The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club Best Of Episode(Jada Pinkett Smith Interview, Jemele Hill Interview, Can You Take Your Wife's Last Name? Thoughts On Platonic Relationship?)

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

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Trey, what up Trey? What up man? Get it off your chest brother I got this little girlfriend of mine She be clocking me like she my mother Always think I'm trying to cheat When I'm just going to the store First of all you can't curse

And second of all, did you cheat before? Yeah, I cheated before. Oh, come on. I'll tell you what else, dude. That little girlfriend of yours is a big girlfriend to somebody else. Whoa. You better stop it. Oh, what? Nah, I'm just trying to tell you. You can't talk about it like that, though. You say you're a little girlfriend. That ain't what you mean. That's what I

say to you when I'm trying to insult you. I see you with your little girlfriend. How you gonna say that about yourself? That's a fact. That's a fact. That's a fact. You right. But still, though, like, she just be always clocking me, accusing me of cheating when I'm literally trying to be faithful. Like, she going to push me to go cheat again.

Because you cheated twice, so she got to watch you, obviously. That's a fact, but that's back in the day, though, bro. Oh, my goodness. It's not that hard, sir. No, not at all. You violated her trust. It's not, and I've been trying to make that trust up, but she just keep on going with it.

Like, you going to forgive me and be with me, or you going to keep on accusing me? Like, what's wrong with doing it? Not if you keep talking like that. You ain't even give a chance to heal. You cheated twice, and then she asks you questions. You like, just get over it? That ain't going to work.

Nah. I'll be trying to be reasonable with it. Like, I get why you, excuse me, I get why you feeling how you feel. But at the end of the day, you chose to get back with me. Trey, when's the last time you cheated, Trey? Like, five months ago. He said mad long ago. Hey, man, Trey, have a blessed day, Trey.

Have a blessed day. You know, it was mad long ago. How long? Five months. Like, knock it off, Trey. Oh, my goodness. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning.

It's Tasha from Brooklyn. Hey, Tasha from Brooklyn. Get it off your chest. So, I just want to say how upset I am about the maternity leave here in New York. I just had a baby in July, and I'm expected to go back to work after 12 weeks, and it sucks. You know, it's not enough bonding time that we get with our children. How long is it? It's only 12 weeks.

It's literally three months. So my daughter just turned three months and I'm expected to return to work already after three months. So they only give you, they only pay you for 12 weeks. You can stay out longer, but it'll be without pay. So I'm not returning to work until next year. So all of this time will be without pay. How long would you want it? Well, I'm going to take, so you have job security

for up to a year since I work for the city. My position is safe for up to a year, but after the 12 weeks, I won't get paid. So I decided I'll just take six months. It gives me a little bit more time to bond with her and her to get to just know her environment before I put her like with a baby

sitter yeah i mean i mean i get what you're saying yeah the funny thing about it is i have two older children and i had my 17 year old daughter when i was really young and i went back to week i went back to work a week later you know just not even recognizing or realizing how important it is to bond with your kid in these first couple of months. But I think we could do better. It's so much policies that could be put into place, especially for black women. And the maternal rate is so high. The death maternal rate is so high.

Yes, I just wanted to throw that out there. See, I see both sides because I understand you want to bond with the kids. And that's very, especially the first year, is very well needed. But also'm you know from a workplace i mean they gotta pay somebody they can't continue to pay you for a full year and not have somebody fill that position you know so i see both sides you know or maybe if you're able to allow to work at home where that way you can still spend time with your baby at home and you can do a little work at home you know yeah i'm pretty sure it's some positions where

you can't stay at home my position you can't do that i need to be in the office but it's cool it's not even actually called maternity leave it's called smla like family medical administrative leave so if that's the case i think like something could be figured out you know all right well enjoy that baby love that baby they get big so damn fast thank you so much have a good one guys what's the baby's name her name is shiloh shout out to my baby shout out shout out to nyla shout out to anthony those are my kids shout out Damn fast. Thank you so much. Have a good one. What's the baby's name? Her name is Shiloh. Shout out to my baby Shiloh. Shout out to Nyla.

Shout out to Anthony. Those are my kids. Shout out to my husband, O'Neal. Shout out to you guys. Y'all so f***ing dope. Shalem and you, my mans in them. Envy you, my mans in them. I love y'all.

Love you back. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest 800-585-1051 we want to hear from you on the breakfast club hello who's this hey derrick hey derrick what up get it off your chest

hey i got something on my chest man i want to talk about the price of a good man okay you know i don't know a good man that doesn't have an empty wallet and a broken bag. But now you get a, you get, now you get you a bad man. They got a pocket full of money and they dating. That sounds like me. I'm not bad. Well, hey, I'm just saying. You beating the odds, but you don't hear about good women anymore.

That's not true. What's your definition of a good woman? You just told us a definition of a good you don't hear about good women anymore. That's not true. What's your definition of a good woman? You just told us a definition of a good man. What's a good woman to you? A good woman is the old days, the old school women, the ones that take care of the home, take care of, you know, women don't wash dishes no more. They don't clean the house no more. They don't do none of those things.

That's not true. I'm going to tell you something, man. I got a plethora of amazing sisters around me that do both. They know how to navigate in the corporate world and get their money, and they know how to be domesticated at home. They always ask me to hook them up with people, and I'll be like,

no, because I don't know no brothers that I feel like are worthy. I don't even like to get involved in my friends' relationships like that. What generation are they in? Late 30s, mid 40s. 35 to 45. But the new generation got dishwashers. Do y'all really want women washing dishes?

That's true, too. I mean, I don't want to walk by and see anybody washing dishes. Put them in a dishwasher. Keep it pushing. That's true, too. Well, I'm just saying. I've been married for 25 years, and I've been a good man. And I tell you what,

every bone in my body is hurting. Dang. Well, Derek, you need to get an aspirin in the dishwasher, bro. But at the same time, you say that's

the 30-year-old. Well, you don't know, you don't realize it until you're about 40 or 50. That's when all the, that's when everything starts hurting and you start noticing

that your wallet's empty. Yeah, that's just age, though, bro. Well, and's just age, though, bro. And after 25 years of marriage, if every bone in your body is hurting, she's still doing her job. But I'm bamboo. Your bones are hurting because you're doing everything around the house and you're doing all the work.

You have a particular age. You missed the bone joke. You missed the bone joke. Oh, man, I missed the bone joke. Yeah, he was talking about the other bone, bro. But does that bone still work? That's all that matters. Oh, man, that miss the bone joke. Yeah, he was talking about the other bone, bro. But does that bone still work? That's all that matters. Oh, man, that's the thing about it.

It works better than my back. Well, you better be happy because there's a lot of brothers out there in their 40s that bones don't work, bro. But also, brothers know that everything stops once you get married after about 15 years. What's wrong with you? You just missed the negative this morning, bro. Uh-uh. No, I'm wise and in a good mood. All right. Well, you have a good one, Mr. Good Mood.

And I'm a Pisces. You know, we know people. Okay. All astrological signs know people. I'm the only astrological sign that knows some people. He's having a great day. All right. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up, man? It's Twan. Twan, what up?

Get it off your chest, Twan. I just wanted to say that, first of all, I'm glad that I finally got through driving the family out for the longest time. But now I'm headed to work, and these truck drivers are trying to run me off the road. They're trying to run you off the road. I'm going to be honest with you. Truck drivers be driving like they're just pushing around Hyundais nowadays. I don't know who told truck drivers that they got electric cars, but they don't.

They still got big Mack trucks, and they need to drive as such that's what i'm saying man let me get a lane let me get a lane now they're ridiculous i'm not gonna front truck drivers are very very ridiculous nowadays even the way they cut over in the lanes now they act like they have cars it's weird but move out the guy give me a blink or something give me a blink or something and salute to all the truck drivers out there man y'all be safe out there as well, man. But, yeah, some of them do be disrespectful. I ain't gonna front. Yeah, man.

Thank you, man. Have a good one, brother. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Jamil Hill, welcome back. Hey, you know I always love to sit with y'all and enjoy the conversations. That's right. And the paperback is out right now.

It is, yeah. Congratulations. My baby has grown up a little bit. It's now a toddler, I guess. So a year ago, the hardcover of my memoir, Uphill, came out, and now the paperback. How was the response to putting out a memoir? Because, you know, in memoirs, you put out so much information. You reveal things you probably never told anybody. What was the response?

Not just from the general public, but from, like, your family and stuff. The response was generally good. It was mostly positive. There was somebody in my family who took issue with it, and that created some tension. And the tension is still there, unfortunately. And so, you know, I'm still processing that part. Did you not have a conversation before? with it and that created some tension and attention is still there unfortunately and so you know i'm i'm still processing that part did you not have a conversation before we did have a

conversation before but i just didn't think how they reacted to it would be the way they reacted and they took it to facebook as opposed to taking it to me that's usually how it happens yeah and then they aired out stuff that was not even in the book. And it was like, why? And probably stuff that wasn't true. Yeah. Some of it was definitely, I looked at very skeptically. And it wasn't about me. It was about my mom, to be candid. And so I was not happy that that was the course of action that they chose.

