The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club BEST OF - Bow Wow & B2K, And Iyanla Vanzant interview

Episode Date: April 8, 2026

Best of 2026 - Bow Wow & B2K, And Iyanla Vanzant Recorded 2026.     YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about a story that Mimi did during front page news. Mimi Brown. Mimi Brown about pretty much shacking up. This ain't shacking up. These are just people who are roommates. Yeah, just roommates.

They're just trying to get it done because you look at rent. And rent can go anywhere from probably about $2,500 to $4,000 and people can't afford it. So what they're doing is they're renting out rooms where it's like you have your own room, but you're sharing a common space, which is usually the kitchen or the living room and areas like that. But people can't afford it. So you're seeing more and more and more of that. And like you said, also people are like, look. You know, if the man can afford it, he might be able to have a couple of different girls.

If a woman can afford it, have a couple of different dudes. I think that the economy is going really going to force, not forced, but, you know, make people get into more polygamous relationships. I really do. And it might be vice versa. You might have some women that's out here making enough money. And, you know, might have to have these two dudes. Like, yo, we're going to all be one big happy family. Yeah, and they're going to have to be all right with it.

You just never know. I never had a roommate. You know what I'm saying? I mean, me and my wife have lived together, you know, even with you. back in the day, but I've never had a roommate. I never had a roommate either. Well, y'all didn't go to college, but only in college I had a roommate, but outside of college, no, me neither.

So what? It don't matter we ain't ever go to college. How was that two men sharing the same toilet? It was three of them in there. Two cheeks on. Yeah, it wasn't even just two. I was so hype talking about you went to college. You sharing the dorm with all the shit.

Tell me, it would, let me spin. Yeah. I don't know what college you went to, but Hampton University was a two-bedroom, two toilets. So we had our own. Oh, you had your own table. We didn't have to share, there was the cheeks on the same toilet. Remember we had, remember, uh, remember Dramos, our old board up,

Dramos had a roommate and him and the dude were sharing the same toilet? No. He was grown or he was young? Yeah, he was old. He got so mad when I was like, you, y'all sharing the same toilet. Y'all putting the same cheeks on this. It's the truth because if you think about it, if he got crabs and then you use the toilet after him, that crab is hanging on to that toilet.

No, man, forget the crab, the ass warm. When you sit on the toilet after another man and you feel that warmth, and then what if you get bricked up a little bit? But you'll do that every day at work. Never, no. Y'all don't know who sit on them toilets before y'all? Nobody sit on my toilet. That is different, though.

It's a little bit more intimate when y'all roommates and y'all two men sharing the same toilet, man. What did you say last hour? That's right. Give it a whirl. Yeah, but that's like, if it's your roommate, you kind of know his ass a little bit better than you would know a stranger's ass. No, for real. Like, you know, if you're living with a person. That's how it's not. That's right there.

That's why Biggie said, you know, two with no, find yourself in serious. Okay. All right. Let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? This is Will. This is Will. From the Bronx.

From the Bronx. Bees Will. Are you against roommates, Will, or shacking up or having a bunch of men or even a bunch of women living with you? All right. Now, I'm going to be honest with you out here, man. If it's like childhood friends as far as men and we grew up together, then you know we can work some out. But you know Are you a man, a woman?

Don't take that disrespectfully. I just, I have a court. This is a woman, you know. Sorry. You said if my girl old boy? Yeah,

this is a girl. I'm a dude, man. I'm a dude. Oh, damn. You just never know. Yeah. Oh,

I know it was a dude, but I understand what just saying because, yo, Studge be players too. Yeah. You got the voice on.

I'm sorry, yo. Nah, yeah, don't do me like that, man, come on. But, you know, I ain't against it, man. It's just sometimes when it's with friends, you know, it could be a financial issue that could mess up a relationship, a friendship. You know what I'm saying?

Definitely. Thank you. So I appreciate y'all for getting me through. I just want to shout out Sam View to Bronx and my uncle KT. Get well. All right. All right. Well, 800-585-105-1.

Mimi was from Front Page News was talking about people are shacking up. They're living with each. No, stop saying shacking up. Shacking up is something different. Sounded like somebody's grandma. Yeah, me and my wife used to shack up because we was a couple. We weren't married. That's what you call shacking up.

These are people who are actually roommates because, you know, financially they can't afford to rent on their own. Like, this ain't no shacking up. Ain't no loving going on. Now, I'm trying to get the polygamy question going, but ain't nobody biting on the polygamy. Nobody wants to do that. Yeah. Now, if you just joining us, Mimi, during Front Page News, she was talking about how difficult

it out there is out there for homeowners. and she said people are having roommates living with each other, so let's listen. There's a new housing survey that's raising questions this morning about roommate red flags. It says that more adults in their 30s and 40s, they're sharing space again because rent is just simply too high. So recent data from Zillow, it shows living alone can cost renters more than $10,000. And so people are splitting it because financially it makes sense. But respondents to that survey say that they're facing issues that they thought they left behind in college, like dirty dishes stacking up for days, boyfriend or girlfriends that are practically moving in without,

paying bills and late payments that in some cases their credit is being affected because someone on the lease isn't keeping their part of the deal. Listen, I completely get it. I know that there's a lot of people living that life. I'm sure it's a lot of adults that have to have roommates because of the economy. So, I mean, I understand.

Like, you got to do what you got to do till you get back on your feet, man. I don't see the problem with it. But if you got four or five roommates, right? Four or five is crazy. I don't even know, like, what kind of place are you living in that y'all got four or five roommates? People got to do it. That's how they got to afford it. Four or five? Do that in New York City. Y'all be surprised how many people are already doing that in New York right now.

Does a girl come back to your crib if you got that many roommates? Four or five crazy. No, probably not. Nah, you can't. You shouldn't even want nobody to know you live with four or five people. That's right. And them walls too thin. Like, them walls too thin.

Like, a girl not going to be able to get loose with four or five roommates. And God forbid you be gay. You know. You bring a bottom back to the crib? Like, that's just too wild, yo. What they say, Jeff? Uh, it's going to be too much. No, I'm not doing.

Hello, who's this? Good news from Nevel. Hey, what's up, brother? Talk to us. What's your doors? Man, I tell you this. This stuff is real because out here in Long Island, depending on where you're at. Yo, it got to cost you 50.

