The Breakfast Club - The breakfast Club Best Of Episode( Druski Interview, Ryan Serhant Interview, SWV and Xscape Interview, Following Your Kids On Social Media Topic)

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

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Starting point is 00:03:39 Hello, who's this? This is Dee. Hey, Dee. Good morning. Good morning. I need to talk to my fellow lesbian. What's up, Dee? How you doing, Dee?
Starting point is 00:03:48 Yes. How you doing? Now, Charlotte, big brother almighty, what does the luxury size community do to you? The who community? The luxury size community, a.k.a. the big bag. Oh, luxury size. I like that, see? Oh, I love that, too.
Starting point is 00:04:03 We was talking about what word should we use to describe people that are heavy-set. Instead of big-back. I like luxury size. So our size is a luxury because we choose food instead of drugs and bullying. But what we do to you? Nothing. Listen, here's the thing. I didn't even know when Jessalarius was telling that story, I didn't even know the woman was a part of the big-back community.
Starting point is 00:04:25 I just said it sounded like big back behavior. She is a luxury size sister, but here's the thing. I know more slim chicks that ain't got played than that. They don't discriminate. Okay. And then on top of that, he was paying her bills. He was paying her bills? Usually it's the other way around.
Starting point is 00:04:40 Usually it's the big back paying the bill. He was paying the bill. Listen, is big back really offensive? And I don't like luxury. I love the luxury size. Usually it's the big back paying the bill. Luxury? See what's paying the bill. Listen, is big back really offensive though? And I don't like luxury. I love the luxury side. I like luxury side too. We choose food. But luxury just means expensive, don't it?
Starting point is 00:04:52 Don't mean big. It's inflation right now. Food is expensive. It's a luxury right now. Yeah, luxury means bigger, usually. Oh, yeah, in a sense. In a sense, yeah, luxury is big. I like big. I think big back is true. Come on, T'Challa.
Starting point is 00:05:06 You're a mental health advocate. You can't put that narrative out there like we just all dead kids. That's not the case. Well, you're right. But I just said in that case, it did sound like big back behavior. And I was right.
Starting point is 00:05:17 So is it a stereotype if it's true? I didn't know she was big. They just don't like the term big back. But see, but luxury means extravagant living. It means opulence. I like extravagant living it means opulence i like extravagant too extravagant size it's not extravagant just means oh my god all that sounds big though luxurious premium premium premium size premium all that sounds good you call them 93 octane like i'm just saying premium back premium back hello who's this yo it's your boy jay from pa PA Jay from PA good morning
Starting point is 00:05:45 Hello Yeah I hear you Alright man I just want to let everybody know Especially the brothers out there Especially us black men man Go home man Go home that overtime It ain't worth it that money
Starting point is 00:06:01 It's not worth it man I'm serious bro Like What if you needed Huh? What if you needed To keep the lights on at home Listen
Starting point is 00:06:10 Listen Listen So man you know Listen Family more important Than anything bro I agree I've listened
Starting point is 00:06:16 For a year straight I was working doubles Almost every day I almost lost my family Behind this bro And she simply told me She was like Yo you just simply weren't there.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Damn. That's more important than anything right now. Like, I'm fighting right now to get my family back. Kids, wife, all that, bro. And I realized, like, yo, that money ain't important. Like, you know what the kids miss? They miss me being there. That's right.
Starting point is 00:06:39 You feel what I'm saying? They ain't worried about that dollar bill. Them kids don't care about how much money I'm making. They going to remember that time I spent with them. If the wife get cut off, they ain't going to think about, oh, dad ain't have about that dollar bill. Them kids don't care about how much money I'm making. They're going to remember that time I spent with them. If the lights get cut off, they ain't going to think about, oh, dad ain't had the money for that. They're going to think, yo, dad was playing with us with the flashlight. Well, you don't want the lights to go off. Go home, man.
Starting point is 00:06:54 But you're right. You got to make time for your family. Absolutely, positively. Now, doing doubles is the most important thing. That's crazy, man. Yeah, like I'm fighting for it right now. You know what I'm saying? And I can't blame her. Like, it's my fault. like i'm fighting for it right now you're saying and and i can't blame
Starting point is 00:07:05 her like it's my fault i wasn't there but you know you you can't and i don't want to you know you're putting a lot on yourself but you know as a as a father you know the first thing that we think is we got to protect and provide and provide means a lot and especially in this crazy world where people have been losing their jobs things have been messed up so you just want to make sure that you can pay for school you can pay pay for activities. You can pay for your house, your car, and all those things. So don't beat yourself up too much. But definitely make time. You're talking about activities.
Starting point is 00:07:30 This brother right here, he just want to keep some food on the table and a roof over his head. And sadly, sometimes that's all it is. That seems like the bare minimum. But it's really not. It's actually a whole lot. Especially what you're saying. What you're saying that you want to spend more time with your family, man. So I think we got to shift our mindset.
Starting point is 00:07:46 A lot of times we think just being able to provide food and keep a roof over their head is the bare minimum. It's not. That is a lot. That's right. A whole lot. Not. That's right.
Starting point is 00:07:53 Time is more important than anything. That's right. I don't switch up jobs. I took a lower-paying job. I'm working third shifts so I could be home with them all day. Like, I don't care about no money no more. I respect that. And only them.
Starting point is 00:08:03 I respect it. Only them. I respect it, my brother. Salute to you, man, and salute to being a stand-up man for your family, brother. Absolutely. Have a good one, brother. Hey, hey, Charlamagne, can I get a book, bro? Yes, send my guy a book, because he don't got no money.
Starting point is 00:08:15 He don't got no extra money to buy another one. Send him a book right now. Jesus. Eddie, put him on hold and get my guy's address and send him a copy of Get Honest or Die Lying right now. That's the least I can do for you, brother. I appreciate it, bro. Yes, sir. Have a good one, man.
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Starting point is 00:08:44 We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, yo. This is Orlando from the 757. 757, what's up, Orlando? Get it off your chest. 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.
Starting point is 00:09:00 Salute to all the truck drivers out there, man, and all the truck driver wives like Jess Hilarion. No doubt. And everybody, I just want to know, when are you going to bring that car show down to the 757? You know what? I got a food truck. I said, when are you going to bring your car show down to the 757? The 757 been calling a lot,
Starting point is 00:09:17 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, I 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, because we got food trucks, you know what I'm saying? I think we got the best food truck down there.
Starting point is 00:09:35 All right, well, pull up in New York, New Jersey. You a truck driver. You don't mind it's 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.
Starting point is 00:09:46 Say no more. Say no more. Hit me in the DM. And you in the truck now, blow the horn for us. Hey, thank you, brother. Be safe out there on the road. All right, fam. Be safe.
Starting point is 00:09:56 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.
Starting point is 00:10:12 Oh, man. It doesn't matter if I'm in a bad mood. Whenever I hear that joint, my spirit is immediately uplifted, man. I mean, man. You know, I'm 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 are all talented.
Starting point is 00:10:33 You can just listen to their music all day long. So, yeah, they are a talented family. Fertile, too. Oh, yeah. Let's hear that song. I ain't give God the thanks, it's called? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, give God the thanks.
Starting point is 00:10:44 Give God the thanks. I got to go check yeah Give jada things I gotta go check that up. It's like a Yeah, I love that. I love a song giving glory to God. Yeah, it's called praise John the money Mm-hmm get it off your chest 800 585 105 1 if you need to vent hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ MV Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club Morning everybody It's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious
Starting point is 00:11:07 Charlamagne Tha God We are The Breakfast Club We got a special guest In the building Yes indeed Ladies and gentlemen Drewski How y'all doing?
Starting point is 00:11:13 Welcome back How are you brother? I'm good man I feel good I saw you on R.A. Melville On MSNBC I don't know why I was on there brother
Starting point is 00:11:22 I'm confused On why they put me On the news But you know Man I got a PR man I don't know what He got me doing I don't know why I was on there, brother. I'm confused on why they put me on the news. But you know, man, I got a PR, man. I don't know what he got me doing. I don't know. I just agree with what they tell me to do. I showed up. I'm showing up.
Starting point is 00:11:33 I didn't even wear the right attire. So I just was. Right. I like how you didn't act like you knew what was going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just kept repeating it. I let them know straight up. I didn't know what the hell they were talking about.
Starting point is 00:11:44 I loved it. Negotiations. Yeah, yeah, negotiations. Now when you talk about remorse. I know straight up. I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. I loved it. Negotiations. Yeah, yeah, negotiations, man. Now, when you talk about remorse. I know, yeah. I know they talking about something. So I'm like, hey, I'm going to just try to blend in. I ain't even.
Starting point is 00:11:53 I'm not going to try to do too much. I'm just trying to blend in on here, man. With the hoodie on. I'm going to already be tapped into coaches. I'm sure Ari knew who Drewski was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Somewhat, somewhat. That dude, he's very hip.
Starting point is 00:12:04 And he knows what's going on. He was reciting lyrics and stuff behind the scenes. Yep. Yeah, I, yeah. Somewhat, somewhat. That dude, he's very hip and he knows what's going on. He was reciting lyrics and stuff behind the scenes. Yeah, I don't know what that got. And it worked for you because, I mean, you still ended up getting a viral moment. Yeah. And it was funny. Yeah, so the PR ended up working. It was like reverse of what it
Starting point is 00:12:19 was supposed to do. I think we were supposed to be on there talking about me going to the White House or, yeah, dogs in the White House. You went to the dogs in the way yeah I went like a year ago you had a dog no it's I don't know why they had me I guess the Secret Service dog had somebody multiple yeah but they're not putting it down so it's like and then when I said that he looked at me like, why would you? Yeah. So I was like, let's just move on to the next.
Starting point is 00:12:47 I wanted them to talk about what they had to talk about because I was like, hey, f*** the subject y'all had me talking about. I don't even want to talk about that. Y'all just keep doing y'all. But you think the dog should be killed? If it had been a brother, it was any other dog. Put down. I like how he tried to make it sound worse.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Drewski hates dogs and wants all of them to die. Chill, chill, chill. In the White House. Jesus. How many people did the dog white it was a lot yeah i think it's like 24 anybody else's dog they to put your dog down but it was like secure uh secret service the first day to put a muzzle on them then they would put that dog down if it was a black dog a pit bull or something gone yeah it was all at the first bite damn and that 20 24, come on now. So you got a new show. What could have been out? It's an amazing show.
Starting point is 00:13:29 It's based on, I was influenced by P. Diddy. And when he had the Making the Band show, I saw it. Well, yeah, no, that's, bro, see, that's why I can't look this way when I'm talking. That's why I said P. Diddy. I said P. Diddy. He was like, you said. And, and, and. Nah, nah, nah. He did Making the Band.
Starting point is 00:13:49 You know, we was watching that earlier. You know. Yeah, they done. I love Making the Band. Y'all wasn't watching Making the Band. We was watching Making the Band. So yeah, it played a big part. And I really wanted to do something based on it.
Starting point is 00:14:03 I hate this place. It was too much space between. I said what I was supposed to. It was. It was. You got to get to that quick. You got to get to that quick. I need to say Making the Band first.