And so it caused a fracture in our relationship. Oh, I know the feeling. After I put out my first book, it was the same thing. And family members, oh, I can't write a book, but I can go to Facebook. Right. Exactly. You know, and especially it's not like this person couldn't have called me. Like they could have, and we could have had a conversation about it.

And I guess the surprising part, they didn't take issue with what was written as in terms of like it not being true. The issue was when we finally did have that discussion was that they weren't in it enough. Oh. So that really. So they wanted their side out there. Yeah, or they just felt like they should have been, you know, that their role in my life should have been more highlighted or more.

And I thought I did a pretty good job of it as it was, but apparently it was not on par with this person. And so, yeah. Was their role in your life as big as they actually thought it was? Well, I mean, I guess if you want me to say what it is, because I see who you're getting to, but it was my father who had an issue with it. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah to but it was my father who had an issue oh yeah so it was my father had an issue with some

of the things that were in the book not necessarily because they were untrue but he felt like he should have been more prominently featured in the book that was what i got from it and so i it wasn't it was a very difficult conversation to have um and so those conversations have been somewhat ongoing and i told him I needed to kind of press pause because I need to process what you said to me. Cause I took a lot of issue with it. Now, what do you think, what do you think a second Jamel Hill book would be about? Well, there will be another Jamel Hill book and, um, it is much like this memoir of something

I didn't expect to write, but the second book will be a children's book. Ooh. Yeah. So I'm writing a children's book and it will cover some parts of uphill, like just kind of, you know, how I was able to overcome some adversity and some of the more positive career stuff. Like some of that will be part of it. But generally speaking, it will be sort of like my love letter to a lot of the women whose stories haven't been told. A lot of the women who I've admired. And so it'll um i'm

really looking forward to i've never written for a children's audience before so this will be quite a challenge it'll be the opposite almost from um a memoir because you're pouring everything into this book and you know it's like 250 300 pages and a children's book you have to be quite concise and you have to make sure that they understand the general themes that you're trying to what is it gonna be about you know yet yeah i mean it's it'll be a combination of my story and the stories of women who um whose stories need to be told and you know women i've admired so yeah some of them famous some of them not as famous as others i mean i'm trying to like really unearth and tell the stories of some women who probably didn't get the flowers that they deserved gotcha yeah Yeah. Now, we just had Offset up here.

And you had some words about his interview with, how do you pronounce his name? Bobby Althoff. Althoff. Althoff. Althoff. Althoff. The podcaster. And you said, you feel like this is erasing real hip-hop journalism.

Yeah, I do. I mean, listen, I admit I'm spoiled. It's like when hip-hop was really coming into its own and growing. You know, that's when you had Vibe. You had Kevin Powell and Dream Hampton and Danielle Smith, and there was like a real hip-hop journalism sort of movement there that covered the culture, that covered these artists, tried to tell the full 360 dimensions of their stories.

And as you know, you know, mainstream media wasn't messing with hip-hop like that. They weren't telling these stories. And so now it's just interesting to me the platforms they wind up on. Like, look at Sexy Red. Like, why was she on that podcast? For what? You know?

With Theo Vaughn? With Theo Vaughn. Like, does that seem like the type of podcast that you would expect Sexy Red to be on? Probably not. I don't know,

because Theo Vaughn's interesting. Yeah, yeah. He had a funny marker on there one time, and he was talking about how sexy I was. That's all Charlamagne cares about. The fact that that man

called you sexy, that's all Charlamagne cares about. The fact that that man called you sexy, that's all Charlamagne cares about. Wait, who called you sexy? Theo Vaughn. Oh, really? He did. It was like a whole five-minute thing when he was talking about how beautiful I am.

Not blushing. He's such a beautiful man. He was like, I'm like, look at him. He's blushing now. Look at his face. Look at his face.

Look. A compliment is a compliment. I was flattered. I was like, wow. Not blushing, dog. He's so silly. Charlamagne take him on a date he said i got a lady features i promise you that's what he was saying look he remembers every last

i do i do but that's i don't know i don't know what theo's angle is is what i'm saying yeah i mean he he's had an eclectic group of guests so i guess maybe from that standpoint you could say that she fits but it's just um i when i watch that interaction and i get it i know what her shtick is a lot of it uh as many people say like she clearly borrowed some of this from funny marco who i actually think does it pretty well he does yeah like he he he has he's got a good thing going um and her i guess looking at her rise it was kind of curious to me like her podcast has not been existence in that for that long i think the way the story was told was like drake saw her on tiktok i think yeah on tiktok but she was with funny marco i think that's the interview that he saw that's at least that's sort of what's been

reported and out there and then he just up and decided you know hey i'm gonna just go on this random podcast which he has every right to do but when i look about who are the caretakers of hip hop the caretakers of how this culture is covered it's us you know for the most part that's not to say that offset can't do interviews with people outside the culture but i notice how those interviews are received and for their that matter how they're treated on those interviews and it makes me concerned overall honestly i know a lot a ton of black journalists who could go who could use that kind of boost and to me especially given we see the danger of when our stories aren't told and they're trying to erase our stories in real time i would

like to see artists like him artists like drake other black artists in general be more intentional about the type of media that they try to do right like that's why breakfast club has the status and the stature that it does because this is a place that has been established for the culture and it would be nice if some of these artists understood that there's something larger at play than just going viral all right we don't go anywhere we got more with jamil hill it's the breakfast logo morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it. Very insightful with Jemele Hill this morning.

Charlamagne. I do miss your sports takes, Jemele. Do you? I talk about this all the time. And you know what? Let me tell you this, Charlamagne. I think you deserve, you should give me credit because it took a lot for me to resist texting you the day my 49ers just put, just beat the brakes off of y'all. Why not? Because I knew this you today. My 49ers. Just put it. Why not? Just beat the brakes off of y'all.

Why not? Because I knew this was coming. And I would see him in person. And I'd rather see it to him in person. Jamel, if I had your number, I would have called you that day. I would have put you on that screen. Just for five minutes. I'd be like, do you have something to say?

When the 49ers wash them cows. I'd be washed. Why would you do that to a black quarterback? Why are you so happy to see that, Jamel? It ain't black history, but what we talking about? Like, what? I was just like...

Nah, that was bad. Yeah, no, we a problem. But we a problem for most of them. Y'all, we knew that, though. We knew that, right? But we a problem for Dallas specifically,

you know? And so when I saw the final score, because I missed most of the game because I had some other things to do. But I knew we were

going to win. I just didn't think it was going to be like that. No, that was bad. That was bad. I was like, you know what? I'm going to give Charlemagne some privacy, you know, some thoughts and prayers. And then when I see him in person,

I'll be like, your boys. No, that was the moral of the story. The first two weeks, I'm like, yo, we going to the Super Bowl? You know, I say that every year. Yeah. You know, you know what the loss of the Cardinals? Oh, that's nothing.

Right. We going to the Super Bowl. I'm back against New England. We going to the Super Bowl. This week, I'm like, ugh. Yeah. You know, you know what the loss of the Cardinals, all that's nothing. Right. You're going to the Super Bowl. I'm back against New England. You're going to the Super Bowl. This week, I'm like, ugh. His daddy texted him and said, Charlamagne, we're really going to the Super Bowl. Buy your tickets.

Y'all, it's just, the belief is so hard. Yeah, that's been a different conversation. Yeah, now. Okay. This is depressing. Let's go back to one other topic. Okay. Theo Vaughn and Sexy Red.

All right. We brought it up a couple times. What about that interview is so upsetting? this is depressing let's go back to one of the topic okay theo vaughn and sexy red all right talking we can talk about it a couple times what about that interview is so upsetting like there's no need to beat up on her it's sexy right yeah i mean i don't think that anybody was rushing to hear you know what her political takes were but the problem with is like the misinformation is it wasn't that she gave her political take she's allowed to give her political take me she could have said i supported trump and listed off the reasons and that actually made a little bit more sense um yeah she could have said that because it's her right to have that opinion but it's the misinformation that that is what i see is to be more dangerous when you have that kind of platform because like

it or not people are going to listen to her and even though you know she's talking about they love trump in the hood i was like well polls don't really show that but that's okay go ahead go off and so I took the opportunity to your point I saw it as a teachable moment because as you said there are some people who do say the same things let's deal with what's being said even though Donald Trump's name were on that stimulus check he did not the money did not come from him he didn't it didn't come right out his bank account it was it was passed by congress people and that's a part of the general collective ignorance that we have a lot of us don't know how government works there's no shame in that because it is a complicated system but we have to understand how legislation is passed how policies are made knowing the right person to

be mad at because a lot of the things that people are mad at you know inflation other things i was like the president doesn't have a whole lot to do with that and we're in a huge age of corporate greed like we've never seen before and i wish that we had a better handle on who to blame because then that would help us better strategize i agree with you 100 but you know what i tell the tell the hood i'll just be like biden gave out stemmy's too. Was his name on it though? He didn't put his name on it. But that was brilliant though. I was like, I mean, no president in history has ever done that. He was like, no, no, no, no.

The checks got held up because he was like, no, no, I'm going to need that Donald J. Trump on it. He knew the lasting impact that would have. You're right. Trump signed it in twice. Biden signed it in once. Biden gave out STEMIs too. He did. That once. Right. Biden gave out stimmies too. He did.