No, you got to make 51,000 a year in order to qualify for low-income housing. In order to qualify for low-income housing, you got to meet that. Yes, you got to make at least 51,000. That's crazy. Yeah. So you got to rule. made brother? Yeah, shoot, we gotta rent a room. That's the best way to do it. I told you, that's a lot of people do that. How many, how many people live in your house that you

live in? Pretty much just about three of us. Okay, but it's your career, you just rent the other rooms up. Yeah. Oh, no, hell no. I'm bringing from someone else. Oh, God, you got you got to these. Do you bring girls back over and stuff like that? No. You got to be respectful of the house. True, true, true, true. So you were in a room when you want some cheeks? Hotel Hotel, yeah But see, you spending money You're spending money on hotels

You know what I mean When you can be Because he's too embarrassed To bring a girl back Yeah, but how much is your rent That's kicking out of the food Not embarrassed But you just got to be respectful of the house

Yeah, I don't think that's There's nothing to be embarrassed about No, no, no, not to be embarrassed But that's kicking out more bread If he already can't afford to live on his own You're getting hotels for cheeks I mean Just got a point

You got to upgrade the females Yeah, but if she got home Spots who could go over here too True How much is your rent, bro? That's why I was right. I say it depends on the type of one. I ain't telling that.

We don't know you. We don't know you, bro. We're asking you asking how much his rent is. That's all. Oh, yeah, yeah. How much it is? A bunch of my coworkers is listening to this. That's right.

That's right. Don't let them mess up your situation, bro. Thank you, brother. I ain't telling you. Ain't nobody on the line that practice of polygamous lifestyle to save money? None of the women.

I thought he's going to get at least some women to call. Damn. Because they'd be the first ones with it. Well, what's the moral of the story, sir? because we don't have that on the line. That's how you know. It ain't that many people out there that's willing to do that. You're right.

The moral of the story to me is nothing. It's just like, people doing what they got to do to survive. I'm not judging nobody. I think what, you know, that new survey says a lot. It says a lot about where the economy is. And, you know, people are literally doing what they got to do to get by.

So I get it. I understand. Yeah, I just always worry about the safety issue, right? Because you don't know who you're living with. You don't know, you know, where they came from or what you're taking. So that's the scary part about it, you know? You got mental illness and all this type of stuff.

You just never know, be thieving. That's true. Just imagine living with Jess. Imagine living with me. It's like living in paradise, baby. Don't play with me. Don't play with me. The breakfast club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess O'Larious. Charlemagne Nagai. We are the Breakfast Club. Launa Roses is here as well. We got some special guests in the building.

Yes, indeed. Bellwiziesies in the building. Yeah, yeah. And also, B. 2K welcome fellas yes indeed how y'all feeling man everybody amazing every 30-something year old woman in here got dressed up today put on makeup one of them came in here talking about y'all spray something in y'all you ain't never sprayed nothing in here you ain't never cared about a jersey dress you know what I'm saying hey we excited it's so lit to see y'all together I had the accent earlier like am I old because I'm excited like is it nostalgia or is it like I'm still young but like I'm happy this is happening okay

you're season baby so okay all right Thank you for that. So let's start from the beginning. How did the talk get back together? Well, first of all, how did B2K get to the reason and say, we're going to come back as a group and say, we're going to put on a show for the people? How did y'all start those conversations?

We all going to look at it. Come on, boy. Come on, let it out. Oh, man, just real quick, I came to, see, oh, he had a show out in L.A. I pulled up on him, and, man, it was just, it was dope. I'm like, I want to come support, you know what I mean? and when I got there he pulled me up on stage we did a quick little rendition of a girlfriend

but after the show we talked and we had dinner and it was like a break in the ice I hadn't seen them since like 2019 so it was like six years or something like that to make a longer story short it was a great conversation you know we talked about some of the issues

that we were having you know what I'm saying since the last time we seen each other and then moving forward we brought the guys into the fold and we just kind of made a group chat and we start, you know, mending a lot of the broken parts. And then we had a great conversation that almost led to a couple blows and some wrestling matches.

I'm sure, I'm sure. Because you're like, you know, I'm going to shoot it straight with you if we're going to get past this. I don't like that, you feel of me? But we ain't got to go into detail. But it brings us to the current space where, you know, it was an opportunity for us to go back on the road. And that's where RAS comes in, how BOW got tied in.

We was at the BET Awards. And if you know RAS, we don't know. Razz is always super passionate about brotherhood, you know what I mean, and obviously I've had my trials and tribunations. You know, time and great counseling has definitely brought me to a better space. And, you know, what better person to tour with other than BOW-W? Being that we started our career with Bile, you know, we was in his first ghetto girls video. We went on tour with him. So it's just a full circle moment.

I want to stay there for a second because, Marian, I know you're a very spiritual person, right? And you're all about energy. What needed to heal exactly for this to happen? I think maturity, you know, that plays a big role in everything, you know, being able to see other perspectives and respect. I really feel like, you know, in 2019, things were shifting, you know, it was a great opportunity for us. But I don't know that everybody was on the same page as far as life experiences, wins and losses. You know, you get to a space as an adult, you know, where, you know, else it feel like lessons instead of losses. And it feels like we all have kind of, you know, risen to that level where, you know, we're all parents.

You know what I'm saying? Like, we have to look at the scope beyond our personal feelings. So I really feel like that's what, that's why we're here again today. And a lot of people like to, I guess, home. in on the business aspect of it, which is cool, but what people forget is that, you know, we were very young when we started. So we established something beyond, you know, in respects to the business. We really created a bond in the brotherhood. So we're happy to present ourselves in a better way, in a more mature way. And, yeah. Now, what about you, Raz? I was, you getting back

to the group, because you said you sent out a bunch of emails and you've been up here passionate it before about making this work. So what was for you that said, you know what this is going to work or what needed to happen for you to say this could work again? For me, I had to take accountability for my actions, right? And learn how to regulate my emotions. There's a lot of things I learned in different

coping skills and therapy. And I feel like with my maturity, my marriage, me having children, it's just really grounded me. And I feel like there was a love that I was looking for because when you dedicate so much to this industry and then the rug is pull up on you and then you're just trying to figure out your back is against the wall. You're feeling these emotions that you don't know

express you got people around you exploiting that you know what I mean so just getting into good space and then having my brothers you know bull out to his therapist oh fast I'm a great therapist I just want to say that anybody was you like you like yo bro walking the floor is like hey listen we're gonna go into that but yeah shout out to this no real talk not real brother's count accountability man um yeah definitely just the maturity you know growing up taking accountability um having those rough conversations with oh and you know just really displaying the true genuineness from my heart you know in action more than words so i think that's just really what brought us all back what do you and oh argue about like

who got the best baby hairs I know, baby. I know, baby. I know. I know. I know. I know. I'm stupid.

I'm stupid. I know y'all, I mean, with Omar Yon and Fizz, we saw everything with like, you know, April, like, whatever. And I know that there was a, when I saw your apology, Fizz, a few years ago, I felt like there was a lot of hurt on both sides that led to where y'all got to.

