And so you're absolutely right. It's about complex people at a complex time. And that's really what the show was. There's not a bigger supporter for the movement of people doing good and Monique Lee Daniels reconciling that relationship. However, it happened. Great. Dope for them. Did a movie together after great great story. Dope for them, I wanna see more. Keep doing great. The conversation of anything else negative attached to a person's and their reservations and feelings to make. I wanna see nothing but good for all.

Like, I would love to see us all win. I would love to see us all at a table where we all can do. If it happens, great. If it doesn't, I guess it wasn't meant to be. But you can't have a f***ing stance of negativity, also a real initiative to move forward and motivate, inspire, create, or do whatever. You can't be both. So it's either you're one or the other. And if you are part of creativity, inspiration, collaboration, motivation, connectivity,

then that has to be it. And whatever you gather along the way and whoever you align yourself with along the way, well, y'all all a part of the same story. If things fall apart through the duration of, it wasn't meant to be on that train. Some people miss a train. It's just life. Some people don't make it in time to catch the train. And the train that's gonna go is going to go why do you think trains can't stop fast they're moving so either you're on the train or

you're not and if you didn't catch the next train that's life. Lord mason's successful because you know Hollywood didn't change before with blockbuster movies but now I mean there's so many other platforms to put your movie on so what is successful for you now? But you know there's still quantitative quantitative metrics that they use to determine. Quantitative? Good for you.

Learned that at HBCU, brother, just letting you know. He ain't never been. I did, I'm just, well, why is it? Because reality is that you still have ways that you can determine how many people watched it, if the audience was into it, if they were engaged, and that stuff is important. And so that is definitely a part of what we do.

Honestly though, right now, it's about, I just want people to feel stuff, you know what I mean? I wanna feel like we touching the culture, you know? I wanna feel like whatever it is that we do, we don't have people feel like we wasted their time. That's the point that we have. And get closure, the big takeaways for audience are very simple, man. The first one of course is Fight Night now

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You can tell who you're voting for. It affects you. Kamala Harris. I'm voting for Kamala Harris no question I appreciate that black man because we need more of us saying that's right but that's my choice that's what I choose to do I need everybody is that thank you family He gave me Donkey of the Day and I deserve it. People need to know. Well you need to tell them.

I am. You have the voice. Tell them. Tell them. It's time for Donkey of the Day. It's a read but you're so good at it. You're trying to be a fake ass Charlamagne. There's only one Charlamagne in the world.

Everybody told Spencer to kill. Who you give a donkey of the day to now? Listen, Donkey of the Day goes to Charles Christopher who's 24 years old, Jordan Leonard who's 25 years old, Tajah Rose who's 22, and D goes to Charles Christopher who's 24 years old Jordan Leonard who's 25 years old Tajah Rose who's 22 and D'Angelo Spencer who's 26 every single one of those individuals are part of a nine count federal indictment Charging them with committing armed robberies at several businesses in Los Angeles County Question man. What's going on in prisons nowadays? I seriously want to know because when I was growing up,

I saw Oz where men were getting their chocolate starfish just scratched and things like that, like watching these turd burglars breaking into other men's booties, that let me know prison wasn't no place to be. They had a documentary called Inside the World's Toughest Prison. They had Beyond Scared Scrape.

They had all these images of prison that let us know this isn't where you want to be. Clearly that has changed because I feel like there are young men out here literally campaigning to be America's next top inmate. See according to People Magazine these four young men allegedly had what is described as a LA robbery routine. They would drive up to a 7-Eleven or CVS pharmacy and their blue BMW with the Pooche Ice-T mask on, they would pull out a gun and demand cash from the register or drugs from the store. Ok?