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I choose me. She made her choice. She chose herself. When it comes to love, choose you first. Hi, everyone. I'm Amy Robach. And I'm TJ Holmes. And we are, well, not necessarily relationship experts. If you're ready to dive back into the dating pool and find lasting love, finally, we want to help. Listen to I Do Part 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. That's how you get the sexy reds and all that. It is, and unfortunately, the other part of it is that the amount of media machinery behind the right wing, there's no democratic

equivalent. I hope somebody in her camp or somebody period, pulled her aside and said, hey here are the issues. If you're going to speak about these and if you're going to take a pro-Trump position, at least if you're going to take one, take one that is a little more informative than the one that you had. Know your facts.

That's right. Yeah, know your facts. And people just like to be entertained nowadays, too. I bet you said you're ready to vote. I mean, that would have been like a great follow up to be like, oh, so. Are you ready to vote? Are you ready to vote? Do you plan to vote for him in the next election?

That would have been something to bring up with her. But I guarantee that might be the last political question she answers for quite some time. One more question. You still think Nikki Haley's racist did I say that wrong but it was a reason for it yeah I know why you said that you thought she was racist for not wanting comma vice president Harris no so it's not that because again like in politics you're not gonna agree with who needs to be the leader it's not the general disagreement I think people took it that way I'm not calling her a flat-out racist but what i will say is that she's very comfortable using racist dog whistles to

further and advance her political position i feel like the biggest opposition vice president harris is going to face is going to come from in her own party yes i agree i think that there's people in her party right now who don't want her to be vice president because did you see the article that came out i did i did new york times and it's it's the hit pieces that are done on her it's just i don't i mean i get it but i don't get it like i had to go google and see what did she do like i was like it just came out of nowhere yeah long ass i mean even even some of us who are just like well what is she doing where has she been like she literally speaks every day guys like i don't know what to tell y'all like you're like where is she i'm like uh i because i'm

on the mailing list i get her schedule practically every day like she's always doing a lot of things um like i know right now she's on a college tour but no that like she's been subjected to a lot of hip pieces and you could tell their hip pieces because of some of the things they say about her you can tell her from within and they could tell that from within it's like um because i think in that is this this the article that mentioned how much time she spends on her hair on her hair like are you serious like that's what we do it like on her hair like she's a black woman i bet she is gonna spend some time on her hair because the moment she doesn't look presentable guess what the conversation is gonna be about the vice president so it's like she's damned if she does damned damned if she doesn't like she's caught in a really tight position and i feel like it is really it's really neutering what i think makes her such a strong

politician and like it or not joe biden would not have gotten elected without her he would not have she was the strongest i think person for him to run with i mean is it look listen do you feel like that there's another viable vp that will get no i don't think exactly i don't think the democrats have no bench period no it's then yeah it's then like when you look at who could have run with just for claire he said bench bench no bench clearly say bench bench i said they don't have no bench the hard end oh they got no got no bench. They ain't got no benches. They ain't got no benches. Oh, my goodness.

All right. Jermaine, ladies and gentlemen. Uphill. A memoir. The paperback is out right now. Thank you, guys. We appreciate you for joining us. And it's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ and V, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRose is our special guest co-host. Yes, indeed. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about taking your wife's last name. Now, this story comes from where, Lauren?

So this story comes from the NFL star, Ricky Williams. Former NFL star. Former NFL star. Yep. He decided to legally change his last name to his wife's last name. And he said that this is something that he had been thinking about for some time now. And he actually done, but hadn't mentioned it. And as to why, he said he did it because he wanted to create more balance in his marriage.

His wife is a very established and successful attorney, he says. But he often gets more attention due to his NFL career. So he thought that this would help to create the balance. It's something that he considered after taking an astrology relationship class, I guess. See, I told you all signs matter. All right. he um considered after taking an astrology relationship class i guess see i told y'all signs matter all right so the question is 800-585-1051 would you take your wife's last name now charlamagne you said you would hyphen the name yeah i would hyphen it you know i'm saying i wouldn't change it completely you know um i have four daughters and i want my daughters to keep

our last name because you know I don't have any sons. So I wanted to be hyphenated. That's how my wife's name is. My wife's name is her last name and my my last name because her father don't have no sons. So, yeah, to keep the to keep the last name alive, I would I would do the hyphenate thing. But, um, yeah, I wouldn't change my name completely. Yeah, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that. My lineage and my ancestors matter, too. I wouldn't change my name completely yeah no i wouldn't no i wouldn't i wouldn't do that my my lineage and my ancestors matter too i wouldn't change my name completely yeah no i wouldn't change mine at all i'm an only child and um my wife has two brothers so yeah no i wouldn't

change mine um lauren would you want your husband to uh change his name to your name no i want to take his last name you want to take his last name i just i don't know i just feel like i'm just it's so weird because i'm not traditional at all but that is i don't know just something you look forward to as like a woman like for well for me anyway not for all women for me but i thought it was interesting too he said that he didn't really care about the change either because the last name was williams is not even his real last name the guy i guess that was married to his grandmother that took care of the family isn't his real, like, isn't his biological dad. So that changes it, too, because the lineage is not really even there because it's not his dad. And I wonder where it shifted for us, too.

Because remember, it was a time where, you know, especially if you study, like, you know, Islam or the 5% teachers of Islamlam you know the last name was a slave name so that's why people would you know change their name to x uh muhammad uh you know farrakhan so i wonder where where we got to the point where we was like nah we're gonna represent our last names even if they are you know from our slave owners because casey i don't think it came from from black name or mckelvey no duh those are, yeah. No, duh. You know what I'm saying? Like, you just, clearly, clearly, that was our slave owner name. But I'm just saying, I wonder when we started

to claim those and say, nah, this is our last name. I kind of feel like, But people got woke. I don't know if it was when people got woke. I think,

I think when Dame Dash would say, hustle for your last name, not your first, you know, like, that matters. And that is our names, you know,

at the end of the day. So, like I said, I wouldn't, I wouldn't change my last name, but you never know what you'll do. I have both names. But I asked a couple of men behind the scenes, and I asked them if they would do it, and they said no. But then I said if it was somebody that was financially secure, like an Oprah Winfrey or one of those, would they change the name? They all said yes. I hate that for y'all, because even if she wasn't financially secure, if you love her, that's what will make... I'm just telling you what they told me.

Don't get me started. You know they said I hate men, so don't get me started. You do. You do. Okay. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. How are you?

How are you doing? I'm good. This is Dr. Brian Thomas. Good morning. Good morning. Would you change your last name to your wife's last name? Yeah, I would. I don't see a problem with that.

I don't see an issue with it because, I mean, there's like Charlamagne's here. He doesn't have any daughters and everybody wants a legacy. I don't have a problem with that. I don't see an issue with it because, I mean, there's like Charlamagne's, he doesn't have any daughters, and everybody wants a legacy. I don't have a problem with that at all. I mean, I don't think it's fair that, you know, it's an automatic thing that the woman gets to take my last name. I mean, if one was having it, you know, the other way around, it should be okay.

So you would change it completely? Yeah. I mean, what's the big deal? Yeah, my last name is Brian Thomas Kardashian. Absolutely. Yeah, I'm a Pinkett Smith, Winf, my last name is Brian Thomas Kardashian. Absolutely. What's the big deal? Yeah, I'm a Pinkett Smith Winfrey knows Carter, so I understand. Brad.

Hello? Hello? Hey, Brad. Yeah, I was saying... I know you ain't calling up from the toilet, man. You calling up from the toilet? I mean, we're on Zoom

because there's only like... Hey. No. Why you sound like that? Bluetooth, I guess. Okay okay all right continue so you change your your last name to your wife's last name i would be down not that she'd ever ask that but because her last name is so unique that there's only like a handful of people that have it in all of the u.s what's her last name i kind of want to say. It's not bad or anything like that.

What is it, bro? You don't want to put her out there. I understand that, brother. Then why call her and say it's your name? You're not going to tell us what the unique name is. Well, because of the unique perspective. You know what I'm saying? The fact that most guys wouldn't have to worry about that because a lot of people have common last names and hers isn't.

But because it's not common, I don't want to put her out there. Got you. All right. Have a good one. All right. You got this. That would have been so much better

if he just said the name. Just said the name. Quentin, what up? What's up, man? What's up? Would you take your wife's last name? Nah, man. That ain't no manly duty right there.

Take your wife's last name. Man, that's what she's married. You're supposed to be the man that it relates to you. You're not the man if the name is not... If she doesn't take your last name? Like, what she's married. You're supposed to be the man that relates to you. You're not the man if the name is not, if she doesn't take your last name?

Aren't you still the man? No, I'm not taking her name. If she got a bunch of money, I'll take her name. Yo, shut up, man. It's so crazy to me how... Can I say, it's funny to me, Lauren,

when people say, you're not a man if you take the woman's last name. But if she got some money. If the woman got money, it's okay to take. That makes you a bird brain. You a bird. But if you take the woman's last name. But if she got some money. If the woman got money, it's okay to take. That makes you a bird brainer.