How has it been dealing with that hurt in real time? Because I know the conversations are probably still happening actively. Like, that's not like a one-time. time thing. Yeah, I mean, the whole entirety of it, you know what I'm saying? It was hurt there. So to come from it, you know, it has to be rough conversations. Yeah. For sure. And I guess my question in that was, so in dealing with that

day to day, because that's not like a easy thing to deal with, how is that every day? Like when things come back up, how do you guys work through it actively? So let me, I'm going to speak on that because it's deeper than this, them. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's a family that you're talking about. So if anybody got siblings and you close, you know what I'm saying? Like, what they go through don't just affect them. Right. And it's not just them, you know what I'm saying, working to get through it.

You know, for us, it's like since day one, it's always been a straight up, you know. So we're not going to hold on to nothing that we didn't already cover. You know what I'm saying? Like, once the conversation is had, even if it's a boxing in the closet that got to go down. Like, once that's done, it's done. It's over done, yes. You know what I'm saying? So it's not a question or a conversation.

Yeah. I didn't know books was to Bill Belichick of this shit. No, I just wanted to be, you know. Yeah. And I was going to ask, you know, what made you say, you know what, I want to do it with these guys, right? Because they've been effed up for a while, up and down. There's two members, one member, three members, half a member. So what made you say, you know what?

We're going to put this effing and go on tour and make sure they're going to stay. Stayed a whole tour together. No, it just made sense. Like, BT Awards. Like, it just made sense. Same it together. It was strong. Like, Presidents was there.

It was like, okay. Feel right. And, of course, you know, Raz's going to speak his mind whenever. You don't care. I'm like, we on live. I don't give it damn. You want to do this tour? What is?

He said it live on TV. Like, put me right there on the spot. So I was like, yeah, it do make sense. You know what I'm saying? It's like the scream tour all over again. You know, me and, oh, we've been doing it for the past couple of years together. I came out on the first run with 2019. team. You brought me out right in Atlanta.

And it just made sense. Them as a group, I haven't toured with them in over, what, 20 years? So it just made sense. Me and Chris did runs. Me and O did runs. And I'm like, yeah, we only danced, what, twice. It'll be good to dance from old time. And the millennium tours, we've been killing them. Like, every year, we've just been killing them.

And we just felt like the time is now. They're celebrating. I'm celebrating 25 in the game. The boys are celebrating theirs. And it's just a full-circle moment. It's like, yeah, let's do it now. And we still got it. And then the fans want to see it. Yeah, absolutely. You know, me and the whole other millions of people that want to see this.

Yeah, and we ready, and I could tell you were serious. I could tell it was serious. Like, you could just tell, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, yeah, just feel right. Let's go ahead and dance. Let's do it. How did y'all pick the rest of the acts? I see y'all got crime art, pretty Ricky, Jeremiah, Wakaflagher.

That's a long-ass show. Is it different? Oh, like... We ain't, we ain't an underdise. That's a BPC question. Okay, that's a lot of people. Black promoters collect. I ain't gonna lie

I ain't gonna cap like sometimes we do got Louis Say so I ain't gonna lie like we did this Chishanth in one year like I had hit sis like yo I think we should roll with us and then if we get the okay like we'll lob it to like Gary or whatever like you know what I'm saying like franchises

pimping that's the homies just like all right man we don't have you ain't on this bitch six years in the road but they don't come on that energy though they definitely do they get right I'm like we got switch it up man bring them back like so sometimes we did some say so and then sometimes we'll be like I know I have I've been like man put this on there

and we'll get closer they don't I'll be like shit. But yeah, we do get a little say-so. Oh, you did it because you got me on the mu-uh. You know? She was always the headliner. Nah, I always give, oh, his credit when it comes to the Millennium brand, you know what I'm saying? Like,

you know, and Rass too and just the whole guys, you know what I mean? It was theirs. Oh, you know what I'm saying? You just got the DNA. You're ready to go back out on a Scream tour. You just get ready to the Dream Fest. Yeah. You know, probably still is going to do it. I think the confusion is

it is the DNA from the screen, right? That's where it comes from, but the Millennium Tour, Owen them popped that off first. The boys popped that out first. You know what I'm saying? Then O came and grabbed me, like, hey, you can't turn this down. Like, it's really a no-brainer. So I get credit to my bro because I wouldn't even thinking about touring.

That wasn't even on my mind. I was on some other shit. And he's like, nah, you got to come get a piece of this. And bro did that. You know what I'm saying? You take it serious because it was one time he was wild about. I mean, when you was whiling on JD. They gave me the broke mind.

You and Ray Jee running around, twist it. It was times when you even said that you was drinking too much. When did you say, nah, I got to stop and take it serious? Um. Hey, hey, hey, hey, see, I, you know what?

Because I know, I know, I know, they think like, look, I know what old thing. Yon think this shit? Look,

no, no, no, not, no, because they, we got a group chat. We got a group chat. So I'm the one that's always wilder than that my fucking. Like,

I'm always wilder. But passionate and shit for me, honestly, I mean, I said it already on record. When I had to talk with, with somebody. You know,

I ain't got to say no names, but I pretty much, I think y'all probably know what I'm talking about. You kind of just told me, man, you need to tighten your ass up. Like, you're out here doing all this goofy shit. You don't understand that you're a legend, man. You can't come around me with that bull, no more. It's time you to wake up and understand. Was it, JD? You close.

So I'll say that. Puff said it. He told me, you know what I said? You know what I'm saying? He told me this years back. Like, remember when he came up here? He came up here. Yeah, I was like me.

He's like, cut the bull. You know what I'm saying? You're around. Snoop. You're around. JD, you know what I mean? Really fucking you. You got a billion you can call.

Everybody can't call me. But I pick up for you. You know what I'm saying? You got to understand your brand. Don't fuck that up. All your old geez is here, you got to be one. So I think when he said that, like about seven years ago or whatever, it just clicked in.

And then, you know, my kids getting older. My son, about to be six. Shy driving this year. So it's kind of like a lot of things come in perspective. I'm about to be 39. It's like you start getting all that love and everybody giving you your flowers. Me and, oh, we don't want a Billboard Award for the tour. You start getting all this.

It's like that shit right there It'll make you sit back and be like, okay, yeah, I am him. I am one of the ones. It's like when you understand that, you're going to move like one. And that's why you didn't see me no b***, no f***ing for the past. I don't know how long. I just been on my, I've been in the crib. Focus, working, selling these du rags and doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

That's it. I'm focused on the do rags. I'm focused. I'm focused. I got you. I got you straight. And get the brush to go with it. I'm telling you it's different.

Yeah, man. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. Oh, my God. Number one. I got that sold up. That lane?

I'm good. The Brad was up here. She said she spazz out on you a couple times. When Brett don't spazz up, Brad spazzed on me when I changed my number, and I don't give it to her when I thought I did give it to her. Like, that's it, though. Like, that's another one who going to hold you accountable.

Hold you accountable. Hold you accountable. Hold me accountable check on me. I was just with Snoop last week. That's another person that, you know, that's going to get on me. And it's just too many people that I got this in my corner that I know I can always talk to. You got a lot of LeBron. in you, I'm gonna tell you what I mean, right?