Starting point is 00:14:17 There you go. I was influenced by Making the Band. There you go. The show. There you go. And yeah, nah, it's an amazing show. It's pretty much like a comedic version of that kinda like
Starting point is 00:14:26 how Chappelle did when he did like a a skit on making the band back in the day but um yeah we had contestants stay in there
Starting point is 00:14:33 for seven days they competed for $50,000 um and you come out of pocket to do that stuff right yeah yeah yeah man but you know
Starting point is 00:14:41 nah we had companies help us. We had Raising Cane's put up the $50,000 for the contestants to win. You serious? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I swear. And we had Nike participating and putting in some money, PrizePix, Icebox Jewelry putting in some money too as well, yeah. Nice, shout out to Icebox. So, I mean, I see you putting it out on YouTube,
Starting point is 00:15:04 and some people would ask why. But if you're getting your own sponsors and you're making your own money, like why chase behind these networks and these streaming services? Is that the thought process? Yeah, kind of. Because it's like we tried to pitch it to all these big networks anyway and nobody believed in it. They were like, yeah, what is could have been records? Yeah, there's a lot of, you know, them older executives that don't really know. They're not really hip and they just like we heard this guy's funny, but we don't know what the hell Could've Been Records is, you know?
Starting point is 00:15:28 So every time I tried to explain it, nobody understood what I was talking about. So I'm like, damn, we probably just go ahead and do this ourselves. We went to every meeting. I'm talking about, I'm taking Zooms. It's taking an hour. I'm explaining it for like an hour, breaking it down. We got a PowerPoint. I'm pointing that stuff.
Starting point is 00:15:41 I'm making them laugh. So I'm like, oh, we got this. Nobody believed it. They all like, nah, we'll pass. We'll pass. That's one of your most popular sketches, huh? Yeah, I know. We got proof of concept. I'm like, they're doing views. We get millions of views. But you know, they
Starting point is 00:15:54 you know. What happened with the show with you and Kevin Hart? Oh, man. They took that off, man. We were supposed to do that. Writer's Strike. Writer's Strike. So during Writer's Strike, they took that down, man. We were supposed to do that. Writer's Strike. Writer's Strike. So during Writer's Strike, they took that down, man.
Starting point is 00:16:09 They just got rid of it. I don't know what the real, real reason was, but yeah, it was a show based on past high school, being a high school senior. And yeah, I came on there and talked about it with y'all. But yeah, I really don't know the full reason, but they took that off, man. I don't know. Damn. damn yeah low-key pissed me off a little bit but yeah that's what it is just because you know i i don't i really don't know the full writer's strike reason you
Starting point is 00:16:35 know i'm saying so and i feel like nobody fully knew exactly what was going on with writer's strike and all that so i think uh yeah they might have used that as an excuse i really don't know but yeah yeah we we we had everything rolling. But I think about you with Sketch, right? And I think about, you know, because I was born in 1978. So I've seen a lot of great Sketch shows and Living Color, Chappelle's show. I get gas and we start talking about time. But I think about it because you are very good at it, right?
Starting point is 00:17:07 Yeah. but i think about it because you are very good at it right yeah do you think you need a tv show to validate you to where people start talking about you in that way like they talk about the key and the pills the chapelles they're in living colors um not not really i think because social media is so powerful now bro like without social media and i'm sure she noticed too as well like social medias might be bigger than TV now like it used to be the goal that oh we gonna get the TV we gonna do this big thing but it's like when you really think about it majority of the stars right now are like the social media and people we even got twitch streamers who are making bigger bags than rappers that's what I'm saying like in aiden ross
Starting point is 00:17:45 these these dudes are really making a lot of money they're paying the rappers like real show fees to come onto their stream so it's like i don't know this is different days but i think that that's what made me think i don't really need anything to justify anything because it's like damn we're doing it now like i will pull up to a city and say, we're doing Could Have Been Records tomorrow, and thousands of people are out there just lined up trying to audition. So it's like, that's really the goal for us. All right, we got more with Drewski.
Starting point is 00:18:12 When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Drewski.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Charlamagne? You know, I wanted to ask you about Could Have Been Records. Like, you talkagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Drewski. Charlamagne? You know, I wanted to ask you about Could Have Been Records. Like, you talk a lot about the 360 deals and the bad contracts. Do you actually talk to artists about that? Yeah, hell yeah. I like to tell people straight up, we're going to f*** you over. That's why I said I was inspired by P. Diddy. That's what I was talking about.
Starting point is 00:18:39 Why the f*** do y'all keep looking at me like that? When I say that, I'm saying that I'm inspired by the way he was talking to his people oh well I say that I like the way that he was talking to the people at his label on the show you know like yeah so that's the same way we do our business yeah yeah we tell you straight up yeah if you know you getting over from jump what the problem is you can't you know the contract when you got in that's***ed over from jump, what the problem is? You can't, yeah. You knew the contract when you got in here. That's true.
Starting point is 00:19:07 You knew what it was. By the way, that's true even if you don't tell him that because him not f***ing read it. Go get you a lawyer, read the contract. Nah, nah, nah. They can't all read though.
Starting point is 00:19:15 Don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can't all read. Yeah, somebody that was dyslexic that was recently on the show. You know what that means. Okay, his brother can't read either.
Starting point is 00:19:24 I'm listening. He lost his space. I'm waiting on you. Nah, brother. He like to get you to just keep talking and just run down that rabbit saying stupid see I gotta I gotta come and correct myself I feel like we need to put a disclaimer at the beginning of this. Wait for Drew to finish his whole answer. Listen, I thought you came here just to have beef with everybody. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Y'all bringing up all the beef, man.
Starting point is 00:19:52 Dogs, dyslexic, Diddy, Desi. Wait, whoa, whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Nah, y'all. Hey, come on, man. I don't got no beef with, problem with nobody, man. Is it tough for people to take you seriously?
Starting point is 00:20:04 Obviously. You see, you see. Like, I'm trying to be serious, man. Is it tough for people to take you serious in meetings because you play too much? Obviously. You see, you see, like I'm trying to be serious, man. I'm trying to get my point across. I know. Nah, yeah, since I was a kid, man, I always, yeah. But I think. What do you mean, even when a kid,
Starting point is 00:20:16 when you was a kid, they didn't take you serious? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think like teachers, students, all that, man. Like we always used to, I used to around so much that everybody thought everything I said was a joke. You know, so it's normal. But, we always used to, I used to f*** around so much that everybody thought everything I said was a joke. You know, so, it's normal.
Starting point is 00:20:28 But the people close to me, they know. Why you laughing, man? That man talking. Yeah, man. No. A brother's trying to tell his truth right now, man.
Starting point is 00:20:35 That's right. I'm laughing at that man's truth. Yeah, yeah. God damn. Do you remember a time where, like, you was, like, dead serious? Like, man,
Starting point is 00:20:41 like, you was sick or something and you was f***ing to believe you and they didn't believe you? Yeah, nah, I had to go to the hospital when i i crashed on a um on a four-wheeler like four or five years ago and well really like three four years ago and i went to the hospital and everybody was in there trying to take selfies take videos and joke around but i really was like hurt for real but it was like a whole joke that I was in there like what the hell you doing here I'm like yo I need help right now you know but that's the
Starting point is 00:21:15 problem my back my back you know what i'm saying but dad that's the thing about comedians you can never be serious or like really be going through some real that's because of you because you mean yeah no no no even even even dc dc recently i think somebody stole his bag or something yeah and is in the comments rosa they said lame man lost your bag at the club i'm like damn bro he has some valuable things in there man no i can't can y'all really show some remorse for this yeah yeah yeah people don't give a when you when you funny people don't give a which is skits go you do be having like yeah i'd be having a real real circumstances yeah yeah yeah yeah so i think people be thinking that i'll be coming to stadiums arenas courthouses
Starting point is 00:22:02 don't matter where we have tsaSA? So I can, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Why would I believe you? Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. I get it. I'll tell you.
Starting point is 00:22:09 I had a guy text me. When was NBA All-Star Weekend? Last weekend? Yeah. He was flirting with you? Shut up. Guy texted me last weekend. Guy texted you?
Starting point is 00:22:16 He was like, it was in a group chat, and he was like, man, most popular person at some NBA All-Star Party was Drewski. Hands down. I'm like, hey, how you doing this thing? Yeah, Drewski hands down I'm like hey I mean doing this thing yeah man no I'm just I'm blessed I'm thankful man did you feel that in the party that
Starting point is 00:22:31 he was talking about a little bit a little bit yeah because my dumb ass was standing on the couch and nobody else was standing no no no that wasn't Michael Rubin yeah it was uh he talking about an all-star yeah yeah yeah I remember that yeah I think. Yeah, I think it was Jadakiss. Jadakiss was there. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country.
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Starting point is 00:23:46 Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people, you know, follow and admire join me every week for post run high. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun.
Starting point is 00:24:39 Listen to post run high on the I heart radio app Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself, and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself.
Starting point is 00:25:30 It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So y'all, this is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records.
Starting point is 00:25:56 It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey y'all, Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap is another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama
Starting point is 00:26:42 who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Colvin. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio
Starting point is 00:27:12 app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, this is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. It took drama and mayhem to an entirely new level. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, every backstab, blackmail and explosion, and every
Starting point is 00:27:46 single wig removal together. Secrets are revealed as we rewatch every moment with you. Special guests from back in the day will be dropping by. You know who they are. Sydney, Allison and Joe are back together on Still the Place with a trip down memory lane and back to Melrose Place. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. It was a couple different s*** that was out there.
Starting point is 00:28:19 Jadakiss had a party? Yeah, I think Jadakiss had a party. It was one of them old heads, man. They had a party. Jesus Christ. No, no, no, no, no. I'm a party. It was one of them old heads, man. They had a party. Jesus Christ. No, no, no, no, no. I'm just saying. It was one of those records. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Let's get into your record. Let's introduce your record. Hold on one more thing. You and Jack Hall got a movie, right? Are y'all still working on that? No, we're not working on that. God damn. Another writer's strike.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Damn. Another writer's strike. We had a whole bunch of, a lot of missed opportunities. But see, it don't be about the missed opportunities, man. It's about continuing to try. You got to keep doing this
Starting point is 00:28:52 over and over, figuring it out. It don't matter about the news. They only going to know about the yeses. Unless y'all bring it up. Ain't nobody really. You and Jack got
Starting point is 00:29:00 a good relationship, though. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah, man. That's my boy. How you feel about his record talking about Whips and Chains? Man, bro. He my boy. Yo, how you feel about his record, talking about Whips and Chains? Man, bro, he's going crazy. I mean, there's a white guy talking about Whips and Chains in America. People love that.
Starting point is 00:29:10 Yeah, but I think he's talking about locking them down. Yeah, that's what slavery was all about. Locking them down. No, man, you know what I'm saying. Like, locking them down. Like, nobody can lock them down. You're okay with slavery, is what you said. No, man.