Armed robbery. I get it. The problem is, it doesn't stop there. After they would do these robberies, I mean literally every time, they would post on Instagram. Ok? Over a 7 week period from early November until Christmas Eve 2023 these four young men committed a slew of robberies. Okay, when an article says you have committed a slew of something that means a lot a large

number of things. Jeff say slew. Slew. Slew. Okay, now they robbed all these 7-elevens and got about $7,617 in cash along with thousands in CVS pharmaceuticals which the article says they would later sell but I don't know. When I hear what they were doing, sounds like they might have been using more than selling. These guys, I told you, would pull up in a blue 2011 BMW 328i four-door car every single

time. The indictment describes it as distinct meaning everyone knew this car. Everybody knew it was them. This is what happens when you watch power one too many times. Okay Tommy had a blue Mustang at the scene of every damn crime he ever committed. So y'all decided to do the same with a blue BMW? Delete your Starzap right now. Okay this is too much. Now on November back in November D'Angelo Spencer made a series of posts to Instagram before and after the alleged robbery I really want to know where y'all think y'all be at when

you be on social media okay folks act like social media is some a whole other dimension some a whole other earth like we are 616 and social media is earth 100 05 all my marvel heads know what I'm talking about but some of you really act like what happens on social media doesn't have any impact on you in the real world I don't get it but Christopher would post on IG all the cash on another post he would he would be in all black clothing with his push icy mask pulled up to expose his face yes the indictment claimed his all black outfit matched with the robbery

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After they stole about $2,130 worth of pharmaceuticals from a LACVS, one of them put all the medication on Instagram and advertised the stolen medication for sale. The caption said, I got SERP. Now they in jail. Okay. With no lawyers as of this past Wednesday. They have no lawyers. All right. Two of them pleaded not guilty to the charges and were ordered jailed without bond. Another one hasn't entered a plea yet. The other is slated for arraignment. These young men need to have courses how to go to prison for dummies. I mean, you can't not tell me that these guys aren't purposely trying to go to prison so they can do some poop shoot plundering. There's nothing left to do here before we give them the hee haw other than play a game of guess what race it is All right, Charles Christopher Jordan Leonard Taza Rose the Angelo Spencer robbed a bunch of 7-elevens and CBS's every time

They would rob the 7-elevens and CBS's they would put everything on Instagram DJ Envy guess what race it is Why Guess what race it is! Black. Damn, damn, damn! Why? Are they driving a BMW and the BMW is a black man's wish? Everything that you said. Everything. Pooch icedy mask. I love my bros.

Acting them. Showing the cash online. Jess Hilarious, Charles Christopher, Jordan Leonard, Teja Rose, D'Angelo Spensa. They would rob a bunch of 7-Eleven's and CVS and post all of the stolen items on Instagram. Jess Hilarious, guess what race it is? Black. Why y'all think these people black?

Just everything on social media. We're literally our own detriment. I don't know any white Asian D'Angelo's either. What? Do you? D'Angelo. His name is D'Angelo and his name is Leonard. I knew a biracial D'Angelo. Listen, Charles Christopher, Jordan Leonard, T'Jar Rose and D'Angelo Spencer are not black. I don't know They're niggas

Good we have one of the difference. All right, please give Charles Christopher Jordan Leonard Teja Rose and D'Angelo Spencer the biggest, huh? There is a difference there is a difference but not the ER. Why couldn't it just be NIGGAS? Nah, nah, nah, nah. These are old. They're not my niggas. They're them niggas. They don't.

Okay, the difference between them niggas, my niggas, and then them niggas. Stay away from them niggas over there. Okay? Stay away from them niggas. Those niggas. Stay away from them niggas over there. Okay? Stay away from them niggas. Those niggas. Stay away from them. Okay? Yeah, I couldn't agree.

Alright, well, thank you for that donkey of the day. The Breakfast Club Morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Jess is still on maternity leave. Lauren LaRosa is filling in and we got a special guest in the building. I didn't even know it was him I seen him in the whole I still can sound like looking like what rapper is that? Your rapper is that the funny thing is we said Marlon look like a rapper don't know rappers love to stage like Marlon

No, you know what I do kind of hate my house. But the thing is, I just love working. I've always loved working. And finally I got something I love to do and I'm getting better and I just go. The more time I stay on the stage, and I think because I started late, it's not like I'm tired of it yet, right? So most of the time, I'm like dyslexic with life in my career. Like you're supposed to start out doing stand up.

I started out writing and producing and creating creating my TV show when I was Wayne's brother when I was like 20, you know writing and producing my own movies and with my brothers from Don't Be A Menace the scary movie and then doing my own stuff Haunted House and then at 39 I was like, yeah I think I'm gonna take stand-up series and I'm gonna go do stand-up and everybody's like why the fuck would you do that now? You already made it and I was like because do stand-up and everybody's like, why the fuck would you do that now? You already made it. And I was like, because I think there's more to get.