Like, it's hard to like meet expectations. And when you think about when we saw Bow Wow on Arsenio Hall all them years ago, he was like, that little dude nice. Yeah. You didn't have to become a superstar. Nope. That's gonna win either way. You ever think about something like that?

Nope. That you fulfilled that expectation. I was gonna be a superstar. I knew it. I knew it. Like, it's all I knew it. I didn't know nothing. That's all I know.

I didn't know nothing else. At first it was being a comedian. And I think that's how I was able to transition to the acting thing so easily. I started out with that first. Rapping came because I could mimic just about anybody. And then if you could mimic a muck, you're basically doing it. So then it was like, all, cool.

Then somebody started writing my rap. I think if I write it, boom, then the whole chronic tour, 93 came. Snoop found me. I mean, Dad, shut out the dash. Dads finds me bring me to the back. And now the rest is history. And it was like, okay, I guess we're going to stay on this path. Then this is what we're going to do.

That's what God chose for me. So we're going to ride it out. I'm going to ride out to the death, though. I ain't going to stop this shit no time. Ever. I'm never going to stop. say that now because even when you were wild and going through your bullshit, I knew it

like it just wasn't for no reason. Like what do you think it was? Did you feel alone? Like were you dealing? What were you dealing with? Honestly? Just doing dumb shit? It's just that sensful. It was just that's stressful. You're doing. I really, listen, I really thought I was low-key when I put up the plane. I really did. I thought I was low-key. And I did that shit. I just got caught. You know what I'm saying? And who was there with? Well, you weren't with me on the plane. I'm saying,

but you was at the studio when we did the little scary. You feel I'm saying. He was right the way we did the skin. So for me, you already see I'm a team. I play ball. Like, we got the group chat. I don't got thin skin. Like, this is what we do.

Like, but all my f***ups and bull- it's really happened. Like, the hoodie where my daughter just recreated the hoodie thing. We coming out to crab boil and she's like, I'm about to do this. And my dad, he got on the outfit too. We got the black hoodie and I'm about to get him. And I didn't even know what she was doing.

But as soon as she did it, I was like, yo, you're going to go viral with that. Because it already went viral. It reoccurs every summer. weird years, but you about to bring this all the way back fully, but when she did it, it was like, that was really a moment. It was a million kids after I got anxiety. You heard, oh, say, we was

child stars. We hear crowds and we get the flipping. I'm like, oh, they don't know what in the all the time, but I love it, though. I love it. That's just that daddy-daughter dynamic that we got, you know what I mean? I love it, I love it. I never thought about that type of PTSD. We always think about PTSD from like the negative way, but imagine like

everywhere you go, you're used to crowds just rushing you. I went to the mall that of the You go to the mall? No, I put up to the back. My man come out the mall through the back door and just put my shoes and he was like, bow, I think you should really come in

and got some good chrome hard shit. I know you're going on tour you might have to try these on. I'm like, all right, cool. I'm like, why are we walking through the real way? Like, I just started flipping the fuck out in there. Where's the side door? Yeah, yeah, I'm like, I don't do this.

I don't go to the mall. Like, I don't go to the mall. I don't leave my house. Like, I don't need a crib. I'm in the crib. 24-7. I got everything I need after I was on. Bail, talk about you and Amarian's relationship over the years.

You know, even though the boys went through their drama, me, oh. We didn't, me, oh, we didn't went through our drama multiple times. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, oh, yeah, like the last tour of me old and they say one word to each other. We're passing each other shoulder to shoulder. Not saying one word. But my aunt like, hey, oh, you're like, oh, hey, I see. I'll see, all right.

What up? Oh, what up? Oh, what are there? So for us to go from. I got the, I got the ego. I got the ego. So it's like, yeah, I don't know it. Trey trying to get this, man, y'all need to talk.

Well, all right, if you walked right here and I walk right there and then we can talk, we all right, I'll meet him in the middle of all like this. All right, I don't want to talk neither than it. So it's like, for us to watch them when they went through them, me and old, we've had our own things as brothers. And then for us to finally be like, all right. Especially the BT Awards. I was already, being a book was like, let's go.

Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like, that was the perfect time. They tried. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the boys know, because even in the group chat, they don't know, Balg gonna come in with spazard at least twice every time.

But it's about the work. It's just really passionate about this. This is all I know since five. So it's like I know what we're supposed to be at. I know how to look post to be. And if we are on the same page, but if we can't get them on state, like it's frustration, boom.

And this is the fact that we want to be great. So I think to watch like, oh, there's definitely ego for show. And then, you know, like I said with the brother thing, it's like, I don't like working with people if I really don't know you. And it's a lot of artists that's like that. I don't ask for features before, and they're like, man, I don't know about it, I need to hang with him, I need to do-da-da-da. Like, they know, they shoot me over a record. I'm doing it right there, sending it right back.

Like, these are the guys that it ain't even about the money. It's just about, like, to me, I don't even care about the money. Like, this tour is just to do it with them. It's a full-circle moment. And you see, anytime I tour, I'm touring with one of my brothers. If it ain't them as a group, if it ain't B2K, if it ain't O, then it's Chris. If it's, then I'm trying to do something with Snoop. Like, I like working with people who I genuinely rock with and fuck with.

It's just the work feels better. The fans can receive it better. They know it's organic. They know it's authentic. And it's just received well. So like I said, I couldn't, like, I wasn't going to tour this year at all. I was just going to pop up on the screen festival. My 25th anniversary show in Columbus and call it that day, really, and just do all the festivals.

But when he brought this up, it was kind of like a, I was like, damn, I just, man, Trey just got done. I was going to do it again. So I was like, all right, you know, this is different. I don't know if they're going to see this again. You know what he just said, me and Trey just got done like I wouldn't know to tour. God, me that's right. That's why I be like, I'm talking about it.

Hey, I said you started it. I said you started a millennium. I said, me and Trey. Oh, my God. All right. All right. All right. There you go.

Me, I was talking too fast, bro. My back. What was the first conversation between you? Like, how did y'all finally just? All right. It was in London. No, it was in London. I would tell you, it was in London.

Go, Trey. Be in Trey. Shout out the Trey. He go. Come, come. Come in my room. Come on, man. We party in the room.

I said, I'm partying to my room. I got a girl. We're chilling. We're in London at the last show. He's like, come on, come on, come on. We're going to do like a last photo or whatever. I'm like, all, all right, cool. Y'all got to see the photo.

You got a photo. So I walk in the room. Oh, yeah. Oh, walk in the room. I walk in the room. Trair like, oh, man, you know, I got my brothers here. Oh, man. We're going to do this picture, man.

Let's go. I'm like, yeah. All right, come on, hurry him, take the picture. Let's do it. who was on the side of the stage and I, you know, I even know, it was because I apologize while I was hosting. I told him my fault, I was in my ego, you know what I'm saying? Even though the tour was a success, you know what I'm saying?