Starting point is 00:29:23 As long as it's Jack. See, I keep trying to set me up, bro. Nah, nah, nah. It's a good song. I think he... Nah, it's fine. It is fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:30 It's a bop, man. It's a bop, man. Moving on, because I don't want to have to correct myself on that s*** either. It's a good shit record, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's about my music. I had to go number one. We appreciate you for joining us, bro.
Starting point is 00:29:41 Yeah, follow Drewski if you're not already, but who is it? Definitely, man. Thank y'all. And always a pleasure to see you, bro., but who is it? Definitely, man. Thank y'all. And always a pleasure to see you, bro. Love you, Drewski. Thank y'all. All right. It's The Breakfast Club.
Starting point is 00:29:49 It's Drewski. Good morning. Yes. That he callin' my phone. Callin' my phone. Tell him, tell him. Man, it's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we were talking about something Benzino said in an interview. Let's hear it. I can't follow her Instagram
Starting point is 00:30:16 because she could be in a bikini twerking or something. But I love her to death. You know what I'm saying? So I want to be able to you know I'm saying visualize her the way I want to visualize her as my daughter not necessarily as an artist or as coy or you know I mean I don't want to visualize my daughter like that my mother has followed and unfollowed me on Instagram quite a few times over the years I noticed those for similar reasons for sure yeah so we're asking 800-585-1051 as a parent
Starting point is 00:30:49 how do you handle following your kids on social media uh for myself only my two oldest kids have social media and they really don't post too much and anything my daughter does post she usually runs by me before she posts anyway but if I did have a child that was uh twerking and and posting you know bikini pics all the time that would be uncomfortable it would be uncomfortable i think it would be i think i would have to unfollow him and not necessarily because of that well because of that as well but also because of the comments too yeah my daughter don't have social media um you know but your daughter's young oh 15 i mean i have four daughters I got four daughters, 15, 8, 5, and 2. But, you know, yeah, social media is just something that I don't even ever want them to get into.
Starting point is 00:31:31 You know, I just see where it's going. I see where it's headed. I see where it's at now. No need to even ever, you know, give your brain, your time, and attention away to that thing. But, yeah, I can totally understand where Benzino is coming from. That would be super uncomfortable, you know, to open up Instagram and, you know, see your daughter doing that. But that's also just the, I don't want to say the price. That's not the right word.
Starting point is 00:31:51 But that's just also life, right? That's kind of the price you pay for fame. Yes, it is. No, that's the price you pay for having a daughter. Your daughter is going to grow up and your daughter is going to grow up and be an object of desire. Because guess what? The person you had that daughter with was somebody else's daughter. But it's a lot worse that she's a celebrity and she's famous and she's an artist.
Starting point is 00:32:12 Even if she wasn't. I get what you're saying. Because there's more eyes on her now. Sure, but I don't even think that's what he's concerned about. He's just concerned about opening up Instagram and seeing his daughter twerking in a bikini. That would make anybody uncomfortable. I don't care if you're a mailman or a famous rapper. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:32:27 Like, that's just, it's embarrassing. But it works both ways. Because, you know, as an adult, there's things that I'm sure that you could do that embarrass your daughter. Right. You know? So, I mean, we all have to be cognizant of that. We all represent each other.
Starting point is 00:32:41 Like, envy is very embarrassing. Like, you know what I mean? I know that, you know, Logan and Madison are very embarrassed by their father at certain points. I'm sure. But they love you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:48 You know? But I haven't posted myself in a bikini twerking yet. Oh, you've done way worse. Alexandria. Way worse. I've seen it. Hello.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Hey, what's your name? Alexandria. You just said that. Well, Alexandria, that we're talking about, do you follow your kids on social media? I do not.
Starting point is 00:33:07 So I have two kids. I'm a little girl and a little boy. The boy isn't biologically mine. So he's going through, like, you know, trying to find himself and all that. Oh, Lord. So. Is he talking? Is he talking?
Starting point is 00:33:23 There are things I can't do in front of him. So I don't, I do not. Oh, so you don't. He can't follow me on Snapchat, Instagram, no Facebook. Oh, so you don't follow him because you be wilding out. Sex. Oh, so you be, hold on now, hold on now. So mama be wilding out.
Starting point is 00:33:40 So you be showing your ass on social media. Not that though. But I mean like, you know, on bikinis or whatever, because I am married. I'm a married woman. I'm faithful as hell. So it's like, it's nothing too crazy. I don't know. You don't want to turn him on?
Starting point is 00:33:56 I'm trying to, I'm confused. Like, what's going on? I don't want to, like, okay, so we had a little situation where if I'm in the bathroom, he'll bust in there, and he'll put his hands over his eyes, and he'll open two fingers. Oh, so he's trying to see something. He's trying to see something. So he's trying to see something. This is step-mommy.
Starting point is 00:34:15 So this ain't mommy-mommy. This is step-mommy. No. This is yes. Oh, he on Pornhub watching them videos that got them titles like, got left alone with Stepmama. I don't want to think about stuff like that, Charlamagne. That's what the hell going on.
Starting point is 00:34:30 And Stepmama, let me just ask him, not being rude. Are you, is your body, you have big boobs and a big rear? So, I'm like, I have a big butt. Yeah. I'm not, I don't have like big boobs, but still I have a body. Why should he be talking like a white man? Why, why, why? Did you think he was talking to a white man just now?
Starting point is 00:34:52 Do you have a big rear? I'm trying to say a nice rear that's respectable. I didn't want to say big ass. I'm trying to be respectable. Speak our language. She a mom. She understand. She a mom.
Starting point is 00:35:01 She know you're not disrespecting her. I don't want y'all to be disrespectful. I don't know what to tell you, ma'am. You got that horny little boy running around your house. I just want people to understand, like, it's nothing wrong with that. You know, because at the end of the day, you want to see your children as children, but you also want your children to see you as their parents. That's right.
Starting point is 00:35:22 You need to get a lock on your door, though, too, mama. You need to get a lock. We're not too, mama. We're not gonna have... See, now I got a lock on my door. Like, a real lock. Because, you know, like... You'd be in your panty drawer. So, like, you know... You'd be in your panty. You better count your panties.
Starting point is 00:35:38 What are you talking about, man? Because if he's into mom like that, I'm sure he grabbing her panties. Well, you are projected and you need to shut up because you telling a lot about yourself. What are you talking about? I don't know how you took that down. She just said she runs into the bathroom and covers her eyes. That is totally different than what you're talking about.
Starting point is 00:35:54 That's totally different. How old is he, ma'am? He's 11. He's a little boy. He's a little horny little boy. Yeah. I understand. Jesus Christ. Alright, Alexandria. Alright, y'all have a little boy. He a little horny little boy. Yeah. I understand. Jesus Christ. All right. All right, Alexandria.
Starting point is 00:36:08 All right, y'all have a good week. Damn. We have Nicole on the line. Nicole, good morning. Good morning. How you feeling, Nicole? Peace, Nicole. I'm feeling well.
Starting point is 00:36:17 How about you, gentlemen? Good, good, good. So we're asking, how do you handle following your kids on social media? Well, my daughter is 15, and she has like probably four or five accounts. One account that her father and I get to see. One that she shows people that she really, quote unquote, doesn't deal with like that. One that her friends can see. One that she actually uses for certain posting.
Starting point is 00:36:42 So we really don't know where to go. We just only have one that we look at really. How did you figure out she has five different accounts? Because when I asked her, I sent you something. Did you see it? And she said, no, where did you send it? And I said, well, what do you mean? Where did you send it?
Starting point is 00:36:59 I have this. She said, oh yeah, those people, I don't deal with them no more like that. So I created another page and send it to this. Or you send it to these two i'll get that and so she has multiple accounts and i just can't keep up wow are you calling from baltimore yes i am yeah i heard the t and uh it was something else you said i heard it i heard ee at the end of a few words. Yes. Hello, who's this? This is your boy Sterling Stacks, man. What's good?
Starting point is 00:37:29 Sterling Stacks! How you feeling? What's up, brother? How you doing, Charlemagne? What's up, my guy? I ain't talking to you in a minute. Yeah, man, good meeting, man. Congratulations on everything, man. The Black Effect joint, man, the publishing thing, all that, man.
Starting point is 00:37:41 Thank you, King. Salute to you, brother. You rep the state well. Thank you, brother. I see you all day. So we asking, how do you handle following your kids on social media, bro? Man, I'm that, man. Thank you, King. Salute to you, bro. You ready to stay well. Thank you, brother. I see you all day. So we asking, how do you handle following your kids on social media, bro? Man, I'm lucky, man. Luckily, my daughter ain't that raunchy.
Starting point is 00:37:52 You know, she ain't ghetto. You know, I was worried about it at first. But, you know, after following for a little bit, I seen that, you know, she don't do nothing crazy. You know what I mean? Like, so it's a little bit easier. I mean, she's 29. So, you know, she don't, you know, she out.
Starting point is 00:38:04 She drinking. You know, she partying with the girls, but her clothes ain't never too revealing. But if I do see her with too many cups, I will shoot her a text. I wonder if she know to behave because daddy watching. I wonder if that helps. Parents following the kids. I think everybody watching. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:22 You know what I mean? I think her mom follows her, you know what I mean? Her aunties, you know. But we ain't raising her like that, you know. So, now, some of the younger girls I see, I don't know how their parents do it. Now, if she was a little bit, you know, doing, like, you know, thongs and bikinis, I'd have to unfollow. I totally get it. All right. Thank you, brother.
Starting point is 00:38:37 Well, what's the moral of the story? I don't know. I don't have kids on social media. I don't know. But I do. I think Sterling kids on social media. I don't know. But I do. I think Sterling Stacks brought up a good point. I think that if kids know their parents are following them, and vice versa. If parents know your kids are following them, I think we're all more aware of what we're putting on social media.
Starting point is 00:38:59 So I think that is good. We probably should all police each other like that. Absolutely. All right. It was The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I think that is good. We should probably police, should all police each other like that. Absolutely. All right. It was the breakfast club. Good morning. The breakfast club.
Starting point is 00:39:09 Morning, everybody is DJ and V just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy, we are the breakfast club. We got some special guests in the building from owning Manhattan. We have Ryan Sirhan, Fisher Lee and Jeffrey St.
Starting point is 00:39:21 Arman. Welcome. Did I say your last name right? You did. You said it right. All right. Just make it sure. Welcome. How's it going, everybody? Good. We're good. Great, man. Thanks. Did I say your last name right? You said it right. All right, just making sure. Welcome. How's it going, everybody?
Starting point is 00:39:26 Good, good. We're good. Great, man. Thanks. Start with you, Ryan. So if you don't know Ryan Serhan, of course, from Million Dollar Listing, you are a huge real estate agent across the country. What made you leave?
Starting point is 00:39:36 You look like you used to lead a boy band. I tried, man. It didn't work. I did a soap opera when I first moved to New York City. That's why I first moved to New York in 2006. They killed me off. My grandmother killed me actually. And then I ran out of money. And that's why I got into real estate back in 2008. Smart man. So you left Million Dollar Listing. Why? What happened with Million Dollar Listing? We did it for 10 years. We were nominated
Starting point is 00:39:56 for two Emmys. I mean, I built my whole career off the back of that TV show. And it was a total accident. I went to an open casting call with 3,000 real estate agents in 2010. That's how that show happened. Really? But yeah, then in 2020, I started my own company and Bravo said, listen, million dollar listing is a format, right? That follows three agents as you do deals. That's what people expect. It doesn't follow two agents doing deals and then one guy running his own company. So what do you want to do? And I said, maybe this is time to move on to the next chapter. So then I immediately called Netflix and I said, hey, listen, I have an idea. Start my own company.