I think I could be better. I've been a star for 20-something years. I wanna be a superstar and the only way to get there is just doing the work. So I just started doing stand-up. And you had your four, I remember one time you came in and you said you had four specials planned. It was gonna be God Loves Me, Good Grief,

now you're doing the Wild Child, so is Wild Child the third and stuff? No, because I'd been my first two already. It was, the first one was Wokish, second one was You Know What It Is, it's on HBO Max, third one was God Loves Me, the fourth one Good Grief, and between that I had the headliners, which was me and my boys, Sidney Castillo,

Tony Baker, DC Urban, shout out to all my boys, Cindy Castillo, Tony Baker, DC Urban, shout out to all my people, Esau McGraw, and then now I'm working on the Wild Child Tour, but I probably name this one Skittles, and I'm ready to film this like now. The more I keep doing it, now I got like two hours, and that's really hard to cut down to an hour, so I wanna hurry up and do it so I know my next three. So for me, I wanna get this done and retire it so I could you know clear the canvas and paint something new.

So what is Skittles? Taste of Rainbow? You really about to just say f***? He wasn't here for last time. He wasn't here for last time. I wasn't here. He was here last time. Nah, it's kind of owed to my trans child. Gotcha. Shut your ass right up. But no, that's what I mean. That's what I mean when I say you're going to tell everybody f***. Everybody was giving you flack because you posted all the pictures.

I tripled down. I don't believe in, no, no, no. You want to start this. We're going to keep on going. We're going to keep on going. No, I'm going to keep on going. We're going to keep on digging. No, you started it.

So, you know, but it's not even about them. It's really about me in my transition as a human I throw myself under the bus because I wasn't with I wasn't like yeah This is great when they first you know decided to go down this this this road I was against it cuz I'm like, yo, you're not looking at life, you know, you're doing this now and your youth You may regret this when you like 45 and you have a kid and you ain't got no breastfeed So you like 45 and you have a kid and you ain't got no breastfeed. So,

you know, as a parent I was like, you know, protesting, but at the same time I went through this journey from ignorance and defiance to complete acceptance. And I just think a lot of people need to hear the truth and hear a story. I tell funny truths, things that hurt me or things that I'm imperfect and I'm not all the way there. I don't always have the right answers, but I think it's good to be human and be human on the stage

because when you talk about truth, now you're not just telling jokes, now you're actually healing. There's people in the audience, I got people coming up to me after my show crying, like, oh my God, and they did it with good grief and they're doing it now with the Wild Child Tour. It's people in the audience. I got people coming up to me after my shows crying like oh my god and they did it with good grief and they doing it now with the Wild Child Tour. It's crazy. Does your son get offended? Does your son say dad enough now like you've been on the breakfast look twice talking about it you've been talking

like enough is enough. Oh they tired of my s*** but see you like your college pay for us so what I gotta do is I gotta talk about things I'm sorry baby you know dad dad gonna do what he do. I always wanted to know is son. Did you have to sit down and say okay? Well explain it to me break it down because we come from a different place where jokes is jokes Did you have to sit down and explain what you want me to say what you want me to call you how you feel? I understand the other do you have to go through that yes And it was so damn confusing because you know they started with pronouns and I'm like look I went to public school in New York City I'm not pronounced. I don't know about the pronouns. I know nouns and verbs.

That's all they taught us. So they broke it down and all this and it's just too much. And then I got to change from calling them she to now he and they and I'm like, they is to you. What's what's I don't I don't understand. They are the most confusing one. I'm just so confused. But they took me through the tutorial

and they know that sometimes I still, because for 23 years you were her, and now they, and they give me grace. He knows you still love him. They know I love him. They, he, yeah, they know I love him. I'll fight, I'll die for him, no matter what, don't matter, that's my child, you know what I mean?

And I think all parents should defend and pull up for you know, that's my child, you know, I mean and and I think all parents should Defend and pull up for their children, you know, that's my child You know, I want them to be happy and if that makes them happy I'm happy for them We saw you come to Boosie's defense when he the back of her was happening online with his daughter Have you guys spoken like do other parents call you because you're very open about your journey No, I did frequency people fried me up for coming to his defense. But I wasn't coming to his defense. I'm telling people, hey man, y'all mind your business and let families work out their s***. That's private between him and his daughter and they don't need your fuel.