What, top five, R&B hip-hop tour last year, right? Yeah. But we f***ed up because we didn't get the fans what they wanted. We never performed together not one time. Never spoke to each other at one time. I was serious. Yeah. We were serious.

Yeah, it was just work. It was weird. You know what I'm saying? It was weird. And, you know, I was like, man, we ain't going to let that shit happen again. Like we just not going to let that happen again Not even the work, but we got to get back how we was The work is there

What about that shit later? Like let's fix this And once I apologize to him and said, yo bro I was ego tripping sometimes I haven't going to cap bro, you know me You know me, bro And same vice versa And we put that shit into the side And group chat popping and we cracking jokes

They be sending these memes I don't know who'd be sending you know Obie said you send it you know Obes crazy It's just crazy Incents and candles It's all love right in the morning And it's all lit though I love it

You're Mario piece it out because y'all were going through your thing in one time. They don't have a problem. So why everybody think they got a problem? And we ain't close. They don't got a... We ain't close. We don't got a problem. Y'all ain't never seen us hanging out.

You know what I'm saying? I'm a whole part of a group. You know what I'm saying? No, I mean, Mario's an incredible talent. Nah, I love Mario. But people ask me, like, what are you? Like, why do we say we got a problem? We just, we just diversed together.

We are he. I mean... He. It was Mario is because Mario is. It was because Mario is. Mario versus Ray J at first. He was breaking the music. So he said that and then when you responded, people were like, wait, even Mario, when he was here,

was like, okay, we have an issue. Like, he was a little confused too because we were all at the Ebony Power 100 gala and he was like, well, he didn't say nothing to me. So I didn't know that there was a thing. But you said that he didn't respect your craft because he said whatever he said about how you sing. Yeah, he was like, he said something like it was, um, it was the demeanor. He was the hit and miss.

Yeah. He's like hitting the miss. And this is like, come on, bro. 20 years. Come on, though. Everybody knows it's going to be. Y'all that's like, you know, the host of these podcasts is that some messy stuff right there. You feel me?

Like, you present an opportunity for us to have to go head up. You know, like literally what kind of question is that? You know what I mean? And at the same time, shout out to Mario, but like what kind of answer is that? You know what I'm saying? Like we all work to build this music industry. And guess what? Your favorite artist has bad days.

Your favorite artist is flat. The greatest singers, they don't sound great all of the time. Like, it's a part of it. Y'all come here and show up every day. Y'all not feeling good every day? Y'all don't feel like talking about this. You know what I'm saying? They don't see that, though.

You know what I mean? So it's like for another person at another station to be like, oh, yeah. And you'd be like, yo, what's up with that? You know what I mean? And I've never been an artist to hate on other artists. That's never been my thing. We've always supported everybody. Yeah, so when people try to do the little, little slide thing, I have an issue with that.

Because it's unnecessary. We all here, and we have enough room to make space for everybody. You know what I'm saying? And that's why everybody sees me, and then they put their arm out. I want to say, what's up? But then they go on an interview, and it's just like, I have a problem with that. Another thing they f***ed you about, Mar-on, which is crazy, because I've seen real dances give you props like the Chris Brown and them.

But for whatever reason, there's always this meme going around there. Mario, you're getting away with this bull's shit. Yeah. It's just that one dance that everybody redone, but he gets busy dancing. Crazy, and everybody knows it. Did that fuck you when you see those? No, never. Oh, it was still cold.

What? Like, what? Yeah. First of all, when you dope at something, you don't lose it. You know, you might shift and it might change for you, but, you know, you changed from how you used to be in the beginning, but you don't lose it. You know what I mean? Unless you don't use it. And trust me, I'll be in the lab.

I'll be in the lab. I'll be in a laugh. Yeah, old dance 24-7. Now that's not a cat. I'm going to dance everywhere we go. He's joy. I'm joyous. I think the other day we was at rehearsal and he just, out of nowhere, was like,

I just love dancing. He was like, I want y'all to really know this. I really do. Well, the tour kicks off. March 6. And we appreciate you. He's dropping an album. March 6, too.

That's right. Well, thank you guys. No, I appreciate it, appreciate it. For sure. Hell yeah. Fizz. I had to write this about, Opalillon. Wow.

Raspberry, appreciate you. Come on, fam. You already know, Eddie. Stop playing, man. You know what it is. Saloy. Come back. Yeah.

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Donkey today goes to a 46-year-old Houston man named James Earl Johnson. Black. Guess what race it is? Black! It will not be needed today. Okay, that is one of the blackest names I've ever heard in my life. All right, this man is named after somebody's great-great-grandfather, okay? He sounds like he was a custodian and a high school when they ended segregation in America in 64.

Okay, a James or Earl and a Johnson? I know he doesn't got denied for a loan quite a few times. Okay, probably discriminated against during a hiring process of two. I know he didn't get a callback. You know, studies show people with black-sounding names get 50% fewer callbacks than identical resumes with white-sounding names. So I know James Earl Johnson wasn't getting no callbacks. But anyway, James Earl Johnson, how is he not James Earl Johnson the third? Okay, that name is too old to be the first.

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Why? Why? You know, years ago, Larry King, the great Larry King, rest in peace, Larry King, he said to me, you know, Charlemagne, the greatest question you can ask in an interview is why. I think that's the greatest question to ask You know, I've been going to therapy for a solid decade now, and that is what I'm always trying to get to the root of. The why of things. Why did I react this way? Why did this trigger me? Why did I behave like this in this moment?

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Okay, I was born in 1978, so I remember the movie Misery from the 90s when Annie held Paul captive. This is that, okay? At least in the movie, misery, though, we knew the why, because Annie was an upset. That's a fan. There was no reason for James Earl Johnson to be doing what he was doing to his wife other than pure evil. Okay, just leave her, brough. Divorce her, all right?

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Sholomaine de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren La Rosa is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. The legend. Ayanna von Zahn. Welcome back. Hi.

How are you feeling? I am blessed. How are you? I'm doing amazing. All of this young, all of this young energy. It just, I'll take it. I'll take it. I was born in 1978.

If I'm young, do you? Thank you. 78? I got a bra that I bought in 70. Ms. Bondi, you never stopped working. No. You hear today because you got a new show to Inside Fix, but you just put out a book,

Spiritual Hygiene, and December. Why can't you ever keep still? Well, because I don't want to grow roots. I don't want to grow roots, you know. Roots are not helpful. Yeah, it's good. You know, don't we need it? Absolutely.

We need the work. So we need the energy. So I'm out here. Yeah. I'm out here. I could be on the pole, but this is so much more beneficial. Well, I've seen the first episode, hilarious. So for people that don't know, it's almost like, where are they now?