Starting point is 00:40:28 I just took down this building in Soho. I'm going to wrap my name in it. I've got a lot of crazy, crazy agents that are going to start working for me. Like the people. Stay crazy one more time. That's just so heavy. Stay crazy one more time.
Starting point is 00:40:40 And they said, listen, make a presentation, send it over to us. We did. And we started shooting that show in 2022, and here we are two years later. Now, you guys make being a real estate agent look easy, but it's not that easy. It's not easy.
Starting point is 00:40:52 It's not easy. So how did you guys get your start? Not Ryan, you get your start in Tricia and Jeffrey in real estate. Well, we're both from different careers. Jeff is a producer, Emmy Award winning producer. Multiple Emmy Awards.
Starting point is 00:41:03 Let's be clear. Okay. He carries them around with him everywhere. Talk that talk. Let's make it clear. They're everywhere, trust. And I ran businesses in Brooklyn. So we were both transitioning at the same time when we met. We both thought that real estate was the next thing.
Starting point is 00:41:16 We were coming out of a recession. It just made natural sense to us. And we met in real estate. Yeah. And Ryan reached out maybe five years into my career and was like, we should meet. This is something we should do. I didn't even realize he had started a new firm. And then I started studying that.
Starting point is 00:41:32 And we met. And next thing I know, I'm in front of a casting crew. And they're following us around. And I do think you're going to see real real estate here. Because I don't know how to sugarcoat anything for you. Our job is hard. And we work our asses off. So you will see that. There's just no way to make that look different no I'll just say and
Starting point is 00:41:48 Trisha's being super modest like she had multiple um polish bars the name of the brand it was a big brand in Brooklyn she had a huge following so it was just the perfect synergy of like the entrepreneurial spirit that she has and the and me with the television and the marketing background so it was a good mix and then going through everything to get to Sirhan. We ultimately came to Sirhan. It was just like a good fit with having studios there, what Ryan provides there. It really makes our stuff different. And to Trisha's point about
Starting point is 00:42:14 the show, the show is as real as it gets. And we could speak to it not being easy, because it wasn't easy for us. It's like, I want to be like seven, eight years in. It took a while to get to this point. It wasn't like overnight, all of a sudden we're selling you know multiple million five ten million dollars yeah you start like my first house was a hundred thousand dollar sale it took six months for it to happen how long was it that was eight years ago wow i worked on that longer
Starting point is 00:42:36 and harder than any other deal no money people don't understand so my daughter recently graduated from nyu and and she's she jumped into the real estate game. It's like having another wife that doesn't leave, right? She just because she doesn't get paid unless she sells something. And if it takes two months, there's two months of not getting paid, of paying for cars, paying for gas, showing people properties. It's a lot. It can take two years sometimes. Yeah, it takes a lot of work.
Starting point is 00:43:03 But I feel bad for her. But the good thing about it is she loves it. So, it takes a lot of work. But I feel bad for her, but the good thing about it is she loves it, so she wants to do it. Right. So how long did it take for you to sell your first property? I didn't do any business
Starting point is 00:43:12 for six months, and I worked every single day while running my beauty business at the same time. So I had a 7 a.m. to 11 o'clock schedule for six months, and I didn't make a dollar.
Starting point is 00:43:20 Jeff. I would say somewhere around the same time. The big difference is that I'm like a year ahead and be going to have two years. So as she was going through that, I was like, listen, it'll come together. Just keep doing what you're doing. I was like, I hate it here.
Starting point is 00:43:31 Yeah. She's like, I'm not getting any results. Something's happening. I was like, listen, you're going to do a lot better than people who are in the business right now. Just keep head down, keep going. And that's the same thing I tell your daughter. You know, just, it's going to be difficult.
Starting point is 00:43:41 It's going to be challenges, but just if you in it and you really learn the business and that's what's really key. Learn the business and know it because this isn't like again, this isn't fake. Like we know the business. Yeah. Well, try to make it look like what he does on TV is the job. And it's like that's that's just a portion of what's actually happening. If you sit down with him and have a business conversation, he's going to blow you away far more than anything he does on television. Yeah. Can you lose yourself in uh the reality tv of it all like you can you forget what you what got you here i think so i mean i can only speak to my experience who are you jeffrey yes but i think you know the thing about it is we're and
Starting point is 00:44:16 you'll see this in the show there's like um less experienced agents and more experienced agents so we're a little bit more not only experienced agents agents, but just life experiences. So it's not like we're brand new going into something and we have like the TV background so you kind of know what it is.
Starting point is 00:44:30 So I can say for us, it's a little different, but I can see how someone else, you know, just get caught up in the modern day. I want to be an influencer.
Starting point is 00:44:37 I don't even want to do real estate anymore and try to have a whole different career. But for us, I think we're in a different space. And I think we chose to do this at a time
Starting point is 00:44:44 in our life where we know who we are. So an audience is not able to tell us who we are and for me i just wanted to be myself as if i can show up as myself every day that i'm good doing it but i didn't want to fit into what they thought i should be now covid was was uh lovely for a lot of real estate agents right interest rates were low everybody was buying banks were giving everybody money to get it yeah but now it's changed interest rates are high as as i don't know what so how is the business now for a lot of people and what do you tell real estate agents now that out there and it's difficult right banks are taking a lot to give people money you got to give your damn near your right arm to get a loan you know interest rates are super duper
Starting point is 00:45:16 high so what do you tell agents now i say stick it out because i feel like i came in when it was going up and i came when i came in it was like you showed something once and you had an offer but at the entire time I said it will not always be like this it's a cyclical so I was mentally prepared for where we are now I don't take it that bad because I knew it couldn't always stay good and in bad times is when really the cream rises to the top so this opportunity right now if you really again really know the business learn the business you can take advantage of it now I mean there's a lot of things you could like really guide your clients with like 40 year mortgages. That's an option to try to deal with the higher interest rates, you know, putting more down conceivably if you can refinance down the road. You know, there's different options you can do and give good
Starting point is 00:45:56 direction. But for the real estate agent, it's just like head down and keep going because everyone's right now. I would imagine a lot of people, I don't know the exact number. I'm certain you do, right? A lot of people have left real estate with the rates being as high as it is yeah hundreds of thousands yeah yeah so it's a good time so is a global pandemic worth the low interest rates i'd take a week purge every year like a like a covid remembrance week you know zero percent interest rates for five days you're not allowed to leave your house just see what happens to work I had 11 showings like when we were allowed to go after that seven month break or with a seven month hold yeah there were real estate agents
Starting point is 00:46:38 in the city who had like emergency gear on just in case the police pointed because you know real estate in New York you were not an essential worker right and they were trying to get you they were trying to like make you stay inside it was it was complete insanity uh but yeah listen we like if you were to say hey i want to find a really really resilient person who can kind of stick through the tough times and the good times let's go make that person in a box you wouldn't put them in a happy box right that doesn't make resilient people you'd put them in like a really tough box and that's exactly what we're in right now we're in a tough market so if you can forge yourself through this you know the good times do come what goes up must come down what goes down must go back up again it's just
Starting point is 00:47:16 back and forth and back and forth yeah all right we got more with ryan sirhan tricia lee and jeffrey saint armin when we come back the new show owning Owning Manhattan is out right now. We got more at The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Ryan Serhan, Tricia Lee and Jeffrey St. Armand. Owning Manhattan is out right now on Netflix.
Starting point is 00:47:38 Now what about your families? So we've seen your family on Million Dollar Listing and how your family grew and your families. It takes a lot because you leave your family a lot, right right because when somebody wants to show in or they want to see a property you can't say hey babe i know we had dinner date but you know because this might be you know a million dollar profit this might be a couple hundred thousand dollars so how was i was raising kids and having a family doing real estate for us we work together jeff and i and i'm the only like balance in the relationship he would he'll be working if his eyes are open.
Starting point is 00:48:06 And I'm kind of a workaholic. So there's not much help. But we have boundaries. There's certain times of the day where we have to shut down. But we're on vacation and hiding out. We go to the bathroom and we're gone for 40 minutes. Everybody knows you're doing a deal and you're not supposed to be on your phone. Oh, you said going to the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:48:20 I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know what's going on in your bathroom. It's her hand. No, we hide. Well, I usually hide out. I'll say I'm going to the spa, but it's like I'm talking, I'm doing calls. Because the rule is you're not supposed to be working. Right.
Starting point is 00:48:30 But we both cheat all the time. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once
Starting point is 00:48:59 we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary?
Starting point is 00:49:40 Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg.
Starting point is 00:49:56 I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my own country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory.
Starting point is 00:50:08 I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warheads. Oh, my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets.
Starting point is 00:50:15 We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape
Starting point is 00:50:26 from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself, and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure out
Starting point is 00:51:21 the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, y'all? This is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates
Starting point is 00:51:39 and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it.
Starting point is 00:51:57 Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone.
Starting point is 00:52:18 The tip of the cap is another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history,
Starting point is 00:52:52 you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 1992,
Starting point is 00:53:14 apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. It took drama and mayhem to an entirely new level. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, every backstab, blackmail and explosion, and every single wig removal together. Secrets are revealed as we rewatch every moment with you.
Starting point is 00:53:40 Special guests from back in the day will be dropping by. You know who they are. Sydney, Allison and Joe are back together on Still the Place with a trip down memory lane and back to Melrose Place. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. We were on a cruise in the Mediterranean last year. Yeah. I need facts.
Starting point is 00:54:07 I need facts. Right around the time when we started shooting the show, which is a whole other reason that we should talk about. That's why we missed out on the Central Park Tower incident. Oh, yeah. On the cruise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep going on those cruise, man.
Starting point is 00:54:19 Yeah, I know. That cruise almost caused us $250 billion. But even in that moment, there was times we stepped away and I'd try to text or something. Yeah. And then we don't want to catch each other. Right, right, right. So I'm lying to you. You're lying to me.
Starting point is 00:54:33 Everybody knows everybody's working. And I don't think this one has any of that. What about you, Ryan? You got a wife and kids. How do you balance that? Because I've seen a couple times where your wife was upset. Like, no, this is our time. And you're like, but this is a deal.
Starting point is 00:54:45 Yeah, it's hard, man. I mean, when you're in sales, you get addicted to it, you know, because you don't get a salary. There are no benefits. And you're only as good as your last deal. And you can always say, well, when is enough enough? And sure, you can set a goal for yourself for the year. But then that next phone call, like you want to pick it up. You want to see because your life can change like i you know we started sir hint at the end of 2020 it's like i just want to make i went on
Starting point is 00:55:09 rental appointments because i gotta pay bills now covid shut down all of our markets it was awful especially in new york right there were bodies you know that we had the red cross there were tents in the park it was nuts i went on a rental appointment um on the upper east side and my wife's like wear gloves wear hazmat suit this is prevaccines. Met a guy that wanted to rent an apartment on the Upper East Side. Had a big budget, $30,000 to $40,000 to $50,000 a month. Started talking to him. Decided not to rent something. Decided, you know what? Maybe I will go buy something in Florida. And that was a Monday. By Friday, we were in contract on a house that was asking $140 million.