You a bird. But if I sat up here and say anything about a man with money and what I would do because the man got money, I am like, I have no morals. They'll call you a bird. Oh, my God. By the way, for all guys who say that, hey, if the girl got money, I'll take her last name. You a city girl. Definitely a city girl. You a city girl.

But y'all mad when we bumping city girls and the sexy reds. See, I don't hate nobody. I'm just calling out double standards all the time. Y'all be mad at me. Mazin. You know what up, what up? It says that your wife wants you to do that right now. Take her last name.

Not my wife. My fiancee. We probably didn't possibly get married. Okay. Yeah, she wants to change the narrative. She wants me to take her last name. But I'm pretty old school, man. I'm not for that.

But I do get her point of view. Her father was a single father. So her last name would die out with her because he only had two girls. So I do understand her point of view, but I can't do that, man. Why doesn't she just hyphenate her last name? And then when y'all have kids... I ain't for just hyphenate her last name? And then when y'all have kids.

I ain't for that hyphenating. No, I'm not saying you have to. I'm saying why doesn't she hyphenate, you know, y'all last names? And then when y'all have kids, the kids have the hyphenated last name. She wants the hyphenated, but I don't see the purpose of hyphenating. Who has two last names? It's like walking around with two first names. That's not true. People have two last names, especially if they fly.

Yeah, a lot of people have two. I know they have two last names, but I mean, come on, we can't marry. I mean, like I said, I'm old school. I see my grandfather doing it. My grandmother took two last names. Y'all got kids? No, not yet, not yet. Yeah, I hope you have all girls.

I hope you have all girls. That's not a bad thing, though. I hope you have all girls. So when you have all girls. That's not a bad thing, though. I hope you have all girls so when those girls get married to another guy, you'll understand why it's important to hyphenate the last name.

Ain't nothing wrong with all girls. Nothing wrong with all girls. You might lose that last name, though. What's that? You might lose that last name because if they get married

and want to stay traditional and take their man's last name like the household they're raised in with their mother. That's something that's going to have to be decided when they get married. Oh my God, but you can just

change tradition now, you idiot. KP! What's wrong with people, man? Change tradition now. KP! Yeah, what's up, David? Would you take your wife's last name? It depends on which name adds more value to the family, man. Traditionally,

the man's last name is going to be, traditionally, the man's last name is going to be worth more than the wife's last name, whatever the case is. But, you know, like you pointed out, if Oprah Winfrey wants me to take her last name, the Winfrey last name means more than the Pierce last name.

Let's carry that legacy off. What's the tradition? And then also, you know, if, like, put into it, Ricky Williams' last name carried a whole bunch of weight as far as, like, his daddy left him with emotional trauma and stuff like that. He might not want to leave that legacy to his kids. He might want to, you know, add the value of the Weiss family name on.

So, me personally, my wife got my last name, but if hers would have been worth more than mine, I would have been a hawk. What's the traditional rule that says that the man's last name carries more weight than the woman? Did I miss that rule? The traditional rule, what I'm saying is traditional. Whenever we go back to old school marriages and stuff,

you know, the man brought something to the table and said, hey, I'm adding value to this. I'm not saying there's a rule, but I'm saying traditionally that's why the man's last name was taken, because you're saying, hey, I'm bringing your daughter over here and joining her to this family, and, you know, this family is adding value to you. Okay.

Alright, brother. Well, what's the moral of the story, guys? I mean, the moral of the story is you gotta do what works for you. You know what I mean? I already told y'all. I got three, four beautiful daughters, so you know, I want them to, you know, hyphenate their last names when they choose to get married a

long, long, long, long, long, long, long time from now. Because I want my name, my last name to continue to live on, you know. And I think most fathers who have daughters want that. Okay. My wife, that's what my wife did. So I don't have a problem with that. As far as changing my last name completely, no. I want to honor my family just like, you know, that person wants their family honor.

All right. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

Nah, this is special, special. Yes. Jada Pinkett Smith. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How you feeling this morning?

I'm feeling good. You glowing. I'm feeling good. Thank you. Yeah. You know, life feeling good. You glowing. Thank you. Yeah. You know, life is good. Even in the chaos. Even in the chaos.

I mean, life is chaos. Yeah, that's what it is. You know what I'm saying? So you just get in harmony with that. That's interesting you say that because I always be wondering, like, yo, are we ever going to find peace on this planet? Or do we just exist within the chaos? The chaos is normal yeah i think you know just in my journey i've just been discovering that you kind of have to just rise above it right because the world is going to be what it's going to be right i actually think that

the world is a university you know to teach us how to transcend it. Yeah. And so, yeah, you just you got to make peace with what this world is about. But I don't think that this place is our sanctuary. I actually think, you know, ascending it and going into more of the spiritual places, you know, and just kind of understanding living your life from there within the world. I that's what they say you know be in it but not of it you ever get tired of it though because you've been on this on this tour for a while and you're very big on energy and vibrations and sometimes i'm sure the energy and vibrations have been all over the place but it seems like you've been on tour yeah for a long time you ever get tired of it like all right now enough's enough now i i think that if i put myself in that frame of mind and i i just bring myself a level of

discomfort that's not necessary right you just go it is what it is so how are you going to step up to the moment and that's it you know that's just what it is and so that that's where i find my peace since the release of this book what what is what is your ego telling you? My ego has been telling me to let go because it takes a lot of courage to sit in your truth. Takes a lot of courage. It takes a lot of courage to be happy when you're walking through the world and you're dismantling ideas. You know, you kind of have to in that dismantle. You just kind of have to let go of everything that you thought you were, everything that you're trying to be and just flow. Right. Just let whatever is presenting itself just kind of be what it is you know but you

definitely gotta let go so it's it's been a real test in regards to trust you know just can't trust the ego in that way anymore but you know that's a process so as i'm dismayed so you go from one ego state to the next right so it just gets um it just gets uh it just gets smaller i guess you know but the ego is always going to be there always so you know you just kind of learn how to make friends with your ego and have it work for you in a different way for a different purpose right so that's what i'm working with right now has this truth helped your relationship with friends family and even your marriage has this truth and all the things that came out or did it make things worse oh no see i didn't I didn't step into this walk until my situation with my friends, my family and specifically Will was tight. Right. Because I already knew how disruptive it was going to be.

So I had to make sure that my inner circle was tight. Right. So that we could walk this together hand in hand right so it's actually you know specifically for will and i's definitely brought us closer it's so funny how crisis will do that you know what i mean yeah you know what i'm saying so that's the thing about will and i's just like we just learn more and more as we go that this is what we were built to do, you know, with each other, you know, and to walk together. And, you know, just like any long-term relationship, it goes through its shit. Of course. You know?

And so you got to take your time. I really had to grow emotionally. I hadn't realized how emotionally immature I was. You know what I'm saying? And so that's the thing about long-term relationships that are fantastic. If you can just hang in there. Because it's going to force you to step your game up if you want to be happy you know and so will's been one of my greatest teachers on my journey you know because i've

been forced to have to deal with my stuff you know what stuff because you said you're immature what what immaturity do you see when you when you look at yourself well i would say you know about seven years ago just when you're just hanging on to these romantic ideas of what marriage should be what your partner should be for you so that you don't have to be the thing for yourself like when you keep banging on somebody like no i need you to show up this way because I need to feel a certain way about myself. Right. That that in itself is just like, hold up. You want somebody else to be something for you that you're not willing to be for yourself. First of all, how do you call that love?

You know, and I had to like step away to really realize that, you know, and so me get myself in alignment and just realizing like yo Jada you got a lot of work to do and then doing that work and then being able to present myself with more of myself and then being able to see Will as who he is and just accept him and love him there that's what I think is lost you know in in the book if you haven't read the book right like you think all the convos about tupac and will distracted from what this book really has to offer because i do yeah and i knew that i knew i knew it was going to be a lot of distractions right and i was like hopefully this book will have legs so that once all of the you know the chatter dies down we can get to the real components of the book now people who've actually

read the book are on it right they 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 is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of 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. Why can't I create my own country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God.

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It's a journey of healing. It's a journey of somebody trying to find their worthiness, which is, you know, all of us have struggled with that. Imposter syndrome, not feeling worthy. If you read the book, you see somebody really laying it out in detail, the journey to get to that place of worthiness. And it's a universal struggle. You know, we all do it in that place of workiness and it's a universal struggle you know we all do it in different ways right but it's a universal struggle and so yeah that that's I really wanted to lay that out in the way that I did especially once again just dismantling these ideas of perfection you know because we also have these uh societal romantic ideas of what somebody in my position what my life should look like who i should be within it you know what i'm saying and it's like no no no like real life is real life no matter what station you sit in that period

you know do you regret leading with a lot of that stuff? Leading with a lot of... To talk about Will, to talk about Pac. Because, you know, those just became soundbites and headlines on the internet, clips. Do you regret leading with that? You know, it's so difficult because when you're dealing with media, that's what people want to attach to. People not interested. You know, that's not the clickbait, the journey part of it. The clickbait is Tupac, the Will.