Where are we now? Not them. Yeah, where, yes. Where are we now? So break down the show. Yeah, what I did was we went back into. some of our highest rated shows with the most memes.

I know. I'm a meme machine. And we looked at those shows for issues that are going on today because the way we deal with stuff today is very different than we did 12 years ago. 12 years ago, these six women had a problem and they pulled their copy down off the internet. Today, you know, that would be

IG, IT, Facebook, they would be canceled. And so how we deal with it today. But the issue of breakdown among women is just as prevalent today as it was back then. So how do we deal with that? How do we address that? So that's what we're doing. We're going back into the shows and looking at how to take those issues and apply them.

I love how you did it. Why did you find that more appealing than revisiting? I mean, why did you decide to revisit older stories instead of helping new families? Because I'm old. You're seasoned. You're not old. You're seasoned. I'm old and seasoned.

You know, because we just keep reinventing stuff. And we don't even really get all the juice out of what we got. We didn't get all the juice out of Fix My Life. That's why we can go back in and do it again today. The things that are applicable. Back then I did shows with mothers and daughters. And now you have mothers divorcing or daughters divorcing mothers. children not speaking to parents.

That wasn't going on back then. So, yeah. And also to let people know that sometimes you don't even know what you're looking at. Yeah.

Because people looked at that and got into the characters and the people. But they were looking at a whole another thing. Just like in the world today. We don't really know what we looking at. Yeah. It's found on that one.

Yeah. expound on that. We don't really know. You're trying to get me shot. Do I look Somalian? I don't want to get it. I do wish DMX could have lived to be on this show. He wasn't ready.

I think he was willing, but he wasn't ready. And you've got to be both. Can't be just ready and not willing or willing. He wasn't ready. You also talk about. Lady balls. Lady balls. Does Jess have lady balls?

What? Well, yes. Okay. Now, but we got to understand that lady balls and testicles are different. Break that down for. Okay, because testicles.

That's what I'm looking for. Thank you. Now, you just said everything you see ain't what you see. Now, what you say? The hair you see on testicles is real. It's really there. Break down lady balls

before it just gets offended. You see, a lot of women because of the the way we are conditioned and programmed and educated take on masculine qualities you know and and they think it's

powerful but feminine power is very different than masculine power. Feminine power is assertive masculine power is aggressive. Feminine power is directive it's nurturing, it's nourishing it's clear and masculine

power is often domineering and controlling and directive as opposed to collaborative. So lady balls, you know, a lot of women today want to be the boss and they want to be the diva and have no leadership skills whatsoever. Lady balls are how a powerful woman lives in, moves and stands in her power in a way that nurtures, nourishes, supports, heals, grows, other people. it's not testicles testicles are aggressive they got here and sometimes they smell don't ask me how I know

I'm wrong You know You know it's interesting In one of the episodes You point out that Women don't know the distinction between assertiveness and aggression Yes

How do you advise women to create a distinction Between the two? Well Lead with your heart And not with your head Lead with your heart That's ladyballs Ladyballs

Lady balls don't come from the crotch. They come from the heart. Did you come up with this term, Lady Bowls? Did you come with? I love it. I said it for so long, but then when I went to try to trademark it, people have said that. But I spell mine differently, and nobody else has a deck of cards. My team created a deck of cards so you can pull your lady ball card.

Oh, you said, deck. I was like, what the hell is it? Oh, my God. The ball got him confused. Yes, because we're talking about balls. Mr. Willie doesn't have to show up. what do you say to women who have like because a lot of women shy away from leading with their heart

because they're called to emotional or they're scared to be vulnerable and make decisions based off of emotion because they think that they're not thinking clearly right why do you think the heart is about emotion that's what most people would relate heartfelt decisions too when it comes to women well who men yes men because most women are so far out of their heart they don't even know what the heart does

the truth is that the mind was created to be a slave of the heart. But we've made the heart a slave of the mind or the intellect. Heart centered is grounded, it's clarity. And again, nourishing, nurturing,

edifying, it's progressive. The heart is progressive. The mind gets stuck in a loop. That's why we have therapy. Don't nobody go to nothing to try to get their heart fixed. They try to fix their head. The heart doesn't get stuck in a loop. The heart remains open because the heart is where God speaks.

God doesn't speak in the intellect. God speaks in the heart. I'll ask you a question about what you said about women having masculine qualities, no, masculine qualities, but no leadership ability. They want to be the boss and the diva, but they don't have leadership tendencies, leadership training, leadership, not even qualities because you can have leadership qualities. But you have a leader has to have. The leader has to have a heart.

We see what it looks like when a leader doesn't have a heart. Let me put my glasses on. I don't look Somali. Is that something you can learn or is that something that has to be in you already? Well, I think that leaders are born, but they definitely have to be trained. Some people say leaders are trained. They're not born. I believe leaders are born.

I agree. Some people just rise into it. But there's certain qualities and characteristics that an effective leader needs. And the one thing is a heart, hard for people. Another thing is a vision. Leadership isn't just about ordering people around and telling them what to do. A leader has to have a vision. And then you get people to buy into the vision.

And you lead them in that vision in a way that's whole and healthy for everybody. I see that in corporate America all the time. A lot of people in leadership roles and leadership positions, but they're not actually. No vision. They're controllers. They're demagogues. They're bullies. They're all sorts of things.

And whenever money is the only thing that leads you, you're going to have a loss. What would you say to somebody who was, like, say, in a workplace or in a relationship that wants that work relationship or real relationship to work, right? One of the exercises you did on the first episode, which was from, what, 2014, I love it, was you brought everybody to a department store and you made everybody shop for each other. You buy this person an outfit. You buy this person an outfit. And then when you did, you said, well, why did you buy that person at?

How do you look at them? So what would you advise for a couple or even somebody working to do to try to fix it because you can't be there or they can't afford you, I should say? Well, they can read my book because in spiritual hygiene, I have spiritual hygiene for relationships, spiritual hygiene for parenting, and spiritual hygiene for the workplace. Here's a thing in any relationship. Three things.

Number one, tell the truth. One of the reasons our relationships are dying and drying up is because we lie about everything. We lie about what we feel. We lie about what we want. Sometimes it's not a conscious lie. It's a lie driven by fear. The fear of losing.

The fear of being harmed. So we don't want to be vulnerable. But in order for anything to grow and thrive, you've got to have some truth. The other thing is accountability. All the stuff that we're not seeing in the world today. Tell it true. Be accountable.

Don't blame and project. Own your stuff. Own it. And be accountable for every choice, every word, every action. And know what you're bringing to the table, particularly in the workplace. People go to work to make money. People go to work to, you know, very few people go to work to serve. So what are you bringing to the table that you want something in return?

Give me, give me, give me, give me, give me. What are you bringing to the table? So I think that if we did that in relationships, if we did that in the workplace, we have a lot more respect and honor for, if I can't believe that your mother, your grandmother didn't die again for the third time. I used that one a lot. How are you going to look at me? You know I used that one a lot.