Starting point is 00:55:45 So had I not picked up that rental call, I never would have done a nine-figure sale that at that time in 2020 going into 2021 was the largest transaction in the history of the state of Florida and like the top five deal in the United States. So like- You hear that?
Starting point is 00:56:00 That can- Tell her. I remember this moment. I remember this moment. You know, those things can happen, but you do moment. I remember this moment. Those things can happen, but you do have to set boundaries, and you especially have to set boundaries with people that are not your family.
Starting point is 00:56:11 It's not about telling your wife and your kids that, hey, daddy's at home now, so let's pay attention to each other. It's about telling your clients, like, hey, just so you know, Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from six to eight, I'm with my daughter. I put her down.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Saturdays, like Saturdays for me are dadder days, unless it's life-threatening. I'm really focused on Zina. That's her name. She's five and being there for her. And then she knows. Dad goes to work the next day.
Starting point is 00:56:31 I don't think she knows what I do. If you asked her, she'd be like, Daddy sells and dances. I'm like, I don't know. He tapes it.
Starting point is 00:56:38 Yeah, exactly. He films it. She'll take my phone and she'll pick it up and look at my phone and be like, Hi, I'm Zina Serhant thank you for watching
Starting point is 00:56:45 please like and subscribe and I'm like no no it's happening terrible so how do you guys deal with because of course you're on the show
Starting point is 00:56:52 so people know who you are how do you deal with people that just want to don't necessarily want to buy something but just want to hang out that has to happen a lot I mean it's happened to me
Starting point is 00:57:01 now for 12 years these guys are going to have to go through it now for the first time ever and you got to be super careful. Wasting your time is terrible. What's worse is when people have malicious
Starting point is 00:57:11 intent, and they do. Has it happened with you before? Oh, yeah, absolutely. We've had FBI involved. We've had stalkers. We had to move offices once. Our home addresses are scrubbed. You don't hurt anybody. People get obsessed. People impersonate anybody like yeah but people get obsessed people impersonate him every day they watch you know tv shows and you know bravo is american for the most
Starting point is 00:57:31 part and then the show aired around the world but you know reality tv you do you do get very vulnerable and authentic and you let these cameras into your life for a year and they see your ups and downs and and with social now everyone feels like like they know you. And Netflix, I mean, the show dropped today to 270 million people in 190 countries. Our voices are dubbed in over 20 different languages. That's a lot, right? All in one day. So one, you gotta be careful.
Starting point is 00:57:57 But two, if you're not Google-able, you gotta show me something. You know, I had a guy from a different country. I won't say what country, but reached out to me kind of right at the beginning of million dollar listing and totally seemed like he was going to try to kill me or sell my body into oil drums or something you know and i'm like this is not real this is not real he sent me a he sent me a photo of his accountant as his proof of funds like this is not good this is not great not great turns out we ended up doing a deal together for you know 8.3 million dollars
Starting point is 00:58:25 almost a year later after like it was the most traumatizing experience of my life he just liked to drink and was on zillow one night and hit me up and then i was just i follow up relentlessly the guy makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year in another country in a really weird way and it is what it is so like sometimes you just never know and that's part of that addiction, right, of like sales. You just never know who's going to call. What's the one deal
Starting point is 00:58:49 for each one of you that you lost that it burns you to this day that you knew you should have sold? Oh God, I'm going to tattoo it on my butt probably. One of my first closings,
Starting point is 00:58:58 I got to the closing so excited and the seller on the other side of the table I'd never met and she was a former beauty client and I wasn't at the time marketing myself. as we got up to leave she was like this should have been your deal and i was like okay and that's when i kind of like lit a fire under myself to
Starting point is 00:59:11 start marketing myself and putting myself out because she's like i don't even know this guy that's selling my house this should have been your deal i was with the buyer but i wasn't sharing to the world what i was doing and luckily it was my first deal so that changed everything for me now you can't see enough of me got you yeah yeah i mean for me there was a luckily it was my first deal. So that changed everything for me. Now you can't see enough of me. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, for me, there was a deal. It was an interesting deal. It was a Brownstone. It was like a $5 million Brownstone. And, uh, the guy was acquiring a different company, but he put money down for it. He had to sell the rest of the company in effort to get the deal. So down payments now, I think put what? $400,000 down, down payment, you know, went hard, which means if it doesn't close, you lose the money. Lose the money, yep.
Starting point is 00:59:49 And he just couldn't sell the company. And so we're here and we're spending, this is something I never do, but I had like the buyers and the seller come together. They were like great friends. Everyone loved each other. They were, you know, bartering services to extend the period. And then at the 11th hour, he just couldn't sell the company. And I felt bad. And he knew it.
Starting point is 01:00:08 And he lost 400,000. Beautiful home. Beautiful home in Bed-Stuy. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. I was, we were selling a building at the end of 2019 going into 2020 before we started the company.
Starting point is 01:00:19 We had contracts out, everything. It was $880 million. I'd never done a deal like that before. The commission was 1%. So it was $8. dollars i'd never done a deal like that before the commission was one percent so it's 8.8 million dollars and then covet hits and the money was coming out of the middle east the price of oil starts to tank the buyers say hey we just need a little bit of time you need a little bit of time we need a little bit of time deal slowly falls apart i worked on it for a year i still i think about that deal every day i feel like that was you know it's
Starting point is 01:00:44 like a life-changing sale you know what i feel like that was, you know, it's like a life changing sale. You know what I mean? Like that was, especially when I was starting my own company, I'm like, all right, so that's going to be my seed money. I'm bootstrapped.
Starting point is 01:00:50 Like we, we, you know, we're not backed by anybody else. We, we build, you know, for agents,
Starting point is 01:00:55 by agents, with agents. Like I am a real estate agent. So I think the agents that work with us, I understand their world because I'm in it with them all day long. That was a brutal one. That sucked. One day, though.
Starting point is 01:01:08 One day. All right, keep it locked. We got more with Ryan Serhan, Trisha Lee, and Jeffrey St. Arman. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Everybody, it's DJ Envy,
Starting point is 01:01:16 Jess Hilarious, Shalameen the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Ryan Serhan, Trisha Lee, and Jeffrey St. Arman. Owning Manhattan
Starting point is 01:01:23 is out right now on Netflix. I got to ask you guys, being black, is it more difficult to get people to come in and say to trust in you guys than anybody else? Far more. Far more. Why would you say that? Because you work with who you identify with. That's just what people do.
Starting point is 01:01:36 Like if every agent sat down and thought about their last five clients, they probably look something like them. And so people that we work with typically look like us. And you know the economic wealth gap as well as anyone else in this room. So the likelihood of us working with clients that own two and three and four and $8 million homes has shrinks down to less than 5%, probably less than 2%. So it's just harder for us to build volume, drastically harder for us to build volume. And I think for us, that's part of like,
Starting point is 01:02:01 we lean into, you know, know our sphere and we really worked out worked out as hard as we can to really get the business right and then and in in the show itself it's part of our transition from leaning into our core which is our brooklyn audience and then going into manhattan yeah that's the show owning manhattan so it's like transitioning from still servicing that base but knowing that we want to go to a different tier and then starting to do that and then at that point we have all the experience you know and then we can speak to whatever the market is to whomever we're speaking to and then they kind of understand. You can be a Brooklyn rock star that's great but it's
Starting point is 01:02:34 like you know at a certain point you have a conversation you're like Ryan I want to do these other things help me you know and I think that's how this came together because we were both working at another firm and then we came over and we were like okay this is how we want our business to shift
Starting point is 01:02:49 and we sat down and did a planning session with him about how we could grow that business I still have to come to your cookout you really do
Starting point is 01:02:55 you have one invite what was it the ally you're an ally and you have an admission to one cookout one cookout one cookout
Starting point is 01:03:03 it's a little ticket he has it on his his wall. We might do it for Labor Day. Okay, you got it. But only one. So if it's this year, make sure you use it this year.
Starting point is 01:03:12 He's invited to one cookout. You better not bring him to Brooklyn on Labor Day. I look at Brooklyn. If you're going to Brooklyn, you have him in the parkway. Put him right in the parkway. Put him right in the parkway.
Starting point is 01:03:21 Right in the parkway. My first day on the parkway was last year. Brian's like, I don't know what the parkway is, but stay away from it later today. Stay away from it later today. I would advise. I also got to ask, when it comes to everything that you do, do you start off small? Because, you know, thinking about real estate, right?
Starting point is 01:03:36 There's always that one person, right? I remember buying my first house for probably $300,000, $400,000, right? But then you stay with that agent to your million-dollar house to the next one. So do you still stay small? Or is it one of those things like, no, I'm not doing that? Listen, it completely000, right? But then you stay with that agent to your million dollar house to the next one. So do you still stay smaller? It's like one of them things like, nah, I'm not doing that. Listen, it completely depends, right? This business is all about relationships. We're not actually in the real estate business. We're not developers. We're not contractors. We're in the people business. We help people. And we connect those people to buyers. We connect those people to sellers. I think especially when you're early on in your career, you take
Starting point is 01:04:03 everything because you never know. That $2,000 rental client that's going to drag you around, and you don't get paid by the hour. You don't get paid a salary, right? That person, maybe her uncle, her brother, who she knows, her future girlfriend or boyfriend could be an amazing client. It's all about those relationships, and there's a thousand stories to tell that way. I run the brokerage now, and that's really what owning Manhattan is about. You know, it's running the company, the stresses of running the company, and then the agents that work with me.
Starting point is 01:04:29 And so depending on deal price and all that, I mean, almost every deal I do now, except for maybe one or two a year, I do with our agents. I'm doing with Jeff and Tricia. You know, I'm doing with the other agents that you'll see on the show and other agents that are at our company
Starting point is 01:04:42 who are highly specialized and have domain expertise in kind of what they sell. That way we can expand our business as much as we possibly can. Well, Owning Manhattan is out right now on Netflix. Go check it out. Political commentary
Starting point is 01:04:56 and everything that's going on in politics now. Does political help or hurt? What's going on right now with everything? Honestly, we're going through a rerun right now. So you know what's going to happen
Starting point is 01:05:05 either way, right? And that's all you really got to focus on. And it's probably not going to change your personal life a whole lot. It might change what you see on your newsfeed. It might change what people talk about around you. But is it going to change the fact that you still need a house? Is it going to change the fact that you still got to have a job and provide for your family? Probably not. And so just focus on yourself. Do what you do best, right? Is it going to change the fact that you still got to have a job and provide for your family? Probably not. And so just focus on yourself, do what you do best, right? Have a get up and go mindset every single day
Starting point is 01:05:30 and be an agent of change in your own way, if you want to be. As salespeople, it's always hard though, because you can't, we want to work with people on every side of the spectrum. So it's tricky for us to really pick a side, but you got to stay authentic
Starting point is 01:05:44 and true to yourself as much as you can. Now, the real estate agents out there that's looking for us to really pick a side, but you got to stay authentic and true to yourself as much as you can. Now, the real estate agents out there that's looking for a job and thinking about jumping into this crazy industry, what advice would you give the younger you? Learn the business. Learn the business. Everything else is just icing. It's like a cake, essentially. You got to learn the foundation of the business. You talked about before about mailers and cold calling.