So you got to kind of get past the clickbait where people get exhausted with that. And that dies down. And then people can get with the real. But it's hard to avoid it, honestly. It's hard to avoid it. All, it's hard to avoid it. All right. We got more with Jada Pinkett Smith. When we come back, don't move.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. We're back. It's the Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. And we're still kicking it with Jada Pinkett Smith. Her book Worthy is out right now. We look at your life and we see the wedding.

We see the trips. We see all of that. When did you realize and say, I need to fix this because this isn't right with me what was that moment I would say that I got slammed up against a wall probably when I was really confronted with some really heavy suicidal thoughts when I was looking for cliffs to drive over you know so that my suicide would look like an accident. So my kids wouldn't think that I committed suicide. I did a plant medicine journey. Ayahuasca.

Ayahuasca. I can't wait. Let me know when. I got you. And that that was a real awakening for me, you know, when I really had to be confronted with my own shadow my own self-hatred and it was so strong and it was so scary I was like whoa I didn't I thought it was I didn't even want to be with that and I'm like asking somebody else to contend with that

that was the first moment that I realized oh Jada you you got some stuff to deal with and what got you to that point because most people would look on the outside and be like you know she's rich she's a movie star she's dating another movie star she has beautiful kids your mom is still there like it looks like to the outside the life is perfect so what in that perfect life on the outside made you feel imperfect or made you not feel like this is what I want? It was like dealing with the foundational wounds. Right. I hadn't done I hadn't dealt with.

And that's what we most of us don't even know what our foundational wounds are. We don't even know we're foundationally wounded. Right. And so it started a childhood. You know, you got two parents who are addicts and you're not the priority right and then just the the the levels and just the the trauma that gets built upon what that environment is like right and you're i thought that making it would heal it all you know success takes care of everything right and then it was like okay made it to Hollywood that's not it and then I met this fantastic guy and I was on this whirlwind of

romance with Will and I was like he's gonna fix it you know what I'm saying he's gonna he is the knight in shining armor save you he's the Savior Prince he's gonna fix it so went from one false belief to the next and I talked about trying to check all the boxes right and then having to realize oh man oh yeah You're not dealing with your stuff. That's what's left. So it just goes to show that we can have all of these exterior things, you know, but that's not the thing that's going to heal the soul. You know, it's interesting because, you know, when we used to watch Red Table Talk, people would be like, who is Jada Pinkett? Take off the drug dealer coat, Jada. Is that a drug dealer coat?

You're giving drug dealer energy. yeah take off the drug dealer jada you when i when i read that in the book i was like jada pinkett smith was in the streets like that but when you walked in i'm like oh i see it i see the little kingpin i'm sorry about that yeah i'm just trying to be comfortable you know what i'm saying you see how you do kingpin on your man? No, I didn't! I see it, I see it. Sorry about that. But when people used to watch Red Table Talk, they used to be like, why is Jada Pinkett Smith an expert at anything? But in the book, you refer to yourself as, you say you're a pseudo guru. You said in the, oh, it's in the Feeling the Rain chapter, that you seem to often set yourself

up to fall off the edge of high and mighty them, but you admit at the time you didn't know like why talk to yourself like that well because it's the truth hey you know and i think that when we're really on that game of healing like the person that you got to be the most honest with is yourself that's right and a lot of times that that could be that that could be the most difficult when you really got to look at yourself and realize um you know where you thought you were something and now you realize that you ain't you know and so yeah you just got to learn how to be deeply honest with yourself and as as i talk to myself that way i can also hug myself in saying that you know now you talk about love so much and you talk about how you felt at one time uh you were

against marriage right yeah uh is that because you've seen your parents and in their relationship that was what changed your mind yeah i think um that was really like I got to see my grandparents who both said to grandparents had a really long lasting marriage but I wasn't quite sure that it was the pinnacle of happiness and so you know when you're young you're a free spirit and I'm just like no I can do this different like because I want to be happy I'm not quite sure that's what happy is like how can i be in a relationship and be happy you know i was all about the devotion of it but i wasn't quite sure that marriage was the thing right it wasn't until maybe three years ago three years ago you've been married all this time and it wasn't three years ago you've been married all this time and it wasn't three years ago no not that i wasn't happy okay not that i wasn't happy but i got to see the power of marriage

three years ago i got to see the power you mean like the vows like the death to a heart sickness in a heart not even well yeah and no right I got to see how marriage is a it is a

holy path for real right just in regards to learning about love because it takes a long time

to break down all the different false beliefs that we have about love right and and the thing about a holy matrimony and it's not to say that you're not going to go through some unholy stuff right but when two people are committed and just refuse to quit, what you can learn about yourself, about your partner and about love in general, you can't really learn by going from one relationship to the next, looking for the honeymoon stage over and over again. Right. Specifically, if you're interested in learning about unconditional love, you know. And so I was like, oh, snap. This is what it's about. You know, so what's in place three years ago? What was that moment three years ago?

I would probably say when Will going through the process of emancipation and then once he finished emancipation and the stuff that started coming up for him right and that's when he was like hey can we get back into some therapy together and the stuff that was coming up for him and the kind of conversations we were starting to have I was like okay here we are you know what I mean I'm like and and everybody starts their journeys in different ways at different times you know what I'm saying but that's when I knew I was like, OK. And then we went to the Oscars and that whole thing happened. And it wasn't I didn't even think twice about it when I saw what was happening.

I was like, I'm not leaving this man's side. I'm not leaving this man's side. I will keep a lock. We got more with Jada Pinkett Smith. Her book Worthy is out right now. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Char. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Jada Pinkett Smith. Charlamagne? Do you think up until the point of three years ago, do you think y'all had just more of a trauma bond? I would say yes and no.

I would say we had a trauma bond, and then underneath of it, there was this real deep friendship, this spiritual bond, too, because you can start breaking through your trauma and start talking through your trauma. And if it's just a trauma bond, but when you can feel that that spiritual bind once you're doing the healing and that spiritual bind is just yoking you tighter then you know it's something else you know and you really have to have the discernment to know the difference you know what I'm saying because sometimes you do just have a trauma bond with somebody and sometimes you just got to get away you know what I'm saying and so you you you gotta really like sit with

yourself and have the discernment to know the difference that's real cuz sometimes you heal so much you be like man look around like I don't like nobody. No, I mean, exactly. That's real talk. I don't like none of y'all. Yeah, straight up, because that's what we do. You know, it's like, and that's part of it, too. You know, and that's part of why we have to have the courage, because innately, you know, once you start healing, a whole lot is going to change. That's right. You know? With the Oscar situation, did that save your marriage and the reason I ask that is you know I've been

married 22 years Charlamagne's been married a long time but your wife will always be mad at you right but you can't be mad at him I could be mad at him I'm not gonna let you tear him down so did that save your marriage I would say what it definitely did is that it accelerated what I think was already in the process. It was in that moment that I knew I was like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to do this together. I'm going to be by your side. And I know that I'll never leave your side, right? Because it's funny because in emotional crisis

I didn't blink I didn't blink and that's when I knew deep down inside I'm like that's that's your guy that's right you know what I'm saying it's like and you there's no getting away

from him you've been trying you don't want to go nowhere stop it and so it was that incident that I knew right away yo we in it and so that was it but I think that was the trajectory anyway it just

in an instant solidified it yeah if y'all have you know if y'all have been separated all of these years if you read the book you realize that right and will never said anything about it why did you feel now was the time to reveal that information was it just to sell books like some people think oh no it's part of the process you know it was part of like part of my self-worth journey. Like I had to really I was leaning on Will in a lot of ways. And I think for women specifically, how a lot of times our relationships are used to identify us you know what i mean and so i thought that was a really

important process and so much a really important uh thing to talk about because so much of my journey happened in that time when i it was just me right you know and I think that and I also wanted people to realize that sometimes marriages go through breaks like that you know and for people out there who are thinking about yo should I just get separated should I you know get a divorce I'm like man just take time for you. If you've got the courage to sign divorce papers or, you know, go to lawyers. Just have the courage to figure out how to just take time for you. And then see what's showing up for you.

Right? Because sometimes divorce is the answer. Sometimes legal separation is the answer but first and foremost just take a year take a year see what shows up you know before you start going into like all these other processes because sometimes we can act so quickly out of anger and frustration and we just want to get away and we think that's the answer you know and in some cases it is but in some cases it's not how did you feel when you talk about the truth right and you say a big reason of this book is you can help other people other marriage other couples that are dealing with it and don't know how to express it because

they've never seen it right and the press and the public says you know Jada is embarrassing Will and you just said you were doing it because you wanted to live in your truth so what do you say to those people that thought that it was just a embarrassing embarrassing Will and dehumanizing him and take it and take it as his masculine I want to quote Anna Navarro of The View she said you are emasculating and embarrassing oh well I think if she took time to read the book, you know, I think that if you want to just read headlines, I could see how that could be confusing. But the book is right here.