They don't need my fuel. But I'm telling you, when you're ironing out your personal problems, that's between him and his daughter. And everybody got something to say. That's what I don't like about social media that man is dealing with his child and they need to express themselves and hold space we live in a society where we're unforgiving and all we do is add fuel to fires and watch it burn and applaud and I'm just like yo let them let that man hold space it takes him time

When it first happened to me it took me time you can't expect somebody to instant be like I accept everything It takes time and God has his way of talking to each and every one of us We all gonna have our sit down with God I had mine You know and he will have his and I hold space that that man changes his point of view And then him and his child come together and love each other like any black father and black daughter or wife or daughter father period That's what I want I agree that but the you and your child didn't work it out through social media

No, we didn't like boozy was an interview talking in the name of my child been unfollowed me through social media. No we didn't. Like people can grow up, that people can change. But I just hold space and hold space for prayer and hold space within myself That people can grow up that people can change every person should have the opportunity to change even brothers that are in prison There's a reason why there's prison It's time for you to sit and time out and have conversations with God and reform But when they come out we should applaud them for the time they did they did the time now Let's hold space that they're better people. All right. We got more with Marlon Wayans when we come back.

He's on the Wild Child Comedy Tour at the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now, we're still kicking it with Marlon Wayans. Now, let me ask you a question. Oh, I got myself in trouble again. You said prison. I'm just curious. How many times have people asked you, have you ever been to a Diddy party?

They pulled up that tweet. What the fuck they got to do in prison? How you get that from a kid? Because Diddy's in prison. It just made me What the f*** they gotta do in prison? How you get that from a prison? Diddy's in prison, it just made me think about it. I seen the baby oil behind you, it just made me think about it. That's crazy, you do have a baby oil.

All right, so here's the thing. I've been to 10, 15, I know Puff since he was Puff. I knew, we went to college together, so I went to Howard. I always wanted to go to Diddy parties. They're the hottest parties in D.C. I was too young to get into those, but when got to LA and throughout the years the 90s come on man I'm biggie and I've been around a long time and I will say this I've never I've been to maybe 10 15 Some of this house. I've never seen I have never you put like that to test on me when they're like, oh well

There's videos great show me you gonna see me sipping sirac and maybe pushing the deli on to the side too strong Yeah, put a little sirac in your deli on But you know, I've never seen any of the stuff that they say happen. I've never been to a freak off. That's just not, and that's just not my vibes. That's not Wayne's vibes. Beyond that, I got to honor, I go to a party or whatever, but I always got my mother, my father, and God. And you can be around things and then go,

yeah, this ain't for me. That's just never been my vibe. I don't get off, I don't even like watching porn with BBC. No, I want mine to be the only BBC in the room when you hear these stories You know, they'd be tragic stories. You hope that none of this you hope it's not true But you got to listen to the you know, the alleged victims. Yes Did you have jokes immediately like when you read some of this stuff? Oh billion of them. I Said man, I got some jokes for you. I'm not sure you want to hear them right now.

Did he respond? Oh, listen, I hear him. I've known these guys my whole life. I've been growing up in Hollywood. When it happened to Russell Simmons, I hit Russell Simmons up and I said, Andy, we're having a terrible week. So yeah, I hit them up on their worst day, you know,

and I hold prayer, because I know the kids and I'm just like And I'm not excusing any of those actions I saw the Cassie tape that hurt my feeling and I hurt my feelings to see a black man Do that to any woman or any man do that to woman? I wasn't raised like that, but as much as I see that video and I heard for her You know, there's a part of me that hurts for that little boy in there that was taught that kind of toxic behavior I know you're there. I pray that he hurt he heals. I pray that he like he's sitting with God right now I don't need to throw that man under a bus