Starting point is 01:06:05 All that stuff is still key and still essential. You do that coupled with the new stuff. So learn the business inside out. I think Trisha can go to the same thing. A lot of people are so focused on promoting themselves, they're not trying to learn the product. You're not talking to people that don't know their way around a rooftop, mechanical room. If it's in my house, I know what it is and I know how to fix it.
Starting point is 01:06:26 Like, that's a huge part of it, I think, because you're dealing with a client that you're supposed to help and guide. How can you guide somebody
Starting point is 01:06:31 to do something you're not familiar with? So I think studying and understanding the product is really important. And honestly, follow me for a day because there are parties
Starting point is 01:06:38 and people are jumping in pool and that's great, but we also need to walk this room. Careful what you just said. I'm going to see Trish in like a week from now and be like, why? Who are all these people? I don't said. I'm going to see Trisha in like a week from now and be like, why?
Starting point is 01:06:45 Who are these people following me? I don't know. I told everyone to follow me. They're literally physically following me. Actually, let me run that back. No, no, you can't take it back. It's forever. But we work.
Starting point is 01:06:55 We work. I'm driving all over from Brooklyn to Manhattan. We're walking and we're touring things and it's 100 degrees and you're in the basement and you're trying to figure out what's the best price and is everything that's being presented to you really what it is and so the product itself these 130 year old homes that we sell study that focus on that you know understanding how finance plays a part of that it's really more textbook i think the work and then the celebration is what people typically see on tv this is a different opportunity you're going to see the work here. Now, Ryan, what do you say to a young agent,
Starting point is 01:07:26 a young yourself getting into this industry? I say kind of what Jeff and Tricia just said, which is you should first, you should intern. You should follow somebody. You should be on a team and you should follow and see what they really do and see if you really want to do that work because it's never what you think it is.
Starting point is 01:07:42 Like you watch, you can't watch suits and be like, you know what, I'm going to go be a lawyer. You want to know what it's really like to be a lawyer. You're going to sit and you're going to read and you're going to type for 18 hours a day with a bottle of Advil, right? That's, that's what it really means to be a lawyer. And that's not what they show on TV. So go follow someone and make sure you understand the first three years in the business. You're not going to make any money. If you're okay with that, if you're okay with working holidays, working birthdays,
Starting point is 01:08:07 working seven days a week, working in rain, snow, sleet, the middle of the heat to build something massive for you that no one will ever be able to take away from you where there literally is no ceiling because no one's ever going to tell you, hey, you sold too much, right?
Starting point is 01:08:20 But they're also not going to pat you on the back when you sold nothing and you got to go get another job. If you're okay with that, give yourself those three years and you can be incredibly successful in this business. This business rewards hard work. All right. Well, Owning Manhattan, check it out right now on Netflix. And I appreciate you guys for joining us.
Starting point is 01:08:35 Thank you so much. Absolutely. Ryan Serhan, Trisha Lee, Jeffrey St. Almond. We appreciate you guys. Thanks, guys. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Is your country falling apart?
Starting point is 01:08:45 Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.
Starting point is 01:08:55 It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition.
Starting point is 01:09:11 The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with the black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We need help! Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into
Starting point is 01:10:06 their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire? Join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt,
Starting point is 01:10:57 learning to trust herself, and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like, grace.
Starting point is 01:11:29 Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, y'all? This is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly
Starting point is 01:11:54 podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop.
Starting point is 01:12:23 Flash, slam, another one gone Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus
Starting point is 01:12:42 nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the i order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never
Starting point is 01:13:27 quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. It took drama and mayhem to an entirely new level. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, every backstab, blackmail, and explosion, and every single wig removal together. Secrets are revealed as we rewatch every moment with you. Special guests from back in the day will be dropping by. You know who they are. Sydney, Allison, and Joe are back together on Still the Place with a trip down memory lane and back to Melrose Place.
Starting point is 01:14:02 So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. It's time for Donkey of the voice. Tell them. Tell them. Tell them. It's time for Donkey of the Day. It's a read, but you're so good at it.
Starting point is 01:14:32 You're trying to be a fake-ass Charlemagne. There's only one Charlemagne to go. Damn, Charlemagne. Who you give a Donkey of the Day to now? Well, Sexy Ray, Donkey of the Day goes to a 26-year-old Evansville woman lindsey pearson now i get on this radio quite often and warn you all about the dangers of drunk driving there is absolutely zero reason to drive drunk okay especially in 2024 because there's way too many ride share options out here all right not too many tech uh not too many taxi cabs but they still exist all right if you can't find a ride
Starting point is 01:14:59 wherever you at drunk ask for somebody uh who works at the establishment to assist you they would be more than happy to if you know and if all that fails then at least you should have a designated driver well what if i told you that lindsey said she had one drink at rick sports bar and she must be a lightweight or that must have been a very strong drink some bacardi 151 or a long island iced tea type concoction with vodka rum te, tequila, gin. Something had her leaning, okay, apparently. And it was just one drink. And it had her leaning so much that she could drive, but she couldn't drive. So she decided to get a designated driver.
Starting point is 01:15:34 Now, I never thought about who shouldn't be a designated driver outside of someone else who is also drunk. Like, you can't have a person who's also been drinking be the designated driver. Okay, even if you don't have a license, like it's suspended or something, I understand. If that person drives, they may be breaking the law, but I would still rather them drive with a suspended license than drive drunk. Well, Lindsay has broadened my perspective on this issue. There are other designated drivers you shouldn't have. I would never think that I would have to tell you about them, but let's go to WFIE News 14 for the report, please.
Starting point is 01:16:05 Oman is facing child neglect charges. Police say she let a 12-year-old drive a car with herself and two other kids inside. Officers say Lindsey Pearson's brother-in-law told them she did it because she was intoxicated. Officers say when they interviewed Pearson, she told them she had one drink at a bar. She also told them she didn't know 12-year-olds could legally drive, or could not, excuse me, legally drive on public roads. Police also charged Pearson with resisting law enforcement, saying she continued to scream as they tried to arrest her. You left the bar to go pick up the kids and let one of them drive. How many lies were told in this story?
Starting point is 01:16:51 First of all, the lie that she had one drink. Okay, let's just say she had one drink. Cool. She was on something else. Okay, if it's after one in the morning and you get the bright idea that you need to teach a 12-year-old to drive, you're on something harder than one drink. I know on cocaine or something stronger when i hear it another lie when lindsey told police that she did not know that 12 year olds could not drive vehicles on public roads really really lindsey never in the history of american life have 12
Starting point is 01:17:16 year olds uh been old enough to do anything fun all right you can't drink at 12 legally you can't buy alcohol at 12 legally you can't have sex at 12 legally you can't buy alcohol at 12 legally you can't have sex at 12 legally you can't buy anything with tobacco at 12 legally you can't rent a car at 12 legally and you certainly can't drive at 12 legally so you're lying and you know you're lying okay you lie you lie you lie and you know what rhymes with lie hi that's what you are i believe you when you said you only have one drink but i also know alcohol and cocaine are popular among drug users. So I'm sensing some sort of combination. Now, I believe Lindsay should be investigated further because who the hell are these kids?
Starting point is 01:17:55 Where are their parents? All right. It's after 1 a.m. in the morning. You have a drink and you decide to just go pick up some kids to go joyriding. These news reports don't say they were her children, her family. It just says she went to go pick up some kids to go joyriding. These news reports don't say they were her children, her family. It just says she went to go pick up three kids. Nobody wants to know how this 26-year-old woman just knew random 12-year-olds and why was it okay for random 12-year-olds to leave the house after 1 in the morning and how come nobody is asking any questions about that? I'll tell you why.
Starting point is 01:18:22 But I can't tell you why until we play a game of Guess What Race It Is! Lindsey Pearson, 26 years old, had one drink, allegedly, at a sports bar in Indiana. Decided after 1 a.m. to go pick up three kids and let a 12-year-old drive. Claimed she didn't know 12-year-olds couldn't drive vehicles on public roads.
Starting point is 01:18:39 And she resisted arrest by kicking and screaming. DJ Envy, Guess What Race It Is! White. Okay. Okay. And she resisted arrest by kicking and screaming. DJ Envy, guess what? Right, she is white. Okay, okay. What makes you say that? Everything that you said. Okay, okay. Indiana, kicking.
Starting point is 01:18:54 Okay, okay. One drink, drunk, having a 12-year-old drive that we don't know where this 12-year-old came from. Yeah, yeah. Nobody asking no questions. Sounds white to me. Okay, okay. Jess Hilarious, Lindsay Pearson, 26 years old, had one drink allegedly at a sports bar in Indiana.
Starting point is 01:19:08 Decided after 1 a.m. to go pick up three kids and let a 12-year-old drive. Claimed she didn't know 12-year-olds couldn't drive vehicles on public roads. Resisted arrest by kicking and screaming, Guess what race she is? Caucasian. Okay. What makes you say that, Jess?
Starting point is 01:19:24 Everything that you said, just like DJ Envy said, but the kicking and screaming like she wasn't wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When the police came out of nowhere. Yes, yes. Well, DJ Envy, Jess Lyris, I'd like to tell both of you that you are correct. She is talking. Would you like to see her picture? Yes, absolutely.
Starting point is 01:19:42 Oh, what the hell did I do with it? Hold on. Nope, that's Ryan Garcia. Oh. I don't know what I did with the picture. Oh. But yes, she is white. She is white.
Starting point is 01:19:50 Well, how does she look? Describe her. Don't say nothing about her back. Don't say nothing about her back. How does she look? Slightly big back-ish. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 01:19:57 I can only see her face. Okay. But I can tell by the roundness. The roundness, yeah. Yeah. No, there's no bone structure. It's just like a Twitter egg. Remember how the Twitter eggs used to look?
Starting point is 01:20:10 Yeah. And she got the little Nikki style. That's what I'm saying. So she's 26, so she's probably slightly big backish. But her trajectory says by 34, 35. Big, big, big. Big, big, big backish. Yes, but she's Caucasian.
Starting point is 01:20:24 She is cry at a Taylor Swift concert white. Okay. Absolutely. She is mad that Beyonce doing country music white. Look at her. Yes, yes. Absolutely. Damn. Well, thank you for that donkey today. So please give Lindsay Pearson, let Kathy Griffin give Lindsay Pearson the biggest
Starting point is 01:20:40 hee-haw. Please give this giant jar of mayo the biggest hee-haw. Charlamagne, I just want to inform you. States like Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, North, and South Dakota, you can get your learner's permit at 14. That's still not...