You have two books you can read, actually. You can read my book and Will's book, which is so great that a lot of people are doing that. You know, but people have the right to their opinions. And I always know that anybody who's saying that hasn't really done that homework. But you got to expect it, too, because of what the headlines are, you know, what clickbait is. So Will knows what it is. I know what it is. My kids know what it is. know what it is my kids know what it is and more importantly

grace supreme does too right and so that's that's really that's really all i i'm concerned with at the end of the day when will was up here he talked about uh being insecure a little bit about tupac did y'all ever have that conversation because as a man when you're a little bit about Tupac. Did y'all ever have that conversation? Because as a man, when you're a little insecure, I almost feel like you play both sides. You want to be yourself, but you want to show that you're better than the person that's making him insecure. You're tougher than or smarter than

or more romantic than or a poet than, a better rapper than. Did y'all ever have that conversation? I wouldn't say that we had conversations in that way it was just like you know we came up in the era where it was so unusual for a man and a woman to be friends right i mean really think about it like that's that's more of an open idea now right but just think in our era that was just like friends they had to be dating yeah like what what what right and so I think for him it was just like getting your mind around around that

you know and that the the kind of friendship that we had because we had such a, you know, tight friendship that, you know, was very impactful on my life. You know, so I think it was just getting the understanding around that Tupac and I could be friends, you know, and that he was a part of my life in that way. And so just we had a lot of conversations around just those ideas how did he get over that I think he just realized that and I really can't speak for Will you should probably ask him when he comes back but I think he just realized that that's what it was you know what I mean it was like that's what it was. It's like, you know, that was that beautiful friendship. And I think once he real and started as he got older, started having his own friendships with women like, oh, that that is possible. How are you with that?

Listen, I always told Will, you need some female friends. Did you? Yes, because I think I think I think men and women, I think men do need female friends because and women need male friends. And I actually think men, once they have daughters. I got four. I got four. You got four daughters.

I got four too. And majority female friends. There you go. But I see, now let me ask you a question. Would you say that having daughters helped you understand? Absolutely. And see, I think that's what happened to Will. I think once Willow came, you know, and then he started to realize a know you can have relationships with women that are non-sexual or however y'all have to you know manage that in your own minds right i think once willow came she was his teacher on that for sure and so he was able to have female friends i will keep a lock we got more with jada pinkett smith her book worthy is out right now so don't move it's the

breakfast club good morning we're back it's the The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Charlamagne the God, and we're still kicking it with Jada Pinkett Smith. Her book Worthy is out right now. Charlamagne? In the No Soccer Mom chapter, you shoot down every rumor there's ever been about y'all. That y'all are swingers, that y'all were both gay and playing

each other's beers, that y'all were sleeping with whomever you choose. How does it feel in 2023 to still have those same rumors out is your country falling apart feeling tired depressed a little bit revolutionary consider this start your own country i planted the flag i just kind of looked out of like this is mine i own this it's surprisingly easy there's 55 gallons of water 500 pounds of concrete everybody's doing it i I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia.

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Yeah, you know, and let me just say this it's ridiculous right um and it's nonsense and this is a person that tried a shakedown a money shakedown that didn't work we're gonna take legal action um because it's one thing to have your opinion about somebody versus just making up salacious, malicious stories. So that's actionable. So we're going to roll with that. You know what I mean? It's not true. We're going to take care of it.

And that's that. So there was a money shakedown prior? Oh, yeah. There was a money shakedown. Oh, he tried to extort you before well it's it's based around this person's idea that they in some way were doing business around will's book and that they spent money or what have you and that they needed to be compensated so he already tried to do this money shakedown um will was willing to give him a certain amount or what have you and he didn't take it so this whole situation is based on that

give him a certain amount why though just well because of some business that they had and i don't know the complete details about it but that's about to come out because like i told you about to take legal action you should yeah no we are for sure i was asking how's will dealing with it you know with oh does he laugh it off release a statement his will here's one good thing about will will's always gonna find the funny i figured that yeah he's always gonna find the funny you know what i'm saying and so after the the murder murder kill kill we yeah you you have to you have to because it's absolutely ridiculous you know what i'm saying and so all you have is is you just gotta laugh about it you know and it's unfortunate because

did he ask you like do i look like i give off bottom energy? He was like, do you believe this shit? You know, but we just laughed about it. Gotta ask about Tyrese. Now, there was a rumor that Tyrese called you and said... Oh, yes. He said he called you on the phone. He was on meds. He was out of it.

Yeah. And he told you, I ain't no killer. Jada, I ain't no killer, but don't push me. Oh. Avengers like the sweetest joy. Next, he getting... He don't know why sweetest joy Is that true So Tyrese did call me

For sure And he was Definitely in a State And I was really concerned You know And I'm just happy He called Tupac though

Him and Charlie Mack said he quoted Tupac. He called Tupac. No, he said he called you and quoted Tupac. He may have. Let me tell you something. I was so worried at that time when he made that call about his his state, because it was really deeply concerning um that i don't i i couldn't even tell you exactly what happened because i'm trying to think about who i can get there who can i get in the house how can i get him help um yeah and so that i was i was in i was I was a little panicked, you know, to just make sure that he was OK and that nothing was going to happen. He wasn't going to hurt himself or anybody else. So that I couldn't even I don't even remember what he said, what he said. I want to talk about the book in a debate I had at dinner a couple of weeks ago with some friends. Because in the book, you say that you and Will decided to separate in every way except legally.

Yeah. And y'all would have complete transparency, no secrets about what y'all were doing and whom y'all were doing it with. Right. And the debate we were having was, well, earlier in the book, she said that they've never been in an open relationship. But isn't that an open relationship? Well, here's the difference between that that's when you're you're in an open relationship and you are still intimate with each other right at that point we went our separate ways so it's as if we are divorced separated and just trying to figure out how we're going to go about it but at that particular point

in time we were no longer relating in that way right um because for us it was over it was done so if you're in an open relationship that means that you are still in a relationship with one another. Romantically. Romantically. And you are okay with being with other people romantically. Like y'all were separated. We were separated. Like done. Done, done, done, done.

Why did you choose not to say August's name in the book? Really just to, I felt like he's been through enough, you know what I mean? And I just wanted to be respectful in that manner. I really did. Do you feel like that's something that you need to heal? Like that situation? Um, I'm hoping at some point,

you know, I'm definitely hoping at some point for sure. Yeah. I wanted to ask you too, if you pick a crew to run with in real life would you choose between the cast of set it off or the cast of girls set it off oh that's a hard one damn charlamagne that's a hard one set it off they was riders they were riders for sure but you know both know, both crews, they got, you know, they got something real special.

Yeah. I'm going to plead the fifth on that one. Plead the fifth. I only got two more questions. When you're having these conversations now, how do you know, in your words, that this isn't the pseudo guru using rationale and borrowed wisdom to tell you what you want to hear because it's so beautifully in my heart now what I will say about that is that's why you gotta always stay open because as we continue to grow and learn you know it's Bruce Bruce Lee said it best be like water

you know what I mean because that's where I'm sitting right now who knows when I come back if you know what it'll be then because we just

gotta stay open we gotta stay fluid but for now it's what speaks to me deeply you know and that's all we got you know

for the moment my last question and it's a it's you know for the moment my last question and this is it's a quote right and the quote is other people's opinion of you whether it's good or bad should not be grounds in which you base your self-worth your value is inherent within you what matters the most is whether you know you are worthy that's right so do you know you're worthy absolutely and you know what it really comes from and i wanted to say this in regards to to the question you asked about self-worth really dealing with self-judgment like once we can cure our self-judgment in a certain manner right people's opinion about you can only affect you if you believe it.

You know what I mean? Once you really know who you are, once you really know your self-worth, anything that anybody else has to say about you really can affect you. You know? And so you know, I know how much work it's taken for me to get to know myself. I can't expect anybody else to know me like that. You know what I mean? So I have to be willing and accept whatever opinions come my way.

I get it. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Jada Pinkett Smith, ladies and gentlemen. That's right. Thank you for coming. We appreciate you for joining us so much.

Thank you, guys. Thank you. This was beautiful. The book Worthy is you for coming. We appreciate you for joining us so much. Thank you, guys. Thank you. This was beautiful. The book Worthy is out right now. Make sure you get it and thank you. Thank you. Don't be a stranger. No, I won't.

Not at all. It's The Breakfast Club with Jada Pinkett Smith. Don't be at a date when you got ass. You get donkey at a date when you got donkey ass. You are a donkey. It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkey of the Day, huh? I'm going to fatten all that shit around your eyes.

They want this man to throw them blows, man. They wait for Charlamagne to tap them gloves. Let's go. They had to make a judgment of who was going to be on the Donkey of the Day. They chose you. It's a breakfast club, bitches. Who's Donkey of the Day today? Well, Donkey of the Day goes to anyone out there who is reporting stolen property and bribes to the IRS.

What? Okay. Uncle Charlotte, what the hell are you talking about on this Monday morning? Listen to me, man. I usually tell y'all do whatever the IRS tells you to do. But this one, this one sounds like all the alphabet boys are conspiring to make sure you end up under the jail. Okay. This one sounds like all the alphabet boys are conspiring to make sure you end up under the jail. OK, this sounds like a coordinated plan between the IRS and the FBI, because if you stole a car in 2021, took a bribe in 2022, the IRS wants you to report it on your taxes. OK, see what a stolen car. Yes.