We work. I mean, because she only died once, but if I can say that died, they ain't harm me. You know, where can you lose somebody in the face and believe that what they're telling you is the truth? That they're not trying to take you down or get something from you or it's, oh. Can we stay? I want to stay here with the spiritual hygiene. First of all, I love the title of the book. What is spiritual hygiene and how do people tend to it?

It's the daily, daily commitment and practice of clearing your mind, of cleaning your heart, of strengthening your, spirit. It's not a one-time thing. It's a practice. Your spirit has to be maintained like your teeth. You know what people brush their teeth every day and go years

without an examination of their own thoughts. They got fungus in their mind. Many people are emotionally constipated. Still mad about something that happened in 56. How do you clean that up? You brush your hair

You wash your hoo-ha, you know, but you don't clean your spirit, your heart, your mind. So spiritual hygiene is the daily practice of clearing your mind, your heart, your soul, your inner life, so that your outer life can have a different appearance. So what about the people who pray, they go to therapy, they meditate, they sage, but they still stay toxic? Like, what are they skipping in the hygiene process? What is the prayer? What is the prayer? Most people beg.

pray. You know, and all of that is good, but what's your relationship? What is your relationship with God's source, created spirit of your understanding? What is your relationship? God doesn't want your, you know, tithes and service only. What is the relationship? And most people, many people, I won't say most. I'll say many, many people learn the function and the doing of the prayer, but they don't.

have the presence in the prayer. They don't have the relationship with the very thing they're praying too. Why, I didn't. I grew up in the church. You know, I'll tell you a real funny story. They were trying to baptize me. I must have been five or six. In the apostolic church, you know, that's, ooh.

That's everything's a sin. Yes, man. Rolling your lip is a sin. Anyway, they're getting ready to baptize me and, you know, they dunk you down in water and stuff. And they say to me, Will you take, do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? Now this is way back when, that's how old I am.

When Jesus was still on the cross with the little droplets of blood on his hands, I, me, the brilliant child, I look up and I say, who him? He can't help me. Oh, my God. You know I got beat into tomorrow, you know that, right? I said, who him? He can't help me because. You know, he's right.

You know, he's down off the cross now. You don't see him. But we were fed religion. We were told what to do. We weren't taught to build a relationship. And it took me a long time to know that it wasn't about the doing of it. It was about the being in relationship in the presence, being present in the prayer, being still and knowing. When did you learn to pray and not big?

When the begging wasn't working. I just got to. tired of begging. And then I said, okay, what am I doing wrong? I'm begging and you're not paying attention. And this is not the way of God is supposed to respond. When I learned two things, how to be still and how to know. How to be still within my mind, my heart, spiritual hygiene,

and how to know when I was in the present. not when I was reaching out but when I was turning in and that was it for me instead of going out go in I remember you did the you had the really big daddyless daughter segments that you would do

and you would talk about the un like the things that they need to like or the words they need to know like daddy's gone and just the reality of like moving forward from and I remember that you're not triggered right now right no I'm not triggered but I used to watch

I used to watch the show because me and my dad at that time it was like early on in us trying to figure out okay he's new back in to my life. How do I feel? Do I have questions? And I got to a point where I was like, all right, you weren't here. Here's where my life is. Like, I don't want to be a victim or like a product of that. She was daddy listed. Yeah. I just said that stupid. I just want to make sure she understands. But your series, your series helped me though because my mom was one of the people that was like very like, she just acted like it didn't happen. You were, you acknowledge

that it happened, but you didn't let people live in it. So it helped me to realize like, okay, what are we going to do here? Like, what are we going to do with the relationship? or what are you going to do with yourself and how you feel about that. And if it's not accepted from him or responded to him the way you want, you just, you can only control yourself. Yeah. Because you get to choose and he gets to choose. And sometimes the shame of it, the guilt of it, a lot of dads, moms, people can't show up. Husbands who cheat come back and they can never get it together or wives.

Because did you know wives were cheating? Yeah. Black men don't cheat, but boy. What? Like women? Your nose is growing. Let me move it. Exactly.

Yeah. But, you know, my hope, my prayer, and I appreciate so many people are so excited about the show, about the book. And may my legacy be, if nothing else, that I gave people skills and tools to take responsibility for themselves. because the world we're in right now, the mess that we're in, is because we were anticipating somebody else doing for us what we needed to do for ourselves. And so we got to do the work.

You have to do your work. Accountability is a hard concept for a lot of people to grasp, Ms. Von Zaynoyne. Awareness, accountability, and integrity. Integrity where your mind, your heart, and what you do are all aligned. Very often people think one thing, feel something and do something else. Get an integrity.

Line it up and be willing to piss people off to maintain your own integrity. Honor yourself. Don't set yourself on fire to keep other people warm. Don't dim your light like that. Take responsibility and just embrace everybody in the process. You always say healing. Isn't pretty. Why do people romanticize spirituality but reject the mess that's required to actually evolve? Intellectualizing the spirit. Like people think spiritual people shouldn't get angry. I'm from Brooklyn. I don't get angry. I get pissed the F off and I'm coming for you.

Now, okay, all right, you know what I'm talking about? I grew up with the bodega on the corner. Okay, so I just don't do that. I don't do that. I I'm responsible for myself when I do it, if I do it. And I don't stay stuck there. And that's not going to become an identity for me. Let me see you abuse a child. I'm coming for you. All guns drawn, cussing like a sailor, and hit you in your head. Punch you right in your throat.

Okay. Disrespect a woman in my presence. I'm coming for you. So even though I'm a deal. deeply spiritual person, there's sometimes when you have to, again, throw cold water in somebody's face. But people want to intellectualize spirituality. Oh, you have to be kind and loving. Yes, you do. But sometimes you are human. And it's okay. In terms of it being, healing, not being pretty, it's because most of us are not aware of the depth of healing that is required.

and not aware we think it's just if he would behave or if they would come back or if they would say I'm sorry that it would be okay. It's so much deeper than that. So much deeper and most people are afraid to go in. And when I say

most people, I'm not generalizing. I'm speaking about in terms of the years that I've been doing this work and what I've seen. What I've seen. Don't want to go with that. Don't want to look at with that. Don't want to do the spiritual hygiene. No, no, no. Is there a difference between being spiritually clean and being spiritually sterile?

And what I mean by that, can we ever oversanitize ourselves out of just human connections? That I don't know. Spiritually clean, you're still among everybody. If you're not connected, then you're not spiritual at all. Because the deepest part of spirituality is connection. So I don't know about spiritual sterile. me write that down. Because you know I'll forget.

The only reason is that some people try to, like you said, they try to set so many boundaries and they intellectualize spirituality to think that they got to be away from people and be apart from people. To me, that's not. But some of them do. I mean, look at the monks. Some of them, that's their mission. That's their ministry. That's what they do.