Starting point is 01:20:55 I know it's not 12, but I'm just telling you, at 14... It has nothing to do with this story? I know, I'm just letting you know. Because I thought it was kind of weird that a 14-year-old could even drive, but I just wanted to let you know that in Alaska... No, no, no. You can get your permit at 14? 16. What is it in Jersey?
Starting point is 01:21:08 Yeah, 16. Oh, I don't know. In Baltimore, 16. You get your permit in 16 if you take driver's ed. Nah, my daughter got her permit now. She's 15. Yeah. Giant jar of mayonnaise is crazy.
Starting point is 01:21:21 Hey, yo. Candy green is crazy. Driver's license, you get your permit? Hey, and permit in jerry in jersey because my daughter 15 she got it she got a permit no it says 16 you know obviously you paid my daughter's 15 she's in driver's then she got a permit now obviously you paid for her to get it and she ain't got it legally pay for her to get okay, and Shane got it. I didn't pay for her to get nothing. Okay, all right now. Okay. Okay, all right. The Breakfast Club.
Starting point is 01:21:50 Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests joining us today. We have SWV and Escape. Welcome. What's happening? How y'all feeling?
Starting point is 01:22:04 Good. This is a lot to move around. Expensive. Welcome! What's happening? How y'all feeling? Feeling good. This is a lot to move around. Excuse us. Expensive to be sure. We made it. It's a lot of y'all. We made it. So how's it working with everybody now?
Starting point is 01:22:14 Is it difficult getting everybody on the road together, getting everybody on time? Because at first they said y'all going to be here a certain time. And then they're like, somebody's going to be just a little late. But then y'all all came together. How is that? Why y'all looking around when I said it? I wasn't ready. Who's the lady? gonna be just a little late but then y'all all came together how is that i was ready i heard it'll be lily but i don't know okay let me tell you i'm going i'm going a bit much i do have a problem being but i'm never
Starting point is 01:22:42 late when i get there ain ready ain't no way done so we need to yeah so how did the tour come together get them together obviously a lot of people know after the we did the reality show together kind of like put things on ice for a while yeah and then Mona you know she just kept coming back with ideas and she got us all on the same page and and I'm glad she did because you know we all was friends for a while so it was crazy that we allowed the show to like mess things up whatever
Starting point is 01:23:31 and um and this is i feel like it's a perfect time to come back um we also got our girls 702 so it's gonna be a really fun tour like we're gonna have a good time what about the reality show broke y'all up exactly we were just you know just having our own we our group we had our own inner turmoil you know what i mean and then you know we had bumped heads about stupid stuff you know what i mean stupid and then it don't it don't help when you get the people involved you know people yeah media and people putting their opinions and everything. How is it with your families and your life so into the press? Because anything that you do, family does, kids do, it's in the press all the time.
Starting point is 01:24:16 Does that get annoying? Yes. Yeah, of course. Everybody's accountable. Like, we have to be accountable for every little thing that we do because we're not the only ones that feel it yeah so you almost have to live your life for other people you know it's it's the most uncomfortable feeling ever but i mean you gotta do the best you can and just uh sign an nda does it make it difficult to be a parent you got a you got a daughter that's graduating
Starting point is 01:24:48 this week yeah does it make it difficult that because everything that she does is on i remember um i took them all out one night right with my daughter and i was so nervous because i felt like a chaperone right now you're looking but like oh they're drinking i hope nobody sees them drinking and it's like people that don't, both of our daughters go to NYU. Yep. And they're all 21. But they all went out for a birthday and I was the chaperone.
Starting point is 01:25:12 So I had to get security. I had to make sure. And I didn't like it. Like, it was like, it was too much stress on me because at the end of the day, I'm like, what happened if Candy calls me
Starting point is 01:25:18 the next morning and was like, Envy, why did my daughter get back at this time? Like, it's a lot, but it's always in the public. So how do you deal with that? I mean, we're used to it at this point we was i mean i was on housewife for 14 seasons so riley grew up in it and she's about to do something else you know so it's just kind of like i just told her you know whatever you do just know you just say hey i had fun doing it and if i
Starting point is 01:25:41 messed up i messed up i'm about to get it right the next time. Yes. After the reality show, you know, y'all had y'all little issues. What was that first conversation like? Because nowadays it seems like nobody knows good conflict resolution skills. What did y'all, what conversation did y'all have that got y'all back on the same page? I thought it was, it was really cool because when Mona got us all back together, we hadn't spoken to each other. But what I thought was really cool was that we put the managers out we put everybody out and it was just us just a six yeah and it's easier
Starting point is 01:26:13 that way we worked it out we talked we let each other know how we felt about certain things and we're here who's the most difficult who's the i call it the virgo of the group that's like me i want coco to answer this I feel like Coco gonna give us the honest answer Coco she gonna give you some answers who's the most difficult Coco the most difficult um I could be me I'm difficult I just you know I stand on what I want and what I believe in and I'm gonna go for it I don't want nobody to tell me what to do
Starting point is 01:26:43 she gonna say no 20 times before yes. And it's just a yes. It ain't even a hard yes. It's a soft yes. She's going to know you to death. I don't know just going with the flow. I don't know that. She tells me, oh, this is the one saying you catch more bees with honey.
Starting point is 01:27:01 I just like, I don't know. I tell her, assimilate. I'm trying, but, but you know I'm not there yet but in this business all y'all got to be stern because you're black you're women people try to get over on you so you got to have those boundaries for sure for sure yes and we each one of us we think our group is the best so you're gonna bump heads sometimes yeah you're gonna bump heads but you know we come to a resolution and we make it work. We did have a conversation one day on air about who closes the show. We did.
Starting point is 01:27:29 Remember? I remember. Yeah, that was part of the drama when we had during the season. And I was like, how do you figure out? Because I guess in certain markets, a certain group will close or maybe not. So how did y'all figure that out? We had 30 shows. We just decided to split it down the middle.
Starting point is 01:27:44 You know what I'm saying? It's 30 shows. You shows you close 15 we close 15 we just do it like that but to be clear our show is intertwined right yeah so for people it's not going to be one of those concerts where you know one act goes do they whole show and then the next act goes it's like we're doing kind of like verses but a live fun or a better version where we go in back and forth doing our you know our hits so um yeah it's gonna work out yeah the last song is gonna change you know for 15 you know versus 15 or whatever but it's still the whole show is gonna be like you're gonna feel like you're going back down memory lane and being able to sing every hit of ours that you've ever felt you know what i mean and it's not gonna ever like make you to a point where you want to sit down because you're gonna like oh this is my
Starting point is 01:28:28 joint and then they're gonna go and it's oh that's my joint it's gonna keep going back and forth is this why you took a break from real housewives of atlanta game no i wasn't the only reason i have a whole bunch of different things that i'm doing um i'm producing whiz on broadway i got another show that i'm about to announce that i'm producing i'm filming on a tv show i can't even announce yet so there's a lot of other things that i really wanted to do that um unfortunately you know i don't know if y'all watched last season i was always they was always mad because i was working on something else and that wasn't going to change because i got a lot of dreams i'm trying to make happen it's extra busy yeah but i still got love for them i'm still gonna be supporting them you know all right we got more with swv and escape when we come back matter of
Starting point is 01:29:09 fact let's get into an escape mini mix it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy just hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with escape and swv charlamagne so why is this so important to do this it was very important for my group and you know us together to do this i It was very important for my group and, you know, us together to do this. I mean, I personally want to keep the legacy of our groups going. You know what I mean? I feel like it's crazy to be able to say that back in the 90s. Hey, guys, I'm Kate Max.
Starting point is 01:29:37 You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High.
Starting point is 01:30:18 It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe own country. My forefathers did that themselves.
Starting point is 01:31:06 What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullet holes, yeah.
Starting point is 01:31:18 We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself, and leaning into her dreams.
Starting point is 01:31:52 I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace for yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app,
Starting point is 01:32:35 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, y'all? This is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records,
Starting point is 01:32:57 Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it.
Starting point is 01:33:38 And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was called a moment Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8,
Starting point is 01:34:22 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. It took drama and mayhem to an entirely new level. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, every backstab, blackmail, and explosion, and every single wig removal together. Secrets are revealed as we rewatch every moment with you. Special guests from back in the day will be dropping by. You know who they are. Sydney, Allison, and Joe are back together on Still the Place
Starting point is 01:34:49 with a trip down memory lane and back to Melrose Place. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. We had hits and now in 2024 we're still able to headline tours and go across the country like as women you know what i mean um i think that's very important i don't know about y'all but as women you know i'm all about you know we got to make moves and big moves and show people like yeah like this is where it's at you know what about you tiny why is it important for you i mean because it's something that i really love doing and i mean it just it's just a different feeling from everything else that we do and um you know our music is still living and doing its thing so it's just it's just a great thing to be
Starting point is 01:35:41 able to be able to go out there and sell arenas and do these shows so i mean i feel like i mean yeah i feel like why not you know what i'm saying the money and you know for a long time we wasn't doing any shows and so many x in our era was you know getting that money and i was just like going to my girl like why ain't we getting the money like what are we doing we can't even we can't get along like we're missing out so we finally you know thankful to Jermaine and all them they was trying to do like a movie a movie on us that we didn't have nothing to do with so that's really what brought us back together was trying to figure that out like who they are doing a movie on us and we ain't got nothing to do with it yeah so that's how we got back to where we are why was it important for y'all swv this is something that i've been wanting to do since
Starting point is 01:36:29 since how long yeah it's a long time i think we got back together in 2005 and i just always wanted to put a girl group tour back together the 90s was just beautiful with so many varieties of girl groups doing their things successfully i missed that vibe and i wanted to do it again it's just it's just been so hard trying to get everybody together but finally this situation came along and i'm like all for it i thought it was dope because i think we left a lot of things open you know since the show and another thing i don't think men really give us the support i think we deserve yeah so for us to for the world to see us come together as women and support each other like this i think is a big deal
Starting point is 01:37:10 for me because y'all support each other y'all don't support us but i also seen the shift in r&b music because i would say maybe about four or five years ago it started shifting where r&b music it was r&b music parties r&b music concerts r&b music it was army music parties army music concerts army music things and i'm sure you guys seen that shit because at one time it felt like i don't want to say it was dead but people didn't respect the 90s groups like they should have in the 2000s but i seen that shift where it's like you're seeing concerts you're seeing shows yeah i mean think about it a vegas show lovers and friends when they had 30 40 000 people you would never see that before right that was always a good
Starting point is 01:37:45 thing yeah and i gotta ask i gotta give you a lot of props wow you took dog skin shut up don't even break that shut up Shut up, Wayne. You're going down that road. Why did you say dark skin? No, no, no, no, no. Wait, wait. Why did you say dark skin? Why did you say dark skin? Wait, did you change your complexion? No. Yes.
Starting point is 01:38:18 Well, he said I have a vintage vagina. I just gave him discoloration. Rightfully so, Shalameen. What happened with that? You said I have vintage vagina. I don't discoloration. Rightfully so, Charlamagne. What happened with that thing now? You said I have vintage vagina. I don't know what y'all talking about. Vintage vagina. We got it on film.