See, these provisions were borrowed Monday. I think it was last Monday after a tweet went out and it said tax season is around the corner remember to report your income from illegal activities and stolen property to the irs let's go to fox 5 news for the report please the irs urges people to report just about everything the irs says if you steal report its failed market value and if you receive a bribe or get extra cash from illegal activities make sure to include that in your income as well for those worried the irs won't pass the information to law enforcement that's because federal tax law prevents federal employees from sharing tax return information okay don't get scared now, Miss Pat. What are you talking about? I got my...

Baby, the IRS done lost their mind. Black folks don't even want to report cash app in square. Exactly. You going to ask me to report a stolen car? Ain't going to tell you it's not. And a bribe? Ain't going to tell you they're not going to turn it over to law enforcement. Don't you fall for that.

You going to jail? Ain't nobody stupid enough to do that. Nobody. Not nobody with our skin color. I'm just going to keep it real don't fall for that all the alphabets right next to each other for a reason okay fbi irs cia dea fb ig they all part of the same family i don't care what anyone says don't you trust it if you steal property you must report this fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless

you return it to this rightful owner in the same year well what if you're dealing drugs like miss pat used to do uh okay you're gonna stop bringing up my history over there in that king's chair okay look like you had an old script club you also got to report bribes and kickbacks you hear that all you djs and program directors out there taking money to play records you have to report your bribes and kickbacks you hear that all you DJs and program directors are they taking money to play records you have to report your drives and kickbacks don't do that okay who in their right mind is about to fall for this it's not even something you should entertain with a lawyer present okay the whole point of committing these crimes is a to get some money and be yeah to get some tax-free money all right I've literally been reading Rayquan's memoir from staircase

to stage all week memoir I hear what I says my invisible. Okay, and I'm Well, won't you take them off you trying to keep us right Necessary can't about see you take your visit line up. I gotta wear them at work. Y'all know I should have just said book But I'm reading the book all weekend Okay, and he talks about one of the perks of drug dealing is that you got tax free money. Okay. And I don't remember the exact quote, but he basically says, why would he get a job, work all those hours only to get the government half when you can do illegal activities and

make all that tax free money. So yeah, I know we live in this era where people act all liberated and they want to act like they are accepting of all things. But I'm telling you right now, this is the equivalent of your significant other telling you, just tell me you're cheating. I won't get mad. Just go ahead and admit your dirt. Tell me what you did, and it's all good. You ever did that to somebody, Ms. Faye?

Not what? I did. I didn't pay no tax on my dope-dealing money, but I went to the skating rink and bought me some Jordans and some Levi's, different color flea lines. It wasn't the government problem. Hey, the government never helped me bagged up a rock, so why would I give them a percentage of it? They didn't stand on that corner.

They didn't help me put that dope in my kids' drawers. They didn't help me pull it out of my drawers. You didn't participate in the business. So why should I help you? He meant, did you? Never mind. That's not how it works. Never mind.

What you mean? You got to tell me what you mean. Your visit line is confusing. All I'm saying is, don't fall for that. Okay. All right. You think the same government that does nothing but lie to you is going to be truthful with you now? Okay.

I'm going to trust the same government that has proven time and time again that they are not to be trusted. Okay. I think they saw how stupid people was with their PPP loans. And they said, hmm, what else can we do to get more of them to lock themselves up? No, let me say this to y'all. If it don't require your social security number, don't report it. That's what I say. Then the PPP loan requires your social security number.

Call my friend going to jail for that PPP loan. One of my friends went through a $1.5 million. And they're looking at me like they crazy. I know they broke, but I ain't saying nothing. I'm going to keep my mouth shut. So do you think people should file their crimes on their taxes? It's probably. Who the hell?

Did Al Capone file his crime on his taxes? Mm. Mm. If the whites don't do it, then the blacks don't think of it. I don't think Al Capone ever filed taxes. That's how they got Al Capone. I told you. Listen, the only way this would work is if everyone who actually did this was a granted

immunity from prosecution. Prosecution? Prosecution. Okay, I thought it was a prosecution. That damn official line, man. If there's no legal protection for that, if there's no legal protection that shields them from criminal prosecution for the offenses they report on their taxes, what's the point? If you think this government is about to give a tax return for committing crimes if you

think this government is just going to accept those crimes like legal employment then go ahead do your thing because i need content for donkey of the day anyway hey i remember back in the day they were asking everybody to turn in their guns to go see janet jackson y'all remember that in atlanta everybody turning they go why janet jackson I don't know what was going on in Atlanta, but they asked everybody to turn in their guns for free concert tickets. Then, two weeks later, everybody gets shot because they don't turn in their guns. Nobody had no guns? Oh, my God.

Do you remember that? No. Look it up. In Atlanta, they were asking you for my Janet Jackson ticket. You turn in your pistol, and everybody got shot the next week. Don't do it. Listen. Don't do it. Listen, don't do it.

Please give everybody who will be reporting their stolen property and bribes to the IRS the biggest he are. Because I don't care what Ms. Patch say, some people are going to do this.

That sound like me in the bed. What? That he are? Shut up, man. Oh, man. That's me with my legs up. Charlemagne, that's me with my legs up Charlemagne that's me with my legs up when them cramps get to coming

oh my goodness I can see your hand on the back of my behind just holding me The Breakfast Club Morning everybody it's DJ NV Charlemagne the guy we are The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Die. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about Jada Pinkett Smith.

She was on the show earlier. By the way, we have our guest co-host, Beezy Baby, with us this morning as well. And we were talking about in relationships, marriages, or whatever it may be, your significant other having a friend of the opposite sex. Now, this is what Jada Pinkett Smith said. When Will was up here, he talked about being insecure a little bit about Tupac. Did y'all ever have that conversation? Because as a man, when you're a little insecure, I almost feel like you play both sides.

You want to be yourself, but you want to show that you're better than the person that's making him insecure. Did y'all ever have that conversation? I wouldn't say that we had conversations in that way. It was just like, you know, we came up in the era where it was so unusual for a man and a woman to be friends. In our era, that was just like friends. They had to be dating. Yeah, like what, what, what? Right? had to be dating yeah like what what what right and so i think for him it was just like getting

your mind around around that you know and that the the kind of friendship that we had because we had such a you know tight friendship that you know was very impactful on my life all right let's discuss what are your thoughts. Let's start with you, BZ Baby. I don't know. I feel like relationships with the opposite sex are necessary. Like, how can you just be in this world and just be around people that have the same private parts you have?

You may streamline your thinking. You can't really get opposed, you know, feelings or thoughts. So I think it's necessary, but I think you also have to have respect for your partner. Like I wouldn't marry somebody that didn't trust me in a room without them. So you got to trust that I'm going to put you first and I'm going to honor the vows that I made to you. And that, you know, I'm not going to put nobody in our circle that could threaten what we got. So, yeah.

And in my relationship with me and my wife, I we don't really trust too many people. So for us, it has to be mutual friends. Right. Meaning, you know, we meet them together. Not like not like Charlamagne said earlier, like I can't just meet you at the grocery store. Now we friends. It's not going to be like that. It has to be some type of establishment. And my wife has to approve. And with her, I have to approve. Right. Outside of that, now we're not taking no new friends in we it has to be our friends like you know i mean i should be able to call that person like you should be able to call that person it should be a cohesive type of situation uh charlamagne yeah i never even think about it until this discussion comes up i got mad homegirl

but your wife knows them all right yeah my homegirl and my wife's friends too in fact they probably like her more than They like me Everybody does Like so I don't even Like this discussion Is like very It's silly to me

It's immature You know what I mean A lot of people feel that way Because sometimes Because they got insecurities And they immature Or it's new friends And sometimes people

Are not around For the right reason And we know this And I know especially And I hate to say this A lot of fellas sometimes Will try to befriend your girl Not because they want to be a friend your girl's friend they want to smash well i'm never trying to befriend nobody i'm never trying to befriend a man's girl like that's not

happening like a lot of people do there's reasons why you know either your friends are your friends or even these new people who may come into your life y'all might work together you know what i mean y'all might be doing projects together. Anytime I'm going to be spending time with anyone, my wife is going to know who that person is. You know what I mean? Whether it's a man or a woman. Hey, we're doing such and such with this individual. Hey, we're all going out to dinner.

We're all going. My wife is going to be there. Everybody. There's no woman in my life that's my friend that ain't my wife's friend. And a lot of people are taking like teenage drama into big age relationships. That's right. Like, you know, you had to worry about this stuff in high school. People break up and get together with a new person next week.

It's really not the same when you're 40. If you can't have a platonic relationship with somebody from the opposite sex, something wrong with you, bro. Let's go to the phone lines. We have Dupree on the line. Dupree. Man, what's up DJ M. I guess host. Beezy Baby. What's. We have Dupree on the line. Dupree. Man, what's up, DJ? I guess I'll be the host. Beasy Baby.

What's up, Dupree? Talk to us, Dupree. So I was looking for what they were talking about. I definitely got female friends. I don't really think I would do. And my baby mama, who's now my fiance, she don't really be liking it. She's jealous and stuff like that. And they just had a party.

And I'm trying to go to the party. She's like, no, you ain't going. They be twerking and stuff. And I'm like, they ain't twerking on me. Yeah, but why would you bring your baby mama there? Why would you bring her with you?