They go out there. I'm not on that committee. I'm not on that committee. I'm on the people committee. But spiritually sterile, I don't. No, that's a good, thank you for that. That'll be my next book. I love spiritual hygiene, man, because there's a rapper named D.G. Eola.

He had a song, I call it a Negro spiritual call, Ain't Gonna Let Up. And in the song, he said, get yourself together, go get your brain a bath, go to church, start listening, get on the right path. And that's what spiritual hygiene is, clean up your spiritual hygiene. And I, you know, I'm really, for me, the greatest thing was, to see how far I've come because I wasn't spiritually clean I wasn't and to see how far I've come

and look at the experiences that I've had, the divorce, the death of my partner, my losing two daughters, you know, all of it, all of it. And to see how far I've come. You know, you can't fall off the floor. So I was on the floor.

So to see how far I've come from how far down I was, is humbling. It's really humbling because millions didn't make it. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I really... So it's a lot of fun. And can I say

this to you? Yes. First of all, you are absolutely gorgeous. You do know that, right? Yes, ma'am. Don't let Charlemagne tell you anything anything. Okay. Okay. Can you tell her the Lauren too? Well, she knows she's the baby girl. She just a beauty little funk in her face. Let me tell her Solomon don't bother.

That was the part I meant. Don't bother. I don't bother. Yes, he does. I'd be trying to get her to get her a spiritual hygiene clean. I am so proud of you. Thank you. Really.

As an OG, I am so proud of you. And the way that you present, I mean, sometimes you all do a little controversial, but that's okay. I'm OG, but I can do this. Yeah, you're like it. My little ones keep me up today. Continue to represent yourselves. and us in this really powerful, productive way. I was so excited when I heard about Netflix.

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Morning, everybody. It's CJNV. Just hilarious. Salomey and the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. if you're just joining us, we're talking about something that Kiki Palmer said about marriage. Let's listen. One thing I need you to know is that I never want to live together.

That's real. I just feel like, you know, Whoopi Goldberg said the best one. She was like, I don't want anybody in my house. Yeah. Mary even. He's going to live around the corner? Around the corner would be great. What about a guest house?

Would you let him live in the guest house? We can be in a guest house. You know what I'm saying? We can be on the same, you know, land. But I'm over there and he's over there. At best, separate rooms. But think about how. funny would be to be like I'm going over to my man's house yeah it keeps things right so

exciting I want to go sleep on his couch and he better clean when you're coming over that's what I'm saying you know what I will say I'm laughing about it but there are probably people watching right now who agree with you come on many people helps to keep I feel like sometimes you can be just too up under so we're taking your calls 800 585 1501 hello who's this oh my goodness good good morning now Lizzie are you married and you and your spouse don't live in a same home? Yes, I am married and we're not living in the same home. We just recently got married. Congratulations, damn. Oh, just now of 2025? Yes. Not a floor is yours. I will listen to you. Now, tell me why y'all not living together. Well, right now we're trying to sort things out. That's number one.

He has his own apartment, leases and stuff like that. But let me tell you something. I was in a relationship for five years and it was the worst of the worst. The breakup was horrible. I ended up with nothing. I had to leave the apartment. It was just starting over. I understand where she's coming from. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's hard to trust someone when, like, you know,

if it doesn't end well, what's going to happen with the lease? And then you have things invested. What if you don't get the things back? So why did you get married again, baby? Don't really sound like you were ready for that because you still hurt from that five-year relationship, you know? You jumped to burn. You know, that's my relationship.

It healed. It was actually ended three years ago. And I actually met this person a year ago, and he actually is slowly and accepting of what I went through. So he's actually allowing me to be me. So y'all don't live with each other, and y'all not moving in with each other? Y'all going to keep it that way separate?

I think they're going to. Oh, no, no, no. We're definitely going to move in. But I understand where she's coming from. I'm a little scared now. Is he scared to move in with you because you Latino at a time like this? My God, literally. He is capable of, it's just like I said, you have to really kind of know the person.

But I also took time to heal. I think he was talking about. I was not. Wait, what happened? What's the race of your husband? Well, he's white. Oh, I see what now are you right? My suspicion was right.

He should be scared. I'm his scared. I'm his scared. He's scared to move in with you. You know, you might get that knock at the door. I'm just saying you might get that knock. Damn. No, no, no, poor thing.

He's not going to get the knock. We're well documented. So that's not the issue. But it was like I said, it was I had to take time to heal. Like, I didn't want. I was like whoever was. It was. Yeah.

Whatever men came to my house. I was like, you're not going home. Like, you don't have. a home. Damn. So yeah, she a little scared. But congratulations on you getting married.

I think that's dope. That's fire. But like, I think you should like do some type of therapy to get over. You being scared to live with your spouse. I mean, because it's just still,

like you still hurt from that. You know what I mean? I know it was three years ago that seemed like a long time to you, but you take it out and see your new marriage. You know what I'm saying? Yes.

And you know what's so crazy sharing to me? It's crazy because when I used to be with my ex-partner, we used to listen to, like, the breakfast club. And I always used to be like, oh, my God, I do not like Charlemagne. I feel like he is so judgmental. Yes. And then he'll be like, why? That's his personality.

But it's so crazy. It was my first time in a while listening to you guys. And I was just like, wow, like, I have progressed because I used to ignore your whole morning show because of what I went through. Oh. Well, I'm glad you healed, Mama. Yeah. I'm not judgmental.

I just judge certain situations. Very judgmental. No, no, no, you're amazing. Let me tell you something. I heard your podcast, Mel Robbins. You are amazing. You're a very great speaker. So believe it or not, you're amazing.

And I love you guys so much. Have a wonderful, wonderful day. I love you, too. All right. Well, what's the moral of the story? If there's a more. Don't listen to married, unmarried people about marriage. About marriage.

Yeah. Yeah. That's the moral of the story. I only want to talk to people who have done this successfully that are happily married. But I guarantee you Kiki feels like that because of what she went through with her son's father. I guarantee you that. I feel like people say that until they find the right person. Right, exactly.

When you find that right person, you want to be with that person 24-7, 365. That's the whole beauty of marriage. Absolutely. Some of us stay in relationships too long. That's not good for us. We stand it too long. and that's how you end up hurt and just like what Kiki said.

You were trying. You had it. No, like, yo, it's always the awkward sign. You had it. You had it. I would have to bring it home then. I thought you was bringing it home. You just stopped.

I thought you had it. I don't know. You almost had it. You almost got there. You almost got there. You gave up on yourself. That's right. And the chat says it almost there.

I'm trying. I was like, okay, she got it, she got it. And then y'all let her be fucking silent too long. All right, Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning. You got a positive note? Yes, the positive note is simply, take action without expecting a reward, okay? Do your best and take the action because you love it,

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