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Starting point is 01:38:44 AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI bad? To me, it's good. I would say it's good. Did you give him the Vintage Vagina? No. No. I don't know. Oh, my God. No.
Starting point is 01:38:53 Oh, no. I'm joking. No, it's not. You're talking too much. You're talking too much. He's just saying s***. No, no, no. He's just saying anything.
Starting point is 01:39:02 Do you think this generation even knows what 90s are? Look at him. He got out. He got out. R&B is? Look at him got out. What real R&B is? They don't know nothing else. They're going to learn about vintage vagina. Let's go to the phone line. We ain't got no phone line. Okay.
Starting point is 01:39:18 Sorry, sorry. Do y'all think this generation even knows what real R&B is? Oh, absolutely. There are a ton of youngsters, millennials, Gen Zs, that know about SWV and Xscape because their parents are teaching them about that. We did a show last year with Glorilla and a couple of other young rappers. We were like, why are we here?
Starting point is 01:39:42 But those kids were out there singing those songs like they were there when we recorded them, and they're holding their moms up on facetime but music is not the same r&b doesn't seem like it's the same even even my daughter now of course she listens to scissor and she listens to summer walker but when these records come on in the house she knows every word word for word like these are her artists. She looks at you guys, at her artists like we do, which is different. It's timeless.
Starting point is 01:40:08 We don't get the same feeling. And it's a learned behavior. When you immerse these kids in this kind of music, they love it. You have TikTok. You have all these other... YouTube.
Starting point is 01:40:17 My son used to sit there and look up different artists on YouTube. And he would think it was so cool. And I'm like, that's old school music. He goes, no, it isn't it isn't bruh it is i have to tell my grandbaby no uh they didn't make that song the song came from this so as you know you gotta teach your kid even though she's my child she goes she knows all of xscape songs all the songs that we don't sing we never work me slowly she sang i'm like, you cannot sing these songs.
Starting point is 01:40:45 Work me slowly. She's singing every, she's like, and I know this song, and I know this song. And she can sing. She sure can sing. Oh my God. That's crazy that you said eight years old. I feel like we just seen her be born.
Starting point is 01:40:56 Born. She said eight years old. She doing interviews. Interviews. She doing everything. She know what she want to do. Yeah. But y'all gotta realize
Starting point is 01:41:05 a lot of our songs and other R&B songs, they end up trending and everything on social media. People be making their own video clips not knowing where they got the song from. They just start singing it and blow it up all over again. Is there any songs y'all tired of performing but you got to?
Starting point is 01:41:21 Because it's a big hit or the fans want it? I love performing every last song. Oh, bye. You don't like tonight, Tiny? No, I mean, I do, but, you know, like, sometimes when we have a show, we're like, we need to cut the songs down. I'll be ready to cut tonight.
Starting point is 01:41:35 They never want to cut tonight. Why? She don't want to have the pressure of hitting the high note at the end. Oh. You know, I can do without it, but it's okay. What about y'all? Anything that y'all tired of doing?
Starting point is 01:41:50 I'm performing every last song. Every time we sing those songs I feel blessed. I'm going to sing them every time from the bottom of my heart. We get tired of right here. Yeah, right here. Why? The dance moves? You still got to do the choreography? No, it's not the choreography.
Starting point is 01:42:06 It makes you sleepy. To me, it's more of a radio song. It's not a performance song. No. I feel that. I feel like that about, what song that I feel like is so good, it's more like one of those songs.
Starting point is 01:42:17 Oh, right. Right here, one of them. One of them. I don't know what y'all right here do. I'm going to be mad. We do it. We have to do it, but we don't want to do it which are just tired of it yeah all right we got more with swv and escape when we come back now let's get into a swv mini mix it's the breakfast club
Starting point is 01:42:33 good morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj envy jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club that was a SWV mini-mix. Escape and SWV are here. They're on tour, the Queens of R&B tour. Charlamagne? And Todd, you was on Survivor, right? Yes, sir. Did you once say you compared Survivor to working with Escape?
Starting point is 01:42:57 No, no. I said I compared Survivor to you taking Lili out. That bitch's vagina. That's what I said. It was hard. It was hard and dry. Oh, my God. It was hard and dry.
Starting point is 01:43:17 Wait a minute. Damn. Jesus Christ, man. how was it on survival it was crazy look survivor is the only reality television show that's the only one there are no storylines there's nothing you're out there with absolutely nothing and you have to literally survive so will i do it again? Absolutely not. They've been trying to get me to come back for years. That's what we all need to do.
Starting point is 01:43:49 Something like Survivor. We need to do a show where we have to depend on each other. She's not going to wipe her butt with no leaves. Mona set that up. We have a whole gourmet meal prepared. Does reality TV help or hurt?
Starting point is 01:44:06 Scale the fish. It can do either one. It depends on what you do with it, really. I mean, I definitely feel like, I've had moments where I hated it, obviously, but I feel like I really built a big fan base through it.
Starting point is 01:44:21 It's a lot of ups and downs. It's a lot of good and bad. I think that's with everything though. Even when y'all come to work every day, you got to deal with the political bull****. You're going to deal with something no matter what you do. You're going to deal with something.
Starting point is 01:44:36 It's just how you resolve. What's the craziest movie y'all heard about yourselves? I heard I used to be a prostitute. Damn! Somebody did a background check on us and when I saw it, it was like people saying, Taj, yeah, she's doing much better now
Starting point is 01:44:52 because she used to be on the street. I'm like... Damn. I never heard that one. Yeah, me neither. Not until I saw that little background check thingy. But no, I've never been a prostitute. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 01:45:02 Well, y'all know what mine is. I got women locked up in the basement i'm beating them up because you know what i'm saying how are you able to navigate through that though tiny like good like when you hear those stories about yourself you know they piss me off more so than anything but you know just because i be want to say so much and i have to you know everybody always tell me no I can't say anything my lawyers and tip and I'd be on my head so I just had to be quiet that's the that's the part that really bothers me the most it's just not being able to say and nobody gonna believe you anyway because nobody cares about the truth
Starting point is 01:45:36 you know and I have to my husband's telling me all the time like it don't matter you didn't you know nobody you know either they're gonna believe you or they're not and most people they're split so you can't you can't get everybody so just forget about it and has there ever been like where it affected your kids in school like anything like that because i think about it on that level too like i got kids successful kids and like they still have their life like you know what i mean where they gotta yeah i felt like maybe so but they don't really talk about it they don't really say oh i've had a bad day because of this and that like major is one of the main kids that's in school right now and he's so he's so chill like he don't never just be like you know i just had the worst
Starting point is 01:46:22 day today if he does have a bad day he probably he don't really have bad days because he don't never just be like, you know, I just had the worst day today. If he does have a bad day, he probably, he don't really have bad days because he don't care about nothing. You know what I'm saying? He don't really care about anything. Does he get less of a f*** than young King? Well, King, he's got tough skin. And I'm glad he got tough skin because, you know, he get the most flack out of everybody. But he's got really tough skin, so he could care could care less what they say he'd be like yeah tell me keep talking about me i don't care you know what i'm saying he don't mind so i'm okay with
Starting point is 01:46:53 that you know what i'm saying so all our kids are pretty much they know us and they pretty much you know they they they know they don't really care what nobody's saying they're kind of like i know who my mom and my dad is so you know it don't really bother them like i would think it would you know and then aries she's just too young so she just kind of she's just living life right now i'm a star i don't got time for that i'm just trying to get my career popping right how does uh i don't know if this is true but they said latasha filed a lawsuit against the group is that true uh well she didn't file a lawsuit against us she sent a letter to mom yeah she sent that letter it's over yeah i think it was more of a scare tactic but it didn't it didn't work i mean you know we kind of i already
Starting point is 01:47:40 knew i writes yeah how did that impact the personal relationship though well as of right now we don't really have a personal relationship though well as of right now we don't really have a personal relationship you know what i'm saying nobody we don't really speak we're not i don't even think we have our number uh for real for real they changed their number so uh you know we're just going on moving you know it comes to us it comes to us but you know we're just doing that regular daily thing moving around like you know when it's your sister it is it is our sister you know i mean more so you know her blood yeah well you know this is what life is bringing us obviously to me i don't really like to talk about it this was dinner is wonderful
Starting point is 01:48:16 i have a wonderful family my children i'm a grandma a wonderful husband from the new york he's from new york city what's up? What's up, babe? Yeah, life is good, you know? Sometimes you have to separate in order for certain people to know your worth. And until they know it, you just be separated. But life goes on. And sometimes you got to separate from people closest to you. Whether that be family or friends or whatever.
Starting point is 01:48:42 Definitely. Does it make you feel any guilt, though, when you're out on the road? No guilt. When you're not in the wrong, you don't feel guilt. Right. Ooh. Jess, congratulations. You look so beautiful.
Starting point is 01:48:56 You ever seen a pregnant woman? Yes. That's the first thing I noticed. How you sexy and pregnant? Absolutely. Thank you. I'm tired. Oh, girl.
Starting point is 01:49:04 Okay. And you get your tickets now. The queens of R&B tour. Special guest Maya Tuttle. This is a hell of a tour. We want y'all to come. We want y'all to come and support us. This is an experience. Before that, we want to give
Starting point is 01:49:21 a shout out to our queen's birthday. We have Queen Taj and Queen Kendi's Taurus season. We got to show them love. You know what I'm saying? And make it look easy. Thank you. Happy birthday. All right.
Starting point is 01:49:34 Well, we appreciate you guys for joining us. Ticketmaster for tickets? Yes. LiveMation.com. And Ticketmaster.com. It's our beat. They got y'all on the road roll, like tour bus roll. Y'all got Tuesday days, Wednesday days.
Starting point is 01:49:48 I'm working on my birthday. You know it's big. Me too. We're going to turn it up. Well, baby, you've been off for your birthday a long time. It's all right to work on your birthday. Everybody like making money on your birthday. SWV Escape.
Starting point is 01:50:02 It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne Tha Guy. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. How you feeling, Jess?
Starting point is 01:50:11 Pregnant. I'm so tired, y'all. You don't look tired. Thanks. I just said that so y'all can say that. But no, I am really tired.
Starting point is 01:50:22 So let's get to the positive note. That's right. The positive note is simply this, man. For everybody out there wondering if they're in the wrong situation, just know you won't find peace in an environment that you aren't supposed to be in. That's how you know. Breakfast club, bitches.
Starting point is 01:50:37 Y'all finished or y'all done? Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together.
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Starting point is 01:51:23 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan
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Starting point is 01:52:01 You're trying your best, and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, my undeadly darlings. It's Teresa, your resident ghost host. And do I have a treat for you.
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Starting point is 01:52:49 Hi, I'm Marie. And I'm Sydney. And we're Mess. Well, not a mess, but on our podcast called Mess, we celebrate all things messy. But the gag is, not everything is a mess. Sometimes it's just living. Yeah, things like J-Lo on her third divorce. Living. Sometimes it's just living. Yeah. Things like JLo on her third divorce. Living.
Starting point is 01:53:07 Girl's trip to Miami. Mess. Breaking up with your girlfriend while on Instagram live. Living. It's kind of mess. Yeah. Well, you get it. Got it.
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