So when they hit me with the invite, I'm like, since we just got engaged, I'm like, man, I know she don't want to come. And they was like, that's cool, she can come.

But she still was throwing some type of waves. So I'm like, man, whatever. I ended up not going because I ended up going to sleep. I wake up in the morning and look on social media. They definitely were twerking. So it was just like, but that's what they do though.

That's why I like getting around, man. Shout out to the homegirls, man. For real, for real. But if you had included her in that friendship from the beginning. 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.

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But do me and her friends, though, so I can understand. Do me and your friends. You ain't going to really want to be around them girls because you don't know them. Hold up, bro. You're supposed to be the bridge between that, though. You're supposed to be the bridge between your friends and your girlfriend. And that should have already been better than it is. I would say for the most part, she was cool with selling like cordial gifts.

Nah, Dupree. You know, that's on you not wanting to come around. You could have came around. Even when you called, Dupree, you was like, I got the invitation. You was like, damn, you know my wife. You know I have to bring her. You didn't make it seem like she was invited. You was like, I got the invitation. You was like, damn, you know my wife. You know I have to bring her. You didn't make it seem like she was invited. It was cool.

You made it seem like I got to bring her because if I don't. Her friends be kicking it. I ain't chilling with them. You know what I mean? You go chill with your friends. These are my friends. This is who I grew up with. I've been knowing them since seventh grade.

You know what I mean? We 30 years old now. So it's like at any point in time, you're like, oh, yeah, I've been. I've been new. That was your home, girl. I'm going to hang with y'all. I don't was your home girls i'm gonna go hang with y'all i don't have plenty of girls i'm picking up with y'all you know what i mean but that's on you that you felt some type of way you never want to come like bz said you got to be the bridge bro like you and if those are really your friends they gonna absolutely not only want to meet your fiance, they're going to want to accept her and embrace her as a friend too.

Hello, who's this? This is Yanni. Hey, Yanni. Good morning. Talk to us. Like the egg? No, like the pianist, not the penis. Huh? What? Alright, go ahead, Yanni. Pianist. Yanni. Pianist Yanni. Okay.

Okay, so my take on this is I'm a girl that really don't have many female friends because chicks just act funny sometimes. But I believe, like you guys are saying, if you have a friend that you've had for a long time, then everyone should be friends and everyone should be comfortable with it. For a girl, it's easy to have dudes as friends Because they're going to think I know how I get down They're going to think one day maybe it might happen But they're going to still continue to be loyal I think when a dude has a female friend Maybe it's more like iffy, iffy

Even if you get to know them Because, I don't know I'm a female, I know how females get down So I wouldn't be really comfortable with that But on my part, I wouldn't have a problem With having my dude friends And knowing my dude, you know. So you are right with it because you feel like you can control whether or not it goes down because, you know, you've given them access or you're denying access. But when it comes to your man, you feel like he can't control himself.

He just if they open it up, he just diving in. Well, I'm not saying totally. But, you know, I mean, personally, I just feel like guys got that little extra, okay, maybe, or, you know, let it get a little too close, you know, whispering in his ears, and like, nah, we're not doing that. So, no. Okay. Thank you, Yanni.

800-585-1051. If you're just joining us, we're talking about Jada Pinkett Smith. Something she said during our interview about men having women friends and women having men friends. We'll discuss when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, Jada Pinkett Smith was here last hour. We were talking about men having women friends and women having men friends. And this is how the conversation started.

When Will was up here, he talked about being insecure a little bit about tupac did y'all ever have that conversation because as a man when you're a little insecure i almost feel like you play both sides you want to be yourself but you want to show that you're better than the person that's making him insecure yeah did y'all ever have that conversation i wouldn't say that we had conversations in that way it was just like you know we came up in the era where it was so unusual for a man and a woman to be friends in our era that was just like friends they had to be dating yeah like what what right and so I think for him it was just like getting your mind around that, you know, and that the kind of friendship that we had, because we had such a, you know, tight friendship that, you know, was very impactful on my life. So we're asking 800-585-1051.

What are your thoughts? Now Beezy Baby is our guest co-host today she feels like men should have women friends and women should have men friends. Yeah you have to. You know you can't be a well rounded individual just walking around with a whole bunch of I don't want to be in a room full of nothing but vagina. You know I feel like

I grew up with all brothers. You know they teach me things about myself and about men that I need to know. So as I get older, I don't know. I got male best friends and my husband's cool with that. And I'm okay with him having girlfriends. It's respect. Absolutely.

Like the caller said earlier, the thing that he was saying that, you know, he didn't know if he wanted to bring his fiance around his other friends. I'm the different. I'm totally different. When I go out, babe, you want to come because Cause I'm gonna have Just as much fun With the homies Than with my wife as well Like if anybody Ever seen me out Or I've been out

Anywhere I bring my wife with me I have a great time With my wife I drink My wife drink It don't matter We have a good time

If we go to A strip club We both tipping If we go to I don't know A casino We both gambling Like we have that

Much fun But it's a little Questionable when Somebody sends an invite To DJ Envy as opposed to you and your wife. Like the invite should be coming to both of you anyway. A hundred percent. And that's what I told the dude last time. Like when he said he didn't want to bring his fiance around his friends.

Your friends should not only want to meet your fiance. They should be embracing your fiance and bringing her into the circle of friends with open arms. Correct. Correct. Well, let's go to the phone lines bringing her into the circle of friends with open arms. Correct. Well, let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Lydia. Hey, Lydia, good morning. Good morning. I listen to y'all every day. Oh, my God. Thank you, Lydia.

What's your thoughts? So, my thoughts is I believe it's okay for each of us to have a guy or girlfriend as long as they are respectful of the relationship slash marriage because we are married so and then i work in the nightlife part-time so i'm a bartender waitress and i have a bunch of guy friends that i work with for years and when my husband and i first started dating he was very like accepting of everything and everybody because everybody was like cool and respectful and um once i got married like everybody was like nah she's married leave

her alone leave her alone like they were very protective of me so yeah and then his girl girl homegirls that he's had there's only ever been one person that i have to be like she's not your friend because a girl just knows when somebody's trying to do so but i will say that that might change it a little bit too right and the reason i say that might change if you're if you're working and guys are hollering at you all day long i think that can make any guy feel a little insecure why i just i mean he doesn't say anything like they because they don't touch me. They don't do anything. They can look and they can say what they want to say.

And he's not bothered by it because he knows at the end of the night I'm coming home. That's right. I'm not going to be with my name in my pocket. Well, what you're calling being bothered is actually just called being insecure. Yes, I said that. Why? So you don't trust your woman? No, it's not a matter about trusting my woman. No, it's clearly about not trusting your woman.

But it's just a certain job. So when you're a bartender, most bartenders, I would say a majority of them, when they serve drinks, they flirt a little. Right? We've all had a bartender flirt. Yes or no? No. You've never had a bartender flirt?

I think you're kind. You're lying! I think you're just kind. You're nice to everybody. That's your ego. You think everybody's flirting with you. That's your ego. Light skin.

He's light skin Right Red Do bartenders flirt sometimes All the time Thank you Red's light skin too Ma'am do you flirt at all

With people that That Badrix No I don't You're lying Can I tell you guys something I'm just nice I'm just nice

And then they're like And then they mistake it For flirting But I'm like no I'm not flirting And then I have to be mean To like I want all guys out there To know that's your ego talking And then they mistake it for flirting, but I'm like, no, I'm not flirting. And then I have to be mean to, like... I want all guys out there to know that's your ego talking.

If you think that every girl being kind to you is flirting, and if you think every girl being just nice to you means that they want you, that's all ego, bruh, bruh. Right. And you hella insecure if you think that... Right. You hella insecure and you don't trust your woman if you think guys hollering at her... you don't trust your woman if you think guys

hollering at her, if guys hollering at her bothers you. Bartenders definitely flirt. All the time? I wouldn't say all the time, but they flirt. But everybody flirts. Like the lady at Walmart bagging your groceries is flirting. No, she's not. She's just bagging the groceries.

I'm just saying. All she said was hi, have a nice day how are you listen anywhere you go you're gonna find what you're looking for so if you go to the bar looking for someone to flirt that's what she's doing keisha good morning good morning good morning talk to us keisha what's your thoughts um me personally like i said like jada said my immature self wanted to be friends with my man's friends all the time when i was younger me now i don't even care that's

your man like those are your friends i don't want to be friends with the girlfriends i don't want to be friends with their wives just let me do me you go have fun with their friends and i'm good yeah if it happens organically though yeah that's's great. I don't really care anymore. I'm just, you know, I've gotten older. I'm more mature. Like, at this point, if it's beneficial to you, fine. If it's not beneficial to you, cut it out.

For me, it's not beneficial, so I don't want any parts of it. Thank you, Keisha. All right, what's the moral of the story, guys? The moral of the story is friends. How many of us have moral of the story is friends. How many of us have them? Let's be friends.

Before they go any further. All right. I think the moral of the story is friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Amen. That's what I think. And it doesn't matter what private parts you have. Yes. All right. The Breakfast Club, matter what private parts you have. Yes.

All right. All right. The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. But leave us on a positive note.

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