God is talking to puff right now and that's between God and him and whatever happens happens and that's between him and God But I'm gonna pray for those kids. I'm gonna pray for the family I'm not gonna act like it stuff didn't happen, I'm not gonna act like stuff didn't happen, and I ain't gonna act like I ain't got no jokes. I got some wonderful jokes that I got in my show. Oh, I got a baby old joke. He got thousand bottles of baby oil. But everybody got jokes and he know what it is,

and the kids know what it is, but I don't wanna kick a man when he down down and I think like I said man I know that family and I pray for more you know. You know also too man the thing I love about comedians, comedians say things and have conversations that everybody do be thinking. We have to have comedians in the world. Like God created you all for a special reason. Like the same way there's doctors and you know lawyers like you need comedians in the world. And you need journalists, you need people that sit there

and ask the hard questions. I seen you had that lady sweating, the Trump lady. She was- Oh, Laura Trump, Laura Trump. Yeah, she was sweating up a storm, started looking just like her father-in-law. I said, this crazy, you made the white lady nervous. So let me ask a question.

You can't go over there and get no love for my she's like anyway Oh, she was about to roast Lauren So Damon's coming out with Papa's house Papa's house, that's what him and uh him and little Damon and that CBS Make sure y'all check it out. I've been down to the set It's a really funny show and you know Damon don miss, and him and his son Lil Damon's brilliant, and right now there's like 62 Wayans is working over there. So you know, the whole set is all Wayans. Did y'all send like a text out like,

hey man, new show, who wanna help? Like a family group chat. It organically happens. Like my sister Kim is one of his show runners on the show. So she's writing on the show. We like to have family around. Cause my family be like, mm-mm. See that's why that magic joke happened.

Cause I had nobody around with me. I'd be like no. Say no. Oh, Damon be like, keep that one. I got a little something more you can add to it. You realize that's one of the funniest Breakfast Club interview. I don't even like to talk about it.

When Damon Wayans was up here. Oh, Dave, I think that's the one that made him stop doing stand-up. Yeah. Because that's why Damon got to be stand-up. Damon got to be stand-up because he feels like the world became so judgmental. And I think he's right, but he's not.

What I found is the world is judgmental on social media. When I go to comedy shows, people want want to laugh. No audience wants to laugh The social media got them at the studios They're not making skit comedies because they're scared to make comedies They don't think people want to laugh and I'm like you are so wrong and that's why I'm we coming back We're in a four five. We about don't call it in them that people need to laugh and I know my purpose You know, I look at how depressed the world feels and we need to laugh again like I don't care where it comes from How it comes you take the darkest subject the darkest topic and you go here's what's funny

That is what my job is You know, I mean you can't criticize a fireman for not putting out part of a fire He goes into burning buildings to find bodies. I go into burning buildings to find jokes and that's what I do for a living and I'm never gonna not tell jokes, period. And if you get canceled, good. You know what canceled means?

That means that the real n****s are staying and them n****** went home. Everybody don't got the backing that y'all, some communities are scared because they can't just walk away from stuff or they're scared that brands walk away from Them now I got no money. They don't have no ability like you guys have a it's different for the way Because we have a brand right our brand has stood the test of times we started in the 80s, right?

Hey, this is generational and now by 40 40 years that's beautiful between me Damon Sean Kenan Kim That's 230 years of comedy between each one of us like we are masters at joke-telling People trust our brand with finding the light when we did in living color You know Damon doing up and and and David and David doing men on film that's the first time gay people were introduced into your living room and people felt like oh this is safe even gay people loved men on film because the way we do things is we try to do it with kids gloves

we want the people that we make in front of to be like oh that was funny that's why you can't cancel us for white chicks you know love White chicks the most white chicks so the people that we send up usually laugh the loudest and I'm sure people need to laugh So that way is brand we coming back with the comedy tour But I'm on a comedy tour the wild child But I'm on a comedy tour, the Wild Child Tour. The point is. So the name of the tour is Everything Was God? The Wayans Brother Comedy Tour is Everything Was God?

That was tricky. That was all, you almost got me. You almost got me on that one. But before we drop drop, I got your number. I'ma call you and I tell you. And I got your number. You got my number. We appreciate you for joining us.

Always. You asked me all these hot questions. Now I'ma get a collect call from Diddy from jail. Magic gonna kiss me in the lips This guy's stupid I appreciate y'all Marlon Wayans, this is the Breakfast Club, good morning The Breakfast Club Morning everybody it's DJ, Envy, Jess, Larry, Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club

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